The California Lumber Merchant - August 1937

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CAtIF(lRilII BER C(l. ART,PtY FIR PAlIELS

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NATIO]{AI GYPSUM COMPANY'S

Gold Bond Insulation Boards

Gold Bond Hardboards

Adequate stoclcg of these nationally advertised products are canied at their warehouse.

6/;20 Avalon Boulevard

LOS ANGELES

Telephone THornwall 3144

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lnors ARE GooD and prices up. Farmers are planning fall building- nev/ robfs, repairs, new cons-trucion. Here's a natural for Cenigrade Red Cedar Shingle dealers-a chancetogo ro town profitablyand in a bigway.

Show your farm customers how Certigrade overroofing and over-walling save time and money. Emphasize the low first cost, low upkeep, and permanence of-Cenigrade Shingles; the effective insulation provided at no extra cost. For FREE copies of the CenL grade Handbook and Ponfolio ofCenigrade Homes, write today: RedCedarShingle Bureau, Dept. CC-837 Seattle, Wash ington;Canadian ofice,Y ancouver, B.C.

For new homes and remodeling. Pa*icularly adapted for kitchsns, bcdrooms, dens and social rooms.

A small stock in your yard will develop additional sales . increased volume. Resale price protected.

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DOUGLAS FIR-SITKA SPRUCE-HEMLOCK

Lumber - Lath - Millwork . Timbers - Ties

Piling Mine Poles

Car and Railroad Materials

PORT ORFORD CEDAR

(Also knorm as White Cedar or Lawson Cypress)

Lumber Ties - Crossing Planks - Decking

Tunnel Timbers - Venetian Blind Stock

PONDEROSA AND SUGAR PINE

Agents

SMITH WOOD-PRODUCTS, Inc.

BLOED'EL DONOVAN LUMBER MILLS

CHASI. K. SPAULDING IPGGING CO.

SPLIT REDWOOD

Ties - Fence Posts - Shinglee

Sha.kes - Stakes - Piling - Poles - Anchorc

RED CEDAR

Shingles - Transmission Poles - Stubs - Anchors

Fencl Posts. Op"r Tank Treated or untreated

CREOSOTE, PRESSURE TREATED

Lumber - Ties - Poles - Piling

IAMES L. HAI.I.

TRANSFERRED TO CHICAGO OFFICE

John Klass has been transferred from the main office of The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, to Chicago, from where he travels extensively in the Middle West and East selling Palco Wool Insulation.

SAN FRANCISCO VISITOR

Wilfred Jones, of Aldrich-Cooper Lumber Co., Portland, Ore., is spending 10 days in San Francisco, making his headquarters at the offices of Wendling-Nathan Co., for whom his firm is Northwest representative.

Phqrc SUtter 7580 rO32 MILLS BUILDINq SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.

HAPPY EVENT

Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. White are receiving congratulations on the birth of a daughter, June, in Alameda, June 28. Mr. White is city salesman for White Brothers, San Francisco, and a son of C. H. White, vice-president.

VACATIONING AT GOLD LAKE

Hugh M. Handley, sales manag'er, Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Company, San Francisco, is vacationing at Gold Lake, and reports say that he is getting his share of trout out of the mountain streams in that area.

THE CALIFOR}.IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

M. ADAMS Cirolatibl Mam3cr

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How Lumber Looks

Production of lumber as reported to the West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended July 17 was nearly up to the last two weeks in June. The marked decrease in the week ended July 10 u'as due to holiday shutdowns during that period.

Rail markets continue at about the same rate. Lumbermen report water markets as generally weak in volume. A considerable amount of business is reported as refused by the mills because offerings are beloW produ,ction costs. Because of this 'condition a number of mills have notified their crews that production will be less during the remainder of July and August than in June.

175 mills in Washington and Oregon, reporting to the fMest Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended luly 17, produced 127,534,319 feet. New business taken during the week by these mills was 92,579,83 feet, and shipments were 127,544,692 feet. The unfilled order file at -bhese mills stood at 481,23O,487 feet. t(*>l

Reports from 114 mills to the Western Pine Association for the week ended July 17 showed new business as 64,581,000 feet, shipments 69,769,W feet, and production 93,196,OOO feet. Orders on hand at these mills at the end of the week totaled 232,271,000 f.eet.

The California RedwooJ olr"l,",an for the week ended July 17 reported production from 10 mills as 6,137,000 ieet, shipments 1,938,000 feet, and nerv business 2,032,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the rveek totaled 6,370,000 feet.

633 mills produced zei,zslz,& feet of hardwoods and softwoods combined during the week ended Jaly 17 ac,cording to reports to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association from the reginal associations. New business reported was 210,180,000 feet, and shipments were 250,-

958,000 feet. A1l regions except Northern Hardwoods reported orders below production*for the week.

_ A special convention, held at Tacoma, July_ 19, of the Federation of Woodworkers, representing 100,-000 forests and mill employes in the western Unifed States voted 358 to 7L to afrlliate with the C.I.O. The group's name was revised by the convention from Federation of Woodworkers of America. Of the total delegates 37 did not vote be,cause they lacked instructions and 24 were reported absent when the vote lvas taken.

Rank and file members of Tacoma local No. 2633 Sawmill & Timber Workers Union turned down by unanimous vote a motion for immediate affiliation with the C. I. O. at their regular meeting July 20.

Portland was selected by the ,convention as official headquarters for the International 'Woodworkers of America, July 22, but on July 24 it was decided on another vote to make Seattle the official h*ead*guarters.

The Fir mills have ,curtailed production which should have a good effect on prices. A la-rge percentage of the mills in the Fir industry cut down produ,ction about 20 per cent during the last two weeks in July, and it is expected that there will be further curtailment during the month of August.

The Redwood mills report good order files, and the summer lull in business is giving the mills a chance to get their stocks in shape for fall business. Pri'ces are firm.

The Pine mills generally are curtailing produ,ction by running only four days a week. Prices on mixed cars are holding firm. Some improvement in business has been reported by the mills during the past two weeks.

Lumber cargo receipts at Los Angeles harbor for the week ended July 24 totaled 13,327,W feet as compared to 72,576,W feet for the previous week.

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Demand lncreases for Inlaid Plywood Poll Dircloses Shortage in Single Houses

Art-Ply panels, advertised in this issue by Strable Hardwood Company, Oakland, are manufactured by Vancouver Plywood & Veneer Company, Vancouver, Wash.

A. J. Gram, sales manager for this concern, told a representative of this paper recently that the success of this line is so great that they are making plans to increase their production of Art-Ply.

"The new paneling abolishes the need for battens which have been used to join plywood panels. It is self-joining, uses its own pattern to cover joints, making them invisible," Mr. Gram says.

"Architects and contractors who have specified and used Art-Ply are unanimous in their praise of its labor-saving, time-saving and decorative possibilities."

Chicago, July 17-Members of the Mortgage Bankers' Association of America reported in a poll announced today a shortage of single-family houses in the United States.

George H. Patterson, association secretary, said 74 pet cent of the members reported single-family house shortages in their communities. Only 36 per cent reported shortages of large apartments and only 33 per cent reported shortages of two and three-family buildings, he said' The number of single family dwellings typical cities expected to build during 1937, based on averaged reports from association members were:

Chicago, 4000; Dallas, Tex., 2200; Milwaukee and San Francisco, 18OO; Denver, l25O; Pasadena, Cal., 100O; Salt Lake City, 90O; Minneapolis, 70O; St. Paul and Oklahoma City, 500; Omaha, 450, and Seattle, 850.

Whether it is Pine, Fir, or Red Cedar Products of any sort' we offer you Santa Fe Service of the most promptand P€rsonal character. Our standardg of quality have been known to the Cali' fornia trade for a generation.

Vagabond Editorials

By Jack Dionne

Work thou for pleasure-paint or sing or carve

The thing thou lovest-tho the body starveWho works for glory misses oft the goal; Who works for money coins his very soul. Work for the work's sake, then, and it may be That these things shall be added unto thee.

-Kenyon Cox. ***

The Brookings Institute, a research agency that has won the respect and approval of a large part of our thinking people, said the other day through the mouthpiece of Dr. Harold G. Moulton, its President: "The simple truth of the matter is that we have not yet reached a stage of technoIogical development at which it would be possible for the American people to obtain the standards of living which they desire if working time is shortened from that which now prevails in American industry." He said further: f,Research reveals that anyone who favors a further reduction in the length of our working week at this stage of our economic development unwittingly favors lower standards of living."

Reducing working nr"* ; tl" *,"rirt ing point can be favored only by the unintelligent and the racketeer. Idle people are worthless people. Partly idle people are partly worthless people. Hard work and competition make for better men and women. From the ranks of the idle come most of our youthful criminals. The Bible says that .,by the sweat of their brows" they shall live, and it didn't mention any particular generation or district as being covered by that stipulation. Honest work never hurt anyone; on the contrary it helps everyone. It is from the minds of men who "never worked and never will" that the philosophy of less work and more pay-less effort and more leisureequal pay for all men regardless of their earning capacity -comes. *rf*

The Gospel of Service is the best gospel. Just so long as he who can think, and do, and work, and produce better and more constructively than the other fellow gets paid in proportion to his ability and his usefulness, just that long will this nation grow and prosper. Some wag once said that "All men are created equal, and then they get married." The truth is, that all men are created equal under the law of this land-but NOT otherwise. And the strong and useful men want to work and get somewhere; and the

weak and useless men want the strong and useful men to carry them on their backs. And THAT is what we are doing in this country today, and preparing to do a lot more of in the days to come unless we change'some of this present-day philosophy. We need a little less Karl Marx and a lot more of Benjamin Franklin in this country right now. At present the Franklins are entirely too quiet, and the Marxes entirely too loud for the comfort of thinking people who love our Democratic institutions.

You can learn about -"" O"* ,*"". When a forest of Pine trees is planted by foresters, the little trees start growing very close together. And immediately there begins a mighty but quiet COMPETITION between those little trees to GROW UPWARD toward the sunlight and the moisture in the upper air; those two priceless factors that give the tree life and strength. And every little tree in that new forest STRMS, and stretches, and fights its instinctive way UPWARD and ever upward; a competition that never ends throughout the entire life of the tree. For, by reason of this constant striving UPWARD the tree grows STRONG and STRAIGHT. The tree-tops merge, making heavy shade below, causing the lower limbs to fall off. The bark covers the scars, and the surface of the trunk becomes smooth and straight and attractive as the tree itself. The grain of the wood is thus made to GROW STRAIGHT without defect, and stronger and more valuable by far than it could ever have been but for this STRIVING. COMPETITION has given to the fibre of this tree strength, straightness, quality.

Sometimes, as an illustration, the forester will plant a lone tree of this same species a hundred or more feet from the edge of the'young forest, leaving it to grow by itself, out where it gets the sunshine and the available moisture WITHOUT EFFORT. And what happens to this tree, do you know? An amazing thing. Just exactly what happens to a human who is allowed to grow without efiort, without competition, without that STRIVING that makes for strength and QUALITY. That lone tree is invariably stunted in its growth. Because there is no need to strive and strain UPWARD, the trunk becomes squat, and is much shorter than the forest trees. Because there is no competition and no shade to destroy them, the lower limbs do NOT fall off as from the trees of the forest, but become stout, gnarly, ugly, as the trunk itself. There is none of

the cylindrical symmetry and straightness of the trees of the forest. The fiber of the trunk is twisted, knotty, defective, and entirely lacking in quality. It has little value but for firewood. While a hundred feet away stand its sister trees, tall, straight, round, graceful, strong and straight of fiber, valuable in a thousand ways for man and his uses.

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Which proves that Mother Nature knows no SOCIALISM, and that she teaches her children the immutable law that COMPETITION, even in inanimate things, makes for quality, strength, beauty, and usefulness. And this same lesson that Mother Nature teaches us concerning trees, she teaches us likewise concerning MEN.

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When Senator Joe Robinson, of Arkansas, died suddenly the other day, there came at once to my mind the famous words of Tennyson: "Theirs not to make reply, theirs but to do and die." Upholding in valiant fashion the role of a strong "party man," he gave his life fighting battles for issues in which-according to the opinions of all who knew him well-he did NOT believe. And that sort of battle will kill even stronger men than Joe Robinson. Politics, indeed, "makes strange bed-fellows," and kills lots of good men before their time.

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Much has been written about the imminent titanic strug-

gle that is coming when Mr. Lewis' CIO makes its muchheralded effort to put Ford under its thumb. In the first place Ford has the experience of General Motors who signed an agreement with CIO and has had more than two hundred strikes since that time, although the agreemEnt prescribed that there should be none. But mightier than all that is the economic position of Ford.

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First, the business belongs entirely to Ford, ahd they can run it or close it as they see fit. They have no multitude of stockholders to consider, as did General Motors. Second, they have more money than all the Fords for centuries to come could ever spend, so they don't have to operate. Third, what would happen to millions of people if Mr. Ford decided on a sit-down strike? Few people have the faintest practical conception of what Ford means to this country, economically and industrially. A few figures are illuminating. ***

There are 122,000 men working in the Ford shops at Dearborn, Michigan. There is such an army that every day is pay day. They pay out $840,000 a day in wages to those men, and it takes two weeks to make the rounds at this rate, so while each man gets paid twice a month, the paymaster's office works steadily every day, and the different groups have different pay days.

Ford buys materials from 6,943 suppliers, each of whom employs many men, and each of whom, in turn, buys from other manufacturers who likewise employ groups of men. One Ford supplier, for example, buys from 3,711 manufacturers. And this one supplier is only one of the nearly seven thousand who supply Ford. In the first guarter of 1937 Ford paid these suppliers for materials 27L millions of dollars. This against 199 millions for the same quarter last year. At the rate of the first quarter Ford would pay over a billion dollars to other concerns this year for materials and supplies alone. And remember, materials and supplies simply mean wages. Add to this huge total the approximately 26O million dollars a year Ford pays in wages to the crews at Dearborn, and you've got something.

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This billion dollars for materials and supplies is well scattered. Nearly every state in the union gets some of it, some a great deal more than others, of course. But the additional big scatteration of Ford money comes in the transportation, distribution, sale, servicing, financing, and supplying of Ford cars after they leave the factory. Thousands of dealers; tens of thousands of salesmen; tens of thousands of mechanics; thousands of men selling insurance, parts, extras, etc.; thousands of people in the financing business, the painting business, the various other lines that follow a production of one hundred thousand cars a month;

and still farther along, the army of people who produce, refine, and sell the motor fuel and motor lubrication that these cars consume.

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Ford carries in his hand a whip the like of which has never been cracked, and if he sees fit to crack it, there will be history made in a hurry. And he has the recent example of a much smaller industrialist to support him-the example of Tom Girdler, who, with the Government and the CIO openly aligned against him, and his own people trembling in their shoes, dared to speak his honest mind; and won out. Lots of criticism has been printed about his pugnaciousness, but if ever a man was in a tight spot and surrounded by dark and lowering storm clouds, he was. And God knows he had courage. I believe he gave many men who thought as he did, but had not the courage to speak in the face of such enormous odds, the nerve to raise their voices in defense of what they thought was right. He faced what he declared to be red and destructive radicalism and terrorism, and even though it was backed by the Lewis-Roosevelt-Perkins-Farley coalition every step of the way, he had the courage to denounce and defy it. Something tells me that when the passions and prejudices of these strange times have passed and calm reason is again restored to our public thinking, the stand that Tom Girdler took in the steel strike may be classified with that of Horatius who held the bridge.

Someone spoke a ""n"r""" r"""* "opportunity," and the Little Corporal sneered. "Opportunity," he said, "I MAKE opportunity." And Henry Ford could much more truthfully and sincerely say: "High wages? Shucks! I MADE high wages !" Because, were it not for Henry Ford, the average wages for mechanics throughout this land today, would be far lower than they are. It was his voluntary build-up of wages that carried the rest of the country along, and set others an example that they HAD to try to follow. When Henry Ford dies they can put on his tombstone: "Here lies Henry Ford. He was the Father of High Wages." And no one could successfully contradict it.

WILL USE REDWOOD PENCILS

Ofiflcials and office rvorkers of the Golden Gate International Exposition hereafter will do their writing with California Redwood pencils, made in the San Francisco Bay District by the lJniversal Pencil Company.

Clyde Vandeburg, director of publicity for the 1939 Exposition, placed the initial order for 100 gross of the Redwood pencils embossed as follows: "1939-Golden Gate International Exposition-l939. A Redwood Product."

Los Angeles Ranks Second in Building

Los Angeles continued to hold secoud place in building among the cities of the rration for the first six months of 1937 with a total of $31,26O,348' San Francisco ranked ninth rvith $10,952,753, Oakland was nineteenth with $4,856,990, and San Diego was twentieth with $4,743,737- New York l'reld first place with a total of $137,515,583Building permit valuations for the trventy leading cities for the first six months of the current year and comparative figures for 1936 as compiled by Dun & Bradstreet, Inc', are as follows:

For Extra Prolits,.. Feature the Extra Protection of PENTONATED NOGKI.ATH

Mrs. Mary A. Rutsell

Mrs. Mary A. Russell passed away at her home in Portland, Ore., on July 19. Mrs. Russell was in her 81st year. She was the mother of A. J. Russell, of the Santa Fe Lumber Company, San Francisco, and was the widow of the late Fred Russell, who rvas for many years in the lumber business in San Francisco and in Portland.

Mrs. Russell is also survived by her sister, Mrs. George D. Young, and nephew, D. L. Young, of Portland.

Mr. Russell attended the funeral, held in Portland on Thursday, Jaly 22.

\(/anted-2,000,000 New HomesMore Later

Washington, July 26.-Wanted-2,000,000 nerv homes now. Another milliorr in the next five years.

That's the way housing experts in the capital view the post-depression demand for residential construction.

Nearly 80 per cent of the demand is for homes costing $5000 or less.

Higher employment and pay rolls, the experts said, portend more acute shortages.

The Federal Home Loan Bank recentty estimated there would be $2,000,000,000 worth o{ resiclential buildings each year for the next ten years'

Granted One-Hour ['ire Rating by 0ver 200 Cities !

I No wondcr dealers by the hundreds are turning to P€rforgted Roclleth*t Theyknow thet its €xtra Protection against frre, ptus ite cxtra otrength end rigidity' end extrs reaiatance to cracking when pleotered with Red Topr Gypsum Plaeter, all make it sc/I/ And they know thst the demand for Perforated Rocklath is ective snd alive-and that it will be increesed thiE Fall by vigorous USG advertieing directly to the peoPle they-and you -depend on for asles. To architects-builders and contrectors-coDsumers-lathers and plaeterera - in wide-spread publications.

Tie up with this aggressive na tion-widc campaigl by featuring and merchandising Perforated Rocklath to yourparticular trade. The combination of added 6re protection' atrengtht ease of handling and economy which Perforated Rocklath provides makes better satisfied cuatomera-and mora sa,lcs fotyou! Order now-your nearby USG mill ot warehouse has a complete stock alwayE on hand.

And remember-you can get Perforated Rocklath in mixed car lots, along with your other USG needs.

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Three Profit Makers That llaturally Sell Together

PERFORATED ROCKLATH-The Fireproof Lath RED TOP* GYPSUM PLASTERS-and GYPLAP* -Tbe Fireproof Sheathing

Production of Lumb er, Lath, and Shingles in California, 1936*

This is a preliminary summary of data submitted in returns from the lumber census concluded for the Census Bureau by the Forest Service. Returns were received from 95 percent of California operators at the time of compilation and late returns may change summary figures slightly, in addition to possible corrections which may be made in the final published report by the Bureau of the Census.

LUMBER CUT_M Ft. B.M. (Mills cutting 50 M or over)

(5) About 20 million from Oregon logs. feet, mostly Douglas fir, was cut

* By Lillian M. Bean, Special Agent, Bureau of the Census, and Clerk, California Forest "and Range Experiment Station.

Comparative Production Since 1920

Totals, including hardwoods, for all mills in California (and Nevada when mills operated) cutting 5O M feet and over per annum, and percentage of increase or decrease of each year as compared with preceding year:

(2) fncludes California red fir (Abies magnifica), which is not produced in sufficient quantity to have established a separate market status.

(3) The pine-region cut was incense cedar with the exception of a very small amount of Port Orford; all of the redwood-region cedar was Port Orford.

(4) Redwood of the coast-Sequoia sempervirens.

Lumber production in California continues to rise, although the increase in 1936 was 12 per cent less than that of the preceding year, the actual increase in board feet amounting to ?87,812 M, or 21.2 per cent. The percentage of increase was almost equally divided between regions, the redrvood region's cut increasing22.4 per cent over 1935 and the pine region's fr.7 per cent. The pine region continues to produce nearly three-fourths of California's lumber, with ponderosa pine still the principal species cut. This species, however, suffered a slight reduction in its percentage of lead, due to other species, notably sugar pine and Douglas fir, showing slight gains. Production in 1936 was still only 79 per cent of the peak-production 1929 year, but was 241 per cent of the low-produ,ction 1932 year.

Output of lath and shingles also contnues upwar'd, the increase in shingle squares produced in 1936 amounting to 12 per cent over the number produced in 1935.

I.UMBER GOMPANY

R. J. Parish Appointed Representative For Australia

Redwood Export Company, foreign trade division of the California Redwood lumber industry, has appointed Robert James Parish of Melbourne as promotional representative for Australia. Mr. Parish sailed for Melbourne on the S.S. Monterey, Tuesday, July 20, after three months in San Francisco. Fort Bragg and Eureka preparing for his new work.

Redwood Export Company's new representative in the Antipodes is a son of Leslie Robert Parish. one of the principals in the timber firm of Daly & parish, pty., Ltd., of Melbourne. He himself has been associated with that firm for the past three years.

In announcing the appointment, R.J. Gutierrez, manager of the Redwood Export Company, said: .,We are particularly anxious to promote quality wood construction in cooperation with the activities of the Timber Development Assoeiations in each state of Australia. Mr. parish will divide his time between Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane, contacting present agents and developing new business."

Australia has long been the principal source of export trade for the California Redwood lumber industry. The first cargo of Redwood was shipped there by sailing bark in 1858, 23 years before the East Coast received its first cargo.

The Australian Redwood market is almost exclusively in Clear Heart grades. Its principal uses include interior finish and trim, sash, moulding, joinery, doors and special patterns with virtually all remanufacturing done in Aus_ tralia.

BUY RETAIL YARD AT BEAUMONT

A group of six partners ancl stockholclers in the Beaumont Hardware Company has purchasecl the Hayward Lumber & Investment Co. yard at Beaumont. The group making the purchase include Myrl E. Beck. resident man_ ager in charge of the Beaumont Hardware Company; Lynn Bebee of Banning; A. H. Bebee, Earl Bebee, Mrs. Ruth Crowder, all of Cripple Creek, Colo., and Dale Bebee of Grand Junction, Colo. Mrs. Crorvder is a sister of the four Bebee brothers.

Plans for the future call for the construction of a ne\l, building at Fifth Street and Grace Avenue, moving the hardware store from its present site into the building along with the lumber yard office, and renaming the combined firms Beaumont Hardware and Lumber Company.

Charles Norberg, who has managed the yard for the past seven years, will be retained at manager of the lumber de_ partment of the new ,organization. Mr. Beck was in the lumber business in Colorado and Nebraska before coming to California.

"Paul Bunyan's" CALIFORNIA PINES

SOFT PONDEROSA and SUGAR PINE

LUMBER . MOULDINGS - CUT STOCK

PLY\(OOD and \(ALLBOARD

Straight or mixed cars of lumber and.plywood products manufactured at one point.

In Los Angeles, L, C. L, Wholesale. Warehouse Serpice

IVESTERN PTNE ASSOCIATION ADVERTISING BUILDS SALES FOR DEALERS

TRADE

MILL, FACTORIES AND GENERAL SALES

wEsTwooD, CALIFORNIA

LOS ANGELES

Sales Ofice: 715 lVertern Pacific Bldg, 1O31 So. Broadway

\Farehoure: L. C. L. Vholerde, 7O2 E. Slauron Ave.

SAN PRANCISCO

Saler Ofice: 315 Moaradnoc& Buildiry

R. J. Parish

MY FAVORITE STORIES

Bv JacJ< Dionne

Ag" not guaranteed---Some I have told for 20 years---Some less

It's All In The Point o[ View

Old Mandy, a big fat colored washerwoman, with a large basket of clean clothes for the white folks, had tried repeatedly and in vain to cross the busy street. Every time she left the curb she had to jump back quickly to keep from being annihilated by some speeding automobile. Mandy was outraged, as she loudly and volubly abused the white folks who hadn't any consideration for poor, helpless niggers.

And then a big shiny black sedan came along and stopped just as Mandy was making another desperate effort to cross the street. The white gentleman driving the car leaned out and said, "Crawl in the back, MandXr mX wife wants to see you right away."

PRESIDENT SIGNS YOSEMITE PARK BILL

Washington, July lO.-President Roosevelt signed today a bill authorizing the Interior Secretary to acquire for addition to Yosemite National Park approximately 7500 acres of land adjacent to the western boundary of the park, described as virgin sugar-pine lands'

INSULATING BOARD MAKES GOOD MOTION PICTURE SCREEN

A Los Angeles builder who finished the walls and ceiling of a basement recreation room with a snrooth-finish, factory-painted Temlok De Luxe insulating board found that the wall made an ideal screen upon which to project motion pictures. This insu'lating board is available in sizes from 4 by 6 feet to 4 by 12 leet and is finished in six colors' The builder used the white color and found that its smooth surface provided a highly satisfactory screen'

So Mandy deposited her basket of wash on the floor of the car, dragged herself inside and settled gratefully upon the deep cushioned seat. The sedan sped on its way. Mandy heaved a heavenly sigh, her fat face wreathed in a seraphic smile. And then she was thrown violently to one side of the car as it swerved suddenly to avoid running down an old negro man who was desperately trying to cross the street, much as Mandy had been doing.

Mandy cried indignantly, "Jes' run right on ovah dat ole fool niggah, Mistah Hamilton; he ain't got no bizness out dere, noways !"

IMPROVEMENTS AT HOBBS WALL PLANT

Hobbs, Wall & Company have added three acres to their site at 2350 Jerrold Avenue, San Francisco. This will make room for an extra three million feet or a total of seven to eight million feet of Redwood which they intend to carry in their yard at all times.

A new burner was recently installed by Rees'Blow Pipe Mfg. Co. of San Francisco, and two new Ross Carriers have been added to the equipment at the yard.

John Rhoda is yard superintendent at the San Francisco plant.

CHANGE OF OFFICE

Wilfred T. Cooper, Los Angeles, Southern California representative for the Snider Sales Co' of Portland, Ore', red cedar shingle manufacturers, has moved his office from room 330 to room 622 Petroleum Securities Bldg. His telephone number remains the same, PRospect 1884.

U. S. Gypsum Company to Feature New Lumber is Represented on Golden Gate \(/allboard, Tape and Joint System International Exposition Committees

An extensive fall advertising campaign is now being planned by the United States Gypsum Company on its new type patented gypsum rvallboard, Recessed-Edge Sheetrock, and the patented tape and joint system in connection with which the new board i5 u5s6.

Several important advantages are claimed for the new products. Together they provide a method of wallboard construction of exceptional strength, permitting easy and economical erection of walls and ceilings free of shadow lines.

When two units of the board are set together on a wall, a shallow channel is formed. Into this channel a special cement is applied and a strong fiber tape is embedded in the cement. The cement is then leveled ofi, and when drv the joint is sanded lightly. The finished joint is flat, smooth, flush with the face of the board, and actually stronger than the board itself. The new tape, called perfA-Tape, was especially designed for use in this patented joint system.

A folder describing the new products and containing complete directions for their use has been prepared by the company, and, is available on request.

BAY CITY FAIR BILL SIGNED BY PRESIDENT

Washington, July l0.-President Roosevelt signed today legislation authorizing government participation in the San Francisco Bay Exposition in 1939. The law authorizes an appropriation of $1,500,000.

To assist in selling the West's Golden Gate International Exposition in 1939, President Leland W. Cutler has named a promotion committee of 25 California publicists. This group, headed by Ted Huggins of the Standard Oil Company of California, will work with Publicity Director Clyde M. Vanderburg in an effort to carry the Exposition to the public through all industries and commercial enterprises.

Lumber is represented on the committee by Dwight O'Dell director of information of the California Redwood Association. Mr. C)'Dell r.r'as also named chairman of the sub-committee on lumber industry participation, membership of which will be announced within a month.

OPENS YARD AT LANCASTER

Beckwith Lumber Company has opened a new lumber yard at Lancaster. The company planned to have the buildings completed and stock in place by July 2O. The firm consists of NIax T. Beckwith, well knorvn in Antelope Valley building circles, and his brother, Warcl B. Beckq'ith, who has been with the Patten-Blinn Lumber Co. for nearly fifteen years.

RETURNS FROM VACATION

H. D. (Doug) Cook, of Western Door & Sash Co., Oakland, is back from two weeks'vacation spent mainly at Carmel. Doug put in a lot of time on the famous Pebble Beach golf course and as a result should be in good shape for week-end games.

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tle mgment your order is registered NOYO gets behind it zqid stays behind it, doing everything humanly possible to fill it accurateiy, promPtly and satisfactorily.

Sometimes snags are encountered, but they don't srop NOYO. That's how he got his reputation-always going to bat foi retail dealersand that's how he's g_oing to keep it! For NOYO knows that only bv recognizing your problems and your needs, can he keep true the old saying, " once d N OY O Dealer<lutays,"

Philippine Mahogany lmporters Hold Adiourned Annual Meeting at Colorado Springs

\(/. G. Scrim Re-Elected President

The adjourned attnual rneeting of the Philippine Alahogany Manufacturers' Import Association, Inc., r'as held at the Broadmoor Hotel, Colorado Springs, Colo., on luly 12 and 13. The meeting was very representative of the industry, consisting of rnembers from both the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts. Plans t'ere discussed for future Association activities in regard to promotion n ork, as rvell as matters of general interest to the industry. The members expressetl

A solid foundation of future demand is being built b1- the far-reaching consumer advertising program. being carried on by the Association, said Joseph R. Gerber, president of Gerber & Crossley, Inc., advertising agency.

The following officers u'ere re-elected for the corning 1'ear: W. G. Scrim, president; H. R. Black, vice-president; Glenn \Ar. Cheney, secretar)'-treasurer; G. P. Purchase, assistant secretary-treasurer.

themselves as well pleased with the progress of the organization during the past year, and with prosperous outlook for the future and increasing demand for Philippine Mahogany.

Philippine hardwoods are obtaining greatly increased use in the United States, President W. G. Scrim told the members. The 1936 import reports show that a total of 33,441,000 board feet of Philippine woods was brought to this country, of which n3863/Ul: board feet was imported by PMMIA members. Last year's total was 4,000,000 board feet greater than in the previous year.

The board of directors elected for the ensuing year were:

W. G. Scrim, Roy Barto, H. R. Black, Thomas E. Powe.

J. K. McCormick, Glenn W. Cheney, and George C. Cornitius.

The following attended the meeting:

W. G. Scrim, Findlay-Millar Timber Co. Los Angeles

H. R. Black, Black & Yates, In,c. .....Brooklyn

Glenn W. Cheney, Dant & Russell, Inc. ...Portland, Ore.

Roy Barto, Cadwallader-Gibson Co., Inc. Los Angeles

Thomas E. Powe. Thomas E. Powe Lumber Co...St. Louis

Left to Right Back Row-G. P. Purchmc, George C. Cornitius, Joseph R. Gcrbcr, Thomrr E. Powc, John G. Zicl, J. K. McCormick, Drnicl R. Fo6er, V. H. O'Neill. Front Row*J. Raymond Peck, Glonn W. Cheney, V, G, Scdn, Howard R. Black, Roy Barto, C. U. Mrdln. Seated Below-Alexandcr Scrim, ron of V. G. Scrim.

George C. Cornitius, George C. Cornitius Hardwood Co. .. San Francisco

J. K. McCormick, Henry J. Winde Company

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Charlestown, Mass.

Joseph R. Gerber, Gerber & Crossley, fnc..portland, Ore.

John G. Ziel, Ziel & Co. San Francisco

Daniel R. Forbes

Washington, D. C.

W. H. O'Neill, W. H. O'Neill Lumber Co...San Francisco

J. Ravmond Peck, Insular Lumber Co. ......philadelphia

C. U. Martin, Port Lamon Lumber Co. ....San Francisco

G. P. Purchase, Philippine Mahogany Manufacturers' Import Association, Inc., .....Los Angeles

Alexander Scrim ....:. ..Los Angeles

The group picture was taken in front of the Broadmoor lfotel, overlooking Broadmoor Lake, with Cheyenne Mountain, elevation 930O feet in the background-about half way up the mountain can be observed the Will Rogers Memorial, erected by Spencer Penrose, owner of the Broadmoor Hotel.

"The Best Selling Home of the Month"

Washington, D. C., July Z}.-Lumber as the premier home building material is deriving much benefit from a "feature" of McCall's magazine, devoted to the .,Best Sell_ ing Home of the Month;" and Freehold, a new tabloid real estate magazine, published by the National Association of Real Estate Boards. The July number of Freehold tells about the No. t home of the group of best sellers. This house, a shingled frame structure, was awarded first place because McCall's magazine received 1,000 requests ior a description of the house.

It is a completely modern edifice both in construction and plan and has six rooms, ,,2/z baths,, and attached ga_ rage. "The exterior and particularly the facade, faithfully reproduce the charm and simplicity in 100 year old houses in villages along the Massachusetts coast.,,

Although mass production of the small house continues to receive a great deal of editorial attention and discussion, the available statistics do not indicate any pronounced trend in that modern direction as yet, and some of the re_ cent articles on the subject seem to raise the question as to whether the quantity production house really ofiers the economies which were put forth in initial justification of it.

It begins to be apparent that in any event the shift from individual to quantity production is going to be such a gradually achieved and demonstrated affair that current building expansion will not be slowed up in the hope that a little delay may result in giving the home builder an op_ portunity to profit by something revolutionary in home con_ struction.

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CONNECTED WITH INSURANCE BUSINESS

Lester Sterett, formerly secretary of the Millwork Insti_ tute of california, is now connected with the insurance business. He is with the phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Hartford, Conn., representing them in Southern Califor_ nia with headquarters in Los Angeles.

Prescott Paper Uset Jack Dionne-s Article in Editorial

Chris Totten of Phoenix, secretary of the Atizona Retail Lumber & Builders Supply Association, Inc., writes that he was particularly interested in Jack Dionne's article, "It Isn't Your Town-It's You," which appeared in the July 15 issue. He called it to the attention of W. P. Stuart, editor of the Prescott Evening Courier, a daily newspaper published at Prescott, Arizona, with the result it was printed in its editorial page, a copy of which Mr. Totten sent us.

In his introductory paragraphs the editor said:

"'When Jack Dionne, publisher of The California Lumber Merchant, which is published semi-monthly in Los Angeles, wrote an editorial entitled'It Isn't Your Town-It's You !' for the July 15 issue, he said something that is bound to have a tonic effect upon every man who will take it to heart. Further, it applies not only to 'town' as usually thought of, that is, a place of comparatively small population, but to mighty cities as .ivell as little villages.

"Coming from a man of the caliber of Jack Dionne, who also publishes at Houston another lumber journal called The Gulf Coast Lumberman and who is a man of broad experience who has had the opportunity of studying men occupying places all up and down the scale, what he has to say on the score may be regarded as well n'orth consideration."

APPOINTED YARD MANAGER

Hubert H. Hawkins has been appointed manager of the Pacific Beach Lumber Co. at Pacific Beach, branch yard of the Western Lumber Company of San Diego. Mr. Hawkins has been with the company for several years and has been connected with their yard at La Jolla, La Jolla Lumber Co., and the main yard in San Diego.

BACK FROM EASTERN TRIP

J. Walter Vaughan, sales manager of the Oregon-Arnerican Lumber Company, Vernonia, Ore., was a business visitor in San Fran,cisco July 27 on his way home from a five weeks' trip to the Middle West and East.

Oldest Frame Building in Virginia

Harry C. Clampitt, manager of the Kerckhoff-Cuzner Mill & Lumber Co. yard at San Fernando, has sent in the July issue of The Sovereign Visitor, official publication of the Woodmen of the World, which carries an interesting article on the oldest frame building in Virginia, the residence of P. K. Jeter, who is a member o{ the Woodmen's order' The article which gives a description of the house follows :

"The oldest frame building, as far as can be ascertained in the state of Virginia, is the residence of R. K' Jeter, which is located on highway 122, between Bedford and Big Island. It is built of heart pine lumber throughout, mortised ancl primed together. The lumber used'in its construction was sawed and dressed by hand. The nails were shop-made-also by hand.

"Some of the inside doors have shop-made H. & L' hinges' sometimes referred to as the 'Holy Lord' hinges. They were used in houses constructed by the pioneers to keep the 'witches' away. The right wing of this house is more than 200 years old, the left wing is over 100 years old. A large open hall joins the two sections.

"This ancient dwelling contains nine rooms, including two rooms in a brick basement. Two old millstones at the porch, placed there when the structure was built, constitute the steps. l wenty-four old English dwarf boxwood bushes-12 on either side-line the walk from the gate to the porch. The Jeter family obtained the land on which this house is located by a grant signed by the queen o{ England.

"A splendid view of the national parks of Otter, located lO miles away, can be obtained from the house. Mr. Jeter. the owner, extends a welcome to all to visit this landmark."

\(/illiam O. Mashek

William O. Mashek, 52, manager of United Lumber Yards, Inc., Modesto, died in Sanford Hospital, San Francisco, July 8, after being ill since June 1.

Mr.. Mashek canie to Modesto from Salt Lake City in Lgn. He had been with United Lumber Yards since that time and had been manag'er for the past 10 years.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Metta Mashek; four children, Evelyn, Dolores and Jerold of Modesto, and Eugene of Merced; and three brothers, Frank F. of Norfolk, Neb.; E. J. of Chapman, Neb.; and Antone of Stratford' N.

"Fabricating the \TesternPiner" New Talking

Motion Picture

Portland, Oregon, Jluly 2.---The release of a new motion picture, a talkie-movie entitled "Fabricating the Western Pines", is announ'ced by the Western Pine Association. This is the second in a series of films made by the promotion department of this organization, on behalf of the mills, factories and dealers who produ'ce, handle and deal in Ponderosa Pine, Idaho White Pine and Sugar Pine, for the delineation of various phases of the production, conversion and use of lumber and related products manufactured from these species.

The continuity carries the theme in logical sequence, while a ghost-voi'ce monolog recorded on the sound tra,ce of the film gives a clear explanation as the picture progresses. Opening with flash views of timber, logging and sawmill scenes trace back the origin of the basi,c material in the form of pine lumber, the subject matter follows through the su,ccessive operations; cutting and sorting the material ; clever machines in operation shaping and preparing component parts; the making and assembling of window and door frames; sash, doors, screens made up, finished ancl fitted for long satisfactory service; a comprehensive and enlightening action-story with universal appeal.

It is a pi'cture that is edu'cational, instructive and entertaining, appropriate for the use of trade schools, manual training classes and civic organizations; or for showings before groups of salesmen, dealers, architects and builders; while it is a subject of primary interest to millwork manufacturers and distributors who specialize in such products.

A number of 16 millimeter prints of the film are available. These will be loaned free for use by respolsible parties and organizations who wish to arrange for showings of the picture. The 16 mm. film is all on one 1200 foot reel; it is non-inflamm'able, and requires about thirty-five minutes running time. This size is for projection with a portable sound projector. Also 35 mm. films, on three reels, are provided without'charge, other than transportation cost one rvay, when oc,casionally required for use on standard theater equipment.

Requests for bookings are invited by the Western Pine Association, Yeon Building, Portland, Ore., from whom complete information regarding the films may be obtained.

ATTENDED KNIGHTS TEMPLARS' CONCLAVE

Fred W. Roth, of Roth-Maier Lumber Co., San Francisco w'as back July 26 lrom attending the fortieth triennial conclave of the Knights Templars at Miami' Florida.

He called on retail lumber dealers in Miami and St' Petersburg and found lumber being sold on a very low margin. Dimension, for instance, that cost fi22.W laid dorvn in the yard was being sold for $26.00.

ON BUSINESS TRIP TO NORTHWEST

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The demand for ellicient inaula. tion ig greater today than in yeara -aad is beiug increared by USG advertialng in both couguaer and architectural publicadoae. Othat dealers are proliting by thia quiclened denand-you c'h, tool Oaly Red Top lurulating Wool* providea so many erclusive and outataading ocllin( advantages. Only USG provldes Red Top Ineulatiag l/Yool. Chech these lmportant featurea:

FIREPROOF-Rod Top Wool will not burn or support combugtou. It ir approved by the Underwritera Laboratories.

MO ISTURE- RES ISTANT-II is iuherently moirture-resiataat; main. taias lts lneulatlug elltclency under all atmorpherlc condltionr.

DOES NOT DECAY-Unalfected by alr, water, acide or gaaee, lt never crumbler or rotr. Will uot harbor vermin.

EFFICI ENT-Indepeadent laboratory and uaiversity tegts thow that a 4-luch ihiclnesr of Red Top \lYool bar a conductivity coelliclent of .066 BTUg p€r sq. ft., per hour, per degree temperature difierence.

PROFIT ie eaey to male when'you handle Red Top Ineulating Wool. The demand ie there . the quality ia there. couvenieut warehouee atockg ar6 near at hand-why not write ur today for full iuforma. tion on botl the product and the opportunity?

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Pleare rend aimple and lull iafomation oa Red Top IneuladagWool. cLM-B-r

H. F. Vincent, vice-president and general manager of E. K. Wood Lumber Co., San Francis'co, is on a'business trip to the Northrvest.

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Delinquent Employers in the Lumber and Woodworking Business Advised to Make lmmediate Tax Returns

Penalties Range From 5 to

Delinquent employers in the lumber and woodworking industries are advised by Commissioner of Internal Revenue Guy T. Helvering to make immediate tax returns as required under the provisions of Titles VIII and IX of the Social Security Act to avoid further payment of drastic penalties which are now accruing.

Commissioner Helvering pointed out that every person employed in the lumber and woodworking industries came under the provisions of Title VIII, which imposes an income tax on the wag:es of every taxable individual and an excise tax on the pay roll of every employer of one or more. This tax is payable monthly at the office of the Collector of Internal Revenue. The present rate for employer and employee alike is one per cent of the taxable wages paid and received.

Under Title IX of the Act, employers of eight or more persons must pay an excise tax on their annual pay roll. This tax went into effect on January l, L936, and tax payments were due from the employ,ers, and the employers alone, at the office of the Collector of Internal Revenue on the first of this year. This tax is payable annually, although the employer may elect to pay it in regular quarterly installments.

The employer is held responsible for the collection of his employee's tax under Title VIII, the Commissioner explained, and is required to collect it when the wages are paid the employee, whether it be weekly or semi-monthly. Once the employer makes the one per cent deduction from the employee's pay, he becomes the custodian of Federal funds and must account for them to the Bureau of Internal Revenue.

This is done, Mr. Helvering said, when the employer makes out Treasury form SS-1, which, accompanied by the employee-employer tax, is filed during the month directly following the month in which the taxes were collected. All

20 Per Cent of Tax Due

IMPORTANT FEATURES OF TAXING PROVISIONS OF SOCIAL SECURITY ACT

Actual money, when paid as wag'es, is not the sole basis on which the tax is levied. Goods, clothing, lodging, if a part of compensation for services, are wag'es and a fair and reasonable value must be arrived at and become subject to the tax.

Commissions on sales, bonuses and premiums on insurance are wages and taxable.

Officers of corporations whether or not receiving compensation are considered employees for the purpose of taxation.

Wages paid during sick leave or vacation, or at dismissal are taxable.

Traveling expenses required by salesmen are not wages if the salesmen account for, by receipts or otherwise, their reasonable expenditures. That part for which no accounting is made is construed as a wage 'and is taxable.

Exercise great care in filling out Treasury forms SS-1 and 940. Directions are easy to follow and correct returns mean no unnecessarv delay.

tax payments must be made at the office of the Collector of Internal Revenue in the district in which the employer's place of business is located.

Penalties for delinquencies are levied against the employer, not the employee, the Commissioner pointed out, and range from 5 per cent to 25 per cent of the tax due, depending on the period of delinquency. Criminal action may be. taken against those who willfully refuse to pay their taxes.

The employcrs of one or more are also required to file

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Treasury forms SS-2 and SS-Za. Both are informational forms and must be filed at Collectors' offices not later than next July 31, covering the first six months of the year. After that they are to be filed at regular quarterly intervals. Form SS-2 will show all the taxable \\rages paid to all employees and SS-2a the taxable wages paid each employee.

Participation in a state unemployment compensation fund, approved by the Social Security Board, does not exempt employers from the excise tax under Title IX, Commissioner Helvering said. Nor does the fact that there is no state unemployment compensation fund relieve the employer of his Federal tax payments. In those states where an unemployment compensation fund has been approved, deductions up to 90 per cent of the Federal tax are allowed the employer who has already paid his state tax. These deductions are not allorved unless the state tax has been paid.

This tax is due in full from all employers in states having no approved fund. The rate for 1936 was one per cent of the total annual pay roll containing eight or more employees, and for 1937 it is two per cent. The rate increases to three per cent in 1938 when it reaches its maximum. The annual returns are made on Treasury form 940.

An employer who employs eight or more persons on each of twenty calendar days during a calendar year, each day being in a difierent calendar week, is liable to the tax. The same persons do not have to be employed during that period, nor do the hours of employment have to be the same.

Freight Cars on Order Largest Since 1924

New York, July 26.-New freight cars on order July 1 totaled 42,624, the greatest number on such date since 1924 at which time there rvere 60,315, Association of American Railroads announced today.

On July 1 last year, Class 1 roads had 28,089 on order.

New steam locomotives on order July 1 rvere 3Ol against 67 a year ago and six two years ago.

New electric and Diesel locomotives on order July I totaled 33 against 23 last year.

There were 34,187 new freight cars installed in first six months this year, largest number since 1930, while the i66 new steam locomotives installed were also the largest since 1930.

Retail Firm Sponsors Showing of Redwood Sound Film "California Giants"

On July 21 in St. Helena, Napa county,425 citizens of that community enjoyed a program unique in retail lumber company good will promotions.

Sponsored by the McKinnon-McNair Lumber Companl', the Redrvood industry's sound film "California Giants," was the feature of a program of instrumental music and song. The picture was first shotvn to the St. Helena Rotary Club of 40 members and guests at noon in the St. Helena Hotel and at night in the St. llelena Grammar S,chool Auditorium before an audience of 385 persons.

The evening performan,ce was well advertised by newspaper space paid by the sponsoring company and by window cards displayed throughout the community. Under the direction of Andrew McNair of the sponsoring company, personal invitations were sent to all customers and friends of the con,cern. The result was one of the largest. attendances €ver appearing at a strictly commer,cial program in St. Helena.

"Napa 'county is particularly proud of its place in the Redwood Empire," Mr. Mc,Nair declared. "Our firm was indeed happy at the opportunity to present this wonderful story of the Redwoods and the redwood lumber industry to its friends."

O. W. Sollie of the California Redwood Association offices in San Francisco made the trip to St. Helena to assist in presenting the program.

Charles L. Millst

Charles L. Miller, former president of the Pacific Door & Sash Co., passed away at his home in Los Angeles, Friday evening, July 23. lle rvas 73 years of age, and rvas born in San Francisco.

Mr. Miller was prominent in the milhvork industry in Los Angeles for many years. He rvas a charter member of the Jonathan Club. Funeral services were held Monday morning, luly 26, at the Wee Kirk o' the Heather, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale.

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Celebrates Opening of New Retail Store at Los Angeles-Entertains Contractors

Over trvo hundred contractors and another hundred guests gathered at the San Pedro Lumber Co. on the evening of July 8 to celebrate the opening of their new retail store and headquarters at 1518 South Central Avenue, Los Angeles.

Door and contest prizes in excess of $20O had been ofiered by the company as the high light of the regular monthly meeting of the Building Contractors Association of Southern California.

son were second and H. J. Patten ancl L. D. Connor third.

Practically everyone present entered the Sisalkraft tearing up contest, an event which has been staged successfully for the last two years in Southern California and has drarvn rnore than 12,000 entries. Straightest tear was made by D. L. Garfield, rvith Charles A. Darling second, and "Srvede" Larson third. All are contractors.

Old Colony Paints, with Harold l\fcClellan as the speaker, r,vere shown to the contractors, and he gave practical demonstrations of coverage and wear resistance.

First door prize went to Frank Woodyard, r.vith La Vern FIuLck second, and L. H. Leonard thircl.

Duplicate prizes were awarded in both the Silentite Window and Picket Pack events.

Lucky door prizes were posted by the San Pedro Lumber Company for its fortnight open house. Winners rvill be announced in the next number of The California Lumber Merchant.

A. B. McKee, Jr,

Three contests of skill, a guessing event, and the door prize drawing provided twenty-one valuable merchandise awards, and the evening was topped off by a buffet supper, the San Pedro Lumber Co. being hosts.

Business of the Association was disposed of in a {ew minutes, following General Manager Bert McKee's welcome to the visitors and a response by Floyd Lane, president of the Association. Then Master of Ceremonies Paul De Huff got down to the real business of the evening.

First event was the guessing contest, with United States Gypsum representatives insulating a wall section, after the contractors had registered their guesses of the time required. Both D. K. Whittet and William Satterwhite hit the time of 6 minutes 15 seconds right on the head to share first and second prizes, with Floyd Lane in third place.

The Curtis Silentite lVindow featured the first craftsman's contest, and after a demonstration by Tom Stokes of the Curtis Companies, five teams of two each competed in assembling Curtis windows and mounting them in openings' Winning team was Paul Hist of the Westwood Construction Company and J. E. Denham, contractor, who accomplished the job in the amazing time of 6 minutes 10 seconds. Second were Contractors Ben Schiewe and Frank Heller, and third were Tom Girard, contractor, and H' G. Patten, son of H. J. Patten, contractor.

The second contest of skill was the building of ten feet of Picket Pack Redwood fence, with Carroll T. Morton' Los Angeles representative of the California Redwood Association, explaining the pack and the contest rules. Again fhe competition was in teams of two, with the contractors mounting stringers on posts already prepared, and nailing rrp the fence. Winning team completed the job in a fraction over 6 minutes, with second and third place teams only split seconds behind. Winners rvere Ralph Rogers and La Vern Huck, both contractors. Emmet Jensen and Mark Nichol-

B. F. Train

Benjamin F. Train, manager of the J. D. Halstead Lumber Company, Los Angeles, passed away on July 13 following an operation for appendicitis. He rvas forty-seven years of age.

Mi. Train r,r,'as born in Bellville, Kansas, and had been a resident of Los Angeles for fourteen years. He is survived by his wife, Tinnie K. Train; a daughter, I\[rs. Earl Perry, and a son, Billy Train. Funeral services were held Friday afternoon, July 16.

ATTEND OREGON TRAIL PAGEANT

H. Sewall Morton of Hill & Morton, Inc., Oakland, returned July 26 from an automobile trip to Eugene, Oregon, made for the purpose of attending the famous Oregon Trail pageant, held July 22,23 and 24.

Accompanying him on the trip were Charlie Shepard, secretary-treasurer of Friend & Terry Lumber Co., Sacramento; Harry Terrell, salesman for Hill & Morton, and Edgar Simpson, owner of Friend & Terry Lumber Co.

Mr. Simpson was parti'cularly interested in the pageant for the reason that he had shipped 16 oxen (eight yoke), six ,horses and a stage coach to take part in it.

The pageant, Sewall says, was a grand s[,c,c€SS, largely attended, and everybody seemed to have a good time.

CALL ON THE TRADE

W. G. Kahman, San Frahcisco, district sales manager, Shevlin Pine Sales Co., was a visitor at the cornpany's Los Angeles office around the middle of July. Accompanied by I,. S. Turnbull, Southern California and Arizona representative, they spent a few days calling on the trade.

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Going and Coming

Don Philips, Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and family are spending a month's vacation at Lake Independence in the High Sierra. They u'ill return to Los Angeles August 6.

Don Doud is back from a trip to Grays Harbor where he visited the mills he represents in Southern California. He traveled by airplane.

Percy Merithew and Dave Gates, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, will be back at their desks on August 2 following a vacation spent at Yellowstone National Park. Their families accompanied them on the trip.

William T. Hancock, traffic manager for the Kirby Lumber Company, Houston, Texas, and Mrs. Hancock, are spending a two weeks' vacation in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Their old friend, W. C. (Bud) Connor, Pacific Coast agent for the C. & E.I.R.R., plans to take them on a motor trip to Yosemite National Park and also to visit some of the pine mills in the Feather River district.

E. W. Hemmings, Los Angeles, is back from a trip to the Pine mills he represents in Southern California.

GOST MORE!

The extraordinarily high quality of the SNIDER BRAND OF RED CEDAR SHINGLES is well worth a higher price. Snider ohingles aae manufactured to meet the demand for (THE BEST ROOF MY MONEY CAN BUY.D .To fulfill that demand costs moncy-only select cloce-grained high altitude red cedar ic cut; every step of manufacturing ie clocely cupervised; only exact gradee are ehipped.

ShOW SNIDER BRAND OF RED CEDAR SHINGLES

to your customera. Explain that theee rhingles meen a durable, trouble-free roof . . . that in every ehingle he's getting hir fult money's worth. All sizes and gradea of shingles, aleo NuCut Shakeg.

Al Raubenheimer, Phoenix, Ariz., was a visitor last month at the offices of the San Pedro Lumber Co. and E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, which firms he represents in Arizona. He also represents the Saginaw & Manistee Lumber Co. of Williams. Ariz.

L. W. MacDonald, MacDonald & Bergstrom, Inc., Los Angeles, left July 2I on a trip to his old home town, Portland, Me., where he will visit his brother and sister, renew old acquaintances, and look over some of the old familiar haunts. On his return, he plans to stop off in New York City and Detroit. He expects to be away two or three weeks, and is traveling by airplane.

W. W. Wilkinson, Wilkinson and Buoy, Los Angeles, has returned from a trip to the Northrvest rvhere he called on their mill conneqtions.

Lewis Godard, sales manager for Hobbs, Wall & Company, San Francisco, and Mrs. Godard, returned recently from a vacation trip to the Northwest. They spent a few days in Victoria, B. C., and in Rainier National Park and r.isited Crater Lake and other places of interest in Oregon.

THE MAGIC WAS IN THE WORDS

There is an ancient legend which tells us that when a man first achieved a most notable deed he wished to explain to his tribe what he had done. As soon as he began to speak, however, he was smitten with dumbness, he lacked words, and sat down. Then there arose-according to the story-a masterless man, one who had taken no part in the action of his fellow, who had no special virtues, but afflicted-that is the phrase-with the magic of the necessary words. He saw, he told, he described the merits of the notable deed in such a fashion, we are assured, that the words "became alive and walked up and down in the hearts of all his hearers." Thereupon, the tribe seeing that the words were certainly alive, and fearing lest the man with the words would hand down untrue tales about them to their children, they took and killed him- But later they saw that the magic was in the words, not in the man.

-Kipling.

Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind as harrowing and planting those of the earth.

-Margaret Fuller.

OVER THE HILL

It ain't the gray in his hair that makes a man old, Nor that far-away stare in his eye, I'm told. But when the mind makes a contract the body can't fill, You're over the hill, brother, /o['re over the hill.

THE G,ROCER REPLIES

Housewife: "I sent my little boy for two pounds of plums and you sent only a pound and a half."

Grocer: "My scales are all right, madam. Have you weighed the little boy?"

Man is the merriest species of the creation; him or below him are serious.-Addison.

KITTY KATTY

all above

Kitty: "\llfhen I was eighteen years old the President of the United States himself awarded me a beauty pize."

Katty: "You can't make me believe McKinley went in for that sort of stuff!"

INVICTUS

By W.E. Henley

Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit, from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance

I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance

My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

Looms but the Horror of the Shade, And yet the menace of the years

Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshipper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the glory of a noble woman shines like a sort of light from a woman's face.

-Balzac.

ADVERSITY

Adversity is a medicine which people are rather fond of recommending inCiscriminately as a panacea for their neighbors. Like other medicines, it only agrees with certain constitutions. There are nerves which it braces, and nerves which it utterly shatters.-Justin McCarthy.

HE MIGHT GO OFF

Greatly agitated, a woman carrying an infant dashed into a drug store.

"My baby has swallowed a bullet," she cried. "What shall I do?"

"Give him some castor oil," replied the druggist, calmly, "but be sure you don't point him at anyone."

''II[IHO'S WHO'' clohn G, Ziel

John G. Ziel, caIled "Jack" by his friends, was born in San Francisco in 1896. After graduation from Hitchock Nlilitary Academy in San Rafael he tvent to Europe, where he graduated from the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.

Some years after his return from Europe he entered the forbign trade field and in 1925 started business as an exporter of softwoods and importer of hardwoods with headquarters in San Francisco. Following an extended trip to the Orient where he spent considerable time learning the various phases of production of Japanese Oak, Birch and Beech and Philippine Mahogany, he acquired the agency in the United States for several fine Japanese Oak and Philippine Mahogany mills.

Ziel & Co. has the unique distinction of dating back through its original predecessor to 1849, as Ziel, Bertheau & Co. was first established as an import house in October, 1849, by Gustavus Ziel, grandlather of John G. Ziel. It is also interesting to note from documentary evidence contained in the archives of the Society of California Pioneers and in the San Francisco Public Library that the name has always been prominent on California Street, San Francisco. for Ziel, Bertheau & Co. originally had offices at 94 California Street, in 1856, at No. 72 and 74, in 1859 at No. 48, in 1861 at 122, where they remained until the death of Gustavus Ziel, who, by the way, was the first German consul in San Francisco. From that time on his son. Gustavus A. Ziel, father of John G. Ziel, carried on at 4N-422 Calif.ornia Street, changing the nature of the business to a general fire insurance agency and discarding the name "Bertheau.,, Insurance remained the major line from then on and the address again changed to 465 California Street, Merchants Exchange Building, until the entry of John G. Ziel into the

lumber business at 16 California Street, where Ziel & Co. has made its home for some years.

Mr. Ziel was married to Miss Betty Merrill of Pasadena in January, 1934, and they have one daughter. They live in San Francisco but expect to make their home in Marin County in the near future. He is a member of the lJniversity Club and Meadow Golf Club, and his favorite sports are tennis and baseball. He is quite a linguist, speaking French and German fluently.

Retail News Notes

Ray Dewey, Concord Lumber Company, Con,cord, is back from a trip to the Middle West where he visited Lansing, Mich., Chicago and Minneapolis. On the return trip, he motored by way of the Black Hills in South Dakota and Idaho. Mrs. Dewey made the trip rvith him.

Frank McNulty, McNulty Lumber Company, San Bruno, is home from an automobile vacation tour that took in such grand scenic points as Banfi and Lake Louise in Canada, and Glacier and Yellowstone National parks.

Hayward Dill, manager of the Dill Banning, and Mrs. Dill, are making a

Lumber Company, tour of Europe.

Max Price, Ros.coe Lumber Co., Roscoe, is on a trip to South Dakota.

Frank Wells, Inglewood Lumber Company, Inglewood, has returned from Salem, Ore., where he attended a family reunion.

W. K. Veale and Frank from La Mers, Iowa, have

iVIacKellip, retail lumber dealers been visiting in Los Angeles.

Robert Huston has been appointed secretary of the Sac_ ramento Lumbermen's Club, succeeding Harry pefley, who has been on the sick list. Mr. Huston was formerly with the. Hammond Lumber Company at Colton.

Charles C. Adams, San Bernardino retailer, was a recent Los Angeles visitor on company business.

John G. Ziel

National Holds Mid-Summer Meetings "Sug., Pine for Pefiect Patterns"

Mid-summer meetings of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association were held July 28, 29 and 3O at the Curtis Hotel, Minneapolis. On the 28th there were sessions of the annual meeting of the Timber Engineering Company; meetings of sales managers; and of the Advisory Committee. On July D the Executive Committee met with the sales manag'ers; and on July 30 the Executive Committee had its own session.

Chairman of Standing Committees and members of the Advisory Committee, it is understood, were invited to meet with the Executive Committee.

Topics for discussion included the general subject of trade promotion for hardwoods and softwoods, the further development of the small home building program, and current legislation such as the wage and hour bill, tariff and taxation bills, foreign trade agreements. The National Conservation program report was discussed and recommendations of Standing Committees considered.

Governor Merriam Signs Bills

The following bills passed at the last session of the California legislature which afiect the building industry have been signed by Governor Merriam:

A. B. No.3, effe,ctive August 27,which amends the "IJnfair Trade Practice A'ct"; A. B. No. 459, effective Augtrst 27, amending Section 7lO of. the C' C. P. relating to execution on money due from a governmental agency to a judgment debtor; A. B. No.506, effective January l, 1938, which changes the exemption under the unemployment insurance act from 8 to 4; A. B. No. 1218, effective January 1, 1938, a truck bill setting up a table of weight fees of $4O, $50 and $70, and the classification will be based on the gross weight of loaded trucks;

S. B, No. 953. efiective at once, which amends the present Transportation Act and clarifies the section pertaining to the transportation of property on a person's own tru'ck'

BACK FROM EASTERN TRIP

Edric E. Bro$'n, manager of the Bark Products Division of The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, has returned from spending six weeks in the Eastern States'

Portland, Oregon, July 6th-"Sugar Pine for Perfect Patterns" is the title of an attractive new booklet just off the press, according to an announcement by the Western Pine Association. For generations pattern makers depended on Northern White Pine for their exacting softwood requirements but in recent years increasing quantities of Sugar Pine and Idaho White Pine, both genuine White Pines, have been used almost exclusively for their softwood pattern requirements. Sugar Pine for patterns, as well as for core boxes and foundry flasks, is meeting with great favor among Amdrican foundrymen. It has developed into one of the most important industrial outlets for this wood. The availability of Sugar Pine in thick, wide clear lumber of standard sizes has been an important factor in attaining widespread popularity with pattern makers.

This interesting 2Gpage booklet is profusely illustrated with unusual examples of Sugar Pine patterns for Boulder Dam, Fort Peck Dam, the U. S. Sea-Going Hopper Dredge "Goethals" and numerous other examples of industrial uses in well known foundries from Coast to Coast.

The text covers a discussion of Sugar Pine grades commonly selected for patterns, refers to its sizes and qualities and points out important considerations regarding the proper seasoning of Sugar Pine at the mill and care of stock at the pattern shop. It quotes the experiences of men in the pattern trade; touches upon the extent of Sugar Pine timber available for years to come and the physical and mechanical properties of this genuine White Pine.

Single copies of "Sugar Pine ior Perfect Patterns" may be secured without charge by interested concerns simply by addressing the Western Pine Association, Yeon Building, Portland, Oregon.

CALIFORNIA VISITOR

Phil Gilbert, sales manager of the Coos Bay Logging Co., North Bend, Ore., was a recent business visitor to San Francisco and Los Angeles.

SPENT VACATION IN TRINITY COUNTY

Henry M. Hink, sales manager of Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned July 26 from a two weeks' vacation at Trinity Alps Resort, Trinity County.

SheYlin Pine Sales GompanY

SELLING THE PRODUCTS OF

The Mdland Rlvcr lsbcr CmPUY McCIoud, Crlifmd!

Sbwlln-Clrkc CmPanY' Llmtted Fort Fnnc!3, Ontarb

Thc Shevlln-Htrm CmPanY Ben4 Orego

DISIRIBUTORS OF SHEVLIN

PINE

R4. U. S. Prt Ofi. EXECUTTVE OFFICE

nC FH Nadmal lto Lh. BdliXnr MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA

DISTRICT SALE]S OFFICES:

NEW YORK CHICAGO

lO6 Grsrber Blda. l&Ii LeSellc'Wecker Bldg. Mohr;L 1-9lU- Tclcphoac Ccrtr.l 9182

SAN FRANCISCO

1030 Moaadaock Bldg. Kcrmet ?(Xl

I,IOS ANGELES SALES OFEICE

328 Pctroleum SGctritier Bldg. PRcpet 6f5

SPEOES

NORTHERN (Gcnuinc) VHITE PINE /PINUS STROBUS)

NORVAY OR RED PINE (PINUS RESINOSA) PONDEROSA PINE (PINUS PONDEROSA)

SUGAR (Genuinc Vhltc) PINE (PINUS I.AMBERTIANA)

Redwood Empire Exhibit Planned

Eureka, July 7.-Supervisors of nine Redwood Empire counties, in session here today, voting unanimously to "maintain a united front" in presenting the exhibit they are planning for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition.

The supervisors announced they will "seek their share of the State's $5,000,000 appropriation for the exposition." The Redwood Empire counties tentatively plan to construct a "Redwood building" as one of the group of State exposition buildings on "Treasure Island," in San Francisco Bay, site of the fair.

The supervisors voted to reorganize the Redwood Empire Exposition committee. The committee will be composed of 18 members, two from each county-including a supervisor and one citizen. The counties included Marin, Sonoma, Napa, Lake, Mendocino, Humboldt and Del Norte in California, and Josephine County in Oregon.

GREATEST REFORESTATION RECORD

What is claimed by Forest Service officials to be the greatest yearly reforestation record has been set by the planting of approximately 215,000,000 trees on National Forests in 26 States during 1936. The distribution of this planting is as follows: Nearly 90 per cent in the Lake States and the South; 141,478 acres in lllinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, North Dakota and Wisconsin reforested, more than 140,000,000 trees being planted in this region. Some 78,000,000 trees were planted in Michigan and,f0,00O,000 in Wisconsin. The major species planted in the Lake States Region were Norway and jack pines. In the South, 22,W,m trees each were reported for Louisiana and Mississippi, mainly longleaf, slash and loblolly pines.

ANNOUNCES TWO NEW MANUFACTURING UNITS

Lewis H. Brown, president of Johns-Manville Corporation, has announced that negotiations have been completed for the acquisition of two new properties.

In Watson, suburb of Los Angeles, an option to purchase a 50-acre plot of land has been acquired, and construction of a new million-dollar factory will soon be started. The second new plant will be at Richmond, Ind.

AIRPLANE BALSA

The model airplane makers, boys from 6 to 66, turn to their local lumbermen for Balsa Wood.

Stanton imports Balsa from the Tropics, mills it with special equipment to dimension sheets lrom I/64 to 4 inches thick. Saving retailers time and grief, Stanton ships them Balsa ready-milled for their model making customers.

Stanton carries Balsa Lumber besi'des-Prime for surf boards and floats, Seconds for insulation in ice cream trucks and cabinets (the lightest and strongest wood that grows, Balsa is a better and lighter insulator than cork-board or insulating boards).

Cafifornia Building Permits lor June

City

Los Angeles ....

San Francisco

County unincorporated area.

*San Fernando Valley Annex.

*West Los Angeles

*Hollywood

*In-cluded in Los Angeles Totals.

Sales Helps for Dealers

N{inneapolis, 1\{innesota ; Jrly 12The Insulite Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota, has recently prepared several new literature items for lumber clealers. This is a part of the enlarged program of advertising which the company has scheduled for 7937.

Outstanding among the new selling helps is a twelve page book in colors entitled, "Increasing Home Enjoyment rvith Insulite." The book contains many photographs shorving major phases in home construction and should help dealers to close sales for materials on new homes as .rvell as for interior modernizing jobs or.r houses alreacly erected.

Supplementing this nelv book, a series of five colore,d envelope stuffers has been released. Bildrite Sheathing and Lok-Joint Lath, the company's insulating.wood sheathing and plaster base, respectively, are described in individual stuffers, as is Insulite H'ardboarcl. The use of Insulite on farms ancl the selling points of the Insulite lVall of Protection are set forth in the fourth ancl fifth stuffers in the series. All of these folders are so designed that they may be includecl in envelopes with monthly statements.

A sttpply of any of these nerv pieces rvill be sent to <lealers requesting them. The small folders are imprinted rvith the dealer's name and address vi'hen furnished in quantities of trvo hundred or more.

S. F. CLUB HOLDS REGULAR MEETINGS

San Francisco Lumbermen's Club meets regularly at the Engineers' Club, Pine and Sansome Streets, San Francisco, each Monday at 12:15 p.m. In spite of vacation season attendance keeps up well. All lumbermen are lvelcome.

SPENDING VACATION

Roy Johnson. Grave.; Company, ily, are spelding their vacation in

MR. SAI.ES MATTAGER: D0 You KIt0w r r r

--that more thon a thousond changes oI credit ratings, os well as other chonges-vital to both your sales ond clredit deportments-are made, on the dverdget eoch month, by the industry's own speciol reporting {ervice?

-thot dn dv€rdge of 432 concerns just starting in business -most of which ore buyers of lumber ond aliled products -ore investigated by this ogency eoch month?

-that 980 concerns, on the dverdget ceose doing business each month of the year?

Ig.q_n:v know of these hcppenings, but, DO yOU KNOW_

--thot oll o[ these changes in ratings and oll other changes, the nomes of oll new concerns just starting in.businesi (new buyers), and of all concerns quittinq business. ARE REPORTED VOLUNTARILY EVERV THIRD \(/ORKING DAY to users of the Lumbermen's Red ond Blue Book Service?

The information in the Lumbermen's Credlt Rating Book-on your desk-is kept up-to-date, both os to listed names ond credit ratinss \(/lTHlN THREE DAyS of the time the information is developed in our office.

You need this Twice-A-\ileek SUPPLEMENTED book riqht ot your elbow to guide you in soliciting ond accepting ordZrs lrom old os well ds new concerns. ll it is not on your desk now, let us put one there on 30 days approval. Your consenting to this will not obligote your compdny in any way except ds to. its refurn, at our expense, at the end o[ the 30 day approvol period, if you are not sotisfied thot it is a good i nvestment.

IN WYOMING

Los Angeles, and famWyoming.

lf you d.ecide to keep it, a small initial payment can be made on our lour-poyment plan.

Moke the t€st now. Learn during the next 30 days whot o help this service really is to you ii your sales worr.

Ten Years Ago Today

From the Files of fhe California Lrmbet Merchant, August 1 , 1927

Captain E. B. (Ed) Culnan attended the Reserve Officers Army Training Camp at Monterey from July 16 to Angust 1.

The newest industry in which the lumber industry of Washington, Oregon and British Columbia is taking a most active interest, is the building and operation of paper mills. There are now in active operation in Washington and Oregon fifteen pulp and paper mills, using wood for their raw materials.

Announcement has been made of the Second Redwood Contest on the uses of Redwood by the California Redwood Association. The contest will close December 31. Orvners' managers and employes of retail yards; salesmen and mill representatives of Redwood mills, and mill employees of Redwood companies are eligible to enter the contest.

The Hammond Lumber Company entertained the Purchasing Agents Association of Los Angeles, devoting the entire day to their seventy-five guests. They were shown over their Los Angeles retail plant, and then taken to San Pedro where they visited their docks and coast yard operations. They were also taken on a two-hour trip around Los Angeles harbor, lunch being served on the boat.

This issue carries a career sketch of R. L. Duvall, salesman for the Wheeler-Osgood Co., in the Northern California territory.

Arthur B. Griswold, C. D.Johnson Lumber Corporation, San Francisco, reported a successful fishing trip to the Eel River when he caught the first large "steelhead" of the year which weighed ten pounds. In the Rod and Gun Club column appearing in the San Francisco Examiner, he got special mention for his catch.

Bill Hamilton of Los Angeles, Southern California representative for Holmes-Eureka Co. was the recipient of congratulations from his many friends, the occasion being the arrival of a baby daughter at his house.

With a thunderous concussion that was heard and felt for miles, a mountain crag of limestone, weighing more than 500,000 tons was literally blown to bits at Monolith when a record charge of 200,000 pounds of dynamite was exploded in a single blast at the quarries of the Monolith Portland Cement Co. Monolith officials Zrnd several hundred spectators rvitnessed the spectacular explosion.

Reports coming out of San Francisco say that Frank O'Connor, Donovan Lumber Co., has taken up golf. Hugh Gallagher of the Matson Steamship Co. is the guilty party who has lured Frank onto the links. Frank bought himself a very swanky outfit and it looks like he is going after the game in a big way.

Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. announces that the company will proceed with plans for the construction of their plant at Klamath Falls and that actual construction will be under way before the end of the year

WHEN YOU SELL

Booth-Kelly Douglas Fir, the Association grade and trade mark certify to your customers the quality of the stock you handle. Builders quit gueesing about what they're buying, and buy where drey know what they're getting.

Sudden e, Christenson Lunrber

7th Floor. Alaska-Commercial Bldg., AGENTS

Amcricen Mill Co.

Hoquiem Lumber & Shingle Co.

Hulbert Mill C.o.

Vilhpr Herbor Lumboc Milb

LOS ANGELES

630 Board of Tradc Bldg.

and Shtpptng

310 Sansome Street, San Francisco STEAMERS

Abcrdoca, VerL Trinidad Dyder Hanify Hoouiem. Warh. : Barbara Cater Aberdeea. \ger6" Dorothy Cahill Edna Chrirtcaroa

Raymond, Varh. Jane Chrirtenron Branch Oficcs: SEATTLE

National Bank of Comrnercc Bldg.

New Folders Describe Insulation Products

Four folders describing the Armstrong Cork Products Company's line of equipment insulation products have just been made available. The illustrated b,ooklets contain information on LK Corkboard, Temlock, and ArmstrongCorning Wool.

LK Corkboard is developed especially for refrigerator equipment. Temlok is made from southern yellow pine and is used for cer.tain types of ,cabinet constru,ction in addition to its many ,other uses. It is furnished in pieces or sets fabricated at the factory.

Armstrong-Corning Wool, a ,comparatively nerv addition to the line, is a light-weight, flexible fibrous glass insulation, made from inorganic material. It does not absorb moisture or fumes and is not subject to deterioration. Its fibres are fireproof and acid-resistant.

Each of the above products are described in a separate folder. A fourth booklet summarizes the features of three products and contains information on Armstrong's life test room, maintained in the company's central te,chnical laboratories at Lanc'aster, Pa., especially f,or manufa,cturers who are using Armstrong insulation or are interested in making efficiency tests.

Any or all of these booklets may be had free by writing the Armstrong Cork Products Company, Lan.caster, Pa.

REMODELS OFFICE

Charles H. Chapman, Santa Ana retailer, has remodeled his private office and it looks very attractive.

Sach Doors lllllwork

Annie Chricteruoa

Edwin Chrirtenron

Catherine G. Suddco

Eleanor Chrirtenron

Cherler Chrirtcnron

PORTLAND

2O0 Henry Bldg.

Redwood Home in Use 82 Yearc

Eighty-two years in use, remodeled or altered at least 11 times and "still in good shape." Thus reads the life history of the solid Redwood home of Mr. and Mrs. Emory H. Smith of Colusa, pioneer county-seat community in the Sacramento valley of California.

The trail of ownership of the Smith home can be traced from the first settlenrent of Colusa in the '50s' It u'as built originally by Charles D. Semple, co-founder of the town, to whom the Redwood timbers and siding were shipped via San Francisco up the Sacramento river by boat. It has been orvned by six difierent families. The longest individual residence was 28 years.

The Smith home, which is being moved to a different location to make room for a new redwood home of Cape Cod architecture, is one of nearly a hundred Redwoocl homes built in Colusa in the days before the Civil War. Heart of one of the richest agricultural sections in the state. Colusa is off the beaten path of tourist travei but remains one of the most picturesque cities in the West with many of its original homes still standing and in constant use.

BUILD LUMBER STORAGE

West Coast Screen Company, manufacturers of the wellknown Hollywood combination screen and metal sash door', recently completed construction of a lumber storage yard opposite their plant on East 63rd Street, Los Angeles.

TRADE.MARKBD . SELECTED . FIRM TEXTURBD

CLASSIFIED Ratc--t2.50 Pq Colum ADVERTISING Inch. Minimum Ad One-Half Inch.

GOOD OPPORTUNITY F'OR YOUNG RETAIL LUMBERMAN

Will consider financing young retail lumberman with following in Los Angeles County. Must be practical man andable to operate retail yard. Write full particulars, giving experience, age, etc. Address Box C-672, California Lumber Merchant.

LUMBER TRAILERS FOR SALE

3 Utility Make Lumber Trailers for sale. Steel construction with rollers and binders. l-Ton capacity. Make offerBaskett Lumber Company, 922 West Philadelphia St., Whittier, Calif., Phone 43462.

FOR SALE

320 acres. Sugar Pine, Yellow Pine and Fir. I mile from Coun$r Roa4 foot of mountain, level land, Trinity County. Reasonably priced. If interested write to LEONARD H. HARRIS, Broker, Califo'rnia Theatre Bldg., Santa Rosa, Calif.

EXPERIENCED LUMBEIRMAN

Age 34, aggressive. Fifteen years' orperience includes actual sawrnill in Coast and Inland Empire mills; se\ren years wholesale selling in Middle West; two years California retail experience in sales, correspondence, credit and collection management. Address Box C'677, California Lumber Merchant.

LUMBER SALESMAN WANTED

Want ambitious young man to sell White Pine, Sugar Pine, Spruce and Hardwoods to wholesale trade in Los Angeles. Real opportunity for right man.

LUMBER INSPECTOR WANTED

Want high class man experienced in grading Hardwoods, White and Sugar Pine.

PENBERTHY LUMBER COMPANY' Telephone Klmball 5111. 2055 E. 51st St.

RETAIL VARDS FOR SALE

Los Angeles yard doing $10,000 monthly business. Real estate, buildings and all equipment $5,700. Stock at inventory.

Yard in active Coast city doing $t0,0(X) a month, real estate leased. Improvements $6,000, including one owned lot, equipment $4,000, stock $8,000.

Both these yards are exceptionally good buys.

Twohy Lumber Co., Lumber Yard Brokers, 801 Petroleum Securities Bldg., Los Angeles. Telephone PRospect 8746.

FOR SALE

Retail lumber yard on main boulevard in East Bay district. $5000.00 will handle. Address Box C.-676 California Lumber Merchant.

Going and Coming

Charles P. Henry, Chas. R. McCormick Angeles, and family, have returned from the Northwest.

W. T. White, president of cisco, and Mrs. White spent Tavern. Lake Tahoe.

Lumber Co., Los a vacation trip to

White Brothers, San Franthe month of July at Tahoe

John Olson, Los Angeles wholesaler, is back from a vacation spent in the High Sierra.

Clay Brown, of Portland, Ore., sales manager of the plywood division of Smith Wood-Products, Inc., rvas in San Francisco on business, July 26.

Ernest L. Nelson, South Sound Lumber Sales, Inc., Los Angeles, has returned from a two weeks' vacation in the Northwest.

Earl Carlson and John Helms, salesmen for the Santa Fe Lumber Company, San Francisco, have returned from a 10-day automobile trip to the Northrvest where they called on the firm's mill connections.

D. Normen Cords, salesman for pany, San Francisco, has returned tion at Monte Rio on the Russian

\Vendling-Nathan Comfrom spending his vacaRiver.

L. G. Burns, Burns Lumber Co., Los Angeles, is back from a business trip to the Northwest.

Bill Gamble, superintendent of the Graves Company, Los Angeles, has stepped out in a new Studebaker automobile and he gave it a good workout last rveek when he made a trip to the Redwood region.

C. W. Buckner, Harbor Plywood Corporation, San Francisco, spent several days in Los Angeles the latter part of July on company business.

BI]YBB9S GT]TDD SAN FBANOISOO

LUMAER

Boo,kstawr-More Luber Co" 525 Mar&et Strct .........,......Exbr@k t745

Chambcrlln & Co. W. R., - fth Flm, Fifc Bldg. ............Dour|u 5t7a

Ddber & Cano Lumbcr Co, 730 Machet! Excbangc Bldg.......SUttGr ?{54

Gor,rmn Lunber (.o., Ito califmia st. .......,......GArfield 50{4

Hall, Jamc L, 1032 Milb Blds. ...................,.Sutter ?520

H.ot-oq,l Redwod Cmpany, aU Mmttomory SL .............DOu8|ar l3t3

Holmer EurcLt Lunber Co. l50ri Fhanclel Ceutcr B'ldr.......GArfictd rfzr

C. D. Johmn Lumber Cora. 260 Califomia Strat... ....GArficld 6253

lnfgren, A. N., 2rei Califmia Stret ...,,.......FIlImm 6l?5

MacDonald & HaniDgton Ltd., It Calitmir Strlot...............,GAr6e1d t393

Pacific lanbcr Ca Thc lo Bueh Srr6i.............,......GArfictd llsr

Peggs, J. Eo I Dmm St. ....................Douslas SSgt

LUMBER

LUMBER

Red Rivq Lumber Cq, 315 Mru&ck 81ds...............GArfictd Oz2

Suta Fc Luber Co., 16 Crlitmtir Strct..........,.KEany 20ltl

Schaler Bru. Lumber ll Sblrrylc Co., I Drom St. .,.........,.........'..SUttc tZl

Shevlin Pinc Sales Co., f0t0 Moa&oc& Btdr. ...,.......KEuay ?ttt

Suddcn & Christcnron, tlo Sruobc StreGt.......,.. ......GArfietd 2!4C

Union Lumbcr Co.. Crcker Buildti3 ..Sutt!r CUa

Wadllng-Nathan Co- ll0 Markct Strert .. ,. ., ...Sutter 5:te!

E. K. W@d Lunbcr Co, I Dm Stret....................KEant t210

Weycrhaeus* Salec 6. r{' C:lifmir Strsi........,......GArfield tt?{

Ztal & Co,, ra cdifmir stEt ......,......Exbrut( 5r4r

OAITLANI)

Hill & Morton, lnc., Dmnbon SL Wharl ...,.,......4Ndrc fm

Hogan Luubcr Cmpaay, hd & Alico SbGGt!.............Gladrt a$r

Pynmid Lunbcr Salc Co., ll5 Pacific Building .,.....,...Glasrt !r!

E. K. W@d Lumbcr Co

Ftc&rlck & Kinl Sdr........,...Froitnlc aU2

HARDWOODS

Strablc Hardwood Co. $i7 Firct StEGt...,.............TEmplebar 55tl

White Brctben. 5ll0 High Strcot .................,4N&va f6a0

LUMAER

HARDWOODS AI\|D PANELTI

Fonyth Hardwood Co. 355 Bayrhorc Blvd. ...............ATratr tltt

Wbite Brothers,Fifth and Bnnnu Streetr ,........Sutter ltaS

SASH-DOORS_PLYWOOD

Niolat Dc Salo Co., mas l9th Stre.t ,...................Mlsho ?tta

Unltcd 9tater Plywood Co., Inc., ll9 Kanru Strect ..................MAr&et lt!2

Wheler-Orgod Sala Corpontioo, 30$ rlth St. ..................,...VAlencie 22tl

CREOSOT]ED LUMBER-POLE9-PILINGTIES

Aneriro Lmber & Trcating Co., lll Ncr Motgomery SL ....:....,Sutrer l22S

Buter, J. H. & Co., :Il3 Montgmery St. .............,DOugtat $f3

Hall, Jama L., 1026 Mlll! Bldc. ...................Suftlr l$5

PANEIS_DOORS-SASH-.gCREENS

Califmire_Builderr Supply Co, 700 Oth Avc,

Roll-A-Way _Windff Screen Co., Ltd. (Be*eley) tth aDd Carlto Stre€b....,....fHornwatt irgt6

Wertcn Dc & Suh Co- stt li Cypro[ Sri ,.,.:.........LAloi& f||.

BUILT-IN FIXTURES

Parmount Built-In Fixturo Co., lm? East rzth St. .......-.,....ANdover tt0{

Pcrless Built-tn Fixtue Co. (Berkelev) 260t Su Pablo Ave. ....,,......ffi6rnwaft 0@0

LOS ANGBLDS

Anglo Califmia Lumber Co. 01120 Avalon Blvd. ............,,.THmwa|l 3l{4

Sokgtaver-Bumr Lumber Co.,

550 Chamber of Commere Bldg...PRcFd aZfl

Brusb Industrial Luber Cq

50ltl So. CeDtral Ave. ............CEntury Ztl6E

Chanberlin & Co., W. R., 315 W. Ninth St. ..................TRinity lsl3

Cooper, Wilfred T., 622 Pekoleu Sflritie Bldg...PRcpect f$4

Dolbcer & Canon Lumber Co., tOr Fidelitv Bldc. ................VAndike t?02

Dud, Do H., 62E Petrolqm Securities Bldg. ...PRcpect 2374

Hammond Redwod Company, lllll So. Brwdmy ..........,....PRorpect 2960

Holmea Eurekc Lumbcr Co., 7U-712 Architcct Bldt. ..........Mutua| grSl

Hovr, A. L.700 So. la Brea Ava. ...,,...........YOrk ll6t

C. D. Johncdr Lumber Corp., 601 Petrcleum Seoritles Bldg,...PRcpect u65

Kelly-Smlth Co..

AL4Z2 Garfielil BldS. Mlchlgan t02f

Kuhl Lumber Company, Carl H., tBt Chmba of Cmncrcc Bldg...PR6Fct ,l3C

bwene-Phllipr Lmber Co., GB Prtrclcun Securldcc Bld3....PRocpect tl?4

MacDmald & Bergstm, tnc., 733 Petrclsum Smritia Bldg....pRcpcct ?ltl

MacDuld & Harinstm, Ltd-, 5.o Pctrolem Seorltlo Bldt...,pR€DGd lfA

LUMBER

Pacific Lumber Co., The 7m So. La Bm Ave. .....,..........YOrk ilCf

Patten-Blinn hmbcr Co52t E. 5th St. ..........,.........VAndike 2321

Red Rivc Lmbcr Co7ll2 E. Slarrso ,CEntury 29071 l03l Sq Brcdway ..,....,.,,.....PRopect Ctll

Reitz Co., E. L, ilil3 Petrclem Securltlee Bldg. ,.PRcp€ct 869

San Pe&,o Lumber Co. San Pedro, lElXlA Wilmington Rcd........-San P€dro 2200

Santa Fe Lmber Co., 3ll Fimcial Centc Bldg.......VAndikc.t,t7l

Schafer Bre. Lumber & S;hhsb Co., lz2a W, M. Garland Bldg.........TRinttv {271

Shevlin Pine Salec Co.,

32t Petrcleum Securitiee Bldg. PRepect Oil5

Suthland Lunba Co.,

,134 Petroleum Securities Bldg. ...PRcpect ltg6

Sudden & Orrbtenson,

_ 530 Bnrd of Tn& BldS. ........TRinity tt{{

Taoma Lumber Sales.

423 Petroleum Seorities Bldg., PRospect ll0t

Twohy Lumber Co-

tOl Petdeum S*uriti,es Bldg....PRcpect t?45

Union Lu nber Co.

923 W. M. Garlud Bldj...........TRiniV zt!2

Wendling- Nathan Co-

700 Sq l, Brce Arc. .,.........,..YOrL ffCS

Wilklnon and Buoy,

3lt W.gth St. ..,................. TUcker l,t3t

E. K. Wmd Lmbcr Co..

4701 Srntr Fc Ave. .:............JEtrem tul

Wcyrhacusd Salcr Co., 920 lf,r. M. Grrland Blft.........Mlchfuan 85{

HARDWOODS

Cadwallader-Gibrn Co., Inc., 362t Eilt Olympic Blvd. ..,.....ANgelm Ulrl

Stanto, E. J., & Sm, Z0gl Eut 3tth Strcet............CEntury iD2ll

HARDWOOD FLOORING

soull9ql Hudwod Cmpany, 902 East 59th Street.-.. .Al)aru tt68

SASH-DOORS-MILLWORK

PANEIII AND PLYWOOD

eltlgfis Pqpet &- Vereer Co., _- _955 _So. Alamcda St.........'........TRlntty OCtt Haley Brc., Santa Moie Ic Angeles phone ..............REpub|h e!C?

Kchl, Jno. W. & Sc

652 Sq Myen St.-.............,..ANgc|ur llrl

Oreror--Washinqton ptywod Co., 3lt vy6t Ninth S*et ......'..,....Tucks f/|!r

Red Rivcr Lumber Co., 702 E. Slauso ..CEntury lt0?t Sampm Company (Pasdena)

-- -715 So, Rayrrsrd Ave. Blanchad ZZIU

Untted Strts Plywod Co,. Inc..

___ lr30 Eut tstb st. .........,......pRGpect !0r!

W$t C6t Srol Co., U45 E. 63rd Strut ..................ADug Ul0t

W6t Ccat Plywood Co., 315 W. Ninth SL ,.................TRinity r5r3

Wheeler-Osgod Salcr Corpmtioo, 2153 Sacnmento St. ...............TUcLcr ioll CREOSOTED LUMBER-POLES-PILINGTIES

Amerian Lunbe & Trcatlng Co., _ l03l So._ Brmdway ..........,...PRoep*t iBSf

Buter, J. H. & Co.. 60l West sth St ................MIchLrD aeta

WHERE TO U'E REDWOOD

THE TDEAL WOOD FOR CEILING BEAAAI

Hammond Quality Redwood is available in the large dimensions' unusual lengths for beam ceilings. The wood is ideally suited for this purpose. Its firm, even texture permits clean cut, close fitting joints and artistic.carving or sand etching, as well as rugged, hand hewn effects. Natural warm coloring is enhanced by oil, stain, acid and other finishes. Most requirements of this kind can be filled from stock dimensions. It pays to maintain adequate stocks of Hammond Quality Redwood.