Out the Woods ot Bv

Jim Stevens

Evergreen William B. Greeley, rvhose rousing story of American Forestry, "Forests and Nlen," is nor,v in its fourth edition and selling in quantities to early Christmas shoppers, has come up with a porverful new slogan.

It is "Use Al1 the Wood," and the Washington Institute of Forest Products has nailed it to the masthead of its "Nerv Wood-Use Series." Nothing could be better for the Institute's growing campaign to turn present-day logging leftovers into marketable material.

A contract logger, Theo. F. Wall, and the Longvierv Fibre and the Harbor Plywood companies, have come up rvith a new way to "use all the \\,ood." Its medium is a portable mill, with an electric generator to feed seven motors, a drag saw, a splitter .r.nd conveyors.

For 40 years Logger Wall has u'orried about the loggir-rg residues of broken trees, the sound chunks from shattered boles, and the top-grade wood left in logs more than 50 per cent defective. Nou' he's .ivorking on them.

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Ten years ago Dr. Bror [-. Grondal, forest products 1>rofessor at the University of Washington, started experiments on machines to roam tl-re slash and lvork it up for. its good tuoo,1-.-"gleaning for green gold," as he called it.

Study and experimentation have gone on, at Oregon State's forestry school under Dean Paul Dunn, and in the Washington Institute of Forest Products, rvhich Literatrrs Bill Greeley and a devoted band of research-mindecl fo:-esters set up rvith relentless effort some seven years ago.

Norv the Wall rig splits and sarvs rvoocl out of logs so defective that they rvere not tallied in the Institute's IJnused \A/ood Inventory of 1949. The split rvood is loa<led in brrndles on a dual rear axle drive truck ancl dual axle wag'on type trailer. The unit carries record oavloads of up to l2l cords.

The orrtfit is breaking even, at latest r-eport. on West Coast hernlock pulpu'ood bolts alone. It is at u,ork at an olcl landing e:rst of Marble Nfountair-r on pine Creek. a lrranch of the l-ervis River in Skamania Countr,, Wasl-r_ inr3ton. The original stand hacl nrore tharr 100,000 boar<l

Ieet per acre of decaying fi: and hemlock. Regular logging \\'as a loss, after the peelers urere taken, as so much of the stand rras defective.

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Back in 1937 I rvas stirred by a U. S. Engineers' surr.ey of clectric por\:er procluction on the Colunrbia. It shou'ed that by far tl-re cheapest po\ver lvas from steant plants 'r,r'hich fecl on hog fuel. The notion that hit llre as I read the repo:t u':rs that electric power procluction from hog fuel might servc as a means to clear the 311,000 acres of the 'Iillamook Burn of its snags.

If the Federal g'overnment could afford to spend billions on Columbia Basin dams and ditches for pon-er production and irrigation, rvhy couldn't it spend a ferv thousarids on thc burns and other barren spots of the Douglas fir- regior.r to generate "hog juice" and to make those spots safc frol.n fire and good for tree grorving?

It is a better question than ever, seelns to me. Torlav everr thc old-sclrool hyclro-electric pou.cr f:rnatics ;rre :r11mitting that the region needs more steam po\\-er plat.rts. Yes sir ! Fire 'em up with hog fuel. Clean up the slashings to the last sliver. Use all the n-ood !

Announces Appointment of Arizoncr Representative

R. W. Dalton & Co., San Marino, Calif.. announces the appointrnent of I-arry Griffith of Phoenix as their representative in Arizona. N{r. Griffith's temporary address is the Arizona Club, Phoenix. Telephone number is 3-1121. An office adclress n.ill be announce<l in the nezrr futrr:c.

Los Angeles Building Permits

Los Angeles building permits in November totaled 3,893 rvith a valuation cif $18,119,803, compared t-ith $,12,37,439 in November, 1950. In Octolter the constrnction total rvas $22,57{t,051.

Federal restrictions sharply curtailed constructir.rn of homes lrnd buildings in Los Angeles durirrg November. G. E. NIorris. supe:intendent of building, statcd.

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Wallen Tallcs on Timber Resources of Redwood Region at Forestry Meeting

Portland, Nov. 28-California's Redwood and Douglas fir regions today have more than 600 sawmills and other wood-using plants, and back of them stands a forest of nearly 3,000,000 acres with an estimated sawtimber backlog of 48 billion board feet, Arnold F. Wallen, consulting forester, reported today in a talk prepared for the annual meeting of the Western Forestry and Conservation Association here.

"There is enough land with high growth potential to give northwestern California a stable forest economy if the resource is wisely used," Wallen declared.

Quoting federal forest survey figures adjusted f.rom 1946, Wallen estimated the California Redwood region's commercial forest area at 1,672,N0 acres with a total available virgin sawtimber volume of 36,092,ffi0,000 board feet. He placed the California Douglas fir region at 1,152,000 acres -with a virgin sawtimber volume of 12,491,C00,000 feet.

Wallen said "when it comes to growing the most wood 'per acre per year, the Redwood region is in the front row." He pointed out that logging started in the redwoods in 1851 and now, after .10O years of operations, a little more than half the ooriginal area is still in virgin old-growth timber, while nearly 400,000 acres is busy growing new ,crops of timber.

"We see today over lo/o of the commercial redwood land in Tree Farms, dedicated to growing endless timber crops,,' he said. "And the tree farm program has just begun here.

We see selective cutting, closer utilization in woods and mills, redwood by-products, a new pulp and board industry-all good signs for the future of this great payroll industry. Yet we must do still .more to grow more trees. In the future the good redwood manager must be looked to to get every acre producing a peak capacity. He must also try to maintain quality. A steady flow of high grade redwood sawtimber is necessary to fulfill demands made upon it for durability and the many special uses to which it is put."

Wallen said that through programs such as tree farmirrg and ,closer utilization of tree and log, "we can see concrete evidence that the challenge is being met."

Wood Technologist Ioins StaII Timber Engineering Compcny

Washington-Gerard P. Urling, wood technologist, of Gainesville, Florida, has joined the research staff of the Timber Engineering Companv. it was announced by Carl A. Rishell, director of research.

Urling attended the School of Forestry at the University of Florida, and received both his B.S. and M.S. degrees. He specialized in wood anatomy and wood utilization.

Urling's first d.uties with the Timber Engineering Company will be on a problem of preserving lumber in storage for the U. S. Corps of Engineers and in the development of the gluing and steam bending of treated lumber for the U. S. Navy. He will also help in the quality control testing on the Navy's extensive minesweeper building program.

Big Crowd Attends Los Angelet Hoo-Hoo Party

The Los Angeles Hoo-Ifoo Christmas party, held at the Oakmont Country Club, Glendale, on Friday, December 14, was a big success, about 250 being present for the dinner and evening entertainment.

$178 was collected and will be presented to the l-eRoy's Boys Home at LaVerne.

87 golfers took part in the tournament in the afternoon and John Lipani presented the prizes. The winners were: Low gross, Davidson Plywood & Lumber Co. trophy, Homer Warde, Craftbilt Cabinets; first flight, first low net, George E .Ream trophy, Don Vogt, Roseburg Lumber Co.; second low net, The California Lumber Merchant trophy, "'Pick" Maule, C. M. Manufacturing Co.; second flight, first low net, Weyerhaeuser Sales Company'trophy, Bill Loggins, Frank Jordan Door & Sash Co.; second low net, Roy Stanton trophy, Jim Forgie, associated with R. S. (Bob) Osgood.

Cecil Dees.won the guest trophy. The Junior golf trophy, donated by Sterling Stoffle of the Western Hardwood Lunrber Co. to go to a lumberman's son, was won by John Osgood, who turned in the best low net score. John is associated with his father, R. S. (Bob) Osgood, wholesale lumberman. Ralph Steffen, Anglo California Lumber Co., won the Dub's trophy.

Holding the lucky numbers for the $10 merchandise orders were Crawford Snedon, N. E. Olson, Jerry Maguire, Frank Scrogin, Ted Roy, Bob Cissna, Bert Chapman, Fred Kozac. John X{artin and Henry Pasek.

The entertainment was tops and was enjoyed by the large gathering. Wally Vernon was master of ceremonies and the following acts appeared: Marimba Merry Makers, Winona Smith, dances ; Lenore Walton, ventriloquist; Charles Carrier, juggler; and Winona Smith, magician. Eddie Baker was at the olgan during the cocktail hour.

President J. W. Fitzpatrick presided at the after dinner festivities.

The committee which arranged for the Christmas party included Orval Stewart, George Clough, Harl Crockett, Marshall Meyer, and Boris Kutner.

John Lipani, Orrin Wright, Harvey Koll, Jim Forgie and Roland Hoene were in charge of the arrangements for the golf tournament.

Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 Christmas Party Was Complete Success

Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 put on the best Christmas Party in its history, December 17, rvhen 25 children from the Oakland Boys Club were entertained at the Claremont Hotel, Berkeley, by the Club.

Bill McCubbin was master of ceremonies. Joe Pepetone was Santa Claus. Jim Overcast and Tom Jacobsen tvere Santa's helpers when the presents were being given to the children, who had previously made known their preference. Al Kelley also helped to entertain the kids, who had a wonderful time.

Bambi the Clown performed his magic and did a good. job of mystifying the grownups as well as the youngsters.

President Lu Green presided, and after a brief talk turned the meeting over to Bill McCubbin, who called on Gilbert Eaton, executive secretary of the Oakland Boys Club. Mr. Eaton gave a short description of the work being done by the Boys Club and invited all those present to visit the Club some afternoon or evening to get some idea of the fine work being done.

Ralph Hill, Hill Lumber & Hardware Co., Albany, won the first prize, a fine turkey, in the Turkey Shoot. He promptly donated the turkey to the Oakland Boys Club. Second and third prizes, BB guns, were won by Frank Timmers, Strable Hardwood Co., Oakland, and Keith I{arry, Goslin-Harding Lumber Co., San Leandro.

Two tickets for the East-West football game at Kezar Stadium on Nerv Year's Day, were won by Glenn Warner, Nicolai Door Sales Co., San Francisco.

Dave Davis, former Supreme Nine member, drerv the nnnre of Ronnie Smith, one of the Boys Club group, made him an honorary member of Dubbs, Ltd., and presented him rvith a set of junior golf clubs.

The attendance, including the children, was about 165.

C. Forrest Tefft, Columbus, Ohio, has been re-elected president of the Structural Clay Products Institute, national association of brick and tile manufacturers.

Emanuel Fritz and Myron E. Kruger, School of Forestry, University of California, Berkeley, Calif., have been elected Fellows of the Society of American Forestry. Election to the grade of Fellow is conferred only for outstanding achievement in forestrv.

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Plywood Leader Sayt Ample Timber Resources lor Expanded Production

Portland. Ore.. Nov. 30-An authoritative forecast that west coast forest resources are ample to support a healthy plywood industry throughout the foreseeable future rn''as presented here today before some 600 persons at the annual conference of the Western Forestry and Conservation Association.

The prediction was made by Dr. O. Harry Schrader, Jr., of Tacoma, Wash., managing director of Douglas Fir Ply'wood Association, the trade promotion organization for thc 7l-factory plywood industry of Oregon, Washington and California.

Schrader, a former associate professor of forest products at the University of Washington, dreu'' his analysis of raw material for plyrvood from statc and federal forest agencies and other timber data sources. These include a plyn'oor1 industry survey which he described as "probably the first. careful assessment of timber on'nership on the part of plylvood operators" ever made.

The plywood leader cited compiled data to support his views, saying that the west coast plywood industry could expect a probable 1.5 billion board feet of high cluality "peeler"logs from an estimated annual timber cut of more than 10 billion board feet in the three-state area. This, he said, is sufficient to maintain panel production for the nexl ten years at an annual rate of at least 3 billion square feet, r'vell above the current record ol 2.7 billion square feet. While emphasizing that volume plyrvood production is going to continue indefinitely, he was less specific beyoncl the next decade, pointing out that there are many current developments which rvill extend rar, material supply and play an increasingly important role in the long-term picture.

Increased Timber Utilization

These, he said, include grorving integration of forest industries operations, continuing progress torvard sustained yield forestry, new products and nerv production tecirniques making more efficient utilization of rarv materials, increased utilization of leftovers, use of rvestern tree species other than Douglas fir and increased timber imports.

"ft is significant," Schrader pointed out, "that during the past year 50 rvood chippers have been installed in plyrvood plar-rts to produce chips as rarv material for pulp mills. These machines can produce 1,000 tons of pulp per day from lvhat lvas formerly a left-over wood used only as fuel or burned."

Typical of how new products can extend raw materials is the industry's new combination panel called Plyron in rvhich a hardboard surface can be bonded to a lower grade plywood backbone to produce a panel suitable for cabinets, table tops and concrete forms. Such a development, said Schrader, "permits usage of lo'il'er grade peeler and saw logs and may havb a signific;int effect upon log requirements of the future."

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The plywood leader said his surveiy shorvs an estimated 37 per cent of industry logs consumed in plywood plants are currently being 'ivithdrawn from company-owned lands, another 18 per cent of logs used by plyrn'ood plants come from purchase of government and private timber holdings. The remaining 45 per cent is pur'chased on the open log market which is supplied from both public and private lands; here plywood firms historically have obtained top grade logs by paying top prices possible because plywood returns a high ratio of recovery and plyrvood is valuable in terms of its usefulness in building and industry.

Schrader recognized that historically plyrvood manufacturers have been considered a "have not industry" insofar as timber ou'nership is concerned. However, he revealed that in the past 1O years therer has been a strong surge for timber acquisition betrveen panel makers and now these manufacturers in the aggregate on n about 25 billion feet r,rf standing timber. The panel makers, both new operators and old, continne to cxpand their ralv material resources daily, according to the spokesman.

In tabulating timber resources, Schrader pointed out that in Oregon, Washington and California, there are today 246 billion board feet of harvestable old-grorvth Douglas fir timber. Of this. 70 billion feet is considered of qualitv suitable for plyrvood manufacture.

"At production of 3 billion {eet of ply*'ood a year, and assuming the plyrvood industry obtains all peeler logs harr.estecl each year," Schrader said, "a purely statistical analysis u,ould indicate a life expectancy of the plyr,vood industry of 40 years." Although Schrader recognized there is competition among segments of the forest industries for available peeler logs, he pointed out that improvement in manufacturing techniques simultaneously tends to expand overall supply by making practicable the use of smaller and lower grade logs. Thus, he emphasized that greater utilization of raw material and development of new products will assure production indefinitely.

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D. H. LeBreton Appointed Sales Manager

D. H. LeBreton has been appointed sales manager for Rounds Trading Company, San Francisco, selling agents for the product of Rockport Redwood Company's mill at Rockport, Calif., and its affiliated company's remanufacturing piant, Rounds & Kilpatrick Lumber Company, Rounds, Calif., a California Redwood Association operation.

Mr. LeBreton has been rvith the company for some time, and is a man of 'n'ide experience in the lumber business on the Paci{ic Coast. He replaces E. G. (Dave) Davis, who has resigned.

Nfax It. Barnette will continue as before in his position of Southern California manager of Rounds Trading ComPalrv.

The above announcements 'ivere made bv F. C. Kilpatrick, vice president of the company.

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