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Douglas Fir

Ponderosa Pine Sugar Pine

Redwood ShinglesLath Plywood f6 Califonria Su, San Francisco 11 Telephone GArfield 6881

Geo. C. Cornitius Hardwood Co.

465 Calllornla Street, San Flanclsco 4 GArfleld 8748

Distributors ol Hardwood Lumber

Douglas Fir -- Ponderosa Pine

Yard, IDoeks and Planing Mill

IVilrnin8ton, CaHfornia

'LOS ANGEI.ES 7 122 West Jellerson St. Rlchmond 2l4l

WII^T\4INGTON 1446 Ecst Anchein St. Wihn. Ternincl 4-2687-NE. 6-1881

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For prompt shipment

Frcnnes crnd windows in the tollowing widths

8-O'W Sprin-g Window Units_cne Icclory fitted, Eeni-cssembled Pondero*r Pine, semi-wecther stripped, metsl lining Io1 si-de lgmbs screwed on All liecd and sill menbers bundled tog"th.t, crll side members -U-..natea to- gether. Sash 178" glcrzed cmd bedded.

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Home Owners Can Apply Insulation Indu*ry Recognizeg \Tartime

"Alltite Rock Wool Insulating Products, advertised by us in the last issue of The California Lumber Merchant have met with a good reception from the retail lumber dealers," according to R. E. (Dick) Freeman, purchasing agent for So-Cal Building Materials Co., Los Angeles'

"This insulation material comes in three forms, (1) Roll Blankets, (2) Loose and Granulated, and (3) Stitched Quilt.

"There has been an increased use of the loose and granulated insulation by the home owner, who has found tt easily applied in existing structures. The loose form is easily adapted for quick insulation in new construction."

Further information on Alltite insulating products may be had by telephoning or writing So-Cal Building Materials Co., 1228 Produce Street, Los Angeles 21, Calif.., TRinity smr.

Log Booms

Log booms in Puget Sound, Columbia River and Grays Harbor waters held about l0/o mote logs at the beginning of this year than the year previous, notwithstanding that mills in December maintained operations at a tate to cause a net reduction of ll% in the tide water log supply, northwestern lumber reports show. Of nearly 676 million feet of logs reported in the water at the three collection points in January, about half were in Puget Sound, 40/o in Columbia River booms and IA/o at Grays Harbor.

Services of E. Bruce Hill

Without the untiring and unselfish work of E. Bruce Hill, E. M. Hill Lumber Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this industry might have been completely elimi- , nated by OPA regulations during the war and before reconversion really had a chance to begin.

As chairman of the National Advisory Committee, Mr.' Hill tirelessly and unselfishly served his industry, and through the industry, his country, during World War II and the critical period of reconversion. In this thankless job, he fought the fight against chaos, regimentation, and the paralysis of an industry. His greatest victories were the unseen accomplishments of preventing hundreds of proposed theories from becoming actions that would have blocked the war effort, either on the home front or the battle front.

His knowledge of men, motives, and agency activity which led to the development and accumulation of pricing controls became invaluable during the first months of reconversion in the task of unravelling the red tape which had all but stopped the normal activities of the building industry.

In recognition of his service to his country and the industry, the National OPA Advisory Committee and the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association presented' Mr. Hill an inscribed watch on Christmas Day 1946. The watch was presented at a family dinner by his son, Alex Hill, who served with the Army Engineers in World War II.

E. Bruce Hill served in the Artillery during the first World War, and is a graduate of the Massachusetts'Institute of Technology.

Plcn Extensive Advertising Ccmpcigm

Henry W. Collins, vice president of The Celotex Corporation, has announced the appointment of Henri, Hurst & M,cDonald, Inc., of Chicago, as the company's advertising agen'cy, effective January l, 1947.

Mr. Collins stated that plans are in preparation for an extensive advertising campaign on all Celotex products including Acousti-Celotex and Insulation Board, together with new products the company will introduce to the market during the coming year.

The Celotex Corporation is expanding its manufacturing facilities extensively, both through additions to its present properties and by acquisition of existing plants'

Harry S. Knox Pasres

Death from pneumonia has come to Harry S. Knox, founder of Harbor Plywood Corp., Acme Door Co. and other Hoquiam, Wash., manufacturing concerns. He was ill only a few days.

A leader of the Pacific Northwest plywood and door industries for more than a quarter of a century, Knox was a building materials distributor turned producer in order to obtain supplies of the products he marketed.

His attention was first turned to Northwest production facilities in 1909, when he became owner of the John A. Gauger & Co., Chicago distributor of doors and millwork. Inl92l, as it became difficult to obtain stock fir doors to fill the demand which he had largely created, Knox bought the Hoquiam door plant of Schafer Brothers and named his firm Knox & Tombs.

Four years later, with his supply of plywood for door panels running short, he organized and provided the principal capital for Harbor Plywood Corp. He was president of ifre concern for several years and a member of the board of di_ rectors until his death.

He also was general manager of Acme Door Co., which he opened in 1939 with the most modern factory of the in_ dustry. His business leadership and financial backing also were combined to establish several other manufacturing plants and a bank at the Grays Harbor City, Hoquiam.

An enthusiastic sportman and in his youth one of the nation's outstanding tennis players, he was for a number of years president of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association.

He is survived by his widow, Gertrude G. Knox of Hoquiam, and a niece, Mrs. Paul Stromberg of Rockford, Ill.

Totcl Timber Cut From Forest Service Lcnds In Oregon and Washingilon During 1946

Total timber cut from U.S. Forest Serice lands in Ore_ gon and Washington during 1946 was |,ZL6,S\Z,W board feet compared with L,084,952,m0 feet in 1945. This 131.5 million board feet gain was made despite labor difficulties which slowed logging during first quarter of last year. Oregon's forest service timber cut for 1946 was 7dg}go,000 board feet valued at $3,612,885. Washington,s cut was 427,332,0@ feet worth $1,965,161. Total value of the two states' cut was $5,578,046.

Prelabricctors Directory prepcred For Specifying Buyers

Washington, D. C.-The growth of the prefabricating lumber business in recent years from a mere handful of companies to over 76 companies with 131 locations in 3g states is shown in a new directory just issued by the Tim_ ber Engineering Company for the benefit of specifying buyers.

The listing gives the names and addresses of firms and shows the type of structures they fabricate. Information is also given showing those firms who have facilities for treatment of fabricated lumber with preservatives or fire retardants.

Copy of the directory ,is available upon request to the Tirnber Engineering Company.

Earl Galbraith Named Sales Manager of T. M. Cobb Co.

Earl M. Galbraith 'recentlY became sales manager of the T. M. Cobb Co., wholesalers of sash, doors, plywood, mouldings, and California pine lumber, with warehouses in Los Angeles and San Diego.

Mr. Galbraith has been connected with the lumber business for the past 35 years. He started with the Pendleton Lumber Co., Santa Ana in 1912. Later he went with the Hayward Lumber & Investment Co., Los Angeles, to take charge of their Long Beach operations. Then he lvas retail sales manager of the Hammond Lumber Company, Los Angeles for some time, and following that period was sales manager of the Schumacher Wallboard Corporation. He became asso'ciated with Hayward again as manager of their branch yards'

Throubhouf the y.ears IVIr. Galbraith's connection with the lumber business has been in :the, field of selling, merchandising ar"rd -rnanagement"' He has always been interested in the selling problems of the retail lumber dealers, and has helped many of them in the solution of these by thoughtful suggestions. He has a large acquaintance with retail lumbermen in both Northern and Southern California, and has a host of friends.

He has been secretary and treasurer of the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club for the past three and a half years, and has made a fine success of this work' He is a thorough believer in the idea of Hoo-Hoo that it is good business to get men together from all branches of the lumber busi,r"rr. Th" large increase in membership is the result, in great part, of his earnest work in this position'

During the period of regulation by the OPA he had his own of6ce, and acted in an advisory capacity for wholesale sash and door and hardwood distributing firms, interpreting the multitude of orders and directives' And much praise has been heard o{ the excellent job he did in this regard.

Readers will have gathered by this time that the subject of this brief career sketch gets a great deal of his satisfaction in life from doing helpful things for others.

Mr. Galbraith was born in Kansas and came to Los Angeles in infancy with his parents. He became interested in lumber through his father, who was a building contractor.

Mr. and Mrs. Galbraith have their home at 148 North Wilton Place, Los Angeles. They have one son, Dr' Hal Galbraith, who was in the Navy during the war, and attained the rank of Lieutenant Commander in the dental division.

U. S. Plywood To Build

In French Equctoricrl Alric<r

New York-Lawrence Ottinger president of U. S' Plywood Corp., announced an agreement had been reached with the Compagnie Fran'caise du Gabon, controlled by outstanding French financial interests including the Paris banking house of Seligman & Co., whereby the American concern will engineer and supervise the erection of one of the world's largest plywood mills in French Equatorial Africa, Associated Press rePorts.

The French company, Mr. Ottinger said, has been authorized by the French Government to develop the utilization of timber in the province of Gabon by building and operating sawmills, wallboard plants and plywood mills'

U. S. Plyrn'ood Corp. has the exclusive right to distribute these products for the western hemisphere' The French interests hope to have the plywood mill in operation early in 1948.

Scrcrcmento and Beno Hoo-Hoo Clubs Will Stcrgre Concat Februcry 15

A Hoo-Hoo Concatenation will be held at the American Legion Hall, Rio Linda Blvd. and San Diego Ave', North Sacramento, on Wednesday, February 15'

This will be sponsored jointly by Sacramento HooHoo Club, and Reno Hoo-Hoo Club.

All Hoo-Hoo are invited to attend.

Opercting Custom Milting Plant

Irrring Lumber Milling Co., C. Le Roy Smith, owner, is now opirating the mill leased from Brush Industrial Lumber Co. at 5354 East Slauson Avenue, Los Angeles' The plant does custom milling- Roy Carroll is manager' r The Sbevlia-Hixon Conpoy Bend. Oregoa

' Msmber ol tbe Wester! Pioe Associotion, Portlcnd, Oregon

SPECIES

PONDEROSA PINE (PINUS PONDEROSA)

SUGAn (Genuille WLire) pINE (PINUS LAMBERTIANA)