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tion president; S. V. Fullaway, Jr. of Portland, secretarymanager, and Charles A. Leonard, chief of the St. Louis procurement office of the Corps of Engineers.

He told the group that his office will place orders for approximately 1,500,000,000 board feet of lumber between now and July 1, 1951. In the event of an all-out war, he said, the armed forces will require six billion board feet of lumber annually in addition to an estimated 12 billion feet which will be needed by prime contractors working on defense projects.

He said, however, he did not feel that the present situation in Korea warranted the declaration of an emergency now and, therefore, regarded it as unlikely that allocations rvould be necessary soon unless war breaks out elsewhere.

Spokane, Aug. 1l-Current market prospects indicate a ready demand for all lumber despite possible war-caused housing cutbacks, leading western pine lumbermen were told at the closing session of the Western Fine Association summer meeting here today.

More than 200 representatives of the $500 million pine industry heard W. E. Griffee of Portland, assistant secretary-manager, say that even though new housing starts are reduced as a result of tighter government credit policies, construction under way will not be finished until late in the fall. "At the same time," l.re said, "the demand for fruit and vegetable shook is extremely urgent and heavy industrial production requires a large volume of lumber, ' ''"JY

Griffee was one of the four speakers on the final program of the first industry-wide pine manufac'turers meeting ever held here. Others were E. C. Olson of Spokane, Associa-

Olson, head of the E. C. Olson Lumber company and Kaniksu Products, Inc. reviewed the'history of cooperative endeavor in the western pine industry from its inception in Spokane when the Western Pine Shippers' association was founded in 1903. He traced its growth from the small group oI 47 years ago with 22 members shipping 160 million l>oard feet annually, fhrough the 2S-year period of the succeeding Western Pine Manufacturers association, the merger in 1931 of the WPMA with the California White and Sugar Pine Manufacturers association, up to the existing organization of 300 mills which this year are expected to manufacture approximately six billion feet of lumber.

Olson paid tribute to the pioneers of the western pine industry, many of whom came from the Lake states to the Inland Empire and other sections of the l2-state Western Pine region and laid the groundwork fo.r the present industry-wide cooperation.

"To these men we owe an immense debt of thanks for pointing the way toward the rewarding and mutually enjoyable association we have today," he said. "But if we are now harvesting substantial benefits from their farseeing spadework, let us not be deluded that the job is done.

"Let us remember to maintain the foundation of our industry with the future, to stand by the conditions which surround its operation, and to everldstingly support, by gooperative action, the principle and fact of free endeavor