The California Lumber Merchant - January 1941

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C. D. Johnson Lumber ftrporation

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MANI'Ff,CTI'nIXC PITITTS TOLEDO, ONE"

MODERN

Designed for Today's Architecture

and

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of our plant-with the largert capacity, namely, 47 M pet bour, of any car-and-cargo mill in Oregon. Cargo and rail rhipmentr of Soft Old Growth Yellow Douglar Fir and Sitla Spruce. !0eelly sailingr to C-alifornia potc; packaged lumber stowed even lengths and widttr.

ENANCH SAI.ES OFFICES:

STN fIINCISCO

f,. B. Griawold

A. B. McCullough Newhcll Bldg.

2611 Cqlilonric SL Phone GArlield 6258

This new bocrd noves in cr hcrll circle. lust swing it cround to where it ccm be used. Ironing done-put the hot iron in iron receptccle, told uP botnd cmd close ccbinet. It's lireProol. Hot iron rest and sleeve bocrd included. Ccbinet is ccsed crnd door bnng. Fits crny 2"x4",16" center wall Good mcngin ol profil A phone ccrll or post ccrd will bring lull pcnticulcrs.

Sold through decrlen only.

LOS ANGEI.ES

B. T. Gheen Petroleum Eldg. 711 W. Olyupic Blvd. Phone PBorpect ll85

airplane view conveyr rone idca of tbc rize

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BUILDING }IATERIAL PATCO

Gives Seryice Worthy of REDWOOD

Selective logging, accurate milling proper curing, careful grading - just what you would expect from PALCO Redwood unexcelled facilities. Add PALCO Dealer cooperation and you have pALCO Servic*worthy of RXD\U7OOD. rilirhether it is dimension, shingles, siding or PALCO ITOOL-or all of them in a mixed caryeu'll find the PALCO RED$7OOD man right on the job.

The PACTFIC LUMBER COilIPANY

SAN FRANCISCO I.OS ANGETES

Spozon { tbe Duabh Voodt Itstirttc

REDWOOD HEADQUAR,TERS

Solt Textured GAI.IfORNIA PINES

Solt Ponderosc qnd Sugcn Pine ecsy to work with oll edged tools ond stickers. Toke points economicolly for quolity finishes. Kiln dried cmd shed stored. Continuous yeqr round production. Stroight ccrs or mixed cqrs.

THE RED RMR ,ffix IUMBER GO. (fffiq

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EWAUNA KILN

Tbis mcrk is your caaurcnce ol thoroughly, properh, cmd unilornly Kiln Dried Ponderoga Plne Lumber, Mouldings, and Cut Stoclt

EVERY nonth ol the yecr.

E\TAUNA BOX co.

f,Imath Fcrlls, Oregon

Representctivcs

Centrcrl Cqliloraicr

Pyrcunid Lunber Scrles Co., Ocrklcmd

Southeta Cclilornic crnd Arizonrt

E K Wood Lunrber Co., Los Angeles

BAXCO

GHROiIATEII ZIIIC CHTORI DE RE TREATEII IUTIBER

Sell lumber thqt yields o profit od lcating actisloctioP. C.?9, ihe Drot€cled luaber, is cledr, odorlssa dnd Pqr4tsblc' rl E i;r^il';e d;cav rd'sistcnt oid tire retcndrng: You co rcll ii'i";'F.H.i., 0. 3. Go".mnent, lor A4gclee Crtv-€md countv -;;i'f;ii;# bulains Code ;6bs. c2c tr€crad luubc-r ir iii"rea'-i"i-i--laiatG shipmetit ln coroocr.clql !lze! dt lorg Becch crrd Aloedc. AgL cbout our archcGgc l'rnct @q nill ehipment Plo. CJtlmb Sdc Atrb. WEST'C0I$ U00D PIESERYIilG C0.'$ltlr

ADVERTISERS

Graves Company-------

Patten-Blinn Lumber C.o. -- - ---------- ---------------2t Pope & Talbot, Inc., Lumber Divicion--------29 Portland C.ement Acsociation.---

Ream Company, Geo. 8..------------------Red C.edar Shingle Bureau,---------Red River Lumber Co..-- - --- ------ ------------..----- 2 Rosc Carrier C.ompany-------

Santa Fe Lunb€tr Co.---- - - --- - ------------O.B.C.

Shevlin Pine Saler Co. - -------------------------2jJ

Southwe.gtcrn Portland C-cment Co.----------------'

Stanton & Son, B. J. -------

Sudden & Chrirtenron -------------16

Tacoma Lumbet Salee -------------------------------------- 9

Union Lumber Co.-----------------------------------------27

Vendling-Nathan Co..---------- ---------------------------2O

Wect Coast Screen C,o.

Weet Oregon Lumber Co. ----'------------------------13

Wectern Door & Sash Co.------------------------------17

Vesterrr Ffardwood Lumber Co.----------------------11

Veyerhaeuser Salec Company------------------------ {'

Wheeler Orgood Ssler Corporation----------------'

Vhite Brothert---*------------- - - - -- - -- - - -- - -- - -- - -- - - - - -24

Wood Lumber Co., E. K.----------------------------------21

LUMBERMERCHANT

rrs6s Los Aagelet, Cslilorain, under Act ol Mtrrch 3, l$7!l Subs.crip_tionPrice,$2.00pe.rYecrIr\qAI\T1itrItrq/-AIIA]\lIIADvt|o/,-AdvertiaingBctes Sinere Copie", zi-""i1g ;;i. ---

LOS ANGELES, CAL., JANUARY l,1941 on f,ppliccrion

How Lumber Looks

,^f^nmber production during the week ended December Z, lv+U. was J per cent les.s than in the previous week; ship_ ments -were 4 per_ -cent less ; new business Z pe. ceni lesi; according to the National Lumber Manufactur... a".".i"] tion from regional assoc-iations covering tfr. .p*"1i."r'.f representative hardwood and softwood" mills. Shipments were 9_per cent and. new orders 6 per cent above inoau._ tion.. Compared with the corresporrhing week of 1939, pro_ duction was 3 per cent greater, ,irip-"n-t, t p.; .;;;;;;;_ er, and new business. 38 per cenl g.reater. 'The indlstrv stood at SO per cent of the seasonal iveekly averag.e ,i-Ig'ig prfld-rlcti9n,and 10O per cent of av-erag.e t6Zq Jip';.rt..---

Keported production for the 49 weeks of 1940 to date rvas 6 per cent above corresponding weeks "f fqSg; .hlp_ ments were 7 ,per cent above the shi-pments and new ordeis were.l.O per cent above the orders of the t9S9 perioa. F-;; the 49 weeks of l94O to date, new busine.. *"i 9 per cent above producti,on, and shipments were 6 p.r-ce.r-t-"1""a production.

The ratio of unfilled orders to gross stocks was 32 oer cent on December 7, .1940, compa-'red with 19 p;; ;;"i; year ago. Unfilled orders were 54 per cent greiter than a year ago; gross stocks were 9 per cent less.

Dtrring the week ended Derimbe_r 7, Ig4O,4g0 mills pro_ -dgced 236.108,000 feet of softwoods and hardwooas-.i-_ l:il.a-; shipped 256,773,W feet; booked orders it-ih,-{iO,- 000 feet. Revised fig-u1es for the preceding ;.;k-;; mills, €9; production 2\Z^,g.I,W fee't; shipm-e"t, iOZ,i+5,_ 000 feet; orders 257,268,06 feet.

.^llTb..^^"^.ders reported for the week ended December Z, 194O, by 399 softwood_ mills totaled Z3g,1trri,W i..i; L, d per cent alo-ve the production of the same mills. Shipmenti as reported for the same u'eek were 244,502,000 feet. o, g o", cent above production. production was 2ZS,3Z4,OOO fJ.r Reports from 95 hardwood mills give nerv busine;; ;.

965,000 feet,-or 11 per cent above production. Shipments as reported for the same week were 12,26.000 feet. or 14 per cent above production. Production rvas 10,784,000 feet. --Production during week ended December 7, 194O, of. 384 identical softwood mills was 223,819.W f'eet. and a vear ?g9_t_t was 2L5,D4,000,feet; shipments \,vere respectively 242,872,W feet, and 188,091,000 feet; and orders-received 237,82L,W feet, and 172,38,00O feet. In the case of hardwoods, 95 identical mills reported production this year and a year ago 1O,784,00O feet and ll,7T,00O feet; shipments 12,26,W feet, and 9,322,W feet, and orders 11.965.000 feet and 8,087,00O feet.

The Western cember 14, l0l feet, shipmentsfeet. Orders on 534,000 feet.

Pine Association for the week ended Demills reporting, gave orders as 78,918,000 82,D5,W feet, and production 68,401,000 hand at the end of the week totaled 305,-

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended December 74, I24 mills reporting, gave orders as 32,697,M feet, shipments 38,657,00O feet, and production 35,015,000 feet. Orders on hand'at the end of the week totaled |OZ.8,E.0OO feet.

The California Redwood Association for the month of November,-194O, reported Redwood production of 13 oper- ations as 31,468.00O feet, shipme,nts 36,318,000 feet, 1nd orders received 36,581,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the month totaled 42.849.000 feet.

With 93 of the largest cities on the Pacifi,c Coast report- ing, building permits in November, t94O, showed a 9.7 per cent gain over November, 1939, but a decrease of 25 per cent from October, 194O, according to the Western Monthly (Continued on Page 30)

Wishins All our Friends in the Lumber Industry

LTAMON-BONNINGTON CO.

16 Calilornia Street, Scn Frcncisco

Telephone GArlield 6881

Portlcrnd Office-Pitiock Block

CREATES AN ENTIRETY NEW

Kll{D 0t HOIUIE THAI YOU CAN BUITD IN YOUR

OWN COMMUNITY /

rrs silAll BUI BtAUTltUl. lrs mom E(oNoltllol AND IIYAITE. YH II COSTS 1TSS THATI iI.OO A DAY UI{DTR t.H.A. tT rs BRIGHI, AIRY AND oPII{-WIIH WIDER wtilDows, Buil,T-11{ illRRoRS, INIERIoR GI,ASS PARTIIIONS. GI,ASS ADD' TO ITS YAIUT AND SA]ABI]ITY OUT 0t Ail PRoPoRT|oI{ To lrs cosT.

O These homes are not hypothetical-not mere dreams on a draftine board: They are being built bv builders all overihe country''many hav-e been c6mpleted and soldo under the bannei of "Design for llappinessoo Homes-4 1a1i6nal building movement supported by a tremendous advertising and merihandising program in national migazines, radio, motilon pictures and trade publications.

- Much of the charm and beautv of this new kind of home comes from new and generons uses of elass. Wide'Windowso Built-in Plite Glass MirrorslDecorative Glass Partitions and colorful

glass wainscotings of Vitrolite Structural Glass in kitchen and batlroom' combine to make a house that is briehter, gayer and easier to keep clean. No loneei a luiu'n', Glass adds to th-e value and salalility of a house out of all pro' portion to its cost.

WHAT ARE,,DTSIGN 'OR IIAPPINTSS,, HOTNIS?

"Design for Happiness" Homes is the copy' righted iade of the nation-wide home develop' ment Drosram eponsored by the Libbey'Owens' Ford elais Comipany. Thii program is devoted to better and ldwei cost h6mel for the home owner-to quicker and more profitable sales for the Contracfor-Builder and Real Estate Op-erator. This proeram is supported by Libbeyowens' Ford Latlonal adveiti:isins and bv tlie L'O'F al advertlsilg L'O'F Radio rrrogram ooDesign foi Happiness" over the Columbia'l\etwork 5?.M. (EST) every Sunday afternoon.

And Glass SeIIs Houses

HERI ARE GIASS DESIGI{S MOM A TYPICAI "DtstGN toR llAPPll{Ess" Housl

O The elass desiqne shown here are taken from o-"ne of t[e thousands of actual "Deeisn for Happineee" Homes now beinstruilt all ovii the country. They illusirate the use of Glaes in tbe modern small home. They are not onlY being built.but thev are being sold even before they'are co-'pl"t"d.

Iir one bedioom ie a three-way mirror, in another a built-in dreeeing table and mirror. A built-in mirror adds life and interest to the living roon. Tbe wainscotinq in the bathioom ie of colorful Vitroli=te wall glass. In the kitchen the cabinet doors ind the door to the utility room are glazed with a gay decorative elass callel Louvrex. Th6re'g even a iowder-pufr mirror bv the kitchen sink. the wh^ole houee ii equipped- in the colder areas with etorm windows to reduce heating costs as much ae 307o.

FOR ;UI,l INTORIIIATION

For all the facts atrout this great nalion-wide home-building movement' write Libbey'Owens'Ford Glaee Com' pany, Toledo, Ohio.

W LtBBEy. OnENS . Fonn GLASS coMPANv

Yirtorito uditu@ting in the bahtam

Dearct)oe qlas ii th. hibhef,

A 3-pnel

Milk, Rhins, Bellmt & Nordhof' Archieca' Toledo.

Ol94l by Libbey.Owcnr.Ford Glott Conponv

There's a New Year just around the corner, And every day of it belongs to YOU, Some days will be cloud-hung, no doubt, and dreary, But most of them will smile from skies of blue. Square your shoulders, son, and lift your chin up, Take this New Year; mould it to YOUR plan; Past is past; but say, boy, in the futur+ There's time and room, you bet, to play the man.

***

-Mrs. A. M. Conner.

Now for some New Year thoughts from many directions and from many men:

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Here is a little New Year resolution, or pledge, that can be taken safely in large doses: "f pledge myself for the New Year to be a better friend to all my friends than I have ever been before." Take your friendships seriously. Put them to work. Be a useful, helpful, understanding, Ioyal friend. But, above all, be an ACTIVE friend, and keep your friendships well oiled and polished.

A piece of New t""J "u1"",. ,, you discover that a friend is slipping away from you, drop everything else and go catch him and bring him back; for that is one of the few things in this world that no one can afford to lose.

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A wise New Year suggestion: Never write an ungenerous thing to anyone, on any subject, under any circumstances, at any time. Such writing is just plain blundering every time.

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A good New Year's resolution and intention is sometimes so thoroughly satisfied with itself that it forgets to go further. Don't just aim; shoot!

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It's an easy thing to do a thing, tomorrow; It's a cinch for one to do it by and by; But the guy whose life is sunnyAnd the guy that gets the moneyIs the guy who says-

"I'Il do it now-or die !"

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Here is a grand New Year thought by Abraham Lincoln: "From this day on I mean to do the best I can. If I am

right, time will prove it. IfI am not right, ten angels swearing I am right will not make it so." **

One man gets nothing but discords from the keys of a piano; another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at fault. Life is that same way. The discord is there; so is the harmony. Play it correctly and it gives forth the beauty; play it falsely and it will utter ugliness. But life is NOT at fault. ***

A little bit of QUALITY will always make 'em smile, A little bit of COURTESy will bring 'em in a mile, A little bit of FRIENDLINESS will tickte'em 'tis plain, And a little bit of SERVICE will bring'em back again. :f rt< :t

When an airplane strikes a bank of clouds or fog that dim the vision of the pilot, he can generally turn the nose of the plane upward, and rise above thern. So can thinking men, in most of their problems of life. There is always a clear sky somewhere above the clouds and fog of discouragement, pessimism, false beliefs, and fearful thinking, if you can get your thinking up there.

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The great retail merchant, John Wanamaker, said: "Every man starting out in business will have to go over a hard road and find out its turnings by himself. But he need not go over this road in the dark if he can take with him the light of other men's experiences." What the famous merchant meant was that only a fool wastes his life trying to find out what other men have already discovered, and told. Life is short, and every ambitious man takes the intelligent short-cuts.

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Harken to the wisdom of Robert Louis Stevenson: .,The day returns and brings to us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man. Help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces. Let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day. Bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored, and grant us in the end, the gift of sleep." ***

The bigger the man, the more childlike his nature. He is

more charitable. He is never hurt by criticism' FIe never criticizes excePt to helP.

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Some good "I WILL's" for New Year's: I will talk health, instead of sickness. I will talk prosperity, instead of failure. I will carry good news, instead of bad news.

I will tell the cheerful, rather than the sad tale. I will mention my blessings, rather than my burdens' I will encourage' instead of criticize.

I will try to be a friend to everyone I know.

I will speak of the sunshine of yesterday and tomorrow, rather than the clouds of todaY.

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Charles Kingsley left this fine New Year thought: "Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank Him for it who is the fountain of all loveliness'" ***

It was Socrates, who left us this thought: "Grant me to be beautiful in the inner man, and all I have of outer things to be at peace with those within. May I count the wise man only, rich, and may my store of gold be such as none but the good can bear."

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This fine New Year thought is from John Ruskin: "The

entire object of education is not merely to make people do the right thing, but to enjoy doing the right thing; not merely to be industrious, but to enjoy industry; not merely to become learned, but to love knowledge; not merely to be pure, but to love purity; not merely to be just, but to hunger and thirst after justice." !N< *

This splendid thought is from George Eliot: "'There is no short-cut, no patent tramqoad to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness, which must still be trod in solitude, with bleeding feet, with sobs for help, as it was trodden by them of olden times."

And then, of course, there was the absent-minded politician who kissed the pretty mother and then handed her baby a cigar. Or-wait a minute-was he really absentminded?

WITH MacDONALD & HARRINGTON

Norman Vincent, for the past several years with J' H' Baxter & Co., San Francisco, has become a member of the sales staff of MacDonald & Harrington, Ltd., San Francisco'

BACK FROM NORTHWEST

Seth L. Butler, San Francisco representative of Dant & Russell. Inc., returned December 22 from a visit to the company's home office in Portland.

DBYIITG TAIIBS TIMB

In 1940 we stcrrted PreParcrtions tor 1941 demand.

Atwcys looking crhead with millions ol leet oI Red' wood drying or dry, recrdY to be milled.

,'Where

you buy your REDWOOD is as irnportant as the REDWOOD you buy."

Bob Osgood Appointed Sales Managcr of Waterfront Employers' Ass'n and Frieder Brothers' Lumber Division

Robert S. (Bob) Osgood, for the past eight years sales manager of Cadwallader-Gibson Co., Inc., Los Angeles, resigned his position on December 31, 194O, to take over sales in the United States and Canada for the Lumber Division of Frieder Brothers of Cincinnati, owners of Rey- naldo Lumber Company of Manila. Reynaldo Lumber Company's operations are located on the Island of Luzon. Philippine Islands.

Offices of the Lumber Division of Frieder Brothers rvill be located at 7M South Spring Street, Los Angeles, an,l all lumber sales will be handled from there. Business rvill be confined to Philippine Mahogany and other philip_ pine hardwoods.

Prior to his association with Cadwallader-Gibson Co., Inc., Bob u'as sales manager for Washington Veneer Co., of Olympia, Wash., and before that was manager of the Wheeler-Osgood Company of California, Los Angeles, for a period of nine years.

Red Cedar Shingle Bureau Annual Jan. 10

The 24th annual meeting of the Red Cedar Shingle Bu_ reau, to be held in Seattle on January lO, 1941, will feature as speakers several outstanding figures in the lumber and allied fields.

Among these rvill be H. R. Northurp, secretary_manager of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, *.ll_ known to lumbermen from Coast to Coast. Also to appear rvill be Frederick J. Woodbridge of New york City, a member of the architectural firm of Evans, Moore & Woodbridge, and a leading architect. B. L. Johnson, nationally knorvn editor of American Builder magazine, r,i,ill speak to the assembled shingle manufacturers, more than M of whom are expected to attend.

Red Cedar Shingle Bureau plans for the new year will be considered by the members in attendance, according to W. W. Woodbridge, secretary-fnanager of the Bureau. The association's extensive advertising and field promotion ac_ complishments of the past year will be reviewed. The Bureau maintains the largest staff of traveling field representatives in the rvood products field.

Longrhoremen Sign New Contract

San Francisco, Dec. n.-A new working contract covering all longshoremen in West Coast ports and designed to bring about maritime union labor peace for at least tr,vo years was signed late today by C.I.O. longshore leaclers and the Waterf?ont Employers Association.

The contract provides for an unfixed wage increase next February, establishes Wayne L. Morse of the University of Oregon Law School as arbiter of any dispute that might arise and was made effective until Sept. 3A,1942.

Mr. Morse, who was West Coast longshore arbiter under the old contract, said he believed the new pact u-ill "bring about greater stability in the shipping industry."

Students Hear Talk on Timber Connectors

Washington, Dec. 17.-"The Use and Application of -Iimber Connectors" was the subject of a recent lectur-e presented by D. S. Harter, engineer for the Timber Engineering Company, here, before students of the Chamberlain and Abbott Vocational Schools of Washington, D. C.

Mr. Harter, in addition to discussing the use and application of connectors, listed tl-re various types of connectors, design, fabrication and erection methods. He devoted a considerable portion of his talk to low-cost housing construction and the plank-and-beam system of design, illustrating his presentation with lantern slides that shorved many of the structures built with timber connectors.

Mr. Harter left numerous pieces of literature descriptive of the connector system of construction for distribution among the students. Carpentry is a major item in the curriculum of these vocational schools.

VISITS MEXICO CITY

Floyd W. Elliott, manager of the San Francisco ofhce of Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., returnecl December 24 trom a tw,o weeks' vacatio,n trip. He left San Francisco December 11 on the Panama Pacific liner Washington for Acapulco, Mexico, from where he took a Wells-Fargo Express Company's tour by automobile to Mexico City. After spending four days in sightseeing around the Nlexican capital he returned by Pan-American plane to Los Angeles, December 23.

A H.ppy New Year

To all the lumbermen I knowThe short ones and the tall ones, To loggers and to office boys'fhe great ones and the small ones, To lumbermen both far and near, A Bright and Prosperous New Year.

May fallers fall with ease and grace And millmen keep on milling, May salesmen find their customers Inordinately willing; And may a wealth of Christmas cheer Go u'ith them through the glad New Year.

May lumber ships come safe to port With worthy cargoes loaded, Unharmed by adverse tides and rvinds That threatened them, or boded Arid may the skies above be clear For lumbermen all through the Year.

To all the lumbermen I know And those I've never met, To those I knerv long, long ago And never can forget, I'm u'ishing-and I hope they'll hear, A Glad and Prosperous Nelv Year.

-Adeline Merriam Conner.

Timber Trusses Establish Erection Speed Record

Chicago, December 17.-The ease and rapidity of timber truss erection was recently demonstrated at the Northeast Calgary municipal airport in Canada rvhere, under the Commonwealth Air Training Plan, llangar trusses are be' ing set up at the rate of one el'ery thirty minutes. This is claimed to be a record for speedy construction in the Canadian Defense Program, surpassing the erection time of one truss every 35 minutes, established at Saskatoon a ferv weeks ago,

Believed to set another record is the assembling of six complete hangars, including two double hangars, ready for erection, at the airport in one week. This airport will be the No. 1A Service Flying School of the Royal Canadian Air Force.

The timber connector system of design makes possible economical fabrication of trusses which can be lifted as a unit after assembly on the ground. The twenty-two trusses for the airport hangars at Calgary weighed twelve tons each and were lifted into place by means of a derrick, bolted to the footings by ground men, and braced by high riggers.

The efficacy of lumber and its increasing utilization for construction work by Canada is releasing large quantities of other structural materials for manufacture into munitions and other vital war equipment sorely needed, and for rvhich lumber is not suitable.

1941 is t'Buyer's Market," Says Governor of Federal Home Loan Bank System--Ample Funds Available as Construction Gains

Washington, Jan. l.-The average American home seeker of 1941 can compare his situation with that which existed only a decade ago and reflect:

He can make a small down payment and obtain a monthly payment, amortized mortgage extending over 15 to 25 years, instead of a "lump" mortgage which must be paid off or renewed, with heavy fees, in three to five years.

He will be charged the lowest interest rate in history on his mortgage.

He has no need for a second mortgage, rvith its extortionate interest rate of 8 to 12 per cent-or a third, at an interest rate of 10 to 15 per cent.

He can obtain protective services which assure him a Detter quality home than ever before.

But even that's not the whole story. He can deal with an institution which can protect him to a degree impossible a decade ago--because that institution, once utterly dependent on its own resources, now has ample credit reserves to fall back upon.

"The whole picture of home financing has changed," declared James Twohy, Governor of the Federal Home Loan Bank System, which provides a credit reservoir for 3,900 thrift and home-financing institutions.

"ft's a home buyer's market, the best in the country's history. The depression brought plenty of grief, but it also resulted in benefits which have set new standards in home ownership. The task of bringing construction costs down to a level where all those of lower income can get the kind of homes they want is far from completed, but the costs of financing have been reduced beyond our fondest hopes of only a few years ago.

. "The results already are apparent. In 1940, it is estimated that the savings and loan associations of the Bank System loaned $1,010,000,000 for the financing of American urban homes. About $360,000,000 of this went for nerv

construction. These figures break all records for the institutions of the System:

Comparative Bank System member figures for previous years were:

"Savings and loan associations, as in the past, have been leaders in the financing of American homes," said Mr. Twohy. "But other institutions also have increased their business, as a result of a renewed confidence of the public in home ownership. It is estimated by the U. S. 'Department of Labor that 545,00O new non-farm homes, costing $1,833,0m,000, were constructed in 194O, as compared with 465,000 homes, costing $1,591,000,000, in 1939, and 347,W) homes, costing $1,24,m0,000 in 1938.

"The market hasn't been touched as yet. There is a billion dollars available right now for home financing from member institutions of the Bank System, and as much more can be obtained when necessary for any expansion the future may bring. The savings of those of small and moderate means are flowing into thrift and home-financing institutions at an ever-increasing rate.

"The estimated assets of the member institutions of the Bank System today total $5,050,000,000 as compared to $4,741,000,000 at the end of 1939, and $4,432,000,000 at the end of 1938. This is an increase of 6.5 per cent in 194O over 1939, and an increase ol 7 per cent in 1939 over 1938. Private share investments in savings and loan associations of

the System jumped from $2,717,000,000 in 1938 to an estimated $3,190,000,000 in 19CI, an increase of' 17 per cent."

Long before the depression, leaders of the home-financing industry realized that their institutions were isolated units which needed some system of reserves for their own protection and the protection of their investors, Mr. Twohy said. But nothing was done until the crisis was reached in t932.

The Federal Home Loan Bank System then was established. It was too late for it to function in the emergency' however, and it was not until the Home Owners' Loan Corporation took over a large burden of defaulted mortgages and some measure of stability was attained that the Bank System really began to fulfill its purpose. Since 1933, it has grown steadily and today embraces the leading thrift and home-financing institutions of the country.

The Government invested approximately $125,000,000 to establish the 12 Regional Banks of the Bank System; other funds were obtained from purchases of stock by member institutions.

The 12 Banks, located in strategic population centers, now have capital and resources totaling approximately $300,000,000. Funds can be transferred from localities where there is an excess to those where money is needed. Since the establishment of the Banks, they have advanced over $700,000,00O to their member institutions, $50O,000,000 of which has been repaid.

The Banks recently issued debentures totaling $67,000,000, which were greatly oversubscribed. There is an additional debenture issue of $23,500,000 outstanding. All other issues-all oversubscribed as soon as they were announced-have been retired.

"The effects of the Bank System, of course, are not yet apparent to the layman," said Mr. Twohy, "but its development affects every home owner. Through it, the l.rome-financing industry has been made secure-and in a nation where the home mortgage debt amounts to more than $18,000,000,000, the entire economy is threatened unless the home-financing structure is sound.

"There is no better opportunity for cooperation between industry and Government than in the building of good, sound homes at reasonable prices. While the Government must subsidize housing for those who cannot shelter themselves properly, the great job of providing homes for the American people is a function of private industry. The organization of credit reserves for private industry, to permit its expansion and protect it in emergencies, is the Government's primary function as represented by the Bank System.

"We all still have a job before us. Home-financing institutions constantly are offering more protective services to home seekers-better design, the use of better materials, architectural supervision of construction. There is still, however, a real need for the development of soundly constructed homes for the great mass of people whose income limits them to structures costing $2500 and less. This is our job for the f,uture."

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New Year's Eve

The New Year's Eve party was in high gear. With his eleventh champagne cocktail his courage rose, and to the wonderful,lady at his sidq he said:

"Dearest, the bubbling wine in my glass refects the sparkle in your lovely eyes; the graceful curve of the bottle counterfeits your slender, bewitching form; the touch of your hand soothes me as a fog coolly brushing my hot

INCENDIARISM SUSPECTED IN SAN RAFAEL FIRE

Fire swept the yard and mill of the San Rafael Mill & Lumber Co., San Rafael, Calif., December 14, with damage estimated at approximately $60,000. Possibility that the fire was started by a firebug was investigated by the authorities. The plant will be rebuilt at once.

cheeks; the mysterious fragrance of the early morn is in your hair; Beloved, I adore you ! I cannot live without you! Tell me, I pray you, will you marry me?"

She rose quietly. Gathering her wrap around her, she took his hand. She said:

"Come on, Freddie ! You're unusually drunk tonight. Get your hat, and let's go home. We've been married ten years! Remember?"

VISIT HOME OFFICE

Andy Donovan and Carl Reeder of the Los Angeles office of Hobbs Wall Lumber Co. traveled to San Francisco for a sales meeting at the home office, December 20. They attended the Christmas party of the East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland.

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The Relation o[ Forest Production and Use to National Defense

Portland, Oregon, December 13, 194O.-The effrciency of American forestry and forest-using industries is meeting the test of National Defense demands ranging from huge volume requirements for everyday lumber for troop housing to technical needs for engineering material, Col. W. B. Greeley, secretary-manager of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, told the Forest Policy Conference of the Western Forestry and Conservation Association Thursday afternoon, December 12. The Conference was held in Portland December 12 and 13. Col. Greeley and George P. Melrose, of the British Columbia Forest Service, opened the Thursday afternoon session with addresses on "The Relation of Forest Production and Use to National De' fense."

Every soldier in military training represents a need for 1500 feet of lumber when housed in permanent barracks, while tent encampments take 800 feet per soldier, Col. Greeley stated.

"The National Defense program of 1940 has called, to date, for approximately l-rl billion feet of lumber," Col. Greeley informed the Conference. "Close to a billion feet of lumber will be used in constructing the cantonments necessary to bring the men in military training up to approximately one million soldiers. The other half-billion feet has been required for naval air bases and for the projects already begun in housing workers at navy yards, aircraft

MR. AND MRS. SAMPSON RETURN FROM EASTERN TRIP

Bill Sampson, Sampson Company, Pasadena, and Mrs. Sampson, have returned recently from a trip that took them around and through the U.S.A. They left by trairr for Houston, Texas, and there took the boat to New York, stopping off at Miami, Florida, for one afternoon.

They spent a week in New York, four days in Washington, D. C., then went on to Detroit and Lansing, Mich., where they picked up a new Oldsmobile automobile, driving home leisurely by way of Louisville, Memphis, New Orleans, and Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. They were away 33 days.

factories and other wartime industries."

Col. Greeley pointed out that maintenance of England's fighting air fleets is largely due to use of laminated spruce construction, with parts cut, shaped and glued up in the thousands of little shops, and to new uses of Douglas Fir in plane construction.

"lJ. S. Army Engineers," he said, "are finding numerous engineering uses for lumber in the National Defense effort, with structural Douglas Fir meeting the need for heavy modern ponton bridges, and for framing and trusses in additions to aircraft factories. Through research at the U. S. Forest Products Laboratory," Col. Greeley said, "the United States has learned that, through a combination of plasticizing and pressure, wood can be converted into an extremelv dense tough material, interchangeable with metal for many purposes, as in the fins of airplane propellers."

Col. Greeley declared that the efficiency of forest industry in National Defense has its source in the peacetime efficiency of the industry. He described its basis as: "Wellestablished forest practices which maintain growing stock and continuing supplies of raw material; an industry with capital resources able quickly to enlarge plant facilities for unexpected demands; and a fully-developed wood technology that can fit lumber and other products of the tree into whatever places they may serve for Defense, either on the first line or in the reserves."

PACIFIC HOLDS CHRISTMAS PARTY

The Pacific Lumber Company held their annual Christmas party for the staff of the San Francisco office at the Palace Hotel. Charlie Shaw acted as Santa Claus and had a present for all in attendance.

IN THE NORTHVI/EST

Ernest H. Bacon, manag'er of Fir-Tex of Northern California, San Francisco, will return early in January from a visit to the Fir-Tex plant at St. Helens and the company's head office in Portland. He was accompanied on the trip by his family and they spent the Christmas holidays at Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood.

"Let's Call lt a D"v"

BY JACK DIONNE

I believe q lirst-class prayer for a scrle$nqn to begin the New Yecn with, would be*O lord, plecse help me to keep up ny LEG WORK in 1941."

A sclesncn told me the other dcy thct he bcd kept cr file ol our scles editoriqls during the pcrst severcl yecrs, but thcrt lhe oae thct helped hin the moEt wcs the one cbout "Leg Work " He Ecrid he wag convinced, dter trying everything through long yecrs of succesalul selling ihcrt the chiel ingnedient in selliag succeas wqs undoubtedly CONSTANT SOUCITATION. Aad, fur my boolc "constcmt solicitction" must be built princrily on'"Ieg Work."

So let's review thct "Iog Work" ide<r lor c lew moments, iust by wcy of stcnting the New Yecn off properln The bcsis of thqt theory is that sclesncrnship b 75% leE worlc cod 25% hecrd worls thct the cvercge scle$ncm uftq fe'ilg to mcke good selling a prop€r producL mugt blcrnre his fcilure on lhe lcrct that he has NOT met cr gufficient number of prospects, Icrce to lcrce. Leg work necols tbe crbility to lreep yoursell keyed cmd pepped up crnd going sbong, long dter your irstinctive sell hcg said to your other sell qt lecst c dozen tiures: "Boy, let's ccll it c dcy."

It's thcrt "let's call it c dcy" ehrff thcrt keetrre so mqny sclesuren hunting iobs, instecrd ot hunting orders. They get tired, wecrry', diagrusted, discourcrged, becquge the going is rougb. They mclce cr lew cclls, cod then the wee smcrll voice thcrt scys "let's ccll it cr dcy" gets stronger cmd slronger. At lirEt they know some mighty good cmawers to the suggestion, contrariwise. But the voice gets bigger cmd bigger, cmd the pro argunent wecrker cmd wecker, crnd pretty soon they blow the whistle-nentclly---crnd Suit the drive.

When thcrt hcppens, the sclesocn doesn't give the shorter hcrlf ol the scles pcrrtnernership--the 25% hecd work---c lair chcmce to mcrke good. This 25% is divided into severql very importcnrt depcrtments, such crs q tqcdul crpprocclr" c likcrble voice, c wcrm snile, cr lirm hcnd grrip, cur interesting mcmncr, cnd the cbility to tell your slory tersely and interestingly, cnd lecnre when you get through. The biggest single tbing in thcrt hecd work depcrrheai of selling is knowing whcrt you hcve to se[, knowing nore about whqt it mecrns to the proslrctive purchcser thcrn he does hinseU, cnd being crble to show how it ccoe serve hin, in new crnd novel wcrys il possible. Hecd work crrng ct crecrtive selling-not peddling. But cr plcin peddler who is skong on the leg worlc is very likely to outsell c brillicmt sclesman who cqlls it c dcry, too ecrly.

It looks like l94l is going to be primcrrily cr selling yecn And when the yecr ends there is little doubt ihat most oI the biggest plums will go to lhose sclemen who'depend on leg work cmd constcmt solicitction lor their best result$ Sellilg aucceEs ccn neve& will never be cr mcrtter ol hours ol senrice. Success ccrn only be interpreted in terms of results crchieved.

They tell the story of the trcin wreck. *a.*r.n they pulled the optimistic trcrveling sqlesnalr out ol the wreck he gcnn thcrt one oI his legs wcrs gone. "Well" said the optimistic strleemcn" -Thqntc God it wcrs the one with crthritis."

Colorad Prints Depict Beauty of Western High Quality o[ Construction With Low P:ne for Paneling and lnterior \(/oodworlc Grade Redwood lmpresres Sales Staffg

The added appeal of natural color reproductions over black and white illustrations is considered by many persons as striking as the introduction of sound movies in place of former silent motion pictures. Certainly there is a marked difference.

The Western Pine Association had this in mind when they released recently two full-color, Sfxll-inch lithographed prints. One shot shows an example of clear, pinepaneled walls and the other is an installation of Knotty Pine paneling. Both graphically depict the inherent beauty of W-estern Pines for paneling and other interior woodwork and show how these woods combine harmoniously with colorful, modern room furnishings. These attractive illustrations first appeared in the color-gravure section of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and, through the courtesy of this newspaper, have been released for general distribution in the form of lithographed prints. The photographs were taken on Kodachrome film by Clint Murphy of the newspaper staff.

Many retail lumber dealers, builders and interior decorators have indicated their intention to display these pictures and show them to prospective clients, believing that they bring out better, than by descriptive words, the beauty of Western Pines when used on interior walls.

Sample copies of these two colorful prints will be mailed on request to the Western Pine Association, 510 Yeon Building, Portland, Oregon, as long as the supply lasts.

HAD FAMILY CHRISTMAS PARTY

E. A. Blocklinger, Chiloquin Lumber Co., Chiloquin, Ore., and Mrs. Blocklinger, who are spending the holidays in Los Angeles, had a family party at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, Christmas day' His nephew, Arthur Twohy, Los Angeles lumberman, and his family attended the party.

ELECTED PRESIDENT OF LIONS CLUB

Lemoyne Blanchard, Blanchard Lumber Company, North Hollywood, has been elected president of the North Hollywood Lions Club'

A party of 24 sales managers and salesmen representing seven Redwood companies, and five of the staff of the California Redwood Association made a trip from San Francisco on December 21 to Fort Barry in Marin County. In this camp they saw new buildings for ternporary use of troops in all stages of construction in which No. 2 Common California Redwood has been used for framing, siding, roof sheathing and sub-floors.

The object of the trip was to impress the salesmen with the high quality of construction obtained with the use of low grade Redwood, and there was general agreement that the journey had been well worth while.

More than 10,000,000 feet of California Redwood has already been used in various camps for temporary barracks'

Franceschi Construction Company, San Francisco, contractors for Fort Barry barracks, stated they are well pleased with the prompt delivery of the lumber from the Redwood mills and that they are well ahead on their contract'

New Distributor of Teco Products Announced

Cincinnati, Ohio, January 1.-Incorporation of the Timber Engineering Company of Ohio for the promotion and sale of timber connector c"onstruction in the States of ohio, Kentucky and Southern Indiana, was announced by Arnold Neufier, president.

The company will supply up-to-date technical information on the use of timber as an engineering material to architects, engineers, contractors and others'

"Since the advent of the timber connector system of construction in the United States there has been a pronounced revival of heavy timber construction in all parts of the country," said Mr. Neufier in announcing formation of his "o*p"ny. "Because of increased economy and strength, *or" th"r, 20,000 structures incorporating this method of design have been built in the last seven years' Company offices are located at 1816 Central Parkway' Cincinnati.

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Appoint ed General Sales Manager Big Crowd Attends Lumbermen's Hi-Jinks

Announcement was made recently by the Hammond Lumber Company of the appointment of Alfred D. Bell, Jr., as general sales manager in charge of sales of the products of the Samoa and Eureka, Calif. mills of Hammond Redwood Company, effective December 5, 1940.

Mr. Bell was born in New York and moved to California in 192O. His lumber experience dates back to 1925 when at the age of 16 he worked in the Hammond mill at Samoa in his summer vacation.

He graduated from Harvard in l93Z and went to work for the Hammond Shipping Company, San Francisco, spending trvo years with this concern in various capacities. He was transferred to the Hammond Redwood Company,s Samoa mill where he was employed successively in the yard, at the sorting tables, in the planing mill, the shipping shed and of6ce, gaining during these 1,ears practical ex_ perience that was to be most valuable to him in the future.

In the fall of 1937 he left the mill and came to the San F-rancisco office as Eastern sales manager and held that position until the Eastern sales were taken over by Califor_ nia Redwood Distributors, Ltd. Since that time he has been active in the sales department in the San Francisco office.

Mr. Bell was married on September 28 to Miss Mariorie Blyth and they live in San Francisco.

CHRISTMAS PARTY FOR NEIGHBORHOOD CHILDREN

A. J. Koll Planing Mill, Ltd., Los Angeles, had a Christ_ mas party Tuesday afternoon, December 24, f.or the children u'ho live in the neighborhood of, their plant. About 10O attended and they were presented with gifts. The company has been giving these Christmas parties for the children for the past twenty years.

The Lumbermen's Hi-Jinks, sponsored by Lumbermen Post No. 4A3 of. the American Legion, brought out a big crowd the night of December 13, over 300 attending. Fol_ lowing the dinner, there was a fine entertainment put on by a troupe of professional entertainers. The party was held at the Royal Palms Hotel, Los Angeles.

The Arrangements Committee included Fred Morehouse, chairman; Phil Lyons, I{ugh Satterlee, Ed Biggs, Sam Giesy and Maury Alexander.

At the December lOth meeting of the post, Col. Wayne Allen, of the l60th National Guard, was the speaker of the evening.

The Post will hold their next meeting Tuesday evening, January 14 at the Royal Palms Hotel. Russell Gheen rvill be chairman of the meeting.

Delense Housing Contracts Awarded

Washington, Dec. I2.---The Federal Works Administration today arvarded five contracts totaling $11,7@,500 for construction of 3900 units of national defense housing con_ struction.

It awarded jointly to the McNeil Construction Co. and the Zoss Construction Co., Los Angeles, a $9,020,00O con_ tract to build a 30Gunit housing project for industrial workers in the aircraft industries at San Diego, Calif.

The other four contracts were to house Army nrarried enlisted personnel at Forts Bliss and Logan.

TRAVELED 4O,OOO MILES LAST YEAR

Lee Canfield, Lumber Wholesalers, pasadena, did a lot of traveling during the past year, covering around 4O,00O miles. He traveled by automobile, train, and airplane, ancl was through every state in the country, and in Canada and Cuba.

ENLARGES LUMBER YARD

Geo. A. Swift, Geo. A. Swi,ft Lumber Co., Long Beach, has just built an attractive new home. He formerly lived next to the yard, and the house there has been moved away, and he will use this extra space in connection with his lumber business.

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Building Materials Exhibitors Plan Bis Shows for 1941 Conventions

With 1941 promising new peaks and new problems in building construction of all kinds, the annual conventions beginning in January take on unprecedented significance, according to W. C. Rodd, publicity chairman of the Building Materials Exhibitors Association.

Well aware of the unique conditions ahead in the building industry, officers and executive secretaries of the individual associations are leaving nothing undone to provide every opportunity for their members to secure the utmost in information, ideas and helpful contacts at the annual meetings of.194L.

Over the years, exhibits of materials with their attendant demonstrations of new applications, new uses and new techniques, as discovered and perfected by the manufacturers' research departments, have become increasingly important as a component part of the modern convention. The fundamental purpose of the convention meeting is to exchange ideas and originate new ones. In the building industry, new ideas and methods are, in the main, directly connected with the materials used by the builder and sold by the dealer. It was this close relationship that originally prompted the dealer associations to invite manufacturers to display their products in conjunction with the regular business meetings.

This year will see finer and more complete displays than ever before, according to Nlr. Rodd. In view of conditions facing the manufecturers brought about by heavy demands for emergency defense materials, closer ,cooperation than 'ever is most essential between manufacturer and distributor to insure satisfactory fulfillment of regular demands. Consequently, exhibitors are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to bring to lumber dealer association members exhaustive information on new products, new uses of existing products and nerv thoughts on merchandising.

At no time has complete market information been so necessary as it is now and will be throughout 1941. For this reason practically all exhibitors will have executives

of their respective companies present. This will afford the dealers an oppoftunity to meet and talk directly with the men responsible for policies and procedures in the materials manufacturing field. Mer,chandising executives, sales manag'ers, advertising managers and others will be there to discuss personally the industrial and individual problems of association dealers.

Men prominent in association and convention affairs, repeatedly say the dealer who does not plan his convention time to include adequate allowance for investigation and inspection of his suppliers' materials exhibits, receives but a portion of the possible return on his expense money invested to bring him and his personnel to the meetings. Contacts established at the booths widen the dealer's outlook and afiord opportunity for him to ass along product suggestions and needs as he sees them directly ftom the consumer sales front. Mutual discussion of needed improvements are of utmost importance to both dealer and manufacturer. The convention provides .the time and place to talk things over away from the press of regular daily business affairs.

The Exhibitors' Association joins with the Dealers' Associations in urging every member to attend his state or sectional convention this coming year. Closer attention to the detail of merchandising, sources of supply, judicious advertising, and more comprehensive sales service will be :necessar] to meet 1941 conditions in the building market. Complete familiarity with manufacturers' lines and understanding of their policies will aid greatly toward that end. Attendance at all convention business sessions plus a thorough examination of exhibitors'displays will equip dealer members to serve their buying public with increased satisfaction to the customer and wider profit to themselves.

Exhibitors are sparing no expense in preparing new ancl attractive displays in order to make the coming meetings enjoyable as well as practical. Progressive dealers 'rvill not slight this informative part of their convention program.

THE HOUSE BY THE SIDE OF'THE ROAD

By Sam Foss

There are hermit souls that live withdrawn, In the place of their self-content, There are souls like stars, that dwell apart In a fellowless firmament;

There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths Where the highways never ran, But let me live by the side of the road, And be a friend to man.

Let me live in a house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by,

The men who are good and the men who are bad, As good and as bad as I;

I would not sit in the scorner's seat, Or hurl the c5mic's ban,

Let me live in a house by the side of the road, And be a friend to man.

I see from my house by the side of the road, By the side of the highway of life, The men who press with the ardour of hope, The men who live by sti{fe; But I turn not away, for their smiles and their fears Are parts of an Infinite Plan, Let me live in a house by the side of the road, And be a friend to man.

Let me live in a house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by, They are good, they are bad, they are wealr, ttey are strong, Wise, foolish-so am I.

Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat, Or hurl the cynic's ban?

Let me live in a house by the side of the road, And be a friend to man.

NE\^| YEAR'S DAY WITH THE SOLDIERS

The orderly officer was inspecting rations. "Any complaints?" he asked.

"Just taste this, Sir," suggested a private.

"ft tastes like very good soup," said the officer.

The private said: "Yes, Sir. But the Corporal says it,s tea; the cook says it's coffee; and I just found a scrubbing brush at the bottom of the kettle."

A NEW YEAR SUGGESTION

!\'ORK a little harder.

SMILE a little oftener.

THINK a little straighter. SERVE a little better.

CONSIDER the other fellow a little oftener.

AFTER NEW YEAR'S

The famous old story of the Kentucky Colonel who was asked how he felt New Year's morning, and who answered: "I feel like Hell, Suh, like any gentleman ought to feel on such an occasion," is well seconded by this one, that is not new, yet never grows old:

It was New Year's morning, and the man in the living room chair had been making a decidedly large night of it. He sat with his head between his hands, and every nerve in his body quivering and twisting. Across the room came a small kitten, its little feet treading lightly as thistle-down over the thick, soft rug. But it did not seem that way to the sufferer in the chair. He glared wildly at the friendly little animal, and shouted savagely:

"San you blankety, blankety, blank elephant ! You either get to Hell out of here, or quit stomping your feet."

HIS CHOICE

From life's book of tears and laughter, I've gained this little bit of lore, I'd rather have a morning after, Than never have a night before.

DR. F'RANK CRANE'S NEW YEAR PRAYER

"Lord, let me have courage to ask Thee for things that I want. Deliver me from the clamping fear that makes men continually pray for things they think they ought to want, instead of for the things they DO want. I want more money, more brains, more beauty, more personal prowess, more spiritual vigor. F'rom the whole ocean of my soul and body this craving for power goes up like an exhalation."

YOU TOO

Perhaps he sometimes slipped abit\life[, so have you.

Perhaps some things he ought to quitWell, so should you.

Perhaps he may have faltered-why?

Whn all men do, and so have IYou must admit, unless you lieThat so have you.

HE FOUND OUT

A colored man was caught trying to sell insurance without a license, and was hauled before the insurance commissioner.

"Don't you know," demanded the commissioner, "that you can't sell insurance in this town without a license?"

"Boss," said the colored one, "dat splains de mattah. I done foun'out dat I couldn't sell none, but I did'n know whuts de reezin wuz ontil you tole me."

Expects Good Volume of Home Modernization

for Winter

Well over one hundred million dollars worth of work has resulted from the autumn campaign for property modernization and repair launched August 15 by the building industry in cocr,peration with lending institutions and the Federal Housing Administration.

Using FHA Title I loans as a gauge, this campaign has almost doubled the volume of modernization work in America and has been the most successful in recent years, exceeding even the autumn of 1935. It gives irrefutable proof that cooperation pays.

While the campaign is continuing into the winter months, much has been accomplished in the banner months of September, October and November.

Before the campaign began, Title I loans were being reported by lending institutions to the FHA for insurance at the rate of around 10,000 loans amounting to about $4,000,000 a week. During the past three months this rate almost doubled, averaging around 18,600 loans amounting to $7,692,0N a week.

Title I loans reported for insurance under the 1939 amendments during September, October, and November 1940 numbered24l,94O and amounted to $97,999,549. This .was the largest amount ever reported in any consecutive three months in FHA history. It exceeded the $88,617,983 reported during the same three months in 1935-the previous record-by 10 per cent.

The number of loans reported this year, however, was smaller than the 262933 reported for the same period in 1935. In that year such items as washing machines, refrigerators, and similar machinery and equipment were eligible for Title I financing, while today such financing is limited to property improvement. The average loan for the 1935 period was $337, compared with E465 for the 1940 period.

As stated before, one reason for the success of this campaign has been the effective cooperation of contractors. building material dealers, financial institutions, and all others connected with building, aided by the FHA.

A survey conducted by the FHA reveals that cooperative

advertising campaigns have been common and profitable. In one city 42 firms, companies, and institutions, r€presenting practically every business concern in the city con,nected with building, united in selling modernization to the property owners of their community through newspaper advertising.

In many instances, advertisements of financial institutions sold the idea of modernization rather than easy financing. Many contractors and building materials dealers, on the other hand, emphasized easy financing more than modernization. Practically all featured the FHA plan of easy monthly payments over a period of one to three years.

Much interest has been shown in how this hundred-million-dollar market is being shared. From time to time the FHA has analyzed. its Title I loans to determine the ratios by type of property improved, and by type of improvement, in order to help the building industry determine its markets.

Analysis of the September-November loans has not been made, but it is estimated that the iatios which held for the Title I loans from July 1939 through September 19,10 would be about the same for the past three months. These ratios by type of property follow:

Single-family houses 74.7 per cent of the number of loans and, 67.6 per cent of the amount; dwellings. for two or more families 13.5 and 17.l per cent; commercial and industrial properties 3.7 and7.I per cent; farm structures 4.7 and,4.3 per cent; other types 3.4 and 3.9 per cent.

The ratios by type of improvement for which the major portion of the loan was to be used follow:

New construction 3.5 per cent of the number and 11.9 per cent of the amount; additions and alterations 13.4 and 18.1 per cent; exterior painting 18.1 per cent of both number and amount; interior finish 6.4 and 6.2 per cent; roofing 15.0 and 8.3 per cent; plumbing 8.8 and 8.1 per cent; heating 26.2 and,22.1 per cent; miscellaneous 8.6 and 7.2 pet cent.

While a new record has been established the job of modernizing American homes, commercial, industrial, and farm buildings is not finished.

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Four California Citieg Listed Among First Christmas Party Big Success Twenty in Building in U. S.

Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland and San Diego were listed among the first twenty cities in the United States reporting the largest volume of building for the first ten months of 19,10.

Los Angeles was in second place with a total of $63,202,@5; San Francisco was seventh with $26,584,4A3; Oakland was thirteenth with $13,809,078, and San Diego was seventeenth with $11,896,011. New York was in first place rvith a total of $187,099,334.

Following are the twenty cities showing the largest permit.valuations for the first ten months of the current year and comparative figures for 1939 as compiled by Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.:

Nerv York, N. Y.

Los Angeles, Cal.

Detroit, Mich.

Chicago, Ill. ...

Washington, D. C.

Baltimore, Md. ..

San Francisco, Cal.

Philadelphia, Pa.

Houston, Tex.

Cleveland, Ohio

Cincinnati, Ohio

Miami Beach, Fla.

Oakland, Cal.

Atlanta. Ga.

Pittsburgh, Pa.

Miami, Fla. ..

San Diego, Cal.

Seattle. Wash.

Indianapolis, Ind.

St. Louis. Mo. ..

SAN FRANCISCO VISITORS

G. B. McGill, in charge of the Eugene, Oregon, office of Pope & Talbot, Inc., and Mrs. McGill, were San Francisco visitors for the Christmas and New Year's holidays. Before leaving for home they will attend the East-West football game.

East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 held a most successful Christmas party at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, on Friday evening, December 20.

Armand Girard, well known NBC baritone \'\'as master of ceremonies, heading a seven-act all-star shorv in which the prevailing note was comedy.

More than 150 sat down to dinner. President Tom Branson presided and acted as Santa Claus.

Prominent among the out of tou,n visitors were Charlie Shepard, president of Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club, and Chas. G. Bird of Stockton, representing the Central Valley HooHoo Club.

F. "Tommy" Tomlinson was the lucky winner of two tickets for the East-West football game.

E. S. Coll:n'

E. S. Collins, Portland lumberman, banker and philanthropist, died in Portland on December 18. He rvas born in Cortland, N. Y., in 1865, entered the lumber business in Pennsylvania in 1885 and came to Ostrander, Wash., in 1889.

He was president of the Ostrander Raihvay & Timber Co.; of Curtis, Collins & Holbrook, San Francisco, and Grand Ronde Pine Co.. and was a director of United States National Bank. Portland.

CHANGE OF OFFICE

The offices of the Pacific Portland Cement Company have lreen moved to 4I7 Montgomery Street, San Francisco. The telephone number is GArfield 4100.

Home Modernization for \(/inter

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Abner H. Ferguson, Federal Housing Administrator, expects modernization and repair work to be maintained at considerable volume through the winter because of the increasing demand in industrial areas for dwelling units, old or new. This demand, he said, is leading to the conversiott of large old dwellings in or near these areas into multi'family houses and to their restoration as paying investments. At the same time, he adds, the conversion of these old homes into modernized dwelling units helps prevent the development of acute housing shortages in these areas.

MAY WE EXTEND OUR THANKS FOR YOUR GOOD WILIr AND PATRONAGE DURING THE PAST YEAR AND WISH YOU

HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR

Defense Demand for Materials \(/ill Not Halt Rise"in Home Building

The fear that the requirements of the Government an.i industry for building materials for defense purposes will result in a sharp decline in home building because of shortage of materials, is apparently due to the tremendous publicity given to the enormous quantities of building materials required by the defense prbgram, rather than the result of calm examination of actual fact, according to Bror Dahlberg, president of The Celotex Corporation.

"While the rate of acceleration in home building witnessed during the past year may be reduced temporarilv, facts indicate that any such cut will be of short duration so far as availability of materials is concerned," said Mr. Dahlberg.

"Attention naturally centers around lumber as the basic framing material in home construction. The Defense Commission needs call for an estimated 4.500.000.000 feet of lumber over a period of one and a half to two years. It is estimated that the first of the year will find approximately 3 billion feet yet to be supplied. This carry-over represents about 10/o of the United States production for 1940, which is sufficient to make the Government an important factor in the lumber market. Horvever, it is obvious that with W% available for other purposes, housing and home building will still have to furnish the lumber producer with his major outlets.

"The same thing is true of other items which go into a home. While concerns producing roofingi plaster, insulation, heating, plumbing and electrical goods have been operating at near capacity, there is no indication that there will be a long sustained actual shortage to cause a halt in home construction. All things considered, it appears that anyone wanting to build a home 1n I94l will not be denied by inability to procure materials. As a matter of fact, F. W. Dodge Corporation, after making a careful study of all factors, particularly those relating to materials and labor, estimate that 1941 will rvitness a 67o increase in one and two familv houses over 1940."

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Describes lmportance of Forest Products in National Defense

A nation that has within its boundaries a bountiful supply of forest products has an enormous advantage in any emergency, according to C. P. 'Winslow, Director of the Forest Products Laboratory of the U. S. Forest Service, Madison Wisconsin. Mr. Winslow spoke at the 4oth annual meeting of the Society of American Foresters in Washington, D. C., on the importance of forest pioducts in the national defense.

Pointing out that Field-Marshal Hermann Goering had placed wood no less than second in the list of German necessities of war, Mr. Winslow outlined the vast number of uses in the expedited preparation of a national defense in which wood is vital to the United States. Cantonments, pontoons, shipping containers for explosives, air-raid shutters, assault boats, charcoal for gas masks, rosin for shrapnel filling, and plywood for trainer planes are only a few of the myriad military uses of rvood that were mentioned.

Describing how the Germans had turned to wood for the production of motor fuel, edible sugars, and synthetic wood "wools" and "cottons," Mr. Winslow stated that the procedure by which wood is converted to these uses has long been familiar to American chemists, and should need arise the United States can adapt the supplies of wood with equal facility.

Pointing out that national defense requirements might ultimately require the production from domestic sources of nearly every requisite of defense, Mr. Winslow cited a number of forest products problems which research men recognize as demanding attention. The efficient adaptation of wood in the mass production of aircraft, including thc development of fuselages, wings, and other parts, in whole or in part by mass production molding, the development of variable density propellers for modern high-powered airplane motors, and a number of construction details in the mass production of trailer planes were given high priority on the list of research needed to rfacilitate national defense.

Other items named included seasoning of gunstock blanks, improved decking materials for all naval craft, increased supplies of high-quality pontoon timbers, further improvement of gas-mask charcoal, improved designs for

shipping containers for military commodities, substitutes for imported cork and kapok, and the solution of problems connected with the rapid erection of both temporary and permanent cantonments and other military. establishments. In order to expand trade with South America, Mr. Winslow said, more adequate knowledge of South American hardwoods is needed in this country. He also mentioned the need for expanded trade in pulp and paper and plywood in commerce with Central and South America.

John S. Magladry

Seattle, Washington, December 21, Ign.-It is nightfall in the woods and the last trail home for John S. Mag, ladry. Such was the word wired today to the Seattle office of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association from Eugene, Oregon. A heart attack took the pioneer lumberman on his last journey in the night. A Willamette Valley trustee of the Association and p'rincipal owner of the Bohemia Lumber Company of Culp Creek, Oregon, Mr. Magladry had been a worker and leader in the forest industry of Oregon, Washington and British Columbia since 1880.

He had just turned 16 in that year when he held his first lumber job, in a small Puget Sound sawmill, at the mouth of the Duwamish River. There he learned the head-sawyer's trade. Tivo y,ears later he was operating the headrig of the large Yesler-Anderson mill in Seattle. Last summer Seattle's oldest business building was torn down. Its framing lumber had been sawed by Mr. Magladry in 1882. He worked as head sawyer in a New Westminster, B. C. sawmill for seven years, and in Portland for three years. Employed by the founders of the Booth-Kelly Lumber ln of Company of Lane County, Oregon, in 1896, Mr. Magladry advanced to mill foreman, then to general superintendent. In l9O7 he joined with John t.. Kelly in organizing a lumber company. Since that year he has been an outstanding leader of the 'West Coast lumber industry.

Mr. Magladry is survived by a daughter, Mrs. John Trott Murray of Tacoma, and a sister and nephew who reside in San Francisco.

High Volume of FHA Applications

The number of new homes starting construction under Federal Housing Administration inspection during the week showed the expected effects of the holiday rush in the Southern California district, according to Capt. Wilson G. Bingham, Southern California district director.

During the week ended Dec. 20, a total ol 241 homes commenced construction under FHA inspection, while the previous week recorded 332 new homes.

Applications, however, continue to be received in substantial volume. The week ended Dec. 20 recorded, 462 cases, valued at $1,951,400.

This month the weekly volume has been consistently higher than in December, 1939, the number of applications for the insurance of mortgages under Title 2 during the past three weeks being 51 per cent in excess of that for the corresponding three-week period of 1939.

Appointed General Manager

B. L. Nutting has been appointed general manager of the Medford Corp. at Medford, Ore. Mr. Nutting has been connected with the company for a long period. He succeeds James H. Owen, manag'er for many years of the Medford Corp., and its predecessor, the Owens-Oregon Lumber Co., and who recently announced his retirement on December 31.

Everett Gillespie, sawmill superintendent, has been promoted to the position of assistant general manager in charge of production.

H. G. Dowson is sales manag'er, A. W. Lingaas, chief accountant, and G. G. Stagg, purchasing agent.

SEATTLE OFFICES MOVED

Effective January l, 1941, the Seattle offices of Sudden & Christenson will be located at 617 Arctic Building, Third and Cherry Streets.

ATTENDED EAST.WEST FOOTBALL GAME

Forrest Haworth, district sales manager at Portland for Booth-Kelly tumber Company, and Mrs. Haworth, spent the Christmas holiday season in San Francisco. They will attend the East-West football game in San Francisco on January 1.

Hoo-Hoo Club No. 109 Holds Christmas Party

A big Christmas party was held by Sacramento HooHoo Club No. 109 at Wilson's Confectaurant, Sacramento, on Wednesday evening, December 18.

President Charles Shepard presided. Music was pro' vided by the Sacramento Quartet, and there was a Christmas gift for everybody.

Joe Weston, representative in California of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, exhibited the Douglas Fir Plywood talking picture and gave a talk.

Clarence R. Boyle

Clarence R. Boyle passed'away at his home in Altadena on December % after a month's illness. He contracted the influenza which later developed into pneumonia.

IIe was born in Michigantown, Indiana. Following his graduation from Butler lJniversity he entered the lumber business and was connected with the industry for many years in the South and Middle West. He was associated with the business in Los Angeles for the past thirteen years where he represented various Northwest and Southern mills. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mary Hartwell Boyle; a daughter, Mrs. Nell Boyle Hummel of New York City; a son, Claience R. Boyle, Jr., of Washington, N. J.; a sister, Mrs. Anna Brown of Pasadena' and four granddaughters. Funeral services were held at Pasadena, December 28.

Good Fellowship Christmas Fund

Announcement is made by the committee of East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club's Good Fellowship Christmas Fund that there is still time for those who wish to subscribe to "Shares of Happiness" in this fund to send in their subscriptions.

Shares are $1.5O each. Checks should be made payable to Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 and mailed to the Fund Committee chairman, George Clayberg, Boorman Lumber Company, 10035 East 14th Street, Oakland.

VISITS SAN FRANCISCO

John N. Berry, sales manager of Scott Lumber Co., Inc., Burney, Calif., was recently in San Francisco on a business trip.

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Years California Ago Today

From the Lumber Merchant, Januaty 1, 1931

letter saying that and always read

Chas. G. Bird, Stockton Lumber Company, Stockton, was elected president of the Central California Lumbermen's Club. Other officers elected were: A. R. Martin, Hales & Symons, Sonora, vice-president; W. O. Mashek, United Lumber Yards, Modesto. treasurer, and T. L. Gardner, Stockton, secretary..

Philip Garland, Oregon-Washington was elected president of the Tacoma at its annual meeting.

Plywood Company, Lumbermen's Club

Many varieties of wood were used in the constructiou of the interiors of the palatial steamship, "President Hoover." These included Philippine Mahogany, Walnut, Macassar Ebony, Satinwood, Harervood, Rosewood, Zebra Wood, Ebony, Teak, and Honduras Mahogany.'

The annual Christmas party of the East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club was held December 20 at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, President Ray B. Cox was chairman and master of ceremonies. Rod Hendrickson u'as chairman of the entertainment committee.

"Local Associations," an address made by Smith at the annual convention of the Milhvork of California, appeared in this issue.

Earl Bowe was passing out occasion being the arrival of a Bowe, at his house.

Kenneth Institute

the cigars to his friends, the baby girl, Virginia Katherinc

"Certified Architectural Woodwork." a talk given by T, ester G. Sterett, secretary, tute of California, over radio station KLX, appeared in this issue.

Said to be the largest sandblasted panel ever made, a panel of Ponderosa Pine decorated with a covered wagon picture done entirely by the sunblast process by The Red River Lumber Company at their plant in Westwood, Calif., was displayed in the r,vindows of the State Chamber of Commerce in the Ferry Building, San Francisco. The panel measured five by ten feet.

One hundred and seventy-five orphan children were entertained by the San Francisco Hoo-Hoo Club at its annual Christmas party held at the Elks Club, San Francisco, December 23. President Jim Farley presided, and Al Nolan acted as Santa Claus. Each child received a suitable gift. The entertainment rvas provided by "Captain Dobbsie," Hugh Barret Dobbs, lvell known radio entertainer.

California Panel & Veneer Company, Los Angeles, held its annual Christmas turkey dinner at the company's plant, Wednesday noon, December 24, which was attended by the employes and their families. Everybody lvas remembered with a present.

An order of over 600,m0 feet of Fir and Redrvood lumber, filling 101 trucks, was delivered in a solid parade to the Universal Picture Corporation, IJniversal City, Calif., December 29. The lumber rvas furnished by Hammond Lumber Company, Lounsberry & Harris, and E. K. Wood Lumber Co.

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo remembered the tubercular chil' dren at the Olive Viel,v Sanatorium at San Fernando, Calif., December 22, vith books, magazines and Chrisirr-as tree decorations. They also donated $75.00 torvards the children's playground fund.

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Lumber Cut-- -1939 and 1938*

The production of lumber by selected mills in the United States in 1939 increased 17.9 per cent as compared with'the production of the same group of mills in 1938, according to a report released by Director William L. Austin, Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce.

This report l\ras compiled from returns made by 1,112 mills, which contributed 52 per cent of the total cut of all mills reporting for 1938. The cut of these mills-each of which sawed at least 2,000 M feet, board measure, either in 1939 or in l938-amounted to 13,272,881 ]!I feet in 1939 as against 11,2ffi,736 M feet in 1938.

In order to enable the Bureau to present statistics that will show, rvith the closest possible approach to accuracy, the trend in lumber production, comparing 1939 with 1938, data have been included for 1,093 mills that were active in both years, for 13 that were in existence in both years but operated only in 1939, and for 6 that rvere in existence for both years but operated only in 1938. No data are in' cluded for mills that operated in 1938 but rvere reported as "out of business" (not merely idle) in 1939, nor for those that operated in 1939 but were not in existence in 1938.

Tl-re following statement presents statistics by important regions for the 1,112 mills in question, for 1939 in comparison with 1938.

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Lumber Cut, by Regions, tor l,Ll2 Idcnticd Mills: 1969 and l93E of

Wisconsin. Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, and West Dakota. and South Dakota. and Virginia. Per cent of increasc or decrease17.9 n.7 14.5 9.9 16.7 22.6 0.8 7.6 9.7 26.1 19.5 18.6 -4.7

'Alabama, Florida, and Georgia.

uArkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas.

'Oregon and Washington.

'uCalifornia and Nevada. uldaho and Montana.

"Arizona, Colorado, Neu' Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.

* The Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, cooperated lvith the Bnrreau oJ the Census in the collect,ion of the data on which this report is based.

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California Building Permits for November

National Lumber Contumption and Stockt

In this, the second Monthly Supplement to the Quarterly Analysis of Lumber Consumption and Stocks of the Lum' ber Survey Committee to the Department of Commerce, the months of October and (preliminary) November are covered, with a seasonally computed forecast for December. This Supplement is reported by a Sub-Committee of the Lumber Survey Committee wl-rich finds that October continued the increases in lumber consumption of each fall month over the preceding; that November will show some decline from October but less than the seasonal average. Mill stocks are declining. In most species and items, they are still sufficient to take care of the large building and industrial requirements, including Defense needs. In some species and items they are inadequate. In some regions Government orders are voluntarily being given priority.

Troop housing requirements have now been largely contracted. Private housing seems to be losing some momentum, partly seasonal and partly because of resistance to higher prices and costs. The large projects for housing of defense workers and of the families of enlisted men in various parts of the country are expected to keep residential construction at a high level during a large part of 1941. Materials for shipbuilding and ordnance facilities, aircraft plants and factory expansions predominate in current national defense purchasing.

It is norv indicated that 1940 consumption including exports of lumber will approximate 29 billion feet, with production about 27.3 billion, a probable decline in mill stocks of 900 to 1,000 million feet and imports of approximately 700 million feet. ,National lumber stocks at the mills on December l, 1940, were about 6,750 million feet, compared with 7,161million on October 1, and 7,577 million on July 1. 1940.

The Sub-Committee of the Lumber Survey Committee consists of Wilson Compton, Secretary and Manager, Jrlational Lumber Manufacturers Association, and Phillips A. Hayward, Chief, Forest Products Division, Department of Commerce.

"Caldor" HoldsAnnual Christmas Party

The employes of The California Door Company, Los Angeles, and their wives on Saturday evening, December 21, gathered around beautifully decorated tables at the Chapman Park Hotel to enjoy their annual Christmas party and turkey dinner.

Gifts were exchanged and there lvas much merriment. "Father," as the employes call Resident Manager Glenn Fogleman, was presented with a radio and a beautiful zipper brief case by them.

Out of town guests were C. G. Price of Diamond Springs, general manager of the company, and Mrs. Price.

Each employe was presented with a check by Mr. Fogleman based on their share of the year's profits, and announcement was made that duri.ng 1941 they will be given a vacation with pay.

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An ideal home lor cr S0-Ioot lot. The wide drivewcy lecds to connecting gcrrcrge as well cs entry, cdding to the genuine charm ol the exterior, and the interesting arrqngement oI the dining room opening onto bcck terrqce, brings cl llood oI sunlight within as well cls providing c wonderlul plcrce lor entertcining.

The complete working blue print lor this home cqn be lurnished by the E. M. Dernier Service Burequ, 3443 Fourth Avenue, Los Angreles, Cclilornic, who issue home plcn books lecrturing mqny other qttrcctive desigms, and whose plcnning service is under the direct supervision of Wm. E. Chadwick, Registered Structurcrl Engineer.

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Beautiful Wooden Table Decorations

The beauty of wood as a table decoration was again clemonstrated rvhen the family of the executive office of the Lumbermen's Credit Association, seventy-six strong, and a few guests, gathered at the Picadilly on Michigan Avenue, Chicago, at noon on December 21, for their annual Christmas dinner and entertainment. The centerpieces consisted of birch logs, appropriately tritnmed with Christmas greens, ribbon, and large red candles, while small rvooden placques, adorned 'ivith small red candles, served as place cards.

Follou'ing the banquet, rvhich loosened all belts a bit, Delos O's'en, pianist and musical director, often heard from radio broadcasts from Chicago stations, took charge of the entertainment program. Santa Claus distributed presents to all. All those participating in the program are regularlv ernployed by the Association and it was hard to believe that some of them rvere performing for the first time. Addresses were made by executives of the Association.

Dancing rvas then enjoyed by the gathering. William Clancy, founder and still active in the business although in his eighty-second year, enjoyed dancing as much as his son, Will C. Clancy, the executive vice-president.

Charles E. Chambers

Charles E. Chambers, retired lumberman and former ma)-or of San Jacinto, Calif., passed away on December 4 at the Riverside Community Hospital, where he had been taken the Sunday before after being injured in a hunting accident. lfe was 72 years of age.

Mr. Chambers was born in Ames, Iowa, on May 24, 1868. He came to California 56 years ago and had resided in San Jacinto 54 .vears. During his early years he was interested in lumbering operations in the San Jacinto Mountains. For more than twenty years, he owned a lumber yard there, selling the business on his retirement four years ago. He was mayor of San Jacinto from 1915 to 192O.

He is survived by his widow, two daughters, his mother, two brothers, and a sister. Funeral services were held at San Jacinto, Friday morning, December 6.

BUILDING NE\ry STORE AND OFFICE BUILDING

Pacific Beach Lumber Company, Pacific Beach, is building a large and modern store and office building. The nerv structure. tlrrice the size of the present store, will have an attractive front and ample display rooms for the hardrvare and paint departments. The entire yard will also be modernized. H. H. Hawkins is manager of the yard.

SUPPLIED LUMBER FOR THE lOO,OOOth FHA HOME IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Golden State Lumber Company, Santa Monica, had the distinction of supplying the lumber for the 100,000th FHA home built in Southern California. The house was for Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Rohrbacher of Los Angeles. Frank Kranz is the owner and manager of the Golden State Lumber Co.

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POSITION WANTED

Lumberman with 17 years' experience as yard foreman wants position with retail lumber firm. Thorough knowledge of all building materials, including builders' hardware, paints, etc. Can furnish best of references and will go any place. Box C-853, California Lumber Merchant.

WILL BUY INTEREST IN LUMBER BUSINESS

Want to buy an interest in retail yard or wholesale lumber business in Los Angeles area. Will want to be an active partner. Address Box C-559 California Lumber Merchant.

How Lumber Looks

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Building Survey prepared by H. R. Baker & Co., of San Francisco.

Building permits fr,om these cities, which are situated in the 1l western states, British Columbia and Hawaii. totaled $25,509,817 in November, 194O, $23,247,751 in November, 1939, and $32,108,915 in October, 1940. A total of 13,438 permits u'ere issued last month compared with 13,164 in the same month of the previous year and 17,889 in October. Los Angeles was in first place. San Francisco maintained s_econ-d position, with Burbank .continuing in third place. Seattle ald San Diego,. in fourth and fifth rank respectlvely, both had in excess of $1,000,000 in permits. The iemaining cities among the leading ten, all of which had more than $6m,900 in permits, were Oakland, Denver, Long Beach, Portland and Honolulu. The 25 leading cities in dollar volume of permits reported a total of. $2O,618,738 in November compared with $18,941,120 in November, 1939, and $26,989,512 in October, lg4c.. From this group, a gain of 8.7 per cent vvas reflected in November,194A, compared with November, 1939, but a decrease of. 23,6 per cent was shown in the comparison of November with October, 1940.

Lumber cargo arrivals at Los Angeles Harbor for the week ended December 28 totaled 18,440,000 feet, as compared to n377,m feet the previous week.

WANTED-POSITION BY LUMBERMAN

Thoroughly experienced from stump to consumer, including sales, costs, balance sheets, accounting in every detail, retail or wholesale. Also licensed building contractor. Best references. Bond if necessary. Free to go anynrhere. Married, no children. Non-drinker. Address Box C-845 California Lumber Merchant.

PLANING MILL FOR SALE

F'or sale, fully equipped Planing Mill-East Bay District. In live town with plenty of business. Good proposition. $5000.00 will handle. Address Box C-556 California Lumber Merchant.

COMPETENT MAN WANTED

Wide-awake, experienced salesman, estimator and general all-around man familiar'wittr complete building material. line, to sell outside as well as across counter. Age 30 to 45. Permanent for the right man. San Joaquin Valley yard. Address Box C-558, California Lumber Merchant.

LUMBER YARDS FOR SALE

We have a number of good yards in Southern California for sale. Twohy Lumber Co., Lumber Yard Brokers, 8Ol Petroleum Building, Los Angeles. Telephone PRospect E746.

Roy G. Glover

Roy G. Glover, fieldman for the California Redwood Association, Los Angeles, passed away suddenly at his home in Altadena early Tuesday morning, December 10, following a heart attack. He was forty-two years of age.

Mr. Glover was with the California Redwood Association for the past year and a half, and prior to that was in the roofing business in San Bernardino.

He is survived by his widow and one son. services were held at San Bernardino. TlTursdav. ber 12.

CORRECTION

Funeral

Decem-

The A. Barlow Wholesale Lumber Co. is a new concern at Tulare, Calif., and will carry on a strictly wholesale business. No change has been made in the Lampe Lumber Company which is a retail firm.

In the December 15 issue we stated that the Barlow Lumber Co. was successor to the Lampe Lumber Company.

GLASS BLOCKS

Since 1935 hollow glass building blocks stalled in approximately 25O,000 homes and have been factories.

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Drnt & Rurcll. Inestl? Mulcr Stnt..................G^n6dd a292

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Guartil & Grqr fsco Amy Stn4t...................4twatc l:m

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Hobba Wall l.rrnb6 Co., 23f0 Jcrold Avorr....'...........MIdo Ofl

Hdrur Eudta lub* Cr., nas Ftnucid Ccatc B1dg.......'GArfron r92l

C. D. Johnrcl llrnba CorPorrtlon, 2O Calllomh Strc.t....,...'......GArirld 625t

Carl H. Kuhl Lubcr Cc.

O. L. Rurnrm. rU Mlr|rct Strcrt...YUton 146l

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Macl)onald & Harrlnfto, Ltd..

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Rod Rivcr l"gmbcr Co.,

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16 Calllomta SEc.t.,...........,..Er(bmk 2t7{

Sholin Pinc Salcr Coo

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Suddcn & Cbrirtcneon, 310 Suron. Str..t.......,........GArficld ZEl6

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Wodting-Nathen Co., ffO M{k t Str..t ........,........,.Suttc 53ag

lilcil Oregm Lubcr Co,, 1905 Evur Avc. .......,..........ATwrtc 567t

E. K. Wood Lunbs Ci., I Drunm Strut..,................EXbrooL 3?fC

Wcycrhmurr Salsr Co. 149 Califunla Strcct...............GArAGld t971

Guorrton & Gruq 9th Avauc Picr........'.... "'....Hlast. 2255

Gomm Lunbc Co., 4C2l Tldwatcr Avcnuc'.. ...ANdovcr lll0

Hill & Mch. Inc., Dodrm Str.Gt Whrrf ,.,......,..ANdovor l0Zl

Horan lubcr 6mpany. znd & Allo gtrut .:........'..Gl.a@urt .tcr

Rcd Rlvc lanbcr Co.

9Ct Flnuctal Ccntei Bldg.......TWlmatr 3{O

E. K. l\tood Lmbcr Co., Fredcrlck & King Stratr......,FRuiwd. fll2

LUMBER

HARDW(X)DS AIID PA.NETS

Mrir Plywood Cor?oratlon, '|a f0th Str..t..,..............MArhct 67ct-at|. Whit Brcthcru,Fifth .nd Erannan Strc.t.........,.3utt6r l3l5

sAltH-D(X)RTPLYWOOP

Whaler Orgood Salcr Corlnratlo, 3045 rgth Str6t.........,,...,...,VAlcncia 22ll

CREOSOTED LUMBER-POIJSPILINGTIES

Ancriu Lmbcr & Trortlng Co., 116 Ncw Montf@Gry Strat,......SrJtbr lz3

Baxtcr, J. H. & Co. :Ili! Motgom.ry Strot...........DGrgla. :ltt3 Hall, Jucr L., 1032 Milb 81dg..,.,.....,............SUtt r ?521

PAN EIS_DOORS_SASH-SCRE ENS

Califomia Buildm Supply Co. 700 6th Avouc ....Hl3ato 1116

Hogm Lumbcr Cmpuy, znd & Alie Stroctt..............Gl.uort tt6l

Wcgtm Dor & Saeh Co., 5rh & Cyprco Strctr..........TEmplcbu tl00

HAR"DWOODS

WhitG Brctbcr,5F High Strct......,.............ANdova l00l

LOS ANGDLBS

Anglo Calilomia Lmbcr Co655 Ea.t Florcne Avenu...,..THomwdl 3lll

Atlluon-Stutz Copann

62t Pctoloun Bldg.......,.,.....PRotDGct {341

Bmr llmbsr Cmpmy, 9155 (harlolllc Blvd., (Bovcrly Hlltr) ...............BRadrhaw Z-IE!

Dut & Rurrcll, Inc., l5l5 E. Scvsth Strct.........,...TRinity 6il9l

Dolbcr & Caron Lubcr Cl., 90r FidGlitr 81dg........,..........vAndikc E?92

Hunond Rcdwood Conpuy, l0ill S. Broadway.................PRoepct 1333

Hobbr Wall Lunbcr Co., @5 Rowu 81dg......,.......,......TRintty 50llE

Holncr Eurdra Lmbcr Co.,

?U-712 Archltetr Bldg.. ..,..... .MUtual grEr

Hovs, A. L., 5225 Wlldirc Blvd....................YOrL rr6E

C. D. Johnron Lumbcr C.orporatio, 6116 Pctrclcun B|dS...............PRolpct 1165

Lawncncc-Phllip. hrnb€r Co., dB Pctrolcun Blds.............,..PRospcct tU{

MacDondd & Hanlngton, Ltd. Pctrclcun Butldlng PRo.pcct 3fA

Pedfic Luber Co., Thc, 5225 Wil.hirc Blvd. .......,,.........YOrk rr6t

Pattcn Bllu Lmbc Co., 52t E. 3th Strut..................VAndikc 2321

Ponc & Tr$ot, tnc. LunDcr Dlvlrlm, ||r W. Fltth Str..t ................TRin|tr 52|l

LUMBER

Rcd Rlvcr Lunbcr Co.

?@ E. Slaumn.. .CEnhrnr 29o7l

l03l S. Brcadway.................PRdp.ct qlU

Rcttz Co., E. L., 33it Petrolcun Bldg....,........,.PRoepcct 23C0

Suta Fc Lunbcr Co., 3rl Finuclal Cat r Bldgr...:....VAndikc l47l

Shevlin Pinc Salo Co., itilC Petrclcu Bldg...............PRorpct 0615

Sudden & Chrletcnon, 630 Board of Tradc Bldg...........TRinlty &tl{

Taona Lmbcr Saleq 423 Pltrclcu Bldg....,......,..,PRocpect UOE

Union llmber Co., 923 W. M. Garland Bt&, ..........TRirttr Ztz

Wodling-Nathu Co, 5225 Wilrhirc Blvd.......,............Y()rt ll6E

Wcst Or.gob Lubcr Co427 Pstroleu 81dS............,.Rlc.hmd 02tr

Wilkinrcn ud Buoy, 3rE W. gth Sbcct..,......,........TRinity {63

E. K. Wood Lunbcr Co., 4701 Santa Fc Avuuc...........,JEffsrron 3lll

Wcycrhaeurcr Salce Go., 9a0 W. M. Garlud Bldg.........11tlahigu Cil5{

CREOSOTED LUMBER-POLEII_PILING. TTES

Anorica Lunbcr & Trcatlng Co., lll8l S. Brcadway.................PRo.p.ct a:tt3

Butr, J. H. & Cc, 6al W6t sth Strcct......,...,...Mlchlgu t29l

HARDWOODS

Cldwalladcr-Glbron Coo Inc - -lozC E. - o-i-pi" biia.-L.. .... .ANa.lur lu.t

Srnton. E. J. & Son, 2l[i0 Eaet SEth StF.t ............CErtury A2rf

Wcstcm Hardwood trmbr Co., 2014 E. rsth Strt...............PRorpcct llll

SASH-D OORII-MIIIWORI( PAIJFI (l AND PLYW(X)D

Califomla Dm Cmpony, Thc 237-2{l Catral Avc.......,.......,TR|n|ty ?aCr

Califomla Pmcl & Vocr Co, 955 S. Alucda Sb..t ...........TRin|ty l6f

Cobb Co. T. M., 5E0l Ccntral Avmu.............,,ADmr llll?

EubanL & Son, Inc., L. H. (Inglewod) lol0 E. Hydc Puk Blvd.........ORcgon t-l6ll

Koehl, Jm. llt & lton, 652 S. Myerr Strat.....,..,........4N9d|t. tlll

MacDougall Dor & Plywmd Co., 2f35 E. 5lrt Str.at...,..,....,.....KIDbdl Slaf

Orogon-Wa.hlngton Plywod Co.

316 Wart Ninrh Sbcet.,.,........TRtntty {Ot

Pacific \ltood Productr Corporation, 36{10 Tyturn Strcct.,...............Al5eny llll

Pacific Mutual Dor Ca., 1000 E. WarhinSto Blvd........PRorpct t5&! Rcu Company, Ga. 8., 235 S. Alueda Srrut......,.....Mlchfiu llSl

Rcd Rivc Lunbc Co. 7€ E. Slaum.. .CEDturt Antl Wcrt Coart Sm Co., rll5 E. t3d Strc.t..............,.AD.D| lul

Whclc Orcpod SalGr CsDoratlo, 922 S. Flwc Srr.rt...............VArd&r @l