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(Continued from. Page 24) about 5 per cent over 1947 when approximately 34,000,000,000 feet was cut.
Colgan also told the directors that "rvhile exports are not of equal interest to all members of the industry, the European re.covery program r'r'ill have enough impact on the industry as a lvhole to warrant close attention.
"The Marshall plan's action agency, the economic cooperation administration,. has authorized some $900,000,000 of purchases, of which less than $15,000,000 has been in the lumber industry, including paper," he said.
In session also during the day were the Oregon forest practice committee, Wooden Box institute, ponderosa pine millwork directors and Western Pine association committees.
The state forest practices committee heard Nels Rogers, Oregon state forester, warn that the spruce bud worm had last week made its first inroads into second-growth timber west of the Cascades, north of Springfield.
Belief was expressed that 1,000,000 acres of timber in Oregon are infected, 80 per cent on federal lands. A test DDT spraying of some 5000 acres in the Heppner-Spray area earlier this year produced a 99 per cent "kill" of the bud worm, the committee was told.
Secretary managers and other representatives of major industry associations present for the tveek's meetings included H. C. Berckes and Stanley Deas, Southern Pine association; Albert Boisfontaine, Southern Pine Inspection Bureau; George N. Lariib, Mahogany Association, Inc. ; Charles E. Close, Veneer association; P. A. Hayward,
Hardrvood Dimension Manufacturers association; C. F', Miller, Southern Hardwood Producers; H. V. Simpson, West Coast Lumbermen's Association; L. M. Clady, Maple Flooring Manufacturers; J. A. Prestridge, Southern Cypress Manufacturers; O. T. Swan, Northern Hemlock and Hardwood Manufacturers; Henry Bahr, George Fuller, R. G. Kimball and Colgan of NLMA, and S. V. Fullaway, Jr., Western Pine association.
McDowellon Stanford Faculty
Carl E. McDowell, assistant to executive vice-president Charles L. Wheeler of Pope & Talbot, Inc., will join the faculty of Stanford University on September 1, as Assistant Professor of International Trade, Graduate School of Business. He has been associated with the pioneer lumber and shipping firm since his graduation from Stanford in 1933 and will continue to serve the firm in an advisory capacity as assistant to the executive department.
Mr. McDowell is an authority of note on wat'erborne commerce and has made many studies and surveys of trade routes with relation to two-way trade between nations, a background that ably qualifies him 'for his new position. During the war he served three years in the Navy as Port Director Service in the Pacific Area and at Washington, D.C., later becoming deputy to the assistant to Admiral Land, administrator of the War Shipping Administration.
Here is one of the bis troublt big troubles of a whole lot of well meaning lumber merchants:
"I am going to set the river on fire-TOMORROW.
"I've made up my mind to turn over a new leaf, and,make the folks of this town sit up and take notice _TOMORROW.
"I've got some dandy good schemes in my head for improving the HOMES of this town, and believe me I'm going to do it-TOMORROW.
"I've been standing still long enough, and I'm certainly going to start advertising and merchandisingTOMORROW."
And the answer is:
THERE IS NO TOMORROW. Tomorrow and yesterday are dead wood. Live TODAY. Do things TODAY.
THROW AWAY YOUR DOUBTS AND GET YOUR HORN!
BRUSH AWAY THE COBWEBS AND BEGIN HITTING THE BALI-NOT tomorrow-TODAY !
There are 503,000,000,000 timber in the Western Pine board feet of region. standing saw-
New fssue ol Reference Book
The 132nd issue of the Reference Book of the Lumbermen's National Red Book Service is just off the press. It is a consolidation of that service's twice-a-week bulletin of changes in the lumber and woodworking industries.
Lumbermen's Credit Association Inc., Chicago 5, Illinois, and New York 5, N. Y., publishers of this service, advise that as compared with the previous issue, there are an unusual number of changes affecting the various branches of the industry including many newly listed sawmills, some of which are brand new sources of lumber, others are mills which have resumed their operations. Also, there are listed numerous changes in business classifications as well as in credit ratings.
For the past72 years, this service'has been used by lumber shippers and shippers in many other industries who market through retail lumber dealers, or who sell to furniture and other woodworking factories, as their guide in credit and ,collection work, and aid in sales promotion and guide to sources of lumber and allied production.
San Francirsco Lumbermen's Club
Annucl Fcrll Roundup Sept. 17
The San Francisco Lumbermen's Club will hold its Annual Fall Roundup on Friday, September 17, at the California Country Club.
The Roundup will include the annual golf tournament, for which there will be many prizes. There will also be door prizes.
