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Americqn Forest Products Corp. Buys Mr. Whirney Lumber Co.

San Franci.co.-American Forest Prorlrrcts Corp. acquired the N[t. \\,'hitney I-rrmber Company, Los Angeles, X4arch I through arr excharrge of 72,000 shares of stock. It previorrsly helcl a 20(J-r mirrority interest. Included in the $1,650,000 cleal are trvo sarvrnills ancl clistribution yards at l-os Angeles and Lancaster. The mills at Johrrsondale ancl the other at Tule River in Southern California bring the nuurber of AtrPC sawmills to 12. The trerv firm will operate as the NIt. \\'hitney l-rrn.rber Co. dir.ision of Arnerican Forest Products Coro.

X,It. \\'Ihitney emplo)-s.350 l,errons ancl h:rs an annual procluctioir of 40 million b.f. Sales last year amorrnted to $1,800,000. l-he 'l'rrle River rnill jrrst startecl operating last r-uonth. Presiclent Charles T. Gray of Americarr Forest I)roriucts Corp. sairl the deal c:rrries out a plan to frrrther integrate the timber resorlrces r,vith prodtictiun facilities lutrl selling orrtlets irr the orgarrizatic,ir.

W.l.C. Postpones L.A. Meeting

The \\'ooclu.ork lnstitute of California l.ras postl)oned r1ntil April 21 the clate of its Spring meetirrg in I-c.rs .\ngeles. 'fhe annttal event, forrnerly sche<luled for llarch lU, nill still be held at the Hotel Statler.

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Congress Heqrs Plywood lmporters

(Continued from Page 20) ancl if tl-re industry thinks that it is now being hurt, then the proper forum to consider that ltroblem is the forum u'hich was createcl by this Congress is the expert fact-hnding body on tl"re irnpact of imports. That is the Tariff Commission.

I think the Commission u'oulcl {rnd that imoorts are l.raving an impact on the domestic hardwood plyu'ood inclustrl' ancl that some domestic proclucers u'ould increase their sales if all irnports rvere crrt off. However, I believe tl-re Comnrission r,vould firrcl that the elimination of hardwood plyu'oorl imports rvoulcl destroy $36,000,000 worth of import business in order to provide domestic hardwood plywood proclrrcers witl-r perhaps an additional $1,000,000 'n'orth of business.

Considering that the $36,000,000 worth of hardwood plywood imports also pay for $36,000,000 of United States exports, this seems a trernendously high price to pay for the slight additional relief that might be granted to a few members of the hardwood plywood industry.

Now, Ger.rtlemen, jrrst horv .ivould our own economy be affectecl by serious restrl'ctions on these imports? I think the facts shorv that a limitation of these imports u'ould lrrrrt tlre I'nited States in many ways:

It rvoul<l aln.rost (lestroy the fltish cloor manufacturing iniltrstry that has g'rown up o\rer the past five or six years.

It would seriorrsly interfere rvith tl're normal commercial ciDerations of manv American manufacturers of house traileis, cabinets, ancl mal1y kinds of furniture.

The sales volume of American olvrvoocl clistributors u'otrld be re<lrrced.

It rvould cleny to rnany American consumers the warmth ancl beautl- of natrrral u'oocl panelitrg at a price within their reacn.

It worrlcl srrbstautially increase the cost of building materials at a tirne when high-level activity in the housing industry clepencls on keeping costs as lorv as possible.

It rvoulcl seriously crrrtail a very substanial n.rarket for our o\\,n exports of manrrfactured goocls, inclustrial rarv materials ancl agricultural commodities.

Ancl all of these serions losses would be suffered with 1itt1e cornpensating aclr'antage to the clornestic hardwood plywood inclrrstry.

It seents to me that this u'ould be an extremely high price to pay for the slight amount of beneht that might accnle to clomestic plyrr,'oocl producers if the imports .ivere stoppecl. Therefore, I u'oulcl respectf rrlly srlggest to this Cornnrittee that the trade program ancl the escape clause be so aclministerecl that these imports and imports like tl'rem, u.hich olTer tremenclous ber-refits to orrr own economy :rs well as to orlr friends overseas. sl.rorrlcl not be curtailecl.

Certainly, our friencls overseas calrnot be ignorecl because their strength is our strength. Itecently I returnecl from a trip to the Orient-t-rur major sortrce of importecl plywood. On manv a night after a long clinner and a cup or trvo of sake, I have been asked by my Japanese.friends, "\\,-hat do ).ou expect of us ?"

They har-e pointed out that ,f apan is our largest ctlstomer of cotton, rice arrcl many other proclucts of our farms alrd factories. It has bought from us every year since the war substantially more than we have purchased {rom Japan. In 1956, for example, we solcl 887 million dollars lr.orth of U.S. goods to laltan, and bought 547 million dollars from them. Tl-ris is knou'n by most every Japanese school boy.

Hou' do I ansu'er my Japanese friend when he then says, "You object to our plyn'ood, our tuna, our textiles, our toys. What can we ship you to help pay for what we buy from you ?"

This problem is also pointed up by a recerlt article in the Saturclay Evening Post written by Carneron Hau'ley. Mr. Ha'n'ley visited Japan and wrote an article entitled, "\\rill