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Tlmbers Too

You know you can get the plywood you want at Crown Plywood. But did you know thatwe also carry complete inventories on rolled roofing, redwood and cedarfencing, masonite products, Doug Fir timbers, pine commons, redwood bender and lath, and plywood sidings?

You can get it all with one call from Crown Plywood.The lumber you need, ?nd the service you expect.

So give usa call at 714-530-3924.

TRANSPORTATI0N NIcHT meeting of Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo club drew truck, rail and waler shippers from Coos BaV, 0r. to San Diego and points in between. 46 golfed before the banquet, Hugo Miller winning low gross, Frank Stanger low net. (1) Fritz 0uirin of C-O Trucking, George Clough, Inland Lumber Co. (2) Kent Sherburne, Simpson and Gail Lamson, Marquart-Wolf; Maureen Howard, South Bay Redwood Co. Girls of local Hoo-HooEtte club helped run meeting. (3) Mel Pearce, Hal Borstad, John Weston. (4) Ed Leahy, Carvel Brown. (5) Jim Frodsham, Harl Crockett, Andy Ersek. (6) Jim Cameron, Jack Chambers. (7) Joe Costa, Ken Evans, Tony Gilbert, Howard Lee. (8) Don Bailey, Bill Bradley. (9) Ernie Matthes, Cal Wyss, (10) Charley Brown, Don Stobaugh, John Sweet. (11) Stan Cochran.Jim Fair. (12) Rick Blakemore, Cliff Toberty. (13) Ken Coleman. (14) Hugo Miller, Harold Hes. (15) Ray McKendrick, Phil Heim, Neal DeWitt. (16) Mel Rhodes, Toby Hunter, Jim Martindale. (17) Ken Thompson, Frank Stanger, Frank McLean.

Hlgher Lumber Prlces?

Sen. Jennings Randolph (D-W. Va.) has introduced a bill to regulate Federal timber management and reform management practices on National Forests to end the many disputes and controversies resulting from the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals decision in the Monongahela case.

Industry estimates say the bill would reduce the current level of timber growth and harvest on the National Forests by about 60% which would drastically hike lumber prices.

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f f |HAT next Uncle?

UU fnis past year has been a reflection of misery as we constantly duck the barrage of'legislative missiles being hurled at us.

If the government is attempting to get us to cry Uncle, I've been doing it for quite a while with no effect. Although I may sound pessimistic I must admit that as an industry we accomplished a lot in the past year.

Five Western states merged their common interests and have formed the Western States Lumbermen's Council. Many have received bulletins from this group. You will be hearing a lot more since the associations are on the right track to providing dealers more and better information and programs as a result of joint efforts.

Through our National Association we have succeeded in holding back passage of Consumer Protection Agency legislation, thwarted 1975 attempts at Common Situs picketing, have established a national housing policy, have been recognized by the federal regulatory agencies as a group that has a vast wealth of knowledge that can be tapped for improvement of the nation's economy, and have even had a message from President Ford congratulating our National on many years of service to the industry and the nation.

Our own local efforts have been outstanding. We have established a permanent association headquarters in which we have already had several meetings. Our move to the new headquarters has already proven a savings in rent versus maintenance and operation of the facility.

We have been effective with CAL/OSHA. Our association members have not suffered the depth of inspections that others have because of our excellent safety programs and the dealer's compliance with the regs.

The fine work done by the safety representatives of our firms, for those of us participating with the association in the program, cannot go unnoticed. As a group we have managed to reduce our loss ratio to 4I% which is a great reduction over what we had three years ago. It was unfortunate that our workmen's compensation dividend did not match the great efforts made by each of you. As you are aware we have changed workmen's compensation carriers and hope to do better next year.

As I peek ahead in 1976 the same confusion still exists, only now it is clouded in a mist of election propaganda. There will be bits and pieces of legislation passed only for the purpose of vote getting. Most of our unwanted legislation that we fought hard against in 1975 will be back to haunt us again. Housing starts will not increase much above the 1.4 million mark so that means that we need to stay with the walk-in customer and arrange our operation to accommodate him/her.