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For nearly 70 years Dant & Russell has marketed forest products from the Pacif ic Northwest manufactured for the western construction market.

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North American Wholesalers Hold Annual iileet Out West

RECORD-BREAKING crowd of forest products sales and marketing executives attended the Slst ness programs, more

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annual meeting of the North American Wholesale Lumber Assn. in Coronado (San Diego), Ca. Nearly 800 people took in the four-day meeting, which provided more busiassociation actions, more new members StorY than ever before.

Eleven new firms were elected to membership and a number of other new member applications received are pending.

The board of direc- tors took several significant actions. Initially, they ratified the proposals maile by the executive committee in regard to the Rinfret-Boston study that is a joint industry pro' gram under the aegis of NAWLA.

Moior independent studY of key economic fqclors offecting soffwood operofions ond morkets ok'd ot snnuol . recordcrowds.. more members thon ever. Bonfr next yeor.

They approved a by-laws change in membership that would allow a divisional membership for companies of the sarne ownership that operate under different cor' porate names. This proposal was subsequently approved' A new format for the NAWLA annual directory was approved. I'he board directed it be introduced during the fall regional meetings.

An official position on log exports was taken that allows NAWLA to join a number of other Northwest trade organizations in proposing a fair and equitable solution to tlis problem. The position:

'oAn adequate supply ol lumber at lair prices in the Uniteil States is dependent now, and, in the fdure, on an adequate supply ol logs lor domestic milk. One lactor that ailuersely allects this supplv is the uncontrolleil export ol logs. To ollset this ad,oerse ellect the export ol logs lrom all sources, unless d,eclared, surplus, should be seuerely limited to any country that does tnt in lact proaide lor lull lree trade on all proilucts that could be manufactured, lrom those logs, Fdl lree trad.e is delined as @ccess by American produeers or ilistribators to the consuming public ol the loreign country on an equal basis ui,th ilwse producers ol lorest comm,od,itics ol thnl country."

President William W. Wood opened the convention wittr an appraisal of conditions around the country and the effects that government actions have on our industry. Although there have been sharp corrections downwards in prices of commodity wood items, the pressure of overall inflationary trends remains. He cautioned the delgates that the danger of controls continue.

He then explained the industry study that will be undertaken by the Rinfret-Boston Associates, a subsidiary of the Boston Co., nationally-known economic counselors. NAWLA, with esqistance and input from all (Please turn, ta Page 28)