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Revised t'Lumber Industry Fqcts" Brings Stotistics Up to Dqte

A nern' edition of Lumber Industry Facts, statistical har-rdbook tracing 350 years of growth and progress in tl-re American lumber industry, has been publisl'red by the National Lumber X{anufacturers Association. The 48-page booklet contains rnore than 10,000 facts and figurei on

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Mortimer B. Doyle, execrrtive vice-president of the association, explained that the publication is inter.rded as "a roundup of latest authoritatii'e data on a rvide range of topics dealing with the marrrrfacture, distributiotr ancl enduse of lumber-past to Dresent.

"The statistici reveal ^a recorcl of achievernent. Although lumber production. has been at high levels in recent _yeais, we are now growing timber faster than \\'e are using it. We are assured of increasing u'ood srrpplies ir.r the fnture ; we have founcl rvays of improving wood cluality anrl speeding tree growth. Timber as a crop-harvested, then regrolvn for the service of mankind-is rrow al1 accomplished fact," Doyle said.

Following are some of the highlights of irrformation inclrrded in the publication :

Privately owned commercial forestland in the IJ. S. r.rolv totals aborrt 358.3 million acres Better thar.r forrr out of every five new single-family homes are of wood-frame construction . Tl-re increase in the average weekly earnings of sawrnill and planing mill u'orkers has e-xceecled the rise in living costs every year since 1949

Lumber is the fifth largest employer amol'lg LI. S. tnanufacturing industries .. . . The U. S. is now grou'ing about 25/o more timber tl.ran is being cut and lost to fire, irrsects and diseases N'fore than 70/r: of U. S. lumber procluction goes into building and construction r,vork.

The new edition of Lumber Industry Facts, in lirlited supply, is available free from the National Lumber I\'Ianufacturers Association, 1319-l8th Street. N.\ /.. \\:ashirrr:ton 6, D.C.

L.A. Hoo-Hoo-Ettes Stqrt Yeqr

I-os Angeles Hoo-lloo-E,tte Club No. 1 started its 1958-59 club yeal with the meeting September 8 at Gerreral Lee's Man Jen Low restaurant in New Chinatown. The new officers headed by President Jeanne Serviss rvere pleased tcr welcome an excellent attendance of 43 members in the banqlret room.

Following the restaurant's customary fine meal, tl-re lumberwomen heard from Harold Cole of the Bohnl-roff Lumber Co., r'ice-president of L. A. Hoo-Hoo Club 2, and Larry Weiland of tl.re A-Arro:iv Building Supply & Ltrmber Co.,

Dso ler LOrry Weilond ot the mike to push lhe Boys'Home proiect; ol his right is Horold Cole ond, ol his lefl, Ruih Arm o nd of E. J. Slonlon & Son