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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.

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.