Every modern odvoncement in science ond reseorch is utilized by fhe L. J. Corr E I Co., to improve both the quolity of wood products ond to perpef uote our forests. Looking oheqd to the year 2004 A. D. of the Atomic Age, Mr. Corr foresees logging
Lumber shipments of 528 mills reporting to the National I-umber Trade Barometer were 3.9 per cent above pro,luction for the u,eek ended March 27,1954. In the same n.eek nerv orders of these mills 'n'ere 1.5 per cent above production. Unfilled orders of the reporting mills amounted to 38 per cent of stocks. For the reporting softwood mills nnfilled orders were equivalent to 23 days' production at the current rate, and gross stocks were equivalent to 58 days' production.
For the year-to-date, shipments of reporting iclentical mills were 2.0 per cent above production; new orders \vere 6.7 per cent above production.
Compared to the average corresponding week in 1935i939, production of reporting mills was 104.0 per cent above; shipments were 93.1 per cent above; new orders 'll'ere 89.4 per cent above. Compared to the corresponding week in 1953, production of reporting mills was 7.1 per cent belorv; shipments 'rvere 5.3 per cent below; and new orders rvere 7.0 Der cent below.
The Western Pine Association for the week ended March 27, ll9 mills reporting, gave orders as 87 ,721,W feet, shiprnents 77,498,Un feet, and production 72,865!n0 feet. Orciers on hand at the end of the rveek totaled 248.783.000 Ieet.
The Southern Pine Association for the rveek ended March 27, 96 units (115 mills) reporting, gave orders as 18,213,0O0 feet, shipments 18,231,000 feet, and productior.r 18,337,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the rveek totalerl 38.169.000 feet.
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White Brothers, located at San Francisco and Oakland, welcomed Dale E. Crail as a members of their sales staff effective March 22.
Dale is a graduate of Westminister College, Fulton, Mo., and during World, War II served as an operations officer on Admiral Nimitz's staff at Pearl Harbor and Guam.
He has had extensive backgroundl in hardwoods in the Midwest and attended the John McClure School of The National Hardwood Lumber Asso,ciatiorr. Memphis, Tenn., in the fall class of 1953. Prior to his present association, he had been connected with the Chicago sales office of the Frank Paxton Lumber Company, headquarters Kansas City, having been with that firm since the end of World War II.
Dale is married and has one child. His hobbies inclucle golf, photography and private flying.
Rich Robbins, Pacific Western Lumber dena, returned last week following a visit offices at Arcata, Calif.
The Northwestern California Lumbermen's Club held the last meeting of the Club year on Friday, March 19, 1954, at Lenzi's Supper Club in Eureka. Outgoing Presi.ient, Bob Halvorsen, presided over thc election meeting and after the new appointments, turned over the gavel to Charles Murray, Newquist Lumber Sales, elected president for the new Club year ending l\Iarch 31, 1955. ln uddition to Charles Murray, the following were elected t.r serve as officers and directors:
Vice president, Arch LeFors, Hammond Lumber Company; secretary-treasurer, Don Oder, Tarter, Webster & Johnson, Inc.; and sgt. at arms, I{enry Dreckmann, Coast Pacific Lumber Company. New directors elected were: Bud Allen, Pacific Fir Sales; Les Metcalf, Northern Redwood Lumber Co.; Ted Stolesen, Mutual Plywood Conrpany; Larry Wiklund, Fairhurst Lumber Company; and Bob Halvorsen, Coast Pacific Lumber Company, outgoing president and automatically included on the board of directors for one more year. Hold-over directors (to serve one more year) are: Bob Hansen, Hansen Pacific Lumber Co. ; Don Metcalf, Pacific Lumber Company; Les Westfall, Humboldt Stevedore Company; and Tim Wood, Pacific Western Lumber Company.
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Art Wahl, E. L. Bruce Co., Oakland, returned to tl-re Bay Area March 20 after a three week business trip to Vaucouver B. C., Vi'ctoria and part of Washington and Oregon.
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I once did hail the joyous spring, My thoughts would turn to love I'd pick the buttercups and sing Of azure skies above; Now springs may come and springs may go, To cheer I have no reason, You'll find, as you much older grow, Spring's just another season.
There was a time when spring drew nigh, I'd note the ladies fair;
But now f yawn and loudly cryWhere's my light underwear?
I sip a cup of sassafras, f often start a-sneezin';
And then I moan, alack, alasSpring's just another season:
-Carl Victor Little in the llouston Press.
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Yes, Junior, that's the way it is. At most other seasons of the year men who have passed that mark on the highway of life where tfie shadows point to the West, can find some sort of satisfaction in the recollection that most of the mighty thinking that has been done ttrroughout history, has been by men of mature years; the great thinkers have frequently been greybeards. But in the spring, for some reason, small satisfaction can be found in such philosophizing, and we join the poet Little in moaning-"alas, alack, spring's just another season."
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Spring is the season when, according to the best poets, the young man's fancy "turns to thoughts of love." And likewise it has been found that the fancy of thousands turn to planting a garden. There.is something about spring that has that very definite effect on a lot of people, and, armed with small implements they hie them forth into the yard and go to digging and planting. Some plant flowers; some garden truck, vegetables, and other eatables. The reason for this conclusion in this space at this time, is to utter some timely advice to the home gardeners, towit: don't plant food; plant fowers. And I'll tell you why.
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The reason is, we've GOT eatables ! Oh brother, have we got eatables ! Got 'em in quantities such as nobody ever dreamed of before. No eater of dope in his most overloaded state ever conceived of the accumulation of food and sich like that we folks, we citizeng we taxpayers of this here United States own and possess today. So it's ;ust no use your going out into the yard and getting yourself all muscle sore, and sunbaked, and weary trying to
BY JACK DIONNEraise food. To say that we've got food-much too much food-is a champion understatement on that subject. *t<*
Before giving you some of 'the iarro*irrg details of how much food we Americans own, it might be only fair to make THIS statement, one that nobody will deny: there are approximately two and one-half billions of people living on this earth today, AND MORE THAN HALF OF THEM ARE HUNGRY. All well informed sources accept that statement as incontrovertible fact. More than one and one-fourth billions of people, men, women, and kids on this earth, are continually and continuously in a state of hunger'
Well, Junior, here's what we've got in the way of accumulated food, according to the very best authorities and facts released in the newspapers the day this is being typed. We've got about six and one-half billions of dollars worth of surplus foods, such as butter, cheese, milk, wheat, corn, cotton, oils and other farm products which the U.S. Government has bought or is obligated to buy under our farm support plan. We've got it stored from Bath to Beersheba and from hades to breakfast in elevators, bins, storehouses, warehouses, cribs, caves, refrigerated plants, in the holds of ships, and other impossible places. The newspapers as this is written show pictures of grain being piled out in the open streets of one city; four blocks of wheat piled high for want of somewhere else to put it.
We are paying, you and f, Junior, and all the other Americans who pay taxes-and who does not?-about TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS AN HOUR JUST TO STORE, THIS STUFF. And still more than half the world is hungrY'
This is a treasure-house of food for which history has no comparable record. Even Joseph of Old Testament illfame-the guy who cheated and robbed the poor Egyptians out of all they possessed and stored it away-never heard of a food collection like this.
And this vast accum;; J, ,"r- products has been created by the farm support program of the U.S. Government; and it is still growing, with no relief in sight.
Take milk. The figures published show that this Government now owns about eight billion pounds of fluid milk
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in the shape of dried milk. EIGHT BILLION POUNDS. Hush, little baby, don't you cry, there'll be more than that much, by and by. But, baby, you can't get it. And the accumulation gronrs. ***
Pencil pushers have estimated that if we divided up all the surpluses which this government has bought or is obligated to buy, among the people of the United States who are paying the bill, every family of five would be entitled to 8.3 pounds of butter; 9 pounds of cheese; 14.4 pounds of dried milk; 93.5 pounds of cotton; 16.5 bushels of wheat;20 bushels of corn;3 pounds of wool; and a pantry stocked to the ceiling with dozens of other price-supported farm products. In terms of cash, every man, woman, and child in this country has an investment of more than forty dollars in these accumulations.
A specialist on this subject says: "No one has yet found a satisfactory solution to the surplus problem. The rich yield coaxed from the earth by toil and skill, dram4tizes the poverty of ideas for getting this food-and fiber to those who need it."
Secretary of Agriculture Benson says: "The resentment of 140 million non-farm consumers is mounting against the expensive, wasteful, and ineffective program of rigid price supports. The surest way for any group in this country to commit suicide is to forget the ultimate consumer."
As the Mayor of New York once remarked to a visiting queen: "You've said a mouthful."
Well, Junior, there it is ! Reams are being printed and torrents of words uttered about our farm support situation, and it all ends up in a dead end street,,thus far. Twice before we have accumulated a lot of surplus food, and twice along came a war that turned the liability into an asset. Looks like nothing but war could solve this present surplus crop riddle, and that is a blood-price we will never again pay, please God. Hot war, that is. We've got the cold war, but it doesn't consume huge surpluses like shooting wars and marching armies.
This farm support program started as a temporary emergency measure. But let someone in authority suggest terminating it now, and see how long it will take for light-
ning to strike him. It has been well said that "eternal vigilance is the price of peace," which was all right in the old days. But today the price of peace is this same thing plus billions of defense UoJt"tf, subsidy money, etc.
Listen, Junior ! I have a suggestion for solving this farm subsidy riddle. You will probably laugh, but don't forget, they laughed at the Wright Brothers when they said man could fy. Since all men are created equal and are supposed to be that way under the Constitution, I suggest that we make every producer pay every other producer price supports. Let the sawmill man pay subsidies to the farmer, and the farmer in return pay subsidies to the sawmill man. And let all other' producers get in the game. Why let a sawmill man go broke because he can't make a profit on his lumber, but force him to help pay to keep farm prices high? I'm "1}tt**t *
You will probably say that my plan isn't practical. Maybe not. f don't think much of it, myself. But is it, do you think, any worse than the program that got us into our present jam?
While I fail to understand why the farmer has been selected as the one citizen who must be subsidized by all other citizens, there are things to be said on his side in this price situation. When a farmer has to pay a dollar fifty for a haircut and a dollar for a shave, he's got to get high prices for his crops, else he'll quit raising wheat and go to raising whiskers, and that would raise Hades with our economy, * ,r< *
And tell me, pray you, what has become of that famous and well-advertised "Yankee ingenuity" we used to hear so much about? With this country piled high with surplus food, and half of the world hungry, we should recall that American characteristic, and put it to work. But will we? As Bill Shakespeare made Mark Antony say in paying his respects to Brutus et al; "I pause for a reply."
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. The Paine Lumber Company, Ltd., Oshkosh, Wis., has announced the appointment of Henry Alsaker as their Pacific Coast representative. He was formerly with L. J. Carr & Co. of Sacramento.
Alsaker will expand the group of jobbers and distributors who handle Rezo Doors and will service their needs from supplying their stock to providing advertising and sales aids. His headcluarters will be at 2031 I Street, Sacramento. California.
Paine Lumber Companl,-, producers of doors for over 100 )-ears, manufactures the Rezo hollorv-core, flush door. Rezo is also available in solid core doors. The doors are available in any thickness from lr/s" throtgh 2%" thickness, in a selection of hardwoods for home, commercial and institutional construction.
Vic Roth, Triangle Lumber Company, Oakland, attended the Sierra Cascade Logging Conference at Redding, anC spent the week following calling on accounts in the Redding-Chico area.
The 68th Dubs tournament was held Friday, March 19, 1954 at the California Golf and Country Club, South San Francisco. "Young" Russ Fryberg was host for the day, which saw a turnout of 28 members and 11 guests for the tournament. The banquet that evening was attended by 35 members and guests. Winners of the tournament were:
First Flight, low net, Chet Dennis (77-10); second low net, Hank Needham (83-12) ; third low net, Lloyd Swiger (91-19) ; low gross winner, John Jenswold with a 75.
Second Flight, low net, Ev Lewis (110-35); second lorv net, Bill Johnson (LO2-25); third low nct, Leo Cheim Sr. (109-27); low gross winner for the second flight, Art Grey with a 99.
The 69th Dubs, Ltd. tournament will be held Frida-v, April 23, 7954, at the Sequoia Golf and Country Club, East Oakland. Norm Cords, Cords Lumber Co., San Francisco, will be the host for the day.
Joe Matlick has opened an office at Room l0l, 3757 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, Calif., where he is carrying on a wholesale lumber business. The teleplione number is DUnkirk 5-%18. He is representing the Fred Fisher Lumber Co. of Eugene Ore. Joe has been. associated with the lumber buSiness in the Los Angeles area for a long period and was formerly with C. P. Henry & Co.
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One of his latest: He says one of his country constituents
George B. Mcleod, chairman of the board, Hammond Lumber Company, and chairman of the CRA Conservation Committee, along with Ben Allen, of the California Redwood Association, currently are making a two week goodwill tour through Nbrthern California. They started the tour April 5 and will be calling on member companies along with RRCC organizations.
dropped in to see him, and finally related the fact that he had just been divorced from his sixth wife. The Governor suggested that he must be hard to get along with.
"No I ain't, Governor," said the country gent. "f ain't really hard to get along with a-fall. It's jest that I can't stand that yah-yah-yahing all the time."
Loren L. and William E,. Byerly recently opened the I3yerly Bros. Lumber Company at Morgan Hill. Their mailing address there is P.O. Box 495 and the phone is Morgan Hill 8-3024. The Byerly brothers have just completed a new dry shed at their yard, which features a cotnplete line of building materials, in addition to patio ancl [ence materials.
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The Lumbermen's 37th Annual Meeting and Trade Show, sponsored by the Southern California Retail Lumber Association, will be held at Hotel Statler, Los Angeles, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, April 2O, 2l and 22, 1954.
Ralph N. Boker PresidcntExecutive Vice President Orrie W. Hamilton says: "The theme of the convention will be 'Marketir,g, Merchandising and Selling' and it will be developed around current industry programs including the Do-It-Yourself activities.
"To assure a successful meeting, vi'e are bringing some of the best qualified speakers from all over the nation to take part in the program.
"On Tuesday evening, April 20, we will hold an Open House-preview of the exhibits-with entertainment, and the exhibits will be fully manned by experts in their own line to give your employes and invited guests the benefit of this colorful and educational Trade Show. There will be a drawing of valuable prizes for those in attendance.
"Early reservations indicate that the attendance will exceed last'year's total of 20W."
The ladies are cordially invited to attend all the business sessions and other 'functions of the annual meeting and on several occasions lovely gifts will be awarded to them as attendance prizes.
The Association ofiflcers are : President Ralph N' Baker, Barr Lumber Company, Santa.Ana; Vice. Presidents, B. W' I3artels, Peoples Lumber Co., Ventura and Wayne F. Mullin, Mullin Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Treasurer, C. Gilmore Ward, Ward & Harrington Lumber Co., Santa Ana; Executive Vice President and Secretary-Manager, Orrie W. Hamilton, Los Angeles.
The convention program is as follows:
Registration.
Tuesday Morning, April 20
Visiting Equipment and Products Exhibits.
Tuesday Noon
Kick-Off Luncheon and Business Session.
Entertainment by the Duncan Sisters of the musical comedy "Topsy and Eva."
Music by Bernice Fay at the Hammond organ. Cornmunity singing with Charlie Aaron, and "A Symphony of Music" by The Four Tones.
Speaker: "Thinkin' Tall" by Dr. Kenneth McFarland, Business Advisor and Consultant for General Motors, Topeka, Kansas.
Iuesday Afternoon
Visiting Equipment and Products Exhibits.
Tuesday Evening
Open House-7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Preview of exhibits for dealers, their families, their employes and invitecl guests of dealers and exhibitors (i.e. architects, contractors, builders, customers, etc). There will be a drawing of valuable prizes for those in attendance.
Entertainment by Tom Holden and The Dude Srvingsters, in Western Rhythm.
Wednesday Morning, APril 21
Breakfast Conference B:00 a.m., honoring the "Old Timers" in the industry. Everybody is welcome.
Speakers : "I{uman Relations-Getting Results Through People," by Arthur Clifford, vice president, The A. \ /' Burritt Co., Bridgeport, Conn.
"Is There A Profit In Your Consumer Selling?" by Lathrop K. Leishman, president Crown City Lumber & Mill Co.. Pasadena. Calif.
Wednesday Noon
Luncheon and Business Session.
Music by Madline Wiley at the Hammond organ.
The group will be entertained by Jan Rubini, distinguished violinst, and Michel Rubini, outstanding boy pianist.
Speaker: "llere and There," by George A. Bowie, Author and Lecturer, Department of Public Relations, The Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio.
Wednesday Afternoon
Visiting Equipment and Products Exhibits. \A/ednesday Evening
Annual Banquet and Floor Show.
Music by Eddie Baker at the Hammond organ.
Speaker: "Anything For A Laugh," by Bob Ringer, Humorist, Philosopher and Lecturer, Pasadena, Calif.
Floor Sl-row featuring Toni Larue and Her Marimba; Charlie Aaron, The Dashing Songster; John Calvert and Ana Cornell, "They'll Baffle You"; The Five Revelers, America's Foremost Singing Group, Cecil Stewart at the piano; The Rudells, "Mid-Air Mirth"; Borrah Minevitch's Harmonica Rascals, starring Johnny Peluo, The Hilarious Music and Fun Gang of films, radio, stage and records. Charlie Aaron will be Nlaster of Ceremonies, and Phil Arden, Musical Conductor.
Thursday Morning, April 22
Visiting Equipment and Products Exhibits.
Thursday Noon
Luncheon and Business Session
The luncheon is sponsored by the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club, honoring the Hoo-Hoo-Ettes.
Music by Bernice Fay at the Hammond organ. UCLA Choir-Forty Voices.
Speaker: "Sales Tips For The Atomic Age," by Bob Bale, Sales Executive and Public Relations Counsel, Bob Bale Institute of Personal Development, Phoenix, Arizona. (Continued on Page 16)
Plans are now complete for the sixth annual meeting of the Western Dry Kiln Clubs which will be held in Eureka. Calif.. I\{ay 13, 14 and 15.
Host for the event 'lvill be the Redwood Seasoning Committee. The meeting rvill include a field trip. three technical sessions, a business meeting of kiln club officers and special entertainment, according to Victor H. Clausen, Research Engineer, Holmes Eureka Lumber Co., general chairman.
Technical sessions rvill include speakers on the general topics: "How Wood Dries," "What's New in Lumber Drying" and "Kiln Club Activities." All technical sessions will be held in the Veterans' Memorial Building. On Friday, May 14, the group will be addressed by Byrne C. Manson, promotion director of the California Redwood Association.
"Wood Structure in Relation to Wood Drying" will be discussed Friday by Prof. Emanuel Fritz, Universitv of California. Dr. Harvey B. Erickson, IJniversity of Washington, will speak on "Mechanics of Water Moving Through Wood." "Methods of Accelerating Wood Drying" will be presented by Leif Espenas, Oregon Forest Products Laboratory
Other papers to be presented Friday include: "Development of Stresses in Lumber As It Dries," John McMillen, U. S. Forest Products Laboratory; "Recent Developments in High Temperature Kiln Drying," J. H. Jenkins, Forest Products Laboratory, Ottawa, Canada; "Recent Developments in Vapor Drying," Robert Graham, Oregon Forest Produ'cts Laboratory; "Experiences in Drying Tropical Woods," Herb Geisenheyner, Honolulu.
On Satuiday,Harry Rich, secretary of the New England Dry Kiln Club will report on the activities of his organization. Bruce Anderson, West Coast Dry Kiln Club, will discuss "Seasoning & Machining Degrade in Young-
Growth Douglas Fir Dimension." The Eastern OregonSouthern Idaho Dry Kiln Club will hold a panel discussion on "Drying Lodgepole Pine." A representative from the Southern California Dry Kiln Club will also present a papef.
The Thursday field trip will include a visit to the Eureka plant of the Hammond Lumber Company, The Pacific Lumber Company, Scotia, and a visit to a number of the redwood groves and tree farms. The field trip will start at 9 a.m. and will conclude by 5 p.m. The business lneeting will be held following dinner Thursday at the Eureka Inn.
A dinner followed by a program of entertainment will be held at the Veterans' Memorial Building Friday evening.
"We have made special arrangements to see that the ladies are well entertained," Clausen said. Their entertainment will include a field trip to the logging operations of the Hammond Lumber Company, lunch at the cookhouse prepared by Tony Gabriel "whose reputation is almost legendary," a tour of the coastline and redwood parks.
Clausen urged those who plan to attend to make their own reservations for housing. Further information can be obtained from Clausen at the Holmes-Eureka Lumber Cornpany, Eureka.
Bert W. LeCrone, lnc., and P. J. Skilt, geles, and their wives tioning in Las Vegas,
general manager E. U. Wheelock, Sierra Redwood Company, Los Ar-rspent several days last month vacaNevada.
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"Why Hoo-I{oo?"-John B. Egan, Snark of the Universe; District Manager, Wood Conversion Co., St. Pau[, I\[inn.
Thursday Afternoon
Award of attendan'ce prizes by exhibitors.
Ihursday Evening
Dinner Dance. Music by Darrell Brerver and FIis Music Makers. Pat Manners, vocalist. Entertainment by Tom anrl Jerry in "Fun At The Bar" and Denny and Cameron iu "Fresh and Foolish."
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A recent survey indicates very plainly that the year 1954 is likely to see all records broken for the building of churches in the United States. According to reliable authorities the people of this nation will spend in the neighborhood of $500,000,000 for new churches this year. That will surpass all previous records.
It is interesting to note that the building of churches in this country has been going forward since the end of World War II at a rate never previously dreamed of. It may be America's answer to the forces of evil which seek to enslave the world, and use the closing of churches as a principal part of their plan.
These facts bring to memory a speech we heard shortly after the close of the last war, in which a preacher eloquently called the attention of business men to the fact that during the great depression of the thirties many thousands of banks folded up, went broke, and closed their doors, while not a single church of any denomination went bust
Howard Curran, Santa Ana lumberman, and Mrs. Curran, spent the week of March 29 in San Francisco with their son, Mi,chael, who sailed April 1 for a two-year tour of duty with the United States ,A,ir Corp in Japan and Korea.
or quit operating. An impressive thought.
He said that before the depression came along to prove a lot of important things, business was inclined to look down on the clergy to a considerable extent, and was of the general opinion that what religion needed was better business management. He said the depression and its results changed all that, and that he wouldn't give a thin dime for the future of the United States if the churches were not on the job to work with business and furnish it uplift and guidance. He said the depression proved that it isn't more business in religion that is needed, but more religion in business.
And we have seldom seen any man get a more enthusiastic reception for his thoughts and words than that minister did. So it is the best of business to boost the building of churches; and the great number of churches that will be built this year will help business build its own faith, and thus make the country strong.
Leroy McCormick, Simpson Logging Co., San Francisco, and William Wickett, a Simpson salesman from the Chicago oftice, spent the last week of March at Simpson's Klarnath and Arcata mills.
Everything is in readiness for rvhat promises to be the best Yosemite Convention yet put on by the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California. Plans and entries for the big Golf Tournament, to be helcl Sunday, April 25, at the Wawona Hotel Golf Course, are now complete. Trophies and prizes rvill be presented to first and second lorv net 'ivinners, and to first, seconcl and third low gross winners. The Convention itselfMonday and and Ttresday, April 26 and 27will be centered around the Ahwahnee Hotel. located in the cen-
ter of rvorld famous Yosemite Park.
Officers of the Association this year are : President R. B. Stevens, A. F. Stevens Lumber Company, Healdsburg; Vice President, Chas. Shepard, Friend and Terry Lumber Comtr.rany, Sacramento; Treasurer, Everett King, King Lumbcr Company, Bakersfield; and Executive Vice President, Jack Pomeroy.
Follorving is the schedule of events for the convention.
Monday, April 26, 1954
9 :00 A.M.-Registration.
12:00 Noon-Luncheon-R. B. Stevens, presiding.
Don Webber, manag'er, R & S Plywood Company, Santa Ana, Calif., announced his company had moved to ner,v offices. On April first rvarehouse and office facilities were established at 1008 Fuller Street, Santa Ana, adjacent ti'r the Santa Ana freelvay.
Charles M. "Chuck" Hanna-'(Mind Your Own Bnsiness."
2:CO P.M.-John S. Taylor--Armstrong Cork Company-"The E,volution."
2:45 P.M.-Business Meeting for all msmllg15-Inclian Room-R. B. Stevens, presiding.
3:00 P.M.-Ladies Fashion Shon'-Nlain Lounge.
5 :39 P.M.-Hoo-Hoo Concat.
7 :00 P. M.--Dinner-Entertainment.
9:15 P.Nf .-Firefall.
9:30 P.NI.-Dancing-Indian Room.
Tuesday, April 27, 1954
9:00 A.M.-Ladies Breakfast for directors u'ives-California Room.
10:00 A.M.-Board of directors meeting-Tudor Room.
12:00 Noon-Luncheon
Speaker of the State Assembly-James Silliman.
2:00 P.M.-L. J. Carr, L. J. Carr Company, Sacramento--"The Lumber Industry of tl-re Future."
2:45 P.M.-John Egan, Wood Conversion Co., St. Paul, Minn. Snark of the Universe, The International Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo.
5:30-7:00 P.M.-Cocktail Party sponsored by associzrte members of Lumber Merchants Association.
7:00 P.M.-Dinner Dance.
9:30 P.M.-Gala Floor Shor,v featuring The Sportsmcrr from the Jack Benny Show.
i0:45 P.M.-Dancing.
Joe Tardy, rvholesale lumberman of Los Angeles, returned from Arizona and Texas the first of April. He spent a week calling on dealers in Southwest Texas, Phoenix, Tucson and Yuma, Arizona. On his return he made stops in Imperial Valley cities.
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Eight inches, a fraction of a minute and a break in the fuselage of a converted B-23 Douglas bomber combined for a life-saving miracle in a plane crash at the AkronCanton Airport, Ohio, March 29. Three executives of The Pacific Lumber Company, the pilot, the co-pilot, and the latter's father, a guest of the company, escaped seconds after the crash through a hole in the fuselage caused when the plane split in half. The pilot beat his hasty retreat through the windshield that had been knocked out by the impact. All escaped unhurt with the exception of the pilot, rvho scraped his forehead as he crawled through the rvindshield frame.
A cold drizzle was falling at the time of the crash and visibility was poor as the converted twin-engined bomber made its instrument approach. Suddenly, the plane's right rving dipped at a 7S-degree angle and struck a roadbed adjoining the airport. The impact of the right wing with the ground catapulted the twin-engined plane in a cartwheel motion over a l5-foot embankment between the road and the landing field, and then the wing ripped clear of
the fuselage. The passeng'ers were bounced about as the plane then cartwheeled 250 feet along the flat land and finally came to a stop about 800 feet from the South end of the runrvay. The engines droppecl out u.here the nose struck at the half-way point in the cartrvheel.
As soon as the plane stopped, it began burning. The five men scooted out the broken fuselage u'hile Hall scrambled through the frame that seconds before had held an icecoated windshield. The explosion and fire that destroyed the craft held back just long enough for all to get clear of the wreckage. It took the airport fire truck about an hour to put out the blaze and at its height, the fire could be seen for several miles.
The group had taken off at LaGuardia Field in Nerv York, headed for Akron, where Ken Smith, Carl Bahr and Vern Malloy were to meet Joseph Griffiths of WeatherSeal, Inc. for dinner, and believe it or not, they still made that dinner appointment, although they lvere understandably a bit late.
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Carl \\r. Watts, formerly located in Palo Alto, California, moved his u'holesale lumber business to Oakland. effective February 1, 1954. FIis new Oakland address is 3871 Piedmont Ave., telephone Pledmont 5-7827, teletype OA 264. Just in case someone would like to buy some lumber during the middle of the night, Carl will gladly get out of bed :rt his home in Oakland, at '%6 Lenox Ave. and answer his phone-TWinoaks 3-1981.
Carl had formerly operated his wholesale lumber business in Palo Alto since 1939, and will continue in Oakland, as before, to represent several Northern California and Soutlrern Oregon mills, specializing in ponderosa pine,
Prior to starting his own wholesale lumber business in 1939, Carl Watts rvas l0 years in the wholesale hardwood business, covering the Northern California area during that time. He received his introduction to the plyrvood industry many years ago with the Wheeler-Osgood Company at Tacoma, Washington, later going with the Northn'est Door Company, also at Tacoma.
Carl was educated at the University of \Vasl-rington and was a Forestry major. During World \\rar I, he served in the Marine Corps, and after his discharge commenccd his lumber career.
The board of directors of The Formic;r Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, announced that at a meeting held on March 31, 1954, Daniel J. C)'Conor, Jr. was electecl president anrl general manager and Daniel J. O'Conor was elected chairman of the board of directors effective April 1, 1954.
A new piece of literature just issued by the Oregon Lumber Company gives detailed instructions for the use of the company's hardboard product in building. The booklet is entitled "Allwood Hardboard in Modern Building and Home Design."
Free copies may be obtained by u'riting to the Oregon Lumber Company, Hardboard Division, Dee, Oregon.
With the completion of the newesl ond nrost modern wollboqrd plonl in lhe Wesi, Blue Diqmond is in q position to moke prompt shipments of gypsum wollboord of the uniform high quclity which hqs chqrqclerized Blue Diomond products for 39 yeors.
H. B. Cooper has purchased all the stock in the Cooper-Morgan Lumber Co. formerly or'vned by Hal D. Morgan and will operate the business as the Cooper Lumber Company. The office will continue at 1309 American Bank Building, Portland, Oregon, where it has been located for many vears.
Bert Beless is now associated with the Consolidated Lumber Co. with headquarters in their Los Angeles office. For the past two years, he has been with the Lumber E,mployers Council, and prior to that he was with the Southern California Retail Lumber Association. Bert has been associated with the retail lumber business in Los Angeles for a long period and is well known in lumber circles.
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lYintonrnen cover California like a blanket, from border to border ! They do more than represent the combined production of 20 California and Oregon mills they bring fresh sales and merchandising ideas and "know how" from this rJ7inton Sales team, to help you do a better job of selling your quality Sfinton products.
Next time your \U7inton salesman calls, you're invited to get his slant on your own particular sales or merchandising problem. He'll be glad to be of seroice!
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Hora'ce E. Wolfe, president of the Marquart-Wolfe Lumber Company, announced last month that the Pacific Coast general offices of the wholesale lumber concern had been established at 1680 North Vine Street, Los Angeles 28, California, telephone number HOllywood 4-7558' Mr. Wolfe has been identified in millwork and lumber distribution for many years and for the past eight years has represented the Marquart Millwork Company in California with offices in San Francisco. Prior to that time Mr. Wolfe was with the Army Air Forces in Los Angeles and the L. H. Eubanks & Son, millwork manufacturers, Inglewood, California.
The officers of the Marquart-Wolfe Lumber Companv rnclude Tom Marquart, Marquart Millwork Co., Oshkosh, Wisccnsin, secretary-treasurer; Ri'chard J. (Dick) Marquart, of the same firm, vice president, and Sterling Wolfe, well known in Southern California lumber circles and the Hoo-Hoo fraternity, general sales manager. Tom Marquart is also director of the Northern Sash & Door Jobbers Association and active in the Ponderosa Woodworking Association. The Marquart Millwork Co. has been established in Oshkosh for over 25 years, doing a wholesale lumber distribution business as well as jobbers of sash, door frame, moulding and millwork in the midwest.
According to Mr. Wolfe offices of the concern will also be maintained in San Francisco for the purpose of close
contact with Northern California, Oregon and Washington production mills. "By extending our organization's servict)s to include Arizona, Nevada and Texas means we will also cxpand our sales staff throughout this territory," stated Mr. Wolfe, "and the Los Angeles ofifice will concentrate on sales of all species of lumber in this particular area," he continued.
Sterling Wolfe, sales manager of the firm, will concentrate his effort on the retail lumber dealers of Southern California and the management of the Los Angeles office. It is expected salesmen will be emploved to cover the Arizona. Nevada and Texas territory.
Appointment of Albert Arnst as managing editor of The l-umberman, was announced by W. E. Crosby, editor. Mr. Arnst will make his headquarters in The Lumberman's Portland office. Mr. Crosby will continue as editor, located in Seattle, Washington, where the journal is published.
Mr. Arnst is a 1931 graduate of the Oregon State College S,chool of Forestry and has had wide experience in various phases of the lumber industry. In 1952, he became editor o{ The Timberman, resigning that position in 1953 to join the Western Forestry & Conservation Assn. in Portland, Ore. Currently, he is chairman of the Portland Chapter of the Society of American Foresters, and chairman of the weekly meeting of the Columbia River Section of the Pacific Northwest Logger's Association.
Blue Diamond Corporation, Los Angeles, has added Frank Matchette to its wholesale sales staff. Matchette will specialize in the sale of gypsrlm wallboard, and will be working in the Southern California area.
He formerly was in charge of sales for tl-re Doug Hartley trucking service, a firrn which specialized in the hauling of r,vallboarcl for tract operators. Matchette is a graduate of the University of Southern California.
The Woodu.ork Institute of California's Technical Committee met in the W.I.C. office on March 19 to consider some 250 suggestions and ideas that they have received recently from Architects from all over the State. The suggestions lrad to deal with additional data to the W.I.C. "Manual of Millwork."
The Technical Comrnittee will meet again in Fresno, April 16, to put some of the ideas into production; the most irecluent suggestions having to do with stock mouldings and modern profiles, awning type frames and sliding door and sash frames.
Simplified guidance information for users and specifiers of pressure-treated Douglas fir and other west ,coast woods is offered in a data folder issued by tl-re Western WootlPreserving Operator's Association, 1410 S. W. Morrison Street, Portland 5, Oregon.
Comn.rercially available chemical treatments applied t<r rvood by vacutm-pressure methods to protect against rot, insects, fire and marine borers and described, together with recommended retentions of preservatives for safeguarding rvood when exposed to various hazards.
Pressure treatments covered in the guide are standards of either the federal government or the American WoorlPreservers' Association and include coal-tar creosote, crec)sote-petroleum solutions, pentachlorophenol, Boliden salts, Chenronite. Chromated Zinc Chloride and Wolman salts perservatives. Fire retardants are Minalith, Pyresote and Chromated Zinc Chloride (FR).
Recommendations for clesign practices, fabrication, treatment of glued-laminated wood and handling of pressuretreated lumber, poles and piling at the job site are covered in the guide.
Copies of the guide are available to the. construction industry and mav be obtained by writing the association.
Lyle Brewster, Southern California sales representative for Middleton & Beirne Lumber Company, spent April lst to 5th at the company home offices in Redding, Calif.
c.rrs .rl our mills will be loqded occording to specificotions odopted Soulhern Colifornio Reloil Lumber Deolers Associqlion. SAVE flmE EXPENSE-SAVE LA8OR. We loqd 'em exoctly like you wont'em. lhey unloqded in o msller of minules.
Forest tree planting last year was a record 715,548 acres, the U. S. Department of Agriculture said. The Forest Service reported forest and shelterbelt planting by public agencies, forest industries and individual landowners in the year ending June 30, 1953, was 193,000 acres (37 per cent) more than was planted in the year ending June 30, 1952, which was the previous record year.
Of the total acres planted 77,512 were on federally ad= ministered lands, 63,791on lands administered by the states or other non-federal public agencies and 574,I45 on privately owned lands.
Private land planting, which was 168,000 acres over that of 1952, was particularly encouraging because about 80 per cent of the reforestation work to be done is on privately owned land. In 1940-41 only three states reported private land planting in excess of 15,000 acres a year, but last year (1953), 12 states reported more than that. Moreover, Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi each reported more than 57,000 acres planted in 1953.
Although planting increased 44 per cent on federal lands last year, it has dropped off 56 per cent during the past 15 years. In the four years between 1938 and 1941, 1,034,000 acres of publicly administered land was planted. During the four years between 1950 and 1953 only 453,000 acres were planted.
About 435,n6,n0 trees or almost 2/3 of. the trees used in reforestation in 1953 came from nurseries administered
by the states under a state-federal cooperative program set up under the Clarke-McNary Act of 1924. These trees are distributed to private land owners at nominal cost.
Nurseries supplying the remaining trees were: 12 Forest Service, 81,211,000 trees; 35 commercial, 50,000,00O trees; 10 paper industry, 44,561,000 trees; 2 Tennessee Valley Authority, '?6,282,W trees; 12 Soil Conservation Service 22,O70,W trees ; 5 lumber industries, 9,717,0n trees ; 4 Soil Conservation Districts, 4,335,000 trees; and 2 city and country, 260.000 trees.
J. Addison Porter, owner-manager of the J. A. Porter Lumber Co., Washington, D.C., announces the appointment of Patrick L. Kennedy to assist in the selling of lumber at wholesale. A veteran of World War II, he graduated from Santa Clara University at Santa Clara, Calif. He has worked for the Elk Lumber Co. of Medford, Ore., and is an authorized Association grader of Western lumber. Mr. Kennedy is a nephew of Henry Bahr, secretary, National Lumber Manufacturers Association, and of Carl Bahr of the Pacific Lumber Company.
Research indicates that applications of Douglas fir sawdust at thp rate of 10 tons per acre will increase crop yields without the addition of Nitrogen fertilizer. Sawdust applied at the rate of 100 tons per acre with the addition of 1,400 lbs. of arnmonium nitrate gave maximum yields.
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Pressure-treated glued-laminated wood bridge stringer members up to 74 feet in length are now being extensiv'ely used in western highway structures, Charles F. Craig of the Western Wood-Preserving Operators Association reF.,orted at the recent Northwest Conference on Road Buiiding held at Seattle.
"For years the spans of timber stringer bridges have becn limited by the available lengths of sawn timber. This limitation no longer rules out wood stringer bridges as one recent structure employed gluedJaminated, pressure-treateC Douglas fir stringer 74 f.eet l0 7/8 inches long with an 11 inch by 43 7/8 inch cross section," he explained.
A leading factor in this development is the regional office of tl-re U. S. Forest Service at Portland. During the past two years that agency has designed 38 glued-laminated stringer structures. All of these structures are designed for H2O,S16 loading in accordance with American Association of the State Highway Officials specifications. A service life in excess of. 75 years, with minimum maintenance, is anticipated, Craig said.
Composite bridge deck construction, using pressure treated wood laminations with a concrete wearing surface, now lras passed 23 years of usage in the oldest structure and still is in excellent condition, Craig reported. The alternate treated wood laminations are elevated and dapped and
grooved to provide a bond for the concrete and develop shear strength. Laminations are shop fabricated and as_ sembled in panels at the wood-preserving plant to reduce labor installation costs.
Craig, who spoke on behalf of the Western Wood_pre_ serving Operators' Association, is a civil engineer with the IJaxco Corporation, Portland, Oregon.
Cleveland, Ohio-The Kinsley Chemical Co. announce it has successfully produced a newsprint paper from a pulp composed of 4O/o of relatively plentiful poplar wood.
Edward R. Timlowski, vice-president and technical direc_ tor, said previous experiments were unsuccessful when more than 20/o hardwood was used.
Hardwood such as poplar, gumwood and cottonwood are so plentiful they are regarded as waste, while softwoods currently used in producing newsprint are being used up faster than they can be grown.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer, one of the firm,s owners, sponsored the project. Timlowski said more than 1000 tons of the new paper were turned out in the experiment at the Hennepin Paper Co.'s mill at Little Falls, I\{inn.
The Kinsley Co. said it believes it can manufacture the paper for slightly less than the present $126 a ton Canadian price.
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Washington, D.C.-Wood grain bin manufacturers have launched a drive to capture a greater share of the government market, an announcement by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association disclosed.
The drive will be spearheaded by a newly-formed Na_ lional Association of Wood Bin Manufacturers, compose<l of leading fabricators in this field. Headquarters are in Washington, D. C.
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The National Association of Wood Bin Manufacturers was organized, with the help of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, to develop standard wood bin designs acceptable to the Commodity Credit Corporation in future storage bin procurement.
The association already has developed a standard design for a round 10,000-bushel bin, all wood, 30 feet in diameter, i6 feet to the eaves. Work on additional designs is expected to be undertaken in the near future.
The following companies comprise the new bin fabricators' group:
The Western Silo Co., West Des Moines, fowa: Burnell and Sons, Jefferson, Iowa; Durkee Manufacturing Co., Pine River, Minn.; Timmerman Lumber and Manufacturing Co., Hibbing, Minn.; Rilco Laminated Products Co.. St. Paul; Illinois Lumber and N{anufacturing Co., Cairo, Ill.; Green Gable Builders, Onawa, fowa, and Burns Brothers Manufacturing Co., Aitkin, Minn. The Weyerhaeuser Sales Co., St. Paul, is an associate member.
The Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company established offices in Los Angeles last month to handle the increasing demand for their products in the west and distribution r"rarehouse facilities were opened April lst at pico anrl Maple Avenues to expedite shipments to all pacific Coast cities, according to James D. Young, National Sales Manager for the concern.
To signalize the event a 2-day exhibit of yale locks and builders hardware was held at the Hotel Statler March 31 and April 1. Southern California architects, builders, hardware distributors and local retail lumber dealers attended the affair and were greeted by Joan Vohs, radio, TV and moving picture starlet who acted as official hostess for the Lockorama Show. Miss Vohs starred in the picture Crazy'Legs with Elroy Hirsch and will next be seen in Sabrina Fair with William Holden.
Many Yale-Towne officials were present for the sales promotion show including Leo J. pantas, general manager; Milton M. Enzer, director of pubiic relations and Mr. Young. The two day event attracted approximately 2000 contractors and builders interested in builders hardware. William W. Brasier has been appointed manager of the Pacific Coast Region with headquarters in Los Angeles.
President of the association is C. Fred Stout of the Western Silo Company. Executive Secretary-Treasurer is Joseph W. Mullen of Washigton D. C.
ft was announced by Joseph Z. Todd, president of Western Door & Sash Co., Oakland' that a new wholesale catalog was being distributed to the trade. He emphasized that this manual was more than just a Price file. The new book has been designed as a direct selling tool for the trade.
thus affording the retailer a means of quoting and making the sale immediately.
Western Door has divided their catalog into sections lcr Doors: Windows and Sash ; Frames and Jambs ; Moulding; Glass and Mirrors; Panels and Hardboard; f nsulation; Medicine Cabinets and Ironing Boards; Acme and Unique Balances; and Special. Description and details are presented within each categorY'
Joreph Z Todd President Wosletn Door & Sosh ComPonYThe new Western Door & Sash Co. catalog will have fiftY-six pages divided into ten sections all carefully indexed for cluick easy reference. To fully Present the various items there are some 174 illustrations arranged on the price list. Along with this will be five manufacturer brochures covering doors, plywood, insulation products, hardboard and glass'
Mr. -fodd explains this catalog is designed for fast, easy reference and offers one of the most complete lines in the trade. Along with the full line of standard products, many of the less popular items have been listed with prices,
When asked for further details, Mr. Todd acknowledged that Western Door and Sash Co. has embarked on their forty-first year of business. Along with warehousing the popular brand-name products of Mengel, Malarkey, Simpson, Buffelen, Libbey-Owens-Ford, and others, they operate two of their own mills. "We are one of the few wholesale jobbers capable of manufacturing most anything in tl.re door and sash line," stated Mr. Todd. "We can produce and ship rnaterials from the single items to multiple carload." Western Door and Sash Co. services an area from the Oregon border to south of Fresno.
There is more to selling than taking orders and the twelve salesmen of Western Door will be personally calling and explaining their new program to the trade. Distribution of this important selling tool will start in mid April and the trade will have their copy by the effective date, May 3, 1954.
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Portland, April l-The following report of the first quarter, 1954 production and shipments of Western Pine region lumber and lumber products and estimate of probable second quarter shipments was released today by W. E. Griffee, assistant secretary-manager of the Western Pine association. The report covered Idaho White Pine, Ponderosa Pine and Sugar Pine-which make up 60 per cent of the region's production-and the seven associated rvoods. The statement in full:
"Preliminary estimates place the ship,ments of lumber from the Western Pine region during the first quarter of 1954 at 1560 million board feet. Of this total about 60 per cent was of Idaho White Pine, Ponderosa Pine and Sugar Pine; the balance of the associated species. These first quarter shipments \\rere 5.8 per cent less than for the record first quarter of 1953 but rvere substantially higher than shipments in the same period of any previous year.
"Production of 14Ol million feet during the quarter was 4.7 per cent belorv the 1479 million produced in 1953 but still well above earlier years. The exceptionally favorable weather in the first quarter of 1953 partly accounted for the record performance during that quarter.
"Mill stocks in the Western Pine region at the end of March are estimated at 161 1 million feet compared with 1479 million a year ago, an increase of 132 million. An increase of about this proportion has occurred in the stocks held by mills in other principal softr.r'ood regions.
"With most other industries currently operating at 10 per cent or more below last year's level, it is surprising that the demand for lumber from the Western Pine region holds up so well. Preliminary estimates show March shipments equal to the all-time record set in March of 1953. Such shipments evidently are in line with current housing starts. The 73,000 housing units started in February were at a seasonally-adjusted rate of 1.2 million units for the year. The general level of business activity and the results of consumer surveys of buyers' intentions both indicate that such a booming rate of home construction can hardly continue through the year.
"Last year's second quarter shipments were 21.4 per cent above those for the exceptionally good first quarter. For the five years 1949-53 the second quarter shipments topped the first quarter by 39.9 per cent. They could not do that this year without exceeding even the peak shipments in the second quarter of 1950.
"Based on such factors, and all other available information, it now seems probable that during the second quarter ol 7954 shipments (consumption) of lumber from the Western Pine region will approximate 2050 million board feet. This is 1.9 per cent above the relatively poor second quarter of 1953."
Recently completed plans for the sale of 1 billion board feet of mature timber from the National Forests in California during the coming .year, according to a statement released by Regional Timber Chief, C. H. Payne.
The planned marketing is about 60/o increase over the amount of timber cut on the California national forests during 1953. Further increases in the marketing of mature timber are planned for the next five years. This expanded timber sale program is aimed at the Forest Service's stated objective of selling the full crop of timber. The full crop would mean 1007o increase over the 1953 cut, rvhich can be safely done without jeopardizing the basic resources of soil and water, and a perpetual supply of timber.
Forest engineers and timber officers recently completed the annual revision of timber sale plans. These provide for an orderly sales schedule with priority of cutting given to those areas most in need of cutting. Age and health of timber is only part of the consideration in determining cutting priorities. Public demands for lumber; the need for raw material to keep dependent sawmills in operation; development of access roads to remove the tirnber, and manv other factors enter into the sales plans.
Details of the revised sales programs for each forest will be made public through a series of local announcements or meetings with interested timber operators and the general public. The first of these meetings covering Eldorado Forest plans was held in Placerville Tuesday evening, March 9. Other meetings will be announced later by the Forest Supervisors of the other National Forests in California.
National forest timber is offered for sale at a fair appraised price. Sales are made to timber operators on the basis of the highest competitive bids received. Most sales contracts carry an escalator clause which provides for periodic adjustment of stumpage prices tied directly to the rise or fall of current lumber selling prices.
Purchasers of national forest timber cut only designated trees, and pay only for the merchantable or sound portions of logs from the cut trees. Payments for stumpage are made on the installment plan. Cash in advance sufficient to cover the value of material to be cut during a 2 to 4 months period is the usual requirement.
Receipts from the sale of timber is the largest single source of cash revenue from the national forests. Timber receipts from the National Forests in California amounted to $10,260,000 in Fiscal Year 1953. 25/a of this amount is returned to the counties within the national forests for use .in their road and school programs.
Dee Essley, D. C. Essley & Son, Los Angeles, and president of the Whittier, Calif., Rotary Club attended the Rotary International Convention at Coronado March 15. He returned home via Palm Springs where he participated in the St. Patrick's Day golf tournament.
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Al Kelley, General Chairman of the Z2nd Annual Oakland Reveille, to be held at the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley, Friday, May 14, 1954, has suggested that out-of-town lumbermen desiring accommodations for Friday night at the Claremont Hotel should contact Frank Timmers at Strable Lumber Company, Oakland, as soon as possiblr; reservations are first-come-first-go, and are doing the latter fast.
The Reveille day will get underway at about 10:30 a.m., rvhich will mark the beginning of the golf tournament to be held at the Claremont Golf and Country Club, Oakland. Evening festivities will commence about 6:00 p.m. at the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley.
Jim Maynard, Santa Ana Lumber Company, rvas named to head the Orange County Lumber Association during tl-re fiscal year 1954-55. Other ofificers elected include : Lee Pearson, treasurer; Harold Kahn, secretary; Wilbur Barr, James Nelson, Walter Spicer and Louis Lake, directors. Monthly meetings have been planned for the organization l'rhich has a membership that includes all the lumber concerns in the county. Thirty-five attended the meeting held March 2 at the Savoy Hotel Grill. The next meeting will be held during the week of April 18, President Maynard announced.
Portland, Oregon, January 10-Thirteen new West Coast tree farms totalling 10,440 acres were certified Friday afternoon in Portland by the Industrial Forestry Association board of directors. Six of the private forest properties are in Oregon and seven in Washington, according to Roy F. Morse, Longview, IFA board chairman.
At the same time, Morse stated, four additions to existing West Coast tree farms, adding up to 5,717 acres, were certified. Thus, 16,157 acres of forest lands were brought under the private taxpaying forest management program.
There are now 203 tree farms in the Douglas fir region of western Oregon and Washington, Morse pointed out, with a total of 4,266,633 acres. Of this number lD are in Washington and 74 in Oregon. Western Washington has 2,60I,405 acres and Oregon now has I,665,228 acres.
Most of the newly certified West Coast Tree farms, Morse declared, are in small ownerships. In Washington, San Juan county got its first tree farms, owned by C. R. Wright and lloward Lawson. In addition there were four in Thurston county belonging to: Alvin Thompson, Jesse Winslow, Richard M. Bates, and Clifton A. and Helen L. Olson, and one in Skagit and Snohomish counties owned by C. O. Davis.
New Oregon tree farms are scattered in six counties, Morse said. The owners and their locations are: Sam and
Stella Mccauley, Coos county; Timber Products Company of Oregon, Linn county; Stokes Lumber Company, Lincoln county; John R. and Norma Thompson, Benton couuty; Bruce MacGregor Hall, Washington county: and Marcus P. Heckman's Enchanted Forest Christmas Tree Farm, in Columbia county.
A beautiful full-color booklet on West Coast tree farms, first of its kind published in the northwest and by IFA, was shown for the first time at the meeting. Chairman Morse indicated free copies of the booklet would be sent to interested persons who write Industrial Forestry Association, 1410 S. W. Morrison Street, Portland 5, Oregon.
E,d Bauer, Atlas Lumber Company, Los Angeles, rvas host to the Terrible Twenty at the Los Angeles Country Club, Friday, March 26. Ed tied with Harold Hamilton rvith a low net 68 to walk off with the money. All members are pointing toward the big annual tournament which has [-een scheduled for Annandale, Tuesday, May 18. It will be the first time the new club facilities have been us,:d by the warriors since the fire over a year ago.
Reno Hoo-Hoo Club No. 129 will hold a dinner meeting and concat on April 24, 1954, at The Desert Club, Reno, Nevada.
Edgar Petty, president of the Arizona Retail Lumber and Builders Association, announces that final arrangements are practically complete for the annual ,convention to be held at the San Marcos Hotel, Chandler, Arizona, on April, 22,23 and 24, 1954. "The high calibre of the speakers that will appear on our program this year and the subjects they are going to bring to the dealers should make this convention most outstanding," said Mr. Petty.
Dr. J. A. Hall, director o{ lhe Forest Products Laboratory zlt Madison. Wis.. will address the convention on "Wood in the War of Materials." Dr. Hall formerly served as director of the Central States Forest Experimental Station at Columbus, Ohio, and as biochemist of the United States Forest Service at Washington, D.C. Dr' Hall will be accompanied to Arizona by tr. G. Locke and G. H. Chidester of the Forest Servi,ce.
W .E. "Diff" Difiord, managing director of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, Tacoma, Wash., an outstanding
speaker whose subject will be sales promotion, selling and management. He addressed a series of meetings recently held in Oklahoma, Louisiana and Texas.
Phil Creden, Public Relations Director of the Edward Hines Lumber Co., Chicago, fll., Chairman of Public Relations for the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association and Director of the Lumber Dealers Research Cour-rcil, rvill bring to the convention the latest information on the Lu-Re-Co-building homes from package wall panels. Not only will a description of the plan be given but also working models and jigs will be exhibited.
The first day of the convention, Thursday, will be given over to registration, viewing the exhibits, and the annual golf tournament. In the evening there will be a FIoo-Hoo concatenation at which John B. Egan of St. Paul, Minn., Snark of the lJniverse, will attend.
Business sessions will be held on Friday and Saturday with the annual banquet and dinner dance Saturciay evening.
The Association officers are : President, E. H. Petty; Vice Presidents, Ralph Bell, Sam Beecroft and J. Knox Corbett ; Treasurer, Earl Cox; Secretary-Manager Gus R. Michaels.
Ralph Baker, general manager, Barr Lumber Companl', Santa Ana, spent the last week in March and the first rveek of April entertaining guests on his yacht cruising off the coast of Baja California.
Jack Kaefer, U. S. Plywood CorP., and San Francisco April 2 f.or a three-week While in Nerv York, they will attend U' pany's 35th anniversary celebration.
Mrs. Kaefer, lelt trip to the East. S. Plywood Com-
Charlie Kendall, Los Angeles 'n'holesale lumber distributor, spent the first week of April in Northern California and Portland, Oregon, calling on mills and business associates in the Nortl-rwest.
Max Barnette, Southern California sales manager, Ifollow Tree Redwood Company, Long Beach, flew to the home office in Ukiah, California, during the first u'eek in April.
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I asked her how she could be happy and gay, And how in the world she could sing? When winter's battalions were blocking her way, She said "I look forward to spring." I'll treasure the secret, though wintry the day Henceforth in the snowstorm I'11 sing, And smile as I think of the flowers of May, I also look forward to spring.
Spring rides no horses down the hill, But comes on foot, a goose-girl still; And all the loveliest things there be, come simplY' as it seerns t3a1;irr""rrt Millay.
I heard God calling And I came.
His sun signalled me With its flame.
His wind called me, With its song. His birds said they Had been waiting long. His little brooks ran tumbling Down the hills, Luring me with laughter Of rocky rills.
His grasses, yellow-green Standing in the sun, Held up their fingers, For me to come.
Heart of Oak and heart of Pine, Beat a faint tatoo, Flowing sap in bowl and bud, Climbing up anew. Till at last the summons
Set my heart aflame; I heard God callingAnd I came.
The midday whistle had blown when Murphy shouted: "Has anyone seen me vest?"
"Sure, Murphy," said Cassidy, "ye've got it on."
"Right an' I have," said Murphy. "An' it's a good thing you noticed it or I'd have gone home without it."
A board and a nail and a can of Paint, Make many a place look new-that ain't. And a building guy with a smilihg face, Can sell the man that owns the place. So hit'em hard, you'll never rue it, And spring's the ideal time to do it.
Softly the rain slants in, From the South, with fragrance blown, From crystal, over the roofs. And I wonder if the rain, Falls softly there today
On the old barn, staunch through the years With its drowsy mow of hay?
Softly the rain. I hear The pigeons under the eaves
Once more, and the sound of dreams Rich as the stir of leaves, Patterned with lifted light, Spring's banners under the Plain Beyond that roof, though it sags
With years. And softly the rain.
-G. .W. Dresbach.The lifeless brown of winter ground, Is giving way to green, The crispy air is charged with sound Of bursting buds unseen.
Oh, giddy spring you beckon me, To hustle where the straw hats be.
-Kathryn H. Holland.When April twilight paints its monochrome, Of steel-grey sky beyond a blue-grey sea' Then time and space unveil eternity; The ocean shoreward flings the very foam Which kissed, one yesterday, a Lakeman's home; Above are stars in depthless galaxy, While sand-small atoms crumble under me, And waves roll out to some unbuilded tomb. Thus hung between my tiny yesterday
And vague tomorrow, hung between the small Infinity of sand and vast arraY
Of stars and stars in endless spacial sprawl, I stand, a man, uncertain and astraY, Yet-sensitive-I vibrate with it all.
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Top U. S. retailers and Douglas fir lumbermen huddled at Portland, Oregon, last week to discuss a smashing national promotion of lumber campaign aimed at every potential customer in the nation.
The occasion was the 43rd annual meeting oi the stockholders of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, whose two-day conference was under the direction of G. E. Karlen, Tacoma, president, and H. V. Simpson, executive vice president.
The retail lumberman is to be the "hero" of all West Coast lumber advertising and exploitation. He will be featurecl on TV, in national magazines, in beautifully colored literature, ilL news releases and through motion pictures, as the home builders headquarters. Those seeking information on any phase of building, remodelling or construction planning will be urged to "see your local retailer."
Said President Karlen: "Retailers sell 8O per cent of all lumber manufactured by us. They are our 'stores', our best salesmen, and the people who have the last say with the customer. We must give them the tools they need to ireate a profitable market for our products."
Douglas fir producers responded with a rousing support of their president, promptly increased their budget for national advertising and promotion to $600,000, highest of any previous year.
Stepped up this year will be paid space used in leading national shelter and general magazines, increased volume of hard-hitting, full-color selling literature, several new motion pictures for television as well as a new series of short 45-second playets for use by retailers on local television stations or as movie trailers.
H. R. Northup, executive vice president of National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, a principal speaker before the West Coast millmen, discussed prospects for 1954 volume of lumber business. He said the construction business is the nation's largest industry, topping agriculture, and when light construction is at peak volume, the nation's entire economy prospers.
Throughout the entire two-day business session ran the theme of harder selling as the kev to the lumber prosperity pi'cture. James R. Bemis, Prescott, Arkansas lumberman, president of both the Southern Pine Association and National Lumber Manufacturers Association, warned Dougl:rs fir millmen they must sell harder and sell lumber. He gave a three point program for success: 1) more doorbell ringing to get new customers to hold old ones,2) more attention to quality, and 3) more attention to customer needs.
He urged both millmen and retailers to counsel with customers to make sure they get 'ivhat they need.
Other speakers u,ere Leo V. Bodine, executive vice president of NLMA, who told of the new look in lumber promotion by all lumber regions, which are concentrating
more and more of their exploitation on lumber and less on specific species, leaving that matter up to the retailer.
R. E. Mahaffay, trade promotion director, at a meeting of the association's 60-man trade promotion committee outlined some of the projects to be undertaken in 1954. He said more than 1,300,000 pieces of lumber use literature had been distributed so far this year on request from customers all over the nation. He said television stations were asking for more educational films on forestry, logging and lumbering as one of the America's most dramatic industtries and that six films would be produced this year by the association to meet these demands.
All officers were re-elcted. In addition to Karlen and Simpson, N. B. Giustina, Eugene, and R. M. Ingram, Aberdeen, were re-elected as vice presidents for their respective states. W. B. Greeley, vice president, and Wm' A. Culkin, Vancouver, treasurer, and Harris E' Smith, secretary, were all re-elected.
Millmen came from California, Oregon and Washirrgto t for this annual business session. A highlight of the conclave was the annual banquet address of Stanley F. Iforn, editor of the Southern Lumbermal, who stressed the need for unity and solidarity all along the lumber front' He urged manufacturers to step up their promotion efforts or lose ground to a variety of new products. Roy M. Janin, Portland wholesaler, president of National-American Wholesale Lumber Association, told of the distributors place in the lumber business.
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For every dollar of public debt held by a commercial bank, aboui five new dollars may be created in the form of credit. Obviously, the larger the amount of the public debt held by individuals, the greater the check on inflationary tendencies.
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During this porl week end no doubt you were doing your yord work ol home. But storting lodoY, we ore going lo Gonc€ntrole on Youl lumber yord problems.
fhere were probobly q number of limes, during your Yord-working week end, when you wished you hqd extrc seod, or rome more bulbr or qn exlrd sqck of thot ltuff from doiries. You didn'r hqve it-so You were cought shod.
Don't gel cought short in your lumber stock. Check your inventory cnd get your yord piled higi for rhe building proglqm thot is righr 'round the corner. fhe EASIESI ond QUTCKEST wqy lo q solisfied customer i3 lo give us the opportunity to furnish our on-lhe-grode products to you.
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Washington-John W.
Churchill, 24, wood technologist, has -joined the laboratory staff of Timber Engineering Company, research affiliate of National Lumber Manufacturers Association, announced C. A. Rishell, director of research.
A native of Burlington, Vermont, Mr. Churchill attended the University of Vermont for his pre-forestry training, and received his bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan, where he was a student assistant during his senior year. Early this year, he was awarded his master's degree in wood technology by Michigan.
Between school sessions, Mr. Churchill was employed by the Vermont Experimetnal Forest, at Jericho, and had sawmill experience at Brandon, Vermont. He is a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternitv.
The Federal Housing Administration office at 112 W. 9th Street, Los Angeles, California, began receiving applications for mortgage insurance under Title IX, for programmed defense housing in the Lancaster-Palmdale, Mojave, California, Critical defense housing area on March 31, 1954, it was announced by John E. McGovern FHA I)irector. Applications will be received through April 20, 1954. The program of 600 housing units to be built in the Lancaster-Palmdale, Mojave area was announced recently by the Housing and Home Finance Agency in Washington' All of the programmed housing is intended for in-migrant defense workers (including members of the Armed Forces) employed in or stationed at the designated defense establishments in the area.
Units of defense housing prog'rammed by the HHFA to be insured under Title IX of the National Housing Act, may be applied for onlv by the submission of applications for mortgage insurance under Title IX, accompanied by the appropriate examination or application fees.
Howard Noah, general manager Timber Sales, Inc', Los Angeles, spent the month of March on a procurement trip in Northern California. While away he called on mills in Arcata, Cloverdale, Redding, Ukiah ancl Eureka. He returned the first week in April.
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The uses of Kalabord and Kalatex striated hardboard panelings are described in two booklets recently published by Columbia Plywood Company. These handy size, two color booklets are available free of charge in quantity to lumber and building supply dealers for over-the-counter distribution. Copies may be obtained from Columbia Plywood Company, Skinner Building, Seattle 1, Washington.
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Russell Bjorn, manager-director of the Woodwork Institute of Califorrria, 681 Market St., San Francisco, re_ leased the following memo to W.I.C. members dated March 16 which indicates further W.I.C. promotional efforts for 1954.
"This is important to you, to us and to the millwork industry of California.
"The spearhead of our 1954 program calls for a man rvho possesses the talent and ability to .talk Turkey' to all key Architects in the State on the subject of wood in rnillwork regardless of the type of construction involved.
"He must have enough training, experien,ce and background to be able, not only to intelligently discuss the architect's problems in connection with millwork, but also do a selling job.
"You, your associates, your business friends, or customers, might know of where such a man may be obtained. Talk it over with them. Give it your serious consideration. Then, if you hear of anyone who seems promising and who might be available, please let us know. It is urgent !
"All names and application should be sent directly to our office in San Francisco, and will be treated strictly confidential."
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On February 26 the San Diego Hoo-Hoo Club held a Concatenation at the North Park Lions Club and 8 Kittens were initiated. Chuck Hampshire, secretary-treasurer of the organization, reported 67 Black Cats took part in helping the noviates see the "Light of Day." The Kittens were: Walter Bowering, National Lumber Company; Byron D. King, Dixie Lumber Company; Gilbert H. Tate, Chula Vista Lumber Company; John D' Sullivan and Ralph O. Smith, Western I.umber Company; Ronald J. Eldred and Robert F. Ellerman, Elk Lumber Company; and William M. Carpenter, La Mesa Planing Mill.
Lew Godard, Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., San Francisco, and Mrs. Godard, are looking forward to April 24, the date they are scheduled to board the steamer "Roma," bound out of New York for Genoa. They are planning to arrive there about May 2 and will make their headquarters in Pisa, Italy. Mr. and Mrs. Earle Johnson, Watsonville Lumber Co., will meet the Godards in Rome, and together the group will tour Spain, Portugal, Germany, France, Belguim, Holland and the Scandinavian countries. Lerv and Mrs. Godard will make the trip home by plane after visiting in England.
William M. Moores, president of the Hollow Tree Redwood Company, called an annual spring sales meeting for the first u'eek in April to discuss spring and summer production schedules and general sales policv lr'ith key men of the organization. The u'eek-long meetings '"vere held at the home olfice of the company in Ukiah, California.
Max R. Barnette, sales manager, with headquarters in Long Beach, California, and a group of .company executives including Ken Schmidke of Long Beach and F. L. Bror,vn, eastern region sales manager l,vith headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, flerv from Los Angeles to Ukial-r in the private plane operated by the lumber concern. Special stops were made enroute to the home office at Oakland and San Francisco to permit Max Barnette time to handle details concerning personal matters pertaining to the flight north.
To discuss production and sales Mr. Moores scheduled talks by various company executives including Shirley Bror,r'n, shipping superintendent at the mill ; Lee Vostmyer, general production superintendent, Max Olsen, superintendent of the Kiln Drying plant. Other company officials attending the meeting were -foe Shipman, Russ Roepke and Jim Hennessy, Northern California sales representative.
J. \V. Spears, CRA head grader, Dennis Robertson, head of the company remanufacturing plant and Smokey Stover, sau'mill superintendent of the company owned mills, all attended the meeting and gave complete details regarding anticipated production and handling schedules for eastern and west coast markets during the summer months ahead.
"From the standpoint of production and sales and their interlocking problems we feel the meeting was a complete success." said Mr. Moores.
The Bureau of Census established cent of the dwellings in the United lumber.
John Lipani, snark of the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club No. 2, announced last lr,eek plans had been completed for the concatenation and golf tournament to be held Friday, May 14 at Hacienda Country Club, La Habra, California.
Dee E,ssley has arranged for all members of the fraternal organization to be furnished "Mountain Goats" as this course is considered one of the most "rugged" 18 holes in California.
"We have arranged for a complete evening of good entertainment follotving dinner and we expect a large turnout for this event," John said. Harvey Koll and Jim Forgie will be on hand to take care of the golfers rvith tee off time established for l0 :29 A.M. Reservations for dinner and golf may be made by calling Dtlnkirk 2-7942.
Carl Laughlin, vice president and general manager, John W. Fisher Lumber Company, Santa Monica, California, r,r'as recently elected president of the Exchange Club of the bay city. He rvill attend the annual state convention in San Diego June 24 to 27 inclusive.
Don Bufkin, Southern California sales representative Hobbs Wall Lumber Company, and Mrs. Bufkin, spent several days in Cloverdale and Willits, California, calling on mill operators and personal friends.
Tom Fox, prominent Southern California Retail Lumberman, and past president of the Santa Monica, California, Chamber of Commerce, has been elected treasurer of the Chamber for 1954-55 fiscal vears.
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C. R. "Bob" Siever, well known young lumberman in the retail field in Southern California, u'ill attend the Junior Chamber of Commerce annual convention in Palm Springs, April D through May 2. He is vice president of the Junior Chamber in Santa Monica, California.
The Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club's third annual golf iournament and concat will be held Saturday, April 24,1954.
The tournament will be held at the Bing Maloney Golf Course on Freeport Blvd., Sacramento, and Harvey Bahr will be in charge. Tickets for golf may be obtained frcim Harvey and the tee off time is set for 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. There will be a trophy and prizes presented to the tournament winners.
The concat is scheduled to get under way at 5:29 p.m. Saturday, at the Tuesday Club House, 27ZZ L. St., Sacratnento. Following the concat, the Black Cats will all enjoy a big prime rib dinner-and then a floor show.
Dinner tickets are $4.49 and are available from.any of the board of directors.
The military services were told logging business by Charles S. of Defense. It is reported that were affected by the order.
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Bob Middleton, of Redding, Calif., will attend the Grand Lodge state convention of the Masonic Order in San Diego April 19 and 20. Enroute home he will visit with Lyle Brewster in Santa Ana, Southern California sales represerltative of Middleton & Beirne Lumber Companv.
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A new bulletin describing the forest cover types of North America has just been published by the Society of -A.merican Foresters. The title of the bulletin is Forest Cover Types of North America (Exclusive of Mexico), price $1, postpaid, from the Society of American Foresters, Mills Building, lTth Street at Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W., Washington 6, D. C.
'This bulletin is a revision and combination of the previous bulletins Forest Cover Types of the Eastern United States and Forest Cover Types of Western North Americ:r. Detailed descriptions of the forest types of the United States, Canada, and Alaska are presented. These descriptions cover species and associates, composition, occurrence, importance, place of the type in vegetative succession, variants, and synonyms. Two comprehensive tabl,es list common and technical names of the tree species with authority of the nelv LI. S. Forest Service "Check List." An index of forest types is included.
Prepared by the Committee on Forest Types of the Society of American Foresters, composed of recognized aut-horities in their field, this bulletin is an up-to-date reference manual of practical value to every practicing forester, student forester, or to any scientists in fields of related rvork.
When grading dimension plank and timber, strength is the main requirement. Appearance is only secondary.
THE 6c CATIFORNIA GAS TAX ON EVER,Y GATLON OF FUEL YOU USE IN YOUR NON.IICENSED EQUIPMENT.
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Following a year spent in Arcata, California, as lumber buyer for Roddis California, Inc., Carl Poyner, well known in Southern California Lumber and Hoo-Hoo circles returned to Los Angeles last month to join the sales staff of Pacific Forest Products, Inc., according to Dick La Franchi, manager of the firm's southland territory.
Poynor joins Pacific Forest Products follorving several years spent with E. K. Wood and Roddis California, Inc., in lumber sales promotion and has a well rounded experience in wholesale selling. He will cover the southern territory calling on retail lumber dealers in Riverside, Orangc, Imperial and San Diego counties, La Franchi said.
Tom Fox, John W. Fisher Lumber Company, Santa Monica, and H. Park Arnold, Fox Woodson Lumber Company, Glendale, will fly to Washington, D.C., May 14 to attend the annual spring meeting of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association. Mr. Fox is a director in the organization and Mr. Arnold is a member of the executive committee.
John Moore, Fir-Tex of Southern California, Los Ar.rgeles, was a recent visitor in the Pacific Northwest. He returned from Portland the middle of April following business conferences with associates in Northern California and Oregon.
Robert "Bob" Mathis has start-
ed his own wholesale hardwood
as Mathis Harcl, i wood Sales, and officiat]I
; his doors for business March 22, 1954, at 600 16th St., Oakland. His phone number there is TWinoaks 3-3629.
Bob has established his hardwood business in accord with recognized sales practices of selling only the legitimate hardwood dealers and will supply only quality materials to these accounts. He is handling all types of hardwood lumber, flooring, domestic and foreign hardwood plywood, and will include California, Oregon and Washington in his sales territory'. in addition to his hardwood activities on .the West Coast, Bob plans to ship some redwood, fir and pine to the Eastern markets.
In both the hardwood and softwood fields, Bob Mathis is well versed. Prior to entering business on his own, he had been with the E. L. Bruce Company, Oakland, for eight years. While with E. L. Bruce, Bob acted in the capacity of a sales representative and also did purchasing of hardu'oods for that firm. During World War II, Bob served in
the U. S. Navy. He novr resides wife and two children.
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In Bob's present operation, he states that he is norv representing several quality hardwood mills, and is in the position to supply mixed carload quantities of all types of hardwood lumber, flooring and plywood.
H. H. Des Marias, president of the Hardwood Products Corporation, Neenah, Wisconsin, spent the first ten da1's of April covering the State of California with John Eells, West Coast representative for the hardwood door manufacturing concern. Calls were made on dealers and millrvork people in San F'rancisco, Sacramento and the San joaquin Valley cities, including Southern California as far south as San Diego. While in the West, Mr. Des Marias extended the sales territory of the Southern California office to include all of the State and appointed Mr. Eells to head the West Coast distribution of Harclwood Products Corporation.
Building permits issued in the City of Los Angeles in March totaled $35,398,888 and represented a gain of $9,527,379 over February's total of $25,871,509. 5,466 permits r.vere issued in March.
A total of 13,594 permits have been issued with a valuation of $87,458,675 for the first three months of 1954.
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The Hart-Wood Lumber Company, San Francisco, is now operating fifteen steamers in its lumber shipping business, seven company owned, and eight leased.
O. J. Evenson has been named manager of the Benson Lumber Company mill at San Diego. He has been located in tl-re mill business in Oregon for the past 19 years.
The California Retail Lumbermen's Association held a Southern California district meeting in the Alexandria I{otel, Los Angeles, on April 6, and passed resolutions reaffirming the action of the various lumber clubs of Southern California in favor of grademarking' They set July l,1929, as the date on which American Lumber Standards will become effeetive in this area. Kenneth Smith, A. J. Stoner, Paul Hallingby, Harry Lake, and C' W. Pinkerton rvere the principal speakers, while Hallingby acted as chairman. Orrie Hamilton, A. C. Horner, Walter Spicer, Dean Prescott, and H. G. Larrick took prominent part in the discussions.
Snark of the Universe M. M. Riner, of Kansas City, Mo.
was the guest of honor at a dinner and concat held in the Mark Hopkins Hotel, in San Francisco, March 26. Many East Bay members were among those present, also Charles G. Bird, of Stockton, Supreme Custocatian. Bert Johnson was in charge of the concat.
Mrs. J. E. Fraser has resigned as secretary of the CaliIornia Retail Lumbermen's Association. Her office u'as in San Francisco.
R. T. Titus addressed luncheon on April 11 on the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club American Lumber Standards. at
M. M. Riner, Snark of Jose and Peninsula retail at San Tose.
the IJniverse, lumber meeting visited the San held March 26,
The California Retail Lumbermen's Association has closed its San Francisco office and moved its headquarters to Garden Grove, the home of President Harry Lake.
Ner,v YorkOwen R. Cheatham, president, GeorgiaPacific Plywood Company, has been named Vice Chairman of the Committee of American Industry, Colby M. Chester, chairman, announced.
The Committee will spearhead a $10,000,000 campaign to be conducted by the National Fund for Medical Education in support of the nation's 79 medical schools, u,hich are now facing a crisis that threatens both their teaching program and their academic standards.
Mr. Cheatham rvill head the Building and Construction Section of the CAI, which includes under it building materials and construction; industrial glass; plumbing and heating; engineers; sand, gravel and cement; and lumber. He is presently serving as chairman of the Lumber Division and will continue to maintain that position although he is taking on the larger duties of vice-chairmanship.
The National Fund for Medical Education, headed by Iormer President Herbert Hoover and S. Sloan Colt, president, Bankers Trust Company of New York, was founded in 1949 to establish a pattern of private support for the hard-pressed medical schools. Since its founding, the National Fund has raised and distributed nearly $5,000,000 for the medical schools.
Stan Eznekier, E. L. Bruce Co., Oaklancl attended American Lumber Company open house in Moclesto March 26 celebrating American Lumber's addition of E. L. Bruce lines.
Wc providc such imporlonl ond lcchnicol ilcms os Sosh ond Door Sfock, Spruce for Aircrofl, loddcr. Coskel, Furniturc, Showcosc ond Fixlure Slock,.. Kiln Dried Dirnension. Send lor lnlormallon fodoyl
Spoonco guaranteed flush doors come in all standard sizes and thicknesses, plus t2 standard cutouts. Specially designed equip. ment guarantees you precise detail and economical production.
Face specie: Philippine mahogany. .. rotary cut and ribbon grain; 6r, birch, white ash and masonite.
Ventilated straightgrain, kiln dried Western red cedar coreg maintain dimensional stability. That's why discerning architects and contractors prefer Spoonco-the flush door with a heart of Western red cedar.
a HEART of our compleie Kiln Drying ond Milling Plont is building housing five fully oufomolic, cross-circuloting Moore Kilns.
The "hencoop" laboratory in lvhich an apple-cheeked Bror Grondal hatched out early Pacific Northwest forest science research has mothered a mighty brood. A bare outline of the region's current projects, extending from forest research deep in the timber to market research the world around, would take pages to catalogue. Examples may be cited from Crown Zellerbach Corporation's research program at Camas, Washington-on the Columbia River near Portland, Oregon.
"Crown" has tree farms in both Oregon and Washington that total more than 500,000 acres of productive land for the perpetual harvesting and growing of tree crops for pulp and paper making. The Camas plant, largest producer of specialty papers west of the Mississippi, has grown from a pioneer pulp and paper mill of 1886, the second in the region.
This forest industry organization has 10,300 employees' A few of the products of the Washington and Oregon mills include newsprint, kraft wrapping papers' coated printing papers, facial and toilet and fruit-wrapping tissue papers, towels, napkins, bags, waxed papers, and many more things of paper. "Crown" maintains two large laboratories at Camas, one, completed in 1939, for basic production research, and a great new center for development of products.
One result is thriving in Eastern markets for things out of woodpulp. It was first developed to make profitable use of the residue from the spent liquors of the ammonia base sulfite cooking system at Crown's Lebanon, Oregon mill'
From the one plant the yield from ihe runoff has been about 60 tons per day. The product is a plant food which in tests has compared favorably with fish meal' The ammonia content contributes nitrogen to the soil in a form readily converted into plant nourishment. The sugars are good eating for constructive kinds of soil bacteria' The lignin fortifies the soil structure.
This new magic in wood has also shown itseli to be a versatile service product in partnership with asphalt emulsions, gypsum, oil well muds, clay slips, sprays, and various other mixtures, both organic and inorganic- It works as a binder for cores in foundry work, fuel briquettes, hardboards and road surface and as an adhesive in synthetic resin plywood glues and linoleum cement. Many more products in these and other categories employ the product to advantage.
The Camas development laboratory houses a complete pulp and paper mill on an experimental scale. Toy logs, never more than five inches thick are barked, then fed by hand into a midget chipper. The continuing small-scale process is technically complete' Aty group part can be operated separately, however. The miniature paper machine turns out a sheet 26 inches wide at speeds ol 25 to 250 feet per minute. The pilot plant even has its or'vn "laboratory within a laboratory." There are all kinds of wonders to describe. It is a fascinating show, it is an educational institution, for even an afternoon visitor.
Another example of the laboratory's work is the isolation of an organic chemical of the West Coast hemlock tree called conidendrin. Separated from spent sulfite cooking liquors, conidendrin has proved to have commercial possibilities in itself.
Another Camas laboratory product that is moving fast in commercial values is a combination of a new type of phenolic resin with cellulose fibers that make a smooth' durable sheet that serves as a surfacing material for plywood, providing an easily painted facing.
It is all a far cry from Fort Vancouver of a cehtury and more ago-and the cry is "Progress !"
Studies indicate that coniferous sawdust is beneficial to microbial activity and plant growth, both when used as a mulch and when incorporated into the soil'
They still tell the story of 300 lb', 6'7" Joe Sherwood of Mason County, Washington, who in 1854, when challenged by a brash young logger to race him in felling a big Douglas fir, stood to one side while the challenger chopped away on a springboard 7' above the ground for a long start, then stood on the ground under the challenger and chopped the tree down, man and all.
There were 5.7 million high school students in 1950. There arc 6.4 million now. By 1960, there will be 8.5 million.
If you have two or three years yet before your son or daughter will start wanting to bring the crowd home for snacks, dan,cing, games and television, that's none too much time to g'et vour house organized space-wise.
Some ways to evaluate your space planning are suggested by the National Lumber X{anufacturers Association :
Determine now whether your present home will be adequate, with or without remodeling; whether you may be better off to buy another house, perhaps older and larger, and remodel it to suit your family's needs; or, whether you can reasonably expect to afford a house that is both new and so designed that it will meet "growing up" requirements.
Without such planning, you may find that by the time you get around to adding an extra room or fixing up the basement, the rest of the house will be badly in need of redecoration. By organizing your work, you can spread out the projects and the expense in manageable "pay as you go" operations.
While basement recreation rooms or added-on rooms are desirable wherever possible to give the younger set a place of their own, there aie many homes where existing rooms can be converted to teen entertainment without too much strain on the rest of the house, the family, or the pocketbook.
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We offer cccurcte cnd prompt freight rcrte quotcrtions, both rail qnd huck.
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Here is a plan which one family follor,ved that solved teen space and manv redecoration problems in one operation:
The dining room and a rear porch adjoining it were converted to informal living use. The porch was enclosed, with wood awning windows along its length and cabinets at each end. One of the cabinets housed the television set. Wooden outdoor-type furniture of modern design was used. This enclosed porch became the television room.
The dining room was paneled in wood, for good looking decorative effect and to eliminate future redecoration expense. Wood cabinets for radio and phonograph and storage space rvere built in one corner. A larger window was installed between dining room and porch to make the dining room more cheerful and to give unity to the two areas. Snack bar and comfortable furniture completed the new informal living area. Floors of both dining room and porch could be danced e1-fsqau5e the dining room floor was hardwood and the porch floor was cement.
The parents liked the new set-up so well that they enjoyed having their own friends in for informal suppers in the new rooms. In addition, the wood wall paneling gave the dining room such a lift that the parents decided to give a similar modern treatment to their upstairs bedroom, rearranging that room as a combination bedroom and denfor a comfortable retreat when the teen-agers had both television and phonograph going full blast.
This is a case in which home modernization was carried out in connection with a teen-age project, leading to considerable increase in value of the home, as well as its comfort. ,li
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Cut up plont in Sierrq, dry bundled strips to ony specificqtion. Gut up moteridl to order.
IRUCK OR RAIL SHIPMENT
Don Bufkin, Southern California sales representative for Hobbs Wall l-umber Company, and a rnember of the National Chapter Raihvay and Locomotive Historical Society of Boston, Massachusetts, became interested in railroads several years ago up around the Madera Sugar Pine country riding logging trains aboard the Minarets & Western Railn'ay Co. He spent many vacation rveeks at his interesting hobby of "getting the logs to market via rai1."
row gauge line in California, the Southern Pacific, operating from Keeler near Owens Lake to Laws, Califorina, in Owens Valley. This is the only "slim gauge" railway this side of Durango, Colorado, where Don and his r'vife Helerr made the trip to Silverton, Colorado,, while enroute to the 1952 Hoo-Hoo Convention held in Denver.
Don informed a representative of The California Lurnber Merchant that one of the most colorful rail trips available to lumbermen who enjoy the "unusual" is via the California Western Railway operated by the Union Lumber Company of Fort Bragg, California. Originally :r logging road exclusively, this line is norv a pultlic carrier and makes the trip each day from Willits to Fort Bragg and return, through the beautiful Redrvood countrv. The motor rail car making this daily trip is namecl "The Skunk" iry its many patrons.
When business calls Don Bufkin to Willits, and the Northern California production mills, he can l)e founrl riding "The Skunk" wiren time permits. An interesting hobby for a lumberman whose first love is Reclr,vood, because that is the species his firm distributes in tlte \\'rest, \tiddle \\rest, Texas and the eastern United States.
Mrs. C. E. Roberts, wife of the general manager of Benson l-umber Company, San Diego, donates hottrs of 'olunteer time to the Red Cross. Y.\\I.C.A. and Church rvork in the city on San Diego Bay.
"Few people realize holv rapidly the Iron llorse, driven by steam, is vanishing from the American scene, and interested rail fans are instrumental in preserving various selected types of eqtlipment," stated Don. "The \Mestern Pacific, and many railroads throughout the country, have presented out-of-date rolling stock to Travel Town in Los Angeles to be preserved for posterity at Griffith Park, and similar public parks in various sections of the United States," he continued.
Doctors, lawyers, professional men, as well as lumbermen, form a large percentage of rail fan groups. They join in arranging numerous excursions each year, such as the recent "Last Steam" trip on the only remaining nar-
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Dorothy Roberts is a former secretary, but today, she is a life member in the "Y", serves as a member of thc irouse committee and plans many luncheons for the various civic and charitable organizations to rvhich she belongs. Recreational activity is shared with her husband on hunting and fishing expeditions throughout the west and she manages to keep a very busy and active schedule, rvhich was once a problem follorving her retirement some time ago.
"f get a kick out of volunteer work and the companionship, not to mention the pleasure it affords me in doing things for others," said Mrs. Roberts in an intervien' rvith one of the local newspapers in her city. She is well known for many recipes she has originated and the delicious menus she prepares both at home and in connection with the civic activities.
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The West Coast Tree Farm program added another 6,841 acres to its roster on Friday, March 26, when ten private forest holdings were certified at the annual meeting of the Industrial Forestry Association board of directors.
R. F. Morse, Longview, Wash., chairman of the certifying body, reported that five of the tree farms are in Washington and five in Oregon, largest of whi,ch is the Giustina Bros. 4300 acre Lost Creek tree farm in Lane count)r, Oregon.
Washington's five new holdings totalling 1,216 acres brings West Coast tree farm acreage in that state to 2,602,621 in 134 ownerships. Oregon's 5,625 new acres brings the total in that state to 1,665,2?8 acres in 79 ou'nerships. There are now 4,266,633 acres of private, taxpaying forest iands in rvestern Oregon and Washington under certificzrtion, according to Chairman Morse.
Under tree farm leadership and example, Morse stated, forest practices on private forest holdings have made tremendous advancement sin,ce the launching of the proElram in this region in 1940. Fire protection has improved as tree farmers have added more equipment, installed better detection for fires and trained crews. Owners are leaving seed sources to insure rapid natirral regeneration of forests after cutting, and where necessary are planting or direct seeding from.the air where seed trees are burned or blown ciown. In every instance, he said, tree farm management is above the minimum requirements of the two states.
Tree farm o\,vners are striving always for maximum recovery of wood yield from each acre, Morse said. We believe the tree farm program will help insure a broad antl sound tax base for the counties by keeping forest lanCs in private ownership and on the tax rolls. We believe, he continued, that private ownership of forest lands holds the future of this region, but in order to make such orvnership profitable, we must maintain our lands in full stocking to insure maximum growth from each acre.
Morse was re-elected chairman of the board, r,vith W. D. Hagenstein, Portland, continuing as managing director. Floyd Hart, Medford, was re-elected vice chairman. Oniv new rnember of the board is Dale Fischer, Eugene and Marcola, Oregon, lumberman. All other 18 members werc held over.
Luhrs Building-Phoenix, Arizonq Lcrry Grillith-Phone 3-ll2l
The Southern California Lumber Seasoning Association met at the Rodger Young Auditorium, Los Angeles, on Thursday evening, April 1. About 75 lumbermen attended the meeting.
After dinner, President Al Wahl presided over tl-re business session. There was an interesting program and the speakers were: Arthur Koehler of Los Angeles, retired, formerly with the U. S. Forest Service Laboratory at Madison, Wis.; Harvey Smith, California Forest and Range Experiment Station, Berkeley, Calif., and Willard E. Pratt, California Redwood Association, San Francisco.
Secretary Bob Inglis, urged the members to attend the annual meeting of the Western Dry Kiln Clubs to be held at Eureka, Calif., on May 13-15. He also paid tribute to the late George Beckman, former Association president, who passed away a year ago, for untiring efforts in organizing the Lumber Seasoning Association-
President Wahl announ'ced that the next meeting will be held at Rodger Young Auditorium, Los Angeles, May 6, 1954.
The annual report of the Long-Bell Lumber Compa,ny for the year 1953, as released by President J, M. White, showed that sales for the year amounted to $92'100'000' a decline ol 2.4 per cent from 1952. Net income amounted to $2.76 a share for each of the 1,991,130 shares.
Timber holdings at the end of 1953 totaled 3,O27,185,618 leet which was 65,701,243 more than a year earlier, because of timber purchases during the year. Federal income tax amounted to $2,85O,223.
Sales for the first quarter of 1954 were reported at a high rate.
Bill Tobin, Tobin Forest Products, Long Beach, Calif', spent several weeks during March and April in Crescent City, Calif., and Brookings, Oregon, discussing spring shipments, to Southern California u'ith the mills he rePresents'
'VIANUFACIURED, UNDER PAIENT LICENSE, BY HARD\TOOD PRODUCTS
Fifteen prizes .n'ere awarded, 4O golfers participated in :he the tournament, and over 70 lumbermen, their friends and guests sat down to dinner Friday, March 26, when the Black Cats of Salt River Hoo-Hoo Club ltro. ZZ held their monthly event at the Arizona Country Club, on the outskirts, of Phoenix, Arizona.
Charles West, member of the Supreme Nine, announced plans had been completed to hold a Concatenation in conne,ction with the Arizona Retail Lumber & Builders Association convention to be held in Chandler, April 22, 23 and 24. John R. Egan, St. Paul, Minn.; Snark of the Universe, rvill be on hand, and a class of twenty-five Kittens will see the light of day. The meeting was presided over by Ralph Heisser. Joe Tardy, Los Angeles wholesale lumberman and Fred Holmes of the Holmes Eureka Lumber Company, San Francisco, were visiting guests from California.
Pabco Products Inc., floor covering and building materials manufacturer, has announced the appointment of R. C. Chamberlain of Oakland, Calif., as traffic manager. He succeeds A. W. Brown, who has retired after 35 years with Pabco.
Chamberlain, who has been with Pabco lor 17 years, has come to the company's head office in San Francisco from his former position as Eastern traffic manager at pabco's Metuchen, New Jersey plant. E. J. Clark, formerly assistant traffic manager at Metuchen, has replaced Chamberlain.
P. W. Pollock has moved from Pabco's Emeryville, Calif., plant to the San Francisco office where he assumes the duties of assistant traffic manager.
Forrest Beirne, Middleton & Beirne Lumber Company, Redding, Calif., and Mrs. Beirne, left April 1 for an extensive business and pleasure trip throughout the middle west, south and eastern United States. They expect to be gone six weeks and will visit friends and business associates in Chicago, New Orleans, Cleveland and New york. They will return to Redding via Southern California about May 15.
Rate-Position wcmted $2.00 pey colunn incb
All others, $3.00 per coluu'n inch
Closing dcteg lor copy, Sth cad 20tb
FREE f9$-54 printed price list mailed upon request. Our eleventh year, furnishing experienced labor,to unload and sort lumber cars. One-day service.
CRANE & COMPANV
5143 Alhambra Ave. Los Angeles 32, Cal. CApitol 2-8143
Fork Lifts and Straddle Trucks. Complete shop and field service. Portable Welding, Special Fabrication, Steam Cleaning and Painting. Service Available 7 Days a Week. All work guaranteed.
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COMMERCIAL REPAIRS AND SERVICE
1115 North Alameda Street, Compton, Calif.
Phones: NEwmark t-8269, NEvada 6-4805
12 years lumber and lumber products. Thoroughly familiar with costing and pricing, credits, payroll & taxeg insurance, inventory & all office detail. Los Angeles area.
Address Box C-2246, California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th Street ,Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
Used Gerlinger Carrier Highway Model 7866-N, 66-h. bolsters. 30,000 pound capacity. Excellent condition-low price.
BURNABY aNd WILLIAMS Van Nuys, Calif. Phone STate 56561
ACTIVE ASSOCIATE WANTED
To operate Lumber and Building Material Yard in Garden Grove, Calif. $6,000 investment required for half interest in yard. Fully secured. Phone evenings. LAmbert 5-3882, Fullerton, Calif.
Car Unloading, Lumber Moving and Fork Lift Rental.
I'OR SALE
l-RT 150 Hyster Fork Lift Truck. 7/z tons. Good condition. $3,750.
CRENSHAW MILL & LUMBER COMPANY
3213 El Segundo Blvd", Hafihorne, California ' 1 Phone O,Regon 8-5011
LUMBER YARD WANTED
Located in Southern California. Provide approximate annual turn over and other details and location. Advise promptly.
W. H. Hoover, 11550 Rosecrans Avenue Norwalk, Californra, Telephone Torrey 4-4144
FOR SALE (Priced Rightl)
2 Electric, Side Heads for '104-8 Woods Matcher 20 & 25 HP-%A/4N
I Hermance E'-14" Sticker 15 HP-2?A/440
S&SLumberCompany
7053 East Firstone Boulevard Downey, California
Ncmcr of Advortircrr In lhi: Drportmcnt uring c bFttd cddrcs cqnnot be dtvulgcd. All inquiilcr ond rrp$a rhould bc oddrcsccd lo kcy rhown in lhr odvrrtbomrnt
2rt00 sq ft. building and large yard, lumber shed, part paved, located on building material row. Busy boulevard frontage. Good spot for do-it-yourself lumber and builders hardware. Reasonable rental to right party, or sell with low down payment and balance like rent.
See 10E06 or 10814 East Live Oak, Temple City, Calif.
Owner days, eves. or Sunday, DOuglas 7-1301
Wanted: By a well rated hardwood industrial lumber c-ompany in Southern California a salesman with clientele in hardwoods, Ponderosa, & Sugar Pine. Must have knowledge of these woods. For right man wi ofier a promising future. All correspondence confidential.
Address Box C-2173, California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
Wholesale lumber yard and mill, fully equipped' doing clstom mill work for over 50 retail lumber yards in the San Gabricl Valley.
Address Box C-2177, California Lumber Merchant f08 W. 6th Street, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
CAR UNLOADING_HAUIING
Lumber and Freight RAY.HOW CO.
Planing mill complete with burner and shaving bin. With or without land. Paved yard for custom milling or retail lumber yard. Milling in transit set up. 6OM ft. steam dry kiln if needed. A real buy. 767 Old County ,Road, San Carlos
Phones: LYtel 3-7881-EMerson 6-4775
WANTED ASSOCIATE
Established Lumber Wholesaler desires experienced associate..Eastern carload business paying good dividends, For full particulars ' write,
P. O. Box 9661, Station S Los Angeles 5, California
Located about 80 miles from Los Angeles. Ground (acre), buildings (9000 sq. ft.) ,Equipment, etc. $36,250. Trucks extra. Inventory (about $8O000 to $90,000) at market plus 5o/o. Sales have averaged ovcr $rl00,d)0.fl) annually the last three years. This yard has made over $2fi),fl)0.00 AFTER TAXES the last sixteen years. No bonus asked. Books opcn to qualified parties.
TWOHY LUMBER CO.
LUMBER YARD AND SAWMILL BROKERS 714 W. Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles 15, Calif. PRospect 8746
The General Superintendent of one of the targest stock millwork plants in_the Midwest, wishes to relocate in California. Fifty years of age. -Twenty y€ars as _Supt. with last employer. Has a-piorren record. fo: inc_r-easing, produ-ction, labor cost ieciuction and quality control. Excellent labor relations with employees. fs euitided i6 ta-ke :omplete charge of any size plant, or mav co".ia"ii-iirpo"_ srble -t''oremans position where a real job of production management rs required. Can furnish the best of references.
Address Box C-2247, California Lumber Merchant I08 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif,
Cordesman 42" Ball Bearing Band Resaw with driving motor and :gparate vari-speed feed motor, extra saw blades_9125-0.0o Mattison No. 2?-6 all electric 12,, Lag Bed Moulder with set of Heads, fine condition.
Woods 3A" x ll2" Sizer fo-ur- knife top'and bottom roturd heads, square side heads. Belts and shaving hoods, with ?5Hp motor diieci connected to countershaft,- completl with motor control_$l?50.00 McDonough 54" Ball Bearing late model Sand nesaw, ,iu.r"i-r"* blades, motor drive with oontrol.
C. M. Tuley Machine Co. 82249th Avenue
Oakland, California
POSITION WANTED
Lumber salesman offers 6ervices to well established .wholesaler. Have years of experience in marketing W""t CJr"i ""0---i"1Eioi stock.
Address Box C-2249, California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th St., Room 5O8, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
36" BANDSAW FOR SALE
Including 3 HP motor (20 volts) and accessories. Only S125.00
CARTER LUMBER COMPANY
4O0 High Street Oakland l, California lelephone ANdover t-7272
Cash-Terms or Trade
1941 Ross Carrier Model 90-2968 N Reconditio,ned Continental Motor 15 Ton Package 64"267" g225O.oO
Golden State Lumber Company 2436 Santa Monica Boulevard
Santa Monica, California
TExas 0-4@8EXbrook 5-3275
DRY KILN FOR SALE
Present owner is no longer able to devote his time to this business, but it can be a real money maker for a person wh,o knows the lumber business and can devote several houis a day to it. present ope-rating personnel are _thorougtrly capable, but a general manager and contact man is needed. Kiln is located in Southern Califoriia and is completely equipped and operating. Satisfactorl terms can be arranged for a resp,onsible buyer, Address Box C-2248, California Lumber Merchant l@ West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
1947 Dodge 2 Ton Stake and RollerTruck. 8 x t4 fat bed-side and rear ratchet cinches. l3d' cab to axle. B:25 x 2D tires. Watkins ? "pe-"d. New clutch, brakes. Engine recently o,/hauled. Driven less than 10,CXX) miles since built trp. Exlnt cond. SACRIFICE.
SVD P. BARTLETT 1031 No. Dolores Aveaue La Habra, Calif.
Phones: OXford 2-1461 or KEystone 5-g5g4
RETAIL LUMBERMAN WANTED
Wanted good .retail lumberman, young man preferred, for bookkeeping, estimating, counter sales, and il-round work. -Rapid and accurate. with figures. Three or more years experience in retail lumber is a "must."
^-One qualified to be second'man or better in small line yard might fill.the bill. Good salary. if you qgalify. Excellent openin! foi quiti- fied.perso:r. 9ive experience, qualifications, age, and pertinent iirformation. Replies confidential il you wish.
HYDE PARK LUMBER CO. 6722 Ctenshaw Blvd., Los Angeles 43
FOR SALE
Baxter-Whitney 30" single surfacer, excellent condition, M.odel N9:3_2, 4- knife, round_ head, ball bearing, 15 Hp, 220 voltage, 36C0 RPM, direct connecting motor, knife ietting, heel grindiig'with grinding device. Price,our yard 92200.00. -
BRUSH INDUSTRIAL LUMBER CO.
1500 So. Greenwood Ave., Montebello, Calif.
Telephone RAymond 3-3301
FOR SALE
4ll or in part-At tremendous saving-Complete effrcient all electric Circular Sawmill-35M production.-60M clpacity etectric planing mill. Newman 500 planer and matcher. Smooth-ind rimmeis. Al-i of this machinery less than three years old. These plants are still intact. and may .be inspected at any time; For furtier details, description and price, contact
Paul
Johnson4505 West Hills Road Corvallis, Oregon-Tel 3-5822
uJoE BEAVER"
By Ed Nofzisa
Foirhurrr rumber Go. of Goilfonio............t 2 ::lli'ji::"""?.1".1:....................:........:.......!g Fern Trucllng -Co. -,.----.-..---...-.--..---.----....!l Secu.iry loyql Dur.h poinr lrtfg. Co. .-......--106
Fidler'r Mqnsfocturing Co, ..............-.........t9 il".ii h.C.iiiJ Go, ..........._..L..............,_.... 8
Flr lex of Northern Coliforniq ....-............. * ilrf".iv. ltoi --- -._.--.--..-.----.-----...60
Fir Tex of Southern Cqlifoniq ..-..............-.. * ai;;#, i"ra-"oa Lmber Co. -.--.--_...-.... 'i
Fi:k t lloron .-..............54 Siipr- fogJfng Go. ...........-....................!r
flomer, Erlk * ir.Jitr"fi iJl ile Amcrican 9
Fordy<e Lwber Co, .......-................-........... * Sfmii trlti Ci. ........-...-. rr
Forst Flber Producfr Go. ...-.... .....31 iiirT'r-f"i C".. totpl r. .....-.................. *
Forert Productt Sqler Co. I ii-C.l Criiiing liot"riotr Co., InG, *
Focnfoin Lumber Co., Ed .-...........-----.-......-- {t iourhern Colifirnic lumber S;le! --..---.-.-.51
F.eenqnA Co., StGphcn G. ..-...--........--........29 Southern lcmber Go. -.----.-.-.........-_-.---....-...6I
Gqlleher Hqrdwood Co. .-,---.-------.--...........--45 Sirrti*-r iiy*"oa C".p. ..-.-..-...-....--,-...-...- 't
Gdmertion & Grson Lumber C". ....-.---....--_! Sourt-.rt.-' p;rtlod 'Cment Co. -.-.-.-.-.2g
Gorcio Troftc 3eryi(e. B. t. --..-.................57 ipii.gn;ld frfiif, C". -...-_..__.-..__.,...,,...,.-...61
Gerlinser Cqrier Co. ..............-...................5o ai;i;; t Soi, t. l. ......................__-..._..... *
Gilbreqrh Chcnlcql Co. {, ai;"b4. i^i"l Co.
Tqcma Lunber Saler, Inc.
Greqt Boy Lunber Soler
-........................tl
Hoyfork lumber Co. --...--.-...--...-.....-..........-- * Vocl Donold p. Lumber 5oler-...-....-.-....-- ri
Hsdlund lmber 9olcr, Inc. ....---.------.--....-3O
Higginr Lumber Co., J. E. * yyottr' C9t! ..-.-.-.--..-.-....--..-.-.-....--.--..--....55
Hiil-Lumber Co., Roy -..------..-..-..-.-----,-----..-. * llr-ending-Nqtton Co- --------------------.----'----.'--18 Hill & trtorton, tnc.'-...--.-..-.-....-...--.-......--..3t Wrrl Cocl For6t Producf! Co. '.-.--.-..--'--.43
Hobb: Woll Lmber Co. --..---.--.-.-.-..--....-.-.23
The Naval Ordnance Test Station, at Inyokern. California, has constructed two timber towers at that point, reportedly the highest ever built. There are two of these towers, located 600 feet apart, each being 357 feet high. The timbers were laminated from 2x10 inch structural grade Douglas Fir lumber using resorcinol type phenolic resin glue, and finished to 9 inch thickness. Gusset plates and connecting timbers are of 2-5/8 inch plywood. The timbers were laminated precut, and drilled by Summerbell Roof Structures, at its Los Angeles factory. Actual fastenings of the parts was done with 7 /8 inch bolts. Sections were partly assembled on the ground and then hoisted into place for the final assembly' Each tower supports sheaves made of pegwood and the only metal used in these are for axles and pillow blocks.
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February, 1954, twenty companies reporting, gave orders received as 52,576,0W feet, shipments 51,895,00O feet, an<l production 57,012,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of ihe month totaled 64.265,000 feet.
The West Coast Lumbermen's Association'for the week ended March 20, 178 mills reporting, gave orders as 137,155,m0 feet, shipments 131,676,000 feet, and production 125.121.000 feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the week totaled 524,992,000 teet.
For the week ended March 27, these same mills reported orders as 117,196,000 feet, shipments 130,456,000 feet, and production 125,125,M feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the week totaled
r,UMSEN
Arcatd S.dwood Co,
Boaaell.Ward C f""pp........
ionuinglou Lunber Co.......
Cbrirlcaroo Lumbcr Co.....
Cordr Lumbcr Compcny......
Dcnt 6 Bussell Sqles Co...
Dolly Vcrden Lumber Compcny (San Mcteo) .Flreride 5-3943
Drclca Bcy Lumber Co.........Glenwood {-1854
Thc Roberl Dollcr Co.. ...EXbrooL 2-8{51
Edwcrds Lunber 6 Mlg. Co.........S0tlcr l-6650
Gqmoreloa d Grcoa Lunber Co....JUaiprr 5-6083
Hcll Co., loncs L. .......SUttrr l-7520
Holtincn Mqckin Lumber Co.......DOuglcs 2-l9ll
Hcmmond Lumber Co.. .DOuglcr 2-3386
Hcrbor Lunber Co., lnc,. ..YIJkon 2-6919
Haylorl Lumber Co,. ..LOmbcrd {-SOll
l. E. Higgins Lumber Co. .VAlenciq '!-87{{
Hobbr Wcll Lunbcr Co,. .GArlicld l-7752
LUIVIEES
Colilornic Lumbcr Scloe. KEllos l-1001
Eastrbore Lumbor cnd Mill Co.....f,Ellogg 3-2121
Fcirhurat Lunbcr Co. ol Cqlil.....Twinoaks 3-2939
Gcnteloa 6 Grren Lumber Co.... trE[og {-64lt.l
Golden Gqle Lumber Co, (Wclnut Creek) .YEllowstone {-4116
Gosslin-Hcrding Lumber Co. (Wclnut Crcek) ..YEllowslone ,l-877t1
Hill 6 Morton. lac... ANdovor l-107?
Kolly. Albert A. (Alcmcdq)......Lclohuret 2-2751
LUl,tEEn
Holmcs Eurelc Lunbcr Co. GArlicld l-1921
Lomon Lunbcr Co... YUkon 2-1376
Tho Loag-Bcll Lumber Co. EXbrook 2-8696
Lunbcr Sqha Co. VAlancic 6-{970
MqCloud Lumbgr Co. ...EXbrook 2-70{l
Mqrtincr Co., L. W......... EXbrook 2-36{,1
Middleton 6 Beine Lumber Co. (Burlinganc) .Dlqmond 3-3697
Milne, Lloyd D....... .....Skylioe 2-ll8l
Pqcific Lurabcr Co., Tbc.. GArlictd l-3717
Pcdula Lunber Compqny, E. A, ElXbrook 2-5524
Popc ll Tqlbot, hc., Lunbor Divisioa
Bicci 6 f,rugc Lunbrr co.. or?i"it:: ?:fr91
nockport Bedsood Compcny .......YUkon 6-Gll2
Scntc Fo Luobcr Co..
Compcny ......TEmplebar 2-558{
HANDWOODS
Bruco Co., E. L. KEllos 3-6677
Andcrron Wholegale Lumber Scles (Pcecdcnc) ......RYcn l-7559
Syccmore 5-2755
Arcctc Xcdwood Co. (I. l. 8oc) WYooirg ll0ll
Attsllic Lumb.s Co. (C. P. Honry 6 Co.) PRosp.ct 6524
Altcr Lunbrr Co. TBiaity Z126
Ecugb, Ccrt W, (Pcrcdono) .8Ycn l-8382
SYcqnoro 5-2525
Bliss 6 Gates Lumber Co..RAynond 3-1681-3-3151
Brush Indu8tricl Lunber Co......RAynond 3-330t
Eunr Lunbor Coupcay .WEbrt.r 3-5861
Ccrr 6 Co., L. l, (W. D. Duauing) P8orpcct 88{3
Chontlcad cld f,rrocictor, P. W' AXninirior 5296
George Clough ....TOpcz 9-7811'g'nl2
Coorolldcbd Lumbrr Co. ........8lchnold 2lll (Wilnirgto!) ......NE. 6-1881 Wilm' Tcr. l-268?
Coopor Wholocb Lumbrr Co.. W. E. YOrk 82it8
C. d S. Lunbcr Compmy, Inc.....NEvqdc 6-8144 NEwmcrk 8-{228
Dcltoa ll Co., B. W. (Soa Mcriro)PYrcmid l-2127
Dcat ll f,uuoll, Sclor Co. .ADcnr 8l0l
Donovrr Co., Inc.. CRestvicw {-5103
Brc&hcw 2-4167
E:aby, D. C. 6 Sor ...BAYmoad 3-ll{7
Eurckc Bedwood Lumbcr Co. (conpron) r#f"tl B:ll3i
Fcirbunt Lunbcr Co. ol Cclil. (Lor lngrlrr Lunbrr , lac.). .. MAdiaon 6-9134
FisL G Mcroa (So. Pcrqdrnc) PYramid l-ll9?
SYccmore 9-2674
EriI Flcmcr (Loag Brcch) .L.8. 6-587; NE 6-272{
Forrgt Produclr Sclu Co. (hglcwood) Plrcsoat 3-ll4l
Frconqa 6 Co., Stopbcn G. (lclboc) Harbor 202'l
Ed. FountciD Luabrr Co. .LOgct 8-Zl3l
Hcllincn Mcckin Lumber Co.. .ANgclus 3-4161
Hcmmond Lunbcr Compcry .......PBospect ?l?l
Hcuen Wholegcle Lunber Corp. (Studio City) .SToaleY 7-7041
Hill 6 Morloa, Inc. ............BRcdsbqw 2-{375
CRostvicw 5-3164
Hill Lumber Co., Rcy ...Plecsqnt 3-3221
Hollow Tree Bcdwood Co. (Lons Beccb) .........L8 7-2781 NEvqdo 6-4056
Holmee Eurckq Lunbcr Co. Muiucl 9l8l
Hobbs Wcll Lumber Co. ......CUnberlcnd 3-'1902
A. L, Hoovcr Co. (Sca Marino)......RYgn l-9321
Jcmisoa Lunbcr 6 Shiagle Co.
Kcndcll Lunbcr Distributors
(uhl Lumbsr Co.. Ccrl H.
8. S. Osgood
Lcrsen-Merrilield, Inc,
t.owreoce-Philipa Lumbcr Co.
LGrrett Lunber Compcry
Tho Long-Bell Lumber Co.
SYccmore 5-4349
.RAymond 3-413'l
.Pnoapect 53ill
TRiuily 822:
CRestview 6-9149
BRqdshc.r 2-4377
.NEwmcrk I-8651
NEvcda 6-2323
DUakirk 7-l3il7
MqcDoncld Co.. L. W. Mcrqucrt-Wolle Lumber Ca.
McCloud Lumber Co.
McCoy Plcning Mill
BRodshcw 2-5101
HOllywood {-7558
VErmoat 8-{963
.ANgelus 9.8216
Middleloa d Beirne Lumber Co. (Salfo Anc) .Klmbcrly 2-lll7
Mount Wbiincy Luobcr Co., lnc. .ANgrlus 0l7l
Jqnes Newquist Lumber Ssleg (Pqgadena-) ......BYcn t-8{86 SYccmorc 5-t310
Olsen.Ccrpcntcr Lunbcr Co. (Bcvrrly Hilb) .. .. BBcdrhcw 2S651
Orsood, Bobcrt S. DUnLirL 2-8278
Pqcilic Fir Sclcs (Pcrcdeac) SYccmorc 6-{328 BYca l-8103
Pccilic Lunber Co., Thr RYcn l-9321
SYcamorc 5-{3t19
Pccilic Forcst Produclr, Inq. (Dick LcFranchi) TUckor 1232
Pccilic Wortcn Luabcr Co, ol Cclil., lac. (Pcscdcnc) SYccnorr 6-8869-L.4, BYca l-8l2it Popo 6 Tclbot, Inc., Lunber Divirion PBospcct 8231
Rqich t.unber Compcny, t*.
1-3?39
E. L. Rsitz Co., Occqn Contcr Eldg, (Long Beccb) ......Loag Beccb 5-9617
Roy For*l Productr Co, (Vcr Nuyg) STctr S-ltfr
Alcn A. Shively (Glendcle) ....CHcpmcn 5-2083
Sierrq Redwood Co. .PArkview 8-7379
Southarn Cclilomic Lumbcr Sqles (Moarovic) Elliott 8-l15I
Southcrn Lumbcr Co, Stqgton, E. I. d Son
Tccomc Lumbcr Solcs, Iac.
.TBinity 03?l ........4Dsmr l-9lll ....MAdisoa 6-5831
Tcrdy, loc .WEbrtcr 3-@7
Tqrtcr, Webster 6 Johnson, Iac. ...ANgelus 9-7Zll
Tcubo d Bergstrom ...BRcdgbcw 2-8i135
Timber Scles lnc. (Downey)........TOpc2 2-6512
Tobin Forest Producle (Long Beoch) L.B...906-358
Tropiccl 6 Woslcr! Lunbrr Co.....LOgcu 8-2i175
Twia-City Lumber Go. BBcdshcw 2-1671
Twir Hcrbor Lunbor Co. (C. P. Hcury 6 Co.) ..PRoepcct 652{
Unioa Luabcr Conpcay ...TBinity 2282
Doacld P. Vogt Lunber Sales
(Wilmington)
..NEvqdc 6-1532
Co.
Custom Mill, Inc, Weyerhoeuscr Scles Co.
Jof,n W 6 Soa
Mcrtia PlSrood Co. .RAynoad 3-366I
Mutucl Moulding 4 Lumber Co. Pl.ymoulh 5-6630
ostrirg Mcaurocrurins co
g:itt8
Pocilic Lumbcr Dcclcre Supply Co., lnc. (Hcrbor Citv) .ZEaith 1156; Lomitc ll55
Pqa isiatic Trcding Co. Inc. ...Rlchmond7'7521
.....BYan l-9321
SYcqmore 5-{349
.ANgelus 2-4148
Rlcbooad 7-11505
Weslern Hqrdwood Lunber Co.....Pnospcct 516l West Cocst Forest Products Co.. .STcte 9-1588 west Or.goa Lumbcr Co. (Bcverly Hillg) BRo&hqw 2-,1353
E. U. ........Mlchigqa 2137
Lunber Co,, A, K,......NEwnork
Perry Door Co., Inc. (Burbqnk) .Vlcioric 9-2{51
Recdy llung Door
Hommond Lumber €ompony's retoil lumber yord locoted of Terminol lslond is one of rhe lorgesf in the United Stotes.
There is enough lumber shown in the obove phofogroph to build oyer 2,000 qveroge size homes. This yord occupies 38 ocres.
For speciql work or generol use there is s Hommond grode of Redwood por"licularly suited to thot purpose. No motter whot the iob - Diomond H Redwood lumber cqn do it.
