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Advisory Committee Favorg Proposed Douglas Fir Hag Record Year Changes In Plywood OrderL-358

Washington, D. C., Jan. 16.-Members of the Softwood Plywood Producers Industry Advisory Committee have gone on record as favoring proposed changes in the plywood order, L-358, the Civilian Production Administration said today.

Amendments discussed by the committee and officials of CPA's Forest Products Division and of the Office of the Housing Expediter include changes in the reserves which producers and distributors must hold to fill rated and certified orders. It is proposed that producers be required to divide their monthly output of construction plywood on the basis of 50 per cent to fiIl rated or certified orders and 50 per cent to care for orders from distributors which carry no preference rating or certification' At present, the required ratio is 40-60, the smaller portion going to certified orders.

ft also is proposed to reduce from 85 per cent to 75 per cent the quantity which distributors rnust set aside from their monthly receipts of construction plywood to fill rated and certified orders, and to cut from two months to 15 days the period during which they must hold these reserves in anticipation of certified orders.

The committee also urged the earliest possible revocation of all controls over the industry, pointing out that plywood producers had been among the first groups to come under bo.r.tttttt"ttt regulation, in August, l94l' Members reaffirmed the plywood industry's pledge to devote 50 per cent of its production to construction grades during all of 1947, and, said that this assistance to the housing program *orrid be continued, with or without Government control'

M. W. Niewenhous, director of the Forest Products Division, stated that is was necessary to retain the plywood controls in order to liquidate priorities and authorizations issued. prior to December 24, 1946' The proposed set-aside amendments are designed to make adjustments to meet outstanding programmed requirements'

Arson Suspected In Mill Fire

Flames destroyed practically all of the San Mateo plant of 'the Peninsula 1\,tiiling Company with a loss estimated at $200,000. Incendiarism was suspected by police and fire department officials. Machinery and lumber supplies in the plant were destroYed.

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This year has 'witnessed as well remarkable results from studies on the use of material from second-growth stands of Douglas fir and hemlock-material which ordinarily would be lost entirely as the result of natural mortality.

The studies have contributed materially to the means of making use of trees normally crowded out and killed" Scientific thinning will produce early crops of poles, piling, pulpwood, fuel, et cetera, without reducing the final log crop.

Four million seedlings raised at the Forest Industries Tree Nursery in the Pacific Northwest have been planted during 1946, chiefly in fail spots or areas denuded by fire. An estimated 7 million seedlings will be planted in 1947.

A very striking advance in the Tree Farm Program was made during this year. Tree Farms, of course, are the core of the plan to make Douglas fir forests continue to produce products and jobs into the foreseeable future.

During the year in the Douglas fir region, 112,115 acres of timber land in Oregon were certified as Tree Farms, while 83,006.5 acres were certified in Washington. This brings Oregon's total to 572,476, and Washington's to 1,624,354.5.

B. C. Plcnt Mckes Pcnrels From Cottonwood, Birch curd PoPlcn

A new mill on the north branch of the Fraser River's north arm, about six miles south of Vancouver, 8.C., Western Plywood Company, is specializing in the manufacture of panels from cottonwood, birch and poplar, and is operating almost entirely in hardwoods.

The production of the new plant will be about 30,000,000 square feet annually, on a quarter'inch thickness basis.

John Bene, former managing director of Pacific Veneer Co., is president. He has had a long career in the plywood industry, and his family in Budapest operated plywood mills for many years.

James F. Macaulay is'sales manager. Most of the output is sold in Canada, with a part of it going to the United States and United Kingdom. The company employs more than 100 people.