TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY As Reportedin the California Lumber Merchant,November 1st, 1938

J. B. Power, general manag:er, Vancouver Plywood & Veneer Co., Vancouver, Wash., was in Los Angeles last week on a business trip. He made his headquarters at the office of Tacoma Lumber Sales, Southern California Sales Representatives for his company.

California Panel & Veneer Co., Los Angeles, had an attractive exhibit at the National Air Races. The display included various wing sectionS, leading edges, tail surfaces and other parts of aeroplanes, showing how plywood is used in aerocraft construction.

The Ted Lawrence and Clifr Bergstrom versus Max Landrum and A. L. Sailor golf classic was finally settled after three hardfought matches, Each team had won a game and the final match was played at Flintridge, Lawrence and Bergstrom coming through to win six up.

T. M. (Tv) Cobb, T. M. Cobb Co., Los Angeles and San Diego, was back October 26 from a tour of Northern California sawmills.

Roy Daily, western manager, NationalAmerican Wholesale Lumber Assoc., was a recent Los Angeles and San Francisco visitor,

Milt Tainzer and Bill Wilson, American Hardwood Co,, Los Angeles, have returned from a trip to Northern California and Oregon where they called on the Pine mills.

Ilans Wall, a prominent retail lumberman from Berlin, Germany, and Mrs. Wall, attended the California retailers' convention at Pasadena on November 3-4. They arrived in Los Angeles several weeks ago with their two children, and will make this their perrnanent home, residing at Hollywood.

Dee Essley, manager of the Los Angeles office of Elliott Bay Sales Company, left October 29 to visit the mill of the Elliott Bay Mill Company, Seattle.

F. G. Hanson, West Coast Screen Co., Los Angeles, returned recently from a fve weeks' Eastern business trip. He called in Texas and Oklahoma cities on sales representatives for the Hollywood Door.

Ilenry M. Ilink, vice-president, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned October 1? from a business trip to Southern California.

Shirley Forsey, of Eureka Mill & Lumber, Oakland, was elected President of East lay Hoo-Hoo club while Jas. B. Overcaet, Strable Hardwood Co., Oakland, was elected vicepresident and Carl R. Moore, Moore- Mill & Lumber Co., Oakland, was re-elected secretary-treasurer at the annual meeting held at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland.

W. II. Nigh, manager of the Pine Department of Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco, and Bob Leishman, salesman for A. L. ttGus" IIoover, Los Angeles, returned recently from a 10-day trip calling on the Pine- mills of Northern California and Southern Oregon.

A. J. "Red" Iletherington, formerly with the West Oregon Lumber Co., Los Angeles, joined the sales staff of the Tacoma Lumber Sales, Oct. 15.

Ken Conway, Holmes Eureka Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and Mrs. Conway, have returned from the Redwood region where they looked over the company's mill operations at Eureka. They were also callers at the San Francisco office.

Hayward Dill, Dill Lumber Co., Banning; Bussell McCoy, McCoy Lumber Co., Hemet, and "Chuck" DilI, Dill Lumber Co., RedIands, spent several days in Oregon duck hunting.

Ralph Joss, \Mhiting-Mead Co., Los Angeles, has been doing jury duty the past few weeks. Earry McGahey, San Diego Lumber, San Diego, is back from a hunting trip in Utah.

Clay Brown, general sales manager, Smith Wood Productl Inc., Portland, Ore., recently spent a week in San Francisco and Los Angeles on business.

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Conodion Forestry Minister To Address Conference

How Canada is meeting the challenge of managing land in the face of soaring population growth will be described to American land managers here late this year by' the Hon. John R. Nichol,"on, Canada's minister o{ forestry. Nicholson is one of the few cabinet,level forestry officials in the world.

The announcement that Nicholson has consented to address a land-use conference in December was made in San Francisco by W. R. Schofield, president of Western Forestry and Conservation Association, sponsor of the three-day conference. WFCA is a western conservation organization made up of Canadian and U.S. forest resource technicians and leaders {rom both government and industry.

A second major speaker on the program will be E. S. Huestis, director of forestry for the Alberta Department of Lands and Forests. Iidmontorr. Huestis will discuss the development of land use in Alberta as part of a panel session on the people's stake in public lands.

The conference was called by WFCA to grapple with the urgent problem of stretching North America's limited land resources to provide for the seemingly unlimited numbers of people it will have in the future. Speakers with a wide variety of viewpoints and backgrounds have been invited to tackle fundamental questions of how the continent must use its lands to get the most from them. Among the many groups to be presented will be industrial and government forest land managers, organized conservationists, women's club leaders" ranchers. sportsmen. economists. geographers and others.

DFPA Applicotion

Applications for membership have been requested by the recentiy-acquired Independence, Ore., plant of Boise'Cascade Corp. urtd iry Camac Veneer, Inc., of Eugene' the Douglas Fir Plywood Association has announced.

Boise Cascade plants at Yakima, Wash., and Valsetz, Oregon, already are members of the association.

L. C. Nelson, president o{ Camac Veneer, asked that qualifica' tion runs for his plant be scheduled so that DFPA grade'trade' marks may be applied to production starting January I, 1964.

The plywood association's Board o{ Trustees normally acts on applications only at the completion of l0'day qualifying periods, during rvhich intensive sampling and testing of production is carried out by DFPA's Technical Services division.

SWINGING SALE CETEBRATES YARD BIRII-IDAY (Continued lrom

4 to 5 times the normal lor a Fall weekend and the carryover into the rest of the weekend was ercellent. More than 2000 people attended the twoday Anniversary Sale, most of them drawn to the yard by radio spots during the preceding week and a big two-page "bargain day" spread in the Vallejo Times-Herald.

Jim and Betty Jones. who hail from Oklahoma, came to California in I94I and settled in Vallejo where Jim landed a iob with Foster Lumber Yard.

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At that time, the company was owned by Gilbert and Hazel Foster who started the operalion in 1929. By 1944, Jim became co-manager of the yard and a year later he purchased the business.

In addition to their New Vallejo building materials center. Jim and Betty Jones also operate at nearby Fairfield. This yard was opened on April 19. 1958, and has since become one of the leading operations of its type in the Fairfield-Travis Air Force Base area.

Togelherness And The Tree Fqrm Fomily

The cult of "togetherness' may have peaked in domestic relations counseling, but it is coming on strong in the hinter. lands, especially where trees are grown as crops.

This is evident in the growing popularity of Tree Farm Families, a relatively new aproach to solving the marketing and forestry problems oI small woodland owners.

A Tree Farm Family is a marketing arrangement whereby a iorest products"firm agrees to supply forestry services to nearby wood growers in return for the privilege of first option to buy the timber when harvested. The wood grower is not bound to sell to the sponsoring company, but does give it the first opportunity to buy.

The o'family" concept is an extension of the popular American Tree Farm System; most Tree Farm Familv members are certified tree farmers. Some companies have as many as 200 cooperators.

By sponsoring a Tree Farm Family, a forest products company not only spreads the technology of forest management but also invests in its own perpetuation. Close personal relations with woodland owners helps assure the company of getting the kind and quality of trees it needs to stay in business. The average cost of sponsoring a "family" runs to about 47 cents an acre.

This covers the cost of supplying seedlings, lending equipment, furnishing management plans, and sending company foresters out to give advice and assistance to wood owners.

About 20 firms in the U.S. now have Tree Farm Family programs; this number is expected to increase considerably in the near future.

Wood growers attracted to the "family" setup are generally a cut or two above the average woodland owner. A recent study by Purdue University found that Tree Farm Families are "better educated. tend to be farmers or business-professional people, own larger woodlands, and tend to be more interested in the economic returns from their woodlands" than the bulk of woodland owners.

But the most significant findings by Purdue was that the majority of Tree Farm members polled indicated they thought their sponsoring firms "are the most effective institution in encouraging the small woodland owner to employ improved forestry practices,"

Since there are some 4/2 million small woodland ownerships in the nation, a great number of which are in need of better forestry, this finding warrants that the Tree Family concept be further studied as a way to solve the basic small woodland ooprob. lem." This is the conclusion of Kerby R. Lauderdale, author of a thesis based on lhe

Purdue study.

Data for the original study were collected from 13 sponsoring firms. and 730 Tree Farm Family members.

Industry Trade Associotion leoders Honored

Two top trade association executives of the lumber and wood products industry have been cited for 'ooutstanding service and contributions in the association management field."

Mortimer B. Doyle, executive vice president of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, Washington, D.C., and Clark E. McDonald, managing director of the Hardwood Plywood Institute, Arlington, Va., have received Chartered Association Executive awards from the American Society of Association Executives. The national organization represents America's leading trade, business, technical and professional voluntary groups.

Noting that the CAE awards are among the highest conferred on trade association executives, N. B. Giustina, president of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, commented:

"Every lumberman should take pride in having these men, who represent us so ably, recognized by their own professional society."