James G. McNary Efected President of NLMA Leonard C. Hammond Named Vice-President

James G. McNary, president of Southwest Lumber Mills, Inc., McNary, Ariz., was elected president. of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association at its annual meeting, held jointly with the Southern Pine Association, at New Orleans, November lQ 11 and IZ. He succeeds W. B. Nettleton, president of the Nettleton Lumber Co. of Seattle. Leonard C. Ifammond, president of the llammond Lumber Company and Hammond Redwood Company, San Francisco, was elected first vice-president. Ralph McCartney, Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, Klamath Falls, Ore., was elected a director, and J. F. Coleman, Kinzua pine Mills Co., Kinzua, Ore., a member of executive committee. All other officers and directors will continue to serve.

Resolutions were adopted opposing the proposed Black_ Connery wage and hour law after its purposes and provisions were outlined by a group of speakers.

In other resolutions, the meeting opposed the executive reorganization bill, increased freight rates on lumber, the proposal to transfer the forestry service from the depart_ ment of agriculture to the department of the interior, and renewal of the Canadian reciprocity treaty unless adjust_ ment is made of present differences now entirelv advantageous to Canada.

An important matter given consideration at the meeting was continuation and further development of the small homes campaign, inaugurated this year by the National association. The model home-building program embraces construction of houses, ranging in construction cost from $1800 to $4000. H. R. Northrup, assistant secretary of the National, stated that about one million homes will be needed during the next five years. This need can be translated into an economic demand, he said, if the lumber industry will concentrate on the problem. Lower construction costs, loans up to 90 per cent with a down payment of 10 per cent, and lower mortgage insurance charges are a part of the solution to the problem, he said.

I. N. Tate, of St. Paul, Minn., president of the American Forest Products Industries, an affiliate of the National, declared that the lumbermen of the country can lead in the building of thousands of lower priced homes if they will make use of the promotion facilities of the national, state and regional organizations. Charles R. French and H. G. Uhl, both of Washington, D. C., in the technical department of the National, were speakers on this phase of the meeting. The remainder of the three-day session was devoted to a number of routine matters.