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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON MONDAY. DECEMBER 3. 1962 Northwest Lumber Industry Moving To World Ma rkets SmIUi By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington (Special) - The fight the Northwest lumber Industry has launched to get back into the Puerto Rican market, now monopoli zed by Canada, is just the start of a drive to expand North west lumber imports throu ghoul the world. Plans are in the works for two trade missions of lumber men, with the blessing of the Kennedy administration, to hit the growing lumber mar kets of Europe and Asia dur ing the coming year. "These will be do-it-yourself trade missions, paid for by the industry," explained Ed Thompson, Washington representative of West Coast Lumbermen's association, the organization which is sponsor ing the trade missions. The first will go to Europe In the spring, the second to the Far East in the fall. The Department of Commerce is working with the industry, Thompson said, but because This Christmas Give RECORDS Xjlt CHRISTMAS IN ZITHERLAND .Visit Our Record Dept. Finest Selection in Northwest Puruckers RECORD SHOP 111 N, Central 773-7538 the trips will be privately fi nanced thu lumbermen will be allowed to sell lumber and not just create good will. Among the five lumbermen planning to take the European trip is William H. Schlauch, manager of Georgia-Pacific's export department at Port land, a major American lum ber exporting firm which last year sold about 100 million board feet of lumber in for eign markets -or nearly a third of the total American lumber exports. - , ' . "Our exports have grown so much that we are purchas ing more and more lumber from outside mills," said Schlauch. He said Georgia-Pacific buys from Weyerhaeuser, Simpson, as well as. smaller companies, to meet the de mand of foreign purchasers, chiefly for Douglas fir, but also hemlock, redwood and an increasing quantity of ply wood. British Columbia mills, which now dominate the east ern markets of the. United States, also export more lum ber to the rest of the world than do American producers (854 million board feet to 333 million board feet last year): but even Canada can't meet the demand for lumber, and so American companies share in the market despite a slight ly higher cost. American lumber 'goes into everything from Venetian blinds made in Italy to the 2x3 roofing used in Tahiti's grass shacks, said Schlauch. Japan is the largest customer, Australia is- second, Korea third (foreign aid purchases swell Korean buying), Britain is next.' Schlauch is very optimistic about expanding trade with the common market countries of western Europe. He point ed out that these industrial countries are expanding their productivity, raising the standard of living of their peo ple, which will result in more new housing construction to cut into the huge housing shortage which has existed ever since World War II lev e 1 e d countless residential areas of Europe. "All we ship to Europe is clears (lumber without any knots) in Douglas fir, hemlock and pitch pine," he noted. The commons (rougher kY. vt kl t Ttv. jws.s .v-w - 1 1 1 I SUNDAY SCENE This "waterfall" splash- yards of several homes. The water came ed over the side of Hopkins rd. in Central within three in,hs of entering the O. W. Point yesterday and flowed into the front Looper home. grades of lumber used for con struction) come from Sweden, Finland and Russia chiefly, although Canada is selling some commons in Europe. The new trade bill ought to help expand American lum ber sales in the common mar ket countries, he speculated, citing -a 10 per cent duty which Britain now imposes on American plywood (but none on Canadian plywood) as an example of a tariff that should be dropped under the lowered tariff barriers envi sioned by the Kennedy admin istration. Asked to take a long look into the future for lumber ex ports, Schlauch, said increas ing industrialization of other countries and the population growth were reasons to be op timistic that Northwest lum ber will be in growing de mand. "I believe there could even be a shortage of lumber some day," he added. Cub Scout Pack IS About 100 parents and friends of Cub Scout Pack 15, sponsored by the Phoenix First Presbyterian church, at tended the annual awards meeting last week. Ben Roesser, cub master, made the presentation of awards. 4 r lif ft -' 1,: e -- L.,.,.n...V ' ' V ' r 'i Ml -mil :ri"i)' r l'iiii-irii l " ' y- BUSY METEOROLOGIST - Bob Church, meteorologist in charge of the Medford office of the Weather Bureau, was ine of the busiest persons in the valley during the week end. Here he checks on flooding conditions via short wave radio. (Knacksledl. photo) OLD SUNNY SHOOK OISI. CO.. lOWSVIUt. KY. KENTUCKY STUIIGHT SOUnBON WHISKEY W MUX, KtKIOCKY BlEHOtO WHISKEY 86 WOOF. 65X Gltllll HEUTKl SPIRITS 3 I frfx a I "PU' hit .. rf'Z i a Z :v f LIKE w proof r A fWK SUMMY..., Ilill SUNNY fj BRK Dm i r;, 11 s3 tai o Pre-School Sfory Hour Leader Told Leader for the pre-school story hour Tuesday, Dec. 4, in the Junior department of the Public Library of Med ford and Jackson County will be Mrs. A. J. Garcia. Mr?. Garcia has planned a program of stories, using finger plays and flannel board. 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