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Lumber shipments of 497 mills reporting to the National Lumber Trade Barometer were 55% below production in the week ended June 16; new orders were 1.7/o below April lumber- production bt f,tgg,OOO,O0O board feet was l/o above March but.4/o below^April 1955, reported the National Lumber Manufacturers Assn. . Oirders of 113.266.607 feet and shipments ot 118,422,937 feet were 5'9/o and 7.6/o,'respectively, under production of 120,400,274 feet in the week ended June 16, reported the West Coast Lumbermen's Assn.
Orders-of 75,180,000 feet and shipments of 81,596,000 feet were 9.6/o and. 1.9/o, respectively, below production of 83,159,000 feet in the week ended June 9, reported the Western Pine Association
Orders of 17,i54,000 feet and shipments of 18,607,000 feet were 5.26/o and 0.71/o, respectively, below production of 18,740,000- feet in the week ended June 16, reported the Southern Pine Association.
Douglas fir plywood orders of 94,700,000 feet continued higher than production of 88,484,000 feet in the week ended June 16 for the third successive week, reported the Douglas Fir Plywood Assn.
Total retail lumber stocks of 5.425 million bf on April 30 were 1.3/o more than on March 3l but 1.4/o less than the end of April 1955, with the largest gains in inventory in the Pacific region, .reported the National Retail Lumber Dealers Assn. Retail lumber sales during April were 7.7/o above March but 7.0/o less than April 1955.
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QUICK SERVICE scys lhe sign os you enter the Lumber & Builders Supply Co. Solonq Beqch, Colif. One of the pioneers in the Self'5ervice trend in l.loil yordr, os rhis sign points out, it is one of the fcw things not brcnd new in the remodeling of the H. G. lorrick ycrd, which is reported on Pages 18'19-20 ln
Younger men in management are setting a fast pace in the retail lumber industry, better communications have been established between dealers and manufacturers, the FHA is going to serve dealers and small builders more effectively than ever, and Operation Home Improvement, already successful beyond expectations, is sure to continne into 1957.
Those were some of the more impressive facts brought out at the Spring meeting of the board of directors of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association held in Washington during May, plus the report that NRLDA's 1956 Exposition already is sure to be a smashing success.
President R. A. Schaub said that the industry, sparked by the energy and imagination of the younger men who gradually have assumed increasingly responsible places in their companies since World War II, has developed an inspiring atmosphere of aggressiveness and efficiency.
"Working alongside the industry's veterans, these youngsters are finding no lack of markets, thanks to the continuing strong demand for materials and the promotional force of programs such as Operation Home Impi-ovement," Mr. Schaub said.
"The enthusiasm of these younger men can't be stopped. They don't wait for business to come to them; they go out after it to an extent previously unknown in th,is industry."
Mr. Schaub also reported that communications between dealers and manufacturers have been greatly improved as a result of a series of meetings held by the association's officers and a group of leading producers and because of relationships growing out of NRLDA's Exposition.
"As a result of great improvements i,n education, merchandising, and mechanical handling, our industry is some years ahead of many other retail groups that still are beset by serious problems. We lumber dealers are well on our way to a real improvement in operating results," Mr. Schaub added.
H. R. Northup, executive vice-president, stated that Congress was expected to pass reasonably good legislation in the field of housing but that more than the usual number of legislative headaches were being encountered because 1956 is an election year. He said that NRLDA has not joined other groups which are trying to keep the FHA and VA housing programs completely separate and instead would favor merging the functions of the two agencies so as to resuit in just one set of specifications and inspections.
Mr. Northup paid a tribute to the t$'o top men in FHApast NRLDA Presidents Norman P. Mason and C. B. Sw'eet-for making FHA work smoothly and serving the interests of dealeri better than ever.
He said that the appointment of the nerv l\faterials Handling committee in NRLDA will result in improved teamwork betr,veen dealers, suppliers and others, and will be mutually profitable for all.
Northup also stated that NRLDA would build, in con-
nection with its forthcoming Exposition, a home that rvould meet the specifications developed at the recent Women's Congress on Housing and that a top-flight architect would be retained to design the home.
The association's treasurer, H. W. Blackstock, reported that the organization's finances were in sound condition and within the budget, except for the expenditure on Operation Home fmprovement.
J. H. Else, legislative counsel, said that Congress was expected to approve a $3500 upper limit for T.itle I repair and modernization loans, together witl-r a S-year amorttzation period, but thar prospects were not too encouraging for removal of the 6-month waiting period on Title I loans.
In cooperation with other retail groups, NRLDA also has renewed its objections to proposed Federal wage-hour amendments which would extend minimum wage coverage to retailers, Mr. Else said. He urged individual dealers to make known their opposition to both the Davis-Baco,n and wage-hour amendments.
Don Campbell, chairman of the Standards committee, expressed regret that west coast lumber manufacturers had seen fit to start marketing fu,, boards without prior consultation with their customers, the dealers. He urged the adoption of minimum size standards of lumber, and said they should be "built upon scientific data for area use."
Phil Creden, Exposition chairman, said that the 1956 Building Products Exposition to be held December 10 to 13 in Chicago already is over the top financially and is certain to be bigger and better than either of its predecessors.
He predicted that the Materials Handling Clinic, to be conducted entirely under roof in Chicago's immense International Amphitheatre, will be the greatest event of its kind ever staged and that the other dealer clinics also will be outstanding in quality and interest.
Other major attractions for dealers, he said, will be a full-dress retail store, complete to the last detail, in which a score of building products manufacturers are cooperating, and clinics on component construction, and other timely subjects.
Martin C. Dwyer, Exposition director, reported that plans ll'ere being perfected for assuring an unprecedented attendance of dealers from all sections of the country ancl said the number of exhibitors already was near a record, at this early date-five months before opening day.
Paul Shoemaker, vice-president of the Nlasonite Corporation, then reported that manufactu-rers \\rere deeply impressed with the mercl.randising progress that the retail lumber industry had been making and predicted that manufacturers generally would assist dealers in preparing the NRLDA Display Panels rvhich are the subject of one of the five \\rorkshop programs.
FHA Commissioner Mason said that his agency to concentrate on doing a better job for small
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These pages will be devoted to quotations of a political sha1aqfq1-some old, some new, some by famous thinkers, some by lesser lights. The opinions expressed are those of their authors only.
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Listen, politicians, to the words of Socrates: ,,No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest: yet everyone thinks hi.mself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades-Governrnent."
f can remember when every big political campaign, and especially the conventions, were studded with silvertongued speakers who took the stars down from the heavens in iheir eloquent enthusiasm. Woe is me,'how we have rbtrograded into oratorical mediocrity. Here we have 160 million people, and only one orator worthy of the name. And, since he isn't politicking, we have nothing to look forward to along that line. The ,name, of course, is MacArthur. As the saying goes, he ..ain't talking.', *€ t< t<
The ancient philosopher, Plato, said this: .,The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears, he is a protector. In the early days of his power he is full of smiles, and he salutes everyone whom he meets. Has he not also another object which is that the people may be impover_ ished by payment of taxes, and thus compelled to devote themselves to their daily wants, and therefore less likely to conspire against him?" (Remember, these were in the old daYs of Greece') * tr< >t
And Demosthenes, famous Grecian orator and politician, said: "Like the diet prescribed by doctors which neither restores the strength of the patient nor allows him to suc_ cumb, so these doles that you are now distributing neither suffice to insure your safety nor allow you to renounce them and try something else.,' (Looks like the old bov was suspicious of handouts.) * ,. {<
Abraham Lincoln once ran for the legislature in Illinois, and in his platform there were just 27 words: ,.I believe in a United States bank; I believe in a protective tariff; I believe in a system of internal improvements; and I am against human slavery.', He got elected. Is there a practical hint there for platform writers?
"If f had my way, I would gather up all the Communists and other enemies of our way of life, a,nd I would ship them out of this country, on a ship of stone, with sails of lead, over a sea of fire, with hell for its destinatien."_ Author Unknown.
BY JACK DIONNE"A politician thinks of the next election: a statesman of the next generation.'''-James Freeman Clarke. *{<*
"ff f could not go to heaven except with a party, I would rather not go there at all."-Th*omas Jefferson.
Said Macaulay 100 years ago: "Our rulers wiil tst promote the welfare of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties-by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment; by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of Jgw, and by observing strict econo,my in every department of the state. Let the government do this; the people will assuredly do the rest." (Editor's note: Why, Mr. Mac, this istreason')
Said one patriot and politician to another (George Washington wrote it to John Adams) : "If to be venerated for benevolence, to be admired for talents, to be esteemed for patriotism, to be loved for philanthropy can gratify the human mind, you must have the pleasing consolation to know that you have not lived in*vain."
Woodrow Wilson said: "There is nowhere in the land any home so remote, so humble, that it may not contain the power of mind and heart and conscience to which nations yield, and history submits its processes. Nature pays no attention to aristocracy, subscribes to no creed or castes, renders fealty to no monarch or master of any name or kind. Genius is no snob. It does not run after titles or seek by preference the high circles of society. It affects humble company as well as great. It pays no special tributes to universities or learned societies or to conventional standards of greatness, but serenely chooses its own comrades, its own haunts, its own cradles, and its own life of adventure and training." (Men of political inclination might read over the above a: *:oU advantage.)
James Madison said: "An elective despotism is not the governmgnt we fough.t for, but one founded on free principles, in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced that no one can transcend their legal limits without being checked*or*restrained by the others.,,
Themistocles, the Athenian, was one of the great politicians of ancient fame. It was he who boasted that while he could not play upon any instrument (as was customary even for the great in those days), he could tell the world how to make a city grow. That boast has been quoted ever since. Chambers of Commerce for centuries have
been trying to discover what it was that Themistocles knew. His mother was an alien, not born in Athens, and when spiteful women would taunt her with not being a native, she would throw back her head and reply: "Yes, but the mother of Themistocles."
IJnknown is the authoJ ", an" following fine definition of citizenship: "The world is looking for men who are not for sale: men who are sound from center to circumference; men with consciences as steady as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens totter and the earth reels; men who will tell the truth and look the world right in the eye; men who neither brag nor run, flag nor flinch; me,n who have courage without shouting it; men in whom the everlasting life runs deep, still, and strong; men who know their message and tell it, who know their business and attend to it, who know their place and fill it; men who will not lie, shirk, or dodge; men who are not too lazy to work or too proud to be poor; men who are willing to eat what they have earned, and wear what they have paid for; men who are not ashamed to say 'No' with emphasis, or to say'I can't afford it."' (As the slang phrase goes, "they don't make many of them kind no more'tt)
Thomas Jefferson, in a letter written to his grandson, said what would be perhaps unfortunate advice to politicians today: "I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. It was one of the rules which, above all others, made Dr. Benjamin
Franklin the most amiable of men in society: 'never contradict anybody.'"
Perhaps the most influential political orator of American history was U. S. Senator Daniel Webster, who died in t852 at the age of 70. His debates in the Senate and his patriotic orations through many years of public appearances, made everlasting history. It is related that during the decades of the 1850s in the northern and border states, tens of thousands of young men memorized the patriotic words and phrases of Webster, which inspired them with patriotic fervor not to be had from lesser men. And for decades after his death quotes from Webster supplied the texts for Fourth of July speeches for millions of people everYwhere
His words that follow will live as long as Old Glory waves: "I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country's, mY God's, and truth's. I was born an American. I will live an American. I will die an American."
What a political platform that would make !
More than 332,000 home loans with a total valuation of more thau $3 billion have been guaranteed for veterans by the Los Angeles regional office of the Veterans Administration since the start of its loan program following World W:"r IL
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Washington-Mounting price tags on land, labor, material and mortgage money, together with a trend tovrSard stiffer financing terms, are having an adverse effect on housing volume, a spot survey conducted by the National Association of Home Builders disclosed. These develooments, coupled with the continuing demand for larger houses, have been reflected in an increase of lI/o in the cost of sale housing, the survey indicated. Participating builders reported a 1956 median of $14,508, a sharp upturn from their 1955 median of 913,050.
"According to the replies to the survey, there will be a decline of about 3O/o in the number of units priced under $10,000, as compared with 1955," a preliminary report noted. It added there would be an "ever greater decline, 4O/o, in the $10,000 to $12,500 category.', Conversely, the survey revealed "very substantial percentage gains" in the higher price groups.
The survey answers underscored the tightness and cost of mortgage money. Three-fourths of the builders answering the NAHB questionnaire reported money was more difficult-and more expensive-to obtain than during the same period a year ago. It was roughly a year ago when the first symptoms of tight mortgage money appeared in the housing market-a trend that foresl-radowed the decline in starts rvhich set in during late 1955 and which is still in evidence today.
The questionnaire was sent to approximately 100 leading NAHB home builders throughout the country. About half
of the builders produce more than 100 new homes annually, the remainder less than 100.
"It is clear that the increase in land costs is the largest single factor in the increased sales price of the home being built today," the preliminary report pointed out. The report noted, on the basis of the survey, that the typical fully developed lot has increased in cost more than l7/o in a year.
The report observed that "almost without exception" builders said that the prices quoted by subcontractors and those of labor and material were up from a year ago. More than one-half of the builders said sales were dorvn from a year ago, but a number added that some improvement had set in during the last 30 days.
San Francisco-Too rapid expansion of construction activity this year, even to meet genuinely urgent demands, could increase already-strong inflationary pressures on building costs and might bring about a later readjustment, an official of F. W. Dodge Corporation warned the Building Industry Conference Board at a special meeting here. Dr. George Cline Smith, Dodge vice-president and economist, said that there is plenty of demand for practically every type of construction. "But," he added, "it appears that we have suddenly decided to meet all of our building demands at once. Desirable as this objective might seem, we can't satisfy all of our current needs this year; and, if we try, we will undoubtedly create a traffic jam as demands for money, labor and materials pour in from all sides. The inevitable result of trying to go ahead too fast rvill be short-
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ages of manpower and materials, tight money, and inflation of building costs, with the possibility of some mild fitsand-starts in the economy later on."
Dr. Smith emphasized his belief that the long-range outlook for construction is excellent, and that 1956 will undoubtedly be the best year on record.
"The problems we face this year," he said, "are those that go with rapid growth. The mild decline in housing starts expected this year, plus the growth of our productive capacity, should provide room for a considerable expansion of both private and public non-residential construction in 1956. The important thing is to keep from running ahead so fast this year that we stumble over our own feet."
Cyrus B. Sweet, assistant commissioner for Title I, lvho has also been serving as acting assistarrt commissioner for operations, was appointed Assistant Commissioner for Operations, FHA, on June 1. He has won the merited praise of the industry, the Congress, consumers and his associates at FHA. Prior to going with the Federal Housing Administration. Mr. Sweet was vice-president and general manager of the Valley Lumber Company in Fresno, California. For 30 years previous to that Sweet was associated with the LongBell Lumber Company of Kansas City, Missouri, rising to the position of western division manager with headquarters in Longview, Washington.
A substantially increased volume of West Coast lumber is now being grade-stamped, and buyers are warned to be on the lookout for fraudulent grade stamps, according to H. V. Simpson, manager of the West Coast Lumber Inspection Bureau, who pointed out that only inspectors and supervisors employed by the Bureau, or graders who are under the direct supervision of the Bureau, may apply Bureau grade stamps, and that such stamping by any other individual is illegal.
"All Bureau grade stamps are registered," Simpson said. "In the past the Bureau has made every effort to halt infringement, even to the point of prosecuting offenders. This policy will be vigorously continued." Official stamps of the West Coast Lumber Jnspection Bureau are identified by a shield used in conjunction with the letters "\MCLB."
"West Coast manufacturers heartily endorse the extension of grade-stamping throughout the industry," Simpson said. "We intend to make sure the buyer is given the legal protection to which he is entitled."
Redlands, Calif.The Sims Lumber Company was opened for business early in May at 31597 Highway 99, announced Claud Sims, owner. The retail and wholesale yard is located one-half mile east of the Yucaipa turnoff. Sims, r'vho operates his orvn lumber mill in Arcata, Calif., said he chose this site after a survev of Southern California.
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\(ithin the last 30 days, \Winton has made two giant strides forward toward giving you better seruice of quality \flinton lumber: (t) purchased the mill and holdings of the Caldor Lumber Co., Diamond Springs, Calif. (pictured above), and (Z) opened a new distribution lumber yard in Downey, Calif ., to serve expanding Southern California.
\7ith the added production capacity of the modern, well-equipped and capably manned Caldor mill backing the already extensive production facilities of our group of California, Oregon and Idaho mills, we are bringing our production capacity in line with the demand for quality \Tinton lumber that grotts and grous! The new \Winton mill will produce Sugar Pine, Ponderosa Pine, \7hite Fir, Douglas Fir and Philippine Mahogany.
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fle came into a baker shop and said to the baker:
"Tomorrow is my birthday. I want you to make me a birthday cake. I want just a medium-sized white cake, covered with white icing. And on the top of the cake I want you to put in pink icing my first name-OTTO. And I want the name to be in Old English lettering."
The baker said okay, the price would be a dollar and a half, and the cake would be ready at noqn the next day. The next morning this customer came in, and they showed him the cake. He said:
"It's a beautiful cake, and I really hate to kick about it. But I can't take it. There's been a serious mistake made. I told you that the name on top of the cake must be done in Old English lettering, and you've done it in Old Roman. f can't possibly accept it that way. It's not only important but it's vital that the lettering must be in Old English."
"You are correct," said the baker, regretfully, "and the fault is rnine. I remember you DID specify Old English lettering, and I turned the order in wrong. I'll have it re-topped at onct, and have it'donp exactly as you want it,
and if you will come back in two hours it will be ready, and I guarantee that it will be satisfactory."
So the customer came back two hours later, and the cake was ready. "That's beautiful," he said, "and I am very much pleased. That name in pink icing is done in perfect Old English, and I appreciate it very much indeed."
"How do you want it wrapped?" asked the pleased baker.
"Oh, don't bother," said the particular customer, "I'M GOING TO EAT IT RIGHT HERE!''
LeRoy H. Stanton, Sr. and Nate Dodds, two veteran Southern California lumbermen, u'ill leave Los Angeles fnternational Airport via SAS Polar Route, Saturday, J,uly 7, and arrive in Copenhagen o11 Sunday morning to start a seven-week tour of E,urope. They will visit England, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy and all the Scandinavian countries, returning from London to New York August 16. Chances are Roy will start a ferv HooHoo clubs while he is away.
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Many stories have been told and printed illustrating how much a quick follow-up can do in making or cinching a sale, but never a better one than the true story about Napoleon Bonaparte and a soldier.
One day when the Emperor was reviewing his troops, the horse he was riding became scared, shied and ran, the Emperor powerless to stop the maddened beast.
A private darted from the ranks, grasped the bridle as one who knows hovr, quickly subdued the horse and brought him to a standstill.
Then he placed the reins in the hands of the Emperor, and saluted in the best soldier fashion.
"Thank you, CAPTAIN !" said the Emperor. Quick as thought the private asked:
Without hesitation the great man answered:
A new housing subdivision which, when completed, u'ill be a community ths size of many a good-sized town, will be started soon in the Long Beach-Garden Grove area of Orange county by Jerry Snyder and Max Levine, partners in Midrvood Construction Co.
Before the end of the year, 1700 new homes and a shopping center ll,ill rise on a 40o-acre site south and west of Chapman and Knott avenues. The $24 million project rvill house 5,000.
And the sale was made and sealed right then.
For this soldier recognized opportunity, took prompt advantage of the situation, and got the Emperor's name on the dotted line before his ardor had any possible chance to cool.
He neither waited nor hesitated. That was real salesmanship.
Hardr,vood leaders of the Pacific Northr,r'est adopted grading rules on Pacific Coast alder and maple logs and shop lumber at the recent quarterly meeting of the Northr,'r,'est Hardwood Association in Vancouver, B. C., April 14. The new rules rvill govern the measurement, sale and purchase of hardwoods by association members and are designed to set up standards that will insure a higher quality product, according to President E. J. Nist. Printed copies may be obtained from the association's headquarters, 3253 Commodore Way, Seattle 99, Washington.
Forty-nine were registered at the meeting, rvith members attending from California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. Louis S. Kunert, Tropical & Western Lumber Co., Los Angeles, gave a practical talk on meeting the requirements of buyers rvith special reference to the California furniture market. Chehalis, Wash., was selected for the July 2l quarterly meeting.
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This Spring, H. G. Larrick, Sr. completed a remodeling of the Lumber & Builders Supply Co. at Solana Beach, Calif., that had been going on almost continually for more than t\\'o years and, finally satisfied rvith it, held an Open House on April 21. As the handsome retail store norv shou's, Dealer Larrick is pretty much of a perfectionist. A major remodeling rvas completed late in 1953, further rvork was done on the yard itself late in 1954, and the big improve-
ments were started late last Autumn and given the final polish early this year.
In a carefully laid-out, full-page display ad in The San Dieguito Citizen of April 19, the remodeling was publicly announced. Centering the ad was the message: "Celebrating 33 Years of Grolvth, \lOU are invited to visit our Open House April 21 from 8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m." Listed r,vere the officers of the company and executives of the vard : H. G.
AT MR. IARRICK'S OPEN HOUSE-In the rop left phoro, H. G. Lorrick, Sr.. welcomes lo tho remodeled store his rhird customer when the yord wos opened in 1923, Mr. leinhort, uho srill trodes rhere 33 sctisfled yeors lofer; next: the wonderful linle ploy forr (builr in the yord) which wos won by some lucky child during rhe Open House. In the ponel below, left, llrs. Dorir Weiss serves lorrick punch to custome, guests (note the plywood ponel otop cor outside ofiice picture window looking toword oceon; sole wos mqde during Open House); cenier: in her hosters role, Mrs. Weiss regislers one of mony fqmilies ottending Open House (note the bolloons for the kids); right: Mr. lorrick occepts 0orol ofiering from Steve Fletcher, who qttended q3 repre3enlaliye of the Flcrcher fomily, onother of rhe yord's frrst Gu3fomer3 33 yeors ogo. In second ponel below, lefir the lorricks were genuinely surprised ot the volume of businers conducted qnd soles mcde during rhe Open House, os rhis line ol sotes counler thows; center: this qttrqctive "product-pusher', altrocled mony women cu3tomar3 with her scles rolk on points; right: rhe power tool demonstrotion, one of mony ruch, wos held in oreowoy qt reor of slore-this, too, dttrqcled mqny women
In the lower ponel, left: noils qre pacloged in the Solqno Beoch yord Mr. Lqrrick is believed to be onc of the few deolers in the country who puts o somple noil on the outside of eoch pockoge; cen?er: Deoler lorrick (lefi) wirh Chorlie Dovis, who wss still onother of the very fir:t customers in 1923, but he loter become (qnd srill is) rhe Yord Superintendent there-they are shown looking over the ncw moulding disploy; qnd, ot rhe righr, the Proiection Room with theotre chcirs, slide prolector ond lorge screen on q cedqr woll where builders con iee the "producf in action."
The personal touch, and the clue to Mr. Larrick's personality and business success, were demonstrated in the ad's upper right corner-rvhich urged the reader to vote the next day for the bonds to aid the schools of the area and tied in the schools'lvith the history of the yard-and in the upper left corner, u'hich carried this interesting data under the byline of "Timber Tirn, D.B.NI. (Doctor of Building Materials"), a regularly used advertising feature of the yard:
"This business l\,'as established August 1923. At that time there r'vere only three houses in Solana Beach: the old Jones farmhouse, no\v the H. G. Larrick, Sr. residence; the Estes home on the highway, and Ed Kincaid's house, 1ocated where the Union Oil station not\. stands at the north end of town. Frank Kno'"1'les, the stepfather of HGL, Sr., moved into a new house just built, and managed the yard until April 1924, when HGL, Sr. took over. The first employee was George Ward, and the first three months' payroll was $810.00. Today this payroll has grou,n to 44 employes and the last quarter totaled $56,845.00-an important item in the economy of the San Dieguito area, as these employes live in Encinitas, Cardiff, Soliana Beach, Del Mar and Rancho Santa Fe. The Solana C{dar and Nlilling Co., a subsidiary, wholesales Incense Cedar under' its Solana Brand throughout San Diego countyl"
Combining history, vital statistics, names and a little honest advertising in his "Timbe,r,fim" column in the
IHE TASTEFUT REMODEUNG of rhe hondsomc retqil slore proved no tosk for the imoginotion ond re. sources of Mr. Lorrick. In the top lefi photo, see how tha species in inventory qre used to finish the oftce wolls. The signs hcnging beside rhe fromed copy of the Conslifution of rhe Unircd Sfotes in cenler of woll exploin thot thot is Philippine mohogcny; :igns honging below counler - fop in foreground soy thal thosc woods orc wesfern rad cedor ond incense cedcr. Thc top right photo shows rhe Scsh, Door & lumber Sqles office ond disploy section in store; ncrncs below rhc sign qre Kcn Wydnt ond Gordon Steck.
TOOI AND HARDWARE DISPTAY sccfion is shown in left phoro, or lcft; o lorgc stock of gorden toob ond lhou3onds of migccllcncous ilcmr for homcowncrs ond do-ilyouf3elfeli orc olso 3tockad h61e. fhot ir Monoger Homihon's dcsk in lower lcft forcground. Every cornar of thc rpotc ir ured by this modcl rctoil yord; rhe right photo, ct fhc lcfi, shows o "pic- iurc window" disploy of burncrs qnd othcr yord nccds.
paper like that, F{erschell Larrick shows how he has made his Solana Beach yard both a power and a friend in the community and its economy.
The balance of the ad was given to advertising of both the yard and its Open House celebration. Listed were the paint sale, National Hardware Week sale, screen door sale and a special on Solana Cedar fence. Then came announcement of the demonstrations.
Getting back to the human touch, the ad concluded with an "Old Timers Corner" with this message: "According to the original records, the following old timers still living in this area, or now active accounts, were among our first customers. If they lvill visit our Open llouse, we will have a gift for them. They are listed in the order of their first purchase: The Ed Fletcher Co., Ed Batchelder, Chas. L. Davis, Leon Lienhart, Robert McKenna, Herbert J. Estes, Ira E. Connor, Spencer Ward."
Bruce Richards was the architect of the store remodeling, but Dealer Larrick gets his ideas from everywhere: the Fuller Pair-rts lady demonstrator suggested the color of the bin displays to harmonize. The remodeling of the south half of the store included "clearing the aisles," putting in a picture window and placing the Sash, Door and Lumber sales where the "swivel ofifrce" was. The new conrracror and builder plan room has the yard's species for wall panelings, and Mr. Larrick, Sr. now is officed upstairs on the store's large second floor next to a handsome new accounting office where four employes are constantly busy. In HGL's office is the Projection Room "Little.Theatre.,, Still to be polished off is tl-re north half of the where display racks to be finished early this summer will show all tnouldings, trim, plyrvoods and species in the yard (which are considerable). Display cases were set back arid. the builders' hardrvare section streamlined for better effect.
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THE FINISH SHED ot the lorrick ycrd ir locoted bctwccn rcor of lhe rtore ond thc yord. lr is all undercover ond conlcins onc of the lorge3f invonlorie. in Southern Colifornio.
C1OSEUP of some of the items in rhe Finish shed shows how ccrefully rhe stock is mointoincd by thc compony. Nota the poller rype of storoge. Evcn the reor port of this storoge sreq is well lighred from spoced skylights.
"tUIUBER ilDS" were first tried ouf in the Solono Beoch yord for the Ed Fountoin lumber Co. of Lor Angeles, which pioneers them in Sourhern Cqlifornio.. See. how ihey protecf in yord.
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The National Plyrvood Distributors Association's 14th annual convention, held in the Broadmoor hotel resort, Colorado Springs, May 15-lB, presented a series of introspective meetings during the n'eek-long meeting. Clinical examination of the health of plyrvood distribution underlined most of the sessions. Speakers emphasized the need of improved salesmanship, merchandising, informative records, rapid accounting and operating economies.
Despite a period of temporary market-weakening as the 300 jobbers, their ladies and guests assembled, a firm spirit of determination and confidence prevailed. Unusual harmony and cooperation between the jobbers and their manufacturer-guests lvas evident from the start. All seemed anxious to solve common problems, although outspoken exchanges o{ opinion between these two groups enlivened panel sessions.
President L. E. Hall, Lumber Products Companv, Portland, presented a program of qualified speakers .ll'ith varied subjects, each of genuine interest to well-attended and attentive audiences.
Thuresson New President
Elected president of the association lvas Earl G. Thuresson, Associated Door and Plywood Company, Chicago. Albert Hersh moved up to first vice-president, and Carey A. Watkins was the newly elected second vice-president.
The follorving new directors were elected : Fred Smales, U. S. Plywood Corporation, Los Angeles; John Goetz, Trenton, N. J.; Theodore Merrili, Newark, N. J.; Jack K. Fiddes, Franklin Park, Ill.; Ben Johnson, New Orleans, La., and Dean Trumbo, Portland, Oregon.
Hold-over directors are Jay Wallenstrom, Roddis Plywood Corporation, Marshfield, Wis.; Wm. Gouline, Baltimore, Md.; James Standard, West Hartford, Conn. ; John P. Ashton, Des Moines, forva; Larry S. Clark, St. Paul, Minn.; Roland Remme, Little Rock, Ark.; W. W. Logan, Jr., Tampa, Florida; Wm. Fahs, California Panel & Veneer Company, Los Angeles, and Kenneth J. Shipp, California Builders Supply Company, Oakland, California.
"The place of the wholesaler in the building material field is a secure one, even though there are some dealers who see no necessity f<x him and there are a few wholesalers who think they are in a dying business," declared J. W. Parshal, editor of Building Supply Nen's, in drarving conclttsions from a survey of 600 firms whose principal business was rvholesaling building materials. This survey report served to introduce the panel discussion on costs and markets facing the jobber today.
In the first talk on the panel discussion, devoted to "Striving to Maintain Profits in the Jobbing Business," Rosecrans Baldwin pointed out methods for using the figures in NPDA's annual Financial Survey as a yardstick for measuring results of individual company's operations. Hubert F. Heying of Kansas City acted as moderator of the panel. Other costs aspects of the jobbing business were discussed by Leonard Miller, who outlined a simplified system of inventory control; Wm. F. Gouline, describing machine accounting to control paper work; M. L. Mc-
Creery, detailing delivery costs in operating a fleet of trucks betu'een four rvarehouses and customer yards, and by Don L. Davis, Jr., u'ho confined his talk to the important elements of cost in sales promotion and advertising.
The second portion of the panel session was devoted to possibilities for expanding sales. In this session, W. E. Difford, managing director of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, advised the jobbers that sales management "would be one of the biggest things in your lives" during the next tlvo or three years. He said, "If I were a jobber I would learn everything about training salesmen." In his candid discussion he pointed out weaknesses, as well as merits, of current selling methods used in plywood distribution.
Ste'ivart W. White of Georgia-Pacific Corp., Olympia, Washington, outlined important and specific methods of selection of sales personnel and emphasized the importance of creative selling. White said, "The creative sales approach offers greatest opportunity for success in the future." He said this type of selling makes it possible for industries to grow and to maintain leadersl-rip in their field. He added, "The salesmen actually learn by doing and more often than not are amazed at the respol-rse and results they get from extra effort in the creative selling approach."
James Welsh of Memphis, Tennessee, described an experiment in dealer promotion and advertising which underscored the need to constantly evaluate distribution trends in each market in which the jobber operates.
Fred Smales, United States Ply.u'ood Corporation, Los Angeles, emphasized the importance of proper selection and training of salesmen. He gave his audience specific examples of extra compensation incentives for productive creative selling. Markets for hardu'ood plyr,vood were discussed by Charles E,. Close and Richard D. Behm, Hardwood Plyrvood Institute, Cl-ricago. These speakers pointed out the proven, and also the neglected, opportunities for expanded sales of American hardwood plywood and horv these markets may be sold.
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Ifs a good story. It's the story of service. He tells it better because he has Long-Bell to back him up.
This man, like many other Long-Bell representatives, is trained in the lumber, plywood and related products business. He has worked in the mills and sales offices. He knows the grading and shipping methods and procedures.
He understands the problems of the retailen He knowe builders and their problems, too, and he knows how these problems affect your operation.
Take just a little time to listen to him. Question him. He has the answers, and if he doesn't, he knows where to get them quickly. Your Long-Bell representative is in business to serve you. That's what he's paid to do-and it's lris main concern.
Depend on hirn. He offers you all the man' ufacturing know-how, the facilities and services of the Long-Bell Lumber Company. He tells a story *d=,:1d that means more orders and more profit for you.
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A FUtt DAY OF FUN wos enioyed ol the Hoo-Hoo event. In top leff photo, some of the merrymokers qre seen qt dinner; nexl: d group ot poolside wolches the thrilling oquoti< show. Second ponel, left, shows lhe oction oi the Cocktqil Hour; next: the lodies reolly turned out for Iodies' Night. Third ponel, lefr, below: conversofion flowed like wine in the conviviol group gothered by Club il7 und, immediotely below: don't worry obout Jock McGroth on rhe diving boord-he's not going in, iust getling o vonlsgs poinl to stort fhe show,
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A huge throng of nearly 200 rnembers and guests, with a large attendance of the area retail dealers, climaxed a day that started with the golf tournanrent, continued in a delightful cocktail hour at poolside, and culminated in the fine dinner, prize-giving and dancing that lasted far into the night. The weather was very near ideal at the Springs and put the lumber people in their merriest mood.
There were many golfers in the tourney and they finished their play in time to join the later arrivals around the pool
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for the Cocktail Hour handsomely provided through the courtesy of Cresmer Manufacturing Co., Inland Lumber Company, Simpson Logging Co. and Sand Door and Plywood Co. There, as the friendiy spirits waxed higher, an exciting aquatic show was provided by courtesy of Johns-Manville Sales Corp. The stars, were two young men who did some thrilling swimming and diving stunts, Jack Dunning and Ken Kortmeyer. The aquatic event was excellently staged by Bill Royer.
Next event on the dav's crowded calendar was the dinner and, as the ladies entered the beautifully decorated dinning room with its superbly set, flower-decked tables, they were handed the usual and always lovely gardenia corsages courtesy of Palm Springs Builders Supply Co. and the Derbes dealers. The ladies felt that George and Don Derbes outdid themselves with the corsages this year as the gardenias were the most beautiful most of the crowd had ever seen.
The dinner steaks, too, were exceptionally good this year and everyone was in a mellow mood for the
Here's something special for lumber yard handlers of sack cement-a brand new bag that takes up less space, stacks better, reduces breakage, and is free from dust. Its multi-wall construction is the strongest ever achieved in a pasted bag.
'Less breakage. .. time saved in handling . . . better use of storage'Space. These items add up to money in the bank for you. Yet Calaveras cements in the new and revolutionary stepped-end bag cost no more than those packaged the oldfashioned way. Order your supply today.
almost endless list of perfect prizes that were awarded after the dinner.
Jack McGrath was in charge and did a great job of awarding the golf prizes as the first on the giant giveaway agenda. The prizes were for members and guests, and a perpetual trophy donated by the Masonite Corporation. Golf winners wefe:
Members: Lou' gross-Ed Hadley, cup; runner-up, Dave Beauchaine, cup; second runner-up, I3ill Sharp. Low netBill Davidson, cup (second year) ; runner-up, Stark Sowers, cup; second runner-up, Ken Deiter. High gross-Carroll Crane; runner-up, Pete Taylor. Low putts-Hub Kronen. High putts-Jerry Westphal. High net-Bob Saucke. Other winners: Roy Henry, Don Oakes, Jim Tipton, J. C. McGrath.
Guests: Lon-gross-Russ Roepke; runner-up, Bill \,\'ithington. Lorv net-Charles Hester; runner-up, Dr. Van Meter King. High gross-Ken Nelson; runner-up, Bud Shaw. Low putts-Bill Royar.
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Every dealer is entitled to a normal markup and a fair profit. Well, that's what you get when you sell Ceco Corrugated Galvanized Roll Roofing. You're protected against low markup selling because Ceco distributes only through established dealers like yourself. This means you can maintain your prices ... promote apatentedprod,uctltne... make a good profit. Yet your customers pay no more for the complete roof. Look into this money-making opportunity. Mail coupon today.
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The Auburn Lumber Company at Auburn, Calif., of which Wendell Robie is president, owns one of the few Hi-Lifts operated by lumber dealers in Northern California. Manufactured by Gar \\rood of Richmond, the Hi-Lift unit adds new versatility to a lumber yard's material handling and delivery abilities through its capacity to be used as a standard, flat-bed roller truck, a dump truck or a lift truck.
Gordon Davis of the Auburn Lumber Company explained that the equipment for a full-size trucl< costs only about $2600 and is readily transferred to another chassis when the truck requires replacement.
Its basic feature of lifting the truck bed to a second-story height permits the truck to be loaded or unloaded directly from and into upper storage bins. Considering that most shingles are sold todal'laid on the roof, and Sheetrock is sold placed in the house, the lift feature simplifies this problem at considerable labor savings in the case of one and two-story construction in the former, and in two-story construction in thelatter.
Davis says that the lift bed has made it possible to ofier their customers new' and well-appreciated services without increasing labor and delivery costs. He says that as service is
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really the only difference between most lumber yards, the HiLift, and the conveniences and labor saving it can provide the customer, has been a deciding factor in many sales.
As an example, there have been cases where entire units of
lumber have been rolled off at the second-story level by the Auburn Lumber Company truck. The lift unit is converted into a dun-rp bed by a short and simple operation, and here the claim is that lumber which is durnped rather than rolled off is less likely to be damaged, the operation is much quicker, again providing labor savings and elirninating the many accidents which can occur to the driver using the usual roll-off method.
Lumber yards handling bulk gravel and sand may be interested in another idea develope<l from the dump feature of this equipment. A simple bin can be made of metal or wood with its sides constructed to include stakes which fit into the stake holes of the truck bed. This bin is put in place or removed by a standard lift truck or by use of block and tackle. A small turn-buckle clamp or.r either side attached from a rope hook to the bin secures the bin solidly. Marks on the inside of the bin can be used to indicate cubic yard measures when material is not loaded from a hopper. On arrival at delivery site, the driver merely unfastens a l-ringecl door at the rear and raises the dump bed, and in moments a bulk delivery has been completed by a truck which is basically a roller-bed lumber truck.
At the Auburn Lumber Company a similar type bin is also
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used for removal of waste and trash and, according to Davis, this equipment has considerably reduced the cost of this profitless operation.
Robie's outfit has also built another unusual truck bed using a smaller size combination lift and dump equipment. This second truck has a stationary bed the width of the trucl< and extending back approximately five feet. Behind this, the bed of approximately ten feet is equipped with the lift and dump feature.
For long lengths of lumber the truck may be used as a conventional roller bed, or loads may be dumped as the point of balance is behind the forward stationary bed.
The prime feature of this conbination bed is tl-rat an order, or several orders, consisting of materials rvhich would be
economical to roll or dump off can be combined with fragile items such as sacked material, plyu,ood, mill work and plastic materials. Here the fragile items are placed on the stationary section and the lumber or bulk sand or gravel items, which can be quickly discharged by dumping, are placed on the rear section.
As Gordon Davis pointed out, service is the only commodity that really differs toclay when a customer compares lumber yards, and the Auburn Lumber Company feels that their HiLift trucks and the services they can now inexpensively render have brought them profitable sales u'hich otherwise might not have been made.
In a full-page spread in the Watsonville Register on June 1,
Earle Johnson and Earle Johnson, Jr., owners of Watsonville Lumber Company, announced the 20th anniversary of their lumber and building materials yard at 145 West I-ake Avenue, Watsonville. The full-page spread also carried several photographs of the yard's modern lumber handling methods and spacious showroom, its personnel, and the following message from the entire staff of Watsonville Lumber Company:
"During the past twenty years, the Watsonville Lumber Company has taken pleasure in being part of the expansion of the Pajaro Valley. You, our customers, have been an integral part of this growth. We wish to thank you for your past patronage, and may we continue to 'move forward' together in the future. development of the' Pajaro Valley. Earle Johnson, Earle Johnson, J.., & Employees."
The Beaver Lumber Co., Yucaipa, Calif., is starting construction of a 20x80-foot warehouse with docking facilities, parking and offices. F uture plans call for additional warehouses across the rear of the property. A building materials center to house the yard's offices and a display room for the area contractors r,r'ill be incorporated in future building plans.
L. W. MacDonald Co., fnc., well-known wholesale lumber firm, moved its ofifices from Beverly Hills to 35 North Raymond Ave. in Pasadena, Calif., July 1.
Portland, Ore.-Georgia-Pacific Corporation is negotiating with Blyth & Co. for the purchase of the $70,617,160 Coos Bay Lumber Company from among the properties recently optioned from the stockholders, principally Dant & Russell, Inc., it was reported in June. This falls into the recent pattern of G-P timber acquisitions to build reserves. The Coos county operations of Dant & Russell include an estimated 3,400,000,000 board feet of prime Douglas fir which Georgia-Pacific would incorporate into its extensive Oregon coast and California holdings.
During one week in June, the Southern California Retail Lumber Association enrolled four new members in its booming ranks. The yards are Briggs Lumber Co., 6045 Reseda Blvd., Tarzana-Richard D. and Mary B. Briggs, partners; Carter Lumber Sales, 691 Ventnra Blvd., Oxnard -Herbert S. Carter, o\\rner; Ojai Lumber Co., P.O. Box 246, Ojai-Harold and Emily Fay, co-owners, and Warington Lumber Co.,7&l Garden Grove Blvd., Garden GroveDick Srnank, manager.
San Diego, Calif.-May 1956 saw 1,483 building permits issued here u'ith a valuation of $7,549,243, of which 483 were for residences at $5,343,781. Home repairs accounted lor 761 permits at $855,888 valuation.
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If you are the man who is responsible for installing and promoting the Payroll Savings Plan in your company-
If you are one of the eight million Payroll Savers who buy Series E Bonds eaery month through the Payroll Savings Plan-
If you are one of the rapidly growing number of businessmen who are building for retirement through the consistent purchase of Series H (current income) Bonds-
You can well be proud of these figures:
o January to June'55 sales of E and H Bonds were the best in ten years-$2.9 Billion-a gain of 13% over L954,28% over 1953.
o Since January I, cash aalue of E and H Bonds outstanding increased oDer a BiIIion Dollnrs; value, $39.3 Billion, an all-time high.
a Sales exceeded redemptions (matured and unma-
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a Current income H Bond sales averaged more than $100 million a month.
January-June sales, E and H Bonds, represented 5L9% of the 1955, $5,500,000,000 Sales Goal.
What's good for America is good for business -Vour brniness. If your company does not have the Payroll Savings Plan . or if you have the Plan and employee participation is less than 50%, phone, wire orwrite today to Savings Bonds Division, U.S. Treasury Department, Washington, D.C. Your State Sales Director will contact you promptly. He will show you how easy it is to install the Payroll Savings Plan or boost participation over the 50% mark through a simple person-to-person canvass that will put a Payroll Savings Application Blank in the hands of every employee. That's all you have to do. Your personnel will do the rest.
Those iun-rber dealers who missed the first annual ltetailers' Night held by the Southern California Lumber Seasoning Association at Rodger Young auditorium in Los Angeles, June 14, missed a very stimulating and informative discussion ancl open forum on drying of lumber. This knon ledge is of vital importance in the conduct of 'retail
yards and the dealer attendance should be several times larger the next time the SoCal "seasoners" invite the local deaiers to partake free of this storehouse of information.
The association also held its annual election at the meetir-ig and, despite his strong protests against a second term, Herb Geisenheyner of the Coast Kiln Company n-as r-otecl
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back in as president by very popular demand. John Kurzahls, Sun Lumber Co., was elected the new vice-president. Bob Inglis, Associated Molding Co., who has admirably performed the duties of the office for many seasons, was highly praised by President Herb for his work and voted in again as secretary. J. H. Van Patten of the Van Patten Dry Kiln Co. and Earl Simon, Hammond Lumber Co., u'ere elected to the Executive committee.
The June meeting was the last for the Seasoning association until September, when a new plan of area meetings, and bi-monthly rather than monthly meetings may be put into effect.
Following the meeting place's usual excellent dinner menu, members and guests were introduced. President Geisenheyner first asked for the secretary's report and the report of the Nominating committee. Harland Walters of Penberthy Lumber Co. was asked for a short report on his recent trip to the Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, Wis., u,'hich he interestingly described.
Opening the meeting, President Geisenheyner declared that dealers should know what efforts kiln operators go to in order to give better seasoning to the lumber dealers sell. "We are always trying to learnwe never stop," he said, "and there is ALWAYS something nerv in kiln drying."
He said that good kiln operators are in great dernand everywhere and he dared every man present to go out and try to find one such available.
Introducing the panel which had been carefully selected to give the dealers expert opinion on kiln drying and ansrver
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any of their questions, the president introduced the first panelist, Art Furcron of Consolidated Lumber Co., r,r'ho spoke on Drying Redrvood. E,arl Simon of Hammond spoke next on Drying Douglas Fir, rvhich he calls "Coast Texture Fir" in its more local varieties. He also rnentioned the effects of smog control on kiln operation.
The meeting next turned into ,a spirited discussion on steam, types of kilns, etc., which prompted President Herb to remark that more dealers should see how these kiln operators-"friendly competitors," he called them-question each other for the good of all.
Next panelist rvas John Kurzahls, rvho spoke on Drying (Continued on Page 66)
"The Logger-His Problems, Responsibilities and Prospects" rvas tl.re theme of the 18th ar-rnual Redwood Region Logging Conference at Ukiah, May 25 and 26. Henry K. Trobitz of Simpson l{edrvood Co., Klamath, was conference president. The site of the conference rvas the 12th District Fair Grounds north of Ukiah. In a report on the 18th Conference, En.ranuel Fritz, secretary-manager, characterized the meeting as "the best-attended and best-run meeting and logging n.rachinery shou' this organization has helcl since its inception in 1936."
A panel on the theme led off the conference program May 25 at il:00 a.m., follorving preliminary remarks at 9:30 by State Senator James Busch of Ukiah, Mayor Don
The logger, whether he is an employee or in business for himself, is the key man between the timber owner and the mill. He is also the one upon whom the eyes of the public are directed. Whatever the landowner's policy may be, the logger's operations determine if, or how soon, a new crop of timber can be grown. How he leaves his cutover lands; how he leaves the streams; how he regards the forest practice laws; how he deals with timber owners, log buyers and his equipment suppliers, determine his standing in the industry and community. Stumpage is growing scarce; owners are more demanding as to prices and operations; the margin of profit is shrink-ng. Thc conference theme is the subject of the opening panel. Related subjects are timber trespasS, fire control cooperation, stream clearance and timber insurance.
Rones of Ukiah, Pacific Logging Congress President Herbert W. McMal.ran of Anderson, California, and Mr. Trobitz. Waldron Hyatt, Hammond Lumber Co. vice-president, Samoa, led the theme panel. Serving with him in the discussion were Frank C. Clarke, Laytonville rancher; Eugene Hofsted, Humboldt County forester, Eureka; M. T. Luebberke, Ukial-r logging contractor; Gene l']ickett, Wolf Creek Logging Co., Orick; Stewart Snyder, Kelly Development Co., Cloverdale; Walker Tilley, Masonite Corporation, Ukiah; Gordon Tosten, Miranda logger; William Van Sicklen, Union Lumber Co. logging superintendent, Fort Bragg, and John Zivnuska of the University of California forestry staff.
"Timber Trespass Problems" rvas discussed by another panel at 1 :30 p.m., follorn'ing an informal lunch served at the Fairgrounds. Panel leader F. C. Riley of Eureka was assisted by Robert Dellberg, Soil Conservation Service, Ukiah; S. J. Hall, Gualala Redrvoods Tree Farm, Gualala ; Robert Hansen, Hansen Pacific Corp., Fortuna; Dennis E,. Hess, Bureau of Land Management, Sacramento; W. W. Spinney, Six Rivers National Forest supervisor, E,ureka; R. B. Stipovich, \Vestern Timber Co., Eureka, and J. D. Locke of the Boarcl of Registration for Civil and Professional Engir.reers, Sacramento.
At 2:30 p.m., "Use of Aircraft in Logging, Forest Man-
agement and Protection" lvas discussed by a panel led by Herbert A. Jensen of Hammon, Jensen and Wallen, consulting foresters, Oakland. Serving with Jensen were Gordon BarrowS, Sonoma Plytvood Co., log buyer, Cloverdale; Charles Campbell, State Division of Forestry, Willits; R. E. Dasmann, Nlendocino National Forest superisor, Willorvs; Cal Ferris, Regional Office, U. S. F. S., San Francisco; Mrs. Meta Pool, Cooperative Air Patrol, Ukiah; Stanley Stevenson, Six Rivers National Forest, Eureka, and Kendall Wood, aerial photo specialist, Portland.
"Cooperation and Coordination for Fire Control" u'as the subject of a panel at 3 :30 p.m. led by Larry Marshall, M & N{ Woodrvorking Co., E,ureka. Discussing fire control problems u'ith Nlarshall rvere Gray Evans, logging manager, Hammond Lumber Co., Big Lagoon; C. W. Fair-
bank, deputy state forester, Santa Rosa; Robert Grundman, Union Lumber Co. forester, F'ort Bragg; Larry McCollum, The Pacific Lumber Co. forester, Scotia; H. H. Scherer, U. S. Forest Service, Eureka; Charles Shuster, Shuster Logging Co., Leggett, and John P. Sweeley, Masonite Corporation, Ukiah.
At 4:3O p.m. a current report on availability of insurance for standing timber was given by John B. Wright, vice-president of Marsh & Mclennan.
The annual Sarvdust Bowl cocktail hour, put on by the exhibitors, rvas held from 5 :30 to 7:00 p.m. Friday, follou'ed by the annual banquet featuring five professional acts from Hollyrvood provided by the exhibitors. Dancing to the music of Leigl-rton Noble and his Band follorved.
The N{ay 26 program opened at 9:30 a.m. with a discus-
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sion of the relationship between loggers and fishing streams by Robert L. Jones, State Department of Fish & Game, San Francisco, and Dr. Everett H. Watkins, Eureka sportsman and president of the North Coast Conservation Council.
Dr. Fred E. Dickinson, University of California Forest Products Laboratory director, Richmor-rd, spoke at 10:15 a.m. on "The Influence of Saw Kerf on Lumber Realization." Following Dr. Dickinson was a panel on "Small Sawmills and their Problems led by Walter G. Collins, Fort Bragg lumber industry consultant. Panel members were Perry Murray, Hammond Lumber Co., Eureka; William Knight, The Pacific Coast Co., Willits; Raymond Ohleyer, Bojock Lumber Co., Nlanchester; John Rhoda, Simpson Redwood Co., Arcata, and Arthur Gray, mill operator at Gualala.
T.he regular conference program closed at noon Satur. dav with an informal loggers lunch served at the Fairgrounds. Concert music was provided by the Scotia Community Band.
At 1 :30 p.m. Saturday, presentation of a giant redr,vood log section was made to the 12th District Fair directors by the Willits Redwood Products Co. and the Ukiah and Mendocino County Chambers of Commerce. The log section will be put on permanent display at the Fairgrounds.
From 2:00 to 5 :00 p.m. Saturday, tl-re Ninety-Nine Club, famed women pilots organization, made courtesy flights over the Ukiah valley with conference members.
The Saturday evening program, which was arranged locally by the equipment dealers and the Chamber of Com-. merce, started at 7 :00 p.m. with a concert by the Hamilton AFB Band. At 7:45 Billy Cobb, noted high climber, performed on a 9O-foot pole especially erected in lront of the grandstand. At 8:00 p.m. a parade of the latest in logging equipment filed past the Fair grandstand with Walker Tilley of Masonite Corporation, Ukiah, as parade master. A display of aerial fireworks closed the evening show.
Local arrangements for the conference and equipment shorv were coordinated by Vic Jones of Union Oil Co., Ukiah, and Paul Sutterley, Ukiah Chamber of Commerce manag'er, rvith Earl Fullerton of Fullerton Equipment Co. in charge of the equipment shor,v.
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Directors of the Redwood Region Logging Conference, in addition to Trobitz, are Ted Carlson, The Pacific Lumber Co., Scotia, vice-president; Larry Marshall, past president; William E. Baker, Holmes Eureka Lumber Co., Fortuna; Larry Damm, Arcata Redwood Co., Klamath; Oscar Knivila, Willits Redwood Products Co., Willits, and George Stoodley, The Pacific Coast Co., Willits. Emanuel Fritz of Berkeley is Secretary-Manager, and Fred Landenberger of Eureka is assistant secretary. The conference rvas founded 20 years ago by Fritz.
Knute Weidman, manager of Roddiscraft's lumber sales division in Palo Alto, announces the addition of Bob Eldridge to his saies force. trldridge, who is a native San Franciscan, returns to the Bay area with five years' wholesale experience in Southern California, the last two years rvith Roddiscraft's Los Angeles lumber division.
The first frame screen made entirely by machine is now in production at the Berkeley, Calif., plant of RudigerLang Co. This achievement of the firm's engineering staff, headed by Vice-President Albert 8,. Lang, was announced in June by President Henry J. Rudiger. The new product, called the Tru-frame window screen, has a one-piece aluminum frame with the aluminum wire cloth held under uniform tension by a metal spline.
"Right from the design of the product so that it has a neater, more inco.nspicuous frame while maintaining customary standards of strength, the Tru-frame represents a major engineering undertaking successfully completed," states Mr. Rudiger.
"Mr. Lang has been thinking about this problem during the many years we have been in the screen business, and he began the actual design of tht equipment two years ago. Our machine shop as well as our engineering staff have been rvorking on the actual construction of this equipment tor 20 months.
"It represents a great and important development in the sash and screen field, since this machine will make Tru-frames for casement, panel, and sliding wood or metal windows using mass production methods. This results in improved quality at lower cost," Mr. Rudiger said.
"With the increased use of metal windows of all types the need is now greater than ever for low-cost, uniformlv made frame screens. Our equipment rvill produce them in the sizes required for all types of windorvs," he concluded.
Rudiger-Lang Co. also makes the Roll-A\vav screen, which can be rolled up into an overhead housing u'hen not in use, and the T.ension-tite screen for double-hung r,vood lvindows.
Further information about the new Tru-frame screen may be obtained by writing Rudiger-Lang Co., 2701Eighth Street, Berkeiey, Calif., or International Trade Mart, New Orleans. La.
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The value of new construction put in place expanded seasonally in May to $3.7 billion, equalling the previous May high set in 1955, and reaching a record total of nearly $15.8 billion for the first five months of the year, according to preliminary estimates prepared jointly by the U.S. Departments of Commerce and Labor. After allowance for seasonal changes, construction expenditures during May rose to an annual rate of $43.6 billion. This compares with an annual rate of $43.1 billion during January 1956 and actual outlays of $43.0 billion in 1955.
Private expenditures totaled $11.3 billion during JanuaryMay 1956, equalling the all time high for private construc-
tion outlays reached in the first five months of 1955. The decline of $450 million in private housing was offset by advances of $230 million in private industrial building and 9235 million in commercial building.
The expansion in N{ay occurred in virtually all types of construction. Private industrial building rose to a new alltime high for the third successive month.
Nlerchants Express Company of San Francisco last month brought the Ways Freight Line in an auction held by the Intr:rnal Revenue Service to satisfv tax claims of $96.000.
Right up to the end of 1955, Los Angeles maintained a pace-setting building activity, recent figures have disclosed. The city's $433,455,885 worth of 1955 building permits exceeded the combined totals of Chicago and Philadelphia by $23,583,718, and topped Detroit's volume by $DO,6D,4I0. In fact, the Southern California colossus was topped last year only by New York City's five boroughs with their total building figure of 9667,463,417.
In qddition lo our own l2 sowmills, Eeil qre qctively engoged in the procurement ond distribution of oll West Coost lumber producfs snd mointoin buying offices in producing qreqs to give the trqde complete one-coll bolonced serYice.
A Dun & Bradstreet compilation of leading U. S. cities for 1955 showed that building permit values for 217 cities exceeded all past records with $5,922,897,969, an increase of. l}.9/o over 1954 and 6/o above 195O, the previous record year.
Washington, D. C.-Frank J. Rooney, president of the Associated General Contractors o{ America, predicted that a steadily soaring volume of both residential and non-residential construction in the coming months may make 1956 the first $60 billion construction year in history. While the figure for the first four months this year almost equaled the record $11.8 billion of last year's same span, he said there is a steady growth toward the record high of $44.5 billion this year forecast by the AGC in Januaty, rvith another $15 billion in maintenance and repairs to existing structures. Last year's total was $56 billion, including $42.5 billion in nerv construction.
Santa Ana, Calif.Rural construction in Orange county picked up during April after a temporary March slump. The permit valuations rvere $51,249,265 ior this year's first four months, compared to $50,336, 67 in last year's same period. The April total was $11,196,118, of which $9,843,343 was for residential buildi.rg.
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Bill Bell and his two sons rvere euthusiastic builders of house models, back in the early 1930s. They turned out images of handsorne, sturdy, well-equipped hornes that could be built full scale anywhere for $3,500 or less. The Bell boys rvere then of high-school age.
Ten miniature models, as I remember, made the central exhibit of the Western Retail Lumbermen's Association's convention at Portland in 1938. The setting was one of streets, gardens, trees and lights. Shining out in giant letters on a green backdrop lvere these bold rvords:
..TIMBER IS A CROP _ THE HARVEST IS HOMES.''
Those models, produced by Bell and his tu'o sons, were shorvn in retail lumber conventions all over the United States. Next year -they u,ere reneu'ecl for the exhibit of tl,e West Coast Lumbermen's Association at San Francisco's rvorld's fair.
The exhibit appealed because it n'as something new in the use oI scale models of hottses. Itreviously the scale model was an architectural device for demonstration of mansions of highest cost and elegant design. The Bell idea rvas to employ the miniature home to educate the public in the values of a lumber dwelling that could be buiit and possessed by a family for dorvn payment of a fet, hundred dollars and small monthly payments.
Bill Bell, then as now managing director of the Western Retail Lumbermen's Associaltion, was first of all a teacher. And as such he became a national educatio4al leader in a business that today numbers 26,000 retail lumber stores and yards.
Incalculable damage was done to lumber in 1933 b1' the mis-called National Recovery Act. Bill Be11, like otl.rer t'ellposted lumber leaders, r,vas arvake to the revolutionary menace of NRA. And he 'ivas also versed in the constructive recovery principles that Herbert Hoover had urged in va'in on the Congress of l93t-1932.
The Home Owners Loan Corporation was a Hoover idea originally. So r,vas the Federal Housing Administration, with standard home loan amortized over a long term of years, conservatively insured by the government, permitting a smaller home dorvn payment tharr had ever been knorvn in the United States.
The Hoover ideas rvere rvritten into the FHA Act of 1934-but r,vithout credit to him. Bill Bell demonstrated its values in the building market so rvell that he \\ras eventually elected chairman of the Education committee of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association-and there he stands today.
The groundu'ork of long ago came alive again a spell back, r'vhen Bill Bell and I got together on a TV home sholv. Once again rve had miniature house models of contemporary Western homes to demonstrate with samples of the species and grades and sizes of West Coast lumber that are used to build them nation-wide today.
Bill Bell's thought today is on things new in home build-
ing and design and lumber use. The training course for retail lumber salesmen that he started a few vears ago at the University of Washington has been adopted by schools across the country. He works to keep it up to date. And more ideas of lumber education are on the Bell list for the meetings of the executives of the regional retail trade associations.
It is all vital stuff for education of the American public on uses of the forest products from the West Coast.
The State Board of Forestry met May 16 and 12 in Sonora, Tuolumne county. State Forester F. H. Raymond said the one-day business session convened at 10:00 a.m., May 16 in the Veterans Memorial building. On May 17 a field trip rvas taken to ol;serve range improvement practices and problems in the Groveland-Coulterville area of Tuolumne and Mariposa counties.
The agenda for the business meeting included a report on the Division of Forestry's progress in its restudy of forest fire protection on private and state-owned lands in California; a review of the supplemental budget appropriated as a stop-gap measure to fill critical gaps ir-r the State Division of Forestry's fire protection system; a summary of a study of fire protection for privately owned lands lying inside the boundaries of the San Bernardino National Forest in San Bernardino county. The Board also considered property owner petitions to form four separate ,,IFraz.ardous Fire Areas" in Fresno, Madera, Merced, and Monterey counties.
Clark Taylor of Blue Lalce, California, has been appointed lumber buyer for tlre area cornprising northern California and southern Oregon, for CalPacific Redrvood Sales, Inc., out of its Arcala office, announces Ted Deacy, manager of the company, Taylor was formerly employed by Pacific Western Lumber Company in the same capacity. His experience also includes five years as equipment salesman for Fred E. Barnett Co. of Eureka. The Taylors, including two children, will continue to live in Blue Lake, within a few miies of the New Cal-Pacific Redwood Sales office and mill.
Following its annual custom, the USDA has again extended for another year its farm storage facility loan program, which is designed to encourage farmers to purchase more storage facilities for uses on their farms, says the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association.
sJrrly is loaded with historybut, of course, all Americans think of celebrating July 4thour Independence D"y . Our 30thpresident,Calvin Coolidge, was born July 4, 1872, and in 1898 the United States annexed the Hawaiian Islands. Henry Ford was born in July 1863, and the Battle of Bull Run was fought during July 1861. These are but a few of the historical events recorded for the month of Jrlyand we are going to celebrate July this year by working just a little harder in our "Customer Service" department.
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The ingenuity that established Sani-Top, Inc. of Los Angeles among the leaders of West Coast plastic fabricators has now provided a solution, appropriately named "The Fashionette," to the market need for low cost, yet finely constructed, bathroom-vanity assemblies which r,vill ideally adapt to builder requirements from the minimum size powder room to the most luxurious bath.
Sani-Top knorv-how is responsible for a package unit that is amazingly practical for both the home builders and those interested in home improvement remodeling. The new Fashionette offers a fully formed, onepiece plastic surface complete with 5" backsplash and contoured, no-drip front edge. Cabinets are entirely faced in matching or contrasting seamless plastic permanently bonded, as are the tops, to 3/+" core. A full-color range of sinks is utilized, equipped
with sparkling chrome faucets and functional pop-up wastes.
All Fashionette models display easy - to - clean, rounded corner constrrlction, extra-deep foot room, leak-proof sinks with builtin soap trays, matching chrome hardware on doors and drawers, and extremely easy access to plumbing. The cosmetic drawers come in various sizes proportionate to ovpr-all dimensions, of overhead channel glide construction. Vanity bench storage area and ample knee room are also provided.
Sani - Top Fashionettes are offered in a very appealing choice of decorator colors and patterns. Many other popular plastic patterns also are available, assuring a pleasing solution for every interior scheme. Room size presents no problem as Fashionette models are obtainable in various measurements. Height dimensions are standardized at 31" and deptlr at 22," while length is available at 30," 36," 42," 48," and 54." Deluxe tr,vin sink and cabinet combinations can be ordered either 66" or 77' long rvith the same onepiece top seamless construction employed. Installation time and skilled lallor needs are minimized, thus cutting builder cost in man hours and materials.
Beautiful and unusual effects are now possible with the use of Shadowall panels, made by a special process that accentuates the natural grain of the rvood. It highlights the grain structure and brings {orth third-dimensional patterns of beauty. Shadowall panels are reversible. Both sides are processed for greater selection of grain and paneling variations. Shadorvall panels are tongue and grooved on both edges and ends permitting the installation of an all Horizontal Design an all Vertical Design or a "Vertizontal" Design (any combination of vertical and horizontal pieces-see photo above.)
A free picture folder shor,ving various combinations gives suggested finishes for the new paneling. For FREE COPY, write Shadowood, Inc., Department 39, 11823 Sherman Way, North Holly'rvood, California.
A new booklet gives specifications and performance data on new "All-purpose Model" Tow-Bear; new design encompasses best features of two previous models. Address Tow-Bear Division, lludson House, Portland 14, Orc.
Complete information on the selective chemical control of hardrvood species in pine stands is contained in STATION PAPER NO. 18. Available free {rorn Field Research Section, Thompson Chemicals Corporation, 3600 Monon St., Los Angeles 27.
A nerv booklet, "Plastics in the Home-Building Industry," is available free from Bakelite Company, Room 15O.2'. Dept. RNt, 300 Madison Ave., New York City 17. Sections include plastics in foundations, framing, finishing, built-ins and mechanical equipment.
Nqlv grading and bundling specifications for Western Red Cedar siding, which became effective earlier this year, are illustrated in a brochure available without charge from the Western Red Cedar Lumber Association, 4403 WhiteHenry-Stuart Building, Seattle 1, Washington.
"Everything and the Kitchen Sink," commemorating the first 100 years of Crane Company, is a recent publication. A chapter entitled "Working on the Railroads" tells of the beginnings of the lumber industry in the mid-1800s, and its achievements in supplying materials are discussed in another chapter.
Step Ladders give accessibility to working levels up to l5 feet. Now in standard production by the Ballymore Company of Wayne, Pa., the new ladders are offered in six models, from 9 to 12 steps ranging in over-all height trom BSf" to 114". All welded-steel construction provides maximum strength and lifetime rvear. Frame is fu" steel tubing. Mounted on heavy-duty ball bearing casters, ladders are rolled easily without lifting or straining. Srvivel in front, rigid in back, large.4" diameter casters have 7-5/76,, tread face.
When moved into position, ladders are quickly anchored to floor for maximum stability by stepping on pedal under front step. This positive, easy-action Ballylock causes two front rubber-tipped legs to engage floor, preventing kickout and wobble. Legs are retracted by spring-action when pedal is moved slightly to left.
"Do-It-Yourself" Shelving is the subject of a six-page, trvo-color folder. The basic units, shelves, dividers, and accessories of "Quick-Bilt" Shelving are illustrated and described in detail. For complete information on "QuickBilt" Shelving, write for Folder No. 708, The FrickGallagher Nlanufacturing Company, Wellston, Ohio.
Articles on the latest money-saving developments in handling lumber, unitizing brick and tying forms in concrete construction appear in the Spring issue of "The Signode Seal," also stories on new air-power tools and how to save rvhen ordering hardboard products, available free from Signode Steel Strapping Co., 2630 North Western Ave., Chicago 47,Ill.
How and where six different types of timber connectors are used, in attaining tighter joints in light and heavy wood construction, are described in the new 1956 edition of "Teco Products and Services for the LJsers of Wood and Forest Products." The connectors are key factors in the Teco system of engineered timber construction that provides many economies in a wide variety of wood structures. Most popular and widely used are the wedge-fit, split-ring connectors and the Trip-L-Grip framing anchors. Copies of the publication are available, without charge, from Timber Engineering Company, 1319 18th Street, N.W., Washington 6, D. C.
(Tetl them. you saw it i'n The,California Lumber Merchant)
As reported in The California Lumber Merchant July 1,1931
This issue contains an article by Leroy H. Stanton of Los Angeles in which he discusses what the business depression has done to the hardwood lumber industry of the Pacific Coast. He recommends a harder fight against substitutes.
, The Pacific Lumber Company of San Francisco makes enthusiastic announcement of its important new product, Redwood bark fiber, being shipped in bales for many uses.
The Federal Trade Commission has issued an injunction against 39 Western Pine mills, forbidding them to use the title "White Pine" to designate Ponderosa Pine, the latter being a yellow rather than a true white Pine. Hearings in this case have been in progress for two years and now end with the decision against the Pine manufacturers. The California White & Sugar Pine Assn. thus gets a body blow.
In this issue a strong effort is made to present the optimistic side of the bad lumber market, prominent men in the industry discussing conditions in a number of pages of signed articles:
T. B. Lawrence, Los Angeles, of the Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., writes about wholesale lumber conditions; J. J. Halloran, Phoenix, reports on lumber marketing in Arizona; Walter G. Scrim, Los Angeles, reports on Philippine mahogany; D. C. Essley, manager of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, writes about retail conditions; Carl C. Crow, Portland, writes about Northwest lumber conditions; W. B. Laughead, Red River Lumber Co., Westwood, Calif., writes on the Pine situation; S. J. Sharp, California Redwood Association,.writes from the Redwood viewpoint; Frederic S. Palmer, Santa Fe Lumber Company, San Francisco, writes about the Pine situation from the wholesaler's viewpoint. The entire effort of these various writers and of the editorials in the same issue is to promote a more optimistic thought condition in the industry.
The CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT was 34 years old on July 1, 1956. Our first issue went into the mail on that date, 1922. The following firms ran advertising in the first issue, and are still with us:
W. E. Cooper Lumber Co., Los Angeles
Ifolmes Eureka Lumber Company, San Francisco
Long-Bell Lumber Company, Kansas City, Mo.
Santa Fe Lumber Company, San Francisco
Union Lumber Company, San Francisco
Wendling-Nathan Lumber Company, San Francisco
Never missing from these columns for any month since we started are Cooper, Santa Fe and WendlingNathan.
Three large Southern California retail lumber firms announce a merger: the L. W. Blinn Lumber Company, the Russ Lumber & Mill Company, and the Patten-Davies Lumber Company, all of Los Angeles. They take the name of Patten-Blinn Lumber Company, u'ith general offices in Los Angeles and Henry S. Patten, president.
Announcement is made that lumber production in California has reached the lowest level in a great many years.
Seven Tacoma, Wash., milling concerns have formed a sales agency called the Tacoma Lumber Sales Agency, and A. C. Penberthy, Los Angeles, has been named Southern California sales manager.
Wendell B. Barnes, administrator of the Small Business Administration, in a move to expedite processing of loan applications by his agency, has authorized 7l of its branch offices to approve loans in which the government advances up to $15,000. The agency's regional offices inciude San Francisco, and Los Angeles, Calif.
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Plutarch tells a remarkable story about a famous soldier's infatuation for a tree. He says that the great Xerxes halted his army of seventeen hundred thousand soldiers to admire a Plane tree. He was so in love with the loveliness of the tree that we are told by Plutarch that he "doted on it." More than that, he took off his richest garments and put them on the tree, and in addition he took from his concubines and from his mightiest generals their jewels and bracelets, their rich scarfs and their gold, and with them bedecked this tree. He seemed to lose all interest in the battle he was then preparing for, in fact he lost the battle because of the delay occasioned by his worship of the tree. And when he was forced to leave he caused a picture of the tree to be stamped on a medal of gold which he ever after \,\rore.
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A cute little number approached the floorwalker in the store. "Do you have notions on this floor?" she wanted to know.
"We do," he said. "We certainly do. But we suppress them during business hours."
I tell you I smelled lilacs there tonightTheir dear, damp fragrance sweet against the snow, Where the old lilac bush stood in the moonlight, Beside the path where lovers used to go. But that's a tall apartment there? I know it. But none the less I smelled the lilac plain, And saw a girl too young to be a poet, Pressing her face to lilacs in the rain; A young girl weeping in a vanished rain.
-Nancy ShoresOne youngster-iivas watching, another swimming about in a pool. The swimmer was wonderful and filled the onlooker with admiration.
"You swim like a fish," he said.
"Better," said the swimmer. "f can swim on my back."
To get his wealth he spent his health, And then, with might and main, He turned around and spent his wealth, To get his health.again.
First Soldier: "Who was that wreck f saw vou with last night?'i
Second Soldier: r'That was no wreck. That was an accident. I ran into her."
I care not what his creed may be Nor what his caste or clan, He still shall be a friend to me If he shall play the man.
No barrier or creed shall fling Its prejudice before The honest man who comes to bring His friendship to my door.
If he be gentle, brave and true, And stand with head erect, This much he is entitled toMy friendship and respect. And if he be ill-mannered here, Selfish and speak the lie, I shall not hold his conscience clear Because he prays as f.
I shall ,not bother with the shame Of any sinful deed, Or seek to gloss a tarnished name With luster of a creed.
I shall not ask his form of prayer, Nor what his church may be, The good man, kind and just and fair, Shall find a friend in me.
A primary school boy was asked to write a sentence using the words "analyze" and "anatomy," so he wrote it in rhyme, as follows: My analyze over the ocean, My analyze over the sea, O who will go over the ocean, And bring back my anatomy.
Theodore Parker wrote: "The man reaps in his old age as he sowed in his youth and manhood. He ripens what he grew. Private selfishness is less now than ever before. He loves the eternal justice of God, the great higher Law. Once his hot blood tempted hirn, and he broke, perhaps, that law; now he thinks thereof with grief at the !\rrong he made others suffer, though he clasps his hands and thanks God for the lesson he has learned even from his sin.
"He needs now the great attraction whereby all things gravitate toward God. He knows there is swift justice for nations and for men, and he says to the youth,: ,Rejoice, O young men, in thy youth. Let thy heart cheer thee. But know thou that for these things God will bring thee into account. Hear the sum of the whole matter, love God and keep His commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.'"
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Vern Garehime, owner of Garehime & Boone, pioneer San Francisco wholesale hardware concern, announces the incorporation of his firm as the Garehime Corporation on July 1. Mr. Garehime, who will head the new corporation as president, also announced the promotion to a vice-presidency of Ed Young, former salesmanager who has been with the Garehime firm for the past 19 years. Mr. Young will continue as director of sales in addition to his new post.
Other officers of the new Garehime Corporation will include Grace Ella Alexander, secretary and office manager, and D. C. Danielson, treasurer. The board of directors w'ill consist of the offrcers and Harriet E. Garehime.
The Garehime Corporation will continue to occupy a two-story building at 450 Tou.nsend Street, its fourth location in San Francisco since the founding of the business there 25 years ago. The firm now employs 36 men
In addition to wholesaling a complete line of hardware and garden equipment, the firm recently established a complete store planning service for retail lumber dealers. This highly successful service has already been instrumental in the "face-lifting" of over 25 Northern California lumberyards, most recently the Speckert Lumber Company in Marysville (CLM, 4/15/56), and the Village Flome & Hardware Center in Fresno (coming in the next issue).
In making the announcement, Mr. Garehime said: "We are most grateful to our many customers in Northern Cali-
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fornia who have given us the opportunity of serving them, and our many suppliers who have been helpful in the development of our wholesale establishment. We trust that these firms will be glad to know that we are preparing ourselves to keep abreast of the constant expansion taking place in our trading area, and that we will continue our policy of carrying nationally advertised lines in the hardlvare field."
T,he regular monthly meeting of the Southern California Retail Lumber Assn. was held at the Biltmore hotel June 12. John R. Doscher, national director of Operation Home Improvement, g'ave a progress report to the luncheon group. Erik Flamer told of the progress in getting Southern California cities and counties to adopt and enforce the new grading rules. George Cordrey reported on his field activities since his recent appointment as the SCRLA's "outside man."
Another SCRLA-sponsored meeting held last month rvas in Santa Barbara, when dealers and yarcl employes in that area met rvith city and county building inspectors and architects there to hear Flamer and Cordrey report on lumber grades and SCRLA activities.
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On June 14, a similar meeting was held for Ventura area dealers and builders and followed the pattern similar to the Santa Barbara program. Cordrey told of the training courses for lumberyard personnel which the SCRLA will conduct in several forms this September.
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Now is the time for all good lumbermen and members of Hoo-Hoo Club 2 to'help complete the Workshop sponsored for the students at the LeRoy Boys' Home. According to Co-Chairmen Roy Stanton and Dee Essley, a quantity of. 2x4s,2x8s, 1x6, 6x6, 6x14s and various materials are needed to bring the woodworking shop to definite completion during the summer and fall months.
If you are interested in donating some of this lumber, you are urged to call Rex Oxford, AXminster 3-6?38, or Larry Weiland, Capitol 2-0277, and a truck will call at your yard to pick up the items for delivery to the Boys' Ifome at LaVerne, California.
At a recent committee meeting it was announced that Rex and Larry have a complete list of the building materials needed and, in view of the fact the money has been "slow" in coming in for the project, lumber would be acceptable in place of cash, because it is absolutely necessary to bring this project to successful conclusion.
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"We have hopes that all lumbermen will come to the front and call Rex or Larry right away," said Jim Forgie, Snark of the Los Angeles club.
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u'hile at the same time maintaining the high standards of its service to large tract builders. He promised also that after June 30 his agency u'ill have sufficient funds to hire enough people to be able to process all applications .ur,ithin trvo u'eeks. N{r. Mason brought rvith him FHA's zone directors, r'vho ansrvered questions from the floor. He said FHA rvould give careful study to the frequently repeated suggestion that single house applications for mortgage insurance be given more prompt attention in the field.
OHI Executive Director John I{. Doscher said that Operation Home Improvement is the biggest promotion of its kind ever conducted for the retail lumber de:rlers :rnd already is assured of financing to permit the program to continue into 7957,'rvhen the slogan rvill be "Better Your Living." He said that there rvould be unprecedented constlmer magazine publicity directing home ou'ners to the retail lumberyard during the months ahead.
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Miss Annabelle Heath, deputy administrator of the Housing & Home Finance Agency, reported that the recent Women's Congress on Housing rvill lte of enormous help to the government in carrying out its l.rousing program and houservives.
Reporting for John Alexander, Jr., chairman of the Labor committee, N{r. E,lse said the committee had recommended that NRLDA bring its Taft-Hartley booklet upto-date and that it conduct another analysis of union contracts.
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Everett B. Wilson, public relations director, described a new series bf direct mail leaflets being offered to dealers to help them attract home improvemnt business and said that new chapters of the Dealer Operating Guide, dealing with Accounting, Financial Management, Yard Layout, and Estimating Materials Requirements, would be issued as fast as additional information could be assembled.
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After slightly over 50 years of doing business in San F'rancisco's Crocker Bank Bldg., the principals of California Sugar & Western Pine Agency have decided to go suburban. A. C. Ahrens, vice-president of the pioneer wholesale lumber concern, announces the moving of the firm's headquarters to the Kingsway Building, 1448 Chapin Ave., Burlingame, on July 1. The nerv offices, rvhich occupy some 1,000 sq. ft. of custom-built space in the new Kingsway Building, are also only a S-minute drive from the San Francisco International Airport, a considerable advantage over the old offrce location in meeting eastern customers.
The nerv location also affords a second cup of coffee at breakfast for all concerned and eliminates the usual commuting rush. Both Ahrens and Mrs. Roberta Schroeder, secretary-treasurer of the corporation, live on the Peninsula. In addition, Hugh Rosaaen, outside salesman for the firm, lives in Burlingame, and H. L. Smith, president of California Sugar & Western Pine Agency, contemplates moving soon to Atherton, on the Peninsula.
The mailing address will nor,v be P.O. 153, Burlingame; teleplrone: Dlamond 2-4178; teletype: San Mateo, Cal., 74.
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(Continued f.rom Page 22) lines. He told his audience of the jobbers' need to keep constantly alert to changes in consumer desires and to availability of new product lines appropriate for jobber distribution.
A panel of manufacturers and distributors devoted another day's business session to a discussion of mutual problems, with Louis G. Riecke as moderator. Jobber panel members included Claude Bowlby, Larry S. Clark, Wm. F. Fahs, W. W. Logan, Jr., Wm. H. Hunt and V. A. Breitenbucher. Manufacturers on the panel session were G. N. Arneson, R. N. Kelly, R. G. Extra, E. \\r. Marv and Harold N. Johns.
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Among the topics discussed were (1) the desirability of standardization of hardwood plywood grades and nomenclature; (2) the factors involved in changing fir plywood production I00/o to an Exterior glueline; (3) desirability of a mutual program to reduce damage in transit; (4) jobber advocacy of steel strapping plywood into bundles to lower damage and increase ease of hpadling in and out of rvarehouses; (5) jobber feeling that quality has been slipping, perhaps unavoidably, due to raw material supply available, but that closer "appearance" grading seems to have become necessary; (6) quality problem is opening up some markets to substitutes and competing materials; (7) jobbers point out continuing need for sizes other than
4x8, particularly the shorter lengths and narrower widths; (8) discussion of importan'ce of buying as compared with sales and merchandising in building a successful warehouse business; (9) serious lack of communication within organizations as well as with customers and suppliers, pointed
out as the major problem to be corrected by meetings and conventions and by improved workings of intra- and interindustry committees.
Annual meetings of the Jobbers Plywood Promotional Fund and the Jobbers Plywood Service Bureau, two closely affiliated non-profit organizations, were also held during the week. An interim report on the Fund collections is being prepared by the treasurer showing the detail by trading areas and will be ready by July 15. In addition, the test ,campaigns being set up for two specific markets with the assistance of th,e Douglas Fir Plywood Association will have been completed and evaluated by September 1, when it is hoped the final planning of expenditures can begin.
The Service Bureau is to serve simply as a clearing house of information for jobbers and manufacturers in order to speed up the efficient placing of orders and will get underway immediately at the decision of the directors. Both organizations reelected unanimously all officers and directors for a complete year's term ending in June 1957, when the next annual meeting will be held at the Grand hotel, Mackinac Island, Mich. M. C. Davidson, president of the lfouston Sash & Door Company, Houston, Texas, is president of both of these organizations.
The industry's highest award, election to the Plywood Scroll of Honor, went to Charles E. Devlin, association managing director, in Colorado Springs, May 18, at the annual banquet of the National Plywood Distributors Association, which concluded a four-day convention at the Broadmoor hotel.
The Scroll of lfonor is in the form of a giant plywood and bronze pylon, to be installed and permanently main-
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Larvrence Ottinger, Don L. Davis, Sr. and W. E. Difford rvere selected for the Scroll in 1955 as the first three industry leaders to be so honored. Each succeeding year names will be nominated for the Scroll of Honor from all segments of the industry. The name finally chosen is engraved on the brass plaque rvith a parchment scroll presented for his office.
Sidney H. Kasper, former director of pubiications for the Housing and Home Finance Agency, has been named public relations director for the National Housins Center in Washington, D. C.
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FINE DEIAll. of pcrf of o hondsplit cedar roof is shown here. Note rough, rugged texlure snd unique shodow line qchieved by rhe ridges ond volleys of the shokesc roof rhor will ouflive the house itself with yeors ond yeors of no mcinlenonce
The popularity of the handsplit red cedar shake is nowhere more apparent than in California, where the ranch-style home, the natural for handsplits, first achieved its success
Again this year, thousands of homes in California will be ropped rvith the custom-built look that comes with the handsplit shake roof. Its distinctive rough texture and durability, which more than matches the life of any house, have convinced'more and more builders and architects that the handsplit is what buyers are seeking in the way of quality roofs.
Hand-hewn frorn red cedar trees in the Pacific Northwest, the cedar shake usually runs in 18," 24,,, and 32rl lengths,
although other length, shakes may be ordered. They come in random widths, none narrower than four inches nor wider than 12 inches.
Grading and inspection rules for handsplit shakes have been set up by the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau in Seattle, where a "Certi-Split" label has been issued to those member mills whose products meet standards adopted by the handsplit shake industry.
SAVINGS ARE EFFECTED in overoll roofing cosl becouse of fhe use of spreod sheothing. Hondsplir shskes loid ot the correct weolher exposure give double gnd triple protection, obviotinj need of wotertiglrt, expensive roof decking.
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Handsplits are not precision manufactured, of course. No two are alike. Butts do not have to be at right angles to edges, and edges are not required to be exactly parallel. Any one shake may show the extreme thickness specified in rts size. Thus in a f-to tl-inch thick shake, both %- to sl-inch thickness may show at various points on the butt. Handsplit resawn shakes are manufactured by splittine blanks from log sections which have been cut to the desired shake length. These blanks are then sawn diagonally, rvhich produces a thin tip, a flat-sawn back and a rough natural face on two separate shakes. Resawn shakes presen: a rougher sut'face than natural tapered shakes and have a greater variance in thickness
Barn shakes, u'ith both sides having a natural surface and
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fairly uniform thickness throughout, are split by expert shake makers with a steel froe and hardwood mallet.
Tap€rsplit shakes are derived in the same manner except that the block from which the shakes are cut is reversed from top to bottom each time n shake is cut off to achieve a tapered effect.
ff over-roofing, handsplit shakes may be applied without using'saturated .felt. .However, if a new roof of handsplit shakes is to o'e applied, it may be done over either spaced or solid sheathing with 15-lb. felt laid over each course just applied a distance of twice the exposure up from the butt. Some applicators lay the felt at exposure distance plus one inch up.from the butt.. Shakes should be laid not less than r/a-inch, pref erably )S-inch apart.
Handsplit shakes applied over spaced sheathing proves to be a substantial saving in overall roofing cost because of the elimination of the need for a solid deck.
The "Persian Rug" of the roof industry, as thq handsplit roof is becoming knorvn, is gaining favor far and tvide because it cannot be equaled for luxurious, long-lasting qualitv. Before it needs replacement, the house underneath will have outlived its usefulness.
President Al Thrasher presided over a highly successful Northrvestern California Lumbermen's Club meeting in Eureka on June 8. The evening meeting 'ivas l.reld at the Eureka Inn and n'as heavily attended by new members obtained in a recent NCLC membership drive.
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Ed Gallagher, for many years manager of the old Associated Plywood Mills warehouse in San Francisco, and more recently manager of the White Brothers plywood division, has entered the wholesale hardwood and softwood lumber and plywood business on his own. The new firm is located at 2551 18th Avenue, San Francisco; phone: MOntrose 4-7744.
San Diego Hoo-Hoo Club held its annual Spring dinnerdance at Twin Inns in Carlsbad June 16 starting at 6:59 p.m. The chicken dinner was followed by dancing to the music of Frank Carr (former Ben Bernie pianist) and His Combo.
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Ponderosa Pine, after which there rvas a free-for-all discussion on drying, sticking, climatic effects, etc.
Secretary Inglis was called on for a few words after the panel session ended and he declared that "We've gotto make our lumber product go good that substitute materials can't get a hold. A lot of the markets that lumber has had an exclusive on since the Year One are losing out," he said. "If we can educate the retailers how to handle seasoned lumber, it will be a wonderful thing !"
Al Wahl of Consolidated Lumber Company, rvho rvas detained in his arrival at the meeting, announced that Orrie Hamilton, executive vice-president and manager of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association, had formally asked the Southern California Lumber Seasoning Association to form a'special panel to present this important subject at the next regular monthly meeting of the SCRLA yard owners and principals at the Biltmore hotel in Los Angeles, July 10.
After a discussion and careful selection, the SCLSA panel named to conduct this program for the SCRLA this month was formed of Bob Inglis, Chas. Lakeman, John Van Patten and John Kurzahls.
T.he members present at the final 1955-56 season meeting included Lou Wilchek, C. M. Lovsted Co.; Jack Johnson, Chas. Pickens, Downey Kiln Drying & Milling Co.; Bill Woodin, Horvard Pitts, Wall Dry Kiln Co.; Gene Leupp, Frank Keuski, Associated Molding Co.; J. H. Van Patten,
Van Patten Dry Kiln; Chas. Beckman, Beckman Lumber Service ; Harry Robinson, Patten-Blinn Lumber Co.; Art Furcron, J. L. Moody, Bert L. Laursen, Al Wahl, Consolidated Lumber Co.; Earl Simon, Hammond Lumber Co.; Harland Walters, Penberthy Lumber Co.; John Kurzahls, Sun Lumber Co., and Guests Phil Burke, Southwest Builder and Contractor, and Reed Porter, The California Lumber Merchant.
Bob Male and Art Parkins, two well-knorvn young lumbermen in Southern California, have just established wholesale sales offices in Covina. These two experienced salesmen rvill cover Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino and Riverside counties, representing the Fay Lumber Company, Portland, and the Bonnington Lumber Company, San Francisco.
Each has a following among the retail lumber dealers in the Southland. Bob Male has been active in wholesale lumber for the past 15 years in this area, rvhile Art Parkins has spent the past 15 years selling plyr,vood, doors, lumber and allied building materials to dealers in the Southland. He formerly was sales manager of the California Door Company with headquarters in Los Angeles.
The new office is located at 151 Badillo Street. Covina. and the telephone number of the ne',v concern is EDgeu'ood 2-7536. "We intend to offer a complete service to lumber dealers," said Bob Male, "and lve rvill offer prompt shipments of quality lumber from responsible mills."
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Some low-grade lumber racketeers were starting what appeared to be a $100,000 attempt to unload inferior material on Arizona builders. Phoenix police were told, according to Jack Jordan, executive manager of the Arizona Lumber Merchandisers Assn. He said the "gang" was operating f rom auto-court offices with grading stamps stolen from a California mill. Jordan stated that racketeers use wildcat truck lines to ship millreject lumber there and sell it as top-grade, putting a single layer of good boards around a core of cheap cuts. With the stolen grade stamps, the outer layer of lumber was marked Select but, Jordan told Police Lt. Don Rust, when carpenters start down into the pile the low-grade is found.
Walt Taylor, owner and manag'er of the Walt Taylor Lumber Co., Anaheim, Calif., opened for business
June 4 in a new location at 4II South Walnut St., there, three blocks south of the former 125 N. Manchester Blvd. location, in the yard previously occupied by Inland Lumber Company in Anaheim. The former wholesale concentration yard is four acres and contains sheds and improvements, giving the Walt Taylor operation ample room for its retail business and merchandise display. The lot at Manchester, Walnut and Santa Ana streets affords ample parking and easy accessibility.
fn a move to better complement its existing u,arehouse stocks of hardu'ood plyrvood, Georgia-Pacific Corporation has authorized the purchase of the complete stock and one truck of the McKinney Hardrvood Lumber Company at Hayrvard, Calif., according to Bob Brazelton, supervisor of G-P's California 'warehouses and manager of the Salinas branch. The large inventory purchased from McKinney includes both foreign and domestic hardwoods. All milling rvill be handled by the Cheim Lumber Company, of which Lloyd Swiger is mill superintendent, located just across the street from Georgia-Pacific's San Jose warehouse.
Georgia-Pacific maintains three rvarehouses in centraj California. At Salinas, the company occupies a 20,000-sq. ft. rvarelrouse headed by Brazelton, assisted by Dick Johnson. G-P's Fresno warehouse totals some 30,000-sq. ft. and is headed by "Cap" Nichols, who is assisted by Harold Furst. The San Jose warehouse, wilh Norm Rose in charge, is currently being enlarged to 18,000 sq. ft. in order to accommodate increased inventories of hardrvood lumber from the McKinney purchase. In addition to Rose at the San Jose branch, Chuck Keesling handles the order desk, Gordon Taylor rvorks the plyr,r'ood and softu,ood trade, and Ollie Lee (former E. L. Bruce Santa Clara manager) will spearhead the nelv hardrvood lumber division.
Pacific Western Lumber Company has moved its Socal offices from Pasadena to 407 North Maple Drive, Beverly Hills.
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Fredericks-Hansen Company, W. P. Fuller Company, General Concrete Products, P. B. Hazelton, Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., A. L. Hoover Company, Hyster Company, Inland Lumber Company, K & M Sliding Glass Doors, Kaiser Gypsum Company, Koppers Company, Los Angeles Lumber Company, Ostling Manufacturing Co., Pacific Forest Products, Riverside Cement Co., Sand Door & Plywood, Simpson Logging Co. (Insulating Board division), Simpson Redwood Company, So-Cal Building Materials, Southwestern Portland Cement Co., Tarter, Webster & Johnson, Inc., Triangle Steel Corp., Tropical & Western Lumber Co., Union Hardware, United States Plywood Corp., Western Mill & Lumber Co., and Zees' man Plywood Corp.
Carroll Crane was in charge of the arvarding of the door prizes and did a whale of a job in keeping the procession of prizewinners moving. He was assisted by Bert Holdren, Snark of Club ll7, and others.
Also announced at the party was the winner of KimberlyClark's special prize of a 2-week, all-expense trip to Bermuda for the salesman selling the most Kimsul. This coveted prize went to an area man, Jerry Westphal of Inland Lumber Co., whose wife also shares in the trip with him.
Snark Holdren and the others in charge of the day's events are all to be commended for the grand hospitality and high spirit in this third annual event. Next year's party will have to travel to top it.
The preliminary estimate of 108,000 nerv non-farm dwelling units started in l\tay is29,600 units less than May last year. 1,000 units l'ere public housing.
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Los Gqtos Lumber Products Co., Inc., Scotts Volley, Colif.
35 Norrh Roymond Ayenue, Pqsodenq l, Coliforn.io RYon l-0614
Jqmes W. MocDoncld Bill Eogon Dave Loshley(Continued from Page 20) preview" of the new color slides in the retail yard's "Little Jhsaf1s"-which may be unique in the country's lumberyards. The projection room is sholvn in an accompanying photo but the beautiful slides should really sell some lumber. They detail Cedar paneling in living rooms, dens, kitchens and dining rooms-most of them the yard's or,vn installations. There is Solana Brand Cedar, Pecky Cedar, Cedar and Redwood blends, Western Red and Port Orford White combinations, etc. Both modern and traditional uses are pictured and the Larricks have a close rvorking reiationship with architects and builders.
These slides have been shorn'n at the County Fair for the past four years, new ones are constantly being made, and now the yard's customers can actuallv see rvhat an installation will look like in their ou'n homes through the yard's theatre lvith its own screen, chairs, projector and blackout curtains. They can even see Mr. Larrick posed in one slide with Incense Cedar grou,ing on nearby Mount Palomar if they want to see horn' their rvall panels ,,grev,,.,, And they can even see a handsome use of r,r,ood paneling in the bathroom.
The Solana Beach Lumber & Builders Supply Co. is a model of a retail lumberyard out back as n,ell as up front in the store. The photos rvith this article back up that fact. But there is a warehouse receiving department not shorn,n that keeps the store neat and uncluttered. Here stock is received, unpacked and put in the proper sections rvhere it is
Prices on oll roofing products ore rising. Don't be cought with your inventory ot low ebb, buy yord stock now while prices ond supplies ore still fovoroble; it will meon extrq dollors in the till.
Quality F: Irependabili$ !-r Service AND . . . the crbility to lurnish materials that witl plecse your customers.
readily available when the store display needs it. The yard superintendent makes out his own contractor orders to save the office's time but he does no pricing. An intercom system from his to the front office is one of the modern touches.
The "Timber Tim" merchandising gimmick mentioned above is a regular part of the yard's contact rvith its cus-
tomers. At hand is a copy of No. 18, Vol. 10 r,vhich told the public about the new WCLIB Grading Rules in language they could understand and how they might affect their consumer purchases. It said, "We hope by July to be able to deliver officially grade-stamped lumber on all orders. This will be a great step forward, assuring all buyers of lumber the receiving of properly graded lumber."
The beehive of activity at the Open House April 21 , in which all the yard's personnel greeted the public and for which Store Manager Nihl Hamilton worked many a late night beforehand, is thoroughly covered in the photos on Page 18. The door prizes included (for women) a door mirror, barbecue brazier, Trewax Floor-T.ender, step stool and tu'o gallons of Fulcolor; (for men) electric bench grinder, Skil drill set, tool box with six tools, Bernzamatic torch and two cans Fulcolor; (for "Small Fry") one little Alamo fort (built from USG plans and shorvn on Page 18) and galvanized pails, and (for Teen-agers) t'rn'o badminton sets.
The oceanside yard is now one of the best-looking in the state and its aggressive merchandising policies are as wellknon'n throughout the Southern Clalifornia inclustry as thev are to Mr. Larrick's customers throughout San Diego County. It is a friendly store, staffed by skilled and highly efficient personnel, and the personal touch is what has built its successful business over many years.
H. G. Larrick, Sr. has not only made the retail lumberyard his life's work but he has made a notably outstanding success of it. He is knorvn to his town, his clubs and his industry as a tireless worker and a far-seeing, enterprising businessman. His handsome lumberyard attests to the fruits of his vision. He and his lovely wife are the parents of three sons and one daughter, and grandparents of 13 children ("there may be 14 bv norv," N{r. Larrick said late in the day April 20).
Only one of the sons, Herschell, Jr., is active in the lumberyard but he carries on a proud heritage and plays his own part in the retail yard's u'ell-deserved success.
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THIS COPY WITT APPEAR OVER THE NEXT SIX MONTHS IN IHE SOUTH. WEST BUITDER & CONTRAC. TOR YOU CAN CASH IN ON THE CAMPAIGN.
The plotes ond sleepers ore secured ond furred in one operotion lo true ond level olignment, Sleepers ore firm, floors do not squeok ond will beor ony lood.
Screeds, grounds, bose ond roils ore secured to rough or finished mosonry with pods of odhesive mortor which support the member ond fur it io true olignment in one operolion.
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The point I wanted cleared up, in order to keep the facts straight, was that M&M had NOT purchased from the Pacific Lumber Co. the Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co. . for the reason that D&C, as such, did not sell out to Pacific Lumber Co. In December 1950, The Pacific Lumber Co. purchased certain assets of the former D&C Lumber Co. Later they (Pacific) sold some of these assets to M&M.
Your very truly, Henry M. Hink
Nlerchants Exchange Bldg. San Francisco 4. Calif.
Tom Philips of the Thom Philips Lumber Co. has moved his offrce from Beverly Hills to the C)cean Center Building in Long Beach. He is engaged in the'rvholesale distribution of lumber via cargo, rail, truck-and-trailer.
Hobbs Wall Lumber Co. mainstays, Al Bell and Lew Godard, along with N{rs. Bell and Godard, attended the National-American Wl-rolesale convention. T,hey were accompanied by Ntr. and Mrs. Marty Wiegand, of Washington D.C. \\riegand, a former Snark of the Universe, operates a wholesale lumber firm in the Capitol city. After the convention, the Godards and \Viegands spent another u'eek vacationing in Canada.
Thomas B. "Tom" Fleming, executir,e of the Fleming & Hightower Lumber Co., Los Angeles, is enroute to Tahiti aboard the Nova Del N[ar as a member of the crew of the sailing vessel in the Pacific race. Tom is a guest of John Scripps.
Chet King, The Robert Dollar Company, returned to the San Francisco offices June 14 follon'ing a 10-day business trip to Portland and Eugene. His trip followed a one-rveek su.ing through the Eureka area bv Jack Dollar, head of the 'ivholesale lumber division.
Jack Davidson, Pacific \\rood Products executive, has returned to Los Angeles from an extended trip throughout the Orient. During the trvo and one-half months he was away he visited Japan, Hor-rg Kong, the Philippines and XIalav States. He is very enthusiastic about Oriental imports of both lumber and plyrvood. Ifc rvas accompanied on this trip by Roland O. Carlson, president of Sonoma Plyn'ood Corp., Sonoma, Wash.
Dick LaFranchi, southern California manager for Pacific Forest Products, returned from an extended trip to Ukiah and Fortuna. While in the north he visited rvith Ralph Dales and Jesse Brown.
Will Tweddle, purchasing agent of Consolidated Lumber Co., \\rilmington, and his u,ife were on a business trip to the mill country during June.
Paul Gaboury, head man of Golden Gate Lumber Companv, \\ralnut Creek, sper-rt a mid-June n'eek calling on stlppliers in northern California and soutl-rern Oregon. Holding dorvn the fort in his absence \\'as Hank Vilas.
John F. Hanson, headman of the Anderson-Hanson Company, Southern California wholesale lumber distributing firm, announces that offrces of the concern have been moved to 16614 Ventura Boulevard, Encino. The new telephone number is STate 9-3487. Hanson has been calling on accounts in St. Louis, Chicago and various cities in the south last month and Pi Bliss and Lynn Hansen handled the details of moving the office equipment to the nelv location. "This move was made in order to render a better service in our sales area," llanson declared.
Alfred McCausland, executive vice-president of K-D Terminal, Inc., announces the association of Cleve "Buck" Norris rvith the newly established Oakland dry kiln operation on June 3. Norris brings to K-D Terminal a record of many years' experience in the seasoning and handling of lumber. For the past seven years, Norris had been lvith Castro Valley Lumber Company as yard superintendent, and prior to that was kiln supenntendent of the William Newsorn kiln operation in Emeryville.
George Cordrey, field representative, has renewed the membership of the Malibu (Calif.) Lumber Company in the Southern California Retail Lumber Assn. and the yard at 23419 Pacifi.c Coast Highrn'ay is now back in the fold. It is operated by R. E. Crummer, Robert J. Sheaff and A. Homer Jennings, partners.
Stop excessive end splitting of lumber ond timbers in the stock. Apply by sproying. Cost is low -35d per MBF.
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HAI,EY WHOIESA1E COIIPANY Sonlo Barborq
SACRATENTO WH5LE. HAN,DWARE CO. North Socromenio
HAIIACK & HOWARD r.UtBER. CO. WHO1ESAIE BIDG. SUPPIY, INC. Denver Ooklond
2455 HUNTINGTON DRIVE, SAN 'YIARINO, CALIF. RYon l-5681
L. J. "LOU" HOLLAND
Wholesole Lunrber via RAIICARGOTRUCK & TRAIIER rwx PASA cAt 7343 P. P. "PEYT" 'YIALONEY
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C & BTR DOUGIAS FIR CtR. HRT. REDWOOD
PHONE-WRITE-WIRE
99 Boyshore Blvd. Son Froncisco 24
Telephone: VAlencio 4-8744
Francis E. Boyd (left), one of the real oldtimers in the lumber and millwork business of Santa Barbara, has returned to the lumber ranks after a short retirement and announces his association with Ike Zafrani, president of Harbor Lumber Company, Inc., San Francisco, where he will assume management of Harbor's wholesale lumber division.
Boyd originally began getting sawdust in his veins in the year 1895, r,'i'hen he started picking up sticks in his father's lumberyard, the J. F. Boyd Lumber Co.
His first job, outside of the Boyd yards, u'as with the old Carpenter & Biles Sash & Door Co. in Los Angeles in 1906. After finishing school in 191 1, Boyd went to Washington to learn about logging, scaling and sawmilling; he later became a P.L.I.B. lumber inspector at that point. Boyd returned to California in 1914, and became manager of the Builders Lumber Co. in Gustine, leaving there in l9l7 to enlist in the Corps of Engineers, forestry, U. S. Army. After serving two years in France in logging and sawmilling, Boyd returned to Lompoc and joined his brothers, Scott and Clyde, in the operation of Boyd Lurnber & Mill Co., Inc. In 1937 he purchased the Ganahl interests in the old Union Mill & Lumber Co., Inc. yards, both of Santa Barbara. Just before World War II he disposed of these yards but continued to operate his yard at Lompoc.
During a six-year period starting in 1942, Boyd served as a colonel with the U. S. Army Engineers. His first tour of duty was a two-year hitch in Skagway, Alaska, where he was in charge of Alcan Highway supplies and chief of operations. He later served as chief of water transportation at Brussels, Belgium, and in 1945 u'as assigned to Wiesbaden, Germany, as chief of Rhine transport.
Boyd returned to Santa Barbara in 1948 and opened the Boyd Mill & Lumber Co., which was recently sold to Parke Kooser of that city.
During the 20's and 30's, Francis Boyd was a board mem-
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Office snd Wsrehouse: 6614 Bondini Boulevord Los Angeles 22' Cslilornis
PHONES: PArkwcy 8-3891 RAymond 3-3661
ber of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association for 12 years. He was also active in Hoo-Hoo, lumber conventions and golf tournaments, with a win in the California State Open golf championship of the American Legion to his credit. Boyd states that he has read The CALIFORNIA LUMRER MERCHANT from its very beginning and, in connection with golf, he notes that he also l-rolds one of Jack Dionne's golf trophies, which has Gus Hoover's name engraved on it as winner the Drevious vear.
C. J. "Charlie" I-oughran and J. P. "J.oe" Sullivan announce tl.re formation of L & S Lumber Company, rvholesale distributors of West Coast lumber products, at 3022 trast 14th Street, Oakland, on May 15. Loughran and Sullivan, r'vho have been actir.e in the Bay area lumber business for a number of years, bring together sales and administrative experience respectivelv.
Members of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association r,vill again tie-in rvitl-r Ted Bentley's 4th Annual Western Do-It-Yourself Shol' at Pan Pacific Auditorium, Los Angeles, July 19-29. Ilach member dealer u'iil receive two free passes and a rvindon'banner for his yard announcing "Make This Yard Your Do-It-Yourself Headcluarters." The theme of the 1956 shorv, rvhich u'ill feature many new lumlter products, is OHI. Bentley expects more than 200,000 attendance this month.
535 Tunnel Ave.
WHOLESALE TUMBER qnd Commission Broker
lf you wont me personolly, coll lUdlow l-O778i ff cnyone ot Angelus HqrdwoodlUdlow 7-6168 ***
I want a good MILL connection that can furnish good Fir Dimension-Good Studs-and good Fir Boatds, and I am not hard to deal with. I have an outlet for plenty of this ifI am COMPETITMand I haven't had a credit loss in twenrv vears.
To achieve time-saving methods in shipping its products, the United States Plywood Company in Anderson, California, with the assistance of the American Sisalkraft Corporation, recently turned to the use of flat cars to ship its plyr,vood. The plyr,vood was wrapped in rvaterproof, reenforced paper, a Sisalkrait product, and secured with steel strapping. Acme Steel Co., Chicago, cooperated in the test and its representatives assisted in strapping the load.
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the severest storms California has ever experienced. and was exposed to extremely heavy rains and snow on its journey. The loading and unloading of this car makes fuli use of mechanical lift equipment and eliminates the slorv, costly process of unloading boxcars.
F-airhurst Lumber Company's ply'il'ood sales company salesmanger, E, H. "Ernie" Bacon, returned to his San Rafael offices May 22 from a trip to Colorado Springs and the National Plywood Distributors annual conirention May l4-I9. Shortly after his return, Ernie announced to the trade that Fairhurst had completed installation of a YatesAmerican Model 5-800, eight-drum, roll-feed sander, and a Raimann automatic veneer patcher at the newly acquired Industrial Plywood plant at Willits. Formerly a sheathing mill, the plant will now offer a complete line of sanded interior plywood.
Jeff Tully, D. R. Middleton Lumber Sales, returned to Chico headquarters after spending a week in Vancouver, where he attended the National-American Wholesale Lumber Assn. convention.
Art Evans was a recent visitor in the southland, where he attended meetings conducted by John Eells of the Davidson Plywood Company, Los Angeles.
Louis N4deau, right-hand man to Vic Roth, owner of Triangle Lumber Company in Oakland, returned to the office June 4 after spending 10 days calling on various mill connections throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Dick Doherty, R. E. Doherty Lumber Co., San Francisco, spent the last week of May calling on mill connections in the Humboldt-Mendocino region.
Norm Cords, owner of Cords Lumber Company in Oakland, and Earl Carlson, recently associated with the Cords firm, spent the first week of June calling on mill connections along the Redwood Highway as far north as Eureka.
Travco, Inc.'s trvo super salesmen, Del Travis and Neil Jones, visited Oregon sawmill and plyrvood producers during June. The boys .rvound up the trip at Eugene, n'here they attended the Willamette Valley Lumbermen's Golf Tournament and dinner meeting at the Eugene Country Club June B.
Bate-Position wanted $2.00 per column incb
All others, $3.00 per column inch
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WANTED: PLYWOOD SALESMAN
Well-established wholesale plywood comp:rny has opening for an experienced salesman to sell plywood to lumber yards in Orange' Riverside and Los Angeles counties. Answer only if you qualify. Give full particulars. All replies witl be held in strict confidence.
Ad&ess Box C-2513, California Lumber Merchant
1O8 West 6 h St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
MANAGER WANTED for building materials yard featuring all finished materials to do-ityourself trade. Man we want must be experienced in all phases of lumberyard operation. Prefer man with retail managerial experience. Will pay $375 a month plus 19lo of gross sales.
BURLINGAME LUMBER COMPANY
P. O. Box 356 Millbrae, Calif.
PLYWOOD SALESMAN WANTED by a Los Angeles wholesale plywood company. MUST be aggressive and have a clientele. Salary AND expenses. Answer ONLY if you qualify. Replies confidential.
Address Box C-2509, California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th St., Room 5O8, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
WANTED _ MAN FOR COUNTER SALES and to fill small orders; two or more years'retail yard experience, preferably in small yard. Good chance for advancement.
Call Manager, HYDE PARK LUMBER CO., Pleasant 8-9214 Evenings: ORchard 7-3307
WANTED: HARDWOOD LUMBER SALESMAN
Experienced in selling hardwood lumber wholesale. Attractive salary and car allowance. Excellent territory.
Address Box C-2514, California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
WANTED
Top bookkeeper and stenographer. Nice working conditions.
J. K. O'NETLL 3945 Camellia Drive San Bernardino. Calif. Phone:803302
WANTED: PLYWOOD SALESMAN
A Los Angeles wholesale plywood company has an opening for an EXPERIENCED plywood salesman in the Glendale and San Fernando valley areas. Reply only if qualified. Give full particulars. Replies confidential.
Address Box C-2524, California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
SALESMAN WANTED
Top-Notch Salesman to run Southern California office for Northern DiJtributor. Must be thoroughly familiar with Pine, Fir and Enge'lmann Spruce. Submit references as we must have a man well thoughl of by better-rated Southern California yards. Right m,an can earn upwards of $15,000 per year-and unless you can do that, you are not the man we want.
Address Box C-2522, California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif'
WANTED
Experienced Plywood Salesman by new wholesale plywood company. Uniimited opportunity for an experienced and aggressive man.
Address Box C-2518, California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
WANTED
Assistant managers and salesmen, age 25-35, by fast-growing organization in San Joaquin valley, offering many opportunities for advancern€nt. Medical and retirement plans available.
UNITED LUMBE.R YARDS Box 731, Modesto, Calif.
WANTED
Experienced lumber clerk or foreman for yard in San Bernardino.
SAN BERNARDINO LUMBER COMPANY
233 So. Water,man Avenue Plrone:.92779 San Bernardino. Calif.
Nqmcr of Advertisers in lhir Depodmonr using c blind oddress connot bc divulgcd. All inquirier ond replior should be oddrersed to key shown in the odvcrtircrnont
WANTED
Energetic young man to learn hardwood lumber sales. permanent position with future ofrered to right man.
PENBERTHY LUMBER CO.
58@ So. Boyle Ave., Los Angeles 58, California Phone LUdlow 3-4511
AVAILABLE _ WHOLESALE SALESMAN
Twenty.years_experience in selling Fir and Redwood to Southern ualrtorrria yards. Part o{ -thi_s time spent in Oregon buying from Oregon mills. Can furnish best of ref.ietti.r.
Address Box C-2517, California Lumber Merchant
108 West 6th S.t., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
SALES MANAGE.MENT
!i1 1ear1' forestry college. Eltensive pl4ctical sawmill experience. srx yrs..rn sales.maqagement for large West Coast f,nfr. at-its Chi_ :lgo 9tf.r.:e ;c_o.velry Midwest, South and East. Currently sales man_ lge.r Inth West Coast wholesaler. position in sales inanagement desired.
Address Box C-25?,A, California Lumber Merchant l0B West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
DO YOU NEED an'experienced salesman, one with over 2O years' retail and whole- sale lumber_ ex-perience in Northern California? i "- pi.".itty;_ ployed in the lumber business but would like to maki a pe.nianittt connection with a reliable Bay area wholesaler-eittrer-insiie oioiriside sales work. Can offer eicellent references and conticii. -- -
Address Box C-2525, California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
Lumber salesman seeking,new connection. Over l0 years in whole_ sale sales in Southern Cilifornia.
Address Box C-ZSlg California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, CaliT.
P.B.X. JOB WANTED
After July 31, prefer Lon_g Beach area. year's experience with local plywood comprny. Excellent references.
Address Box C-2526, California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
ffff .GIPO' LUMBER HANDLING
Labor available for Car Unloading, Sorting, Sticking. ..Free', 1956 Printed Price List. ArrangementJ'made td'i Litt or-Carrier gauts from any public team traclis.
CRANE & CO.
cA. 2-8143
FOR SALE
5143 Alhambra Avenue Los Angeles 32, Calit.
Lumber Business-serving.the San Gabriel valley for the past 30 years. Owne,r will sell stoc\r-etc.,-at rnarket and give OUAIifiefj buyer desirable le,ase or-will include property. j"u."i*vlo* t"-t very clean-3lso the yard.
Address Box C-2521, California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
FOR SALE
_Lu-mbe^r y11d in _small city near _Riverside. Netted $20,000 last year. Price $65,000-plus inventory. Contact:
DICK DARLING6595 Brockton Avenue OVerland 4-1181 Riverside, Calif.
!a1a- {- -n_t!gs. jDl.!,qry_; -qcujn. $+,!0Q ; App,rox. glq000 inventory ; To-tal $'29,500. Sell .S1I,000 down, b_!rl. on S-year contract. Doirig $1a00O per month in fast-growing Farm & Resort area l0O milei from Los Angeles.
Address Box C-2523, California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTING YARD
Southwestern city of 300,000. Owner retiring. Established business for sale with wide expansion possibilities. Only nominal investment required. Inventory at market. Will sell or lease improvements. A "natural" for western mill or wholesaler distribution. Exceptional opportunity.
Address Box C-251Q California Lumber Merchant l0B West 5th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
A. CODE "ARROYO"-This is E. K. Wood's yard in Pasadena (now closed). R. R. lease with spur track. Will sell all improvements for only $11,000. No inventory to buy.
B. CODE "HARRY"-Located in San Gabriel Valley; established over 30 years ago. Ground about 30,000 sq. ft. Very good office bldg. and one-story sheds; paved yard. Price for ground and buildings $4O,000; inventory about $30,000. Might consider leasing at $350 monthly plus taxes. Sales last year $175,0@; fine opportunity for "Do-It-Yourself" trade. A money maker.
C. CODE "BILL"-This is the long established H&H Lumber Co. at ll2th & Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles. Lease on ground and portion of buildings, $250 monthly. Two owned buildings on said Iease $10,00O; two trucks, mill machinery and office equipment $10r (X)0. Inventory around $30,000. Yard is a ,money maker; has a big weekend business. P&L will be shown.
D. CODE "SAN JOAQUIN"-Two southern San Joaquin Valley yards, long established. One yard on RR lease, the other on owned ground; will not sell separately. Both yards have made money every year for the last ten years. Books will be open. General Appraisal Co. report will be shown. Price for both yards, $37,00O plus inventory of about 050,000. Would like purchaser to take over accounts receivable on guaranteed basis.
E. CODE 'FERNANDO"-Located in San Fernando Valley on main through street. One owner 12 years. RAILROAD LEASE onlv $12 per month. Ground 125x392 ft. More available. PRICE $9,d00 fof buildings, improve'ments and truck; Inventory about $6,0ffi. This is a steal.
F. Butte County, Calif., woodworking plant; 4-side planer, rip saw, cutoff saw, burner, truck with rollers; two acres. Owner buys rough lumber from various sawmills in that area' then rips and resaws it to order. Price for everything $10,000' plus small inventory of xlesf $2,00O.
G. We also have several long-established but recently closed yards for sale. No inventory or equiprnent to buy. The ctreapest one is located on a R.R. lease between Los Angeles and Santa Monica. Price for all improvements only $15'000.
TWOHY LUM|BER CO.
714 W. Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles 15; Rlchmond 9-8746
For sale at cost of inventory & equipment, approx. $35,000, a retail lumber yard and general building supplies. Located in one of the fastest-gting areaJin Nevada. Doing approx. $200'000. Owner will carry lind ind buitdings on ten-year contract or lease.
P. O. Box 661, Fallon, Nevada
For sale at cost of inventory and equipment (approx. $30'000), a retail lumber, builders hardware and paint store. Excellent location for Do-It-Y6urself trade. Doing approx. $150'0O0 and can be increased materially. Owner must sell because of health.
W.T LUMBER COMPANY
1919 Whittier Blvd.
Montebello, Calif.
Fork Lifts and Straddle Trucks. Complete shop and field service. Portable Welding,.special Fabrication, Steam Cleaning and Painting. Scrvice Available 7 Days a Weck. All work guarantced.
COMMERCIAL REPAIRS AND SERVICE
ll15 North Alameda Street, Compton, Calif.
Phones: NEwmark L4.269, NEvada 6-4805
3d' Goodspeed Double surfacer, late model. Direct motor-driven ?O-}I.P. top and 15-H.P. bottom complete with accessories. $4,500. Can be seen at:
PACIFIC COAT HANGER MFG. CO.
5710 Avalon Boulevard Los Angeles 3, Calif.
Two 8-ton Gerlinger Fork-Lift Trucks; One Hyster 75 Fork-Lift Truck; One Ross 15-HT, 7fu-ton Fork-Lift Truck; One Ross 15LH, 9-ton Fork-Lift Truck; Two Hyster Carriers, 56" machines; One 30" Orton Endless Bed Planer with motor; One Yates A-20 ball-bearing 6x15 matcherJ-lorife, single profile, complete with motors and feed table. Equipment may be seen at
MAC KAY MILL SERVICE
822 69lh Avenue SWeetwood 8-9428 Oakland 21, Calif.
FOR SALE
V-60 Yates Resaw 60" LH-tilt rolls. Practically new. Pilot wheel set works for fractional sawing. V-belt drive 75-HP. Six l8-gauge saws. Last word for complete unit. $9,100.
HUSS LUMBER COMPANY
l35O W. Fullerton Avenue Chicago 14, Illinois
One Gerlinger, 8-ton capacity; One Hyster, 7fu-ton capacity, and One Ross, 9-ton capacity. These machines are in good operating condition.
BURNABY ANd WILLIAMS
6lo2 sePulveda Blvd' srate 5-6561 Van Nuys, Calif.
FOR SALE
One used 137-M Woods electric 6" moulder, with one set each ol 2 round and 4 square heads and hoods. This machine purchased used by us from large piano comp:rny having constant maintenance contiacts on it. We desire to sell irithout having ever installed it, due to change in plans. Price $6,50O.
HUSS LUMBER COMPANY
1350 W. Fullerton Avenue
Chicago 14, Illinois
trg Drscounts oD N.w Surplut Psrts lor Ail nak t and nodcls ol jqktrrt
Used Good, Reconditioned or Rebuih & Grd. 2,OOO-|5OOO lb. cqP.
Hytter l5O I5,OOO lb. cop., rcbuilt & guorqnleod .....-..$4950
Ross I 9 HT 6,OOO lb. cop,, recondilioned .--..---.----......----.---.---...-..--..-----..---$2950
Clork 6,000 lb. cop.. rebuilt & guorqnteed .-'.-----.-----.--$1895
Clork 2,000 lb. cqp., w/hydroulic Cotlon Grqbr, recondilioned .----.---.-...--.--...-'$1895
Clqrk , 3,000 & 4,000 lb. Gqp., reconditionad .-.-----------.------.-------..--.-------..--'.$1795
Clcrk plonelooder . . . 3,500 lb. cop. pneu. tire., rebuilt & guorqnleed ..------$2650
Towmotor tT56, 6,OOO-lb. cop., rebuilt & guoronloed--.---. ----.-.$1750
GERIINGER FORK-LIFT, 1 2,000 lb. cop.--....-.--------.--.$31OO
Part3 for Goterpillcrlnternolionolle Tournecu loroin - BuckcyeEuclidNorlhwestotc.
New 3-fon Choin Hoistr Spur GearedlO ft. Ghoin Fall--.-..
SONS.lNc. ESTABLISHED leo6
Since l9l9
Stqdium StockHeovy Conslruction ltems (Poles, Piling, Timbers, Ties, elc.)-Specified lisls
GOOD SPORTS AT SPORIS NIGHT-Top lefi pholor George Allen of U. 5, Plywood, Fresno. ond Herb Thompson of Wendling-Nolhon, Fresno, were fhe hosts for fhe evening. Top right: President Wolly Kennedy (lefi) thqnks Bob Brochmon, Sqn Froncisco sporls wriler, for oddressing the group; nexl lo Bob is Croig Gcfiney, chsirmon of the ofioir, ond Croig's dod. Lower left photo: Pres. Wolly prerentr the Arf Mothews trophy to Cop Nichols of GeorgioPocific, Fresno, who won it in rhe ofternoon golf. Center: lhe entire group ol dinner. And iusr below:Stofe Deputy Snork Horry Merlo congrotulola3 Kennedy for Clurb 3l's outstonding iob {or Hoo-Hoo in its forest fire signs proieo (CLM' Poge 38, 5/l/551. The golf lournsment wos lhe usuo! success; low Nel wss won by Bill Clophom. High Grors by Wolly Kennedy.
A. & B. Lumber Soles, Inc. AGe Cmponies
*Advertising qppeort in dllernqle irsuer
Lowrence-Philips Lumber Co, -.-....---..--....-. *
Lerrett Lumber Co. ----..-------,---.--.----,---...------ :|
Long-Bell Lumber Co. -----..-....,-----.---,,...-..--23
Loop Lumber & lilill Co. .-----..-.----.-----...-....53
Los-Cqf Lumber Co. --.-...-.--.-...,,-.-.-.--....--....7O
Los Angeler Lvmber, In<. ----......---..---.-....-, I
Lumber Corrier 5eruice, Inr. -..-.....----.....-... * Lumber 5ofes Co. .----------.-.-,--...-..--........-....12
Lumber Sedi<e Co. --.-..--....
Lumber Teminql, Inc. -.--.... ............_..51
It{ED Dirploy Mfg. Corp. -.--..-.-...--.......-..-.54
MocBeoth Hordwood Compony .-..............-.71
ItiqcDonold Co., 1,. W. -..-.--.-.,.-..-.-.-..---.---71
llople Bror. --....-.--.---.---.-53
llorquort-Wollc Lvmber Co. ------..------....---*
Illorrh Wqll Producl:, In<. .--.--.--.----....-.-...-. *
Mqrtin Bros. Box Co. .-...,......-.---.----.-.-----.... 5
Mortin Pfywood Co. -.....--....---,--.-.--.-.........-.77
,llorlinez Co., L. W. .---..--.--.--....--.....-.---.,.*
iloron Supplier, Inc. --......---...,.-,.......---------30
Mq!onite Corporqfion --..,,..--------..-.-,---,--,-.*
Mothi!-Jeniwofd Hordwoodr, lnc. ....-.-.....76
IllcCloud Lumber Co. ------.--------------....--,--.-.. *
lieier, Herb Lumber Co. ....-.--..,....,-..---,.-,.,75
Ittlengel Co,, lhe --------....--.-..-,,,------....---.--..-*
Middleron Iumber Co., Bob --.-,---,--.,--,--.-....59
Miflwork llort, Inc. .--.--.---,---.--.......--.....-.-..57
f,lodernfold Door:, Inc. -..-....-....----------,----,i
l,loore Dry Kiln Co. -..-.-.-----....--.---..,----..-....49
Nqtl.-Americqn Whsle. Lmbr. Arsn. -.-....--. *
Neimon-Reed Iumber Co, -...........--..........-.25
Nelson lumber -------.---.-* ....-.47 ......77
Nikkel, R. F. Lumbsr Co. --.-..-..---.-.-,.-.-----.7O
Norfh Stor Timber Corp. ---.-..-....--...---.-..-...37
O59ood, Robert S. ---.-,----...---.-.-..-.......--.....-73
Oslling r|tfg. Co. --.-....--,,--..,--..-..--..-.......--.*
Oxford Lumber Co., Rex -----......-.-.-.-.........-74
Po.iffc Coq6t Aggregoles, In(. ...-...----.--.... *
Pqrific Forert Producta, InG. ....--.-.-..-.....-.--70
Pocific Lumber Co., lhe ---.------------.---.-..-.-. :*
Pqciflc Lumber Deolers Supply, Inc. ..-..-..--78
Poriflc Wire Products Co. --..--.-..-.-------..--.-.55
Pqciflc Wood ProducB Co. --.,-.-.--------..--..-*
Poul Bunyon Lqmber Co. .----.-.-...--........,---52
Inlqnd Iumber Co. ..-...--.---.---,,-.---.-,-.----.---51
Indu.tiidl Lumber .----.-.-...--.-...-....-.-...-,-,--..-. *
Johnr-Monville CorForqtion -----------.....-.-.---* Jolly Giont tumber Co. -..--.---...--.-...-....--.-.. *
Jordon Sch & Door Co., F. t. --.-....--,,---.--58
K-D Terminql Kelley, Albert A, .-.-..-......-.-......-.--.-...-......-- I'
Korhton Plywood & Veneer Co,, Inc. ------.. *
Koehl & Son. John W
..._......_,..60
Koll Ploning It^ill, W. A. --.....-.-......--.---,,-. *
L. A. Dry Kiln & Storoge, In<. -.....--.-..-,.--.65 Lomon Lumbe. Co. ...---.--.-,..,--.---,--..--,-......--41
Penberfhy Lumber Co. --.-...-.....-..........--.-..79
Perry Door Co. .--.....-----.--...-.--,--.-...-..-.-.------61
Phippr Co., The -.-...--....-...,..-..-.-.-...--.-...-..52
Pine Tree Produ<ls Co. -."......,....-....---....-- rt
R. 5. Plywood Co. .-..-.-.....--..----..
Red Ced'qr Shingle Oureou --------.--.
Regol Door Compony
.41* .55
Rirci E Krure Lumber Co. -----------------------. !t
Ro(kporl ledwood Co. ----..--------,--.-----.-..---I5
Roddircroft, Inc. ---....-..--.-....-----.-......-......--65
Roy Forest Produ<|3 Co. --..----.-..--..-.----..-..-67
ludiger-Long Co. ......-.--.....-,,-,.-------..-.---.9-lO
BUILDINC MATEBIAf,S
8-2ltll
Stanton, E, J, G Son. ......ADcns {-9211
Tqcomc Lumber Scles, lnc.. .Mtrdison 6-6831
Tcrdy, |oe. ....,..LUdlow l-078
Torler, Webster d fohnson, Inc....ANqelus 9-7231
Tropiccl d Western Lumber Co.... .LUdlow 3-2375
Twin Hcrbors Lumber Co. (C. P. Henrv d Co.). .Rlchmond 9-652{
Peter !. Vcn Oosting...(Azusc) EDgewood 4-2950
Vollstedt Kerr Lumber Co........BRcdshm 2-0128
Wendling-Ncihcn Co.... .....RYcn.I-Sl2l
lf,Ieator! Mill 6 Lumber Co.........ANgeIus 2-4148
Weyerhceuser Scles Co- ........Rlchnond 8-6181
Winton Lumber Whsle. Distrs,, Inc...TOpcz 2-2186
E. K. Wood Lumber Co..
3-7425
Cobb, Co., T. M.... ......BElmont 3-6673
UDited Stdtes Plywood Corp.......BElmont 2-5178
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A. d B, LumbEr Sales, llc., Tbo....YULoa 2-'l5ll
Arcclc Redwood Co. ...Yllton 6-2067
Boonell-Wcrd d Kaapp. ..GiArtield l-18!0
Bonniuctoa lunber Cq. ....YIIkon
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