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Monthly Lumber Focts

Sawmills of the Douglas fir region wound up 19613 on a slightly happier note than 1962, the monthly summary by West Coast Lumberrnen's Association indicates.

Deccmbcr lumber output was nearly six percent higher than a year earlier though it remained nine percent belorv the five-year average {or that month. Holidays trimmed output from November's by 7.6 percent, but orders suprisingly held so firm they stayed ahead of production by 4.2 percent.

At year-end, unfilled orders at 535.138,000 board feet u'ere a shade fatter and mill inventories at 902,574,0O0 feet a bit leaner than the year beforc.

WCLA figurecl J963 production ar 8.143,188,000b.f., a lew million belorv preliminary estimates. 'l'his lvas nearly one percent more than in 1962. despite last summer's labor dispute. Orders at 8,206"000,000 feet topped output, but were off a shade {rom a year earlier.

Construction was up nationally, but West Coast mills lost another 5.4 percent to the Canadians on cargo orders to the East Coast. They sold 19 percent more cargo lumher to Cali{ornia, while seeing local stales sag nearly nine percent.

Thc weekly a\rerage of West Coast lumber production in December rvas 145,031, 000 lr.{. or 9I.0/a of the 1958-62 averase. Ortl,'rs areraged 151.193.000 b.f.; shipments 149,666,000 b.f.; weekly averages for November were production 157,382.000 b.1.,98.8/0 of the 1958-62 average; orders 153,4,613,000 b.f.; shipments I51.385.000 b.{.

Twelve months of the I963 cumulativc production 8.f X3"188.000 b.t.; twelve montlrs oI 1962. 8.077,000,000 b.f.; twelve months o{ l96l ,7,793,000,000 b.f.

Orders for twelve months of 1963 break down as follorvs: Rail and truck 6,137,208.. b.f.; export ,1,?,1.690.000 b.f .; local 3132, 728.000 b.f.

The industrv's unfilled order file stood at 535,138,000 b.f. at the end of December, lnmber irrventory at 902,574.000 b.f.

Wotco-Dennis Appoinlmenl

Watco-Dennis Corp. has appointed Lewis Dietrich vice president, sales, for the United States.

The appointment was announced by Guy H. Dennis. president. \{'atco-Dennis is the American manufacturing company connected with Watt'o Ltd., a long-established Ilritish firm. Vatco-l)ennis specializes in the manulacture of Watco preservatives and finishes for wood, masonry, and marblc.

Dietrich, who is moving to Santa N{onica with his wife and trvo children, brings to Watco-Dennis a strong background in lumber, wood preservatives. plywood, adhesives. and plastics. His last afliliation, with the Elliott Bay Lumber Company of Seattle, Washirrgton. lasted 10 years, the last four of which Dietrich servecl as national sales manager.

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Bay Area Wood Councit

(Continued, lrom Page 10) right, San Jose Plywood & Lumber Co.; and Bill MacBeath, MacBeath Hardwood Co.

Besides Pinson, trade association rep' resentatives serving their first term of office on the board are Bob Cassel, Lumber & Mill Employers Assn., and Jack Pomeroy, Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California.

All individuals, firms, corporations and associations concerned with the manufacture, distribution, and/or promotion of lumber and wood products are urged to lend their support to BAWC. It is an action organization which has already moved to correct one code in San Francisco County, and this demonstrates just one of its functions. For further information on other activities o{ the Bay Area Wood Council contact your nearest board member.

New Teco Plywood Mills

Recent additions of Farwest Plywood Co., Tacoma, Washington; Humboldt Fir Plywood, Inc., Oroville, California; Willamette Plywood Corp., Aumsville, Oregon; and service scheduled for Josephine Ply' wood Corp., Grants Pass, Oregon, boosts Teco Tested plywood to 22 mills and one and one-half billion square feet.

Teco, Timber Engineering CompanY, Washington, D. C., and Corvallis, Oregon, is one of the pioneers in independent qual' ity control for particleboard and gluedlaminated products. With the recent addi' tion oI Lester Cedar Products, Inc., Sweet fiome, Oregon, Teco Tested particleboard from seven mills totals over 150 million feet annually, representing about 30/o oI ;otal produ,;tion and botter than 6O/o oI underlayment, Four glued-laminated producers are served on a regular basis by the com' pany, one of thc few organizations fully