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New Lumber Sources Sought

Home builders and lumber producers met recently in Houston, Tex., in an unusual session to discuss possible steps to get more lumber for home and apartment construction.

Included were Western Wood Products Association, National Forest Products Association, Southern Pine, American Plywood Association and the National Association of Home Builders.

All agreed the situation is so grave it must be presented now to President Richard Nixon's new secretaries of Agriculture and Interior. An NAHB officer, speaking before the Senate Small Business Subcommittee said the timber supply problem demands "deep examination."

At the Houston meeting, the lumber men said the principal problem is one of supply and demand-that current timber production is insufficient to meet present and projected needs. Booming log exports, notably to Japan, and accelerated dornestic demand compound the problem, they said.

What is needed, the lumber men said, are changes in federal land management policy which would permit larger yields from federally-controlled commercial forest lanil. Sixty-five percent of the softwood timber is on government-owned lands.

Redwood Conservqtion Elections

The recent annual meeting of the Redwood Region Conservation Council in Eureka, Calif., elected: Eugene A. Hofsted, president; James Hartley, vp.i C. Robert Barnum, treasurer; Loren D. Good, Santa Rosa, exec. vp.

Committee chairmen are Warren Hanchett, education and training; Ge.orge'Gentry, fire prevention; Raymond Spencer, tree farm; and Richard Brown, demonstration forests.

Six men were named to three year terms on RRCC's board of directors. Three re-named after serving a full term were J. E. Pickett of Cal Pacific Redwood Co., Roy E. Wagner of Masonite Corp., and Eugene Hofsted of Arcata Redwood Co. New directors are Don V. Metcalf of the Pacific Lumber Co., Don Carlton of the Times Standard, and James B. Keegan of Wells Fargo Bank.

New Boy Areq Yqrd

There's another new lumber yard in the San Francisco East Buy.

This one is Worldwide Wood primarily industrial accounts and

Products, Inc., and it solicits larger contractors.

The company is the successor to Zenith I-umber Co., Hayward, and Blue Canyon Lumber of San Rafael. It is located on the former Zenith Lumber property in Hayward. Vice-president and general manager is Ward Dobbins, former owner of Blue Canyon Lumber. Other personnel include Tony Taylor as office manager. Tony formerly was a principal in Eureka Mill and Lumber. Fremont. Hugh Ta.vlor, Tony's son, will serve as the yard superintendent.

Pro Basketball took over the otherwise grass roots, down-tobusiness concerns of the Oakland Hoo Hoo Club #39 in its January meeting.

The committee of Al Mury, Frank Timmers, Dwight Currano Ralph Boshion, Ron Delisle, Vic Roth, Dave Jopes and Bob Mac!'ie martialed a goodly group for the game between the San Francisco Warriors and the Cincinnati Royals at, the Oakland Coliseum.

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Freceding the game, members met for dinner. Ralph Boshion, club president, noted tJrat the "Sharcs of Happiness" drive of the club at Christmas had brought in a good return. The fund aids deaf children as well as supporting the groups' scholarship at the rUniyelsity bf Califoi'nia School, of Forestiy'

Club Gets Thanks

I7[ARKED by the characteristic good- lvl fellowship of all Oakland Hoo-Hoo meetings, their recent holiday season meeting heard Paul Small, dean of students of the California School for the Deaf of Berkeley.

Small told of the dedicated work being done by the school and the hope it brings into the lives of so many handicapped young people. He especially thanked tle group for their annual contribution which is particularly appreciated as it has no strings attached. Many an unfortunate young person with no family or interested friends has benefitted over the years from the gift. He told of one fourteen year old orphan girl who they were a.ble to clothe from Hoo-Hoo funds.

Winners of the drawing were David Mensing, Georgia-Pacific Co.p., Verlon McKinney, Brush Industrial Lumber Co. and Manual Lavrador, MacBeath Lumber Co. President Ralph Boshion presided.

Nev/ Lumber Standards in 1969?

II U*t all segments oI the lum,ber industry Assn., Northeastern Lumber Manufacturers

I are finally agreeing upon an understand- Association, Fir and Hemlock Door AssociI able, enforceable national softwood lumber ation, National Forest Products Assn., Na- standard for controlling the quality and the

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I agreed in mid-Fail on deta]ls of i n-ational Long promised,the new standards I lumber standard , for structural lumber may just make it thiS. time.. in- which has subsequently been approved by dustry. support seems stronger the Amedcan Lumber Standards Commit- now than ever before. I tee and now rests in the hands of the U.S.

OgnaSent of Commerce for review and tional Lumber & Building Materials Dealers lrlbnfssion -to an acceptor list. (See The Associarion, Red Cedar Sii"gt" & Handsplit

M.erclant, Nou., p. 12 lor the ag,reed, upon Shake Bureau, Southem pire Association swes.) and the Western Red Cedar Lumber Asso- loutheln Pine Inspection Bureau, West Principal provisions are simplification of

Th" three grading agercies are the ciation.

9o"* Lumber Inspection Bureau and the grade deiignations and nomenciaturg estab-

Western Wood Products Association. I-ishment oi a national size system providing

The proposed national lumber standard for both sreen and'dry lumLe" toL manu- will replace present overlapping grading factured io t}e sam" in-use sizes, combining and meflsing systerns with one standard for and simplifying strength and stiffness alJ softwood dimension manufacturers in values foi wood of similar qualities and the_country. establishment of an independent board of

The-prop9s9d standard also has the sup- review for enforcement, and designation of I pott of the California Redwood Association, actual lumber sizes on manufact-urers' inNorthern Hardwood & Pine Manufacturers voices.

The proposed standard will lead to a substantial reduction in the numbor of grade and speeies descriptions. All species will be designated by the same grade and na"'e system. Alsq not only will green and dry lumber be compatible in size when put in place in their end-useo but both will now be compatible with timber sizes as well.

TheALSC plans to ask the Federal Trade Commission io require manil,arory. grade marking of all structural lumber under the new standard. The proposal also provides for establishment of a paid board of review which will act in a capacity to police grade marking. The enforcement activity will be a matter of public record as opposed to past policy where board of revie\,v findings were unavailable.

The standard, as a @nsumer benefit, is likened by industry spokesmen to a o'truth in packaging" bill for the lumber industry. The standard provideg for the first time, for required National Bureau of Standards approval of strength and stiffness values for consumer protection.

The new standard, by rnaking green and dry sizes compatible in end-use, is seen as a boon to builders and designers because it will make structures go together faster and more uniformly. The massive simplification of names and grades and strength values will also make it easier to order the right wood for the job.

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