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Although the Forest Servicir has not released details of the public input received on the roadles's area review-and evaluation (RARE II), some figures are available.

Rep-ortedly 264,000 responses with 360,000 signatures were received from all over the country. The greatest response came from U.regon which provided 58,000. Idaho was next with 44,000 and California was third with 24.000.

Several inventoried areas in California are essential to the continued existence of local forest pro- ducts industry operations, according to Western Timber Association.

"These areas mostly are located on. the Klamath, Shasta-Trinity, and Sequoia National Forests.-'; notes Richard Reid, the associa- tion's RARE Il watchdog. ..For example, if the Little French

Creek, Cow Creek, and Panther roadless areas on the Shasta-Trinitv National Forest were put int6 classified wilderness, it would have a devastating effect on Trinity County, and particularly on thi: communities of Burnt Ranch and Salyer and to a lesser exrenr Weaverville," Reid said.

He also noted that the creation of the Golden Trout Wilderness last year on the Sequoia National Forest in the southern Sierra Nevada has made things tenuous for the four companies operating there. "There is a good chance that we will loose one of these operations as it is. and the creation of even more wilderness on the Sequoia National Forest certainly will break somebody," he said.

The Forest Service in California and elsewhere may frequently be

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An easy way out would be to recommend that the area go into the. "further planning" calegory. This would not solve ttre problem from industry's point 6f view because slow planning decisions hatched RARE II in the first place.

In what appeared to be an orchestrated attempt to mold public and congressional attitudes to accept a minimal decision from EAryE II, Secretary of Agriculture

Bob Bergland in an-October 4.letter to Congress said, "There has been developing a false expectation that RARE II can settle the future of every roadless area, or a great majority of all the roadless aieas. once and for all. It cannot."

. At the inception of the program, however, Dr. Rupert Cutler. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, said that was exactly what RARE ll was designed to do. The forest products industry and others suppolted the program because it apparently was going to accomplish what was needed.

The administration appeared to be backing away from its original commitment. However, in the face of criticism over the obvious set up, Secretary Bergland clarified the Department's position on October 25,by saying that most of the land which will go into the "continuing study" category will be lands upon which there are likely oil and gas deposits that need further exploration. "We are moving hard to keep the 'further study' category at a bare minimum," he said.

This bare minimum would amount to about one third of the 62 million acre inventory, according to a letter Bergland sent to Representative Thomas Foley, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, to clarify his earlier statements. So now it appears that there will be a decision on a great majority of all the roadless areas, according to WTA.

Glub Picks Crane President

The Shasta Cascade Hoo-Hoo Club, a Redding, Ca.,lumbermen's fraternity, has elected John Crane of Paul Bunyan Lumber Co., its new president for 1978-79. George Rogers, Sierra Pacific Industries, was chosen v.p.; Marv Keil, Southern Pacific Transportation Co., secretary, and Don Cherovsky, Wisconsin California Forest Products. treasurer.

The board of directors includes Bill Enderson, Craig Gilbert, Don Porter. Don Lincoln, Bob Reagan, Bob Shepard, and Lanny Owen. Directors at large are Al KerPer, Kelly Galley and Roy Dunbar.

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World War I. Association activities began a rapid change. Transportation equipment was commandeered for transportation of war materials and the association dropped most of its normal and progressive activities, concentrating on helping its members get some material into their yards, through the maze of problems engendered by government bureauS and war industry boards.

In the year of l9l9 and alter World War I, a national flu epidemic made cancellation of the usual convention necessary. An interesting highlight on the 1920 convention (with a most lamiliar sound) was a resolution calline for a balanced national budget and th6 abolition of many useless bureaus. 1926 saw the association's Mutual Insurance Society transferred to a new carrier, the U. S. Epperson Underwriting Co. of Kansas City, Mo. A. L. Porter resigned as secretary-manager and was replaced by Roy S. Brown from the Traffic and Freight Auditing Dept.

Then came the beginning of the depression years. Our industry in company with the entire building industry was demoralized. The association, in company with every trade association, began a fight for their very existence. 1930-33 continued as depression years.

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AII\N SWANSON DAVID PONTS and the most critical problem of our industry was some kind of long time financing for building construction.

This was an idea strongly supported by our own Association, but likewise. that of every association and industry in every phase of construction. This united effort finally resulted in the establishment of the Federal Housine Administration with its program oT guaranteed long term loans. Then came NRA with its program of fixed prices for every industry with existing associations as the administrative agency for each industry code.

On March 8, 1934, yours truly, a former lumber and building material dealer, was elected managing director, holding that position until retirement in 1956.

These were years in which Western built up its membership, re-establishing its location in Seattle and built its first industry-owned building, started functioning in Alaska, started our industry education, lived through World War Il with its continuous stream of war regulations, duplicated this during the Korean War, and in cooperation with manufacturers and wholesalers cooperated in many continuous promotional programs which were so badly needed to counteract the effects of a war-time economy.

It is interesting to note that several ofthe original first organizing yards are still in business and have been members through this entire 75 years.

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(Continued from page 24) now accounting for about 250lo ot'the sales price of a new home. He blamed supply-demand factors exacerbated by no-growth policies, excessive local fees and the high costs of complying with regulations governing the land development process for inflating land values.

Becker said that the Federal Reserve Board should give the President's program a chance to work and delay any further tightening of the nation's money supply. "With the prime rate up to 110/o and mortgage rates running 100/o or more, any further tightening of credit at this time would dramatically slow home sales and new housing production, sharply increasing the possibility ofa national recession in 1979," he warned.

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G-P to Move its Headquarters

The Georgia-Pacific Corp. will be moving its headquarters from Portland, Or. to Atlanta, Ga.

Robert E. Floweree, chairman and chief executive officer of the diversified forest products concern, said that G-P plans to construct a high-rise building with about 1.2 million square feet on the site of Loew's Grand Theater. which burned in January. Completion of the more than $70 million new building is scheduled for mid-1982 he said.

Explaining the relocation decision,- Floweree pointed out that the move is simply one of economics and common sense. ln 1977,750/o of the company's sales and 72o/o of G-P's profits came from the East, with this trend projected to continue for the future.

"The cost in manpower and travel from Portland to the East and Southeast has had an effect on the company's financial picture which cannot be allowed to continue," he said.

G-P was founded in 1927 in August, Ga., and after some West Coast acquisitions moved its headquarters in 1953 to Olympia, Wa. A year later, it moved to Portland.

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