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Gronts Pcss, Oregon

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EL MONTE, CALIFORNIA

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714 WesrOlympic Blvd., los Angeles

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Northwest Lumber Exports Decline

Seattle-Waterborne lumber exports from Pacific Northwest ports in British Columbia Puget Sound, GraysWillapa harbor, Columbia River a.nd Oregon coast during April totaled 96.6 million board feet, compared u,ith 139..1 million board feet for April, 1947 , Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau's figures show.

Total waterborne exports for the first four months of 1948 were 418.8 million board feet, compared rvith 533.1 million feet for the corresponding period of last year.

Waterborne lumber shipments from Oregon and Washington ports to U. S. destinations totaled 92.4 million feet in April, compared rvith 64.3 million in April, 1947. Of the April 1948 total, 53.4 million rvas from Oregon ports and the rest from Washington.

Continuing a trend begun in February of this year, British Columbia shipped 15.8 million feet to U. S. destinations during April, including 12.6 million to Atlantic coast and 2.6 million to California, as against no shipments for April of last year.

British Columbia exported 67.2 million board feet during April-more than two-thirds of the month's total exports from the Pacific Northwest-compared with 87.2 million in April, 1947. The exports brought B. C.'s total for the first four months of 1948 to 2ffi.4 million feet, as against 356.2 million for the like period of last year.

Of B. C.'s April, 1948 exports, United Kingdom receivecl 44 million feet; Australia 4.1 million, Africa 8, China 3.5 and Egypt, Palestine and Arabia, 1.9.

Of Washington and Oregon's domestic shipments, 52.3 million lvent to the Atlantic coast, 32.3 to California ancl 1.9 to Hau'aiian Islands.

Improvement Progrqm

As a part of the improvement program started about the first of the year, A. K. Wilson Lumber Company, Compton, Calif., has installed a new flood light system,,costing around $50,000, and consisting of sixty poles with four lights suspended Trom each pole.

Other items in the program include the black-topping of ten acres of the yard, and the covering of another tu,ent-v*five acres rvith decomposed granite.

They are also installing a new system of dry kilns, designed by Mr. Wilson and Cross Engineering Co. of Los Angeles. This system should be in operation verv shortly.

Los Angeleg Hoo-Hoo Meeting

A large crowd attended the luncheon meeting of the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club at the Nikabob Cafe, Los Angeles, Tuesday, June 8. President Paul Orban presided. Supreme Junior Hoo-Hoo Roy Stanton talked on Hoo-Hoo activities in his jurisdiction, Dee Essley, general chairman of the Annual Convention Committee, reported that plans are now rvell under rvay for the convention which rvill be held in Los Angeles Septem,ber 6-9.

The speaker of the day rvas Col. Benjamin S. Nlesick, Ordance Department of the U. S. Army, and director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, rvho gave an interesting and instructive talk on Rocket Bombs and Guided Missiles. His talk rvas illustrated by motion pictures. Russell Gheen introduced the speaker.

Fire At Oregon Mill

Tu'o dry kilns and an estimatecl 1,300,000 feet of kilndried lumber were destroyed by fire at the mill of the Roseburg Lumber Co., Roseburg, Oregon, May 22. The loss rvas estimated at more than $400.000.

The Lumber Industry of Finland

A recent article in the Bank of Finland Monthly Bulletin, discussing industrial progress since the war, points out that despite the emergence of metal rvorking as a major factor in the home econorny, the forest industries will always provide the bulk of Finnish exports. The pre-'r,r'ar volume, it says, can never be reached again as the supply of raw material is smaller now. But there are good reasons for expecting a qualitative development, viz., an increased output of the better kinds of goods, and more intensive utilization of residues. The prefabricated house industry which first appeared during the recent war, norv absorbs 10 per cent of the output of the sawmills, and several large plants for the manufacture of rvood-waste boards are already operating or under construction. The expansion of rayon and artificial rvool manufacturing. is another typical instance. A qualitative improvement is necessary in order to meet competition from other countries with a welldeveloped forest industry. Tl-ris, however, cannot be attained without modernising and extending the technical equipment, the renewal of which was neglected for obvious reasons during the war. To a certain extent reconstruction is facilitated by the fact that part of the loan Finland received from America in the beginning of 1947 lvas expressly reserved for the purchase of machinery and requisites for the forest industries.

The number of workers in the wood industry rvas approximately 53,500 in 1938. In 7944 it fell to 35,000, and $ras estimated at 41,500 in 1946.

Strike Settlement Mqde

Settlement of the last two of 11 C. I. O. boommen strikes has brought to a conclusion a controversy which has hampered lumber production in the Pacific Northwest since April 3. Workers at Seattle and Tacoma voted to accept a 12.5 cents hourly increase, the same rate which employers offered before the strike. This boosts hourly minimum pay to $1.45.

Band Bescrw Added to Arcctc Mill

The Emmerson & Berg Lumber Company, with mill at Arcata, California, is adding a band resaw to its equipment, which will give the plant a capacity of 75,000 feet daily.