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of the club, or send your u'ritten pledge to be paid over a period of time," he continued.

F-ollon,ing the serious side of the mceting, members of FIoo-IJtio enjoyed an outstanding shou' presented by Walter Trask and Associates. Eddie l3artell, popular M.C. ancl comedian, headed the tu.o-hour performance. He was ably assisted lty trl,o beautiful young ladies, clancer Eva f'arec and singer Flelene Stanton. The local Paul Bunyans were really enthusiastic about this one ancl-if you rnissed itit u.as your loss. The entertainment committee has promised more oi the same for future club meetings.

Forty-nine rugged gcilfers participated in the sports event of tlle day. Harold Cole of Bohnhoff l-umbcr Co. shot a 111 for his first time out on any golf c()ursc. Tl're lon'-gross rvinner rvas George Freclrickson lvith a 77. In the first flight the Califcirnia I-umber Merchant trophy rvas rvon by

Hoo-Hoo Booth qt Convention

Club 2 Snark Jim Forgie ann()unces that Los Arrgeles Hoo-Hoo rvill man a l>ooth :rt the Soutlrern California Retail I-umber Assn. conventitin at the Ambassador April l7-19 and be readv to ans\\rer itll cluestions and offer enrollment in this fall's groningl_r' popular Education:11 course oI the ]ietail l.rrmber Training Institute, u,hich u'ill be conrluctecl for l<.,c:rl lumbermen in cooper:rtion u-ith thc SCIIl,A. .\ featured speaker cluring thc couvention sessior.rs ri-ill be: young Dr. \\'renclell Closc, u'ho is cotrtlucting the current highly successful c()urse irr ltir-ersicle u-hich has been packed eerch Nfon<lay night since it started in Janu:rry arrd already has :r s-:riting list for next fall.

Nlike Xlurphy. u'ith the first lon' net, and the secon(l low net u'ent to ]Jrucc Guruer. He u'alked off rvith the Bohnhoff I-umber Cor.r.rpany cnp. In the second flight. -fim Forgie, popul:rr Sn:rrk rif the club, l'as first lorr' net ancl u,on tlre \\reyerhaeuser cup. Thomas Philips lr,as seconcl lorr- ttct and receir-ed the T. X{. Cobb an'ard. C. J. Vcrnorr rvas tltc golfer guest oi the day and took home a pair oi se:tt covcrs for his car, u'hile the Atlas I-umlrer Conrpar.ry trolth"' ior the retailer prize u'as 's'on by T)avc Hill.

Dick LaFranchi, hea<l uran in Los Angclcs for I'acillc l-orest Products, Inc., u':rs :rn-zirrlccl the blind lrogey prize r,vhich amounted to $20. He immediately donatecl the mr-,ney to the LeRoy Boys' Home in aclclition to his previous contribution. This genercius gesturc \\'as trull appreciated by all concerned.

Nllembers of the committee for the I-eliov Bo1-s' I{rlme u'oodn'orking shop inclu<le l)ee lrssley, Ro)' Stantor-r, Sr., Rex Oxrird, l-arry Weilancl, Jerrv Esslel-, Jin-r Fc,rgie, Chuck Leurber and Ole May. 'fo keep this project alive ancl help it on the n,ay to a successfnl conclusion. all members arc urged to cont:rct any of tl'rese Cats and get lorrr clonation in the kitty.

Hor.rorable nrerrtion must lre made for the e1lort arrcl time cler'oted l;v I-arrv \\Ieiland and Rex Oxford. rvho rnacle thc color motion pictures of the LeRoy lloys' Ifonrc, n,hich n'ere shou'n to the members present. These pictures <lepicted the everl'dav life at the honre ancl u,ere explained in cletail by Superintenderrt Kennedr'. All Hoo-Htx) members are inr.ited to visit the Home :rnvtinre u,hen in the I-aVerne area.

Western Pine Timber Volumes, Lumber Consumption qnd Production Hir All-Time Highs, Annuol WPA Meeting ls Told

San Francisco-The Western Pine region produced more lumber, shipped more lumber and discovered it had more standing sawtimber in 1955 than ever before, members of the Western Pine Association were told at their annual meeting here early in March. At the same time, the 4O0mill lumber trade group increased its national advertising and promotion budget 20/o and decided to build its promotion program for the coming year around a color magazine advertising campaign. The budget for research was uppecl ro%.

Montana Mill Operator A. L. Helmer, president of the association, reported the record production of 8.7 billion board feet of lumber in 1955, almost 800 million feet more than the previous high, reached in 1954. Shipments of about 8.6 billion feet, enough to load 275,W railroad freight cars, topped the previous record in that category by about the same margin.

It was the first time in the Z\-year history of the Western Pine Association that either production or shipments had exceeded the B-billion-foot mark, Mr. Helmer reported.

President Helmer, quoting from the recently announced Timber Resource Review of the U.S. Forest Service, pointed to a Western Pine region sawtimber backlog of. 620 billion board feet. "This is 1,lO billion feot more than we had in 1945 in the last previous report by the Forest Service," he said. "ft's enough timber to rebuild every house in America, with quite a lumber pile left over."

He credited better inventory methods, increased growth of new timber crops, and progress in utilization among the reasons for the sharp gain in timber resources during a 10year period when about 70 billion feet of lumber $ras produced in the 12-state Western Pine region.

The association approved rvritten standards for finger jointing of \Mestern Pine moulding and otl.rer lumber products and ordered these standards incorporated in the grading rule book. A newly appointed moulding committee held its first meeting under chairmanship of Enoch Israelson, Dorris Lumber & Moulding Co., Sacramento, Calif. This is to be a standing committee of the association.

A. T. Hildman, of Camino, Calif., chairman of the regionwide forest conservation committee, reported the Western Pine Tree Farm program gained substantially during 1955. There are now more than 80O Tree Farms in the region and they total nearly 6,000,000 acres. Every one of the 12 states has certified Tree Farms, with Idaho's 417 o:ut in front numerically. Hildman also reported nearly 1,000 professional foresters are now employed by industries in the region. California alone has about 360 at u'ork in the forest industries. he said.

W. E. Griffee, assistant secretary-manager of the association, forecast another good year for building and the lumber industry, "even though it may not set new records.t' He said indications are there will be a 5/, increase over 1955 in the general construction level, with much of the increase

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Texos Shows Greqtest Stqte lncreose in Distribution of Redwood Shipmenls

Table No. 1

The annual distribution report of the California Redwood lowed by Ohio anci Illinois. The increase into these three Association shows a total 1955 increase of 59 million feet states accounted for 50/o of the total increase east of the over 1954. Actually this increase is somewhat fictitious Rockies. These three states were also the three top states due to the fact that the reporting mills purchased two oper- in volume of shipments, accounting for 3B/o of total shipating sawmills so that their production is included in 1955, ments east of the Rockies. and most of it was excluded in 1954. California, accounted The increase in Texas has been as follows: L952for 10 million feet of the increase; states east of the Rockies, 26,956,000 feet; 1953-30,174,000; 1954-35,812,000, and 44 million feet; and the balance was mostly in Rocky Moun- 1955-44,362,000 feet. tain states and U. S. Qffshore. Western States showed a Table No. 1 above shou's the distribution to the regior.rs slight decrease. 6O/o ol the increase east of the Rocky used for the Monthly Mill Report. For 1955, two sets of Mountains went to the Central and Lower Mississippi figures are shorvn, one taken from the Monthly Mill Report regions, the same regions which showed the largest in- and the otl.rer taken from the Distribution by States report. creases in 1954. As has always been the case, there are differences in the

The greatest state increase was shown by Texas, fol-

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