HI\MMOND LUMBER COMPANY

the evening was a tv/o-year report of the activities of Forest Industries Public Relations Program through medium of a sound slide film.

At the luncheon meeting of all delegates on Tuesday, J. P. Boyd informed the lumbermen that military requirements for lumber in l9M were largely dependent upon the developrrlent of United Nation's military campaigns and are likely to exceed by a considerable percentage those of 1943. Mr. Boyd indicated his belief that production would decline ten per cent in 1943 over 1942 and, pointed to the fact that the peak of lumber use in the creation of the domestic war plant was reached early in 1942 and that the procurement problem now is largely one of furnishing lumber needed to equip the various expeditions as the tempo of invasion steps up during 1944.

Col. Sherrill explained new means of material control within the Corps of Engineers which permit the shifting of excess materials from one construction area to another and tend to reduce excess stocks and total material requirements. He also outlined a new program of the Central Procurement Agency to set up regional offices in the South at Charlotte, North Carolina ; Atlanta, Georgia; Birmingham, Alabama; Shreveport, Louisiana; and Jacksonville, Florida. The agency already operates an office in Memphis.

Technical experts conducted an interesting research forum on Tuesday morning consisting of a full description of the possible utilization of wood waste in the production of wood sugar. They were Dr. Eduard Farber, chief chemist of TECO Laboratory, Dr. J. A. Hall of the U. S. Forest Service, and George M. Hunt of the Forest Products

Laboratory, who discussed new wood preservation methods. In addressing a luncheon tneeting of all delegates on Monday noon Lyle F. Watts, Forest Service chief, expressed his opinion that a three-pronged program was needed to insure sufficient future forest productivity ro balance a continued economy of plenty in wood utilization.

Mr. Watts' three points were: l. fncreased public cooperation in the control of fire and other forest hazards, along with increased interest in improved forest regeneration;

2. A fedqral program of forest land acquisition which would bring within the limits of the national forest stands which are now unsuited to private developmrent; and

3. Some form of regulation of cutting practices to insure reasonable productivity on cut-over lands.

Following Mr. Watts' discussion R. C. Winton, chairman of the forest industry's public relations program. orpressed the thought that the ind,ustry's current activities in the public relations field could be of rnaterial assistance in enlisting an increased number of forest operators in the cause of improved forestry.

The annual report of the staff of the Timber Engineering Company was presented in a 44page illustrated booklet entitled "More TECO Jobs . Done To Do !" which featured not only the sale of lumber through the company's effort in promoting the TECO connector system of timber construction but also gave interesting information on the new TECO Laboratory for wood chem(Continued on Page 3O)