PAMUDO PI.YWOOD

Tell of Lumber Uses lor Military Requirements in Pacific

Otis Johnson, president, IJnion Lumber Company, San Fran,cisco, received a letter from PFC. Ernest H. Holberg, who was with the company before entering the Service, saying it may be of interest to you to know that we set up this rest camp after the Saipan Compaign, using about 5,000,000 feet of lumber in its construction, and even with that amount of lumber we have very few luxuries outside of wooden floors for the tents. This was for only one division rvhich will give you a fairly good idea of the amount of lumber used for military purposes here in the Pacific.

Mr. Johnson also received a letter from T. M. 2/c Dwight L. House, a former employee, rvritten from the Marshall Islands in which he stated he saw a rvater tank going up and as it rvas being built of Redwood he looked the lumber over, and found thaLt it rvas stamped "IJnion Lumber Company." Since then, he said, he found several tanks being built with lumber from tl.re Union plant.

Union Lumber Company has about 350 former employees in the Service. Mr. Johnson has corresponded r.vith all of them continually from time to time, and at Christmas he ah'r'ays sends them boxes of ,chocolates, cigarettes, etc.

Visits Los Angeles

P. R. (Bob) Kahn, Forsyth Hardrvood Company, Francisco, returned April 16 from a business trip to Angeles.

More Tree Farms Added to System

Washington, D. C., April 18.-The American tree farm system is gaining 23 new operations, sponsored by the W'estern Pine Association, comprising 420,265 acres in California, Idaho and Montana, it has been announced by Stuart Moir, association chief forester.

Total area in the Western Pine tree farm system will be I,979,905 acres. Official recognition will be given this progress in industrial forest manag'ement in June, when Governor \Marren of California will dedicate 16 such operations near Placerville, California, known collectively as the Eldorado tree farms.

Nationally, the tree farm program continues to make steady gains. On April 1,777 certifi,ed tree farms contained 9,446,300 acres, compared with 722 such areas, with 9,302,330 acres, on January 1. The Mississippi tree farm system recently added 18 operations, with more than 33,000 acres, and, in Texas, 11 more tree farms, r,vith nearly 28,000 acres, were added. The Southern Pine Association, which sponsored these operations, now has 689 tree farms under its jurisdiction, with 5,853, 770 acres.

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Paying tribute to the tree farm activities of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, another sponsoring group, the Ner,r. York Times recently declared that "tree farming in the Northrvest has proved economically sound. Millions of acres in other areas of the nation are Drimarilv suited to growing trees."

Continued Expansion of Home Building Program

Washington, D. C., April l4.-Continued expansion of a home building program designed to relieve general congestion in war production centers u'as reported today by Administrator John B. Blandford, Jr., of the National Housing Agency.

Nearly 25,000 units have been authorizedby NHA under this program, known as H-2 housing, in 111 communities where sufficient building labor was found to be available to carry out the construction without interfering rn ith direct war emolovment.

Several cleared in added, "I valuable dustry."

additional quotas for important areas will be the next few- days, Mr. Blandford declared, and am hopeful that the H-2 program will prove a bridge toward reconversion of the housing in-

Within the limitations imposed by rvar conditions, the NHA is also doing all in its power to make it possible for returning war veterans who are unable to find suitable accommodations for themselves and their families to build their own homes, Mr. Blandford said. IJp to now more than 2,70O priorities for the construction of dwellings have been issued to former servicemen.

In addition, more than 13,000 other priorities have been granted to relieve cases of individual hardships.

Mr. Blandford made it clear, however, that supplying the necessary housing for migrating war workers remains the primary job of the NHA and reportecl the Agency is moving promptly to meet new needs which have been created by a current spurt in some critical war activities.

"These new needs, while small in relation to the total war housing now in use, are nonetheless vital to support stepped-up production schedules in areas where sufficieni housing is not available to take care of additional labor which must be recruited from the outside." Mr. Blandford explained.

This housing will serve new workers in such activities a's the Army's increased ammunition and ordnance prog'rams, the repair of battle damage to Naval vessels, the Naval shipbuilding program, the sharply expanding Naval supply operations on the West Coast, and the production of super-bombers for the r,var in the Pacific.

As of March 1, more than 53,000 units of war housing, both privately and publicly financed, were under construction. Another 60,000 had been authorized and were ready to be placed under construction of which 41,000 rn'ill be privately financed and 19,000 built with public funds. It is estimated that several thousand more temporary publicly financed units not yet authorized wil.l be required.

At the end of February, a total ol 1,791,872 war housing units or 94 percent of the assigned program had been completed. In addition, some 2,000,000 other accommodation.s had been provided through more intensive use of the existing housing supply.

L. t. GARR & CO.

Cdlifqnia &tgoir qtd Pondcrw Pinc sAcRtlrEilro tos rNcEtlls

Sclcr Agcntr For SACRAMENTO BOX & LUMBER CO.

Millr At Woodleaf, Calif.

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Acme

BLOnIER g PIPE CO. INC. 1209 Ncrdecu Street, Los. Angeles I

JElferson 4221

Mcrnulacturers

BLOWER SrSTEMS and INCINERATORS

See thc Acme Incinerdtot with water woshed lop

Dcalcrs in Forest Producte

Douglcrs Fir-Redwood

Cedcr-Spruce

Genercl Office

Crocker Bldg., Sccr Francisco 4, C<rlil.

First Alcohol-From-Wood Plant Nears Completion

Construction of one of the rvorld's largest, and America's first, commercial plant for the production of ethyl alcohol from sawdust and waste wood by the Scholler-Tornes,ch method, has reached a point where it is confidently expected that it rvill be in operation by July 1st.

The $2,250,000 project occupies a l4-acre site at Springfield, Oregon. It is the propertv of the Willamette Valley Wood Chemical Company of Eugene, Oregon, which was formed by local lumbermen, themselves producers of large quantities of sawdust, the essential raw material. Financing was arranged through the Defense Plant Corporation.

An initial, daily consumption of 2OO tons of sawdust r,vith a corresponding output of 10,00O to 12,500 gallons of ethyl alcohol is planned, according to Charles Snellstrorn, president of the company. The plant is designed to increase that output greatly and ample supplies of raw material are available to permit rapid expansion.

Smith, Hinchman & Grylls of Detroit, the construction engineers who designed the plant, report that the railroad facilities are all in, most of the piling has been driven, foutrdations laid, main buildings erected, and underground pipe work installed. A 6,800-foot sewerrvill carry away inclustrial waste. Construction is being supervised.by Clark Van Fleet, project engineer of the Willamette Company.

Shop details on the specialized percolation, fermenting, and distilting equipment have been completed by the Vulcan Copper & Supply Company of Cincinnati, but somc delays caused by shortages of critical materials have lteen experienced.

The laboratory of the Oregon State College at Corvallis, under Dean Paul M. Duun, is co-operating in a study of the qualities, deterioration under storage, and availability of ivood waste. The relative qualities o{ pianer shavings, hog fuel, sawdust, chipped slabs as potential raw material are being investigated.

Production on a commercial scale of ethyl alcohol, lignin, and other derivatives through the acid hydrolization of wood is ne'n' to the United States, but it is a well-established industry in Germany and one on which much of the German war economy has been founded. The German pro' cesses and patents are also being used by Italy and Japan.

Industrial alcohol in the United States has been derived in the past largell' from blackstrap molasses brought irere

Bill Proposes Time Limit On Wage-Hour Suits

"Lumbermen, particularly those confronted with Wageand-Hour Law' suits, will be especially interested in a bill (H.R. 278€) introduced by Rep. John H. Gwynne, fowa, which would establish time limitations on the bringing of public and private actions under federal laws," says Henry Bahr, acting secretary and counsel of the National Lumber Manuf acturers Association.

"Under this bill," he explains, "private suits would be barred one year from the accrual of the cause of action, except where a shorter time is fixed under a state statute; for public actions the time limit d'ould be two years.

"Because of the present threat of travel time litigation and retroactive application of other obscure interpretations of the Wage-and-Hour Law, this bill is of considerable significance to the logging and lumbering industry. Its enactment rvould result in substantially lessening the period for which retroactive pay could be required in the event an operator is held liable for travel time payments. Since double recovery pius attorneys'fees are allowed a successful Wagelfour La'iv plaintif{, this would mean a very substantiai saving."

Bahr also called attention to the fact that the bill would validate state statutes prescribing a period of limitations shorter than the one year period which it proposes. Such statutes as applied to suits brought under federal law, he pointed out, are generally considered to be of doubtful validity. ' in tankers frorn the Caribbean. The requirements for industrial alcohol, multiplied by war, strained the capacity of the established facilities. At the same time the lurnber inclustry'ivas producing vast quantities of potential raw material for alcohol-sar'vdust-which has little or no commercial value in itself.

The bill is now pending before the House Judiciary Committee.

The Timber Engineering Company and the U. S. Forest Products Laboratory co-operated to adapt the Germau Scholler-Tornesch process to American conditions, the practicality of which 'ivas demonstrated in a pilot plant. The Willamette project is the realization by the lumber inclustry of another of the vast potentialities of the American forests.

N.L.M.A. Committee on Education

Named by President Gerlinger

George W. Dulany, Jr., has accepted appointment try George T. Gerlinger, president of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, to the chairmanship of the Committee on Education, with C. D. Dosker serving as vice-chairman. Other members of the committee named by President Gerlinger are: H. F. Jefferson, N. F. McGowin, Dr. Wilson Compton, G. F. Jewett, and R. E. Broderick. Harris Colling:wood, chief forester of the association, will serve as secretary.

Appointment of the committee carries out the following resolution adopted by the Board of Directors at the annual meeting last December:

"The president is authorized to appoint a committee of lumbermen interested in forest education and wood technology, including the chairmen of the committees on trade promotion and forestry, to study the need for co-operative plan for improving the education facilities available to young men interested in the forest industries; to determine the needs for training and education in the various industry operations; to develop programs for education institutions if necessary; to call a meeting of and consult with education leaders interested in these problems, if advisable; and to the extent it deems advisable recommend a well rounded program of action for the N.L.M.A. and the affiliated regional associations. To carry out the purposes of this committee the manager is authorized to make available a staff man to assist the committee, full or part time."

First meeting of the committee will be held co-incident with meetings of the N.L.M.A. Executivce Committee in Chicago on May 14th.

White Pine Blister Bust Sprecds in Cclifornia

White pine blister rust advanced 65 miles south into sugar pine forests of California in 1944. The rust infection zone now extends almost halfway across the commercial sugar pine belt, according to the Federal Bureau of Entomology and Plant Industry. Blister rust was first reported in northern California in 1936. Meanwhile, it has spread southward as far as Amador County. The war has delayed eradicating gooseberry and currant bushes, permitting completion of only 37/o of the 2,531,320 acres of sugar pine growth needing protection.

ARCATA RTDWOOD CO.

ARCATA, CAIJFONNIA

Manulacturers Quclity Redwood Lumber

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