The California Lumber Merchant - June 1942

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THE Tr.o Connector system of wood construction has brought about an ePochal advance in tho structural use of lunber . r r€leaeing eteel in vast quantities for the war efrort . Presenting an unlimited new field for gervice and activity to architectsr engineers and contractora. Lumber takee over!

Ae a result of the Teco Connector aystem of wood construction, lurnber csn be us€d rnore effcctively and economicallY than ever before in deaigningt engineering and construction. A simPle

invention, eirnple to use, the T Connector distributee the area of atresses at joints over almort the entire width of the mernber, giving rnore rigid/and etronger jointa rnith lr,ss tnotbrio'l.

It has rnade poFsible the swift and economical construction 9f thoueands of defenee etructtirest including large and small/factories

- ""t1! chapelspre;'fabricated houseehangars -fry docks - wood trusaee with c-l'ecr spane of 180 feet attd rno56-graceful wood towera morg'than 3fi) feet high. It opens th6 way for meet-

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I. E MAR1IN Mcucrging Editor

W. T. BI.ACK

Advertisiag Mcmcger

THE CALIFOR}IIA LUMBERMERCFTANT

How Lrumber Lrooks

Redwood ceiling prices, and the revised Douglas Fir ceiling prices, are expected to be published any day but they had not been released as we go to press.

Lumber production during the week ended May 30, 1942, was 6 per cent less than the previous week, shipments were .5 per cent greater, new business 17 per cent greater, according to reports to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association from regional associations covering the operations of representative hardwood and softwood mills. Shipments were 11 per cent above production; new orders 33 per cent above production. Compared with the corresponding week ol 1941, production was 9 per cent greater, shipments 6 per cent greater, and new business 27 per cent greater. The industry stood at 142 per cent of the average of production in the corresponding week of 1935-39 and 16O per cent of average 1935-39 shipments in the same week.

During the week ended May 30, 1942, 456 mills produced 249,68,7,W feet of hardwoods and softwoods combined, shipped 276,272,W feet, and booked orders of 331,392,000 feet.

Lumber orders for the week reported by 373 softrvood mills totaled 318,108,000 feet, shipments were 261,034,60 feet, and production was 239,O39,000 feet. 94 hardwood mills for the week gave orders as 13,284,000 feet, shipments 15,238,000 feet, and production 10,648,000 feet.

The Western Pine Association for the week ended May 30,99 mills reporting, gave orders as 85,449,000 feet, shipments 81,175,000 feet, and productio,n 74,583,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 452.473.m feet.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended May 30,L02 mills reporting, gave orders as 38,774,0@ feet, shipments 31,528,000 feet, and production D,I82,W feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 176,819,000 feet.

The California Redwood Association reported production of 11 operations for the month of April, 1942, as 37,' 960,m0 feet, shipments 46,562,000 feet, and orders received 39,4O7,W feet. Orders on hand at the end of the month totaled 66O73,000 feet.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended May 30 reported orders as 186,813,000 feet, shipments I37,871,m feet, and production 128,485,000 feet.

A lumber auction was held in Portland, Ore., June 2-5, which was in charge of R. L. Ilennessy, manager of the Government's West Coast Lumber Office, and Captain W. M. Porter of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. Another auction will be held there on lune 23.

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C. Diornc, Prcr. cad Trecs.; I. E Mcrtin, Vice-Pree.; W. T. Blacl, Secretarl Publishcd ihc lgi cad l5tb ol ecch nonlh st

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O People need more liaing sPace today-and a beautiful Ponderosa Pine bay window like this is the waY to add it. Notice how this win' dow really creates a "double duty" room bY providing a useful game or sewing coroer.

O You'll find her-and dozens like her-"right around the corner" from your yard. She and her husband can build business for youif you know tabat to sell them . . . and how. In the NE\7 "Open House"-a thirty-two Page book of timely suggestions for home modernization-we've given you dozens of answers to the question of getting such business' not tomorrow but TODAY' flere are iust a few ways in which Open House can help you-

O Attractive doors of Ponderosa Pine will often transform the appearance of a hallway. They also Permit unused rooms to be closed ofr for fuel conservation. Here's an im' provement people don't have to wait for-sell them rigbt nout,

DOZENS OF PRACTICAT SUGGESTIONS IN THE NEW OPEN HOUSE

This book will Point Your way to business that's ectsy to getbusiness that you can readily build into profitable volume!The NE!(/ Open House is uP-to'date in everY detail-fitted to the times-keYed to present daY'markets and restriltions. Thirty-two Pages of helpful illustrations to show You jusi what can be done todaYand how. Don't wait aoother day to get this insPiring book-one copy free-ten cents each in q"aotity. Vrite Ponderosa Pine \i(oodwork, Dept.XCLM-6,1 I lW. lTashingtoo Street, Chicago' Ill.

O The cost of making an old bedroom modern with doors of Ponderosa Pine is well within present restrictions on expenditures. Bringing a bedroom up-to'date is profitable business for yoa.

Just a thought: The wonld committed the Golden Rule to memory, but forgot to commit it to life. And see what has happened!

Thomas Paine, ,n" n"Jrtol t .n" Revolutionary War days who said"these are times that try men's seqls"and who is more frequently and praisefully quoted of late than ever before, said THIS: "I have as little superstition in me as any living man, but my sound opinion has'ever been and still is, that Almighty God will not give up a people to military destrirction or leave them unsuppo.rte{ly to perish, who have so earnestly and repeatedly sought to avoid the calamity of war by every decent method which modern wisdom could invent. Neither have I so much of the infidel in me as to suppose that He has ever reliuquished the government of the world, and given us up to the care of devils."

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In the words of the street, .'you can say that over again.,, That thought is worth frequently repeating in the times we are going through. Hitler and Hirohito might also copy.

Napoleon, the man -; ;"r. rong been credited with "revolutionizing the science of warfare,', is frequently quoted these days by thinkers and writers. One of the very interesting remarks credited to.the ..little C.orporal" that impressed me very much indeed was THIS one. He said that an arrny of sheep commanded by a lion, could defeat an arrny of lions commanded by a sheep. euite a thought, eh? I dunno, I dunno. I think the Corsican was bragging a bit. Undoubtedly he had himself in mind as the commanding lion when he made the statement. Anyway, that was before his long trip back from Moscow when he got so stout a taste of Russian air-conditioning. Maybe he'd changed his mind by then.

However, maybe n" *.] "tinr.oo,r, the value of leadership. Witness the plight of ltaly, under Mussolini. Those Italians used to be scrappers. If you don't believe it, dust off your history books and give them a tussle. And now the land of the once proud Romans is the world's laughing stock. And poor little Benito goes thundering down the pages of current history like an extra pint of water going

over Niagara Falls, t'and none so poor as to do him honor." What saith the Good Book? "For He shall cast down the mighty from their'seats." Wonder what the shade of mighty Julius Caesar must think of Mussolini; Caesar, the man so free from boastfulness that when he had gone out and achieved tremendous victories, he sent back those six short words"f came, I saw, I conquered.tt perhaps, thinking of Mussolini, Napoleon may have been right after all, and an arr-nyr even of lions, would be futile if led by a sheeP. ,. ,. *

The dangers that may hinge upon loose talk are no doubt real. Some thinker once said: "Silence is the most massive thing conceivable, sometimes. There is strength in its very grandeur. IMPRUDENT SPEECH HAS DONE MORE HARM THAN GUNPOWDER." fn time of war, especially war over vast stretches of land and sea, the power of silence is no doubt very great. The enemy sends out a ship, a plane, a contingent of men, or groups of same. Nothing is heard from them. No news comes back. No news from the adversary. THUNDERS OF SILENCE SET'TLE DOWN OVER THEIR FATE. In this war of nerves.such weapons could be harder than cannon balls. Yes sir, the thunders of silence must be powerful war weaPons. * ,. {.

War is horrible enough when it is conducted by all the rules and regulations of civilized and chivalrous people. But the evidence is heaping constantly and unavoidably higher that the Japs abide by no such rules, and that therefore war with this breed of little yellow devils is additionally abominable. The history of the Japs in China, and the provable stories already coming in from the recently conquered territories of the Western Pacific, mark this new adversary of ours as a breed of cruel torturers and rapists, lacking utterly any evidence of human feeling. It is a horrible fact to contemplate, but better faced than evaded. Since men must fight fire with fire, they must fight Japs as Japs must be fought-to the death. Seek pity in the wolf, reason in the ape, and charity in the hawk, but in the Jap, seek only horrid barbarism. The German fighting machine is a frightful one, but at least it bears the earmarks of civilization.

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SEr.r. PNIGO REDWOOD lor GRNIN STORAGE

An acute sack shortage for bulk storage of grain and produce has opened the door for immediate sales of Redwood to California farmers. A legitimate war-time need. Ask your Palco salesrnan or write for complete information about free plans.

"Bud" Reitz in Army

"Bud" Reitz, well known Southern California wholesale lumberman, of the E. L. Reitz Co., Los Angeles, reported for Army.service at Oakland, Calif., Sunday, June 14. He will be connected with the U. S. Army Supply Corps.

His business will continue as usual under the management of W. H. Montgomery who has been with the firm for a number of years. The company represents Anderson & Middleton Lumber Co. of Aberdeen, Wash., and Washington Veneer Co. of Olympia, Wash., in the Southern California territory.

Wholesale Hardwood Distributors

Meet at Del Montc June 25-27

C. H. White, vice-president and general manager of White Brothers, San Francisco, and John W. McClure, secretarytreasurer, National Hardwood Lumber Association, will address members of the Pacific Coast Wholesale llardwood Distributors Association on the second day of their annual convention to be held at Hotel Del Monte, Del Monte, Calif., on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, June 25,26 and 27.

J. E. Higgins, Jr., Higgins Lumber Co., San Francisco, will be toastmaster at the annual banquet of the Association on Friday evening. The entertainment will include solos by Edwin Imhaus, tenor, and Fred Klein, baritone, with Jud Weiler as accompanist

There will be talks by W. E. Difford, managing director, Douglas Fir Plywood Association, Tacoma, and Kenneth Smith, president, California Redwood Association, at the Saturday morning business session.

The golf finals will be held on Saturday afternoon. A dinner dance on Saturday evening will be the last event on the program of the convention, which is the 20th annual.

BILL SAMPSON BACK F'ROM FISHING TRIP

Bill Sampson, Sampson Company, Pasadena, is back from a ten days' fishing trip to Guymas, Mexico. He was accompanied by a party of friends.

Bill reports that they had one rather unusual happening, starting out one morning at 7:0O a.m. and didn't get back until 1O:30 a.m. the next morning. The motor in the boat broke down and they spent the night rowing and drifting around. The oars, says Bill, were about 1 x 7 inches in width and t2 feet long, and it was all one man could do to just handle one of them. When they got within sight of the shore, another boat came out and brought them in. It was a long time between meals and going without a drink of rvater. Bill states.

However, he said they caught lots of fish and had a fine time.

Vagabond Editorials

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In time of war we read and hear much of COURAGE. Back in the days of the first World War I saw a cartoon in an English magazine on that subject, that impressed itself so indelibly on my mentality that wherever I hear courage mentioned, that picture comes back. It showed a battle scene, a bayonet charge, and in the foreground were two soldiers, bayonets fixed, eyes straight ahead, charging forward side by side. One was a big, stolid, beefy, emotionless fellow. Alongside him was a smaller, nervouslooking man. The big man says to the nervous man: "I believe you're scared.r' The other one said: "Scared? Why' you big bum, if you were half as scared as I am you'd have run half an hour ago!" That's the idea. Where there is no fear, there can be no courage. The fellow who is scared plumb to death and still keeps charging-that's the guy with the courage.

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Courage is no easy thing to explain, to define. The world is full of men who have a horror of a personal encounter, such as a fist fight; yet who face death when the time comes, without a quiver. They have that priceless type called "moral" courage. I knew a man who was a veritable hypochondriac, always claiming to be afflicted with some ailment or other, and much given to complaining about his aches and pains. Yet finally when something mortal hit him and he found himSelf looking his God in the face, he forgot all about kicking and complaining, and faced his fate like a genuine hero. It was only the small things that bothered him. The big ones he had no fear of. I recall long ago reading about an early American hero named Israel Putman, who was one of the type of men who never knew fear, so, when someone complimented him on his courage he disclaimed any credit of that sort because he had never been scared, and therefore, as he said, possessed no courage.

When r was " r.ia ,r"ool*;", *n*ter r used to go the rounds of the hospitals at one time. I got acquainted with a little Frenchman who was a patient, whose eternal good humor and fearlessness attracted me. ffe was being slowly eaten alive by a terrible disease. I called on him often. He was always cheerful. One day he said to me: "Well, next week I am going to see my grandfather." I said: "fs that so, where does he live?" The little Frenchman roared with laughter, and then answered: "fle don't live nowhere. He's dead." That's my idea of courage. He went to see his grandfather that next week.

"Bud" Reitz

Paul Bunyan's Job Starts at the Stump

Selective logging with an eye to the luture lorest,'protection oI lcrge timber qreqs lrom fire with equipment crnd personnel crnd supplving the Westwood plcrnt with 200 million Ieet oI logs lor the yecr's cut.

At the plcnt there is yecr round operction oI the scrw mill qnd remqnulqcturing depcrrtments, the plywood lcrctory and the Veneticrn blind slct lcrctory. There is the kiln-drying oI qll the mill output cnd under rool storcge cnd car-locding.

Prodact and production rnetbods liae uP to tbe narne "Paul Bunyan" "Pcul

o Designers of wartime housing and industrial proiects are looking to the {uture. Their plans call for materials that will give years of low-cost service. Ihat's why so many are employing the wood that's able to resist decay and termite attackWolmanized Lumber.

Advertisements like the one reproduced here are read by these men regularly. They're learning that wood structures can be durable, as well as less cosfln easier and quicker to erect. They're discovering that Wolmanized Lumber inhoduces no new handling problems, is clean and odorless, and can be painted.

Profit by this demand for pennanence. SelI Wolnanized Lumber. It is disb:ibuted through regular trade channels. American Lr:mber & Treating Conpany, I 648 McCormick Building, Chicagq lllinois.

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Honor Thv Soldier and Thv Sailor

BY JACK DIONNE

During the first World Wcr the Arnericcrn Congress pcrssed cnd mcrde ellective c lcrw thcrt they called the Civil Rights Bill. It provided lor legcl protection of the rights ol men in our cnned services. [t wcs scid ct thct ]i-e thct this bill took its plcrce in history cs the most libercl legislcrtion ever lcnown Ior the protection ol the nctionjs defenders. This bill wcrs prccticclly reenqcted in 1940 under the title oI the Soldiers crnd Sailors Civil Reliel Act, and is now in lull lorce qnd eflect.

It might well be cclled the Divine Rights Bill lor men in the crmed services, or Uncle Scrm's Ten Commcndnents. The crctucrl words ol the lqw cre lolrger qnd more detcriled, but shortly cnd tersely, THIS is what this law provides:

Thou shcrlt not evict lor non-pcryment ol rent cr soldier'e dependents.

Thou shqlt not cut off cr soldier's life insurcrnce becquse ol delqyed premium pcyments.

Thou shclt not loreclose cr mortgcge on q soldier's property.

Thou shalt not tqke qwqy a home on which cr soldier hcrs mcrde part payment.

Thou shclt not sell the property ol cr soldier beccuse ol his lcilure to pcry tqxes, nationcl, stcte, or locql.

Thou shclt not settle cr lqwsuit cgcinst a soldier during his crbsence.

II a soldier sues in the courts, the courts shcll postpone cction until he ccn attend to it.

II q soldier hcrte q mine, or timber, or larm clcrim, crssessments on which qre over-due, it shcrll be held lor him.

Honor thy soldier cnd thy scilor thct thy dcrys m<ry be long in the l<rnd ol liberty.

No mcn hcth grecrter love thcn this thct he oflereth hie lile lor his country's sqke, qnd it is therelore commcnded by this law thcrt neither lcwyers, nor locn shcrks, nor gctherers oI titles shcll lqtten on him.

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Egsential \Var Housing Units Now Under Construction Given Relief bv \fPB

Washington, June Z-More than 100,000 of the most essential war housing units now under construction have been given relief from the restrictions on lumber deliveries contained in limitation order L-12I, it was announced by WPB today.

After thorough investigation by the National Housing Administration and the WPB Lumber and Lumber Products branch, these war housing projects were selected as the ones whose completion \Mere most urgently needed in the war effort.

John B. Blandford, Jr., National Housing Administrator, reported that construction activity on these projects would have ceased almost immediately unless relief had been granted.

The 100,000 war housing units involved are divided almost equally between those publicly financed and privately financed. All of these projects are being constructed to house war workers and employees of war production plants and military and naval establishments, where the local retail lumber stocks are not sufficient to permit the completion of the projects.

The public and private war housing projects covered on the Pacific Coast and the number of dwelling units involved follow:-California: Long Beach (Compton), 500; pittsburg-Antioch, 86; San Francisco, 4O; and Vallejo, Z,ZO0. . Oregon: Portland, 400. Washington: Bremerton , Z,7SO; Keyport, 30O; Seattle, I,750; Kirkland, 100. Vancouver, 4,0m.

Private Projects: California: Oakland-Alameda, 2,ffi0 Richmond, 1,500; San Diego, 550; Vallejo, 500. Oregon: Portland, 900; Washington: Seattle, 1,5CI; Tacoma, 300; Vancouver, 250.

East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club

Officers, directors, committee chairmen and past presidents of East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39, held a dinner meeting at the Claremont Hotel, Berkeley, Jane 2.

Major Irwin E. Farrington, Coordinator of Selective Service for the 2nd District of California, spoke to the group on the subjedt of "Selective Service."

President kwis A. Godard presided. He announced that general meetings of the Club will be resumed in September.

GLEN BURKE AND PIERSON PLUMMER IN ARMY

Glen Burke and Pierson Plummer reported to the Army Mav 29 f.or three months preliminary training, after which they will go to an officers' training camp.

Both were with the Union Lumber Company. Mr. Burke was d salesman covering the Northern Sacramento Valley and Sohoma lounty territory, and Mr. Plummer was assistant to E. L. Green, general manager at Fort Bragg.

CHANGE IN NAME

The name of South Sound Lumber Sales, Inc. has been changed to Simpson fndustries, Inc. The management and policies of the company remain unchanged.

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PORTI.ANXD GEMENT

Gucrqnteed to meet or exceed requirenents of Americcm Society lor Testing Mqtericls Specilicctions lor High E<rrly Strength Portlcrnd Cemeat cs well cs Federal Specificctions lor Cement, Portlcmd, High-Ecrly-Strengrth, No. SS-C-201.

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(Eesult of compound compoaition crnd usucrlly louad only in specicrl cements desigraed lor thie purpose.)

DIIIUI|IUM DXPAIfSTI| and G0IITRAGTI0II

(Extremely sevcre cruto-clcve test resultrs consistently indiccte prcrcticclly no expnnsion or conhcction" thus elimiacting one of most rli#is1fl1 problems in use ol cr high ecrrly sbengtb cement.)

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Dog Eaters

Heard a fellow talking interestingly the other day about the world as we find it, and American short-sightedness in particular, and he said something like this:

"Now take the Chinese. How terribly we have always misunderstood and underestimated these splendid people. We have been in the habit for a generation of referring to them as "the heathen Chinee," apparently forgetting that the oldest and finest libraries on earth were the property of the Chinese long before our ancestors could read or write. And in many other ways we misunderstood the Chinese.

ASSIGNED TO NAVAL AIR STATION AT ALAMEDA

I. K. Campbell, Jr., of the USNR, son of I'. K. Campbell, Kansas City, Missouri, wholesale lumberman, after an intensive training at the U. S. Naval Air Station, Quonset Point, Rhode Island, has been commissioned a Lieutenant (Senior) and assigned to the Naval Air Station at Alameda, Calif.

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And they have misunderstood us in the same fashion. Not long since an Americanized Chinese doctor I know, a very valuable and worthy man who lives in San Francisco, made a visit to China. He found the Chinese deeply interested in America, and likewise very much befuddled about us and our habits. They asked him:

'Is it true that Americans eat dogs?'

And he answered:

'Sure ! Millions of them ! HOT ONES !' "

CELEBRATED 1OTH ANNIVERSARY

The North Hollywood Lumber Company, North Hollywood, Calif., with the completion of a recent expansion program' celebrated their lfth anniversary last month' The company started in business in 1932. R. E. Burmeister and A. T. Hiiton are the owners.

Mr. Irumber Dealer:

Sell lumber that yields c protit ctd losting sctislodion. CZC, the Drotected lunber, ie cleo, odorlesg md pqintdble. It ic temite ond decqv re8istot md lire retcding. You cqn sell ii ti f.X.l., U. S. Govemnent, Los Angeles Citv cnd Countv oa Unitord Building Code ioba. CZC ireqted lumber is stdted tor immedicrt5 shipmeiLt in comercicl sizes dl lpng BCoch od Alcmedcr. AeL cboul our exchcrrge seryice cmd Eill Bhipmant pldt.

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\fill Give Public Accurate Information on Building Conditions

Last November, as war clouds thickened and control of business grew nearer, the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association was able to use Home magazine, its dealerconsumer publication, as an instrument of great benefit to the entire industry. Reports came in from dealers all over the country stating that the Sixth Issue of. l94l justified all the effort that had gone into Home.

The retail lumber industry has been directly affected by government war regulations and its continued existence now depends upon the accurate communication to the public of government policy r,r'ith respect to the sale and use of building materials. Many stories have been run in newspapers throughout the country which give the public a wrong impression of the status of building conditions and regulations. Many people have been led to believe they must get a permit or rating to buy a piece of" 2 x 4 or a toothpick.

At the request of H. R. Northup, secretary-manager of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association. the home Publication Committee and President Blackstock consented to convert the magazine from a strictly sales promotional magazine for the lumber industry to a source of accurate information for the public concerning government regulations and building restrictions.

The Lumber industry must continue to broadcast the "up-keep and conservation of homes and farms,, theme. The fact that the administration has not seen fit to ban all non-defense building is sufficient evidence of its importance. The promotion of this idea is definitely the building industry's part in the successful prosecution of the war. Are you doing your part?

For copies of recent issues of Home magazine and details concerning methods of distribution, dealers are urged to write to National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, Publication Office, 4600 Diversey Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.

Joins Washington Staff

Washington, D. C., May 25,1942--Ihe National Retail Lumber Dealers' Association announces that Edward H. ("Ed") Libbey of Washington, D. C., has joined the staff of its Washington office.

Mr. Libbey joins the National Retail Lumber Dealers' Association at a time when the industry is confronted with unprecedented problems, and when the need for additional industry coverage of the various Washington agencies is of paramount interest to all retail lumber dealers. He brings to the Association a background of wide and varied Washington contacts, in addition to his legal training as a member of the Washington, D. C. Bar.

Twenty years of sales promotional and managerial experience in the milling industry and experience in retail selling add .to Mr. Libbey's qualifications, plus his long active participation in Trade Association activities connected with the soft wheat milling industry. The National Association is fortunate in securing assistance of this caliber, and is, for this reason, anticipating rendering a more adequate service to the entire fndustry.

PACIFIC \TOOD PRODUCTS CORPORATION

SASH AND DOOR MANI'FACTUNERS

SUGAB PINE

T}IE INSTAITAITON MAKES THE DIFFERENCE

SUGAR PINE DOORS cqn be hung with minimr:sr eflort qnd time. They ccre light to hcrrdle, eosy to plcne ond bore, will hold their shcrpe, toke pcrint economiccrlly ond give losting scrtislqstion.

CAUTOMUA SUGAN PIDIE

Used Exclusively on cll Pine Products

3600 Tyburn Street Ios Angelee, Cclil. Albcrny 0l0l

Detcril Front Door Sticking

Pacilic Tlpe "G" Front Door Stocked only in 3-0 x 6-8 x l7r

Hecrvy Pcmels Rcrised Two Sides

Amendment No. 1to Lumber Freeze Order

Title 32-National Defense

Chapter IX-War Production Board

Subchapt-r B-Division of Industry Operations

Pa* L2?S-Construction Lumber

AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO LIMITATION ORDER

No. L-121

Section t225.1 (General Limitation Order No' L-121) is hereby amended in the following respects:

(a) Paragraph (a) (1) is amended to read as follows:

(l) "Construction Lumber" means any saweds-oft- ' wood lumber of any of the following specifications, whether rough, dressed on one or more sides or edges, dressed and matched, shiplapped, or grooved for splines:

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(i) Any joists, planks, beams, stringers or t!rybers of any softwood species, in Grade No. 1 and all structural stress-grades, in nominal sizes of 3 inches thick and thicker, by 4 inches wide and wider, by'ten feet long and longer.

Anv common dimension of any softwood rp.ii." in Grade No. 1 and Giade No. 2 (or their equivalents) in nominal sizes of 2 inches thick, by 4 to 14 inches wide (inclusive), by 10 feet long and longer, including, but not limited to, common .dimension which is dressed to not less than

lfu inches thick.

(iii) Any common boards in nominal sizes of I inch thick, by 4 inches wide and wider, by six feet long and longer, including, but not limited to, common boards which are dressed to not less than )/a inch thick, in the following species and grades (ot their equivalents) :

(a) Western red cedar, Douglas fir, West Coast hemlock, or Sitka spruce: Grade No. 1.

(b) Southern pine or redwood: Grade No. I and No.2.

(c) Cypress, White fir, Eastern hemlock, 'Western larch, Idaho White pine, Jack pine, Lodgepole pine, Northern white pine, Norway pine, Ponderosa pine, sugar pine, eastern spruce, Englemann spruce, Western White spruce, or tamarack; Grade No. 1, Grade No. 2 and Grade No. 3.

(iv) Any drop siding, standard patterns, No. 105 and No. 106, in standard lengths 4 feet and longer, in the following species and grades (or their equivalents) :

(a) Western red cedar, Douglas fir, West Coast hemlock and Sitka spruce; Grade D.

(b) Eastern hemlock: Grade D and Better, Grade No. 1 and Grade No.2.

(c) Southern Pine: Grade C, and Grade No.2.

(d) Cypress, Western Larch, Idaho White pine, Northern White pine, Norway pine, Ponderosa pine, sugar pine, eastern spruce, Englemann spruce, or Western White spruce: Grade No. I and Grade No. 2.

(") Ary finished flooring, standard match, 25/32 inch thick by 2/s inches and 3r/a inches face widths, in standard lengths 4 feet and longer, in the following species and grades (or their equivalents):

(a) Southern pine: Grade C and Grade No.2.

(b) Douglas Fir, West Coast hemlock, or Sitka spruce; Grade No. 1.

(c) Eastern hemlock: Grade D and Better, Grade No. 1 and Grade No.2.

"Construction Lumber" does not include any of the standard grades of factory lumber, shop lumber or box lumber; or the standard grade of No. 1 Heart Common in Western red cedar, cypress and redwood; or railway ties.

(b) Paragraph (a) (2) is amended to read as follows:

(1) "Producer" means any manufacturing plant, concentration plant or other establishment which processes, by sawing, edging, planing or other comparable method twenty five percent or more of the total volume of logs and lumber purchased or received by it; except that "Producer" does not include any sawmill which produced less than 5000 feet, board measure, per average day of eight hours of continuous operation, during the ninety days preceding the effective date of this Order, and does not include any establishment known in the trade as a local retail yard whose operations are confined principally to distribution lumber locally and which processes as an incident thereto for the servicing of customers.

(c) Paragraph (b), (1) is amended to read as follows:

(1) During the period of sixty days next following May 13, 1942, no producer shall sell, ship, or deliver (including delivery by a producer to any distribution yard of such producer) any construction lumber, except that:

(i) (a)Any producer may sell, ship andlor deliver (either directly or through one or more intervening persons) any construction lumber to be delivered to or for the account of the Army, the Navy, The Maritime Commission, the Panama Canal, or Lend-Lease Governments, or which is to be physically incorporated into buildings, structures or material, or used for packing, boxing, crating or stowing for shipment of material, which will be so delivered; but in the case of sales, shipments or deliveries through intervening persons, only if there is endorsed on the purchase order or contract for such construction lumber the following statement, signed by the purchaser oi by a responsible official duly desig-

nated for such purpose by the purchaser:

All construction lumber covered by this purchase order (or contract) ii to be sold, shipped, and/or delivered in compliance with paragraph (b) (1) (i) (") of Limitation Order L-121 with the terms of which I am familiar.

Name Byt

Date

(b) Any producer may sell, ship and/or deliver (either directly or through one or more intervening persons) a"ny construction lumber to or for the account of any contractor or subcontractor of the Army, the Navy, the N{aritime Commission, the Panama Canal, the Defense Plant Corporation or I-end-Lease Governments, when such construction lumber to be used for plant construction or expansion for manufacture or processiry 9f material for the Army, the Navy, the Maritime Commission, the Panama Canal, the Defense Plant Corporation, or Lend-Lease Governments, or for the tpinjry of personnel of the Army or the Navy, if such construction or expansion project is rated on Preference Rating Certificate PD-3, PD-3A or PD-4 or under any of the P-19 series of Preference Rating Orders or the P14 series of Preference Rating Orders; bqt only if there is endorsed on the purchase order or contract for such ionstruction lumber the following statement, signed by a contracting or inspecting official of the Army, tfie Navy, the Maritime Commission. ihe Panama C1qal, the Defense Plant Corporation, of l-end-I-ease, as the case may be: The construction lumber covered by this purchase order (or contract) ii required by the purchaser, actually to be put into construction during-the period this order is in effect, andlixty days thereafter. The construction Iumber is to be used for construction (or expansion) of facilities for the manufacture or processing of material for the Army, the Navy, the Maritime Commission, the Panama Cana-. or Lend-Lease Governments. or for the training of personnel of the Army or the Navy which construction (or expansion) is rated on preference Rating Certificate (or Order) Num- ber... Serial Number........ . (.) 4"_y producer may sell, ship andl or deliver (either directly or fhrough one or more intervening persons) any construction lumber to 1i for tlie aicount of any Operator as defined in Preference Rating Order p .56 or anv Operator as defined in preference Rai1ng Order P .58 or any producer as de- fined in Preference -Rating Order p .73, for the purposes stated"in such orders: but only if there is endorsed on the purchase order or contract for such construction lumber the following statement, signed by the pur.h"r., o?

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Northern Hord Mople Flooring

-Reqdy For Prompt Shipment

Because our flooring mills have long cooperared in the inrerests of prompt service, the Nonhern Hard Maple industry has been able to supply every Hard Maple "war flooring" {rder without delav.

Manufacnrre has kept apace to make sure rhat no part of the vital work of arming America would suffer becauie of a lack of sultab-le flooring. And, because the industry was ready, today traffi c-fast, comfortable, non-dustins Maple'Floorine in traffic-fast, comfdrtable, non-dusring Maple ng rn scores of plants is speeding the building-of Aherica's oFensrve Power, projects and There's plenty of business today, for Maple. New defense oiects defense homes-facrorv. homelnd oublic build- homes-factbry, home and public building repair and maintenance (without governmental limitations) -and farm, home and' industria'i remodeling, within limitations. Our member mills have Hard Maple Floorins ng Maole ready for prompr shipment.

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17t7 llcCormicl Building, Ghicago, lllinois

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1eck Co.,lfilaauke, Wi6. Michigan Dimemion Co., Manistique, Mich.

The Bloudt L]mber Co., Lrcona, N. Y. North Bmch Floring io., Chicalo,ill, E._L_..Prucg Co--, Y@phig, Tenn- Oval Wood Dish Corp., fuiper f,ole, N. V. , (Mill at Re€d City, Mich.) Robbins Fl@ling C"., ittrinetana.., Wis, Connor Lumber &,Iand Co., LmE, Wis. J. W. Wells Lumber io., Menominee, Mich. The Ya B. Fmin Lumber Co.,Cincinnsti, O. Wis@nsin Land & Lumber Co., Ilolt Herdwood Co., Oconto, Wis- Hemaugville. Mich. Keny&IlausonFl@ringCo., Gmyling, Mich- Yawkey-Bissell LuhberCo.,White Lake.Wie.

Lumber Freere Order

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by a responsible official duly designated for such purpose by the Purchaser:.

All construction lumber covered bY this purchase order (or contrlct) is to be sold, shipped, and/ot delivered in complance with ParagraPh (b)

(1) (i) (c) of Limitation Order L-121 wittr ttre terms of which I am familiar.

Name .. Byt

Date

(d) Any producer may sell, ship and/or 'a6nvei iny construclion iumbbr either directly oi through one or more intervening persons) to any person if such construction lumber is ultimately to be used for the construction, extension, remodeling, repair or malntenance of buildings or structures for the stotage of agr{cultural products prodLr-ced by farmers, planters, ranchmen, dairymen, or nut or fruit growers, or if such construction lumber is to be used for the packing, boxing, crating or stowing for shipment of such products; but only if there is endorsed on the purchase order or contract for such construction lumber the following statement, signed by the purchaser or by a responsible official duly designated for such purchaser:

All construction lumber covered by this purchase order (or contract) is to be sold, shipped, and/or delivered in compliance with paragraph (b) (1)(i)(d) of Limitation Order L121 with the terms of which I am familiar.

Name ii"t!'

BY:

Each endorsement made under the provisions of this Order shall constitute a representation to the producer and to the War Production Board that the construction lumber referred to therein will be used in accordance with the said endorsement.

(ii) Any construction lumber which is actually in transit on the date of issuairce of this

Order may be delivered to its ultimate destination i

(iii) Any producer may sell, ship and/or de- - livei any construction lumber to any other producer;

(iv) Any producer may sell, ship, and/or de- ' liver such construction lumber upon the specific authorization of the Director of Industry Operations on PD-423 for the specific sale, shipment, and/or delivery of such construction lumber.

This amendment shall take effect immediately.

Issued this 28th Day of May,1942

J. S. Knowlson Director of Industry OPerations

Classes in Salesmanship and Sales Management at USC

The University of Southern California, University College, I-os Angeles, announces for the summer quarter night classes in Salesmanship and Sales Management. Lectures in salesmanship will be held on Monday and Wednesday from 7:00 to 9:20 p.m., first lecture Jtne '22, and in Sales Management on Tuesday and Thursday from 7:00 to 9:20 p.m., first lecture June 23. Anyone interested is invited to attend the first lectures of both classes as guest of the College. The classes will be held in Room 303, I-aw Building.

The lecturer, P. W. Combs, Sr., has a background of long experience as Sales and Advertising Manager with nationally known companies, also as Marketing Consultant. His articles on these subjects have been published in business magazines, and he has won recognition as a popular speaker to business groups. He is well known to lumbermen, having appeared on the programs of many lumber conventions throughout the country, and was the featured speaker at one of the meetings of the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club last year.

EDRIC BROWN IN NEW YORK

Edric E. Brown, manager of the Bark Products Division of The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, left June 11 for New York, where he will make his headquarters for the next three months.

His activities in the East will be in relation to insulation requirements of the Government, and also in connection with the utilization of materials in mattresses, hats and other products.

Mr. Brown is accompanied on the trip by Mrs. Brown and their son, Richard.

We sqlute the retail declers lorced todcy to mcke big sccrilices to help win the grecrt "\llfqr ol Survivql," and stand ready to crssist in every possible way with our rrDependable Personal Servicet'

New Balsam-Wool Dealer Display

A new Balsam-Wool wall display that can be mounted on a wall or, because of its self-supporting construction, can be used as a counter display is now available to retail lumber dealers through salesmen of the Wood Conversion Company. In the lower left of the display is an actual wall section in miniature, with double thick Balsam-Wool applied between framing members. The blanket is cut at an angle across the top and clearly shows the Balsam-Wool mat. A heavy cellophane covering keeps it dust-free. This ,section also displays Nu-Wood sheathing and Nu-Wood lath.

The entire display is mounted on tuff-wood and is identical in size (18" x 18") and shape to its predecessor.

Wendel D. Farrar

Wendel D. Farrar, 58, owner of the Humphrey-Farrar Lumber Co., Berkeley, Calif., passed away in Berkeley on June 8.

He was with the Tilden Lumber Co., Berkeley, for many years before he went into business for himself.

Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Alma Farrar, a daughter, and three sons. He was the son of the late Dr. Joseph Farrar.

Fu.neral services were conducted by Durant Lodge No. 268,F. & A. M. in Oakland on June 10.

Ten Years Aso Today

From June 15, 1939 lssue

Southern Pacific Milling Co. purchased the Gilroy Central Lumber Co. at Gilrov.

A new service department and display room was opened by the Patterson Lumber Co., Patterson, when the public was invited to attend a formal opening.

The Capital Lumber Company of Sacramento filed articles of incorporation with the Secretary of State.

Brentwood Lumber Company, Brentwood, held a formal opening of their new home service department.

Merced Lumber Company, Livingston, opened a new builders' hardware department.

"Dobbsie," tttiorrally-krr-"r, radio broadcaster, talked over the Columbia network on Stockton's harbor development.

TIMBER SHORTENS NAVY'S LINES OF COMMUNICATION

Communication lines for Navy Department workers in Washington are being shortened by two covered, timber walkways across the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to connect the main building with temporary structures.

Designed by the Public Buildings Administration, these walkways consist of a series of 3?-foot Teco trusses supported by timber bents.

THE MEASURE OF A MAN

The place to take the true measure of a man is not in the market place or in the amen corner, nor in the cornfield, but by his own fireside. There he lays aside his mask and you may learn whether he is imp or angel, cur or king, hero or humbug. I care not what the world says of him, whether it crowns him boss, or pelts. him with bad eggs. I care not a copper what his reputation or religion may be, if his babies dread his homecoming and his better half swallows her heart every time she has to ask him for a five dollar bill, he is a fraud of the 6rst water, even though he prays night and morning until he is black in the face, and howls hallelujah until he shakes the eternal hills.

But if his children rush to the front door to meet him, and love's sunshine illumines the face of his wife every time she hears his foot-fall, you catt take it for granted that he is pure gold, for his home is heaven, and the humbug never gets that near the great white throne of God.

-W. C. Brann.

DOUBLE

"\l[/ere you annoyed because I sharpened my pencil with your razor?" asked his wife.

"i was annoyed twice," replied the candid husband. "Once when f tried to shave with the razor, and again when f tried to write with the pencil."

COAL

Coal was employed long before the Christian era, in China. The first shipment of coal to London was made in 124O, and. the first successful effort to smelt ore with coal in a blast furnace was by one Simon Sturterrant, an Englishman, in 1612.

In 1275 Marco Polo, a Venetian traveler, wrote as follows: "It is a fact that all over the country of Cathay there is a kind of black stone existing in beds in the mountains, which they dig out and burn like fire-wood. It is true they have plenty of wood also, but they do not burn it because these stones burn better and cost less.', In lZ50 the Virginia bituminous mines were opened and worked on the James River near Richmond. Five years after the Virginia mines began operation we hear of the discovery of coal in Ohio by one Lewis Evans, following which, in 1760, anthracite coal was first discovered in Rhode Island.

THOMAS EDISON ON WORK

Thomas Edison made this statement on his seventythird birthday: "I am glad that the eight hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. I am wondering what would have happened to me by now if fifty years ago some fluent talker had converted me and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow workers to put forth my, best efforts in my work. This country would not amount to as much as it does if the young men of fifty yqus ago had been afraid that they might earn more than they were paid."

RHYMED PHILOSOPHY

I hate to be a kicker, I always long for peace, But the wheel that does the squeaking is the one.that gets the grease.

It's nice to be a peaceful soul, and not too hard to please, But the dog that's always scratching, is the one that has the feas.

I hate to be a kicker, means nothing in a showBut the kickers in the chorus are the ones that get the dough.

The art of soft-soap spreading is the thing that palls and sta.les, But the guy that swings the hammer is the one that drives the nails.

Let us not put any notions that are harmful, in your head, But the baby that keeps yelling, is the baby that gets fed.

ODE TO A NAG

Oh horse, you are a wondrous thing, No horns to honk, no bells to ring, No license buying every year, With plates to stick on front and rear. No sparks to miss, no gears to strip, You start yourself ; no clutch to slip, No gas bills mounting every day, To steal the joy of life away.

Your inner tubes are all O.K. And'pray the Lord they stay that way. Your spark plugs nwer fuss or miss, Your motor never makes a hiss. Your frame is good for many a mile, Your body never changes style. Your wants are few, and easy met, You've something on the auto yet.

Hoo-Hoo Viaory Dinner and Golf Tournament June 18

A $25.00 War Bond will be awarded to the winner of the door prize at the Hoo-Hoo Victory Dinner and Golf Tournament for lumbermen and members of the allied industries to be held at the Altadena Country Club, Altadena, Thursday, June 18, 1942. The affair is sponsored by the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club.

Winners in the first and second flights, and other special events, will receive War Savings Stamps and other suitable prizes.

The golfer turning in the low gross score will be awarded the Roy Stanton trophy, and to the low net winner will go The California Lumber Merchant trophy. For permanent possession of these trophies, they must be won three times.

The tournament will start at 12:30 p.m. Dinner will be served in the Club House at 7:ffi p.m. The committee has arranged for some high-class entertainment, and those who do not play golf are invited to take in the dinner.

Tickets for golf and dinner will be 93.00. To play golf only, the green fee will be $1.50, and to those who attend the dinner only the charge will be $1.50.

The announcements have been mailed out. Send in the return post card as soon as possible. Guests are welcome.

The committee in charge of the arrangements includes: George E. Ream, George E. Ream Company, chairman; LeRoy H. Stanton, E. I. Stairton & Son, entertainment; F'red Golding, Anglo California Lumber Co., and Harvey Koll, H. W. Koll Lumber Co., handicaps and handling the tournament; R. S. Osgood, Frieder Brothers, and D. C. Essley, D. C. Essley & Son, prizes; Ed Martin, The California Lumber Merchant, publicity.

Reservations can be made by calling Ed Martin, 508 Central Building, Los Angeles-Telephone VAndike 4565.

550 Houses to be Buift at Napa

Construction of 550 private single family dwellings on a 100-acre site at the western city limits of Napa, Calif., at a cost of more than $2,000,000, will be started immediately according to an announcement recently made at a meeting of the Napa City Council.

The homes will be of permanent construction and will be sold to defense workers under a Federal purchase plan.

Redwood Logging Conlerence

The Sixth Redwood Logging Conference at Eureka, Calif., on May 22nd and 23rd, was a two-day session beginning with a field trip to The Pacific Lumber Company's operation on Yager Creek, and winding up with an allday indoor discussion of logging problems. The trip to the logging camp was preceded by a brief visit to the sawmill and the bark peeling and shredding plant at Scotia, and lunch at the camp. The party was taken from camp to woods on flat cars, and thence on foot to the landings.

The operation represents a newly-opened tract being logged by several methods-slackline, high lead and tractors, and combination of these. Mimeographed data on the operation was distributed to the visitors. Selective logging by tree and area selection is the aim for the entire tract, following results of a timber stand analysis in the Jordan Creek area and earlier experience with selective logging on Monument Creek. Company representatives reported on the analysis at the indoor session.

At the annual dinner session at Eureka Inn, the night of the first day, E. B. Birmingham acted as toastmaster; Winfield J. Wrigley made an address of welcome, and State Senator Irwin T. Quinn was the guest speaker. Senator Quinn spoke on the importance of logging to the redwood counties, outlined some of the changes he has noted during his lifetime in Humboldt County, complimented the loggers for inaugurating a system of selective logging whereby he hoped the industry would become continuously productive. County officers were invited, but only Supervisor Len yokum and Assessor George Fulton were able to attend. Member of the State Board of Forestry, Frank Reynolds, of Crescent City, was a guest. The field trip and dinner were pronounced by those attending as unqualifiedly successful.

Watt Hibler, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., presided at the full-day in-door session on May 23. The speakers included: S. J. Sharp, California Redwood Association; K. B. McGuire, Caspar Lumber Company; Roy G. Wagner, IJ. S. Forest Service; H. I. Bower and Lawrence A. Dodge, The Pacific Lumber Company; Gray Evans, Hammond Redwood Company; D. A. Baxter, Holmes Eureka Lumtier Co.; N. I. Matson, Twin Disc Clutch Co.; Herman Bauman and Donald K"gy, equipment men; A. Whisnant, secretary, Pacific Logging Congress; Earl Barron, Chief State Fire Ranger, and Emanuel Fritz, consulting forester, California Redwood Association.

Conveniently loccted to give you perconal senrice cmd the usual highest guality oI lumber.

L-1 21---\(/ar Requirements and Lumber Production

(The following is a statement by Dr. Wilson Compton, secretary and manager, National Lumber Manufacturers Association, on Amendment No. 1 to Limitation Order L-I21.)

Under the terms of the WPB Limitation Order L-12I, May 13, construction lumber has become, temporarily__at least, a "critical" as well as an "essential" war material. We should recognize that fact and its implications. Amendment No. 1, published May 28th, has three principal effects:

1. It "unfreezes" the lower grades frozen in the original Order. In general the grades now lrozen are those included in the Army's familiar 8000-E specification. This "unfreezing" was expedited by the fact that the Army had obligated itself to buy whatever grades and items were frozen for its benefit. It promptly and frankly took the position that:

Whatever the -Army has frozen the Army should buy; if the Army has frozen grades and items which it does not need. will not use. and does not intend to buy, it should "rtnfreeze" them; the Army will buy any grades and items frozen for its benefit produced while the freeze order is in effect.

On this point no lumberman could ask for more prompt or more fair action by the Army.

2. The beneficiaries of the freezing order are now extended to include, in addition to the Army, the Navy, and the Maritime Commission, the Panama Canal, Defense Plant Corporation, and Lend-Lease Governments; also the construction for storage or packaging for shipment of agricultural products.

3. Bona fide local retail lumber distributing yards are exempted even though they may "process" as much as 254o of their lumber.

Amendment No. 1 does not, however, clarify a number of the uncertainties of interpretation which have plagued individual lumber producers and distributors and which are still awaiting official "interpretation" by the War Production Board. Deliveries by "producer" of lumber for defense housing projects are still not permitted under the amended order unless under sub-section (b) (iv) the purchaser secures a specific authorization from the WPB Director of Industry Operations on Form PD-423. Any other exceptions to the Limitation Order for particular sales or shipment of particular stocks to specified buyers will have to be secured similarly through specific authorization by the Director of Industry Operations, applied for on Form PD-423.

Appeals for relief also may be made to WPB by any person upon whom Order L-l2l as amended imposes an "exceptional and unreasonable hardship," or where it would result in a "serious problem of unemployment in the community," or would "disrupt or impair a program of conversion from non-defense to defense work." Applications for relief go to the War Production Board. No particular form of application is required. The WPB Director of Industry Operations has discretion.

This is the lumber industry's first taste of a direct freezing order. Another of limited application but nevertheless significant was issued May 26th in Conservation Order M-122, similarly freezing the delivery of "rvar use" grades of mahogany and Philippine mahogany to U. S. Government or Lend-Lease Governments or for use in aircraft, ships, boats, or patterns and models of high preference ratings. There is ah under-current of consideration of similar limitation orders applicable to factory grades of lumber including both hardwoods and softwoods needed for war purposes. These include trucks, wagons, trailers, furniture, boats, beds, skis, packs, buckets, trunks, poles, utensils, tools, stretchers, railroad equipment, tanks, racks, shelving, barges. Continuance of free market for lumber of grades needed for these purposes will depend primarily on the ability of the industry to supply promptly the requirements of the Army and Navy. The conversion of industries and products from the use of steel and other metals to the use of wood is continuing to mount and the end is not in sight.

Present estimates of war requirements during the next year include:

12 billion feet for Army and Navy construction alone;

7 billion feet for boxes, crating and containers ; over 4 billion feet for war and defense housing; an equal volume for farm construction; and nearly 10 billion feet more for fabricated products for the Army and Navy and Maritime Commission, for railroads and public utilities, for ship construction and for what is regarded as the volume of building repair necessary to mainfain the existing civilian and industrial plant. Although the greater detail of requirements is known, it is ,not available for publication. The important fact is that the estimates of the war agencies themselves of their requirements of lumber and timber products during the next year substantially exceed the piesent and prospective maximum volume of production.

These are facts which all lumber companies should have in mind. The requirements figures may, of course, be pared down. They will be. But lumber production is under the handicap of increasing lack of labor, especially skilled labor, and incieasing difficulty of procurement of needed repairs, maintenance and equipment. Lumber production last year was between 33 and 34 billion feet. So far this year it has been running at a rate about 7/o less than last year. In some areas the production continues to decline. In others with the aid of eitensive over-time operation it is advancing. IJnder the most favorable foreseeable operating conditions the lumber supply during the next many months will be less than the national needs for war and defense purposes. As long as that condition exists the industry will be under continuing prospects of further extensions of the so-called "limitation orders."

These ought, of course, to be avoided if possible, if for no other reason than that, in an industry as widely scattered

Port Orford Cedar

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LumberTiesCrossing PlcnksDeckingTunnel TimbersVenetian Blind Stock Alro Supplien ol SPIJT REDWOOD, DOUGLf,S FIR, BED CEDA8, I'NTNEATED AND CNEOSOTED PBODUCTS

and of as many small units, "fteezing" stocks is likely to retard production.

Regaldless of prospect of further limitation orders manufactuiers of lumber and timber products will be wise to respond as fully as they can to the Government's appeal .for more production; keep themselves as well informed as they .att oi the prospective war needs for their products; bid when the Gbveinment asks for bids; and ask their other trade to "stand aside" until the urgent war needs are met.

This situation can be improved and is being improved by the extent to which the Army, the Navy, and other war agencies are persuaded to simplify, standardize and co-ordinite their lumber specifications; to rely more for procurement of special stocks on negotiated contracts; to anticipate their lumber requirerhents as far ahead as possible and frankly to buy for riserve. More and more they -are doing this and more and more they are consulting the industry agencies and accepting their advice. The industry organizations, a-nd to a larg-e exient the WPB, are constantly working on this and making headlvay, although not enough

Lumber iompanies generally in most sections have been uneasy over the continuing diversion of labor, especially skilled labor, to other war industries. So-called labor "piracy" has been rampant in many sections of the lumber industry and in many other industries. As a result of _strong representation made on May 15th by the Lumber Manufaiturers Advisory Committee of WPB, the Labor Divisions of the war agencies dealing with labor supply and priorities have now under consideralion a number of steps which, if taken, should substantially irnprove this situation so far as lumber companies are concerned. The most significant immediate action is the order yesterday of the War Man Power Commission in substance "freezing" essential workers in critical war industries in their present jobs. Probably employers in war industries hereafter will have to hire exclusively through the United States Employment .i.ly- ice. This Service will develop potential sources of available labor; is expected to find ways of "routing" critical labor to critical industries. "Job seeking as usual" like "business as usual" is at an end or Soon will be.

MOVE TO NE\/\/ OF"FICES

Cadwallader-Gibson Co., fnc., have leased their building at 3628 East Olympic Blvd., I-os Angeles, to a war industry for the duration, and theil new I-os Angeles address is 621 South Spring Street. The telephone number is TRinity 9651.

ON BUSINESS TRIP

Charles Yerkes, Roddis Lumber & Veneer Co., Marshfield, Wis., spent several days in Los Angeles last month on business. He made his headquarters at the offices of E. J. Stanton & Son, their Southern California distributors.

--GBADBS--

YOU TNOW TITAT GBADING IN AI{Y PARNCULtrN GBADE OF LI'MBER CAN VARY AS MUCH AS $IO.O(! A THOUSAND FEET.

TIIAT'S WHY OI'R GRADES AT TIIE PRICE ANE YOI'B BEST BIIY. PBOOF? AStr OUN CUSTOMERS!.

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a WITH OUR EVERY EFFORT EXTENDED TOWARD IOO PER CENT COOPERATION WITH THE \/vAR PROGRAM. vt/E \,VISH TO ADVISE OUR CUSTOMERS WE SHALL ENDEAVOR AT ALL TIMES TO CONTINUE SERVICING ALL ORDERS AND INQUIRIES TO THE BEST OF OUR ABILITY, Mcin Ofiicc SAN FRANCISCO 110 Market Sbeet

DEPENDABLE WHOLESALERS OF OOUGLAS FIR REDWOOD

PONDEROSA AND SUGAR PINE CEDAR PRODUCTS

POLES & PILING WOLMANIZED ANEl CREOSOTED LUMBER

Replacement of Yard Stocks for Dcalers Servicing War Production

H. R. Northup, secretary-manager of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, in a letter to the Federated Associations on May n, 1942, states :

"We have discussed with the Lumber and Lumber Products Branch of the War Production Board the problem confronting lumber dealers who have rendered a vital and necessary service to war industries in the matter of making quick deliveries to shipbuilding plants, munitions plants, and others, of many lumber items from yard stocks.

"Limitation Order L-l?l makes it impossible for dealers to replenish yard stoiks for this or any other purpose for a sixty-day period.

"The Lumber Branch is well aware of this problem, which is not confined to any one section of the country, and is anxious to find a solution.

"Procedure to be Followed to Get Immediate Relief :

"fn response to many inquiries, the Lumber and Lumber Products Branch has adopted a procedure which is giving relief to dealers in many areas. Below, we are quoting a type of telegram being sent to dealers requestingrelief:

'Retel- consideration of exemption from order L-IZL f.or replacement of inventory retail yards or distributors will be given only for specific purchases to replace material delivered to purchasers authorized to receive construction lumber under the order. If the exception is granted you must certify that the construction lumber so received will be delivered only to purchasers specified in the order.'

"Ilnder this procedure, it is requested that dealers confronted with this problem immediately write to the Lumber and Lumber Products Branch of the War Production Board, furnishing information of the following nature:

1. Names of u'ar industries being serviced.

2. Ratings accorded to the various projects being serviced.

3. Lumber items required to service these industries.

4. Names of mills with whom orders have been placed.

5. Percentage of dealer's business represented by his service to war industries.

6. Any other pertinent information.

"The War Froduction Board, in the cases where relief has been granted, has taken the information received from

the dealer and, upon reaching a decision to afford relief, has wired the mills, authorizing shipments to dealers of the construction lumber items necessary to enable them to filt orders for war industries.

"ft is entirely possible that the War Production Board will accord relief to many dealers in instances where vital war industries are being serviced but, as the wire we have quoted indicates, dealers must give assurance that stocks received in this manner will be used only for one purpose, namely, that of. servicing definite and specific war jobs for which the relief has been granted.

'iAll such requests should be addressed to:

Mr. John M. Oliver, Chief, Distribution Section Lumber and Lumber Products Branch War Production Board Room lM 433-3rd Street, N. W. Washington, D. C."

Beronio Lumber Co. Moves

Beronio Lumber Company recently moved from their old location at Beach and Powell Streets, San Francisco, to a new location at 2525 Marin Street, corner of Kansas Street. The new telephone number is VAlencia 3283.

The move was made necessary by the Government need for the North Beach property. The work of moving the stock of 1,500,000 feet of lumber, the mill and office building, was accomplished in two weeks. A spur track to accommodate three cars is being put in. The property, which is three and a half acres in extent, is owned by the company.

Beronio Lumber Company was established in lgZl by the late Antone Beronio, who had previously been associated with a partner in the lumber business at the same site. The yard, which has for many years been an important factor in the retail lumber industry in San Francisco, is managed by Milton Beronio, who started to work for his brother in 1923.

This yard normally carries a stock of more than 2,SOO,000 feet of Fir, Redwood, Cedar and Spruce lumber.

DISCONTINUES BUSINESS

The Vernon Lumber Company, Los Angeles, discontinued business on June 1. Yost-Linn Lumber Company, Los Angeles, purchased their lumber stock.

Celotex Enlarges its Executive Staff Rigid Controls Over Construction

To facilitate the servicing of war construction projects, The Celotex Corporation has enlarged its executive staff by appointing Lee Bartholomew, formerly manager of the company's Cleveland division, as an assistant general sales manager, according to an announcement by Marvin Greenu'ood, g€neral sales manager. He will devote most of his time to this service.

His place as Cleveland division manager will be taken by E. E. Dierking, fomerly assistant division manager.

Mr. Bartholomew returns to a post which he held with ,the company in 1938, prior to his appointment as general sales manager of Celotex, Ltd., of London, the company's English subsidiary. He returned from London in June, 1940, and has served as Cleveland division manager since that time.

He joined The Celotex Corporation in 1932 as a sales representative in the Cleveland division. Later he became division manager and retained that post until 1938. Before joining Celotex, he was in the retail lumber business in Seattle.

During his stay in England, Mr. Bartholomew observed the operations of the English building industry under wartime conditions. Ife was in close touch with war requirements for insulation board, particularly in the construction of cantonments, housing for workerS, factories and other war structures, and also for blackout purposes.

Mrg. Winnie Rhoades \(/hite

Mrs. Winnie Rhoades White, wife of William Thornton White, president of White Brothers, San Francisco, passed away suddenly in San Francisco on May 31.

Mrs. White was the daughter of the late Ira O. Rhoades of San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Funeral services were held in San Francisco on Wednesday, June 3.

Announced

Washington, May 3G-In a move to make all possible material and effort available for immediate war production, top officials of the War Production Board and the War and Navy Departments have established broad principles governing all wartime construction which will bring such building under more rigid conservation control.

The program means that no new plants will be built unless they are absolutely essential and can meet seven newly established criteria. This applies not only to direct war plants but to all other construction, both publicly and privately financed.

One of the main reasons for the new policy is that all critical materials'are needed for war production now, and no materials can be spared for building new facilities except when they are absolutely necessary. The policy means simply that, in the light of existing shortages, it is necessary to put materials and effort into planes, ships, tanks and g'uns now, rather than putting them into plants which would not produce fighting weapons until a much later date.

The principles were outlined in a directive, efiective immediately, signed by Donald M. Nelson, chairman of the War Production Board, William H. Harrison, director of production, Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of War and Frank Knox, Secretary of the Navy.

The seven criteria which must be met before any project will be approved for construction follow:

1. It is essential for the war efiort.

2. Postponement of construction would be detrimental to the war effort.

3. It is not practical to rent or convert existing facilities for the purpose.

4. The construction will not result in duplication or unnecessary expansion of existing plants or facilities now under construction or about to be constructed.

5. All possible econbmies have been made in the project, resulting in deletion of all non-essential items and parts,

6. The projects have been designed of the simplest type, just sufficient to meet the minimum requirements.

7. Sufficient labor, public utilities, transportation, raw materials, equipment and the like are available to build and operate the plant. The manufactured product can be used at once or stored until needed.

Lee Bqrlholonew

lssuance of Commitments Under T:de Vl sl

The National Housing Act Amended 1942

W. G. Bingham, district director, Federal Housing Administration, Los Angeles, in a letter to all approved lending institutions, dated June 6, 1942, states:

"Today we are in receipt of the following information from our Washington office:

"The National Housing Act Amendment of. 1942 were enacted by Congress to implement our war effort through the construction of essential war housing by private enterprise.

"Every precaution must be taken to avoid the possibility of the amendments being considered by anyone as encouragement to begin construction of housing which is not clearly essential for war workers, or to begin construction of essential war housing without reasonable assurance that materials are available for its completion.

"There are no circumstances which would warrant participation in the program made possible by this legislation unless it can be determined that postponement of the proposed housing would be detrimental to the war effort.

"Housing which is clearly essential, properly designed, and urgently needed in behalf of our war effort should be expeditiously handled. Therefore, in accordance with the above statements, we are authorized to issue commitments under Title VI of the National Housing Act, amended 1942, in accordance with instructions now being forwarded to our office, provided that each application for commitment meets the following tests.

1. That preference rating orders under which critical materials will be secured have been received by the builder and are in proper order, or satisfactory assurance that all critical materials needed to complete the proposed construction are on hand and that the builder has authority from the War Production Board to begin construction. (P-55 issued and current or PD-200 approved by the War Production Board, Washington, D. C.)

That our office make such recheck of plans and documents as required to satisfy us that the proposed construction embraces a minimum use of critical materials.

That there is satisfactory assurance that lumber as required to complete the construction is obtainable.

That there is satisfactory assurance that the materials required for utility connections are not in excess of the maximum standards for war housing as established by the War Production Board for gas, water and electric service. (Administrative letter to Gas and Water Utilities and Administrative letter to Electric Utilities, each dated May 18, 1942,

and from J. A. Krug, Chief, Power Branch, War Production Board.)

5. Commitments shall not be issued if it evident that the need for the subject property which was appafent at the time priorities were recommended has been diminished by a subsequent elimination or reduction of demand from proposed or existing war plants to the point where such construction may no longer be considered essential.

"Nothing in this letter should be construed to prohibit or limit the issuance of commitments under Title VI in the following types of cases:

a, The refunding of an existing insured mortgage.

b. Where the issuance of the commitment is for the purpose of replacing a previously issued commitment.

c. Where the issuance of the commitment is for the purpose of replacing a previously issued property eligibility statement under Title I Class 3.

"Effective this date, Title VI applications received will be held in Preliminary Examination unless there has been submitted with the applications evidence as required in paragraphs I and 3 above, and unless plot plans or other satisfactory evidence from utility companies shows that there can be compliance with paragraph 4 above.

"Further, Title VI applications now pending in our offices beyond Prelirninary Examination will not be processed until the same evidence required above is submitted to us.

"There has been no change in the instructions to us that we may continue to receive applications for preference ratings for critical materials for defense housing, but that we cannot process such applications until we are further advised by Washington."

APPOINTED SALES M'ANAGER

Ben Bartel, who has been associated with the Peoples Lumber Company for many years, has been appointed sales manager with headquarters at the Ventura office.

He succeeds Jim lfenderson, who resigned to become general manager of the Southern Nevada Industries at Las Vegas, Nevada, manufacturers of concrete blocks. Ji* began his new duties on June 1.

CALLING ON ARIZONA TRADE

Jack lvey, Los Angeles, field representative for the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, is calling on the Arizona retail lumber trade. He will return to los Angeles on June 21.

S. F. MAY BUILDING PERMITS

Building permits in San Francisco for May totaled $1,5f3F,173, compared with $650,720 in April, and $2,000,913 in May, 1941.

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Refease Lumber From Freeze to Complete Delense Housing Projects

Upon the application of FHA, the Director of Industry Operations has issued two omnibus authorizations which will enable the several contractors on certain publicly and privately financed defense housing projects to place orders for the particular lumber required to complete those projects, at the same time granting permission to the producers concerned to accept orders from and make deliveries to those several contractors.

These authorizations were issued on Forms PD-423, one to cover the publicly financed projects so authorized and another to cover the privately financed projects; both pursuant to Limitation Order L-121, paragraph (b) (1) (iv).

One approved copy of each of these forms PD-423 has been deposited with the National Housing Agency as the agent acting in behalf of the several contractors on the projects.

Other approved copies have been submitted to the Lumber and Timber Products War Committee as agent acting in behalf of the several producers from whom the contractors will purchase the lumber.

Each of these forms includes the phraseology of the certification which each contractor and person intervening between him and the producer must include in each of his lumber purchase contracts or orders on the producer. In the case of the publicly financed defense housing projects the certification, after having been entered on the.lumber contract or order, must be signed by the Federal Public Housing Authority Superintendent located at each of the authorized housing projects, while for privately financed defense housing projects the certification must be signed by both the contractor and the nearest authorized agent of FHA.

Under this procedure the individual "producer,' of construction lumber for his authority to sell and ship will rely upon the certification of the contractor and of the FHA regional officer, or of the Federal Public Housing Authority Superintendent, as the case may be, that the order for lumber complies with the two PD-423 orders.

To each of these forms PD-423 is attached a list of the defense housing projects therein authorized. In the case of public housing, the projects are identified as to locality, project number, units and approximate board feet of lumber required to complete; whereas in the case of the private housing, the projects are identified only as to locality and number of units under construction and authorized for completion.

BACK FROM VACATION

Charlie Gartin, salesman for Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., San Francisco, is back from a vacation trio to Southern California.

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Plywood Producers Study Post-War Pattern

Reseorch Beins Undertaken Now to Gear for Future Promotion Manufacturers Told at Meeting

"Get ready now to go to market again" as soon as the war is won. That is the way W. E. Difford, managing director of Douglas Fir Plywood Association, presented the post-war pattern for plywood to the 150 leaders of that industry when they met for their annual business session at Tacoma, Wash., recently.

He forecast a sweeping upturn in new construction, especially in homes and on the farm, with the return of peace but warned the operators of the 31 Pacific Northwest plywood mills there will be new competitors in the building field and renewed and expanded merchandising progiams for all other materials.

"Today the plywood industry is paying the penalty of leadership," was the manager's summation pointing out that the panels have become established as the material that does more different building jobs than any other. To assure plywood-it's a household word today-a continued leading role in the post-war economy, Mr. Difford stressed that a multi-point program must be maintained vigorously during the war period when, of ngcessity, all manufacturing efforts of the industry are geared to national needs.

"Foremost of the factors that will contribute to plywood's continued top-ranking place in the building field is constant improvement in product," said the managing director as he outlined the promotional agenda of the industry for these war years. This is to come through laboratory and field research and advancement of manufacturing techniques.

Iechnicians Added

The research program, first undertaken several years ago, already has been greatly expanded through addition of technicians and new testing machines at the association's Tacoma laboratory. Experiments being undertaken there today are rushed to bring clear answers to the flood of. questions concerning physical properties of plywood that have come as builders and manufacturers turn to plywood for airplanes, oil barges, crates, barrels, structural members, tubes, tanks, prefabricated buildings.

Long-term laboratory studies-including the exposure fences in various parts of the nation to give accurate information concerning weathering of painted and unpainted panels-are being accelerated also to provide new treatments, new applications for plywood in homes, offices,

buildings. Paint studies, finishing techniques, join! treatments, get ranking attention. Then there is the development of the combined use of plastics or spun glass and plywood that promises to offer entirely new materials with which to build and decorate.

Field research is being undertaken with technical and agricultural schools and with industries that are leaning on the material to meet new demands. These trials of new

uses of the panels are expected to uncover whole new markets. Mr. Difford listed 59 separate projects testing the perforrnances of the panels in that many different farm applications alone. Then there are studies of the job plywood is doing for the different railroads in boxcars and reefers; for boat builders either as the primary material or for bulkheads, compartments; for airplane manufacturers for structural parts, wing tips, pontoons, fuselages; for manufacturers as cogs, wheels, trays in the production lines of many different products; finally, the contributions ply-

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Pogt-war pcttenr. Thqt wqs the subject domincrting fhe pl<rnning ol plywood mcnulcrcturers when they held their qnnual meeting ct Tccomcr, Wqsh. Here cre three officicrls ol Douglce Fir Plyrood Associction, induetry-wide pronotioncl agrency. From left: E. W. Dcniels (pregideat oI Hcrrbor Plywood Corp.), retiring presiden$ W. E. Diflord, mcncgring director; N. O. Cruver (vice president ol Wheeler-Osgood Scrles Corp.), new presidenl.

wood is making toward more livable homes of conventional construction as well as making feasible the mass-production of prefabricated houses.

Adding that the research program is to include market studies, the manager laid before the plywood men the longrange, broad-gauged advertising program as determined by the industry's management committee. In essence, the plan includes continuation of advertising throughout the war years to carry the message of the physical properties of plywood to the specifiers and consumers. The trade journals are to remain the crux of this effort. Then, an expanded promotional program with return to .,business as before" with'sales facts directed at the housing fieldprobably prefabrication will be a mainspring-the farm field, the industrial market and marine users.

Book of the Year

The report to the industry was made in book form with Mr. Difford glancing at the pages in a large book to guide his talk. But there was no fiction in the story he related-it was a mere statement of facts. And he got down to basic principles when he told operators, ,,you,ve got to cut manufacturing costs of plywood so the sale price can eventually be reduced and at the same time you must con_ stantly improve the quality of your product.,, This accomplishment is to come through increased plant efficiency and new manufacturing techniques. Even during the past year several entirely new machines have been introduced that revolutionize certain steps in the manufacture of the panels.

Accomplishments of the industry during the past year- normally the predominant subject at an association meet- ing-got relatively little attention. The plywood manufacturers already knew that production had rocketed until it now is at the rate of two billion square feet a year-four times the output of 1938. They knew also that the bulk of their output goes directly to Army and Navy needs or houses for war production workers. That the government is "in their businesses" for the duration.

Plywood at War

Mr. Difford merely summed up that 90 per cent of the output goes for war needs and gave some forceful figures showing the importance of plywood to the winning oi this world battle. The plywood being produced in 1942 can provide the following national needs: 100,000 five_room houses for war workers, 10,000 barracks, 10,000 Army camp buildings, 100,000 Army hutments, 1,000,000 Army l,ockers,

100,000 airplane engine crates, 300 minesweepers, 50,000 assault boats, 100,000 pontoon boats, 25,000 sentry stations, 25,0n trailers, 2,0@ trailer camp buildings-and still there will be half a billion square feet for factory and farm buildings, gliders, airplanes, railroad cars and l@ other specific major war uses.

The plywood men named N. O. Cruver, vice-president of Wheeler Osgood Sales Corp. of Tacoma, as the president of Douglas Fir Plywood Association for the next vear. He has been a member of the firm which he now manages for more than 2O yearc. Mr. Cruver succeeds E. W. Daniels, president of Harbor Plywood Corp. of Hoquiam, Wash., who headed the association for the past two years.

Frost Snyder, president of Vancouver plywood & Veneer Co. of Vancouver, 'Wash., was elected vice-president of the association. J. P. Sirnpson, vice-president of Buffelen Lbr. & Mfg. Co. of Tacoma, is the new treasurer of the industry and H. E. Tenzler, president of Northwest Door Co. of Tacoma, the new secretary.

Trustees of the all-industry board are: T. B. Malarkey, vice-president of M & M Wood Working Co. of portland, Ore.; Clay Brown, manager of plywood division of Smith Wood-Products, Inc., of Portland; J. R. Robinson, president of Robinson Manufacturing Co. of Everett, Wash., and Mr. Daniels, the retiring association president.

Only entertainment at the one-day business meeting was the presentation of six new motion pictures in a little theatre erected within the ballroom meeting place. These, however, also are devoted to usei of plywood and were protluced recently for showings to lumber dealers, architects, builders and farmers. The mbvies, all color and sound, separately depict plywood on the farm, the plywood fleet, prefabrication with plywood, finishing treatments for plywood, the manufacture of the panels and sales helps.

Housing for Sausalito

Plans and recommendations for housing to accommodate 5,000 of the 12,000 workers to be employed at the Bechtel shipyards now being constructed at Sausalito, Calif., have been forwarded to the U. S. Maritime Commission for approval.

The housing program includes 3,400 family housing units and 1,600 single men's units to be located within one mile from the plant gates. It also calls for 1,000 to 1,6@ Title VI homes to be built in the Southern Marin County area.

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Plan War Savings for Homc Savings, Foundation' Chairmen Urge

A "Victory home plan" for the renting family to apply to its War Savings, is suggested by the Northern and Southern California Homes Foundations, in reporting a preliminary study on post-war planning by the building industry.

This study, the Foundations say, has begun with a survey of the preparations being made in both America and England by public agencies and private industry groups, for the gigantic economic change that will follow victory by the United Nations, a change in which family war savings will be a vital force.

"Victory for the democracies will mean the survival of economic freedom for the American family," is the view of Bernard B. Barber and Orrie W' Hamilton, Foundation Chairmen. "This freedom is best tealized by the average citizen in home ownership. Freedom for his family to live in security and peace on its very own plot of American earth and under its orvn roof. The dawn of peace the everyday American visualizes is his own little light of garden and doorway, forever unclouded by foreign threat. Millions of these little lights will together make the glory of America's future.

"The building industry is planning for the leading part it must play in that future, even while it is breaking records in war constructioh. New designs, new construction methods, new building materials and tools, have been brought into being by the industry in its emergency drive to provide housing for the armed forces and for war-industry workers on schedule. These will serve the building needs of peace as well as they are meeting war demands.

"The FHA plan of family home financing has been strong1y impressed on renting families who have had rents raised again and again, while their neighbors with FHA-financed homes were paying a fixed rate per month for home ownership.

"Investment in War Savings Bonds and Stamps is a pa-

OPEN-AIR PANELTNG

A few pieces of lumber and molding, fastened to the wall in a oleasing -"nn"t. as illustrated, makes a-n attractive, permanent wall d.cot"tLn. Purcirasing the materials and installing the lattice p-aneling are relatively simple and inexpensive. and the resulting wall covering will withstand the worst weathering.

triotic obligation on every family. Such investment represents real value in dollars and cents, which may be applied to down payment on a home when the war is over, in one or another of the forms for such use which are now being studied and planned.

"With this outlook, Northern and Southern California Ho,mes Foundations sugg'est to the family that is now living in a rented home a 'Victory home plan,' for .its War Savings, with home ownership as its peacetime goal."

Central Valley Hoo-Hoo Club Housing Project for Richmond

Central Valley Hoo-Hoo Club met in Stockton on Monday evening, May 25.

Bob Dunn of Stanislaus Lumber Co., Modesto, the Club's new president, presided. He succeeds Art Martin of Hales & Symons, Sonoma, who is now on active service as an officer in the State National Guard.

Douglas Manuel of the San Francisco office of the Federal Housing Administration, was the speaker of the evening.

Shipyird Workers

Emergency housing for 2,000 shipyard workers in Richmond, Calif., will be constructed on 14 acres of land adjacent to the Richmond Shipbuilding Plant No. 1. This announcement was made by L. I. Hewes, Jr., regional director of the Farm Security Administration. Twenty-six dormitory buildings of two stories each will be erected at a cost of approximately $800,000. The buildings will duplicate the design of 19 similar dormitories built at Vallejo.

T. M. GOBB GO. WHOtESAtE SASH DOORS MOULDINGS PL'WOODS

Two to four months each year, an open-air Dorch serves as a favorite haven of relaxation ind entertainment. To make this outdoor living room as attractive as possible, some type of wall coverinq is desirable but it must be a permanent variety to $'ithstand the vigors of winter weather.

ODT Clarifies Truck Conservation Ordgr

San Francisco, May 29-Changes in the four general orders for conservation of trucks and tires were clarified here today by the Office of Defense Transportation.

In announcing the changes, the ODT emphasized that the determination to achieve the objectives of the orders has not been relaxed. Such changes as were made have been approved only to give the industries affected additional time to work out their own plans for attaining the objectives of the orders.

In the major changes announced today, the ODT:

1. Postponed from June 1 to July 1 the effective date of provision of orders 3, 4, and 5 prohibiting the operation of trucks in over-the-road deliveries unless loaded to 75 petcent of capacity on the return trip.

2. Relaxed a provision of order No' 6 with respect to newspapers and set up two alternate plans for conservation of trucks engaged in newspaper delivery services.

3. Extended jurisdiction of the local delivery order to 25 miles beyond the corporate limits of the municipalities.

4. Exempted trucks engaged exclusively in the pick-up or delivery of telegraphic, radio and cable communications and the U.S. mails from the provisions of order No. 6.

5. Relaxed order No. 6 with respect to coal trucks and set July 1 as the effective date of the mileage reduction program for such vehicles.

6. Extended to July 1 the effective date of order No. 6 with respect to trucks primarily equipped for the transportation of bulk liquids.

Postponement of the return load provisions of orders No. 3, 4, and,5 means that until July 1 trucks engaged in overthe-road operations may return empty to the point of origin, if there is no cargo available for transportation on the return trip.

This provision was postponed, ODT explained, to allow industry more time in which to work out practicable programs for return loads and mileage reductions in their operations. Truck operators were urged to continue without let-up their preparation for such programs.

Under the revised local delivery order, newspapers may adopt either of two plans for the conservation of equipment.

One plan sets a limit on the number of deliveries a paper

may make in one day, the number to be determined by the population of the ared served, and also requires a 25 per cent reduction in delivery mileage.

The other plan sets no limit on the number of deliveries on the same day but requires a 40 per cent reduction in mileage. Under either plan, special deliveries and call backs are banned.

Under the coal truck amendment, firms engaged in the delivery of solid fuels must increase the efficiency of their operations so that their mileage per ton delivered in any one month shows a reduction of 25 per cent as compared with their average monthly mileage per ton delivered in 1942.

Another change in order No. 6 makes the order binding not only on carriers but on shippers as well.

In the provision setting up the 25-mile limit on local deliveries, the order provides that retail deliveries made directly to the consumer beyond this limit are to be considered as local deliveries.

Order 6 has been further clarified to permit a local carrier to make an additional delivery on the same day to the same point if the commodity to be transported requires the use of a vehicle exclusively adapted for the transportation of such commodity.

IJnder another clarification, order 6 permits one delivery a day from any one point of origin to any one point of destination.

Ralph E. Hill

Ralph E. Hill, secretary-treasurer of the National Oak Flooring Manufacturers Association, passed away at his home in Memphis, Tenn., on May 23. He was 59 years of age.

He was born in Oregon, Mo. He operated a retail lumber yard in Kansas, and later was associated with the LongBell Lumber Co., remaining with them for sixteen years. Ife was secretary of the Southern Oak Flooring Industries for several years, and was code administrator at Memphis for oak flooring during the NRA. Later he was made chief of the price division of the entire lumber code with headquarters at Washington, D. C.

He is survived by his widow, three daughters, and a son.

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MAKE EASTERN AND SOI'THERN TRIP

Charles B. White and W. T. (Bill) Meyer of White Brothers, San Francisco, returned recently from a five weeks' business and pleasure trip. They went as far east as the Atlantic Coast states and called on a number of the firm's hardwood mill connections in the Southern states.

RETURNS FROM EAST

Kenneth Smith, president of the California Redwood Association, San Francisco, returned June 5 after being four weeks in the East on business of the Association. He visited Chicago and Washington, D. C., and spent a few days in Seattle and Portland on the way home.

AL NOLAN ON SEATTLE TRIP

A. J. Nolan, 'Western sales rjranager, The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, is back from a 10-day visit to Seattle on business connected with the company's steamer Scotia.

STUART SMITH S. F. VISITOR

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Stuart Smith of Fountain-Smith, Los Angeles, spent a few days in San Francisco on business at the end of May.

BACK FROM NORTHWEST TRIP

A. C. Pascoe, Pacific Coast sales representative of Wood Mosaic Company of Louisville, Kentucky, has returned to Los Angeles from spending two weeks on business in the Pacific Northwest. He also visited San Francisco on his way back to Southern California.

LOS ANGELES BUILDING PERMITS

Los Angeles building permits for the month of May totaled $2,454,475 as compared with $8,611,734 for May, 1941. The building total for the current year up to and including May 31 was g32,527,944 as compared with g36,?n4,9n for the corresponding period in 1941.

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LUMBER YARDS FOR SALE

We have a number of good yards in Southern California for sale. Twohy Lumber Co., Lumber Yard Brokers,80l Petroleum Building, Los Angeles. Telephone PRospect 8746.

NLMA AND TECO MOVE WASHINGTON OFFICES TO NEW AFPI BUILDING

Growing National Lumber Manufacturers Association activities, recently hampered by space so inadequate that it drew frequent comment from visitors, will have lebensraum' in new quarters at 1319 Eighteenth Street, N. W., Washington, D.C., recently purchased by American Forest Products Industries, fnc. The Timber Engineering Company staff also moved to the new address on June 1.

The building will be designated the American Forest Pioducts Industries Building.

ON NORTHERN TRIP

A. L. (Gus) Hoover, Los Angeles, Southern California representative for The Pacific Lumber Company and Wendling-Nathan Co., is spending a few days in San Francisco and at Pacific's mill at Scotia.

CALIFORNIA VISITOR

R. L. Ross, Oregon Lumber Sales, Eugene, Ore., is spending a few days in San Francisco and Los Angeles on bus-iness.

3OOO NEW HOMES FOR HARBOR AREA

Construction of 3000 new homes for war workers in the Wilmington-San Pedro area will start shortly, Nicola Giulii, chairman of the Los Angeles City Housing Authority, has announced.

The project calls for a dormitory development accommodating 1000 single men and a 2000-unit dormitory for families without children. These will supplement 3500 units already in construction in the San Pedro district.

IN THE EAST

M. K.'Wolfson, pany, I-os Angeles,

manager of the Cleveland Wrecking Comis on an eastern business trip.

BT]YDB9S GI]IIDB SAN NBANOISOO

LUMBER

Arcata Rcdwood C.o. {21 Marlat Strcct ......,....'....Yljlrm 206?

Atkinsn-stutz Conpuy, lU Mukct Stn t ................G1\rfrdd fE0e

Bookrtaver-Morc Lumbs Co., 525 Mutct Stct.,........,.......EXbmL a7a5

Dant & Rueall. Inc., 2ll Frcnt Strc.t ,.................GAdcld Grz

Dolber & Cron Luba Co., ulE MGrcharts Exchugc Bldg.....SUtter 7a56

Gancr3ton & Greo, ft00 Amy Stret....,...,.......,..Atwata 1300

Hall, Jucr L., 1032 Millr Blds.. , ,...... .Sutter ?520

Harooad Rcdwood Cupuy, aU M@ttoncry Strut.......,....DOuglar 3ilEE

Holmcr Eurcka Imbcr Co., lr05 Finucial Ccntcr Bldg.......,GArficld l92f

C. D. Johnrcn Lumbcr Corporation, 260 California Str.rt.,......,......GAr6c1d 625t

Carl H. Kuhl Lubr Co., O. L. Rulum, ll2 Market Strct...YUlon 1,160

LUMBEN

Lamon-Bonnington Conpany, 16 Calilomia Str.ct................GAr6c1d 6EEl

MacDonald & Hartqton, Ltd.. 16 Califonia St. ..................GAric|d t393

Pacifc Lmbcr Co., Th. 100 Bush StGt....................GArficH f fEl

Popc & Talbot, Inc- Lumbc Dlvlrtoa, 16l Muket Stret.................DOu9Ia! 2561

Red River Lmber Co, 315 Monadnoct Bldg.,.............GArfield 0922 Santa Fc Lumber Co., 16 Califomia Strect,...............EXbluk 2ll?1

Schafcr Broc. Lunbc & ShtD8L C.o. I Drunm Strut.....................Suttc l?l

Shevlin Pinc Sales Co1030 Moiradnock Bids.............EXbmk ?04r

Suddcn & Chriltcnen, 310 Sanlom. Str6t................GArfield 2E{5

Wcndling-Nathan Co., ll0 Merkct Strc.t ...................Sutta 5163

West Oregon Lumber Co., 1995 Evms Avc. ..................ATwatcr 56'llt

E. K. Wmd Lumbcr Co. I Drumm Stret....,.........,....EXbmL 3710

Wcycrhaeurcr Salcr Co- l4e Califomla Strct,.,............GArfrcld Egl'l

, LUMBER

Ewauna Bc Co. (Pyrantd Lunbcr Salcr Co.)

Paclfic Bldg. ....Glrncort Ee93

Gamcrrton ll Gren" le tth Ay.. (lth Avs Pta)......Hlgatr 2255

Hill & Morton' IncDmirn Strcct Wharf .,.....'....ANdovcr l07il

Hogu Lumba Company, znd & Alie Stretr.............Glmcourt StGl

E. K. Wood Lubs Co., Frederick & King Stret!......'FRuitvalc 0ll2

LUMBER

HARDWOODS AND PANEIJ

Whitc BrcthGr!,Fifth and Brunan Strcct...........Suttor l3t5

SASH-DOORLPLYWOOD

\f,/heler Osgood Salcr Corporati@, 30{5 lgth Stret..................,VAlcncie 22ll

CREOSOTED LUMBER_POLESPILTNG-TIES

Amcrien Lumbcr & Trcating Co., 116 Ncw Montgomcry StrGdt.......Sutter l22t

Baxtcr, J. H. & Co., 333 MoDtgomcry Stret...........DOuglar 3EE3

Hall, Jamer L., 1032 MiUs 81dg.......................SUttGr 752.

Popc & Talbot, Inc., Lunbcr Dividon, {61 Mrkat Strct .,..........,,....DOuglar 2561

Vander Laan Piling & Lurnb.r Cr, 2le Pinc Strcct ....................ExbrooL 19C

Wcndling-Nathan Co, ll0 Markct Strat....,.,'.....'......SUtter 5383

PAN ELS-D(X)RS-SASH-S CT.E ENs

Califonia Buildcrr Supply Co. ?00 6th Avcnuc .'..Hl3atc O16

Hogu Lmbcr Cmpuy, 1nd & Atle Strctr..............Gl.cn@urt CE6l

lltcstm Dor & Suh Co.' 5tl & Cyprcu Str6tt..........TEmplcbar E{00

HARDWOODS

Whit. Bmthcru, 504 High Siret. ".................ANdovlr 1600

LOS AITGBLBS

Arcata Rcdwood Cl. (J. J. Rca) 5lr0 Wilahin 81vd...............'.WEbctcr ?E2E

Anglo Califomia Lumbcr Co- -655 Eatt Florcnco Avcnuc. .THomwrll 31a{

Atklnrcn-Stutz Compsny, 6i!t Pctrolou Blde..............'PRolp*t {3'll

Burnr Lumbcr Compuy, 9455 Charlevillc Blvd.' (Bcvcrly Htlle) ,. ....BRadchaw 2'33EE

Crn & Cor L J. (w. b. Dultry1, l3t Chanbcr of Connccs Bldg. PRorpcct tt43

Cmpcr, W. Ecoe-oO8 Ricbficta BHr. ..." .'. ..Mutual 2l3l

Darrt & Rurell, Inc., tr2 E. 59th St.......................Altul tl0l

Dolbar & Carrcn Lubcr Co.. 90r Fidclity 81dg...................VAndikc 6792

Cul H. Kuhl Imbcr CoFricdcr Brothcn' ?0a S. Spring St...................VAldi&c EIK!

Hammond Redwood Compay, 2or0 !b. Alucda SL ..........PRorpct l3:B

Holmcr Eurcka Lubcr Co., al-Irz Archit6tr Bldg.............Mutud glEr

Hover, A. L., 5225 YYilchirc 81vd....................YOrk UGE

C. D. Johnon Luba Corporetion, 616 Pctrclcu BldS.,......,......PRorpcct 1165

Lawrcncc-Philipr Lumber Co., dB P.trclcun Bldg....,....,..,,..PRorprct EUl

MacDonald & Hmingtu, Ltd. Pctrclm Bullding ...............PRoepcct 3fZ

Paclfic Lunbcr Co. Tbc, 5225 Wibhlrc Blvd. ...,.............,YOrk rr6t

LUMBER

Popc & Talbot, Inc, Lmbc Dlvfulon, 7ll llf. Olynpic Blvd. ..........PRoDsct E23r

Red Rivcr Lumbcr Co., 702 E. Slauron,. .CEntury 290?l l03l S. Brcadway.................PRorpct 03ll

Reitz Co., E. L., 333 Pctrolcum 81df....,..........PRoFGt 23@

Santa Fa Lmbcr Co.,

3ll Flnmclal Omt.r Bldt........VAndiL al?l

Scbafr Bror. Lmbcr & Shh8L Co, rU W 9th Srrlt....................TR!D|tr rztl

Shcvlln Pino Salcr Co330 P.trcleu Bldg.........,,....PRospct 0615

Suddcn & Chrletcnrcn, 630 Board of Tradc Bldg.. ..., ....TRinlty E8,ll

Tacoma Lmbcr Salce, t37 Pctrclm Bldg. .....,......,.PRorp.ct lrot

Wcndllng-Nethu Co.,

5225 Wilchirc B|vd....................YOr& rlSE

West Orcgon Lumbcr Co. 427 Petroleum BldS..,.........,.Rlahnond 0?tl

W. W. Wilhlnron, 3rE W. 9th Strct..,....,..,.,...,.TRinity 46il3

E. K. Wmd Lumbcr Co. 4710 So. Alucda St-..,..........JEffcrm 3lll

Weyerhaeuser Salea Cl., 920 W. M. Garlud Bldg.........Mlchigu 6391

CREOSOTED LUMBER_POLES-PILINL TTES

Amcricm Lunbcr & Treating Co. l03l S. Brcadway.................PRospcct {363 Butcr, J, H. & Co., 601 Wert sth Stret..............Mlchigu 6291

Popc & Tdbot, Irc. I.ubc Dividon, 711 W. Olympic Blvd.............PRorE6t &3r

HARDWOODS

Ancricaa Hardwood Co., 1900 E. rsth SE Gt ................PRornoct a235

Stanton. E. J. & Son, 20ta' Eut 38th Strot ............CEntury 29211

Wcetcm Hardwood Lumbcr Co., 20l| E. fsth Stret...............PRorpGGt 6lal

SASH-DOORS-MIITWORK PANELS AND PLYWOOD

California Door Company, Thc l9{l Dlrtrlct Blvd. ..............K!rlbd! alr

Califomia Panel & Vcnccr Co., 955 S. Alancd! StrG.t ......,....TRinity Cf5?

Cobb Co., T. M., 5E00 Central 4v.nur,..............ADur lltl?

Eubanl & Son, lnc., L'. H. (lnglcwod) 433 W. Rcdondo Blvd............ORegon t-1C63

Kochl, Jno. W. & Son, 652 S. Mycrr Stre.t.. ..ANgclu tl9l

Mutual Mouldinr & IJnb.r Co'

930rit So. Hmpcr Avc.,...........L,I\fryottr llZZ

Oregm-Waahington Plywood Coo 3lE Wert Ninth Strect............TRintty 4al3 Pacific Wood Productc Corporatlon, 3500 Tybum Strcct..............,..Al.boy Crlr Pacific Mutual Dor Co. 1500 E. Wasbington Blvd.,......PRo!pcct g5Z:l Reu Conpany, Go. 8., 235 S. Almeda Stret..,.....,...Mlchigu rtil

Rcd Rivcr Lmbcr Co.

702 E. Slaumn.. Smpcon Co. (Pacrd"na), 715 So. Raynmd Avc...............RYen l-B!

Welt Coast Scren Co., ff15 E. dlrd Strect.,...,.......'...ADur lltl6

Whela Ogg@d Salcr Corporation, 922 S. Flwcr Str6t..,.,..........VAndftc C32a

tlny'rn /oying

BRADLEY'S SIR AIGHT-LINE Oal( Flooring

II there ever wcs c time when propertfr owners were demcrnding top vcrlue lor rheir buildinq dollcus, thct time is now. By the scme token, deqlers cre selling more Brcdley STBAIGHT-LINE Oak Flooring ihcn ever belore. For, this proved superior product qssures the highest possible prolection for floor dollcrs in crny constuction where hccd' wood floors crre specilied.

Further increcrse in dealer sqles is indiccted as small home building and remodeling gcin momenturn. Thcl Brcrdley declers cre tcking cdvcntcge oI these opporhrnities is cppcrent from the volune ol orderE coming in crnd the volume oI Brcdley STRAIGIIT-IINE Oak Flooring going out to hundreds oI retcril mcrkets in the count.It.

Whct's the outlook in your territory? Hcve you c stock ol Brcdlev STRAIGHT-IINE Oak Flooring sufficient to meet cll requirementE, including those ol smqll home construclion crnd remodeling? Better cqll our neqrest representctive to come in qnd tqlk it over, or il you preler, write us direct

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I. E. Higgins Lurnber Compcrry, Sqn Frcncisco Strcrble Hcrdwood Compcrny, Ocklcnd