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Record Demond for Plywood Exceeds Industry Cqpocity

A new production record for softwood plywood was set in February as the industry struggled to keep up with floods of new orders that were 23 percent above total capacity for two consecutive weeks, despite the midwinter slowdown in home building, the industry's biggest market.

Douglas Fir Plywood Association disclosed that the 158 plants in the industry turned out 219,531,0@ .q. It. 127* basis) of aII types and grades of plywood for the week ending February B.

Previous high for a single week occurred the week ending December 21, 1963, when the industry produced 217,2L6,000 sq. ft., DFPA said.

Orders received during the week ending February I reached 288,264,000 sg. ft., and dropped only slightly, to 287,483,000 sq. ft., the week ending February B.

Industry capacity is 234,231,000 sq. ft. per week, so new orders exceeded capacity by 23 percent each week.

Highest previous new order volume was II7/o of capacity, received the week ending September 14, 1963, DFPA reported. , The softwood plywood industry is the fastest-growing of all those rated by the Federal Reserve Board, with a 10-yeai annual growth rate of 14 percent, compared with an average of 4 percent for all industries, and capacity has increased to its present level from 217,211,000 sg. ft. a year ago.

The industry achieved its first 200-million sq. ft. week last February, with production that totaled 204,124,0n sq. ft.,

Blodgett Forest Adds I@ Acres

A 160-acre addition to the University of California's Blodgett Experimental Forest in El Dorado "our,iy, making the lorest riow a solid 2,89I acre block, has been reported by Dean Henry J. Vaux, UC School of Forestry.

The property, which has been an isolated piece in the center of the {orest, was purchased from the Bacchi Brothers, ranch land owners in the area. "The 160 acres round out our ownership, giving us a better administrative unit, better protection for experimental work under way, and more experimental sites," Dean Vaux said.

The Blodgett Forest, 13 miles east of Georgetown, Calif. is used mainly for research on the growth and harvesting of second growth Sugar and Ponderosa Pine, Douglas and White Fir, and Incense Cedar, the UC forest scientist explained.

A wide variety of experiments related to production of new timber is carried on at Blodgett. Studies include regeneration of the various conifer species of the Sierra slope, the thinning and improving of young growth stands to best advantage, estimation of wood growth and yield, improving techniques of forest management and planning, protection of young stands frorn bark beetles and other insect pests, methods of timber harvesting particularly adapted to young-growth forests, and rehabilitation of unproductive areas such as brush fields.

Wood Terminology

The Federal Trade Commission has announced regulations pertaining to the proper labeling of hardwood lumber in the finished product.

Referring to Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Ac! it is said to b" u violation for manufacturers to describe as wood such materials as hard board, fiber board or particle board. It is also illegal to refer to plywood or veneer products as being solid wood. The practice of describing finishes by the name of a wood species has been declared to be an unfair practice when the prod. uct is made of a species other than that named.

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Featured speakers included Myron Solter from the law firm of Sharp & Bogan, Washington, D.C., and Clark McDonald, managing director of the Hardwood Plywood Institute, Arlington, Virginia.

As IHPA's official spokesman in W'ashington, Solter's discussion ranged from Congressional actions to tariff matters, and even administrative orders of various Government agencies. A recognized expert in the field of tariff law, Sharp & Bogan has been particularly effective in protecting the markets created by imported hardwood plywood, IHPA officials noted.

McDonald. in a welcome move for better cooperation between his association and

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IHPA, noted that both associations have a common stake in supporting the pending revision to U. S. Commercial Standards 35-6I for hardwood plywood. The pro(Continued, on Page 66)

Officers And Directors Of Ihpa Etected Ai The Convention

Jon S. Gudmundsson, Wood-Mosaic Industries, Inc., Post Office Box 21105, Louisville 21, Kentucky

Joseph B. Ilurra, Getz Bros. & Co., 640 Sacramento Street, San Francisco 11, California

0ldrich Pavlousek, Hoenig Plywood Corporation, 10 East 40th Street, New York, New York 10016

Al Redinger, Atkins, lftoll & Co. Ltd., 417 South Hill Street, Los Angeles, California

Al W. Struyvenberg, Lloyd International, Inc., 1217 | C 0 Building, Portland 4, Oregon

Arnold W. Bildsoe, Georgia-Pacific Corporation, Equitable Building, Portland 4, 0regon

Seiichi t{obe, Pan Asiatic lrading Go. Inc., 944 West 12th Street, Los Angeles 15, California

Gunter Silmar, Silmarco, Inc., World Trade Center, Room 139, Ferry Building, San Francisco ll, California

Fred B. Smales, United States Plywood Gorporation, 4480 Pacific Boulevard, Los Angeles 58, California

William l(. Suiter, Jr., Evans Building Products Co., Post Office Box 880, Corona, California

Eric Wagner, Del Yalle, Iuhman & Co., 2 Pine Street, San Francisco 11, California

Col. Gordon Il. Ingraham, lmported llardwood Plywood Association, Inc., World Trade Center, Ferry Building, San Francisco 11, Calif.

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Grover T. Stanley, owner of Stanley Lumber Co,, 420 Miller Valley Road, Presco,tt, Arizona, recently put the finishing touches on his newly rremodeled store which nearly doubled the size of his existing showroom. A grand opening is slated for this month.

Stanley has been in business in Prescott for the past five years and was formerly manager of Yavapai Lumber there before starting his own business.

Olds Bros. Lumber Co., sold last Fall to Nagle Lumber Company of Winslow after the death of Wanen Olds, has been renamed Acme Lumber Company. T'he Winslow operation has been completely remodeled and the old section leased to the Post Offiee. How's that for insuring a steady walk-in trade.

Dick Fore, formerly with the Babbitt Lumber department in Winslow, is manager of the new Acme Lumber operation.

Tom Mulholland, manager of White Mountain Lumber Company at Pine Top, Arizona, vacafiond in Mexico for three weeks after overseeing the moving of the yard from MeNary.

O'Malley Affiliated Cornpanies have announced closing of Southwest Sastr Door & Glass at El Paso, Texas. Larry Powers, formerly with Southwest Sash, has been transferrecl to O'Malley Lumber Co., Nogales, as second man to E. If. "Mac" McClanahan who plans his retirement next year.

Bob Bluell, former mercha,ndising man- ager of O'Malley Lumber Company, has been promoted to general manager, according to Jay O'Malley, p'resident. Bluell repLaces Frank Ifaney who left the firm to take over the Phoenix office for Pioneer Flintkote. Bluell's offices will be in O'Malley Lumber's new headquarters at 5307 W. Missouri, Glendale, Arizona.

Working with Bluell will be AIIan Thum, newly appointed sales manager and former manager of O'Malley's Indian School Road yard.

Del Grabe, formerly with Grabe Lumber in Globe, Arizona, will manage the new branch yard of B&R Lumber Co. at Pine Top, Arizona.

Harold S. Hancock, Hancock Lumber Co., Phoenix, /'rizona, opened a branch yard in Phoenix at 19th and Glendale Road on tr'ebruary 1.

Jack Allenby, Tidewater Mills, Eureka seen relaxing on the beach at Wailua, Kauai on his trip to the various islands in Hawaii last month.

Bob Golding, Marquart-Wolfe salesman in Long Beach returned from Kansas City where he picked up a new Cadillac. Sales must be good, Bob.

S. K. McGaughey, sales manager McNord Lumber Co., Arcata has visited various wholesalers in southern California last month. We understand he also visited Santa Anita, too.

Don Higgins, sales manager Fruit Growers Supply Co., HiIt, Califorrria a recent visitor in the Los Angeles area. He visited

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with lumber dealers and wholesale distributing concerns.

Jim Forgig Robert S. Osgood executive out covering the Redwood Highway, Portland, Seattle and Vancouver, B'0. During his tour he saw company supplie,rs about early spring delivery.

Bill Knudson, sales manag:er Aborigine Lumber Company, Fort Bragg spent several days calling on dealers and distributors in the L.A. area.

Monthly Lumber Focts

January production at Douglas fir region sawmills averaged 165 million feet a week and 105 percent of the last five year aver' age, the monthly summary of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association has disclosed.

Orders averaged 183 million feet a week for the same period and shipments tallied 153 million feet. For the full month of January, cumulative production for the region reached 76I million feet. The industry's unfilled order file stood at 67I million feet and inventories totaled 982 million feet, the association said.

The weekly average of West Coast lumber production in January was 165,509,000 b.f. or I04.4/o of the 1959-63 average. Orders averaged 183,138,000 b.f.; shipments 153,584,000 b.f.; weekly averages for December were production I5I,427,000 b.f,

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