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Pacific Coast Hardwood Distributors Hofd 20th Annual Convention at Del Monte
The 20th annual convention of the Pacific Coast Wholesale Hardwood Distributors Association was held at Hotel Del Monte, Del Monte, Calif., on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, June 25, 26 and 27.
The attendance was the largest since 1924, and the convention was a success from every point of view.
A. E. Wanke, Wanke Panel Co., Portland, was elected with some observations on problems of the industry brought about by the war.
John McClure, secretary-treasurer of the National Hardwood Lumber Association, Chicago, addressed the convention on the subject of "The Relation of the Hardrvood Industry to the War Effort." He told of the new uses being found for hardwoods in replacing metals, giving as an in- president. Charles M. Cooper, W. E. Cooper Lumber Co., Los Angeles, was elected vice-president, and Dallas Donnan, Ehrlich-Harrison Co., Seattle, was elected secretary and treasurer.
At the first business session, held on Friday morning, President P. R. (Bob), Kahn rvelcomed the members and guests in a brief talk.
Secretary Fred B. Smales, United States plywood Corp., San Francisco, presented the report of the secretary and treasurer, following which sectional reports were given by the following: Norman Sawers, Vancouver, B. C. ; J. E. Higgins, Jr., San Francisco; Frank J. Connolly, Los Angeles; Dallas Donnan, Seattle, and Robert Sullivan. San Diego.
C. H. White, White Brothers, San Francisco, in a characteristic address outlined the growth of the Association from its first meetin g in 1924 at Del Monte, and concluded stance the use of hardwoods in Army trucks. He also spoke on the extent to which the influence of the laboratory on the lumber business will be felt after the war, and predicted that "The Pacific Coast will be the front door of the United States at the end of the war."
The following took part in the general discussion that followed the addresses : J. E. Higgins, Jr., San Francisco; C. H. White, San Francisco; LeRoy Stanton, Los Angeles; Milton Taenzer, Los Angeles; Frank J. Connolly, Los Angeles, and W. E. Difford, Tacoma.
J. E. (Ted) Higgins, Jr., was toastmaster at the annual banquet of the Association, held in the Copper Cup Room on Friday evening. The entertainment included Edwin Imhaus, tenor; Fred Klein, baritone; Jud Weiler, accompanist, and movies of the 1941 Convention at Santa Barbara.
President P. R. Kahn presided at the Saturday morning business session.
W. E. Difford, managing director of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, Tacoma, gave an address on "The Necessity for Cooperation Among Businessmen."
Kenneth Smith, president of the California Redwood Association,'San Francisco, addressed the convention on "Tomorrow, or Do You See What You Are Looking At?"
Both of these addresses were warmly applauded.
A resolution was adopted affirming the Association's desire to cooperate to the fullest extent in the winning of the war by bringing to the Government the experience, knowledge and resources of the hardwood industry of the Pacific Coast, through cooperation with the National Wholesale Lumber Yard Distributors Association.
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The session concluded with the showing of a motion picture, "The Plywood Fleet," courtesy of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association.
The golf finals rvere held in the afternoon, the golf trophy being won by W. E. Difford.
The dinner dance in the Bali Room on Saturday evening was the last item on the program.
A tour of Carmel and the famous l7-Mile Drive was arranged for the ladies.
The attendance was as follows: phas. M. Cooper, W. E. Cooper Lumber Co., Los Angeles.
Frank J. Connolly, Western Hardwood Lumber Co., Los Angeles.
C. R. Taenzer, American Hardwood Co., Los Angeles.
Milton Taenzer, American Hardwood Co., Los Angeles.
LeRoy Stanton, Sr., E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles.
LeRoy Stanton, Jr., E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles.
Hal Von Breton, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles.
Clarence Bohnhoff, Bohnhoff Lumber Co., Los Angeles.
Ed Bauer, Bohnhoff Lumber Co., Los Angeles.
Sid Simmons, Bohnhoff Lumber Co., Los Angeles.
Gene De Armond, Pacific Cabinet Co., Los Angeles.
J. D. Murphy, Owens-Parks Lumber Co., Los Angeles.
Robert Sullivan, Sullivan Hardwood Co., San Diego.
James Davis, Davis Hardwood Co., San Francisco.
Nelson E. Jones, Sr., Jones Hardwood Co., San Francisco.
Nelson E. -Jones, Jr., Jones Hardwood Co., San Francisco.
J. E. Higgins, Jr., Higgins Lumber Co., San Francisco.
P. R. Kahn, Forsyth Hardwood Co., San Francisco.
Fr.ed B. Smales, United States Plywood Corp., San Franclsco.
C. H. White, White Brothers, San Francisco.
Don F. White, White Brothers, San Francisco
Chas. B. White, White Brothers, San Francisco.
Homer B. Maris, Oakland.
Norman Sawers, J. Fyfe Smith Co., Vancouver, B. C.
Dallas Donnan, Ehrlich-Harrison Co., Seattle.
A. E. Wanke, Wanke, Panel Co., Portland.
Norman Cruver, Wheeler Osgood Sales Corp., Tacoma.
Larue Woodson, Wheeler Osgood Sales Corp., San Francisco.
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By Thomas Dreier
When you are inclined to be pessimistic about the future, brighten up your mind with a few fundamentals. First of all, there will be millions of people who will need things. We'll have in this country the greatest productive machine ever devised. lVe'll have skilled workmen, plenty of raw materials, ships to deliver goods and to bring back whatever we need. But we'll have to accept changes. The old system which showed its weakness during the terrible years of unemployment needs changing. But there is nothing sacred about anything just because it is old. Only that is sacred which serves. New commercial practices, new management, new ideas will take the place of old ones that didn't work so well. Men with flexible minds will find a new world with great opportunities ready to be grasped. The sun will continue to shine in the future.
Bryan On Marriage
When William Jennings Bryan asked for the hand of the daughter of John Baird, he quoted the following from Proverbs:
White Magic
The university professor in the South who was much interested in a scheduled eclipse of the sun, thought to have some fun with the colored janitor, so he told him, the day before the eclipse, that if he would watch his hencoop the next morning about eleven o'clock he would see all his chickens go to roost. And of course it happened just that way. The darky came wondering to the professor, and asked him:
"Professuh, Suh, how long ergo did youall lcrow dem chickings wuz gwine to roost dis mawnin' at eleven o'clock?"
"Oh, many years ago," said the professor.
Mose scratched his head most thoughtfully.
"Man alive, dese white folks sho is smaht. He knowed hit yeahs an'yeahs befo' dem chickings wuz even bawned.,'
The Cheery Smile
"Whosoever findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favor of the Lord."
Baird, who was also a Bible
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There is no room for sadness when we see a cheery smile, It always has the same s never out of style. ft nerves us on to try again failure makes us blue, The dimples of t are good for me and you. It pays a higher interest, t1fi it is merely lent- t, replied that while It's worth a million rs and it doesn't cost a cent. Solomon did make that rema the greater teacher Paul said, however, that-"while that marryeth doeth well, he that marryeth not, better."
Nkindest Cut
Whereat Bryan that in a controversy between You talk of modrnful things, my friend, you say your these two great ities the opinion of Solomon woe's the one best bet; I,ll tell you, if you'll lend an ear, the saddest thing that's happened yet. It is to meet your lost Lenore, or female of some other name, the one,you loved in days of yore, when love was quite a fevered game.
was the more on this subject because while Paul mon had married a thousand times and therefore was the greatest of all authorities on the subject.
HE ALWAYS RHYMED 'EM
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Somehow she drifted from your life, for youthful dreams go galley-west, in time you gathered in a wifg but always loved Lenore the best. In memory she kept her place, the lost Lenore with starry eyes, with curly hair and angel face, the lovely image never dies.
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One evening he had just finishing when he slipped on the kitchen foor where his wi just been mopping, and his pails of milk went out all directions, as he sat t even rising, he was spur of the moment, on any subject occurred to him. And now that you are waxing old you go back to your native town, where once with footsteps quick and bol{ you ran the fleet jackrabbit down. And there you meet an ancient dame who'd scare a burglar with her face, she has a l,arge and bony frame, she talks a deep and rumbling bass. Ah ! Then you shed the bitter brine, and lean against the BIue Front Store, for you feel saggy in the spine, the bel_ dame is your lost Lenore! To find your girl of love and mirth become so punk and fierce a blufr, this is the saddest thing on earth, there's nothing else so dad-blamed tough-
"There I go, Two pails of milk all shot to Hell, Ain't I told you times before Not to mop that gol-dang floor."
Transferred to San Francisco Ollice Military Heads Concerned \(ith Forest
Leslie K. Andrews, a member of the American Lumber and Treating Company's New York office, has been transferred to the organization's San Francisco staff. The assignment was effective July 1.
A forestry graduate oi North Carolina and Duke universities, Mr. Andrews previously worked in the wood-preserving company's operating and technical departments before joining the sales force.
His research work to set up new wood fireproofing standards, which lvas presented at the 1942 American Wood-Preservers'Association convention, has played an important part in bringing fireproofing of lumber out of the laboratory and into commercial practice.
lncreases Lumber Production
The Red River Lumber Company has increased production by the resumption of operation of its mill at Susanville, California. One band and one resaw have a capacity of l2O thousand feet daily, and a planing mill has been installed.
Fred Lloyd is superintendent, Knute Lothe, mill foreman, and John Berglund, lumber inspector and outside foreman, all from the company's operation at Westwood, California.
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Reveille Gets National Publicity
East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club's 10th annual Reveille got considerable publicity in the Bulletin of Hoo-Hoo for June, and the general activities of the Club for the past year were given in some detail. The announcement written by Thos. T. Branson for the Reveille program was reproduced in full on the outside front cover of the Bulletin.
Fare Dangers
San Francisco, July 2-The Western Defense Command has instructed the U. S. Forest Service that "No campfires will be permitted after dark unless they may be extinguished immediately upon receipt of an air raid warning."
Lt. General John L. DeWitt's orders prohibit campfires at night except where provision is made for immediate receipt of air raid warning signals. Since most camping and picnicking areas in the "great outdoors" are not equipped with air raid warning facilities the order prohibits campfires after dark in virtually all outing regions.
Acting on instructions from the Western Defense Command, Regional Forester S. B. Show announced today that campers and other vacationists in mountain areas are expected to comply fully with Lt. General DeWitt's regulation on campfires and that his orders will be rigidly enforced.
The Forest Service also emphasized the public responsibility of adhering to State Fire Marshall Lydell Peck's recent order prohibiting the display of fireworks for the duration of the emergency. According to experienced foresters the illegal use of firecrackers has been one of the greatest sources of fire danger to forests and fields during Fourth of July vacation periods in the past.
A number of emergency closures limiting public use of highly inflammable and strategic forest areas now are in force as a miiltary necessity. Regional Forester Show added.
He urged all national forest visitors to inquire of forest rangers and supervisors regarding the location of any local closures.
"Every citizen," declared Regional Forester Show, "is urged to take part in the campaign against unintentional forest fire sabotage by exercising the greatest possible precautions with smoking tobacco, matches and campfires. Put them dead out."
VISITING MEXICO, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
Roy Barto, president and general manager of Cadwallader-Gibson Co., Inc., Los Angeles, left the latter parf of June on d month's business trip to visit the hardwood mills in Mexico, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Colombia.
Foundations Suggest Way to Have Fun at Home While Saving Rubber
'3egin with a bench," says Northern and Southern California Homes Foundation, in suggesting practical ways for father and the family to use leisure time at home, in home improvements and to have fun doing it. Peacetime pleasure driving in the family automobile is now a thing of the past, the Foundation points out, and thire is a nation-wide revival of home amusements and occupations which were common in pre-motor America.
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"Ifome carpentry was at the top of that list," says Bernard B. Barber and Orrie W. Hamilton, Foundation Chairmen. f'In the gay nineties, there were few family heads who did not boast at least a modest set of carpenter's tools and bench. Many of us who grew up in that tradition have carried it on, using power woodworking tools.
"You can begin with a bench, needing only hammer, saw, nails, chisel, plane and a square or ruler for tools. Your local retail lumber dealer will gladly supply you with simple instructions, even with a pattern or design for the workbench. Or he will cut the parts for you in his shop. You will soon find it simple to produce such useful items as built-in telephone tables, bookcases, garden furniture, and related home improvements.
t'Your government wants you to 'change from. road work to home work.' The whole family can have fun at home, making useful things from wood."
San Francisco Mill Busy
The plant of the Eureka Sash Door & Moulding Mills, San Francisco, has been busy for some time on manufacturirlg and supplying millwork for defense housing. Two of the most recent jobs are millwork for defense homes at Benicia, Calif., being erected by the Schultz Construction Co., Benicia, and another group of similar homes at Concord, Calif.
W. I. McCoy is general manager of Eureka Sash Door & Moulding Mills, and 'Warren Spieker is secretary and treasurer.
CARL MOORE, JR. IN AIR CORPS
Carl R. Moore, Jr., son of Carl R. Moore, Sr., vicepresident and general manager of Scott Lumber Company, Burney, Calif., is in the Army Air Corps, in training at Tucson, Ariz.
.A built-in telcphonc table doigned 1e 3tinin113 lonc Det pccvcr ot many.homc ownerr. No more long runs to rcach thc phonc beforc an impatient caller hangs up q9 morc futitc ccarch fofa misptaccd phone book and no morc rpill. ovcr a rnake-likc tclcphonc-cordtThe wholo workc ic built in a watt nichc in romc convcnientty Iocated.room.- Thc phone rtlnds in thc nichc... thc tetephonc booic has a ,1helf of-its own thc unsightly bor and bclt *ay 6ut of right .. and therc ig no toosc wirc to trip ovcit
Thc construction of thir convenience ir et rimotc er it ir incrocnsivc. All materials needed arc available at most retail lumbcr vardi or thc cntire unit-can be purchased rready-to-install from youi locai raail lumber dcater. Installing thc firturi ir the work of an amatcun
Robert Cross In Navy
Robert Cross, formerly with Cross Lumber Co., Coalinga, is in the Lighter-Than-Air Division of the Navy, Lakehurst, N. J.
Ours is more thcn cn organization. We qre cn institutioru dediccted to the principles oI distribution, cnd, oI foremost importcnce, your scrtislcrction and goodwill.
R. A. Fobes Passes On M.y Apply Directly to OPA for Adiust-
Royal.A. (Roy) Fobes, manager of the I-os Angeles branch of the Pacific Mutual Door Company, passed away at his home in Hollywood, July 12, following a heart attack. He was sixty-five years of age.
Mr. Fobes had been connected with the lumber business in l-os Angeles for many years and was widely known in the Pacific Coast lumber trade. Born in Nelson, Ohio, he received his early education in that state and attended Oberlin College at Oberlin, Ohio.
He operated a sawmill at Batson Prairie, Texas, in 1904, and was with the Industrial Lumber Company at Oakdale, La., from 1905 until 1908. He came to Los Angeles in 1909 and was a wholesale salesman with the Hammond Lumber Company for several years. After two years as sales representative for the Little River Redwood Co., he became manager of the Los Angeles office for Sudden & Christenson and remained with them for about nine years. He operated as a lumber commission salesman for several years, and then took over the management of the Pacific Mutual Door Company's Los Angeles warehouse and office, which position he held until his death.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Alice G. Fobes; a son' Francis S. Fobes, and a daughter, Mrs. Mary Belle Bessonette. Funeral services were held at Los Angeles, Tuesday afternoon, luly 14, and were attended by a large number of lumbermen.
F. L. Baird
Floyd Leslie Baird, pioneer Redwood City mill owner and retail lumberman, passed away on June 2l in Palo Alto Hospital after a long illness. He was 72 years of age, and had been a resident of Redwood City for thirty-eight years where he operated the F. L. Baird Lumber Company. He was a native of Michigan.
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He is survived by his widorv, Mrs. Grace Baird; a daughter, Mrs. Grace Mellum and two sons, Ernest H. and F'loyd L. Baird, Jr.
mcnts in Ceiling Pricas
Washington, Jnly 9-The Office of Price Administration today established machinery for merchants and manufactureis to apply directly to OPA for adjustments in the ceiling prices.
OPA officials said the. new order will apply only to hardship cases which can be handled without causing an increase in the general level of prices. It allows revisions to be made for individual applicants by regional OPA ofcials under special circumstances.
Previously, the general maximum price regulation permitted retailers only to apply for adjustment of out-of-line prices. Wholesalers and manufacturers had to petition for an amendment to the regulation.
The order is effective Tuesday.
New Rules on Truck Hauls
Los Angeles, July lo-Truckmen who haul material from city to city were given a new set of rules today whereby "dispatchers" offices to assure full loads on return trips may be set up under government guidance.
Such offices would aid truckers in obtaining full use of their trucks and rubber under recent rules of the office of defense transportation,
Roy Long, director of the Los Angeles ODT office, yesterday disclosed that truckers on over the road hauls had proposed such a plan about a month ago and were working out the details.
"It is estimated that about 15 such dispatchers offices will be set up in the 13 Southern California counties to act as information centers to truckers seeking full loads on return trips," said Mr. Long.
Fire Destroys Mill
Fire destroyed the mill of the Davis Creek Lumber Co., eight miles northwest of Bieber, Calif., lune 17. The owners said it could not be placed in operation again this year.
Four million feet of lumber in the yard was saved. The mill and logging operations employed more than 100 men.
Army Buys 75 Million Feet At Seattle
The Army Corps of Engineers purchased 75 million feet of lumber at an auction held in Seattle, July 1 and 2,