Issued Monthly byNew York Forest Owners Association, Inco

PresidentsEditor-Secretary:

reasurer-Membership Secretary:Dr. Eugene Klochkoff, 20 E. 74th St., New York 21, N.YoFloyd E. Carlson, College of Forestry, Syracuse, NoY.Mrs. Luella B. Palmer, 157 Ballantyne Rd., Syracuse, N.Y.

D SUPPLY INDUSTRIAL PAYROLL, COMMUNITYBENEFIT

Remarks of Henry Gallien,.,Director of Bureau of Industrial Deve-

ent, )N.Y. State Departmen.t of Commerce,ven at 'Third Annual Meeting NYFOA Syra-e, N.Y., .April 24, 1965.)In my job of assisting exi~ting indus~in New York State and attracting newstry to the state, I am<particula~ly

cerned with the utilization of one ofYork State's great natural resourcestimb~r. My approach to,the problem is

ittledifferent from the economist's.sees the wood using industry as a small

oercent of the state's economy and hencea!'ds'ft as of minor irnpor t.ance, My viewdifferent, since I view it as of majorortance, to areas of the state where theac~ of new payrolls is particularlyong~ Further, I feel that encouraging·sting~plants to expand o~ bringing in

plants accomp li shes two things: it ex-s'the use of a re$ource which is curr-

ly under~utilized and wh~ch has greatential and secoorl,the new payrolls give

substantial shot in the arm to the localTo illustrate this point, let me relatecase histories of two recent additions

our industrial family in locations wide-peparated but similar in their proximitythe desired wood supplies.

The first is the Adirondack' PlywoodCorp. recently established at Tupper Lakein the former plant of the Oval Wood DishCorp. You are all familiar with Oval WoodDish's unfortunate history of regressionfrom a major employer and wood user to ashadow of its former self. We in CommerceKnew of the plant's availability, in confI»dence, of course. Hence, when we received aninquiry from Mr. Reuben Washburn, Presidentof Washburn Lumber Co. of Pittsburgh9 NewHampshire, about plant sites in timbercountry, we immediately suggested the OvalWood Dish plant.

Several months went by, during whichmuch information was furnished and the plantwas inspected. The clincher, however, waS atimber supply study in depth, prepared by ourgood friend here, Tom Shearer. Negotiationswere completed and today the plant is flour~ishing. Its output of door fatings and otherveneers is sold out formonths'aheado It isconsuming 10 million board feet a year ofmaple, birch, beech, oak and cherry~ Theyare delighted with the amount and quality ofthe wood supply.

The payroll of about 125 is contributingmore than $600,000. per year to local pros-perity. In addition, new quarters were foundfor the approximately 20 people on the OvalWood Dish payroll and they, too, are operat-ing profitably.

The second example is the Allied Chemi=cal and Dye Corporation plant which will bebuilt at Deposit, New York, to manufacture

particle board. This plant is'not only ?tthe opposite border of the state from TupperLake, but its raw material is also at theopposite end of the scale from AdirondackPlywood's. The Allied. plant will consume 350tons per day of scrub hardwood, a commodityfor which there is currently no market in thatarea. It will employ 75 with annual payrollsof over $300,000. In the Deposit area, thisis a substantial addition to the economy.

To summarize, then, here are but two ex-amples of the benefits to forest owners andto the local economy of the establishment ofnew or enlarged wood using plants. To pointup the overall effect of these 200 new jobs,note the following figures estimated by theU.S. Chamber of Commerce. They say that 100new factory jobs bring the following addition-al benefits.

359 more people100 " households91 " school children

$229,000 " bank deposits3 " retail establishments

97 " passenger cars registered$331,000 " retail sales per year

65 " employed in non-manufacturing$710,000 " personal income per year

With this kind of goal in sight, isn1t itobvious why we in Commerce are so willing andanxious to put you forest producers in touchwith new buyers and users of your product?

MULTI-PURPOSE IDEA

From Member Paul Einert, 195 John St., Engle-wood, N.J., 07631, comes this paragraph:

"A small comment to the big multi-purposeidea. I get a kick out of low pruning mywoods in order to get at choice mushroomswhich my woods seem to have many of. If Iwon't market these delicacies at least I willmake some friends happy in sharing mushroomswith them."

HEIBERG MEMORIAL AWARD ESTABLISHED

At its 20th meeting held in Syracuse onNovember 6, 1965, your NYFOA Board of Dir-ectors heard a report by the Committee on theHeiberg Memorial Award prepared by its chair-man and Board member, Mrs. Dorothy Wertheimer.The report was unanimously approved. If a

; candidate has be~n selected the .firstaward is expected to be made at the FourthAnnual Meeting to be held in S~racuse onApril 30, 1966.

Candidates for the' Heiberg Award:"Any person over 18 years of age with a

forest interest in New York State who injudgement of the Award Committee has duringthe preceding year, brought to fruition,has conceived and completed a significantproject in the field of conservation, land-use, land restoration, forestry managementor other actions in keeping with the aimsand purposes of the New York Forest OwnersAssociation; or who has made any other significant contribution to the general welfarethe field of forestry and conservation, beon the land, in the laboratory, in communiction, education, legislation, or by the meof any other directly related activities,be a candidate for the award."

Procedure:Descriptive entries are to be submitt

to regional agents who are members of theAward Committee. These regions are definedby the established Conservation Departmentforest districts. The finalists brought fward from the regional agencies will bejudged by a committee of three in Syracuseacting on behalf of the state-wide HeibergMemorial Award Committee, with whateverfessiona1 assistance may be deemed necessaThe winner shall be notified well in advanof the April 30 meeting at which time a suiable award shall be made by the New YorkForest Owners Association.

Notices of the Heiberg Memorial Awardbeing estab~ished have been sent to tQe NewYork Christmas Tree Growers Association, tForest Practice Board, New York State Consvation Council, the Empire State Forest Prducts Association, the Adirondack LumbermenAssociation, and the Northern Loggers Assoiation.

Members of Heiberg Award Committee:Suggestions for candidates for the

berg Memorial Award are to be submitted asfollows:

Candidates from Forest Districts 1, 253, 6, 8 to Mr. Hendric van Loon, Forester,Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y. - or to Mr.H. Russell Martin, 201 College Ave., IthacaN.Y.

Candidates frem Forest Districts 4 and5 are to be submitted to Dr. Co Eugene Farnworth, New York State College of Forestry,

HEIBERG MEMORIAL AWARD (continued)

Syracuse, N.Y. 13210 - or to Mr. Albert S.Loucks, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Mid-town Plaza, Syracuse, N.Y., 13203.

Candidates from Forest Districts 7, 9,0, 11 are to be submitted to Mr. Lawrence

Gordon, 119 Ballston Ave., Ballston Spa,.Y.

Candidates from Forest Districts 12, 13,4, 15 are to be submitted to Miss Jane Bar-

ton, New York State Department of Commerce,12 State St., Albany, N.Y.

CORNELL CONSERVATION COURSE ATTRACTS

A letter from Richard J. McNeil-, AssLs-tant Professor, Department of Conservation,

rnell University, says in part: "regardinge Home'Study Course 'Conservation of Nat-al Resources', we have had the biggest en-11mentyet in the course -- nearly 400kers. We don't know yet, but hope to findt later more about their sources of infor-tion. At any rate, the enrollment has beenst pleasing."

It will be interesting to know how manyOA members are enrolled in the course with

s seven lessons in conservation. If youve questions about the course, contact Pro-

essor McNeil, Fernow Hall, Cornell University,N.Y. 14850.

SIDENT JOHNSON'S MESSAGE ON NATURAL BEAUTYPART IX.

tor's note: We continue with another in12 part message.)

CLEAN WATER

"Enforcement authority must be strenthen-to provide positive controls over the dis-

of pollutants into our interstate orable waters. I recomment enactment of

slation to:--"Provide, through the setting of eff-ve water quality standards, combined withift and effective enforcement procedure,

ational program to prevent water pollution·ts source rather than attempting to cureution after it occurs.--"Increase project giant ceilings and

e additonal incentives for multi-muni-1 projects under the waste treatment

facilities construction program.--"Increase the ceilings for grants to

State water pollution control programs.--"Provide a new research and demon-

stration construction program leading to thesolution of problems caused by the mixingof storm water runoff and sanitary wastes.

"The Secretary of Health, Education,and Welfare will undertake an intensiveprogram to clean up the Nation's most poll-uted rivers. With the cooperation ofStates and cities -- using the tools ofregulation, grant and incentives -- we canbring the most serious problem of riverpollution under control. We cannot affordto do less.

"We wi 11 work wi th Canada to developa pollution control program f or .the Gr aa tLakes and other border waters.

"Through an expanded program carriedon by the Departments of Health, Education,and Welfare and Interior, we will continueto seek effective and economical methodsfor controlling pollution from acid minedrainage.

"To improve the quality of our waterswill require the fullest cooperation of ourState and local government. Working to-gether, we can and will preserve and in-crease one of our most valuable naturalresources -- clean water.

CLEAN AIR

"The enactment of the Clean Air Act inDecember of 1963 represented a long stepforward in our ability to understand andcontrol the difficult problem of air pollu-tion. The 1966 Budget request of 24 milliondollars is almost double the amount spent onair pollution programs in the year prior toits enactment.

"In addition, the Clean Air Act shouldbe improved to permit the Secretary of Health,Education, and Welfare to investigate poten-tial air pollution problems before pollutionhappens, rather than having to wait until thedamage occurs, as is now the case, and tomake recommendations leading to the preven-tion of such pollution.

"One of the principal unchecked sourcesof air pollution is the automobile. I intendto institute discussions with industry offi-cers and others interested groups leading toan effective elimination or substantial re-duction of pollution from liquid fuel motorvehicles."

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

Aldo Leopold: "We abuse land because weregard it as a commodity belonging to us.When we see land as a community to which webelong, we may begin to use it with love andrespect."

PLWJOOD BOOI:15IN SOUTHERN U.S .

BY WILLIAlllD. SMITH

Hcvolutionary is an overworked part ofthe business lexicon, but it is the wordto describe recent events in the nation'sbillion-dollar plywood industry.

The industry, the fastest growing inthe United States according to Federal Re-serve Board figures, came out of its reg-ional shell last year, bringing changes intechnology and marketing that could make1965 the greatest growth year in its his-tory.

Plywood was invested in the PacificNor thne st and until last year came almostexclusively from that area.

In 1964, however, three plants wereopened in the South for the production ofplywood from southern pine. At least 30plywood plants are being built or havebeen definitely planned for the South inthe near future.

What happened? Why should a success-ful industry suddenly break from its es-tablished patterns?

Gene C. Brewer, president of the UnitedStates Plywood Corporation has said, "Newtechnology, the proximity of the South toimportant markets and economics of timberutilization all combined to produce therevolution."

The first major commercial southernpine plywood plant was opened by the Geor-gia-Pacific Corporation in January, 1964,at Fordyce, Arkansas.

Last September, United states Plywood,in a joint venture with Temple Industries,opened a plant at Diboll, Tex. All theequipment in the Diboll plant had beendesigned especially for making plywood outof southern pine.

The third plywood plant now operatingin the South is a Kirby Lumber Company fac-ility at Silsbee, Tex.

Any thought that the use of southernpine for plywood was a passing fancy was

quickly dispelled when two other forestproduct giants, the Weyerhaeuser Comp~nyand the Olin Mathieson Chemical Corpora-tion, started construction of multi-million-dollar southern pine plywood faci-lities.

SoutheInpine plywood production capa-city is expected to reach more than onebillion square feet by the end of 1965.This is about two thirds of the nationalplywood expansion scheduled for this yearand about 8 per cent of expected plywooddemand. These totals are expected to doublwithin a few years.

In recognition of this trend,wood trade association changed its namelast year from the Douglas Fir DlywoodAssociation to the American Plywood Association.

The New York Times, '-,unday,January 3131965.

CARLSON WGY COUNTRYSIDE SPEAKER

Known to many NYFOA-WGY listeners ofeastern N-ew York, Floyd Carlson, your secretary, has been a regular producer of radioprograms for the State University College 0Forestry on the first Monday of each monthover WGY's Farm Paper of the Air, sinceOctober of 1937 - just over 28 years.

On January 3, 1966, his guest will beDean Hardy L. Shirley of the College ofForestry 5geakin9 on "The College of For~estry In 1966."

In 1960 Floyd was asked to serve as aWGY Countryside Speaker on the months witha fifth Wednesday - four times a yearo Nowhe has been asked to take the place ofCharles John Stevenson, widely known Countside Speaker and humorist, who died lastOctober. As a consequence Floyd will takethe second Wednesday of each month. Hisfirst t.alk on November 10 was entitled "Tooof the Tree", a talk on leaves. His secondon December 8 is "Light on the ChristmasTree", and on January 12, 1966, his topicwill be "Trees and Geologi.c Time."

The WGY College of Forestry and Counside Talks go on the air over ~GY, a 50,000watt station, about 12:30 noon (dial 810) aare heard by an estimated quarter of a milllisteners.