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Young Named'Lumberman'

Richard D. Young has been selected as Lumberman of the Year by Shasta Cascade Hoo-Hoo Club. This honor is awarded to a member of the lumber industry whose contributions have been recognized as outstanding in the field.

Mr. Young was born on December 23, 1898, in Stevensville, Mt. He landed his first job in 1914, working in a sawmill in Warland, Mt., "picking edges. " Some of the other jobs he learned while employed there included pulling green chain, loading dry lumber onto buggies, hand-trimming lumber and working with a lumber grader.

Grading lumber looked like the thing to learn, to Richard. In 1918, he became a certified grader from the old Western White Pine Association. l92l found him grading lumber for Lamb Lumber Co., Klamath Falls, Or. In 1925, Weyerhaeuser Corp. was building what they called Camp #10 in Lewiston, Id. Dick got a job cooking at first; then back into lumber grading. That lasted from August 8,1927, until 1947. In 1933, the Western White Pine Association and California Sugar Pine Association merged to form what became the predecessor to today's Western Wood Products Association. All

W.W.P.A. lumber graders are dated from 1933. Dick's number? He is W.W.P.A. Grader Number 27. This makes him the oldest living grader in the association.

1947 found Dick managing the Western Montana Lumber Co..

Missoula, Mt. That continued until 1950, when he had a short stay managing Meadow Valley Lumber Co. , Quincy, Ca., and later that year, Vaughan Lumber Co., Central Valley, Ca.

He seized an opportunity early in 1951 to manage another sawmill in Hayfork, Ca., Crawford Lumber, long since gone from the scene. A move back to Redding in 1953, found Dick in another lumber grading job at Shasta Box. In 1956, he took the head-grader job at Central Valley, Ca., for the late Bill Main. When Main Industries moved to Bieber, Ca., Dick did the same and graded lumber for the next 12 years. Part of the time from l97l to 1980, hegraded lumber for Northwood Lumber Sales; and today, he is still on a parttime basis working as a grader for Big Pine Lumber Co., Redding, Ca.

Nonhousing Market Bright

Statistics indicate that the continued relative strength of several nonhousing markets which have been targets of plywood promotion efforts on a consistent basis has compensated tangibly for at least some of the housing losses, according to the American Plywood Association market research staff.

They estimate that new residential construction consumed 3290 of the l2.l billion square feet (3/8" basis) of panel industry production through the first eight months of 1981.

But nonhousing market consumption was 8.3 billion square feet or 6890 of the total, a dramatic 1.2 billion more than was achieved in the same period last year. It is also close to a billion square feet greater than the nonhousing market penetration in the first eight months of 1979, a much brighter period in the national economy.

Nonhousing activity indicators show some of the areas where increased volume is going. The nonresidential building sector, for example, was up l59o through August according to F.W. Dodge.

Home additions were up in the ear- ly part of the year from an exceptionally strong 1980. Although slackening to some degree currently, this sector has added significant volume in l98l and continues to be important.

California Business in 1982

With both a 9s/o rate of inflation and a 390 real gain in personal income expected, next year may mark the light at the end of the tunnel for California's economy and many of its residents.

Economic Outlook: California 1982, a report from the Bank of America, says overall the state is expected to experience "continued moderate growth," with its estimated gross state product reaching $407 billional2.5t/o gain over 1981, and a 3.590 real gain after inflation. Maintaining a record begun in 1973, California's economy will continue to outperform the rest of the nation, says the report.

New residential construction and sales of existing houses, mainstays in the state's economy, are expected to increase about 20 to 3090 over 198 l.

The major stumbling block in California's housing marketaffordabilityis expected to be diminished by lower interest rates and the expansion of alternative mortgage instruments.

"These loans are designed both to help lenders avoid funding problems and to provide more money to the real estate market," says the forecast.

Despite the positive outlook for housing, the median home price in California will surpass the national figure by almost 5090. This means that today's household would need a yearly income in excess of $45,000 to qualify for a home mortgage loan at current interest rates.

Retail Yard Goes Hollywood

The first new lumber yard to be opened in Hollywood, Ca., since the late '40s is Anawalt Lumber Co. at l00l N. Highland Ave.

In the purchase negotiations, the fourth generation Los Angeles, Ca., lumber family discovered that Kerchkhoff-Cuzner Mill and Lumber Co. occupied the site from 1922to 1944. A historic photo of this old yard will be displayed at the new store.

The last new lumber yard in the Hollywood area was Anawalt's West Hollywood location which opened in 1948.