Weyerhcreuser Puf i7l Million in 1956 Expcrnsions

Tacoma, Wash.-Weyerhaeuser Timber Company shareholders and directors elected officers at the company's annual meetings here March 8. F. K. Weyerhaeuser was reelected president and Chas. H. Ingram to the executive vice-presidency. Newly elected were Norton Clapp as chairman of the board and Edmund Hayes chairman of the executive committee.

Funds invested by Weyerhaeuser Timber Company in improved and expanded facilities last year reached the highest level in the firm's SGyear history, according to the annual report. In 1956 Weyerhaeuser Timber Company invested $71 million in plants, equipment, roads, timber and timberlands. The largest amount previously expended in any one year was $210 million in 1955.

The company estimates this investment will create approximately 600 new jobs for Washington and Oregon people. fnvestments totaling $330 million in the past ten years have resulted in a greater number of marketable products and an employment increase from 8,530 in 1946 to 14,527 at the close of 1956.

Sales of forest products in 1956 amounted to $324,129,330, compared with $316,732,545 in 1955, an increase of. 2.3%. Net income for 1956 totaled $51,446,603, compared with $49,241,030 in 1955.

The annual report indicated 1957 may see a further decline in residential construction and a temporary period of over expansion in the plup and paper industry. However, added production capacity is expected to favorably affect the company's sales volume in 1957.

Major 1956 improvements and expansions included construction of a 4OGton per day sulphite pulp mill on Grays .Harbor, Washington, scheduled to begin production in March 1957; construction of a new sawmill to replace an old one at Raymond, Washington; expansion of the bleached paperboard plant at Longview, Washington, which, beginning May 1957, will increase daily capacity by 100 tons, and construction of a chemical plant at Longview to supply chlorine and caustic soda to the company's pulp mills. Late in 1956 the company obtained options to acquire 90,000 acres of forest land in Mississippi and Alabama and a site for a future pulp mill. In January 1957 the company purchased the lumber and plywood mill of W. A.

Woodard Lumber Company, Cottage Grove, Oregon, together with 55,000 acres of timberlands.

Most significant 1956 forestry operation was the aerial reforestation program, which, according to the annual report, was the largest ever undertaken in the Pacific Northwest. By helicopter, Weyerhaeuser Timber Company seeded or treated for rodent and brush control 35,500 acres of land and hand-planted an additional 3,700 acres of seedlings to insure raw materials for company mills in future years.

Special enclosure with the annual report was a letter to shareholders from Company President F. K. Weyerhaeuser, calling attention to the recent announcement that a merger of Kieckhefer Container Company of Camden, New Jersey, and the Eddy Paper Corporation of Chicago, fllinois, into Weyerhaeuser Timber Company has been approved in principle.

CRA Men Hir rhe Roqd Agoin

Field representatives of the California Redwood Association began their annual program of carrying the message of the proper application and maintenance of redwood to market areas'east of the Rockies with a trip into the Atlanta, Georgia, region during the latter part of February and early March. Harry L. Lowell and Albert Malcolm Post, Jr., of the Promotion division of the association met w'ith architects, specifiers, wholesalers, retailers and users of redwood in Savannah, Augusta, Macon and Atlanta from February 18 to March 8. On March 8, there was a dinner meeting of architects in the Atlanta area with a photographic display of the architectural use of redwood and a film presentation of the proper application, finish and maintenance of this durable wood. Enroute to Atlanta, a redwood program for the architects in the Oklahoma CityTulsa area was held at Oklahoma City, February 14. Following the field work in the Atlanta area, a meeting for home builders was held on March 12 at St. Petersburg, Florida.

Further field work in the 1957 season will be conducted by representatives of the CRA in the New England area, in Denver, in the Dayton-Columbus-Cincinnati area of Ohio, and in Chicago.

(T'ell them you saa, it i,n The California Lumber Merchant)

New Construction Activity At Record February High

Nerv construction activity declined seasonally in Feltruary 1957 but the $2.9 billion of u.ork put in place r,vas slightly aliove the ltrevious Feltruary recor<l set in 1956, according to preliminary estimates prepared jointly by the U.S. Departments of Commerce and l,abor. The month's outlays brought the total for the first two months of this year to almost $6 billion, an alltime high for January-February period. C)n :r seasonally adjusted basis, expenditures for nerr. construction thus far in 1957 \\.ere at an annual rate of $41.7 billion, compared rvith the 944.3-billion total that was actually put in place last year.

Private construction activity during January and February of this year u'us about the same as that of a year ago

(nearly 94.3 billion). Declines from 1956 in expenditures ior nen' dn elling units and stores r,vere offset by advances for virtually all other types of private construction.

Otrtlays for ner,v horrsing in January and February 1957 n'ere $1.7 billion, otr 8c/o from the corresponding 1956 figure.

Erik Flomer Hospifolized

Iirik Flamer, the lumber gracle-stamping exlrert for the Southern California lietail Lumber Assn.. had a heart attack March 15 ancl l'as hospitaltzed a short rvhile for rest and tests. He is non conr.alescing very rapidly at his Long l3each home.

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Pentur'h'

Bill Helbron, Al Wilson, Kent Hayden and Harry Bleile of the Arrou'head Lun-rber Co., San llernardino, spent three days last month at Fort Bragg, Calif., u'ith John Gordon of the Union Lumber Cio., touring the mill and seeing its producticin and shipping facilities.

Friends ancl business associates of Tom Jacobsen, Sr., Sun Valley I-nnrlrer Co., Lafayette, Calif., gathererl at the Port of Oaklancl Xlarch 16 to u'ish Tom :rnd his n'ife fond bon v()yage as they startecl a 7-mcir.rths vacation t<iur of liurope on a Hollancl-Auerica Lines freighter. The Jacobsens u'i1l er.rjoy a leisurely vovage through the Canal, arriving at Antu'erp, Relgium. about April 12 and then, taking clelivery of a neu' N'Iercedes "180," spend their time tr>urirrg the Continent and end u1t in the llritish Isles u,here they stlrrt homerv:rrd on another H--\ ship, Sept. lfi. A little 4-door N{ercecles shoulcl be shou'ing rrp on the streets of l-a{:ryette about Oct. 1.

Mabel Meissner of Meissner-MacDonald mill representatir,es. I-os Arrgeles, left March 23 for 6-months tonr of Europc. Sire u'as for many years u'ith the 1-. W. NlacDonald Co. and recently u'ith Kendall Lumber Distributors.

John Driscoll, heacl of Simpsorr lledlr'ood Company's 11 l-estern state szrles, attended the Nlorrntain States I-umlrer De:rlers Assn. conver.rtion at Denver arrd the \\restern Itetail Lumbermen's Assn. annual at Spokane duriug February, rnaking bnsirress calls in Washington and Oregon before retrrrrring t,r Sarr Fr:rncisco r.nirl-NIarch.

On his retnrn recentlv from Japan, "Buck" Coleman, I'eteran SoCal lunrbennan, joirred the sales stall of F. I'. Raugh Co., I-os --\ngeles. He spent six wceks in the Oricnt on lrusiness and pleasure.

The Robert Close familv (three claugl-rters) n'as cnlargecl Nf:rrch 5 u'ith the arltlition of a bor- (finally), I)arrell Ttolrert. Both llob. of Frank R. Close & Son, Sr.rtter. Calif.. and rvife Chris are doing fine.