RED GEDAR

Seattle.-The Northwest lfardwood Association, which has grown progressively since its founding in 1955, has an outstanding program and speakers for its third annual meeting, Sept. 26-27, at the Hotel Congress in Portland, Ore. Members will gather at 1:30 p.m., Friday, in the hotel lobby and get down to business at 2:30 with elections. Leif D. Espenas is the first speaker, at 3 :30, on "Development, Relief and Ill Effects of Drying Stresses." H. C. Padon takes the podium at 4:00 with "Molders and Matchers -Equipment and IJse to Produce a Higher Quality Product." The first day's events conclude with directors meeting at 7:30 p.m. Saturday's program gets going at 9:30 a.m. with registration of latecomers. The featured speaker of the annual, Burdett Green ("Mt. Hardwoods of America"), fo.merly of the Fine Hardwoods Assn., Chicago, and now vice-president, Elmendorf Research. Inc.. Palo Alto. Calif.. will be heard at l0:00 on "How to Sell Pacific Hardwoods." He will show the l2-minute sales training film developed by the FHA. The morning's other speaker, at 1l:00, will be Marshall N. Dana, editorial-page editor of The Oregon Journal for 42 years, on "The Hardwood Industry As an Asset in the Expanding Economy of the Pacific Northwest." Mr. Dana set up the basis for public law permitting national bank loans on standing timber. Also to be heard is Ralph V. Backstrom, Keep Washington Green president, on "Rails, Sales and Prophets," in which he will tell how the Great Northern R. R. helped develop the west's timber industry and set a pattern for the rising hardwood industry.

Following the Noon recess and group luncheon, a report is scheduled for I :30 p.m. by the Hardwood Lumber Grade Rules committee, and the afternoon is given over to.open.discussion on recommendations for rule revrsrons.