The California Lumber Merchant - July 1954

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lhe Douglas fir that grows in Oregon's rich rain forests is the finest in the wodd. That's why we use it. The mills in which we produce plywood are models of efficiency in the industry. The people who work with us are skilled, interested, productive-with pride in their jobs.

From these ingredients of materials, machines and men comes APMI Plywood that carries double marks of quality-the DFPA grademark and our own trademark.

APMI plywood is available in major building and distribution areas, sold by experienced plywood men. Your inquiries are invited.

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THE CALIFOR}IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

How Lumber Looks

Lumber shipments of 516 mills reporting to the National Lumber Trade Barometer for the week ending June 12 were 1.4 per cent above production. 'C'rders were 8.6 per cent above production. For the previous week ended June 5, 520 rnills reported shipments 2.I per cent above production, while new orders were 1.4 per cent above production. For the year to date, shipments of reporting identical mills were 1.8 per cent above production; new orders 4.3 per cent.

According to figures released by Secretary Harris E. Smith, West Coast Lumbermen's Association, Portland, for the first five months of 1954 through May, cumulative production of Douglas Fir sawmills was 4,401,318,000 feet, as compared with 4,601,511,000 feet in the same months of 1953. At the end of the period, May 31, the industry's unfilled order file was 874,470,000 feet; gross stocks were 984,145,000 feet.

The Western Pine Association, reporting for ill mills in the week ending June 12, showed production 82,189,000 feet, shipments 77,737,000 feet, and orders 81,883,000 feet. For the week ended June 5, 119 mills reported production 77,625,000 feet, shipments 75,079,000 feet, and orders 77,304,000 feet. Shipments were 6.1 per cent below production, while orders were 0.4 per cent bblow production in the week ended Iune 12.

mills in tl.re week ending June 12, showed production 127,749,023 feet, shipments 140,011,588 feet, and orders 150,429,601 feet. In the previous week ended June 5, 170 mills reported production 114,240,960 feet, shipments 125,137,229 feet, and orders 125,408,883 feet.

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How Lumber Looks

Vcgctbond Editorials

My Fcvorite Story

Lcrtest Strike News

Ycrd Adds Do-It-Yoursell Spcrce

"Rhymed Do-It-Yoursell"

Building Le<rds Economic Pcrcde-Editoricl

Stcrnley Moore Retirement

Fcrirless Specks to Grqduqtes

New Wrinkle in Lumber Locrding

Fun-Fccts-Filosophy

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CAUF0Rt{lA-Ponderosa Pine, California, Douglas and White Fir, Knotty Pine Paneling, Fir Plywood, Lath, Treated Products.

N0RTHWESI-Douglas Fir and West Coast Hemlock Lumber, Timber and Lath-Western Red Cedar Shingles and Siding - PlywoodFlakewoodKitchen CabinetsCut Stock and 0ther Factory Products-Treated ProductsTimber Fabrication.

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In his nationally known Rolling Hill, New Jersey development, Alexander Caplan has used carloads of Certigrade shingles.

Mr. Caplan-liks ge many successful builders across Anerica-has found that natural materials, such as cedar shingles, help speed the sale ofhis homes and build his reputation for quality.

Your customers are no exceptions. Retailers who remember that profit is tied to mark-up. are stressing t}l'e ualue of cedar as against the price of substitute materials.

The reosons builder Coplon uses cedqr shingles ore lhe some reosons

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ln ihe nexl lwelve monlhs, Alexonder Coplon plons one hundred more homes in his lovely Rolling Hill developmenl, locofed qt Noe Avenue ond Southern Boulevord, Chothom Township, New Jersey. All will feoture lhe crowning beouty of genuine Certigrode shingle roofs.

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for this fine Western softwood. Light in color, with a slight reddish cast, its natural finish harmonizes delightfully with today's furnishings in homes, offices and commercial buildings. West Coast Hemlock is noted for its straight grain and freedom from pitch. It does not splinter, and takes a beautiful finish, natural or painted.

Naturally, a wood with these characteristics has many uses in fine homes and in commercial construction-all the way from framing to siding, from flooring to ceiling. Dealers have found that Weyerhaeuser 4-Square West Coast Hemlock, with its wide range of uses, is a popular species, profitable to stock and sell. Write for literature that will help you sell more of this abundant "Ability Wood."

Wesl Coosl Hemlock bevel ond bungolow siding is duroble ond highly odoptoble fo oll $yles of orchitecturc.

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Several years ago back at the close of the annual baseball world's series games, one fan remarked to another: .,It wasn't much of a world,s series.', And his friend said: "What did you expect? It isn't much of a world!', I thought of that the other day when I heard a bunch of men discussingas who does notthe conditions pre- vailing in the world today, and one of them said: ,,Sure, this is the best country on earth ! It is not only the best but it is much the best country ! No doubt about that ! But is that saying much?"

And as you look .uo,rl ,"J *rJ"", and watch the antics of men and nations, you may be inclined to agree with the man who made that remark and asked that question. you often hear someone say: "Too bad Will Rogers didn't live until now. With his wit and wisdom he might be a lot of help in pointing the way out of our American p.roblems." He might, at that.

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Too bad William Allen White couldn't be here now to editorialize the confusion in which we find the world and ourselves involved as in some dark net. He was a small town editor in Kansas. One day when he sat down to write, he was just a well liked, respected, small town editor. He got to thinking of conditions prevailing right then in his beloved state of Kansas, and his thoughts began pouring out on paper. And when he finished he was famous. For he had written "What's the Matter With Kansas?" which became one of the most quoted of all American newspaper editorials. He just took off the gloves and told his fellow-Kansans, and the world, just what ailed that state.

r much fear, howev.., ln"a**" l-rrrr. *orr. past the stage in this country when a trutJrful presentation of conditions would do any great good, no matter who wrote or spoke them. It is doubtful if another Patrick Henry with another "Give me liberty or give me death," another Daniel Webster with his salute to the Flag, another Abe Lincoln with

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another Gettysburg Address, or another George Washington with his greatest appeals to patriotism and Americanism, would sufficiently arouse this nation to what goes on. It is doubtful if another "What's the Matter With Kansas?" by a later-day colossus, would even make a dent in our civic consciousness. Rampant partisanship would probably emasculate any such effort. That's the way it looks.

For many blessed generations the children of this nation had instilled into their hearts and minds from earliest days the immortal and imperishable truth that this is the greatest nation in the world; that the country in which we live is the most blessed that the children of men have ever known; that here, and here alone, all men are equal before their God and their government; that the children of the poor have the same rights and privileges enjoyed by children of the rich; that those certain inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness belong to every citizen and cannot be denied him: that there is more tolerance, more fellowship, more fair p,lay, more understanding, more genuine opportunity, more unvarnished equality here than there is or has ever been anywhere on the face of the earth; that every American citizen should thank God every hour of the day for the unequalled blessings that come to him with his American birthright; that the kingly crown of an American citizen is the grandest crown ever worn by a sovereign; that the boy from the cottage has as much rightand a whole lot more chanceto become President as the boy from the mansion; that this is, in fact and in truth, "The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave."

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Mothers used to teach these consecrated truths to the children at her knee. Fathers would proudly proclaim them to their sons, and strive that these glad tidings of great joy might be ineradicably imbedded in their consciousness. Every teacher used to teach them in our schools. Every preacher used to proclaim them from his pulpit. Every statesman emblazoned them. Every Fourth of July orator jeweled them with fine phrases. Every historian sought to imbed them in the timeless scroll of history. Every patriotic assembly proclaimed their sanctity. They became the rock-ribbed foundations upon which the eternal glory of this nation was built. They were the heart of our nation's heart, and the fiber of our nation's fiber.

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Look about vou today. Think honestly and deeply, and

..ROME ENDURED AS LONG AS THERE WERE ROMANS. AMERICA WILL ENDURE AS LONG AS \VE REMAIN AMERICANS IN SPIRIT AND IN THOUGHT."

David Starr Jordan.

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answer this question: do those priceless philosophies still prevail? ***

Personally, I still believe in those philosophies; believe in them just as firmly as when I was a kid in school, and first heard and read the inspired words of Washington, and Jefferson, and Patrick Henry, in their discussions of Americanism; in their complete condemnation of foreign alliances and entanglements. Which is why, in this era of purposeless mediocrity, I resent all the printed and spoken chatter about new ideals, new horizons, new frontiers, and the septic sea of slop concerning one-worldism in place of old-fashioned Americanism. To me all this guff about needing to rebuild our national structure along international lines and on newer and different foundations, is compounded heresy and blasphemy.

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Yes, personally I'm waiting for the return of those "good old days" that the mealy-mouthed do-gooders and internationalists try so hard to discredit; the good old days with all that they meant. They were good enough for me, and they can't come back too soon to suit me. And my contacts prove to me that most good folks in this country feel the same way.

I mean the good ofa aJy" * an. tnd-rashioned American; a man who stood on his own feet, earned his own living without petitioning the government for help; who provided for his own future, looked after his own people, was beholden to neither government, man, or devil for his support; who accepted neither largesse, gifts, subsidies, or special privileges from anybody. He believed, just as most men did before the New and Fair Deals came along, that man gets along'in this world not by an act of Congress, but by his own industry, character, ability, perseverance, ambition, stick-to-itiveness, and courageous love of liberty, and that all government is for is to provide a protective framework in which he can live, and work, and produce, and achieve the things he longs for. That is the old-fashioned American ! Thank God for him, for it was such as he that built this nation and made it what'it is. Could such a man be a "one-worlder," do you think? Yes-about as much as a Washington, a Jefferson, or a Lincoln could !

Wrote Dante: "The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality." We are now, according to every worth-while opinion, in a period of moral crisis, such as this country has seldom known. Probably the greatest need of this nation today is free and open expression of opinion by honest men with no axes to grind, on subjects vital to us. It is no time for me-too'ism, for that is the road to despair. Speak your mind ! Write your op,inions ! Be an articulate as well as an old-fashioned American, and protest until the heavens fall against the things you believe to be wrong for these United States. Supine or even apparent agreement with things we abhor is the broad highway to slavery.

rf you firmly believe ;".:" i... ,r".ior,.l relationships with the rest of the world rve are standing on a powder mine and monkeying with a lighted matchsay so !

If you are tired of the presumptuous mendicancy of the Old World and the seemingly bottomless maw into which we have been pouring our tax moneysay so !

If you believe in an America for Americans; if you would like to see every subversive either locked up or kicked so far away from our borders that it would cost a fortune just to mail a postal card back; if you would see that oldfashioned Americanism and nothing else is allowed to lift its head in our schools and collegessay so ! ***

Say so, and say it loud, and often ! Lincoln warned that if this nation ever dies; it wiil die from within and not from without. If this nation ever dies, it will be because her good citizens lacked alertness.

And so todaywhich may well be our most fateful dayas we stand on the brink of another Korea in far-off Asiaon the brink of what could be l'permanent war," let us each and every one, with all the understanding of what Americanism means that God gives us, decide for ourselves and declare to our servants in Washington our firm opinions of what should and should not be done to preserve this nation.

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The Masonite Man is out looking for the men who can send business your way. Ife is making t'egular calls on architects, builders and contractors . . selling them on Masonite Presdwood and its many advantages.

The better acquainted tlese influential men become with the reasons for usi'g presdwoodo, t'he oftener they will call for it. And the oftener they call for it, the more you will enjoy a steadily growing volume and profit from Presdwood products.

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The feds caught this country negro running a still in the woods back of his Mississippi home, and dragged him into court to face the judge on a charge of making moonshine liquor.

The judge asked him:

"What is your name?"

He said:

Oronge Gounty Meering

The Orange County Lumbermen's Club held its monthly dinner meeting June 3 at the Savoy cafe, Santa Ana, Calif. Jim Maynard, president of the group, presided during the discussion period and Les Pearson, treasurer, reported on club financial and social activity. The next meeting is schedulecl for this month and President Maynard will announce the time and place. Thirty-four lumber dealers attended the Tune event.

"Joshua, Suh."

"Joshua?" inquired the judge, with a twinkle in his eye-

"Yassuh, Jedger" he said.

"Tell me," said the judge, "are you the Joshua that made the sun stand still?"

"Nossuh, judge," said the dusky one' "I'se de Joshua what runs de still and makes de moonshine"'

New Arcorq Mill

The Clear Fir Lumber Company is building a new steel and concrete sawmill about 30 miles from Arcata, California. The rnill will cut 100,000 feet of lumber daily. The ofifice is in Arcata. R. A. Patten is manager, and Wm. Ghosn is president.

New Bqrker ond €hipper

The Boise Payette Lumber Company is installing a Hensel barker and chipper at its mills at Emmett, Idaho.

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Fourrh qnd Fifth Lumber Genercrtion Beckstroms Remodel Arccrdio Ycrrd for More Do-lt-Yourself

l.ooking toward an even greater increase in retail lumberyard sales to the booming do-it-yourself market, L. A. Beckstrom, owner of the Arcadia Lumber Company, Arcadia, Calif., has started remodeling his store's display area to increase shopping space by an additional 1,000 feet.

When the work is completed, the San Gabriel Valley dealer rvill have two well-appointed stores adjacent to each other where the "Weekend Contractor-Carpenter" can shop and browse for everything needed in new construction and remodeling.

L. A. Beckstrom and his two sons, Andy and Eric, represent the fourth and fifth generations of the family active in the lumber industry. Forty-five years ago, Beckstrom started out in the logging camps in Wisconsin as a "whistle punk" zrnd learned the basic production of lumber from the ground Llp. Early in 1920, he came west to Arizona, where he engaged in the retail and wholesale business. He came to Southern California early in 1937.

Mr. Beckstrom's ancestors were active in the lumber production and woodworking fields in Sweden more than 100 years ago, and so he follows naturally in their footsteps.

When the present Beckstrom family arrived on the west

coast, they settled in Arcadia, where the Arcadia Lumber Company was established early in 1938 at 214 North Santa Anita Ave. It still stands at the same location, having started from a very small operation.

Under Mr. Beckstrom's management, the yard showed a steady growth. The modern plant today covers over three acres, with all-steel finish sheds ancl mobile equipment for every use in the conduct of a fast-moving business serving one of the fastest-growing areas in Southern California.

In addition to lumber and allied building materials, the Arcadia Lumber Company stocks a complete line of woodworkworking tools, both hand and power, to aid the builder in home construction or hobby work. A complete line of paints and appliances are available and are offered by this progressive firm on a stop and shop, pickup basis.

L. A. "Andy" Beckstrom, Jr., is assistant general manager

LATEST STRIKE NEWS

As the July 1 issue of THtr CArT-IFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT goes to press, here is the latest strike news available.

85 per cent of the mills in the Douglas Fir area are down. There has been no break in the solid front the major mills are presenting. There will be no more negotiations until July 6th, so a strike of several weeks' duration is anticipated. Fir prices are booming.

Only a few Western Pine mills are down, and they are closed by sympathy r.r'ith the Fir mills. There is no threat of a general Pine strike at this time.

65 per cent of the Douglas Fir plywood plants are reported down,,and others ready to close.

In California, the Redwood region reports scattered conditions, some big mills operating, though no settlement with unions has been reached. In this region most of the negotiations are between the mills and local unions.

Many changes will take place in the next week or ten days, but mostly with scattered locations and conditions.

MORE SHOPPING SPACE FOR THE "WEEKEND CARPENIER-CONTRACTOR" will be ovoiloble ot the Arcadiq Lumber Compony's retoil ydrd in booming Arcodio, Colif.. when the store's remodeling is completed lhis summer. The ponel of photos obove shows thc present yord ond port of its lumber invenlory, the two odlocent stores ond l. A. Beckstrom ond his lwo son3 with some of rheir "rolling stock."

IHE YOUNGER GENERATION BECKSIROTIiS-"Andy," lcft, snd Eric, rishr, lisrcn rcrpectfully o: L. A. Bccksfrom, Sr,, poinf out to thlm o ncw ;olcr ilcm iurt oddcd lo lhc ycrd': ncrchsndire. Thc hirrory of thc Bcckrtrm fomily in thc lumbor burinor gocr bocl morr thon IOO ycorr. rtortirlg in Swrdcn.

R,hymed Do-h-Yourself

There never was a person in an ordinary town, Who didn't like to monkey with a saw; Perhaps he made a fizzle when he tried to use a chisel, But his hammer work was sure without a flaw.

He likes to mend and putter, build a dresser for his daughter, And so long as he has made it, it is good; And right in your own city are a lot who have our pity For they don't know where to go to get their wood.

Ask the handy man to visit and inspect your boards exquisite, Let him feel the satin texture of your planks; Show you don't care 'bout the number, let him buy one piece of lumber, And you will get his money and his thanks.

in charge of merchandising and purchasing. It is his job to keep material flowing from the mills and manufacturers to the consumer. E,ric Beckstrom, the youngest son, will graduate from Stanford University with the class of '57 but spends all of his vacation and spare time handling sales in the yard and over the counter. These two young men were born to the lumber business and represent the fifth generation of Beckstrom men to engage in the woodworking field.

"We intend to keep abreast of the development of the fast

growing area served by our organization," said Beckstrom, Sr., "and when our expansion program is completed early in the summer we will have one of the most modern equipped retail lumber plants in Southern California," he continued. The Arcadia Lumber Company stocks standard brands of building materials along with all items and species of lumber, panels, hardwoods and paints. Specialty items including doors and mouldings are offered in volume, with delivery by company trucks to all Southland communities.

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Lumber qnd Building Lecld Economic Pclrclde...An Edrtorial

We said in these columns a month ago-it was an exclusive-that in spite of all the blue figures being printed in the financial papers and in the finance columns of the press generally concerning possible "recession" in business, the lumber and building business refused to follow suit and were enjoying a high tide of prosperity.

Today the government at Washington has been distributing both through the press and over the air waves the hot news that the building industry is indeed on a boom basis, and will probably set an all-time record of $36,000,000,000 this year.

So up we rise to shout aloud that old refrain: "We told you so."

The lumber business is in about the same shape it was a month ago. Production is high, shipments are strong,

Jqck Cline Nqmed Successor to Ernie Thompson Yvith Peoples

Jack Cline, manager of the Santa Paula, Calif., yard of the Peoples Lumber Company for the past 20 years, has been appointed the successor to Ernie J. Thompson as general sales manager of the line yard concern, it was announced b1' B. W. Martels, general manager of the firm.

Thompson's resignation was reported in the June 1 issue. I{e also served as manager of the subsidiary Ventura County Wholesale Supply Co. Mr. Thompson, whose resignation

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and prices are at least holding their own.

Always before in our business and economic history' business slumps were first felt in the lumber and building business, because a new building was always considered something that could be postponed. This year it isn't true. Many lines of business have been reporting declines of some size or other. The automobile industry that always used to lead the parade, is still uttering loud cries of pain, particularly in the used car end.

But building is good, lumber is good, and the goose hangs at an unheard-of high altitude. Thirty-six billion dollars for building this year is really something to shout about; and to do all that building requires a lot of building material, such as lumber and other wood products.

We can look forward through 1954 with confidence.

was effective June 7, said he plans to rest about two months; l,e will keep his home in the county.

Predicts Reol Estote Boom

Dr. Fred Case, economics professor at UCLA in Los Angeles, is consultant to the California Savings and Loan I-eague. He advises the league that high activity in real estate in California, and particularly in Southern California, w-il1 continue indefinitely from all present signs, The rapidly increasing population, together with growing stability in the production and errployment fields, is the basis for his opinion.

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Hogon Wholescrle Building Mcrteriqls Co. Formed

Bob Hogan, president of Hogan Wholesale Building Materials Company, 700 Sixth Avenue, Oakland California, has announced the formation of that new organization, effective June 1, 1954. The firm formerly operated under the name of Hogan Lumber Co. and was established at the present address in January, 1953. In addition to Bob Hogan, the sales staff of Hogan Wholesale Building Materials Co. includes E. J. "Cleve" Cleveland, Ray Botkins, Herb Farrell and two new men, Bud Gray and Jack Quatman, rvho were added to the Hogan sales force June 1.

Bud Gray has had long experience in the plywood, door, windou' and sash lines, having been with California Builders Supply, Richmond, since 1937 prior to his present association. His only interruption during that time was a three-year hitch with the air corps. He will continue to cover his old territory, which consists of the Redwood Empire counties; he resides in Santa Rosa with l-ris wife and two daughters.

Jack Quatman formerly spent several years with California Builders Supply, and prior to that had considerable experience in retail building materials in both the Bay area and Fresno. He is a veteran of four years' duty with the U.S. Army during World War II. His present territory consists of the San Francisco peninsula and Santa Cruz areas and he will continue to reside in Alameda with his wife and four children.

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Huge Mill Deol by G-P Pending in Portlond

Portland, Oregon: According to announcement by the Georgia-Pacific Plywood Company, that concern has placed more than $11,000,000 in escrow to bind a proposed purchase of three large sawmill and timber concerns.

The proposed purchase would cover the Inman-Poulson Lumber Company, Western Logging Company, and Saginaw Timber Company, plus additional holdings of timber in western Oregon. The Inman-Poulson Lumber Company mill in Portland employs 20O men.

Monning SCRTA Director

Wiley O. Manning,. co-owner of the Manning Lurnber Company at El Centro, Calif., was elected a director of the Southern Cali.fornia Retail Lumber Association at a recent dinner meeting in El Centro held under the auspices of the newly formed Imperial Valley Lumbermen's Club.

Mr. Manning's election was to represent the SCRLA members in Imperial County and to fiIl the vacancy created by the resignation of Charles E. Sones, president of the Sones Lumber Company, some time ago. Orrie A. Hamilton was a speaker at this dinner meeting. He also addressed a luncheon meeting of lumber dealers in San Diego earlier in June, held under auspices of the San Diego Lumbermen's Association.

carries a complete stock of doors, rvindolvs, sash, mouldings, plywood, frames, Columbia-matic screens and allied building produ'cts, and wholesales to retail dealers throughout the Northern California area. The firm occupies two rvarehouses with a combined closed-in area of zZ,On square feet; it operates four trucks for delivery frorn Merced and Paso Robles to Fort Bragg, Redding and Chico.

In addition to heading the Hogan wholesale firm, Bob Hogan is also president of Oakland Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39, in which several members of the Hogan sales force are also active.

Moy Housing Stqrts Off Slighrly

Non-farm housing starts declined by about four per cent between April and May, to a total of 106,000, according to preliminary estimates of the U. S. Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics. Most sections of the country shared in the decline. The total volume of new private home building, however, was at about the same high level as in May of last year.

The volume of privately owned house building, which advanced to a 3f-year peak of 109,100 units this April, declined to 105,500 units in Mayabout the same level as in May 1953. Seasonally adjusted private housing starts were at an annual rate well above 1 million each month this year, although the May rate of 1,038,000 was the lowest thus far.

The total of 452,000 new dwelling units (private and public) put under construction during the first five months of 1954 was five per cent below the 476,800-unit total for the comparable 1953 period because of the reduction in public housing. Privately owned house building thus far in 1954 (446,900units) was about the same as the year-ago estimate.

Johns-Monville Proiects

The Johns-Manville Corporation announces that it is greatly increasing its asbestos production by sinking new shafts at the Munro Mine, near Matheson, Ontario, Canada. It is also building a new synthetic silicates plant at the company's diatomite mine at T,ompoc, California.

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'Noil-Sover' Dispensers Builr to Cuf Yord Losses

An improved system ,of retailing nails without spillage and costly waste has been developed by "Nail-Saver" Dispensers, Coos Bay, Ore. Available to West Coast lumber dealers and hardware stores, the device has been engineered to solve the universal spillage problem with old-type dispensers, according to Carl G. Lindahl, sales manager. National distribution is contemplated soon, he added.

The "Nail-Saver" dispenser has a series of bins in which a curved panel of Masonite Tempered Presdwood provides an up-turned lip and a perfectly smooth scoop support. The sales floor models are backed by Masonite "Peg-Board" panels, which give the dealer considerable display area.

Mr. Lindahl said a study of lumber yards shows that the average nail stock consists of 48 sizes of nails and "the mean weekly loss of poundage in dispensing is I3l pounds, amounting to 702 pounds per year." Based on a selling price of 16 cents a pound, Mr. Lindahl said, the average loss in a year from nail spillage is $112.32.

The new-type devices are obtainable in 12 and 24-bin units. Each bin in either unit will hold at least 112 pounds of nails. The units are 48 inches high and 24 inches deep. The 12-bin unit requires 7t/4 square feet of floor space ancl the 24-bin size requires 25f square feet. The sales floor 48-bin unit set up in a shallow U-shape requires 69 square feet; its Masonite "Peg-Board" fronts provide 75 square feet of display afea. The units may be combined in various combinations.

Coloveros lssues Brochure

A new brochure explaining the characteristics of the five basic types of portland cement, as well as of a number of specialty cements, has just been issued by Calaveras Cement Company. "There's a Calaveras Cement for Everv IJse," the publication, contains a consolidated summary of federal government and ASTM specifications for all types of portland cement. Free copies may be obtained from the company.

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Stonley C. Moore Announces Retirementi His Son, John C. Moore, Succeeds Him

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Philosophers agree that for a man to retire from active work rvhile still of an age to enjoy the later years of life, is one of the highest demonstrations of human wisdom. Mighty feu' men ever do. Mostly, they keep on hitting the ball in whatever line of endeavor they may follow until, when they finally are forced to quit, it is much too late.

A prominent and popular member of the lumber industry in Southern California is right now clemonstrating that he is the possessor of that high type of wisclom. With many useful years still ahead of him, he is putting away the stock sheets and the price lists-"putting out the fire and calling the dog" as the saying goes-and turning with joy in his heart to a future far removed from the business highways he has so long pursued.

On July first, 1954, Stanley C. Moore, of Los Angeles, will letire from management of Fir-Tex of Southern California, division of Dant & Russell Sales Co., a position he has helcl since 1931. He will raise white-faced Hereford cattle on his three ranches in the beautiful San Joaquin Valley, from nolv on.

"Stan" Moore, as he is familiarly and affectionately kno'il'n to a host of lumber and building material men in Southern California, has spent the last 23 years building business for the concern he has so ably managed, and friends for himself. In retirement he carries with him the high regard of all the business people who know him; who approve him for his never-failing integrity, his fine business acumen and his engaging personality. A quiet, determined man of high character, he has reflected nothing but creclit of a high order on the affairs he has been associated with.

He will be succeeded on July first, as manager of Fir-Tcx of Southern California, by his very personable and able son, John C. Moore, who has been assistant manager for the past three years. The young man joined the concern in 1942, took three years out to help win World War 'lwo as a pilot of a B25 bomber in the South Pacific, and returned to Fir-Tex in 1946. He traveled the San Fernando Valley for several years, then entered the office to handle more general affairs, and three years ago became his father's assistant. The young rnan is married, has three children and makes his home in Los Angeles.

There is another young Moore in the Fir-Tex organization in Los Angeles also, Stanley Moore, Jr., who helps sell their products.

Now a brief business history of the career of Stan l\4oore. He started business life as an insurance salesman, then became secretary-manager of the Union Trust Company at Walla Walla, Washington. Then he moved to Spokane, where he

became vice president and manager of the Security Trust Company of that citv. In 1929 he edtered the investment banking business on his own account in Spokane. The depression cut the business short and, in 1931, he joined up with Dant & Russell, of Portland, with whom he has been associated ever since.

I{e came to Southern California, where he succeecled Torn Dant as manager of the sales offrce of Fir-Tex, then a oneoffice, one-man assignment, and went to selling Fir-Tex for the Fir-Tex Insulating Board Company, of St. Helens, Oregon, a Dant & Russell industry. They rented a small warehouse on East 7th Street, and began stocking Fir-Tex, which, up to that time, they had been wholesaling in car lots.

They also acquired the Coraltex Company, r.l'hich was making Coralite in a plant at Pasadena. N{r. Moore managed the Coraltex plant and the Fir-Tex sales warehouse. Coralite has ever since been one of the main units of Fir-Tex. It is a plastic-finished board belonging to the tile family. The Coraltex Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dant & Russell Sales Company, of Portland, is now a genuine division of that large organization.

In l94l Mr. Moore began construction of the present large plant at 812 East 59th Street in Los Angeles. Into this they moved the manufacture of Coralite. The plant has grown steadily ever since until it reached its present large proportions; and they still have plans and land for future growth and enlargement. Where Mr. Moore started in 1931 with one room and one employe, himself, there are now 40 employes and one of the busiest factories and warehouses in Los Angeles. Besides Fir-Tex and Coralite, they merchandise a number of other interesting building items.

At the time of his retirement, Mr. Moore was vice president of the Dant & Russell Sales Company, Portland, and g director of the Fir-Tex Insulating Board Company, St. Helens, Oregon.

The new home of Stan Moore and his charming wife is on a ranch near the town of Springville, which is not far frorn Porterville in the San Joaquin Valley. Their post office address is Box 163, Route 5, Porterville, California. They own about 4,000 acres of wonderful, rolling grassland in one of California's finest ranch areas. They raise only white-faced ,Herefords. Both Mr. and Mrs. Moore take active part in the operation of the ranches, ride horseback, brand cattle and are active in all activities of a cattle ranch. Both are in fine health, both happy and are looking forward rather tl-ran back, now that their business career is over.

The latchstring, so they say, is open to their friends at all times. Stan Moore, the building material man, is gone. Stan Moore, the rancher, is his happy successor.

John C. Moore

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75 Arlend June Meeting of Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club No. I

The Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club No. 1, Los Angeles, held its June meeting N{onday, June 14, at 6:29 p.m. at Ruddi's Italian Inn. There was a splendid attendance, with 75 ladies present for. dinner.

The following officers were elected for the 1954-5.5 year: President, Pluma Mcleod, Martin Plywood Co.; ' First vice president, Alvina Boyle, Patten-Blinn Lumber Co.;

Second vice president, Helen Behringer, U.S. Plywood Corp.;

Third vice president, Maza Bailey, Atlas Lumber Co.; Secretary, Elinor Robinson, Allied Veneer & Lumber Co.;

Treasurer, Lora Clegg, Sand Door & Plywood Co.; Initiation, Lynn Martin, The Phipps Company; Publicity, Jane Adams, California Lumber Merchant; Membership, Mabel Staser; H. M. Nelson Lumber Co.

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The club has now reached its quota of 99 members. July and August are usually vacation months but this July a special meeting will be called for initiation of new members at the home of Bessie Stewart, the retiring president. The time has not been determined.

Officers will be installed at the next regular meeting in September.

Sqn Froncisco Hoo-Hoo-Ettes Elect Nominoting Gommittee

The San Francisco Hoo-Hoo-Ettes met at the Bellevue Hotel, Tuesday evening, June 8, to elect a nominating committee, which will select and nominate permanent officers for Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club No. 3. Election and installation of officers will be at the next club meeting, September 14.

The June 8 meeting was attended by 26 San Francisco lumber gals, and their selection for the nominating committee consisted of Lucy Lipe, The Pacific Lumber Co.; Bonnie Alkey, A. M. Hardy Co., and Peggy Brooks, Wood Conversion Co.

Until the September elections, the club will continue to operate with the following temporary officers: Bessie Pappas, president; Mrs. Tilo Trethewey, treasurer, and Mrs. Claire Zimmerman, secretary.

Beloire Lumber Sqles €ompony Orgonized in lnglewood

The Belaire Lumber Sales Company has been formed, with offices at 8611 Crenshaw Blvd., Inglewood, Calif., to engage in the wholesale business. Donald P. Vogt has been appointed sales manager. He formerly headed his own wholesale lumber sales firm in Wilmington.

Warren Johnson has j'oined the Belaire sales staff, according to Don Vogt, and will handle the Southern California territory, calling on retail yards and industrial users of Pacific Coast softwoods.

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Here is an impressive picture of three notables in the history of the Long-Bell Lumber Company. It was taken in the offices of the company at Kansas City, Mo., when John D. Leland recently succeeded retiring J. M. White as president of that famous lumber manufacturing concern.

The picture shows Mr. White congratulating Mr. Leland on his ner,v office, as they stand in front of a magnificent painting of the late R. A. Long that has hung for many years on the office walls. Mr. Long, as all lumbermet.r know, r,vas the founder of the company that bears his name FIe u'as a famous optimist. During the very depths of the depression in the early tl-rirties, he wrote to the publisher of THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT: ,.ThC darkest night the world has ever seen did not put out the star:s."

A history of the new president was printecl recently in these columns. The third man in the picture, J. M. White' spent most of his life in the sawmill and timber business in California. In 1906 he started rvorking for the Weed Lumber Company at Weed, California, and in 1918 he rvas made general manager of that plant, which position he held for 30 years. The \\reed unit became the Weed Division of the Long-Bell Lumlter Company when it rvas taken over by the corporation, and in 1947 Mr. White was elected a director and vice-president of the company. In 1948 he rvas elected president, with offices at Longview, Washington. The nerv president, Mr. Leland, also lives at Longviern''

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"Never Trqde Freedom for Securilyr" Beniomin F. Foirless Tells Groduoles

Athens, Ohio-Benjamin F. Fairless, chairman of the board of U. S. Steel, takes issue sharply with the proposition that "calculated treason" cannot be distinguished from "honest freedom of thought."

"To men of integrity," Mr. Fairless said, "the difference will always be clear; for it is integrity, above all else, which determines our right to the enjoyrnent of freedom, and which governs our ability to preserve it."

In a commencement address June 13 marking the i50th anniversary of Ohio University, Mr. Fairless told graduates that religion and morality or "our abiding faith in God" still is this country's "most powerful and decisive weapon" against the forces of evil in the world today.

"That is a weapon that exists only in the arsenal of freedom." he said. "We have all observed that whenever, and wherever, dictators have tried to control a free people, their very first attack has been aimed against all forms of freedom and religion."

Mr. Fairless declared that despite the uncertain times confronting this year's graduates, those who are prepared to assume the heavy responsibilities of leadership shall not lack opportunity. "Had you been able to choose for yourself the age in which you wished to live, you could, of'course, have picked a time when life was far more peaceful and serelle than yours is ever likely to be, but you could scarcely have found a moment in history when the rewards of successful leadership were so greatly to be prized, or when the penalties of failure threatened such a complete disaster."

In 1776, when support of American independence was a capital offense, the colonists had the integrity and the courage to stand up and be counted. "They were not ashamed to avow their loyalty to America; nor were they afraid to face the consequence of their freely-held beliefs. In short, they were not the kind of men who hid their convictions beneath a bushel-or behind a Constitutional amendment." Mr. Fairless stressed that "the authors of our liberty made it crystal clear that the enjoyment of liberty is the greatest of all human rights; and like all other rights and privileges of man, it carries with it grave responsibilities and obligations. Foremost among these is the obligation to use our freedoms honestly for the good of oun fellow men, and never to claim them falsely as a shield for evil. Thus the authors of our liberty were careful to decree that freedom of speech does not mean freedom to slander; that freedom of the press does not protect us from the laws of libel; and that the right to bear arms is not a license to murder. And surely they did not believe that any freedom they had won, gave them the right to destroy the freedom of others, or to betray the people of this nation into servitude under a foreign power."

Summarizing, he offered Ohio University graduates "three small pieces of advice:"

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1) "When you must choose between two contrary courses of action, look carefully at each one in turn, and ask yoursell this question: 'Will it increase or diminish the freedoms of my fellow men?'

"If it offers to enlarge the scope of individual freedom, (Continued on Page 31)

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then it can never be the wrong course, because whatever else may be its weakr-ress, it is leading, at least, in the right direction. But if it would curtail your freedom--rven in the smallest degree-then it can never be the right course ; because no matter how far and how fast it may help you to travel, you will only be running the ball towards the wrong goal.

(2) "You may be greatly tempted at times to relinquish some part of your so-called, 'economic' freedom, in the belief that collective action under government, can provide a greater measure of comfort, or security, or welfare for your fellow men than they could hope to attain through their own individual effort or through private associations. Shun that temptation. Fear it as you would the plague; for it is the most powerful and cunning weapon that our enemy has in his whole bag of tricks.

"You have been free to think, to study, to write, and to follow every avenue of research as vou wished. But how much would that help if-in your world of tomorrow-you were not equally free to work, to quit, or to change your job-or if you did not have the right to produce, to sell, to profit, and to spend, for yourself and for your family, the rewards of your labor and your enterprise ?

(3) "The rnorld's kev fortress of hurnan liberty is America itself. So long as our freedom stands, the enemy cannot gain ultimate victory; but let it be undermined by the sappers-let it start crumbling beneath 6u1 fgsl-4nd soon there will be no corner left on earth where man can walk in dignity.

"So you cannot afford to devote your attention wholly to distant horizons. You must watch with constant vigilance the familiar ground around you. You will have to look down at your feet, and make sure that they are planted firmly on the solid ground of freedom ; for it is the misfortune of man that he cannot fly to his chosen goals on magic carpets or Utopian dreams. lle must plod his way slowly, one step at ?r time, and one foot in front of the other."

Aloskq's Firsf Pulp Mill Sforrs; Cosf More Thqn Territory ltself

Alaska's first pulp industry-a project that cost seven times r.vhat the U.S. paid Russia for the u,'hole territory 87 years ago-has started 'operations in the midst of coastal n.ilderness near Ketchikan.

Ketchikan Pulp Co. announced its $52.5 rnillion mill is now producing pulp at a rate of over 100,000 tons a year. Until now, the surrounding area of heavily wooded mountains rising sharply from the sea has been little touched by moclern development since the U. S. picked up Alaska fron-r Russia for 97.2 million in 1867.

Ketchikan Pulp is a joint venture of Puget Sound Pulp & Timber Co. of Bellingham, Wash., and American Viscose Corp. of Philadelphia. O{ficials said timber that the mill rvill use, rvith reforestation and natural regron,th, is enougl-r to permit perpetual operation.

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This versatile product, as illustrated, shows its wide range of adaptability for the den, dining area, study, play room, and all areas. Accuya will compliment and add to the beauty of your home. For actual sample panels write on your letterhead to: Fir-Tex of Southern California.

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Building Modernizqtion Continues Good Morket For Decorqfive Plywood

The rapid pace of home, office and business remodeling continues to be good news for lumber and plywoocl retailers. Such m,odernization is still one of the most active markets for the sale of all kinds of building materials, including the new decorative plywood, Sea Swirl.

A good exan.rple of the transformation effected by applying Sea Swirl to the formerly unattractive walls of an automobile display room and office is shown in the accompanying picture

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of Bates Chevrolet Co., Springfield, Illinois. This easy-toapply material has the advantage in remodeling that it can be applied directly over old plaster walls. It procluces a richly paneled effect, decorating walls and counter f ronts as it modernizes.

These decorative panels are made from select Douglas Fir plywood by a special manufacturing process which rernoves the soft summer growth. The resulting textured pattern oi deeply defined swirls and contours retains and emphasizes the natural beauty of wood and gains in practicability because bumps and scratches inevitable to a public area do not show.

A booklet showing a wide variety of Sea Swirl installations and uses is available by writing to Associated Plywood Mills, Inc., P.O. Box 672, Eugene, Oregon.

Tom Gleed Trcrnsferred To Chicogo by Sirnpson

Thomas B. Gleed has been transferred to Chicago to become sales representative for the Redwood division of the Simpson Logging Company in the northcentral region, it .ivas announced by Dave Davis, sales manager of the Redr,vood division. The appointment was ellective July 1.

Prior to his neu' assignment, Gleed worked at both the Arcata and Klan.rath mil1s of the Simpson Logging Company. He has also spent considerable time in the San Francisco headquarters of Simpson's Redn'ood division.

Musiciqn Euphrof Returns

Maurice Euphrat, talented son of M. L. "Duke" Euphrat of San Francisco, has returned home after spending four years in piano study and concerts which took him through Europe and Australia. Shortly after his return, he gave a piano recital in Veteran's Auditorium.

Looding Lumber in Boxcqrs With Two Coordinoted Lift Trucks ls New Wrinkle

The lumber industry, always seeking new methods of handling lumber economically and efficiently, will be interested in a system of loading packaged lumber in boxcars shown in a recent book issued. by the Hyster Company, Portland, Oregon. Four pictures tell the story of how two Hyster lift trucks load cars with speed and efficiency and no men employed except the truck operators.

The book tells the story in this fashion:

By teaming two Hyster Lift Trucks, a YC-40 and RT-150, Western Studs, Arcata, California, has devel'oped a fast and efficient car loading system where the work is accomplished with a minimum of confusion and manpower.

Western Studs manufactures 2x4s in standard lengths of 5, 6, 7 and 8 feet, and special lengths to order. Finished studs are stacked 13 pieces per layer and eight layers in a package. Three packages make a "unit." The load length is 48" and the load width is the length of the studs. A unit of 8-foot studs, 312 pieces, weighs about 4,160 pounds.

The studs are shipped in boxcars at an average of five to

six cars per day. Each car contains 30,000 to 35,000 board feet. The cars are spotted at the spur which runs along the side of the yard and are accessible from one side only. There is no loading d'ock. All loading is done from tl.re ground level.

Working as a team, the 15,000-pound capacity lift truck hauls the units from the stacks to the boxcar; the 4000-pound capacity lift truck, operating inside the car, receives the units direct from the forks of the "150" and sets them in place.

To rnove the "40" from ,one car to another, a lvooden platform, car floor height, is placed at the car door by the "150." The "40" is driven out of the car onto the platform, and the 15,000-pound truck picks up both the platf'orm and the smaller truck and takes them to the next car to be loaded. After the "40" is driven into the empty car, the "150" moves the platform out of the way.

In the boxcar, the units are stacked two high. Even in a low-roof car there is more than ample room to use the standard 9-foot lift. In placing the top unit the inner upright extends only about a foot above the top o{ the outer upright and is

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approximately three and one-half feet below the car roof. The sharp turning radius of the "40" makes it possible to maneuver the truck inside the boxcar even though the car is nearly loaded.

The two units at the edge of the door are not double decked. The car is linished off by placing tn'o units side by side ,on the floor. To do this, spacers are placed the full width of the car and the first unit is set on the spacers, as far back as possible, which is roughly eight inches from the side of the car. The second unit is aligned with the first, the forward edge just touching the spacers. The "150" moves forward-the first unit is pushed to the far side of the car and the second is set on the near side. This completes the car except for the blocking necessary to hold the load in place during transit.

The loading of a single-door car is accomplished in a similar manner except that some differences in technique are necessary due to the narrow door. Loads that are six to eight feet in width obviously cannot be loaded through a door that is six feet wide. Therefore, the units r-nust be placed in the car door with the length of the unit across the width of the car.

After removal from the stacks, the units are placed on Straddle Truck bolsters. Then the "150" picks up one or two units lengthwise and places the load in the door of the car.

When there are two units in the load, the "40" in the car raises the top load, and the "150" backs away to remove the lower one clear of the car. The "40" sets the unit and backs into the opposite end of the car. The "150" then sets the other unit on the floor and backs away. The "40" raises the

unit off the bolsters and the "150" moves in and takes the empty bolster, thus clearing the floor.

Single-door cars require hand stacking of one unit on each side of the door, and the final unit is set lengthwise with the lift truck.

With the lift truck team, boxcars can be loaded and blocked, complete, in less than an hour.

Three SCR.LA Meetings

The Southern California Retail Lumber Association held three meetings last month. The first was a dinner meeting June 7 at Kover's Bull Pen in Sherman Oaks for the lumber dealers in that area. A directors' meeting was held in the association offices June 8, ancl a luncheon meeting the same day at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. H. V. Simpson and Howard L. Brown addressed the latter meeting on proposed new lumber grades, which was reported in the June 15 issue of THE CALIFORNIA LU]VIRER MERCHANT.

Boxer Joins Acme

Ned Boxer has joined Acme Appliance Manufacturing Co., Pasadena, California, as sales manag'er. He has been associated with the wholesale hardware field for many years u'orking out of the Bay area. IIe handled the Acme line of sliding door hardware, covering Northern California and Nevada.

In his new appointment, which took effect June 1, Mr. Boxer will have full responsibility of all Acme sales.

Rudyord Kipling

Rudyard Kipling $tas a monarch in the realm of literature. No divine right made him king. But he was more than any king has ever been; he was genius unquestionable; a flaming mentality that wrote its mark so high and so definite on the scroll of time, that it will never be erased. God touched him with that brush of genius. Kipling became immortal long before his death. God not only gave him immortality, but bequeathed to him the right to delegate immortality. Will the characters he built, the songs he sang, the stirring philosophies he penned, the mighty patriotism he painted ever die, think you?

As long as Britain lives-yes and perhaps long afterward -as long as the English tongue is spoken, the words, the characters, the songs, the philosophies of Kipling will remain deeply imprinted in the minds and upon the literature of mankind. A thousand years hence, when the passing of Kipling's own soul has long been forgotten, men will sit with lumps in their throats as they listen to that mighty song of the passing of the soul of Danny Deever, who was hangin' in the mornin'.

Will Mulvaney ever die? He who had been a corporal, but was "rejuced"? Will the Colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady, and their proclaimed under-skin sisterhood, ever cease to be? Will the time ever come, think you, when the devotion of that Lazarooshian leather Gunga Din will cease to be solace to the souls of men? Will Britain ever cease to spring to attention at "Oh, God of Hosts be with us yet, lest we forget, lest we forget?" Will the Eton school boy's rallying cry, "Play up, play up, and play the game," ever be forgotten? Will the Road to Mandalai ever be less a thoroughfare of romance and of sentiment than it is today?

We ought to have a "Read Kipling" season every year the world over. We should read again, and learn again, and live again in the companionship of his immortal characters and words. One of the sweetest things he ever wrote was the introduction to "The Seven Seas," in which he apologizes for stealing stories. "When 'Omer tuned his bloornin' lyre," he said, "'e'd 'eard men sing by land and sea, and what 'e thought 'e might require, 'e went an' took, the same as me. They knowed 'e stole. 'e lmew they knowed. They didn't cry or make a fuss. Just winked at'Ome'r up the road. An' 'e winked back, the same as us."

Kings will come and kings will go. The divine right to rule will continue to be one of the Old World's choice superstitions. But there will be no more Rudyard Kiplings to brighten and enthuse and entertain and inspire faltering men. Let us be grateful, therefore, that his thoughts and his words and the men and women who flame across his pages, are left behind as OUR heritage, immortalized by his genius, utterly indestructible.

Chouncey Depew ond Religion

A long time ago in New York City, a famous historian and philosopher had spoken to a vast audience along progressive lines of thought, when Chauncey Depew, business man of note, was called on. He made a little talk that is worth repeating-repeatedly. He said:

"I am a practical business man, overwhelmed with the cares of business. It is exceedingly difificult for me to get on a plane of philosophical thought. I am a practical man. I believe in the Old Testament and in the New Testament. ft was the atheism of France that brought on the French Revolution, because it taught license for liberty. Where are those old philosophers now? They are dead, while Christianity survives. The school of atheism led to despair.

"They tell us that there is no Creator, only a cosmic dust. Who made the dust? There is only protoplasm, indeed- Who made the protoplasm? They tell us of evolution from monkey to man, but all the scientists have never found the missing link. The simple gospel of the Son of a Carpenter, preached by twelve fishermen, has survived the centuries and outlives all other philosophies. There is no liberty that lasts in this world, and there is no government that has liberty in it, that does not recognize the Bible."

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When earth, as if on evil dreams, Looks back upon her wars, And the white light of Christ outstreams

From the red disc of Mars; His fame, who led the glory van Of battle, well may cease, But never that which crowns the man, Whose victory was peace.

-Whittier.

Where Indeed?

Joe always had a tough time trying to get up in time to go to work in the morning, so he finally went to a doctor and asked for help. The doctor gave him some pills that he said would be a cure for his extreme drowsiness. He took one that night, slept fine, and was up and wide awake vrhen the alarm went off.

He dressed and ate breakfast leisurely and strolled into the office ten minutes ahead of time. He said to the boss:

"I didn't have a bit of trouble getting up this morning, and I'm here ahead of time."

"That's fine," said the boss, "but where were you yesterday?"

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Dodge Reports Show Huge Eostern Consfruction

Boston, ],{355.-fentract awards in May for future construction in the 37 eastern states set "phenomenal" new records, Thomas S. Holden, vice chairman of F. W. Dodge Corporation, disclosed to the directors of the American Institute of Architects in their annual convention here June 17. The figures are the dollar totals of Dodge Reports.

"The May total was the highest monthly total in Dodge's 63-year history which started here in Boston," Mr. Holden commented, "if we omit the huge Atomic Engery Commission projects which brought the totals for some individual past rnonths to suddenly swollen sizes. New records set are, in my opinion, phenomenal.

"On this basis with the AEC projects eliminated, leaving only only the normal run-of-the-mi11 construction commitments, May was seven per cent ahead of the second biggest month, October 1953, which in turn was one per cent ahead of the third biggest month, July 1953.

"Even with atomic energ'y projects included for past months, May was the third biggest month in the totals, led only by May 1951 and by September 1952. There were no exceptionally big projects to swell the May total.

"In addition to the great confidence shorvn over many recent months, by people making enormous commitments for construction investment, an underlying reason for the continued high level of the figures is wider use of the skill of the architect," he said.

Mr. Holden revealed that the May total of $1,925,253,000 was 14 per cent ahead of April, and 20 per cent ahead of May

1953. The record for a first five months w-as broken by a $7,517,885,000 total, 11 per cent ahead of 1953's first fiive months, and two per cent ahead of the second highest period, in 1951, which included a $980,000,000 atomic energy project.

With benefit of the $980,000,000 atomic energy project, May 1951 remained the highest May and the highest of any month in history. But even against that fact, May 1954 was the second highest May in history.

May's non-residential total was $672,288,000, up 11 per cent above April; 16 per cent above May 1953. May's residential total was $825,300,000, up four per cent over April and 29 per cent over May 1953. This set a new high for any month in the residential classification.

M ond M Wood Working Co. Reports lmprovement

M and M Wood Working Company, Portland, Oregon, announces that f'or its fiscal year recently closed, it had total sales of $36,210,750, as compared with $33,634,279 in the previous year. It produced 214,000,000 feet of plywood, an increase of 1.7 per cent over the previous year. It now makes all its own glue, where until recently it purchased 40 per cent of its needs.

The company owns or controls timber reserves of 2,329,300,000 board feet, of which 57 per cent is in California and the rest in Oregon.

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The State of California has specified Redwood 2x6 T & G Heart Common for the roof of the new Pier 48 at the old China Basin in San Francisco harbor. Half a million feet did the job.

Jerry Sullivan, of San Diego, u'rote in this issue of the progress of the hardwood industry on the Pacific Coast, particularly about the rapid development of the hardwood flooring business.

Figures compiled by THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT show that for the 12 months er-rding June 30, a total of cargo shipments of 1,083,352 feet of Fir entered Los Angeles harbor, while 555,235,000 feet entered San Francisco harbor.

Orrie W. Harnilton, secretary of the Lumbermen's Service Bureau, San Diego, rvrote in this issue of the successful efforts at dealer cooperation secured by his organization during the previous year.

In this issue, Max E. Cook, of San Francisco, Farmstead Engineer for the California Redwood Association, tells of

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that association's creative efforts to develop farm building.

Ira E. Brink of the Diamond Match Company, Chico, California, writes in this issue concerning the fine cooperation maintained by the Sacramento Valley Lumbermen's Club, of which he is president.

In this issue Harry Lake, of Garden Grove, California, president of the stateu'ide California Retail Lumbermen's Association, writes of the successful activities in the retail realm of his organization.

Jim J. Farley, of The Pacific Lumber Compar-ry, San Francisco, writes in this issue of the rnany misunderstandings that used to fill the minds of many people concerning the high qualities of Redwood, and of hon' light has come on that subject through education.

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Bob Osgood, of the Robert S. Osgood wholesale lumber firm, celebrates his 33rd year in the industry in Los Angeles July 1. lle remarked at the Hoo.lloo golf tourney and dinner at l-akewood Country Club June 18 that the date is a memorable one to him because July 1, 1921, was also the date that marked the first appearance of THE CALIFORNIA l,UMBER MERCHANT, which celebrates its own 33rcl anniversary with this issue.

Bill and Company, visited the fornia, for

Friday Freeland of the West Oregon Lumber San Francisco and Los Angeles, respectively, N{clntosh Lumber Co. mill at Blue Lake. Caliseveral days during the middle of June.

E. A. Bishop is now associated rvith Sales, Inc., Eureka, Calif. He has been production in Northern California for He resides in Arcata.

Great Bay Lumber engaged in lumber the past six years.

Duke Hemmings, rvell known Southern California lumberman, head man of Hemmings Lumber Company, Los Angeles, is back on the job follorving a heart attack suffered several weeks ago.

Dave Davis, sales manager of the Redwood division, Simpson Logging Co., returned to his San Francisco office July 1 after a two-week business trip to the Simpson headquarters at Shelton, Wash. Davis also visited the Seattle and Portland offices of the ,comDanv u'hile in the Northwest.

Tom Quinn, counter salesman for the Sun Lumber Company for many years at its Van Nuys and San Pedro yards, has been assigned to the Wilmington harbor sales territory, it was announced last month.

Lyman Laisy, of 'Consolidated Lumber Company, mington, returned last u'eek from an extended vacation to Wyoming and Colorado with his wife and son, man, Jr.

Bill Brauning, sales manager, Eureka Redrn'ood Lumber Company, Eureka, Calif., spent part of May and June on a s.rving through the east and middle-west on a business survey trip. He returned to the home office June 20.

"Chuck" Clemensen, formerly lvith Consolidated Lumber Company, Wilmington, Calif., has joined the sales stafi of Tarter, \\rebster & Johnson, Inc., Los Angeles.

Dean Jones, Southern California manager of the Eureka Redrvood Lumber Company, Compton, and Mrs. Jones flew to Tulsa the latter part of June on a short vacation trip. While in Oklahoma, they also visited his brother in Claremore, u'here he is the area Ford dealer.

Jack Ford of Tarter, Webster & Johnson, Inc., Stockton, was clue back early in July from a month's business trip calling on accounts throughout the south, southeast and midrvest. \\rhile in the south, he took in the Southern Sash & Door Jobbers Association meeting in Memphis, Tune 6-8.

Louis Martinez, L. W. Martinez Co., returned .to his office in San Francisco June 28 alter a week's business trip through Northern California and Oregon.

Bill Tobin, Tobin Forest Products, has moved his office to 151 Argonne, in the Belmont Shores section, Long Beach, Calif. I{e was formerly engaged in his r'vholesale lumber sales at 145 Claremont.

Al Wahl, longtime Southern California lumberman, has been named a purchasing agent by Consolidated Lumber Company, Wilmington.

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W. E. "Bill" Kesler of the Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco, is again passing out cigars-for the fourth time yet. Barbara Lee is the newest addition to the Kesler family, and made her clebut June 3, tipping the scales at eight pounds even.

Tom Duncan, well known Southern California lumberman, has moved to Coos Bay, Oregon, where he is now with the Al Peirce organization, operators of lumber production mills in the Pacific Northwest.

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Wilson Redwood Compony Formed To Disrribute a tn The Sourhlond

The establishment of a new Redwood distributing company to serve all Southern California retail dealers and industrial users was announced last month by C. W. "Chuck" tsush, r,r'ell-known young Southland lurhber salesman. The A. K. Wilson Redwood Company will offer complete distribution of corrmons, uppers, bevel siding, all patterns and all dimensions to the trade. Green commons will be available in unlirnited quantity.

Distribution for Southern California has been established in the 52-acre plant located at Del Amo boulevar<1 and Alameda, in Compton, for the purp'ose of furnishing Reclwood in L. C. L. yard shipments, or via truck, and truck and trailer or carload lots direct from the rnill. Facilities are available at the centrally located remanufactttring plant to offer all types of cletail milling for immediate pick-up by the retail dealers in all communities of this area, according to Mr. Bush. He said this also applies to immediate delivery of kiln dried or green Redwood in any quantity <lesired or any size.

Experienced lumbermen have been placecl in key positions at the Compton plant to assure proper handling of orders and milling of all material. Mr. Bush has been appointed to the post of sales manager and joins the new organization with many years' experience in lumber sales at both the wholesale and retail level. He has specialized in Redwood sales for more than five years in this area.

Ralph Sl-roulders, for many years with the Dollar ancl Patterson Co.. Inc.. Glendale. Ore.. has been selected for the post of general production superintendent. He joins the A. K. Wilson Re<lwood Company with over 15 years' experience in sawmill operation and as an inspector. He will be in charge

of the S2-acre plant, and all service operation rn'hich the company has at its disposal, including the dry kilns, mobile equipment and modern re-manufacturing mill with more than 25 units, will come under his jurisdiction.

L. B. "Mac" McNaughton, formerly with tl.re Canadian Robert Dollar Company and the Robert Dollar Corlpany of Glendale, Ore., has been appointed general office manageraccouutant. He comes to the organization direct from the Fall Creek Lumber Company, Eugene, Ore.

"We have every modern facility, an unlimitecl supply of Redwood both in our Southern California yard and Arcata mill, and experienced personnel to follow through on every order to meet delivery requirements of the trade. Our .52-acre plant with a 30-car spur assures prompt and immecliate handling in an efficient manner," saicl \[r. Bush.

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"CHUCK" BUSH INSPECTS THE EQUIPMENT in o section of the centrolly locqted yord's remonufocturing plant.

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Annuql Plywood Meeting Aims qt Mqking Product More Profitoble to Hcrndle, Eosier to Sell

Can the western fir plywood industry increase sales despite the fact that its productive capacity has temporarily outrun demand ? Some 250 frr plywood manufacturers from Washington, Oregon and California faced up to this challengc at their 18th annual meeting in Gearhart, Ore., June 7 and 8.

If the meeting is.any indication of things to come, sales should not only expand but fir plywood should be more profitable to handle and easier to sell in the future than it has at any time in recent years.

Speaking before the leading figures in the 97-factory industry, Reno Odlin, outstanding Northwest businessman and president of Tacoma's Puget Sound National Bank, urged a program of teamwork between manufacturing and distributing elements in the marketing picture. He declared that this is the kev to full exploitation of the industry's outstanding sales promotion campaigns.

$2,000,000 to Broaden Plywood Markets

\V. E. Difford, managing director of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, and other industry speakers amplified the latter statement, outlining details of a 1954 plywood sales promotion in which the manufacturers are investing a total of more than $2,000,000 in an effort to broaden plywood markets.

After reviewing the national outlook and the current unsettled condition of the market for plywood, Mr. Odlin said:

"You must devise and develop a distribution pattern that will r,vin friends and enlist their help in selling your products. You can't do it with 49 price changes over a period of months or even a few years."

A,cknowledging that he is an "incurable optimist," Mr. Odlin said:

"Your major problem is one of getting teamwork between production and sales elements. They need to work together to develop the long-term potential for plywood. I think it can be done."

Mr. Odlin urged on the manufacturers a six-point program of action : 1. Develop an orderly pattern of disbution. 2. Exercise common sense and goodwill in handling your individual sales problems. 3. Develop price policies that will build up the customer's confidence and enable him to plan his plywood purchases on a businesslike basis. 4.. Strive for greater efficiency in the plant to lower costs and improve quality. 5. Increase plywood promotion to spark greater consumption of plywood products in all markets. 6. Develop statesmanlike business leadership capable of constructive solutions to your problems.

In his keynote address, Eberly Thompson, re-elected president of the l)ouglas Fir Plywood Association and executive vice president of M and M Wood Working Co., Portland, Ore., urged more efficient selling programs, better distribution policies, and quality improvement, saying:

"It's time to get more spring in our legs, there are high but not insurmountable hurdles ahead."

He pointed out that sales in 1954 are outrunning last

year's record high by 6 per cent and nearly three times that of 1916. However, he cautioned that the industry is still growing and announced that 10 new plants have come into the picture in the past 12 months. Thompson emphasized that despite the fact that the industry jumped sales in 1953 by 20 per cent or about 10,000,000 square feet a rveek, production and demand are still out of balance.

He said tire proposed franchise plans betr.r,-een manufacturers and distributors may have merit as they strengthen the selling team and put a premium on cooperative merchandising and more intensive selling.

Mr. Thompson also warned that there is a growing tendency to "legislate plywood markets out of existence" and he urged the manufacturers individually and through their trade association to fight for sensible building codes that fully recognize plywood's structural advantages.

Supporting other speakers' advocacy of more intensiye plywood sales promotion, Mr. Difford, managing director of the association, announced that in the last half of 1954, industry advertising and promotion will be aimed directly at the end-user and specifier, such as builders and architects, with increasing emphasis on volume markets for plywood in homes and commercial construction. The program is intended, he said, to create end-of-the- line orders.

Mr. Difford reviewed basic sales philosophy behind the industry's trade association program, which he said is founded in the high quality of the glue-line in fir plywood. Pointing out that industry grade-marks are the only positive identification of quality, he said that Plyscord sales last year were better than 750,000,000 square feet. approximately triple what they were four years ago. He said that without customer confidence in the product due to promotion of the grade-marks, this market increase ll'ould not have been anywhere near as significant.

E. W. Daniels, chairman of the association's management committee and past president of Harbor Plywood Corp., Aberdeen, Wash., announced that in 1954 fir plywood advertising will make 475,000,000 impressions and that a field force doubled in size will make 24,000 salebuilding calls on architects, builders, industrial buyers and other specifiers.

New Projects for Do-It-Yourself

About 50 new plans for fir plyu'ood projects are being developed, he said, in an effort to capitalize fully on the cresting do-it-yourself movement, which he described as the biggest marketing development since the advent of the self-service grocery store.

C. E. Devlin, managing director of the National Plywood Distributors Association, announced that distributors handling 60 per cent of fir plyrvood sales at the wholesale level "are determined to .rvork u'ith the manufacturers" in the search for more efficient sales and distribution policies. Mr. Devlin announced that the NPDA will ofier individual

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This week we hcr,ve qnother long holidoy period-we celebrqte our Independence Doy-ond I, for one, crm goinq to spend it very quietly cnd lczily, bosking in the good old Colilorniq sunshine.

Speaking ol Calilornic Sunshine

I noticed the Hawcriicrn Islqnds were qnnexed by Uncle Som filty six yeors clgo July the 7th When we took over thot beoutiiul spot we onnexed plenty of sunshine olright, but think of crll the pineopples ond sugor cqne we got right olong with it. I know you cre wondering whcrt "sunshine," "pineoppies" cnd "sugor cone" hqve to do with the cost ol lumber, ond I recdily caree-nothing-but in the cose ol Hcrwoii rcrising the finest pineqpple, Colifornia (ond the west cocrst) grow the Iinest lumber. Thcrt is exoctly''where my soles pitch comes in"when you need thot GOOD LUMBER we'll ship the kind that will sell itsell."

An attractive pocketsized book for the home handyman has been issued by the Arkansas Soft Pine Bureau. The book has been designed for lumber dealer distribution in keeping with the do-it-youiself promotion of the lumber industry. The 8O-page book contains a wealth of information on the uses of wood, cafe and use of tools, and many "how to" instructions for different projects. Dealer inquiries should be addressed to the bureau at 805 Boyle Building, Little Rock. Ark.

New Hordwood Grqdes Proposed

Washington-New grade specifi cations for hardwood dunnage and vehicle stock are being developed for the Corps of Engineers at the research laboratory of Timber Engineering Company, according to C. A. Rishell, directolof research.

In addition, the specifications for three other lumber items are being reworked to attain their closer conformance to militbry requirements. Both new and revised grade specifications are being prepared in a manner appropriate for inclusion in the National Hardwood Lumber Association's official grading rules. The proposed grades will be submitted to the NHLA grading rules committee f or consideration.

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Ar Delleker ls Now 'Ghost Town'

Delleker, a 240-acre town in the heart of the Feather River area, will go undet the auctioneer's hammer at 10 a.m. on July 27. The hamlet on Alternate U.S. 40 (former State Route 24) is two miles east of Portola, California, and is already practically a ghost town, with only ten of its one-time population of 250 still on hand, according to The San Francisco Chronicle of June 13.

This situation came to pass when the Tarter, Webster & Johnson Lumber Company, owners of the town and its lumber mill, decided last November to get rid of Delleker because the timber located close enough for economical operation had been cut out.

Delleker is divided by the highway, with the lumber operations on one side and the homes, dining hall, boarding houses and administration ofifices on the other. The auctioneer estimates the replacement value at between five and seven million dollars.

Industrial facilities include the sawmill, two boiler plants, a planing and moulding mill, box factory and drying kilns. The elevated tramways permitted winter operations when other mills were closed- The entire town will go on the auction block first. If no bids are acceptable, it will be ofiered in an industrial and a residential block and, if this doesn't draw, each building and lot will be put up individually.

Timber is available about 30 miles away. ,tata tt laa ta tra

Another advantage in the military's proposals is that their adoption will establish an official basis for NHLA inspection and certification of the military lumber items affected.

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rnanufacturers in the immediate future a ne\\r marketing plan designed to minimize or cure the proltlem of unbalance l>etrveen supply and demand.

All present officers of the trade association u'ere reelected to second terms during the sessions. These include, in addition to President Thompson: vice president, H. B. Garrison, vice president of Evans Products Co., Coos Bay, Ore. ; secretary, R. A. Neumann, president of Elliott Bay Mill Co., Seattle; treasurer, Arthur Berggren, general manager, Puget Sound Plywood, Inc., Tacoma, Wash.

Trustees re-elected include Monford Orloff, general manager, Mt. Baker Plywood, Inc., Bellingham, Wash.; George D. Jaynes, general manag'er, North Pacific Plywood, Inc., Tacoma; Robert Beggs, president of Humboldt Plyrt'ood Cor,p., Arcata, Calif., and executive vice president of Roddis Plywood Corp., Marshfield, Wis., and F. L. Foval, manager of factory sales, Long-Bell Lumber Co., Longview, Wash.

Plyu,ood firms elected members of the association included Centralia Plywood, Inc., Centralia, Wash.; Medforci Veneer & Ply'rvood Corp., Medford, Ore.; Willamette Builders Supply Co., Aumsville, Ore., and Western States Plyu.ood Cooperative, Port Orford, Ore.

The private land owners sponsible for about 80/o of planted in 1953, according

and forest industries were rethe 715,548 acres of new trees to the U.S. Forest Service.

Art Evons Joins Honsen In Southern Gqlifornio

Arthur D. (Art) Evans, for the past three years identified with the Humboldt division of Roddis California, Inc., in charge of the San Francisco territory, has been appointed to head the sales department of }lansen Wholesale Lumber Corporation in Southern California, with offrces at 12206 Ventura Blvd., Studio City. His territory also includes Arizona. Nevada. Utah and Texas.

llansen Wholesale Lumber Corporation distributes throughout the u'est the products of llansen Pacific Corporation, with mi1ls at Fortuna, Calif., manufacturers of Douglas Fir, shipping direct to retail dealers.

Art Evans brings more than 25 years of lumber sales experience to. his new position, having spent several years in Honolulu and over 15 years with the Diamond Match Corp.

Bqck Tours the Orient

J. \\rm. Back, pioneer Los Angeles plywood and lumber distributor, returned last month from a five-week business and pleasure trip to Hawaii, Japan, Hong Kong and Manila. Mrs. Back accompanied him to Honolulu where the couple spent two weeks on the beach at Waikiki. Follorving the vacation period, Mr. Back left for the Orient, where he arranged for importation of Japanese and Philippine lumber and plyu'ood to the tvest coast. The trip /wa-s made by commercial airline and he flew more than 16,00{) miles before returning to Los Angeles.

Olympic Stoined Products, Fisk & Moson Host Deolers

The Olympic Stained Products Company, Seattle, played host to Southern Oalifornia dealers stocking its products at the Terrace Gardens of the Green Hotel in Pasadena the evening of June 1O. Retail lumber dealers who came from as far as Santa Barbara and Redlands heard Stain Sales Manager Eric Carlson say the dinner meeting was called to present them with a "powerful sales tool"-the company's $50,000 promotion and publicity contest in 11 western states. Fisk & Mason, the local distributor of Olympic products, rvas co-host at the dinner meeting.

The sales manager said the new Olympic stain is to be approved for use on Redwood soon. He also said they worked with the Douglas Fir Plywood Association on its new Texture 1-11.

"Switch from paint to stain" is the therne of the current consumer contest. On display at the dinner was the new Nash car which is first prize for some dealer's customer, while

the winning dealers (three) n'ill be given u'rist rvatches. There are 29 other prizes, including a Delta \\'orkshop, Toro power mower, Argus C-4 camera, electric broiler, etc. The consumers entering contests at lumber yards will r,l'rite in 50 word or less, "Why I switched from paint to stain."

In addition to the local cooperation of Nash distributors, the contest will be plugged in three issues of Sunset magazine, building material trade papers, etc. Newspaper acls will appear in the Los Angeles Tirnes and others. In newspaper advertising, the participating dealers will take one ad and Olympic the next. Also augmenting the contest is a new display piece for yards which costs the manufacturer $18 but which it is making available to dealers for $8.50.

Forrest Wilson, district manager for Olympic. and Lynn Eccleston, sales manager, specialties division, of Fisk & Mason, Southern California distributor, arranged the excellent dinner and meeting. It was concluded by a question-andanswer period following Mr. Carlson's talk.

Harry Bremner, Sacramento lumberman, \vas a recent visitor in Southern California.

RETAIL tUfilBER DEATERS come from os fqr cs Sonto Borbaro ond Redlqnds to qttend the dealer dinner meeting held in Los Angeles June lO by Olympic Stoined Products Co., Seoltle, ond Fisk & Moson, locql dislributor. Stoin Soles Monoger Eric Corlson oddresses the deolers in the top lefi snd center pholo3; top right, he sit3 ot the heod roble with Lynn Eccleston of Fisk & Mqson. In the bottom ponel of picluies, Forresf Wilson, Olympic district monoger, is shown in the center by the Nosh lirsl prize in the deoler contest; deoler guests qre shown in the other scenes.

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Weyerhoeuser Tells F. P. R. 5. Future Forest Growth Moy Meet All Nolion's Wood R.equiremenls

EXECUIIVE BOARD I/IEMBERS of rhe Foresl Products Rerearch Society ol the recent eighth onnuol nccting in Grqnd Rcpids, Mich., included, front row, left to right: Posl President Robeil D. Pouley, monoger, specicl pnoducb divbion, Weyerhoeuser fimber Co., Tocomcl Vice-preridcnt Rolph H. Bascher, Pittsburgh district moncgar of soles ond operotions, wood preseruing division' Koppars Co., Piilsburgh; President Lester J. Corr, generol monoger, lesler J. Corr & Co., Socromcnto, ond President-elect Mors B. Christion, director of rescorch, Chicago Mill qnd lumber Co., folluloh, [o. Bock row, leff to right: Nodhwest regionol boord member John D. Rilchie, direaor Allied Products deporlment, Douglos Fir Plywood Associofio4 Tocomo; South-Cenirol regionol boord member W. Jeler Eo3on, secretorylr{3urer, Nickey Brorhers, Memphis; Northeost regioncl boord membor Frsnk T. Porrirh, reseorch ond development dilactor. Heywood-Wokefield Co. Gordner, Moss.; North-Centrql regionol boord member Dr. J. Alfred Holl, director, Fore3t Producti loborotory, U.S. Dapr. of Agriculture, Modison, Wis., ond Southeort regionol boord member Dr. Ellwood S. Horror, professor of wood technology, School of Forestry, Duke Univcrsity, Durhom, N. C.

The 1954-55 Executive Board members of the 2,700member Forest Products Research Society are shown above at the eighth annual meeting held recently in Grand Rapids, Micl-r. The FPRS is devoted to the furtherance of forest products research, development, production, utilization and marketing.

"It is entirely possible that the future forest growth will meet all the nation's wood requirements in the years to come," J. P. \\reyerhaeuser, Jr., president of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., Tacoma, told the meeting in a dinner address. He said that the results of a study by Stanforrl Research Institute on the probable demands for all forest products through 1975 will be released upon completion later this summer.

Members of the Forest Products Research Society got a peek into the future when Mr. Weyerhaeuser, Jr., revealed some early findings of the Stanford study on wood product demands through 1975.

In the study, financed by the \\reyerhaeuser Timber Co., the research group concludes that United States forest product requirements in 1975 can be met with less than a

five per cent increase over 1952 in board feet of sawlogs delivered to the millsite and an increase of less than 15 per cent over 1952 in total cubic volume of all wood delivered to mills.

Improved mill utilization of lumber and plyrvood leitovers and greatly reduced use of fuelwood were listed by Mr. Weyerhaeuser as reasons why it will be possible to meet the fast-growing demands for forest products r''i'ithout overcutting existing forests.

"Lumber is still the material the others have to beat," the Tacoma lumberman declared; "why else do others advertise that their product can be sawn like lumber, nailed like lumber, this and that like lumber? There is still no other building material with all the virtues and versatility of lumber."

In addition to the members shorvn in the accompanying photo, the executive board also includes Ray E. Shrecl<, director of research and development of the Union Lumber Company, San Francisco, who is southwest regional board member, and Executive Secretary Frank J. Rovsek, Box 2010. Universitv Station. Madison 5. Wis.

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Three trec f:rrnr olr,rters of small, rnedittrn atrtl l:rrge prolr erty holclings reccivecl certificates frotrr the Cali fornia Rechvootl Association at it banquet <luring the recent Redlvrtrtd liegion Logging Confercnce at Uliiah.

I'-. T. F. \\'ohlenberg, lcft, of N'Iasonite Corporation receivetl rL cr:rtificatc ior 68.271 acres locatetl u'est of Ul<iah. The

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chairnran of the Strrte Roartl of l-orestrl', fclr his 2,'i80-acrc E. T. ltobie Nlenrtirial Tree Farm ne:rr ()riclt. \\rallier l:!. Tille,r', right, fr.,rcstcr for llasonite, receivecl a ccrtihcatc for his ou-n 100-acrc trec farrn near Albion. Seatc<1, ccnter, is Ciray (i. Ev:urs, president of the Redr'r,ooci Ileg-ion l-oggirrg Coriference.

Kiln Drying Methods Report Shows Higher Vqlued Dimension

flethotls of clrying young-growth Douglas I'-ir to prttdttce higher-valucrl clin-rension lttrnber thich costs less to shill and r'vill not st:rin or rnolcl in transit u.trc tolcl at the annual nreeting of the \\Iestern Kiln clubs at 1'.urelia, Calif., last montl.r.

Ilruce (i. Anclerson, woocl technologist at the Oregon liorest Products l-aboratory, said results of a two-year study of l<iln-clrying young grou.th Douglas Fir clin.tcnsion lttrnbcr show this r.r-ratcrial can bc dried to 12 to 18 per cent t-uoistttre content rvithorrt excessivc <legrade. Such lumber costs less to sl.rip because it rveighs less.

Thc increasetl retttrns fron-r kih'r-clrie<i lr-rr-nber tcrttl to offset the addecl expense of <1rying, but each rnill opcrator must revieu'his ou,n costs to assess the value of kiln-<lrying to his operration, reportecl Anderson.

N'lasonite 'frce Farm is the largest in the Iledwoocl region. Russell Johnson, Union Lumber Companv, chairman of the CllA Tree Farm Corlrnittee, presents a certificate to Wendell Robie, prcsident of the Auburn Lumber Company ancl vice-

The study, which shou.s degrade iunounts ancl causes during r.arious kiln scheclules ; shrinkagc, loss in u'cight and an anall'sis of increased returns to the rrrill from drying clirnension Iumber, is available from the Oregon Forest Products Laboratory at Corvallis in a report, "Seasoning ancl \{achining Degrade in Young-growth Douglas Fir Dirnension Lnmber."

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Construction of a $lfu mrllion addition to the Flagstaff plant of Southwest Lumber Mills, Inc., is underway and scheduled for completion by December 15, J. B. Edens, president of the big firm, said today.

The major project rvill be the erection of a 300x600-foot steel building, the largest structure under a single roof in northern Arizona. Another large project will be construction of 10 cinderbrick dry kilns.

These two projects will cost about $600,000, according to Freeman Schultz, vice-president and general manager of the local division.

Equipment costing about $900,00O will be installed as soon as the big building is completed. Preliminary 'rvork on the site is being done by the lumber company's olvn crews. Contract for construction of the building and kilns and installation of machinery has been awarded to Dickman, Pickens and Bond, of Little Rock, Ark., a nationally known firrn specializing in sawmill construction.

The huge plant addition will include an automatic stacker for the kilns, an automatic unstacker, dry sorting chain, rework plant, rough dry storage, planing mill, surface lumber storage and shipping dock. Construction will require about 20 carloads of cen-ient, Mr. Schultz said.

The big building will house everything but the kilns and is engineered for maximum efficiency in handling lumber. Raw lumber will move directly from the all-steel sawmill, built only a ferv years ago, to the new structure for processing, treatment, storage and shipment' The building will provide shipping dock facilities for 12 freight cars at a time.

Clifford Campbell is superintendent of construction in charge of operations for the big Arkansas firm. R. A. Braser of Southwest Mills, Flagstaff, is 'coordinating the various aspects of the big project.

Raw lumber leaving the sawmill will be handled by huge cranes, a 60-foot one to serve the dry sorter and rework plant, and a lOGfoot one to service the rough shed and deliver lumber to the planing mill. Trucks can be loaded and unloaded by both cranes

The i0 specially designed dry kilns rvill be able to handle the entire mill cut, Schultz said. Lumber rvill not be exposed to sunshine from the time it leaves the saws until it is delivered to the customer.

When the new plant is completed, the company rvill be able to operate 49 weeks a year by decking logs during the open months. "This is going to be one of the ferv really 'engineered' salvmills in the west," Mr' Schultz said' "It's an innovation to put so much of the operation under one roof, but right in line u'ith the present trend in manufacture."

The completed plant 'ivill be able to handle the entire annual cut of 44/z million feet, Schultz said' The old Saginarv mill, now running two shifts, 'ivill be closed dorvn permanently when the additions are placed in use' The Southrvest sarvmill is nolv shut dowr-r to facilitate construction.

Southwest Lumber Mills, Inc., rvith headquarters at I'hoenix, is one of the top 1O companies in the lumber industry in the U.S. Last year the firm cut 113 million feet in the Flagstafi and NcNary divisions.

Most of the logs processed at the Flagstaff plant come from Happy Jack about 40 miles south of here in Coconino National Forest.

Helms qnd Brown Chqnge Nqme To Western Lumber Sqles Co.

Stan Helms and Frank Brown have announced that, effective July 1, the Helms Lumber Co. will oPerate under the name of Western Lumber Sales Company' They will continue to operate at the same location,2l5 Market Street, San Francisco; phone: YUkon 2-04n, and teletype: s.F. 671.

Higgins ls Sclles Monoger

Dli Higgins, who has beenlssistant sales manager for Pickering I umber Corporation at Standard, California, for the past two years, has succeeded Walter S. Kennon in the position of sales manager.

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Sompson Compony Celebrotes Koppers Buys Greof Lumber Trecting Firm 25th Yeor in Business

In July, 1929, W. A. (Bill) Sampson established the Sampson Company in Pasadena, Calif., on the corner of Fillmore and Raymond avenues, for the purpose of manufacturing screen doors, louvre doors and allied custommade products for the retail dealers of Southern California.

This month, Sampson executives and employes celebrate the 25th year producing and distributing quality building products under the management of John Sampson, who represents the second generation of the family heading the business. Bill Sampson died in 1946 following a long career in the sash and door business.

Sampson Company still operates from the sarne location, with each year showing a steady growth in both productior.t and distribution. When the company was established in 1929 with three employes, Southern California was just starting to "boom," according to John Sampson. "We have tried to keep pace with the development of this area by furnishing the dealers rvith the kind of products that build repeat business and to impress them not only with the quality of our materials, but also that they have a reliable source of supply when they depend on us," he continued.

Les Pearson, executive of the Orange County Lumber Company, Santa Ana, and Mrs. Pearson returned last week following an extended vacation trip through Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. They rvere gone from Southern California three rveeks.

The American Lumber & Treating Company, with offices in Chicago, and treating plants in Washington, Oregon, California, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Jersey, Maryland, South Carolina and Pennsylvania, has been sold to the Koppers Company, of Pittsburgh.

The California plant is located at Wilmington, the Oregon plant at Wauna, and the Washington plant at Everett. These plants are engaged in pressure treatment of wood with creosote or special salts.

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Kochton Plywood, Veneer Compony Opens New L. A. Worehouse Fociliries

Emil Kochton, president of the Kochton Plywood and Veneer Company, with headquarters in Chicago, announced last rnonth his firm had opened new warehouse facilities in the heart of the greater East Los Angeles industrial area.

John F. Walker, Los Angeles plywood distributor and president of the Eells Walker Company, has been appointed Pacific Coast manager for the Kochton western region and will have charge of sales and distribution in this territory.

The new warehouse covers an area of 20,000 square feet with a storage capacity exceeding 50 carloads of plywood, doors and allied building materials. It has a paved loading area of over one-half acre to accommodate eight trucks loading at the same time, and a spur track that will handle 10 cars of material arriving claily.

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Pocific Awqrded Girorion for Promolion of Wood Uses

San Francisco, Calif.: The Pacific Lumber Company received the first-place award in the lumber, dimension stock, veneer and plywood division of a contest initiated this year by Wood Working Digest, it was announced in Chicago June 8. The company received its citation for "otttstanding contributions in 1953 in promoting the use of wood products."

The Pacific Lumber Company's award was in recognition of the assistance which the organization "has given in advancing public understanding of the advantages, values and uses of wood over other materials." Under the sponsorship of the Hitchcok Publishing Company, the contest attracted so much attention that it will become an annual feature of the publication.

Other awards were presented to the Hardwoods Exhibit Comrnittee of Chicago, the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, Kingsford Chemical Company, Wood Offrce Furniture Institute, Washington; E. L. Bruce Company, Memphis; DeWalt, fnc., Lancaster, Pa., and the Bordon Co., New York.

S'outhern California communities, accorcling to Mr. Walker.

John Walker has more than 25 years' experience in construction building design, millwork and plywood manufacturing and sales. For the past ten years he has been engaged in this field in Los Angeles and, prior to that time, spent 15 years in Chicago, where he served in every department of plywood manufacture from production throttgh sales.

"We expect to expand our staff immediately to offer a complete dealer and industrial service in Southern California in the efficient distribution of foreign and domestic plywoods and doors," said Mr. Walker. The western region covers all of California, IJtah, Nevada and Arizona and a sales staff to handle this territory will be organized with headquarters at the Los Angeles plant. Complete stocks of all species of plywood and veneers will be maintained in Los Angeles, along with new stocks of doors, hardboards, plastic laminates and allied materials for the trade.

"Kochton Plywood and \/eneer Company, Inc., is well represented by 13 other wholesale warehouses located throughout the United States," said Emil Kochton. "The Los Angeles plant is our 14th and we expect to grow throughout the west as we have in the east ancl middle-west," he continued.

Three New USG Offices

C. H. Shaver, chairman of the board of United States Gypsum Company, announced the elections of three newly created offices in the company.

H. N. Huntzicker, director of research since 1947, was elected vice-president in charge of research, to better service the increased research facilities. C. W. Desgrey, former general manager of operations, was elected vice-presiclent in charge of manufacturing. R. C. Berrey, formerly general traffic rnanager, was elected vice-president in charge of traffic.

Celebrofe FHA Birthdoy in L.A.

The Home Builders Institute sponsored a building industry dinner meeting that took place at Ciro's in Los Angeles, June 28, to celebate the 20th anniversary of the starting of the Federal Housing Administration in the United States'

Sowmill Burns; $t ZO,OOO Loss

Redding, Calif.: The H and B Sarvmill, near Cottonwood, 27 r.r'iles south of here, was destroyed in an all-night fire June 14. The loss was estimated at $120,000. The local fire chief believed the fire was started either by sparks from a burner or from an overheated motor.

pAClFlC COAST MANAGER JOHN F. WAIKER ond members of his stqfi ore shown, lefi, in lhe new Western region worehouse ofiices of Kochton Plywood qnd Veneer Compony. Eost Los Angeles. In fhe ffrst photo, left to right, ore Willidm J. Bernord, new member of the soles stofi; Connie Fletcher of the ofiice sto6, Mr. Wqller qnd, right, bove Von Noys, worehouse fo]emqn. The center scene shows Mr. Vqn Noys ot his work' Pholo qt right shows Mr' Wolker in front of lhe new worehouse,

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714 W. Olympic Blvd., Los Angels 15' Calif. PRospct 8746

BUSINESSES FOR SALE

RETAIL LUMBER YARD in eunny Phoenix, Arizona' Clean, -"ti-u"tatt"ea inventory at market value (approx' $3o'o0o)' Trucks' .qoip-e"t & fi*t tt.u $0,00o. E*cellent lociiion. Will sell or lease property.

Address Box C-7270, California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.

LIQUIDATING MILL MACHINE,S

YATES AMERICAN NO. V-s+A 5'P' BAND RESAW' IiKC NCW' *ittt OO H.P. Motor will ta-ke 7r' wide saws; with 12 saws and everything; can be seen running'

VONNEGUT r?' x 4' ALL ELECTRIC MOULDER; perfect condition; with square heads and frequenc,y changer for custom short runs, and round multiple knife heads for long runs; ciur be seen running; switches and everything complete.

ENDLESS BED PLANER. 3ry' x ld'ball bearing; motor driven' ALFRED S. KNESBY

1046 So. Olive St., Los Angeles 15, Calif.

Telephones-Rlchmond 6466 or Pasadena, CUster 5-2044

BUSINESS COUNSEIJI,ORS

Realty Division of Hayward Lumber & Investment Company offers many services-including Real Estate and Business Management, Liqurdators, Btrsiness Counsellors, Buying and Selling of Lumber Yarde and All Other Businesses a Specialty. Licensed Real Estate Brokers with full knowledge of current conditions in California. Contact Leo Hubbard, secretary, 410 San Fernando Road, Los Angeles 31, Catifornia. Plione: CApitol 6191.

CAR UNLOADING CONTRACTORS

FREE 1953-54 printed price list mailed gpon req'uest. Our.eleventh year, furnishing experienced labor to unload and sort lumber cars. One-day scrvice.

CRANE & COMPANY

5143 Alhambra Ave. Los Angeles 32, CaL

P. W. CHAIITIA]ID ATID AS9OCIATES WHOLESALE TUMBER.

Since 1922

cApitol 2-8143

\(IANT ADS

PERIODIC AUDITS

INSTALLATION OF S,YSTEMS

E. M. WORTHING, P.A.

317 WEST MAIN STREET

ALHAMBRA, CALIFORNIA

ATlantic 1-3624

OVER 30 YEARS OF LUMBER.EXPERIENCE

POSITION WANTED

-+et+l Lumberman, trpenty years general experience in all phases of business.

Address Box C-2Xi4, California Lumber Merchant

108 West 6th St., Room 50B, Los Angeles f4, Calif.

POSITION WANTED

Lumberman, University graduate, former W.p.A. inspector, 30 years with the leading Western Pine Manufacturers ai General Superintendent, Assistant Manager and Sales. Best of references and detailod information on requesl Sales work preferred in the Bay Area or Lo6 Angeles. Now available.

Address Box C-2262, California Lumber Merchant

108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.

POSITION WANTE,D

Experielced retail lumberman desires position as foreman, manager or salesman.

Address Box C-266, California Lunr,ber Merchant

108 W. 6th Street, Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.

WANTED

By a well rated Los Angeles wholesale lurnber company a sales rnanager. Must have a thorough larowledge of hardwoods and softwoods, as well as a clientele

Starting salary $lQfi)0 yearly, plus a percentage o,f profits. A good opportunity to the right rnan that -can qualify. AU corres- pondence treated strictly confidential.

Address Box C-2268, California Lumber Merchant

1O8 W. 6th Street, Room 5@ Los Angeles lt Calif.

Tom Marquart, secretary of the Marquart Millwork Company, Oshkosh, \Mis., was a visitor in Los Angeles last month. Enroute west he attended the Northern Sash & Door Jobbers Association convention held at the Broadmoor Hotel, Colorado Springs, Colo., during the week of June 7. He is a director of the association. Following an extended visit with Horace Wolfe, president of MarquartWolfe Lumber Company, Los Angeles, he returned to Oshkosh via San Francisco and the Pacific Northwest.

George W. McCollum of the McCollum-Fortna Lumber Company, Grants Pass, Ore., and Mrs. McCollum left Tune

WANTED SUPERINTENDENT

Woodworking Plant Superintendent under 40. Fully familiar wlth woodworking machinery. Excellent pay and opportunity to buy into business from profits.

Address Box C-2267, California Lurnber Merchant

108 W. 6th Street, Roorn 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.

POSITION WANTED

Married man 45 with five years experience in lumber and building supply sales, both inside and outside; also estimating and prefaF rication. Wishes a positio,n in California. Now employed but wish to return to California.

Address Box C-2260, California Lumber Merchant

108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.

SALESMAN WANTED

Position open for experienced lumber salesman to call on retail yards and industrial accounts in Los Angeles Cotr,r:ty. Knowledge of Pine and Fir desirable. Commission or salary-bonus proposition. Contact-ANgelus 3-6951 for interview with our principal on July 8 and 9.

WANTEID_SAWMILL SUP,ERINTENDENT

Experienced in Redwood and Fir. Must hage ability to keep plant in operation, get good recovery and manufacture quality lumber at low cost. Give personal history and references in reply.

Address Box C-2269, California Lumber Merchant 108 W. 6th Street, Roorn 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.

WANTED

Girl experienced in figuring lumber

Penberthy Lumber Co.

580O So. Boyle Avenue

Los Angeles 58, Calif.

Phone Klmball 5111

WANTED EXPERIENCED SALESMAN

L.A. area-wholesale. Selling Pine, Hemlock, Spruce, Douglas Fir. HALLINAN MACKIN LUMBER CO. 4186 E. Bandini Blvd. Los Angeles 23, Calif..

Phone ANgeles 3-4161

2l for a summer in City on the Queen countries.

Europe. They sailed Marv June 23 and from New York will visit eleven

Jack Allenby, sales manager for the Walter C. Brix Lumber Company, Briceland, Calif., and Mrs. Allenby were recent visitors in Southern California. While in Los Angeles he called on various retail lumber concerns in the area accompanied by Sterling Wolfe, sales manager of the Marquart-Wolfe Lumber Company, Hollywood.

Bill Stover, head man of the C & Compton, Calii., flew to Chicago on a week.

S Lumber Company, business June 10 for

ADVERTISER,S INDEX

*Adverliring oppeo.t in ohemqle ittuet

Anerico Forelt Producl3 Corp. ..-....-.--...-- r

AmerlGqn Hordwood Co. .--.--.....-....--.-......-.54

Anerico Lcmber & Treoting Co. --.---..--.... *

Anerico Sirolkrort Co,, The -...-..----....-.-.. *

Andcrro Wholerqle Lmber 9qler ---.--..-... *

Angelur Hordwood Co. ..-...-...--.-....-.-.--...-..61

Arcotq Redwood Co. -....--...-.--.-...........-...--.-.39

Atio(iqted Plywood ltillr, In<. .--..-.-...-l.F.C'

Atlor Lumber Co. --.---..-.-.-...---...-..-..-.---..---.-51

Sqter & Co., J. H. -..---.-...-..-.----...---,.----..-*

Blir & Gote! Lumber Co. ------.-...---...-.----..*

Blue Dimond Corpo.qlion .--.------..--------'''--- !t

Bohnhoft Lumber Co. .-....--,-------.-..---.-..--..-.61

Bonninglon Lumber Co. --..--.-...-----.-..-.---..-.*

Bmnell-Wqd & Knopp -...,-....-.-....-.--.-.-..---43

Bruce Co., E. t. .--.-.-.--.---..----..-.-....-..-.----.--*

Brush Indvrlriol Lumber Co. .-...-----.-.-..---.-- 't

Burnr Lumber Co. -.-.---...-----..-..-.-..--...---,----.. I

Cofderd

€hmflqnd & A:socioler, P. W' -.--------.---.-62

Chopmo llfu. Co.

Chrislenron Lmber Co. -.:.--.--.--....--..-'--------40

Cobb Cmpoy, T. Ilt. .......-........-.-...".-..-27

Clough Lmber Co. ------.-..--..-.------.--.-.----..--43

Conrolidofed Lmber Co. ---.---.---.---.-.-..-------/|{)

Cooper Wholeole Lmber Co., W. E.-.---'-. *

Cordr tmber Co. ------.-...-.-------..'-.'--'--...--.'48

Croreil Lmber Co. -.-.-.-...--.-.-.-------.--...-.---* C & 5 Lumber Co. ..-.-.-.--------.-....--'--.------.---55

Dclton, R. W. & Go.

Dlmond W. SuPplY Co.

Ddf & Ruttell 5oler, Int. -----.......--..-..-..-.--20

Dollor Co., The Robert -...--.-...-...---.--.-.......49

Dolly Vorden tmber Co. --.--...----.--......---..59

Donover Co,, Inc. .-..--..--..------.-'.-----.-..-.---..-35

Douglq Flr Plyrood A*odotion '-.-.....-...- I

Drd<er foy Lmber Co. ........-------.-.---.--.-'.-- |

E(k!t.om Plywood & Dd Co. ..------.---'.-.-- t

Edwqdr Lumber & llfg. Co. --..---'...-.-....-. 'i

Emrco Plywood .-...-.--.-..-59

Er:ley md 5o, D. C. -...--.--........-..-.-'..----.-44

Eureliq ledwood Lmber Co. --....-...--.-'...----13

Exchoge Sonillr Soler Co' --..-.-.----.-.-.-*

Fqirhurrt lmber Co. of Cqlifomiq .-..--..-'I2

Fern Trucking Co. .--.--.--,---....-.--.-.----.-.--.-.--.-'l

Fidler't Moutocluring Co. --..--'.----------....-*

Fir-Tex of Southem Colifornio .-..----.--.-.32-33

Fiik & ,rl6s .-...----.---..-51

Flmer, Erik '-------.-...--.59

Fordyce Lumber Co. -.------...----.-'-.'.----------..-- I

Foreif Fiber Produclr Co.

Foresl P.oduct3 Soles Co. -...--.-..--------.--.----42

Fremo & Co., Stephen G. --..-.------.-'.----.*

Gqlleher Hqrdwood Co. --------..---.------..'-'.---*

Gme.rlotr & Green lumbq Co. -.-.------.-.--. *

Gtrciq Tromc Seryice, B. R. ------..-'--------.*

Gerlinger Corier Co. -.--------.-..-.--.--..-.'------.-52

Gilbreirh Chmicol Co.

Golden Gqte Lumber Co. --...-------'.----.---..-. *

GollinHording Lwbe. Co.

Greot Boy Lumber Soles

Grey-Mmnion Plywod Co'

Hofey Bro. ....--.-...-..-.----57

Holl Co,, Jmer L. -.-----....-...-.-....-..--.---..-.-61

Hsllino Mqtkin Lmber Co., lncr.'..'.'.-.-.43

Hmnod Lmber Co.

Hqnren Wholerqle Lunber Corp. ..-.-.-...--..39

Hqrbor tmberCo. -..-----...-..-.-.-..'....----.-.....*

Hqrbor Plywood Corp. of Colifomio -...-...-. *

Horbor Plywmd Corp. of 5o. Colifqniq-.-.-*

Hqrdwod Producf. Cotp. .-,---...,--...--.-'.....55

Horrir Lmber Co., L. E..--..-..-.'..'-.--.....-'. 'r

Hcryfork Lunber Co. --..--.--.....-.--..--......--.---'.23

Heilund Lwber 3ol*. Inc. .-.....-...-..-.-.-'.*

Higglnr Lmbef Co.. J. E. -..-..-----.....--..5I

Hill-l,mber Co., Roy -..-----...-..----.-..-.-.-----...43

Hilt & Motton, Inc. -..---.-..--..-...--......-.-'-.----37

Hobbr Woll Lunber Co.

Hoqon Wholerole Bldg. llqletiolr €o.--'.----19

Hollry tree Redwood Cmpoy --..'--.---.--.-15

Holmer Eurckq Lumber Co.

Holmer Lcmber Co., Fred C. .--.-..-----...-.---61

Hoover Co., A. L. -.--.-------.--..----.-....-..-.-.-.-*

Hughe lrothers .-.'-.------61

Hyiter Cmpoy -.--..--.-.. {'

lnlond Lumber Co. -.-.-..--,--.-.-.---.---'--.----'-..-*

tntulite Co. --------..:-------..----------.-.-------.-..-'.--- rt

Johnr-lAoviffe Co.porolion -.-.--.-..-------------- 7

John:on lunber Co., €. D. ----.---..-------'--'.-. *

Jordon Sch & Door Co., F. L. ----'-''.-.-------4!

Kelley, Albert A. ------.--.----------------..'-..-------*

Kendoll Lumber Distributors

Koehl & Son, lnc., John W. .-..--------..--.--..-45

Kuhl Lmber Co., Csrl H. --..--.-..---....-----...*

L. A. Dry Kiln t Sroroge, Inc. -...--.-...-..-...39

Lmon lumber Co. ---.-----.---..------.-.-....-.--.----28

Lorren-lAerriCeld, Inc. --.-.---.-...--.--.-.---.-..-.--5t

lwrence-Phillpr Lunber Co. .---.-...-'.'.-.--53

Lerreil lwbe. Co. -...--------..----.-..---.----.-..-*

Long Bell Lnber Co. .-...--------.--.--.-.-.---.--..

loop Lmber & Mill Co. ..-.-.-...-..-......------..25

Lor Angeler Iumber. InG. ---.---.----------.-------

Lor-Col Lumbe. Co.

Lmber rrlonuftrturerr, Inc.

Lmber Mill & Supply Co.

lumber Sofer Co.

IrlocDonold

Noilhern Gqlifornio Plywood Distriburors Form Group

The Northern California Plywood Distributors Association has been formed in San Francisco. A constitution and by-laws were presented to and adopted by the plywood distributors located in the Bay area recently. The membership at present consists of Bay area distributors but it is the intent of the association to open membership to all plywood distributors in Northern California.

The stated purpose of the NCPDA is: "To unite for the purpose of establishing and fostering high ethical standards among Northern California wholesale distributors of plywood and related products." Meetings will be held monthly at a time and place designated by the board of directors.

The group recently held its first election and named these directors:

Inc.

Pqinc lumber Deolerr Supply,

Po<itlc WsllErn Lumber Co.

PociCc Wire Productr Co.

Pm A:iolic Troding Co,

Pqmco, Inc.

Poul Buiryon Lumber Co.

Penberlhy lunber

Perry Dmr Go.

Phippr Co., lhe

Pope & lolbot, Inc., Lmbo. Div.

loioh Lmbcr Co.

Reqdy Hcng Door llfg, Co. of So. Colif.---.

Red Cedq Shingle

Ricci & K.u.e lumber

Rgdwood Co.

Ror lunbei 5oler

Roy Fderl Producl3

Rudboch & Co., John

Ralph Mannion, chairman; Don Beggs, director for six months; Jim Moen, three months; Dave 'Woerner, three months; Bob Patrick, nine months; Clarence Dame, nine month, and Don Kesselring, six months. The above-named directors served until the election on May 18, when Walt Venor and John Gamerston were nominated to replace Jim Moen and Dave Woerner.

FNMA April Report

The Federal National Mortgage Association during April sold 13,760 mortgages in the gross amount of $108,000,000, about 96 per cent of which was made under the one-for-one plan of buying and selling FHA-insured and VA-guaranteed mortgages, FNN{A President J. S. Baughman stated in his monthly report to Administrator Albert M. Cole of the Housing and Home Finance AgencY.

Olltuaaat'

Henry W. Aldrich

Henry (Harry) Whitney Aldrich, 70, lumber broker in Portland and Eugene, Oregon, died June 11 in Eugene after a heart attack. He had been in the wholesale lumber business since 1913, and founded his own firm, the H. W. Aldrich Lumber Company, in Eugene in 1941 with his son Henry' Jr', as partner.

Mr. Alclrich was a director of the National-American Wholesale Lumber Association from 1938-43. He had also served as president of the Eugene chamber of commerce and, in 1918, was on the War Industries Board in Washington. Other survivors include his wife and a daughter.

How Lumber looks

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The Southern Pine Association, reporting for 116 mills in the week ending June 12, showed production 19,327,000 feet, shipments 19,098,000 feet, and orders 19,743,000 feet. In the previous week ended June 5, 111 mills reported production 17,113,000 feet, shipments 17 ,832,000 f eet, and orders 16,972,0@ feet.

Arcctc Ecdwood Co.

Bonnell-Ward 6 Kncpp. Bonniagton Lumbcr Uo.. Cbrirtearon Lumber Co. Cordr Lumber Compcuy Dcli 6 Buegell Scles Co.

Dolly Vcrden Lumber Compcny (Sqn Mqteo)

Drckes Btry Lumber Co........

The Robert Dollqr Co..

BUYER'S GUIDE

SAN FRANCISCO

Holmes Eurekq Lumber Co.

GArlield l-1921

YUkon 6-206? .GArliEld l-1842

.{Ukon E-5721

VAIencic 4-5832

I UKOn O-OJUD

YUkon 6-4395

Lqnon Lumbsr Co.

Thc Long-8elt Lumber Co.

Lumber Sqles Co.

MqCloud Lumbcr Co.

Morlinez Co., L. W.

Milue, Lloyd D.............

Pocilic Lumber Co., The

YUkon 2-437b

EXbrook 2-869ii

VAlenciq 6-4970

.EXbrook 2-7041

EXbrook 2-3644

..Skyline 2-I184

GArfield

Pope 6 Tclbot, lnc., Lumber Division DOuslas 2-2561

Ricci & Kruse Lumber Co. Mlssion 7-2576 Rockport Bedwood Compony ......YUkon

Vcn Arsdcle-Horris Lumber Co, Inc. ........lUniper 4-6592

OAKLANDBERKELEYATAMEDA

LUMBEN

Cclilonic Lumbcr Scles. .KElloe {-100d

Ectsbore Lumber and Mill Co.....KEUogg 3-2121

Fqirburst Lunber Co, oI Cqlil.....Twinoqls 3-2939

Gqn.rsto! 6 Green Lunber Co. ...KEUog 4-6454

Goldeu Gcts Lumber Co' (Wclnut Creek) YEllowstone 4'{416

Gosslin-Hcrding Lumber Co, (Walaut CreLL) .YEllowstone 4-877'l

Hiit d Moilou, !ic...... ANdover l-107?

i-ty. ltt.tt A. (Alcmedc). .Lclrhurgt 2-2751

LI'IIBER

Audorron Wbolescle Lunber Sqles (Pqsqdcnq) ......RYqn l-7559 Syccnore 5-2755

Arcotq Rcdwood Co. (1. I. Rcc) ..WYoming lI09

AtlsrLunborCo. .......TBility2326

Baush, ccrl w. (Pcgcdcuc) S";41? l:93!3

Bliss d Gctes Lumber Co..RAymond 3-1681-3-3a154

Brwh ladutricl Lumber Co.. .RAynond 3-3301

Eums Lunbor Compcay .WEbrtor 3-5851

Ccn 6 Co., t. l. (W. D. Dunning) PRoopect 88{3

Chcntlod dDd Atrociales, P' W. AXninistcr 5296

George Clough

Couolidclod Lumbor Co.

.....TOpcz l-1281

ZEnith 9771 .Rlcbnond 2lll (Wilninston) ......NE. 6-1881 WilE. Ter.,l-2687

Coopcr Wholoclo Lumbcr Co., W. E. .YOrk 8238

C. d S. f,unber Conpcay, Inc.....NEvcdc 6-814{ NEmark 8-{228

Loop Lumber d Mill Compcny (Alcmedc)

Pqcilic Fir Scles

Pccilic Forest Products, Iuc-.

Strcble Lumber Compcny Triangle Lumber Co..

Ccrl W. Wctts

WealetD Dry Kiln Co..

Winlon Lumber SclEs Co, ..... HANDWOODS

tOS

McCloud Lumber Co.......... McCoy Plcning Mitl

Middletoa G Beime Lumber Co, (Scntc Anq) lcmes Newquist Lumber Scles (Pcsodenc) ......BYqu l-8486 SYccmore 5-1340

Olsen-Cqrpcntor Lumbet Co. (Bcvrrly Hillt) ...BRcdghqw 26651

CRESOTED LIJI\AEN_POLES_PILING_TIES

Dont 6 Bussell, Sqles Co..

Daltor 6 Co., R. W. (Sca Mcriro)PYramid l-2127 ..ANselus 9-0174

Doaovrr Co., Inc..

Erdcy, D. C, G Son

Eurekc Redwood Lumbcr Co. (Conpton)

Fcirhurst Lunber Co. of Cqlit. (Loa Aagclce Lunbcr , Ioc.) ..MAdison 6-9134

FbI 6 Mqsoo (So. Pcscdona) PYrqmid l-1197

9-267 |

Erit Flcner (Long Beccb)..L.8. 6-5237; NE 6-272{

Fororl Products Salcs Co, (lnglewood) Plecsont 3-ll4l

Froomqa 6 Co,, Stophen G. (Eclboc) llatbot 2024

Ed. Fountcia Lunber Co. LOqcn 8-2331

Hollino Mcckin Lumber Co.. .ANgelus 3-4161

Hcnmond Lunbcr Compcly .......PBospect 7l7l

Hcsen Wholescle Lumber Corp. (Studio City) .STcnley 7-70'll

Hill 6 Morton, lac. BRadghcw 2-437:

CBestview 5-3154

Hill Lumber Co., Rcy ...Pleqsanl 3-3221

Hollow Tree Eedwood Co, (Long Becch) .........L8 7-2781 NEvcdq 6-4056

Holmes EurcLa Lumber Co. Mutuol 9l8l

Hobbs Wcll Lumber Co. ......CUmberlcnd 3-4902

A. L. Hoover Co. (Scu Mcriro)......RYcu l-9321 SYccnore 5-4349

Kcadqll Lumbcr Distributors (ubl Lumber Co., Ccrl H.

R. S. Osgood

Lcrsen-Merrifield, Inc.

Lcwrence-Pbilips Lumber Co.

Lorrelt Lunber Compcoy

Tbc Loag-Bell Lumber Co.

.PRospect 5341

.TRinity 8225

CRestview 6-9149

BRcdshq.r 2-437? ..NEmcrk l-8651 NEvcdc 6-2323

DUnkirk 7-134?

Lor Algcler Dry f,iln 6 Slorcae, lnc. ANgelus 3-6273

Lor Angdrr Lunber, lnc. ...MA 6-9134

Lor-Ccl Lunbcr Co. ... .........IEflerson 8234

Lunbcr Mill d Supply Co. ......ANselE 9-3280

ANgelus 3-5503

Osgood, Robert S, .DUnkirh 2-827.8 Pocilic Fir Sqles (Pcscderc) .SYccmore 6-4328 RYcu l-8103

Pacilic Lumber Co., Tho ...RYcn l-9321 SYccmorc 5-4349

Pacilic Foresl Producls, Inc, (Dick LcFranchi) TUcker 1232

Pccilic Westem Lunber Co. ol Colil., Inc. (Pcscdenc) SYcqmore 6-8869-L.A. RYcu l-8I23 Phipps Compcuy, The ..........RAymond 3-1019

Popo G Tclbot, luc., Lumbor Divisioa Pnospect 8231 Rcich Lumber Compcny, Inc. .RAymond 3-4505

E. L, Beitz Co., Oceqn Center Bldg. (Long Becch) Loug Becch 6-96{7 Roy Forrst Products Co. (Vqo Nuys) STcte 5-ll& Rudbqch, Johu A. d Co. (Arccdic).ATlautic 7-9454

Alcn A. Shively

Sierrc Redwood Co. Soulhern Cqlilorniq

Southem Lumber Co.

Stanloa, E. J, 6 Son

Lumber Sqles (Mouroviq) Elliott 8-ll5I

...TBinity 0374

.ADqns 4-9211

Tccomc Lumber Sqles, lnc.

.MAdisoq 6-683I

Koehl, John W G Sor Mople Bros. (Whittier)

Mcrtia Plywood Co. .....RA1mond 3-3661

lvlutucrl Moulding & Lumber Co..Plymouth 5-6630

.WEbster 3-0327

l orrer, Webs:er 6 loirnson, luc. ANgelus 9-7231

Tcube 6 Bergstrom ...B8qdshow 2-8235

Tiober Scles Inc. (Downey). .......TOpaz 2-6512

Tobio Forest Products (Loug Beoch) L.B...906-358

Tropicql 6 Woste rn Lumber Co.. .LOgcn 8-2375

Twia Hcrbors Lunrber Co,

Tcrdy, loe (C. P. Henry 6 Co.)

Union Lumber Compcny

Wendliag-Nothon Co.

Westeru Custom Mill, Inc, Weyerhceuser Scles Co.

osrlins Mcnutccrurins Co "U_r5,o;;"i 3:i818

Pqcilic Lumber Declers Supply Co., Iuc. (Hcrbor City) .ZEritb 1156; Lomilc 1156

Pqn Asiqtic Trcding Co. Iac, ...Blchmond'7-7524

Pcrmco, Inc. (Ontcrio) ...YUkon 6-5824

.PRospect 6524

TRiniiy 2282

.....RYqn l-9321

SYcomore 5-4349