The California Lumber Merchant - August 1938

Her*NWS about RH)TUWOOL

1. I'{eut Louter Prices

2. I\eut Faster Seraice

-USG announces new prices on the entire Red Top* !7ool Insulation line-Full-Thickness and Semi-Thickness Strip r$fool, Bats and Junior Bats!Never before have these high quality products been priced so low!

-In addition, a new distributing system, with many convenient shipping points from coast to coast, provides delivery, in most cases, within 24 to 48 hours. Now you can buy Red Top $/ool products in minimum L.C.L. lots of looo sq. ft. and get it practically overnight!

-Tbis neuts expands your opportanity to casb in on popalarity! For utitb Red Top lYool yoa are taking adaantage oJ thelastest grouting type of prodact in tbe borne insalation f.eld, And remember, under this plan you may make a substantial added profit without burdening yourself with heavy inventories.

-To secure complete information on these new, low prices and this new plan of distribution, ask your USG representative-or write the nearest USG office listed below.

Safes Olrces af Atlanta,Ge.. Bdtimcc, Md.. Birmiagham, Ate. Elocton, Mas.. Buffalo, N. Y.. Cimiuti, Ohio Clcvcland, Obio . Dallas, Te:. . Denva, Colo. Dctroit, Micb-.Houltoo,Tcr.fadiampolir, Ind.

Kanlas City, Mo. 'Los Angelo, Cal. Milmukce, Wir. Mioaeapolb, Mim. New YcA, N. Y. Omha, Ncb. Philedclphia, Pa. Pittlbur8h, Pa. Pctland, Orc. St, Louir, Louis, Mo. Sen Fraacirco, Cd. Washin6on.^D.9,

I.AWRET{GD.PHII.IPS IUMBIR GO. WHOIESAI.E LUMBER

frOS ANGELES

Prompt Shiprnents by Water or Rail

LTUMBER PITYWOOD FIR DOORS SHINGIJES

ROBINSON MFG. CO. SAGINAW TIMBER CO. OITYMPIC HARDWOOD

Agents lor

- Everett, Wash.- PITYWOOD and DOORS

- Aberdeen, Wash. - CERTIGRADE SHINGITES CO. - Aberdeen, Wash. - GANG SAWN AITDER and MAPLTE ITUMBER and

IAWREIIGE. PHII.IPS STEAMSHIP GOITIPAI|Y

Coastrylse Lumber and Genetral Flelghtlng

S. S. DOROTHY PHIITIPS. S. iTOSEPHINE ITAWRENCE--S. S. LAWRENCE PHIIJIPS

VICTORIA VACATION

Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Harris returned June N from two weeks' vacation at Victoria, B. C. They traveled there by automobile by way of the Redwood and Oregon Coast highways. Mr. Harris is president of Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Company, San Francisco.

DUCKS TELEPHONES

Kenneth J. Shipp, of California Builders Supply Company, is taking two weeks' vacation with his family at a certain spot on the North Fork of the Tuolumne River where there are no telephones and no mail delivery. He will be back on the job August 8.

BRUCE WISECOMB ON TRIP

H. Bruce Wiscomb,. sales manager, 'West Coast Plywood Company, Aberdeen, with headquarters in Chicago, was in Los Angeles the middle of July conferring with D. W. Dalton, California sales representative. Mr. Wiscomb was on his way back to Chicago from a trip to Abedeen.

VACATIONS AT WAWONA

Roy E. Hills, of Wendling-Nathan Company, San Francisco, returned July 18th from his vacation spent at Wawona, Yosemite National Park. He has chosen this resort a good many times in recent years and it still seems to be tops with him.

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M. ADAMS Clmhtlon M,l.3c

THE CALIFOR}IIA LUMBERMERCHANT J*kDionne,

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Lumber Looks Lively from Coast to Coast

Nationally speaking, the lumber market is jumping. The last weekly report of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association coming to The Lumber Merchant desk shows the following figures for the week:

Up in the Northwest the orders were streaming in, and the mills were beginning to smile at these figures:

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That will give a very definite idea of what is going on in lumber, because that covers all districts and species. The week before that was splendid, also. Here are the

The improved market was confined to no one district, or species, neither to softwoods or to hardwoods, as is shown by these hardwood figures, from 90 hardwood mills in scattered

Buyers of lumber throughout the United States are playing no favorites at the present time. They are buying lumber in every district, for every purpose. No longer a buyer's market as it has been for several months past. Prospects for the next month look grand.

REPORTS ALL MAIN FIRES IN WASHINGTON UNDER CONTROL

Seattle, Wash., July 26.-The forestry office reported today that all main fires in Washington were under control. But danger of further outbreaks remained, due to adverse weather conditions.

Fire fighters were gaining steadily against the worst of the state's fires, at Ryclerrvood, rvhich had destroyed 12,000 acres of timberlands,

Iy\/ITH STAPLETON LUMBER CO.

A. B. Igou has joined the staff of the Stapleton Lurnber Company, San Francisco, as salesman. He is covering the San Joaquin Valley and the Peninsula territory.

Subrcription Pricc, $2.00

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Vagabond Editorials

Bv Jack Dionne

On July 25th William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, gave the press a very wise and practical interview on the subject of lumber. He recommended very strongly that this nation negotiate additional trade agreements with friendly nations in an effort to boost lumber exports, and therefore promote employment in the United States. Mr. Green is one of those men in Washington who well understands that permanent jobs in gainful industry is our only hope for permanent recovery, and that while our lending and spending program is going on, we must be building some solid foundations to prevent another collapse when the money runs out.

His suggestions at this time are entirely sound. He calls attention to the fact that on June 23, 1938, Japan further restricted the use of various imports she has been getting from this country, including lumber. "This action," says Mr. Green, "will result in further curtailment of West Coast lumber exports, which have dropped 63 per cent in the last ten years, resulting in reduced payrolls and increased unemployment." Mr. Green could well have added that it also results in increased competition in domestic markets by forcing lumber into home markets that always used to go abroad. *:f:f

Mr. Green says further: "Compared to 1929, the West Coast industry alone, which has been called 'fundamentally an export industry'has been losing one billion feet in export trade. This means an annual loss to the region of more than $12.0O0,000 in lumber wages. In the West Coast industry production breaks down to an average of 500 feet per man per eight hours. The average wage in that industry at present is 77 cents per hour. One billion feet of lumber represents 2,000,0O0 days, or 16,000,000 hours of work, or $12,320,000 in wages to lumber workers, and this huge sum includes only wages lost in one section of the countrywide lumber industry."

The remarks of Mr. or"]" *"t*", be made a page in a book entitled "What's Happened To Lumber." If it proves possible to negotiate and create trade agreements with other countries that would re-create our export lumber markets, particularly those of the West Coast, it would do more per-

manent good to the industry than almost any amount of domestic lending to promote building. And the suggestion coming from Mr. Green will be more effective by far than had it come from lumber sources.

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A national economic writer says that the best sign of returning prosperity he has been able to discover in New York City is the almost wholesale repairing of typewriters that is being done of late. When big corporations reduce forces, typewriters go up on the shelves for storage. When they begin hiring again, down come the typewriters. And before they go into use they usually go through the hands of the repair and condition man. Not a bad barorneter.

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This is in no sense a criticism. It's just a query. Continually I read in the best newspapers polls on affairs of the hour, chiefly political, by the American Institute of Public Opinion. These polls are evidently received with much respect, and given preferential space in the newspapers. Since I have never received or seen a ballot from this organization, I got to wondering who votes. So I got into the habit of asking the people I contact-and I contact lots of people-if they have ever received such a ballot; or if not, if they know anyone who has. So far the vote is all No. f have never seen such a ballot, and no one I ask seems to have done so. Who votes?

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There is such a thing as using brains in handling a strike situation. The employes of a lumber concern f know, went on strike, and put a heavy picket line around the plant. The head of the concenr treated these striking employes with every evidence of good will. A large number of them owed the concern money for materials they had bought, which they were paying in installments out of their envelopes. When they got their pay envelopes for the last days they worked, they found that the boss had taken nothing on their debit account. There was a little note calling each debtor's attention to this fact, stating they would need all their pay, and that therefore nothing would be deducted until they got back on the regular payroll. This and other little courtesies-many of them-kept good feeling between the men and their employer, and had much to do with shortening the strike.

The American Association of Investors, after going over the accounts of 150 corporations, came to some very interesting conclusions based on the figures they found, particularly concerning taxation at present, and its relationship to all the affairs of business. These 150 corporations have 6,(X)O,(XX) stockholders, and assets of $41,000,000,0O0. In 1937 these corporations paid a Federal tax bill totalling $1,600,000,000. This was equivalent to $2.62 per share of stock. The dividends of these corporations averaged $1.95 per share of stock. These taxes per stockholder averaged $291, and per employe they averaged S514. Which is just a reason or so why some wag in the recent Congress suggested that if they really wanted to help business they would agree to let Government take the dividends, and let business keep the tax money. **,t

I hate to think that I live in an age when I can't safely or sanely pick up a wayfarer along the highway and give him a ride, when I have plenty of vacant space in my car. But the tremendous rise in hitch-hiker criminality convinces me that only the foolhardy can afford to pick up either man or woman in these times.'Seventeen states have legislated against hitch-hiking, with no very successful results. The trouble lies with soft-hearted human beings who can't bear to pass 'em by. And so nearly every day, somewhere in this country, one of these good Samaritans is relieved of his money, or his life, or both, by the pick-up. ***

.In spite of the horrors retailed in the newspapers of the dangers of picking up hitch-hikers, plenty of motorists are still in the habit of doing so. The Kansas City Star conducted a survey in its territory to discover how motorists feel about it, with the amazing result that only 57 per cent of the motorists voting were against the practice of picking people up along the road; 43 per cent, or nearly half, were either in favor of it, or at least not opposed. So long as there are drivers who will pick them up, there will be plenty or hitch-hikers; and so long as they pick them up there will be plenty of tragedy connected with the habit.

Now we are going.o ,rJ" .l.lr""r"* picture industry an investigation to see how much it is infringing on the antimonoply clauses of the anti-trust laws. Which may result in some changes in the distribution set-up. It won't help Mr. John Public at all, because it won't change his situation. The only way you can help him is to do something drastic to cut down the COST of moving pictures, thereby cutting down the toll at the ticket window. That's what Mr. John Public is interested in, and that's where he is being gouged. If something could be done to put movie salaries on the same basis and the same plane with salaries in other industries for jobs requiring like intelligence and ability, you

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would cut the cost of movies at least in half. There are countless people drawing huge movie salaries that couldn't possibly earn more than plain wages in any other walk of life; worlds of men getting twenty-five hundred a week couldn't earn the twenty-five without the hundred, in any other way. Mind you, there are plenty of good, smart men in the movies. But the practice of paying a fortune to the hooknosed son-in-law of the President and calling him a "Producer" and sich like, is a scandal that the public has a right to be protected from. But they won't be.

The tallest tree on earthls *"" "" the earth. And it isn't one of the giant Redwoods of California, as you would naturally think. There is a Eucalyptus tree lying on the ground in Victoria, Australia, that measures 470 feet in length. And by the way, the botanical name of the tree is Eucalyptus Amagdalina, which is from two Greek words that that mean "well covered."

Two thousand years ; ;; asked: "If care was not taken in the breeding, would not your dogs and birds greatly deteriorate? And what if the same principle holds of the human species?" Today sociologists all agree that that same principle DOES hold, with regard to humans. And they likewise agree that we should control the breeding of the unfit, the feeble-minded, the diseased, and the criminal, whose children eventually become whrds of the state. Segregation of the feeble and the unfit is one of the foundational thoughts of eugenics.

wonder if anyone n., j".iu"l

ouornn Hitler with a list of Jewish medicines so that he may warn his Nazi friends and followers against their use. For instance, they should not use the Wasserman or Kahn tests for syphilis, because they are of Jewish origin. Or, finding he has syphilis, he must not use salvarsan for treatment, because that is of Jewish

his heart is bad he should not touch digitalis, which came from a Jew; or if his tooth aches he must stay far away from cocaine, alpo the result of a Jewish

scientist. He couldn't possibly treat Typhus, because he would have to use Jewish medicines, and if he had diabetes he could not avail himself of insulin, because that is Jewish, too. If his children had convulsions they must just lay there and writhe, because chloral hydrate is Jewish; and he must not attempt the use of phychoanalysis because that too is Jewish. The list is interminable. But if Hitler is the man he says he is, he should allow his followers to suffer rather than depend on Jews for life and health. The Nobel Prize men Judassohn, Bruno, Bloch, and Unna; the great neurologists Mendl, Oppenheim, Kronecker, and Benedikt; the lung specialist Fraenkel; the surgeon Istael; the anatomist Henie; all are Jews" and their thoughts and discoveries are written large in the departments of healing in which they specialize. Hitler will have to do some artful dodging to stay healthy without Jewish aid. I'll bet the Jews would like to get an injunction to forbid his using Jewish scientific discoveries like those above mentioned, and many others.

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Looks like the lumber market prognostications in this column last issue, were in the niche of time. From Coast to Coast the lumber pot is boiling, and business is looking up remarkably. The latest reports of lumber production, and distribution, show that the balloon is on its way up. There is need for wisdom and for common sense on the part of the industry in meeting the situation that is developing. For there is going to be a big market the rest of this year. No one knows just how big.

HEAP OF GOOD READING

Dear Jack: Check enclosed for a continuation of a heap of good reading, a lot of good information, plenty of good horse sense, coupled up with good thoughts for a little money.

lod bless you, my boy. Keep a goer.r.

John C. Light

John C. Light Lumber Company

Miami, Arizona

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Spend Sixty-five Million for California Swedish Lumberman '!V'ants a Lumber and Millwork Rowboat for Hilda

Washington, Jr'tly 12,-Forecasting an expenditure of $65,000,000 for lumber and millwork on non-Federal projects alone, plus an expenditure of $10,600,000 on Federal projects, the PWA has just announced that maximum exercise of the Public Works Act of 1938 will mean 72,7@,' .000 man-hours of work in forests, sawmills, planing mills and prefabricating plants. These figures are based on a study of 1,000 former PWA projects made by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and embrace more than one million payrolls.

This tremendous construction program can create extensive business for American industry, the nonFederal projects alone calling for $893,000,000 worth of materials while contract awards would total $1,667,000,000. In addition, the Federal projects can provide $108,200,000 worth of material orders and contract awards of $200,0@,0@ together resulting in arvards totalling $1,867,000,000 and establishing material orclers equivalent to $1,001,200,000. It is estimated that on these non-Federal projects alone there will be released nearly $457,000,000 in wages at the building sites granting approximately 4,869,000 man-months of employment at the Project sites'

ROY WERNICH VISITS S. F.

Roy Wernich, of Smith Wood-Products, Inc., Coquille, Ore., was a recent business visitor to San Francisco.

Homer Maris, Maris Plywood Corporation, San Francisco, sends The California Lumber Merchant some fun correspondence that grew out of a news story in the June 15th issue of this journal on the subject of special plans and plywood for rowboats, made by the Harbor Plywood Corporation, and sold by Mr. Maris. M. S. Munson, of Harbor Plywood, Hoaquim, Washington, sent Mr' Maris a copy of a lettei he received from a 'rvell known Northern California retail lumberpan that read (in Swede dialect) as follows :

"Vile de bos vas not in his offis I sneaked in to reed de Lumbermerchant vich is a corken good paper, an I seen dat you have got some plans how to make a roboat. Ve have got lots of it in de yard here an I am goin to make me vun of dem boats so dat I can take my girl Hilda for a boat ride and dat vil sure make a hit vit her to see hor'v strong I am and how good I can handle a boat' Hoping dat I vil here irom you an I I'il let you know how dis boat bisness vurks out vit me and Hilda."

Mr. Munson assumed that the dealer was "spoofing" him so he went and got a real Swede to help him, and he replied to the letter in Swedish. I\{r. Maris sent a copy of the Swedish letter also, but not having an interpreter in the office, and being a bit dubious about what advice might have been given the alleged Swedish yentleman from California, lve are holdrng that part of the correspondence back until n,e make sttre. In these days you can't be too careful.

90-Foot Span Timber Bridge Being California BuildingVolume High Erected Near Fresno

Washington, July 1l,-Because TECO connectors permit timber members a great deal lighter than those formerly associated with timber engineering to do more work, the use of efficient and inexpensive factory-fabricated timber bridges is now becoming standard procedure in many Highway Departments.

The new bridges can be designed, produced and erected under the same procedure customarily allowed with steel bridge structures.

The latest addition to this type of structure is an interesting new 9o-foot span recently purchased by the Fresno County, California, Supervisors to replace a bridge washed out this spring in the National Forest recreational area. northwest of Fresno, California.

The new bridge is from a standard design prepared by T. K. I{ay, structural engineer of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, and is a through truss design with a 2O-foot roadway intended for an H-15 loading.

All timbers, of r;elect structural Douglas fir, except stringers and decking, have been treated by the American Lumber & Treating Co., at the Weed, California, plant with l0-ll>. creosote-oil treatment. About 4O,00O feet of lumber is required for the bridge itself.

This bridge is to be crected over Dinky Creek about 60 rrriles northeast o{ Fresno. The location is some 72 to 14 rniles east of the main highway to Huntington Lake. The former briclge a' this point was washed out during the early winter floocls. The road serves a highly popular recreation territory, at an elevation of about 5900 feet, including one of Fresno's municipal camps.

Fresno County is purchasing all materials for the bridge an<l the U. S. Forest Service forces will erect the bridge. since the road serves a National Forest area.

Prefabricated lumlter and all hardware for the bridge cost Fresno Ciounty slightly less than $4000 f.o.b. F'resno. It is estimated that transportation of materials, consiruction of abutments and erection of the bridge will bring the total cost to about $5400, or $3.@ per sq. ft. of roadway.

Timbers for the bridge have been furnished and completelv prefabricated by the Booth-Kelly Lumber Co. at Wendling, Oregon.

Los Angeles with a total valuation of $33,178,384 for the first six months of 1938 still holds second place among the cities of the nation in building construction. San Francisco is sixth with a total of $9,904,761; Long Beach, thirteenth, with $5,587,410; San Diego, eighteenth, with $4,361,182; and Oakland, nineteenth, rvith $4,313,650. New York City continues in first place with a total of $126,- 189,180. .

Building permit valuations for the twenty leading cities for the first six months of the year and comparative figures for 1937 as compared by Dunn & Bradstreet, Inc. follow:

Six Months

1938

1937

Los Angeles, Cal. $176,189,180 $137,515,583

New York, N. Y

Detroit, Mich.

Washington, D. C.

Bal.imore, Md.

Pliiladelphia, Pa.

Cincinnaii, Ohio

Inclianapolis, Ind.

WITH ATKINSON-STUTZ CO.

C. R. (Chet) Aronson, rvho was for rnany years rvith the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Companv. has joined the staff of Atkinson-Stutz Company, San Francisco. He is assistinl in the oflice.

LOOKS OVER S. F. TERRITORY

N. J. Sorensen, manager of the Pacific Division of UniteC Sta'es Plywood Corporatron, recently spent a week at the conrpany's San Francisco branch.

Your custolters cdnWntO AND RW plnstu to walls and ceilingt if it is applied oYer krfory,*e*,kklLth

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Perforated Rocklath, with its vivid and vigorous sell' iog story-with its steadily mounting popularity-with its neut hut price offers you one of the finest oPPortunities you've ever known for continuous profit.

USG tests at the Bureau of Standards qualify parti' tions made of Perforated Rocklath plastered with one' half inch of gypsum plaster for a one-hour fire rating.

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MY FAVORITE STORIES ))

By Jack Dionne

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

Worse Yet

They were sitting at the shady end of the cotton gin dur- "No, Suh," replied the other, ,,Ah nevah has nuthin, lak ing the noon hour, and got to swapping yarns. dat happen to me. But Ahse had a heap sight wus things "Boy," said Bigfoot Sampson, "did you evah walk five happen." miles to git some chicking meat, and when you got to de "Whut?" demanded Bigfoot. hencoop you fine de white folks is planted a bear trap, "Onct in de Ahmy Ah done talked back toa Fust a spring gun, an' a bitin' dawg?" Sarjint.,'

VISITS COMPANY'S SAWMILL

Glenn O. Fogleman, resident manager, California Door Company, Los Angeles, was in San Francisco July 19 on his way to visit the company's mill at Diamond Springs, Calif.

ATTENDS BOHEMIAN CLUB CELEBRATION

A. W. (Bates) Smith, manager of the Los Angeles office of MacDonald & Harrington, attended the annual Hi-Jinks of the San Francisco Bohemian Club, held at Bohemiarr Grove, July 16 to 30.

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Plywood is recognized cs the strongest known moteriql per unit of weight. Constructed oi wood lominqe whose groins run qt right ongles with eoch other, plywood overcomes the noturol deficiencies of iumber by eliminoting weckness ocross the groin ond reducing exponsion qnd contrqction to o minimum. IT

\A/ILL NOT SPLIT,

To it opply the sqme fundqmentql engineering principles qs underlie the fobricotion ol huqe wire cqbles Irom tiny wire strqnds-the strength of the combined plies is greoter thqn the combined Jtrength of the seporote plies. Add to this principle the stqrtling developments due to modern odhesives qnj modern production mechqnics ond it is eosy to understqnd why plywood is specilied where strength, lightness qnd low installcrtion costs crre required.

To tl,rese quclificcrtions, WELDWOOD now cdds unquclilied stcbility under crny crnd crll conditions of instcllction through the cpplicction oI chemicclly inert, phenol-formcldehyde (bckelite-type) resin crs cr binder between the plies.

WETDWOOD is crbsolutely WATERPROOF, vermin repellent qnd heat-resistcrnt up to the chcrring point oI the wood.

OTIIII{G$_ y_oq never could do before I{0Ware enlfuely practicat with Wtt DW00D

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Building of SmallHomes Increases Lumber Demand

Washington, lttly 12,-For the first time in 1938 new business for softwood lumber placed with United State sawmills during the last week of June equalled the new business of the corresponding period in 1937. During the same week new business in hardwoods was a fourth greater in volume than a month ago, and in excess of current productio.n by more than one-half. New business for all lumber was greater by eight per cent than in any previous week of 1938.

The ratio of current production to new business for the combinecl softwood and hardwood lumber industry and the volume of new business were the most favorable in over ten months. Lumber inventories at mid-year were. less than ten per cent greater than a year ago and in some important regions the lowest in two years.

The lumber industry enters the last half of the year with inventories which are generally not excessive, and with an activity of demand out of the ordinary for this season of the year.

The drastic deflation of prices at the sawmills during the past nine months which had closed hundreds of mills in the West and South seems to have reached an end, the average decline during the past year in hardwoods having been twenty-six per cent and in softwood twenty-three per cent. The average reduction in whotresale lumber prices at points of sawmill production during this period has been greater than the corresponding reductions in any other of the major building materials and, until the end of the first half of this year, the gradual reduction of these lumber prices has been almost continuous for over a year and has included in varying degree every major species of both softwoods and hardwoods.

The current improvement in the demand for lumber today, said Dr. Wilson Compton, secretary and manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, is traceable partly to anticipated higher production costs in the South. Principally it is due to the increasing volume of consumption in the building of small homes. This has been aided by the fact that within the range of low-priced small homes a better house, with better equipment, can be secured now at a cost lower than in 1926, and at a cost lower than at any time during the past three years'

The Association is just completing in suburban Washington a "test" group of modern small homes of four to seven rooms, at construction costs ranging between less than $2500 to $3600, using a number of novel methods of lumber construction. This has been done under the auspices of the National Small Homes Demonstration, a co-operative national activity of the principal building material and equipment industries.

BACK FROM FAVORITE SPOT

Henry M. Hink, vice-president of Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Company, San Francisco, was back in his office on July 25.from two weeks' vacation spent in Trinity Alps; Trinity County. He has passed many vacations in this area and likes it as well as ever.

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BY

The Friend-Making Salesman

Bv Jo.k Dionne

Ponce de Leon rocrnred the ecrrth seeking the Fountain ol Youth, crnd he hcrd it with him cll the time crnd didn't know it.

For the Fountcrin ol Youth is the GOOD WIIJ oI your lellows,

The lrieridstrip, the trusL the good will, the benevolent interest oI the lolks you know is the Fountain of Youth, the Alcddin's lcrmp ol true succeas, the one cnd only gctewcy on the Road to Hcrppiness.

Be ctrr cgreecble, smiling, plecrscrnt, lriendly galesmqnt

Every finn wcnts thai kind ol c salesmcnl Every child wcnts thcrt kind oI c lctherl Every womcrn wcnts thcrt kind ol c husbandt Every employe wcnts thqt kind ol c bosst Every business wcnts ihcrt kind of a hecdl

tn fcct, everyone wcsrts to lind likcble, lovcble, kindty, cgreecble, interested people wherever they go, cnd whcrtever they do. We wqnt cll ol our contccls to be that wcy, crnd we remember thct gort oI man when the otherwise vclucble but LESS PIEASANT cnrd FRIENDLY person is lorgotten.

In this series of scrles <rrticles, I.EG WORK hcs been ncmed the F'IBST FTTNDAMENTAI. But il your legs ccrry cr glum mug to cqll on cr prospect, they would serve lhe cquse better by leaving you ct the office. II they ccrrry good cheer cnrd intelligent cnimcrtion crlong with them, however, they will plecse the prospect even though he sigms no order blcnk crt the moment.

George lvl Cohcur's song "Alwcys Lecve Them Lcrughing When You Scry Goodby," is line selling philosophy. II you lecrve ecch prospect feeling delinitety brighter cnd happier beccruse of your ccrll, you cre c long distqnce on your selling rocrd. He will be glad to see you bcrck. Then il your proposition is ct sound one and you are ccpcble oI explcrining it intelligently, cnd you mcke iust the right number ol ccrlls. cll the elements oI successlul selling will be bcclcing your plcy.

San Diego Lumbermen tVill Hold Golf Tournament August 13

San Diego lumbermen will hoLd a "Hoo Doo" golf tournament at the La Mesa Country Club, La Mesa, Saturday, Aug. 13, 1938, at I .00 p. m. The green fee is $1:00 and covers everything.

If you cannot play golf, come out at 4:30 p. m. and join in the fun. This will be Lumbermen's Day and the Committee has arranged a fine program. Many prizes will be awarded to the winners in the golf tournament, there will be fine entertainment, guessing games, and a free buffet supper will be served at 6:30 p. m.

"Come one-come all." is the Committee's cordial invitation to all Southern California yard managers, salesmen, office folks, owners, wholesalers, and guests.

The Committee in ,charge includes D. Frank Park, chairman; Meryl Bennett, Ed Culnan, Al Frost, Harry Whittemore, Bill Cowling, Harry McGahey, Harold Peterson, George Klicka and Frank Nolan.

Changes in Sales Organization

Several changes in the sales organization of The Celotex Corporation, including promotions of personnel, have been announced bV J,Z. Hollmann, general sales manager of the corporation.

Marvin Greenwood has been appointed assistant general sales manager to succeed Lee Bartholomew who sailed June 15 for England to become sales manager of Celotex, Ltd., the company's English affiliate. Earl A. Donk will take Mr. Greenwood's place as manager of the St. Louis office.

Mr. Greenwood joined Celotex organization in 1925 in the company's general offices. He entered sales work in 1926 and was appointed manager of the St. Louis branch in 1936, in which position he remained until his recent promotion. Mr. Donk spent thirteen years with Celotex in the St. Louis branch.

VACATIONS IN INSTALLMENTS

Zeno H. Mauvais, salesman for J. E. Peggs, San Francisco, is spending the week-ends with his family in the mountains east of Sonora, in place of a regular vacation.

Going and Coming

Harry Mcleod, Hammond Lumber Company, Los Angeles, spent a few days in San Francisco the past week.

P. W. Cowbrough, sales manager of Meadow Valley Lumber Co., Twain, Calif., and Mrs. Cowbrough, were Southern California visitors the latter part of July. Mr. Cowbrough, and Rey E. James, the company's Southern California representative, spent several days calling on the trade.

Leo and llerman Rosenberg, Hipolito Company, Los Angeles, and their wives, sPent their vacations at the Grand Canyon.

Dick Loveday, Los Angeles retailer, has returned from an eastern trip. He drove back in his new automobile, a Hudson terraplane.

Art Penberthy, Tacoma Lumber-Sales, Los Angeles, is back from a business trip to the Northwest'

W. B. Wickersham, Pope & Talbot Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and Mrs. Wickersham, spent the last two weeks of July vacationing in the Northwest.

George Gorman, Gorman Lumber Company, San Francisco, was a Los Angeles visitor on July 16. George came down to get his airplane at the Grand Central Airport, Glendale. which he left there a few weeks previous for a major over-haul. He flew the ship back to San Francisco.

J. W. Mcleod, Cadwallader-Gibson Co., Inc., Los Angeles, and family, will leave August 8 on a vacation trip to Seattle where they will visit Mrs. Mcleod's folks. Mr. Mcleod will be back at his desk about September 1.

LeRoy H. Stanton, and Mrs. Stanton, have been touring through the state of Oregon.

Bill Cuzner, Kerckhofi-Cuzner Mill & Lumber Co', Los Angeles, and family, spent their vacation on Vancouver Island. B. C.

Fisher-Swartz Lumber Co. Modernazes Pfant Holds Open House

Fisher-Srvartz Lumber Co. of Santa Monica held open house the week of July 11-16 at its newly remodeled and trodernized lumber and building material plant.

Many people of the Santa Monica Bay District and other Southern California points visited the plant where President John W. Fisher and his staff showed them the new offices and the company's complete facilities for supplying all types of materials for new home construction and remodeling older residences.

The company's buildings and yard cover an area of approximately 60,000 square feet, extending from 14th Street to lTth St. on Colorado Avenue. An addition, 10 feet by 32 feet, u'as made to the office building. The former office, rvhicl.r u'as orig'inally one large room, has been divided and partitoned off into a general office, private office, bookkeeping and harclware departmenis. The rooms are attractively finished rvith Knotty Pine 'ivainscoting in natural color, and USG Weatherwood of various designs in ivory color was used for the walls and ceilings. The floors are White Oak.

The counter in the general of6ce is Knotty Pine rvith White Oak top.

One of the first things that catches the eye on entering \Ir. Fisher's private office is a desk name plate presented to him by Carl J. Hanson, secretary of the Bay District Lumbermen's Instilute, who made it himself of l2l separate pieces of wood. This unique desk ornament contains 76 <lifferent kinds of tropical ancl domestic l.rardrvoods from 19 countries. All .ivoods are in their natural colors. No nails or brads are used. The name, John W. Fisher is inlaid on each side and his initials on each end.

The countries from rvhich the woods calne are: Unitecl States, Philippine Islands, Honduras, Siam, Nicaragua, Brazil, India, Africa, Japan, Canary Islands, Austr-alia, Bolivia, lfexico, England, Guaternala, Chili, Burma and Guam.

United States woods used were Black Walnut, Dogrvood, Holly, Almond, Myrtle, Grapefruit, Apple, Green poplar, Yerv, Orange, Olivc. Honey l-ocnst, Nlanzanita, Sycamore, Sap Gum, C)sage Orarrge, Bay Boxrvood, Mt. N{ahogany (Arizona Irorrwood) and Beech.

Exterior view ol the Fisher-Swsrtz Lumber Co. at Sania Monicc, Calil.

John W. Fisher, president of the company, has been associated rvith the lumber business for the past forty-three years, his first job being in a lumber yard at Taintor, Iowa. After thirteen years of managing yards in that state, he went in business for himself in Centerville, Iowa, in 1908, when he bought the R. W. McConn Lumber Co., changing the name to Fisher Lumber Co. When he sold this yard, the owners retained the name Fisher Lumber Co. and today it is one of Iowa's progressive lumber concerns.

After selling his business interests in the East, Mr. Fisher came to Southern California, and in 1920 started the Century Lumber Co. at Long Beach. He sold the yard to Ross E. Hall in 1923 who operates it under the same name.

Mr. Fisher opened a yard in Santa Monica in 1923 with Frank and H. J. Alley, operating it as Alley Bros. Lumber Co. He bought out the Alley Brothers in 1925, who now have a yard at Santa Monica. Later Mr. Fisher took in Bert Wilberg and Geo. N. Swartz as partners, changing the firm name to Wilberg-Swartz Lumber Co. He bought Mr. Wilberg's interest in May, 1935, and since then the company have been known as Fisher-Swartz Lumber Co.

Mr. Fisher is a member of the Rotary Club, National Appraisers Society, and Southern District Executive Committee of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association.

Geo. N. Swartz, his partner, is secretary of the Harbor District Lumber Dealers' Association with offices in Long Beach. Before coming to Southern California, Mr. Swartz was with Morrison-Merrill & Co. of Salt Lake City, as general manager of the Tri-State Lumber Co. with headquarters in St. Anthony, Idaho.

The company's staff of employes has been with them many years. W. E. Moss, an outside contact man, has been associated with Mr. Fisher since 1908 when he started his yard at Centerville, Iowa. O. C. Leighton, credit manager, and C. A. Laughlin, of the shipping department, have been 'ivith the firm for fifteen years, and Thomas J. Fox, assistant to Mr. Fisher, for a number of years. Roberta Leighton is bookkeeper and stenographer.

Mr. Fisher is president of the Century Federal Savings and Loan Association of Santa Monica, which was founded in 1927. Geo. N. Srvartz is first vice-president, and I; F. Noxen. a former lumberman. is secretarv.

Iohn W. Figher Preeideat, Figher-Swqrtz Lumber Co.

FTC lssues Cease and Desist Order Against Six California Retail Lumber Groups

Washington, D. C., July 27, 1938-The Federal Trade Commission has ordered 6 associations of retail lumber dealers in California to cease and desist from certain unlawful trade practices and policies found to have constituted a combination and conspiracy to engage in and to further unfair methods ,of competition in the sale and distribution of lumber and building materials.

The order is directed against the officers and dealer members of California Lumbermen's Council, Fresno, and its affiliated units, Coast Counties Lumbermen's Club, Watson.ville; Central Valley Lumbermen's Club, Stockton; Northern Counties Lumbermen's Club, Sacramento; Peninsula Lumbermen's Club, Redwood City, and San Joaquin Lumbermen's Club, Fresno.

Affairs of the council, according to findings, are administered by executive officers and a board of 10 councilmen, 2 selected from each of the affiliated organizations. The respondent dealers, who purchase their requirements principally from manufacturers, producers and distributors in the States of Washington and Oregon, are said to constitute a group so large as to be able to substantially influence trade and commerce in lumber and building materials within and to the particular trading areas in which they operate and sell.

Findings are that the respondents' primary objective, which they actively cooperated in maintaining, was to control and confine retail distribution exclusively through the members of their dealer organizations and to prevent direct sales to all others who were non-members, including state and other political subdivisions. Other objectives, the Commission found, were tolimit sales and distribution by dealer members, to districts in which they have their places of business, and to prevent other dealers from selling in the trading area where a respondent dealer is located.

It was further found that Coast Counties Lumbermen's Club and Northern Counties Lumbermen's Club, through their officers or representatives, prepared lists of prices to be observed by their members in the respective territories of the two organizations, resulting in increased costs to consumers in those areas, while the former group fixed for its particular territory the quota of sales a manufacturer, producer or wholesaler could make monthly and determined the quota of business a deater member could do.

Prohibitions of the Order

The order directs that the respondents, in connection u'ith the sale of lumber and building materials, discontinue combining or conspiring'among themselves, or with others for the purpose of engaging in the following acts and practices :

(1) Preparing and publishing rosters containing the names of dealer members of the respondent organizations

for the purpose of indicating that only the persons or concerns listed are entitled to buy direct from the manufacturers, producers and wholesalers to whom the rosters are distributed.

(2) Soliciting, accepting or acting upon information as to sales or proposed sales by manufacturers, producers and wholesalers to non-members of the respondent organizations or other purchasers for the purpose of preventing further dealing between such buyers and sellers.

(3) Using boycott or threats of boycott against sellers to persuade or compel them to stop selling to non-members of the respondent organizations, or to refrain from selling except on unfair, discriminatory or prohibitive terms fixed by the respondents.

(4) Representing that patronage would be withheld or withdrawn from sellers if they sold to dealers competing with the respondents or to others whose names were not on the rosters.

(5) Fixing uniform prices at which the respondents should sell in particular trading areas.

(6) Determining quotas of business which manufacturers, producers, wholesalers and dealer members may do in particular trading areas.

(7) Demanding or exacting penalties or commissions from those who sell to purchasers who are not members of the respondent organizations, and from dealer members who make sales in the territories where other dealer members operate.

The counties in which the members of the respondent organizations affiliated with California Lumbermen's Council have their places of business are as follows:

Coast Counties Lumbermen's Club: Santa Cruz, Monterey, Santa Clara, San Benito and San Luis Obispo Counties.

Central Valley Lumbermen's Club: Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Contra Costa, Merced, Mono, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Tuolumne Counties.

Peninsula Lumbermen's Club: San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties.

San Joaquin Lumbermen's Club: Merced, Fresno, Madera, Tulare, Kern, and Kings Counties.

Members of Northern Counties Lumbermen's Club have their places of business in various counties in northern California.

CALLS ON SAN FRANCISCO FRIENDS

W. F. Montgomery, retired lumberman, formerly of the firm of Montgomery & Mullin Lumber Company, Los Angeles, called on some of his old lumbermen friends in San Francisco recently on his way back to Southern California from spending several months in Honolulu. He admits that the title "Honolulu commuter" fits him exactly.

Rcdwood LoggingConference Postponed

Originally scheduled during the month of July, the 1938 Redwood Logging Conference has been postponed indefinitely. Unavoidable delays in setting the date brought the industry into the annual fire season, at a time when the attention of those who would have attended the conference would be required in the woods in actual protective work.

The conference was first delayed because of the severe injury suffered early in June by Professor Emanuel Fritz of the University of California school of forestry, who originated the plan and was to have been in charge of the program. Professor Fritz is now recovering from a double fracture of the right ankle but will be disabled for the entire summer.

Lumber companies in the redwood region have advanced far in conservation and fire control policies in the past five years. Through the annual logging conferences, superintendents, foremen and key workers are brought into close touch with forestry problems. Large expenditures have been made by the companies for fire fighting apparatus and all burning of slash areas is conducted now in cooperation with the state division of forestry.

Fire control plans will be continued this season as set up in 1937 on a cooperative basis between the California Redwood Association and State Forester M. B. Pratt.

VACTIONS ON MONTEREY PENINSULA

F. S. Harkins, executive in charge of the building materials division of Pioneer Division of The Flintkote Company, in Los Angeles, is vacationing on the Monterey Peninsula.

ForestConservationCommitteeMaps Program

Washington, July 22,-Nine members of the Forest Conservation Committee of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association met in Chicago, July 19 and 2O to consider the concurrent resolution adopted by the 75th Congress appointing a Congressional Joint Forestry Committee to study the Forestry problem. Meeting with the Committee members and the secretary-managers of six regional associations were James G. McNary, N.L.M.A. President; Wilson Compton, Secretary and Manager N.L.M.A.; I. N. Tate, Prisident, American Forest Products Industries; Clyde Martin, Forester, Western Pine Association; J. B. Woods, N.L.M.A. Forester and Committee Secretary.

The Committee said the lumber industry has a definite, and it believes entirely logical and workable, national forestry program to recommend to the Congressional Joint Committee. This program rests upon the evident fact that the United States is not threatened by timber famine, but rather with an increasing timber surplus.

The Forestry problem, said the Committee, should be regarded as one of land use, and a problem which is growing steadily as yearly forest growth increases.. It demands the same degree of public concern as the agricultural problem. Its solution lies in providing markets to absorb the annual increment of our living forests, so that there may be stable employment in woods and mill, steady contributions to local and national prosperity, and confidence in forest ownership and management as sound enterprise.

The Committee declared it was well aware that forest protection in some sections has lagged because people do not yet realize that forests must be protected. It also stated that it was alvare there are ignorant and unscrupulous forest operators who persist in destructive forest practices. However, it has mapped out a workable program for correcting these evils and will welcome the opportunity to appear before the Joint Committee and present facts affecting all forest regions in the country.

"The Committee hopes and expects," said Mr. McNary, "to cooperate with public agencies and other interested groups in making facts of the forestry problem clear to the Congressional Joint Committee and give it the basic elements for a sound legislative program that can be submitted to the next Congress."

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THOMAS JEFFERSON'S DESCRIPTTON OF GEORGE WASHINGTON

I think I knew General Washington intimately and thoroughly, and were I called on to delineate his character, it should be in terms like these: His mind was great and powerful without being of the very first order; his penetration strong, though not so acute as that of a Newton, Bacon, or Locke; and, as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder.

It was slow in operation, being little aided by imagination or invention, but sure in conclusion. Hence the common remark of his officers of the advantage he derived from councils of war where, hearing all suggestions, he selected whatever was best; and certainly no general planned his battles more judiciously.

Perhaps the strongest feature in his character, was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely weighed, refraining if he saw a doubt, but, when once decided, going through with his purpose, whatever obstacles opposed. His integrity was most pure, his justice the most infexible I have ever known, no motives of interest or consanguinity, of friendship or hatred, being able to bias his decision. He was, indeed, in every sense of the word, a wise, a good, and a great man.

His temper was naturally high-toned; but reflection and resolution had obtained a firm and habitual ascendency over it. If ever, however, it broke its bonds, he was most tremendous in his wrath. His heart was not warm in its affections; but he exactly calculated each man's value and gave him a solid esteem proportioned to it. flis person, you know, was fine; his stature exactly what one would wish; his deportment easy, erect,.and noble; the best horseman of his age and the most graceful figure that could be seen on horseback. On the whole his character was. in its mass, perfect; in nothing bad, in few poinls indifferent; and it may truly be said that never did Nature and fortune combine more perfectly to make a man great, and to place him in the same constellation with whatever worthies have merited from an everlasting remembrance.

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"With respect, Madam," replied the weary editor.

PLAYING SAFE

From London comes the story ofa lottery peddler who persistently tried to sell Baron Rothschild a lottery chance for fifty cents.

"But f don't want to take a chance in the lottery," thundered Rothschild, "I'm a rich man; why do you annoy me with such a trivial thing?"

"Dat's val I am trying to say to you," contended the man, "vat vould fifty cents minn to you? C'mon, pleez tek a chench."

Rothschild, weary of the pest, bought a lottery ticket to get rid of him. The next day, true to Rothschild's luck, the persistent salesman called to inform him that he had won the first prize in the lottery- three hundred thousand dollars.

"Well, well, well," exclaimed the Baron, ,,that's very interesting. I really should reward you. Which would you rather have, ten thousand dollars in cash, or a four thousand dollar annuity for the rest of your life?"

"You better gimme de tan tousand in cash," quickly replied the Jew. "Wit your luck I wouldn't live anudder six months." ***

YOU ARE GONE

A smile, a nod,

This was the simple start.

I felt no twang of bow

Nor felt the strike of dart.

Then like a quickning breath

You filled my heart.

It's empty now.

The laughter and song

Are stilled. From where you were

Sounds leaping.Mem'ry's gong

When I would fill the space

Where you belong.

-By Allen White. ***

THOMAS PAINE ON WAR

"I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and repeated sought to dvoid the calamities of war by every decent method which wisdom could invent. Neither have I so much of the infidel in me as to suppose that He has relinquished the government of the world, and given us up to the care ot U":ttr:i,*

Lumber Strike at Los Angeles Plant Setded LargestLumber Storage Buildings Erected

In an advertisement appearing in the Los Angeles papers on July 26, Owens-Parks Lumber Co. announced the strike at its plant was ended and the company lvould continue on an open shop basis. Following is the advertisement in part:

"Although business continued at Owens-Parks Lumber Company's yard without interruption during the strike which ended Friday, we are happy to notify our customers that regular service is now available.

"Our company did not retreat from its position of insisting on the maintenance of the open shop and, of course, kept its promise to employees made before the strike that the same scale of wages paid during 1937 and 1938 would be continued until June, 1939.

"These wages were not an issue in the discriminatory calling out of Owens-Parks men on July 5th. You will recall in a previous advertisement making public the scale this firm and other leading lumber dealers were paying, the hourly rates ran from 65 cents for the least skilled yard help to $1.10 for machine operators and more experienced workers. This scale is for an eight-hour day with time and one-half for overtime and Saturday afternoon.

Prompt Efficient Action

"To the general public for its support . . to our many customers who stood steadfastly behind us during the past three weeks we take this opportunity of extending our sincere thanks. Owens-Parks Lumber Company is indeed more than pleased to now offer full complete service with its regular yard and mill employees handling every job, large or small. And we pledge to customers prompt, efficient action on their orders."

ARMSTRONG TILE DEALERS TO CONVENE

Announcement is made by the Armstrong Cork Products Company that first shipments o{ Armstrong's Asphalt Tile were made from the new factory at Southgate, Calif. on July 13.

The announcement also states that the formal opening of the new factory will be held at a convention of Pacific Coast dealers in Armstrong resilient tile at the Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood, on Monday and Tuesday, August 1 and Z.

In England in 80 Years Completed

Washington, July 19,-The largest lumber storage buildings erected in England in 8O years, according to the Lonlon Times, were recently completed for use at the wharves of Messrs, James Latham, Ltd., at Leeside, Clapton, 8., I23year old London firm.

The sheds. erected on concrete foundations, of Australian Jarrah and Canadian Douglas fir, have a storage capacity of over 15,000,000 bd. ft. of lumber and are built under the new London County Council regulations regarding maximum stresses which became effective last January. In this connection it is interesting to note that the Council has set 800 lbs. per square inch for "non-graded" European softwoods using extreme fibre stress in bending as descriptive base, while Douglas fir and Longleaf pine are designated as "graded tirnber" at 1,20O lbs. per square inch bending stress.

The main posts of the shed support the roof trusses and ore 9"x9'. The crane posts and beams are L7'xl7'. While actual figures on the cost of construction are not yet available the use of wood was found to be far less expensive than steel, and in addition construction proceeded more quickly.

Mr. Latham declared at the formal opening of'the sheds that the wood building was not as great an insurance risk as steel or concrete and stated insurance companies consider timber beams, solid timber supports and substantial structures to be a better fire risk than either of these materials. He emphasized this by saying that when a fire broke out at their office in Curtain Road in 1913, the I7'xl7' timbers were found to be merely charred and with the halfinch charred wood sawn off the beams were used again in the reconstruction of the building.

The employing of lumber in these large sheds is serving as an exc€llent demonstration to all Englancl of the quality and desirability of timber as a construction material.

BACK FROM VACATION

P. J. Van Oosting, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, and family, have returned from a vacation trip to Chicago. His family remained in Chicago while Mr. Van Oosting took a few days to visit the plants of the Insulite Co. at International Falls, Minn., and Roddis Lumber & Veneer Co., Marshfielcl, Wis. He reported excellent fishing in the Rainy Lake region.

Haff Year Forecast

In a letter under date of July 18 to James G. McNary, president of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, Secretary-Manager Wilson Compton gives some interesting facts from the lumber movement during the first week of July. Following is his letter:

"You will recall our forecast in May that the last half of this year would be much more satisfactory in the lumber industry than the first half. You will be interested in the following facts from the lumber movement during the first week of July:

1. New business was the highest in eleven months.

2. For the first time this year new business received was above the corresponding week of 1937, exceeding that week by 20 per cent.

3. New business was 75 per cent greater than production.

4. Production was nearly 60 per cent of the corresponding . week ol l9D; shipments nearly 7O per cent; new business 75 per cent.

5. New business was 5 per cent above the last week of June.

6. Southern Pine, West Coast, Western Pine, Northern Pine and Northern Hemlock all had new business greater than the corresponding week of 1937.

7. New business in Redwood was only 4 per cent less than the same week last year; in Cypress, 4O per cent less; in Hardwoods about 33 per cent less.

8. In Southern Hardwoods during the past month new business has exceeded production by 50 per cent; in Oak Flooring during the last two months new business has averaged more than double the volume of last year.

9. Inventories at sawmills average only 8 per cent above last year and are declining. Some regions have considerable excess; others the lowest stocks in over two years.

10. Unfilled order files in relation to stocks on hand are the most favorable since last March and, with the exception of March, the most favorable since 1937.

"One swallow doesn't make a spring, but this at least shows the direction the swallows are now flying. This will be encouraging to those who have seen in building, especially residential buitding, the most likely source of lumber industry recovery. Present indications are of a total volume of home building in 1938 equal to 1937, and

Operating on Midsummer Schedule

The Red River Lumber Company is operating all plant and logging departments on midsummer schedule. The season is not far enough advanced for decking the customary supply of logs for Winter mill supply and logging is limited to the current run of the saw mill.

An average of 650 thousand feet of logs is being delivered daily to the mill pond. The company is working three sides and three sides are run by contractors. Including the company railroad operation, the logging department is employing 250 men. There is a truck haul of ten miles with 4O trucks from Moonlight Canyon to the mill. Logs from Eagle Lake are hauled 21 miles by rail after a haul of four miles by truck to the railroad.

The saw mill is running four bands and two resaws with two shifts working 40 hours a week each. The Box Factory and Venetian Blind Slat Department are running with two shifts each and the Plywood Factory three shifts. Planing Mill, Shipping and Moulding Departments are working one shift each. Shipments are running about 20 cars per day.

BUYS LUMBER TOWN AND RAILROAD

Hobart Mills, Calif., July ZZ.-Sale of the Hobart Lumber Co.'s mills, railroad, office buildings, sheds and homes at Hobart Mills to the Los Angeles Iron and Steel Co., was announced today by Manager Harry Landsberg.

The purchasing company will salvage the property, and the 12 miles of railroad from Hobart Mills to Truckee will be torn up. The sawmills, planing mills and other equipment will be dismantled and junked, and the 55 company homes in the town will be torn down, Mr. Landsberg stated.

Included in the railroad equipment are seven locomotives and, 47 flat cars, including the famous old No. 5 narrowgauge engine built in 1875.

OPENS YARD AT PHOENIX

Stanley Clem has started the Clem Lumber Company at Phoenix, Ariz. He was formerly with the Air Homes & Supply Company at Phoenix, and prior to that was connected with the Santa Ana Lumber Co. at Santa Ana. Calif. a trend toward small homes in which lumber predominates."

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KSFO Salutes Pine Industry Monday Ordinance Calls for Use of Grade - Marked Night, August 1

San Francisco, Calif., J:uly 26.-".\ Salute to the Pine Industry of California" is scheduled over radio station KSFO, San Francisco, Monday evening, August lst between 9:@ and 9:15 P. M. (PST)

This program is another in the series sponsored by KSFO to acquaint Californians with the major industries of the state and since its inception has developed an increasing audience of enthusiastic listeners.

Members of the Western Pine industry are cooperating with the radio station on this program. C. C. Stibich, sales manager of Tahoe Sugar Pine Company and chairman of Western Pine Association Promotion Committee, as well as Walker B. Tilley, California district representative of the Association, will be interviewed.

Station KSFO, affiliated with the Columbia Broadcasting System, operates on 560 kilocycles.

DERNIER-SCULLEY

Locklin Dernier and Miss Edna Sculley were married at Yuma, Ariz., on July 4. They spent their honeymoon touring Arizona and Southern California, and will make their home in Los Angeles.

Mr. Dernier is well known in California lumber circles and is connected with the E. M. Dernier Service Bureau of Los Angeles.

Lumber for All Framing Members

The City Council on July 13 passed an ordinance revising the Los Angeles city building code requirements for rvood construction in buildings and providing for the use of grade-marked lumber for all framing members, such as joists, studs, rafters, columns and beams.

Grade-marking of lumber will be in accordance with the rules of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association under the supervision of Association inspectors. The ordinance was drafted by C. Makutchan, superintendent of building, and C. V. Welch, chief of the building division.

If alrproved by the Mayor, the ordinance will become effective 3O days after first publication.

Going and Coming

Ross Blanchard of the Blanchard Lumber Company, North Hollywood, vacationed for a week at Idyllwild around the middle of July.

Max Cook of The Pacific cisco, spent several days in company business.

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E. G. Davis of the Union Lumber Company, Los Angeles, has been vacationing at Balboa Island.

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OBITUARIES

FRANK N. DUDLEY

Frank N. Dudley, 56 years of age, of the Dudley-Thomas Lumber Co., passed away at his home in Santa Monica, Monday evening, July 25, following a heart attack. He had been ill only a few days.

Mr. Dudley was a native of Nebraska and had been a resident of Santa Monica for the past sixteen years. With his partner, Ernest L. Thomas, they formed the DudleyThomas Lumber Co. there fifteen years ago. He and Mr. Thomas had been associated in the lumber business for the last twenty years, four years in the East before coming to Santa Monica.

He was a member of the Kiwanis Club. Masonic order. Charnber of Commerce, and Bay Builders Exchange.

Mr. Dudley is survived by his widow; a son, Ward, who is connected with the Dudley-Thomas Lumber Co.; a daughter, Mrs lVlildred Tileston of Santa Monica, and a sister, Mrs. Florence Doyle of Beatrice, Neb.

Funeral services were held at Santa Monica, Thursday afternoon, Jaly 8, and were attended by a large number of lumbermen.

NORRIS R. WENTWORTH

Norris R. Wentworth, president of the Santa Fe Lumber Company, San Francisco, passed away suddenly in Bay City, Mich., July 11 from a heart attack.

WILLIAM DONOVAN

William Donovan,83, one of the founders of the Donovan Lumber Company, Aberdeen, Wash., died in Aberdeen on Thursday, July 14.

He is survived by his son, Francis J. Donovan, Aberdeen, and two daughters, Mrs. Florence Donovan Sheridan of A-berdeen, and Mrs. John P. McGalloway of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.

Mr. Donovan was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and spent his whole life in the lumber business. He gained his early experience working in sawmills and in the woods, starting as a boy of 13. In 1892 he and the late Patrick O'Connor organized the Donovan-O'Connor Lumber Company in Menominee, Michigan, and in 19O4 Mr. Donovan, Mr. O'Connor and Thomas G. Atkinson founded the Metropolitan Lumber Company at Metropolitan, Calif. In 1910 he and Mr. O'Connor and others formed the Donovan Lumber Company in Aberdeen.

Frank J. O'Connor, Donovan Lumber Company, San Francisco, attended the funeral in Aberdeen.

MRS. CAROLINA G. FLETCHER

Mrs. Carolina G. Fletcher, Tl years of age, widow of the late J. W. Fletcher who was prominently associated with the lumber business in Los Angeles for many years, passed away, Thursday, July 21. She was the mother-inlaw of W. P. Frambes of Los Angeles, assistant sales manager of the Masonite Corporation.

Besides her daughter, Mrs. Frambes, with whom she resided, she is survived by one sister and three brothers. Funeral services were in Los Angeles, Monday, July 25.

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Two million, five hundred thousand dollars formally was turned over to the managers of the Wyvernwoocl project in East Los Angeles by the Bank of America for construction purposes, it was revealed on July 27.

This transaction took place after the Federal Housing Administration offices here had authorized the insured loan for the financing of the 72f-acre residential community near the intersection of East Olympic Boulevard and Soto Street.

This is said to be the largest single FHA insured loan made by the housing branch of the Government.

. The Wyvernrvood project calls for the erection of I42 two-story residences, containing 1102 rental living units, and a business district already planned.

Contract let recently to Lindgren & Swinerton calls for completion of the structures within a year.

REDWOOD TIES LAID ON WORLD'S LARGEST BRIDGE

California Redwood ties were laid on the rail facilities of the S. F.-Oaklancl Bay Bridge three weeks ahead of the contractor's schedule. More than 105,000 Redwood ties will have been used .ivhen the facilities are completed, representing nearly 7,000,000 board feet measurement.

Cellophane \(/rapped Insulite Samples Adiudged Outstanding Packages

Minneapolis, I\finn., July 5 - Attention value plus a simple illustration rvhich instantly conveys to consumers the utility and beauty of its building materials has been so remarkably well achieved by The Insulite Company, Nfinneapolis, Minnesota, manufacturers of modern building materials, thatit has brought to the companv the distinction of receiving the Gold Award in the transparent wraps group of the All American Package competition sponsored by the Modern Packaging, the magazine of the packaging industry, in a country-wide competition recently held in New York. The competition attracted 21,0@ entries which were divided into twenty groups and a total of 62 arvards were made to contestants.

As shown in the illustration, the cellopl-rane sample rvrap solved the problem of showing a sample ancl clemonstrating the manner in which the procluct is applied to a wall and its appearance when installed. A series of multicolored printed wraps u'hich utilize the boarcls themselves as background for outline drarvings demonstrate the manner of use and appearance when used. Thus, in one instance, workmen are shorvn lifting a panel into position for erection upon a wall rvhile, in another case, the appearance of ceiling tile boards is shorvn by an outline dra'iving through which the board appears. Even the device used as a lock to prevent joint separation betrveen the studs of the company's Lok-Joint Lath is shown actually attachecl to the board ancl construction detail is incorporaterl into the clesign pattern of the wrap.

The designs were created by Charles Kenneth Foslien, senior artis: in The Insulite Company's Advertising Department.

The Gold Medal au'ardecl The Insulite Corrrpanv is the first known to have been won by a building material mantlfacturer for distinctiveness of sample rvrappirlg, ancl lvas presented to E. W. Morrill, general sales manager of the company, at a formal banottet helcl in Chicaeo. at n'hich all awards were presented and a colorecl sounrl pictrrre fealuring the winning entries rvas shown.

MONOLITH PORTLAND CEMENT COMPANY HAS RECORD MONTH

Robert Soldini, Sales Manager for Monolith Portland Cement Company, Los Angeles, is pardonably proud of the fact tbat June, 1938 was the biggest month in the history of the company from a standpoint of shipments. "We are going full b!ast," said Mr. Soldini. "and our business is very good."

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Frank ParkMakes Hole-ln-One

Frank Park, Park Lumber Co., La Mesa, Calif., joined the golfers' hole-in-one club on July 24 when he made a perfect shot with a number eight iron on the 1l0-yard 13th hole of the La Mesa Country Club. The ball landed about two feet short of the green and rolled into the cup. With Frank, Ed Culnan, Bruce Carmichael and Frank Messag'er, made up the foursome.

Ed reports that Bruce had just placed his ball about four feet from the cup. Frank said: "You think that was pretty good, don't you ? Well, boys, you ain't seen anything yet. Watch this one !" And then he hit his famous first hole-in-one.

Frank's feat on the golf links is bringing him many honors and lots of publicity. Here is what Monroe McConnell of the San Diego Union, in his column "Chips and Birdies," wrote in the July 25 issue:

"D. Frank Park, La Mesa's biggest booster, now is in a position to recommend the brand of holes-in-one his community produces, for Frank bigged one for himself yesterday on the llGyard 13th hole of the La Mesa club. Among others, Park was playing with Frank Messager, the Flying Frenchman, when the ace was made and probably will never hear the last of it. Others in the foursome were Ed Culnan and Bruce Carmichael. The accomplishment entitles Park to membership in the Union-Jessop hole-in-one club and that organization's medal of honor."

BEN TEPE VISITS SOUTHLAND

Ben Tepe, White House Lumber Co., Canadian, Texas, is visiting his son, Cliff Tepe, who is connected r,r'ith the Arcadia Lumber Co., Arcadia, Calif. Mr. Tepe operates twelve retail lumber yards in the Texas Panhandle territorv.

SPEND VACATION AT JUNE LAKE

Percy Youst, of the Holmes-Eureka Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and Mrs. Youst, spent the last two weeks in July vacationing at June Lake in the High Sierra. Percy is an expert angler and reported the fishing was very good.

New Booklet for Home Builders

Stripping the subjects of thermal insulation of buildings and vapor seal protection against damp walls bare of all technical phrasing, The Celotex Corporation has issued a booklet for prospective home builders which explains the modern construction of walls in such understandable terms that any person can grasp the complex problems involved in their design.

With eight pages of four-color illustrations, the booklet takes apart piece by piece a section of the wall of a modern home. The functions of plaster, Celotex Vapor-seal lath, Celotex Vapor-seal sheathing, "breathng space" between studs, and wood siding are graphically and simply explained.

The booklet ties in with extensive publicity recently given insulation and vapor seal protection of homes by women's and household magazines, and quotes them as stressing; "l-\{ei5ture which condenses in wall and topfloor ceilings comes from within the house, not from outside; 2-The simplest, surest way to prevent this is by means of a properly located 'vapor seal'; 3-To be effective, this seal must be located on or near the warm side of the insulation itself, or near the warm side of the wall." Modern construction, the booklet points out, meets these specifications.

Distribution of the booklet, according to LeRoy Staunton, Celotex advertising manager, will be to prospective builders, and will be made through architects, dealers in building materials, contractors and direct to names obtained by national advertising.

NAMED TO COUNCIL

Robert J. Parish, trade promotion representative of the Redwood Export Company in Australia, has been named to a seat on the council of the Timber Development Association of Victoria. Mr. Parish was named to his position with the redwood industry in June, 1937 and is one of the widest known younger lumbermen in Australia.

LOU SIMPSON ADDRESSES CONVENTION

"Current Certainties InA Time of Low Visibility" was the subject discussed by Lou Simpson, head of Pioneer in Los Angeles, before a recent meeting of the Pacific Box Manufacturers Association. in San Francisco.

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Hunters Cautioned to Be Careful With Fire

Deer hunters planning trips to areas opened to hunting in California August 1 and August 10 are reminded by foresters that cautious use of campfires and burning tobacco is mandatory in the woods and chaparral brushfields. With the first of California's deer hunting seasons opening at the time of greatest forest fire hazard, Regional Forester S. B. Show of the U. S. Forest Service has asked nimrods to observe sportsmen's rules in keeping fire out of the woods and being careful with fire arms.

Major precautions outlined in national forest regulations are: smoke only in camps and at places of habitation ; free campfire permits must be secuied from Federal, State or County forest officers administering the area in which the hunter is to make camp; a shovel and ax are required for each automobile or pack train entering national forest land.

National forest areas included in districts open to hunting August 1 contain portions of the Mendocino National Forest and the northern part of Los Padres National Forest Both forests contain various game refuges closed to hunting. The deer hunting season opening August 10 includes much of southernmost Los Padres Forest in Ventura, Santa Barbara and part of Kern Counties.

Both the Mendocino and Los Padres Forests contain areas closed to public travel and use during extremely hazardous periods of fire danger. Regional Forester Show has directed the hunting public to inquire of forest supervisors about closed areas before planning trips to either of the national forest areas. Los Padres Forest Supervisor S. A. Nash-Boulden has headquarters in Santa Barbara. Mendocino Forest Supervisor Frank Price's headquarters are at Willows.

Limits in hunting districts opening August 1 and 10 are two bucks per season. Does, fawns, and spike bucks can not be taken. The California Fish and Game Commission classifies a spike buck as a male deer with unbranched antlers on both sides.

HOPEA COMES FROM BORNEO

There is much that is interesting in the shipments of the various foreign hardwoods received by large hardwood yards.

For irtstance, recent shipments received by the Western Hardwood Lumber Company, Los Angeles, of Hopea from Borneo, a wood used principally by boat builders and also where dense, hard material is required, contain timbers 4 inches and thicker, some running to 40 feet in length and up to 16 inches in width, without a blemish of any kind. These dimensions indicate that the timbers were sawn from very large logs. The wood is dark brown in color ancl corresponds to Australian lronbark.

FRANK ADAMS COAST VISITOR

Frank R. Adams, Eastern sales manager of The Pacific Lumber Company, Chicago, left San Francisco July D fior Chicago after visiting the Pacific Northwest, the company's mill at Scotia and main office at San Francisco.

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Sash and Door Wholesalers \fill Play Golf G. \f. Dow, Retail Lumberman, '\(/rites Live Ads for His Yard August 17

Call Secretary Earl Galbraith, VAndike 0845, Los Angeles, and make your reservations for the golf tournament to be held by the Wholesale Sash and Door Association of Southern California at the Altadena Golf Course, Altadena, Calif., Wednesday afternoon, August 17.

D. W. Teachout and Marshall Deats are making the arrangements for the tournament. Dinner will be served in the Club House at 6:30 p. ffi., after which the prizes will be awarded to the winners in the various events.

"Pick" Maule won the Association's trophy at the last tournament and will be defending the cup for the third time. To obtain permanent possession of the cup, it has to be won three times. Earl says that "Pick" was in rare form at the last tournament and shot some remarkable eolf.

BARBECUE AND DANCE FOR EMPLOYES AND FRIENDS

Frank Messina, Acme Wrecking Co., Los Angeles, was recently guest to the company's employees and friends at a barbecue and dance held at the Acme Ranch, Manhattan Beach. A big crowd attended the party.

G. W. Dow, who owns and operates the Lone Pine Lumber & Supply Company, up in the mountains at Lone Pine, California, believes in advertising in his local newspaper. One of his ads run in the Inyo Independent has just come to hand. Instead of the usual announcement that his yard is headquarters for lumber, sash, doors, etc., he runs a quarter page ad that is really an editorial on the relationship between the chain and the independent merchant. IJnder the heading "Orchids to the Chain Stores and the Mail Order Houses," he says:

"Latest figures of the U. S. Census Bureau reveal 1,474,W independent merchants in the U. S. last year against 139,000 chain store organizations. Independents did $24,246,' 000,000 of business or 78.2 percent of the country's retail business, while chains did $8,460,000,000 or 22.8 percent. We believe the chain stores have shown the independents the better way of merchandising, have improved the independents' service to their customers, bettered their efficient operations, and helped lower consumer costs. We denounce class legislation of any type that is directed at chain stores, believing that independent merchants CAN and DO compete. So, orchids from LITTLE BUSINESS to BIG BUSINESS which has helped improve the business of independents. We meet chain prices on like quality goods."

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Losses in Export Market Increase Domestic Competition

Washington, July 1l,-After four years of the reciprocal trade agreements program during which exports declined in 1935-36 and increased a little in 1937, the lumber industry sees its early 1938 foreign market "shot to pieces" with a resulting rise in competition in its still depressed domestic market. This abbreviated sale of lumber in foreign markets has caused a steadily growing source of competition here at home on the American manufacturer.

The industry, according to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, realizes that curtailed buying on the part of the Oriental countries is largely responsible for the 1938 export losses in softwood lumber and that foreign trade agreements must be negotiated country by country. It is convinced that tariff parity for American lumber in the preferential British country markets is needed for a start toward permanent substantial recovery of lumber export markets.

The Department of Comrnerce announces that lumber exports from January through May of this year were 393 million feet, or 47/o under the first five months of last year. A more striking comparison may be made with 1928, when five-twelfths of the year's lumber export was 1,300 million feet. This year's loss through May was 7O/o compared to that 1928 figure. The comparison shows as {ollows:

Loss under 1928 Douglasfir...

Southern pine.. .. .. 65% Hardwoods ... 50% Lumber export gains over recent years have been made in some of the countries with which trade agreements have been made. United States lumber duties, however, were cut in half by the first Canadian agreement, whereas 80/o of the ordinary foreign markets for American lumber are not yet within the reciprocal agreements framework.

Canada can partially reciprocate for the 50/o reduction in American duties it has enjoyed since January 1, 1936 by reducing its 23/o charge on planed lumber and flooring to the level of American charges on Canadian lumber and hardwood flooring.

VOTE TO RETURN TO WORK

Striking CIO workers voted July 23 to return to work at the Red River Lumber Company's plant at Westwood.

Ten Years Ago Today

From August 1, 1998 lssue

The tri-annual conference of the Millwork Institute of California was held at the Alexandria Hotel, Los Angeles, luly l9-2O. President H. W. Gaetjen presided.

Important problems of the industry were discussed during the conference, indicating Plant and Products Certification, Activities of Local Groups, "Empty List," Schedule No. 128, Mill Cost Schedules, Trade Practices, Cooperatior.r and Association Activities. and Trade Extension.

The addresses of E. R. Maule, Wm. Simpson, Kenneth Smith and Jack Dionne appeared in this issue.

Grenfell Lumber Company, Colusa, was awarded first prize for the most attractive float in the parade at Colusa on July 4. The float showed a miniature pine forest and sawmill scene on one end and a small modern home on the other end-the title of the float being "From Forest to Home."

A new insulating wallboard and plaster base, named NuWood, is being introduced to the building trades through established retail lumber channels by the Wood Conversion Company of Cloquet, Minn., as a companion product to Balsam-Wool, the flexible insulating blanket put out by this organization, which is the by-products division of the Weyerhaeuser-affiliated companies.

A group interested in the home modernization movement met at the Hotel Oakland, Oakland, July 23, to discuss the formation of a Home Modernization Bureau in the East Bay section. Representatives of the Building Materials Association, Built-in Fixture companies, Pacific Gas & Electric Company, Great Western Power Company, Master Plumbers Association, Building & Loan League of California, Electrical Contractors Association, National Lumber Manufacturers Association, and California Retail Lumbermen's Association attending the meeting.

Ross Hall, of the Century Lumber Company, Long Beach, made a six weeks' trip to Alaska. Lake Atlin and the Klondike were among the interesting points Mr. Hall visited.

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EXPERIENCED SAI.ESMAN WANTS POSITION

Experienced lumber and building material salesman who can take off plans, estimate and do office detail work is looking for an opening in Northern or Central California. Prefers small or medium size yard. Married, age 41, and has own car. At present employed. Address Box C-719, California Lumber Merchant.

POSITION WANTED-BY GOOD LUMBERMAN

Lumberman-exceptionally qualified through 20 years experience in retail and wholesale business for position as bookkeeper and/or assistant to sales manager in wholesale, retail or mill office.

Five years Southern California retail yard work as bookkeeper, estimator, counter sales, etc. Alert, active. Age 42 -single-go anywhere. Available now. Address Box C-717, California Lumber Merchant.

New Government Booklet--"American Hardwoods and Their Urer"

In an attempt to inform the users of American woods with practical knowledge and interesting facts, there just has been released "American Hardwoods and Their lJses" by the Forest Products Division of the Department of Commerce. This is in line with its current program of preparing a series of booklets on American woods and their uses. For those seeking basic information on the selection of hardwoods for specific purposes this publication is ideal.

This new booklet, written in popular style with many interesting illustrations, will prove to be of particular value to wholesale and retail lumbermen, building contractors, architects and wood-using industrialists. Teachers and students, farmers, home owner and prospective home builders will find it an excellent source of practical and educational information; and to all those with a zest for knowledge as a means of satisfying a natural curiosity for the American hardwoods which they use and contact daily. An outstanding feature of this booklet is the narrative or anecdotes that add human interest to the discussions of the important hardwood species.

The new bulletin introduces the reader to America's outstanding commercial hardwoods and describes in detail the means of identifying them, their principal uses, properties and grades, together with a review of the hardwood industry, industrial developments, and the domestic and export trade.

The sale of thousands of copies is anticipated since already over 5 thousand copies have been spoken for. It may be secured from the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C., or through any of the thirty-one Dis-

SALESMAN WANTED

Well established Portland wholesale firm wants capable salesman covering Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys. Self financed; split profit basis. Give references. Address Box C-718, California Lumber Merchant.

FOR SALE

Suburban lumber yard in Southern California. Very clean. Real estate $6,000 but would lease to responsible party. Building, machinery, trucks and all yard and office equipment $12,000. Stock about $10,000. Best living conditions and competitive situation very fine.

Also good yard in Coast City. Improvements and equipment $10,0fi), inventory $10,000, ground leased.

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

trict Offices of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. The 76page bulletin, designated as Trade Promotion Series No. 178, sells for 15 cents a copy, but may be purchased at 25/o discount if ordered in lots of 100 copies or more.

lssues lllustrated Bulletin

"How to finish Harbord Plywood" is the subject of a well-illustrated bulletin just issued by the Harbor Plywood Corporation, of Hoquiam, Washington. Architects, contractors, and carpenters rn'ill find this useful in Harbord Plywood construction.

There are unlimited new treatments open to the craftsman who works with Harbord Plywood, its manufacturer points out.It not only creates permanently beautiful exteriors, but it is a perfect interior finish for either new or old walls-at a cost that any family can afford.

Because of the simplicity of the installation of the large panels of Harbord, interiors featuring large unbroken areas, horizontal mouldings, vertical paneling effects, and curved surfaces, may be accomplished.

The following points in reference to Harbord Plywood are explained in the bulletin:

1. How to fit the panels-standard masonry or standard wood frame construction.

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2. Varioirs joint treatments.

3. Various wall treatments expressing modern interiors.

4. How to apply to old plaster walls.

5. Staining.

6. Painting (formulas for general purpose decoration).

7. Wallpapering over Harbord Plywood.

Copy of the bulletin may be secured by writing the Har. bor Plywood Corporation, at Hoquiam, Washington.

BIJYDBgS GI]IDE SAIT FBANOISOO

LUMBER

Chamberlin & Co' W. R.' - eth Flc, Fil; Blds. ........'...Douslr 5'l?c

Dolbccr & Canm Lmbcr Co-?3o Ul*f.ots Exchugc Bldg. ....SUttcr ?&tl

Gmn Lumber Cq, --- lE--C"tli.""l" 5t.- .'................GArfield 504r

Hall. Jres L.' - i'orz uitt" blds. ....................SUtter 7520

Hammond Redwood CmPalY' - --ltii - ilontgmerv St. ..............DOu914s t36t

Holn* Eurcka lamba Co.' ---iiG Fin"*t"l catr Bidg-..'....GArfield rga

Rry M. Jub Luber Co.' --'rfr"aH. Cole, ra Cdifqaia St...GAr6eld EE70

C. D. Johnco fambcr CcPontio' -' 7o-CJit-"[ Stret '......".'...GArfreld osl

Lamon.Bomingtol ComPcnY, -- ii-c-Ji'*L st;t :.'. GArdcld 6sst

kfgrcn. Alvin N. ---hoi' aJtund str.ct ......".'"Flllnorc tuo

Pacific Lunber Co- Tbc - --i-dit fi"b sd;i ..................GArfrcld tltr

LUMBER

LUMBER

Pegge, J. E.' -i brumm st. ..'..'........'...'...Douglec ttst

Pom & Talbot Lumbcr Cl- ',131 Market St. ...................DOugIa! 256f

Red River Lumber €o.' grs Mmdnck Bldi.,.....,.....GAr6eld 0t22

Suta Fe Lunber Co' 16 Califonia Streat ..............EXbrok 2Ol

Schafer Bru. llmbr & Sbinglc Co, I D|.W St. '.'..'..................SUtter l?l

Shevlin Pine Sales Co., 1030 Mmdnck Bldc. ..'.....'....KEamv ?0ll

Sudden & Chrirtensn' 310 SaMc Stret''.'............GAr6e1d 2tll

Trower Lumbcr Co., lro Market Stredt ;..............SUttcr 0'l2l

Unim Lmbcr Co., Ciocker Buildii,g ..SUttr 3170

Wendling-Nathan Co., -rro tlarket Stret' .........'........SUtt r Sllcl

E. K, Wod Lumber Cc, ' i D^m Strcet ...'..............KiErny$,1e

Hill & Morto, Irc.' Demism St. Wharf ..'..........'ANddv* l0??

Hoalu bmbcr CmPanY' 2rd & Alie Strcet! ...........'Gl*nmrt 6ECl

Red River Luber Co. 90s Finecid Centr Bldgl""".'TWinckr 34{10

E. K. Wood Lrnbr Co, Fre&rick & Khc Str. .."""FRultwle 0llZ

LUMBER

Welmhacurar Sala Co., ill c.litont" stnGt .......,......GAr6e1d o?4

HARDWOODS AND PANELII

Maric Plyw@d CorFratiost' 540 rolb Stret :.........,'..,MArkct lr05-.'aa

Whitc Brcthas,Fiftb and B'nmm Strcet!.'........Suttcr lllt

SASH_DOORS-PLYWOOD

Nicolai Dc Saler Co. 3015 rtth Stret .,..,.....'.........Mlccion 1tL

United Statee Plt'sood Caporatlo' - - -119 Kus Strat ....."........'MArkat lttl

Wheeler-Osgod Salea Ccporatio' 3015 l't[ St. .-. '.. ......VAlcacla Zllr

CREOSOTTED LUMBER-POIIS-PILINGTIES

Ameriru Lunbcr & Truating Co.' lll Ncw Montgmay St' '....'....Suttcr lZlt

Baxter. J. H. & Co33 Montsmri St. ..'.........DOu9he lttt

HdL Jamr L' jo3z MiUr Bldg. ....................SUttcr 75at

PANELS-DOORS_SASH-SCRE EN S

\f,featen Dm & Suh Co., srf e Cvpnrt Str. .......'.....TEmplebar t40ll

HARDWOODS

Stnblc Hudwood Co., 53? FlFt Stret ....,..........'TEmpleber 55t1

White Brothen, 500 Hish Saret ...'..............AN&ver lC00

LOS ANGDLBS

Amlo Califmia Lmber Co., -*#01;;; gff.-::..-.: :.......rHmwar srrl

Buru Lumber Co., ---iio Ettmtct of 'Cmerce Bldg'.'PRdpcd 6alr

Coper' Wilfrcd T.' ---iiii C"t." St. :.....'..............CApitol a533

*$i"t*i'?frt#:Y:.i::.......vAndrre r?ez

Dod. Don H'. - --riir F"iooii.i- Seqrities Bldg.",.PRcpect 2371

Hmnond Rcdsood ComParY rml So. Bredwav .....]........pn-p"a zSoe

Holmes Eurelo Lunber Co. - ---i17-ttz Architecr Bldg.. ..........MUtual'ltl

Hovo. A. L., ---rti' wittb*c Blvd' ..................York llrr

Rov M. Janin Lmb* Co.' ---F:-4. Clo|rrb. rr$ Trlmim.'.....'YOrk 296E W. L. ftti"i., 2452 West rtth SL ROchester lE02

C. D, Johnro Lunbcr CorPoratio' - -' odf tp"t-t"* Sccuritiei Bldg....PR6p€ct 1165

Lamnce-Philipr Lmber Co-

633 Petroleum Securities Bldg....PRcpect EfTl

MacDoald & Haningtm, Ltd-' --E F;it",l"G Seiu'ides Bidg....PRcpect 3r?

Pacific Lmber Co' ThG' 70OS1o, La Brei Ave. ........'.......YOrk ffGE

Patten-Blim Lunber Co-

- - 521 E: $h sL ......................VAndike 2321

Poc & Talbot Luber Co' -2U Edro Btds. '.................TRinitv 52ar

Red River Lumber Co',

702 E. Slaw letl So. Brudny ..'........'....PRGpect 03U

LUMBER

Reitz. Co., E. L- gdr Pdtroteui Seruitier Btdg...PRGFGt 236 San Pedro Lumber Co., Su Pc&o' ----ls00A Wilmingto RGd '....... Su Pedn 2200

Santa Fe Lumber Co- ----iir Finaclal CaDtc; Blda. ......VAn;fl'o &l7l

Schafs Bros. Lumber & Shitrtb Co.'

1220 W. M. Garland Bldg. .'.....'TRiilty {r'r

Shevlin Pine Salec Co'

- 32t Petroleun Seoi'itlec Bldg. '.PRospct 0015

Sudden & Christensan, 6,it0 Board of Tradc Blds. ..'.....TRini9 tEll

Tacoma hmber Sal*, 423 Petroleum Sarltlcr Blds-..PRGFd ffoE

Twohv Lumber Co., E|)i Petrolem Securitlcr Bldg....PRcpect t?41

Unio Lumber Co-

923 W. M. Gailud Btdg....'....TRiniV22t2

Wendlins-Nathan Co., 700 5o. I: Brea'Ave. ....'.....'...YOrk tt6E

West Oreron Lmber Co42? Peircleum Seryiticr Bldr..'Rlcbmd 02Er

Wilkinson and Buoy' 3rs w. grb st. .......,............TRility 1613

E. K. Wad Lumber Co47Ol Suta Fe Are. ..'......"...JEfrerm Slll

Weverhaeuser Sales Co. itzo w. U. Garland Bldg. ........Mlchigu ct5{

CREOSOTED LUMBER-POLES-PILTNGTIES

American Lumbcr & Trcatiag Co. l03l So. Bndway ..PRospect 555t

Buter, J. H. & Co., 001'west sth st. ..............,.Mlcbigan @l

HARDWOODS

Cadmllader-Gibson Co., Inc., 3dn Ealt Olynptc Blvd. .'......ANgclue lllJl

Scrim. Walter G. lli West ?tb StGt ......,,...,.,,Tuclarltill

Stanton. E. J.. & Sm, Al!0' Eut '3tth Strcet " ' ..CEitury D2ll

Wcctm Hardwood Lunbcr Co, 20U E. fsth St. .,..,,,..,...,'..PRogpcct OO

SASH-DOORS_MILL\IIORK

PANELS AND PLYWOOD

Califoair Dm Cmpmlr' Thc

zt?-241 C€ntral Ave.' ..........'.'..TRidty t4O

Califomia Pancl & Verer Co.. 955 So. Alameds St. ..,.............TRtlity 00tt Cobb Co., T. M., 5t00 Central Ave,........'.......ADamr llll7

Kchl, Jno. W. & Sm' 65i So. Mvers St. '..............'ANgelur tlll

Oreron-Wuhinstm Plywood Co., alt West Ninth Street. ..TRiritv l6t!

Ream Cmxnv. Go. E., 235 So.-Alimeda St. .......'...'Mlchigu lEsl

Red River Luber Co., ?02 E. Shrpn

Pacific Mutual Dor Co..

lO0 E. \Muhington Blvd. ...,.'.PRcpect 95Zl

Sampm Cmpany (Pasdma)

ZfS So Raymod .Aw. ........Blmhard 72lll

United States Plywod Corpontho' It30 Eut r5tf, St. ' '.. 'PRcpect !01t W6t Cost Scren Co., 1u5 E. 63rd StHt ....'...,...'...ADm lll0t Whecler-Oegod Salcc Colaontim 2l5it Saciucnto St. ...:.,.,..,..'..TucLa aXa

DOUBIE AND SU

Ifere at lasJ is materials -- Ifa struetion. The wood are seen -- UVflflrlth Of

00D r0N Iding e()lluality Bednew plywood development -etive grain formationo unlimited possi- bilities for finish, lasting durability.Ifammond Bedwood Plywood gives retail lumbermen an added profit line. Sizes a.re r/4,,x48, x72"eB4"r9,tb'. Two Grades: Good one Side; Sound rwo Sides.

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