\(/estern Pine Association Votes Increasc of Dues for Promotion

J. F. Coleman' manager of Kinzua- Pine Mills' Kinzua' Oi"., *", elected presiJent of the Western Pine Association at the annual meeting of the board of directors held in Portland, FebruarY 20.

J. P. Mcioldrick, idcGoldrick Lumber Co', Spokane' and Ceo. W. York, Geo. E. Breese Lumber Co'' Albuquerque' N. M. were elected vice presidents'

C. I. Isted, Shevlin-Hixon Co', Bend, Ore" lvas re-elected treasurer, and S. V. Fullaway, Portland, Ore" was reele,cted secretarY-manager.

Directors-at-largeelectedwereJ'M'Brown'LongLake Lumber Co., Spokane; John D' Tennant, Long-Bell Lumber Co., Longview, Wash., and J' P' Weyerhaeuser' Jr''

Portland, Ore.

Executive committee-No. 1 district, Montana' Walter Neils, Libby, Mont.; No. 2 district, North ldaho' C' L' Billings, Lewiston, Idaho;No' 3 district, Washington' J' p. UlCotdrick, Spokane; No. 4 district, Eastern Oregon and Southern Idaho, C' L. Isted, Bend Ore'; No' 5 district' Klamath Falls, C. H' Daggett; Klamath Falls; No' 6 district, Northern California, l' W' Painter, San Francisco; No. 7 di.t.;ct, Feather River, C. D' Terwilliger, Loyalton; No. 8 district, Californ'ia Valley distri'ct' Swift Berry' Camino, Calif.; No' 9 district, Arizona and New Mexico' j. C. ttt"N"ry, Albuquerque, N. M',^Io' 10 district' Rocky -Mountain, R. C. Johnson, Denver, Colo'

Lumber Code Authority-Swift Berry, Camino' Calif'' alternate, C. D. Terwilliger, Loyalton, Calif'

J. F. Coleman, Kinzua, Ore', alternate, S' V' Fullaway' Portland, Ore.

Walter Neils, Libby, Mont', alternate, C' L' Billings' Lewiston, Idaho.

Representatives of small mill operators: W' E' Moore' Ponderosa Pine Lumber Co', Elgin, Ore', and A' W' Moon' Moon Lumber Co., Ashland, Ore'

R. R. Macartney, Weyerhaeuser Timber Co'' Klamath Falls, Ore. presided at the meeting'

Secretary-manager S. V' Fullaway presented his report of the association's activities in the past year and his recommendations for the coming Year'

C. I. Isted, treasurer, made his financial report for the year.

Mr. Isted as chairman of the advertising committee outtift tne work that has been started of employing field men for research and pomotion work, and proposed to continue this and to do some advertising'

The directors voted to increase dues of from 5 cents to 8 cents per thousand, and per thousand for trade promotion wolk'

Code fees were reduced by vote of the L5 'cents to 12 cents Per M.

Albert Herman, in charge of the association's research department and laboratory, reported on the work of his department.

Arthur T. Upson, trade extension manager oJ the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, told of the trade promotion work carried on by the National in the last i.* y."r, in spite of limited funds ancl personnel' and stressed the urgent necessity of trade promotion by the regional associations'

RALPH L. SMITH VISITS S. F.

Ralph L. Smith, head of Smith Wood Productions' Inc'' Coquiile, Ore., said to be the world's largest producers-of Port Orford Cedar, and the Ralph L' Smith Lumber Co" Kansas City, recently visited San Francisco to confer with James L. iiall, Callfornia agent for his firm's products'

Mr. Smith, who was on his way back to Kansas City from a visit to the company's mill .at Coquille' said he was very much gratified *iitt ttte tremendous growth throughooi ah. "orintry in the use of Port Orford Cedar for Venetian blinds. The increased popularity of Venetian blinds' he stated, is due in great p"it to the publicity gained by their universal use in the Ulitalngs of the Chicago World's Fair in 1933 and 1934.

To Open Yard In

Tom Fuller and Joe Christensen building material yard in Manteca' full members to use 5 cents directors from MANTECA will open a lumber and