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Wagnbr Lumber Products Co. in Twisp, Wash. He succeeds James H. Whitty of Al Peirce Lumber Co. in Coos Bay, Ore. Gilchrist long has been active in trade association affairs in the forest products industry. He and other WWPA officers will guide annual expenditures of some $4 million for quality control, technical, forestry, transportation, national advertising, promotion and other services to members.

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Myriad problems facing lumbermen get workout and workover.

Speakers broad range of subjects reflects complexities in the industry.

Gilchrist replaces L. L. Stewart, president of the Bohemia Lumber Co., Culp Creek, Oregon, who steps down after two years at the helm.

Among guest speakers appearing before the members during the week was Rep. John $[. Byrnes (R-Wis.), top ranking GOP on the tax-writing W'ays and Means Committee. Byrnes told lumbermen that the dollar is in grave danger at home and abroad and the current administration is either unwilling or incapable of defending it.

Byrnes also criticized the administration for its refusal to bring its spending into line. He said this has killed the proposed federal tax increase and that remedial action is now up to Congress.

William J. Moshofskn assistant to the president, Georgia-Pacific Corporation, Portland, Oregon, told lumbermen that the current redwood national park controversy is a hoax.

William G. Peoples, senior vice president, Southern Pacific Co., San Francisco, in another talk told lumbermen that cooperation of industry in pioneering incentive rates in the early 1950's has saved Oregon and W'ashington lumber shippers more than $250 million in the last ten years. He commended lumbermen for making his mutually beneficial program possible.

Other guest speakers included John V. Drum, merchandising chief for The Wickes Corporation, who told of his firm's success in selling lumber products through the o'supermarket" approach.

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