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Good neighbor relations: WOVEN WOOD panels look equally elegant on both sides. The rich textured fence makes a handsome backdrop for shrubs and flowers.

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Sacramento Club 109 Hears of Hoo- Hoo's New Look

qACRAME\TO HOO-HOO CLUB r09. \-/ held its se, ond general meeling of thc ne\!. year in Februarl' with prcxy Wayne Mercer presiding over the scssion.

Purpose of the dinner program was twofold with AI Bell. vice-president of HooHoo International, t'xplaining the "New Look of Hoo-Hoo," its present functions and future plans, and Harold Tejes following this discussion period with a talk and new film on the new American Plywood Association,

Both APA and the International Order have undergone considerable internal chanses in recent months with the aim of bettei representing their respective memberships in today's ever increasingly competitive business climate.

€) Chuck Cecchettini of Capital Lumber, Florin Lum' ber's Steve Persie, Mick Smolich of Lumber Dealers and Charlie Tyler of Builders Supply. (3) Hoo-Hoo lnternational Vice President Al Bell with Club 109's president

Redwood Logging Conference

Robert H. Barrett, Twin Harbors Lumber Co. logging manager, Arcata, has been elected president of the Redwood Region Logging Conference. Al Rueger of F: M. Crawford Lumber in Ukiah, was elected vice-president and Fred Landenberger of Eureka was re-elected secretary-manager.

Two men were elected to three year terms on the conference board of directors: John Swelley, Masonite Corp., Ukiah, and C. J. Hopkins, Northern California Log Scaling and Grading Bureau, Arcata.

- The 1966 conference will be held in Eureka on March l0-ll with a heavy equipment show. General conference policy is to have an equipment show once every three to four years,

Recognition of the public interest in the preservation of oldgrowth redwood was outlined in a policy statement relative to state and national redwood parks. The conference took no position favoring either state or national administration of redwood parks, but did recognize that outstanding examples of superlative groves should be preserved in the public interest. The conference commended the efforts of the Save-the-Redwoods League in the establishment of over fO0,000 acres of redwood state parks. Additions to redwood parks should be limited to stands of superlative educational inspirational qualities and so situated as to be easily accessible to the public, the conference statement emphasized.

Visitor facilities within old growth redwood parks should be limited to rninimum trails, nature walks, and simple sanitary structures, the conference statement outlined, while camping facilities within the old growth groves were described as impairing the aesthetic and inspirational qualities of the groves and subjecting the public to danger from falling heavy limbs.

The conference redwood statement also refuted the charge that the redwood forests are being destroyed. It was acknowledged that old growth timber was being harvested, but it was empha. sized that modern management left redwood lands in good productive condition and that new crops of redwood were growing back on cutover lands.

The RRLC also deplored the tactics of some conservation groups in directing publicity on redwood preservation to the general public without first making an effort to discuss preservation needs with industry.

In other resolutions the conference commended the American Forestry Association for its recently completed study of the need for establishing state and national redwood parks. The AFA report recommended national status for Humboldt Redwoods state park. (See page four of this issue for their full plan.)

The conlerence also commended the many organizations, public and private, that offered assistance to redwood region flood victims last December. Federal and state legislation and appropriaations were urged for flood control on rivers and streams in the north coast region.

Housing Stqrts Sog

Home building in 1965 was off to a shaky beginning. January housing starts declined to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 1,487,000 units-seven percent below December and 13 percent below the year-earlier pace. The January figures bore out widespread predictions in the final months oI 1964 that home building would open the new year on a downward trend.

More hopeful was a report on January building permits issued by 12,000 communities. At a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 1,317,000 unitso January permits were 12 p€rcent abweDecember and only slightly below the pace for January a year ago. Over the years, building permit figures have proven one of the best barometers of future housing trends,