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(2) Qpp"sition to excessive standards required of industry in construction of U.S. Forest Service timber sale roads.

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(3) |upport for multiple use management of government forest lands.

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(4) Commending efforts of county tax assessors in of methods of timber taxation more suited to timber ing than present laws.

(5) Continuation of existing state legislation classifvine bear as a predatory animal in HumboldiCounty in recoenil tion of continuing damage to young timber stinds.

(6) Advocating prompt and full development of state park and national forest lands to meet inireasing recreation needs.

(7) Urging greater industry participation in joint federal, state, and private forest fire control planning.-

(8) Urging industry to continue and incr&se its efiorts to prevent accidents in all operations.

Eureka will be the site of the next Redwood Region Logging Conference on March 8-9, 1962. There will 6e a heavy equipment show with this conference, first one in rour years.

In closing conference sessions Robert Grundman of Fort Bra-gg-was elected president for the coming year. Grundman is chief forester for Union Lumber Company. Newlv-elected vice-president is Robert Johnson, timber'and land manager,- Weyefhaetr-ser Co., Arcata. Fred l-andenberger of Eureka was re-elected secretary-manager. New diiectors elected _for a- three-year term were Johnson, Sam Arness, 4umboldt_Fir, Inc., Ifoopa, and James Nicholson, F. M: Crawford Lumber, Inc., of Ukiah. -

J. R. Dqnt Signs $22 Million Contrqct For Two More Stqtes line Vessels

A $22 million contract has been signed in San Francisco for tvi'o l\Iarin_er-type freighters to-be built by National Steel and Shipbuilding Company of San Diego,'for States Steamshrp Company and the Federal Maritime Board. The Maritime Administration allowed the addition of $Zl.2g7 to the price of each ship to pay for national defense ieatures.

^ Present at the signing _were : J. R. Dant, president of _S1at9s Lines; Vice Admiral Raiph H. \,Vilson, Federal Maritime Board, Edgar F. Kaiser, chairman of ihe board of directors and pre_sident of National Steel and Shipbuild- ing Company; and E. A. Shurtleff, vice-president of ntyth & Company.

The two shi-ps constitute the second group of vessels to be contracted for by States Line within " v."r. A vear ago States ordered four similar cargo ships- to be built "at Newport News Shipbuilding and-Dry Dock Company.

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