ttEveiy man must hew out his ovrn Pr,osperity. Uncle Sam and the Lumberman are partners but Santa Claus was left out.tt
If you want to sell lumber you will have to s€ll it. Start right with a stock of clean, bright, dry
The Red River plant (Paul Bunyan's) continues production to balance yard inventory. At present, certain items are restricted to limited amount$ on each order.
1/1 x ('-$"-ld' No. 3 and No, 4 Com. Pine and Fir.
4/1 No. 2 Corn. (except 12").
1/1 C and D Select CALIFORNIA WHITE PINE.
4/,1 D Select SUGAR PINE.
5/4 D Select CALIFORNIA WHTTE PINE.
5/4 No.2 and No.3 Shop SUGAR and CAL. WHITE PINE.
8/4 No. I and No.2 Shop SUGAR PINE.
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All aizee, all grader except itemr on limitation lirt.
It is our desire to co-operate in the establishment and maintenance of practices and standards of ethics that make for mutual benefit within the lumber industry; with every consideration for the retail dealer, for when retail dealers prosper, we likewise prosper.
Lumbermen believe that the present slack in buying is due to uncertainty about the effective date of the lumber Code, now under consideration at Vaehington, deales h""irg in the past two months anticipated their immediate needs and are now waiting to see what the new regulations will do to alfect prices, according to the.Weet Coast Lumbermentr Asrociation. Once the mattet is setded, the industry believes a faitly eteady demand will begin but the level at which this expected new business is to.corne qrnnot at this time be estimated. ThiE will depend on the added putchasing power by that time distributed throughout the country. fn the meantime, the A$ociation states, the industry has a good back-log of unfilled ordero and can await the settlement of the code and such improvement in lumber consumption as rnay occur through the operations of the various meaaures now being taken to improve conditions throughout tfie country.
New businese rq>orted to the Association by 182 mills for the wee& ended July 15 is 9O,O39,529 fent against a production of 1o6,W4252 feet and shipmene of, 104,590,621 feet. Shipments were under production by 1.42/s, and the cuffent salec were under production by 15.13/s. Orders booked for the week by this group of mills were over the preceding week by 593,81O feet, or O.6Vo. **
Production during t{re week ended July 15 was 2O5,954,OOO feet; shipments were 219r28Or00O feet and orders 18710111000 feet, according to reports to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association from regional associations coveting the operations of 639 leading hardwood and softwood mills. Lumber orderc for t{re week, for the first time in e yee\ fell below production. Production for the week was the heaviest since luly, l9)1. All softwood regions, except Nochern Hemlocfr, showed an excess of production over o,rders. Flardwood orders, however, wete 34 per cent above production.
Kenneth Smith, se,cretarv of the Lumber & Allied Products Institute, Los Angeles, has returned from a trip to Chicago rvhere he attended the annual meeting of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association.
Carl R. Moore, of the San Francisco office of Moore Mill & Lumber Co., left July 24 by automobile for a trip to Long Beach, Wash. He will spend some time at the company's at Bandon, Ore., and will return by way of the
Redwood highway, reaching San Francisco about August 3.
The Southetn Pine Asgociatioa for the week ended July 15 reported new business for 1O1 "rills a! 26rE9Er(rcO feet; ihipments tzrOS2rOOO f.et, and production 1016T01000 feet. Orders wete 12 p9r cent below production and 16 per cent below shipments. Shipments were 5 per cent above productioar.
The Western Pine Association for the week reported new business for 110 mills as ,8r413,(XlO feet; shipments 5Or42SrOW fe96 and production 45rl45rW feet. OrderJ were 15 per celrt below production and 24 pe cent below shipmcnts. Shipmcnts were 12 per cent above production.
239 hardwood mills for the same weel give new business ac 27rO46.r0{J,O feet, or 34 pet cent above production, and shipments 27r9(X)r(XX) feet, or 3E per cent above production. Production was 20r161r(XX) feet.
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The California Rodwood Association for the month of Junq 1933, rcponed orders received for 12 mills as 33r439r(N f.eet1 orders on hand 34985,000 feet; shipments 24,776,fi)0 fect; production 612,42.OOO f.eet.
Details of orders and shipments for tfie month were as follows: Ordere-Northem California 8rO99r0OO feet; Sout{rern California tr7l4rfiO0 fea; Vestern 47,(XX) feet; Eastern 19r979,ON feet; Foreign 1,6O0,(XX) feet. Shipments-Northetn California 6r138r(XX) feet; Southern California 4126810/l/0 f.a,; Vestern 64r(X)O feet; Eastern l2,97OrO0/J feet; Foreign 11336rOfi) feet.
California buying slowed up considerably during the month of Juln The consumer demand also dropped ofi some and was not up to the June volume of business. To some extent this is s€asonal as July is generally a quiet month. Prices, both wholesale and tetail, are being well maintained.
Unsold stocks on the public docks at San Pedro totaled 110301000 feet on July 24 as agarnst l254rWO two weeks ago. Cargo arrivals at dris port for the week ended lruly 2a amounted to 1310911000 feet, which included 16 cargoes of Fir. 63 vessels were operating in the coastwise lumber trade on July 2O; 4l vessels were laid up. The Los Angeles building permits for t{re first twenty-five days of July totaled {l/r7,Eg0.
Al Kelley, of the Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned to San Francisco luly 17 from a two weeks'business and vacation trip to the Northwest. He went as far north as Everett and called on a number of mills, including the Willamette Valley Lumber Company's mill at Dallas, Oregon, where he spent two days looking over their operation. He was ac.companied by his family, and traveled by automobile.
Washington, July 5.-The appointment of Mr. Frank A. Chase of Miami, Florida, to the important post of Director of Field Service for the Federal Home Loan Bank Board rvill be of immediate interest to his many friends and former co-workers in the lumber industry. Mr. Chase will direct the organization in the field of Federal Savings and Loan Associations which will be set up under the Home Otvners Loan Corporation, as provided for in the Home Owners' Loan Act, recently passed by Congress.
These associations are local mutual thrift institutions established to provide financing of homes. Not only will new institutions be set up in communities not now adequately served by existing organizations but present institutions will be reorganized to come under the provisions of the Act.
Mr. Chase has had long experience in building and loan association work. Sometime between 1895 and 1900 he became a director of the Provident Building and Loan Association, Spokane, Wash., and a few years later, SecretaryManager of the Spokane Building and Loan Society. In 1913, as presidgnt of the Washington State League of Savings and Loan Associations, he secured enactment of an up-to-date building and loan law. From 1915 to 1919, as a member of the State Senate of Washington, Mr. Chase handled complete revision of State banking laws.
During l92l and 7922, Mr. Chase was in charge of community development work as head of the Building and Loan Department of the Southwestern Lumbermen's Association in Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, in cooperation with supervising offi,cials and Building and Loan leagues of those states. Scores of Local mutual associations were organized. Demand for extension of this service led to the organization of the American Savings, Building and Loan Institute in September, 1922, of. which Mr. Chase was Educational Director and later as collaborator with Dr. Horace F. Clark, co-author of its basic text book, which is the standard Building and Loan textbook. This work was financed mainly by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, Southern Pine Association and the Southwestern Lumbermen's Association.
During 1922-26, Mr. Chase was engaged in intensive field work and advisory service to building and loan associations in many states, as representative of the Institute. Since 1926 he has reorganized a large building and loan company in Miami, Florida, which has suffered tremendous uninsured hurri'cane losses, and in the spring of 1930, he conducted a National Home Finance Survey for the National Lumber Manufacturers Association with the cooperation of other .national trade organizations.
Mr. Chase's first connection with the Federal Home Loan Bank system was as Dire,ctor of the Federal Home Loan Bank at Winston-Salem, N. C., to which office he was appointed in October, 1932 and reappointed in January, 1933.
Redwood possesses characteristics unsurpassed by any other material for the construction of Mining Tanks, $(/ater Tanks, Oil Tanks, Beer and Vine Tanls. Because of its durabiliry and fire retardance it will outlast any other tank. The low cost price of Redwood tanks, the ease of erection and transpcrtation makes them an all around economical tank and because Redwood has no taste or odor, it makes the most practical container for any liquid from milk to oil,
Anyway, there's one charge that cannot be truthfully brought against the times we're going through; no one can say they're DULL.
"But," insists tfr" tirrria*t*t"* man, discussing all the things the Government is doing today to hasten business recovery, "supposing this efio1t doesn't work-what then?" "Mister," is the reply, "we have bet the entlre works on this thing. If it doesn't work you can just stop worrying about your afiairs. You won't have any." **tl
Just this one thought to the lumber industry-root and branch: There is no industry in existence that would profit more by increased buying power of this nation, than lumber. Homes and other structures are built on maximum-never on minimum wages.
I can't help wonderrt, n"* Jo, "orr"t:tutions-fed continually for four years on wild emotions of every sort except hopeful-will stand the strain when times come back again that are not continually surcharged with tragedy' We may be so keyed up by that time that we'll long for more excitement. We've certa:nly had little else for four Years' * * :r
Canadians who market products in this country are intensely interested in our business antics right now. They are sitting on the side lines and watching every move of the Recovery Act and its application. They want to'know what it is going to mean to them. They have no code to work under. And, they want to keep on selling this side of the border. Naturally they are asking what, and how, and whY?
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Right now I'm basking in the belief that when lumber gets its code to working, and a minimum selling price, lumber advertising will hop up. Don't see how it can be otherwise. With everyone on a price level the old price gag will not be workable, and the boys will want to tell the trade the why of buying from THEM. For advertising, you see, is my bread and butter. And my ap'petite's fine' **
I said last issue that I was d'zzy from trying to understand the application of the Recovery Act to business' And I'm getting no better fast. Take lumber. A Code would seem to me to essentially call for a minimum price' You can't make a man put his cost away up, and not give h'm some protection against chiseling. Then right away bobs
up that time-honored subject of WOOD FIBER. Every day we see up-to-grade lumber of the same grade and species, selling for entirely different prices BECAUSE OF THEIR DIFFERENT VALUES. How is the secondgrowth Yellow Pine man going to compete on a price level with the virgin Long Leaf man? How is the maker of brittle, inferior Fir, going to compete with the makers of the soft, old-growth kind? The GRADE is the same. But the value?
And now, to top on
and financial problems, the mill man finds himself "torn between the horns of a dilemma" indeed. The Federal Government waves a big stick over his head and says-"Join in my Recovery AcI-QUICKLY." And he answers-"If I do, will you guarantee me protection against my state laws that my recovery code may violate?" And the answer seems to be, "No, we can't guarantee you immunity, but we BELIEVE the Federal law will prevail and protect you." I think the greatest movement toward the success of the Recovery Act would be made if President Roosevelt would put millioni of business minds to rest by issuing a proclamation stating that Uncle Sam would guarantee protection to every man operating honorably under an accepted code signed by the President. The sooner he does that the better. Every good man wants to help and respond to the call of the President, but he hates to think he might go to a state jail for doing it. Let's'get together.
one thing will come ; J "i .r,'" activity with regard to the Recovery Act and industry: KNOWLEDGE. Knowledge of its own affairs, and their practical relationship to the other fellow's business affairs, that the making of codes and of cost systems has uncovered. I am convinced that the lumber manufacturing business knows more about itself today than it ever knew before; than it ever dreamed of knowing. And this knowledge will come in handy throughout its future existence.
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With all of its difficulties, its mysteries, its terrifying uncertainties, its brand-new thoughts and ideas affecting business, I am convinced that the final result of the Recovery Act will be hugely constructive; and that its application to business in this ernergency situation will leave a permanent and ineradicable impression of goodly character upon the business of the nation. I firmly believe that.
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Throughout history-as I attempted to show in these columns six months ago-every great panic and depression
has been followed by developments and consequences of great and lasting benefit to the human race. This will be no exception to the rule. While its impressments upon industry at the present moment may seem to many to be onerous and straying too far afield from our conception of American rights and liberties, many of the theories and philosophies upon which the Act is built are ingredients that industry genuinely needs, not only right NOW, but at ALL times.
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I am sure that this thing that is being thrust upon the lumber industry at the present time as its share of the burden of recovery, will in the end be a great blessing to thls industry. A few intelligent restrictions and regulations could save the lumber industry from the dark future which, for the past ten years, has apparently been its certain heritage. Such restrictions and regulations, had they been applied years ago, could have saved this industry the unnumerable vicissitudes that have been its almost constant lot. I have said in these columns for many, many years, that the lumber industry seemed utterly incapable of saving itself. Perhaps now the saving so long needed comes in the guise of the Recovery Act. Who knows? Anyway, it's a good thought, and I believe it may prove true.
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Maybe when this emergency has passed and the prob-
Booth-Kelly Douglae Fir, the Asgociation grade and trade mark certifu to your customers the quality of the stock you handle. Builders quit gueeeing about what they're buying and buy where they know what they're getting.
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lems that now beset us have been solved, it will be found that in this effort of the Federal Government to force industry to save itself and the natio'n, this thing they call the Recovery Act possesses in fact much of the essence of the Golden Rule; and that this philosophy will remain to saturate industry as it never has before. "There must be a greater division of the profits of industry," says the administration. It was thus spoke the Man of Galilee, also, when He preached on the green hills of His native land. We can stand a little more of His spirit in industry. Personally I hate and abhor socialism. But Golden Rule-ism cannot be over-done.
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It's hard to talk or think about anything but the Recovery Act situation. Two sawmill friends of mine were talking about it the other day, and discussing the possibility of a very short working week. One of them declared he was willing to try what the rest of them did, but he didn't see how a mill could operate dry kilns on a thirty hour basis. His friend, who knew of the financial tragedies the first had gone through in the past two years, grinned dryly, and remarked: "Old boy, you've solved tougher problems than that in the last couple of years." And the other grinned back. Compared to what he'd been through, short week dry kiln operation is a breeze.
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As a result of re-roofing literature left at the ofEce of the State of Oregon lforld lUTar Veterans' State Atd Commission at Salem, Oregon, the executive secretary, Jerrold Owen, offers this voluntary endorsement of the efrciency of this method:
"!7e are doing a considerable amount of roofing and have adopted your recommendation for placing a new roof over the old one. We 6nd it very satisfactory, notwith. standing the fact there has been considerable opposition among carpenters and shinglers."
Copies of the national farm journal advertising now appearing, illustrated literature on re-roofing in the city and on the farm and remodeling will be sent free on request. Free newspaper mat service, Write to&y and be prepared ro get your share of the business that is rapidly being developed.
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We're all going to have to do a lot of things in our business in the next year that we won't particularly like, but we're going to have them'to do whether we like them or not. So why not make the best of it, and see how much zest we can put into it, and how much fun we can get out of it? For life, through the bitter and the sweet, is packed with things of interest and of joy. We only make difficult situations more difficult by taking them too seriously. ***
Once during the Civil War Secretary Stanton violently disagreed with President Lincoln over a matter of policy. When informed of Lincolds opinion Stanton blurted out"Lincoln's a damn fool t" The word was carried back to Lincoln. The President grinned. "That's bad," he remarked, "for I find that Stanton is nearly always right in his opinions."
A most interesting development of renewed lumber activity in the Southwest, is a labor shortage. Men are scarcely to be found in East Texas and \Vestern Louisiana. Cotton picking reports a labor shortage, also. At the same time our cities are still feeding thousands of unemployed. One of the most difficult jobs that the reconstruction days that follow the depression will encounter is getting the unemployable people off the charity lists. For the jobless can well be divided into two classes: the unemployed who cannot find work; and the unemployable, who are never going to work again if they can help it. We have a large percentage of the latter on every charity roll. To weed them out and get rid of them is no small job. It will require little short of dynamite to get a lot of them off the charity list.
Another novel thing that has come to us is a car shortage. The reason is simple. The railroads, with no tonnage to haul, have let their freight cars go into disrepair and bad order to a degree never before known. All of a sudden car loadings revive, and the railroads find themselves suddenly confronted with a rising tide of business, and insufficient cars in good order to handle it. Result, a wild rush to get cars back into condition, and operation. The most insistent demand the mills have had of late is for car repair materials. ***
I know a retail lumberman whom fear made a lot of money for recently. The closing of the banks last spring scared him within an inch of a fit. When the banks reopened he found his money intact, but his scare stayed, also. Se he went out and blindly bought lumber. He filled
his sheds and his yards to capacity, blindly reasoning that nothing could happen to his lumber that would scare him like he had just been scared. He not only put all his available cash into lumber, but he borrowed some money and used that the same way. Result, he's got the biggest stock of lumber he ever had in his life with an inventory profit right now of at least ten dollars a thousand. It was fearnot wisdom-that did it. ***
I had a notion that the Southern cotton producer with advancing cotton prices holding possible promise of a golden reward at the end of the harvest season, might combat the idea of plowing under a certain part of his crop as the Government demanded. Did he? He did notl He turned out to be a better business man than many of us gave him credit for. He didn't say-"How little can I plow under?" He asked-"How much?" Cash on the barrel head in Uncle Sam's money. No boll-weavil, no drouth, no storm, no market crash can hurt the man who made his contract with the Government and plowed his cotton under. The old theory of "a bird in the hand" stood stout as Stonewall Jackson.
The lumber cut of California for the year 1932 was 694,521,000 board feet, according to preliminary report of the California Forest Experiment Station of the United States Forest Servi'ce based on returns from a lumber census conducted for the Bureau of the Census. This total is 27.6 per cent less than the cut in 1931, and 54.2 per cent below the 1930 cut.
The lumber cut of the pine region mills, mainly in the Sierra Nevada, was 509,149,000 feet, or 25.6 per cent less ' than in 1931 and 50.3 per ,cent under the 193O cut. The redwood region mills along the Pacific Coast produced I84,447W feet, or 32.6 per cent less than in 1931, and 62.3 per cent under the 1930 cut.
Ponderosa pine led all species in lumber production with 385,406,000 feet, or 55.7 per cent of the total State cut. Redwood was second with 135,647,000 feet, or 19.6 per cent, and Douglas fir third with 77,826,000 feet, or ll.2 per cent.
Sugar pine, white fir, cedar and spruce were other important lumber species. In addition to lumber, the report shows a production of 9,393,000 lath and 17,002,000 shingles. The latter are mainly redwood.
The above lumber figures are based on the annual production of all mills in the State cutting 50,000 board feet or over, together with 38 smaller mills.
National Association of Wooden Box Manufacturers, at its recent meeting in Chicago, formulated a code of fair practices for the wooden box and shook industry and plans to present its tentative code to General Hugh S. Johnson in the near future.
R. H. Morehouse, secretary-treasurer of the Pacific Division of the national association, points out that without waiting for governmental approval of the code, many box factories located on the Pacific Coast have increased wages approximately 10 per cent during the past two weeks'
At the annual meeting of the National Association in Chicago Walter S. Johnson, of San Francisco, was elected president for the ensuing year.
Representing Pacific Coast manufacturers at the conclave were the following: Floyd Hart, vice-president, Timber Products Co. of Medford; Robert L. Ferral of the McCloud River Lumber Co. of M,cCloud; C. H. Daggett of the Ewauna Box Co of Klamath Falls; J. A. McEvoy of Bloedel-Donovan Lumber Mills of Seattle; Lester W. Lewis of Lewis-Bean Co. of Seattle; Shelley P. White of the California Barrel Co. in San Fran'cisco; D. S. Painter of the Fruit Growers' Supply Co. of San Francisco; W' H. Trainer of the California Fruit Exchange and Klamath Lumber & Box Co. in San Francisco.
The McCormick Supply Co. has opened an office at 841 Petroleum Securities Bldg., Los Angeles. J. A. Rudbach is the company's Southern California representative. Headquarters of the company are in San Francisco.
The first actual order for Alligator Conne,ctors was placed with the Timber Engineering Co., of Washington, D. C., a subsidiary of American Forest Products Industries, Inc., through A. C. Horner, of San Francisco, representative of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association.
The order called lor 7ffi, 3-/s inch Alligator Connectors, to be used in the De Turk winery being erected at Santa Rosa for Grace Brothers. for which L. H. Nishkian is consulting engineer.
Considerable interest in the use of modern connectors for wood frame structures is being evidenced on the Pacific Coast, ac'cording to Mr. Horner, an'd it is believed that the use of wood will be materially increased as the advantages and availability of the connectors become better known.
At the present time Alligator Connectors are available upon order through the Timber Engineering Co. from the factory at Elyria, Ohio. Local inquiries for information are being handled by Mr. Horner, who represents both the Timber Engineering Co. and the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, who is again located at 45 Second Street. San Francisco.
Ralph Moore, vice president, Moore Mill & Lumber Co., Bandon, Ore., left San Francisco July 2l after spending a week in the city on business.
President Roosevelt approved in entirety a general voluntary governing code of minimum wages and shorter working hours for American industry on Thursday evening, July 20. The President made knorvn the plan after Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, industrial recovery administrator, had read it over to him alone in the White House.
The text of the President's reemployment agreement follows: During the period of the President's emergency reemployment drive, that is to say, from August I to December 31, 1933, or to any earlier date of approval of a code of fair competition to which he is subject, the undersigned hereby agrees with the President as follows:
(1.) After August 31, 1933, not to employ any person under 16 years of age, except -that persons between 14 and 16 may be employed (but not in manufacturing or mechanical industries) for not to exceed three hours per day and those hours between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., in such work as will not interfere with hours of day school.
(2.) Not to work any accounting, clerical, banking, offi,ce, service, or sales employees (except outside salesmen) in any store, office, department, establishment, of public utility, or on any automotive or horse-drawn passenger, express, delivery, or freight service, or in any other place or manner, for more than forty hours in any one week and not to reduce the hours of any store or servi.ce operation to below fifty'1*o hours in any one week, unless su,ch hours were less than fifty-two hortrs per rveek before July l, 1933, and in the latter case not to reduce such hours at all.
(3.) Not to employ any factory or mechanical worker or artisan more than a maximum week of thirty-five hours until December 31, 1933, but with the right to work a maximum week of forty hours for any six rveeks within this period; and not to emplol' any lvorker more than eight hours in any one day.
(4.) The maximum hours fixed in the foregoing paragraphs (2) and (3) shall not apply to employees in establishments employing not more than two persons in towns of less than 2500 population which towns are not part of a larger trade area; nor to registered pharmacists or other professional persons employed in their profession; nor to employees in a managerial or executive capacity, who now receive more than $35 per week; nor to employees on emergency maintenance and repair work; nor to very special cases where restrictions of hours of highly skilled workers on ,continuous processes would unavoidably redu,ce production but, in any such special case, at least time and onethird shall be paid for hours worked in excess of the maximum. Population for the purposes of this agreement shall be determined by reference to the 1930 Federal census.
(5.) ' Not to pay any of the classes of employees men-
tioned in Paragraph 2 less than $15 per week in any city of over 500,000 population, or in the immediate trade area of such city; nor less than $14.50 per week in any city of between 250,000 and 500,000 population, or in the immediate trade area of such ,city; nor less than $14 per week in any city of between 25{UJ_ an 250,000 population, or in the immediate trade area of such city; and in towns of less than 2000 population to increase all wages by not less than 200 per cent, provided that this shall not require wages in excess of $12 per week.
(6.) Not to pay any employee of the classes mentioned in Paragraph 3 less than 40,cents per hour unless the hourly rate for the same class of work on July 15, l9D, was less than 40 cents per hour, in which latter case not to pay less than the hourly rate on July 15, 1929, and in no event less than 30 cents per hour. It is agreed that this paragraph establishes a guaranteed minimum rate of pay regardless of whether the employee is compensated on the basis of a time rate or on a piecework performance.
(7.) Not to reduce the compensation for employment now in excess of the minimum wages hereby agreed to (notwithstanding that the hours worked in such employment may be hereby reduced) and to increase the pay for su'ch employment by an equitable readjustment of all pay schedules.
(8.) Not to use.any subterfuge to frustrate the spirit and intent of this agreement which is, among other things, to increase employment by a universal covenant, to remove obstru.ctions to ,commerce, and to shorten hours and raise wages for the shorter week to a living basis.
(9.) Not to increase the price of any merchandise sold after the date hereof over the price on July 1, 1933, by more than is made necessary by actual increases in production, replacement, or invoice costs of mer.chandise since July 1, 1933, or by taxes or other costs resulting from action taken pursuant to the Agricultural Adjustment Act and, in setting such price in,creases, to give full weight to probable increases in sales volume and to refrain from taking profiteering advantage of the consuming public.
(10.) To support and patronize establishments which also have signed this agreement and are listed as members of N.R.A. (National Recovery Administration).
(11.) To cooperate to the fullest extent in having a code of fair competition submitted by his industry at the earliest possible date and in any event before September l, 1933.
(12.) 'Where, before June 16, 1933, the undersigned had contracted to purchase goods at a fixed price for delivery during the period of this agreement, the undersigned will make an appropriate adjustment of said fixed price to meet
any increase in cost caused by the seller having signed this President's re-employment agreement or having become bound by any code of fair competition approved by the President.
(13.) This agreement shall cease upon approval by the President of a code to which the undersigned is subject; or, if the N.R.A. so elects, upon submission of a code to which the undersigned is subject and substitution of any of its provisions for any of the terms of this agreement.
(14). It is agreed that any person who rvishes to do his part in the President's re-employment drive by signing this agreement but who asserts that some particular provision hereof, because of peculiar cir'cumstances, will create great and unavoidable hardship, may obtain the benefits hereof by signing this agreement and putting it into effect and then, in a petition approved by a representative trade association of his industry, or other representative organization designated by N.R.A. may apply for a stay of such provision pending' a summary investigation by N.R.A. if he agrees in such application to abide by the decision of such investigation. This agreement is entered into pursuant to Section a(A) of the National Industrial Recovery Act and subject to all terms ancl conditions required by Sections 7(A) and 10(V) of that act.
Each agreement form bears at the top a brief message signed by the president and addressed to "every emplover." It reads:
"1. This agreement is part of a nation-wide plan to raise wages, 'create employment, and thus increase purchasing power ahd restore business. That plan depends
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wholly on united action by all employers. For this reason I ask you, as an employer to do your part by signing.
"2. If it turns out that the general agreement bears unfairly on any group of employers, they can have that straightened out by presenting promptly their proposed code of fair competition."
The forms are to be delivered to employers of more than three persons all over the 'country. The post office departrnent rvill have charge of the distribution.
Washington, D. C., July 18.-The Emergency National Committee of the lumber industries, which will be hereafter known as the Lumber Code Authority, with C. Arthur Bruce, Memphis, Tenn., as acting executive officer, will have charge of the presentation of the case for the lumber industries' code in the hearings which begin on July 20, before General Johnson, NIRA administrator.
Laird Bell, Chicago attorneys, has been designated by General Johnson as his lumber industry adviser. M. W. Stark, Columbus, Ohio, lumberman, has been appointed by Gen. Johnson as permanent assistant to Assistant Administrator Dudley Cates, who will conduct the hearings for the Administration.
The list of those who will appear in advocacy of the lumber code, whi'ch was submitted on July 10, includes Mr. Bruce; C. C. Sheppard, Clarks, La., president of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association; Wilson Compton, Washington, D. C., manager of that association; John D. Tennant, Longview, \Mash., chairman of the Lumber Code Authority; Col. W. B. Greeley, manager West Coast Lumbermen's Association, Seattle, Wash.
Alfred W. Hart will leave Los Angeles for Raymond, Wash., oh August I where he will be director of sales for the Hart-Wood Lumber Co. mill which is resuming operations. For the past several years, he has been connected with the Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., as Northwest buyer with headquarters in Tacoma, and during the past year he has been a member of their sales staff working out of their Los Angeles office. Prior to joining the LawrencePhilips organization, he was manager of the Quinault Lumber Co. at Raymond, Wash. The Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co. will represent the Hart-Wood Lumber Co. in Southern California.
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The two colored porters were sitting and talking adventure, as is freguently the way with darkies when they can get someone to listen.
"Boy," said the first one, "whut was de mos' you evah scared in you life?"
"Niggah," said the second, "de wust Ah wuz evah scared
wuz one time Ah wuz callin' on a married lady, an' her husband done come home."
"\Mell," insisted the questioner, "how bad wuz you scared?"
"Ah wuz scared so bad," said the second, "dat when de husband walked in he looked at me an' den he say to his wife, he vy 'Liza, who is dishere white man?'"
Sacramento-Legislation reducing the license renewal fee of California contractors fifty per cent and providing for tightening of the state contractors' act was enacted into law with the approval by Governor James Rolph Jr., of Assembly bill 780.
Under provisions of the measure, the fee for renewal of licenses for the new fiscal year beginning July 1, will be cut from $10 to $5.
This economy measure, it is expected, will result in a saving of more than $115,000 for California's army of 23,000 registered contractors. The measure ,carried an urgency clause, making it effective immediately upon approval by Governor Rolph.
In addition to providing a reduction in the fee, the measure provides for tightening the provisions of the act and also more stringent regulation of the unscrupulous or unethical fly-by-night contraator or "jerry builher," according to Col. Carlos W. Huntington, registrar of contractors and director of professional and vocational standards in the Governor's cabinet. The measure will in no way interfere with the legitimate operations'of the honest and reputable contractor, Registrar Huntington said.
Under the budget finally adopted by the legislature and approved by the governor, the registrar's office is apportioned fi270,W for support for the ensuing biennium. The original budget request provided for $314,000 for the department, but this was cut to $236,242 by the house ways and means committee, and subsequently raised to $270,000 in the final budget.
The measure retains the present $200 exemption clause. A move to reduce this to $50 having been defeated on the floor of the senate and assemblv.
Jim Farley, assistant Western sales manager, The cific Lumber Co., San Fran'cisco, returned to his desk 22 from a week's business trip in the Sonoma Valley.
Paul M. Parsons has been appointed secretary of the Inland Lumber Institute with headquarters at the Institute's offi,ces in San Bernardino, Calif. Mr. Parsons has been connected with the retail lumber business for a long period and was formerly with the Hammond Lumber Company at Riverside. Charlie Cheeseman, who is well known to the Southern California lumber trade, is field manager for the Institute in charge of the yards in the Redlands' district.
With an increase in their business of 3O per cent in May over last year, and an estimated increase of 40 per cent in June over June, 1932, M. A. Harris of the Van ArsdaleHarris Lumber Co., San Francisco, finds the present situation very encouraging. "We have been getting more inquiries and making more sales since the first of May, and although sales are not large there have been a good many of them," Mr. Harris said.
He attended the meeting of the directors of the California Retail Lumbermen's Asso,ciation held at Fresno for the purpose of considering the code formulated in accordance 'ivith the National Industrv Recoverv Act.
Fire, which started from spontaneous combustion from a sander, destroyed the yard of the Dinuba Lumber Co., Dinuba, June 28. The stock and buildings were a total loss, including the new office building recently completed Pa- which also housed their hardware and paint department. July The loss was fully covered by insurance, and Walter Hardwick, manager, said they would rebuild immediately.
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Washington, July 25.-"The timber operator is vitally coucerned in practicing sustained yield forest management as soon as the state and federal larvs will perrnit hirn to d<r so", says John W. Blodgett, President of the National Lurnber Manufacturers Association and an extensive timber owner and lumber o1>erator, in reply to the resolution recently adopted by the American Forestry Association which declares the Forestry Association to be "in hearty accord rvith the purpose of the Industrial Recovery Act to aid industry, to increase ernployment and wages, to curb destructive competition aud to conserve natural resources."
Mr. Blodgett states that the lurnber industry is in general accord with the Forestry Associatiorl resolution; "in fact", he says, "the resolution graphically describes the difficulties under rvhich the lumber manufacturing industry labors and which now absolutely prevent it from practicing sustained yield cutting u'hich is the ideal toward which it is striving".
Mr. Blodgett calls attention to the specific declaration in tl-re lumber industry code for a sustained yield forest management and he emphasizes that the "chronic over-production and ruthless competition" in the lumber industry are in large part the direct result of the for'ced cutting of timl;er caused by "huge pyramiding of annual taxes" and by the sales by the Government of public timber "in clirect competition with tax-paying citizens." He also refers to protection from fire as "the absolutely essential thing in sustained yield enterprise" and states that "unless and until the federal government in a dependable .ancl continuous way does its proportionate share in protection against forest fires and other forms of forest destruction, no sane man is warranted in taking the financial risk, especially if his timber holdings adjoin or are intermingled with government properties."
lloreover "the forest' inclttstt'y", he contiuues, "can rlot be stabie or prosperous until the federal governnrent gives pernranent ancl effective protection against the importation of foreign products" as from the Soviet Republic.
Mr. Blodgett asserts that "if real forestry on privately owned lands is to be followed, the way must be paved by constructive public action and the initiative n.rust be taken by the state and federal governments."
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Williams of Los Angeles left on July 10 for Nerv York where they will spend the next six rveeks. On their return trip, they plan to visit the World's F-air at Chicago.
Chas. J. Schmitt, of the sales department of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co.. r.vho is a Lieutenant in the Citizens Military Training Corps, left for duty at tlte Presidio of Mor.rterey, July 3. He rvas iu carnp for three rveeks.
"What was good enough for father, Is sure good enough for me;" That's the favorite assertion Of John Lemuel McGee. And he lives up to his sloganIn a most tenacious way, Clinging to the fundamentals Prevalent in "father's day."
Norv the farm house and out-buildings Of John Lemuel McGee, Haven't suffered change for ages, As the man who runs may see. And in fact, to be explicit, Everything McGee possesses, "Is the same as father left it," As he pridefully confesses.
Same old clothes, and same old habits, Same old pump outside the door; Same old sputtering tallow candles, Same rag rug uporl the floor; But amid the outworn rubble Which about the place we find, There is nothing quite so musty As John Lemuel's land-locked mind.
All the books and tracts and pamphlets, which he diligently reads, Are the same from which his father Satisfied his mental needs; Party politics, religion
Both are hand downs from the past; Every thought and each opinion In an ancient mold were cast.
He is like a lnan who lingers On a lonely, barren shore, Busiecl rvith the broken rvreckage Left by ebbing tides of yore. O, I'm very, very sorry For John Lemuel McGee, But I'm taking stock at present Of the nrind that is in me.
-A. Merriam Conner.
J. W. Pearson, gerleral manager of Redwood Manufacturers Co., Pittsburg, has returned from a tour of the Pacific Northrvest.
Geo. A Ulett, manager of Smith Wood Products Co., Coquille, Ore., manufacturers of Port Orford Cedar, recently visitecl San Francisco, where he was a caller at the office of James L. Hall, Northern California representative of his cornpany.
Jerry Sullivan, Sr., president of the Sullivan Hardwood Company and the Western Lumber Company, San Diego, Calif., died in the Mercy Hospital, San Diego, on July 18. He had been a resident of San Diego for twenty-two years where he was a leader in the city's business and civic affairs. A few months ago, he was taken to the hospital for a course of treatments. About two weeks before his death his condition became grave and he was returned to the hospital where he underwent an operation. He was 72 years old.
He was born outside of Chicago, I11., but grew up and attended the public s'chools at Whitehall, Mich. He graduated from Valparaiso University. In 1885 he went into the lumber business for himself in Whitehall and in 1891 moved to Traverse City, Mich., where he operated a large lumber mill. While a resident at Traverse City, he was director of the leading bank, served on the school board, and was a director of several road districts.
He moved to San Diego in 1911 and established the Sullivan Hardwood Company. In 1919 he purchased the Western Lumber Company holdings; the company also operate branch yards in San Diego county. Mr. Sullivan was one of the city's civic leaders, was a director of the chamber of commerce for ten years and was one of the leaders in the 1916 International Exposition that was held at San Diego. In 1923, he took an active interest in the movement for the new city charter, and was chairman of the first board of freeholders elected in 1926. His. knowledge of taxation problems proved valuable in the framing of the city charter, which was the basis of the present charter under which the city is operating.
Mr. Sullivan was prominently identified with the establishment of the community chest, gave a great deal of his time to charity work and was also instrumental in the building of Mer,cy hospital where he expired. He took an active interest in lumber affairs and always attended their meetings and conventions. He stood very high in the councils of lumber organizations.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary Sullivan; two sons, Jerry Sullivan Jr., who was associated with his father in the lumber business and Donald G. Sullivan, all of San Diego; and two daughters, Mrs. J. A. Macfvor of Detroit, Mich., and Mrs. William Frye of La Jolla, Calif. Funeral services were held on Thursday afternoon, July 2O at San Diego.
Stanley Moore of Los Angeles, Southern California representative of the Fir-Tex Company of California, is spending his vacation in the Northwest.
The board of directors of the Millwork Institute of California at their meeting in Fresno on July 6 and 7 f.ormalated a tentative code of Fair Competition for latter submission to the industry for its approval. The code contains minimum wages, selling prices and maximum working hours and will provide for the administration of the National Recovery Act as applied to the millwork industry. The Institute is providing for further expansion of its membership and is open to all members of the industry in the state.
The Institute is sending out a questionnaire on wages and hours for the purpose of being able to establish what wages and working hours should prevail in the industry under the code. The,code will be presented to the industry as soon as the National Lumber Code is approved inasmuch as the millwork industry is a part of the lumber industry.
The Millwork Institute of California has been asked to participate in the National Millwork Association program, rvhose headquarters are in Chicago, for the purpose of representing the millwork industry in this territory.
To make good woodsmen out of the 36,500 C. C. C. boys in the 167 conservation camps in California, some 20,000 of whom came from Middle West and Southern cities and have never before been in the mountains or forests, the U. S. Forest Service headquarters at San Francisco has issued an eight-page leaflet entitled "Woodmanship for Emergency Conservation'Workers."
Besides describing the traits of a good woodsman, who is always careful with fire, and uses but does not destroy forest resources, the leaflet tells of the real and fancied dangers of the woods. Contrary to general opinion, these are not the wild beasts and the snakes, but the little things such as poisonous plants and insects. Advice is given for the treatment of these troubles as well as first aid in case of snake bite and'what to do when lost.
Real sources of accidenti caused by the inexperienced use of woodman's tools are covered by a detailed description of the use and care of most of the tools handled by the C. C. C. men.
The words ttreforestation," t'conservation" and "forestry", so commonly used in connection with the President's emergency conservation program, are defined, and finally it is shown how the various activities of the C. C. C. men are tied in with forest conservation and the national welfare.
Oh say can you sing from the start to the end, What so proudly you stand for when orchestras play it: When the whole congregation in voices that blend, Strike up that grand tune, and then torture and slay it?
How valiant they shout when they're first starting out; But "the dawn's early light" finds them floundering about.
'Tis "The Star Spangled Banner" they're trying to sing But they don't lmow the words of the precious brave thing.
Hark "the twilight's last gleaming" has some of them stopped.
But the valiant survivors press forward serenely To "the ramparts we watched" when some others are dropped,
And the loss of the leaders is manifest keenly.
Then "the rocket's red glare" gives the bravest a scare, And there's few left to face "the bombs bursting in air;" 'Tis a thin line of heroes that manage to save The last of the verse and t'the home of the brave." -Clipt.
No, the smaller industries are not about to disappear; rather, I think, they are at the threshold of new opportunities, for they represent a very definite need in the new picture of our social and industrial life which we are just beginning to evolve out of the present trouble.-Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Country Constable-Pardon, Miss, but swimming is not allowed in this lake.
City Flapper-Why didn't you tell me that before I undressed?
Country Constable-There ain't no law against undressing.
Three small children, aged six, four, and two years respectively, were discussing what they would do if they had their lives to live over again. The six-year-old said: "If I had my life to live over again I'd never take any castor oil." The four-year-old said: "If I had my life to live over again I'd never eat any spinach." The two-year-old said: "If I had my life to live .over again I'd be a bottle baby; I'm sick and tired of these cigarette ashes."
One good way to prevent nose-bleed is to keep it out of other people's business.
In days of yore, if anybody missed a stage-coach, he was content to wait two or three days until the next one came along. Today he lets out a squawk if he misses one section of a revolving door.
"Two eggs poached medium soft, buttered toast thin and brown with just a small amount of butter, and coffee with just a bit of cream in it," said the guy at the lunch counter.
"Yes sir. And would you like any special design on the dishes ?" asked the tired waitress.
The average American family, according to Government figures, consists of 4.1 persons. Guess who the .1 person is.
"To shine through the ages humans must needs carry their defects and their qualities to paroxysmal length. They must first of all puzzle and confuse their contemporaries by exaggerations that create scandal, to have a chance to arouse a little interest in posterity, which cares nothing for measure or discretion. Saints, heroes, courtesans, it is in their superabundance that we slake our thirsts."-Jehanne D'Orliac.
At a meeting recently held in San Francisco a large group of mills representing a yearly production of approximately one billion feet of California White and Sugar Pine lumber formed the California White & Sugar Pine Association.
W. S. Johnson, of Tarter, Webster & Johnson, Inc., San Fran,cisco, was elected president, and C. D. Terwilliger, of the Clover Valley Lumber Co., I-oyalton, was elected vice president.
The mills forming the association are located mainly in the Sierra Nevada region of California, all of which operate on a seasonal basis.
Mr. Johnson left San Francisco by ptane July 18 for Washington to present at the hearing set for July 2O the code adopted by the association.
The code of the California White & Sugar Pine Association differs from the 'Western Pine code in the matter of wages and hours due to the limited season of employment. On account of climatic conditions the working season of the mills ranges from five to eight months out of the year, and for this reason the California code proposes Ionger hours than the Western Pine code, and proposes to limit hours on a yearly basis.
Washington, D. C.-The National Forest Reservation Commission approved purchases of forest land by the Federal Government totaling 443,W8.78 acres, the Forest Service, IJ. S. Department of Agriculture, announces.
Lands purchased under this program are situated within 28 existing national forests and purchase units in 16 States, and will be brought under administration by the Forest Service for permanent protection and development of the resources for public use. Improvement work projects under the Emergen,cy Conservation program will be extended to many of the areas as soon as they are acquired.
The lands are to be acquired at an average cost of about $1.70 per acre, the total cost of the purchase program approved amounting to $763,139.99.
Members of the National Forest Reservation Commission are the Secretaries of War, Interior, and Agriculture; Senators Keyes of New Hampshire and George of Georgia; Representatives Clarke of New York and Doxey of Mississippi; John E. Burch, U. S. Forest Service, secretary.
T. S. Chapin and Jane Surett were married at San Bernardino, Calif., on June 21. Mr. Chapin is a son of Fred A. Chapin, who operates the Fred A. Chapin Lumber Co. at San Bernardino, and he is associated with his father in the lumber business.
Old Kentucky Burley Tobacco is the cream of the finest crops Kentucky's bountiful soil can produceripe, rich leaves, smoothe and mellow, with that rare old-fashioned flavor and fragrance that only proper "agrng" can produce. We bank on it you have never tasted or smoked a finer flavored, more satisfying tobacco in all your life.
Our Old Kentucky Burley is no more like manufactured tobacco than day is like nightguaranteed free from chemicals and all other adulterations that conceal imperfection+ delude the sense of taste and undermine tfie health.
We use the same method our grandfatlrers used in preparing tobacco for their own uaHvery trace of harshness leaves ignq*ring to "bite" your tongue or parch your taste. Thousands of tobaceo Iovers the world over swear by its inimitable smohing and chewing gualities.
We sell direct from the grower, this eliminates the eighteen cents a pound Revenue Tax-all manufacturers' and middlemen'g profit, thereby effecting a saving to you of 50/6 or more. No fancy packages, no decorations juEt quality and lots of it.
Send us One Dollar Cash, P. O. or Expresa Money order (no personal checke) and we will promptly ship you a five-pound package of "Burley Tobacco."
Five pounds of Old Kentucky Burley will make 40 large packages of srnoking or 50 twists of chewing.
6 F Send 35 cents in silver and we will ship JDC Post-Paid-one pound of PurleyTobacco as a trial offer. A trial will convince you.
We have thousands of requests daily for "Samples"-our margin of profrt is so small we cannot comply with these requesta
'lVe do not ehip C. O. D. orders, to do so would require a large staff of clerks. Ordere must be in English language.
McClure Building - Frankfort, Ky.
Fabricated wood frame sections for use in walls, floors, partitions and roofs are now being manufa,ctured by the E. B. Hazen Lumber Company of Portland, Ore. The new product is known as Sealed In(sulated) Sections.
The fabricated frame sections are made in lGinch widths and multiples and are standard in their application to conventional ,construction practice as are 2x4's and lx8 shiplap. They are sawn with a hand-saw or power-saw on the job to fit gables or for use in other shapes desired. All lumber used in the fabri'cation of the frames is Douglas fir made from 2x4's, resawed to 2x2's. Lumber lengths used run 25 per 'cent 2l-inch, 25 per cent 21- to 48-inch, and 50 per cent 48- to 96-inch. All sections are factory primed on all outside surfaces to resist moisture absorption. And each piece of wood, before fabrication of the sections, is kiln dried and then treated with a sealer that is fire, rodent and insect resistant.
In each of the sections one header and the intermediate vertical and horizontal braces are laminated. By removal of the laminations, insulating panels of wood or other rigid insulating boards are inserted in the grooves . These panels are inserted in multiple layers of varying number to create the insulation efficiency desired with air space between the insulating layers.
The distribution of the product will be handled by the Muir-Hazen Company, a separate corporation, recently organized, who have sales offices in the Security Bldg., Portlartd, Ore. E. B. Hazen is widely known to the lumber industry on the Pacific coast and has been connected with the industry in the Northwest for the past thirty years. W. J. Muir has been engaged in the building and contracting business in Portland for over twenty years.
The fabricated sections will be used only for the frame of the building while the remaining work will be completed as in present construction. The sections can be cut to fit any building plan. Patents for this new development in building construction are now pending.
T. B. Lawren'ce, Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., Los Angeles, left for the Northwest on July 23 on a combined business and pleasure trip. After calling on the mills, he will go to Paulina Lake in eastern Oregon where he will spend a few weeks vacationing. He plans to be away about a month. Mrs. Lawrence and their two sons, Ted and Dick, accompanied him on the trip.
R. R. Ma,cartney, 'Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., Klamath Falls, president of the Western Pine Association; D. T. Mason, of Portland, Ore., secretary of the Association; and B. W. Lakin, general manager of the McCloud River Lumber Co., McCloud, Calif., represented the Western Pine mills in the Code Convention called at Chicago by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association June 30 and July f.
Snark of the lJniverse B. F. Springer of Milwaukee has appointed a,committee of five loyal members from the Twin Cities Hoo Hoo Club of Minneapolis, Minn., who will prepare and submit plans for the reorganization of Hoo Hoo. For ,chairman of the reorganization committee, Snark Springer selected Harry T. Kendall, widely known lumberman, of the Weyerhaeuser Sales Company of St. Paul. The other four members of the committee are: T. T. Jones, T. T. Jones Lumber Co., Minneapolis, a former member of the Supreme Nine; W. W. Wattson, T. M. Partridge Lumber Co., Minneapolis, present member of the Supreme Nine; S. L. Boyd, B. C. Spruce Mills, Ltd., Minneapolis, president of the Twin Cities Hoo Hoo Club; and Ormie C. Lance, secretary of the Northwestern Lumbermen's Association, a former member of the Supreme Nine. The committee has selected T. M. Partridge, president of the T. M. Partridge Lumber Co., Minneapolis, to act as Treasurer. All members of the committee will serve without compensation.
Faced with a serious deflection in membership during the past three ;rears due to general economic conditions, Hoo Hoo International headquarters at St. Louis, Mo., was forced to close on Juqe l, 1933, due to lack of income. Snark Springer had anticipated the crisis and made plans for saving the order. In April, 1933, he called together a committee from the Supreme Nine and House of Ancients in Chicago at which time plans were made for the reorganization of the order.
The committee has three distinct functions: first, raise sufficient money to pay the debts of Hoo Hoo; second, effect a compromise with creditors; and third, present to the Supreme Nine a plan for reorganizing Hoo Hoo and putting it back on its feet financially and for effective action in behalf of lumber and wood products.
Henry R. Isherwood, who has filled the position of Secretary-Treasurer since December, 1919, has resigned. Mr. Isherw,ood announces that he will continue to maintain personal offi,ces at the former address of Hoo Hoo International, 4215 Linden Boulevard, St. Louis, Mo.
Headquarters of the Reorganization Committee are 742 Lumber Exchange, Minneapolis, Minn.
The Checkers Builders Supply Co., 4100 Sunset Blvd., and Hammond Brothers,6672 Lexington Ave., both of Los Angeles, have become members of the United Sash & Door Dealers. The central offices of the United Sash and Door Dealers and Southern California Sash and Door Wholesalers were recently moved and are now located in Room 7@, Fay Building, Los Angeles. Their telephone number is Mlchigan 4375.
Bill Chantland of the Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., Los Angeles, left for the Northwest on July 18 to visit the company's mill operations at Aberdeen and Montesano, lMash. He plans to return to Los Angeles on July 31. His wife and children made the trip with him.
A mechanical tail sawyer for the sawmill, known as the sawing rig, is one of the latest contributions for meeting economical production methods. It is the invention of 'Charles J. Pettibone, general manager of the Edward Hines ^Western Pine Company at Hines, Ore. Three band sarvs in the Hines' sawmill have been in operation for over a year [vith the mechanical tail sawyer.
The sarving rig pulls lumber from the log carriage and illaces it in position upon the lumber conveyor; it keeps the prea behind the saw clear of wood fragments thrown oft by the saw, and it provides a method for automatically raisiing and lowering the guide on the band. The new invention performs all the duties of the man stationed behind the head saw.
' Two methods are employed for removing the boards from the carriage. First, an inclined guide extending 2O feet along the lumber conveyor dire'cts the lower side of the board away from the carriage. The board is then caught by a series of screw live rolls which pull it into a flat position on the conveyor ready for transportation to other parts of the mill. The second method substitutes a corrugated roller for the inclined guide. The roller is built in three sectiuns and rotates away from the carriage, thus propelling the board immediately upon the live rolls. The screw. tolls are also used here but it is necessary to have but two as compared to five or six required for the satisfactory bperation of the inclined guide.
Located opposite the guides on the conveyor is an inclined shield whi,ch prcvents short boards or slabs from trodging crosswise on the conveyor. The shield also keeps wood fragmehts from falling on the ground. Occupying .the position on the conveyor of the first two live rolls is an Lrrat"r. slat bed which serves as the waste disposing feature of the sawing rig. This waste may be removed by another conveyor to be burned or ground up for fuel.
. The saw guide is raised automatically by an electric -3witch on the carriage. This switch is operated by the foot pedal controlling the dogs which hold the logs on the carriage. Current is supplied the switch from an overhead trolley wire insulated in the center so that the wire is electrified opposite or past the saw but not in the region of the log deck. The operation of the dogs to receive a new log or ,turn the one on the carriage does not affect the switch. It is only when the dogs are raised to release the last board drom the carriage that the circuit is established thereby perileitting the saw guide to rise to its maximum height. To prevent injury to the sawing apparatus limit switches have been installed to break the circuit automatically at its upper and lower extremes of travel'
The sawyer has been assigned the duty of lowering the saw guide. A switch is located on the end of the nigger .level and.the sawybr may arbitrarily lower'.the guide to any desiredlosition by'pressing this switch. Another switch is i"st'jliett near the sawyer to raise the saw gultle in case he tlrops the device too low for the log to clear or if some Fmergency arises.. .. ---.:
Washington, D. C.-;Lumber production, steel mill activity, electric power, freight car loadings, cotton forwardings and automobile production are the six items reflective of national industrial activity which now make up the Weekly Business Index of the New York Times, published each week in the business section of the Sunday issue. These indexes are based on estimated normal (100) and are adjusted for seasonal variation. The lumber production index was initiated through the cooperation of the Nati.onal Lumber Manufacturers Association, the Annalist and the Division of Statistics of the Federal Reserve Board.
A chart of lumber production f.rom 1929 to the current week, graphing the indexes, is published each Friday, also in the Times. The chart is accompanied by a brief statement based on data from the National Lumber Manufacturers Association covering the significant factors in the lumber movement of the preceding week.
Charles F. Grim, pioneer retail lumberman and president of the Ganahl-Grim Lumber Co. of Anaheim, Calif., died at his home on Wednesday evening, July 12. He had been a resident of Anaheim f.or 32 years and was prominent in the city's business and civic affairs. Ife was 75 years old.
Born in Morrow, Ohio, on March 10, 1858, he moved to California in 1887, locating at Santa Ana. In 1901 Mr. Grim moved to Anaheim where he was employed as manager of the Griffith Lumber Co. yard. In 1904 he established the C. Ganahl Lumber Co. yard at Anaheim, now known as the Ganahl-Grim Lumber Co., of which concern he was president at the time of his death.
Mr. Grim took an active interest in lumber affairs and was the first president of the Orange County Lumbermen's Club, which position he held for ten years. He was a director of the Savings, Building and Loan Association of Anaheim, a director of The Sanitarium, and for over ten years served on the advisory boards of the old Golden State Bank, and Anaheim branches of the Bank of Italy and Bank of America.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Agnes Grim; two daughters, Mrs. Mary Grim Heying of Anaheim and Mrs. Ruth Grim Minor of Burlingame, Calif., and six grandchildren. Funeral services were held Saturday morning, July 15, at Anaheim.
Fire, believed to have been set by "firebugs", destr.oyed the planing mill of Burnett & Son, Sacramento, July 6. The loss was covered by insurance.
The accuracy of the invention is worthy of consideration as eve.ry board cut is removed from the carriage with mechanical precision, and it also offers benefits over the old lneth'ods from a standpoint of safety. All rights to the phtent,{rave been turned over by Mr. Pettibone to the Edward Hines Western Pine Cqmpany of Chicago.
Plans for this attractivc home can be furaished by the
Washington, |uly l8.-Discontinuance of the National Committee on Wood Utilization, which is slated along with many other,changes in the United States Department of Commer'ce, interrupts an important service to the lumber, forest produ,cts and building and manufacturing industries of the country.
During the eight years of its existence under the able leadership of Axel H. Oxholm, the Committee has devoted itself to the problem of the closer utilization of the country's forest resour,ces and has issued a notable list of publications covering many phases of this problem. It has cooperated with various departments of the Government in specifications for lumber and timber purchases; has taken an active part in introducing in this country various foreign methods and devices of construction and has achieved a world-wide reputation as a cen'ter of authoritative information on the use of wood and wood products.
Wilson Compton, President of American Forest Products Industries, In,c., in a recent letter expresses regret to Mr. Oxholm on the "interruption" of the work of the Committee, stating that he is confident it will be resumed.
A resolution passed at the annual meetings of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association and American Forest Produ,cts Industries, in Chicago, July 1, urged the Secretary of Commerce to establish in the Department of Commerce a forest products division continuing the essential work of the Lumber Division, National Committee on Wood Utilization and U. S. Timber Conservation Board.
Among the committee's important publications have been "Modern Connectors for Timber Construction"; "You Can Make ft" series; "How to Judge a House"; House Insulation"; "Light Frame House Construction"; "Chemical Utilization of Wood"; "The Marketing of Short-Length Lumber"; and "Sawdust and Wood Floor."
Mr. Oxholm, Director of the National Committee on Wood Utilization, has been assisted by an able staff, including among others Nelson S. Perkins, Construction Engineer; Russell E. Backstrom, Insulation Specialist; Philip A. Haywood, Chief of Technological Research; Claude Bell, Assistant Chief, and H. Conrad lloover, Mechanical Engineer.
Martin Olson has joined the sales staff of the W. J. Mulligan & Co. Los Angeles office and is ,calling on the Southern California retail lumber trade. He has been associated with the lumber business in Southern California for a long period and was formerly connected with the Los Angeles office of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co.
John E. Carter, father of Olin H. Carter, manager of the Palo Alto Lumber & Roofing Co., Palo Alto, passed away at Clovis, Calif., July 22.
Mr. Carter was seventy-seven years of age, and was born in lowa.
Nearly "one grand" of fires and one fire that was not so grand for the water users of southern California were charged to careless smokers in 1932 by Regional Forester S. B. Show today as he issued an or,der closing all national forests in California to smoking. Nine hundred and ninetynine fires were caused last year by the careless throwing of lighted matches and burning tobacco in the dry litter of the forest and in the dry grass and grain fields of the State. The Matilija fire of last September whi,ch burned over 219,000 acres of watershed on the Santa Barbara Forest is one of the results of thoughtlessness on the part of those who travel the mountains in the hot dry summer. In all national forests smoking is allowed at "Fag Stations" established along roads and trails for the convenience of smokers and at camps and places of habitation, according to Show. Travelers in the National forests should note that auto and pack train parties camping in the national forests must have a shovel and ax before they can obtain a camp fire permit, and that hazardous areas and roads are now being closed to use and travel on account of the approaching fire danger season. On the Mendocino Forest the Erickson windfall area is ,closed to all use except under permit from the Forest Service and the Brushy Camp road is closed to travel. Blue Canyon on the Sierra Forest is closed to all use and the Ralston Divide road on the Eldorado Forest is closed to travel.
Mrs. Etta Manning Koll, wife of August J. Koll, president of the A. J. Koll Planing Mill, Ltd., died at her home in Los Angeles on July 16, as the result of injuries received in an automobile accident near Duncan, Ariz., on July 3. She was sixty-nine years of age.
Mrs. Koll was born in Sonora county but had been a resident of Los Angeles for fifty years. Besides her husband, she is survived by three sons, \Malter A., Harvey W. and Milton Koll, and a daughter, Mrs. Marie H. Wright, all of Los Angeles. Funeral servces were held at the Little Church of the Flowers, Forest Lawn Cemetery, Glendale, on Wednesday afternoon, July 19.
Klamath Falls, Ore.-Operating the plant at Pelican City, just out of Klamath Falls, Oregon, formerly known as the Wheeler-Olmstead Mill, and later operated by the Shaw-Bertram Lumber Company, the Ivory Pine Company recently began cutting Ponderosa Pine. The mill was in full swing within twenty-four hours, cutting Selects, Shop, Common, and Box. It is expected that lumber will be dry and in shipping condition within forty-five days.
As a result of a two-day conference held July t7 and 18 in Eureka, representatives of, the Redwood industry in Humboldt County adopted an agreement establishing a general wage increase in line with President Roosevelt's suggestions and the National Industrial Recovery Act. The agreement went into effect immediately. The wage increases affected nearly 2000 men now employed.
The W. E. Cooper Lumber Co. of Los Angeles has entered the retail lumber field having purchased the J. D. Halstead Lumber Co. yard at 4&O West Pi.co Street, Los Angeles, and the Altadena Lumber Co. yard at Altadena. They have also opeqred a retail lumber store at 5103 York Blvd., Los Angeles. Phil B. Hart is in charge of the York Blvd. store. Marshall Davies, who formerly managed the company's store is now ,connected with the West Pico Street yard. Orville Higley is running the Altadena yard. The headquarters of the W. E. Cooper Lumber Co. are at 2035 East Fifteenth Street, Los Angeles.
Ed Middleton, superintendent of Anderson & Middleton Lumber Co., Aberdeen, was a recent visitor in San Francisco, where he made his headquarters at the office of W. R. Chamberlin & Co., California sales agents for his company.
The Los Angeles wholesale lumbermen held a golf tournament at the Chevy Chase Golf Club on Friday afternoon, Jaly 21. Harvey Bowles was the low net winner with a net score of.7l and, gets the first leg on the Wholesalers' Cup. The wholesalers plan to hold these tournaments monthly. In the evening, dinner was served in the club house.
A. B. Hammond, president of the Hammond Lumber Company, celebrated his 85th birthday Jaly 22. Mr. Hammond has recovered from the slight indisposition that confined him to his horire for a short period and is now spending a week or trvo at Arrowhead Springs.
The National Lumber Manufacturers Association has reopened the San Francisco office at 45 Second Street, and has retained A. C. Horner on special work involving building 'code matters, and the sale and use of timber connectors.
Holmes Eureka Lumber Co. have recently put 200 men back to work in their sawmill and camp, and are now producing between 60,000 and 70,000 feet of Redwood per day at their Eureka plant. The increased production tvas made necessary by the increased demand for Redwood. Production may be in,creased to 10O,000 feet a day in the near future.
Mrs. Nettie I. Snook, mother of Mrs. Russell B. Stevens, died at Healdsburg, J.uly 6.
Mrs. Stevens is the wife of Russell B. Stevens of the A. F. Stevens Lumber Company, Healdsburg.
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Manager, Assistant, or other duties-with future. Has managed good sized yards successfully. Expert accountant and office worker. Knows lumber and millwork business. Willing to demonstrate ability before mentioning salary. High class references. Address Box C-490, California Lumber Merchant.
Lumber salesman wants connection with reliable wholesale lumber firm. Southern California preferred. 10 years experience selling and knows the California retail trade. Will accept drawing account against commissions and will furnish car. Forrest W. Wilson. care The California Lumber Merchant.
Wanted: Position by young woman with 15 years' lumber experience as secretary and oflice manager. Thoroughly capable of taking charge of bookkeeping, estimating and buying. Can furnish excellent references Address Box C-488, California Lumber Merchant.
Guy E. Smith, general sales manager, Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned JuJy 17 from a business trip to Chicago, Washington, Philadelphia and New York. While in Chicago Mr. Smith visited the "Century of Progress" Exposition.
Fred A. Chapin, Fred A. Chapin Lumber Co., San Bernardino, has returned from a three weeks' trip to Vinton, Ia., where he attended the golden wedding anniversary of his father and mother. Mrs. Chapin accompanied him on the trip.
C. G. Briggs, president of the Booth-Kelly Lumber Co., Eugene, recently made a short business trip by automobile to California. While here he conferred with H. Sewall Morton of Hill & Morton, Inc., Oakland, Northern California sales agents for his company.
Lumberman with thorough and diversified experience in lumber business wants position. Knows lumber from all angles-Retail Yard; Sawmill-both in manufacturing and sales department. Sales experience with Eastern connections and consumers in California. Is a practical box shook man and has knowledge of all office details, including timekeeper. Address Box C-483, California Lumber Merchant.
Los Angeles retail lumber yard-established 10 yearswants partner who can invest some money in a going business. Good proposition for right man. Address Box C-487, California Lumber Merchant.
Young lady with several years'experience as bookkeeper and stenographer desires position with lumber concern. Familiar with all general office work. Can furnish best of referen,ces. Address Box C-€9, California Lumber Merchant, or telephone CApitol 4000.
To settle partnership modern up-to-date yard for sale. 10 miles from Los Angeles, small investment, will make terms. C. I. Frye, 237 East Anaheim St., Long Beach.
H. W. Bunker, president of the Coos Bay Lumber Co. left San Francisco on the evening plane qf the United Ai Lines for Chicago July 16, and went on from there Washington to attend the lumber code hearing July 20.
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M. L. "Duke" Euphrat, of Wendling-Nathan Lumber Co., San Francisco, has returned from a two weeks' combined business and vacation trip to the Northwest. Most of the time was spent in Portland where his family has been visiting for some weeks.
George Robinson, well known lumber salesman, formerly rvith Booth-Kelly Lumber Co., with headquarters in Stockton, who has been in the Veteran's Hospital near Livermore for the past several months, is making satisfactory prog'ress, and will be glad to see any of his friends who may be passing that way.
Visiting hours are 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. on week days, and 1O:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Sundays.
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