International Hoo-Hoo-Ette Convention

Redding Club ff7 was host for the third National Hoo-Hoo-Ette convention, Muy 14-16, at the Town House in Redding, California. Approximately seventy-five attended, representing all the clubs.

Friday evening Redding entertained at a cocktail party, which was followed by a tour through the U.S. Plywood plant, where the process o{ manufacturing plywood, from the logs to the finished product, was shown.

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Next day was taken up by business meetings, chairmaned by Pat Horvard o[ Shasta Box department of U. S. Plywood. The banquet Saturday night was attended by approximately 140.

The mceting closed Sunday morning alter brunch with installation of new officers by Anne Murray. founder of Hoo-HooEttes. they are: president, Donna Dean, San Fernando Club #6; first vice-president, Betty Jones, San Francisco Club f 3: second vir:e-pre,sident, Peggy NIottola, Los Angeles Club f 1; secretary. Collecn Courtright, Redding Club #7 ; statistical secretary. Anna Cabbot, Eugene Clut. ff2; treasur(rr, Mabel Scow. Eureka Club ff9; director, Iluth Ashenbrenner, San Diego Club f 4; director, Yevonne Gurlel', Sacramento Cluh #5; direct.or, Ruth W.ood, Penninsula Club f8. Eugene, Oregon was chosen {or the sile o[ the 1966 Convention.

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Mill Decline Exploined

"There has been a dramdtic reorganization of the lumber industry in t}e Central Sierra during the postwar y@F," forest economist Dennis E. Teeguarden has told the Technical Advisory Council of the University of California Forest Products Laboratory.

"InI946 there were 136 producers of lumber who cut a total of 327 million board feet, half of it handled by the nine largest mills. By 1961 there were 19 mills, producing 289 million feet, with 90 per €ent of it cut by 13 medium and large mills."

Reasons for the decline in number of mills are several, he said. Lower lumber prices and higher timber prices have been major factors. Some mills have moved to locations in the Sacramento Valley in order to draw timber from several timber sheds, to expand plant scale, and to integrate into wood chip production.

"It appears these factors favoring valley locations will continue," he saido "and will have an impact on the economies of the mountain communities."

The University forest economist said the impact of cyclical resessions in lumber demand is greatest on tfre small producerso who process most lumber produced by small growers. This is due to their small scale and product line. The small mills do not have access to the more stable nation-wide wholesale lumber market, as the larger, fully integrated plants do.

Teeguarden said a reorganization and consolidation of timber supplies from small holdings to reduce costs and uncertainties of procurement would help towards a stable industry. He suggested marketing cooperatives or long-term management contracts might be a means toward this end but added that major problems are involved. Rapid changes in land values and uses in the region make owners reluctant to go into long-term contracts.

Teeguarden's study, ooThe Lumber Industry in the Central Sierra Nevada Region," has just been published by the University. It may be obtained from the Farm and Home Advisor Offices in most counties; public service offices on the UC campuses at Davis, Berkeley, and Riverside; or Agricultural Publications, 207 University Hall, University of California, Berkeley.

Pickering Lumber Moy be Sold

The sale of Pickering Lumber Corp. to Fibreboard Paper Products Corp. and Yuba River Lumber Co. for cash in excess of $15 million is being recommended to Pickering shareholders.

Acquisition oI the assets has been approved by directors of the three companies and will be submitted to the Pickering stockholders at a special meeting to be called shortly.

Pickering, with headquarters in Kansas City, owns about 65,000 acres of timberland in Tuolumne County, Calif., and a sawmill and plywood plant in Standard, Calif.

The decision to sell the company was prompted by management to either make major capital investment in the California plants or liquidate. A spokesman for the company said approximately $6 million would be needed for improvements.

"We felt that putting a big mortgage on the property in order to place the company in a position that might make it more competitive with larger concerns wasn't in the best interests oI the shareholderr" the spokesman said.

Pickering has had discussions during the last three years with several prospective buyers who were primarily interested in the valuable timber holdings.

Fibreboard and Yuba River declined to say how much of Pickering each would own.

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