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Their latest piece of equipment is a new Oliver 2170 Straitoplane, a heavy-duty, high-speed double surfacer which does the work of two machines. Its basic function is to first plane the bottom side of a board, as a jointer would do, and then surface the top side of the board to required thickness dimension, parallel to the bottom side.

This takes twist and warp out of boards and reduces the number of machining operations required by the customer.

W.'s $l Billion Spending Plon

More than $1 billion will be spent in the next four years for capital improvements and expansion, exclusive of acquisitions, company president George Weyerhaeuser has announced. He said that more than $500 million will be spent for new paperboard and pulping facilities; about $200 million for additional capacity in wood-based building materials; the remainder to expand new product lines, modernize plants and forest management.

New Plont Reporting System

Boise Cascade has pioneered a new plywood plant production repolt,ing system. The reports made by this system used to take up to 40 hours to compute by hand for eight plywood mills. They're now reduced to roughly six minutes on the computer.

This new plywood production reporting system (PPRS) uses a telephonic device to transmit daily production data from each Boise Cascade plant to a central computer in the company's Portland office. Within a few hours, an analysis is transmitted to the plant manager, giving him a report of mill performance trp to midnight the previous day.

Duo-Fcrst Oregon's New Cenler

The Duo-Fast Oregon Co. rece.ntly completed construction of a new regional sales, service and warehousing center in Portland, Ore. The 15,000 sq. ft. facility, located near a previously used smaller building, was necessitated by increased sales activities and continuing company emphasis on product servicing.

There are more than 60 similarly constituted Duo-Fast sales, service and warehousing facilities throughout the U.S., two in Canada, and one each in Mexico and Puerto Rico.

First call Hobbs Wall for wholesale Redwood and Redwood spfit products, Douglas Fir and White Fir, Ponderosa and Sugar Pine, Hemlock and Cedar lumber. Depend on us to follow through with the right grades at the right prices !

Neiman-Reeil opened a new Lumber City recendy at Westlalre, Calif., followed by a Dec. opening of a new store in Ventura, their fifth Horneowners Lurnber, Sanla Rosa, Calif., had a grand reopeningT'hanksgiving time, their original building was burned completely last Aug.

Flying santcer reports from B.C. will probably be due to a red and silver mete' orological ballon Karnlnops Pulp & Paper has been flying; it's about 25'long, guar' anteed to give the loggers a thrill Ma' sonite may be adding carpets and completed hornes to their 1971 line

U.S. Cypsurn has plans to develop a $100 million forestry complex in northeastern British Columbia .15 B.C. mills clnsed in that Vancouver port strike jam up that helped U.S. firms by raising the price oL lumber going out of the NW.

Iorest City Enterpruses of Cleveland, Ohio, has purchased Ziel & Co., ID7-yearold S.F. lumber firm; Ziel will operate under American Internatinnal Forest Prod,' u,cts, arL FCE subsidiary with Portland HQs the F. W. Dodge construction contract value bourcetl up 13/o over Sept.; a general downturn is still the overall pattern, they say..

Ken-Mic, a new materials handling leasing co. has been formed by Stahl Lumber's Ken Tinkler and Milan Michie. Wickes forecasts a slump in their fiscal '70 earn' ings, despite record, sa"les of $475 million

NFPA is circulating a new booklet, ChaI' Lenge ol the Forests, to schools, trying to rccruit the ki.ils to take forest products' oriented majors in college , Armstrong Cork has made more priee increases in their flooring lines . .'. Fibreboaril Corp., thru its Trimont Land Co. subsidiary, will develop 25,000 acres in the Lake Tahoe area on the Golden State side.

Constructinn contratts in the West are likely to top the I7/o increase forecast, McGraw Hill says, adding they donlt see the heavy construction boom of the last 2 years continuing indefinitely . . a Forest Service research paper sees ooerall lorest ind,ustry ernployment in the Columbia-North Pacific arca ileclining 35% in the next 50 years

ControaersiaL timber sales in the Willamette National Forest in southwest Oregon has been dela,yed, by the goat.; preservationist groups have been wailing again Oregon annually gets about $25 million contributed to her economy from the har'vest of logs. . Boise Cascad,e has about 2000 stockholders in Oregon (if you care about such things)

Potlatch, which suffered a 3rd quarter earnings drop, predicts an upturn for the 4th quarter of. '69 Boise Cascad'e is acquiring West Taconta Newsprint, Steilacoom, Wash., for an undisclosed number of B C shares. t]le Sierra Club has attacked President Nixon for what it calls a "non-poli,cy" in conservatron

In the first 6 months of '69, there were 4I lwwing-related, mergers and, acquisi' fjons, nearly as many as in all oL L967, according to W. T. Grimm & Co. . Englemann Spruce is Utah's most abundant type of commercial timber ..lorest lires charred I0/o less acreage during '68 than '67; damage still amounts to a formid,able 4I/2 millinn acres

Bohemia Lunber Co. has purchased, for about $l million, Century Home Compo' ncnts, Inc. and the f,rm of Ellison & Plau Co., a lanil deaelopment co.. Oct., usu' ally a slow mo. for mobile lwme sales, set a new monthly record, of 39,710 Blach Diamond, Lumber Co., Sacramento, Calif., had a successful sale to raise money for the Crocker Art Gallery up to 18'. Fine

American Wood Council has added Sac' ramento, San Jose and San Diego, Calif. to their list of uestern ciries getting promotion programs .,, Gooilman Build'ing Supply, Mill Valley, Calif., tied in the "Recommended by Sunset Magazine" ma' terial with their attractive ilisplay of Ken' tile vinyl brick.

Canad,a exports up to 5.5 billion bf oI lumber a year to the U.S., about l4/o oI consumption out of our total 30 billian bl cut annually, the west accts. for /3; Doug. fir just under 30/o and' redwood, about 6/o Colombia" is making a big push currendy to develop their 260,000 sq. miles ol tropical forests, about 60/o oI their land area. ..

The American Forest lrrstilute reports there are more than 5000 products that come from trees; the average American anr.ually uses 530 lbs. of pape4 280 bl. ol lurnber; untold amounts of other material having its origin in the forest ' the h'-' ber industry, oldest indwtry in America" began about 1608 in Jamestown, Virginia.

Mobile homes account for about 80/o ol al,l neut home sales under $15,000 claims Fleetwood Enterprises, mobile home manu' facturer American Forest Products declared l5/o earnings increase over 1968 in the Ist nine months of 1969 . Calaveras div., The Flintkote Co. moaed' to 215 Market St.. San Francisco.