West Coast 36th Annual Meeting

i More than 400 Pacific Northwest lumbermen gathered in Fortland January 3O and 31 for the 36th annual.meeting of the West Coast Lumbermen's Assoaiation-largest in the history of the organization.

I Furrd"-.n tal 1947 program, as outlined by speakers headed by retiring association president C. H. Kreienbaum, looks toward stabilization of the West Coast lumber industry on a sustained yield basis.

New West Coast'president, elected at the meeting, is Charles W. Ingham, Fischer Lumber Company, Eugene, Oregon.

Also named to the board of directors were: Judd Greenman, Oregon-American Lumber Corporation, Vernonia, Ore., vice president for Oregon; Corydon Wagner, St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company, Tacoma, Wash., vice president for Washington; Frank A' Graham, Hills Creek Lumber Company, Jasper, Ore., treasurer; Col' W. B. Greeley, Seattle,.vice president; H. V. Simpson, Portland, Ore., executive vice president; and Harris E. Smith, Portland, Ore., secfetary.

Association district directors named were: E. W. Stuchell, Eclipse Mill Company, Everett, Wash.; E. C. Stone, Stimson Mill Company, Seattle; G. E. Karlen, Eatonville Lumber Company, Tacoma; Ed Schafer, Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Company, Aberdeen, Wash.; W. T' Evenson, Wauna Lumber Company, 'W'auna, Ore.; W. A. Culkin, Stebco fncorporated, Vancouver, Wash.; H. W. Preston, Oregon Pulp & Paper Company, Lumber Division, Salem, Ore.; Dale Fischer, Fischer Lumber Company, Marcola, Ore.; George Flanagan, Elk Lumber Company, Medford, Ore.; and D. H. Miller, Moore Mill & Lumber Company, Bandon, Ore.

Directors-at-large elected at the meeting were: Charles W. Ingham, Fischer Lumber Company, Eugene, Ore.; Dean Johnson, C. D. Johnson Lumber Corporation, Portlandl C. H. Kreienbaum, Simpson Logging Company, Shelton, Wash.; O. R. Miller, Mt. Jefierson Lumber Company, Portland; and E. H. O'Neil, Snoqualmie Falls Lumber Company, Snoqualmie Falls, Wash.

J. D. Tennant, The Long-Bell Lumber Company, Long- view, Wash., was named honorary director. Directors representing special industry groups included E. G. Whipple, Drain, Ore.; P. W. Billings, Packwood Lumber Company, Packwood, Wash.; Robert Baker, Sunset Logging Com-' pany, Portland, Ore.; F. R. Maw, E. K' Bishop Lumber Company, Aberdeen, Wash.; Ward Mayer, Timber Structures, fnc., Portland, Ore., and R. F. Dreitzler, West Coast Wood Preserving Company, Seattle.

Speakers at the two-day session included Oregon Senator Wayne Morse; R. E. Saberson, Weyerhaeuser Sales Company; William Swindells, Willamette Valley Lumber Company, Portland; R. E. Seeley, Simpson Industries, fnc., Seattle; Paul E. Kendall, manager, West Coast Woods Promotion; Dean Johnson, C. D. Johnson Lumber Corporation, Portland; and Chester A. Moores, past president, Portland Chamber of Commerce.

In his address, entitled "Industrial Stability," Mr. Kreienbaum said in part:

"Oregon has now become the dominant lumber producing state in the nation, and fortunately at a time when every effort is being made in the direction of stable timber management and integration. The State of Washington is fortunate in that its period of forest stability is beginning while it has sufficient resources remaining to be of importance to its economy.

"fnasmuch as our industry is of such tremendous importance to the Pacific Northwest as well as to the nation, it has endeavored for years to give assurance that there will always be a forest produ'cts industry to support the economy it has created.

"The first requisite of such a promise is stability of land and timber ownership and a wedding of the raw materials and the processing plants; in other words, more complete integration oI the processes which are necessary to the full utilization of what an acre of ground will grow in our two states. If the momentum of this development that has taken place in the last five or six years continues into the future, I believe we can fairly well predict the extent of the future operations of the forest products industry of our Douglas fir region .

"Much has happened recently to lay emphasis on the subject of sustained yield. The government agencies, holding 60 per cent of the remaining mature timber in the Douglas fir region, with laws permitting the establishment of sustained yield operations, cooperative as well as otherwise, pressed by public opinion in the interest of stability, are taking active steps to follow through on their programs.

"If we will develop the cooperation between industry and the government agencies, and act with a singleness of purpose, I am personally convinced that there is a strong possibility that the industry of this region can have a sustained cut of logs averaging around seven billion feet for ths next twenty to twenty-five years. The tendency toward further integration of our industry, bringing with it a higher degree of utilization, will have arrested the trend downward in annual volume of log cut. From that point on, we should see an expanding industry develop. I am convinced that we can say truthfully not only that we will always have a forest products industry, but also a stable and, some day, an expanding industry."