THEY WON'T BE TOO PLENTIFUT SO PTEASE BE PATIENT A IITTTE LONGER
HARBOR PLYWOOD AND CELOTEX PRODUCTS ARE WORTH WAITING FOR
*Adevertibing appears in alternate issues.
Acme Blower & Pipe Co. --------------------------------27
American Hardwood Co. -------------------------------14 American Lumber and Treating Co. -----------* Anglo California Lumber Co. ---------------- --------29
Arcata Redwood Co. -----------------32
Atkinson-Stutz Cot Atlas Lumber Co. ---------------------------------------31
Back Panel Company ---'--------. *
Baxter & Co., J. H. -----------------29
Blue Diamond Corporation
Bradley Lumber Co. of Arkansas --------O-8.C.
Bruch Inductrial Lumbet C.o.-----------------Burns Lumber Co.--------------- -- -- ----------27
California Builders Supply Co. --------------------17
California Door Co.' The ----------------------------1, California Panel & Veneer Co. -------------------- 7
Carr & Co, L. J. --- - ------ ----------------------tl
Celotex Corporation, The
Christenson Lumbet Co. - - -
Cobb Co., T. M.
Cole Door 6c Plywood Co. -- - - - - - -------,----lO
Consolidated Lumber Co. ---------------- ----------------tO
Cooper, V/. E.
Curtis Companies fncorporated --------.,--------,----3
Dallas Machine & Locomotive Works
Dant & Russell, Inc. ------------- ------------------------ 19
Davidson Plywood & Veneer Co. -----,--------*
Douglas Fir Plywood Association
Equipmenq Enginering Co.
Eubank & Son, L. H. -------------------,-----,--------- 15
Flr Door Institute
Fir-Tex of Northern California -------------------.17
Fir.Tex of Southetn California --------------------17
Fleishman Lumber Co.
Ponderosa. Pine Woodwork-----------:-
Pope & Talbot, Inc., Lumber Division t
Poitland Cement Association----
Ream Co., George E.--------------------
Red Cedar Shingle Bureau,------------------,---------13
Robbins Lumber Co., R. G.----------------------------29
Ross Carrier Co.------------------
Santa Fe Lumber Co.------------------------------------- 5
San Pedro Lumber Company--------------------------12
Schafer Bros. Lumber Company-------- -------. --. --- 7
Schumacher WaIl Board Corporation.--------. I
Shevlin-Cords Lumber Co.------------------
Shevlin Pine Salee Co.----,------------- ------------------.2O
Sisalkraft Co., The--------
Southwestern Portland C,ement Co.--------------*
Stanton & Son, E. J.--- -
Sudden & Christenson, Inc.-------------- -- -------- --,-24
Tacoma Lumber Salec--------------- -----------------------15
Tarter, Webster .& Johncon---
Terrell Lumber Co.. The-------- -------- ---------- -- ------25
Tropical & Vestern Lumber Co.---------------- -*
United Statee Gypsun Co.,,----------------
U. S. Plywood Corporation,--
Vendling-Nathan Co. ------------,------------------------- 9
West Coast Screen Co.,----
West Oregon Lumber Co.--------------------------,-----17
Vestern Door & Sash Co.------------------------------ 2A
Vestern Hardwood Lumber Co.----------------O.F.C.
Vestern Mill & Moulding Co.,----------------------27
Vestern Pine Supply Co.------------------ --------------31
Veyerhaeuser Sales Company-------------------------* White Brothers,-------------------------------------------------16
\ffholesale Builders Supply, Inc.------------------- 31
Wholesale Lumber Distributors, Inc.,----- ----*
Williams & Boulton.---- ------------- I
Wood Lumber Co.. E. K.----------------------------------11
Seattle, Washington, I\Iarch 16, I946.-The rveekly average of \\/est Coast lumber production in February (4 weeks) rvas 112,339,000 board feet, or 77.6 per cent ol 19421945 average, according to the West Coast Lumbermen's Association in its monthly survey of the industry. Orders averaged 105,722,0m b.f.; shipments 110,224,000. Weekly averag'es for January rvere : Production 103,874,000 b.f (77.7 per cent of the 1912-1915 ar-erage) ; orclers 104,987,000; shipmer.rts, 106,233,000.
Nine rveeks f<tr 1946, cumulative production 968,726,000 b.f.; 9 \\reeks, 1945, 1,332,322,000; 9 l'eeks, 1944, 1,451,847,000.
Orders for 9 r'r.eeks ol 1946 break dcirvn as follorvs: Rail, 612,208,000 b.f.; domestic cargo, 139.165,000; expert, 89,774,000; local, 105,876,000.
The West Coast lurnber industry in February produced at a rate sufficient to supplv the builcling of 500,000 homes a year, exclttsive of the small amounts taken by exports. The industrv cites this iact against rvideiv published charges that lun.rber shortages are responsible for the housing crisis. The lumber manufacturing industrv is unable, it is true, to meet all demands for lnmber-including those for the construction of racetracks, saloons, gambling joints, roadhouses, poolroonrs. dancehalls and other constrrlction that is on a higher level but still unnecessary.
Such useless building is uncler n'ay all over the country :rnd is the one great cause of the crisis in home ltuilding. The veteran and his familv rvho tvant a new home stancl at the er.rd of a lor.rg line of customers for construction.
This situation is fully recognized by building industry authorities and is the reason for the ne'iv order scheduled by the Civilian Production Administration and National Housing Agency for the diversion of materials from commercial construction to home building.
The \\'rest Coast luml>er industry is not set up, equipped or staffed for the distribution of lumlter except in rvholesale quantities. It cannot exercise control of the types of constrnction to u'hich its product goes. The industry hopes that the new program rvill rvork for the benefit of hon.reless veterans and their families and rvill support it.
The Western Pine Association for the rveak ended Nlarch 9,102 mills reporting, gave orders as 45,919,000 feet, shiprnents 11,777p00 feet, and production 39,692,00O feet. Orclers orr hand at the end of the rveek totaled272.796.O00 teet.
-f he Southern Pine Association for the u,eek ended -Nlarch 16, 86 units (120 mills) reporting, gave orders as 17,62(t,000 feet, shipments 17,941,000 {eet, and production 16,4.15,000 feet. Orders on hancl at the end of the.neek totaled 93.436.0C0 feet.
'I'he \\'est Coast l-umbermen's Association for the rveek crrrled NIarch 9, 135 rnills reporting, gave orders as 77,726,000 feet, shil;nrents 83,407,000 feet, and production 81 ,299,000 feet. Unfillecl orders at the errd of the rl'eek totaled 550..iir.5,000 feet.
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Wm. Chatharn, Jr., Loop I-umber & Mill Co., Alamecla, general chairman of the l4tlr Annual Reveille, announces that the big event will be helcl in the Spanish Room, Claremont Hotel, Berkeley, on Friday, April 26,1946.
Tl.rere rvill be a golf tournament in the morning, starting at 10 o'clock, for which valuable prizes will be provided. Fun and fellowship will be the order of the da1. at this first peacetime Reveille in five years.
Amendment 18 to Znd RMPR 215 was issued and effective -March 14, 1946. The amendment reduces the handling charge on retail sales of Southern pine by retail distribution yards from $2.50 to nothing, and in wholesale-type sales by retail yards and on wholesale yard sales from $4.75 to $4.50. The addition to mill price of 4 per cent used in computing distribution yard prices for species for which ofifice wholesalers and commission men are allowed a mark-up is reduced from 4 to 2 per cent and will apply to Douglas Fir and all other softvvood species for which such a mark-up is now being granted in the mill regulations.
Penalty demurrage charges on box cars, which were to expire March 15, will remain in effect until Sept. 15, as the result of an amended order issued bv the Interstate Com-
Lumbermen are reminde<l merce Commission.
Wm. Chcthcrm, Jr. that this is their annual gettogether meeting and reservations are for them only.
Golf and Reveille tickets rvill be available on April 1.
The committee cl-rairmen are the following: General Chairman-Bill Chatham; Co-Chairman-Ed La Franchi, Flill & Morton, Inc., Oakland; Banquet Committee-Tom Jacobsen, Piedmont Mill & Lumber Co., Oakland; Entertainment Committee-George Clayberg. Iloorman Luml:er Co., Oakland; Finance Committee-Chris Sechrist, Loop Lumber & Mill Co., Alameda; Program Committee-Tonr Hogan III, Hogan Lumber Co., Oakland; Publicity Committee-Lu Green, Gamerston & Green Lumber Co., Oaklancl; Reception Committee-Phil Gosslin, Gosslin-Harding Lumber Co., Oakland; Ticket Sales Committee-Ev Lervis, Gamerston & Green Lumber Co., Oakland; Golf Tournament Committee-Tom Branson. Melrose Lumber & Supply Co., Oakland; General Secretary-Jim Overcast.
The Reveille is sponsored by Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39.
Golf chairman Tom lJranson has made arrangements for tl-re Sequoyah Countrl' Club, Oakland, for Friday (r-rot Saturday as formerly). l-unch and bar u'ill be available. Green fee, $3.00. inclucles one ball.
The provisions of the order apply to both intrastate and interstate commerce.
Penalty demurrage charges after expiration of free tinre48 hours-are:
For the first trvo days, $2.20 a car a day; third day, $5.50 a car a day;fourth day, $11.00 a car a day, and for each srrcceeding da1', $16.50 a car a day.
Buys Hardwood Veneer Plcnt
Nerv York, N.Y., March 6-Hamilton Veneer Co., a subsidiary of United States Plyu'ood Corporation, has purchased the Southeastern Veneer Co., of Denmark, South Carolina, R. Clay Wilcox, executive vice president o{ United States Plywood, announced today.
Southeastern Veneer operates a hardwood veneer cutting plant built less than tlvo years ago. Its facilities rn'ill be used primarily to furnish centers and crossbands {or United States Plyrvood's Algoma, Wisc. operation, according to Mr. Wilcox.
The Construction Industries of Southern California, which opments in construction and ances, will be held at the Pan geles, from Jttly 12-21.
Exposition and Home Shorv will present postwar develhc-rme building and appliPacific Auditorium, Los An-
Maqx Hyatt, San Francisco district sales manager of the -\merican Lumber and Treating company, has resumed his duties follou'ing 42 months of military service, according to al1 announcement from J. F. Linthicun.r, Chicago, company president.
He entered the Army a ferv months after Pearl Harbor, sat' service in Australia, Neu, Guir.rea and the Philippines, and landed in Japan shortly after the surrender.
Follou,ing a brief period spent renerving acquaintances in the engineering, architectrrral ar.rd lumber circles of California, Oregon and Washington, Mr. Hyatt is again in charge of the company's San Iirancisco office at 604 Nlission Street and responsible for sales oper;rtions of American Lumber ancl Treating conlparry plants at Wauna, Ore., and \\reed, Calif.
He is being assisted by Gordon I\{. Dervart, designated actir.rg clistrict manag'er while he was on leave, and by Clinton 'T. Hallsted, recently released from the Navy after rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander. Prior to entering the Navy in 1942, X{r. Hallsted rvas sales representative assigned to the Los Angeles district office of the company. His Navy career includes service in Nerv Guinea, Australia. Nerv Zealand. India. and the H.awaiian Islands.
The Pacific Wood Products Co. at Grants Pass, Ore. plaus an expansion program n'hich rvill double its capacity, according to C. P. Bolers, o\\rner, ll'ho visited tl.re plant recently u'ith several officials of the Bo.ivers Battery & Spark Plug Co. of Reading, Pa. Plants are operated at Reading, I'a., Spring Valley, Pa., I3oston, l\[ass., Patterson, N. J., and Nerv Pl-riladelphia, Ohio, by the Borvers Company. A plant is also being built at Nfacon, Ga. All the separators used by the company are produced in the Pacific Wood Products plant.
Washington, March 21-Ponclersa pine cut stock, usecl largely for cloors, lvindorv frames and sashes, has been granted an average increase of 614.in ceilings for mill sales, OPA announced.
Ceilings for extras such as special milling, hole boring, dadoing, mitering, sanding, surfacirrg and gluing are temlrorarily increased by amounts ranging ftont Z4o/o b IA0/o.
After tl-re industry operates for 90 days under these new telnporary ceilings, OPA u'ill revieu' cost data and adjust ceilings accordingly.
OPA said millwork production rvill not be affected by the increases for extras but toy manufacturers ancl makers of luggage and furniture rvill be. Tht actior-r becomes effective Nfarcl.r 26. (Order 3 under Revised MPR 94.)
Clinton W. Stein, special agent in charge oi the San Francisco oflrce of the Federal Bureau of L.rvestigation, rvas the speaker at the regular monthly luncheon meeting of the San Francisco Lumbermen's Club, held in the Concert Room, Palace Hotel, San Francisco, March 19.
President Dave Davis announced that arrangements are being made for a golf tournament and dinner at the Olympic Golf Club at Lakeside on Friday, May 21.
Homer B. Nfaris, Simpson Industries, Inc., Oakland, won the door prize, a 16l lb. ham, donated by South City Lumber & Supply Co.
The attenclance at this meeting made a ne\\i record {or the club.
The next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, April 23, in tl.re Concert Room of the Palace Hotel, at 11:59 a.rn.
Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. has announced plans for a plyrvood rnill at Longview, Wash. Harr1. E. I\{organ, Longvieu' manager. says the mill rvill have a capacity of 50 million feet annually and is expected to be in operation by Jnne, 1947. The plant will employ 200.
The OPA on March 20 granted a price increase of 15 per cent on Redrvood shingles.
Home Office-Aberdeen, Woshington
Mcrnufacturers of Douglos Fir ond West Coost Hemlock
CALIFORNIA SALES REPRESENTATIVE FOR
Robert Gray Shinqle Co.
Gardiner Lumber Co.
Aberdeen Plywood Corp BUYING
The more we see of OPA. The less we see goods on display, The more the price we have to pay For more of drab and less of gay. We take the less and go our way, With less delight and more delay. The more we have of OPA, The less we have of USA. The more our hair is turning gray, The more we hope to see the day When we see less of OPA.
Picked up the paper the other day and the headlines proudly announced that the bureaucrats had made arrangements to release more men's shorts, of which commodity there has been something of a famine for a year or so. ***
The next day we were told that the bureaus were arranging to have some men's suits placed on sale. They've been scarce, too.
Wonder what Georg. -""nl*an and Thomas Jefferson and Hickory Jackson would have said if they caught the Federal Government making rules and regulations covering men's shorts? These were far-sighted men who looked deeply into the future. But I'll bet in their wildest nightmares none of them ever foresaw the Government governing and regulating every man's business, right now to the underwear hs vrg21s-ryna"*n.**.lr any to wear.
Flaven't read any headlines concerning a supply of men's everyday white shirts, a commodity as scarce as hen's teeth. And your women will tell you that the stores where they trade seldom have a single pair of stockings to offer their customers. Not nylons or silks, but any sort of decent stockings.
rs there any man in this ;JrJ so completely dumb that he does not know that every one of these conditions and millions of other conditions just as unexplainable and inexcusable stem directly from Government regulations? Where else could they come from?
There is only one subject of discussion among business men and thinking people these days, and that is the harm that Government is doing THEIR business. No matter who you talk to or where or what line of endeavor he is in, he can tell you exact and specific stories of the harm Government regulation is doing. And the columns of the newspapers are also filled with them. Millions of men who
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never in their lives before were caught critically condemning their Government, now seek public places in which to voice their indignation at the *antl*" they tell about.
Surely "the land of the free" is considerably less free than it ever was before, and the people in "the home of the brave" don't like it.
Judge Hatton Summers, one of the most respected men in Congress, and Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has just announced that after 34 years a Democrat, he is resigning frgm the House, and will devote his time and efforts to a campaign of speaking to warn the people of their danger. In his announcement he calls the present Government "an instrumentality of favoritism, tyranny, oppression, and corruption,"* H*e further said:
"I have watched what my own generation has been doing to the greatest system of democratic government ever evolved through the processes of the ages. By ignoring principles and the lessons of history, and accepting the theories of men and political expediency for our guidance, we have made vassals of our states and dependents of our people. By concentration of governmental power and drafts upon the federal treasury we have now a financially busted great piled-up mass of governmental confusion beyond human comprehension, impossible of democratic control, extravagant, wasteful, inefficient, and by its nature the instrumentality of favoritism, tyranny, oppressions and corruption, and the destroyer of the self-reliance and selfrespect and governmental capacity of the people, qualities without which no people *can* remain free."
That's hard talk from such a man as Judge Summers, but he has been saying something of the kind in every public utterance since creeping socialism began rearing its ugly head in Washington, and Communism began showing its hydra-head in public places. * >t<
Long, long ago a very wise man named Henry Norman made a remark that has since been quoted innumerable times by thinking mep, when he said: "On the border of every country in Europe and Asia the sentries challenge, 'Who goes there?' and the answer always is 'Russia."' How true those words continue to be. "Ilncle" Joe has a wartired world by the ears at the present moment. It cannot be said of him in the words of the Psalmist (Psalms 55-2t), "The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart." War is in his heart, without a doubt, but war talk is likewise in his mouth, and he has recently spoken words as hard as cannon balls concerning his in-
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Annc.rnncement is nrade by President ll . E. l3ryitn of the Pacific Coast \\'holesale Hardnood Distributors Association th:rt this organizirtiorr u'ill.hold its 22nd annual converrtior.r \Ia1' 22, 23 and 24 at the Sor-ronra \Iission Inn, Boyes Springs, Calif., located in Sonoma Val1ey, poeticalll' described bv Jack l-ondon as the \rallet of the Moon.
.\ rellresentative group is expectecl to attencl fronr both the northern and southern areas of the Coast. In acldition to regnlar business
nteetings, ltanquets, vaudeville, su.imming, tennis, horseltack riding, golfing and sightseeing are being arranged for by the convention con-rmittee.
( ommittees appointed are as follon s : Program-Don \\-hite and C. H. White: \\/orld \\rar II Veterans' Entertairrrnent-Don 13raley and Don Kesselring; Ifntertainrncnt-l{alph N{annior-r, Charles White, and Nelson E. Jones; Golf-J. E. Higgins, Jr., Lellol' Stanton, and Joe Ahern; Ladies' Entertainment-Mrs. Dor.r White, and XIrs. Don llraley; Pultlicity and Printing-J:rmes Il. Overca st.
Ileserlations shoulrl be made throrrgh Janres Davis, secretar.v, at l)avis Hardrvood Company, 350 Ba-v- Street, San Fr:rncisco 6. Calif., telephone EXbrook .1322.
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tentions toward the world fere with his imperialism. one small atom bomb into of the world.
and all those who would interMaybe we'll have to slip just Joe's pocket to save the peace
A naval officer told me a good story the other day, that the above reference to the sentry challenge reminds me of. He was driving home the point that by reason of their very fiber, American boys have the stuff that cannot be licked. And he told of a half-baked sailor in boot-camp at San Diego during the early part of the war, who was on sentry duty for the first time. He had been trying his best to remember and absorb and assimilate all the things they were trying so rapidly to teach him, and there was lots of confusion in his mind, so when a man in uniform approached his post he presented his rifle and said-"Halt, who goes there?" The officer replied-"Senior officer of the guard." The sailor-sentry continued to stand for a half a minute, motionless and wordless, his bayonet pointed at the officer, who grew impatient and said, "Well, hurry, I can't stand here all night." And the green sentry replied: "We11, by G-, you'll stand there until I can remember what to ask you next."
McElroy Lumber Cornpany has reopened its San X,Izrter-r and Los Altos yards, u'hich rl,ere closed for tl're duration.
ta,forrteryt, orr/ 5 itfrri/t4ltoDt
"l Mexican, African and Philippine Mahogany and other hardwoods from Tropical America and the Philippine lslands.
CUSTOM MIIJ.ING
Resowing, ripping, sur{crcing cnd trimming crt our re-monufocturing plont of Long Becch, Colif.
Our kilns ond operators cne certified by Government for drying oircrolt lumber. We olso do other commercicl drying.
DOUGTAS FIR REDWOOD SUGAR OR PONDEROSA PINE SASH AND DOORS
Mil-twoRK
MASONITE TEMPERED PRESDWOOD CONCRETE FORM PANETS
CEMENT ASBESTOS BOARD
INSUI.ATION AND INSUTATION BOARD
INSUTATION TITE AND PLANK
PTASTER BOARD
FIR-TEX lNSUIAT]ON PRODUCTS TRIPTE-SEALED GYPTAP
WOODLIFE WATER
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"cooos oF THE wooos'
A famous white Methodist divine once agreed to conduct an experience meeting in a colored church in the South, and found a most enthusiastic congregation.
A woman rose and bore enthusiastic witness to the preciousness of her religion as a light burner and comforter of a spiritual character.
"That's good, sister, that's good" commented the eminent divine. "But how about the practical side? Does your
See Ncrvy Pictures
Trn'o Navy pictures, one entitled "Report l'rom Tokyo 1946," and the other a rvar action picture, were shorvn at the March dinner meeting o{ Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39, held at the Claremont llotel, March 18.
There \\,as a good attenclance. Irresident John Helm presided.
religion help to make you a better housewife ? Does it make you strive to prepare your husband better meals? To keep his house more neatly? To look after his welfare in every way? Does it do that?"
As the woman pondered the questions, the preacher felt a yank at his coat-tail, and a colored brother whispered from behind:
"Press dem questions, pahsun, press dem questions! Dass mah wife."
V. O. "Vic" Williams, general manager of the Dalias Machine & Locomotive \\,-orks. manufacturers of the Gerlinger lift trucks and carriers, recentll. sper.rt a feu, clays with his company'*s selling agents, Burnalty and \\rilliams, of Beverly Hills. He expressed pleasure at the reception their products are receiving from custonrers in tl-ris district.
We Hav e Received Another Shipment of PATENTED SCREEN DOORS
\T ITH FLY EX ITS "CALDOR" No. G-3 o/so
Plypanels - Plvwall - Frames - Doors - Sash - Glass
SOLD THROUGH LUInIBER DEALERS ONt y THE CATIFORNIA DOOR COMPANY
Mailing Addre6s: "since 1852"
P. O. Box 126, Vernon Stction Klmboll 2l4l 4940 District Boulevord
LOS ANGELES I1
Certigrode Red Cedor Shingies qre q stqndordized cnd inspected product; eoch grode identified by the Certigrode Lobel under the bqnd stick.
Nlembers of the Redr'r'ood Industrial Relations Clon.rmittee 'n'elcome this opportunity to appear llefore this cir-ic group and state our position with respect to the strike in the Redwood area u'hich is norv in its 12th u-eek'
The facts are these :
The demands of the ttnion included:
1. A22% cent per hour rvage increase for all employees;
2. A full union shop;
3. Sixteen other demands which, if granted, rvould increase produciion costs to a level that r'vould lle rttinous to the entire Redrvood industry.
In response to the union's demands the Redrvood operators, prior to the strike, made the follorving offer:
(a) A 15 cent per hour increase for all employees. This will result in an increase of $1.20 per eight hour da1' or $6.00 per 4O hour rveek per employee. This means a total increase in the payrolls of the Redwood operators of approximately $30,000 a u'eek.
(b) A second week's vacation with pay for all employees of five years' continuous service.
(c) That all other demands of both the uniot.r and ernployers would be rvithdrawn.
(d) The contracts to be effective for one year.
The increase rvhich the operators offered to their etnployees on January 11,1946, rvhen added to other increases granted since January l, 1941, rvould increase averagc straight time l-rourly earnings of all employees 67/o allove tlre January l94l averages. Th\s 67/a average increase since January l, 1941 , is more tl-ran twice fhe 33/a reported by the Department of Labor and requested ltv the President as necessary to meet the increased cost of lit'ing. The extra week of vacation further increases this figure.
We believe that our employees and the public should know that the 15 cents per hour increase offerecl bv the Redr,r'ood operators on January lI,1946, is at least as favorable as any increase made to their employees bv anv major group in the rvestern lurnber inclustry'.
All of the recent strikes in the Pacific Northu'est and in other parts of California were settled or.r the basis of from
121 to 15 cents per hour rvage increase. Nol.here in the balance of the rvestern lumber industry was union shop an issue. Norvhere in the balance of the rvestern lumber industry u'ere the operators faced rvith a multitude of other clemands such as in Redwood.
The settlements in the other segments of the western lumber industry, involving approximately 120,000 employees, ivere on the basis of a straight 12% to 15 cents per hour increase and with no other demands or concessions being made bv either party.
Tl.re Redu'ood operators are unaltle to understand why the strike in the Redrvood area should be prolonged through the insistence on these excessive demands.
There appears to be much confusion over the union sectrrity issue. Since December 15, 1944 all of the major Redr.vood companies have been operating under a standard maintenance of membership provision which was handed don'n on that date by the National War Labor Board. Under the terms of that provision an employee is free to join or not to join a union as he sees fit. The union's demand for a full union shop means that all employees must join and remain members of the union in good standing as a condition of employment. The employers are unwilling to compel any person to join the union in order to obtain or hold his job.
Every Iteclwoocl producer r,vhose plant is now closed has substantial investments in standing timber and mill facilities. Everv one of them is vitally interested in supplying Rechvood to meet the immediate needs of the reconversion program, the same as they met the demands of our country during the rvar.
When in operation these r.nills provide ernployment for a large percentage of the people of Humboldt and Mendocino counties. On this continued employment depends the prosperitv of the grocers, the meat markets, the bakers, harclware stores, banks and others rvho serve the people .n'ho produce lumber.
Most of the people, therefore, operators, ernployes and
to build up inventories both in the wholesqle distributing yqrds crnd in the retcril yards.
But with the grrecrt bulk ol lumber lootcrge now Ilowing into regular trcrde channels we cre looking forwcrrd to crgcrin being crble to oller you tttMBER FOR E\TERY PUNPOSE.'
merchants alike, all have a common interest in seeing that production of Redrvood lumber continlles.
Any charge of "holding up reconversion" br- stoppirrg production of urgently needed ltedu'ood lumlter must ltc laid at the door of the union leaders who admit that the principal issue prolonging the strike is union shop.
The Redn'ood operators hope that the strike u,ill soon be or-er. The u'orkers in the struck Redn'ood operatiotrs arc losing approxir.nately $50,000 a day for every day the strike lasts. As of today, r.rot less than $2,000,000 in payrolls alone have been lost from circulation in the Redr.vood area since the strike began. Er-ervone in the community loses irr a strike.
Itedu.ood Industrial Relations Committee on ltehalf of Struck Companies: Harnmond I-umber Company, Pacific I-unrber Company, Union Lumber Companl-, CasPar Lnrnber Clompanr'. Rockport Redrvoocl Con.rpany, Holnres lfnreka I-uml>er Companl-, Dolbeer & Carson Lun.rber Companr-, Northern Redn oocl Companr., r\rcata Redl,ood Company.
Joins Scles Stcfl
\\rilliam N{alkmus has joinecl forni;r Panel ct Veneer Co., Los l-Iamnror.rd Lurnber Comltanv vears ;rnd is u'ell knolvn to the
Sells Interest
H. A. Dent has Manufacturing Co. of Tacoma, \\'ash. tors of the Nf1.rt1e
the -sales staff of the CaliAngeles. He u'as rvith the of Los Angeles for rnany trade.
solcl his partncrship irrterest in the Fir at Nlyrtle Creek, C)re., to J. H. Gonyea Nlr. Gonl.ea \\'as one of the incorporaCreek Conrpanr'.
714W. Olympic Blvd.
LOS ANGETES 15, CAUF.
Telephone PRospect ll08
St. Pctul & Tccomcr Lumber Co. Tcrcomc, Wash-
Delicrnce Lumber Compcrny Tcrcomc, Wash.
Diclorncn Lumber Compcny Tccomc, Wcrsh.
Kcrlen-Davis Compcrny Tqcomc, Wcsh.
Vcncouver Plywood & Veneer Co. Vcncouver, Wash.
Tccomq Hqrbor Lumber d Timber Co. Tccomc, Wcrsh.
hcs double strengrth and durcbility,. is cdcptable to limited spcce; hcls fireprool iron stor<rge and metal-asbestos iron rest on bocrrd.
433 W. Redondo Blvd. OBeson 8-2255
lnglewood, Ccrlil.
Clecr Fir Sales Co. Eugene, Ore.
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Roseburg, Ore.
S. S. WHITNEY OTSON
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Meeting in Portland on February 27, the board of directors of the Pacific Lumber Remanufacturers Association confirmed the appointment of R. T. Titus of Seattle as executive secretary and instructed him to establish offices in Portland as soon as possible. Mr. Titus resigned his position as director of trade extension of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association on March 1 and has taken over his nerv duties.
A graduate of the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse lJniversity, Mr. 'fitus acquired some practical experience in sawmilling on the Pacific Coast, then joined the promotional field staff of the West Coast Lumber Trade Extension Bureau in 1926, later continuing in that 'nvork with the West Coast Lumbermen's Association until 1932. For the next two years, he was Eastern representative of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, then in 1934 became secretary-manager of the Intercoastal Lumber Distributors Association with headquarters in New York, leaving in 1939 to return to the West Coast Lumbermen's Association in charge of trade extension activities including field service, dealer relations, Government contacts, ad'i'ertising, preparation of literature and the like.
At the meeting on February 27, the board of directors also gave attention to the question of determining the activities in which the Association ought to engage for the benefit of its members.
The Officers of the Association are: Raymond Lewis, Raymond Hardwood Company, Raymond, Wash., presi' dent; John Harris, Redding Forest Products, Redding, Calif., vice president; J. H. Jones, Golden Gate Lumber Co., Eugene, Ore., secretary-treasurer.
Price increases averaging 7 per cent were granted on March 20 by the OPA on five types of composition roofing, it rvas announced, while they lowered the ceiling on three types of roofing less commonly used.
Fottrteen new members and twelve cancellations are shown in a new membership directory issued February 15, 1916, by the Western Pine Association. This replaces the March 15, 1945, issue and gives up-to-date data for each of thc mills listed. The names of member mills, located in ter"r Western states and British Columbia, are listed alphabetically by states. In the directory the information given is arranged and tabulated for convenience of reference. It shon s the location of individual plants ; the estimated capacity of mills for one S-hour shift; the addresses of sales offices and the percentage of production of Idaho White Pine, Ponderosa Pine, Sugar Pine and associated species. The data given in tabular form indicate the nature of the products of each operation, classified either as staple items or factory products and specialties that are manufactured and handled.
Single copies of the Directory will be mailed free of charge upon request to Western Pine Association, 510 Yeon Building, Portland 4, Oregon.
Building permits taken out in February, shortest month of tl-re year, totaled 4236 with a valuation of $17,O21,788, compared to 1856 permits with a valuation ol $2,417,815 in February a year ago, it was announced by Supt. G. E. Morris of the Building and Safety Department.
Construction for residences and apartments represented more than half of the total valuation, with 50 apartments, 979 single family residences, 66 two-story residences, 43 duplexes and 15 multiple homes, which -will take care of 1400 families.
Total permits for the first trvo months of the year were 8667, r,vith a valuation of $34,752,853, and since March I the Builcling and Safety Department has been jammed daily rvith new applicants for permits, despite the scarcity of materials.
Harry Horr, mill operator and retail lumberman is building a sawmill near Glenburn in Shasta County which will have a capacity of 30,000 board feet per day' The plant will include a planing mill.
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FIis men, through the bargaining representative, had given notice that tomorrow morning they were going on strike Ior 3oo/o more wages. The manager sat alone in his office, thinking about it. As he sat there, he wondered why he hung onto his business anyway. The fun was all gone out of it. Between one thing and another, taxes, troubles, materials, wages, he wasn't getting either the kick or the income out of it that would pay him for his headaches.
So he decided to write all his employees a letter. And this is what he wrote:
"Boys-1 hear through that mouthpiece of yours that you're going to strike on me, demanding more pay. Well boys, so am I. I'm going to strike, too, for more pay. I've got as much right and a damn sight more reason to strike than you boys have. Just woke up to the way I've been kicked around lately, and I won't stand for it any longer. I'M ON STRIKE.
"Ffere are my demands. This is my beef. I think that's the way it's done, isn't it? I want more pay for what I do. , The beating I take running this business is worth more than I'm getting out of it and I'll be damned if I burn up my life making jobs for ypu boys if I'm only to get my pay chiseled down again.
"What do I do? If you boys had sense you'd see I'M your agent, not this bozo you've selected to do your bargaining for you. What do I do to bargain for you boys? I had to scrape up the money to start this out6t. That took plenty of bargaining, believe me. I had to go without much more than subsistence pay myself until I could get it going so I could hire anybody. My pay came mostly from satisfaction of bucking the competition and getting the business on its feet. I worked long and late at it. NO OVERTIME PAY REMEMBER. Then I bargained to get materials for you to work on.
"So I was your business agent, and still am. I bring in the business so you can have jobs. Without me bargaining with our customers. there'd be no orders. Without orders there'd be no job for you. Jobs don't just grow on trees. I bargain for them for you boys. Then, if you all produce the product reasonably, f get my pay just as you get yours, out of what our customers pay us.
"So, if you guys are going to get a raise, I've either got to get is from our customers, or it will come out of me and that means a cut in my pay. I'll be damned if you're going to cut my pay again. Let's see your agent go out and get the business and thus make jobs for you. There used to be pay for me both in the return I got on the money I had to scrape up to protect my careful management, and in the. kick I got out of doing a growing business. I used to get a KiCK, tOO, OUT OF SEEING SOME OF YOU BOYS SHOW YOU HAD STUFF SO THAT I COULD RAISE YOU AND GIVE YOU MORE RESPONSIBILITY.
"Lately that pay has been all taken away from me. I just don't have much to say about the business any more It's all fenced in with a lot of regulations and everybody and his brother wants a cut on it. I've had to put on so much office help just to handle reports and forms there's hardly time to go out after more orders. So you see boys I'm doing more work than I ever did before and my pay has been cut both in income and satisfaction.
(The following is attached to the trees on the edge of the forest in Portugal) : "Ye who pass by and would raise your hand against me, harken ere you harm me.
I am the heat of your hearth on the cold winter nights, the friendly shade screening you from the summer sun, and my fruits are refreshing draughts quenching your thirst as you journey on.
I am the beam that holds your house, the board of your table, the bed on which you lie, the timber that builds your boat.
I am the handle of your hoe, the door of your homestead, the wood of your cradle, the shell of your coffin. I am the bread of kindness and the flower of beauty.
Ye who pass by, listen to my prayer: harm me not."
You never can tell what your thoughts will do, In bringing you hate or love; For thoughts are things, and their airy wings Are swifter than carrier doves. They follow the law of the universe, Each thing must create its kind, And they speed o'er the track to bring you back Whatever went out of your mind.
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox.A lady had advertised for a girl for general housework, and was showing an applicant over the house. The girl asked:
"Do you do your own stretchin'?"
"What's that?" asked the lady.
"Stretchin'," repeated the girl.
"I don't understand."
"f mean do you put all the food on the table at once and let the family stretch for it, or do I have to shuffle it around ?"
"That girl certainly puts on a lot of airs."
"How do you mean?"
"Well, her father is an undertaker in Georgia, and she tells everybody he is a Southern planter."
Washington-Lumber production in 1916 u,ill have to increase 4,500 million feet over 1945 to rneet the Government's housing program needs, according to a lnn-rber sttrvey committee of the Department of Commerce.
Lumber production dropped to an estimated 27,481 nillion feet for 1945, lorvest since 1939 and 25/o less than the peak war year oL 1942.
'The report said that "to break the lumber bottleneck," industry claims these changes must be made in pricing policies: (1) Restoration of normal relationships between prices for lumber items; (2) incentive pricing to enable industry to recruit labor; (3) elimination of long delays in granting price relief ; (4) determination of cost-price relationships; and (5) discarding of the formula under which prices are presentlv established, which permits only 75/o of the industry to "break" even or make a profit.
Manpower problems persisting in certain areas, along n'ith the widespread dissatisfaction with ceiling prices, constitute major deterrents to increased output, the report said:
Despite an upsurge of residential construction during the fourth quarter of 1945, estimated at nearly three times that ol the last quarter of 1944, residential building is still far below peak pre-u'ar vears, the report said.
N{embers of the lumber survey committee are Thomas S. Holden, president, F. W. Dodge Corp., New York; J. Phillip Boyd of Phillip Boyd & Co., Chicago; M. W. Stark, Detroit Ordnance District, Detroit; Colvin Fentress, chairman, Baker-Fentress & Co., Chicago, and Wilson Compton, president, Washington State College, Pullman, Wash. J. L. Muller, chief, lumber unit, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. is secretarv.
C. C. Bohnhoff won the first prize, a sterling silver goblet, rvith a net score of 68 at the 238th Terrible Tu'enty gol{ tournament held at the Riviera Country Club, Santa Monica, on March 15. Frank Berger won the second prize, a sterling silver ash tray, rvith a net 72 score. In the play-off carried over from the February tournament, Curt McFadden won from Ed Bauer.
The party was sponsored by Curt NlcFadclen and Frank Berger. The April tournament will be held at the Rel Air Country Club.
Washington, March 23-Price Administrator l)aul Portcr announced tocla,v an a\ierage sales price increase of $4.60 per thousand feet for Western pine lumber and comparable increases in pine agricultural containers.
OPA granted the follotving price increases
1. Increased prices of shop grades $6.70 per thousand feet above the present level;
2. Increased prices of dimension lumber $3 per thousand feet ;
3. Increased prices of flooring, drop-siding, and ceiling an averag'e of $9 per thousand feet.
At the same time NIr. Porter read a letter from the OPA to Irving E. Kesterson, chairman of the industry advisory committee for Western wooden agricultural containers. The letter disclosed that OPA had accepted a committee recommendation for price adjustments on Western r,vood containers for food.
Priorities for scarce building materials issued under the present Veterans Preference Rating System will remain valid and rvill not be affected by any change in regulations under the Veterans Emergency Housing Program, National Housing Expediter Wilson W. Wyatt declared.
Home builders were assured that all HH preference ratings rvhich have been issued and are currently being issued rvill be honored by suppliers for all building materials now in extremely short supply.
There is no intention to check construction of hornes progressing u'ith priority assistance and the orders being der-eloped to tighten controls over materials in accordance rvith the emergency program 'rvill not prevent the completion of priority housing under construction, Mr. Wyatt said.
Russ Castell, Northem California and Orange County representative of The California Door Company, Los Angeles, has resigned his position to be associated with the Coast Lumber & Equipment Co., Long Beacfo, Calif., effective April 1. He has accepted the position of sales manager of the Prefabricated Homes Division, and rvill have charge of the distribution and sales for this area.
A national objective of grorving more trees for America \\'as adopted by forest industries groups, users of wood and paper, railroads and state and federal government agencies, at the tree grorving conference sponsored by American Forest Products Industries. Inc.. in the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City, March 1.
"Aggressive educational leadership airned at nothing less tl-ran continuous growing of trees on every acre of land suited to that purpose," u'as the goal set by the allied groups, following presentation of such a program by Col. \\i. ll. Greeley, Seattle, former chief forester of the United States :rnd norv chairman of trustees of American Forest Products I ndustries.
"Farmers, industries and other lancl owners are proving on an ever larger scale that trees are a crop," Col. Greeley said. "By education and performance, we must demonstrate that this crop calt be iri contintlotls, sufficient an<l profitable grorvth."
Col. Greeley citecl the follorving aims for the program:
l. To extend organized protection against forest fire ttr all forest land in the United States.
2. 'To place all farm and industrial areas possible in tree farms or some other recognized form of permanellt forest management.
3. To make more effective the technical service and advice necessary to der,eiop the timber growing practices of each region.
As outlinecl at the meeting, tl're program is directed torvard the o\\'ners of America's rvoodlands consisting of 3,475,000 farnrers t'ith 140 million acres of woodlancls, half a million non-farmers with 133 million acres of timber-gros'-
ing propertl'' and industrial owners with 6U million acres of forests.
Clol. Greeley emphasized the fact that his organization cloes not contemplate duplicating the work of any agency in the forestry field, but stands ready to assist all such groups, whether state or federal, industrial or civic organizations.
"\\'e are planning definitely to derive our ideas from those norv in the field, and to extend our assistance to them as they thet-t.rselves direct," he declared.
ln adclition to emphasizing the importance of the small n'ood-lot owner in grorving trees as a crop, tl.re conference indicated the role being assumed by forest industries and users of u'oocl products in assuring the nation a perpetual supply of rvoocl. Individual endorsements Of the progralll lr-r' group representatives. were many'
Walter D. liuller, president of the Curtis Publishing Co', lrncl vice president of the National Publishers Association, stressed the impor tar-rce that publishers attach to a perPetrral supply of u'ood for paper. "Without paper," Mr' Fuller stated, "we cannot discharge our responsibility to carry i<leals an<l soun<l public thinking to the one hundred ancl forty millions that are in this country'"
William Chandler, president of tl-re American Nervspaper lrultlishers Association advocated the development of forest lands both in the United States and Alaska, to increase the nation's self sufliciel-rcy in paper pulp.
It. L,. McArdle. assistant chief of the United States Forest Service, endorsed the program predicting a stimulation of the rrational forestry effort wl-rich rn'ould increase demands on the Forest Service for local aid. "With all of the em-
phasis that is now going to be given to encouraging people to grow timber the big job ahead for the Forest Service . is to give actual help on the ground," Mr. McArdle said.
William G. Howard, New York State Forester representing the National Association of State Foresters, expressed appreciation for the support which the program promised to his organization. "I can't see how any State forester can have any feeling except gratitude that your organization has come forward with a program like this, to carry out objectives exactly the same as our own," he said. "State foresters have a great responsibility since the real accomplishment has got to be in the forest, and in the field."
Representing the National Editorial Association, Charles E. Moreau advocated aiming of the tree growing program toward all states and areas with equal force. States no.iv considered as primarily industrial were once substantial producers of timber, he pointed out. Such states and areas may be encouraged to rejuvenate their forest lands and contribute substantially to the nation's lvood resources.
"Railroads are interested ih anything that will preserve our forests for a source of raw materials or increase the manufacture of forest products," said S. E. Armstrong, representing the Association of American Railroads.
A resolution calling for the adoption of the program as outlined by Col. Greeley, was introduced by Raymond W. Miller, national authority on agricultural organizations, and unanimously approved by the conference.
F. K. Weyerhaeuser of St. Paul introduced Col. Greeley. Among others who explained the program were Chapin Collins of Washington, director of American Forest Products Industries, fnc., James P. Selvage, Ner,v York public relatior.rs consultant, and Charles A. Gillett, forester for the American Forest Products Industries.
Ray Hill has gone in the wholesale lumber business for himself and r,vill operate as the Ray Hill Lumber Co. His oflices are at 6611 Sth Avenue, Los Angeles. He has been associated with the rvholesale lumber business in the [,os Angeles territorv for a long period and is well known to the trade. lfe rvas with the Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co.
Ray re'ceived his discharge from the Army recently after three years' service in the Transportation Corps, in u'hich he vgas a Maior.
Donald A. Campbell, one of the country's leading experts on lumber and a past president of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, has been appointed to the staff of National Housing Expediter Wilson W. Wyatt as a special consultant on lumber problems arising out ol the Veterans E,mergency Housing Program.
A lumber dealer in Lebanon, Ky., since he began his busilless career, NIr. Campbell is Mayor of Lebanon and vicepresident of the Marion National Bank there. During the rvar, from October ol 1912 until October of 1945, he servecl vi'ith the War Production Board in charge of production and distribution of lumber.
fn announcing the appointment of Mr. Campbell, Mr. Wyatt said he would rvork directly with the lumber industry and act as liaison officer with other Government agencies concerned with breaking bottlenecks in lumber production and distribution, one of the major problems in achieving the goals of the Veterans Emergency Housing Program-start of construction of 2,700,M moderately priced homes and apartments for veterans in the next two years.
Roddy Mulholland, vice president of the California Panel & Veneer Company, resigned on March 14 and sold all of his stock interest in the company to W. F. Fahs. Mr. Mulholland, who has long been president of the Baker Steel :rnd Tube Company, will devote his full time to the affairs of this concern. They recently moved into their ner,v offices and warehouse at 1400 Calzona St., Los Angeles.
Ifowell N. Baker, Jr., has been elected vice president of tl-re California Panel & Veneer Company to fill the vacancy created by Mr. Mulholland's resignation. W. F. Fahs conti,nues in the position of manager and secretar.i'-treasurer.
Makers of builders' hardware and related items have beer-r granted a 10/o increase over prices charged during October, 1941. A new method of computing ceilings to reflect ab_ sorption of producers' increases was granted wholesalers and retailers of tl-rese items. (Amendment 12 to Order 4g under Section 22 of MPR 591, Amendment 7 to Revised Price Schedule 4O, Amendment 5 to MpR 413, Supplemen_ tary Order 151, all effective March 13.)
I{ere is a picture of Roy Stanton, of [-os Angeles, u-hen he acted as dinner l-rost the other da1' to three recently returned American \l'arriors, all three of n'hom u'ill soon retrlrn to the Islands and engage in the lumber business.
Left to right thev are N{onte \\''heeler, Colonel Walt Walter, Roy Stanton, ancl Colonel Charlie lledges. Monte Wheeler, before the rvar, was a lumber irnporter in Los Angeles. Colonel \\ralter before the rvar was gelleral manager of the lumber, timber, and mill interests of the Anakan Lumber Company. a subsidiary of the great firm of Elizalde & Company, with timber and mills on Mindanao. Colonel Hedges before the u'ar rvas u'ith Findlai'-Millar in the Islands. Colonel \\ralter n'ill go back to his previous position, and Mr. Wheeler and Colonel Hedges rvill join him as part of his organization. They 'ir.ill all be u'ith the Anakan Lumber Company, manufacturing Philippine Mahogany.
\\:hen the Japs invaded Nlindanao they captured Colonel Walter and took over the mill. They cornmanded him to operate the mill as they needed the lumlter. He acted as though he were complying, and in trvo u'eeks he escapecl and took to the hills rvhere he joined the guerillas and remained r,vith them until MacArtl.rur returned.
Monte Wheeler l-reld a uuique position in the Pliilippines during the war. I{e was a Lieut. Commander in the Navl-, and was sent by submarine from Australia to Mindanao. r,vhere he established an intelligence service. Here he rvas made a Lieut. Colonel in the Army, also. He *'orked mostly with the guerillas until MacArthur returned. Nou, he returns to the Philippines to assist Colonel Walter.
They expect to be manufacturing lumber I'i'ithin six months. Their mill was damaged, but not destroyed.
W. M. Steinbauer, for four years secretary'-manager of National Door Manufacturers' Association, has resigned, to take effect April 15, the N.D.M.A. board of directors announced. Mr. Steinbauer rvill join the \\rabash Screen Door Company, with headquarters in Chicago. His successor \\'ith N.D.M.A. u,ill be announced shortly.
During Mr. Steinbauer's management of National Door Manufacturers' Association, many notable steps n'ere taken in the industry. He has been identified closely u'ith such projects as windou' and door standardization, including the new modular standards for Ponderosa Pine windows and sash, continuing research on preservative treating, product development and improvement, and various problems created by the rvartime emergency. Mr. Steinbauer is als<.r rvell known for his six years u'ith the National Associatiorr of Woodwork Jobbers and more than trvelve years rvith the Iumber and milhvork industry.
Attention is drawn to the advertisement on another page of this issue of a "One-Man Yard Carrier." manufactured by Williams & Boulton,496 So. Arroyo Parkway, Pasaclena 2, Telephone Ryan l-6748.
Immecliate delivery can be made of this carrier, rvhich is of all steel construction, l-ras bearing spindle 'n'heels, can be handled by one man, .iveighs onlv 209 lbs., and has a load capacity of 3000 lbs.
OPA has increased ceilings for mill sales of rvestern softrvood shingles in all standard grades by 30 cents a square. (Amendment 4 to revised N{PR 164, effective March 20.)
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A rvell-knorvn Tacoma man-Arthur W. Berggren-has been appointed general manager of the Northwest Door Company. The announcement rvas made by Herman E. Tenzler, president of the col.npany, u'ho stated that the new position had been created lty a continued expansion o{ operations throughout Washington and Oregon. Present plans of the Tacoma {irm call for increased production ol established items and the development of many new products. The appointment of Mr. Berggren will enable Mr. Tenzler to devote more time to his duties as president of the organization.
Nfr. Berggren returns to his honre to.ivn of Tacoma after an absence of eight vears, where he is being warmly u,elcomed by his many friends. Up to 1936 he lvas vice president and general mairager of the Shaffer Pulp Company, and continued on u'ith Itayonier Incorporated, rvhen it purchased the Shaffer enterprise. Mr. Berggren was transferred in 1938 b1' Rayonier to Port Angeles as general manager of their plant at that city. l.hich emploved approximately 750 people. Alter 31 1'ears at Port Angeles he rvas appointed assistant to the vice president in charge of the divisional office at Seattle, l'hich directed all Pacific Northwest mills and operations. Later, Mr. Rerggren was called to serve as one of the kev executives in Ravonier's main office at Nelv York.
I-. H. Eultank & Son, Inglervood, Calif., recently instailetl high-frequency glue setting ecluipment on a machirrr: for setting glue joints on flat n'ork. This process eliminates the 11*s of clamps and is a g're:rl tinre saver.
Adrian R. Moylan, vice-presider,t of Schumacher Wal! Board Corporation, passed away at his horne in Los .\rrgeles March l0, after a year's illness.
He leaves his rvidou', Mrs. Adeline B. Movlan, a daughter, Beverley, and trvo nephervs, John W. and William O. Moylan.
Funeral services rvere held in Beverly Hills on March i3.
l{ay Beil, Ray Beil Lumber Co., Spokane, was elected president of the \Vestern Retail I-urnbermen's Associzrtiol.r at the annual convention held recentlv in Spokane, \\rash. Vice presidents elected rvere J. D. Jacobs, Lewiston, Idaho; Charles H. Bohrer, Pocatello, ldaho; T. E. Drennan, Reno, Nevacla; -l- \\r. Copeland. Portland, Ore.; S. E. Nen'ton, Spokane, \\rash. ; A. J. Huddleston, Osl.ego, Ore.; A. O. Fosse, Wenatchee, Wash.; and C. E. Innes, Bremerton, Wasl-r., \\r. C. Bell, u'as reelected n.ranaging director, C. B. Su'eet, Long-Bell Lumber Co., Longvieu', Wash., is the retiring president.
/\t the opening business session President C. B. Sweet and Managir.rg Director W. C. Bell made their annual reports. C)ther speakers at the convention included Frank Lox. Seattle district manag'er, The Kawneer Co.; Dr. Harry Schrader, associate professor of forestrv. University of \\rashington ; H. V. Sirnpsorr, executive vice president of the \\rest Coast l-umltermen's Association ; Arthur A. Hood, director of dealer relations, Johns-Manr-ille Corporation; ar.rd Dr. Henry A. Burcl, professor of marketing, University of Washington. A slide filrn on store and yard modernization u'as presented by R. T. Titus, \,Vest Coast Lumbermen's -A.ssociation.
A 30 to 4O per cent iucrease in lumber production as compared lvith pre\\'ar output is expected in Russia during the next five years, accorcling to reports r-eceived by the Department of Commerce. A program for mechanization and technical improvements in lumbering Russia's 3,700,000 sqrlare miles of forest tracts, cornprising about one-third of the total forest area of the rvorld, has been initiated. The program aims to increase outprlt suflicierrtly to provide lumller needed for Soviet reconstruction and new developments and also a surplus for exports to place Russia among the chief lumber exporting countries.
John R. Osgood, son of Robert S. Osgood, Los Angeles wholesale lumberman, u,ho \,\'as overseas rvith the American Forces has taken his discharge from the Army but is remaining in Europe for a few months, having taken a civilian position rvith the French Liaison at Innsbruck,
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J. Glennon Cahill, vice president, Western Hardwood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, attended a meeting of the WoodPly Research Foundation at the Edgern'ater Hotel, Chicago, March 24,25 and 26. He also called on mills in the north central section.
Fred Smales, Los Angeles, manager of the California division of United States Plywood Corporation, is back at his desk af ter visting the San Francisco and Oakland branches.
C. R. (Bob) Taenzer, American Hardwood Co., Los Angeles, and Mrs. Taenzer are back from spending a rn'eek at 'the Last Frontier, Las Vegas, Nev.
Milton Taenzer is spending two weeks at Furnace Creek Inn, Death Valley, accompanied by Mrs. Taenzer'
Chas. M. Cooper, W. geles, returned March 18 California and Oregon.
W. B. Jones, W. B. is back from a business
E. Cooper Lumber Co., Los Anfrom calling on mills in Northern
Jones Lumber Co., Los Angeles, trip to San Francisco.
Neal \faugh of the Neal Ariz., was in Los Angeles his way to call on mills in
B. Waugh Lurnber Co., Tucson, around the middle of March on the Pacific Northwest.
Cecil P. Drew, F. P. Drew Lumber Co., Mesa, Ariz., was a recent Los'Angeles visitor. He went from there to the Northwest, traveling as far north as Seattle on business for his firm.
It is interesting to note that F. P. Drew Lumber Co., which was established in 1897, is the oldest lumber yard in Arizona.
Glenn O. Fogleman, district manager, The California Door Co., Los Angeles, returned March 22 lrom San Francisco, where he attended a meeting of the company's directors.
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E. (Cliff) Coates of the Golden Francisco, returtred recently from hardwood mil1s.
George Rodecker, Williams visited San Francisco early in Pacifi,c Northwest.
Lu Green, Gamerston-Green cently spent a week calling on mills.
State Flooring Co., a trip to the South-
Lumber Co., Azusa, Calif., March on his rvay to the Lumber Co., Oakland, reNorthern California saw-
Hugh Lynch, rvho was a Pfc in the Army Tank Corps, is back again with Christenson Lumber Co., San Francisco. This makes five who have already returned to the company out of seven who went into the service.
Charles S. Dodge, who has been with ber Co., San Francisco, since March 1, is ness trip to Northern California and the where he called on sawmills.
Christenson Lumback Trom a busiPacific Northwest.
Nelson E. Jones, Jones Hardwood Co., San Francisco, recently bought a45-lt. power cruiser on the Atlantic Coast, and with Mrs. Jones cruised along the inland rn'aterway to Florida, where they will spend a month.
Charles W. Buckner, sales engineer, Harbor Plylvood Corporation, lloquiam, Wash., has returned from visiting San Francisco and Los Angeles on business. He rt'as accompanied by Mrs. Buckner.
L. J. Carr of for Sacramento weeks' business
He traveled by
L. J. Carr & Co., Sacramento, sales agents Box Co., returned March 18 from a two trip to Milwaukee, Chicago, and St. Louis. plane.
San oak, [-os BRANCH OT'FICES SE.ATIT.E 617 Arctic Bldg. PORTI.AND 200 Henry Blde.
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Homer H. Burnaby, vice president and general manager of the Sun Lumber Company, Beverly Hills, recently returned from several weeks' visit amongst the sawmills of Washington, Oregon'and Northern California. He reports that the mills seem "getting ready to Commence" manufacturing and shipping lumber to their starving customers.
G. E. "Fred" Karlen of Karlen-Davis Lumber Co., Tacoma, was a Los Angeles visitor recently. He was accompanied by Mrs. Karlen, and they were on their way to spend a few weeks' vacation at Chandler, Ariz.
W. F. (Bill) Fahs, manager of California Panel & Veneer Co., Los Angeles, attended a meeting of the Plywood Distributors' Advisory Committee of the CPA, held in Washington, D. C., February 21.
Harold Brown, manager of pany, Los Angeles, is back Northwest.
the Woodhead Lumber Com. from a business trip to the
R. A. Mackin of Hallinan Mackin Lumber Co., San Francisco, made a round trip by air to Los Angeles recently, and while there made his headquarters at their Southern California office.
Paul Orban. Orban cently from calling on Lumber mills in
Co., Pasadena, returned reOregon and Washington.
C. F. Reeder, manager of the Peoples Lumber Company yard at Fillmore, is calling on the sawmills in Northern California, Oregon and Washington.
J. W. Mcleod, Mahogany Importing is on a business trip to Washington, D. He expects to be back around April 1.
Co., Los Angeles, C., and Ner,v York..
Ed La Franchi of the Oakland office of Hill & Morton, fnc., and Willard La Franchi of the Fresno office spent the first two weeks of last month calling on mills in Oregon and Washington.
Pat Cardin, California Builders Supply Co., Oakland, returned recently from Oregon and Washington where he called on mills.
Forest Servicg U. S, Department of Agriculturc 'O. K., I cut it, Popl Now whor?"
Frank O. Tobin, Tobin San Francisco at the first Pacific Northwest.
MLumber Co., Dallas, Tex., was in of last month on his wav to the
H. H. Barg, Barg Lumber Co., San Fran.cisco, made business trip to Los Angeles two weeks ago.
Fred Stanley, Oregon Lumber Sales, was a recent California visitor. Eugene, Oregon,
John C. Moore, son of Stanley C. Moore, manager of FirTex of Southern California, Los Angeles, is again associated with his father in the business. Ife was a Lieutenant in the Air Force, a pilot ol a B-25 bomber, and recently returned from Japan.
\\r. N. (\\'ade) Shifflett, general manager of the Hamnroncl Luml>er Company's retail yards North. h:rs ar1trottnced his retirement from tl-re lrrrnlrer lrusiness, cffcctive March 31. Helcl in the highest esteenr lx' the [-Ianrnroncl Lumber Company and those rvho ha'n'e beeu associated u'ith hinr in the retail lumber business for many years, NIr. Shifflett lear.es u,ith the best rvishes of all for his future u'elfare and happiness.
It is his intention to retire to his ranch in Napa County, and it r,vill be no idle retirement, for the management of this rvell developed property, ancl his hobby of raising and riding saddle horses rvill keep him as busy as he rvants to be. Mention of his hobby recalls the fact that he takes part every year in May in the four-day annual ride of the Sonoma County Trail Blazers.
Mr. Shifflett has had an interesting career in the lurnber business. Born in Iorva, he got his first lumber experience after finishing school in the sarvmill of the Finkbine Lumber Co. at Wiggins, Miss.,'ivhere he 'lvorked for three years. In 1910 he canre to California ancl u,ent to u,ork with the Frank Berka Lumber Co., Santa llosa, r.vhose yard was on the site norv occupied by the Lau's-Yeager l-umber Co.
FIe remained u'ith Frank Berka for seven years, and inciclentally cluring that period became rvell acquainted rvith Jack I-ondon. rvho at that time n'as building his famous nransicrn in the Valley of the Moon. In l9l7 he lvent to Napa as lnanager of the Napa Lumber Co., rvhich u'as orvned by A. \\r. Foster, formerlt.of the Northrvestern Redrvood Co. In 1924 they purchased from H. C. Thornpson the retail business of the Calistoga Lumber Co., in rvhich N,Ir. Shifflett bought a one-third interest, and in 1926 the.v started a retail yard at Lou'er Lake, Calif., the Clear Lake Lumber Co. In 1930 the Henr1' Hess Co. and he bought all the stock oi the Napa Lumber Co., each holding a half interest. They operated in this manner until in September, 1939, they purchased the business ancl real estate of McKinnon-l\fcNair Lumber Co. at St. Helena, zrnd also the l\{ission Lumber Co. in Sonoma, and in 1940 the Boyes Springs 1.ard. In June, 1943, thev solcl tl.reir interests in these vards to the Han.rn-rond Lumber Company, ancl Mr. Shifflett has sirrce been generzrl manager of the Hammond retail yards North.
N{r. Shifflett married Nliss Marv llall of Oakland, an<l
NEW WINDOW DISPLAY NO. 5, is a colorful accent on new and more cheerful peacetime needs in keeping with the 19,16 Clean Up-Paint Up-Fix Up sprrlt.
Each display is packed in an individual carton for shipment, and is being made available to help dealers in Paint, Hardware, Lumber and Building Materials to inspire the Clean Up-Paint Up-Fix Up urge in keeping with the annual campaign which will soon be sweeping the country. This display is sold on a cooperative price basis intended to cover only cost and handling, by the National Clean Up and I)aint Up Campaign Bureau, 1500 Rhode Island Avenue, N. W., Washington 5, D. C., from which a colored descriptive circular and price list may be obtained upon request.
their son, Wade N. Shifflett II is a senior at the University of California.
Alfred D. Bell, Jr.. sales nlanager of the Redrvood Dir-ision of Harnmond Lurlber Company, in conjunction rvith Forrest K. Peil, rvill 1-rave supervision of the Northern California vards.
Horace E. \\tr-riff, sales protnotion departnrent. L. H. Eubank & Son, Inglervood, Calif., is back from a business trip to Washington, D. C., ancl Atlantic Coast cities.
NI. C. "NIike" Daviclson, president of the Houston Sash & I)oor Co., Hottstotr, Texas, spent a l'eek in I-os Angeles recentll', on his u'ay back from visiting rnills in Northern California, Oregon ancl Washington.
Heggie & Hines Lumber Yard, Oakdale, Calif., oper-red for business March 1. Thel- are constructing an office building 48 by 54 feet rvhich thev hope u'ill be completecl by April 1.
Frecl C. Heggie and H. Harold Hines are the ou'ners of the business. N{r. Heggie \\'as manafaer of The Diamond Nfatch Company's yard at Oakdale for some years, and later held other lumber positions. Iior the past several years he has beer-r s'ith the State civil service. N{r. Hines rvas in serr-ice u'itl.r the Seabees for four years, and has been associated u'ith his father in the contracting business since his retlrrn to civilian life.
Construction is under way on a new yard for the Merner Lumber Companv at ll50 W. San Carlos Street, San Jose. The plant 'ivill include an office, store and rvarehouse ancl will be locatecl on an acre of land r,vhich the firm recently purchased. The building u'ill be a single story structure of reinforced concrete, and provision u'ill be made for a mezzanine floor. Business is being conducted at the site of the ner,v structnre in temporary quarters. The firm rvas formerly located at 817 The Alameda. Francis Kincaid is manager of the yard.
The Henry Laws Co. of Santa Rosa, rvill be knou'n froru no\\' on as the La'ivs-Yeager Co. Steve Yeager has purchased an interest in the business.
E. T. "Pete" Nelson, l'ell known Los Angeles retailer, has reopened his yard, the Riverside Lumber Yard, 3021 Riverside Drive, Los Angeles. Ed Gould, for many years with E. K. Woocl I.umber Co., Los Angeles, is manager.
Airway Building Supplies rvill put in a at 76ll San Fernando Road. Burbank. o\vner.
WHOI.ESAIf AND IOBBING
SASII and DOORS
Since 1888
OFFICE, MIIT. YtrRD AND DOCTS 2nd d Alice Sts., Ocklcrnd Glencourt 8861
, BLOWER G' PIPE GO. INC. 1209 Nadeau Street, Los Angeles I
JEllerson 4221
Mcnulccturers
BLOWER STSTEMS and INCINERATONS
See the Acme lncineralor with waler woshcd top
Dcalers in Forest Productc
Douglcrs Fir-Redwood
retail lumber yard B. C. I-eaf is the
Cedcr-Spruce
Genercrl Olfice Crocker Bldg., Scur Francisco 4, CqUl. Southern Cclilornic OIIice and Ycrd 1240 Blinn Ave., WilninstorL Calil., P. O. Bor 5{8
George D. Eubank, manager, I-. H. Eubank & Son, Inglervood, u'holesale millwork manufacturers, recently made a business trip to Oregon.
C)PA announced an increase averaging 9/" in mill ceiling prices for maple, birch ancl beech flooring. (Amendment 8 to I\IPR 432, effective N[arch 22.)
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Ponderosc d Sugcr Phe Lumber d Mouldings
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Los Angeles 2-Klmball 2953
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Production of Western Pine lumber, u'hich dropped 2.5 per cent last year, rvill be reduced still further in 1946 iE price relief is not granted, a group of \,Vestern Congressmcrr u'as told in Washington on March 14.
William McQuarters, attorney representing the Western pine industry, said a recent sampling of 43 Western pine mills showed 70 per cent operating at a loss. He reported that processors averaged a profit of $1 a thousand boarrl feet during 1945, as compared with $7 and $8 in 1941, rn'ith recent rvage increases of around 15 cents an hour complicating future prospects.
He declared the Southern pine industry has been granterl price increases totaling $15 since 1942. whrle increases on Western pine rvere only $4.
The congressional group named Senator Chavez, of Nerv Mexico, to head an informal committee to present the industry's case to Government reconversion agencies.
In a statement to the members of the Senate and Hottse oi Representatives, the Western pine lumber prodttcers, recommended the following:
1. Raise prices horizontally $8.00 per M to cover all costs including recent r,vage increase, and provide a reasonable margin for profit and risk on the capital invested in the industry.
2. Require the inclusion as an allowable item of cost in fixing our ceiling prices, the fair market value of stumpage, ilot l)ook value.
3. Act nou'-not three u'eeks or three months from now ! The emergency is upon us. Seasonal operators must make plans immediately if thel' are to srving back to full production.
Irving K. Kesterson, chairman, Industry Advisory Comnrittee Western Agricultural Containers, also submitted a statement of position of the Western box shook industry. stressing the importance of price relief for lumber to increase production sufficiently to meet full lumber requirements.
Effective I\{arcl-r 15, Larry Tibbets, u'ho has had 13 years' experience in the retail lumber business, took over the management of the Calistoga yard of Hammond Lumber Company.
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Disnibutors ol
Pacific Coast Forest Products
LOS ANGETES t5
714 W. Oly:apic Blvd. PBospect 0724
Ross C. Lcshley
Treated in transit crt our completely equipped plcnt at Alameda, CcliL
Trecrted crnd stocked crt our Long Becrch, Ccrlil., plcnrt
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Douglcs Fir - Redwood
Distribution Yard
cnrd Genercrl Office
655 Ecst Florence Ave.
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THornwall 3144
l'Iinneapolis, X{innesota; Frank Stevens, Waco, Texas; J. -\. Loetscher, Dubuque, Iowa; H. I-. Jett, NIemphis, Tenllessee; Lester G. Wendt, Dubuque, Io'rva; N'I. B. \Milcox, Binghamtor-r, Nerv York; R. C. \\rinton, Nfinneapolis, Minnes(J ta.
Robert Nf. Boclkin, general manager of Ponderosa Pine \\roodu,'ork Assclciation, reported greatly expanded interest in the Association's activities on the part of consumers, architects, builders, dealers, jobbers. as rvell as manufacturers. As a result of this interest, n-rembership has increased, and adr,ertising and promotion:rl plans are lteing exoandecl frtr 1916.
Logs produced in rvestern Oregon and Washingtorr n'ere rulised in price by an average of $1.25 per thousand feet log scale in an action announcecl bv the Office of Price Aclrn inistration
The public's favorite house design is modernized conventior.ral-retaining much of traditional appearance, bttt including all modern conveniences and improvements. This $'as the statement made at the annual meetir-rg of Ponderosa Pine \\roodu'ork Association on February 16 by Joseph T. 1\[ason, building editor of Good Housekeeping.
Nlr. Mason said that responses to articles in his magazine illustrating larious types of homes had shou'n the first choice to be a design by 13ertram A. \\'eber, Chicago arcl'ritect. This design is a combination of traditional Cape Cocl and ranch house styles, but rvith sttch modern features as large rvindow areas and, of course, the latest ideas in construction and equipment.
Ponderosa Pine Woodn'ork Association officers and directors n'ere elected at the annual meeting. Officers who rvill sen'e through 194(t are E. J. Curtis, presiclent; 1\{. P. McCullough, r'ice-president ; Frank Stevens, secretarv; and T. L. O'Gara, treasurer.
Directors rvere elected as follor,r's : H. \f . Hurcl, \Iedford, Wisconsin ; Srvift Berry, Camino, California; Glen Converse, Merrill, Wisconsin; Il. J. Curtis, Clinton. Iorva; E. \\r. Donahue, Chicago, Illinois; J. L. Pierce. Santa Clara, California; \\r. B. I-yon, Torrington, Connecticut ; Arthur H. Mol-rring, Chicago, Illinois; \I. P. McCullough, Chicago, Illinois; Gerhard F. Neils, Klickitat, Washington ; T. L. O'Gara, St. Paul, Minnesota; A. W. Olson, Missoula, Montana; Hal Dixon, Spokane, \\'ashington ; E. I-. Shevlin,
Of importance to the housing program rvas the part of the action rvhich approves a $4 per thousand feet boost in shingle grade and camp run cedar logs. The increase, effective N{arch 13, 1916, enables loggers to cut stands of cedar r.vhich they could not otherrvise cnt and aids in ir-rcreasing the supply of. the ltasic raw material for shingles. The action .lvill also require an increase in prices of western softrvood sl-ringles. Only seven per cent of the 1945 total log production u,ere shingle grade or camp run cedar logs. -fhe price of Douglas fir peeler logs is raised $1.50 per thousarrd feet by this same actior.r. Hou'ever, the present ceilings are maintained on select spruce, aircraft noble fir :rr-rd No. 2 rvoocl logs. A $1 aclvance is permitted on all other grades ancl species, and a one-half cent a foot increase is authorized for pulp species scaled uncler the Sorenson Cubic Foot rule. The fir peeler logs constitute 20 per cent of total 1945 1og production.
(Ar.nendment No. 23 to Rer-ised ){aximutr- Price Regulation 161-\\rest Coast I-ogs-effectile March 13, 1946.)
Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club helcl its regular monthly dinner meeting on Wednesday evening, March 20, at Wilson's Ca{e.
Ra1' Burdg, president of the club, presided, and there lvas the usual good attendance.
Washington, March l9-Lumber dealers told Congress l"esterdal' that, because of the Office of Price Administration policies, most lumber business in the U. S. is, or soon n'ill be, in the black market.
Spokesmen for lumber retailers asked the House Banking Committee not to extend OPA beyond June 30, because "the industry has no hopes of the OPA changing its philosoph_r' or gearing itself to peacetime needs."
If price controls are extended, lumber dealers asked that Iumber prodncts be exempted from control, clr at least :r'llorved a 70% to 2O/ increase in prices.
Housing sl-rortages cannot l>e overconre under present OPA policies, thev declared.
Umpqua Plvrvood Corp. mill has been opened near Roseburg, Ore. The plant represents an investment of $5@,000 and is equipped for a rnor.rthly capacity of 3 million board feet of 3/s" plvwood. Firm or,vns or has under option and n'orking agreement an aggregate of about 330 million feet of timber. C)riginallr. organized at Port Angeles, Wash., ar.rd incorporated under Oregon lan' in Nfarch, 1945, the firm, has Loreu Haugen as president and general manager; Jackson Beaman, secretary and assistant manager; Thomas J. Clark, r,ice president and log buyer, and A. Jay Clark, treasurer ancl rnaster mechanic.
The Office of Price Administration has extended the regulation governing the services of custom-milling and kilnclrf ing of Nortl.reastern softwood lumber to include hardu'ood ancl all softr,vood sltecies except Western softwoods.
(Revised Nlaximum Price Regulation 539-A-CustomN{illing and Kiln-Drying of Northeastern Softwoods; effective March ll, 1946.)
Western Hardrvood Lumber Company, I-os Angeles. has purchased a plot of ground 100 x 265 feet in size adjoining tl-reir yard, and 'ivill itnn-rediately pave it and convert it into additional vard space.
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Yord crnd Office ol l2Ol Horrison Street
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2. Bcttcr quality drying on low tcmpcraorec with a frst rcvcrribrc circulation.
!. Lower rtacking cort*-just rolid cdgc-to'edge rtacking rn thc rimplcst forrn.
Uce Moorekiln Paint Products for weatherproofing drv hiln and mill roofs.
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Washington, March 26-The government today issued its long-arvaiied "stop" order on virtually-all- nerv less-essential conitruction to sive building materials for the emergency veterans housing program.
The drastic curbs aie effective at once. They require 99ternment permission to start any new constructron or repalrs over certain dollar minimums ranging from $400 for private homes and farms to $15,000 for certain specified industries' Construction work already substantially underway rvill not be affected.
This includes projects rvhere the basic materials required for the nerv building already have been incorporated in the structure.
Specific exemptions probably will be announcecl later' The program-also tvill not ban all nel construction in excess of the stated minimums.
In cases rvhere the rvork is absolutely necessary, such as factory additions which rvould provide additional jobs and sn-rootir the reconversion task, permission rvill be given.
Public works projects, utilities and certain private projects such as farm siios and fences also were exempted fron, the program.
North Portlan4 Orc. Jechronvillc, Flaidr
Maintenance and repair work in industries, utilities and transportation systems likewise lvere not covered.
The order was isstted by housing expediter Wilson W. Wyatt and civilian production administrator John D. Small.
Small said the program would be administered on a local level. Citizens committees have been set up in each community to screen all building applications.
Even if proposed projects are found essential, every effort rvill be made to defer them as long as possible.
FHA rvill automatically approve all applications for veterans housing.
Priorities assistance for materials rvill be granted only for veterans and a fevr'"critical" other classes of essential construction.
Thus, all permits to build under the order will not necessarily carry priorities assistance.
The order does not apply to road building, streets, sideu,alks, railroad tracks, fences. silos, bridges, tunnels, subways, pipe lines, power lines, se'tvers, mines, lvells, dams or canals.
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' Kaycee Lumber Machines, Inc.
1150 East Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles 21, Calif,
LUMBER YARD SITE FOR SALE
Site suitable for lumber vard,600' x 200', located on Southern Pacific railroad. Office, machine shop, under ground gasoline storage, warehouse 106'x 50', George H. Marlette 306 First National Building Stockton, Cdif.
Sawmill foreman or millwright wants job. Capable of complete supervision of all pa.rts of operation and file room, and- ge!- r-esutis. Can handle iabor, Asi 42.22 years' experience. Availabe now.
Address Box C-116,6, California Lumber Merchantl 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.
Southern California Country yard. Sales last six years average $360,0O0 annually. Total net^profits fol same-period reo6rted for income tax purposes $145,000. Located well over iOO miles from Los Arigells. No war industries. Will lease plant based on percentige gro1l sales with-minimum $300 inonthly. Inventory $50,000. Yard and office equipment $15,000. Goodwill $20,000.
If you want to sell your lumber yard, let us know.
TWOHY LUMBER CO., LUMBER YARD BROKERS 8ol Petroleum Bldg., Los Angeles 15, Calif. PRospect 87'16.
tultltER
Arcctq Redwood Co. r2C Mcrlet Streot (ll).......
LUMBER
LUMBER
Westem Pine Supply Compcuy.
Christenson Lumber Co. Evcns Ave. cnd Quiut St. (24)
Dcnt 6 Bussell, Inc., 214 Frout Street (lt).
.GArlield 1809
Atlrinson-Stutz Conpqnv, lI2 MqrLet Srreef (li)....... .......YUkoa 2067
.Vtrlencic 5832
GArlield 0292
Dolbeer 6 Ccrson Lumber Co., IlIS Merchants Exchcnge Blde. (4) DOuglcs 6{{6
Gcmerston d Greeu Lunber Co., 1800 Army Strsot (24). ..ATwcter 1300
Hcll, lcmes L., 1032 MiUs Blds, (4). ...SUfier ZS20
Hqllincn Mccltin Lumber Co. 681 Mqrtet St. (5). .DOugrcs lg{l
Hq.p]lo_ld Lumber Conpcny, tlIT Montgomery Stre-t (-6) .Dougtcs Sggg
Hobbs Watl Lumber Co., tl05 Montgonery St. (4).... .....GArtietd Z7S2
Holmes Eurekc Lumber Co., ll05 Fincncicl Center Blds. (4). GArtield l92l
Kilpctrick 6 Compqnv, Croc&er Btds. (4).:.... .. yUkon0912
Carl H. Kuhl Lumber Co., O. L. Russum, ll2 Mcrket St, (ll)..YUkoo 1460
LUMBEN
Gqmerslou d Green Lumber Co., 2001 Livinssron Sr. (6). .KEuos 4-1884
Gosclin-Harding Lumber Co. 2ll Professional Bldg. (l)............KEl|og 4-20U
Hill d Morton, Ioc., Danison Street Wharl (7). .....ANdovsr 107?
Hogcn Lumber Compcuv, Znd aad Alice Stre-ets i4). .Glencourt 6851
Kelley, Albert A. P. O. Box 240 (Alcmedc) .....Lokehursr 2-275{
E. K. Wood LumbEr Co., 2lII Fredericlr Street (6). .KEllog Z-ltn
LUMBEN
Anglo Calilornic Lunber Co., 655 E. Floreuce Ave. (l)......THorawcll 3l{4
Arcctc Bedwood Co. (J. J. Bec)
5{10 Wilsbire Blvd. (36). .WEbster 7828
Atkinson-Stutz Compcny, 628 Petroleum Bldg. (15). ....PBospecl 43ilt
Atlas Lumber Co., 2035 E. lSth St. (2t). ...PRospecl 7{01
Brush Industricl Lumber Co,, 535{ E. Slcuson Ave. (22).,..... .ANgelus l-1155
Burns Lumber Compcny, 727 W. Seventh St. (l{)... .TBinity 106l
Ccrr d Co., L. I. (W. D. Dunniug), {38 Ch. ot Com. Bldg. (15). .Pnospect 8843
Consolidcted Lumber Co., 122 W. Jellereson St. (7)......Rlchmond 2lll
l'!46 E. Anabeim St., Wilmington. .Wilm. Ter. 4-2887; NE, 6-t881
Cooper, W. E., 606-508 Sichlield Blds. (13).......MUtucl 2l3l
Dant d Rugsell, Iqc., 812 E. 59tb Street (l). .ADons 8I0l
Dolbeer & Ccrson, Lumber Co., 901 Fidelity Blds. (13)......... .VAndike 8'192
Ed. Fouutsin Lumber Co,, 628 Petroleum Blde. (15).......,..PBospect {3{l
Hqllinon Mcckia Lumber Co, ll7 W.gth St. (r5). .....TBiaity 35{{
Hcnmond Lumber Conpauy, 2Ol0 Sq. Alcnedc Si. (l{)......PRospect 1333
Holmes Eurekq Lumber Co., 7ll-712 Architectg Blds, (13). .MUtuol 9l8l
Hoover, A. L., 5225 Wilshire Blvd, (36). .YOrk 1168
Kilpctrick d Compony (Wilnington)
l2'!0 Blinn Ave.... .... .NEvsdq 6-1888
Ccrl H. Kuhl Lumber Co., (R. S. Osgood), 70{ S. Spring Sr. (ll). ...TBidtv 82%
Ltrwrence-PhilipE Lurnber Co., 533 Petroleum BIdg. (15). .PRospscl 8l?l
Rose C. Lcshlcy (R. G. Bobbins Lumbei Co.), 7l! W. Qlympic Btv{. (15). .Pnospect 0r2l
MccDousld Co., L. W.,
7!l W, Olympic Blvd. (t5)......PBospect 7l9l
Mchogcny Importing Co., 621 S. Spring Sr. (ltl). ...TRiDity 9651
.Postoffice Zone Nurnber iu Parent\esis.
Lomon-Boaniagtou Compcn?, 16 Cqliloraic Street (ll).-.........GArlietd 6881
Nortben Redwood Lunber Co,, 2408-10 Bues Bldg. ({). ..EXbrook 7894
O'Neill Lumber Co., Ltd., 16 Calilornis St. (ll). ...GArfield 9lt0
Pqcilic Lumber Co., The 100 Bush Stre€t (4). ......GErlield llSl
Pope d Tclbot, Inc., Lumber Divisiou, 461 Marlet Street (5). ..DOuglcs 2561
Scntc Fe Lumber Co., l8 Ccliloruic Street (l!)... ..EXbrook 2074
Scbcler Bros, LunbEr 6 Shingle Co., I Drumm Street (ll). .SUtter IZI
Sbevlin-Cords Lunber Co., Inc., _.68 Post Street (4) .DOuglcs 21169
Sbevlin Pine Saleg Co., , 1030 Monadnock Bldg. (5). .EXbrook 70r[
Sudden 6 Cbristenson, Inc.. JlO Scnsome Shret (4)..........GArlietd 2g{g
Tqrter, Webster d lohuon, Iac., _l Mo_ntgomery St. ({).. .DOugtcs 2050
Cqrr W. WcttE,---975..Mon-qdnock Bldg. (5)..........yUlon lS90
Wendliug-Nctbcn Co., -
.,.564 Mdrkei St. ({). ..SUiler S3B3 West OreEon Lumber Co., 1995 Evcns Ave. (2{). ...ATwqter 56?8
LUMBER
Wholesale Buildiuq Supply, tuc., 1607 32nd Streei (8). .-. .-. . ...TEmptebcr 6964
Wholesole Lumber Distribulors, tac,, 5{ First Street (7)............. .TWinoqks 25ls
HANDWOODS
Strcble Hcrdwood Compcny, Firsf qnd Clcy Streerj (?i....TEnplebcr S5g4
Whitc Brothers, 500 High Srreor (l) .ANdover 1600
LUMBER
Crbcn Lumber Co..
77 S, Pqsadenc Ave., Pcscdeuc (3) .Sycamore 6_{3?3
Pqciric Lumber co., Tbe RYca l-6997
_ 5225 Wilshire Blvd. (35). .yOrk 1168
Pctrick Lumber Co..
Eqslmcn Lumber Sqles, 7ll W. Olympic Brvd. (15)......pRospect 5039
Pope 6 Tctbot, Inq.. Lumber Divisiou 714 W. Olympic Btvd. (t5)......pRospecr 8231
E. L. Reitz Co,, 333 Pelroleum Bldg. (t5). ...pBoapect 2369
San Pedro LumbEr Co., l5l8 S, Centrcl Ave. (21)......Blchnond il{t
1800-A Witminston nood (Scl Pedro).. .......Sca Pedro 2j100
Sch-q_ler_-Bros. Lumber 6 Shingle Co., tl? w. gth srreer (15). .i .rniniry lezt
Shevlin Pine Sales Co.,
330 Petroleum Btdg. (15)... .pBospect 0615
Simpson luduslries, Inc.,
_.1610 E._W_cshin-stou Blvd. (2I)..PRospeei 6183
Stmloa, E. I, 6 Son,
^ 2050 E._4b_t _St. (tl). ...CEarury 292ll
Sudden 6 Christenson, Inc.-
-630 Bocrd ol Trqde BIdg. (14)....TRiaity 88rli! lqcomc lumb9l sqlea,
---837-.Petro_leun Bldg. (15)........PBospecr ll08
Wendlinq-Nqthan Co-.,
5225 Wilshire Blvd. (36). ..YOrk 1168
Wesl Orego! Lunber Co., 427 Petroleun Bldg. (15). .Rlchnoad 02Bl
W. W, Wilkinson, -
._-ll2WestNintLStreet (15)..........TBiuity 4613
Weyerhceuser Sales Co., _ llg _Y{. M. _Gcrlcud Btde. (15)..Mlcbiscn 635{
E. K, Wood Lumber Co.,- d7l0 So, Alcmeda St. (5{)........JEffcrsoa 3lll
CNEOSOTED LUMBEN-POLES PILING_TIES
Americca Lunber d Trecting Co., ItSl So. Brocdwcy (tS)..........PRospect {363 Bcxler, l. H, d Co., 601 Weel sth Str€et (13)........Mlcbiscr 629{ Pope 6 Tclbot, Inc., Lumber Divigion, 7ll W. Olyapic Blvd. (15). .PRorpcct 82ltl
_ I20l Harrison Si.-(5). :. .UNderhilt 8686
E. K, Wood Lumber Co..
--_l Drumn StrEet (ll). ..,EXbrook 3Zl0
Weyerhceuser Scles Co., 391 Sutter St. (8).. .....GArtield B9?l
HABDWOODS
White Brothers,Filtb cnd Brcnaon Streets (7)......SUtrsr 1365
sAsH-DOOnS_PLYWOOD
Hcrbor Plywood Corp. oI Cctiloniq, s{0 torh sr. (3).. United Stctes Plywood Corn., 2727 Any Sr. 1t0).
CNEOSOTED LUMBER_POLES_ PILINCi_TIES
Aqr-efgqg Lumber 6 Trecting Co., _ 60{ Mission St. (5)... .Sufier I02g Bqxter, J. H. 6 Co., _3-33 _Monlgomery Street (4)... .DOuglcs 3gg3 Hcll, Icnes L., _ 1032 MiUs BIde. (4). .SUtrer 7520
Pope Q Tclbot, lnc., Lumber Division, .-461 Mcrket Str_eet (5). ...DOuglcs 2561 Vqnd€r Lqqn Pilinq 6 Lumber Co., 216 Piae Stroet ({). ....EXbrook {905 Wendliag-Ncthcn Co., 564 Mcrket Si. (4). .Sulrer 5369
, .TWinoaks 554{ .TEmplebcr 8400
...KEllos 2-1tn
HANDWOODS
Americqn Hcrdwood Co., 1900 E. lsth Street (5{). .PRospecr {2115
Penberthy LumbEr Co..
_ 5800 South Boyle Ave. (Il). .f,Imbalt 5il1
Stcntou, E. I. d Son, 2050 Ecst 4lst Street (lt)... ....CEnturv 29211
Tropiccl 6 \jl/estern lumber Co., ._609 S. Grcnd Ave.. ....Mlchigcn 9326
WestEm Hqrdwood Lumber Co,, 2014 Ecst lsth Street (55).......PRospecr 6l6t
SASH_DOBLINDS_PANELSOBS_MILLWORK-SCNEENS AND PI.YWOOD INONING BOANDS
Bock Pcnel Compcuv, _ 3-lg-311 Ecst 32nd- srreer (U). .[Dcu t21s
Cqlilornic Door Compcuy, The_P.O. Box 126, Vernbn Station(ll) Klmbqtl ll{t
Caliloruic Pcnel 6 Veneer Co., P. O. Box 2096, Ternincl
_Annex (54) ... ...Tniairy 00S?
Cobb Co., T. M.,
_5100 Ceutral Aveuue (ll)........ADcms llttl
Cole Door & Plywmd Co..
_ I0{9_ E. Slaurcn Ave. (ll) ,.... .ADams {3?t
Dcvidson Plywood G V6u6er Co,,
rninilvs8s8
433 W. Bedoudo Blvd...-.........Onegon 8-2255
Hcle-y Bros. (Scntc Moniccr
_ 16_20 l4th Slreet... .AShtey rl-2288
Koehl, Ino. W. d Son,
^552 S. _!-[Ve_rg Street (23)........ANsreluc glgl
Oregon Wcshingtoa Plywood Co.,
ll? W,_ gth Street (15) TRniry r|6t3
Pccilic Mutucl Door C6.,
_ 1600 E. Wcshinston Btvd. (Zl)..pBospea 9523
Reqm Conpcnv, Geo. E.,
235 S. Alamedc Street (12). .Mlcbieqa t8S1
Sqmpgou Co. (Pasadenc),
_.745 So._ Rcynond Avo. (2)........Bycr l_6939
Simpson Induitries, lnc,,
1.810_ E_. Wcshington BIvd, (2t). .pRospect 6lg3
Ua'le-d Slctes Plywood Corp.,
_-_1930 EaEt l5th St. (21)........nlchmond Stol
West Cocst Screen Ci.,'
__-1145 Ecst 53rd Street (l)..........ADcmg lilnr
\llleslern Mill d Mouldias Co,, ll_615__Pcrmelee Ave. (2). Klmbqtt 2953
E. K. Wood Lumber Co.,-
l7l0 S. Aloeda St. (5{)........IE{oreoa 3flf
The secret of why Bradley Pre-finished (Straight-line) Hardwood Floors cnable you to deliver a better hardwood floor at a substantial saving, is shown at the right.
The convincing proof of. ltou., much better Bradley Pre-finished (Straight-line) Hardwood Floors actually are, is irnpressively illustrated below.
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*steel wool poliihing CiCin. filler, ruDbtd itr
penetrating finiph,seals wood pores. dries evenly in "controlled weathsi.'
Final polishing by high-speed brushes.
8 Heavy-hodied wax, machine buffed.
9 Uniform color; rich, lustrous, lasting hauty.
At no time within the life of our operations has our detcrmination to make a superior product bcen more successfully accomplished than in Bradley Pre-finished (Straight-line) Hardwood Floors.
Dealers and distributors planning for a "4, larger share of the hardwood flooring 7ffift market in their communities are urged ,o ffiff *'rite us for further infornration u.rd p"r- EV suasivc sclling helps.
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