The California Lumber Merchant - March 1942

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Government buyers purchased 17,570,W feet of Douglas Fir and Western Pine lumber at an auction held in Portland, Ore., Februaty fr.

In attendance were 150 representatives of manufacturers and wholesale lumber dealers from Washington, Oregon, Idaho and California.

Of the total amount, 4,000,000 feet was for shipment to a mili,tary project at Fort Sill, Oklahoma; 5,500,000 feet was for shipment by water to an unannounced destination, and the rest was purchased f.o.b. mill for later shipment.

The buyers were Major C. E. Kirkendall, Captain James C. Stowers, and Mike Hyman, all of Washington, D. C.

While no date was announced it is expected that an auction will be held in the near future in the Northwest for the purchase of lumber for Army cantonments.

Seattle, Washington, February 12, 1942.-:The weekly lverage of West Coast lumber ptroduction in January (.{ weeks), was 159,3€,00O board feet, or 87.2 per cent of estirnated capacity, according to the West Coast Lurnbermen's Association in its monthly survey of the industry. Orders averaged 191,374,000 board feet; shipments, 155,688,000. Weekly averages for December were: production 1.33,226,On board f.eet (67.7 per cent of the 1926-1929 average) ; orders, 184,398,000; shipments, 129,853,000.

Orders for 4 weeks of 1942 break down as follows: rail. 584,983,000 board feet; domestic cargo, 95,505,0@; export, b,527,0@ ; local, 78,382,000.

The indtrstry's unfilled order file stood at 926,469,N0

board feet at the end of January; gross stocks, at 991,' 415,000.

New business for the West Coast lumber industry during January continued on approximately the average level of the last three weeks of the prior month, following thr: sudden lift of war construction requirements. Civilian demand declined through January. These are the two delinite features oI the present situation of West Coast lumber. Throughout the past six months the portion of total business due to Government requirements has steadily increased, while there has been continuing shrinkage in private building.

No credible prediction can be made on future volume of West Coast lumber, as the extent of demand is subject tb day-by-day decisions of various Government agencies. It is reasonable to believe that this demand. however, rvill continue at a relatively high level.

The Western Pine Association for the rveek ended February 14,94 mills reporting, gave orders as 61,519,000 feet, shipments 74,187,M feet, and production 52,875,0@ feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week cotaled 379.356.000 feet.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended Febraary 14, 105 mills reporting, g'ave nerv business as 4O,236,M feet, shipments 34,384,000 feet, and production 30,565,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 155,169,000 feet.

Defense Savi ay-RollAllotment Plan

voluntary

ft nelps workora provicle for tho future pay-roll allotment helpS build future buving power plan helpS defend America todav

Thie is no charity plea. It is a eound bueinees propoeition that vitally eoncerne the present and future welfare of your company' your employeee, and Yourself.

During the poet war period of readjusment, you may be faced with the unpleaeant neceeaity of turning employeee out into a confused and cheerleee worlil. But your as an employer, can do aomething nou) to help shape the destiniee of your people' Score, oi bueineee heade have adopted the Vohntary Pay'roll Allotment Plan as a simple and eaey way for every worker in the land to start a systematic a'dld continuous Defenee Bond savings program.

Mant benefits . . . preEent and' future. rt ig ,oo." ih* a eeneible step toward reducing'the ranks of tho poEt-war needy. It will help spread linancial participation in National Defenee o-ong all of America's wage earners.

Tho widespread uee of this plan will materially retsrd infa' tion. It will *gtore" psrt of our pyramiding national income that would otherwiee be spent as fast as it's earned, increasing the demand for our diminishing supply of consumer goods.

And ilon't overlook the immeiliate benefit . noney for defenee materials, quickly, continuouely, willingly.

Letts d,o it the Atnerican usay! America'e talent for working out emergency problems, democratically, is being tested today. As alwaye, we will work it out, without preEEure or coercion in that old American way; each busineseman etrengthening hie own housel not waiting for hie neigbbor to do iL That cuEtom hag throughout history, enabled America to get thinge done of its oum lree uill.'

ln etnergencies, America doesn't do tlfings

"hit-or.tniss." Wo woultl get tbere ertentually it we just left it to everybodyts whim to buy Defense Bonde when they thought of it But we're a nation of businessmen who unden stand that the way to get a thing done is to systematize the oper' ation. That ie why eo many employera are getting back of this Yoluntary Savings Plan

Like moet efrcient Bysteme' it ie amazingly simple. All you have to do is ofrer your employeee the convenience of having a fixed sum allotte4 from each pay envelope, to the purchase of Defenee Bonde. The employer holds theee funde in a separate bank account, and delivers a Bond to the employee each time his qllotnents accumulate to a sufficient amount.

Each employee who chooeee to start this savings plan decidea for himeelf the denomination of the Bonds to be purchaeed and tho ernount to be allotted from his wages each pay day.

Hou bis d,oes a cornwny lunte to be? From three empl6yeet on up. Size [ae nothing to do witb it. It worke equally well in storee, schoola, publishing houeee, lactorieg or banke. This whole idea of pay*oll allohent bag been evolved by businessmen in cooperation with tho Treaeury Departmenl Each organization adopte ite own simplg efrcient application of the idea in accordsnce with rhe needs of itE own Eet up No chore at all. Tho system is so simple that -{- T. & T. uees exactly the eame easy card systen that ie being ugetl by hundretls of companies having fewer than 25 employees! It ie simple enough to be handled by a checkmark on a card each pay day.

Plenty ol hclp aoailable. Although tLie ia yozr plan when you put it into efrecg the Treaeury Deparhent ia ready and willing to give you all liinde of help. Local civilian committees in 48 Statee are 8et up to have experienced men woik with you juet as much as you want them to, and no more.

Truly, about all. you have to do is to indicate your willingness to get your organization gtarted. \[o will eupply moet of the necessary material and no end of help.

The first step is to take a closer look. Sending in the coupon in no way obligatee you to lnstall the Plan. It will simply give you a chance to ecrutinize the available material and gee what other companiee are already doing. It will bring you samplee of literature explaining the beneffts to employeee and describing the various denominations of Defenso Savinga Bonde that can be purchased through the Plan.

Sending the coupon does nothing more than signify that you are anxioug to do something to help keep your people ofi relief when defense production eloughe ofr; something to enable all wage earners to participate in financing Defense; something to provide tomorrods bunog power for your productei something to get money right now for guns and tankg and planea and ehips.

France left it to "hit or-miee" and nrissed. Noro ie the time lor you to act! Mail the coupon or write Treaeury Departmen! Section A5 ?09 Twelfth St NV. Waehington, D. C.

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The immortal words of Rupert Brooke have been so frequently quoted and misquoted of late in war stuff, that they are reproduced here at the request of a friend: ***

"If I should die tonight, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England. There shall be In tfiat rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave once her fowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English'air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. And think, this heart, all evil shed away, A pulse in the eternal Mind, no less Gives somewhere back the thoughts of England given: Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; And laughter learnt of friends, and gentleness, In hearts at peace under an English heaven.', **rs -i{ot only the grandeur of the philosophy and the splendor of the words and phrases, help to make this poem immortal, but likewise the fact that it proved to be his own great epitaph. For Rupert Brooke, a youthful English soldier-poet, was killed only a short time after these words were written, while on his way with his contingent of the British army traveling from Egypt to the Dardanelles. So millions of thinking people quote his words as exemplifying in words of glory the thoughts of a patriotic young soldier with regard to his own prospective death in battle.

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And so they do. And while they were the words and thoughts of Rupert Brooke who soon was to make the supreme sacrifice for his country, they might as well have been the thoughts of some grand American boy about his beloved home. What the soldier boy thinks of his sacrifice in going out to face death for his country, has long been proclaimed in song and story. And Rupert Brooke, in the stanza quoted above, expresses it perhaps better than anyone has ever done before or since. And he wrote still another short poem of the same sort, not so well known or so frequently used, but perhaps just as beautiful. Here it is:

"Blow out, you bugles, over the rich dead!

There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold. These laid the world away; poured out the red Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be l Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene

That men call age; and those who wquld have been Their sons, they gave their immortdity."

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So the words that Rupert Brooke wrote have crowned his brow with fadeless lau.rel, and given to his native land, and to every other land where men are found willing to lay down their precious lives for the liberty of their country,-a priceless heritage. **!F

Yet, while I get a terrific thrill out of the story of Rupert Brooke, the man who wrote inspiringly of his own death as though he saw it coming and still was unafraid, I am still enough of a roughneck to get perhaps a greater thrilt out of stories of men who face death with a laugh on their lips, and a joke at the grim reaper. Already many such stories have come back to us from the Philippines, where heroes are finding the way to immortality every day. During the first World War there were innumerable stories told and retold of men who laughed at death. One of them that I recall so well was of a regiment that had been given notice that they were going over the top at the first crack of dawn. They slept in a barracks, and were awakened a half hour before dawn, to get ready. All was darkness inside the barjacks, and men spoke only in low tone of voice. Suddenly some boy at one end of the big room was heard to say-"My God! What a headache f've got!" And down the line another boy answered'What do you care? You'll soon be dead!" And they say that the laughter almost raised the roof of that bar. racks, as every man jack of them roared at the gag. ***

And that was exactly the spirit that pervaded the entire American army throughout the first World War. And who is there to doubt that it is fully as strong in our army of today? Sure it is! That's the American way of fighting. You know I actually heard a group of people the other day debating seriously whether or not it is necessary for

us io work up a terrific feeling of hatred for the Japs and the Germans in order to defeat them. Surely it isn't. As a matter of fact the fighter who hates too hard is undoubtedly at a disadvantage, just as is the fighter who lets his temper run away with him. Sergeant York didn't have time or inclination to hate the Huns he killed in the first World War. Killing them was just a job he had to do, and he did it. The great air aces that this war has produced thus far, in relating their experiences in downing scores of enemy planes, speak nothing of hatred. It is probable that the Japs hate us, since we so frankly look upon them as an inferior and barbarous race. Our soldiers don't need to hate the Japs in order to destroy them. As a matter of fact hating the Japs would be showing more respect for them than they deserve. We have simply got to treat them like a pack of sheep-killing dogs.***

And speaking of barbarians, what a difference there is between the barbarians of today, and of the past ! Pericles, who believed stoutly in the old gods of heathen Greece yet was so great that they named an age of man after him -*1g "ags of Pericles"-said at the close of his stupendous career: t'I have caused no one to wear crep€." Doesn't sound like Hitler or Hirohito, does it? *{€*

The great Englishman, Dr. Johnson, once remarked to Boswell, his biographer: "Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a'soldier, or been at sea." ***

Barbarians cannot understand men fighting and dying for a principle. When Xerxes the Great, of Persia, invaded Greece, he asked what was the prize for which men strove at the famous Grecian athletic contests, and was told it was but a wreath of wild olive. A Persian general exclaimed to his master: "Good heavens, Mardonious! What manner of men are these you have brought us to fight against-men who do not contend for money, but forhonor!"

National pride, intelligently applied, makes a people great. Misapplied, it destroys it. It was misplaced national pride that brought the downfall of Judea, of Greece, of Rome, and that has sent Germany and Japan out to give the world a blood-bath. That it will likewise destroy them, is our hoPe and aim'

Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States during the first World \il'ar, now and then uttered some swell humorous thought. When he sent a delegation to treat with Russia, he headed it by the late Elihu Root, and explained that appointment by saying that the Russians were a nation of "glooms," and that Elihu Root just suited them; he hadn't laughed in thirty years.

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Trade Problems Discusscd at Chicago Meetings

Securing rubber tires for logging and lumber hauling trucks was declared Industry Problem No. 1 at a meeting of the Lumber and Timber Products Defense Committee at the Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, February 2nd and 3rd.

ft was requested that the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, as agent of the Committee, make the solution of this problem its first order of business, and that the Executive Committee draft and adopt further recommendations on the subject.

The meeting, which was attended by 58 individuals representing a broad cross section of the industry, elected a new Executive Committee comprising: M. L. Fleishel, Putnam Lumber Company, Shamrock, Florida, chairman;

O. R. Miller, Wauna Lumber Company, Portland Oregon; Walter Neils, J. Neils Lumber Company, Libby, Ifontana; W. W. Kellogg, Kellogg Lumber Company, Monroe, I-ouisiana; E. J. Curtis, The Curtis Companies, fnc., Clinton, Iowa, and J. A. Currey, J. C. Turner Lumber Company, Irvington, New York.

It was recommended that defense agencies anticipate their needs and make commitments for lumber and timber products, or at least inform the industry as soon as possible, rather than wait to determine exact dates and destinations, and that an interval of at least 14 days be allowed between notice of intention to purchase or issuance of invitations and the taking of bids, to allow a maximum number of suppliers to participate.

The War Department was commended for its work in centralizing the procurement of lumber during the past 18 months which has brought results satisfactory both to the I)epartment and the Industry, and recomrnendation was made that the same purchasing system be extended to the Navy, Maritime Commission, Lend-Lease Administration. Coast Guard, and other agencies. It was further suggested that the centralized purchasing of each of these agencies be done at as many, widely distributed points as administratively possible and conflict of dates in contiguous areas be avoided to permit participation by those in a position to quote on supplies in more than one area.

It was suggested that suitable means be provided for co-ordinating any conflicting priorities with authority to direct the precedence of delivery.

The "auction" system of procuring lumber in large quantities was endorsed, but recommendation was made that it be discontinued in the purchase of millwork and the sealed bid method be re-instated in order to increase the rrumber of potential bidders and sources of supply, and that mrllwork be purchased at the time the site and construction schedule are established, or when the lumber is purchased, whichever provides the longest time for raw material procurement and fabrication.

ft was further recommended that the present method of procurement ol fabricated products be continued witlr the provision that, for special or difficult items, it is desirable that commitments be made in advance for blanks or rough parts which can thereafter be allocated to the successful bidders.

It was urged that specifications provide the broadest possible coverage of suitable species and minimum grades of random widths and lengths and maximum adherence to standard commercial practice. The Committee offered its assistance to the defense agencies in reviewing specifications rvith a view to improving them.

The suggestion was made that co-operation be established with the War Production Board for a central review of specifications and of the design and construction of manufactured products with a view to co-ordination in the light of current and prospective supplies of lumber and timber products.

It was resolved that the Container Branch of the WPB be petitioned to extend, without expiration date, Preference Order No. P-79 in its present form. Under P-79, due to expire on March 31st, the wood box and crate industry has secured its necessary ferrous metal under orderly processes, and the manufacturers have become familiar with its use and provisions.

Major T. C. C<lmbs, U. S. Corps of Engineers, assigned to the office of the Under-Secretary of War, explained that a directive had been issued to the eight supply

branches of the War Departrnent calling attention to the accumulations of low grade lumber at sawmills to such an extent that production of high grade lumber, urgently needed, is being impeded, and directing that the lowest suitable commercial grade be used, and that random widths and lengths be used where specified lengths are not necessary.

Carlos Johnson, Interstate Tractor & Equipment Company, advised the Industry to repair and rebuild and to secure second-hand tractors wherever possible, because of the difficulties of securing new equipment.

The Committee advised that, to avoid unnecessary confiicts, recommendations of organizations represented on the Committee for changes in government specificatiorrs be communicated through the NLMA as agency for the Committee, a'nd that Defense agencies be requested tcr provide a similar central channel for such matters.

NLNIA was requested to seek a higher rating than the present A-10 for needed maintenance and repair items.

Recommendations on the conservation of critical materials, on expediting government bills of lading, and solution of conflicting priorities were referred to a drafting committee to prepare for approval by the Executive Cornmittee.

Continuation of the l.utnber and Timber Products Defense Committee was voted, with addition of such new elements as desire to be identified with it and elimination of any associations no longer in existence.

The Executive Committee, in session on February 3rd, requested that NLMA prepare a comprehensive statement of facts on the conservation of critical materials through the use of lumber and timber products and determine the best method of placing this information before the defense agencies.

NLMA was also asked to investigate any complaints of long delays in furnishing government bills of lading and find means for correcting such troubles.

The Association was further asked to make an effort t<l correct inadequacies in the present tire rationing program and seek to have state directors authorized to set up additional quotas for the industry.

To minimize difficulties arising from frequent, unexpected demands for large quantities of difficult items of lurnber, it was recommended that NLMA compile a list of such items and present it to WPB with a request that an cstimate of requirements be given the industry periodically for an advance period of 60 or 90 days.

ft rvas recommended that any com,pany becoming involved in conflicting priority ratings immediately advise the government agencies concerned by telegram, sending a copy to the Lumber and Timber Products Committee.

Soft, even textured pine and modern plywood construction. Ecsy to work and linish. Pcrints, enamels and lqcquers cover economically with level, smooth surIaces oI lcsting becuty.

He Still Has His Ax

BY JACK DIONNE

The situction in which the retcil lumbermcn oI todcry linds himsell, sort ol remin& me ol cn old story. Mose cnd Mcmdy lived on the bcarlc oI the bcryou. Mcndy wcrshed for their living, cnd lczy Mose mostly lished.

One monring Mose hcld gotten into his bo<rt cmd wcs quietly pcddling cwcy when Mcmdy "ss.'rrred cdter him:

"Mose, come bcck hech" you lczy, wuthless, trillid scoun'el youl You crin't cut me no ficrh woodl"

But Mose wcrs clecrr oI her innedicrte recrch by now, ao he called lczily bcrclc

"\iVhut you growlin' 'bouL 'omcn? I qin't ccrried off de cx, is I?"

Wqr restrictions hqve cut in on the lumber dealer's nonncrl cnd ncturcl wcry oI trcrnscrcting his business, thqt's true, bui they hcven't ccuried off the cor,. the ax in this pcrrticulcrr ccse, being the cbility to go out cnd ccrrve out crnd creqte business cnd lots oI it. He still has thct, crnd it's no mecn or smcll crx, either. With it he can do cr lot oI good for himsell, qnd c lot of good lor the people who look to him for their building help card guidcmce. Yes, Sir, he still hcs his cx, and cll he's got to do is use it lorcelully cnd intelligently.

Tcrke pcrint, Ior excrmple. There qre no resbictions on the sqle or promotion oI pcrint, ihere is $o ehortqge oI mctericls, crnd lhere is even less of c shortcrge oI buildings thcrt cctucrlly need trnd fcirly cry cloud lor pcint protection The whole country needs paint. Pcint protects, preserves, upholds vclue+ cnd otherwise sustains, in cddition to becutifying buildings. Paint iB building insurcrnce, crnd in times such cs we look {orwcrd to it is more importcrnt thqn ever before to keep up the buildings we hcve. It is c wise owner in rines like these, who goes over his house, replcrces cmy defective surfqces, tightens the ioints to keep out wind crnd wecrther, cmd crpplies c cocrling of protective pcint over cll.

No trick to sell ptrint iobs now. Less ol c iob to sell them crs spring opens, cll over the country. It will be ecsy. Mcrrk Twcin scid he once lonew cr scrlesmcrn who wcs so surooth he could persuqde q fish to come rip out ol the river cmd tcrke cr wclk with him. You don't have to be thct expert to sell pcint lor needy buildings in these limes.

Get closer to your loccl editor thcn you ever were belore, cnd spend c little wise money with him. Coopenrte with him to the end thqt his recrders will be kept cdvised ol the things they CAN do with respect to building. Donl wcste your money telling them whct they CAN'T do. It will be time enough lor that when you get to tclking buitding, cnd repciring, and remodeling, cnd pcrinting. But see lhcrt your trcrde knows all the good things in the building cnd repcir cnd improvement line thcrt they CAN get right now. Put your vigorous personclity into your scles efforb cnd be sure you hcve both-the vigorous personclity, cmd the sales efforl

3910 Additional Defense Housing Units to DefenseHousing Areas Approved be Built in California

Authorization for the construction of an additional 3,910 housing units in California was announced recently in San Francisco by O. W. Campbell, associate regional coordinator of defense housing.

Six hundred permanent and 3,100 demountable units are to be constructed at San Diego.

Seventy permanent units are to be built at Merced, Calif., and,l40 demountable units are to be erected at Vicrorville, Calif.

All of the units, to house families of army enlisted and civilian personnel, will be constructed by the Federal Works Agency.

Construction of an additional 190 permanent housing units in the West was also announced by Mr. Carnpbell. The Defense llomes Corporatiqn will build 90 units for families of army commissioned men at Fort Ord, Calif., and the Federal Works Agency was designed to arrange for the building of 100 units at Fort Huachuca, Ariz. The latter are for Negro occupancy.

LANCASTER PLACED ON DEFENSE HOUSING CRITICAL LIST

San Francisco, Feb. 17.-Lancaster, Calif., has been added to the defense critical housing list, it was announced here today by O. W. Campbell, associate co-ordinator of defense housing.

Inclusion in such a list means that building materials will be rnade more readily available for the construction of needed dwelling units.

The Polarius Air Academy, civilian training school for airmen, is located near Lancaster, 80 miles northeast of Los Angeles.

San Francisco, February l8.-Thirteen new defense localities in California and one each in Washington, Alaska, and Arizona as areas where defense housing may be financed under title VI of the national housing act have been approved by President Roosevelt, it was announced today by- O. W. Campbell, associate coordinator of defense housing.

Calitbrnia areas are:

Bakersfield, Fresno, King City, Lemoore, Merced, Monterey-Salinas, Niles, Pittsburg-Antioch, San BernardinoRiverside, San Luis -Obispo, Santa Maria-Lompoc, Stockton and Victorville.

Other areas: Arizona, Phoenix-Salt River Valley. Washington, Keyport. Alaska, Seward.

In each case the reasonable commuting area serving each locality is included.

Title VI, drafted to speed privately financed defeuse housing, differs frorn other FHA mortgage insurance procedures in permitting loans to builders rather than owner occupants. Under title VI also the home buyer is allowed up to 30 months to amortize the 10 per cent down payment, thus minimizing the initial cash payment required of defense workers. Since title VI loans are made direct to builders, and may cover 90 per cent of the appraised valuation of the house, the plan has served as a strong stimulant to rental housing.

THREE WESTERN TOWNS ADDED TO CRITICAL HOUSING AREAS

San Francisco, Feb. 19-Two new communities in California and one in Washington have been added to the defense housing critical areas list, it was announced here today by O. W. Campbell, associate co-ordinator of defense housing.

Priority aid in the erection of privately financed dwellings for defense plant workers is now available in Taft and Chico, Calif., and Port Angeles, Washington.

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Ag" not guaranteed---Some I have told jor 20 years---Some Less

Depends on Whose Ox is Gored

Aunt Emmy is one of those colored sisters who waxes warm as the church-house preachin' progresses, and gets excited right along with the preacher. On this particular Sunday the preacher was talking about sinners, generally and particularly. After generalizing for a time, he got speci6c.

First he castigated folks who fight, who are too quict< tempered, too fast with that razor or hnife. Then whiskey drinkers got their turn. He fairly tore the hide off of drunkenness. Then he turned to the commandment "Thou shalt not steal," and what he had to say about folks who take liberties with other folks' property was enough to make the smoke fly. To all of this Aunt Emmy gave generous response, which is the manner of applause employed by colored folks at meeting in tfie deep South. "Amen !" she cried, over and over again. "Bless de

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Lawd !" had had its turn many times, as she responded to the preaching. No one could have shown their approval of the sermon louder than Aunt Emmy.

And then suddenly, so suddenly that it almost made Aunt Emmy catch her breath, the preacher turned his guns in an entirely different and unexpected direction. He began to condemn snuff-dippers. Aunt Emmy's voice became suddenly silent. There ryas no more applause or response from her. She listened for a couple of minutes until it became entirely certain that it WAS snuff-dippers he was lambasting from the pulpit, and then she turned to Uncle Mose, who sat beside her, and ejaculated so loud she could be heard all over the church:

"Dah Now! Lissen at him! IIe's done stopped preachin' an' gone to meddlin'."

Sell lumber ihot yields c protit ond lasting sotisldction. CZC, lhe protected luaber, ie clem, odorless dnd p<rlntdble It is termiie qnd deccy resistcmt <rnd fire retcrrding. You ccm sell it lor F.H.A., U. S. Government, Loa Angeles C.ity cnd Couty od Uniforu Building Code iobs. CZC trected lumber ii stocked lor immediate Bhipmebl in commercicl sizes cl Long Beoch od Alamedc. Agk obout our exchoge gerice ccrd mill shipnent pldl.

Explain Rubber Situation

Washington, February 14.-The following statement was issued today by Donald M. Nelson, chairman of the War Production Board, and Jesse Jones, secretary of Commerce:

"It is extremely important that every citizen understand our situation in rubber.

"We cannot win the war unless our military forces have an ample supply of rubber. If rubber is lacking our planes can't fly, our tanks can't move, our field guns can't operate, our warships can't function.

"ft is perfectly true that we have in the Unitecl States today a large stockpile of crude rubber. It is also true that more rubber is coming in.In addition, we have started a program to make synthetic rubberwhich eventually will give us a substantial supply.

"Fighting with the Japs is norv occurring in the area our rubber comes from. In fact, the llalayan peninsula from which a large part of our rubber supply is normally obtained is wholly in Japanese possession today. We have to drive them out before we can get any more rubber from that area.

"The rubber we have today, plus the rubber that is on its way in and the rubber we shall eventually make in our new factories, is all the new- rubber we can count on at this time. There is about enough to enable us to complete our great armament program-but there is not going to be any to str)are. We dare not waste any.

"So we have made our choice. We go rvithout any new rubber tires for civilian use this year so that we need not go without rubber for our tanks, planes, guns and warships next year. Unless we restrict all civilian use of rubber to the bare essentials, we shall not have enough for our military machine during the next two years.

"We are rationing rubber now. We are doing so because it is an absolute military necessity. Every American must understand that the fact that we do have large supplies of rubber in this country does not in the least mean that we civilians rnay have all lve want. It simply rneans that because some foresight was exercised our nrilitary needs during the next couple of years can be metprovided that civilian use is held to the absolute minirnum.

"We should not be rationing rubber today if our national safety did not depend on it. Everyone of us who is used to riding on rubber rvithout giving the supply a

thought should look at his tires and say, 'that's all there is. There isn't any mels'-and proceed accordingly until, adequate supplies are once more assured.

"Your government is aware of the seriousness' of this rubber supply problem and is working on all fronts to alleviate this situation as much as possible.

"We need rubber to 'Keep 'Em Rolling, for the United, States and every one of our allies."

S. O. Hall, Secretary-Manager of NDM{ Resigns

The National Door Manufacturers Association, Chicagpl announces the resignation of Stanley O. Hall, secretarymanager for the past five-and-one-half years.

During this period of time, National Door Manufacturers Association activities have been expanded and its field of service to woodwork manufacturers, to the Government, to trade and allied groups, and to the public has been, greatly increased. Through the Association office in Wash. ington, D.C., much progress has been made in facilitatiug the Industry's service to the Government.

In the annual meeting held in Chicago, February 11 andl 12, the members unanimously endorsed the continuation oI these useful operations by N.D.M.A., with the belief that they are more important today than ever, because of the fndustry's all-out aid in the war effort. The following <iirectors were elected to carry on the vvork for the coming year i

Fred C. Andersen, A. F. Baal, E. J. Curtis, U. M. Davies* A. C. Hansen, W. J. Johnson, Earl Kenyon, J. A. Loetscher.

Mr. Hall will become associated with Protection. Products Manufacturing Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan, e1lective May 15. His successor will be appointed in the nean future. His many friends throughout the industry and among jobbers and dealers wish him good luck in his nerv opportunity.

NETW PLYWOOD PLANT TO OPEN MARCH 1

The new plywood plant of Puget Sound Plywoods, Inc., on East F Street, Tacoma, is expected to start operation about March 1.

Roy L. McGinn, who was with Leybold-Smith shingle Co., Tacoma, for the past 17 years, is general manag.er..

Fieder Brothers to Represent Carl H. Kuhl Critical Materials Banned for Highwayg LumberCompany in SouthernCalifornia

Carl H. Kuhl Lumber Company, Portland, Oregon, wholesale lumber firm has announced the aPPointment of Frieder Brothers of Los Angeles as its Southern California representative.

Robert S. (Bob) Osgood, manager of the Lumber Division for Frieder Brothers at Los Angeles, has been associated with the lumber business in Southern Califomia for a long period. He took over his present position on JanuarY l, 194I, and prior to that had been sales manager for Cadwallader-Gibson Co., Inc', at Los Angeles for eight years, sales manager of the Wash' ington Veneer Company for two years with headquarters in Olympia, Wash., and manager of the Wheeler Osgood Company of California at Los Angeles for nine years.

In addition to selling Northwest fo'rest products, Frieder Brothers are also engaged in a general wholesale lumber business, handling hardwoods and softwoods of all kinds'

Carl H. Kuhl Lumber Company, rail shippers of Douglas Fir, has been shipping lumber into the Cal'ifornia and Arizona territory for many years. O. L. Russum of San Francisco is their Northern California representative, and T. G. Decker of Phoenix represents the firm in Arizona'

CHANGES IN PERSONNEL

The {ollowing personnel changes have recently taken place in yards of Homer T. Hayward Lumber Company: J. A. Greenelsh, manager of the Salinas yard, has returned to Pacific Grove to be manager of that yard. Glenn Tucker, {ormer manager at Hollister, is now manager of the Salinas yard, and Jim Webb, formerly assistant manager of Salinas yard is now in charge at Hollister.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA VISITOR

I{oward Turrentine, Tarr McComb & Ware Commercial Co., Kingman, Arizona, has been visiting in Southern California. He spent a few days in San Diego with his brother, Judge L. N. Turrentine, and his son, George, who is in the Navy. He also called on some of his lumbermen friends in Los Angeles.

San Francisco, Feb. L7.-Critical materials must not be used for highways or highway repairs when less scarce materials can be substituted, it was explained today by Andrew L. Kerr, manager of Priorities Field Service here.

Mr. Kerr declared an interpretation of Preference Rating Order P-100 points out that highway departments which apply preference ratings under the terms of the order are subject to the general provision that scarce materials must be eliminated by change of design or substituted for whenever practicable.

Highway departments in sotne states have been applying preference ratings under the Repair and lVlaintenance order to obtain such items as metal culverts, metal road signs, metal rope or cable, metal guard rails, etc., when terra cotta, cement or wood could be used. The interpretation explains that application of preference ratings in such cases constitutes a violation of the terms of the order, and that preference ratings may not be applied under any circumstances to deliveries of rubber or burlap for highway maintenance, repair or operation.

New Data Sheet on Packaging and Display

San Francisco, California, January 30, Lg42-"Packaging and Display," a new, illustrated Data Sheet issued by the California Redwood Association, lists the outstanding qualities of Redwood which make it a natural as a substitute for packaging and display materials now falling under wartime restrictions. No stranger in the container field, Redwood's popularity ranges from standard cigar boxes to elaborate novelty packages.

The sheet features the favorable manufacturing characteristics of the wood, namely, workability, light weight and strength, gluing and variety of finishes; it highlights ,the romantic background which gives the Redwood package a high-interest value to buyers. Counter and back-bar displays are pictured.

Copies of the circular may be obtained, without obligation, by writing to the California Redwood Association, 405 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, California.

$60,000 LOSS IN STOCKTON FIRE

Fire destroyed part of the plant and equipment of Electric Planing Mill, Stockton, February 13. The loss was estimated to be close to $60,000. Eight firemen were injured in the lvork of getting the flames under control.

The plant has been working on a nurnber of orders for rnilitary and naval projects.

Equipment damaged included two trucks, a lumber carrier and two resaws.

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WHEN THE WAR WILL END

Absolute knowledge have I none

But my aunt's washerwoman's sister's son

Heard a policeman on his beat

Say to a laborer on the street

That he had a letter just last week

(Written in Latin, or was it Greek?)

From a Chinese coolie in Timbuctoo

Who said the nigge,rs in Cuba knew

Of a colored man in a Texas town

Who got it straight from a circus clown

That a man in Alaska heard ths nswt

From a gang of South American Jews

About somebody in Borneo

Who heard ofa man who claimed to know

Ofa swell society female rake

Whose mother-in-law will undertake

To prove that her seventh husband's niece

Has stated ina printed piece

That she has a son who has a friend

Who knows when the war is going to end.

CargoLumberDeliveries to California

Shipments of lumber by water from the Pacific Northwest to California ports totaled only 12,446,0ffi feet in January as compared with 93,697,7n feet in Janaary, 1941. Only four boats were in operation in January.

Deliveries to Los Angeles totaled 12,108,000 feet and to Hueneme, Calif., 338,000 feet.

INCENDIARY FIRE AT SACRAMENTO

Fire oI incendiary origin caused damage estimated at $75,000 in the main yard of Capital Lumber Company, Sacramento, February 17. The first was apparently started in three different places.

A suspected firebug, James Conklin, who was arres,ted February 18 in Sacramento, admitted that he started this fire and three others the previous night. He was caught when attempting to start a fifth fire.

Bruce Clarlc

Bruce Clark, 47, vice-president of Elliott Bay Mill Co., "Seattle, and leading figu,re in the Douglas Fir plywood industry, died at his home in Seattle, February 7.

He b,egan manufacturing veneers in the eastern and southern states as a young man, and came 'West in 1919 to build plywood plants at Weed, Taco.ma and Everett. He became associated with Ellio'tt Bay Mill Co. in 1929 as vice-president and general sales manager.

Surviving are his widow, a son and daughter, and his mother.

Viva G. Thomas

Viva G. Thomas passed away at her home in Glendale, Sunday, February 22, following a short illness. She had been with Lounsberry & Harris at Los Angeles for many yeafs.

She is survived by three brothers, Kirk, Burdette and l'aul Wirick, all of whom are associated u'ith Lounsberry & Harris; and five sisters, Edna York, Martha Harris, Gladys Flint, Marie Ybarra and Bernice Tunnison. Funeral services we're held Wednesday afternoon. Februarv 25.

BACK FROM EASTERN TRIP

Don F. White, assistant manager of White Brothers, San Francisco, and W. T. (Bill) Meyer, one of the company's executives, returned February 24 f.rom an extended business trip to the eastern and southern states, going as far east as Washington, D. C.

They called on a large number of hardwood mills in the South and covered a total of 11,000 miles in 33 days. , All the mills they visited were busy on orders mainly for war or defense purposes.

FIRE DESTROYS LUMBER YARD

Fire destroyed the Keller Lumber Company's plant and offices at Bakersfield early Sunday morning, February 8. The yard was owned by George Keller, who also operated a sheet metal works adjoining the lumber yard. The sheet me,tal plant, an electric shop and three trucks were also destroyed. The loss was estimated at $50,000.

Modernization TriplesValue

round trip between home and place of employment more of an excursion than a time-using ordeal. Bus service made shopping trips and going to school easy and simple for the family.

"With sharp restrictions on civilian transportation in effect, old dwellings near industrial plants, stores and schools are again attractive. I\fost of them can be modernized and repaired without undue use of critical metals. When a majority of the dwellings in an old residential neighborhood are renewed the values of the rvhole district will rise. In such cases housing rehabilitation programs which have been planned as post-war projects may get going right now."

A "Home Remaking" booklet will be mailed free upotl postcard request to Northern California Homes Foundation, 1833 Broadway, Fresno, Calif., and Southern California Homes Foundation, 1348 "E" Street, San Diego, Calif.

\(/illiam M. Gunton

William M. Gunton, well-known lumberman and father of Howard M. Gunton of MacDonald & Harrington, San Francisco, passed away in Chicago on February 4.

Nowhere does lack of imagination cost more than in old house ownership. If owners of Grover Cleveland period homes, like this, could shut their eyes and visualize the attractive, modern cottage that could be created from such an old homestead, there would be less value lost in real cstate depreciation and money spent on wrecking operations.

Tte complete transformation of this old house was accomPlished through the use of morc imagination than money. On an average, a dollar spent on modernization jobs like this can represent three dollars earned in increased real estate vatue. ManY old homes can be instantly improved merely by changing t'dated" lines and by replacing old-fashioned millwork.

War necessities which are now enforcing reduction o{ travel may prove to be a blessing in disguise, Northern and .Southern California Homes Foundations hope, in an outline .of opportunities for "home remaking" in older residential neighborhoods of cities and towns.

"Even in small centers of population districts in which iromes u'ere first built have lost value in most cases because of the rise of industries nearby," Bernard B. Barber and .Orrie W. Hamilton, Foundation Chairmen, point out. "Seekers for new homes joined in the modern movement to the .country, where acreage might be had instead of lots.. Nerv highways and low-cost automobiles rnade the longer daily

Mr. Gunton was born in Michigan 8O years ago. He was in the retail lumber business in Chicago for many years and in 1898 also went into the sawmill business in Rochelle, La. IIe came to the Pacific Coast in 1900 and engaged in the wholesale lumber business, specializing in buying West Coast Pines and shipping to eastern markets.

In July, 1906, three months after the San Francisco {ire, he opened a retail yard at Beach and Powell Streets, San Francisco. He closed out this yard in 1910 and returned to Chicago, where he entered the building busi' ness. He retired some years ago.

He is also survived by two other sons, Perley E. Gunton of Chicago and Raymond W. Gunton of Evanston, Ill., and three grandchildren, Emily and Harriette Gunton of Oakland, and Charlotte Fenucane of Tennessee.

LOS ANGELES FHA OFFICES MOVED

Southern California district offices of the FHA have been moved from the Federal building to the Bendix building, 1206 South Maple avenue, lvhere larger quarters have been secured.

Protection Fences Can be Built of Wood

Ten Years Ago Today

From Februuary 1,1939 lssue t'Er v. 4 u4'J 4YEr45s vr v's

Industrial plants, many of which are engaged in defense production, are asking the War Production Board for priorities on a daily average of one hundred tons or more of zinc-

Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Arizona ' coated steel for the construction of protective fences' Lumber & Timber co. of Flagstaff, Arizona, the officers, Priority request blanks, covering a critical material, re- r:_- r-

quire applicants to indicate possible substitute *aterial"s. *::j::'::.11j^1-:.".1:n-"^:Tl]?::"Tu^-t#T:::t:1::' so far, most fence appricants have failed to reatize,h"l.-"

satisfactory protective barrier can be built of qveed-a ne11- r-

critical material.

Despite the admitted necessity of keeping unwanted tres- tlmes' , pasters out of industrial plants and areas, the priority auth- coos Bay Lumber co. airrr,"rrtled its Bay point plant orities have pointed out that wood can handle this job satis- '

factorily and add that a protective fence now being built_in

frontoftheWhiteHouseinWashingtonisbuiltofwood'L|-'LL1.

This condition offers abund.ant sales op,porturriti.s iJ

plant in oakland adlocal lumber merchants who are looking for opportu'itie.r

Avenue pler' to boost sales volumes which have contracted because of the decline in residential building.

rn one recent typical ,.qo"rt for a fence priority, a man-

ufacturer,. who was asking for thirteen tons of steel and

zinc to erect 3,500 feet of industrial protection, stated that:

"No substitutes are available." In the immediate vicinitl-

of this plant there were nearly one hundred lumber yards

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Incontrasttothecriticalsteelsituation,lumbermills.-.-i.-find their yards full and overflowing wiih grades an6 trlct manager ror tne weyernaeuser sales Lompany' lengths well suited to the building of protective fences. As "Moses Is Here," "n "rri"l. by Sam T. Hayward, Haythe result of large sales of certain other grades for the direct ward Lumber & Investment Co., Los Angeles, appeared needs of the Army and Navy, there is actually an over sup- in this issue. ply of material suitable for this purpose.

A wood fence may be "open'; like a steel wire fence, ,

Al Nolan, The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, barriertocasualintruders,butpermittingpassersbytolook was on a-thirty-day trip in Southern California and Ariinside. or (unlike woven wirl; it ""tr t. solid, keeping zona, conferring with their representatives and calling on . out not only wandering feet, but wandering eyes as well. As tne traoe' 'railroad men have known for years, wood has longer life

To stimulate activity ir, ,r,. ,.*odeling and repairing of . than galvanized steel, if the structure is exposed to smoke homes in their community, the santa cruz Lumber comand corrosive gases' - pany and Norton-Phelps Lumber Company, of Santa Cruz, 4"y-lence is an uncertain barrier to trespassers. No fence ,an-a ,.ri"s of advertisements in the local paper, Santa in itself is an absolute bar to intrusion, if a person really Cruz Sentinel. wants to get in. All that any fence can be counted upon to do is to keep out the casual trespassers, to notify all and A retail lumber yard was opened by the Castro Valley sundry to "keep out," and to slow down the dangerous and Lumber Company at Castro Valley. The company was determined intruder. The guards nust do the rest. organized by A. V. Lucas, who will manage the yard.

INVOCATION TO THE GREAT

Lincoln return! And Washington, and Grant, Franklin and Jefferson and John Paul Jones!

Now that the fanged and coiled assassins plant Terror and death, our very fields and stones

Cry out for you who labored, dreamed and fought To make us strong and free ! Be at our sides Knowing our country, like a raft, is caught Amid a reeling world's disastrous tides!

Faintly I see, against the grey of dawn, Their figures stand, with faces grave and stern, And high, proud, noble brows. "O sons, fight on, And we, too, fight !" Their sad eyes darkly burn; While mightier far than battleships or tanks, These guardian great are marching in our ranks!

(Stanton A. Coblentz in Neu' York Times.)

A BETTER ONE NEEDED

The numerous sawmills, particularly in the South, that many years ago got ready to quit business because their timber was gone, and are now getting ready to run indefinitely, remind us of the following story:

Jim Scott, a poverty-stricken backwoodsman, had become the father of his twelfth child. The cradle in which the child lay had served its purpose for elwen previous children, but now its rockers were so far gone there was no more rock left in them.

"Guess we gotter git a new cradle, Jim," said the wife, with plaintive sigh. "This one's about all used up."

Jim looked the dilapidated cradle over and saw that it was ready to fall apart.

"Guess yore right, Sal," he said. Here's two dollars. Next time you go to town, git one at the stor+but this time, git one that'll last."

GONE

With rue. my heart is laden, For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipt maiden, And many a lightfoot lad. By brooks too broad for leaping, The lightfoot boys are laid; The rose-lipt grrls are sleeping, In fields where roses fade.

-4. E. I{ouseman

RESIGNED TO HIS FATE

Grandpappy Morgan, a hillbilly of the Ozarks, had wandered off into the hills and when supper time came and he failed to return, young Jake was sent out to search for him and bring him in. Jake located Grandpappy standing quietly in a clump of bushes.

"Gittin' dark, Grandpap," said Jake.

"Yep," said Grandpappy.

ttSupper's ready."

ttYep.tt

"Ain't ye hungry, Grandpap?"

ttYep.tt

"Wal, ain't ye comin' home?"

ttNope.tt

"Why not?"

"Cain't."

"Why cain't ye?"

"Standin' in a b'ar trap."

BUSINESS IS FUN

Business is getting up at six to meet a customer at eight who doesn't show up until ten.

Business is pleading with a customer to be patient while you exercise the privilege of being impatient with your subordinates.

Business is scheming ways by which you can help your customers make an extra dollar in the hope that they will let you keep ten cents for yourself.

Business is driving all day to see a man who is .,in conference" when you get there.

Business is reaching for the restaurant check, and getting stuck with it nine times out of ten.

Business is getting indigestion and livcr trouble trying to entertain the trade.

Business is pretending you are prosperous when you haven't made a dime for two years.

Business is showing a prospect how a job should be done, and then have him give the order to a competitor.

Business is feeling happy about landing a big job that will probably cause you to lose your shirt.

Business is erecting barriers against salesmen who want to see you, and advising your salesmen how to get past the barriers that are erected against them.

Business is fun.

Hoo-Hoo Supreme Nine and Executive Committee Meet

At the call of Supreme Snark of the lJniverse, Don S. I{ontgomery, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, an all-day session of the Supreme Nine and the Executive Comrnittee o{ Hoo-Hoo was held at the Radisson Hotel in Minneapolis, Monday, January 19. Present for the Supreme Nine were: Snark Don S. Montgotnery, Milwaukee, Wis.; Senior HooHoo HalR. Dixon, Spokane, Wash.; Junior Hoo-Hoo Martin J. McDonald, Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada; Custocatian Ray E. Saberson, St. Paul, Minn.; Arcanoper Charlcs R. Black, Corning, Arkansas.

For the Executive Committee: President Sam L. Boyd, Vice-President T. T. Jones, Secretary W. M. trVattson, all of Minneapolis, I\{innesota. Past Snark Ben F. Springer of Milwaukee, W'isconsin, Roland W. Slagle, Indianapolis, Indiana, and I. N. Tate of the \Meyerhaeuser Sales Company, St. Paul, Minnesota, presented special reports.

Plans were considered for carrying out the recommendations made at the 50th annual convention of the Order, held at Hot Springs, Ark.

Past Snark Ben F. Springer outlined proposed changes in the ritual to be submitted at the next annual. I. N. Tate suggested ways in which the Order could assist in disserninating the information being compiled by the Public Relations Committee of the American Forest Products Institute.

Roland W. Slagle, secretary of the Indiana Lumber & Builders' Supply Dealers Association, heartily endorsed Hoo-Hoo concatenations and banquets as a part of the entertainment features at Lumber Dealers' conventions.

Hal R. Dixon of Spokane, Washington, called attention

PRIVATq CAPITAL MUST DO BUILDING

Washington, Feb. 1S.-Private capital and builders have been charged by Abner H. Ferguson, Federal Housing Administrator, with the responsibility for providing a iarge part of defense housing facilities.

"Private capital and private builders must supply the new houses now needed for workers," he asserted.

to the undesirable features of the Forest Omnibus Bill introduced by Senator Bankhead and now before a committee of the Senate in Washington.

Special recognition was given to a faithful member of the Order, John F. Judd No. 94 of Longview, Texas, a member of the Order for over fifty years who has the distinction of haVing attended more annual conventions than any other member.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was selected as the city for the Annual Convention of the Order to be held September 9, ro, 1942.

Officers Elected

Ben F. Springer was elected secretary of the Order, and offices will be at 4M E. Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee. Wisconsin, after February 9, 1942,

T. M. Partridge, who has been treasurer of the Order and the Reorganization Committee the past several years, requested that he be relieved of his duties as treasurer, and W. M. Wattson was elected to that office.

Sam L. Boyd was re-elected president, and T. T. Jones, vice-president for the Hoo-Hoo year ending September 9, t942.

Past Snark Arthur A. Hood was appointed chairman of a special committee to promote Education programs, dealing particularly with the needs of the young men entering the rnarketing branches of the Forest Products Industry.

The visiting Hoo-Hoo members attended a Concatenation held by the Twin Cities Hoo-Hoo Club, in connection with the Northwestern Lumbermen's Convention, Tuesday afternoon, lanuary 20.

E,AST BAY CLUB MEETS MARCH 16

The next dinner rneeting of East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club will be held at Hotel Leamington, Oakland, on Monday evening, March 16.

Kenneth Smith, president of the California Redwood Association, and member of the Supreme Nine, will be the speaker of the evening.

lVest Coast Appoints Public Relations Ceiling Price Set for Southern Hardwood

Director for Oregon

Seattle, Washington, February 4, I942.---The West Coast Lumberman's Association has appointed Arthur W. Priaulx public relations direc' tor for Oregon, with Headquarters in Eugene, according to an Association announcement. Mr. Priaulx, widely known Oregon newspaperman and editor of the Eugene Daily News for the past three years, will extend cooperatiou of the lumber industry of western Oregon with organizations interested in forest questions, the announcement said.

The Association maintains two offices in Oregon, with H. J. Cox manager of Willamette Valley branch and Paul C. Stevens Portland manager.

"The public relations policy of the West Coast lumber industry, which Mr. Priaulx will carry on in Oregon, is simply to bring about clearer public understanding of the industry's problems and what is beirrg done to solv,: them," the Association said. "Planned tree grow'ing on the industry's harvested forest lands, large-scale planting of seedlings on fire-denuded areas, public education on the forest-fire problem through the Keep Oregon Green and Keep Washington Green progralns, the huge and complex war mission of lumber-these are headline examples of the many vital enterprises in which the industry needs iniormed and friendly public support."

CORRECTION

The Western Pine Association advises that there was a typographical error on page 7 of the first few copies mailed out of the ceiling price schedule for Western Pine iumber. The price on f x 6" D Bevel Siding Ponderosa Pine should be $23.00, wliile the $16.50 price applies to the same size of E Siding. The ceiling price schedule appeared in our February 15 issue, but their letter did not reach us in time to make this correction before going to press.

San Francisco, Feb. 6.-fssuance of a price schedule for substantially all species and grades of southern hardwood lumber was revealed here today by Harry Camp, regional director of OPA.

The schedule becomes effective Feb. X,1942.

Prices on most items in the schedule are reduced $2 to $5 a thousand feet from current levels and tough white ash prices are cut as much as $10 per thousand feet in the thicker sizes. Maximum prices for oak lumber are substantially those prevailing today.

Maximum prices are established only for shipments of lumber which originate at a mill. Direct mill shipments pursuant to orders of less than one thousand feet are excluded from the schedule, since in most of these shipments the mill performs the function of a distributing yard.

Frank C, Schmitz

Frank C. Schmitz, a resident of Wilmington since 1903, passed away at his home on February 8. He was born December 2, 1869 in Redwing, Minnesota. Mr. Schmitz helped to build the Southrvestern Lumber Company, now the Consolidated Lumber Company, and was associated u'itlr the lumber business until he retired in 1932.

He is survived by his widow, two daughters, a son, a sister, and trvo brothers. Fu'neral services were held Tuesday afternoon, February 10.

LUMBER YARD FIRE

Fire destroyed a shed and a quantity of lumber at the plant of the Pacific Lumber & Supply Co., 123 N. Ave. 18, Los Angeles, early Saturday morning, February 21. The fire was discovered in a shed at the rear of the yard about 2:30 a.m. H. C. Wehlest, one of the owners, states the com,pany has been having trouble with vagrants who slip into the yard from nearby tracks to sleep. They have been caught smoking and he expressed the opinion the fire might have started in this manner.

CALIFORNIA VISITOR

Ray Lewis, sales manager of \'Villapa Harbor Lumber Mills, Raymond, Wash., was a recent business visitor to San Francisco and Los Angeles.

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Barto & Smith--New Wholesale Lumber Firm

Barto & Smith Lumber Co. have opened a new yard at 2301 East Nadeau Ave., Los Angeles, where they wili carry on a wholesale lumber business in hardwoods and sclftwoods.

Ralph E. Barto and Walter E. Smith are the owners. Mr. Barto has been associated with the lumber business since 1922, and located in Los Angeles since 1929. He was formerly with the W. B. Jones Lumber Co., and prior to that with Owens-Parks Lumber Co. and Patten-Blinn Lumber Co. Mr. Smith was formerly with E. K. Wood Lumber Co., but is now head of the Keystone Tool & Supply Co. at Los Angeles. Mr. Barto will manage the yard.

The yard is 200 feet in width by 273 feet in depth, and an office building and two.sheds have been built. The sheds are 2l8xT feet and l*x22 feet and will be used to store the upper grades of lumber. All the structures are painted white. The company opened for business on February 18.

DemountableHousesContracts Awarded

lVashington, Feb. 17.-The Federal Works Agency awarded contracts aggregating approximately $11,000,000 today for 3750 additional prefabricated, demountable houses for familie's of workers in war industries-

The awards included Better Built Homes and Associates, Los Angeles, Cal., $5,922,800 for 2000 units at Ogden, Utah.

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Timber-Built Highway Bridge Conserves Steel Private Constuction of Delense

Washington, February Z4.--:limber construction of highway bridges, besides releasing urgently needed metals for war pulposes, will produce sturdy structures speedily and at low cost. An especially fine demonstration of this ma1' be seen in the new Crabbe Road Bridge across the North River near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, recently opened to traffic by the county board of revenue.

The bridge, 333% feet long with a 24-loot roadway, designed for an H-15 loading, cost $43,000 including the concrete piers-or $5.36 per square foot of roadway.

Designed by Donald A. du Plantier, associate professor of structural engineering, College of Engineering, University of Alabama, for fabrication by the Teco system of engineered timber construction, it was fabricated and erected by WPA labor under the direction of Powell Baker, WPA engineer.

The approaches are supported by trestles of 1S-foot span, six on the south side and four on the north, with 12 x 12" trestle caps. The channe'l span is composed of two identical pairs of gGfoot span; half-through trusscs, 15 feet deep. End posts are €' x 14"; chords, €' x lV' ; diagonals, €' x 8", and verticals, 8" x 10" with the ten-inch dimension placed transverse to the bridge axis to stiffen the top chord for halithrough construction. Joints are connected by Teco fourinch shear plates and split rings, flat spiked grids and single curved spiked grids. Each main truss joint has lour /s" steel gusset plates, two outer and two inner.

Floor trusses have U' x 17' chords, 6" x U'verticals, and 2" x lZ' diagonals in pairs. Lateral bracing is of the "K" type with 3" x E' timbers and steel gussets welded to the main gussets.

Stringers are €' x 16',lS-foot span, placed 30 inches on centers. Toenailed to the 4" x 10" subflooring is 7t x 2" laminated gum, surface flooring.

All timber was creosoted. In the piling, a lGpound fullcell treatment was employed and, for the other wood, an eight-pound open cell treatment.

In designing the bridge, Prof. du Plantier took advantagc of the technical data and typical Teco designs offered to engineers by the Timber Engineering Company, Washington, D. C. He also had available the advisory services of the regional distributors of Teco Timber Connectors, Maxwell & Hitchcock, Atlanta, licensee of the Timber Engineering Company of Georgia and Alabama.

REDWOOD GO.

Housing Expanding

Private construction of war housing, u'as indicatedinTT/o of the more than $2,700,000 worth of insured mortgage business transacted during the week ending February 13, by FHA's Southern California District office, it was reported by Wilson G. Bingham, Southern California District Director, Federal Housing Administration.

678 applications representing mortgages amounting tcr $2,707,000 were received during the week, included in which rvere 523 cases for approximately two rnillion dollars and totaling 547 individual dwelling units, under Title VI the defense housing section of the National Housing Act.

The 678 applications represented the second largest week since the last week in September; the larger weekly volume occurring during the week ending January 30 wherr 1.,021 cases for $3,714,000 were received.

"This gratifying volume is an indication," said I\Ir. Binglram "that builders, through private capital, are accepting the challenge to provide the ever expanding need for housing of defense workers. A total of 2,000 dwelling units have actually started construction since the first of this vear, not including the San Diego District, and with the increase in applications for insurance of new construction mortgages it is expected that this volume will be stepped up considerably."

"Changes in FHA regulations and procedures which were designed to encourage this expansion became effective on January 15," said Mr. Bingham, "in response to the urgent need for quick action in war housing."

BUYS HALF INTEREST IN PLYWOOD CONCERN

W. J. (Nick) Nicholson, who has been associated with California Plywoods, Inc., Oakland, for the past several years, has purchased the interest of L. B. Krohn in the business. He is president of the corporation and Leo J. Fleitz is vice-president.

ATTEND SALES CONFERENCE

W. G. Kahman, district sales manager of Shevlin Pine Sales Co., San Francisco, and Gerald Wetzel, resident sales manager at McCloud, Calif.,left San Francisco February 20 to attend a sales conference at Chicago.

tlil lunhlr trcm o litile nilr"

On the Job

I was filled with deep depression At the advent of the year, And among my mixed emotions 'Was an element of fear, For the Japs were on the West Coast And the Nazis on the East So as I thought things over, My timidity increased.

Then the firm earth fairly trembled Neath a sturdy, thundering tread, I thought the Japs were coming, So I covered up my head; But a booming voice cried, "Hey man, Don't you be scairt of me, I'm your good old friend, Paul Bunyan, Poke your head out, look and see."

Sure enough, there stood Paul Bunyan, Checkered shirt and s,traight, stiff beard, And he said, "f'm on the job mam, Ther's no cause to be afeard;"

"Why, you're just a myth, "I told him, "There is nothing you can do;"

"Don't you be so sure," he chuckled, "I kin win this war fer you."

"No, I sure ain't just a myth, mam, f'm the genius of the land, Clothed in homespun Yankee whimsy, Moved by rvill power, pep and sand. Ain't no obstacles, I side step, Ain't no job that I cain't do, ff you'Il just catch my spirit, We kin see this fracas through."

"Cradled in the bay of Fundy, Reared where nature fights our kind, Fellin' trees and breakin' log jams fs more pleasin' to my mind; But this job that we're now in for, Calls for blows and knocks and raps, For we're out to get the cuticle Of Hitler's Aryan Japs,."

A. Merriam Conner.

Details of Rationing of Retreaded Tires Announced

San Francisco, Feb. 20.---To clear up any misunderstanding as to the status of the rationing plan for retreaded and recapped tires, Ifarry Camp, regional director, today restated the facts as followp:

The rationing plan for retreaded and recapped tires went into effect at midnight, February 18,1942.

No retreading or recapping work can be delivered after that date and until retread certificates are issued by local rationing boards.

No sales or deliveries of retreaded or recapped tireS can be made after that date and until retread certificates are is'sued by local rationing boards.

On and after February 19 and until March 1, no camelback can be consumed in retreading or recapping of a passenger type tire and a sp'ecial provision is included in the plan to prevent the use of truck tire camelback for this purpose.

Local boards will begin to issue retread purchase certificates on February 23 to operators of trucks, buses, and other heavy vehicles on list A of the eligibility classifications.

No retread certificates will be issued for passenger car retreads until the production of passenger car camelback is authorized by the War Production Board. None has been authorized for February and very likely none will be authorized for March.

No retread certificates for trucks on list B of the eligibil- ity classifications will be issued until March 25.

Natural Gas UseRestricted :n 17 States

Washington, Feb. 16-The War Production Board. reporting present or threatened shortages of natural gas in various sections, has acted to restrict increases in gas consumption in 17 states, including California, and the District of Columbia.

In the 17 states immediately affected, gas companies are prohibited from delivering gas for heating new homes, stores, factories, or other buildings unless the heating equipmtnt has been installed prior to March I or the equipment was specified in the construction contract and the building foundation was completed before that date.

The restrictions apply solely to gas heating equipment and do not affect cooking stoves or refrigerators.

Big Lumber Haul

In the forests ol Arizona, hauling, like everything else, is done in a big way. On each of the trailers shown here is a 60-ton load of lumber. Each of these loads has 15,000 feet of logs.

These big Fruehauf trailers are busy day-in and day-out in one of the .large lumber operations in the United

Rounds Trading Co. Succeeded by Kilpatrick a Co.

The Rounds Trading Company, with head offices in San Francisco, has been succeeded by Kilpatrick & Company, a limited partnership, with Ralph M. Rounds and F. C. Kilpatrick retaining the same interest as in the Rounds Trading Company.

F. C. Kilpatrick is general manager of Rockport Redwood Company and Kilpatrick & Company.

A. E. Wolff is manager of Kilpatrick & Company. F.

A. "Pete" Toste is Southern California sales manager rvith offices at l24O Blinn Avenue, Wilmington.

States. Southwest Lumber Mills produces from 50,000,000 to 60,000,000 feet per year. The headquarters of Southwest Lumber Mills is in McNary, Arizona, a town of about 3,000 people, which was named in honor of Southwest's president, James G. McNary. Mr. McNary is noted for his constructive work in the lumber industry particularly dealing with conservation and scientific cutting of timber.

Bakergfield DefenseHousing Approved

San Francisco, Feb. 21.-O, W. Campbell, Associate Coordinator of Defense Housing, today announced construction of 110 permanent housing units at Bakersfield, Cal.. has been approved. The units are designed for enlisted lrersonnel and civilian employees rvith incomes ranging between $900 and $2100.

LONG BEACH YARD MOVES TO NEW LOCATION

An item in the February 15 issue stated that the Rossrnan Mill & Lumber Company had moved its Long Beach yard to 6980 Cherry Avenue, Hynes. 'Ihis should have read 6960 Cherry Avenue, Long Beach.

National Foregts Report Increascd Recreational Use

San Francisco, Feb. 2l.-Mountain vacationists made 4,710,W recreation visits to the 18 national forests of the California Region last year, the U. S. Forest Service announced today in its annual recreation report to the Department of Agriculture.

An additional 6,745,ffi0 visitors were listed as "passing through" on forest roads and highways. The total number of forest visits represented an increase of 12 per cent over the preceding year.

Regional Forester S. B. Show's public use inventory of the national forest recreational resources in California included 1,213,000 sightseers; 84O,00O winter sport enthusiasts; 521,000 fishermen; 366,000 campers; 230,000 hunters, and 176,000 hikers and horsemen. Their average length oi stay was two and one-tralf days.

"I anticipate," Regional Forester Show said, "that national forest recreational use may be heavy again this year. Our people, particularly defense workers, are entitled to and really need healthful outdoor recreation now more than ever before.

"Forest Rangers will do everything possible to help provide the public with forest outings unl,ess, as a war emergency measure,.we are forced to close a few timber and watershed areas to recreational use because of serious fire danger or outbreaks of man-caused forest fires."

Home Loans Set High Mark in 1941

Washington, Feb. 2|.-Nearly $70O,000,000 was advanced by member savings and loan associations of the Federal Home Loan Bank System for construction and purchase of homes in defense areas during 1941, according to a survey published in the current issue of the Federal I{ome Loan Bank Review.

These associations reported loans for all purposes in de. fense areas totaling $900,000,000. New construction loans aggregated $311,000,000, while an additional 9370,000,000 was advanced for home purchases.

For the second consecutive year, the Review said, nerv mortgage lending by all savings atrd loan associations in the United States exceeded $1,000,000,000, reaching a peak of $1,378,000,000 for 1941. This was the highest volume in L2years and was an increase of 15 per cent over 1940.

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YOU INOW TTIAT GRADING IN ANY PABTICT'LIN GNAD.E OF II'IUBER CAN VARY AS MUCH AS $IO.OO A ITIOUSAIID FEET.

TTIAT'S WHY OI'N GRADES AT TIIE PNTCE ABE YOUB BHIT BTIY. PROOF? ASK OIIB CUSTOMERSi.

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Being stock iteurs, these mcrntels sell at cr nucb urore reqsoncrble price thcrr custom-built mcntels. Sold through decrlers only.

No investment is more likely to pcy grreater dividends thqn qn crttrqctive, well-plcrnned home.

The wide siding exterior, corner window trecrtment, together with the many unique cnd convenient detqils worked intothe lloor plcn mcrke this Iittle home worthy oI your specicl qttention.

This is only one oI the many crttrcctive homes lecrtured in thenew "Distinctive Low Cost Homes" book issued by the E. M. DernierService Burecru, 3443 Fourth Avenue, Los Angeles, Californicr, whose plcrnning service is under the direct supervision oI Wm. E. Chcdwick, Registered Structurcrl Engineer.

FLooa Pzax No.3252

ia ct ccrrton cnd ia being m<rde cvailqble to help declers cmd contrqctors in Pcint, Hcrdwcre, Lumber, cnd Buitding mcrtericls to STIMULAIE THEIR 1942 SALES in tune with the 1942 Clecru Up-Pcint Up-Fix Up Ccmpcign, which will soon be sweeping the nction in Bupport ol lhe government's wcrrtime conservction program. Sold on c cooperctive priJe 5csig, !1!e^n!9d _to,cover o_nly cost cnd hcndliag, by the Nctionql Clecn Up and Paint Up Cqmpcrign Burecu, 1500 Rhode Islcnd Avenue, N. W., Wcehington, D. C,, Irom which a colored descriptive circulci cnd price liat mcy be obtcdned upon request.

LUMBERMAN'S SON IN NAVY

Alton R. Williams, who has been employed for the past vear at the Naval Air Base, Alameda, has joined the U. S. Navy as yeoman, first class, and is stationed at the Oakland Airport.

Alton is a son of Rex Williams, who was formerly rvith Eureka Sash Door & Moulding Mills, San Francisco, and who is now with the U. S. Engineers, \Mar Department. Rex says this makes three generations in military and naval service, for his father served with the Queen's Orvn Rifles in Canada in 1885.

PLYWOOD PLANT TO RESUME MARCH 20

The plyrvood department of Wheeler Osgood Sales Co,rporation, Tacoma, which was damaged by fire January 17, will resume operation March 20. The door department was not damaged in the fire.

ON EASTERN TRIP

Kenneth Smith, president of the California Redwood Association, San Francisco, is expected back March l0 from an eastern trip. He has been visiting Chicago, New York and Washington on Association business.

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California Building Permits for January

City

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Los Angeles

Burbank

Long Beach

San Diego

Santa Monica

Glendale

Santa Ana

Vernon

South Gate

Lynwood

Fresno

San Marino

Inglewood

Beverly Hills

Huntington Park

Pasadena

San Gabriel

Lumberman Champion Ski Jumper Quits Competitive Jumping

Roy Mikkelsen, national known jumping ace of the Auburn, (Calif.) Ski Club, and one of those who pioneered the sport of skiing in the United States, has quit the strentuous sport of competitive jumping, making his last appearance at the Auburn Club's tournament on February 15.

He started skiing at the age of seven in Norway in !914, entered his first competition at the age of 12 and took seventh place in the Norrvegian National junior jurnping championship at Oslo.

He came to the United States in 1925 and to Auburn in 1932 and with Wendell Robie of Auburn Lumber Co. organized the Auburn Ski Club, first winter sport club in California.

Sponsored by the Auburn club, Roy won the National jumping title in 1933 and again in 1935. He has been a member of the Untied States Olympic ski team trvice and, during his 12 years of competition in this country, won 27 club titles, 15 State championships, eight sectional titles and has been awarded prizes for the longest stahding jump no fewer than 17 times.

Although he has given up active competition he will uot give up skiing. He will coach jurnping and will run slalom and dorvnhill, spending his week-ends at the Auburn Ski Club.

Roy has been associated with the Auburn Lumber Co. since he came to Auburn.

John K. ChapelTalks to Hoo-Hoo Club

John K. Chapel, commentator of Oakland's radio station KROW, world traveler, author and lecturer, was the speaker at the dinner meeting of East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39, held at the Leamington Hotel, Oakland, February 16.

His subject was "Why We Should Be Glad to be Americans in the World Today." The talk was most interesting, particularly his deductions regarding probable events in the Far East. At the close of the address he ansrvered numerous questions.

Mr. Chapel is a nephew of Supreme General Kuropatkirr, commanding officer of the Russian army in the RussianJapanese war in IgM-|.lle came to th; United States in i918 and became a naturalized citizen.

D. Normen Cords w-as tl-re program chairman.

President Lewis A. Godard presided, and gave a brief outline of tl,e history of the club.

The meeting was the lTth Anniversary of the club's founding. Eleven past presidents attended the meeting. These were: H. Sewall Morton, G. F. (Jerry) Bonnington, Larue Woodson, Henry M. Hink,, C. I. Gilbert, Earle Johnson, Clem Fraser, Shirley Forsey, Bert Bryan, Jirn Overcast and Tom Brairson.

Tom Branson, general chairman for the 10th annual Reveille, announced this will be held at Hotel Oaklancl, Oakland, on Friday, April 24, and that the annual golf tournament will be held at Sequoyah Country Club, Oakland, on Saturday morning, April 25.

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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

POSITION WANTED

Wholesale and retail lumberman with twenty-one years' experience in Southern California-managing, purchasing and selling. Middle aged and in good health. Would like interview. Can furnish references. Address Box C-930, California Lumber Merchant' 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles.

YARD MANAGER \,[IANTS POSITION

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

POSITION WANTED AS MANAGER

Lumberman wants position as manager of retail lumber yard in West. 35 years experience. At present employed. Scanilinavian-age S9-married. Address Box C-934, California Lumber Merchant, 508 Centrd Bldg., Los Angeles.

Army Motor Base Built in Record Time Cuts Expected Cost

Washington, February 24.-The Army's new Fourth Echelon Motor Base at Conley, Ga., was speeded to completion two and a half months ahead of sch'edule, yet cost but 90 per cent of estimates, officials pointed out lvhen the structure was finished January 18.

Only about 40 per cent of the building excavation was complete when the attack c:lme on Pearl l{arbor. Three days later General l\{anager Joe B. Hutchison of the Central Contracting Company responded to Army appeals by launching a speed-up program. He put his 950 carpenters, skilled workmen and common laborers at work ten hours a day, seven days a week. Each man on the job turned in 30 hours overtime weekly.

fn a total of 46 working days, the structure was ready for occupancy by 2,000 trainees for our mechanized'Army. The building whiih was constructed by means of the Teco Connector System, occupies nearly six acres of ground'

Major L. George Horowitz, of the District Engineer's office at Atlanta, was loud in his praise.

"f am pointing out to contractors that speed and economy can be made synonomous," he declared.

"With proper organizational co-ordination, correct planning and intelligent directio'n, speed can be made to mean lesser-not greater-{osts."

Exact cost of the s,tructure, one of the largest tirnbertrussed bu,ildings in the South, is a mrilitary secret. ft was revealed, however, that the maximum weekly payroll was $42,000.

POSITION WANTED

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

WANTED

Experienced young man wanted for clerk, paint and hardware department of retail lumber yard located in Southern Nevada. Pay depends on experience and ability. Address Box C-933, California Lumber Merchant, 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles.

MAN TV\/ANTED FOR RETAIL LUMBER YARD

Wanted experienced retail lumber yard delivery truck driver. General knowledge of game and good hand writing necessary. Married preferred. Yard located in middle-sized town in desert. Address Box C-935, California Lumber Merchant, 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles.

LUMBER YARDS FOR SALE

We have a number of good yards in Southern California for sale. Twohy Lumber Co., Lumber Yard Brokers, SOl Petroleum Building, Los Angeles. Tele' phone PRospect 8746.

News, ltems

Bob Hoover, salesman for A, L. "Gus" Hoover, Los Angeles, u'as recently in San Fran'cisco on business.

Howard' M. Gunton of MacDonald & Harrington, San Francisco, attended the funeral of his father, Wm. M' Gunton, in Chicago, Feb. 7. He made the trip both ways by plane, returning to San Francisco, February 12.

H. C. McGahey, manager, San Diego Lumber Company, San Diego, was in San Francisco on a business trip around the middle of February.

Carl Bahr, manager of California Redwood Distributors, Chicago, recently visited California to call on the offices and mills of the members of his organization.

Collaborating with Army engineers in designing the Teco trusses were Maxwell & Hitchcock, licensed Atlanta lepresentatives of the Timber Engineering Company of Georgia and Alabama. A total ol 493 connector-joined rrusses, 4O ft. long, was used for the building. The roof framing alone contains 1,700,000 feet of lumber.

BI]YDB9S GI]IDD SAN B.BANOISOO

LUMBER

Arcata Rsdwod Coo 420 Marlet Stret ................YUkon 206?

Atkincon-Stutz Crcmpmy, tlz Market Strat ............,...GArieH r&0

Bmkstavcr-Mmrc Lubq Co., 525 Msket Stret..........,.,..... Exbr@L a7l5

Dant & Ru$ell. Inc.. 2l,l Front Strc.t .....,.........,.,GArFctd t292

Dolbeer & Carrcn Lunba Co., Ul8 Mcrchuts Exchmge Bldef.....SUtter 7450

Gmerston & Green, lE00 Army Stret..,.............,..Atwats 1300

Hall, Jamcr L,, l03z Mille Bldg.,............. ....Sutter 7520

Halllnu Mac&tn Co.' Ltd725 Scod Stct...,........,,.....DOuglar l'|l

Hmmond Redwod Compmy, 417 MontSoDGry Str6t........ DtOuglar 3366

Hobba Wall Lumba Co., 2351 Jcreld Avenuc...............,Mlsaion 0901

Holncr Eurdra llmber Co., ll05 Finmcial Centcr Bldg..,.....GArf,eH r92l

C. D. Johnrn Luber Corporation' 260 Calilonla StruGt,..........,...GArfrcld E5E

Carl H. Kuhl Lubq Co. O. L. Rurum, uz Markct Stre.t...Yukon l46e

LUMBER

Lamon-Bonnin gton Conpany, 16 Califomia Stret................GArfie|d 68Et

MacDonald & Hanin3ton, Ltd.. 15 California St. ..................GArfield 8393

Pacific Lmbcr Co., The l00 Bucb Stret..................,.GArfreU f f6l

Popc & Tdbot, hc, Lunbc Divitlor" a6l Mtrkst StrcGt,..,..,.....,....DOug|ar 256t

Union Lmber Co., Crocker Buildins ........,..........Sutter 6U0

Wendllng-Nathu Co., ll0 Marlct Str.ct .....,..,... .....SUttGr s:tG West Orcgon Lunber Co., 1905 Evur Avc. .,........... ...ATvrtc 56:tE

E. K. W@d Lumba Co. I Dru Stret..,................EXbmk 3Zl0

OAITLANI)

LUMBER

Ewaua Bu Co. (Pyranid Lunbcr Salcr Co.)

Paclfic Bldg. ....G!*nort t203

Gamerlton & Grun.

l@ ttb Ave. (9th Avs Plcr).....'Hlsat.2255

Gorman Lubcr Co., ,1621 Tidryatcr Avcnu...........ANdovcr ll00

Hill & Morron, lnc.,

Donlm Strct Wharl............ANdovcr l0?il

Horu Lurnbcr ConPany, -znd & Alie Stretr..'....."...Gl.ncourt 6661

Rcd Rlver Lubcr Co- ---90t Finucid C6td Bldt.......TWlnoake ill00

E. K. Wood Lub€t Co.' - Fira.*.f & Khg 9titctr...'...FRuitvd.0ll2

LUMBER

Weyerhaeurcr Sala Co.

149 Califomia Stret..............,GArfield E9i7a

HARDWOODS AND PANEI.S

White BretbGr!,Fifth ud Brunu Strects..........Suttcr 1365

SASH-DOORS_PLYWOOD

Whccler Osgood Salet Corporatim, 3045 fgth Street...................VAlencia 22ll

CREOSOTED LUMBER-POLE!}. PILTNG-TIES

Americm Lmbcr & Trcating Co., U6 Ncw Montgomcry Stret,......SrJttcr 1225

Butcr, J. H. & Co., 3ilil Montgomlry Struet..,.,......DOu3lar 3EE3

HalI, Jmer L., 1032 Mille Bldg.......................Suttcr ?52l

Vuder Laan Pilins & Irnts Co. 216 Pinc StEt .........,..........EXbroo& l9C5

PAN ET.S_DOORTSASH.-SCIIE ENS

Califomla Buildsr Supply Co.

700 6th Avenur ....Hlgatc al6

Hogu Luba Cmpuy, 2nd & Alle Str6tr,.....,..,....Gl.6ourt 6EGl

W.3tm Door & Sarh Co., 5tI & Cyprcs Str.cts..,.......TEmplcbu tlll

HARDWOODg

Whltc Brcthar, 504 Higb Strc€t..,....,....,.......ANdovcr 160l

LOS AiTGDLBS

Arcata Rcdwood Co" (J. J: Raa) 5,llo Wilshlrc Blvd........... ......WEbeter 7E2E

Anglo Califomla Lmbcr Co- -655 East Florcncc Avcnui......THomwall 3l'll

Atkinen.Stutz Comprny, 62t Pctroloun Bldg...'...........PR6pGt l34l

Bumr Lubcr Connany, 9155 Charlcvilla Blvd.. (Bcvcrly Htllr) i..,......... ;..BRadrhar 2-336t

Can & Cor L J. (W. D. Dumlng)' a3t Chanbc of Gomcrcr Bldc. PRogpst tE43

Copcr, Tll. E. 6tl5-60E Richficld Bldc. ........'...Mutual 2r3r

Darrt & Rursell, Inc., Eli| E 50th St...........,.........,.4Dur tlol

Dolber & Carcon Lumbcr Co., 901 Fidclity B1dg.................. vAndike E?92

Hallinm Macktn Co., Ltdo

W. l|. Garland Blds. ............TRinity 36rl

Harnmond Redwmd Comp6y, 2lll0 So. Almcda SL .....,....PRdpcct l:lr

Hobbc Wall Lmbar Co, @5 Rryu Bldc...,....,...,, .......TRinity t0EE

Holmcr Eurcka Lmber Co..

7U-712 Architectr Bldg.....,..,....Mutud 9Uf

Hmvcr, A. L., 5225 Wlkhlrc 81vd....................YOrk 1106

C. D. Jobnm Lumbcr Qorporatio, 616 Pctrolcu Bldg.............,.PRorpcct 1165

Lawrcne-Phllipr Lumber Co..

613 Patrclom Bldg................PRdpcct Er74

MacDonald & HarinStoD, Ltd.

PGtrolcun Building .......,.,.....PRcpcct 3f Zz

Paclfic Lmbcr Go., Thc, 5325 Wl|rblrc Blvd. ....,.............YOrk ll6t

Patten Blinn Lumbc Co.,

52r E. sth Strut..................VAndikc z32l

LUMBER

Popc & Talbot, Inc. Lunbs Dlvldon 7ll W. Olymplc Blvd...........PRdpGct tzrt

Red Rivcr Lubcr Co., 702 E. Slaurcn.. .CEntury 290?l

l03l S. Brcadway.................PRo!p6t 03U

Rcitz Co., E. L.. 3,:|3 Pctrclcum Bldg...............PRorpcct 23dl

Rorboro Lunbcr Coo

_ r{ 90. qrrrsc Driv..............lllYonine, tl?l

Su Pedro Lumbcr Co..

l51E S. Central Avc......,......Rlchnond fUl

Smta Fc Lumbcr Co., 3ll Finucial Coter Bldg.....,..VAndik. {4?f

Schafs Bro Lmba & Shlnsb Co.,

_ rr7 W 9th Strt....................TRjn|ty az?l

Shevlin Pinc Saler Co., 330 Pctrclem Bldg....,..........PRospct 0615

Sudden & Christcngon. tiil0 Board of Tradc Bldg.... ..TRinity EE44

Tacoma Lunber Saler,

_- t37 Petrcleum Bld3. .PRorpcct fflt

Unlon Lumber Co..

9A W. M. Garlud Bldg. .,. ....TRinity 22t2

Wodling-Nathu Co..

5225 Wihhirc Blvd..,............,....YOrk ll6E

l test Orcgon Lumbcr Co427 Petrclru B|dg............-.Rlchmond 0ZEr

lV. 1lr. Wllklnn, 3rt W. 9th Stret................,.TR|nity 16il3

E. K. W@d Lumbcr Co., 4701 Smta Fe Avcnuc............JEfrcrcon 3Ul

Wcycrhaeurcr Saler Go., 920 W. M. Garlmd Btdg.........Mlchlss fits{

CREOSOTED LUMB ER-POLEII-PTLINCTIES

Amcricu Lumbcr & Truating Co., lcll S. Brcadway...........,.....PRocpcct {363

Butcr, J. H. & Co.. 601 Wcst sth Straf..............Mlchftar 629l

HARDW(X)DS

Ancricu Hardwod Cor l90f E; lith Stre.t .......,,.......PRDrp..n a85

Cadwalladcr-Gibron Co. Inc352E E Olynpic Blvd.............ANs.lu. lll6l

Stuton, E. J. & Son, Z05a E.t 3Eth Strcct .......,.,.,CEntrrr 2l,Zll Wcstcm Hardwmd Lumbcr Co., 20f4 E. 15th Stret...............PRosp.ct 6l6f

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SASH-DOORS-ruLLWORK PANEIJ AND PLYWOOD

Califomia Door Company, Thc {94t Dirtrict Blvd. ..............Klnbd| 2rlr

Kochl, Jno. \M. & Son, 652 S. Mycrs StreGt. ..,... .ANgclu tlgl

Mutual Mouldlnc & l.rrnbc Co, 93{t3 So. Hopcr Ava............LAfryctt ItZ2

Orcgon-Walhington Plywod Co., 3lt u/elt Nintb Street,. .......TRlnity {613 Paci6c Wood Prcductr Corporatior, 36|'0 Tybum Strect........,.,..,...Al-bmy Ollr

Pacific Mutual Dor Co., l6lXl E. Warhington Blvd.,..,...PRorpsct 9523 Ream Company, Geo. E.. 235 S. Alamcda Str.!t............Mlchlgan ftll Red Rlvcr Lmbcr Co., 702 E. Slaumn.. .CEntury 2917t Supon Co. (Paradoa). 7{5 So. Reynond Avo.........PYruld l-2ltl West Coart Scren Co., rU5 E. 63rd StEt................ADur lllOt Whelq Oegood Sales Corporation, 922 S. Flwa Str6t............,..VAndito 632f