W. F. l. A. Meets At Vlctoria, B. C.

Portland, Ore.- Ed Kellenberger, olvner of the Kell Lumber Co. and Round Top Logging CompanY, Srveet Home, Oregon, was elected president of Western Forest Industries Association at the annual meeting held in Victoria, B. C., March G8. Ray Swanson of Swanson Brothers Lumber Co., Noti, Oregon and John Harris, Redding Forest Products, Redding, California, \\'ere named vicepresidents. George E. Owen of Dick Orven Lumber Co., Eugene, Oregon, was chosen secretary-treasurer.

More than 100 members and guests attended the meeting of the association rvhich included a tour by rail, bus and steamship to Victoria, B. C., where business sessions were held on Saturday. The program included talks on applied research in forest products, lumber recovery from various grades of logs, mechanization to lou'er production costs, and trends in modern small sawmills- A number of motion pictures wqle shown, including "The Enemy is Firc" produced by the Washington and Oregon Forest Fire Association, a film of salvage operations of the Valsetz Lumber Co., Valsetz, Oregon, and others on gang sawmills and portable barkers shown by the Dominion Bridge Co. Ltd. of Vancouver, B. C.

Daniel L. Goldy, Regional Director,. Bureau of Employment Security, U. S. Department of Labor was the speaker at the annual dinner Saturday night in the Empress Hotel.

A number of resolutions were adopted by the board cf directors of the Association at their first meeting Sunday. Influence of current conditions is reflected in one resolution which pointed out that increased stumPage prices and higher rvage rates have greatly added to the cost of lumber production until the latter has reached a point where the public is strongly resisting' and called on members of the organization to employ everv means to reduci rather than increase costs.

One urged the Washington State legislature to aPpropriate funds for continued operation of the Washington Institute of Forest Products which the board felt was of immense value to the industry composed largely of firms too small to undertake their own research program.

The association also endorsed the Keep Green program and urged its members to supPort their state Keep Green organizations.

Another resolution urged Congress to amend the mining law of 1872 so as to seParate surface from subsurface rights and permit public land management agencies to administer surface rights on mining claims in the same manner they do other public lands except that miners shall have free access to such of the surface resources as are necessary to carry on their operations.

The Congress was requested to appropriate sufficient funds, already authorized, to bring the Forest Survey up-to-date as soon as possible.