The California Lumber Merchant - February 1942

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Washington, February 11.-Nationwide rationing of retreaded and recapped tires will begin February 19, Price Administrator Leon Henderson disclosed today.

He added that it is quite probable there will be no crude rubber available for retreading except for the small number of vehicles already eligible to obtain new tires and tubes.

A certain amount of camelback-rubber compound used lor retreading-will be made available each month to permit retreading or recapping of truck tires, Mr. Henderson said. None will be available this month for passenger car tires and perhaps none for March, he said.

A total of about 22W,W feet of lumber was bought at the lumber auction held in Portland, Ore., on February 3 and 4. This was conducted by Frank S. Collins, representing the office of the chief of army engineers, assisted by Captain James S. Stowers, C. E., executive ofifrcer. Mitchell Ilyman and T. J. Whelan, all of Washington, D. C. The lumber was bought mainly for Walla Walla, Wash., Rapid City, South Dakota and Roswell, New Mexico. Buying of lumber for cantonments at Marysville, Calif., and Corvallis, Oregon was postponed until early in March, when the auction will probably be held either in Portland or Seattle.

There was a registration of representatives of. 226 manufacturers and wholesalers at the Portland meeting.

Washington, D.C., February 3.-The Office of Price Ad-

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ministration has called producers of Red Cedar shingles in Oregon and Washington to a meeting in the OPA office in Seattle on Saturday, February 14, to "advise the OPA on prices and costs."

Invitations were sent to 50 representative manufacturers.

The National Lumber Manufacturers Association for the week ended Feburary 3 reported production as 221,437,M feet, shipments 268,047,00O feet, and orders booked 311,856,000 feet. Production was 2 per cent less, shipments 6 per cent greater, and orders 13 per cent greater than the corresponding week last year.

California Redwood mills produced 463,082,000 feet of lumber in 1941 as compared with 364,155,000 feet in 19,10, and, 347,fr2,000 feet in 1939, according to a report of the California Redwood Association.

These figures are for 11 (identical) operations, which have produced approximately 95 per cent of the total Redwood cut during the past six years.

The Western Pine Association for the week ended Janurrry 31, 95 mills reporting, gave orders as 91,7T,000 feet, shipments 74,278,W feet, and production 49,244,0O0 feet.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended January 31, 105 mills reporting, gave orders as 56,408,0@ feet, shipments &,572,W feet, and production 32,283,W feet.

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Scots wha ha wi Wallace bled, Scots wham Bruce has often led, lVelcome to your gory bed, Or to victory;

Wha would be a traitor knave, Wha would fill a cowards grave, Wha sae base as be a slave, Let him turn and fee.

Thus sang Robert Burns, the great Scotch bard, whose birthday is celebrated in February. He not only sang his beautiful and immortal folk songs and love ballads, but his patriotic poems, of which the above is a sample, thrilled his countrynaen with patriotic fervor. Few poems of patriotism ever written have been more freely quoted, or more highly praised. ***

George Washington's birthday comes in February also. In addition to being the Father of his Country and a character that grows constantly bigger in retrospect, Washington was our first dollar-a-year man. Onty he didn't even accept the dollar. For the long seven years he ted the American armies, he accepted no remuneration or compensation. Robert Burns wrote inspirationally about love of country. George Washington lived it to the fullest.

Abraham Lincoln was likewise born in February, making this month an American grand slam. The greatest modern historian, the Britisher H. G. Wells, placed Lincoln in his list of the six greatest men that ever lived, along with Jesus, Buddha, and others who changed the tides of history.

***

History is often made in a hurry. On July 1, 1861, a great battle raged in our Civil War. Imboden's gr,rns were being overwhelmed by the Federal troops. Confederate General Bee spurred his horse back to where General Jackson sat, and reported that his brigade was being broken and repulsed. Jackson's thin lips set. "We must give them the bayonet, Sir," he said to Bee. Bee spurred. back to the head of his retreating command, and shouted: "See, there stands Jackson, like a STONE WALL!' And from that day forth that man who stood his ground became '.Stonewall" Jackson. And so he is in history.

And if Jackson was a stone wall, what shall history say of Douglas MacArthur, of the Philippines. Some well selected name should be immortally coupled with his. What he has done in the Philippines has already carved his name in letters of fadeless glory on the history of his country. With a modest contingent of U. S. Army regulars, and an aggregation of Filipino soldiers he trained himself, MacArthur taught the slant-eyed hordes of Japan an unforgettable lession in sheer grit and the art of warfare. MacArthur realizes, with John Hampden, that the essence of war is violence, and with Forrest that it pays to "git thar fustest with the mostest men." He hasn't had many men, but he has handled them in gigantic fashion***

When MacArthur's defense of Bataan is written, some grand tales will be told of the prowess of his Philippine soldiers, the native I'ilipinos. Filipinos are mighty mites when it comes to fights. They love to fight, and are natural fighters although small in stature. They are strong, fast, aggressive little men. Man to man the average Filipino can lick the average Jap with one hand tied behind him. Ask the thousands of boxing fans on the Pacific Coast who for years have seen an army of Filipino and Jap boys try for money and glory in the prize rings. No Jap has ever made a good ring fighter yet. They can't take it. They can't hit hard. The Filipino boys have produced hundreds of great fighters, and some champions and near champions. They are not only unusually fast, but they are natural hitters. ft was Filipino prize fighters in California who originated the "bolo" punch, a round house swing that carries a sleeping powder with it, that always delights the boxing fans. The defense of Bataan is the story of great fighting by MacArthur's Filipino soldiers.

The name Bataan is new to the average American reader. But to the lumber trade of this country it is an old story. Forty years ago a California lumberman discovered and purchased one of the finest stands of hardwood timber the world has ever produced, on Bataan Peninsula. He built sawmills in this timber, and manufactured it into lumber for fully a generation, and shipped the lumber to this country and sold it. The real name of his particular tract of timber was Tanguile, a beautiful, dark red, highly figured

woo{ that nevertheless grew straight and tall like Ameri' can pines. He called his lumber "Bataan" in honor of the Province where it grew. And there are millions u,pon mil' lions of feet of this "Bataan" lumber in use today in at' tractive buildings all over the United States, particularly in doors, trim, and interior paneling. No doubt MacArthur's gallant army has been doing a lot of its fighting where these "Bataan" forests once stood. There is still a huge quantity of cabinet hardwoods in the Philippines, but Bataan Province is largely cut over.

Reports from the Philippines indicate that the conquering Japs took as part of their valuable booty in the Philippines large quantities of Philippine Mahogany lumber. All the milling districts of the Islands have been in Jap hands for some tirne. This wood is particularly well adapted for boat and ship material, and our imports for the past two years have been largely used for that purpose in this country. It is the only known cabinet hardwood that can be produced in very long, clear planking.

Fotks who live along the Houston Ship Channel which connects the city of Houston with the Gulf of Mexico, do rnuch reminiscing these days about things gone by. They recall the fact that for the past several years there have been continually passing their doors Japanese ships laden with scrap iron. Some of them carried sulphur and oil, but mostly they carried scrap iron- They were headed for the Land of the Rising Sun. These people used to watch this procession of Jap ships go by, and would idly wonder what on earth the Japs wanted with all that old metal. They know now. That scrap iron and things into which it was made is scattering death and destruction through a large part of the world. The Japs made it into planes, ships, tanks, guns, arnrnunition, and other instruments of death. It has been coming back to us at Pearl Harbor, the Philippines, and other parts of the Pacific. Little did these people think, as they watched those Jap ships go by, how terrible a part in the affairs of men, those cargoes were destined to PlaY'

Billy Sunday, famous revivalist of other days, used to say in his sermons during the first World War that sometimes a left hook to the jaw was more effective than a prayer. This nation prayed for peace; but war came. Now we are preparing to swing that left hook to the jaw. That doesn't mean we should quit praying. But we might divert our prayers to ask for the ability to hit harder, oftener, and in the proper place.

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Ceiling Prices for '!(/esternPine Lumber Effective Feb. 15

Ceiling prices on Western Pine Lumber were issued by the Office of Price Administration on Februarv 3 and thev become effective February lS, 1942.

A copy of the price schedule follows:

Title 3z-National Defense

Chapter XI-Office of Price Administration

Part 1312-Lurnber and Lumber Products

Price Schedule No. 9,f-Western Pine Lumber

This Schedule brings under a price ceiling Western pine lumber, the largest remaining section of thelsoftwood lumber industry not previously regulated by a Price Schedule. ft covers ponderosa pine, Idaho white pine, sugar pine, which species account for approximately 2L per cent oi the total lumber production in the United States. ponderosa, Idaho white, and sugar pine lumber are used in the ma.tufacture of pine millwork and boxes, and for interior and exterior construction purposes, with a considerable degree of interchangeability. The lower grades of ponderosa"and sugar pine are particularly well-adapted to the box market. In addition to the civilian demand for these woods both for building construction and for container purposes, particu- larly containers for a.gricultural products ind-canned^ goods, government lgfinS for use in cantonment construction purposes, as well as for boxes for armament and other war purpose-s,.is becoming an increasingly important factor. A study of the Western-pine industryieveals that the increase in prices has markedly outstripped cost advances, and that a ceiling is necessary in order to halt the upward trend in prices. The prices set herein generally foilow the levels existing during the period OctobEr l-15,1941, and have been found to be high enough to bring out the full volume of production called for by present needs. However, the schedule iq sufjsct to revision if further study of the profits in this industry ;how-s the need for a decreaie or other change in the schedule prices.

Accordingly, under the authority vested in me by Executive Order No. 8734, it is hereby directed that:

I3L2.251 Maximum Prices for Western pine Lurnber. On and after February 15, 1942, regardless of the terms of any contract of sale or purchase, or other commitment, no person shall sell, offer to sell, deliver. or transfer. for'domestic or export use, any Western pine lumber, where the shipment originates at the mill rather than at a distribution yard. at prices higher than the maximum prices set forth in Appendices A, B and C hereof. incorporated herein as sections 1312.26f, 1312.261, and 1312.262 iespectively: provided. That in the case of retail sales as defined in Section 1372.257 (f), where the shipment originates at a mill rather than at a distribution yard, a mark-up of not more than 3.50 per 1.000 feet board measure may be added to the maximum prices set forth herein.*

*Sections 1312.251 to 1312.262, inclusive, issued pursuant to authority contained in Executive Orders Nos.^8734. 8875.

6 F. R. 1917,4483.

1312.252 Less than Maximum Prices. Lower orices than those set {orth in App-endices A. B. and C. may be chargeo, demanded. paid, or offered.*

1312.253 Evasion. The price limitations set forth in this Schedule shall not be evaded whether by direct or indirect methods in connection^ with a purchase, sale, delivery or transfer of Western pine lumber, alone or in conjunition with. any other material; or by way of any commission, service, transportation, or other charge, or discount, prem- ium. or other privilege; or by tying-agreement, or 'other

trade understanding; or by making terms or conditions of sale more onerous than those in effect or available to the purchaser on October l, 1941, or by unnecessarily routins lumber through a distribution yard; or by unreasonabl! refusing to ship except in specihed lengthl or widths, or under other circumstan,ces entitling the seller to a premium; or by charges for delivery which ixceed the actuil cost to the seller of such delivery except as provided in section 1312.258-hereof ; or by falsily or wrongly grading or invoicing lumber; or by grading as a special lriAe tufttrer which can be graded as a standard grade; or by any other means.*

1312.254 Records and Reports. Every person who, during any calendar month, shall sell. deliver or transfer j+.OOO poulds or more of Western pine lumber for shipment orig- in-atlng at. the mill, shall keep for inspection by ttre Offife of Price Administration, fora period-of not leis than one year, complete and accurate records of every sale, delivery or transfer of such lumber made during suci month, showing the date thereof, the name and addiess of the buyer. the prices, and the quantities and grades sold.

Persons affected by this Schedule shall submit such report to the Office of Price Administration as it mav from time to time require.*

1312.255 Enforcement. In the event of refusal or failure to. abide by .the price limitations, record requirements, or other provisions of this Schedule, or in the event of any evasion or attempt to evade the price limitations or other provisions of this Schedule, the Office of price Administration will invoke all appropriate sanctions at its command, inc-luding ta-k11S action-to iee (a) that the Congress and the p.ublig are fully informed thereof, (b) that ti-e pou,,ers of the Government are fully exerted in'order to piotect the public interest and the inierests of those Derso.ri who com- ply with this Schedule, and (c) that the procurement services of the Government are requested to refrain from purchasing Western pine lumber from those oersons who those persons who purchasing 'Western lumber fail to comply with this Schedule.

Persons who have evidence of any ofier, receipt, clemand or payment of prices higher than fhe maximum prices, or of an evasion or effort to evade provisions herebf. or of spec.ulations, or of manipulation of prices of lVestern pine lumber, or of the hoarding or accumulating of unttece.ia.y inventories thereof, are urged to communi&te with the Office of Price Administration.*

1312.256 Modification of the Schedule. Persons complaining of hardship or ineguity in the operation of this Schedule may apply to the Offiie of Price Administration for app_roval of aqJ modification thereof or exception therefrom; Provided, That no application under this iection will be considered unless filed by persons complying with this Schedule.*

1312.257 Definitions. When used in this Schedule, the term: (a) "person" means an individual, association. Dartnership, corporation, or other business entity. Tlre ierm includes, without restricting the generality - of the foregoing, any mill operator, manufacturer, commission salesman, manufacturer's representative, concentration yard operator, wholesaler, wholesale distributor, rvholesaler's agent,_ or retailer.. (b) "Western pine" includes ponderosa pine. (pinus ponderosa), Idaho white pine (pinirs monticola), and sugar pine (pinus lambertjana)'produced in the states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Caiifornia, and Montana. (c) ."mill" means a manufacturing plant, concentration yard, or other establishment whiih processes,

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West Coast Annual Meeting

The annual meeting of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association was held at the Portland Hotel, Portland, Oregon, January 30.

In opening the business session, President Corydon 'Wagner, Tacoma, Wash., said in part:

"The theme of this meeting, as you will note from the appearance of the program as well as its contents, relates to our industry's part in the War Effort. Since Pearl Harbor we have had one common cause in this nation-the successful prosecution of the war. This industryyour Association-just as you are doing in your personal and business affairs, has been readjusting itself-activities, plans, and thinking to harmonize with the one great objective.

Corydon Wcgmer Betiring Presideat

"A few minutes after the declaration of a state of war with Japan, the President of the United States received this wire from Wilson Compton on behalf of the lumber industry:

"'The Lumber and Timber Products Industries will promptly and willingly undertake any assignment necessary to our National Defense. 'We no doubt can help also in the maintenance of vital civilian economy.

'We can and will produce all the timber products which our Government and her Allies want. This is our defense, and our war, and our job, just as it is yours. We await orders of the Commander in Chief.'

"Of all the statements ever made on behalf of this great industry, probably none has had more whole-hearted, enthusiastic and unanimous support than this one.

"There is no idle boastfulness in this statement. We have been in active service for two years. The record of performance in the fulfillment of defense contracts is the substantiation, and it is a record of which we can be proud. Tremendous quantities of material have been required suddenly, and yet, no matter how erratic the demands, orders have been handled, in almost every instance, ahead of, or right on scheduled time. Severe handicaps and difficulties arising from the commandeering of our off-shore tonnage, shortages of supplies and materials, labor disputes, the conflict in buying methods of multitudinous agencies, and the uncertainties of Government policies with respect to price and other regulations, have been overcome. To

an industry which has long specialized in over-production, there is probably nothing remarkable about our being able to draw on surplus capacity at this time. With the exception of holiday and strike periods, our West Coast industry responded with a production which throughout the year l94I consistently exceeded the figure of total industry rated capacity; the excess in certain weeks being as h.igh as 20 per cent. Final figures will undoubtedly show the greatest production in twelve years, since 1929, lvhen the West Coast industry had one of its record 10 biilion ft. years, and a substantially higher capacity rating than today. Our industry's willingness and ability to gear itself up suddenly to high production, has thus been demonstrated. Last week the Department of Commerce issuerl its estimate of where our 1941 lumber production was collsumed. That is a revelation of service of which our Industry can well be proud. Total consumption of lumber in l94l is reported as 32,600,000,000 feet. The direct and indirect application of lumber to defense jobs-Army, Navy, shipyards, aircraft, boxes and crates, Defense Housing and plants, and Defense construction in railroad equipment and on farms, amounted to nearly 24,000,000,000 feet-approximately 73 per cent of the total lumber consumption. The Lumber Industry delivered the goods.

"This all out program has, of course, great significance to our industry. The armed forces and essential war industries will draw heavily on our man power. Wood in all its forms will be rreeded among the first materials in this great expansion of our Army, Navy, and war industry. With shortages in many metals and materials, forest products will be called on for replacement, thus putting into commercial application techniques and development of r.e_ search laboratories which have been waiting on opportu_ nity. We will have a fighting chance to retain some of these new markets permanently, which is the great need of our industry to better utilize forest material and reduce wastage.

"Our industry today is committed to a program of re_ forestation. A steadily growing number of iumbermen, north, south, east, and west, are demonstrating their confi_ dence in the future of forest products by investing on a permanent basis in growing timber. That confidence is not born from conditions of the past, when even the prod_ ucts of our best virgin stands could not be liquidated at cost. It comes, rather, from the conviction that new per_ manent markets are developing, and that private forestry will pay. Today, after 60 years of logging on the West Coast, we have approximatety half of our forested. area still uncut. ft is estimated that 7O per cent of the area pre_ viously cut over and classified as forest land is restocking. The over-all picture is reassuring. We need expanded markets-public confidence in our products and publi"

operation in our efforts to stamp out the menace of fire; and we need the earnest determination of lumbermen all over the country to stay in this business, so that we will continue not only to cut trees for Defense, but grow them as well."

A panel discussion followed with Jud Greenman, Vernonia, Oregon, acting as interlocutor. The panel was made up of the chairmen of the various Association standing committees, and many questions rvere presented from the floor and by Mr. Greenman.

Roderic Olzendam, Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., Tacoma, addressed the convention, his subject being, "We Are Growing Trees and Are Making the American People Aware of the Fact," after which he presented a panel discussion on, "The Fourth Estate Looks at the Forest Products Industry," with Ernest Haycox, Oregon author, as interlocutor. The panel included: Chapin Collins, editor, Montesano Vidette; Lamar Newkirk, editor, Lincoln County Leader; J. M. McClelland, Jr., editor, Longview News, and W. M. Tugman, editor, Eugene Register-Guard.

Col. W. B. Greeley, secretary-manager of the Association, addressed the meeting. The, subject, "Our Job in \il'ar," appears elsewhere in this issue.

George T. Gerlinger was toastmaster at the banquet and the speakers were: Col. W. B. Greeley, Charles A. Sprague, Governor of Oregon, and Col. W. D. Styer, representing Major General Eugene Reybold, Chief of Army Engineers, U. S. A.

Col. Styer discussed "The Mission of Lumber in National Defense," saying in part:

"We are meeting tonight in the midst of total wartotal in effort and total in extent. It encircles the globe, and affects all nations. You who dwell upon the turbulent rim of the apparently misnamed Pacific Ocean, have long lived under its encroaching shadow. Now that the blackout has come, you do not need to be rerninded of the nearness of this conflict nor of the increased sacrifices demanded of all of us to achieve our objective-total victory.

"In preparing America for the shock of cornbat, the great Pacific Northwest has rendered invaluable services of many kinds to the cause of national defense, but none is more important than in the field of Army construction. At a period when the chief enemy of preparedness was time itself, the lumber resources of this and all other sections of the country came to the rescue. Faced with the

absolute necessity of turning the nation into an armed camp overnight, it may literally be said that you whipped time with timber. You were well organized and prepared through efficient Associations, such as yours. There t-as no bottleneck in your industry. You did not need to tool up. To paraphrase a familiar saying, 'You delivered the woods.'

"Thanks to the whole-hearted and efficient cooperation of the American lumber industry in all of its branches, the construction program was well advanced when Japanese treachery at Pearl Harbor made this a shooting war. Illen had been in training for some time, and munitions were already coming from many of the manufacturing lines. This, in a very large measure, was due to the contributiorr of the American lumberman to the cause of national security. The Army fully appreciates your splendid work.

"ft is a source of pride to all of us that lumber is in every sense an all American natural resource. It is the product of our own soil, and we have had to depend upon no foreign source for our supply. Indeed out of our abundance, we have been able to ship it to far places to meet deficiencies elsewhere.

"It is hardly necessary, in closing, to urge upon a group such as this, the absolute necessity for vastly increased effort in the Victory Program outlined by the President of the United States. The services rendered by the members of your association and by the lumber interests of the country elsewhere, offer tangible evidence of your patriotism, your efficiency and your cooperation. You have cornpiled your splendid record in pine and fir, in spruce and hemlock, where all may see it and admire it.

"But that is no longer sufficient-fine and flattering as it may now seem. From now on, nothing short of total effort and the greatest sacrifices in every human activity is going to be enough, if we are to preserve for our children the free ways of life we have ourselves enjoyed. Yotr did not fail us before Pearl Harbor: We are confident that you will not fail us now."

The following officers were elected: O. R. Miller, Portland, Ore., president; George T. Gerlinger, Portland, Ore., vice-president for Oregon; C. H. Kreienbaum, Shelton, 'Wash., vice-president for Washington; Jud Greenman, Vernonia, Ore., treasurer; Col. W. B. Greeley, Seattle, Wash., secretary-manager.

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Years ago when "Muggsy" McGraw was running his famous New York Giant baseball team, he had a big Irish outfielder named Kelly. Kelly was a famous slugger, and the idol of the New York fans. They loved to see Kelly come to the plate and swing at that ball. At that time McGraw also had a rookie named Cohen, whom he used as a utility man. Cohen showed great promise as a batter.

It happened once when Kelly was in the midst of a batting slump, hadn't had a hit for a week, that the Giants got two men on base and a hit was badly needed. It was Kelly's

GUS HOOVER SHOOTS WILSHIRE GOLF' COURSE IN 76

Gus Hoover, Los Angeles, is shooting some snappy golf these days and is right up there with the professionals. Wednesday afternoon, February 4, when playing with Don Philips, Gardner Pond and H. Seimers at the Wilshire Country Clrrb, he shot a 76 gross.

turn to bat, but he had been doing so badly that McGraw decided to pull Kelly out and let Cohen bat in his place. So the loud speaker announced to the crowd:

"Cohen, batting for Kelly !"

A big, irate Irishman rose to his feet in the midst of the bleachers, every feature a sign of rightful indignation, and cupping his mouth in his hands, megaphone style, he roared out:

"And Cassidy, lavin' yer damn ball park!"

NEW LUMBER YARD

E. W. Gerhardt has started a lumber and building material business in Westminster, located on Huntington Beach Blvd. just south of Westminster Blvd. Nfr. Gerhardt has been in the feed business in Westminster for a trumber of years which he will continue along with his new venture.

News Flashes

Jim Ray of Ray's Lumber Yard, San Jose, has joined the Naval Reserve. He reported for duty at San Francisco, January 30. Mrs. Ray, who has been associated with her husband in the business will operate the yard.

Mr. and Mrs. Fay L. Foval are receiving congratulations on the birth of a son, Richard Randle, in San Francisco. February 1, Mr. Foval is district manag'er of Long'Bell Lumber Co. at San Francisco.

Eric Hexberg, sales manager' Anglo California Lumber Co., Los Angeles, recently called on the Pine Mills in Northern California and the Klamath Falls district.

Joe Tardy, E. J. Stanton turned from a month's trip tlie lumber trade.

& Son, Los Angeles, has reto Arizona where he called on

Amos Geib, Geib Lumber Company, Huntington Park, spent the past week-end hunting in l\{exico, below Calexico.

Walter Scrim, Los Angeles, is on a business trip to Neu' York. He traveled by plane.

Fire destroyed three lumber sheds at the Independent Lumber Company, Hawthorne, Calif., the night of February 9. The loss is estimated at $15,000. The FBI are investigating any possible act of sabotage.

Hawk Huey, Phoenix, Arizona, lumberman, performed another hunting feat on January 26 when he killed a buffalo in Houserock Valley, Arizona. The buffalo weighed over 1200 pounds.

Fred S. Cutler. Fred S. Cutler Lumber Co', Portland, Ore., recently made a business trip to San Francisco and Los Angeles.

A. H. (Abe) Jackson, manager of the Los Angeles ollice of Union Lumber Co., visited the company's San Francisco office, at the end of January.

Howard Jones, vice-president, Salt Lake City, was a business early this month.

PauI Bunyan

Yesterday and Today

Pcrul won hie |t''.e with cn cxe csrd qn o:(. The lumber industry oI todcy is more compliccrted but Pcul Buaycm slill etatt& crs the symbol ol cchievement

Red River's logging includes selective crrtliug, co. senrction cmd forest protection Red River's produs'tio requires crccurcrte qnd. unilonn milling, Hh'secrsoning cmd grrcding to Associciion stcmdcrds.

CATIFORNIA PINES

Solt Ponderoscr Sugar Pine II'IUBER MOTTIDINGS PTWOOD INCENSE CEDAN

Veneticr Blind Slctr qad Pencll StocL

For Southern California, stocks including Sash and Doors are carried, in the Los Angeles Vholesale Varehouse. Truch Delitteries.

Morrison, Merrill & Co.. visitbr in San Francisco

Percy Merithew, cargo manager of the E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, is in the Queen of Angels hospital rn'ith a broken leg due to an accident which occurred Sunday, February 8, w-hen he was horseback riding.

Sterling Stofle, sales manager of Western Hardwood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, has returned from a business trio to the Pacific Northwest.

"Pcul BunYcn's"

Bark-Fiber From Wood Waste Offers Possible Relief ]or Prospective Wool Shortage

WASHINGTON, January 27-The use of bark from redwood trees to make a substitute fiber for clothing, blankets, and other textiles was under consideration today by the Research Division of the. War Production Board as a means of solving a possible sheep's wool shortage.

Approximately 120,000,000 pounds of synthetic wool could be manufactured annually from the bark of redwood trees, now largely a waste product of lumbering, according to Edric E. Broll'n, of The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, California.

Mr. Brown, who was called to consult with the Re'search Division, said that with simple adjustments standard textile machinery can be used for making yarn or felt from a mixture of natural wool and synthetic wool. The new fabric uses a bark-wool content ranging from 20 per cent to 50 per cent.

Among the advantages claimed for the use of barkwool is that it has a high rating as an insulator of heat and is resistant to fire and rot.

"We are hopeful that redwood bark will be widel-v tsed as a source for substitute wool because it would help solve the nation's textile problem, and also because such use would coincide with the standard practice of all the {orest products industries to reduce waste," Mr. Brown :said.

"At the same time, our industries also are employing conservation methods intended to keep the forests perpetually productive. Such practices have already contributed to the ability of the forests to supply lumber, pulp, and plywood, not only for normal purposes, but also to supply war-time substitutes for steel, aluminum, fuel, and now-even wool."

The present shortage in sheep's rvool arises from r,var interruption of American imports and from the expanded tequirements of the Army and Navy.

Fifty per cent ol the contents oI the young lcdy s hct, which cppecra lo be conventioncl wool telt, once grew ci bar[ on c redwood irle in Calitorniq. Edric E. Browu, oI The Pccilic Lumber Compcny, Scn Flgncqco explcins to Gcy Jensen how redwood bork, <rlrrcyl con- sidered c \rcste producl, cqn be used cs cr substitule lor dool oI which the OPM leels there will be cr wqrtime shortcge. Tbe lcbric over Misa JenEen's crm contcine 25 per cent redwood bcrl< fiber.

In addition to the war's effect upon shipments from Australia, the United States' wool problem is further complicated norv by the need to furnish blankets and uniforms for some 3,000,000 new trainees under present plans for Army expansion.

According to the American Wool Council, a total Anny of 4,000,000 men would require about 1,200,000,000,pounds of wool-about one-third more than one year,s combined annual output of all North and South American wool producers.

Help 'Em Keep'Em Up

By Jack Dionne

I know a man who for years has been engaged strictly in the business of repairing homes and other small buildings. He did some remodeling also, but his pork is chiefly repairing. He employs a small crew of skilled workers, and they have made a good living using their hammers, saws, and paint brushes in their own home town. Mostly small jobs.

When the first building restrictions were announced early last fall, this man thought the world had come to an end. Misunderstanding the situation-as did millions of others-several people who had arranged with him to do repair jobs for them, cancelled. My friend thought his little business goose was certainly cooked. IIe wondered what he and his crew could turn to for a livelihood. But the thing proved very temporary. Soon he found himself overrun with people who wanted repair work, and today he and his men are busier than they ever were before in their lives, with jobs scheduled for weeks ahead. He finds that people now think it their duty to get their houses in order, literally speaking, so his repair business is booming. Nothing stands in his way. Critical materials affect his business very little. When they do, he makes substitutions, and so far he hasn't had to turn down a single job for want of materials.

Work to be Done and You Can Sell

MaterialsNeeded to Do it!

Mostly his work calls for lumber, millwork, flooring, plywood, cement, roofing, nails, paint, putty, etc., and he can get all he needs of them. His gang have all the tools they need for their work, and they keep them busy. He is hooked up with a retail lumber yard, and is giving the yard more business than ever before. He finds people with run-down property most willing to listen to a repair sales ta1k. The fact that there are so maly things they cannot buy now" greases the skids for the repair man.

And so it is the country over. In defense or non-defense areas the opportunities are the same. All men consider il wise to put and keep their houses in good repair. So the live lumber merchant everywhere has a swell selling opportunity, and a great chance to cooperate with the building artisans of his acquaintance in creating a lot of good business.

In fact, these are days when ingenuity is more needed and more valuable than when things are more normal. IJs-' ing his intelligence and his wits to apply his building materials to the needs of his community, is the order of the day. There is more cash floating around looking for somewhere' to light than there has been at any time in the last thirteen years. And never were building repairs more genuinely' needed.

So just help 'em to keep 'em uP.

*ti"iog quartefs are scafce in every center of war industry -and, tbere are bund'red,s oJ sucb centers. Home owners are planning ways to add a room-in the basement, in the attic, or by enclosing a 1nrch.

Celotex Insulating Interior Finishes offer a fast, economical method of building these extra rooms uitboat using any of the "critical" materials needed by.the government.

These interior finishes provide structural strength. They require no additional decoration. They afford a means of keeping interiors cool in hot weather. And they are protected' against d'amage by termites or dry rot, by the exclusive, patented Ferox Process.

Help you co--unity gain needed extra living quarters by selling Celotex Insulating Interior Finishes !

Burlap Sacks

By Kenneth Smith President Calilornia Redwood Associotion

Of what interest are burLap sacks to the retail lumberman in California? Very little when they were plentiful. But the looming extreme shortage of burlap sacks is going to be of tremendous interest to lumbermen.

In 1941 California growers produced about 5 million 100lb. sacks of beans (farm value $26 million); 25% million bushels of barley (farm value $18 million); 22% million bushels of potatoes (farm value 916 million); 12 million bushels of wheat (farm value 912 million) ; 9 million bushels of rice (farm value $9.5 million), and lesser crops of flax, peas, corn, oats, etc., nearly all of which moved to market, or was stored for the farmers' own use in sacks.

It took about 6O million sacks to do the job. The highest estimate of sacks possibly available for 1942 is 22 million. And it is expected potatoes will get first call on sacks because they cannot be marketed or stored in bulk without damage.

Result-a tremendous, sudden, even desperate need of bulk storage facilities. Practically all grain warehouses in California both on the farm and at terminal markets are built for sack storage. Foundation and floors will carry the weight but walls were not built to withstand the pressure of bulk grain. A few steel bins will be available (present figures indicate enough for less than one million bushels) and the rest of the job must largely be done by -wood.

Bulk storage of grain without heavy losses requires proper construction. Economical handling-in and out-is important. Walls and floor must be strong enough to carry the load. Some grains require more ventilation and control of humidity than others. All must be protected from rats. State and Federal agricultural engineering organizations have developed the most practical and economical types of structures for use in the various areas of our country where bulk handling has been the custom.

The Division of Agricultural Engineering, University of California, at Davis, California, is preparing plans suitable for California farm storage which will shortly be broadcast.

It is the hope of Dr. H. B. Walker, who is heading up this activity, that our growers will realize the seriousness of the situation and provide themselves with adequate facilities before harvest time. Dave Davidson, U. S. Department of Agriculture, is heading up the efiort of the California War Board to get the job done.

But-June is not far away. Starting now a grower can be ready with soundly constructed permanent value structures. Waiting, as many will, until the last minute, will mean hastily built roofless boxes. It will mean roadside storage bins consisting of a floor and walls on either two or three sides. Whatever lumber can be had right now will be used rather than grades and sizes which would provide best value if the job were done while there is time.

Lumber will be needed to build bodies for flat bed trucks. Bulk bins for harvesters (or on trailers) will be needed. Walls of terminal warehouses will have to be strengthened and partitions provided. Poultrymen, cattle feeders, hog growers-all who are now using grain from sacks have to prepare themselves to handle in bulk.

The job will not all get done. Some grain will be piled on the ground to be rehandled (the hope will be) before it rains. There is no reliable estimate of how much lumber will be needed to meet this demand but it takes 1200 to 14O0 feet to build a 500 bushel granary, and 3200 to 6000 feet (depending upon type) to build a 200O bushel granary. If enough farm bulk storage is built to take care of onethird of the crops, something like 20 million feet will be needed. And the job will take something like 500,000lbs. of nails (which we understand W.P.B. will make available).

So-the shortage of burlap sacks means to lumber be ready with lumber and nails and with two kinds of plans (1) soundly constructed economical wood granaries for the forehanded grower (2) emergency granaries, roadside bins, etc., for the man in a hurry. Small ready-built, easily moved granaries holding 500 bushels will likely find readv buvers.

Lumber Productio n---19 40

Lumber production in 1940, as reported by the Bureau of the Census, was 28,934,127,W board feet. This was an increase of 15.9 per cent above 1939, and was the largest production reported since 1929, when 36,886,000,000 feet rvere produced.

Softwood lumber production amounted to 24,903,000,000 feet--36 per cent of the total. The production of softwood in 1940 was 17 per cent greater than in 1939. Southern pines continued to be the largest single production group, with a production of 10,163,000,000 feet, an increase of 31 per cent over 1939. Douglas fir rvas the second important softwood species with a production ol 7,12I,@0,00O feet. an increase of 10 per cent over 1939. Other softwood species producing over a billion feet were ponderosa pine with a cut of 3,613,000,000 and white pine with 1,124,000,000 feet.

Hardwood production, as reported by the Census for194O, was 4,031,000,000 feet-an increase of 8 per cent over 1939. Oak production was 1,467,000,0@ feet. Red gum, maple, and yellow popular rvere the next hardwoods in importance with production of 479,000,00A, 463,000,000 and 376,000,00O, respectively.

Oregon lv'as again the leading state with a procluctiorr of 5,202,@l},0ffi feet. lVashington was next with 4,542,000,000 feet. There were 9 other states producing over a billion feet of lumber.

The Census for 1940 recorded, 19,986 mills producing over 50,000 board feet per year. This was the greatest trumber of mills since 1929 rvhen 20,037 mills werc leported. The number of reporting active mills has been steadily increasing since 1935. In some of the Southeastcrn states canvassed for the first time by the Forest Service. there were large increases in the number of reporting mills. In North Carolina 2,346 active mills were reportccl in 19,10 as compared to 1,876 in 1939. In Virginia there were 2,0(A active mills reported in 1940, compared to i,068 in 1939.

In the 9 coastal states from Virginia to Texas plus Arkansas and Oklahoma there were reported 12,705 active mills in 194O, compared to 9,170 in 1939.

Preliminary revisions by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association of L94l data based on I94O Census production figures indicate a production in l94I of 31.8 billion feet.

A. E. FERGUSON IN ARMY_WARREN E. HOYT IN CHARGE OF LOS ANGELES OFFICE

A. E. Ferguson, district sales manager, American Lumber & Treating Company, Los Angeles, is now in the army and left on February 1 for Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where hc is a Captain in the Field Artillery. Mr. Ferguson sa\\, active service in France during the first World War, and was a reserve officer in the Field Artillery.

Warren E. Hoyt, for the past seven years a member of the Los Angeles .sales staff, is now in charge of the company's Los Angeles office.

BUY POMONA YARD

J. S. and V. C. Murphy recently purchased the yard of O'Neill Lumber Co., Pomona.

PACIFIC \TOOD PRODUCTS CORPORATION

SASH AND DOOR MANI'FACTI'NENS

SUGAR PINE

Detcril Front Door Sticking

Hecrvl' Pcrnels Rcrised Two Sides

Pccilic Type "F" Front Door Stocked only in 3-0 x 6-8 x l%

THE INSTATTATION MAf,ES TIIE DIFFEBEI',ICE

SUGAR PINE DOORS con be hung with minimum eflort and time. They cre light to hcmdle, ecsy to plone cnd bore, will hold their shcpe, toke pcint economicqlly cmd give lcsting sqtisfaction.

CAItrONNI.A SUGAN PINE

Used Exclusively on cll Pine Produc.ts

3600 Tyburn Street Los Angeles, Calil Albcny 0l0l

THE ASSOCIATION SPIRIT

"Men certainly do hang together," remarked Brown. "For instance, I have a friend who lives in a suburb where many wealthy folks live. Recently he had a motor car accident at a lonely spot in the road, and found it impossible to reach a telephone to tell his wife.

"Now, it happened that he was happily married, very domesticated, and not accustomed to staying away all night so by midnight his wife had become very anxious. So she sent a telegram to five difierent friends of her husband in town, saying:

"Jack hasn't come home. Am worried Is he spending the night with you?"

And all five promptly wired back:

"Yes, Jack is spending the night with me."

RUTS

One of the important lessons of this life is to learn to keep out of ruts. Everyone is bound to strike them at times. But they shoutd be gotten out of-immediately. For to stay in a rut is to stick still, and stagnate, while others Pass you and forget you.

Keep your eyes open, and your mind awake. Watch for the imitation rut-the rut that takes you away from your own work and your own ideas and makes a duplicate out of you, instead of an original. Creators stand in a class by themselves. Pay tribute to the head on you.r own shoulders. Get the habit of initiative.

Keep your eyes oPen and your mind awake. Think. 'Get together new ideas. Welcome them. Read. Profit from the minds of past ages. Compare them with the advancing thought and experiences of your own age. Delve into the mysteries. Seek out the truths they hold.

Vary your work as much as possible. The brain acts spryest when it's most interested. Love your work. And be kind to your human machine. Give it rest. Occasionally slip away into new surroundings, see new faces, and meet new scenes. Find delight among those who do and dare. Lock arms with the smilers. Pass by the frowners.

Keep your eyes open and your mind awake-

TODAY

My entire span of life is from the time I wake in the morning until I go to sleep at night. The past is over; the future hasn't come; I do not worry over the one' or fear the other, for my concern is making a fine job of today. Vash Young.

THE STEADY SUBSCRIBER

How dear to our heart is the steady subscriber, Who pays in advance at the birth of each year, Who lays down the money, and does it quite gladly' And casts round the office a halo of cheer.

How welcome his check when it reaches our sanctum, It makes our pulse throb, and it makes our heart dance, We outwardly thank him; we inwardly bless himThe steady subscriber who pays in advance.

HOMES

The cormorant builds on a ledge by the sea; The coot, on the bank of a runnel; The woodpecker hunts for a hole in a tree; The kingfisher digs him a tunnel.

The barn-swallow nests in the haunts of the tame, The grouse in the brush and the cumber, The country mouse lives in a home with a name, The city mouse dwells at a number.

The bumblebee hives in a hole in the ground, The wasp has a mansion of paper; The ant may be found in a neat little mound, The clothes moth resides with the draper.

The rattlesnake camps on the prairie dog's claim, The bat in the cliff-hollow's umber, The free man inhabits a home with a name, The slave, but a house with a nurnber.

The feet-footed caribou rests in the brake, The mole, at the end of a furrow; The beaver abides in a hut on the lake, The woodchuck is warm in a burrow.

Remote from the camp fire's flickering fame, The bear in his cavern may slumber; And you're in the hills in a home with a name, But I'm on a street with a number.

-Arthur Guiterman.

BIBLICAL LORE

Queen of Sheba: "Solomon, who was them thousand ladies f seen you with last night?"

Solomon: "Six hundred of them was my wives, and the other four hundred wasn't no ladies."

Government Housing Projects Approved

San Francisco, Jan. 3l-President Roosevelt yesterday approved the construction of 216 permanent housing units in two California areas, homes which will be built with public funds, according to word received by the Division of Defense Housing here.

At Tiburon, 16 permanent units for occupancy by families of enlisted Navy personnel will be built by the Federal Works Agency, the designated agency.

Approval was given for the construction of. Zffi units at Vallejo for families of civilian workers with incomes ranging from $1,800 to $3,000. The Defense Housing Corporation has been designated to build the houses. Previously approved government housing projects in this area total 3550 permanent units, 3026 dormitory units and 3000 demountable units.

Recommendations for the construction was made by Charles F. Palmer, coordinator of Defense Housing.

Quartermaster Section Moves to Oakland

The Quartermaster Section of the San Francisco General Depot, which has been located for a number of years at Fort Mason in San Francisco, Calif., has just moved its offices to the new administration building at the outer harbor in Oakland, Calif. Colonel F. J. Riley, Quartermaster Supply Officer, announces that hereafter all business will be transacted at the new location and mail should be addressed to the Quartermaster Supply Officer, San Francisco General Depot, Oakland, Calif.

The Quartermaster Supply Office in its new location at the Oakland outer harbor is operating all activities in the various offices, as well as in all warehouses, on a Z4-hour per day basis of three 8-hour shifts including Sundays and holidays. This is in order that there may be no interruption in the procurement, storage and issues of supplies to troops.

New Eubank Plant Has Large Floor Space

L. H. Eubank & Son, manufacturers of Eubank ironing boards, mantels and cabinets, who recently moved to their new location at 433 West Redondo Boulevard, fnglewood, have the same telephone number, Oregon 8-I6ffi, as they had before.

The new factory building is CI by 110 feet, and with the other buildings on the property there is a total floor space of about 8,000 square feet. Another advantage of the new plant is that there is room to store several carloads of lumber under cover.

A considerable portion of this company's products is now being manufactured for defense housing.

Thig advertisement is appearing in Busiaess Weel Engiaeeriag News Becord American Builder & Building Age, and Architecfural Forun, It se/,ls Wolmanized Lumber* to u.en who will profil by using this longlived lumber.

Read whal we say to lhen. Then insbuct your aaleenea to speak this same language: Sell wood conghuctiol lor ite fine struciural gualities, Ior convenience and speed in erection, Sell Wolmauized Lu-ber Ior the long life thal insures low upkeep coots.

Wolmanized Lumber is produced in niaeteen trealing plants throughout lhe counlry. It is distributed through regular.trade cbannelg. American Lurnber & Trealiag Company, 1648 McCormick Building, Chi' ccrgo, Ill.

*Ro0lsttrod Tradc Muk

Ios Angeles: I03l South Broadway PRoepect 43@ San Francisco: 116 NEw Moatgomery St. SUfter 1225

APPEAR"VG 'N 8US'NESS WEEK

ARCH'rECru.RAL FORUIIT

ENG''VEER'NG NE}US RECORD ATIERICAN 8U'IDER & BUII.DING AGE

Ceiling Prices for Western Pine Lumber

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by sawing, or by planing or other comparable method at least 25 per cent of the volume of Western pine logs or lumber purchased or received by it. (d) "distribution yard" means a .wholesale or retail lumber yard which purchases or receives Western pine logs or lumber from a producer, a mill, or another distribution ya.rd for purposes of unloading, sorting, and resale or redistribution, which regularly maintains a stock of lumber, and which processes, by sawing, or by planing or other comparable method, less than 25 per cent of the volume of such logs or lumber so purchased or received by it. (e) "volume" means the boarrl foot volume of lumber processed from logs, processed from other lumber, or sold, as the case may be, within six months immediately prior to the transaction subject to this S'chedule. (f) "retail sale" means a sale.which satisfies all of the following tests:

1. It must be a sale of lumber to a consumer or contractor for use in building, construction, remodeling, repair, maintenance, or fabrication, and not for resale in substantially the same form.

2. It includes only sales in less than carload quantities. Where shipments is by water or by truck the maximum retail sale quantity shall be 20,000 feet board measure. For the purpose of this paragraph the size of the sale is determined by the size of the order.

3. The sale must be accompanied by the following services: delivery to the job site or other point specified by the purchaser and at such times and in such quantities as the purchaser specifies; tallying and checking; the privilege of exchanging goods and returning unuserl material; and the readiness and ability of the seller to replace defigiencies and adjust complaints from stocks kept on hand for such purposes.

(g) "deliver" means to make physical transfer of lumber to the purchaser, or to a carrier, not owned or controlled by the seller, for carriage to the purchaser to whom the lumber has been previously sold.

(h) Grade terms used herein have the meaning set forth in the Standard Grading Rules issued by the Western Pine Association, effective April 1, 1939.*

1312.258 Delivered Prices. A delivered price in excess of the maximum f.o.b. mill prices set forth in Appendices

A, B, and C may be charged, consisting of such maximum prices plus actual transportation costs paid by the seller. Ilowever, for the purposes of this section, the following two practices shall not be deemed a deviation from the use of actual transportation costs.:

(1) the charging of a sum equivalent to the one. quarter of a dollar nearest to such actual transportation costs; and

(2) the computation of transportation costs on the basis of a system of estimated average weights established by the seller, and adhered to by him during the period October 1 to October 15, 1941: Provided, That a copy of such system of estimated average weights has been filed with the Office of Price Administration either before the use of such system in a transaction subject to this Schedule, or within thirty days of the effective date of this Schedule.*

1312.259 Effective Date of the Schedule. This Schedule (sections I312.25I to 1312.262, inclusive) shall become effective February 15, 1942.*

r3T2.2O APPENDIX A-MAXIMUM PRICES FOR PONDEROSA PINE LUMBER

(a) The muimu prier f.o.b. mill pcr l0{lt fet board meaeure aurfaccd' air dricd or kiln dried, ln mixcd or straight lmd ehipmcntr, chall be ar followg:

and 2 Cler (B and Better)

& up.....$7r.(X}

Spcificd lcngthr

1/1, 6', 6', l0', and l{' Add $2.00 (Includcr bundling

U1. 16'.,...,.... .........Add $S.lXl (Includer budling

12, rE' and 20'............................ Add $10.||0

5/t ud thicker, 16'and rhortcr..........Add $5.00

5/4 ud thickcr rt'ud 2J..............Add tr0.00

Random lo$hc rf ud longer..........Add $2.00

Speial Rudu widtha, S2S

t'& wider, RW' ..........................Add t2.0{t to RW prie

lO" & widcr RW .........................Add S7.@ to RW prie

13'& widq, RW .......................,.Sue as l?'price

l,l' & wider, RW ....... Add S 5.m to l/ price

16l & wider, RW .........................Add $10.m to l2D prie

It'& wider, RW .........................Add $15.00 to ll picc

202 & wider, RW (sccpt dralnboardr)...Add t20.00 to 12" lrice

2i2n & widcr, RW (sccpt dratnboarde), .Add f25.O to 12" pricc

Specificd widthr

Spcctficd wldthr ovcr 12l, for cach inc,h ovcr 12'..........,.......,.,.......Add t2.00 to l2l prico

Odd wfdtha, 7', y', rf Add $r.m 6 8', rD'i, 12' and Rough, all thicloacr. .Deduct l2.tlo

Staincd relcstr. ...........Deduct $5.00 from prie of D Autralian Clarr ..,..,..........,.,.....,.Samc prle ac D Sdcct

Short Sclectr 5' to 9' RL.,. lx{ & wldcr, RW......,........,,....... t4r.qt ..5/| & thtc&cr,,l/ & wldcr, Rw.,...,...t41.00

SclGct stripr, 2'! & 3", not bundlad.,.,,,..Deduct fl.ll0

2' ud 3"1 2' and l'l rc rcaled *let COMMON BOAR"DS (Rudom Isgthe-4' and LonScr)

13" & wider RW S2S only S2S or StlSl lx1' lx6" lxE' lxl/'

No. ,f and 5 Common, RW and RL may cmtain 2Qs 4' to E' art $s-1". (Xd widthr,7",{',and ll'.,.,......add fl.m to E"' lg" & 12" price, ud e acal€d

Spcclal Random Widthc:

No.4 Comon, lxd and wider,

No.5 Common, lxl & wider...

Rough. 5/l & thicker....'..

Xnoiti pire Pueling Stock..Add $5.1D to prie of regrrlar grade from which -clected. For filf6', uce pricJ of oresponding grade and width of 611" plut ]2.5O, lest 29To for eurface mealure trice.

SHOP LUMBER

--GBADBS--

YOU BI{OW TTTAT GRADING IN ANY PABTICT'LAB GRADE OF LI'MBER CAN VARY AS MUCH AS $I(!.OO A TTIOUSA}ID FEET.

TTIAT'S WIIY OUN GRADES AT TIIE PRICE ANE YOITR BEST BUY. PBOOF? ASK OUB CUSTOI\,IERS.

TY. I). I)UNNING

DIFFERENTIAIJ AND RULES APPLICABLE TO ALL GRADES OF PONDEROSA PINE Ordinary Reeawing

dresc€d thlcker thu etmdard, lc ach r/3zl....Add r'o ioi "to"t ru" SIS wider thu rtandard width (nay bc hit c nics)...."Md

Standa"d Casinl urd Base, Jambq Silt Stocl, Pullev-,Stils, Log Cabin Siding, Bungilow Siding' Dolly Varden Sidin-g md- all cimilar PqtttemE (not -riouldiig), a" t Iil' Bcvcled Siding, all grader to prie of grade. - - - dlsired .........Add 7.50 AII otter pattems except tho$ cmfoming to Aseciation Stardard Pattems ..........

2'5ll All Stildard patterns other than S2S or S4S ej.ept as noted above....Add 2'00 CuttLg to rpeified exact length.......'..............

f'00 .lU "t6ct sliipped in inter-divirional ltopovor cara.'...,..................Add f'|I| Rmdom lengtLi are 6 feet and longcr, unleu othemise prcvided in list.

13T226T APPENDTX B-MAXIMUM PRICES FOR IDAHO WHITE PINE LBR. (a) The muimum pricer f.o.b. mill per !fiXt feet -board meaeur-e,- eurfaed, air - dried or kiln dried, ln mixed or straight lod ahipnents, chall b€ ac

or S4S

FCT GRADES

rcld separately in quantlty lotr........,..............Deduct

11' & chorter RL (whcn m 16'

Spcial Random Widthc 5/4 & thlckcr S2S:

6" & wider RW......,,.......,...........{dd lz.nb 4" & wider prie

8" & Wider RW.:........... \dd t5.0t ro ,r,, & widr prie

Odd width!, 7D, Sn, & ll'..................Add Sr.00 to 8", rO" ud l2l pricc, ud rc ccaled.

R^rrch. all thicknercr. .)educt 82.00

Stalncd relcts .....,....,)educt ts.m from price of D Sclcct.

)ller | .ere0.5 r/1, 1x & wider, D & Btr. 6tqo (r..,.........................$2.m

4/4, all 1" .....................$r.m

4/1, all 6" .....142.0 Sclcct rtripe, Z" & 3u not bundled..... .....,.........Dcduct ll.|l0

Random fength may ontain t7o shorts thu E' sd lSVo odd lcngthr. ID.AHO W}IITE PINE SHOP

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May ontaln.odd lens!!1 a4d 29q.o ?' to E y-2' in mutripbs of 6,, sept that E rldtrii may @ntain up to 35/e of I yz It. ud ehqtr.

For all 9 ft. ed longcr add $3.00.

Sidl4s_t' ud rhorter (whm rld lcpeate{y)

SUGAR PINE

1312,2@ Appendix C-Muimum prica for rugar nine lumber

(a) The muimum pricer f.o.b. mill per fdD fet board measure. surfaed. air dried or kiln dried, ln mlxed or rtraight loid shipments. shorild bl as fo[o;ri'-

Rough 4/,1 md thicker No. I Shop & Btr. ................Deduct

Rough Sfi and thicker No 2 Shop ......Deduct

Rough l-l{ md ttic}a Common, Dimoeion ud No.3 Shop .....,...Deduct

Rqgb Inch Shop .....,..... ..,..........Deduct

Ordinary Reawing .......,.,.........,..Add

Reaawing ud SzS, all grade, all rates...................4dd

Ripping, grcr rip.......... ................Add

Novclty-Saw Ripping ............Add

Ripping ud S,1S............. ...,........4dd

Creer Crrtting, Fr st......,.,. ...,,.....Add

Cleating (ordinary) ......,......,........Add

Bundling (ordinary) ...........,..,....,..Add

Bundllng (cxport) ,..,.,.. ......,....,...Add

Random l.engthr m 6 ft. & longcr, ulers ot]crwfuc providcd in lict.

Stock drecscd thlckc than rtmdard, for ach llW,..,Ada

Fc rtoc,k run Slti wider ttan dandard width (may bc hit c nls)............ .......,..,,..Add

Studard eeing ud Base, Jmbr, Sill Stock, Pulby Stilcr lag Cabin Sidlng, Bugalm Siding, Dolly Varden Stdlng ud all cinils pattcms (mt mmldIngr), to price of gradc dcrircd,....................,..4dd

All ottcr l[ttmr cxcqrt ttorc onloning to Aeo clation Studard Pett ru .......,..,..Add

All standrrd pattcrnr other ttm S2S or SlS, qept u notcd abovc ..............Add

Cuttirg to rpedfied mct lcngth...................,......Add

All rtch .hfpecd h bta-dlvidoal rtotpycr ere......Add

Irrucd rhfu 3d day of Fcbmry, 19,12., Effcctivc February 1,S, 1C12. i.jii' H";dl';;;, .riilrir:ii'-iiii " " "' CERTIFIED TO BE A TRUE COPY OF TTIE ORIGINAL.

John E. Hm, Deputy Administrator

SUCCEEDS EATON GRIMES

Glenn A. Burke is now sales representative for Union Lumber Co. in the Sacramento Valley and Sonoma Valley territory, replacing Eaton Grimes, who is back on full time duty at the mill at Fort Bragg, Calif.

Mr. Burke was formerly manager of the Mendocino County Retail Lumber Co. at Fort Bragg.

lSanta Barbara Lumber Firms Mergad

The Ambrose Lumber Company has purchased the Union Mill & Lumber Company and Santa Barbara Lumber Company mill at Santa Barbara. The transaction includes the Santa Barbara and Goleta plants of the lJnion Mill & Lumber Company.

The Santa Barbara Lumber Company was established in 1887, and a short time later the Union Mill & Lumber Company was formed. In 1932 the Union nlill & Lumber Company and Ambrose Lumber Company took over the Santa Barbara Lumber Company, and now the Ambrose Lumber Company buys all interests in both these companies.

The company hereafter will be known as the Ambrose Mill & Lumber Company, and the business offices, it was indicated, will occupy the former offices of the l-Inion l\,Iill & Lumber Company. Richard T. Ambros€, Jr., will be assistant general manager of all the yards. The Ambrose Lumber Company was established in Santa Barbara twenty )'ears ago.

A. G. Clabaugh , Pioneer Lumberman, Retires

After 58 years of continuous service in the lumber business, 32 years of which was spent in Puente, A. C. Clabaugh has retired. His services extended over 30 years with the Patten & Davies Lumber Company and its successor, the Patten-Blinn Lumber Company. Mr. Clabaugh was relieved of active duty as manager of the Patten-Blinn yard about a year ago but \Mas retained in an adv,isory capacity to his son, Robert S. Clabaugh, who succeeded him as manager of the yard.

Mr. Clabaugh first entered the lumber business in Kirkwood, Mo., in 1884 where he remained until 1891. Later his lumber interests were at Webster Grove and Afton, Mo. He came to California in the fall of 1901, and with the late Frank Sappington, they bought the Whittier Lumber & Mill Company. In l91O they operated the Puente Lumber Company which later they sold to the Patten & Davies Lumber Company.

WESTERN PINE ANNUAL FEB. T9

The Western Pine Association will hold its annual convention at the Portland Hotel, Portland, Ore., on February 19.

MaelDonald & Harringtolr.e Ltd.

16 Cdifornia Street, San Francisco

GAdeld s393

WHOLESALDNS OF ALL rvNST COAST LUDIBDN PBODUCTS

Creosoted and Volmarized, Lumber and Piling

Victory Shilt at Longview

Employees of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, Longview, Washington, recently sent to President Roosevelt a check for $12,882.79 to further the war efTort of the United States. At the same time. another check amounting to $500.00 was sent to the local Red Cross committee.

The contribution of $13,382.70 was the result of a voluntary movement on the part of the employees to douate one day's wages as added evidence of their patriotisnr and devotion to their country.

All who were able to work on that day participated in the "Victory Shift" which was scheduled on a Saturday when regular employees would receive time and onehalf wages.

fn commenting on the success of the movement which included nearly 1,300 people, Harry E. Morgan, resider-rt manager for the Weyerhaeuser company, said:

"The company is glad to be an instrument of the employes in assisting in carrying out this patriotic effort on

their part-an effort w-liich we feel sure all Americans heartily commend, both for the spirit that prompted it and for the actual accomplishment it will represent for the victory program."

HOO-HOO WILL HEAR COMMENTATOR

John K. Chapel, commentator heard over Oakland's radio station KROW, world traveler, author and lecturer, will be guest speaker at the next meeting of East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39, to be held at Hotel Leamington, Oakland, on I\{onday evening, February 16. His subject will be "Why We Should Be Glad to Be Americans in the World Today."

There will also be two headline acts of vaudeville to round out the program.

LUMBER YARD MOVES TO HYNES

:iossman Mill & Lumber Company has moved its Long Beach yard to 6980 Cherry Ave., Hynes. The company also has yards in Wilmington and San Pedro.

Uln'a Uho

George A. Hill

George A. Hill, sales manager of Cadwallader-Gibson Co., Inc,, Los Angeles, internationally known manufacturers and importers of Philippine hardwoods, was born in Dallas, Texas. His family moved to Fort Worth when he was very young and he went to school there.

He came to California in 1927 and went to work for Cadwallader-Gibson Co. in 1928. He left in 1930 and spent two years in the furniture business, and in l93Z became associated with the Independent Lumber Co., retail lumber concern, of Hawthorne, Calif. He was credit manager for a time and was manager for the last two years he was there.

In the latter part of. 1936 he went to the Philippine Islands to work for Cadwallader-Gibson Co. at their mill at 'Iandoc, Camarines Sur, remaining there for four years. He came back to the Los Angeles office in the latter part of l94O and was appointed sales manager at the first of this year.

Mr. Hill just recently completed building a new home in fnglewood, where he lives with his wife and seven-year-old daughter.

TALKS TO DAVIS ROTARIANS

Kenneth Smith, president of the California Redwood Association, San Francisco, was the speaker at the meeting of the Rotary Club of Davis, Calif., held on Monday, February 2. He spoke on "The Probable Effect of the War on the Construction Industry."

Mr. Smith was introduced by Rotarian E. S. iVlcBridc of Davis Lumber Company, who rvas chairman of the day.

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Our Job in \(/ar

Address bv Col. \fl. B. Greeley, Secretary-Manaser

At Annual Meeting of \/est Coast Lumbermen's Association, Portland, Oregon, January 30,1949

It may be debatable whether West Coast lumbermen need an agency for joint action in the piping times of peace. But when war clouds gather and break, there is no question that both industry and government need an organization like the Association. As the past two years turned from peace to war, there had to be a pooling of information and resources and a means for quick action-to make the industry effective in the war.

To a large extent the Association was trained for this work; whether ready or not, it has become our principal job.

We have been able to maintain strong representation at Washington, relaying and interpreting to the industry the policies and needs of the Defense agencies-and ways and means whereby the mills could support them. Many questions concerning wartime uses of West Coast lumber have thus been settled-at the national capital. Through our contacts there, we have been ablemore accurately as time wore on-to keep the fir mills informed of what is coming, to gear their operations into war needs.

The Association stepped right into the job of transmitting station between the government and industry, broadcasting schedules of coming requirements, arranging auction purchases, placing tough schedules. We organized seven lumber auctions on the Pacific Coast in 1941 ; and helped at five additional auctions in the Middle West. Our policy has been one of all-out service to the government's buyers, withholding nothing we could do to help them; and giving the representatives of Uncle Sam the best advice of which we were capable. We have gained the confidence of the purchasing effisss-sast and west; and have been able, from month to month, to work with them more closely and effectively.

On many occasions, when emergency did not admit usual methods of purchase, the Association has asked individual companies to wire or phone their bids; or has called a group of millmen together, to divide a Defense bill among them; or has literally hung on the telephone until an emergency order for Alaska or some interior munitions plant

or unnamed destination overseas has been filled. We have tried our best to give every supplier an equal break. But when corners had to be cut-they have been cut; and Ralph Brown and Paul Stevens are ready to face the firing squad with resignation-because the lumber was delivered on time.

The Corps of Engineers found it hard to obtain ponton lumber under their exacting specifications. The main difficulty was in kiln drying thick items to a 19 per cent moisture content. Our Chief Inspector went from mill to mill, demonstrating the use of urea in drying just such tough specifications; and an adequate supply of ponton stock is now assured. Three years of Association research and experience had made this possible. It is typical of the sort of "Minute Man" service which our engineers and inspectors have taken on. Our fieldmen have been auxiliary engineers of the Defense organization. All over the map, they have helped and advised; drafted specifications; found substitutes for short items; speeded up the delivery of needed items.

The scarcity of steel has imposed an additional duty upon Douglas fir. Many airplane hangars, warehouses, munitions plants and other forms of heavy construction have been redesigned from steel to lumber.

Through their years of work with lumber grades and inspection, the Association inspectors knew how to fit Douglas fir into the whole range of structural requirements needed in replacing steel.

The West Coast has been able to assist the industry and government in reaching a fair adjustment of ceiling prices. This has been a none-too-pleasant change-over from the ways of peace to the controls of war. We just had to take it and like it. The role of the Association has been to supply facts, give the representatives of government an accurate understanding of economics of West Coast production; hold their confidence; and-thus help arrive at ceiling prices which work because they are fair. In this we have been measurably successful.

Our toughest war job, and it will get steadily tougher, is how to keep our mills and camps supplied with operating materials and equipment. In the West Coast office at Seattle and the office of the National.Association at Washington, other things are pushed aside to speed up priority ratings on the stuff we need to stay in production. This

Orford Cedar

Port

known cs Wbite Cedrr or Lcrsou Cyprere)

problem has constantly grown; and taken on new phaseslike rationing and priority in the use of tires. Before we are through, it will probably involve gasoline and fuel oils.

We have wearied the operators with requests for records and well-nigh impossible estimates of future requirements. We still don't begin to know all the answers.

This is the hardest problem that the war has brought to the lumber industry. The National Defense Committee, from all lumber regions, will meet in Chicago next Monday, to determine what joint action the entire industry can take-to maintain its operating facilities under the tightening restrictions and controls. As far as man power and personal effort count, this will be the first duty of the Association.

The War Job Ahead

All that the industry has done for National Defense so far is not a patch on what will be asked of us from now on. The latest word from Washington is that Defense construction will be greater in 1942 by 75 per cent. The Navy personnel will be nearly doubled; the land Army increased from two to three fold; the Air Force eventually quadrupled. Every type of construction project for Army, Navy and Air Corps will be required in increasing numberstroop housing, flying fields, naval bases, fortifications, shipyards, ammunition and supply depots, recreation centers. The migration of workers to Defense areas will increase and Defense housing will have to be stepped up beyond previous estimates. The immediate program is 40,000 more family dwellings by July 1; 16,000 of them on the Pacific Coast.

Priorities are likely to cover more lumber this year. They have been applied to ship decking, shipways and some orders for overseas. They are threatened on other items, like ponton stock, and also on the logs required to produce them.

No priorities can take the place of practical cooperation and willingness to meet a situation. That is why you getand will continue to get-appeals from the Association, to take care of some of these tough babies.

The plywood mills have given us a fine example of industry cooperation. To speed up deliveries of airplane Douglas fir for England, they have cooperated with the government in sele'cting from their stocks of peelers, the logs best adapted to produce airplane lumber. \&'e must be ready for more such practical coordination within the industry. ft is one of our contributions to the War.

Restrictions upon metals will greatly decrease the use of lumber in private building. Our old retail yard trade will dry up still more in 1942. Our market will turn largely to the specialized needs of war, including lumber fitted to take the place of steel, rather than the accustomed items of everyday building. There-in a nutshell-is the job cut out for the West Coast lumber industry and its Association in 1942.

For example, war needs are expected to take, this year, five billion feet of box and crating lumber. One of our fieldmen is working on ways and means whereby West Coast mills can "plug into" the cir'cuit of this enormous flowwhether as standard box grades or as cut stock or shook or finished boxes. When West Coast mills are again glutted with low grades this outlet for box and crating may be a means of balancing orders and maintaining full production. Certainly, we should develop it to the utmost.

The USA Specifications for Packing Boxes and Crating (5U62-4A) put West Coast hemlock and Douglas fir among Group II woods because of their' nailing characteristics. But any supplier may quote on Group II woods, whether called for in the particular specifications or not. It is desirable for West Coast mills to offer and keep offering our Group If species, as well as the spruce and White fir which are in Group I, in order constantly to emphasize their availability. It will not be long before all the box-making woods in the United States will be in demand.

Unbroken Cooperation with Retail Lumber Dealers

We should hold our lines of cooperation within the ranks of lumber. The Association will work as hard as ever, in 1942, with the retail distributors. Not only do we need a unified industry, ready to drive again for home building and other normal lumber markets when the war ends. The retail yards have an important place, right now, in Defense housing and other wartime construction. The government wants to turn Defense housing-as far as possible-into private channels of building and finance, working with the Federal Housing Administration.

Furthermore, while the trend in the use of critical materials is restricting private building, we know that the government wants to keep the maximum volume of smallhome and farm building going. Its policy is not likely to be frozen; it will be flexible and responsive to the actual supplies and relative needs for critical materials from month to month.

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\food-Preservers Meet in Minneapolis

Efficient distribution of treated lumber through retail lumber dealers in the Pacific southwest has developed the wood-preserving industry's finest home building market in the nation, the diversified uses committee of the American Wood-Preservers' Association told members at the group's 38th annual convention. This meeting, attended by over 200 executives, technologists and users of preservatively treated lumber, was held in Minneapolis from January 27 to D.

Reporting that retail and wholesale lumber distributors in the area carry complete stocks of treated lumber in standard sizes, in addition to the large stocks maintaincd at the treating plants, so that builders have the material on call, the committee declared in its report that treating costs are reasonable, and the competition among dealers for treated lumber business serves to maintain a fair retail price situation.

"In Southern California treated wood has become a standard material for residential construction," the committee said. "The building code requirement in Los Angeles affords protection to the building owner from losses due to decay and termites. These regulations are accepted and used for new construction outside the code area because of their protective advantages."

Considering problems of war-time production and the probable conditions after the war, Association members laid much stress upon (1) educating the home-owner to the value of good wood construction, (2) use of treated lumber as a substitute for structural steel, and (3) changing the specifications for fireproofed lumber to make a new product, now in growing demand, available for retail distribution.

The Association was urged to formulate action for the revision of fireproofing standards of wood. "At present, fireproofing specifications define product performance:' L. K. Andrews, a member of the technical staff of the Ameri. can Lumber & Treating Company, pointed out.

"If these specifications were changed to govern composition and retention of fireproofing agents, whereby a

lor development oI the P<rcilic Soulhwest rncrket lor prersure-kected lurnber.

finished product with known characteristics results, as in lvood treated to make it resistant to decay and termites, a market for the use of fireproofed lumber in ordnance plants, aircraft hangars, supply depots, railroad roundhouses, freight houses, bridges, construction scafiolding, mine timbering, garag'es, soap plants, paper mills and other construction where fire hazards arise would be open to wood," Mr. Andrews said.

The availability of salt preservatives and creosote may be affected to some extent during the coming year, Georgtt N4. Hunt, chief of the wood-preservation section of the U. S. Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, Wis., predicted.

Petroleum solutions of pentachlorphenol and of tetrachlor,phenol may be available to be used as preserviug agents to help the industry over the war period, if creosote pr<-r<luction should fail to meet needs.

Greensalt, a new salt preservative for poles, reported by cngineers of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, was described in reports by engineers of the organization. Poles treated with the new preservative were recommended for lines in urban areas where cleanliness is a requirement.

W. P. Conyers, Jr., Spartanburg, S. C., was elected president for the coming year.

L. K. Indrews, New York, (leli), and W. E. Hoyt, Los Angele:, (right), ol lhe Americcn Lumber d Trecrting Conpcrny, took cn crclive pcrrt in convention crllqirs. Mr. Hoyt is now in chcrrge ol the compcny's Lor lngeles ollice, and his orgcnization, logether with the other Weat Cocst wood-preserving compcniee, drew commendclion

George Gorman Passes On

George \,V. man, well knorvn Sarr Francisco Bay district lumberman, passed away at his home in Alameda, Calif., oll the morning of January 31, after an illness of about three months.

Pacific Tank & Pipe Company and Pacific Timber Fabricators. He rvas also a director of Port Orford Lumber Gor- Company.

Mr. Gorman took up flying again in 1934 and, flew his own plane many thousands of miles to save time on long business trips. Flying was also his main hobby until r:ecently when regulations grounded all private planes. He rvas president of the Encinal Yacht Club, Alameda.

He was one of the best liked men in the lumber business and will be greatly missed by a large circle of friends.

He was born in Multnomah County, near Portland, Oregon,47 years ago, and moved with his family to Edmonton, Alberta, where his father engaged in the machinery business. His first contact with the lumber business was when he sold machinery to \Mestern Canada sawmills as assistant to his father.

His business career was interrupted by World War I, when in l9l7 he joined the Royal Flying Corps, and after thorough training went to France in the spring of 1918 as a scout pilot with the rank of First Lieutenant. His experience there included much squadron and individual combat work over the enemy's territory. He was finally shot down in combat in August, 1918, and was a prisoner of war in Germany until the Armistice. Following the war he went into the aviation business as an exhibition and commercial flyer in Western Canada for a period of tr,l'o years.

In 1922 he retired from active flying and returned to the United States. He became associated with the Whitney' Lumber Company at Garibaldi, Oregon, and later came to California as this company's Northern California sales representative. When this concern was merged with the Hammond Lumber Company in l92V he joined the Hammond organization as salesman, became assistant sales marlager, and in 1932 succeeded the late Henry Faull as sales manager. at the San Francisco office.

He went into business for himself in 1935 in San F'rancisco and moved his headquarters later to Oakland. He was president of the Gorman Lumber Company, and of Gorman Lumber Sales Company, which operated the

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. N{arion Ide Gorman, and three children, William, John and Virginia; three brothers, John A. and Anthony J. of Alameda, and l\fervyn Gorman of Chicago, Ill.; and three sisters, Miss Nlary Adele Gorman of Alameda, Mrs. Rosemary Gaboury and idrs. Helen Cashman of Edmonton, Canada.

Funeral services were held on Monday, February 2, at St. Joseph's Church, Alameda. The attendance included a large number of lumbermen.

Arthur B. Shelby

Arthur Byron Shelby, 57, vice-president of the Calaveras Cement Company, San Francisco, died suddenly at his home in Piedmont, Calif., on February 1.

A native of Dallas, Texas, Mr. Shelby was already known as one of the West's leading authorities on cement when he came to San Francisco in1927 to take the position which he held at the time of his passing.

He was a member of the Athenian Nile Club of Oakland, the Sequoyah Country Club, Stock Excha.nge Club and Engineers Club of San Francisco, and was active also in Masonic circles

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Josephine Smith Shelby, and three sisters.

Mrs. Annie M. Kelley

Mrs. Annie M. Kelley passed a.way in San Francisco on February 5, at the age of 90.

She was a pioneer resident of San Francisco, having lived there for 60 years.

Mrs. Kelley .was the mother of Albert A. Kelley, sales manager of Santa Fe Lumber Company, San Francisco. Also surviving are four daughters, Mrs. R. G. Ipswitch, Mrs. Mae Mueller, Mrs. Dorothy Webb and Mrs. Barbara Blas, and another don, James P. Kelley.

Funeral services were held on Monday, February 10, at St. Vincent de Paul's Church. San Francisco.

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

POSITION WANTED

Wholesale and retail lumberman with twenty-one years' experience in Southern California-managing, purchasing and selling. Middle aged and in good healttr- Would like interview. Can furnish references.

Address Box C-930, California Lumber Merchant, 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles.

FOR SALE

No. 108 Berlin Sticker, 15 inch x 8 inch with 40 H. P. Motor-A-l condition. Price $1500.

Address Box 89, San Mateo, Calif.

POSITION WANTED

Lumberman with 16 years' experience as assistant manager and manager in California desires position. Will go anywhere. Address Box C-931, California Lumber Merchant, 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles.

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Therefore, the Association will carry right on its Home Foundations and other forms of cooperation with the retail lumber dealers. We will, of course, adapt our cooperative efforts to the realities and practical opportunities; but we will not relax our effort to back up in every possible direction the frontline salesmen of our products.

All Out for the War

The West Coast lumber industry has a good record for its year of National Defense. When Donald Nelson and Leon Henderson asked our mills to do everything possible for greater production, the cut of West Coast lumberwas stepped up to 15 and, fr per cent over the maximum rated capacity of the industry. That was done largely by overtime operation, at wages and one-half.

With rare exceptions, our deliveries of Defense lumber were made last year on time. There was practically no complaint from government representatives on this score. When the outbreak of war in the Pacific threw all manner of unforeseen demands upon the Army and Navy, our mills came through on the emergen'cy orders required to fill transports overnight. We have gained the confidence and appreciation of the government lumber buyers. We havc helped them out of many tough spots.

Now, shorn of heroics and generalities, brought down to everyday lumbering, just what do we mean by All Out for the War? It means such things as these:

Getting Defense orders out on the day they are needed, whatever operation at overtime wages that may take.

Standing ready to wire or telephone an offer, at the market, to any Defense agency, for emergency lumber needs. The Army and Navy will have to do a lot of overnight buying, when there is little time to discuss specifications and no time to take bids in the usual way.

FOR SALE

Chevrolet Truck-perfect condition-roller body reinforced with heavy duty bed. Heavy duty tires. Will handle 6 tons nicely. Holmes Lumber Co.,74l Camino Real, I{errnosa Beach, Phone Redondo 6130.

YARD MANAGER WANTS POSITION

Man with twenty years' experience as lumber yard manager in San Joaquin Valley desires position. Also expert auditor. Can furnish good references. Address Box C-932 California Lumber Merchant, 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles.

LUMBER YARDS FOR SALE

We have a number of gobd yards in Southern California for sale. Twohy Lumber Co., Lurnber Yard Brokers, 801 Petroleum Building, Los Angeles. Telephone PRospect 8746.

Working our logs and stock piles for the tough specifications which the government needs. Finding 1200-lb. and 1400-lb. timbers, required for a structure originally designed in steel, instead of g the No. I cutting we would prefer to ship. Getting out ponton plank for the engineers; wide vertical grain boards for the mosquito boats of the Navy; long keel timbers for auxiliary water craft; and, of course, every foot of aircraft spruce that careful workmanship can find in the log.

Any of these things may raise h- with orderly protiuction or with costs or with the established trade which any manufacturer is jealous to preserve. But we are at war, gentlemen. These are the things, along with heavy taxes and Defense Bond subscriptions and extra fire precautions in our wood-that we have to take. It is our mild counterpart of what the boys on the shooting fronts have to take; and we will not let them down.

The Association will do its best to meet the day-by-day war problems of. 1942; to have the West Coast lumber industry intelligently understood and fairly dealt with by the war agencies. But our slogan will be, first and foremost, that Defense jobs must go through.

May I offer that slogan for the entire industry? The lumbermen of the Pacific Northwest have a special and distinctive part in this war. It aiises from the character and quality of our timber and our industrial processes. We can make things here that no other lumber region of the United States can produce. As the war drains our natural resources of aluminum anrn copper and steel, the West Coast is in the best position to meet the emergency. We can do it by drawing upon not only our marvelous raw material but upon our craftsmanship, our skilled labor, our technology. Let us all say: "Give us the tough specifications; send us more Japs."

BT]YBB9S GI]IDB SAN 3BANOISOO

LUMBER

Arcata Rcdwood Co' -' -A--fr";:trct s-tti t ................Yukoo 205?

Atkirm-Stutz CompuY, -*lu-fu;k"t sG;t ;.-...'........ "GAricH rd'e

'%?";*i*"se-5*.*:......."o-t .r.t

Dut & Ru*ll. lnc;--lil-fi*i-5it"* 'GArioH e2ez

o"t?fi; t "?snltHH"ff"""r-...'suttcr 2156

Gancrrton & Grscttt -*iiid .l'-v 3a;*..................'Atwat.' l3oo

Hdl. Jmcr '-*i'oiitrirlt.L.blda.......... " " " " " "'sUttor 752r

Hatllnu Mrc|rb Cc' Ld- "-r!i s.i,ilIstt it.:......-...........rxtusbt re'r

""Til"ii.*f;#S, ?.ffiI:..... Dousra! 3oss

Hobbr Wdl hnbc Co' ---2s50' .totold Avcnuc" " " " " " " "MI*io t0fl

Holmcr Eurcka Lumbcr Co.' '-'iffi -Fi;"t"t-cc"t r niag....'. "GArficld l92l

C. b. Jotrnron Lumber CorDoratlon' -' iGi -d;ii;r" stt*t.....-.......' :'GArdGld 625t

Carl H. Kuhl Lumbcr Go., -*b. L.-ii:"i."-' iii u"it"t stret"'YuLon l'60

LUMBER

LUMBER

Luon.BouinStm Company' is califomia strct.-....-...........GArficld 6$r

MacDonald & Hani4lo!' Ltd- - 16 califo;ia sL :.........- -......GAricld t393

Pacific Lubs Co.' Thc - --ioo ausb Strci.... -. -.....'.......GArfieH rrEr

Popc & Talboq lnc- Lunfc Dtvlrim' - --ltr--Muket' Streit.................DOu91$ 256l

Red River Lumbcr Co.' - -3is Monadnoc} 816g...............GArncld 0922

Santa Fe Lunbcr Co.t to Cattfomla Strcci................E:(brEL 2071

Schafcr Brcc. Lunbor & ShlnSL Cq I Drumm Str.ct.....................guttc tzl

Shevlin Pinc Saler Co. 1030 Monadnock Blds..'.......".Exbntoh ?04r

Sudden & Chrirtmon' 310 Sssn Strci......'......'..GAraeld 2E{6

Union Lumbcr CoCrocke Butldi'ng ...'...........'...Suttcr 6170

Wmdling-Nathan Co.t f fl MarL.t Str..t -...................SUttcr 5363

Wcet Oregon Lunrber Co.' f905 Eianr Avc. ........,.........ATwatcr 567t

E. K. Wood Lubc Co, - i p.um Strct...............'...Exbrook 3?r'

OAIILANI)

Eweua Bq Co. (Pvrend Lunbor Sglc Co')- " p".n" ndi. .'..:.'............ " "GL.Gn@rt Ee&l

Gucreton & Grcn' -*i;-i'tt .l"L (lir Ava Ptc)"""Hlsat' 22s5

Gomu Lmbcr Co.t -'il!i Ti?*"tcr Avcnuc.'.""""Al{dovs lrr

Hillr.& rtforotrlnc"wh.rf..,,........ANdovcr lo?it

t"rfr T-i:l?ssill:.......'...ct Gncourt 6t6r

*trltFil*Hli"t"ff; Brdg... " "rwtnoakr 31oc

* Fl"H* "iTlf,I"tru.........FRuitvat' 0u2

Weycrhrcur 9dor Got - -ils ialif"-ia strcci..... " " " " "GArneld t97r

HARDWOODS AND PANEI.S

Whitc Brcthcrs. '' Fltt ud Brunan Strcct!..........Suttcr 1355

SASH-DOORS-PLYWOOD

Whelcr Ocgood Sater Corporatimr " 3M5 rgtf, Street..'........... " "'VAlcncia ?2ll

CREOSOTED LUMBER_POLESiPTLING-TIES

$J;"'rn:*!:::... srr*Gr r22s

Baxrcr. J. H. & Co. --rri' M*tg*..y Stret'.. "......DOuglar 3tt3

Hall. Jancr L., ----rbrz uilr Btag.....'.................SUttcr ?520

Vuds Lau PilihS & L|qb6 Co. - aC p-l* Stt-t -....'....:.........'E {bTEL l90t

PAN ELS-DOORS-SASH-SCRT ENS

Califomia Buildcrr SupPlY Co. --io6--lir 4"""uc...1..................Hfuetc llc

Hosu Lmbs CmPUY' ---atd &-Alcc Stt.itr... ...........Gloourt ltol

W.3tm Dor & Sarh C'a.' -'-ii[--e ciit"fi sttccrc.-.... '. 'TEmplcbar tlrr

HARDWOODS

Whltc Brcthcrr, -' -S|e ftigf Sircct..'............... "ANdovcr 160l

LOS ANGBLBS

LUMBER o*"1?r*f.[#,.-ii*. i....T:l....wEbrtor ?r2r

Anslo Calilomla Lumbcr Co

655 East Florcne lvenuS"""THomwall 3lll

Atklnsn-Stutz ComPanY, ^-&j;-F"i;6n- Iiiag.'. i "' "'PRoqDGGt {3rr

Burnr Lunbs ComPanY'

9455 Chuleville Blvd. til*;iEiii;i ..'.'....'..."eRadshas 2'3iltt otf dr;h';'S;"*-TB'ff l' "***, *, *ffii#'*koel' Blds. .....'......Mutual a3r

Dant & Ruscll, lnc.' --'iiz-e. sorh sL...'.................'.ADur tlol

*t$i"toSt-tsrlJTilL.*:.......vAndnrc E?ez

"ff##."?bh*............rRrnrtv !6{l

"*ililoulti#""!'3lTl'......."Rosp.cr &B

LUMBER

"%.**J"3ihif*"tHiY..?li:ir;... *'

Rcd Rivcr Lmber Cor ----7o7-e. Slaurcn......:.............. qEn$rv 290?r ioirJ. stoaawav......'..........PRolpct o:lu

Rcitz Co.. E. L- ----rss - F.trel"fui 81ds............... PRoepct 23dl

Rocboro Lunbcr Co. ---ia, -So Otdrsc Dr|vc.............W'fmins nt'

Su Pedrc Lumbcr Co., --rsis -s. Ccntral Avc-.......... "Rlcbnond l11l

Suta Fc Lunbcr Co.' --iir -rl"-*itrt Cetcr Btds..'.....VAndike 147t

Schafcr Broc. Lunbc & Shilgb Co-- ,-- - -tti W 9th Strrt....................TRh|tv {27r

Shevlin Ptne Salcr Cor ---sgo Petrclcun 81di........ -..-..'PRospcct 0615

Suddcn & Chrirtcnon. ---osC Bdia of rradi Bldg...........TRinitv EE44

Taoma Lmbc Salea, ---s3i P"tt l""- Btds. ..............PRoepct ll0t

Union Lumbq Co- ---at w. M. ctrLnd Btdc. ..........TRbiw zzEz

Wcndling-Nathan Co. " -lzzs -wlcbite 81id................. "' York 1166

HARDWOODS

Ansican Hardmd Coo --iiaaE. -nd strect ................PRilD'd las Cadwallader-Gibrcn Co, Inc *-ii6't.' oli-pi-" bi;a.....".....'.ANsclur lllrl Stiltotr. E. J. & Son' ---iisc' e"it -3stu strcit ..........'.cEnturv 29zu \ festen Hardwood Lunbcr Co.' '- -261r il rith strct............'..PRorp*t 616l

SASH-DOORS-MIIIWORK

PANEI-S AND PLYWOOD

Califomia Dor ComPanY, Thc -*iiit'blir'tit -Btva. : :............KIDbdl zrn catiromia. "mi" "€ff.T. ?:........or,," *, Cobb Co.' T. M.'---isoo-t.ntt t'Avcnuc............. "ADs3 ulu

Eubanl & Son. Inc., L. H. (Inglcwod) -*lis-f. R;i*l$' Btvd... :...-...' .oRegon 6'1666

Kochl. Jno. W. & Son' --l;i 3; Mv;s Sticr..'....'."""'ANgelu 6rel

Mutual Mouiding & hnbcf, Co, --iim -So. HoJpcr Avc.............L/Urvcttc l9ZZ

Orceon-Waghington PlYwood Co' -- -iu wi"i iliinth Si"e.t............TRinitv 1613

Hobbc Wal| Lumbcr Co'

'--6zs i6;; bnc..... :............'..TRinitv 50t6

Holmcr Eurcka Lubcr Co. ''"'?iilzr7-frrul-tctr Bldg. .'. Mutual grtr

Hover. A. L- ---si:-d Wil.-litc Btvd.' .'.... " " " " " "York 1166

C. D. Johnon Lunbcr Cornpration' -- -- 6rt - F;at"t"- Stdg......'..'.....PRotpct u65

t"*#F;*illH ""ff:..?:. .....pRo3pccr ru{

Wect Oregon Luber Cot -'lZz - Fe]ttdem Blds.. :........... Rlchnond 02El

W. 11r. Willimn' '' - sii W. 9th Siret. .TRinitv 46il3

E. K. Wood Lumber Cot -- lzbr Smt" Fe Avenui...........'JEffanon 3lll

Weverhaeuser Saler Co.

--szo W. M. Gulmd 81ds........'Mlchigan 635{

Pacific Wod Producl! Corporatior' ' --*lit itil'; siret..'..........'...AI.buv 0rrt

Pacific Mutual Dor Co.' - --G00 E. Wachington 81vd...... ..PRospGGt 9523

Ream Compuv, G@. E.' --zgs S. Al"ii"d" Stre;t......'.....Mlchigu rts'

Rad Rlvq Luba Co.' ----?0t E. Slaumn....'................CErturv 29c71

*-F.i-tann Buitdlni ...............PRocpGd 3r?

MacDonald & Hantnlton, Ltd.

Paclfic Lumber Co., Thc, - --iizs -fiiJri* Blvd. .'...... " ' " ' "York rl6t

Patten Blinn Lumbcr Co.'

- --aii E. lilr Strct.'...-.............VAndikc 2321

CREOSOTED LUMBER-POIJS_PILINGTIES

:'i...pRo.Fcr 1363

Butcr. J, H. & Co.' ior' Wect Srh Stict.'........'...Mlchigu 629{

Smocon Co. (Paradena), ---?;i s---Riv-md A'ic.........PYranld l'2rlr

West Coast Scren Co., -- - rili-i. dtrd Stret'.'......'......ADamt lult

Whels Oagood Salcs Corporatlon' - - - " -itt's.-Fl;; Stret......... ".. ..VAndikc 632c

*i['ffl'."H:$*:;:::'.'::.

'--JRoFlT piiintTERs

^ It ls evldent that certaln types.of home_bullding will be restricted during 1942. 9o fh" other hand-, we can expeciin increased votumioi construction in other fields. rrealers wlro see these new-opportun_ities, and develop them aggressively, will keep abreast of changing condittons-to their bwn profit! We at HafiimonA #&come tn'i opportunity to be helpful to you.

PROFIT POINTER No.4 FARN BU'TD'NGS PRO FIT POINTER

No. 5 FARil lcctssoRrfs

PROFIT POINTER

No. 6 HO NE ITPROVETTENTS

The slo!,an, "Food Will Wln the War, t t means increased pro- duction of maJor farm commodltles. The needf orexpanded farm facilltles-plus a greater farm income-is a combination that should mean more buelness for the dealer. Wlth ite lont ltfe and low cost-peryear of oervice, Diamond-H Redwood ts ae thrtfty an inveatment as your customera cgn make.

Expanslon ln farm operatlons requireo new or enlarged acceesories made from lumbersuch ae llvestock waterlng troughs and feed racks, poul- try-housing faclllties, fences and countless other lteme. When you submlt esthnatee for construction ln whlch long life and weather-reslstance are such important factors, you will save money for your customer by speclfying DlamondH Redwood.

Wlth r€strictions on conaumer toods and on the use of prlvate cafs, many home owners with money to spend wtll be in the market for such home and garden irnprovemente as decorativC fences, garden and barbeque f-urnlture, lath housee and garder,r equlpment storage. They will appreciate your recommendation of Diamond-H Redwoodfornatural, lastlng beau ty and durabllity.