N. L. M. A. Committees Conclude Three-D.y

Meetings

Executive, Forest Conservation, and Advisory Committees

Meet in Chicago and Madison

Chicago, May 10.-The three important committees of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association-the executive committee, forest conservation committee, and the advisory committee-have just concluded a three-day series of meetings at the Blackstone Hotel.

The forest conservation committee and advisory committee met on May 7. May 8 and 9 were devoted to meetings of the executive committee, following which 12 members of the executive committee, representatives of the staffs of the Federated Associations and the National Association, made a trip to Madison, Wisconsin, for a one-day conference on May 10 with the staff members of the U. S. Forest Products Laboratory.

The principal new business before the forestry committee was the discussion of suggested and recommended forestry legislation, including proposed amenilments to the Clarke-McNary Act; status of the joint congressional forestry committee; the position of forest fire fighters under the Wage-Hour law; the prospective activities of the newly enlarged Conservation Department of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, and the status of seven major items of forestry legislation.

Under the new set-up of the N.L.M.A. Forestry Division, G. H. Collingwood as forester and W. R. Burt as assistant forester, outlined the following program: to enlist public support for a national forest program, designed on "The American Pattern."

6. Stimulation of industry support of forest practices which rvill keep forest lands productive, also to foster the idea oi permanent forest industry operation.

7. Removal of economic and political obstacles to forestry practice, and encouragement of appropriate public forestry cooperation.

8. Encouragement of affirmative interest, attitutle, and action by forest land owners and organizations.

9. Representation on the "Forest Industries Conference ," which is composed of representatives of government agencies and forest industries for the purpose of considering rnutual problems.

10. ' Contact with activities and program of public and private a.gencies dealing with forestry matters.

The Committee passed the following resolutions: Clarke-McNary Act Amendments

That the suggested provisions for amendment to the Clarke-McNary Act be laid before the industry, through the Regional Associations, during the next six months for consideration with view to decisive action at the Annual Meeting of the N. L. M. A. Board of Directors in November.

State Forest Practice Codes

1. Cooperation with Federated Association foresters That, through the appropriate facilities of the lumber to formulate industry programs for improved forest prac- industry-national and regional-steps be taken to develop tices and to coordinate regional forest policy with national promptlv for each region the type of State legislation which forest policy. will carry out the principle of State and local regulation to

2. Cooperation with other forest industries to effect which the lumber industry has already given recognition. National Forest Conservation Conference a basic national forest policY.

3. "Conservation News Digest.'"

That the National Forest Conservation Conference be

4. Periodical reports on statistics, research, and in- revived and kept active, providing that the cooperation o{ dustry or governmental action. others forest industries and the various public agencies can

5. Articles to inform the public of existing ,forestry be secured. programs, to dispel the "timber famine" propaganda, and That the Chairman of the N.L.M.A. Forest Conserva- tion Committee, G. F. Jewett, be instructed to appoint a committee to represent the lumber and timber products industries in this Conference, selecting the members with view to fair regional representation.

C. S. Chapman

That this Comrnittee extends its sympathy to Mrs. C. S. Chapman and daughter on the recent death of Mr. C. S. Chapman, member of the Committee until his death.

The Advisory Committee of the Association, composed of Secretary-Managers of all federated associations, rnet during tl-re afternoon and evening of May 7 for an interchange of ideas and suggestions with particular reference to research and future cooperation with the Forest Products Laboratory; trade promotion publications lor l94O1, and regional association cooperation with the newly organized National Homes Foundation, intended to extend small homes promotion to farm and semi-rural areas. The meeting extended through the afternoon and continued rvith a joir't dinner and an evening session. The Committee placed special emphasis on research and urged that efforts be increased to develop new information on a variety of lumber problems, important amonfT which were: Greater utilization of short length dimension; minimum performance standards for wood products used in low-cost dwellings I strength qualities needed in wood sheathing used for dwellings.

Arrangements were made for cooperation by the regio'nal associations in the forthcoming drive for an increase in farm construction and a full report was given concern-

IOOnl IIYITIIELE CRO88 CINGUf,ATION KILNS

27y'o ro 7Oy'o more eapaciry due to solid edge-to-edge stacking.

B.ttc qudity dryiog on lor tcaporaorcr rith e fart rovrrribtc circulation.

Lowcr rtacling cort*-just rclid edge-to-cdge stacLing in the rimplcrt forrn.

ing the establishment and operation of the 16 State Homes Foundations now cooperating in the National Small Homes Demonstration.

Plans were approved and suggestions made for four new pieces of lumber promotion literature dealing with (1) Superiority of wood construction for general residential building; (2) the advantages of wood sheathing and siding compared to many newly developed substitutes; (3) low-cost farm units; and (4) wood flooring.

Reports of Staff Members

Thirty-two lumbermen attended the Wednesday and Thursday sessions of the Executive Committee, presided over by President M. L. Fleishel. The agenda for the two days included the following.important items of new business, presented by staff reports in each case:

First: Industry policy on Forest Conservatiott, €S' pecially prospective Federal and State legislation.

Second: Wider cooperation in the lumber indubtry with the promotion activities of the National Small Homes Demonstration, including the new rural home and farm building program through the National Homes Founda' tion.

Third: The problems resulting from the policies of the Department of Justice.

Fourth: Pending and prospective amendment of labor and industry legislation.

Fifth: Arrangement of more effective industry-wide contact 'with the Forest Products Laboratory.

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When You Sell

Booth-Kelly Douglae Fir, the AsEociation grade and trade mark certify to your customera the quality of the etock you handla Buildere quit guessing about what they'rc buying, and buy where they know what they're getting.

Hoo-Hoo Concat Held in San Francisco

Eleven kittens were initiated into the mysteries of IIooHoo at the Concatenation held at the Mark Hopkins Hotel, San Francisco, on Friday evening, May 24.

Thele 'r,l'ere 23 reinstatements of old cats. The attendance numbered 65, including some prominent members of Hoo-Hoo from out of the city.

Frank Q'Connor was master of ceremonies at the dinner and entertainment foll.owing the Concatenation.

Supreme Arcanoper Larue Woodson in a brief talk said that Hoo-Hoo is definitely on the way back all over the country.

Ler'vis A. Godard was in charge of entertainment and arrangements.

The initiation ceremony was conducted by the following Nine: Snark, Bert Bryan; Senior Hoo-Hoo, Fritz Dettmann; Junior Hoo-Hoo, R. S. (Bob) Grant; Bojum, Earl Carlson; Scrivenoter, Bert Johnson; Jabberwock, Seth Butler; Custocatian, Larue \Moodson; Arcanoper, W. B. Jefferson; Gurdou, Paul Overend.

The kittens were, Frank H. White, Hammond Redwood Co., San Francisco; Alfred D. Bell, Jr., Hammond Redwood Co., San Francisco; Eugene W. Hall, Maris Plywood Corp., San Francisco; 'Wayne I. Rawlings, Maris Plywood Corp., San Francisco; James H. Moore, Long-Bell Lumber Co., San Francisco; Burton W. Runkel, Long-Bell Lumber Co., San Francisco; D. H. Le Breton, Coos Bay Lumber Co., Oakland; Robert Strahle, Smith Lumber Co., San Francisco; Clarence Hansen, Smith Lumber Co., San Francisco; Arthur Field, Smith Lumber Co., San Francisco; Donald Smith, Smith Lumber Co., San Francisco.

BRADLEY'S HICKORY SAWMILL CLOSED BY SITUATION IN SCANDINAVIA

The Bradley Lumber Company, oI 'Warren, Arkansas, own and operate as one unit of their very extensive lumber plant, a hickory mill. This is a sawmill built, equipped, and arranged entirely for the proper manufacture and preparation for market of hickory products. At the present time this unit is closed down, due to conditions in the various Scandinavian countries. You see, a very large part of the product of this sawmill is used for the manufacture of skis, and most of this wood goes to Denmark and the other neighboring countries that are now under the thumb of Germany and Russia. Naturally there is little demand for ski materia.ls from that region now, and likewise no opportunity for delivering same, even if it were ordered and paid for.

Buys 3ooo Wild Horses

Hawk Huey, Phoenix, Arizona, lumberman, reports that he has been very busy gathering up the three thousand wild horses he has bought from the Apache Indians in the Oak Creek, Chediske and Grasshopper districts. Hawk says the horses are harder to handle than "thick by wide by large timbers."

News Flaghes

A. E. Mclntosh, president, West Oregon pany, Portland, Ore., \Mas a visitor at the Angeles office for a few days last month.

Jim Prentice, Bloedel D"""r"" Lumber geles, is back from a trip to the company's ham, Wash.

Lumber Comcompany's Los Mills, Los Anmill at Belling-

Jack Ivey, Los Angeles, field representative for the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, has returned from a three weeks' business trip to Arizona.

J. F. Seaman, Oeser recently made a business cisco and Los Angeles. Searnan.

N. B. Bowden, Pacific Manufacturing returned May 20 from a business trip to west.

Cedar Co., Bellingham, Wash., and pleasure trip to San FranHe was accompanied by Mrs Co., Santa Clara, the Pacific North-

F. A. Toste, in charge of sales for Rockport Redwood Co. at Los Angeles, recently spent a few days visiting the company's San Francisco office and the sawmill at Rockport, Calif.

Robert Dant, manager of Dant & Russell's mill at Redmond, Ore.. and Mrs. Dant are in California on a vacation trip.

S. Hassell, .up.rint.r,dlit of the millwork department of The Diamond Match Company, Chico, Calif., was in the San Francisco Bay district on business last week.

A. M. Sparling, field engineer, Pacific Coast Shingle Inspection Bureau, Inc., Seattle, Wash., is calling on the retail lumber trade in the Southern California territory.

C. E. Price, sales manager, Clark & Wilson Lumber Co., Portland, Ore., was a Los Angeles visitor last month.

D. D. McCallum, wholesale sash and door manufacturer, Los Angeles, and Mrs. McCallum, returned May 7 from an automobile trip to Yosemite National Park.

Ralph W. Myers, president of the Shipowners' Association of the Pacific Coast, is back from spending a vacation of several weeks in Palm Springs.

Fred Kozak, Builders Lumber & Supply Co., San Diego, is on a three weeks'vacation in the East where he will visit old haunts and do some fishing in Wisconsin.

George J. Osgood of the Henry McCleary Timber Co., McCleary, Wash., recently visited Los Angeles, where he conferred with George S. Melville, South Sound Lumber Sa.les, selling agents for his company in Southern California.

Jerry Stutz of Atkinson-Stutz Co., San Francisco, visited a number of sawmills in the Northwest last week.

Hal Ewart, Northwest representative of this firm, left for Portland, May 25, after visiting the San Francisco and I os Angeles offices.

N. L. M, A. Committees Meet

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The staff members presenting the various phases ol the National program l'!'ere: Wilson Compton, R. G. Kinrbell, Henry Bahr and C. R. French. The report of the Conservation Committee was presented to the Executive Committee by G. F. Jewett, Chairman.

Wilson Compton, in reporting on the general business of the Association, discussed the follolving subjects: Association Finances; Lumber Industry Economic Survey; Shipping Aids to Export Lumber; Log Exports; Congressional Forestry Comrnittee ; l94O Housing Program; Increased Industry Cooperation with Forest Products Lab. oratory, and the revival of the idea of a Wood Research Trust covering fundamental, long-range forest industries research.

The Executive Committee members were given an opportunity to review motion pictures made by the Technical Department of the recent tests comparing the strength factors of rvood sheathing and siding with those of 'rvidely advertised lumber substitutes.

Visit Forest Products Laboratory

On Thursday noon a special dining car was provided by the National Association for the Executive Committee members and federated association staff members, who left at 2 p. ^. for a visit to the Forest Products Laboratory at Madison.

At 6:30 the same evening ten members of the staff of the Forest Products Laboratory were guests of the Executive Comrnittee at a dinner at the Madison Club. On Friday a six-hour program was arrang'ed for the lumbermen by the Laboratory, during which the staff mgrnfsls - Koehler, Hunt, Thelen, Markrvardt, Teesdale, Wilson, Sweet, Sherrard, Curran and Winslow, discussed the following projects on rvhich the Laboratory is norv engaged:

(1) Growth-quality wood relations; (2) Painting wood structures ; (3) Wood Seasoning; (4) Strength and design of wood structures; (5) Condensation in walls; (6) Glues and plywood; (7) Veneer cutting problems; (8) Fireproofing problems; (9) Laminated arch construction;

(10) Harvesting and conversion problems; (11) Decaypreventio.n problems1' (12) Chemical utilization of wood, new products; (13) Pulp and paper problems.

The following attended the meetings: G. F. Jervett, J. F. Coleman, Swift Berry, S. V. Fullaway, Jr., R. E. Broderick, Corydon 'Wagner, W. B. Greeley, M. L. Fleishel, G. H. Collingwood, Henry Bahr, E. A. Frost, James G. McNary, I. N. Tate, C. R. Macpherson, W. A. Holt, R. W. Winton, Herb Klass, Howard O'Brien, H. C. Berckes, S. P. Deas, John W. Watzek, C. E. Close, Wilson Compton, R. G. Kimbell, Carl Bahr, W. R. Burt, J. E. Myer, E. R. Linn and C. R. French.

Lumberman Makes Speech In Spanish

C. H. White, vice-president and general manager of White Brothers, San Francisco, made a speech of welcome in Spanish at the meeting of the San Francisco Rotary Club, May 21, to the officers of the Argentine cruiser, La Argentina. The cruiser, which was visiting San Francisco for the opening of the Fair is on a good will tour of the Pacific.