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Shorl Cluoles frorn Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln is immortal because the wealth of his words and wisdom is inexhaustible. So here follow some of the short paragraphs taken from various remarks of Honest Abe that will bear reading-and rereading:

"You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich."

"You cannot encourage the brotherhood of man by encouraging class hatred."

"You cannot help the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer."

"You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence."

"You cannot help men permanently

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by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves."

"You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift."

"You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.tt

Since it has become almost universally agreed that Lincoln was one of the really great men of all human history, it might be wise to think deeply of his words of advice.

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GALENDAR OF CC'IUIING Er'ENTS

Februory

Oakland Hoo-Hoo Club 99 annual Past-Presidents' Night DinnerDance, Claremont hotel, Berkeley, Feb. 21; general chairman: Earle Bender.

Western Pine Assn. Distrlcts 2 and 3 meeting, 10:00 a.m., Daven- port hotel, Spokane, Feb. 21.

Western Wood-Preservlng Operators Assn. annual meeting, F airmont hotel, San Francisco, Feb.21-22.

Northern Ilardwood & Pine Manufacturers Assn. annual meeting, Northland hotel, Green Bay, Wis., Feb.22-23.

San Joaquin Ifoo-Ifoo Club 31 Family Weekend, Sierra Sky Ranch, Yosemite Natl. Park, Feb. 25-26; leave F'resno, 3:59 p.m., 2/25; price: $32.99 couple. {Reservations: Bernie Barber, 1833 Broadway, Fresno, Calif.)

Sa,n Franciso lfoo-Hoo Club g dinner meeting, 6:29 p.m., Leopard cafe. Feb. 28.

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Los Angelos IIoo-Hoo Club 2 annual Dinner-Dance, 6:39 p.m., Glen-Aire Country Club, 3910 Stansbury St., Sherman Oaks, March 3; dinner, dancing, favors for the ladies and door prizes: $11 couple. Jerry Campbell and His Orchestra. (In cooperation with L. A. Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club No. 1.)

Hardwood Pl5rwootl lrstitute annual Membership meeting, Shoreham hotel, Washington, D.C., March 8-10; President's reception and Buffet supper, HPI office and laboratory, Arlington, Va., by chartered buses.

Western Plne Associatlon annual meeting, San Francisco, March 8-11.

23rd annual Bedwooil Region LoSSlng Conference, 12th District Fairgtounds, Ukiah, March 9-10; Conference president, John Yingst. Natl. Assn. of Lumber Salasmen, Inc., annual meeting, DuPorrt Plaza hotel, Miami, tr'Ia., March 9-11.

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Lumber Executives Inspect Addition To Plqnt

Consolidoted Lumber Compony Exponds Operotions Fqcilities

Af Huge Harbor Plqnt In Wilmington

George Hinkle, general manager of the Consolidated Lumber Co., Wilmington, supervised the placing of the first hyster load of lumber in the new addition of the harbor plant of the wholesale lumber concentration yard adjacent to the dry kiln area last month when the firm added two more acres to the 56 acre facility. He is pictured here "spotting" the first load in the kiln yard, along with general superintendent John Hults, hyster operator Rito Franco on lift fork and his assistant Carl Wagrrer.

It was a gala day early in January when the offcials of the lumber concern initiated the new area, which was formerly occupied by three unoccupied houses on Anaheim Street in the harbor eity. Oftcials of the firm attending the ceremony included Ralph Russell, Al Wahl, J. W. "f itz" F itzpatrick and, of course, general manager Hinkle. 548 tons of crushed rock were applied to the area in preparing it for lumber storage, according to superintendent Hults.

"The operating plant is now so spread out it requires a two way radio system to keep in touch with the mobile equipment operating within the yard and to keep the movement of lumber flowing from the docks, to mill, to kilns to storage," said super-cargo Hults.

"Our plans call for continued expansioq and remodeling to keep abreast of the service we must render dealers during the 60's ahead and to keep our plant up-to-date and modern," said general manag:er George Hinkle.

los Angeles Gomplex fo Surposs New York Areo Within Holf-Gentury

Population in the Southland economic complex of Los Angeles will surpass the l7-county New York area within the next 50 years, it is predicted. James S. Cantlen, chairrnan of the Research committee of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, said studies by his group indicate that the local area will be gaining on the New York-northeastern New Jersey complex at the rate of 150,000 persons per year by 1980. (A recent survey by his research group on trends through 1980 revealed that the population of the state of California would pass the state of New York by mid-19fl.)

"Although the five-county Southland area currently has less than half the population of the New York county grouping, 7,210,0N ioi4,52I,700, by 1980 this lead will be reduced to less than 4,000,000," Cantlen stated. He pointed out that the local area is growing at the rate of 340,000 annually, while New York is gaining in population at only 180.000 each vear.

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Gypsum to Distrlbute Fiberglas

Kaiser Gypsum Company has been appointed a national distributor for Owens-Corrring F'iberglas screening. The product will be sold through local distributors of building materials throughout Kaiser Gypsum's 14-state marketing territory.

!he. f119t Hystel load moves.to the new addition under close direction oI (let to right) General view of dry klln area recently Carl Wagner, Ralph Russell, George Hinkle, v{holesale salesmanager Fitz Fitzpatrick, lumber concern. superintendent John Hults and Hyster operator Rito Franco.

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Wood Preservers Point Out Vqlue of Pressure-treqted Wood in Homes

There is a distinct place for pressure-treated wood in the American home building picture, it is pointed out by C. Miles Burpee, manager of the Service Bureau, Ameiican Wood Preservers' Association, Chicago.

There are many places in a modern home where treated wood can perform a valuable job in offering protection against the two worst enemies of wood, decay and termites. At the same time, wood treated to make it fire retardant also will provide added safety to a home, Burpee declares.

Considering the heavy investment in a new home-a house usually is the biggest investment made by the average person-the Service Bureau declares it is wise to make sure that full protection is afforded against the damage which can result from decay or termite attack. lfomeowllers seldom go without adequate fire insurance on their homes; considering the small additional cost of using pres- sure-treated wood where necessary, this type of insurance against rot and termites is equally vital, Burpee declares.

T)ecay is caused by fungi, low forms of plant life, which fbed upon the wood. Four requirements aie necessary for decay-air, favorable temperature, moisture and food, which is supplied by the wood itself. The fungi cannot feed on the wood unless it contains more than 20 per cent of moisture by weight.

Much of the wood in well-constructed homes is too dry to_decay,_but leaky roofs, windows and plumbing may pro- vide ample moisture. In general, Burpee-points Jut, ti.eited wood should be used wherever there is excessive moisture and fo_r- all _building members in contact with the ground or within 18 inches of the soil.

_ Decay occurs frequently in untreated flooring laid directly on concrete slabs or subfloors in contact with the ground, for moisture in the soil penetrates the concrete slabl unless

it is effectively waterproofed, and in time reaches the wood.

Ternrites must have contact with the soil and their entrance_to buildings can be prevented by insulating all untreated woodwork from the ground. Pressure treated wood is itself an excellent barrier, because they cannot eat through it. Fortunately, the same preservatives that prevent decay also stop termites if applied to the wood by approved pressure processes. One of the most practical methods to keep termites out of buildings is to use pressure treated wood for ground floor construction. The subfloor lumber and all wood below it should be pressure treated if an effective barrier is to be set up against subterranean termites, the Service Bureau concludes. -

Hoo-Hoo Club 2 Moves Dinner

Dance To Sqn Fernando Volley

Snark John Osgood, of Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club 2, announced last month a change in plans for the annual dinner dance which was scheduled for February 17th. Because of a double booking this event has been changed to Friday evening March 3, 1961 at beautiful Glen-Aire Country Club in Sherman Oaks. The clubhouse is located at 3910 Stansbury Street.

Rex Oxford has arranged for Jerry Campbell and his orchestra to furnish dance music starting promptly at 8:09 P.M. The cocktail hour and gathering of the will get underway starting at 6:30 P.M. A gala evening is promised for the ladies with favors for all the "Gals" and practical door prizes for the lucky guests. The Hoo-Hoo-Ettes will turn out in great numbers and Snark Osgood has promised fun for everyone. The cuisine at Glen-Aire Country Club is the finest, offering a choice of lobster or steak at only $11.00 per couple, or single at 95.50.

AU Hoo-Hoo are urged to set aside this date and bring the missus out for the fun. Dancing will continue until 2:00 A.M.s o o o-we'll be seeing you.

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Lonn Progrom foAid Firms Buying Timber

A new prograrn to provide loans to small firms purchasing timber from national forests is announced jointly by the Small Business Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The program, developed jointly by the Small Business Administration and USDA's f,'orest Service, will provide small firms with funds for building access roads and thus reduce the strain on working capital needed for normal operating expenses.

Applications to SBA for road-construction loans will be accepted only from small business concerns who are successful bidders for national forest timber sales and who can meet the size, eligibility and credit requirements of the Small Business Administration.

SBA business loans may not exceed $350,000 in Goverment funds to a borrower, but loans of this type will also be limited to the amount of the F orest Service's estimate of the cost of construction of the access road.

Under terms of the agreement with the F'orest Service, the timber to be harvested will provide security for the loan and required collateral will be limited to an assignment of any assigrtable rights under the national forest timber sales contract between the borrower amd the F orest Service.

In case additional funds are required for any legitimate business pu{pose other than for construction of access roads, however, a regrrlar SBA business loan to be secured by other collateral can be considered separately.

In most cases, loans of this type can be quickly handled, the Small Business Administration said, since the Forest Service will have already considered the technical and financial capacities of tJxe small concerns.and found them acceptable.

As soon as joint procedures have been developed for handling road-construction loans of this type, the F orest Service will indicate the availability of SBA financing in its timber sale prospectus. It is anticipated that the program wiU be fully implemented by March 1.

Home Buildlng Unddr Woter

"Fibrforms"-1fus corrugated void boxes designed for poured concrete foundations and flooring-have entered the field of home construction with a unique application in a home built recently on the shores of the Belvedere Lagoon on San Francisco Bay.

A building materials product of Fibreboard Paper Products Corporation, "Fibrforms" have enjoyed wide use in industrial and public building construction, but their incorporation in the foundations of single dwelling units is new.

Their Belvedere application was in the "floating foundation" of a house built on fill land adjacent to a lagoon made popular in recent years as a location for quality suburban homes. "Fibrforms" used in the foundation construction were made of corrugated paperboard fabricated with the interior reinforced with an "egg-crate" of crossed, interlocked sections of paperboard. A water-resistant adhesive was used in the forming of the void boxes, providing further protection against distortion from moisture.

Venturo County Lumber Yords Chcnge Hnnds

OXNARD-One of Ventura County's oldest, continuous businesses has been sold.

Peoples Lumber Co. has sold its four Ventura County yards, located here, in Ventura, in Santa Paula and in Camarillo, to the Sun Lumber Co. of Los Angeles.

Peoples was founded in 1890 in Ventura with one yard and four employees. For many years, Adolfo Camarillo, pioneer county rancher who died several years ago in his mid-nineties, was president of the concern.

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Said Theodore Roosevelt:

"We, here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years; and shame and disgrace will be ours if in our eyes the light and high resolve is dimmed, if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men. If on this new continent we merely build another country of great but unjustly divided material prosperity, we shall have done -nothing; and we shall do as little if we merely set the greed of envy against the greed 9f arrogance and thereby destroy the material well-being of all of us."

Calvin Coolidge once uttered these memorable words: "We do not need more material development, we need more spiritual development. We do not need more intellectual power, we need more moral power. We do not need more knowledge, we need more character. We do not need more government, we need more culture. We do not need more law, we need more religion. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. There is in the people themselves the power to put forth great men. There is in the soul of the nation a reserve for responding to the call of high ideals, to nobility of action which has never yet been put forth. There is no problem so great but that somewhere a man is being raised to meet it." r: 13 *

Herbert lloover once said: "The world is in the grip of a death struggle between the philosophy of Christ, and that between Hegel and Marx. The philosophy of Christ is the philosophy of compassion. The outstanding spiritual distinction of our civilization from all others, is compassion. With us, it is the noblest expression of man. Those who serve receive an untold spiritual benefit. The day we decide that the government is our brother's keeper, that day the spirit of compassion will have been lost. If we abandon private charity we will have lost something vital to America's material, moral and spiritual welfare. But a simpler answer than all this lies in the Parable of the Good Samaritan. He did not enter into governmental or philosophic discussion. It is said that when he saw the helpless man,

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'he had compassion on him, he bound his wounds, and took care of him'." * {< rr

Thomas Dreier says:

"If we are ever to enjoy life-now is the time-not tomorrow, not next year, not in some future life after we are dead. The best preparation for a better life next year, is a full, harmonious, joyous life this year. Our beliefs in a rich future life are of little importance unless we coin them into a rich present life. Today should always be our most wonderful day." * * rr

Charles Kingsley wrote:

"The men whom I have seen succeed in life have always been cheerful, hopeful men, who went about their business with a smile on their faces, and took the chances and changes of this life like men, facing the rough and smooth as it came, and so found the truth of the old proverb: 'Good times and bad times and all times*pass over'."

Thomas Jefferson said:

"It would be dangerous delusion if our confidence in the men of our choice should silence our fears for the safety of our rights. Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded on jealousy, not on confidence. It is jealousy and not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power. Our Constitution has accordingly fixed the limits to which, and no further, our confidence will go. In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief with the chains of the Constitution."

The fact that a movie J"uul "drr" Alamo" is going great guns around the country brings to mind a famous story about Davy Crockett, one of the Alamo heroes. ffe was a Congressman once, and when called upon to make his maiden speech in the House, the courage that made him a great hero deserted him, and he said: "Mr. Speaker, I can lick any man in this house but, right now, danged ifI ain't scared stiff!"

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Yole Endows Forestry Professorship

New Haven, Conn.-{ grant of $300,000 to the yale University School of Forestry from the General Service Foundation, to establish a new C. R. Musser Professorship of Industrial Forestry, was announced by President A. phltney Griswold of Yale. The new profeisorship, first of its kind in this count_ry, is named in memory of C. n. Musser of Muscatine, fowa, one of the industry advocates of modern forestry practices in the field of American forest products. First incumbent of the new C. R. Musser chair will be Zebulon W. White, a leadine expert in forest management, who joined the Yale Schdol of Forestry facultv in 1958.

Mr. Musser was associated throughout his entire business career with some of the leading timber and forest products companies of the country. He served from 1919 to 1950 on the Board of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, of wh-iclr his_ father was one of the original incorporators and first directors.

The new professorship will also give support to the program .o{ shortterm seminars for industry- representa- tives which the School of Forestry has sponsoied since 1955. Eight such seminars have been held to date. including two each at Crossett, Arkansas, and Berkeley. Californ!a, the latter under the joint sponsorship of ttre yale and University of California Schooli of Forestry.

Twin Horbors Lumber Compony

ftloves Southern Cqlifornio Ofiiles

Announcement was made last month by T\vin Harbors Lumber Co., Los Angeles, that the southern area sales offices would be moved to the Ocean Center Building, 110 West Ocean Boulevard, Long Beach, California, on F ebruary 1, 1961. The new telephone numbers of the wholesale distribution concern are: Spruce b_681g and HEmlock 2-348L.

Kitchen Trcining School Opens Morch l2

A record enrollment is expected for the National Institute of Wood Kitchen Cabinets' fifth annual Training School for Kitchen Specialists, to be held in Chicago, March L2 to t7, according to F red F. Montiegel, institute manager. He attributed the volume of inquiries to the outstanding success of the previous NfWKC schools, coupled with mounting interest in the kitchen business due to a g?owing realization of its vast potential market.

"Since only a limited number of trainees can be accommodated," Monfiegel said, "those who wish to attend are advised to write immediately for application forms to the National Institute of Wood Kitchen Cabinets, 75 E. Wacker Drive, Chicago 1, Ill, Quatified men and women will be accepted on a first come-first served basis." Eligibility is confined to persons representing active or associate members of NIWKC, distributors or dealers of those members, and representatives of utility companies.

Classes will be held in the Hotel North Park on Chicago's near norti side. The institute will arrange room accommodations there for trainees who wish them. Registration for the combined six-day school is $95; for the kitchen planning course only,975; and for the management seminar only, 935. These fees include all drawing equipment, notebooks and lecture materials.

New Booklets on Beech

The Northeastern Beech Council has available a large library of practical booklets, recently written, which are especially aimed at foremen arid plant superintendents. These brochures cover the whole field of Beech, from logging, to seasoning, to machining, to finishing. There is no charge for them. All those interested in obtaining a free copy may communicate with the Northeastern Beech Council, Old Forge, N. Y. "Any qualified manufacturer who wants to try Northeastern Beech, will be given gratis a suitable amount of lumber with which to experiment," the Council declares.

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Southern Calilornia Sales oflice: RALPH CARDWELI-, Manager 7668 Telegraph Road, Los Angeles 22 '

Pete Shorp Elected President of Redwood Empire Club

Redwood Empire Hoo-Hoo Club 65 staged its first meeting of the New Year F riday evening, F ebruary 10, at the Saddle n' Sirloin in Santa Rosa, with election of new officers and directors the high- light of the meeting. Succeeding outgoing prexy Henry Stonebraker, wil be Pete Sharp, of California Redwood Sales in Santa Rosa, with Bill Chenoweth, Chenoweth Lumber Company, taking over the vice-presidency, and Duane Bennett, Mead Clark Lumber Co., Inc., once again holding down the "workhorse" spot of secretary-treasurer.

New directors include: George Haas, Bonnington Lumber Co.; Bob Johnson, Sonoma Mill & Lumber Co.; Elmer McDade, McDade Timber Laboratory; Jim Nagy, Colombo Lumber Company; and Bert Wheeler, Larkspur Lumber Company. Holdover directors, serving another year on the board, include R. B. Dorman, BMD; Norm Herring, Harbor Plywood-Division of Aberdeen Plywood; and F rank Olsen, Lumber Dealers Materials Company.

The active and fast-growing Redwood Empire club concluded its 1960 year witl a Concat which swelled its ranks with 10 fine healthy Kittens, all now active in club affairs. The "Terriflc Ten" who were Concatenated at the recent meeting were: Don Adamg, Adams Trava Lumber Co.; Wayne Wirick, Broadway Lumber Company; Robert Shannon and Peter Lowe, both of Union Lumber Company; Clyde Paul, Yaeger & Kirk Lumber Co.; Bill Doyle, Eluor Products; Elmer McDade, McDade Timber Laboratory; Gordon Taylor, Western Pine Supply; Vernon Stamme, Hogan Wholesale Building Materials; and Fred Farquar, Lumber Dealers Materials Co.

The March meeting of Club 65 will be held in San Rafael, Friday evening the 10th, with Bert Wheeler chairmanning the proceedings, new prexy Sharp announced.

Soledod Wnrehouse Sold

Ttre Tom Hambey Lumber Company, operated by Tom Hambey of Soledad, has purchased the lumber and building materials inventory of Soledad Warehouse, cunently in the process of liquidation. Charles Madsen, former manager of Soledad Warehouse, will remain on witi the Hambey organization, it was announced.

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Big Stog Porty Scheduled By L. A. H@-Hoo Club 2

For illqrch l7th

The Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo club 2 steering committee selected the California Country Club at Whittier, on State highway 39, for the big spring concatenation, golf tournament and vaudeville show March 17, 1961. The cuisine is excellent, the golf course is fast and the entertainment chairman, Larry Weiland, has promised seven flrst class acts direct from Las Vegas and Holl5rwood nite spots.

Golfers wiil start teeing off promptly at 9:59 A.M. The initiation of Kittens will be held before dinner and during the cocktail hour with the big show scheduled immediately following dinner. A full day of fun and frolic has been promised by Snark John Osgood and all "Black Cats'l are urged to make plans to attend the big event.

It has also been announced by the committee, and Orrie Hamilton, that Aprii 13th will be Hoo-Hoo Day at the annual SCRLA ccnvention to be held this year at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. On that day Hoo-Hoo Club 2 will sponsor the Fashion Show and furnish a speaker to discuss the 1961 National Forest ProCucts Week promotion. This is an affair of great interest to all lumbermen in southera California and prexy Osgood requests your attendance.

A Word of Goution-

If you find a mistake in this paper, please consider it was put there for a purpose. We publish something for everyone, and some people are always looking for mistakes'

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George E. Geory Refires After 56 Yeors in lumber Business

George E. Geary, for the past 56 years active in the lumber business on the west coast and for the past four years with Sun Lumber Company, Wilmington, retired January 31, 1961. George started his career wit}t the McCloud River Timber Company in McCloud California way back in 1904.

During the past six decades George has worked for various organizations throughout California, Old Mexico, Oregon and Idaho. In February 1925 he came to Los Angeles from Sacramento to enter a seven year association witll E. J. Stanton & Son, Inc., and a few years with W. E. Cooper Co. He left the Cooper lumber people to join the stafr of E. K. Wood Lumber Company in Los Angeles where he remained for more than 23 years in the sales department. When E. K. Wood closed its retail business George joined the inside sales sta.ff of Sun Lumber Company where he has been since that time.

Very few of Geary's customers have met him personally. They knew him only via the telephone and his happy ,,hello', before going into his sales pitch. He has been active in southern California lumber circles for the past 35 years and has watched this area grow from small communities to its present leadership. He has furnished a lot of the building materials for this growth.

George intends to take it easy by loaflng and lazing in the sun, make a few trips by auto and then later in the year, if conditions permit, take a slow boat to China and around the world. Have fun, George, you will be missed at Sun Lumber Company and by your many friends in the industry.

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Portland-Veteran field representative

David Lucas has been appointed to fill the newly created post of field supervisor for ilre Western Pine Association, according to Leo W. Beckstrom, promo- tion manager. "He brings to the position a wealth of solid field experience," Beckstrom said. ,'His new duties will include the direct supervision of the Association's 1l-man field staff, especially in coordinating fleld work with our national merchandising and product information programs."

The creation of the fleld-director post indicates the emphasis being given that function of the Association's trade promotion efforts by the Western Pine industry, Beckstrom noted.

"Wo plan to continue strong relaflonships with retail lumber dealers and wholesalers," he sald. ..Archltects, engineers, building inspectors a,nd g'overnment agencies wlll a,lso recelve increasfurg servlce as the closo supervlsion of field activlfies grows."

F'uture plans include the increased use of ,,seminar" sessions with interested groups. This allows the field representatives to serve more people in a shorter period of time, Beckstrom said.

Western Pine Association field representatives are located in strateg'ic market areas throughout the United States. Two new districts were opened up tiis year, one in the Inland Empire and the other in the Southwest. While Lucas will headquarter in portland, he will travel heavily to maintain close working' contact with his field staff.

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196l Southern Pine Groding Rules Now Avniloble

, New Orleans-A 1961 edition of Southern Pine grading rules now ls off the press according to an announcement of the Southern Pine Inspection Bureau. These rules will become efrective'on March 1.

The new rules include only a few changes, the announcement states, but reflect a number of improvements. Probably the most important is the establishment of a stress-rated gtade of No. 3 dimension which does not require medium grain (four rings to the inch). A basis is provided for Medium Grain No. 3 and Dense No. 3 to be specified,

As the new No. 3 grades of Southern Pine are stress rated, they will be eligible for use in tr'HA construction. The F ederal Housing Administration has been asked to establish allowable spans in joists and rafters for the new grades of No. 3, No. 3 M.G. and No. 3 Dense, as well as for these grades of kiln-dried dimension.

A further step was taken in the direction of simplification t\rough the rearrangement of the dimension section of the rules. The four basic grades of No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 and No. 4 are ffrst listed, and then in a separate section the additional stress grades are shown reflecting optional quality variations according to different seasoning and rate-of-growth requirements.

Another significant move was the decision to adopt botlr 25/32,, and, la, as the dressed thickness for the cornmon grades of boards. fire new rules provide that unless the thickness is particularly specified, the mill may dress the lumber either to 25/32,, or s1n,. firis action does not apply to finish or flooring. If grade marking ls required, the mark must specifically indicate that the lumber is V+,, I}J.ic,K to distinguish it from that which conforms to the American Lumber Standards size of 25/32".

To meet the growing demand from buyers for No. 1 boards worked to Drop Siding patterns, the new rules provide that No. 1 Drop Siding is to be graded according to the rules for No. 1 boards. Heretofore, there has been no No. 1 Drop Siding grade in the rules. Special stadium grades for outdoor seating puqposes have been formulated to meet the views of manufacturers of stadium and bleacher seats. These new grades are included in the 1961 rules.

On tlre whole, the new Southern Pine rules represent another

progressive step in the sta^ndardization prograrn of the Southern Pine lulnber industry. Single copies are avallable without charge to specifiers, buyers and distributors of Southern Pine.

Forest Service Mokes Finol Aword Of lcrrge Arizoncr Timber Sale

Final award for the sale of 6 million cords of national forest pulp timber in the Southwest, which will mean a new industry for Arizona and improved timber stands on ll mlllion acres of national forests, was announced by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. The Southwest Lumber Mills, Inc., of Phoenix, Ariz., was awarded the timber, located on the Colorado Plateau of Arizona and New Mexico in the Kaibab, Coconino, Sitgreaves, Apache, Tonto, and Cibola National Forests. The timber sold consists of small and low-quality ponderosa pine and other species which will be thinned and salvaged from the forests. The sale contract extends over a 3O-year period. Assured of a long-range supply of raw material, the company is speeding up plans for construction of a paper mill near Snowflake, Ariz., to start operations in 1963.

"The timber stands on the Colorado Plateau need this thinning," Richard E. McArdle, Chief of the Forest Service, pointed out. "Getting some of the trees out will give the other trees a chance to grow larger and the quality will be better. The thinning will also improve watershed and .grazing conditions. We're glad to see a paper mill come in. In addition to using small trees the mill can use other material that usually goes to waste: tops of sawtimber trees and slabs and edgings from sawmills."

Terms of the sale, like other national forest timber sale contracts, provide for reforestation, protection of streams, fire protection, and protection of potential recreation and scenic areas. The network of roads to be built by the company in harvesting the timber will provide access to hunters, fishermen, campers and other recreationists.

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The Fllntkote Co. Acquires Llcenses

The Flintkote Company announces an agTeement with Rand Development Corporation whereby Flintkote has acquired licenses under Rand Development Corporation and Canadian IngersollRand Company, Ltd.'s spray-up process patents. F lintkote will receive the spray-up process of reinforced plastics which constituted a break-through in the low cost, high quality manufacture of products rang:ing from boats, trucks and trailers in the tra.nsporation industry, to the field of buildings, sidewalls, swimming pools and building materials in the construction industry. This agreement permits Flintkote to combine its Sealzit Gun with ttre Rand know-how and the protection of tJ e Rand patents and puts F lintkote in a position to expand its markets and to contribute to all phases of the reinforced plastics industry.

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ftlorin County Holds Line OnBuilding Costs

Despite spiraling prices of labor and materials, the actual cost of building a house in Marin ,County today is less than 8/o over what it would have cost 10 years ago.

E. Douglas Roberts, manag:er of the Marin Builders Exchange and a man who believes in getting the facts, has the signed bids to prove it.

Today's house is not the same as the house built in 1950; it's quite likely that it will contain many improvements which add to the cost. So for text purposes, Roberts decided to call for bids on an actual Marin dwelling built a decade ago.

In selecting a home suitable as a "comparison residence," consideration had to be given to the type of dwelling, availability of architectural plans, use of equivalent building materials, topography of the site and other factors which would make the comparison test a fair one.

The home selected was that of Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Douglass on Loma Avenue, Tiburon, a typical Marin dwelling of some 1,500 sq. ft., with three bedrooms, two baths and a 380 sq. ft. carport. It was built on a hillside view lot of approximately one-third of an acre, but the house site had been graded level, thereby ofrering for all practical pulposes a house on a concrete slab foundation on a level lot.

Plans for the home as originally submitted for bids in 1950 were obtained from architect Eugene E. Crawford of San Rafael and the original bids themselves were dug out of the files.

Some modifications of materials specifications had to be made to allow for changes and substitutions now in use (Aluminum sash, for example, which is more commonly used today in place of steel sash, but at no increase in cost).

In setting up the test, the Marin Builders Exchange could not foresee the outcome, but it was hoped that findings would establish that present-day home prices are considerably higher by reason of increased land costs.

But wage scales, with fringe benefits, in the construction crafts have also been hiked considerably over the past 10 years. The average increase in the four basic erafts-electricians, plumbers, carpenters and painters-has been hiked a thumping ?4 per cent.

In checking out the cost of materials, it was interesting to note that structural lumber is still about the same as it was in 1950; redwood rustic showed a small increase of about 8 per cent.

Other materials, such as sheetmetal, reinforcing steel and concrete, have shown respective increases ot SL/o,26Vo and,|tVc.

One fact did show up to bear out the thought that the price differential in lot values was considerably more. The orig:inal housesite was valued at $5,000: present value was authoritatively set at $18,000-a rousing 260 per cent increase since 1950.

Plans and specifications were submitted for bid to Larkins Construction Co., H. S. Meinberger and Son, and Charles Hendrickson, with the understanding that the low bidder would agree to build the same house on any level site in Marin County falling under jurisdiction of the county building inspection department, within 30 days.

The three original bids received in 1950 were: $24,252, $28,376 and $28,600.

Bids turned in for construction of the same house, 10 years later were: $25,954, $30,453 and $31,219. Lowest bid, which was submitted by Larkins Construction Co., was only a fraction over 7 per cent higher than the 1950 low bid. The comparative average of all three bids showed an increase of 7.8 per cent.

The test bore out the Exchange's contention that today's higher home prices are principally due to spiraling land values; in fact, the Exchange noted after reviewing the bids, builders have cut down on their own profits to help equalize the increase.

The Exchange also pointed out that home financing costs have g'one up in the last 10 years, and that the tastes of buyers for new architectural designs and improvements are resulting in more expensive houses.

Associofion Moves Ofiices

Headquarters of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California, formerly located at 24 California St. in San F rancisco, was moved to San Francisco's new Post-Van Ness Center building, 1255 Post Street, on F'ebruary 1. Association executive vice-president Jack Pomeroy, and LMA secretary supreme, Clare Zimmermarl may now be reached at the Association's new phone number-PRospect 1-1891.

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Dick Hoskins Pqrtner in Crown Redwood

F'ortuna, Calif.-Richard Hoskins of Eureka, who for the past six years has been operating the Gualala Lumber Co., has become a partner \Mith John Tsarnas in the ownership and operation of Crown Redwood Company here. Tsarnas has operated the plant more than eight years,'along with other lumber operations in the Myers Flat area previously.

Boverly Hills Compa,ny Appointed

Appointment of Elliot Evans Co., 400 So. Beverly Drive, Beverly HiUs, as Western States representative for National Leasing'Co. of Chicago, one of the largest and most active leasing organiza- tions in the world, is announced from Chicago. Another facet of National Leasing service is the "sale and lease-back" program where complete assets are purchased and then leased back. Still another service which promises to become widely used is a leasing program for manufacturers whose products can be leased directly to consumers through sales representatives, without the need for conditional sales contracts.

Promotion Boosts Ol5rmpic Sales

Preliminary year-end reports indicate Olympic Stained Products Co., Seattle, will show a 137o sales increase in 1960 over 1959, according to John N. Anderson, general manager. Anderson said two factors accounted for the sales gain: an aggressive sales promotion campaign that added several hundred new major dealers stocking Olympic stain products, and a continuation of the successful consumer sales promotion developed in 1959. In preparation for 1961 the company has opened division sales of,Hces in Los Angeles, Honolulu and Kansas City.

Morgan Compa,ny to Expand Operation

Morgan Company, nationally known woodwork manufacturer, has acquired the entire plant property of the former Foster-Lothman Mills situated immediately west of the present Morgan plant. According to Hugo W. Eckhardt, president of Morgan Company, the property is being acquired in order to expand manufacturing operations at its Oshkosh location. This was the fourth expansion move announced by the company in 1960. Further expansion moves are planned in the near future.

Burtnor Namod to K.ey Poat

Fred W. Burtner, veteran industrial and association executive, has been appointed manag'er of the industrial department of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. He will coordinate the Chamber's gtowing efrorts to stimulate the growth and expansion of existing Southland business and industries as well as aid new firms seeking to locate here. A native of Riverside, Burtner has been with the Line Material Industries since 1955.

Ca,tchpole to Head Butlding-Coile Depa,rtment

Richa,rd tr'. Catchpole has been appointed manager of the Buildlng Code department, Technical Services division, of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. He served the city of Highland Park, Illinois, as assistant building commissioner for two years, and as commissioner for four years. He joined the NLMA sta,fr in 1954 but recently served as code eng'ineer of the Insulation Board Institute.

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An Arizona Indian went into a bank near the reservation and asked for a loan of two-hundred dollars.

"What have you got for security, Chief?" asked the banker.

The Chief said he had two-hundred ponies, so the proper papefs were,mad,e out giving the bank the ponies as security for the two-hundred.

Sixty days later the note was due, and the Indian walked in, pulled out a huge roll of money, and peeled off a couple of centuries to pay the note. Then he stuck the roll bachin his pocket and started out of the bank.

"Wait a minute, Chief," said the banker, "how about letting us keep that money for you?"

The Indian stopped, was deep in thought for a minute, then asked: "You got any ponies?"

Brond Nomes Foundqtion Lqunches New "Brqnd-5elling" Progrom

New York, N. Y.-A new "Brand-Selling Program," pro- viding a monthly service to retailers, has Seen liunched bv Brand Names Foundation. Evolved by the Retail Program committeq of the Foundation's board, the service wilfpro- vide to enrolled dealers a monthly packet of promotional ideas, suggestions, actual materials, merchandising tips and general news of brand selling.

Each of the packets is designed to help the dealer in planning and carrying out a vigorous, profitable brand gql_igy. The_service is free to dealers enrolling through BNF's member firms, comprising nearly 1,000 coirpanies-in nearly every consumer-goods field, as well as media and advertising agencies.

The "Brand-Selling Program" resulted from the Foundation's continuing work with retailers in almost every channel of distribution. Over the years, dealers have become interested in the profit opportunities available through BNF programs, and Foundation members have made t-he retail program a vital part of their dealer relations and selling activities.

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Stort Wild lqnds Reseorch Genter

Berkeley-E,stablishment of a Wild Lands Research Center in the University of California's statewide Agricultural Experiment Station was announced recently by UniversitSr President Robert G. Sproul to help focus more attention from science upon the problems of California's "big back yard"the 65 million acres of resource-rich wild lands that make up almost two-thirds of the state's land area.

Appointed to direct the Center is Henry J. Vaux, dean of the University's School of Forestry at Berkeley. The new program will also be guided by a Coordinating committec headed by Paul F. Sharp, director of the Agricultural Experiment Station, with other members representing University dep4rtments engaged in wild lands research.

California's wild lands-chiefly covered with trees, shrubs, or native grasses-include forests, grazing lands, brush lands. watershed areas, and high mountains. This vast region is divided about equally between federal and private ownership.

Forest Serr{ce Chief McArtlle Wins Top Career Awa,rd

F'orest Service Chief Richard E. McArdle received from the President on January 11 the nation's top civilian career service award, for whieh he was publicly commended by Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson. Dr. McArdle and four other government career executives were given the coveted President's Gold Medal Award for distinguished federal civilian service by President Eisenhower in a ceremony at the White House. The citation for Dr. McArdle declared that his "imagination, vision and inspiring leadership have brought exceptional progress in the development and protection of vital forest resources for the American people now and for generations to follow."

Shaw Co. Dlstrtbuttng Wright Saws

H. C. Shaw Co. Inc., with home offices in Stockton. California, has been appointed a distributor for the Wright Saw division of Thomas Industries fnc., Louisville, Kentucky. The Shaw Company will handle sales of the company's gas-driven power blade Wright Saws in the Southern California and Arizona territories, through its branches in Fresno, Santa Ana, and Phoenix.

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PCA Promotes Trevorrow, Coyle

Promotions of R. G. Trevorrow to vice-president, Finance, and Ralrmond Coyle to vice-president, Sales, are announced by R. K. Ifumphries, president, Pacific Cement & Aggregates, Inc., San

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Francisco. Trevorrow began his PCA career in 1929 as a junior accountant with the San Francisco office. The promotion of Coyle climaxes a long career in the building materials field. Coyle started as a dump truck driver in 1926 with Golden Gate Atlas Materials Company and was with that firm until it became part of PCA. He has the distinction of driving the first motorized concrete mixer through the streets of San F'rancisco. Since 1933 Coyle has been general sales manager. During this period PCA's gross sales have doubled, reaching $32,190,066 in 1959.

A Word of Cqution-

If you find a mistake in this paper, please consider it was put there for a purpose. We publish something for everyone, and some people are always looking for mistakes. (-Courtesy of The San Diego Aztec.)

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Johns-Monville Streomlings Building Products Division

A realignment of the Johns-Manville Building Products Division to meet "new and challenging problems" in the building industry, has been announced by A. R. Fisher, president and chairman of the board. Noting that sales activities of the division had more than quadrupled since World War II, Mr. Fisher announced crea'tion of two new sales departments and said they will permit more specialized selling and assure faster customer service.

Heading up the Building Products Division, which operates 12 plants and 13 sales offices throughout the United States, as general manager is W. R. Wilkinson, formerly vice-president for sales, who fills a vacancy created by retirement of Harold R. Berlin. J. A. O'Brien, who was vice-president and general manag'er of the J-M Industrial Products division since 1955, has been appointed vice-president for sales. R. S. Hammond has been appointed general sales manager of a new Industrial Building Products sales department. E. K. Clark has been appointed general sales manager of a new Dealer Building Products sales department. G. H. Martens, Jr. has been appointed assistant general sales manager of the Industrial Building Products sales department. E. M. Fuller has been appointed assistant to the general sales manager in the Industrial Building Products sales department. F. E. Dutcher has been appointed assistant general sales manager of the Dealer Building Products sales department.

Armstrong to Manufacturo Hardwood Siiltng

Construction of new facilities for the manufacture of hardwood siding is now underway at the Armstrong Cork Company's fiberboard plant in Macon, Georgia. The new buildings are expected to be in operation by August, 1961.

Kick-Ofi Meeting For Nqtionql Forest Products Week October 15-21, 196l

Prominent members of the lumber fraternity met at the Chamber of Commerce F ebruary 8, 1961 to start plans for the promotion of National Forest Products Week October 15th to 21st inclusive. The big luncheon featuring the celebration will be held this year on Wednesday, October 18th at the Chamber of Commerce banquet rooms.

Dean R. Prestemon and Roderick B. Buchan, National Lumber Manufacturers Association representatives, and Jim Mace and Elmer Osterman of tJre California State F'orestry Department, attended this flrst meeting offering support to the project from their respective organizations.

Popular Wayne Mullin was drafted to again head the committee as chairman and Jim F orgie and Ed Fountain were immediately elected vice chairman for the event. Stella Roach, of the Home F urniture Mart, Los Angeles, was named to the important post of publicity chairman. Dee Essley, the money raiser, again accepted the post of F inance Chairman, Tom Fox in charge of exhibits and Roy Stanton, Sr., vice chairman in charge of the luncheon promotion. George Scrim was elected secretary and Sandy MacDonald was named Retail Lumber Dealer Chairman. WeU known Robert llanna was named to head the special services group and Ed F ountain heads up the display literature department.

Under the direction of chairman Wayne Mullin plans were completed to start the ball rolling early so that many allied groups may be requested to sup- port the annual promotion. Schools, banks, civic orgaxizations, clubs and railroads will be solicited and covered by the educational and financial committees, Harvey Koll, member of the Supreme Nine of HooHoo International, was ap- pointed to again handle the work with the fraternal order of lumbermen. Darrell llenderson will represent the Chamber of Commerce this year as he did during 1960. Dick E enton and Sandy MacDonald will assist the chairman in securing proper speakers for the event.

"With this early start we expeet to make 1961 the ba.nner year in the promotion of National F orest Products Week in southern California and we ask tlte support of all lumbermen throughout the area to help us bring this years' afrair to a successful conclusion," said chairman Wayne Mullin.

Boyle Heighrs Lumber Compony Storts $l OO,OOO lmprovement Progrom ot Ycrrd Esroblished in l9O8

"When this new building is completed during tfre month of April it will be just the start of a remodeling prog?am that will see every building in the yard replaced by new construction," said Allan Taylor, owner of the Boyle Heights retail lumber ffrm, which was established way back in 1908. It is the oldest retail lumber ffrm in the eastside district in years, but will be the newest when work is completed during the summer months.

The new concrete .building will eontain 19,/80' laminated beams and will cover an area of 80'x 185' of shopping, storage and display area, it was said. It will also replace the present ofrce building which was the start of the business more than a half century ago when Boyle Heights was "way out in the country" so to speak. Plans call for three additional storage warehouses, a mill facility and a new moulding shed, according to Allan Taylor and will be one of the most modern retail estbalshiments in the southland.

The Boyle Heights Lumber Company has glown with the neighborhood by serving the back-yard contractor, week-end builders and the industrial firms in its trade area. This progressive organization stocks every item for the builder, including hardware, pa,ints, cement, mouldings, wall surfacings and rough and finished lumber. "If we don't carry an item in stock we will secure it for our customer within 24 hours," said Ray Van Heukelon, who is first lieutenant in the sales and operations of the ofrce and yard.

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When work on the remodeling' of this new retail yard is completed The California Lumber Merchant will feature the finished product later this summer.

Southern Coliforniq Rerqil Lumber Assn.

The 1960-61 officers of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association, elected at the 43rd annual medting and trade show this April, are:

President: S. G. "Sandy" McDonald, vice-president and assistant manag:er, Owens-Parks Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Vice-Presidents: Ilomer H. Burnaby, president, Sun Lumber Company, San Pedro; W. Ir. Marmion, president and general manager, Sa^n Gabriel Valley Lumber Co., Arcadia; Russell H. McCoy, secretary, McCoy Lumber Co., Hemet, and John D. Sullivan, vice-president and manager, Western Lumber Co., National City; Treasurer: Kingston Mct(ee, vice-president and assistant general manager, Forest Lumber Co., Pasadena; Secretary: Robert K. Leishma^n, partner, Crown City Lumber & Mill Co., Pasadena.

Elected a President Emeritus this year was Asa E. E ickling, president of the I'ickling Lumber Co., Long Beach. The veteranr dealer F ickling joins a small but select group of SCRLA presidents emeritus consisting of Paul Hallingby, Everett C. Parker, H. Park Arnold and the late George LounsberrSr.

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Placing the laminated beams in place at Boyle Heights Lumber Company yard which will replace the old store building shown on left with new tacilities in the 80'x185' building and shopping center.

Left-This old warehouse must go in the improvement plans now underway. bullders a publicity breal.

Center--Owner Allan Taylor and his number one assistant Ray Van Heukelon. Right-We

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Keep machine guards in place and in good worling condition at all times.

Before starting up the mach,ine, be sure that thc knife blades and all cutting parts are in balance and securely fastened.

Keep the working area around the machine clean and free of blocks, edgings, strips, and other debris at all times.

Wear close-fitting clothing with no loose or ragged sleeves when operating mill equipment.

Never use your hands to remove chips or durt from the machine-use a brush.

Do not allow materials to accumulate on the saw table.

Never stand directly in line with any piece being machined.

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Never oil the machine while it is in motioTurn off the machine and wait until it comes to a complete stop before leaving it for any purpose. Get first aid for every cut or wound, no matter how slight it may seem.

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Vistting Fellowship to Cockrell

Berkeley-Dr. Robert A. Cockrell, professor of forestry and associate dean of the Graduate division at the University of California, has been awarded a senior visiting fellowship by the Organization for European Economic Cooperation to conduct research on wood structure and anatomy in Germany and Switzerland. He will go to Europe on F ebruary 1 and return to the University for the fall semester.

Paclff c Fasteners Promotes Nofziger

Promotion of Donald Nofziger to regional sales manager for Pacific Fasteners Corporation, Los Angeles, was reported by Lawrence Mann, president. Nofziger, who joined the company 18 months ago as a salesman, has been assig:ned the Southern California area.

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Geor ge J. Silbernagel, Ine.

Los Angeles Construction Tops New York bv $l Billion

Construction in the five-county Southland economic complex of Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside and Ventura Counties exceeded building in the New York metropolitan area by more than $1,000,000,000 during the past five vears.

James S. Cantlen, chairman of the Research committee of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, announced the results in a construction comparison study just completed by his committee. Figures compiled by the group showed that the Los Angeles area has surpassed its eastern counterpart in every year since 1954 to compile a total of $8,683,200,000 for the five-year period through December 31, 1958, compared with $7,677,000,000 for the New York-northeastern New Jersey complex, which includes 17 counties.

In comparing five-year home construction between the

Mony Chonges in Wood Treoting

Twenty-one revised and three new standards for inclusion in the AW-PA Manual of Recommended Practice have been issued to all who have purchased copies of the Manual. The publication of these standards has been announced by the American Wood-Preservers' Association.

The revised and new standards incorporate recommendations of Technical committees of the association, approve<l at a recent annual meeting and later confirmed by letter ballot vote of all members of AW-PA.

Included in the new standards are specifications for the preservative treatment of plywood by pressure processes, the pressure treatment of wood for use in mines, and a listing of trade names of water-borne preservatives and fireretardant formulations, the designations of which have been changed in existing standards.

The standard for pressure treatment of lumber to be used intuildings has been completely revised.

two areas, Cantlen said the report showed that 135,000 more houses were built locally. This, he said, is more than enough housing to accommodate the entire population of Fort Worth, Newark, Indianapolis or Columbus, Ohio. Both metropolitan areas reached a home-building peak in 1955 in the period measured, when the I-os Angeles area recorded 125,963 new units and the New York area tabulated97,l89.

Last year, the report showed, the Southland recorded new construction surpassing the Empire City by more than $200,000,000 or $1,811,000,000 versus $1,580,900,000. Construction in Los Angeles and Orange Counties alone came close to New York's entire 1958 total when the two local counties recorded $1,540,200,000 last year. The report disclosed that the two counties actually passed the New York area in total new construction in 1956, by $1,579,600,000 to $1,547,600,000.

Shown in New AW-PA Monuol

Other changes include the addition of five new waterborne preservatives in standards for treatment of lumber, timbers & bridge or mine ties of pine, oak and black or red gum and the addition of acid copper chromate and chrornated copper arsenate for treatment of Pacific Coast Douglas fir and western larch and hemlock lumber and timbers and for fir posts.

The AW-PA Manual, a technical handbook used extensively by preservatives manufacturers, ploducers and users of treated wood products, inspectors and chemists, etc., is available from the Association headquarters, 839 Seventeenth St., N.W., Washington 6, D.C. (price $8.50 plus postage). For those whose Manual has become crowded with the addition of new standards in recent vears. an expanded ring binder which will accommodate all current standards as well as new ones for some time to come may also be obtained from the headquarters office (price $2.50i.

Stadium and Bleacher Seat Stock

lim Forgie John Osgood

Now they can build their own "compact." the current rage in transportation. It's not a car, of course, but a real sailboat only flve feet long, requiring just two sheets of GPX Marine Green Pl5rwood and a weekend of building fun in the home workshop.

Free detailed working plans are available, and the necessary plywood is stocked at leading retail lumber dealers nationwide.

A real sailing craft, not a toy, it has been desigrred specifically to teach youngsters how to sail and to learn water safety. It has become the darling at yacht clubs and even backyard swimming pools. Those who have built the seaworthy little boat, with its detachable five-foot mast, also describe it as an ideal "trial run" for the man who is thinking of building his first familysize boat.

The cute juvenile sailer has a full 32-inch beam and a 15-inch depth, weighs only 40 pounds and is professionally desigrted to qualify it as an ofrcial member of the fleet. The detachable mast, made of two leftover strips from the two GPX plywood panels required for the boat, allows it to be either a sailer or a paddle boat. It is designed to take rough usage, just like jts larger plywood cousins.

Detailed plans are available free by writing Dept- 10-60-12, Georgla-Paclfic Corp., Equltable Bulldlng, Portland 4, Oregon.

They include 19 how-to pictures in addition to cutting and assembly drawings, fln- ishing ideas, information on how to choose the right pl5rwood, and a complete materials list. There is even a detail drawing for sawing the two paddles from strips of leftover plylvood.

U. S. INDUSTRY STANDARI) FOR WOOD FENCE POSTS PRESSURE TREATED WITIT OIL-TYPE PRDSERVATIVES

A new Commercial Standard just announced by the Commodity Standards Division, Ofrce of Technical Services, U. S. Department of Commerce, based on actual service tesls conducted by the U. S. F orest Service in cooperation with the wood preserving industry, is designated CS235-61 for Pressure Treated Wood Fence Posts (Wlth Oil-type Preservatlves), and it was requested by the American Wood Preservers Institute to improve the manufacture and sale of treated posts by providing uniform treating and branding practices. Standard sizes of round, half-round, and square-sawn posts are g'iven as well as wood species, preservatives, manufacturing processes, and grading rules. (Another Standard covering posts pressure treated with salt type preservatives, which will be based on the same tests, is under consideration.)

The new Standard will become effective on F'ebruary 6, 1961, after having been en-

dorsed by producers who, according to the U. S. F oreit Service, treated over 17 million fence posts in 1959, or better t}:an 65Va of the total 1959 production of all pressure treated posts.

Those who have "accepted" the Standard wiII be mailed a copy when printed copies are available from the Government Printing Office. In the meantime, the draft that was circulated for acceptance, TS-5455B, dated April 18, 1960 may be used.

NEIil WILHOLD EPOXY ADHESIVE MDR,CHANDISER

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or shop. Merchandiser is packed as a unit with free $oods for the Dealer. Wholesale inouiries invited. Write for more informatidn on Stock #29D1, Witholtt Glues, Inc., 6?8 Clover St., Los Angeles 31' Calif.

MASONIIE'CONSTRUCTION MANUAL'

The new edition of its Construction Manual has been released by Masonite Corporation. It includes complete information on the company's line of 57 types and thicknesses of hardboard. Descriptions, uses and application data are presented graphically for each type of material. The 24-page booklet is a working reference for lumber dealers, builders, architects and engineers.

Contents include general data, basic panel types and properties, special types, interior use, interior application, exterior application; engineering assistance, additional information and branch ofrces.

To obtain a free copy, write on your company letterhead for the 1961 Masonite Construction Manual to the Serl'lce Burea,u, Sulte 2037, 111 W. Washlngton St., Chlcago 2. nl.

.eun'lten Earrl Trrrlolil ^goaild Uiil4sr,r Sdaq 4u,

OAK, BEECH, cnd MAPIE FIOORING

Brodley Unit lflood Block Flooring

Higgins lqminoted Block Flooring

Ook Threshold qnd Sill

Truck Body lumber ond Stokes

Cedcr Closet Lining

GALTEHER HARDWOOD CO.

643O Avqlon Blvd.

Los Angeles 3, Colif.

Perklns BeJoins Paclffc pl;rwoott Co.

Pacitrc Pl5rwood Co., Dillard, Ore., announces John L. perkins as sale"q manag:er, Par-Tile Division, plywood Service, Inc. In 1gb6, Perkins opened his own lumber operation in California, which he disposed of in 1957 when he accepted the position of general man_ aq91 of a large eastern manufacturing firm of wood products. In 1960 he resigned and rejoined pacific plSrwood Co., and ptywooO Service, Inc.

NOW You Know Whof Ails Youl

Washington, D.C.-Save your feet ! Walk on wood !

Tl-rat's the advice of one of the nation's leading chiropodists who warns that tired feet can lead to headaches, backaches, jangled nerves, tired muscles and a number of other physical disorders-even dislocated discs and spots before the eyes.

Dr. William J. Stickel, executive secretary of the National Association of Chiropodists, praises wood as a walking surfacc because of its resiliency.

"The extra bounce in wood," according to Dr. Stickel, "helps to cushion the shock transmitted to the skeletal svstem bv walking."

The resiliency of wood is cited bv the National Lumber Manrrfacturers Association as one of lhe main reasons why wood i.s the most popular material for flooring in honres, stores, offices, factories and especially boardwalks.

Dr. Stickel suggests that we rediscover the pleasure-and economy-involved in walking.

"Because of cars, elevators and our modern transportation system, we have become a nation of riders-so nruch so that a five-mile hike would leave most of us exhausted. And, unfortunately, the little walking we do find tirne for is rnostly on hard surfaces-like concrete."

Dr. Stickel explains that wood's resiliency helps "tone up" the nerves and muscles of the feet. "Many of our physical disorders begin with the feet. Our feet, in effect, are shock abcorbers for the rest of our body. When the surfaces on which we walk fail to give under our weight, there is an addecl strain .rn the bones and musCles of the feet."

Dr. Stickel, whose association boasts 7,000 members representing all sections of the country, also has a word about-the insulating qualities of wood-the fact that wood transmits less heat in sumrner than steel, concrete and similar materials.

"Not only does this result in greater foot comfort all year arou[d, but, in the summer months particularly, walking on wood cuts down the danger of hyperhidle5i5-sxqs5sive per- spiration-often a forerunner of athlbte's foot."

Finally, Dr. Stickel offers this advice on how to walk: your coes should- point straight ahead but it's all right to walk slightly pigeon-toed if that feels more natural.

EUREKA, CAtlF. o (Generql Ofiice) 630 J. Sr. Hlllside 3-7001, TWX EK 84

Southern Cqliforniq ofiice: FRontier 5-5444 (P.O. Box 1356Torronce, Colif.)

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Mqcoilney ond Olin Moved Up

New York, N. Y.-Following the recent resignation of Leo V. Bodine as a vice-president and director, Diamond National Corp. announced a realignment in the management of its western lumber operations.

A. E. Macartney, general manager of manufacturing and timber operations of the California Lumber Manufacturing division, assumes the California division sales responsibilities previously assigned to D. H. Olin. Olin has been appointed national sales manager of the Northwest Lumber Manufacturing division. He had previously been general salesmanager for Diamond's California and Northwest Lumber operations. H.L. Kerr continues as manager of lumber manufacturing and timber operations for the North-

west Lumber Manufacturing division.

In announcing the realignment, William H. Walters, president and ctrief executive officer of Diamond National, said: "Our new lumber manufacturing and sales organization should give us a harder-hitting marketing impact. This is essential if the company's lumber operations are to take part in the rising sales and earnings of other segments of Diamond National's business."

Diamond National, one of the country's leading producers of lumber, has five lumber mills in California and the Northwest, as well as 54 retail building supply stores. The company also produces paperboard and folding papelboard caltons, molded-pulp products, labels, posters, advertising materials, matches and woodenware. Sales last year totaled $228 million.

Bill Brouning

TWX: ARG43

Phone: VAndyke 2-2416

Direcf: VAndyke 2-2202

Downey, Colif.

SPruce 3-4621

WAlnut 3-2175

Rolph Srefien o Corl Dupr6y

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Glifford Hodley Reriring After 37 Yeors in Long-Bell lumber

Longview, Washington.-Clifford E. Hadley, manager of western sales for the Long-Bell Division of Internatioial Paper, retired in 1960 after more than 37 years of Long- Bell service. In the lumber industry since 1913. the veteran Pacific Northwest lumberman staried with The Long-Bell Lumber Company September 25, 1922. Since 1944 he had been in charge of all lumber sales west of the Rocky l\{oun- tains. In addition, his department has handled all sales of domestic cargo, export, and timbers.

He was recently honored at a dinner gathering of his company associates in Longview. One of the recognition dinner's highlights was a gift presentation to Hadley for his outstanding contributions to Long-Bell.

Among his professional association activities, Hadley is a member of the General Maritime, Trade Promotion and Advertising committees of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association. Ife served as chairman of the General Maritime committee for several years. He was also an alternate member of the NLMA's board of directors, and is now a member of the WCLA-WPA Liaison committee.

Although his three children and 11 grandchildren are foremost among his "hobbies," he plans on spending more time in all of his interests, including golf, gardening and photography, following retirement. His immediate retirement activity will be an extensive European vacation for Mrs. Hadley and himself, who will continue to make their home in Longview, residing at 1427 Nineteenth Avenue.

Ralph G.'Taylor Also Retiring

Ralph G. Taylor, with more than 37 years of service in various administrative capacities with Long-Bell, also retired in 1960. Taylor had been editor of the Long-Bell Division magazine, The Log, since 1954.

His International Paper Company associates of the LongBell Division honored him at a recognition dinner held recently at Longview. The Longview lumberman, who started with The Long-Bell Lumber Company, September I, 1922, was presented with a gift in appreciation of his outstanding contributions to Long-Bell. Taylor's first LongBell assignment involved work with the cost accounting of Longview's arterial streets. Later, as employment agent, he was in charge of employment for Long-Bell and its subsidiaries' construction of the city and the lumber mills.

Following retirement, he will continue to make his home in Longview, where he and Mrs. Taylor reside at 1238 Twenty-third Avenue. They have two children and five grandchildren.

Flbreboord Exponding

Multi-million dollar capital expansion plans for the San Joaquin pulp and paperboard millof Fibreboard Paper Products Corporation were unveiled to stockholders at the company's annual meeting by William L. Keady, president. The San Joaquin plant is located near Antioch, 45 miles east of San Francisco on the San Joaquin River. Construction of a new kraft pulp and paperboard mill will start immediately. It will be located adjacent to the present paperboard-producing units at San Joaquin.

Raw materials for the third machine will be similar to that used by present installations at the plant. Principal raw materials will be forest and lumber residues and other by-products of California logging operations and saw mills. "This new Fibreboard investment will have an important and beneficial effect on the timber economy of the state," Mr. Keady told stockholders.

At the annual meeting all present directors of the company were re-elected. The meeting was held at the company's executive offices at 475 Brannan St, San Franeisco.

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On January 30, 1961, 42 employees of Consolidated Lumber Co., WiLnington, entertained and honored l)urward M. Chapman who retired following more than 20 years of service \ rith the frrm. Mr. Chapma! was assistant sales ma.nager of Consolidated and also a member of the Long Beach Retail Association. George R. Hinkle, general manager, and Mrs. Hinkle, headed t}te group which included A. J. MacMillan, president; Ralph Russell, Al Wahl, Jesse Moody, S, M. Hotchkiss, John Hults, Roy Wilkinson, Roy Matson, Mrs. Helen Winters and Mrs. Irene Duncan all who have worked with Durward during hls two decades of service. He was presented with a beautiful gold wristwatch and portable radio in memory of John Tyson, paSt president of the concern. Mr. Chapman plans on spending his retirement in world travel visiting Japan, Hongkong, the Philippines and E:urope.

D. M. "Duke" \ilarnock, president of Da"rrt & Warnock, Inc., reluctantly retunled home to the sogry Bay Area the first of February after spending'a sunny and enjoyable three weeks in'Hawaii with the missus.

W. Paul Clarke, formerly associated with A. itr. (Gud' Russell in the operation of Santa F e Lumber, fnc., opened a new oftce in Daly City for Westwood Lumber Sales the first of the year.

American River Lumber Company's Ken Boweq of Sacramento, flew to Portland on business the last week of December, and things went just fine until he arrived at the airport early New Year's eve for his return trip home where Ardls and-a group of friends were keeping the martinis chilled and getting ready to bury 1960 but good. That's right, Our Host spent his New Year's eve, socked-in at the Portland Terminal, and quite probably making a few justifiable observations about weather-and Portland weather in particular.

La,rry Backee, who recently joined B & M Lumber Company in Sacramento, spent the holidays in southern California where he found the links to his liking, and his customers cautiously optimistic about the New Year.

Veteran snowshoe dealer Charlie Cross, Sn, president of Truckee-Tahoe Lumber Company, and his bride Sytvta, were squired down to S.F. International on January 19, by Charlie Jr. for a send-off on the first leg of a three months vacation in Europe via the Queen Elizabeth out of New York.

Shorman Blshop, vice-president and general saJes marager of Union Lumber Company, is currently in the East on a three weeks business trip which'll include a side jaunt to Quebec for the Canadian Lumbermen's Assn. annual, F ebruary 19-22.

Frank Blllings (still sans Jaguar) toured the Mountain States region the last two weeks of January on Cal-Pacific Redwood Company business.

R. H. Emmerson sales chief, Sa,m Witzel, has succeeded Art Mllhaupt to the presidency of Humboldt I{oo-Hoo Club 63, Eureka, because of Art's relocation of his F remont F'orest Products ofrce at Eugene.

Don Muellor, who works with Don Bufkin in Hobbs Wall Lumber's southern California office, a^nd Signor Luigl Goitarit of San Francisco, spent two weeks calling on Humboldt County producers during January.

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Ilarold Frodsham, prominent southland wholesale lumberman and owner of South Bay Lumber Co., returned last month from an extended trip to Washington, D.C. Sterting Wolfe, vice-president MarquartWolfe Lumber Co., Hollywood, spent the last week of January on a procurement trip thru northern California.

Larry Crabtree, from Coos Head Timber Company Coos Bay, Oreg'on, has joined the staff of Phil Gilbert, manag'er Coos Head Lumber & Plywood Co., Wilmington, California. Larry spent five years as an operation employee at the mill before coming to southern California.

The girls of the Weyerhaeuser Company, Lumber and Plywood Division, ofrce in Los Angeles catered a special luncheon, January 11, for the company's northern representatives in town for a business meetir8.

Blll Stuart, prominent lumberman of Los Angeles and Mexico, was a recent visitor to the southland. Bill has been spending the winter in Honolulu and is returning to the Islands to represent J. E. Higg:ins Company throughout Hawaii. While in Los Angeles he called on various friends and business associates. He was accompanied by his pretty wife, Doris.

Bob Heberle, southland lumber division manag:er for Georgia-Paciflc, on a business trip to Samoa during the early part of February.

TWIT HARBONS 1UTBER COTPATY

Aberdeen, Woshlngton

S25BoordofTrodeBldg.

451 SouthGsrreei

PORTT/AND 4' OREGON ARCAIA" CAIIFORNIA

Phone GApircl8-4142

VAndyke 2-2971

ftlonufocturers ond Distribwors of West Coost Foresl Products

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MINTO PARK SAGRAIIENTO

Jim Rossmon -Jim Frcser (lown & Country Brsnch)

LONG BEACH

George Ofio-Bob Eldredge

1618 El Cqmino Resl O Dick llerritt, tlgr. O I iO W. Ocesn Blvd.

DAvenport +2525

EN. f .00:16 (Eoy Areo, Son Jose)

Hartlg Rolns ltlateflals Hanilllng Dfu{slon

B,ox4242, Sncromenlo - SPruce 5{318

lVonhoe 3-2916

T1le election of Paul R, Hartig as vice-president and general manager of tlte Yale Materials-Handling division of Yale & Towne Ma,nufacturing Company was announced January 1. He has held a variety of managerial and executive posts, including manager of the Oakland, Calif, transformer plant.

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HEmlock 2-3481

Tlmber-LumberWood Products

Ever since Colonial days, our forests and our lumber and wood products industries have been a major s€gment of our industrial economy. fn some states these resources^ are the principal sources of wealth. In the Continental United States and coastal Alaska there are about 489 million acres of commercial forests, about t/a of our total land area. Over 1 million acres are under government ownership ; Ll million acres are in farm woodlots; over I mlllion acres are owned by industry and about 131 million acres by other private interests.

Two new bulletins of interest to every owner of timber land, to sawmill operators or lumber dealers, to all lumber brokers or wholesalers and to every lumbcr distribution yard or lumbcr re manufacturing facility were announced recently by the U.S. Depattment of Commerce.

A general summary and brief history of our timber, lumber and wood products industry is siven in Business Service Bulle[in No. 171. Thii 8-pi- e leaflet is a thumbnail sketch of our timber resources, their characteristics and their utilization. Information on both hard and soft woods are covered with basic data on lumber production and products including plywood and veneers, ties, poles, piles and mine timbErs, shakce and shingles; in fact, all products including use of wastes from processing. Even Christmas tree produc- tion is covered. Channels of distribution in the tradc. including foreign trade, are included.

A companion publication of 20 pages, BSB 170, provides hundreds of references to authoritative publications and data on all phases of the lumber and wood products industry. The easy-to-use finding guide and index ranges from Barking to Veneers and from Bibliographies to Woodwork shop projects.

Copies of these informative bulletins, at 10c each, can be had from the San Francisco Field Office. U.S. Department of Commerce, 419 Custom House, 555 Battery St., San Francisco 11, Calif.

TWENTY.FTI'E YEARS AGC) TODAV fu Reported in The California Lumber Merchant, February 15, 1956

H. J. Macktn, preside)rt of the Canadian Westerrr Lumber Co., Ltd., Fraser Mills, B. C., was a recent visitor at the offices of the Lawrence-Phllips Co., Los Angeles.

L. S. Turnbull of Los Angeles, Southern California and Arizona representative of the Shelvin Pine Sales Co., has returned from a trip to Lt'rzorra where he spent several days calling on the trade.

Port Lamon Lumber Co. of Port Lamon, Mindanao, P. f., manufacturers of Philippine Mahogany, recently opened an office at 246 Pearl Street, New York. This company is owned by Madrigal & Co., whose agent in San X'rancisco is C. U. lllartln, 637 Minna Street.

C. D. Johnson, president of the C. D. Johnson Lumber Corp,, Portland, recently spent some time in San Francisco and Los Angeles offces of his company

The Carl H. Kuhl Lumber Co., Portland, Oregon, announces the appointment of Carl I)avles as tleir exclusive Southern California representative. Mr. Davies is well known in Los Angeles lumber circles where he has been identified in millwork and wholesale sales for the past eighteen years.

White Oak Mill & Lumber Company has opened a retail lumber yard at San Carlos.

itramei E. "Jltnmy" Atkinson has returned to San Francisco to enter the wholesale lumber business on his own account. He wiil be assoeiated witlr and exclusive representative of, Campbell-Moore Lumber Co., Portland, covering the Northern California territory. Mr. Atkinson was with the Chas. R. McCormick Company for more than 18 years.

Free'Stronghold' Booklet on New School Constructlon

A 12-page booklet with ideas for modern, economical one-story school buildings has been prepared by Independent Nail & Packing Company, Bridgewater, Mass., and is available on request to anyone interested. The booklet, entitled "The Stronghold Line of Nails in Schools," shows cost-saving technlques made possible by the use of Stronghold, Screw-Tite a^nd other improved nails. These nails, in conjunction with the engineered use of wood, provide fastenings which hold permanently tight and result in a fully balenced design in which components and Joints are equally strong, thus increasing the life of the structure and decreasing the eost of upkeep. Wood construction, along with combinations of wood, steel and masonry are shown.

The booklet illustrates modern sehool and auxiliary buildings, and includes detail drawings of the various components, with the proper nail for each.

Conetructlon Appllcatlons of Glaro-Reducing Glass Featured ln Quarterly

Buildings in which daylighting has been balanced by the use of glare-reducing Lustragray glass in windows and curtain walls, are featured in the Autumn issue of the architectural quarterly Creatlve Idsas i:n Glass. Issued by American-Saint Gobain Cor"trloration, copies are available on request from Amerlcan-Saint Gobain Corp., 625 Madlson Avenue, New York 22. N.Y.

Pacific Coast Hardwood Distributors held their annual convention at Del Monte, January 31 and February f. itrames Ahern was elected president and C. If. White was the retiring president of the association.

Charles S. Trlpler was appointed secretary of the Coast Counties Lumbermen's Club, effective February 1, succeeding Merle D. Blshop, who resigrred to go in the retail lumber business for himself.

Frank R. Adams, Eastern sales manager, The Pacific Lumber Co,, San F rancisco, has returned to Chicago after spending 30 days on the Pacific Coast, which included some time spent at the eompany's operations at Scotia.

I(. C. Bacheliler of Long View, Wash., has been appointed manag:er of the trafre department of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association. He succeeds Herbert N. Prosbstel, who after 15 years of seryice with the Association, resigaled to become assistant freight agent of the Great Northern Railway at Seatfle.

The annual meeting of the E. K. Wood Lumber Company was held in the company's offices in San Francisco, January 2?. Out of town directors who attended were F. J. Wood, president, Bellingham, Wash.; Wanren B. Wood, vice president, Los Angeles; iI. B. V9ood, Los Ang'eles and George Kellogg, Hoquiam, Wash.

ONE lIOt|R TIRE RESISTAI{T GYPSUM WALTBOARD

Now, with Blue Diamond 5/E" Fire Halt special core wallboard, applicator craftsmen have a ffne handling and ftnishing gypsum wallboard with a one hour fire resistioe roting.

Fire llalt may be used in institutional, commercial, industrial, apartment and home construction-wherever high quality interiors combining greet strcngtft with inueased. fire rcsistance are desired or required by building codes.

Blue Diamond's Fire Halt data sheet will be sent you on request. It gives full information on how to use Fire Halt in one hour walls, partitions and ceilings, in accordance v/ith Underwriters' Laboratories' ffre resistive rating requirements.

Phoenix RetoilYords Pocing Growth of Arizonq

Phoenix, Ariz.-The home of the super-duper shopping centers, super population growth, and self-service, modern retail lumber establishments is bursting at the seams. But it is nice to know that they have all of Maricopa County in which to grow, with the sun shining brightly 365 dayl of each year.

Phoenix has tripled its population during the past decade and is now pushing the half-million mark, which natives n s_ay will be passed within the next two years. Maricopa County already exceeds the one-million mark and the building boom is on-and has been on for the past 15 yearssince the close of World War II.

One of the moit modern retail lumber establishments, not only in Phoenix but in all of the west, is the EntzWhite Lumber and Supply, Inc.,909 East Camelback Road, right in the heart of the city.

Strictly a "Self-Service" yard, the customers browse all over the place and the "soft-sell" is evident everywhere.

"Our sales staff is instructed to approach the prospective purchaser only upon request," said John C. Er\tz, ownermanager of the beautiful set-up. In fact, there are signs all over the place advising the customer that no one will bother him-or her. There are a great number of ladies hereabouts who are handy with the hammer and paint brush.

Entz-White was born five years ago with a new idea in mind-that being to let the customer make his own selection. It has been written up at least annually in The California Lumber Merchant in each of the five years since. Today this progressive retail lumberyard offers everything in the building and construction field, on a self-service plan. This includes mouldings, lumber, wall-surfacing and wood items in the modern yard, as well as all machine, hardware paint and tool items in the store.

There is only one way in, and one way out, of both the store and yard. Once the customer enters, he is

Upper left-lf you wear "Bermudas" you save money, as Indlcated in lower left photo of Madelyn Erazil, .eceptionist, Entz, lower c€nter, and upper right points to the "special llst" and entrance to the spacious store shown in lower fight,

Upper center-Plenty of parking for customers. owner John

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"We find through definite experience that only ZOofo of the drop-in trade will complete the self-service sale," said Manager Ace Mason.

"( )Lrr sale snr('ll itrc instnrcterl to t'_rlterlitc tlre selectiorr (Continued ort Poge 40)

Interior & exterior camera shots of 0'Malley's new Scottsdale building emporium, manager "trapped" until he is ready to "exit" right past Vic Sanchez, cashier who collects for each item selected.

Ace Mason, assistant manager Lloyd Bowerman and all around,,Lumber Gal" Virginia Mullen.

Ray Lumber Company lght 0n the matn stem in exclusive Scottsdale, Arizona

Pricing to Compensote for Services Rendered

On a subject as difficult and involved as pricing to compensate for services rendered, it would seem to me that pricing of merchandise must be tailored to trt the individual operation of each yard, depending on the type of service it renders'

A small yard serving largely the Do-ItYourself trade and small carpenter contractors would obviously stafr a difierent type of personnel than t}le larger yard catering to volume operation in that they would not have outside salesmen-estimating clerks-Plan Department-larg:e Accounts Receivable-Credit Departmentsetc.

Doing mostly a cash and carry business, overhead in such an operation can be held to a minimum and the percentage of markup established accordingly. Ilowever, Iwant to talk about the averag:e size yards such ab ttre ones we operate where we sell bot} large and small orders, and offer to you for whatever it is worth the method we are using to price merchandise primarily lumber.

One of our holpful employes has euggested the bestway to do thls ls to ltqutilate your competltor; however, after serlous conelderatlon, we have abandoned thts ltlea ln favor of one more Pra,ctlcal.

The key to business survival for retail lumber yards is profit-planning. During the last ten years, profits have declined approximately 85/o while the industry was enjoying the largest sales volume in its history. Owners of rg.tpil lumber yards are well aware of the need for something that will strengthen profits.

Profit-planning is a fundamental basic approach to the operation of a business in most other industries. It is not generally understood or practiced in the retail lumber business because it hasn't been necessary. Price and profit stability can only come from within a company. The more active maangement becomes in profit-planning' and i1 the creation of price structures that will accomplish profit goals, the better overall price stmcture and profits will be.

We lumbermen must acquire knowledge and understanding of how to price the merchandise we sell under the many varying conditions in which we operate our businesses. Only when lumbermen individually and as a group have the proper understanding of tlre pricing principles and the ability to apply these principles to their various conditions of business operations will we have an increase in the profit of our industry.

In the Southern California market, and especially the Los Angeles area, the competition is extremely acute. The good old days when there was one lumber yard serving a community and marking up SOVo was simple. The home owners-the farmersthe small contractor all paid the same price and were satisfied.

Then when another dealer moved in' the two got their heads together and agreed on a price. Ttris didn't work for long'

Aside from being illegal, tlte dealers would give discounts to bring the customers to their stores, and so the rat race was on. Today we do not find just one competitorbut many-and those who hope to survive must be just a little more efrcient and fig'ure ways of cutting costs in handling material-marketing and pricing their mer-

By R. L. "Bud" Schuler, Monoger Anowoh Lumber & Mtrteriols Go., Pqcoimo

chandise to compensate for services rendered.

When our competitor down the street cuts prices-we have a problem on our hands. We know that if we sell at his price we will lose money or break even, at the best. We find ourselves on the horns of a 'dilemma-whether to lose our customer or lose our proflt. fn our yard we try to compensate for the loss on the cut item by boosting the price on some other related item. The question then is which item to boost and how much.

F'irst, we must think of the item's turnover and the cost of selling it.

Will selling this item help sell something else ?

How much gross profit we want on the item and on the total sale.

Can it be incorlrorated in a package sale effecting a saving on handling ?

Today, the ever-rising costs of running a lumber yard make it mandatory that every consideration be given in pricing lumber and-in fact-all related items. Many a dealer has learned, to his sorrow,

that costs are getting close to the traditional % gross profit.

F or example-ff you buy lumber at $100 and mark it up the traditional 50Vo, your list price is $150. The contractor gets his LOlo ott list so he pays $135. This leaves you $35 on the sale, or 25.9/o gross profit.

But the cost of running your lumber yard is getting higher and in many yards is approaching 22Vo of sales. Therefore, on that $135 sale your cost of doing business was $29.70 to cover payroll-trucks-insurance---+tc. Instead of making $35.00, you actually cleared $5.30 before ta:<es. A very slim profit indeed.

Obviously, if somehow you could have sold that contractor at a higher markupsay glr/s%o-you could have done much better, and so the $64,000 question is how to increase your gross profit.

Retail lumber yard operators are engaged in several kinds of businesses. We are at the same time so called retailers and wholesalers selling to consumer on one hand and to contractors on the other. As an industry we have erred in considering all of these businesses in which we are engaged as one business. We say that our cost of operation is "so much." What we mean when we say this is that our overall eost of operation is so much for all the various types of businesses in which we are engaged.

fn most yard operations there are four types of sales:

1. Small retail sales over the countersay under $50.00.

2. Latget sales in the same way--sa.y $50 to $150.00.

3. Jobs to contractors-remodeling and small home builders-say $150 to 61,000.00.

4. Volume sales to large contractors and tracts.

We must realize that there is a difrerent cost of service on each of these four types of sales. This calls for four different price lists. One for each of the four differential groups. Where a dealers' cost of doing business may be 227o as ar average cost of selling all types of sales, the cost will be much higher on the over-the-counter sale. For this reason it makes sense to set selling prices according to the type of salenot the type of customer.

The profit goal the dealer sets for each group is the yield he wants the sales group to average. Going a little farther---the dealers know that the turnover of an item times the profit per unit sold will give the total profit he can expect from sales of the items.

A dealer also knows that when he reduces a selling price he can flgure the decrease in profit that he will have. To make up for the lower profit he must raise the profit yield of other items in that group. To do this he raises the selling price of the items he feels can take a higher price.

This method of balancing his selling price to maintain the average profit goal for the group will equalize the over-all gross profit.

In practice, the dealer sets up his sales in groups according to the cost of selling each. He makes up a price list for €ach group. Within each price he makes adjustments on the selling prices of individual items so that when the profit yields for all sales are combined, he will average the profit goal he has set for the group.

For example, he may feel that the best

Carlow Company, los Angeles, California, was represented in the.oerson of JacI Carlow at the 1960-0l kick-off of the Morgan Company sales clinics and plant tours, held in oshkosh, Wisconsin, october 26 and 27. The clinic tours are part of an ever-expanding sales promotion and advertising program carried on by this 105-year old millwork company which manufactures a complete line of quality woodwork. During his stay, Jack Carlow saw numerous phases of the Morgan €ompany operations, including manufacturing, warehousing, shipping, and the unique Morgan merchandlsing system which incorporates a "family resemblance" in each and every package.

selling price he can g'et on one item in a group yields 75c/a gross profit. At the same time he may have another item in the same g:roup that he can sell for 700c/o ptofit. When he combines the sales and profits from the two items, he can see if they wiII average the profit goal he has established. If not, he will adjust the selling price of the high profit items until he gets the proflt he wants.

Therefore, each sa,le is classified according to the group into which it falls and applies the proper price. It is the type of salo, not the type of customer that governs the price he bills.

Because of the several types of business we cannot justify average markup as it will not allow us to make a profitable competitive price for the volume or wholesale transaction for which we must compete, nor wiU it give us a price which is high enough to return a proper profit on our retail service sales.

Such an approach does not give us a true picture of our operations--which we get when we consider the costs that apply to each part of the operation. Average cost of doing business and average markup do not help us in determining what we should charge for an item of merchandising in any specific instance.

Selling to the large contractor at a discounted price may result in a very profitable business as long as purchases in volume and other factors involved in the sale are proper. When he makes a small purchase involving consumer sale services, he should pay the consumer prices, because the elements of the large volume sale are not involved.

The size of the order a,nd the numbor and type of services we render should determlne the markup we make-not who the customor may tre, The a,mount of service we give in relation to the size of the sale should be our standard of measurement.

For example-If the Jones Construction Co. buys one door and wants it charged and delivered, the service costs the dealer the same as if the sale u'ere made to the home owner. Therefore, the two sales are in the same group and are billed at the same price.

And if Mr. Homeowner buys 50 squares of roofing, the dealer's cost of service can be no more than the same sale to Jones Construction Co. The two sales are in the silne g'roup and are billed at the same price.

Estimatingplan servicesfinancingadvertising-the size of the order-and many, many more services are offered by the lumber yards to their customers. It is possible for a customer to receive all or almost none of these services. It is therefore reasonable to conclude that the price must be varied to fit the particular conditions of the sale and the services given.

tr'or example-Suppose you are operating a lumber yard with an overhead ot 2|o/o to sales-your yard operates in all four of the basic categories of the lumber business. It is possible that it could break down as follows:

70c/o for large or project sales-15/2 for contractor sales-207a for small contractors who build additions and do repair work-and 35Vo for consumer and strictly small sales. Therefore, lumber costing $100 per thousand-the selling price would have to be $114-$125-$747-and $182 per thousand, respectively, for each of the four categories of sales made by this yard.

That is a considerable variation in the Drice of lumber. If. on the other hand. we

use the average approach and assume the averag:e overhead to be 20c/c with 10% net proflt to sales desired (which is more net profit than the average yard is now getting) we would require a 30/o gross profit. The necessary markup to return this gross would be approximately 43(/r. Hence the selling price of lumber costing $100 per thousand v,'ould be $143 per thousand. A price of $143 will not sell many 2 x 4's on projects.

It is too high for the contractor who builds several houses a year. It would not be high enough for over-the-counter sales.

So we simply take the price of lumber in the yard a,ftor all opera,ting costs are removed, a,nalyze the cost of services, add a fair prico for service and mark up a,ccording to the type and size of sale.

We are now employing this method of pricing at the Anawalt Lumber and Materials Co. and are convinced that it is at least a step in the right direction.

By rhe NRLDA

GOOD MATERIALS IIANDLING IS NO LONGER, R,EGARDED AS A NECESSARY EVIL BUT AS A POWER,FUL FORCD FOR. COMPANY SUCCESS. There is no question as to whether the MaterialsHandling function does or d6ss nsf-61 should or should not*exist in any one retail yard. This function does exist in every dealer's operation.

The handling' of materials is a major problem in every retail yard, regardless of size. Yet, well over half of the dealers in the country have made no attempt to mechanize their handling: and, apparently, are overlooking the fact that, to maintain their position in their industry today and in the future, they must take advantage of the cost cutting possibilities inherent in modern Materials Handling.

There is no mystery behind our industry's move towards modern Materials-Handling methods. Thousands of dealers have had substantial reductions in operating costs by eliminating much of their handhandling while increasing the speed of the flow of material.

They have increased their usable storage space without enlarg'ing their facilities. They have increased productivity of their Iabor as well as safety. They have reduced damag'e to the products they stock, which has increased the salability of the products. They have bettered customer service.

Retail lumber dealers, like members of other industries, cannot stand still. We have to keep moving ahead to keep up with the demands of the times or the world will pass us by. Mechanization is the only way by which the small retailer can keep his costs in line and expand his service without investing heavily in new facilities.

Iluman muscles are being replaced by mechanical muscles in all industries, with the result that labor turnover is unusually high in non-mechanized yards. In these days of "easy living," laborers are being attracted to the jobs where they are provided the muscles to do their work and where it will be safer to work.

It only takes a few bumps, smashed fingers, or sore backs to make a man want to move on to a job where there is less likelihood of accidents.

All of this indicates that there is no longer a choice. Materials Handling is not only our industry's biggest opportunity, it is our biggest necessity. If nothing else makes it a necessity, competition will.

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A Word of Coution-

If you find a mistake in this paper, please consider it was put there for a purpose. We publish something for everyone, and some people are always looking for mistakes. (-Courtesy of The San Diego Aztec.)

Wooden'l You Know?

The most up-and-coming material in home building today turns out to be that reliable performer-wood. Definite gains for wood in house'framing, flooring and kitchen cabinets and the continuing predominance of wood for windows, sheathing and subflooring are reported by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association from surveys of new one-family houses made for the last three vears bv the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

"Eighty-three per cent of new houses were of frame construction, as shown by the latest BLS survey," the lumber association said. "The sharpest gain for frame construction was in the South, where there was a rise of 16 percentage points between 1955 and 1956.

"Hardwood flooring kept its great lead over all other types. Hardwood floors in 1956 were used in &4/o of. living rooms, 85/o of bedrooms and 8l/o of. dining rooms.

"Kitchen cabinets were of wood in 887o of the houses, according to the BLS survey. This is a significant increase from 1950, when a Housing and Home Finance Agency survey showed wood cabinets in 75/o of new houses."

The proportion of houses built on slabs remained stationary at 16/o between 1955 and 1956, while those with basements gained slightly. Since a total of. 82/a of houses either had basements or were built with crawl spaces, g'reater use of lumber for wood floor construction was indicated.

Wood windows continued as the favorite, being installed in 57/o of the houses in both 1955 and 1956. Wood plank outranked other sheathing materials, and softwood boards had a big lead over other materials for subflooring, in the 1958 BLS survey.

The survey showed wood paneling had its greatest popularity in family rooms, being used in 3l/o. Wood siding alone rvas used on 24/o ot the houses, and on another 7/o in combination with brick facing.

First Gommerciql Timber Gufring in Blodgeft Forest

Blodg-ett Forest (Fl Dorado County)-The first of a plal11ed series of experimental timber cuts was under way this Fall on the University of California's Blodgett Forest, lbcated on the Georgetown Divide in northern El Dorado county. This cuttine marks the first commercial tin-rber sale here since the Universiti acqrljred the -2,600-acre property as a gift from the Blodgeft family in 1933.

Under a contract with the lJniversity's board of regents, the Kelsey-Lumber Company of Placerville-is harvesting lVa million board-feet of timber in accordance with the exper'imental plan for the forest. The logging operation covers 110 acres ancl'was expected to require about six weeks for completion. The cut includes overmature residual trees that were leit when the area was first logged during the period 1905-1915. The loggers are also removing yoyng trees fhat show poor form, brofin tops, or high risk to insect attack

HOBBS WAtt REDWOOD SUPPTIES IIIE UNUSUAT

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"This is just the beginning of a program of experimental harvest cuts to test and dembnstrate sa-tisfactory methods of handling young stands of timber in order to improve both quality and quantitv of the permanent growth,', 'said Dean H"jry J. Vaux of the University's School-of Forestry.

, By opening skid trails and roids, the logging operation will also make the area much more accessible and thus aid re_ searchers in their work. According to Vaux, foresters will now be able to remove individual tre_ei'each yea. that are darnaged by ice breakage or insect attack.

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' So,me .of th1 proreeds from the sale will be used to support tre.e planting and_other management measures on the forest and w_rll help,us work out the details of a regular cutting cycle," Vaux said.

.Blodgett -Forest, a well-stocked young-growth stand of the mixed conifer tf-Ug, -!s used by the tJnivEriity for resear.h ","1 clemonstration of different types of forest management practices suitable for small forest holdings in the westeri SierrJ t.sioir. Research now in progress includes nearly "ll phar.. tif";;;;; plus related investigations on forest inseits "rrd ,lise"r".

Wilderness Areqs Protested

\\rashington, D.C.-A western forestry leacler. testifvino before the Senate Committee on Interior and lrrsular'Af fairs recently on the p-roposed National Wilderness System, called the makeup of the Committee an ,.act of bivine Providence." W. D. Hagenstein, executive vice_president. Industrial Forestry Assn-., Portland, said that ""!r" C"-l mittee member is from the West and that they represent all ll western states. He said this may prevent liastv enact_ ment of the,l-egislation w-hich was intioducecl by Senators Humphrey, Neuberger and Douglas.

_ Hagenstein reminded the 15 members of the Committee that of the Federal land proposed for roadless wilderness py Senate Blll 4028, more-thin fr/o is in their st;t;s-. i;; forester cited Committee Chairman Murray,s recerrt-rtaie_ ment to the Committee which said, .,The iolicies that are pursued in the development of these lands ind resources i' large measure guide the economic destiny of the fV".ii; ", another .argument for western hearings.'

--Tlagenstein said the bill "may determine the future of Westerners yet unborn." He questioned whether miilio;; ot acres can be devoted to permanent wilder'ess without losing r_esources necessaryJoi_western jobs and pryroffr. H" said wilderness use is limited to relatively fe# pi:opf. ,"d that such areas were nearly impossible to protect ieainst fire and insects because of iheir-inaccessibilitv.

The fire tniangle is fuel, air and heat. Fuel is all around us in grass and woodlands, and there is no shortage of air in the ied_ wood Region. Man brings the heat in campfirei, cigarettes ""J "it ", kinds of fire. Don't add the third side to a wildfirJtriangle. F";-;;i all fires, and "Keep the Redwood Region Green."

Do yoo need an unusual pattern or an unusual size along with the rest of your order? Contact your Hobbs Wall man!

IIe's a redtoood, specialist skilled at working out mixed shipments . by carload or buck & trailer . to include the grades you want and the sizes you want.

And he's a responsible representative . . backed by 95 years of dependable dealing!

Movielqnd R.evisited

"Gone witr, #iryind" from the Rural Georgia ViewPoint

(os it appeored in a Georgia country newspaper)

Katherine Scarlett O'Hara was our shero. A winsome gal with a figger like a marble statue and a head as hard. - Gerald OT{ara was our shero's pa. By nature he was

most animal-like. Proud as a peacock, he roared like a lion and rode like a dog-and-pony show. After Sherman came he was crazy as a -bed-bug. Anyhow, Scarlett was in love with Ashley Wilkes, who was in love with his cousin, Melanie, who was in love with Ashley, and so they were mirried (Ashley and Melanie, in case you're- getting confused). tiris irriiated Scarlett no end, so in q-uick succession she rirarried for spite and cash, respectively, a couple -of fellows whose names we didn't get, but then neither did Scarlett for long.

The other rnaior characters were Rhett Butler, Belle Watling, and a'cdlored'lady exactly like the one on- the fapiack bJi. Rhett was somehout strangely reminiscent of bhrt Gable, and was a cross between Jesse James and Little Boy Blue. If Rhett had joined thc lost cause in the second reel instead of after the intermission, the Confederady would have won the war-and Belle, you'd have lovei Belle. Everybody did. During the seige of Atlanta only three thingi weie running-3u11"'t- place,. Prissy's nosi, and the laundry that kept Rhett's white suits snowwhite.

Melanie's baby arrived about the same time Sherman did. Both were equally welcome to Scarlett. It was, so far as our painstaking risearch has revealed, the first baby ever born in Technicolor.

Anywby, the South lost the war ag-ain in the picture (whai could you expect with a lot of Yankee producers) ind Scarlett inarried Rhett to get even with him. Finally after Melanie died, Scarlett realized that she didn't love Ashley but Rhett-Scarlett was changeable.- However, nhett, had had enough of her foolishness and when she told him, he said, "Frlnkly, my dear, I don't give a d1qn." Neither by this time did the audience. They were glad to see the eird, their own having become more numb than somewhat.

Grounds

Jim: On what grounds does your father-objec-t to me?

Margo: On any grounds within a mile of our house!

Difierent Glucrrters

Said he: "Sam must be doing well. He's gotten pretty uppity now, and brags that he only smokes quart-er-cigars."

'Said shel "That'slll right, dear. What he probably isn't telling is that somebody else smoked the other threequarters first."

Womsn

She's an angel in truth, a demon in fiction, A woman's the greatest of all contradictions; Afraid of a cockroach, she'll scream at a mouse' But she'll tackle a husband as big as a house.

She'll take him for better, she'll take him for worse' She'll split his head open, and then be_his nurse. And when he is well and can get out of bed, She'll pick up a teapot and throw at his head.

She's faithful, deceitful, keen-sighted, and blind, She's crafty, she's simple, she's cruel, !he's kind. She'll lift a man up, she'll cast a man down; She'll make him her ruler, her hero, her clown.

You fancy she's this, but you find that she's that, She'll play like a kitten, and fight like a cat.

In the-morning she does, in the evening she don't.; And you're aliays expecting she will when she won't.

The Truinmon's ProYer

An old railroad man was converted at a religious revival. and when they asked him to lead the congregation in prayer, he did it this way:

"O Lord, now that I have flagged Thee, lift my feet- o{ the rough deck of life and plant them firmly o-n the deck of the traii of Salvation. Let me use the safety lamps known as prudence, make all coupling! on the train with the strong link of Thy love, and, H-eavenly Father, keeP all the slwitches closed that lead off the sidings, especially those with a blind end. O Lord, if it be Thy pleasure, have every semaphore blocked along the line; strow the white lighi of hoie, that I may ma[9 the run of Life without stipping; and, Lord, give us the Ten Commandments as a sciredirie. And when my train shall have pulled into tlte great, dark station of Delth, lqay Jhou say with a smile: ;WeU dot", thou good and faithful servant! Co-me up and sign the payroll,- anct receive your check for eternal happiness'!"

PqrsleY on Plotes

A fellow by the name -of Garry Flinn writes that the American Association for the Prevention of Putting Parsley on Plates isn't making the pro,gress -that it should. There ar'e still too many restau-=rant -and hotel people who- persist in putting parsley on plates. When memters of the Associatio; hav; ihro-n saii parsley on the foor, the atten4jrnts have simply picked it rip and put it on other pl-atfs. I-t is ,ro- reco-rnrriended that memblrs throw the whole plate and its contents on the foor, and walk out without paying' It is admitted that this will lead to unpleasantness with the police but, as Flinn dopes it out,-the Association for the Frevention of Putting Parsley on Plates will get some

valuable publicity.

-Thomas Dreier.

CDftilucrry

Steve H. ROSS

Steve Ross, 59, widely known and popular San Joaquin Valley dealer, died in Hanford Community Hospital following an earlier operation on January 29. Services for Mr. Ross, who was president and general manag:er of Central Lumber Company with yards at Hanford, Lemore and Riverdale, were conducted at the Phipps Mortuary in Lemore on January 31.

A native of Lemore, Mr. Ross had spent his entire working career with Central Lumber Company which was established in Hanford before the turn of the century by his great grandfather. Besides playing an active part in community affairs, Mr. Ross was also highly active in the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California of which he was a director as well as a member of its Executive Committee.

Mr. Ross leaves his wife, Edna, of their Hanford home, two sons and a daughter.

George H. WAIKER

George H. Walker, for many years identifled in the lumber cargo business in southern California before he retired several years ago passed away January 21, 1961. He leaves his widow, Amalle C. Walker, two sons, Robert E. and George H. Jr. l-uneral services were held January 24 at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale.

Herbert D. HITCHCOCK

Requiem Mass for Herbert D. Hitchcock, 64, sales manager with Johns-Manville Corp. for 33 years, was celebrated Jan. 27 at lO a.m. in Cathedral Chapel, 927 S. La Brea Ave., with Pierce Bros. Los Ang'eles Mortuary in charge of arrangements. Born in New Mexico, he came here 63 years ago and lived at 2320 Chelsea Rd., Palos Verdes Estates. He was a member of the Jonathan Club. He died Jan. 24 at Queen of Angeles Hospital and leaves his widow, Marie; three daughters, Shirley Thomas, Marilyn Cook and Elarbara Hitchcock, and five grandchildren.

Eugene DAVIS

Funeral services were held January 16, for Eugene ,,Gene" Davis, 70, long-time resident of Bakersfleld, who died there on January 13. Mr. Davis was a native of Utah, but had resided in Bakersfield for 26 years, the past 3 years in retirement after a long association with King-Marshall Lumber Company.

As a young'man, Gene Davis worked in Morrison-Merrill's chain of yards in Idaho and Utah, moving to Southern California in \922 from Malad, fdaho. He was employed by Ganahl Lumber Company, I{ammond Lumber Company and the Hayward Lumber & Investment Company there, and was transferred to Bakersfield by the latter ffrm during 1934. After several years with Hayward Lumber, Mr. Davis became associated with King-Marshall Lumber Co., Inc., of Bakersfield, remaining with that firm until his retirement in JuIy 195?.

A close friend of the late E. G. Reed, who hired him during the early part of his career, Mr. Davis leaves his wife, pearl, of their Bakersfield home; one daughter, Leatha Hollingshead, of Ventura; two sisters, Pearl Davis and Leah Morgan, both of Idaho; and two brothers, Arthur J. and Griff Davis, also of Idaho.

Ser-vices were conducted by the Bishop Orral S. Luke at the Payne & Son Funeral Home in Bakersfield and the pallbearers were Sid Marshall, Grant Marshall, Larry King, Bill MacEacheron, Archie Bingham and Foster Ward.

The California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th Street Building Los Angeles 14, California

Dear Sirs:

The entire Starmer family want to express their sincere thanks to you for the article in the August 1 issue of the ..Merchant.', Hardly a salesman comes into our yard who doesn't comment upon the fine article and the very nice way it was presentea by ifre "Merchant." Thanks ever so much.

Your very truly, Harry and Bill Starmer Starmer Lumber Company Banning:, California

Large diversified stocks of foreign and domestic hardwoods -our yard.

r Prompt delivery by our trucks

o Immediate service on "will calls"

o Complete milling facilities

o Centrally located

. Competitively priced

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P.O. Box 752,Plocerville, Colif. Monufqcturers

SPECIATIZING IN ROOF DECKING

Telephone: Plqcerville-NAtionol 2-3385

Harry Jordan, head of Jordan International Company, San Francisco, spent a week in New Orleans and vicinity on business during the flrst part of F ebruary.

Frank (the original) Billlngs' \Mell-known Bay Area ply'"vood and millworkman, ioined the sales staff of Georgia-Pacific Corp. at Oakland on February 15, according'to northern district manag'er E. L. "Rif" Bifenrath. F rank, who had previously been with Western Door & Sash Co. in Oakland, and prior to that with Harbor Plywood Corp. in Texas, will be covering the Alameda and Contra Costa County territory for G-P.

Congrats to Boger and Betty Ma,ckin on the arrival of their first-born, a baby girl (Suzanne) at the Peninsula Hospital in Burlingame on January 11. Hallinan Mackin associates Larry Owen and brother Dave Ma,ckin report that Roger is "showing good recovery" following the harrowing ordeal.

Bud Critchfield. head of California Wood Products in Santa Rosa, flew East to attend the big National Association of llome Builders Exposition in Chicago, Jan. 29Feb. 2.

Martyn Mason, head of B & M Lumber Company, Sacramento and Ukiah, and Mrs. Mason, have given the ol' valley fog the slip and will spend the month of Febrrrary sunning and relaxing in Hawaii.

The ulcer badge, the occupational hazard medal of honor bestowed on the successful, was awarded to Strable Lumber Company's Jim Overcast at Providence Hospital in Oakland on Sunday, January 29. "WilI Success Spoil Jim Overcast?" Not a chance, as he's reported fast on the mend and due back on the job mid-February.

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by the customer so that he, or she, can get back to his project. This we find to be of considerable help to the client because, in most cases, there are allied items needed to bring the job to conclusion which the weekend contractor clidn't think about," Ace continued.

It requires more than 20 employes to operate the O'Malley Scottsdale yard and store and one of the most important is Cashier Virginia Nlullen.

"She really saves at least four additional staff members because she is familiar with every item carried in our complete inver-rtory; she is well-versed regarding the perpetual methods of bookkeeping, which her cash register maintains for our IB\4 machine, and she is experienced in the uses of most every item we carry in stock," Ace declared.

Being a combination cashier, saleswoman and bookkeeper, Virginia is a busy lady, indeed, but a most important member of the organization.

O'Nlalley's also offers a wide selection of yard inventory to the contractor-builder, plus complete inventory of sash an<l doors, paint, hardware and allied items. The administratior.r of this phase of the business is handled by Managcr Nlason.

The store sales, and sundry duties of personnel and customer relations, are handled by Lloyd Bowerman, assistant manager. It is a beautiful, well-kept store and, best of all, everybody was busy.

Dor.vn about a half a mile on Scottsdale Road from the O'X{alley spread was another retail lumber establishment, operated by the Itay Lumber Company. Owner Charlie Ray was out oi town but the place was booming with drop-in trade. This operation appeared more on the contractorbuilder policy and the materials rvere moving out in shirttail, piece arrcl truck-and-trailer loads.

G-P's New "How-fo-Do-h" Mqnuol Touches All the Boses

Fast, easy methods for foolproof installation of new factory-finished "Family-Proof" hardwood plywood wall paneling, now available to builders on a nationwide basis, are explained in a just-published "llow-to-Do-It', manual.

Being distributed free, on request, to builders and carpenters,-it is part of a prograrn by one of the world's largest forest products firms to help'upgrade construction standards and further lower on-the-io6 construction costs to take full advantage of the new building materials

Written in non-technical language as a guide for both apprentices and professionals, it illustrates-and describes application techniques for the factory-finished building components that are coming into wide use in both resi-dential and commercial construction.

^ Edited !y Met Carpenter, an executive of Georgia-Pacific Corp. in Portland, Oregon, it covers virtually evlry phase of wall and ceiling panel application.

Starting with "lIow to Figure a Room," it details the rnethod of accurately figuring the number of factory-fin- ished panels needed, including deductions for windows, doors or fireplace, and tells how to prepare to panel over either sheathing or open studs in new work, and-over plas- tics or other types of walls in remodeling.

Included are methods of furring over wood or masonry walls and how to nail or glue panels, ranging f.rom 4x7 to 4x10 feet, in place to insure a perfect fia with minimum effort.

Shorvn are four ways to panel around doors and windows in remodeling, and two methods applicable to new work, plus the secret of making perfect inside and outside corners and accurately aligning for electrical outlets and other cutouts.

There is a special section on basement ceilings, another section on remodeling over plaster walls, and a special page devoted to types and uses of various matching moldings to complete a professional-looking job.

The eight-page illustrated booklet is available free by writing Georgia-Pacific Corp., Dept. 8,ffi-7, Equitable Building, Portland 4, Oregon.

Unusuol Hqrdwood Species

PUI'tPKIN ASH: A short time ago one of its members a;ked the National Hardwod Lumber Assn. to give irim the species contained in Group 3 Hardwoocls issued under a government specification for box and crating purposes. Among thern .ivas Pumpkin Ash. The member asked, "What is Pumpkin Ash?" stating that he hacl never heard of it. This prompted a look int<r the matter a little further and we find that Henry Gibson irr his book, "American Forest Trees," corrimerrts on Pumokin Asl-r as follows:

"Pumpkin Ash (Fraxinus profunda) is a tree of pe- culiar interest. It was unknown before 1893, though the region l-rad been settled over a hunclred years. It has the largest leaves, largest fruit, ancl the largest swellecl base of all American ashes. Nothwitl-rstanding tl.rat, it remainecl so cleeply hidden in su'amps that it escapecl cliscovery.

"Thc botanical narne refers to the deep sn'anrps irr lvhich tl.re tree chooses its habitation. Its great, swelled base enables it to stand on tl-re soft mircl of lagoorr bottonrs, ancl the abnormal swelling is ribbecl like a pumpkin, hence the only English name the tree has ever had.

"These are not the only remarkable things connectecl rvitl-r this ash. Its range inclucles three or four cleep swamps far apart. One is in southenr Missouri, New Maclrid country; another near Varney, Ark., zrnd a third, in a vast n-to.a.s on the Apalachicoln iirr.r, Florida. It is believed to have been originally a Florida species, ancl by some freak of nature it reachecl the Missouri and Arkansas swamps. Certain other Florida plants accompanied it, one of wnictr was corklvood (Leitneria floridana). It is expectecl that Pumpkin Ash will be four.rcl elsewhere in deep swamps intermediate betweetr the extremes of its range.

"The uses of this wood are few, because it is scarce, and the trees are difficult of access on accorlnt of being nearly ahvays surrounded by water. Lumbermen who operate in swamps occasionally bring out a few ash logs with cypress and tupelo. No tests seem to have been made of the wood. Trees are sometimes 120 feet high and three in diameter above the swelled bases."

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The lumberjacks at the Cook Creek logging camp briefly relived a by-gone logging era recently when they felli:d an old growth of Douglas Fir whose size would match even the tallest tale about legendary Paul Bunyan.

The butt of the tree measured no less than 9l f.eet in diameter, which is very rare for a Douglas Fir; perhaps one tree in a million ever grows to this size. The tree will yield an estimated 25,000 board feet of cut lumber or, in plainer terms, enough lumber to build nearly three medium sized 2-bedroom homes.

By counting the annual growth rings, the tree was estimated to be nearly 8 centuries old ! This places its initial growth at about the time of the signing of the Magna Carta. It was a mere 300 vears old when Columbus discovered America, and about ihe time of the great California gold rush it had reached its full mature growth.

Only the fittest trees could survive for so long. Fire is the greatest destroyer of tree growth, with wind and tree disease of equal importance in second place. Even 50 years ago, when heavy logging in the Pacific Northwest began, trees. of this immense size were very rare.

This giant tree was a part of the Douglas Fir harvest taken from the Cook Creek area near Lake Quinault in Northern Grays Harbor county, Washington. The area

was purchased by the Harbor Plywood Corp. at a U. S. Forestry Service sale.

Special permits were required for transportation of the tree to the saw mill, since the diameter of the tree is lf feet over the legal limit of 8 feet for transportation on public highways in the state of Washington.

A spokesman for Harbor Plywood Corp. estimated that this one tree would produce approximately 3100 4x8-ft. plywood panels which, if stretched end to end, would cover approximately 4l miles.

Harvesting of the tree was done by the Don Bell Log- ging Co. and transportation was by the John Hulbert Co. of Aberdeen, \Atashington.

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Colifornio Woste Wood Residues Gould Suppod lO Pulp & Pcper Mills

Richmond-Wood residues that go to waste each year in California could support ten large pulp and paper mills, each producing up to 250 tons per day, says a recent survey report.

fn one average year, more than 160 million cubic feet of shavings, slabs, edgings, and other leftover material-enough wood to equal a year's growth on nearly five million acres of commercial timberland-went up in smoke from sawmill waste burners throughout the state.

If technical problems can be solved, these wood residues may support profitable new industries for California-new jobs, new income, and new products with no increased drain on the state's timber resources.

But that "if" is a big one.

The technical problems are tough, involving the use of the state's already-burdened water supplies, the question of water pollution, and wide variations in the kind and quality of wood residues available.

As a first step in solving these problems, the Forest Products Laboratory of the University of California is adding a new section in wood fiber and fiber products research.

Heading this new section will be Davis L. Brink, who came from the Central Research department of Weverhaeuser Timber Company at Longview, Waihington, to beiome a lecturer in forestry and associate forest products chemist with the University.

- -According to Fred E. Dickinson, director of the University's laboratory at Richmond, the task for Brink and his assistants will be three-fold : ( 1) to determine the pulping characteristics of many California forest species, both hardwoods and softwoods ; (2) to develop or modify chemical pulping processes in order to reduce water requirements; and (3) to reduce or eliminate stream pollution from pulp mill effluent.

Two fiber-processing mills are already operating in California, Dickinson pointed out, and others will piobably be established if the technical problems can be solved. Plenty of raw materials are available, and there's a well-developed market in the state for pulp products such as paper, hardboards, cartonboards, and cellulose for rayon textiles and other uses.

Besides using mill residues, pulp industries can provide a much-needed market for thinnings removed from growing forests, the director said. These industries can also use toppings and other leftovers from logging operations, and they -ririgfit provide a profitable market for certain hardwoods and other Cal_ifornia species that have little or no value today.

-One phase of the new research program at the University hboratory will focus on lignin and calbohydrates, two important pollution-causing componints in the effluent from pulp mills. The researchers will tly to discover wavs that useful oroducts can be made from these compounds.

In 1926 a Douglas fir was felled at Vail, Washington, that was 22 f.eet through at the butt and produced 91,331 board feet of lumber.

Even after 125 years of logging, Washington leads thc nation in production of wood pulp, rvood shingles and wood

Western Asbestos Plans for Expansion

The San Francisco offices and warehousing facilities of the Western Asbestos Co., now in four separate locations, will be consolidated and expanded in a nevv building to be designed and constructed this year by the Crocker Land Compaly in Crocker Industrial Park just south of the city limits. Western Asbestos Magnesia Co. was founded in San Francisco in 1908 by F rank Malloye, who had been the first g'eneral manager for Johns-Manville Corporation on the Pacific Coast. The name was changed in 1934 and at that time it merged rvith the Wayland Company. In 1948 it purchased the Bay Cities Asbestos Co. of Oakland. They are distributors for a wide variety of building materials and industrial products, and represent Johns-Manville, Celotex and Formica.

Approximately 2,274,300 acres of timberland seriously infested by leaf-eating insects were aerially sprayed in i955 by the Forest Service in cooperation with State forestry agencies and private timberland owners, the U. S. Department of Agricultllre announced. In addition 450,000 trees were sprayed individually to control bark beetles and several hundred thousand beetle infested trees u'ere bought by logging companies and cut for use.

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California redwood ag:ain has proven itself to be one of the best possible values in structural materials.

Twenty-one years ago, when the San F rancisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was under eonstruction, redwood ties were specif,ed for the trans-bay railroad on the bridge's lower deck.

When rails were abandoned in favor of buses in 1958, the California Department of Public Works set a crew to removing the ties in preparation for paving the lower deck. Recently, the state auctioned ofr about half of their redwood ties-all that had been removed tlus far, and the winning bid of $37,634 brought just about what was paid for them, lald ln place, in 1937 and 1938.

When the bridge was under construction there was lively competition to see who would win the bid for supplying the ties. The prize at stake: orders for 3,815,000 board feet of structural grade lumber.Non-resinous redwood was chosen because It combined durability with fire resistance. The judgment of the engineers in choosing iedwood was well-supported by subsequent events. Over the years, accumulations of oil on the ties from passing trains did catch ffie from sparks from the electric third rail, but during the 19 years that the Key System operated trains across the bridge, operations were never halted because of tie failure.

Redwood does not ignite easily and burns slowly; when it does burn, a layer of char

forms ovdr the surface. This adheres to the unburned w<iod underrreath, and retards further fire. Of course, charred redwood ties were removed, but the wood was never so weakened that train service had to be suspended.

Other factors influencing the choice of redwood for the bridge ties were durability and strength. California redwood is one of the lightest softwoods commonly used for structural purposes and is surprisingly strong for its weight. Because of natural durability qualities, the strength of redwood can be depended upon for longer periods.

fn their position high above San Francisco Bay, the redwood ties were exposed on all surfaces to driving rains, moist fogs, and drying-winds. Yet, there was no decay, for the natural extractives of redwood render it resistant to attack by fungi.

The qualities which won the bridge job for redwood 21 years ag'o are still in the ties today. A & K Railroad Ties of Oakland, which submitted the winning bid for purchase of the ties from the state, reports that the ties are as sound as the day they were laid down, all 36,763 of them. They were a good investment for the State of California over 21 yea.rs ag'o, and a good investment for A & K Railroad Ties today.

Checklng the redwood ties which stood exposed to all kinds of weather high above San Francisco Bay for over 2l years, Kern Schumacker (top photo), found the redwood iust as sound as when it was laid down in 1937-38. UC Student Schumacker, l9 years of age, is a full partner in A&K Railroad Ties of oakland. the successful bidder for the 36,763 redwood tles recently removed.

2l-year-old ties brought almost same price on bid as when "laid-down" in 1937-38. Key System trains, made up of one to five units, each unlt weighing aba$ 72 tons, made some 3,000,000 trips carrying 300 billion commuters on the rails supported by these ties (lower photo). Service was never halted by the fallure, confirming iudgment of bridge engineers in selecting redwood tor the job.

Richord E. Honsen Nqmed to Weyerhoeuser Promotion Depoilment

Richard E. Hansen has joined the Weyerhaeuser Company's Lumlrr and Plywood Division-Marketing headquarters in St. Paul to be publications coordinaior, announces C. K. O'Rourke, manager of the advertising and trade promotion department, who said the creation of ttre new position to be held by llansen is part of an important expansion to create industry and consumer acceptance of the firm's brand name products.

Jacli D. Kenison has been appointed to the Trade Promotion department of the Weyerhaeuser Company's Lumber and Plywood DivisionMarketing headquarters in St. Paul, announcei Fred Johnson, trade prombtion manager. Kenison joins Weyerhaeuser with a background of experience in the building industry, most recently with Modernfold Doors of New Castle, Indiana. He will serve as editor of merchandising and lumber dealer publications in the Trade Promotion department.

The appointment of David Gibson to the Trade Promotion department of the Lumber and Plywood DivisionMarketing headquarters. was also announced by Fred Johnson. The appointment of Gibson will facilitate the development of sales promotion materials and services which will create industry and consumer acceptance of the firm's brand names of lumber, plywood and related building materials.

The Weyerhaeuser Company also announces the appointment of Peter Rosik to be senior market analyst of the firm's Lumber and Plywood Division-M.arketing headquarters in St. Paul, according to Seymour Kroll, manager of market research.

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Carlile P. Winslow,76, one of the founders of the U. S. Forest Products Laboratory at Nfadison, Wisconsin, in 1910 and a director from l9l7 to 1946. died recentlv in Washington, D.C. Taking over at the onset of WWi, Winslow guided the Laboratory, then unique in the world, through its first great expansion and saw it widely copied around the world through two peacetime decades. Dr. Edward G. Locke, present director of the U. S. FPL, points out that some of the Laboratory's greatest contributions to the nation's economy and industry came during Mr. Winslow's years at its helm. Pioneered at the Laboratory during Mr. Winslow's directorship were such key developments as stressed-skin prefab housing, glued laminated arches and timber, semichemical pulping of hardwoods, modern dry kilns, waterproof exterior plywood and package engineering. Mr. Winslow, a native of Washington, D.C., was a scion of a family that traced its lineage back to Plymouth colony, long prominent in naval affairs, and one ancestor negotiated the Louisiana Purchase from France. He began his own career with the Forest Service of the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture in 1908. Under his administration, the Laboratory came up with some of its best-known discoveries on the slim depression budgets of the 30s. He retired ]n 1946 with tribute to the manpower at the Laboratory whose imaginations in research he keenly sparked. He had been confined to the hospital many monthJ before his death and was unable to attend the Laboratory's golden anniversary celebration this June. He leaves a sister and a brother and died a bachelor. The funeral services were held in Washington, September 28.

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"Whaf the Lumber Induslry Means to Me"

(Continuotion of the Feoture on Poge 48 of the November I lssue)

When the average person thinks of lumber, he instinctively glances at the walls or floors of his home. Then, with little efiort, item after item easily comes to mind. However, an industry as great as lumber cannot be dealt with in a single issue. Looking backward, even the progress of our country can partly be traced by the growth of this industry and the use of its products.

The development of our natural resource, the forest, has provided the stimulus for economic growth. This development has given men the initiative for private ventures into business. In turn, these ventures have created employment for many. Three cheers for an industry that has not only used this resource to advantage but has provided for its maintenance and restoration for future needs.

You ask what the lumber industry means to me; since I have worked for six years in the offices of mills, trucking and wholesale firms, and even tried backing a truck under "jacks," this industry naturally means more than a listing of items. Really, though, what else but lumber has provided wagons for settlers, logs to boards for homes, boats, bridges, barracks and whatever would we do without that ever-needed toothpick!

Long ago, during the ages when our ancestors roamed the lands, forests sustained and protected man and his very livelihood. Lumber was the means by which these ancestors of ours elevated themselves above all other living species. lt was the tree which fed the protective fires by which they warded off animals and which kept them warm and safe from the raging elements. lt was the tree which supplied the first wheel to ease the burden of man's labor. lt was from the burning forests man first discovered the palatetempting charcoal broiled meat which garnishes many a plate today.

Yes, we as Americans today owe, in part, our freedom to the protection and advancement which our great forests gave to us. lt has opened many fields of employment, giving us revenue which has helped to keep our living standards high. I dare say, a person could not direct his gaze anywhere without encountering some object with which the lumber industry has touched; the furniture in the home

(The following are Statements required from each candidate as part of her entrance in the recent "Queen of the Forest" contest in connection with Forest Products Day at the 1960 Calilornia State Fair, September 9.

Because the wood products industry is so broad in scope and basic to our every dav way of life, I find it difficult to measure fully its meaning to me.

Wood has a natural inherent beauty, and through the industries development of difierent wood species, wood patterns and wood uses, I am more fully able to enjoy this beauty. Public buildings, commercial establishments and homes are able to escape from conformity and coolness to places of warmth and originality through the use of wood in their design and decoration.

Wood products carry with them not only beauty for design but practical uses for economy. This industry therefore has given me the opportunity to enjoy many wood products in my home at a minimum of cost.

It is not enough to place value on the lumbering industry products alone. Lumbering has contributed directly and indirectly to, the dqvelopment of recreation areas which are a great source of pleasure to me and many others,

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and office, pencils, paper, and buildings of all kinds. All these things are part of our everyday environment and, perhaps, are taken too much for granted.

Besides these fundamental articles, lumber affords us many luxuries. Nothing is more enchanting than the dancing flames of a fireplace or the tantalizing aroma of a dinner cooked over charcoal.

What is even more fascinating is the fact that there is very little waste encountered in the lumber industry. The wood pulp is used for making paper, and even the bits of wood left, after having sawed the logs down into boards and planks, can be turned into charcoal for cooking and heating purposes.

Perhaps, to one of the old-timers in the lumber industry, these things which I have visualized are not the first things which come to their minds; but to me, as an outsider having just become employed with this great part of the American.economy, these things have meaning.

Forest Histoly Now ot Berkeley

Students and writers with an interest in this continent's historv were afiorded an additional source for materials this nionth when Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, was recognized an approved repository of North American forest history by the Forest History Foundation, Inc., of Minnesota. Certification of this responsibility was made by R. R. Chaffee, president of the Redwood Region Conservation Council, on behalf of the state's forest products industries interests.

Chaffe said "Knowing where to look for historical materials is a large part of the historian's research problem; those seeking to learn more about California's forest history will now have a place to make a real beginning." Already, important regional collections that reach back over 300 years of forest business history have found their way into libraries from North Carolina and Texas to Seattle.

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Back in the late 1800s, when sailing ships were the very lifeline of commerce to the small towns strung along the West Coast from San Diego to Vancouver, two compauies, J. H. Baxter & Co. and West Coast Wood Preserving Company, had their beginnings. The parent companies of West Coast Wood Preserving were the J. M. Colman Company, founded in Seattle in 1884, and Pacilic Creosoting Company. About the same time, a young San Franciscan, Johu H. Baxter, was in the business of operating sailing vessels in Pacific Coast waters, carrying lumber from the Northwest, and returning from the South with citrus fruits and other needed cargoes.

Some 50 years ago these three pioneer companies started a business relationship that was to culminate in 1959 witlr a business partnership. At that time, J. H. Baxter became sales agent in California for the J. M. Colman Company and the Pacific Creosoting Company.

So great was the demand in California for treated wood from Seattle that the Baxter Company, with its ships, devoted more and more of its efforts to the wholesaling arrd freighting of creosoted poles, cross ties, and piling. In the 1920s, J. H. Baxter & Co. built its first wood-preserving plant at Long Beach, California. Since then, it has built modern wood treating plants at Alameda, California, Eugene, Oregon, and Renton, Washington. In addition, it operates a plant at The Dalles, Oregon.

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lnsuronce ond Housing Cost

In the light of very sharp increases in home building costs during the last decade, a full-page advertisement in national magazines recently was addressed to. home owners by a prominent insurance company. The text pointed out that the $14,000 home of 1947 would now cost $21,000 to build. The owners of such properties were urged to review their insurance policies and to increase them where necessary to provide adequate protection in the event of destruction of the property.

That is sound advice and good business. But what about the man or woman that's going to build or buy a new house? Fire, flood and storm insurance now provide only partial protection. A house may go as long as 40 years or more without being destroyed by any of those agencies. On the other hand, decay and termites work around the clock, day in and day out most of the year in most communities throughout the USA. Damage from these destroyers of wood often goes unnoticed until the owner is faced with very heavy repairs. This has happened in thousands of homes that were less than 10 yeais old.

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Contrary to general misconceptions, pressure preserved lumber is not expensive. Treatment will cost about onesixth the price of fire insurance during the life of a longterm mortgage.

Here's_ one way to look at it. Undoubtedly you have worn a Cravanetted coat. The cloth was satirrited with an invisible water repellent that made it shed rain. It would _have been a good coat without water-proofing. It was a better coat because of the water-proofing.

You probably store wool garments during summer. You know from experience that, unless they are impregnated with repellent chemicals, chances ari that you will wind up the storage season with the cloth full of holes. The wool was good. Moth repellent made it better, and cost far less than replacing the garmetlts.

The lumber in your new house will be like that. Lumber is the finest structural material known to man. But it too has natural snsmlg5-lsrmites and decay fungi that will destroy it if given a chance. It can be fully protected only_by fo,rcing an approved preservative deep into the wood, under pressure ina closed cylinder. Superficial dipping or brushing preservative on fhe surface will not protect the wood adequately. That is like putting chicken wire on your wir.rdow screens and expecting it to keep out flies and mosquit_o_l. Wqod is good. Pressure treating makes it better.-Wood Preserving News.

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In addition to the Klamath Falls plant, the program has included acquisition of a plant at Corona, Calif.,Jor the manqfaclure of fiber glass products; a new plant at Stockton, Calif., for the manufacture of Transite (asbestos-cement) pipe; installation of facilities at a Watson (Long Beach), Calif., plant for the manufacture of new types of industrial insulations; new production facilities for asbestos-cement structural sheet building materials at a plant at Pittsburg, Calif., and a new plant for the manufacture of synthetic silicates at Lompoc, Calif.

Bringing to seven the number of its West Coast plants, the company also has a plant at Los Angeles for the manufacture of asphalt roofing products.

In addition to industrial insulations, the Watson plant manufactures Transite pipe and Spintex home insulation. The Pittsburg plant makes a full line of asphalt and asbestos roofing and siding products as well as asbestos-cement structural sheet building materials.

For )zou-r I St tr0nTil D ilDtx!tr{}{}t}requrirern-e::ts.. .

Construction Controcts Set New Record, Soys Dodge

Sharp gains in all three major construction categories in November sent total construction contracts to a new record for the month, 22 per cent above November a year ago, tr'. W. Dodge Corporation reported at the year's end.

Contracts for non-residential buildings and heavy engineering construction registered notable increases for the fourth month in a row, while residential building contracts exceeded year-earlier : levels for the first time this year in November.

November construction contracts totaled 92,886,131,000, the highest level on record for the month, Dodge said. After adjustment for normal seasonal patterns, however, the November contracts dipped slightly from the very high October figure. The seasonally adjusted Dodge Index of construction contracts stood at 280 in November (1947-49:100), compared with 294 in October and, 271 in September.

Dodge vice president and chief economist George Cline Smith said that the 22 per cent gain over November, 1959 was abnormally large, due to the steel strike which held last year's flgure dorvn to a relatively low level.

"Ilowever," he added, "this should not obscure the fact that the current figures are the highest ever recorded for any November, providing a note of encouragement for business in general."

Contracts for non-residential building in November rose 14 per cent above a year ago to $915,683,000, with every major building type sharing in the gain.

Heavy eng'ineering contracts in November were valued at $7L7,447,O00, a full 50 per cent above November 1959. Public works contracts, sparked by highways, and bridges rose 44 per cent, while utilities soared 77 per cent over last year with all major categories scoring substantial increases.

November contracts for residential buildings rose 15 per cent over a year ag:o to 91,253,001,000, Chief factor in the residential gain was a very sharp increase in apartment building contracts, while single family homes were down I per eent from last year.

New Roseburg Represenlqtive

The Roseburg Lumber Co. of Roseburg, Oregon, has a new sales representative in their new southwest sales territory of California, Lrizona, Nevada and Utah, He is Leon L. Lambach of Sunnyvale, California, who has been affiliated with other lumber companies in various capacities. Mr. Lambach's address in Sunnyvale will be P.O. Box 322.

Reno'oglf,SLIDING SASH UNIT'S

'The newest easy-to-apply decorating material is made from ageless, elegant genuine Hardwoods. They are the real thing- real rich hardwood veneers, finely sliced for maximum beauty of grain and highly flexible. They ca^n even be applied on sharp angles.

These veneers are completely washable, because they are factory pre-finished with tough vinyl resin coating that is water, dirt, paint, and acid repellant and abrasion and fire resistant. A special plasticizing process makes it possible to produce these flne hardwoods as flexible sheets for easy handling at a low cost.

All Species...

Species available: \tralnut, Teak, Avodire, Camphorwood, Zebrawood, Phillppine Mahogany, African Walnut (Tigerwood), Silky Oak (Lacewood).

No tools are needed for application. Just cut with scissors and glue to obtain professional results. Even amateurs can turn eyesores into instant masterpieces. These veneers are recommended for wall paneling of houses, offices, airplanes, lobbies, boats, cars, trailers, railroads, elevators, etc.

These veneers are also ideal as a general beautifying surfacing material for metal furniture, applia.nces, radio, TV, Hi-E i cabinets, window displays, backgrounds, store and museum show cases, theatrical scenery, bookbinding, lampshades, labels, home decorating, general manufacturing, novelties, and accessories.

For further particulars write to: Great DasternlumberCompany, Inc., 2815 Broadway, New York 24, N.Y.

New Fyr-Fytor 1961 Catalog Avallable

Availability of the 1961 edition of the company's "Interior F ire Fighting Equipment Catalog" is announced by The F'yr- F\rter Company. It provides complete and latest feature information on all the lines of 'portable type' interior fire-safety equipment supplied by company for the protection of industrial plants, ofrce buildings

and other commercial and institutlonal properties. Indivldual copies of tJte twocolor, illustrated catalog can be obtained wlthout charge. Specify F'orm No. S-62FPB -The I|rr-flter CompanS Customer Servlces Department 221 Cmno Street, DaSrton, Ohlo.

New Method of Termlto Control

A new mettrod of termite control is now available from Mariae Associates. Called the X-Termi-Nail, the unit consists of a nail-like cartridge containing Calcium Arsenate, which is driven into strategic locations throughout wood structures. An ordinary nail is then driven through the cartridge, impregnating the area around the nail.

Key features of this new device are its low cost and ease of application. E'or example, on new construction, car?enters merely drive X-Termi-Nails along with regular nails. Primarily designed for new buildings, X-Termi-Nails can be used on older houses, utility poles, farm wooden fences, or any other construction subject to termite infestation. Because the nail unit is completely sealed, it is safe to handle and use.

Furher information on the X-Termi-Nail method appears in bulletin No. 156, available from Mariae Assoclat€s' P.O. Box 664' Gllendora, Callfornla.

THAT NEIGHBOR OF MINE An Editoriol

My neighbor lives just across the way, across the boundary fence.

But he is no mere neighbor, in the sense that his property is simply adjacent to mine.

He greets you with a smile, no matter who you are, or where he meets you, and his big bass voice booms out cheery words.

That neighbor of mine is the idol of every youngster in the neighborhood, for whose eager interrogatives he is never too busy, and into whose play-life he enters with a heart that refuses to grow old.

Even the animals and birds find sanctuary, food, and shelter, by grace of this neighbor of mine.

He does not turn away from tears of others, or shun their burdens, but is the first to offer services in sorrow's lone hour; a rock of defense for the weary heart.

Through the faults of others he draws an erasing line, and covers their sins with a mantle of true charity, and like the One of old bids them go in peace and sin no more. This neighbor of mine.

But-and in this my heart condemns me-am I true neighbor to him?

New Hondbook Simplifies ldenfificqtion of Woods

Madison, Wis.-The age-old problem of identifying different kinds of wood is vastly simplified bv a new handbook prepared at the U.S. Forest Produits Labgla-tory here and just published by the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, The book contains full-color, natural-size photographs of 32 common United States woods widely used for building construction, furniture, toys, novelties, containeri, and hundreds of other things. Simple, nontechnical descrip- tions tell how to distinguisli each species by color, grain markings, and other characteristics easily seen in the photographs.

The handbook, entitled "\Mood: Colors and Kinds," is available for 50 cents as Agricultural Handbook 101 from the Superintendenf of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C.

The Forest Products Laboratorv. which is maintained here by the Forest Service in'coooeration with the Universiiy of Wisconsin, prepared 'the book especially for builders, lumber dealers, teachers, students, home-workshop operators, and other untrained rn profelsronal wood-identifying techniques. Dr. B. Francis Kukachka, in charge of wood identification services at the Laboratory, selected the species and prepared the descriptions.

The illustrations were reproduced by the most advan.ced- photographic and color printing processes available in order to assure that color, grain, and other identifying markings would be as true to life as possible.

Eighteen hardwoods and 14 softwoods are described on each. Lumber as sawed from logs is either edgecypress, redwood, incense-cedar, western redcedar, shortleaf pine, ponderosa pine, Sitka spruce, Engelman,n spruce, sugar pine, western white pine, western larch, Douglas fir, western hemlock, and white fir.

Iach photograph includes an end-grain, an edge- grain, and a flat-grain surface of the same wobd species, because certain identifying marks show best poplar, and cottonwood. Softwobds include baldand pictured. The hardwoods include American beech, American sycamore, rock elm, American elm, black walnut, black cherry, hickory, white ash, quaking aspen, American basswood, sweetgum, black tupelo-, white and r_ed oak, yellow birch, sugar maple, yeilowgrained or flat-grained.

A glossary defines precisely many commonly used wood terms, including those used in the text to describe the different woods.

Abnee Promoted by USG

A. Victor Abnee has been appointed g'eneral advertising manager of United States Gypsum Company, according'to Andrew J. Watt, vice-president, Promotion and Advertising. Mr. Abnee has been \Mith U.S.G. since 1948,

At the same time, Mr. Watt advised that Howard W. Jarvis has been appointed sales promotion menager with headquarters in Chicago.

Building Gode ftlonoger for NtfrtA

Richard F. Catchpole has been appointed Manager of the Building Code Department, Technical Services Division, of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, Washington, D.C. He has been witlr the NLMA since 1954.

(TeU them Aou sau it in The CaWlornia Lurnber Merclwn)

Corey President Addresses Roofers

The National Roofing Contractors Association meeting: at purdue University, I-afayette, Indiana, on December 1, and 3 featured as the keynote speaker, John W. Humphrey, president of The Philip Carey Manufacturing Company, Cincinnati, Ohio. Members of the association attending this conference comprised management, supervisory and mechanical personnel from all section of the United States.

"Where a company makes or loses money depends upon how well each individual on the team performs his duties and for the team to be effective the top man must spell out in no uncertain terms what is expected of each man," Mr. Humphrey told the roofers.

A brand new gavel made of American walnut and maple, was presented to pr. Frederick H. Boland, president of the United Nations General Assembly to replace the one he broke on October 12 while restoring order in the General Assembly.

The gavel and pounding block were flown to him by National Lumber Manufacturers Association from Washington, D.C. John L. Jones, vice president of Union Lumber Company of New York City, made the presentation in behalf of NLMA.

(TelI them Aou sau it in The California Lumbor Merchant)

Teco frusses Produced by Engineered "Aulomction"

Washington-Automation, long the byword for efficiency and accuracy in product manufacture, has moved into the light framing field. Automatic lumber fabrication for clear span 'leco trussed rafters is now within the reach of community developers, home manufacturers and retail dealers.

A high-speed, fully automatic fabricating macl.rine designed to cut, notch and groove Teco trussed rafters has be_en de-v_elopg4 by the Ruvo Engineering Company, Long Island, New York, according to Timber Engineiririg Com-pany, engineering affiliate of the National Lumber-Manufacturers Association, and developers of the Teco timber connector system of roof truss construction. Production cap_acity for this fabricating line-a system of saws, drills and pneumatically controlled clamps-is based on the pro- duction requirements of the buildei or roof truss fabrica-tor.

The Tecb trussed rafter system is ideally suited to automation, since joints are prefabricated rathei than assembled in a jig. Only.four basic members are needed, and only a single connection is required at each joint.

_ A- fabricating layout ?ecently developed for a New Eng- land lumber fabricator of roof components is capable of cutting and grooving four rafter members per-minute. Operated by two men, the capacity of the michine is 60 trusses an hour. Through "automation" the unit labor cost is substantially reduced.

A-nother machine, developed to the specifications of a roof truss fabricator in the South, cuts ind grooves a 20foot piece at the rate of five pieces per minute. This fabricaqng layout is 26 feet long.

The drills and saws on both machines can be moved in any pos_ition along the entire length of the fabricating line to harrdle material of varying lengths. Saws can be swung to any angle to accommodate truss designs of difierent slopes. The units are operated by air pressure through pusll butlton control, and each operation is performed automatically in sequence.

With the addition of an automatic feed device, the machine can be operated with only one man to control the operation, further reducing the unit labor cost per trussed rafter. With minor adiustments this machine Can also be used. for other operations requiring fast and accurate production.

The automated process provides an accurate and lower cost -trussed rafter, and re-emphasizes the long standing "leadership" position of the Teco system for flexibility oT design and construction.

Further information on the trussed rafter fabricating machine and roof truss design data are available through Timber Engir-reering Compaiy, I3l9 18th Street, N.W.; Washington 6. D.C.

Teo Sipping Populor ot Convention

A highly popular exhibit at the recent convention of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association in San tr-rancisco was the "Teahouse of the X'ortunate Dealer.,' creation of the Wood Conversion Company of St. Paul, Minnesota.

Attractively finished in an Oriental motif, the exhibit was staffed by two pretty Chinese-American hostesses who poured tea and gave Chinese fortune cookies to visitors. Some 3,000 cups of tea were consumed; 5,000 fortune cookies were dispensed. The cookies contained special messages on Balsam-Wool and Nu-Wood.

WH(IIESALE

Thrifty Retcrilers Pick up ot corloqd Prices From our wqrehouse Looded Wifh Plywood, Hordboord, Porticle Boqrd ond Lumber

NEW PREMIUM GR,ADE

ADDED TO 2-4.1 LINE

A new Premium grade of 2-4-1 plywood combination subfloor and underlavment has been placed on the market ny Georgia- Pacific Corp. ,with extra-thick veneers and moisture-resistant glue lines. The new 4 x 8-foot cost-saving panels are in addition to standard interior and exterior 2-4-1 grades.

The 2-4-7 tlpe of panel, a relatively new pl;rwood product, sharply cuts constnrction time, eliminates the need for underlayment beneath tile, linoleum. hardwood 6nd car- peting, and allows use of floor beams on 4-foot centers without cross-bracing in lieu of normal joists.

The new G-P Premium grade has, in addition, a premium glue line that allows storage outside for a full year without mold

damage. And its thicker veneers add to streng'th and surface wearing qualities. Cost is below that of standard exterior 2-4-1.

Added moisture resistance also eliminates many on-the-job problems during baJ weather, G-P ofrcials said.

The sanded 4 x 8-foot Premium panels, l%-inch thick, are tongue and grooved on the 8-foot sides and are completely edge sealed. Manufacture is hot-press.

Lath, Plaster Brochure Ava,ila,ble New Gypsum Association plastering recommendations are g'iven in an S-page ,,Performance of Lath and Plaster" brochure. Copies of brochure are available, at no cost. from the Gypsum Association, 208 North Wells Street, Chtcago 6, Illinois.

Philippine Mohogony Gers OK

George D. Scrim, executive secretary of the Philippine Mahogany Association, has released the text of a letter from the F'ederal Trade Commission in which the right to use the term "Philippine Mahogany" in connection with certain woods grown in the Philippines is affirmed. Mr. Scrim stated that some confusion had arisen about the propriety of the continued use of the term.

(TeIl them uou sqw it in The California Lumber Merchant)

ftlosonite, Deolers Council Sponsor lnterior Pqrtition System

An experimental non-load-bearing interior

partition system, sponsored by Masonite

Corporation and the Lumber Dealers Re-

, gearch Council, was found successful in a

Lu-Re-Co house built in Champaigrt, Illi-

[ois, according to C. A. Thompson, presi-

dent of Thompson Lumber Company and

, the Lumber Dealers Research Council. The

residence is one of 10 being field-tested in

scattered locations by Lu-Re-Co dealers.

One hundred lineal feet of partition wall

having woodgrained hardboard skins on

, both sides, plus 19Ya lineal feet of floor-to-

ceiling doors, made by the same hollow-

eore construction method, were put into

place in this job. Mr. Thompson estimated

that in this house the cost of these com-

ponent wall panels in place provided a sav-

ing of $1.30 per lineal foot.

Thompson said he was 3o pleased with

' the field-test results that he plalrs to use the woodg"ained component panels in an-

o0rer Lu-Re-Co house in order to give the builders the opportunity to reduce costs

stiil further due to the carpenters' familiarity with the system.

He said that the criteria set by James C. :. James,'Jr., Masonite Corporation's marketlng manager of component panels; Ray-

mond H. Harrell, executive vice-president and research director of Lu-Re-Co, and his ' architectural and technical committees were met in the Champaign house: lower cost than conventional construction, a decorative finish, reduced on-site labor time, one-mar installation procedure, and con-

cealed wiring.

"It simply was amazing to watch the carpenters follow the blue-print layout, ' nail the ceiling and floor runners in place, ,,' and put up the panels without having to

help each other. These are one-man panels from start to finish," Thompson commented. : F'abricated at Masonite Corporation's new'

research and development laboratory in St. Charles, Ill., the eomponent panels and doors were ready for installation on delivery. In this system, the drywall ceiling wasr installed first-another time-saving feature. Since the floor plan showed the location of the panels and their number, the only other preliminaries were the nailing of the 1 x 2-inch ceiling runner and the 2r, x V4tt plywood floor runner into the designated locations and sawing the adjustable splines with a power saw,

Eac}r 2r x 8, x yt panel consists of 1 x 2inch perimeter framing, strips of insulation board mnning lengthwise at intervals of 4rr, and skins of Masonite %r, Royalcote, a grained hardboard in a walnut finish. The skins form a trough at the top so that one man can slot the panel into the ceiling runner and then rest it on the floor runner, where it will stand alone tUrtil he nails it. A similar overhang at both sides leaves room for the spline.

Splines are furnished in component 2, x 8, panels consisting of the two skins matching the panels and a polystyrene core. The core thickness is exactly right to slip into the slotted sides of adjoining panels for a tight joint. In most cases, one inch or less of the spline is left showing between panels, with Ya,t, of it penetrating the panel slots on each side. Ifowever, the spline may be sawn to the width required to complete a wall, If neccssary, the panels also may be cut to create a symmetrical wall.

An anchoring nail is driven through a wood lip and into the floor runner from the open edge of the panel. Small-headed nails driven through the panel hold it in posi- tion against the ceiling rulner.

And .iere is a completed Dartition (richt). This handsome woodgrained will, alreadv ied. orated, plus other non-load-bearins walls totat- Ing 100 lineal feet, were erecteil In this ex. perimental Masonite-Lu-Re-Co house. Floorto-ceiling woodgrained bifold doors. of simllar component, hollow-core constructlon; were hung in all closets and matching flobr-tocelllni woodgrained passage doors were used at all rooms providing a unique custom apDearance to the interior of the house. Eeing'only 2" thick, the partitions saved 2l sq. ft. of f,oor space for other purposes, compaied with conventional walls of more than double that thictness. These are one-man panels, a tlme-savlnr constructlon feature. Sklns are liilasonite Royaii cote woodgrain in a walnut finlsh. WlrinS ls concealed, being dropped through any panel from the attic through holes drilled in the ceiling and the panel top.

Erectlon of non-load-bearlng Interlor partltions in a test program by Lu-Re-Co dealers is d€monstrated in the short back wall of a tuest closet (left). Floor and ceillng runners -have been nalled in piedetermined locatlons. The first panel has been slipped into position over the runners. lt is held against a wall runner (not shown) and has beon nalled to the runners. Also In posltion is the section of adiust. able spline, cut trom a piece 2'x8' that ls finlshed llke the component panels. The narrow panel, cut-to-size on the iob, completes the Installatlon except tor nelling, closing the open groove with a wood filler strip, and adding base and cove moldlngs. Each component panel In a test program sponsored by Masonlte. Cotporation and the Lumber Dealers Research Council ls 2'x8'ry, has a perimeter 1x2 wood framing, a core of insulation board strlps and sklns of Masonite Royalcote woodgrained hardborrd. After Installation, only a coat of clear varnlsh, shellac, lacquer or ryax ls requlred to protect the finish.

Concealed wiring is readily achieved by boring a hole in the top of the pa,nel and another one immediately above, in the ceiling runner, before the panel is swung into place. Working from the attic, the electrician simply drops a wire which is readily accessible through a cut made in the panel at t}le proper location for anr outlet. The insulation rigs form a channel for the wire.

The Lu-Re-Co president saw a number of time-saving features in the new walls which require the use of the open-room technique of construction: Ceiling goes fur at one time; then all the interior walls; doors can be shimmed and hung all in one operation-meaning that present timdconsuming and costly processes are eliminated.

Other advantages seen by the co-sponsors are the elimination of cracks due to settling, the attractive wall faces that require only a coat of clear varnish, shellac, lacquer or wax, and the modern vertical lines to give the illusion of a higher ceiling.

Because the walls are only 2r, thick, there is an economy of space, too. fn Lu-Re-Co's field-test house in Champaigrt, for example, the saving in space for other putposes amounted to 21 sq. ft., or approximately 2.2 percent of an overall 960 sq. ft. area. This is in comparison with the usual interior wall whose thickness is 4%t.

' F inal step in the construction of the new non-load-bearing partitions is nailing on the base and cove moldings a^nd ffnishing them to harmonize with the woodgtain finish of the walls and doors.

In Lu-Re-Co's house, a conventional plumbing wall serves the bathroom and another bath which will be completed later. In the meantime, the space will be used for storage. Exterior load-bearing walls are Lu-Re-Co construction, faced with drywall that is painted in light tones to contrast with the woodgrained panels elsewhere in the house. The multi-color finish was sprayed at one operation over ceiling's, walls, woodwork and windows on which the glass was protected by an easily peeled brush-on plastic film.

Prompt delivery in Los Angeles, Oronge, Rivertide ond Scn Bernardino Counties. Celotex Ry-tock . Uni-Bilt Fireplocer . .

Mqronite ., Bobsm Wool NuWood Richkrqft Polyethylene Olympic Stoin Noils Wire olher itemr:

Chrie Homilton to Refire Will Devote Time to World Trovel After April 30, l96l

Rqiios Srudy Mode Avoiloble

14 Important Ratios in 72 Lines of Business, a comprehensive annual study of operating ratios averaged from a wide sampling of retailers, wholesalers, and manufacturers has just been punUsfrea by Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.

The Ratios, which have been ofrered to the business communitv yearly since their origin and development in 1981 by noy .e,. F'oulke, vice president, are utilized by business men as a yardstick in measuring the performance of their businesses with others. Credit and collection personnel also utilize the ratios to under_ stand trends in their field.

I'or the first time in a single source, the ratios are comple_ mented with text fully detailing their usage and meaning, iow they are compiled as well as how they may be interprete-d. The complete study is availabre in pamphlet form to interested business men, libraries, banks, schools and services upon request.

(Tell them Aou sau it in The California Lumber Merchant)

Dear Members and Friends:

You will be interested to know that the Board of Directors, meeting on Thursday, F.ebruary 2, 1961 elected paul R. Hollenbeck to take over the management of So. Calif. Retail Lumber Assn. as Executive Vice President.

Mr. Hollenbeck is well known in industry circles in this area. He started with the Patten-Blinn Lumber Co. in 1982 leaving them in 1936 to go with Ilayward Lumber & Investment Company until 1949. During that time he performed practically all phases of the retail lumber business including supervision of the ratter company's branch yards.

The majority of Mr. Hollenbeck's time the last six years has been spent in conducting retail rumber yard clinics throughout the United States and Canada aJrd in the operation of his Lumber Service Co. of Burbank, California.

At this time, I wish to again thar* all of you who have so generously supported our association efort during the thirty_six years I have been in Lumber Association work in Southern Cali_ fbrnia. ft is my hope that your association wiU climb to new heights through teamwork and that it wiU grow in lawful activi_ ties and useful services under constructive leadership.

It has indeed been a rare privilege and a real pleasure to work with you, my friends and co-workers, to whom I owe a debt of unlimited gratitude.

I shall be glad to hear from you and assist with your problems at any time at the above address until April B0th, when I shall be retired on pension, after which you can reach me at my home. Telephone-Pleasant 1-9698, BE18 W. ?8th place, Inglewood 4, California.

Sincerely,

ORRIE! W. HAMILTON

PROCESS

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.-. a revolutionary new machine process th-at front, back and edge primes cedai sidine with famous Cabot's Ranch House Hues. Saves costly on-site finishing because vou deliver_ pre.stained siding direct to the io6 ready for immediate application.

FOR COTIPLETE INFORMATION: in the Los Angeles area, call Ed- Hearne. REdwood 7.669r. Corona.

ln San Diego & lm- perial Counties, Dhone Solana Cedar d Miil- ing Co., BElmont 4-3437 or SKyt ine 5.1 l3r.

Solana Brand "Caboti26A" CeOar Siding lasts longer looks better . saves tim-e ind money!

ggLANA tS PRE-SELL|NG yOUR CUSTOMERS! Ed. Hearne, Solana's Los Angetes.a.ea ieriiE- s€ntative, is personally talking to archite'cts, oesrgners, contractors and builders in the L.A. area in a big sales development program de- signed to build business for you. All iates are through estabtished local retiil lumber deateri only.

"Sol.ana 8rend" is the trademark of genuine ,.Cabot. ized" Pre.Stained Cedar SiOtng minufi;lr.e-d--b-i,

SOTANA CEDAR & MTLLING COMPANY Solana Beach California

Questions qnd Answers on Woge-Hour Low Retqil Exemptions Of Lumber qnd Building filoteriol Deqlers

1. Q. What makes my operation subject to the general coverage of the F'air Labor Standards Act (Wage-Hour Law) ?

A. Prlmarlly beca,use the purchase and rocelpt of matorials from outside your State constitutes "interstate commerce.t' The ssme conditlon exists where goods a,re sold to customers in other States.

2. Q. I understand there is an exemption in the Wage-Hour Law for retail establishments. What does that saY ?

A. Ifds is what we refer to as the Sectlon 13 (a) (2) exemptlon, and provldes that tho minimum wago and overtlme provlslons shall not apply wtth respect to:

"Any employee employed by a,ny retatl or sorvice esta,bllshment' more than 50 per oontum of whlch eetabllshment/s snnual dollar volume of sale€ of goods or sorvices ls made wtthtn the Stato ln whlch the establlshinent ls loeated. A 'retall or senrlce eetebllshment' shall mean &n establishment ?5 por centum of whose annual dollar volumo of sa,les of goods or servicos (or of both) ts not for resale and ls recognfued as retall salee or services ln the partlcular lndustry."

3. Q. What is meant by "Annual Dollar Volume of Sales" mentioned twice in that detrnition ?

A. The rule adopted is that an establlshmont's status for a,ny ca,lendar quarter wtll bo iletermined on the basis of lts sales for the preceding 12 months' perlod (four calendar qua,rters).

4. Q. .what is meant by the expression "recognized as retail sales or services in the particular industry" ?

A. To simply say that "lndustry recognltion" means traditlonal usage and practice would not be an answer to your questlon wlthout a revlew of custom a,nd usage in our lndustry. As a, matter of fact, we mlght even sa,y that the questlon ls stlll unanrswered to some extent lnsofar as the Wage-Ilour Administrator is concerned. N. R. L. D. A. has recommended to the Adnlnlrtra,tor certaln approaches as & guiilo for lnspectlon and enforcement purpose8.

,Wo agree with the Athninlstrator when he says that tn l<tentifylng sales recognized as rotell ln tho lnilustry, we must start by consldorlng the charactoristics of establishmonte which aro recognized as retall ln the lndustry.

Ths bostc a,pproa'ch to thls ls to determlne whether the ostablishment maklng the sele has recognlzed retall characterlstics and performs recognfued retail functlons-in.other words, does the retall concopt apply to the estabHshment ?

Such characteristics are typlfieil by facllities a,nd services which are employed in the successful accomplishrnent of the rotall dlstrlbution functlon and these ha,ve been summarlzed ln our recommendotlons to the Admlnlstr&tor.

5. Q. It sounds to me like the sales pattern of a dealer is the principal factor in determining his exemption from the coverage of the Wage-Hour Law. Has aJly kind of form been prepared to help the dealer analyze his sales?

A. The &ntwer lg "Yes" to both parts of your query.

In 1961 the Natlonol Assocletdon allsffibuted throughout tho lntlustry a Status

By fhe NATIONAI

R,ETAII LUMBER. DEALERS ASSOCIATION

Booklet contalning an analysls of the Wage-Hour Division's Interpretative Bulletln Pa.rt 7?9 covering "Betail and Service Establlshments and Rela,ted Exemptlons." Thls Status Booklet, like the present Questlons a,nd Anslers, was prepared ln collaboratlon with our counsel. Maclelsh, Spray, Prlce & Ilnderwood of Chlcago. Copios of this booklet were furnished to all ffeld ofrces of the Wage-Hour Dlvlslon.

On pago 8 of this booklet ls a Rotall Establishment Dxomptlon Check-List based on the Admlnistrator's lnterpretatlon of the Section 13 (a) (2) exemptlon. Of course, ln uslng this check list the explanatlon of the terms and items conta,ined in the booklet should be consulted.

I)ealers and thelr a,ttorneys have found the booklet qulte useful ln analyzlng sales and determlnlng the establlshment's qua,lifica,tlon for exemptlon under the Act.

6. Q. I consider my business exempt after analyzing my sales on this CheckList. However, I have a millwork plant in connection with my retail yard. Would this affect my status ?

A. Not necessa,rily. Another section known as 13 (a) (4) provldes tha.t an establishment which can qualify under the 13 (a) (2) exemption as a retall establlshment wlll not be tlenied exemptlon by roason of the fact that tt makes or processes the goods it sells lf the followlng additional requlrements are present:

(a,) the esta,blishment is recognized as a retail establishment in the pa,rticular industry;

(b) the goods which the exempt establishment makes or prooesses are made at the establishment which sells them; and

(c) more tlnan 85o/o of the annual dollar volume of sales of the goods which the establishment makes or processes a,re made wlthin the State.

7. Q. I have a branch yard, and I send some of the windows and doors I make at the yard with the millwork operation over to this other yard for sale. Will that qualify me for this 13 (a) (a) exemption?

A. The &nswer ls probably "Yes." The exemptlon would not be lost because of the mere fact that some of the millwork of tho ma,nufacturlng yard was dfutributetl through other yards of the sa,me ovr'nership or otherwlse. However. mlllwork sold or tra,nsferred to othor yards for resa,le by them would not quallfy as "rotall sales" to the millwork yard and lf such sales or transfers plus other "wholesale" sa,les of the mlllwork yard exceedd 2570 of its tota,l salee, the exemption would be lost.

8. Q. My retail operation is larger than my millwork manufacturing operation at that particular yard. Is there any way I can qualify for the retail exemption, at least for the retail yard?

A. If you manufacture doos, wlndows and special mlllwork at thls locatlon amd can not quallfy under tho Sectlon I-3 (a) (4) exemptlon for a,ny re&son, the entlre retall operatlon wlll lose lts oxemptlon

unless the manufacturlng operatlon ls sufffclently segregated so as to constltute a separa,te establlshment.

If the ma,nufacturlng and retail operations are so separa,ted, employees in the segregated retall part of the business could be exempt as a separate retall establishment. For a dlscussion of what constitutes a soparate establishment, see the discusslon at pages 1? and 18 of the Status Booklot. However, office employes whose rqork dlrectly relates to both the ma,nufacturing a,nd retall operatlons would not be exempt rega,rdloss of whether their office wa"s physlcally located in the ma^nufachrring or the retall part of the business.

9. Q. I do some contracting business out of my retail yard. What effect would that have on my exempt status ?

A. If your contra,ctlng departrnent ls segrogated and the work ls carrled on by sepa,ra,te employes, the contractlng work would not defeat exemptlon for tho reta,ll part of your buslness. The sta,tus of employos in the contracttrg department would be considered separately.

The tJpe of contractlng done by retall dealers usually is local ln nature, such that the employes are not even subject to tho baslc coverage provlslons of the Act' l.e. they aro not engaged ln interstate commerce. Ifowevet, lf the employes in the contractlng part of the business go from State to State ln thetr work or if they unload materlals just received directly from other States or load or handle materials lntended for shlpment to other States, they would be baslcally covereil bY the Act.

10. Q. The volume of mY contracting business is not large enough to.be a separate operation. Does the fact that I run it all through my books as part of my retail operation make anY difference ?

A. There are really two facets to thls answer. First; the effect on your sales pattern. \ilhere retail yard stocks are used by a dea,ler in his contractlng work, such tra,nsfers wtll be considered tr the same light as if sold to an outslde contractor. They wtll be elther wholesale or retall as the case may be under the resale and lndustry recognltlon tests.

Second; some queetlon has been ralsod as to the status of construction employes of an employer who oporates a, reta,ll yard and also engeges ln contracting work.

It ts llkely that construction employes under these clrcumstances would not be consldered as employed by the exempt reta,tl esta,bllshment, and therefore would not quallfy es exempt employes undor Sectlon 13 (a) (2).

Stnce they are employed ln the contra,cting phaso of tho business they would not be consldered retall employes beca,use butliting eontractors, according to Bulletln 779' a,re not onga,ged ln the type of buslness whlch has recognized retall characterlstlcs.

Thls does not mean, however, that locol butlillng constructlon employes are subject to the Act. Such employes wlth somo exceptlons ano not withtn the boslc coverag:e provlslons of the law because they are nolther engaged ln commerce nor ln the proiluction of goods for commoroe.

11. Q. You seem to be referring to employes of my contracting department who are engaged in actual construction work.

But how about my office employes who do work for both branches of the business?

A. As a practical matter, in a,n operatlon such &s yours (whtch ls t54ptcal of most doalers who do this kind of business) contractlng office work is normally minor and incidental as compared u'lth reta,il ofrce work. Further, little contracting work Ls under basic coverage, so we have urged that the Admlnlstrator take the position that ofrce work of a retall dealer doing contraoting work should be consldered as a, comblnatlon of reta,ll exempt work and non-covored work, neither of whlch ls under the Act This is in accorda,nce with the Division's ruling which permits two types of exempt work to be combined for exemption purpoees.

This is one of the borderline situations ln whlch the fa.cts mlght cast the dle elther way. If the constrrrction activity is substa,ntial a,nd for any rea^son is subject to the Wage-Hour Law, olfice employes whose work directly relates to the construcflon pa,rt of the business (book-work or other office work) could be covered. Conversely, lf your construction work is not subject to the Act, retail office employes should not loso exemption, merely because some of thelr work relates to the construction actlvity. Until the courts havo clarified this situation, it must be considered an open queetlon on which you wlll undoubtedly want to be guiited by your attorney,s advice.

12. Q. Speaking of contracting, I notice on this Exemption Check-List that we should enter the amount of our sales to contractors for "other than residential or farm construction, repair or maintenance" as "wholesale sales." We have always considered sales to contractors building or repairing a church playroom, or a store front, or a filling station, or a barber shop, and things like that, as retail sales. Why do you now say we should classify them as wholesale sales ?

A. You are not the first dealer a,stounded to leann tha.t the Wa,ge-Hour Divlslon has reversed its former interpretation on thls polnt. The rea,son we show such sales ln the wholesa.le category is beca,use the Divi-

slon has stated in its brterpretatlve BulIetin, Part 779, that they will be classed a,s wholesale sales for enforcement purposes.

It ls our oplnion that this t5pe of sale ls for use and consumption, a,nd we believe the AtLninistrator's ruling is wrong because such sales aro recognized as reta,il ln the lndustry.

\ile have pofurterl out to the Division that their ruling is not based on custom and usag:e; lndustry recognition; or former rullngs a,nd furterpretations-fun fact, it is contrary to all of these.

Ilowover, until tho courts rule on this questlon a dealer's only alternatives are (1) to follow the Adminlstrator's classificatlon of such sales a,s "wholesale," or (2) to run the rlsk of violatlon and possible fia,bifity for wages if the Arlministrator's position ultimately is sustalned ln the courts. Hero aga,in is a point on which guidance by your a,ttorney is deslra,ble. In this, the discusslon of the problem tn the Appendix A of the Status Booklet may be helpful.

13. Q. Suppose I sell building materials directly to the church, or department store, or the fire station for use in construction, repair or maintenance-how would you classify such sales ?

A. Such sales are for use a.nd consump- tlon rega,rdless of the t5pe of consumer lnvolved. Genera,lly speaklng, sales of building materials made dlrectly in the normal course of retail trading to such consumers for their own use and consumption, whether the consumer bo a private individual, a commercial eeta,blishment, a pubtc uttlity, a transportation company or a, church, will be recogrrlzed as retail sales under the exemption.

It should be noted, however, that the Ailministrator takes the position that sales for such uso under somo clrcumsta,nces might not qualify under the industry reta,it recognition test, i,e. sales for use on large projects involvfurg direct carload shipments where the dealer merely performs a ..jobber" functlon. If you have a substa,ntial amount of such sales you and your attorney may wlsh to review the discusslon of

this point at pa,ges 13 and 14 antl Appenilix B of the Status Booklet.

14. Q. What about my sales to speculative contractors or builders for residential construction ?

A. Such sales which have been traditionally considored for use and consumption in the lntlustry &re now classed by law as reta,il sales.

A new section 3 (n) wa^s added to the Falr Labor Standards Act by the 1949 amendments readlng as follows:

"S (n) Resale shall not include the sa,Ie of goods to be useil in residential or farm bullding construction, repalr or mainterulnce: Provided, that the sale is recognized a^s & bona, fide retall sale in the industry."

This means that srrch sales a,re reta,ll sales when they a,re recognlzed in the butlding materia,ls industry a,s such; i.e. they a,re subject to the "lndustry recognition" tests as sales to other classes of consumers.

15. Q. I am sure my sales pattern definitely establishes the fact that my yard qualifies under the 13 (a) (2) exemption. Are all my employes exempt ?

A. The basic test under this exemption is the na,turo of the establlshment and not the work of the particula,r employes ln it. ff tho establlshment is exempt then all of its employes whose work relates exclusively to the business of that esta,bllshment are exempt no matter what they do.

16. Q. Suppose my operation is such that the establishment can not qualify for the retail exemption. Would any of my individual employes be exempt ?

A. Some of them may be able to qualify undor one of the so-called "individual" or "white-collar" employee exemptions, tf they are employed in an executive, admlnistratlve, or professional capaclty, or in a local retailing capacit5r, or as an outside salesma.n. The Division has issued bulletins deffning theee terms and Iisting the tests which must be met ln ea,ch category to quallfy for exemptions,

In determining the appllcation of these exemptlons the work of each employee must be analyzed on an lndividual basis. It ts tho actual work performed and the

lBporslblllties (and ln the caee of creoutive, admintstrcttvo and profcslonal €mr ployee-tho salary) ol the lniltvfulual om- ploye whlch determines whether he quallffoe for exemptlon.

- 17. Q. All I have heard is that the new minimum wage is $1.00 per hour for nonexempt employes. I pay my employes on a salary basis. Have any minimums been established for salaried employes ?

A- Yc-For a 40-hour workwo€k, the tninlmrrm 'for salarled employes ls $40 a wook, or $80 every two weeks. The Ai[ntnlstlotor has also ruled that $86.67 semi.monthly or $173.33 a month palil salarted employee wlll meet the mlnlmum criteria.

It shoulal be noted, however, that this mlnlmum does not satlsfy the over-tlme requlrments of the law. In any woek ln whlc{r a,n employe works more than 40 hours hls regular hourly rate of pay must be computed and he must be pald one and I hslf tdmes that rato for the overtlrno work.

18. Q. I pay several of my employes a monthly salary and bonus which amounts to considerably more than that minimum. Doesn't that fact make them exempt ?

A. As et&ted tn the precedlng anawer, the fact thst an employe's sa,lary ls more than the mlnlmum does not relleve hle employer from paylng overtlme. A salarled enployee may be exempt as a "whlte@lla,r" worker, but not because he ls pald a solarSr alono. Ife must meet the rather strlct requlrements prescrlbed for the whltecollar exemptlon.

19. Q. f have a man in charge of my Hardltrare department that I pay $400 a month, plus a bonus. He has two men working for him; does his own hiring and flring and does his own ordering and pricing. Would he qualify for one of these whitecollar exemptions ?

A. ThtB job ilescrlptlon sounds like the man would qualify under the executive ex- ' emptilon. Ire is patd more than the $55.00 , per week minlmum; he hlrea and dlrects tho work of two other employes; he exerelses dlscretionany powers ln buylng and solllng amd supervlsory dutles. Therefore, he would be exempt lf he meets the last test; na,mely, he does not devote more than 2O/o oI hls tlme to work not directly essenfol to hle supervlsory, purchasing and selllng worlc A common mista,ke tn apptylng thege "white-collared" exemptlons ls to aseumo that the selary test alone ls controlllng. Thte ls erroneous. The WageHour Dlvlslon haB lrrclsted ln substantlal wage restltutlons ln numerous cases beceuse (desptte htgh salary) other tests were not met.

20. Q. f have two salesmen who a,re outside calling on the trade, selling builders and contractors on a straight commission basis. What would their status be?

A. Thoy would quollfy under the outside sale$n&n oxomptlon unless they spend more thaln 2O7o of thelr tfune in the ofrce or elsewhere on work not dlrectly related to thelr outsldo selea work.

21. Q. I have several employes who do nothing but handle the sales at my retail counter. They wait on customers who come in, and others who call up. They make out their own tickets, and do their own wrap- ping and weighing when necessary. They have a small pick-up truck, and they take turns delivering locally some of their retail orders. Where do they stand under this Wage-Hour Law?

A. They would elso be exompt from the mlnlmum wage and overtime provlslons of theWage-Hour Law under the same'rwhltecollar" exemptlons. They would quallfy as employees ln a "Iocal retalllng cspaclty."

Thls would bo true even though the yard Itself rllil not quallfy as a "retall establlshment" under Sectlon 13 (a) (2).

22. Q. My yard definitely qualifles as a retail establishment under the Section 13 (a) (2) exemption. Is there any special form of records f have to keep?

A. The regula,tions do not prescribe any sot fom ln whlch records must be kept. If your employes are totally exempt from tho mlnlrnum wage and overtlme provislons, the only informatlon you are requlred to keep concernlng eaeh employe,is:

1. Name fur futl as lt appears on Soclal Securtt5r records.

2. Home address.

3. Employe's occupatlon.

4. Date of birth lf under 19.

5. Place or places where the worker ls employed.

In vlew of the fact that you cla,lm exemptlon under Sectlon 13 (a) (2) you wlll, of coursq need to have figures on your sales volume and tlckets or lnvoices whlch show tho breakdown by fupe of transactlon (1.e. wholesale or retail). It ls, of oourse, poesible to classlfy all sales. Slnce there are relatlvely few "wholesale" sales (as described ln the Status Booklet Check-Ltst) many dealers find lt convenlent just to keep a runnlng record of such sales. The totel volume of such wholesale sales cen not exceed 25/s of totol sa.les of the establshment for the perlod ln questlon.

23. Q. Suppose I consider my operation to be covered, what then?

A. There ls much more lnvolved ln full compllance, when this ls necessary because

the estab[shment ls under stahrtory coveroge. It ls for thls reaaon t,hot oll deolerg should analyze tholr eal€s potterns.

The fact that a tleoler le volunta'rlly comptylng wlth somo of the roquirements of the Act does not loso hlm the rlght to clalm tlro rotail exemptlon should he over run lnto troublo as o result of a complla,nce chock.

An establlshment that ls actuolly eubject to the law, because lt can not quallfy for the exemptlon, must keep much more ela.b. orate rocords a,nd follow complicatod formulae for determlnlng regular rates of pay, and computilng the proper overtlme due each employe.

An exempt doalet's ready ablltty to provo hls quallflcatlon for exemptlon could prevent a lot of iletalled examlnetlon of tlme and payroll reeords, and ln somo lnstonceg mlght even avold unwarrantod clalms for overtlmo and other penaltles aga,lnst hlm.

24, q. I have always paid more than the minimum rate just to be on the safe side, although I think my operation is exernpt. Isn't that all right ?

A. As I have prevlously explalned, an exempt doa,lor con, of coumq comply wlth any or all of the statutory provlslons on a voluntary basis wlthout walvlng the rlght to clalm exemptlon lf occaslon arises. IIowever, the dealer who ls legally subject to the Act fa,ces an entlrely dlfforent problem -he must comply strictly with tho many substantlve and technlcal requlremente of the law, regulatlons and lnterpretatilons.

25. q. I have never carefully analyzed the sales of my yard and have pretty much assumed that the yard is exempt. Isn't there time enough to correct the situation if a Wage-Hour inspector flnds I am subject to the Act ?

A. It ts too late then. Overtlme a,nd other wag'o nsnUff ls retroactlve for two years and ca,n be doubled ar a penalty. A short tlme ago a, medium-slzed alealer patil wage restltutlons of approxlmately $25,00O because of a mlstaken vlew that he was exompt.

Tho questlons of covorage or oxemption for oll yards a,nd of compllanso for nonoxempt yords are eesentdally lega.l problems and a mlstake or error of judgment can be most costly. Therefore, ln any borderllne sltuations we strongly rocommend that dealers consult thelr legal counsel ln resolvlng these baslc questlons.

Stuiltes by The Travolers fnsurance Compa,nles show that drlver error ansed, 85/s of the highway accldents ln 1959.

Top Home Builder Merchondisers Honored

ChicagG-Top national merchandising' awards for home builders, their salesmen and builder-sponsored "Parade of llomes" promo- tions were announced at the National Association of llome Builders convention here.

Climaxing its coast-to-cdast 1960 home builder program, Georgia- Paciflc Corp. presented the top award, a 1961 auto, to Builders Hobart Whitney and John L. Taylor for their Briermoor Manor model home merchandising program at Atlanta, Ga. Their a'firard choice, a Studebaker Lark stationwagon, was presented by .w. H. Hunt, G-P vice president for plywood and specialty sales.

ft was one of eight model-home merchandising awards in three categories, based on extensive reports from .,mystery shoppers', who toured model homes from coast to coast for such points as quality of salesmanship, literature, special displays, advertising, site signs and even construction quality.

Top award for the best personal selling job went to Robert Dunham, salgsman for Osman-Amron Inc., builder of Olde York Estates at Cranbury, N.J. He received 9200 cash and the G-p salesman plaque.

The "Parade of Homes" award of $250 went to the Home Builders Association of Mobile, Ala., for its highly-successful 1960 "parade."

Runnbr-up awards for best builder merchandising, g100 "8" bonds, went to John Chaney, Monterey subdivision in Baton Rouge, La.; John Crosland Co., Beverly Woods in Charlotte, N.C.; R. A. Posther, Castle Hills Terrace in San Antonio, Tex. and Master Home Builders, Richland, Wash.

Runner-up for the best personal selling job was Mrs. Samuel C. Newman, saleswoman for Scenic Hills Country Club Estates, built by Handsel B. Butts, Pensacola, F'la.

The Georgia-Pacific builder program included in-home displays, identification plaques for various woods used in model homes, site sig'ns and a national supporting advertising program in full color, all furnished by the big plywood, hardboard and redwood, fir, pine and hardwood lumber manufacturer.

In making the presentations, Hunt said the G-P program "is part of continuing efforts to help builders with their merchandising problems."

Seqlzit Gun ond Monoform Roofing Licensed In Gqnqdq

The Flintkote Company of Canada, Ltd., of Toronto and The Sealzit Company of Riverside, Calif., wholly-owned subsidiaries of The Flintkote Company, today announced licensing of their special Monoform roofing system throughout Canada.

The Sidney Roofing and Paper Company, Limited, of Burnaby, 8.C., with its affiliate, Bishop Products, Ltd., of Toronto, will promote and sell the Monoform System which includes the leasing of the Sealzit Gun to franchised roofing applicators.

Developed by Flintkote research, The Monaform System comprises a seamless, membrane roofing coating of asphaltic emulsion compounds reinforced with chopped glass flbers sprayed in a onephase application with a Sealzit Gun.

The announcement for large-scale entry in the Canadian construction market was announced jointly by R. G. Wace, vice president of Flintkote and Harold, Mears, vice president in charge of sales for the Sidney Company.

Mr. Wace stated that this revolutionary new-t1pe roofing ap- plication is being hailed as the "first major change in roofing

practice in 50 years." The Sealzit gun applies Monoform roofing at rates up to 3,000 sq. ft. or more per hour with a three man crew. It has been enthusiastically received in the U.S. by more than 150 franchised roofing contractors, he said, and will contribute economically to Canada's rapidly growing industrial facilities.

Troining Course for OLA

Oklahoma Lumbermen's Association has set the dates of January 30-31, February 1,2,3 and 4 for its 11th annual Training Course for managers. It will be held at Oklahoma State Ilniversity, Student Union Building, Stillwater, Oklahoma. Hugh Hughes is chairman of the OLA educational committee. Bill Morgam, secretary, advises that those interested should make reservations by writing Student Union, Stillwater, Oklahoma. Be sure to state you are attending the OLA-OSU Management course, he adds. Many well known names appear in the list of those who will conduct the course.

(Tell them. Vou sau it in The Californin Lumber Merchant)

RRLC to Hold llleeting In Ukioh lAqrch 9 ond lO

Eureka, Calif.-Keeping lands productive and log yarding methods and equipment will be two of the main subjects under discussion at the 23rd annual Redwood Region Logging Conference at the 12th District l'air Grounds in Ukiah, California, March 9-10, according to John Yingst, Simpson Timber Co., Klamath, California, conference president.

Problems involved in keeping lands productive following logging will be the subject of a management division panel at 10:00 a.m., Friday, March 10, under the leadership of John Miles, Chief Forester, Simpson Timber Co., Arcata. Rudolf H. Grah, professor of forestry, University of California School of Forestry, Berkeley, will cover financial aspects of growing and harvesting forest crops.

Larry McCollum, The Paciflc Lumber Co. forester, Scotia, will discuss increased productivity through selective timber marking programs. Silas Carr, Gualala Redwoods Tree Farm forester, Gualala, will speak on production and marketing problems in utilization of young growth timber. Dr. William Stoate, noted Australian forester and consultant for Simpson Timber Co. at Korbel, will discuss the ultimate productivity of forest land.

New methods and new equipment used in log yarding wiU be the subject of another panel at the same time on the conference prog:ram, but in the operational division discussions. Eugene Pickett, Wolf Creek Loggrng Co., Arcata, will moderate the panel. Pickett is currently president of the Pacific Logging Congress covering the entire west coast of the U.S. and is also a director of the redwood conference. Appearing with Pickett on the panel

will be S. J. Cramer, Glenco F orest Products, Elk Creek, California, Ray Mast, Brizard-Matthews Machinery Co., Eureka, Edmund Griffith, Simpson Timber Co., Korbel, Wes Galt, Circle G Logging Co., Blue Lake, and representatives of Buran Equipment Co., Oakland, and Euclid Division, General Motors Corporation.

The yarding panel will discuss latest yarding equipment, including heavy rubber-tired yarders such as the Wagrrer skidder, Caterpillar 966, and the Michigan 375. They will also discuss new developments in cable loggrng through use of mobile high lead towers such as Skookum, Berger, and Skag:it. These systems are now being used to log formerly inaccessible areas, steep terrain, and smaller patches of timber formerly left by heavier, less mobile equipment.

"Boom, Bust, or Balance" is the theme of the redwood conference this year, Yingst said, in keeping with current market problems of the industry.

Half of the entire program this year will be divided into management and operational divisions meeting: at the same time, Yingst explained. Management division discussions will include problems involved in the trend toward integration as well as the above-mentioned subjects of keeping lands productive. Operational division program will also include a panel on road building methods and equipment.

The conference will close on Friday, March 10 u'ith the traditional Sawdust Bowl provided by the logging equipment dealers under the direction of Bill Stockley, Berglund Tractor & Equipment Co., Willits. The annual Logg'ers Banquet will be the final event on the same evening with an entertainment program consisting of an old-time melodrama staged by local Ukiah people under the direction of Mrs. George Hunter, Ukiah newspaperwoman. Assisting with local arrangements is Paul Sutterly, Mendocino County Chamber of Commerce, Ukiah.

Western Plcrnt Mqintenqnce And Engineering Show

San F ranciseo-New conceptions of maintaining industrial plants looking toward the new problems created by nuclear and other super-scientific developments will be explored at the Western Plant Maintenance and Engineering Show & Conference scheduled for July 18-20 at Los Angeles' Pan Pacific Auditorium, it was revealed by R. L. Saling, reg'ional manager of maintenance products Westinghouse Electric Corporation, who is the chairman of the Board of Sponsors.

Saling said they are scheduling meetings of industrial leaders within the next 30 days in both northern and southern California to analyze the most important new developments in plant engineering and maintenance which will be incorporated in the Los Angeles show.

The series of conferences to be held concurrent with the show wiII be under the leadership of L. C. Morrow, internationally famous director of the National Plant Maintenance and Engineering Conferences.

Saling said that since 1957 when the last Western Plant Maintenance and Eng'ieering Show was held, there has been tremendous increase in new industries in the West, now standing' on the threshold of an industrial era which will loft parts of western industry to a position of national leadership.

The show is being produced under the guidance of Clapp & Poliak, the nation's largest firm of industrial exposition manaS'ers.

Reports from the western office of this firm indicate exhibit space will be occupied by the leading manufacturers, researchers and plant servicing organizations in the United States, who are bringing their latest wares to Los Angeles for this event.

Redwood

SllSS lumber Co,, lnc,

Deqler Aid Progrom Announced By lliorlite

To enable Marlite dealers to take maximum advantage of national advertising and publicity, a four-page brochure ouilining and illustrating available newspaper ad mats and radio spot announcements has been prepared by Marsh Wall Products, fnc., Dover, O.

"Each of our advertisements in consumer magazines refers readers to the local building materials dealer, and we want the dealer to take advantage of this pre-selling to wrap up bigger sales and profits by identifying himself as a Marlite outlet,', explains R. A. Huff, advertising manager of Marsh Wall products.

In the new brochure ten two-column newspaper ad mats are shown. Included are mats on the complete Marlite line and others geared ,to specific products, such as Random Plank and the new marble patterns. All of the mats are sent free upon request to the company's advertising department.

Six radio spots also are included in the new promotional brochure for Marlite dealers. The announcements stress the durability a^rrd easy maintenance of the plastic-surfaced hardboard paneling.

"Those dealers who have developed a consistent local advertising compaign of their own have increased their volume in both the residential and commercial fields," Huff points out, "because they have identified themselves as Marlite headquarters for the community. Many dealers are making Marlite lJfagazine advertising work directly to tleir own benefit by identifying themselves with the product, and we hope this new brochure will make it easier for others to take advantage of the many Marlite consumer maga- zine advertisements read by their customers."

Philip C. Goodenough Given New Post

Longview, Wash.-Philip C. Goodenough has been named advertising and sales promotion manag'er for Internaticinal Paper Company's Long-Bell Division, it was reported today.

He joined International Paper after 14 years with Meredith Publishing Company, Des Moines, fowa, where he was retail merchandise manager, Headquartered in Longview, Washington, Goodenough will manage advertising of Long-Bell manufactured products, sales promotion, and will coordinate trade show activities.

Goodenough is a graduate of the State University of fowa with a BA degree in advertising and journalism.

Things it is nice to know about: "Mixtures of sorbitol, xylitol, erythritol, glycerol, propylene glycol, and enthlen glycol in products from hydrogenation and fermentation of wood sugars were separated by paper and column chromatography." F'rom a Forest Product Laboratory paper.

SETLING PAINT

Impress on owners the fact that painting is not really an expense, but an investment. That a litile paint now will save the cost of new lumber and carpdnter work later on if wood-work is permitted to decay.

Walking along the street and noting the many shabby, dingy buildings, leads to the conclusion that the paint trade is not,.on its toes" looking for business. Owners of many of these properties could be induced to paint.

Ilere's a true story: A tenant had lived in a certain house for thirteen years. It had never been painted during that period of time. Meanwhile the back steps had fallen down, also the fence around the back yard; the shingles on the front porch had decayed and, as a result, the roof timbers had rotted so that several boards had fallen ofr the porch ceiling. The whole house presented a dingy appearance.

The tenant moved out; said he wouldn't stay in such a tumbledown stmcture. Then the landlady got busy. Spent a lot of money on repairs and painted the building.

And what do you think she said? ..It's funny no paint salesman or lumber dealer ever tried to sell us the paint or materials or called and offered to get the job done."

And there's many other painter and paint dealer asleep at the switch on thousands of similar prospective jobs waiting for somebody to solicit them.

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GLISSIFIED ADYEnTlslile-Po3ltion Wantod $1.00 prr liio

-Tiiqlm,iii'$L{i{'#!l''li.:i*=5'L1-i.*r*

Cloilng dates for copt, 5th and 20th

llames of ldvertlsers in this Drpartnett uslng a Bu llumber cannot be diwlged. lll inquides and npliu should be addressed to B0r shown in the adrrillsrmrnt

Successful Men Still Look for Work After They Find a Job

-HEI.P WAI{TED_ -FOR SAI.E-

COMMISSION MAN by Douglas Fir Wholesaler to be exclusive representative in the San Joaquin Valley, Should be based in Merced/Fresno area. Must understand Industrials, Clears & Specialties and have a good following in the trade. State full details and qualifications first letter.

Address Box C-3O62, The California Lumber Merchant

16 West 6th St. Bldg., Room 508, Lo€ Angeles 14, Cdif.

ESTABLISHED WHOLESALER, San Fernando valley, has opening for aggressive salesman. Exclusive representation, unlimited capital and large buying office. Must have rail experience with L. A. area accounts. All replies confidential.

Address Box C-3060, The California Lumber Merchant

108 West 6th St. Bldg., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.

-POSMONS WANTED-

LUMBERMAN rccently sold interest in large retail yard. Desires challenging position with retail or wholesale lumber organization. E:iperienced in production as well as retail and wholesale levels. Free to relocate.

Address Box C-3043, The California Lumber Merchant

108 West 6th St. Bldg., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.

PLYWOOD-HARDBOARD man with years as mill sales manager and divisional manager. Experienced in wholesale and retail sales, credits and warehouse management, Prefer wholesale. Married. Will travel.

Address Box C-3063. The California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th St., Bldg., Room 508, Loc Angeles 14, Calif.

BOOKKEEPER by elderly rnan. Experienced in independent and line yards. Would take part-time or half-day work. Southern California, Nevada, or Arizona.

TOM BAKER

14752 Covello, Van Nuys, California

WHOLESALE HARDWOOD DISTRIBUTION FIRM, longestablished in Northern California area, at book value. Sale includes valuable franchises, Clean and current inventory and extremely attractive leasehold arrangement.

Address Box C-3056, The California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th St. Bldg., Roocn 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.

-YARDS €md SITES FOR SAI"E/IEASL

\ilfc are eettins somc Inquirics about Southern California Yards that are For-Sale.-If you want to sell your yard, we'll be glad to hgar from you 5% Cbmmission and a 60-day listing on an exclusive risht-to-sell.

- TWOHY LUMBER CO.

Lumberyard and Sawmill brokers for over zl0 ye-ars o 714 West Oiympic Blvd., Los Angeles 15; Rlchmond 9-8746

RETAIL LUMBER & BUILDING MATERIAL Yaril. Estab'lished nearly 50 years. Few miles east of San Dieg-o in-the Hub,of Business Siction- and thrivins community. Land, buildings, equiPment and inventory all goes. N[-l Zone. YOU CAN'T BEAT THIS.

Address Box C-3061, The California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th St., Bldg., Room 508, Loo Angeles 14, Calif.

-EOI'IPMENT FOR SAI.E-

l-Ross Carrier, Model 80

l-Ross Fork-Lift, Model 15 SH

l-Ross Fork-Lift, Model 15 HT

l-Gerlinger Fork-Lift, Model PH 862

l-Hyster Fork-Lift, Model 75

2-Hyster Fork-Lifts, Model RT 150

l-Westcoaster 5-Ton Fork-Lift

May be seen at MacKAY MILL SERVICE 8n - 69th Ave., Oakland 21, Calif'; NEptune 8-9428

1952 Gerlinger Model PH 862-130-16,000 lb. cap. .. q4,500

1954 Hyster Model RC-I6G-16,000 lb. capacity .......$5,750

May be seen at: MORGAN-DAVIDSON LUMBER CO.

11401 S. Lakewood Blvd., Downey, Calif.; WAlnut 3-4571

OFFER YATES V-54 Bevel Resaw No. 8-12186, right hand bdlbearings, wheel width 6/9", F.eed, 3-H.P. Vari-Drive, Drive Sheave on resaw l6-pitch dia-, l2-groove V-belt. Will sell or trade for 42" or t[8" bevel resaw.

C. O. WATSON, DIAMOND NATIONAL CORP., CHICO, CALIFORNIA

STICKER-AMERICAN 2t10". 7y"-II.P. on Top Head and 15-H.P. Sides & Bottom Head. Can be seen in operation-$1,200. THE WOODWORKERS

15810 Walton Way, Los Gatos, Calif.; Elgato 6-4640

1958 GERLINGER FORK-LIFT Model 5-16. Used less than 2500 hours.Likenew... ......$7,250

S & S Lumber Co., TOpaz 1-6701 or SPruce 3-2292

ess o'crbtSt#53Britc co.

7125 Telegraph Road-I-os Angeles 72, Cahf. o RAymond 3-3221

...5PACE FOR, tEASE...

Clfilces, Yord, Govered Slorogeldeol Arrqngements for Wholesqle Lumber C)perotion

Adiacent to Sonfo Ana Freewoy -

COffrPlElE tllllNG ond

KIIN.DRYING FACIIIIIES

wlrh 2 Spur lrocks Avoilqble

Csll

Sloter: Gllbert 3-3237 for Prices ond Quotstions -o-

WE ARE MATIUFACTURERS - II(,T IIISIRIBUT(IRS !

J, JLi' Jonn

The Goliforniq lumber Merchcrnt

Meet Our 'Stor Repoiler'

Would you like to meet our star reporter? Well, walk to the nearest mirror and shake hands with yourself. YOU are the one who can best report to The CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT what is happening to you and the many daily events in your area and, as our Top Reporter, we are counting on you. Because we are all in the same business, with the same problems and goals, we would like to get together with you every lst and 15th to swap experiences. Let us know what new merchandising or promotion have been successful for you; tell us what expansion activity you plan, what ideas you may have for better business and increased sales; what unusual or amusing things may have happened lately. We'd like to hear about your familyr 5zour employes and, if available, we'd like to see the photos you may take, too. Please send your news to us at Room 508, 108 West 6th St., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

Post Ofiice Deportment lssues Commemoroiive

On F ebruary 2nd, commonly known as ground-hog day, the Post Office Department appropriately issued the world's first range conservation commemorative postage stamp at Salt Lake City, Utah, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced. T?ris 4-cent stamp, printed in three colors, will be released at the annual meeting: of the American Society of Range Management under joint sponsorship with USDA's Forest Service and Soil Conservation Service; the fnterior Department's Bureau of Land Management and Indian Service, and the Post Office Department. Elveryone was in the act but the ground-hog.

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AD\'ERTISERIS INDEX

ttAdverli3ing oppes ln olto?nole l$s

(TeIl them gou sun it in The Calitonb Lumber Merchant)

Davies Lumber, Carl-.....--.--...-.-.--.*

Del Valle, Kahman & Co,---.----.--. *

Diamond W Supply Co.....--.-..-..--. *

Diebold Lumber Co., Carl..-.-...-..*

Donover Co., Inc.---.----..-------.. *

Dooley & Co.--------.--.-.---.-------------. *

Douglas Fir Plywood Assn.-...-.-.-*

Downey Kiln & Milling Co..-....-. r

Durable Plywood Salcs.....---......-. *

-E- Emro Plywood.....-............-...........43

E*ley & Son, D. C.--.-.-.-,.-.----...... * -F-

Fairhurst Lumber Co.----..-...--..--....26

Fcrn Trucking Co..---.---.....--........... t

Fountain Lumber Co., Ed........-... *

Friem.n Co., Stephen G,............53

Fremont Forest Produc1s.............. *

Holmes Lumber Co- Fred C...---* Hoover Co., A. L.------------------------.. I Huft Lumber Co.,---....----.----.----.----* -t- Independenr Building ,!Aaterials Company...-.-...------.--.* Industrial Lumber Co.--..--.--.-------- I Inbnd Iumber Co,..----....--.---.---.---18 -J- Jamb Dandy Lumber Co,-.---..-...- .r Johns-t$anville Johnson-Flaherty, Inc. -----------.----15 Jordan Sash & Door Co., F. [.----49 -K-

Kaibab Lumber €o....----.--.---.--.---.-.'

Kefley, Alberl 4...........................17 Kilgore, Robert P....-........-.---.--.---.-41 KinTon Lumber Co.....-..-..-...--...--... *

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Neiman-Reed Lumber Co.--.---.-----53

Nelson Lumber----------------..---.......---*

Nelson lumber Co., H. M.--.-.--.-. *

Neth Lumber Sales, A. W.--...--.-*

Nikkel Iumber Co., R. F,-...........55

Norby & Palmer Lbr. Sales----------36

Norco Disiributing Co.-------.-----.-. *

So-Cal Building Materials Co.----54

Solana Cedar & /ti\illinq Co.--.---..55

South Bay Lumber Co.l---------------*

Southern Calif. Lumber Sales------38

Southern Oregon Plywood, Inc.--51

Siahl Lumber Co.-,--,------------.---------*

Standard Lumber Co., lnc.----------19

Stanton & Son, E. J.-------------------*

State Box Company------------------.-.. r

Strable Lumber Company-----------.30

Strait Door & Plywood---.----..--..-. *

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Tacoma Lumber Sales, Inc.----------36

Talbot lumber Co...-.----.------.--------44

Tarfer, Webster & Johnmn---------*

Trirngle Lumber Co,--------..------.-----49

Twin Harbors Lumber Co.--..------30

-u- U. S. Plywood Corp..........---.-.----- |

Oliver J. Olson & Co,--------Cryer 4

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Oregon Paciffc Forest Productr-.--ll

Osgood, Roberl S.-.....-...............-.24

Oxfqd Lumber Co., Rex....-.--.-----42

Union Lumber Company.--.........---- 5

Unired Whsle. [br. Co..--.............60

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Vancouver Plywood Co.----.---..--....25

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Galleher Hardwood Co,..........-.--26

Georgia-Pacific Corp.................--.. *

Georgia-Pacific Warehouces.....-.... *

Gilbrearh Chemical Co,................ *

Golden Gate Lumber Co............. *

Gosslin-Harding Lumber Co.--.-.-18

Grace & Co., W, R...--......--.-.-..-----.28

Great Bay Lumber Sales.---.-...----*

Greal W63lern Lumber Corp.-.----61

Green{ield & Son, H. M.--.-....-.-. r

Grove Wholesale Lumber Co....*

Gulf Paciffc Land & Lbr. Co.------.* -H- Haley Bros.-----.------.---..------......--....--36

Hall Co., James L,----------.-....---.---*

Hallinan /tllackin Lumber Co.--..---*

Hansen Forest Products Co.-------* Harbor Lumber Co., lnc.------.-----.-42

Hearin Lumber Company-----..----*

Hedlund Lumber Sales, Inc.....---,12

Heinley Mastercraft Products------ r

Hendrick Co., J. W...-.----......--..--.. *

Hexberg Lumber Sales----.--.---------.46

Higgins Lumber Co., J, E.---.--.---.- r

Hiff & l orton, lnc..--..-----------.---.-27

Hill Whsle. Lbr. & Supply Co..... * Hobbs Wall Lumber Co...............37 Hollow free Redwood Co...-.-...-. *

Kvalheim Altachinery Co.....-.......-. *L[, A, Dry Kiln & StoraEe, Inc.-...17

Lamon Lumber Co...-.--..-.....-..--..... *

Lashley Lumber, Inc.--..-----------.*

Linderman Wholesale Lumber--..-*

Long-Bell Div.-lnr'l Paper Co. r

Looo Iumber & At\ill Co..-..--..--.... *

Los-Cal Lumber Co.-----.----..--..---.-.21

Lumber Center /tililling Co.------.,-* -A -

MacBeath Hardwood Co.------------.. *

Macmillan and Bloedel-------.----,--.23

Mahogany lmporling Co.--------.,-*

Maple Bros.-.------.

Marinland Lumber Co.-------------.,,-, t

Markstrom Lumber Sales, H. E.--23

Marquarf-Wolfe Lumber Co.-.--..--29

\arshall Shingfe Co.....-....--...--..--22

Mason Supplies, Inc..-.......--.--------.-I0

Masonile Corporation---.--..-----------*

Max Hardwood Company............50

McCloud Lumber Co.-...-...............4O

McCormick & Baxter Crcosoting Co. ..---.-.-.-.............-*

Mento, r'Aeryin R.-.--.----...-.-...-...--.... *

Mines Bandini, Inc.--.--------.--..--.----*

Moore Dry Kiln Co.---.--.--.----------.- r

i\^utual l\Aoulding, Lumber Co.--.. *

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Pacific Fir Sa1es..........-.......-...--..-.-*

Pacific Lumber Co., The.--.-.-..-..---. 9

Pacific Lumber Dealers Supply-.-. *

Pacific-Madison lumber Co..------. *

Pacihc Wood Producir-----.--.---..--.-49

Pan Asiatic TradinE Co.----.--..---..-*

Paul Eunyan Lumber Co...----..--.- r

Peerles3 Lumber Co.--.-------------.-.--*

Peirce Co., Al--.----.-...----.-.......---.---.-'

Penberthy Lumber Co.----.---.-------..39

Pernall Lumber Co,------------.-------..30

Pickering Lumber Corp.------.--------*

Placeryille Lumber Co.---.--..---.----40

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Regal Door Company....---...Cover 3

Repco Industries, Inc......-......--..-. *

Ricci & Kruse Lumber Co..---------..6I

Rounds Lumber Co,.-----------Cover I

Roy Forest Products Co.----.--------*

Van lde Lumber Sales, Ray....--..-. r

Veneer Products, 1nc,.....--..--....-.-'

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Walrh Lumber Co.........................43

Ward & Knaop-------.-.-----..............-.. *

Wells Custom Millwork....-.....-..-.. *

Wendling-Narhan Company-----.....,{

WeBf Coasf Lumbermen's Assn. *

West Coast Screen Co.-.--.-...---....-.19

West Coasl Timber Products-..--. '

W€slern Dry Kiln.--.-.------.--.----...--*

Wesiern Forest Products of S.F.--60

Weslern Forest Products Co.-----.'

Weltern Lumber Co.--------.----- *

Western Mill & Lumber Co...---.--48

Western Pinc Association-----------*

Western Pine Supply Co...-.........35

Weyerhaeuser Company.-......-.-... 7

White Brothers---

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San Antonio Pole Const. Co.--..-. *

Sanford-Lussier, Inc.-...----------..---.-.46

Santa Fe Lumber, Inc.--.----..--------*

&arburgh Co., Inc..-.-----------..--..-. *

Security Paint Mfg. Co.--..----.......*

Shivefy, Afan A.....-...------...-..---.--..12

Sierra Lumber & Plywood--...---.-..41

Sierra Redwod Co.-------......---.--...17

Sifbernagel, Inc., George J,-.---.--21

Simmons Hardwood 1br.....-.....--..13

Srnith Hardwood Co,, L. R.--..---- r

Smith Lumber Co., Ralph 1,...-.... r

Smith-Robbins Lumber Corp...---.--52

White, Harry H.------------------------------59

Wholesale Forest Products Co.-.14

Whlse. Lumbermen's Assn.--.------. r

Wilhold Glues, Inc.-..-..--.--.....--....62

Windefer Co., Ltd., George.-------..17

Wood Cqversion Co.---.....--...--.-- r

Woodside Lumber Co.-------.------------52

Wright Lumber Sales, Paul---------- '

-Y- Yancey Company----..--,-...--..-------..-. I

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Ziel & Co., Inc...-..-......-.......-.......I6

Zwarl & Company, H.-.-.--.........---45

o AII P0PAU? SPECIES o AII SIZES

... the oll new "VENT-AIR"

Att DOORS ARE HOT PRESSED wifh Type 2 Ureo Resin ond Belt Sonded. Core consfruction is on oll-wood grid, wirh 29 horizontol Ribs ond 2 conlinuous Verlicols, spocing belween Ribs is 2Vc", End roils qre 2r/2", Sliles ore l3/q" ond Lock Block oreq is 4x21". All doors qre guqrqnleed for one yeqr ogoinsl delominqtion or defects in mqleriol qnd workmonship, ond will be reploced lN THE WHITE ONLY. Doors must be properly hondled, stored ond seqled. All doors ore mqnufqctured in complionce with qll Commerciql Stqndqrds requesied.

Regol "RESPE C"

Commerciql Stqndords complied with ore: CS l7l-50 ond CS 35-49, plus modern revisions.

o Hot Pressed - Bonded Core o 5 or 7-Ply Construction

o Type I Exterior Grqde Glue Hordwood Edgebonded 4 Sides

r Belt Sonded o Guqronteed 2 Yesrs

SCHOOI DOORS OUR SPEC'ALrY "For

OLSON BARGES move more lumber lor less

Under deck, safe and dry (out of sight in this photo) new Olson barges can hold 4000 tons of plywood. . equal 133 boxcars! Easy-access hatches arc 72 feet long. TWo 30-ton cranes speed all handling.

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It's a warehouse-on-the-water for plywood, pulp and particle board, along with the rest of your shipment.

Olson operates three such barges (the Forest, the Florente, and the Mary Olson) as well as deck barge Pacific N9 2. And Olson handles with care and gets it tlrcre promptly.

tot rent, charter or lease, get in touch with Olson now!