Obituaries

Price Wayne Hendricks, retired owner of Athens Lumber Co., Athens. Al.. died Oct. 4. 1986. in Athens. He was 82.

He had also owned HendricksPatton Co., Rancl Furniture and Appliance and Alabama Hendricks Farms.

Mr. Hendricks is survived by two daughters, a sister, three grandchildren, and a great-grandchild.

NHLA Elects Fields President

Walter M. Fields, Jr., Walter M. Fields Lumber Co., Inc., Memphis, Tn., was elected the 45th president of the National Hardwood Lumber Association at its 89th annual convention, held in Montreal, Canada.

Fields has long been deeply involved in the National Hardwood Lumber Association. He was first elected director in 1974 and served until 1980 when he entered vicepresidential succession. His name was closely connected with the association's inspection school in Memphis. When the decision was made to move the NHLA offices from Chicago to Memphis in 1977, Fields was chdirman of the building committee which supervised the design and construction of the new office and educational facilities.

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(Continued from page l7) think prices will probably hold firm or even increase slightly. essenlially a business meeting, heard reports from the active committees and acted on matters of concern to the association and the industry. A proposal to alter the definition of a clear-face cutting in the association's hardwood lumber grading rules failed for lack of support.

Canadian producers have enjoyed up to a 33% share of the U.S. market. On Oct. 16 of this year, an import duty of l5o/o was imposed on imports of Canadian softwood lumber. The net effect could mean an increase in demand from U.S. mills in rhe Pacific Northwest, if they are prudent in their pricing. At any rate, there is little doubt this action will exert an upward pressure in FOB mill prices in softwood lumber domestically, as well as a probable increase in transportation prices due to spot shortages of lumber-hauling equipment by western rail carriers.

Vice-presidents elected for similar two-year terms, are John G. Thomson, Peter Thomson & Sons Ltd., Alliston, Ontario, Henry C. Fulcher, Jr., Sitco Lumber Co., Wilmer, Tx., and Jim C. Hamer, Jim C. Hamer Co., Kenova, W.V.

Two directors were elected to fill unexpired terms: John O. Schaffhauser, Anderson-Tully Co., Memphis, and John C. Sirianni. Sirianni Hardwoods, Inc., Painted Post, N.Y. Newly elected direcrors are: Wallace A. Buchanan, Buchanan Hardwoods, Inc., Selma, Al.; Joe W. Mathias, Frank Miller Lumber Co., Inc., Union City, In.; James T. Powell, Jr., Canton Hardwood Co., Inc., Canton. N.C.: Gerald Slavney, Thompson-Katz Lumber Co., Inc., Memphis, and Emmett P. Vaughn, Jr., Emmer Vaughn Lumber Co., Knoxville. Tn.

The 1300 registrants attending the opening session heard the Honorable Daniel Johnson, minister of industry and commerce for the Government of Quebec, discuss opportunities for doing business in Canada. Troy Stinson, Noranda Inc., analyzed the Canadian/U.S. situation concerning sofrwood imports to rhe U.S. John D. Abernathy, chairman and c.e.o. of Seidman and Seidman, forecast a furniture industry shipments growth to $14.5 biltion. The convention was held october 20-22. The second general session.

Meetings of the Hardwood Distributors Association, the American Walnut Manufacturers Association, International Hardwood Products Association. National Lumber Exporters Association and the Hardwood Export Trade Council were held in conjunction wirh the NHLA meeting. Milton Cole, John L Shafer Lumber Co.. Logansport, In., was elected president of the HDA.

The 1987 NHLA convenrion will be held in Washington D.C.

Although the forest products industry's prospects for growth in 1987 appear slim, BN expects modest growth in its forest products business. This growth will come about as.a result of greater carrying capacity in our fleet, due to our new centerbeam flatcars. Growth will also come from traffic originated on BN, but more important, from traffic received from connectins carriers.

In the U.S.. demand is expected to remain relatively strong in the Northeast, with some softening in the Midwest due to continuine problems in the farm economy. ThE forest products market is expected to be good in California but flat in the Pacific Northwest, and strug- gling in the energy-dependenr economy of the South and Southwest.

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