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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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