\(/. C. L. A. 'Annual Meeting

Portland, January 25, 1946-Paul Bunyan has a new job -the biggest of lumber history, Dean Johnson, president of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, declared this morning in an address before the 35th annual meeting of the organization.

"I believe that this annual meeting marks the end of an important period and the beginning of a more important period in the relationship between the Association and individual manag'ement of lumber and forest properties," the WCLA president declared.

Sketching the grorvth of the Pacific Northwest's largest trade association, Mr. Johnson emphasized that the lumber industry of the region first set up an organization 41 years ago to deal rvith traffic problems. "Since then lumbermen have found it necessary to undertake many other important management functions through our West Coast Lttmbermen's Association ; all of r,r'hich, experience has shorvn, could not have been carried on economicalll' or efficiently, if at all, by the managenrent of any inclividual member company."

The Association head cited a long list of recent laws and government directives which, he said, require joint action by industry companies. He added, "Other new rules, not dictated by larv but by technological developments and competition of other materials, requiring coordinated industry study and effort, have developed and are developing."

Nationally and regionally, Mr. Johnson declared, the lumber industry needs trade association services more than ever before

Requirements for nelv housir-rg and farrn buildings "place an obligation of our industry substantially equal in importance to war demands," Mr. Johnson told the Association members. "This obligation, in my opinion, temporarily transcends the important plans of many companies to curtail production to balance with sustained yield management plans, necessarily deferred during the war."

The following officers were elected: C. E. Kreienbaum, Simpson l-ogging Co., Shelton, Wash., president; Judtl Greenman, Oregon-American Lumber Corp., Vernonia, Ore., vice president for Oregon; Corydon Wagner, St. Paul & Tacoma l-umber Co., Tacoma, Wash., vice president for Washington, and C. W. Ingham, Fischer Lumber Co., N[arcola, Ore., treasurer,

Col. W. B. Greeley, Seattle, retiring secretary-manager, lvas made vice president, and his successor, Harold V. Simpson, was named executive vice president, H. E. Smith n'as rutnred secretary.