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(Continued from Page 14) struction." He reviewed the various distinctions between different types of wood building materials, particularly emphasizing structural and non-structural qualities. He frequently referred to the necessity for users of lumber to avoid over-specifying and to make the most economical use of lower grades of lumber, where they are appropriate, in order to serve their own interests best and also to contribute to a more complete realization of the value of the tree and thus achieve greater utilization of an immense natural resource. Kimball is a structural engineer, formerly an instructor at Yale University in this subject, and has been associated with the WCLA for six years.

The final speaker on the program brought Dr. J. Alfred HalI, for many years director of the National Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin, before the audience. Dr. Hall is nominally retired but keeps very busy as a research consultant to

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Rolph Sreffen o Cqrl Duproy several large companies, mal<ing his headquarters in Portland, Oregon. Dr. Hall's witty and rousing remarks brought such excitement to the audience, with his description of the latest developments in research and the further challenge of the future, that many guests quite probably rushed from the meeting: to the nearest lumber yard in order to place a large order.

The committee for this valuable wood promotion event were:

Greg Lambert, Simpson Redwood Company, Chairman

Harry Chase, Roddiscraft, Inc., Program

Don Metcalf, The Pacific Lumber Co., Invitations

Harry Graham, No. Coast Timber Assoc., Invitations

Sam Witzell, R. H. Emmerson & Son, Finance

Jack Behrens, Simpson Redwood Co., Exhibits

Bud Peterson, Georgia-Pacific, House

Ken Laudenschlager, Arcata Redwood Co., Registration

Art Milhaupt, Fremont F'orest Products, Public Relations

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It's beerr our pleasure to serve the West Coast Lumber lndustrv through another year. We hope we have served it well.

The Staff of this industry journal now pledges itself to another year of Service-to you. We hope we mav serve you even better in196l ...

Ione Adams

Max Cook

Marie Dickson

Iack Di,onne

Ole May

Reed Porter

Ruth Richards

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SEATTIE ilrES ED|T0RtAr 0l{ it.F.P.W.

The tollosing edltorial, ieaded simplt "l{ational Fore3t Products Weel," aD0.a1ed on the editorial lare of The Seatlle Times, Sunday,octoler 16: lndustriss tiat conyori trees into Gonsumer erticlos rank fourth in tho Unlted Statos in the numier ot tull-tlme employes, payrolls and yolume of nan[facture. It seons highly approDriate, theretore, that by proclamation 0l President Ei3en. howsr thc weet bcginning today has bsen designated llatlonal Forost Product3 Weef. oddlt enough, in a land ttat delights In olserying myriad weets, one deyoted to the wood indu3tries gets 0n the calondar this year for the ffrst time. It is estinated that waod trom America's foresti is converted into n0 less than 5,100 prod[Gt3 in general usage. The p]ocessss ot telling the tree3, sawing them into |tm0er, converting the lumber into artlcles ot commerce, di3tributing and selling them, c0mpri3e a huge Industr;al actiyity that reachos into yirtuallt every connunitY in the land, l{owhere, proDally, is the torest-products industry more important to . regional economy than in tte Pacifc Northwest, and it iE here that Nati0nal Forest Products tryeef is Deirg oDseryed with sDecial appreciation ot its signifiGance. Puget Sound foll generallt will ioin in best wishes to this area's yast ani vital forest-prodlcts industry.

Seottle Hoo-Hoo Work All Angles

To Score Big Wirh First NFPWeek

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Protective Association, the Keep Washington Green Assoeiation, the Washington State F'orestry Conference, the Rainier F'orest Association, the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, the Western Red Cedar Lumber Association, the U.S. Red Cedar Shingle Industry, fnc., the Hand Split Red Cedar Shake Association, the College of F'orestry of the University of Washington, the Seattle Hoo-Hoo Club No. 34, the Tacoma-Olympia Hoo-Hoo Club No. 89, and the Seattle Lumbermen's Club,

The giants in the industry were represented: Weyerhaeuser Company, the Crown-Zellerbach Corporation, Simpson Timber Company, St. Regis-St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company, United States Plywood Company, Bloedel Timberlands Development, fnc., Nettleton Lumber Company, Elliott Bay Mill, Seattle Cedar Lumber Company, North-Robbins Plywood Company, Kenmore Lumber Company, Sam Hale Lumber Compa.ny, Logan Lumber Company, Knoll Lumber Company, Mill Equipment, Inc., Ehrlich-Harrison Co., Miller-Axling Lumber and Plywood Co., and others were represented.

To the Seattle Chamber of Commerce g:oes a large vote of thanks for providing the banquet hall, its magnificent facilities, and the services of its capable public relations sta.ff who contributed so much to the success of the program.

A unlque foature of the luncheon was the seating of a typical IIoo-IIoo Degreo Team wlth members robed llke the itrustices of the United States Supreme Court.

As the Master of Ceremonies, Dave James, public relations director of the Simpson Timber Company, introduced each member, the latter rose and turned his pine-tree table placard toward the audience. When all had been presented, the letters facing the audience spelled out the motto of the Order: "G-O-L-D-E-N R-U-L-E."

James gave a brief historical outline of the ?O-year old organization and paid tribute to the zeal of Hoo-Hoo and its local clubs in staging the nationwide celebration of the first Forest Products Week in history, a long-deferred recognition of America's lumber industry which is custodian for the nation's greatest renewable resource.

Members of the degree team (left to right facing the audience) were: Ross G. I{incaid, President, Seattle Hoo-Hoo Club No. 34; Carl Knoll No. 55677, Treasurer; tr'rank Andre No. 54874, VicePresident; Gordon D. Marckworth No. 54338, Past-President; James G. Miller No. 55685, former member of the Supreme Nine; Robert W'. Anderson, Jr. No. 48633, Washington State Chairman for National Forest Products Week, Tacoma-Olympia Hoo-Hoo Club No. 89; Larry J. Hurd, President, Tacoma-Olympia Club; William C. Bell, former member of the Supreme Nine; Harry O. Mitchell, and Dr. Donald H. Clark, former member of the Supreme Nine who, in 1921, was in charge of initiating the largest gtoup of Kittens (22L) at one time in the history of the Order.

Others making up the Speakers' Table were (in continuing order) the speaker, William D. Welsh of Port Angeles, Wash-