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lumber Trqde Mission to Fqr Eqst

A trade association-sponsored group of sevan lumbermen from the Douglas fir producing region of the West Coast has left for a monthJong Trade Mission to Australia and Japan.

G. Cleveland Edgett, executive vice president of West Coast Lumbermen's Association, who is leading the mission, said the group is composed of both sales specialists and production people. Visiting with lumber interests in Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne, Australia, and Tokyo and Osaka, Japan, the group will observe and discuss how West Coast lumber products are used in the two countries with the hopes of promoting new markets.

Edgett said the group will meet with lumber specifiers, importers, agents and government officials and will study port fa. cilities, fabricating and manufacturing plants as well as construction sites on the trip.

Included in the group besides Edgett will be Julian Cheatham, vice president and William H. Schlauch, manager, export department, both of Georgia-Pacific Corp., Portland; Richard P. Schnei der, lumber sales service-export, Weyerhaeuser Co., Tacoma; Strayer E. Pattman, sales manager, Bohemia Lumber Co., Inc., Culp Creek, Oregon; and William J. Cary, Jr., who will act as secretary to the mission"

Dry Kiln Clubs Convening

Plant tours, technical sessions and social events will be featured at the seventeenth annual meetinq of the Western Dry Kiln Clubs, May 14 and 15. Location is t"he Cosmopolitan Hotel in Portland and West Coast Dry Kiln Association members have urged anyone interested in drying to attend.

Building codes, redwood seasoning, conventional and high drying temperatures, shrinkage and dimensional stabilized woods are among topics to be covered at the technical sessions. Noted industry and educational figures will be speaking to the group during the course of the meetines.

Hoo-Hoo-Ette Convention

The annual convention of the Hoo-Hoo-Ette clubs is being held this year in Redding, California, May 15-16. Convention headquarters will be at the Rite Spot and accommodations are set for the Town House, Club No. 7 members will greet incoming members and guests as they arrive Friday afternoon. A welcoming cocktail party is scheduled for that evening.

U.S. Plywood has offered a night tour of their sawmill, NovaPly and plywood plants. The first meeting of the gathering will be held Saturday morning with the last event of the convocation to be the Sunday brunch.

More Associotion Mergers Seen

More mergers and more coordination of functions among forest products associations has been predicted by James R. Turnbull, excutive vice president of the American Plywood Association, in a speech before the National Association of Lumber Salesmen.

Turnbullo who took over as chief executive of the plywood association during a period of crisis in 1962, said l7 members had resigned before staff reorganization, some realignments of functions, and a dues reduction restored the association to normal. When proposals to merge West Coast Lumbermen's Assn. and Western Pine Assn. were acted on. Turnbull was 'oborrowed" to put the merger into efiect.

"That was another wonderful source of rumors," he said. "The head of the plywood association was suddenly the head of the new lumber association."