National hardwood meeting

QOtrtWOOD tirnbeL ploblerns are tJcontasious and haldwood dealers could be tlh. n"^t target, warned reprcsentatives of the Oregon Lands Coalition at the National Hardwood Lumber Association's annual convention,

Coalition chail Valerie Johnson stressed industry can battle unfair environmentalist claims through awareness, education and action. "The world is run by those who show up," she said in her talk on "lessons Lear-ned in the Pacific Nofthwest."

About 1,050 attended the Sept. 29Oct. I convention at the Fairmont Hotel. San Francisco. Ca. Other seminals included "Public Attitudes and Perceptions of the Forest Products Industry" by psychologist Dr. G. Clotaire Rapaille; "Future of Timber Supply Under National Forest Manasement

Plans" by Dr'. John Beuter', LI.S. Depaltment of Agricultule, and "Lumber' Buyer's Seminar" and "Lurnber Sales Techniques" by Walt Clarke.

Also on the agenda: a tour of the redwoods. exhibits. Hardwood Forest Foundation leception and meetings of the NHLA board of managels, Inter'national Haldwood Ploducts Associa-

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headed for hardwoods...

94th annual hardwood association convention... new di rectors installed... 1 992: Oct.19-21, Chicago.

tion, Arnelican Walnut Manufactut'ers Association, Hardwood lndustry Promotion Council, American Hardwood Export Council and haldwood bureau of the Canadian Lumbermen's Association.

New dilectors elected ale Joe Long, J.E. Higgins Lumber Co., Concord, Ca.; Joe Kelly, PJ Lumber Co., Prichard, Al.; Albert Whitson Jr., Whitson Lumber Co., Nashville, Tn.; Waltef Fields, Walter M. Fields Lumber Co., Memphis, Tn.; Harold White, Harold White Lumber Co., Morehead, Ky.; Jeny Fuller, Frank Paxton Lumbel Co., Kansas City, Mo., and John Wooley, John M. Wooley Lumber Co., Indianapolis, In.

Next year's convention will be Oct. 19-21 at the Chicago Maniott, Chicago, Il.

Overseas Wood Projects

Two overseas projects using U.S. wood products are getting underway this fall.

A 32,000 sq. ft. demonstration project called Super House is being coordinated by the American Plywood Association in Yokohama, Japan.

A 93,000 sq. ft. wood frame, 99 unit resort hotel will be built in the Soviet Union Far East as a golf and fishing r€treat for wealthy Japanese. Some 700,000 sq. ft. (3/8" basis) of APA structural wood panels will be used on the project.

Depot Sued Over Death

The widow of a man who tipped over merchandise at Home Depot, West Palm Beach, Fl., has filed suit, claiming the accident led to his death.

The lawsuit claims employees negligently left merchandise in the aisle, creating a hazardous situation, which fatally injured Marvin Ferguson Aug. 3.

Home Depot contends the death was not a result of the accident, since medical reports reveal Ferguson died after suffering a heart attack.

Psychologlst Brlefs SFPA

Delegates to the Southern Forest Products Association 76th annual meeting leamed a new way of talking about trees and harvesting from keynote speaker Dr. G. Clotaire Rapaille, an eminent French psychologlst.

Send positive messages, he advised. Never use the word clearcutting. Talk, instead, about nuturing and enhancing the natural forest cycle and providing people with its natural components in the form of useful and aesthetically pleasing wood products.

Most people, he said, perceive a hee as nearly human. Use women as forest industry spokespersons, he ad- vised, because they are more attuned to renewal, caring and cyclical structure and less identified with voracious, vectoring behavior than men.

John C. Shealy, Willamette Industries, [nc., Ruston, La., was elected chairman. Others taking office at the Walt Disney World Swan, Orlando, Fl., Sept. 16-18: Clary Anthony, Anthony Forest Products, El Dorado, Ar., vice chairman; Mack Singleton, New South, Inc., Conway, S.C., treasurer. Thomas H. O'Melia Jr., Scotch Lumber Co., Fulton, Al., is the immediate past chairman. Karl W. Lindberg was re-elected president; Lionel J. Iandry, secretary.