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Earl Chalfan, who was formerly with E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Oakland, and who has been engaged in buying lumber at Eugene, Oregon, for some time, has been appointed sales manager for Guistina Bros. Lumber Co., Eugene.

M. L. (Duke) Euphrat, Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco, spent two weeks in the Northwest last month, making his headquarters at the firm's Portland office.

Lieutenant (j.g.) Harvey West, Jr., son of Harvey West, Sr., partner in the Placerville Lumber Co., Placerville, Calif., is supply and disbursing officer on the USS Delphinus AF 24. He recently completed at New Orleans his third trip in the Pacific area, the first being to Okinawa during the drive there against the Japs, and the second to Tokyo Bay, where he was stationed for 3O days as supply and disbursing officer on the USS Auriga AK 98. It was his duty to decommission both these ships frbm the Navy the Navy in June, to civilian use.

He expects to be discharged from after serving three and a half years.

His brother, Robert, served for about a year with the Army Air Forces, and is now attending Sacramento Junior College.

R. A. Mackin of Francisco, returned Angeles. He made

Hallinan Mackin Lumber Co., San May 29 from a business trip to Los the round trip by the air route.

E. L. Payne, Sierra Wood Products, fnc., Pasadena, was a-San Francisco visitor recently on his way to Oreggn.

Alex Gordon, Gordon-MacBeath Hardwood Co., Berkeley, is back from a two weeks'trip to the Northwest, where he called on plywood plants, and on the way visited a number of California Pine mills.

Jas. ts. Overcast, sales manager, Strable Hardwood Co., Oakland, is back at his desk after two weeks' vacation, spent in Yosemite National Park.

Jim Wright. son of E. Veneer Co., Los Angeles, has received his discharge

A. (Ted) Wright, Washington has returned from Saipan and from the Navy.

Col. Frank B. James, son of Roy James, Huntington Park wholesale lumberman, flew to Los Angeles recently from Maxwell Field, Ala., together with three other officers to inspect the new airplanes being developed in the Los Angeles area. Col. James is an instructor in Strategic Air Operations in the Air Force Command and Staff School at Maxwell Field.

J. P. Cronin, Cronin Lumber Co., Van Nuys, sent us a card from Honolulu, Hawaii, and reports a grand trip, He writes: "Lumbermen come here to see a tree of lumber. Can't see it in the States."

Casper Hexberg, district sales manager, Union Lumber company, San Francisco, was back at'his desk June 1O fol. lowing his recovery from a long illness

Mrs. Flora H. Coleman is celebrating her 4th anniversary with the General Lumber & Supply Co. of Los Angeles, on July 1. She has built up a neat paint department for the firm. Jerry A. Nesmith, after three-and-one-half years in the Navy on the -Submarine "Seapoacher" is now assisting Hans Wall in the management of the company.

A. W. (Lance) Green, who is in charge of eastern sales for l-Inion Lumber Company, San Francisco, returned June 1O from his vacation, spent at La Jolla and Santa Barbara.

Chas. T. and Mrs. Francisco

Gartin, Oregon Lumber Sales, Eugene, Oregon, Gartin recently spent their vacation in the San Bay District and Modesto, Calif.

Amos Geib, Geib Lumber Company, has returned from Northern California he called on the mills.

Huntington Park, and Oregon where

Elmer Williams, Hallinan Mackin Lumber Co., Los Angeles, is vacationing at Catalina Island.

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Congratulating a Veteran

The members of the staff of The California Lumber Merchant want to add their good wishes to the many messages of congratulation received June 10 by John L, Todd, president of the Western. Door & Sash Co., Oakland, on his.92nd birthday.

Mr. Todd, dean of the sash and door salesmen of the 'United States, was born on a farm in Sullivan County, Missouri, and began his West Coast career and connection with the lumber and allied industries in 1889, when he established a sawmill in Tacoma,

Wash. He returned to the east in 1897, and six years later came back to Tacoma and engaged in the sash and door business.

\n 1944, with his son, Joe Z. Todd,, he established the Western Door & Sash Co. in Oakland. The business has grown and prospered. Mr. Todd has traveled on the road for his firm since it started. He is still active, while regret-ting that scarcity of supplies limits his visits for the time being.

His hobbies are reading of the best in literature, bridge, and golf. And he has a record of over 18 years'consecutive Rotary attendance.

He is a fine gentleman, highly respected, and liked by all who know him.

On Extended Trip

C. H. Land, general manager, Monarch Lumber Co., Oakland, is expected back about July 5 from a 6o-day business trip to the South, Middle West and East.

Appointed Assistant Secretary

Effective June 1, H. T. Dupont assumed the duties and office of assistant secretaryship of Pope & Talbot, Inc.; San Francisco, succeeding James S. Brown, who has retired after 35 years of service, according to an announcement made by Charles L. Wheeler, executive vice president.

Mr. Dupont began his service with Pope &. Talbot, Inc., in 1908, and served in various capacities with the organization until 194O. From 1940 until this appointment was made he was associated with the Pope interests.

Annucl Forty-Niner

The Annual Forty-Niner, sponsored by San Diego HooHoo Club No. 3, for the lumbermen of San Diego and San Diego County, was held in San Diego Friday evening, May 24. A buffet supper was served, and there was a fine floor show, after which the boys tried their luck at the several games of skill being played.

Vicegerent Snark Mearl Baker, and the members of the Nine, provided an enjoyable evening for all present.

Los Angeles Building Permits

Building permits f.or 7,289 dwellings estimated at $7,7D,N0 were granted during May by the Department of Building & Safety of Los Angeles. This compares with 1,378 permits ,valued at $8,430,000 granted in April and 443 valued at $2,005,000 a year ago.

Including industrial and commercial construction a total of 4,598 per-its for construction valued at $21,705,000 were granted in May, compared with 4,954 valued at'$23,467,W in April and 2,487 valued at $4,536,943 a year ago.

For the year to date 23,747 permits valued at $l@,794,000 have been granted compared with 11,235 valued at $16,750,500 for the like period last year.

Obituaries

Homer T. Hcrywcrd

Ifomer T. Hayward, prominent retail lumberman, passed away in Salinas, Calif., May 24, of a heart attack.

He was born in Flora, Illinois, and spent practically all of his life in the lumber business. He had interests in Sterling, Colorado, where he was in partnership with his brother, C. A. Hayward, in the Sterling Lumber Co., until 1910, when he moved to Southern California. There he 'founded the Hayward Lumber & Investment Co. and operated it in partnership with his brother until 1918, when he went to Salinas and organized the Homer T. Hayward Lumber Co. The company has established five branches.

Mr. Hayward was a charter member of Rotary in Salinas, and the club's first president. He was a member of Salinas Lodge, No. 204, F. & A. M.; a past president of the Southern California Lumbermen's Association; member of the Odd Fellows, and W. of W.

- He leaves his widow, Mrs. Maude Hayward; a daughter, Mrs. Catherine Griffen, Santa Cruz; three grandchildren, Homer M. Hayward, Salinas, (general manager of the company), Miss Margarite Hayward, Berkeley, Charles Griffen, Santa Cruz, and one great grandchild, Carol Griffen, Santa Cruz.

Private funeral services were held in Salinas on Mondav. May 27, 1946.

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Scmruel L. Boyd

' Samuel L. Boyd, prominent midwestern lumberman, passed away at his home in Minneapolis, Minn., on May 17, after a long illness, He was 74 years of age. He was born in 'Wiscasset, Maine. His entire business life was spent in the lumber'industry, retiring in 1941. Mr. Boyd took an active interest in Hoo-Hoo, and when the Orderwas reorganized in. 1939, he was elected international president, holding this position until his death. Surviving are his widow, a son, and a sister.

George M. Porter

George M. Porter, who operated the Slauson Avenue Lumber Co. in Los Angeles for a number of years, passed away on,'June 4. Mr. Porter sold the yard a few months ago.

- His widow, Saidee M. Porter; a brother, A. L. Porter of Los Angeles, and two sisters, Mrs. Fred M. Johnston and Mrs. Mark Coyner of Muscatine, Iowa, survive. Funeral services were'held in Los Angeles on June 8.

MiIl Ceilings on Hcrrdwoods Rcised

Mill ,ceiling increases averaging I9/o on cottonwood, quartered sycamore and plain sycamore lumber produced in the north central hardwood lumber region have been granted. (Amendment22to MPR 155, efiective June 15.)

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Producers' ceilings on all western red cedar poles and piling except split cedar poles have been increased lo/o. (Amendment to MPR 554, effective June 15.)

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Peacetimg Program At Private Forest Owners "JOE BEAVER' In F:r Region ior Tree Planting Restored

Seattle, June 7.-The peacetime program of private forest owners in the Douglas fir region for planting tree seedlings on burned areas of forest land is "more than iully restored," the West Coast Lumbermen's Association has announced.

"The cooperative tree nursery of the forest industries at Nisqually, Washington, is now in its year of greatest production," says the Association. "Six million seedlings, mostly Douglas fir, are growing there. Western Oregon and Washington timber operators have already contracted for 5,400,000 of the seedlings in this record-breaking industrial crop of trees for tomorrow. The remainder will be held as a reserve for private forest owners who may want more seedlings to plant than the number specified in their contracts."

Foresters of the association cite the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company for the planting of 1,025,000 seedlings during the past season, employing high school students for restoration of forest growth to burned lands. "This company has demonstrated faith in the land and in the value of forestry for many years in a program headed by a nationally known forester, Norman G. Jacobson. The company's planting in the past season comes close to putting its forest lands into full production and is therefore the climax of long effort that exemplifies private enterprise as a public service."

A large part of the burned areas planted by the cited company was ravaged by fires set by the forest-using public-"hunters, fishermen, campers, berry-pickers and criminals who deliberately set forest fires," according to the foresters. They emphasized that comparatively little planting would have to be done on private forest lands in the Douglas fir region to provide new timber on cutovers were it not for man-caused forest fires.

Past operations of the Nisqually nursery have been all in war years, the association said. "Maximum production for any previous year was about three million seedlings. This year's output will plant up to 12,000 acres. The cost to industry for growing and planting will be $120,000 or more.

While the timber is growing to harvest size, over a mrnimum period of 50 years, protection and other expenses will add $15 per acre more to costs, or a total of $300,000 for the 12,000 acres through the minimum maturing period. If the forest industries can keep freedom to produce, freedom to manag'e, freedom to plan and operate, the public may expect the nursery and planting program to be maintained. "Yet we will lose ground if the public fails to do its part in prevention of forest fires by the careless and by criminals," the Association warned. "There is an economic limit to the planting of burned forest lands. The real answer is treatment o_f the forest fire as a'crime by law enforcement agencies and action by the courts to make the punishment fit the crime."

Merryman Timber Tract Sold

The sale of the land known as the-Merryman timber tract was made public June 4. This was one of the biggest tirnber purchases in the history of Humboldt County, , Calif., involving 13,7ffi acres of virgin redwood and fir. The tract, on the westerly slope of Redwood Creek, was bought by David D. Bohannon, nationally known builder, -of San Mateo, Calif., and is estimated to contain about one billion board feet of timber.

The sale'was made by Harry H. Cole of San Francisco, and Charles R. Barnum of Eureka, associated timber lrokers. )

Mr. Bohannon purchased the Ogletree mill at Arcata, Calif., in January. This mill is now operating under the name of Dolly Varden Lumber Co., which is reported to be the owner of 250,000,000 feet of fir timber.

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An access road lnto the tract will be constructed within the next few months by the new owner.

The late Curtis Merryman, for many years an officer and advertising manager for TIIE CALIFORNIA LU[ABER MERCHANT, was a son of the A. C. Merryman, who bought this Redwood tract more than sixty years ago, and dying left it to his heirs. A. C. Merryman was a famous bld.time Wisconsin lumber manufacturer. The family of Curtis Merryman lives in Pasadena, and share in this timber fortune. Mrs. Curtis Meryman is a sister of two well known California lumbermen, Art and paul penberthv.

New Ycrd in Ocklcrnd

Bay Area Lumber Co., fnc., recently started business as a retail lumber yard, located at 4621 Tidewater Avenue, Oak_ land.

Don E. Coveney is manager of the new concern. He resigned his position as sales manager of the AtkinsonStutz Co., San Francisco, to enter business for himself. Don is well and favorably known in the East Bay area, having been with the Strable Hardwood Co. for 13 years, and for the past several years with Atkinson-Stutz Co.

.'Demands lor Home Repcrir

There is a gigantic pent-up demand for postwar home.re_ pair and improvement work to be don€ as soon as materials for the purpose are available, according to Arthur J. Frentz, assistant commissioner of the Federal Housing Administration. In estimating the demand for credit to finance this -type of work, Mr. Frentz told the l2th annual Institute of fndustrial Banking: "\Me need only to consider that there are nearly 40,000,000 dwelling structures in this country ' ltrd that very little improving or modernizing work has been done- during the past five years. practically every ' house needs some kind of work done to it.', He estimatei that possibly half of these dwelling owners would want 'work done as soon as materials are available and that one out of six would seek credit. This would mean 3,300,000 loan. applications.

now be authorized by the Federal Housing ddministration ' ?cting for the Civilian Production Administration. Re_ modeling to create additional dweiling units for veterans, occupancy may be undertakcn with priorities assistance.

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