THE CALIFOR}.IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

Col. Gseeley Discusses Conditions in West Coast Lumber lndustry

Seattle, June 11, 1945-The Pacific offensive will be endangered by shortages of the lumber it urgently needs in great quantities unless losses of manpower and vital equipment in the West Coast lumber industry are stopped, Col. W. B. Greeley, Secretary-Manag'er of the West Coast Lumberman's Association, warned in Seattle today.

"The lumber industry has been steadily drained of manp,ower since the first effort of national defense," Col. Greeley said. "Over seven thousand woods and mill employees have gone into the armed services, and as many more have been drawn to the shipyards and other Pacific Northwest war industries. 'We are short today at leist 20 per cent of normal manpower. The industry maintained annual production ot 8fu'billion board feet through 1941 and 1942 and turned out nearly 8 billion {eet in 1943 and again in 1944. To date production is running about 11 per cent under that of the same period last year.

"Steady production of lumber in the Pacific Northwest has just been taken for granted by the War Agencies. Although constantly citing the critical shortage of lumber, they have made no effective effort to provide men for this industry. Their lack of help has run through the drafting of key workers by Selective Service; the low rating given lumber, until very recently, in employment priorities; and the constant refusal to release on furlough skilled loggers from the Armed forces. The unrest and migration of labor, at the loss of lumber production, has been seriously in- creased by the complete failure of the government to enforce its own orders on wage stabilization. More disturbance of lumber's manpower has ,followed the gratuitous foisting of the Travel Tlme controversy upon West Coast logging by the Wage and Hour Administration.

"Now the War Department tells us that construction troops will equal combat troops in numbers with every landing of the attack on Japan, and that lumber will be their basic building material. In this offensive we will have no ready-made bases as we had in Europe. The bases will have to be built with every advance of our forces on the land of Japan or in China. The War Department says the job in the Paeific will be like building another Chicago in lumber.

"At the same time, it has not been possible to supply the lumber needed and desired for civilian requirements. There has had to be a general suspension of home and farm building as one of our war necessities, to conserve materials for the emergency.

"The West -Coast lumber industry will again give everything it has got to the war and civilian ddmands put upon it, just as the industry has done during the past five years. But it is being drained of its vital force. To maintain its record of producing what it has been asked to produce for the war, the West Coast lumber industry must be enabled to keep men in the woods and mills and to procure vital equipment for logging."

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New Wholesafe Lumber Firm In San Francisco

Shevlin-Cords Lumber Co., Inc., is the name of a new firm that has entered the wholesale lumber field, with headquarters in San Francisco. Their offices are at 6g .Post Street, rooms 417 to 419.

The principals, Crosby H. Shevlin and D. Normen Cords, are well known, and both are well equipped with ex_ perience to make a success of their new venture.

Redwood Logging Conference

San Francisco, California, June 4, lg4s-Nlaintenance'of California Redwood lumber industry's. good record in war production was the general theme of the 9th annual Redwood Logging Conference held at Fort Bragg, Calif., May 25 and 26. The first day was devoted to discussion sessions, with the annual dinner following in the evening. On the 'second day, loggers visited -the Clark Fork operations of the Union Lumber Compan;r of Fort Bragg.

Discussions covered the perennial subject of bark peeling, new state laws affecting logging, selective logging, truck and trfick logging, fire protection, Diesel yarder and tractor combinations, salvage logging, and other subjects. Attendance was made up largely of logging superintendents, foremen, chopping bosses and scalers of the industry.

Kenneth Smith, president of the California Redwood Association, and Califorrtia State Forester De Witt Nelson, addressed the conferende.

John Gray of the tTnion Lumber Company, Fort Bragg, was chairman of the Conference. James Hughes, Holmes Eureka Lumber Compiny, Eureka, rvas elected chairman for the 1946'Conference.

Mr. Shevlin started his lumber career with the Shevlin_ Hixon Lumber Co. at Bend, Oregon, in 1919, and three years later went to Omaha to seli lumber on the road in Nebraska and Iowa for the Shevlin and McCloud, Calif., mills. In 1926 he became plant sales manager at the Shevlin mill at Bend, and in 1931 went to Minneapolis to be vice-president of the Shevlin pine Sales Co. 1n this position he traveled extensively throughout the country. In 1943 he returned to Bend as assistant manager, hold_ ing that position until he decided to enter business for himself.

Mr. Cords has a background of experience in the mill, distribution yard, office sales, and road selling. Ife. went with the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. in San Fran_ cisco in 1927, and, became associated with Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco, in 1936. For the past seveiai years he has been in charge of their pine department, and re_ signed to go into business with Mr. Shevlin.

Shevlin-Cords Lumber Co., fnc., will conduct a general wholesale lumber business', selling all West Coast fumber products.

Ycrd Chcnges

Clarence V. Small, manager of the Hayward Lumber & Investment Co., at Lancaster, was recently transferred to Bakersfield and will take o_ver the management of the company's yard there.

Stanley Smith, manager of the Barstow branch, succeeds Mr. Small as manager at Lancaster. Omar Johnson, assistant manager at Barstow, has been named manager of the Barstow yard.

Frcrnk Connolly in Eqst

Frank J. Connolly, president of Lumber Co., Los Angeles, left June Washington, D. C., and expects to Tulv 5.

Western Hardwood 15 for New York and be back in his office

Grcduates From Medicct School

William N. Henry, son of Charles p. Henry, Los Angeles lumberman, graduated from University of Southern California medical school June 23, and was commissioned June 24 as First Lieutenant in the U. S. Armv