RRLC to Hold llleeting In Ukioh lAqrch 9 ond lO

Eureka, Calif.-Keeping lands productive and log yarding methods and equipment will be two of the main subjects under discussion at the 23rd annual Redwood Region Logging Conference at the 12th District l'air Grounds in Ukiah, California, March 9-10, according to John Yingst, Simpson Timber Co., Klamath, California, conference president.

Problems involved in keeping lands productive following logging will be the subject of a management division panel at 10:00 a.m., Friday, March 10, under the leadership of John Miles, Chief Forester, Simpson Timber Co., Arcata. Rudolf H. Grah, professor of forestry, University of California School of Forestry, Berkeley, will cover financial aspects of growing and harvesting forest crops.

Larry McCollum, The Paciflc Lumber Co. forester, Scotia, will discuss increased productivity through selective timber marking programs. Silas Carr, Gualala Redwoods Tree Farm forester, Gualala, will speak on production and marketing problems in utilization of young growth timber. Dr. William Stoate, noted Australian forester and consultant for Simpson Timber Co. at Korbel, will discuss the ultimate productivity of forest land.

New methods and new equipment used in log yarding wiU be the subject of another panel at the same time on the conference prog:ram, but in the operational division discussions. Eugene Pickett, Wolf Creek Loggrng Co., Arcata, will moderate the panel. Pickett is currently president of the Pacific Logging Congress covering the entire west coast of the U.S. and is also a director of the redwood conference. Appearing with Pickett on the panel will be S. J. Cramer, Glenco F orest Products, Elk Creek, California, Ray Mast, Brizard-Matthews Machinery Co., Eureka, Edmund Griffith, Simpson Timber Co., Korbel, Wes Galt, Circle G Logging Co., Blue Lake, and representatives of Buran Equipment Co., Oakland, and Euclid Division, General Motors Corporation.

The yarding panel will discuss latest yarding equipment, including heavy rubber-tired yarders such as the Wagrrer skidder, Caterpillar 966, and the Michigan 375. They will also discuss new developments in cable loggrng through use of mobile high lead towers such as Skookum, Berger, and Skag:it. These systems are now being used to log formerly inaccessible areas, steep terrain, and smaller patches of timber formerly left by heavier, less mobile equipment.

"Boom, Bust, or Balance" is the theme of the redwood conference this year, Yingst said, in keeping with current market problems of the industry.

Half of the entire program this year will be divided into management and operational divisions meeting: at the same time, Yingst explained. Management division discussions will include problems involved in the trend toward integration as well as the above-mentioned subjects of keeping lands productive. Operational division program will also include a panel on road building methods and equipment.

The conference will close on Friday, March 10 u'ith the traditional Sawdust Bowl provided by the logging equipment dealers under the direction of Bill Stockley, Berglund Tractor & Equipment Co., Willits. The annual Logg'ers Banquet will be the final event on the same evening with an entertainment program consisting of an old-time melodrama staged by local Ukiah people under the direction of Mrs. George Hunter, Ukiah newspaperwoman. Assisting with local arrangements is Paul Sutterly, Mendocino County Chamber of Commerce, Ukiah.

Western Plcrnt Mqintenqnce And Engineering Show

San F ranciseo-New conceptions of maintaining industrial plants looking toward the new problems created by nuclear and other super-scientific developments will be explored at the Western Plant Maintenance and Engineering Show & Conference scheduled for July 18-20 at Los Angeles' Pan Pacific Auditorium, it was revealed by R. L. Saling, reg'ional manager of maintenance products Westinghouse Electric Corporation, who is the chairman of the Board of Sponsors.

Saling said they are scheduling meetings of industrial leaders within the next 30 days in both northern and southern California to analyze the most important new developments in plant engineering and maintenance which will be incorporated in the Los Angeles show.

The series of conferences to be held concurrent with the show wiII be under the leadership of L. C. Morrow, internationally famous director of the National Plant Maintenance and Engineering Conferences.

Saling said that since 1957 when the last Western Plant Maintenance and Eng'ieering Show was held, there has been tremendous increase in new industries in the West, now standing' on the threshold of an industrial era which will loft parts of western industry to a position of national leadership.

The show is being produced under the guidance of Clapp & Poliak, the nation's largest firm of industrial exposition manaS'ers.

Reports from the western office of this firm indicate exhibit space will be occupied by the leading manufacturers, researchers and plant servicing organizations in the United States, who are bringing their latest wares to Los Angeles for this event.