Exclusively for California.

Donald Braley Elected Trade Group President

Donald L. Braley, U.S. Plywood Corp., has been named President and Carl E. Johnson, American Hardwood Co., Los Angeles, has been named Secretary of the Pacific Coast Wholesale Hardwood Distributors Assn. Ior 1963-64 at the 40th Annual meeting.

'Others elected were: N. Robert Grimm, First Vice-President, Richard H. Quarg, Second Vice-President and Jack Higgins, Leonard Hall, Jack Brush, Lawrence Culter and Albert Frost Jr., Directors.

For year around supplies of dimension lumber, more and more Southern California dealers and distributors depend on D & R and "dry.stotage" lumber from Rogge Lumber at Bandon, C)regon.

The PCWHDA is one of the oldest organizations of its kind in the United States having met annually since its founding in 1924 with the exception oI 1944 when the meeting was cancelled due to wartime restrictions.

President James W. Sullivan convened the first meeting of the convention on June 27 in Coronado. Calif. and welcomed the delegates present.

Committees named were as follows: Nominating: Bob Kahn, Bruce Mclean, Robert Sullivan and Donald White. Resolutions: Kenneth MacBeath and Donald Braley; Golf : Ed Bauerl Membership: Bob Kahn, Jack Brush, Charles White, Trophy: Richard Quarg.

Sectional reports were made as follows: Vancouver B.C., Lawrence Culter; Seattle, N. Robert Grimm; Tacoma, Bruce Mclean; Oakland, Donald F. White; San Francisco, Louis Servente; Berkeley, Kenneth MacBeath, Los Angeles, Edward M. Bauer and Clarence Bohnoff; San Diego, Gordon Frost. Special reports on hardwood panel products were made by W. F. Fahs and Fred B. Smales.

Victoria. 8.C.. was desisnated as the site for the 1964 convention.

Only completely covered storage and loading area on the Pacific Coast

IFast, 5 day ocean shipments by barge from Oregon to Southern California

I Produced . ., stored., loaded under cover, comr pletely protected from rain and dirt

IDimension in the specialized lengths you need, end.sealed with wax base paint

I 4,000,000 feet of dimension lumber a month, pro- r duced especially lor Southern Galifornia

Forest Fire Danger Continues

"Despite an abnormally rainy early summer, the Douglas fir region faces its most serious forest fire danger in a quarter of a century because of the unprecedented debris caused by last fall's Columbus Day blowdown," said W. D. Hagenstein, Industrial Forestry Association, Portland, Oregon.

Recognizing the seriousness of the situation, Governor Hatfield, of Oregon, and Governor Rosellini, of Washington, have invited forestry and industry leaders to a Columbus Day Blowdown Fire Prevention 'Conference at Portland. Immediately following, IFA announced the mailing of the llth edition of its widely used POCKET MANUAL ON FOREST LAWS AND PRACTICE FOR THE DOUGLAS FIR REGION (a separate edition each for Oregon and Washington).

Art Neth would like an opportunlty to tell you how your customers will appreciate the greater efiiciency and ease of handllng obtalned by using Rogge "dry-s19t"n"" lumber. You can reach him by calling TRiangle 3-2663 or STate 3-054t1. A. W. I{ETH, LUIIIBER SALES

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The Manual, first issued in 1941, is updated every two years and distributed to loggers and tree farmers to assist them in preventing forest fires. This year with the Manual, Hagenstein said, a special list of- Extra Fire Precautions for the Columbus Day Blowdown was included.

The Washington edition was mailed to 851 logging operators and W'est Coast Tree Farmers in Western Washington. The Oregon edition was mailed to 1335 logging operators and West Coast Tree Farmers. In addition, all forest protection agencies, private and public, throughout the Douglas Fir Region received copies of the Manual for use of their personnel.

The forester stressed that the blowdown left logging slash this year even where there has been no logging, and that all it takes for a major fire is a single spark in one of these debrisladen areas.

Single copies of the Pocket Manual are available without charge from Industrial Forestry Association, l4l0 S. W. Morrison St., Portland, Oregon.