Page 4B THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1980 Treemen felled by economy United Press International PORTLAND, Ore. — There are thousands of lumberjacks and woodworkers on unemployment compensation in the nation’s northwest timber belt. Until inflation and high interest rates subside, they’re not likely to be back in the tall timber. Those two economic factors have crippled the timber and housing industry. They have brought unemployment to about 20,000 woodworkers in northern California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana, these states’ employment security divisions report. The recession in timber and wood products hit last spring. It improved slightly in the summer with declining interest rates. It started worsening again in the fall as interest rates went up again. Inflation, industry people say, still is nowhere near control. The western lumber industry, providing more than half the nation’s wood products, may be unable to fill 1981 lumber demand in an orderly manner, says H. A. Roberts. “The present economic conditions that have crippled homebuilding in 1980 have forced west ern softwood lumber producers to slice their in ventories to very low levels,” said Roberts, execu tive vice president for the Western Wood Pro ducts Association. “Some mills are not building log decks for nor mal winter production schedules,” he told the association’s fall meeting in Scottsdale, Ariz. “If a strong demand develops early in 1981, producers may not be able to fill it.” But, said Roberts, “compared to 1980, next year should be a year to rejoice for our industry.” He expects it to be a transition year to anticipated high demand in the mid-’80s. The association forecasts 1.6 million housing units will be built in the United States. If that happens, Roberts says, “Lumber demand will be up 12 percent; nearly 4 billion board feet, with “The situation probably won’t change until after the election, where there's some effect on the prime interest rate. And then there's still the larger problem of timber supply, "said Tony McCann, spokesman for the California Forest Protective Association. western lumber mills producing 17.1 billion feet; 1.7 billion feet more than in 1980.” He expects interest rates will increase further, but then drop in 1981. “We’ve had lots of fellows laid off,” said Tony McCann, spokesman for the California Forest Protective Association in Sacramento, which rep resents 38 major industrial timber companies. “The long-term problem is the availability of timber supplies,” he said. “The major immediate problem has been higher prime interest rates which aggravates an already miserable situation. “Effects of the layoffs are great because they occur in small rural northern California communi ties that depend on the industry. We’re talking about people who have two or three dependents and they may choose to go elsewhere or if they stay they go into the unemployment line. “The situation probably won’t change until af ter the election, where there’s some effect on the prime interest rate. And then there’s still the larger problem of timber supply. That won’t be resolved until we resolve the wilderness issue so we know how much timber we have to harvest. There’s enough, if we are able to harvest more from public lands.” Congress recently expanded the Redwood Na tional Park by 48,000 acres, taking more land out of commercial timber production. “That knocked a lot of people out of the box,” said McCann, “because they were depending on that timber in the years ahead.” Employment figures in the California Labor Market Bulletin showed the number of timber workers declined from 70,600 in July 1979 to 60,800 at the same point this year. The California Finance Department said that housing construc tion fell 14.6 percent in May, leading the slow down among the state’s economic indicators. However, Bank of America said California’s housing construction industry is expected to re cover because of a need for new and existing housing with a potential demand for 300,000 homes. Normally demand runs around 260,000 new dwellings a year, but it has been around 150,000 this year. “Sooner or later,” says Brian Barrette, a Cali fornia state forestry official, “people have to build homes to meet the high demands so the timber industry’s situation has got to improve.” Former farm bureau leade^ still serving, speaking out Anii ■ TENDER LOVING CARE! FOR YOUR THESIS OR DISSERTATION OF A LIFETIME. We Care At KINKO’S COPIES 201 College Main • 846-8721 Open Every Day ^xssk>5«< >5«e< ya&ymt United Press International MACKINAW, Ill. — Bill Kuhfuss is retired now but his passions for a free market and saving the soil bum no less fiercely. Days on his 1,000-acre farm near Mackinaw in central Illinois are spent doing odd jobs and fixing broken items for his son and nephew who run the fa ming operation and raise Angus cattle. But Kuhfuss — once president of the powerful American Farm Bureau Federation — says he still has a hard time saying no when asked to serve. As a result, he is currently on the Illinois Judiciary Inquiry Board, a bank board, a church board, and the Illinois State University Foundation Board. He also is a director of an advocate group for retired senior citizens. “It’s a delightful arrangement,” Kuhfuss, 68, said of his retirement. “I’m still no good at turning down a job.” As president of the AFBF for five years, Kuhfuss was one of the leading proponents of a market system free of government regulation and politi cians. He met frequently with presi dents Nixon and Ford on farm policy and traveled thousands of miles promoting international trade for American farm products. Now as one of the Farm Bureau’s elder statesmen, Kuhfuss still speaks his mind. “But I try to discipline myself and not say too much," Kuhfuss said with a laugh. “I do have the opportunity to com ment now and then, though,” he said, taking his cue to talk Farm Bureau philosophy. “You have to remember, the guid ing light and basic philosophy does not delegate the responsibility of directing agriculture to the politi cians. I’ve been to too many places where politicians direct and control the farmer’s product. “And every place that is done, far mers are peasants. Farmers don’t need to be peasants. The market eco nomy must be retained. It’s not only important to the farmer but also to the consumer. “We haven’t even begun to pro duce the maximum amount of food stuffs in the United States that we have the potential to produce.” Before'taking the national position in December 1970, Kuhfuss served as president of the Illinois Farm Bureau for 12 years and also as presi dent of many of Farm Bureau’s num erous business affiliates. He directed the move from Chicago to Blooming ton of Farm Bureau’s headquarters in 1961. Before his long association with Farm Bureau began, Kuhfuss said, he had no intention of being any thing but a farmer. He was gradu ated from Illinois State University in 1934 and had excelled in sports. But he fought a stuttering problem. “If anybody had told me then I would be up before 8,000 to 10,000 people speaking, I would have told them ‘you’re crazy,”’ Kuhfuss said. He overcame the speech problem and one job led to another. “I had no real ambitions in the beginning,” he said. “I just decided if there was a place where I o helpful or I could render senj. would do it.” QUEBEC In addition to helping defeat Pyrami farm policy, he also has talttjBiggest in lead in using conservation pnwn urns ■ to protect the soil on thefampowallhe has been in his family since 1S1 the sleep; “The philosophy I’ve i!i|ntreal, is { promoted is, If you takegooda&oard. the soil — the soil will takegooJ&int-Gern of you,”’ he said. which in When most farmers wereslftng to dc ing moldboard plows in thelal"! just thir working their land until itMhe is a ‘ smooth, Kuhfuss used a chiselsuld be cor and left sufficient cover on tkiSaint-Geni to protect it during hard sife leaked i months. ■ he foui In the late 1950s, Kuhfuss aw him to brother, Al, developed a mint.l’! 16 area j tillage system that also used tit I ve appl tie herd to protect the soilfromP United SHINC A two-wheeled wagon was to the back of the combine. I was full, the cracked kernels, and other debris were piles on the fields and the my turned out into the fields to s| provided feed for the cattle, wl tum provided fertilizer in the! manure for the land, he said, L r j } )as The Kuhfoss family also usecpher colh touring and terracing on rollinglffire requi But Kuhfuss is adamant thahpVct of If mer must voluntarily assumler for a c sponsibility for the care of h .flu jus tier “Regulations on farming ij| erm W 1 by a government agency are J| a ru !' n l from anything American as a sigi has ever conceived in the enfeB an ^ ca P ■ tory of the United States,"1 OCHANELLO’S PIZZA & SUBS 52 Study shows efficiency of new ‘heatless’ homes ginder tl ■tight. | suit wa 1 by Wa pat the Bin, to re ph him v Deter to ; He argued Dr to con X > z m r r O c/5 N N > CT c off any size Chanello’s SUPREME FREE DELIVERY 846-7751 Open M-F at 4 pm S-SU at 11 am expires 12/31/80 NOT VALID DURING ANY OTHER SPECIAL OFFER $1 off any 14", 17", or 20" pizza one item or more FREEDEUVERY 846-7751 Open M-F at 4 pm S-SU at 11 am expires 12/31/80 NOT VALID DURING ANY OTHER SPECIAL OFFER $2 off any 20 inch one item or more FREEDEUVERY 846-7751 Open M-F at 4 pm S-SU at 11 am expires 12/31/80 NOT VALID DURING ANY OTHER SPECIAL OFFER 50t off any sandwich FREEDEUVERY 846-7751 Open M-F at 4 pm S-SU at 11 am expires 12/31/80 DO X NOT VALID DURING ANY OTHER SPECIAL OFFER QQ D CD <*S < N N United Press International NEW YORK — A San Francisco architect says it is no longer neces sary to heat homes in the conven tional sense. Lee Porter Butler’s heatless de signs have been incorporated in 50 houses already. Several hundred others are under construction around the country. All these houses have been de signed from the ground up on But ler’s heatless principle and have been oriented to face to the south. But he says many existing homes and buildings can be remodeled to be made heatless and that southern exp osure is not really necessary. The homes using the Butler prinicple so far include one six-family con- dominum. The Brookhaven National Labora tory has just completed the first phase of a study for the Federal De partment of Energy of one his homes near Newport, R.I., a latitude that gets plenty of cold weather. The re port showed the house exceeded Butler’s claims and maintained tem peratures close to 65 degrees in January with a daily variation of only two degrees while the outdoors tem peratures ranged from 18 to 42 de grees and winds ranged up to 30 mph. If Butler should prove his case conclusively, it will mean that, by the end of this century, the country could be saving practically all the energy now used in home heating, an amount that’s almost half the cur rent level of all petroleum imports. Butler calls it the Ekose’a house, a classical Greek word meaning a tial. He says that, Brookhaven Laboratory report| encountered “nothing but opp tion” from government officiate conventional solar < although banks and other mortll lending institutions havebeenilQNQQN willing to write mortgage loans# rer i 00 k ec ] houses without heating plants, p r0 peam i United S Bus strike over? are pn jnts say tb ericans liness United Press International DALLAS — City officials say more than 100 striking Dallas Transit System workers have withdrawn their pickets and asked to return to work, effectively ending a month long walkout and allowing the city to restore full bus service. However, a board member of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1338 said the union had taken no official action to end the walkout. c/5 CHANELLO’S PIZZA & SUBSO CHANELLO’S PIZZA & SUBS DTS board chairman Ken Milligan said the workers signed up as a group to return to work late Monday, which would allow the system to rstore full service within two weeks. Milligan said the mass signup indi cated to him that the strike was over. “It appears it is because they did remove their pickets and they indi cated they wanted to come back,” Milligan said. But Local 1338 board member Oscar Flores said today the union’s position had not changed, and»^! in11 as he was concerned the strike! , as lei . r ..,i Ivespoki still on. D, J , “We’ve heard some rumors® ( ! \ j a return to work), but that’s all* > , n(e heard, Flores said. Werestilj<|| ut ^ ing to see what happens. WeIt K ere is ' £ Milligan said the DTS had tended a moratorium on hiring® ^ n( one but former employees past) 1 J , , n, day. The DTS board last ordered a freeze on hiring nenjl j e | )er ployees to give striking emplo® ^ £ a chance to return to work. Ij there ai Milligan said returning employ ^ would retain seniority among tl^, selves if they came back to Wi 5n ^.j en( masse, but would have less se ®)earances than employees who satyed ir ■*°^i n L ^ et no mi The walkout began Oct. l,wHy 0 rk, C volved about 400 workers ily_ height. Demands included inf ^jL or p 0 , ments in pay, working coniDLjjgj. and treatment by supervisors, \ ]vi c Don »-4 FREE o°¥ A 7-0 ] PIZZA & SUBS 301 Patricia St. X > z m M r o c/5 CHANELLO’S PIZZA & SUBS Lookinq-lts A//in Battalion Classified 845-2611 costs ; $2.60 MONDAY EVENING SPECIAL Salisbury Steak with Mushroom Gravy Whipped Potatoes Youi Choice of One Vegetable Roll or Corn Bread and Butter ’ e Coffee or Tea Now Better Than Ever. You Will Be Pleased With Bstockh. 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