Hoo Hoo Employs Two Field Wood Box Association Will Men To Assist Local Establish Oftice At Lumbermen

In the expansion of its program of service to the lumber industry, Hoo-Hoo International announces the employment of trvo salaried field men to cooperate with local luml>.er grou-ps in coooerative, educational and rvood promo- tional efforts. This staff will be enlarged as the sirpport of the members and the lun.rber induslrv iustifies. - The trvo men ,now employed are Wesley H. -Moulton, an expert in.organization rvork, ancl W. E.'Griffee, n,idely kno.wn among lumbermen for his work for the National Lurnber Manufacturers Association. Both men have been in the field for several rveeks, and recently assistecl in organizing a Hoo Hoo club at Pittsburgh, Pa., and since have been 9_ngaggd at other p,oints, including Richmond. Va., and Washington, D. C.

It-is the plan o.f the Order to expancl its fielcl progranl quick_ly so that all districts can be -served at frequent intervals. Meantime, the most advantageous use possible is to l>e r4ade of the two field men now emplovecl. -

Weyerhaeuser Sales Co. Moves S. F. Office

Weyhaeuser Sales Co. have movecl their San pr"n.;r/ offi,ce from 260 California Street to 149 California Street and are nor,v established in permanent headquarters at this address. Their telephone -numlter has bein changecl to GArfield 8974.

arl DpoKane

Spokane, Wash., March 6.-The National Wood Box Manufacturers Associati'on will establish an office in Spokane, Washington, according to plans formulated at a meeting in Spokane of the Inland Empire manufa,cturers during the past week. L. G. Carr, Oscar Z. Brer,ver and Henry Klopp all of Spokane were appointed a committee to arrang'e for a local organization.

Ilex R. Morehouse of Chicago, secretarl' of the national association presided at the Spokane meeting. It rvas clisclosecl that Spokane has a $3,000,000 rnanufacturing industry with an annual payroll of $500,000 requiring yearlr100.000,000 feet of lumber for the .ivooden box business.

Japan 1930 Lumber Imports Decline

The total value of Japanese foreign lumber imports during 1930 amounted to $26,250,000, sho.iving a 4O per cent tlecline in value nnder l9D and a 30 per cent decline in quantity, states a cablegram from Trade Cornmissioner Paul P. Steintorf, at Tokyo, to the Lrrrnber L)ivision of thc Departnrent of Commerce.

Shiprnents of northern Japanese islancl timber to the main island of Nippon during the year amounted to 1,058,760,000 board feet, rvhich shor,vs a 30 per cent clecline under 1929.