THE CALIFORI\IA LT]MBER MERCHAI\T

Jack Dionne, Publisher

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Your Trade Association

BY JACK DIONNE

The Trade Association is the sole means by which the industry it serves can become active as a unit in time of need; it is the sole means by which uniform ways of improving business, setting rules, revising gtades-can be achieved; it is the best means by which the coordinated thought of the industry can be expressed; it is the sole means by which the government, in time of stress, can call upon an industry. It is a vital part and parcel oI the industrY.

Without lumber associations, for instance, there would be no lumber industry in the real sense of the word. The man who fails to belong to his rightful associatio,n is neglecting a definite and genuine duty toward his industry, because it is only through the work of the association that the things vital to the well-being of the industry as a whole can be handled; and every man must do his share in the common cause.

The old-fashioned saw said: "God helps those who help themselves." But industry has discovered the broader, better philosophy that "God helps those who help each other." The understanding that the well-being of the whole is paramount to that of the individual, and that the intelligent community interest really brings bigger and better returns than specific self-interest, is what the Association idea consists of.

Association Conventions have become of great and real importance. Men get together not only for the purpose of goodfellowship but for exchanging IDEAS, understanding that the things that have helped or hurt the other fellow can help or hurt YOU.

So they get together at Conventions and carry home thoughts and ideas and plans and suggestions that. they can use for themselves. This cooperative spirit is the redeeming spirit of this age.

For a prelimbnry peek at the April 1959 Conaention programs of the Lumber Merchants Assn. of Northern California and the Southern California Retail Lumber Assn., along uith a list of sertices and eaery-day benefits of SCRLA and LtrfAssocintion membership, see the stories starting on Pages 4 ur,d 5

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The green fir market, which exploded like a rocket the end of February and was still orbiting at a new level in the period ending March 6, found mills keeping order files small in expectation of further increases, reports Crow's Lumber Market News Service. K-D fir was also in a good position. Utility was scarce, both green and dry, and Economy was showing surprising strength. The Pine region woods took ofi at the same time and were on the rising trend.

Shipments of 463 mills reporting to the National Lumber Manufacturers Assn. in the week ending Fe'b. 28 were 5.7/o above production; orders were 6.8/" above. The nation's sawmills produced 2,629,@0,0W board feet of lumber during January, estimates the NLMA; orders exceeded output bv 6% Shipments of 107,115,906 feet at 148 mills reporting (131 operating) to the West Coast Lumbermen's Assn- in the week ending Feb. 28 were 6.2/o above production; orders were 2.3/o above Douglas fir region sawmill production during February averaged 146,884,000 b.f. weekly, reports the WCLA; orders averaged 150,758,000 b.f.; shipments, 145,502,000 b.f. . . Orders of 91,18,6,@O feet were ll.7/o above production at 110 mills reporting to the Western Pine Association in the week

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