Ulm'a Uhe HIP and RIDGD UIIITS

I. E. Horton

This brief sketch of the lumber career of I. E. Horton, who heads the South City Lumber & Supply Co. in the busy industrial city of South San Francisco, will be interesting to many readers of this paper who have the pleasure of his acquaintance, and to many others who know him by reputation on account ofthe prominent part he has taken in the affairs of State and regional Associations.

He was born in Livermore, California, and gained his first lumber experience when he worked in school vacations in a yard which his grandfather started in 1869. This yard continued until 1928. Following his graduation from Livermore High School he went to San Francisco, where he spent four years in the office of Henry H. Meyers, architect.

In 1916 he left to become associated with South City Lumber & Supply Co. and after several years as assistant manager took over the management of this concern in 1932. His architectural and engineering knowledge has proved to be a grcat asset to him in his work, as the business of the company is mainly industrial. At the moment about 85 per cent of the business is connected with defense.

Mr. Horton is past director of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, and treasurer of the California Lummen's Council. He was recently re-elected treasurer of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California.

He is a thorough believer in the value of association work, and has some very sound ideas on the real benefits that can be gained by retail lumbermen through consistent support of their associations.

Mr. Horton is married and he and Mrs. Horton have a daughter of 16. They live in San Francisco. His one hobby is traveling. For a month or so each year he takes time out to indulge this hobby and has made many extended trips by automobile to all parts of the country, proving his belief in the injunction to "See America First." He is accompanied by his family on these tours.

He is a member of the California Golf and Country Club.

JOHN L. TODD ON VACATION

John L. Todd, president of Western Sash & Door Co., Oakland, left recently to spend his annual winter vacation. He will make his headquarters in Tucson, Ariz., for the next two months.

Hcrmony is expressed in the clecn-cut lines oI this attrqdive Iive-room home.

The inviting entry with coct closet, thesmcll center hcll crlfording ecsy qccess from ecch room to bcth qndthe lovely corner dinette opening into both tiving room cnd kitchen, <rre of specicrl interest cnd show ccrrelul plcrnning.

This home wqs selected from the "Modern Low Cost Homes" book issued by the E. M. Dernier Service Burecu,3443 FourthAvenue,Los Angeles, Ccliforniq, whose ptcrnning service is under the direct supervision oI Wm.E. Chcdwick, Registered Structurcrl Engineer.

Probable Consumption of \(/estern Pine A Pfea lor Prolessional Courage Lumber for First Quarter o( 1942

Portland, Oregon, January L4-Ina statement issued by the Western Pine Association, an estimate is given of the probable consumption of lumber frorn the Western Pine region for the first quarter of 1942. The following is the statement in full:

The first objectir.e of the Western Pine industry during 1942will be to meet all of the war-time requirements for its products. Despite the necessary curtailment in normal civilian construction, it is now generally predicted that the lumber demand during 7942 will equal, if not exceed, that f.or L94t. The Western Pine industry must expect increased demand for fruit, vegetable and cannery shook, for ammunition, shell, and other military containers, for army and indqstrial construction, as well as continuing requirements for defense housing, remodeling, farm construction, and necessary private building.

Preliminary figures indicate that the Western Pine industry, during 1941, produced 5,928 million feet, an all-time high which exceeded the year l94Oby t4/o and the previous peak year of 1929 by 13.6/o. The 1941 shipments of 5,985 million feet were I3/o above those for the former record year of 1940 and about one billion feet higher than those for the 1925-t9D boom period of residential building. The industry's unfilled order file at the close of 1941 is at the same level as a year ago while gross stocks are 4/o lower with Ponderosa Pine inventories down l3/o,Idaho White Pine 2O/o and Sugar Pine 5/o. Stocks of Larch-Douglas Fir and White Fir increased during the year. Currently, placements of new business have increased greatly with the result that the industry's unfilled order file has risen II/o daring December.

Based on general predictions and all other available information concerning the probable use of our products, it is now expected that during the first quarter of 1942 the consumption (shipments) of Western Pine lumber will be about 1253 million feet. This would mean a volume of shipments 173 million feet, or l2/o, less than during the fourth quarter of l94l and 54 million feet or 4f/o, more than the first quarter of 1941. In presenting this forecast, the many complex factors involved have been carefully weighed but unforeseen developments of the present emergency can be evaluated only as these are apparent.

"Wood is one of our most important resources-yet as we foresters continue to argue questions of regulations, we are in danger of missing the boat by too much talking, too little action, and too little courage," Harris Collingwood, Chief Forester of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, told the 41st annual meeting of the Society of American Foresters at Jacksonville.

Mr. Collingwood's essential point u'as that a large proportion of American forests are without the guiding administration of professional foresters, and that the public has been slow to accept forestry as a profession comparable in social im,portance with engineering and architecture. If foresters will work together toward the end that all forests may be continuously productive, but without too much friction concerning the means of achieving it, he said, forestry can occupy the place in American economics it deserves.

The complete text of Mr. Collingwood's address has been published as a pamphlet by the NLMA under the title:"A Plea for Professional Courage." Copies may be secured from the Washington headquarters of the Association.

Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club

The regular dinner meeting of the Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club was held on Wednesday evening, January 21.

W. Henry Gilbert, president of the Club, presided.

M. B. Pratt, State chief forester, spoke on forestry and its relation to the defense program.

It was announced that John McBride, son of E. S. McBride of Davis, Calif., has been appointed Vicegerent Snark for the Sacramento district, and that a Hoo-Hoo Concatenation will be held in Sacramento in March.

South Gate Has Record Building Year

Surpassing the all-time high record ol I94O, South Gate's home building volume in l94l reached a total of. L677 new buildings. The city's total building permit valuation for 1941 amounted to $5,834,051, and approximately $5,000,000 of this figure was for new homes.