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Appointment of the first three state chairmen for al Forest Products Week for the United States and

NationCanada, "Dick" October 16-22 of this year, is announced by R. W. Scott of Vancouver. B.C.. Snark of the ljniverse Vancouver, B.C., Snark the lJniverse of HooHoo fnternational.

Clint Hallsted, president of Honolulu Wood Treating Company, Ltd., has been appointed Hawaii chairman, National Forest Products Week. Chairman for the state of Nevada will be H. E. "Hank" Norton, logging manager and forester, Feather River Lumber Company, Reno, Nevada. For Arizona, the state chairman witt 5e Walter 'f. Howard, executive secretary, Lumber Merchandisers' Association, Phoenix.

Hallsted has long been interested in the promotion of wood for the new state of Hawaii and is currently active in the reorganization of the Honolulu Hoo-Hoo club. Norton is prominent in Nevada affairs and has been a longtime member of the Nevada State Board of Forestry. Chairman Howard of Arizona will find the assignment an extension of the good job he is now doing with active wood promotion in the Phoenix Lumber Merchandisers' Association.

Duties of the state chairmen, National Forest Products Week, will be to coordinate and stimulate activities and efforts of the many interested and participating organizations and associations within their states, declares Jack S. Berry, Chairman, Hoo-Hoo International Wood Promotion Committee.

Mqx Hordwood Joins NHIA

The Max Hardwood Company, Long Beach, Calif., has applied for membership in the National Hardwood Lumber Assn., Chicago, to be considered by the Executive committee at its April meeting.

According to "The Lumber Letter" of the National Lumber Manufacturers Assn., Washington, D.C., a Chicago firm is now marketing a wallpaper product with a .003-inch covering of grained and stained walnut, birch or cherry. The paper, manufactured in Western Germany, comes in both rolls and squares.

LUMBER RUMORS & CONT'INMATIONS

The May 5 issue of The Portland Oregonian carried a report, later confirmed by the San F rancisco office, that GeorgiaPacific Corp. had purchased the Cheney Lumber Co. for a reported $8,000,000. Other current industry rumors say the FTC had temporarily held up the G-P purchase of McCloud Lumber Co. but a rumored deal there is still pending. An additional industry rumor, still unconfirmed, is that Simpson's name has entered into an International-Roddis dicker.

ROOF AT OWN RISI(

The Eugene, Ore., RegisterGuard recently reported that "Aluminum roofs, once thought to be virtually indestructible, were erected in some sections of the Northwest where fir needles fell on them and, in a matter of days, had eaten holes clear through the metal."

(LUMBER tr'UTURES'

A Lumber Futures market. similar to the Chicago "grain pits," has been proposed by Ewart A. Beveridge, former commodity economist, who claims such a market would protect a building contractor from being "squeezed" by prices between the time his bid on a job is accepted and he actually needs the lumber. John W. Clagett, president of the New York Mercantile Exchange, stated his group would set up such a market if it could be shown that contractors wanted it, and provided trading rules could be established to protect both contractors and lumber suppliers.

Aluminum Warehouses

A nationwide network of "Aluminum Center" warehouses to expand distribution of residential building aluminum products is being planned. The first was opened in Detroit last November and a second is now announced for Long Island, N. Y. The one-stop centers would serve lumber dealers and applicators with 35 standard products and, it is claimed. offer dealers "a 507o increase in sales volume."

Consolidqted lumber Co. Completes New Mill Fqcility in Exponsion

Officials of the Consolidated Lumber Co.. oicturecl here inspectirrg a recently completed installation - at the \\'ilmir.rgton, Calif., yard, plan to increase procluction for tl.reir customer-milling service r''ith tl-re brancl neu' n"ri11 facility. The pioneer Southern Califorr-ria lumber firm norv has in operation two modertr remanufacturing mills in the Harbor district to service its lumber tlealer tracle in the Soutl'rlancl and Arizona and Nevada.

"The nerv mill is an important adclitiorr to otrr oDerations," said Presiclent A. J.'Macnrillarr, "an{l to increase our daily volume by at least 33%%."

"\Ve have established a separate tlispatching office for outside cargo ancl rve believe tl.ris change will give our stalT that a<lded efficiency in hancllir.rg all orders throughout the plant," added George Hinkle, general manager.

The group of lumber executives showr.r here represents more than a centtlry of top man-years' experience in the lumber industrv at all levels.

Coqsf Counties Hoo-Hoo Meet

Coast Counties Hoo-Hoo Club 114 met Arrril 28 at l-acelli's (behind Wrigley's off l{ission streetl in Santa Cruz. Cocktails were from 6:29 to 7:29 t.nt.. u'ith the steak dinrrer served afterrvards.

Wes Collins in Retirement

\Ares Collins, r'vel1 ktrowu from his Bay Area industry, ancl for tire past 10 and general manager of Gamerstotr ct in Sarr Francisco, retirecl last rnorrth.

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