The California Lumber Merchant - February 1947

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SCHUIUIITE Gypsum WAtt B0ARD Adds Structurql Srrengfh Lowers Cost. Fireproof

Your competent applicator can install Schumite Gypsum Vall Board easily, quickly to further lower construction cost. The superiority of Schumite Gypsum '$7'all Board .. the insulation... the fire protection... the adaptability the durability. the strength, and its ability to withstand buckling, warping, expansion or contraction ... are but a few of the good reasons why users have found it entirely satisfactory for permanent construction.

Stcnton Swqflord Appointed Assistqnt Genercrl Scles Mcncrger

Stanton Swafford, E. J. Stanton & Son, Inc., Los Angeles, was recently appointed assistant sales manager of all divisions by President LeRoy H. Stanton, Sr.

Yourrg Swafford was born to the lumber business and has been educated in every field of the industry. He is a graduate of Stanford University at Palo Alto and serVed in World War II in the United States Navy. He attained the rank of Lieutenant Commander and at the close of the war was "Skipper" of a gun boat in the Pacific.

In the Softwood Division of the firm, Stanton will have the guidance of "Clint" Laughlin veteran lumber executive and manager, and will be directed by the president of the firm in the Hardwood field.

Ios Angeles Building Permits Show Gcin br |cnucrry

Scoring a sharp gain over December's activity, 4832 building permits with a total valuation of $14,056,437 were issued in Los Angeles last month, according to an announcement by G. E. Morris, superintendent of building. The December figures were 3299 permits amounting to $8,561,618.

One-family home construction also increased sharply during January, with 1249 permits valued at 97,390,968 being recorded.

The January valuation for all classes of construction declined somewhat from the figure for January, 1946, which rvas $17,760,141, although the number of permits issued last month was greater than the opening month of last year.

Bell Laborcrtory Demonstrction Fectured At Club No. 39 Meeting

A Bell Laboratory demonstration, "The Magic of Communication," was the feature of the dinner meeting of HooHoo Club No. 39, held at the Claremont Hotel, Berkeley, Janaary 27.

The master of ceremonies in charge of the presentation, S. A. Worthington, was introduced by Jack Wood, club director, who arranged the program.

Tom Hogan, the club's president, presided.

Everett Lewis, membership committee chairman, announced that the club has a total of 161 paid-up members, the largest total in the club's history.

Past president Clem Fraser chairman of the club's educational committee gave an outline of the program arranged by his committee, particulars of rvhich appear on another page of this issue.

Calilornicr To*poy"r=' A**iotiorr Annucrl Meeting

The 21st annual meeting of the California Taxpa.vers' Association will be held on Tuesday morning, February 25,1947, from 10:00 to 12:00 o'clock, at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles.

"Government and Business" will be the subject of Dr. George C. S. Benson, director of Claremont College School for Men. "State Fiscal Operations, 1947-48" is to be discussed by James S. Dean, director of finance of the State of California. Dr. A. C. Hardison, of Santa Paula, prominent agriculturist and long-time president of the statewide taxpayers' organization, is'to preside.

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THE CALIFOR}IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

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How Lrumber lrooks

The Douglas fir -market is firm. Bundled uppers- are scarce with fancy prices offered for what is available. There is no change in Common prices which range up to $25 over the old ceiling for dimension and up to $30 over for boards.

Green Red Cedar shingle mill prices are reported as $12 for No. 1, $9.50 for No. 2, and $4.50 for No. 3 and No. 4. California pine prices are firm. Conservative mills have published lists rvith prices ranging from slightly under ceiling on No. 4 boards to $20 over on some items. Some mills are getting high prices for green Ponderosa and Sugar pine shop and selects

Redrvood uppers are scarce, and dry worked uppers are verv hard to buy. The Redrvood market continues strong.

The Western Pine Association for the tveek ended Janvar,v 25, 103 mills reporting, gave orders as 63,89O,000 feet, shipments 61,987,000 feet, and production 47,329,0AO f.eet. Orders on hand at the end of the rveek totaled 188.007.000 feet.

The Southern Pine Association for the rveek ended Januarv 25,79 units (105 mills) reporting, gave orders as 13,066,000 feet, shipments 12,9M,@O feet, and production 13,782,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the rveek totaled 70.896.000 feet.

West Coast ended Februarr' 1, Lumbermen's Association for the *.eek 129 mills reporting, gave orders as 81,-

465,000 feet, shipments 83,097,000 feet, and production 78,338,000 feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the r,r'eek totaled 439,071,000 feet.

Lumber cargo arrivals at Los Angeles-Long Beach harbor for the month of January totaled 22,052,WO feet, u'hile arrivals in December, 1946, totaled l6,4n,WO feet. In Janluary, 1941, there was 56,959,000 feet of lumber received at the harbor.

H. A. Hcrnsen

H. A. Hansen, president of the Union Supply Company, Monterey, Calif., passed away suddenly January 20.

He was born 64 years ago in Trinidad, Humboldt County, Calif., where his father, Peder I{ansen, operated a lumber mill. The family moved to Monterey in 1902, where the father organized the Union Supply Company. On the death of his father 15 years ago, Mr. F{ansen became president of the company.

He leaves his wife, Mrs. Marie C. Hansen, a daughter and trvo grandchildren.

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Ponderosa pine trees are being selected for harvesting in a selective logging operation in the Western pine area. With a paint gun, foresters mark mature tree for cutting, leaving others standing to continue their growth and to provide seed for a future crop. Note the heavy stand of young grorvth developing among the larger trees.

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Lundgren Dealers Supply, Tacoma.

San Diego Hoo-Hoo Concat

The San Diego Hoo-Hoo dinner and concatenation held in the Marine Room of the San Diego Hotel, Friday evening, January 24, was a very successful alfair. There were a large number of Old Cats out for the occasion, and six Kittens were initiated into the Order of the Old Black Cat.

Snark Charles D. McFarlane presided at the meeting following the dinner. Cliff Roberts, Scrivenoter on the Supreme Nine, announced that the Hoo-Hoo annual meeting will be held in September at Spokane, Wash., and he rvants a large delegation from California to attend.

leff Crandall got a big reception as it was his birthday and he rvas serenaded by the crowd singing "Happy Birthday To You." Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo members attending

John Stewart, Chqrleg

Michctel M. Gartaer, Syd Snith,

rvere Huntly Wark, Ole May, Warren E. Hoyt, Orval Stewart,, V. C. Spalding and Ed Martin.

The concatenation was under the direction of Snark McFarlane, and the other members of the Nine were: Senior Hoo-Hoo, John Stewart; Junior Hoo-Hoo, Carl B. Gavotto; Scrivenoter, Charles L. Hampshire; Bojum, Hugh N{cConnell; Jabberwock, Ed Glasson; Custocatian, Syd Smith; Arcanoper, Michael M. Gartner, and Gurdon, Willam L. Loizeaux. Huntly Wark put the playful Kittens through a number of tests, and when they emerged from the Onion-Bed, Ed Martin read the Code of Ethics.

The Kittens initiated were:

John F. Collins, National Lumber Co. National City

Josiah W. Smith, Century Mill & Lumber Co. San Diegd

Harry A. Irion, El Cerrito Lumber Co.

William H. Seeley, El Cerrito Lumber Co.

Albert A. Frost, Jr., San Diego Lumber Co.

Fred A. Vinyard, Vinyard Overhead Garage Door.

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D. McFtrrltnre, Ccrl B. Gcrvotto,

cnd Willicm Loizecrux.

snqrl chcrlee D. McFarlcrne ( center) ni""t7T!" ilrrff "#"t J:t"| suppott. The Kitteng qre: lelt ro right, Fred tr. Vinytrrd, Albert A. Frost, Jr- llcrry A. Irion, Willian H. Seeley, Jogiah W. Snith, cnd John F. Collins.

Arnongr the Old Ccls present were: left to right, Cy lrving, Al Little, Frqnk Lynch, H. E. Anthoay, Bob Creelmqn, and Bill Gowling.

Special Materials Olfers a New Product " A"ro-Bilt" Home Sections

As announced in their advertisement on another page of this issue, Special Materials, distributors of _modern compostion building materials, w-ith offices and warehouses in Oakland and San Francisco, are offering for sale through lumber and building material dealers Aero-Bilt Home Sections, a new product, approved by FHA.

Discussing the new product Charles Haagenson branch manager of Special Mater,ials' Oakland warehouse, said: "Houses built with these sections can be of any size, sections may be fitted to any plan. No two houses need be alike, outside or inside, and houses can be erected by any contractor without much study in two or three days.

"Wall, floor, and ceiling sections are 4 feet wide by 8 feet irigh, except the sections u'ith 4 ft. or 9 ft. metal rvindorvs, r,vhich are 8 feet and 12 feet wide.

"Floor sections have sf,, plywood sub floor with ftr, plyr,r'ood under the joists, forming dead air space that gives additional insulation. Sections are glued and nailed at joints at the site. Floor sections are splined and glued at joints. Wall sections have tongue and groove joint, the ply'u-ood being recessed at the edges to accommodate taped joint system. Joints are invisible.

"Exterior wall sections have /s" exteriot plywood and come complete rvith installed metal sash. Interior sections come complete rvith flush doors. Ceiling sections have the same stressed skin design with plywood both over and under the joists providing additional insulation.

"The sections, which are all dipped to seal against absorption of moisture, take cere of floors, walls, ceilings, sash and doors, eliminating conventional floor and ceiling joists, studs, and bracing. All material is kiln-dried before assembling. The sections are built of two faces of plywood, separated by ribs of kiln-dried lumber at 9-inch centers.

"Exterior walls can be finished with texture to resemble stucco, with siding, shingles, or shakes.

"Roofs can be of any type, applied in the usual manner.

"Sections for two to three houses, according to size, can be shipped in one carload. Sections for one average veteran's house may be stored in an average sized garage."

Demonstration House

A five-room, two-bedroom home has been erected at Orinda Crossroads, near Oakland, by Special Materials, using Aero-Bilt Home Sections. The contractors were Langbehn & Chandler, Oakland. Dealers and the public are invited to inspect this home. A picture of it will appear in March 1 issue of The California Lumber Merchant.

Special Materials invites inquiries from lumber and building material dealers who may be interested in handling Aero-Bilt Home Sections, for which they are exclusive distributors. The Oakland office is at East 12th Street and 34th Avenue, telephone number, ANdover 4100. The San Francsco offi,ce is at Harrison and 72nd Streets, telephone number. Yltlencia 7174.

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in interior paneling ot line fixture work, we have c lcrge vcriety oI unusucrl crnd exotic woods-- Avodire, Scpeli" Sqtinwood, Guineasrood, Bubingcr, Primcr Verc, <rnd Tigenrood, to mention c lew. We would appreciate your inquiries on these pqnels,

Also, we hcrrre cr lcrge stock oI Mchogany, Wclnut, Gum, Birch, crnd Poplcr in cssorted thicknesees and sizes.

Philippine Mahogany Embargo Still On-Other Cabinet Woods Cutting In Strongly As Replacement

The embargo against shipping Philippine llahogany or other lumber olrt of the Philippines, still prevails, and nobody has any knowledge concerning its possible termination. Reports from the Islands shorv that no effort is apparently being .made to rehabilitate the larger sawmills, and the only things cutting lumber are a lot of circular mills that the army put into operation when the Japs fell. This is a comparatively small production. All the production is being consumed in the Islands. The cost of lumber is very high on account of greatly increased manufacturing costs. For instance, they are paying about five dollars a day for common labor that cost fifty cents a day before the war, and other costs are in line with those. Unless the inflation subsides Philippine lumber will be much higher when it finally reaches the United States than it ever was before, which will change its marketing situation very considerably. In the old days there was little competition between Philippine and genuine mahogany because of price differenqe, but that difference is very likely to be eliminated by the increased cost of the Philippine u'oods.

In the meantime there are many fine hardrvoods from Central and South America cutting into what was formerly the Philippine trade. They come from all of Central America, but mostly from Costa Rica and Nicaragua, and from both the East and West Coasts of South America. The big hardwood yards of Los Angeles and San Francisco are heaped high with a variety of new and highly useful harclwoods from the West Coast of South America, while the Central American woods are slowly coming in. Great improvement is being made in the production of these woods. For instance, there are now six modern band mills operating in. Costa Rica, and several band and many circular mills in Nicaragua. They are sending in useful and attractive woods. So, of course, are the West Coast of South American mills. Much lumber is coming into this country that even the best informed hardwood men have difficulty in telling from varioug Philippine woods, and some of them seem of even finer texture than the ordinary 'Philippine

Mahogahy species. They corne in all colors and shapes, plain, ribbon grain, etc. These u'oods at first were very high, but their prices have been dropping as the cost of production dropped, and will probably continue to do so.

On the East Coast of South America there are tremendous hardwood forests, authorities say some of the biggest in the rvorld. It is freely estimated that there are today more available commercial hardwoods grorving in Central and South America than in the entire Philippine group, which is saying a lot. It is reported that one lumber finl on the East Coast of South America has t'wo modern mills cutting into a hardrvood forest that is five hundred square miles in size, and so flat that the logging is comparatively easy. It is safe to say that the next very ferv years will see tremendous development of the hardwood forests of the territories mentioned. It is reported that Panama has some huge undeveloped forest territories r'r''aiting for the approach of the logger. Some of these days the loggers rrill be there. rvithout doubt.

15th Annual Reveille To Be Held April 25

Ed I-a Franchi, chairman of the Reveille general committee, announces that the 15th annual Reveille u'iil be held at the Hotel Claremont, Berkeley, on Friday, April 25.

The annual Reveille golf tournament I'vill be held during the morning and afternoon, and the banquet and entertainment in the evening.

Wilh Lcwrence-Philips Lumber Co.

Rex Oxford who has been wih San Pedro Lumber Co., Los Angeles, since his return from tlar service, has resigned to go with Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co. as salesman. Rex rvas three years in the infantry, half of the time overseas. He rvas arvarded two Purple Hearts, having been twice lvounded in combat. While in college he u'as a lnember of the UCLA football team.

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Too bad the following cannot be printed and inserted in everY worker's pay check every pay daY: "The only way you can ever GET more for your wages, is to GIVE more for your wages."

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The housing dilemma continues to dominate the headlines. We strain at a gnat and swallow a camel, as is usually the case with weak humans. To solve the housing shortage is siinple. All we need to do is ship all the Communists, the pro-Communists, political pinks, and the army of fellow travelers to Russia on a one-way ticket. Then there will be room and to spare, for all good Americans.

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Solving the shortage of office sface for business people is another simple one. All we've got to do is close all the Federal government emergency offices all over the land. Then there will be room and surplus room for legitimate business offices that produce something. :|<*:8

"I honor the man who is ready to sink, Half his present repute for the freedom to think; And when he has thought, be his course good or weak, Will risk what is left for the freedom to speak."

Georgia has the t e"dtinls. :":" wag has remarked that he is in favor of two cars in every garage two chickens in every pot, and two governors in every state. ***

Bugs Baer, making political comment' says there was nothing surprising about the way the New Deal kept itself in office; that with only a few of the billions they spent for power purposes he would guarantee to win a beauty contest for a hiPPoPot"*ot. * * *

A big New Dealer told a press conference that in spite of the November elections, they stitl hold a whip handthe courts. tle wasn't kidding. Since 1932, 231 Federal Judges have been appointed, and of that number only 17 were Republicans. And Federal Judges, you know, are not easy to dislodge.

"Another plague has been sent upon Egypt," as it was in ye olden times. Old Harold Ickes is now a syndicated columnist. Think of the effrontery of the man ! Never a success in any line of endeavor, he first married wealth, and then became a New Dealer. So now he issues advice to all foolish enough to read his column. Logically he

gropes among the intellectual everglades. But, as always, mud he throws with visor.

I have an Irish friend who has framed in bright fashion on the wall in front of his desk, his favorite poem' which goes: "When Greeks and Romans all wore tails, And banqueted on bugs and snails, Who ruled like Kings in golden valesTHE rRrsH."

Thg great British statesman, Disraeli, was once twitted in parliamentary debate about his Jewish ancestry' His reply lives in history. He said: "Yes, I am a Jew. And in days of old when YOUR forefathers were living in caves, dressed in the skins of wild beasts, eating raw meat, and knowing no God, MY forefathers were living in the palaces of Kings, dressed in the royal purple' afld giving thanks to the Most High God on Mount Moriah."

A friend wants to know what passage in my scrapbook I consider the greatest compliment ever paid to woman' Undoubtedly it was that inspired passage in which Wm' Shakespeare said: "Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite varietY."

She was not the lady, however, who wore a big hat to the theatre where Ken Murray was on the stage creating laughter. A man behind her said: "Lady, please remove yo,r, h"t so I can see Ken Murray." And she answered: i'That's all right. I'll leave it on. You just laugh when I do't' * 'r i<

Strange how a thought gets around. Innumerable times in the last few months friends have written in to tell me a piece of Chinese philosophy, each thinking he would be thi first to hand it to me. I like it. It says: "Enjoy life now ! It may be later than you think !"

Not long ago I read where the British Scotland Yard was "aghast" at the violence of a crime wave that swept over London during the week-end. It seems that two holdups and three robberies with violence took place there in that time. During that same period of time, here was the crime report for the city of Chicago, in the good old U.S.A.: five murders, 26 robberios, 28 burglaries, l0 assaults, 57 larcenies, 63 auto thefts, one rape case, one attempted rape case, one hit-and-run driver *case.

Have you noticed that while .we rise and sing "The Star (Continued on Page 10)

(Continued from Page 8) Spangled Banner" on all patriotic occasions, we no longer sing, and few of us remember, the third verse. Do you ? It goes:

"And where is that band who so vauntingly swore, That the havoc of war and the battles confusion, A home and a country would leave us no more? Their blood has wiped .la al.tl foul footsteps pollution."

It was our good friends and allies, the British, that that verse was talking about. Because of it, many Americans of British leaning, always choose "America" as the song for patriotic occasions, rather than the other. **>k

An economic authority says that back in the days when Ford workers got five dollars a day wages, most of them could afford to buy and own Ford cars. But that today, with wages high, it is unlikely that the average Ford worker will be able to buy and support new Ford cars. High costs, reduced efficiency, and scarce and expensive materials, is the answer. The same is plobably true of many other commodities. Again proving that it isn't the number of dollars in a wage envelope; it's the buytng Power' * * d.

Was reading the other day about one of our baseball stars getting a salary of $30,000 a year, the same amount that Babe Ruth used to get long ago. The difference is that when Babe got his eighty thousand he only paid ten thousand income tax, while the man getting the same salary today pays oirt considerably more than half of it for income tax.

We all like to have our opinions approved by others. The other day I was reading a review of a new musical movie by a much respected newspaper critic, and said: "Then Frank Sinatra croaked 'Old Man River."' That shot got me. Because that's how Sinatra's singing sounds to me. Seems to me his reputation and earning is one of the greatest demonstrations of advertising in history. I read in some paper that he grosses more than a million dollars a yearTo my taste he is a very ordinary singer, a very bad movie actor, and a most amateurish radio performer. Press agents did it. They named him "The Voice," probably because he had so little. And they developed the bobby sox angle; and that did the work. Thousands of silly children squealed when he sang; and his fortune was made. Advertising does strange things.

Time was when the word "politics" meant more than it does now, when "politician" has come to be almost a term of reproach. It used to meair more than just the vulgar pursuit of place and power. Time was when it was consid-

ered one of the noblest of sciences, the governing of men, the upbuilding of our common heritage. Think you it will ever enjoy so noble a meaning again? Love of country is the noblest emotion of the human mind. Therefore the sclence of nation building and government construction should in its truest sense, be the finest of sciences. But today it is far from that.

Bob Burns, radio comic from the Ozarks, met more than his match in humor recently. He filed with the General Land Office in Washington a claim under the Homestead Act for 160 acres of LAND ON THE MOON. The office wrote him back courteously and apparently seriously, advising him that when the land on the moon is available for homesteading they would file his claim in front of all others, but in the meantime reminded him of the following things: First, a claimant under the Homestead Act must certify by affidavit that he has personally examined the land and is familiar with its characteristics; that he must immediately build a house on it; that he must start main" taining a residence on it within six months; that he must start tilling the soil by the second year; and that he must certify.that the land is suitable for agricultural purposes. ***

Noticing the hodge-podge of stuff I write in this column, one of the queries I continually get is-"What do YOU read, yourself?" The answer, of course, is, I read like I write. I read a mixture, an unholy mixture you might say. My every day and every night reading is a mad sort of hash ranging all the way from Bible to buncombe, from bile to benevolence, from gall to godliness, from history to hysteria, from the heights of ancient history to the depths of modern slang. I draw the line at popular novelsNever read one. Too many of them and too few of me. Most of thern are sordid trash of the Forever Amber persuasion. I love history, philosophy, wit, humor, adventure when well written, and particularly, eloquence and oratory. I read and mix them all. I cordially despise fireside drama, and can't swallow a line of sob stuff. I have two years reading piled up alongside of my reading chair right now. I shall never, of course, catch up with the things I want to read. As I read, I make notes, I write, I re-write, and whisper-I steal, just as all writers since the dawn of time have done. Yes, that one thing I have in common with great writers. What I like, I take.

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Austin Stafford, formerly with San Pedro Luurber Co., is now manager of the Williams-Wenholz Lttmber Co., Bellflower, Calif. He was manager of San Pedr,r Lurnber Company's Whittier yard before entering the arnred serr-ices and on his discharge returned to that colrlpanv as shipping clerk.

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The bartender said: "What will you have?"

Attend Memphis Meeting

Frank J. Connolly, president, and Sterling Stofle, vice president, Western Hardwood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, spent some time in January in the Memphis, Tenn., area checking up on lumber conditions and prices, and while there attended an important two-day meeting at which approximately 60 hardwood manufacturers were present. They also paid a visit to the plant of the Bradley Lumber Company of Arkansas at 'Warren, Arkansas, represented by them in Southern California.

One of the upright drunks said: "Bourbon."

The second said: "Scotch."

The bartender pointed to the one on the foor and said: "What will he have?"

They said: "He can't have anything. He has to drive."

Alumi-Shield RooI Cocrting

So-Cal Building Materials Co., 1228 Produce Street, Los Angeles 2I, has available for immediate shipment a stock of Pabco Alumi-Shield, asbestos aluminum roof coating. Their telephone number is TRinity 5201.

Alumi-Shield is a coating combination of weatherproofing. material and tough asbestos fibres, through which tiny flakes of 'aluminum rise to the surface to form a metallic shield against the sun's rays and the ravages of rain, snow and sleet. It is claimed that it reduces the interior summer temperatures by as much as 15 degrees.

NU-FRAME AtL METAT WINDOTY

Avoiloble for immediqte delivery in bronze wire,' Coliforniq ond modulor' Galvqnized ovoiloble in limited qucntities. a

Monulggturers of$screens {or oll types of wood i ,.;or metdl scrsh" cosement, double-hung'

Write for c6d prices.

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Ockland and San Francisco Clubs Sponror Extension Forestry Course

Hoo-Hoo- Club No. 39, Oakland, and San Francisco Lumbermen's Club will jointly sponsor a condensed forestry courge to be taught by Professor Emanuel Fritz, of the School of Forestry, University of California. This is an Extension course, and the first meeting wilt be held on Wednesday evening, March 5, in Room 241, Giannini Hall, University of California campus, Berkeley, lrom 7 to 9 p.m. The course will consist of 10 lec.tures of two hours each, f.rom 7 to 9 p.m. each Wednesday.

All lumbermen are invited to attend the first meeting, but on account of the number that desire to enroll, it may be necessary to restrict enrollment to the 2O to 3I age group.

The subjects to'be dealt with in the course will include (l)an explanation of the tree; (2) its growth and development; (3) as a source of lumber; (4) the anatomy and properties of wood; (5) the manufacture of lumber; (6) grading; (7) use of lumber; (8) seasoning of lumber.

Terrible Twenty GolI Tourncment

Fred Field won the first low net prize, a sterling silver goblet, at the 248th Terrible Twenty golf tournament held at the Lakeside Country Club, North Hollywood, Thursday afternoon, January 23. Helmer Hoel and Bill Walker were tied for the second low net prize, a sterling silver ash tray, which they will play off at the February tournament. In the evening, the group enjoyed a fine steak dinner at the Hollywood Athletic Club. Fred Field and Bill Walker sponsored the tournament.

Redwood Worksrc Rejcct Settlement Offer

Eureka, Calif., Feb. 7.-In a light vote striking AFL redwood lumber workers voted, 1242 to 46 against a proposed settlement of the strike that began January 14,1946, it was announced today.

Representatives of the union and mill arrangements met here following the announcement. The union asked for a "modified" closed shop and a guarantee that the strikers get their old jobs back, and stated that lack of such clauses in the proposed settlement caused its rejection.

ifhe mill representatives rejected the union suggestions, declaring they would not force any employee to join the union, nor would they discharge family men and veterans satisfied with conditions to make room for strikers.

Conciliators Joseph Vincent and Gilbert Hayes said as the session adjourned that they stood ready to cooperate any time further negotiation efforts are desired.

Board oI Directors Meet

The board of directors of the I.umber Merchants Association of Northern California held a meeting February 14 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.

One of the main topics of the meeting was a discussion on further action to be taken by the Association to halt the passage of Senate Bill 215 which calls for an appropriation of 25 million dollars to establish the State of California in all phases of the lumber, building materials and home construction industries.

George K. Adams, president of the Lumber Merchants Association oresided.

AT,BERT A. KETJTJEY Alnlenk Aunlen

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General Relaxation of Centrols Over Softwood Plywood Announced Bv CPA

Washington, D. C.-General relaxation ol the controls over softwood plyr,r'ood were announced today by the Civilian Production Administration, with issuance by CPA of amendments to Limitation Order L-358, to become effective February 1.

CPA's Forest Products Division said that the action is in line with its general policy of retaining only those controls necessary to maintain the Veterans' Emergency Housing Program.

Also announced today are minor changes in L-359, effective immediately.

Principal changes in L-358, by type of company affected, are as follows :

Producers. Beginning February 1, producers tvill be required to divide their monthly output of construction plyu'ood on the basis of 50 per cent to fill rated or certified orders, and 50 per cent to care for orders from distributors n.hich carry no preference ratings or certifications. Formerly, the required ratio u'as 40-60, rvith the smaller portion going to certified orders.

The definition of construction plyrvood has 'been broadened to include plyrvood u'ith external sealer treatment, and the limitation on the quantity of exterior type of construction plywood'r'r'hich may be produced has been removed.

Distributors. Distributors 'r'ill be required to set aside only 75 per cent, rather than 85 per cent of their monthly receipts of constrttction plyr,vood to fill rated and certified

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orders, and to hold these reserves only 15 days, rather than two months, in anticipation of such orders.

Builders. The restriction limiting use of construction pl1'rvood to 6ffi feet per house or apartment is eliminated.

Cabinet and Door Manufacturers. Since no additional HH ratings are being issued, the paragraph of the order telling these manufacturers how to apply for priorities has been eliminated, and another paragraph, validating outstanding authorizations issued for the first quarter ol 1917, has been inserted.

Prefabricators and House Trailer Manufacturers. No change is made with regard to prefabricators, but all reference to house trailer manufacturers is eliminated, since these received no authorizations for the first quarter of this year.

The provision dealing with extension of rated orders is revised to permit door and cabinet manufacturers to extend ratings they receive to any supplier, except a plywood manufacturer. for the amount of door or construction plyll'ood required to produce the item called for on the rated order'

Changes in L-359 affect extension of ratings by distributors and office wholesalers.

A distributor now may extend HH ratings for the amount of millwork or hardwood flooring which he vvill deliver, or has delivered, on HH-rated orders.

A new provision is r,r'ritten into the order, permitting office wholesalers to extend an HH-rated order to his supplier, for direct mill shipment in not less than carload lots, in an amount not exceeding those called for by rated orders rvhich he has received.

Lumber Go.

Pcnel Discussion oI Lumber Problems ct Service Club

fn a recent bulletin of the Lumber llerchants Association of Northern California an account rvas given of an association member who invited four of 'his competitors to take part in a panel discussion of the problems of the lumber indqstry at a local service club meeting. The item concludes: "The panel discussion rvas well received by the club and created a valuable amount of good .will toward the five lumbermen who participated. This type of program offers an excellent opportunity for other dealers to acquaint local citizens with the true picture of the lumber industry, and is invaltrable from a public relations standpoint."

Forest Service Annorrnces Extension oI Scn Gorgonio Hecrring

San Francisco, February 3-Regional Forester p. A. Thompson of the California Region, U. S. Forest Servige, announced today that the hearing to consider revising the boundaries of the San Gorgonio primitive Area, San Bernardino Natiorral Forest, may be extended to a two_day program, if all have not been heard.

The hearing was originally set for February 19 at San Bernardino but the increasing interest in the proposed development of the San Gorgonio recreation area has prompted the decision to continue the meeting, into a second day, February 20, if necessary.

Open Lumber Ycrd

Ray Gilpatrick and Gus Standish vard at Campbell, Calif., which will chester Lumber Co. Bill Weeks will

have opened a,ltrmber be known as the Winmanage the yard.

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PORTI.AND GEMENT

Gucrrqnteed to meet or exceed requirements ol Americcnr Society lor Testing Mctericrle Specilicctions lor High Ecrly Strength Portlcnrd Cement, qs well as Federcrl Specilicctions tor Cement, Portlcmd, High-Ecrly-Sbengrth, No. E-SS-C-201 c.

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Ullll lS [? The new RY'LocK Tension F:I""l.i" " itii"f""" lype tcreen nrade wilh non'ataining arum' d;;-;tt"';loth and rluririnurn sill and.top bara' t:[;;i";;fiing devic; lievents bulsins and sagging.

unl ls lI s0 P0Pum ilu c0ilsunns til0 c0tlIRlCI-0RS? iiti riri:loci- isrrsion Screen is better lookins' more liiiiriirii""*i to i"*"it' "ttd,I""" expenrive thao conventional scteens' il't"""ag no paint' can be il:ilfi;;;ii"ia. ut" toim' ir ioco""picuous' and 'jffii;;;;;ii7- rrore' light' Furthetnore' all parts are ea3f,Y repleced. For sate, easy storage, each gcrec'n is individually wrapped wiih all o"t"""ity hardwere and p-acked i:;il-; cliion. And don't lorget' the unisue con' ;Acii; ."a-iigrtt w"igttt alininusr tneane legr treighl chargeg.

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Mcnulcrctured by

Ernesto Von Kauffmann, of Manila, Philippine Islands, landed in Los Angeles recently from the Islands, on a trip that will keep him in difierent parts of this country for about three months. He is general manager of Elizald & Company, the biggest business corporation in the Islands. Their holdings include much timber and salvmill property.

Glenn Fogleman, district manager, The California Door Company, Los Angeles, returned February 3 from attending a directors' meeting in San Francisco, and visiting the company's milt at Diamond Springs, Calif.

A. K. Wilson of the A. K. Wilson Lumber Co., Portland, visited the company's Southern California operation at Dominguez Junction in the latter part of January.

George C. Byrne" B. W. Byrne & Sons, hardwood dealers, Long Beach, returned January 27, f.rom a business trip to New York, Chicago and Middle West cities.

Erik Flamer, Coast Lumber & Equipment Co., Long Beach, has returned from a trip to Northern California.

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Lumber to Los

E. C. Hallinan, Hallinan Mackin Lumber Co., San Francisco, made a trip to Houston, Texas, at the first of the year, and while there attended the Georgia Tech-St. Mary's football game -|anuary 1.

Clarence E. Dame, who was with Strable Hardwood Co., Oakland, before the war, in which he served as a Captain in the Army Air Forces, returned to this firm after his discharge from the service, and has now been added to the Strabte sales force.

A. M. Schwarz, Schwarz Lumber Co., Miami, Ariz', tt'as a Los Angeles visitor in the last week of January.

Neal B. Waugh, Neal B. Waugh Lumber Co', Tucson, Ariz., was recently in Los Angeles on a business trip'

S. H. Douglas of the Mulcahy Lumber Co., Tucson, Ariz., and. Mrs. Douglas recently spent a few days in Los Angeles.

Hugh W. Mason of Fisk & Mason, South Pasadena, manufacturers and wholesalers of shingles, returned January 31 from a business trip to Washington and Oregon' He traveled by air and had a very rough passage on the rvay south.

Marvin Smith, manager of O'I\{alley-Smith Co., Yuma, Ariz., recently made a business trip Angeles.

Geor'ge. Gornitius, Geo. C. Cornitius Francisco, returned February 27 f.rom Los Angeles and San Diego.

Hardwood Co., San a business trip to

L. J. (Lou) Weidner, general superintendent, E. J. Stanton & Son, Inc., Los Angeles, has returned from a survey trip of Northetn California lumber mills.

Charles Darnell, formerly with Coast Lumber & Equipment Co., Long Beach, is now with \V. B. Jones Lumber Co., Los Angeles.

Charles Kollman, salesman for Or,r'ens-Parks Lumber Co., Los Angeles, for 18 years, is now with A. K. Wilson Lumber Co., Dominguez Junction, as salesman.

B. \lV. (Bobby) Byrne, B. W. Byrne & Sons, Long Beach, is baLk on the job, having made a good recovery from several weeks' illness.

Hugh Satterly is now with the T. M. Cobb Co., in their Los Angeles office. Hugh has been connected with the millwork industry in the Los Angeles area for many years.

Hans Wall, General Lumber & Supply Co., Los Angeles, rvho broke his shoulder on December 1 while getting out some mouldings in the warehouse, reports that he is now feeling fine and back to normalcy again. Hans didn't lose a day at the office, and the cast was removed a few days after the accident happened.

Francis U. Mandis, formerly with Paramino Lumber Co., San Francisco, and sales manager for some time for Coast Lumber & Equipment Co., Long Beach, is now back with W. B. Jones Lumber Co., Los Angeles.

" Fred Smales, manager, U. S. Plywood Corp., Los Angeles, was back at his desk Feb. 3 from visiting the company's plants in the Northwest.

Ray Stiger, manag'er of the timber department of Vancouver Plywood & Veneer Co., Vancouver, 'Wash., is spend,ing a month in Southern California. He will stay part of the time at Dee Essley's Laguna Beach Cottage.

monflE strGT[oNs

Picture oI AffiO-BILT house under construction at Orinda Crossrocrds, n€Gtr Ocklcnd.

These sections cne mcrde oI 2 lcces ol plywood sepcrcrted by ribs oI KIl.[ DRIED lunber cmd dipped to secl crgcrinst cbsorption ol noisture. AII ioints cre tongue cnrd grooved cmd receseed crt edges lor lilling cnd linishing llush inside rmd outside.

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Wall, floor crnd ceiling pccrels, 4x8'.

Window sections with built-ir metcrl scsh, 4x8', 8x8', cnd 8xl2'.

Door sections complete with llush doors. Any linish desired mcy be used inside or outside.

A new idecr in home construction Any crrcrngement ol roons pesible.

Sections mcy bd litted to your owa plco. No two housee need be clike inside or outside.

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Beliels oI the Old Chinese

Several thousand years ago some long forgotten thinker in China wrote the following profe'ssion of faith: : ',

"I believe in the deep blue sky and the I can see through the clouds, and am not af of the sea.

The Averaqe Southern Farmer

water;

"I believe in the toVind friendship by the flowers and the trees; outwardly they die, in the htirt they live forever.

"Little paths through green I love. and the sound of the leavep on the ground, a nut falling, or even a broken twig.

at are to come already feel the wonder of the days are passed, and will permit the wonder td cndure

rease. my belief in and my love for all and my love."

Mary had a ba It qap light

Five per was bathing suit, And ni ve was t!{"ry.

' Hnes to c Lcd

It's really not so bad, dear, through the day, When I can work or read, and keep my mind

From dwelling on the.silly sort of way

Your eyebrows slanted; and forget the kind Of shirts you wore, all open at the throat, And how it rained so hard the night we met, The bashful way you offered me your coat !

Yes, through the day I almost do forget

That when the sun goes down and darkness falls. And there's a round, bright moon way up above That shines in through my door, and calls and calls. But why should I go out? I have no love.

I'm all alone, with nothing else to do

But sit and wish that I were there with you.

Linda Leigh.

(Reprinted by request) He gets up in the morning to the alarm of a Connecticut alarm clock, buttons his Chicago suspenders to his Detroit overalls, washes his face with Cincinnati soap, sits down to a Grand Rapids table. Eats Kansas City meat, cooked on a Sears Roebuck stove. He goes out to the barn and puts a New York bridle on a Missouri mule that has been fed with Colorado alfalfa, plows his farm covered with a Vermont mortgage, using an lllinois plow. When bed time comes he reads a chapter of the Bible printed in Boston, says a prayer written in Jerusalem, crawls under a blanket made in New Bedford, only to be waked up in the night by the howling of a dog-the only home-grown product he owns,-trnd then the dumb so-andso wonders why in the Hell he can't make a living.

Not Just

Brcnn's Eloquent Declcrrcrtion

of Fcith

Wrote Wm. Cowper Brann: "As I write, my little son awakes, and comes groping through the darkness to my door. He sees the light shining through the transom, returns to his trundle-bed and lies down to peaceful dreams. He knows that beyond that gleam his father keeps watch and ward, and he asks no more. Through a thousand celestial transoms streams the light of God. Why should I fear the sleep of death, the unknown terrors of the starless night, the waves of the River styx? Why should I seek assurance from the lips of men that the wisdom, love, and power of ' my heavenly Father will not fail?7

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Not

Oh, call me up r And fill my Reproach, But don't

"I believC in those things, source of my

Scn Frcrncisco Lumbermen's Club Meets Februcry 18

The next luncheon meeting of the San Francisco Lumbermen's Club rvill be held in the Concert Room, Palace Hotel, San Francisco, at noon on Tuesday, February' 18.

The speaker lvill be Chester McPhee, San Francisco Supervisor, and his sdbject, rvhich should have a universal a1;peal, r'ill be "San Francisco's Master Plan For Youth."

Bcrck In Wholesale Lumber Business

Jack Thomas has announced his resumption of the rvholesale lumber business. His office is at 936 Petroleum Building, Los Angeles. The telephone number is Rlchmond 2246.

Jack lr.as rvith the OPA in \\rashington, D. C., for three \-ears as Section Chief, in charge of the. Western Softrvood and Service Section, and returned to Los Angeles a ferv n'eeks ago. He has been associated 'ivith the lurnber business in California for many 1'ears and is 'rvell knou'n to the retail lumber dealers.

Building Plcning MiU

Ed Fountain Lumber Co. is building a planing mill at Phoenix, Oregon, near Medford, to refine lumber products near the source of supply.

Dale Burns, Oregon partner in the compan)-, u'ill be in charge.

Peter J. Van Oosting, wholesale C--alif., recently spent two rveeks Tacoma and Seattle.

lumber dealer, Glendale, on business in Portland.

Appointed Managing Director o] Douglas Fir Plywood Association

Chqrleg E. Devlio

Charles E. Devlin is the new managing director of Douglas Fir Plywood Association, the trade promotion organization for the 33-factory'Northwest plywood industry, according to an announcement from Tacoma, Wash., headquarters by E. W. Daniels, chairman of the industry managment committee and president of Harbor Plywood Corp. of Hoquiam, Wash. Devlin succeeds W. E. Difford who resigned from the top position of the trade organization six months ago to enter private business. Harrison Clark of Tacoma, interim manager and long-time association executive, continues as.assistant manager.

Elevation of Devlin by the plyyood manufacturers is in recognition of his work with the association as director of publicity for the past eight years. During this time, the promotional association has contributed much toward establishment of plywood as a basic building commodity.

As a result of enlarged markets for the panel material, the industry expanded greatly during lhe years immediately prior to war and continues to develop today. The 33 plants employ a total of 10,000 workers in western Washington and Oregon and turn out an 80 million dollar product annually.

Devlin is a graduate of Beloit (Wisc.) College and ob-

tained his master's degree in business administration at Harvard where he was graduated "with distinction."

Before attending Harvard he worked in the Everett ticket office of Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad. After completing his advanced studies, he joined the promotion staff of the Des Moines Register & Tribune. He left the paper in 1935 to work in the promotion department of the Spokane Spokesman-Review. He remained with the Review until 1938 when he came to the plywood association.

In Tacoma, he has been active in community aft'airs and in Pacific Coast advertising circles. For several years he has been public relations chairman of Tacoma Community Chest and a member of its board of trustees and a former president of Tacoma Advertising and Sales Club. He was instrumental in establishing the Tacoma advertising award contest and in staging the highly successful Pacific Coast convention of advertising clubs at Mount Rainier in 1942.

The new plywood official is the son of Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Devlin of 3104 North 27th street of Tacoma. The senior Devlin, retired, formerly was superintendent o-f the coast division of Milwaukee road.

Winston H. McCallum becomes the nerv publicity director of the plywood association. Assistant to Devlin since I94I, he formerly handled publicity for Rainier National Park Co. of Tacoma and the National Park Service at Mount Rainier. He attended University of Washington.

With WiUred T. Cooper

Ray Van lde is now associated with Wilfred T. Cooper, Pasadena wholesale lumberman. He has been connected with the lumber business in Southern California for some time and is well known to the retail trade.

Ray was a Lieutenant in the Air Force during the rvar, was three years in the service and spent a year overseas. He was a prisoner of war in Germany for six months, and was liberated by General Patton's army.

Attend Western Retailers' Convention

W. P. Frambes and P. D. Snavely of W. P. Frambes & Son, Los Angeles, western sales agents or Infra Insulation, and R. F. (Bob) Kreisler, sales manager of National Airlite Door Co., Hollywood, have left to attend the annual convention of the Western Retail Lumbermen's Association, to be held at the Multnomah Hotel, Portland. The exhibits will be in the Masonic Temple building.

SATISFACTION

. . A mollor of boouty ond serrlce, plur thc ossurcnce of well.wcorlng quollry. lhe thrcc go hand in hond wllh thb duroble plorflc wollboqrd.

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Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo lnitiates Large Class of Kitte;s

Thirty-eight Kittens rere led through the various circuits of the Gardens to the Old Onion Patch at the Los Angeles Hoo-FIoo concatenation held at the Inglervood Country Club, Inglervood, Calif., Friday evening, Januar.v 31. There was a big turnout of Old Cats at the party. Snark Bob Osgood presided at the meeting follorving the

George A. Ryness, Jr., Ryness Flooring Lo.

Kenneth G. Conrvay, Holmes Eureka Lumber Co.

Henry A. Schafter, Sanford-Lussier, Inc.

Harold L. Tiek, Sanford-Lussier, Inc.

Thomas J. Fox, John W. Fisher Lumber Co.

Carleton A. Laughlin, John W. Fisher Lumber Co. Santa Monica

W. E. Wilson, The Sisalkraft Co. Los Angeles

Paul H. Klinkerman, San Pedro Lumber Co. Los Angeles

William F. Reeder, Forest Lumber Co. Santa Paula

Frank S. Miller, The Sisalkraft Co. Los Angeles

Arthur S. Hunnewell, Modern Cabinet Co. Huntington Park

William R. Clarke, Modern Cabinet Co. Huntington Park

Kenneth H. Day, Florence Woodcraft Los Angeles

Richard L. Mulligan, Modern Cabinet Co. Huntington Park

Dorothy

Dorothy Borchers, rvho has appeared at many of the Club's meetings, entertained with songs. Dee Essley was in his usual good voice and led the group singing rvith Miss Borchers as accompanist on the accordion.

Snark Osgood fined the Old Cats rvho were not wearing their Hoo-Hoo button twenty-five cents each, and $i0.50 rvas collected u'hich u'ill be donated to the Red Cross.

Snark Charles D. McFarlane and several members of the San Diego Hoo-Hoo Nine made the trip to Los Angeles to put on the initiation ceremonies. The other members of the Nine rvere : Senior Hoo-Hoo, John Ster,vart; Junior Hoo-Hoo, Carl B. Gavotto; Scrivenoter, Charles L. Hampshire; Bojum, Layman H. Lightfoot; Jabberwock, Ed Glasson; Custocatian, Syd Smith, (all from San Diego) ; Arcanoper, V. G. Spalding; and Gurdon, J. W. Fitzpatrick, (the latter two from Los Angeles). Huntly Wark, Junior HooHoo on the Los Angeles Nine, put some of the Kittens through the special tests, and Cliff Roberts read the Code of Ethics.

The follon'ing Kittens rvere initiated:

Jack Weber, American Lumber & Treating Co. Los Angeles

James H. Forgie, With Robert S. Osgood Los Angeles

Ilarrv Boand. Boand-Dalv Lumber Co. South Gate

Stanton Swafford , E. J. Stanton & Son Los Angeles

Max A. Kranse, E. J. Stanton & Son Los Angeles

Lloyd H. Webb, E. J. Stanton & Son Los Angeles

Henry W. Swafford, Jr., E. J. Stanton & Son Los Angeles

Robert lfeustis, U. S. Plywood Corp. Los Angeles

C. W. Kearny, Builders Emporium Van Nuys

Darwin S. Halleck, Cas'cade Lumber Co. Los Angeles

Junius B. Hall, Jr., Golden Bear Lumber Corp. Los Angeles

Cecil E. Williamson, Orvens-Parks Lumber Co. Los Angeles

Kenneth C. Price, Jordan Sash & Door Co. Los Angeles

George C. Pike, George C. Pike Lumber ct Supply Co

Photo bv Lvarren E. Hovt dinner and short talks

Borchers u'ere made by Cliff RobVersatile Musicql Entertciner erts, Scrivenoter on the Supreme Nine, and Snark Charles D. McFatlane, both of San Diego.

Pioneered the modern kitchen

some oI the commiuee members._Let, tj'fri'"# {::; Zr":;{, Orvql Stewcrt, Huntly Wcrk, Bob Osgood, Dee Essley,-f"A -Clil brdirh, Ed Mcrrtin, Roy Stonton, ff"r""i-f.if,-Jnd I. W,-flt"p"tri"t, Frar.rcis l,f:rnclis, W. Ll. Jo,es Lrrmber. L_-o. I_rs -\ngeles

Charles Dal

Frank J)onalclson, U. S. tiypsum Co. L.,s -{ngeles

Philip Cl. Keltv, Coast ])laning )Iill l_os -\ngeles

Charles I)arnell, W. B. Jones l,umber Co. Los Anleles

9. I9h" Lipani, Weyerhaeuser Sales Companv l,os Angeles tr. 14. Worthing -\lhambra

Frank I,f Westlake, I-incoln A.r,e. Lumber Co. pasadena

T. S. Brer-rnan, Lunrber Products Sales Co. I_os -,\ngeles

Norman E. C)lson, Coast Lumber & I'-clrripment Clo. Long Beach

I-. C. Itobinson, S:Ln l)edro ]_urnber C.o., I_os.\rrgeles, u'us reinst:rtecl.

All the step-scrving elficiency crnd restlul becuty you see in those kitch_ ens illustrcrted in todcy's mcrgozines devoted to the home wcs inspired by Peerless, the pioneer oI modem kitch_ en design. It is our lervent wish thcrt this yecr will encble us to supply on increcrsing number oI declers with their needs lor modern kitchen equipment.

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0ffds Lumbor Oolnp:llllv

68 PO$ STREET ' S.AN FRANCISCO 4, CALIFORNIA Telctypc SF-173 O DOuglcr 9469

RESPONSIBLE WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION OF VEST COAST FOREST PRODUCTS

penronal /rl4fbro

Joe Smith, Century Lumber & Mill Co., San Diego, spent u i"* days in Los Angeles on business the latter part of January. .

R. S. Fox and family have returned to Seattle after spending three months in Southern California. Mr. Fox is manager of the Seattle Export Co., and Kosmos Timber Co'

Paul Schmidt, San Mateo lumber dealer, has returned from the Northwest where he called on the mills' He says he found plenty of lumber but so many difierent prices that the lumber dealer today has a hard time in making a base on which to work. Rain and snow has stopped the mills in many localities, he reports.

Frank Evenson, manager of American Products, Inc', San Diego, and vice president of the American Institute of Eleciricil Engineers, attended the annual meeting of the Institute in New York CitY.

Henry "Hank" Quentneyer is the new manager of the Haywaid Lumber & Investment Co. yard in Barstow' He succeeds Omer Johnson.

L. W. Martinez, wholesale lumber dealer, San Francisco, is back from a recent business trip to Portland'

Carvel Brown, manager of Orban Lumber Co., Pasadena, on a recent business trip to Eureka, saved time by flying to and from San Francisco.

Arthur Twohy, Twohy Lumber Co., Los Angeles, has returned from a month's trip in Northern California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia where he visited the various lumber centers. Mrs. Twohy accompanied him'

Frank F. Fee, general manager' Special Materials, Oakland, is back from spending two weeks in Sun Valley, Idaho, where h. .ttjoy"d ,l.l:itg:_

Phil Curran, Curran Bros., Pomona, has been re-elected a director of the Los Angeles County Fair Association'

TIIOilAS I.UMBER GO.

wHor.EsAI.E

936 Petroleum Bldg., Los Angeles 15, Grlil. Telephone Rlchmond 2246

Storcge cqpacity of our two ycgds is cpproxinidtely 25,000,000 Ieet. We cre now unloc'ding ctnd handling trbout l'000,000 leet cr dcry. Shed capacity lor plywood and kiln-dried lumber is 2,000,000 feet.

Embarking Upon New D/^] r rogram \,rr Product Refinement

N. O. Cruver

Douglas fir door manufacturers, rvho in 1938 established through the U. S. Bureatr of Standards the first industrycluality specifications for stock doors, are embarking upon an intensive ne\\' program of product refinement.

Tl.ris announcement comes from Tacoma, Wash., headcluarters of Fir Door Institute, the trade promotion association for the ten factories of he Pacific Northrvest. and was released follorving the recent annual meeting of the grorlp. These factories turn out about trvo thirds of the nation's stock house doors.

"Determined to improve constantly fir doors for maximum utility and beauty, our industry is launching a morc elaborate and axacting system of quality control during procluction and industry grade-marking for ready indentificatioh in the field," according to N. O. Cruver, president of The Wheeler-Osgood Co. of Tacoma and newly-electerl president of the door institute.

The intensified vigilance, he said, rvill go l.rand-in-hancl u'ith emphasis on increased output to fill as fast as possibie the re-housing demands of the nation. The industry inspection service 'lvill soon be instituted for ail Tru-fit entrance closures (produced under U. S. CS91-41) and for Factrifit interior doors (produced under CS73-45). Also involved are the tlr,o specialty products marketed by the Douglas 1ir cloor producers-Crar,r'-Fir-Dor, a lou'-cost, overhead

garage door, and the Sav-a-Space framework for sliding doors.

Although production is concentrated on tl-re interior and entrance doors vital to the housing program and relatively few of the specialty items are being made, still output is far short of apparent demand at the moment. A measure of encouragement c.n be gleaned, the institute president announced, from the fact that producton is on the upswing.

In reviewing recent history of the SO-year-old I)ouglas fir door industry, the association president focused attention on the importance of the new advancement known as factory-fitting of interior doors. Stock closures now are manufactured to exact size, thus precluding hand cutting and fitting on the job. Not only does this result in over-all construction economies, but of even greater importance, a more attractive closure is assured the ultimate consumer as the danger of nis-fitting or marring due to dull hand tools is eliminated.

Factri-fit doors also are resin sealed at the plant to provide protection during shipment, to save on-the-job painting time and contribute to a superior finish. Further, Cruver explains, fir door makers now offer Factri-fit doors tl.rat, 'rvhen so specified, are gained for hinges and bored for standard tubular locks.

Adoption of precise-size manuf.actttre of interior Douglas fir doors follows the successful pre-fitting of entrance doors of the Tru-fit line produced by the same concerns. The entrance closures, offered in 27 difrerent architecturally-correct designs, too, are precision-made for beauty and economy and are ready to hang lvithout hand-cutting at the building site.

The volume of specialty items of the fir door manufacturers procluced since the end of the rvar necessarily has remained relatively low as first concern has been the output of interior and exterior doors for the housing program. Nonetheless, the tu'o outstanding products-Crar,vFir-Dor overhead garage doors and Sav-a-Space sliding door {ramesremain attractive to home o\\'ners and builders alike.

When first introduced by the fir door industry in i939, the lox' cost Craw-Fir-Dor immediately put the retail lumber dealer back in the garage door business. Of lighter construction with plywood panels and simplified operating hardware than previously knor.vn, the item at once became a leader. Two improved, post'ivar models of the door again are being made, and as before the door, together r.vith

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Plans Active Campaign Against Proposed California Senate Bill No. 215

The Legislative Committee of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California has completed its preparations for an active campaign against the recently introduced bill that would establish the State of California in every phase of the lumber, building materials and home construction industries, Robert J. Wright, executive vicepresident of the Association, announced.

The proposal, Senate Bill No. 215, was introduced by Senator Bradford S. Crittenden, Republican, of Stockton. Crittenden asked for an appropriation of 25 million dollars, to be used by the State for buying or building sawmills, cutting state-owned timber, constructing or buying factories and operational plants to produce building materials, and acquiring sites and building houses and apartment buildiirgs.

"This absurd piece of legislation would put the State of California in direct competition with private enterprise," Wright declared. "The need today is not so much for lumber or building materials, as both of these products are coming through in e.ver-increasing quantities, but for more skilled carpenters, plumbers, painters and other craftsmen. Crittenden's bill would not help the housing situation in the least. By the time this cumbersome plan got into operation there would be no problem left to solve," Wright stated.

The Lumber Merchants Association's plans call for concerted action on the part of 'the membership of more than 40O retail lumber dealers throughout Northern California.

Members of the Association's Legislative Committee are: Chairman, Wendell Robie, Auburn Lumber Company, Auburn; George Adams, Noah Adams Lumber Company, Walnut Grove; Henry Laws, Laws & Yeager Company, Santa Rosa; Jo Shepard, Builders Emporium, El Cerrito; M. A. Harris, Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Company, San Francisco; F. L. Dettmann, Allen & Dettmann, San Francisco.

Next Meeting Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 At Clcremont Hotel, Feb. 17

The next meeting of Hoo-Hoo Cub No. 39 will be held in the Blue and Gold room Claremont Hotel, Berkeley, on Monday evening, February 17' This will be the club's 22nd birthday. All past presidents have been invited to be the guests of the club at this meeting.

New Program of Product Refinem€nt

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hardware, is sold as a complete package by retail lumber dealers.

The other specialty introduced by the fir door makers as a progressive marketing step, the Sav-a-Space assembly, likewise was refined during war years. In principle it is the same: an assembled framework with overhead track that carries a sliding door, the assembly to fit into any standard 2x4 wall during construction or remodeling. However, the new track which carries the light metal rollers now is manufactured of hardwood and the package, handled by the- retail lumber dealer, now includes finish hardware as well as operating hardware.

New Officers

Cruver, who told of the products and objectives of the Douglas fir door makers following his election to the industry presidency, succeeds J. P. Simpson, general manager of Buffelen Lbr. & Mfg. Co., also of Tacoma.

Other new omcers of the door institute include: R. E. Seeley, vice president of Simpson Industries fnc. of Seattle, vice president; A. C. Peterson, Buffelen sales manager, treasurer; Herman Snider, production manager of Acme Door Co. of Hoquiam, 'Wash', secretary; and Herman E. Tenzler, president of Northwest Door Co. of Tacoma, trustee.

The officers act as a management committee for affairs of the ten-factory industry. Five of the plants are located at Tacoma while others are scattered in other cities of Western Washington and Oregon. The institute, which has offices in the Tacoma building, soon will move into a larger suite on another floor of the structure.

In Wholescrle Lumber Business

Volney G. Spalding has started in the wholesale lumber business for himself, and will operate as the Spalding Lumber Co. His office is at 803 Petroleum Building, Los Angeles; the telephone number is Rlchmond 7-4841.

H. *", with Witired T. Cooper before the war when they operated the Cooper-Spalding Lumber Co. with offices in Pasadena. Volney was in the Marine Corps for two years' and spent a year overseas with the 28th Marines. He is well known throughout the Southern California territory, and his many friends are wishing him success in the wholesale lumber business.

Partners ln Prokction . .

Ure TVOODHEALTH for prolcction cgoin:l cvery rof or decoy, pornritcr ond inrectr. In oddirion, WOOD tltE porirively guorcnl... ogoinrt lwelling, rhrinking, wcrping ond cnd chccking. Ccr comPl.t. protocfion g.t WOODHEALIH ond WOOD UFE lodcy.

PITGIIEN USffPEIRIilG DO|IRS

DXSAPPEAffNG DOOB TBAMES AIID HANGEES

Now used in lcrge quantities by housing proiectB. Frcnres are shipped set up ready to plcce in wcll, cmd carry (my eize oI door. Orders cre lilled promptly from our Ccrslro Vclley lcctory.

E. G. PITGIIER GONPIilV

600 l6th Streel Ocllcad 12, Glencourt 3990

Fcctory Slll Scvrn lfilL Rd., Ccrtro Vcllen tlnywcrd

Brush Industrial Lumber Go.

Wholesale Distributors

Hardwoods and Softwoods

5354 Eart Slaucon Avc.

Lor Angcla 99, Calif. ANselu: 1-1155

I{(IRTHERTI REllWO(lD TUMBER CO.

naaalaaaaaat

lcdwood rnd Doughs Fir nm

Sabs Oficc

Korbel, Humboldf County 2/O8.lO Rur Bldg. Colifornlo Ssn Frsncltco 4

Gustorn ltliiling

Prompt Service on Rip and Planer Work

Also Besauz & Sticker GOAST I.UMBER & tQUrPluEtT GO.

12{16 West Seventh St, Long Becch 6, Calif.

Telephones: Long Becch 728-79

L A. NEvqdcr 6-1348

L. E. Harris f,urnber Go.

U/oalotrJa !J1a/t D

West Goast forest Products

Suite l0l - 3757 Wilshire Blvd.

tOS ANGET.ES 5, CAIJFORNIA

Telephone FAirlcrx 2301

STRABI.E HARDWOOD GO.

1906 --......- .-...1947

HANDWOOD II'IUBER

PANEIS FtOOilNG DOWEIS

MASONITE PNODUC1S

T'PSON CANEC

537 FIRST STREET

OAKTAND 7 CAUTORNIA

Tl[ffiMilIfi BIIII,DIilfi $IIPMY, ilC.

Wholescle Distributors oI Lumber cmd itE Produc'ts in Ccrlocd Quantities a Wcnehouse Distdbution

6l Wholesale Building Supplies

Ior the'Decler Trnde

Telephonc ' ,60? gzad st lEaplebcr 8961-5-6 OlFl"lmd" Calil

f,UDlHnG{).

TUMBERMENS TUttDtNc POITLAND., OnEGON

Shipments By Rcril cnrd Ccngo

All Species

Telephone Telctype B8ocdwcry 3613 PUd" 167

HOGA]I LUilIBER GO.

Nu-Frame Screenr Have Gained \(ide Acceptance

Rudiger-Lang Co.,8th & Carlton Streets, Berkeley, Calif., has been manufacturing the Nu-Frame )Ietal Windorv Screen since 1935. In that period it has gained wide acceptance by lumber and building material dealers. This is the same concern, u'l.rich rvith a change in name only has been manufacturing the popular Roll-Away Screen for casement and double-hung rvindows since 1923.

Nu-Frame screen features a narrow yet strong frame construction, that allows futl light and insures perfect hanging rvithogt rvarping, because it is built rvith no joints. The r.vire is held in place by a continuous spline n'hich holds it in strong tension. The screen can be used on double-hung windows of all types, California or modular, both wood and metal.

ORBAII I.UIIIBUR COMPAIIY

Office,lvfill cnrd Ycrd

77 So. Pqscrdencr Ave., Pcrsqdencr 3, Cclil.

Telephones:

Pcrsadencr, SYccr"'ore 8-4373

Los Angeles, RYqn l-6997

WHOITESAITE and RETAIIT

Hcrrbor Ycrrd ct Long Becrch

Rudiger-Lang Co. is well equipped to furnish screens for every type rvindorv, including casement, double-l'rung, project in, project out, in both residence and commercial types, and they rvill be pleased to furnish literature and information on any rvindorv screen problems. Telephone is THornwall03.+0.

Pcrtner In Wholescrle Lumber Business

William (Bill) Schorse became associated rvith Charles P. Henry, well known Los Angeles r'vholesale lumberman, on February 1. He is a partner in the business which rn'ill be operated as C. P. Henry & Co. Their office is at 330 Petroleum Building. The telephone number is PRospect 6524.

Bill was with Pope & Talbot, Lumber Division, in the sales department at their Los Angeles office, and he has been calling on the Southern California retail lumber dealers for the past fourteen years. He is s'idely known ancl held in high regard by the trade. Bill has been indentified r,vith the lumber industry for trventy-t\'\'o lears, and has had r'vide experience in both the production and distribution ends of the business.

Sunnyvcle Yqrd Burns

Fire caused damage estimated at $25,000 to the 1'arcl of Hubbard & Byard, Sunnyvale, Calif. The entire office structure and immediate warehouses housing the hard*'are and paint departments, and the coverecl drive-in area l\'ere destroyed. Two trucks u'ere burned. Business is being carried on, and the yard 'ivil1 be rebuilt as soon as possible.

L. t. GARR & CO.

&liiornia Sugor and pondrlror;o pine Scles Agents For SACRAMENTO BOX & LUMBER CO. Mills At Woodleaf, Calif.

SACRAMENTO LOS TNGEI.ES

P. O. 8ox 1282 W.b. OuanUs Tcletype 3c-13 €s chanb;aoiionn-crco Bras.

OTC Sees Shcrp Gcrin In Hcrdwood Flooring Output

Washington-OTc predicted that production of standard grade hardrvood flooring would total between 650 and Z@ rnillion feet this )'ear, an increase of. K/o to 95% over 1946 output.

Total production, the agency said, would more than take care of 1947 housing requirements, set at 63g million feet. but *'ould be aproximately 160 million feet short of trre reqnirements of all users.

Production lor 1946 was estimated at 360 million feet.

OTC said the anticipated increase r,vas based on the boost in hardu'ood lumber production.

F. VY. Elliott

Wholesale Forest Products

Represenllng

Taylor Lumber Co.

Eugene, Clregon I Drumm Street, Ssn Froncisco | | DOuglas 42t I

Lop Ageeles Hoo-Hoo Club Meeting Feb. t8

Dr. Arthur Hill, Superintendent of Charities, Los Angeles County, will be the guest speaker at the Los Angiles Hoo-Hoo Club meeting which will be held at the Chapman Park Hotel, 615 South Alexandria Ave., Los Angeles, Tuesday, February 18. Luncheon will be served at. 12:09 p.m: President Bob Osgood will preside

Scn Frqncisco OIIices Moved

The San Francisco ofifices of Fir-Tex of Northern California have been moved to the Marine Building, 214 Front Street, San Francisco 11. The telephone number, SUtter 256,8 is unchanged.

ADVERTISERS

Industrial Lumber Co.-_-___--_--______- _____-_-__2g

Bungalowcraft Co., The--______

Burnc Lumb€r Co.--------___-_

California Builderc Supply Co.---------,__--_____-_-13

California Door Co., The -------________---______---- 9

California Penel & Veneer Co.._-________________---- I

Carr & Co., L. J.------ _ ________-___________31

Celotex Corporation, The._______________ ___-_____---- 7

C'lrristenson Lumber Co. --- - -- _ ____---_-____--

AUDITS; FINANCIAL STATEMENTS; TAX MATTERS

LI'IUDEB CANnIERS _ LITT TRUCrli _ NOIJ.ER TBUCTS

SAI.ES ALSO BEPAIBS

LUMBEN IRANSPOBTATION

"HYeter Hauliag"

Lcngeet Fleei ol Rora cud HYster

Lunber Csrriera $td LiIt Trucks On Tbe West Cocst

WESTERN II]IUBER CANNIEBS

1925 Ecrt Opp St. NEvcdcr 6-1371

P. O. Box M2 Wlmington, Cclil lErminal 4-6624

le36 Stewartt lumber ,Lt: tffJ"* with rollcrs, winches, and l5-foot body. Price $1,200.00.

ANGITO CALIFORNIA LUMBER\ COMPANY

655 E. Florancc Avcnue Los Angeles l, Calif. Phone THornwall 3144

CABINET PLANT FOR SALE

CABINET. Cabinet manufachrrinC pfq$ in the Lo-s Angeles area' - 3O000 squarc feet with 12,000 square fect undcr root 'in milf and warehouse. Three-room office and S-room house. Completc machinery and equipment including new burner.- Pricc $57,00O plus inventory, Mortgage of $18,5(X) can probably ride. Possession 90 days after sale.

LUMBER YARDS FOR SALE

Red. This yard has done an annual business of ov^er- $3@,Om f;r a numbcr of years with a very satisfacto'ry profit cach year. Yaril is abgut l?5 miles from Los -Angeles. Inventory will run $60,0d),-plus--gggipment; bonus for good will, one year'g pro6t. Will lease on p€rccntage of sales.

Resort. Yard has new modern improvements, and is located about 130 miles from Los Angelea" At gatcway to year round recreational area. No competition- Pricc $25,000 for ground, improvemcnts and equiprnent. Inventory about SlO,fiD more. Some terms.

Maxine.

Liberty.

Norman.

Long established Lo6 Angelcs yard on main boulevard. Does profitable busincss, Eleven months' sales $196,000. Aire of ground. Good territory, close in" ideal for industriat tiade. Price S60,(nO, plus inventory.

Custom milline Dlant and retail vard in Los Angeles. One acre of gro-und, pa.ved on nrain highway. Complete equipmeht including Hyster and Gerlinger carriers. Price $125,000, inventory extra.

Ideal set-up for Hardwood or Ponderosa Pine distribution yar4 3d0fl) square feet near Harbor, with spur track. Newly gaded, paved and fenced. Two heaw duty rollet betl trucks (cost S6,100 each two morrihs aio) $12.000; furniture and fixtures $3,0@; miscellaneous equipment S2.000; total $17.000. Ground and buitdings S18,000 or will lcasc same for minimum l0 years period at S275 monthly.

If you want to scll your yard let us know.

TWOHY LUMBER CO.

LI'MBER YARD AND SAWMILL BROKERS

801 Petrolcum Bldg., Loa Angeles 15, Calif. PRosPect 87'16

Part-Tirnc BookeePing

E. M. WORTHING

Public Accountant

P. O. Box 56, Station M Los Angelea 32, Calil.

Phones: Rlchmond 9251; CUmberland 3-1706

THIRTY YEARS LUMBER EXPERIINCE

POSITION WANTED

LUMBTRMAN, 25 years continuous cxperierrce in WESTERN PINES, from manufacfuring, grading, wholesalc and industrial 8e[ing and-buvins. now emploi6d, desirei position rrherc these qualificalions can be used for tlic greatcst efficicncy and rernuneratiop. Will go anyvlrcre, but prefcr Southcrn California.

Address Box C-1188, California Lu,mber Merdhant 508 Cc{ltral Bldg., Los Angelcs 14, Cdifornia

WANTS SAWMILL CONNECTIONS

Wholesale lumber firm wants to represent some sawraills which can supply - Dbuslas Fir-Redwood-Ponderosa ancl Sugar Pine Plywood-Mouldings

PAN AMERICAN LUMBER CO. 2806 West 7th Street, Los Angeles 5, Calif.

Telephone Gftanite E93 I

POSITTON WANTED

By experietrced retail oftce and yard man. Can furnish good references.

Address Box C-1234 California Lumbct Merchant 508 Central B!fu., Loo Angeles 14, Calif.

WANTED RETAIL LUMBER SALESMAN

Large rctail yard in East Bay area wants expericcrced lumbcr salesman. Good opportunity. Statc experience and refercnces.

Addrcss Box C-1231, Cdifornia Lumber Mcrchant 508 Ccntral Bldg., Los Angeles 14, CaUf.

POSITION WANTED

Man, tl4, with 15 years of wholesale building materials expericince, also home and heavy construction, wants sales poeition with an establishcd organization in which he has definite p,rocpect for advancemc'nt.

Address Box C-1232, California Lumbcr Mcrchant 508 Central Bldg., Loe Angeles 14, Cdif.

WANTED TO BUY

Permanent Connection Wanted for Continuous Supply of Large Quantities of PINIFIR & HEMLOCKSITKA SPRUCE Board & Dirncnsion

Rongh or Dressed

FIR & PINE PLYWOODAll Thicknesaes lYe" f PANEL DOORS a$d 1%" EXTERTOR DOORS

Wire or Air Mail

AMERICAN LUMBER COMPANY, INC. 103 Park Avenue, New York 17, N. Y.

BUTEN'S GUTIDE

SAN FNAIICISGO

rulrEt

Arcqla f,rdwood Co, ,l{t Mcr}ct Str..t (ll) ...YIIkoa 6-206?

Atliason-Shrb Conpcav, ll2 lrtqrl.r sk..t (li). ..GAr6etd 1809

Cbriateuon Lumbcr Co, Evcas Avc. cnd Quiar Sr. (21)..VAlcaciq 58it2

Cordr Luber Conpoav, 88 Post St. ({)...: ...............DOuglcs 2169

Dcnt 6 Ruggell, Iac., 2ll Froat Str6et (ll). ...GAr6eld 0292

Dolbeer 6 Carson Lumbcr Co..

__lll8 Merchcats Exchcnge Bldg. ({) DOuglas 6{16

Elliott, F. W. I Drunn Streef (ll).. .. .DOuglca 4ZlI

Gcnanto! d Greea Lumbcr Co., __1800 Amy Street (2{). .ATwqter 1300

Hcll, lcmes L., , 1032 Mills Blds. ({). .SUtrcr t520

Hallina! Maclin Lunber Co.

__681 Mcrlet Sr. (5)... ....DOuglce lg{l

Hc-mnold Lumber Compauy,

__{.1? ltl_gDlsgncry Srle6r (G). .Douslds 3389

Hobbs Wcll Lumber Co.. {05 MoDtgomery St. (4)..........GArtield ?ZS2

Holmee Eureka Lumbcr Co.. ll05 Fiasacicl Center Btds. (l). .. .GAr6afd l92l

Lomon-Sonaiuglon Conpqnv,

16 Ccliloraic Streer (il).'. .GAr6etd gggl

Lumber Termincl Co.. Iuc., 200{t Evcu Ave. (2{). ..VAleacic ll00

LUMAEB

Gqmorlo! 6 Grocn Lunber Co., 2{Xll Livingsron St. (6). .KEUos {-l8g4

Gosdin-Harding Lumbcr Co. oilt cPii!1"r3i."ir sld g' (r) " " " " "'' KErrog r-20r?

--.Druisos Street Whcrl 17,. .ANdover t0?Z

Ilogca Lumber ConEqny, Znd aud Alice Stre-ete 1{). .... .Glcacourt 68gl

Eellcy, Albert A.

P. O. Box 240 (Alcmedc)......Lslehurrr 2-2751

Moaqrcb Lumber Co., ll04 Frcnklia St. (12). .lWinoot<s 5291

Pccllic Foregl Products, Inc., 9lh f,venue Pier .TWinocks 6866

LUMBES

Alley Lumber Co.

All 3o. Lckcwood Blvd. (Downey). .LOgcn 340t

Anqlo CqtrtorEtq Lumber Co..

555 E. Floreace Ave. (l) .THomwctl 3f{4

Arcalq Redwood Co. (1. J. Bec)

5fl0 Wilshirc Blvd. (36). .WEbste' 7828

LUIIBER

t{orlhcrn Bcdwood Lurabcr Co., 2tO8-10 f,w Bldg. ({). ..EXbrooL 789{

O'Neill Lunbcr Co., Ltd.,

16 Colilorniq St. (lf)... .GArlield 9tl0

Pqcilic Luuber Co., Tbe

ll|(l Bush Srrect (rl). ......GArfield llSl

Pope d Tclbot, Inc., Lumber Division, 320 Cclilorniq Sr. ({).. .DOuglcs 2561

R. G. Bobbiu Lumber Co. (L. J. Owen)

16 Cclilonic St. (ll) ..GArtiEld 9ll0

Rounds Trcdinc Compcav Crocker Bldgl ({). .-.. .-.. .YUkon 6-0912

Scnls Fe Lumber Co.. 16 Calitornic Street (ll)..........EXbrook ?0?4

Soquoic Milt d Lumber Compqsv, Hobcrt BuildiaE ({)........-....'...EXbroo* 3540

Sbcvlia Pinr Scles Co., llXl0 Moacdnocl Bldg. (5)... .EXbrook 704t

Sudden d Christenson. Iac., 310 Scuoae Strcct ({)....,.....GArlield 28{6

Tcrler, Wcbsler il lobuoa, Iac., _l Montgonery St, ({). ..DOuglcs 2060

Ccrl W, Wcttg, 975 Moncdnocl Bldg. (5).........YUkon 5-1590

Weldli!9-Natbc! Co., 56{ Mart.t St. (a).. .SUticr 5363

West Oreqron Lumbcr Co., 1995 Evcas Ave. (2.{). ...ATwctcr 5678

Wostor! Pinc Supplv Conrsav, lAll Hcrricon Si.-(3). .... .UNderhi[ 8685

E. K, Wood Lumber Co., I Drunm Streat (ll). ...EXbrool 37ttt

OAKLANID

IUMBEN

E. E. Wood Lumber Co., 2lll Frodedcl Street (8). .f,E,llog 2-lm

Wholesale Duildias Supolv, Ioc., 1607 32ud Strcei (8)..-..-......TEnplebcr 696{

Wholescle Lumber Distribulorr, lac., 5'l First Street (t). .... .lWiaocls 2515

HARDWOODS

Strqble Hqrdwood Compcnv, Firgt cad Clcy Streeti (7i....TEmptcbc 5S8l

White Erotbers, 500 Hish Slr€ot (l)... .ANdovcr 1600

LOS ANGELES

!UMBEB

Pocilic Lumber Co., Tbe 5225 \lfilghire Blvd. (36)............YOrk ll88

Pctric! Lunbcr Co., EastmqD Lunber Salcg, 7l{ W. Olympic Blvd. (15). -. .PBospect 5039

Popo d Tdlbot, Inc., Lumber Division

7I,{ W. Olyapic Btvd. (15). .PRospect 82ltl

E. L. Reitz Co,, 333 Pelroleuu Blde. (15) .PBospect 2369

Bouds Trading Conpaay (Wilninstoa)

12'10 Elina Ave. ..-. .Ncvadc 6-l{ll

Scn Pcdro Lumber Co,.

l5l8 S. Centrcl Ave, (21)......Blchmond ll{l

lSqt-A Wilnlagtoa Rood (Sca Pedro) .......TErmircl 2-5{95

Shevlin Pine Sales Co., 330 Polroleun Blde. (15)....... .PBorpect 0615

Sinpsol ludutrics, lnc., l6-lq- E, _Wcghingloa Blvd. (21) PRo:pect 6183

Spalding Lumber Co,,

803 Petroleun Blde. (15).......Rlcbuond 7.4841

LUIIBER

Wevethceuscr Sqler Co., 39-l Sutter St. (8).. Gtrfold 0970

Conitius

{65 Whito

c., ...GArliold 37|t

Filth cad Brcmcr Stroots (7)... ..SUltrr 1365

SASH_DOOBS_PLYWOOD

Hcrbor Plywood Corp. ol Cclilonic, 5,o l0tb St. (9)... ......,.M4r1c1 87115

Nicolqi Door Sales Co., 3045 lgth St. (10).. ......VAleacic 2ll4l UDitod Stcios Plywood Cour., tltl \ny St, (10). .ATwcbr 1993

CREOSOTED I.UMBEN_POI.ES_. PILINGI_TIES

Americqn Lubcr 6 Trectiag Co., 60{ Mi:rloa St. (5)....... ...SUttrr llllS

Bqxter, J. H. d Co., 3it3 Mortgonery Strcet (l)..... .DOuglce 3883 Hall, Icnca L., 1032 Millc Bldg. ({). ...SUller 7510

Pope d Talbor, lnc., Lumber Divirion. f8l Mcrlet Street (5). ...DOuglce 2551

Scatc Fe Lunber Co., 16 Cclitonia St. (ll). ...EXbroolc.207l Vcnder Lcan Pillag ll Lunber Co., 16I Mcrlet Streei (5). ....EXbrooL {901

WendliaE-Ncthqa Co., 56{ Mcrlrt St. (l). .suilor 5383

.TWiroah 55ll

TEmplebqr 8100 .trEllos !-lt?

Penbcrthy Lumbcr Co., 5800 South Boylb Avs. (ll)

.f,Inbcll Slll

StantoD, E. I. G Son, 2050 East {lsl Strest (ll). .CEntury 29211

Tropical d Wertora Lunbcr Co., 609 s. Grqad Ave..... .Mlchigo $126

Weat€rn Hqrdwood Lumber Co.. 201{ Ecat lsth Stroot (55).......PRoeprct 616l

SASH-D O ORS_MILLWORE_SCNEENS BLINDS-PANELS -AND PLYWOOD IBONING EOANDS

BqcL Pqnel Compcny, 310-31{ East 32rd Strect (ll)....ADcnr l1t5

Calllonic Door Conpdny, Tbe P. O. Box 128, Vcnbn Stqtion(ll) Klmboll 2lll

Calilornic Pcrael E Vcneer Co., P. O. Box 2ll98, Tcraincl Aunex (51) ..TBinity 005?

Cobb Co., f. M., 5800 Ceutrcl Aveaue (ll)........4Dcu llll?

Cooper Wholescle Lunbcr Co., W. E., 606-808 Richlield Blds. (13).......MUruct 2l3l

Dcnt 6 Busell, Inc., 8t2 E. 59th Street (l). .ADcmr 8t0t

Dell Lumber Co. (Burbcak) 120 So. Viclory Blvd, ........CHcrleston 8-6052

Dolbeer G Ccrson, Lumbcr Co., 90t Fideliiy Bldg. (13)..........VAudike 8792

Ed. Fountcil Lumber Co..

,-7!-! W. Olynpic Blv{.. .,. .PBospcct {3ll

llcllincr Mcckln Lunber Co.

t!186 E. Bcndid Blvd (23). .ANselue 2-8030

Hqmmoad Lunber Compqnv.

__2010 !o. llcn-edc Sti (51). .PRoepect 1333

Hcrrig Lumber Co.. L. E., 3757 Wilshire Blvd. (5). ...FAirIcx ?301

Holneg Eurelc Lumber Co., 712 Architeclg Blde, (t3). .Mutuqt 9t8l

Hoover, A. L., 5225 Wilshirc Blvd. (38). ...YOIL 1168

Lcmencc-Phllipr Luabcr Co.,

- _833 Patroleum !ldg, (15). .PRorpect 817{

MacDoncld Co., L. W.,

-^7-ll lP, Olynpic-Blvd. (15) .PBorpect tl94

Mchogcny Inporting Co,,

_ 821 S1 Sprias St. (lf). .lninity 9651

Orbcn Lunber Co., 7 S. Pcrcdenc Ave.,

Pcscdona (3) .........SYccmore 6-{37i1 RYcn 1.699?

.Postoffiee Zone Number in Parcnt\esis.

StslloD, E. l. 6 Son,

?050 E. {lst Sr. (lI). ...CEutury 29211

Sudden 6 Chrislenson, Inc.,

630 Bocrd ol Trcde Bldg. (tl)....TRinity 88{{

Tqcomq Lunber Sqles, 837 Petrolcum Bldg, (151........PBospect ll08

Wendlinq-Ncthcn Co., 5225 Wilghire Blvd. (36) ..YOrl 1168

W6!t OroEo! Lunber Co., l?7 Petroleun Bldg. (15) Blchnond 0281

W. W. Wilkinson, I 12 West Nlath Strcct (lS). .Tf,inity 4613

Weverbceuccr Sclcg Co.,

lll9 W. M, Gcrlcnd Bldg, (15) Mlchigcn 6354

E. K. Wood Lunbcr Co., {710 So. Alcnedc St. (51) lEtlereoa 3lll

CNEOSO1ED LUI{BEN_POLESPILINGi-'IES

Americcu Lurabcr d Trectiag Co.,

lt5l 59. lroodqqy (15)......... PBospca 11363

Bcxtcr, I. II. 6 Co,, 601 Wert Sth Strcot (13) MlchiEoo 6294

McComicl G Bcxter Creoaotiag Co., ll2 W. grh Street (15). ....Tninirv il5t3

Pooc ll Tdbot, Iuc.. Luabcr Divi:lon, 7Il llf. Olyaplc lled. (lt) ..pf,6spaer 81!31

TTTNDWOODS lmcricca Hcrdwood Co.. lgm E. lSth Strcct (Sll Bohaboll Lunbor Co., lnc. 1500 So. trlcacdc St. (21)....

Pnospccr l23r

.PBospect 3245

Cole Dor & Plyuod Co., 1049 E. SlauloD Avc. (ll) .,..'.....ADamr l3?l

Dcvidgon

2{35 Eaterlrrige I Eubcnl 6 Son, L. 433 W. Bedondo Hcley Bros. (Scnta Monica) 1620 l{th Strcct... .AShley l-2268 f,oehl. Ino. W. G Son, 852 S. Mverr Slre.t (23) .ANgelur 8l9l

MccDougcll Door d Plywood Co., 2035 E. Slst Street (ll). ..Klnbcll 316l

Pqcilic Mutucl Door Co., 160ll E. Wcsbinglou Blyd. (21)..PRo:pect 9523

Resn Conpoav, Geo. E., 235 S. Alinedc Strect (12) Mtchigan 185{ Scnpson Co, (Pcrodcaa), 7{!i So. Rcrmond Avc. (21 ...... RYqn 1.6939

Sinpeon ladustries, lStQ E, lVqslitgt-on Blvd. (21)..PRoepccl 6ltrJ

Truc&on Ccbinet Corp., 6823 S. Victoria f,ve. (13) ....TWiaocls l85l

Uaitod Stctos Plywood Corp., 1930 Ecai lstb Sl. (2t) ..Blcbmond 6l0t

Westqm Cugton Mill, Inc., {200 Bcrdiai Blyd. (Zr)..........ANselus 2-91{7 Wcst Coa3t Scrcea Co., ll45 Eart 83rd $trcct (l)... ADcnr ltlol

West.r! Mlll ll Moulding Co., 11615 Pqroclce Avc. (2) f,Imball l95t

E. f,. Wo.od lunrbcr Co.. {710 S. tlcrooda St. (Sa)........1E{rnor llll

Your Community figure of speech or fact

Most of us use the possessive in speaking of the community in which we live and earn a livelihood. Is it "my community" only because we help to pay the taxes, support the chamber of commerce because it seems "to be the thing to do," and occasionally sit in on some trade association activity?

In business we call it developing a market when we endeavor to create new uses, new methods, better utilization or distribution. Your community is also a business . and it needs your help to develop its full possibilities. Being proud of the comrnunity . cnjoying the sight of others prospering and gettlrg more out of your own business and your own enjoyment of life, comes from working actively for community betterment.

By the very nature of the training and business ability that has made you a lumber merchant, you are cast in the mold of civic leadership . . ' whether you recognize it or not. Community leaders are ever in demand. It is a role you can and should be willing to accePt.

Re-acquaint yourself with the potentials of your community. Study its possibilities and limitations. Then, don't wait for urging or coaxing offer yourself as a worker in some community endeavor. You'll find it pays out with gains, a new sense of satisfaction and business prestige, far beyond your investment in time and energy. Then you may truly say "this in my community." Be a leader in your community !

Pioneers in Community Building

The Popes and Talbots were among the first settlers of East Machias, Maine, coming there from England, their homeland. In 1767, they shipped a cargo of lumber from East Machias to Boston. With the spirit of "the pioneers," early in 1849 Frederick Talbot and Andrew J. Pope came to San Francisco, engaging in the transportation business. This was the original firm of Pope & Talbot.

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