This Var Savings Flag which flies today oyer companies, large and small, all across the land meaos btsiness. It means, firsg thzt loft of the company's gross Pay roll is being iovested inVar Bonds by the workers voluntarily.
It also means that the employees of all these companies are doing their part for Victory by hetping to buy the guos, tanks, and planes that America and her allies mtsthave to win.
It means that billioos of dollars are being diverted from "bidding" for the constandy shrinkiog stock of goods available, thus puttiog a brake on ioflatioo. Aod it means that billions of dollars will be beld in readioess for post-war readiustnent
Think what |o/q of the oational income, saved inIfar Bonds now, moath after month, can buy when the war ends!
For Victory today aad prosperity totnorrcut, keep the War Bood Pay-roll Savings Plran rolling it yoar firm. Get that flag flying now! Your State I7'ar Saviogs Staff Administrator will gladly explaio how you may do so.
If your firm has oot already installed the Payroll Savings Plan, nout is tbe time to do s. For full details, plus samples of resuh-getting literature and promotional h"lPt' write or wire: lVar Savings Sta$ Section F Treasury Departme nt, 7o9 Twelfth Sueet IY$f., Tfashiogtoo, D. C.
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War and the effects of war were brought into sharp focus at the 26th annual meeting of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau which was held in Seattle on December 19-a meeting of Northwest shingle manufacturers coming at the close of a year of much activity in the shingle industry.
Speakers at the meeting, which u'as an informal industry forum, included Paul R. Smith, the retiring president; W. H. Mclallen, chairman of the trade promotion committee; P. H. Olwell, chairman of the public relations committee, and W. W. Woodbridge, Bureau secretary-manager.
Mr. Woodbridge graphically reviewed the work of the organization during 1942, stating that almost all of it was devoted to some phase of the war program. He predicted the necessity of further cooperation with governmental agencies on the part of industry during the coming year, and pledged the complete collaboration of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau to this end.
Ralph H. Wayland of Seattle was elected president for 1943, A. H. Landram of Tacoma was chosen vice-president, and Chas. Plant of Vancouver, B. C., was elected vice-president for Canada.
N. A. Thompson is with the Naval Air Corps at Lone Pine, and his brother Grant Thompson, is in the moving picture industry of the Army, a new department, in Florida.
Their father, T. O. Thompson, who operates the Thompson Lumber Company at Bell Gardens, is a veteran of the first World War. His sons were associated with him in the business.
A. G. Paul, Jr., who has been located at Bend, Oregon, for several years in the capacity of assistant manager and resident sales manager of The Shevlin-Hixon Company, has enlisted in the U. S. Naval Reserve as Lieutenant Senior Grade. He has reported for duty in the East.
C. H. Shevlin, who has been located in Minneapolis for a number of years as vice-president of Shevlin Pine Sales Company is leaving that position and on January l, 1943, is returning to Bend, Oregon, to become assistant manager of The Shevlin-Hixon Company.
Mr. Shevlin's long experience with the Sales Company will make him a valuable man in this new position and his r,r'ide circle of friends and acquaintances within the trade as well as their organization will find him willing and anxious to render every possible service.
.W. C. Morley, sales representative of the Minneapolis district office, has tendered his resignation, effective December 31.
M. R. Gill. well known Southern California lumberman, has left Camp Roberts and is now at the Officers'Training Camp, Fort Benning, Georgia. Before going in the trft/r he was with Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co. of Los Angeles.
R. E. (Bob) Caldwell, Hammond Lumber Co., San Francisco, is expected back January 4 from a two-weeks' visit to Palm Springs. He was accompanied by Mrs. Caldwell.
May we extend to our custtorners and friends our sincere thanks and appreciation for their patnonage and forbearance during the past year, and wish one and all a
with the thought in mind that our watchword for 1943 is
I live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the heaven that smiles above me. And awaits my spirit too; For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance. And the good that I can do.
-G. L. Banks.*:fi,1
On this New Year's day, the prayer of Robert Louis Stevenson seems very appropriate: "We beseech Thee, O Lord, to behold us with favor; weak men and women, subsisting under the covert of Thy patience. Be patient still. Suffer us yet a while longerwith our broken purposes of good, with our idle endeavor against evilsuffer us a while longer to endure, and (if it may be), help us to do better."
On this New Year'" ulr,*"rr*Americans are united in the same New Year's wish: that before this year is over we may win and end the war, and start working our way backward over the paths of peace. Among normal men, there can be no other ambition. Won't it be wonderful next January first to look back and say: "The war is over. A permanent peace has begun." Fortunately, those who say such hope is just wishful thinking, know no more about it than we do. When we stop hoping and believing in good things to come, we will be in a bad way, indeed. And of one thing you can be certain, the war-at least Germany's participation in itwill come unexpectedly. There is consolation in knowing that the day before it ends, it will look as though it were going on interminably. I think there is helpfulness in that opinion. We may have to take our time after that, hunting down the little monkey men in the \ilestern Pacific. But when Germany passes, doomsday for fhe'Japs'will be just a ma-tter of' tirnc-and careful shooting.
Here's a New Year's wish to all my lumber friends: "Don't lose your sense of humor." Hang on to it for dear life, for verily, it is the shock absorber and the bumper
on the motor car of your existence. Sacrifices grow more tolerable and troubles more endurable if we can grin while they happen. And there is much evidence that the lumber folks can and do, keep smiling. If we let ourselves get all tense and grirn we won't be able to think our way through the problems of the times. So far as is humanly possible, a lnan should relax, and grin, and get all the joy out of life every day that he possibly can. Don't fgrget the priceless philosophy of the fat colored woman who said that the secret of her freedom from worry was that "when Ah sits, Ah sits loose." It's when you sit as tense and brittle as a pipestem, that you are in danger of cracking.
As Robert J. Burdette .. O.""ril"lly phrased it: "It is only when to the burdens and cares of today, we wilfully add the burdens of those two awful eternities-yesterday and tomorrowthat we break down. It isn't the experience of today that drives men mad. It is the remorse for something that happened yesterday, the dread of what tomorrow may disclose. Those are God's days. Leave thern with Him." Great advice, and practical. ***
The New Year has already brought the business people some things to be thankful for. We are assured that when the new Congress meets in January, something is going to be done to relieve them from the "blizzatd of questionnaires" as they call it, that has deluged and well-nigh overwhelmed them of late. Everyone knows that most of this stuff is stupid, impractical, and unnecessary. One desperate business.man wrote me the other day: "f am not going to fill out another questionnaire unless a U. S. Marshal comes after it." The whole country feels much the same way. A certain amount of information is no doubt necessary. But the Niagara of such stuff that has come,out of Washington to bottle-neck the mails and throttle the business people, is foolistr confusion. It strows signs of terminating.
Another gift the business people have dready received was the resignation of Leon Henderson. The question of
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(Continued from Page 6) his ability we have no desire to debatc. But the question of his temperamental fitness for the job, can have only one answer. He was rurfit for that really terrific job as a hot oven is fit for ammunition storage. He had a job that demands more diplomacy than Secretary Hull owns. And Henderaon lvas made without one 6ber of diplomacy. He had failed in his youth to learn one little rhyme, which is as fillcd with truth as any quotation from scripture, namely that:
"It isn't so much what you do or say, As the way in which you do or say it; For what would the cgg amount to, pray, If the hen got up on the roost to lay it?"
The lumbcr industry ;i', -rro" *t. Henderson. But it was not nearly so much the things he did and said as the way in which he did and said them, that hurt. Admittedly the most unpopular man in Washington, a skillful diplomat could have accomplished the same things without creating one-tenth as much ill will. Certainly we must have restrictions and deprivations to'help win this war. Nobody doubts it. Nobody objects, so far as we've heard. But the attitude of "You'll take it and like it, and what are you going to do about it?" doesn't belong in this country, even in war time. There are many men in this country who could do that job successfully and earn the ill will of no man, because of their character, their fairness, and the spirit of confidence they create. Let us hope we appoint one.
At New Year's o-" ;"* ir" "r.o.r" a lot of good resolutions made, worthy mottoes hung on the wall to be followed. We hear a lot about doing the things that couldn't be done, and all that sort of stuff. I heard of one the other day that amused me greatly. A well known philosopher has a sign over his desk that reads: "Somebody said that it couldn't be done; so f didn't even try." **
I still think the smartest Christmas card I ever received was from the late humorous writer, Montague Glass. He was an orthodox Jew, and his wife was a Gentile and a Presbyterian. On Christmas he sent out a personal card
that read: "Commemorating the birthdCy of my wife's Savior."
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I{ave you heard the story about the soldier who had been six months under fire in the Western Paci6c, and was given a three weeks' furlough to spend the holidays at home. Whcn hc got home he discovcred that he could get only one cup of cofree a day, with only one spoon of sugar in it; that they had no gasoline for the family car; that they could get no deccnt cuts of meat for dinner; that the family had had no butter for weeks and could get none; and when they began telling him about other shortagcs, prlncipally for heating the old home comfortably, hc grabbcd hia hat, rushed out into the street shouting-"'Which way is Guadalcanal?"
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Personally I was gctting along all right with the coffee shortage, until I rcad in the paper that they were burning it in locomotives in Brazil. That shot got me. They say Philadelphia is the only place in the country where they like the coffee shortage; they don't drink it for breakfast for fear it will keep them awake all day. Wonder how old Talleyrand would have cnjoyed the coffee situation. He was thc man who said hc wanted his coffee "Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, and sweet as love."
When I read *" ,rrrJ"rr*"0r. story of the ravages wrought by the Japs in so short a time at Pearl flarbor, and saw the pictures showing what lack of preparedness and aleftness cost us, I got down my volumes of Sir Walter Scott's works, and turned to that part of "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," where Scott describes how the knights of Branksome Hall kept watch and ward in time of danger. It is worth rc-reading, just as a lesson. Scott said of these fighting men that:
"Ten of them were sheethed in steel, With belted sword and spur on heel; They quitted not their harness bright, Neither by day nor yet by night:
They lay down to rest
With corselet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard;
They carved at the meal
With gloves of steel,
Washington, Dec. l0-Four thousand industrialists attending the War Congress of American Industry in Nerv York last week adopted a resolution vigorously condemning the pending proposal by the U. S. Forest Service to employ $100,000,000 of Cornmodity Credit Corporation funds to subsidize hundreds of small lumber mills in the South and East u'ith the avowed aim of supplementing lumber production for war needs.
The proposal, known as the Forest l)roducts Service Plan, would endow the Forest Service with broad powers to "procure. produce, store, and sell forest products." It is reported to be awaiting final approval by President Roosevelt.
The resolution, as approved by the representatives of every field of American industry, follows:
"The Government should not compete directly r,vith private industry and private labor, nor should it subsidize anv private producers in competition u'ith other private industry.
"The IJ. S. Forest Service, before a committee of the U. S. Senate on November 25th, stated in a public hearing that it proposed to the War Production Board, and that the Board has assented to, a program to subsidize production of luml>er, pulpwood and other forest products and to subsidize competitors r,r'ith the forest industries, in order to aid the war effort. This proposal will not only fail to relieve the present shortage of certain forest products, but would reduce the output. The current shortage is caused not by lack of production facilities but principally by lack of manpo\ver.
"ft has also proposed a program of Federal regulation of timber cutting and utilization as a war production measure. This plan in our opinion is an attempt to foist upon the country, under authority granted for other purposes, an unsound plan for extending governmental control over private enterprise and private industry.
"We are unalterably opposed to the policy of putting the Government in competition vvith prit'ate inclustry; 1\,'e are opposed to allowing instrumentalities, subdivisions or departments of the Government to compete with private industry whether the competition be direct or subsidized."
While war conditions have made it seem necessary to close my yard for the duration, I still consider my- self a lumberman-"f,ms1i1ns"-if you please, and could not get along without The California Lumber Merchant. Jack's editorials and stories are absolutely necessary for our peace of mind. May he live long and prosper.
W. B. Jefferson, 177 Montgomery Street, San Francisco. Calif.
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In a fevv days, January 8 to be exact, the San Pedro Lumber Company, one of the most successful and progressive lumber businesses on the Pacific Coast, will comPlete 60 years of useful service, having been established on January 8, 1883, by the Hooper Brothers of San Francisco. Incorporation Papers for the new company were filed in San Francisco on that date, which was l7 years after the establishment of their San F-rancisco
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Genercl Mcncrger Yards and shipping facilities were constructed on the slough which later became the main channel of San Pedro Harbor, and the original l0-acre site is still owned by the company -'one of the few remaining privately owned lands on the main channel.
At that time this was the first lumber yard in the Harbor District, and there was no port of San Pedro. Even the shallow draught schooners unloaded their cargoes in the open roadstead just inside Point Firmin, and the lumber was lightered up the slough to the company's yards.
It is interesting to note that the establishment of the business at San Pedro was a direct result of the development of mining in Arizona. The mining boom in Tombstone in 1882 created a big demand for timbers, and L. W. Blinn of Hooper Brothers $'as sent to the Arizona city to take
care of the orders that were pouring into the San Francisco offices at the rate of from four to six carloads daily. It didn't take long for Hooper Brothers to ligure that a great saving in shipping costs could be effected if the lumber was brought to Southern California by boat and thence into Arizona by rail. And so immediate steps were taken to enter the Southern California rnarket in an extensive way with their own yards and sales force.
The story of the Hooper Brothers goes back to the Gold Rush days. Six in number they came to California between 1849 and 1854, and four of them engaged in the lumber business. The first ventures of these enterprising pioneers were at Sacramento, and in 1866 they were barging lumber from their Sacramento yards down the river 100 miles and across the bay to their new yards at Spear and Market Streets in San Francisco.
The next step in their development was the purchase of extensive timber lands in Humboldt County and the erection of a mill at Trinidad, 25 miles north of Eureka. During the first years of their logging operations oxen were used to haul the logs to the mill. But soon their business increased to the point where more rapid transportation r,l'as required. Rails and cars were brought around the Horn from Philadelphia, and the first Baldwin locomotive to be used on the West Coast was purchased to haul timber.
And so it was that the four famous brothers, John A., F. I,., C. A. and George W., furnished much of the timber and boards that went into the building of early San F'rancisco.
Back in the late sixties the lumber schooner Newport sailed from Trinidad, California, for Newport Harbor with a cargo of redwood lumber sawed in the mills of the Hooper Brothers, lumber dealers of San Francisco.
Arrived in the Orange County port, the master of the Newport made arrangements with the McFaddan family of Santa Ana to take the cargo in barter for produce.
A few years later, in 1872, the schooner Alice was launched to share with the Nervport in this ever increasing trade. For ten years these schooners sailed up and down the coast, unloading their lumber cargoes at Ner,vport and exchanging them through the McFaddans for produce. It isn't known what the price schedules were, but they might have read so many crates of garden truck, so many boxes of fruit, or so many gross of eggs per thousand feet of lumber at the shipside.
This bartered merchandise was sold on the trip north, calls being made at Santa Barbara, Monterey, Santa Crtrz and San Francisco for this purpose.
Returning to the history of San Pedro Lumber Company, the records show that the company's first venturc was so successful they immediately began to expand. Tor,r'ards the end of 1883 a yard was opened on the company's present site at Compton, and in 1885 the Whittier yard was established. The follor,r'ing year yards were opened at Second and Alameda Streets and at Florence
and Alameda, Los Angeles, and in Upland, Ontario, foIonrovia and Artesia. In 1888 the yards at Huntington Beach and Beaumont were built.
From ihat date the story of the San Pedro Lumber Company has been one of continuous growth. The Hooper Brothers remained active in the company until their deaths. John A. Hooper, last of the brothers to pass on, was still working and personally controlling his many large interests when death overtook him in his 88th year. At that time he was president of the First National Bank of San Francisco and chairman of the board of the Crocker First National. He was also the largest individual holder of Market Street property, and had extensive steamship interests, acquired chiefly during the World War. He was one of the original owners of the Hope Ranch in Santa Barbara.
Charles A. Ilooper founded the city of Pittsburgh, California, and organized the Columbia Steel Corporation and the Redwood Manufacturers Co.
Albert B. McKee, Jr., is general manager of the company, having succeeded T. L. Ely on January l,1937. Mr. Ely retired at that time after continuous service of almost 40 years, having joined the organization in 1898.
Mr. McKee has been with San Pedro Lumber Company ior 2l years. J. C. Jenkins, assistant manager and credit manager, has completed 30 years of service. George Clough, sales manager, has been with the company 22
years; F. W. Bishop, controller, 20 years ; E. W. Iluft'man, San l)edro plant manager,24 years; O. C. Abbott, mill superintendent at San Pedro, 43 years; M' E' Sanders, machine shop superintendent, D years; Frank Parkinson, shipping clerk, 24 years; W. J. Shaw, purchasing agent, 7 years, and Howard Allen, yard superintendent, 42 yeats-
The main yard at 16th Street and Central Avenue, Los Angeles, was completely reconstructed in 1937, the work
including hantlsome trel' offrces and salesrooms. Improvernents at the Wilmington vard at that time included a nerv u'arehouse, 230 by 55 feet for bulk merchandise.
A number of lumbermen. rvho at one time were associated with the San Pedro Lumber Company, Iater organized their or,l'n companies. Among these u'ere H. F. Muller, W. F. Marmion, Ed Lockett, Scott Boyd, Clyde Boyd, S. J. Kling, Fred Crozier, Frank Bortels, Pete Corpstein, E. A. Nicholson, George Nicholson, C. L. Nfiller, H. S. Riser, J. W. Black and Ray Linn.
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We have had to put forth a lot of ellort, involving much traveling and diligent 3earch bV expcrt3, for new sources of supply to replace those shut off by the war.
We have been succes3ful in locating' new hardwoods in Central and South America that will remain permanent additions to our stocks.
IIe came back from Bataan, via Australia, and they gave him a month's furlough to go home and rest up. And were his folks glad to see him? He was a big hero to his townspeople too, and plenty of folks met him at the train, and followed him around the first several hours he was back in his home town.
But all things pass, and finally evening came, and he was sitting with his best girl on the front porch of her father's home, and they finally had a chance to do some personal talking. The beam in their eyes showed they had plenty to say. But before they got started good, she said:
"Bill, do you remember that picture of myself I had taken just for you before you left?"
"Do I?" said Bill. "It's my dearest possession."
"How wonderful !" said she. "I recall that when I gave it to you, you put it in the inside pocket of your coat
We hcrve been engaqred for some time in the lcbriccrtion oI mcrlerir'ls for crrticles thcrt crre directly connected with wcrr needs. W'e cre, therelore not crble to lurnish any oI the items lor which we had developed c wide mqrket-Eubcrnk Ironing Bocrrds, Cabinets, or Mantels.
However, we cre clso plcrnning for the luture, crnd when the time comes will crnnounce c new qnd more extensive line oI Eubank product$
right over your heart, and you swore that no matter where you went on the face of the earth, or what happened to you, as long as there was life in your body you would keep my picture right over your heart. And did you?"
"Did I?" said Bill. "Wait till I show you.'"
Then he went to diggg. Down into the back pocket of his army pants went his hand. Out came a handkerchief, a knife, some cigarettes, a stub of pencil, a box of matches, an old folded letter, and finally, down at the bottom he fished out a small, flat package of brown and sweaty paper. Carefully he unwrapped it. There were many folds of that paper, but finally he produced a girl's picture. To get it into small space he had cut away all but the face, and then wrapped it. Triumphantly he held it up for her to see.
"I told you, didn't I? No matter where I went I carried it with me, just like I said."
"Yes," said the girl. "That's my picture, all right. But soldier, you've certainly had a change of heart, haven't you?"
So any new limitation orders hereafter to be issued affecting plywood of various types and grades may appear as sections under one title, WPB amends heading of Limitation Order L-150 to make it read simply "plywood" (Amendment 2 to General Limitation Order L-150 as amended October 8), issued December 14.
(From the Sermon on the Mount; "As ye would thcrt men should do to you, do ye crlso to them."
(From Lincoln's Gettysburg Address) -Thct government oI the people, by the people, cnd lor the people shcrll not perish Irom the ecrth."
(Article 5, BiU oI Rights) "No person shall be deprived oI lile, liberty, or property without due process ol lcrw; nor shqll privcte property be tcken lor public use without iust compenscrtion."
(Declcrction oI Independence) "We hold these truths to be sell-evident, thcrt cll men cre crected equcrl, that they cre endowed by their Crecrtor with certain inalienable Rights, thcrt cmrong these cre LiIe, Liberty, cnd the pursuit oI Hcrppiness."
George Loveday, who recently graduated from Pomona College, is at the Officers' Training Camp, Marine Base, Parris Island, South Carolina. He is the son of Dick Loveday, Loveday Lumber Company, Los Angeles.
The Riverside Lumber Company, Los Angeles, announces it is closing for the duration but will be back, same place, as soon as the war is over.
Christian A. Wilder has purchased the interest of Jessie L. Sage of Sage & Wilder, San Francisco. The firm is nouf known as C. A. Wilder & Son.
Carl Hornibrook, Ewauna Box Co., Klamath Falls, Ore., and J. W. Rodgers, Lassen Lumber & Box Co., San Francisco, members of the Sawed Wooden Box Advisory Committee of the WPB, have returned from Washington, D. C., where they attended a meeting of the committee. While enroute to Klamath Falls, Mr. Hornibrook spent a few days in Los Angeles.
Peter J. Van Oosting now has office quarters in Room 3ll,7U South Spring Street, Los Angeles. The telephone number is TRinity 9821. He is Southern California representative for the Herbert A. Templeton Lumber Co. of Portland. Ore.
On lcrnucry 8, 1943, we will celebrcrte the 60th Anniverscry ol the establishment oI our business in Southern Calilorniacompleting six deccdes ol stecrdy progress. We wish to express here our gncrtelul qpprecicrtion to crll those declers whose pctroncge oI the wholescrle end oI our
business hcrs contributed in grrecrt mecsure to our success.
And we pledge ourselves to cn even grecrter degnee oI service in the future, to the end thct we mcry continue to b" gr" importcrnt lactor in the growth crnd progness ol the Los Angeles crecr cnd Southern Ccrlifornic.
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BY JACK DIONNE
A prophet, scrys the Scriptures, is not withoul honor, save in his own country. A prophet who tries to guess the luture ol the lumber business at this iime, will probcbly end up without honor in this or cnY other country.
We know only thct the old yecr is gone. We know thct it wqs the most exciting yecrr the lumber industry ever knew. Things hcrppened thcrt mqde the most unusuql evenls of the first World War look stcle crnd llct by compcrison. The mqn who said at the beginning of 1942 thct "we hcrven't seen nuthin' yet," wcs crbout the most successlul prophet oI business we evet knew. We hcdn't. Eut we have now.
We look fonpcrd towcrrd 1943 with c whcrle ol cr lot of hopes, but very lew convictions. Thcrt it will be c yecr when every business mcn will need every ounce oI ingenuity, intelligence, ord downright courcge he can muster, goes witftout scying. We cll know there will be mcny problems to be solved. We know there will be no "business as usucl." We suspect that the law oI survivcl ol the littest is going to be c mecrsuring
Trying to guess whct is coming is like trying lo guess when the wcrr will end; beccruse one depends on the oiher. So while we lecn hecrvily cgcrinst the keeper oI our hcrrem oI hopes. let us prepare to meet whcrt comes, cmd stcry right side up, living crnd working iust one dcry cd cr time, crnd doing our eterncrl dcrndest on thcrt dcy. That is good philosophy ct crny time, but p<rrticulcrly good in times oI stress crnd peril.
First, we shcll try every dcry to do everyihing possible to help win the wcrr. There is only one foremost ambition qbroad in this lcnrd, crnd thct is iL Second, we shall by to lceep our business hecds qbove wqter, keep lurnishing the public cll the building senrice that wcr conditions will cllow, cnd preserve for our people scrtisfcrctory shelter for themselves cnd their possessions until this wqr is over.
Whcrt our pcrrticulcrr problems will be, we do not know, we c<rn only surmise. Whetber building restrictions will be tightened or soltened, depends entirely on eventB crs they develop. We ccn only prqy, 11s the eowboy did: "Oh Lord, don't let crnything come my wcry thcrt You cnd I together ccrn't handle." Thct wouldn't be cr bcd morning prqyer lor every mcur icck ol us throughout the yecr.
It mcry, probcrbly will, turn out to be c "re" yeqr,' c yecrr lor "re" griring, "re" modeling, "re" pcinting, "re" pcpering "re" roofing, "re" building, in order ihat this ncrlion mqy continue to be scrlely housed while the wcr goes on Thct there will be cny pcrticulcr "re" lqxqtion of the rules cgcinst new civiliqn building until Germcrny is broughl to her lorees, is very, very doubdul. But there mcry be such "re"lcxcrtioa ol the "re"strictions crgcrinst "re"modeling cmd "re"building cs will make millions ol housea more livcble and comlortcble until the blessed dcy comes. When the huge demcrnd lor common lumber lor trcrining cqmps tcrpers off, much oI thct matericrl could well be used to improve the shelter situatio..- crnd thct mcry be very soon.
Getting recrdy lor 1943 is like plcying cr bridge hcnd. You ccrn't play the ccrds until you get them. So cll ure c(m do is polish up our wits cnd our courct€te, to hcrndle each plcry cs ii develops.
San Francisco, Dec. 3O.-The Western Pine, California Redwood and West Coast Lumbermen's Associations have asked the President not to approve the Forest Products Service Plan. Many Western millS have wired the President, Senators, Congressmen and the War Production Board pointing out that present production can be increased substantially by providing additional manpower and operating equipment which could relieve present shortage of logs.
M. L. "Duke" Euphrat, Wendling-Nathan Company, San Francisco, was back at his desk December 28, after having made a good recovery from illness that kept him two weeks in a hospital.
M. R. Robd, San Diego lumberman, has returned to his old stamping ground at Benton lfarbor, Michigan, where he will purchase lumber for the Dachel-Carter Ship Building Corp. He says he will return to California with the canceling of priorities.
Dollars and cents maximum prices for mine timber, industrial blocking and railroad ties in 15 western states set by OPA in line with those establsihed for comparable lumber items (MPR ?f,.4\, eff.ective December 18.
Three Bureau of Reclamation irrigation projects in the Far 'West, centers for Japanese evacuees from the pacific Coast, and another for the development of guayule will continue to be constructed under certain limitations, according to advices received here today from Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes.
Permission was also granted .by the WPB Facility Review Committee, it was stated, for completion of a housing project of 140 family units at Boulder City, Nev. Work on an additional 71 units was ordered stopped,
Among the projects on which work may proceed within certain limits are: Klamath, California; Minidoka, Idaho; and Shoshone, 'Wyoming. These embrace irrigation facilities for War Relocation Centers. Additional irrigation facilities are needed for the support of the Japanese evacuees in these centers.
Three of the irrigation projects may continue, it was stated, only to the extent necessary to provide work and sustenance for Japanese evacuees under the supervision of the War Relocation Authority.
The project at Gila is approved only to the extent necessary for the development of guayule. Construction on the project is in progress which will tnake possible 30,000 acres of irrigated land for guayule rubber in 1943-44. More than 100,000 acres could be made available within a few years, it was declared.
The old-fashioned fellow who liked to fix his plate to suit himself, finds the women of his household ruled by a certain stern person known as Emily Post.
What Emily says, goes. She decrees how the food shall come onto the table, how it shall be served, and the slant of the little fingers when tea is sipped from a fragile cup. Most rrien have found Emily's decrees fairly tolerable. Most men know that when they pull up to the table and beam with delight on the savory meal, they mustn't leap at it and gorge. They are willing to accept the basic principles of civilized dining.
Most old-timers have ceased saucering their coffee. They have learned to use their knife as a knife, and their fork as a fork. But they are not unmindful of the fact that many of the sturdy gentlemen who placed the foundation stones, lifted the roof trees, and laid the sills of this countrl, rv€r€ men who liked to do most of these homely things.
Men are willing to abandon the reach and take system for methods more refined, to please the persons of nicer tastes. But look out for a revolution now. Emily has finally gone too far. She has decreed against the old custom of placing a piece of bread on a plate and drowning it in good, rich gravy. Listen, Emily. When the mothers of long ago baked those great loaves of bread that bellied over the ends of the pans into runovers so delicious when broken off and buttered while hot, she had in mind great, generous slices that would just about cover the bottoms of plates. She baked that bread with a picture in her mind of her entire sturdy brood reaching, and saying "Pass the gravy, please." She knew how to feed that bunch and keep them happy and growing like young shoats. She couldn't have done it on the family income if they had stuck to fancy fixin' and Emily Post table manners.
She knew that when Pa came home in the evening with a slab of beefsteak which she'd pound on the corner of the kitchen table with the back of a hatchet, that she could get enough gravy out of that meat to fill a huge bowl. She knew that a little meat and a lot of gravy would make the quantity of homely fare that kept the family aglow with happinesS. Those mothers fetched up strong men of this nation and sent them forth in marching armies, down the rural furrows, through factory gates, or off to war. Some of them became great leaders of men.
Emily infers a.plate of bread and gravy looks like something for Fido. Well, remembbr Fido of those old days was the dog that chased the freight train off the farm ! The men were the kind who could support a ten per cent mortgage, a wife, and eight children.Topeka State Journal.
When the rest of her family urent to church to pray for the soldiers, sailors, and marines, the old maid daughter stayed home and prayed for a soldier, sailor, or marine.
A youn-g colored draftee had been made the victim of so many army gags and practical jokes, that he was expecting them all the time, so when he was walking his sentry beat, and an officer approached, he halted him with the demand:
"'Who goes dah?"
The reply came: "Major Moses."
The recruit said: "Glad t'meetcha, Moses. Advance an' gib de ten commandments."
"What's that ugly insignia I see on the side of that big bomber?"
"Shush ! That's the commander looking out of the porthole."
Ain't it funny that some folks you don't miss, And some folks you just miss a mile, And the folks you don't miss, you see lots of, And the other folks. once in a while.
She entered the private office of a notorious divorce lawyer, and said:
"I came to see if you think I have grounds for divorce."
The lawyer asked: "Are you married?"
She said, "Yes."
"Ah," said the lawyer. "What more grounds can a person ask for than that?"
This sign is reported displayed in a night club in San Francisco: "In case of an air raid, crawl under the slot machine. The jackpot hasn't been hit in 6ve years."
San Francisco, Dec. 2G-Private builders today were assured of the same high priority ratings given publicly-financed conversion projects to provide additional dwelling space in critical areas, the National Housing Agency announced today.
Eugene Weston Jr., NHA regional representative, said that added impetus to private building has been afforded private owners since OPA agreed to give prior opinions on rents to be charged taking into consideration capital expenditures, before the conversion projects are started.
"Privately-financed projects in critical areas will get an AA-4 rating," lVfr. Weston said, "which now is the highest granted for housing construction of any type; but it will be a few weeks before the War Production Board can send the necessary regulations and forms to the field.
"In the meantime, home owners and private builders planning such conversion should go to the FHA office in their community to obtain answers to questions they may have regarding proper procedures to follow."
Mr. Weston added that the regional FHA office through its war housing centers will do everything possible to tr.'romote privately financed conversion in critical areas.
Gordon W. Cudworth, Ganahl Mill & Lumber Co., Santa ' Barbara, was a recint San Francisco visitor.
W. E. (Bill) Davis, for the past several years with Pope & Talbot, Inc., Lumber Division, San Francisco; has been assigned to duty in the South Pacific Lumber Office, 405 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, representing four San Diego and three of the Los Angeles distribution and remanufacturing yards appointed by the Office of the Chief of Engineers, IJ. S. Army.
IVIr. Davis is liaison man between these yards and the South Pacific Lumber Office, which is in charge of Roy Paulus.
The yards he represents are the following: W. E. Cooper Lumber Co., Los Angeles; E. J. Stanton & Son, I-os Angeles; Pope & Talbot, Inc., Lumber Division, Los Angeles; American Products, Inc., San Diego; Benson Lumber Co., San Diego; Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., San Diego, and Western Lumber Co., San Diego.
Mr. Davis is on leave of absence from Pope & Talbot, Inc., is spending his full time in this work, and will continue to do so as long as the distribution yards are operating on the present basis.
Roy E. Hills of Wendling-Nathan Company, San Francisco, and Mrs. Hills left December 22 to spend the holidays in San Diego, where they will visit their son, Roy E. Hills, Jr., who is an Ensign in the Navy and stationed there.
It has been said during the past year that national production of forest products is falling short of national consumption. This statement. which has been often and properly emphasized by the War Agencies, has been widely misconstrued to mean, for example, that the lumber supply was insufficient to meet war requirements. That was not true at any time in 1942. It is not true now. It is not likely to be true in 1943.
Supplies available f or war use consist of current production, imports, and inventories. The gap between production and consumption this year apparently is between six and seven billion feet. That means increased imports and reduced inventories. It does not mean that essential war needs have not been supplied. All war and essential civilian demands for lumber during the year have been met.
It is a fact that current production of wood fell short of current requirements. This necessitated drawing upon our "stock piles" or inventories.
Mill and distributor stocks of both softwoods and hardwoods combined, are now about nine billion feet. These are the lowest total stocks of record. In rnost regions these stocks are ill-assorted. By ordinary standards they are inadequate. This means that green material on a large scale is being used and will be used for purposes for which ordinarily dry lumber should be used. Inventories in most regions now consist largely of unseasoned stocks or of items
and grades not in active demand for war uses. Manufacturers, distributors, and users alike are now aware that the day of "comfortable" inventories is over until the end of the war.
It is of course not possible to forecast the future course of national requirements of forest products any more than it is possible to forecast the course of the war. But it is possible to strike an approximate balance sheet of 1942 supplies and requirements, and to appraise the 1943 prospects iu terms of 1942 experience and expected 1943 requirements so far as they are now known.
Lumber consumption in L942 was approximately 38.6 billion feet, about 12 per cent greater than in 1941. National lumber production and imports of foreign lumber in 1942 were about 33.5 billion feet. The remainder of national consumption, approximately 5.1 billion feet, was withdrawn from inventories about as follows:
From mill stocks. ..2.0 billion feet
From Distributors' stocks .2.6 billion feet
From ljsers' stocks. .5 billion feet
Lumber requirements for war uses and essential civilian supplies in 1943, will probably be about 34 billion feet or 4lbillion feet less than the national consumptionin 1942possibly as high as 36 billion or as low as 32 billion. War construction, war plant and war housing lumber requirements will probably be less by seven billion feet. For all construction, less by about Slbillion feet. As a substantial offset to this expected decline in construction, the lumber requirements in 1943 for boxes, crates, containers, and other shipping purposes, will probably exceed those for 1942 by four billion feet; and consumption in fabricating and other war industry uses will be greater by a quarter billion feet.
Lumber inventories during 1942 have bridged the gap between consumption and current production plus imports. This gap in 1942 has been about 15 per cent. In 1943, if
production equivalent to 1942 production can be maintained, the corresponding gap will be.not more than five per cent.. The average 1942 rate of national production is not now being maintained. There lies the real challenge to management and labor; to trucks, tires, and tractors; to owners of standing timber both private and public; and to the public agencies which will largely determine the extent to which, and the conditions on which, the means will be available to incYease production. This country will not much longer live off its inventories.
It should be possible to increase lumber production by a volume sufficient to bridge the gap between present prospective production and present prospective requirements. It is possible. A small increase in manpower, either in more men or in more,hours of work, will readily do this.
If during 1943 consumption continues to exceed production, there will have to be further extensive changes of specifications to admit the use of species, grades, and items which are available, rather than the species, grades, and items which are preferred. Such shifts on a substantial scale, facilitated by the War Production Board and by the Lumber Qommittee of the Army and Navy Munitions Board, have already been mide during this year. They have helped materially to moderate threatened shortages.
There is considerable room still for economies in design lvhich will make less ,wood go farther. We have not yet outgrown the prevalent national habit of over-designing timber structures.
Much has been contributed to economy in building design by the development of the "Teco-connector" system of timber construction and the use of laminated timber arches. In prevailing types of war construction one pound of steel in timber connectors, washers, and bolts, is enabling timber to take the place of 13 pounds of steel, or 47 pounds of steel, if you count the connectors alone.
Economies will not, in the long run, solve tlre problems of dwindling supplies. The constructive answer is to be found in greater production; not only greater total production but greater production of the particular species, sizes, and items in most urgent demand and most useful in the war economy. This can be done. Mill capacities are ample. Timber reserves are adequate. But it will require more de-
termined action than has yet been taken by public agencies especially in three directions:
lst. In protecting the forest products industries from a further dispersal of their labor, especially their woods labor.
2nd. Prompt availability of needed maintenance, equipment, and repairs
3rd. Such reconstruction of the basic timber depletion provisions of the income tax laws as will not penalize and, for the war period at least, will encourage extra timber cutting and extra log production by those timber owners who have timber readily available, which will make, most promptly, in the largest volume, and with the least use of labor, the lumber and timber products most needed for war purposes.
This may not be good forestry practice, but it is necessary war practice. Forest practice deficits can be made up after the war. War production deficits cannot; they must be made up now. Log production does not necessitate forest destruction and wise forest owners will continue the efiort to leave their forest lands in productive condition. But where the choice now is between greater log production without good forestry and less log production with good forestry, there is no sensible choice, and there will not be until the urgent wartime needs for forest products are fully supplied.
The reverse of the medal, however, presents a brighter picture which few not directly concerned with the forests realize. That is the rapidly multiplying growth of new wood that is steadily gaining on forest use, even the heavy drain of emergency demand. We are using only two per cent of our timber reserves each year without reference to this regrowth which is estimated at 11 billion cubic feet pef year.
This regrowth, which is on the up-curve, is not entirely accidental. It has been promoted by the sound forest management policies of forward-looking forest operators who are protecting, often replanting, cut-over and burned-over areas and maintaining "tree-farms" so that their lands may continue to produce "Trees for Tomorrow.', Col. W. B. Greeley, former Chief Forester of the United States, now manager of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, estimates that nearly 70 per cent 'of the virgin areas on the West Coast, which have been logged or burned, are now
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are of the income tax laws severely penalize the extra producwell tion of logs which the War Agencies are so urgently seekna- ing.
The crucial point of wood production now is log supply. This involves a composite of problems-in labor supply, equipment, and timber.
A combination of difficult conditions is gr5dually urearing down the log supply in most of the forest regions. The War Agencies are now tackling more diligently and more vigorously the problems of labor and equipment in the woods. But one of the more fundamental handicaps to log production has had little public consideration and, rrntil recently, no public action. The timber depletion pro't'isions of the federal income tax laws have never been generous' Now in combination with the high replacement costs of standing timber and the exceedingly high income and excess profits tax rates, these timber depletion provisions are severely retarding and in many instances choking the extra production for which now particularly there is urgent need.
Many companies during the past twenty vears have learned {or themselves the timber-growing possibilities of their forest lands. Many have so planned their timber cutting as to provide long continuing and in some cases Permanent operations. Now they are asked to cut more timber, cut their best timber, most accessible and most conveniently logged. Many are doing this although in so doing they are often undermining their possibilities of permanent future operation. In any event the present timber provisions
The plain fact is that these present timber provisions are not suited for the taxation of income derived from the conversion of property held for a considerable period of time and representing a substantial increment in growth or value or both. These harsh and inequitable provisions are retarding production now, and until they are modified; they will so continue.
For the first time in many years, Congress has recently given constructive consideration to some relief of this paradoxical tax situation. It has granted a partial exemption from taxation of income attributable to extra war production of logs. This has opened up a basic economic question affecting not only present r,var production o{ lumber and timber products but also the future status of forest ownership. We may not complain of taxes merely because they are high, but we may expect and ask that timber taxes be equitable, be suited to the nature of the resource-and that they do not destroy their own sources.
Most forest products "shortages" for urgent war needs have been fears, not facts. Wood is now recognized as one of the most generally useful industrial materials, in war as in peace. Its greatest contribution will be not only to supply direct war needs but also to provide practical substitutes for scarce materials needed for fighting tools. Fundamentally, wood is a "safety valve," not a "bottleneck" industry.
I wonder, little Forty Three
As you come gliding through' the night, If you will take this weary world And change its darkness into light; Can you divert it from the path Down which it rolls through clouds of sin, And set it on a worthier course By an initiatory spin ?
"I wonder," said the youthful year, "Why you persist in questioning me, The information you desire Is veiled in dim futurity. I bring a gift of precious days, Like feckless pagesr clean and bright, The record left for time to read, Humanity alone must write."
I wonder, little Forty Three, As Forty Two goes limping out, If you will give us hope for fear And whisper; "courage," when we doubt. And will you banish from our hearts The sins of malice, greed and spite, And lend us wisdom for our guide And keep us marching toward the light?
"f wonder," said young Forty Three, "Why you should ask these things of me. Men of good will must face the storm As arbiters of destiny.
From their own powers of mind and heart Must come the strength and will to do And by the light of wisdom's torch, They'll see this time of conflict through."
-A. Merriam Conner.The annual Christmas party of the Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club was held at Wilson's Confectaurant on Wednesda.v evening, December 16. LeRoy Miller, Burnett & Sons, Sacramento, the Club's president, presided. There was an attendance of about 60, representative of Sacrameirto and the Sacramento Valley.
Several acts of vaudeville were on the entertainment program, and in addition there was a drawing for pre5ents brought by each one present for the Christmas tree. The gifts were under one dollar in value.
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The Red River Lumber Company, Westwood, California, announces that in the absence of T. S. Walker, vice-president and manager of the lumber division, who has accepted the commission of Lieutenant, senior gfade, in the U' S. Navy Reierve, the management of the Westwood operation will continue under the general management of the president of the company, Archie D. Walker, who u'ill divide his time between'Westwood and Minneapolis, the former principal office of the company.
C. E. Priest has been promoted from the position of assistant manager, lumber division, to acting manager, lumber division.
Kenneth R. Walker has been promoted to the managership of a new department to be known as the resources department with jurisdiction over logging, cruising and land departments, and the Susanville sawmill operation.
Major Chas. J. Schmitt, U. S. Army, was a recent visitor in San Francisco, where he has many friends. He attended the Christmas Party of Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39' December 18. Major Schmitt was formerly associated with the United States Plywood Corporation, San Francisco, before volunteering his services three years ago.
John F. Drescher, Houston, Texas, lumberman, spent a few days in Los Angeles last month while enroute from the Northwest to Houston.
Busy with work connected mainly with furtherance of the war effort, part of which is remanufacturing of aircraft lumber, Western Mill & Moulding Co., 5941 Western Avenue, Los Angeles, has a fine experienced crew of men headed by Hugh L. Donner, the mill superintendent, one of the best men in the millwork business, who has been in the game for about 35 years.
"We are open for more custom milling work of the type that calls for the greatest precision, and would like to add another shift to our operation," said M. O. Parrick, owner of this business, recently to a representative of this paper. The plant is equipped with the most modern machines and has capacity for a large volume.
Mr. Parrick was in the U. S. Air Corps in World War I and saw service in France. He is naturally much interested in the increased use of wood in the construction of aircraft.
Washington, Dec. l5-Joseph B. Eastman, director of defense transportation, today requested all organizations to cancel annual conventions next year which involve intercity travel.
In a few cases, Mr. Eastman said, such meetings might be deemed essential to the war effort, and any organization which believes its meeting would serve that purpose may go ahead with convention plans.
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More than 200 sat down to dinner at the annual Christ_ mas Party of Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39, held at Hotel Leamington, Oakland, on Friday evening, December 1g.
President George Clayberg presided and turned the handling of the entertainment over to Vice-president D. Norman Cords, who was responsible for the excellent program that was presented.
Present as guests of individual members of the Club were 20 sailors and marines who are recovering from wounds at the Oak Knoll Naval Hospital. A number of other Service men, former members, were in attendance also as guests of members.
Reginald Smith, chairman of the Christmas Committee. reported a record in collections for the Good Fellowship Christmas Fund. Checks may still be sent to him, c/o Smith Lumber Company, 19th Avenue & Estuary, Oak_ land. Shares in the Fund are $1.50 each.
The 13 acts of vaudeville were enjoyed by the large crowd.
A big feature of the evening was an auction of packages conducted by Past President Lewis A. Godard. Most of the packages contained Victory Stamps. Half of the qol:y raised was given to the Mayor's (Oakland) Hos_ pitality House for Service Men, for Christmas dinn"r., and half to the American Women,s Volunteer Services.
The successful bidders at the auction were: Miland Grant, Western Door & Sash Co., Oakland, $5.@; John S. Moore, Moore Mill & Lumber Co., San Francisco; $2.00; Frank H. White, Hammond Lumber Co., San Francisco.
The Old Year is dead; the New Year is born. Humbly, fearfully, we sink to our knees, and slowly, in answer to our prayers, comes back something of the old faith of our childhood, and we rejoice that we are granted one more New Year's day on which to ..begin again"-net in our childish way, with utter disregard of the past, but trustingly, patiently, knowing that we must ever carry with us our past, and rejoicing that, with God's help, we may make the future better because of the past. Then, as we rise from our knees, we look bravely forward to the veiled figure that stands at our threshold; we know nothing of what it brings. We know only that it is God,s New year. May He bless it to us all.
$10.00; Henry M. Hink, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco, $15.00; Fred Holmes, Holmes Eureka Lumber Co., San Francisco, $10.00; Ed La Franchi, Hill & Morton, fnc., Oakland, $10.CI; Wm. Chatham Jr., Loop Lumber & Mill Co., Alameda,910.00; Leo Cheim, Cheim Lumber Co., San Jose, $10.00; George Gerken, piedmont Mill & Lumber Co., Piedmont, $10.00, and Larue Woodson, Wheeler Osgood Sales Corp., San Francisco, $10.00.
Gamerston & Green Lumber Co. recently completed construction of a large shed for the storage of rustic, flooring and plywood at their Oakland yard, 2001 Livingston Street.
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Kenneth G. Conway, Holmes Eureka Lumber Co., Los Angeles .... ..Army Air Corps
William H. Marmion, San Gabriel Valley Lumber Co., Arcadia..... .....Army Air Corps
Orrin Wright, Jr., West Coast Screen Co., Los Angeles .... .. ...Army
George Loveday, Loveday Lumber Company, LosAngeles.... ....Marine Corps
Joseph W. Tardy, Jr., E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Hollywood .Army Air Corps
Charles Orr, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Long Beach..Army
Ernest \lllatcrhouse, E. K.Wood Lumber Co., Long Beach ... .Army Air Corps
Walter Wolf, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Long Beach. Navy
Joe Hernandez, E K. Wood Lumber Co., Long Beach ....Army
Orville Zahn, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Ontario
Grady Peterson, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Riverside ..Army
Charles K. Morrell, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Riverside .....Army
Odine Gaston, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Riverside. ..Army
R. H. Meyer, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., San Pedro....Navy
Allen R. Brush, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Pasadena ......Army
N. A. Thompson, Thompson Lumber Co., BellGardens.... .NavalAirForce
Grant Thompson, Thompson Lumber Co., BellGardens....
Don Gow, Hammond Lumber Company, Los Angeles, has been commissioned a Second Lieutenant in .the Army Air Corps and has received his wings. He is an instructor at Albuquerque.
San Francisco, Dec. 8.-Importers of balsa wood on the Pacific coast today'were advised that imports under existing contracts are prohibitied unless the material had been prepared for shipment to the United States.
The War Production Board stated that aero-grade balsa wood, even if prepared for shipment, may not be imported without specific permission.
Balsa wood was brought under import control on June 10. But shipments under contracts then existing were unaffected.
Today's action was taken to prevent the contracts which remain out-standing from conflicting with the governmental program to obtain balsa wood from Ecuador and other South American countries.
Balsa wood is used in the manufacture of airplane parts, buoyant life-saving apparatus, and other important products. f ts sale and use is governed by Order M-177.
Kenneth Smith, president of the California Redwood Association, San Francisco, retdrned Decenber 10 from the East where he had spent a month on the business of the Association. He visited Washington, D. C., New York, Chicago and Madison, Wis., where he called on the U. S. Forest Products Laboratory.
G. R. (Roy) Bleecker, manager of the big Westfir Lumber Compauy's mill at Westfir, Ore., is spending the Christmas and New Year holidays in San Francisco, where he has many friends. He is accompanied by Mrs. Bleecker and they expect to attend the East-West football game Januarv l.
Sergeant A. D. "Tony'f Smith, who is stationed in the Aleutian Islands, spent the Christmas holiday with his parents. He is the son of Bert Smith; The Red River Lumber Company, Los Angeles.
Mcnulcctured by ASSOCIATED PLYWOOD MIIIS
Distributed Btclusively Since l92l by PAGIFIG MUTUAI DOOR GO.
Frame construction is again permitted for exterior wall construction on all residential War housing in Southern California, according to Wilson G. Bingham, District Director, Federal Housing Administration.
"This was a major and important ruling of the War Production Board during the past week, which affected those 23 designated defense areas throughout Southern California, where unused priority quotas for residential units existed," Mr. Bingham said.
"This relaxation of the War Production Board's War Housing Construction Standards high-lighted the activities of the building industry for December and probably will result in again putting into motion the construction of several hundred residential units which were temporarily held up because of previously required, masonry wall construction. The building industry of Southern California was said to have been unprepared to build without the use of lumber as a major materials' item for walls. This fact appeared to be identified sufficiently by the building industry which prevailed upon the War Production Board to grant the relaxation from masonry wall requirements.
"However," Mr; Bingham continued, "with this relief of lumber requirement it still remains an obvious fact that new construction is so limited by prior 'War claims on critical building materials that much dependence must be placed upon existing structures by many who would seek homes. If one cannot build a new home-<r buy a newly constructed home-since they are restricted to War workers, then one may buy an existing home on generous FHA terms, and if remodeling is essential, place the home in sound condition through the use of generous FHA-insured loans, repayable in equal monthly payments over long periods, with terms the lowest in history.
"Many safeguards for the home buyer are offered by the FHA-insured mortgage plan, principal of which is the policy of sound property valuations based upon tested appraisal methods which often prevent borrowing on the basis of inflated prices," Mr. Bingham concluded.
OPA establishes dollars and cents maximum prices, uniform on a nation-wide basis, for Navy oak ship stodk (Maximum Price Regulation 281), issued December 8.
Walter H. Dalton, president of the Holmes Eureka Lumber Company, Eureka, Calif., passed away in a hospital in Eureka, December 6. He had been ill for several weeks, and had been making good progress toward recovery when a second attack occurred December 4.
Mr. Dalton was born in Eureka 6O years ago and had lived there all his life. He worked in the office of The Pacific Lumber Company at Scotia for several years, and in IX)7 went to work for the Holmes Eureka Lumber Company and later became secretary-manager. Several years ago he was elected president of the company.
He was a member of Eureka Council, Knights of Columbus, a charter member and past exalted ruler of Eureka Elks Lodge, and a member of the Eureka Rotary Club. He was also identified with a number of civic organizations.
WPB and NHA announce joint policy on war housing including among others the following points: War housing must be rented to war workers; only material authorized by WPB may be incorporated in a war housing project; war housing must be accessible to the industry it is intended to serve.
American Swing Cut Off Saw. 30" Orton Planer.
AT OUR YARD
Hudson-Bonney Lumber Co. 6919 San Fernando Road Glendale, Calif.
Experienced lumberman wants position as retail yard tnanager or wholesale representative in California' Arizona, New Mexico, or Texas. Address Box C-980 California Lumber Merchant, 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles.
Do you want to liquidate for the duration? See us. Twohy Lumber Co., Lumber Yard Brokers,80l Petro' lcum Bldg., Los Angeles. Telephone PRospect 8746.
LUMBER
Arcata Rcdwood Co. {20 Market Strcct...,......... .......YUkd 206',
Atklmn-Stutz Cmpany, ll2 Market Stret,..............GArfield 1t09
Dmt & Rus*ll, Inc., Zl4 Frut Strct .,.........,....,.GArficld 0292
Dolbecr & Cru Lmber Co., ulE Mcrchiltr Exchmgc Bldg.....Suttq 7456
Gucrton & Grlo Lmbcr Co., f6t Amy Strat .,..........,...,.ATwater 1300
Hall, Jues L, lql2 Millr Bldg. ...................Suttd ?520
Hammd Lmba ComPuy, ll7 lVlontgomdy Str6t ..........Doug!a! 33E6
Holncr Eurc&a Luubcr Co., lr05 Finaneial Ccnter Bldg....,,.GArfiald 1921
C. D. Johnmn llmbcr Corporation, 260 Callfomia Strct ............GArfrcld 6Z5t
Carl H. Kuhl Lmbcr Co., O. L. Ruerum, ll2 Milkct Stret...YUkon 1400
Lmon-Bouingt n Compmy, t6 Californla Strct ..,..... .....,,GArficld 6t6l
LUMBER
LUMBER
MacDonald & Hmington, Ld., 16 Califomia Sr. .,..........,.... .GArfield &t93
Pacific Lmbcr Co., The lm Burh Stret ...................GArfield lrEl
Pope & Talbot, Inc., Luber Divirion, 461 Markct Stret .............,...DOuglu 2561
Rcd Rivcr Lubcr Co., 3r5 Monadnock Bldg. ....,GArfield 11022
Santa Fo Luber Co., 16 Califomia Stret ...........,...EXbmk 2074
Schafcr Brce Lumber & Shinglc Co., I Drunn Stret .......,..,..........Suttc tnl
Shcvlin Pine Sale Co., lGt0 Monadnock Bldg. .....Exbroo& 704f
Sudden & Christmson, Inc., 310 Surcre Stret ..............,GAr6eId 2&6
Wcndling-Nathan Co., u0 MrrLot Stret .,.,..............SUtta 5363
Wc.t Oregon Lmber Co., 1995 Evmr Ava. .., .ATwater 56?t
E. K. Wood lmbcr Co., I DI.un Stret ...,..............Exbrook 3710
Ewauu Bq Co. (Pyr.-id Lmbcr Salc Co.)
Pacific Bldg. ..Gl.s@urt E293
Gumtm & Grc6 Lmbcr Co., 2Cl Llvingrbn St................,KE11o3 l-rE& Hill & Morto, Inc.
Dcmion Stret Wharf..........ANdovGr l0it?
Hogm llmbcr Company, zDd .!d Alls Strctr......,.....Gl*nort 6E6l
E. IL Wood lubcr Co., Frcdslc& ud King Stretr.....,,.KE|trog 21m
lVholardc luba Dirtributcr, Inc., 9th Avauc Pier............,...TWlnoalr 2Ef5
LUMBER
Arcata Rcdwood Cr. (J. J. Rca)
\l/eychaeuecr Salo Co., 149 Califomia Str6t .............GArfrdd t97l
HARDWOODS AND PANEI.sT
WhitG BrcthGrs,Fifth ud Brunu Stretg.....,.,.Sutt6 1365
CREOSOTED LUMBERPOLES - PII,JNG-TIES
Amerlcu llmber tl TratinS Cr., u6 Nfl Montgmcry Stret.........SUtt r lZ2S
Butr, J. H. & Co., 3:13 MontgoEcry Strcct DOuglar 3{ltlit
HaII, Janer L, 1032 Milb 81dc,........,..,.......,SUttc ?52f
Pope & Ta&ot, Inc., Lmber Divieion, 16l Mukct Stret..,.........,.....DOuglar 2561
Vander Lau Plling & Lmbcr. Co. 216 Pinc Str6t..... .,........,....E]Xbrook 1905
Wendling-Nathu Co., U0 Marlrct Strcet...,.. ......SUttcr $tG!
PANEIS-DOORS-SASH-SCREENS
Califomia_ Bullderr Suppty Co., 7Q 6tb Avcnu.............. :.......HIgitG 6e16
Hogu Lumbc Conpuy, Znd ud Alicc Strcctr............Gl.aort 6Ell
Wcrtcm Door & Sach Cr., 5th & Cyprar StGt!......TEmplcbr E40.
TIARI'W@DS
Strablc Hardwood Compuy. Firat ud Clay Strieti.'........TEnpfcbu 55Sl
VYbit Brcthar, 500 Hfh StrcGt........ ............ANdovor 160o
Slfe ll'ilrhlrc B|vd............,...WEbrt.r ?62t
Anglo Califomla Lunbcr Co., 655 Eut Floucc Avm......TRrnwell 3ll{
Atkiuon-Stutz Conpeny, 62E Pctrcldn B1d8.......,..,....PRopcct aSll
Bumr Lunbcr 6mpany, 9155 Chrl*illc Blvd., (Bworly Hilk)............,... BRadrhaw 2-3ittt
Can & C;o., L J. (W. D. Xtunlhg), {36 Chanbcr of Coorc Bldg. PRdpcd $f3
Coopcr, lll. E6aC-6G Richfield 81dg...............Muturl 2r3r
Dant & Rur*ll, lnc, tU E. sCth Strut............... .....ADanr tlol
Dolbs & Carron Lunbcr Co., 90r Fldclity 81ds...................VAndihc &792
Ed. FmtdD l.rrnbr Co. l2t Pctrolcun Bldg............,..PRorDGGt {}al
Hammond Lub3r Cupany, 20fe !b. ALn dt St........,.....PRoepoct 1333
Holmc Eurc&a krnba Co., 7ll-?12 Archttctr Bldg,.., ...Mutual tftf
Hovcr, A L, 5225 WlLhiro 81vd.............,.,....YOrL iltt
C. D. Johnro Lurabcr C.orporatlo4 Ol Pctsolcun Btdt ...............PRo.Fd lfas
Cul H. Kuhl llnbc Co- ?tl S. Sprfng 3t.....!............,.VAnd|}c EB3
Imoacc-Pblllpr trnbd CoGE Pctrolsum B!dt....... ........PRo.D.ct tl?l
MecDoald I Brgdron, ?ll W. Olynplc Blvd.. ........,...Plto.FGt ?lta
MrcDoeld & Huirqtoa, Ltrl. Ftolon B!dt............,....,.,PR6pet fr27
Prclfic Lunbor Co, Thc 5225 Wibhir B|vd........,............Ym rrat
LUMBER
Pcnbertby Lmbc Co.,
2055 Eut 5lrt St.....................Klmbal| 5Ul Popc & Talbot, Inc., Lubcr Divielon, ?la W. Olympic Blvd.............PRorpcct tZtl Rod Rlvcr Luba Go.,
333 Pctrolcun BldS..,.. .PRo.prd Zf69
Su Pcdm llnbcr Co. rSU S. Cat:al Ave. .,..........Rlchmond tltl
16O-A Wilningto Roed (Sm Pcdrc) ..,.......,..............Su Pcdre 220
Suta Fc r -Fbcr e_.,
3U Finuclal C.ntlr Bld8.. .....VAndlkc llTl Schals Brcr. Lumbcr & Sblnglc Co, UZ }lt. 9t! StrGGt........,..........TRtntty lAf
Shclb Pinc Sala Co.
IIO Petrclcun B!dC........ .......PRopcct l6t5 Slmpur Induttrlcr, Inc., r6n E. Warhiagtm Bhd.........PRocpct attS
Sudda 4 €hrlrtalm. Inc..
CL B6rd of Tradc Bldg..........TRhlty tt{a
Taona Lumbc Sebn
t37 PGFolGun BUtl.......... ....PRo*cct f rft
lYcndltn3-Nethu Ca.,
524t Wil.hfr. 81vd......... ............YOrL ll6t
Wcrt Orcaon Luba Co.,
12? P.troLun Btdg..,. ... Rlchnud 02El
W. W. llfllkinon,
3rt W. 9th Stmt..................TRidty ffr3
E. IC Wood Lmbcr Go.,
Ina So. AIaD.d! St.,,.... .JEfrcron Slll Wryorhurr Srh. Co., l2f TY. M. Garland CREOSOTED
PILING-TIES
Anodon lanbr & Trurth3 Co., ll3l 9. Brcadwry..........,......PRorpcct a3|E
Be:tc, J. H. & Co, Ol TYct 5th Stnct...............Mletlru l2ll
PoOr I Telbot, lnc., Lunbor Dlvlrlm, 7ll W. Olynp|c Blvd. PRcpct tZtr
HARDWOODS
Anstcu Hardwod Co., 1900 E. rsth Stret. ,.... ,.... .,. .PRorpcct azts Ststd, E. J. & SoD, 205f Eert 3tth Strat....,.......CErtury 29211 lVcatm Hardwood lubcr Oo.. 20U Ea3t rsth Srr.rt,............,PRorpct fl6f
SASH-D(X)RTMIIJ$'ORKJCREENr BIJNDTPANELS AND PLYWOODIRONING BOARDS
Bach Pud Conpaan 3lt-3ll Eut thd Strc.t.....,....,ADur 1225 Callfonia l)or Compuy, ltc {9{0 Di.trict 81vd.....,............KIDbrll Zfaf Cdltonia Pucl & Vm Ca.,9i5 S. Alueda Str..t...,..........TRlntty tE? Cobb Co.. T. M..
lln? t-lLi
!!za r{th Sirc.t ..................^tth!Gy l-ZG
Kochl, Jm. W. e SoD"
652 3. Mycn SEat................ANgdur Oll
Orcgm-TVarhlngton Plyyood C,o,
3lt W6t Niath Stret............THtrtty Int
Pacific Wod Pmductr Clrporation, 360 Tybm StrrGt..............,.Aljeny llll
Pacific Mutual Door Co, f60a E. llflrhinttd Blvd.........PRorpoct !541 Rrm Conpany, Ga. E., 235 S. Alancdr Strct ........Mlch[u f$|
Rcd Rlva llrnbcr Cqr
7aA S. Slrun.. .CEntury 2tt7l Supon Co. (Peldr-r),
7{5 So Rryaood Avr.............RYu l-G!t Slnpo lndutrl,ar, lnc-
rSfa E Werbhrto Blvd.........PRorE ct ar&t Wat Coart Ssa co., lll5 Ehrt .3rd Strt t...........,..^Dru lll0
Wcrtcm Mitr & l[ouUlDS Co- 5elf !lo. W.!tm Avc..........TWlnhr ll3l
