The California Lumber Merchant - January 1956

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Thcrr our Wybro service continue to provide the proper quoliry rr qt rhe f cr i rest p rices rr in the time shortest t""'":;f,.!"r"r!r7r""rters Douglas Fir Plywood - Fancy Foreign and Domestic

ccntlnrred growtlr ernd developrnent ln PLYWOOD...@

Since the early days of the plywood industry, Long-Bell has pibneered in the expansion of customer service and facilities and in the development of plywood products.

And, with the opening soon of its new fir plywood plant at Vaughn, Oregon, there will be FOUR MODERN LONG-BELL PLANTS to serve you with quality plywood.

You can depend on Long-Bell for continued growth and development of plywood productsproducts that you can sell with confidence because you know that they are manufactured under Long-Bell's rigidly controlled processes.

From 28 Modern Plants-Long-Bell Quality Wood Products:

LUMBER: West Coast Fir. Hemlock and Cedar, Poirderosa Pine, California Douslas and White Fir, Southern Pine and Hardwoods. OAK FLOORING

MILLWORK & FACTORY PRODUCTS: Douglas Fir and Ponderosa Pine Window and Door Frames, Window Units, Sash & Doors. Glazed Sash, Industrial Cut Stock. Ponderosa Pine Box Shook, PLYWOOD: Fir, Knotty Idaho White Pine and Ponderosa Pine, FirTexture 1-11.

LONG.BELL FLAKEWOODXD LONG.BELL vEN-O-WOOD PRESERVATIVE

TREATED PRODUCTS: Lumber, Plywood, Posts, Poles and Piling pressure treated with Creosote. Pentachlorophenol ("Penta") ahd Wolman Salts@.

KITCHEN CABINETS: Rift Grain Fir and Birch Fronts PREFABRICATtsD TRUSSES AND FRAMING

Controlled manufacture by skilled craftsmen in the Long-Bell Plywood Plants assures you of highest quality!

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How Lumber Looks

Lumber shipments of 487 mills reporting to the Natio,nal Lumber Trade Barometer in the week ended December 10 were I4.5/o below production, u'hile new orders rvere 13.1r/c above. Unfilled orclers amounted to 35/o of stocks. For the year to date, shipments were O.l/o and new orders 0.8/o below production.

National producti.on of lumber in the first ten months of 1955 totaled an estimated 33,103,000,0C0 board feet,9o/o above the similar 1954 period, reported the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. Softwood output was up ll/o and hardwoods were about the same level as the corresponding 1954 period. Shipments and new orders for both soft and hardwoods exceeded production by 2% in the first ten months of the year. During October, lumber production totaled an estimated 3,431,000,000 feet, clown 3/o from September 1955 but 2/o above October 1954.

West Coast Lumbermen's Association reported for 169 mills (157 operating) in the week ended December 10: production, 716,496,367 feet ; shipments, 93,258,744 feet (20.0% under production) ; orders, 134,146,479 feet (15.2/o over production). For the year to date, shipments were l.)a/o and orders were 2.5/o under production.

The weekly average of west coast lumber production at Douglas fir region sawmills during November was 163,139,000 b.f. or 87.1% of the 1950-54 average, reported Harris E. Smith, secretary of the West Coast Lumbermen's Assn. Orclers averaged 149,751,000 b.f. and- shipments 155,103,000 b.f. The

ln This lssucRiverside Hoo-Hoo Sponsors Decrler Trcining Clcrss Lumber Looks Ahecrd

Hoo-Hoo Gives Woodwork Shop to Boys Home

"The Flrst Wood Preserver" by Jock Dionne

Golden Anniverscry lor Lounsberry & flcnris

1955 Plywood Production Tops 4.8 Billion Feet

Lumber Monulocturers to. Spur Promotion . .. .26

Fun-Fcrcts-Filosophy .......34

New Products Informotion .. .....46-47 Colif., Arizono Buildinq Permits Ior November ....66 .54, 59, 63 Obituories 16. 68 Personqls

25YeorsAgo ...........32 Wont Ads .....70-71

The ADVERTISERS INDEX will be lound on Page 72

1t-months cumulative production was 8,923,651,000 b.f., compared to 8,0i1,382,000 b.f. in the same 1954 span. The industry's unfilled order filg stood at 584,759,000 b.f. at the end of November, gross stocks at 1,004,981,000 b.f.

(Late production, shipment and order figures from the Western Pine Association were not available at press time.)

Southern Pine Association reported for 99 mills in the (Continued on Page 72)

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Riverside County Hoo-Hoo Sponsors lmporlont Refail Troining Closs for Dealers

The first semester of one of the most important and worthy Hoo-Hoo projects ever attempted in Southern California-a Retail Lumbermen's Training Institute-starts

January 9. The course will be held in the classrooms of Riverside College on Monday night of each week for 16 weeks. They will be three hours, from 7:00 to 10 p.m., with Dr. Wendell Close, former head of the Columbia University Night School Dept., moderating the course with top instructors from both the school and the building materials field.

The cost for this course is only $25 per student, per semester, of which there will be two. Additional information may be had from these men who have worked with Dr. Close in setting up the course':

Gerry Westphal, Colton-TRinity 7 -20OI

Jim Tipton, Riverside-OVerland 3-8410

Don Oakes, Colton-TRinity 7-2424

Bill Davidson, Riverside-Rlverside 9000.

There is a tentative limit of 4O students for the course. Lumberyards which have good standing in Riverside County Hoo-Hoo Club 117, which is sponsoring this outstanding project, will have the first choice, after which it will be on a first-come basis.

Club 117 is very proud to be able to present this training opportunity to lumber dealers of the area and feels the study will be of great aid to dealers individually and the industry as a whole, said B. H. Holdren, the club president. The course has been given a lot of thought and almost a whole year's preparation. A committee of lumberrnen has designed a course strictly for the benefit of anyone in the industry.

Tailor-Made for Retail Trade

The course is tailor-made, consisting of study subjects pertaining to the retail lumber business only. The complete course of two semesters will be enrolled one semester at a time; however, to complete the course, attendance for the two full semesters is necessary. Yards sending employes to the classes will be kept posted on the progress of the students and sent a transcript of each student's attendance record. Following is the Curriculum:

Construction and Estimating

Blueprint Reading, Design and Construction, Building Codes.

Business Administration

Orientation, Human Relations, Salesmanship, Customer Relations, Consumer and Telephone Selling, Merchandising, Store Display and Yard Arrangement.

Products

Commercial Lumber Properties, Millwork, Building Materials.

Administration and Office Management

Business Law, Credits and Collections, Bookkeeping and Bookkeeping Systems.

fmmediate registration will be necessary for the ferv remaining enrollments available for the start of the first semester early this month. The attendance is expected to be full because of the interest in the outstanding Hoo-Hoo

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'trn this issue, we welcome these new advertisers into the family of Califorriia Lumber "Merchant-isers":

Big Town Lumber, Inc. (Page 43)

' Brown Timber Co. (Page 32)

'' Iferman A. Smith (Page 58)

Timber Engineering Co. of Calif. (Page 31)

T. V. Walker & Son, Inc. (Page 9)

project and the importance present-day merchandising of such help and instruction in and retail yard operation.

Soufhern Colifornio €onstruction Tops $Z gillion in | | Monrhs

The first 11 months of 1955 saw construction activity of $1,182,923,303 ($l%,170,525 more than the similar span in 1954) in 74 Southland cities, and $593,428,469 (compared to $540,319,951 last year) in the nine unincorporated county areas, putting the Southern California building total well on the way to $2,500,000,000 for the year when all the 1955 figures are in.

The strike against the rock, sand, gravel and concrete mix industry has caused a sharp decline in new-home construction in Los Angeles county, the L. A. Chamber of Commerce said last month. Quentin W. Best, chairman of the chamber's construction industries committee, said the $67,513,311 total valuation of permits issued in November represented a 28.5/o drop from the same month last year.

"The most disturbing effects of the strike were in the decline of new dwelling units and the valuation of residential permits." Best said. "Compared to November 1954, the number of new dwelling units r,vas dor,vn 51.1/o and the residential valuation was off 43.8/o," he said.

Northwest Hqrdwood Associqtion Gluorterly Meering Jqnuaty 2l

Seattle-The next quarterly meeting of the recently formed Northwest Hardwood Association. Seattle. will be held in the auditorium of the Portland Chamber of Commerce, January 21. The major subject will be Recommended Grading Rules for Logs and Lumber. Reports will be given by the officers, directors and committee chairmen on progress and developments since the first annual business meeting. Talks rvill also be given by experts on hardwoods. Persons interested in the promotion of alder, maple and other hardwoods of the region, in tl,e expansion of markets and new utilization of these woods, are urged to attend the meeting this month, said E. J. Nist, president. Harry O. Mitchell, 3253 Commodore Way, Seattle 99, Wash., is secretary-manager.

Fell lumber Go. Opens New Yord

Indio, Calif.-The Fell Lumber Co., Banning, Calif., has opened a new yard on Highway 99 near the drive-in theatre here. William E. McDaniel will be the manager. He lives in Palm Desert and has been with Fell for the past year after ten years in the lumber business. Don Rozell, owner of the main yards at Banning for 17 years, is alse 61y11s1 of the Sav-On Lumber Company at Palmdale.

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Lumber Looks Abead to 1956 presid.ent,**,I';,f '{,:i,'r\i,?^;,,fiil?ff,*;Association

This year will be a good year to buy lumber.

Lumber is one of the few major building materials in plentiful supply, and the current supply is backed up by an increasing surplus of forest growth over timber being cut. There will be good buys, especially in the do-it-yourself market in which a rapidly growing number of experienced home craftsmen have learned to get the most out of economy grades, "shorts" and other bargain lumber for both utility and decorative value.

Millions of Americans rvill buy lumber in 1956 and thev have the assurance that they can get the right grade for the right use.

Both nature and the law of supply and demand have operated to bring about these favorable market conditions, Wood is our only renewable resource. Private forestry enterprise, confident of a continuing and growing dema.nd for lumber, is renewing this resource at an unprecedented rate.

Many Americans may be surprised to learn that if it .lvere not for insects, fire and other destruction, the cubic volume growth of all timber would norv be 60/o greater than the cut. As it is, gror,vth-less the loss to destructive elements -exceeds the amount cfiby 32/o.

Also, sarvtimber (timber large enough for sarvlogs) that r,vas cut and lost to destructive elements exceeded grorvth by 5O/o ten years ago. There has been a tremendous change for the better, and today sarvtimber growth is practically in balance with cut and loss.

We now have 489 million acres of forest land, compared with 461 million acres ten years ago. And we have 2,094 billion board feet of sawtimber, compared with 1,601 billion board feet ten years ago.

This reappraisal of our timber resources, its facts repudiating many past prophecies of a timber famine, r,vas made this fall by the U.S. Forest Service.

Such a marked trend to greater lumber supply is still more impressive in vie'"v of the fact that lumber production last year-3S.5 billion board feet-rvas the largest since 1916, according to 1955 year-end estimates.

Grorving lumber as a crop has become more feasible than ever before as a result of progress in lumber manufacturing methods. There was once a fear that someday lve r,vould run out of large timbers. Norv u'e do not have to .rvait for trees to grow to giant size. Ordinary sizes of seasoned, defect-tree lumber are glued together to provide superior timbers of any size or shape or finish specified by engineers, architects and builders.

- This type of progress, in forest management and in manufacturing method, is a matter of economics. It results from market demand-the fact that lumber continues as the preferred material for home building and many other types of construction.

Although it is believed that housing starts in 1956 r.vill decline about 100,0@ belorv the estimated 1.3 million starts for 1955, private residential construction is expected to amount to a record $14.6, billion, or about a third of all new construction in dollar volume.

This should rnean that home building this year will use about 12 billion board feet, roughly one-third of the average annual lgmber production in recent years. The trend con-

Los Angeles Will Breok Another Consfruction Record in 1955

A new construction record for the city of Los Angeles now appears certain for 1955, according to G. E. Morris, general manager, Building and Safety Department. The rock-and-gravel industry strike will affect figures somewhat but, nevertheless, a record seemed fairly sure last month, In the year's first 10 months, 52,287 permits were issued with a valuation of $373,736,391-more than $gS miUion above the 51,133 permits in 1954's same period at $338,261,526. During October, 5370 permits were written ior $43,47t,23I valuation, corhpared to $33,218,726 in September last year and $30,897,443 in October 1954.

tinues to bigger and better houses, accounting in part for the larger dollar volume despite fewer houses started. The better quality house today is characterized by use of rvood for fine finish effects. \\/ood ceilings, rvood paneled walls, wood cabinets and wood floors have become strong sales appeal items. The popularity of hardrn'ood flooring is shorvn by the fact its production increased al>out l5/o last year over 1954.

Strong markets for lumber are also foreseen in commercial and religious building this year, trvo of the classes of construction expected to shor,vn gains over 1955. Modern suburban construction, including factories and schools, promises still greater use of wood construction because of nerv design trends and rvood's appropriateness to suburban settings.

Lumber consumption last year is estimated at 42.5 billion board feet, the highest figure since our association first began its records on consumption in 1929. This figure includes exports and imports, as lvell as distributors' stocks.

All the evidence points to continuing strong demand, which is the stimulus of future increased production.

Meantime, there's ample lurnber for the American consumer-for everybody from the builders and prefabricators, who buy in quantities of millions of board feet, to the do-ityourselfer who can carry his order home on his shoulder.

Ghino Lumber Go. Buys Nutter

Pomona, Calif.-The Nutter Lumber Company here has been purchased by the Chino (Calif.) Lumber Company and appointment of Robert C. Witter as general manager was announced December 8. J. Fred Nutter, president of the Pomona yard, died last July. Albert M. Carlson of the Chino Lumber Co. said the Nutter yarcl would be a wholely owned subsidiary, operated independently. Further details of the transaction and new policies will be available for the next issue.

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I\eu,, West Coast Grading Rules

By H.V. Simpson Executiae V ice Presid.ent

lY est Coast Lumberme.n' s Association

It is expected that within the Rule f 15.

The change from Rule f 14 is which the purchaser of lumber can professional graders.

next 60 days West Coast lumber will be graded under a new rule-

profound in only one respect. An attempt has been made to write a rule readily understand. It is not a technical document decipherable only by mains the top grade in boards, and SELECT STRUCTURAL the top grade in dimension.

The actual change in the grades themselves is minor. You can expect to get in each grade just about what you have been getting in the past. We have made some refinements, of course, which n'e feel improve the marketabiiity of the product. More about these in a mornent.

The principal-and basic-change is from grade numbers to grade names. But it is not nearly as complicated as it sounds. There are only four things to rernember.

fl becomes CONSTRUCTION.

f2 becomes STANDARD.

Jf3 becomes UTILITY

Jf4 becomes ECONOMY.

It is reasonable to ask, since the change is so slight, rvhy bother at all?

Because we believe we can no longer continue practices which make the merchandising of lumber less orderly and .less responsible than the merchandising of other building products. Let me cluickly say that the irresponsible merchandiser is only a fractional minority. Most lumbermen choose to, and do, sell the grades they buy. But even they are hampered by the reluctance of the consumer to purchase a "third grade" product for a home which he visualizes as "first grade" in every respect.

It is the numbers rvhich cause the trouble.

The demand for grade-stamping is steadily increasing. The demand is coming from retail dealers, government agencies, builders and many others.

A number of areas have already refused to accept anything but grade-stamped lumber. Several others are considering a similar prohibition. This trend has the endorsernent of West Coast lumber manufacturers. We merely feel that a useful product should not l>e penalized because it is identified by a number.

Thirty years ago the National Lumber Manufacturers Association adopted a resolution supporting universal grade-stamping. The Southern Pine Association and the West Coast Lumbermen's Association have gone similarly on record. But every effort during the past thirty years to substantially extend the grade-stamping of lumber has failed because the public would not accept $2 or fi3,or fi4.

The NLMA, American Lumber Standards, WCLA's Board of Directors, the FHA, all say, "Let's gradestamp the lumber." Today the tide of demand is stronger than it has ever been before. And this time-with names instead of numbers to sell-every advocate of responsible lumber merchandising has a chance to make it work.

The change to names applies only to the present #1, #2, ,fi 3 and f4 grades of boards. and 7'and thicker dimension. planks and timbers. SELECT MERCHANTABLE re-

The lettering system-"B&Btr.," "C" and "f"-1g6nint in effect on finish, flooring, casing and other clear items. The only change in this category is that "C&Btr." becomes the top grade of flat grain clears. This, of course, is merely in line rvith current practice. Vertical grain clears continue to be designated "B&Btr.," "C" and "D."

The name of the Bureau has been changed to West Coast Lumber Inspection Bu1s2rl-lyhich is somervhat less cumbersome than West Coast Bureau of Lumber Grades and Inspection.

The format of Rule $15 has been changed. We have tried to make it more readable and more understandable. Key paragraphs should be easier to find and easier to remember.

The fiber stress value of the present 1450f grade (f 1) has been increased to 1500f, and the fiber stress value of the 11@f grade (ftZ) has been increased to 1200f. In both cases the quality of the product has been improved.

The old rules permitted a full-length skip in ft2 dimension-u'hich probably caused more difficulty than any other single provision in the rules. FHA, for instance, regarded a full-length skip an intentional scant sawing.

The universal feeling of the industry was that this situation should be cleaned up, and that as a matter of good merchandising it should be handled at the manufacturing end. Consequently, Rule f l5 provides that STANDARD (the old ft2) may have hit-and-miss skips on the edge, but may not be skipped full length.

The STANDARD Joists ,and Planks grade (2x6 and wider) becomes a little better all around, as a matter of fact. As was mentioned a moment ago, the fiber stress value has been upped from 1100f to 1200f. And a medium grain requirement has been included.

The thickness of boards and finish items has been reduced from 25/32" to r/0". Fifty percent of such material it %" at the present time. There is more value in 25/37'material than is needed. The official change merely recognizes current practice. Those who .ivish to buy 25/32" boards may still buy them, of course, and have them grade-stamped.

Rule S15 rvill have a standard provision on material 6" in rvidth- 5f" instead of 5 5/8" as at present. This applies already in the larger sizes-7f", 9%", ll%'. The nelv provision simply makes the practice uniform. It is, of course, in accordance with American Lumber Standards.

There are numerous other changes of lesser importance, but little or nothing to make the lumber you specify and receive under Rule S15 much different in (Continued on Page 41)

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A friend isagift that you give to yourself, That's one of my old true songs, So I put you down with the best of them, For you're where the best belongs. Of all the gifts I have given to me, Most trusted, tried, and true, Is the one I oftenest think about, It's the gift to myself of you.-Anon.

Great principles do *Jt -".lrnue from generation to generation. They must O"_O.la alive.-Dr. Geo. S. Benson.

If a word our orators let fall save what pertains to peace, I'll raise a storm of words and rain a very tempest of abuse upon them.-Aristophanes ,. #

Strong men demand freedom, while weaklings whimper for security.-Alexander Hamilton.

!t/oe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn. -Will Durant.

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Let us leave hurry to slaves.-Emerson. ***

Somebody said that it couldn't be done, so I didn't even try.-Sign on the desk of ? "k."n.j".

A true judge should be as impartial as a traffic light. -Clipt.

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God grant me grace and endurance to cheerfully bear what I cannot change; courage to fight for what I can help to change; wisdom to know the difference.-Eliot Wadsworth. ,***

My petitions to heaven are that the things that make for peace may not be hidden from your eyes.-Abigail Adams to John.

He that helps a child, helps humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to a human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly improve upon.Phelps Brous. +**

The only road, the sure road, to success and to unquestioned credit and a sound and permanent condition, is the exact and punctual fulfillment of every pecuniary obligation, public and private, according to the letter and spirit. -Hayes. ***

Strive to be excessively natural. No one ever acquired fame by affectation. All true greatness is marked by sim-

BY JACK DIONNE

plicity. You must sit by the fireside of the heart. Above the clouds it is too cold. ***

Laugh and be merry, for that is healing to those about you in despair. Be humble, and human, and tender. Be selfless and patient, with a forgiveness that permits you to hold your head high. (Anon.)

On Voltaire's funeral carriage were the words: He gave the human mind a great emphasis. He prepared us for freedom.

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In Russia the Commies are frequently underfed. In the U.S. they're underground.

God could not be everywhere, so fle made mothers. -W. C. Brann.

There are a million ways to be wrong, but only one way to be right.-Aristotle.

The history of liberty ; ; iistory of the limitation of governmental power; not the increase of it.-Woodrow Wilson. *{tcF

In a free country there is much clamor, but little suffering. In a despotic state there is little complaint, but much suffering.-Caruot. ***

Winston Churchill is NOT a punctual man. When he goes to catch a train he always gives the train an even break.-Mrs. Churchill. I ***

If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.-T. Jefferson.***

There is a famous story about the pastor of a colored church asking all those who wanted to go to heaven to please stand, and one brother remained seated. The preacher said-"Brothah Johnson, don't you want to go to heaven?" Antl he said: "Yassuh, but not wid no excursion."

Life is easier than you think. All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.-Kathleen Norris.

In 1950 this column quoted Dwight Eisenhower: We are flogging to death the horse (capitalism) that has carried us closer to our goals than we have ever been before.

Leon Trotsky wrote: The Chinese have no capacity for

sustained mass indignation. As Communists they are hopeless.

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Looks like the notorious Commie who was murdered years ago in Mexico made a mighty bad guess about those murdering chinks.

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With regard to future life, Bruce Barton, great thinker and writer as well as business man, said: A God with enough imagination to create oceans and solar systems and sexes and seasons and poets and mountains and mothers and martyrs-such a God can be trusted to make the hereafter just and satisfying and full of interest. I leave it to Him.

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Shakespeare wrote: Man, proud man, dressed in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he is most assured, performs such antics before high heaven as .to make the angels u'eep.

Elbert Hubbard, or" ol ; :*, scholarly men of the era, said that the world has produced but five educated men: Pericles, Aristotle, Leonardo, Sir Isaac Newton and Humboldt.

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H. G. Wells, famous British historian, was asked who were the men whose lives had most affected humanity and therefore were the greatest men in history, and he named six: Jesus, Buddha, Asoka, Aristotle, Roger Bacon and Abraham Lincoln.

About 30 years ago Doctor Will Durant was asked to name the ten greatest THINKERS of history, which he did in a writing of considerable length and detail, and he named, in the following order: Confucius, Plato, Aristotle, Copernicus, Aquinas, Francis Bacon, Newton, Darwin, Kant and Voltaire. In each case he explained his choice.

Scholars will note with more than passing interest that one name appeared on all three of those lists-Aristotle; a mighty thinker, and scholar, and doer. Newton appears in two. As they say in street jargon.: "They don't make them kind no more."

November Construcfion Puts I955ts First

Monrhs Aheqd of All | 954

Record construction in November put the 1955 total to that date ahead of the high set for the entire year 1954. The $3.6 billion figure for the month brought the 1l-months 1955 total to $38.9 billion, 91.3 billion above the l9S4 12months total, the Departments of Commerce and Labor jointly reported.

The agencies predicted 1955's total construction figure would reach 942 billion and make 1955 the ninth straight year when a new high was reached each year. November's outlay took a 9/o seasonal decline from October but r,vas still a record for the month and 7/o ahead of November 1954. Residential building continued to reflect the recent decline in housing starts.

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Simmons Hqrdwood Go. to Aword Gobinet Mqkers for Sofety Records

In line with a public relations campaign sponsored by the Simmons Hardwood Lumber Company, Los Angeles wholesale distributing firm, safety awards will be presented to members of the Southern California Cabinet Makers Association this month by Sid Simmons, president of the lumber firm. The beautiful trophies will be given the manufacturing concerns having the greatest safety records during 1955.

"Safety is one of the most important factors we all have to contend with during our working days," said Mr. Sim-

mons. "We here at Simmons Hardwood are ever alert to the situation, both on and off the job. It is our desire to help our friends and customers to build safety habits in every way possible among their employes. We believe the trophy presentations will help this cause along," he said.

The Simmons Hardu'ood Lumber Company is particularly interested in helping the retail lumber dealers in Southern California and, according to Sid Simmons, arrangements will be made to sponsor safety awards for both lumbervards and furniture manufacturers.

L. A. Inspector Leoves NHIA

George L. Sullivan, deputy inspector for the Los Angeles district, left the National Hardwood Lumber Association's inspection staff, as of December 15, to accept private employment with a local member. Members in the area have been asked to send Secretary Jos. Muller of the NHLA, Chicago, the names of any qualified men who might be available to filI the vacancy, preferably on a parttime basis.

Redwood Grqdes Booklet Revised

A new printing of the booklet, "Standard Specifications for Grades of California Redwood Lumber," effective November 1955, is now available from the California Redwood Association, 576 Sacramento St., San Francisco 11, Calif. Principal change is in nomenclature, designating the former "Number 3 Common" as "Merchantable." A new grade of "E,conomy" has replaced the former grade of "Dunnage."

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Hongover Stories on W. C. Fields

W. C. Fields, famous comedian, was a notorious drinking man, and often the morning found him with a king-size headache that threatened to burst.

He arrived at the movie studio one morning with a bigger than usual hangover, and pleaded for some aspirin. Someone pulled out a small tin box of the stuff and, lifting the lid let Fields help himself. Then he was about to close the box, when Fields pleaded:

"Good Lord, man, don't snap that lid.,, **t

Another time Fields sat in his living room at home nursing a terrible hangover and headache. The floorof the room

was covered with a thick, soft carpet. As Fields sat with his aching head in his hands, a small kitten came into the room, and with a faint "meolv" started towards him.

"That's right !" Fields moaned. "Roar like a lion-stomp like an elephant !"

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Col. Williom B. Greeley Dies After Mony Yeors of Service to Unired Stqtes Forestry

Colonel William B. Greeley, dean of American forestry, outstanding lumberman, soldier and author, died at his home on Port Gamble Bay, Washington, November 30 after an illness of several months.

Colonel Greeley has been called the greatest forester of our times, and certainly his long record of leadership in this newest U.S. profession, which spans hardly more than half a century of our national life, would support claims of his fellow {oresters to this honor.

Seventy-six years old at his death, Colonel Greeley played a dominant part in the growth of forest management in this nation since 1904, when he joined the budding U.S. Forest Service.

Then came World War I. He entered the service as a major, went overseas with the 10th engineers, soon won his full colonel rank and was placed in charge of 21,000 forestry troops in France. lIe commanded more men as a colonel than any other man in the army and got out millions of feet of lumber for use of our troops at the front.

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Back from the wars, Colonel Greeley was named in I9A chief forester of the United States, a post he held untll 1928, when the Douglas fir industry asked him to come out and take over management and direction of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, then headquartered at Seattle. He made an outstanding record in this post, and it was during the years between 1928 and 1946, when he retired, that he helped formulate the Keep America Green program and the great Tree Farm movement.

The great forester held most top positions in the various forestry organizations. He had been president of the Society of American Foresters, and in 1946 received the Schlich award for outstanding work for his profession. He was chairman of the board of American Forest Products Industries, Inc., director and president of the American Forestry Association, and served on the War Production Board lumber and forestry section during World War IL He was vice-president of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association until his death. His honors were many and varied, among them were the D. S. M. (U.S.), Legion of Honor (France) and D. S. O. (Britain).

After his retirement in 1946 from active management of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association. he turned to writing and his first book, "Forests and Men," was a best seller in the non-fiction field. IIis "Forest Policy" book is a forester's handbook.

Surviving are his wife, Gertrude; a daughter, Mrs. J. A. Harvey, Jr., Santa Ana, California; three sons: Arthur W. Greeley, U.S. regional forester in Alaska; David Greeley, an official of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company and Henry J. Greeley, an official with the Long-Bell Lumber Company.

A contemporary of President T. R. Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot, Greeley had much to do with shaping up the great forest reserves now known as the U.S. Forest Service holdings. He was a forest evangelist and his mark on our vast timber stands will endure for generations.

L. A. Hoo-Hoo lo Build Woodworking Shop for Boys Homei More Thqn

3OO Cots Attend Annucrl Christmos Porty

Keeping step rvith the Christmas spirit-and {ollorving the policy of "Good \\Iill Torvarcl All NIen"-members of Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo CIub 2 nnarrimously approved the mt-rtion of club leaders l-eltoy H. Stanton, Sr. ancl Dee Essley to constrnct ar.rd equip a modern n'oodrvorking shop durir-rg 1956 for the I-eRoy l3o1's' Hon're at La \rerne, Calift.rrnia. The cost <if this gift, nhich nill be paid for by a special fund-raising campaign, u'ill be in excess of $5000, and plans ior immecliate constrrrction have been ma<le

The LeItov Boys' Horne is a non-secta"rian, norr-racia1, non-political and non-profit charitable ir.rstitution u'hich l,as organized in 19:16. For the past several years members of Los Angeles Hoo-lIoo have contributed to the Christrnas fund for the boys at the annual Yuletide holiday partv ar-rd this _vear \\'as no exceptiorr.

Over $300 u'zrs r:rised for this pllrl)()se rvhen the lllack Cats celebrated the start of the holiclay season at thc annual Christmas party held at Oakmont Cour-rtry Club. Decembcr 9. This sum 1.i11 be used soiely lor the benefrt of all thc boys at the l.rome ancl l'ill help brighten their holiday season. The l'ork shop is an endou,ecl gift ancl u'ill be supported during the future by a special revolving fund set u1r for this prlrpose.

Members See Big Hawaiian Show

Over 100 members of Hoo-Hoo ar.rd their guests participated in the big golf tournament December 9, and more

than 250 "stayecl for dir-rner" to eujoy the u'oncierful entertainnrent featuring Han'aii :rnd presented bv eight members oi the Hilo Hattie troupe. The beautiful songs oi the islands and ]Iu1a dancing rvere enjol'ed throughout the cocktail ancl dinner hour. -\ special shou, fr>llorved thc presentatiou of golf ancl door prizes and u'as rvcll receivccl by menrbers arrd their friends.

Jim Forgie, acting Snark of the Los Angeles club, and his committee did a bang-up job in making this party one of the most successful and enjoyable ever staged by the Los Angeles fraternal lumber organization.

During the dirmcr hour, Snark Jim macle the presentation oi the ckror prizes, n'hich consisted of fine luggagc, lrrief cases, r:rdios, electric blanket, u'a1l1e irons, crrff links and l11an\'. m:rny bearrtifrrl gifts and tovs too nrlmerotrs t() mention. Sterling \\'o1l'e of \{arrluart-Wolfe, rvon the big prize of the evening rr lien he u'alked au'ay s'ith the king-size electric rotisserie, rvhich u'as the feature door prize.

On the goli links, play being enjoyed b1' 10.1 members, George Freclricksun shot a lorv gross 76. In the first flight, Brace (]uerne \\'on The Ciiliforr-ria Lun-rber \'Ierchlrnt trophy with a krrv net of 70 and llud Gerrick placecl second rvith a 7l net. In the seconcl ffight, Clydc \rernon shot a lorv net rif 69 to n'in the \\-everhaeuser cul). and Ernic -fhomas rvas

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GOD REST frolic rhot YE, MERR.Y GENTIEMEN-TheSe scenei ot Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club 2's occomponied the froternol comrodeship of the lumbermen-in-orms.

onnuol Christmos porly ot Ookmont Country Club lqst month show rhe fun ond "A Nite in Howqii" wos fheme; Hilo Hottie lroupe ot top, 3econd from left.

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1948: When Inland's SECOND Birthday rolled around many of those early customers who had experimented by giving us- a fry had now become "regulars". And, to our.delighl, they began lo recommend Inland lo their friends. Thanks to you.

1949:. Although hundreds of new firms never get out of swaddling clothes, here was Inland celebrating its TH.IRD Birthday.. Our gene.ral .oftices had Seen enlirged and volume was up dramatically over lhat first yeJr. Thanks lo you.

1950: Now Inland was FouR years old and beginning to branch out. sales ofiices were opened around the.state,'ne.w -salesmen wdre adled and more modern equip- ment was put,on,the iob. Inland's fine competitors began to nolice thal we weie around, too. Inanks lo you.

l95l: Things were rumbling in Korea on Inland's FIFTH Birthday. Prices wenf up, shortages cropped up more frequenlly. Now we didn't have enbuqh merchandise to go around-nof bad for a five-year-old firm. Thanks to you.

1952:.SlX years old now and Inland was.again expanding. More yard space, more trucks, more customers and more enfhusiasm to do an even better iob for our customers. The mills by now had recognized Inland as a valuable customer and specially firms were inviting us io cariy lheir lines. Thanks to you.

1953: Now SEVEN years old, Inland had a modest file of "fan', lefiers. Customers wrote they liked our prompf service, others appreciated the wide selection we offered, some thought our salesmen weid tops in the field. Rising volume figures proved Inland was making a lol of -friends. Thanks lo you.

1954: EIGHT years old and growing fast. Manned by one of fhe younoesi. mosl energetic staffs in the industiy, Inland now ierved all of 'Sout-herri California, wholesale only, with carioad and truckload shipments. Skilled buyers conlinued to Buy 'Righf so Inland could Sell Right.'Thanks to you.

1955: NINE years old, with buying offices at Arcata and Reddins, dislribution.yards at Bloomington and Anaheim, and sales offii6s at Bakersfield and San Diego. Inland expanded to'Arizona and opened a new sales office in Phoenix. And plani were made to move ihe'General 9fficgs to a new, larger locatioh a few miles east of Bloomington. Thanks to you.

1956: Inland's TENTH Birrhday. The future looks great. yOU help make if so. The friendly folk! ar Inland are aer"imiila b ;;': befter and befier iob folyou, We,ll try atways t" serJe youi litte better than you expect. Thanks to you.

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The Firsr Wood Preserver

The use of wood preservers dates from a remote period in ancient history. Its origin is coincident with the establishment of Captain Noah's weather bureau, and its first application was in connection with the famous house-boat that ancient mariher had constructed for service as a combination cruiser and animal transport during an extreme spell of rainy weather.

Noah was a construction engineer of no mean ability, besides being the most noted zoologist of all time. He was familiar with all the general species, varieties and families of the animal kingdom, and knew their minute habits. Referring to the dangers of decay without, and the propensity of rodents for gnawing wood-especially gopher wood, he was particular in his plans that the good ship Ark should be protected from microbes and rats and, while his t\Mo sons, Shem and Jap, worked industriously with saw and hammer, young Ham kept the tar kettle hot.

This industrious youth did the calking, and then applied the hot liquid all over the hull from keel to hatch, and from the lowest bulkhead inside to the promenade deck. The only place untouched was the vermin apartment of the interior, and a small spot about even with the water line on the starboard side of the hull, where a promising pair of rot fungi might survive in their native element to propagate their species.

The continual foggy atmosphere during the construction of the vessel caused the dense smoke from the tar kiln to hang low, and the soot therefrom acted disastrously upon

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the blonde complexion and silken ringlets of the youthful Ham. Sniffing the odor from his nostrils during the period of a hundred years or so on the Ark-building job, caused them to become distended, and all these consequences are still evident in his descendants to this day.

When at last the job was completed and plenty of cereals, canned foods, condensed milk, corn chops and alfalfa hay had been stored in the bins, the last contrary shoat was run up the gangplank, and Noah and his family jumped aboard just as the backwater from the River Euphrates overfowed their swimming pool.

With justifiable pride Old Noah remarked, "Boys, she looks good to me. Now watch the wicked catfish drown." His absolute confidence in his wooden boat, containing at least a pair of everything that lived on the earth, reposed in the fact that she was "pitched without and within," and impervious to leaks, microbes and harmful fungi.

And THAT was how the first wood preserver was born, and why it has been practical and popular ever since.

Home Builders Elect Myers

R. Reese Myers was elected president of the Home Builders Institute of Los Angeles and will succeed Walter W. Keusder at the aqnual installation dinner January 9. Other elected 1956 officers are Charles W. Getchell, first vicepresident; George M. Pardee, Ji., second v.-p. ; Milton J. Brock, Jr., secretary, and John D. Griffith, treasurer.

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Gyonomid Buying Formico

- American Cyanamid Company and The Formica Company announced December 13 that negotiations are in progress whereby Cyanamid, one of the nation's leading chemical companies, will acquire the business and assets of The Formica Company, producer of laminated plastics. It is contemplated that Formica will continue to operate under the direction of the present Formica management as an additional unit in the Cyanamid organization. The joint announcement also revealed plans already developed by Formica for a $2% million expansion program at the Evendale, Ohio, plant calling f.or a 2O/o increase in sheet laminating facilities.

The Formica Company produces plastic laminates in a variety of colors, patterns and wood grains, for use as countertops and kitchen work surfaces, furniture, cabinets, tables and wall surfaces in homes and commercial establishments, and fabrication of hundreds of different parts for aircraft, automobiles, refrigeration equipment, electrical apparatus and similar machinery. Cyanamid, one of the nation's leading chemical companies, produces thousands of products for agriculture and virtually every industry that uses chemicals.

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Sacramento, Calif.-The El Dorado County Board of Supervisors continued an application by R. Z. Gibson and Harry Landsberg, operators.of the Cal-Fir Lumb'er Company, to construct a building materials store and lumbervard on a corner of Howe avenue and Hurley Way.

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LounsberrST et Harris Gelebrate Golden Anniversary in Retail Tards

George IOUNSBERRY

Way back in 1904, Frank Lounsberry started out from Boulder, Colorado, and decided Los Angeles was just the place to establish his retail lumberyard. This was the beginning of one of the pioneer lumber concer.ns of Southern California. Soon the enterprise was growing beyond the ability of one man to manage properly, and Frank sent word to his good friend Walter J. Harris, who was in the lumber business back in Boulder, to follow the advice of Horace Greeley and come west. Walter arrived early in 1905 and, on June 8 of that year, the firm of Lounsberry and Harris was established on the corner of what is now 29th and San Pedro Streets. Frank Lounsberry, his son George, and Walter Harris made up the "working stafi" which included sales, yard operation and delivery.

"In those days it wasn't a one-horse yard, because we couldn't afford the horse," declared Mr. Harris. "But, believe me, in about six months we were definitely a one-horse and a one-mule operation with a total of eight employes," he continued.

During the following years this progressive organization enjoyed a steady growth. Seven branch yards were established throughout Los Angeles, fnglewood and Hollywood to service the homeowner and builder. The control concentration plant and general offices rvere moved to 3132 San Fernando Road in Los Angeles and a remanufacturing planing mill was constructed to ofter a complete service.

Today Lounsberry and Harris operates two modern retail yards. The San Fernando Road location has grown to

50 YEAR5 OF EXPANSION ore shown in this pictoricl monlage of the Lounsberry ond Horris Los Angeles yord. The second photo, top row, shows (iefi to righr) Stuort, Wolter J. ond Robert Horris; nexl photo ir Gweneth Lounsberry lundy of third generotion. foi righr in recond row is ,,Dinry,, Moore, foremon.

ir si\ iIcrc, ;r'll-p:Lvet1 1'lrrtl rvith I'i url(1cr c()\-er sl()raS-c shetls rrrrrl thc cotrrlrltrt-r' rrtill. ( )r cr 1.10 tllll)l()-\'cs [Irt ()11 thc par-roll it1)(l it c()1rrl)lctc lirrc oi:r1l spccies o[ ]rtrl'r1rer-. lrrtilrline' nr:rttri:tls :rrrr1 h:trrlu:tt-c arc c:Lrrierl itt stocli. ltl 'rrrltr to kcclr p:rcc n'ith thc opcr:tti,rr it rctlttircs 10 <1clir-erv tntcks,;t 12-clrr sl)11r, t\\'() lrlalrirlv nlills arlrl cix rtltits oi Inobilc ,\'ilrd c(llliJ)lllctrt' '['1lc c()l]ll)illl\' ('l)erlltcs 11 urlits oi ruill rn:rt'hinerl at llrc l,os.\rtgeics lrlalrt;trr11 cight in Ilollr'rvood to lieclr :tlrrelLst oi tlrc,,rrlt'r tlep;tt-111)ellts.

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Lounslrcrrt' :rrrtl ll:trris slrccializc irt ftrrnishirrg llttlrlrer :u.r<1 rLll brriltling nrrtteri:Ll-s to c( )ntractors atttl lrr-lilrlcrs. 'l-his c()11cer1r. ()nc otlt oi a l'rrrllclrctl irl Sotrtllerrr ('lLlifrinlilt. rl0cs not l)articularlv clttcr to t1'rc 11,,-it-1-ottrseli trlLtlc.

"'l'his is lnttinlv a m:ttter,rI serlicc," s:tit1 Bolr tlarris. "\\tc lrelievc \\-e citrl r1o:L lrettcr jttlr fr.,r thc:Lrcllilect alrtl contrllCtor lr,v beirrg specialists irt fr.lrtlisl-ring cx:tctlv the nrlt-

tcrirLl calletl ior irr cttch 1)ltrticul:tr casc. Ottr,,rglttlizlttiotl' t() a llr;rn. is tr:rir-rcrl 1o gilc this tr-1rc of scrvicc lor clcrr- jo1r.

"It is our thought you cannot service tvro types of business that more or less compete, and maintain the goodwill of both. For over 50 years we have been furnishing lumber and materials to builders, and this is our purpose now," he declared.

In rLrlrlitic.,n to thc c()nlplcte retitil tlI)e l-ittion. l-()tlllsl)e rr\arrrl H:Lrris also furrrisltes ltttttlter iltt(l tillll)ers ,,tr lt rt hriles:rlc lrasis 1o rctltil tlcltlcrs throughout Sorttllcrtr ('aliiorrria. 'l'his lrrogressi vc c()rrcern hlrs thc ltreit:t11(1 ilLcilitics trl lurrrtlle this tvpc of brtsincss ltttrl tttlittr- retltilcrs tlelretlcl ttpon thc conrlrlete invcntot-\' nritirrtaitre<1 lrv l-otttlslrerrr- :tllc-l tl:rrris for l-rard t()-pr()crlre itcttrs. "\\'e tl,, not solicit sltlcs at thc l'holesalc lcvel lrtrt ior n't:Lttt- \'c:trs \\'c har-c lrcetl t:Ll<ing c:rre rif otrr rct:Lil iricnrls in thc in<lrtstrr-lrr- shilrpillgl L.('.1,.:rn<l carlrxrrl 1ots." s[Ii(l 5tt1:rrt FI lr llir. tt'tiLsttrel-. Se ve ral vcrtrs rtg() it u';Ls hartl to olrtttin l)r()pcr tttlLtcrilLls ( ('t.'ntintrecl on I'age 50)

TH|S l9O5 PHOTOGRAPH shows the first Lounsberry & Horris Los Angeles yord os il wos 50 yeors ogo. Top two scenes ot right :how rhe huge yord of todoy. lower lwo photos show o L&H'Hobby House'qnd one of yord's instqllotions of greenhouse moteriols, which is now o big sideline in retoil operotion.

f955 Plywood Production Tops 4.8 Billion Feer

Western fir plywood manufacturers completed their 1955 Golden Jubilee year by setting an all-time production record of nearly 4.9 billion square feet, announces W. E. Difiord, managing director of Douglas Fir Plywood Association, the industry's trade promotion organization.

While final computations have not been made, 111 mills in the coastal states produced a whopping 4.875 billion feet during the anniversary year, nearly one billion feet more than in 1954, when 3.903 billion feet were produced. In fact, the industry has set new production figures each successive year beginning with 1947, the year the government lifted controls on plywood.

Moreover, Difford predicted that 1956 will top all previous highs. Based upon reports of new mills under construction and a study of market conditions, he estimated that 5.6 billion feet would be the industry's output for 1956.

In addition to the 11 new plants which opened in 1955, reports indicate that 11 more are under construction for the coming year and 12 more are in the planning stage, with a good portion of these probables for late in 1956.

As always, the fortunes of the plywood industry will hinge to a certain extent on building. A U.S. Commerce and Labor Department prediction that new home starts will drop by 100,000 units from 1.3 million to 1.2 million is not generally accepted by plywood manufacturers. Many feel that the leveling off, if any, will be much slighter.

On the other side of the ledger, they predict that new

homes started in 1956 will be larger. The S-room home is no longer adequate for the millions with growing families. This year's home will be larger. Behind this conclusion is the prediction by the same two U.S. bureaus that the dollar value of all building will jump from the present high level of $42 billion to a record $44 billion during the next 12 months. The difference in number of starts and increased dollar value is explained in the larger home concept, plus step-up in commercial building such as in schools, warehouses and other large structures.

Difford pointed out that above all, this is the fact, that plywood is capturing a greater share of the building market. In 1946, the per capita consumption of plywood was something like 10 feet per American per year. In 1949, this figure was up to 12.7 feet and in 1954 it had nearly doubled the'49 figure. In 1955, based upon slightly better than 165 million residents of the United States, the per capita consumption had reached a high of 29.6 feet.

The plywood industry not only set records in 1955 but saw market stability mostly through the entire 12 months. Except for occasional and slight softening of the market, Douglas Fir Flywood Association reported a steady back order file of 50O million feet or more each week during the year and, in the week ending February 2,6, an all-tinie high of 585 million was hit. New orders remained strong as 1955 came to a close, and with spring buying and building not far off, the industry has every reason to feel optimistic.

At one time a novelty item, plywood has come into its

Again Our Sincere Thanks For Your Patronage and May We Be Permitted to Serve You More Fully During the Yeats Ahead.

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AS A NE$T YEAR DASTNS, \78 \rISH TO THANK OUR MANY FRIENDS \UTiHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED SO MUCH TO THE SUCCESS $THICH HAS BEEN OURS TO ENJOY DURTNG THE OLD YEAR_AND TO PLEDGE OURSELVES ANEST TO THE PRINCIPLE THAT QUALITY and SERVICE ARE OF GREATER IMPORTANCE THAN PRICE AIONE.

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own in the post-war dra. One leading national financial publication places it as the second (to plastics) fastest growing industry in the nation.

This table graphically tells highlights of the growth of the fir plywood industry:

Generally, 1956 promotion will be more closely geared to the hard facts of the plywood business. This is most evidenced in the work now going forward in the development of new plywood products. Use of other species and lower grade fir veneer, which must find outlets, is of primary consideration.

Agreement on a basic commercial standard with appropriate grade marks for softwood species other than fir has tentatively been reached. As the standard is completed, promotion behind a western softwood plywood (WSP) will be developed through DFPA. The coming year will likely see the advent of a new prod-

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Norionql lumber Mcrnufqcturers Associotion Will Spur Promotion of Wood Products in 1956

Directors of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, at the recent annual meeting in Washington, D.C., elected Lawrence D. Kellogg, Alexandria, La., as NLMA president for 1956 and moved to step up the promotion of lumber and wood products in the building fields. Kellogg, president of the L. D. Kellogg Lumber Company, succeeds Judd Gree.nman, Vernonia, Ore., who was named NLMA board chairman. Greenman recently retired as general manager of the Vernonia Division of the Long-Bell Lumber Company.

NLMA directors climilxed their three-day conclave by voting funds to expand the association's technical assistance to builders, architects and engineers. The action authorized the association to:

l. Prepare a "how-to-do-it" manual on recommended framing and construction details, for use by carpenters and building foremen.

2. Prepare and publish additional data on "the cost of wood construction versus other building methods, for use by architects and engineers.

NLMA recently published a booklet showing the economies possible through the use of wood in school construction. The latest action by NLMA directors provides for the publication of similar studies on commercial, industrial and mercantile structures.

NLMA directors also voted funds for the association to

keep up to date on research activities of the forest products industries and to conduct preliminary investigations of promising research "leads."

In another action, the lumbermen voted to continue the association's annual scholarship program, which provides for the award of $500 scholarships each year to four outstanding forestry school students and ten weeks of instruction and in wood technology and utilization at the laboratory of the Timber Engineering Company, research affiliate of NLMA.

Speakers at the lumber meeting included former Rep. Fred Hartley (R), N.J.; P. S. Knox, president of the Prefabricated Home Manufacturers' Institute; James Cope, vice-president in charge of public relations for the Chrysler Corporation, and Lloyd A. Hatch, vice-president in charge of research and product development for the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Corp.

Sharper Teeth in Labor Act

Hartley called for "strengthening" of the Taft-Hartley Act and said management should "start punching and stop alibiing" for the statute. Hartley insisted that the law which he co-authored "isn't nearly tough enough." But he said that it has brought the U.S. to the threshold of "the greatest era of industrial peace in many and many a decade."

The ex-Congressman urged amendments which would:

1. Give workers kept from their jobs by "mob action,"

2. Make the unions subject to anti-trust law penalties whenever their actions cause restraint of trade.

These and other changes in the act, he said, should be brought about by a toughening up of those sections which ban, or attempt to ban (1) featherbedding practices, (2) secondary boycotts, (3) strikes afiecting the national health and safety, (4) mass picketing and the use of force to enforce strike demands.

The speaker estimated that workers have saved "milions and millions of dollars" in wages as a result of TaftHartley's ban on jurisdictional disputes.

Hartley predicted that the next session of Congress will not amend Taft-Hartley. But he warned that the unions will make an all-out effort to elect a "pro-labor boss Congress" next November in their drive to "emasculate" the law.

Knox told the association that lumber's share of the housing market could be vastly increased if lumber manufacturers catered more to housing as a major end-product consumer of lumber. (See separate story on next page.)

Cope said companies striving to out-do the competition must realize that their customers expect "tomorrow's promise as a living experience today." The Chrysler executive identified research as the principal means of satisfying the customer's urge for self-expression and self-betterment in the products he buys.

Cope applauded "the very intelligent performance on public relations and promotional fronts which has been shown by many segments of the lumber industry," and added:

"From the handling of public land and reforestation issues at one end, to the modern popularizin! of wood treatments in the home, your business has produced and is pursuing numbers of well-calculated and wellmanaged efforts to get hold of people's imaginations."

Hatch's remarks were keyed to the theme of the meeting -research. The Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Corporation official reported that his company, in the last 30 years, has achieve d $27 in sales for every dollar invested in research. He cited development of the asphalt shingle as an example of a research project which had quick success. He

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9Oo/o of All Houses to Be lPrefob'?

Lumber's share of the housing market could be vastly increased if lumber manufacturers catered more to housing as a major end-product consumer of lumber, P.S. Knox, president of the Prefabricated Home Manufacturers' Institute, told directors of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association at their 1955 annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

Knox said lumber's greatest single weakness in competition with other materials is its "unswerving allegiance to the old American lumberyard standards, with their multiplicity of sizes, lengths, grades and species." The housing leader noted that while a movement to simplify and standardize dimensions has been under way for years, it has "gone entirely too slow." He said that lumber manufacturers and house builders ought to "get together more often" in an effort to eliminate waste and cut overhead costs.

"In our prefab operations we limit the number of basic designs that we produce, and reduce the variety and sizes of materials used in producing these models, so that we can simplify our procurement and inventory problems," Knox said. He noted that prefabbers have "long since fou.nd out that all wall studs don't have to be 2x4-16's.

"We could really put you fellows back into the pre-cut dimension business and find good ways together to use up advantageously your culls and shorts," Knox told the lumbermen.

He said that prefab housing already has become an important consumer of lumber products since this type of construction accounted for nearly l0/o of all housing starts this year. Knox predicted that in the next 15 or N years fully 90o/s of. all the houses built will be prefabricated.

Because of a big increase in the total number of prefab houses built in 1955, plus the fact that the average size of each house is larger, the prefab industry last year would almost double its 1954 consumption of lumber and wood products, Knox estimated. He said 1954 consumption included more than 40O million board feet of lumber, over 250 million feet of plywood, more than 78 million board feet of flooring, 847,ffiO doors, and over 52 million feet of wood trim. said that only 29 months were required "from concept to commerciality."

R.O.lflr Ufi Od Complaely, .. from inside the house for cleaning, painting or glass replacement. Because of this exclusive feature, more than 7,000,000 are now in use. Homes with R.O.Ws sell faster in today'g selective market.

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The speaker also paid tribute to long-range progress made by the lumber industry in the last 15 years. He asserted: "Lumber is coming to be considered more of a crop than a national resource like coal to be consumed and forgotten. This means higher costs today but lower costs tomorrow. This is a fair and equitable bargain with your customersthe American public. American industry has made a similar bargain with its customers. It has increased the price of its products and withheld immediate profits from its stockholders when necessary in order to support an aggressive technical program."

A highlight of the meeting, attended by more than 150 leading lumber and wood products manufacturers, was the (Continued on Page 52)

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New Timber Design for Commerciol ond Form Stru&ures

Washington, D.C.-A new integral wood frame, combining roof and wall sections, for economical construction of small commercial and industrial type buildings, has been designed by Timber Engineering Company, research affiliate of National Lumber Manufacturers Association. The design is available as a guide for planners of garages, warehouses, farm utility buildings, and similar structures that require maximum post-free work area and high ceiling clearance.

The new "arch frame" typical design provides clear spans of. Z0 to 30 feet, with stud wall heights ranging from approximately 8 to 10 feet. With wall and roof sections

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combined, the frames can be tilted up into position quickly for fast erection and early closing in of the building.

The combination roof .and wall frame is designed for a roof load of 30 pounds per square foot, and a wind load of 20 pounds per square foot, based on the use of TECO wedge-fit timber connectors in assembling the frames, which are then spaced two feet on center, and anchored with Trip-L-Grip framing anchors.

The use of standard Z-inch lumber in 4-,6-,8.; or 1O-inch widths, depending upon the length of span, provides another economy factor in addition to the speed of fabrication, assembly, and erection. The amount of lumber required for each fiame ranges from 67 board feet, for the N-foot span, to Il7 feet for the 30-foot span.

L. A. Resltors in NAREB Posts

Several Los Angeles realtors were elected to offices in the National Association of Real Estate Boards at the recent NAREB convention in New York City. Fred W. Marlow, president of the Los Angeles Realty Board, was elected to the NAREB board of directors, along with Albert Dippell and James M. Udall of L. A. Other Californians elected to the board wcre Carl W. Newport, Sherman Oaks; C. J. Duncan, Oakland; John Cotton, San Diego; Reg F. Dupuy, Long Beach; Frank Farish, Woodland; Willard L. Johnson, San Francisco; Wynne A. Savage, San Bernardino, and Elmer F. Karpe, Bakersfield.

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Santa Rosa, Calif.-The city building department cautiously pointed out last month that the city was only $354,000 short of a new 1955 construction record when an unexpected bonanza came. First, Codding llomes announced plans to build 500 homes and a four-acre shopping center near Montgomery Village at an estimated $7,500,000. Then Ward Investment Co., Palo Alto, detailed plans for 1,000 homes in Rincon Valley-a $20 million investment. The record was set.

Deqler on Boy ScoufsCouncil

Phoenix, Ariz.-Loren Pedrick, manager of the Farmers Lumber & Supply Co. here, has been re-elected district chairman of the Roosevelt Council, Boy Scouts of America.

Hqrbor Permits Neor $l8 million

Newport Beach, Calif.-Harbor area building permits for the year neared $18 million in October, with Costa Mesa leading with $8,817,538. Newport Beach totaled $8,010,000 in 10 months.

Legion Lumbermen Meet

Lumbermen's Post 403 of the American Legion met at 6:45 p.m., December 14 at Taix' French restaurant in Los Angeles.

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One of the best in{ormed men in the lumber industry supervises product'ron quolity for TW&J. Strict odherence tci grode ond moislure conlenl is ossured by rigid inspeclion ond certified groders.

Soufhwestern Plons Convention

The Southwestern's, 68th annual convention and building rr.raterials exhibit to be held in Kansas City, according to Ken Milliken, execlrtive vice-presider-rt of tl.re Southwestern Lumberrren's Association, will be a full, 2fu-day convention program rvith a "new look," opening January 25 a:rul closing with a climax luncheon January 27. The 1956 Convention is geared to tl-re theme, "Profit With Progress." An array of nearly 250 exhibits wiil feature "products in action" and point-of-sa1e display ideas that every dealer can use.

A brand new feature will take the spotlight in the Exhibition Hall this January-a "How-to-Do-It Circus." Under a circus tent in a speciaily designated area, leading rranufacturers and suppliers will demonstrate "l-row-to-do-it" applications of tl.reir products at intervals throughout the convention. Another "first" for Southwestern conventions will be a one-week's, all-expensepaid trip to Las Vegas for some lucky dealer member and his wife. The program is under the chairmanship of President J. R. Grobmyer of Little Rock, Ark. Mrs. Louis S. Schutte of Kansas Citv is planning an "a11 new" ladies' program.

Jqcinto Yords in SCRIA

Orrie W. Hamilton. officer and manager of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association, has enrolled trvo more yards in the association. They are the San Jacinto (Calif.) Lumber Co., Harold J. Schmitz, manager, and the San Jacinto Nf ountain Lumlter Yarcl, Idyllu'ild, Calif., Michael Dunn, manager.

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T\TENTY.FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

As repo*ed in The California Lumber Merchant January 1 , 1931

The California Redwood Association held its annual meeting in the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, December 16. J. M. Hotchkiss was re-elected president, L. C. Hammond was re-elected vice-president, and R. F. Hammatt was continued as secretary-treasurer. The other directors elected were A.S. Murphy, Otis R. Johnson, C. E. DeCamp, Fred V. Holmes and Henry M. Hink.

The Central California Lumbermen's CIub held its annual meeting at Stockton, Dec. 13. Chas G. Bired, Stockton Lumber Company, was elected president, A. R. Martin of Sonora was elected vice-president, W. O. Mashek of Modesto was elected treasurer, and T. L. Gardner was elected secretary.

Figures published in this issue show the following lumber production in 1930: Redwood, 430,000,000 feet; white woods, 100,000,000 feet; Pine, Fir and White Fir, 1,292,360.0ff) feet.

The Red River Lumber Company, Westwood, California, announces that it has commenced the manufacture of hardwood panels, including birch, mahogany, oak, walnut, gum and other woods.

The Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club celebrated Christmas by showering the children of a large tubercular sanitarium with a multitude of gifts.

The Califofnia White & Sugar Pine Association and the 'Western Pine Manufacturers Association held a joint meeting at Klamath Falls, Oregon, and agreed to jointly prepare grading rules for structural pine'

The E. K. Wood Lumber Company, Los Angeles, has opened a branch lumber yard at Long Beach'

The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, has its engineers and research men working on an insulation ma-

The San Francisco Hoo-Hoo Club entertained 175 orphan terial made entirely of Redwood bark. A special plant is children at a Christmas party at the San Francisco Elks being constructed at Scotia, California, to manufacture the Club on December 23. Product.

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Electricity

"Electricity is something that starts-goodness knows where-and ends at the same place. It is one minute and 53 seconds faster than its nearest competitor-backyard gossip.

"Turned loose in Europe it will get to the United States five hours before it starts.

"Electricity is sometimes known as science gone qazy with the heat. If you can understand its maneuvers you can do anything with it except open a can of sardines at a picnic.

"Electricity was locked up in ignorance until Benjamin Franklin let it out with a passkey. Since then it has been pulling off more tricks than a pet monkey on a hundred feet of grapevine.

"Withit you can cook your dinner, curl hair, press trousers, blow up a battleship, run an automobile, signal Mars, start a conversation, or stop one permanently." -(Clipt.)

It Couldn't Be Done, But He Did lr

Somebody said that it couldn't be done, But he, with a chuckle, replied, That maybe it couldn't, but he would be one Who wouldn't say so til he tried;

So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin, On his face. If he worried, he hid it, He started to sing as he tackled the thing, That couldn't be done, and HE DID IT.

Somebody scoffed: "Oh you'll never do that; At least no one ever has done it."

But he took off his coat and he took off his hat, And the first thing we knew he'd begun it; With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin, Without any doubting or "quit it," He started to sing as he tackled the thing, That couldn't be done, AND HE, DID IT.

There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done, There are thousands to prophesy failure; There are thousands to point out to you, one by one, The dangers that wait to assail you; But just buckle in with a bit of a grin, Then take off your coat and go to it, Just start in to sing as you tackle the thing, That couldn't be done, and YOU'LL DO IT!

Thot Wos Why

They were holding the funeral of the richest Hebrew in town, and Abie stood near the bier out-crying all the relatives.

"Abie," asked a. friend, "for vy are you crying so? He vasn't no relative of yourn?"

"Sure he vasn'tr" said Abie, "dot's vy I'm crying."

A Bollcrd of Trees qnd the Mqster

Into the woods my Master went, 'Clean forespent, forespent.

Into the woods my Master came, Forespent with love and shame.

But the olives they were not blind to Him, The little grey leaves were kind to Him; The thorn-tree had a mind to Him

When into the woods He came.

Out of the woods my Master went, And He was well content.

Out of the woods my Master came, Content with death and shame.

When Death and Shame would woo Him last, From under the trees they drew Him last; 'Twas on a tree they slew Him-last

When out of the woods FIe came.

-Sidney Lanier.

likee Worker

A Chinese newspaper published this letter from an applicant for work: Sir:-I arn Wang. I can drive typewriter with good'noise and my English is great. My last job has left'itself from me, for good reason that large man has dead. It was on account of no fault of mine. So honorable sirs, what about it?If f can be of big use to you I will arrive on some date that you shall guess.

Hotel Stqtistics

At an Indiana hotel this sign is on all the stationery and in every room:

"This hotel is equipped witti automatic sprinklers. Statistics show that loss of life has never occurred in a sprinklered building. In case of fire, you may get wet but not burned."

A witty guest composed the following prayer to fit the circumstances:

"Now I lay me down to sleep

Statistics guard my slumber deep. If I should die I'm not concerned I may get wet, but I won't get burned !"

Unrelioble Ebony

"No mam," said Aunt Lucy to the white lady she washed for, "no mam, Dinah didn't git married. Yes mam, she was spectin t' git married t' Ebony Jackson las' Thu'sday, but she nevah did. Dass dat Ebony Jackson what drives fo' Jedge Robison. Dey bin goin roun togetha fo de las sevrul months, an dey done set de date fo las Thu'sday. Dinah was all ready fo de weddin, too. Bin wukkin on her torso fo weeks an was all ready fo de weddin; an den dat no count Ebony he failed t' show up."

Cqldor Lumber Go. Experimenting Wirh Philippine Mohogony Logs

An experiment in milling Philippine mahogany logs is being conducted by Caldor Lumber Company of Diamond Springs, Calif., Chalmers G. Price, general manager, announced. Approximately 6@,000 board feet of logs came to Caldor from Davao, Mindanoa, Philippine Islands, on the California Bear, a Pacific-Far East Line ship, to Port Stockton. From there, Price said, the logs were loaded in 70 railroad gondola cars for shipment to Diamond Springs, unloaded into the millpond, and manufactured into lumber in the sawmill. Lumber was put in yard to air dry for about two months, and then finished by kiln drying.

At present there is a good market for the lumber in the United States for interior finish, moulding, cabinet r,vork

SCRLA Active qnd Associqte Members to Meef Jqnuqry 24

A joint meeting of active and associate members of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association will be held in the new Boulevard room of the Ambassador hotel, Los Angeles, on Tuesday, January 21. The meeting r,r'ill cover present business operations and larger profit possibilities. It will be a clinic type session in which all delegates may lead discussions or participate from the floor.

R.ecord Rurql Orcnge Figure

Santa Ana, Calif.-Rural construction in Orange county continued last month to show a substantial increase over 1954, with the November figure bringing a gain of $25,727,039 over 1954's similar 11-months span. The November figure was $7,502,869, including $6,094,048 residential. The 1955 valuation to that date was $118,378,600, compared to $92,651,561 in the same 1954 period.

Do-lr-Yourself Ghristmqs Tree

From 7,000-8,000 trees were offered last month on a "choose and cut" basis at tree farms in Sonoma, Napa, Marin, Santa Cruz and Monterey counties, to families seeking a Christmas tree. The price was about $3 for a 4-6 foot tree, and most were Douglas fir, announced Prof. Woodbridge Met'calf of the UC Agricultural Service.

Donald J. Baker was named merchandising manager of Pabco Paint and Gypsum Products. Ife was formerly with a southern California pa.int manufacturer and partner in a Pasadena retail paint firm.

Mendocino county's lumber industry is experiencing its best year in history, and indications are that 1956 will exceed 1955 in lumber production, said Paul Sutterley, secretary of the Ukiah Chamber of Commerce, recently.

and furniture, Price pointed out. Most of the lumber now imported comes from Japan, where it is produced from logs shipped from the Philippines.

"If the experiment proves successful for Caldor, the program u'ill probably be expanded for 1956 in an effort to keep some industry alive at the Caldor plant," Price said.

For the experiment, Caldor will use its regular equipment; revisions in the mechanical setup may be made if the project is successful.

All logs will be clear and are expected to average about 33 inches in diameter. In Philippine logging, the felled trees are topped at the first limb and only the clear logs shipped for lumber manufacture.

At Caldor, the lumber will be sawn to 4/4, 5/4, 6/4 and. 8/4. It will be resawn elservhere for specific uses.

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Insuloting Siding Associotion Bqcks ttOperotlon Home lmprovementt'

The Insulating Siding Association has appropriated the largest public relations budget in its history to support "Operation Home Improvement" activity in 1956. Action was taken at the 10th annual meeting in Chicago, which also named Frederick W. Lagerquist, merchandise manager, asphalt roofing and allied products department, Celotex Corporation, as association president for 1956.

Lagerquist pointed out that insulating siding is a "natural partner and leader" in any major home improvement program because more'than three million American homes have already been modernized with insulating siding. IIe said the industry had a goal in 1956 of 300,000 homes.

Named to serve with Lagerquist were Warren Neale, commodity manager of roofing and siding products, JohnsManville Sales Corporation, treasurer, and Richard G. Breeden, Jr., who was renamed secretary-manager of the association. I

The Insrllating Siding Core Board Association re-elected M. C. Fairfield, sales manager, Insulite division of the M & O Paper Company, as its president for 7956 at the association's second annual meeting in Chicago.

Named to serve with Fairfield were Richard L. Collister, Armstrong Cork Company, vice-president; Rogers Weed, Jr., Bird & Son, treasurer; G. F. Hoppe, Insulite, chairman of public relations, and Sam Kracji, Celotex Corporation, chairman of technical problems. Richard G. Breeden, Jr., was renamed secretary-manager.

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r"rct c;r11ecl 2-1-1. n thick (about 1-inch) panel for use as col1rbination subflooring ancl underl:rvment or.cr u'ide supports. Also in the olfing for 1956, but still in the testing stage. is a utilitv panel for farm use.

The inclustrv u'i11 c(rntinrle going fors-:rrd on a basic standard in the l)r()griinr f.r lr non-structttral grade of sheathing designed to :rchieve markets for lon'cr grade venecr l'ithorrt jeoparclizing the long-established acccptancc of standard grades of fir plyrvood u.hich l'ras taken manv years to accotnplish.

Solidly Behind Jobbers and Retailers

In all plans for 1956, the industrf is on record as being solidly behind jobbers ancl retail lumber dealers. Plyrvoo<l promotion in 1956 rvill concentrate in all markets nrore directly orr actual plywood sales. For example, sheathing rvill be heavily emphasized in all promotional mediums. At the same time, plans have been cotnpleted f,,r auxiliarl' crrmllaigns. sr.rch :rs the r.reu- boat ltrogram just alrout to be unvei1ecl.

Unclcr it thc association has clevelopecl nen, plans for eight plr-u'ood boats, ranging from a revised plan frir a small pranr dinghy to a luxurious 2l-ioot outboard cruiser. The plans serr.e as tlie focal point oI a modest, but compact advcrtising and dealer merchrLnclising canrpaign.

I'lans :rrc in the fir-ral stagcs of clevelopnrent f()r sever:rl nlorc :rpectacular individual promotions to be arrnounced throrr.ghout the ycar. Fttllv al'are that the Jultilee r-ear pace puts nruch greater cleman<l on llromoticinal skills, the indus-

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These Redwood Finishes qre besl by test. Conlqins no Rosin. Mode exclusively of heol freqted oils.

Securily Royol Duich Pqint Mfg. Co.

try is making assurances there will be no slackening in the joint effort to broaden plywood markets nor to settle for anything less than the 1956 goal-5,6 billion feet.

USP Sqles, Eornings qt Peqk

New York-United States Plywood Corporation has announced the highest earnings and sales for any six months and quarterly period in the company's history. Consolidated net profit for the three months errded October 31 was $3,269,000, after estimated income taxes of $2,94O,800. This compared with a net profit of $1,693,600, after income taxes of. $1,444,ffi, in the corresponding quarter of. 1954. For the six months ended October 31, consolidated net profit amounted to $5,923,700, after estimated income taxes of $5,253,400, compared with net profit in the same six months

of 1954 of $2,853,70O, after $2,362,5@ income taxes.

Consolidated sales for the quarter ended October 31 were $52,452,W and for the six months to that date $101,472,000, compared with $32,370,000 and $61,437,000, respectively, in the corresponding periods ol 1954.

Mqnufqcturers Honor ttMr. Constructiontt

F. Stuart Fitzpatrick, manager of the Construction and Civic Development department of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, became the third holder of Producers' Council's highly prized Award of Recognition for Outstanding Service to the Construction fndustry at a dinner in Washington, D.C., November 4. Mr. Fitzpatrick, who is known in building circles as "Mr. Construction," has been associated with the national chamber for 37 vears

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WEST COAST TUTBER PRODUCTS

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New West Coqst Groding R.ules

(Continued from Page 6) appearance than the lumber you have been specifying and receiving under the old rules.

In some cases knot sizes have been tightened, in other cases the restrictions on w'ane or splits or lvhite speck have been somewhat eased. Wherever improvements could reasonably be made, they have been made. Nfore than trvo years of the most sincere and painstaking consideration has gone into the development of Rule S15.

It is-for the first time-a grading rule shaped for the buyer and consumer of lumber rather than the professional grader.

It rvili, lve hope, usher in four rvords 'rvhich rvill long be

useful to the retail lumber dealer-CONSTRUCTION, STANDARD, UTILITY and ECONOMY.

Effective date of the new rules will be announced in the near future, and copies of Rule f15 will be mailed to all segments of the industry.

Consolidqted Hikes Higgins

Frank Higgins, veteran Consolidated Lumber Companl' salesman, has been appointed sales manager for the Los Angeles district, according to George Hinkle, general rnanager of the firm. Higgins has spent many years in the lumber and building field throughout Soutl-rern California. He will be assisted in his nerv position by Elmer Brorvn, lvho continues in his position as offrce manager, Los Angeles.

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Lumber & lumber Products

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Philippine Mohogony Assn. Puts Out New ldeo Book for Deqler Buildup

The Philippine Mahogany Association has published an eightpage brochure outlining some of the uses for Philippine Mahogany in new construction and remodeling. The application of this exotic tropical hardwood in paneling, cabinet work, trim, ceiling paneling or sheathing, exterior siding and furniture is discussed and illustrated. Of particular interest are the sections dealing with estimating the material required and methods o.f installation.

This new booklet is not intended to be a construction prirner but it serves as a guide to determine how Philippine Mahogany can best be utilized to increase the beauty of the home. Con-

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sumers are instructed to' contact their local lumber dealer for specific details.

Complimentary copies of the "Philippine Mahogany Idea Book" are available upon request from the Philippine Mahogany Association, Inc., 111 West Seventh Street, I-os Angeles 14, California. Bulk quantities for distribution by retail dealers are available at a very modest cost.

The association has also prepared a series of six newspaper mats designed as dealer sales aids. The mats are available free of cost and proofs may be obtained from the association.

The Douglas fir region contains 426billion board feet of sawtimber. A billion feet will build 111,500 average homes.

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November Construction Figures Highesr in Long Dodge Hisrory

F. W. Dodge Corporation's construction figures resumed their long upward march in November after dipping slightly in October. At least eight new high records were set by the November contract awards for future construction in the 37 states east of the Rockies. The November grand total was $1,796,787,000, up N/o above November of last year, and the highest November in Dodge's long history. It became the 18th month out of the last 19 to show a gain over the corresponding month of the previous year. Dodge's residential classification showed a2/o gain after two months of decline as compared with the corresponding months of last year.

Fires Hir Coliforniq Mills

Fort Bragg, Calif.-Mendocino county recently suffered almost $600,000 loss by fire which destroyed two mills and put heavy damage on a third. The Union Lumber Company's log deck was hit for a $300,00O loss. L. B. Miller placed at $72,ffiO his losses in a fire destroying his Navarro mill two days later. The G. M. Lumber Co., Longvale, suffered a $200,000 loss when its entire mill went up in smoke but the log deck was saved, reported Pete Le Furgey, the owner. The Rock Creek Lumber Co., eight miles north of Nevada City, near Grass Valley, Calif., also lost its mill in a $50,000 fire. The owners, Jake Stroh, "Red" McNally and Edwin Furano, had just installed $30,000 in new equipment, but 2 million bf of logs in the deck were saved.

BItL BRAUNING, generol monoger of Eureko Redwood Lumber Compony. is shown with the two cups he won in the recent Norihwestern Colifornio Iumbermen's Club golf lournoment; cup ot right is perpetuol rrophy which stoys with eoch yecr's winner, cup oi left is Brouning's to keep in recognilion of winning this yeor's ploy wirh o low net of 70 in competition with 63 porficiponts.

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ENJOYING THE SUN AND SEA in Nossou, the Bohomos, ore Mr. qnd Mrs. J. E. (Ted) Higgins, Jr., of lI80 Mqndonq Blvd., Piedmont, Colif., in rhe photo ot upper righr. Mr. Higgins, who is heqd of Higgins Lumber €o., Son Froncisco, ond his wife were receni guests of the Bohqmqs Country Club in October ond relurned to Colifornio in November.

UNION IUMBER COMPANY'S huge sign on the Big River Unit of its C. R. Johnson Tree Forms is shown in the lorge Americqn Foresf Producls Industries photo ot right; in qddirion ro rhe Big River Unit, which contoins 39,814 ocres, Union olso mointoins o 25,492-ocre tree form known os the Noyo Unit. Smoller inset photo shows C. Russell Johnson, vicepresident ond generol mdnoger of Union Lumber Compony, Fort Brogg, Colif., speoking on employment qvoilqble in forest producls industries ql the second conference on Schools in Forestry, logging ond Lumbering Educotion, sponsored by rhe Redwood Region Conservqiion Council ot Ukioh rhis Foll, Orhers in the phoro ore (left lo right): George B. Mcteod (with pipe), boord choirmon, Hommond Lumber Co., one of the founding fqthers of the RRCC; J. Hqrold Robinson, Willits Redwood Producfs, president of rhe RRCC. qnd Dr. Sidney McGow, Cqlifornio educqlor qnd conference chqirmon.

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GIO Woodworkers to Seek l2r/z-cent Across-lhe-Boqrd Woge lncreose

Portland, Ore.C.I.O. Woodworkers announced last month they would seek a L2l-cent across-the-board wage increase and criticized the A.F.L. Lumber and Sawmill 'Workers for settling for less. A Portland vice-president and the local said the AFL's surprise settlement for a 5-to-i5 cent hourly hike had not done much to help the then proposed union merger. The CIO union represents 45,000 lumber and woods workers in the Pacific Northwest and based its wage demand on a statement that "lumber industry profits are 45/o higher in 1955 than the same period in 1954."

Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. and the CIO union agreed on a 4%% wage hike covering 6,000 sawmill and logging employes, effective December 1, and also agreed to a pension plan financed by the company efiective June 1, 1957. Hammond Lumber Company and the AFL union agreed on a new contract boosting wages to $.0875 per hour in the 5-to-15 cent bracket effective December 1. In a notice posted to Union Lumber Co. employes, officials announced wage boosts to all hourly production and maintenance employes. Employes of Rockport Redwood Co. received news of a similar hike.

A fir plywood industry spokesman said he expected 18,0@ AFL and CIO plywood workers in Oregon, Washington and California would approve. an average g/a-cents an hour wage increase. About 4O/o of. the plywood plant people are represented by the CIO-IWA and ffi/o by the AFL-LSW.

H- I* I***MATI'N '

' All inquiries resarding NES7 PRODUCTS, New Liter' "tor. 6r bookllts and other items mentioned in this section should be addressed to THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHdNT, Room 508, 108 West 6th St.' Los Angeles 14. Your inquiries will be promptly for' warded -bv us to the manufacturer or distributor, who will then -answer your inquiries direct.

This toy storage truck is only one of the six items the Fir PlYwood Kit Company of Seattle has in its new hne bf -knock-down kits. Each kit contains all the parts milled to exact sizes and tolerances plus step-bystep directions and illustrations. T'he othlr items are a stacking cabinet, odds-and-ends cabine! a Portable har. bufiet cabinet and a tool chest.

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Fiberglos Reinforced Builr-up R'oofs

AftJr eight years of experimental use on the West Coast and at selected localities in the rest of the nation. Fiberglas Reinforced Built-Up Roofs now are being promoted throughout the United States by Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation as a completely new innovation in roof construction. On a Fiberglas Built-Up Roof, porous sheets of fibrous glass called Fiberglas Perma-Ply No. 6 are used in place of the conventional roofing felts with the result that the reinforcing reduces roofing failure and helps cut down on costly repairs by decreasing cracking or "alligatoring."

A REVOTUIIONARY NEW DEVELOPI,IENT in clo:el eiorogs-on odiurloble m.tot clot.l "lrec"-gives 'building rupply deolcrs oPporlunily to tic in rclor oriring from public ini.te3t in. i ASONITE "Peg'Boord" for closeb, another vqiuoblc tool in relling thi pcrforotcd ponclr ond fixlurcr' Ar illu3lrared, verticol pole cxbnl3 ftom fioor lo ceiling, with horizonlol itir odiutr"ble ol 3-inch inteivqb. Note voricty of obiecrr :urpendcd from meiqt ftxture: in pcrforored Prcrdwood wolls.

3M lmproves Pocks for Discs ond Sheets

Two improved packages for its home workshop sanding discs and sandpaper cut sheets have been announced by Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co. New features include: (1) A die cut on one of the flaps of the disc pack and sheet pack, which enables the dealer to hang the packs on peg boards; and (2) sizes of discs and cut sheets printed on the face of the packs, as well as on the ends, for easy identification. The die cut innovation allows the dealer to display as part of a power tool display, hanging beside the tools for which they are intended.

New Merchqndising Kit for R.entol Floor Scrnders

A new merchandising package designed to help retail hardware, lumber and paint dealers get more profit from their rental floor sanders is being offered by Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co., makers of 3M abrasives and "Scotch" brand pressure sensitive tapes. The kits are available free from the 3M Company, Dept. A5-227,900 Fauquier Street, St. Paul 6, Minn., or from 3M branch offices throughout the country.

Luxury Crystol

New, Knobs

These handmade Luxury Crystal door knobs open up many new avenues of interior styling. Their clean, generously-proportioned lines are in keeping with the 'current trend to the dramatic. Used in conjunction with all motifs for emphasis on a single, important door, or for complete interiors. Available with matching drawer knobs, in miniature, when desired. Supplied in "bubble" and clear designs in brass and chromium trim finishes. Solid brass rosettes' Knob diameters, 2t' and 2f". Beautiful French shank' Threaded for use with regular tubular type latches. Approximately $9.50 (Bubble) and $7.00 (clear) per pair, List. Write Metallon Products, fnc., Tegco Division, 2050 E. 48th St., Los Angeles 58, California.

New Wind-resistqnr Aspholr Shingles

New York-Seal-O-Matic is the name of a new asphalt roof shingle which seals itself dorvn automatically. Each shingle is firmly bonded to the one belo.n'. The holding power, during storms, is so strong it provides bull-dog resistance to driving rains and high rvinds.

Seal-O-Matic shingles are a new and patented JohnsManville development. These new asphalt shingles are of the L2 in. by 36 in. strip type with three square cut butts. They are available in a range of blends and solid colors.

The Seal-O-Matic feature is a ribbon of petroleum resin adhesive that is factory applied. The ribbon of this special adhesive is fi in. rvide. It is on the back side of the shingle about 3,/8 in. up from the edge of the butt. This adhesive is hard and brittle at normal temperatures. But, after application and exposure to the sun's heat, the adhesive softens and merges with the shingle below. In this way, the exposed shingle butts are continuously welded to the underlying shingles. Under the most severe rveather conditions not a tab lifts, not a drop leaks through.

In the bundle, when delivered to the job, the shingles are arranged in pairs. Two shingles are packed back to back

Gerlinger "H" Series Added ro Gompony's Extensive Line

The Gerlinger "H" Series fork-lift trucks, available in 32,000-1b., 36,000-1b. and 40,0001b. capacities, are the newest addition to the extension standard line of materials-handling equipment manufactured by Gerlinger Carrier Company, Dallas, Oregon, according to V. O. Williams, general manager of the 37-year-old firm.

Log operators, using the nerv methods of logging that are attracting world-rvide attention, find the revolutionary Gerlinger "H" job-tested to meet their particular needs. The California Timber Company, Healdsburg, for example, uses two H-32's to unload, handle, deck and feed logs to the mill without the use of a pond (above). In straight lumber operations, a full kiln load-too unrvieldy for singleload handling with other equipment-is possible in every "lI" payload. This advanced equipment promises important economies for steel and concrete pipe, in anything that handles more profitably in oversize loads. Williams points out that there is no sacrificing of the famous Gerlinger maneuverability for all of the giant size of the H-32, H-36 or H-40.

Full details and specifications are available, rvithout obligation, from Gerlinger Carrier Company, Dept. TP, Dallas, Oregon.

so that the petroleum resin adhesive on one shingle sticks to the adhesive of the other. When applying, the mechanic, with a slight snap, separates the two shingles and equal amounts of the sealing adhesive are left on each shingle.

Seal-O-Matic shingles are nailed in the normal manner, and four nails per strip are recommended.

These new J-M Asphalt Shingles were first introduced in the high wind sections of the middle-west. and the hurricane areas of the east. They have proved so satisfactory, Johns-Manville is now manufacturing them for the Pacific Coast at Los Angeles and pittsburg, California.

Introduces Dropery Hqrdwqre

Grant Pulley & Hardu'are Corporation entirely new line of architectural drapery known as No. 2200 Drapery Hardware.

Mqnuql Reody on Routo-Jig

"lfow To Use the Porter-Cable Routo-Jig" is the title of a new 36-page manual for the building and construction trades, wood-working shops, and industrial maintenance crervs 'ivhich describes the routo-jig functions of a jig saw, router, shaper and jointer in a single portable electric tool. The manual is regularly priced at 50c but will be sent free on request to Porter-Cable, 65 Exchange Street, Syracuse 8, N. Y.

Fire-Snuf Ponels on M.rrkel

is marketing an hardrvare to be

The first fiberglass-reinforced daylighting panel to be listed by Underwriters' Laboratories Inc., and to carry the lJnderwriters' label is being manufactured by the Resolite Corporation, Zelienople, Pa., under the trade name of FireSnuf. Fire-Snuf panels are self-extinguishing and will not support combustion.

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frimble Lumber Corporotion, Bricelond' Colif. Los Gqtos Lumber Products Co., tnc., Scotts Volley, Colif' Douglas Fir and

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Gypsum Industry Georing for New Production Peqk in 1956

The gypsum industry is primed to reach new production peaks in 1956, according to Lloyd H' Yeager, general manager of the Gypsum Association. Giving impetus to its expanded production program, he said, is the growing demand for gypsum products and the overall construction outlook' Shipments of gypsum products in 1955 are expected to show an increase of. l7/o over the total for 1954, and of approximately 75/o over the shipments fot 1947-49, the U.S. Commerce Department's base period, he reported.

"The nation's gypsum producers," Yeager declared, "are gearing their production for another big year on the basis of market analvses which indicate that the

possible decline in new home starts will be offset by an increase in non-residential construction and accelerated activity in the field of home improvements"'

The industry's current multi-million-dollar program to expand its production facilities, he said, is expected shortly to increase the availability of gypsum materials, and permit the development of new markets, in many areas' The number of new and enlarged plants, he added, is growing at such a rate that the industry will be capable of an output of gypsum board products that will be almost double that of the immediate postwar period by the end of 1956.

In the research field, the gypsum executive reported' notable developments in the last 12 months include the introduction of a new and radically improved nail for the application of gypsum wallboard, a series of tests which dem-

onstrated the advantages of poured gypsum roof decks, and extensive field investigations to cultivate new plaster markets.

In addition, he noted, the Gypsum Association completed a number of important studies relating to the fire resistance, thermal properties and other characteristics of various gypsum products and construction systems.

Ed Fountqin, Dick Lloyd Aftend AITC Meeting in Los Vegos

Ed Fountain and Dick Lloyd of the Ed Fountain Lumber Co., Los Angeles, flew to Las Vegas, Nevada, recently to attend as guests a luncheon meeting of the directors of the American Institute of Timber Construction. This associa_

tion is active in guarding the uses of wood, under the building ordinances throughout the United States. They also have a project of getting timber construction a more equitable consideration in fire ratings than have been prevalent in some areas.

lumber Handling R,ates Hiked

Because of increased costs, lumber-handling rates have been increased by the Southern California Lumber Handlers' Bureau at all lumber docks in the Los Angeles-Long Beach Harbor area. Effective January 1, the package rate for wharfing and handling is increased by twenty-five cents, shipments that require manual handling, by fifty cents I tally charge, ten cents; sorting to width, thickness or length, ten cents, and sorting tograde (mill marked), ten cents.

S-7-lt-n-T-C-E Voar profit lDollars

The re-rooftng Seqson is here ond you lumber deolers will be getting cqlls for rooftng items of oll descriptions, mqny of which you will nor hove in stock - - Don'r miss this extro business, drow on our complete slocks for your ftll-ins, both in ospholt roofings ond wood shingles ond shokes. Remember, roo, rhor we ore cortoad shippers.

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Soors - Plyrvood . Mouldings . Hordboords

Mqnufoclurers of Pre'hung Door Unils

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Golden Yeor for Lounsberry & Horris

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Hi.:fiJ"s

9arce 1883

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CO'NPIETE STOCKS OF DRY VER rcAL & FLAT GRAIN

l" thru 8" lhlck

up to 21" wide up to 2tlf long

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99 Boyshore Blvd. Son Froncisco 24

for a gre.enhouse. Not so today. Lounsberry and Harris produce and sell a prefabricated greenhouse milled from seiected grades of Redwood. Five designs are manufactured for the flower hobbyist and a complete line of commercial greenhouses may be obtained. The stafi of this division of the firm will design and furnish all the material for greenhouse construction regardless of the specification and size' "We furnish the small domestic sizes as well as the material for the large commercial greenhouses," points out Paul Wirick, manager of this department'

Flnsl RETAIL LUtrrlBER ASSOCIAIIOI{ in los Angcler 50 yeorr ogo ir thir rorc pholo. Among the group, oldtimerr moy pick-out lumbermen Ridderford, iynch, Mullin, Griftn, Connic Gonohl, Genc Ganohl, E. J. Stonton'

Stunburb lLumter @ompnn? llne. SUGAR PIN E INGENSE CEDAR ORegon 8-2141 22g W. Florence Ave. P.O. Box 609 Inglewood, Colifornio Southcrn Calilornia Sotes Agents-Pickering Lumber Corp. &

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president. These two pioneers have been identified in the building and growth of Southern California now for half a century. Two sons, Stuart W. Harris, treasurer, and.Robert C. Harris, assistant secretary, are in the firm.

"Customer service has been our principal stock-in-trade for over 50 years," declared President Walter J. Harris. "Several years ago we were just kind of forced into the greenhouse business and, by realizing we were just a service institution and taking care of the situation by furnishing the customer what he wanted, now we operate one of the largest greenhouse departments in the west.

"We have followed this policy at all times and, as we start our second half-century of service to the builders of this great state of ours, we shall always be cognizant of customer needs and render the type of honest service that has made our progress possible through the years," he said.

John WESTON "Eridoy" FREELAND Bob KREISTER

ART HERTZ (obovc) hos mo4oged the Hollywood yord (shown herc) many yeor:

Servlee ls 0ar Stoek ln lrade

Expert Hondling ond Drying of Your lumber-Fost ServiceNEW ond MODERN FACIIITIES-INCREASED CAPACITY

These qre but s fewof the mony feqtures

Ofiered By

L. A. DRY KTLN & STOR,A@E, INC.

4261 Sheilq 51., Los Angeles, Cqlif.

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tlorshall Edwqrds, Supt.

Ntrt[A to Spur Promotion in | 956

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display of special exhibits designed to encourage an expansion of industry research activities.

TECO Shows Improved Wood Products

The exhibits, sponsored by the Timber Engineering Company, suggested new and improved wood products for development through research. Many of the research projects touched on by the exhibits would provide new outlets for what are now largely "undesirables," or waste materials, connected with wood product manufacture.

Lumbermen and others at the meeting showed particular interest in the demonstration of new equipment for ultrasonic testing of wood.

"DURO" BRoNzE

"DUROID' Elcctro Galvcnizcd "DURALUM" Cladded Aluminum

Pmilic Uire Products Co.

The device, an electronic transmitter and receiver, sends out electronic impulses which are converted into sound waves by a piece of. quartz. The sound waves penetrate and, in effect, X-ray the wood being tested' What they find is relayed to a cathode ray tube with a slightly jagged horizontal line. When the sound waves come across something out of the ordinary in the wood-a knot, void or split, for instance-there is a sharp variation in the horizontal line' The sound waves point up imperfections in the wood whether they're visible or hidden.

TECO research experts explained that this technique could bring about automatic stress grading of lumber. They said ultrasonics also may have practical application in measuring the smoothness of furniture surfaces and testing the glue lines in plywood and laminated timbers.

Two new chairmen of standing committees were elected

SPECIAUZING III TRUCK AND TRA'I,TR SH'PNENTS fRo'il ohEGOll AilD tto. cAtrfoRtrA

ANGATA REIITT(I(III COTIPA]IY

tlanufacturers and Shippers of

QUAUTY REDWOOD

by the board of directors. Thomas J. McHugh, president of the Atlantic Lumber Co., Boston, Mass., was elected chairman of the Public Relations committee to succeed Lawrence D. Kellogg. S. M. Nickey, Jr., vice-presideni and general manager of Nickey Bros., Inc., Memphis, Tenn., was elected chairman of the Foreign Trade committee, succeeding Hillman Lueddemann, vice-president and general manager of Pope & Talbot, Inc., Portland, Ore.

Officers and members of the six standing committees of the NLMA for the coming year include: Building Codes and Trade Promotion: L. J. Carr, Sacramento, Calif ., chairman; Public Relations: L. J. Carr, Sacramento, Calif.; Jack Fairhurst, Eureka, Calif. ; Forest Management: N. B. Giustina, Eugene, Ore.; A. T. Hildman, Camino, Calif.; Lumber

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Standards: S. V. Fullaway, Jr., Portland, Ore., vice-chairman; H. B. Jamison, Fresno, Calif.; Foreign Trade: Corydon Wagner, Tacoma, Wash., vice-chairman; Hillman Lueddemann, Portland, Ore.; E. C. Olson, Spokane, Wash.; Products and Research: George Flanagan, Medford, Ore.; chairman; William Swindells, Portland, Ore. ; Owen C. Sawyer, Peshastin, Wash.

Olson Joins Western Pine Srqff

Portland-Harold Olson, veteran Pacific Northwest newspaperman and forest industry writer, has been appointed to the promotion staff of the Western Pine Association. He was a district manager for American Forest Products Industries, fnc., for the past 10 years.

Coqsf lumber Fills Need in Florido

Weyerhaeuser Steamship Co. has filed application with the ICC to extend its Pacific and Atlantic coast service to include Port Everglacles in Florida, rvhich Pacific Coast lumber is helping build up. Citing the "phenomenal growth" in the greater Miami area, the Weyerhaeuser petition said it expects to deliver 6 million feet of lumber to the port in 1956, with sales in the next few years reaching 15,000,000 bf annually.

Heavy lumber shipments have been waterborne the past year, with British Columbia ports moving 334 million bf. The West Coast Lumbermen's Association reported 1,657,595,0O0 feet moved in domestic channe1s,208,361,000 feet shipped in export trade, and 307 .225.000 f eet moved into Southern California by water.

Wodhy Gift by Redwood Hoo-Hoo

A king-size Christmas project was started this season by the Redwood Empire Hoo-Hoo club. It collected 40,000 board feet of redwood lumber from Northern California mills :rnd presented it as a gift December 16 to the Salvation Army's Lytton FIome at Healdsburg, Calif.

Redlonds Building Record Seen

The outlook ofa $10 million building year in Redlands will be a new record doubling the 1954 volume. The total through October was $,762,292. October permits included 66 new houses.

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After recuperating at home for a month following an illness, Samuel W. Tolle, president of West Coast Lumber Co.. San Francisco. has returned to the retail business he established in 1928. Now in his 61st year r'vith the lumber industry, Mr. Tolle considers himself past the "apprentice" stage. Before he started his own retail business, he spent several years with Christenson Lumber Co. and the old Pacific Pine Co., both of San Francisco. lle operates West Coast Lumber Co. with his son, Wallace Tolle, t'ho is general manager.

Brady Montgomery, California and Oregon lumberman, has been appointed buyer, with headquarters at Eureka, Calif., for The Martin Bros. Box Co., lumber division. He will keep the southern California plant full of northern California and Pacific Northwest products, according to Orval Paul, Los Angeles manager of the lumber division.

Del Travis, president of Travco, Inc., San Jose, and his right-hand man, Neil Jones, spent a week in early December calling on suppliers in the Dallas and Eugene, Ore., areas.

Carl W. Watts, who operates a wholesale lumber business in Piedmont, Calif., visited his mill connections in Eureka and other northern California parts last month.

Harvey Koll, promir-rent Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo official, and Mrs. Koll have left for New Orleans and the deep south, from which they rvill take a cruise of several u'eeks to Cuba and South America before retnrning early this spring. They will visit friends in the east and midu,est enroute home.

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Hoo-Hoo-Ettes Heor Lourdes Ghoir

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club No. 1 enjoyed a lovely Christmas program at their annual party December 12 at Rodger Young auditorium. The members heard 16th Century polyphonic music by a choir from Our Lady of Lourdes church led by Charles Harlan Clarke and composed of children 9 to 13 years of age.

Alma Christenson and her committee are to be congratulated on a very successful party. The pine boughs used for decorations were contributed by Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. and given later as prizes. "Mrs. Santa" (Eullale Matich) and her helpers, Evelyn Fryrear and Roberta Kinkade, did a fine job.

Door prizes rvere donated by E. J. Stanton & Son, Nelson Lumber Co., Regal Door Company and Allied Veneer & Lumber Co. In addition, each guest and member received a gift of Avon handcream and Winston cigarettes.

At the November meeting, in addition to the interesting talk by Mrs. Maude Bond, the club extended birthday greetings to Ann Bellino, Gardena Lumber Co.; Margaret Gladish, Tarter, Webster & Johnson; Barbara von Rovigno, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., and Avis Whiteside, Hammond Lumber Co. Door prizes at the meeting were awarded to Miss Gladish and to Orinda Hazen,Tarzana Lumber Co.

In recognition of her service as president in the last term, the club presented a lovely rhinestone necklace to Alvina Boyle, Patten-Blinn Lumber Co.

The next meeting of the SoCal Hoo-Hoo-Ettes will be January 9.

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second with a 72. George Bradvica won the T. M. Cobb cup in the third flight with a net 65, and Chuck Jenkins with a 64 was presented with the guest prize.

The retaile rs' prize, furnished by the ,A',1", f-.r-bffiLos Angeles, was won by Norton Hatharvay of Oceanside, California. Larry Philips of Larvrence-Philips Lumber Company, Beverly Hills, who just returned from military duty, won the Dub prize with a "snappy" 132. Now tl-rat he is back in civilian life, he intends to brush up on his golf. The Blind Bogey was split between Art Evans and Ralph Steffen.

January Meeting to Be With SCRLA

The annual Christmas affair was a most successful event. 'The January meeting will be held in conjunction with the Southern California Retail Lumber Association, according to Snark Forgie. Notices of this meeting will be mailed to members; it is scheduled for the Ambassador hotel.

Under the administration of President Jim, it appears the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo club will take on a new look, and plans for serious business-as well as fun and frolic-are well underway.

The hatd-working committee members, rvho include Chuck Lember, J,ohn Osgood, Freeman Campbell, Harry Boand, Don Gow, Ernie Thomas, Wayne Wilson, Harold Cole, Paul Cherniss and Harvey Koll, all had a hand in bringing the annual party to a happy and brigl-rt conclusion. United we stand with Hoo-Hoo.

The solicitation and fund-raising team of Ed Bauer, George Clough and "Ch'uck" Lember gathered a total of $425 toward the door prizes and needed cash for the big Christmas party event of the Club 2 year. The firms contributing cash were:

(Bauer): Atlas Lumber Co., Bohnhoff Lumber Co., Coast Planing Mill, Davidson Plywood & Lumber Co., Wall Dry Kiln Co., D.C. Essley, Fleming & Hightower Lumber Co., F. L. Jordan Sash & Door Co., John W. Koehl & Son, Los Angeles Millwork Co., Long-Bell Lumber Co., Los-Cal Lumber Co., Robert S. Osgood, Pacific Wood Products Co., Pine Box & Lumber Co., Ryness-Smith Co., E. J. Stanton & Son, Simmons Hardwood Lumber Co., Southwest Sash & Door Co., United States Plywood Corp., Weyerhaeuser Timber Co.;

(Clough): Dant & Russell Sales Co., Pacific Forest Products, Inc., A. L. Hoover Co., J. W. Fitzpatrick, Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., Far West Fir Sales Co., Roy Forest Products Co., Clough, Lumber Co., Neiman-Reed Lumber & Supply Co., Hobbs Wall Lumber Co.;

(Lember): The California Lumber Merchant, Western Mill & Lumber Co., Marquart-Wolfe Lumber Co., Los Angeles Dry Kiln & Storage Co., D. C. Essley & Son, Fern Trucking Co., McCoy Planing Mill, Holmes Eureka Lumber Co., Tarter, Webster & Johnson, South Bay Lumber Co., Sierra Redwood Co., pine Ridge Lumber Co., Twin City Lumber Co.

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Eqton-Young Lumber Co. OPens Colifornio Office or Kentfield

Eaton-Young Lumber Co. of Denver, Colorado, announces the opening of a sales office in Kentfield, California, with Fred C. Talbot, Jr., of Kentfield in charge. The new offices are located at 94I Sir Francis Drake Blvd.

The new wholesale offices will service California retailers with regular lumberyard items, industrial lumber, hardwoods and softwoods from the Paciftc Northwest, eastern Ijnited States, South America and the Far East. In addition to the Kentfield office, Eaton-Young Lumber Company also maintains West Coast headquarters at Eugene, Oregon, and a sales office at Tucson, Arrzona.

Talbot recently went to Kentfield after six months in Washington, D.C., as lumber representative for the Forest Products Division, Business and Defense Services Administration, Department of Commerce' Prior to that, he had been 16 ycars in New York, Seattle and Portland, rvith the steamship and lumber firm nf Pope & Talbot, Inc.

Hess Lumber Co. Written UP

The Hess Lumber Company of Redwood City, Calif', was the subject of a recent pictorial feature in the Menlo Park Recorder & Gazette. The yard is orvned by Philip H' Hess, who has been in the lumber business 18 years' The article said that Hess's hobbies include big-game hunting, breeding of Arabian horses and cattle-raising, with fishing a prime vacation enjoyment. The yard sends its trucks into Nevada, Arizona, Wyoming and Utah, with heavy hauling a specialty of the yard.

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PERSONAT SERVICE ON HARD-IO.GET ITEIVIS IITIBERS TO FIFIY-FOOT TENGIHS

Represenling Oceon View lumber Co. El Dorodo Foresl Products Co.

New grooved plywood ponel simulotes solid wood plonking, yet is eosier lo opply. iluch lower in cost. ln,Blonde or Red Philippine Mohogony (sliced ribbon groin or 'roiory cutl, ldoho Knotty Pine ond Americon Birch.

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Bill Bonnell, plrrtrrer in llorrnell-W:rrd & Knapp. San l-ranciscr.r, u'as passing' out the cigars agair-r at Jim Gartin's Lhristmas partv in San Ilateo I)ccember 12. It seenrs Bill has snrr-ir-ed the birth of a seccinrl child anrl is cloing fineas is NTrs. B. and balrv Linda Louise.

Ethel Clauss, fornrerly u,ith the W. J. llailcy Ct_r., San I)iego construction c()ncertl, is nou. "girl Iiridav" for George Clough at the l-os ^\ngeles n'holesale concern.

Ken Rose, head man at Superior l-rrmbcr Sales Co., S:rcral.nento. spent a recent n'eek in Scattle n.ith ltrrsincss connections.

Ilorace Wolfe retnrnecl last niontl.r from :r I'isit to Califrirrria ancl Northn'est nrills. lIe heacls the -\'farquart-\\iolfc u'holesale lrrmber firm ir-r I{oll_vrvoorl.

Bill Frese, Conifer ],umber Saies, Sacritlrrent(). \\'as ()1re of the 3200 civilian observers in the U.S. n'ho u'ere flon-n to Irlgin ;\FLl in Florida reccntlv for a clcnronstrution oi aircr:rit firepou-er. He reports the group spcnt :L u.cek lLt the lr:tse an<1 r.ietvcrl latest rler.elopmcnts.

Jerry Clough spent his recent r-:rc:rtior.r fron-r the t.lough I-untbcr Co. painting4. When thc Cl-II man lrskerl rluestions, it clevelopecl Jcrrv plLintecl thc corrrplrnv truck (shoulcl h:tve lrecn :r time-an(l-a-half 1ra,r' situatiorr, Jerrv).

Ke,n Bowes rLnd Chuck Leveque of \\-inton I-urnbcr Sales (-o., Sacra.merrto, sltcnt zi I)ccentlrer rr-ee'l< at nril1 c()llltections in northern Calilornia. I-er.c11ne has just lreen tnursferred to I:[oustor-r, 'l'cxas. l']iere lrc u'i11 rcl)rescnt \\iinton irr the sorrth.

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Film on Lumber Pockcrging Avqiloble for Showing

"Packaging of Lumber for Shipping and Storage" is the theme of a new film produced by the American Sisalkraft Corporation. It deals with the various methods employed by lumber mills, wholesalers and dealers in cutting costs in the shipping and storing of lumber. With the high cost of shipping and handling lumber, lumber interests ate attempting to increase the use of mechanization in their operations.

One way, as the film shows, is by the use of reenforced waterproof paper for shipping and storing, permitting the utilization of open storage areas and the use of open railroad car equipment. The film shows the complete operation for packaging, loading and storing of lumber. A booklet describing the packaging operation in detail is also available at no charge.

Arrangements for booking a print of the film or obtaining a copy of the booklet can be made by writing American Sisalkraft Corporation, Sales Promotion Department, Attleboro, Massachusetts.

4l6rh Forestry Conference Held

The 46th Annual Forestry Conference of the Western Forestry and Conservation Association was held at the Multnomah hotel, Portland, on December 7, 8 and 9 with the theme, "Progress of Forestry in the West," according to Emmit Aston of Omak, Washington, president of the association. Principal speakers were Governor Paul L. Patterson of Oregon, The Honorable Ervin L' Peterson,

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Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, and A. D. Nutting, Forest Commissioner of Maine and president, Association of State Foresters. Some 600 representatives of forest industries, protection and management from the Western United States and Canada attended.

Foresf Products Reseorch Society

Tour Fibreboord Plqnt qt Antioch

Forty-five members of the Forest Products Research Society gathered at the huge Fibreboard Products Company Antioch plant on October 28 f.or a conducted tour of its mammoth facilities. The group was shown the complete evolution of paper, from the log on, various experiments utilizing the forgotten wood-eucalyptus-in the manufacture of paper, the entirely mechanical assenibly of various types of paper cartons, and one of the world's largest hydraulic log barkers in operation.

Following the tour, the members met at the El Rio Rancho hotel in Antioch fora dinner meeting. Afterdinner speakers for the occasion were W. B. Lindberg, superintendent of wood procurement, F'ibreboard Products Company, and Robert J. Seidl, Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, 'Wis. Lindberg gave an interesting talk on the "Economics of Waste Wood Utilization" pertaining to waste and chips from sawmill slabs. Seidl presented a thought-provoking paper entitled "Development of New Uses for Paper Modified Properties." He also outlined many of the various experiments that the Forest Products Laboratory is currently running in an. effort to increase lumber's place in modern construction.

Old Growth Fir and Hemlock And Atl Other Pacific Coast Species Available In Volume

U; S. Plywood Corp. Completes New Sqnto Clqrq Offices 1r for Better Service

Jack Kaefer, manager of U.S. Plywood Corporation at San Francisco, announces completion of office facilities at the firm's ne'rv Santa Clara branch warehouse. The attractive new offices, which occupy approximately 2,000 sq. ft. in the nerv 16,00Gsq. ft. structure, incorporate a variety of new interior furnishing ideas utilizing plywood paneling at its best. The nerv branch rvarehouse is located at 570 Martin Avenue, where the phone nttmber is CHerry 3-5286.

The Santa Clara operation stocks a full line of U.S. Plywood Corporation products and is under the managership of Baker Lee, for the past six years a sales representative for U.S. Plywood in Los Angeles. Lee is assisted by Joe Graff, who had been rvith U.S. Plywood at San Francisco for the last 13 years. In addi-

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Harold Simmons, of the Simmons Hardwood Lumber Co.. Los Angeles, will return next month from the McClure Inspection Training School operated by the National Hardwood Lumber Assn. at Memphis, Tenn. He has been attending the fall term since last September and is expected to take his place now in the firm owned and operated by his father, Sid Simmons, working in every department.,

Bob Nikkel and Harry Bremner of the R. F. Nikkel Lumber Co. returned to Sacramento headquarters December 12 after a week in Oregon visiting suppliers.

Don Bufkin and Jerry Essley, Los Angeles redwood salesmen, spent several days the last of December in San Francisco and northern California, during which they attended the big Christmas party at Willits given by Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., Bufkin's employer.

Ed LaFranchi and Bill Wray of Pacific Forest products, fnc., returned to Oakland hq. December 12 alter a swing through mill connections from Eureka to Grants pass.

Colin L. Campbell, general sales manager of Kaiser Gypsum Company, announced the following appointments in the company's sales department:

Donald G. Woodford as assistant to the general sales manag'er, with headquarters in the Oakland general offices; James W. Hum as sales representative in the Southern California territory succeeding Woodford; Harry Kimbell, as sales representative in the Southem California territory, and Clark Galloway, sales representative in the Northern California territory, with headquarters in Redding.

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C. L. Anderson Generol Monoger Of long-Bell Vernonio Division

C. L. "Connie" Anderson was advanced November 1 to the position of general manager of the Vernonia division of The Long-Bell Lumber ComPany.

Anderson was born in 1894 in Kansas City, Mo. In 1923 he brought his family west with the intention of working for the Oregon-American Lumber Company; however, as that concern had not yet begun operations, he found employment with the Inman-Poulsen Lumber Company, Portland, Oregon, where he first became acquainted with lumber. He went to Vernonia in 1924, when the Oregon-American Lumber Cornpany began operations.

During the depression years Anderson was employed by the Copeland Lumber Company at its yards in Portland, McMinnville, and Eugene, Oregon. When Oregon-American was reorganized as the Oregon-American Lumber Corporation and resumed operations in 1936, he returned to Vernonia and held the position of mill superintendent until May 7947, when he was promoted to general manager upon the retirement of F. R. Olin from the presidency and the succession of Judd Greenman to that office. Later that same year, Anderson was appointed vice-president and general manager and became a member of the board of directors.

When I-ong-Bell purchased the Oregon-American property in May 1953, Anderson was made assistant general mon?ger; He has held this position until his promotion to general manager, succeeding Judd Greenman, who retired November 1.

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"Gronddoddy" Ccrrrier Srill Going Strong ot George Windeler Co., Lfd.

What is believed to be the oldest carrier still in operation in Northern California is still paying its way at the big tank, cooling tower and millwork plant of ,George Windeler Co., Ltd., San Francisco.

The venerable ancient, which has been in operation at the Windeler plant since 1940, is a L925 Ross Carrier, Model 11B, with a carrying capacity of 14,000 lbs. (right, above). Prior to joining the Windeler family, it had been "earning its gasoline" with Gamerston & Green Lumber Company.

Although the Windeler Company probably has this oldest carrier still in operation, it also has one of the newest. Just a few months ago, the Windeler Company added a brand new 1955 Clark Ross Carrier with a 10-ton carrying capacity to its lumber handling fleet (left, above).

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Another yeor hos gone, ond I'd be on ingrole if I did not try lo show my oppreciolion. frle--o ;6ns w6lf-:vith sqles of over q hqlf-million dollors, qnd lhe credil hqs to go lo iust two sources: The BEST, Iylo$ LoyAt FRTENDS on eqrth qird hqrd-hitfing, conscientious suppliers. Without my cuslomer friends ond suppliers, I'd be iust onolher olso-rqn. lf o reprobole's proyers qre eyel onswered, you won'l be sorry. God bless All of you. Hqppy New yeor! Tulare Countl'

Smoll Homes Gouncil Course to Show New Pcrtitions, Floor Pqnels Designs

Urbana-Champaign, Ill.-Continuing its work in developing houses made from pre-assembled parts instead of from pieces of lumber, the University of Illinois Small Homes Council will present new designs for partition and floor panels at its eleventh annual Short Course in Residential Construction, Jan. l8-19.

The partition and floor panels, like the council's wall panels developed two years ago, are adaptable to any house using dimensions which are multiples of four inches. With roof trusses and panels for walls, floors and partitions, house erection can be an efficient assembly operation within the scope of any builder.

The short course program, centered around research work of the council during the past year, will also include presentation of several new designs for nail-glued roof trusses. The traditional question-and-answer periods on previously reported research will be concerned with kitchens, insulation, vapor barriers, and wall panels.

Registrations for the short course are now being accepted by the Division of University Extension. The $15 registration fee includes the dinner, publications which will be distributed as part of the course, and the field trip. Registrations and checks should be sent to the Supervisor of Engineering Extension, Room 116d, Illini Hall,725 S. Wright St., Champaign., Ill.

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Gol Distriburing Gompony Moves to Lorger L. A. Wqrehouse Focility

To take care of expansion and offer its customers a more central location adjacent to freeways in the central industrial district, the Cal Distributing Company, Los Angeles, has established new headquarters at 830 E. Commercial St.

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"Our new warehouse and offices are much larger and, we hope, more convenient for all our customers. During our steady growth we have been alert to efificient operation and believe we are in a better position to offer this type of service," said Bruce Hoffine.

Cal Distributing Cornpany is the California and Nevada distributor of Sun-Sash Louvred Windows and allied building products. The new phone number is MAdison 6-4555.

Kelley Estoblishes New Offices

Al Kelley, owner of the Alameda wholesale lumber concern bearing his name, recently moved his business into larger offices at 2125 Santa Clara Avenue, Alameda. The mailing address is P.O. Box240; the phone remains LAkehurst 2-2754.

Kelley, a good Irish name well known throughout the California and Oregon lumber industry, is a Medford Corporation representative, and for many years has been servicing Northern California retail yards with redwood, Douglas fir, red cedar shingles and ponderosa and sugar pine lumber.

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Richord Thompson, Jr.

Richard Thompson, 1r.,45, Los Angeles salesmanager for Consolidated Lumber Company for the past nine years, died November 21. He was a native Californian and widely known throughout the lumber and building industry of the southland. Prior to entering the wood products field, he had been in the gas industry. He leaves his wife and three children of Manhattan Beach.

Bert Chopmon

Bert Chapman died recently in a Los Angeles sanitarium where he had been a patient the past two years. He was a popular figure in the Los Angeles building materials field and was employed by the San Pedro Lumber Co. for about

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20 years in the San Pedro office and later in the Los Angeles office. He rvas believed to be about 70 years old.

Horry G. Hqoke

Harry George Haake, 61, vice-president and west coast manager of Ceco Steel Products Corp., died December 2 at Good Samaritan hospital in Los Angeles after a short illness. A Los Angeles re sident 35 years, his home was in San Marino. Mr. Haake was a past president of L. A. Rotary

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Mrs. D. J. Cohill

Mrs. Honora Cahill, 85, r'r'idorv of D. J. Cahill, veteran late Los Angeles lumberman, died December 6 at her home there. Born in Kansas City, Mo., she married Dennis J. Cahill in Denver in 1906. She was active in many civic and cultural organizations and was decorated in 1950 by Pope Pius XII for her philanthropies and contributions to educational institutions.

fVlrs. Glodys Hill

Mrs. Gladys May Hill,63, president of the Southern California Sash & Door Co. of El Monte, died December 12 at Exposition hospital. She rvas a southland resident 40 years and lived in Pasadena. She leaves two sons, Robert G. Hill of San Gabriel and Stanley A. Hill, Los Angeles.

Beniomin McGoll

Benjamin Franklin McCall, 73, retfted owner of the McCall Hardwood Flooring Co. of Los Angeles, died December 9. He had been a Los Angeles resident since 1906.

L. A. Green

Lloyd Andrew Green, 70, prominent Southern California real estate figure, died December 1 of a heart attack at his West Los Angeles home. He had lived there 48 years and was head of the Calstate Builders, Inc., and former general manag'er of Bundy and Albright, developers of Culver City and Sherman Oaks. He was a past president of the San Fernando Valley Chamber of Commerce.

Building Conlroctors

Major T. Mowry, 82, retired building contractor, died at his Los Angeles home November 26. William W. Piddington,85, southland resident for 55 years, died at his Los Angeles home November 27 . . . Howard L. Clark, 72, died December 3; he had been a California resident 34 years and lived in Venice .Maurice B. Opigez, 63, died December 12 at Glendale sanitarium after a short illness. He had been a resident 40 years and made his home in Los Angeles.

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WANT ADS

PIERPONT LUMBER COMPANY

927 Bransten Road, San Carlos, Calif.; Phone: LYtell 3-0416

WANTED

Lift Truck and Carrier SALESMAN wanted for large-capacity GERLINGER; largely local territory.

BURNABY and WILLIAMS

6102 Sepulveda Boulevard, Van Nuys, Calif. Phone: STate 5-6561

WANTEDFull-Charge, Reliable BOOKKEEPER

by Los Angeles millwork manufacturing concern. Should-.know Payroll, Inventory, Taxes, Profit and Loss, Pricing and Government Reports. Answers confidential.

Address Box C-2445. California Lumber Merchant

108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif'

INDUSTRIAL SALESMAN WANTED

By a Los Angeles wholesale hardwood distributing yard. Must have clientele and willing to work on a commission basis with a drawing account of $600 monthly, plus a good car allowance' One having these qualifications should well make twice his drawing account monthly. Replics confidential.

Address Box C-2427, California Lumber Merchant

10E West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.

WANTED_SALESMAN

Wholesale lumber firm wants salesman interested in commission, expense account and percentage of profits. Opportunity excellent for future with Los Angeles organization selling West Coast Pine, Douglas Fir, Spruce and Redwood.

Address Box C-2440, California Lumber Merchant

l0B West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SALES

All west coast species lumber, plywood and specialties offered. Ex.clusive representation of reputable producer desired on commission basis.

Address Box C-2443, California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.

l'm Looking for on HONEST Seqttle Broker or Wholesqler

An industrial salesman in Southern California (but selling throughout the entire state) rvould like affiliation with an honest broker whose connections include Alaskan Yellow Cedar, Western Red Cedar, and the usual Douglas Fir and Hemlock offerings. I am NOT interested in any fly-by-night organization and can GUARANTEE Accounts with the finest of Credit.

Please-

Address Box C-2441, California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.

Ncmes of Adverlisers in this Deportment using o blind oddress connot be divulged. All inquirier ond replier should be oddressed to key shown in the qdverliremenf

SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY LUMBERMAN

Currently operating retail lumber business, would like (MUST) to move to Coastal region or Northern California. Can offer 35 years experience in all phases of the industry, including sawmill, wholesale and retail experience.

Address Box C-2439. California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.

AVAILABLE

Thoroughly experienced softwood and hardwood lumber and ply.wood m1n. Salts, sales management, executive duties, purchasing, credits. High integrity, dependable, progressive ideas.

Address Box C-2444. California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif'

WILL INVEST

Experienced lumberman with excellent distribution connections will invest for part ownership in good sawmill with timber' Will exchange references.

Address Box C-2317, California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.

MAKE MORE MONEY ! LEARN ESTIMATING I

Read blueprints and figure ,materials and labor. Learn at home in your spare time. Complete course available at unheard-of low price. Send for free information now!

HOME BUILDERS SCHOOL OF ESTIMATING

P. O. Box 912 San Jose, Calif.

RETAIL LUMBER YARD FOR SALE

Including hardware and equipment in the eastside Los Angeles industrial district. Property and buildings for lease or sale, PRICED RIGHT FOR A QUICK SALE. Call or write:

LEE F. MILLER, Broker

8111 Long Beach Boulevard, Huntington Park, California Phone: LUdlow 7-6474

FINE LUMBERYARDS FOR SALE

WE have some fine lumberyards for sale and will be glad to give you full information . Call us if you want up-to-the-minute listings or refer to our ads in any of the recent issues of this magazine. If YOU want to sell YOUR yard, give us a ring and we'll go right to work on it. AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL.

T\ll/OHY LUMBER CO.-Lumberyard and Sawmill Brokers 714 \JV. Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles 15, Calif., Rlchmond 9-8746

HELLO, GRANDMA!I

Here's the spot to semi-retire and still do business. A Deluxe home for couple, air-co,nditioned, forced air heat, wood paneling, huge living-dining room area with raised hearth fireplace, dream tiled kitchen, garbage disposal, master bedroom with dressing room and tiled bath; den or Znd bedroom (or office) with half bath; walled front patio, camellias & other plants.

BUSINESS LOCATION: Co,mmercial Lcre-2 sheds-7%-horse DeWalt Combination saw, small house for in-law or employe, has kitchen, full bathroom, all tiled & furnished.

Center of San Gabriel Vallen adjoining Arcadia, near Santa Anita Racetrack. Could be ideal for wholesale shingles, Redwood, fir, etc., or retail lumber, roofing, etc. (pre-cut & pre-fab). Price $29,50O, Reasonable down payment and terms.

O\VNER will finance. Write or phone for appt. OWNER, 5646 McCulloch, Temple City, Calif. Phone: DOuglas 7-f301.

FOR SALE

Owner wishes to retire and must sell four (4) Retail Lumber Yards FOR COST OF INVENTORY (approx. $90,000). Three yards are more than 90 miles from Loe Angeles, doing $600,m0 per year with $48,000 profit for 1955, and never earned less than $30,000, Owner will carry equipment, buildings and la4d on a ten or more years contract to suit buyer. May take IMMETDIATE POSSESSION after January 1, 1956.

Addrese Box C-2442, California Lumber Merchant

108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.

FOR SALE_ESTABLISHED BUILDING SUPPLY BUSINESS

Located in one of the fastest growing areas anywhere. 610 miles frorn Los Angeles, Calif. On main boulevard, in town of 16,0{X) oooulation. Ample buildings, approx. 10,000 sq. ft. under roof. Y&rly gro6s ov;r $100,000; high net profits. Prefer to sell land' inven[ory, equipment and business on one deal. $30,(X)0 cash required. Booki open to principals only.

Address Box C-2306, California Lumber Merchant

108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14' Calif.

WANTED

Anyone lnowing who buys Eucalyptus (GUM)' Black Walnut and other Species for export, will you please contact:

FRED J. ASH

' 1211 Castroville Blvd. Salinas, Calif.

COMPLETE MILL-ALL READY TO GO SAWMILL FOR SALE. Total price-property and all-ONLY S15.000. Includinc 5 acres of land on the R. R. Cornplete head rig and carriagc powired by 145-tr"p. gasoline engine. Electric set workg and air d6es. Pond and log slip. Edgcr run by separate 145-h.p. gasolinc enline. Engines in perfect condition. Conveyor, good 5Gft. burner, sorting chain.

Contact: STAN JANTZER (Phone: 99Rlf) Route 3, Box 3456, Arcata, California

WANTED_FORK

LIFT

Not too old Hyster 150 Fork-Lift. We have old model to trade or sell.

HOME LUMBER COMPANY

1206 East "$il"":"'l?.8: Bernardino, Calif.

F'OR SALE

Hyster Carrier, 15,000-pound capacity, 1943 model in excellent condition, $2,000. May be seen at our Yard.

MODESTO BUILDERS'SUPPLY CO., INC.

601 South 99, Jtdrodesto, Calif.

FOR SALE

Gerlinser Lift Truck, 8-ton capacity' 1952 model, 64" forks, ofiset carriag:e. Good condition: $6,250.

TROPICAL & WESTERN LUMBER CO.

4334 Exchange Ave., Los Angeles 58, Calif. Phone: LOsarL 8-2375

Townotor LVz..,10.000 lb. ep., rcbuilt ond guoronl.ld -----..............$2650 ,rg Ot.cqtn t cr tf.w sorprui Porlt lq AU nekc. and tedcts ol lo,klrlt

GERLINGER FORK-LIFT, l2,0OO lb. ccp.---..----.---.-.--..$3100

CoterplllorInlcrnctlonotle lourncou

TERIII!'

Lorqln - luckcyeEuclldNorlhwGrlclc. New 3-Ton Ghoin llclrfr Spur GcarcdlO fl. Ghoin Fcll..

MERil9%3A13.,*o

Filer & Stowell type design, 195f. AU steel package unit with complete sets of gear -motorJ and all air lifts on trangfer rolls, chaine ind drives. i4" infeed rolls, 36" outfecd. Infecd & outfeed each 44' long,98' overall. Can handle 75,0@ ft. Per day for remanufac' turing of cants. Is being used for sawing Clears into vertical grain Fir, Spruce, Cedar, etc. for minesweeper program. Excellent for making siding strips in VG for Redwood or Cedar mill, also mfg. items is laddir stock, pole stock and spar & mast gradee, etc. -Can be seen in operation. Write for blueprint. Price, $18,750 nct, F.O.B; care Chicago, without resaw.

HUSS LUMBER COMPANY

1350 W. Fullerton Ave. Chicago 14' Illinois

FOR SALE-Two HYSTER

RT-150 LIFT TRUCKS; 7rl-ton Caoacity. Rebuilt with 90-day Warranty. Reaaonably priced.

One Willamettc CARRIER, standard size and good condition.

COMMERCIAL REPAIRS AND SERVICE

Itrs North Alameda Street, Compton" Calif.

Phones: NEwmark l-8269:' NEvada 6-4805

B UY-SELL-REPAIR-SERVICT

Fork Lifts and Straddlc Truckg. Complete shop and field scrvice. PortableWelding, Spccial Fabrication,Steam Cleaning and Patnting. Service Available 7 Days a Week. All work guarantecd.

COMMERCIAL REPAIRS AND SERVICE

l1l5 North Alamcda Strcct, Compton, Cdif.

Phones: NEwmart l-8269, NEvada 6-,f80tt

FOR SALE

21' Chris-Craft Express Cruiser. Fully equipped and completcly refinished. All extras. Priced for quick sale.

Call DON at Klmberly 2-359\ Los Angeles

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PONDEROSA PINE SUGAR PINE

WANT ADS FOR SALE

Foresrhill, Colifornio

How Lumber looks

Eucalyptus (GUtVtl Logs suitable for plywood. Eucalyptus pilinganything in Eucalyptus. Railroad ties, Pine, Redwood, Eucalyptus on order only. Also sawed posts. Address all communications to Fred J. Ash.

FRED ASH & SONS-Forest Products

1211 Castroville Blvd. Salinas, Calif.

"Gipo" LUMBER

Artoto Redwood Co.

Arrow llill Compony

Avrqm Lumber Co. .--.........-.---.-----.------..-.--71

Bock, J. Williom Co. --,,.......-...-..----...---.... i

Eorter & Co., J. H.

DOUGLAS FIR WHITE FIR

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week ended December 10: production, 18,052,000 feet ; shipments, 15,723,000 feet; orders, 17,138,000 feet. Production was 3.88/c above the 3-year average, while shipments were 9.52% and orders were 1.38/o below.

The Pacific Northwest Advisory Board, Portland, forecasts a 4,3/o increase in rail carloadings in the first quarter of 1956 compared with 1955. Predicted major increases include 2,030 additional cars to haul lumber and forest products, an increase of 1.4/o. Lumber and forest products, which account for 6l/o of the region's carloadings, will require l52,l2l carloads in the first quarter of this year, compared to 150,091 in 1955. Plywood shipments account for most of the gain, with a 6/o increase to 19,898 cars from 18,772 in the 1955 period.

ADVERTISERS INDEX

*Adyedising oppeors in qllernole irsuer

Fqirhurrt Iumber Co. of Cqlifornio -...--.-..14 Lumber Service Co. .........,.---,-.----.--.--....-..-. *

Fqr Worl Fir 5qler Co. --.,--.-........--.---.----.51 Lcmber Terminol, Inc. -.--.----.-..................-21

Fern Trucking Co. ----.----------,-----. 'l Lumber Wholesqlerr --------......---.-.-...,.....-.-.--41

Fidler'r ,rlqnufo(turing Co, .....---,,--,---.-..--.. * Lumbermen'r Credit A3rn,, Inc. --.-.......-...*

Fir-Tex .....-...-.-...- --...--.---*

Firk & Mqson ......--..--..49 M&D Dirploy llfg. Corp. ....--.-.......-...........-38

Founlqin, Cd Lumber Co. ---.--,.--.-.........---.. 3 liqcBeqlh Hqrdwood Compony ..-.--......-.-.--59

Forest Fiber Product! Co. ----.---,. Fordrf Product3 Sqles Co. ..-...---.

Frqemqn & Co., Stephen G. -.....

* Gqlleher Hqrdwood Co,

Belter Hm$ & Gqdens ---...-...........-.-...-. 't

Big lown Lumber, Inc. ....--..--..,.-..-.-........43

Elqck Dimond Co. ..........-............-.--.-.....35

Blirs E Goter lunber Co...-..-..-......---,---.-.. *

Bluc Diomond Corporolion -....-.....-..-..--....- |

Bohnhofi Lcmbcr Co. ..-.-.-.-.----,------.-.-.....-.63

Bonnell-Word & Knopp -....-....-.-.....-...--.-.--.65

BonninElon Lumber Co, .---.,--,--...-.-....-.-.---60

Brewrler, Lyle a Atroclqtet .--,--..---.-----,--,,56

Erown Tfnber Co. .-.,-......-.-..--.,----..----.--.-.32

Bruce Co., E. [. .-..--.-----.-..-----.,-.---.----,..,-.- I

Brurh lndurlrlol Lumber Co. .-.---..,.-...--..----45

-.-.--. * ,ilqcDonqld Co., L. W. --...-.-.......-..-...........48 ....-.-.58 rilqnning-ililchell Point Co. ..,..---.,...........* ..--..-- * lloplq Bror. ..,....-...,......17 ,ilqrquort-Wolfe Lumber Co. --.....-.,.--.----.... * .--.--.. ; liqrh Woll P.odu<tr, Inc. .--..-.-------..,.---.-*

Gmerrlon & Green Lumber Co. ---,--.-..-...7O ,ilqrtin Broi. Box Co.....--....--.-........-.-......... *

Generol Electric -----------------------.----.---..--.... * liortin Pllruood Co. ....-..-...........-......------,-55

Gerfinger Cqrrier Co. --..---.-------..--.--------.----.57 llqrtiner Co. 1,. W. .-...-.....-.....-..,-...---.---.:*

Gelz Broi. & Co. .-,,.--..-....-.- l Alo:on Supplia. Inc. .-....,.---,---..-----.--------.--42

Golden Gqte Lumber Co, :l l qlonile Corporqlion ---...-....-....-.-....-.......:*

Gos:lin-Hording Lumber Co. * llqthir-Jenrwold Hordwoods, Inc. ---.-..-...-66

Greqt Bqy Lumber Soles * llccloud lumber Co. --....-.-.-,-,-.-.-.-------.---,-* lYlclntorh Lmber Co. ---------,------------------.----.51

Holey Bror. ................--..56 lleier, He.b Lmber Co. -,-,-..-,-,,--.,-----------,68

Holl Co., Jmes L. ---.........--......--.-.-.....-.-.--.69 ,ilengel Co., the .-,.----------------.---.....,....--,,..-. *

Hoffinm i{ockin Iumber Co., lnc. .--...---...42 Miller, Geo. Lumber Co. ---.------------.----.--.--. :*

Hqmond Lumber Co. -.-..-.........---.-------,---.. * liiilwork ilqri, Inr. -,---------- -...-.--__.---,,----..,*

Horbor Lumber Co., Inc, --...,.-......----..---.-.61 iloore Dry Kiln Co. ..-.--..--..--,,----.-..---..--.----33

S & 5 lunber Compony ---.--------.-..-.......-..51

Sqn Frqncirco Glor Co. ..,..-..-.-...-.-.,.-------*

Sonford-Lvrier, Inc. -,--..,-,,---,---,--..--..-....-.. *

Sontq Fe Lumber Co. .....--.....--.-.......-....--.-..15

Se.urily Royol Dot(h Pqint Mfg. Co. ----..4O

Shively, Alon A. -,----,,,-----.,----------.-----....*

Sierrq lunber & Plyrood, In(. .,,-..---.-.....-. *

Sierrq Nevodo Pine Co. .-------------......-.........67

Sierrq Redw@d Co. -......,....-------,,,-----.-----,-*

Simmon: Hqrdwood lumber Co. -,--.-..-...----13

Simpion Logging Co. -.-.--.---..,--..-----..---.----,t

5impron Redwood Co. ---.-.--------...........-..,.-.'3

5nith, Hermon A,,---.,,--.,,.-----.--.--......--......58

Smilh Lumber Co., Rolph L. -,---,------,.--.-43

5o-Col Building lloleriqI Co., In<. ....-.--29

Soufh Boy Lcmber Co, -....-........-..---,,---.,-.-49

Southern Cqlifornio Lumber Sqle: ..-.-..... 'l Southwest Plywood Corp. .....-..........-..-..-.58

Soulhwestern Portlqnd Cement Co, -.----.:l Stqhl Lumber Co. .--..---.---.....-..............---.-.53

Stqdord lcmber Co., Inc. ---.--.---.------....-..50

Slqnlon & Son, E. J. --..-------.....-............... :t

Slerlihg Indultrier, In<. --.-..--..-..--....-....-..-'t

Stewdrt Pfywood Co., O. W. .........-.-.....-57

Burnr Lumber Co, .--------.-----..........--------.---*

Horbor Plywood Corp. ol Ccliforniq 36, 37 Mount Whifney Lumber Co., ln<. ----._-_,---_-63 Horbor Pllrood Corp. of 5o. Cqlif. 36, 37 co|Di|h|bul|ngCo.."...--.......................'-....*Hoi5,[.

Cqfcverqr Cement Co. .-.....--.---_.----..--,-.-..-Zt Hedlund Iumber Sole:, In<. * New, Horold A. ..-.-......-.........._......-....-.-...69

Cqllforniq Builderr Suppty Co. ---.---.---..,..--50 Higginr tumber Co., J. E. -....-....-...--.--- ..50 Newqeirt, Jqme: W. --------------.--.-.--.---.-.-.-59

€ofiforniq Door Co. oi'1. A. -----..--_....-.--._ * Hill & ilorton, Inc. .....-.-.-.....--.--..........-...17 Nikkel, R. F. lember Co. ._--._.-................r*

Cqlifornio Lumber lqles

* Hobbr Woll Lumber Co. .-...--.....-..--.--...-.- 'l Norlhern Redwood Lumber Co. .--.--..-.-----*

Cqliforniq pqnel & Veneer ----...,,_,._,-_.-.._.-.lO

Stroble Icnber Co. ...........---,....--.----..-.-.-* Sun3et Floor Coveringr Co. ---.............-...-..-,1 Superior lmber Sqlcr Co. .-..-.----.....-.-..-. * Tocomq lunber Sqler, In<. ....39 lqube, Robert [,

U. S. Plywood Corp. ----.,-.-,...,...--..--..---------'l

U. 5, Wholerole Supply Co. ..........--.....-.-..

Vqn Oo3ting, Peter J, ......--.--.----.-..-...----,-.- rt

l. V. Wolker & 5on, In<. .....-.-........--...---.- 9

Worren Soulhwetl, Inc. .............--.-......-.....*

Woltr, Cdrl W. -,----.,-

Co.

Wert Coogt Foregt ProduGl3 Co. ..----.-.-..-. *

Werl Coo.t Iumbermen': A5tn.

W6!l Coogt 5creen Co. .-....--.-----------.---.----.

We3t Coolt Timber Prodc<tr Agen(y......

Western\Door & Sqsh Co,

We:lern Dry Kiln .-..-..-......-...,..-,,..,,--,,--......63

Weslern Hordboord Sqles Co. ........-.---....- 'l

Western t{ill & Lumber Co, ...........-.....-....,}

Weltern Mill & Moulding Co. .-.....-.-........63

Western Pine A33o(iotion ---.---.,,..,......-..--,,31

Wellern Pine 5upply Co. ......---.-.--.-.---.-..-. '*

Western Slole3 Plywood Corp. -..-.-.--.--.-.. l*

Weyerhoeurer Sqler Co. --..--..-.---............... :*

Wheelock, E. U., Inc. .....-.....-..-..............- i*

White Blotherr ......O.F.C, Windeler Co., Ltd., George .........-........-- lr,

Winton Lmber 5oler Co. ..--.--...-...--......-,--'*

Wood Converrion Co. ....----..--.--.---...--.-...-.. i*

Wood Iumber Co., E. K. ........................dS

Zeesmon Plywood Co, .........-....-...-.....O.B,C.

Ziel E Go., Inc.

BUYER'S GUIDE

Foirhursi Lumber Co. ol Colil. (Los Anqeles Lunber, Inc,).....MAdison 6-9134

Fcr Weat Fir Scles Co...........BRqdshqw 2-4353 (Bevorly Hills) .....Cnestview 5-6634

Fisk G Mason (So. Pcscdenc)....PYramid l-1197 SYccmore 9-1197

Foresl Producls Scles Co., (lnglewood) Plecscnt 3-ll4l

Fountqin, Ed., Lumber Co.... .....LOgcn 8-2331

Freemqn d Co., Stepben G. (Newport Becch) Ilatbor 2O24

Hcllincn Mcckin Lumber Co.......ANgelus 3-4161

Hcmmond Lunber Compony.....Rlcbmond 9-7t71

Hqrris, L. E. Lumber Co. .BRcdshcw 2-1023

Hill 6 Morton, lnc.. .. .BRcdshcw 2-4375 (Beverly HiUs) .CRestview 6-3164

Holmes Eurekc Lumber Co.........MUtuql 9l8l

Hobbs Wcll Lumber Co. (Alhcmbrc) ..ATlcutiq 2-5779

A. L. Hoover Co. (Scn Mcrino). s;;"1*: Il3?3

Kendcll Lunber Distribulors.....Richmoud 9-5341

Lcwrence-Philips Lumber Co, (Beverly Hilli) .BB-dshcw 2-4377

Lerreli Lumber Compcny. .....RAynond 3-{727

The Long-Bell Lumber Co. ........DUnkirk 7-1347

LOS ANGELES

L. Reitz Co,, Oceqa Center Bldg. (Long Becch) ...Long

Inc., Lunber

Div. .....LOgcn

Rov Foresl Producls Co. (Vcn Nuys) STcto 5-ll4l

S G S Lunber Conpcuy (Downey)..TQpcz l-Q7Q! LOqcn 8-6603

Alqn A. Shivolv (Glendqle) CHapmm 5-2081

Smith, Hermcn 4, ..... .CHqpncn 5-6145

Soul\ Bcv Lunber Co,. ..Osbome 6-2261 (Hcwthome) ..ORegoa 8-2268

Southern Colilornia Lumber Scles $iil1,o.Ir;-trr'

Stqndcrd Lumber Co., Inc. (Inslewood) ...'. .ORegon 8-21{l

Stcnton, E. I. E Son............ ADcms 4-9211

Tccomc Lumber Scles, Inc........MAdison 6-6831

Ttrrdy, Joe ......LUdlow l-0?78

Tcrler, Webslet d Johnson, Inc,....ANgElus 9-7231

Bobert L. Tqube (Long Beach). .HEmlock 2-7623

Tropiccl d Western Lumber Co. .LOgaa 8-2375

Twir Hqrbors tr umber Co. (C. P. Henry d Co.) .Rlchmond 9-6524

Wendling-Ncthon Co. . ....RYo l-9321

SYccmore 5-4349

Western Mill 6 Lumber Co,.......ANgelus 2-4148

Weyerhceuser Scles Co..........Rlchmoud 8-618I

E. U, Wheelock, Inc. .. .Mlchigan 2137

White Lumber Co., Hcrry H......Rlchnond 8-5309

Winton Lumber Soles Co.........A!{qelus 3-6951

E. K. Wood Lumber Co. (Whittier) ....BAymoud 3-{801-OXIord 4-7t183

CRESOTED I,UMEEN_POLES_PILINCI_TIES

Bcxter, J, H. 6 Co.. ....DUnkirk 8-9591

Koooers Compqnv Inc. .......MAdison 6-5818