\Var Problems, Bette r Fire Protection, Postwar Buifdins Feature NLMA Meetins

Chicago, Ill., April 15.

-Three important Committees of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, the Executive Committee of the Timber Engineering Company, and the public reI atio n s administration Committee of American Forest Products Industries, concluded a five-day series of meetings here today. Principal business centered around lumber allotm,ents systems for military requirements, improvement in timber growth through more

Wilgon Conplon efficient fire control, extended forest products rese-arch, and plans for postwar building promotion.

Expressing the opinion that the first essential for con- tinuous forest production is adequate fire protection, the Executive committee enacted a resolution of the Forest Conservation Committee calling on forest owners and operators in each state to seek laws which will place all forest land under adequate fire protection and, if necessary, formulate new state codes of forest practice.

The NLMA Executive Committee received reports from the Forest Conservation Committee through G. F. Jewett; from the Trade Promotion and Building Code-Committee through R. G. Kimbell; from the Lumber Standards and Taxation and Tariff Committees through Henry Bahr and W. B. Greeley; and from the Association,s new Committee on National Affairs through NLMA President, George T. Gerlinger. C. A. Rishell explained the combined resiarch program of the NLMA, AFPI, and Timber Engineering Company. One of the principal features of the Thursdav session of the Executive Committee'was the presentation of a paper discussing the post-war markets for forest pro_ ducts by W. W. Woodbridge, manag.er of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau. W. B. Greeley also reported for the Committee on Foreign Lumber Trade.

Lumber Limitation orders in relaiion to .war procurement, estimates of postwar lumber production and supply, and recor.nmendations of the newly-formed Forest Industries Council were discussed at the final Executive Committee meeting on Friday.

M. L. Fleishel, who concluded a four-year term as president of the Association last December, and Wilson Compton, who in the same month rounded out 25 years of service to the Association, as its secretary and manager, were the guests of honor at a dinner given by the Executive Committee on Thursday evening. John W. tWatzek, Jr. presented Mr. Fleishel with a hand-carved book made of cypress in which was contained a life membership in NLMA signed by all officers and living past presidents. George T. Gerlinger presented Mr. Compton with an elaborate sterling silver service by his friends and associates in the forest industries. In addition, his staff paid tribute to their boss with a fine Swiss watch presented to Mr. Compton by R. G. Kimbell.

In a public statement at the conclusion of the meeting Mr. Gerlinger attributed current lumber supply difficulties to the continued manpower and equipment problems of the industry. He said: "We have sufficient timbqr to meet all U. S. military requirements for lumber, but we do need either a few thousand more loggers in the woods or more heavy equipment if we are going to ease the currently tight supply situation."

Members of the executive Committee attending the meetings were: George T. Gerlinger and Dean Johnson of West Coasp Lumbermen's Association, A. J. Voye of Western Pine Association, C. Arthur Bruce and Lee Rohinson of Southern lTardwood Producers, fnc., Stanley Sheip of Hardwobd Dimension Manufacturers Association, Abbott Fox of Northern Hemlock & Hardwood Manufacturers Association, R. C. Winton of Northern Pine Manufacturers Association, W. W. Woodbridge of Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, and M. L. Fleishel, F. K. Weyerhaeuser, and J. W. Watzek, Jr., members at large.