THE ARIZONA SCENE

Arizonq Retoil Lumber & Building Supply Associqtion SecretaryManager

are held in the Arizona Association office every two weeks.

Displays will be in eight categories:

Following the recent merger of the Timber Importers Association of America into the Imported Hardwood Products Associationo a board of directors meeting has been held to expand the existing IHPA board by five new members.

IS HERE and it is again time to l' commemorate National Forest Products in Phoenix is promoting Forest Products

Week, October 16-22.

The Salt River Vallev Hoo-Hoo Club No.

October t0-I7 with a Fair being held at Chris-Town Shopping Center. The Ari'

,onu Association is cooperating with the

' Hoo-Hoo CIub in this event. The Secretary-

Manager (yours truly) is acting as advisor to the retailers for the Fair.

The retailers will have a group display. many retailers are putting in indivi a"a displays. A Newsletter was sent to all area dealers to get behind wood promotion and participate in this fine event.

Jack Seitz, chairman and Rod Morrison, vice-chairman, have guided the Fair planning committees in trying to make this .year's Fair the finest ever. Planning sessions

(l) Art and Hobbies

(2) Beams and Trusses

(3) Retailers

(4) Wholesalers

(5) Education

(6) Lumber Manufacturing

(7) Re-Manufacturing

(8) Architects Renderings

Three hundred thousand people are expected to view the show. fu this is only a week long, the Arizona Associatio,n is studying the possibility of making the displays available to other cities in a Wood Promotion project for the Association.

Newly elected directors are: Tom Dean, Dean Industries, Inc., Chicago; Joe Stearns, Insular Lumber Sales Co., Philadelphia; Robert Storm, William L. Marshall, Ltd., New York; Robert Van Keulen, Van Keulen & Winchester Lumber Co., Grand Rapids; and Randolph Valensi.

Continuing board members of IHPA are Jack Baser, Jim Bley, Jack Davidson, Joe Durra, Bill Johnson, Bruce Mc[.,ean, Hans Rainer, G. Arnold Smith, Al Struyvenberb and Eric Wagner.

The new slate of officers now includes Robert Storm as vice-president, log & lumber division, and Joe Stearns, vice-presid6nt, dimension & millwork products. G. Arnold Smith and Jack Davidson continue as president and executive vice-president respectively.

Free Advertising Clinic

A monthly Advertising Clinic, designed to help young companies, small businessmen, and other non'advertisers, is currently being conducted by the Western States Advertising Agencies Association.

.Deolers Oftered TV Tiein

I ttAway We Go," a comprehensive new :ipromotion program with which Masonite ,,'Corporation kicks off its new fiscal year l, this fall, focuses on newcomers in the line 1r of interior products and in its advertising I "salesmen."

i. One of the new "salesmen" is Jackie ir .Gleason. Another is Dannv Kave.

The promotion program is designed to give building materials dealers an opportunity to conduct salesroom tie-ins with nationwide, prime-time television commercials.

, Dealers are signing up for participation by purchasing a modest inventory of the new Royalcote products and promoting them by using sales aids furnish.d by Masonite.

The ne:work TV shows are the hub of the support program, which will continue until May 13. In addition, the company said, advertisements are scheduled for ma. jor consumer publications and trade magazines. Including sales promotion, the advertising and promotional outlay for fiscal 1967 will exceed gl3/o million.

Included in the "Away We Go" promotion package for dealer participants are over-wire pennants, ,product bannerg window posters, ad mats, radio and TV tie-in scripts, a 'oliving Wall" dispenser display

UY;lern Lunblr I lolldlng llotrr{clr mElCHAllt and a Jackie Gleason cutout display.

Sales personnel are available to meet with dealers before the promotion to help with scheduling and timing.

Correction: THIS is Al Wahl

The MerChan, offers apologies to twr Western lumbermen for an inadvertent slip-up that appeared in our September issue. In the story concerning the election of Alfred H. 'oAl" Wahl to president of the Wilmington, Calif., Rotary Club, we used the photo of Harry Ervin, manager of W'eyerhaeuser'sFresno" Calif. distribution center (see story below on this page.

Al Wahl is vice president and director of sales at the Consolidated Lumber Co. of Wilmington, Cali{.

New Wood Products Center

Weyerhaeuser Company has opened a new wood products distribution center at 956 Parallel Avenue, Fresno, accordins to Harry Ervin, manager of the new operation. Ervin said that the new wholesale facilities will serve retail lumber dealers and industrial users of wood products within a I25 mile radius of Fresno. Inventory will include softwood

IIARRY ERYlll and hardwood plywood, prefinished paneling, hardwood doorq hardboard, particleboard, and a variety of lumber items.

The 15,000 square foot operation at Fresno is the fifth Weyerhaeuser Company distribution center in northern California. Other facilities are located in San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, and Sacramento,

In southern California and the west distribution centers are located in Anaheim, Sepulveda, Los Angeles, and Phoenix, Arizona.

Socrunrenio Club Officers

Named to head up activities for Sacramento Hoo Hoo Club #109 were ten newly elected officers for the L966-67 year.

John Bozich was named president; Edwin O'Kelly is club v-p.; Eugene H. Cottrell is secretary-treasurer and Edward G. Kensinger is vicegerant snark.

Board o{ directors elected were: Harry S. Anthony, William O. Baird, Guy Spense, Raymond Teakle and Charles Tyler, all of Sacramento; and Johrr D. Hunt of Rancho Cordova.

Nel Lumber Use Declines

A three-year study of single-family houses conducted by the U.S. Forest Service and the Federal Housing Administration, reports lumber consumption per house was just about 10,000 board feet in 1959 and L962.

But only 130 feet more were used in '62 than in '59, while the average floor area of the single-family house had increased, leaving a net loss in lumber per house. Losses were noted particularly in lumber volume used for sheathing and floor and roof decks, amounting to 3B/o in the three-year period.

Flying Sky Hook Successful

A twin-hulled balloon, first of its kind in the world, is capable of lifting giant logs from the floor of the forest and providing the world's first aerial logging road!

The balloon, developed by Goodyear Aerospace Corp., has been put into service by Bohemia Lumber Company, who's president, Faye Stewart, says he expects continued satisfactory results from the oosilver ox."

Balloon logging eliminates damage to young trees, gouging of tlle forest floor, and accumulation of debris, thus eliminating the need for slashing fires, officials reported.

The skyhook is 162 feet high, 88 feet wide and is filled with 175,000 cubic feet of helium. It can sail along at 25 miles an hour.

New Wyoming Kilns

Moore Oregon recently placed a new Moore prefab cross-shaft type kiln into operation for Wyoming Sawmills, Inc. of Sheridan, Wyoming. The double-track kiln is 33' x 70' f.eet long and is used primarily for drying lodgepole pine.

The steel framework kiln building has prefabricated aluminum roof and wall panels with aluminum sheets outside and inside, joined with Wedge-Seal vapor-barrier type construction. This unique Moore me thod of construction has no rivets or panel sheet joints exposed to inside kiln conditions, thus eliminating any possible vapor leakage through the joints. Insulated wraparound corner panels are used to entirely eliminate corner joints and any possible leakage.

New J. H. Boxfer Plqnts

The steadily increasing demand for two of its pressure-treated wood p.roducts, fireretardant Baxco-Pyresote wood studs and Chemonited wood, has required J. H. Baxter & Co. to expand treating facilities at two of its West Coast plants, according to W. W. Jackson, vice president of sales.

At Baxter's.Alameda plant, capacity has been increased by the addition of a large new pressure treating retort 8 feet in diameter by B0 feet long. Chemonited poles, piling, decking and other lumber, as well as Pyresoted studs are being processed.

Faster service also will be available for Chemonited products in southern California with the installation of treating equipment for the popular salt wood preservative. This makes it possible for area users to make direct pickups at the plant on special orders or from stock, according to Jackson.

Fire-retardant Baxco-Pyresote studs are now availa,ble from plants in.Eugene, Oregon, and Weed, Alameda and Long Beach,

California. Chemonite wood products are pressure treated at all above plants, except at Weed.

Koiser Exponds in Woshington

Kaiser Cement & Gypsum Corp. will begin construction before the end of the year on the first phase of a new cement manufacturing plant at Seattle, Washing-, ton.

Peter S. Hass, president, said a $3.5 million complex of cement storage silos '" will be erected on a Duwamish Waterway i; plant site. It will replace the company'si';:, Bellirrgham, Washington, cement plant. 'i i

IASC Mqnogement C.onference

The Lumber Association of Southern California has announced plans for its 'Annual Palm Springs Management Confer'ence, November 17-19, at the El Mirador Hotel in Palm Springs. Program chairman + is Peter V. Speek, president of Fremont .: Forest Products.

The opening speaker will be George Stein, president of the National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association. Next day Conrad C. Jamison, vice president and economist for Security First National Bank, will address the meeting. Thursday and Friday afternoons will feature panel discussions on topics of current interest to the industry, participated in by association members.

On Saturday morning, there will be the usual golf tournament. The added feature this year is a tennis tournament.

Lumbermen lost on Conodion Flight

As we went to press, an intensive air rescue operation had been called off after b fr.uitless, three-week search for a private phne carrying Frank M. Crawford of the F. M. Crawford Lumber Co., Ukiah, Calif., his wife Vivian and two other lumbermen.

Their plane had been lost on a flieht from Ft. Smith to Edmonton, Canada. "

With Crawford and his wife were Earl

Maize, a Mendocino County (Calif.) lumberman and Dick Roach, a Crawford employee.

Vivian Crawford, a seasoned pilot, was flying the craft when it left Ft. Snith at 9 a.m. on September 7. Sixteen minutes later they made their last radio check as they headed ofi in lS-mile visibility for Edmonton, 450 miles away. The plane, a Twin Cessna 310, has a 1,000 mile cruising range and they carried ten days food supply.

More than a dozen private planes sent upby northern California lumbermen ioined one of the most intensive combined searches in U.S.-Canadian air history.

The Crawford's son Bill, also a pilot, was continuing the search on his own.

FHA Oks l1/2" Dry

Federal Housing Administration is now accepting I1/2" dry lurnber in homes built under its programs since September 15.

The FHA bulletin pertains to new sizes of board and dimension lumber recommended by the American Lumber Standards Committee.

Although ALSC recommended new green lumber sizes in relation to dry sizes, FHA will continue to accept green sizes under existing standard SPR 16-53. Its notice said the new sizes for in-place lumber

Wolern lumbc & Bulidlng Mqtcriolt ilEICHANI will serve as alternates to the existing standard until January 15,1967.

Government departmentg such as the Defense Supply Administration and the General Services Administration, have indicated ftvor for the new sizes, and are said to be considering FHA's lead.

Minimum

Hourly Woge to

$1.60

President Lyndon B. Johnson has signetl into law the bill raising the minimum wage by 35 cents an hour and extending its coverage to 8.1 million more workers.

The bill raises the federal hourly mini' mum to $L60 by l968-the sixth increase since it was first set in 1938.

The President said an employer who cannot afford to pay the minimum o'just may not be a good businessman."

Teco Moving to Eugene

Eugene, considered by many as the lum' ber capital of the Northwest, will soon boast new evidence. Timber Engineering Com' pany (Teco to most people) of Washington, D.C., is moving its research and testing division from Corvallis to Eugene.

Teco said Eugene was the logical center for their expanding western quality control operations which now range frorn San Francisco to Seatde-Tacoma and eastward to Montana and Idaho.

WWPA Semi-Annuol Meeting

', Forestry affairs, programs and problems I of the new lumber grading rules, a powerful i'_.new movie linking forestry and promotion ' together for the first timeo and two na- tionally-known speakers highlighted the ,. 'Western Wood Products Association's semiannual meeting in Portland, September 14-16.

The "acceptor" poll soon to be taken on the new I/2 lumber sizes "may be the last opportunity that the entire lumber industry lrr will have to prove it is capable of setting ;: its own standardso" L. L. Stewart, president of WWPA said.

o'The new AISC proposal is a rnilestone in the struggle toward efficient use of lumber," stated the Oregon manufacturer. He called on the industry "to combine its energies for its own preservation and advancemen! and for the benefit of the wood-using public."

Boyd L. Rasmussen, newly appointed Director of the Bureau of Land Management, the key speaker said, "I have no plans for sudden changes; no plans for dramatic action. I do have plans for solid, constructive achievements. which we will work out cooperatively as we proceed to meet the challenges which confront us."

Key luncheon .p"ak"r was Arthur W. Greeley, associate chief of the Forest Serv-

Uhetrm Lumber'l lulldlng llslorlolr illlGHAttlT ice, who said the Forest Service has embarked on a major pioneering study which would change the rates of timber harvest on the National Forests of the Dguglas fir producing regron. The study, which will involve national forest management for at least the next 80 years, is scheduled for completion about July l, 1968, Greeley said.

The film, *Thc Mighty Western Forest" is aimed at the general public and takes an initial step toward informing the average man-in-the-street of the wise and efficient use of our tree-growing land, regardless of ownership. At the same time, it does an intriguing and persuasive selling job for the wood products md.nufactured by tr/WPA member companies.

Weslern Housing Storts Drop

Housing starts nationally declined a bit more in August, the latest figures availablg and a steeper drop in building permits suggested that the construction slump will deepen in coming months.

At a seasonally adjusted annual rate of I,057,000 units, private-housing starts fell 2ofr flrom July and a sharp 26/s flrom the 1,427,W rate of August, 1965, the Commerce Department has revealed.