Personql Visit to Joponese Xlonufocturers Works Out Better Understonding on Hordwood Plywood lmports qnd Procedures

Charlie Schmitt, head of Atkins, Kroll & Company's imported lumber products division and president of the Imported Hardwood Plywood Assn., along with James R. Sharp of Washington, D.C., the association's general counsel, recently spent a month in Japan conferring with Japanese government and plywood industry officials. Both Schmitt and Sharp, who officially represented IHPA during their month-long stay, were impressed with their attentive and cooperative reception in Japan.

Schmitt and Sharp arrived Tulv 25 in Tokvo. where conferences were held over a period of several weeks with officials of the Japan Plywood Exporters and Manufacturers' Associations, the Japan Plywood Trade Promotional'Committee, and with chiefs of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, and of the U.S. and Canadian Section of the Japanese Foreign Office.

The Japanese foreign officials expressed their apprecia- tion to the delegation, stating that this was the first time an American industry had sent a delegation to its sister industry in Japan to discuss American marketing conditions and to visit and hear the problems of the Japanese industry. Both the Japanese and the IHPA delegates expressed belief that the conferences would result in a closer exchange of market conditions, status of mills and information regarding unsold portion of quotas.

Schmitt and Sharp also introduced a uniform claim procedure and form to the Japanese, who indicated they would adopt the form and procedure immediately. The two Americans further informed the Japanese that the IHPA is currently selecting trained inspectors throughout the country who will be available for prompt and efficient handling of claims that arise on shioments.

The Japanese plywood industry, according to officials there, has gone through a growing period of modernization -without the capital reserves necessary to meet their credit requirements for logs and labor which wc,uld enable them to adjust to the existing, reduced American market demand by curtailment of production.

However, according to Japanese mill and export officials, plans are now being developed with the Japanese government and trading firms to provide assistance to the mills to

It wasn't ALL work-Schmitt and Sharp were caught by cameraman at chopsticks (note the waitresses but, f'ewen's sake, don't try to get the ol' lady to do that at home!) enable them to better adjust their production schedules to export consumer requrrements.

The Japanese officials stressed the fact that any curtailment plans to reduce manufacturers' and exporters' quotas would be by means of a suspension rather than by an outright cut of the quota. Should the export market demand pick up past the reduced quota as suspended, part or all of the susoension could be liftecl to allow the cruota to truly reflect th. .or..u-er clemand-ancl prevent creation of artificial shortages.

With the gearing of production and export of plywood to actual overseas consumer demand as their primary aim, the Japanese and ministry officials expressed- conviition that the interchange of information would result in mutual benefits to both the American consLlmer and to tl.re Japanese irrdustry.

The officials stated their hope that other American inclustries would follow suit.

-Nafional Foresl Products Week . October | 6-22-

Instoll Bennett 2-Woy Pqnel Sqws

Recent installations of the popular Bennett 2-Way Panel Saw, reported by Wayne C. E,rvine, Sales-Service, Atascadero, Calif., include the following:

Consolidated Lumber Co., Wilmington; Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo; Tiburon (Calif.) Lumber Co., the new retail yard; Mill Valley (Calif.) Lumber Co. (its second unit) ; North Bay Lumber Co., Corte Madera; Tustin Ave. Plywood Co., Santa Ana; D & M Display Co., Corte Madera; Glenview Supply Co., El Cajon ; George Air Force Base, Victorville; Tri-State Distributors (its third unit), Los Angeles; Burbank (Calif.) Lumber Co., and Steiner Lumber Co. (its fourth unit), North Highland, Sacramento.

-National Foresf Products Week . October | 6-22-

Union Business Agent Fined on Tqxes

William T. Hopkins, 70, of Glendale, former business agent for the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, Local 844, Reseda, has been fined $250 for evasion of income taxes by Chief U.S. Judge Peirson M. Hall after a change of plea from innocent to "no contest." On motion of Asst. U.S. Attv. \llever Newman. two other counts involving $8,000 on similar tha.g.. were clismissed.

Judge Hall pointed out that Hopkins could have been sentenced to five years in prison and fined $10,000 but "justifiable mercy" was exercised when it was pointed out that Hopkins had given Union jobs to hundreds of exconvicts in a program of rehabilitation so thorough that no convict violated his parole.

-Nitional Foresl Producis Week . October 16-22-

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These are the Los Angeles telephone numbers to call if you need informatiofl or assistance on your personal promotlon In Southern Callfornia of NATIoNAL FOREST PRqTUCTS IYEEK. october l$22t

Los Angeles Committee, Natlonal Forest Products Week

General Chairmanr Wayne F. Mullln Mullin Lumber Company '?i9'"Y;,,'J?xr&fii'

Vice-Chairmarr teRoy H. Stanton, Sr.

Box 3816. Terminal Annex Los(ftSeles 54,iallf.

ADMINISTRATIONT James H. Forgie, Robert S.osgood C0.,3315 W.5th St., Los Angeles 5, Calif. (Dunkirk 2-8278).

Fll{AI{CEr qoq -E_s!Le-y, D. C. Essley & Son, 7257 E. Telegraph Road, Los Angetes 22 (RAymond 1U47).

RETAIIER_nELAT.|oI{S! -Stanley q. -M_cDona!d, 01vens:Parks Lumber Co., P.0. 8ox 58038 (Vernon), Los Angeles 58, Callf. (ADams 2-517l).

DISPLAYS: orrle W. Hamilton, Southern California Retail Lumber Assn.. 111 W. 7th St., Los Angeles 14 (MAdison 3-6108).

PUBLIC RELATIoNS: James W. Newqulst; Jas. W. Newquist Co., 99 S. Chester Ave., Pasadena, Calif. (MUrray l-0046).

SEQRETARY: Joln R. Mercier, R€y Hill Lumber Co., 2510 Hyde Park Blvd., Los Angeles 43, Calif. (Pleasant 3.3221).

John Andreson, Harotd R. ,.,., FlJlf'$itflifiiso. Richard Fenton. Ed Fountatn. Robert P. Graham, oarrell A. Henderson, Robert P. Inglis, Harvey W. Koll. Sytvai U.ack, lCl!.n. R. Osgood, cleeson Powers, ceorge D.- Sdrim, Chartes E.' Sirait, Elmer J. Vivian.

Cooperating 0rganizations:

Furniture Menufacturers Assn, of Southern Californla, pacific Coast Wholesale Hardwood Distributors Assn., Southern Californta Assn. bf Cablnet Manufacturers. Southern California Door Instltute, Southern California Lumber Seasonlns Assn.: Southern California Plywood Assn., Southern Californla Retail Lumber Assnl. Westj ern Wood-Preserving operators Assn., Wholesale Lumbermen's Assn. of S6uthern Callfornia, Woodwork Institute of California, Amerlcan Instituts of Tlmber Construction, Calitornia Redwood Assoclation, Dougtas Fir Plywood Association. lm- p0rted Hardwood Plywood Association, International Concatenated 0rder of Hoo. H0o, National Lumber Manufacturers Assn., National Wood Council. philioDine M€hogany_ Asqociation, W€st Coast Lumbermen,s Assn., Western pine Associition, Western Red Cedar Association.

The State chair'men for National Forest Products Week, October 16-22, are:

ARIZONA

Walter T. Howard Lumber Merchsndlsers Assn.

4740 l{. Central Ave., Phoenix

CALIFORNIA (Northern Callfornla)

Bernard B. Barber. Jr.

1833 Broadway, Fresno (Southern California)

Harvey !ry. Koll

H. W. Koll Mlll & Lbr. Co.

1707 W.49th St,, Los Angeles 62

HAWAII Cllnt Hallsted

P. 0. Box 3829, Honolulu 12

NEW MEXICO

Edward Wood 4100 4th St., l{. W., Albuquerque

OREGON

Joseph Adal., Jr.520 SW 6th St., Portland 4

WASHINGTON

Robert W. Anderson. Jr.

P. O. Box 1525, Tacoma I

In addition, Southern California State Chairman Hawey f,,oll has appointed tlte following members to his staff, helping the National Forest Products Week program by their respective areas:

R. B. Saucke

Cresmer Manufacturing Co.

Bud Cur.an

Frank Curran Lumber Co.

2601 Third St., Riverside Santa Ana

E, E. Steahr

Ben Bartels

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duction during July declined to 39,913,00C flecting the annual shut-downs by the mi 39,913,000 board feet, ree mills for overhaul and vacations. June production was 52,984,000.

Under way at the University of Illinois Small Homes Council are three new projects set up this spring by the Lumber Dealers Research Council: (1) A study to redesign and test 4' nail-glued header using different thickness of plywood as load carrying members over doors and windows; (2) design and testing of a nail-glrcd 1l story roof frame to be used on standard 8' wall. with or without interior load bearing partitions; (3) a study to evaluate four different popular types of floor systems with respect to use of materials and the labor involved in their construction. Time and cost studies will be used in evaluating all four types.

-National Foresf Products Week October 16-22-

Redwood Orders Above Producfion

Shipments of redwood lumber during July by eleven mills reporting to the California Redwood Association were 37,1ffi,N0 board feet. Total shipments for the first seven months of 1960 were 311,223,000, compared to 346,632,000 !o,r lhe same period of 1959. June shipments this year were 55.154.000 boird feet.

Production for the seven months of 1960 came to 345,871,000 board feet, down 2/o from last year. Orders received during seven months were 318,180,000 board feet, compared with 361,203,000 for the same period in 1959. Pro-

Nerv orders for the month, at 42,062,000 board feet, exceeded production by 2,149,}ffi. June orders were 50,621,000. Total orders on the books, at the end of July, were for 68,759,000 board feet, approximately 6/o over the June figures of 64,578,0N, and stocks on hand were 403,160,000 board feet. June stocks on hand were 403,041,000.

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