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SCHAFER BROS TUMBER SHINGLE CO.
lbe Floating Iloor, evenly supported at every point, has the real resilience oI wood-plus!
No dead areas or hard spots to spoil the game, when a gymnasium.floor follows this design. Players report "no shin splints and less fatigue". And it's quiet.
No expensive rebuilding jobs be' cause of decayed subfloors, either, when Wolmanized Lumber* is used there, Pressure treatmerrt with WoIman Salts* preservative makes standard structural lumber hishly resistaat to decay and termite aftack. You save on upkeep.
For Industrial Buildings, too.
Floating Floors employing Wolmanized Lumber offer many advantages: easier' on workers, quieter, longer lived, smoother trucking, and cost less to 43fifain.
FETTOil UIIIYERSAL WOOD TNILT
A new high speed ball becring lour heqd moulder thct is re\rolutionizing the woodworking industry.
This new machine will run lour side detcil up to 2 x 6Yz inches ct speeds lrom 30 to 125 leet per minute.
Priced cpprolimcrtely $3,300.00 delivered including motors, the delivery is now 30 to 60 dcys.
Weslern Representotive
Kemp
| 133 Eqst 63rd Slreet, Los Angeles I, Cqliforniq CEntury 2-9235
Offiices Moved to File Buildins
MacDonald & Harrington, Ltd. will move from 16 California Street, San Francisco, to offices on the 10th floor, Fife Building, San Francisco 11. The move has been caused by the leasing of the whole building at 16 California Street by one tenant.
Scn Francisco Lumbermen Heor Tclk By Ccrrl Crow
Carl C. Crow of Portland, Oregon, rvas the speaker at the regular luncheon meeting of the San Francisco Lumbermen's Club, held at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco,May 27.
Mr. Crow made a special trip by air to be at this meeting. There w-as an attendance of 136 at the luncheon, a reco,rd crowd, and all were interested in what the speaker had to say about the present lumber market and the prospects for the future.
E. G. "Dave" Davis, Union Lumber Co., San Francisco. introduced the speaker.
President Herb Schaur presided.
Simmons cnd Petty Building New Yqrd
The Simmons & Petty Lumber Company is a nerv concern, identified with the Hensen lumber interests of Southern California, which is building a new and modern retail lumber yard at Doheny Park, on the coast in Orange County. Mr. Scott Simmons, the manag'er, was with pattenBlinn and also E. K. Wood for manv vears.
Lumber School Stcrts June 23
The second short training' course for veterans and retail lumber and building material yard personnel will start at the College of the Pacific, Stockton, June 23. Firms that wish to enroll one or more men should get in touch immediately with the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California, P.O. Box 623, Fresno 9, Calif.
The cost for a student will run around 9175 for the 30 days including board and room. GI's, if unemployed, can arrange for their allowance under the Bill of Rights.
Willamette Vclley Tree Fcrms
America's most unique cooperative tree f.arm organization, the Willamette \ralley Tree Farms, has just added the Oregon Pulp and Paper Company to its membership. This'brings to seven the number of participating timber and orvners to 350,@0 acres the area served by the private group of foresters, according to Paul Sanders, chief forester. Oregon Pulp and Paper Company holdings include 42,W acres. The concern's forest property was recently certified by the Joint Committee on Forest Conservation as a West Coast Tree Farm. The policy of the company is to manage its forest land to keep it in permanent production of raw materiatr as a basic supply for the various company manufacturing plants. Membership in the Willamette Valley Tree Farms is to secure technical assistance to helrl accomplish this objective.
Scys 165,000 Homes Completed in Los Angeles County Since War Ended
Frederick G. Larkin Jr., an officer of the SecurityFirst National Bank, of Los Angeles, told the Electric Club of this city at a noonday luncheon that Los Angeles is now having one of the great building booms of its history, and that due to this great construction volume the house shortage is rapidly fading.

He said: "The worst of the housing shortage was passed nearly a year ago, but it probably will be two or three years before renters and buyers will have the freedom of choice they had before the war. Since the war 165,000 homes have been completed in Los Angeles County, enough for 500,000 persons. This is a remarkable performance considering the controls and shortages."
P. L. Mcrtthies Co. Moves To Pqscdencr
P. L. Matthies Co. has moved to a new and larger site at 817 South A.rroyo Parkway Boulevard, Pasadena. The new yard has an area of about two acres.
This company specializes in Ponderosa and Sugar pine factory and yard items, and pine mouldings in quantities suitable for retail lumber yards, regardless of size.
Mr. Matthies, who has been connected r,vith the California pine industry for the past 22 years, has developed connections with sawmills that manufacture carefully from the best grade of timber. "Our customers' problems are our first consideration. We have found that a good way to do business." he savs.