The California Lumber Merchant - March 1943

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

W.e predict that retail lumber dealers will feel the benefit of this trend immediately on the return to normal business.

Awcrded by the Mcritime Commission lor Meritorious l,llcr Production.

Get This Nu,g NWfutg Nout!

This I[ar Savings Flag which fies today over companies, large and small, all across the land means btsiness. It mgans, fust, tfut to% of the company's gross pay roll is beiog invested inS/ar Bonds by the workers voluntarily.

It also means that the employees of all these companies are doing their part for Victory by helping to buy the guns, ta"ks, and plaoes that America and her a'llies masthave to wio.

It means that billioos of dollars are being diverted from "bidding" for the coostantly shrinkiog stock of goods available, thus putting a brake on inflatioo. And it means that billions of dollars will be held in readine3s for post-war readjustment

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Think what loy'a of the oational income, saved inITar Bonds now, mooth afterrnonth, cao buy when the war eods!

For Victory today .. aod prospedty ,omormu4 keep the'$Var Bond Pay-roll Savings pfu111elling io yoar firm. Get that flag Aying now! Your State \Var Savings Staff Administrator will gladly explain bow you may do so.

If your firm has not already installed the Payroll Savings Plan, nout is tbe time to do s. For full details, plus samples of result-gening literature and promotional help+ write or wire: S7'ar Saviogs Stafi Section R Treasury Department 7o9 Twelfth Street NV., $fashingoo, D. C.

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W. T. BI.ACT

THE CALIFOR}.IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

How lrumber Irooks

Seattle, Washington, February 11, 1943-The weekly average of West Coast lumber production in January (4 weeks) was 105,869,000 board feet, or 54.8 per cent of estimated capacity, according to the West Coast Lumbermen's Association in its m,onthly survey of the industry. Orders averaged 118,276,WO board feet; shipments, 116,664,000.

Weekly averages for December were: Production, Lh,852,000 board feet (79.6 per cent of the 1939-1942 average) ; orders, 133,922,W ; shipments, 144,O28,W.

4 weeks ol 1943, cumulative production 423,474,m board feet ; 4 weeks, 1942-468,104,000 ; 4 weeks, l94t-7 67,U7,M.

Orders for 4 weeks ol 1943 break down as follows: rail, 375,880,000 board feet; domestic cargo, 31,452,ffi0; export, 4,967,Offi ; local, 60,803,000.

The industry's unfilled order file stood at 1,063,215,000 board feet at the end of January; gross stocks, at 473,990,0m.

The outstanding fact on the industry in January was its struggle to recover production forced down by midwinter storms. One-half of the West Coast mills were either idle because of log shortages and adverse weather or were able to operate only on a less than normal basis. January produ,ction fell 12 per cent below December's, and below fall production by about 35 per cent.

The industry expects another two months before the nor-

mal scale of production can be restored, the governing factor being the short supply of logs.

Meantime, the war demand for West Coast lumber remains great. The industry has a very stiff job ahead, in keeping ship timbers, ponton stock, airplane lumber and other special items, grades and sizes of lumber for war, moving during the midwinter obstacles to production.

The Western Pine Association

February 13, 9I mills reporting, 172,000 feet, shipments 57,752,W 43,322,NO feet. Orders on hand at totaled 367,597,N0 feet.

The Southern Pine Association February 13, 110 mills reporting, 521,000 feet, shipments 28,357,0W 25,7o9,0ffi feet. Orders on hand at totaled 158,054,000 feet.

for the week ended gave orders as 63,feet, and production the end of the week

for the week ended gave orders as 27,feet, and production the end of the week

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended February 6 reported orders as 80,846,000 feet, shipments 89,112,000 feet, and'production 83,818,000 feet.

For the week ended February 13, orders were reported as 90,128,000 feet, shipments 97,049,000 feet, and production 82.086.000 feet.

East B.y Club Celebrates 18th Anniyersary

East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 celebrated its 18th anniversary at its regular dinner meeting held at l{otel Leamington, Oakland, on Monday evening, February 15.

The Club 'vvas organized February LB, L925. Hugh W. Hogan was its first president. Four former presidents have passed away. Of the remaining 14 three were unable to be present, and 1l sat at the head table. The eleven past presidents who attended were: Clem Fraser, Hogan Lumber Co., Oakland; H. Sewall Morton, Hill & Morton, Inc., Oakland; B. E. Bryan, Strable Hardwo,od Co., Oakland; L. J. Woodson, Wheeler Osgood Sales Corp., San Francisco; Earle Johnson, 'Watsonville Lumber Co., Watsonville; G. F. Bonnington, Lamon-Bonnington Co., San Francisco; Miland R. Grant, Western Door & Sash Co., Oakland; S. C. Forsey, Eureka Mill & Lumber Co., Oakland; Jas B. Overcast, Strable Hardwood Co., Oakland; Tom T. Branson, Melrose Lumber & Supply Co., Oakland, and Lewis A. Godard, Hobbs Wall Lumber Co.. San Francisco.

In the absence of President George Clayberg and VicePresident D. Normen Cords, Lewis Godard presided.

Tom Hogan III, program chairman for the evening, introduced the speaker, D. V. Daniels, retired lieutenant of the U. S. Submarine Service. His talk on submarines was of particular interest, and the innumerable questions

asked by the big audience were thoroughly and satisfactorily answered by the speaker, whose submarine service totaled more than seven years.

Replacing an entertainment feature Mr. Godard asked H. Sewall Morton to put on a quiz of the past presidents as to what they didn't do during their term of office. Mr. Morton's questions and the answers received created a lot of amusement.

Announcement was made that the Annual Reveille will be held on Friday evening, May 7, at Hotel Leamington, Oakland. The annual golf tournament will be held on Saturday morning, May 8. Lewis A. Godard, is general chairman for the 1943 Reveille.

Following a brief talk by Mr. Godard on the history of Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39, Carl R. Moore, who served the Club as secretary-treasurer for 14 years, and whose work over that long period contributed in great measure to its success, was given a big hand.

JOHN McBRIDE IN MARINE CORPS

John McBride, son of E. S. McBride, Davis Lumber Co., Davis, Calif., is a candidate for officers training school in the U. S. Marine Corps. He is now at Paris Island, South Carolina, undergoing preliminary training.

While our every effort today is directed toward furthering the Wan Program, Te wish our dealer friends to know that ine are aware of their many problems, and it is our earnest desire to be of service to them to the best of our ability.

The flying rumors gathered as they rolled, Scare any tale was sooner heard than told; And all who told it, added something new, And all who heard it, made enlargements, too.

(Moral: Cut out the loose talk.)

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What a transient thing is fame ! For the past few years the world has been marveling at the genius of Hitler, while cursing him for his crimes. Today those same folks are needling him for his blunders. What was it the sage said? That man is a peacock today and a feather duster tomorro$r. So let it be with Adolph Soon the day will corne when not even the Germans will do him honor.

They say he may be dead. It is not difficult to imagine that when the debacle at Stalingrad grew into reality, one day he looked up from his brooding seat to discover that he was surrounded by a ring of beetle-browed Prussians. Those Prussians are proud folks. They have always been. It is from them that the philosophy of the German Master Race sprung. Those iron men must have squirmed unhappity for years past under the disdainful thumb of the little fat-behinded painter from the wrong side of the railroad tracks. So, why shouldn't they-when Stalingrad felljust walk in and take charge?

IfI just had to guess right now, I'd guess that that is what has happened. What they would or did or will do with him, is an open race that anyone can make his own private bet on. We've all heard and read countless suggestions for punishing Hitler if we ever get our hands on him. The best one I've heard suggested giving him twenty years in the electric chair. To turn him and his gang over to the Poles, and Benito and his crew over to the Ethiopians, is a sentence frequently uttered. And not bad, either.

The recent score against Hitler, kept in baseball fashion, would read like this right now: "Many runs; no blitz; many errors."

And the official theme song of his Russian armies is: "Oh, I have sighed to rest me." And the Russians join in by singing the second line of the same chorus which goes: "Deep in the silent grave."

Shortly after Hitler started his war for world conquest he was making one of his excited speeches, and cried aloud:

"We shall fight until Germany dominates the whole world." And a German mother in the great audience.that heard him' screamed out: t'With whose sons?" She knows now.

Now shoes are rationed. They took away our tires and put us on foot, and now they take away our shoes and put us on Let us hope they don't take away our pants. Newspapers generally reported genuine panic among the women when shoe rationing was announced. Yet I'll bet that rnost of those who worried about the shortage of shoes have been wearing shoes without toes for years past. So they started the shortage.

How would this be for the slogan of the shoe rationers: ..BILLIONS FOR DEFENSE BUT ONLY THREE PAIRS FOR DE FEET? Lousy, eh?

As a matter of fact no one in his good senses would be hurt by a limit of three pairs of shoes a year, except growing kids. I know boys who make a good, stout pair of kicks look like a last year's bird's nest every month. But grown folks? Nix.

Personally, if the Government tried to make me buy three pairs of shoes a year I'd get out some sort of an injunction. I don't average one pair of new shoes a year. Send for my confidential booklet on how to buy few shoes but be well shod all the time.

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Which reminds me that I've been tempted for some time past to offer my readers my confidential booklet on how to make automobile tires wear longer. One of the big tire companies is running two. page ads in the big consumer magazines showing a picture of a tire that has gone 43,000 miles. The ad says people can hardly believe it has gone that far. Yet the picture shows all the non-skid worn off; the tire is worn entirely smootll I can show you tires that have gone a lot farther than that and are at least one hundred per cent better than the tire shown in this ad. Wonder what they'll give me for my secret. Maybe I'll ask them. Because any good driver, barring unavoidable accidents, can make a set of stock tires run from fifty to seventy thousand.miles+afely. And this paragraPh isn't kidding.

Get back to the subject of shoe rationing. It was widely (Continued on Page 8)

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(Continued from Page 6) reported in the press that the news leaked out from many sources, and caused many t'runs" on shoe stores that were remindful of some of those old timey bank runs. One of the papers says that Mayor LaGuardia, of New York, tipped off many of his friends to what was going to happen. He didn't say shoes. He just told them it would not be food, but for them not to do any unnecessary walking They caught on.

Speaking of shoes, Rookie Buck Jones said he had always understood that an army travels on its stomach, but as far as he is concerned that's all baloney because that isn't where his blisters are.

And speaking of baloney brings to mind the furore caused by the beautiful, stylish, and unquestionably brilliant Congresswoman, Clare Booth Luce, who, in her maiden speech in the House at Washington, referred to some of Henry Wallace's "global" thinking as "globaloney." Clare undoubtedly remembers that when Henry was Secretary of Agriculture he killed off all the little pigs in a world that was hungry, and plowed under cotton in a world that was naked, so she naturally takes a little salt with his philosophies. Whenever I read any of Henry's theories I thank God that salt isn't rationed.

Now we have a uil u"i"r" cJrr*r"r" that will authorize the Government to draft women and girls, take them from their homes, send them hither and yon, tell them where they must go, what they must do, and how they must do it. To the author of that bill I suggest an operation called "trepanning," that spreads the skull, takes the pressure off the brain and gives it room to grow.

can you remember *n;r.ti" ntr*an conductor tried to talk you into buying the entire section? When the butcher always gave you some "dog meat" with your purchase? When the gasoline station man suggested "fill her up?" When a nickle had purchasing power? *rF*

A couple waxes patriotic, and, being of proper age and health, she joins the WAACS while he joins the army. The wife gets $50 a month as a WAAC. He gets the same as a private. Her being in the service does not deprive her of a married woman's allotment of $50 a month, $22 coming from her husband's pay, the other $28 from the Government. So she gets $1OO a month, while he gets $28. At least, that's the way I understand it. Which only goes to

prove the old cynical theory that a man "3i11'1 got no chance." ***

And now the Marines are enlisting women. They have no fancy name. Not yet, at any rate. But I imagine a quick way to the hospital would be to call one of them a "Leatherneck." Wouldn't that be your guess?

Lots of great men -"r";":" il midwinter. Recently we observed the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Ben Franklin, Robert E. Lee, and Bobby Burns. What a group ! God must have been using wonderful ingredients when He constructed each of them. Abe Lincoln: the most Christ-like man who ever held a position of great temporal power. Washington: who gave to the word "patriotism" more meaning than it had ever known before. Franklin: the most p'ractical man in history, and truly great in a wide variety of fashions. Lee: one of the knightliest gentlemen ever fashioned by the hand of Providence, and one of the great soldiers of history. Burns: the poet who sang the songs of the conunon man as no other singer has ever done, and whose name and fame grows with the generations. ***

I have room here for a wonderful tribute to Lincoln that f recently came upon. A great statue of Lincoln stands in Parliament Square, London; still stands through all the bombing. During the blitz, there was much talk in England about moving the statue, or giving it some protection. It was then that a British citizen named Charles E. Elcock wrote a letter to the London Daily Telegraph, which that paper printed, that read:

"There appears to be a well-meaning agitation afoot to protect or even remove the statue of Abraham Lincoln in Parliament Square and to preserve it against possible war damage.

"I was passing the other day and looking up, saw the classic chair, and in front of it-standing erect-the gaunt figure of the great American in his ill-fitting clothes. As I thought of the magnificent generosity of our American friends---of the American nurses lost in the black waters off Iceland-my hat came off and I stood. there bareheaded, contemplating with reverence that fine representation of the indomitable Lincoln.

"Leave him alone. He wants no shelter behind sandbags. Through the storms of winter and the night-shattering bomb raids, let him stand there and take it as he always stood, upright and unafraid. Let him remain as he is, an immortal inspiration of never-faltering belief in the unconquerable spirit of free men and free women the wide world over.tt

Panel Discussions Will Be Featured at Retail Attended Portland Meeting Lumber Industry War Conference

The Retail Lumber Industry War Conference to be held by the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California at San Francisco, on March 27, will be confined to a constructive educational program, giving serious consideration to merchandise and commodities, not only for the duration, but the post-war period.

Plans are practically completed for the meeting and will include a merchandise and commodities panel. W. C. Bell, managing director of the Western Retail Lumbermen's Association, Seattle, will act as moderator, while E. P. Hoener, Western Building, Portland; James Mackie, National Lumber Manufacturers Association, San Francisco, and probably B. L. Johnson, American Builder, Seattle, will answer the many questions.

There will also be a panel on governmental regulations with competent representatives from the various agencies to answer these questions.

The questions should cover merchandise, commodities and governmental regulations, and should be submitted at once to Secretary B. B. Barber, 1833 Broadway, Fresno, Calif.

ED HEIBERGER IN ARMY

Ed Heiberger of the office staff of Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco, is now in the Army. Ed is an expert rifle shot and therefore will be very useful to llncle Sam, possibly as an instructor.

Representatives of Northern California distribution (stockpile) yards who attended the meeting held in Portland on February 8 included the following: A. J. "Gus" Russell, Lumber Distributors, Inc., Stockton; Jas. McNab, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Oakland; Millard C. White, Christenson Lumber Co., San Franciscol George Young, Friend & Terry Lumber Co., Sacramento, and George R. Kendrick, Pope & Talbot, Inc., Lumber Division, San Francisco.

Representing the Southern California distribution (stockpile) yards at the meeting were: Cliff Roberts, Benson Lumber Co., San Diego; A. J. Macmillian, Consolidated Lumber Co., Los Angeles; C. M. Cooper, W. E. Cooper Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Paul Hallingby, Hammond Lumber Company, Los Angeles; Leslie Lynch, Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., Los Angeles; A. B. McKee, Jr., San Pedro Lumber Co., Los Angeles; George McGill, Jr., of Eugene, Oregon, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles; Ed Culnan, 'Western Lumber Company, San Diego; Al Privett, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and Frank Evenson, American Products, Inc., San Diego.

THREE SONS IN THE SERVICE

George and Alexander Scrim, twin sons of Walter C. Scrim, Los Angeles hardwood importer, are at the United States Merchant Marine School at San Mateo, Calif. They were both students at Redlands lJniversity. Mr. Scrim's oldest son, Robert, is an Ensign in the Navy.

NEEDED: Skill r Management r Genius

Lumber and Food Grow Exceedingly Scqrce

Two colored boys were talking things over. One of them said: "Ifow come you is allus lookin' fo' a job an' nevah findin' one?" The second said: "Dass skill, boy, dass skill." The first one said: "An' how come you nevah works but allus gits erlong?" The second one said: "Dass management, cullud boy, dass management." And the questioner insisted : "An' how come you allus keeps you' necktie tied so good?" And the other said: "Dass gertius, boy, dass genius."

And all those three, skill, management, and genius are things the retail lumber dealer is going to need and need badly from now on and for some tirne to come. I am writing this to tell my retail friends that it looks even more that way today than it did two weeks ago when I was punching out the suggestion "Damn the torpedoes ! Go ahead !" Things have grown tighter since then; or perhaps it would be fairer to say that the tightness of the situation has become more apparent with regard to lumber.

The retail end of the business has been hoping and trusting that when the Government got through building its hundreds upon hundreds of big training camps, storage units, etc., there would be a definite falling off in the demand for lumber to help win the war. It seemed reasonable in prospect. A few weeks ago there was issned an amended M-208 that appeared to offer the lumber dealer a much brighter chance to get some lumber for his civilian trade. There was considerable optimism evidenced in the trade immediately following that announcement. Dealers everywhere got busy ordering lumber under that amendment.

But today the facts are these, and to fail to face them and state them would be an unfriendly act toward those who are vitally interested in such information: LUMBER IS SCARCER RIGHT NOW THAN IT EVER WAS BEFORE; IT IS VERY LIKELY TO BECOME STILL SCARCER BEFORE IT GETS BETTER: THE OPPORTUNITY FOR SECURING LUMBER FOR CIVILIAN BUILDING IN THE NEAR FUTURE IS VERY REMOTE.

It's bad, but the doctor said take it. I sat the other day and listened while the sales manager f was visiting talked almost steadily over the long distance phone, telling retail friends courteously-but very, very wearily-how impossible it was for him to accept an order for lumber; any kind of lumber. And between calls he turned to me and said-and this was from the heart-: "It's no fun to say NO to your friends, is it?"

A few days ago the biggest crowd of lumber manufacturers in Southern history got together in New Orleans to listen to a group of Government men tell them the lumber situation from the Government standpoint; how vital and immediate is the need; how the program of lumber needs has changed but how, instead of receding, it is increasing. And in return the mill men told the Government men their troubles and tribulations-and surely the patient Job had nothing on them-in trying to supply the Gov-

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ernment with its war needs. It was a friendly, cooperative, helpful meeting, heavily tinged with patriotic enthusiasm; and in the end all who were there pledged to their Government their utmost degree of effort to increase the production of lumber to supply the war effort.

The short of it is that the Government men declared in vast detail that the winning of the war demands more lumber than the mills of the nation are now making, leaving nothing for any outside interest. The civilian situation was not mentioned; only the needs of war. But, since the war machine needs more lumber of every kind than the mills are producing, there was nothing else to dis,cuss. And that situation, said the Government men, applies to everl' district and every spe.cies of commercial lumber throughout the land.

A Government man (a swell lumber guy who is working in the lumber division) was asked what the revised and amended M-208 was, anyway, and he said it was a hunting license; but that no game was guaranteed. Which about describes it at the present moment.

There is only one product of the tree that I know of that is plentiful and available at the present moment, and that is Oak Flooring. You can get all you want of that. Otherwise the various agents of lumber procurement for the Government and the war effort are in the market in voracious fashion for every bit of lumber of any species as fast as it falls from the saw, regardless of kind, character, grade, size, or what have you. A few months since the Government demand included very little clear, high grade lumber. Now they want it all, for scores of different purposes. They no longer build training camps, but they crate and box everything they ship, from a bullet to a tank. The word went out not long since that dimension rl'ould not be in great demand for Government use because of the completion of the big building units; yet today dimension is just as hard to get as boards. No. 3 stuff, which .ivent to the dealer pretty strongly a few months back, is now grabbetl by the war uses. The dealer is glad to get No. 4 when it is available. f can remember when they used to load No. 4 Pine rvith a pitchfork, so they probably still do. That will give you an idea.

Yes, lumber is scarcer today than ever before in history, and will get scarcer before it gets more plentiful. The production of lumber is going to be increased, quickly and considerably. The lumber industry has a drive on that will force more production. AA-1 priority will be given sawmill needs of equipment, supplies, etc., to help them along. Intelligent efforts will be made at once to improve the labor situation. I predict that within 60 days there will be a rapid increase in the production of lumber all over the country. But in the meantime, Mr. Lumber Dealer, lumber is going to be harder to get than it is now.

What can the dealer do ? Well. it looks like the farm belt dealers-and they are the ones who are suffering the most

now-have one possible chance for getting and selling lumber, and that is the farm situation. We have been hearing and reading how serious is the food situation' When they issued the ration cards the other day we found out for sure. Next to the battles in Africa and Russia, no subject is so foremost in the public mind-and the Government mind as well-right now, as the subject of food. From top to bottom the Government admits things are very, very serious. Even before you arm a soldier, you've got to feed him. And you've got to have food for the folks here at home. And we want to continue to send food to much of the rest of the world. And there are many alleged experts who are telling us in the public prints that it can't be done, and that we are running to a fall. At any rate we all know that producing more and more food this year is a most vital necessity. So we must help the farmer to produce more. The Government is not directly interested in assisting civilian building generally, but it is strong for helping the farmer. And the farmer needs labor, machinery, tires, gasoline, and housing. That last item is where the lumberman must help. He MUST help, and he must figure out ways and means for helping. The farmer is going in for more food, more hogs, more ,chickens, and all those things require more shelter, more housing.

It requires no gift of prophecy to predict that the seriousness of the food situation is very soon going to force the authorities to make special rules, special dispensations covering men who raise and produce food, giving them preceden,ce over others in getting the things they need. I believe it must come very soon. The air 4t this time is filled with

a demand that the farmer must be given a break----or a lot of them. So the retail lumber trade is going to take a special interest in the farmer and. his problem. Hq is probably going to be able to get some lumber to sell the farm trade. He is probably going farther than that. He is probably going to have to not only sell the farmer material to build the shelter and housing his crotris and machinery will need, but, since labor is scarce and the farmer will spend all his time in the field, the dealer will probably have to do his building{or him, or get it done. And why not? There is room for a whole chapter on this subject.

And the dealer is going to have to go substituting on an intense scale, to keep his yard open, and his business going. He is going to have to merchandise as he never did before, with less to do it with. And definite reports indicate that those dealers who are doing so are getting by, and those who are not are going by-by. Late reports from many places and districts are distinctly promising. We hear of dealers who are fairly raising hades and putting a block under it, to find things they can sell, and then sell them. Finding that the lumber supply they have been hoping for is still in the dim distance, they are just going to sell other things. ft's the road to salvation. Not a royal road, by a heck of a lot, but what does it matter, if it tides you over the emergency?

Ask yourself this question every morning early, Friend Lumber Dealer: "What can I find to sell that will substitute for what my trade needs ?" A whole lot depends on the answer.

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Age not guaranteed---Some I have told for 20 years---Some Lcss

He \(/as Naturally Enthused

It was the first payday in January, 1943, and Sam Jackson, truck driver, went up to the pay window and got his envelope. First he counted his money. There was quite a bit less than he had figured on. So he counted it again. Same result. Then he noticed the customary office slip that came with the envelope, and he studied it over. There were, it seemed, some deductions that accounted for the shortage. There was one deduction for unemployment insurance. He recalled they had been taking that out of his weekly pay for years, which was O.K. There was another for Social Security. Come to think of it, that had been go.ing on for a long time, too. But this third one was

SAN FRANCISCO VISITOR

Howard A. Libbey, general manager of Arcata Redwood Co., Arcata, Calif., recently spent a few days at the comDanv's San Francisco of;Ece.

TO THE DEATERS

We hcve been engaged lor some time in the lcrbriccrtion oI matericls lor articles thct cre directly connected with war needs. \itle cre, therelore not able to lurnish any oI the items lor which we had developed a wide mcrket-Eubqnk Ironing Boards, Cqbinets, or Mcntels.

However, we cre clso planning for the future, crnd when the time comes will announce c new cnd more extensive line of Eubcnk products.

bigger than both of the others together, and he had no recollection of having been docked any such amount before. So, hat in hand, he went back to the pay window. "Cap'n," he said to the cashier, "I craves to know sumpin. You is taken some of my pay fo' dis unemployrnent, and some mo' fo' dis Sociable Security, an' das all right. But whut in de worl'is dis othah five puhcent deduck fo'?"

The cashier said: "Why Sam, don't you know? That's the Victory Tax." Sam's form straightened up in surprise, and his eyes burned with unusual brightness. He shouted: "Glory be t'Gawd, Cap'n! DID WE WIN?"

BACK FROM L. A. TRIP

R. A. Mackin of Hallinan Mackin Co., San Francisco, recently spent several days at the company's Los Angeles office.

Hardwoods and Softwoods

WE SPECIALIZE IN ESSENTIAL WAR MATERIALS

We hqve a well rounded inventory o{ Foctory ond Better Grodes of Ponderosq crnd Sugcr Pine crrd Spruce. In Hordwoods-No. i Common and Better Grqdes of Alder, Beech, Birch, Cedor, Gum, Tobcrsco Mohogany, Mognolic,

War Housing Controls Simplifted

The western building industry today was advised of clarification and simplification of requirements controlling occupancy, lease and sale of privately financed war housing to war workers, by Eugene 'Weston, Jr., regional representative of the National Housing Agency.

Authority for the action was delegated to NHA by the War Production Board as a result of the joint declaration of policy on war housing made by WPB and NHA last December. The policy was implemented and made effective February 10 with the issuance by WPB of a revision of the housing application form for preference rating assistance.

In developing the new occupancy and marketing regulations, the National Housing Agency, in cooperation with WPB and the War Manpower Commission, sought to provide a fair operating basis for the builders of essential war housing and at the same time to assure that private war housing is made available to the war workers for whom it is intended, Mr. Weston said.

The new regulations apply only to private war housing built under preference rating applications filed on or after February 10. Occupancy and marketing of projects built under preference ratings applied for prior to that date will be governed by the requirements on those matters previously in force.

For projects covered by the new regulations, the following principal conditions are established:

l. For the duration of the war emergency, the housing must be reserved for rental occupancy by indispensable inmigrant war workers as defined by the National Housing Agency on November 27. These standards of occupancy also apply if the original owner sells or transfers such housing, as well as to re-occupancy of the quarters.

2. Alter four months occupancy, the housing may be made available.to the eligible war worker occupants by sale or under the lease option plan, provided that the option applies only to the tenant, that the total monthly payment shall not exceed a fair rental for com.parable quarters, that the purchase price shall be a fair market price in no event exceeding $6,000, and that the option to purchase may not be exercised prior to four months occupancy and shall continue in effect for at least 30 months. The ourchaser also must abide by the same occupancy and marketing provisions which applied to the original owner.

3. The limitations upon sale do not apply to transfers of ownership other than for occupan.y pu"for.r, provided that the new owner ,certifies that he will be subject to the same occupancy and marketing requirements as the original ownef.

4. The occupancy and marketing requirements do not continue subsequent to an involuntary transfer, such as a mortgage foreclosure.

NEW YARD MANAGER

Leon White has been appointed manager of the E. K. Wood Lumber Company yard at Pasadena. He was formerly assistant manag'er at the Long Beach yard. He succeeds Harvey Nelson who has gone with Barto & Smith Lumber Co. of Huntington Park.

WAR T IME SHIPMENTS

The lumber industry has met the demcnds oI Wcrr by working every Icrcility to the limit. In the lcrce oI serious shortqges oI equipment, mcchine replacements, supplies cnd lcbor production cnd shipments have grone lorward.

"Pcul Bunycn's" crews qt Westwood carry on with c yeqr round, Iull capacity schedule.

"Pcul Bunycrn's"CATIFORNIA

PINES

Soft Ponderoscr cnd Sugcrr Pine II'MBEB MOT'I.DING PI.YWOOD Incense Cedar VENETIAN BUND STATS

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MEMEEN WESTENN PINE ASSOCIATION MEMBER WOOD FON VENETIf,N'S TSSil.

New Proccdur e lor Industrial , Hotel, Loft Construction

A revision of procedure to be followed by operators of office or loft buildings, apartment houses, hotels, industrial plants and other substantial buildings in filing a single application for blanket authorization to cover small miscellaneous construction work for a period up to six months became effective today, it was announced by the War Production Board.

Club No.109 Will Hold Concat

Le Roy Miller, president of Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club No. 109, presided at the regular dinner meeting of the Club, held at Wilson's Confectaurant, Sacramento, on Wednesday evening, February 17.

Mr. Miller announied that the Club will hold a Hoo-Hoo Concatenation in April.

Chas. O. Burick, Jr., member of the State Planning Commission, addressed the gathering on the subject "State Planning After the War."

This authorization

makes it possible for both the operators and WPB to avoid handling numerous applications for construction jobs which are necessary in larger buildings. Before the or.iginal procedure was instituted last September, operators had to receive individual authotization when the cost for all such work reached the limits set in the stop-construction order, L-41'

Under the new plan all miscellaneous construction jobs, except those estimated to cost $10,000 or more may be included in a single application for blanket authorization. The previous limit was $5,000. A separate PD-200 application must be submitted for each structure or project estimated to cost $10,000 or more for which authority to begin construction is required. The revised procedure also provides for the filing of all applications covering miscellaneous construction jobs, not requiring priority assistance with the War Production Board, Construction Division, Empire State Building, New York City. Applications covering miscellaneous industrial construction jobs requiring priority assistance must be filed with the War Production Board, Washington, D. C.

Applications covering miscellaneous jobs must describe all proposed construction work within the stated period of time in terms of specific jobs, dollar value of each job, as well as quantities of materials to be used.

Where it is impossible for the applicant to forecast the proposed jobs accurately, an application of a more general nature will be accepted. However, the estimated total cost of the proposed construction and a preliminary materials list must be included.

Items on which priorities assistance will be required must be indicated regardless of whether or not they are required to be included in the estimated cost. Where possible, schedule of deliveries of specific quantities of materials must be shown. Commitments for purchase of materials

The Weyerhaeuser color picture "Trees and Homes," was shown.

There was a good attendance. The date of the Concatenation will be announced later.

WILL ENTER AIR FORCE

Ben Knabe of the lumber department, Central Supply Co., Watsonville, Calif., leaves March 1 to take an airplane mechanic's course.

JOINS SPARS

Pearl W. Brakel, bookkeeper at White sale hardwood dealers, San Francisco, SPARS, women's unit of the U. S. Coast

Brothers, wholehas joined the Guard.

PRESENTED ARMY-NAVY "E' PRODUCTION AWARD

The Army-Navy production Award was presented to the men and women of The Masonite Corporation at Laurel, Miss., on February 24. There was a nation-wide broadcast of the program over the Blue Network at 3:00-3:30 p.m,, central war time.

may be made immediately upon approval of the application. Necessity for filing applications on Form ?D-lA is eliminated by the revised procedures.

Where applications of a general type are filed and authorizations are issued, applicants must file within two weeks after the expiration of the term of the authorizatiofl, a report on the work done, the cost, and the materials consumed. Form PD-200 must be used for all such applications and reports. In reporting on the work done, the form must be accompanied by a letter indicating the serial number and date on rvhich the application was approved.

\Var Housing Policy lmplemented

San Francisco, Feb. 10.-The joint declaration of policy on war housing, which was announced in December by Donald M. Nelson, chairman of the War Production Board, and John B. Blandford, Jr., administrator of the National Housing Agency, was implemented and made effective today by the revision of housing application forms for preference rating assistance.

This action establishes a uniform construction application form to be used for all residential construction, regardless of whether the work is to be publicly or privately financed, to replace the several forms heretofore in use. In addition, the new form, PD-105 revised, provides for a change in the manner of reporting material lists so as to conform to schedules of the controlled materials plan. Other adjustments of a minor nature were made.

The most important points of the joint declaration, which become effective with the revisions are:

Provisions for the sale of privately-financed housing are eliminated. War housing now must be rented to war workers as defined by NHA, WPB, and WMC. Such housing must be rented for at least four months, at the end of which time it may be sold to the wa.r worker occupying it.

Only critical material authorized by WPB may be incorporated in a war housing project. Critical material in

excess of the allowances may not be used, regardless of how it may be obtained.

The responsibility for programming war housing is placed in NHA.

NHA and WPB will make all projects conform with the latest conservation and occupancy regulations.

Utility installations, including equipment, are held to the established'controls.

WPB will allot materials by calendar quarters to meet specific approved programs.

A large proportion of the total housing program will continue to comprise temporary-type construction.

Inspection service will be provided by NHA to insure that projects conform to regulations. WPB will effect compliance.

In announcing the declaration of policy on December 11, Mr. Nelson declared that application of the policy was expected to make available the maximum of housing for war workers within the limits imposed by the materials that are from time to time available for allocation to this essential part of the war program. When war housing programs are approved, he said, WPB will endeavor to provide materials necessary to carry them to completion as promptly as is consistent with all other elements of the war efiort.

QUAIJITY STUCCO

Becouse of the high stcrndords of stucco crcrltsmcrnship mqintqined through pcst yecrs, cgencies engoged in housing ond other wqr construction todoy look to stucco cts ct meons of securing good oppectrcmce crrd durctbility with economy.

Protect this quolity reputotion, cnd guccrontee the luture of stucco by seeing ihot only portlcrnd cement or wcrterprool portlcrnd cement is used lor qll coqts-mixed, opplied crrd cured occording to crpproved methbds.

Thic coner-Iot home qt Domey ir cmoag lhe nmy porttcnd c€Eont ttucco bomes built lor wcr workers in tbe Los Angeles arec, Built

for war, but built to last with

.,\lllHo's wHonn

cloe Rolando

The subject of this sketch, Joe Rolando, one of the largest operators in the lumber business of the San Francisco Bay atea, and one of the lumber industry's most colorful figures, is a Native Son, having been born in San Pedro, California.

He is also one of the industry's veterans, for he started his career 45 years ago as a boy of 13 with the San Pedro Lumber Co. at their San Pedro yard, where his job was picking up lath and r,vorking in the moulding shed. His next job was rvith E. K. Wood Lumber Co. After three years with this firm he worked for the Southwestern Lumber Co., a yard started by L. \M. Blinn in Wilmington on the site now occupied by Consolidated Lumber Co.

Mr. Rolando recalls that there were only three lumber companies operating in San Pedro when he first went to work there. These were San Pedro Lumber Co., Kerckhoff-Cuzner Lumber Co., and W. H. Perry Lumber Co. He also recalls the fact that L. W. Blinn was the first lumber dealer to ship Douglas Fir doors to Los Angeles, and that, incidentally, a lot of promotion work had to be done to sell these doors at that time in competition with California Pine doors.

After five years experience young Joe at 18 became the

youngest lumber surveyor on the Pacific Coast when he went with the Lumber Surveyors' Association, and spent several years with this organization. He came to San Francisco in 1908 to work for the Albion Lumber Co. as salesman, and left this position to go with the Hooper Lumber Co. as shipping clerk and later as salesman. He became associated with the Christenson Lumber Co. in 1915, and left to become a salesman with Hart-Wood Lumber Co. He returned to Los Angeles to represent Hart-Wood Lumber Co. there in the wholesale business. He managed their boats and was joint manager for this concern for the period r9zl-1923.

He left Los Angeles to return to San Francisco, where he took over the management of Sudden & Heitman Lumber Co. After three years in that position he bought out the Hart-Wood Lumber Company's yard in l92B and entered business for himself. He has been very successful and has a host of friends both in and outside of the lumber business.

Joe is known the country over as a result of his main hobby-horse racing. He is joint owner of the Mill B Stable with Jimmy Lyons of Irwin & Lyons, lumber manufacturers of North Bend, Oregon. Another hobby is fishing when he has the time. He is successful at this pastime, too, and doesn't need pictures to prove it.

Joe is a charter member of the San Pedro Elks Club, a member of the Olympic Club, San Francisco, and a member of the California Jockey Club.

He is married and lives in San Francisco. Mrs. Rolando is an accomplished golfer.

LIKES EDITORIALS

I have been subscribing to yovr magazine for many years, chiefly because of your Editorials, which are so well written; which carry so much meat, philosophy and humor as to be well worth the subscription price alone. As an architect, the news concerning the lumber business, while interesting, is only of secondary importance to me. I also get numerous chuckles from "Fun, Facts and Filosophy." More power to you and lots of good luck.

Walter H. Nash Washington, D. C.

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Pre(erence Rating Order P-55 Amended

The Joint declaration of policy of the War Produ,ction Board and the National Housing Agency regarding war housing which became effective February 10, was further implemented today with the revision of Preference Rating Order P-55.

The amendments to the order brought these changes:

1. Preference rating orders will be addressed ers" in the future rather than to "builders."

principal to "own-

2. Only critical materials which have been specifically approved may be used in war housing structures.

3. The owner is ordered to comply with his agreement in connection with the maintenance of occupan,cy standards.

In addressing preference rating orders to owners rather than builders, the War Production Board acted to eliminate operational confusion which had existed in many cases in field offices, as well as with the public.

The restrictions on the use of material provide the basis for the material conservation agreements outlined in the joint declaration of policy. Where formerly a builder could use any material which he could obtain without a preference rating, he is now restricted to only that critical material which is authorized byWPB. Critical material in excess of allowances may not be used, regardless of whether taken from stock, or made available by gift or loan.

The amendments to the order relating to the liability of owners will force the latter to comply with occupancy standards as defined in the joint statement. Occupancy standards apply not only to the first owner but also to all

subsequent owners of the property, with the only exception occurring in cases of foreclosure. These standards provide that all war housing must now be rented to war workers as defined by the National Housing Agency, the War Production Bo'ard, and the War Manpower Commission. Privately-financed housing must be rented for at least four months, at the end of which time it may be sold to the war worker occupying it.

Minor changes in phraseology also r,r'ere made in the amended order.

BUY YARD AT LONG BEACH

W. S. McCray of Bellflower, and Lloyd D. Milne, former manager of the Macco Lumber Company at Clearwater, have purchased the Signal Lumber & Materials Co. at 3440 Cherry Ave., Long Beach. Mr. Milne will manage the yard.

COULDN'T GET ALONG WITHOUT MERCHANT

Couldn't live up here without your magazine, and after I have read every word from cover to cover, I take the current issue down to the Washington Athletic Club reading room, place it on the table for magazines, and have noted that many lumbermen eagerly read it.

Edgar W. Pack Seattle. Wash.

JUST A HOARDER?

The man,.who was being examined by the psychoanalyst $eemed a$ sound and sane as anybody. The doctor's questions were all answered promptly and intelligently.

"'Why did you come to me?" asked the doctor.

"My family sent me," the man said.

"Why did they send you to me?"

"They think there's something wrong with me, but you can see that there's not."

The doctor said: "You seem all right to me. What did they think was wrong with you?"

The man said: "It had something to do with buckwheat cakes. I like them."

The doctor said: "So do f."

"Sure enough," said the man. "Then you must come out to the house. I've got the back bathroom full of them."

GOOD TIMBER

The man who never had to toil, Who never had to win his share, Of sun and sky and light and air, Never became a manly man, But lived and died as he began. Good timber does not grow in ease, The stronger wind, the totrgher trees, The farther sky the greater length, The more the storm, the more the strength; By sun and cold, by rain and snows, In tree or man, good timber grows.

AT FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING

The Boston advertising man, Tim Thrift, tells this story in Tom Dreier's "The Vagabond":

A citizen of a New Hampshire town died. There were no relatives. At his death he left two sealed communications. One was to his lawyer and the other to the undertaker. The letter to the lawyer was to be opened only AFTER the funeral. The undertaker was told exactly what to do. The minister a4d pallbearers vyere named and were to be paid for,,their sgrvice3; and,the time of the funeral ryas set for four o'clock in the morning.

Just four of the old man's neighbors attended the funeral, at what to the rest of the people must have seemed an ungodly hour. When the letter to the lawyer was opened it was learned that the old man's estate was to be divided pro rata among those who attended his funeral. The value of the estate was $400,000.

PLENTY OF TIME

On a recent visit to Washington, Henry J. Kaiser, the building phenom from the West Coast, was thirty minutes late for an engagement with some newspaper reporters. When he finally showed up, he explained that the reason he was late, he had to wait thirty minutes for a taxicab.

"Thirty minutes," said one of the reporters. "Why the Hell didn't you build one?"

DEFINITE

The man went into the drug store and said to the clerk "I want a tablet." The clerk asked "What kind of a tablet?" The man said "A yellow tablet." The clerk said t'What's the matter with you?" The man said "f want to write a letter."

. BEWARE

The glance that over cocktails seems so sweet, May be less charming over shredded wheat.

Brasier.

-Virginia

ATTENTION FIRST AIDERS!

Lady, if you see me lying, On the ground and (maybe) dying, Let my gore run, bright and free, Don't attempt to bandage me. While there's life there's hope, so pet Don't apply the tourniquet; Do not give for my salvation, Artificial respiration!

Do not stretch my bones or joints, Do not press my pressure points ! ff "queer s;rmptoms" you, should see, Don't experiment on me.

If I'm suffering from shock, Take a walk around the block !

. If you must be busy, pray I Help to keep the crowds away ! So, whatever my condition, Phone at once for a physician ! Let me lie, I'll take a chance, Waiting for the ambulance ! From first aid I beg release, Lady, let me die in peace.

Grief.

Priority Quotas for Privately Constructed Housing Available in Few So. Cal. Districts

Priority quotas for privately constructed housing are available in a few districts throughout Southern California as allocated by the National Housing Agency, it was announced today by Wilson G. Bingham, Southern California district director, Federal Housing Administration.

"There has recently been issued, by the War Production Board, amended 'War Housing Construction Standards,' dated January 21,1943, which Standards now apply to all applications for preference ratings for residential construction," Mr. Bingham said. "These standards represent considerable relief from the previously issued Standards and result in the raising of factors of desirability and livability for housing construction. Particularly efiective is the ruling which permits an increase in the floor area for one-story living units. One-bedroom units may norv be built to a maximum of 650 square feet; two-bedroom units to a maximum of 800 square feet; three-bedroom units to a maximum of 1,00O square feet. These maximum allor,vances represent an increase of approximately 10 per cent floor area over that area previously permitted.

"Porches may now be constructed and the area of a porch shall not be deductable from the permissive floor area of the housing unit. It is required, however, that the building material used in porch construction must be computed against the maximum material permitted for a residential unit.

"The constru,ction of garages and car ports is not permitted under these Standards.

"Applications for priorities assistance, for all types of residential construction, received after February 9, 1943, shall be submitted on a new Form PD-105, which is being revised as an all inclusive application form to replace the former Forms PD-105, PD-4O6, and PD.200.

"AIl applications shall originate in an area where a quota for residential construction has been assigned by the NHA, and as yet not exhausted.

"Residential construction is permitted only through the use of WPB priority assistance, therefore, applicants should be aware of the fact that all applications are measured for eligibility through the use of a 'Selectivity Rating Grid' which weighs the critical .factors involved in each residential construction, particularly (a) distance to war plants, (b)

type of transportation, (c) time and expense of daily trips, (d) and most important, the amount of critical material and lurnber required to be used in the proposed construction.

"Obviously the lesser in amounts of critical materials used, the higher rating for the proposed construction and more favorable consideration possible by the War Production Board.

"Financing factors, for the moment, have become the simpler hurdles in construction activities; today the problem is not so much a problem of money, or interest, or terms, but far more a problem as to the procuring of critical building materials which is so necessary to other War activities.

"The FHA continues as the office regarding information relating to residential priorities assistance and financial problems relative to residential construction. All applications for priorities assistance for residential construction are to be filed either in person or by mail to the local FHA offices. Inquiries regarding priorities on subjects other than residential types should be made direct to the War Production Board.

APPOINTED JOINT MANAGERS

Shirley C. Forsey and S. F. Stockum have been appointed joint managers of the Eureka Mill & Lumber Co., Oaklanh. Mr. Forsey, who was associated with the tate C. I. Gilbert in this business for the past 16 yiars, will have charge of the financial end. Mr. Stockum, who has been with the ,company for four years, will have charge of operating.

FAVORITE TRADE JOURNAL

Your magazine is my favorite trade journal and I am always awaiting your "Vagabond Editorials."

R. R. (Dick) Proctor

Hayward Lumber & Investment Co., Riverside, Calif.

Digest of New W.t Agency Orders and Regulations

BUILDING MATERIALS

OPA sets up simplified procedure for modification of ceiling prices on specified building materials and consumers' durable goods. Procedure applies only to products covered by Maximum Price Regulation 1BB and permits OPA to issue an order modifying maximum price for any commodity covered by regulations (Amendment 6 to Maximum Price Regulation 188), effective February 16.

LUMBER

Ceiling for mill shipments of round-edge northeastern white pine lumber are raised $2.50 per 1,000 board feet (Amendment 2 to Price Regulation 2I9), effective February 19.

WHITE CEDAR FENCE POSTS

OPA places white cedar fence posts produced in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, for use principally by railroads and farmers, under ceiling of specific dollars and cents prices. New ceilings, applying to sales by producers, wholesale and concentration yards, are established at or slightly under present levels (MPR 324), effective February 18.

LUMBER IMPORTS

Lumber and shingles from Mexico and Canada purchased under contract by Government are subject to GMPR unless the species is covered by a specific price regulation (Amendment 2, revised regulation 12) effective February 15.

LUMBER

OPA incorporates in all lumber price regulations a provision formalizing well-established interpretation prohibiting service commissions which result in a purchase price for lumber higher than maximum prices established for the lumber (Supplementary Order 37),, effective February 23.

PULPWOOD

Canadian Timber Controlled and WPB's pulp and paper division announce jointly that Canada intends to export 1,550,000 cords of pulpwood to U. S. this year from territory east of the Cascade Mountains. In addition Canadian mills expect to ship 1,170,000 tons of pulp to U. S.

CONTROLLED MATERIALS PLAN

WPB completes establishment of almost all principal operating procedures u'hich will govern industry under CMP with issuance of CMP Regulations Nos.3 and 5. Regulation No. 3 defines place of preference ratings under CMP and No. 5 provides methods for obtaining maintenance, repair and operating supplies (CMP Regulations Nos. 3 and 5), issued February 9.

SHIP STOCK

OPA establishes markups and handling charges for sale of ship stock by Pacific Coast distribution yards, which recognized their added'costs incurred in servicing needs of shipbuilders. A11 sales of less than 5,000 board feet of ship stock are excluded from the regulation and placed under control of General Maximum Price Regulation. Also provided is method for determining maximum prices for complete ship schedules to be filled in part with material other than red or white oak (MRP 281, Amendment 1), effective Februarv 20.

MINE TIMBERS AND LAGGING

Current ceiling prices for sawn mine timbers and mine lagging produced and sold for use in Minnesota iron ore mines were raised by OPA (order No. 8 under GMPR), effective February 8.

YELLOW POPLAR LOGS

WPB places yellow poplar logs, lumber and veneers of grades suitable for use in military and naval airplanes under immediate allocation control (General Conservation Order M-279), issued February 9.

SOFTWOOD PLYWOOD SCRAP

WPB exempts softwood plywood scrap, rejects, oddsized pieces left over from processing by consumers, from restrictions imposed by the limitation order on sales, shipments and deliveries by distributors and dealers (Limitation Order 150-4 as amended February 11), issued February 11.

WOODEN CONTAINERS

OPA establishes dollars and cents maximum prices for more than 200 varieties and sizes of perishable fruit and vegetable !\rooden containers produced in Southern, Eastern and Central States (MPR 320), effective February 11.

WAR HOUSING

Assistant NFIA Administrator Woodbury tells House Banking and Currency Committee that National Housing Authority is requesting $400 million increase in war housing mortgage insurance arrangements for large proportion of 130,000 dwelling units still to be financed out of total current quota for private war housing construction.

USED TRUCKS

An ODT spokesman says used trucks and other commercial motor vehicles may have to be rationed in near future to assure proper utilization of existing equipment.

FIREWOOD

WPB delegates to OPA authority to ration firewood in any areas within states of Washington, Oregon and Idaho (Directive No. 1, Supplementary Directive 1-U), issued February 10.

vr'AR HOUSING

WPB announces revision of housing application forms for preference rating assistance thus implementing joint declaration policy on war housing announced in December by WPB Chairman Nelson and National Housing Administrator John D. Blandford, Jr.

ALASKAN LUMBER PRICES RAISED

Washington, Feb. 10.-The Office of Price Administration yesterday established specific prices, approximately $15 per 1,000 feet higher than mainland ceiling prices, for all Douglas fir and West Coast lumber produced and sold in Alaska.

Previously Alaskan mills were subject to the general maximum price regulations whi,ch froze their highest March prices. Yesterday's action, which becomes efiective February 15, allows Alaskan mills to add to ceiling prices an amount equal to the Maritime Commission's published freight rate from Seattle, Wash., to the shipping point of the mill. Surcharges, war risk insurance, and the wharfage and handling charges for comparable lumber are to be included.

' efter tlncle Sam

BUT the well known EVAUNA mark will dways be-

FIRST for texture

FIRST for millwork

FIRST for kiln-drying

FIRST for unifonn grades

FIRST for sewice EWAUNA

BOX GO.

' Mill, Factory, and Sales Ofice KLAMATH

Central California Represmtative Pf"amid Lumber Sdes Co., Oaldand

Timber Conn ectors

Washington, Feb. 1S-Giving "sinervs of Steel" to wood structures, the steel-ringed timber connector, which is used to increase the strength of joints in wood construction, saved more than 400,000 tons of steel for essential war production in 1942, the Conservation Division of WPB announced today.

"These savings were particularly important during 1942 when structural and reinforcing steel were in less plentiful supply than they are at present," said Harvey A. Anderson, Deputy Director of the Conservation Division. "However, structural and reinforcing steel are not always readily available in all sections of the country. fn some instances, obtaining it for construction purposes might place an unnecessary added burden on transportation facilities. Under these conditions, wood construction reinforced with timber connectors makes a highly satisfactory substitute."

Towers, bridges, hangars, warehouses and numerous other government war-time construction requirements have been built of wood reinforced with timber connectors.

Timber connectors are pressed steel rings or malleable iron plates 2l to 6 inches in diameter. Placed in circular grooves between adjacent faces of overlapping timbers, the rings provide a larger supporting area than that attained by other methods of joining timber. In contrast, a relatively small supporting area is furnished by bolts, customarily used for this purpose in joints. Spreading the load on a joint more equally over the cross section of the wood by means of a timber connector brings more fully into play the structural strength of the timber.

The ring connector originated in Sweden and was further developed in the United States.

The highest wood tower that could be built before the development of this improved technique was limited to 80 feet. Height was restricted because of the weakness of supporting joints. With the strength-utilizing property of

the

A typical example of steel conservation accomplished by the use of the improved method of wood construction is its effectiveness in the construction of a Navy blimp hangar. The structure is 1,000 feet long, 153 feet high, and has a roof span of 237 feet. Had this not been built of wood, a total of 2,050 tons of .structural steel would have been required. Such a structure could not have been built of wood by ordinary methods without the use of timber connectors.

Approximately 200,000 tons of structural steel have been saved by the use of timber in a single military construction program.

Congtrucled ol wood reinlorced with limber connectorE, this 166-Ioot wide clecr spcn mold lolt building hcrs been dupliccied mcny times in shipycrds on the Pccilic, Atlcntic qnd GulI Coasts, The unobsiructed lloor oI c mold lolt ig c gicnt drcwing bocrd. The mqnY pqrts oI merchcnt ships, such crs plctes, ribs and bulk-hec& cre drqwn on the lloor in lull size. From these drcwings templctea cre mcde cnd lrom the lemplctes ihe qctucl pcrts cre labricated.-Offici.al photo lrom OWI.

timber connector, rvood towers, meeting all engineering requirements and specifications, may reach a height of 300 feet.

Prelcbriccted timber prepcrred lor timber connectors. Officicrl photo lrom OWI.

Items o[ lnterest

Frank Brush, son of E. S. Brush, sales manager, Loop Lumber Co., San Francisco, was recently graduated from the University of California, and has received orders to go to infantry officers training school at Fort Benning, Georgia.

Harry G.. Dowson, sales manager of tion, Medford, Ore., has returned from a Francisco.

John W. Gamerston, son of Harry B. Gamerston, Gamerston & Green Lumber Co., San Francisco, recently completed a course in the anti-aircraft school at Camp Davis, North Carolina. He was commissioned aZnd, Lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Anti-Aircraft and left for San Diego February 11.

Medford Corpora. lGday visit to San Fred Stanley gon, was in San

Bob Raymer, assistant sales manager, Yosemite Sugar Pine Lumber Co., Merced Falls, Calif., has resigned and is awaiting a call for War Training Service for transport pilot, ferry command or instructor.

Stanley. M. Long, member of the office staff of MacDonald & Harrington, San Francisco, is a cadet in the Army Air Corps, stationed at the Air Corps training school at Fresno, Calif.

C. A. Cunningham of Cunningham, Lamb & Price, wholesale lumber dealers of Charlestown, Mass., was a business visitor around the middle of February in San Francisco, and went on from there to the Northwest.

R. F. (Bob) Fleming of Hallinan Mackin Co., San Francisco, reported January 25 lor basic training in the Army. He expects to enter officers training school on completion of this training.

D. R. Smith, salesman for this con,cern, also entered the Army January 25, and will enter officers training school after basic training.

William Lewis Frese, son of Otto W. Frese, San Francisco wholesale lumberman, is now a cadet in the U. S. Army Air Corps at Santa Ana, Calif. For the past seven months he was employed by the Maritime Commission, and during two summer vacations worked for Rockport Redwood Co. at their mill in Rockport, Calif.

of Oregon Lumber Sales, Eugene, Francisco recently on a business trip.

Ore-

Donald Nicholson, who is in training at the Navy PreFlight School at San Luis Obispo, Calif., is the son of Mrs. Sara Nicholson, who has been a member of the office staff of MacDonald & Harrington, San. Francisco, for the past 16 years.

Jas. B. Overcast, pany, Oakland, was at Monterey, Calif.

sales manager, Strable Hardwood Cominducted into the Army on Februarv 26

Gene Hall, until recently a salesman for Harbor Plywood Corporation of California, San Francisco, is now an instructor in navigation at the United Air Lines training center, Oakland Airport. Gene gained his experience in navigation in the merchant marine service.

Raymond Gates, Chicago commission lumber salesman, was in San Francisco recently on his way back from visiting mills in California and the Pacific Northwest.

Chas. P. Henry, turned a few days Northwest.

Los Angeles wholesale lumberman, reago from a business trip to the Pacific

Frank Evenson of American Products, Inc., San Diego, returned recently from a business trip to New york and Washington, D. C. He came back by way of the pacific Northwest, where he looked over the company,s mill and logging interests.

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rWf NTY YEAAS AGO

Fronn the March le lO2S Issue

H. B. White of the E. Angeles was appointed

K. Wood Lumber ComPanY in Los manager of its Santa Ana Yard.

MacDonald & Harrington announced the opening of a Ponderosa and Sugar Pine department under the management of Henry O. Geary. He will make his headquarters at the company's San Francisco office. Mr. Geary was formerly with the McCloud River Lumber Co.

W. B. Dean, The Diamond Match Company, Chico, was named executive head of all the company's interests in California, including mills, timber, lands, retail yards, etc', according to an announcement by President W. A. Fairburn'

About forty of the Los Angeles sash, door and millwork manufacturers made a trip to San Diego and Tiajuana on February 1G18. They were banqueted, also took in the races, and reported a grand time.

This issue carried an Parks Lumber Companv

illustrated article on the Owensoperations in Los Angeles.

The Homer T. Hayward Lumber chased the retail lumber plant of Fuel Company at Santa Cruz.

Company, Salinas, purthe Central Lumber &

C. W. Pinkerton, Whittier Lumber Company, Whittier, reported that the office r,vas entered the night of February 14 and the safe burglarized. About $20.00 in cash was taken.

B. J. Boorman, of Great Falls, Montana, selected a site for a new retail lumber yard in Oakland. Mr. Boorman, an ex-president of the Western Retail Lumbermen's Association, was formerly the head of several retail lumber yards in Montana

The Homestead Lumber Company opened a retail lumber yard in Sacramento under the management of John

Mr. Morley was formerly r,i'ith the Sunset Lumber in Sacramento. Morley. Company

Hess Lumber Co., Bishop, tional Forest five rnillion feet Owens River Valley region.

About fifty Elks Club in County was gerent Snark

purchased from of pine and fir the Inyo Natimber in the

cats and prospective kittens assembled at the Anaheim for their first meeting since Orange established as a separate jurisdiction' ViceW. R. Whitson presided.

Rhea L. Shaw of Charles R. McCormick & Co., San Francisco, and Miss Alice M. Marshall of San Francisco, were married on February 22. They spent their honeymoon at Del Monte and Southern California points.

H. A. Browning moved his offrces to suite 92I in the Los Angeles Stock Exchange building.

The employes of the Hayward Lumber Co. at Long Beach hold a monthly meeting in the evening, at which the business affairs of the yard are discussed, and plans made for future operations. These monthly meetings have proved very successful.

February 16 was a big Hoo-Hoo event in San Diego. It was a surprise party on most of the cats. When the gang assembled, they found about forty vacant seats after the local members had been seated. A telegram from Los Angeles was read stating that forty Los Angeles Cats were on their way to attend in a body and would arrive shortly after the dinner started. Great was the surprise of the group when forty wives of those attending marched in and took these seats. Each member had been urged to attend, not knorving that his wife was coming also. Vicegerent Snark Fred Hamilton acted as chairman. There were some short talks followed by dancing. It was voted one of the best meetings San Diego ever had. It is interesting to note that San Diego was the first Hoo-Hoo Club in the United States to start holding a weekly luncheon meeting.

ltlll Lunher trom a Lifitle niil"

Property Ownerr Can Add to Incomes Construction Workers in Seven So. Cal. Through Conversion Counties Under Job Stabilization Program

Property owners and builders in San Francisco are overlooking an opportunity of increasing their incomes, it was stated here today by Fred Palmer, San Francisco 'War Housing manager.

In urging owners to take advantage of the governmentsponsored plan of conversion, Mr. Palmer said:

"There are thousands of basements in homes of the Marina, Sunset, Richmond, and Mission districts welladapted for conversion into two-room apartments at the cost of $1,000, while leaving enough room for a two-car garage.

"Each converted basement furnished would bring at least $45 rent from a war worker and after the war the owner would have the advantage of continuing income or living facilities for his private use."

Mr. Palmer revealed that he has completed arrangements with local banks for financing such constru,ction on three to four-year loans which can be paid up from rentals the unit will produce.

"If the property is already mortgaged," Mr. Palmer said, "the alteration can be financed through the FHA title 1, which permits insuring an additional loan by the bank without altering the original loan."

Mr. Palmer said that he now has a blueprint of a basement conversion plan which can be used in a 15 to 25 loot square basement providing living room, bath, kitchen, meal space, bedroom and plenty of closet space for a family including two children.

He disclosed the plans provide for range, refrigerator, sink, wash trays and French doors to the back garden. The apartment can be finished with knotty pine, fiber board or other materials and should be built at a cost of approximately $1,000 or less.

Mr. Palmer said the War Production Board will allow materials under AA-3 priority for such construction.

Builders and home owners are invited to visit the San Francisco War Housing Center to see the plans and to make arrangements for the construction. Mr. Palmer declared the Center is now receiving applications of contractors who are available for this work.

Approximately 150,000 construction workers in seven Southern California counties on February 22 were brought under the voluntary job stabilization program through an extension by the War Manpower Commission of its list of war essential industries to cover the building trades.

An announcement by H. R. Harnish, area chief of the WMC, explains the move as aimed to "stop pirating and needless migration of workers."

Ifowever, because of the fact, Mr. Harnish cited, "that the great majority of construction workers are employed for short terms, and change jobs frequently as the work requires," he announced that a system of ",certificates of availability" will be put into practice.

These certifi,cates will be a workman's passport from one job to another.

The construction industry is the 29th essential industry to be blanketed under the War Manpower Commission's "voluntary stabilization plan."

The counties in which the new setup will now hold sway are: Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Imperial.

$75O,OOO FOR KERN LABOR HOUSING

Bakersfield, Feb. 19.-Approximately $750,000 will be expended in Kern county on housing for imported Mexican laborers who will work on a 15,000-acre government guayule rubber project, Elliott Roberts, government representative in charge, announced today.

The labor camps will be established at Arvin, Shafter, Lamont and Wasco and will house 30O family groups each.

Construction contracts were awarded Mid-State Construction of San Fran,cisco and the McNair Co. of Los Angeles, Roberts said.

EARL BLIELE WITH INGHAM LUMBER CO.

Earl Bliele, formerly sales manager for Westfir Lumber Co., Westfir, Ore., ,has been appointed sales manager for Ingham Lumber Co., Glendale, Ore., succeeding the late C. L. Normoyle.

Mill Has Good Winter Los Supply

The illustration shows a part of the winter supply of Redwood logs at the mill of Arcata Redwood Company, Arcata, Calif. This mill, now well into its fourth year of operation, has been running 3teadily, cutting about 40,000 feet on one shift. The company has its own logging operation and is now working in a fi:ne stand of Red-

O. L. RUSSUM HAS THREE SONS IN SERVICE

O. L. Russum of San Francisco, Northern California representative of Carl H. Kuhl Lumber Co., has three sons in the country's service.

W. K. "Bi11" Russum is head of Army Ordnance at Oakland.

O. L. Russufr, Ir., is a Lieutenant in the Army Air Corps at Palm Beach, Florida.

Douglas R. Russum is training to be a pilot in the Army Air Corps at St. Petersburg, Florida.

A daughter, Mary Ann Russum, holds an important position with the Douglas Aircraft Co. at Santa Monica.

INSTALLS ANOTHER SHINGLE MACHINE

A. H. Schmidt, managing owner of the Portland Shingle Co., Portland, Ore., announces that he has completed the installation of an additional 24-inch Gold Metal shingle machine in the mill which now gives him a total of five machines, running two shifts daily, and increasing the production approximately a car and a half a d,ay.

wood timber.

Howard A. Libbey is general manager. Wm. H. Stewart is sawmill superintendent. Don E. Holcomb is sales manager with offices at 420 Market Street, San Francisco, and J. J. Rea, 5410 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, is Southern California sales representative.

WITH TARTER, IVI/EBSTER & JOHNSON

Harold J. Ford, who has been sales manager of Yosemite Sugar Pine Lumber Co., Merced Falls, Calif., since that concern was organized, has resigned his position and has joined the Tarter, Webster & Johnson organization, effective March 1. He will make his headquarters at the Stockton office.

LUMBER ADMINISTRATOR TO DIRECT CUTTING AND ALLOCATE LOGS

To increase output of certain types of Douglas fir lumber needed for war production on the West Coast, WPB headquarters authorizes F. H. Brundage, Western Log and Lumber Administrator, to direct cutting and allocate logs where necessary,

JIM BERRY IN MARINE CORPS

Jim Berry of the sales department of Pope & Talbot, fnc., Lumber Division, San Francisco, reported for service February 15 in a special service unit of the United States Marine Corps. He has been commissioned a lst Lieutenant.

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* of Lumbermen ln Armed Sorees a

Here will be listeil, lrom issue to issue, names ol men lrom the lumber in' ilustry who haoe entereil uar serai,ce, in any branch ol the armed forces. Pleaie send, in the nam.es ol any lumberman you know ol tha ue can list here.

John McBride, Davis Lumber Davis, Calif. . Marine Corps

Jim Berry, Pope & Talbot, Inc., Lumber Division, San Francisco . Marine Corps

John W. Gamerston, Gamerston & Green Lumber Co., San Francisco ......Army

Frank Oliver, Allen & Dettmann, San Francisco

J. Wendell Paquette, Allen & Dettmann, SanFrancisco... ... Marine

Pearl W. Brakel, White Brothers, San Francisco .....Coast

Wegtern Retailers Hold \|Var Conference

Fred Epperson, Epperson & Sons, Inc., Port Angeles, Wash., was elected president of the Western Retail Lumbermen's Association at the Association's War Conference held at Portland, Oregon, January 15-16. The following were elected vice-presidents: H. L. Austin, Tri-State Lumber Co., Pocatello, Idaho; T. E. Drennan, Home Lumber & Fuel Co., Reno, Ner'.; Paul Van Petten, Van Petten Lumber Co., Ontario, Ore.; V. W. Gardner, Pool-Gardner Lumber Co., Hillsboro, Ore.; E. H. Polwarth, Independent Lumber & Fuel Service, Spokane, Wash.; F. M. Young, Young's Lumber Co., Yakima, Wash.; James Baker, Baker Lumber Co., Kelso, Wash.

Army Corps

Frank C. Kendall, Potlach Yards, Inc., Spokane, Wash', was elected national director, and W. C. Bell continues as managing director and treasurer.

R. F. (Bob) Fleming, Hallinan Mackin Co., San Francisco .. .....Army

D. R. Smith, Hallinan Mackin Co., San Francisco....Army

Ed Heiberger, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco

Stanley M. Long, MacDonald & Harriirgton, San Francisco .. .Army Air

EARL DOTY IN WAR JOB

Guard Army Corps

The new executive committee consists of Ed L. Rowles, McGoldrick Lumber Co., Spokane, 'Wash., chairman; Tom Gamble, Boise Payette Lumber Co., Boise, Idaho, and T. B. Brusegaard, Lakeside-Western Lumber Co., Mt. Vernon, Wash.

Mayor Earl Riley, of Portland, extended greetings to the lumbermen at the opening of the Friday morning session. President W. H. Hermsen acknowledged the Mayor's welcome, and then make his report to the membership. Cecil Cavanaugh, Cavanaugh Lumber Co., Tacoma, Wash., presided at the luncheon on Friday, and the speaker was Harry P. Cain, mayor of Tacoma.

Earl J. Doty, who for the past several years has been associated with Atkinson-Stutz Co., San Francisco, is norv in the lumber department of Bethlehem Alameda Shipyard, Inc., Alameda, Calif.

WLB DENIES REHEARING

San Francisco, Feb. 17.-A decision granting wage increases to major lumber industry employes of Southern California will not be reconsidered by the West Coast lumber commission of the War Labor Board, it was indicated today as the commission denied a rehearing petition.

The new hearing on the matter was requested by the Merchants and Manufacturers Association of Los Angeles.

Panel discussions were held at the Friday afternoon and Saturday sessions with Managing Director W. C. Bell acting as moderator. At the closing meeting on Saturday afternoon the speakers were Charles Hines, president of the Edward Hines Lumber Co., Chicago, Ill., and Wes W. Anderson, Anderson Lumber Co., Ogden, IJtah, president of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association.

WILL MANAGE SAWMILL

Bob Paul, formerly assistant manager of the Jennings Lumber Company at Safiord, Ariz., has taken over the management of the company's sawmill and timber operations at Heber. The mill was recently purchased by the Jennings Lumber Company from Crandall & Wahl.

cmd Uncle Scnn comes first. It must continue to hove the right-ol-wcry for wor needs.

We cne supplying mqteriqls for mcrry wor projects but wcnnt to serve the retoil trode too. II materiqls cre cn'ailable, we will get them.

For 60 yecrs we hove been serving the Soulhern Cclilomio lumber trqde.

lumber is a Critical ltTar Material

California Building Permits for January

SUDDEII & CHRISTEI{S0il, ilTC. Lurnber and Shipping

o)UP AND DOWN THE STATE a.,

Karl Chytrus, who was connected with the panel insulation departments of the E. K. Wood Lumber pany at Los Angeles for a number of years, is now Angeles office manager for Hallinan-Mackin Co., Ltd.

Henry Francisco, business.

M. Hink. Dolbeer spent a few days

& in

Harvey Nelson has & Smith Lumber Co. merly manager of the Pasadena. and is well ber circles.

and Charles Osbeck is now with the Martinez Lumber ComCom- pany at Martinez, Calif. He formerly operated the OsLos beck Lumber Company at Encinitas.

Carson Lumber Co., San Los Angeles last week on

been made manager of the Barto at Huntington Park. lle was forE. K. Wood Lumber Co. yard at known in Southern California lum-

Dick Webber have been ap,pointed manager of the Macco Lumber Company at Clearwater, succeeding Lloyd Milne who is now in business for himself in Long Beach. Mr. Webber has been with the firm for a number of years.

Jack Cottrell has taken over the ownership of the Newhall Garage at Newhall, Calif., and will assume full personal charge of his ner r enterprise. He was formerly with the Hammond Lumber Company at Newhall.

R. W. Swanson of Pope & Talbot, partment, Portland, spent a few days around the middle of February.

Don Philips, Lawrence-Philips geles, is back from a business trip

Lumber Co., Los Anto Marshfield, Ore.

Frank H. Harris, vice-president of Van Lumber Co., San Francisco, recently spent Angeles.

Arsdale-Harris a week in Los

Homer Hayward, son of Arthur C. Hayward, president of Homer T. Hayward Lumber Co., Salinas, Calif.., was recently graduated from the University of California.

Paul Smith, sales manager of Corp., Tacoma, recently spent a cisco on business.

Carl Bahr, manager of California Inc., Chicago, recently visited the mills of the member mills of his

Wheeler Osgood Sales few days in San Fran-

Nelson E. Jones, Jones Hardwood Co., San Francisco, returned recently from a business trip to New Orleans, Memphis, Louisville and Chicago. Inc., Creosote Dein San Francisco

Redwood Distributors, head offices and saworganization.

CRO88 GIRCULATION KILI{S

Z)y'o to )iy'o aote capacity due to solid edge'to'edge rtacLing. Bcacr guality drying on low tempcraturec with r fart rwctribtc circulation.

Lower rtacking costs-just rolid edge-to-edge staclcing in thc cinplcst form.

Added to \|(/MC Controlled Hiring Plan

San Francisco, Feb. 8-Three Western communities today were added to the list of 32 areas throughout the country in which controlled hiring plans will be set up under the direction of the War Manpower Commissio4.

Announcement of the latest move involving controlled hiring was made at WMC Regional headquarters in San Francisco, following the receipt of a statement from Paul V. McNutt, WMC chairman, in which he further clarified the recently adopted hiring policy of the Commission.

The three communities mentioned in Mr. McNutt's announcement are Ogden, Utah; Portland, Ore., and Seattle, Wash. The plan is already in effect in Las Vegas, Nev., and San Diego, Calif.

Mr. McNutt explained that the policy is based on the experience of more than a score of communities which already have employment stabilization agreements.

Murray G. Payne

Murray G. Payne, secretary-treasurer of United Lumber Yards, Inc., Modesto, Calif., passed away in Modesto on February 8.

IIe u'as born in Stockton 53 years ago and had lived in Modesto for D years.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Veronica E. Payne; a son, Jack M. Payne, U. S. Navy; a brother, Dr. Russell Payne; two sisters, Mrs. Alvin McMahon, San Francisco, and Mrs. Charles Howe. Alameda.

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Custom Milling cnd Specicrlty Detcils Mcrnulcrctured with latest type Electric Vonnegut Moulder.

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U. S. Overseas Construction in 1942

Washington, Feb. 15.Overseas construction in 1942 totaled approximately $2 billion, the War Production Board disclosed.

The construction program included camps, fortifications, harbor installations, storage facilities, repair shops, airfields and other facilities needed to service the American expeditionary forces.

However, the total does not include the cost of maintenance and subsistence of troops engaged in construction work or costs of shipping materials that could not be provided locally.

WPB also reported many thousands of tons of merchant shipping were freed for transporting food and munitions by finding construction material abroad for these projects. In addition, by hunting out materials, overseas work on the projects was also speeded up.

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This war will be over. Building will boom. Here is an opportunity to be ready to start instantly. Unheard of bargain. Act at once.

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WANTED

Saw Table lZ" saw Ball Bearing 3 phase motor Bestile Manufacturing Co., Ontario, Calif.

WANT TO SELL YOUR YARD?

Do you want to liquidate for the duration? See us.

Twohy Lumber Co., Lumber Yard Brokers, 801 Petroleutn Bldg., Ircs Angeles. Telephone PRospect 8746.

Usc Moorekiln Paint Products for weatherproofing your dry kiln and mill roofr.

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LUMBER

Arcata Redwod Co. 421| Mrkgt Strt............ ...,....YUkm 206it

ArLinn-Stutz Compuy, UZ MartGt Stret ..,......,....,GArfieId lt09

Dut & Russcll, Inc., 2l{ Fmt StroGt ..................GArfic|d 0292

Dolbcr & Cum Lumbcr Co., 1116 Mqc'butt Erchangc Blds:..,..Suttq ilSo

Gmcrton & Grco Lunbcr Co. 1E0 Any Strc.t ......,...,..,....A,Twarc U|n

Hall, Janer L., 1C32 Millt Bldc. ...................SUtter ?520

Hmond Lmbcr Compuy. {U Montgon.ry Strat :,........DOuglu 3:t&t

Holnc Eurc&e Lumbcr Co., llCS Finucial Ccnter B1dg......,GArficld rg2t

C. D. Johnign Lubcr Corporttion, 250 Callfomia Strcct :.GArdGfd 6253

Cul H. Kuhl Lmbcr CoO. L Rurum, ll2 Markct gtret...YUkon 1460

Lamon-Bonington 6mpuy, 16 Call6omla Strat .......,.......GArfiGld 6SSf

LUMBER

LUMBER

MacDonald & HaningtoD, Ltd., 16 Califomia St. ...............,..GArfie|d 6:tlt

Oregon Lmbcr Sale (Carl W'. Wattg), 975 Monadnoc,k Bldg. ...........,....YUkm 1590

Pacific Lubcr Co., Tha 100 Bush Strect .......,...'....,...GArfidd ffEf

Popc & Taltot, Ine, Lubcr Divielon, {61 Markct Stret 1.l........Douglar 255r

Rcd Rlvr Lmbcr Co., 3r5 Monadmc& Bldg. ....,.....,...c4r6c1d O22

Santa Fc Lubcr Go., 16 Calilornla Stret .......,....... EXbmk 20?{

Schafer Brcr Imbcr & Shinglc Co., I Drunn Str6t .....................SUR.r u:ll

Shevlin Pine Salcr Co., 1lB0 Monadnck Bldg. .,..........EXbrco& ?0{f

Sudden & Chridcnron, lnc.. 310 Sesmr Strct ....:..........GArficld Zt{6

Cd Wj Wattr (Orcgo Lumbcr Salcr), 975 Monadnak Blds. ....,...........YUko t59l

Wendllng-Nathu Co.,

ll0 Mutct Strat ......,...........Sutta 5363

Wcet (hcgon Lubcr Coo 1995 Evut Avo. ..................ATvatcr 5Ol!

Ewaum Box Co. (Pyruld Lubcr Salcr Co.) Pacldc Bldg.

Gr4?I_rtgq & Groa Lumbcr Co.,

2|'l Llvina.bn SL...........:....KEllo3 t-r6&

Hill & Morto, Inc.

I)cmiron Strcct \ilharf..........ANdova lOZl

Hogu lmbcr Compmy.

znd rnd AIlc. Str.G6:...........Glscourt 6t6l

E. I(. Wod L'rrnbcr Co-

Zlrl Frcdaick Strut ' ..KEI&{ 2-en

Wholcralc Ianbcr Dlrtributorr, Inc., 9th Avonuc Pter...,............twlnoalr ZSIS

LUIIBER

Arcata Rcdwod 6. (J. J. Rca)

E. K. Wood lubc Coo I Dron Stret,................,EXbmL 3710

lVey*hacuecr Salce Co. 149 Callfomia Strat .............GArfi.ld t!174

HARDII/OODS AND PANELS

Wbltc Brcthrn,Fifth sd Brunu Stret!.........SuttGtr 1365

CREOSOTED LUMBERPOLES - PILING-TIES

Amorim llmbor & Trcatlug Co., ll0 Nw MontgoEcry Stret.........Suttc lze;

Buter, J. H. ll Co,, :It3 Motgonsry Strc.t DOuglar 3tt3

Hall, Juee L., rqtz Milh Bldg .....................SUtt r ?52|

Popc & Talbot, Inc., Imbcr Divldon, {61 Mukct Strct.........,........DOuglar 25tl

Vandcr Lau Ptllng & Lmbcr Co. 216 Pinc Strct..... ...............EXbroL l9O3

Wendllng-Nathm Co., ue MuLGt S1r6t.........,....,.....Surbr Altt

PAN EI.S-DOORTSASH-SCREENS

Callfomla Bulldcrr Supply Co., ?F 6th Avcnuc .,..Hllatc 6|lt

Hogu lrrnba Conpuy, znd lnd zllica Strctr.......,. ...Glucourt 6tcl

lvcrt m Dor & Sarh Co., 5rh & Cyprcr Stretr,.,...TEnplcbr t4c0

HARDlt/OODS

Strablc Hardwod Compuy, Firrt ud Clay Stretr.........TEmplcbu 55tl

Whitc Brcthcrr, 500 Hlrh Str6t..........,..,. .....ANdovcr 16|0

LOS ANGBLBS

sllf Wllrhtn Blvd.......,........WEbrtcr Zt2!

Anglo Callfomla Lumbcr Co.,

655 Ea.t Florancc Avauc......TRomwall 3laa

Aikinrcn-Shrtz Conpr '

62t Pctrelcim BldS...............PRorpoct lSrtl

Brulh Indugtrtal lubcr Oo,

590f S. C.lrtral Avc. ........., CEDtury Z-OffS

Bumr Lubcr Compuy.

9155 €huloillc Blvd- (Bwcly Hitrr)................ BRadrbaw 2-3t8E

Cm & Gor L J. (W. D. Dunnlnr).

a3E Chanbc of Cmncrca Bldg. PRorpcct tttl

Coopcr, W. E., 606-66 Rlchicld 81d8...............Mutut 2r3r

Dut & Rurrcll, Inc' tf2 Ei 59th Strct,..,...,...... ...ADur Elll

Dolb.atr e Caron Luhbcr Co,, tOl Ftdcltty BUt....,....,.,-.... ...VAndlLo E?92

Ed. Foutaln Ianbc Co-

a2t PctroLun Bldg...........,...PRogpcct {3,1t

H.hhod Imbcr Compuy, ZCfe Slo. Ahn.d! St..............FRolpGd t333

Holmo EurCra Imbs Co..

?ll-712 Archlterr Btdg............Mutud frSr

Hwcr, A L.

5325 Wtbhlrc 81vd......,......,......YOrL rraf

C. D. Johnron lqnbcr Corporeli,on, tO6 Potrolm Bldt-..............PRo.pGct ff65

Cul H. Knhl llnba 6. lL S. SDrlry St....................VAnd|k E033

Lrmcc-Ph,lllpl l{nbc 6., GIt Pctrdm Bldt...............PRorpoct U?l

Mad)mdd C.o., L. W- ?ll W. Olyrplc Dli'&.............PRorDcct ?f9a

Mrd)GrU & Hmlqtoo, Ltd., Prtnlcun 8U3.....,.........,...,PRorpct llZl

Prclftc Imbcr Co., lba tES Wlhhlr. 81vd...........,.........YOrt rr$

LUMBER

Penbcrthy Lmbr Co.

2a55 Eut slrt St......,....,.........K!mba[ 5rll

Popc & Talbot, lnc", Lubri Dlvldon, ?tl W. Olympic Blvd......,...,..PRo.FGt tztl

Rcd Rlvcr LubcilCoo

702 E. Slaurn, .CEntury 29Ol lGll S. Brcadway PRorpcct 03U

Su Podro Lumba Co. l5tE S. Catral Avc......,.,...,Rlchnmd lUf r800-A Wilniurto Road (Su Pcdro) .............,...........Su Prdre 2210

Suta Fc rt-ba Co-

3U Fln.rchl Ccntar Bldg.........VAndlko &7f

ScLafc Bror. llnbcr & Shlnglc Co1 rl7 W. 9th Strc.t...................TRtntty {?r

Shavlla Plnc Sdb. Co. tlC PctmhuE 81dt...............PRo.Fct 1615

Slnpon Indutricr, Inc., 16l. E. Tlfarhington Blvd.......,.PRorpcct CfE3

Sudda & Chrlrtanon, lnc., GlO Bord of Tradc BldS..........TRlnlty tt||

Tacona Lunbor Salcq t37 P.trolGun Bldg.,.......,.....PRorpcct lf0t

Wcnd||ng-Naths Co., 5225 Wilrhtrc B!vd........,............YOdr 1r0t

Wcrt Orcgu lunbc C,o. l?7 Pctrclcu BUg.,...,,........Rlchmond CZEI

W. W. Wilktnm, 3rt W. ttl Strct......,...........TR|D|ty {613

E. K. W6d Lubcr Co., l7t0 So. AlanGda St....,...... ....JEfisroo 3lll

'Wryabeanar Salcr Co., tt W. M. Garlend Blfu.........Mlchtrn 6354

CREOSOTED LUItBER-POLEtlr PILING:TIES

Anerlu Imbcr & Trcrtlna Co. la3l S. Bmdwry..............,..PRorprcl lSlt

Butor, J. rI. & Co.

c.l W.3t sth Sffi...............Mlctr|ru t29l

Pg & Tdbot, lnc., Lunbcr Dlvirlon, ?U W. Olynplc Blv& PRo.F.Gt tZtl

, TIARDII'OODS

Ancrlcu Hardwood Co., 1900 E. rsth Str6t..........,......PRorp€t aZls

Stmton, E. J. & Son, Z0t0 Erst 3tth Stret....,.......CEntury 202U

Wertm Herdwood frnbcr Oo., 20ll Eart lsth StrGGt..............PRoecct af|t SASH-DOORS-MILLWORK-SCREENL BLTNDST-PANEI.S AND PLYW(X>D- IRONTNG BOARDS

Bact Paml Canpuy, 3ra-3U Eut 3Ard Strcct,..........Altu. 1225

Cdifomle Dor Conpun Thc 4910 Dlrtrlct B|vd..................Klcbd| 2lal

Callfom|. Pracl & Vm Co.

955 S. Alucdr StrG.t, .., .TRlnlty t57

Cobb Co., T. M., 5!e0 Contral Avcnuo...............ADenr llll?

Eubank C Son, Inc., L H. (Inflcvood) 43! W. Rcdon& 81vd..............OR,c!oE t-ft|l

Halcy Bu. (Suta Moolca)

r.2a r{tb stret ...........,.....;ASUry l:zrt

Kochl, Jao. W. & Son, 654 S. My.r. Str6t................AN9.!ur tltl

Orcgon-Warhbftm Plywod Co. 3lE W..t NhtA Strct..........,.Tnblty l3ll

Pacific Wood Productr Corporatlon, 35O Tybum Strut....,...........AlJuy 0rll

Pgclfic Mutual Dor Ca., 1000 E. Wrrhhgtm Blvd.,.......PRorpct 95Zl

Rcu Canpuy, G.o. 8., A5 S. Aluoda Strcct ........Mlchlgu f$l

Rrd Rlva Lunbc Co;, ?c2 S. Slauron.....,..........,...,CErttry rt?f

Smprm Co. (Perado), ?15 lto. Rrynmfl Avo..............RYu l-C!r

Simpo lrdrtri.., Inc, l3la E. Wuhh3lm Blvd.,..."..,PRotD.d 3r!t

Wst Cart Sc.n coUl5 Eut Glrd Strut..............ADrn Ullt

Wcrtm Mill & Mouldial Co, 5l|f So. lVccorn Ava,.......,TlVlmelr lllt