The California Lumber Merchant - January 1938

Paul Bunyan ATEVER SELLS SHORT

According to History* Paul Bunyan accomplished wonders by his etrength, resourcefulnees and confidence. FIe was alwayc at his bect w\en the going wae tough and his outstanding asset was his confidence.

The spirit of this genid myth has for many years been associreted with the pohcy and operation of The Red River Lumber Company. A plant and an organization have been developed to give the trade a divcrgified line of pine products, uniform in quality and avaiLeble the year round. For oyet a thltd ol a centuty contlnuous year round. production has never stopped.

Like PauI Bunyan, Red River has never sold the lumber industry ehort. Confidence in the long pull upcurve of demand and confdence in the continued acceptalrce of trPaul Bunyantatt products have inspired continuous efrort to merit the good will of the trade.

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D. W. TEACHOUT IN EAST ON BUSINESS TRIP

David W. Teachout, president of the Bassett-Teachout Company, Los Angeles, is in the East to attend the annual meetings of the Teachout Sash, Door & Glass Co. of Detroit, Mich., and Columbus, Ohio, of which firms he is also president. He will return to Los Angeles about February 1. Bassett-Teachout Company are wholesale distributors of Fir and Rezo hardwood doors. They have the exclusive distribution in Southern California for the Rezo hardwood door, manufactured by The Paine Lumber Company of Oshkosh, Wis. James E. Bassett, member of the firm, was formerly vice-president of The Paine Lumber Company and was with this concern for 34 years' resigning in 1934 to come to Southern California to enter business. The company recently moved into their new offices and warehouse at 767 East Washington Boulevard.

BUYS WHOLESALE LUMBER DEPARTMENT

James M. Fleishman having purchased the wholesale lumber department of the J. A. Irwin Company, Portland, Ore., announces his continuance in business as the Fleishman Lumber Co. Mr. Fleishman was a former partner of the J. A. Irwin CompanY.

BUGLEY.HERTELL

rMarguerite Hertell, daughter of Police Captain and Mrs' Charles Hertell of San Jose, and Joseph Bugley were married at Reno on December 19. Mr. Bugley was formerly with the McElroy-Cheim Lumber Co. in San Jose, and is now with The Red River Lumber Company at Westwood'

BUILDS WOODEN OIL PIPE RACK

A wooden rack for storing pipe while oil wells are being drilled has been developed by Connector Construction Co., of Houston, Texas.

Timbers used in the rack are treated against decay and termites by impregnation with Wolman Salts.

CONGRATULATIONS

Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Geib are receiving congratulations on the birth of a daughter, Gretchen Louise, December 31. Mr. Geib is president of the Geib Lumber Company, Huntington Park.

EXPOSITION WILL USE LARGE AMOUNT OF LUMBER

The Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, now building for 1939, will use about 30,000,000 board feet of lumber.

NEW PLYWOOD PLANT AT KLAMATH FALLS

The factory building of the new plywood plant of Western Pines Plywood, Klamath Falls, Ore., has been completed and the machinery is now being installed. The plant will manufacture Ponderosa Pine plywood and will be in production soon.

H. J. Nunneley is president and in charge of the Klamath Falls operations. J. L. McCarthy is vice-president; E. V. Russell, treasurer and managing director; F. M. DeNeffe, secretary; and V. J. Winkel, superintendent.

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How Lumber Looks

New orders booked by the lumber inclustry in the rveek ended January 1 excceded productiorl for the fourth consecutive week, according to reports to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association from regional associations covering the operations of important hardrvood and softwood mills.

Orders dropped below the previous rveeks and production also showed a decline. Shipments recorded a slight gain.

In the week, 505 mills produced 83,807,000 feet of hardrvoods and softwoods combined; orders bookecl totaled 134,145,000 feet; and shipments were 129,1O5,000 feet.

The West Coast Lum;.J""1 Association reports that production, orders and shipments for the r.veek ended Jantuary 1 were all extremely lolv, even for the end of the year.

Production reported m,524,862 feet by 177 down and operating mills was lower than in any Christmas or New Year's week since 1934. At the rate of cutting at the reporting mills, the entire industry produced 25.4 per cent of its average rveekly cut during |9ZGD.

The new business reported for the week by the 177 mills was 62,067,122 feet, and shipments were 63,319,200 feet. The unfilled order file at these mills stood at 277,019,591 feet. The Association reDorts the market outlook continues to be quiet.

The Western Pine O..i.ti,.i for the rveek ended Tannary 1, 119 rnills reporting, gave production as 17,774,0n feet; shipments 35,914,000 feet; ancl new business 45,6L3,000 feet. New business showed an increase of 5.455.000

feet over the previous week. Orders on hanrl at the end of the week totaled 134,215,000 feet. ***

The California Redwood Association for the week ended December 25, reported production of 13 mills as 5,609,000 feet; shipments 2,428,000 feet, and ne.iv business 3,187,000 feet. Week-end orclers .l hf"1 totaled 23,320,A00 ftet.

The Southern Pine Association for the rveek endecl lanuary 1, 96 mills reporting, gave production as 13,553,000 feet; shipments 17,453,000 feet; ancl nerv business 16,368,000 feet. New business was an increase of 9 per cent above the previous week.

Orders on hand at these mills at the end of the rveek totaled 48,330,000 feet, equivalent to 2,301 cars.

Seattle Dock Strike Settled

Seattle, Wash., Jan. 12, 1938.-The cargo handling dispute which closed this port Wednesday, January 5, was settled tonight. "The port will open tomorrow," said M. G. Ririgenberg, manager of the Seattle Waterfront Employers' Association.

"The longshoremen voted to return to rvork and the employers accepted the peace proposal suggested last night," Mr. Ringenberg said. He stated that cargo vessels which have been diverted to other ports since the tie-up started will resume their normal calls at Seattle.

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Vagabond Editorials

Bv Jack Dionne

1938 starts out like it might be a great year for buckpassing.

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Right now the air is being rent asunder 6y the buckpassing efrofts of a bewildered group of demagogues whofinding the nation in a sorry jam right in the face of their proud pronouncements that everything that happens is according to their planwre striving through the wrathful use of partisan polemics to prove now that they didn't really plan it after all. They now want to convince an intelligent people that the present depression was caused by the employers of the country deliberately and connivingly going on strike, just to discredit the Administration.

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Yes Sir ! All that these economic bunco steerers have the supernal gall to ask us to believe is that in order to spite the Messianic New Deal the business men of the United States are deliberately disemboweling themselves financialln maiming their organizations, starving their stockholders, and mutilating their working forces. /

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The feitow that thought up that alibi was in danger of bankrupting his imagination.

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Because it is now an open and shut fact that we find ourselves in a rather sharp depression. Lest you, gentle reader, are unschooled in the history of depressions, Iet us make clear tfie fact that sharp, unexpected, and often brief economic dips are not at all unusual in our history. This one could easily be very brief. It may be that we are already on the way out. I think we will soon know about that. ,1.+*

Since the new year opened there has been a strong effort at a back-to-work movement, and there are various signs of improvement over December conditions. Naturally, putting men to work artificially to make goods that are unsold, must be temporary unless REAL demand for the products develops. ,trt*

That bushy-browed John L. Lewis to the contrary, industry cannot operate just to keep men employed. There MUST of necessity be a market for their goods if the turning of wheels is to continue. The trouble is'that Washington is well populated today with men occupying positions of importance who arp as ignorant of the simplest rudiments and rules of business as a single-cell protoplasm on the

ocean bed is ignorant of the science of trigonometry. And the less they know, the more and louder they talk.

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As ttris is being written Congress is starting its long grind. ft is starting slow because the first thing up is the anti-lynching bill. This bill seeks to have and to hold the northern negro vote. The myriads of votes in Harlem and the Chicago Black Belt are its big advocates. The Southern representatives in Congress are using the filibuster to combat it, and it means that the Congressional grind will staft slowly. rr+*

And everything, Mr. Business Man, depends on Congress. If tfrere was ever any doubt in your mind about that, get rid of it. Business can look for help from no other source. Everything depends on what Congress does, and does NOT do. If the fears that hang like a dark cloud over business are to be allayed, Congress must allay them. If owners of capital are to be induced to put capital to work, it must be because Congress, by its very acts, convinces them that it is safe to do so.

It is true that the speeches of the President in the past week are more polite and controlled than the speeches of his accredited mouthpieces the week before that sent the country into such an uproar. ft is safe to conclude that his moderation was a result of the roar of disapproval of the words of Messrs. Ickes and Jackson that went up from all parts of this land, which even the thickest ear-mufis (and sometimes I think the President must wear the thickest ones on earth) could not keep out.

But not one word has been said as yet about helping business out of this jam; nothing of tax moderation, nothing of lightening burdens, just a passing remark that AI-L business men do not mean to be bad citizens. How generous ! And not one word did the President utter in repudiation of the insults ofrered business by the two poisonspreaders just mentioned. He simply said that they didn't mean "all business." ft must make the decent business men of this land feel very happy to know that that gentle and broad-gauged Mr. fckes does not think they are all badt

Congress is asked again to pass a wage and hour law.

And under present conditions such a law would be utterly destructive to the cause of employment. It would be damaging even were conditions good, but today, with employment in thousands of cases hanging by a thread, it would be terrific. The South will fight it, and will be assisted this time by other territories. Business has learned in the past year what control boards and bureaus mean,

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Compulsory control of agriculture is again asked. Compulsory control of anything in this country is wrong, and will back-fire. No practical man I have heard of is for compulsory control. And any crop control bill that does not include the power to bar from this country foreign farm products, is stupid. For each ton of farm stufr we abort, a ton of foreign farm stuff comes in. And we are not trying to help the foreign farmer. Or are we?

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We COULD have grand times in this country this year. All the SOUND forces are for prosperity. Only FEAR is in the way. Mr. Roosevelt talks to his press conferences as though only the big corporations and the newspapers of the country are against him. I have visited with more small business men in the past year-and had letters from almost countless others-than ever before in my life. They are mostly modest, average American business men; trying hard to get along, not economic royalists in any sense. And I can testify that every man with whom I have talked, and every man who has written me, is frightened stiff of present-day governmental policies, and was, even before the break came last Jrear.

The American business man of small caliber whom I meet, North, South, East, and West, is hoping and praying for the day to come when politics will get out of business, and when politicians will go back to politicking and let things alone that they cannot possibly understand and have no earthly business to monkey with. Politicians monkeying with normal laws and trying to run the world artificially are the cause of all our troubles.

Wendell L. Willkie ""rJ .rl" inu, a", that "the present need of this country is reassurance to investors that government will not be a destructive force."

An eastern man whose name I have forgotten but who was a big contributor to the Democratic campaign fund last election, uttered a great truth the other day. He said that all we need is for the government to "turn on the GREEN light."

If our government would just realize how scared ALL business men are today, and give them GENUINE reassurance, WE WOULD HAVE A BOOM BEFORE SPRING.

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New Home Construction in Los Angeles Large in 1937

1937 goes into the records as a very active home building year in Los Angeles. New single family dwellings number 6845 with a valuation of 926,695,159.

7453 permits totaling $30,125,102 were issued last year for single family homes, double dwellings, and apartment houses.

The new housing in Los Angeles during 1937 provides accommodations for more than 34,000 persons.

Also represented in the year's total of 33,i53 building permits with a valuation of $63,170,944, are t6,372 permits, aggregating $9,496,442, for alterations and additions.

Following is the record of Los Angeles building permits and permit-valuations with comparative figures for the years 1929 to 1937:

Jack Dionne to Speak at East Bay Club

Jack Dionne, publisher of The California Lumber Merchant, will speak at the dinner meeting of East Bay Hoo Hoo Club to be held at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, on Monday evening, lanuary 24.

Floyd Haas will give an illustrated talk on Death Valley. President lfenry M. Hink will preside.

JACK PARISH RETIRES

Jack Parish, superintendent of the E. K. Wood Lumber Co. yard at Los Ar"rgeles, retired on January 1 after being with the company for thirty-two years. Ffe went to work for the firm on February I, lqJ6, at their San Pedro yard. His fellow workers presented him with a Hamilton wrist watch, and Mrs. Parish was the recipient of a Seth Thomas chime clock. Mr. Parish has not announced his future plans.

REPRINTS JACK DIONNE'S EDITORIAL

1937 was the most active year in Los Angeles since 1928 in point of number of permits.

Chris Totten, Phoenix, Arizona, secretary-manager of the Arizona Retail Lumber and Builders' Supply Association, Inc., liked Jack Dionne's editorial, "A New Year Merchandising Sermon," that appeared in the January l, 1938, issue. He reprinted the editorial and sent it to the members of the Association.

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Just \(/onderin'

I Wonder when the New Year comes To rule this little globe of ours, If he'll destroy the noxious weeds And in their stead plant smiling flowers; And will he break the clanking chains From which we long have sought relief, And bid the troubled nations tread

The fair and fruitful paths of peace ?

I Wonder if during the coming months, the world of mankind will move forward into better, braver, and brighter pathways, or sink back into a state of barbarism from which it may take many years to emerge.

I Wonder how we, as individuals, shall face the frrtrrt'e upon that midnight peak of time between 1937 and 1938; how we shall greet the dawn of January first; how we strall walk out into the New Year, with what dreams and hopes, what lofty ideals and sturdy resolutions. Just what shall we do with twelve, new months-I wonder.

I Wonder if "The Task" by Robert Louis Stevenson contains splendid material with which to build New Year's resolutions-let's see.

"To be honest, to be kind, to earn a little and to spend a little less; to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary ancl not to be bitter; to keep a few friends but these without capitulation; above all, on the same grim conditions to keep friends with himself. Here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy."

A. Merriam Conner.

Receives Extortion Letters

San Francisco, December 31, 1937.-Federal men have not only thwarted an extortion plot but today had in custody an ex-convict who had spent months in planning a "perfect crime," G-men claim.

According to N. J. L. Pieper, director of the San Francisco Federal Bureau fo Investigation, G-men arrested William E. Schram, former San Quentin convict, as the author of three extortion letters, sent to Edward E. Yoder, resident manager of The Pacific Lumber Company, Scotia.

The letters, received by Mr. Yoder, December 18,27 and 29, demanded payment of $1000 under threats of personal injury and damage to property.

"This plan," the first letter said, "is the product of a person who has many months of thought behind it. Whereas you won't have one-tenth of the time to decide. All possible details such as fingerprints, time, strangers, marked money and a getaway have been worked out to perfection."

Schram, a former employe of The Pacific Lumber Company, before U. S. Commissioner Howard P. Noyes at Eureka today admitted having sent the extortion letters, and, charged with "violation of the extortion act," is being held for grand jury action.

SEES ROSE BOWL GAME

Henry M. Hink, vice-president of Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco, was in Southern California over New Year's and attended the California-Alabama football game at Pasadena.

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'rylrHo's wHo" A. C. (Art) Penberthy

A. C. (Art) Penberthy was born in Menominee, Michigan, in 1892, where he lived until he was seventeen years of age. Menominee, at that time, was one of the largest lumber producing areas in the United States, and these early days spent there formed the background for his first experiences in lumber.

After spending three years at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor he was taken with the spirit of "go West young man" and started out A. C. (Art) Penberrhy to make his way in the West.

After traveling the Pacific Coast in search of a location he finally decided on San Diego where he spent a year working for the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Company, and it was this experience which gave him his first knowledge of West Coast woods.

However, the spirit of wanderlust and adventure prevailed, taking him to Imperial Valley in 1913, where he and his brother, Paul, acquired a quarter section of desert land and began ranching with more enthusiasm than experience, as at that time neither of them knew how to hitch np a mule. Art can tell some funny and tragic stories about those early days.

This venture lasted for about nine years and proved successful, but ultimately the recession of farm prices following the war caused it to be given up for more fruitful fields.

After winding up his affairs in the Valley he came to Los Angeles. This was in the fall of 1922, where he again cast his lot with the lumber business, working successively for the Fred Golding Lumber Co., S. E. Slade Lumber Co., the Defiance Lumber Co., and finally was successful, with the help of a group of the Tacoma mills, in setting up a selling organization that is known today as the Tacoma Lumber Sales, of which he is the head.

Perhaps the most you can say for his stock in trade and worth is that through the years he has acquired a wife and four children, (three daughters and Art, Jr.), which son enough for the urge and necessity behind his drive.

Art's experiences and career have favored him with a wide acquaintance many friends the lumber industry where he has won and this broad experience and knowledge of the business makes him well qualified for the reputation and position he holds.

Under questioning, he says that the measure of his success he attributes: first, to the building of worthy confidence with the people he contacts; second, to the merit and knowledge of the products that he sells, which all lead up to what he calls "selling lumber along straightforward lines."

HARD\(/OOD WALLS

Dear Mr. Lumberman:

During the last couple of years our good customers, the people who build houses and live in them, have shown us that they liked the character marks that you and the grade book have always called the defects in lumber.

Almost all the new houses have a room or two in Knotty Pine. And your sales of White Pine have gone away up because your customers like this "defective lumber." Now Knotty Pine isn't the only lumber that has sound defects. Stanton's stocks a dozen different hardwoods in the common grade that make beautiful walls, something new for your customers.

Sooner or later the consumer interest in Knotty Pine is going to lag; Stanton's sells millions of feet of Knotty Pine each year, and has enjoyed the boom, but we must face this frankly. To fill in the gap, unless you want it filled in with plaster, you must sell other woods. Think about selling them Hardwood Commons, Knotty Walnut, Knotty Ash, and Knotty Birch.

Sincerely,

E. J. STANTON & SON Wholesale Lumber

& Alameda, Los Angeles

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He Knew The Dillerence

"Flambone," said Sambo, "whut am de diffunce 'tween a peedestrian an' a jay-walkeh ? Ah craves t' know whut am de diffunce. Yassuh !"

"Sambo," said Hambone, "you is talkin' to a man now

MEMBERS OF L. A. HARDWOOD INDUSTRY MEET

The regular monthly meeting of the members of the Los Angeles hardwood industry scheduled for the first Thursday in December, was postponed until Tuesday, December 21, at which time a Christmas party was held at the Jonathan Club. Frank Connolly arranged the affair and presided at the meeting follorving a luncheon. All enjoyed themselves and are looking forward to a satisfactory and prosperous 1938.

Those in attendance were: Clarence Bohnhoff, J. A. Brush, E. L. Bruce, J. M. Clugston, Frank Connolly, Les Forest, Arthur Harff, Roy James, W. B. Jones, Clint Laughlin, A. C. Pascoe, Al Pierce, John Rohr, James Ryan, Ed Slattery, Henry Swafford, C, R. Taenzer and H. H. Whiteside.

WILL HOLD ANNUAL MEETING AT SANTA BARBARA

The California Building-Loan League will hold its thirtythird annual convention in Santa Barbdra, May 19 to 21, according to an announcernent made by Secretary Neill Davis.

Sudden

whut can suttinly splanify de diffunce 'tween de two. Lissen at me close, Black Boy, an' Ah tells you plain, see?

A peedestrian am a pusson whut WALKS while you is WALKIN'. See? An' a jay-walkeh am a pusson whut WALKS while you is DRIVIN'. Yassuh!"

AWARDED BIG CONTRACT FOR CEDAR POLES

Benson Lumber Co., San Diego, has been awarded the contract for 7000 western red cedar poles to construct 600 miles of electrification line in the Imperial Valley for the All-American canal power system rural electrification administration project. It calls for an expenditure of $87,000.

Harry Whittemore, manager of the Benson Lumber Co., has received from M. J. Dowd, chief engineer and general superintendent of the project, official confirmation of the award of the contract by the board of directors of the Imperial irrigation district.

lv\/. E. COOPER ON TRIP TO MIDDLEWEST

W. E. Cooper, Hollywood, Calif., vice-president of the Caddo River Lumber Company, has left on a month's trip to the Middlewest, where he will spend a week at the company's sawmill operations in Arkansas, and then go on to the general offices of the firm at Kansas City for the meeting of the board of directors the latter part of the month. He will also attend the Southwestern Lumbermen's Association annual meeting at Kansas City on January 26-28.

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Noted Architect Designs New 1938 Curtis Woodwork ltems

Bose Bowl

Rooters at have for many Pasadena years sat on Port0rford Oedar

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JAMES L. HALL

Curtis Companies fncorporated, Clinton, Iowa, manufacturers of Curtis Woodwork, are now introducing their 1938 designs of new entrances, mantels, stairs, trim, and cabinets. All were designed by the well-known New York architect, Dwight James Baum.

"Never in our 72 years in the woodrvork business," declared a Curtis official, "have we had such a wide and beautiful line as offered in these new Baum designs. Advance showings to dealers, architects and builders brought the very highest commendations."

Some of the new doorways are pictured here. There is a wide selection in all architectural styles and to fit every pocketbook. There are entrances characteristic of the English Regency period, Eighteenth Century Colonial, Early Connecticut River Valley designs, Georgian, Colonial, Cape Cod, and English. These beautiful doorways are made in stock size to fit all types of rvall construction. Because of large-scale production, the costs are quite reasonableonly a fraction of what one of these fine doorways u,ould cost were it made to special detail.

A feature dealers and contractors like is the fact that for sorne of the new entrances some of the basic parts are interchangeable. This helps the dealer from the inventory standpoint and enables him to give a wider selection of styles.

Dwight James Baum, the architect-designer of these new Curtis designs, has planned and designed many of the finest homes in America. He welcomed the opportunity presented by Curtis to collaborate in making available really beautiful woodwork of good architectural detail at low cost. And now the modest cottage can have as fine a doorwal', designed by one of our foremost architects, as the stately mansion.

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High Altitude Red Cedar

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The fine, regular cell gtruclure ol high crltitude red cedcr cBBureB c ehingle thqt is even in texture, low in shrinkcge-in short, the perlect rool or gide wqll lor modern" comlortcble homes.

Explcrin to your cugtomerg tbe crdvcrntcges ol buying Snider Red Cedcr Shingles-the ecsy, quiclc wcy they cqn be lcid, the protection cnd ingulction vqlue, the smart cppecrcnce, the economy oI buying c roof thct will tcgt Ior mcny yecrsl

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New 1938 Curtir entrqnces, designed by Dwight Jcrmeg Bcum, tqmous New York architect.

Stresses Nation's Need for New Homes

Seattle, Wash., Dec. 31, 1937.-The report entitled, "The Housing Market," recently issued by the National Housing Committee, is the year's most informative statement of the nation's need for new homes, according to Seattle officials of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association. In a statement released today, the Association called attention to the main findings of the report and their relation to market prospects for the West Coast lumber industry in 1938.

The National Housing Committee, according to the Association statement, is an independent organization for economic research in the housing field. Chairman of the Committee is the Rt. Rev. Monsignor John A. Ryan, D.D. Private business, labor, foundations and government agencies are all represented on the board of consulting economists and statisticians.

"It is significant," the Association statement said, "that the findings of the committee headed by Monsignor Ryan and those of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce agree on the estimate that the nation's minimum new-home needs are from 475,000 to a half-million new units per year, and that both indicate the greatest need to be in the small-homes field. In 1933 the West Coast Lumbermen's Association launched a program for promoting the building of small homes costing $3,000 or less. The Association has maintained this policy throughout 1937 and will follow it in 1938."

Summarizing the findings of the National Housing Committee's report, the Association's statement brought out the following points.

1. Two million'new dwellings are required, according to the housing standards of 193O, to provide for the part of our population that is paying $30 or less per month for rent or rent equivalent.

2. From 1930 to 1937 an average of. 175,875 dwelling units per year were built in the 48 states. Of this number on\y D,195 units, or 16.6 per cent, cost $3,000 or less, 56,456,

or 32.I per cent, cost $3,000 to $5,000, n,224, or 51.3 per cent, cosf $5,000 or more. This means that 51.3 per cent of new homes for the past seven years was for the part of our population that pays $50 or more rent, or the equivalent of rent, for housing per month.

3. Since 1933 the number of families paying $50 or more per month rent or rent equivalent has decreased, while the number of families receiving incomes of $3,000 or more per year has increased, indicating a positive resistance in the upper income groups to paying the I9D proportion of income for rent or rent equivalent.

4. Based on housing needs and demands, for 1938 and ' 1939, each year's requirements are for approximately 485,000 new housing units. Of this number, the basic requirement for -the income groups paying $30 or less rent per month, is'for 321,000 new dwellings, or 66 per cent of ihe total.

5. If the shortage as shown in (1) were made up during the next two years (1938-1939) and added to the current needs as shown in (4), the annual market would be 1,500,000 units, of which only 1l per cent, or 165,000 units, would be available for rent or ownership at $30 or more per month.

"America is at last awake to the nation-wide need for an enormous amount of new housing costing $3,000 or less per unit," the Association's statement concluded. "To date public home-financing has hardly approached this field' It has been left to the efiorts of the lumber industry, building supply dealers, realtors and building contractors. The great obstacles were the antiquated home-financing restrictions that remained in force. If these are liberalized for 1938, the low-cost home building program that the lumber industry has been perfecting for four years should have nation-wide success. And this of course will mean more employment and more business for the people of the Douglas fir region."

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Laminated \food Walking Beams For Oil Fields

In the past few years laminated articles of wood have created valuable spots for themselves in the building world.

The accompanying illustrations show something wonderfully successful in wood lamination. Western Timber Structures, Inc., a subsidiary of the West Coast Lumbermen's.Association, makes "Westims" laminated wood walking beams for oil well use, and is building up a highly successful business with them. During the year 1937 they made and put into use many of these walking beams.

One of these illustrations shows a "Westims" walking beam made of laminated Douglas Firin operation at Bartholomae's Well No. 4, Brea Canyon Road, California, where oil is being pumped from a depth of 4113 feet through Zfu-inch tubing. The other illustration shows a "Westims" laminated Douglas Fir walking beam l4x24x 26 leet 0 inches being tested at the University of Washington. Its ultimate strength proved to be 98,000 pounds.

In 1937 Western Timber Structures also fabricated three 130-foot bolted timber oil derricks at their Wilmington plant, which derricks successfully drilled wells ranging from 3,600 to 7,500 feet in depth.

A. C. Horner is manager of Western Timber Structures, Inc., with offices at 85 Second Street, San Francisco. Their Southern California office is at 326 West Third Street, Los Angeles, and their plant at Wilmington,

Convention Dates

Ian. lS-Texas Mill Managers Association, Angelina ITotel, Lufkin. Monthly meeting'

18-2O-American Wood Preservers Association, Congress Hotel, Chicago.

1S-2O-Northwestern Lumbermen's Association, Minneapolis Municipal Auditorium, Minneapolis, I\{inn.

19-21-Middle Atlantic Lumbernren's, Associatiorr. Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, Philadelphia' Pa.

Z4-26-Mountain States Lumber Dealers' Association. Shirley-Savoy Hotel, Denver, Colo.

25-27-Northeastern Retail Lumbermen's Association, Hotel Pennsylvania, New York.

26-28-southwestern Lumbermen's Association, Auclitorium, Kansas City, Mo.

2- 4-Michigan Retail Lumber Dealers' Association, Hotel Statler, Detroit.

Feb. 2- 4-!owa Association of Lumber and Building Nfaterial Dealers. Des Moines Coliseum, Des Moines, Iowa.

Feb. 2- 4-Lumber Dealers'Association of Western Penrrsylvania, Fort Pitt Hotel, Pittsburgh, Pa'

Feb. 9-1l-Ohio Association of Retail Lumber Dealers, Deshler-Wallick Hotel, Columbus'

Feb. 12-Tennessee Lumber Millwork and Supply Dealers' Association, Nashville, Tenn'

Feb. 14-15-West Virginia Lumber and Buildi-rlS S-uWlV Dealers' Association, Huntington, \M' Va'

Feb. lS-I7-Wisconsin Retail Lumbermen's Association' Milwaukee.

Feb. 16-17-Western Retail Lumber Dealers' Association' Spokane, Wash.

Feb. 16-17-southwestern Iowa Retail Lumbermen's Association, Council Bluffs, Iowa'

Feb. 17-l8-Kentucky Lumber & Supply Association, Lexington, KY.

Feb. 22-23-North Dakota Retail Lumbermen's Association, Fargo, N. D.

Feb.23-25-Nebraska Lumber Merchants' Association' Omaha, Nebr.

Feb. 24-Zl-Virginia Building Material .Association' John Marshatt Hotel, Richmond, Va'

iVlar. 8- 9-South Dakota Retail Lumbermen's Association, Sioux Falls, S. D'

Mar. 24-New Jersey Lumbermen's Association' Robert Treat Hotel, Newark'

Apr. 2S-indianaHaidwoodLumbermen'sAssociation' ' IndianaPolis.

THE R. J. M. CO. MOVTNG TO NEW LOCATION

The R. 1.-ttt. Co., distributors to dealers of standard building commodities, are moving to their large new warehouse

ZSS-Z4S South Mission Road, Los Angeles' corner of East Third Street, and expect to be in their new quarters by JanuarY 25 at latest.

WAREHOUSE CAPACTTY DOUBLED

Announcement is made by Ryness Flooring Company tt ut tt "y have doubled their warehouse capacity at their pf "", .a -OOt+ tt't"finley Avenue' They are wholesale dealirc i" Harris and Perfection Brand oak and maple flooring, and intencl catering to the retail lumber yard trade'

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DAYS GONE FOREVER

Do you remember 'way back when, (say thirty, forty years); You never saw your sweetheart's limbs, But judged her by her ears?

The kids were washed each Saturday night; Their daddy cut their hair, Their suits were made from uncle's pants, And they wore no underwear?

The women padded, but didn't paint, Nor smoke, nor drink, nor vote, The men wore boots and li'l stiff hats, And whiskers like a goat. Not a soul had appendicitis, Nor thought of buying glands; The butcher gave his liver away, But charged you for his hands.

You didn't need a bank account, You never paid eight per cent; The hired girls got three bucks a week, And twelve bones paid the rent.

(From Roundhouse Tell Tale Railroad Council)

PERSONAL

One man was buying some meat in the butcher shop when another entered in a great hurry and rudely interrupted: "Give me some dog meat, quick," he said to the butcher. Then, turning to the other customer: "I hope you don't mind my cutting in?"

"Not at all," said the other, acidly. "Not if you're that hungry."

IT WAS NO NEWS TO HIM

The teacher of a class of youngsters was very much annoyed by a pupil who was studying with his mouth open.

"Frankie," she said, sharply, "your mouth is open."

"Yessum," said the boy, blandly, t'I know. I opened it myself."

WORK

Work is the foundation of all prosperity. Work is the fount of all business. Work is the parent of genius. Work is the sdt that gives life its savor. Work laid the foundations of every fortune in the world. Fools hate work; wise men love it. Work is represented in every loaf of bread that comes from the oven, in every train that crosses the continent, in every newspaper that comes from the press. Work is the mother of democracy.

THE LITTLE GREY HOLE

There's a little grey hole in my vest, It happened in the place that was best, For a hole in the coat or a hole in the pants, Are both of the kind you can see at a glance, But you always can button your coat, And hide all defects in the vest. So here's to the moth with such knowledge of cloth Such insight is rare in a pest.

-Yale Record.

NO'i INSULTING

"I wouldn't insult you by saying that you were large," cooed a woman to a portly friend. .,I'd simply say that whether you are coming or going, side-ways or revolving, you look the same."

WHY SHE BELIEVED INIT

Judg+"Do you believe in divorce?"

Liza-"Yes, Jedge, Ah does."

Rastus (interrupting)-"How come you believes in deevoce, woman?"

li27-"\glsll, Jedge, hit's disaway. Ah sorta feels we needs sumpin to keep us women in circulation.,'

CHARACTER

Character is power-is influence. ft makes friends, creates funds, draws patronage and support, and op€ns an easy way to wealth, honor, and happiness.-F. Hawes.

FIB--REIDllZOOID

Rcprerenting in Southern California: Thc Paciftc Lumbcr Conpany-Wcndling-Nathan Co.

Urges Lumbermen Get Behind New Pacilic Coast Cities Show Gain in FederalHousing Act Building Permits lor 1937

W. W. Woodbridge, secretary-manager of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, on his return to Seattle from attending the committee hearings on the new FHA in Washington, D. C., sent a letter under date of December 28, 1937, to the lumber and building material trade urging that the new Federal Housi,ng Act be given full publicity and support. In this letter he expressed his amazement at the apathy of the lumber dealer, wholesaler and manufacturer on the subject and gave his appreciation of the cooperation given to lumbermen in the past by the Federal Housing Administration, stressing the need for FHA speakers on all lumbermen's convention programs in the future.

He concluded by asking for serious consideration of this subject, and requested that all lumbermen write their newspapers urging their support of the 1938 Housing Program, and appealed to all officials and members of lumber associations to cooperate to this end.

BACK ON JOB

.George Swift, of the George Swift Lumber Co., Long Beach, is back at work after being confined to his home for a week by illness.

L. A. VISITOR

George C. Cornitius, of the George C. Cornitius Hardwood Co., hardwood importers, San Francisco' was a business visitor to Los Angeles this week'

Zlll.e Ghlorldett PRESSUNE TNEA TEID LUDTBEN

Building permits from 101 leading Pacific Coast cities totaled $256,939,922 in 1937, a gain of 7.12 per cent over the $239,86,870 recorded in 1936, according to the Western Monthly Building Survey, prepared by H. R. Baker & Co., California investment banking firm. A total of.148,327 permits were issued last year compared with 134,860 in 1936.

Increases were recorded by California, Colorado, Nevada, Oregon, Wyoming, British Columbia and Hawaii, while decreases were shown by Arizona, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Utah and Washington.

The 25 cities reporting the largest volume of permits in 1937 showed total permits of $199,084,535 compared with $184,308,5,10 in 1936. Los Angeles with 963,170,944 was slightly ahead of last year, and ranked first among all Pacific Coast cities. fn second place was'San Francisco with $n,245,440, which also showed a slight increase over 1936. It was followed by Denver with $10,213,246,Portland with $8,671,285, Oakland with $8,396,093, Long Beach with 98,278,fi5, San Diego with $8,146,fr7, Honolulu with $6,780,010, Vancouver, B. C., with $6,760,880, and Seattle with $6,338,505.

Other cities in the first 25 include in their respective order: Glendale, Bevedy Hills, Vernon, Sacramento, Pasadena, Santa Monica, Salt Lake City, Burbank, Fresno, Spokane, San Marino, Alhambra, Inglewood, San Jose and Berkeley.

In December building activity continued at relatively low ebb, with permits from 86 of the leading Western cities totaling $l3,l0l,6D, a decrease of $5,965,971, or 31.3 per cent from the $19,067,600 reported in December, 1936.

Decreases were shown during the month by California, Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, lJtah, Washington and Wyoming and increases by Idaho and British Coluribia.

Los Angeles retained leadership during'December, as it had throughout the entire year, with a total of. $3,@7,137. This compared with San Francisco's $930,831; Long Beach in third place with $854,100; Oakland in fourth place with $62,697; and Denver in fifth place with $412,897. San Diego followed in sixth place; Boise, seventh; Portland, eighth; Seattle, ninth; and San Bernardino in tenth place.

TRADE.MARKBD SELECTBD FIRM TBXTURED

L. M. Simpson Elected Yice-President of The Flintkote Company

L. M. Simpson general ,rr"rr"r., oi Pioneer Division, The Flintkote Company, Los Angeles, was elected a vicepresident of The Flintkote Company, by the board of directors at the January meeting in New York. The action was taken, according to L J. Harvey, Jr., president of the company, because the directors thought that so important a territory as the eleven western states should be represented by a vice-president of the corporation as well as a general manager of the activities being directed from Los Angeles.

Mr. Simpson is well known as an industrial leader here. having been active head of Pioneer Division, The Flintkote Company, since May, 1934. Prior to that time he directed the national sales activities of one of the largest industrial concerns in the country, organizing its branch offices and also cooperating with the research and production departments to help in the improvement of product design and quality. Mr. Simpson has always been interested in sales since he first started out in the business world after attending the University of Illinois. As general manager of Pioneer Division, he naturally has spent considerable time on sales and distribution problems.

His wide experience and extensive contacts throughout the West gained in his sales work has given him a keen appreciation of the growing importance of the West as a market, and he has directed the expansion of the company to take full advantage of the ever-increasing building and

industrial activity in this territory. ln 1937 the company's extensive expansion program included the erection of a new paper mill, new warehouses, and a completely new and modern corrugated container plant.

Pioneer Division, The Flintkote Company, was established in 1888, and this year celebrates its Golden Anniversary. The company manufactures a complete line of asphalt roofing products, emulsions, structural and home insulation, hardboard products, chipboard and boxboard, and corrugated board and containers. Western offices are located in San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Spokane, Salt Lake City and Denver.

Eastern plants of The Flintkote Company are located in Rutherford, New Jersey; Lockport, New York; East Chicago, Illinois, and New Orleans, Louisiana. The company also conducts a Colas Roads operation in Canada and an emulsion business in Europe.

BACK FROM SOUTHLAND

Clarence W. Broback, IJnion Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned recently from a week's business trip to Los Angeles. While there he saw the Rose Bowl game on New Year's Day.

RICHARDS-PARKER

U. G. Richards was married to Miss Edna Parker in Oakland on January 4. They sailed for Honolulu on the Monterey.

Mr. Richards was formerly general manager of the E. K. Wood Lumber Company at San Francisco.

CALIFORNIA VISITORS

Henry H. Ketcham, of the Hgnry H. Ketcham Lumber Co., Seattle, was a recent California visitor. He attended the Rose Bolvl game at Pasadena on New Year's Day.

Alvin Schwa€fer, manager of the Seattle, was a recent visitor to San geles.

Nettleton Lumber Co., Francisco and Los An-

Charlie Miller, president of Youngs Bay Lumber Co., Warrenton, Ore., was a visitor to San Francisco and Los Angeles over the holidays. He took in the Rose Borvl game at Pasadena.

TECO Offers New Lumber Design Service

Washington, D. C.-"Lumber Offers New Service to Builders" is the title of an illustrated leaflet which the National Lumber Manufacturers Association (Timber Engineering Company) has issued to acquaint builders and distributors of lumber with the new modern connector typical design service TECO is providing for the practical benefit of the lumber trade. This service is described as something new and unique in lumber merchandising practice. This particular leaflet emphasizes the recommended design practices provided by TECO for roof trusses, barrel racks, grandstands, towers and bridges.

Seventy-three designs are listed including TECO'S services and those of associated engineering firms. The leaflet directs attention to six groups of detail roof designs which may now be obtained from the Timber Engineering Company (Washington, D.C.). There are triangular roof trusses in several difierent types; barn trusses in three difierent types; flat roof trusses of two sorts; arched roof trusses-both scissors and hinged frames; and saw tooth shed roof and bow design roof trusses of several different types. In addition, designs are offered for distillery warehouse barrel racks, bleachers and grandstands for athletic fields, and also for lookout tank and radio towers and highway bridges and foot bridges.

These designs are offered to builders, architects and engineers as examples of what they may use in designing to fit their specific needs; certain single sample designs are offered free upon request as helpful in illustrating the nature of the improvements in TECO timber construction'

Progress of Connector SYstem

The general service rendered to the lumber industry and consumers of lumber by the introduction of timber connector construction, is looked upon as one of the most important recent developments in the building field' An article in the Engineering News Recorcl, written by H' L' Whittemore of the U. S. Bureau of Standards on "Building Materials ImProvements" saYs:

iA, to the general trends, it would seem that we are now orsoonwillbefacedwiththenecessityofusinglessmaterial for our designs, thus placing a premium on technical skill and ingenuity, and requiring more reliable data on the properties oJ materiats." Turning to specific materials' Mr' iVt itt"*o.e says: "Wood in 1936 continued to improve

..DOING A SPLENDID WORK"

"Your editorial in the December 15th issue of The CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT-, as well as the article entitled, 'YOUR COMPETITOR' may not immediately show any visible results but you know, and I know, that they do much good; so hope you will continue them indefinitely. You have that ability to express these better things in a way that reaches the ordi,nary fellow and you are doing a splendid work."

B. E. Bryan

Strable Hardwood Company Oakland, California

FRITZ BRANDT PASSES ON

Clarence Frederick Brandt, for many years Arizona representative of the Southwestern Portland Cement Company, died suddenly in Phoenix on December 27.

Mr. Brandt, known to his many friends in the lumber and building material trade in Arizona as "Fritz," was widely known and respected. He was 50 years old, and was born in Michigan.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Flossie Brandt, and a daughter, Genevieve.

WESTERN PINE ANNUAL MEETING FEBRUARY 10

The annual members' meeting of the 'Western Pine Association, and also a meeting of the board of directors, will be held at the Portland Hotel, Portland, Ore., on Thursday, February 10, 1938.

its standing in the engineering field. Grading, standard working stresses for structural timber, better practices in the preservative treatment of wood, more efficient timber joints, the introduction of laminated construction, and an increasing use of stru,ctural plywood are some of the factors which have brought this about."

At this time over 10.000 structures have been built throughout the United States and Canada, in which over 330,000,000 feet of lumber was used. Of this amount over 60,000,000 feet was used in parts of structures employing connectors.

SheYlin Pine Sales Gompany

Sign Contract ]or Homes and Gardens Display at Gofden Gate fnternational Exposition

Scoring a first for the Golden Gate International Exposition in 1939 and a new high for exhibition enterprises for homes and gardens, two major Pacific Coast lumber trade associations and the oldest nursery company of the West entered the New Year as partners in a $100,000 project to depict home life in the 'West for 1939 exposition visitors.

The contract calls for utilization of a gross area of 90,000 square feet by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, California Redwood Association, California Nursery Company and associate organizations. Beautifully landscaped, "Flomes and Gardens of the West" will occupy the outdoor area adjoining the Homes and Gardens exhibit palace.

Not only is this space the largest outdoor contract yet signed by the exposition authorities, but the largest exhibit enterprise of its kind ever undertaken by the lumber industry and its nursery associates. Other lumber groups besides West Coast and California Redwood will be invited to participate, as well as other nursery and home accessory companies.

Speaking jointly for the lumber industry, Col. W. B. Greeley of Seattle, secretary-manager of West Coast Lumbermen's Association, and Carl W. Bahr, president of the California Redwood Association, declared, "The lumber industry is proud of its place in the development of the West. Any exposition of progress, such as that planned in San Francisco in 1939. would be amiss without the fullest possible participation by lumber. Therefore, we are concentrating on San Francisco in 1939 and hope to show fair visitors something unique in the display of homes built of western woods as our part in this pageant of the Pacific."

"Because homes are so dependent upon their surround- 'ings, the California nursery industry is happy to cooperate with lumbermen in creating a symbol of better living tor 1939 Exposition visitors," declared George C. Roeding, Jr., who will head the nursery participation group.

Included in the West Coast Lumbermen's Association

Bepreaenltrtives oI two ncior lumber trcde associctions, West Coast Lunbernent Aeaociction cnd Cclilonric Bedwood Aesociction, crld the ncior Dursery crnd lcra&ccping orgcnirctions of the Pccific Cocst ioinqd w!!!,the Golden Gate Internstioaal Exposition in plcnr tor c notqble $100,000 displcy ol homes cnd gcrdens ia 1939. -Present qt the contrcrcl sigaing lor c grosr crecr of 90,000 :qucre teet ol ouldoor sltcce were (lelt to rigbt) I. V9. Willicma, secretcny, Calilornic Bedwood Associction". George Kendriclc sclea ncncger, Chcrs. R. McCormict Lumber Compcny, representing Wegt Cocgt Ccrl W. Bahr, president Calilornic Redwood Aesociqtiow Preaident Lelcnd W. Cutler ol tbe Expoailiou cnd George C. Roeding, fr., preaident Calilornic Nurrery Compcny, who will heqd the ttursery pcrticipction.

are the Douglas Fir, Western Red Cedar, Hemlock, Spruce and Douglas Fir plywood manufacturers, with headquarters in Seattle and Portland. The California Redwood Association is the trade association representing 90. per cent of the world production of redwood lumber. California Nursery Company of Niles is the oldest organization of its kind in the west.

Plans for a joint homes and gardens exhibit were sponsored by the sub-committee on lumber participation of the Exposition Promotion Committee.

HAS FORTUNATE ESCAPE

W. J. Nicholson, manager of the San Francisco branch of United States Plywood Co., has quite recovered from the effects of an automobile accident which occurred on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, December 10.

Mr. Nicholson's car skidded in a rainstorm and collided with another car. Both cars were damaged beyond repair. "Nick" is receiving congratulations from his many friends on his good fortune in escaping with a few cuts and bruises from such a serious accident. He was able to continue his work without any loss of time.

M. R. Moulton Retires--H. E. Skinner

Washington State College Inaugurates

Appointed District Sales Manager Timber Design and Connector Courses

.April l, 1905, Mark R. Moulton entered the employ of the Crookston Lumber Company, a Shevlin operation, as traveling sales representative in Minnesota and Dakota territories. After many faithful and successful years, he became district sales manager of the Shevlin Companies with offices in Minneapolis and has continued in that capacity since that time.

Because of ill health, Mr. Moulton asked to be relieved of the active responsibility connected with his duties, but will continue to serve in an advisory capacity. In the 32 year period of active contact with the lumber trade, Mr. Moulton has won many friends for hirnself and the companies whom he represented. These friends will be pleased to learn of his well earned retirement and will be able to maintain contact with Mr. Moulton through the Shevlin Pine Sales Company offices at 900 First National Soo Line Building, Minneapolis.

The Shevlin Pine Sales Company has announced the appointment of Homer E. Skinner to succeed Mr. Moulton as Minneapolis district sales manager. Mr. Skinner began his work with the Shevlin organization at the plant of Nichols-Chisolm Lumber Company, Frazee, Minnesota, on October 1, 1906. For several years he served that company in many different capacities and became thoroughly familiar with all branches of that organization' July 1, 1918, he was transferred from Ftazee, Minnesota, to the Minneapolis office of the Shevlin interest and since that time has devoted himself very largely to sales matters. When the Shevlin Pine Sales Company was formed in 1931, he became office manager and has continued in that capacity until the present time. Old friends of the Shevlin Pine Sales Company will find Mr. Skinner a worthy successor to Mark Moulton and new friends will find him willin! and anxious to render the best of service and attention to their requirements'

Washington, D. C., Dec. 23.-A course in wood structure embracing timber design and the use of timber'connectors has been inaugurated by M.K. Snider, professor in the department of civil engineering of the College of Mechanic Arts and Engineering, Washington State College. The installation of the course follows the lead set by such schools as Yale University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Penn State, Ohio State, New Hampshire {Jniversity, and many others that have been holding similar classes for some time, and for whose use- the Timber Engineering Company has supplied sample connectors, publications, designs, text materials anld other engineering information relative to wood construction. The Forest Products Laboratory Handbook is being used as a text, supplemented by the Douglas Fir Use Book published by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association and Teco pam'phlets and illustrations.

One of the most unusual fedtures of these college classes is the wide range of departments under which the cou,rse is administered. The University of Washington places timber connector designing under the College of Forestry, but Ohio State University teaches it in both the Department of Architecture and Civil'Engineering, and while M.I.T. likewise gives 'it under the civil engineering department, the lJniversity of New Hampshire places it in the Depart; ment of Agriculture.

The design course at Ohio State University is somewhat typical of the others. At Ohio, the class meets twelve hours a week and the work is subdivided into the following divisions: timber design proper; classification and identification of timber; treatment of timber, and the shaping of general and detailed plans of structures designed by the' students.

The new and unique uses in wood construction are said: to be one of the reasons for the growing interest on tlig part of colleges and universities in inaugurating timber clesign courses in their regular curricula. r.,,,.-'

California Building Permits for 1937

The following cities are included in the Los Angeles total:

New Markets for Northwest Forest Products Increase

Seattle, Washington, January 10, l938.-Airplane hangars in Vermont, a great highway bridge in Ohio, an automobile carloading dock in Detroit, oil derricks and walking beams in Kansas, wood water pipe in Pittsburgh, piling and timbers for the construction of the New York World's Fair, earthquake-resistant school buildings in California, a ski jump in Soldiers' Field, Chicago-such are a few of the highlights of the use of Pacific Northwest forest products throughout the country in 1937, according to Seattle officials of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association.

"The great economic contribution of the lumber industry of Western Washington and Oregon to the nation is in the field of home building," said Association heads, in a statement issued yesterday. "Heavy construction, however, is especially dependent on the Douglas fir region for wood. In 1937 the development of designs in timber engineering greatly increased the use of wood in heavy structures, replacing more costly materials. Metal ring connectors, adding tenfold to the strength of bolted timber joints, and new methods of laminating lumber in a variety of truss forms, have been the main factors of growing demand for West Coast timbers in heavy construction."

"This lamination principle has also been applied to large timbers, as for oil well walking beams," the statement continued. "Wood, because ofits low rigidity, is preferred for the job of pumping oil from great depths. By uniting three timbers in a new design, we now have walking beams that safely support center dead weight of 90,000 pounds and more and have the flexible strength required for dependable pumping of oil from a mile below ground surface. Timber engineering has made the wood derrick the modern-type derrick of the oil industry. This is one example of a market that was greatly enlarged for Oregon and Washington forest products in 1937."

There are more than 6@ standard commercial items in an averag'e Douglas fir log, while forest products labora-

tories list 25,W uses for wood, the Association officials said, in pointing out the possibilities of new markets for the forest products of the Pacific Northwest.

"With the two states of the region containing the nation's greatest supply of big timber, and with the values of our woods now proven by examples of use over long periods, sales of our forest products should increase steadily for years," the Association statement concluded. "For example, ten years ago the world's largest hotel, the Stevens of Chicago, was built, with Douglas fir heartwood sash being used in the structure's 5000 windows. The hotel architects had specified this wood because of an actual use test of seventeen years' duration in another Chicago building. Facing the blasts of Lake Michigan winds, the sash in these 5000 windows remains as good as new, a giant testimonial to the durability of woods grown and manufactured in the Pacific Northwest. Another example is the satisfactory service given for seventeen years by three l3-foot pipe lines made of Douglas fir staves, in carrying the entire flow of the Androscogging River at Berlin, New Hampshire, to a paper mill. As such examples multiply, and as their years of good service increase, the market value of Oregon and Washington wood is steadily enhanced.

WITH MARIS PLYWOOD CORP.

Harry Dodge, formerly with Harbor Plywood tion, Hoquiam, is now a member of the sales Maris Plywood Corporation, San Francisco. He ing on industrial sales.

SAN FRANCISCO VISITORS

Corporastaff of is work-

Roy Bleecker, general manager of the Westfir Lumber Co., Westfir, Ore., was in San Francisco over the holidays. He was accompanied by Mrs. Bleecker, and they attended the East-West football game at Kezat Stadium on New Year's Day.

Heads Rose Parade Golden Jubilee Committee

Lathrop Leishman, Crown City Lumber & Mill Co., Pasadena, and vice-president of the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association, has been named chairman of the Golden Jubilee Committee which will have charge of next year's event, when the fiftieth anniversary of the Parade of Roses will be celebrated.

Mr. Leishman states: 'lWe contemplate two weeks of brilliant celebration starting New Year's Day, 1939. Although only extremely sketchy at present, our plans call for a historical pageant of even greater proportions than in past years. A football tournament will also be included and the celebration will continue a fortnight."

HELPS PUT G-M MEN BACK TO WORK

Ray Julien, Los Angeles salesman for E. K. Wood Lumber Co., is doing his bit to get the General Motors' mechanics back on the payroll again. He is now covering his territory in a new 1938 Buick. His initial trip in the new machine was on New Year's day when he drove to Santa Anita to take in the races.

LIKES "VAGABOND EDITORIALS''

"I want to compliment you on your December 1, L937, Yagabond Edition. I have read it over very carefully and I think it is one of the best you ever wrote. I wish that articles like that could be published in every newspaper in the country."

John C. Light, Light's Lumber Company, Miami, Arizona.

SAN FRANCISCO VISITORS

J. W. Thompson, of the Thompson Lumber & Piling Co., Portland, recently spent a few days in San Francisco on business.

J. Walter Kelly, Kelly-Smith Calif., and Mrs. Kelly, were Christmas holidays.

Bates Smith, manager of the Donald & Harrington, traveled the Christmas holidays. He Smith.

Lumber Co., Wilmington, in San Francisco for the

Los Angeles office of Macto San Francisco to spend was accompanied by Mrs.

Sugar Pine Panels Used for Modernizing Building

Portland, Ore.-Modernizing of stores and shops, both exterior and interior, has been quite the vogue the past year. Progressive concerns realize the distinction and advertising value of keeping their places of business smart looking and abreast of the times. An outstanding example of what can be accomplished in the modernization of old buildings has recently been completed in Portland, Oregon, for Milton L. Gumbert, one of the city's leading furriers at 816 S.W. Morrison St. Several unusual decorative features were incorporated during the remodeling program that are interesting and worthy of mention. On the black and silver facade of the building, over the main entrance on Morrison Street, is a mammoth glass brick square with a silver fox designed and hand wrought from a single piece of aluminum by L. Dietchman of the Arts and Crafts Society of Portland.

In the colonnaded main salon are displayed five large hand-carved pine panels, each depicting a fur-bearing animal-a leopard, beaver, bear, skunk and seal. They were designed and carved in low relief by Fritz von Schmidt, well known Portland artist and decorator. Sugar Pine, one of the Western Pines, was selected by Mr. von Schmidt for the panels because of its excellence as a wood carving material and its availability in clear pieces of large dimensions. The panels, which separately measure approximately three feet by six feet in size, form the basic decorative motif for the interior of this firm's new quarters. Abbott Lawrence, of Lawrence-Holford & Allyn, was the architect, and the construction was under the supervision of Robertson, Ifay & Wallace, Portland contractors.

Built lor load sizes ranging from 36'x36" to 66"x81" any length of load. Also spccial typcs for special needs.

Ten files of The

Years Ago Today

From the California Lumbet Merchant, Januarv 15, 1928

A party of 60, including many of the foresters who attended the meeting of the Society of American Foresters at San Francisco, visited the mill operations of The Pacific Lumber Company, where they were guests of the company.

John Suverkrup erside. Lumber Co.,'has opened a yard at Riv-

Hoo-Hoo clubs throughout California are showing a keen interest in the attendance contest being sponsored by Fred Roth of San Francisco, member of the Supreme Nine. Mr. Roth is donating beautiful loving cups to the winners, and he has named Jack Dionne, publisher of The California Lumber Merchant, as judge of the contest.

Members of the Orange Belt Lumbermen's Club presented Secretary R. D. (Bob) Mundell with unique Christmas remembrances, consisting of blocks of wood with their respiective business cards attached. Each of the wood specimens had a five dollar gold piece driven in them in such a way that it was impossible to get the money without chopping the blocks to pieces. A picture accompanying the article shows Bob busy with a hatchet digging out the gold.

"Logging in the Philippines," by E. R. Edgecomb, secretary of the fnsular Lumber Co., is the title of an interesting illustrated article in this issue on the sawmill and logging operations of the Insular Lumber Co. in the Philippines.

Hammond Lumber Company, San Francisco, has moved r'ts offices from 2& California Street to new quarters in the Alaska-Commercial Building, 310 Sansome Street.

The second Redwood sales contest closed December 31, with a total of 99 entries received at the offices of the California Redwood Association, San Francisco. The en-

tries gave information on all possible and conceivable uses of 'Redirydbd. The awards will be announced on January 20th.

Lumber companies and associations that will have exhibits in the new Architects Building, Los Angeles, include: The Red River Lumber Co., Cadwallader-Gibson, Inc., Hammond Lumber Company, California Redwood Association, and Los Angeles Hardwood Dealers' Association.

Miss Grace Jones has been elected secretary-treasurer of the Washington & Oregon Shingle Association, and secretary-manager of the Rite-Grade Shingle Association, with headquarters in the White-Henry-Stuart Building, Seattle.

Fred Roth, member of the Supreme Nine, has recommended the appointment of W. B. Wickersham, Los Angeles, as state Hoo-Hoo counselor for California, and B. W. Byrne as vicegerent snark of the Los Angeles district.

This issue carries an article with photograph of The Pacific Lumber Company's retail lumber department at Scotia.

Paul Hallingby, Hammond Lumber Company, Los Angeles, was chairman of the day at the luncheon meeting of the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club on January 12.A. A. Israel, West Coast Lumber Trade Extension Bureau, was the speaker of the day.

San Diego Hoo-Hoo Club will hold a meeting and concatenation at San Diego on the evening of. Janaary B. A large delegation from Los Angeles will attend.

Earl Johnson buys Independent Lumber Company at Livermore.

FHA Loans in So. California-Arizona TheodoreKnappen Resigns as N. L. M. A. District Reach High Volume Publlcity Director

January 1, 1938.-The Southern California-Arizona district of the Federal Elousing Administration closed the past year by passing the $100,000,000 mark in insured mortgage commitments, covering home building and financing transactions, according to F. W. Marlow, district director.

None of the other 68 ofifices of the FHA throughout the United States has reached this volume, Mr. Marlow said.

Up to Dec.25, applications representing 28,805 cases with a total value of $L22,D3,44O had been accepted by the local office for valuation and processing, and 24,570 of them, representing loans aggregating $100,334,903, had been accepted for insurance. it was stated.

RETURNS FROM PHILIPPINE TRIP

Roy Barto, president of Cadwallader-Gibson Co., Inc., Los Angeles, returned January 13 from a business trip to the Philippine Islands.

Mr. Barto left Los Angeles September 17, and while in the Islands visited the company's mills and their other mill connections. He stopped in Hong Kong, Japan and Honolulu on the homeward voyage, which was made on the Barber Line steamer Tricolor.

NEW YARD AT EL MONTE

Modern Lumber Market has opened a lumber yard at El Monte. W. S. Munger is the proprietor.

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The lumber industry learns with regret of the resignation of Theodore M. Knappen, veteran publicity director of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association during the last fifteen years.

Mr. Knappen was prostrated by the excessive heat of a summer day in July, 1936, and was many months in bed. However, his health has slowly recovered and for the last twelve months he has been at his desk daily on a limited schedule of activity. He contemplates a further period of recovery in another environment and a different climate, which he hopes will bring him back to his former good health and permit him to resume his publicity and research work in an independent relation.

His fellow members of the N.L.M.A. staff tendered him a dinner at the Cosmos Club, Washington, on the evening of December 16. Dr. Wilson Compton presided and other members of the stafi were there. As a substantial expression of their feelings, members of the staff presented Mr. Knappen with a set of Freeman's Life of Robert E. Lee. They expressed their leelings otherwise in the form of an elaborate program of the dinner, a feature of which was an open letter to Time Magazine nominating Mr. Knappen -"journalist, author, editor, economist, Phi Beta Kappa, Psi Upsilon, Democrat"-feJ the "Man of the Year," and describing him as a type of man who "pays his taxes, takes care of his family, helps his friends, contributes to charity, never gets drunk, works hard without complaint, weathers illness cheerfully, worries about the poor, tolerates all peop1e, feeds stray dogs, goes to church, encourages the young, consoles the old, improves his mind, saves his money, never gossips, sleeps well, and thinks no evil of others."

Congratulatory and appreciative telegrams were received from some twenty outstanding men of the lumber industry. Dr. Compton delivered an appreciative talk and presented the volumes of the Lee history.

Mr. Knappen had his origin in the timber country of Wisconsin and Minnesota, and from his earliest boyhood was interested in trees and sawmills and their products, industrial fields, and problems. He began early in his newspaper career in Minneapolid and St. Paul to write the news and current history of the forest industries. Later his field of interest widened to include the general field of economics, and with it a reputation as a writer of romantic industrial achievement in the middle northwest, the Pacific Northwest and Pacific Southwest, Montana, Canada. and elsewhere.

The World War brought him east as a newspaper writer on the war industries, notably three series for the New York Tribune on "The Sinews of War," "The Bridge of Ships," "The Wings of War" which was also the title of a book on military aircraft production and many individual articles related to the industrial side of the war against Germany, as well as the lumber chapters of a number of general industrial books.

New Booklet on BruceFinished Blocks

A new Z8-page color booklet on Bruce Finished Blocks has just been issued by E. L. Bruce Co. Entitled "Patterned Hardwood Floors-for Distinctive Decoration and Lasting Beauty," it is said to be the most complete piece of literature ever published on any type of hardlvood flooring.

Its nearly 100 photographs and illustrations shorv the many decorative effects that can be achievecl rvith Pattern-

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Among the features in the booklet are the pages illustrating the six steps in finishing Bruce Blocks, the methods of installing them, and the panels in natural color that show exactly how the different woods, grades and finishes look.

"Patterned Hardwood Floors-for Distinctive Decoration and T asting Beautv" is a book that will be of interest to anyone who sells, buys, specifies or installs hardwood flooring. A free copy can be obtained by writing E. L. Bruce Co., Memphis, Tennessee.

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO YARD GETS BRIDGE TIE JOB

The contract for shaping the 50,000 Redrvood ties for the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was awarded to the South City Lumber & Supply Co., South San Francisco. Each tie has to be sawn to specifications in order that it may be laid in its proper place on the bridge. Another large millwork contract recently awarded to this firm was the contract for the millwork for the $180.000 Fort Bragg High School.

I. E. Horton, prominent retail lumberman, of the South City Lumber & Supply Co.

OPENS LUMBER YARD

R. E. Stagg has opened a lumber yard at Richmond. Mr. Stagg has been connected with the retail lumber business in Northern California for manv vears.

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New booklet, giving helpful suggestions on use of Philippine Mahogany in residential, commercial and institutional buildings, available to architects. Write Philippine Mahogany Manufacturers' Import Association, Inc., 111 W. 7th St., Los Angeles, Cal.

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WANTS POSITION

Lumberman experienced in lumber, hardware and buitding material business open for a poeition. Southern California experience. Willing worker. Good references. Address Box C-700, Catifornia Lumber Merchant.

FOR LEASE

\ll/arehouse suitable for lumber storage or building material business. 80x135 feet, with 20-foot head clearance, Santa Fe Railway trackage, equipped with office space and 15-ton unloading electric hoist. Will lease for five years. Roy E. Harrington, 1109 Main Street, Venice, Calif. phone Santa Monica 64993.

EXPERIENCED LUMBERMAN

Yotrng, married, thoroughly capable and aggressive lumberman desires connection with manufacturer, wholesaler or retail line yard concern. Experience includes West Coast and California sawmill, eight years manufacturer's representative in East, and five years retail selling, buying and office experience. Address Box C-701, California Lumber Merchant.

LUMBER YARDS FOR SALE

Lumber yards for sale. Twohy Lumber Co., Lumber Yard Brokers, 801 Petroleum Securities Bldg., Los Angeles. Telephone PRospect 8746.

U. S. Lumber and Los Exports and Imports Efeven Months 1937

Total exports of hardwood and softwood lumber (including sawed timber and logs) for the first eleven months of 1937 totalled 1,474,M M board feet as compared with l,519,838 M feet for the corresponding period of 1936, a loss of about 3 per.cent, according to figures just released by the Forest Products Division of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. Of the 1937 amount, 1,311,405 M feet was of sawed material as compared with 1,199,039 M feet for 1936, a gain of nearly 10 per cent. The 1937 exports of logs and hewn timber amounted to 162,8O3 M feet as against 3n,799 M feet for 1936, a loss of approximately 5O per cent.

In the sawn softwood group, Douglas fir was the most important species exported, totaling 531,038 M feet for the first eleven months ol 1937, a gain of 9 per cent as compared with the corresponding period of 1936. Southern pine totalled 322,535 M feet as compared with 3n,n6 M feet for the corresponding period of 1936. Other woods in the group recorded gains at the end of the nine months period were: The "white pines" up 19 per cent over 1936 and spruce up 22 per cent. Redwood and cedar were only slightly above the 1936 volume. Woods in this group recording losses were hemlock down 34 per cent, and cypress down 1O per cent.

Sawn hardwoods totalled 337,222 M feet for the first eleven months ol 1937, as compared with D0,572 M feet f.or 1936, a gain of 16 per cent. In this group all species except hickory, chestnut and mahogany made gains, the largest footage gains being made by oak, ash and poplar.

Softwood log exports this year amounted to 14O,894 M feet compared with n7,217 M feet in 1936, whereas hardwood logs amounted to 21,9@ M feet against 23,582 M feet in 1936.

Total imports of hardwood and softwood logs and lumber (including cabinet woods) for the first eleven months of. 1937 totalled 768,808 M feet as compared with 69P,ffi

M feet for the corresponding period of 1936. Of this 1937 amount 136,738 M feet were logs'(hardwood and softwood), 524,M2 M feet were softwood lumber,, and 108,028 M feet were hardwood lumber and sawed cabinet woods as against 93,307 M feet of logs, 521,982 M feet of softwood lumber, and 84,315 M feet of hardwood lumber and sawed cabinet woods for the comparable period of 1936.

In the "logs" group, imports of cedar logs for the first eleven months of 1937 amounted to 25,534 M board feet; mahogany accounted f.or 21,798 M feet; and fir, spruce and Western Hemlock for 78,484 M feet.

In the softwood lumber group spruce was by far the most important species imported, totaling n5,812 M feet. The second most important segregated species imported was pine with imports of. 8O,324 M feet, whereas fir and hemlock totaled together 133,832 M feet.

The reciprocal trade agreement signed by the United States and Canada allotted Canada an annual quota of 25Q0OO,O00 board feet of Douglas fir and Western hemlock to enter the United States at a $2 duty and excise tax. From January 1 to November 27, 1937, imports of these woods subject to this quota totalled 131,5O5,816 board feet, according to preliminary figures supplied by the Bureau of the Customs of the Treasury Department.

The quota on importations of red cedar shingles from Canada, established under Executive Order No. 7701 of September 3, 1937, which limited importation of this commodity to 892,373 squares during the last six months of the calendar year 1937 , was filled on Novemb er l, 1937

Detailed monthly statistics of the U. S. exports and imports of hardwood and softwood logs and lumber are compiled by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce and are available from the Bureau on a subscription basis. Special statistics covering imports subject to quota are compiled by the Customs Bureau and are made available to the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.

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SAIT FBANOISOO

LUMBER

Atkim-Stutz Company, llz Market Stret GArficldltr0

Chmbcrlin & Co., W. R., 9th Flc, Fife Bldg. ............DOuglar $,1?0

Dolb€* & Camn Lumber Co., 730 Merchuts Exchange Bldg. ....SUttcr 7456

Gmu lamber Co, 4t6 C.lifmia St.,..... ..........GArfield 50ll

Hall, Jues L., l0? MiI|c Bldg. ....................Suttcr 7520

Hamond Redwmd Cmpany, 117 Motgmry St. ..............Douglar 33EE

Holna Eureka r.,nher Cor l9l5 Fimial Centa Bldg.......GArfield lgA

C, D. Johnm Imber Corpontion, 260 Califmia Street .,.GArfield 6e58

Lamon-Bmington Colmy, f 6 Califqnia Street .... .... GArfield 6EEl

Idgren, Alvh N., 2r0l Callfornia Stct ............FIIInorc 6Ue

MacDmald & H*ringtm Ltd", fO Califmia Stret ...............GArfie1d tit93

LUMBER

LUMBER

Pacific Lmbcr Cq, Thc 100 Bush Stre€t .......,..,.......GArfield lltl

Peggc, J. 8., I Drumm St. ........,.............DOugIa! tt5t

Red River lamber Co., 315 Mondnak Blds. ............GAr6eld G22

Suta Fe Luubcr Co., 16 Califomia Stret .........,....Exbr@k 2074

Schafq Bru. lrmb€r & Shingle Co., I D|arm St. ...............,........SUtts t77l

Shevlin Pim Sales Co1030 Mondnock BldC. ,.,....,.....KEamy 70{l

Sudden & Christenron, 3t0 Sansome Strut ...........,.,.GArfield 2t{6

Trower Lumber Co., ll0 Market Street ......Sutter 0,124

Unio Luber CoCrocker Building ..Sutter 6170

Wendling-Nathan Co., U0 Market Street .......,..........SUtter SilGt

E. K. Wod Lumbcr Co, I Drum Stret .,................KtEmy ?10

Weyahaum Salq Co., l{0 Califqnla Street ..,..,.,.,,...GArffcld O74

Hill & Morton, Irc., Demison St. Wharf .,.,,....,....ANdover 1077

Hogu lamber Cmpany, znd & Alie StretE ............Glercqrt 6E6l

E. K. W@d Lumber Co, Fre&rick & King St!.

HARDWOODS

Strable Hrdwood Co,, 53? First Stret ................TEmplebar 5St4

White Brotlerc, 500 Hish Strut ..................ANdover 1000

LUMBER

HARDWOODS AND PANELS

Forsyth Hardwod Co., 355 Bayshore Blvd. ..,,.,..,.,.. ..ATwater 0l5l

Marir Plywmd Corponticr, 5/O roth StEt ...............MArket G705-6700

Whitc Brcthtrs,Fifth and Btilu Streeb..........Sutta 1305

SASH_D(X)RS-PLY\^I@D

Nicolal Dq Sala Cq, 3lM5 lgth Stret,.............,.....Mlssim 7020

United Stata Plvwood Co, Inc., ll! Kanaas Stret ......,.........MArket ltt2

Wbeeler-Osgood Salea Ccporatim, $15 ftth St. ......................VA|encia 2ll

CREOSOTED LUMBER-POLES_PILINGTTES

Amerio Lumbcr & Treating Co" 116 New Montgmety St. ..........Suttff lt,s

Baxter, J. H. & Co., 3iB Mmtgmy St. ............DOuglrc 3tt3

Hall, Juec I-, 1|'32 Millc Blds. ....................sutter ?520

PANELS_DOORS'-SASH-SCREENS

Califonia Bullderg Supply Ca, ?ll0 6th Ave. ......Hlgateflll6

Westem Dor & Sash Co., 5th & Cypre* Sr!. ..............LAkeide t4llC

BUILT-IN FIXTUR,ES

Peerlsg Built-In Fixture Co. (Berkelev) 260t Su Pablo Ave. ...,.......THmwall 0020

LOS ANGDLBS

Anglo Califmia Lumber Co., 6,120 Avalon Blvd. ..THqnwall 3l,l,l

Bums Lmber Co, 550 Chmber of Cmerce Bldg...PRGpect 68f

Cbamberlirr & CG, W'. R., 315 W. Nintb St. ..................TRinity l5r3

Cooper, Wilfred T., 622 Petrcleu Sflriti6 Bldg....PR6pect l6El

Dolber & Caon Lumber Co. 90r Fidelity Bldg. .................VAndike t792

Dod, Do H.,

@E Petrcleum Securities Bldg.....PRcpect 237{

Hammnd Redwod Cmpany, f03f So. Bredway ..........,,..PRepect 2066

Hemmings, E. W, 3ff Fireial Center Bldg. ........TRinity 9Ezr

Holmes Eureka Lmber Co., 7u-n2 Archit*tr Bldg. ..........MUtual 9l8l

Hover, A. L., 7ll0 So, Ia Brea Ave. ................YOrk ll6E

C. D. Johlrd l,unber Corporatim' 601 Petrcleum Securitiec Bldg....PR6pect 1165

Kelly-Smith Ca, Berth 53, Su Pedrc ..............Pleasilt 3123 Su Pedrc 6,10,1

LamnePbilipc Luber Co., -

Gl3 Petrolem Securities Bldg....PRGpect EU4

MacDonald & Hmingt6, Ltd., 5,1? Petroleu Seoriti* Bld8....PRcFct 3fZ7

Pacifrc Luber Co, The, ?00 So. la Brq Ave. ................YOrk ffat

LUMBER

Paiten-Blim Lunber Co., 52r E. sth St. ......................VAndike 2321

Red River Lumber Co., 702 E. Slausm CEntury 29071 l03l So. Brqdway ................PRGFct 03U

Reitz, Co., E. L., 333 Petrolem Secuitic Bldg...PRcpect 2369

San Pedro Lunber Co., Su Pedro, lE00A Wilmington Rqd ........ Su Pedrc 22110

Santa Fe Lumber Co, 3u Financial Certer Bldgl. ......VAndike 447r

Schafq Bros. Ilmber & Shingle Co, 1226 W. M. Garlad Bldg. ..,.....TRinity 1271

Shevlin Pire Sales Co., 32E Petrclern Securitis Bldg. ..PRospect 0615

Soutbland Lumber Co., 43,1 Petrcleum Securlti* Bldg...PRcpect 3636

Sud&n & Christenm, 630 Berd of Tndc Bld8. ........TRinity tEl1

Tam lamber Sales, 423 Petrcleum Securltiec Bldg...PRoprt fl0E

Twohy Lmber Co, EOl Petrcleu Securities Bldg....PRcpect t746

Unio Lumber Co., 923 W. M. Garlud Bldg. ........TRinity 2282

Wendling-Nathm Co., 700 So. La Brca Ave...............YOrkfr6E

Wat Orego Lumbr Co., 4? Petroleum Sruities Bldg...Rlcbmd 028f

Wilkinon ud Buoy, 3lt \lf. 9th St. ....................TRinity 1813

E. K. W@d Lumber Co., l70l Silta Fe Ave. ..............JEfferm 31ll

Weyerhaaser Sales Co, 920 W. M. Carland Bldg. ........Mlchigu 6354

HAR"DWOODS

Cadwallader-Gibson Co.. Inc., 362t Eilt Olympic Blvd. ........ANaeluE lll6l

Stanton, E. J., & So, 2050 Eat 3tth Stret .CEntury 2N2ll

HARDW(X}D FLOORING

Southem Hardwood Cmpany, 902 East 50th Stret ,.. ..ADams 4166

SASH_DOORS_MILLWORK

PANELS AIID PLY'WOOD

Califomia Panel & Verer Co., 955 So. Alameds St. ..,......,....,.TRinity 005?

Koehl, Jno. W. & Sd, 652 Sq Myqs St. ................ANgelur tl0l

Oregon-Washingto Plywood Co., 31E West Ninth Street............TRinity 4Cl3

Red River Lrmber Co., 702 E. Slam .CEntury 29071

Sanpmr Company (Pudena) 745 So Raymcrd Are. ....,...Blarchard 72114

United States Plywod Co., Inc,, 1930 East f5th St ................PRocFct 3013

West Coast Scren Co., r1|5 E. Gtrd Stret ,.............,.ADmr luot

West CEst Plywood Co., 3rS W. Ninth St. ................TRinity r5r3

Wheeler-Osgod Sales Ccporation, 2l5t Srcrmento St. -.....TUcler 196l

CREOSOTED LUMBER_POLES_PILING-

TIES

American Lumbcr & Treating Co., l03l So. Bmdway PRcpect 555E

Baxier, J. H. & Co., 601 Wect 5th St. ................Mlchi8an 6294

ETHED

Successful operation of a retail yard depends on maintaining stocks as well as sales. PALCO dealers enjoy the satisfaction of knowing their source.of supply is adequate for their needs. Vast holdings of Redwood timber assure raw maredalfor generarions to come. At Scotia, an entire community, equipped with the most modern facilities, devotes itselfto producing ,,Reduood At lts Besr.', PALCO representatives who know their Redwood are constantly at your beck and call, eager to serve you. Let PALCO be lour assurance of an ever-dependable source of supply.

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