The California Lumber Merchant - May 1947

APrize House in n40 , bu,t what about today?

lll The smooth, attactite exterior surlace is ol 3/"" Erterior-type DougLas fir plyuood., applied in aertical panels with ioints carelully butted. Exterior-type plywood is made with completely waterprool phenolic resin bind.er, es p ecially I or p er manent ap plication,

lNl lnterior-type plywood. was used on interior walls and ceilings. Ioint-free finishes were attained. in kitchen and bath by couering panek with muslin and. painting ooer. One, bed,room was papered. The second, bed,room and lioing room panels were painted,.

lCl Plyscord (the sheathing grad.e ol interior type Douglas fr plywood) was specified lor rigid, ilurable rool sheathing. Plywood was also used. under the linoleutn in kitchen anil bath, lor a smooth, cupless, rid,geless base,

PIYWOOD'S IAANY ADVANTAGES

KEEP DEIAANDS GREATER THAN PRESENT SUPPTIES

Douglas fir plywood production is greater now tlnn in prewar years, Today's demand, howeaer, is unprecedented-ond raw material auaiLal,ility is the controlling lactor in attaining higher output. This uneuen demand,-supply ratio naturally means that plyuood may not always be readily obtainable at any giuen time and place. Keep in touch with your regular source ol supply as to price and, d.eliuery inlonnation. For technical d.ata, urite the Douglas Fir Plywooil Association, Tacoma'2, Washington.

The prizc hontc irt Spokanc, Washington, as it looked, in 1940, shortly alter tuking first award in u competition sponsored by the Spokane Chamber ol Commerce.

The same home toilay - attractioe, liuabLe, sound. Plywood's rugged strength und rigidity helped. make it a better honte.

"one of my most successful houses" says

Architect Edwin l. Peterson,

..AFTER SEVEII YEARS, IN PERFECT CONDITION_INSIDE AND OUT"

UILT in 1940, this attractive home demonstrates the many advantages to be gained through Douglas fir plywood Dri-bilt construction. Architect Edwin J. Peterson of Spokane used plywood for both interior and exterior surfaces because it lent itself so admirably to his clean-cut, modern design and provided permanent wall surfaces that would withstand extremes in temperature. The plan was laid out on 4-foot modules, taking advantage of the erection-economy offered by standard 4'x8' panels. Mr. Peterson says: "After seven years, this house is in perfect condition. The interior panels proved to be excellent for a variety of finishes, such as the plain painted living room, the papered bedroom and the canvas-covered bath."

Douglas fir PTYWOOD

LARGE, LIGHT, STRONG

Wegt Coast Screen Company's New lfFlA To Hold California Lumber Warehouse and Olftce ls Comflete Conferen ce May 24

The West Coast Screen Company has completed and moved into their grand new warehouse and gffice building which adjoins their plder plant on Sixty-Third Street - in Los Angeles. It is a substantial reinforced brick structure, with 13,000 square feet of floor space, and with the entire front devoted to beautiful new offices. These offices are delightfully finished, and lighted, and provide a wonderful new front to this very rapidly growing Los Angeles concern.

All the finished products of their big manufacturing plant will henceforth be stored in the new warehouse, and a program of expansion and rearrangement of the entire plant will follow. The entire manufacturing plant will be streamlined, new equipment installed, and the plans point to a highly efficient rearrangement of the entire operation. The West Coast manufacturing plant is equipped with the finest and most modern machinery that money can buy, which accounts in large part for the high quality of the produ,cts, and their continued popularity. The new warehouse and office and the re-lining of the whole institution will give them much greater capacity and efficiency than ever before.

Ccrlavercs County Produces Calaveras County, California, than 118 million feet of lumber the year L946.

Much Lumber produced a little more and lumber products in

Western Forest Industries Association, in cooperation with the Redding Chamber of Commerce, will hold a oneday meeting at Redding, California, on May 24. The meeting will commence with registration at 9 a.m. in Veterans Memorial Hall, where both morning and afternoon sessions will be held. Attendance will be open to all lumbermen but those especially invited include independent loggers, operators of small mills, remanufacturers and wholesale distributors {rom Yreka south to Marysville. Attendance is expected to be 200 to 300.

Topics to be discussed include: California State Forest Practice Regulations; Policies of the U.S. Government in Timber Sales in California; The Future of Small Operating Units in the Western Lumber Industry; New Developments in Sawmill Equipment and Methods; Danger of Timber Monopoly in Sustained Yield Cooperative Unit Agreements; Current and Prospective l;umber Markets as seen through the eyes of (a) Wholesaler, (b) Remanufacturer, (c) Retail Lumberman; Importance of More Careful Grading.

Rclph Wells Visits Calilornia

Ralph Wells, an executive of the J. W. Wells Lumber Company, of Menominee, Michigan, was a recent visitor in Los Angeles and San Francisco. His concern has been an important manufacturer of hardwood lumber in Northern Michigan for more than two generations.

I. E. MABITN Mancrging Editor

THE CALIFOR}.IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

W. T. BTACK Advertiring Mcncger

Howl.rumber Looks

Lumber shipments of 415 mills reporting to the National Lumber Trade Barometer were 4.4 per,cent above production for the week ended April26, 1947. In the same week new orders of these mills were 2.6 percent below production. Unfilled order files of the reporting mills amounted to 76 percent of stocks. For reporting softwood mills, unfilled orders are equivalent to 27 days' production at the current rate, and gross stocks are equivalent to 33 days' production.

For the year-to-date, shipments of reporting identical mills were 10.7 percent above production; orders were 14.8 percent above production.

Compared to the average corresponding week of 1935-39, production of reporting mills was 15.2 percent above; shipments were 8.9 percent above; orders were 4.0 percent above. Compared to the corresponding week in 7946, production of reporting mills was 3.1 percent above; shipments were 2.5 percent below; and new orders were 4.2 percent below.

The Western Pine Association for the week ended April 26, 107 mills reporting, gave orders as 64,851,000 feet, shipments 64,171,W feet, and production 59,733,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 186.739.000 feet.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended April 26, 8 units (108 mills) reporting, gave orders as 15,754,000 feet, shipments 18,447,000 feet, and production

, Our Silver Anniverscry

For 25 years THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT has been serving to the best of its ability tttt lumber and building industries of California. We will issue on July first our Silver Anniversary Number, affording those friends who appreciate the value and usefulness of this journal the opportunity of assisting us in making that special issue a great success. We will appreciate your advertising, your literary contributions, your, wise advice, and your friendly comment. We would like to hear from you. If you hold high opinion of the CLM, this would be a good time to say so. We won't issue our Golden Anniversary Number tor 25 more years.

18,917,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end oi the week totaled 67,783,0N feet.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended April 26, 131 mills reporting, gave orders as 76,648,000 feet, shipments 87,O17,000 feet, and prodttction 86,295,000 feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the rveek totaled 541,917,000 feet.

For the week ended April 19, 130 mills reporting, gave orders as 67,630,000 feet, shipments 88,213,000 feet, and production 84,935,000 feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the week totaled 555,363,000 feet.

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Newest entry into the insulating board products field in the Pacific Northwest is the Wood Fiber Division of the Simpson Logging Company, which has constructed a modern insulating board plant at Shelton, Washington.

The new mill started production April 1, manufacturing in the first runs insulating building board and roof insulation.

The plant will manufacture a complete line of insulating board products, including building board, plank, lath, sheathing, decorative tileboard and roof insulation. They will be marketed under the brand name of Simpson Insulating Board Products. The full production of the new mill is allocated exclusively to lumber dealers in the eleven western states for western building. Twelve distributors covering the West have been appointed and have received first shipments oT the new products for distribution to their dealers.

Simpson will also invade the acoustical tile field with an improved perforated tile. It will be marketed in the eleven western states under the trade name of Simpson Acoustical Tile. Eleven distributor-applicator firms have been named.

The new Simpson insulating board products were developed by the Simpson research laboratory which discovered that the Douglas fir, grown on the 24o,000-acre Simpson Tree Farm and other timber holdings in the rain belt of the Olympic mountains in the state of Washington, produce an exceedingly long and stout fiber. When properly pro,cessed in manufacture, this long fiber results in an insulating board of unusual strength and high thermal value. Douglas fir wood is carefully sorted and all bark or rot is removed before chipping. Simpson Logging Company is the only company now using IO0/o Douglas Fir in the manufacture of insulating board and acoustical tile.

These new developments are a part of the Simpson Company's expansion program in the building material field. Up to the present time, production has been confined to lumber Trom, two sawinills, plywood from two plants, and doors and millwork from one of the largest plants in the industry.

The wood fiber plant is under the management of C. J. Macke, a vice president of the Simpson Logging Company. R. E. Seeley, vice president in charge of sales, has supervision over the sales of all company products. A. L. Crozier, who has been with the ,company a number of years, most of which have been as Eastern District Representative with offices in New York City, has been transferred to the main sales ofifice in Seattle as Sales Manager of the Wood Fiber Division. Sales engineer and technical adviser is Paul D. Close, nationally known authority and technical writer on insulation. Close joined the Simpson organization after serving 7 years as technical secretary of the Insulation Board Institute, Chicago.

"f believe our research laboratory and new Wood Fiber Division plant have developed and are manufacturing the

finest, strongest insulating board on the market," commented R. E. Seeley, vice president in charge of sales for Simpson Logging Company.

"In production only a short time, the plant has achieved a high uniformity in the product. \Me are immensely proud of our new plant and of its high-grade insulating board products," continued Mr. Seeley.

'fhe new Simpson acoustical tile has a high sound-absorption value due to the Douglas fir fibers and clean, drilled perforations of which there are 484'to the 12" x 12" unit. The tile is attractively finished in oyster white, as is the bevel. It is made in two sizes, 12" x 12" and 12" x 24t, and in thicknesses of tl", 5/g" and 7/8".

The insulating board products are made in standard sizes and thicknesses; the building board, decorative tileboard and plank are finished one side in oyster white.

Despite the current shortage of insulating board products in the market, a broad and intensive advertising and merchandising compaign is being launched this month. Special emphasis will be placed on point-of-sale material for dealers.

While an old and honored name in the Pacific'Northwest, the Simpson Logging Company may be new to some dealers in far corners of the eleven western states. The Simpson Logging Company was organized in 1895, and is one of the oldest and most progressive wood products concerns in the Pacific Northwest. It maintains extensive operations in southwest Washington, with headquarters at Shelton. A continuous and ample source of supply of prime Douglas fir fiber 'for manufacture of Simpson insulating board products is guaranteed through the operation and maintenance of the Simpson Tree Farm timber holdings in the Olympic mountains. The Tree Farm, as well as other holdings, guarantee a continuous succession of crops of Douglas fir. Trees are grown under intelligent, scientific forest management which includes nurseries for cultivation of seedlings for replanting; protection of the forests from fires, insects, disease and fungus.

The new wood fiber plant started production shortly after the Simpson Logging Company executed a 100-year agreement with the U.S. Forest Service. This 100-year program places the so-called Shelton Working Circle on a sustained yield basis, which in efiect assures a theoretical perpetual timber supply. The wood fiber plant ties in logically with the company's sustained yield program. By utilizing every part of the tree to the fullest extent possible, the volume of timber logged will be reduced considerably without reduction in the total quantity of forest products manufactured. The program so far has resulted in increased employrnent within the Shelton Circle, while the actual drain on the timber supply has remained cons' tant.

Sales division of the Wood Fiber Division, Simpson Log(Continued on Page 8)

"FREE ENTERPRISE'' Blueprint jor Community Development

We heqr cr lot crbout "Iree enterprise." Slrewed lrom the mouth of the rcrbble rouser it is cm epithet. Spoken forthright by men ol lecrdership cmd integrity, ii is the plcrn ol crction upon which a lree democrccy ccnr build without lecr.

Agcinst the seU-cppointed gospels ol hcrte, who seek to substitute greed for crnbiiion, there is ever need lor sound lecrdership in business crllcrirs crnd community lile. Whct beiter counter-bclcnce cqn there be to voccrl mcrlcontents, thcrn deeds thcrt give truth to words cmd excrmples oI lree enterprise crt work, lo disprove those who would tie cll men to the level oI the lcggcrrd.

You need look no lcrrther thcm your own community lor the blueprint oI "Iree enterprise" crnd the opportunity to serve. And where better ctrn the community turn lor lecrdership thcm crmong the lumber merchqnts, whose position in the businees lile ol

the comrnunity hcs been mcrde possible beccruse there is such q thing cs lree enterprise.

Now irs the time to lcry the foundctions lor community development. There is so very, very much to be cccomplished that no mcrtter into which direction one looks right there exists the'need lor someone to step lorth to promote the proiect. Be cr leqder in your community.

Pioneers In Gommunity leodership

At Ocrlrridge, Oregon, Pope & Tclbot, trc., cne plcrning c new, lcrge scrwmill, alrecdy pcst the blueprint stcrge. To thiE community, this lcrrge-sccrle opercrtion mecns development cnd progress, as the new mill will employ hundreds of people grving lhe community crn opportunity to treble its populction" cnd crgcrin demonstrcrte thcrt right ct one's 'Iootsteps" is Iree enterprise lorgiag crhecrd.

Executive Ofiices . 32O Goliforniq Street . Sdn Froncisco 4

nial Asbestos Shingles-the 35 years PLUS.*

\7e belie,ne you will be pleased and encouraged to learn that J-M factory schedules provide for a great increase in the production of American Coloshingles that last

Because oftheir new beauty, attractive colors, and ease of application, demand for these improved, fireproof roofing shingles has grown tremendously.

The American Colonial is an outstanding Johns-Manville development. In fact, it is the most beautiful, economically priced asbestos roofing shingleJ-M has ever developed.

Distinctive in appearance, with its horizontal shadow lines and deep grained texture and permanent as stone the American Colonial costs the homeowner less per year of service than any otber rooJ.

Backed by the Johns-Manville name, these

asbestos shingles are easier for you to sell. f n a recent national survey, 83.o,j of the people interviewed said they would be willing to pay a little more to make their home safer by using fireproof asbestos building materials, and of those who answered "yes",66/s namedJohnsManville as the manufacturer in whom they would have the grearest confidence.

This preference is being continually and increasingly developed by one of the most successful advertising campaigns in the building industrv-the Johns-Manville Radio Program, "Bill Henry and the News."

Get the facts about American Colonials. Vrite for new fuli-coLor brochure, AS-85A, showing the many pleasing colors and blends. Johns-Manville, Box 29O, New York 16, N.Y.

*YES, 35 YEARS Ptu5-Thousands of J-M Asbestos Shingles have now been in service 3j years and more. They're still as fireproof, rotproof, and weatherproof as the day they were applied-show no signs of deterioration-no signs they won't last another _15 years or more! That's why we say American Colonial Asbestos Shingles last 35 yearslPlUS.

To meet the remqrkoble demond, J-M exponds progrom to supply you with Americon Coloniol Asbestos Shingles-

"tbe ntost beautiful Asbestos Roof.ng Sbingle Jobns-Manuille has eaer deaeloped! "

t/*'t"rr?t grfrrrhi lcrsr 35 years ptus. . . . orrd ]hey're EASY TO APPLY

I. APPTIID TIKS ANY StrIP SHINGI:Each Americao Colonial is an asbestos strip, equivaleot-to 5 ordinary shingles.

2. 3I1;.I'PAGING FEATUR,E SAYIS TIII -Second course shingles are lined up by placing the shoulders over the points on the preceding course.

3. AUtOmAllC AllGNnENr-No chalk lines necessary, no delays measuring coufses, Any roofer could acnrally lay American Colonial Shingles blindfolded.

4. lAsY tO HANDIt-Bundles weigh about the same as asphalt strips. Use only 8O pieces per square. Only 4 nails per shingle, in pre-punched holes.

5. lAgltY APPtllD ON llDGl9-Special Hip and Ridge shingles supplied in exactly the same textured grain, the same beautiful, weathered appearaoce and colors as the main roof shingles.

6. Culltt' gPElDg APPtIGATION-lfhen shingles must be cut to fit around valleys, dormers, along the take, etc., a shingle cutter does the job easily, quickly-right on the roof.

Annual Reveille Draws Capacity Crowd

In accordance with predictions there was a capacity crowd of about 450 at the 15th Annual Reveille of Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39, held at the Claremont Hotel, Berkeley, April 25.

As usual there was a representative attendance from most districts of Northern and Central California, and the Reveille kept up its reputation as the largest get-together lumbermen's meeting of the past several years.

President Tom Hogan presided. He spoke briefly to welcome the big crowd and then turned the meeting over to Ed La Franchi, general chairman of this

Mr. La Franchi thanked the wholesale and retail lumbermen who gave their generous financial support, and he thanked the comryittee chairmen, rvhose work had contributed so much to the success of the meeting. The

Simpson Enters Insulation Board Field

(Continued from Page 4) ging Company, is located at 1010 White Building, Seattle. The new Simpson insulating board products will be distributed in the eleven western states by the following firms : Arizona Sash, Door & Glass Co., Phoenix and Tucson; California Builders' Supply Co., Oakland, Sacramento and Ffesno; California Panel & Veneer Co., Los Angeles, Continental Lumber Co., Boise; Elliott B"y Lumber Company, Seattle and Everett; Exchange Lumber and Manufacturing Co., Spokane; Frost Hardwood Lumber Co., San Diego; Lumber Dealers, Inc., Denver and pueblo, Colorado and Billings, Montana; Chas. E. Sand Plywood Co., Portland; Simpson Industries, fnc., Los Angeles, and Shelton, Washington; Utah Lumber Co., Salt Lake City; Van Arsdale-Harris Co., San Francisco; Western Door & Sash Company, Oakland.

committee chairmen were the follorving: Banquet, Tom Jacobsen; Entertainment, D. H. LeBreton; Finance, Jack Wood; Program, Al Kelley; Publicity, I-u Green ; Reception, Jo Shepard; Ticket Sales, Don Kesselring; Golf Tournament, Chris Sechrist and Miland Grant; General Secretary, Jas. B. Overcast.

Lee Le Breton, entertainment chairman, introduced Jack Shea, master of ceremonies of the Hoo-Hoo Varieties of 1947. Music was provided by Ray Rackett ancl his band.

Chris Sechrist announced the golf tournantent winners. Forty-one players took part at Mira Vista Country Club, Berkeley. The prizes ,consisted of merchandise orders ancl Scotch.

Roy Dreisbach was the low gross rvinner with a n\ce 72. Bob Cheim was runner up. The low net was won by Bob Hogan. Clyde Speer was runner up. The other prize rvinners were the following:

3rd low net, J. Grill; 4th, Leo Cheim; 5th, L. W. Martinez;6th, Nick Cryer; 7th, Henry M. Hink; 8th, Frank Barton; 9th, Frank Dreisbach, Sr.; lOth, Jim Moore; 11th, Lee Horne.

Blind bogey was won by Herb Farrell ; 2nd. prize, Harry Hood; 3rd prize, Bill Blattner. Score nearest handicap, Tom La Coste. Putting tournament, Tom Branson.

Retires from Active Business

Frank N. Gibbs, who has been head of the Gibbs Lumber Company for the past 36 years, recently announced his retirement from active service in the business, and turned the management of the company over to his son, Oscar L. Gibbs. The company operates yards at Anaheim, Fullerton and Placentia.

Mr. Gibbs, rvho makes his home in Anaheim, is an active member of the Presbyterian Church, and also a charter member of the Anaheim Kiu'anis Club where he has set a perfect record of attendance for over twenty. years.

As for his futuie plans, he expects to live quietly at his home but will spend some time at the company's Anaheim office.

Ed Lq Franchi General Chtrirmcn year's Reveille.

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: In..* rsin belt of the Olyqpie lltorrrrtaine, trature producea thc incomparabld Douglas fir whwe wood fibere are long, etrong and 1ough. Exteasive exlnrirnents and teeta by the Simpson n4ig"# Lalior:*tory have proven these long, rough fibetrs will produce a rtronger, rtouter ineulati{ loard. Ar a qpqrtt of, theee teets, ekillod Simpaon g6shmicisns have created a complere line of insufating board produete of .uperior ltrcng,t_h a1d thermal values for : lrouc, ofrsc grd indugtty.

A new modern plant at Shelton, Warhington, hqme of mtny other Sirnpeon induatriec sincc 1895, uow producea there n+wly.dcvelopcd 9impron inrularing producta

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California Panel & Veneer Co. Appointed Distributor

For Simpson lnsulating Materials

Company Celebrates 30th Anniversary

In announcing the company's appointn.rent as a distributor of the new Simpson insulating materials, W. F'. (Bill) Fahs, manager of California Panel & Veneer Company, Los Angeles, said:

"In keeping with our slogan, "The Best in Plywood," we have ahvays prided ourselves in offering only the best to our customers. And in iine with our policy rve had desired to get the best in insulating materials. We can now say we are proud and happy to be handling the Simpson line, made on the Pacific Coast at their fine new factory in Shelton, Washington.

"\\''e feel that this complete Simpson line of insulating materials is a natural and valuable complement to such other materials as the better grades of both soft','r'ood and hardn'oocl plywood, Formica, and Kinkead metal mouldings.

"It is particularly fitting that rve make the announcement on our 30th Anniversary tl-rat u,e are distributing

E. K. Wood Converts Huge Pine Shed

Trn'enty-five thousand dollars went into converting the huge 400 ft. by 75 ft. pine shed at E. K. Wood Lumber Company, Los Angeles from the old-style storage to lifttruck storage space. All uprights have been removed and the roof is now supported by the truss system. A cemer-rt floor has been laid on which the lift-trucks can operate easily to pile up the pine, four packages high, which greatly increases the capacity of tl.re shed, and decreases the cost of handling. Ai Privett, manager, points rvith pride to this modernized structure.

such an outstanding line. With the addition of the Simpson line our ability to supply our customers' requirements has been greatly increased, owing to the growing demand for insulation materials. Insulation of homes, for instance, in the past decade has passed from being considered a luxury to being a necessity both from the standpoint of necessity and of comfort.

"We are now building up substantial inventories, and have enlarged our sales staff, so that we are in a better position than at any time in our historl' to service properly our many friends and customers."

California Panel & Veneer Company had an outstanding record during the war in servicing vital materials to important war industries, and was one of the first pl1'.l,vood distributors to encourage and assist the plywood house pref abricating industry.

I![rs. Maude J. Baker is president of the firm, whi,ch was founded by her husband, the late Howell Baker. Howell N. Baker, Jr. is vice president, and William F. Fahs is secretary-treasurer and manager.

Miss Jane Woodhead is office manager. She has been with the company lor 23 vears.

Stanley F. Swanson is sales manager.

Move Olfices

The \,Vest Coast Lumbermen's Association, Willamette Valley Lumbermen's Association, and \Arest Coast Bureau of Lumber Grades and Inspection, announce the moving of their Eugene, Ore., offices to the Osburn Hotel.

Translerred A. G. "Ben" Bennett, in charge of the Foxworth-Galbraith Lumber Company in Casa Grande, Ariz. for the past five years, has been appointed manager of the firm's Yuma yard, replacing Charles Killen.

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MII|IMUM EXPAII$OI| and COIITRACTI0II

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With the dead the highroad, in her arms. O, the dawn i before us lane of skies, Through And the was at our heartstrings, And light was in our eyes, And made no boast of glory, we made no boast of birth. the road to Vagabondia t lies across the earth.

-Danna Burnett

Once, long ago, a man who had served a term in prison applied to Henry Ford for a job. When he started telling of his imprisonment and the why of it, Ford stopped him short. He said : "Never mind ! f don't care about your past! START WHERE*YOU*STAND!"

What sharp thlngs old Bernara Sha\ can say. For instance, spdaking of youth, he remarked: \Youth is such a wonderful thing; it's a shame to*waste it ofounS people.,'

Merchandising by advertising sometimes comes a cropper in the weird city of Hollywood, California. Witness a gift shop in that city with a window full of Indian rugs with price tags attached, and the sign: "Navajo rugs-just imported from Belgium."*

And, speaking of Hollywood, the All-Year Club of Southern California which gives all its time to such matters. reports officially that in 1946 the tourist crop and vacationer crop brought into Southern California the tidy sum of five hundred and nine million dollars. And of course, Hollywood attt'acted the bulk of it. Now there's a crop worth cultivating'

When you are tempted to say-"The Russians couldn't make an atom bomb in a thorqsand years-they haven't got sense enough"-look out ! Three Russian crop scientists who just visited the United States, reported some of the things the Russian scientists have already done that will m'ake you rub your eyes. And these efforts along the most constructive lines.

They said the Ministry of Technical Crops in Russia has developed an orange and other subtropical crops that grow successfully in areas where subfreezing temperatures are frequent; something never before dreamed of. Also, they have developed several varieties of perennial wheat which yield harvests during two or three years without replanting or re-sowing. And, most amazing, they reported crossing the yellow acacia-a tree-with peas-an herbaceous plant-which m'ay continue to yield for many yearrs. Peas, you see, growing on trees.

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Heretofore it has been the custom of crop scientists to graft one tree on another, or one plant on another. Grafting plants on trees is a new one; or so it seems. Said one of these Russians: "We want to force peas to grow on trees and not where nature had Eppointed them to grow. We are striving to create not only entirely new kinds of plants, but to reproduce what once existed in nature, and subsequently was lost in the process of evolution."

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When I read such things I quit doubting that the Russians can eventually solve the secret of atomic energ:f. Any folks that can make corn and peas and beans grow on trees-succotash, in other words-can do anything.

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And, speaking of atomic energy, I heard a famous college professor the other day quote one of the leading atomic energy scientists of America-a man at the top of our recent atomic investigations and discoveries-as saying that within two years we will be curing cancer with atomic energy. Think of that ! Why, if there is even a chance that that is.true, then all the dangers attendant upon the discovery and introduction of the atom to the world, are hardly deserving of fear or consideration in comp,arison to this promised blessing. For a cure for cancer is today the world's greatest physical need. And this great atomic authority says that in two years it will be a fact.

So let us quit fearing Lrr"t"-"""rgy for the dam,age it might create in war, and look forward to the priceless blessings that can come from it in time of peace. Anyone would rather die from an atom bomb than from cancer. So let the atomic energy research go forward with the blessing and assistance of every right thinking man.

Heard another philosopher the o1:her day predicting that scientific man will always find .r defense against any weapon that comes along. He said that in the beginning we had to protect ourselves again tt a club, so we devised

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a shield. There came a bigger club, and we made a bigger shield. And so it has always been right up to the development of great guns. Always we devise a protection. And so we shall against atomic bombs, he said. He quoted a man as saying: "I can't be happy when the world is so frightened of the atom bomb." And he said he answered: "Why can't you? Why make it unanimous?"

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"Under the guise of refugees, task forces of dissension have established beachheads on our Atlantic and Pacific coasts. I recommend a postscript to the Atlantic Charter in the form of a return passage for this crew."-Eddie Rickenbacker.

Read some figures or, ,1. ,"*"*, effect of a big strike on the individual striker. In one certain strike the men were getting $1.20 an hour. They asked for a raise of 30 percent. They were offered l3f cents increase per hour. The union turned that down and the strike was called. It lasted 113 days. ft cost the striker over $130,000,000 in lost wages. And what they.got was an increase of. I8l cents an hour, or just 5 cents more than they had been offered. On this basis it will take these men five full years of 40 hours work a week, to get back their lost wages. And that does not count the loss of all that production, the loss to the public in needed goods, the loss to industry and commerce of the $130,000,000 the strikers lost and therefore could not spend. The man who says the strike is an antiquated weapon, is in little danger of logical contradiction.

I heard Charles E. Devlin, Managing Director of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, talk the other day about the prospects for plywood for the building trade and the retail lumber trade particularly, this year. He said that production this year will be the second greatest in history, over 1,6(X),00O,O00 feet. But he listed the various users of plywood and the amounts they need, and drew the conclusion that there are more buyers than there is plywood, and that it will continue that way through the year. ,'No use adding it up, it won't come out," said Devlin, in predicting that there will be millions of plywood users vvho will come up short of their full needs this year.

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As an aside thought, I visited a huge wholesale hardwood lumber yard the other day, and looked over their stocks. And do you know what were the only surplus items they had in stock-fairly "running out of their ears" as the manager put it? You'd never guess. They were hardwood panels and plywood. They were piled high and moving slow, beautiful panels of Birch, Mahogany, and Gum. "That's our big surplus right now," they told me. Funny, eh? Mahogany lumber is woefully scarce. But you can buy Mahogany plywood and panels in any quantity.

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Heard S. V. Fullaway, Jr., Secretary-Manager of the Western Pine Association, tell about prospects for Ponderosa and Sugar Pine for the trade this year. He said,

referring to tree supply, that in the L2 Western states there is over 500 billion feet of softwood commercial timber, of which about half is Pine. Present rate of growth in this Pine region is in excess of 4 billion feet annually, which rate will be accelerated constantly in the future as old forests are harvested and young fast-growing forests take their place. Regional growth may reach 8 billion feet annually. In this region there are now practically 2l million acres of practical tree farms.

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Lumber production in this Pine region avetaged, 3f billion feet annually before the late war, but swelled to over 6 billion feet in 1946, and currently 1947 is ahead of 1946. A future yearly average not under 5 billion feet looks reasonable for this territory. So they are making and will continue to make more Pine in the future than ever in the past. Pine production is below present demand. Clears and shop lumber are very scarce, and will remain so for many months. Commons are being made in great quantity, but the supply does not yet measure up to present abnormal demand. Yet Pine stocks are growing slowly in the yards of the distributors, and the trend toward a full supply continues steadily.

H. V. Simpson, Executive Vice President of the West Coast L'umbermen's Association, makes an interesting report on the Fir and Hemlock supply. He says th,at the distributors of this lumber will handle more stock this year than any time in the last sixteen years. He says that except for clears, which will be scarce for a long tirn€ to come, there will be plenty of lumber for everyone this year. He was frank about it. The mills are making lumber as fast and furiously as possible under high price urging, numerous mills are improving their equipment and their facilities to make more dry lumber, and the long and short of the story is that there is lots of common Fir lumber today, and lots more in sight. "No Fir shortage this year," said Simpson. ***

As this is written the most serious situation facing the lumber ind,ustry of the entire United States, is the car shortage. In various territories and districts, it is already rather tragic. Years ago the car shortage was always one of the annual headaches of the lumber industry. Looks like it will be a severe one this year.

Henry Wallace hogs the headlines of late. Many charges are hurled at his head. Most of them are probably true. But the inco,ntrovertible charge against Wallace is that he has horrible manners. When you are the guest in a house, you keep the name of that house sacred when you go forth. That is just plain decency, and has come down to all decent men through the ages. Not so with Henry. He has been an honored guest in^ the United States-his father's house -yet he has gone forth from that house to other lands, and reviled and befouled the house of his fathers. He could have said what he pleased at home, and perhaps been justified under the right of free speech; but to go abroad to do it marks him guilty o'f an unforgivable crime.

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When Trouble Hits the Geiling

Water vapor condensing on rool mem. bers causes kouble aplenty il building materials used there can't stand moisfure. Upkeep costs skyrocket.

Recommend the use of Wolmanized Lumber* for roof shuctures and you'll earn the everlasting thanks of building 'owners. It's standard skuctural lumber, presswe-impregnated withWolman Salts * preservativg making it highly resistant to decay that's fostered by the presence of moiEture.

FOR FLOORS, TOO

Wolmanized Lumber subflooring and nailers reduce maintenance costs by heading offdecay there. Everybody profib when you sell this long-Iived lumber ic floor shucfures.

Dant & Russell, Inc. Announces New Sa-up in Calilornia

Formation of the Dant & Russell Sales Agency of San Francisco, and the Dant & Russell Sales Agency of Los Angeles is announced by Dant & Russell, Inc., Portland, Oregon, one of the oldest wholesale concerns in the Pacific Northwest. The announcement follows:

"Dant & Russell, Inc., realizing that quality and service will be the important responsibility of the wholesale lumber distributors, has set up in California separate sales agencies to distribute their lumber and allied produ,cts.

"The plan of these sales agencies will be to cooperate more closely with the retail lumber dealers by offering them straight carload shipments of all lumber products, and to establish distribution yards with warehouse facilities for the handling and distribution of the allied lumber items consisting of : Plywood, kiln dried Douglas fir, Port Orford cedar, fir and pine mouldings, doors, sash, etc.

"These salis agencies will be: Dant & Russell Sales Agency of San Francisco, under the direct management of Seth L. Butler, 214 Front Street, San Francisco 11. and Dant & Russell Sales Agency of Los Angeles, under the management oI Herman A. Smith, 812 East 3fth Street, Los Angeles 1.

"W. H. Winfree, Modesto, Calif., who has been associated with Mr. Butler for a good many years, will act as his direct representative in the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys.

Arthur Neth, who has been lvorking in conjunction with Herman A. Smith for several years, will handle direct sales of standard yard and industrial items in the Southern California area, and Mr. Smith rvill devote most of his time to the distribution yard and warehouse activity, combin' ing forces to give the trade the ver-v best possible service and attention.

Mcrking Improvements At Mill

The company's mill in Humboldt County is cutting 40,000 feet daily of which 60 per cent is Redwood, according to H. H. Barg of the Barg Lumber Company, San Francisco.

"We are starting June 1 to pile 3,000,000 feet for the .purpose of giving the trade dry clears later on, and new facilities, including resaws, mat,chers and planers, are now being installed to reFne the product " Mr. Barg said.

Sumrner Hi-Iinks lune 20

Lumbermen's Post No. 403 of the American Legion will hold its annual Summer Hi-Jinks and get-together Jor lumbermen at the Mayfair Hotel, Los Angeles, Friday evening, June 20. Following the dinner, there will be an unusuallv fine show.

Commander Harold Hamilton reports that Max Vener and his committee are arranging for an entertaining program. The Hi-Jinks are very popular with the lumber fraternity and a big crowd is expected to attend.

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He Didn't Miss

The drunk driver crashed into the side of the big truck. The big, red-faced driver came bouncing out of his seat, his fists doubled and wrath flashing from his eyes. He shouted to the drunk:

"What-the-hellsa-matter with ya? Ya blind'?"

The drunk was indignant. He said:

W. D. Cor:nor, Ir. Visits Los Angeles

\,V. D. Connor, Jr., vice president and sales rnanager for the Connor Lumber & Land Company, of Marshfield, Wisconsin, was a re'cent visitor in Los Angeles, and called cn the hardwood buying trade. His concern is one of the very largest manufacturers of Birch and Maple lumber and other products in the entire world. Besides lumber, they manufacture Birch and Maple flooring in large volume. Mr. Connor was recently relieved {rom duty as a Commander in the Navy, in which capacity he served through the rvar.

"Whatta ya mean, blind? J Y"n", didn't I?"

And the best gag of the season is credited to Bing Crosby. He was talking about his friend Bob Hope. Hope, he said, was popular with the ladies, but awful tight with his dollars. "You might say," said Bing, "that llope is fast with a squaw, but slow with a buck."

WEA Ncmes New Generql Mcncger

San Francisco, April l7.-Henry W. Clark, u'ho has been serving as an administrative assistant to the president of the Waterfront Employers Association of the Pacific Coast since last November, was named general manager of that organization yesterday. The announcement n'as made by Frank P. Foisie, WEA president, following the Board of Directors' action Wednesday. Before coming to the lVaterfront Employers Asscoiation, N{r. Clark was general manager of the Alaska Development Board.

Avqiloble lor immedicrte delivery in bronze wire, Colilornio qnd modulqr. Galvonized avqilqble in limited quontities. MqnuJocturers o{ screens ior oll types ol wood or metol sosh, residentiql cqsement, double-hung.

Screens lor Ogle windows.

Specilicotions crnd prices lurnished on screens fcr oll types ol commerciql ond industriol windows.

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Just cs nctive dugout ccnoe but we dip evety bocrd cnd ship out ihe linest cqbinet woods you gyst sc\f,r-6hecked ond double checked ct every stcge by reliqble Amerigcn inspectors.

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Humboldt County Fir and Redwood, the latter cut from old growth virgin Humboldt Redwood.

\7e can also supply all sizes, including 1" surfaced four sides, i( desired, all sorted for thickness and width; also finishing items such as rustic, siding, flooring, etc., in straight or mixed cars.

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If you are finding it a problem to obtain an adequate supply of good wood siding, as a retail lumber dealer you should study and take advantage of the opportunity presented by Double - Coursed Red Cedar Shingle sidewalls. Using stained Certigrade shingles or shakes for the outer course and lower-grade unstained shingles for the under and completely concealed layer, Double-Coursing is both economical and attractive.

An archit ectur al bI ue p r int show iag all iletails ol Double-Coursing ap- plicatioa, and a copy oI the 100page Certigraile Hanilbook, sent Itee on tequest, Write to

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Appointed Distributors for Sirpson Insulating Board in San Diago and lmperial Counties

Recently appointed distributors for Simpson Insulating Board in San Diego and Imperial Counties, Frost Hardwood Lumber Company, of San Diego, is norv going into its thirty-seventh year in the hardwood lumber, wholesale plywood and Ponderosa Pine business in San Diego.

Al Frost, who founded the company in 1911, and well known to Southern California lumbermen, is still actively engaged as manag'er, assisted by Gordon Frost, rvho went to work in the yard in 1939, did a "hitch" in the Coast Guard during the war, and has returned to handle purchasing and sales.

Frost Hardwood has two veteran lumbermen to keep the wheels turning smoothly in the organization: John Stewart, who has been lvith the firm for tlventy years, is general superintende'rt; and G. A. (Al) Mattison, rvith sixteen years' service, is office manager: T. F. Cooney, r'ho also has come up through the yard, has recently been made outside salesman.

Lumber Declers Supply Co. Building New Plant

Lumber Dealers Supply Co., wholesale sash and door dealers, 1355 Temple Street, Long Beach, Calif., broke ground at the end of April for a new plant in Harbor City, Calif. The new plant will be two blocks south of Highll'ay 101, between President and Senator Streets, on the Pacific Electric right-of-way, Harbor City.

The building will be 97 by 28 feet, and of gunnite constru,ction. It is expected that it will be completed in about 90 days.

H. T. Hansen and Roy L. Young are the partners in Lumber Dealers Supply Co.

Brothers Plcrn Reuruon

Wilfred T. Cooper, wholesale lumber dealer, Pasadena, and Mrs. Cooper, accompanied by his brother, F. W. Cooper, and his wife, of Oakland, left May 15 for Baltimore, on a 30-day trip to have a reunion with their brother, R. H. Cooper, whose son, Bill is to be graduated from West Point. The party will attend the graduation ceremony, and will visit Washington, D.C. and Atlantic City.

Successful Los Angeles Lumber Oper.tion Enters Twelfth Year

facturing plant is operated at the yard, and some outside custom milling is done. The sheds were recently remodeled for lift truck operation.

Eric M. Hexberg is secretary of the corporation and manag'er. IIe was the first ernployee in 1936, and has been there ever since except for four.years' flying service for Uncle Sam. He was a first lieutenant in the Army Air Forces, and served in the China theater, piloting a B-25 bomber.

Anglo California Lumber Co., Inc. rvill begin its 12th year of successful operation in a ferv weeks from now, having been established in Jrly, 1936. The first location at 64N Avalon Boulevard, Los Angeles, lvas soon outgrown, and the yard rn'as moved to the present site at 655 East Florence Avenue in 1939. The business was founded by the late H. M. Luelh,vitz as a rvholesale distributing yard, specializing in the sale of Ponderosa and Sugar pine, and the same policy is still continued rvith direct mill shipments and sales out of the yard.

The yard has a frontage of 275 |eet on Florence Avenue and more than 500 feet on Stanford Avenue, .rvith an area of over three acres. It has storage capacity for 2,000,000 feet of dry lumber. The handling equipment includes a Ross lift truck and a Hvster carrier. A lumber remanrl-

Congrctulations

Mr. and Mrs. Gene Nlashek of Nlerced are receiving congratulations on the birth of a daughter, Suzanne Evelvn, their first child, April 17. NIr. Mashek is associated rvith the Merced Lumber Company, Merced.

Lilt Truck in Operction

Harl D. Crockett is sales manag'er. He has been u'itlr Anglo California since 1939.

Arne \\r. Olson, yard superintendent, has also bqen n'ith the firm since 1939.

New Lumber Ycrd

Paul Matli and Nlanuel Borba have opened a ncu. lunrber yard at Ntatli's corner, Robertson boulevard and Pacheco Pass, Chorvchilla, Calif., rvhich u'ill be kuon'n as the Cross Roads Lumber Company.

Eric M. Hexberg, Mcncger

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Henry Bcrnhardt's Dog

(The following is from the Congressional Record, April 29, L9L2.) A message from home'today stating that old Bob, deaf and decrepit, but the family pet and pride and protector for fifteen years, had died, halted interest in all else with me save memories of the past; and while he was only a fox terrier dog, no affair of state or burst of Congressional eloquence, nor dream of future glory attracts my attention. (From a speech by Hon. Henry A. Barnhardt.)

Chimney Smoke

Out in the countryside farmers say with a smile that you can judge a man by the smoke frorn his chimney. Good, honest, pearl-grey smoke means that the fire has solid, dry wood; black, heavy plumes mean that the housewife is struggling with green wood and dustpan loads of chips, bark, and debris from the woodshed foor. Through the more than three centuries of our nation's growth, smoke banners have told a tale. In pioneer days a plume of smoke meant a cabin in a clearing where a traveler was sure of food and warmth. Smoke banners are the flags of country living. They tell a story of farm homes where men and women, boys and girls, live close to mankind's basic occupation.

Radicrnt Wcters

fn the cup of life, 'tis true, Dwells a draft of bitter dew. Yet no other cup I know, Where such radiant waters flow.

-Agnes Robinson

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Tom Allen's Speech

Tom Allen was a colored man who, for at least two generations, acted as guide and cook for white hunters in the Big Thicket of East Texas. Tom had a speech he had memorized so thoroughly that he could reel it off without a bobble, and it always delighted his white friends to hear him do so. This was Tom Allen's speech:

"fn promulgating your esteemed cogitations, or articulating your superficial sentimentalities and amicable philosophical observations, beware of platitudinous ponderosity. Let your conversational communications possess clarified conciseness, a coalescent consistency, and a coordinated cognancy. Eschew all conglomeration of fatuous garrulity, babblement, incongruity, and assinine affectations. Let your extempDraneous descantings and unpremeditated expectations have intelligibility, various vivacity, and unvarying veracity, without rote of monotirade or thresinonical bombast. Sedulously avoid polysyllabic profundity, pompous proclivity, or sententious vacuity. In other words. talk plainly, briefly, naturally, sensibly, truthfully, and purely. Say what you mean and mean what you say and don't use big words."

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ehth of one of the Franc|, which prediction came true. w summoned the kilg to hear his own "This one wasn't death sentence

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before "I hope, my dear," said thq yoqf to his new girl friend, "that you never park with bcid91rf,n dark roads. ". '-

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Elect Officers at Annual Meeting

The annual meeting of stockholders of Curtis Companies Incorporated, manufacturers of Curtis Woodwork, was held at the main office in Clinton, Iowa on April 21. At this meeting a new office was created. G. L. Curtis, president of the company since 1911, was elected chairman of the board of directors. E. J. Curtis, vice president since 1923, was elected president. G. M. Curtis, se.cretary since 1938, was also named as vice president.

Other Curtis officers named are: C. A. Armstrong, vice president; H. H. Hobart, vice president; E. B. Oyaas, treasurer; G. A. Jensen, assistant secretary and assistant treasurer.

Curtis Companies Incorporated are entering into their 81st year in the woodwork business, starting in Clinton, Iowa in 1866. Manufacturing and distributing plants are located at Clinton, Iowa; Wausau, Wis. ; Lincoln, Nebr.; Sioux City, fowa; Topeka, Kansas ; Minneapolis, Minn. and Chicago, Ill. Their products are sold exclusively through retail lumber and building material dealers throughout the United States.

New Scwmill

The Crowley Lumber Company has completed its new sawmill at Big Bar, Calif. Capacity of the mill will be approximately 70,000 board feet per day. The lumber is to be hauled to Redding, which is the nearest railhead. Forty to fifty men will be employed in the logging operations and at the mill.

Carl Crow Will Talk Before

S. F. Lumbermen's Club

The regular monthly luncheon of the San Francisco Lumbermen's Club was held at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, April D.

' President Herb Schaur presided, and made the announcement that Carl Crow, editor of Crow's Lumber Digest, Portland, Oregon, will be the speaker at the next meeting of the club at noon, May 27, at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco.

Fred Rogers amused the members with impersonations of well known actors and political figures.

Door prizes, consisting oT hard-to-get items of solid and liquid merchandise, were won by: Larry Owen, Frank Duttle, Barney Garcia, Max Cook, Carl Warden, and Alfred E. Wolff.

Vetercrns' Emergency Housing Progrram Moves Offices

Federal offi,ces administering the Veterans' Emergency Housing Program in the Southern California district have been moved to new Los Angeles headquarters, it was announced by W. Conrad McKelvey, assistant regional representative of the Office of the Housing Expediter. The new address is Room 711, W. M. Garland Building, 117 West Ninth Street; telephone PRospect 4711. The staff formerly occupied offices in the Ninth & Hill Building.

T.M.Gobb Gornpany

L. J. Carr & Co. Coast Digtributors of Well Known ".Rero" Doors

As advertised in The California Lumber Merchant, L. J. Carr & Co., Sacramento, are Pacific Coast distributors of the widely known "Rezo" Doors. These doors come in gum, oak, nibro, walnut, and birch, and are available for immediate delivery.

Jobbers of "Rezo" Doors include the following:

Los Angeles-Back Panel Company, T. M. Cobb Company, Deats Sash & Door Company, D. D. Duncan, MicDougall Door & Frame Company, Owens-Parks Lumber Company.

Pasadena-Orban Lumber Company.

San Diego-T. M Cobb Company, Glasson Mill & Lumber Company.

Sacramento-Burnett & Sons, California Builders Supply Company, Sierra Mill & Lumber Company.

North Sacramento-Lumbermen's Supply Company.

Oakland-California Builders Supply Company.

Scrxton B. Ferrell Now With Pope d Tcrlbot,

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Announcement is made by Pope & Talbot, Inc., Lurnber Division, that Saxton B. Ferrell has joined their organization, and has assumed the duties of general sales manager, with headquarters at Portland, Oregon. Mr. Ferrell was formerly with C. D. Johnson Lumber Corporation, Portland.

"Caldor" Westbilt Kitchen' Cabinetg

The California Door Company, Los Angeles, is introducing to the lumber dealers of Southern California a new quality product, "Caldor" Westbilt kitchen cabinets, to be sold knocked down and individually packed.

The company has sent out two folders to the trade, one gives a list of the unit numbers it plans to carry in stock as well as other information, also the dealer's cost per unit, the other describes more fully the designs, dimensions and construction details of this line. These folders will be furnished on request, also newspaper mats will be supplied for dealer's local advertising.

Features of the "Caldor" Westbilt kitchen cabinet units are: fabricated from clear selected Ponderosa pine and Douglas fir; smooth surfaces ready for finishing; precise and accurate machine work; knocked down, easy to assemble; packaged individually in cartons or heavy corrugated paper; large assortment of widths will fill any wall space 12" and wider; front frames, fu" thick, set up, mortise and tenon construction; doors, fu" thick, solid, built-up lumber, lipped, special spline bracing top and bottom; tops, sides and shelves ll/l6n thick, solid built-up lumber; backs, 1/4" thick, three ply Douglas fir; top space, 3-%" by 3-fi" on base units; no hardware or counter tops included.

Joins Ncrtioncl-American

Cords Lumber Company, San Francisco, recently became a member of the National-American Wholesale Lumber Association.

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in interior paneling or fine fixture wotk, we hcve c lcrrge yariety

oI unusucrl cnrd exotic woods - Avodire, Scpeli, Scrtinwood, Guineannood, Bubingc, Primc Vercr, crnd Tigenrood, to mention a few. We would qppreciate your inquiries on these panels.

Also, we have c lcrge stock oI Mchogany, Walnut, Gum, Birch, cnd Poplcrr in ossorted thicknesses crnd sizes.

Douglas Fir, Tod.y and Tomorrow

An address delivered bv H. V. Simpson, Executive Vice President, \West Coast Lumbermen's Association, Portland, Oregon, at the onnual meeting oF the Southern California Retail Lumber Association at Los Angeles on April 21st

When I rvas first invited to appear before this audience it was to be as part of a panel that might attempt to ansrver some of your questions on lumber. This plan was subsequently changed but I shall nevertheless try today to answer some of the questions that I think you might have asked.

is ever going to reach it. Then we have another figure of 13 billion feet, which is within the realm of possible accomplishment, but not likely to be reached. It is like asking a ball player to hit .500. It might, by super-human effort, be done, but it's not probable ! Then u'e have another figure of 8l billion feet. lVe should make that.

It compares to a batting average of .3@ for a ball player, just a good average performance. 8l billion feet of grorvth in our area means 7 billion feet of lumber annually forever rvith present plywood, shingle and_ pulp requirements also met. Better utilization will mean a still larger yield in products, and better utilization is certain to come.

H, V. Simpson

Recently newspapers have carried headlines to the effect that an acute timber shortage was imminent. There is much confused thirrking on this subject. Whether we eventually have a shortage or not depends on many factors; present stands of timber, growth capacity of our forests, utilization of the forest, and future demand for forest products. Actually there is not enough known today on any of these factors to justify the conclusions that have been drawn.

Listen to these statements from an authoritative source referring to forest depletion in the South-"The South is following the course of other regions, and the remaining supplies of virgin pine are only about one-fifth of the original stand. Within a single decade Southern Pine production promises to exceed by little. if any, the needs of the South." "In 15 years the South will become dependent for its own needs upon large importations of lumber from the Pacific Cbast."

These statements were made in l9N. Norv let's see what happened. In 1945, 25 years after the above statements were made Southern Pine production was 7,728,000,000 feet BM compared to Douglas Fir production of 5,954,000,000 feet BM. Last year, 1946, Southern Pine produ'ction was9,474,ON,000 feet BM compared with Douglas Fir production of 6,253,000,000 feet BM; about 50/o it't excess of Fir production. And in 1947 the South produced, in addition, 4,96I,000,0@ feet BM of hardwoods. Incidentally, national production of hardwoods in 1947 totaled 9,562,000,000 feet BM, an astounding figure to me. More is probably known today about future timber supply thar-r was known in 1920 but there is still no sound reason to doubt that adequate timber supplies will be availablc in the foreseeable future. There is certainly no shortage today.

In the Douglas Fir area we have been tossing around some figures on potential timber growth. We have one estimate that the region might produce 20 billion feet annually. Well, we might, but that's like asking a l>aseball plaver to bat 1.000. It's a standard to shoot at but no one

There is much confusion on another subject: Conservation. You have all heard the accusations aimed at our industry for decades. Despoilers and devastators. Unfortunately there has been some basis for these charges. But let's see what the same authoritative source quoted above says about it. In 1920 there were 80,950,000 acres of forest land in the United States classed as "Poor to Non-stocking areas." In 1936 after 16 years of "despoiling and devastating" this same source lists only 76,738,400 acres as "Poor to Non-stocking areas," and by 1944 this acreage had fur. ther shrunk to 75,303,000 acres. This proves several things to me, the first and most important is that trees grou'. The second is that the lumber inclustry hasn't done as bad a job as l-ras been so frequently pictured. And the third thing is that the figures used by the prophets of gloorn aren't rnuch good anyway.

Actually, there is waste left in the u'oods by the loggers. But there is nothing left in the rvoods that the logger cannot bring out. Our loggers have the equipment, the manpower, the "Knolv-how" to bring in anything that grow's in the forests. I have frequently said they could bring in the mountain tops themselves and that is literally true. But there is no use bringing in tops and limbs and bark and needles when there is no market for them. If no one rvants them down in the valleys they are left on the hillsides. The solution to the logging waste problem is solely a problem of product promotion and marketing. There is no easy quick solution to this. In our area any material coming from the woods in handled by labor rn'hose aver. age wage is $1.79 per hour, then by mills rvhere tl-re average rvage is $1.47 per hour and then the final product is one, tu'o or three thousand miles away from our principal markets. It is a substantial problem to convert limbs, tops and bark from remote mountain sides into usable products at salable prices. Progress is being made, will continue to be made, but a ,complete answer will not be found soon.

There have been some marked changes in distribution of Douglas Fir lumber since pre-rvar. There has been a substantial shift in mill production tovvards the South; an

increase in production in Southern Oregon and some in Northern California. Capacity of waterfront mills has dropped about 2O/o but is still more tha,n 5O/o of the total. Meantime cargo business dropped from 3B/o of our total in 1939 to l5/o in 1946. Pre-war over a billion feet annually moved to the Atlantic Coast by water, last year the total was 360 million. Pre-war over a billion feet annually moved to California by water, last year only 167 million moved in this route. And there will probably be a further difference in these figures after July lst when the United States Maritime Commission .ivithdraws its ships from the domestic trade.

This decline in cargo shipments has been due to increased costs of ship operations. Atlantic Coast water rates have increased. from $16.00 pre-war to $21.00 today with operators indicating that further increases are necessary if full service is to be maintained. But rail rates to most Atlantic Coast regions are now competitive with water rates and rvhile this relationship exists further increases in water rates are of questionable value. Steamship operators are asking for an increase in rail rates to be followed with increases in water rates and that subject is being tossed about by the Maritime Commission and the I.C.C. now.

In the California trade rvater rates have increased from $5.50 per M feet to the present rate of $13.50. Rail rates, rneantime have increased only 9 cents per hundred pounds from Portland, 7 cents from Southern Oregon. Except for rough timbers and other heavy items freight charges to California are less by rail than by water. Substantial cuts in operating costs of water transportation must be made if the ,coast-wise fleet is ever again to resume the place in

this trade held prewar. Meantime mills in Southern Oregon and Northern California which enjoy a freight difterential into California and whose production probably exceeds 750 million feet annually can be expected to make a strong effort to maintain their position in the California market.

Barring strikes production of lumber in the Western half of Oregon and Washington should total 7,000,000,0@ leet in 1947. Last estimate of number of operating mills is 901 and that is probably too low. Compare this with 616 in 1939, 383 in 1932, 765 in 7929. There is ample timber, ample mill capacity, ample labor. Limiting factor will be transportation. The railroad car shortage is already being felt, will become increasingly serious as the year progresses. Shortage of water transportation and increasing production have thrown a burden on the railroads they cannot handle. And more railroad ,cars are being laid up monthly than are being built. Transportation is our most serious problem today.

There should be ample construction lumber in 1947 ior housing and much left for industrial and commercial use. Flooring, siding and other clear items may continue in short supply. Competition from plywood manufacturers for clear logs affects this. And we were thrown months behind on clear items by the government ,,subsidy" lvhich channeled nearly all clear logs to plywoocl cluring six nronths of 1946. When kiln equipment is available, there will be more dry framing lumber available for those who want it.

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Douglas Fir, Today and Tomorrow

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There is good lumber available; there will continue to be good lumber available. Grade marked lumber is available and will always be available. Our grading bureau has increased its field stafi from ,+0 to 300 in six years. The Bureau payroll now exceeds $1,000,000 annually, which is money spent by the industry to assure you good lumber. fn recent weeks a surprising number of new mills have joined -the Bureau. It has more members now than at any previous time and appears headed for further important growth.

For the first time in history all our standing timber has important dollar value. Most all of it is now strongly held. Most of it will be properly harvested, prciperly manufactured. Stumpage values have doubled and trebled. Meantime logging wages have increased from 69 cents per hour in 1935 to $1.79 per hour in 1947; mill wages from 60 cents to $1.47. Supplies and expenses have doubled and more. This all adds up to the necessity of improved marketing of our product, a problem in which you as distributors can be of important assistance. It can, in fact, only be solved by the cooperation of manufacturers and distributors.

I appreciate your invitation to be with you here today and it has been a real pleasure to me. I would like to leave you with this thought. More Douglas Fir lumber will be sold by distributors in 1947 than in any of the last 16 years. I hope you all get your share and that you have an interesting and profitable time selling it and I thank you.

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Brian Bonnington, son of G. F. "Jerry" Bonnington of Lamon-Bonnington Co., San Francisco, joined the firm's sales force May 1. He worked in sawmills during his school and college vacations, and has spent the last 18 months working in mills to get lumber experience. He spent some time with Fall Creek Lumber Co., Fall Creek, Oregon; six months with Boothkelly Lumber Co., Eugene, Oregon, and since the first of the year has been with McCloud River Lumber Co., McCloud, Calif.

Brian served more than four years during the war as a pilot in the Army Air Forces. He had the rank of lieutenant, and put in a lot of service in the India-BurmaChina theater.

Leo Cheim, Cheim Lumber Comp'any, San Jose, Calif. has returned from spending two weeks vacation in Oregon and Washington. He traveled by automobile.

Fred Amburgey, Pope & Talbot, fnc., Lumber Division, San Francisco, attended the American Bowling Congress, the world's championship bowling tournament, in Los Angeles, May 3 to 5. He bowled as a member of a San Francisco team, and also in singles and doubles in the same tournament.

Harry G. Dowson, Rogue Lumber Sales Co., Medford, Oregon, visited San Francisco and Los Angeles early this month on business.

E. G. (Dave) Davis, Union Lumber Co., San Francisco, left May 6 to spend 30 days in the Pacific Northwest.

K. E. MacBeath, Gordon-MacBeath Hardwood Co., Berkeley, is back from a trip to the hardwood flooring and lumber mills in the East and South. He flew both ways where ever possible.

Don Goodrich, Gamerston & Green Lumber Co., Oakland, is now spending most of his time calling on the retail yards in the San Joaquin Valley. He rqakes occasional buying trips to the Northwest.

Lawrence W. Holmberg is now with Anglo California Lumber Co., Los Angeles as salesman. He was formerly yard superintendent for Coos Bay Lumber Co., Coos Bay, Oregon; later with the West Coast Lumbermen's Association inspection bureau, Los Angeles, and latterly with the Office of Price Administration.

John J. Helm, manager, Cascade Pacific Lumber Co., Portland, flew to San Francisco in the latter part of April on business for his firm. He drove back with Stewart Weiss of West Gate Lumber Co., Sweet Home, Oregon, who was also in San Francisco on business. Both attended the Reveille, where John, a past president of Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39, met a lot of old friends.

Ole May, E. the 15th annual April 25.

J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, attended Reveille at the Claremont Hotel. Berkelev.

Ralph E. Barto of the Ralph E. Barto Lumber Co., Inc., Huntington Park, Calif., returned early in May from spending a week calling on Northern California pine mills. He makes good time by flying north and back, and renting a car to make his calls. While on this trip he attended the annual Reveille of Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 in Berkeley, April 25.

Fred Stanley and Chas. T. Gartin of Oregon Lumber Sales, Eugene, were in San Francisco on business the last r,r'eek in April. They both took in the annual Reveille at Berkeley, April 25.

Albert M. Schafer of Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., Aberdeen,'Wash., recently spent a week in San Francisco on business for his firm.

Wright Graham is now a salesman for Evju Products Company, San Francisco. He was four and a half years in the Army, and before he entered the service was with Hill & Morton, Inc., Oakland. He is a Forestry graduate of the University of California, class of 1938.

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Amencan Lumber Congress June 16-18

Washington, D. C.-An American Lumber Congress which will bring together lumber manufactnrers and allied interests from all parts of the country will be conducted in Chicago, June 16-18, it has been announced by the National Lumber N{anufacturers Association, sponsors of the meeting.

-The first nationwide meeting for lumber to be held in 25 years, the Congress will bring together all segments of the lumber industry-including manufacturers, wholesalers, commissionmen and rs12ils15-3s well as representatives of forestry groups and wood-using industries.

General sessions are slated with such topics as timber supply, federal controls, labor, distribution, marketing, research and nerv products on the agenda.

Announcing the Congress, C. Arthur Bruce, president of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, pointed out the meeting rvill afford an opportunity for those in the industry to obtain up-to-the-minute view-points of experts and formulate opinion and judgment as to how the many problems facing the lurnber industry can best be solved.

Panels will be conducted on major topics, and outstanding leaders in each field of interest will be invited to address the delegates. Highlighting the three-day program will be a banquet, and business sessions will be interspersed with luncheon meetings and dramatic presentations.

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Golf Tourncment June 5

The Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club will hold a golf tournament at the Inglewood Countrl, Club. Inglewood, Thursday afternoon, June 5. Dinner r.l'ill be served in the Club House in the evening, and there will be a fine entertainment program. Prizes rvill be awarded to the winners in the various golf events. As this will be the last meeting of the present Hoo-Hoo year, a big crowd is expected.

Moves to Fresno

The G. S. Douglas Company, owned and operated b1' Les, Ralph, and Doug Glaspey, has moved its warehouse to 808 R Street, Fresno, Calif. This company distributes tool and hardware supplies to lumber yards throughout California, Southern Oregon, and Western Arizona.

A Kind Word From Western

Mr. Jack Dionne

The California Lumber Merchant

508 Central Building

Los Angeles 14, California

Dear Mr. Dionne:

Some anniversaries are avoided and some are looked forward to and we know the latter is true r,vith the one coming up for the California Lumber Merchant. We have read this magazine for a great many years and enjoyed it for your editorials and the coverage it gives us with the trade; and last but not least the pleasant friendship we have had with your Northern representative, Bill Black.

Sincerely,

\\TESTERN DOOR & SASH CON{PANY

Oakla4d, California

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Business Thecrtre Opens lor Showing OI Business qnd Documentcrry Films

The long-recognized need for "big theatre" presentation of industrial and advertising films l-ras been met in San Francisco with the opening of the neu' Vogue Business Theatre at Sacramento and Presidio Avenue.

Irving M. Levin, district manager of San Francisco Theatres, Inc., today announced completion of the installation of interchangeable 16-rnm and 35-mm film atrd sound equipment, for screening of all types of non-theatrical motion pictures during weekday hours from 8 A.M. to 5 P.M. This will not interfere with the present evening and week-end entertainment.

This will be the first "business theatre" in the West. If an increased attendance is desired, larger units in the circuit are available. Exe,cutive of;fices for the Vogue are at 995 Market Street. YUkon 6-2112.

Purchcse.Resaw Mill

Fred Hayes and Eddie Gebien have purchased a resaw mill four miles south of Redding, Calif. The new owners spent several days overhauling the equipment and making general improvements, and the mill is nou' in full time operation.

New lssue ol Rebrence Book

The May 1947 issue of the Reference Book of the Lumbermen's National Red Book Service is just off the press. It is the 131st issue of the book, which is a semi-annual consolidation of that service's twice-a-week bulletin of changes in the lumber and woodworking industries.

Lumbermen's Credit Association Inc., Chicago 5, Illinois, and New York 5, N. Y., publishers of this service, advise that as compared with the issue of six months ago, there are an unus.ual number of changes affecting the various branches of the industry including many newly listed sawmills, some of which are brand new sources of lurnber, others are mills which have resumed since the termination of most of the Government's restrictions. Also, there are listed numerous changes in business classifications as well as in credit ratings.

For the pait 7I years, this service has been used b1' lumber shippers and shippers in many other industries who market through retail lumber dealers, or who sell to furniture and other wood working factories, as their guide in credit and collection work, and aid in sales promotion and guide to sorlrces of lumber and allied products.

Glcrss Famine Hits Cclilornic

Manufacturers of building materials containing glass report that what was until recently only a scarcity and shortage of commercial glass in California, has develpoed into a full-fledged famine. Door, window, and other such manufacturers are wrestling with this very serious problem, and report no hope of immediate improvement. The glass people report bare shelves.

Western Hcrrdwood Ccrries Big Stock ol Long Fir Plywood

Western Hardwood Lumber Company, Los Angeles, carries a tremendous volume of specialty wood, but none that catches the eye of the visitor to the big yard as quickly as their stock of long Fir plywood. They carry these panels in lengths running from sixteen to thirty-two feet. The boat trade is their biggest customer for this sort of stuff.

New Book---"More Timb"r"

In a new book, "More Timber," the Joint Committee on Forest Conservation presents in lucid style with attractive illustrations the program of private forest land owners of the Pacific Northwest which will insure a perpetual supply of ,forest products from that region. The Joint Committee represents the West Coast Lumbermen's Association and the Pacific Northwest Loggers Association.

Prominently discussed in the book are several developments in forest management which originated in the Douglas fir region: Tree Farms, "Keep Green" organizations and cooperative tree nursery. An interesting outline of cooperative forest protective associations is also pre-. !ented.

More Timbq,r points out that of the privately-owned land in the Douglas fir region, one-third of that which has been logged is now in certified tree farms. A large additional acerage is prospective Tree Farm material. Because of the spotted and checkerboard ownership pattern in the timbered areas, the book suggests that it is absolutely essential in making effective any program for the futurethat there be a full understanding and cooperation between private and public agencies, and coordinated harvesting of their respective timber lands.

Copies of More Timber may be obtained by writing West Coast Lumbermen's Association, 1410 S. W. Morrison Street, Portland 5. Oregon.

West Coqst Screen Compcrny Sends Emergrency Shipment to Texcrs City

Fred Hanson, head of the West Coast Screen Company, of Los Angeles, manufacturers of the famous Hollywood and other doors, reports that in response to'telephone calls from stricken Texas City, Texas, they accumulated and shipped as quickly as possible a large carload of doors to the terribly damaged area.

Appointed Genercl Scrles Mcrncrger

The Board of Directors of E. J. Stanton & Son, Inc., announced the promotion of Stanton Swafford to the position of general sales manager. In securing this appointment, Stan follows in the footsteps of his father, Henry W. Swafford, who was director of sales of this wholesale lumber concern for many years prior to his untimely passing in 1939.

Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Number

The Cqlilorniq Lumber Merchant will be twenty-five yecrs old on July l, L947, qnd we cre going to celebrcrte the occcsion with c specicl 25th Anniversary Number.

It will be cn cttrcctive, prcrcticcrl crrd interesting book The gnectness oI Ccrlilornic cs tr lumber stcte will be thoroughly correred cnrd illustrcrted. It will long be presenred cs d souvenir and relerence book, cnd the cdvertising wil hcve lcrsting vqlue.

A specicrl lecrture will be cr Plyrrrood Section.

All the lumber lolks are invited to pcrrticipcte.

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An Analysis Of Plywood Demand

Excerpts from a talk delivered Association dnnudl me€ting at

6elore the Southern California Retail Lumber

Los Angeles, April 22,6y Charles E. Devlin, mdndging director, Douglos Flr Plywood Association, Tacoma, \Uosh.

The Douglas fir plyrvood industry and the trade association for it have been distressed about the continuing shortages of plywood because we know that you in the retail lumber business-the key outlets in our distribution-have had so little plywood for so many years. And, I fear, that as long as the present level of demand continues, you-who have historically done the. selling job for our industrywill be short of the amount of fir plyrvood that you ought to hive.

Thus rt"'ith these few markets alone, 40 per cent of thc industry's production is spoken for already. Roughly 40 per cent more lvould be required to take care of the minimum requirements of industrial buyers if the nation's economy continues at the present rate.

Then to get the nation's jobbers and lumber dealers in a position where they can handle plyrvood sales efificientl1' again about 400,000,000 square feet ought to be produced just for stock purposes. That should be set up as a reserve in the bank over and above what may be sold tl-ris vear bv these merchants..

There's no use adding it up. It just won't come out and it's easy to see there will be lots of boat builders, contractors, farmers, and dozens of other long-overdue customers that are going to be disappointed again this year.

All of this reasoning may be, of course, a lot of economic rvooi-gathering. For everyone knows that demand is always related to price.

Charles E. Devlin

something, but it seems to be

Why can't we do something about it right norv? Actuallv, we are doing too little and perhaps too late.

Production is currently running at the rate of 30 million square feet of Douglas fir plyrvood a rveek. Total output of the fir plywood factories should top 1,600,0@,000 feet this year. This amour-rt r.vill be greater than any other vear except 1942 *'hen the industry turned out 1,800,000,000 square feet to meet war needs an<l nearlv knocked itself out doing so.

Squeezing out all the water which may be in the order files of the plyrvood manufacturers, the industrial buyers, the jobbers and the dealers, we still find more buyers for the plywood than there is plywood to sell.

For instance, here are a few demands that we can measure fairly accurately:

Rough boxes to bring back the caskets of our overseas dead-24,000,000 square feet.

Railroad car building program and other essential railroad uses, important to the entire economy-l00,000,000 square feet.

Panels for stock door production, a critical housing item

-80,000,000 square feet.

Panels for the emergency housing program, including not only prefabricated houses, trailer coaches and milllvork manufacturers directly involved, but other types of largescale housing as well-about 400,000,000 square feet.

Current export shipments, running at a level far below last year and below the historic 5 per cent of prewar days-50,000,000 square feet.

Plywood prices at the mill level are probably not too high, particularly in relation to cost increases. I don't anticipate that the prices that the manufacturers charge will move much lorver than they no1'v are, certainly. they lvill never go back to prewar levels no matter lvhat happens. The tvuo preponderant items in the plyrvood manufacturers' costs are labor and logs, and the inflexibility of both precludes any substantial reduction of priced at the mill level.

But I'm here to say now that the prices being charged by the opportunists and the curbstone brokers are definitely out of line. The spread between the manufacturers' prices and the prices the ultimate consumers have had to pay, in many cases, has been nothing short of scandalous.

By the term opportunistic middlemen I am, of course, not referring to the established wholesale distributors and jobbers nor to established lumber dealers who typically maintain their historic prewar percentage mark-ups and have resisted taking advantage of the situation with commendable restraint. I am referring to the hundreds of curbstone brokers that have suddenly turned up with plywood for sale to the highest bidder. I guess you'd call that free enterprise operating in its most virulent form.

The manufacturers to a man greatly deplore the fact that somehou' these leeches have attached themselves to the industry and are sucking every last drop of profit frorn the product. For the producers know that in so doing the industry itself is not only being given a very black name, but the very future of the product is jeopardized by the sharp practices and the high prices being asked for the product at the consumer level.

fl6qr, 1'ou ask, does all this happen ? Where do these opportunists find the plywood that they offer? Well, it's not too difficult to answer. In doing so rve find, fortunately,

that while the problem is serious, it is not as importaht in volume as rumor would have us suspect.

The number one source of irritation has been the excessive amount of plywood allocated by CPA under the housing program. Many builders to whom the industry was directed by government to sell about 25 per cent of the production during the past year often were not able to use all the plywood in their houses, and sold it instead in their local markets. This particular situation we hope now is rapidly being cleaned up.

That does not mean that plywood will no longer be furnished to the house prefabricating industry for the producers will continue to handle the requirements oI those prefabri,cators who are actually producing houses.

The order of the federal government directing our industry to produce 5O per cent for certified orders expired on March 31. Orders which had been accepted prior to that date will be shipped in April. Once this has been cleaned up the plywood industry will be free of controls for the first time since 1941. From this we can expect that many of the irritations that have existed for years will be eliminated.

The second condition that has permitted plyv'ood to find its way to the "grey market" arose in the necessity for some of the manufacturers to trade plywood for logs needed to keep the plants running. Plywood so traded often found its way to the highest bidder by passing through several hands, each adding to the price.

None of the manufacturers like to trade and none would trade if they w€re not forced by lack of logs to 'do so. Trading is decreasing in volume, and in another 60 days I predict it will no longer be a problem. The good logging'season is now here and most of the mills will be producing their own logs. Futhermore, as the prices being paid at the consumer level drop from the fantastic heights (as they give every indication of doing) you'll find the opportunist middlemen running for ,cover and losing their interest in plywood.

The third and final cause of the "grey market" in ply. wood has been due to the sale in primary markets near the plyr,r'ood mills ih excess of the capacity of the market to absorb. (Historically, Oregon and Washington have been the top consumers of plywood.) Thus curbstone brokers com€ in, buy up the excess at retail, make up pool cars and send out lists all over the country offering the

product for sale at retail prices plus brokerage, plus freight and whatnot.

In total volume, this leakage is small, and this, too, is being corrected. Sales in the primary markets are being made strictly for local consumption and manufacturers now require assurance from the buyers that such rvill be the case.

That's about the picture as I see it today.

Production is running at 30,000,000 square feet a week and should top 1,600,00O,0N f.or 1947.

Three new plants should come into production by fall adding B or 9 per cent to overall capacity.

Prices at the mill level should level off, but can't be expected to drop much with logs and labor costs as they are.

Prices at the consumer level, particularly the volume going outside established channels, will decline to a point where they are in balance with normal percentage markups followed by established jobbers and dealers.

There will be less trading of plywood for logs beginning immediately, and by June the volume should be unimportant. This will mean some more plywood for established distribution channels.

There will be less plywood going to the prefab industry than was the case last year, unless prefabricated housing booms more than it appears to be doing today. This also will mean some more plywood for established distribution channels.

The mills will exercise more care in the sale of plywood at retail in the primary markets. This also should mean a little more plywood for established distribution channels outside the primary markets, including California of course.

Adding this together I believe that an increase of about 20 per cent in the volume of fir plywood going through jobbers and dealers can be expected this year. That still won't be enough i{ demand continues strong in all markets as it gives every indication of doing even at present price levels.

But the supply situation will be better, and I'm glad that I can bring you that bit of optimism.

Overhauling West Point Mill

The plant of the Associated Lumber & Box Company, at West Point, Calaveras County, California, is undergoing a general overhauling at the present time, and when ready to start will be almost a new mill, according to report.

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Oakland Plant Name Changed

Oakland, Calif., May l-Announcement has been made that the large lumber remanufacturing plant and wholesaleretail yard, heretofore operated as a division, and under the name of The Pacific Tank & Pipe Company, will now be operated under the name of the Eastshore Lumber & Mill Company.

The Pacific Tank & Pipe Compa^y, a pioneer California firm, founded in 1888, will continue to manufacture and distribute under their old name all wooden tanks, pipe, crossarms, and other special manufactured products, other than building materials.

The Eastshore Lumber & i\fill Company will continue the remanufacturing and distribution of construction lumber, siding, flooring, rustic, trim, and other manufactured lumber items associated with building construction. All western softwoods are handled, but they specialize in redwood rustic and sidings. Rough lumber is received princi pally from Oregon and California mills by truck and rail, and after being sorted and graded over the green chain, it is either stuck for drying or conveyed to the mill where it is manufactured into the firm's many products. A fleet of carriers and lumber stackers perform practically allof the firm's handling and delivery operations.

The change in name does not affect the ownership or management of the firm, headed by Herbert A. Tildesley, an East Bay lumberman'of many years experience. Roy T. Edwards, rvho has been associated with the sawmill and lumber industry for 35 years, is the general plant superintendent. The large plant, which has a floor area of 35,000 square feet, is located near the foot of High Street at 4821 Tidewater Avenue, Oakland 1. California.

Terrible Twenty C'oU Tournctment

Hervey Bowles and Vic Jones tied for the first prize at the 251st Terrible Twenty golf tournament at the Bel Air Country Club, West Los Angeles, Thursday afternoon, April 17. The tie will be played off at the May tournament.

Vic Jones won the tie carried over from the March tournament in the play off with Dee Essley. Eddie Klassen sponsored the tournament.

Bob Osgood will play Clarence Bohnhoff in the finals of the first flight at the May tournament, and Joe Tardy will play George Morrison in the second flight finals. The May tournament, which is the annual meeting, will be held at the Los Angeles Country Club

Direct Mill Shippers of Douglas Fir - Redwood - Incense Cedar Sugar and Ponderosa Pine

Rough or Surfaced 8611 So. Alameda St., Los.Angeles 2, Calif. LUcas 7169

T. M. Cobb Co. Increases Production Of R. O. \(/. Frame and Window Units

T. M. Cobb Company of Los Angeles and San Diego, distributors of R.O.W. "Spring Cushion" Frame and Wood Window Units, have increased their production of assembly to meet the growing demand in Southern California.

R.O.W. Units are a new principle in window construction. No weights, cords, pulleys or balances. The steel spring holds the non-corrosive metal faced sash guides in firm contact with the sash, permitting the rvindor.v to be raised or lowered easily.

Each sash can be easily removed for cleaning or painting without the removal of any part of the frame. Complete weather stripping assures minimum loss of heat and prevents outside air infiltration.

The Units when delivered to the dealer are complete with flashing and sill pans, ready to place in opening, and comply with approved building standards.

A real package item for the retail lumber dealer.

IJoyd Thorpe Appointed Field Representctive ol WFIA.

Lloyd Thorpe, who has been actively identified with the wood-using industries of the West for the past 20 years, has been appointed the first repres-entative of Western Forest fndustries Association. He began his duties in April, one of his first assignments being to handle details of the first small sawmill conference in Washington which rvas staged so successfully in Centralia on April 19. The announcement was made by R. T. Titus, secretary of WFIA. Either as a direct employee or in cooperative capacitv, Mr. Thorpe has been closely identified with the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, Western Retail Lumbermen's Association, Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, Douglas Fir Plywood Association, American Forest Products Industries Inc., and other organizations concerned with forest problems and products.

MFMA Moves Oflices

At their annual meeting, recently held in Chicago, the members of the Maple Flooring Manufacturers Association voted to move their headquarters and offices from Chicago to Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

Kiln Drying Course Scheduled

Berkeley, Californid, Mag 1-A two-week course of instuction in kiln drying of lumber will be given at San Francisco, California, starting Monday, July 21, 1947, the Forest Utilization Service of the U. S. Forest Service announced here today. The course is designed to assist industry to dry lumber better and faster, as a means of improving wood utilization practices and of alleviating the critical shortage of dry lumber.

The Forest Utilization Service, a branch of the California Forest and Range Experiment Station, 329 Giannini Hall, University of California, Berkeley 4, is promoting the course in kiln drying as a part of its program of encouraging better practices in the wood-using industries.

Introduction during the course, which will be limited to 30 enrollees, will be given by experts in wood technology and kiln drying from the Forest Service's Forest Products Laboratory. The Laboratory, maintained at Madison, Wisconsin, since 1910, for many years has included in its broad research program a thorough-going study'of the problems of wood seasoning. During the past year the Laboratory conducted seven kiln-drying courses with an enrollment of 186.

The subject matter of the course in San Francisco will include wood-moisture relationships, shrinkage of wood, drying stresses in wood, drying schedules, and other basic principles of seasoning wood. Types of dry kilns, kiln equipment, testing of kilns, and analysis of problems arising in their operation'will also be covered.

A fee of $150 per person will be charged to cover the costs of the course, and in addition to this fee, students must meet their own living and travel expenses.

Further information on the course may be obtained from the California Forest and Range Experiment Station or the Forest Products Laboratory, Madison 5, Wisconsin.

Union Lumber Co. Estqblishes Wholescle Division

Union Lumber Company, San Francisco, has established a wholesale division, and will now wholesale Douglas Fir in all their distributing centers.

Bovard Shibley has been transferred from San Francisco to the Kansas City office, where he will replace R. C. (Bob) Dixon. The latter will come to San Francisco about July 1, and with E. G. (Dave) Davis will head up the wholesale division.

Fred V. Holmes, Co., San Francisco, Southern California and 22.

Hank Aldrich, H. egon, spent a week and other Northern

Pnrtonal -/{n*t

president, Holmes Eureka Lumber attended the annual meeting of the Retail Lumber Association, April 21

George J. Hawley of Atkinson-Stutz Co., San Francisco, recently made a business trip to Los Angeles. He traveled by plane both ways.

W. Aldrich Lumber recently on business California cities.

Co., Eugene, Orin San Francisco

Kenneth Shipp, California Builders Supply Co., Oakland, attended the board of directors meeting of the National Plywood Distributors Association at Chicago, May 7, and the general meetlng on the 8th. He is secretary of the association.

R. J. Parish of Melbourne, Australia, flew ipto San Francisco April 23 to spend two or three months on the Pacific Coast. This is his third visit to the United States. He is agent for Kilpatrick & Company, San Francisco, in Melbourne.

Fred Ziese, Gamerston & Green Lumber Co., San Francisco, and his wife, recently made a two weeks' vacation tour of interesting places of the Southwest by automobile. They visited Palm Springs, El Paso, Jtarez, the Carlsbad Caverns, Grand Canyon, Boulder Dam, and Death Valley.

Wayne Rawlings, manager, Harbor Plywood Corp. of California, San Francisco, returned May 12 from the Northwest where he atte4ded a sales meeting at the home office in Hoquiam, Wash., and visited Seattle and other points in Washington.

Earle Bleile, sales manager, Roseburg Lumber Co., Roseburg, Oregon, was a recent visitor to San Francisco and Los Angeles.

R. O. Cheatham, formerly with C. S. Pierce Lumber Co., Fresno, the Madera Sugar Pine Co., Madera, and Christenson Lumber Co., San Francisco, is now with Builders Lumber Co., Los Banos, Calif.

Paul McCusker, San Francisco wholesale lumberman, r,vas back on the job April 26 after an absence of two weeks on account of illness.

Jack C. Hibbert has sold his interest in McKinnon Lumber Co., Hollister, Calif., to his partners, Roy Brown and Z. E. Pivetti. He intends to go into the retail lumber business for himself and is looking for a location.

F. W. Elliott, San Francisco wholesale lumberman, back from a trip to Oregon.

Elmer Hampton, cent business visitor Trio Lumber Co., Eugene, was a reto San Francisco. Co., Portland, month while

Mark Campbell, Campbell-Conro Lumber Ore., spent a few days in Los Angeles last enroute from Arizona to the Northwest.

W. B. \lVickersham, Inc., Lumber Division, Arizona calling on the month.

district manager, Pope & Talbot. Los Angeles, spent several days in lumber trade the first part of the

John W. Fisher, Santa Monica district Rotary meeting at Las )1 3? lumberman, attended the Vegas, Nevada, on April

Orrie W. Hamilton, secretary-manager of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association, Los Angeles, is on an eastern trip. He will spend a few days at Fairbury, Nebraska, visiting his mother, then go on to Washington, D. C. He will be back in Los Angelcs on May 24. Mrs. Hamilton is accompanying him.

R. W. (Jack) Dalton, R. W. has returned {rom a tour of where he visited a great many

Dalton & Co., various cities old friends.

Los Angeles, in Arizona,

R. G. Robbins Lumber Co.

16 Califomia Street, San Francisco 11, DOuglas 5070

L. J. (Lany) Owen

General Offices: Spaulding Building, Portland 4, Oregon

Gardner Pond, manager of the Los Angeles office of J. H. Baxter & Co., Dan Lindsley of that office, and W. W. Jackson and R. K. McCulloch of the San Francisco office, attended the annual convention of the American Wood Preservers Association, held in Portland, Oregon, April 22 to 25.

Ken O'Neill of O'Neill returned from calling on and Oregon.

Lumber Co., San Francisco, has sawmills in Northern California

Harry F. Vincent, vice presid.ent and getleral manager, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., San Francisco, has returned from Oregon, where he visited Portland and spent some time at both mills.

R. G. (Rich) Robbins of R. G. Robbins Lumber Co., Portland, recently flew from Portland to London in connection with the firm's export business to United Kingdom. He stopped off at New York and Boston to visit the company's representatives.

Lieutenant Commander J. S. Butler, U. S. Navy, and his wife, visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Seth L. Butler in San Francisco recently. He is stationed at Coronado. Calif.

Charles F. Wilson, treated lumber department of Pope & Talbot, Inc., Lumber Division, San Francisco, attended 'the annual meeting of the American Wood Preservers .A.ssociation at Portland, April Z2 to 25.

O. L. Russum, San Francisco wholesale lumberman, is back from a 10-day trip to Portland and other Oregon points. He made the trip by plane.

- John !I. Tyson of Wholesale Lumber Distributors, fnc., Oakland, is back from a business trip to Tacoma, and the Eugene and Klamath Falls areas.

Harry -Weir, logging superintendent of Arcata Redwood Co. at Orick, Calif., attended the Reveille at the Claremont Hotel, Berkeley, April 25.

Herb Higman, spend a few days Sierra.

Pioneercd the modern kitchen

All the step-scving efficiency crnd restful becruty you see in those kitchens illustrcted in todcry's mcacrzines devoted to the home wcrs inspired by Peerless, the pioaeer ol moderukitchen desigrn It is our lervent wish thcrt this yecr will encble us to supply cn increcrsing number ol decrlers with their needs lor modern kitchen equipmenL

BUIIT.IT FIXTURE GO.

!608 Sen Prblo Avc. BERKELEy !, CALTFORNTA

illG0tH

Jobberc of SlSll, D00nS and PLYU0oll

Sell The New GTIDE AWAY

Reliable recently Lumber Company, Rosemead, on a fishing trip in the High

HAMSON TUMBER COMPANY

Monufocturers of Ponderoso Pine

We hove for prompt shlpmcnl 8", lO" & 12" oir-dried boards suttoced four sides for truck delivery in opproximclely IO,OOO' loods.

Moriposc, Gqlifornio

Phone 53 J

All-Sreel

OVERHEAD GARAGE DOOR

The best door on the market todoy. When opened ir is wholly wllhin the garcAe.

Only 4" Cleorqnce ln Heighr Required

NTMEDNTE DETIVERY

DOUBTE DOORS AVAIIABLE JUNE TST.

3045 l9rh Srreer

SAN FRANCISCO IO

Mlsslon 792O

Office Wholesalers

Lurnber and its Products

Sawn - Veneered

l'orest Proilucts $ales Company

1270 So. Lra Brea Ave. WEbster 3-t6l4

IJOS ANGEITES 35

Glide-Away Garage Door Lcaves

All Garage Space Clear

It is claimed for the Glide-Away overhead type garage door that open or shut it leaves all the garage available for storage or work room, as it requires an absolute minimum of space, with the mechanism fitting right into the door jamb.

J. Z. Todd of the Western Door & Sash Co., Oakland, jobbers for these doors, says that Glide-Away is the easiest operating door on the market, because the spring does the work.

"The Glide-Away door is easily fitted to any garage, single or double. The mechanism is so fool-proof that it can be installed by anyone who is normally handy. It requires no special tools or fixtures. A wren,ch or pair of pliers is all that's needed. There is only one easily accessible nut to turn to adjust spring tension so that the door works smoothly.

"The Glide-Away is constructed of 100 per cent N-A-X high tensile steel, specially treated to give added protection against rust or corrosion. It is equally adaptable to new construction or modernization of existing garages," Mr. Todd said.

\Mestern Door & Sash Co. can make immediate delivery of these garage doors.

Bert Cooper Opensr Retcil Ycrd

E. L. (Bert) Cooper has opened a retail lumber yard at 2100 S. Rosemead Blvd., El Monte, which he is operating as Cooper's Lumber Yard. Bert was a member of the sales staff of the Union Lumber Company, Los Angeles, for a number of years, and is widely known in Southern California lumber circles.

Purchcrses Lumber Ycrd

The oldest lumber business in Kingman, Arizona, frorn a point of continuous operation recently changed hands when the Mullin Lumber Company of Los Angeles purchased the Tarr, McComb & Ware lumber yard. The transaction included the building and ,complete stocks of mine timbers, lumber, sash and doors.

Tarr, McComb and Ware will remain in the buitding material business.

Blcgen Lumber Compcrny Remodeling Scrwmill at White Pines

The Blagen Lumber Company is completing a big job of sawmill rebuilding and improving at their mill at White Pines, Calaveras County. A big new fire pump has been installed that pumps 1500 gallons a minute. It will be driven by a.new 75 HP motor, separately wired from the rest of the mill. The mill has been given a new concrete floor in the basement. A new foundation for the 7 foot resaw has been installed. The carriage has been overhauled. There is a completely new sawmill deck. A new 100 HP motor has been installed to run the edger, and there is a new arbor for the edger. New conveyor chains have been installed throughout the mill. The entire boiler house is being overhauled, and the smoke stacks repainted.

PITGHER IIISTPPETRIilG II|l|lRS

DISAPPEARING DOOR FRAMES AIID HANGERS

We ccn again lurnish ficrmes REIIIFORCED WITI{ STEET lor 33/e stu&, which makes the wcrll very rigid.

Fr.r-es cre shipped set up reqdy lo plcce in wcrll crnd ccrry cnY size ol door.

E. G. PITGIIER GOTPAilY

600 l6th Street. Oallcnd 12, Glencourt 3990 Foctory 8103 Seven HiUs Rd., Ctrstro Vclley, Hcywcrrd

t l.lyp.

3.F.5rX

F. VY. Elliott

Wholesale Forest Products

Representing Taylor Lumber Co. Eugene, Oregon

lolcphonr DOuglar f2l I

Direct Mill Shipment And Distribution Ycnd Scles oI

Douglas Fir

Dimension, Uppers and Finish

Alley lrumber Co., Inc.

201 Se.Iakewood Blvd. Downey, C<rlil.

Telephone LOgcrn 3401 Mill ct Medford, Oregoa

I{ORTHERII REDWII(|D TUMBER CO.

ledwood and Douglm Fir

I Drumm Street, Son Francisco | |

ONBAII I,IIMBER COMPAIIY

Office,IYEll cmd Ycrrd 77 So. Pascdencr Ave., Pcscrdencr 3, Ccrlil. Telephones:

Pcscrdencc SYcc'-ore 6-4373

' Los Angeles, RYcrn l-6997

WHOITESAITE and RETAIIT

Hcrbor Ycrd crt Long Becrch

HOGA]I TUIUBER GO.

WIIOI.ESAI.E AND IOBBn{G

rutBER - tlLtwoR[

SISH and DOORS

Since 1888

OFFICE, MII.L. Yf,BD AND DOCKI zDd C Alice Sts., Ocklaad

6881

Miii Ssfes Ofice Korbel, Humboldf County 24O8-lO Russ Bldg. Gollfornio San Froncisco 4

Gustorn Mitlingl

Prompt Service on Rip and Planer Work

Also Rescrw d Sticker

Brush Industrial lumber Co.

Wholesale DistriSutors

Hardwoods and Softwoods

5354 East Slaugon Ave.

Los Angeles 22, Calif.

ANselus 1-1155

Wholcsale to Lumber Yards

Sash 'Windows

Gasements - Doots, etc.

First Quarter Report of Holmes Eureka Lumber Co.

A total of $191,654.61 was spent in Eureka for payrolls and local purchases during the first quarter of. 1947 by the Holmes Eureka Lumber Company, it was announced last month by Fred Holmes, president.

Of the total, he said, all but about $38,000 represented take-home pay for the 255 men employed in the mill and woods by the struck company. A full crew of 90 men is engaged in the Salmon Creek logging operation.

Also during the first quarter the company shipped 212 carloads of lumber, mostly high grade siding and clear grades, despite a shortage of railroad cars.

The company figures show 69 shipped in January,'58 in February and 85 in March. An acute shortage of cars in February, a short month anyway, resulted in a lower figure. Mr. Holmes said.

Although the shipments went to all parts of the country, Holmes Eureka gave the local area first prioritv on all types of lumber, according to the report.

Mr. Holmes expressed satisfaction over the year's start and at the same time predicted a return to a buyer's market.

"The honeymoon is just about over. We in the lumber business are returning to a market based on competition and service to the consumer. We are doing all we can to meet this challenge, for only the more efficient mills can survive."

Scotc Monicc Phoaes: 4'glg8{-3299

CUSTOTI IIItI,TilG

Rescwin g-Surlcrcing-Rippin g Complete High Speed End-Mcrtching

Be-Milling In Trcrnsit Western

1200 Bcodini Blvd. (Centrcl MIg. Dist.) Los Angeles 22, e,rrlil

Lirccrted on Spur ol L. A. Junction R. B. Telephone ANgelus 2-9147 Jtmdrctrnn ml llhdnbn

LUMBERMENS BUILDING PORTLAND ', OREGOX

Shipments By Rcril cnd Ccngo AJI Species

Telephouc Teletype BRocdwcry 3613 Ptld" 167

He did not, however, predict any irnmediate change in retail prices, which he said must remain high in ord€r to cover the cost of labor.

Appointed Consultcnt

Mathias W. Niewenhous, recently director of the Forest Products Division, Civilian Production Administration, and formerly deputy director of the Lumber and Lumber Products Division, War Production Board, has been appointed consultant to the Office of Production. Office of the Housing Expediter.

Mr. Niewenhous will act as consultant on problems relating to forest products, lumber, milhvork, flooring, plywood, and general building materials.

He joined the War Production Board

Prior to that he was president of his own company in New York City.

Willicrm M. Symon

July I, 1942. construction

William M. Symon, 72, member of a pioneer San Francisco family and one of the founders of the wrecking firm of Symon Bros., passed away in San Francisco April 29.

His organization tore down many of the important buildings of the 1915 Panama Pacific fnternational Exposition and the Golden Gate Exposition of Treasure Island. The company also razed such historic edifices as the Bohemian Club, the James Flood mansion in Atherton and the Silas Palmer home on Van Ness Avenue'

He was a native of San Francisco and is survived by his widow, two brothers, John B. Symon and David D. Symon, and a nephew, John T. Symon.

Masonic funeral services were held in San Francisco, May 1.

5t95 Vilthirc Blvd., Lor Angclcr

Pitcher Dirxrppecring Door Frcmes Agcin Reinlorced With Steel

Announcement is made by E. C. Pitcher Co., manufacturers of sliding door hardware and frames, 600 16th Street, Oakland 12, that they can again furnish Pitcher Disappearing Door Frames reinforced with steel for 3-s/s" studs. This makes the wall very rigid.

The cost is based on the regular cost of the 'rvood frame plus the cost of the steel. Price list will be sent on application. Dealers are asked to specify if reinforced frames are required, or the regular wood frames. The telephone number of E. C. Pitcher Co. is Glencourt 390. The factory is located at 8103 Seven Hills Road, Castro Valley, Hayward, Calif.

Becomes Grandfcther

Otto W. Frese, San Francisco wholesale lumberman, has been passing out the cigars recently, the occasion being the birth of a daughter to his son, William Lewis Frese and Mrs. Frese, April 19. His son, a bombardier veteran of the Army Air Forcos, is now attending the University of San Francisco.

Lumber Yard Fire

A fiie of undetermined origin damaged the Barr Lumber Company in Artesia, Calif., causing loss to inventory and equipment estimated at $90,000. The fire, discovered before midnight, April 19, burned for four hours before being brought under control.

OUR ADVERTISERS

FON NENT

WANT ADS

Rate-1250 per Column Inch.

TUMBEN CARNIEBS _ UFT TNUCTS _ BOI.IEN TRUCTS

SAI.ES ATIIO REPAINS

I.I'MBER TEANSPOBTATION

"Hyrter Hculing"

Lcrgest Fleet ol Bogs snd ltyater

Lumber Ccrriers and LiIt TrucLs On The Wegt Coqrt

WESTERN II'IUBER CARRIERS

1325 East Opp St

NEvadc 6-1371

One Sawmill

P. O. Box 622 Wilmiagton, Cclil. TErarinsl 4.6624

FOR SALE

Wheland 14'Carriage No. 94

Three solid Tooth Bladcs,2A",28", n"

One Scrt Blade

Sawdust cbain and 25 H.P. Electric Motor

Above single saw rig

GOLDEN STATE LUMBER COMPANY Box 888 Santa Monica, Calif.

EXPERIENCED MAN WN,NTED

To assist orpner and eventually assume management. Lumber and hardware business, in small town, 30 miles from Southern California City. Desirable place to live..-exceptional future. State experience and references.

Address Box C-1355, California Lumber Merchant 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

FOR SALE

If you want to buy a lurnber yard, Hyster Lift Truck or Willamette Lumber Carrier, see our ads, in the May I issue of The California Lumber Merchant.

If you are interested write or phone:

TWOHY LUMBER CO.

LUMBER YARD AND SAWMILL BROKERS

801 Petrolermr Bldg., Los Angeles 15, Cdif.

PRoapect E746

FOR SALE

I Used Ross Carrier-Model 11

Telephone LOgan 3291

FOR SALE

1000 4 x 8 and 4 x 1G-54-inch lumber carrier blocks, $1.25 each F.O.B. Pier 92, San Francisco.

Address American Stevedore Co.

.Pier 92, San Francisco VAlencia 3544

WANTED

Experiencecl office man capable of handling desk, figuring tickets and estimates. Approximately 30 miles N.E. of Los Angeles. State age and experience with full particulars.

Address Box C-1367, California Lumber Merchant, 508 Central Bldg., Ircs Angeles 14, Calif.

AUDITS: FINANCIAL STATEMENTS; TAX MATTERS

Part-Time Bookeeping

E. M. WORTHING

Public Accountant

P. O. Box 56, Station M

Los Angcles n, Ca\f.

Phoncs: Rlchmond 9251; CUmbcdand 3-1706

THIRTY YEARS LUMBER EXPERIENCE

SAWMILL FOR SALE

NEW SAWMILL in excellent Central California trocation for continuous operation in easily accessible Ponderosa Pinc, White Fir, Rcd Fir, and Sugar Pine. Complete eguipment inchdcs circular saws with head rig, carriage, diesel electric power, log pond, green chain, etc.-40,00o foot per day volurne.

Writc today for furttrer details about this attractivc buY.

Address Box C-1365, California Lumbcr Merchant 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

FOR SALE

EASTERN OAK-Red and White Mixed

Btr.,

OPEN FOR CONNECTION

Lumberman, who is familiar with the Western Pines, desires position with well established company. Experience includes manufacturing, grading, wholesale and industriat sdling, and buying. Prefer Southern California but will go anywhere. Now employod.

Address Box C-1370, California Lurrber Merchant 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

WANTED

Cowrter and general office fiian, retail lumber exp€rience in Los Angeles area preferred.

Address Box C-1366, California Lumber Merchant 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

HYSTER LUMBE,R CARRIER

Late 1945 Model. Excellent condition. 66" blocks, 72" load height. Price $4,850.00.

Contact Henry Doelger,3Z0 Judah St., San Francisco 22.

FOR SALE

One-year-old resaw with St/r' by 42" wheels, 50 horsepower motor, will take up to 10" by 14" stock. In excellent condition. Included in price are 6 saws.

Will sell for $5000 fob plant.

Craftbilt Cabinets

200 S. Victory Blvd., Burbank, €alif. Telephones-CHarleston 8-1181 STanley 7-1633

LI'IIBEI

Arcato n.dwood Co.

BUTER'S GUIIDE SAN FNANCISGO

{2ll Mcr}ct Street (ll) ...YIIkon 6-2067

Attiason-StuE Compcnv, It2 Mcrtct Streef (ti). ..GArlield 1809

Cbristenson Lumber Co. Evqns Avc,-cad Quint St. (24)..VAtoncid S83Z

Cords Lumber Conpqnv,

_68 Post St. ({)...:...... .........DOuslca 2{59

Dcnt 6 Rusecll. Inc., 214 Front Strcet (ll). ...GArfietd 0292

Dolbaer d Carson Lunbet Co.,

_-lll8 Merchcnts Excbcnge Bldg, ({) DOugtcs 6{116

Elliott. F. W.

_l Drunm Street (ll)..............DOugtos al2ll

GqmerElou d Green Lumber Co., 1800 Amy Street (2{). ..ATwcter 1300

Hall, Icmes L.. 1032 Mills Btdg. ({). ......SUtter ?520

Hqllincn Maclin Lumber Co,

681 l/lqrkel St. (5) ...DOugtca lg{t

Hqmmond Lumber Coupqnv,

--l.l? ryl9!-lsgmery Stre3r (6)......DOustaE 3389

Hobbs Wcll Lumber Co.,

--105 Moatgonery SI. (l)..........GArlield ??52

Ilolmeg Eurehq Lumber Co., ll05 Financicl Center Bldg, ({). .GArlield l92t

Lcuou-Eonniagtoa Conpqny,

_ 16- Cclilornic Srreer (l l).-. .GArlield 6ggt

Lunb.r Ternincl Co., Inc.,

2IlQ0 Evcu Ave. (24). ..VAtencic ll00

MccDoncld C Hcrrinqton, Ltd., 16 Cslilonic St. (Il) ..GArtield 8393

LT'I''BEN

.Glcucourt 6861

Lclehurrt 2-751

.TWiaoqks 9866

LUMIER

Allcy Lunber Co.

20f Sq. Lckcwoo4 Blvd. (Downey)..LOgcn 3{0t

Aqglo Calitorqiq Lumber Co..

855 E. Florence Ave. (l). .THonwctl 3l4l

Arcqlc Rcdwood Co. (J. l. hea)

5f l0 Wilshire Elvd, (36) .WEbstcr ?828

Allilson-Stutz Compcnv,

628 Petroleum Btd-g. (15) .......PRospecr {3{l

Allce Lunber Co.,

2035 E. lSth St. (21)..... .....P8ospcct 7{01

Barto Lumber Co., Rclph E. (Huntington-Pcrk)

2il0l E. Ncdecu 4ve............ ..JEfierson 7201

Brusb Industricl Lumber Co.,

535{ E. Slcrugon Ave, (22)....... .ANgelus l-1155

Eunr Lunbcr Comoqnv,

7217 W. Seventh Sr. '(t1). . .TRidty f06l

Ccrr G Co., L. t. (W. D. Duoning),

138 Ch. ol Com. 8lds. (15). .PRospect 8813

Coneolidcled Lumber Co.,

I22 W. lellereeon St. (7)......Rlchnond 2l4l

l{{8 E. Aucheim St., Wilhrngton......Wilm. Tat l-2687; NE. 5-1881

Cooper Wholeaqle Lumber Co., W, E.,

606-608 Bicbtield Bldq. (13). .MUtucl 2l3l

Dcnl 6 Rusell. Inc.,

812 E. 59tb Street (l). .ADans 8r0l

Dell Lumber Co. (Burbank)

12{ So. Victory Blvd.. .CHcrleston 6-{182

Dolbcer G Cqrson, Lumbet Co., 90I Fidelitv Bldg. (13)... ....VAndiLe 8792

Forest Products Scles Compcay, 1270 So. LcBrec Ave.. ..WEbgter 3-1614

Frombeg d Son, W. P., Sl7 So. Alvcrcdo St. (6)........FEdercl 7301

Ed. Founfciu Lumber Co..

7li! W. Olympic 81vd.... .PBospect 43tll

llollinqn MqcLia Lunber Co-

t!186 E. Bcndini Blvd (23).......ANselus 2-8030

Hcmond Lumber Compqnv, 20t0 So. Alcmedq St.- (5{). .Pnospect 1333

Hcrrris Lumber Co., L. E., 3757 Wilshire Blvd. (5). .FAirlcx 2301

Hexberg Brothera, .10806 S. Centrcl Ave.. ..Lclcyette 8379

Holmeg Eurekc Lrrnber Co..

712 Arcbitects Blde. (13). .Mutual 9I8l

Hoover, tr. L., 5225 Wilshite Blvd. (36). ....YOrk ll88

Lcrrcacc-Phllirg Lunber Co.,

633 Pclioleui Btdg. (15)........Pnospect 8l7l

MccDoncld Co., L. W., ?l{ W. Olympic Blvd. (15} ...Pnospscl 7l9l

MqcDoncld G Hcrrington, Ltd,, Petroleum Bldg. (15). .PRospect 3127

Mchoscnv Inporlino Co., t2f -S. Sprin-e St,- (ll). .TRiDitt 9G5l

LUMBER.

Norlhera Redwood Lumber Co., 2,108-10 Rus3 Blds. (4). ..EXbrook 7894

O'Neill Lunber Co., Ltd., l5 Cqlilonia St. (ll). ...GArlield 9lt0

Pcciffc Lunber. Co., The 100 Bush Street (4). .....GArlield ll8l

Pope d Tclbot, Inc., Lumber Divisioa, 320 Ccliloraic St, ({).. .DOuslcs 2561

B. G, Robfins Lumber Co. (L. l. Owen) 16 Cclilornic St. (ll) ..DOuglqs 5070

Rounds Trcdinq Compqnv Crocker Bldgl ({)..-.. .YIIlcon 6-09t2

Scntc Fe Lumber Co., 16 Cclilornic Street (ll) ..EXbrook 2(174

Scquoic Mill d Lumber Comeqry, Hobqrt Buildiag (1). ..-. ...-.. .EXbrooL 3540

Shevlin Piae Sqles Co., 1030 Moncdnock Btdg. (5)........EXbrooL ?0{l

Sudden d ChristEnson, Inc-. 310 Squsome StrEat (4)..........GArlield 2846

Tqrter, Webster d lohnson, Inc.. I Montgomery St. ({). .DOuglca 2060

Ccrl W. Wclts, 975 Moncdnock BIdg. (5).........YUkon 6-1590

Wendling-Nothan Co., 56{ Mqrket St. (4).. .......SUrter 5363

Weal Oregon Lumber Co., 130 Tenth Street (3).. ...UNderhill 0720

Wostern Pine Supply Conpouy, l20l Hcrrison Si.'(3).....:........UNderhitt 8686

OAKLANID

LI'I\OEN

E. K. Wood Lumber Co., 2lll Fredericlr Street (6). .... .... .fttlog 2-1277

Wbolesclc Buildins Supplv, tac., 1607 32ad Streef (8). .-. .TEnplebcr 696{

Wbolesqle Lumber Distributors, Inc., 5'f Firet Street (7\..............TWiaocks 2515

HANDWOODS

Slrcble Hcrdwood Compqnv, First and Clcy StreetJ (?i....TEmplebcr 5584 White Brotbere, 500 Higb Street (l). ...ANdover 1800

LOS ANGELES

.Postoffice Zons \lurnl6r in Parenthesis.

IUI\IEEB

Mmulccturers Luaber Co., 8l{5 Beqch Strect (l). .LUcqs 617l Orbcn Lumbar Co., 77 S. Pcscdena Ave., Pqsqdeno (3) .......... tt*fr"# !:fi31

Pacific Lumber Co., Thc 5225 Wilshire Blvd. (36)

Potrick Lunber Co., YOIL lt68

Eqalmor Lunber Saleg, 7l{ W. Olympic Blyd. (15). .. .PRospect 5039 Pope d Tclbot, Inc., Lumbcr Divisioa 7l{ W. Olympic Btvd. (15). .. .. .PRospect 8231

E. L. Reitz Co., 333 Petroleum Btds. (15). .PBospect 2369

Bounds Trading Compcay (Wilmington)

l2{0 Blinn Ave. .Nevcdc 8-l'll,! Sca Pedro LumbEr Co., l5l8 S, Centtal Ave. (21) ..-..Blchnond ll{l

1800-A Wilninston Roqd (Scn Pedro) .......TErminal 2-6{96

Shevliu Pine Soles Co., 330 Petroleum Bldg. (15)........PRospect 0615

Siopsoo Industries, Inc.,

1610 E. Wcsbinston Blvd. (21). PRospect 6183

Spclding Lumber Co., 803 Petroleun Btdq. (15).......Rlchmond 7-tl84l

Slcntou, E. J. d Son, 2050 E. {lst Sl. (ll). ...CErtury 29211

Sudden G Christenson. Iac.. 630 Bocrd ol Trcde Bldq. (14)....TBiuity 884{

Tccomc Lumber Soles, 837 Petroleum Bldg, (15) .PRospect ll08

Weudling-Nctbcn Co..

5225 Wilshite Blvd. (36). ..YOrk 1168

West Oregon Lumber Co., 427 Petroleun Bldg. (15) .Blchmoud 0281

W. W. Willinson, ll2 West Ninth Stroet (15). .TRiuitv 4613

Weyerhceuser Scles Co., lll9 W. M. Garland Bldq. (15) Mlcbiocn 6354

Wilson LumbEr Co., A, K. (Dominguez Junction)

Del Amo d Alcmeda Blvds.....NEmark l-865I

E. K. Wood Lumber Co., 4710 So. Alcnedo St. (54) ....JEllerson 3lll

CNEOSOTED LUMBEN_POLES PILINCFTIES

Americcn Lumber & Trecting Co., ll5l So. Brocdwcy (15)..........PRospcct 1363

Bcxter, I. H. d Co., 601 West 5th Strect (I3) Mlchiscr 629{

McCornick 6 Bcxter Creosoling Co., ll2 W.gth Street (15). ...TBinity 1613

Pooc 6 Tclbot. lac., Lunber Division, 7l{ W. Olympic Blrd. (I5). ...PBorpecl 82ill

LUMBER

E, 8 Wood'iunber Co., : I Drunm Strect (tl). ...ElXbrool 3710

Weverbceuser Soles Co., 39i Sutter St. (8).. ......GArlirld 89/r

HANDWOODS

Coraitius Hcrdwod Co.' Georqe C., {65 Cqlilonic St. ({) ...........GArlield 8718

Whii€ Erotb€rs,Filib cnd Brqnaqu Streets (7)... ..Suttor 1365 sAsH-DOOnS-PLYWOOD

Hcrbor Plywood Corp. ol Caliloraiq, 5{0 l0rh-sr. (3).

Nicolci Door Sqles Co., 3045 lgth St. (10). .VAleucic 22lI

Uniied Stat€E Plvwood Corp., 272N Aray St. -(10).

CBEOSOTED LUMBER_POLES_ PILINC:--TIES

Americcn Lumber d Trecting Co., 604 Mission st. (5). .sult.r 1028

Boxter, f. H. d Co., 333 Montgomery Srreet (4)....... .DOu9tc. 3883

Holl, Icncg L., 1032 Mille Btdg. ({). .SUttor 7510

Pope 6 Tclbot. Iac.. Lumber Division, 4:61 Mcrket Street (5). Douglcr 2561

Sqnta Fe Lumber Co,, l8 Cqlilorniq st. (ll). ...EXbrook.207l

Vqnder Lqcn Piling d Lunber Co., 461 Mcrket Streel (5). ....EXbrool l90l

Wendling-Nothan Co., 564 Mcrlet St. (l).. ......SUttu 5361

PANELS_DOOBS_SA SH_SCTIEENS PLYWOOD_MTILWONT

Cqlilorniq Builderg Supply Co., 700 6th Avenue ({). .Hlgcte 6015

Hogcn Lumber Compcuy, 2;d dnd Alice Str;€b (4) ....GLeacourt 8881

E. C, PitchEr Company, 500 l6th St. (12)............... Glencourt 3990

Peerlesg Built-in Fixrure Co. (Borlelol) 2608 Sao Pcblo Ave. (2)........THorawcll 0610

United State3 Plywood Corp., 570 3rd Sr. (7)-..... TWiaoqtr 55ll

Weslern Door d Scsb Co., Stb 6 Cyprcss Streets (7). TEnpbbcr 8100

E. K. Wood Lumber Co.. 2lll Fredericl Street (8) .XEUog 2-ltZ

HANDWOODS

Americqn Hcrdwood Co.. l90o E. lsth Stroor (51)......... PBorpccl 1135

Bohnboll Luaber Co., Iuc. 1500 So. Alcmedq St. (21).........PRospoct 32'lli

Penberlbv Lumber Co., 5800 S6utb Boyle Ave. (ll)......Klnball 5lll Stcntou, E. I. d Son, 2050 Eost llst Stroet (ll)... CEotury 28111

Tropiccl 6 Weatern Lunber Co., 609 s. crqrd Avc...............Mlchigcn 9328

Weslem Hcrdwood Lunber Co., 2014 Ecst lslh Str€et (55). .PBosP.cl 618! SASH_DOONS_MILLWORK_SCREENS

BIINDS_PANELS AND PLYWOOD BONING BOANDS

Bcqk Pcnel Compcny. 310-314 Ecst 32nd Street (ll)....trDanr 12?5

Calilornic Door Compqny, The P. O. Box 126, Vernon Stctioa (ll) Klmbcll 2l{l

Calilornic Pcnel 6 Venear Co., P. O. Box 2096, Terniacl Anuex (5{) ...TRinily 005?

Cobb Co., T. M., 5800 Centrcl AveDue (ll)........ADcms llll?

Cole Door & Plywood Co.' lM9 E. Slauwn Ave. (ff) ..........ADamr l3?l

Dcvidson Plvwood 6 Veneer Co., 2{35 Enreririse Sr. (21). .TBinity 9858

Eubcnk d Sou, L. H. (Inglewood) 433 W. Bedondo 8lvd.. .ORegon 8-?155

HclEv Bros. (Scntc Monicc) 162'0 l{th Sireet.. .AShley {-2258

Koehl, lao. W. d Son, 852 S. Myers Street (23).. ..ANgelus 8t9l

MccDoucrcll Door & Plvwood Co,, 2035 E. Slsr Street (lI). ..Klmbqll 316l

Pqcilic Mutucl Door Co., 1600 E. Wcshiugton Blvd. (21)..P8orpecl 9523

Becm Compcnv, Geo. E., 235 S. Alinedc Street (12). .Mlchigca lSttl

Sqmpson Co. (Pcscdenc), 7if5 So. Bcynoud Ave. (21........RYcn I 8939

Simpson Industries, 1610 E. Wcshington Blvd. (21)..PRogpccl 8183

Truedson Ccbinet Corp., 6823 S. Victoric Ave. (43) ....TWinoqks {651

Uniied Stctes Plywood Corp., 1930 Ecst tsth-St. (21)........Rlchnoad 610l

Weat€r! Custon Mill, Inc.. 4200 Bcadini Blvd. (22). .ANgelu 2-9117 West Cocst Screen Co., ll{5 East 83rd Strcct (l)..........1D4or tllll

Weslern Mill d Mouldiag Co., 11615 Pcmelce Ave. (2). .trInball t$t

E. E. Wood Lunbcr Co., l7l0 S. trlmcda Sl. (51)........lEflrrror tlll

Pb/44!

Q. Irhy?

A .If joists and sub-flooring are of green lumber, they'll shrink and swell for years.

Q...So what?

A ,,,Tbe finest oak flooring made hasn't a cbance to stay smootb wben tbe sub-floor is comstantly ,,crautling.t,

Q... How come?

A When the sub-floor shrinks, it pulls the oak flooring apart, so that it opens up. Vhen the

For 15 yearc tbis beaatifal Royal Oah Floor bas been rbe joy and. prid.e ol its 6utner, Tbat's becaue tbe joists and' sab-flooring beneath it uere ol hiln dried materizl, seasoned ,o s|ecified moisttre conrerrt.

sub-floor swells, it crowds the oak flooring, so that it buckles.

Q... \7hat's the answer?

A , , , Delioer notbing lor joists and. sub-flaoring but kiln d.ried. d.imension and boards d.ried to specified. moisture coutent,

Q. If there isn't en,rugh kiln dried framing lumber to go 'round, then what?

A Urge your ostomer to wait until there is. He won't have to wait long, because the production of standard, well manufactured, correctly seasoned lumber is increasing steadily. By such advice you'll render your customer an enduring service and earn good will for yourself.

Prodacers of qaalitt oak flooring of standard manulacture intend to sapply eacb cusromer tbe uitimate in beazt't/ and seroice. Tbis can be done only utben dealer and bsild.ers cooqer4re in proaid'ing stzbilized sab-f.loors.

FORDYCDCROSSETT SALES CO., [:i,'J.::' Am.eNses

DISTRIBUTORS FOR: Fordyce Lumber Company & Crossett Lumber Company

Manafacturers of Rolal Oak Flooring