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Commerce Secretory Hodges Proises Weslern Mill Men

Secretary of Commerce Luther H. Hodges paid tribute to the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, during a region' rvide Modernization Conference held at Pordand State Colleee for what he termed their self-help p.og.u*..

Secretary Hodges singled out the association's lumber trade mission to Europe last summer, which has stimulated sales o{ West Coast lumber to Europe as an example o{ self-help programs by an industry. He said he was hopeful that WCLA would send a similar trade mission to Japan and Australia this year to pep up buying o{ W'est Coast lumber in those countries.

He was strong in his commendation of the west coast lumber industry for another phase of the self-help program, which he de{ined as the modernization of their plants and efforts to develop a uniform and reliable product so they can remain competitive in the markets of this country and the world.

Nils B. Hult, president of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, in one o{ the key addresse-" at the modernization conference, said his region's forest products industry has spent one billion dollars in plant modernization in the past five years.

Hult said the investment of one billion dollars in new plants to make all sorts of neu' products out of wood, shows clearly what is happening to the old sawmill business.

Hult said that one of the greatest utilization programs in the lumber industry's history has been the recapture of once-waste material, the pulp chips at sawmills and plywood plants which now total 4 million tons a year, worth $35 million. This wood once went up in smoke in wigwam burners {or lack of a market.

Dowmon Disfributor Announced

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Plywood Associotion loqns Execulive To Lumber Group

The American Plywood Association has granted its chief executives a leave of absence to work with the newly-formed Western Wood Products Association, an organization created from a merger of 'W'estern Pine Association and West Coast Lumbermen's Association.

James R. Turnbull, executive vice president of the plywood association, will serve as chief executive of the lumber group during its first months of operation. Jackson Beaman, plywood association president, said the agreement was for a 90-dayperiod.

Beaman said the request for Turnbull's services was made by John S. Richards,

WPA president, and Nils B. Hult, president of WCLA, who met with the plywood association's trustees.

Richards said Turnbull was asked to take on the assignment because o'we think he is the top man in the industry on organization and effective programming." Turnbull was a professional business.consultant before joining the plywood association, specializing in management problems.

At the end of the leave of absence, Turnbull will return to his duties as executive vice president of American Plywood Association.

Beaman also is chairman of the Western Wood Products Study Committee, formed to determine the feasibility of coordinating activities of all forest products associations, but he said the loan of Turnbull is not "a roundabout way of merging the plywood association with the lumber associations." Beaman's committee recommended the merger of WPA and WCL,\ but specifi. cally left the plywood association out of the merged organization, which has its headquarters in Portland.

Richards said furnbull's major assignments with the new lumber association would be to realign the combined stafis; to provide the best possible service to both large and small members of the combined organization, and to make the industry more sensitive and responsive to changes in its major markets.

Nlma Proposats

(Continued lrom Page 10) manufacturing operations do not foster economic development, the lumber industry urges that these elements be eliminated from the program."

The resolutions said the lumber industry supports these elements of the Appalachian Program: o'2. Basic product research which can be used by the forest industry to develop a broader employment base.

"1. Multiple,use public road systems to encourage economic development.

'03. Intensification of national forest management, including sale of the allowable cut and road and recreational development, so that national forests contribute their full share to the economy of the area.

"4. State educational programs to enable residents of depressed areas to take advantage of improved employment opportunities."

Other Resotutions

(l) Directed the stafi of the association to 'ocanvass forest-based industry organizations to determine the extent of interest, active support and possible financial assistance for a Congress of Forest Industries, to be held in Washington, D.C., about May 1966."

(2) Authorized the establishment of a "Public Affairs Council'o oI the lumber industry, one purpose of which will be to conduct an annual Public Affairs Conference in Washington, D.C., to improve liaison between lumbermen and Congress.

Meanwhile, the lumber industry's National Wood Promotion Committee, charged with administration of the National Wood Promotion Program, took several actions designed to bolster that activity. Resolutions approved by the Committee:

(l) Authorized the appointment of a special 'oProduct Preference Seal Committee" to consider various proposals for identifying sponsors of national and regional

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