Tree Plqnting Progrom Precedes Sierro-Cosc ode Logging Conference

A S u prelude to the big Sierra'Cascade n Logging Conference. held February II-I3 in Sacramento, leaders of California's forest products industry met to plant the first trees on the site of the new California Exposition & Fair. Public officials and forest industry leaders each planted a tree, resulting in a 60 tree planting of the commercial species of California.

This "first tree-planting," contributed by the forest products industry, was, in fact, the frrst earth to be turned on the state's l0O0 acre exposition and fair in the heart of urban Sacramento. The project, a multimillion dollar development' will begin soon with completion set for 1968 or 1969. Its planners proclaim it will be "the finest fair and exposition in the world."

Hoo-Hoo International was well represented at the ceremonies. On hand to participate and plant first trees were these leaders of the lumbermen's {raternal order: Al Bell, Hobbs-Wall Lumber Co., San Francisco, the international order's vice Snark of the Universe; C. D. LeMaster, Sacramento. Seer of the House of Ancients; and Wayne R. Mercer, president, Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club. C. D' LeMaster was founder of Forest Products Day at the California State Fair.

The ceremonY. under Warren A. Carleton, American Forest Products Corp', Mar' tell, Calif., president of the sponsoring Sierra-Cascade Logging Conference, was opened by DeWitt Nelson, state director ol conservation" Albert T' Hildman, gen' f0RESI eral manager, Michigart-California Lumber Company, Camino, Calif., representing the pine area, and Philip Farnsworth, execuiive vice president, California Redwood Association, representing the redwood re' gion, made the presentation. Clarence Azevedo, Sacramento, chairman of the State Fair and Exposition executive committee, accepted the trees on behalf of the state, and using a gilded inscribed shovel, planted the first tree.

Lousy Loggers," composed of management personnel of the Pacific Coast timber in' dustry.

The l6th annual Sierra'Cascade Iogging Conferenceo beamed a spotlight on the working logger and the job of logging. More than 1200 loggers, lumbermen and associates of California and southern Oregon assembled at the California State Fair Grounds for conference sessions and the accompanying Logging Equipment Show.

Alfred T. Hildman of Camino, representing the pine industry and Philip Farnsworth of San Francisco, representing the red' wood industry. Three leaders of Hoo'Hoo lnternational bhoto at risht) also took an active part in the treedlantins ceiemonv. Thev were (left to righ0 C. D. LeMastEr, seer of the-House of Ancients; Wayne Mercer, president of the Sacramento Hoo'Hoo dlub and Al Bell, vice snark of the universe.

Music for the occasion was provided by the famed loggers band, "Lausmann's

RAY CRAi{E. oresident and general manager of Crane Mills. Cornine, Calif., newly-elected president of the Sierrb-CascadE Logging Conference. He is the first iecond-seneration --preiident of the logging conference. iiis father. the late Harold Crane, was the group's president in its founding year, 1949'50.

President Warren Carleton presided over the three-day conference.

The program, headed bY H. F. o'AndY" Anderes, Sequoia Forest Industries, Di' nuba, Calif., carried the theme, o'Choppers to Cheeseblocks-the Mechanics of Iog' ging." Its aim, Anderes explained, -was lt9 get dght into the details of doing the job." - Foi shop foreman and those responsible for logging equipment, the conference pre' sented a new feature, "Equipment Clinics." The clinics, manned by specialists' ran simultaneously with regular sessions.

A broad range of logging machinerY was displayed at the conference site with all but the largest equipment under cover in a large fairgrounds building.

Social events, including Sawdust Bowl Receptions, and Ladies' D"y activities, centered at the Hotel El Dorado, conference headquarters.

Keynote speaker on the opening morn' ing was a 'West Coast leader of the constiuction industry, Charles R. Graff, the 1964 president of the Northern and Central California Chapter, Associated General Contractors Inc. He is manager and vice president of the western division of Ray' mond International.

Invited to give his views of the forest products industry as an outsider, Graff said, o'Your industry must bear the burden of past mistakes and shortsighted policies

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HE NEW STOCKTON BOX Company millwork and lumber remanufacturing plant started up operations in early 1964. Construction had begun in July 1963.

Every device and method in modernday woodworking technique was reviewed and considered before final plans were okayed and construction began. Back of this new $1,850,000 ultra-modern plant lies a story-a story based on the policy o{ the founders-service to the customer.

When you see the new Stockton Plant and the rest of the entire Stockton Box complex it is hard to realize that all of this is the result of a humble start and the foresight and courage of three men. Two of these men were Horace Tarter and Bert Webster who believed that their experience