The California Lumber Merchant - July 1955

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SAFER, STRQNGER, FASTER. "Monomast", unexcelled for work-productivityfive years in developmentthe product of thousands of hours of Hyster itroving Ground and actual job-testing with emphasis on stability, rigidity and strength.

'Exc]usive ..Monomast" panoramic aisibility and faster lifting spceds means faster approach, more accurate placing of loads, less package damage-far rnore tons moaed per bout,

U"Iq"e "Monomast" construction, consisting of two-- box-shaped sectioni, one telescoping within the other, provides unexcelled strength, rigidity and safety.

"Uysiero standard job-attachments, including hydraulic, can be used with the "Monomast".

SEt THE DIFFEREI{CE. Ask your Hyster Dealer for advance information -he's listed in the yellow-section of the phone book-or write direct.

llateilals hoadllng trvcks from IOOO ?o 3O'OOO lbe. caPocltY.

HYSTER COMPANY 4445 3rd Street, Son Froncisco 24, Cqliforniq HYSTER COMPANY 2425 So. Gorfield Avenue, Los Angeles 22, Coli{.ornio "MONOMAST" trodemork regisfrolion opplied for.

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THE CALIFOR},IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

How Lumber Looks

Lumber shipments of 511 mills reporting to the National Lumber Trade Barometer were 0.4/o below production in the rveek ended June 11; new orders werc 3.8/o below. Unfilled orders were 48/o of stocks. For the year to date, shipments were 2.4/o above production; new orders 3.9/o above. Compared to the previous week ended June 4, production of 380 reporting softwood mills was 140% above, shipments were l3.l/o above, new orders were 7.8/o above.

National lumber production totaled 3,241,000,000 board feet in April 1955, 4/o below March and 2/o less than April 1954, according to estimates of the National Lumber Manufacturers Assn. Shipments this April were 6/o above pro-

LMANC to Hold Deoler

Vogobond Editoriols

My Fovorite Story

ln This Issue'Workshop; Lote News

Toizonc Lumber eo. Is'o iMod"li yora

Weyerhoeuser, Simpson Exchonge Forestlqnds

Annual Report by Redwood Associqtion

lTth Annuql Redwood Region Logging Conlerence Spring Meeting ol Northern Section, F.P.R.S.

"Thct Knew Not Joseph"-An Editoriol ..

Fun-Focts-Filosophy 25 YeoisAs; .:.. .::.:...:....

"Out of the lVoods" (Dovy Crockett)

A Hoo-Hoo Invomtion

New Products Inlormqtion

Personqls

Californio Building Permits lor Moy

Building Costs Moving Up

Month by month in the past year, building costs have been edging upVard and all the evidence points to a continued upward trend, reports the National Association of Home tsuilders. Between April 1954 and April 1955, construction costs have risen nationally nearly 3o/o. The index for all building materials prices is up 3.60/o in the past year, led by sharp increases in lumber, particularly Douglas fir (up 13.3%) and softwood plywood (ll.7o/). Also sharing in the increase are hardware, plumbing equipment, cement, structural clay. Surprisingly, despite short supply, gypsum products have remained relatively stable in price. Ho-urly wages in contract construction at $2.63 in March were up l,So/s from a yeai ago . . . and probably the most important cost increase in the homebuilding process is the increased cost of land; based on FHA figures these have doubled since 1946 and risen one-fifth in the past year.

duction, while ner,v orders exceeded output by lo/o. Unfilled orders for softwoods gained 8/o during April, whilc there was a decline of 9/o for hardwood lumber. Unfilled order files for both, however, were T/o and. L4/o, respectively, above 1954 levels. Gross mill stocks rvere 8,918,000,000 board feet at the end of April.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association reported for (Continued on Page 63)

sTUDS, BOARDS, DITIENSION IUIIBER

PIANK, TITIBERS, RAII.ROAD TIES, INDUSTRIAT CUTTINGS

DOUGI.AS FIR, REDWOOD, P!NE, WIilTE FIR

I. E. MARTIN Editor cnd Mcncger

M. ADAMS Burinegg Mcncger

REED PORTEN Asgistsnt Editor

lacorporcted under the lcws ol Cclilonic l. C. Diolae, Prce. oad Treas.; I. E. Mcrtin, Vice Pres.; M. Adcms, Secretcry PubliEhed the lst and lSth ol ecrch month at Booms 508-9-10, 108 Wesi Sixth Street, Los Angeles, Cclil., Telephone VAndike 4SBS Erter€d as Second-clcgs nctter Septenbst 25, 1922, qt the Post OlEce ct Loa Angcles, Ccliiornia, undsr Act ol Mqrch 3, 1879

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Tecbnical information: Axel V, Pedersen, AX 1-5494

Quotations: Pbone, tarite, or utire-Ed. Fountain Lumber Co,

Lam-Loc Timbers are straight, glued, laminated members made to order in any size and length.They never warp, twist or crack stay permanently beauti.ful. For heauy loads. long sfans functional beauty specify Lam-Loc Timbers.

60-FOOT SPANS of 1zx3tl Lam-Loc Timhers at Henry's Famous Rite-Sl.ot drive-in restaurant, Pasadena.

Architect, John Lautnet

Contractor, I. Cline

Lam-Loc Timbers from Fleming and Hightowcr Lumber Co.

We're n'Widely Resd in Arizono"

Gentlemen:

In behalf of my Association, I want you to know how deeply we appreciate the. very fine write-up you gave our convention in the June lst issue.

For many, many years The CALIFORNIA LUMBER MEIRCHANT has been widely read by folks in Arizona who make their living in this field. Many. of the young men taking over the leadership in our industry are second and third generation, and in your columns of 25 Years Ago they read reports on things that their dads and grand-dads did at that time.

We again thank you for your splendid presentation.

Yours very truly,

ARIZONA RETAIL LUMBER & BUILDERS SUPPLY ASSOCIATION, INC.

G. R. Michaels Secretary-Manager

Leadbetfer Buys Vqn Nuys Retoil Ycrrd, Plqns Moior lmprovemenlsi

Twohy Hondles Sole for Cronin

C. Gordon Leadbetter purchased the Cronin Lumber Co. in Van Nuys, Calif., on June 20 from Jim Cronin. Leadbetter is originally from Detroit, Mich., where he owned the Leadbetter Coal & Lumber Co. He has been in Southern California for the past 18 months and was employed by two local retail yards, the California Lumber Co. in Montebello and, most recently, with the Carter Mill & Lumber Co., Los Angeles, whose employ he just left in mid-June.

Jim Cronin had owned the Van Nuys yard for 27 years, having bought it in 1928 from Alley Bros. Lumber Co. His future plans are indefinite. The sale of the yard was handled by Art Twohy of the Twohy Lumber Co., making another addition to the large number of retail vards he has sold during the past 40 years.

Gordon Leadbetter will take over operation of the yard. immediately after the July 4 holidays. He plans to make major improvements to the property at 14423 Calvert St., Van Nuys, where the retail site is located in the center of the city's business activity. Leadbetter will change the name of the yard to the Van Nuys Lumber Company and plans to start building at once a modern merchandising store with attractive salesroom and office space in order to cash in on do-it-yourself trade and boost the retail business. The physical improvement of the yard and installation of salesroom will be made during the balance of this year.

Associated with C. G. Leadbetter in the retail yard will be his son Richard "Dick" Leadbetter. He is a university graduate and has worked with his father in retail lumber part time in Detroit.

Oronge County Building Rqfe Doubles

Rural building in Orange county, California, showed a 143/o increase this April over April 1954. Building activity the first four months this year doubled last year's at $50,336,627.

USP Elects Fred Smoles Vice-President In Recognition of Cqliforniq Gqreer

Fred Smales, western region manager of U. S. Plywood Corp., with headquarters in Los Angeles, was named a vicepresident of the national concern last month. Prominent in lumber, plywood, fraternal and civic affairs in California for many years, Fred Smales started his career with U. S. Plywood in 1933, following his graduation from John C. Fremont High School, Los Angeles, as an honor student.

During his 22 years with the firm he held practically every job fro'm office boy through the operations department to sales and administration. In 1949, following six years as sales manager in San Francisco, he was appointed Pacific Coast division manager and returned to Southern California to make his home at Nervport.

Smales is strictly a home product in the wood and allied materials distribution field who made good in a big way. During the 22 years of his business career he has grown with the .company and watched its development from a staff of five employes to its present commanding position. Ever alert to the changing conditions in California, he has been a guiding factor in the outstanding progress of United States Plyrvood in the western territory.

An ardent yachtsman, Smales has entered and sailed his craft in the California-Hawaii race and is rvell known in seafaring circles throughout the west. He is interested in all sports and shoots a good stick of go1f. This prominent young executive presently makes his home in Fullerton with his wife and children.

'Deqler Monogement Workshopt to Be Gonducted by TMANC July 24-28

A four-day Workshop for owners and top-level management of LMANC member yards will be held at Rickey's Studio Inn, Palo Alto, July 24 through 28, according to Jack Pomeroy, executive vice-president of the Lumber Merchants Assn. of Northern California.

The Dealer Management Workshop will be a work-study, lecture-discussion get-together not a convention or regular school session, Pomeroy states. The Workshop has been organized in response to a recognized need for conducting a conference on the problems retail lumber dealers are facing today in the field of Financial Management, Operating Techniques, Competitive Pricing, and Shrinking Profits.

Arthur A. Hood, editor of American Lumberman, Chicago, will be discussion moderator and director of the Workshop sessions. He has conducted similar seminars over the country for many years.

Enrollments rvill be limited to 30 persons, with only one representative per firm, to insure maximum group participation and benefit, Pomeroy explained.

ROCKPORT IS THE WORD FOR REDWOOD

That's what so many of our dealer friends have kindly told us. Certified Dry Redwood Bevel Siding and Finish are Rockport's specialties-the kind of lumber that pays off for everyone concerned with its production, sale and use.

Round's Lumber C om'bany is exclusiae distributor f or Rock\ort Red'wood and sales agent f or otherleading Redwood mills. Round,s also represents producers ol top qualitl, Douglas Fir, White Fir, Ponderosa Pine andSugar Pine.

ROUTDS 1UMBER COMPANY

Books

The most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds really lasts. Monuments fall.

Nations perish.

Civilizations grow old and die.

After an era of darkness New races build others.

But in the world of books are volumes

That have seen this happen again and again And yet live on, still young,. Still as fresh as the day they were written, Still telling men's hearts

Of the hearts of men centuries dead.

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-By Clarence Day

He preached of the Prodigal Son's returri, And asked what they thought? Said one"I don't see no reason for killin' the calf ' For somethin' the boy has done."

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reply, asked why there are so many more old drunks than there are old doctors?

A group of men -"r. "Jr'J."ilg r,,rt "r, one asked another to comply with a certain request. The reply was an emphatic "No." Another of the group said to him, "You should reply like a diplomat, a lady, or an insurance prospect. When a diplomat says 'No' he ineans 'Maybe,' if he says 'Maybg' hs means 'Yes,' but if he says'Yes,' he's no diplomat. Or, in case a lady is asked for a kiss, if she says 'No' she means 'Maybe,' if she says 'Maybe' she means 'Yes,'but if she says 'Yes' she's no lady. Again, take the case of an insurance prospect. If he says 'No' he means 'Maybe,'if he says 'Maybe' he means 'Yes,' but if he says 'Yes' you'll know he can't pass the physical examination."

Know the Success ""*rr]

The father of Success is Work.

The mother of Success is Ambition.

The oldest son is Common Sense.

Some of the other boys are Perseverance, Flonesty, Thoroughness, Foresight, Enthusiasm, and Cooperation.

.The oldest daughter is CHARACTER.

Some of her sisters are Cheerfulness, Loyalty, Courtesy, Care, Economy, Sincerity, and Harmony.

The baby is Opportunity.

Get well acquainted with the father and you will be able to get along well with the rest of the gang.

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Nobody ever added up, The value of a smile,

We know how much a dollar is. And how far is a mile;

We know the distance to the sun, The size and weight of earth,

But no one's wise enough to tell, How much a smile is worth.

"Threats may be u"r*;"; Jo ano". who utter them," said Ho Ho, the sage of Chinatown. "A timid person may become so frightened that he fights in desperation." ***

We still cling to the opinion that an all-time championship retort was that of the man who was warned by his doctor that liquor might shorten his life, and who, in

During the war an excited agent burst into the FBI office waving a small notebook. "I found it in the subway," he told his chief. "Look, it's all in code." Sure enough, on one page were the cryptic symbols "K1-P2-CO8." The agent in charge knitted his brow. Putting the best brains in the office on the pazzle-and failing-he forwarded the book to Washington. The experts couldn't break the code. Everybody was baffled. That is, everyone except the stenographer, who took one look, giggled, and said, "It's simple. Knit 1, Purl 2, Cast*O,ff 8.

Jackie Miles, television comic, says that Television has ruined the home life of his family. For example, says he, when my wife called our four-year-old son to come to breakfast this morning, he said: "I ain't'hankerin' for no cereal, Maw." * ,< *

And they tell about a store operated by a Quaker, which has a sign in front that reads: "Do it thyself."

Reminds of the .ra".ry,*gtly-i"ir"a Quaker lady, whose car collided with that of a rough drunk, who then proceeded to give her a shocking tongue lashing. She sat quietly until he ran out of gas, then she calmly said: "I hope that when thee returns to thy kennel, thy mother bites thee."

Second-hand car advertisements continue to tell about the car that was "owned by a pair of old people, and treated with the best of care for just a few thousand miles." There is a bookshop on Hollywood Boulevard that has a sign reading: "Just purchased a Beverly Hills library read very slowly by an elderly lady."

He gazed in wonderm.la J ttie to*,etiest looking woman his eyes had ever beheld. So he looked up a friend, and asked who she was. "That," said the friend, "is Mrs.

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Wright." Said the first: "Now I know for the first time what that wise man meant who said-,f would rather be Wright than President."'

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When the crack door-to-door salesman was asked what was the real secret of his success, he said it was due to the first five words he always uttered when a woman opens the door. IIe says, "Miss, is your mother home?',

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The young clergyman was conducting his first church funeral service, and those present looked at him in shocked surprise as he said: "You may now pass around the bier.,'

Blessed is the -.r, -nj nl"rrl* nothing to say, refrains from giving wordy proof of that fact.

If you don't learn anything from the mistakes you make, there is no use in making them.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Any man who is too big for the little things of life, is likely to be too small for the big things.

Today's profits are probably yesterday,s good deeds and service.

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"Yes," said the little man with the quiet voice and the patient smile, "I seldom complain. I'm like Job, in the hands of an all-wise and unscrupulous providence."

***

When the philosopher Montaigne wrote about his great

wErcoME!

As The CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT turns over a new volume with this issue, marks its thirty-third birthday and continues to look ahead, we welcome the following new firms into Vol. 34, No. 1 and the ever-growing family of CLM advertisers:

Getz Bros. & Co. (Page 39)

Harbor Lumber Co., Inc. (page 61)

Lumber Terminal, Inc. (page 17)

Herb Meier Lumber Co. (page 69)

Roddiscraft, Inc. (page 32)

friendship with Stephen La Boetie, he explained it by saying, "Because it was he, because it was I."

Some wise man once said: "If you think you think, ask yourself what is the greatest thought you ever thought; then listen to the silence." One can think much, and think little. Ancient Greece produced many who knew little but thought a great deal. Modern life produces a lot of people who krpw it all and think nothing about it. A penny for the average person's thoughts is the market price. Thinking is not a gift of the gods, but the reward of endeavor.

Speaking of thinking, u" ;"J think, Junior, that there is any man in Washington-or elsewhere-smart enough to intelligently distribute billions of American dollars into (Continued on Page 27)

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Television or Thermos Botfle

Two colored brothers down in the Mississippi Delta, were eating their noonday lunches of soda biscuits, lasses, and bacon grease, and they got to talking about modern inventions, such as airplanes, radio, television, and other wonders.

"Boy," said one of them, .,we sho got some wonderful things in dishere worl' right now, but dey aint none of em to compare wid de television. you can sit right in you home and see folks away off, and hear dem talk, an sing, an watch em whilst dey is doing hit. Ah tells you dis television is de mos' wonderful invention folks has evah seed."

Said the other: "Television is okay, sho nuff, but hit aint de mos' wonderful invention in de worl'! Nossuh, hit sho aint."

Said the first: "You means t, tell me you knows a inven_ tion what is greatah dan television?',

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"Suttinly Ah does," positively said the other.

"Den, boy, Ah axes yori whut it am. Dass whut Ah wants to know."

"My fren', whut Ah refers to is a Thermos bottle. you heahs rne? Ah means a Thermos bottle. Stan' youse,f still, boR whilst Ah ilucidates dishere bottle ! you takes dis bottle in de mawnin' an you fillshit wid hot coffee. Tomorrow mawnin' you takes de lid off dishere Thermos bottle, an boy, de cofiee jes as hot as when you puts hit in de bottle. Den you takes de hot coffee out of de bottle, an you fills de bottle wid froze ice cream an you puts de coveh back on. Tomorrow mawnin' you takes de li.d off dis Thermos bottle, an Ahm tellin' you de truf, boy, de ice cream is jes as hard ah cold as when you puts hit in de bottle. Yassuh. Sho is. Dishere Thermos bottle keeps de hot coffee hot. It keeps de cold ice cream cold. De only thing Ah don'unde'stan is, HOW DOES DISHERE THERMOS BOTTLE KNOW WHEN TO DO WHICH? DASS WHUT AHD LAK T'KNOW.''

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Generql Mcrnqger Terry Mullin Gives Credit for His 'Model' Yord's Successful

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The Tarzana Lumber Co. is a .,model', in more ways than these apparent physical attributes, too. young Terry Mullin and Manager Donald B. McCoig have built'the retail business up by many innovations and modern methods until its sales figures are the envy of many anothel Southland lumber dealer.

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FAMILIAR TRADEMARK of the Mullin yords is shown obove. Yord Foremqn ROBISON, Generql Monoger MULilN, Monoger MICOlG.

f TARZANA LUMBER CO. ofticiols, mqnogemenl, soles force. office stqfi qnd employes ore represented in this recenl group photo. ,,1 reolly con,t

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Terry Mullin came into the Tarzana Lumber Co. after the war. Earlier, he worked five years for Pan-American Airways in various managerial capacities and served all over the South Pacific; he even lived on Fiji f'or two years. He returned to the U.S. December 23, 1947.

Attended SCRLA School for Dealers

During the early part of 1948, he cleared up some of his personal affairs and, in March of '48, started working for the Burbank Lumber Co. out in the yard. In the spring of that year he attended the lumber school sponsored by the Southern California Retail Lumber Association.

After finishing the school, he went back to work at Burbank. In February of. 1949 Terry took over the management of the Tarzana Lumber Co. and, he very honestly points out, "at this point I knew just nothing about the lumber business."

When he was a kid, Terry worked a while (about two weeks) at the N4ullin Lumber Company's North Hollywood yard as a bookkeeper under Tony Hansen. Terry says he believes now that the "termination" of his employment there was arrived at by mutual agreement: "I certainly had no love of bookkeeping, and I think my employers found it quite costly to hire people to find and correct my mistakes."

Mention of his former boss brings a warm memory to young Mullin. "Aside from my father," he says, "I think Tony Hansen is one of the best lumbermen I have ever known."

The Mullin Lumber Company is owned by Terry's father, Russell B. Mullin, and his uncle, Wayne F. Mullin, recently elected president of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association for 1955-56 (CLM, 5/l/55). At a recent board meeting, Terry Mullin was elected executive vice-president of theTarzana Lumber Co. and the Burbank Lumber Co. Russell Mullin is now the president of both of these corporations.

Terry planned to be an architect at one stage of his life. So, in 1950, after the gainful experience in his family's yards mentioned above, and after a year of management at the old Tarzana yard, he drew the plans for the yard's present location (he also drew the plans for his own home today). First the offrce was built, then one shed, then another, and so on.

Today, less than five years old, the new Tatzana Lumber Co. occupies more than a 2-acre site, with a plant that is morethan-modern all the way through. Expansion is kept going all the time, either in the yard or store, building new sheds, displays, furnishings, etc. The operation of the plant requires

HARDWOODS ARE IHE SPECIALTY of the yord. lhey ore shown in the store's stunning di:ploy of lhem ot rop lefi'ond right; thc design wos creoled by

Architect Donold Becket. Gencrol vicw of Cuslomer Seriice Areo:locolion ot front of yord shown lower left cloreup ot right olro rhows feplLrcd woodr.

three delivery trucks and two lifts in use constantly during the duy. The yard is located on a Southern Pacific spur track.

The guiding spirit in the operation of the Tarzana Lumber Co. is the warmth and informal courtesy with

which they treat customer and visitor alike and it could be more widely copied.

Terry Mullin's personality and ideas are immediately apparent on seeing the Tarzana yard and its, staff. In this he is the able son of Russell Mullin, the father he so greatly admires.

The retail store is exceptionally attractive, with offices beautifully done in several different species of paneling. The offices downstairs feature Pecky Cypress, Oriental Ash, Wattled Walnut, Western Red Cedar and Redwood ; the upstairs of6ces are done in Oriental Oak, Oriental Ash and Wormy Chestnut.

"Do It Yourself" Becoming Factor

"Nlore and more Do It Yourself is coming into this business," Terry Mullin told The CALIFORNiA LUMBER MtrRCHANT. "It's becoming a factor in every retail lumberyard operation ; there's no question about it !"

It is necessary for the store to be open all day Saturday to handle the volume of business, and the number of customers usually averages 40 an hour on that day. Incidentally, the yard uses the number system to fairly serve its trade. Many lumber items out in the yard are plainly price-marked to save the staff's time and allow the customer the pleasure of browsing for himself before he makes up his mind on his purchase. Inside the store, too, "We invite you to browse through our display rooms" is a sl,ogan of the Tarzana Lumber Co. and printed on some of the advertising it distributes.

The yard also does a large contractor business in its booming trade area. "We like to furnish tracts because it keeps volume up and steady," Mullin says.

Tlrere are several otJrer interesting people in the Tarzana operation besides its General Manager Mullin, although space precludes notes on them all at this writing.

J. Porter Robison, yard foreman since l92O and at the Tarzana yard for several years, will be the subject of his own Personality Profile with photos in a later issue. "Port" is known as. "vice admiral" at the yard nowadays. since Santa

Claus himself last Christmas drove up in, and delivered to "Port," a handsome Yardmobile, complete with pencil sharpener, as a Christmas present from Terry and friends. Mr. Robison's father owned the Burbank Lumber Co. before Russell Mullin bought it some years ago.

Don McCoig Is Able Manager

Don N{cCoig, manager of the yard, has been at Tarzana

"VICE-ADrlilRAl" ROBISON shown in cloreup obove, ond ot work in his yordmobilc in top photo of the poncl ot lcfi which shows scencr of thc yard,s lumber rtorcge. Nofe Curlomer Scrvicc Araa ot right in second photo.

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about two years now. He came to it from a Las Vegas, Nevada, yard and has also worked at other local yards. Manager McCoig, as noted earlier, has put many of his own fine ideas into the business and is strong on the yard's contractor sales, for which he instituted personal calls on the big builders and a series of form thank-you notes and solicitation letters.

Mrs. Ann Baker, whose of6ce is upstairs in the store next to Terry Mullin's, keeps a motherly weather eye on the store and the yard's affairs from long experience in the business.

She started in l92l at the Woodhead Lumber Co., worked for it until 1929, joined Wayne Mullin at the Slauson yard that year and, in 1931, went with Russell Mullin at the Burbank Lumber Co. She thought she was joining the Tarzana Lumber Co. as a part-time employee but it's now a full-time job, and a happy one, for the friendly and personable Mrs. Baker.

Other employes, to mention s. few, include Julius Libner, Roy Ulberg and Orinda Hazen, plus the score or more of employes who are shown in one of the accompanying photos.

Yard Has a "Star" Yet !

Not the least of the yard's employes is young Stewart Wade, whose story bears out the previous remark about the "interesting characters" at the Tarzana yard. Wade is a former singer with the Freddie Martin orchestra and made several records with the band which sold over a million each. Some record ! But the handsome young singing "star" doesn't like Show Business, does like lumber work, and has been working now as a lumber handler for the Tarzana Lumber Co. about eight months. "We're going to move him up gradually if he stays with us," says Terry Mullin.

Hardwoods the Specialty

Worthy of a story in itself is the yard's hardwood specialty operation. It has a re,volving iriventory of about 200,000 feet of hardwood on hand to mill. This item is pushed in advertising, promotion and in the retail store's display, and has become one of its largest sellers. Two years ago, the striking hardwood paneling display which is pictured was put up in the store. Its. design was created by Donald Becket, an architect friend of Terry Mullin's, and features the "Rig 10" which the yard pusl.res: Wormy Chestnut, Douglas Fir, Oriental Birch, California Redwood, Pecky Cypress, Knotty Pine, \A'estem Red Cedar, Wattled Walnut, Philippine Mahogany and Oriental Ash.

The company also lisfs Engelmann Spruce, Cedar chipboard, Novoply, Joshua, pegged Etchwall and Parq-Wall in its advertising for "the Finest in Wall Paneling." It also carries hardwood plywood in Maple, Birch, Oak, Walnut, Nfahoganv, Ash, etc.

It was Pecky Cypress that started Terry Mullin in this hardwood specialty line. Against some well-meant advice, and perhaps with a few qualms of his own, young Mullin bought 1500 feet of the stuff that a Los Angeles hardwood company didn't know what to do with. His dad, Russell Mullin, told Terry that he was "nuts" and would never get his money out of the load. But Terry sold the 1500 feet and ordered his next load-5000 feet. Today he sells it in carloads.

The handsome display in the store is often visited by buildercontractors and architects with their customers who want to actually see what the species look like and how it may appear on their own walls, which is what Terry Mullin had in mind when he made up the store display of all the different wali panels available.

He has established dependable sources of supply and builds the demand by advertising and promotion. They buy the hardwood lumber rough and remanufacture it, grading for the physical defects which wood paneling is likely to show. The hardwood line is different from the regular lumber operation in handling methods, measurements and grades. Drying is done for a specific purpose and pieces are sorted to width and ripped to size according to plans. Grading, trimming and

IOP PHOTO: Front of storc in rmog-frec (more or lacs) Tcrzono, Colif. Center: ferry Mullin's ofice is finirhed in rqrc hordwoodr. lower photo: Alrs. Ann Boke: hos been in thc lumbcr burinarr sincc lg2l.

bundling add to its intricacy and some customers want to pick out their paneling piece by piece.

The hardwood paneling business has a large cash sale trade and these customers furnish a large part of the Saturday busi.ness at the Tarzana yard.

Another of Terry Mullin's innovations for a while a few months back was to post a carpenter. at the yard on Saturdays to dispense building advice to the do-it-yourselfers. He had a drawing board, paper and pencil and, as the home handymen

told him what they wanted to build, the carpenter showed them the best way to do the job and the best materials to buy for it.

Summing up this retail lumberyard, Terry Mullin says, "I really can't say enough for the many employes who have made possible our progression through their many fine ideas. When you get a gang like this together, it can't help but work, no matter who's running it !"

Yes, sir! As was noted at the start of this story, Terry Mullin doesn't have to look much further than his own back "yard" right now for that "model" lumberyard he dreams of operating some day.

Weyerhqeuser, Simpson Exchonge

Forestlond, Logging Properties

Property exchanges betu'een Weyerhaeuser Timber Company and Simpson Logging Company involving far-reaching benefits to Mason and Grays Harbor counties are announced by W. G. Reed, Simpsgn chairman, and J. I,. Weyerhaeuser, Jr., Weyerhaeuser president.

Simpson is exchanging approximately 45,000 acres of forest iands orvned by it, principally in the tree farm of Scha{er Bros. Logging Company which u'as recently purchased by Simpson, for approximately the same number of acres of forest lands owned by Weyerhaeuser Timber Company in the South Olympic Tree Farm situated within the Shelton Cooperative sustained yield unit in Mason county.

At the same time Weyerhaeuser Timber Company will acquire the sawmill and certain other physical assets of Simpson's Schafer Bros. Logging Company operation in Aberdeen.

Reed stated that Simpson will retain from its Schafer purchase the ownership of all other assets of Schafer Bros. Logging Company including accounts receiva'ble, unfilled orders, other outstanding contracts, plus logging equipment, cutting rights on Forest Service timber in the Satsop drainage, the Olympic logging camp, the Schafer railroad and maintenance shops.

Simpson President Thos. F. Gleed also explained that lands which Weyerhaeuser is trading to Simpson contain second grorvth timber of age classes fitting in with the long-range plans of the Simpson sustained yield program and brings added raw material resources to Simpson's plants at Shelton and McCleary. "This transaction,,' he added, "r,r,ill be beneficial to the people of Mason and Grays Harbor counties because it means the entry of Weyerhaeuser as an operating company and provides aclclitional forest resources for Simpson's long-range operations."

Simpson also announced it lvill continue to operate the Aberdeen facilities until delivery of the properties sold to Weyerhaeuser. It is anticipated delivery n,ill be made about July 1, at which time, Gleed stated, Simpson's manu_ facturing activities at Aberdeen rvill terminate.

They like Our Ediroriols

"f fike to read those Vagabond Editorials. Thev are tops."-B. E. "Pete" Scarborough, San pedro, Caiif.

"I like to read your random bits very much, and thought I would write and tell you 5e.',-!6n llfaq_ ning, Atlantic Lumber Co., Portland, Ore.

HARDWOOD DISPIAY (for left in top photo) ertends out into omc. ond soler oreo of slore, ond is seen ogoin from the opporite ongle in second photo; The forzsno lumber Co. is complete os o lumberyord cqn be. lower photo showr the builders'hordware seclion ond, ot right, the hond tool deportmont.

Annual Report Shows Redwood Production Increase

By The CAIIFORNIA REDWOOD ASSOCIATION

Each year for the past six years, forms have been sent to mills in the Redwood Region whose production was believed to be 25 M feet or more per day, asking for figures on production, shipments, orders and stocks and other incidental information, if our information indicated that they were producing Redwood lumber. Usable reports received have varied from 33 to 44. Forty-three usable reports were received covering 1954, of which 31 were from companies who also reported in 1952 and 1953. The attached figures give comparative annual statistics for these 31 companies for 1952,1953 and 7954,and, also give figures for the 43 companies for 1954. Some of the companies which reported in 1952 and 1953 did not report in 1954 and were replaced with others who did report for the three years but whose figures were not received in time to be included in earlier reports.

Some of the figures were estimates rather than actual but are believed to be close enough to be included in this report. Figures on company use, factory waste and other disposal were supplied by 24 companies only.

Figures for shipments are net for the industry with intercompany shipments eliminateci by means of deducting purchases from shipments. This method would give correct industry figures if reports of shipments were received from all companies from whom purchases were made. The reports in'cluded do not, however, include all Redwood producing companies and we are sure that some of the purchases were made from companies which did not report. This introduces an error. Redwood stocks for the 31 identical mills, as computed from year end stocks on the basis of production, purchases, shipments, company use and factory waste, would be approximately 3,7O0 M feet more than the reported stocks, which indicates purchases from non-reporting mills of approximately that amount, and that the 31 mills actually shipped that much more outside the industry.

The figures in this report are not directly comparable with those shown for twelve months on our monthly mill report, and the difference between the two sets o{ figures does not give the figures for the additional eleven companies. Some companies reported a gross production figure on the monthly reports, with "factory waste" computed, but reported'a net production figure with no factory waste for this annual report. If the gross figure had been used, it would have increased redwood produ,ction and factory waste totals by about 11 million feet. Our monthly reports handle intermill shipments in a way so that the yearly totals for 1954 included the production and shipments of nearly 451 rr'illion feet of Redwood, and over 2 million feet of white woods purchased from non-reporting mills.

Although forms were sent to mills believed to be active Redwood producers, the 1954 figures for 43 companies include seven companies whose production of Redwood was 10,072 M feet and whitewood production 81,147 M feet.

The latest estimates of regional production published by the Bureau of Census are for the year 1953. They estimate 969 million feet of Redwood and 1,472 million feet of other species produced in the Redwood region. The sarnpling

Annual Statistics 1954, Compared With 1952 and 1953 Figures below give annual statistics on activities of 31 identical Redwood operations for 1952, 1953 and 1954, and for 43 companies for 1954. The reports from which the figures were taken were final figures after the close of the year's books and should be complete and ac'curate.

ANNUAL TOTALS

(Sawn lumber, shingles, shakes, lath, and factory products in M ft. B.M.)

REDWOOD

31 Identical 43 ComCompanies

(a) Shipments are net for the industry, inter-company shipments have been deducted. Shipments of factory products included as footage of finished product, not as lumber delivered to factory.

(b) Company Use is lumber used for construction and maintenance of the reporting companies' plants and logging operations.

These figures include sawn shingles, shakes and lath produced at these lumber mills.

The 1954 Redwood production for the 43 companies includes 688,827 M feet of lumber and 4,397 M feet of byproducts, mostly lath, shingles and shakes.

method used may not give exact figures and the estimates for individual species may be farther off than estimate of totals.

If their Redwood estimate is correct, the 31 identical companies produced 65%% of 1953 Redwood production. Applying the same percentage to 1954 Redwood production would give 988 million feet as the 1954 total Redwood cut.

Forum Sees Demonstrqtions

San Joaquin Hoo-Hoo Club 31's latest "Lumbermen's Forum" was held June 2l at the Marion Nine Lumber Company, Fresno, by arrangement with U. S. Gypsum Co. The members and guests assembled at 8 p.m. to see the program conducted by USG, which consisted ofa discussion and demonstration of drywall installation, joint taping and texturing, reports Club 3l Secretary Bernard B. Barber, Jr.

OFFICER3 of thc Redwood Re gion logging Gonfcroncc crc rhown in lcfr photo: Emonucl Fritz (lefi) wo3 t.-.led6d secre. lory-mondgar; [orry Morsholl (rocond from lefi) is furning ov€i thc gavcl to Henry Tro. bitz, prosidcnt of next year'r Confcrcnce, ofter scrving or prc:ident of rhc lTrh qnnuol RRIC. At righr in rhe group it fed Corlson, who wqr elccted vice-prcsident fhe l8rh Confer. ence will be held in Ukioh ncxl yeor. Photo ot fcr righr ir of Xcnncth 5mith, viceprcsidcnt of Thc Pocific Lunber Compcny, os he spokc on "Outlook for the Rsdwood Rcgion."

Over 6()() clf lTrh Redwood Region Logging Annucll

(speciof to fhe cALrFoRNrA LUMBER

More than 600 representatives of the lumber and timber industries of the Redrvood Region, together with county, state and federal foresters and equipment suppliers, met at Redwood Acres, Eureka, California, May 20 and 2l in the seventeenth annual Redwood Region Logging Conference. The theme of this year's show was: Timber Man-

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agement Techniques for Perrhanence and the program was designed "to take a fresh look at just how we stand in the business of growing more trees."

President Larry Marshall, Dolly Varden Lumber Company, Ar'cata, dpened the meeting by recalling that only 50 people had attended the first conference in 1935, that subsequent sessions had been planned to provide a forunr

(Photo3 Courtety of Arnaiicqn Fotatt Productc Industrier, Inc.)

to discuss ways and means of "improving our industry,' and that the themes had followed important developments of the moment. This conference was planned to anticipate the problem-the tremendous increase in production of lumber in this region has brought us to the point where we are cutting our reserves; it takes time to grow trees (probably 50 years) and our present stocks could be gone by that time. Many companies have a sound policy of production for the fu1u1g-"legging for permansnss"-and we shall hear from a panel of their foresters and logging managers, said Marshall.

The first presentation was by Charles E. Young, economist, Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, who presented the highlights from the Stanford Research Institute report, "America's Demand for Wood, 19n-1975," in which it was predicted that there would be a I0/o greater demand for wood in 1975 (but with a change in quantities and types of products). However, the requirements for sawtimber deiivered to the mills would only increase 3.4% between 1952 and 1975.

The

by Kenneth Smith, vice-president of The Pacific Lumber Company, gave a somewhat less "rosy" picture of the future-if the region continues to cut into its basic supply. Points which Smith raised for consideration were:

(1) The rise in use of pulps, papers, plywoods and other cornpeting wood products; (2) the fact that the lumber industry, per se, is a static, if not a declining industry; (3) that it is not practical to grow trees for sawlogs alonethere is a problem of converting from old to new growth use; and (4) the tremendous capital needed to provide pulp and fibre plants.

He further indicated the belief that, based on present production methods, and without basic converting plants and a tax policy which r,r,'ill permit development of sound management for the future, Redwood production will decline to about 5O/o of its present figure and will stabilize at that level, while Douglas Fir production in the Redwood region will decline to l/6 of its present production. Smith concluded by saying that it is important that we are thinking in terms of sound management and complete utilization, that we have a fine quality lumber and top growing conditions, and that with some difficulties, the Redwood region will take an important part of the wood products in the national demand.

Papers on Salvage Logging were presented by Wylie R. MacPherson of the Arcata Redwood Company, Claude J. Falconer of the DeVil6iss Mill. Capella (Douglas Fir), Bry,ce Webster (the logger's viewpoint) and Clarence Gillson (the mill viewpoint), both of Hammond Lumber Company.

Problems of the Small Timber Owner were discussed by a panel consisting of Doug Pine, Humboldt County farm advisor; Finn Reilly, timber owner; Gene Hofsted, county forester, and Joe Russ, farm owner and chairman of the Humboldt county Forestry committee. It was brought out that "small" is a relative term, not in the context of the national scene where woodlots take precedence in this category. Sixty-two percent of the timber in Humboldt county is in orvnership of less than 1000A, 73/o is less than 50004. Owners were once happy to get fifty cents a cord for wood-until someone offered them a dollar a thousand for timber. The idea developed that selling timber wasn't just to make way for more grass. Need to understand what controls of timber sale should be written into contract so that logging won't be indiscriminate. Need agreement on who's to pay taxes while logging continues and who owns the residual stands. Present land classification survey by University of California, according to soil types, will go far toward planning for grass or for timber in future farming.

The Status of Insurance for Tree Farmers was given by J. B. Wright of Marsh & Mclennan, San Francisco, who sponsored a seminar of Pacific Coast departments representing the stock fire insurance companies in San Francisco, April 9, at which they proposed a policy with minimum loss payment and loss participation on the part of the timber owner. It was concluded that fire insurance on standing timber is not only in demand but is feasible, at rates acceptable to the industry. There is a growing interest on the part of timber owners, said Wright, and

"Outlook for the Redwood Region," as presented

THEilE PANET of profetsional forcsters is rhown in top photo; oround the loble, lefi ro righr: Grundmon, Corr, lierrill, Recd, Hyofi, Mqrshall (or nrike), lrobitz, Deitz, IllcCollum ond Rueger. lower photo rhowt top Junior loggers cohded ot Junior Conference in i/lendocino Woodldndr, Mcy 4, who afended bonquet of "Senio/'Gonfercnce Aloy 20; lcfi to right: fed Fclkncr, Arcoto; Arthur iillund, Fortuna; Confercnce Presidcnt Mqrrhqll; Vcrnon Wcltor, Fort Brogg.

if you are interested, see your broker. If the demand is made known to the underwriters, policies will be written.

W. W. Spinney, supervisor of the Six Rivers National Forest, outlined the methods used by the Forest Service in determining the total allowable annual cut of 163 million board feet on the national forest lands of the Redwood region and pointed out that the achievement of that cut rvas only limited by the inaccessibility of the timber and lack of administrative personnel. He gave the locations of eight sales, totaling 202 million bf, which are planned to be advertised this year, of which 10 million feet will be cut in 1955-56, bringing the total cut for this year up to 100 million feet.

The Redwood Area Industrial Suppliers were hosts at the annual Sawdust Bowl cocktail party on Friday evening, followed by the annual banquet at which the presentation of awards to the "outstanding junior loggers" of the Redfuood Region Junior Logging Conference, held at Mendocino Woodlands, May 1 through 4, were made. A topnotch variety show of entertainers from San Francisco and Hollywood was presented through the courtesy of the Suppliers.

Saturday morning's session opened with an announcement by Emanuel Fritz, secretary-manager of the Conference, of new officers for the coming year. The three nerv board members, who will take office on July 1, are George Stoodley of the Pacific Coast Company, Willits; Larry Damm, Arcata Redwood Company, and Bill Baker of Holmes Eureka Company.

Henry K. Trobitz of Simpson Redwood Company was

elected president of the 18th Conference and Ted Carlson of The Pacific Lumber Company was elected vice-president.

At the final session of the conference, a panel of lumber company foresters and forest managers, representing companies who have accepted a policy of sound forest management, discussed the theme, "Timber Management Techniques for Permanence," under the chairmanship of Waldron Hyatt, vice-president of Hammond Lumber Company, Samoa. Panel members were: Robert Grundman, forester, Union Lumber Company; Forrest C' Reed, forester, Sage Land and Lumber Company; Silas Catr, for' ester, Gualala Redwoods; Roy G. Wagner, forest riranager, Masonite Corporation ; Larry McCollum, forester, The Pacific Lumber Company; Al Rueger, forester, Dolly Varden Lumber Company; Al H. Merrill, forester, Hammond Lumber Company; Henry K. Trobitz, forester, Simpson Redwood Company, and Glen L. Deitz, forester, Northern Redwood Lumber Company. Some significant quotes {ollow:

McCollum (on company policy): ". every company could use more timber, but there's a limit to the.amount which any one company can hold. As old growth becomes scarce, second growth will take its place, especially in the lorver grades . Many other factors of the region depend upon timber permanence."

Trobitz (on small lands and mills): "Farming trees is just beginning to be accepted in the Redwood region -farmers are realizing that there's more money in trees than in other types of land utilization. We will

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Annucrl Spring Meeting of FPRS Held

The annual spring meeting of the Forest Products Research Society, Northern California section, was held May 13 at the Sheraton-Palace hotel in San Francisco. The day-long meeting, which wound up with a banquet and after-dinner speaker, was presided over by J. C. Rowney, 1954-55 chairman of the society.

Following registration and luncheon, the meeting convene,l for an afternoon of technical sessions. Lead-off speaker was W. R. Works, Crown Zellerbach Corp., who spoke on the development of "Plastic Overlays for Lumber and Plywood." Following Mr. Works, John Hartsock, chemical engineer, Stan-

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ford Research Institute, spoke on the "Analysis of Shook Yields Obtainable From Box Lumber."

"Chemistry in the Forest" was the next paper, which was delivered by Dr. George Brother, Union Lumber Company. The last topic on the afternoon program was "Electronic Edgegluing of Veneers With a Tapeless Veneer Splicer" by Max Pretorius, sales manager, The G. M. Diehl Machine Works, Inc.

The society then held a business meeting and elected the following Section officers for 1955-56: E. P. Ivory, Ivory Pine Company, chairman; H. N. Stephenson, Sacramento Box Company, vice-chairman; Victor Roth, Triangle Lumber Company, secretary-treasurer. Dr. A. B. Anderson was elected a trustee and Ray Berry was re-elected trustee.

The meeting then gathered for cocktails and dinner, with Milton Mater, Mater Engineering, Corvallis, Oregon, as windup speaker on the after-dinner menu. Mater spoke on a subject of increasing interest and importance to all of the lumber industry "Automation in the Sawmill."

los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club 2 Nominofes | 955-56 Officer Slqte

Jerry Essley, Snark of Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club 2, held the annual nominating committee luncheon at the University club, Los Angeles, June i4. In attendance were members of the board of directors and heads of the various club offices for the 1954-55 fiscal year. In addition to discussing new officers, the program and entertainment functions were planned starting with the next meeting to be held Friday, September 9. During July and August, members of the Black Cat organization will be on vacation and there will be no club activity.

Attending the June 14 luncheon were Snark Essley, Jim Forgie, Boris Kutner, John Osgood, Bob Osgood, Chuck Lember, Don Bufkin, Ed Bauer, George Clough, Roy Stanton, Sr., John Fitzpatrick and Ole May.

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Kutner Nominated Snark

Nominated to serve next year was a slate headed by Boris Kutner, sales manager of U. S. Plywood Corp., Los Angeles, Snark; Jim Forgie, Lst vice-president; Harry Bohan, 2nd. vice-president; Spud Jordan, 3rd vice-president; Jim Barron, 4th vice-president. Chuck Lember was nominated for the office of secretary-treasurer, and Ole May was held over as assistant secretary-treasurer for next year.

Mox D. PREIORIUS John A. HARISOCK

Dr. George H. BROTI{ER

DINNER SESSION of the qnnuql spring meering of the Norrhern Colifornio Scction, FPRS, rhoirn in top photo.. lower photo thows Scction oficcrr for 1955.55, lcft to righr: Dr. A. B. Andcrton, tru.te.; Rdy Bcrry, trurtrc; H. N. Sfephcnron, vice-choirmon; E. P. lvory, choirmon; Victor Roth, t.Gr€torylr.q3ur.?, ond J. C. lowney, 195&55 chairmon.

W. R. WORKS Milton l/tATER

Arcodiq Lumber ComPonY Holding Six Weeks of 'HondYmqn Courses'

The Arcadia (Calif.) Lumber Company started a series of six Monday evening "Handyman Courses" on June 6 at 7 :30 p.m. The classes were designed by the retail yard operated by the Beckstrom family to help homeor'vners with projects commonly done around the house sucir as hanging doors, adding a patio roof, installing louver rvindows and many other fix-it jobs right up the do-it-yourself alley.

The course also includes instruction in building furniture, cabinets, garden accessories, tables, lamps, etc' Complete explanations and demonstrations with hand and po\\rer tools will be covered to acquaint the shoulder trade with proper uses ancl capabilities of each tool' Instruction in general construction lvork is also being included, with emphasis on building garages' tool sheds and adding a room. Another feature of the classes will be open discussion of individual building problems.

Instructor for the full six-lveeks' course is Edgar Winters, shop instructor in the Arcadia school district' Registration closecl June 4 for classes at the retail yard at 2I4 N. Santa Anita. The fee was $2 for the complete colrrse'

Albuquerque Yqrd Builds

Construction started May 19 on a $25,000 block and steel warehouse for the Blueher Lumber Co', Albuquerque, N' M'

Included are a loading dock, lumber storage facilities and office space.

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'Thqt Knew Not Joseph'

I am indebted to that excellent writer of business philosophy, Bruce Barton, for this wonderful little advertising thought. He used it one time in illustrating a talk on the necessity of keeping eternally at it in the business of publicity.

It is from the story of Joseph in the Old Testament. Read it. You will dnd recited the glories of the reign of Joseph when he was next high man to the King of Egypt. All the earth knew of his wealth, his dignity, his honors, his glories, his kingliness. From the four ends of the earth they came to admire him, and to do him homage.

He was the biggest thing in the whole Universe. The babes in their cradles lisped of the great Joseph. Greybeards told their children that never before had there been so mighty, so wgndrous a man in all Egypt,s history. It would seem tfiat an impression had been made upon the world that would not fade through the centuries; that the fame of Joseph would never die.

And right in the midst of this wondrous recital of the greatness of Joseph and the mighty impression he made upon the world-just as diametrically as the suddenness with which Niagara drops over the tremendous cliff that makes its cataract-you will find it stated:

Joseph died and "there arose a new king in Egypt that knew not Joseph."

Think of it. One day t$e greatest man in all the world.

An Editorial

The next day, in the Book of Books, this epitaph; .,-in Egypt THAT KNEW NOT JOSEPH,',

One day he was as the sun. The next day, Egypt KNEW HIM NOT. Had forgotten him. He had gone down into the eternal promiscuity of the dust, and was wiped from their memories as chalk from the blackboard of life.

And this, says Barton, is what happens to the business that fails to keep up its publicity; fails to keep itself before the minds of the public. One day it rides the crest of the wave, its slogan on every tongue, its virtues in every mind. The next day gone and forgotten, for a new King has risen in Egypt, "that knew not Joseph.,'

And Barton tells this excellent little story in connection with this same lesson. An advertising man was trying to sell a small town merchant some advertising material. The merchant replied that he didn't need it, that everyone knew him, his business, and where he was'located, as he had been doing business there for twenty years. "And what building is that acrqss the street?" asked the advertising man. "That's the Methodist Church," replied the merchant. "IIow long has it been there?" asked the ad man. ,,Seventy years," said the merchant. "And yet," said the advertising man, "I'll bet they RING THE BELL EVERY SUNDAY."

The Los Angeles area is the largest single lumber consuming area in the nation, using 1,500,000,000 feet annually from the Douglas fir region alone.

DANT & RUSSELL SALES CO.

PAGIFIG COAST FO REST PRODUATS

FIR.TEX DIVISION

FIR-TEX TILE-PIANK-BOARD

. PONDENOSA PINE

. WESTERN RED CEDAR

. CEDAR SHINGTES

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. DOUGLAS FIR PLYWOOD

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HUGH CRABB

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VAGABOND EDITOR,IALS

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the open hanbs of the whole doggoned world, as we have been doing? Do you think that if Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin were here all rolled into one; do you think that even that super-man could handle such an assignment? Yet with an army of ordiriary people we insist on trying to hantlle a job that would call for nothing less than rnfinitY'

Another thing I want to ask you, Junior, is this: Sup' posing Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin were to return to Washington today in the fullness of their powers. Washington, with his thunders against entangling foreign alliances in this land that now has entangling alliances with all the world, and sighs for more worlds with which to have such alliances; Jefferson, with that incomparable mentality and unparalleled insight into governmental things, warning that national debt is national danger; and Franklin, the most practical man in all American history, preaching the sacredness of economy and the fatality of waste; when our national debt staggers the imagination, and our national waste and utter lack of thrift surpasses description or understanding; tell me this, Junior-do you really think any one of those three could get a job in official Washington today?

Building permits issued in Puente, Calif., in the first five months of 1955 totaled $16,866,840, compared to $9,000,000 in the same period of 1954. May permits alone totaled $2,063,678 for 203 homes of which 186 are in subdivisions.

Owen T. Stebbins Succeeds Monson As C.R.A. Promotion Mqnoger

San Francisco-Owen T. Stebbins was appointed Promotion manager for the California Redwood Association, it was announced June 15 by PhiliP T' Farnsworth, general. manager. Stebbins has been with the association since 1951 as a field rePresentative in the Trade Promotion division and is well known to architects, industrial users of Redwood, the lumber trade, and the retail sales merchandising trade.

'He replaces Byrne C. Manson, who has resigned to accept a position with the Ar'cata Redwood Company as research engineer. With Manson, Stebbins helped to develop many of the promotion techniques used by the association, regarded as unique in the lumber industry.

Prior to coming with the California Redwood Association, Stebbins worked in merchandising and was a news writer for the Fresno Bee and the United Press. He is a graduaie oJ Fresno State college, where he received an AB in journalism in 1941. Following World War II, in which he served as a major in the U. S' Marine Corps in the South Pacific and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal, two Purple Hearts, a Presidential Unit Citation, and two Naval Citations. Stebbins returned to take his Master's degree.

DANT& RUSSELL SALES BO.

MAY 1955 CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY SEIS RECORD FOR MONTH Jonuory-Msy Totol l5 percent

The value of new construction put in place expancfed seasonally in May to $3.5 billion, setting a new high for the month and reaching a record total of nearly $15.3 billion for the first five months of the year, according ,to preliminary estimates prepared jointly by the Departments of Commerce and Labor. After allowance for seasonal changes, construction expenditures during May rose to an all-time peak annual rate of $42.1 billion. This compares with an annual rate of $41.1 billion during January 1955 and actual outlays of 937.6 billion in 1954.

Increased activity for nearly all types of private work contributed to this record rate. Private expenditures totaled $11.1 billion during January-May 1955, an alt-time high for

CONSTANT SUPERVISION ' MAKES

Aboye First 5 Months of 1954

the ireriod and.2l/o more than private construction outlays in the previous record first five months ol 1954. Public outlays during this period were the same as in the corresponding five months of 1954 as a sustained expansion in state and local public works offset continued declines iq public housing activity and most types of direct Federal construction.

Private residential building activity increased about seasonally from April, and outlays were at a new peak for the month of May to complete a record S-month period. The $6.0 billion of work put in place was a one-third increase over January-May 1954.

AFL Products Show August 26-31

Choice display space in the $3 billion marketplace being set up by the Los Angeles AFL in its first annual Union Products and Services Show is rapidly being sold out, the Union Label Council reports. The rapid rate of space reservations is proving that local marlufacturers and distributors realize the great buying potential of the Los Angeles market, Council Secretary W. J. BaLssett declared.

The show, to be held Aug. 2G3l at Pan Pacific auditorium, represents the efforts and production of 650,000 AFL union workers.

U. S. Department of Labor statistics show these workers and their families total a 2,W,000 segment of the Los Angeles area population, enjoying more than $3,250,000,000 a year in take-home pay.

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The show, first in Los Angeles on a local basis, is limited mostly to produ,cts and services of local organizations, presented on a joint labor-management basis. The National Union Industries Show held here last year proved the need for an exposition stressing local production, Bassett said.

Bonnell-Word & Knopp Move to lorger Gluorters

Bill Bonnell, Ben Ward and Jim Knapp, partners in the San Francisco wholesale lumber concern of Bonnell-Ward & Knapp, move into larger office quarters on the sixth floor of the Monadnock building in San Francisco July 1. The address is 681 Market Street, and the new number to 'call for one or all of the partners is GArfield 1-1840.

The firm, which has mill connection s throughout Oregon, Washington and Northern California, services the California market. In addition to the partners, all active in the business, B-W &K recently added Morrey Greenlaw to the sales staff to cover the San Joaquin Valley and north to Chico.

A DEPENDABTE souRcE oF WEtt MANUFACTURED, SEASONED AND GRADED I.UMBER AND TUMBER PRODUCTS

One of ihe besf informed men in the lumber industry supervises production quolity for TW&J. Striit odherence fo grode ond moisture confent is qssured by rigid inspection ond certified groders.

Service includes lhe procurement ond distribution of oll West Coost lumber products. Buying offices in producing oreos give the trode . o complete one-coll service.

2OO ilIILLIO]I FEET ITIORE To Serve You Better!

The 200 million feet of timber we just bought in Trinity Nat'l Forest brincs our reserves to more than a billion board feet. This, plus three ,u*f,ills, two planing mills, and dry kiln capacity of seven million feet of seasoned lohber a- month, is yoir assuraice ybg can get the lumber you want when you want it, from the Ralph L. Smith Lumber Company. Good service makes good friends we're working constantly to serve vou better.

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Dreoming

Do you remember the hero in "The Rover," one of Conrad's books-the ong who had his ship in the harbor always ready for a cruise but who never went anywhere? He found his fun in knowing that he was free to go. Thus life in the little house by the Mediterranean never wearied him. Tomorrow, or the next day, or possibly the day after, he intended to sail for some strange port. If you feel tied, there may be a suggestion in this for you. Let your imagination carry you to freedom from all things that keep you enslave'd. Make your mental life so rich that the limitations of part of your actual life will seem insignificant to you.

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"f can't" is a foolish expression-

'Tis,really a coward's confessionSomehow or other it always comes back Stealing the good things we already lack, Bringing us nothing but trouble and care, Leaving us hopelessly sunk in despair, But there's never a day

When the world can say That a man's not a man, if he dare.

Whor ls flly thore in This World?

There are 2,000,000,000 inhabitants of this troubled, beautiful world.

I am one-only one-of the 2,(XX),000,000.

There are 1,999,999,999 others.

I am needn wistful, fearful, heart-hungry, hungry of body.

The other 1,999,999,999 earth-bound, sky-aspiring are equally needy, wistful, fearful, heart-hungry, and gry of body.

I am entitled to l/2,@A,000,000 of the earth's benefits, of mankind's rights, claims, and privileges-no more.

-Dreier

"f will" is a wonderful blessing, A heart full of courage expressing. Somehow or other it brings us success, Fills us with joy that we cannot repress, Gladdens our friends, makes their burdens more light, Places a star in our crown every night, For there's never a day

When the world cannot say That a man's not a man, if he'll

No Proof

-Brinson Smith

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

Returning the Gompliment

-Shaw

During a grouse hunt in England, where men and women both were in the line of shooters, two families were shooting from covers close together. Suddenly a red, angry face showed over the side of a "blind" and the man shouted-

"Curse you, sir, you nearly hit my wife that last shot."

'Did f ?" said the other, aghast. "I'm horribly sorry, old fellow,-er:have a shot at mine."

The other 1,999,999;999 are entitled to all except my | /2,OO0,000,O00 share.

f am inescapably dependent upon them-upon their Good Will-for my very existence and for the fulfillment of my desires.

The 1,999,999,999 are likewise dependent upon me.

My hope is in them: their hope is in me.

If I betray their trust, I have betrayed myself.

-Dr. S. H. Kraines and Dr. E. S. Thetford in their book "Live and Help Live"

Toking the Scotch Census

"Do you know how they take the census in Scotland?" "How?"

"Roll a penny down the middle of the street."

rt is not science ", ,f#llfliltil". humanity, that holds the world together. It is not the easy bed, but the easy conscience, that makes man happy. And it is our belief that people need to recognize this principle if they expect to give to the world what they owe it, and receive from the world what they believe they have coming.

men hunfight.

The Green Chqin Poet

You told me you loved me, and sweetest perlume Passed by on the wings oi night,

From a garden of roses just over the way And your eyes held a tender light.

Yet I wondered if you knew the meaning of love, Or if I worthy ever could be;

But time has a way of deciding such things, She bids us wait till we see.

So we stand once again in the autumn of life, How swiftly the happy years fed;

And the garden of roses that bloomed o'er the way Has withered long since, and is dead.

Yet you still say you love me, and that is enough, Let the sweetest of flowers all die.

For your voice is as tender as in by-gone days And the loveJight is bright in your eye.

-Chas. A. Ewing

IT'S THE EFFORT THAT REAI.LY COUNTS

SHE PUTS HER BEST INTO HER WORK_AND SO DO WE

It tqkes one coll to us lo secure All Slqndqrd Brond Producls for the Builders in your oreq. Jusl osk lhe deoler who depends on usFwe reolly believe in SAIISFIED CUSTOMERS.

Ponderosq Pine Woodwork Absorbs Americqn Wood Window Instifute

A stepped-up "seal of approval" program for double-hung u'ood window units has been initiated by Ponderosa Pine Woodwork, Chicago, as an immediate result of the absorption into PPW of the American Wood Window Institute, Inc., formerly located in Dallas.

Certification of quality is the core of the program. This is acccnnplished by the labeling of windows with a permanent metal seal, which constitutes proof to the customer that the rvindow meets the quality specifications of .Commercial Standard 190-53 of the U. S. Department of Commerce.

Manufacturers and assemblers of window units are being

licensed to use the AWWI seal. Membership in PPW is not a requirement for membership in AWWL

Although the program is now limited to double-hung units, the intent of PPW is to extend the service to other types of rvood windows as soon as appropriate commercial standards have been released by the U. S. Department of Commerce.

Commercial Standard 190-53 specifies that double-hung windows must be made of approved lumber dried to a moisture content of 6 to l2/o, treated with a water-repellant, preservative chemical, weatherstripped, and properly balanced. Other specifications cover construction detail, dimensions of frame and sash members and glazing.

T\TENTY.FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

As reported in The California Lumber Merchant July 1 , 1930

John A. Johnson, of Phoenix, reports in this issue on the history of the lumber indus,try in Arizona. FIe says that the first important mill to operate in the state was built in Flagstaff by Edward Ayers. ft was taken over shortly after bv Riordan Brothers, who continued to operate it as the Arizona Lumber & Timber Company.

While in the midst of conditions in the lumber else in the nation.

depression, this issue reports that market are better than anywhere

1929 shipments of California Redwood exceeded L928 by some 25 million feet. those of

The new tariff law went into effect June 17, and the Lawrence-Philips Lumber Company, Los Angeles, received the first shipload of lumber to enter Los Angeles harbor under the new rates. The steamer Quinalt brought the cargo.

Total lumber production figures for California far 1929 just released show the following: Redwood, 454,451,000 feet; whitewoods in Redwood region, 107,881,000; Ponderosa Pine,

7 85,102,000 ; Sugar Pine, 291,255,000 ; White Fir, 146,423,0M ; Douglas Fir, 56,712,0N.

A story with pictures of the modern building materials store of the Cutter Mill & ,Lumber Company, at Sacramento, appears in this issue. C. A. "Chet" Minard is manager.

Announcement is made that airplanes are to be used in scouting fires in the national forests of California. Contracts have been made with two commercial airplane firms to provide the ships.

Shipments of Philippine hardwoods into the United States during the first quarter of 1930 amounted to 10,242,000 board feet, an increase of about 3 million feet over the same period of the previous year. In addition, slightly more than one million feet of thin lumber and veneers of Philippine were received in Pacific Coast ports.

In this issue Dee C. Essley, manager of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, reports on the activities of that organization.

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lllanufacturers and ShiPPers of

Sliding Glcrss Door-Window Institute Emborks on Notionql Promotion

The Sliding Glass Door and Window Institute, with national headquarters in Los Angeles, has appointed the Theodore R. Sills Company as its public relations and publicity agency, it is announced by Charles Morearty, president of the institute.

The Sills Company, with offices in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York, will conduct a nationwide educational campaign in all forms of media to further acquaint the archite,ct,' builder, contractor and general public with the advantages of sliding glass doors and windows in all types of construction.

The institute, recently organized, comprises most of the

4O firms engaged in manufacturing the products, together with allied suppliers as associate members. Southern California companies manufacture most of the product currently and have distributors or dealers throughout the nation.

Socrqmento Hoo-Hoo Gloses lts Yeor

The Sacramento 109 Club met June 15 at the Old Tavern in Sacramento. Host for the last meeting until resumption of club activities in September was the Bercut-Richards Lumber Company, with Dick Markee and Lrw Ward doing the honors behii:d the bar. The Sacramento Hoo-Hoo will resume its meetings next fall with a get-together September 21. Host for that meeting will be the Rounds Lumber Company, San Francisco.

New Rusco Window qnd Door Plont in Anoheim August I

centered his attention and effort tou'ard this goal. tle conducted a vigorous campaign r,vith the top executives of the F. C. Russell Company and on August 1 will enjoy the results of this effort tvhen the new branch factory rvill swing into production of 12,0W windows a month for rvestern distribution.

JIM CONNOLLY, vice-president anci general marlager of Rusco Prime Window Company, Tustin, California, announces that the new western plant of the manufacturing concern in Anaheim, California, will be ready for production during the rveek of August 1.

The new plant represents another unit in the F. C. Russell Company, Cleveland, Ohio, plants operating in the United States and Canada. Following six years'experience in Southern California, Jim Connolly determined that the steady growth of this area should have a manufacturing branch of the finm to properly service the trade. Being a pioneer in the field of finance and building materials, he

With the construction of the Anaheim plant nearing completion, Rusco Prime Window Companv sales offices and warehouse facilities in Tustin a.e ieing ,completely renovated and remodeled. Sales headquarters for Southern California, western Arizona and southern Nevada will remain in Tustin, with a branch warehouse and sales office in San Diego, according to Connolly.

Starting with a force of one man six years ago, Rusco now has a force of five men in San Diego and 12 salesmen working out of the general offices at Tustin. The materials sold by this staff include Rusco Prime Windows, Insulating Sash Windows aird Combination Doors, Venetian Awnings,

GROUND-BREAKING for the new plonr in o tor Ohmon, Gorl R. Roquet, vice-preridenl, F. Grinnell of rhe F. C, Russell Co. Work wilt be

rccently clecred orongb grove. tcft to right: llrs, Fred Thomron, C, Ru_ssell Co., wielding the shovel; Kothleen Hoyos, eueen of completed on the new monufocturing plont Augulr l.

Inlond lumber Co.; Mrs. ond Jim Connolly, ContrccAnoheim's Indurtriol Week (WOWI), ond Richord

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Terrace Canopies and Disposal Units-all of which will now be produced in the west for western users.

Credit for this steady growth goes to the young man who pioneered the distribution of Rusco products in the west, Jim Connolly, according to Fred Thomson, president of the firm.

The new Anaheim manufacturing plant is situated on a l2-acre site, six of which have been allocated to the immediate project. This will allow for expansion at an early date, or when demand reaches production schedules. This beautiful new facility is located at Ball and Lewis Streets, in the Southern California 'city, and will include one-half acre of landscaped gardens at the front of the building. It isof California type architecture and was designed by F. Thomas Collins, of El Monte.

The F. C. Russell Co. last month declared dividends doubling the rate paid in 1954. Net for the year was reported "decidedly better" than the $525,690 earned in fiscal 1954. Officials of the Cleveland concern declared its west coast business has gro\,vn so fast it has become more profitable to manufacture there than to ship products in from the east. Both the new Anaheim, Calif., facility and another new plant, near Toronto, are expected to add significantly to company earnings this year.

Turkheimer Now Wirh Twin-Ciry

Fred Turkheimer joined Twin-City Lumber Company May 16 and will be active in buying and selling throughout Northern California and southern Oregon, according to Hac Collins of Twin-City a! San Francisco.

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Our new Southern California distribution yard is ready to serve lumber dealers. We carry all types and sizes of redwood lumber no need of you carrying a large inventory.

You're invited to use this convenient distribution yard. There's prompt loading for your pick up-in less than carload lots-or we deliver. We also accept carload orders. Ask us for quotations.

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Lemon Grove Yqrd Chonges Hqnds, Bought by Longe ond Uecker

Ownership of the Lemon Grove (Calif.) Lumber Company changed hands late last month. The following notice was released to the trade by Stephen Westover, managing partner; Ruth Schulte and Ernest L. Sunbury:

"We wish to announce that efiective June 20, 1955, the ownership of the Lemon Grove Lumber Company will pass to Henry E. Lange and Arthur D. Uecker, who will assume the entire assets and liabilities of the retiring partners.

"The new owners will carry on the business in the same friendly atmosphere which has prevailed over the last 15 years.

"We commend them to the consideration of our wholesalers and suppliers and, for ourselves, we want to go on

record that we are appreciative of the many pleasant business relationships that we have enjoyed."

This well-known Southern California retail yard was the subject of an editorial feature in the April 15 issue this year.

PCA Opens Scrn Msteo Yqrd

Pacific Coast Aggregates, Inc., has opened a new building r4aterials yard at 19th and Railroad Aves., San Mateo, Calif. Under management of A. M. Sperry, the yard will serve the San Mateo and Burlingarne areas with sand, gravel, crushed rock, certified ready-mixed concrete and a complete line'of building materials. PCA is planning extensive remodeling and other improvements of the yard, which was acquired from Building Products, fnc.

New Hyster Monomosr Liff Hos Ponorqmic visibiliry

unique Monomast engineering consists of two box-type sections, one telescoping within the other.

Thousands of hours of job and Hyster proving ground tests indicate the Monomast design will work faster than comparable conventional units. The new unit allows the operator a clear, unobstructed view to both forks and load, permitting faster operating speed and reducing driver fatigue. Additional operating advantages offered are faster maneuverability, faster approach, more accurate load placing and safer load handling.

Total weight of the Monomast upright is about the same as standard type assemblies, but its tubular design is acknowledged to be even stronger than comparable models. Torsional rigidity in the mast has been increased 80/o and mast deflection reduced 50/o over conventional upright o'r mast assemblies, it is claimed.

The Monomast design allows a l5/o increase in hoist speed. I-oad raising speed is now 58 feet per minute with a corresponding increase in load lowering speed. Slight horizontal carriage flotation is a desirable feature which permits the lift truck to angle back out of tight positions after load depositing.

A piston-type cylinder with a new self-adjusting packing

An entirely new concept in lift truck engineering, the Hyster MONOMAST, a revolutionary design consisting of one mast, will be introduced nationally during July, according to an announcement by officers of the Hyster Company. Disclosed as one of the industry's greatest basic advancements, the Hyster Monomast creates exclusive panoramic visibility never before possible with conventional upright assemblies. The

gland minimizes possibility of oil leakage and extends packing life. Life of cylinder and packing is also extended by full protection from dirt and mechanical damage.

All standard hydraulic attachments can be mounted on the Monomast attachment carriage; non-hydraulic attachments

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are also available. The Monomast mounting is conventional and can be field-installed'on current three and four-thousandpound ,Hyster models UC-30 and YC-40 without alteration.

The Hyster Monomast has been designed for the Hyster UC-30 and YC-40 models. Both are gasoline-powered with solid-cushion-type tires designed particularly for warehouse and close-quarter operation. Either unit can be equipped with Hystamatic automatic drive and also obtained to operate either on LP gas or diesel.

The Monomast-equipped YC-40 rvill be displayed at Hyster dealers early in July. Advance catalogs and specifications can now be obtained from dealers or by writing to: The Hyster Company, 2902 N. E. Clackamas, Portland 8, Oregon, or 1003 Myers Street, Danville, Illinois.

Vsnlqndinghom Moves to Golif.

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Vanlandingham have moved their home from Chicago to Fresno, California. NIr. Vanlandingham has been for more than a generation one of the best known and most popular lumber pbrsonalities in the Chicago area, and has covered the entire continent with his lumber operations and activities. The wholesale firm of Walter Vanlandlngham, Inc., is his central business, although both he and his wife are actively associated with several other lumber and bus.iness firms, and both of them are active in their operations. They moved to Fresno because their son had recentlv started making his home there and they wished to be close to him, but they will continue to operate a wholesale business that covers a great deal of territory.

Incteosed Greoter Volume ond, Profits with CATAVERAS CEMENTS

King of the Frontier .

DAVY CROCKETT was scarcely born back there in the year 17% before the folks of the Tennessee woods and rivers started to tell big stories about him.

"IIow could the Crocketts have themselves a baby boy?" a Mississippi river raftsman wanted to know. "They are too scroungin' poor to afford a stork."

"The gov'ment took charge," said the news bearer.

"They put a gov'ment bazzard to work and brought the infant in free."

"Seven buzzards it took, the babe was so' hefty and hard to handle," a woodsman argued. "Bull buzzards they was, biggest in the gov'ment service."

That was the first of a string of bird stories that followed Davy Crockett through his lifetime and kept on going with the frontier as it moved westward. The real Hon. David Crockett came out of the Tennessee wilderness to make himself favorably known by service in his state's legislature, then by two terms in Congress.

,Like rnany adventurous Tennessee riflemen of his time, David Crockett traveled to Texas to fight for the independence of the I-one Star Republic. He was one of the band of heroes that died defending the Alamo in 1836.

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The stories told that Davy's Ma Mandy worked out for a family that lived across the Mississippi, in Arkansas. Even when the old river was in flood, Mandy Crockett would cross to work early each morning and cross back in the evening shades. She kept her ax along. Each crossing Ma Mandy would chop down a big loblolly pine on the river bank.

Then across the wide river she would go, perched sidewise on the trimmed tree, using her apron for a sail and her left leg for a rudder. Rarely she would use her left foot to paddle also. It would commonly make trouble when she did, as every kick she made would set a thundering big wave billowing from bank to bank, swamping all boats.

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Pa Crockett would seldom work out and he loathed to farm. But he was prime at catfishing whenever he could bring himself to do ii. For little Davy he did take pains to put himself out.

Once three men and a'boy saw Pa Crockett dive from a raft in the middle of the old river, and come up with a 60-pound catfish in his teeth. They knew, for they helped him weigh it.

While Davy was still a very young infant he was given to his Uncle Roarious and Aunt Screechy to raise. Nobody lived farther back in the Tennessee backwoods than they did. They were prop€r people to fetch him up.

Little Davy was fed on fresh panther milk night and day,

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"They were plain, honest, tasty eel eggs," Aunt Screechy declared.

A spoo,n carved from a buffalo's hoof, with an eagle's leg for a handle was the first trick fixed by Uncle Roarious for the dewy infant. Davy's rattle was a plugged bufialo horn primed with grapeshot. On nights of howling wind, Davy was lashed to the top of a tall sycamore, and when the wind would swing him handsome and high he could be heard cooing for a mile.

Such tender care did wonders for the future king of the wild frontier.

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San Diego Hoo-Hoo Club 3 held its annual ,49er at Del Mar on the night of May h and the usual rousing high time was reported by one and all. There was a goodly crowd of 165 lumber and material merchants in attendance but, due to the nature of the annual party, photos rn,ere taboo and details of the entertainment are as scanty as the costume on a burlesqueen.

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May's dollar volume of Dodge Reports of co'ntract awards measured by for future construction in the 37 states east of the Rockies was of the total t3/o above the contract total for May 1954, and was the third highest of any monthly total recorded in the history of F. W. Dodge Corporation. The total was $2,185,065,000.

The five-month total of $9,727,562,000 set a new high record and was 29o/o above the corresponding figure for last year which reached the previous high mark.

For the second successive month the Dodge residential classification topped the billion mark; at $1,011,310,000, residential building contracts were 23/o above the total for May 1954. The month's residential total was the second highest in Dodge history, exceeded only in April of this year.

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Dick Johnson, long identified with The Pacific Lumber Company, established himself as a sales representative handling several products, including Palco Wool, in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys, effective June 1. Johnson u'ill service all Palco Wool distributors in the aforementioned areas and will make his headquarters at his home in Oakdale, California-Route 3, Box 1687, telephone Oakdale 2002. The announcement for The Pacific Lumber Company was made by Edric E. Brown, manager of TPL's By-Products Division.

Philippine Mohogqny Associqfion Meets July tO-t4 in [o Jollo

The 23rd annual meeting of the Philippine Mahogany Association, Inc., will be held at the La Valencia hotel, La Jolla, California, July 1G14. A large attendance is expected at the meeting, where most of the problems confronting the distribution of Philippine Mahogany in the United States will be discussed, announces Walter G. Scrim, president of the association, Los Angeles.

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the fact that residential dollars total almost half of construction as carried in the Dodge Reports.

Bowyer Joins Hqrbor Lumber

Al H. Bowyer, formerly sales manager of Service Lumber & Supply Company and recently retired, has joined the wholesale lumber department of Harbor Lumber Company, announces the firm's president, Ike Zafrani. Bowyer, who had been with Loop Lumber & Mill Co. for 24 years before joining Service, will operate out of the Harbor Lumber Company offices at Powell and Embarcadero in San Francisco, and will be servicing lumberyards throughout the Greater Bay Area.

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. Washington 25, D. C.-The city of Los Angeles, California, has been certified by Administrator Albert M. Cole of the Housing and Home Finance Agency as having submitted to this agency a workable program for the elimination,and prevention of slums and blight throughout the city. Thus, the city with the largest incorporated area oJ any city in the United States has become the first city in the westerri half of this country and the 20th in the United States to receive approval of its workable program.

Los Angeles has long been active in the field of city planning and zoning, and more recently has carried on a program of vigorous code enforcement. Its various codes, bearing recent dates of adoption or revision, indicate both substantial accomplishment and an awareness on the part of the community for continued improvements in such controls and regulations.

The Los Angeles Housing Code in some respects exceeds the minimum requiroments in nationally recognized model ordinances. It copes effectively with occupancy of substandard dwellings and provides effective support for any contemplated conservation and rehabilitation programs.

The city's general' planning program has been widely recognized as one of the most advanced in the nation. Los Angeles was one of the first cities in the country to become zoning 'conscious,,rl.4nd as far back as 1904 its original zoning regulafiibn was adopted. This early ordinance established certain sections of the city as residence

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Both the original zoning regulation and a I92l zoning ordinance proved inadequate to prevent abuse through spot zoning and in 1941 Charter amendments were adopted to improve the city's entire zoning and planning procedures. This was followed still later (in 1946) by the adoption of an up-to-date Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance. Annual reports of the City Planning Commission indicate progressive strengthening and refinement of the ordinance and effective enforcement of its provisions.

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Wide publicity given to a vigorous code enforcement program in recent years has created a general community awareness of the problem of blight, and the value of code enforcement in combating blight and protecting the general health, safety and welfare of the citizens.

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4. Administrative Organization.

Since the start of the housing rehabilitation program in 1952, 1012 unsalvable structures have been demolished and 418 substandard buildings have been remodeled.

5. Financing. The City of Los Angeles is in excellent financial condition. Its advance public works planning program indicates a five-year program requiring approximately $70,000,000 annually. Some of these projects would qualify as non-cash grants-in-aid toward meeting the city's share in financing urban renewal projects.

6. Housing Displaced Families. During the last five years relocation was acconplished on a large scale in connection with the disposition of 14,000 units of temporary Veterans' and temporary housing, substantial expansion of the Los Angeles Civic Center area, expansion of the

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7. Citizen Participation. The mayor has indicated he will shortly establish a representative Citizens lJrban Renewal committee to implement an overall program of urban lenewal on a city-wide basis.

Current Activities Under HHFA Programs

Urban Renewal. A planning advance of $635,000 was approved in April by HHFA to be used by the Community Redevelopment Agency of Los Angeles to make plans for a proposed urban renewal project called Bunker Hill. It is an ared of 136 acres located on the northern side of the central business district.

Public Housing. Los Angeles has a public housing program consisting of 20 projects having 8609 units. Of these, 15 projects with 73@ units are completed. The remaining five projects are under construction.

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(The following excellent old invocation was revived by Snark of the (fniverse John H. Dolcater at the. recent Los Angeles convention of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association; it was furnished from the files of George W. Barrow, 19301, Houston, Texas.)

LORD, zue ask thy blessi,ng upon this assembly of HOOHOO and thei,r guests. Grant that fri,end,ships may here be formed,, staunch as the oak, fle*ible as the hi,chory, and eternal as the cypres$. Keep us from pathumys crooked, and, from ways that are checkered,. Give us wisd,om to ,neet the smiles of tltose zuho approach us zui,th first clear m,ontuers and, shaky clear souls. Help us to so heal our faults tlmt they may beautify our characters, ez)en as the Tennessee Red, Ced,ar is beauti,fied by its defects. Help us to discount our bills, especially help us, O Lord, to discount tales of our neighbor's sins. And, at las.t, zuhen the mill of lif e be silent arud the last piece tally i,s wri,tten in the ledger of destiny, gwide us and. d,elizter us, O Lord, surfaced, four sid,es and sanded, F.O.B. thine eternul kingdom, for Hoo-Hoo sake, Amen.

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N. B. Giustina, o,f Giustina Bros. Lumber Company, and new president of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, announces the appointment of Chet King of The Robert Dollar Company, San Francisco, to the WCLA Trade Promotion committee. King is active in the wholesale lumber and plywood division of the Dollar company.

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Redwood Region logging Conference

(Continued from Page 23) always have small mills, even if only for salvage operations."

Grundman (on How Long to Wait for a Crop?): "Union Lumber Company has b new gang mill cutting studs from second growth which is 40 to 100 years of age, mostly from small plots owned by farmers. Union recently cut from an area that was logged in 1923 and got twice the upper grades that were cut 30 years ago."

Deitz: "Era of old fine growth is coming to an endmust learn to use second growth." Grundman: "New plys can use lower grades." McCollum: "Too much old growth is used for lumber which could be saved by using lumber

from second growth." Merrill (on experimental thinning in Douglas fir) : "ITave taken light cuts of rough, deformed, defective old-growth (from 40-year-old stand) which were crowding young growth. Will increase your harvest and quality. Plan to cut every ten years."

Reed (on Horv Set Up a Management Program?): "Recognition by owner or stockholder of what he's getting into in the matter of sources of future income-a change from buying and selling for present profit to growing trees for future profit. Problem of securing sufficient acreage to make it a practical management unit-need half tr-r two-thirds of own logs-can buy remainder for supplying mill.It's a change from l94I-45 when plenty of timber could be purchased. It takes (1) stamina and willingness

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to en<lure present loss to insure future prolit; (2) land to carry out managernent plans, and (3) decision to hold the line r,vhile grorving trees."

Rueger (on Horv Are You Going to Cut ?) : "The forester needs to collect facts, figures, gron.th rates, then work out cutting plan."

Wagner: "Irnportant to l'rave a desire to be permanent. This is a philosophy o{ setting a program rvhich may not be realized in ciur lifetime."

Merrill: "You need the proper political atmosphere to make management policy possible."

Trobitz: "Have to have faith in proper markets and political climate, but u'e have to l'ork on it in our relations u,ith the public. N{ust anticipate the recluirements,

not 'ir.ait until the ltroblern is here. Anticipate the conlnetitir'rn in sellinr'. Take an interest in taxes-don't rvait until the biils are due."

McCollum (on Hon' Set Up Selective Cutting and Tree Farming?): "Should have past experience-on which rve have little basis to decide. Take conditions u'here there are chance (or planned) favorable conditions for conducting a grorvth study. PCI- has 40 one-acre gror,vth plots set aside to find results in grorvth of residual tirnber. We leave at ieast 6 trees per acre in Dciuglas Fir, 2A/o of original volume-SO/o <tI origtnal trees-in Redrvood. Our minimum cut size is 18".

Grundman-first checked rvith N{cCollum ir-r Humboldt county: "Better distribution of tree sizes in Mendocino county-easier to leave resicluals. N{arked leave trees-

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left twice as many as using a 36-inch diameter limit (56/o of trees left)."

Carr (mixed Redwood and Douglas Fir): "Must have cooperation from bottom up:need to educate choppers. If you start by marking an acre, you only have left what the loggers leave-may have to go back and take damaged trees."

Merrill: "Larger use of dozer layouts allows leaving more trees. We mark for leave--and not to cut below certain diameter."

Reed (on contract logging) : "Find that best logging contract is a sale on short term basis with emphasis that if logger doesn't log as agreed, he won't get any more contracts."

Rueger: "Greater mobility of present day logging requires more planning ahead."

Wagner: "Have to regulate cut to growth. Land will only grow so much."

McCollum: "Falling can be improved even though loggers are fine at cooperation. Can still make money on old-growth trees under the diameter limit and many young trees which are above the limit. Area depends upon what timber you have."

Reed: "Sage is making studies of logging on six quarteracre landings east of. Orick where we find that the biggest spread in volume of timber taken is where 20/o of. volume is left standing. Next study will be on three types of cutting, with profit records to be kept."

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equipment. Heavy equipment was on display-and demonstrated throughout the conference-on the infield of the race track, smaller equipment inside. It was estimated that more ihan two 'million dollars worth of equipment was on display during the conference at Redwood Acres.

The 18th Annual Redwood Region Logging Conference will be held at Ukiah, Mendocino county, in 1956.

Hof f ingbf1 tt.1 Utiliry Executive

Paul Hallingby, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hallingby, Los Angeles, has been elected vice-president of Middlc South Utilities, Inc., New York. The young Angeleno graduated from Stanford in 1941, attended Harvard Business School and entered U. S. naval aviation in L942 as an engineering officer, was released from active duty in 1946 with the rank of lieutenant commander, and is now a commander in the USNR. He was formerly in investment banking with E. F. Hutton & Co., joining his present company in 1952 as assistant to the president.

Eurekq Redwood Exponds L. A. Plqnt

Eureka Redwood Lumber Company is expanding its plant operation at Los Angeles, according to Dean Jones, manager in Southern California. Additional acreage has been acquired and a big portion of the wholesale yard has been paved during the past several rveeks. Plans are under way to construct new sheds and pave the balance of the yard.

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Case-history reports on advantages of properly desigr-red and installed materials-handling equipment of interest to the lumber and building-supply industry are now available free. These four field reports contain facts on how proper use of the equipment has cut operating costs, improved efficiency and emplclyee morale, and provided increased profits.

The reports cover four different installations involving the handling of millwork, sheathing, plywood panels, roofing, insulation, concrete products, and other building materials. For a file of these four field reports containing practical cost-cutting suggestions, write to: The Rapids-Standard Co., Inc., 342 Rapistan Bldg., Grand Rapids 2, Michigan.

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Good news for both home owners and builders who've been plagued with either burglary or vandalism via the milk chute is the new Safe-T-Shute. This unique milk,chute answers a need long felt in the'building industry. Safe-TShute's "split door" construction prevents even children from reaching around or crawling through to unlock doors -yet doesn't interfere with delivery of milk or packages. Builders will find that Safe-T-Shute not only provides a good "talking point" but gives important protection against theft and vandalism during construction. Made of extra

New'Plqstik-fold' Door Eosy to Instqll

A new type folding door called "PLASTIK-fold,, currently being introduced to the trade is made of a virtually unbreakable flexo-rigid plastic material resulting from developments made by the Dow Chemical Company and the manufacturers of the door, Reverso Products Company. There is no surface coating to chip or peel, requires no painting and can be "damp cloth" cleaned. The door is comprised of interlocking folding panels and comes complete, ready to install in minutes, with extruding aluminum track, cornice panels, crystal grip handles. Designed for the budget conscious consumer, the 6'8', high by ? wide size retails for only $9.95, a price so far below nearest comparable competition that new mass markets have become available for the product and acceptance by the public has been good. A special advantage is low freight involved.

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A new line of Topp-Aire redwood awnings, patio.covers and lath houses for home and commercial use has just been announced by H. J. Petersen, vice-president for Topp Industries, Los Angeles. Designed specially for use by building contractors and sales by hardware, building supply and garden supply houses, the product is completely packaged in prefabricated kits for immediate installation.

Among the many advantages claimed for these products by the manufacturer is the fact that they can be assembled and installed in a very short time with ordinary tools. They are made of Redwood and are virtually weather and corrosion resistant and should last for the life of the building, it is stated. Their patented construction allows passage of air and diffused light but gives protection from weather and direct sunlight. Each unit when assembled is under slight tension which prevents noise and clatter from wind and rain.

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Southwest Lumber Mills, Inc., has completed a $2 million improvement and expansion program atits F-lagstaff and McNary, Ariz., plants. $1,500,000 was spent enlarging and modernizing the mill purchased last year from the Saginaw & Manistee Lumber Co. Annual capacity of this Flagstaff sawmill is now 60 million board feet ,of Pine and the same footage can be processed in the planing mill and box factory. McNary's capacity is now 90 million feet. Southwest can now season lumber without regard to weather. One kiln has been increased to a battery of 10.

Building permits for the first five months of 1955 at Calexico, Calif., are above those for all of 1954 in the border city. Total so far this year is $888,830; for the entire year 1954 the figure was $812,627.

Interference from a pair of Plumas County loggers delayed 250 passengers on the California Zephyr June 6. The W.P. train was tooling through Feather River Canyon at 35 mph when the woodsmen accidentally felled a tall Pine across the tracks. The Diesel engine crashed into the tree; locomotives were changed at Oroville; the crack streamliner fell behind schedule; Plumas County sheriff's deputies were reported still looking for the loggers, who took off for the tall timber when they saw their mistake.

Dee Essley, D. C. Essley & Son, Los Angeles lumber wholesaler and chairman of the new hospital board, said in five and one-half months this year, without a single gift of more than $25,000, the people of Whittier, Calif., and area had con-

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tributed $1,001,217 toward construction of the proposed Presbyterian Intercommunity hospital. "This is the finest community effort to meet its own community need that I have ever seen," Essley stated.

The month of May set an all-time construction record for Anaheim, Calif. A total of 717 permits for $9,003,660 were issued, breaking the record of. 574 at $7,217,868 in December 1954. For the first five months this year, total permit valuation was $26,215,732, compared to $10,210,413 in the same period last year.

A do-it-yourself party was staged May G7 by the Hayward Lumber Co., Blythe, Calif. Vaughn Ladd, manager of the retail yard, said six major manufacturers were among the suppliers showing the yard's customers how to build, paint, paper, plaster, hammer and nail-and how to increase their vocabulary in case of accidents. Balloons were given the kids, prizes awarded the lucky, and favors for everyone. Refreshments were also served.

Two subdivisions with a total of 631 homes have been approved by the Buena Park, Calif., City Planning Commission.

A series of thunderstorms in the Sierra touched olT six new fires in the Trinity-Shasta Forest and the total during the week passed 500, it was reported June 14. Fires were then raging in Modoc Forest, the Warner Mountains east of Alturas, Calif., Eldorado Forest, Tahoe Forest and northwest of Happy Camp on the Klamath River in Siskiyou county, where over 120 acres were aflame. Fires also recently destroyed several thousand acres of valuable timberland around McNary, Ariz., apparently caused by carelessness, the FBI reported.

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Elinor Robinson Elected Presidenf of los Angeles Hoo-Hoo-Ettes

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club No. 1 met June 13 at the Eleda restaurant in the city. Dinner was served at 6:D p.m. and the business meeting called at 7:29.

Announcement was mad€ of the newly elected officers for the 1955-56 club year. They are as follor,vs;

President-Elinor Robinson, Allied Veneer & Lumber Co. ; First vice president-Mabel Staser, H. X{. Nelson Lumber Co.; Second vice president-Alma Christian, Nf ox Wrecking Company; Third vice president-Ida Cunner, Marquart-Wolfe Lumber Co.; Secretary-Sarah Orinda Hazen, Tarzana Lumber Co.; Treasurer-Corrine Adams, E. J. Stanton & Son; Publicity chairman-Agnes Mclntyre, West Coast Lumbermen's Association; Membership chairman-sallye Bissell, Weyerhaeuser Sales Co.; Initiation chairman-Eullale Matich, Pine Ridge Lumber Co.

The June meeting was the last until September, rvhen the new officers will be installed. A concatenation will also be held at the next meeting and new kittens initiated into the L,. A. Hoo-Hoo-Ette group.

Moson E. Kline, Jr., Reioins Fqther

After more than three years' duty with the Navy, Mason E. Kline, Jr., has rejoined his father, "Mase" Kline, Sr., in the San Francisco wholesale lumber concern of Mason E. Kline & Company. Young Kline, who served as a lieutenant in the Navy, spent most of his tour of duty in Korea and Japan and was executive officer of his shio.

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Salem, Ore.-The lumber division of the Oregon 1'ulp & Paper Co. was to shut down June 30 with the outlook for a permanent closing.

Affected will be 135 workers earning an average of nearlv $50,000 a month, E. A. Linden, resident manager of the division, reported.

The retail store and the millwork division will be continued and the shutdown will not affect pulp mill operations.

Nearly 600 persons are employed by Oregon Pulp with an annual payroll in all divisions of approximately $4,000,000.

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Sawmill equipment will be maintained here for a year or so to see if the business picture changes'

Workers receiving notice Thursday were told their jobs would end June 30.

Medford, Ore.-Sale of Timber Products Co. and Veneer Products Co. and 7O,W acres of timberland to the Cyprus Mines Co. of Los Angeles .wds announced here June 7. 'fhe purchase marks the entrance of Cyprus into timber operations after many years, of mining and oil operations.

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Virgil G. Peterson, secretar)'-manager of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, spent the r,veeks of June 13 and 20 in southern California making calls on local shingle distributors in company 'ivith William V. Christian, the Bureau's Southland representative at Los Angeles. Peterson went to San Diego June 22 on the last leg of his business tour before returning to his Seattle offices.

E. C. "Brandy" Brandeberry, A & B Lumber Sales, Inc., spent a June week calling on Oregon mill connections and returned to his San Francisco offices June 16.

Wayne F. Mullin, N{ullin Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and president o{ the Southern California Retail Lumber Association, is leaving for a six-week vacation in the Hawaiian Islands.

Burt Goebel, who covers the San Joaquin Valley for Rounds Lumber Company and headquarters at Fresno, spent a week in June visiting Pine connections in the Sierras.

Bill Baugh of Baugh Bros., Los Angeles, left June 10 on a motor trip to Portland, Ore., accompanied by Mrs. Baugh and their three children.

Al Kelley, Alameda rvholesale lumberman (and Irishman) spent a mid-June week making calls on mi1l connections in Portland and Eugene, Ore.

Tony Hansen of the Mullin Lumber Company, Los Angeles, has returned from a trip east.

Don Bufkin "represented" Hobbs Wall Lumber Co. on the last run of the S. P.'s last steam locomotive into Los

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Bob Reid of Zeil & Co., San Francisco, and Mrs. Reid have returned from a two-week vacation in the Lake Tahoe area.

Harold A. New, Pasadena wholesale lumber distributor, spent part of June in northern California and San Francisco on a procurement trip.

Bob Raymer, partner in Raymer & McCubbin, San Francisco, spent Memorial day weekend away from it all at Lake Chillarvak, Canada.

Dennis Jackson, for the past seven years vice-president in charge of sales for Mahogany Importing Company, Los Angeles, is moving to Phoenix, Ariz., to enter business for himself. Jim Mcleod, president of the lumber concerd, announced that Frank Rawolle would take over the important post vacated by Jackson.

"Monty" Montgomery, Twin-City Lumber Company, returned to San Francisco June 20 after spending a business week in the Vancouver, B. C., area.

.W. G. "Tobe" Tyree, prominent many years in southern California wholesale lumber circles, has joined the sales staff of Pacific Western Lumber Company, with headquarters in Pasadena.

"Mac" McCormick, Simpson Redwood Company, returned to San Francisco June 18 after spending 10 days in the east on business. He was accompanied on his New England calls by Walter Parks, sales. supervisor, eastern region, of the Sintpson Washington, D. C., office.

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Nonfarm housing starts advanced seasonally in May to 732,0W, the U. S. Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics announced. This was 22/o above the figure for May 1954 and l2/o under the alltime high reached in May r950.

The 129,500 private units started this May represents an annual rate oT 1,306,000 units, after allowance for seasonal factors-virtually the same as the annual rate for April, but well below the 1,400,000 average during the latter months of 1954 and the first quarter of 1955.

During the first five months, a total of 553,500 new dwelling units (private and public) were started in 1955, compared with 453,000 in 1954, and 561,400 in the record-breaking year 1950.

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Building activity in Southern California is speeding straight ahead and, from mid-June permit valuation figures, i955 looks like another record-breaking year. Gains in June exceeded May, with the total valuation in 72 Southern California cities plus the nine unincorporated county areas amounting to $830,360,767, an increase of $2O1,915,113 over the same period oI 1954.

The cities issued $521,4i9,035 in permits for 1955's first five months, compared with $411,370,844 in the same period last year. The nine counties' total was $308,84I,732, against $218,471,881 in 1954.

New Redwood Mill Opening July I To Serve L. \rV. MqcDonold Compqny

The L. W. MacDonald Company, pi,oneer Southern California wholesale lumber concern of Beverly Hills, announced that the new sawmill and planing mill in Scotts Valley, Calif., was expected to be in full production July 1. The new operation will be known as the Los Gatos Lumber Products Co.. Inc. The 24' miII is designed to cut and process over 50,000 board feet of California Redtuood per shift. Both old-growth Redwood and Douglas fir will be produced. Graded on association rules, all lumber will be pulled to length and shipped via rail and truck-and-trailer to Southern California retail lumber dealers.

In addition to staff members of the L. W. MacDonald Company, which includes Dave Lashley, Jim NlacDonald and Bill Eagan, who are exclusive sales agents for the mill, the Los Gatos organization consists of Carl Morton, president; Paul Gammill, Jr., secretary; Edwidd Parsons, vice-president. First shipments are expected t'o reach Los Angeles this month.

TW&J Promotes George Mortin

Harold Ford, vice-president and general sales manager of Tarter, Webster & Johnson, Inc., at Stockton, announces the promotion of George Martin, who will now be calling on the retail yards in the Sacramento-Marysville area. Martin had formerly been with the firm in its Stockton office. Ford also announced that Bill Walker recently joined the firm and is now in the Stockton office. Walker had formerly been in production work at the McCloud River Lurnber Co., McCloud, Calif.

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Emmett J. Norris, credit manager and assistant treasllrer of Calaveras Cement Company, was presented a gold watch in honor of 25 years' service with the company. Presentation was made by Calaveras President William Wallace Nlein, Jr.

The Atlantic Lumber Company, Bell, Calif., building materials dealer, has been presented an honor roll award by JohnsManville Corp., one of its national awards to select firms for their proven integrity and contribution to better housing in their home communities. The award was presented by John Stadtt, field representative f'or J-M, and accepted by W' E. Hall, asbestos siding salesman for the yard. The Atlantic Lumber Company has been in business in Bell since 1929' Building activity in Oceanside, Calif., at the end of Niav jumped more than 22/o above the same period last year.

Simpson Redwood Company was the successful bidcler in one of the largest sales of national forest timber in recertt years in the Eureka area, Forest Supervisor W. W. Spinnel' of Six Rivers National Forest disclosed June 16. The Sitrpson bid totaled $1,150,850, including $953,000 for Fir timber and the balance for Redwood in the tract. The price was for stumpage and deposits. Stumpage includes 9,700,000,000 boarcl feet of Redwood and 23,800,000,000 board feet of Douglas fir.

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(Continued from Page 2) 180 mills (171 operating) in the r.ieek ended June 18: production, |n,092,786 feet; shipments, 154,626,654 leet (19.8% over production); orders, 150,119,180 leet (16.3/o over production). In the week ended June 11, 180 mills reported production 13I,299,741 feet, shipments 128,319,558 feet, and orders 125,927,361 feet. In the week ended June 4, 180 mills reported production 111,230,418 feet, shipments 112,723,8+8 feet, and orders 115,145,308 feet.

The Western Pine Association reported for 115 mills in the week ended June 11: production, 91,963,000 feet; shipments,89,443,WO feet;orders,82,762,m0 feet. In the week ended June 4, 106 mills reported production 75,003,000 feet, shipments 73,017,000 feet, and orders 7I,493,000 feet.

The Southern Pine Association reported for 115 mills in the week ended June 11 : production, 20,405,00O feet; shipments, 20,620,0@ feet; orders, 20,515,000 feet. Production was 6.19/o, shipments 7.31% and orders 6.77% above the three-year average. In the week ended June 4, 111 mills reported production 9,n6,60 feet, shipments, 19,415,000 feet, and orders 17,472,000 feet.

United States Plywood Corp. is extending its present prices on fir plywood through September 30, announced S. \\r. Antoville, president, in Portland, Ore. This prices the key A-D grade of %" thick at $85M at the ,company's Pacific Northwest mills.

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Eugene P. Conser, nationally known state secretary of the California Real Estate Association, will leave that position September 1 to become executive vice-president of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, revealed NAREB President Henry G. Waltemade at the recent Chicago midyear meeting of the board following Conser's election to the post of chief executive offrcer of the national association.

Conser succeeds Herbert U. Nelson,. who is retiring from the office after 33 years.

New Mogozine

The first issue of Forest Science has made its appearance. This is a new quarterly published by the Society of American Foresters with the cooperation of forest research and educational organizations generally. Annual subscription rate is $6 plus 25 cents Canadian postage, 50 cents foreign. Forest Science will supplement, rather than compete with the "Journal of Forestry," which has been published by the Society of American Foresters since 1902. Subscriptions for either or both publications should be sent to the Society of American Foresters,.Mills Building, Washington 6, D. C.

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The new manufacturing plant of the Martin Brothers Box Company (formerly the A. K. Wilson Lumber Company), Del Amo Boulevard and Alameda, Compton, Caliornia, resumes operation July 1, according to Orval Paul, manager of the lumber division for the concern'

With the reactivation of the huge 5Z-acre plant, Martin Brothers will deal in all phases of the lumber distributing business, including the manufacture of mouldings and all other detail milled wood products, for the retail lumber <lealers and industrial users of lumber in the Southern California area, Paul declared. In addition to the Wirebound Box Division of the company, a complete wholesale lumber

Robert A. Muller, senior vice-president, was elected president of Atlas Plyrvood Corporation at a meeting of the directors in Boston June 1. He has been with Atlas since 1927 and succeeds Elmore I. MacPhie, deceased.

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Gqlcrveros Sqles Meering Repods On NoGol Gement Situotion

The cement outlook for Northern California during the next several years looks "good but competitive," Arthur Kroeger, professor of marketing in the Stanford School of Business, declared at a Calaveras Cement Company general sales meeting in San Francisco June 10.

Northern California is lagging behind other parts of the country in utilization of new construction techniques involving pre-stress, precast, tilt-up, lift-slab and blown systems of concrete application, Kroeger said. He pointed out that wider use of these techniques will increase the general demand for cement.

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Joe Tardy spent two weeks during May on a sales survey trip of Arizona and western Texas. He also visited lumber concerns in the Imperial \ralley.

Wayne Wilson, D. C. Essley & Son executive, Ils Angeles, and his family returned last month from an extended business and pleasure trip to the Pacific Northwest.

John Rhoda, sales production coordinator for Simpson Redwood Company, has been out spending a month on the West Coast and conferring with Dave Davis, Simpson Redwood sales manager, and Bill Lawson, vice-president and general manager of Simpson Redwood Company at Arcata.

Don Coveney, owner of California Lumber Sales, Oakland, spent a week in June touring mill connections along the Red'rvood Highway as far north as Eureka.

Al Wahl, purchasing executive of Consolidated Lumber Company, Wilmington, Calif., his wife and son are spending a three-week vacation visiting friends and relatives in Ohio and the midwest at the first family get-together in more than 28 years. The Wahls will return about July 10.

Al Lewis, purchasing agent for the Tarzana Lumber Co.

Mrs. Jessie Moores, mother of William M. Moores, president of Hollow Tree Redwood Company, Ukiah, Calif., isa constant reader of The CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT and The GULF COAST

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Mike Crook, Pacific Fir Sales, Pasadena, attended "Red" Emmerson's wedding in Eureka June 5. E,mmerson and his father operate the R. H. Emmerson & Son mill in Arcata. On the way back to southern California, Crook also stopped off in Oakland to visit Joe Salber, who manages the PFS office there.

Peter Van Oosting, Los Angeles lumber and plywood distributor, and his wife attended the DFPA's Plywood Golden Jubilee in Portland last month and visited friends and business associates in the northwest before planing back to SoCal.

Bill Brauning, general salesmanager of Eureka Redwood Lumber Company, Eureka, Calif., covered the eastern area of the U. S. on a sales jaunt last month. He stopped in southern California for a few days enroute.

Alden Ball, plant manager for Eureka Redwood, and Mrs. Ball were recent Southland visitors.

Frank Timmers returned to his Oakland territory for Strable Lumber Company after undergoing an operation and four weeks' convalescence at home. The operation was a complete success and Frank is now really making up. for lost time, reports Jim Overcast.

Paul Orban, president, Orban Lumber Company, Pasadena, returned last month from an extended stay in northern California.

Bob Patrick, manager of the Emsco Plywood warehouse in Oakland, took a week's business trip to southern California and Arizona during May.

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Harry Shedrick, well known in southern California lumber, has joined the sales promotion staff at Rajah Lumber Company, Los Angeles wholesale distributor.

Lloyd Webb, softr,r'oods division manager of E. J. Stanton & Son, Inc., Los Angeles, spent several days at the mills in northern California to thank the various shippers for their cooperation in shipping truckloads of lumber to Stanton's huge Lumberama last month. The big rigs made quite an impression on display at the unique lumber show, which will be reported pictorially in the next issue of The CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT.

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Donald Edward Larson, 50, partner in the George C. Jacobs Company, Eureka, was stricken while in his ofhce at the lumberyard on June 6, and succumbed of the heart attack early June 7. Mr. I-arson and his wife had just returned from a trip to San Francisco and were making plans for an extensive motor vacation tour this summer.

Donald Larson was born in Britt, Iowa, January 1, 1905. He went to Eureka, Calif., in 1942 as resident manager oi the Chicago Bridge and Iron Company, at the start of that concern's shipbuilding operations on Humboldt Bay. Following the war and the closing down of the CB&I operations in Eureka, he remained with the company for a time' In April, 1946, he returned to Eureka and purchased an interest in the George C. Jacobs Company and became e partner in the concern with Mayor George C. Jacobs, with whom he had formed a close friendship during wartime'

In addition to his professional, business and civic activities. Mr. Larson also was a member of a number of fraternal organizations, including the Eureka Rotary Club, the Ingomar Club, Aahmes Temple of the Shrine, the Scottish Rite Masonic body, Semper.:Virens Lodge No. 552 of the Masonic order, and the Eureka Lodge of Elks. He was also a member of the advisory board of Humboldt State college.

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WOUITD YOU BE A GOOD WORKING PARTNER with 2 rncn now planning a long future? Opportunity for ambitious man-- with approx.. $25,000 or 930000 to but into l6ng established retail lumbei and building neaterials firrn - Senior partner wants to rctire. 5Q mi. from L. A. Approx. 15,000 in tradc arca. State expericnce, a,ge, present occupation, ctc.

Address Box C-2365, California Lumber Merchant

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

POSITION WANTED

Experienced Hardware man in sales, purchasing or stock control. Can also read blueprints.

Addiess Box C-2374, California Lumber Merchant

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

COMMISSION REPRESENTATIVE

Erperienced. Western lumbcrman with excellent Fir and Pine mill sources, Oregon, Washington and California, wishes to 'establish luy-tng or sclling connections with responsibte firms. Commission basis. Gggd Pile specialties and moulding contacta. Adequate trade and banking'referctrcee. Namc on file.

. Write Box 1505, Medford, Oregon

EXPERIENCED WOMAN DESIRES POSITION

12 years lurnber and lumber products. Thoroughly familiar with cgetilS and pricin_g, credits,, payroll & taxes, insurance, inventory & all office detail. Los Angeles area.

Address Box C-2376, California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th Street, Room 508, Los Angelee 14, Cdif.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNH LUMBER YARDS FOR SALE

(AFThirty miles from Los Angeles, ideal city. You will likerit lo^r your home, that_is_why p,resent ownera have kept it for over fifty years, on s:rme R. R. lease (only 910.{X} per day).- All buildings and equipment including tu/o trucks $30;00O.OO; -iirventory abo-ut $50,000:0O. Marshall & Sterrens appraisal available.

(CFHere is another yard on a Sf0.00 per day lease. Now closed: located in south end of Los Angeles, threc blocks from Searsi glouqd lbout an acre; 5,000 sq. ft. of sheds. Spur track. Start a "Do-It-Yourrblf" business; let thern load it themtelves and pay you cash as you 'sit at the gate.

(D)-Rivcrside County yard-handy for Palm Springs weekends. Two years old; 30,fiF sq. ft.; with good store buildinc and lots of sheds. Price for _ground and buildings 929,fl)O; equipmint 95,0$.00; inventory abqut $20,0(X).fl). Located on main highway.

TWOHY LUMBER CO.

7f4 W. Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles 15; Rlchmond 9-8246

_-^L_qn{9r yards_and sawmill brokers for over forty years

If YOU Want to Sell YOUR Lumber Yard-GIVE OS- I nfUC

LUMBER YARD TO LEASE OR RENT

pogdetelr paved, modern sheds and omcc facilities, ready for business.

Phone: TErminal 4-2185

LUMBER BUSINESS FOR SALE

Owncr hospitatizcd. Establistred in Salinas in 1932. drop-in trade and cstablistred customers. Sell or lease and property.

WOODS LUMBER COMPANY E. Market at Sanborn Roa4 Salinas, Calif.

Noncr of Advcilitrrr in $ir Doporfrncnt uring o blind oddror conncl br diwlgcd. All inquidcr ond rcpllct rhosld bc qddrcrlrd to kry rhown in thc odvcrlironcnt

FOR SAtE

Flush Door Plant Machinery

Tennoner, Rip saw, High-speed Moulder, rt8x96 hydraulic Cold Press, Door Sizer, small Fork Lift truck, and all cquiprncnt to manufacture flush doors.

WILL SELL AS COMPLETE UNIT or BY THE PIECE

Can be Inspected at TI ED FO R D DOOR COR.PORATION

White City, Oregon

Telephgne Medford 3-3601 for Appointment

F'OR SALE ESTABLISHED BUILDING SUPPLY BUSINESS

Located in one of the fastest growing areas anywhere. 60 miles from_ L-os Angeles, Calif. On main boulevard, in town of 16,0fi) pgpulation. Ample^buildings, approx. 10,000'sq. ft. under roof. Yearly gross over 9100,000; high net profita. Piefer 16 sell land, inventory__, equipment and business on one deat. g3e000 cash re- quired. Books open to principals only.

Address Box C-2306, Catifornia Lumbcr Merchant 108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.

FOR SALE-GERLINGER 8-ton Lift Truck

1947 Model in cxcellent condition. Rebuilt Mercury rrotor. Manual stecring. $3500. Can be inspected at B & K LUMBER DISTRIBUTORS, INC. 200 South Seaside, Terminal Island BRadshaw 2-4630

FOR SALE-MILL

2OM miU close to Arcata; pond, 50 ft. burner, electric set and air dogs. Located on state highway and railroad.

Addrcss Box C-2298, California Lurnbcr Merchant 108 West 6th St., Room 5(8, Los Angeles f4, Calif.

FOR SALE

One Overhead Shepard Ctan+7$-ton capacity, g350.

MULLIN LUMBER CO.

l95O Wcst Slauson Ave.

. Los Angelcs 47, Calif.. AXminster 4-6191

Excellcnt buildings

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HUGHES BROTHERS

PONDER,OSA PINE SUGAR PINE

Foresthill, Gqlifornio

TANUFACTURERS OF INGENSE CEDAR

STETSON-R O SS all-electric, ball-bearing 6-1GA 1 (I 5" x 8" ) -PlageJ- Matcher in practically new condition; cgmplete with feed tablei proGle yolks, all top-and bottom and sidc hcad. equipme$; 9o9ilete giitrdittg and -joining machine together- with portablg |"tfJ grinaei including hoods for collector; also other spare heads buut ior this machine, etc., suPPlies.

NOW IN OPERATION4an Be InsPccted.

Stetson-Ross state replacement cost of above equipment 040,000'

Our price, net, F.O.B. Cars Chicago: $2s,7fi

HUSS LUMBER COMPANY

l35O Fullerton Avenue Chicago 14, Illinois

Phone: Llncoln 9-17fi)

FOR SALE-GANG RIP SAW

Hermance Gane Rip Saw, Ball-bearing,4O-HP, direct connected new feedworks. Oilll-f 4 YEARS' USE. $2750.

ASSOCIATED MOLDING COMPANY

?125 Telegraph Road- Los Angeles 22, Calif, RAymond 1322l

BUY-SELL-REPAIR_SERVICE

Fork Lifts and Straddle Trucks. Complete shop and field scrvice. Portablc Wclding, Special Fabrication,-Steam Cle-aning and P-ainting. Servicc Available 7 Days a Wcck All work guaranteed.

COMMERCIAL REPAIRS AND SERVICE

1115 North Alamcda Street, Compton, Calif.

Phones: NEwmark 13269, NEvada 6-4805

FOR SALE

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immediate delivery

MERSHON-WOODS 54" direct motor drive Resaw, left hand, complete with fl blades, alt collector hoods. New would cost approximately $10,000. Now running, can be inspected. Our price, net, F.O.B. car Chicago: $5,750.

HUSS LUMBER COMPANY

1350 Fullerton Avenue Chicago 14, Illinois Phone: Llncoln 9-17fi)

Inserts Adding Service

Washington: Hardwood inserts, placed between the crosstie and steel plate supporting the rail, are proving to be another successful means of extending the service life of crossties.

DOUGTAS FIR WHITE FIR,

Meinhiet Joins Horbor Plywood ql S. F.

"Mal" Hill, manager of the Harbor Plywood Corp. of California warehouse at San Francisco, announces the addition of Bill Meinhiet to the Harbor sales force. Meinhiet, u'ho had formerly been Northern California representative for Zeesman Plywood Corp., and before that with Piedmont Lumber & Mill Co., will replace Brian Thompson in Harbor's Greater Bay Area territory. Thompson was recently placed-in charge of the Panelyte Northern California territory, Hill stated, and will head Harbor's Panelyte division exclusively. Harbor Plywood Corp. of California is the West Coast distributor for Panelyte.

Pacilio Lumber llsillers $upply Im.

25914 Prerident Ave., Hcrbor Clry, Golif. P. O. Box 667

Telephone DAvenport 6-6273

Mcnufaclurers and Jobberf of SASH AND DOOR,S

TO THE R,ETAIL IUTIBER DEATER

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work while serving on the advisory board. Besides his wife, Mrs. Lila W. Larson, he leaves four children: Mrs. Virginia Jackman, Don L. Larson, Susan E. Larson and Linda J. Larson; also one g'randson, Dale Jackman.

John H. Newmqn

John H. Newman, 55, mayor of Chino, Calif., and manager of the Patten-Blinn Lumber Co. lineyard in Chino where he had worked for many years, died May 29 ol injuries from an automobile collision earlier that day. His car collided with one driven by a 29-year-old fruit picker resident of the Mexican National Camp there, tvho was held in jail on charges of manslaughter, and containing seven other passengers. Newman's car was overturned and thrown into a lemon grove. He died soon after the accident in Pomona Valley hospital. The retail lumberman was named to the city council in April last year, later elected mayor. He was a past president of Chino Rotary. Besides his wife, who was injured in the accident, Mr. Newman also leaves two daughters.

John T. Hqrms

. J"h" T. Ilarms, 60, foreman for a Terminal Island lum- 'beryard, died May L7 from a heart attack suffered on the job. He had been a resident of San Pedro, Calif., for thc past 42 years. He leaves his wife, three brothers and ttvo sisters.

Fq West Fir Sqle! Co.

Sonford-Lurrier, Inc.

Sqntq Fe Lumber Co.

Shlvely, Alon A.

Sierro-Lumber & plyrood,

Fi:k & Moson ----------------5t 5ie.ro R€dwood Co. ---.--..:-...-........--.--.-.---..- l

Founlqin, Ed lumber Co.

Forest Fiber Produdr Co.

Foreit Produ.h Sqler Co.

Henry l. Poor

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Simmd. Hqdwood Lumber Co.....---...--....S0

Simpron Logging Co.

Henry. Ivbs Poor, 68, retired president qf several lumber companies and',the Pqof & hgan Manufbcturing Co., North Hollywood, died May 27 at his home in Sherman Oaks, Calif. He had been president of the Henry Poor Lumber Co. in Indiana before coming to California 13 years ago in ill health. In addition to being a lumber company executive, Mr. Poor was also widely known as the inventor of a vaso-pneumatical medical machine used to treat circulatory diseases.

lrving 9lern

Irving Stern, 42, died May 30 at Permanente hospital after a short illness. He was acti\re in Southern California in the building materials business since going there from his native New York.

WHiteclill 8-6051 ......KElIos 4-1004 ...Pledmoni 5-8456 KEUos {-6464

UYER'S GUTD

sAN FRANCISCO

Holmes Eurekq Lumber Co........GArfield l-1921

Lamon trumber Co,..... ...YUkon 2-t!376

The Long-Bell Lumber Co..........EXbrook

LOS ANGETES

LUIIBER Anderson-Hcueo! ....SUnset I-8178 (Studio City) .STcnley 7-4721

Arcctq Redwood Co. (1. I. Rec)..WYomias ll09

Atlqs Lumber Co...... ......TRinitv 2326

Arcm Lunber Co...... ..RYcD i-8733 (Lc Ccncdc) SYlvcn 0-5545

Bcch Lunber Co. ..RAymond 3-1944

Bcck. r. wlricm Lunber ..... ...i5b:X l:l3li

Bcugh, Ccrl W. (Pcscdenc) .BYcrn l-6382 SYccmore 6-2525

Bliss 6 Gctqs Lumber Co,.BAynoud 3-1681-3-3454

Brush Industriql Lumber Co. (Montebello) .........RAymond 3-3301

Burng Lunber Compcnv. .WEbster 3-5861 Carr d Co., L. J,(W. D. Duuning). .Rlchmond 9-8843

George Clough ..TOpqz l-1281 (Domey) ......LOscn 8-6659

Consolidoied Lumber Co..........Rlchnond

Mcriao)PYrcmid

3-llal7

Eurelc Redwood Lumber Co. (Downey) .....LOgcn 8-3339 TOpqz 9-0993

Fcirhuret Lunber Co. ol Calil.

Keadcll tr umber Distributors

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