New Standards for Shingles Redwood Manufactu]ers Attend and Mouldings Chicago Meeting

Washington, M"y 15.-Just released by the Bureau of Standards of the U. S. Department of Commerce is pamphlet ,containing the 1931 revised 7000 series of Standard Wood Mouldings and recommended specifications for standard grades of Red Cedar Shingles, the Central Cornmittee on Lumber Standards announced today. These new standards for mouldings and shingles supersede those now given in Simplified Practice Recommendation R16-29Lumber-Fourth Edition. The pamphlet is a supplement thereto.

The new moulding sizes and designs of the 1931 revised 7000 series were published for the benefit of the lumber trade by the Central Committee on Lumber Standards about a year ago. They superseded all previous stock moulding series published.

These new designs and sizes were the result of painstaking work of a special ,committee representing the lumber and millr'r,'ork, producing, distributing, designing and consuming branches of the trade. Much was the result of original work of E. Stanford Hall, Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and a member of the committee. This new series has been,characterized by architects, consumers, manufacturers and distributors as the most up-to-date and architecturally correct of any stock series ever published. Because of their merit they are gradually becoming the standard in the trade.

The new standards for wood shingles as a part of the American Lumber Standards for softwoods marks a new milestone in simplification and standardization of grades within the shingle industry. For the first time, all grading specifications issued by any agency for Red Cedar Shingles are uniform and conform to the Ameri'can Lumber Standards.

Ninety-five per cent of the capacity production of red cedar shingles is strictly in,conformity with the new Standard and has contracted through their organization, the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, to manufacture exclusively in conformity with the new Standard. Following the promulgation of this Standard, the cypress and redwood manufacturers through their organizations, the Southern Cypress Manufacturers Association and the California Redwood Association, have announced that shingles from their species will be manufactured in conformity with the new Standard. Shingles from these durable species constitute over 97/o of the wood shingles sold in the United States.

This uniform practice made possible by the publication of the new Standards by the Department of Commer,ce will be of inestimable value to all distributors and consumers of wood shingles.

Through the elimination of innumerable grades, many of which were misunderstood by the trade and through simplification of packing to a uniform basis of the square (enough shingles to cover 100 square feet when laid to the stipulated weather exposure), everybody is benefited. The home builder, the architect, the contractor or the roofer can purchase with confidence and knowledge. The manufacturer and the distributor are similarly benefited and in addi-

A. S. Murphy, president of The Pacifi,c Lumber Company, San Francisco; C. R. Johnson, president of the Union Lumber Company, San Francisco, and C. H. Griffen, Jr., general manager of the California Redwood Association, left San Francisco May 2l to attend a meeting in Chicago on May 24. The meeting was called by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association to be attended by spokesmen for the principal forest industry groups of the country to assist in working out a competitive code agreement for the approval of President Roosevelt under the Industry Control and Publi.c Works bill.

Mr. Griffen attended the opening of the Chicago World's Fair, and inspected the exhibit of the California Redwood Association's exhibit, which is in,corporated in the California State exhibit. The Redwood exhibit is in charge of two young lady attendants who will answer questions and distribute ,copies of a beautiful booklet explaining the many uses of Redwood. They will also give away a neat little sample of California Redwood in the form of a card which gives the addresses of the Association's Chicago, New York and San Francisco offices.

After spending some time in Chicago Mr. Griffen will visit New York, Washington and other Eastern cities in the interests of the work of the Association.

B. J. Boorman Elected Director

B. J. Boorman, Boorman Lumber Co., Oakland, was elected a director for Northern California of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, to succeed the late Samuel E. Dalton, at a meeting of the State Association's Northern board of directors held at the Hotel Clark, Stockton, May 20. H. A. Lake, the association's president, presided at the meeting.

S. E. Dalton

Samuel Ewing Dalton, president of the Melrose Lumber & Supply Co., Oakland, died at the Merritt Hospital, Oakland, May 17, after an illness of a month.

Mr. Dalton, who was in his 53rd year, was a native of Tennessee, and had been 30 years in the lumber business in Oakland. He was vice president of the East Bay Lumbermen's Association and, a director of the California Retail Lumber,men's Association. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Alice Dalton; three sisters and a brother, Robert O. Dalton. associated with him in business.

tion have the assurance that confiden,ce in the product will build business.

Copies "of the Supplement on shingles and mouldings may be obtained from the Superintendent of Documents for 10c, cash or money order. Copies of the new standard wood moulding book published last year by the Central Committee and containing designs drawn accurately to scale may be obtained from the Central Committee for 30c per copy.