West Coast Lumbermen's Ass'n Holds Annual Meeting

The annual meeting of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association was held at the Winthrop Hotel, Tacoma, Friday, January 31. There was a large attendance, special invitations having been issued to all logging, shingle, plywood and door operators, in addition to lumbermen. President W. B. Nettleton of Seattle presided at the meeting.

The Board of Trustees elected for the coming year werr!: H. A. LaPlant, Lyman, Wash.; H. W. Stuchell, Everett, Wash.; W. B. Nettleton, Seattle, Wash.; Frost Snyder, Tacoma, Wash.; Stuart Polson, Hoquiam, Wash.; C. H. Kreienbaum, Shelton, Wash.; R. T. Moore, Bandon, Ore.; C. H. Watzek, Wauna, Ore.; W. W. Clark, Portland, Ore.; J. H. McGladry, Eugene, Ore.

The trustees elected J. D. Tennant, Longview, as honorary trustee; F. R. Titcomb, Tacoma, vice-president for Washington; T.,V. Larson, vice-president for Oregon; trustees-at-large, J. H. Bloedel, Seattle I George T. Gerlinger, Dallas, Ore.; Corydon Wagner, Tacoma, Wash. Elmer Worth was elected trustee to represent the small mills of Oregon.

At the next meeting of the Board of Trustees, the president of the Association will be elected.

The program of detailed trade promotion now under way as a cooperative movement in the interests of West Coast lumber was discussed by Corydon Wagner, chairman of the trade promotion committee. George T. Gerlinger, chairman of the traffic committee, led the discussion on traffic matters with reference to the temporary 72-cent freight rate to the territory east of Chicago. H. N. Proebstel, formerly traffic manager of the Association, but now assistant general freight agent for the Northern Pacific Railway, also talked on the 7Z-cent rate.

Col. W. B. Greeley, secretary-manager of the Association, stated that 80 per cent of the West Coast manufacturing capacity is represented by the Association's membership. He talked on trade promotion, the Canadian trade treaty, and the importance of the Association, local organizations now in operation, and urged the establishment of local branches in other West Coast districts.

T. C. Combs of Los Angeles, who recently joined the Association's field force, outlined the California school building program, estimating that the expenditures for school buildings in California would amount to 3O million dollars in 1936, and lumber used in these buildings would represent a valuation of about 4l million dollars. He stated that the highway engineers were building many wooden bridges in California, also that the trend is to use more wood products in residential buildings.

Governor Clarence D. Martin of Washington addressed the meeting, discussing problems of close joint interest between the state and the lumber industry. Governor Martin was introduced by W. B. Nettleton.

Other speakers on the program included G. E. Karlen, Karlen-Davis Lumber Co., Tacoma, who discussed the railroad car market; Carl Blackstock, Blackstock Lumber Co., Seattle, and president of the Western Retail Lumbermen's Association, trade promotion and grade-marking ; President Nettleton, lumber market conditions in the Orient; and J. D. Tennant, Long-Bell Lumber Co., Longview, the new 72<.ent freight rate to ti:rritories east of the Chicago-Indiana line.

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