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Pubhcation ol this brinl but interesting comment on the lumber ipdustry is a kind, ol "T'inker to Eaers to Cha,nte" triple play. Longtimc Vestern lumberman Andy Dorwuan sent in thn piece, uhich has been written by Raymond, Dickey, reta.il Inmber yord ouncr in Keokuk, Ioum, and, whbh appeared, in "Ths Pinion", pfiIication ol the Ronry CIub ol Keokuk.-Eilinr.

What did people work at before Keokuk had so many industries? The big thing in late 1800 and early 1900 was the lumber business and the packing houses. There were several saw mills along the river. White pine or northern pine logs were rafted down the Mississippi from up North and sawed into lumber.

The building of the Keokuk Dam took millions of feet of lumber, mosdy all yellow pine, which came from such Southern states as Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas, Louisiana and others.

Not much yellow pine is used locally, mostly fir, larch, hemlock, spruce, cedar, redwood and ponderosa pine.

When I entered the lumber business in 1917, fir lumber was just coming into this market from the West Coast, Oregon and Washington. We received some that was soaking wet and it had to be piled, stripped and left outside in stacks for about four months. It was then put into bins. All the lumber we buy today is kiln-dried, and has been for a number of years.

To an old timer, it made quite an impression when I learned of the closing of Farley and Loetcher Millwork Company at Du. buque-the largest single millwork plant in the world. AIso the dosing of R-M Millwork Coupany at Muscatine, on December lst. R-M expressed the whole thing in a letter to me, dated October 24th. 'oDuring the past few years, in spite of strenuous efforts by management to improve our equipment and to broaden our sales, conditions within the willwork intiustry have been such that it has not been possible for R-M to make any real progress. Competition within our industry has been increasingly severe and manv orders have been taken knowing that they might not be made at a profit, but realizing that they did help in keeping the plant going. Loss of sales due to products in the building industry now being made of materials other than wood has also been a contributing factor,"

Lumber Ends Yeqr-long Tuolumne Strike

The strike of lumber mill workers which had idled more than l0/o oL Tuolumne county's (Calif.) population for nearly a year has ended with an immediate pay raise of l0 cents per hour.

Beginning April 19, 1962, the strike involved 1300 members of a lumber and sawmill workers' union.

The workers voted to accept an immediate l0 cent hourly pay increase, making the wage $2.14 per hour; plus l0 cents per hour to a pension fund starting in lJecember; plus whatever addi. tional pay increase may be agreed upon in current Central Cali. fornia mill wage negotiations.

Soles, Income Rise for Americqn Foresl Products

American Forest Products Corporation. San Francisco, and subsidiaries have reported net income of $1,64O,685, or $1.59 a rhare, for 1962. This compares to $1,203,715, or $1.17 a share, for 1961.

Sales for the year reached $79 million as compared to $7I.8 million in 1961.

The company's net worth increased to $36 million, or $34.96 a share, at the end oI 1962, from $35.4 million, or $34.37 a share a year before even though cash dividends paid were increased to $I a share from 60 cents in 1961.

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Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo-Ettes Hold Concol

Members of Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club Jfl held a closed-concat meeting on l{arch ll at the Rodger Young Auditorium.

Five kittens were initiated into the club:

Audrey Thomas, Tarter, Webster & Johnson; Catherine Sigler, Owens-Parks; Corry Fisher, Independent Building Materials Company; Virginia Fiorello, also of IBMC; and Ann Soper, Buena Park Lumber Co.

Keirh Smith Nomed Monoger of I nlerstote Contoiner Corporotion

Keith B. Smith, who has been sales manager of Interstate Container Corporation since its lounding over l0 years ago, was named manager of the company last month. Smith will remain in Red Bluff, maintaining his new offices at the mill.

In the same announcement, the company appointed Morrill 'oJoe" Allen, Jr., sales manager, with offices at the mill in Red Bluff. Allen was formerly the Southern California representative for Interstate. He has had many years experience in the plywood industry, particularly in distributor sales and plywood product promotion. Interstate notes that his knowledge and understand' ing o{ plywood problems, especially at the distribution level, should prove most help' ful to Interstate customers.

Allen will be replaced in Southern Calilornia by A. E. Hagen who will be responrible for all of the companyos sale of sheatJr' ing, container grade and floor panel prod' ructs in the area. He will work closely with the distributors in coordinating direct job shipments made from the mill.

Hagen is well known in the Southern California area from his l0 years' experience with Evans Products Company, and his association with Davidson Western Plvrvood Company.