Northwest Hordwood Associqtion Annuol ftleeting Cites Accomplishments, Lqunches Vigorous Progrom

Special to The CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

By Harry O. Mitchell, Secretaiy-Mattiger, Seattle, Wash.

September 26-27 marked the third anniversary of the founding of the Northwest Hardwood Association by a little group of zealous men at Olympia, Washington-men who had a high vision of the enormous potential in Pacific Coast hardwoods and the initiative and zeal to undertake an almost impossible problem of welding together diverse and, to some extent, antagonistic interests into an organization that would take the "weed" trees out of the woods and turn them to good use in the markets and industries of America.

Emmet J. Nist, retiring after three terms in office as its president, recited what the association has accomplished during this brief period before turning the massive maple gavel over to his successor, Paul A. Barber, partner of Oregon Alder-Maple Company, Willamina, Oregon, newlyelected president. The Nist list:

Completion and publication of the first study in history on the Management of Red Alder in the Paciflc Northwest -a 24-page guide to scientific forest management to assure an undiminished, continuing supply of the region's 23billion board feet of its native hardwoods on a perpetuating basis;

The establishment of hardwood log and lumber grading rules, now accepted by the National Hardwood Lumber Association as the nation's standards for western alder ancl maple, and the appointment of the northwest association's vice-president, L. R. Smith, former chairman of its lumber rules committee, to the national rules committee;

Obtaining lower trans-continental rail rates on westem hardwoods to all the markets of America;

Successful resistance to threatened increased taxation of hardwood bare growing lands;

Exhibits and participation in trade shows to display the beautiful hardwoods of the Pacific Coast and educate architects, builders and the general public to an appreciation of their diversity of uses and properties and characteristics;

Bringing political pressure on state and federal departrnents to gain acceptance of western hardwoods in specifications for public buildings, institutional furniture, etc. ;

Education of its members by lectures and panel discussions on logging, sawmilling,- drying and finishing techniques and marketing, and the staging of the first course in hardwood lumber grading ever held in the region;

Nationwide publicity through the timber, woodworking, architectural and building press, newspapers, wire services, radio and television, to advance the cause of Pacific Coast hardwoods:

Servicing members and buyers to bring together sources of supply and users, and

Assistance in the location and development of new hardwood production enterprises.

. New Officers and Directors

In addition to the election of Barber as the association's 1958-59 president, L. R. Smith, president of L. R. Smith Hardwood Company, with mill at Longview, Washington, and distribution yard in Los Angeles, was returned to the vice-presidency for another year. Harry P. Caldwell, Morton Lumber Company (brokers), Seattle, was voted in for his fourth term as treasurer.

New directors are Tames H. McFarland of Weverhaeuser Timber Company, Longview; Ray A. Olsen, partner of J. O. Olsen Manufacturing Company, Eugene, Oregon, and Dick Inglis, proprietor of Enumclaw Lumber Company, Enumclaw, Washington.

Mike Michel, president, Michel Lumber Company, Oswego, Oregon, served as chairman of the Nominating committee, and Dr. Donald H. Clark of the Washington State

Other directors serving unexpired terms are: John W. 4l!.", forester for Bloedel Timberlands DevelopmLnt, Inc., Winslow, Washington; John H. Hauberg, I{., president, Pacific Denkmann Company, Seattle timbeiland o*ners and operators; Robert McGregor, president, West Coast Hardwood Limited, Vancouver, B. C.; Victor L. Nelson, president, Goodyear Nelson Hardwood Lumber Co., Inc., Sedro W9o_11:y,.Washington, and R. H. O'Neill, president, Hemp- hill-O'Neill Lumber Company, Inc., Chehalis, Washington, wholesalers.

Nist Honored for Services

In recognition of his leadership in the development, conservation and promotion of wesiern hardwoodq the board of djrectors presented Mr. Nist with a beautiful plaque hand-carved out of native Washington bird's-eye aldel with gold-engraved plates testifying to his labors in the cause of our natlve specles.

"Mr. Hardwoods of America"

The title of "Mr. Hardwoods of America for 1958" was conferred, upon Burdett Green in recognition of his many yrcars of leadership as executive vice-president of the Fine Hardwoods Association, Chicago, and the creation of the fabulous collection of the worldt hardwoods into a museum display in Chicago's famed American Furniture Mart. Green is now residing in California at Los Gatos, as vicepresident,of Elmendorf Research, Inc., of Palo Alto, where he is engaged in developing new uses for Pacific Coast hardwoods, the application of these woods as veneers for furniture and interior wall panels, and other research.

Green made the major address of the meeting and illustrated his remarks with a presentation of samples of west-

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