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Not Just "Exlerlor", Not Just "Mqrine", BUT Not Just "Bool-Hull", A COIUIBINATION of rhe Berer Quoliries of oll Three,

All Heortwood Veneers, Mqchine' Edge-Jointed Inner.plies qnd Re.Humidified.

F. A. Horner Heqds Ponderoso Pine Woodwork

log Truckers Offer To Poy For Overlooding R,oqds

' At the recent Sierra-Cascade I-ogging Conference held at Redding California, where about 1,000 loggers, tirnbermen, and lumbermen met and discussed their problems, action u'as taken to solve the vexing problem of load-limits on the big trucks that haul Pine and Redwood logs out of the forests. The truckers ofiered to help pay for the maintenance of those sections of the highways used by the huge rigs, in exchange for permission to carry loads heavier than the legal limits.

A group of industry leaders met with members of the Assernbly Subcomnrittee on Transport and Commerce. Together, they drafted a request to the Legislature for an investigation by the State into how much of Califronia's highway system can be classified as "natural resource roatls" and so becorne available for a system of legal overloadir.rg fir-ranced by the timber industry.

Chicago, March 5-F. A. Horner (left). presiclent of Rockn'ell Sales Associates, Chicago, is congratulated bv R. H. N{orris, general manager of Ponderosa J'ine \\,'ooclrv<-lrk, on Mr. Horner's election as president o{ the associ;rtion.

Mr. Horner sltcceeds Arthur H. Mohring. vice-president of Edu'ard Hines Lumber Co., Chicago, u'ho served as association president during the past year. Nlembers of the association rvith headquarters in Chicago, are pr()ducers of ponderosa pine lumber and manufacturers of rvood u,indows, panel doors, cabinets, anrl other millu'ork n.rade of ponderosa pine.

Other officers elected at the annual meeting held in Chicago \yere I'aul \\r. Curtis of J. Neils Lurnber Co., Minneapolis, vice-president i J. I). Rou'land, r'ice-president cif the Andersen Corp., Bayport, Minn., treasurer; and Loyde S. l3lakely, Brooks-Scanion, Inc., Bend, Oregon, secretary.

1'hil Creden, director of public relations of the Edu'ard I{ines Lumber Company rvas appointed chairman c;f the advertising committee. N[r. Creden, u'ho ser\Ies as chairman of the public relations committee of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, n'ill direct the aclvertising prograr"n handled by the Buchen Company, Chicago advertising agency, and the pul>lic relations program conducted by Rider & Keister, Nerv York City.

"The production of logs to meet the demands of the public for lumber and other processed forest products has reached a critical stage because of inadequate roads," the group staternent declared.

Assemblymau Francis C. Linclsay (Rep.-Loon-ris) said current legal higliway load-limits are fixetl at 72,600 pounds for thc largest trucks. But big logging rigs, he saitl, are built to operate economicall-v with loads up to 100,000 pounds. Loggers, according to rnembers of the group, would be willing to pay a special fee to finance constructirln of high*'ays to lvithstanri punishrnent by extra-heavy hauls.

Lindsay suggested a possible assessrnent of 5 cents per 1000 boarcl feet per rrile, and saicl such a fee would permit transforming plesent two-lane roads in logging areas into heavill' ballasterl three- and four-lane highr,l'ays, over whicl.r log trucks could roll u,'ithottt tlarnage to the surface.

Tlrose rvho met rrn the problem toclay said i billion boarcl feet of lumber-u,crth more than $30,000,000 ancl accounting for one-fifth of the State's timber output-is u'asted every )/ear l)ecause roacls are not strong enough to carrv th'e tirnber coming out of the forests.

Hold Open House

The Vacaville Lumber Company l.ras openecl for business at its neu' lumber vard in Vacaville, California. The modern plant rvas shot'n to the public at an oPen house, presided over by the trvo o$rners, John Nlcllride and Tom Zazrity.