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timber growers and others attending the four-day session in record numbers also heard from two members of the U.S. House of Representatives that a pending timber shortage could be as drastic as the Arab embargo was on oil to the United States. They urged the budgeting of more funds to grow trees on federal Iands.

"We have the same ingredients of crisis as when the Arabs shut off the oil," said Rep. Julia Butler Hansen (D-Wash.), chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee that considers funding for federal forest management. "But the budget has been standing still. It s been completely silent about responding to the ever-escalating needs for growing trees," she said. Rep. Wendell Wyatt (R-Ore.), also a member of the Appropriations subcommittee, called for a "massive reforestation program" to be inaugurated on the National Forest. "We now have to take some real aggressive action in order to prevent an absolute disaster in the field of wood fiber, because the prices of plywood and softwood lumber are going to skyrocket beyond anything anyone dreams if we don't," Wyatt said.

Dr. Bernard J. Frieden, director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Harvard University Center for Urban Studies, told the meeting that an estimated 13 million households - 20% of the nationsuffer from some sort of inadequate housing. He forecast that 23 million new housing units must be built between 1970-1980 to meet rising demands for housing caused by increases in population and formation of new households.

M. Calhoun Colvin, Holly Hill Lumber Co., Holly Hill, S.C., was elected president for 1974-75, succeeding Alfred X. Baxter, J.H. Baxter & Co., San Mateo, Ca., who was elected NFPA chairman. Eliot H. Jenkins, Longview, Wa., Long-Bell Div., International Paper Co., was elected 1st v.p.

Regional vice-presidents from the West elected were: Emory E. Moore, SWF Plywood Co., Albany, Or.; Robert C. McMillan, Crown Zellerbach Canada, Vancouver, B.C.; and Roderick M. Steele, Potlatch Corp.. San Francisco.