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Gov. Agency Chorges Misgroding Hos Bilked Consumer of Millions

A Federal Trade Commission report on lumber-sales practices has charged that lumber misgrading "has bilked consumers of millions of dollars" and has o'lorvered the margin of structural safety in innumerable dwellings."

Noting that most lumber is graded at the mill under standards fixed bt- industry associations and the Commerce Dept., the FTC charged that the lumber industry's self-policing of grade standards was inadequate. The FTC said that lower grades of lumber are frequently mixed with higher grades a{ter the lumber leaves the mill.

R"p. Dingell (D., Mich.) is the chairman of the House Small Business subcommittee that released the report. The committee has been studying lumber-sales practices for several years. Additional hearings are planned.

Dingell said he will introduce legislation requiring manda. tory grade marking. The bill also will outlaw unauthorized use or counterfeiting of grade marks and stamps and would make it a crime to knowingly misrepresent the species. size or grade of lumber.

Huge Union lumber Exponsion

Union Lumber Co. announces it will add a new $5 million plywood plant to its Fort Bragg, Calif. production complex. It will be one of the major plywood manufacturing facilities in the W'est and will represent the largest single production expansion undertaken by Union since its founding in the 1880's.

C. Russell Johnson, president, estimated the new plant will be in operation in approximately eighteen months. It will have an annual production capacity of about 70 million square feet, on the basis of three-eiehts inch standard thickness. Both redwood and fir plywood proJucts will be manufactured.

Construction of the new {acility will immediately follow preliminary architectural and engineering work which is now in progress. The plans call for some 213,000 sq. ft. of floor space in a structure covering some five acres. Approximately 215 employees will be required to operate the plant which will incorporate the latest and most advanced manufacturing equipment available.

Union's entry into plywood manufacturing was prompted by a combination of factors which include it's overall diversification objectives, the desire to improve raw material utilization and the growing demand in both domestic and international markets for pl1'wood products.

G-P Buys Crqwford Lumber Co.

Georgia-Pacific Corp. and the F. NI. Crawford Lumber Co. have reached a€treement on a deal wheleby G-P will buy all the Crawford properties {or about $9.5 million. George Schmidbauer. Crawford gencral manager and Harry A. Merlo. vice president of G-P and general manager of their Samoa div., made the joint announcement,

Included are six sawmills (Ukiah, Willits, Alderpoint, Dinsmore, Potter Valley and Covelo) and a remanu{acturing plant at Calpella. All are in northern California. Approximately 62,000 acres of timberland and cutting rights on other property are also part of the acquisition. The agreement calls for the exchange of 13,000 shares of G-P common stock for Crawford as. sets and stock. Formal completion of the purchase awaits an inventory of Crawlord properties.

The Crawford holdings will be merged into G-P's Samoa div. 'oPlans call for the continued operation of all Crawford plants, which fit well with present and future plans of the Samoa div,," Merlo said.

Schmidbauer will continue as seneral manaser of the Craw. ford complex. The operations employ about 550 people.

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