The California Lumber Merchant - February 1938

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HAROLD COOPS TO MANAGE LONG BEACH YARD -CARL L. KIRSCH MANAGER AT COMPTON YARD

Harold Coops, formerly manager of the San Pedro Lumber Co. yard at Compton, has been appointed manager of their yard at Long Beach. Carl P. Kirsch succeeds Mr. Coops as manager of the Compton yard. Mr. Kirsch, who is a newcomer with the company, is well knowp in the Los Angeles territory where he has been associated with the retail lumber, sash and door business for the past eighteen years.

NEW SCHOOL BUILDING UNDER CONSTRUCTION

The new Palm Springs High School at Palm Springs is now under construction with the foundation work nearly completed. All the material for this job is being supplied by the Palm Springs Builders Supply Co.

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*Advertirenrentr appeer in alternate iseue.

Acme Spring Sach Balance Co., The American Lumbet and Treating Co. ----------* Anderson & Middleton Lumber Co. - - 4

Anglo California Lumber Co. ----------------------15

Armrtrong Cotk Products Co. ---------- --..--------15

At&incon-Stutz Co.

Barsett-Teachout Company

Baxter E c"t J. H. ------------------------------------- r9

Booth-Kelly Lumber Co. -- -- ----- - --------29

Brady Lumber Co., H. P. - ,

Brookrrire, Inc. --- -,----------------27

Cadwallader-Gibrcn Co., Inc. -----------, ----..-.29

California Builders Supply C.o. -------------- ----29

Catifornia Panel & Verreer Co. -------------------t

California Redwood Arsociation

Certain-tced Products Corporation

Chamberlin & Co., V. R. .-----------------

Cooper, Vilfred T. --- ---- -- -

Curtis Companies Service Bureau

Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co. ----.-------..---x

SPECIES

NORTHERN

NORVAY

RESINOSA)

PONDEROEA PINE (PTNUS PONDEROSA)

SUGAR (Genulnr Vhl!.) PINE (PINUS LAUBERTIANA)

HUMBOLDT COUNTY WINS FIRST PRIZE AT PASADENA ROSE PARADE

To Humboldt County went the Pasadena Tournament of Roses first prize trophy for exhibits from counties with less than 50,000 population. It was the third consecutive year in which Humboldt county had won first place in its class at the world renowned Pasadena event.

The 1938 Humboldt float depicted Ponce de Leon and the Fountain of Youth, with more than 50,000 flowers used on a background of age-old Redwood.

VISITS S. F. AND L. A.

H. J. Barrington, head of the box shook factory and sash and door department of Long-Bell Lumber Company, Weed, Calif., has returned from a business trip to San Francisco and Los Angeles.

National Oek Floor Manufacturers' Association

Pacifc Lumber Co.,

THE CALIFOR}IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

Subrcription Pricc, $2.00 pcr Ycer Singlc Copicr, 25 ccntr cech. LOS ANGELES, CAL.,

How Lumber Looks

513 mills, according to reports to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association from the regional associations covering the operations of important hardwood and softwood mills for the week ended January 15, produced, lzt,897,W feet of hardwoods and softwoods combined; shipped 150,870,000 feet; and booked new business of 160,842pn feet.

A total of l49donu,l "nl *.*a,"* mills in Washington and Oregon which reported. to the West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended January 15, produced 63,&9,D9 feet of lumber. At the rate of cutting at the reporting mills, the e.ntire industry produced 4O.4 per cent of its average weekly cut during 1926-D.

The new business reported taken during the week by the 149 mills was 62,227,855 board feet, and shipments were 69,037,885 feet. The unfilled order file at these mills stood at 274.5h9@ feet.

Production, orders and shipments continue, as during the past several weeks, to be extremely low, even for this time of the year. The market outlook continues to be quiet.

The Western Pine Association for the week ended Tanuary 15, 119 mills reporting, gave production as 17,056000 feet; shipments 43,822,00O feet; and new business 52,7&,O0O feet. New business taken during the week showed an increase_of 4,011,000 feet, or 8.2 per cent, over the previous week. Orders on hand at the end of the u'eek totaled 142,067.000 feet.

The California Redwood Association for the week ended January 15 reported production of 13 mills as 4,481,@0 feet; shipments, 4,86O,000 feet; and new business, 5,953,000

feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 24.488.000 feet.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended January 15, 119 mills reporting, showed production as 24,806,000 feet; shipments,25,lO7,W feet; and new business, 30,805,000 feet. New business showed an increase of 31 per cent over the previous week. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 67,7&,W feet, equivalent to 3,227 carc.

Unions in Dispute at San Pedro

Los Angeles, January 28.-Spokesmen for the C.I.O. International Longshoremen's Union at San Pedro announced yesterday a five-hour."stop work" period today from 1 to 6 p.m. They will attend a mass meeting in Wilmington Bowl to consider whether to go ahead with plans for a coast-wide walkout in the event the court enforces a temporarily-delayed appointment of an A.F. of L. receiver in the longshore hiring hall at San Pedro.

A temporary stay of execution has been granted to C.I.O. attorneys by the court pending arguments for a new trial. If the new trial is not granted, the order will go into effect February 5.

The Waterfront Employers' Association of Southern California has informed the C.I.O. group that they will be held responsible for any damage to cargoes resulting from the "stop work" period. Twenty cargo, passenger and lumber ships will be held up in discharge and loading of cargo in the event the "stop work" plan is put into effect'

Vagabond Editorials

Bv Jack Dionne

This little strip of light, twixt night and night, Let me keep bright-today. And if tomorrow shall be sad, or never comes at all I've had-today.-Richards. ***

f often wonder who actually thought out the Federd Housing Act. I would like to give him credit. Out of the dither and daze of the army of strange efforts and philosophies that have come out of Washington in the last five years, FHA stands out like a beacon light.

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It is practical, sensible,, workable. It has done a world of good. It will do a world more in the next few years. So exactly the opposite in thought to so many others of the same period, one wonders how it happened.

rnstead of plowing or,l"r-"rrl aborting and artificially trying to divert the natural laws, FHA took advantage of one of nature's grandest impulses to help bring back prosperity, namely, the love of a man for his home. ***

Since home building began in this country it has been commonly and frequently agreed that any salesman could sell a world of homes if he could only arrange the finances. What the home builders of this country have utterly lacked for the past generation has be€n low rates of interest and long terms of payment. The opposite has been the rule.

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The same thing happened to actually and literally millions of home builders that happened to the darkey's money in the old story. This colored man deposited his money in a bank. A year later he went back to get it, and the crooked colored banker advised him that his money was gone-"de intrust done et it all up."

That happened. to -trr;, oJ no*", in this land from 1900 to 1930. The interest certainly ate them up. One of the things that sent this nation sliding deep into the mires of depression in 1929 and 1930 was the rate at which our citizens of small means lost their partly paid homes. Nothing hurt the general public more.

Along came FHA and through the Government offered people of small means low rates of interest and long time payments for home building. And now Congress is in the act of amending that legislation to make it even easier for

the modest family to own their own home. That change will be made and in efrect in a very short time, from all appearances

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Throughout this land the retail lumber dealer is waiting for it. If there are signs of general business pick-up and employment increase about the same time, home selling will boom. ft won't "bring back prosperity" as some thoughtless-or too optimistic-persons have said. But it will help tremendously, if at the same time the business barometcr is on the up-turn. Terms and rates of interest won't sell homes if conditions are bad.. But if things are better they will bolster the improvement.

Anyway it is a definite step in the right direction, and will help the lumber business, the brick business, the cement business, and all the lines that aid in home building.

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"A bootr of tax bills 'neath the Joshua bough, One bite of bread, a jug of desert water, and ThouBeside me moaning in the Poor HouseAh, Poor House! Thou art near enough right now!"

Everybody taking ain"rlrr.l"i." ". the present tax angte. It's a prolific subject. "Figures won't lie," says the old gag, "but liars will figure." ***

Congressman John Taber; member of the appropriations committee, has figured it out that Federal taxes in this country have increased from 2E0O million dollars in 1933 to 5500 million dollars in 1937. The national income has increased in that period from 38 billion 100-cent dollars, to 68 billion 59-cent dollars. He says Mr. Roosevelt's prediction of a national income of 10O billion dollars can be achieved; by bringing the dollar down to 40 cents.

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But the powers at Washington utterly ignore the tax burden in attacking the present "recession" problem. They never mention it. Yet taxation is the largest single cause of the present condition of "lack of confidence" that all men agree is here.

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Lawrence Lucey, writing in "The Commonweal," a national Catholic publication, discusses taxation in most force(Continued on Page 8)

IN FACT AIJ SIGNS SEEM TO SAY THAT TTIIS YEAR WIIJ BE A

-'PHITIPPINE.'MAHOGANY-' -YEAR !!

THE BIG AND MODENN MITLS FON WHICH WE ANE EKCIUSTI/E DISTNEUTON ARE CUTTING TIMBER TNOM THE FINEST FONESTS IN THE ISIANDS. TTIE TEKTT'BE AND CHARACTF.R OF OIIR TUMBER IS I'NSI'RPASSED. WE CANRY IN STOCK AT AII TIIVIES AT OIIB SAN PEDRO YARD AT LEAST TWO MIIIION FEET OF THE FINEST STOCK. WE SPECIALIffi,IN UGHT AI{D DARK PHIIJPPINE MAHOGANY, AIT ITEMS FOR AIJ. PT'RPOSES. OTHER SPECTATTTES IN STOCK ANE APITONG AIVD GUTIO TNOM TIIE PHIIJPPINES, TEAK T:.ROM SIAIVI, IRONBARK AND IANRAH FROM AUSIBAUA, AI{D BALSA WOOD TBOM SOTITT{ AMERICA. THE BEST POSSIBI.E SERVICE AI.L TTIE TIME.

STOBAGE YARD:

OI'TEN HANBOR, SAN PEDRO, CAL.

MITIS AND YARDS: MANILf, cnd TOLAMBUGAN, P.I.

EXCLUSTVE DISTRIBUTONS

FOR FINDLAY.MILLAN TIMBEB CO., MANILA, P.I.

Scwmill cnd Log Pond qt Kolcrmbugcrn, P. I.

(Contiuued from Page 6) ful fashion. For instance he states that the present social security tax being levied on employers and employes IS THE HEAVIEST TAX EVER LEVIED IN THIS OR ANY OTHER COUNTRY FOR ANY PURPOSE WHATSOEVER. And that, of course, is one of a myriad of the taxes of today.

Mr. Lucey says that i" issi ttle peaer"t Government collected in taxes $5,600,(nO,O00, the States collected $2,500,000,000, and local governments collected $4,500,000,000, making a total of $12,600,ff)0,O00 for the year. AND THAT WAS BEFORE THE SOCIAL SECURITY AND UN. DISTRIBUTED SURPLUS TAXES WERE LEVIED.

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"Every one of these taxes" says Mr. Lucey, "increases the cost of living." No need to prove that statement, is there? Yet, Mr. Lucey calls attention to the fact that although these various forms of government take from 20 to 30 cents in taxes out of every dollar earned, they did NOT pay the bill. It would have required 18 cents out of every 68 cents earned to do that, says Mr. Lucey.

Naturally, he says, """1n l"riuurr, of the nation is not paying 18 cents out of each 68 cents earned." Some pay much less. Some much more. He tells of a man who pays $35 a month rent for an apartment in New York, who laughed when told that if it were not for taxes the landlord could rent him that apartment for not more than $25, and perhaps as low as $17.50. He thought the landlord paid the taxes, just because he, the renter, did not get a tax bill.

NAVY DAY FOR LAWRENCE.PHILIPS S. S. CO.

January 24 was "Navy Day" for the LawrencePhilips Steamship Co., when its entire fleet of vessels for the first time in many months was in port at Los Angeles harbor at the same time. T. B. Lawrence and Don Philips were on hand to greet their many friends who visited the Harbor to inspect the vessels. The compiny operates the steamships "Dorothy Philips," "Josephine E. Lalrence," and "Lawrence Philips ."

66 YDARS OT SDRVIGI

The house oI White Broihers was lounded ia Jcrnucry ol 1872.

Referring further to the social security taxes, Mr. Lucey says that after 1949 when the full law goes into effect, this tax alone will take 9 cents from each dollar earned by a worker. Three cents from each dollar will be taken from his envelope by his employer for old age pensions. The employer, himself, will have to pay 6 cents for every dollar he pays this worker. Naturally the employer is going to add this tax to the cost of doing business, the cost of goods, and services.

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The employe will then find that the 97-cent dollar he has received will only buy 91 cents worth of food, and clothing, and shelter, for the 6-cent tax has been added to the cost of living.

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Mr. Lucey concludes that there is but one answer to the present high and growing cost of living-taxation, and that it is going higher all the time, and nothing is being done to stop it.

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Flash: Mr. Roosevelt appointed a good citizen and a good lawyer to the Supreme Court the other day, thus spiking the rumor that he was going to follow the appointment of Klansman Black by the appointment of Charlie McCarthy.

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Flash: Secretary Ickes got in awful bad with "the boss" when he sent out that radio blast to the effect that "sixty families rule America." That's fifty-nine more than "the boss" had figured on-

BACK FROM NORTHWEST

Harry E. Whittemore, manag'er of the Benson Co., San Diego, has returned from a three weeks' trip to the Northwest.

LOS ANGELES VISITOR

Lumber business

Geo. R. Kendrick, sales manager of the Chas. R. McCorrnick Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned Jawary 24 from a business trip to Los Angeles.

IDEPENDABTLITT-RIGHT PNIGES ANd GODIPLETE 8TOCK8

HIGH GRADE HARDWOODS-Dmestic wood!: Ach, Bech, Birch, Gm, Hldrcry, Maraolia, Meplc' OaL, Popler, Warut, rrak ud MIDIG F'loaht. FOREIGN WOODS: Apttong, Balca, Spaniah Ccdar, Eboy' Spottcd Gun, Iroberlc, Jmtrero, Llgnm Vit c, Mah4aln Prlmrrrcra' Rccwoo4 Si.E Tcrb Abo

FIR PLYU/OOD AND WALLBOARI)

Wbite Brolhers scr locqtad oa the South Ecst comer ol Specr d Horord Stg. ia San Frcacisco.

Hipolito Moves to New and Attractive

West Coast Annual Meeting Offices Held at Tacoma

The Hipolito Company, of Los Angeles, has just moved offices. Their big mill is just around the corner from the offices on Alameda Street they have occupied for years, so they leased a piece of property right alongside the mill, and built a small and very attractive office building on the front, which they now occupy. The rear of the office is used for storage purposes, furnishing them additional facilities. The interior and exterior of the office building are both attractive.

Their metal screen and window department which was formerly in the rear of their offices, has been moved to the second floor of their mill, and splendidly arranged for production purposes.

The Rosenberg Brothers, Herman and Leo, are much pleased with their entire new set-up.

SPENDS FETyI/ DAYS AT MURRIETTA SPRINGS

John E. Marshall, president of John E. Marshall, Inc., Long Beach, lumber handlers and shipping agents, is back at his desk after spending a few days at Murrietta Springs. Mrs. Marshall accompanied him on the trip.

HEADS EXECUTIVES' ASSOCIATION

Jas. B. Overcast, sales manager of Strable Hardwood Company, Oakland, was recently elected president of the Executives' Association of Oakland.

The annual meeting of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association was held at Tacoma, Wash., on January 28.

Dr. Wilson Compton, secretary-manag'er, and H. R. Northup, trade promotion head, National Lumber Manufacturers Association; and H. G. Uhl, secretary of the Timber Engineering Co., Washington, D. C., addressed the meeting. A. C. Horner, manag'er of Western Timber Structures of San Francisco, talked on new uses for Douglas fir timbers in California. Clyde Makutchan, chief building inspector, Los Angeles, was the only non-industry speaker.

President T. V. Larsen, of Forcia & Larsen, Noti, Ore., presided at the meeting. Secretary-Manager W. B. Greeley reported on the Association's work in 1937 and spoke on opportunities ahead for the industry. Other subjects discussed included questions of lumber grading and inspection, developments in lumber research and engineering, West Coast lumber transportation problems, lumber trade promotion, governmental relations and labor relations. Corydon Wagner, vice-president of the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company, who recently returned from a trip in continental Europe, spoke on the subject of "Timber Use and Marketing in Germany."

A special meeting for West Coast sales managers was held at Tacoma on Janaary 27.

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

l/".il0YA get that llray

Who is this NOYO, ^nryay, and how did he get that way?

Sh! Sfe'll let you in on the secret! NOYO, as Cbief ol the Red.utoods, has been a ttadition in the Union Lumber Company for half a century. In fact, among the oldest loggers he is generally given credit for being the first to discover the unusually durable qualities of Redwood and how it makes "lumber that can take it."

tU7inding and cascading through the timberland and mills of the Union Lumber Company is the Noyo River, named for this great Indian lumber chief----a perpetual reminder of his rugged spirit-a constant inspiration to keep true his watchword,"once aNOYO Dealer<lutays,"

UNION LUMBER COTTPANY

Outlining and Defining Service

By Jock Dionne

I hcve c very interesting letter belore me crs I write.

It is from the hecrd oI cr big Southern line ycrrd concerrL and he crsks q difficult queslion. He scrys crll modern retcil lumbennen crre advertiging crnd ottering crnd promising "Service." That his ycrrds crre doing lhe scme. He suggests thcrt cr ycrd ncrncger ought to know iust excrctly whcrt he mecna when he promises "Service" to the trcrde, and wcmts suggestions lrom me to be incorporcted into a letter on thcrt subiect thcrt he plcurs to write to his mcncgers.

No ecrsy problem, I cssure you. Beccruse the interpretation ol Service to ecch lumber dealer depends very lcrgely on the loccrl situction ol thct decrler. It is hurncnly impossible to lcry down a set ol rulee qnd scry-"This is what Service meqna in c retcil lumber business." Totcrlly impossible.

Service is cn intcmgible thing. It is lhct intcngible thing which" when cpplied to curd qdded to our physiccl stocks. trcnslcrtes those stocks into the lcngucrge ol buildings, crnd building functions, and buitding ideqs, cmd building things.

The <rvercrge retailer-the gentlencur who asks for this assiBtcmce being one.of thern-wants to explcrin Service in entirely too tcmgible cmd physiccrl cr nrcnner. crnd Service, in the best sen8e ol the word, is NOT c physiccl thing. It is c mentcl spiritucL ururcmcble thing.

In your ycrrd there is lumber dirnension, bocrde, llooring, ceiling, roofing, etc. They mcke no pcrrticulcr crppecl, torm no crtkcrction to the humcrn mind, cs they crre.

And the thing thct makes them desircrble, crttrcctive, populcr, is the SERVICE ihe decler puts behind ihem.

He FiIOWS their vclue in building cffcrirs.

He knows the grcdes, the items, the guclities thct cue best suited to the vcrious building purposea. He knows how they should be used, hcndled, sqwn, nciled, dressed, linished, pcrinted, etc., to gdve them the grecrtest BITII"DING vcrlue.

He knows the correct price ol everything he hqs. He is able to give c round figure on cr building iob composed oI these mcterials.

He crdvertises, displcys cnd in every wcy crt his commqnd cclls the attention ol his trcrde to these things he hcrs lor sale. He shows them pictures, plcnrs, suggestions oI how HIS stocks mcy be ueed lor THEIR benefit.

He SEIJS them the iob--the stocks plus the buildi.g service that will trqnslcte the stocks into building things. He sees thct the stoclc cre properly used, to give the best scrtislqction.

He keeps up with the lctest thoughts, styles cnd idecrs in building, so thcrt his stocks mcry be used in modern ltrshion cnrd therefore be the more highly prized when in use.

He lullillE crll his promises, gives prompt delivery ol everything <rgreed upon" funrishes the kind oI stocks he offers, keeps behind the iob in lhe wcry th<rt he should, is crlwcrys recdy with expert cdvice cnrd suggestions as the building ltoes up crnd wecrves himself into the building proiect.

The intcngible things thct he luraishes cre much more inportcrnt in the lincl <rnclysis thcnr the physiccl stocks And everything thct he lurnishes outside oI the hcrd, phyeiccl stocls lhemselves, iS ihE SERVICE_IhE BIIII.DING SERVICE.

The lumber cnd building mcrtericrl is the suit goods in the tcrilor's stock. The finished, modern, scrtisfcrctory; economiccl BIIILDING is the completed, cttractive, well-fitting, stylish SttIT OF croTHES.

The diflerence is th€ SERVICE.

Senrte-Hou3e Conference Reach Agreement on Housing Bill

Washington, Jan. N.-A Senate-House conference today reached agreement on the housing bill after removing a provision requiring that prevailing wages be paid on government insured construction work.

The Senate-House conference ironed out differences in the housing bills passed by the two chambers and the resulting legislation will soon be voted upon finally.

It will permit the Federal Housing Administration to insure mortgages amounting to 90 per cent of the value of homes costing up to $6000. On homes up to $10,000, the first $6000 of the value could be 90 per cent insured; the remainder 80 per cent.

Under present law, F.H.A. can insure mortgages only up to 80 per cent of the value of all types of homes.

The loans on lower-priced homes, under the new legislation, will carry 5 per cent straight interest, plus .25 per cent on the diminishing balance.

Loans on the higher-priced houses will carry an insurance premium charge ranging from .5 per cent to 1 per cent, to be fixed by the F. H. A. The straight interest charge will be 5 per cent.

Loans on $6000 homes can be paid out by the borrorver over twenty-five years, but all larger loans will be on a twenty-year basis.

The new bill also provides for insurance of loans on homes costing not more than $250O, F.H.A. officials said.

Horseless Carriage Club Meets

Iforseless carriage days were revived in Los Angeles, Sunday, January 16, when the Horseless Carriage Club, which has been formed by persons interested in old automobiles, held a meeting.

Art Twohy, Twohy Lumber Co., Los Angeles, who has been a collector of old cars for many years, was among those attending. He drove to the meeting in a 1909 touring model Cadillac, all decked out in linen duster, riding goggles and cap. "Didn't have a qualm the entire trip," said Art, as he disembarked from the four-cylinder machine, equipped with carbide lamps, air-bulb horn, and a two-step running board for the rear seat.

Art has appeared at the wheel of his 1909 Cadillac in several moving pictures.

He says the Club is making a collection of old automobile sales magazines and catalogues for a Club library, and if any of his lumbermen friends have any of these old publications on hand he will appreciate it if they will send them to him.

BUYS YARD IN LOS ANGELES

Owen S, Dalton has bought the Anderson Lumber Co. at 5941 South Western Ave., Los Angeles, and is operating a retail lumber business under the name of the Dalton Lumber Co. Mr. Dalton was formerly manager of the Glendale Lumber Co. at Glendale.

LABOR COST IN HOUSE BUILDING

The carpenter's output is increased when he works with "Paul Bunyan's" California Pines. Their soft even texture shortens every operation,-sawing, fitting and nailing. Dry lumber minimizes frame shrinkage, the cause of cracked plaster and distortion of window and door openings.

Think of "in place" cost when you think of lumber.

LOS ANGELES

Seler Ofice: 715 Vertern Pecific Bldg.' 1O3l So. Broadwey

\Parehoure: L. C. L. Vholcrdc, 7o2 E. Slauron Avc. SAN FRANCISCO

Salcr O6ce: 315 Moaednoct Building

OAKLAND

Salec Ofice: 908 Financiel Ccnter Building

MY FAVORITE STORIES ),

Bv Jock Dionne

Ag" not guarant€sd---Some I have told jor 20 years---Some less

Whv Have Them?

Two colored brothers met on the street the other day. "Whut make you walk lame-like, Alonzo?" asked one. "You mus' be gittin' old."

"No Ah ain't," said the other. "H'its cawns."

"Lawd save us ! You mean you makin' a fuss lak dat 'bout jus' a li'l cawn on you feets?"

"Sho."

BUYS YARD AT BAKERSFIELD

Mears Lumber Company,.Bakersfield, was recently sold to the Egland Lumber Company. The new owners are O. B. Egland, O. B. Egland, Jr., and R. Leer, who conducted a retail lumber and building material business in eastern Montana and Saskatchewan for the past twenty-five years.

M. G. Mears, who formerly operated the yard, plans to retire from active business.

F. N. YOCHEM CALIFORNIA VISITOR

F. N. Yochem of San Antonio, Texas representative for the Union Lumber Company, visited the company's San Francisco and Los Angeles offices and mill operations at Fort Bragg the early part of January.

PLYWOOD MANUFACTURER VISITS S. F.

John L. Long, president of Harbor Plywood Corporation, Hoquiam, Wash., was a visitor at the offices of Maris Plywood Corporation, San Francisco, on his way home from an Eastern business trip.

"IIow come, man? Ah gots cawns on mah toes, too, but dey don't hu't me."

"You mean you' cawns don't hu't when h'its gwine to rain?"

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"Boy," said the other in deep disgust. "You might jus' as well have plain feet."

JOrNS WEST OREGON SALES STAFF

A. J. Hetherington has joined the Los Angeles sales stafi of the West Oregon Lumber Co. He has been associated with the lumber business as a salesman in Southern California for a good many years and is well known with the retail lumber trade.

OREGON DEALER VISITS PALM SPRINGS

C. J. Clause, operator of the Lake View Building Material Co. at Lakeview, Ore., v,.as a recent visitor in Palm Springs. He was just completing a trip around the country which included a visit to Chicago, New York, New Orleans, then west to California. His family was with him on the trip.

APPOINTED YARD MANAGER

H. A. Todd has been appointed manager of the Glendale Lumber Co. at Glendale. He succeeds Owen S. Dalton who has gone in business for himself and is now operating the Dalton Lumber Co. in Los Angeles. Mr. Todd was formerly with the Mullin Lumber Co. at North Hollywood.

Roy Barto Says Business Flourishes in The Philippine lslands

Roy Barto, president of the Cadwallader-Gibson Company, has just returned from a four months' trip to the Philippine Islands, where he went to arrange for a greater supply of Philippine Mahogany for their American business. He came back in fine shape, and reports a most interesting and enjoyable business trip, on which he was accompanied by Mrs. Barto. They lived for many years in the Islands, so the trip was really a return to their old home.

Mr. Barto says that business is splendid in the Philippines, and that the conditions he found here on his return were quite surprising by contrast. Trade with Japan is off, and has done the Philippine trade some harm, but otherwise the Islands are enjoying a flourishing business throughout the world, and a high tide of prosperity prevails.

Bob Osgood, sales manager for Cadwallader-Gibson Company, will leave about the middle of February for an extended trip around the hardwood buying markets of the country. He reports that there is a tremendous increase in activity in the market for Philippine Mahogany since the first of January, inquiries being numerous and sales rapidly developing.

\food Conversion Holds Sales Meetings

The Wood Conversion Company has just completed district sales meetings in St. Paul, Chicago, New York and Dallas. Paul A. Ward, general sales manager, in discussing the performance of men in various territories during the year, announces new records made in the sales of BalsamWool and Nu-Wood.

Salesmen were given a complete outline of advertising and promotional work for the coming year, together with a discussion of new developments which would be announced. National advertising will be included in "Better Homds and Gardens," "House Beautiful," "Home and Garden," and "American llome." In these publications, both Balsam-Wool and Nu-Wood will be featured in a sustained program.

Other advertising on Nu-Wood will be directed at specific markets through school, church, theatre and other publications. A program of full page ads will run regularly in architectural publications. Other ads will appear in lumber dealer, refrigeration and technical publications. Salesmen were informed that a sustained prog'ram on direct mail advertising will continue throughout the year.

EARLE MILLS NAMED DIRECTOR OF EXHIBITS

Earle Mills, Humboldt county agricultural commissioner who has won coastwide laurels for his use of the native Redwood for exhibit purposes, has been named Director of Exhibits of the Redwood Empire Exposition Commission, which will form one of the integral units of the $5,000,000 state participation in the Golden Gate International Exposition of 1939.

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Lumber lndustry Recovery to be Pushed

Washington, D. C., Jan. 11,-In an appeal for the adoption of "a few sound policies" and not a sequence of "selfcontradictory policies" Dr. Wilson Compton, secretarymanager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, today told the Byrnes Committee on Unemployment and Relief that "whatever the Government or Congress does or does not do, we intend to keep on trying. This iq our depression as much as it is yours and we are not going to warr for you before trying to do something about it." He urged the Government that if it has anything to shoot at in business to use a riflle and shodt at what it is aiming at instead of using a blunderbuss and scattering shot over everything and "terrifying everybody."

Dr. Compton showed in his testimony the effect of declining lumber consumption on employment which, he said, had declined 30 per cent or from 320,000 employees this spring to approximately 225,ffi at the end of 1937, while production, during that same period, had decreased 4O per cent. With a production of 37 billion feet the lumber industry employed 419,000 wage earners in 1929 reaching its low point in 1932 with a production of l0 billion feet and an employment of 155,000.

As evidence of the progress which has been made in adjusting production to changes in demand and consumption the witness recalled that following the 1929 slump the lumber industry required 20 months to adjust its current production to the reduced current rate of consumption. By contrast, in 1937 the industry had adjusted its production to the reduced volume of consumption within a period of 7 months. This, Dr. Compton described as "progress in the right direction."

Wide fluctuations in demand have been responsible for the "important fluctuations" in employment, the lumber industry executive declared. "Important interruptions," especially in the last three years and on the Pacific Coast, have been due to strikes which did not directly involve the sawmills, and more recently by warfare between unions competing for dominance, whose quarrel is not with their

employers, but among themselves. "Right now and for months past," the speaker continued, "rival timber workers' unions on the Pacific Coast have been staging a public spectacle of alternating pickets and boycotts which have denied many mills even a chance to run and have deprived thousands of willing workers of even a chance for a livelihood."

Outlines Recovery Aids

Declaring that extension of employment, especially outside of the Pacific Coast, awaits merely an increase in the demand for the industry's products, Dr. Compton reviewed the industry's program to stimulate lumber consumption, especially in the field of low-cost housing. "We in the lumber industry," he said, "can help mobilize the building industries in behalf of a nation-wide program of building low-cost small homes. We are doing so. Incidentally, we can build a good modern small home of standard materials and equipment, for a family of two, right here in suburban Washington and right now for a construction cost of less than $2000; as for a family of six, for $3,400; not including land." Passage of the Housing Bill, now pending before Congress, was urged by the witness, btrt he added, only if the "prevailing wage" payment dmendment is eliminated from that bill.

Asks Labor Relations Act Amendment and Removal of Discriminatory Foreign Tariffs

As an aid to an industry, which he described as the victim of labor disputes to which it is not a party, Dr. Compton recommended the Labor Relations Act be amended to protect workers against coercion and intimidation; to require strike votes to be by secret ballot, and to prohibit boycott in interstate commerce of the product of a company which has had a valid collective bargaining agency election.

"The recovery of much of our industry," he continued, "depends upon the restoration of export markets. Since 193O our products in the competitive world trade have fallen in volume more than one-half and in rank from first place to fifth. This is due principally to discriminatory foreign

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tariffs. Our export trade will not recover until it has an equal competitive chance at the principal world markets. These foreign discriminations are imposed by public authority. They can be rcmoved by public authority." The witness also urged the enactment of legislation now pending in Congress which would recognize the Federal Forest Service so to handle the one-third of the commercial timber supply now controlled or owned by the Federal Government as to foster and facilitate sustained yield management of forest lands.

In speaking for what he described as the "oldest American industry," Dr. Compton said "I am of course greatly interested in determining the causes of the present depression. If we don't know the causes, we won't know the cure. But I am not interested in determining who, if anyone is to blame. As to the forest products industries, anyone who seeks to explain their reduced activity on the ground that they are 'on strike' against the Administration is talking utter nonsense."

In over an hour's questioning by members of the Committee, Dr. Compton elaborated on his recommendation that there be established the means for enabling the factfinding agencies of the Government, in cooperation with various industries, to make available more complete inforrnation on the condition of inventories and on present and prospective consumption. This, the witness admitted, would be a hard job and would cost money, but, he added, "it will cost vastly less than will the additional unemployment relief periodically if it is not done."

Strable Hardwood Company Moves Into New Offices

Strable Hardwood Company, Oakland, moved into new offices on January 24. The new offices are a part of the rebuilding and modernizing of the whole plant, which is expected to be completed in a few weeks.

The walls of the general office are finished in Celotex Plank in various colors. Celotex Tile in different colors and assorted sizes is used on the ceiling. Art-Ply panels are effectively used on the walls of one of the offices.

The floor is l3/L6" Oak plank, tavern grade. All doors and trim are Philippine Mahogany.

President B. E. Bryan's private office is finished in Upson Board, with a two-tone treatment which is attractive. Upson Decotyle is used on the walls of the lavatories. A circulating heat system, using gas as fuel, has been installed.

The offices are well lighted by large windows and indirect lighting.

The Venetian blinds on the windows have Port Orford Cedar slats.

Dealers are invited to inspect the new offices and see the effective installation of the various products.

VISITS LOS ANGELES OFFICE

Bill Davies, Phoenix, Arizona representative for Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., spent a few days at the company's Los Angeles office around the middle of January.

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Big Timbers for Exposition Buifdings

The six large exhibit palaces being erected by the Guy tr. Atkinson Company at the Golden Gate International Exposition require more than 10,000,000 board feet of lumber. The exhibit buildings, which measure 886x200 feet, 415x200 feet, ancl 753x178 feet, in pairs, are among the largest wood frame structures yet built. Some of the structural timbers that rvill be used in these buildings include 36 pieces of 7S-foot 12x16 inch and 36 pieces of 74-foot length. The Portland office of the contractors divided the lumber order for the six exhibit palaces among twenty-six mills.

The construction of the four pavilions surrounding the central part requires2,25o,ffi feet of lumber. Clinton Construction Company are the contractors.

The ferry terminal to be constructed by the Clinton firm calls for 825,000 feet of lumber, and the wharf, being built by Malott & Peterson, requires an additional 1,585,000 feet. Another 325,000 feet is required by the Atkinson Company for the 400-foot central tower.

The Exposition calls for a $16,000,000 construction program.

-Courtesy Wegt Coast Lumbermen's Asgociqtion. Genercl view ol timber conetruction ct Golden Gcte lnternationcl Expoaition. Two crones cre ueed to erect the 8-ton hqll-crch eections. 78-loot l2xl6 inch structurcrl tirnbers cre used in thege mcin qrches. A hcngcrr snd the Scra Frcrncisco.Oqllcrnd Bcy Bridge in bcckground.

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THE DEMOCRACY OF THE DEAD

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There i{ neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave. At this fatal threshold the philosopher ceases to be wise, and the song of the poet is silent. Dives relinquishes his millions and Lazarus his rags.

The poor man is as rich as the richest, and the rich man is as poor as the pauper. The creditor loses his usury, and the debtor is acquitted of his obligation. There the proud man surrenders his dignities, the politician his honors, the wordling his pleasures, the invalid needs no physician, and the laborer rests from unrequited toil.

Here at last is Nature's final decree in equity. The wrongs of time are redressed.. Injustice is expiated, the irony of Fate is refuted, the unequal distribution of wealth, honor, capacity, pleasure and opportunity, which makes life such a cruel and inexplicable tragedy, ceases in the realm of death. The strongest there has no supremacy, and the weakest needs no defense. The mightiest captain succumbs to that invincible adversary, who disarms alike the victor and the vanquished.

-John J. Ingalls.

THE EARLY MORNING

By Hilaire Belloc

The moon on the one hand, The dawn on the other;

The moon is my sister, The dawn is my brother.

The moon on my left And the dawn on my right. My brother, good morningl My sister, good night.

The cook was a go she went.

good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks -Munro.

NICE AND CLEAN

Magnolia: "When Mandy went an' got married, us girls done give her a shower."

Pansy: "Dat sho' was nice. Ah'll bet her husban' was glad to git her all nice an' clean."

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.-Cardinal Newman.

UP.HILL

Does the road wind up-hill all the way?

Yes, to the very end.

Will the day's journey take the whole long day?

From morn till night, my friend.

But is there for the night a resting-place?

A roof for when the slow dark hours begin. May not the darkness hide it from my face?

You cannot miss that inn.

Shall I meet other wayfarers at night?

Those who have gone before.

Then must I knock, or call when just in sight?

They will not keep you standing at that door.

Shall I find comfort, travel-sore and weak?

Of labor you shall find the sum.

Will there be beds for me and all who seek?

Yea, beds for all who come.

-Christina G. Rossetti.

PROVING HE KNEW

"Oh yes," said the pilot on the steamboat, .'I've been on this river so long I know where every stump is."

Just then the boat struck a stump which shook it from stem to stern.

"There," he continued. "that's one of them now.',

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

-Mark Twain.

A SURE SIGN

"I need a holiday," said the pretty cashier. "I'm not looking my best."

ttNonsense," said the manager, "ft isn't nonsense; the men are beginning to count their change."

IN THE HILLS OF KENTUCKY

Salesman: "Say, your shoes are mixed; you've got the left shoe on the right foot."

Strawfoot: "And here for twenty years f thought I was clubfooted."

Supply of Philippine Mahogany is lncxhaustibfe

By Jack Dionne

Every now and then someone who has heard the merits and characteristics of Philippine Mahogany expounded in laudatory manner, pops up with a natural question something like this:

"Very well ! Let's assume that it IS as beautiful, and useful, and economical as you say it is ! But how about the supply ?"

And, Mister,' that's where the well posted Philippine Mahogany salesman shoots his biggest gun. For did you know, friends, that of all the commercial woods that grow on the top side of this fairly well-treed earth, Philippine Mahogany has far and away the biggest supply?

Did I say "biggest" ? That word doesn't cover the situation nor describe the supply. For the supply of Philippine Mahogany is to all practical purposes INEXHAUSTIBLE. And that can be said of no other commercial wood, soft or hard.

Yes Sir, they are going to. have plenty of Philippine Mahogany forever, it looks like. Know how much of this timber there is standing in the Islands ? Give ear and learn. The Bureau of Forestry of the Philippine Islands says that there are four hundred and eighty-six billion feet of it.

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Know how much they cut a year now? About two hun, dred million feet. Divide the standing timber by the annual cut and you get what? If your pencil is doing its work well you will find that the annual cut goes into the present supply just about two thousand four hundred and thirty times. To make it short and plain, at the present rate of cutting and allowing for no re-growth (and Philippine grows reasonably fast) it would take Z43O years to cut the timber now standing in the Islands.

And, since the timber now standing is much less than two thousand years old, it stands to reason that before this present forest is all cut another one will have re-grown.

Yes Sir, it looks like a fellow can go right ahead and build up a trade in Philippine Mahogany without stopping to worry about whether he'll be able to get it ten years from now. For when all the present stands of the Pines, and the Firs, and the various other softwoods, as well as the many hardwoods, have been lost in the timeless scroll of history and faded into the innocuous desuetude of the dust, on the hills of the Philippines they will still be able to flaunt the same boast that they can today:

Andnow---

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\(/hat Would We Do Without Color? Moralt Sell More and More Paint

By Jack Dionne

Imcrgine your town without tr drop oI pcrint on qny building! Picture your living roorns undecorated! Look ct the wclls oI your home, cnd think oI them cra never hcrving been pcintedt

How would irour cuto look unliniEhed?

Your plcce of business would be monotonous cnd drecry. Mcchinery would cll look alike. Farm buildings would be so unsightly thcrt they would appear hideous.

Without color you might qs well be blind. Color is EVERYTHXNG.

We remember scenes beccruse the coloring is becrutilul. We reccll summer nights when the sky wcs bluer thqn usucl. We think of c certcin dtrwn beccuse ncture was lcrvish with her colors on thct pcrticulcr morning.

We love certcrin homes beccuse the color scheme hcs been worked out hcrrmoniously.

We desire to own certcin lcrrms beccruse the color schemes of the building lcry-out hcrs cp- pecled to us.

We mcry not attribute these desires to the color schemes. We mcy imcrgine thct something entirely different wcs responsible. Yet in the mciority oI cqses our lcrvorqble attention wqs lirst cttrcrcted by color.

Color cttrcrcts cnrd fqscinates.

Winter is drecrry becquse there is little vcrriety in nature's color scheme. Spring is becutilul beccruse color is retuming to the world. Summer is gorgeous beccruse ncrture hcs returned to her color climcu<.

Thectriccrl perlormcnces ollen depend lor their auccess or fcilure on their color schemes. Mcrny cn indifferent production hqs been sqved by wonderlul color effects.

A womcn is becrutiful when she wecrs cr certcrin color. With some other color she is entirely uncttrqctive. We otten iudge new people we meet by the colors they wecrr.

Color intensifies love cnrd qdmirction" cnd intensilies repellcnce.

Thct is why the selection oI colors is importcnt.

A building cqn be entirely ruined by poor pcrint or poorly selected colors.

Homes cre hideous or "homey" cccording to the color scheme selected cnrd crpplied.

A lcim well pcrinted is ecsily scrlcrble. Bcdly pcinted its vqlue is much reduced.

Color is produced by pcrint.

There is no merchcrnt to whom color is more importcrnt to business success thcrn the lumber merchcnt.

Most oI the mctericl he sells WIII be or SHOIILD be COLOBED. To hcve them properly colored, is crs irnportcmt as the origincl scrle itseU.

Therelore the lumber merchant should sell pcrint, he should know color schemes, cnd he should ccnelully crdvise his customers on the use ol COIOR.

Doing so meqns much to his business in every wcy.

Convention Dates

Feb. 2- 3-Michigan Association of the Traveling Lumber & Sash Door Salesmen, Statler Hotel, Detroit, Annual.

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

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

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Feb.

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2- 4--Lamber Dealers' Association of Western Pennsylvania, Fort Pitt Hotel, Pittsburgh, Pa, S-lO-Illinois Lumber & Material Dealers' Association, Stevens Hotel, Chicago. Annual.

9-1l-Union Association of Lumber & Sash & Door Salesmen, Deshler-Wallick Hotel, Columbus, Ohio. Annual.

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

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

Feb. 14-1S-West Virginia Lumber & Builders & Supply Dealers'Association, Huntington, W. Va. Annual.

Feb. 1S-l7-Wisconsin Retail Lumbermen's Association, Milwaukee.

Feb. l7-l9-Western Retail Lumber Dealers' Association, Spokane, Wash.

Feb. l7-l8-Kentucky Lumber & Supply Association, Lafayette Hotel, Lexington, Ky. Annual.

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

Feb.23-Z1-Nebraska Lumber Merchants' Association, Municipal Auditorium, Omaha, Nebr. Annual.

Feb. Z4-2S-Virginia Building Material Association, John Marshall Hotel, Richmond, Va.

Mar. 3- 4-Southwestern Iowa Retail Lumbermen's Association. Council Bluffs, Iowa.

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

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

Ap.. -28-IndianaHardwood Lumbermen's Association, Indianapolis, Ind. Annual.

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Proves Cost of Home Today at Low Level

San Francisco, January 14.-An independent audit by Heyman Brothers, San Francisco builders, shows that a "superior" S-room home-2 bedrooms, kitchen, living room, dining room and breakfast room-selling today for $200Ohouse and lot-would ccst the buyer in the 1926-L9D period, the total amount of $8,730.

This substantiates the findings of W. H. Lowe, president of the Paraffine Companies, Inc., who recently declared that the cost of homes today is fr-26 per cent below I926-l9n levels.

Heyman Brothers say: "The unit price per square foot is about the same today as it was in 1926 but look at the superority in quality, equipment and finished product by that same unit price today.

"The new items introduced in our modern houses and their cost in a $7000 home, including innovations, FHA requirements, earthquake protection, termite protection, architectural improvements, heating equipment, and finish and comfort, total $670.

"Due to a more competitive market, our margin of profit for a house of this type since 1929 f.ound itself reduced to approximately $500.

"This shows a difference in favor of the buyer of $1170.

"The FHA loans represent a saving to the home buyer of about 1 per cent in interest per year. Our typical home of $7000 would carry a loan of $5600 on which the saving of 1 per cent on the unpaid balance alone over a period of trventy years amount to $56O.

"This brings the total additional value to the buyer of today over the l92Gl9D period to $1730, meaning that the final cost of this $7000 home of today would have'been $8730 in l92Gl9D, if at that time we had furnished the same equipment, added today's higher overhead through labor insurance and tax increases, figured the then prevailing profit margin and interest rates on first and second mortgages.

"These figures prove that the home buyer of today has the advantage over the 1926-l9D buyer by 241 per cent for the identical home."

No Tough Hauling fo, Your Truck

The San Pedro wholesale yard of the San Pedro Lurnber Cornpany is on a rnain highwayno dangerous hauling or rough ioads to boost your pickup costs. Tirne saved is rnoney in your pocket.

Juct Wondcrin'

I Wonder why we cannot take A hint from ancient days, ; And then adapt to modern times ' Their wise and useful ways;

' There was the oath Athenians took. So very good and true, That I would like to take it now, And so, I'm sure, would you.

I Wonder why we cannot, in the interest of our own city, town or community, make and keep the oath with which Athenians pledged fealty to their own beloved city, Athens.

Individually and collectively can we not say;-

"We will never bring disgrace to this, our City, by any act of cowardice or ever desert our suffering comrades in the ranks; we will fight for the ideals and sacred things of this City, both alone and with many; we will revere and obey the City's laws and do our best to incite a like respect and reverence in those about us who are prone to annul or set them at naught; we will strive unceasingly to quicken the public sense of civic duty; and thus, in all ways, we will pass this City not less but greater, better and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us."

Because we love our CityHer homes and her busy marts, We pledge her our true allegiance With loyal and faithful hearts. We promise to make her betterMore wondrous from year to year, That her glory and pride may be greater

When we are no longer here.

Uncle Silas says, "I'm right glad the Constitution guarantees us free speech and freedom of the press; but if it had mentioned free streets and the integrity of public highways, there'd have been something more to brag about."

-A. Merriam Conner.

JOINS McCORMICK SALES STAFF

Jim Berry, formerly with the Newton Lumber Company, Denver, is now covering the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley territory for the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Company, San Francisco. He succeeds Fred .Amburgey, who has been brought into the San Francisco office.

Wsrtcrn Pine Annual February 10

The annual meetings of the Western Pine Association will be held Thursday, February 10, 1938, at the Portland Hotel, Portland, Ore. The morning session will be devoted to a meeting of Association members at which the various committees will report and the 1938 program will be discussed in detail. The early part of the afternoon will be given over to a discussion of the NLMA's activities, following which the board of directors will meet to take formal action on matters considered by the members meeting in the morning.

The NLMA's work will be discussed by Secretary-Manager Wilson Compton; C. R. French, who is in charge of the NLMA's housing promotion work, and H. G. Uhl, manager of the Timber Engineering Co., an NLMA affiliate which promotes the use of modern timber connectors in wood structures.

The Promotion and Research committees will meet in Portland, Tuesday, February 8, The Promotion, Grading, Statistical and Traffic Committees will meet Wednesday morning, February 9, and the Bxecutive and Economics Committee will hold a brief session the afternoon of the same day. It is understood, also, that a sales managers meeting is being arranged for Wednesday afternoon, February 9.

SAN FRANCISCO VISITORS

W. S. (Bill) Russell, wholesale lumber dealer of Eugene, Ore., recently called on some of his old friends when in San Francisco on a business trip.

Orville R. Miller, Deep River Logging Co., Portland, was a San Francisco visitor around the middle of January.

William Swindells, of Willamette Valley Lumber Co., Dallas, Ore., called on a number of wholesalers in San Francisco on his way home from an Eastern trip.

MOVE TO NEW OFFICES

Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co. has moved its Los Angeles office from strite 1226 to suite 1102 W. M. Garland Building. The telephone number remains the same-TRinity 477I.

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Jack Dionne Talks to East B.y Hoo Hoo Club

All attendance records for a regular meeting of East Bay Hoo Hoo Club No. 39 were broken when 140 sat down to dinner at the meeting of the club held at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, on Monday evening, January 24. The retail, wholesale and manufacturing branches of the industry were well represented.

Henry M. Hink, president of the club, presided, and B. E. Bryan, chairman of the entertainment committee, introduced the speakers.

Floyd Haas, a former resident of Death Valley, gave a talk of absorbing interest on the Valley. This was illustrated with colored slides. Mr. Haas spoke with authority on the subject and his presentation was much enjoyed.

Jack Dionne, publisher of The California Lumber Merchant, entertained the big crowd for nearly an hour with a humorous talk in the course of which he told many new stories, and, by request, his famous old story "Rigoletto." IIe was in top form and the laughter and applause indicated that everybody had a good time.

At the close of his talk Mr. Dionne was presented by the Club with a beautiful leather toilet kit. Clem Fraser made the presentation.

S. R. Forsey was the lucky rvinner of the door prize.

Among those in attendance were many from out of town. These included the following: Chas. G. Bird and Donald G. Bird, Stockton Lumber Co., Stockton; Charles Brace, Stockton Lumber Co., Stockton; H. J. Barrington, LongBell Lumber Co., Weed, Calif.; Chas. B. Cross, Stockton; Perry A. Dame, tos Angeles; A. E. Dubray, Watsonville; Ralph D. Gorman, Crockett Lumber Co., Crockett; A. C. Hansen, S. H. Chase Lumber Co., San Jose; Roy Henderson, '-fhe Diamond Match Co., Livermore; G. IJ. Harmon, St. Paul, Minn.; Tom Hubbard, Cheim Lumber Co., San Jose; Earle E. Johnson, Watsonville Lurnber Co., 'Watson. ville; Chet Leavitt, Turlock; Nels Nelson, Hayward Mill & Lumber Co., I{ayward; Joe Parkel, Spencer Lumber Co., Walnut Creek; A. F. Taylor, Castro Valley Lumber Co., Castro Valley; L. M. Swiger, Cheim Lumber Co., San Jose; M. M. IJzelot, Castro Valley; W. T. Weiser, Montana.

CARL AND ED SCHAFER CALIFORNIA VISITORS

Carl Schafer, superintendent and purchasing agent of Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., Montesano, Wash., receritly spent a ferv days in San Francisco. Edward P. Schafer, sales manager of the company, visited both the San Francisco and Los Angeles offices recently.

Ten tiles of The

Years

Ago Today

From the Lumber Merchant, Februa ry 1 , 1928

California

Eighteen cash prizes were awarded in the second California Redwood contest which closed on December 31, after a receipt of 99 entries from a total of 41 persons.

In the retail yard group, Lathrop K. Leishman, Crown City Mfg. Co., Pasadena, was awarded $100.00 for first prize. Second prize, $25.0o, went to Rex Hall, W. D. Hall Co., Inc., El Cajon.

H. B. Worden, Redwood Manufacturers Co., San Francisco, won first prize, $100.00, in the Redwood sales representatives' group, with second prize of $25.00 going to J. B. Maher, Monterey Bay Redwood Co., Santa Cruz.

P. J. Rutledge, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., Eureka, won the prize ol $20.00 for the Redwood mill group.

Thirteen additional prizes of $10.00 each were awarded to the following retailers and Redwood salesmen:

Retailers-C. E. Fountain, \M. K. Kendrick, Charles Moorehead, R. T. Paddock, Granville Pritchard, and W. L. Smith.

Redwood salesmen-Frank M. Billeci, Harvey Isenhower, H. K. Munson, M. R. Sutliff, Charles F. Ward, Ben F. Ward, and A. K. Westh.

Charles E. Miller, Oregon lumberman, was appointed a member of the Oregon State Game Commission. Mr. Miller is an enthusiastic sportsman.

Chas. C. Adams Lumber Co., San Bernardino, now has an attractive new yard. In addition to a new office building, the yard is equipped with a large warehouse and cement plant and has large yard capacity for storing lumber. Mr. Adams bought the Independent Lumber Co. at San Bernardino on his entry into the retail lumber business in Southern California. Before coming to California, he was connected with the retail lumber business at Winewood, Okla.

Dinuba Lumber Co. l-umber Co. at Dinuba. has purchased the

European trip where he will spend a few months touring France and ltaly.

President J. H. Shepard presided at the monthly meeting of the Sacramento Valley Lumbermen's Club held at the Hotel Senator on December 21. He announced that the board of directors will arrange good programs for all meetings during the year, and that the board has set aside the sum of $50.00 to provide for an attendance prize each meeting.

The monthly meeting of the Central California Lumbermen's Club was held at Stockton on January 14, President George E. Ground presiding. Frank Bevan, Pacific Gas & Electric Co.. San Francisco. was the speaker of the dav.

McElroy-Cheim at Centerville and

Lumber Co., San Jose, has opened yards East San Tose.

M. L. Doane has started the M. L. Doane Lumber Co. at San Jose. Mr. Doane has been associated with the retail lumber business in San Tose for a number of vears.

San Diego Lumber Co., new shed of Mission type flooring and finish stock.

San Diego, has constructed a which they will use for their

The Barr Lumber Company held a Christmas tree party for all employees, and their families at its Santa Ana yard on December 24. A large Christmas tree was beautifully decorated for the occasion. Presents of cash were distributed to employees and gifts were presented to all the employees' children.

Emanuel Fritz, wood technologist for the California White and Sugar Pine Association, and rvho has been representing the West Coast Lumber Trade Extension Bureau Alta District in the ."*. ""p""ity, has resumed his professorship at the School of Forestry. University of California.

L. A. Beckstrom has been appointed sales manager for the L. W. Blinn Lumber Co., Los Angeles.

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The fortieth anniversary of the founding of the Pioneer Paper Company of Los Angeles was observed by a meeting of the executives and all employees at the Los Angeles plant.

\(/ood Front and Bowed Vindows Beautify Store

-Courtesy West Coqst Lumberrnen': Associcttion

This new lront ol the L. Anderson d Son Grocery, Concord, Maaa.,'is c line excmple ol modern crchilecturql wood use, tor becuty with economy, in busfurlss buil dings. This store is located in c building erected in 1828, in c neighborhood thct retqins lhe Concord coloiicl lrqdition.

Harry B. Littte, trrchitect, Concord, Mqss., has designed mtrny lcrrge buildings jn Concord, but the Weet Cocrst Lutnbermen'g Aggocialion ig inlormed that tnis modest store-lront deaign hos brought him more cornplimenls, lrom cll over the country, thcn cny ol his work to dqte. ilote ibe sirlp oI old wood building, with the o rerhung gecond atory, next door to the Anderson Grocery.

VACATIONING IN DEATH VALLEY

M. A. Ilarris, president of Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., San Francisco, is on a vacation trip to Furnace Creek Inn, Death Valley. He is accompanied by Mrs' Harris.

BACK ON ROAD

L. E. Grirnes, IJnion Lumber Company, is spending part o{ his time traveling the Sacramento Valley and part time at the company's Mendocino mill.

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Lumbermen Advise Railroads to Seek Traffic Volume Instead of High Rates

Portland, Oregon, January 17, 1938-Douglas fir lumberrnen, appearing today before Interstate Commerce Commissioner William E. Lee, who is hearing testimony on the higher freight rates proposed by all the railroads in the United States, freely admitted the needs of the carriers for greater revenue. They asserted, however, that-in the case of West Coast lumber-the proposal for uniform increases in all tariffs, limited only by a maximum of 6 cents per hundred pounds, is the wrong way to increase earnings.

Ihis assertion was based upon the fact that nearly half of the domestic sales of West Coast lumber move to markets like California and the Eastern states where shipment by rail is highly competitive with shipment by water. Increases in costs of rail transportation will defeat their purpose, by diverting the traffic to water carriers.

In support of this contention, the representatives of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association introduced many exhibits showing how the railroads had greatly increased their traffic volume and earnings under the competitive rate to the Eastern states, adopted in 1935. This rate, finally set at 78 cents per hundred pounds to all territory east of Chicago, requires minimum carload weights of from 50,000 to 60,000 pounds, depending upon the size of the equipment furnished. As the result of its adoption, the lumber exhibits show that the weight of the average car has increased nearly 11,000 pounds; the earnings on the average car have increased over $50.00, and that the annual movement has increased by 11,000 cars. Before this rate was established in 1935, the railroads weri hauling only 12 per cent of all the West Coast lumber marketed in the states east of Chicago. As a result of the rate, they are hauling 30 per cent of the total movement. After making all due allowances for the increased traffic that would have come anyway from economic recovery, the lumber witnesses asserted that the adoption of this rate has brought the carriers $3,680,000 of additional revenue per year, which otherwise they would not have had. On the basis of detailed comparisons of delivered costs at typical destinations in the Eastern states, it was asserted that the freight advance now requested would throw the competitive movement of Western lumber into the Eastern states back into substantially the same situation which prevailed before the lower rail tariff was adopted; and that the large gains in traffic volume would quickly disappear. This would cost the railroads, the lumbermen allege, more in earnings than the entire gain computed under the proposed advances, on the assumption that the volume of movement worrld remain unchanged.

The lumbermen also testified that water carriers now handle three-fourths of the West Coast lumber shipped to California; and that under the highly competitive conditions existing in this traffic, the increased rates to California would defeat their own purpose by diverting more of the movement to coastwise shipping, supplemented by truck hauls inland from the California harbors.

Colonel W. B. Greeley, Secretary-Manager of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, drew a parallel between the competitive movement of West Coast woods by rail and water and the competitive movement of citrus fruits from Florida to their principal eastern markets. The railroads have asked to have the citrus fruit movement exempted from the proposed increase in order to hold a fair share of this extremely competitive traffic. The same principle, Greeley asserted, applies no less to the competitive movement of western lumber.

Many exhibits were also introduced by West Coast Association witnesses designed to show the very heavy burden of transportation cost upon the lumber manufactured in Western Oregon and Western Washington in relation to the value of the commodity. One exhibit diagramed an average Douglas fir and hemlock log, showing a yield of 2l per cent of Clear, $hop and Industrial grades-as against 79 per cent of Structural and Common grades. The average rail shipment of today, paying a tariff of 57.7 cents per hundred pounds, takes 45 per cent of the mill value of the upper grades; but 93 per cent of the mill value of the Structural and Common grades. In the case of No. 3 Common, transportation eats up 154 per cent of the mill value. Transportation costs, said this witness, increases heavily in adverse ratio to the value of the lumber qualities moved.

This situation was cited as showing why the West Coast lumber industry has been forced to move its common production largely by wpter; and why there is a tremendous wastage of low-grade lumber and low-grade logs which cannot be manufactured and shipped to any market within reach at a cost of transportation which the product will bear. A tremendous volume of additional traffic is ready for the carriers, according to the lumber testimony, if they will devise tariffs, like the present competitive rates to the Eastern states, which are constructed on the principle of heavily loaded cars, volume movement and a reasonable rate per hundred pounds. This, the lumbermen held out as the real solution of the business problem of increasing railroad earnings in the movement of West Coast lumber. The West Coast Lumbermen's Association also specifically recommended that the water-competitive rates to the Eastern states and to California be exempted from any increases which may otherwise be held necessary.

The witnesses for the West Coast Lumbermen's.Association were J. H. Bloedel, president, Bloedel Donovan Lumber Mills, Bellingham, Washington; J. D. Tennant, vice-president, The Long-Bell Lumber Company, Longview, Washington; George T. Gerlinger, president, Willamette Valley Lumber Company, Dallas Oregon; and Colonel W. B. Greeley, secretary-manager of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association. Attorney W. C. McCulloch of Portland represented the Association in the hearing.

FHLB Pays $2,369,360 in Dividends lor 1937

Washington, D. C., Jan. 20.-The payment of $2,369,360 in dividends for 1937 by the twelve Federal Home Loan Banks, the highest for any year since their establishment in 1932, was announced by Preston Delano, Governor of the System, today.

This makes a total of $9,173,110 paid in dividends by the banks since their creation. Of this, the United States Treasury has received $7,316,133, and member thrift and home financing institutions $1,856,977 in direct proportion to their respective investments in the banks. Of the 1937 dividends, member institutions received $502,478 and the Treasury $1,865,882. In addition, the System added $1,788,056 to its surplus and undivided profits during the year.

Governor Delano also announced that outstanding advances of the banks reached an all-time high of $192,905,878 on December 25, last. This brought the cumulative figure of advances to $395,9O4,fu6, ol which $n2,998328 has been repaid.

As of December 31, members orvned $34,833,725 of the capital stock of the banks and $124,741,000 had been invested by the Treasury. The present membership of the System consists of.3,932 institutions, including Federal and state-chartered savings and loan associations, homestead associations, cooperative banks, savings banks and life insurance companies, with combined assets in excess of $4,000,000,000.

San Francisco Lumbermen's Club

Jack Dionne, publisher of The California Lumber Merchant, was the speaker at the regular weekly luncheon meeting of the San Francisco Lumbermen's Club held at the Engineers'Club, San Francisco, Monday noon, January 24. C. C. Stibich, president of the club, presided. Thirtytwo lumbermen attended.

The speaker discussed some of the problems confronting all business men at this time, and concluded his 30-minute talk by telling some humorous stories in characteristic fashion.

The weekly luncheon of the club is held at 12:15 p.m. every Monday. All lumbermen are invited to attend. There are no dues.

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OBITUARIES

LUCIEN A. GANAHL

Lucien A. Ganahl, president and general manager of the Ganahl Lumber Co., Santa Barbara, passed away at the St. Francis hospital on January 20, following an operation the Saturday before.

F{e was born in St. Louis in 1879, coming to Los Angeles with his parents in 1888, and after finishing school became associated with his father, the late F. J. Ganahl, who operated the F. J. Ganahl Lumber Co. Later he entered the wholesale business for himself in San Francisco. then for a time was connected with the lumber business in Vancouver, B. C. He returned to San Francisco to go with the Chas. Nelson Co. and they sent him to Los Angeles to manage the Consolidated Lumber Co. ln 1925 he started the Ganahl Lumber Co. at Santa Barbara.

Mr. Ganahl traveled extensively, and he and Mrs. Ganahl had recently returned from a tour of all the European countries. They had planned on leaving February 1 on a boat cruise through the Panama Canal and along the east and west coasts of South America.

He was a brother of Ernest Ganahl, who operates the Ernest Ganahl Lumber Co. at Anaheim, and G. A. Ganahl, manager of the lumber department for the Robert Dollar Co. at its Seattle office.

Ife is survived by his wife, Anna D. Ganahl; two daughters, Mrs. R. A. Killalee and Mrs. George Makin, Jr.; five sisters, Mrs. J. G. Donavan, Mrs. C. U. Mandis, Mrs. Florence Sharp, Mrs. J. R. Hoover, and Miss Louise Ganahl; and three brothers, Gaston A., Ernest F., and Vincent P. Ganahl.

Funeral services were conducted at Los Angeles, Saturday morning, January 22.

CHARLES G. HOLDRIDGE

Charles G. Holdridge, retired, passed away at his home in Rosemead on January 17. I{e was 74 years of age.

Mr. Holdridge was a native of fllinois, coming to California when he was a young man. He was connected with the retail lumber business in Los Angeles for many years, and for several years operated his own concern, the Holdridge Lumber Co. About five years ago he retired from business.

He is survived by his wife and a daughter. Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon, January 22.

GUSTAV M. GREGERSEN

Gustav M. Gregersen, veteran yard superintendent of the lfammond Redwood Company, Samoa, Calif., died January N following a lengthy illness.

A native of Dramen, Norway, Gregersen came to Humboldt Bay in lX)Z, and remained in the Hammond employ until his death. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Alma Gregersen; two'sons, George N. of Samoa and Howard M. of Eureka; three daughters, Mrs. Anne Myer of Eureka ; Mrs. Ruth Fleishman of Portland and Miss Helen Gregersen of Samoa.

Fraternally, the deceased was a member of the Order of Eastern Star, Humboldt Lodge No. 79, F. & A. M' Nor-

manna Literary Society and the Humboldt Club of Eureka. Funeral services were conducted in Eureka, January 25, with interment in the same city.

ROBERT E. BOYD

Robert E. Boyd, proprietor of the Glendale Lumber Co., passed away at his home in Glendale on January 17, after an illness of four months. He was 67 years of age.

He was born in South Bend, Indiana. He started the Glendale Lumber Co. in 1921, coming to Southern California from Ogden, IJtah, where he operated a retail lumber yard.

He is survived by his widow; a son, Robert E. Boyd, Jr., owner of the Boyd Lumber Co., Alhambra; and two daughters, Mrs. Charles B. Walker and Mrs. J. S. Jennings.

Funeral services were held at Glendale, Wednesday afternoon, January 79.

F. S. BUCKLEY

Fred Samuel Buckley, of the Buckley Door Company, San Francisco, passed away in San Francisco on January 8.

Mr. Buckley was born in Texas 55 years ago. He was connected with the sash and door business for more than 3O years, having started selling sash, doors and millwork in Texas for John A. Gauger & Company, Chicago, in 1906. Later in the same territory he sold for another millwork concern, Foster-Munger Company, Chicago.

He then pioneered the sale of fir doors in all the Southern states from Texas to Florida for the Pacific Mutual Door Company, of Tacoma. Following that he came to the Pacific Coast to become sales manager for the Nicolai Door Manufacturing Company of Portland.

He came to Californiain l92l to organize and manage the Nicolai Door Company of California, and in 1924 established his own business in San Francisco.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Frances Buckley, a daughter, Cynthia and a son, Frederic.

R. O. DEACON

R. O. Deacon, of the R. O. Deacon Lumber Company, with yards at Lemoore and Riverdale, passed away in Fresno on January 1, after a long illness.

W. A. MADDERN

William Albert Maddern, 73, died in a hospital at Bakersfield, January 22, lrom injuries received in an automobile accident, when the car in which he was riding was struck by another on January 20.

Mr. Maddern was an official of The Pacific Lumber Company in San Francisco for many years. He went to Chicago in 1915 when the Pacific Lumber Company of Illinois was organized, and was treasurer of that concern until 1935, when he retired. He was born in San Francisco.

He is survived by his daughter, Miss Merle Maddern, New York; two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth M. London and Mrs. Florrie E. Matthews, and two brothers, Henry T. and Robert E. Maddern, all of Oakland.

His daughter, Merle, was a well known actress. She was trained for the stage by Minnie Maddern Fiske, who was Mr. Maddern's cousin.

Funeral services were held in Oakland on Wednesday, lanaary 26.

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POSTPONE EFFECTIVE DATE OF TRUCK RATES

The effective date of the order of the Railroad Commission of the State of California-Decision No. 30404-putting into effect the rates for the transportation of lumber and forest products by radial highway common carriers, highway contract carriers and highlvay common carriers, hai been postponed from January 27, 1938, to a date in March, 1938, to be announced later.

COUNTIES GIVEN FOREST SERVICE FUNDS

The collective coffers for schools and roads in many California counties werc$177,6& richer after the United States Forest Service handed over that amount to the State Treasury for disbursement to counties. This sum represented one-quarter of the total receipts collected by the California Region of the Forest Service during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937. By act of Congress the Forest Service turns over 25 per cent of all forest receipts for the maintenance of county schools and roads located in the 18 national forests of the State. This money is then apportioned by the State Treasurer to the designated counties. Forest receipts rvhich came from 19 million acres of national forest land in

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California showed an increase of more than 30 per cent over the returns of the 1936 fiscal year.

The State of Nevada likewise received a share of the 25 per cent fund. Parts of four national forests of the California Region, containing a total of over one half million acres of land in southwestern Nevada, contributed $2,88O to county schools and roads in that portion of the State.

APPOINTED GENERAL MANAGER

A. C. Ahrens, who was sales manager for several {or the Clover Valley Lumber Company, Loyalton, has been appointed general manager, succeeding Terwilliger, who has resigned.

G. W. Akerman has been made sales manager.

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Al Nolan, Western sales manager of The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francsico, who is on a business trip to Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Colorado, attended the annual convention of the Mountain States Lumber Dealers' Association, held in Denver, January 24 to 26. He is expected back in San Francisco about February 10.

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LUMBER YARDS FOR SALE

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California Home \(/inc Firgt Prize in Good for 1938 Smrll Homec Competition for \(/egt

Prospects are bright for expansion of industrial construction activity in Los Angeles for 1938, according to a report recently compiled by R. A. Rowan & Co., realty brokers, based on a study of building permit records as far back as 1919 and by close contacts with general manufacturing and industrial developments.

The report states:

"Since 1919, Los Angeles has seen construction of 6988 industrial buildings, factories, airport buildings, warehouses, wharves, motion picture studio buildings, workshops, power and light, public works and utilities structures, totaling building cost of $96,836,961.

"The 1937 record for such classification of construction lists 359 individual building permits, with a total valuation of $3,588,851, the second largest total in the past seven years.

"Recession of industrial construction activity started in 1930, and continued until 1935 when 212 industrial building permits, valued at $3,796,125, were issued. In 1936. the total was 330 permits with a value of $3,362,453."

Analysis of the 1937 industrial building record shows the largest volume of warehouse construction in ten years, 116 permits valued at $1,139,249; the greatest volume of factory building in the past four years, fifty-six permits, valued at $668,86O; more permits and more money spent for miscellaneous industrial structures than in any preceding year since 1929, 91 permits valued at 94O4,601; the largest volume of workshop construction in eight years, sixty-one permits valued at $253,565; and more than 9500,000 spent for individual motion picture studio buildings and utility structures.

The winning house in House Beautiful's loth annual small homes competition for the West was the home of William H. Lowe, Woodside, Calif., designed by Gardner A. Dailey, San Francisco architect. For the exterior walls Mr. Dailey specified flush resawn California Redwood on braced Douglas Fir frame. The walls are finished with oyster white cement paint. All interior wood trim is surfaced Redwood and all doors are made of vertical grained Douglas Fir and set flush.

Four points guided the judges in their selection of the prize winners: 1, Excellence of design; 2, Economy in space and convenience of ,plan; 3, Adaptation of the house to lot and its orientation; 4, Skill in the use of materials.

The plan of the house, an inverted T of eight rooms, admirably separates service portion, living rooms and bed rboms, quotes the House Beautiful judges. For the sane modernity of its design, the logical livability of its plan, for superb use of simple materials and the ingenious contributions to family comfort, this house won the jury's unanimous approval.

Second prize in the West went to a wood frame house with an exterior finish of cement plaster, coated oyster rvhite. Third prize was won by a wood frame, brick veneer.

Wood construction's second prize winning house in the eastern group was the early American design of Jerome Baily Foster for Loring P. Gleason at Winchester, Mass.

CALIFORNIA VISITOR

G. A. (Arch) Kingsley of Kingsley Lumber Co., Linnton, Ore., was recently in San Francisco and Los Angeles on business. He left his family at Solvang for the remainder of the winter.

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LUMBER

Atkimr-Stutz Cmruy, ll2 Mrrkct Stret GArficld 1610

Chmbcrlin & Cc, \l/. R.' Itb Flq, Ftfe Blds. .....'..'...DOuglar 5t70

Dolbccr & Carrm Lumber Co., ?30 MGrchrnt! Exchange Bldg. ....Sutter 7456

Gmran Imbcr Cq, Itc calffmi! st. ..................GArficld 50a{

Hall, Janr L., r03a MlIb Bldg. .'.....'SUttcr ?52e

Hammd Redrtood Cmpany' ll? Mo{mry St. ...,........'.DOuglae Sltt

Holna Eunka Imba Co., 1505 Flnanctal C.ntcr Bldg.......GArficld ll2l

C. D. Johm lrnbGr CorPontion' ZlC Cdlfmin Stct .....'........GArfield @5E

hnd-Bdrtbltoo Copeny, fC Cdtfcnla Stret ...........'...GArficld Cttl

Ijgren, Ahl|r N., tfof Califdnh Str.Gt 'Flllnorc ll?C

M.cD68ld & Haninrto Ltd., ll Cdlimia StGt ...............GArfield t3f3

LUMBER

LUMBER

Pacific Lunber Co., Thc lll0 Buh StrGet ..................GArfleH lftl

Pesgs, J. E. I Dnbm St. .....................,Dou9frt $5t

Red Rlve lambcr Co315 M@dnck Bld,c. ............GAr6e1d OZt

Sutr Fc Luber Co., ra Cdlfmt Strc;t .....,......'.EXbrook 2074

Schafq Bru. Imbcr & Shingle Co.

I Drumm St. ...,..,,................Sutter Ulll

Shevlin Pinc Sales Co., f0!0 Mmdnock Blds. .............KEamy ?0{l

Sud&n & Chrbteuon' 3fC Srrlc. Stret .........,,....GArfield 2t{6

Trwq hmbcr CoUe Mrrtct Strect ...................suttd U2a

Uai<n Lubcr CoCrockcr Butlding ..Sutter aUa

Wcndling-Netlap Co., ll0 Market Stret .................,Sutter $ll3

E. K. W6d Imber Cc' I Dm Stre€t ..,,.,............,KEany 3710 \Veycrhaas Salct Co., lf Celiiqrh Strcct ,..,.,........GArfic|d te?d

Hill & Morto, Inc.' Dennim St. Wharl ..............ANdover 107?

Hqan hmbcr CmPanY, 1Dd & Alle StGts .........."GLercQrt eE6l

Morc Mill & Lumber Co., 1l2l Brodmy '..Hlgate gl2E

E. K. W6d Lmbcr Co, Fredcrlck & King Sts.

BUILT-IN FIXTUR.ES

Peerlerc Built-In Fixturc Co. (Berkeley) at08 Su Pablo Ave. .,.........THqnwall 0520

LUMBER

HARDWOODS AND PANELS

Fmyth Hardwod Co, 355 Bayshore Blvd. .............'.'ATmtcr ll5l

' Maris Pty*od Corpontio, 5,o r0th StGt ...............M^tkct t05-a7ea

Whtte Brotla+ Ftfth atd BmttD Stlet!....,,....SUtta 1365

SAltH-DOORII-PLYWOOD

Nicolai Dc Sale C.o.. 3045 f$h Stret ....,...,.....,.... .Mlgion ?t2ll

Unlted Strte. Plywood Co., Inc., fft Kangr Strcct ...........'.,..MArkct ltt2

Wbeler-Oegood Salcr Ccporatlo, $r5 rfth sL .,....,.,.............vAt Gir 22ar

CREOSOTTED LUMBER-POLES-PILINGTIES

Anerlcaa Lunbcr & Trcatlnr Co. lla Ncv Montgmcry St. ..........Suttn lg5

Butcr, J. H. & Cq, 3itrt Motsutry St. ..........'.DOudu 3tt3

HaIL Jamr L. 1032 Mtllr Bl&.'....'..'.....'.....Sutter 75t0

PAN ELSI-D@RS-SA3H_ScREENS

Callfomia Buildere Suply Co, 70C 6th Ave. .Hlgatc 00le

\ryesten Dm & Suh Costb & Cypre$ Str. ..............LAkeridct||'0

HARDWOODS

Stnble Hardwood Co., $17 FiEt Stret ................TEmplcbar 55El

Whitc Brcthen, 500 Htgb Stret ....,......,......AN&rrcr 1600

LOS ANGBLES

Arclo Crlifolia Lmbcr Co., -CIZO Anlo Blvd. .............'THmwall 3l4l

Brru Lubcr Co.'

580 Chmber of Cmmerce Bldg...PRcpct 3il3r

Chanbcrlln & Co- \f,'. R.' !r5 w. Nintb sr, ..................TRinitv lsrt

Coo,per, Wllfnd T., CZZ Petrclcr- Smrltiec Blds....PRopect f6&l

Dolber & Carur Lunber Co., tor Fi&tity Blds. ......'...'....'.VAndikc t792

Doud, Dm H., ejt patdc.m Scqrities Bldg.'...PRqpect 2371

Hamnod Redwood Cmpany, l03l So. Bmdway .....,........PRopect 161

Henmings. E. W., 3tt Financial Center Blds. ...'....TRinity 9t2l

Holm Eurcka Lumber Co., ?ll-71! Architectr 81dg. ..,.....'.Mutual rltl

Horcr, A. L?00 So. la Brea Ave. ,.......'.......YOrt lr6E

C. D. Johnn Lubcr CorPoratio, l0l Pctrclcum Securiticc Bldg'..'PRcpcct U65

Kelly-Smttl Co., Berth 53, Su Pedro ..............Pl.earant 3lZl Su Pefro t{04

Lamca'Philipc Lumber Co.,

|it3 Pctplcun Sccurltics Bldg...'PRcpect tl?l

MacDoald & Haninrto' Ltd., 5,1? Petrolm Scqritia Bld8....PRGp€ct ll?

Pacific Lmbcr Co, Tbe, ?Ol So. La Bs Ave. ................YOrk ll3!

LUMBER

Patten-Blim Luber Co5Zr E. srh sr.,,....................VAnd|ke 291

Red River Lrmber Co., 702 E. Slaum CEnturY 21071 l03l So. Bmdway ,,,,....,,,,'...PRGFct 03U

Reitz, Cq, E. L., 3itit Petrolem Scuriti* Bldel"'PRGPect 2169

San Pedro Lunb.r Co., Sm Pedrc, rS00A Wilminrtm Red San Pedrc 2200

Santa Fe Lumbcr Cq, 311 Fimcial Centcr Bldg. ......VAndike l4?l

Schafq Brcc. Imber & Shingle Co., r22f W. M. Garland Bldg. '.......TRinitv 4Ztl

Shcvlin Piu Sales Co., 32t Petnleu Scurltiec Bldg. .'PRosp*t e6l5

SothLrd llmbcr Co., l3,l Petrcleum Securitiec Bldg'..PRcpect 3631

Sud&n & Christenrm' 030 Bord of Tnd. Blds. ..... ' ' 'TRintty tt'14

Tacom Imber Saleq ,123 Pebrlcm Seuities Bldg...PRcpct lr0t

Twohy Lumber Co, tOl Petroleu Sccuritiec Bldg....PRoryect t746

Unim Lmbcr Cc, 9a W. M. Glrlud Bldg. ........TRtnity 22t2

Wendling-Nathu Co, 700 So. lr Bm dve' .....,........YOrk l16t

Wct Orego Luba Co-

,lZl Pctrclm Sccuritics Bldg.,.Rlchmod 02tf

Wilklnpn and Buoy, 3rt W. 9th St. ....................TRinity {ar3

E. K. W@d Lubcr Co., 4?01 Ssta Fe Avc. .,............JEtrerm 3lll

Weyertrer Sals Cq, b20 W. M. Crrland Bldg. ........Mlchlran 6354

HARDW(X)DS

Cadmlladcr-Gibsm Co., Irc., 36ar Eut Olympic Blvd. ........ANrclur lll3l

Stantorl E. J., & Sqr, ?050 Eut Stth Sbet .CEntury 2,2ll

HARDWOOD FLOORING

Sotbern Hardwood Cmpsily, l0i! Ert 50tb StEt .......,......,,ADaru,11.c

SASH_DOORS-MILLWORK PANELS AND PLYWOOD

Califomta Puel & Vcner Co., t55 So. Abnrda St. ,.,.......'.....TRini9 005?

Kebl, Jno. W. & Sn, C52 So Myn St. ................ANge|u trll

OrcgopWarhingto Plywod Co., 3lt Wcst Ninth Stret............TRinlty {Ol

Red Rivcr Iarmbcr Co., 702 E. Slaum .CEnturY 2tC?l

Smpn Cmpany (Pm&na) ?15 Sc Raymd Aw. ........Bl.anchad ?2lll

Unlted StatGr Plysmd Co., Inc., lt30 Est rsrh sr. .,..............PRcFct 3013 'Wat Co* Sm Co, rrls E. 3trd StGt ,...............4Dam ulot

Wat Cst Plywood Co., 3r5 W. Ntnth St. ................TRinity rSrt

Wheeler-Oegod Salec Ccpontion

2l5it Sacanento St. ....', ....... ..TUckr'l9C{

CREOSOTED LUMBER_POLES-PILING_ TIES

Amrl6 Lunbcr & Truating Co,, llM So. Brodmy ....... ........PRosFct 555t

Baxter, J. H. & Co., 30l W6t 5th St. ................Mlchigan l2t.|

A truly great advancement in the trend to better building materials-plywood panels of Redwood! Constructed by the Super-Harbord process. Redwood plywood is manufactured with a waterproof binder, has a low moisture contenr and is free from core voids. Think of the market for Redwood panels. Here is a new source of profitable business for the retail lumber merchant. Plywood of Hammond Quality Redwood is perfect for modernizing commercial and residential prop erty-f or countless uses where strengrh and lightness are important-where large .r"., of smooth, beautiful surface are desired. Sizes carried in stock at Samoa: /4" x 48". Lengths: 72", 84", 96". Two grades-Good one Side and Sound two Sides.

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