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home builders and buyers continues to be the fundamental question before the industry, Griffee said.

Region Lumber Output Sets New High

Western Pine region 1959 lumber production ol 9,4O1,000,000 board feet was ll/o above 1958 and set a new high mark for the 12-state industry, President Bronson reporte-d.

The record-breaking output, representing about 310,000 cars,_ afforded 136,374,000 man hours of employment in woods and sawmills for 73,300 persons, Bronson said. Box factories and other remanufacturing plants attached to the industry added another 20,000,000 man hours to the payroll.

Lumpe-r shipments (sales) also reached a new regional high of 9,357,000,000 board feet, Bronson reported. -Shipments were up nearly ll/o over 1958 and were more than a half billion feet above the previous peak, 8.78 billion feet shipped in 1955. The previous high in production was 9.03 billion in 1956.

Analyzing the region's growing role in the American lumber business, Bronson said the industry has nearly doubled in productive capacity since \Morld War II. it topped 7 billion feet for the first time in 1948 and 8 billion feet in 1955. Its production now represents 32/o of the nation's softwood lumber output. Thirty years ago it was l7/o. This comparison does not take into account, however, the large volume of sawtimber now flowing into the plywood industry, which 30 years ago was just getting started. Currently, plywood expansion is getting under way in the Western Pine region.

Association month-by-month statistics for 1959 showed 46/o of. the year's lumber output, or 4,30I,052,000 board feet, was Ponderosa Pine, Idaho White Pine, Sugar Pine and Lodgepole Pine. The remainder-5,099,948,N0 or 54/o -was Douglas Fir, Larch, White Fir, Engelmann Spruce, fncense Cedar and Red Cedar.

An estimated 500 communities in New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming, IJtah, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho,

Eastern Oregon, Eastern Washington, Nevada and California have Western Pine mills. The industrv draws its raw material from 87,000,000 acres of commercial forest, most of which is dedicated to sustained yield management, Bronson pointed out.

Fire-Killed Timber Salvaged at Record Rate

More than a third of the 675 million board feet of timber killed in California forest fires of 1959 has been harvested so far in a huge emergency conservation program launched by the lumber industry even before the ashes cooled, it was reported at the annual meeting. Knox Marshall, Association forest engineer and chairman of the California Forest Pest Control Action Council, said the all-out timber salvage program has brought in to the mills to date about 265 million feet, leaving some 410 million feet to go. Total firekill represents about 22,5m cars of lumber, enough to build 60,000 houses.

A conservation problem even greater than fire damage faces the California forest resource in the form of insect depredations expected this year, partly due to the disastrous fires of 1959, Marshall stated. Sanitation-salvage logging and even direct control measures are going ahead in an effort to cut losses, slow the bugs and put the stricken timber to use in housing.

Industrial safety for employes is a do-it-yourself project. It is not to be achieved any other way. That's the gist of a report to the Western Pine lumber industry by Phil Reinmuth, Lewiston, Idaho, chairman of the industry-wide Safety Promotion committee. Reinmuth disclosed that mills taking part in safety meetings and pressing continuously for safety in their operations are now 17/o below the industry's average in injury frequency rate.

At the same time, his report showed that mills not actively engaged in safety planning and promotions have an injury frequency rate 9l/o higher than those that are.

Wybro Prexy Don White will fly to Miami for the March 28 Executive committee meeting of the National Hardwood Lumber Assn., of which he is vice-president. The boss's Miami excursion follows a month's stay there by Wybro's Gordon Benson during February; looks like everybody's goin' there.

Vic Roth headed north for a mid-February week on Triangle Lumber Co. business and to take in the Sierra-Cascade Logging Conference in Redding, Feb. 1l-13.

H. M. Nelson and Max Hill, partners in the H. M. Nelson Lumber Co., jetted to San Francisco for the Western Pine Assn. annual, while their wives drove up the leisurely way. The foursome returned home together with a few stops enroute.

Joe Salber, longtime representative for Pacific Fir Sales in Oakland, has joined Georgia-Pacific Corp. as its northern California hardboard representative and will headquarter in Oakland.

Currently honeymooing around Laguna Beach are Laurie and Bill Hoey, who were hitched in Carmel, March 12. Bill and the former Laurie Meyer will make their home in San Francisco, whe,re Hoey is the Georgia-Pacific salesman.

Beverly Haskins of U. S. Plywood Corp. is transferring to the Long Beach office from Los Angeles. Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club No. I hates to see her move away but hopes she will continue active with the lumbergals, for she's one of their best.

Mrs. and Frank Crawford followed the sun to Hawaii for a couple relaxing weeks far removed from Ukiah and Frank's fastgrowing Crawford Lumber enterprises.

D'rake's Bay-men Mack Giles and John Polach called on pine connections in northern California and southern Oregon the last week of February.

Sterling Wolfe completed his early Spring coverage of the redwood highway for Marquart-Wolfe Lumber Co. last month and returned to the Hollywood homebase accompanied by his wife, Lorraine.

Dave Davis will be reining up back in San Rafael, March lB, after two weeks trekking Texas on Talbot Lum,ber business.

The Roy Stantons, Sr. and the Dee Essleys forsook their southern California lumber and Hoo-Hoo club activity briefly last month for a long weekend of desert sun and golfing.

Bud Olson has severed a long association with Union Lumber Company to enter the wholesale lumber business on his own with "Babe" Bowden, formerly with Pacific Manufacturing Co. in Santa Clara. They'll headquarter it in San Jose.

Ed Follett, former White Brothers rep,resentative, has joined the sales force of Davis Hardwood Company, headquartering in San Francisco to service the San Joaquin Valley territory.

Jim Rogers, general manager of the Aborigine Lumber Co., Longview, Wash., spent several days in southern California the last of last month and first of this.

Jack Aubert, former fieldman for L & L Hardwood Co., San Jose, has signed on with White Bros., as an outsideman for the northern Alameda and Marin county territory, reports Wybro sales chief Scott Gould.

L. A. Wholesater Horace Wolfe was presented with his 35-year'diamond Elks 99 membership pin at a special banquet, Feb. 24. Prominent rbusiness, civic and political leaders were aboard for the event.

Earl M. Bleile, general manager of Roseburg Lumber Co.; Harry Bleile of Arrow-

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head Lumber Co., San Bernardino, and Earl K. Bleile of Parr-Thomas Lumber Co., 'and their wives met in Honolulu for two weeks of Waikiki sunshine in February. The family safari also included brother George Bleile, who will complete work on his doctors degree in economics at Northwestern this spring.

Ray Sedall, Van Nuys wholesaler, made a fast trip to San Francisco and Portland last month on Hirsh-Crombie busincss.

Another addition to the North State's hallowed hole-in-one club is Victor Wolf, owner of Western Forest Products of San Francisco, with Dr. Henry J. Peccini of The

City rounding out the twosome on the Pajaro Valley C.C. course. Vic, relative newcomer to golf (just took it up a few years back), chipped in without a bounce on the 5th hole, a |Z4-yard.er.

Jim Estes, southern .California salesman of lumber and plywood, has opened offices at 6574 Magnolia St. in Riverside to cover the Kite area in the wholesale distribution of plywood to retail dealers only.

Crawford Lumber Company's Lloyd Larson is again moving around under full steam after hospitalization and a week of traction in Ukiah last month with a severely sprained back.

John Clarke, former assistant manager of Speckert Lumber Co. in Marysville, has signed on in the same capacity with the C. Meek Lumber Co. in Yuba City.

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men as Webster, Clay, Franklin and other American giants never made it; and they were far bigger and greater than many who have held the office.

The power of prayer is admittedly a highly controversial subject. Millions are sure that prayer is "a very present help in time of trouble." And therd are also many who will agree with the colored brother who said: "I notices that when I ask de Lawd to send me a turkey, I don't get it; but when I asks de Lawd to send me out after a turkeyI gets it." * * *

Moses was but a few minutes in the burning bush, but he brought forth the Ten Commandments, on which civilization has been built. But Moses had no doubt learned most of the laws contained in the Ten Commandments when he was young, from the Code of Hammurabi, which had been in existence and known to all scholars for hundreds of years before Moses was born. There were 42 commandments in the Hammurabi Code. Like Moses. old Hamm had announced centuries before that his Code was handed him ready-made by the Lord.

Not as well-known as the tribute to Old Glory paid by that great American orator, Daniel Webster, but nevertheless a very thrilling declaration in its own right, are the words once uttered by the late Senator lloar, who said:

"I have seen the glories of art and architecture, and of river and mountain. I have seen the moon rise over Mount Blanc. I have seen the sunset on the Jungfrau. But the fairest vision on which these eyes ever rested was the flag of my country in a foreign port. Beautiful as a fower to those who love it, terrible as a meteor to those who hate, it is the symbol of power and glory and honor of onehundred-millions of Americans."

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