The California Lumber Merchant - March 1941

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THE CALIFOR}-IIA LUMBERMERCHANT JackDiorrne,fublishu

How Lumber Looks

The National Lumber Manufacturers Association reported that lumber production for the week ended Feb. 15 stood at 149 per cent of the average of the corresponding week 1935-39 and shipments 132 percent. Production totaled 235,563,W feet, which was 2 per cent greater than the previous week, and22 per cent greater than the corresponding week a year ago.

Shipments aggregated 242,054,ffi feet, 2 per cent less than the previous week, and 23 per cent greater than last year's corresponding week.

Orders booked were 254,O91,000 feet, which was 2 per cent less than the previous week, and, 26 per cent greater than the corresponding week last year.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association reports: Seattle, Washington, February 12, l941-The weekly average of West Coast lumber production in January (5 weeks) was 150,095,000 board feet, or 94.2 per cent of present installed capacity. Orders averaged 147,930,W board feet; shipments, 151,365,000. Weekly averages for December were: production, 133,608,000 board feet (67.8 per cent of the 19261929 average) ; orders, L37,912,ffi; shipments, 146,133,000.

5 weeks of 1941, cumulative production, 75O,476,W board feet; same period, 194[,617,767,000; 1939, 554,418,000. Orders for 5 weeks of 1941 break down as follows: rail, 376,470,W board feet; domestic cargo, 247,798,m; export, 25,226,W ; local, 90,158,000.

The industry's unfilled order file stood at 675,576,m board feet at the end of January; gross stocks at 854,793,000.

January saw West Coast mills operating within 5 per cent of their machine capacity, after the midwinter shut-

down period. This was held to a minimum because of continuing Government needs. However, the difference between January aand December production figures is due mainly to shutdowns in the latter month.

The West Coast lumber market situation remained practically unchanged during January. Early in December the upward price movement was checked, with the ending of rush purchases by the Government for immediate delivery, and ii continued to level off through January. Production capacity was crowded hard to catch up on the heavy volume of unfinished orders and to make ready for normal spring trade.

The scarcity of intercoastal tonnage remains an unfavorable factor in the West Coast lumber situation. ft compels shipments of lumber by rail that would normally go by water, through the Panama Canal to the Atlantic Coast. Offshore trade showed a marked decline in January, dropping close to the disappearing point.

The Western Pine Association for the week ended February 15, 1O1 mills reporting, gave orders as 72,550,000 feet, shipments 69,&3,W feet, and production 54,889,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 3@,I44,m feet.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended February 15, 130 mills reporting, gave orders as 31,066,00O feet, shipments 37,702,000 feet, and production 36,235,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 116,4O8,000 feet.

Lumber cargo receipts at Los Angeles Harbor for the week ended February 22, totaled, 13,195,000 feet as compared with 25,@1,000 feet the previous week.

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If you want knowledge, you must toil for it. Toil is the law. When one gets to love work, his life is happy.John Ruskin.

When a man or a motor knocks, it is a sign of weakness.

A speaker at one of the recent retail lumber conventions said that there are three ways to get ahead in the retail lumber business. First: By doing what others are unable to do. Second: By doing what others are unwilling to do. Third: By doing what others are intending to do, but doing it first. ***

Ray Saberson, speaking at a retail lumber convention, offered some interesting information concerning the retail lumber business today, and a generation ago. He said that from 1900 to 1920 retail lumber dealers sold 19 to 2l/e of. all the material that went into buildings. Now, he said, they get S/"Vo, because "instead of the other yard down the street we now have competition with truckers, local mills, cash and carry yards, mail order houses, wholesalers who sell direct on larger jobs, house wrecking yards which do both old and new business, cut price yards at every strategic point, cooperative yards, and 'bath tub' yards which sell first and buy afterwards."

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The opportunity and privilege of aiding in the national defense movement was highlighted by speakers at every one of the recent retail lumber conventions whose programs we read. Lumbermen generally are among the most patriotic citizens of this nation, and there is no better audience before which to wave the fag of loyalty, than a lumber bunch. They really respond and enthuse.

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We hear much of "bottle-necks" nowadays, in discussions of the defense program, a bottle-neck meaning a narrow point in the fow of production that cuts down the speed of production or distribution. In the lumber manu-

facturing business the bottle-neck is the seasoning and drying department. Most mills can arrange to speed up and increase their green lumber production in various ways. Some mills today, for instance, run three shifts. But it is physically impossible for a mill to increase its drying capacity in any such fashion. Yard drying is a slow process, and in much of the lumber producing area of the country this has been a wet winter that slowed air drying down very sadly. And most dry kilns are used to their greatest capacity during normal times. To double the output of a dry kiln built to fit the normal production of the mill it serves, is seldom possible. And dry kilns are not built in a great hurry. So the drying and seasoning department of almost every mill is the bottle-neck that must be reckoned with when greater production is desired. *>t*

When the defense program rush is over, whenever that may be, it is a certainty that it will be found that the lumber drying ability and capacity of the entire lumber industry has been greatly advanced and increased. t<**

Retail service. A rural lumber dealer I know cooperated with the agricultural extension department of a state college and gave the farm women of his territory a demonstration right in his own office of how women can do their own wall papering in their homes. He got a large attendance by writing a list of personal letters, and the $romen came and watched with interest while they were shown how to prepare the walls, make the paste, cut the paper, put on the paste, and put the paper on the wall. Some jobs of papering on the farm are impractical except as home work. This dealer showed them how to do it.

The report of Manager \AI. W. Woodbridge to the annual meeting of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, splendidly illustrates the efficient workings of that very successful institution. The report shows that they spent 46.4 per cent of their total budget for advertising; inserted a total of 58,0o0,0fi) advertising messages in home, farm, trade, and other publications; circulated its house organ to 27,N0 dealers; made ten thousand contacts over the nation through its field men; reached a quarter of a million deal. ers, carpenters, and contractors with its Handbook; and (Continued on Page 8)

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Oh, Lord, please give us all a sense of humor in these trying times! Help us to meet our daily trials smilinglyt For truly, a sense of humor is the front and rear bumper, the balloon tires, and likewise the shock absorbers on the motor car of life. Without it we must shake to pieces in times like these.

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In times like these the oft-quoted words of Rudyard Kipling come to mind: "It ain't the individual, or the arrny as a whole, but the everlastin' teamwork, of every bloomin' soul."

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And it was that same gifted Englishman who wrote this incomparable thing on cooperation: F or this is the law of the jungle, It's as old and as true as the sk5r, And the wolf that shall keep it wiu prosper, And the wolf that shall break it-must die; As the creeper that girdles the tree trunk, The law runneth forward and back, That the strength of the pack, is the wolf, And the strength of the wolf, is the pack. rf**

And here is the glittering remark that Louis the Fifteenth, of F'rance, made about coffe+-and life. He said: "What would life be without coffee? But then, what is life, even with coffee?" Something of a cynic this Louis, eh?

The biggest change that has come to that awful thing called war, is the speed with which the news travels. Countless millions of Americans sit at home every night and listen to men in England tell of events in the war that happened within the hour. It was not always thus. Take the War oL l8l2 in this country. The biggest event of the war was the Battle of New Orleans, which took place

January 8, 1815. But the Peace of Ghent, which officially ended that war, had been signed on December 24, tBl4, two weeks before. News traveled slowly in t'hose days. tt*rl

And speaking of wars, April is the fatal month, so far as the United States is concerned. The Revolutionary War started April 19, 1775. The Civil War started April 12, 1861. The Spanish-American War started April 25, 1898. And the World War-the I'IRST one-America entered on April 6, t917. Historians will watch affairs of this nation in April with some small degree of superstition. ,Ft*

Ever read "Hiawatha Harrigan"? It goes like this, and you'll probably clip it: He killed the noble mudjokivis, Of the skin he made him mittens, Made them with the fur side inside, Made them with the skin side outside; Put the inside skinside outside; He, to get the cold side outside Put the warrn side fur side inside. That's why he put the fur side inside, Why he put the skin side outside, Why he turned them inside outside. No, I don't know the author.

And then, of course, ;";"";e young lady who said to the young s1411-"ps1't you love driving on a night like this?"--and there was the same young man who answered -"!gs, but I thought I'd wait till we got farther out of town.t'

BUY YARD IN SACRAMENTO

Thomas Atkinson and Gale Bell have purchased the Phillips Lumber Company yard at Sacramento from William D. Phillips, who established the business in April of last year. The new firm will be known as the AtkinsonBell Lumber Company. In remodeling the office, the new owners have put in oak floors and installed blue glass windows.

FHA Applicationg Exc eed $2,O0O000 for Boy Scouts Attend Meeting Fourth Consecutlve'Week in So. Calif.

For the fourth consecutive week, applications received by the Southern California district office of the Federal Housing Administration for the insurance of small-home mortgages under Title II of the National Housing Act exceeded the $2,000,000 mark.

This brings the total f.or 1941 to approximately $14,000,m0 as of February 14, the weekly report of Wilson G. Bingham, district director, shows.

Not only is a seasonal up-swing noted in the past few weeks but comparison with the corresponding period of 1940 shows the seven weeks of l94l with an increase of 15.71 per cent in dollar value of applications received over the $12059,000 total for the seven weeks of 1940.

The week ending February 14 recorded 523 cases valued at $2,219,36 under Title II of which 444 f.or $1,866,800 called for the construction of new homes under FHA inspection. The previous week numbered 513 for $2,190,8m, of which 431 for $1,833,500 covered new construction. The corresponding week of. L94O recorded a total of 444 cases for $1,977,7N, with 350 for $1,517,800 representing new construction.

Additionally 20 cases valued at $50,000, under the small homes section of Title f, were accepted for appraisal during the rveek.

Milton Taenzer, past commander of Lumbermen's Post No. 403, was in charge of the Boy Scout celebration Tuesday evening, February 11, and put on one of the most interesting and successful meetings ever held by the Post. Mr. Taenzer is chairman of the Boy Scouts and is the head of the Culver City Troop No. 18.

The entire Culver City Troop and the Seascouts from the Ship "Moro" under the leadership of Leo Hubbard were guests of honor and took part in the ceremonies.

Commander Andrew Foster urged all Legion Post scouts to compete in the Scout Essay Contest.

Ted Lawrence reported that the lTth District School Awards Chairman Leo Leasman will have a school selected soon for the next semester.

GIVES HIM GREAT DEAL OF' PLEASURE

f take a great deal of pleasure every time I receive one of your magazines in reading through the wonderful amount of information that you have to offer to us fellows in the lumber business, and I also take a great deal of pleasure in reading the jokes you put in there, which, at all times, are most pertinent and very amusing.

G. A. Williams, Peterman Manufacturing Company Tacoma, Washington.

The Passing of Theodore B. Lawrence

The sudden passing of Theodore B. Lawrence on Monday morning, February 17, in Los Angeles, following a cerebral hemorrhage, was a deep shock to the Pacific Coast lumber and shipping industry.

He had been in good health and actively engaged in the affairs of the Lawrence-Philips Lumber Company and Lawrence-Philips Steamship Company, both of which he headed as president, and as usual was at his office the Saturday before. Sunday afternoon he became ill and was taken to the Good Samaritan Hospital where he died the next morning at 7:00 a.m. He was 47 years of age.

He was born in Tacoma, Wash., and throughout his business life was associated with the lumber business. He started with the Hart-Wood Lumber Co. in San Francisco in 1911, and in 1922came to Los Angeles to be manager of their Southern California operations. The Hart-Wood Lumber Co., which for many years did a large wholesale lumber business in Southern California discontinued these operations at the end of. 1929. Mr. Lawrence, and his business associate, D. R. Philips, who had also been a member of the Los Angeles force of the Hart-Wood Lumber Co., organized the Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co. on January 1, 1930.

Lawrence-Philips Lumber Company are selling agents for several Northwest mills and carry on a large wholesale lumber business. They are large shippers of lumber into the Southern California market and operate three boats in the coastwise lumber trade.

Several years ago they organized the Lawrence-Philips Steamship Company, and Mr. Lawrence directed the affairs of this end of the business. He loved the steamship business, and as he sat at his desk in his office, was surrounded by the many photographs which he had collected of ships, windjammers and all types of seagoing vessels, which adorned the office walls. You could always find him at Los Angeles Harbor whenever their boats .rvere discharging cargoes.

Ted Lawrence, as he was popularly called, enjoyed the affection and esteem of the entire lumber and steamship fraternity. He was a fine gentleman, and a high-class business man. He had a keen knorvledge of the lumber and shipping business on the Pacific Coast and his advice was often sought by other members of the industry.

He was possessed of a most pleasing personality, loved his fellow man, and was extremely devoted to his friends. His friends in the lumber and shipping business were leg-

ion. He will be sadly missed and the industry mourns one of its finest members.

Mr. Lawrence was one of the organizers of the Southern California Wholesale Lumber Association and always took an active part in its affairs. The following eulogy was delivered at the meeting of the Association in Los Angeles, February N,by Russell Gheen:

"Mr. President, guests, and members of the Association.

"As you all know, one of our most honored and respected members, T. B. Lawrence, passed away last Monday morning and some of us thought it would be fitting to pay a final tribute to him today, and I consider it a privilege and honor to perform that duty.

"Most of you were friends of Ted's of long standing-l5 years or more. I have always considered him to be a man of great ability in the lumber and shipping world; a man who always fulfilled his obligations; a man who could always be depended upon to do what he said he would do -in fact, one of his pet expressions, as many of you well remember, was, 'ff I said I would go, I will go.'

1'Due to this long association and acquaintanceship, each and every one of us were very close to him in a business and social way and I knorv all of you considered him a friend-even though some of you did not see him for long periods of time. We all feel that we have lost a true, loyal, dependable friend and one lvho cannot be replaced in our lives.

"You have often heard Grantland Rice's lines which read like this :

'For when the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He marks not that you won or lost, But how you played the game.'

"And the greatest tribute we can pay to Ted I-awrence is that he always played the game 100 per cent."

During the \['orld War he was a captain in the Army. He was a member of Lumbermen's Post No. 403 of the American Legion, Jonathan Club, Wilshire Country Club, 'and two maritime organizations, the Propeller Club and Bilge Club.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Josephine Lawrence; his mother, Mrs. Willora Lawrence; and two sons, Theodore Gibson, and Richard Davis Lawrence.

Funeral services were held Wednesday, February 19.

New Plan of Lumber Purchasing by Government for Defense Needt

A neu' plan of lumber purchasing by the government for defense needs went into effect this week.

Under the new plan a successful bidder for government lumber rvill receive an award for deferred shipment. Only producers having more than a certain minimum production rvill be considered.

The Southern Pine producing area has been divided into three districts.

District No. 1, comprising Florida, North Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kentucky, will be arvarded approximately 100,000,0@ feet.

District No. 2, Virginia and Pennsylvania, approximately 35.000.000 feet.

District No. 5, Louisiana, Texas. Arkansas. and Missouri. approximately 100,000,000 feet.

These awards are scheduled to be made in Washington. February 24,East of the River mills (District 1) ; February 25, the West of the River Mills (District 5) ; February 25, the mills in District 2.

The West Coast mills were scheduled to bid on lumber up to 100,000,000 feet at Seattle on February 27.

Each producer must present evidence of planing mill facilities sufficient to work 75,0m feet per day and must have adequate and separate storage f'acilities for holding the lumber. It must be stacked separate from all other lumber. The stacks must be roofed and marked with the size and date of completing the stack. There must be ample fire protection. 50 per cent of the total award must be placed in storage piles on or before May 1, 1941 and this proportion of the unshipped balance must be on hand at all times after that date.

No bidder will be allocated less than one unit of 1,000,000 feet for piling at one mill. No offers will be consildered except on 100,000 feet of an individual item, or in multiples of IO0,O0O feet. No one will be given an award of less than 1,000,000 feet nor more than 10,0@,00O feet.

Shipments will be made to points and on dates as instructed by the Quartermaster General's office and shipments must begin within 2 work days after receipt of release and continued as instructed at the rate of not less than 3 cars per day. Shipments rvill not be required be{ore June 1, 1941 nor after October 1, 1941.

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They had a famous visiting preacher and exhorter in attendance at the colored church revival, and the congregation was always impressed by' his words of wisdom, and his eloquence, when he participated in the services.

The distinguished visitor listened attentively while a dusky sister rose and testified loudly and fuently to the precious character of her religion, and what a comforter and light-burner it was in her life. When she had finished' he cut in:

"Thass good, Sistuh; thass good ! But I wants to ax you a few questions furder erlong on de subject. How

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The woman studied the questions before replying, and just then the visiting preacher felt a tug at his elbow, and a dusky brother behind him whispered:

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G. J. (Jerry) Bonnington of Lamon-Bonnington Co., San Francisco, returned February 24 from calling on the firm's sawmill connections in the Northwest.

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Harbor District Lumber Ags'n and Lumber Firms Enter Consent Decree

Federal Judge Harry Hollzer at Los Angeles on February 14 accepted nolo contendere pleas in the Harbor District Lumber Dealers' Association case wherein the Association, eleven companies and eighteen individuals were charged with violating the anti-trust laws. The harbor district area comprises Long Beach, Wilmington and San Pedro. The indictment was returned last March 15. Attorney Byron C. Hanna of Los Angeles represented the defendants.

The defendants all signed a consent decree under which they consented to the decree of the court injunction which enjoins them from "fixing and maintaining prices for lumber and lumber products in the harbor district area and from engaging in other practices tending to suppress and eliminate competition."

On the recommendation of Alfred Carr Ackerson, special assistant to the Attorney General, Judge Hollzer, fined the Harbor District Lumber Dealers' Association $5000. Fines of $100O each were levied against the Consolidated Lumber Co., Hammond Lumber Co., Patte4-Blinn Lumber Co., San Pedro Lumber Co., and E. K. Wood Lumber Co.

The court fined the Bear State Lumber Co., Lumber Supply Co., Rossman Lumber & Mill Co., Ltd., and Century Lumber Co., $1m0 each, but suspended the sentences and placed the concerns under one year's probation.

Two other companies, the Long Beach Lumber Co. and Martin Lumber & Supply Co., Inc., were placed on probation for one year.

Eighteen individuals, mostly Association officers and company officials, were placed on probation for a year. The Association officers were Ralph D. Ebright, president; Fred Kilstofte, vice-president, and George N. Swartz, secretarytreasurer. The other members receiving probation were Burton W. Chase, H. L. CaJl, A. E. Fickling, Richard Goehring, J. M. Gray, Ross Hall, C. S. Jones, Fred R. Linn, Raymond Linn, A. J. Macmillan, Joseph C. Martin, Paul Maull, E. J. Rossman and George A. Swift. The case against Norman R. Lambert was dismissed.

Baseball Night at East Bay Club

There was a large attendance at the regular meeting of East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club held at Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, on Monday evening, February 24, to hear a talk by Walter (The Great) Mails, former famous baseball figure and now publicity man for the San Francisco Seals. Walter told what professional baseball in general and the Seals Club in particular are doing for the youngsters and made a plea for more playgrounds in all cities.

The meeting was in charge of Lewis A. Godard, the Club's vice-president, and the speaker was introduced by John Helm, chairman of the activities committee.

The official American League film, "Batting Around the American Leaguer" was shown and was greatly enjoyed by the big audience.

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Punctuality Bf le Sioatn

One ol the decdliest sins c sclesmcn cqn be guilty ol is lcck oI punctuclity.

It's q fine thing to be crble to scry crbout c mcn: 'IIe said he would do so' crnd-so cnd you mcy crbsolutely depend on him." Unrelicrbility is mighty closely ckin to dishonesty, crnd the more unreliable people I meet in this world, the more I despise thct lcdling.

Being punctucrl is being relitrble. Also, vice versc. The mcn who is NOT punctucl, who does NOT keep his appointrnents on time, or is slovenly or ccrreless in the tilling ol his engcrgements, slecrls the other lellow's time, crnd therelore is guilty oI thcrt unrelicbility thcrt is qkin to dishonesty.

A mcn's thinking mcy usuclly be iudged by his crctions. And the mon who evidences his indifference to the rights ol others evidently hcrs something wrong with his thinking mcchinery. Time is money with business people. Who steqls the other lellow's time, does not, cs Shakespecrre scrid-stecl trcsh -but steals his vcrlucbles.

Ol course the crvercrge lcrte comer does noi look crt it thcrt wcy. The chcrnces cre he would not deliberately do the other lellow an ill turn, or stecrl his valuables. But his bcd habit condemns him.

Puncttrclity brings its own rewqrd. It elimincrtes the necessity lor excuses. He who hcs leqrned the lesson oI exqct cmd dependcrble punciucrlity, hcs Iound cr pot oI gold ct the end oI the rcrinbow. The lellow who is clwcrl's on time, or iust c little checd oI time, is very likely to be present when the good things of the world trre pcssed cround, card therelore profit directly lor his promptness.

A m<rn who brecrlcs qn engcgement, breqks his word. And the lellow who thinks such things crre unimportcrnt needs his mental equipment slightly crdiusted. To be thoroughly qnd sincerely honest, must include relicrbility, dependcrbility, cnd punctuclity.

Every crmbitious humqn should tcke cr sell'inventory crt lecrst once c month. Let's look ourselves over todcy cnd put the mecrsuring stick oI punctucrlity on our habits, II they qre loose, this is c good time to do some tightening.

And then" ol course, there were the two sclesmen who were engclged in dividing c territory they were prepcring to work. "Wait q minute" said one oI them. "You're tcrking crll the crecun." "Well," said the other sqlesmcrn, "Whct's wrong with crecm?"

L. J. Carr & Co. Sells Output

Two Pine Mills

L. J. Carr & Co., wholesale lumber dealers, Sacramento, whose advertisement appears on another page of this issue, handle exclusively the sales of the output of the Sacramento Box & Lumber Co. This company's mill at Kyburz, Calif, manufactures 23,@0,000 feet of Ponderosa and Sugar Pine lumber annually, one-third of the cut being Sugar Pine.

They will also sell the output of the new Bridgewater & Barrington mill, now being completed at Quincy, Calif., and rvhich will cut 20,000,000 feet a year, expected to run 5O per cent Sugar Pine and the other half of the cut Ponderos:. They handle a good volume of Douglas Fir and Redwood lumber.

L. J. Carr & Co., founded in January, 1938, is a copartnership, the principals being L. J. Carr, who is manager, P. V. Burke and G. H. Thompson. Mr. Burke is also president of Sacramento Box & Lumber Co. E. H. Engstrom is assistant sales manager.

Mr. Carr started his lumber experience with the Exchange Sawmill Sales Co. in Chicago, and after several years there came to Pine Ridge, Oregon, to be sales manager of Forest Lumber Co. He resigned from that position to enter business for himself.

W. D. "Bill" Dunning, with offices in the Chamber of Commerce Building, Los Angeles, is Southern California representative of L..J. Carr & Co.

Fir-Tex Moves Into New Building

Fix-Tex of Southern California recently moved into their own building at 812 East 59th Street, Los Angeles. The new warehouse and office building has a frontage of 100 feet on 59th Street and a depth of 250 feet. At the side of the building there is a paved loading yard 90 by 25O feet. The private railroad spur at the rear is arranged so that cars can either be unloaded into the warehouse or onto trucks.

The walls of the main office are finished with Fir-Tex Ivrykote plank and Philippine Mahogany wainscoting. The ceiling in this and in all private offices is finished in Fir-Tex Acoustical tile.

In the private office of Manager Stanley C. Moore 2(' wide Philippine Mahogany bar tops were used very effectively for wainscoting and Wheatkote plank on the walls.

Fir-Tex Greenkote plank was used on the walls of another private office with Philippine Mahogany wainscoting.

In a third private office Philippine Duali on the walls and 24' Red Philippine bar tops for wainscoting make an excellent combination.

Aprikote plank walls with Fir-Tex Hardboard wainscoting in another room furnish another idea for interior finishing with the company's products.

In the display room various types of Colorkote boards and Hardboard wainscoting are shown, also a colorful exhibit of Coralite board for use in bathrooms. kitchens. etc.

The office of the Dant & Russell sales agency has also been moved to this address.

Cost of Building Materials Holding Level Movement, Government Survey Shows

Calling attention to predictions made in these columns in November that the upward movement of the cost of building materials would be checked by the end of the year, Southern California Homes Foundation cites the Labor Department's Index of Wholesale Prices for the week ending February 1 as evidence that costs have moved on a level for the past month.

The wholesale index of prices for building materials, the Foundation points out, was 99.5 for the week ending February 1, compared with 99.6 for the week ending December 28. Lumber showed a wholesale price decrease of .7 point for the week ending January 25. Among 22 irol,portant commodities listed, only three had a greater price decrease than lumber.

"Progressive local dealers in building materials have in. dividually made every effort to keep retail prices down despite their own mounting costs," declares C. W. Pinkerton, chairmal of Southern California Homes Foundation. "This has been a simple matter of good business, to protect the home-building market by keeping the small home of today easy to own and more house for the money. The confidence of the public has been won by the building industry on this proposition, and it shall not be lost. We have every reason to believe that the level movement of building-materials prices will continue.

"Meanwhile the building industry's services to the consumer are being expanded month by month. Home-financing costs are lower than in 1939 and no higher than in 1940. There is more ready money for home loans. New types of building materials and home equipment and improved methods of construction make savings for the family building a home.

"Desigls for low-cost homes to meet the needs and buying power of families who face rising rents and are able to invest in the security of dwellings of their own are flowing {rom the drafting boards of industry designers. Typical is the strict economy pattern for a minimum-cost home offered this week by Southern California Homes Foundation, the'Security' design pattern, List No. 4OB. A

utility home, its floor plan a perfect rectangle for low-cost exterior construction, and with simple economy room arrangement, the Security pattern is ideal for a small family that needs a rock-bottom minimum-cost home. It is also a pattern that can easily be adapted by the retail lumber dealer to meet individual requirements and enlarged where necessary to come up to FHA specifications."

Local lumber merchants will provide service on the Security design and can obtain working plans and specifications. For general home-building information, write Southern California Homes Foundation, 441 Douglas Building, Los Angeles.

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Home Building in Northern Californir Shows 45% Gainin January

Home building in Northern California soared to record heights with the dawn of a new year, it was revealed by D. C. McGinness, district director of the Federal Housing Administration, whose January report shows a gain of 45 percent in the number of newly-constructed homes on which mortgages were accepted for insurance over the first month last year.

Construction was commenced on an average of almost 55 new homes, being built in this district under FHA inspection and requirements, every business day during January, Mr. McGinness declared, and the total investment in homes financed under the insured mortgage system averaged, $D2,7I2 a day throughout the month. This was said to include only the 46 counties of the Northern California district.

"It is interesting to note that the home buying public is appreciative of the long repayment period, and the resultant reduction in the amount of monthly payments, permitted under the FHA plan," said the housing director. "An everincreasing number of investors are extending the mortgage term over the maximum period of years.

"This is sound business judgment, because by doing so they not only are reducing home ownership to a less-thanrent basis, but family budgets of the future thus are provided every possible protection."

Citing the fact that an FHA-insured mortgage may be paid off at any time the borrower's finances permit, regardless of the number of years for which the mortgage originally was written, Mr. McGinness said this provision definitely is to the benefit of the home owner.

"Let's assume that a $4000 mortgage is insured f'or a maximum term of 25 years, the payments on principal, 4l percent interest and mortgage insurance would averag'e $26.25 a month," explained the housing official. "IJnder present FHA regulations the borrower is permitted to pay, in addition to monthly installments, as much as 15 percent of the face amount of the loan in any one year, without a prepayment premium.

"On a $4000 insured mortgage this amounts to an additional payment on principal of $600 a year, and on that basis the entire indebtedness could be comrpletely wiped out in about six years, although the mortgage originally might have been written for 25 years. It can be repaid in full at any time with a prepayment premium of one percent, which in this case would amount to only $4O.

On the other hand, if some unforeseen circumstance should slash serious inroads into income at any time during this period, the home owner's investment is thoroughly protected and the entire transaction kept in good standing by merely meeting the minimum payments of less than a dollar a day."

As evidence of the increasing popularity of long-term home financing, Mr. McGinness called attention to the fact that of all mortgages on newly-constructed homes insured last year by the Federal Housing Administration, g2 percent were written for terms ranging from 20 to 25 years.

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MY ANCESTOR

By Thomas Milburn Upp

My ancestor lived in a tall, tall tree, In a far away time and place; And the boast was his, as it is with me, That he came of a high-born race. His manners were lofty, as well might be In the station which he adorned, And no advances permitted he From the underworld he scorned. No lowdown matters of common trade, Could ever his thoughts engage, For his family fortune and place were made Ere the paleolithic age.

He looked on the climbers with hostile eye, Was ready with striking snub, And woe to the seeker who ventured nigh His very exclusive club. His family arms were admitted by atl When he held them above his head, And however the tropic rains might fall, His hairs would the torrent shed. The neighbors in all the trees about, Their manners by his would shape, Of high degree or the common rout They would ever his fashions ape.

Not irreligious, that ancient sire Nor even in vices sunk, Nor yielding to worldly or wrong desire; He lived like a pious monk. So high were his virtues, which all might see, His wisdom, which all might know, That a Primate he, could not fail to be, And science records him so. His family lives, and their number grows, And their station shall never fail; But I come from a younger branch than those, Whose estates are bequeathed in tail. And so, when the ducats have all been spent, And the trade bills are up to me, I console myself with my long descent, And my ancient family tree.

NO FLOWERS PLEASE

A man from the East boarded a streetcar in the South. A Southerner got up to offer his seat to a lady. The man from the East beat the lady to the seat. The body was shipped back East.

TODAY

Let me today do something that shall take A little sadness from the world's vast store, And may I be so favored as to make Of joyis too scanty sum, a little more.

Let me tonight look back across the span, Twixt dawn and dark, and to my conscience say"Because of some good act to beast or manThe world is better that I lived today."

MEDICINAL

"I{ave you put up much sauerkraut this fall, Mr. Schmidt?"

"No. I dit not haf time. I chust put up fife barrels in case uf sickness."

SAVING GAS AND OIL

A certain automobile owner who read the motor advertisements, installed a new carburetor that was guaranteed to save 20/o in gasoline consumption. Then he installed some special spark plugs that were guaranteed to increase his gasoline mileage 20/s. Then he put in an intake superheater that was also guaranteed to save 2O/s in his gasoline consumption. Then he installed an overdrive that was guaranteed to save 20/o in his gasoline consumption. Finally he drained his crankcase and put in a new oil guaranteed to make the motor run so smoothly it would save 2OVo oL the gasoline use. So now, with a fuel economy guarantee of. l2ffs he has to stop every hundred miles or so and bail out the gas tank to keep it from overflowing.

IMPERSONATIONS

Caddie Master (to new caddie): "All right, caddie, hop to it and grab that bag. Don't just sit around and look dumb, like you was a member of the club."

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Child Feared Kidnaped Sa[e

Thought to have been kidnaped from her home in Beverly Hills, police spent about three and one-half hours Monday afternoon, Februarv 24, looking for Jovanna Jones, three years old, daughter of W. B. Jones, and Mrs. Anita Haskell Jones. Mr. Jones operates the W. B. Jones Lumber Co. in Los Angeles.

Her nurse suddenly deciding to quit her job left Jovanna at the home of a neighbor in care of the maid there where she was found safe and sound about 3:00 p.m. The nurse is still missing.

Mrs. Jones left the child in the nurse's care at 10:45 a.m. while she visited a dentist. When she returned home forty-five minutes later both the nurse and child were gone. Mrs. Jones notified the police, and Mr. Jones appealed to the local office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for help.

BILL CHATHAM HAS NARROW ESCAPE ON FISHING TRIP

Bill Chatham of Loop Lumber & Mill Co., Alameda, had a very close call on a recent fishing trip when he was swept off his feet rvl'ren lvading across the Gualalla River in Mendocino County, and carried about 200 yards downstream before he rvas able to get out.

He u'as accompanied by John Freeman of Flolmes Eureka Lumber Co., and incidentally these two expert anglers caught the limit of steelhead.

Salesmen's Territory Rearranged

Announcement is made by Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco of the following rearrangement in salesmen's territory:

Ray B. Larson rvill make his home in Sacramento and will cover Sacramento, the Sacramento Valley, south to Stockton and Napa and Sonoma Valleys.

"Doc" Snead will cover Salinas and Monterey and south in the Coast Counties in addition to his regular territory, the San Joaquin Valley.

D. Norman Cords will cover the San Francisco Bay district, the Peninsula and south to Gilroy.

Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club

Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club No. 109 held its monthly dinner meeting at Wilson's Confectaurant, Sacramento, February 19.

Willis Camp, district traffic manager of United Air Lines, was heard in a talk entitled "Invisible Skyways in Flying the Radio Beam."

Charles L. Shepard of Friend & Terry Lumber Co. is president of the Club. Harry Pefley is secretary.

REMODELS OFFICE INTERIOR

Bay City Lumber Co., Oakland, recently remodeled the interior of their office.

Fir-Tex tile was used on the ceiling and Fir-Tex plank on the walls. Knotty Pine was used for trim and on the front of the counter,

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Tenn essa,e Court Rules Retail Lumber Dealer Not Subiect to Fair Labor Standards Act

Washington, D. C., February 18.-In the first case in the courts involving the status of a retail lumber dealer under the Fair Labor Standards Act, a Tennessee court, in the case of Whitson vs. Wexler, has ruled that a local Johnson City, Tennessee, lumber dealer is not subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Roger S. Finkbine, president of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, points out that the Federal Wage aad Hour Act exempts employees employed in a retail establishment, the greater part of whose sales are in intrastate commerce. Neither the term "retail" nor "establishment" is defined in the Act, and this has resulted in a great deal of confusion in fixing standards to be applied in the determination of the application of this exemption to retail lumber dealers particularly.

Mr. Finkbine further states that while this is a state court decision, he believes that in view of the court's comprehensive analysis of the question and because of the detail in which the court has gone into the matter of a retail establishment, this decision will be accorded substantial weight in other litigation.

In this particular case, a lumber dealer was sued for minimum and overtime wages under the Fair Labor Standards Act by two of his ex-employees. There were two periods of employment. During the first, one of the plaintiffs was employed in operating a delivery truck in and about Johnson City, Tennessee. About two per cent of his time was spent in making deliveries to other states. Dur. ing the second period, both plaintiffs were engaged in making cement blocks on the premises of the lumber establishment, for sale to the regular class of customers of the yard. The court held that both employees vrere employed in a retail establishment and in a retail capacity during both periods.

A number of important points now in controversy and in litigation over the country are specifically passed on by the court:

1. On the question of interstate commerce and produc-

tion of goods for interstate commerce, the court held that a few infrequent and sporadic shipments to other states did not result in the employees whose work related to such sales and deliveries being considered as "engaged in (interstate) commerce" or in the "production of goods for (interstate) commerce."

2. The court held that the fact that the lumber dealer purchased a large portion of his materials from sources in other states did not bring his employees into interstate commerce, and stated that the interstate transaction ended on delivery of the goods to the local dealer.

3. On the matter of a retail establishment, the court in its opinion and decree approved as reasonable the 50 per cent retail rule of the Wage and Hour Division, that an establishment making the greater part of its sales at retail is entitled to exemption as a retail establishment.

4. The court included as retail sales "the sale of lumber and building materials to home owners, contractors and other consumers for use in local building construction, repair, and maintenance."

5. The court distinguished the case of Wood vs. Central Sand and Gravel Company, in which more than 90 per cent of the materials sold by the producer of sand and gravel were in huge bulk lots for large project construction.

6. The court held further that an employee making local deliveries by truck from a retail establishment is engaged in a retail capacity within the meaning of Section 13 (a) (1) of the Act, which deals with exemptions.

7. A further important point of the case is that employees engaged in processing activities on the premises of the retail establishment were entitled to exemption because such processing was incidental to the main business of the dealer and was to meet the demands of the local trade. It was said that the processing could not have the effect of converting the business into a wholesale or manuufacturing establishment.

Lumbermen's Pogt Active in Lumber Merchandise News Mailed Dealers Boy Scout \flork

Lumbermen's Post No. 403 of the American Legion has been highly honored in the State and National Boy Scout work.

Several members of the Post have devoted considerable time and energy to the most worth while boy's pl.ogram.

The Post is sponsoring a Troop of Boy Scouts in Culver City and a group of Seascouts in Alhambra, besides a drum and bugle corps that has toured up and down the State for several years.

Those members of the Post that are registered Scouters are:

Milton Taenzer, American Hardwood Lumber Co., who has been lTth District Chairman and now chairman of the Culver City Troop committee.

Sam Giesy, Whiting-Mead Co., committeeman.

Russell Gheen, C. D. Johnson Lumber Corporation, committeeman of both the Culver City Troop and the Seascout Ship.

Andrew Morrison, Owens Park Lumber Co., committeeman.

Andrew Foster, California Portland Cement Co., and commander of the Post, committeeman.

M. A. Alexander, Paramount Studio, committeeman.

Leo E. Hubbard, Hayward Lumber & fnvestment Co., past state chairman of Boy Scouts of American Legion and now chairman of the Los Angeles County Council and Skipper of the Seascout Ship.

Fred Morehouse, Anglo California Lumber Co., is mate of the Seascout Ship "Moro."

Sam T. Hayward, president, Hayward Lumber & Investment Co., chairman of the Seascout committee.

Wm. McCullough, president, McCullough Roofing Co., past commander, committeeman of Seascout Ship.

Theodore (Ted) Stearns and Phil T. Lyons, Hayward Lumber & Investment Co., are members of the Seascout committee.

Wm. Hutchins, Accepted Materials Co., has been very highly honored in the work in Beverly Hills.

The Post has done outstanding work in Scouting and has received several citations from the State as well as the National Headquarters of the American Legion.

Another youth activity of the Post is assisting the camping program of the Camp Fire Girls.

Washington, Feb. 14.-The January-February number of Lumber Merchandising News-the seasonal catalog of ready-written newspaper advertisements for local use, has been mailed more than 10,000 dealers and 500 newspapers by the Joint Retail Service of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association and the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association. This is the fifth issue of the new series.

Eleven pages of advertisements, available in mat form, are included in the catalog with fifteen of the ads offered dealers for the first time. The copy theme of the mats emphasizes "now" as the appropriate time for either building a new home or modernizing and repairing the old home.

These prepared advertisements may be obtained in one, two or three column sizes from the Joint Retail Service at a cost of but 40 cents per mat, or 35 cents each in quantities of ten or more. A small postage charge is the only extra.

The 1941 mailing list is now being prepared and dealers who do not receive the catalog may obtain it by writing the Joint Retail Service, 1337 Connecticut Avenue, Washington, D. C., and requesting the placement of their names on the list.

Conservation Week March 7 -14

San Francisco, February 2S.-Conservationists everywhere in California are completing local plans for the seventh annual public observance of Conservation Week, March 7-I4, opening with Luther Burbank's birthday.

Schools, public organizations and many service groups are working closely with appointed county chairmen of the Conservation Week Committee to remind Californians that "the strength of a Nation lies in its natural resources."

Miss Pearl Chase of Santa Barbara, president of the California Conservation Council which sponsors the Week, has announced a series of Statewide conservation objectives for l94I that appeals for the protection of forests, soil, water, recreation areas, wild life and other natural resources.

Nine kittens \ryere initiated into Hoo-Hoo and five old cats were reinstated at the Concatenation held at the Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, February 14. The attendance numbered 125.

The new members are the following: W. W. Jackson, J. H. Baxter & Co. San Francisco; Albert Leaver, Wood Products, Inc., Oakland; Ralph Abbott, Smith Lumber Co., Oakland; Ray Klass, The Pacific Lumber Co., San Francisco; Ray Whitby, Redwood Sales Co., San Francisco; Ralph Lamon, Lamon-Bonnington Co., San Francisco; Arda Bennett, Western Basket & Barrel Co., San Francisco; George Clayberg, Boorman Lumber Co., Oakland; and Frank Egnell, Hammond Redwood Co., San Francisco.

Those reinstated were George W. Gorman, Gorman Lumber Co., Oakland; James McNab, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Oakland; A. S. McCurdy, San Francisco; P. E. Overend. California Redwood Association, San Francisco; Lyle S. Vincent, West Oregon Lumber Co., San Francisco.

The Nine who conducted the initiation was made up as follows: Vicegerent Snark, Bert Bryan ; Senior HooHoo, Fritz Dettmann; Junior I{oo-IIoo, Paul Overend; Scrivenoter, Carl R. Moore; Bojum, Bert Johnson; Jabberwock, Seth Butler; Custocatian, Larue Woodson; Arcanoper, W. B. Jefferson, Gurdon, Carl Warden.

Frank O'Connor was master of ceremonies at the banquet which followed the Concatenation. Larue Woodson and Lewis Godard, who were in charge of the arrangements, provided a fine entertainment program, an outstanding number on this being the Caledonian Pipers Band of San Francisco.

Just before the close of the Concatenation a presenta' tion was made to Cecil Wetsel, Eldorado County lumber' man who captured the kidnaper of Marc de Tristan, Jr., in September, 1940, of an honorary life membership in HooHoo. The presentation was made by Frank W. Trower, Seer of the House of Ancients. Mr. Trower said:

San Francisco Concat Draws Big Attendance

"We warmly greet you as a fellow Lumberman. You have been showered with praise for your gallant and heroic deed of last September. I shall try not to unduly embarrass you in this way. You need not even make a speech in answer to my remarks, if you prefer not to do so. But let me simply say that no group in this country, or beyond its borders, feels more proud of your action than the men in this room, and all who belong to this widespread fraternity of lumbermen.

"I am happy to present a letter of greeting to you from Brother W. M. 'Wattson of Minneapolis, the secretary of the International Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo; together with this card granting you honorary life membership in our Order; also the unique Black Cat button which is the insignia of the fraternity.

"fn Mr. Wattson's letter he says that it affords him great pleasure to thus recognize on behalf of all members of HooHoo 'your unusual alertness and extreme courage in apprehending and subduing the kidnaper of Marc De'fristan, Junior, of Hillsborough, California; and in having restored the kidnaped child so promptly to his parents.'

"ft is a notable coincidence that you, a sawmill owner and operator, should be the man to rescue young Marc de Tristan, who is a grandson of the late Edwin A. Christenson of the widely known San Francisco lumber and shipping firm-Sudden and Christenson. Many of us knew'Ed' Christenson for many years; we watched his great business grow from a small beginning. We admired his friendly, generous and democratic habits. His success never required a new hat-band. No man would have more keenly enjoyed and admired the thrilling story of your quick, football-tackle capture of the armed and desperate kidnaper.

"Ed Christenson's Hoo-Hoo number was 13885. He joined the Order at Concatenation No. 1o83, held in Oakland, California, January 28, 1905. In looking up the record I found names of well-known lumbermen initiated at that Concat that will interest many of the present day.

SPECIES NOBTHEBN

SUGAR

Frank M. Dreisbach; Charles D. Heywood, for many years Mayor and later Postmaster of Berkeley; Geo. W. Fisher and Geo. H. Payne; Hugh W. Hogan, the first president of East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39; Bert Neylan; Charley Lamb, who first suggested the idea which resulted in our splendid Hoo-Hoo Code of Ethics; Jim Smilie, and many others.

"We take it almost for granted that loggers and sawmill men shall be resourceful and courageous. It is easy to understand .rvhy there should arise the legend of the mythical Paul Bunyan, that logger whose mighty deeds grow as they are re-told. From the time of the pilgrim Fathers at Plymouth, the logger and the lumberman have cut down forests, cleared the wilderness and built homes clear across the continent. It is an epic story of a hardy breed.

"f am pleased to make this presentation by request of Larue J. Woodson, a member of the Hoo-Hoo Supreme Nine who is at the head of the Order's afiairs in these several Western States. Brother Cecil Wetsel, we heartily welcome you to membership in this lumbermen,s fraternity and hope we will have the pleasure of meeting you at many similar gatherings in the future.',

Mr. Wetsel was also presented at the banquet with a silver plaque by Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39. The plaque, l1 by 13 inches, is mounted on an Oak base. Tl.re presentation was made by B. E. Bryan, Vicegerent Snark for Northern California and Nevada.

The inscription on the plaque was as follows:

CECIL WETSEL

Courageogs Lumberman

Capture of the Kidnaper and Safe Return of Marc de Tristan, Jr., September, 194O. Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 Oakland. California

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Meeting March 5

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club No. 2 will holcl a luncheon meeting at tl,e Mona Lisa Cafe, 3343 Wilshire Blvcl. (opposite the Ambassador Hotel), Los Angeles, We<inesday noon, March 5, t941. Luncheon will be served at I2:O9 p.m. All lumbermen are invited to attend.

A. W. Donovan, Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., Los Angeles, will be chairman and he has arranged a splendid program. Dr. D. G. H. Siew, nationally known lecturer, will talk on "China and fnternational Relations." He will also show sound motion pictures of China.

There is plenty of parking space available for automobiles. Entrance to the parking lot is on South Kenmore Ave., just oft- Wilshire BIvd.

The Arrangements Committee includes J. E. Nfartin, Vicegerent Snark; W. B. Wickersham, A. W. Donovan. Lew Hackett, Geo. E. Ream and R. S. Osgood. Reservations can be made by calling J. E. Martin, 318 Central Bldg., Los Angeles, Telephone VAndike 4565.

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All salesmen of the Wood Conversion Company recently met in Chicago for their 18th annual sales meeting. Presented for the first time were the sales plans for 19.1. During the three-day meeting many important phases in construction and selling of Balsam-Wool and Nu-Wood were presented and discussed.

P. A. Ward, vice president and general sales manager, opened the meeting by reviewing the past year. He stated the volume was highest in the history of the company.

The meeting was then turned over to D. M. Pattie, assistant general sales manager, who discussed the many merits of Nu-Wood Kolor-Fast and Sta-Lite. The highlight reflection factor of Sta-Lite was dramatically presented with actual demonstrations. L. V. James of the General Electric Company told how Nu-Wood Sta-Lite ties in with the "Better Light-Better Sight" movement.

One of the highlights of the meeting was a graphic presentation by C. C. Heritage showing the manufacture of Balsam-Wool. Several charts illustrated just how important the moisture barriers are . . the tests and figures in arriving at the correct wall design and how the warm air is kept from reaching a dew point inside wall areas. The destructive results within a wall when the dew point is reached were very convincingly shown in actual wall demonstrations.

F. K. Weyerhaeuser, in an interesting manner, reviewed the 8O years of the Weyerhaeuser Lumber history. Following which, plant improvements and the development of products were outlined by E. W. Davis, vice president and general manager.

The 1941 advertising campaign was presented by E. T. Holmgren, sales promotion manager. Nationpl magazines

Wood Conversion Holds 18th Annual Sales Meeting

will carry the Balsam-Wool and Nu-Wood story direct to consumers and trade journals-to the school, church, theatre, store and other fields as well as to the lumber dealer. Highlighting the Balsam-Wool campaign lor l91l will be the Double Values theme which will feature the importance of Double Sealing, Double Moisture Barrier, Double Wind Barrier, Double Bonding and Double Nailing.

J. B. Egan, Northwest district manager, reviewed the general features of the meeting in a discussion titled "IIow to Get the Job Done in '41."

The entire three days' meeting was summed up by Walther Buchen, president of the Buchen Advertising Agency. His interesting talk entitled "Boom Riding" warned men and business of the fallacy of riding on the crest of "buying waves."

In bringing to a close the 18th year of Wood Conversion Company, Mr. Ward said, *We are setting our sails for an even bigger year in l94L .. not only for ourselves but for our dealers. We will continue to offer products that are outstanding in the field exclusively to lumber dealers. We will concentrate on the two factors so impressively brought out in our Lumber Convention Displays-Profits for the Dealer, Performance for the Consumer.

Appoints General Chairman of Reveille

President Tom Branson of East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39, announces the appointment of Jas. B. Overcast, Strable Hardwood Co., Oakland, as general chairman of the 9th annual Reveille of Northern California lumbermen, which will be held in Oakland in April.

Sqlegmen ol Wood Conversion Cornpcrny who gcthered in Chiccgo to hecr the l94l Sslee Prorrotion Plcne.

Publighes Buyers' Guide on Sitkr Spruce FHA Reports Gain in Home Building

Seattle, Wash., Feb. 2-Sitka spruce is in the air these days-literally. The school of aviation engineers that rates wood and fabric plane construction on a par with metal, and higher on some counts, is demanding wider use of this Pacific Northwest wood, to speed up the defense program. Collier's Weekly has taken up their cause. The Stearman training planes manufactured by Boeing in their Wichita factory now have wings of Sitka spruce.

Wellington bombers and Hurricane pursuit ships, made wholly or in part of Sitka spruce, have made such great records in England that the artificial prejudice against wood and fabric planes in this country is collapsing like a punctured bag of wind-which was all it was in the first place.

These are just the more dramatic aspects of the rapidly expanding use of Sitka spruce for many purposes. As demand increases, interest in the wood does likewise. Inquiries pour into the Seattle offices of the Association, on the theme, "'Where can we get it?"

So WCLA has published "Sitka Spruce-Buyers' Guide." It gives the name and plant location of the various manufacturers of Sitka spruce lumber. Listed also are the capacity, equipment, and the individual items manufactured by each company.

Free copies may be secured by postcard request through retail lumber trade associations, or to the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, 364 Stuart Building, Seattle, Washington.

IOOI! lltBrtlla GRO83 GINCULATTON KILNS

27y'o to 1Oy'o motc capacity duc to solid cdge-to.edge rtacLing. Bcttcr qudity drying on low tropcraorcr rith e fert rcvcrribro circulation.

Lowcr rtacking corts-jurt aolid edge-to.edge rtacking in the rinplcrt form.

Washington, Feb. 22.---The Federal Housing Administration reported today that new home construction, measured by FHA mortgage-insurance activities, is from two to six times greater since Jan. 1 in some areas than in the corresponding 1940 period.

Attributing much of the increase to industrial expansion in connection with national defense, the FHA said that home construction over the country as a whole has increased M,3%',since Jan. I over the similar period last year.

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE USES EDITORIAL

Jack Dionne is publisher of the "California Lumber Merchant," a magazine of the lumber industry. He is an alert and vigorous thinker, and a dynamic speaker who is tops with lumber merchants throughout the Western states. Director Russell Caldwell, local manager of the Barr Lumber Company, has brought us the February I number of the magazine. Dionne devotes his editorial column in this number to chambers of commerce. Scattered through the news items to follow, will !e quotations from the editorial. These quotations are fully worthwhile.

From News Letter

Orange Community Chamber of Commerce

Orange, California.

\(/HEN YOU SELL

Booth-Kelly Douglao Fir, thc Agsociation grade and trade mark certify to your customers t'hc quality of the atock you handle. Buildere quit guessing about what tftey're buying, and buy where they know what they're getting.

Moorekiln Paint Productr for weatherproofing dry Litn and mill roofr.

!(/atch Out For This Man Will lln"r".r" Red Cedar Shingle Promotion

A Los Angeles retail lumber dealer reports that a man recently bought ten squares of shingles at their place of business and gave them a worthless check for $50.05 on a Whittier bank. He used the name of Howard Brown and also gave a false address.

On further investigation they found that he bought 72 sacks of barley, 5 sacks of beet pulp and other items from a store in Colton, giving them a check for $41.84 on a Pornona bank. He used the name of Henry Burke, also a faked address. He had no accounts at either of the above banks.

This man is about 38 years old, weight 140 pounds, height five feet nine inches, slightly crippled in one leg, walks with a limp, and one shoe is built up high at the heel. He uses a lf ton Chevrolet or Ford truck, stake body type, and dark in color. He uses 194O license plates9T614G-which had been discarded from an automobile in San Bernardino.

If you have any inf'ormation on this suspect, notify any police officer.

Newr Flashes

Dwight F. Hinckley of the Dwight Hinckley Lumber Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, arrived in Los Angeles from New York, February 11 on the America, largest passenger liner ever built in the United States. He also visited San Francisco and made the return trip in his car which he brought on the ship.

Jim Farley, assistant Western sales manager of The Pacific Lumber Company, spent last week calling on the trade with L. W. (Lew) Blinn II, salesman in the Northern California territory.

Larue 'Woodson, San Francisco, sales representative in California, Nevada and Arizona for Wheeler Osgood Sales Corp., has returned from a trip to the company's head office and plant in Tacoma.

R. T. Ross of Oregon Lumber Sales, Eugene, Ore., was a California visitor last week, calling on the yards with Carl W. Watts, the firm's Northern California representative.

A. E. Mclntosh, president and general manager of West Oregon Lumber Co., Linnton, Ore., has returned from visiting the company's San Francisco and Los Angeles offices.

El Monte Lumber Co., El Monte, will tear down their present office building due to the widening of the street in front of the yard and will build a new office structure. The present office has been in use for the last thirty-seven years.

Fred Schallock, president of the Ewauna Box Company, Klamath Falls, Ore., and Mrs. Schallock, are spending a month in Southern California.

First step in a country-wide program of increased red cedar shingle promotion during 1941 has been announced by W.W. Woodbridge, secretary-manager of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, as the addition of two men to the traveling field staff of the organization.

Paul N. Plamondon and William Hatch, both experienced in various phases of the lumber industry, are the new men. Mr. Plamondon's territory, Mr. Woodbridge said, will be the states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and Mr. Hatch rvill cover the Dakotas, Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin.

The work of these men, the announcement stated, will be identical to that of the other members of the Bureau's widely-known field staff-namely, red cedar shingle educational and promotional duties among lumber dealers, contractors, carpenters, architects and others connected with the lumber industry.

Mr. Plamondon, a graduate of the lJniversity of Washington, has wide experience in the shingle mills and logging camps in the Pacific Northwest. Mr. Hatch, who attended the college of forestry of the University, has been employed as carpenter's helper, retail yard assistant and forest fire prevention guard.

Lumber Cargo Receipts lor January

Lumber deliveries in January into California from the Pacific Northwest by water as reported by the Pacific Lumber Carriers' Association, San Francisco, totaled 96,I82,W feet. This compares with a total of 56,557,m0 feet in January,194O.

Deliveries at the various ports were as follows:

West Coast Building Active

Building permits from 93 cities on the Pacific Coast in January 1941, totaled $35,9U8,035, an increase of 53.9 per cent above the $23,371,768 reported in January 194O, according to the Western Monthly Building Survey prepared by I{. R. Baker & Co., of San Francisco.

This total, however, was down 5.1 per cent from December 1940. During January, approximately 13,678 permits were issued, compared with 13,193 in the same month last year. The 25 cities reporting the largest volume of permits in January 1941, recorded a total of $31,422,881, a gain of 65.9 per cent over the $18,930,789 in January 1940, and an increase of 11.3 per cent over the $28,222,707 in December r9n,

San Diego was the leading city in building activity in the West, with a total of $8,548,840. Los Angeles followed with W,476,814. Oakland was third, and was followed by San Francisco, Seattle, Long Beach, Honolulu, Denver, Portland and Burbank, all of which had total permits in excess of $75O.000.

Turlin Window Economical, Silent, Insulated Ralph \Tinslow Heads L-O-F

The new Turlin Window has had a steady increase in sales since it was put on the market, according to The Turlin Company, 10914 Hawthorne Boulevard, Inglewood, Calif., owners of the patents.

A member of this company describes the new lr,indow as follows:

"Designed for comfort and fuel saving for the owner of today, weather-tight, perfectly sealed against rvind, dust and rain, easy to operate, simple in construction, and will not rattle.

"Turlin window has a heavy, sturdy frame made from 6/4 California Pine, instead of the usual 4/4 stock. The blind stop and jamb are milled in one piece in which no cuts are made for sash balances as these are eliminated through the use of a patented weather strip that is adjustable to any condition.

"Being a pre-fit window no fitting is needed on the This lowers installation costs.

"Both window and frame are treated to preserve wood and give long life.

"Turlin window is adaptable to different types of construction, stucco, brick or wood.

"Easier window operation is obtained by screw tension adjustment in both top and lower sash without decreasing its weather tightness. Turlin window will not stick or bind.

"Exhaustive tests made by Smith-Emery Co., well known chemists and engineers, have proved the Turlin window to be 100 per cent weather-proof."

The following firms in various territories have been licensed to manufacture the Turlin window under The Turlin Company's patents:

Southern California-Joslin Lumber Co., Inglewood.

Northern California-Hogan Lumber Co., Oakland; Moore & Garlick, Sacramento; Hollenbeck Bush planing Mill Co., Fresno.

Oregon-Friesen & Sons, Salem.

Washington-Tacoma Sash & Door Co.. Tacoma.

CONGRATULATIONS

Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Higman are the happy parents of a baby boy who has been named Dan Gustav Higman. Mr. Higman operates the Reliable Lumber Company at Rosemead.

Advertising and Publictty

Ralph Winslow, former assistant advertising manager of the Armstrong Cork Company, Lancaster, Pa., has accepted the position of director of advertising and publicity of the Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company, it is announced by G. P. MacNichol, Jr., vice president in charge of sales.

Mr. Winslow, who assumes his new duties immediately, fills a vacancy created by the resignation of C. K. Matson, public relations director, who leaves March 1 for New York City where he will continue public relations counsel activities in a partnership with Martin Dodge.

A graduate of Indiana lJniversity, where he received his B. A. degree, Mr. Winslow began his business career in I9N as a reporter in Richmond, Ind., later becoming city editor. In 1925 he accepted a position with First National Pictures, Inc., of New York City as a publicity representative.

From 1926 until 1930 he was a publicity director of Ketchum, fnc., of Pittsburgh, and handled public relations activities for Ketchum clients in Pittsburgh and other parts of the country. Mr. Winslow remained with the Ketchum organization until 1930, when he was placed in charge of advertising for the Insulation division of Armstrong Cork at Lancaster. Seven years later he was promoted to assistant advertising manager of the entire company.

In this work Mr. Winslow obtained a broad contact u'ith the building materials, packaging and general lndustrial fields, and wide experience in general consumer advertising, radio and dealer service in the building materials field.

This provided an ideal background for the type of advertising experience required by Libbey-Owens-Ford, the Armstrong Cork Company having a diversity of products that enabled Mr. Winslow to work in every branch of advertising activity.

CHANGE OF NAME

The name of the American Plywood Corp., Aberdeen, Wash., has been changed to Aberdeen Plywood Corp. This concern's new plant is built on the site of the former Aberdeen Plywood Company's plant which was destroyed by fire in March, 1940.

V. A. Nyman is general manager of the Aberdeen ply. wood Corp.

Building Permits For January

Ten Yearr Ago Today

From March 1, 1931 lssue

The E. K. Wood Lumber Company Social Club, whose membership includes all the Southern California operations of the company, held a dinner dance at the Rio Hondo Country Club, Friday evening, February 6. The annual election of officers was held and Carl Shufelt was elected president and Mrs. Grace Ridenbaugh secretary-treasurer. Percy Merithew, retiring president, had charge of the ar. rangements for the party.

"Pick" Maule was the winner of the low gross prize, The Frank Burnaby Crp, at the Southern California Lumbermen's golf tournament held at the Brentwood Country Club, February 20. T. S. Lee won the low net prize, The California Lumber Merchant Cup.

Announcement was made in San Francisco of the consummation of a merger of the Redwood interests of the Hammond Lumber Company and the entire interests of The Little River Redwood Company.

Walter J. Neils, J. Neils Lumber Co., Libby, Montana, was chosen president of the Western Pine Manufacturers' Association at the 25th annual meeting held in Spokane, February 10-11. C. L. Isted, Shevlin-Hixon Co., Bend, Ore., was elected vice-president, and H. K. Brooks, BrooksScanlon Lumber Co., Bend, Ore., was re-elected treasurer.

Frank O. Kranz, Golden ica, was elected president Club.

This issue carried an Knox Corbett Lumber Tucson, Arizona.

GRAYES FLAT TYPE

Sash Balance I Glides for Double Hung lYindows

''THETHINNER BALANCE"

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State Lumber Co., Santa Monof the Santa Monica Kiwanis

article and photographs of ihe J. & Hardware Company yard at

Salinas Lumber Company, Salinas, completed modernization of its office, and the construction of a new shed and lumber rack.

Illustrations of the rttr".tirr. exhibit of the Red River Lumber Company, Westwood, Calif., at the Southwestern Retail Lumberrnen's Association annual convention at Wichita, Kansas, were shown in this issue.

L. M. Tynan, Jr., Tynan Lumber Company, Salinas, made a three weeks'pleasure trip to Mexico City.

The San Joaquin Lumber Co. Stockton, added a paint department to their business.

The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, moved to their new quarters in the Shell Building.

A meeting of Lumbermen's Post No. 4O3 of the American Legion was held at Los Angeles and the following officers elected: Commander, J. A. Brush; Adjutant, Lloyd Cole; Finance Officer, J. L. Cunningham; First Vi,ce Commander, Fred Morehouse; Second Vice Commander, R. E. James; Historian, Earl Sanborn; Sergeant-at-Arms, James Little; Chaplain, Leo Hubbard.

GRAVES MORTISE TYPE SASH BALANCE

GRAYES COMPANY

Mrnufrcturen of $!h Brhncer

1819 BARRANCA S|- ,LO6 ANGELES, CALIF.

RESNPREST

NESIN BOIIDED EKTEilOR PLYWOOD

Douglcs Fir cnd Colilornicr Pine

WqllboqrdShecthing

Panels -Concrete FormC. C. Stock Verticcrl Grcin Fir cnd Lcrucn

fhc Graver Pdentrd rpdng glldr.

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

Rate---$z.So Per Column Inch. Minimum Ad One-Half Inch.

WANTS POSITION WITH WHOLESALE FIRM

Experienced lumberman wants position with wholesale lumber company. Has mill, wholesale buying and selling experience. Knows the California retail trade. Address Box C-863, care California Lumber Merchant.

POSITION \,VANTED

Lumberman with several years' experience as yard forernan wants position with retail lumber firm as yard man or front end man. Thorough knowledge of all building materials and mill work. Capable of taking full charge of yard. Married-middle aged. Prefer Southern California. Address Box C-864, California Lumber Merchant.

WANTED

Retail yard outside salesman who knows small house mill work details and can efficiently service such jobs throughout. Address Box C-868 California Lumber Merchant.

POSITION WANTED

Hardworking, intelligent lumberman wants a job . any job that will utilize his ability and pay a living wage. Many years' experience, mill, wholesale and retail, softwoods, hardwoods, logs and veneers. Thoroughly capable of relieving an overburdened executive or to take full charge of a branch office. An ideal right hand man: "the fellow you have been looking for," at very moderate cost. Will go anywhere. Address Box C-867 California Lumber Merchant.

NEW YARD IN SALINAS

W. S. Talcott, Salinas lumberman, who was with Tynan Lumber Co. for the past 17 years, is starting a new yard to be known as Talcott Lumber Co. on a site on East Alisal Avenue, Salinas.

CALLED INTO ACTIVE SERVICE

Fred Wheeler, Graves Company, Los Angeles, has been called into active service from the Naval Reserve of which he has been a member for ten years. He has been ordered to report to the Philadelphia Navy Yard March 15 where he will be attached to the U. S. S. Washington.

LOS ANGELES VISITOR

Leonard J. Kupps, office manager of Van Arsdale Harris Lumber Co., San Francisco, was back at his desk February 24 atter a trip to Los Angeles.

OFFICE MAN WANTS POSITION

Lumberman with ten years' wholesale and retail experience urants position. Los Angeles metropolitan district preferred. Can handle general office work, bookkeeping and typing. Last position with Los Angeles wholesale firm. Address Box C-865, California Lumber Merchant.

INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY

GROWING, WELL ESTABLISHED NORTHERN CALIFORNIA YARD ISIN NEED OF $5O,OOO ADDITIONAL WORKING CAPITAL. FIRST CLASS RISK,6% INTEREST. LOAN TO BE AMORTTZED IN TO YEARS.

WHOLESALER OR MANUFACTURER INTERESTED IN PROVIDING THIS CAPITAL COULD BE ASSURED OF ANNUAL PUR. CHASES OF $100,000. ADDRESS BOX C-866, CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT.

COMMISSION SALESMAN WANTED

San Francisco wholesale firm would like to make connection with a commission salesman calling on the retail trade in Los Angeles and Southern California area. Must know the trade and have knowledge of Fir and Ponderosa Pine lumber. Give references. Address Box C-869, California Lumber Merchant.

LUMBER YARDS WANTED

If you want to sell your Southern California yard, get in touch with us. We have a number of inquiries for small and medium size yards. Twohy Lumber Co., 801 Petroleum Bldg., Los Angeles. Lumber yard Brokers.

BACK FROM EASTERN TRIP

Carl Hornibrook, sales manager, Ewauna Box Company, Klamath Falls, Ore., has returned from a seven weeks' business trip throughout the east. He stopped off in Los Angeles while enroute to the mills.

LUMBER OFFICE BURGLARTZED

Osgood Lumber Company, Bell, was recently burglarized. and a typewriter and several other smaller articles stolen. The burglar got into the office files, scattering the papers all over the floor, and it took the office force a couple of weeks to get them straightened out again.

WITH SUN LUMBER COMPANY

Roy Johnson joined the sales staff of the Sun Lumber Company, Beverly Hills, on March 1. He was formerly with the Graves Company for eighteen years as salesman.

BT]YBB9S GI]IDB SAN FBAITOISOO

LUMBER

Atllnm-Stutz Compny, lrl Merlct Stn t .,..............GAridd ftot

Bohatavcr-Morc Lmba Co., 525 Mrrl.t Srrcr...............,.. E)lbroL a?a5

Dut & Rurcll. Inc557 Mtdrct'Stct..................GArficH 492

Dolbcr & Crm Lumbcr Co., 726 M.rchutr Erehmgc Bldg......SUttc 7{55

Ganeretm & Grccn, rEc| Amy Strut...................Atwltcr 1300

Hall, Jeno L., 1032 Milb 81dg........'......'.......SUttcr 7520

Henood Redwood Compuy -- al, -M-tr";dy Srrii..'.'.........DOusLr 33ss

Hobbr Wall Lunbc Co.. 2350 Jarrold Avauc..,........,,...Mluim 09ll

Holmcr Eurclta tJmb.r Co., llC5 Finarchl Ccntcr Bldg........GAr6ald Dzr

C. D. Johlrcn Lunbc Corporation'

2.O Cdiiomh StrEt...............GArfield @5ll

Crrl H. Kuhl Luba Co., O. L. Ru[u, tlz Markst strot...Yukon 1460

LUMBER

LUMBER

Lamon-Bomington Conp.ny, l5 Califomia Str6t................GArfi"|d 6$f

MacDonald & Hanin8toD, Ltd..

16 Calffornia St. ..................GAr6c1d E303 Pacific Lumbc Co., Th.

100 Bulh Stret.........,......,...GArfrcld rrEr Popc & Talbot, Inc- Lumbc Divlrioo, 461 MarLct Strc.t.....,,...,. .....Douglar 255f

Red River Lmbcr Co.,

315 Monadnoct BldC.,...,..,......GArfirld 0922 Santa Fe Lumber Co.,

16 California Strc.t................Exbrmk 2O7l Shevlin Plne Saler Co.

1030 Monadnock Btdg.............Exbroo& ruf

Sudden & Chrieton. 310 Sansomo Strct........ ........GArfreld 2E{6 Union Lumber Co., Crockq Building ...................SUttGr CUa

Wendlinq-Nathil Co., ll0 Mukct Stret ..........,........SUtt r $tel

Wcat Orcgon L'-bcr Co., 1995 Evmr Avc. .......,..,.......ATwatcr 5!?t

E. K. Wmd Lubcr Co., I Dmm Strct..,................E)Grr& 37ra Weycrhreurr Salcr Co., 149 Califmia Str6t.............,.G^rficld E97,|

Gamcraton & Gren, 9tb Avcnuc Picr......,.,...........Hlgatc 2255

Gomu Lubc Co,162l TidwatGr Avoue...........ANdovcr 1000

Hill & Morton, Inc., Dmim Stret Wharf............ANdovcr l0?7

Hogu Lubcr Compmy, znd & Alicc Stretg.,...........Glencourt 6tol

Rcd River Lmbcr Co., 906 Finacial Cots Bldg....,..TWlnoakr 3400

E. K. W@d Lmbcr Co., Fredcrick & King Stets....,,.FRuitvalc 0U.2

LUMBER

HARDWOODS AND PAIIEL!'

Marir Plyvod Corporatlon, 540 roth Street.................MArkct 67e5-6?ta

Whitc Brcthcrr,Fifth and Brmnan Strectr..........SUttcr 1385

SA.sH*DOORS_PLYWOOD

Wheler Osgod Sales Corporation, 3lXS rgth Stret....,..............VAIcncia 22ll

CREOSOTED LUMBER-POLESPILING-TIES

Amcrlen Lumbcr & Trcating Co., ll5 Ncw Montgomery Str6t.,.....Sutt r l|s

Butcr, J. H. & Co., 33:l Montgom.ry Strat...,.,.....D(hrylar 3tt3 Hall, Jucr L,, l0B2 Millr 81dg.......... ............Suttcr ?524

PAN ELS-Dq)RS-SASH-SCREENS

Calilomla Buildcrr Supply Co., 700 6th Avcnu .,..Hlgatc C0l6

Hogu Lubcr Cmpuy, znd & Alie Strc.t!..............Gl.cn@urt 6661

lffcstcm Dmr & Sruh Co., sth & Cyprear Stretr. .. .. ., .TEmplcbar E{00

HARDWOODS

Whitc Brcths., sao High Str@t.......... -.. -......ANdovcr 16110

LOS AITGBLDS

Anglo Calilomla Lumbcr Co655 Er3t Florcne Avcnuc..... .Tllomwall 31,14

Atklnm-Stutz CmpenS drt Pstroldrn B!dg....,...,......PRop6t {341

Bunr Lmbcr Cmpuy, 9155 Charlcvlllc BIvd., (Bcvcrly Hlll.) ..,............BRrdrhaw Z-BEE

Car; & C,o., L J. (llf. D. Itmlns), {3t Chubr of Conacc Bldg. PRorpet Et43

C,oopcr. W. E.. zaEs E. lsth St. ,.................PRo.FGt 5l3l

Dut & Rurcll, lnctfz E. sCth St....................,..ADur tlol

Dolbccr & Cenm Lunbcr Co9|r Fldcltty 81dg...........,.......vAndikc E?92

Hamnond Radwood Compaay, f08l S. Broadray.................PRorpcct 1333

Hobbr Wall Lunbcr Co, 625 Rwu B|dg.....................TRinity 506E

Holmcr Eurcha Lubcr Co.. 7ll-Zl2 Archit*tc Bldg... ,.Mutual grEr

Hovcr, .A- L. 5225 Wllehlrc B!vd...,............,...YOrk il6E

C. D. Johnon Luber Corporation, 606 Petrclm B!dg......,........PRo.p*t tl65

Lawrence-Phllipe Luber Co., dll Petrclem Bldg................PRotpcct El74

MacDonald & Hanington, Ltd. Petroldm Building .............,.PRcpcct 3l?

Pacific Lumber Co- Tbc, 5225 Wilshlrc Blvd. .....YOrk 1166

Patten Bllnn Lubcr Co., 52r E. sth Stret..........,.......VAndike 232!

LUMBER

Pofc I Tdbot, Inc' Lrmbor Dlvlrton, 6er W. Flfth Strat ................TRtdtt salr

Red Rlvcr Lumbcr Co., 702 E. Slaurcn.. .CEntury 29a?l l03l S. Brcedway,.......,.,..,...PRorpcct ItU

Rcitz Co., E. L., 333 Patrclcum BIdg.....,.,.......PRorpoct 3O

Smta Fo Lurabcr Co., 3ll Flnuclal Ccotsr Blds........VAnditc l{71

Shevlhr Plnc Salcr Co., 330 Pctrol.u Bldg..............,PRopGct CoUi

Suddcn & Chrlrtcnon, 630 Board of Tradc Bl&r... ....TRlnlty ttll

Taoma Lmbcr Salo, 423 Potrolflm Bldg...............PRorpct lllE

Unlon Lurnber Co..

923 W. M. Garland Bldg. ..........TRtrlty 22t2

Wcndling-Nathan Co., 5225 Wilrhlro B|vd.............. ......YOrk U6E

Wert Oregon Luba Co. 427 Petroleum Btdr..............Rlcbmod 02tl

Ttf. W. Wiltinon, 316 W. gtb Strct................,.TRinity 1613

E. K. W@d Lumber Co-

4701 Santa Fe Avenw............JEfrem 3lll

r{eyerhaeuser Sales Co., 920 W. M, Gulud Bldg.........Mlchigu Gt5.l

CREOSOTED LUMBER-POLES-PILINGTIES

Americu Lumber & Treating Co., l03l S. Broadway.................PRospcct 4363

Butcr, J. H. & Co., 601 Wert sth Str6t,.............Mlchige 629{

, HARDWOODS

Cadwallador-Gibrcn Co. lnc.,

362E E. Olymplc Blvd...,.........ANsGlut luat Stston. E. J. & Son,

2a5a Er3t 3tth Str..t ............CErtury Azff

Wrstcm Hardwod Lumbcr Co..

2ei4 E. rsth Strct...............PRorycct 6lll

SASH-DOORS-MILLWORK

PANEI.S AND PLYWOOD

Califomle Door Company, Thc

237-241 C.ntr.l Avc..,..,..........TR|n|ty ?l0l

Callfomla Pmd & Vcnccr Co., 955 3. Alancda Strct .........,.TR1n1tt x$t Cobb Co., T. M., 5600 Ccntral Avsnuc........,..,...ADanr llll?

Eubank & Son, Inc., L. H. (Inglcwood)

lll0 E. Hydc Park Blvd.........ORcgo t.l00

Kchl, Jno. W. & Son, 652 S. Myerr Strot., ..,....Altlgclur Eltl

MacDougall Dmr & Plywood Co., 20t15 E. Slrt Strct.,...............Klmball 316r

Oregon-lly'uhington Plywmd Co., 3lt l^'e.t Nintb Stret..,....,..,.TRinlty 4613

Pacific Wood Prcductr Corporation, 300c Tybum Strcct.....,...........Al.buy 0lll

Pacifrc Mutual Dor Co" 1600 E. Washington Blvd...,....PRospect 95Zl

Rem Company, Gs. E., 235 S. Almeda SFeet.....,...,..Mlchigu lt54

Red Rivcr Lumbcr Co.. 702 E. Slauson., .CEntury 29071 Wcrt Coatt Scren Co., rl|s E. 6:lrg Stret.....,..........AD.nr lllrt

Whelq Ocgmd Salcg Corporatlon, 922 S. Flowcr Street...........,...VAndlkc dEit