THIS attractive Portland. Oregon, home contains plenty of Douglas fir plywood, but it's mostly "behind the scenes"in wall sheathing, in roof sheathing, in subflooring. Built on a hill-top lot rvith sweeping view. the house is sub jected to srveeping winds as well. Kenneth Striker, the original owner, says: "In spite of the wracking action of the wind, the Plyscord sheathing kept the structure so rigid that after four-and-a-half years there lvere only four small plaster cracks, due to atmospheric conditions rather than structure. V'hen I build again, Plyscord will be a 'must'in the spec' ilications." The present owners, Mr. and Mrs. John Dierdorff, who purchased the house in 1944, say the house is still rigid and tight, and has required an absolute minimum of maintenance. Architect for the house was Richard Sundeleaf; builder was Julius Zink.
Plywood production is greater. today than pre'war. But demand is unprecedented. That's why Douglas fir plywood may not always be readily available. Check your regular "oui,e of supply for price and delivery information. For technical dati, write the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, Tacoma 2, Washington'
Charles Plant, Bloedel, Stewart and Welch, T td., Vancouver, B.C., was. re-elected president of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau at the 31st annual convention held in Seattle. Other officers re-elected were Jess Schwarz, Kelso, Wash., vice president; W. W. Woodbridge, Seattle, secretary-manager; Virgil G. Peterson, Seattle, treasurer ahd assistant manager.
Speakers included Secretary-Manager Woodbridge; As,sistant Manager Peterson; Francis D. Holmes, public relations director of the Bureau; John Normile, building editor, Better Homes gnd Gardens, Des Moines, Ia.; W. C. Bell, managing director of the Western Retail Lumbermen's Association, Seattle; Kenneth Smith, president, Calirornia Redu'ood Association, San Francisco; and A. T: Brink, president of the National Association of Commission Lumber Salesmen, Kansas City, Mo.
The trustees for 1948, in addition to the officers named above, include Dale Craft, Raymond, Wash.; N. A. English, Van,couver, B. C.; Russell Farrington, Everett, Wash.; Keith G. Fisken, Seattle, Wash.; J. A. MacKenzie, Fraser Mills, B. C.; R. D. Mackie, Markham, 'Wash.; W. H. McLallen, Vancouver, B.C.; P. H. Olwell, Everett, Wash.; C. C. Rose, Aberdeen, Wash.; E. R. Scott, Edmonds, Wash.; Paul R. Smith, Seattle, Wash.; H. V. Whittall, Vancouver, B. C.; R. A. Wilde, Everett, Wash.; David M. Wyman, Anacortes, Wash.
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New York-The election of Joseph E. Dufiey as vice president of the Diamond Match Company has been announced by Robert G. Fairburn, piesident. Mr. Duffey will be responsible for the timber and lumber operations of the company and will havs general charge of production of all other departments and divisions.
Mr. Dufiey has been president of Industrial Management Engineers, fnc., of New York, and ManagemJnt Engineers, Ltd., of Montreal, Canada, since 1932. His U.S. organization has bee.n retained by American match manufacturers as consultant in engineering and timber operations for more than 15 years while his Montreal hiadquarters has acted in a similar capacity for the Canadian match industry. He is also president of Consolidated Building Materials, fnc., operating nine lumber yards in Vermont and Connecticut.
In addition to formulating Diamond,s production policies, Mr. Duffey will direct operation of company timber tracts in California, Oregon, Washington, fdaho and Maine which supply the factories of the company and its B-F-D Division, for the manufacture of matches, paper and paper goods, clothespins, foothpicks, candy sticks and various items of woodenware. The timber tracts also provide,lumber for the 101 retail yards and building miterial stores operated by the company.
Mr. Duffey graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a degree of Mechanical Engineer.
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Lumber shipments of. 394 mills reporting to the National Lumber Trade Barometer were 17.4 per cent above production for the week ended December 27. 1947. In the same week new orders of these mills were 35.8 per cent above production. Unfilled order files of the reporting mills amount to 52 per cent of stocks. For reporting softwood mills, unfilled orders are equivalent to 25 days' production at the current rate, and gross stocks are equivalent to 46 days'production.
For the year-to-date, shipments of reporting identical mills were 2.3 per cent above production; orders lvere 2.4 per cent above production.
Compared to the average corresponding week of 193539, production of reporting mills was 27.7 per cent above ; shipments were 15.2 per cent above; orders were 18.1 per cent above. Compared to the corresponding week in 1946, production of reporting mills was 28.4 per cent above;shipments were 11.8 per cent above, and ner'v orders were 33.3 per cent above.
Western Pine Association reports orders for Ponderosa pine, Idaho white pine, sugar pine and associated species for the week ended December 27, totaled 56,933,000 board feet. That compares with 65,046,000 the previous week and 39,956,000 the same week of 1946.
Shipments were 43,179,000 feet, as against 69,370,000 feet the previous week and 40,517,000 the previous year.
Comparisons of production are 38,025,000 feet, against 61,165,000 feet and n,758,000 in 1946.
For the year to date, orders are up l2/o compared rvith 1946, shipments are lp 9% and production up 5/o.
The Southern Pine Association for the week ended December 27, 87 units (98 mills) reporting, gave orders as 9,034,000 feet, shipments 10,979,000 feet, and production 10,753,000 ieet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 64.995.000 feet.
The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended December 20, 156 mills reporting, gave orders as 93,880,000 feet, shipments 98,900,000 feet, and production 105,960,000 feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the week totaled 496,492,040 feet.
For the rveek ended December 27,156 mills reporting, gave orders as 74,462,000 feet, shipments 68,707,000 feet, and production 53,897,000 feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the week totaled 505,905,000 feet.
Lumber Manufacturing Co., whose plant is at 225 In' dustrial Street, San Francisco 24, has been granted milling in transit privileges. The telephone number is JUniper 7-1760.
To the woodsmcn this is cr picture oI timber. The mill mcn sees it crs logrs . . . bui to lumber deqlers it represents customer satislaction when it recches him in the lorm oI Pope d Talbot Lumber.
Thcrt's becquse Pope & Tclbot Lumber is qucrlity protected every step oI the wcy. properly milled, properly hcrndled, cnd conscientiously grcded to high stcrndcrrds.
Back oI this crssurcnce of customer sctislaction is <rn orgcnizction oI lorests, men qnd equipment . . crnd cr bcckground oI more thcn 175 yeqrs lumber experience since 1849 in the West. Beccruse oI the initiative qnd resourcelulness oI Pope d Tclbot men, the P d T brand-mqrk hcrs ecrned cn envicrble reputcrtion . . cr reputction thct qccrues to those who deliver it and use it.
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Robinson Crusoe rn'as wrecked on a lonely and desolate island. He wanted to get OFF that island. He wanted that fact to become known. It rvasn't enough that his man Friday should know it; it wasn't going to do him any good for his pet goat and parrot, and the other nearby things on his own island to know that he wanted to get off. The people to whom he wished to communicate this desire of his were people who might pass nearby in ships, who were able to relieve him from his lonely position.
So what did Robinson Crusoe do?
He did what any wise man does who wants to reach other people-to communicate something to those not in direct touch witti him:
HE ADVERTISED !
Now right off the bat it might occur to you that he had about as little an advertising opportunity as any man you ever heard of. He HAD. But that didn't keep him from advertisingl
All he had in this world to advertise with. was an old
SHIRT. Not much of an advertising opportunity, we admit. And his prospective "customers" were very, very few.
But Robinson Crusoe was one of those guys who made the most'of his opportunities. He took the old shirt, stuck it on a pole, and stuck the pole up on the highest point of his island.
He didn't stick it up there one day, and take it down the next. He didn't say to himself : "Advertising may be all right for some folks, but it's no good for me." He didn't say: "I'll stick the old shirt up today, and then take it down for a few days."
He just put the only ad he had up in the best position he could find for it, and he kept it there all the time, day in and day out.
And finally he GOT RESULTS.
Mr. Lumber Merchant-whenever, you get to thinking about advertising for YOUR business, wondering if it pays, if it is worthwhile, if you can reach anyone, if your advertising possibilities are any goodREMEMBER ROBINSON CRUSOE.
Establishing an all-time record, 62,697 building permits valued at $258,422,266 were issued in Los Angeles last year, according to a report by G. E. Mot'ris, superintendent of building.
Mr. Morris said that permits were issued daring 1947 for 19,29L housing units.
Last year's number of permits was the greatest ever recorded in Los Angeles.
The figures for December, 1947-5203 building permits amounting to $25,182,648-are considered phenomenal for the Christmas month, Mr. Morris said. In December, 1946, 3b9 permits valued at $8,551,618 were on the books.
The 1946 valuation of. g220,696,M2 also had set an allt:me record, but was sizably exceeded in 1947.
The following officers have been selected by the directors of the Portland, Oregon, Hoo-Hoo Club to serve until September 9, L948:
President, Ed Bolds, Spruce Lumber & Veneer Co., Vancouver, Wash.; first vice president, Robert B. Kuhl, Carl H. Kuhl Lumber Co., Portland; second vice president, C. B. Sweet, Long-Bell Lumber Co., Longview, Wash.; secretary, Alfred Disdero, Qualser Lumber Co., Portland; treasurer, Earl Chalfan, Morrill & Sturgeon Lumber Co., Portland.
Carl C. Crow, Crow's Lumber Digest, Portland, Custocatian on the Supreme Nine, has appointed Ed Hoener, The Timberman, Portland, as Vicegerent Snark for Jurisdiction No. 3, which comprises Oregon,'Washington, Idaho, Nfontana, Colorado, and Wyoming.
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Forest Management in the Western Pine Region covers a big subject about a vast area. The Western Pines and their associated species grow in an area that approximates l/3 of. continental United States, extending from the Great Plains to the Coast Mountains and from Mexico north into Canada. In other words, the Western Pine Region includes all the timber growing areas in the 12 western states except the western portion of Oregon and Washington which is the Douglas Fir Region and the coastal strip of California which is the Redwood Region.
The lumber industry in the \Mestern Pine Region has been operating since 1932 under forest practice rules. These have been revised from time to time on the basis of woods experience and are directed by well-organized committees of operators in each state representing the membership of the Western Pine Association. In 1945 the Western Pine rules were incorporated into forest practice handbooks for each state in the region. They are the minimum standards for most pine logging operations. We feel that these association rules represent sound technical knowledge of forest requirements and the practical experience of progressive logging operators. They are, of necessity, the first steps in keeping forest lands productive and in condition to grow a new crop.
This program of voluntary self-regulation by industry is yet in its initial stages and it is appreciated that we still have a long way to go. But by and large there is general compliance to the rules. As far as we know, there is 100 per cent acceptance by management of member companies to the association's rules. Also a goodly number of nonmembers have made these rules their program in the woods. During the war there was considerable difficulty in getting woodsmen to give protection to young trees in the logging and to carry out certain other required measures. This difficulty is rapidly being overcome and in progressive operations is a thing of the past.
In addition to our regular program of forest practice rules dealing with the rvoods practices of member companies, the Western Pine Association sponsors the tree farm program throughout the region. In this program we consider members and non-members alike. Our purpose is to encourage the continuous production of forest crops on all privately-owned forest lands. To this end we urge owners to submit all qualified timberlands for certification as Western Pine Tree Farms. On lands so certified it is the declared policy that all harvesting and other operations will be handled in such a manner as to assure future crops. However, a tree farm involves more than a mere declaration of intention. It includes action in the woods to show that the area designated is being managed for forest crops and that it is given all reasonable protection. On some of our tree farms, foresters have been employed to build up the productive' capacity of the forest to the highest practicable level. These tree farmers tell us that they are managing their woods because they are convinced that the resulting wood growth will more than pay for the efiort. There is still a considerable number of forest properties which are being managed for the purpose of growing timber that have not as yet become certified as tree farms. We hope that they will soon join in this program which helps to give a purpose for owning forest land. The program is well on its way and growing fast. The additions in 1947 srvell the Western Pine score to lD tree farms and 2,524,653 acres. l\{ost tree farmers regret that they did not start sooner as they are now beginning to see the results of past efforts.
In industrial forest management, particular attention must be given to the available old growth timber supply. The success of any forestry program by industry depends in a large measure on the availability of privately-owned mature timber which may be converted into growing for-
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One ol these distinctiae F.D.I. "grad,e trade-marks" appears on the bottonr ol eaery oft.Zially inspected Douglas fir d.oor-and. only on d.oors so inspected. Look lor the F.D.I. seal. It is your symbol ol line craftsmanship, now backed, by rtgid. manulacturing inspection,
EVERY Douglas fir door stamped wi,th an official F.D.I. grade-mark comes under the new Fir Door Institute inspeition service-to assure dre 'high. est possible product quality and uniformitv.
Inspection covers workmanship, appearance, grade-and new dimension specifications adopted for stock in'terior doors. Stock 'doors are now pre-fit to /g-inch Iess than previous net c&talog height, and 3/16-inci less than catalog width, permitting installation without sawing, trimming
or planing. On*he.job oosts are reduced. A cleaner, more at. tractive product is assured.
Stock doors are also resin pre-sealed, which prepares them for better finish, protects against moisture, and improves dimensional stability. On order, covered by official inspec. tion-assuring.doors whidr meet every quality standard adopted by member factories of the Fir Door Institute.
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ests by selective cutting. Such old growth slands give the real opportunity for sound forest practices. In the Western Pine Region, according to latest government statistics, there still remains upward of 30,760,000 acres in all ownerships classified as old growth. The total volume in all ownerships is estimated at 503 billion board feet of metchantable softwoods of which one-third is listed as privately owned. California's pine area is estimated to have over , one-third of the total; or 171 billion board feet. Oregon's pine area is second on the list with 103 billion board feet or about one-fifth of the total. Idaho is our third Western Pine state with 61 billion feet: Montana is fourth with 52 billion feet; and Washington is fifth with 45 billion board feet.
It's not all a matter for the future. In this business of assuring a long-time timber supply there have been some noteworthy activities in the woods. In 1946, for example, individual trees were marked on a.selettive basis in Cali.fornia by foresters on 68,792 acres, and of this 19,479 acres were privately owned. In addition, practically all the remaining private land harvested in 1946, amounting to over 124,W acres, was cut under the diameter limit method. By this system trees below a specified diameter are left as a seed source and for a second crop. The diameter ordinarily observed is from 18 to 22 inches for the pine species and in some cases it was as high as 36 inches at breast height. From a forestry standpoint it's not so much a matter of leaving a certain size but rather to have sufficient numbers oI seed trees left and an adequate number of trees reserved for the second harvest cutting. There is ' good indication that such developments will continue toward more and more intensive forest Dractices.
Shevlin Pine Sales Company announces that efiective January l, 1948, its operations will be conducted under the name Shevlin-McCloud Lumber Company.
The new name is the only change involved and the policies, offices, personnel and products sold will remain exactly the same as heretofore.
Washington, D. C., December 19, 1947---The special problems of the lumber industry in cohnection with existing and proposed definitions of "executive, administrative, and professional" employees under the Wage-Hour Law were laid before the Administrator of the Wage-Hour Division today by R. A. Colgan, Jr., executive vice president, National Lumber Manufacturers Association.
In discussing "executive" employees, MrlColgan recommended the elimination of both the salafy test of $30 per week and the 2O per cent tolerance as to the number of hours of nonexempt work that may be performed. He pointed out the variety of jobs in the lumber industrv which are truly "cxecutive" because of their responsibility, yet cannot be judged by such artificial criteria as the 20 per cent tolerance test.
"We believe that the only fair and logical way to apply the executive exemption prescribed by Congress is to judge the job on its actual content, and drop both the salary requirement and the hours of nonexempt work requirement entirely," Mr. Colgan stated.
With regards to "administrative" employees, Mr. Colgan also pointed to the fact that "fairness can be achieved only by judging the job on the basis of its content." ". it is an economic reality that administrative work is variable and the employees doing it simply cannot be restricted to doing particular things 'at particular times," he said.
In discussing "pfofessional" employees, Mr. Colgan urged that the regulation be .amended to give less emphasis to the provision that the specialized knowledge of professional employees be customarily acquired through formal education. He cited timber cruisers as an example of a highly professional category whose training must stem from onthe-job experience rather than from any formal education.
"We believe that this type of employee is actually a bonafide professional man and should be permitted to come within the professional exemption," he said.
"Increasing the salary requirement or reducing the allowance for nonexempt work will deprive bonafide executive, administrative, and professional employees of the exemptions to which they are entitled," Mr. Colgan concluded.
For many years the Western Pine Association has issued Grading Certificates to capable graders whose work is checked regularly by the Association's Grading Bureau and found to be up to required standards. These certificates are issued to graders as "badgbs of merit," and as incentive for graders to do better work. They also give employers or prospective employers an indication of graders' ability, reliability and experience.
fn order to safeguard its use, each Grading Certificate states clearly on its face that it does not entitl6 the holder to make official Association inspections of 'shipments, expires one year from the date of its last renewal by the Association's Chief Inspector and is automatically canceled when the holder is no longer employed where his work is checked regularly by Grading Bureau inspectors.
The ability of certified graders is so well known in the industry and among its customers that a few shippers have attempted to capitalize upon that reputation by having graders who may hold certificates, now invalid because their work is no longer being checked, sign statements on invoices, giving the numbers of the certificates issued to them and "certifying" to the grade and tally of the shipments. Lumber hungry buyers, though unacquainted with the shippers, occasionally have relied upon these "certifications," paid sight drafts for 100 percent of invoices, and then been disappointed with the lumber they received.
There has been very little complaint upon the work done by graders hplding valid certificates. fssuance of these certificates undoubtedly has done much to improve the grading work in the Western Pine region. However, buyers should understand that the mere fact a grader at one time was issued a Grading Certificate does not guarantee the grade of a shifment. It is still important to know the shipper you are dealing with. If he is responsible a shipment will either be up to specifications or, if something occasionally goes wrong, a settlement may be based upon an official reinspection.
Monrovia, Jan. S-More than 5@ housing units were constructed here in 1947, when a record-breaking $4,097,782 in building permits was recorded.
"Here's A Better Way To Build" has been written to explain to builders, contractors, dealers and all parts of the industry just how the principles in Industry Engineered Homes Program can be applied to small home construction; and just how these principles and industry coordination can reduce home building costs.
bver 100 engineers from all segments of the have developed the material in this book.
A larger proportion of the industry has cooperated in this program than was ever grouped together in support of any other industry effort. The names of these organizations are listed on the inside back cover. They represent thousands of manufacturers of building materials and equipment, thousands of building material and equipment dealers, thousands of contractors and builders as well as certain portions of the home financing field.
It is believed that the book is simple enough in style and sufficiently illustrated to enable the serious homebuyer prospect.to understand it.
Approximately 25,000 of these books will be given to members of the industry and this number includes the actual lumber and building material dealer membership of thc 32 Federated State and Regional Associations. One book will be provided for each dealer member.
About 75,000 books will be sold at $1.00 each. Lumber and building material dealers will undoubtedly require copies of this book for local contractors, builders, architects, lending libraries, key officials interested in housing, home buyer prospects and others. They can be purchased at $1.@ each from the National Building Material Dealers Service Corporation, 302 Ring Building, Washington 6, D.C. Proceeds from the sale of the book will be used to return the cost of the program.
This book, the home plans, cutting and material lists, for masonry and wood frame homes, and the dealer's Promotion and Publicity Kit provide the dealer with local tools for a complete tie-in with the nationwide Industry Engineered Homes Program.
Each book being sent lumber and building material dealers contains a convenient order blank for ordering books, plans and kit. (The cutting and material lists accompany the plans).
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This will be a year of Opportunity. ***
In that respect it will UjUT tf* no other year.
Ever since the Declaration of fndependence was given to the world, Opportunity has belonged to all men, and to all men alike-in THIS country.
In the old days the Kings used to say: "God made you a peasant, and made me a King-gave you rags and me a robe-God did it."
Of course, it was an unholy lie THEN as it is NOW. But from the standpoint of the fellow under foot, it might just as well have been the ,y1.
They used to celebrate Christmas by hanging on libbets other God-worshipping men who chanced to disagree with them. On the birthday of the gentle Jesus they would desecrate His memory, and pretend that they were championing His cause. The horrors practiced upon the early Christians by the Barbarians, have only been surpassed in the intensity of their ferocity by those that were practiced by later Christians upon one*another.
The world found its tortuous way through eras of agony and injustice when for a man to think forcefully and intelligentln and speak freely-even though every thought and word was for the benefit of struggling humanity-was dangerous indeed.
And you can trace the liberation of the human race-the dawn of Opportunity-to that day when those inspired forefathers of ours signed their names to that Declaration and gave it to the world as the true birthright of man. It set at liberty thought, speech, ambition, originalitn initiative, patriotisrrq love of country, love of home, and love of God'
This will be a year of Opportunity. Every one of us will have the opportunity to do his level best in the particular work that he has, chosen. My rights only terminate where YOURS begin. We have the Opportunity to think, and speak, and work, and do just as we think best, provided we db not infringe upon the rights of others. We have the right to create success for ourselves, and to enjoy its fruits. Wc have the right to pursue health, happiness, and prosperity in the way we think best, so long as we do not intrude upon the other fellow's efforts in the same direction. We have the right to help the other fellow, to
cooperate with the other fellow in order that we may help one another-The Golden Rule-and to the end that the nation may be the better off. *{.*
And when you say: "I have the right," you have one hand on the Declaration of Independence and the other on the Constitution of the United States, and don't forget it. And don't forget that before that first document was written no man had ever before in the history of the world been able to say, "f havg the*right," and get away with it.
So, as we get ready to make this a big year, let us each breathe a little prayer of thanldulness for such OPPORTUNITY.
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Freed.om is expensive-noted economist F. A. Harper, tells us that 31 cents out. of every dollar lrre earn goes to the government, about one-third in direct personal taxes, such as income and property taxes, and two-thirds in the hidden variety. For instance, 23 cents out of every dollar earned goes for food, and 5 cents of that 23 is taxes added on in one way or another to the actual cost of the food. And the cost of freedom goes up, just like everything else -back in the days before the Civil 'War, the government only took about 5 cents out of every dollar, and look at it now! * r :F
Mr. Harper thinks that the higher taxes have been attended by a corresponding slackening of productive e.ffort, especially in the building up of capital. He doubts that a nation of "free" people can long survive this trend, and urges that the government reduce by at least half, their take from each dollar of personal income.
Another fellow has figured out that the aid given to the rest of the world since VE-Day has cost us $t5O per person and that the aid recently voted for Austria, France and ftaly, plus the Marshall plan $17,000,000,000 (if passed) will cost us another $150 per person. Here is a list of our aid to the world up to the present time: UNRRA $2,700,000,000; United Natiqns Organiz4tion $29,289,349; Lend Lease $?.,271,360,118; fnternational Monetary Fund (U.S. share) $2,750,000,000; fnternational Bank $635,000,000; Export-Import Bank (loans) $2,931,209,176; British loan $3,750,000,000; Aid to the Philippines $64O,000,fiD; Grants by the War Department$1,77t,926,293; Surplus property disposals, abroad $1,148,000,000; Greek-Turkish aid $,1,00,000,000; Relief in war-devastated areas $350,000,000; Relief in occupied areas $60O000,000; International relief organiza(Continued on Page 14)
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tion $7t,073,000 ; Other appropriations, 80th Congress $300,000,0O0; Reimbursement, Italian invasion currency $350,0O0,0O0; Forgiven debt of Italy to the United States $1,000,00Q000; Known total $21,697,857,936. Just divide that by 144,000,000 (the population of our country) and you come out with $150 each, or you should.
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'We've been pretty good to Mr. Stalin and his playmates especially; in the first nine ,months of.'47 we sent, among many other items, 43 electric locomotives, 33 steam locomotives and 69 diesel-powered locomotives; a great quantity of railroad car wheels; $14,539,000 worth of machinedriven tools; $59,284,000 worth of industrial machinery and $2,543,000 worth of agricultural machinery. The whole value of this first nine months goods to Uncle Joe adds up to $113,684,000 when all the items are put together. Wonder when he'Il start sending us back the things he's built with the things we've sent him?
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Truly it has been said that Atlas used to be pictured as a strong young man carrying the world on his shoulders. Today he wears striped pants and a goatee.
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And, speaking of loads the taxpayer carries, Richard Ifarkness, N.B.C. commentator, is responsible for the statement that there are still approximately 45,000 persons on the Federal pay roll engaged full or part time in dispensing information, publicity or propaganda. Their salaries total more than $75,000,000 a year. There was a time when the Federal government did not spend one dollar for publicity andpropaganda.
As one fellow said, fortunately, the cost of living doesn't affect the popularity of living.
On December 31st Mr. Petrillo and his 225,000 union musicians in the United States discontinued the practice of making musical records. He said that "members of the federation realize that in making recordings and transcriptions they are making their own competition" which would destroy them. That's what Mr. Petrillo said. "We do not know of any other business," said the mighty Petrillo, "that would make an instrument that would destroy it." Proving beyond the shadow of a doubt that while Mr. Petrillo may be a successful union dictator, he perhaps knows less about history and the history of economics than any other one living man'
How could he fail to know that throughout the progress of civilization and modern economics the art of multiple
reproduction from an original model has contributed immeasurably to the happiness and material welfare of mankind? All people who know anything of the world's progress understand that. Why doesn't Mr. Petrillo? Take his own business. So far from recordings and broadcasting having reduced the total demand for the services of musicians, the popularization of music has vastly increased it. Mr. Petrillo and his men have made the mistake of looking a gift horse in the mouth. As a matter of fact, had records never been made or played, Mr. Petrillo's union would today be only a handful of members. It was the recording that popularized music, put it within reach of the millions, and gave musicians a place in the sun they had never dreamed of previously. They owe much to recordings. How can they help but understand that fact?
The entire foundation of Mr. Petrillo's protest is built on shifting sands. It just isn't true. It would be just as bad for the stenographers union to announce that no more carbons would be used for copying manuscript; that no more letter copying machines would be operated or tolerated; that every sheet of manuscript for any purpose must be separately written. That would be exactly what Petrillo has done. Several hundred years ago printing came along to put thousands of copyists out of work; and it furnished e,mployment for hundreds of thousands of printers. Later +he type machines came along to put tens of thousands of hand-setting printers out of work; and furnished employment for several times as many men in the printing business by speeding printing, reducing its cost, and increasing its use a hundred times over. A newspaper writer gets paid but once for an article; yet the thing may be reprinted a million times. If the writer were Petrillo he would declare he had a kick coming-that each newspaper should be a separate printing job. The comparisons could go on endlessly. But proving that Mr. Petrillo is wrong, doesn't help the situation at all. The public is like the colored boy in jail in the oldest of stories, who when his lawyer told him he couldn't be locked up for such a charge, answered -"Vl,Isll, I'se heah, ain't I?" Petrillo is wrong, but he's also strong, and as long as our lawmakers remain weak, such monkey business as the stopping of record making is likely to continue.
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"If parsons said'Let us laugh' as often as they say'Let us pray,' churches would be fuller and people happier and better," the vicar of Borstal, England, wrote in his parish magazine. "You may keep all the commandments and practice all the virtues, but if it makes you a sanctimonious sourpuss, then you are no Christian." Check, Mr. Vicart Check and double check!
Arch W., Loney, Hoo-Hoo vicegerent snark for Utah and the Rocky Mountain district, was a recent Los Angeles visitor to confer with Supreme Junior Hoo-Hoo Roy Stanton, Jr.
Mr. Loney has been associated with the lumber industry for the past fifty years in various capacities for the United States Government, private concerns, and in the construction field. He now heads Arch W. Loney & Associates of Salt Lake City. He has been active in Hoo-Hoo for the past thirty years, his number being 949.
Mr. Stanton will leave for Salt Lake City February 23 to meet with Mr. Loney and lumbermen from Idaho, Montana, Colorado and lJtah, when plans will be made for a concatenation and a drive for new members in the Rockv Mountain district.
Holton C. Rush, formerly advertising manager for E. L. Bruce Co., is now president of a new advertising agency in Memphis, Tenn., which operates under the name of Greenhaw & Rush, fnc.
Mr. Rush was with E. L. Bruce Co. from 1934 until December l, 1947, when he resigned to start this agency. Prior to that time he was connected with Blackett-SampleHummert Advertising Agency in Chicago. He was also in the advertising and Sales Promotion Department ,of Halsey, Stuart & Co., Chicago, from 1927 to 1932.
Lumbermen's Post No. 4O3 of the American Legion will hold its semi-annual Hi-Jinks and get-together for lumbermen Friday evening, January 23, 1948, in the Rainbow Isle, Mayfair Hotel, 1256 West Seventh Street, Los Angeles.
Dinner will be served at 7:@ p.m. followed by a fine floor show. Don Gow, chairman of the Arrangements Committee and the members of his committee, have arranged for a gala evening's entertainment.
Tickets can be obtained from members of the Post, or callipg Commander Randy Seguine, SYcamore 2-7326,Pasadena.
A big turnout is expected. Get your tickets early.
Orrie W. Hamilton, se,cretary-manager of the Southern Calilornia Retail Lumber Association, announces that the Association will hold its annual meeting at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, April 15 and 16, 1948.
"I particularly enjoyed your Christmas issue, and wish you and your fine magazine every success in the New Year."
L. H. "Abe" Lincoln
Lincoln Lumber Co.
Oakland, Calif.
Washington, D. C., January S-William F. Jibb, formerly chief of public relations of the Florida Forest Service, has been named editorial director of the American Forest Products Industries, fnc., Washington, D. C., it has been announced by Chapin Collins, managing director oI the industrial organization. He succeeds Ben IC Weatherwax who is entering his own business in Washington state.
A native of Arkansas, Jibb received his formal education in Jacksonville, Fla., and is a journalism graduate of the University of Florida. For six years prior to the war, he sqrved in various capacities with Florida newspapers and a radio station. For two years, he was editor of the Plant City, Florida, Courier.
He is a veteran of the Navy, having served as intelligence offiier for two years in the Caribbean and two years as public relations officer and combat photographer in the Pacific and Asiatic theaters. During his Pacific service, he made 13 assault landings. He holds the Bronze Star and Legion of Merit for combat service and the Chinese Yun Hui medal for liaison work with Russians and Chinese communists in China and Manchuria.
He joined the Florida Forest Service in 1946 and has been particularly active in publicity for the "Keep Florida Green" program. This is part of a national "Keep America Green" project which the American Forest Products Industries encourages. In 1947, he was made an honorary member of the Florida Future Farmers of America.
Fordyce, Arkansas, December 24, 1947: B. A. Mayhew, president of the Fordyce-Crossett Sales Company, Fordyce, Arkansas, today announced the dissolution of the Sales Company as of January l, 1948.
ft is understood that the principal suppliers of the Sales Company, Crossett Lumber Company and Fordyce Lumber Company, will market their production in the future through their own sales offices located at the plants of the respective companies at Fordyce and Crossett. Both companies manufacture Pine, Southern Hardwoods and Royal Oak Flooring.
P. H. Olwell has gone in the wholesale business for himself, under the name of P. H. Olwell Lumber & Shingle Company, with offices in Everett, Wash.
He was vice president and general manager of the Jamison Lumber & Shingle Company of Everett, and was with that concern for thirty-three years.
Henry Olwell has been prominently identified with the red cedar shingle industry for many years, and is widely known in the lumber trade throughout the country. He served as president of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau for two years, and has been on its board of trustees for more than twenty years.
Washington, D. C., December 27, 1947-Signing by the President today of the bill increasing insurance atthorization under Title VI of the National Housing Act means the Federal Housing Administration can resume at once effective aid to private industry in providing urgently needed housing for veterans, according to Commissioner Franklin D. Richards. The new legislation increases the insurance authorization $250,000,000 immediately, with an additional $500,000,000 authorization available at the discretion of the President.
"To assure the most advantageous and equitable use of the new Title VI authorization," Mr. Richards said, "its use will be carefully controlled by selective processing rather than by the volume of applications received. Instructions have been issued to FHA field offices to receive applications regardless of volume until the total authorization has been committed for insurance."
Mr. Richards pointed out that the volume of applications filed may exceed the new authorization. However, the greater the volume, he explained, the more selective FHA field offices can be in carrying out the goal of Title VI to provide housing for veterans.
The basis for selecting applications for processing and issuing commitments will be: (1) efforts will be made to see that a major portion of all commitments issued are for rental units; (2) commitments will not be issued in excess of the builder's capacity to complete construction during the term of the commitment; (3) commitments will not be issued in excess of the estimated market absorption; (4) preferential consideration will be given to those applications offering the best possibilities for the production of housing at the lowest prices and rents.
Mr. Richards stated by such selective processing the Federal Housing Administration strengthens its efforts to combat inflationary prices while encouraging the production of urgently needed housing. Under the selective processing plan, builders are encouraged to file applications in an orderly manner rather than at a highly accelerated rate. The Commissioner also stressed the fact that FHA field offices are taking precautions to see that necessary
current cost estimates do not reflect costs of inefficient building operations.
It has been estimated that FHA field offices probably cannot process and commit more than the total presently approved authorization, including the $500,000,000 authorizition discretionary with the President, in the time remaining ,until March 31, 1948, the legal expiration date of the legislation. At the present time, almost one-third of new residential construction is being financed by Title VI insurance.
"I would like to point out," said Commissioner Richards, "that Title VI is an emergency activity of FHA. It has no effect on the permanent insurance plan carried out under Title II, Sections 203 and 207, which is the insurance of mortgages on homes and large scale rental projects under the National Housing Act which specifically directs the FHA to encourage improvement in housing standards and conditions and to provide a system of mutual mortgage insurance. Nor does it affect Title I reoair and modernization operations."
The first home show to be held in northern California since before the war will be held in San Francisco's Civic Auditorium from April 7 through April 14, 1948.
The show will use more than 80,000 square feet of floor space. It is being sponsored by the San Francisco Real Estate Board and the Associated Home Builders of San Francisco, fncorporated.
Plans for the show include model homes, completely furnished, to be erected on the display floor. Gardens will be provided in different areas in order to break the commercial atmosphere of the show.
Offices for the San Francisco National Home Show have been opened at 1011 Humboldt Building, and Ira W. Curry is managing director.
Melford C. Kupps, formerly of Los Angeles, has organized the Butte Building Materials Company to be located at Paradise, Butte County, California. This concern will handle a complete line of building materials. Mr. Kupps states that he will have his new firm in operation shortlv after Tanuarv 1. 1948.
The boord is not on ils woy to lhe Peorly Gctes -buf well it might be! lt's Simpson Insuloting Boord-the only boord mode of lOO% pure Douglos Fir.
It's lhe omozingly long tough fibers of the Dciuglos Fir thqt moke the Simpson Insuloting Boord on ouistqnding product.
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Bridgeville Lumber Co., Bridgeville, Colif.
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Crca lumber Co., Smilh River, Colif. (Douglos Fir)
Cunninghom & Quigley, Fortunc, Colif.
Wm. Dunn, Fortuno, Colif.
Emmercon E Berg lumber Co., Arcoto, Colif.
Evqns lumbcr Co., Rockport, Cqlif.
F & M Lumber Co., Crescent City, Cclif.
Gilson lumber Co., Klomoth, Cqlif.
Hornden Bros. Lumber Co., Arcqtq, Cqlif.
John lll. Hill lumber, Eureko, Colif.
W. C. Pelerson, Arcqfq, Colif.
Phelps Bros. Lumber Co., Arcolo, Cqlif.
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(I have had more fun with the following than with any story I have printed in a long time-JCD.)
The two headed baseball pitcher came up from a small town ball club. He was a great, big fellow, with two well developed heads. And he was a phenom with a baseball. Los Angeles reached out and grabbed him, and brought him to the big city to pitch for the L.A. league team.
When the two headed pitcher arrived in Los Angeles, there was a big crowd at the station to meet him. When he got off the train he was wearing a full dress suit, and two silk hats. At sight of him the crowd went into an uproar. This seemed to pazzle the two headed pitcher. 'What the hell's the matter with these people," he.wanted to know; "haven't they ever seen a dress suit before?" **t
His mother came with him. They knew right away it was his mother because she carried a book in her hand entitled-"My Son, My Son."
He didn't get along so well with the bigger league. None of the catchers liked to work with him. They said he kept them confused. They couldn't tell whether he was watching the runner o,n first, the runner on second, was signalling his next pitch, or was firting with a blonde in the grandstand. ***
One evening the two headed pitcher went into the Brown Derby to eat dinner with several friends. They got to bragging about the important people they knew, so not to be outdone the two headed pitcher said he knew Clark Gable; in fact they were buddies. Just then Clark Gable came in and passed right by their table. Going through with his blufr the two headed pitcher smiled and said "Hi, Clark." Gable stared at him, then passed without speaking. One of his pals said to the two headed pitcher "IIow come your buddy didn't speak to you?" And the two headed pitcher said "I{e must not have recognized me."
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An active demand for lumber at current high levels is the outlook for 1948 as seen by the experts in the Commerce Department's commodity sections and printed in the December issue of "Domestic Trade Digest" published by the department's Office of Domestic Commerce. The officials warn, however, that their analysis of business trends are "subject to the influences of the international economic and political situation."
"The year 1948," the report says, "may be expected to witness a general continuation of the underlying conditions which characterized the last half of 1947. Active demand should continue at the current high levels, or increase in pace with indicated construction activity. Production can be expected to continue at about the 1947 levels with perhaps slight gains, but limited plant facilities, equipment, labor, and resources will militate against any material increase. The unexpectedly active demand for the better grades of lumber during the late summer and fall ol 1947, in spite of generally record high prices, combined with retail distributors' caution in advance buying, resulted in lowered retail stocks in the fall of 1947, as compared with earlier in the year. Stocks which were on hand, generallv were reported as badly out of balance. Mill stocks tended to accumulate late in 1947 as car shortages hampered deliveries, but in general remained far below prewar levels. Thus it seems evident that, in addition to probable active demands, fairly substantial quantities of lumber can be used, if available, to replenish and to balance the industry's stocks.
"Should lumber prices make further appreciable increases, it is probable that a considerable segment of the active demand would be deferred, but, on the other hand, should prices recede, much presently latent demand probably would become activated.
"Hardwood flooring, continuing to gain in production volume, should become relatively easier, but neither it nor millwork show promise of becoming in plentiful supply during 1948 in relation to prospective demand.
"The outlook for the softwood plywood industry in 1948
is favorable. Production has increased about 200 million square feet annually during the past 2 years. If this rate is continued, production in 1948 may be near the 1.84 billion foot level reached in 1942, the peak production year in the industry's history. Additional equipment and plants, installed or proposed, will substantially increase the potential capacity over the rated capacity of 2.2 blllion square feet at the beginning of. 1947.
"Many of the problems which hampered the industry during the u'ar have been eliminated. Log supply, one of the more important retarding factors during recent years, has improved. Inventories at the end of the third quarter L947 amounted to 222 million board feet, log scale, larger than at any time during the war. The production of adhesives, another bottleneck, is increasing, and it is predicted that the adhesive situation will continue to improve.
"Demand for softwood plywood will remain high, and may exceed the supply by a substantial margin, in view of an estimated increase in construction."
Total new construction in 19'E is forecast at $15,200 million, compared rvith $12,665 million estimated f.ot 1947. Private residential building will jump from $4.8 billion to 6 billion. Industrial construction will drop from $1,695 million in 1947 to $1,350 million in 1948, but public utility construction will be up from $1,315 million to $1,625 million. Publicly financed construction will advance about 3OVo over the 1947 volume, mostly because of highway construction and gains in building of schools, hospitals and other institutions.
J. W. Sherar has been appointed promotion manager of the Western Pine Association, Portland, Oregon, succeeding N. L. Cary, who resigned after 25 years' service with the organization. Mr. Sherar has been in the Association's trade promotion department for the past 10 years.
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Portland, Ore., December 31, I947-An analysis of fourth quarter 1947 manaf.acture of Idaho White Pine, Ponderosa Pine, Sugar Pine and ,associated woods and probable first quarter 1948 consumption was released today by S. V. Fullaway, Jr., secretary-manager, Western Pine Association. The statement in full is as follows:
"Lumber shipments from the W'estern Pine region during the last quarter of. 1947 will apparently greatly exceed the September 30th forecast and the estimated l72l million feet will mean an all time high for fourth quarter shipments. Regional shipments for the entire year of.1947 are now expected to reach 6 billion, 650 million feet, a new record for the Western. Pine industry, the previous peak being 6 billion, 541 million in 1942.
"The present estimate of. 1947 production in the Western Pine region is slightly more than 6/a billion feet which exceeds that of the former high in 1946 by about 6tl/o
"Total regional stocks at the close of 1947 are now estimated to be only 121 million above those on hand December 31, 1946. The heavy shipments during the last quarter of. 1947 resulted in a greater than normal stock reduction for that season. The increase in regional stocks since a yeir ago is entirely accounted. for by the larger inventories of the species other than the pines and reflects the growing demands for seasoned lumber and consequent greater stocks required for air seasoning.
"Based on all available information it now seems probable that during the first quarter of 1948, shipments (consumption) of lumber by the Western Pine industry will approximate 1400 million or about 5% above those for the same 1947 pefiod. Such a forecast is based on the rather general predictions that 1948, although subject to some change in ths economic trend, will on the whole exceed 1947 in business activity. This forecast also assumes that lumber production will not be retarded by the return of government controls."
William M. Kerrick has just retired as purchasing agent for The Mengel Company, Louisville, Ky., after 48 yiars with the firm. Mr. Kerrick, who started as an office boy, hasbeen purchasing agent for the past 37 years.
The seventh edition of the Commercial Standard for Douglas Fir Plywood, which has been in effect since September 15, 1947, has just been issued by the National Bureau of Standards. Several changes have been made which bring this standard up-to-date..
While plywood is one of the oldest manufactured forest products, having been used to a limited extent by the ancient Egyptians and Chinese, it owes its present popularity to scientific control of the manufacturing process and the establishment of stindard requirements and tests to insute uniformity of quality for the various grades.
In 1933 the producers, distributors, and users of Douglas fir plywood cooperated with the Bureau in establishing a commercial standard to provide definite grade specifications. It has since been necedsary to revise the standard six times in order to keep it abreast of improvements in this rapidly expanding industry.
The present edition covers detail grading requirements for seven grades of exterior type and five grades of interior type Douglas fir plywood, as well as tests and requirements for the two types of bondage.
For those unfamiliar with the product, a chart is included showing the types and grades that are generally suitable for a large list of uses, and suggestions are given on ordering plywood so as to prevent misunderstandings. The pamphlet also shows facsimiles of the markings employed by members of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association to denote and identify the several grades.
Copies of the pamphlet embodying the revised Commercial Standard (issued as CS45-47) *ay be obtained at 10 cents each from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C.
The Hammond Lumber Company has discontinued the sale of its products through the California Redwood Distributors, Ltd., Chicago, which agency heretofore sold for them in the territory east of the Rocky Mountains.
Hammond Lumber Company, Inc. will maintain an office at 35 Wacker Drive, Chicago 1, Illinois, to handle its eastern sales. John G. Klopfenstein is in charge.
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FRESNO, CALIF.
Taxes have added $1,155 into the cost of an $8,000 house since 194O, Norman P. Mason, president of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association told the Master Builders of Iowa, members of the Associated General Contractors of America, meeting in Des Moines, Iowa, December 17.
"In the cost of an $8,000 house there is approximately $2,136 that must be used to pay taxes at present rates," Mr. Mason pointed out. "Free gf taxes, this $8,000 house would cost $5,864 and at 1940 tax rates would cost $6,845. Between 1940 and 1947, $1,155 in taxes has been added to bring the cost of this house up to $8,000."
In dollar volume home construction is not the largest element, Mr. Mason said. But like the mythical tail that wags the dog, the prominence given home building not only in the publicity in the public press but in the Halls of Congress presehts a problem that has afiected every phase of construction. Housing is the key-log in the jam.
Part of the problem is an actual scarcity of adequate homes in the right places and part of the problern is the flood of misleading propaganda from public housers and social planners in and out of government.
The fact is, once freed of government controls and regulations last May, the industry took less than 60 days to start breaking all construction records. July with 80,000 homes started; August with 83,000 starts; September with 92,ffi0 starts and October with 92,000 starts, simply means that for one-third of the year a free industry was able to build over one-third of a million homes.
An authentic and practical study of lumber grading is contained in an 86-page booklet, "The Fundamentals of Good Lumber Manufacturing and Grading Practice," re-cently publ.ished by the West Coast Bureau of Grades and Inspection.
Intended to supply basic information of value to all persons engaged in the manufacture of lumber, the booklet was prepared by Howard L. Brown, general superintendent of the West Coast Bureau, and one of the country's leading authorities on lumber grading.
Well illustrated, the booklet gives a full account of the grader and his duties, and describes in detail the characteristics and irregularities which result in the segregation of lumber into various grades. Specific grading rules are dealt with only in a general way.
Reviewers have described the booklet as a "must". for executives as well as all mill personne!. Price of the booklet is fifty cents. Copies may be obtained by writing the West Coast Bureau of Lumber Grades and Inspection, 1410 S. W. Morrison Street, Portland 5, Oregon.
Ed Fountain, Ed Fountain Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and Mrs. Fountain, are on a vacation trip to Mexico, Guatemala, and Yucatan. They will be away about six weeks.
F. A. Vollstedt, Vbllstedt-Kerr Lumber Co., McMinnville, Oregon, was a recent Los Angeles visitor. C. P. Henry & Co., Los Angeles, represents his firm in Southern California
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Lord, let me never tag a moral to a ta!e, nor tell a story without a meaning. Make me respect my material so much that I dare not slight my work. Help me to deal very honestly with words and with people, for they are both alive. Show me that as in a river, so in a writing, clearness is the best qualitp and a little that is pure is worth more than much that is mixed.
Teach me to see the local color without being blind to the inner light.
Give me an ideal that will stand the strain of weaving into human stuff on the loom of the real.
Keep me from caring more for books than for folks, for art than for life.
Steady me to do the full stint of work. as well as I can; and when that is done, stop me; pay what wages Thou wilt, and help me to say, from a quiet heart, a grateful Amen.
The closer you get to serving your fellow man sincerely, The closer you get to using all your talents in this service, The closer you get to living simply, near to Mother Nature, The closer you will get to finding your God and your reason for being, And the closer you will get to happiness.
The Plain Man is the basic clod, From which we grow the demigod; And in the average man is curled
The hero stuff that rules
rhe Seven *,"" :l:"1*:::J::i",,a"a a sreat dinner in Athens, and were asked'the question: "What is the ideal state?" They replied:
Solon: 'That in which an injury to the least of its citizens is an injury to all."
Bias: "Where the law has no superior."
Thales: "Where the rich are neither too rich, nor the poor too poor."
Anacharsis: "Where virtue is honored, and vice detested.tt
Pittacus: "Where dignities are always conferred on the good, never on the bad."
Cleobolus: "Where the citizens fear blame, more than punishment."
Chilo: "Where'the laws are more regarded and have more authority, than the orators."
The visitor contemplated the cool wind of April, and the snow on the mountain tops. He said to the gas station attendant:
"VV'hen does the snow melt on those mountains?"
And the attendant said: "When it gets warrn around here."
So the visitor asked: "And when does it get warm around here?"
And the follow answered simply: "When the snow melts on those mountains."
For when a woman is left too much alone, Sooner or later she begins to think; And no man tmows what then She may discover.
-Edwin A. Robinson.Nobody finds quite as many things of interest in the local newspaper as Aunt Samantha.
"Job printing," she read from an advertisement. t'Poor Job ! They've kept him printing week after week, year after year, ever since I can remember. If he wasn't the patientest man that ever was, he never would have'stood it so long, nohow."
At the public library, a small boy presented a well-worn dirty volume at the return desk. The librarian glanced at the book, leaned forward to take in the size of the boy, and remarked, "This is rather technical, isn't it?"
Planting his feet firmly on the floor, the boy, half-defiant, half apologetic, said, "It was that way when I got it."
I sing no idle songs of dalliance days, No dreams Elysian inspire my rhyming; I have no Celia to enchant my lays, No pipes of Pan have set my heart to chiming.
I am no wordsmith dripping gems divine Into the golden chalice of a sonnet;
If love songs witch you, close this book of mine, Waste no time on it.
Yet bring I to my work an eager joy, A lusty love of life and all things human;
Still in me leaps the wonder of the boy, A pride in man, a deathless faith in woman.
Still red blood calls, still rings the valiant fray; Adventure beacons through the sumrner gloaming: Oh long and long and long will be the day Ere I come homing!
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In a year-end business review, Bror Dahlberg, president of the Celotex Corporation, states:
"The Celotex Corporation views the future of its business with increasing optimism.
"Never before has there been such a pressing need for new and restorative construction. Everyone is aware of the critical shortage of housing, but our needs do not stop there. With the new homes that are built, there must be additional stores, churches, banks, schools, hospitals, theatres, public utilities and other structures essential to community life. I
"There is also a tremendous need for new industrial construction. Most of our existing factories are so obsolete that future competition will force modernization or completely new construction.
"The farmer likewise figures prominently in the nation's construction picture. Besides his housing problem, which is as acute as that in the cities, there is a crying need for new agricultural buildings of all kinds.
"The business outlook in the building material field is so good that I look for no great slackening at any time. In my opinion it will be 10 years before the industry can fill the present backlog of demand.
"In view of the staggering construction requirements facing the country, The Celotex Corporation, about two .years ago, initiated an expansion prograrh that would enable it to incre4se greatly the flow of urgently needed
materials from its plants. This program is nearing completion and our capacities have been substantially increased, but even working day and night, we are unable to catch up with the tremendous demand for our products.
"'We will, however, contirrue our efiorts to turn out materials as steadily and as rapidly as possible."
Gus N. Arneson, general superintendent of Washington Veneer Co., Olympia, has been named manager of Springfield Plywood Co., Sppingfield, Ore., according to a recent announcement. The Oregon firm is a subsidiary of Washington Veneer. Mr. Arneson's appointment was occasioned by resignation of Manager A. O. Karlen of the Springtreld operation, who is rejoining the Weyerhaeuser Timber tCo. Frank A. Abbott, now production superintendent of Washington Veneer, will succeed Mr. Arneson in Olympia, while C. H. Pearson will assume Mr. Abbott's former duties. Mr. Pearson's post as research laboratory manager will go to John L. Connors. All changes are effective Jan. l, 1948.
The number of apprentices in the building trades is at an all-time high, according to an announcement of the Apprentice-Training Service, U. S. Department of Labor.
The largest number of apprentices, 39,926, are in the woodworking trades. The electrical trades are second with 17,2@ apprentices.
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San Francisco, Jan. l5-Enough timber to house a city of. 220,000 persons was cut on the national forests in California during the last fiscal year, a report by the U.S. Forest Service regional office discloses.
Latest available figures were for the year ending last June 30. They shorved that timber sold from the 18 national forests and cut by the lumber industry that year totaled 555,181,000 board feet. Total number of sales was I,177.
Foresters say the cut would be sufficient to build 55,000 five-room houses suitable for families of four. Actually, much of this timber went to make fruit crates, industrial timbers and other rvood products as well as lumber for houses.
The cut, valued at close to two billion dollars, exceeded that of the previous year by 152 million feet and $690,000. ' The increased cut was made without damaging the productivity of the national forests, a spokesman pointed out. Timber sales on these forests are made .in accordance with long range plans, and forest officers supervise the logging. Trees they mark for cutting are the mature or defe,ctive ones, whose removal 'ivill leave the timber-stand in better gror,r'ing condition. Young, vigorous trees are left to insure a sustained yield of timber in the future.
One-fourth of the money from timber sales and other receipts from use of the national forests is returned to the State of California, in lieu of taxes on this Federallyowned land. The State distributes the money to counties
Walter G. Scrim, Los Angeles, president of the Philippine Mahggany Association, Inc., in a bulletin to the members announced that the Executive Order No. itZ permitting limited shipment of Philippine Mahogany sawn lumber was signed by the President of the Philippine Islands on December 17, 1947.
The Order became effective December 4, 1947, permits exportation of 20/o of the actual production, and will be in effect for six months.
W. W. Woodbridge, manager, and Arthur Eugene Smith, field representative, Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, Seattle, spent a few days in Los Angeles last week while enroute to Dallas, Texas. The next few months they will make their headquarters in the Middle W'est on Bureau business.
Mr. Woodbridge reports that red cedar shingle production of the membership mills of the Bureau has increased fr% in the last six months.
in which national forests are located, for use on schools and roads.
Unique products sold from the forests were 120,000 Christmas trees, 20,000 pine cones, 19,000 pounds of decorative greens, 2,75O pounds of tree bark, 20,000 pounds of yerba santa for medicinal purposes, 32000 pounds of burls and 11,000 stalks of yucca.
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The text is designed for basic or supplementary use in courses in forest economics, management,and finance, and gives emphasis to the application'of general principles to forest economics and valuation. The book is outstanding for its wide coverage, up-to-date treatment of recent advances, and its stress on discount, market values, and detailed analysis of grade composition and. value of standing timber. It is notable for its development of the economic principles upon which the structure of forest valuation depends.
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Gay Bradt, who has been with Northern Redwood Lumber Co. for the past several months, and was for some time with the California Redwood Association, is now a member of the sales staff of Wendling-Nathan .Company, San Francisco. He will cover the San Francisco Bay area, Peninsula, and Coast Counties territory. Mr. Bradt served in the Merchant Marine during the war. He got his first lumber experience with the Hammond Lumber Company at the mill in Samoa. Calif.
. Augusta, Ga., Dec. Z5-William J. Renn, Jr,, of Jenkintown, Pd., was named manager of the plywood and veneer division of Georgia Hardwood Lumber Co. here today by Owen R. Cheatham, president.
, He is widely known' in the plywood industry, having been an executive with several large Eastern and West Coast plywood and veneer concerns. Prior to joining Georgia Hardwood he operated his own plywood warehouse 'business in Philadelphia.
Mr. Renn is a native of Indiana and a graduate of West Point. He was a colonel in the Army during the war and saw service against the Japs in Australia and New Guinea, Georgia Hardwood owns and operatbs nine mills in the South and on the West Coast, and has affiliated mills throughout the Appalachian region and in Washington, Oregon and California.
All arrangements have been completed including entertainment, for the Hoo-Hoo Concat and party to be held at the Hotel Californian, Fresno, on Friday evening, January 23.
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Carl Moore, Oakland lumberman, and his family, spent the New Year's holidays in Pasadena' Carl is an alumnus of the University of Michigan, and he attended the Michigan-USC football game in the Rose Bowl.
Miss Elizabeth Campbell, Lumber Manufacturing Co., San Francisco, spent the holiday season with her parents in Los Angeles.
Robert Forgie, Stockton Lumber Company, Stockton, and Mrs. Forgie, spent a few days in Los Angeles where they were the guests of their son, James H. Forgie, who is associated with Robert S. Osgood, wholesale lumberman. Bob tool< in the Los Angeles open golf tournament to watch some of the country's greatest golfers play.
Glenn Fogleman, The California Door Co.rrparry, Los Angeles, spent several days in San Francisco on business.
and J. W. Copeland, J. W. Copeland Yards, Portland, family, are spending several weeks at Palm Springs.
Rube Ross, Oregon Lumber Sales, Inc., Eugene, Ore., took in the Michigan-USC football game at Pasadena, New Year's day.
Francis Nelson, formerly with Snellstrom Lumber Co. and Long Bell Lumber Co., at Vaughn, Oregon, is now sales manager for the Siskiyou Forest Products Co. of Grants Pass, Oregon.
George C. Cornitius of the Cornitius Hardwood trip to Los Angeles Co., San Francisco, made a business in the latter part of December.
Geo. W. Truitt, Truitt-Warren Lumber Co., wholesale lumber dealers, Berkeley, Calif., returned late in December from a visit to Los Angeles and Long Beach on business.
R. A. "Dutch" Wiseman, Wholesale Lumber Distributors, Inc., Oakland, spent the Christmas holidays with friends in the tall timber at Gilchrist, Oregon.
John Manning, Atlantic Lumber Co., Portland, Ore., has been spending a few weeks in Southern California.
Jim Jones, Golden Gate Lumber Co., a recent Southern California visitor. Eugene, Ore., was
Paul Foote, sales manager, and Elmer Goudy, manager, Collins Pine Co., Chester, Calif., spent several days in Los Angeles last month.
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John J. Helm, manager of Cascade Pacific Lumber Co., Portland, and his wife, spent the Christmas holidays in the San Francisco Bay district.
Lewis A. Godard, Hobbs cisco, and his wife, attended dena, New Year's Day.
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J. E. Peggs, Jr. California representative of Irwin & Lyons, North Bend, Oregon, spent a few days in Los Angeles early this month on business. He made the trip by air both ways.
Ray Schaecher, Taylor Lumber Co., Eugene, Oregon, flew to San Francisco January 5, to confer with the firm,s California representatives, Floyd Elliott, San Francisco, and Charles E. Kendall, Los Angeles, who traveled to San Francisco for the meeting.
H. C. Patton,'Portland, manager of the Oregon operations oI Hammond Lumber Company, and his wife, visited their daughter in Long Beach over the Christmas and New Year holidays. Mr. Patton spent a few days on the way home visiting the company's head ofrce and Humboldt County operations.
J. H. Warren of Truitt-Warren Lumber Co., Berkeley, Calif., made a business trip to Reno, Nevada, last month.
A. B. McKee, San Pedro Lumber Company, Los Angeles, and Lathrop K. Leishman, Crown City Lumber & Mill Company, Pasadena, have been elected directors of the Merchants and ManuIacturers'Association of Los Angeles.
Ray Spalding, member of the firms oT Arcata Manufacturing Co., Arcata, Calif., and Pacific Forest Products, Inc., Oakland, accompanied by his wife and son, has returned from a vacation trip to Los Angeles.
Hugh Hamilton, general manager, Gardiner Lumber Co., Gardiner, Oregon, was a recent business visitor to San Francisco.
Melville Ruffatto is a of Hill & Morton, Inc., recent addition Oakland.
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M. A. "Red" Downing, salesman for Fir-Tex of Northern California, San Francisco, rvas back on the job January 5 from two weeks' vacation spent at Ojai and Los Angeles.
Elrner W. Spalding and Ray Spaldtng, of Arcata Manufacturing Co., Arcata, Calif., and their wives, attended the East-West football garne in San Francisco, on New Year,s Day.
Russell J. Hogue, sales manager, Medford Corporation, Medford, Oqegon, and his wife, attended the East-West football game in San Francisco, January 1.
New York, Dec. 31-A'larger volume of new home construction in the United States than at any other time since ths early twenties can be anticipated for 1948 and JohnsManville production of materials for this field is expected to be 20/o greater than in L947, according to Harold R. Berlin, vice president of Johns-Manville Corporation, and general manager of its Building Products Division.
"ff business in general remains at a high level next year and the building industry exercises restraint in the matter of costs and prices, approximately $f5 billion of new construction appears entirely possible," Mr. Berlin said. "Together with $5 or $6 billions of repair, maintenance and remodelling construction, a $20 billion year is entirely possible.
"The biggest factor should be residential as here the need is greatest. Residential expendiiures should run at least $1 billion more than in 1947."
Mr. Berlin pointed out that the building industry must hurdle threats of new governmental controls, labor unrest, shortages and inflation to record a $20 billion year.
"Despite higher building costs, materials should be more readily available than in 1947 as the building industry through expansion and added manpower reaches near capacity. Excessive controls, prevalent in the first postwar year no longer handicap the industry's ability to produce needed material," Mr. Berlin said.
"Although 1947 may see a near-record number of 800,000 new dwellings completed, this is far below requirements. The extremely low vacancy ratios and the extent of doubling up of families are common knowledge. The population of the country has increased by about 11,000,000 the last seven years and family formation has proceeded at a record pace. Any building year for the next five to seven years that does not produce a million new homes must be considered as falling below requirements."
Turning to Johns-Manville's production of needed building materials, Mr. Berlin pointed out that the company embarked on a $50,000,000 expansion replacement and improvement program shortly after VJ-Day in September, 1945.
"This program, of course, includes both industrial products and building materials, but more than half of the funds are being spent with a view to increasing production of building materials."
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Recent installations of latest model Gerlinger lift trucks in Northern California, reported by the Gerlinger California distributors, Burnaby & Williams, at their Northern California office, 600 16th Street, Oakland, include the following:
Melrose I-umber & Supply Co., Oakland; Cunningham & Quigley, redwood manufacturers, Fortuna, Calif.; A. H. Ruoff, redwood manufacturer, Lagunitas, Calif.; Coastal Plywood & Timber Corp., Cloverdale, Calif.; Fuller Lumber & Supply Co., Sacramento, and The Marley Company, Stockton, manufacturers of cooling towers.
Resumption of receipt of applications, under Title VI of the National Housing Act, from approved lending institutions as of January 2, 1948, was announced December D by John E. McGovern, director, Southern California District, Federal Housing Administration.
"Processing has continued, without interruption, on those applications which were received in this office prior to Nov. 12, when receipt of Title VI applications was temporarily suspended, Mr. McGovern said. "However, all unprocessed applications now on hand and those received, lanaary 2, or thereafter, shall be processed and committed on a basis of selectivity and not necessarily in the order filed.
"Preference in order of processing and commitment shall be given to applications which offer the best possibilities for the production of housing at the lowest sales prices or lowest rents, and in neighborhoods showing greatest need. A substantial portion of all commitments issued will be allocated to rentals, however.
"Title VI of the National Housirrg Act was passed by Congress as a Veterans Emergency Housing Program to alleviate the housing shortage by encouraging builders to construct residential units to meet the needs of returning veterans. At the time that legislation was passed a definite limit was set by the Congress as to the dollar volume of loans which the FHA could insure. That amount was exhausted in November of this year, and on December 27,
the President signed a new $250,000,000 with authority crease the authorization bv insurance.
bill authorizing an increase of in the President to further in$500,000,000 for the Title VI
Production of asphalt shingles and roll roofing Lar 1947 will be a record 70,000,000 squares, more than 65 percent above production in L94I, the peak prewar year, the Asphalt Roofing Industry Bureau estimates.
Department of Commerce figures show that during the first eight months of this year, the industry produced 46,005,702 squares of asphalt shingles and roll roofing, well above the total of 42,383,858 for 1941. Shipments of asphalt shingles alone in the first six months exceeded the 1941 total.
The year-end estimate f.or 1947 does not include expected production of about 10,000,000 squares of saturated felt. In observing and reporting L947 production in the asphalt roofing industry, the Department of Commerce noted that "the industry has reached a high state of proficiency."
Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Owen are receiving congratulations on the birth of a daughter, Barbara Christine, born December 28, 1947, in Oakland. Mr. Owen is manager of Nicholls Brothers, wholesale lumber dealers, El Cerrito, Calif.
Edward L. O'Malley, 74, vice president and former general manager of the O'Malley Lumber Co., Phoenix, Arizona, passed away on December 2O from a heart ailment. He had been hospitalized for about two months prior to his death.
Born in Louisiana, Missouri, Mr. O'Malley came to Phoenix in 1908, when he and his brother, John O'Malley, organized the lumber company. Mr. O'Malley also served as president of the Southwestern Sash & Door Co. of Phoenix,
He was a life member of the Arizona Club, and a member of the Phoenix Country Club.
Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Mary O'Malley; a son, E. V. O'Malley, secretary and general manager of the O'Malley Lumber Co.; two daughters, Mrs. H. W. Powers of Tucson, and Mrs. William A. Evans of Phoenix; a brother, John G. O'Malley, president of the O'Malley Lumber Co.; two sisters, Miss Margaret and Miss Nora O'Malley, both of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and eight grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Tuesday morning, December 23, in St. Mary's Church, Phoenix.
Roy A. Seemann, head of the Seemann Lumber Company, passed away in a hospital in Whittier on January 2. He was 54 years of age.
Mr. Seemann was a native of Minnesota, where he was connected with the retail lumber business before coming to California. He operated retail lumber yards at Encinitas and Whittier. He was a member of the Masonic Order, Elks Club, American Legion, Al Malaikah Shrine band, and was vice president of the Whittier Shrine Club.
Surviving are his rvidow, Mrs. Emma Seemann, and a son, John Seemann, who rvas associated with his father in the business.
Funeral services n'ere held on lanuary 6 at Whittier.
Warren G. Tilton, forest engineer'in charge of conservation work for the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, passed away suddenly on December 23, at his home on Mercer Island, Seattle, Wash. He was 47 years of age. He served in the Pacific area during the late war, returning to civilian status with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Funeral services were held December 27 in Seattle.
Herbert L. Landis, vice president of Hill & Morton, Inc., wholesale lumber dealers, Oakland, Calif., passed away in Oakland December 30, 1947.
Mr. Landis was a member of the firm of Landis & Cottle, accountants, San Francisco. He was also a lawyer. He started his career in the lumber business, and was for some years with the Sunset Lumber Company, Oakland, and also the C. & O. Lumber Company in Oregon.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Anna C. Landis; a daughter, Mrs. Avis Margaret Lavoy, a son, George L. Landis; two brothers, Guy T. and Mitch Landis, and a sister, Mrs. Wilse Hall. He was born in Tennessee 63 years ago.
He was a member of the Masonic Order, the Fraternity Club of San Francisco. and the Executives Association of San Francisco.
Bernard L. Johnson, 63, 'Western editor ol American Builder died suddenly at Seattle, Wash. on Dec.22.
Born and reared on a farm near Ypsilanti, Mich., Mr. Johnson attended public schools and enrolled at Kalamazoo College where he studied for several years before entering the University of Chicago. He obtained a degree in Liberal Arts in l9O7 and after a year as an architectural draftsman became associated. with the American Builder. In a short time, he became editor, a position which he held for 34 years. In 1942 he resigned as editor to establish his home in Seattle, Wash.
He was a well known figure in the building industry, and wrote and edited numerous books on home design, home building, and construction. He was a member of the Hoover Commission on Home Building and Home Ownership; president of the Chicago Association of Business Paper Editors, and winner of the Associated Business Papers prize for the best editorial written in 1931.
Mr Johnson is survived by his widow, Ruth Wheaton Johnson, Seattle; a daughter, Mrs. Melinda Gutt, Redlands, Calif., and two sons, Dr. Maxwell A. Johnson of LaCrosse, Wis., and Dexter W. Johnson, managing editor, Western Building, Portland, Ore.
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To meet the increasing demand for research in wood product development and wood chemistry, the Timber Engineering Company early in 1948 will''double its present laboratory space and add new equipment.
In an annual report just submitted to the company's directors, Harry G. Uhl, president, outlined d wide range of research work that has bedh carried on.the past year for the particular benefit'of small companies embracing nearly all fields of the wood working industries. The company's facilities were also used by lumber and other trade associations.
Eight hardwood manufacturing and consuming associations, in a cooperative enterprise that is now in its fourth year, had work. done on hardwood pulping, cigarette burnproof furniture tops, hardened desk legs, quick setting adhesives and, treatment of green lumber at the mills.
Other projects included chemical seasoning, kiln drying, laminating hardwood products such as bowling pins, croquet balls, golf club heads and rollers, coloring sapwood and testing wood preservatives.
In the engineering field the Timber Engineering Company acquainted architects and engineers with an improved type of timber connector truss that saves up to 5O/o ot material and labor for roof trusses of 50 foot span. Timber trusses designed to this new system were found to be 25/o cheaper than steel.
In the housing field the Teco trussed rafter that reduces labor costs and eliminates interior bearing partitions was used throughout the country for hundreds of housing units, including multiple dr.vellings and garden type apartments. Some 18,500 units are in prospect for 1948.
To provide more sturdy wooden farm buildings the company introduced during the year a new type of framing anchor that eliminates toe nailing, notching and provides excellent wind anchorage. These new devices will be exhibited at retail lumber conventions this winter.
As a part of the company's educations program it supplied in the.fall 450 professors o{ architecture and engineering with a course in timber engineering. For student use professors were also supplied quantities of technical literature Tor class instruction.
The following were elected directors of the company at the annual meeting held in Chicago November 17. J. R. Bemis-Prescott, Arkansas; C. Arthur Bruce-Memphis, Tenn.; Leonard Carpenter-Minneapolis, Minn.; Dr. Wilson Compton-Pullman, Wash.; R. A. Colgan, Jr.-Washington, D. C. ; George W. Dulany, Jr.-La Jolla, Calif. ; M. L. Fleishel-Shamrock, Fla.; A. J. Glassow-Bend, Oregon; Earl Houston-Kansas City, Mo.; Charles W. Ingham-Eugene, Oregon; Otis Johnson-San Francisco, Calif.; R. G. Kimbell-Washington, D. C.; Earl McGowin -Chapman, Ala.; John M. Musser-St. Paul, Minn.; W. B. Nettleton-Seattle, Wash.; Corydon Wagner-Tacoma' Wash.; Harry G. Uhl-Washington, D. C.; J. W. Wat4ek, Jr.-Chicago, Ill.; Dawson Winn-Laurel, Miss.; R. C. Winton-Minneapolis, Minn.
Washington, D. C., !an. 7*America is entering a new phase of forest economy where we are growing nearly as many trees as are removed each year by cutting, fire and natural loss, the National Lumber Manufacturers Association reports.
The Association points out that when the colonists landed 300 years ago, the forests were like a storehouse and produced little new material annually. Today, it says, modern lumbering practices have turned the forest storehouse into a forest factory, producing new materials each year and growing trees to replace those cut.
The booklet reports a steady improvement in forest management and lumbering methods. Our forest resource situation has improved tremendously and we are close to the point where the United States will be growing more trees each year than are removed.
Causing this improvement, the Association says, are such things as better management methods on private lands; employment of professional foresters by private industry; better fire protection, and campaigns sponsored by the lumber industry to grow more trees.
We produced 32 billion feet of lumber in 1946, plus other forest products such as posts, firervood and pulpwood, and still have abundant forests, the booklet says.
More land is being used for gror.ving trees than ever before, it points out, and more trees are being grown each year. Whereas in 1925-29 the Forest Service estimated annual growth at 8,912 million cubic feet, in 1944 it put the figure at 13,370 million cubic feet, an increase of more than 50 per cent. At the same time, annual loss of trees was diminishing.
"With the increasing interest in growing more trees in America we soon will be growing more forests yearly than we use," the booklet concludes.
Additional copies of "Our Abundant Forests" may be had in reasonable numbers without charge. Simply r,vrite the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, 1319 18th Street, N. W., Washington 6, D. C.
Tarter, Webster & Johnson, Inc., San Francisco, moved their offices last month to the 6th floor, 1 Montgomery Street, where they are now occupying practically ihe entire floor.
Representing in Southem Coliforniq
L. J. Gorr & Go.
Sqcromento Box & Lumber Co.
Ponderox: Pine - Sugor Pine - Fir Redwood - Hsrdwoods - lf,ouldings
650-1 151 So. Broodwoy, Los Angeles l5 Phone PRospect 8843Telefype tA 945
Mqnufocturers nnd Distribulors
Douglos Fir ond Western Pine Lumber
P. O. Box 4il7
Granfs Poss, Oregbn
Telephone 4493 '
Los Angetes Representative
C. P. HENR,Y & CO.
714\Nes| Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles, pRospcct 6524
Redwood and llouglas Fir
Mrll Sofcg Oficc
Korbcl, Humboldf County 24O8-tO Rulr Bldg. Californic Son Frcnclsco 4
All
WHoIESALE AI\rD IOBBING
and DOORS
Since 1888
OFFICE. MIIJ, YARD AND DOCTS
2nd 6 Alice Sts., Ocrklcmd 4
Glencourt l-6861
Brush Industrial Lumber Co.
Wholesale Distributors
Hardwoods and Softwoods
5354 Eagt Slauson Ave.
Los Angelcs 22, Calil.
ANsclu 1-11 55
Millingr in Trcnsit
On S.P.Pcrcilic Electric
Midwcry los Angeles cnd the Hcrbor
Pine cnd Redwood Siding in Stock
Wallace Mill & Lumber Co.
Corner f,ssgslmr Ave. cnd Pqrcrmount Blvd.
Clecnwqter, Cclilornicr
P. O.Box 27
Telephone MEicalI 3-4269
More than 8,700 private financial institutions held nearly four billion dollars of FHA-insured small home mortgages in their investment portfolios as of June 30, 1947, it was announced today by Federal Housing Commissioner Franklin D. Richards. These mortgages cover houses for one to four families.
More than 70/o of these mortgages were insured by FHA under the regular provisions of the National Housing Act (Section 203, Title II) although the proportion insured under the war and veterans emergency housing provisions (Section 603, Title VI) has been increasing steadily.
Of the mortgages in force at the end of last June, 628,958 small-home mortgages for $2,859,823,162 insured under Section 203 were held by 8,736 institutions, and 241,332 small home mortgages for $1,131,589,603 insured under Section 603 were held by 2,822 institutions.
It was pointed out that practically all institutions holding Section 603 insured mortgages also were holding Section 203 mortgages.
Analysis of the FHA-insured small home mortgages as of last June 30 indicates that only one-fifth ol l/o of the amount of all such mortgages was held by Federal agencies. These holdings were predominantly of the Federal National Mortgage Association, which provides a secondary market for these mortgages.
Of the remaining 99.8% of the amount of FHA-insured small home mortgages in force at that time, commercial banks represented the largest group investors with 44.2% of the total. Holdings of mortgages insured under both Sections 203 and 603, by the main types of institutions, as of June 30, 1947, follow:
Zenith Mill & Lumber Co., u'ell known Oakland retail lumber and mill concern, started moving early this month to its new site at 9235 San Leandro Street, Oakland 3' The new yard is five a'cres in extent. This company has operated for many years at its old location. Clyde I. Speer is manager.
The next luncheon meeting of the San Francisco Lumbermen's Club will be held at the Palace Hotel. San Francisco, on Tuesday, January 20, at noon.
An atternpted burglary of the safe of Harbor Plywood Corp. of California, San Francisco, December 30, was interrupted by three employees who had occasion to visit the office at 8 o'clock'in the evening. The armed burglars gave up the job, but forced the employees to lie on the floor until they made their getaway.
Kenneth J. Shipp, owner of the California Builders Supply Co., Oakland, announces the appointment of Frink L. Gregor as general sales manager.
Mr. Gregor was formerly with the Flint. Sash & Door Co., Flint, Michigan, and later with Masonite Corporation in the Spokane territory.
Byles-Jamison Lumber Co., manufacturerd of Ponderosa and Sugar pine, Fresno, Calif., recently converted their drying yard to a lift truck operation. They have purchased a Gerlinger lift truck and carrier.
*Advertising appears in alternate icsues.
Acme Blower & Pipe Co..-----------------
Advance Manufacturing Co.--------------------------43
All,ry Lumber Co..-----------------:__-_:____---_____4)
Allied Veneer & Lumber Co.-----------------------*
American Flardwood Co.,----------------
American Lumber and Treating Co.-----------*
Anderson-FIanson Co..---------------------------4t
Anglo Californi'a Lumber Co.------------------------28
Arcata Redwood Co.-----------
Atkinson-Stut z Co. ------ - --
Atlantic Lumber Co.------------------
Atlas Lr-ber Co..-----------------
Back Panel Company------------------------------ --------32
Barto Lumber €o., Ralph E.-------------------- --------36
Baxter & Co. J. H.,-----------------------------------29
BIue Diamond Corporation---:--*--------------11
Bohnhoff Lumber Co., fnc.--------
Bradley Lumber Co. of Arkanmr_---------------*
Building Material Distributors..-- -------------__--___-t7
Brush fndustrial L.-ber Co.------------------ --------46
grrsp !,rrmber C_o.___-_--,-,_______-_-_.-___,_____ *
California Builders Supply Co.----------------------21
Califorrria Door Co., The-----------------------------17
California Lumber Salec-----------:-------------------,3t
California Panel & Veneer Co.--------------------19
Cam & Co., L J.------- ------------_-_1j
Ca.ccade Pacific Lumber Co.----------- --------------27
Crlotex Corporation, The-------------------------------- 5
Chrictenron Lumber Co.----------.-------____--_-_-------4O
Clementr Lumber Co., Al-----------------------_----____r9
Cobb Co., T. M..------------ __-______.21
Cole Door & Plywood Co.
Comnerciel Lunber Conpany, fnc.--------___-_-31
Conrolidated Lumber Co.-----------------
Cooper Wholerale Lumber Co., V. 8..-_--___-27
Cordr Lumber Co..----------------------------------------.3t
C,ornitiur Hardwood Co.. Geo. C.__-___--_-_______ *
Creig.Vood Lunber Co..------------------------__--_. 43
Ctonec lrrmber Co..---------,--------- - --__-_O.B.C.
Cucir Companier Service Bureau
Dant & Rugell Saler Agency----------.
David.ron Plywood & Veneer Co._-_____-___16
Dell Lumber Co.--------- *
Dorbeei & c";;;-i;;l;;e;::__-____--:__:--. -
flouglar Fir Plywood Areociation___-_-____I.F.C.
Dunning W. D.------------ ___-____--45
Eastshore Lumber & Mill Co.__--_--_-___-__--___-- t
Elliott, F. V..---_ -____-_ -__-_________44
El Monte Lumber Co.--------------_-_--__-____-___2g
Haley Bros.---
Nicholls Brotherc ----------- 't
Nicolai P""r S.1"" Co:-----, --- *
Norr:hetn Redwooj t;il C;:----------------_+r
O'Connor, Frant< J.------------______-_________
O'Neill Brorhers
Orban Lumber Co. ------------------_-___-____-____-____--.44
Oregon Lumber Salec, Inc..--,-_:____*-__-_____41
Pacific Forest Products. Inc.
Pacifc Lumber Co., The Pacific Mutual Door Co-.-
Pacif,c Wire Products Co.Paraftni Companier, The
Vert'Coot Screeo C-o. ---------:------:--i--.--------.tj
Ve.rt Coagt Stained Shingle Co.-----"---- Z4-ZS
Vert Oregon Lumber Co..----- __ -_____-__r_--_-_*
Westerd A6bertor Co.------------__
Western Cugtom MilI. fnc..---__-_--____-__-_---_-_.44
Veetern Doot EC Saeh Co..---------------------__--i_ *
Vestern Hardwood Lumber Cd.------------_---*
Vestern Mill & ltloplding Coi--'-----------_------ +
Vestern Pine Supply Co..--------- ----------------.2t',
\Zeyerhaeurer Saler C.onpan/-------:.:---r:---::., t
Vheeler Pine Co.------
Vhite Brothers---------------------------'--,----------------
Building Supoly, fnc.-----------------45
Vholegate Lumber Dirtributorr, fnc.
Long Beach yard, 31,000 sq. ft., small shed and office. Lease to November, 1950 @ S60.00 monthly; possible extension; inventory about $8,500; trucks and equipment $3,000; doing new and second hand lumber business.
Re-milling plant and wholesale distribution yard, -located clfse in Los Anleks; .two acrea, spur track. I-,iase $175- monthly with option to buy land @ $35,000. New mill building with complele machinery; now operating. Price for all machirrern equiprnent and mill building $32'000. The inventory will run about $25,000 additiond, mostly Dry Ponderosa upper grades and can be purchased or left out of deal.
We havc a y:rrd in West Los Angeles on -marn traveled Boulevard at $45 net monthly rent. No buildings, but machincry consisting of heavy duty resaw, Idaco gang edger and trim' mer will cost $15,000. No invcrrtory.
Ask about the door plant we have for sale, making 300 doora per day. New steel Luildinss; good machinery. Lease ground And bdildincs. $5,$0 per ainum, minimum tcn years on secured basis.- Machine* $12,500; invcntory will run $15,000 to $20,000. Owncr saye this plant is makiqg extretnclv s?ti.q{ag: iorj' profits. For iale account illness of owner. Goodwill if wantcd will be o<tra.
Wholesale distribution yard near Harbor with spur track Eouioment of three 1946 Ford trucks, office equipment, etc. Will-cost $16,000. Ten year minimum lease @ $3,000 annudly; first and last-years in advance. No invcntory^to buy-. Ground is 12E X 150 feet, graded with 3 coats each of gravel and tar; steel fence, good offica
We have a large Central California yard,for qale doing approximately a million dollar business annually. Lumber inventory about -3,000,flD feet. Hardware and plumbing inventory about $100,000. 3 acres; good planing mill. Will require from $4Q,; 000 to $500,(XX) to handle. Two million feet of inventory could be left out of thc deal if desired.
G. Tulare County yard and Cabinct Shop; long established in rich district. Full- a-cre of ground with 20,000 sq. ft. Truss roof, galvanized iron buildings. Price of ground, buildings, machinery and equip,ment S36,0O0. Inventory extra.
If you want to sell your yard let us know about iL We have sold yards and sawmills amounting to more than a third of a mittioir dollars in the last thirtv clavs. We could probably sell yours if priced righl At least we are willing to make a good try.
TWOHY LUMBER CO.
I,UMBER YARD AND SAWMILL BROKERS
801 Petroleum Bldg., Los Angeles 15' Calif. PRospect 8746
Wholesale lurnber distribution yard selling softwoods and hardwoods in Soutlrern California. Crood future for right man. State qualifications in your reply.
Address Box C-150O, California Lumber Merchant 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14' Calif'
LI'MBER CAR TINTOADING AND HAITIJNG
tI[\,lBER CAnnIERS' ROr'r'EB TRUCKS AND TRAtr,EnS ONE DAY SERVICE
GET A FT'IT CAR OF II'IUBER SORIED FOR $IO.OO
We will rort crny ccr lo widlhg or thiclnesr or io cny 7 sepcrqliong at the ccr lor $10.00.
Iust pboae lor c crew to reporl al your y<rd or tecm lrqck lo unloqd anrd gort thqt next car.
7106 So. Mcia Street, Iol f,ngeler 3, C<tlil' Pboaer: H:#fi\-t111
FON NENT
LUMBEA CARAIENS _ LIFT TRUCKS' _ SOLIEN TNUCXS SAI.ES AI.SO BEPAIBS
LIN,IBER TBANSPORTATION "Hyrter Hculing"
Lcrgert Fleel ol Boas and Hyster
Lurnber Cariers cnd Lift Truclo On The Wert Cotrst
WESTERN LT'MBER CANRIERS
1325 Eqrt Opp St. NEvadc 6-1371 Wilniagton, Calil lErmincl {-662{
P. O. Box 622
AUDiTS: FINANCIAL STATEMENTS; TAX MATTERS
Part-Timc Bookecping
E. IU. WORTTIING
Public Accountant
P. O. Bo: 56, Station,M
Los Angclcr 32, Catif.
Phones: Rlchmond 9251; ATlantic 4-7571 THIRTY YEARS LUMBER EXPERIENCE
FOR SALE
I Only Buda-Gasolinc Motor, 70 H.P. Run only 70 hours.
1 Only Hercules Gas Motor, 50 H.P. Run 300 hours.
I Onlv LeRoi Gas Motor. Run 300 hours.
I Onl! 50 H.P. G.E. Motor-nearly new-{,O volt, 3 phasc.
I Onty Large Cornb-Power, Rip and Resaw, new.
I Only Small Power Rip Saw, mult. blades.
EL MONTE LUMBER CO.
See Frcd Morehouse 510 E. San Bernardino Road El Monte, Calif.
Kiln drying and milling by one of the largcst Custom Dry Kilns on the West Coast. We buy Shop Grades and Clears.
San Pedro Dry Kiln Co. P.O. Box @2, Wlmington, Calif.
Phones-TErminal 44597 and 44598
Middle aged married man with several years experience as counter man, ,invoict clerk, bookkeeper, and branch yard manager open for cmployment. In reply please give location and full details.
- - Address Box C-1501. California Lumber Merchant 50E Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif'
ROSS LUMBER CARRIER. Inside load width 7i'r, inside load heieht 90". Good condition. Priced right for immediate delivery.
- American Stevedore Corrnpany Pier 92, San Francisco 24, Cahf.
Telephone VAlencia 4-3544
STICKER-12-inch, No. lB ball bearings, with 5 motors, Vbelt driven.
IDACO gang rip saw, 4 inches by 18 inches capacity, with 30 H.P. motor. Like new, $675.00.
YATES glue jointer with power'
NEW SASH and DO'OR PLANT, electric, full size. Call, wire, or write
Production Machinery for the Woodworking Trade
1417 East 12th Street, Lc Angcles 21, Calil.
Telephone TUckcr 8556
SAN FRANGISGO LUMBEN
Arcqtc Bedwood Go, tl20 Mcrlci Street (ll) .Ylllroa 6-11167
Atliuon-Stub Conpcnv, ll2 Mcrlct Sircof (lI) .........GArliotd f-f86
Christenso! Lunber CoErqng Avc, and Quiat St. (21)..Vf,lencicr l-5833
Cordr Lumbcr Conbmy, 58 Poat St, ({) .:..
Conitiug Hcrdwood Co., Gcorgo C., 165 Cclilomic St. ({) .........Gf,r6c1d l-9{8
Dcut tBwell, Scles Ageacy, 2l{ Front St. (ll) ..:............SUttcr l-638{
Dolbser d Ccrsoa Lunber Co., _-ll18McrchqntrExchcngcBtdg.({)DOuglcr 2-6118
Ellioil, F. w., l- Dru*q Str€ot (ll) .........DOuglcr 2-{2ll
Eviu Producls Co., {65 Cclilornitr St. ({) .Surt.r l-{l!rl
Gcmsraton d Green Lunber Co., 1800 Aray Strset (2{) .ATwater 2-1300
Hcll, Icmes L., 1032 Milr! Blds, (4) ...SUtier l-7520
Hclliaca Mackin Lumber Co., -681 Mqrket 9t. (l) ............DOuglas 2-19{l
Hcmond Lumber Conpcnv. {f Monigoaery Ske6t (5) ....DOuglc 2-3388
Hobbs Wcll Lunber Co., tl05 Montgomory St, (l) .......Gf,rlield l-7752
Holmes Eurekc Lunber Co., ll05 Fincacicl Certor Blds., (l) .GArlietd l-t92l
Lcmon-Eouington Conpcny, 717 Mcrltet St. (3) .GArlield l-6881
Lunber Moulccturiag Co,, 225 ladugtriql Street (2tl) .IUuipe 7-1760
Lumber Terailal Co., lac2000 Evcng Ave. (2{) .........VAlsacic {-{100
MacDonqld 6 Hcniagtoa, Ltd,, I Drunn St. (ll) ...GArtield l-8392
Mcrtinez Co., L W. Bcllour Bldg. (1) ..............DOuclcr 2-3903
Nortbern Redwood Lumber Co.. 2408-10 Bucs Bldg, ('l) .....EXbrook 2-789{
O'Conaor, Franh I., 250 Ccliloraic St. (ll).........GArliold 1,56{l
O'Neill Brotbera tl85 Ccliloniq St. (4) .YIILoa 6-3989
Oregon Lunber Sclea 444 Mcrket Sr. (ll) ...YUkon 6-2{28
Pccific Luaber Co., The 100 Buh Street ({) ...........GArfi.ld l-ll8l
Pctric} Lumber Co. (O. L. Rus:un)
ll2 Mcrker St. (Il) ....YUkon 6-l{60
Popa 6 Tqlbot, Inc., Lr{lnber Divigion, 320 Qclilornic-St, ({) .........DOuglca 2-2561
R. G. Robbins Lumber Co.. I Drunm Sireet (ll) .........DOuglcs 2-5070
Rounda Trcdiag Compcay, Crocker Blds, ({) ..YUlon 6-0912
Rudbccb d Co., Ioha tr I Drunn Street (ll) .GArlicld l-1t36
Sqntc Fe Lumber Co., I Drum St. (ll) ...EXbroo} 2-2074
Sbevlin.McCloud Lumber Co.. 1030 Moacdnocl Bldg. (5) ... ...Eillbrook 2-70{l
Sudden d Christensol, Iuc., 310 ScnsomE Stroet ({) ........GArtield l-28{6
Tqrter, Webster 6 lohnsoa, lnc., I Montgomery St. (4) .....DOuglG 2-2060
Tcylor Lumber Co. (Floyd W. Elliott) File Buildias (ll)........ .DOuglcs 2-Lilll
Ccrl W. Wcttg, 975 Moncdrocl Bldc. (5) ........YIILon 6-1590
Weadling-Ncthca Co., 58'l Mcrket St. (4) .....SUttor l-5363 West Oregon Lumber Co., 130 Tentb Street (3) .........UNderhill l-0?20
Wostem Pire Supplv Compcav, I2{ll Hcrricon St-, -(3) .....:..UNderhilf l-8688
Wheeler Pine Co., Ruer Bldg. (l) ..H(broolc 2-3918
E. K, Wood Lunber Co., I Drum Street (ll) .EXbroo} 2-3710
\ltleyerhceueer Scles Co., 391 Sutter St. (8) .GArliold l-8971
Hf,NDWOODS
Servente Hcrdwood Compcny, 366 Bcy Sbore Btvd. (21) .-.....VAleacic {-{2110
White Brothere, Filtb cnd Brcanqn Strcctrr (7) ....SUtter l-1365
SASH_DOORS_PLYWOOD
Hcrbor Plywood Corp. ol Cclitoraic, 5{0 l0tb St. (3) .MArLct l-6705
Nicolci Door Sqles Co., 30{5 lgth St. (10) ...VAleacicr {-22{l
UDilod Slrle8 Plywood Corn.. tl27 Aray St.- (10) .ATscicr 2-lgg3
CNEOSOTED LUMBEN_POLES_ -PILING_TIES
Americcn Lunber d Trectiag Co., 604 Migsioa Sl. (5) ....Sutter l-1028
Bcxter, l. H. 6 Co,, 3!3 Montgonery Street ({) ....DOuglar 2-3883
Hall, Icner L,, 1032 Millg Bldg. ({) .......:......SUttcr l-7520
Pope d Tqlbot, Inc,, Lumbcr Division, .320 Cclilomia St, (l) DOuglcr 2-2561
Scnta Fe Lumber Co., I Drumn Sl. (ll) ....EXbrook 2-2ll7l
Vander Lccn Pililg C Lunber Co., {81 Market Street (5) .Ejl(brool 2-{90{
Weldling-Notbcu Co., 56{ Mcrkct St, ({) ....SUtter l-5363
OAKIAND-BE RKETEY-ALA'UIEDA
LUMBEN
Cclilonic Lunber Sclos, {615 Tidewcler Ave. (l) ........KEllog 3-6707
Eqstlhoie Lunber d Mill Co., l82l Tidgwctgr Ave. (l) .........XEllog 3-2121
Firestolo Lunber Industrier, 32{10 Percltc St. (8) .. .Plednoat 5-261
Gqmarslon 6 Greea Luaber Co., 1001 Livhgeloa St. (8) .BEllog l-1381
Goslh-Hqrdbg Lurrbor Co., 2ll Prolcrrioacl Btdg. (l) .......trEllog {-201?
Hill il Morton, Inc..
Deuieoa Strect Whcrl (7) ....ANdovt l-l(!!l?
Ilogcn Lurabcr Conpqay, Zud od Alicc Strcrtr ({) ....Glracourt l-8861
Kcllcy, Albert A.
P. O. Box 2!0 (Alaracdc) ....Lclohunt a2751
Moaarch Lunbcr Co.,
ll0l Frmr,rii st. (r2) .rwiaoclg 3-5291
Nicbolb Srothen (Et Ccrrito), l(ll Sqa Pcblo... ....Rlchaoad 7565
Pccific Foregt Produclg, Inc., 9ih Avenue Pier ............,TtlVinoclr 3-9866 Reid d Co.
tl0l Tcnth Avcnuc (5). .TWiaoot s 3-6745
E. E. Wood Lunber Co.,
2lll Frederick Strcet (6) .......xE,lloc 2-UIn
Wholcsclc Buildincl Suoplv, Inc,,
1607 3hd Shcet- (8) -.........TEnplebcr 2-898{
Wholercle Lumbcr Diltributoru, Inc.,
5'l First Strret (7) .......TWirocL. 3-2515
HARDWOODS
Gordon-MccBeqth Hardwood Co., 25{8 Scn Pcblo Ave., Berlele-y -(2) ...Berleley 7.5865
Strcble Hqrdwood Conpoav, ___First qad Clcy Streefe (t) ..TEnptebar 2-5581
Wbite Brolhen. 500 High Street (l) ..Andover l-1600
PANELS_D OORS_SASH-.SCNEENS
PLYWOOD-MILLWORT
Oagood, Bobert S., 7lll, S,- Spring St. (l{). .TRiaity 8235
Pccific Luber Co., The 5225 Wikhlre Blvd. (36) ..YOrt< lt88
Pacilic Forert Products, Ilc., (Iin Eirbv), 833 Wclaut Ave., PueDte .......Puente 522-52
PcrtricL Lunbcr Co., Ectmqa Lumber Sqles, 7l'l W. Olympic Blvd, (15) ....PBospect 5039
Pope 6 Talbot, Inc., Lunber Divisioa, 7l{ W. Olynpic Blvd, (15) ....PRospcct 8231
E. L. Reitz Co., 333 Petroleum 8ldg. (15) ....PBospect 2369
Bounda Trcding Conpcny (Wilmiagtoa), 1240 Blino Ave. ... ....Nevcdc 6-l{ll
Budbacb 6 Co., Iobn A. ll2 West 9lh Street (15) -.........TUcker 5llg
Scn Pedro Lumbet Co., l5l8 S. Centrcl Ave. (21) ......Blcbnond ll{l 1800.4 Wilniagto! noqd (Sca Pedro) .. .. TErmiucl 2-6{95
Sbevlia-Mccloud Lumber Compcny,330 Petroleum Blde. (I5) .......PRospect 0615
Simpson Induetries, lnc,, 1610 E. Washingtou Blvd. (21)...PBospEct 6lg!
Sis}iyou Forest Producte Co., (C. P. Henry 6 Co.)
_ ?l.{-.Wost O_lvmnlc Blvd, (t5). .PRoepect 6524
Spclding Lumber Co., 803 Petroleun B{ds, (15) .....8lchnoud 7tl84l
Cclitomic Builderr Supply Co.,
__700 6tl Averuc ({) -..........tEnplcbcrr {-8383
Hogo Lunber Conpcuy,
2ud qnd Alice Streetg (tl) ...Gloucourt l-6861
E, C. Pilcher Compqnv, 600 l6tb St. (l2f .............Glcacourt l-3990
Peerless Built-ir Fixture Co. (Eerlelev)
2608 Scu Pcblo Ave. (2) ....THonwcll 3-0620
United States Plywood Corp., 330 Erush St. (7) ..TWiaoolc 3-5544
Wesle!! Door 6 Sogh Co., 5th 6 Cypres Slrcels (7) ....TEmplebcr 2-81100
E. E. Wood Luaber Co..
2lll Frederick Street (6) ..KEllog 2JUn7
LUMBER
Alley Lumber Co.,
201 So. Lqkewood Blvd.(Domey)..LOgcn 3{01
Allied Veneer d Lunbcr Co., 5100 So. Boyle Ave. (lt) ..LUccc 7291 Andersou-Hqngon Co, (Studio City), P. O. Box 513 .....STculey 7-4721
Anglo Cclilorniq Lumber Co,,
655 E. Florcnce Avc. (l) .....THorawcII 3l{{ Arc6td Radwood Co. (J. J. Rcrr)
5{10 Wilshtuc Blvd. (36) .WEbgter 7828
Slqnto!. E. l. d Son, 2050 E. 4lgi St; (ll) ...CEntury 29211
Sudden d Chrietensoa. Inc.. 630 Bogrd 9l Trcde Bldg. (U) ....TBinity 88{1
Tqcomq Lunber Sqles, 837 Petroleum BldS. (15) ....PRospect ll08
Taylor Lunber Co. (Chcrles E. Xeldcll), Petroleun BIdg. (15) ...PRospect 8770
Toste Lumber Comocnv 2219 Fcir Pcrk Ave. i4l) ....Clevclcrd 6-22{9
Wcllcce Mill d Lunber Co. (Clecrwatcr), P.O. Box 27. ...MElcclI 3-{269
Wendliag-Nctbcn Co., 5225 Wilshire Blvd. (36) ...YOrk 1168
Weet Oregon Lunber Co., 427 Petroleun Bldg. (15) ......Blchmoad 0281
W. W. Willinson, ll2 Wesi Ninih Street (15) ........TRinity {613
Weyerhceueer Scles Co., 1709 W. 8th St. (l{) ....FAirlax 8265
Wileon Lunber Co., A, E. (Domingue: lunctioa) Del Amo d Alameda Blvds. ...NEwnqrL l-8651
E. E. Wood Lumber Co., 4710 So. Alcmedc St. (51) ......IEllcreon 3lll CREOSOTED LUMBER_POLES
PE.ING_TIES
Americca Lunber d Trecting Co.,ll2 W-est 9tb Streel (15) .........TRinity 5361
2035 E. lslh St. (21) ...PRospcct 7{01
Bcrlo Lunber Co., Rqlph E. (Huatirgto!-PatL)
Zl0l E, Nadequ Ave. ............IEflerron 7201
Atlanlic Lunber Co. (C. P. Hcary 6 Co.), 7I4 West Olympic BIvd.. .. .PRoepcct 652{ Atlqs Lumber eo.-, 88{3 ..Blchmond Zltll
Bcugh, Ccrl W, (Pcscdena) 465 Herkimer St. (4) .........SYcmore 6-2525 Wilmirgton ...WilE. Tct. l-2631t NE. 6-188t Cooper Wholegcle Lunber Co., W. E., W. 606-608 Richlield Bldg. (13) ........MUtuqt 2l3l
Crcig-Wood Lunber Co. (Wilninctoa)
8{0 Recltv Stroet .-TEnircl {-l5Zl Reclty .-TEnbql {-15?
Dcnt d Rugrcll, Sclcr Agenq', 812 E. 59th Street (l) ...ADcne 8l0l
Dell Lunbcr Co. (Burbm}) LuEb.r (Burbmk)
l2t! So. Victory Blvd. ........CHcrlcrtoa 6-{182
Dolbeer 6 Ccrcon Lunbcr Co.,
901 Fidoury Btdg. (r3) ...vAadile s792
Dunaiag, \f,. G. $8 Ch. oI Con. Elds. (15) .PRorpect 88lil El Monte Lunbcr Co. lEl Monte), 510 E, Sca Bcncrdilo Bocd ....Budlong 8-3028
Forolt Product! Sclrr Conpcnv, 1270 So. Lc Brec lvo. (dl) ....WEbrtcr 3-16l{ Frubes 6 Son, W. P,, 907 So. Ilvcrcdo St. (8) ........FEdrrol 7301
Ed. Foualqia Lunber Co.,
7U W_?4 Olyrpic Elrd. (15)....PRorpoct rBll
W. E. Gilbcri (Pcrqdcac l), 3lll Pcrkwcy Blds. ...........SYcqnorc 2-3{61 Goaslia-Hcrdiag Lunbor Co. (f,. W. Donovqa)
625 Bowm !lds: (lq) ..............TniniE 5m8
Hclliaqn Mcclla Lunbcr Co.
_-{186 E. 3-,tt4i Elyd. (23) ......ANseIua 3-116l
Hcmond Lubcr Conpcly, _-20t0 _So. Alcrrldc _St, (51) ......PRcpcct 1333
Boxter, l. H. 6 Co,, 601 West Sth Street (13) ........Mlcbiscn 6291
McCornick d Bqxter Creosoting Co., rl2 W. Nirth Stroet (15) .....TBinitv {613
Pope d Tolbot Inc., Lumber Division, 7I{ W, Olyrpic Blvd. (15) .....PBospect 8231
HANDWOODS
Americqa Hcrdwood Co., 1900 E. lst! Street (Stl) ........Pnospect lil35
Bobnholl Lumber Co., Inc..
l5Q0 So, Alcnedc St. (21) .PRospcct 32{5
Brush Industricl Luber Co., 5354 E. Slcuson Ate. (Xl) .....ANgelug l-1155
Penberthy Lumber Co., 5800 Soulh Boyle Ave, (ll) .....flmbcll 5lll
Scnlord d Lussier Co.,
610l S. Vcn Nesg Ave. (tl{) ...AXniaster 2-9181
Stoto!, E. I. d Son. 2050 Ecst {Ist Street (ll) ........CEntury 2921i
Tropiccl d Western Lumber Co., 609 S. Grod Ave. (1,!) ..Mlcbigqn g126
Westem Hqrdwood Lunber Co.,
20ltl Ecst l5th Slreet (55) ......PRospect 616l
SASH_DOORS-MII'WONK_SCREENS
BLINDS_PANELS AND PLYWOOD INONING BOANDS
Bccl Pmel Compcny, 310-314 Easi 32ad Street (ll) ....ADcrns 3-{225
Cclilonic Door Compcny, The. P.O. Box 126, Venba Stction (ll) f,Imbctl 2lll
Cclilornic Pcnel d Veaeer Co,, P. O. Box 2G16, Tenircl
_ _Ann_ex (5{),... .........TRinity0057
Cobb Co., T, M.,
3757 Wihhin Elvd. (5)............ Ftrirlax 2ll0l
He:cberg Brothcre Lumbcr Co.,
_llldlG !o. erlrsl Av.. (t) .LOscn 5-61d9
Holncr Eurelq funber Co., 712 Archilccrr Bldg. (13) .MUtucl 9l8I
Hoover, A. L.. 5225 Wilrhire Blvd. (36) ...YOIL 1168
Kenp Hcrdwcre il Luber Co.,
_ ll33 E. _6_3( Stlert- (t) ........CEatury 2-9235
Hcrris Lunber Co., I. E,, 2880 E. s{ih Sr. (ll) ..IEllerson 3261
Lcmence-Philipc Luabcr Co., 633 Pelrolcun Bl4g. (15) ........PRospcct 8l7l
Luaber Bu;'ers Enchoge, 11160 So. Brocdwcy (15) ...,....PRoapcct 2875 Lunber Inc. ol Orcsoa (Chcr. E. Ecadcll),
PRoepcct 312?
..fBility 9651
........LUccr 8l7l
r 5),.SYcaaorr 3-2119
Scnpson Co, (Pagqdeac), 7{5 So. Ecynond f,vc. (2) .......BYon
E. Washirglon Blvd. (21). .PRospect
Ecet tsth St. (21) ........Btchnoad
