Lumberman of the year

National Forest Products Week. October 17-23,was highlighted in the Redding, Ca., area by a joint meeting of the Shasta Cascade Hoo-Hoo Club and the Redding Trade Club. Over 360 lumbermen were in attendance.

The Redding Trade Club selects a citizen of the month for each of their monthly meetings. The Hoo Hoo members narne a lumberman of the year for the October meeting. This year ;that person is Earl Nordtvedt, president of Northwood Lumber Co. of Redding.

Earl was born in Bellingham, Wa. and is a graduate of the University of Washington. Additional education was obtained at Whitman, Princeton and Northwestern Universities.

He started in lumber in 1946 in Portland, spending five years before two years in the Navy in the Korean War. He is a Lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Reserve.

After Korea, back to lumber in Seattle, Washington and Portland, as a buyer and sales manager. In 1965 he moved to Redding as sales manager for wholesale lumber firms for four vears before starting his own comiany.

ENVIRONMENTAL questions got a good going over at meeting by (top

Weston, Pete Niebling,