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F. White, president

Ncrtionol Forest Timber Cut crt Record High

Under more intensive multiple-use management, timber cut on the National Forests jumped a billion board feet during fiscal year 1960, bringing the total harvest to a new high, announces the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Field ofrces of USDA's l'orest Service reported a cut of 9% billion board feet of timber with a value of almost $148 million. This compares with a cut of 8% billion board feet in fiscal year 1959 with a value of $114 million. Until 1959 the previous high was a harvest of 7 billion board feet in 1957, The 9% board feet cut from National l'orests represents l47o of the total sawtimber harvested for the entire Nation.

The Forest Service aJso sold more timber in fiscal year 1960, reporting an increase of 30oZ over 1959' This will be reflected in future harvests. Most of the increase is attributed to a long-term sale of 3 billion board feet of pulpwood in the Southwest.

This sale, the largest ever made outside Alaska, will mean an important new industry for that region. It will supply a new paper mill, producing a daily capacity of 150 tons of kraft paper and 210 tons of newsprint, and will provide additional jobs. The timber will come from the Colorado Plateau of Arizona and New Mexico in the Kaibab, Coconino, Sitgreaves, Apache, Tonto, and Cibola National Forests.

The sustained-yield volume of timber provided by these public forests has increased sharply in the last decade, under itepped-up, multiple-use management and rising demands for timber. With the new development plan, the Program for the National X'orests, the cut of timber from these lands is expected to go up steadily to an ultimate annual harvest of some 20 billion board feet by the year 2,000' untrained, unskilled and unscrupulous gyp artists selling everything from furnaces to roof repairs to prey on unwary homeowners."

Mr. DeVille explained that the rash of publicity given to the swindles put over by these fly-by-night operators has had a marked effect on the home-modernization business in many areas, and it has caused many homeowners to cancel or postpone planned projects. The main purpose of the lumbei uttd buildittg materials dealers' program is to stimulate interest in remodeling by guiding homeowners to capable, reliable building materials showrooms where they can get everything they need in the way of-advice, service and Hnancing, as iryell is the actual materials to be used in the iob.

' The backbone of the program will be local newspaper advertising, but to give it national con-tinuity, major consumer magazlnes *til also be used. Additional material for local use i! also being developed and wilt be made available through local lumbei and building materials dealers.

Itrlnevltte explained that the "Project A" program is one of tl-re most imbitious campaigns ever undertaken in the retail lumber industry, but he also pointed out that i{ the American homeowner is to get satisfactory moclernization work at reasonable cost, he must be kept informed as to where he mttst go to get helP.

Unired Stotes Plywood Gontrqcts For Plywood From Guqtemqlq

United States Plywood Corp. will market the entire exportable surplus of the output of the only plywood manufacturer in Guatemala, under terms of a ten-year contract announced by Monroe \\r. Pollack, United States Plywood vice-president in charge of sales. The Guatemalan firm is called Industria de Madera "Las Quebradas," which currently operates one plywood mill about 17 miles from Porto Barrios and a veneer mill in Porto Barrios. The veneer mill will be converted into a plywood plant with United States Plywood assistance, said Mr. Pollack.

He said United States Plywood will receive an assurecl supply of several beautiful tropical woods which are gaining warm acceptance in this country. Principal one, he said, is Banak, a dark red hardwood with a highly figured grain which makes a very decorative prefinished wall panel.

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