n'.'West Coost Lumbermen Told Greqtest Yeqrs Aheqd

Optimism for the long-range prosperity of the West Coast lumber industry was the keynote at the 49th annual meeting of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association at Portland. March 23-24.

Lumbermen heard P. I. Prentice, editor and publisher of House and Home Magazine, forecast that , lumber would have its greatest years in the future as the nation faces up to building housing to shelter its burgeoning population.

"Wherever I go," re-elected president Eliot Jenkins told the western lumber group, "I find a renewed interest in lumber and a new appreciation of its great versatility as our nation's leading structural and home building material."

He cautioned, however, that this industry faces its