The California Lumber Merchant - February 1944

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THE CALIFOR}.IIA LUMBERMERCFTANT

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How lrumber lroolrs

Lumber shipments of 473 mills reportiug to the National L,umber Trade Barometer were 5.2 per cent above production {or the week ended January 29, L944. In tl.re sanre week new orders of these mills were 9.2 per cent greater than production. Unfilled order files of the reporting mills amounted to 104 per cent o{ stocks. For reporting softwood mills, unfilled orders are equivalent to 38 days' production at the current rate, and gross stocks are equivalent to 33 days' produciion.

For the year to date, shipments of reporting identical mills exceeded production by 5.2 per cent; orders by tl.2 per cent.

Compared to the average corresponding week of 1935-39, production of reporting mills was 67.9 per cent greater; shipments were 50.2 pet cent greater; and orders were 40.0 per cent greater.

The Western Pine Association for the rveek ended January 22,701 mills reporting, gave orders as 56,321,000 feet, shipments 65,174pm feet, and production 54,490,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 334.550.000 feet.

The Southern Pine ary 29,84 units (138 Association for the week ended Janumills) reporting, gave orders as 23,-

708,000 feet, shiprnents 975,040 feet. Orders on 137.544.@O feet.

19,011,000 feet, and production 18,hand at the end of the week totaled

The California Redwood Association reported production of twelve operdtions for the month of December, 1943, as 32,674,m0 feet, shipments 32,303,000 feet and orders received 52,706,W feet. Orders on hand at the end of the month totaled t52,289,000 feet.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week. ended January 22 reported orders as 128,563,000 feet, shipments 127,262,N0 feet, and production 121,428,@A feet.

For the week ended January 29 orders were reported as 138,763,000 feet, shipments 120,272,000 feet, and production 122.813.000 feet.

Attends Meeting in Wcshingrton

W. F. (Bill) Fahs, manag'er of the California Panel & Veneer Co., Los Angeles, returned February 1 from a two weeks' eastern trip to Washington, D. C., New York ancl Chicago.

He attended a meeting in Washington, February 21, ol the Plywood Distributors Advisory Comrnittee, of which he is a member.

Why Not Sty "I'LL TRY"

When You THINK You Can't Supply

Your customer is YOUR customer beccruse you hcrve sold him in the pcrst on your crbility to look qlter his needs. Todcy, he knows thcrt vcrious mctericls cre either hcrrd to obtcrin or not cvcilcble-yet he still comes to you lor crssistcnce. He has conlidence in the lcct that iI you don't have it in stock, you'll, at lecrst, try to get it lor him or suggest some crlternative. With conditions changing from dcy to dcy-whcrt wcs true yesterdcry, might not hold true, tomorrow. So, instecd of pcrinting cr blcck picture to your customer when he wcrnts something you ccn't supply-why not tell him you'll try. He'll cpprecicrte your interest crnd you'll keep his conlidence.

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South ern California Dealers Hold \(/ar Industry Conf erence in Los Angeles

falks on Postwar Planning Feature of Program

The Lumbermen's War Conference of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association was held February 10 and 11 at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles. There was a large and representative attendance of dealers, and Secretary-Manager Orrie W. Hamilton received many expressions of appreciation for tl-re entertaining and instructive program which he provided.

Thursday Morning

The morning was devoted to registration.

Luncheon

H. Park Arnold, president of the Association, presicled and introduced W. W. (Dick) Spear, Hammond Lumber Co., Canoga Park, Calif., master of ceremonies.

Mr. Spear in his remarks paid a tribute to Jack Dionne, publisher of The California Lumber Merchant. for the quality of his "Vagabond Editorials" and his helpful philosophy.

Kenneth Smith, president of the California Redwood Association, San Francisco, introduced Jack Dionne, who delivered the keynote address.

The attendance at the luncheon was 235. Door prizes were awarded as follows: $5.00 War Stamps, W. E. Hoyt, American Lumber & Treating Co., Los Angeles; $10.00 War Stamps, Ray Klots, Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., Los Angeles; $25.00 War Bond, per,cy Bruner, Burbank Lumber Co.. Burbank.

Thursday Afternoon

President H. Park Arnold presided. called the convention to order at 2;15, and extended greetings to the large gathering of dealers.

The $25.0O War Bond door prize was awarded to C. P. Kellogg, Rossman Mill & Lumber Co., San Pedro.

The Question and Answer Forum occupied the close attention of the audience for an hour and a quarter. Mr. Arnold was chairman, and the panel consisted of George B. Carpenter, Administrator of Limitation Order L-218, Portland; Col. W. B. Greeley, Secretary-Manager, West Coast Lumbermen's Association, Seattle; Kenneth Smith, San Francisco; H. R. (Cotton) Northup, Secretary-Manager, National Retail Lumber Dealers Asso,ciation, Washington, D. C.; Percy Meritherv, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and Orrie W. Hamilton, Secretary-Manager, Southern California Retail Lumber Association. Los Angeles.

Many questions, mainly pertaining to the interpretation of Government orders and regulations, were asked and answered. ft was brought out clearly by members of the panel that lumber is the most critical material required for the war effort, and that there is no hope for additional lumber being made available for civilian trade until a definite turn comes in the war.

"War Lumber Requirements" was the subject discussed by Mr. Carpenter, who said he welcomed the opportunity of answering the questions asked from the floor. Those who asked questions included the following: J. A. Privett, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles; J. A. Thomas, Thomas Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Connie Ganahl, C. Ganahl Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Charles Bonestel, Peoples Lurnber Co., Ventura; E. C. Parker, Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Dick Emerson, Santa Ana Lumber Co., Santa Ana; A. E. Rogers, Hyde Park Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Clint Laughlin, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles.

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and noor show at the Biltmore Bowl, at which there was a large attendance of lumbermen and their ladies.

Friday Morning

President Arnold presided. Everett C. Parker was chairman.

The door prize winners were: C. C. Cashwell, Building Material Dealers Credit Association, Los Angeles, $5.00 War Stamps; D. M. Bufkin, California Redwood Association, I-os Angeles, $10.00 War Stamps; Gerald V. Curran, Curran Bros., Pomona, $25.00 War Bond.

Dr. Vervon Orval Watts, Ph.D., economic counsel, Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, addressed the convention on "Do We Want Free Enterprise ?" The speaker was introducd by Kenneth Smith.

Col. W. B. Greeley in his talk on the "Home Planning fnstitute" expressed the hope that this plan will be extended tltroughout the country. Everett C. Parker introduced the speaker

Hoo-Hoo Luncheon

There was an attendance of 219 at the luncheon in the Biltmore Bowl, sponsored by Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club No. 2. Vicegerent Snark Dee Essley 'ivas master of ceremonies.

Dr. Herbert E. Harris of Whittier, introduced by C. W. Pinkerton, gave a most interesting talk on "Cooperation."

Door prizes were awarded to Harry McGahey, San Diego Lumber Co., San Diego, $5.00 War Stamps; M. A. Alexander, Paramount Pictures, Inc., Hollywood, $10.00 War

Stamps; Ed Mason, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, $25'oo \\tar Bond'

Friday Afternoon

President Arnold presided. Lathrop Leishman, Crown City Lumber & Mill Co., Pasadena, was chairman.

"Your Future Is In Your Hands," was the title of a talk by Kenneth Smith, who was introduced by George Lounsberry, Lounsberry & Harris, Los Angeles.

H. R. "Cotton" Northup's address was entitled "How Things Look From the National Capital." IIe was introduced by Paul Hallingby, Hammond Lumber Co', Los Angeles.

Dr. Fredric P. Woellner spoke on "Ten Certainties for 1944."

Door prizes were won by A' C. I\{esselheiser, Dill Lumber Co., Hemet, Calif ., $5.00 War Stamps; Herrick E. Schnur, Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., Riverside, $10'00 War Stamps; George E. Howard, Jr., Whiting-Mead Co., Los Angeles, $25.00 War Bond.

The conference adjourned at 4:30 p.m.

C. L. lsted Retires--W. H. Myers

Appoint ed General Manager

P. V. Eames, president of The Shevlin-Hixon Company, Minneapolis, announces the retirement of C' L. Isted as general manag'er of its operations at Bend, Ore., which position he helcl for more than eighteen years. Ill health has made it necessary for Mr. Isted to ask to be relieved from active duty after serving the company and affiliated companies for over forty years.

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New Revenue Bill Sent to President

\Mashington, D. C., Feb. S.-Both the House and Senate completed congressional a'ction on the new Revenue Bill, including the Bailey Amendment, on February 7, and it was sent to President Roosevelt' (Editor's note: An article on the Bailey Amendment, relating to Forest Tax Reforms, appears on page 17 of this issue.)

Let fate do her worst; there are relics of joy, Bright dreams of the past which she cannot destroy; Which come in the night-time of sorrow and care, And bring back the features that joy used to wear. Long, long be my heart with such memories filled, Like the vase in which roses have once been distilled: You may break-you may shatter the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang around it still. * * * -tnomasMoore.

Friends, if some of the stuff I write today sounds a bit screwy-please overlook it. I've been trying to read one of these income tax blanks. If you've tried it, you'll understand. ***

The story of the creation of the world, told in Genesis uses just 400 words. The world's greatest moral code, the Ten Commandments, contains 297 words. The Gettysburg Address of Lincoln required but 266 words. But if you owe Uncle Sam ten bucks for your last year's income tax you'ie going to have to try and figure the meaning of enough words to write all the above and throw in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. Such, dear friends, is bureaucracy in bloom.

Mention of.the cettysbrirg I,uJ.."" reminds me that February 12th was Lincoln's birthday. February 22nd, of, course, will be Washington's. Two pretty fair sized human souls those two were, wouldn't you say? The Gettysburg Address, written long hand on a bit of brown wrapping paper by Lincoln as he rode the train toward Gettysburg, is considered far and away the champion all-time American oration'

But it was not a flash in the pan, as far as the author was concerned. Lincoln was given to inspired and lofty eloquence that evidenced itself many times during his lifetime. There are authorities who think the simple farewell address to his friends in Springfield when he was leaving for Washington, was even more sublime than the one at Gettysburg. Witness the rolling granduer of these words and thoughts: ***

"No one, not in my situation, can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting. To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century and have passed from a young to an old man. Ifere my children have been born, and one is buried. f now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me greater than that which

rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of the Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid Ior*"r afrectionate farewell."

John Ruskin, the great thinker, thoroughly diagnosed the greatness of men of the Lincoln type, when he said: 'The first test of a truly great man is his humility. Really great men have a feeling that greatness is not IN them, but THROUGH them, and they see something divine in every other man, and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful." It was no doubt the Christ-like humility of Lincoln that has caused every world scholar of the last generation to list him among the few greatest men who ever figured in the tide of times. Vanity, egotism, arrogance, and jealousy of other men-those weaknesses so much in evidence in our big men of today-were utterly lacking in Lincoln.

One of Lincoln's famous remarks on economics was: "Let not him who is homeless pull down the house of another, but let him labor diligently to build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own will be safe from violence. I take it that it is best for all to leave each man acquire property as fast as he can. f don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good." I take it that Lincoln would not have agreed that the way to make a land rich and happy is to take away from one man and give to another the things for which the first man has labored

Washington was and will always be "the father of his country''; 'lfirst in peace, first in war, and first in the hearts of his countrymen" as "Lighthorse" Harry Lee (the father of Robert E. Lee) so marvelously said. He was a great man, a GREAT man, and you c:rn keep right on saying that over and over to yourself. When his country needed him he gave to her every ounce of his strength, devotion, and magnificent leadership. And when the emergency ended he went back to his people and his home, denying all declarations of ,his people that he was an "irreplaceable man." He knew this to be a great nation, even in its infancy; and he knew that God would provide men of wisdom and devotion to take up where he left off. Which was one of the chief proofs of his greatness. No man can be truly great in whom the power-lust holds sway.

Washington was a man who made few speeches, and (Continued on Page 10)

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(Continued from Page 8) when he had one to make he made it brief, to the point, and thoroughly illuminating the subject at hand. He was not an orator. But he was a grand thinker-aloud. When he said farewell to his officers on July 4th, 1783, they filed past him and each shook his hand. Washington's eyes were filled with tears. No word was spoken. And then, when the time came, he uttered these brief and unaffected words: "With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you. I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable." *

Right after Bunker Hill Washington wrote to a friend in England: "I.}re Americans will fight for their liberties and property. Unhappy it is to refect that a brother's sword has been sheathed in a brother's breast, and that the once happy and peaceful plains of America are either to be drenched in blood or inhabited by slaves. Strange alternative! But can a virtuous man hesitate in his choice?" ***

One of the greatest speeches in American history was made by an Englishman, Lord Chatham, a great admirer of Washington. In a debate in the }fouse of Lords in England the subject of the then developing battle between the new United States and the mother country, he orated: "Were I an American, as I am an Englishman, I would never lay down my arms !

Never ! Never !"

May I interject the personal remark just at this point that much reading of their mutual history proves to me that British and Americans sort of enjoy fighting together. They've been doing it for nigh onto two centuries, now. Sometimes they fight sturdily, shoulder to shoulder. And then again they fight manfully, face to face. But whether fighting for or against one another, they have never at any time lost their mutual respect. I like that thought. Socially, and in peace times, we don't enjoy each other's company much. Be honest. You know that's so. But when the "front o'battle lowers," as Burns said, we get along mighty well together. Which is fortunate for both-and for the world'

A little more about Washington. (Forgive me for being a hopeless hero-worshipper, but I can't help it. I could spend a day proving that Washington was a greater

man than Lincoln; and then spend the next day with ab solute sincerity, proving that it was Lincoln who was the titan.) When Washington returned to Mount Vernon after the war ended, he wrote a letter to that great Frenchman, Lafayette, which said in part: "At length I am become a private citizen, and under the shadow of my own vine and fig tree, far from the bustle of a camp and the busy scenes of public life, I am solacing myself with those tranquil enjoyments of which the soldier can have little conception. Envious of none, I am determined to be pleased with all. And this, my friend, being the order of my march, I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers." True greatness speaks for itself. It needs no debate. This man had it:-mountain high.

At the time of t i" a".ti i""lrrr*.on owned 124 slaves, yet he did not believe in slavery. He had written Robert Morris "there is no man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery." So, you see, these two great men of the month of February, thought alike on that score. His will provided that at the death of his wife, the slaves should all be freed. When she learned of his will, she set thena free immediately. The dying words of Washington were: "It is well." A fitting epitaph. Because of his life and deeds, the words, "It is well," came to apply to the greatest nation in the world, which he did so much to create.

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I am going to close with two short stories of Lincoln; two priceless ones. The wife of one of Mosby's men (Mosby the guerrilla leader) came to Lincoln to pray for the life of her husband, who was captured and under sentence of death. FIe commuted the sentence. Whereat her tears flowed so freely and her emotions were so violent that Lincoln said to her: "Madam, if you don't go away I'll be crying with you." Another woman, the mother of a soldier who had been found asleep at his sentry post and sentenced to death, came to Lincoln and plead for her son's life. He sent a wire to the officer in charge of the prison where the boy was: "Suspend execution until further orders from me." Still the mother was deeply worried. It looked like just a suspension of sentence. When she expressed her fears to Lincoln, he smiled that sad smile, and said: "Madam, if he lives until I give orders for his execution, he'll be here at the judgment day."

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The papers carried a story recently about the young soldier home on furlough who heard some folks kicking about taxes, and who smilingly remarked: "You folks don't know what taxes are, yet. Wait until we twelve million service men start getting our pensions."

And that recalled one of the grand old stories of the Civil War. Two old veterans, one of the Union and the other the Confederate army, got to talking about the Civil War. They fought it all over again, step by step, but, while the debate waxed hot it nevertheless remained friendly. Finally the Union vet used that good old clincher:

Refurns To Wqshington

Stuart Smith, in charge of the Western Softwoods Section of the Lumber Branch, Office of Price'Administration, Washington, D. C., left for the East on February 13 following a three weeks' business trip on the Pacific Coast.

"Well, John, w6 won the war, didn't we?"

The old Confederate thought that over for a minute, and then said:

"Yes, you did. But according to the records you comc mighty nigh to losing it."

The other wanted to know:

"What records you talking about?"

The veteran in grey said:

"The federal pension records. According to them records every man in the Union army must have GONE HOME WOUNDED.''

Cclifornia Visitor

W. R. Morris, eastern sales manager, IJnion Lumber Company, with headquarters in New York, has been a recent visitor at the .company's head office in San Francisco, the mill at Fort Bragg, Calif., and the Los Angeles office.

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IEST WE FORGET!

Born February 22, 1732, he was the first president of the United States, also the first leader of the armies of the United States.

FIe was presiding officer of the convention that framed the Constitution.

Buy that extra War Bond, and help preseroe the Freedom he Fouqht For.

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Retires for the Duration

B. W. (Bobby) Byrne, secretary of the Western Hardwood Lumber Company at Los Angeles, resigned his position on I)ecember l5 and has retirecl for the duration. He was witl, the company thirtythree years, and served as secretary for over twentvfive years.

Douglcrs Fir Plyvrood Advisory Committee Appointed

Appointment of a five-man Douglas Fir Manufacturers Industry Advisory Committee-to consult with the Office of Price Administration whenever pricing problems arise within the industry-was announced today by OPA.

The members are:

Clay Brown, vice-president, IJ. S. Plyu,'ood York City.

E. W. Daniels, president, Harbor Plywood quiam, Wash.

Thomas B. Malarkey, vice-president, M. and M. Woodu'orking Co., Portland, Ore.

B. W. Byrne he plans an extended rvhere they will visit Jersey.

Bobby is widely known in lumber circles on the Pacific Coast. He has ju;t completed a month's trip to the Northwest, going as far as Vancouver, B. C.. where he. called on many of his lumbertuen friends. About March 1,

trip E4st, together with Mrs. Byrne, his relatives in New York and New

He has alu'ays been active in Hoo-Hoo, and is a former Vi,cegerent Snark of the Los Angeles district. His two sons are connected with the lumber business, George C. Byrne, salesman for the Western Hardwood Lumber Company, and B. W. Byrne, Jr., who operates a plant manufacturing custom milhvork at Hawthorne, Calif.

Stcrte Board ol Forestry Meets

Sacramento, Feb. 3-W. S. Rosecrans of Los Attgeles was elected chairman of the State Board oi Forestry as the'board, recently reorganized by Governor Warren, uret for the first time since the change to discuss general California forestry problems. Wendell Robie of Auburn was selected as vice chairman.

The other members of the board are Kenneth R. Walker, Westwood; J. J Pendergast, Redlands; Frank W. Reynolds, Ukiah; Domingo l{arrison, Santa Paula, and Roderick McArthur.

J. R. Robinson, president, Robinson Manufacturing Everett, Wash.

Herman Tenzler, president, Northr,r'est Door Co., Tacoma, Wash.

Tough, laminated Douglas fir plywood board, produced in undisclosed millions of feet annually, is used in the manufacture of the famous Liberty ships and auxiliary naval vessels, also in airplanes, war housing, barracks, huts and other military buildings, lifeboats, barges and landing craft, boxes and crates for ammunition, engine and aircraft parts and ordnance items and other military needs.

l\fanufacturing plants of the Douglas fir plywood industry are located in Oregon and Washington.

The five members of the committee, OPA said, have served informally as an advisory group to OPA since 1941, when price control began. At present, OPA added, there are no immediate pricing problems with regard to Douglas fir plywood

Executive Committee Meets

A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Lumber Merchants of Northern California was held in the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, January 26.

Bob Ingrcrm in South Pcrcific

Commander Robert M. Ingram, former sales managel of the E. C. Miller Cedar Lumber Co., Aberdeen, Wash., has been on active duty with the U. S. Naval Reserve for the past two and a half years. He was 21 months in the Aleutians area, was promoted to commander in May, 1943, and is now in the South Pacific.

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Amendment 12 to MPR 94--Ylest€rn Pine and Associated Species of Lumber

Washington, D. C., Jan. 30.-Western pine rnills were authorized by the Office of Price Administration today to compute freight charges on government bills of lading in the same manner as on commercial bills of lading to obtain for the shipper the same freight rate advantage as would be obtained if th'e shipment had moved originally on a commercial bill of lading.

A similar authorization was given Douglas fir mills last month.

Transportation charges used in calculated delivered prices for Western pine and associated species of lumber are computed on the basis of estimated weight per 1,000 board feet of lumber, which sometimes are greater than the actual weight of a shipment, OPA pointed out. The seller thus may in some cases make a small profit on the transportation allowance figured in the delivered price.

The new method of computing transportation cl-rarges in calculating delivered prices on Western pine lumber sold to the government permits a mill to obtain the same return

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(Amendment No. 12 to Maximum Price Regulation No. 94-Western Pine and Associated Species of Lumber. Effective January 29, 1944.)

H. F. Chcney Elected President oI Coos Bcy Lumber Co.

Henry F. Chaney, vice-president of Baker, Fentress & Co. of Portland, Oregon, has been elected president of Coos Bay Lumber Co., according to an announcement made in San Francisco, February 1. He succeeds Homer W. Bunker.

Mr. Bunker and Harry H. Fair, who has been chairman of the board, continue as directors. The changes in management follow acquisition of the controlling interest in the company last fall by Charles E. Dant of Dant & Russell, Inc., Portland, and associates.

The sales department continues unchanged with headquarters in the company's San Francisco office.

House-Ssnate Committe e Accepts Forest Tax Reform Amendment

Washington, D. C., January 27.---The acceptance today by the House and Senate Committee of the so-called "Bailey Amendment" relating to the "Gain or Loss from the Cutting of Timber," assuring a much sounder and fairer basis for the taxation of "timber gain," a stimulus to war production, and an encouragement to private forestry, brings into the limelight the Forest Industries Committee chiefly responsible for this significant progress.

For more than a year, this committee, which was organized at the suggestion of the board of directors of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, has functioned with the steadiness and expertness of an "All-America" team. Chairman of the committee is Earl B. Tanner, one of the principal figures of the Blodgett timber interests for fifteen years. As its vice-chairman, the committee had the services of P. A. Bloomer, president and general manager of the Louisiana Long Leaf Lumber Co.,-Fisher, La.

Other members of the committee were George Birkelund, Baker, Fentress & Co., Chicago;.John W. Watzek, Jr., of the Crossett-Watzek-Gates interests and a past president of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association; Charles W. Briggs, Briggs, Gilbert, Morton & Macartney, St. Paul; Walter E. Lincoln, St. Regis Paper Co.; Paul W. Olson, Crown-Zellerbach Corporation, and A. A. D. Rahn, vicepresident, Shevlin, Carpenter & Clarke Co., Minneapolis.

Others on the industry committee's staff included David T. Mason, Mason & Bru,ce, consulting foresters, Portland,

Ore.; Lo.vell H. Parker, Washington tax expert, and Henry Bahr, attorney of the National Lumber Manufacturers As: sociation.

Dr. Wilson Compton, secretary-manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, who urged the appointrnent of the Forest Industries Committee on Timber Valuation and Taxation, has followed closely the work of the committee at every stage of its progress, and has described the Bailey Amendment as a "new charter" for American forest industries and American forestry.

Scrlmon Creek Redwood Co. Increcrses Mill Capacity

Salmon Creek Redwood Co., Beatrice, Calif., operated by Fred Lundblade, closed the mill for two weeks, January 29, for the purpose of putting in a new 9-foot band saw. This will increase the mill's capacity aborrt 10,000 feet a day. New planing mill equipment was also installed at the same time.

Sales of the output of this mill have been handled exclusively by Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., San Francisco, since the plant was built in 1941.

Congrcrtulctions

First Lieut. Dick Hoover and Mrs. Hoover are the parents of a son, James Shaver Hoover, born at the Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles, on Saturday, January 30. Dick is a son of A. L. Hoover, Los Angeles wholesale lumberman. and has been stationed at Martinez, Calit.

Relused?

"No," said the youthful optimist in civies. "No, Jane didn't exactly refuse me. What she said was that the best she could give me just at this time was a B-13 priority rating."

The Mcrrine Viewpoint

"Yank" tells this story.

The night the Marines landed in the Solomons, a Marine sergeant in a San Francisco cafe was praising his corps to the skies. An Army captain finally interrupted. "Don't forget," he said, "that when a Marine goes into battle there are ten soldiers on one side of him and ten sailors on the other."

The Marine drew himself up to his full six feet one, and came to attention. He said:

"Sir ! That's the proper proportion."

Which reminds one of the song I heard once in a moving picture, where a Marine sang in powerful voice: "Ten thousand gobs laid down their swabs to fight one sick Marine."

An Old Fashioned

Tom Dreier quotes a friend of his named Harry Botsford, who in this manner paid his compliments(?) to that cocktail called an "Old Fashioned":

"An old fashioned is a sissy drink, a veritable fruit salad lashed with a little whiskey, whereas a martini is on the intoxicating side, designed not for dueling purposes but for the express,purpose of stimulating the appetite and uplifting the soul of the weary, and chasing away the fatigue caused by honest labor. The old fashioned was and is a tipple dreamed up by some female who liked fruit better than she did liquor. Who in hell else could conceive the idea of dunking gobs of pineapple, sections of orange, and a lone and cheerless cherry in honest liquor. It's a meal, and not a drink !"

How Sad

There was a young lady named Florence, For kissing professed great abhorrence, But once she'd been kissed, And found what she'd missed. She cried till the tears came in torrents.

She and The Lord

"Aunt Lucyi' said the lady of the house to her veteran cook, "you don't mean to tell me you've gone and got married again, and for the fifth time."

Aunt Lucy said: "Yes I'm is, Missy. Looks lak jess as offen as de Lawd takes em-so does I."

A Fcir Wcrger

This, of course, happened back in the days 'when cars could be bought by anyone who had the money.

A prosperous colored man who was figuring on buying a car and paying for it on the company part payment plan, took an educated friend along with him when it came to signing up the sales contract and mortgage, to advise him in the matter. The friend read over the purchase contract with much care. The purchaser asked him: "Well, tell me Mose, what do h'it say?"

The friend said: "Well, dey's a whole lotta words in dis contrack. A heap o' words. But fum what I kin figger out fum de whole bizqess, Gen'ral Motahs is jes bettin' you ain't nevah gwine finish payin' fo dishere cah."

Old Time Taxes

Screwy taxes did not wait for the present American decade to make their appearance. In 1696 England levied a window tax on her people. You paid so much per window per year. The result was that economical builders got to sacrificing both light and ventilation to save the window tax.

Her Pocketbool<

Comfortably seated in the train, With air absorbed, and very vain, She opened wide her pocketbook And on her lap she slowly shook A comb, some gum, a bit of rouge, A clipping from the Daily News, Some hairpins stuck into a net, A bright green manicuring set, A fountain pen, a safety pin, Some soda mints, and aspirin, A handkerchief, some perfume, too, A pair of gloves, some stockings new, Some lipstick and a mirror fine; Some black, to help the eyebrow line, She looked them over, one by one, Touched up her lips. When this was done She looked again, and Oh ! Despair ! Her railroad ticket wasn't there ! -Ellen B. Endicott in Chicago Tribune.

Her Ncturcl Rights

Someone asked Rose Jackson, the colored maid, if she was going to hang up any mistletoe in her home for Christmas. She said: "Not me. Deed f isn't. I got too much pride to advertise fo'de awdinary cou'tesies what a lady had a right to expeck."

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"Didn't T hear your kid bawling last night?"

"Yep. And after four bawls he got his base warmed."

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The thirty-third annual meeting of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, was held at the Multnomah Hotel, Portland, Ore., on January 28.

Officers elected were Dean Johnson, C. D. Johnson Lumber Corporation, Toledo, Ore., president; C. H. Kreienbaum, Simpson Logging Co., Shelton, Wash., vice president for Washington; George T. Gerlinger, Willamette Valley Lumber Co., Dallas, Ore., vice president for Oregon; Judd Greenman, Oregon-American Lumber Corporation, Vernonia, Ore., treasurer; and Col. W. B. Greeley, Seattle, Wash., secretary-manager.

Consumers and retailers were warned by J. Philip Boyd, Lumber and Lumber Products Director, WPB, that only a trickle of lurnber was available for any other than the most essential civilian needs,,and that no relief was in sight.

Re-emphasizir-rg the huge lumber recruirements for 1944, 34 billion board feet, which he announced for the first time at the meeting, Mr. Boyd urged that both consumers and retailers realize the critical situation in lumber and refrain from "pressuring" mills and producers for stocks they cannot release.

"Our control of lumber is at the production en<l," X{r. Boyd explained. "Ninety per cent of all lumber produced is under strict control and seventy per cent goes directly for war use to the Army, Navy and Maritime Commission.

"The simple fact is there is no lumber for civilian purposes outside of the barest minimum that has been allocated. Lumber is the most esential material on any fighting front because it can be put to so many uses. It takes 300 board feet to get a soldier to a foreign front and install him and 30 feet a month to maintain him. Wl-ren our transports arrive with supplies every foot of lumber used for storing the cargo is taken ashore. Our soldiers have actually taken the wooden hand-rails and other wooden fittings from our transports and cargo ships before they sent them home. They have taken the sticks from the,cargo slings and removed every piece of lumber from our ships, because it is so scarce and so esential on the fighting fronts."

Secretary-Manager Col. W. B. Greeley expressed the theme of the meeting as: "While we are fighting the war, how can we best plan to fit lumber into postwar re,construction and employment?" President Orville R. Miller spoke on "The Lumber Industry in Postwar America," and Charles L. Wheeler, executive vice president of Pope & Talbot, Inc., and president of International Rotary, on "Industrial Planning for the Postwar Period."

Among the other speakers were Judd Greenrnan, T. V. Larsen, Charles Snellstrom, R. T. Titus, Ward Mayer, J. C. Buchanan, C. J. Hogue, Corydon 'Wagner, H. V. Simpson, W. B. Nettleton, and Nelson Rogers.

George A. Bergttrom

George Andrew Bergstrom, 64, president of the C. B. Lumber & Shingle Company, Everett, Wash., died suddenly in an Everett hospital. He was born in Minneapolis, and came to Everett in 1905, where he established the Pacific Timber Co. In 1914 with his partner, Olaf Carlson, he built the C. B. Lumber & Shingle Co. He was prominent in the cedar industry and had served the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau as president. Funeral services were on Januaty 25.

Mr. Bergstrom is survived by his widow, Mrs. Iva Bergstrom; two daughters, Mrs. Crosby Pendleton ar-rd Mrs. Ray \Arilde of Everett; two brothers, Ed Bergstrom of Mukilteo, Wash., and Clifford Bergstrom of Los Angeles, two sisters, Miss Amanda Bergstrom of Los Angeles, and Mrs. John Linden of Cliicago, and two grandchildren.

NLMA Publishes Fact Data Book

Lumber Industry Facts (1943 edition) has just been released by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. Compiled by Martha A. Dietz and Virginia G. Smith of the Statistical Division of the Association, under the direction of Henry Bahr, the book presents important information which the adding machine shows to be facts, facts which may help torvard wellinformed understanding of the forest industries, determination of sound public policy, and provision within the forest products industries of dependable sources of business and employment. Information was drawn from government antl industry sources.

This is the third biennial edition of this important data book. It contains 78 statistical tables and 23 charts, slightly more than previous editions. The table of contents covers six major subdivisions of materi.al : Rarv MaterialThe Forest, Lumber and Timber Products, Lumber Production, Lumber Shipments, Lurnber Consumption, and Pulpwood, Pulp, and Paper. A chapter on The Forestry Situation revicws pertinent legislation. Another outlines the objectives, actirtities, officers, and membership of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. A complete cross index makes specific information readily findable.

Lumber Industry Facts is designed for re{erence use in the lumber industry, but it is used as a text and reference in many schools of forestry to which it is furnished free.

Single copies rvill be mailed upon recluest to the Statistical Division, National Lumber Manufacturers Association, 1319 lBth St., N. W., Washington 6, D. C.

C. Stowell Smith

C. Stowell Smith, War Production Board and Forest Service liaison officer of Washington, D. C., passed away on January 11 due to heart failure following a heart attack. Ife was 62 years of age.

Mr. Smith entered the Forest Service in 1905, and was chief of the Office of Products in San Francisco from 1910 to 1916. He became secretary of the California White and Sugar Pine Association in 1916, and in l9D he went with the National Lumber Manufacturers Association as a forest economist. He returned to the Forest Service in 1936.

His home was in Vienna. Va.. and he is survived by his rvidow i two daughters, and a son, Alden K. Smith, in the lumber business in Portland, Ore.

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Liberty Ship '5.S.A. B. Hammond" Honors Pioneer Lumberman

Named for a lumber industry leader, one of the great business pioneers of the West, the S.S. A. B. Hammond, a 10,500-ton Liberty ship slid from the building ways of the California Shipbuilding Corporation's yard at Wilmington, Calif., January 21. The vessel was the 319th to be placed in the water by Calship.

Mrs. Leonard C. Hammond, wife of the president of Hammond Lumber Company and Hammond Shipping Company, and daughter-in-law of Mr. A. B. Hammond, broke the traditional bottle of champagne on the cutwater of the vessel. Mrs. Paul Hallingby, wife of Paul Hallingby, executive of Hammond Lumber Company, Los Angeles, was matron of honor.

Andrew B. Hammond was a Montana pioneer. Ife played a big part in the development of the Pacific Coast lumber industry, built railroads, and was owner of one of the largest fleets of lumber cargo ships on the Pacific Coast. It is interesting to recall that it was Mr. Hammond who introduced large steel steamers to replace the small wooden lumber carriers. He built the first steel lumber ship, the "Francis H. Leggett," at Newport News, Va., in 1903, and placed it in the coastwise service between Eureka and San Diego.

Mr. Hammond was born in St. Leonards, N.B., Canada, on July 22, 1848. He came West to Missoula, Montana, in 1867, at the age of 19. There he organized the Missoula Mercantile Company, the First National Bank and the Blackfoot Mill Company. As a further outlet for his abilities he built the Bitter Root Valley and Philipburg Railroads, which afterwards became a part of the Northern Pacific Railroad.

He went to Oregon in 1895, and became the associate of Collis P. Huntington, the railroad builder, the Mark Hopkins Estate and John Claflin of New York, in the construction, ownership and management of the Astoria and Columbia Railroad, which connected Astoria with Portland, and in the acquisition of the railroad from Yaquina Bay through

Corvallis to Mill City, Oregon, where one of the Dougla; fir mills of the Hammond Lumber Company was located.

These gentlemen also became identified $'ith the Hammond Lumber Company, which acquired timberlands in Oregon, began the manufacture of lumber there and also entered the Redwood lumber business in California at Samoa, Humboldt Bay. The Redwood interests of the Hammond Lumber Company and the Little River Redwood Company were merged in 1931.

Credit for the modernization of the Redwood industry r.vas given to Mr. Hammond, and he was regarded as the dearr of the industry.

Mr. Hammond passed away 15, 1934, in his 86th year.

San Francisco on January

Leli to right: Mrs. Paul Hc[ingby, Mrs. trllred D. Bell, In, Mrg, Leonard C. Hcmmond, Leonard C. Hammond.

Burton Chace Candidat e 1or State Atsembly

Burton W. Chace, owner of the Chace Lumber & Supply Co., 4I Market Street, Long Beach, has announced that he will be a candidate for Assemblyman for the Tlst District at the State primaries May 16.

Mr. Chace is a well knor,vn retail lumberman. He has headed the Chace Lumber & Supply Co. since his father, Natl,an Chace, retired in 1939. He and his father established the business 20 years ago.

He has been active in Republican politics, and hopes to get both the Republican and Democratic nominations. He was a member of the County Central Republican Committee for some years.

Mr. Chace has been prominent in civic affairs, lravirrg served two terrs on the Long Beach School Board, from 1933 to 1941. He was elected president of the Board in 1939.

Timber Structures, fnc., Opens Branch

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in Scn Frcrncisco

A branch office has been opened by Timber Structures, Inc., at 220 Montgomery Street, San Francisco 4. Arthur P. Cramer is manager.

This concern specializes in prefabricated timber and glued assemblies. The main office and plant is in Portland, Ore., and suboffices are located in New York City, Trenton, N. J., Seattle, and Eugene, Ore.

Ward Mayer is president and founder of the busir-ress.

Personal ltems

C. C. Stibich of Tarter, Webster & Johnson, Inc., San Francisco, attended the annual meeting of the Western Piue Association in Portland. Februarv l0 and 11.

Kenneth Shipp, returned February coma and Seattle.

California Builders 4 from a business Supply Co., Oakland trip to Portland, Ta-

Larue Woodson, Wheeler Osgood Sales cisco, member of the temporary milhvork tee, attended a meeting of the committee ary 26. He returned February 7.

Capt. W. H. Nigh, Army Air from Wendling-Nathan Co., San at Lockheed Terminal. Burbank.

R. C. (Bob) Sand, of Cole Angeles, returned recently from fic Northwest, where he called olants.

Met With Retcil Dealers

Corp., San F'ranadvisory commitin Cl-ricago, Janu-

Corps, on leave of absence Francisco, is now stationed Calif.

Door & Plywood Co., Los a business trip to the Pacion the door and plywood

J. Philip Boyd, chief of the Lumber and Lumber Production Branch, War Production Board, Washington, D. C., met with a group of retail lumber dealers from the critical defense housing areas at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, on February 4, to discuss the housing situation.

predict that fit of this trend business.

For some time before the war a new trend was notieeable in the use of more hardwoods for interior finish in moderately priced homes.

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With OPA Lumber Branch

J. A. (Jack) Thomas, Los Angeles wholesale lumberman, has been appointed Price Analyst in the Western Softwoods Section of the Lumber Branch, Office of Price Administration, and has left for Washington, D. C., where he will make his headquarters.

He has closed his Los Angeles office but the business will be continued by his associates Consolidated Lumber Company of E,ugene, Ore., which concern l.re represente<l in Soutl-rern California.

Lumbermcn's Son Missing

Russell Carlson, son of Earl Carlson of the Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco, has been missing since -fanuary 18, according to a report received by his parents from the War Department.

Russell is a radio operator serving, in the Army Transport Command. He was based in India and was engaged in the work of transporting supplies by air from Indi;r into China.

Starts Business in Ocklcrnd

Frank F. Fee recently resigned his position as manager of the Special Materials Division of E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Oakland, to conduct his own business under the name of Special Materials at 3330 East 12th Street, Oakland 1. This concern will specialize in the distribution of composition building materials.

Ecst Bcy Hoo-Hoo Club Meets Februcrry 28

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Arlie Charter of Wholesale Building Supply, Inc., Oakland, program chairman for the next dinner meeting of the East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39, to be held at Hotel Leamington, Oakland, on Monday evening, February 28, has secured the British documentary picture 'Desert Victory," r full length feature sound picture, for this meeting.

This firm tells the actual story of the rout of Rommel by the British 8th Army. Four cameramen were killed and several others wounded and captured in the taking of the picture.

There will also be musical entertainment.

Deep in the Hecrrt oI Tcxes

I'm swamped with debt, And bood and sweat, Deep in the heart of taxes; The landlord sobs And my heart tl-rrobs, Deep in the heart of taxes; It's lend and lease Or "rest in peace," It's tokens for the Axis: Let freedom ring Of thee I sing, Deep in the heart of taxes.

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Digest of New \(/ar Agency Regufations

Procedurcrl Regulcrtion No. 6

Forty-one lumber price regulations are brought into conformity with current provisions of procedural regulation No. 6 by OPA. This procedural regulation allows sellers to enter contracts at prices subject to upward adjustment later if and when the proposed higher prices are approved by OPA. (Supplementary Order 83),, effective Feb. 1.

Lumber

The tightness of the lumber situation precludes any possibility of relaxing present restrictions on construction for civilian purposes, according to a WPB pronouncement.

Building Mctericrls

OPA makes several changes in the asbestos-cement building materials regulation to conform with prevailing industry practices. (Amendment I to Maximum Price Regulation 486), effective Sept. 18, 1943.

Fence Posts

The concentrators' mark-up on sales of fence posts to industrial users-railroads, etc.-is reduced by the OPA to I5/o from pievious mark-ups ol 25/o to 33 l/3% for various species. Retail lumber yards only may continue to charge the ,customary 25/o to 33 l/3/o mark-ups on any sales. All other sellers, except in sales to industrial users,

may charge only the concentrator's price plus transportation. (Amendment 2 to Revised Maximum Price Regulation 324), effective Feb. 5.

Fence Lcth

Increase of $1 per 1,000 feet in producers' ceiling prices of norihern softwood, northern hardwood and western pine fence lath are authorized by the OPA. (Amendment 1 to Second Revised MPP. n2, Amendment 11 to MPR 723, and. Amendment 11 to MPR 94), all effective Jan. 19.

Southern

Pine Lumber

OPA fnakes a number of changes in mill ceiling prices for southern pine lumber. They are designed principally to permit produ,ction of types of material needed in the war program, were requested by WPB, and will result in a rise of less than l/o in the average price of all southern pine lumber (Second Revised Maximum Price Regulation 19), effective Feb. 4.

Logs and Bolts

The ceiling price of $25 per 1,000 feet, log scals, "woods run" grade alder, maple bnd ash logs, produced in certain sections of Qregon and Washington, is authorized by tire OPA. (Amendment 32 to MPA 348), effective Tan. 26.

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TWENTY YEAPS AGO

tr'rom the Bebruary l5'' lg24 Issue

This issue carried a and write-up of the San at Arcadia.

photograph of the office building Gabriel Valley Lumber Company

"Origin and History of Hardwoods of the World," as used on the Pacific Coast, an article by C, H. White, White Brothers. San Francisco, was in this number.

Dr. Ng Poon Chew, editor of a Chung Sai Yat Po, published in San speaker at the luncheon meeting of the Hoo Club on Februarv 14.

Frank Park, La Mesa Lumber & Investment Co., La Mesa, sent in a letter with a copy of quotations received by his company in March, 1895. The prices quoted on the following items, f. o. b. mill, were: Common Merchantable, $6.00; No. 1 Flooring and Finish, $13.00; N.o. 2 Flooring and Finish, $9.00, and Lath $1.25.

M. I-. Euphrat, Wendling-Nathan Co., San'Francisco, and Miss Grace Marie Crow of Portland, Oregon, were married in San Francisco on Fetrruary 6.

Chinese newspaper, Francisco, was the San Francisco IIoo- Hayward Lumber & Investment nounced that they planned to open Escondido.

The San Diego Sun reprinted Jack Dionne's editorial, "Needed; Eight Billions for Building," rvhich appeared in our December 15 issue.

Co., Los Angeles, ana new retail yard at

The Western Retail 21st Annual Institute at Lumber Association will hold its Los Angeles on February 18-23.

Co) UP AND DOWN THE STATE cA

Carl W. Bahr, president of the California Redwood Distributors, Chicago, left San Francisco February 6 after visiting his organization's mill connections at Scotia and Samoa, Calif. He spent two weeks in California.

E,d Canton, Canton Lumber Sales Co., Minneapolis, representative in that territory of California Redwood Distributors, called on this organization's sawmill connections in California and left San Francisco February 1 to visit Douglas fir mill connections in the Northwest.

Stanley H. Dixon, manager of the By-Products Division of The Pacific Lumber Company, New York, was in San Francis,co for two weeks conferring with executives in the home office.

G. F. (Jerry) Bonnington, Lamon-Bonnington Co., San Francisco, left February 5 for Portland. He will be gone two weeks and will visit sawmill connections in Oregon.

Lieut. Wm. L. Frese, bombardier in the U. S. Army Air Force, is now stationed at Langley Field, Va. IIe is a son of Otto W. Frese, San Francisco lumberman.

Martin W. Parelius, Parelius Lumber Co., Portland, Ore., was in San Francisco on business in the latter part of January.

James L. Hall, San Francisco wholesale lumberman, and Mrs. Hall are spending three weeks' vacation at Chandler, Ariz.

Wm. Swindell, assistant Valley Lumber Co., Dallas, in San Francisco.

to the president, Ore., re,cently spent

Willamette two weeks

Carl R. Moore, president of Cape Arago Lumber Co., Em.pire, Ore., has returned from a two weeks' visit to his Oakland office.

Ed Schafer, sales manager, Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., has returned to Aberdeen, Wash., from a visit to California. He called on the company's San Francisc<r and Los Angeles offices, and with Mrs. Schafer spent a week at Palm Springs.

F. A. "Pete" Toste, Southern California manager for Kilpatri,ck & Co., Wilmington, is back from a trip to San Francisco, Portland, and Eugene, Ore.

Russ McCoy, McCoy Lumber cently visited San Francisco on his

Co., Hemet, Calif., reway back from Oregon.

Paul Orban, Orban Lumber Co., Pasadena, and lVfrs. Orban. were recent visitors to San Francisco.

Joe A. Bugley, well known joined the sales staff of Barto tington Park.

T. W. Tebb, Pacific and his daughter, Mary are spending a month at

Los Angeles lumberman, has & Smith Lumber Co.. Hunt-

Lumber Agency, Suurner, \Mash., Tebb. are Southland visitors and Palm Springs.

Tom Ross of The Ross-Terrell Co., wholesale lumber dealers, Lafayette, Calif., returned February 1 from a three rveeks' trip to the Northwest. He attended a lumber auction in Portland, called on Willamette Valley sarvmills and visited the company's main office at Grant Pass, Ore.

George Gibson of the Gibson ardino, Calif., and Mrs. Gibson, the latter part of January.

Lumber Co., San Bernvisited San Francisco. in

Judd Blanchard, Blanchard Lumber Mrs. Blanchard were recent visitors to Co., Burbank, and San Francisco.

George R. Kendrick, sales manager, Pope & Talbot, Inc., Lumber Division, San Francisco, returned to his desk January 31 from a week's trip to Portland and Seattle. He attended the annual meeting of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association in Portland, January 28.

Army-N avy "E" Award Presented to \(/inton Lumber Company and the J. T. McDonald Losging Co.

Joint ceremonies for the presentation of the Army-Navv "E" Award to the Martell, Calif., planr clf tLre Winton .Lun'rber Company and to the J. T. McDonald Logging Company were held in the auditorium at Sutter Creek, Amador County, January 31. Judge A. L. Pierovich, Superior Court Judge of Amador County, n'as master of ceremonies.

Colonel Kenneth M. Moore, C. D., District Engineer, U. S. Engineers, San Francisco, addressed the gathering and presented the award.

Charles J. Winton, Jr. and Oren Broyles received the ar.r'ard for the Winton Lumber Company. J. T. McDonald and Harry Holcomb received the award for the J. T. McDonald Logging Co.

Comnrander Kenneth A. Goodwin, U.S.N., Executive Assistant to the Superintending Engineer, San Francisco area, presented the "E" pins.

The award was accepted for the emplovees by Ted Broitz, man for the Winton Lumber Company, and by Bulford J. Hodges for the J. T. McDonald Logging Company.

Band music for the ceremonies was furnished by the Camp Kohler Band.

Photo by United States Army Engineers, San Francisco Districl Colonel Kenneth M. Moore mcking cwcrding speech ct Army-Ncrvy "E" ioint ceremony oI Winton Lumber Compcny, Mcrtell plcnt, Mqriell, Ctrlil., qnd J. T. McDoncld Logging Compcny oI trmcdor County, Colil.

Mrs. Herbert Hoover

(By Charles B. Driscoll, in his syndicated column, "New York Day by Day.")

Almost every American, I think, sympathized in a special way with Herbert lfoover in the loss of his wife, who typified for many of us, the American Lady. With Mrs. Calvin Coolidge she represents, in the minds of millions of Americans and others, the kind of lady who with honor and dignity, accompanies a distinguished man to and through a period of public service.

Mrs. Hoover never attempted in any way to make personal capital out of her husband's position. For many years before he entered politics Mr. Hoover had been a famous and well-to-do man. His wife had been reared'in the genteel American tradition. She had all the ability for modest public service that such a tradition calls for, and she served faithfully, but always inconspicuously. She realized, as did Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, that there is no constitutional positiorr in this country as Lady President or Mrs. President. She was Mrs. Hoover, and may God give her rest.

Stationed at Miami Lieut. (j.g.) Don F. White, U.S.N., and Lieut. (j.g.)

Charles B. White, U.S.N., sons of C. H. White, vice-president and general manager of White Brothers, wholesale hardwood dealers, San Francisco, are both stationed at Miami, Fla., alvaiting orders.

"Non Metcrllic lron" Approved

A highly responsible lumller clealer sends this one, He says not to mention his name as the authorities who made the bust might not like to be publicized, but vouches for the following incident in his business :

One of l.ris customers applied to WPB for permission to buy some steel roofing sheets, and hi.; request lvas approved provided the sheets are of "non-metallic iron." "I have the approved order before me," r-ritcs the lumber dealer.

He adds that he had heard of the OPA refusing the farmer a permit to kill some steers becanse thcy thought he should keep them for l>reedins prtrposes, but that "non-metallic iron" is too much for him.

CIJASSIFIED ADVERTISING

SAWMILL FOR SALE

Double circular sawmill, Diesel and steam power capacity ,10M per shift. Complete with logging equipment. Now cutting fir on Southern Pacific near summit of Cascades. May be operated where it is or moved.

California Lumbermen, here is an opportunity to get fir on a short haul freight rate to California points.

Write George W. Sample, 724 l|/f,arn Street, Klamath Falls, Oregon.

POSITION WANTED

Position as retail yard manager, superintendent or buyer with employer who is generous, tolerant, and naive enough to believe what I say of myself. Long Experience in Southetn California attuned to present day methods of repelling customers. Close acquaintance with what used to be sources of supply.

Address Box C-1020 California Lumber Merchant, 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

YARD FOR SALE

Southern California Lumber Yard and store on main highway near Los Angeles. Lease $100.00 a month. Inventory of merchandise and lumber $17'000.

Twohy Lumber Company, Petroleum Bldg., Los Angeles 15, Calif.

YARD FOREMAN WANTED

For hardwood lumber yard. This is a permanent position.

Jones Hardwood Co., Barneveld & Newcomb Streets, San Francisco 24, Calif. VAlencia 4200.

WANTED

FIRST CLASS BOOKKEEPER

One that can take full charge of books and can type' Must be thoroughly familiar with general office procedure and understand lumber business and building materials.

Valley Lumber & Supply Co., P. O. Bax 628, Stockton, Calif.

YARD MANAGER WANTS POSITION

Permanent position wanted by experienced retail lumber yard manager, age 49. Can furnish very good references as to honesty and ability.

Address Box 87, Dixon, Iowa.

OFFICE MAN WANTED

For hardwood lumber yard. Capable of handling counter and shipping.

Jones Hardwood Co., Barneveld & Newcomb Streets, San Francisco 24, Calif. VAlencia 4200.

RMPR 26,lncluding Amendment 5-Douglas Fir and Other \(/est Coast Lumber

Washington, D. C., Jan.27.---Tightening of the provisions governing producers'maximum prices for Douglas fir, white fir and hemlock-designed to assist enforcement ofifrcials in securing strict observance of ceilings-was announced today by the Office of Price Administration.

To clarify pricing for enforcement, the following steps have been taken:

1. Sellers of items of Douglas fir, white fir or hemlock lumber for which ceiling prices have not been specifically provided by OPA must apply to OPA for a proposed price or, failing that, invoice the lumber at $15 per 1,000. board feet, the ceiling price for the lowest grade of lumber.

2. Additions permitted for scaffold planking are limited to material nine inches and wider.

3. The additions of $2 and $3 per 1,000 board feet that may be made to maximum prices for listed types of surfacing operations performe.d on clear lumber are now made applicable to all types of surfacing operations on clear lumber. The purpose of this is to prevent the pyramiding oi surfacing charges.

4. The size of rough lumber now is defined. The definition says all rough lumber henceforth must be of sufficient width and thickness to permit dressing S4S (surfacing four sides) to American Lumber Standards.

In another ,change, a maximum charge of 5O cents per 1,000 board feet is established for stenciling, when required by the buyer, to any extent beyond grade marking and simple identification.

An increase of $8 per 1,000 board feet in producers' ceilings for three grades of Douglas fir, white fir and hemlock flat grain flooring in the five-eighths-inch by six-inch size is authorized. This restores the customary industry relationship between the price of this material and flat grain flooring five-eighths-inch by four inches. Only a small quantity of this size of flooring is produced, and the increased ceiling will have little or no effe'ct on mill tealization, OPA said.

OPA further announced a reduction in the ceiling prices for green flooring and ,siding, through establishment of a deduction of $5 per 1,000 board feet if the material is not seasoned. This establishes the normal relationship between green and seasoned clears worked to these patterns. Previously green flooring and siding could be sold at higher prices when sold as "finish."

(Amendment No. .5 to Revised Maximum Price Regulation No. 26-Doaglas Fir and Other West Coast Lumber -effective February I, 1944.>

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SAIT FRANCISCO II'MBER

LUMBER

Arcate Rcdwood Co. lzl Mar&ct Stret (rr) .............Yt!|rcn 206?

AtllnmStutz Compun lll Marh.t Strct (u) .,.'.........GAr6cH rE|'

Butler, Scth L., 2u Frcnt St., (rr) ...,............GArfield 992

Christenmn Lmber Co. Evang Avc. md Quint St. (Z)'...VAlencia 5E32

Dmt & Ruucll, lnc., 2U Frcnt Strcct (tr) .............GArficld t292

Dolbor & Careon llmbc Co.. Itlt Mcrchante Exchangc Bt&. ({) Suttn ?|56

Gamorrto & Grco Lmber Col8.. Any Strt (2{) ...........,ATwatcr l30l

Hdl, Jamr L1032 Milb Bldg. (r) .................Surts 7520

Hallinan Mackin Lumber Co., ?25 Sccond Street (?) ...........,DOugIas l91l

Harnmond Lumbcr Company, ll7 Montgomcry Stret (6) ......,.DOuglar $ltt

Hobbr Wall Imbcr Co., ll5 Montgucry St. (l) ...,.'.....GArfield 7752

Holncr Eureka Lmber Co. -- iro-rl"-E"r c""tii snd (.) ....cAr6cld rezr

C. D. Johnron hmbr CarDoratlon, 26f Callfomla Str6t (rr) ....'.....GArfirld az56

Kllpatrick & Company, Cmker Bldg. (l) YUkon 0912

LUMBER

Carl H. Kuht hnbcr Co; O. I- Ruerun r12 Mlrlict St. (rr) Ytl|ru la6|

Imon-Bmington CenpuY, ta Cdifmii StruGt (1r) ....."...GAr6c1d 6ttl

McDulfe Lumbcr Salc CorD362 Monadmck Bldg. (5) .'..."...GAfic1d 7196

Paciftc Lunb* Co.. Th. Paciftc Lunbcr i|. Su"h Strc.t -(a) ...'.......'...GAricld lltr

Pareliur Lumber Co. (Paul McCucker)'^ - - --310 Kearnev Strut-(s) ............GArfreld 1977

Pox & Talbot, Inc.. Lubcr Dlvidon' ior Market Strci (5) ..'....'....'Ixtualr 2561

Rcd Rivcr hmbcr Co. hmb.r 3rt MoadmL Blds: (5) ..........GArncld 0022

Suta Fc Lubcr Co' ii cattrnia strei (rr) .........Exbrol3 20?r

Schafcr Brce. Lubs & Sbtn:lc CoI Drunm Strcct (rf) ...............Suttlr l?ll

Shevlln Plnc lialcr Co., --idti uon"ano.t Bldi. (5) .........EXbrooh ?0{r

Sudda & Chrlrtcnmn' Inc.' --iir-S"nton Stnct' ({) ....'.......GArfiGld zt16

Tarter. \nfeblter & Johmn, Inc -- i M""te"-.ry St. ({) ..'..-.......DOuglu 2060

Carl W. Wattr (Orcgon lubc Sdcil - iis uoaanodi BLlt. (5) ..........YLJlron 1590

Wcndling-Nathm Co. '' iio rl'uket stGt-(rr) ............'suttcr 53'E

Wcrt Orrgm Ilmbcr C,o., " isgs -8"--. Avo. (z|) -.. " ' 'ATwatcr 56?t

OAKLANII

Ewauna Bq Co. (Pyruld Lmbcr Salcr Co.)

Paclfic Bldg. (U) .........,..,..Gl:ncotrrt t293

Gammto & Gren Lunbc Co., 2ll Llvlnstlon St. (a) ............KE11o9 {-rEEa

Hill & Morton, Inc., Dmtm Strlct Wherf O) .......ANdovcr.l077

Hogu Lurnbcr Conpany' ard rnd Allo. StnGt (l) .......Glacourt 6t6l

E. K. Wood Lumbcr Co..

2rrr Fm&rlck Strcat (3) ..........K81bg 2-lzZ

Whclccrl! Buildin: SupDly, Irc., r6a? 32nd Strut (t) ......,.....TEmplcbar 69tl

Wholorlc Lmbc Dirtrlbutorr. Inc., 9th Avcnuo Pic (a) ..........,..TTY|noatr 2515

LUMBER

E. K. Wood Lunbs Co.' I Drunn Stnct (rr) .....'.........EXbrooL ttfl

ll/rychurr Sala Co,. frr cdllonie Strcct'(ll) .........G,4rfiold tt?l .

HARDWOODS

Comltlur Hardwod Co. Gorgc C., 465 Califomia Stet (4) ..........GArfield t25E

lVhlto Brothcrr' Flfth and Brinnan Strcctr (D .....SUtt r lt||

SASH_DOORS-PLYWOOD United Statcc Plywod CorP.' 27tI Army St. (A) .....'.......'ATwater 1003

Whelcr Osgood Salcr CorP.' 3045 19tf, st. (ro) .'..............valocia 2ll

PANEls-Doglffd8s-scRE EN F

"",ifTli lll*:' <r'i".L1 li.:'. .","",. .,.

""tf "Slf-%?Sf."'(|) .......cr-odrrr .r.r

""1* ifEi. ?ii-.f 3:: ...ENtrDrrs r-016r

*:"*T B#"* t"iilffio ......rEnpr$er t{rl

t' frir*.**1t["!T,.!f i.t) - KEtrog 2-42!rr

"Tlti :*# s?*H"it .....rEmprcbar EEU

WbltG Bmthd., "iif nLt Sdc.t (r) ....'.""""ANdowr 16cr

LOS ANGDLDS

HARDWOODS

Andcu Hardwod Co, --lto. E. rsth Str.ct (54) .........PRo.D.d aat Brudr Indurtrial Lunbcr Co. 5rl S. Ccntnl Avo (r) .........CEnturv !-fltl

Slsld. E. J. I Son' --ai Eur {lrt Stmt (rr) .......CEDhrrt tEtl

Wotcm Hardwood lrnbcr Co.

2crl Er.t lsth Strccl (55) .......PRorp.d 'f'l

SASH-DOORSJiILIWORK-SCREENts BLTNDLPANEI.S AND PLYWOODIRONING BOAru's

Bac} Pud Coprnv,

310-3la Eart U:ra Srrcct (ff) ......'.ADrn3 azzs Callfornia Door ConPanY' Tha -

P. O. Bd f26, Vcmon'Sretlon (U) Klnbrll zLl

Cfiiomlr PuC & Vaccr Co.

P. O. Bc zOC, Tdmlnrl Arna (51) .:.....'................TR|n|tt |Ot?

Cobb Co- T. M- 50 C;ntrd Avcnue (lf) .'.........4Dut ullt

Eubank & Son. L. H. (Ingle*od)

433 W. Rcdmdo Blvd. ............ORqu t'zzf

Halcv Bru. (Smta Monlca) r32a rarh sinEt .........'........'.AShlav 4-221t

KchL Jno. W. & Son

652-S. MyEr Str.d (a) ..........ANgclur tlll

Paclfic MutuC Dod Co-

160 E. Wrlhinrtu Blvd. (2f) ..PRorpcr 952t

Puoet S^q-d Prword, lnc..

3lt Wart Nlnth str..t (r$ ...'...TRlnttv |.rt

Rcu ConDilv. G.o. E, 235 S. Ahna.la sFc.r (rz) '....Mlchigaa ltg

Rcd Rtvcr Lumbcr Co?E 9. Slauroo (ff) '..'...........CEntnrv ?fll

Supm Co (Paradonr), ?ri !h.Rrlmdd Aw. (D .........RYu l-lof

Slnuon lildu3trl* Itrcrdla E. lt'mhlns'ton B!vd. (zl) ...PRoprct 3lt!

l4OIJSj "-nllilb6blisfiA os) ........PRopcct?r!{ "*"o*tflrrk"#?fJ"

MrcDgqCd Co., l- !il"

rPrclfic Imbc Co. Thc

" -iizl- WilIii.-sil"a.--Ccl ............Yort lllt ADCIcu llrDbcr & Troatlnt Co., patrlck Lumber Co,. t3f S. Budrmv (f5) ...'.......'.PRorpcct 43Gl

Eaetmm Lubc; Sdes, Bertrr, J. H. & Co.. ?r4 W. Olympic Blvd.'(r5) ,.,..,PRoepect 5089 aar W6t sth Str..t (lt) ..........Mlchllen 3291

Ponborrhy lrrnbc Co., Popr I Tepgt' lne' Lrrnbrr Dlvlrlon'

2G3 Eeri 5ld Sr. (u) ...............K1mba11 Sllt ?u W. OlyDpic Bhd. (r5) .....PRoDet tzll

iPostoffice Zone Number in Parenthesis.

United Strter Plvwood CorP.' l93o Eut rsth St. (zr) '. ..Rlchmonil 6lll

Wat Gorrt Sema Colfl3 E!.t .8rd StrtGt (f) ........Allenr tlll

\f,fcrtm Mill & MsldiDs Co.

Stal So. Wortsm Avc. (ll) ....TWho.l. lta

Whecler Orgood Salcc Corp., 922 So. Flowq St. .....,......,...v4rd|L.ll2.

E. K. W@d Lmbq Co{?rl S. Alancda St. (51) ..'.....JEfrcrron 3l1l

More lumber lor wcn! More wcn bonds to lincnce lhe wqr! These qre Uncle Scrm's imperalive needs now. As loycrl Americcrns cll, we cne meeting them.

Bul some day, perhaps sooner thcrn we dcrre hope now, lhese lunes will chcnge. With {ictory, instecrd oI more lumber lor wcr, ii will be more lumber lor buildinq. With Victory, instecd ol buying bonds to Iinqnce lhe wqr, we'II be coshing our bonds io Iincrnce posl-wor constnrction.

As Brcdley hcrs supplied its cuslomers in the pcst .. . is meeting Uncle Sqm's wcrr demqnds now . Eo will it be recdy to lill your demqnds oI the New Dcy with Brcdley Brond lumber qnd lumber products in lull stride with post-wqr developments.

ruStl1-Keyttone mid";*q-"..-*;i*

Western Hcrdwood Lumber Cornpcrny Los Angeles

Strable Hcrrdwood Compcrny Ocrklcrnd

I. E. Higgins Lumber Compcmy Scrn Frcncisco