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Report on Redwood Production

A four-month rise in redwood production was cut short in April when 2.3 million fewer board feet were produced than in the previous month. Total production for the first four months of the year lagged 22.4 per cent behind the corresponding period of 1960.

Shipments increased 6.8 per cent during April, however, and more new orders were received than in any month since Mav. 1959.

The 11'major redwood mills reporting to the California Redwood Association received orders for 54 milliorr board feet during April, eight per cent more than in March and 10 per cent more than April 1960. April's increase in new orders brought the total of orders received since the beginning of the year to within 1.1 million board feet of the corresponding period of 1960. Orders on hand April 30 rose 5.8 per cent to 81.4 million board feet, highest since March, 1960.

Production fell to 44 million board feet, five per cent lower than the March total and 5.6 per cent lower than April, 1960. Shipments rose to 49 million square feet, compared to 46 million in March and 46.8 million in April of 1960. Redwood orders on hand totaled 81.4 million board feet, compared to 77 million board feet in March and 80.1 million in April, 1960.

Redwood stocks on hand dropped below 400 million board feet for the first time since 1959. The 397.6 million boarcl feet on hand compared with 413.6 million board feet on hand April 30, 1960.

AITC Elects New Officers

At its 9th Annual Meeting last week in Las Vegas, Nevada, the Amercian Institute of Timber Construcfion elected ner,v officers and directors for the coming year. I\4. C. Hanisch, Jr., president of Unit Structures, Inc., was elected President. William B. Lindberg, president of Woodlam, Inc., was elected Vice President; and Val .Gardner, sales manager, Rosboro Lumber Company, was reelected as Director and Treasurer. New Directors are : Norman T . Bailiff, vice president-manufacturing, Fluor Products Company; Ronald A. Coco, president of Ronald A. Coco, Inc.; and Dale L. Gaeth, vice president-manager, Rilco Division of the Weyerhaeuser Company. Other officers and directors remaining in office are: Frank J. Hanrahan, Executive Vice President and Secretary : and Directors lohn E. Attwell, vice president and geneial manager of Attwell, Inc.; and Ward Mayer, chairman of the board of Timber .Structures, Inc.

Ward Mayer, retiring president, was honored by the rnembership of AITC. Newly elected President Haniscl-r, Jr. presented Mr. Mayer with a plaque inscribed : "Presented to Ward Mayer by American fnstitute of Timber Construction in appreciaiion of his valued service as president 1952, 1953, 1959, 19ffi."

NIr. Mayer, Founder and Chairman of the Board of Timber Structures, Inc. of Portland, Oregon, was one of the original founders of AITC and has been a guiding light to the industry.

The American Institute of Timber Construction is a technical industrial association of manufacturers of structural glued laminated timber and subcontractors who clesign, shop fabricate, and assemble load carrying sawn and glued laminated timber framing for roofs and similar parts of schools, churches, commercial and industrial buildings and other structures such as bridges.

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