\(/estern Pine Annual Held at Portland

The annual meetings of the Western Pine Association were held at the Portland Hotel, Portland, Ore', on February 10.

Officers of the association lvere all re-elected. These are as follows: President. C. L. Isted, Shevlin-Hixon Co., Bend, Oregon; vice-presidents, J. P. McGoldrick, McGoldrick Lumber Co., Spokane, Wash., and James G. McNary, Southwest Lumber Mills, Inc., McNary, Ariz.; treasurer, Truman W. Collins, Grande Ronde Pine Co', Pondosa, Ore.; secretary-manager, S. V. Fullaway, Jr., Portland, Ore.

The Promotion and Research committees met in Portland on February 8. The Grading, Statistical, Promotion, Traffic and Executive and Economical committees met on February 9.

The annual members' meeting was helcl on February 10, in the morning.

President Isted presided, and presented his annual address.

This was followed by the secretary-manager's report by S. V. Fullaway, Jr., and the treasurer's report by Truman W. Collins.

The report of the Executive and Economics Committee was given by the chairman, C. L. Isted.

W. E. Lamm, Lamm Lumber Co., Modoc Point, Ore', presented the Grading Committee's report'

The Statistical Committee's report was given by Don Lawrence, Weyerhaeuser Sales Co., Spokane, Wash' A. J. Voye, Big Lakes Box Co., Klamath Falls, Ore" g.rr. ih. report of the Traffic Committee, and E' N' Mc-

Hogan Expands Frame Department

Hogan Lumber Company, Oakland, recently completed a new building to house their stock frame department' The building is 50 feet by 150 feet, and machinery has been installed for the manufacture of stock window and door frames.

The old frame department rvill be used for the manufacture of detail frames.

Devitt, Somers Lumber Co., Somers, Mont., reported for the Research Committee.

C. C. Stibich, Tahoe Sugar Pine Co., San Francisco, chairman of the Promotion Committee, included in his report the announcement that the Association's exhibit at the Golden Gate Exposition in 1939 will take the form of a model home, constructed of Western Pines.

The afternoon session was devoted to the discussion of the activities of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association.

The speakers were Dr. Wilson Compton, secretary-manager of the N. M. L. A.; Charles French of the N. M. L. A. staff, in charge of housing promotion work; and Harry G. Uhl, manager of the Timber Engineering Co., a It{. M. L. A. affiliate; and James G. McNary, president of the N. M. L. A.

Mr. McNary in his talk compared the expenditures for advertising and promotion by the lumber industry with expenditures by other industries, saying he felt that the support for the National Association is not as large as it should be in relation to the support of the regional associations. He urged sufficient support to enable the N. I\{. L. A. to conduct a much more aggressive housing campaign in order to help revive prosperity in the lumber industry and the country generally.

The registration showed that 58 member companies rvere represented by the 117 persons in attendance. The opinion was expressed that this was the best series of meetings in the history of the organized Western Pine industry'

WM. M. GUNTON VISITS BAY DISTRICT

William M. Gunton, retired lumberman, of Chicago, is paying a two months' visit to his son, Howard M' Gunton' Li-U".Oo"ald & Harrington, San Francisco'

Mr. Gunton made the trip to the Pacific Coast by auton-robile, coming by way of New Orleans and Texas points' He ancl Horvard made a trip up the Redwood Highway to Eureka shortly after his arrival in California'