WWPA spring meeting

slightly fatalistic, awaiting the next card dealt

Western Wood Products Association was not held at San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel. The La Quinta Resort near Palm Springs, Ca., was this year's venue. But despite the desert sefting, the association staff managed to create a replica of the lobby clock from the St. Francis, meeting spot for innumerable gatherings over the years (seephoto).

Unlike previous yean, the mood of those attending w:rs one of general anticipation, rather than an expectation of a certain scenario. Battered by a pause in the economy generally attributed to severe winter storms in the Fast and continuing constraints on timber supply, the lumbermen seemed