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Acme Balances Moderniza \(/indows Dave Davis tVith Kelly-Smith Co.

An attractive new folder in two ,colors was recently issued by the Acme Spring Sash Balance Company, Los Angeles, for distribution to prospective home builders, suggesting that they insist when building on the following five modern window features: (1) Easy opening and closing, (2) Modern narrow-trim casings, (3) Double-hung for nodraft ventilation, (4) Up and down operation to conserve space, (5) Modernized for Venetian blinds and drapes.

The inside pages of the folder explain and illustrate how Acme Sash Balances contribute to the attainment of these requirements.

The home builder is assured that Acme Balances have been thoroughly tested in thousands of installations all over the country in the last ten years, and that they are g.uaranteed to give satisfaction.

A business reply card is incorporated in the folder in which the prospect is asked to give his name and address and receive as a gift an Acme Bridge Scorer.

The modern factory of the Acme Spring Sash Balance Company is at 1019 East 16th Street, Los Angeles.

Helps Entertain Eastern Retailers

Frank H. White, sales manager, Ifammond Redwood Company, San Francisco, traveled to Eureka to meet the group of Ohio retailers scheduled to arrive there on the evening of January 31. The retailers will spend one day in the Redwood Empire as guests of the Redwood industry, and will leave Scotia on the evening of February 1 for San Francisco.

Kelly-Smith Co. announces that E. G. (Dave) Davis is now associated with the company and is calling on his many retail lumber dealer friends in the Southern California territory.

Dave is well known in lumber circles in the Southland. For the past two years, he was with the Coos Bay Lumber Co. working out of their Los Angeles office, and prior to that was connected with the Los Angeles office of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co.

L. A. FURNITURE OUTPUT NEAR $4O,OOO,OOO

Total furniture production in Los Angeles during 1936 is estimated at about $40,000,000, compared with about $28,000,000 in 1935.

There was a total of 892 carloads of furniture, valued at $6,358,000, shipped out of Los Angeles by rail and water by the local manufacturers exhibiting at the Los Angeles furniture market during 1936.

Los Angeles Visitor

George W. Gorman, general manag.er, Trans-Pacific Lumber Company, Port Orford, Ore., was recently in Los Angeles on a business trip.

Visits Bay District

A. E. Ferguson, district manager of American Lumber & Treating Company, Los Angeles, recently spent a few days in San Francisco.

Angier Corporation

Baxter & Co., J. H.

Calaverac Cement Co.

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California Panel & Veneer Co. -------------------x

California Redwood

How Lumber Looks

The maritime strike has now passed the thtee-month date, and as we go to press, the shipowners and longshoremen are continuing negotiations. Coast shipping operators left one of the proStettts-that of drawing the distinction between the woik of longshoremen and sailors-to a committee to meet wittr the dockmen. The other issue is the wages and hours of clerks and checkers who are affiliated "*ittt ttt" longshoremen. The settlement of these two issues would give the longshoremen a tentative agreement with the operators.

Tentative agieements have already been reached between the opeiators and the Sailors' IJnion of the Pacific; Marine Fireinen, Oilers, Wipers, and Watertenders' Association, and the Marine Engineers' Uniol. Proposals offered by the shipowners to the Marine Cooks and Stewards' Union, Arierican Radio Telegraphists' Association, and Master., M"tet and Pilots' Union aie being considered bv the unions.

'Wh.tt tentative agreements have been reached by all the unions the entire mimbership will vote on rejection or acceptance. A majority vote of all workers involved, rather than majorities within each union, will determine the result' brders in the riil trade reported taken by these 171 mills of 64,127,397 leet continue, as during the past-six weeks, to be'unusual in volume for the time of year. These were 66.6 per cent of the total reported for the week. The orders taken for delivery in the domestic cargo trades total 23,961,374 feet, and in export 1,450,850 feet.

Reports of.l7l down and opera-ting-mills in Washington and bregon to the West Coist Lumbermen's Association for the ieek ended Tanuary 16 continue to show serious reductions in both productidn and shipments. These mills reported a total prbduction of 68,696,151 feet.

Shipments reported by these 171 mills during the week totaled 64,5D,5I7 feet, of which 57,810,993 feet moved by railroad and the remainder, 6,718,524 feet, by trucks into local trade. No water shipments were reported.

The marine closure has brought an unusual and sustained demand for lumber to be delivered by railroad. During this time cargo mills have accumulated a large volume of orders for delivery to the Atlantic Coast and California when shipping is resumed.

The Western Pine Association for the week ended January 16, 106 mills reporting, gave orders as 63,815,000 feet, shipments 52,200,W feet, and production 36,D4,OOO feet. Orders were 75.8 per cent above production, and 9.6 per cent above shipments. Shipments were 6O.3 per cent above production. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 325,563,000 feet. * :r

The California Redwood Association reported production of 13 mills for the week ended January 16 as 8,475,000 feet, shipments 6,725,On feet, and orderrs 12,886,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week*totaled, 72,935,000 feet.

The Fir, Ponderosa Pine, Sugar Pine, and Redwood mills all report a fine volume of business and prices are very firm.

Fir shipments are hard to get due to broken stocks. Many of the mills in the Willamette Valley are reported as still down on account of snow. A shortage of logs is developing in the Northwest due to weather conditions' Owing to the shipping tie-up all Fir shipments into California are by rail.

Ponderosa Pine and Sugar Pine stocks are broken, and there is a shortage of upper grades in Redwood.

Los Angeles Ranks Second in Building

Los Angeles was second in building among the cities of the nation for the year L936 with a total of $62,653,531 according to figures compiled by Dunn & Bradstreet, Inc. San Francisco was sixth with a total of. $19,927,148; San Diego was eighteenth with $9,@2,L37; and Oakland was nineteenth with $8,688,815. New York held first place with a total of $211,880,708. Building permit valuations for the twenty leading cities follows:

West Coast Annual Meeting

The annual meeting of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association was held at the Hotel Winthrop, Tacoma, Wash., January D. The meeting of stockholders was called to order at 9:45 a.m.

The highlights of the meeting were the discussions and exhibits in connection with (1) lumber and low-cost housing, (2) prospects for revived foreign trade through reciprocal trade negotiations, and (3) grade-marking of lumber at the mills. Retail lumber dealers of the West Coast are keenly interested in the low-cost housing program and a number of their leaders parti'cipated in this discussion.

As is usual at the annual meeting of stockholders, trustees were elected for the yeat 1937. Between 26 and 250 lumbermen, loggers and others interested in the general problems of the lumber industry attended.

A report of the meeting will appear in the February 15 issue.

WALTER G. SCRIM ON EASTERN TRIP

Walter G. Scrim, Findlay Millar Timber Co., Los Angeles, attended a directors' meeting of the Philippine Mahogany Manufacturers' Import Association, Inc., at Washington, D. C., on January 22-23. Mr. Scrim is president of the Association. He will also spend some time visiting the eastern lumber consuming centers before returning to Los Angeles the early part of February.

Alert...wide awake... eager to ser\re... No danger ofyour Redwood orders "going to sleep" when you intfust them to