Oakland Hoo-Hoo Club Educational Program

The following excerpts are from a talk given by D. P. Comstock, Western Pine Association, belore a gathering of retail lumbermen and others at the Merrit Business School, Oakland, October 9. The meeting was one of regularly scheduled classes sponsored by the Oakland HooHoo Club No. 39 in cooperation with the adult education program of the Oakland city schools.

its own rule book. Since both of these Western groups were in the main Ponderosa Pine producers, it was natural that they should cooperate in the matter of adjusting grades and sizes to a common level. In l9D joint rules were adopted. In 1931 the present Western Pine Association was organized.

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of the lumber industry today may well be prefaced by the relation of a few facts serving to orient it with the whole.

We begin with the tree, of which there are about 1,000 different species growing in this country. About 180 of these have some commercial importance and major production is limited to about 35. Something like 75/o of the total annual production is delivered by about L|/o of the 53,000 odd sawmills in the country.

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produce only what is in the log, being unable to make only that size or grade which might be in great demand locally, he must endeavor to ship into other more distant markets those items not needed locally; other more distant manufacturers do likewise, s}ipping items which may be in short supply locally. And so we find that no mill will agree to furnish when and where wanted all of the requirements of any one customer. It cannot. This situation has created the demand for the services of the lumber wholesaler who buys and sells in many places. About 75/o of all lumber produced is sold through some 6,000 of these wholesalers. Final distributiou is made through the approximately ?6,@0 retail lumber yards. ***

When in the early days of the industry the expansion of rail facilities made it possible to ship lumber farther and farther from the place it was produced, there became apparent the need of a common language by means of r,vhich buyer and seller alike could describe and understand qrrantity, sizes and quality of the lumber product. This need .n'as one of the primary reasons for the formation of lumbermen's associations. In the '90s the Wisconsin Valley Lumbermen's Association and the Mississippi Valley l-umbermeh's, Association formed grade bureaus for this purpose. A few year's later these two groups were joined and became known as the Northern Pine Manufacturers Association. In the early 1900s a cooperative organization of lumbermen in the Inland Empire of the West was formed. Later this group embraced producers in Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington; it u'as known as the Western pine Manufacturers Association and adopted the Northern pine Manufacturers Association rule book with modifications.

A few years later their own rules were adopted and published.

About the same time a similar effort was being made among the soft pine producers in California. Ultimately there r,vas formed the California White and Sugar pine Manufacturers Association, which adopted and published

What we know as the Western Pine region encompasses the western one-tl.rird of the United States. Our 350-odd member mills harvest and process 10 different ,spe,cies of softwoods. The most abundantly produced is Ponderosa Pine, of which some 4 billion feet annually has been manufactured during the past decade. Next is Larch-Douglas Fir, considered together at about Il billion board feet annually. Then White Fir whose production has risen from around 100 million feet in l94O to almost 1 billion in 1951. Next comes Sugar Pine, then Idaho White Pine, Engelmann Spruce, Lodgepole Pine, Incense Cedar and Inland Red Cedar. Annual production has been totaling well over 7 billion board feet the last few years.

In the region is a total of 79 million acres of commercial forest land, conservatively estimated to supporr'478 billion board feet of sawtimber, with an additional volume of pole sized timber. Of this area some 72/o is government owned or operated. In cooperation with federal, state and private groups the Western Pine industry has over the years developed an effectively organized fire, insect and disease protection program. To date over 5 million acres have been dedicated as Western Pine Tree Farms. Our industry alone spends over 5 million dollars for forest fire protection. ***

(The fi1m, "I{arvesting the Western Pines," rvas shown.)

Northwestern Calilornia Lumbermen's Club WiIl Hold Stcg Pcrty Ncrv. 14

The Northrvestern California Lumbermen's Club met at the Eureka Inn, Eureka, on Friday evening, October 10. There was a good attendance. Following dinner. there was a business session.

The annual fall stag party will be held at the Veteran's Building, Eureka, Friday evening, November 14. Jack N{ackie has arranged a fine program for the occasion.

Rqymond P. Fulwiler Elected President

United States Plywood Corporation announced the election of Raymond P. Fuh,viler as president of its subsidiary, Algoma Plywood and Veneer Company of Algoma, Wis. The Algoma Plywood mill is devoted solely to the production of cabinet-grade hardwood plywood and plywood specialties. This year the company celebrated its 60th anniversary. Mr. Fulwiler, who succeeds the late Charles G. yerkes. joined Algoma Plywood in 79'%.

E. L. Reitz Co. Moves

E. L. Reitz Co. moved San Marino to the Ocean new telephone number is to

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their offices on October 27 from Center Bldg.. Long Beach. The Long Beach 6-9647.

Lumbermen's Post-to Meet Novemb et 12

Lumbermen's Post No. 403 of the American Legion, Los Angeles, met October 8 at the Mona Lisa Restaurant with twenty members attending. A sound motion picture in color entitled "Masonite Magic in Eureka" was shown by Carl Maldun, Masonite Corporation.

The next meeting will be held November 12 at 7:00 P.M. at the Mona Lisa, 3343 Wilshire Blvd. Plenty of parking space is provided in back of the restaurant. The \{'eyerhaeuser Sales Company's sound film "New Paul Bunyan" in color will be shown.

The Post is making a drive at this time for new members, and also to get regular members paid up, with dues in the mail by November 11, Armistice Day, in order to qualify for the certificate of award from the Legion. Dues may be mailed to the Post Comnander, Harry West, Sand Door & Plywood Co., or the Finance Officer, Robert Taube, Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co.

Glen Fogleman, The California Door Company of Los Angeles, visited the company's mill at Diamond Springs, Calif. during the middle of October, going on to San Francisco afterwards to attend a directors' meeting. He was gone about a week.

Everett Young, formerly in the commission lumber business in Arizona, is now a salesman for West Coast Timber Products Agency, San Francisco. This company also has a new secretary, Miss Carol Lausmann, who is the daughter of A. A. "Tony" Lausmann of Kogap Lumber Industries, Medford, Oregon.

Ed Gallagher, manager of the San Francrsco warehouse of Associated Plywood Mills, Inc., recer.rtly returned from a trip to the company's mills and the home office in Eugene, Oregon, where he attended. a sales meeting.

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Discuss Plans for Nation-Wide Timber Resource Review

San Francisco, O.ctober 3-Twenty-two top U.S. Forest Service officials from the western States and Alaska met in San Francisco, October 2, with an equal number of representatives of western timber industries, State Foresters, and other organizations interested in timber resources.

This meeting was held to discuss plans for a nation-wide Timber Resource Review, which will take at.least two years to complete.

The advice and participation of all State and private agencies rvas solicited in order to develop plans for a comprehensive review, and secure all up-to-date facts on the current Forest situation.

Previous nation-wide appraisals of the Forest situation are already out-dated due to rapidly changing factors of use, from all causes, on one hand, and improved management, utilization, and conservation practices on the other.

This meeting is one of four similar conferences being held to plan the nation-wide Timber Resource Review. which is under the general direction of Edward C. Crafts, Assistant Chief of the U.S. Forest Service.

Regional Forester Clare Hendee and Robert Cowlin, Director of the Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, were co-chairmen of the one day meeting, rvhich discussed the action plan to coordinate the efiorts and interests of all groups represented.