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Portland, February 12-Shipments of Pacific Northwest lumber during January, 1948, topped those for January a year ago by more than 30,000,000 board feet, while production continued a steady upswing, H. V. Simpson, executive vice president of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, announced today.

Totsl lsm6er shipments fr.om ths Douglas fir region of Oregorr and Washington during the first four weeks of 1948 were 599,358,000 board feet, 'compared to 567,778,N0 b.f. during a similar period in 1947, and 561,@8,000 b.f. during the first four weeks of 1946, Mr. Simpson said.

Nfeanrvhile the region's production rose in January to a weekly average of 154,647,000 b.f., an increase of ll.3/o over that for January, 1947. Total January production was 618,589,000 b.f., compared to 555,657,000 for January,1947, and 549,906,000 for January, 1946.

"This clearly shor.vs that more and more lumber is getting out of the producing area and into the hands of builders and contractors rvho need it," Mr. Simpson said. "The industry's log inventory is high, and it is probable that equally substantial shipments will continue to be made in months to come."

Orders also showed an increase, the r,l,eekly average during January being 158,612,@0 b.f., up 25,729,0N b.{. from tlre weekly average for December,1947, and up 779,000 b.f from January a year ago. Total orders, first four t'eeks, ril(hen it comes to price, there's another pleasant surprise. Korina closely resembles Prima Vera. ttrTeldwmd* Hardwood Pllvood

1948, 634,448,000 b.f.; four weeks, 1947, 631,330,000; four weeks, 1946, 561,098,000.

Orders for fbur weeks of 1948 break down as follows: Rail, 430,237,000 b.f.; Domestic Cargo, 109,960,000 b.f.; Export, 30,263,000 ; Local, 63,952,000.

Ths Western Pine Association for the week ended January 24, 113 mills reporting, gave orders as 74,484,0A0 f.eet, shipments 70,753,W feet, and production 58,158,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the r.'r'eek totaled 194.508.000 feet.

The Southern Pine Association for the 'rveel< ended January 31, 79 units (102 mills) reporting, gave orders as 75,237,A00 feet, shipments 11,373,000 feet, and production 9.556.000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the rveek totaled 70.140.000 feet.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the rveek ended January 24, 153 mills reporting, gave orders as 118,045,000 feet, shipments 109,140,0O0 feet, and production 105.645.000 feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the rveek totaled 515,284,0ff) feet.

For the week ended January 31, 156 mills reporting, gave orders as 106,715,000 feet, shipments 102,655,000 feet, and production 105,017,000 feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the u'eek totaled 521.071.000 feet.

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\7CLA Re-Elected All Officers at 37th Annual Meeting

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association named six new directors and reelected all officers at its 37th Annual Meeting January D and 30 in Portland, Oregon. Approximately 250 members from the Douglas fir region of Oregon and Washington attended.

Renamed president was C. W. Ingham, vice president of the Fischer Lumber Company of Marcola, Oregon. Other officers reelected with Mr. Ingham are Judd Greenman, Oregon-American Lumber Company, Vernonia, Oregon, vice president for Oregon; Corydon Wagner, St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company, Tacoma, Washington, vice president for Washington; Frank A. Graham, Hills Creek Lumber Company, Jasper, Oregon, treasurer; W. B. Greeley, Seattle, vice president; H. V. Simpson, Portland, Oregon, executive vice president; and Harris E. Smith, Portland, Oregon, secretary.

- Ne* directors are Robert R. Waltz, Seattle-Snohomish Mill Company, Snohomish, Washington; Edmund Hayes, Row River Lumber Company, Portland; Clarence Miller, I. P. Miller Lumber Company, Monroe, Oregon; Lester J. Harding, Columbia-Hudson Lumber Company, Bradwood, Oregon; B. G. Barker, Fortson Mill Company, Fortson, Washington, and H. R. Hamilton, Gardiner Lumber Company, Gardiner, Oregon.

Pacific Northwest lumber producers were promised more freight cars in 1948 by Col. J. Monroe Johnson, director of the Office of Defense Transportation, Washington, D. C., who spoke at the annual banquet January D.

Colonel Johnson warned, however, that if manufacturers increased production another 10 or 15 per cent-as was done during L947-transportation would again become a bottleneck.

Colonel Johnson protested that complaints which had reached him about freight car shortages could not be attributed to railroad inefficiency. At least a partial explanation, he said, lay in the fact that the number of sawmills in the Pacific Northwest had increased substantially, and that some mills had established two shifts.

"There will be more freight cars available in 1948," the Washington executive said, "because of an expected decline in wheat production.

"You here in the Douglas fir region slipped up on us with your tremendous increase in production-I think you surprised yourselves. But I promise to give you your fair share of cars next year and not one damn car more."

Other key speakers at the two-day session included Frank Belgrano, Jr., president of the First National Bank of Portland, who spoke on the topic, "Rehabilitation of Europe and Asia Now-or Worldwide Chaos Later;" and R. A. Colgan, Jr., executive vice president of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, Waihington, D. C., who discussed the possibility of allocating lumber production.

Mr. Colgan said it was his belief that "it will just be impossible to allocate lumber in any way. Even ir1 wartime the problem was too great."

Mahogany Annual Meeting

The Mahogany Association, fnc., held its annual meeting in Chicago and elected the following officers: President, Frank A. Fricker, Weis Fricker Mahogany Co., Pensacola, Florida; Vice President, Stewart Smythe, Jr., Stewart Smythe Mahogany Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; Treasurer, Walter Jones, Mengel Company, Louisville, Ky.; SecretaryManager, Geo. N. Lamb, Chicago, Ill.

The highlight of the meeting was the premiere showing to the membership of the association new color sound moving picture Mahogany, Wood of the Ages-Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. This film, authorized at the last annual meeting, has already met with high approval at the January furniture markets and was fully up to the expectations of the membership.

It was the consensus of opinion among the members that, barring unfavorable weather conditions, or other unexpected turn of political or economic events, the supply of mahogany would improve considerably before the end of 1948.

The Mahogany Association began its corporate existence in l9Z2 and Secretary Lamb has been secretary-manager since 1934. The most important and the most active committee in the association is the Trade Promotion Committee which has charge of advertising, publicity and the motion picture program. The membership of this committee is as follows: c u sT(lltl E R satisfaction is certain with the quickly constructed, labor-saving Celo-Sid ing gara,ge, This well-known Celotex insulating material provides weather-tight garage walls with an exterior mineral-granule surface in pleasing colors. No painting required. A practical, attractive garage that will give many years of service.

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llon't Be "Too Busv To Live"

There was once a famous American business man who was always so overwhelmingly busy that it got so they used to say about him around his own office that, "IIe is too busy to live."

Time proved that to be a fact, and not just a figure of speech. He was so busy with his own great business operations, his innumerable meetings and conferences and works and worries, that he had no time to rest, no time to reflect, no time to get out in the open air, no time to breathe deeply; to think quietly, to relax, to play with children and imbibe their youthfulness, to take the exercise that Providence intended men should take if they are to be healthy and happy. He couldn't do these things. He hadn't time.

And long, long before his "appointed time," figuring it on general averages, he blew up with a loud crash, and nothing that could be done for him was of any avail, because he had undermined the foundations, weakened the fundamentals of life, and left nothing to fight with.

And so, regardless of how busy he had been, he was called suddenly away from his work, his worry, his conferences, his plans, and his achievements. Had he lived he couldn't have been hired to admit that these things could

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get along rvithout his personal attention for a single hour, while he rested, and relaxed, and gave himself a chance.

But he left for all time, and his afiairs and the rest of the world rocked along in the same old way. He WAS a great man, but he had to die to find out that he wasn't indispensable, and that the world could. get along without his tremendous personal atte.ntion.

If he could have learned this a little sooner, he might have lived much longer, enjoyed himself much more, got more out of life and put more into it, and altogether made a much better job of the business of living than he did.

Don't be "too busy to live." Blessed and wise is that man who realizes that a necessary part of every day's business is some time given to contemplation, and relaxation, and relitif from the direct cares of business things.

That doesn't mean to neglect- your affairs. Not in the least. But so mix your work with your play that your work will be better and last longer, and you will give more of yourself to your family and your friends, and take more out of the world because you have done so.

The poorest of all humans is he who leaves the rvorld and has taken nothing from it but money, and given nothing to it but energies directed to money making.