J. W. Copeland Buys ,Four More Yards

J. W. Copeland Yards, the large retail lumber and building supply organization headquartered in Portland, Ore. has purchased four Northern California Lumber and building supply yards according to J. W. Copeland, president and general man. ager. The transaction was effective September 14.

Yards are the Tracy Lumber company, Tracy, Calif.; Brentwood Lumber company, Brentwood, Calif.; Newman Lumber company, Newman, Calif.; and Patterson

Lumber company, Patterson, Calif. All are within 100 miles of San Francisco.

Seller was the Genasco Corp., San Francisco, of which Fred J. Early Jr., prominent contractor, was principal owner. The transaction involved approximately $300,000, Copeland revealed. The yards do more than $75O000 worth of business annually, with the emphasis on lumber and building supplies.

The new acquisition boosts the number of Copeland Yards to 72, plus a wholesale company in Portland. Yards are located in Oregon, Washingtono California, Idaho and Nevada. Some of the J. W. Copeland yards are located as far away as the Imperial Valley in Southern Californie. The fret Copeland yard, established in Portland, will be 50 years old on November 12, 1963. The Copeland system now sells more than 50,000,000 feet of lumber annually.

Copeland said eventually the new yards will be painted in the familiar Copeland colors of orange and black, with the big black cat insignia prominently displayed.

The Genasco Corporation was founded in September, 1955, when six yards belonging to the Santa Fe Lumber company were purchased. The Palo Alto yard was closed in 1956, and the yard at Martinezo California, in 1960, when it developed the real estate was too valuable for retail purposes.

Sqles <rnd Eorning Climb Forecqst by U,5. Plywood

S. W. Antoville, United Stated Plywood Corporation board chairman, told stockholders at the company's annual meeting (Wednesdan Sept. IB) that sales should climb over the $360 million figurc for the current fiscal year ending April 3Q 1964 and earnings should improve over the previous year.

"Our activities in the past 16 months will have a more significant bearing on the company's future than those in any period in the company's 44-year history," said Mr. Antoville, referring to a major expansion program to be capped by the $4O million cash purchase of McCloud River Lumber company which is taking place. McCloud assets include 2.3 billion board feet of timber owned or controlled in California, adjacent to U.S. Plywood's largest forest products complex in northern California.

U.S. Plywood President Gene C. Brewer outlined to stockholders other major parts of the expansion program which includes a new Novoply particle board plant under construction in Gaylord, Mich.; a pine plywood sheathing plant being built in Diboll, Texas, in conjunction with the Southern Pine Lumber Co.; and a new hardwood veneer plant in northeastern Peru which will begin shipping plywood veneer down the Amazon in November.

The Big Cost of Forest Fires

The Redwood Region Conservation Council has long been aware that the cost of maintaining men and equiprnent to fight forest and rangeland fires in California is costing every taxpayer-be he urban or rural dweller-4n insls4sing amount each year. An amount that is increasing because of man's careless use of fire.

In reviewing the California State Division of Forestry budget oL $27,235,503 for the fiscal year 1962-63 for operation costs related to or in actual fire fighting, and the U. S. Forest Service sum of $13,023,835, it becomes apparent that the taxpayer is paying a high price for man-caused wildfires.

Although the total number of fires started was lower in 1962 than previous years, man still managed to account for 5,532 fires with his careless fire habits. Fires started by careless smokers alone cost the taxpayer $9I,033.

Too many think the cost of forest fires ends once the fire is out. However, this is only the beginning for there is a second and immediate cost felt through lowering of the tax base of counties in which forest fires destroy merchantable timber, young growth, and payrolls. A third and more lasting cost, on which an accurate estimate cannot be placed, is paid by the taxpayer and his future heirs for years to come through loss of water when watersheds are burned; loss of soil from erosionl loss of wildlife, forage; recreation areas; and wood for thousands of products used in our daily lives.

Of deep concern to public agencies dealing with fire prevention in California is the daily increase of population resulting in greater use of the forests and rangelands that can, and probably will, be the cause of more wildfires unless man changes his habits. Only when every person who travels or vacations in the forests and rangeland areas remembers to use his car ashtray for matches, cigarettes, cigars, and pipe ashes instead of the car window; only when every camper and hunter makes sure any campfire he uses is cold and buried before leaving and all matches are broken before discarding and smokes are crushed out on bare soil; only when every person who burns rubbish makes sure his fire is completely out before walking away; only when all these things become a daily habit to man can there be a lessening in wildfire starts. Then, and only then, can the taxpayer realize a lower cost in maintaining men and equipment to fight and prevent forest and rangeland fires.

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Monrhly Lumber Fqcts

Douglas fir sawmills generally moved up to normal production during August, after settlement of a two-month labor dispute. but new orders lagged I0 percent behintl output.

In its monthly summary, the West Coast I-umbermen's Association noted that weekl,v production stepped up to within 1.2 percent of the 1958-62 average. For eight months of 1963, however, output was ofi more than 4 percent.

Compared to 1962, this year's ouQut in western Oregon and Washington is ofi only 1.8 percent, but orders are down 6 percent, reflecting the continued heavy inroads of Canadian lumber in America's active building market.

The weekly average of West Coast lumber production in August was 157,219,000 b.f. or 98.8% of the 1958-62 average. Orders averaged 140,364,000 b.f.; shipments I56,492,000 b.f.; weekly averages for July were production 117,858,000 b.f., 74.I% of the 1958-62 averages; orders 132,447,000 b.f. ; shipments 139,811,000 b.f.

Eight months of the 1963 cumulative pro. duction 5,307,447,0m b.f.; eight months of 1962, 5,408,923,000 b.f.; eight months of 1961, 5,290,911,000 b.f.

Orders {or eight months of 1963 break down as follows: Rail and truck 3,944,686,000 b.f.; domestic cargo 857,040,000 b.f.; exl)ort 281.719,000 b.f.; local 227,739,000 b.f.

The industry's unfilled order file stood at 449.542.000 b.f. at the end of August, lumher inventory at 817,553,000 b.f.

F igures covering the second quarter oI 1961J have been revised.

Forest Prqctice Act Amended

Important law changes made by the 1963 Iegislative session governing commercial harvesting of forest products from priv. ately-owned timberlands became effective September 20, 1963. From that date timber owners must share responsibility with operatorS for compliance with Forest Practice Rules and must notify the State Forester of proposed timber operations on their holdings.

Under the Forest Practice Act, as amended by the Legislature, the Director of Conservation may bring court action to enjoin violations or threatened violations of rules and where necessary the State Forester may correct violations of Forest Practice Rules. and collect the cost of corrections, up to $40 per acre {rom the timber operator or owner. Under the previous legislation the only remedy for rule violations has been revoca- tion of the permits. Six months or more has been required to accomplish this and destructive practices could continue during the whole period of litigation.

Timber operator-q' permits now in effect will expire January 31, 1964. Operators who are planning to harvest forest products after that date must obtain a new permit from the State Forester in January oI 1964.

Bill Jones is now covering the East Bay, San Jose to King City, and Monterey Peninsula tenitories for Building Material Distributors, lnc. Bill, who will work out of BMD's San Jose warehouse, has been with the company since January, 1962, and has been handling special sales assignments at BMD's Stockton headquarters.

The Roberts Co. Becomes Roberts Consolidoled Industries, Inc.

In a major move to eliminate con{usion with listed stock of another publicly-owned corporation, as well as indicate more clearly the spread of its activities, The Roberts Co., manufacturers of carpet installation equipment, adhesives and bi-fold metal doors, has changed its name officially to Roberts Consolidated Industries, Inc., according to Hugh S. Livie, president of the 2S-year-old firm.

Now celebrating its Silver Anniversary of continuous operation, Roberts Consolidated Industries, Inc., operates main-plant facilities in the City of Industry, a Los Angeles suburb, a branch factory in Dayton, Ohio, and subsidiary manufacturing operations in England, Holland, New Zealand and Canada.

Merlo Re-elected R.l.S. President

Harry A. Merlo, President oI the Rockport Redwood Company, was re-elected President of the Redwood Inspection Service at the annual RIS meeting in San Francisco September II. J. L. Robins, Vice President of the Simpson Timber Company, was elected Vice President, and Philip

T. Farnsworth was re-elected SecretaryTreasurer.

Re-elected to the RIS Board of Directors were Merlo; Robins; Julian N. Cheatham, Vice President of the Georgia-Pacific Corporation: Stanwood A. N{urphy, President of The Pacific Lumber Company; 1'ed Deacy, Cal-Pacific Sales Corporation; Howard A. Libbey, President of the Arcata Redwood Company; Russell H. Ells, President o{ Willits Redwood Products Company; C. Russell Johnson, President of the Union Lumber Company; and L. W. Ley, Sar'ta Cruz Lumber Company.

The design of next year's homes, offic,es, apartments and commercial buildings is being unfolded for the Nov. 2-4 annual convention of the National lumber & Building Material Dealers Association held in Chicago.

There is even a new type of plywood wall paneling that is inlaid with different species of hardwoods. It is being unveiled in a large Georgia-Pacific Corp. exhibit, designed specifically for this year's national dealer show. It includes a room section built of the unusual new material.

An intriguing companion line has l5l2inch solid hardwood sections separated by machined channel grooves. In addition to a choice of hardwoods in this line" decorators aiso may select extruded aluminum feature strips that fit the grooves, support movable shelf brackets and hangers, and are available in a choice of finishes, according to G-P.

Other 1964 ideas include accented hardwood grain patterns, utilized as plywood wall paneling with a new permanent polymerized factory finish.

There also are special patterns of lumber wall panelings that include cypress, pine and redwood species, according to E. L. Kimball, G-P's sales promotion manager who is in Chicago to supervise the nationwide forest products company's exhibit.

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