Top Speakers Address Logging Conference

Highlight of the 13th annual SierraCascade Logging Conference held in Redding, February 15 and 16, was an address by former Vice President Richard M. Nixon to the more than 800 assembled loggers, lumbermen and foresters,

The conference program, headed by Dean Solinsky of Solinsky and Solinsky timber consultants, San Francisco, featured the appropriate theme, "Out of the Stew in '62." In a keynote talk, titled "A Report from the Cookhouse," Prof. John A. Zivnuska, of the University of California gave a frank and probing analysis of general conditions of the forest products industry.

Dave Rogers, Big Bear Timber Company, Redlands, California, President of the conference, wielded the gavel during the two day meeting, as problems of lumber and logging were presented and discussed-road construction, large vs small logging sides, equipment maintenance, the future of forest utilization.

JACK BERRY

Elected President of the Sierra-Cascade Logging Conference for the coming year was Jack S. Berry, Sacramento lvholesale lumberman. Vince Bosquet, logging manager of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company of Klamath Falls, Oregon, was elected

Vice President and Lloyd D. Wambold of Redding, Calif. was re-elected secretary treasurer.

New directors elected were Robert Griffith. The McClo,ud River Lumber Co., McCloud, Calif.; Lem Hasting,

Lumber Company, An-

Paul Bunyon Lumber derson, Calif. ; and Dale Prentice, derson, derson, Lalll. ; ano lJale rrenf,lce, Southern Oregon Conservation and Tree Farm Assoc. of Medford, Ore.

Ite-elected directors were: George Flanagan, Elk Lumber Co., Medford, Ore.; Jim Fisher, J. W. Fisher Logging Co., Redding, Calif.; Dan Johnson, Fruitgrowers Supply, Susanville, Calif.; Warren Carlton, Winton Lumber Co., Martell, Calif.; Charles Arrnent, Diamond-National Corp., Red Bluff, Calif.; Loren Hollenbeak, L. K. Hollenbeak Logging Co., Hayfork, Calif.; Dave Williams, LJ.S. Plywood Corp., Redding, Calif.; and Ted Mcl\{ahon, Kimberly Clark Corp., Anderson, Calif.

The 1963 conference site will again be Redding.