Industry continues its attack on nation's housing crisis

National housing goals and the means to achieve them were spotlighted during the National Forest Products fusn. annual meeting in Washington, D. C.

Key housing leaders of the Congress aud Iederal government actively participated. Sen. John J. Sparkman (D-Ala.), chairman of the Senate Banking Committee and its Housing Subcommittee, spoke on timber requirements, urging support for the National Timber Supply Act he introduced. Housing and Urban Development secretary George Romney explored the housing programs of his agency in a luncheon address.

New officers are: L. L. Stewart, president of Bohemia Lumber Co., Culp Creek, Ore., NFPA president. Stewart succeeds James D. Bronson, director, Boise Cascade Corp., Yakima, Wash., who was elected chairman of the board. New first vp. is Lowry W'yatt5 vp., Weyerhaeuser Co., Tacoma, Wash.

Regional vps. from the West are Frank R.. Gilchrist, president, Gilchrist Timber Co., Gilchrist, Ore.; Stanwood A. Murphy, president, The Pacific Lumber Co.

NFPA president James D. Bronson called for a national program of 'oconstructive conservation" to replace "chaotic consternation" in the use of the nation's forests. He said "constructive conservation" requir-

Meeting olso nomes

Jim Turnbull os new Executive president es the realization of all the benefits of the forest and "the development of a national point of view which favors compatibility over exclusivity in terms of forest use."

James R. Turnbull. who has served as head of two of the largest wood oriented trade associations, has been named exec. rp. of the NFPA.

He will take over as soon as his resignation as exec. vp. of the American Plywood fusociation becomes effective. NFPA has been without a chief executive since Mort Doyle left last November to go with Southwest Forest Industries.

Turnbull has headed APA since 1962. During a leave of absence in 1964 he served as chief executive of the Western Wood Products Assn.

His 1963 reorganization of the plywood assn. oriented it strongly toward marketing. He created a similar structure the next year for WWPA.

Bronson paid tribute to conservation and recreation organizations for the views they expressed in recent Senate Banking Com- mittee hearings on lumber and plywood availability. He said: "The positive responqq of the Sierra Club witness. is a sign that where the national interest is clearly revealed and the social need is obviously compelling, natural adversaries can act responsibly together."

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Reveille, one of the really big annual I lumber industry outings, drew nearly 300 this year to the Castlewood Country Club in the S. F. East Bay.

Next month we'll have even more pic' tures of the event, space limitations got the best o{ us this time.

Harvey Bahr won the hole-in-one award,