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Seattle, Wash., April 25-An opportunity for lttmber <lealers to cut the costs and at the same tin-re to improve the appearance and the constructiou of their Demonstration Houses is offered by the Douglas Fir Pl1't'ood Association in a study of the application of plyt'ood to the approved ulans for the Model Hotles.
This study was prepared ltecause of the tremendous irrterest evidenced on the part of lumber dealers in the erection of demonstration small homes for 1938. L,ast year ap-
proximately 3,000 such homes rvere built in the United
General Ruling No. 67 also states in part:
"The follos'ing materials are acceptable for interior finish plyrvood shall be not less than r/a inch thick.
The plyrvoocl study is available to all interested dealers ancl contains the detailed architectural specifications needed bv tl'renr for rvorking the house plans to meet their indir-idrral needs. Also include<l in the study are photographs illustrating the use of plyrvood forivall panels, sheathing, built-ins, and subflooring rvith detailed explanations of the tvoe of materials to be used in each operation.
Staies ancl this 1,ear it is estimated that more than trvice t\ joint rneeti'g the executi'e committees of the Norththat number are being pranned by rumber
The architectural plans for these demonstration houses geles, I\,fondav noon. April 18. The following members atwere prepared by the National Small Homes Demonstration tendecl: J. O. Handley. president; E. C. Parker, vice-presianrl are available to dealers for a nominal sum. These plans dent ; Fre<l A. Witmer, secretary ; Paul Hallingby ; John W. n'ere studied by the Engineering Department of the Doug- Fisher; A. E. Fickling; Earl Johnson; A. C. Hansen ; \\rarlas Fir Plywood Association and the architectttral details ren S. Tillsor-r ; Geo. K. Adams, ancl F. Dean Prescott. for the rrse of plyrvood in rvall panels, sheathing, built-ins, Kenneth S'rith a'cl A. D. Davis rvere also present. arrcl snbflooring were drawn. These details are readY for President Handley presiclecl. He announced that an Assodistribtrtion to those dealers rvho plan to stage local clemotr- ciation office hacl bee' ope'ed at 282 Alvarado Street, strations. Nfor.rterev. \rice-President Parker saicl the Netv Year Rook
The application of these plans to the use of Douglas fir is readl* ancl u'ill be rnailecl orrt in a ferv tlays. plvwood has full FHA approval. Revised General Ruling N{r. Prescott reported that the annual convention of the No. 61 of the Federal Housing Adnrinistration says in part: National Retail Lttml>er Dealers .A,ssociation will be held
"The Technical Division rules that the follon'ing ma- at \A/ashingtor,. D. C.. Mal'9-ll. He rvill attend the conterials are acceptable for sheathing plys'oocl shall be vention as a member of the National's executive committee, Sheathin- grarle not le-.s than .5/16 inches in thickrress and and Mr. Hanrllev l'ill represent the State Association at securely nailed to the studs." the rneeting.
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During the week ended April 9, 506 mills produced 173,161,000 feet of hardwood and softwoods combined; shipped 157,870,W feet, and booked new business ol 147,715,000 feet, according to reports to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association from the regional associations.
The lumber industry during the week stood at 52 per cent of. L9n weekly average of production, and 49 per cent of average 1929 shipments. New business and shipments showed considerable decline from the preceding week and were both below production for the first week since midDecember.
New business reported for the week by 429 softwood mills totaled 142,493,W feet; shipments were 152,960,000 feet; and production 165,237,000 feet.
95 hardwood mills gave new business for the week as 1,??2,W feet; shipments 4,910,000 feet; and production 7,924,00O f.eet.
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A total of 151 down and operating mills in Washington and Oregon which reported to the West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended April 16, produced 81,061,553 feet of lumber. At the rate of iutting at the reporting mills, the entire industry produced 51.5 per cent of its average weekly cut during 192629.
The new business reported taken during the week by these mills was 76,@2,853 feet. Shipments were 86,614,564 feet. The unfilled order file stood at 287,4I5.7AO feet.
The Association reports that production, orders and shipments as shown in this week's report continue extremely low for the time of year. A check of the record shows thes-e movements to be lower than the averages of April as reported to the Association T "ft year since 1934.
Reports from 126 mills for the week ended April 16 gave new business as 51,068,000 feet, shipments 51,419,000 Teet,
and production 52,022,0@ feet, according to the Western Pine Association. Orders, shipments and production were about on an equal level for the week. The increase in new business over the previous week was 6,312,W feet, or 14.1 per cent. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 148,265,000 feet.
The California Redwood Association for the week ended April 9 reported production of 13 mills as 5,303,000 feet; shipments 7,359,W0 feet; and new business 7,462,000 feet. Week end orders on hand were 46,551,0@ feet. The Northwestern Pacific Railroad which was closed by slides on January 31, was opened on April 15, and the mills are now making rail shipments.
The Southern Pine Association for the week ended April 16, l2O mills reporting, gave new business as 23,862,00O feet ; shipments 24,906,m feet; and production 26,382,O0O feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 58.980.000 feet.
Lumber cargo receipts at Los Angeles Harbor for the week ended April 23 were 20,698,000 feet, as compared to 25,O75,W feet the previous T".1.
Applications covering the construction of new homes continue to lead already existing house applications during the first half of April according to the weekly progress report of the FHA Los Angeles office. For the first fifteen days of April, 1193 cases with a valuation of 95,390,400 were filed, 652 ol which, with a valuation of $3,061,000 cover the construction of new homes.
. By increasing the personnel staff, the T,os Angeles office is new processing cases in excess of.m a day.
No matter how grouchy you're feeling, You'll find a smile more or less healing; It grows in a wreath
All around your front teeth
Thus keeping your face from congealing.
Thought of this rhyme *. .an"t day when I heard an address by a distinguished old-timey Southern Democratic attorney who is touring the South of late, talking sardonically, sarcastically, but most humorously, about present conditions as he sees them. It is not a political speech, but is made to large civic gatherings, and keeps the faces of the crowd "from congealing" in amazing fashion, The speaker himself never cracks a smile as he talks. But YOU do when you listen, you howl.
His idea is that """ rlarJr"t* "orraitiorr" are much like Jeff Thatcher's well. A stranger riding along through Kansas saw what looked like a most peculiar stone inonument standing strangely in the middle of a field. He stopped a farmer and asked what the monument was. The farmer said: "That ain't a monument. That's Jeff Thatcher's well. A cyclone came along the other day and turned it inside out and upside down." The speaker I refer to thinks that's what's happened to us.
His theme is that at i" "",r"rr] ,. ,ro* putting the lazy, the shiftless, the unintelligent and the unsuccessful on top, and beating down the frugal, the workers, the thinkers, those who do something and get somewhere. He thinks we have apparently changed our national ideals; that there is no longer reward for merit; for ingenuitl i for productiveness, for the progressiveness on which this nation was built. He thinks the debtor is favored, the creditor maligned; the man who holds a mortgage is in bad repute, while he who fails to work and pay is given relief. Owners and employers are the forgotten men, he thinks, and legislation aims to defeat his kind, and put deuces instead of aces as high cards in the deck. You might think this is a solemn theme. But this gentleman kept nine hundred men in a good old Southern city in stitches, laughing, as he related it.
Of course r particular" "";; it because r so thorough-
ly agreed with him. The rest of those present seemed to do likewise. My own feeling is that the outstanding headache of these times is the thundering of men who have DONE NOTHING against the men who have DONE MUCH, and the wonderment expressed by some people that the DONE MUCHERS do not seem to enjoy it.
One of the current ,"rli"r-,n", I violently object to is the much-mouthed talk about the "mal-distribution" of wealth in this country, which is the juiciest text of the present-day demagogues. The theory is that the reason that Smith has so little money is because Jones has so much. So they thunder against Jones.
The same school " an"*n3 should I say thoughtlessngss!-qrsuld conclude tfiat the reason Smith is so hopelessly lazy is because Jones is so abundantly energetic; or the reason Smith has such an ugly mug is because Jones is handsome. One is just as sensible a conclusion as the other; and both as stupid as the contrast between the Smith and Jones wealth.
You would think to n; .;"- tear at this rag that they had discovered a deliberate conspiracy of injustice toward Smith and on the part of Jones. Yet, to believe that one person has less because some other person has more-that one man's success is based upon another man's failure-is economic illiteracy. It is jupt plain ignorance of all the fundamentals of economics and of life.
w. J. cameron tells rr: ;;"y School publication designed to rouse a moral conscience on social and economic affairs, which recently declared that one family having more rooms in its house indicated that some other family had fewer roorns. Which is the same thought exactly that these "mal-distribution of wealth" preachers announce. "Doctrine like that," says Mr. Cameron, "is no better than economic voodooism; yet those who spread it fancy they are contributing to a better social order."
"IIow can we account ,", ;" l"ruu "or""u of this pitiable economic illiteracy?" asks Mr. Cameron. And he answers:
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"It seems to originate with those at either end of the economic scale who have never had the discipline of earning their own living. Earning a living is so important a part of education that those who have missed this advantage, be they idle plutocrats or idle paupers, seem to suffer the same serious psychological deficiency. As a result of meeting or avoiding this work, people seem to gravitate toward one of three circles-the creative, the contributive, or the covetous.
"The first or creative circle we cannot account for. Fortunately every generation that fows into the world brings a very large proportion of individuals possessing creative ability. We mostly hear of those who possess it in superlative degree, but creative minds are everywhere, in every countryside, village, town and city. These are the beating hearts.of the body social. They can SEE and they can DO. They may be the two obscure Wright Brothers in a bicycle shop in Dayton, Ohio, but they work away at one of the invisible doors of a never-before-opened chamber of knowledge, they turn the lock, and by that act a thousand other locks are turned and the energies of ten thousand minds released and the whole race rushes in to possess a whole new world of aviation. You can multiply that by every field you
know, and by fields as yet unknown. The miracle of unfolding life and enlarged power, always accompanied by increasing activity and real wealth, is constantly occurring. You will never hear it said in THIS circle that if one has more, another necessarily has less; those who live here know that the more anyone has, the more EVERYONE has." Thanks for that nice sermon, Mr. Cameron.
Another false belief t, ;" n*"""a day that does much to kill human ambition and halt leadership in worth-while directions, is the belief that this machine age has killed jobs and created unemployment. I was just reading a page advertisement of the Bank of New York & Trust Company, in a business magazine. That ad says: "The increasing use of machines in industry has not destroyed jobs. It has created them. When automobiles were made virtually by hand and the price was high, few people were employed in the motor business. But as mass production methods reduced prices and expanded the market, employment increased. Today the motor industry, directly or indirectly, accounts for the employment of one person out of every six at work in this countrY."
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always followed increasing use of machines. When the United States was using $23 worth of machinery per capita, Great Britain was using only $10 worth and paying one-third the American wage. Germany was using $9 worth and paying one-fourth the American wage. China was using five cents lvorth and paying one-twentieth the American wage. It costs American industry approximately $8,000 in capital investment to buy the machinery and tools needed to provide a job for each worker. In some industries, such as railroads, the capital investment per worker is as high as $26,000. Eighteen of the major industries of today have been wholly developed since 1880. They would not be in existence except for technological advancement. Thode 18 industries today account, directly or indirectly, for the employment of one out of every four people at work in the United States."
Endless proofs of this sort may be offered to show that the machine age creates jobs and more jobs, raises wages to a poirlt never drearned of in countries where men and women work with their hands exclusively, and develops a manner and condition of living unattainable except through the machine age. ***
Take automobile tires, just for example. Twenty-five years ago a set of tires cost about $175, and would run about three thousand miles. They were hand made, and there were not many of them made. Then came mass production. Today about one-tenth of the cost of a set of tires
twenty-five years ago will buy the average motorist's tires for a whole year; nearly everyone can afford to buy them, and tens of thousands of men are employed in producing, manufacturing, selling, and servicing them. Machines did that, as they did hundreds of other miracles to make life more worth living for the average man, and to CREATE JOBS.
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Human ingenuity hasn't gotten really started yet. I believe with Henry Ford-the most sensible man of the present generation of Americans-that the human race will accomplish more in the next fifty years, if given a decent chance, than it has in the last one thousand. I like to think that I live in a land where the glorious concepts of the productive mind are still in their infancy, and where generations and centuries of inventive genius of every worthy kind beckon us on to'higher ideals, and to greater Progress.
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And now, just as much is being printed and said about a period of peace between government and business, and about business being encouraged in order that it may employ more men in real jobs, come two major decisions by the National Labor Relations Board that will send the heart of every employer right down into his shoes. The
Board has decided in two cases that sit-down strikes are legal and that employers who hold against sit-down strikers are in wrong and must pay.
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In California strikers invaded a plant, took forcible possession, dispossessed the owners and refused them admission, and held the plant. The Board holds these men to have been within their rghts, and orders the owners to reinstate them with all back pay. No doubt we will now see thousands of employers hurrying to put on extra men in their plants in the face of this encouragement, and sthers who own idle money will be wild in their enthusiasm to put it to work to help employ men? Truly it has been said thousands of times of late, that every time business tries to rear its head, it gets kicked in the face. Yet it is urged to invest more money, employ more men, and "take up the slack." ,t<
Along with ninety-odd per cent of all the city newspaper editors and columnists in the nation, I believe that the present depression is entirely unnecessary and could be terminated almost automatically by taking the heel of politics from the throat of business and finance. But scared capital and harassed employers will never "take up the slack." If sit-down strikes are legal, then there is no America left.
Seattle, Wash., April 12, 1938-The restoration of export trade in West Coast lumber now rests in the hands of the State Department at Washington.
In recent months, foreign sales of West Coast lumber lrave been less than one-fifth of our business volume in l9D. This is a major cause of idle sawmills and idle labor in Oregon and Washington.
Offshore shipments have been further reduced by the Sino-Japanese conflict. But the primary reason for their decline is the preferential tariffs favoring Canadian lumber, which have been adopted by all important British Empire countries.
This question is now on the table of the negotiators in Washington, who are drafting a reciprocal trade agreement between England and the United States. Under the Ottarva Pact of 1932, Canadian lumber enters Great Britain duty free. But American lumber pays a tariff of 1O per cent on delivered value, including the cost of ocean freights and all forwarding charges. This discriminatory duty averages $3.50 to $4.00 per thousand board feet. It has cost the West Coast lumber industry 90 per cent of its former trade with the Urrited Kingdom.
The West Coast Lumbermen's Association and West Coast lumber exporters have presented briefs and oral testimony to the Government in support of our demand for tariff parity in Great Britain with lumber from Canada. We believe that we have made it clear that nothing less than tariff parity u'ill bring back any reasonable volrrme of trade u,ith the English market.
The plea for West Coast lumber is doubly justified by the tunfair deal which was handed us by the Canadian Trade Agreement of 1935. American duties on lumber imports n'ere reduced 50 per cent for the entire world; bttt Canada's
cxclusive hold on all British Empire markets was left unbroken. As the result of this one-sided pact, the imports of British Columbia Douglas fir and hemlock lumber into the United States have doubled.
Meantirne, in 1937 British Empire countries took 962 MNI feet of North Pacific woods. American mills got 9 per cent of that trade. Back in 1928 and l9D, our share u'as 75 per cent.
We feel that the Arnerican Government cannot follon- a policy of trade equalization in dealing rvith lumber imports; and at the same time accept a.flat denial of equal trade opportunity in lumber exports.
The Government owes it to the West Coast, to her labor and shipping no less than to her sal'mills, to square the account with lumber. The agreernent nor,v being negotiated with the United Kirrgdom offers the only real opportunitl' to make lumber reciprocity r,r'ork both rvays. Not onlf is England the largest lumber importing country of the entire world. The policy followed in dealing rvith England rvill inevitably set a precedent for coming trade agreements rvith Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. All are important lumber markets rvhere ottr former trade u'as cut off ltlpreferential tariffs in favor of Canada.
The Anglo-American Trade Agreement is the key to tl.re recovery of export markets for West Coast lumber. The outcome of these,negotiations in \\rashington is more vital to orlr industry and to its place in the future of the Northrvest than any other public issue for many years.
H. C. Kofoid. o{ the H. C. Kofoid Lumber Companv. Carruthers, and Mrs. Kofoid left San Francisco recently on a trip to the Orient.
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May G7-Arizona Retail Lumber and Builders Supply Association, Tucson, Ariz. Annual.
tllay 1O-1l-National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, ' Raleigh Hotel, Washington, D. C.Annual.
NIay 19-ZLKansas Lumbermen's Association, Salina Kansas. Annual.
May 25-2*National-American Wholesale Lumber Association, Ambassador Hotel, Atlantic City, N. J. Annual.
June 9-lO-National Association of Commission Lumber Salesmen, Netherlands-Plaza lfotel, Cincinnati, Ohio. Annual.
June 9-lo-Forest Products Sales Congress, Cincinnati, Ohio. Annual.
Sept. 2?-Z3-National Hardwood Lumber Association. Congress Hotel, Chicago, Ill. Annual.
Washington, D. C.-Three representatives of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association will lecture at the "Special Summer Program and Conferences on Strength of Materials" at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 14 to July 8, under the auspices of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. This course rvill include discussions of timber, concrete and strength problerns, concluding with a general conference on each subject.
The N.L.M.A. speakers will be Larry W. Smith, John B. Woods and Frank J. Hanrahan. Mr. Smith, Chief Engineer of the Association, rvill lead the group conference on timber; Mr. Woods, N.L.M.A. Forester, will speak on "Timber Supply and Characteristics of Species," while N{r. I{anrahan, Structural and Plyrvood Engineer, rvill lecture on "Modern Trends in Wood Construction." This summer program will be in charge of Professor J. NI. Lessells of the M.I.T. Department of Mechanical Engineering.
A. B. Corella, formerly manager of the Douglas l-umlter Company, and later manager of the Jennings Lumber Company at Douglas, has resigned to enter the export business as manufacturers sales agent. In his new position he rvill represent,.amon€f other firms, the Jennings Lumber Company in Mexico.
Clarence Wright succeeds Mr. Corella as manager of the Jennings yard at Douglas. Mr. Wright is well known in Arizona lumber circles and formerlv managed vards in Phoenix.
The Northwestern Pacific Railroad. blocked by slides since January 31, u'as opened April 15. On that day 146 cars, most of them loaded with Redwood lumber, moved into Willits on their way south after two and one half months' delay. Manv emptv cars also moved north to be loaded at the mills.
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The tall young man in evenihg clothes was leaning up against the lamp post about two A.M. and hanging on for dear life to keep from fallingr os he mumbled maudlin things to himself.
The big cop on the corner looked him over, then sauntered
Washington, D. C.-Thirteen associations and affiliated members of the lumber industry have just reported to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association expenditures of over $750,000 in research during the year 1937. Of this sum over $300,000 went for box and packaging analysis.
The reports, which were received from various regions of the country, outlined expenditures for industrial research, traffic and rate studies, tie seasoning, accident prevention, statistics, structural properties, deflection, sheathing material, package design, elimination of wapfe, chemistry, forestry, improved technique in firefighting, selective cutting, application and development of wood preservatives, rate of air movement and rate of drying, tests on laminated walking beams, laminated slabs, distributor beams, glued laminated beams, beams subjected to fire and other material of an investigatory na:ure.
The survey is by no means complete and a final accounting is expected to send the total figure of research expenditures close to $1,000,0CI.
by, and as he passed the drunk he shook his head sadly that such things should be, and remarked aloud:
"Nobody home."
"Oh yes there is ossifer," said the drunk, very definitely, "I can see a light upstairs."
Earl Galbraith has been appointed secretary of the Wholesale Sash and Door Association of Southern California. Earl has been associated'with the lumber industry in Southern California for many years and is widely known in lumber circles.
David W. Teachout, president of Bassett-Teachout Company, Los Angeles, is chairman of the executive committee. The Association's office is at 10O4 Architects Building, Los Angeles.
Clement Fraser, manag'er of Loop Lumber & Mill Company, Alameda, was presented with a beautiful Lord Elgin wrist watch by a group of his friends at the conclusion of a meeting of the directors of East Bay Hoo Hoo Club No. 39, April 18. The presentation was made by H. Sewall Morton.
Mr. Fraser is one of the founders of the annual Reveille, and it was he who suggested the name for the big gathering.
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The election of Henry W. Collins, New York, as a vicepresident of The Celotex Corporation, was announced by Bror G. Dahlberg, president of the company on April 19. The appointment of. J. Z. Hollmann, Chicago, as general sales manager was also announced. In a third promotion, Harry W. Conway, New York, was appointed manager of the company's New York sales division, succeeding Mr. Collins in that post.
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Henry W. Collins J. Z. Hollmann headquarters at Chicago, taking up his duties May 1, Mr. 'Dahlberg said. He is thirty-five years of age, and has been with The Celotex Corporation since 1923. Starting as a salesman on leaving Fordham IJniversity, he was appointed manager of the company's Chicago sales division early in Dn. lle became Nerv York sales division manag'er November I, 1936. Married and the father of two children, Mr. Collins is at present a resident of Bronxville, New York.
Mr. Hollmann, forty-two years old, has been with The Celotex Corporation since 1926. Formerly branch manager of the St. Louis sales division, he was appointed assistant general sales manager November 1, 1936. He is a graduate of Washington State College, Pullman, Washington, is married and has two children.
Mr. Conway, who succeeds to the post of New York sales division manager. was formerly assistant manager of that division.
The good looking line of special front doors manufactured by the Buffelen Lumber & Manufacturing Company of Tacoma is being featured by Western Door & Sash Companl', Oakland. According to J. Z. Todd these special front doors at stock prices are carried by his firm in both Douglas Fir and Philippine Mahoga.ry, gfd in a number of designs.
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More than 100,000 persons attended the Southern California Home Shorv rvhich was held at the Pan-Pacific Auditorium, Los Angeles, from April 21 to May 1. It rvas operr claily from 1:00 P.M. to 11:00 P.M.
The Graveg Scsb Bclcnce, Pabco products, cnd Knotty Western 8ed Cedor were displcyed by Grcver Comp<rny. The ilterior ol the booth wss linished il f,norty Wertern Red Cedcr pcnelr ncnulcctured at itr plant Tbe displsy wilt be noved to the genercl ofEces ol lhe company urhere it will be q permcn€nt exhibit.
Present at the offcial opening were N[ayor Sharv of Los Angeles; Col. W. H. Evans, president of the Building Contractors' Association of Southern California; W. S' Rosecrans. president of the Los Angeles Chamber of Conrnlerc€; F. W. I\{arlorv, Sottthern California-Arizorta district
In the center of the hall rvas a full sizecl five-rootn model home, built in seven days and completely furnished and landscaped, designed to cost betrveen $3500 and $4Om. It shorved the uervest ideas in building materials, expert rvorkmanship, and home furnishings.
Radiating from tl"re model hotne were the httndrecl or
<lirector c;f the Federal Housing Administration, I-os Angeles, and his assistant. Capt. W' G. Bingham; County Supervisor Gordon McDonough; Philip Norton, president
Geo, E. Recn Conpcny e:rhibited Super'Hcrbord, the Outdoor Ply' wood. which ia gucrcnleed cgcinat ply eeparctiow qnd Celotex producta. The booth wcr mcde ol Celotex. The ceiling wcs lbe new belotex Bull Noee unitr in 83 linish, :bowing lhe ure ol the apline ioiat, Tbe wqllg were oI Texbord, genuiae wood veneer over Celolex plcnlc one wcll ol blcclt wclnui plcnl crpplied verticclly, qnother horizont<rl sbips ol Mohogcly snd Avodire; while the bcrck wcrll wcra Celolex plqnlc cpplied horizontclly. The lloor wcs oI Promenqde Trcflic Top in red crrd green blocks with bltrch border.
nrore exl'ribits o{ hotne clesigrrs, building rnaterials, housing ccluipment, furtrishings, interior'decorations, financial clata. arrrl nerv ideas in foundations and insulation.
Among the exhibits lvere: Lumber Industr;' displa-v, sponsorecl by the \\Iest Coast l-tlmbermen's Associatiolt,
California Redwood Association, Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, and a group of Southern California retail lumber deal-
Curtis Woodworlc Art-Ply; qnd lnsulux Glqss BlocLs were Iectured by Scn Pe&o Lumber Co. One gide ol the booth wcs rnqde of I!r- gulux Glqgr Eloclrs, crnd the reqr wqll of Arf-Ply plywood tile. Pboio- grcrphr showing new detigns oI CurtiE Woodworlc, clro ihe Curtig Silentite crnd new "Rolovent" windows were displcyed.
els; Acme Spring Sash Balance Co.; Pioneer Division, The !'lintkote Co.; Graves Company; San Pedro Lumber Company; George E. Ream Company; Federil Housing Administration; Johns-Manville; California Panel & Veneer Co.; J. H. Baxter & Co.; Masonite Corp. ; Dura Steel Products Co.; West Coast Scree,n Co.; Pacific Cabinet Co.; Duplex, Inc.; Sampson Company; American Lumber & Treating Co.; Hammond Bros.; Wood Shingle Institute.
The talking motion picture, "Trees and 1\4en," a story of the lumber industry in the Northwest which was presented
Dan Strite, Hammond Redwood Company, I-os Angeles, is convalescing at his home following an operation for ap' pendicitis at the Gle,ndale Sanitarium and Hospital on April L2. He expects to be back on the job soon after the first of May.
Cliff Bergstrom, MacDonald & Bergstrom, geles, is in the Northwest on a combined pleasure trip.
Ir.rc., I-cis Anbusiness arrd
Dick Nelson, Buena Park Lumber Company, Buena Park. will leave on May 6 for New York where he will sail on the S. S. Saturnia for Naples, Italy. He vvill tour the European countries, and rvill be away two or three months.
John Howatt, sales manager, and Keith Mcl-ellan, city salesman, of White Brothers, hardwood dealers, San Francisco, are on a tour of the Pacific Northrvest rvhere they are visiting a number of plywood plants and sawmills.
by the Weyerhaeuser Sales Company, was shown four times daily.
The Home Show was sponsored by the Building Contractors of Southern California with the cooperation of the Construction Industries Committee o{ the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.
Photographs by Skinner Photo Arts. Los Angeles.
George B. Eidemiller, salesman for the wholesale department of Hogan Lumber Company, Oakland, sailed from San Francisco, April 15, on the Matson liner Lurline for Honolulu, where he was called on account of the illness of his sister. He expected to be back about May 10.
R. W. Dalton, of R. W. Dalton Company, Los Angeles" California representative of West Coast Plywood Companl , Hoquiam, Wash., n'as in San Francisco recently on a business trip. While in the Bay district Mr. Dalton attended the annual Reveille in Oakland. April 22.
Joe Tardy, E. J. Stanton & Son. Los Angeles turned from a two 'weeks' business trip to Arizona he called on the retail lumber trade.
has rewhere,
Francis W. Pool of Phoenix, Arizona representative of E. K. Woocl Lnmber Co.. t'as a recent r.isitor at the comDanv's [-os Angeles office.
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Washington, April 5*An appraisal of the home building cost factors evident in the first quarter of the year indicates that 1938 will be superior to both 1936 and 1937 as a period in which to build a new home.
The materials for a new home cost less now than at any time during 1937, says the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, which has just completed a survey of probable home costs for the rest of this year. Reductions in financing costs and lower land rates give this year an edge over 1936.
At the depth of the depression in 1932 material for the average home could be bought for less money than today. However, because of the extreme low level of national income the purchase of building material in that year would have taken a larger portion of the average income than the same material at the slightly higher prices in 1938.
In 1932 the return from the sale of a bushel of wheat would have purchased 9 board feet of lumber. Today the sale of the same bushel of wheat will purchase 24 board feet of lumber. This is true all along the line in comparing the relationship of building material prices to other commodities.
Taking the year 1926 as normal and most logical to compare with 1938, the Association stated that building material is 63% less this year than in 1926. The U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the composite cttrve of all btrilding material stood at approximately 937/o in November 1937, and has been reduced considerably since that time.
Real estate operators can point out lots that rvere solcl in 1926 lor $1500 which can be purchased today for $500 to $600. As a general average building sites are from $300 to $1500 less than in 1926.
Under new methods of home financing the buyer obtains full ownership and saves 85% of old time financing costs. :f66l2rr. if yorr borrow $5.000 you pay $37.13 monthly with
both principal and interest becoming less each payment. In 2O years the total payments are $8911.4; the debt is paid and you own your home. Under older systems of unamortized mortgages, when you borrowed $5,000 you did not reduce the principal but let the debt run. At the end of 20 years you had paid $6,500 interest and still owed $5,000. The cost to buy was $1 1,500, plus renewable costs every five years. Today you save $2,588.80.
As for building plans, those of 1938 contain added values that reduce building costs, effect better construction and appearance for a cost identical to that of. 1926. Architects fees, likewise are no higher than in 1926.
The price of lumber itself has dropped. Today $814.32 will buy the same quantity of lumber that $828.39 purchased in 1926.
Carpenter labor is only 18.73/o of the total cost of a typical frame dwelling, says the American Lumberman. The American Builder "Building Outlook Letter" of December 12, 1937, says : "An averag'e of 40O hours of carpenter labor is required for the moderate priced home of today." Figuring at the highest prevailing union scale of $1.62Yr, and amortizing this wage over aN-year period, the anntral cost will be $32.50 or $2.70 per month, or 62Yz cents a lveek.
Labor in addition accomplishes more u'ork toclav per hour because of better tools, plans, pre-fabrication, etc. Paint is of a rnuch higher quality and lasts longer. This results in economy due to less repainting. Therefore, labor hours on the 1938 home are so much shorter that they far more ofiset the slight local rvase increases since 1926. Credit 1938 with labor savings plus greatly increased values in the finished job.
Price of home conveniences have dropped since 1926. Heating and plumbing facilities are 5 to 4O% undet prices of that period, electric refrigerators ate 367n less, oil burn"-s 2O% cheaper.
FRIDAY, MAY 6
Twenty-Third Annucrl Convention
Arizoncr Retcil Lumber d Builders Supply Associatioru brc. Tucson, Arizonq, Fridcy qnd Saturdcy, Mcry 6-7, 1938 Hecdqucrters, Sqntq Ritc Hotel
H. S. Corbett, President
9:00 A.M.-Registration, Santa Rita Hotel Lobby.
10:00 A.M.-Election of Officers, Executive Meeting.
2:00 P.M.-Executive Meeting Continued. Speaker, Jas. G. McNary.
200 P.M.-Ladies' Bridge Party, Santa Rita Hotel to Blue Room.
4:00 P.M.-(Blue Room available to Ladies of the Convention at all times for both days of Convention.)
6:00 P.M.-Ladies' Cocktail Party, followed by
7:30 P.M.-Dinner, Santa Rita Hotel, Rendezvous.
7:00 P.M.-Knothole Club Dinner.
1O:00 P.M.-Entertainment and Floor Show. to Santa Rita Hotel. Rendevous.
1:00 A.M.
SATURDAY, MAY 7
1O:00 A.M.-Ladies' Fashion Show, Courtesy Tucson Merchants, Pioneer Hotel.
10:00 A.M.-\,{sn'5 Golf Tournament, El Rio Country Club.
1:00 P.M.-Bridge, Golf, Drives, Movies. (El Rio Golf Course at disposition of visiting Ladies.)
7:00 P.M.-Dinner Dance, El Rio Country Club.
E. H. Mulcahy, chairman, Executive Committee. Mrs. Walter Roediger, chairman, Ladies' Entertainment Committee.
By Sir William Watson
What is so sweet and dear
As a prosperous morn in May'
The confident prime of the day, And the dauntless youth of the year, When nothing that asks for bliss, Asking aright, is denied,
And half of the world a bridegroom is, And half of the world a bride.
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remission and dissolution in all the pgwers of the soul; and thus far it may be looked upon as a weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent reliefs we receive from it, and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.-Addison.
"Better plead guilty," said Sam's lawyer, "The judge will give you only two years in jail at the outside."
"Yassuh," replied the colored man dubiously, "de trouble is, dem two yeahs at de outside will be on de inside."
He who loves an old house
Never loves in vain, How can an old house
Used to sun and rain, To lilac and larkspur, And an elm above, Ever fail to answer The heart that gives it love?
A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her, but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.
-W. Somerset Maugham.JUST A LITTLE SHORT OF IT
"Melvin! Melvin!"
"What. Ma?"
"Are you spitting in the fish bowl?"
"No, but I been comin' pretty close."
I am feeling sad and lonely
While reflecting on the past.
It ain't about the roses
That have withered in the blast. It ain't about the summer skies; Nor the blossoms that have fell, But I am thinking, sadly thinking Of the folks that's gone to hell.
And even more depressing
Are the thoughts that now arise, And the tears of hot resentment
Come unbidden to my eyes; And with each haunting recollection, More bitter grows my u/oe, I am thinking, sadly thinking Of the folks that ought to go.
The drunk hailed a cab and fell into the back seat. "Shay, driverr" he ordered, ttdrive me around the block a hundred timesh."
The driver was startled, but he obliged just the same. Around and around the block they went. And on the sixtyfifth lap, the stew leaned over to the driver.
"Step on it, buddy," he hiccoughed, "I'm in a hurry."
Marriage: A community consisting ofa master, mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
-Ambrose Bierce.Dentist: You needn't open your mouth any wider. I pull your tooth I expect to stand outside.
My granddad, viewing earth's worn cogs, Said things were going to the dogs; His granddad in his house of logs, Said things were going to the dogs; His granddad in the Flemish bogs, Said things were Boing to the dogs; His granddad in his old skin togs, Said things were going to the dogs; There's one thing that I have to stateThe dogs have had a good long wait. (Anonymous)
When
The Traffic Department of the West Coast Lumberman's Association has performed what one Pacific Northwest newspaper describes as "a miracle, in presenting lumber and freight rates from the West Coast to all parts of the nation in a form that is readily understandable to any layman."
The rate map graphically pictures the lumber and shingle freight rate adjustment resulting from the recent decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission in the increased rate case, Ex Parte 123. According to an announcement by K. C. Batchelder, Association traffic manager, the map is the result of months of painstaking research, analysis and classification by Assistant Traffic Manager E. Hanson, and Rate Experts L. A. West and G. P. Gregor.
Walter G. Scrim, of Los Angeles, president of the Philippine Mahogany lmport Association, is shorvn here in a candid camera pose taken by the photographer of THE GULF COAST LUMBERMAN.
The picture was taken at Dallas, Texas, rvhere Mr. Scrim attended al.rd enjoyed the fifty-second annual convention of The Lumbermen's Association of Texas. He rvas rntroduced to the convention as the visitor who had come the greatest distance to attend the meeting.
R. M. Engstrand has been appointed secretary of the Orange County Lumbermen's Club with headquarters in Santa Ana. He succeeds E. Steffensen r,vho is now with Brown & Dauser Company of Fullerton. Mr. Engstrand rvas formerly secretary of the Pasadena and San Gabriel Lumbermen's Club at Pasadena.
Harry F. Vincent, vice-president and general manager of li. K. Wood Lumber Company, San Francisco, returned recently from visiting the company's operations in the Northr,r.'est.
"The Traffic Department is not offering this as a'miracle map' despite the complimentary newspaper description," Mr. Batchelder stated in his announcement. "We are satisfied to describe it as a medium for providing a quick bird's-eye view of the adjustment in freight rates for those interested in the movement of lumber, shingles and other forest products from the West Coast. Rates from the Douglas fir producing region of Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, to poitrts throughout the U. S., in transcontinental territory, are simply and definitely shown.
"The map is by no means intended as a substitute for the W. C. L. A. Freight Rate Book," Mr. Batchelder said. "Its function is to make visual the broad divisions of the great mass of rate information the Freight Rate Book contains. Those who obtain the graphic map will find it of real utility as a timesaver when only general freight rate information is required, or for ready reference in the form of a graphic index. The Freight Rate Book, however, remains the final authority and source for detained information."
The size of the map is 17"x27', making it convenient ior desk use. It is obtainable from the Traffic Department of the Association at a nominal charge of 25 cents for single copies. and $1.00 for five coPies.
Buzard-Burkhart Pine Company, recently moved the sales office from San Francisco to the mill at Lakeview, Ore. R. T. Buzard is president of the company.
Mrs. Lillian Wright, owner of the Wright Lumber Company, Stockton, passed away at her home on April 8, following an illness of eight weeks.
A resident of Stockton for fourteen years, Mrs. Wrisht, with her son, William Wright, operated the company since her husband's death in 1931. She was well known in lumber circles throughout the state.
Mrs. Wright was a member of the Stockton Golf and Country Club, Stockton Musical Club, Philomathean Club, and was a charter member of the Rockridge Women's Club of Oakland.
Besides her son. she is survived by two sisters.
Mrs. Maude M. Wilson, wife of O. V. Wilson, president of the Central Lumber Company, Stockton, passed away in Stockton, April 13.
Mrs. Wilson, who had been ill since Christmas Day, was a native of Kentucky. She was active in club affairs; having been a past president of the San Joaquin County Federation of lVomen's Clubs, and a member of the advisory board. Shc was prominent in the activities of the Philomathean and Rhodora clubs.
She is a.lso survived by three sons, Martel O., Vincent and Paul W. Wilson; a brother, Dr. Forest Maddox of Weatherford, Okla., and a sister, Mrs. Wayne Jones of Holdenville, Ohio.
William Albert Gilbert, 78, died in Sacramento, April 12.
Mr. Gilbert was the father of W. H. Gilbert of the Sierra Mill & Lumber Company, Sacramento.
He was a native of Canada. He is survived also by his widow, Mrs. Grace Gilbert, two daughters, two sons, a sister, two brothers aud nine grandchildren.
Cyrus P. Farewell, 31, died in Oakland on April 4.
He was a salesman for The Celotex Corporation, and was a former Stanford athlete and Navy flier.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Barbara Ann Farewell; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Farewell; two brothers, Herbert and A. W. Farewell, Jr., and a sister, Janet Farewell.
21% to 50y'o mote capacity due to solid edge-to-edge stacking. Better quality drying on low temperatures with a fast reversibie crfculatron.
Lower stacking costs-just solid edge-to-edge stacLing in the simplest form.
Condensed from its master volume of detailed freight tariffs on lumber, the Traffic Department of West Coast Lumbermen's Association has pqhlished a new Cargo Rate Book in "digest" form, according'tto an announcement by K. C. Batcheldg;1.i. tttrq. Associatipnls Traffic Manager.
"This publicdti6.rl,""tUr. Batc$elder said, is designed to save time"foi thre lumber sales qianaser and traffic director. It provides si*ple and read$I-deference for determining back-haul rates on lumber td ltites bordering the Atlantic Coast from the various ports of discharge. The new Cargp Rate Book also contains a digest of the intercoastal steamship r4tes, rules and regulations, and similar information on tdii rtovement of lum'ber from Pacific Coast ports to Missi,ssippi and Ohio Riv.er ports. In its convenient, compact'rform, the new 'book should provide a great saving in time to lumber shippers. The three sections of the book are in distinct colors, to make reference yet simpler."
Mr. Bachelder warned that the new "digest" should not be confused, w,ith'-the Flreight-Rate Book, which is -published by states from Oregon and Washington points of origin. For the latter the Association Traffic Department has published a map that illustrates regional rates on lumber in broad terms. This map is obtainable at a price of 25 cents.
The new Cargo Rate Book, Mr. Batchelder stated, is published by the Association's General Maritime Committee, under the chairmanship of R. E. Seeley. Other members of the Committee are:
Don C. Anderson, Twin Harbors Lumber Company, Aberdeen, Wash.; C. H. Chenoweth, Bloedel Donovan Lumber Mills, Bellingham, Wash.; R. H. DuBois, DuBoisKettenring Lumber Company, Rainier, Ore.; E. H' Houston, The Long-Bell Lumber Company, Longview, Wash.; E. E. Johnson, C. D. Johnson Lumber Corporation, Portland, Ore.; J. E. Morris, Weyerhaeuser Sales Company, Tacoma, Wash.; W. S. Morrow, Crossett Western Company, Wauna, Ore.; E. P. Schafer, Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., Montesano, Wash.; Paul R. Smith, M. R' Smith Lumber & Shingle Co., Seattle, Wash.; Earl H. Strange, Canyon Lumber Company, Everett, Wash.; Wm. Vaughan, Coos Bay Logging Company, North Bend, Ore.; E. R. Wade, Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Company, Portland, Ore.; Arthur H. Zeigen, Polson Mill Company, Hoquiam, Wash.; K. C. Batchelder, Traffic Manager, W. C. L. A., Secretary.
O. J. Celorie of the Monroe Lumber Company, E'tqen':. manufacturers and u'holesalers. accompanied bv his wife. rvas recently on a business and pleasttre trip to San Francisco. I.os Angeles and San Diego.
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Total exports of hardwood and softwood lumber (including boards, planks, scantlings, floorings, sawed timber) and logs for the first two months of 1938 totaled 165,504 M board feet as compared with 185,814 M Jeet for the correspondine period of 1937, according to figures just released by the Forest Products Division of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.
Of the total 1938 amount, 148,142 NI feet was sawed. material as.compared with 169,962 M feet for the similar two month period ol 1937, a decline of 13 percent. Exports of logs and hewn timber for the first two months of 1938 totalled L7,62 M feet as compared with 15,852 M feet for the same period in 1937, an increase of B percent.
In the sawn softwood group, Douglas Fir was the most important species exported, totalling.52,762 M feet as compared with 23,A7 M feet for the first two months of. 1937. Southern pine was next in importance totalling 47,537 M feet for the first two months of 1938 as compared with 67,590 M feet for the similar period in L937. Other woods exported in this group were: (First two months 1938 versus first two months 1937, respectively) Cedar 926 M feet vs. 819 M feet ; Hemlo ck 26 M f eet vs. 7O M feet ; White, Ponderosa, Sugar Pine 3,557 M feet vs.4,BB7 M feet;Redwood 1,559 M feet vs.'2,123.M feet; Spruce l,4BZ M feet vs. 2,462 M feet; Cypress 747 M feet vs. 693 M feet.
Sawn hardwoods (including flooring) totalled 39,418 M feet for the first two months of 1938 as compared with 68,O42 M feet for the similar period in 1937.
Softwood log exports for the first two months of 1938 totalled 10,732 M feet as against 13,233 M feet for the corresponding period of. 1937. Hardwood log exports on the same basis of comparison totalled 6,330 M feet as against 2,619 M feet respectively. In this log export group, Douglas fir accounted for 9,14I M feet; ash and hickory, 1,892 M feet; cottonwood and aspen 1,768 M feet. Log exports of other segregated species were comparatively small.
Total imports of hardwood and softwood logs and lrrmber (including clapboards and cabinet woods) for the
first two months of 1938 totalled 9I,233 M feet as compared with 110,088 M feet for the corresponding period in 1937. Of this 1938 amount n,n6 M feet were logs (hardwoods and softwoods) 59,711 M feet were softwood lumber (including clapboards) and 11,316 M feet were hardwood lumber and sawed cabinet woods as against I2,3I8 M feet of \ogs,78,497 M feet of softwood lumber, and 19,273 M feet of hardwood lumber and sawed cabinet woods for the comparable period of 1937.
In the logs group, imports of cedar logs for the first two months of 1938 accounted for 5343 M feet; fir, spruce or Western hemlock accounted for LO,644 M feet; and mahogany accounted f.or 2779 M feet.
In the softwood lumber group Spruce was the most important species imported, totalling 24,16 M feet. Import of pine for the two month period of 1938 totalled 5743 M feet whereas fir and hemlock combined totalled 24,359 M feet.
The reciprocal trade agreement signed by the United States and Canada allotted Canada an annual quota of 250,000,000 board feet of Douglas fir and western hemlock to enter the United States at $2.0O duty and excise tax. From January 1st to February 26th, 1938, imports of these woods subject to this quota totalled, 24,O18,755 feet, according to preliminary figures supplied by the Bureau of Customs of the Treasury Department.
The Bureau of Customs also announced that imports of red cedar shingles from Canada during the period January 1 to February 26, inclusive, totalled 426,272 squares. Executive Order No. 7882 of February 25, 1938, limits importation of red cedar shingles from Canada to 916,246 squares during the first six months of the calendar year 1938.
Detailed monthly statistics on U. S. exports and imports of hardwood and softwood logs and lumber are compiled by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce and are available from the Bureau on a subscription basis. Special statistics covering' imports subject to quota are compiled by the Customs Bureau and are made available to the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.
Stepping out of his up-to-the-minute 4-place Stinson cabin plane at Grand Central Airport, Glendale, the other day after a trip from San Francisco rvhich took less than three hours, George W. Gorman, president of the Gorman Lumber Company, San Francisco, was met by Arthur Twohy, of the Twohy Lumber Company, Los Angeles, Southern California representative of his concern, driving a 1906 model Buick.
old models owned by Mr. Twohy, who has appeared in a number of motion pictures as the driver of most of his old timers.
Mr. Gorman has used a private plane for the majority of his business trips in the past several years. He recently made a three-corhered trip from San Francisco to Portland and Port Orford, Ore. At the latter point he visited the mill of the Trans-Pacific Lumber Company, of which he is gen-
Here rvas a contrast indeed ! The latest model airplane, furnishing ultra-modern transportation for a 1938 lumber salesman. and an automobile which was the last word in road transportation 32 years ago' The plane has a speed of 14O miles an hour, or about four times the speed of the car.
The Buick, which cranks on the side and has right-hand steering, is in perfect mechanical condition and made the trip from the airport to Los Angeles without difficulty, but as might be expected attracted a great deal of attention on the way from many people who had never seen a car of such ancient vintage. It is one of a collection of about 30
eral manager, and to which he makes frequent visits by air. It is interesting to note the average time made by Mr. Gorman in his plane to various points from San Francisco, or more often Alameda, where he keeps the ship. To Portland, five hours; to Port Orford, Ore. (about 500 miles by road) three hours; to Los Angeles, a little under three hours; to Sacramento, 30 minutes, and from Los Angeles to San Diego, one hour.
George is a veteran flyer, having started as a very young man with two years' experience as First Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps in the World War. This included plenty of squadron and indiviclual combat work over the
enemy's lines in France. He u'as finally shot down in combat in August, 1918, and was a prisoner of war in Gerrnany for about three months until the Arrnistice. He followed this with two years' exhibition and commercial flying, which brought his total hours in the air to well over 1000. He gave up active flying in 1922 and then took it up again a few years ago as a hobby and an aicl to business.
Charles F. Bonadiman, manager at Chino, has taken over the management at Pomona, succeeding H. G. Schafer, who is retiring from active business. Joe E. Franklin, manager at Ocean Park, goes to Chino to take Mr. Bonadiman's place.
A. W. Larson, manager at Brea, is now in charge at Reseda. and E. F. Bakkedahl is the .new manager at Brea.
E. G. Wittker, who has been connected with the general office at Los Angeles, is now manager at South Pasadena.
Maris Plywood Corporation, San Francisco, sold the Super-Harbord Fir plywood for the three boats to be used in an expedition down the Colorado River to Boulcler Danr this summer.
Norman D. Nevills, of Medicine Hat Lodge, P. O. Bluff, Utah, will head the expedition. The danger of such a venture can be judged by the fact that of the 10O people rvho have attempted the descent by boat of these canyons 50 have been killed.
"Trees and Men," a talking motion picture of the lumber industry in the Northwest, which is being presented by the Weyerhaeuser Sales Company, was shown to lumbermen, members of the building trades, and their friends at the Boulevard Theater, Washington and Vermont Streets, Los Angeles, at 4:00 P.M., Thursday afternoon, April 28.
Set against a background of natural beauty, "Trees and Men," shows the lumber industry at work; experts skillfully harvesting mature trees more than two hundred feet high; buckers sawing the newly felled trees ; trains transporting the giant logs to surrounding streams and to the mills where they are manufactured into lumber.
It shows the provisions and care taken in cooperation with the United States Government to conserve the trees, and what is being done to a recently cut forest to regrow a "crop" of timber.
The picture is available for showings to lumbermen. building trade groups, clubs, etc. The Weyerhaeuser Sales Company's Los Angeles and San Francisco offices will arrange to supply the picture together rvith sound projection equipment, screen and operator at no cost.
Ben Ostlind is rvith the California Panel & Veneer Co., of Los Angeles, doing trade promotional work. He is calling on the architects and developing,interest in the use 'of plyrvoods. Ben is r,vell known in Pacific Coast lumber circles and was formerly associated with the plywood inclustrv in the Northwest.
Otto W. Frese, San Francisco wholesale lumberman, was in Los Angeles on April 22 to meet his wife, daughter and sister-in-larv, who arrived on the S. S. Rakuyo Maru. following a nine months' tour of South America.
Frank G. Duttle, president of the Sterling Lumber Company, Oakland, and Mrs. Duttle, sailed April 15 from San Francisco on a month's vacation trip 1e the Harvaiian Islands.
The Yosemite Portland Cement Corporation were hosts to the San Joaquin Valley, Sacramento Valley, and Central California Lumbermen's Clubs at Merced on April 14. There was a joint meeting of the Clubs in the El Capitan Hotel at 10:30 A.M.
A bufiet luncheon was served in the company's warehouse, and was followed by an inspection of their plant near Merced. A barbecue dinner was served at 5:30 P.M., and a dance in the ballroom of the Women's Club concluded the day's entertainment. Nearly 300 members, their wives and friends, attended.
Richard S. Requa, nationally known architect, has embarked upon another old-world tour and will gather more photographic studies and architectural data for the compilation of his second book, a sequel to his "Architectural Details, Spain and the Mediterranean," which was published by the Monolith Portland Cement Company. This work received such widespread favor that the two editions published were soon exhausted.
E,rnest Ganahl Lumber Company announces that the improvements being made at its yard at Lake Arrowhead are now completed. The yard was opened last July.
The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce presented a handsomely carved Redwood plaque bearing the emblem of the City of San Francisco to Captain Walther of the new motor liner "San Francisco" when the ship was in port on her maiden voyage. The plaque was designed by Samuel Berger, architectural wood carver of San Francisco'
Orange Belt Lumbermen's Club held a golf tournament at the Red Hill Country Club, Upland, on the afternoon of April 14. 100 sat down to dinner in the Club House at 6:30 P.M., and during the dinner hour music was furnished by a ladies' orchestra. Following the dinner, Vicegerent Snark Dee Essley staged a concatenation when three Kittens were initiated. During the concatanation, the ladies played bridge. Dancing rvas enjoyed the balance of the evening.
Pioneer shingle company representatives from many parts of California gathered at the Pioneer Paper Company's plant in Los Angeles recently to hear the new sales policy explained.
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Friend & Terry furnished the lumber f.or 12 test seats in the new stadium at Sacramento. The lumber was 7'xl2"xl6' dry, clear heart, vertical grain Redwood.
Leon B. Walker, The Red River Lumber Company, San Francisco, is on a European tour.
The sales department of the Riverside Portland Cement Company were hosts to the retail lumber dealers of Orange County and the Whittier territory on the evening of April 12. Prior to the dinner hour, the recreative facilities of the Los Angeles Athletic Club were placed at the disposal of the guests. A delectable fried chicken dinner was served in one of the Club's dining rooms at 6:30 P.M., following which the group were extended the further pleasure of a theatre party at the OrPheum.
This issue carries a write-up and photograph of the new Chas. C. Adams Lumber Company yard at San Bernardino.
Thirty-six lumbermen teed off in the San Francisco Lumbermen's Golf Tournament held at the Presidio Golf Club on April 13. John A. Stroud won the low gross. Low net winners in Class A were Louis Stewart, IIarry Vincent and Homer T. Hayward; in Class B, J. H. Holmes, Garnet Fraser and Norman Vincent. Hugh Handley won the booby prize, after a tie between himself, Eddie Peggs and Russell Gheen. The tournament, which was sponsored by the Douglas Fir Club, was followed by a dinner in the Club House at 7:@ P. M. Russell Gheen was toastmaster, and short talks were made by J. Walter Kelly, Frank O'Connor, Hugh Handley, C. C. Stibich, Fred Roth, and James M. Brown of Spokane, \Mash., Hoo Hoo Snark of the lJniverse.
The Modesto lumbermen were hosts to the Stockton Hoo Hoo Club at the regular monthly meeting held in Modesto on March 26. Vicegerent Snark R' L' Ustick and J. U' Gartin of the Stanislaus Lumber Company arranged a very entertaining program for the occasion.
Captain George H. Wilkins and Carl B- Eielson made a successful flight over the North Pole in a Lockheed "Vega" Monoplane. Except for the motor mount and landir-rg gear, the entire ship was constructed of 3-ply spruce plywood' The material was furnished by the California Panel & Veneer Company of Los Angeles.
SPLIT REDWOOD Tiec - Ffi@ Pcta - Shingla
Shakeg - Stakes - Pillng - Poler - Ancbc!
R,ED CEDAR --- Shincle* - Transmisrion Polec - Stubs - Anchon
Fii.l- p^"t". O*n Tank Trcated or Untrcated
CREOSOTE, PRESSURE TREATED
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The Retail Marketing Clinic and Management Conference sponsored by Johns-Manville at the Biltmore Hotel, Los r\ngeles, on April 22, was well attended by retail lumber and building material dealers from all sections of Southern California.
New York representatives of the company addressed the meeting. Kenneth Smith, secretary-manager of the Lumber & Allied Products Institute, Los Angeles, was also one of the speakers.
The conference was opened by H. B. Hyne, manager of the Los Angeles district, who introduced Franklin Shuey, Pacific Coast manager, who rnade a brie{ talk. Mr. Shuey introduced the first speaker, L. C. Hart, general sales manager. Mr. Hart talked on "Major Problems of the IndustryJ' Other speakers at the morning session were: "Let's Take Inventory," Kenneth Smith; "Distribution's Law of Gravity" and "Training and Equipping for More Sales and Profits," A. A. ITood, manager, Housing Guild Division; "IIow We Can Make the Building Industry a Selling Industry," L. M. Cassidy, general merchandising manager. The first act of "Helter-Skelter for Shelter" was put on at the morning meeting by J. L. Wood and Company.
At the afternoon session, the speakers included: "Backing Up the Retail Dealer with Sales Promotion and Advertising," L. C. Hart; "Wrapping Up the Package," J. I-. Wood, general credit manager; "The N{ost Costly Word in the World," L. M. Cassidy. "Sales Opportunities for the Retail Dealer," and "Proof of the Pudding" were subjects also discussed. This session was closed with the second act of "Helter-Skelter for Shelter."
All present at the meeting were guests of the company for luncheon and the banquet. At the luncheon, F. W. Marlow, FHA director for the Southern California-Arizona district, and Mayor Shaw of Los Angeles, were the speakers. The banquet was held at 6:30 P. M. with orchestra music and a fine entertainment program, with L. C. Hart as toastmaster. J. L. Wood told several stories during the dinner hour rvhich went over big with the crowd. George Clough, San Pedro Lumber Co., Los Angeles, was the speaker of the evening.
Merchandising clinics were held at Denver, Colo., April l1; Seattle, Wash., April 15; San Francisco, April 19. The final 1938 Housing Guild Training School will be held at the Hotel Leamington, Oakland, Calif., May 2-14, 1938.
Washington, April 1l-Wood imports exceeded wood exports in 1937 by $169,000,000 according to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, and this figure was 13 per cent greater than the 1936 excess of $149,000,000.
Stating that the United States now admits, duty free, from Canada 2Yz times as much in dollar value of forest products, as Canada's total forest products exports to all British Countries, the statement declared %)% of Canadian forest products r,vere admitted duty free.
The United States takes 68% of Canada's exports of forest products including pulp and paper, says the Association, while all British Countries combined take but 24o/o. This situation has made the United States, not Great Britain or the British Countries collectively, the greatest market for Canadian forest products.
Figures issues by the Department of Commerce, with classes the imports of rvood under Wood and Paper, most of the latter being made from the former, shorv the export of wood and paper in 1936 equal to $100,042,000 and increasing in 7937 to $137,127,W. However, imports were much larger. Wood and paper imported in 1936 had a value of $249,357,mO of which 86%, or $214,328,000 was free of duty. In 1937 imports were $306,469,000. The $2l43n,OOO import that rn'as duty free in 1936 was over twice the total of exports from this country in the same year.
tlnited States duties on impotted lumber species are and always have been the same to all lumber exporting countries, including Canada and other British Countries, continue the lumbermen. That is tariff parity. The British Countries assess greater duties against Anerican lumber than Canadian lumber of identical species and that is not tariff oaritv.
Headquarters for the California Retail Lumbermen's Association were opened in the Pryor Building, 282 Alvarado Street, Monterey, on April 20. Fred A. Witmer of Pacific Grove is secretary.
A. D. Davis is office manager of the Association's Southern District office at 715 Fay Building, Los Angeles.
J. O. Handley, of M. J. Murphy, Inc., Carmel, is president of the Association.
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Breaking last year's attendance record with a total of 425, the Sixth Annual Reveille of Central and Northern California lumbermen, sponsored by East Bay Hoo Hoo Club No. 39, was held at Hotel Leamington, Oakland, on Friday evening, April 22.
This big annual get-together meeting of lumbermen seems to be well established, and probably all were in agreement with President Henry M. Hink, when in a short talk he expressed the hope that the good fellowship shown that evening be carried into their business relations with each other.
Gordon D. Pierce, general chairman, introduced J. O. Handley, of Carmel, president of the California Retail Lumbeimen's Association, and the chairmen of the various committees. He also thanked the firms and individuals who provided the entertainment and golf prizes'
The entertainment, entitled the "Hoo Hoo Hit Parade of 1938" was presented during and following the dinner. James Muir was master of ceremonies.
The firms listed here cooperated financially to make this Sixth Annual Reveille a success:
Atkinson-Stutz Co.
California Cedar Products
California Plywood, Inc...,
W. R. Chamberlin
Coos Bay Lumber Co....
Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co....
Donovan Lumber Co..
Elliott Bay Sales Co..
Gorman Lumber Co.. . San Francisco
Tames L. Hall '..' 'San Francisco
Hammond Lumber Co.... ... i.......San Francisco
J. R. Hanify Co.. San Francisco
ff itt ec Morton, Inc.. ' Oakland
Hobbs, Wall & Co.... ...San Francisco
Holmes-Eureka Lumber Co.. San Francisco
A. B. Johnson Lumber Co.. .San Francisco
Lamon-Bonnington Co.... .....San Francisco
A. N. Lofgren.-. . San Francisco
The Long-Bell Lumber Co. (Fay L. Foval) San Francisco
McDonald & Harrington.. .San Francisco
Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co.. . San Francisco
Moore Mill & Lumber Co.... ..Oakland
Oregon-Washington Plywood Co. -(J. O. Elmer) San Francisco
Pacifit Lurnber Co., llhe. San Francisco.
Paramino Lumber Co.... .....San Francisco
J. E. Peggs Lumber Co.... ....San Francisco
Pyramid Lumber Sales Co. ....Oakland
R-ed River Lumber Co.... .....San Francisco
Redwood Manufacturers Co. Pittsburg
Santa Cruz Lumber Co.. . Santa Cruz
Santa Fe Lumber Co.. San Francisco
Schafer Bros. Lbr. & Shingle Co.. . ' San Francisco
Shevli.n Pine Sales Co.. . San Francisco
James A. Stapleton Lbr Co.. . San Francisco
Strable Hardwood Co. .. .....Oakland
Sudden & Christenson.... .. ...San Francisco
Trower Lumber Co. San Francisco
Union Lumber Co.... ...San Francisco
Wendling-Nathan Co. ....San Francisco
Western Door & Sash Co.... ..Oakland
Weyerhaeuser Sales Co.... ' '...San Francisco
E. K. Wood Lumber Co.... ....San Francisco
The following firms donated the valuable golf prizes:
America.q Brass & Iron Foundry.... Oakland
Aberdeen Plywood Company (E. J. Gallagher) ...San Francisco
Boorman Lumber Company. ..Oakland
Brooks, O. W. (Baker, Hamilton ct Pacific Co.).. .San Francisco
Calaveras Cement Company. .Oakland
CaliforniaBuildersSupplyCo.... ....Oakland
California Wire Cloth Co.... ..Oakland
Celotex Corporation (Doc Folsom)... .... .Oakland
Certain-teed Products Corp. (Harold Graham), Piedmont
Cobbledick-Kibbe Glass Co. ..Oakland
Cowell Lime & Cement Co.. . San Francisco
East Bay Glass Co. .....Oakland
East Bay Saw & Knife Works..... ..Oakland
Elliott Bay Sales Co.. . Oakland
W. P. Fuller Company. .Oakland
General Motors Truck & Coach Co.. .. .....Oakland
General Paint Corporation ....Oakland
Libby-Owens Ford Glass Co.. ..San Francisco
Mack Truck & Sales Co. (Mr. Fredricks) .Oakland
Nfaris Plywood Company. .....San Francisco
Monolith Cement Co.. San Francisco
McCormick Lumber Co., Chas. R.. San Francisco
National Lead Company.. . ...Oakland
Nicolai Door Sales Co.. . San Francisco
Pacific Portland Cement Co.... ......San Francisco
The Paraffine Companies, Inc. Emeryville
Paramount Built-In Fixture Co.... .Oakland
Pioneer-Flintkote Co. (Geo. M. Cohen) ....Oakland
Richfield Oil Company (Mr. Moseley) .....Oakland
Santa Cruz Portland Cement Co. (F. H. Oates) San F-rancisco
Shell Oil Company. .....Oakland
C. W. MacDonald .... ..Alameda
Sterling Lumber Co... . .Oakland
Union Oil Company of Cialif. Oakland
U. S. Gypsum Company (Bill Lyon) Oakland
U. S. Plyivood Company.... ..San Francisco
The Upson Company (Perry A. Dame) Hollywoocl
White Brothers. ..Oakland
Willamette-Hyster Company. ..San Francisco
The Reveille golf tournament, held at Sequoyah Country Club, on Saturday mor.ning, April 23. Comrnittee Chairman Tom Branson reports a record numlter of players, The winners of the 25 golf prizes rvere the following:
Low Gt'oss. Ernest Pieper
Low Net. ..Morton Booth
Second Low Gross C. R. Wilson
SecondLowNet. .....Bob McCullough
Wholesalers Low Gross. ....C. D. Chubbuck
Wholesalers Low Net. ....Harry Hood
Retailers Low Gross .IRoy Dieisbach
Retailers Low Net. Clyde Speer
The committees who made all the arrangements for the Reveille were as follows:
General Committee .....Gordon D. Pierce, Chainnan.
Members: Thomas Branson, D. N. Cords, L.A. Godard, NI. R. Grant, Llovd Harris, Henry Hink, Carl R. Moore, James Overcast, C. I. Speer.
General Secretary-Treasurey. .Carl R. I\,Ioore.
Entertainment Committee.... .Miland R. Grant, Chairman.
Members: Wm. Chatham, Jr., Jack Ferri, L. A. Godard. Golf Committee.. ..Thomas T. Branson, Chairman.
Members: Clement Fraser, Ross Kinney, H. S. Morton, Forrest Peil.
Publicity Committee Lewis A. Godard, Chairman.
Members: W. T. Black, G. W. Sechrist, Thomas Tomlison.
Banquet Committec. Lloyd Harris, Chairman.
Members: C. I. Gilbert, John Helm, Kenneth Shipp, A. D. Williamson. Program and Poster Committee.
Victor llerrman
Ticket Sales Committee.. ... Tas. B. Overcast. Chairman.
Members: G. l-. Bonning-ton, Shirley Forsey, John Freeman, H. Lincoln, Jt., L.J. Woodson.
San Francisco, April 26.-Announcement was made today of the allotment in Washington to this city of $15,000,000 in Federal Housing Authority funds. The city has appointed a housing authority which rvill meet April 27 to launch its slum clearance low cost housing program.
The housing act provides that the government shall furnish 90 per cent of the funds. San Francisco must provide the other 10 per cent, or $1,500,000.
Under the terms of the federal act the San Francisco Authority is empowered to demolish decrepit buildings and erect in their stead modern low cost rental structures. Plans will be made for an immediate survey of all residence buildings in the city which might come within the scope of the clearance program.
Highest Score Hole No. 6.
Highest
W. R. Chamberlin & Company, San Francisco, are now carrying a stock of lumber at the Port of Redwood City.
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A large number of retailers, builders, and architects, as well as prospective home owners, have visited the attractive display of J. H. Baxter & Co. at the Southern California Home Show, Pan-Pacific Auditorium, since its opening on April 21. Baxco C.Z.C. Lumber, treated under pressure rvith Chromated Zinc Chloride Salts, is featured for mudsills, posts, girders, and first floor joists in home construction to protect this portion against termite and dry rot damage.
The exhibit also shows the method of pressure treating, with pictures of the treating plant and samples of the chemicals used. Among other points of interest to the user of treated lumber is the color reaction test, illustrated at the booth by spraying cross sections of lumber with chemicals l'i'hich react with the colorless zinc chloride to produce a dark blue color in the area penerated by the C.Z.C. Salts.
J. C. McCune of J. H. Baxter & Co., and Dan L. Lindsley, Sales Promotion Engineer for West Coast Wood Preserving Co. of Seattle, are in charge of the exhibit.
J. H. Baxter & Co. has been marketing treated forest products in California for over a quarter of a century. Its distributing yards and docks are located at Alameda and Long Beach, Calif. A modern pressure treating plant processing ltrmberivith both Creosote and Chromated Zinc Chloride is operated at Long Beach. The company operates a coastwise steamship and are also California agents for the West Coast Wood Preserving Co. of Seattle.
Washington, April 8-The sixth revision of "Lumber and Timber Information," a booklet containing data of a general and statistical nature pertaining to the lumber industry, has just been completed by the National Lurnber Manufacturers Association.
Revised as of March 1938, the booklet gives in concise and coordinated form information on the rank of the lumber industry among industrial groups, production and distribution of lumber consumption by leading rvood-using industries. data on the timber stand and on forests and reforestation, including brief, up-to-date summary of forestry legislation.
Of particular interest is the analysis of distribution of lumber showing relation between the consumption and production in various regions of the country and revealing the ratios in recent years of long and short hauls, intrastate shipments, etc.
This issue, as former ones, of "Lumber and Timber Information" was compiled by Mrs. Grace J. Landon, N' L' M. A. statistician for the past 20 years.
Material in the book is based upon such authoritative sources as the Bureau of the Census; U. S. Forest Service; Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce; Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau; Association of American Railroads; U. S. Maritime Commission and Regional Association Reports.
Nominal charge of 25 cents a copy includes postage'
Irloyd Elliott, Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., San Francisco, and Mrs. Elliott, spent a fe'n' days in Los Angeles the latter part of APril.
A new line which White Brothers, San Francisco, has just put in is Kraftwood. This is a Douglas Fir 3-ply panel, which has been put through a process giving it a refined, even grain and a beautiful tooled groove design. "The grain is part of the wood, cannot be rubbed out and will never wear off or fade," said Don F. White, of White Brothers. "This Kraftwood grain not only eliminates the rotary cut figure but tends to equalize the natural expansion and contraction of th-e wood and thus practically eliminates grain raising and face checking.
"Kraftwood is truly the Cinderella wood. It brings to new or old homes the richness, distinction and charm of wood paneled interiors at a remarkably low cost. It is one of the least expensive interior finishes, and bids fair to become one of the best sellers in the wallboards or interior paneling. To its beauty of grain, Kraftwood adds another point of advantage-smooth walls and ceilings. Kraftwood interiors are never marred by unsightly battens or strips, as it is not necessary to cover Kraftwood panel joints. The 48" wide Kraftwood panels are tooled in attractive Vgrooved designs to resemble expensive rvood paneling. These tooled designs are so arranged that when one Kraftwood panel is butted against or placed tightly next to another panel the joint becomes part of the tooled design.
"Kraftwood panels are sealed on all sides at the factory with a thoroughly tested resin sealer. This sealer is a clear liquid which does not change the color or affect any stain or paint applied to the wood. It enables the Kraftwood to be finished more smoothly, evenly and perfectly than ordinary plywood and it actually acts as a priming or first coat. Kraftwood therefore comes ready for the second coat and is perfect for modern, colorful i.nteriors."
White Brothers also carries a full line of Resnprest hot plate waterproof plywood.
Frank M. Wise, manager of the Patten-Blinn Lumber Company yard at Santa Monica, was vice-chairman of the Executive Committee of the Santa Monica Convention Committee for the annual conclave of York Rite Masons, held at Santa Monica, April 14-19.
Twenty-9 Palms Lumber Company, Twenty-Nine Palms, has moved from the old site on Two-Mile Road to a new location on Adobe Road near Four Corners.
Ray Reading has been appointed manager of mond Match Company yard at Lakeport, Calif.
The Dia-
Hebbron Lumber Company, Santa Cruz, has purchased the property on Lower Pacific Avenue where it has been in business for the past ten years. Lloyd Hebbron and James H. Harris are the owners.
Art Jensen and Bill Cowling, accompanied by their wives, motored to Las Vegas, Nevada, over the April 23 week-end where they were the guests of Ed Von Tobel, Las Vegas retail lumberman.
The lumber yard which has been operated at Quincy, Calif., by J. C. Lee for the past several years has been purchased by The Diamond Match Company.
A fire at the Hyde Park Lumber Company, Los Angeles, on the night of April 15, caused a loss of $12,000 to $15,000. A small but complete stock of materials was not destroyed, and customers calling at the yard are being taken care of, but on larger orders the company has arranged with some of the other dealers to furnish the materials. The firm will rebuild as soon as possible.
Booth-Kelly Douglas Fir. the Association grade and trade mark certify to your customers the quality of the stock you handle. Builders quit guessing about what they're buying, and buy where they know what they're getting.
General Sales Office: Eugene, Ore. Mills: Wendling, Ore., Springfield, Ore.
Yard doing over Seventy Thousand Dollar business in adjacent town to Los Angeles, will sell on time with balance payable monthly. Address Box C-707, California Lumber Merchant
OPPORTUNITY WANTED
Lumberman with mill, sales and trade promotion experience wants position with well established firm in the Los Angeles territory. Can furnish good reference. Will appreciate an interview. Address Box C-709, California Lumber Merchant.
POSITION WANTED
Experienced lumberman-Bookkeeper-Estimator. Counter salesman with California yard experience. Also wholesale experience, correspondent, etc. Knows business thoroughly. Single. Go anywhere. Address Box C-708, California Lumber Merchant.
Lumber yards for sale. Twohy Lumber Co., Yard Brokers, 801 Petroleum Securities Bldg.' geles. Telephone PRosPect 8746'
ORDER YOI'R
Experienced man desires position as accountant-bookkeeper or office manager with wholesale lumber or manufacturing concern. Thoroughly versed in all forms of Federal and State taxes. Address Box C-7ll California Lumber Merchant.
Position wanted by experienced lumberman as retail yard manager or assistant to the manager. Thoroughly familiar with California yard practices; estimating; counter trade; credits and collections. Best of reference. Address Box C-710, California Lumber Merchant.
Lumber Los An-
1 Yates B-3 double surfacer with direct motor drive and switches complete. Penberthy Lumber Company, 2055 E. Slst Street, Los Angeles. Telephone Klmball 5111. COPY
Lockport, N. Y., April 15, 1938. On the last day of December, 1937, the Export Departmerrt of The Upson Company received a letter from a harness tnaker in New Zealand inquiring about one of the Company's products and attaching a,coupon clipped from a magazine.
The Export Manager replied in due form, and referred the prospect to an Upson dealer. The reply has just been received. the last sentence of which states, "The outcome of it all is that Upson Fibre-Tile u'ill be used in the battn room which he is shortly re-conditioning."
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The ad, on t'hich this sale has just been n.racle, appeared in the Poptrlar Science lfonthly of Jr'I'y 7927.
Carroll Fawcett has been appointed manager of the Cross Lumber Con.rpany's yard at Coalinga, succeeding the late Burton Boyle. Mr. Fawcett was formerll- manager of the companv's yard at Avenal.
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An S0-page carpenters manual for the construction of interiors has just been published by The Celotex Corporation. Chicago. Text, illustrations and detailed working drawings tell in simple terms how to apply Celotex materials to achieve decorative interiors of manl' architectural styles, from Colonial to Modern. Installations of interiors for homes, offices, stores and theaters are explained from rough lavout stage to final decorative touches. The manual should be helpful to carpenters. architects. contractors, decorators, and builders.
LUMBER
Atklm-Stutz Cmprny,. ll2 Mrk t Str.?t GArficld ltll
Chmbcrlln ll Co.. W. R., gth Flc. Flrr Bl&. ............DOusht 5{?a
Dolbccr & 6rroo Lunbor Co.
ZtO Mtrchrltr E:chrryc Bldf. ....SUttcr 7l5a
C,cnu hnbcr Cc, ala Callimh St. ..................GArfr|d Soaa
Ha[ Jm L., l03a Mlllr Bl&. ...................'SUttsr Ttol
Hrmd Rcdwood Copoy, al? Motlwy St. ..............Dousb 3tt
llolncr EunLa f-unba Co. l5l5 Fiorncbl CGBbr Bldt.......GArftcH rl2l
C. D. Jobn llnbr Corpontio, 2!| Cellfrnir StrcGt :..........'GArfictd aASt
Ia*Bohgtm Coruy, ra Calliml Strut ....'...........GArficld Ctltl
tlfrm" Alvh Nall CrUfcain StGt ............FI|Imm ll?a
Mae;Doeld & Heniagto Ltd.' ra Cdifcab Stnit ...............GArficld r3lt
LUMBER
LUMBER
Pacific Lubcr Co., Thc f00 Bush Stret .......,..,.......GArfcld lltl
Peggc, J. E., I Dtun St. ......,..,,...........Douth. ttst
Rcd Rlvcr lambcr Co., 3r5 Mmdnck Blds. ..,.........GArfic1d @ Suta Fe Lunber Co, 16 Callfmira StEt .....,.....,..EXibrwl zfla
Schrfa Bru. Lumbcr & Sbinrlc Cot Dru St. ...................,....SU$cr f?.ilf
Shevlin Pinc Sdeg Cor0la Modrek Bldc. .............KEeny Tlll
Sud&n & Chrl*cnro" 310 Saumc Strct ..,............GArfdd All
Trwc Luder Co. lll Marlct Strcet ,. .....SUttcr 0{21
Unho Luba CoCroctrr Building ..Suttc a1t0
Wcndllng-Nrthan CoUa Mlrtlt SttEt ..................SUtt r St.il
E. K. Wod lrnbor C^, I Dru StrGGt .....,...........;KEamy ''10
Wctahem !h!cl Co., lf Crl|lcall StGt ..............GArficld !9t4
Hill lt Mutm' Irc.' Itantlo St. Wbrf ,.............AN&vcr ll7'
Horu lubcr CmpanY, -znd & AlicG Strut ...,...,....GLGEdrt atal
Mm Mltt e Luber Co, fnl Brcdny ...HIaatG to2t
E. K. lVod Lunbcr Cc, Fr&rlc& & Kit{ Str. ...'....FRuitnlc 0ll2
BUILT-IN FIXTURTES
Pslar Built-Il Flxturc Co. (Bqkeley) gNf Su Prblo Avc. ...........THmwa11 0O0
LUMBER
Anglo Califonit Lmber Co" -frZC .lnf- Bkd. .......'.......THmwall 3l{4
Buru Luber Co, 550 Cbuber of Cmcrcc Bldg...PRcpect @tl
Chanberlir & Co- W. R., 3r5 W. Ninrh st. ..............,...TRintty r5r3
Coopa, \l/llfred T., zoi Crt* St. ....'................CAPitoI a5ila
Dolbs & Cam Lunbcr Co' tor Fl<v 81d||. .................vAndLc tlll2
Ddd, Do H., a4 Petrclcum Scqritieg Bldst.....PRoIEGGI 874
Humd Rcdmod Cmpany, tCSl So. Bradway ...........,,.PRcrect taa
Hcnntgr, E. W., tff FhancLal CcntcrBldg, ........TRlnity $ef
Hohncl Euroka Lurbcr Co. 7ll-?r2 Architlcb Blds. ..........Mutual trtr
Hwr. A. L., 700 So. h Brcr Arc. .........,.,....YOrk rrat
C. D. Johln lubc Ccpmtio, 601 Pctrolcum Scarltta Bldg....PRopcct trts
Kclly-Snttl Cc, B*th 3t, San Pcdro .......,....,.P|.aetut 3fa
Saa Pedro e||l{
Lawrtn*Phlllpr Lunbcr Co.
Gl3 Pctrolorn Sanritiee Bldg....PR6Fct tr?1
MacDoald & Hanillto, Ltd., 517 Pctmlcu Sccwitia Bltl....PRapect 3l?
Pacific l.mbq Cc, Th., 7C0 3o la Be Ave. ...........,....YOrk rriE
Paiten-Blin Lubcr Co., sar E. sth st. ......................vAndikc 232r
HARDWOODS AND PANELS
Fmyth Hardwod Cq, 355 Barhcc Blvd. .,........,.....ATwetsr ClSl
MarL Pfrrod Corpmtio, 5.| rfih StEt ...............MArkst OTot-l?ll
White Brctta* Fifth and Bman Strut!..........Suttcr ltti
SAltH_DOORS-PLYWOOD
Nic.Ll Dc ltdc CD, tOai rtth Stret ..........,. ........Mluim 7t2l
Unltcd Strtcr Plyvod Co, Inc., fl| Kauar Str..t ,,..,...........MArht ltt8
Wholar-Ogood Salae Ccpcatim, ilas rtth st. .................... ..vAlmcL zar
CREOSOTTED LUMBER-POLES-PILINGTIES
Amcdcu Lunbcr & Tutlql Go. lla Nrv Mootrmrrr 3i. .......'..Suttcr 1225
Brxtd. J. H. & Cq. tlf Mmtrocy 3t. ,,........'.DOurbr ttlt
Hall, Jencr Irosz Mllb Bld;. ............ ......Suttcr 752a
PAI\ELS-DOORTSASH-SCREENS
Califmla ButldGB Supply Co., ?00 ath AYG. ......Hlrelc Ol3
We.tcn Du tl Suh Co., 5th & CyDre3. Sts. ..............L4k61& t{||
HARDWOODS
Strablc Hrdwood Co., 5in Flnt StGt .,..,...........TEmp|cbar 55t{
Wbitc Bnthm. sOa Htrb StGt ......".'..'.....ANdovq l|0e
LUMBER
Red Rivcr Lubcr Co., ?02 E. Slaurm CEnturY D0?l l0Lill So. Bmdny ................PR6Fct Flr
Reitz, Co, E. L., &It Petrolcu Secuitiet Bl&...PRcpcct 23t9
San Padro Lrmbcr Co., Su Pcdro' lfa0A WilniDgto Rod San Pedro 22110
Sente Fe Lubcr Cq, 3ll Fimcinl C.rt r Bldg. ,.....VAndkc,ll7l
Schafa Bm lmbcr & Sbfufs Co.' r22a IY. M. Grrhd Blds. ........TRinity a?r
Shevlin Pim Salcr Co., lll Pctrolcu Scerttbr Bldg. ..PRdFct 0trs
Sudda & Chrirtlo.o, |30 Bord of Tn& Bldg. ....'...TRinity tt'll
Tacane llnbcr SdGa, 4Zt Pctrcleun Sccuritiee Bldg.'.PRcpect llllt
Twohy Lubcr Cq, Eol Pctrolem Scoritier Bldg....PRcFGt A7{
Unloa Lumbcr Co, t23 W. M. Garland Blds. ,.......TRlnlty zzta
Wendling-Nathn Co, 700 So. Ia Bna Arc. .......,...,..YOrk ffaE
Wct Orego Lumbcr Co., 4? Petrcl€uD Smities Bldg...Rlchmd Cztf
Wilkiren and Buoy, 3rE \f,/. tth St. .................,..TRinity lall
E. K. .W@d Luber Co.. 4701 Sata Fe .A,rc. ........,..,..JEfiem 3lU
Weyerhmar Sal6 Co., 920 W. M. C€rlard Blds. ........Mlchigan @51
HARDWOODS
Cadwallader-Gibsd Co., lrc., 3@t Eat Olymplc Blvd. ..-,.....ANa€lur ul3l
Scrln, Waltcr G. lll W6t ?th Stret .., ... .Tuckcr 3Dl
srantm, E. J., ll 3o, 2050 Eut Stth Strct .....CEntury t2ll
Wectm Har&rreod llnbr Co., 20U E. rith St. .................PRcpct |lll
HARDWOOD FLOORING
Southcrn Hudwood t0l Eut Stth Strat ................ADmt 41at s^sH-rxtoRs-MlLLwoRl(
PANEIJ AND PLY'WOOD
CalilGrir Pencl & Vmr Cq, !55 So. Alancda St. ................TRinity |cst
Kchl, ho W. & !ior, GiZ Sc Myn St. ................ANrsluc tltl
Orcgd.Walhil|tm Plywood Co, 3lt }vcst Ninth Str.ct...........,TRldty lflt
Ream Capeln GGo, E., Zl9 So. Alamcda SL .,....,.....M1ch1|l4n ll51
Red Rlvcr Imbcr Co., ?t2 E. Sl,aw .CEntury 2foll
Sampm Cmpov (Pandan)
7|5 Sq Rrymd Aw. ......,.BLanchad ?:hll
United Statcr Plyrreod Co., Inc, l'|n Erst r$h SL ,..,...........,PRo.FGI lall
Wst Ccct Slro Co, U|5 E. Grd Strut ,..........,....ADrn Ulet
Wcet Cut Plysood Co., 3r5 11f. Ninth St. ................TR|ntty ltrt
Wheeler-(tgod Salca Ccpontion, 2153 S*ruento St. ................TUclcr,fi|
CREOSOTED LUMBER_POLES-PILINGTIES
Arerican Lumbcr & Trcating Co., l03l So. Brudwry ............,...PRopcct 555E
Baxier, J. H. il Co., Ot W€lt 5th St. ................Mlchigan €l
The rich, smooth texture of Redwood is seen at its best in these plywood panels. The grain is a delightful pattern of semi-slash and vertical combinations. Takes any stain, varnish or natural finish. Hammond Quality Redwood Plywood is of Super-Har' bord construction, assuring maximum lasdng qualities plus matchless beauty. Lumbermen everywhere are finding it good business to cafty an adequate stock. Sizes are: l'0" * 48" x72", 84" r 96". Two grades: Good One Side; Sound Two Sides.
