Red Cedar Shingle Bureau Capacity o[ Plywood Plant Holds Annual Congress Increased

H. J. Bailey, Saginaw'Timber Co., Aberdeen, Wash', was elected president of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau at the annual Shingle Congress held in Seattle, IMarch 29.

P. H. Olwell, Jamison Lumber & Shingle Co., Everett, Wash., was elected vice president, and Miss Grace Jones' Seattle, was re-elected secretary-treasurer.

The nerv board of trustees is as follows : P. H. Ohvell, Everett, Wash.; D. H. Lowry, Whatcom Falls Mill Co', Bellingham, Wash.; Geo. Bergstrom, Pacific Timber Co., Everett, Wash.; Paul Smith, M. R. Smith Lumber & Shingle Co., Seattle; Ray Wilde, Pacific Timber Co', Everett, Wash.: A. H. Landram, St. Paul'& Tacoma Lumber Co', Tacoma, Wash.; Dale Craft, Royal Shingle Co., Whites, Wash.: C. H. Kreienbaum, Reed Mill Co., Shelton, Wash.; I{. V. Whittall, Huntting-Merritt Lumber Co., Marpole, B. C.; Earl McNair, Robt. McNair Shingle Co., Vancouver, B. C.; Russell llorton, Victoria, B. C., and A. L. Hughes, Joseph Chew Shingle Co.. Vancouver, B' C.

Leo. S. Black, Seattle Cedar Lumber Mfg. Co., Seattle, retiring president, presided.

New by-laws for the Bureau were approved by the meeting, and on the recommendation of the manager it was decided to use in future on the No. 1 shingle label the word "Certigrade", a 'coined word designating No. 1 grade Bureau Shingles, certified as to grade, instead of the word "Certified". It r,vas also decided to identify No. 2 Bureau shingles by a label.

W. W. Woodbridge, manager of the Bureau, in his report outlining the activities of the Bureau in the past year, expressed great optimism as to the future. He predicted that the present demand for shingles would be doubled in a year or so. He stated that more than four million pieces of literature advertising shingles had been distributed in the last year, and said that the lumber dealers all over the country are pleased with the efiorts of the Bureau to help them in the marketing o{ wood shingles.

Mr. Woodbridge expressed appreciation of the free publicity given to wood shingles by the lumber trade papers.

R. O. WILSON VISITS LO,S ANGELES

R. O. Wilson, R. O. Wilson & Son, San Francisco' was a recent business visitor to Los Angeles.

More Than 50%

Expansion of the plant of the Elliott Bay Mill Company of Seattle, manufacturers of the well known Big Timber plywood and wallboard, to increase its plywood manufacturing capacity by more than 50 per cent was recently announced by Bruce Clark, vice president and sales manager.

This work has been under way for some weeks and is now nearing completion. It will raise the capacity of the plant from 38,000,000 square feet to 60,000,000 square feet annually, and is expected to add 100 men to the present mill stafi of about 250.

The company has 2,26 dealer representatives throughout the country and the present increase of capacity is just a normal development due to the steady growth of the company's business. Mr. Clark believes that modernizing will produ,ce more business for plywood than new constructiotl in 1935.

Lloyd }farris, Elliott Bay Sales Company, Oakland, reports a healthy increase in California sales of Big Timber plywood and wallboard in the first quarter of 1935 as compared with 1934.

Appointed Yard Managers

C. C. Nuckolls, formerly manager of the Hammond Lumber Company yard at Colton has been appointed manager of the Hayward Lumber & Investment Co. yard at San Bernardino. T. O. Thompson, who has been connected with the Hayward Lumber & Investment Co. yard at Escondido, has been appointed manager of the 'company's yard at Bloomington.

Capt. P. C, Hansen

Capt. P. C. Ilansen, rvell known Northern California retail lumberman with yards at Centerville, Niles, Alvarado, Decoto and Irvington, died at his home in Centerville on April 8.

Capt. Hansen was born in Denmark 76 yeats ago, and came to California at the age of 26. He is survived by a brother, M. C. Hansen of San Francisco.

By Jock Dionne

Ag" not guaranteed---Some I have told for zo years---Some less A Hish Toned Gent

The colored woman was telling her neighbor about her daughter Mandy's new beau, and how well mannered he was. She said:

"Ah'm tellin' you dat new sweetie whut Mandy's got suttinly is de rnos' confiscated gentman Ah evah is seen. He got de mos' high-toned manners. you would'n believe itif you didn't see him how he does.,'

"IIow you mean he got sich high-toned manner?" asked the neighbor.

"Well," said'the mother, "jes' to give you an idee, when he drinks he coffee, he poes it out in his sauce' jes lak common folks, but he doan blow on hit lak we does. Nossuh ! He doan blow on hit ! He jes' fans hit wid his hat."

LCA Favors Suspension ot Lumbermenfs Golf Tournament the Lumber Code

Washington, D. C., Mar. 26.-Left by the action of government, through the National Industrial Recovery Board and the Department of Justice, rvith a code nominally in effe,ct but rvithout the support of governmental authority, the Resident Committee of the Luml>er Code Authority today took a stand in favor of suspension of the ,code. Explaining this action, the executive offi,cer of the Lumber Code Authority rnade the following statement:

"The t'ithdrawal of the Belcher case by the Department of Justice is a bitter disappointment to the Lumber and r Timber Prodrrcts Industries.

"The unavoidable inference is that the Department of Justice l,vill no longer endeavor to enforce the Lumber Code. thus creating a difficult situati,on of dis,crimination between the lumber'and other industries. Being thus left 'ivith an incapacitated code, the Resident Committee of the Lumber Code Authority today telegraphed to its administrative divisions throughout the country a recommendation that 'for reasons of equity' the Administration should be requested to suspend the ,code for the lumber industry, together u'ith a request for their viervs thereon and ,comment on the Belcher case rvithdrawal, which are to be transmitted to the National Industrial Recovery Board for disposition. During the present uncertainty the Lumber Code Authority intends to maintain its organization in order that they may be in position to speak officially for the industry.

"We entered into the President's recovery program nearlr- tu'o years ago tvith sincerest intention both to rehabilitate our own industries and to contribute to the public interest through increasing wages, sh,ortening hours of labor and putting our industry in a position to carry on in the recovery movement. Because at that time our inclustry s'as in the depths of a depression, not approached in any other industry except agriculture, the difficulties of achieving recover)' u'ere greater and the requirements for cooperative action were consequently more imperative. Our

At a meeting of the ,committee for the first annual Southern California Lumbermen's Golf Tournament which is being sponsored by Lumbermen's Post, No. 4O3, American Legion, it was decided to hold the tournament on Friday afternoon, May t7. Announcement of tvhers'the tournanrent will be held will be made later.

Cash prizes which will be awarded the winners in tl-re various events have been donated by Lounsberrv & Harris, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Owens-Parks Lumber Co., Hammond Lumber Company, Ker,ckhoff-Ctzner Mill & Lumber Co., Lawren'ce-Philips Lumber Co., E. J. Stanton & Son, California Wholesale Lumber Association, and Gus lloover. Lumbermen's Post is donating a cup for the low gross winner; this cup will have to be won twice to gain permanent possession of the trophy. As many nerv golfers are expected to participate in the tournament, the committee has arranged to donate prizes to the rvinners in this group.

Council Meets at Fresno

The regular m,onthly meeting of the California Lumbermen's Council was held in Fresno, April 5.

Fifty lumbermen were present at this rneeting. This is the largest number that has ever attended a regular monthly meeting, indicating an ever-grorving interest in Council activities.

Code had to be adapted to meet the peculiar requirements of our industry and rvas, therefore, quite difierent from rntist others approved under the Act.

"The industries under our Code immediately made a sincere and honest effort to fulfill their obligations in code aclministration and we can reasonably point.rvith pride to the marked contribution we have made to the recovery movement. All this was done through voluntary compliance which, notrvithstanding the practically complete failure of enforcement activities, has continued to a substantial degree up to the present time."