Lumbermen Expect Bigger Stake In '62 Home Building Market

As the 7962 home building market now shapes up, the lumber industry looks forwaft to 1962 with optimism. The National Lumber Manufacturers Association estimates that shipments of lumber should equal or exceed the 1960 level. of 33.6 billion board feet, which would mean an increase of about 5 per cent over the anticipated volume for this year.

This estimate is predicated on a moderate increase in new home starts next year, which is generally considered likely. Lumber consumption is tied closely to home building activity, since this market takes more than one in every three board feet produced.

There has been a gradual increase in the vacancy rate of rental housing units; accordingly, it is expected that single-family home starts will increase more, percentagewise, than home building volume as a whole. Single- family residences use considerably

Society of Americqn Foresters Elects New Officers qnd Fellows

Paul M. Dunn of New York City was elected December 2 as president of the Society of American Foresters for the two-year term 1962-1963. He succeeds Charles A. Connaughton of San Francisco who was not a candidate for reelection.

Mr. Dunn, who since 1955 has been director of forestry for St. Regis Paper Company, is a forestry graduate of fowa State University. During his forestry career spanning three decades, he has previously served as associate state forester of Missouri ; dean of Utah State lJniversity's College of Forest, Range and Wildlife Management; and dean of Oregon State University's School of Forestry and director of the Oregon Forest Products Laboratory.

B. E. Allen of Savannah, Georgia, was elected vice president of the Society. He is manager of the Woodlands Division of Union Bag-Camp Paper Corporation. A forestry graduate of the University of Michigan, Mr. Allen was with the South Carolina State Commission of Forestry for four years. He has been on the forestry staff of Union Bag-Camp Paper Corporation since 1943, and manager of its Woodlands Division since 1958.

Council Members

Organized in 1900 in Washington, more wood per unit than apartment buildings.

The lumber industry has been engaged in an extensive sales promotion program during the past two years, an effort that is now beginning to bear fruit and which should help push the sales curve upward.

Thanks partly to the promotion campaign, known as the National Wood Promotion Program, more and more home builders are buying prefabricated components made of wood or prefabricating their own.

In Indianapolis, for example, builder Robert V. Welch has been able to cut his unit costs 30 to 40 per cent by having a local lumber yard assemble floor framing in sections and then ship it to the site. This floor system utilizes a conventional design and meets all FHA requirements.

Just outside Washington, builder dward R. Carr has found that the use

D. C. the Society of American Foresters has a membership of 14,000 professional foresters practicing in the United States and Canada. Its governing body is the Council composed of the president, vice president, and nine additional members. The following foresters were elected to the Council for the two-year term 1962-1963l.

William C. Bramble, head, Department of Forestry and Conservation, Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind.

Donald E. Clark, retired regional forester, Rocky Mountain Region, U. S. Forest Service. Denver. Colo.

William D. Hagenstein, executive vice president, Industrial Forestry Association, Portland, Cre.

Svend O. Heidberg, associate dean, College of Forestry, Syracuse, N. Y.

George M. Jemison, deputy assistant chief for forestry research, U. S. Forest Service, Washington, D. C.

Archie E. Patterson, professor of forest management, School of Forestry, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.

Richard J. Preston, Jr., dean, School of Forestry, North Carolina State College, Raleigh, N. C.

Stephen H. Spurr, professor of silviculture, School of Natural Resources, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.

John A. Zivnuski, professor of forestry, University of California, Berkeley, Calif.

In addition to the foregoing officers, the following members were elected to the grade of Fellow. Election to of ring-type connectors and roof truss members precut at a local lumber yard enables him to put up a truss-type for the same price aq conventional joistand-rafter framing. Carr has developed a simple jig, mounted on an old farm wagon, which helps a two-man crew to assemble a truss at the site in a total of ten minutes. the grade of Fellow is in recognition of outstanding service to forestry and to the Society.

Home remodelers and builders of prefabricated homes are both taking an increasing share of the lumber industry's output. Sales prospects for these two groups in 1962 are extremely bright. Meanwhile, home buyers are exhibiting increased awareness of the beauty, rvarmth, flexibility, and distinctiveness of wood when used for interior walls. floors, and cabinetry.

According to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, there are signs of a steady and significant increase in the use of wood in those parts of the house where it has always provided superior performance.

Henry I. Baldwin, research forester, New Hampshire Forestry and Recreation Commission, Hillsboro, N. H.

Edward C. Crafts, assistant chief, U. S. Forest Service, Washington, D. C.

Kenneth P. Davis, chairman, Department of Forestry, School of Natural Resources, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Reginald D. Forbes, consulting forester, Ambler, Pa.

Samuel H. Graham, retired professor, School of Natural Resources, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Lewis R. Grosenbaugh, leader, Pioneering Research Group, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Berkeley, Calif.

George M. Jemison, deputy assistant chief (research), U. S. Forest Service, Washington, D. C.

Edward I. Kotok, retired assistant chief (research), U. S. Forest Service, Walnut Creek, Calif.

Henry J. Malsberger, general manager, Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association, Atlanta, Ga.

Walter F. McCulloch, dean, School of Forestry, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Ore.

Arthur Bernard Recknagel, forestry consultant. Ithaca. N. Y.

John F. Shanklin, staff assistant (forestry), Office of the Secretary, Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C.

Albert E. Wackerman, professor of forest utilization, School of Forestry, Duke University, Durham, N. C.

Saginaw Cedar Shingles

Hove prolected colifornio homes lor 40 or more yeors, ond srill do so.

Saginaw Cedar Shingles

Hove been sold qll these yeors

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Red Cedar Bevel Siding qnd

Cedar Lumber in Mixed Cors wirh rhe Shingle ond

Shoke items lisfed

Saginaw Shingte Company Produces

Sqn Frqncisco Boy's ClubHoo-Hoo Club 9And Sqnto Clcrus

A new cast of "characters," spearheaded by Cal-Pacific's Frank Billings, producecl one of the most successful Christmas l)arties ever staged by San Francisco Hoo-Hoo Club 9. The annnal party for 40 deserving kiddies {rom the San Francisco Boy's Club rvas held in the Colonial Room of the St. Iirancis Hotel in San Francisco, more than 140 lumbermen, wives and secretaries attending the luncheon eve11t.

Tlie big party officially got underr.vay in the adjoining Italian ltoonr of the St. Francis at 11:39 a.m. After a short reception, the big "kids" joined the junior citizens from the Boy's Club for the traditional holiclay f east. Christmas Carols (thanks to the piano talents of Sti Stibich) were enjoyed by all and a terrific kiddies shou' headlined by Craigs Chimps ancl Billy "Balloons" Grant held the kids spellbound.

'Course the main act of the day was the arrival of ol' Saint Nick. Through the cooperation of S. F. Boy's Club and the g'enerous response from the party's sponsors, each youngster received exactly the gift he had written about to "Santa Claus." Clothing was a big item on many of their lists. A coat for a little girl of five instead of a dolly ; a jacket for another little tyke of 6 instead of a set of six-shooters. Kind of makes one think, doesn't it?

Iiveryone connected with the party -the committeemen, those who attended, the donors-should feel proud tl-rat they were in a position to add a little happiness to the lives of these fop, left: Fofi boys ond girls from Sqn Froncisco Boy's Club ployed King ond Queen for o Doy qt the Annual Children's Christmos Poily sponsored by Son Fron' cisio Hoo-Hoo'Ctu6 9. Neir, Gulp! Fronk Frdtessq of holondo iumber anJ Chet Dennis cdding o few cclories to the 3ystem. Next: Art Woll ond Fred Windeler, George Windeler Co., ond Hcrry Merlo, down from Rounds ot Cloverdole. Top righr: Sqnto Clous doing .his bir wirh on ossisl from pretty Cqrol Rourke of Colifornii pqcific Soles iorp. Second row, left: G-P's Roger Sdruyler ond the Crone-Fr-ench boys, Jock Cronl and Ed French. Nextr Emil Solve. Rolqndo lumber; Ed Brush, E. S. Brush & Soir ond Jim Peggs qnd V{tilbur- Croig oi Rolondo. Next: Club 9 prexy Chorlie Whire. White lumber Compony, found o pleosont berlh! fhird row, teft: Tom Hewitt, Gorcio Tioftc'r Groce McouliFe ond Wandling-Nslhon's Giy Biodr, Next: The Col-Pocific gong, Fronk Billings (loking n breother from gcnerol choirmon duties), Hugo l|liller. Corol Rourke ond Ted Dacy. Third rilhr: Needed c wide ongle lens here, but we still sneoksd pod of Knute ond Mrs. Weidion in. Rest of gollery inclules Col-iociftc's Bud Byqrd, Jock Pomeroy, tlltA; Pori cnd Bil! Johnson, Hobbs Woll Lumber; Jeonne Pomeroy cnd Burlingomc wholc:clcr Chorlie Willgn. ionom lefi: John Primc, Sowmill Soler; Fred Ziise, Gomcrston & Green ond Bill Freelqnd, For Wef Fir Soles. Next: Ssnlo Rorq deoler Ducne Sennctt, Mcad Clcrk Lumber Co., with Union lumbe/s Bovord Shibley, fexr: Bill Bonnell ond Ann McKoy of Bonnell lumber ond Bull Dog Pcllct/s Roy Siolund. fwin-Giry

Shirlcy Anderron qnd Dick llcKonnoy of Mor-Moc.