lvlexico Ships Out 600 Cars Ot Lumber Monthly

About six hundred carloads of Mexican produced lumber has been shipped out of Mexico monthly for the past three or four years. So estimates Mr. Palmer Coward, of Laredb, Texas, who represents the United-Export-fmport Company, of Mexico City. Mr. Coward bears the reputation of being tlre best posted man on the subject of Mexican timber, and his concern represents most of the better known lumber manufacturers of that entire country.

Mr. Coward says that during the war the production of lumber in Mexico increased tremendously under the great demand for lumber in the United States, and that until the war ended practically the entire six hundred cars monthly were shipped into the United States. Texas got an average of. 30/o of this lumber, and the bulk went to the Northern and Eastern markets, and was largely used by prefabrication industries. Only a small percentage of this lumber went across the Mexican border to New Mexico, Arizona,,br California.

Since the war ended there has been some diversion of Mexican lumber from. the United States, and that at the presenf iime about N/o of. their shipments are going to South Africa, Puerto Riio, and China. Bat 8O/o still comes into the United States. Mr. Coward says that this is all Mexican Pine, that it bears a close resemblance to Ponderosa Pine, and he thinks the demand for this material will continue in the United States after the emergency is over. This Pine production comes from small and modest sized mills scattered all over the Republic of Mexico, and their biggest problem is logging, most of the timber standing in rough, hilly, or mountainous country.

He says that responding to the call of the times many of the beiter milling concerns in Mexico are now engaged in modernizing their mills in order to make better lumber for the postwar trade. Dry kilns, double end trimmers, trademarking machines, paraffin end applyers, modern planing machines, etc., are going in at many mills, and better lumber is becoming the order of the day. There is a huge volume of commercial timber standing in Mexico, and Mr. Coward says that under the leadership of the new President of Mexico, who is essentially a business man, Mexican business and industry is going to flourish in the next decade as it never has before, and that the lumber industry should lead the parade.

Lumbermen Cooperating tVith L. A. City and County Officials on Air Pollution Control

A luncheon meeting was called by Orrie W. Hamilton, secretary-manager of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association and chairman of the meeting, at the Mayfair Hotel, Los Angeles, on December 20, for the purpose of hearing reports from him and its attorney, Ivan G. McDaniel, on the problem of air pollution in the city and county of Los Angeles.

Comments were also made by Harry E. Kunkel, Los Angeles City Bureau Air Pollution Control; I. A. Deutch, Los Angeles County Ofiflce Air Pollution Control; Charles L. Senn, Los Angeles City Health Department; and W. Jones, Smith-Emery Co., Los Angeles, chemist-engineers. The Association is cooperating with the Los Angeles city ant!. county officials in an effort to correct the air pollution problem. The meeting was considered helpful to all those present, and many valuable suggestions and actions were brought out that are being taken toward better conditions.

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Elected Director of National Association of Manufacturers

E. W. Daniels, president of Harbor Plywood Corp. of Hoquiam, W4sh., and chairman of the management committee of Douglas Fir Plywood Association, has been elected a director from Washington state of the National Association of Manufacturers.

He has been so honored, according to an announcement from NAM headquarfers at New York, because of his "qualities of leadership and reputation .as an outstanding industrialist."

Mr. Daniels long has been a dynamic force in the plywood industry program q'hich has established its product as a preferred building material. Simultaneously, his progressive firm has introduced many new plywood products and manufacturing processes that have contributed materially to the rearing of the panel material to its present position of prominence.

During the past two years, an "American Way" idea developed by a committee headed by the plywood maker has drawn national acclaim. The committee, through industrvsponsored advertisements, told effectively the meaning of free enterprise and the opportunities afforded individuals and small businesses in the Grays Harbor area of Washington.

Active in civic affairs through the past 2t years that he has been an official of Harbor Plywood Corp., Mr. Daniels' participation in such matters is typified by his recent chairmanship of the Grays Harbor Committee for returning veterans.

Congrrctulcrtions

1\[r. and Mrs. Herb Bickell of congratulations on the birth of Thanksgiving Day. Mr. Bickell Lumber Company, Palo Alto.

Palo Alto are receiving a daughter, Frances, on is manager of Merner