Forest Industries Face Changes in Products
Forest industries anticipate major shifts toward more finished products including prefabricated homes. The Timberman yearbook notes mergers, closer ties with pulp and paper, and reliance on second-growth forests within a century. Executives see log uniformity, lighter equipment, and renewed markets amid imports and free trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Ore
Forest Industries
Timberman
Miller
Freeman Publications
Trade Journal
United States
Canada
Alaska
Paul Bunyan
Lumber
Avill
iEmpire Cdaho
Mon Lumber
Trio of Freighters to Be Built by Company
SAN FRANCISCO. Three 35,000 ton Mariner type freighters will be built for States Steamship Company Pacific operations. The company seeks a 47 percent subsidy from the Federal Maritime Board. Each ship is estimated to cost 14.5 million dollars, able to travel 20 knots and carry 12 passengers in addition to cargo. The California Highway Patrol reports 313,919 speeding arrests in 1957, up 14.5 percent.
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San Francisco
UPD
States Steamship Company
Pacific
Federal Maritime Board
Tree Farming Principles Aid Progress
A California Redwood Association survey of private timber cutting in the Redwood Region shows 96 percent of one billion board feet harvested in 1957 under acceptable or better practices. R. R. Chaffee said most cuts followed high order forestry standards, with 54 percent in high order and 42 percent fully acceptable under state rules, while four percent were minimum practice, mainly on ranchers’ lands. The report, presented to the State Board of Forestry, also details private industry fire protection spending in 1957.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Redwood
California Redwood Association
R. R. Chaffee
Willits
State Board of Forestry
Placerville
Chaffee
Board of Forestry
Talvola Named Chief Inspector of Redwood Agency
Ralph A Talvola of Eureka is named Chief Inspector of the California Redwood Association's Redwood Inspection Service. He joined as an Inspector in 1950 and has three years as supervisor of inspection. A native of the Redwood Region, he brings nearly 30 years in the lumber industry and has worked with Humboldt County producers and the West Coast Bureau of Lumber Grades and Inspection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
California Redwood Association
Redwood Inspection Service
Ralph A.talvola
Eureka
Philip T. Farnsworth
Association
Talvola
Redwood
Humboldt County
West Coast
Bureau of Lumber
Ukiah High School Student Wins RRCC Essay Contest
Mary Truitt, Ukiah Union High School class of 1958, wins RRCC Annual Fanny Contest with essay How Forest Fires Affect Our Local Economy. The piece outlines forest fire impacts on lumber economies, water supply, wildlife, fisheries, farm losses, infrastructure damage, and broader costs to the community and calls for prevention.
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Ukiah High School
RRCC
Mary Truitt
Ukiah Union High School
Mina Truitt
California
North
Mendocino County
Notice to bidders for student use training car
Board of Trustees Ukiah Union High School District invites bids up to eight of stock for a student use training car. Required: standard manufacture such as Ford Chevrolet Plymouth and delivery by September 1 1968. Right to reject all bids. Details at District Superintendent office Ukiah California. W A Cheasall District Superintendent 6/18 2h
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Board of Trustees
Ukiah Union High Schooal
Oto
Hunt Control
Ford
Chevrolet
Plymouth
Ukiah Union High School
W. A. Cheasall
MNF Fire Training Camp Underway at Fouts Springs
The Mendocino National Forests annual fire training camp began at Fouts Springs on Monday and runs through Friday. About 60 participants from Paskenta Stonyford Upper Lake and Covelo Ranger Districts receive elementary to advanced instruction in lookout work prevention equipment care and use and fire suppression. Covelo District marks 10 years without an accident. A photo enlargement of Anthony Peak is presented to Ranger A J Wed dle. Fire Control Assistant John Yeager of Stonyford leads the program.
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Mendocino National Forest
Fouts Springs
Robert E. Dasmann
Stonyford
Paskenta
Upper Lake
Covelo
Anthony Peak
A. J. Weddle
Dasmann
John Yeager
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Pacific Northwest
Oregon
W. S. Bromley
American Pulpwood Association
New York City
U. S
California Highway Patrol
Ash
R. Talvola
MNF
Kingsford
Highway 101
Talmane O All Dapartmant
Golden Cola
Simon
Heinz Tarragon
Pint
Pilsbury
del Monte
Romaine
USDA
Franks
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