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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1980
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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.”
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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
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farm policy, he also has talttjBiggest in
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has been in his family since 1S1 the sleep;
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promoted is, If you takegooda&oard.
the soil — the soil will takegooJ&int-Gern
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was full, the cracked kernels,
and other debris were
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turned out into the fields to s|
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tum provided fertilizer in the!
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touring and terracing on rollinglffire requi
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mer must voluntarily assumler for a c
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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
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The Brookhaven National Labora
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Butler’s claims and maintained tem
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January with a daily variation of only
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the end of this century, the country
could be saving practically all the
energy now used in home heating,
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rent level of all petroleum imports.
Butler calls it the Ekose’a house, a
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their pickets and asked to return to
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