Westerner elected NFPA president

THE ONLY word to summarize the outr look for housine and home buildine is optimistic," Mortimer B. Doyle, "*""uiin" vp of the National Forest Products Association, forecast at the 65th annual meeting of the National Forest Products Assoiation in Washington, D.C.

The meeting attracted more than 1000 industry, Congressional, federal and construction-oriented leaders who examined industry issues involving federal land ac- quisition programs, community and rural population imbalance and economic stability, building codes, lumber standards, communications and public relations.

Gene C. Brewer, NFPA president, led off the discussion of public land use issues with a probing industry position paper and key questions for discussion.

The board of directors acted to improve the industry's position on important issues and to strengthen and imple- ment NFPA programs. Among which they: o Recommended that federal recreation programs be geared to demonstrated public interest rather than to predictions of recreation demands and that public policy include (l) development of recreation opportunities by private land owners, and (2) the development of recreational facilities on lands already owned by the federal government. o Urged all segments of the forest products industry to cooperate with NFPA in presenting a united industry approach to building code problems. o Authorized the NFPA president to appoint an annual Congress on Technology and Marketing to recommend solutions to industry technical marketing problems related to the acceptance of forest products. Requested the stafi to inventory industry manpower and existing basic forest industry policies to strengthen communications within the industry and improve the industry's effectiveness in communicating with its publics at all levels. ooThis should be a real business booster for dealers that take advantage of the kit's potential for profit," Dick Lloyd, WIB spokesman emphasized.

. Requested NFPA to conduct a continuing public education program to communicate the forest industries' need for a continuous supply of timber.

NFPA members elected Russell H. Ells, president of Willits Redwood Products, Co., Willits, Calif., president of the association for the coming year. Ells succeeds Gene C. Brewer, president of U.S. Plywood-Champion Papers, Inc., N.Y., who was elected chairman of the board. New first vice president is James D. Bronson, director, Boise Cascade Corp., Yakima, Wash.

Regional vice presidents for the coming year are C. Russell Johnson, president, Union Lumber Co., San Francisco; Loran L. Stewart, president, Bohemia Lumber Co., Culp Creek, Ore.; J. Newton Jones, executive vice president, J. M. Jones Lumber Co., Natchez, Miss.; and Robert C. McMillan, general sales manager Crown - Zellerbach Building Materials,. Ltd.. New Westminster. B.C.. Canada.

A building and iemodeling litbratwe kit, containing scores of ideas and plans is being made available to local lumber dealers for their customers by the \[ood Informatiop Bureau of Southern California.

The kit, designed as a counter itemo offers a wealth of ideas using wood in varied applications. Made possible through the co operation of industry associations, the kit sells for 50{. The dealer price is 501 for WIB subscribers and $I.00 for non-subscribers.

This promotion is the latest in a series of successful wood promotion efforts that WIB has coordinated.

Summit fo Open Africqn Plqnt

Summit Lumber Co. of Los Angeles will head up a group to build and operate a $5.5 million plywood, lumber and veneer manufacturing facility in Liberia as a result of a 3O-year concession agreement sigrred with the Republic of Liberia for one million acres of its prime African hardwood.

This is one of the largest timber concessions given an American firm by a foreign government, according to Leo S. Seidner, president of Summit. Liberia will receive a land rental of l0 cents per acre and stumpage of $3 per thousand b.f. cut and processed locally. Summit has been granted tax free and duty free privileges as well as other investment incentives.

Summit plans to manufacture and export over 80 million sq. ft. of hardwood plywood annually. They will begin operations as soon as equity and debt financing have been finalized.

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Union Buys Seoside Lumber

Seaside Lumber Company of Willits has become a subsidiary of Union Lumber Company, Joseph Farley, president of Seaside, and Russell Johnson, president of Union Lumber reveal.

Farley said, "We felt this was necessary because increased financins is needed. We will expand further into eastern markets and reduce waste in raw material. movement of product and will have a dependable supply of raw materials."

Russell Johnson added, ooSeaside has established itself as a strons factor in the business of manufacturing wooden components for many uses as well as producing its own line of redwood outdoor furniture, While Seaside's manufacturing facilities, products and customers are quite difierent from those of l,Tnion Lumber Company, we believe that the lines of business in which the two companies engage complement each other uell."

WWPA Appointments

Robert H. Hunt has been appointed manager. product promotion. and Alicc Haritonofi has been named advertisins coordinator, both in the marketing serviccs division of the V'estcrn $ ood Producls Association.

Bob Hunt has been promoting lumber products for ten years. serving under tht' late Robert E. Mahaffay, director of advertising and promotion. He will be responsible for the literature, film, and exhibit programs of the association and will be on the advertising management team.

Miss Haritonoff is joining the association after a number o{ years with the Lonie Co. and McCann-Erickson advertising agency in Portland. She will take part in planning WWPA advertising plugrams.