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Concenlrotion By Lumber Industry Seen

A shifting, more concentrated lumber industry in thq .fuJule may leave Jo*" ."ot ornic and social problem areas behind in California's Sierra forest areas' says Dr. John A' Zivnuska, Uni' versitv of California forest economist.

Zivnuska told the Technical Advisory Committee of the University's Forest Products Laboratory that a study by the UC. School of Forestry shows a shifting of the mills from the mountains into the Sacramento Valley and at the same time a move toward larger units. Such movement of the mills, he remarked, could eliminate the industrial base of some mountain communities'

The University forester said the shift in the wood industry is more evident in the pine than redwood areas.

The School of Foiestry project, he explained, is being done under the S,tate Departtrr"rl oi Finance. University researchers are aiding in a study of the problems and prospects of -economic growth in"california up to 19?0 and 1980. In the area of forestry, Ziurrurk" said, the .erea.ch team will estimate the volume of standing timber and timber use. The researchers will project the level of'timber cut in each area of the state, and on public and private holdings, large and small.

Froir'studles of these estimates and recent history of the industry, the foresters will attempt to forecast where the state's wood processing will be done in the future.

Georgio-Pocific Buys Fordyce Lumber

Georgia-Pacific Corp. said it has acquired all the stock of Fordyce Limber Co. of i'ordyce, Ark.o under terms of a previously announced tender offer of $400 a share.

Robert B. Pamplin, Georgia-Pacific president, said $110 of the per-share purchase price was paid earlier at the closing of-the irar,su"tion. A payment of $180 will be made for each Fordyce share next year and the balance will be paid in 1965'

Georeia-Pacific used cash on hand to make the initial payment; internally generated funds also will be used in subsequent pay' ments, Mr. Pamplin said.

The bulk of Fordvce's 51,818 shares outstanding had been helil by three families. The Crosset family, it was understo-od, held a\/o of the stock and the Gates and Watzek family together held a 4l/o interest. Georgia-Pacific acquired an option on- the Crosset Lumber Co., another Arkansas concern' {or $I25 million' Fordyce lumber owns about t60,000 acres o{ Southern pine a.rd hardwood timberland within 100 miles of Georgia-Pacific's Crosset division.

Georgia-Pacific said it plans to build a pine plywood plant at Fordyce. The plant, with an annual capacity of 90 million square feet of plywood, is scheduled to be in operation by year'end'

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The preacher was making the rounds of his new parish in the Ozarksf and he stopped with one family who lived in a one'room shack, with a big pig pen built right up against the side of the log ho.rs". H" took it upo" t imsetf to expostulate with the man about this serious situation. He said: ooParsonrt' said thl mountaineer, studiously, t'You must be wrong about that. Why, we ain't lost a hawg in five years"'

"Don't you know you shouldn't have your pig pen right -up against your horrse, or even right close to your house, for that matter. It isn't healthy."