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NEDWOODDOUGI.AS FINRED CEDAR SIINIGI.ESDOUGTAS FM PIUNG POIYDEROSA AND SUGAR PINE

2832 Windsor DriveP. O. Box 240

AI.AMEDA, CALIFORNIA

Telephone Lcrkehurst 2-27 54

Approves Contract for New Sawmill

Eugene, Ore.-Associated Plywood Mills, Inc., has completed plans and approved contracts for a $500,000 sawmill at Roseburg, Ore. Capacity will be 100,000 board feet daily.

The plant will be located on property adjacent to where the firm has a 16-acre log pond. Ample room also is provided for a projected plywood plant. Logs will come from the company's stand of more than 25,000 acres of virgin timber.

At the annual meeting here, President Leonard Nystrom told stockholders that additional ner,v equipment recently was installed at plants at Eugene and Willamina (Ore.), which will increase the combined annual production of Douglas fir plywood to 175 million square feet annually.

New officers of the corporation are Nystrom, president and board chairman; E. S. Wentjar, vice president; Lynn Norman, secretary; Miles E. Batchelor, treasurer, and Wallace O. Greig, comptroller.

Norem Ottosen is sales manager and Henry G. Champeaux is manager of logging and timber departments.

Plywood Industry Expcnsion in Calilornia

Pacific Northwest plywood industry expansion in California for processing of redwood is indicated by a M. & M. Woodworking Co. stock offering. The company operates plywood and door mills in Washington and Oregon. The new stock issue is expected to raise about $5 million, part of which rvould be used to finance a $1.5 million mill at Eureka, Calif., to produce plywood from California redwood. Most of the stock issue, however, would go for control of Douglas fir stands in Oregon.

Fern Trucking Company

Offers Combined Service Of:

Trucking

Ccrr Unlocding

Pool Car Distribution

Sorting

Sticking lor Air Drying

Storing oI Any Quaatity of Forest koducts

Ten Hecrvy Duty Trucks cmd Trcrilers

Fourteen 3-Axle AJI Purpose Army Lurnber Truclcs

Seven 16,000 lb. Lilt Trucks

Twenty-Seven Acres Pcrved Lcmd at Two Locctions

Seryed by L A. Iunction Railrocd

Shed Spcce for Two Million Bocrrd Feet

Spur Trcrck to Accomsrodqte Thirty Railrocd Ccrrs

Bqcked by Twenty-two yccrs oI Experience in Hcmdling Lumber cnd Forest Products

This Compcny Is Owned curd Opercted by FERN-crrdo f. Negri

4550 Mcywood Ave., Los Angeles ll

IEfferson 7261

So. Pine Industry Demands Forest Worker Exemption from Wrge - hour Act

Washington, D. C., April 27, l948-Testifying today in behalf of the Southern Pine industry, General Joseph B. Fraser of Hinesville, Georgia, told a subcommittee of the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee that the Wage-Hour Law is based on a false philosophy, and that this had been pointed out time and again to Congress by eminently qualified individuals and groups.

"Most people in the Southern Pine industry," General Fraser said, "regard the Wage-Hour Law as useless; it is not needed in good times, and it won't work in bad times."

If Congress retains the Wage-Hour Law, it should exempt employees engaged in logging from overtime requirements of the law, the southern lumber spokesman declared. He promised there would be an immediate effect in the form of more production, and "this is certainly a desirable objective, in the face of the critical housing shortage with which Congress has concerned itself."

In passing the Wage-Hour Law in 1938, Congress realized the kinship between logging and agriculture by providing an exemption, which has been limited by the WageHour Administrator, the committee was told. Logging is entirely dependent upon the weather, the statement continued, and when weather is favorable long hours must be worked. The overtime penalty in this case has not spread employment; instead "it runs up production costs, or it discourages maximum production, or it restrains workers from making more money during the period they can do sd.tt

Other Southern Pine industry recommendations for amending the Wage-Hour Law, if it is retained by Congress, were that the minimum wage should not be disturbed, or that wage minima based on geography, cost of living, and industry differences should be established; that overtime payments should be abolished; and that executive and supervisory employees should be exempted from coverage of the Act.

Charlie Murray, representative in Arcata, Calif. of Pacific Forest Products, Inc., Oakland, visited the company's head office recently, and attended the Reveille of Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39, held at the Claremont Hotel, Berkeley.

Stockion San Jose Fresno

Northwest Tree Farms

Northwest Tree Farms have jumped9/o in acreage lvith request for certification of another 219,458 acres approved by the joint committee on forest conservation in Portland. The joint committee is composed of the Pacific Northlvest Loggers Association and the West Coast Lumbermen's Association.

The nern'farms bring the total in Oregon and Washington to 1,744,151 acres, Coryden Wagner, Tacoma, chairman of the committee, reports.

Of the eight new farms, four are owned by the St. Helens Pulp & Paper Co., St. Helens, Ore., all in northrvestern Oregon and southwestern Washington. Largest, however, is the 155,205-acre Calapooys farm of Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. in the Eugene, Ore., area.

F"ruonal Jt{ewt

John L. Todd, president of Western Door & Sash Co., Oakland, returned recently from spending several months in Palm Springs. In driving home he made a leisurely trip through the San Joaquin Valley, where he called on the trade and renewed many old friendships.

Cliff Addison, sales manager of Addison & Sons Co., Eureka, Calif., attended the annual Reveille Claremont Hotel, Berkeley, April 23.