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room oi the home-for flooring, furniture, paneling and scores of other items.

Also featured in the exhibit are displays of the adhesives and other raw materials that go into the manufacture of furniture and hardwood plywood, the role of hardwoods in modern warfare and defense, a history of hardwoods dating back to the days l'hen the Egyptian Pharaohs first usecl plyu'ood and veneers, and reforestation practices designed to insure a perpetual supply of hardu'ood timber.

The exhibit is sponsorecl by more than 175 individual firms and lurnber industry associations srrch as the Fine Hardwoocls Association, Hardwood Plywood Institute, Natior.ral H:rrtlwood Lumber Association, American Mralnut N'fanufacturers Association, Mahogany Association, Birch Club, National Oak Flooring X,fanufacturers Association, Maple Flooring Manufacturers Association, and Wood Oftice Furniture Institute.

lllness Requires Ghonge

Regional Forester Clare Hendee has been informed that Kenneth Parker, who was selected to be the chief of range management for the California region, is ill at his home in \Alashington, D.C. To permit Parker every opportunity and sufficient time to completely regain his health, Reginald M. DeNio has been appointed to the California range managerrent position, being transferred from the Colville National Forest, Colville, Washington, where he has been forest supervisor.

Roswell Leavitt, supervisor of the Trinity National Forest, will take over the supervisorship of the Colville National Forest, effective July 18. Norman Dole, resource staff offrcer at \\reaverville, has been designated as acting forest supervisor.

" For6r6, 42 yadt we hove been furnishing custom msda VENEERED DOORS, SIAB DOORS, PANET DOORS cnd SfORE DOORS-cny size, thicknerr or detqil-to rhe Reroil lumber Dealars of Southern Cqlifornia exclusively. fhe mony ifems we furnish oro cuslomcr plecsers -cnd mighry profitoble to hcndle, too.,,

Asks 45 Million For Timber Access Roods

Leo V. Bodine, Executive Vice President of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, urged Congress to authorize the expenditure of at least $45 million over a two-year period for the construction and maintenan(:e of timber access roads in the national forests.

At the same time Mr. Bodine called for stepped up road construction by private timber operators. He said more access roads are needed to speed the harvesting of billions of board feet of over-aged and damaged federal timber.

The NLMA official stated that a shortage of these roads may cause an estimated $30 million worth of national

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forest timber to be lost to windstorms, insect and disease infections that developed during 1949-51.

In testimony before the House Public Works Committee, Mr. Bodine threu' the lumber industry's suppori behind the timber access roads provisions of a federal-aid highway bill offered bv Chairman McGregor (R) Ohio.

NfcGregor's bill rvould keep the U. S. Forest Service roads and trails authorization at its present annual level of $22.5 million during each of the fiscal years 1956 an<l 1957. The measure also 'r'r'ould retain the requirement in the present larv that adt'isory public hearings must be held on the construction and repair of timber access roads.

Mr. Bodine declared: "The government and private operators must rvork together in solving the problem of providing access to the large reservoirs of over-ripe, dead and dying government timber in many areas of the West. They must pool their financial resources, their efiorts. and their know-hou'. They must cooperate to the end that these tremendously valuable timber resources may nr-rt be lost to the economy.

"f n some areas old and deteriorating timber of the national forests is norv being replaced with vigorous voullg stands through proper cuttir-rg. But there still remain vast forest areas and billions of board feet of virgin timber rvhich is going downhill so fast that it is a matter of grave concern. Timber access roads are the key to the solution of this problem."

Mr. Bodine said that each year about 1.5 billion board feet of valuable timber is not being cut from the nationzrl forest for lack of access roads. He added that under intensive management present national forest timber production could be almost doubled.

Mr. Bodine insisted that the need for expensive timbersalvage and insect-control programs, nolv being undertaken in various parts of the West, could have been averted if sufficient roads had been constructed to permit regular harvesting of tlie timber on a rotation llasis. Hc stated :

"Timber access roads are an econoln)' nteasure rvhich not only pay their rvay by opening up the valuable timber resources, but also provide a means of saving large sums of money that otherwise u'ould have to be expended later for insect and disease control."

The lumber spokesman continued: "We ltelieve that mainline timber access roads constructed from appropri;r-