L,unher Induslry lfree]s AII Delense ltleeds an Editoriar

When the defense program now in higil gear was first announced a couple of years back, the lumber industry from coast to coast and North to South, promptly girded up its loins and prepared for emergencies. Whatever in its line was needed for the big delense program, the industry resolved to produce, prepare, and supply. It is probable that the lumbermen were inclined at first to look for more pressing and vital demands than have actually developed, and the emergency, so far as lumber is concerned, has not been anything like as acute as many expected, so the job of supplying the defense efrort in all its ramifications, has been handled by the industry with unexpected ease.

Everything the various departments of government have asked for has been promptly supplied, without crippling in the least the domestic building program. It can be truthfully said that so far there has been a plentiful supply of lumber for all allowable building purposes. With only some mild restrictions, home building has gone right albng in high tide, and the effort to house the nation has not been materially handicapped by the great defense movement in which we have been engaged.

Few would have helieved twenty years ago that the lumber industry of today would still be able to furnish so tremendous a supply of boards and planks for every purpose including a great defense program. Yet it has been done, and had the government caltred for an even much greater amount of building materials, that would have been forthcoming, also.

It looks safe to say now that when all restrictions of every sort have been lifted from the building industry, there will be found a plentiful supply of lumber available for every need.

This is a very dependable industry.

1952 Roundup of San Francisco Hoo-Hoo Club Gets Big

I\{ore than 25O sat down to dinner in the Empire Room at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, San Francisco, to celebrate the annrral Roundup of San Francisco's Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39. Those who played golf earlier in the day numbered 80.

Bob Bonner of Ricci & Kruse Lumber Co., San Francisco. 'r'n'as general chairman of committees The other committee men were as follorvs: Banquet, Hac Collins, Fran Heron; Publicity, Jack Pomeroy, Bill Black; Reception, Paul Overend, Fred Ziese:' Finance, Ralph Mannion, Jack Butler; Program, Fran Heron, Leonard Kupps; Ticket Sales. Charles Schmitt, Jim Needham; E,ntertainment, Bill X{cCubbin.

The golf comrnittee consisted of Ernie Bacon (chairman), Jim Needham, Fred Ziese, Art Evans, Bovard Shibley (secretarv).

Now They Are Tree Fcrrming in Ohio

Columbus, Ohio.-Twenty tracts of forestland adding up to 61,752 acres were designated officially as a "tree farm" Wednesday, August 6, at the high school athletic field at McArthur, Ohio, before a crowd of nearly 400 persons. The giant tree farm is managed and partly owned by The Baker Wood Preserving Company, a subsidiary of D. B. Frampton and Company, Columbus.

R. B. Will, president of the Vinton County National Bank, predicted "the potential of these woods being dedicated will increase each year from now on." Mr. Will cited a transition within the last few years from the old "cut out