News Flashes

Fred Lamon of Lamon-Bonnington Co., San Francisco, left May 10 for a 10-day trip calling on the Pine mills in Northern California and Southern Oregon.

Myron Woodard, president, Silver Falls Timber Co., Portland. was recently in San Francisco on business.

A. A. Kelley, sales manager, Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned May 4 from a business trip to the Pacific Northwest.

Ross Price, who has been associated with Lumber Co., Palo Alto, for the past several with the South Citv Lumber Co., South San the Trimble years is now Francisco. number of Gorman Lumber Sales Co., Avenue, Oakland, has been changed to

The telephone 4621 Tidewater KEllogg 3-2121.

Leo Hulett, salesman for Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., San Francisco, made some kind of a record the other day when he got the limit of trout at the opening of the season on the Gualala River, in the Redwood Empire, and later in the day also got the limit of abalone.

Seth L. Butler, San Francisco, California representative of Dant & Russell, fnc., spent the last week in April at the head office in Portland.

W. R. Morris, eastern manager of Company, New York, recently spent pany's office in San Francisco.

S. A. Beecroft, vice-president, Foxworth-Galbraith Lumber Company, Phoenix, Ariz., was a Los Angeles visitor last week.

Frank Alley, Alley ing a few weeks at Monica.

Brothers, Medford, Oregon, is spendthe company's retail yard in Santa

Dick Twohy, son of Arthur Twohy, Twohy Lumber Co., I-os Angeles, who is a junior in the School of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, will spend the next five months at the Douglas Aircraft Co. in Santa Monica, after which he will return to Berkeley to complete his senior year studies.

Joe Hearin, Lumber Wholesalers, Pasadena, business trip to the Northwest. rsona the Union Lumber a week at the com-

Paul Baugh, E. U. Wheelock, Inc., Los Angeles, is back from the Northwest where he visited their mill connections.

Bill Sampson of the Sampson Company, Pasadena, opened the fishing season with a trip to the Sespe River, Ventura County. He got some nice trout.

Ja.. E. (Jimmy), Atkinson, Francisco, is back at his desk in_the Northwest.

C. G. Price, general manager of The California Door Company, Diamond Springs, Calif., visited the Los Angeles office in the latter part of April. He made the trip both ways by air.

Don Philips, Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., Los Angeles, is back from a business trip to the northwest.

Atkinson-Stutz Co., San after spending three weeks

C. W. Broback, Union Lumber Company, San Francisco, returned recently from a business trip to Chicago and other eastern points.

Sterling Stofle, sales manager of Western Hardwood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, is spending several weeks in lhe Northwest calling on sawmills and plywood manufacturers.

Frank Curran, Frank Curran Lumber Co., Inc., Santa Ana, is on a three weeks' trip in the East.

Baseball Fences Without Peepholes on the \(/.y

Portland, Orego,n, April 30-Experiments under way at the Western Pine Association Research Laboratory here may destroy one prerogative of the American small boy-the joy of watching ball games through knot holes.

Laboratory technicians are doing their best to find a means of gluing knots into lumber so tightly that they won't drop out some day to provide peepholes in the fences of the nation's ballgarks. Laboratory Dirbctor Albert llermann believes he will succeed.

Certain types of casein glue and others of urea-formaldehyde glue show great promise as knot holders. In fact, one lumber company is already stabilizing its knots to improve its lumber.

To find out what kinds of glue do the best job, the laboratory staff devised an electrically-operated trip-hemmer testing machine. Knots in a piece of wood are fixed with the various types of glues under consideration. Then the wood is placed directly under the hammer; which strikes repeated blows of the same force at each knot. By counting the number of blows each knot can withstand, the technicians learn which glue is best.

Knot-gluing is only one of the many Western Pine Research projects. The laboratory is engaged in a constant effort to improve the serviceability of lurnber. Much of their time goes into testing to discover how much strength is required to meet the demands of specific tasks, such as use in floors, roofs, trusses. They have another machine for that.

A stick of pine to be tested is placed in the machine, its ends supported by two columns like miniature bridge abutments which rise from a movable platform. Some-' one pulls a switch and the platform grinds slowly upward until the exact center of the stick meets a steel buffer. Still the platform rumbles inexorably up. When a gauge registers 1,100 pounds pressure, fine beads of moisture break out on the stick, which is being bent remorselessly. Finally, when the two wood fibres give way, the machine is stopped and the breaking pressure registered.

The knowledge gained from these and other tests may not do much to improve the lot of the juvenile baseball fan, but lumbermen here say it's doing a great deal to improve methods of building construction.

Back From Eastern Trip

R. I. (Dick) Matthews, Santa Ana Cabinet & Fixture Co., Santa Ana, is back from the East where he attended graduation exercises at Annapolis when his son, John, received his commission of Ensign. John is a graduate of the University of California.

Ten Years Ago Today

From Moy 15, 1932 lssue its

The new city hall at Beverly Hills, Calif., was formally dedicated and turned over to the municipality at a banquet held in the new building, Saturday evening, April 23' The occasion was also the ninth anniversary of the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce. Frank Burnaby, president of the Sun Lumber Company, and president of the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce. was master of ceremonies.

Southern California retail lumbermen held a meeting at the San Diego Athletic Club, San Diego, Saturday afternoon, April 23. Jerry Sullivan, lr., Western Lumber Company, San Diego, presided. A dinner dance was held in the evening.

W. B. Koehler rvas the low gros\s winner and Walter Spicer second low gross winner at the Orange County Lumbermen's Club golf tournament at the Santa Ana Country Club, April 20. C. C. Bohnhoff turned in the best low net score.

Garrett Lumber Company opened a yard in San Leandro. W. F. Garrett is new retail lumber manager.

George W. Kennedy was Mountain Pine Sales Agency, Dan C. Desmond.

An article, "Moses, Lead Us Out of the Wilderness," by H. G. Larrick, Barr Lumber Company, Solano Beach, appeared in this issue.

Frank J. O'Connor, Donovan Lumber Company, San Francisco, was elected president and general manager of the California Wholesale Lumber Association.

Ambrose Lumber Company, Santa Barbara, celebrated tenth anniversary with an open house on April 23.

L. C. Hubner, who was connected with the Baldwin Lumber & Hardware Company at Billings, Mont., for many years, purchased the J. K. Sine Lumber Company at Montebello. Calif.

Springboards to be used in Olympic Games in Los Angeles dale-Harris Lumber Co. of San

Port Orford Cedar

(Also &nown cr Wbite Ccdtn or Lcrson Cyprers) Lumber appointed manager of the Fresno, succeeding the late the diving events at the were supplied by Van ArsFrancisco.

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DOUGLAS FIn" BED CEDf,&

FHA Title ll Applications Triple in Volume in Southern California

FHA's participation in the Southern California volume of small residential projects starting construction during the first quarter ol 1942 moved up approximately 10/o over the corresponding quarter of 1941, namely from 47.08% in the 3-month period of L941, to 56.82/o in the first three months of this year, according to a quarterly survey made by the local FHA office of building permits issued in 43 principal cities throughout the district and comparison with new construction started under FHA inspection, it was reported by Wilson G. Bingham, Southern California District Director, FHA.

Practically all of these homes are being built in war industry areas and are priced to sell for $6,000 or less, or to rent for $50 a month or less, in conformity with the Federal Government's defense housing program.

Total number of applications received by the local FHA office for insurance of mortgages in this small residential projects' group, definitely moved upward, showing an increase of over 48/o above the volume for the month of March.

"In order to avoid delay, while awaiting the final decision of Congress on the Title VI pending legislation, builders generally throughout the Southern California District, made generous use of the FHA facilities under Title II, approximately tripling. the number of applications in this category during the month of April over that of the March volume," said Mr. Bingham. "I{owever, builders also continued to send in application's under Title VI so as to have the preliminary processing completed pending the continuation of FHA's authority to issue commitments under this phase of its activities. The April volume in this group shorved a 33/o increase over the March figure in number of applications received bv the local office.,'

Names C. L. Heckle Assistant Sales Manager

Ray F. Sharp, secretary-treasurer and sales manager of Memphis Hardwood Flooring Co., Memphis, Tenn., announces the appointment of Chas. L. Heckle as assistant sales manager effective May 1.

Mr. Heckle has been with the firm for thirteen years as dry kiln engineer and shipping clerk. Principal among his new duties will be the job of traveling rvith their representatives calling on the trade in all sections of the country.

Discontinue Business

Lomax Smith and Jim Young of the Palomar Lumber Company at Escondido, Calif., have discontinued the business and sold their stocks and fixtures to the Hayward Lumber & Investment Compay. The stocks will be moved to Hayward's Escondido yard.

Conditions which made it difficult to replace stocks ancl a desire to be prepared to meet any call of the government \ryere reasons cited by Messrs. Smith and Young for negotiating the sale.