NLMA Holds Annual Meetins

R. R. Macartney Elected President

Wasliington, D. C.-The National Lumber Manuf:,-cturers Association highlighted its 1951 annual meeting, Nov. 11-14, in Washington, I). C., by electing Oregon lumberrnan Ralph R. Macartney as president and demanding that the federal government keep hands off private timber management.

Between 150 and 200 of the nation's leading lumbermr:n, representing all sections of the countrv. attended tl-re fourday conclave at the Shoreham Hotel.

U. S. Chamber of Commerce President Laurence F. Lee grabbed the spotlight at a luncheon mei:ting by proposing thet the new Congress suspend all non-nrilitary federal la:ld acquisition pending a re-study of the problem.

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l\{acartney, manager of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Companv at Klamath Falls, Ore., repiaces lohn B. Veach as \II-NIA president for 1953. Veach, president of the Hardwood Corporation of America, Asheville. N. C., was elected NLI\{A board chairman, succeeding Corydon Wagirer, vice president and treasurer of the St. Paul and Tacoma Lurnber Company, Tacoma, Wash.

J. R. Bemis, president of the Ozan l-umber Company. Prescott, Ark., was named first vice president of NL1!fA, succeeding Macartney. Bemis was recently elected president of the Southern Pine Association.

Veach set the tone of the meeting with a predictiun that consumers will get "greater value and better service for tl-reir dollars spent on lumber in the year ahead."

Veach said the prospect of "bettcr buys" in lumber results from more efficient production methods, greater :utilizaticy,r of rvaste materials, improved cutting practices and ltetter merchandising programs. He added: "This 'ivill help lunrber to maintain its position in the builcling materials field and to pace the cievelopment of nerv products."

A n.rain objective of the meeting t,as to map nen strategy to offset the inroads made in ltimber markets bv other building products. Spurred by \reach's warning that lunrbermen "may face a serious chalienge" from con,petitii'e products, industry representatives developed a "blueprint of action," designed to promote greater use of 11'6s{ 31p6n. civilian and defense consumers in the year ahead.

\/each also u,arned the lurnber leaders that they "face the prospect of a possible over-supply lf timber." Ife said this "points up the need for rvell-planned action to increase ottr markets "

Resolutions adopted by NLMA's 54-man board of directors called on the federal government to build more roads to speed the l.rarvesting of over-aged and d;:maged federal timber, and denounced several recommend:Ltions of the President's Materials Policy Commission, herded by CBS Board Chairman William Paley

NLNIA directors took a special rap at the Paley proposal for federal-state controls on private tirrrber cuttiug. The directors insisted that any public regulation of private timber cutting should be left entirelv to the states.

At the outset of the meeting, sevei'al lunri.>er leaders charged that the Paley proposal for federal-stlte controls rvas based on "the false philosophy that we face :r timber fan:rine." Thev claimed that the commission's predictions of future timber needs were "unjustifiably high" and that its estimates of present and future timber grou'th r'r'ere "pessimistically low."

IILMA also attacked the Paley proposal for a svstem of federally-financed forest loans and insurance. Thr: associ-

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To step up the harvesting of deteriorating federal timber, NLMA urged that the government sperid $30,000,000 annually over the next five years for construction of uerv timber access roads in federal forests. This is appro:<imately triple present outlays. The association aCded that the government should finance timber road construction onlv where private building is not feasible and that each prc,iecli should be subject to a public hearing.

Other NlMA-approved resolutions, suggestc'd by the association's Forest Conservation Committee :

1. Recommended that state forestry depaftnrents lev.v a service charge (based on production) for techuicitl assistance furnished private forest operators In this connection, NLMA rejected a Paley Commission proposa'l that the Agriculture Department eventually be authorized to increase its staff for this work to 2,000 field mer-r and that the cost be borne equally by federal and state governments.

2. Recommended that the forest managemeni standards for federal lands be raised to the level mainta:ned on intensively managed private lands.

3. Called on federal, state and private intere:-;ts to step up their forest insect and disease research, and to improve their detection and control facilities.

.1. Suggested that a national forest research advisory conr-rcil be established to bolster the forest research programs of all federal, state and private agencies. NLNIA c-rpposed a Paley Commission proposal that the .r\griculture Department's forest research funds be doubled, end insisted that the agency streamline these activities instead.

5. Proposed that state forestry departments encourage private operators to plant more seedlings on i,lic lands. NI,\IA insisted, however, that the states should boost their charges for seedlings to the extent that state :tnd federal subsidies could be eliminated wherever 'state l:rrvs permit.

6. Demanded that the matter of property taxation and special forest tax larvs be left entirely tt'r the states.

In his luncheon address, U. S. Chamber oi Cc.mmerce President Lee cautioned that the U. S. is becomi'eg second onlv to Russia in the extent of government lantl-holdings. The business leader noted that the federal govcrnment now owns 24 per cent of all land in the U. S.. and suggested that NLNIA combine ryith other groups to iormulate sound policies of federal land on'nershili natural blr pri-

"In the nineteenth century," Lee said, "our government dilTused land o'ivnership (through the Homesteacl Acts). In t.he t'iventieth century, it has been taking the land back. That is not progress. It is sheer reaction."

Today, Lee added, the federal gor,ernment holds in cxcess of 455 million acres, not including Indian reservations nor the federal lands in Alask:r ancl the otl-rer terr:tories.

"E,r'en the federal bureaus themselr'es do not kttorv holr, much they own," he said.

I-ee asserted federal land ou'nership not only tax loss, but prevents profitable development of mealls a resorlrces such as timber, coal and othel minerals vate, taxpaying ou'ners.

He suggested that NLNIA call together such gioups as the pulp and paper industry, several state cattle and sheep gron'ers' organizations, the Council of State Govert.rors, the taxpal'ers' associations, the National F.clucation Associaticn and the local and state chaml;ers of c()rlmerce to \\'ork out a four-point program as follou's: l. Registration of all federal lands t'ith the Department of tire Interior. The record shouid disclc,se the anilual rate of increase or decrease of federal land holdings. and so end the confusion as to the exact extent of gor'ernmenton'ned lands.

2. Organtzation by Congress of joint boards representing federal, state and private land-orvnership to provide nrore acctlrate data on federal lands and- to estatilish criteria on rvhich to base the type of ou'ners}rip.

3. Examination of federal land holdings by Corrgress to determine vghat property is best suited for private ownership.

4. Suspension of all federal land ac<luisition, except that needed by the military, during the period of registration and examination.

Another feature of the lumber meeting was a special discussion of legislation which affects the industry'

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