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Member of Natiorwl Plguooil Distuibutors Assocdation ft's nature's pastime to grow trees so that the grain of the wood often forms interesting patterns and.designs-even human figures, animals, and other familiar objects. Many home owners choose wood paneling with lots of curls and swirls to achieve a unique effect in room decoration. reports the National Lumber Manufacturers Association.

Elmore KING

Late word has just been received as we go to press of the passing of veteran Bakersfield dealer, Elrnore King, one of the principals of King Lumber Company. Mr. King, who had been living in retirement and iU health for sohe time, died in Bakersfield Hospital on February 15.

King Lumber Company was originally established during the turn of the century by Mr. A. D. Ifing who later was succeeded by Elmore King and his brother, Everett King, also now retired and living in Bakersfield, Present head of the venerable lumber concern is Edwards H. Metcalf, president and general.manager of the concern.

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The Pociftc Lumber Compony Announces New President

A. Murphy

Stanwood A. Murphy, 42, lras been elected president of The Pacific Lumber Company, giant manufacturer of California redwood and fir products. He succeeds his father, A. S. Murphy, now Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Stanwood Murphy is the fourth generation of the Murphy family in the nearly century-old firm. He had logged in the woods, worked in the factory, on the green chain, and in shipping, during a period of fifteen years, prior to becoming resident manager of miil operations at Scotia, California in 19b5. He has been Executive Vice President since 1956.

The founder of the family lumber dynasty was Simon Jones Murphy, great-grandfather of the new president, who in 1g4g had migrated with his sons from Prince Edward Island to penobscot, Maine, and then to Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Eventually the Murphy ventures includes mining, ranching', and timber opera- tions extending to the West Coast.

Also elected to a new position, is Edward M. Carpenter, who assumes tlte duties of Vice President for Operations, directing the operations of the four lumber mills and the newly acquired plywood plant in northern California. Carpenter has been with pacific for 28 years, and since 1956 has been Resident Manager at the mill headquarters in Scotia, California,

Incorporated in 1869, Paciflc has been known historically for its manufacturing of redwood lumber and by-products, and was the first to begin kiln redwood to produce a higher quality produet. fts operations now also include fir lumber, flr plywood, factory paint-primed products, and electronically-glued specialties.

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Scrles-service Supervisor of Long-Bell Fir Division hove thc rociri'

Longview, Washinglon-Ralph W. "Rocky" Gore, has been named sales service supervisor for Douglas fir according to an anouncement today from the sales department of International Paper Company's Long-Bell Division.

Gore was previously head buyer in the purchased lumber department with headquarters in the company's Longview offices. He joined Long-Bell in 1935 as a grader's helper in the shipping department at Longview, later became a grader, then cargo planer ehecker, cargo planer night-shift foreman, a,rtd following service in the U.S. Army during World War II, was supervisor of purchased lumber before moving into the sales department in 1950.

The company announcement also reported appointment of Martin Evans as factory products sales assistant with ofrce in Longview. Evans returns to the company following a four year absence. He was first employed in 1952 as a sales trainee.

Form Workers Get Housing Breok

Visalia-Bard McAllister, community development worker for tlle American F riends Service Committee, has announced that the organization has plans to enable low income agricultural workers in the San Joaquin Valley to build their own homes for as litile as 925.00 to 935.00 down.

Under the housing prograrn, the F.riends Committee would provide the lumber and building materials and trained personnel. Farm workers would provide 2,000 hours on the homes, and when completed, the occupant would begin paying off a mortgage on his home for the amount of the building materials.

"One of the things we have noticed about almost all farm laborers is the desire to own their own homes,', McAllister declared. He stated that the organization hopes to begin the program within a year as part of a larger program by the euaker committee to bring about a general uplifting of living conditions for farm workers.

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Mosonite's Roy G. Wogner Elected President of RRCC nl Eurekq Annucrl

Roy G. Wagrrer, Masonite Corp., Ukiah, was elected president of the Redwood Region Conservation Council at the annual meeting held in Eureka, January 27,796\.

Officers elected with him by the conservation group included: Alfred H. Merrill, Georgia-Pacific, Samoa, vice-president; Lowell J. Chapman, Arcata Redwood Company, Arcata, treasurer, and Walker B. Tilley, Redwood Valley, elected Secretary-Manager.

Elected for three year terms were three new members to the RRCC Board of Directors, including: Larry T. Marshall, U.S. Plywood Corp., Arcata; Bernard Ag:rons, Rockport Redwood Co., Rockport, and R. R. Chaffee, Berkeley.

Delegates to the afternoon business session, including loggers, lumbermen, educators, equipment dealers, business men and members of State and federal forest agencies, were greeted on behalf of the City of Eureka by Mayor Oscar Swanlund. A report from the chairman of the Nominating Committee, Alfred H. Merrill, Georgia-Pacific Corp,, Samoa, preceded the election.

The treasurer's report was given by Lowell J. Chapman and Walker B. TiUey delivered the secretary's report. Committee reports on the year's activity were given by: F. J. "Jack" Hyman, Fort Bragg timber owner, the RRCC Junior Logging Conference; Dr. Sidney E. McGaw, State Department of Education, Berkeley, Education & Training; Al H. Merrill, Georgia-Pacific Corporation, Samoa, Conservation Advisory and Bob Grundman, Ijnion Lumber Company, Fort Bragg, F'ire Prevention.

Edwin W. Pierson, Humboldt State College, Arcata, chaired the Resolutions Committee. Members adopted over a dozen resolutions, most of them aimed at thinking cooperating agencies for 1960 progTamming:.

The formal business session adjourned at 4:00 p.m.

Over 140 persons attended the president's reception in the afternoon and stayed for the evening banquet which highlighted the day's activities. R. R. Chaffee, acting chairman of the Awards Committee, presented Dr. Sidney E. McGaw with an inscribed redwood burl desk-pen set, in recog-nition of his outstanding contribution as chairman of the Elducation & Training Committee for the past several years.

Dr. Cornelius H. Siemens, President of Humboldt State College, Arcata, was keynote speaker at the banquet, choosing for his topic, "Conservation Education: Solutions or F'ailure." Dr. Siemens, in his keynote address, pointed up the need for public awareness that conservation problems do exist. To reach solutions, Siemens applied Thomas Dewey's five point approach to problem solving, indicating that the flrst step in this approach is to recogxize tbat a problem does exist. Siemens said, "Has the existence realization of a problem been established as yet? fs the sensitivity, the rational, the attitudes and beliefs of our public, our youth, our leaders, our legislators, our businessmen, our homemakers, of our students being developed where they realize that the wise-use of our wildlands, its forests, its watersheds, its rangelands, its streams, its fish, wildlife and recreational facilities, that the conservation of these God-given resources is of paramount importance? There is an increasing danger that these resources may forever be diminshed or destroyed. Only when enoug:h people become aroused to action, can \re say that the first step of the solution process has been reached."

Siemens complimented the Redwood Region Conservation Council on their prog:ram in the fields of conservation education and forest flre prevention and indicated that there is a great need for similar programs on both a state-wide and national level. Siemens said, "I hope that we can strive for a more systematic approach in order to gain a wider acceptance and a more forceful application in a wider sphere of influence."

To illustrate the advances that have been made in some areas of forest conservation, Dr. Siemens read excerpts from Dr. Aldo Leopold's discussion on the ethics of forest conservation in contrast to the exploitation of the past. Siemens referred to the present sustained yield programs of the forest industry and their acceptance of ethical practices.

In closing, Dr. Siemens said, "Whatever the solution, I am confldent that RRCC will be playing a vital role in its development and in this great work I can pledge to you continued active cooperation of Humboldt State College as it educates the future leadership for conservation education."

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\ f. R. Grsce & Co. Puerto Ricqn qnd Mexicqn Poper Interesls Acquired by Internqtionql Poper

New York-International Paper Co,mpany and W. R. Grace & Co. recently announced the sigrring of an agreement under which fnternational Paper Company has acquired the Grace paper enterprises in Puerto Rico and Mexico and will participate with Grace in an operation in Colombia.

fnternational Paper's acquisition consists of the Grace pulp and paper mill in Puerto Rico and the paper converting plants in Puerto Rico and Mexico. Intemational paper also will participate equally with Grace in the ownership of a pulp and paper mill now nearing' eompletion at Cali, Colombia.

The Grace paper manufacturing and converting operations in Peru are not involved in the transaction.

"Among lhe Trees"

Douglas fir you I pine, and balsam.

White fir?

Don't ash me why.

You get the pitch. Yucalyptus !

Don't needle me.

There's no good resin.

You go against my grain.

My head aches, gum me an aspen.

If you wouldn't, redwood; you make me sycamore.

You're not very poplar.

That oughtta pepper up!

Hey, Woodhead, you got the shingles?

No, it's the shakes.

This could go on for evergreen.

Gum bye!

Olive me alone.

December Boom in Heovy Gonstrucfion Pushes 196o to New Record -

New York-. An enorrnous volume of construction contracts awarded in December pushed the total for 1960 to a new all-time record for the United States, F. W. Dodge Corporation reported last month.

December contracts totalled $2,717,701-,000, a gain of 22 per cent over December 1959, Dodge reported. This was not only the highest figure ever reported for any December, but on a seasonally adjusted basis, it was the highest peak ever reported for any month. The seasonally adjusted Dodge index for December reached a record of 302. (1947-194h100.)

As a result, total contracts for the year 1960 reaehed a new all-time peak of $36,31?,629,000, slightly ahead of 'the previous record set in 1959.

Aecording to Dodge vice president and chief economist George Cline Smith, "a rather surprising burst of strength occurred in non-residential and heavy engineering contracts in November and December. Confounding all earlier expectations, 1960, instead

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of showing a decline, became the 14th consecutive year to set a new record in construction contracts.

"This was dolre," Dr. Smith said, "despite a sharp decline in housing, which wound up 1960 some 12 per cent behind 1959. The great sources of strength in 1960 were highways, up 21 per cent or nearly three quarters of a billion dollars over 1959, and schools, up 13 per cent, or more than $3O0 mi[ion over 1959. Other major categories with substantial gains for the year were commercial and manufacturing buildings.

"Hospitals, relig:ious buildings and electric utilities reported slight declines in 1960, but aside from housing, these were the only major categories which were down. In December, only housing and religious buildings reported declines from December, 1959.

"In past recessions," Dr.'Smith said, "the construction industry has provided an upward pushr particularly through housing activity. It seems that the industry may be serving in the same role again, but this time in ardas outside of housing. In any case, the burst of contract-letting at the end of 1960 cannot help but provide an ofrset to the declining tendencies of other lines of business, grving substance to the widespread expectation that there will be