\(/est Coast Annual Meeting

The thirty-third annual meeting of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, was held at the Multnomah Hotel, Portland, Ore., on January 28.

Officers elected were Dean Johnson, C. D. Johnson Lumber Corporation, Toledo, Ore., president; C. H. Kreienbaum, Simpson Logging Co., Shelton, Wash., vice president for Washington; George T. Gerlinger, Willamette Valley Lumber Co., Dallas, Ore., vice president for Oregon; Judd Greenman, Oregon-American Lumber Corporation, Vernonia, Ore., treasurer; and Col. W. B. Greeley, Seattle, Wash., secretary-manager.

Consumers and retailers were warned by J. Philip Boyd, Lumber and Lumber Products Director, WPB, that only a trickle of lurnber was available for any other than the most essential civilian needs,,and that no relief was in sight.

Re-emphasizir-rg the huge lumber recruirements for 1944, 34 billion board feet, which he announced for the first time at the meeting, Mr. Boyd urged that both consumers and retailers realize the critical situation in lumber and refrain from "pressuring" mills and producers for stocks they cannot release.

"Our control of lumber is at the production en<l," X{r. Boyd explained. "Ninety per cent of all lumber produced is under strict control and seventy per cent goes directly for war use to the Army, Navy and Maritime Commission.

"The simple fact is there is no lumber for civilian purposes outside of the barest minimum that has been allocated. Lumber is the most esential material on any fighting front because it can be put to so many uses. It takes 300 board feet to get a soldier to a foreign front and install him and 30 feet a month to maintain him. Wl-ren our transports arrive with supplies every foot of lumber used for storing the cargo is taken ashore. Our soldiers have actually taken the wooden hand-rails and other wooden fittings from our transports and cargo ships before they sent them home. They have taken the sticks from the,cargo slings and removed every piece of lumber from our ships, because it is so scarce and so esential on the fighting fronts."

Secretary-Manager Col. W. B. Greeley expressed the theme of the meeting as: "While we are fighting the war, how can we best plan to fit lumber into postwar re,construction and employment?" President Orville R. Miller spoke on "The Lumber Industry in Postwar America," and Charles L. Wheeler, executive vice president of Pope & Talbot, Inc., and president of International Rotary, on "Industrial Planning for the Postwar Period."

Among the other speakers were Judd Greenrnan, T. V. Larsen, Charles Snellstrom, R. T. Titus, Ward Mayer, J. C. Buchanan, C. J. Hogue, Corydon 'Wagner, H. V. Simpson, W. B. Nettleton, and Nelson Rogers.

George A. Bergttrom

George Andrew Bergstrom, 64, president of the C. B. Lumber & Shingle Company, Everett, Wash., died suddenly in an Everett hospital. He was born in Minneapolis, and came to Everett in 1905, where he established the Pacific Timber Co. In 1914 with his partner, Olaf Carlson, he built the C. B. Lumber & Shingle Co. He was prominent in the cedar industry and had served the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau as president. Funeral services were on Januaty 25.

Mr. Bergstrom is survived by his widow, Mrs. Iva Bergstrom; two daughters, Mrs. Crosby Pendleton ar-rd Mrs. Ray \Arilde of Everett; two brothers, Ed Bergstrom of Mukilteo, Wash., and Clifford Bergstrom of Los Angeles, two sisters, Miss Amanda Bergstrom of Los Angeles, and Mrs. John Linden of Cliicago, and two grandchildren.

NLMA Publishes Fact Data Book

Lumber Industry Facts (1943 edition) has just been released by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. Compiled by Martha A. Dietz and Virginia G. Smith of the Statistical Division of the Association, under the direction of Henry Bahr, the book presents important information which the adding machine shows to be facts, facts which may help torvard wellinformed understanding of the forest industries, determination of sound public policy, and provision within the forest products industries of dependable sources of business and employment. Information was drawn from government antl industry sources.

This is the third biennial edition of this important data book. It contains 78 statistical tables and 23 charts, slightly more than previous editions. The table of contents covers six major subdivisions of materi.al : Rarv MaterialThe Forest, Lumber and Timber Products, Lumber Production, Lumber Shipments, Lurnber Consumption, and Pulpwood, Pulp, and Paper. A chapter on The Forestry Situation revicws pertinent legislation. Another outlines the objectives, actirtities, officers, and membership of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. A complete cross index makes specific information readily findable.

Lumber Industry Facts is designed for re{erence use in the lumber industry, but it is used as a text and reference in many schools of forestry to which it is furnished free.

Single copies rvill be mailed upon recluest to the Statistical Division, National Lumber Manufacturers Association, 1319 lBth St., N. W., Washington 6, D. C.

C. Stowell Smith

C. Stowell Smith, War Production Board and Forest Service liaison officer of Washington, D. C., passed away on January 11 due to heart failure following a heart attack. Ife was 62 years of age.

Mr. Smith entered the Forest Service in 1905, and was chief of the Office of Products in San Francisco from 1910 to 1916. He became secretary of the California White and Sugar Pine Association in 1916, and in l9D he went with the National Lumber Manufacturers Association as a forest economist. He returned to the Forest Service in 1936.

His home was in Vienna. Va.. and he is survived by his rvidow i two daughters, and a son, Alden K. Smith, in the lumber business in Portland, Ore.

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