Lumberffren: fish or cut bait

THE LIVELY Oakland Hoo-Hoo Club

L #39 at their October meetins heard Bernard C. Hartung, director, *ooi indurtry careers program, National Forest Products Association. His challenging talk, "Fish or Cut Bait," aroused a veritable storm o{ open dialogue

Pointing up the necessity of trained personnel to make the multi-million dollar forest industry plants function e{ficiently, Hartung stressed the need to present the hright future offered by the industry to young people.

Returned from a recent Northwest trip, he was pleased to note vast plans for the [uture among industry leaders. The immediate and future need for single dwelling houses and garden apartments is all too evident, he declared, and quoted Eugene Gulle.dge saying "If we don't have lumber and plywood we co"rl't build homes."

Harlung stated lhat a major recruitment program is being launched among high school students. Brochrrres poinling up opportunities are going out to high school and c.ollege level students. A reservoir of summer jobs should be created. Improvement of rapport with schools and colleges is essential. Tell them how it is. Tell them the truth. Let them know the challenges. Let them know the opportunity is there. The question and answer period following was lively. Need for low intelligence level workers was cited by Ed French, offering opportunity for the unemployed who do not have potentials for higher brackets of employment.

Challenge or no challenge. the industry is competing for brains with highly paid electronic and other industries where a young man shortly makes $40,O00 and up, was another observation. Pete Hurd obst rved that the industry offered special rewards far and above high financial return in the nature of lot'ation and conditions oI work. Dave Jopes noted his grandfather has said the same thing. In general, the concensus was for better technical trainine and upgrading of recruitment policies.

Hoo-Hoo's Annuol Convention

Larry Owen became. the highest current officer in Hoo-Hoo International from the West upon his election as vice president at the fraternity's lightly-attended annual convention in Milwaukee, Wis.

Other new officers are Wade P. Cory from New Jersey as president, Clyde J. Haas as treasurer, venerable Ben Springer, iecretary and immediate past president Ed Roche, now kicked upstairs as chairman.

Five members of the House of Ancients were at Milwaukee. They were Westerners Bob Johnson and Vaughan Justus; Bob Stalker, Ed Wade and the Seer Ben Springer from other parts.

Larry Owen gave a most popular report on the success{ul completion of the redwood grove project.

Final payment for the grove and the LeMaster plaque was made following the convention. More dollar bills were collected so all bills could be paid. Now Larry hopes to get enough additional contributions to place another memorial plaque (this one of wood) in the grove in recognition of the contributions made to Hoo-Hoo over the past twenty-five or more years by the present Seer, Ben Springer.

Conlributions can be sent to the central office or made through your club or jurisdictional officers.

Fobulous New UP ComPufer

Railroad freight customers in 18 cities from Seattle to Atlanta played railroad roulette recently. They were testing Union Pacific's computer-controlled method for tracing their shipments.

Given the number of the car whose location is requested a tracing clerk can pinpoint a shipment in about 3 seconds from .-ong 60,000 cars rolling at that moment on 9600 miles of UP rails.

The system is called COIN, acronym for Cornplete Operating INformation. It is built around two Omaha-based IBM System/360 Model 65 computers. These are tied by UP's vast private communications network with dozens of information gathering and disseminating centers around the country.

Up-to-the-minute location information enables a consignee to plan unloading, warehousing or production schedules with greater accuracy than ever before.

Housing Stqrts Decline Agoin

As many had expected and dreaded, housing start figures dropped in October a steep L2/o.

The October figures, latest available, were 1,342,000 units on a seasonally-adjusted annual basis, well below the 1,533,000 starts recorded in September. Those figures recorded the first increase in seven months. The decline started in February of this year.

Many economists now feel that in view of the permits recorded for future building starts, that tlie bottom has yet to be reached.

U.S. Treasury secretary Kennedy has said, "There is no real escape from present pressures until overall credrt demands can be reduced, and that in turn rests on a budget surplus and beating back inflation."

U.S. Ply Gloomy on 1970

U.S. Plywood exec.-vp. George Ingram, Jr. told a recent meeting of New York security anallnts that the firm foresees no recovery for the currently depressed housing industry in the first half o{ next year.

The firm now think:s that housing starts will hit the 1.2 million level on a seasonally adjusted basis thru the first half of 1970. The firm derives about 2B/o of its sales from home building and about 27/o from remodeling and repair.

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Redwood

Recital

afHE story of redwood and its many uses r featured a recent meeting o[ the San Francisco Hoo-Hoo Club #9.

Slanted for architects, builders and contractors, the presentation ,began with forest management practices, the structure and nature of redwood itself, its manufacture, special uses, various problems and finishing methods. A production of the California Redwood Association, it was given by CRA's John Crowley. Pete Johnson, also CRA, was chairman of the meeting.

New officers for the 1969-70 year are Ted Little, J. H. Baxter, Co., president; Lee Rappleyea, vp., California Redwood Association; and Reg Ricci, secretary, Ricci & Kruse Lumber Co.

Directors are Ed Brush, E. S. Brush & Sons; Paul Herrfeldt, Weyerhaeuser; Bill MacBeath, MacBeath Hardwood Co.; Pete Murphy, Tarter, W'ebster & Johnson; Ray Ryan, Higgins Lumber Co.; Pat Tynan, Lamon Lumber Co. and Knutc Weidman.