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May

Building Industry Credit AssociationMay 12, seminars, Irvine Holiday Inn, Irvine, Ca.

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IVestern Dry Kiln AssociationMay 13-15, annual meeting, Harrah's Hotel, Reno, Nv.

Coast Counties Hoo-Hoo ClubMay 14, election of officers, Monterey Beach Hotel, Monterey, Ca.

North Csscades Hoo-Hoo ClubMay 15, annual golf tournament, Skaget Valley Golf & Country Club, Burlington, Wa.

Inland Empire Hoo-Hoo ClubMay 15-17, Ladies Weekend, Marriott's Rancho Las Palmas, Rancho Mirage, Ca.

Universal Forest ProductsMay 15, open house, Stockton, Ca.

Hardware VYholesalers, Inc.May 16-19, spring market, Indiana Convention-Exposition Center, Indianapolis, In.

National Forest Products AssociationMay 17-20, conference, Loew's L'enfant Plaza Hotel, Washington, D.C.

North American Wholesale Lumber AssociationMay 1720, lOoth annual meeting, Broadmoor Hotel, Colorado Springs, Co.

Phoenix Hoo-Hoo ClubMay 19, elections, golf & dinner, Cottonwood Country Club, Sun Lakes, Az.

Custom orders nLean profitable return on inaestmentno inuentory!

Pacilic Coast Builders ConferenceMay 19-22, Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, Ca.

Shasta Cascade Hoo-Eoo ClubMay 22, golf tournament, Gold Hill Country Club, Redding, Ca.

Spokane Hoo-Hoo ClubMay 22,woodworking contest, Spokane, Wa.

National Hoo-Hoo-Ette ConventionMay 29-31, Ukiah, Ca.

Jensen-Byrd Co.May 3l-June 1, Spokane Convention Center, Spokane, Wa.

Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers AssociationMay 3l-June

3, annual convention, Silverado Country Club & Resort, Napa, Ca.

June

Coast Counties IIoo-Hoo ClubJune 5, golf tournament, Laguna Seca Country Club, Monterey, Ca.

Distribution AmericaJune 10-14, Partnership Conference, Hyatt Regency Grand Hotel, Orlando, Fl.

Spokane Hoo-Hoo Club -June 12, golf tournament/dinner, Spokane, Wa.

Lumber Association of Southern CaliforniaJune 12-14, Second Growth annual retreat, La Quinta Hotel, La Quinta, Ca.

Giant Sequoia Symposium -June 23-25,Univ. of California, Davis, ecological workshop, Visalia, Ca.

Western Wood Preservers InstituteJune 28-July 1, summer meeting, Sunriver Lodge & Resort, Sunriver, Or.

July

Coast-to-Coast - July 12-15, show, Denver Convention Center, Denver, Co.

Inland Empire Hoo-Hoo ClubJuly 17, golf/dinner, El Rancho Verde Country Club, Rialto, Ca.

Spokane Hoo-IIoo ClubJuly 17, board appreciation meeting; July 23, calendar planning meeting, Spokane, Wa.

Cascade Wholesale Hardware - July 18-19, annual dealer trade show, Red Lion Inn, Jantzen Beach, Portland, Or.

Western Building Material Association is addressing the question: can our industry respond to a recovery?

Depending on your perspective, we are coming out of a recession, a depression, a downturn, or a slump. Call it what you will, the real issue facing the lumber industry is whether we can respond to a recovery when it occurs. Lumber-dependent businesses may be left in the dust when the recovery occurs. The reason is simple: the majority of the 18% of national forest acreage still available for multiple use management is essentially tied up in court proceedings. These and other sobering facts are the views of Dan Goldy, an economist for the Western Forest Industries Association.

According to Goldy, unless Congress acts to relieve the situation, federal timber backlogs in the Pacific Northwest (includ- ing California), will be largely exhausted by summer, and there will be an unprecedented wave of additional mill closures. Thus, the pipeline could be dry when lumber dealers attempt to tap into the economic recovery. Go to our friends in Canada or the South, you say? "The experts on those regions say there is no way they could make up the gap in supplies caused by a large scale shutdown of production in the West, or the Pacific Northwest, including California," Goldy said. Countervailing tax on Canadian wood products will add its impact.

Goldy suggests that the stage is thus set for an unprecedented assault on Congress by homebuilders, contractors and hopefully lumber dealers. It's been almost 20 years since a similar set of circumstances prompted these groups to head to Washington in force. It resulted in the passage ofthe Resources Planning Act which requires the Forest Service to project supply and de- mand for wood products and to submit a program to avoid critical shortages. The Act is still on the books and it's time to remind Congress of how it's supposed to work. Are you going to be a "player" or a "victim"?

OrePac Buys Maple Bros.

OrePac Building Products, Inc., Wilsonville, Or., has acquired the assets of Maple Bros., Inc., Chino, Ca. No changes are planned in operations orpersonnel at Maple Bros. ' Chino andEl Cajon, Ca.,facilities, which will operate as Maple Bros., a division of OrePac.

Maple Bros. president Rob Maple said stockholders decided to sell the 45-year-old company for family estate reasons.

In gaining a Southern California presence, OrePac now grows to over $120 million in sales with eight operations in four states, spanning the entire Pacific Coast.

(Continued.lrom page I 5) ing starts will total 1.2 million unitsan 18% increasewith single-family construction representing SOVo of that total.

Repair and remodeling will consume 15.1 billion bd. ft. in 1992, up 2.4Vo. Lumber used in commercial and industrial projects will rise by L.7% to 6.98 billion feet.

Lumber imports, mostly Canadian, are predicted to increase t5 .6% to 13.58 billion board feet, representing nearly one-third of the U.S. market.

Exports of American lumber should rise to 2.95 billion feet in 1992, an increase of 3. 3%. The major customers for U.S. lumber will be Japan and Canada.

S. John Shelk, Ochoco Lumber Co., Prineville, Or. n was named chairman of the board of directors March 2O, the final day of the meeting at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, Ca. Electedfirst vice chairman was Michael Flannery, Pope & Talbot, Inc.; James D. Costello. Fibreboard Wood Products Co., was chosensecondvice chairman.

The fall meeting will be held at the Coeur d'Alene Resort, Coeur d'Alene, Id., with the spring 1993 meeting again at the St. Francis Hotel, March 2-5. In a departure from hadition, the 1994 spring meeting will move out of "The City" to the La Quinta Hotel, La Quinta, Ca., near Palm Springs, March 8-11.