Er* it was Sea Suirl decorative Douglas fir plywood. then Knotty Sea Suirl... now' a worthy companion to these popular APMI panels is BIRCH faced PlYwood. This new product is top quality-golden beauty outside: SOLID CORE inside. Standard 4'x8' panels arc tvailable in r/<" and 3/<" thickness. Other sizes on special order.
APMI plywood is stocked at comPany warehouses and selected independent jobbers. Your inquiries are invited.
Distributors Have Been Selling Long-Bell Oak Flooring for 20 years . 30 years or longer. Record repeat business like that is proof of the fact:
1 That Long-Bell Oak Flooring is made from good lumber, properly '' air-dried and kiln-dried. ) That Long-Bell Oak Flooring is accurately manufactured to exact -' standards.
J. fnat Long-Bell Oak Flooring is carefully graded and bundled.
A That Long-Bell 0ak Flooring is stored in dry, well-ventilated ware- T' houses and carefully loaded in outbound shipment.
Ihe Uniform High 0uality-so important to dealers, builders, contractors and home ownersis assured by the constant control of all these essential features. Remember, Long-Bell is always ready to serve you from either of our two oak flooring factories, or any of our 18 other lumber operations.
Lumber shipments of 504 mills reporting to the National Lumber Trade Barometer in the week ended July 17 were 1.4/o below production. Orders rvere 11.1/o above production and unfilled orders 'uvere 47/o of stocks. For the year to clate, shipments of reporting identical mills were 2.9/o above production; new orders 7.1/o above. For the week ended July lO, 498 mills reported shipments 4.5/o above production, and ner,v orders 22.8% above.
Lumber shipments ol 491 mills reporting to the Barometer in the u.eek ended July 3 w,ere 43.5/o above production, and new orders rvere 33.1/o above.
Harris E. Smith, secretary of the West Coast Luml>ermen's Association, released tl-re report for the first six months of 1954 on lumber production, orders and shipments from the Douglas Fir region. Production was 5,122566,Nn feet, orders were 5,499,468 M feet, and shipments u'ere 5.349,912 M feet. The u'eekly average of west coast lumber production in June 'ivas 163,920,00O b.f. or 55.2% of the 19+9-53 average; orders averaged 2W,92I,O00 b.f., and shipments 195,305,000 b.f.
The West Coast Lumbermen's Association, reporting for 169 mills in the week ended July 77, shovred production 10,649,535 feet. shipments 41,874,658 feet (3.0/c over production), and orders 41,280,948 feet (7.6/o over production). In the period, 68 mills were operating. In the previous \veek ended July 10, 60 mills operating and 169 mills reporting, shorved production 27,267,730 feet, shipments 28,287,975 feet. and orders 30,004,449 feet.
The Western Pine Association, reporting for 109 mills in the r,veek ended July 10, showed production 38,302,000 feet, shipments 41,019,000 feet, and orders 53,990,000 feet. Orders were 4l.O% above production and 31.6/o above shipments. For the 'iveek ended July 3, 89 mills reported (Continued on Page 64)
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THE PACTFTC 1UIUIBER COMPAilY 100 Bush St., San Francisco 4 The best in Redwood-Since 1869Mills at Scotia, Calitornia 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago I . 2185 Huntington Drive, San Marino 9, Calif. |v|EMBER OF trALIFORNIA REDWOtrD ASSOCTATION
the Arrou' Building Supply and I-umber Company, catering to drop-in trade, large builders and industrial users of lumber and allied products, has shou'u a steady gr<lrvth right in dorvntorvn Los Angeies during the past fottr vears.
Larry \\'reiiand, o\r'ner of the retail yard, and his u'ife established the business in the fall of 1949 tn a small office, u'ith a lo'rv inventory and a rvill to render service. Today, Arrorv Builcling Supply & Lumlter Companl' carries a complete line of l'acific C<tast lumber products, sash, cloors. u'all paneling, paint, plumbing supplies, nails and moulding for the u,eekend contractor or the r-olume user of these materials.
During the past month, \\reiland completed a threeu'eek trip to Washington, Oregon ancl Northern California, lvhere arrangements u-ere made f<tr an eventttal steady flou' of lumber from the mills to Los Angeles, u'here it lvill be remanufactured to his specifications {or ctlnsrllxer use.
A retail lumberyard located in the shadow of the citlhall in a city the size of Los Angeles I It's a prospect that might frighten off most building n.raterial merchandisers in this day of do-it-yourself and u'eekend handymen. But
The Western Lumber Co. of San Diego opened its fifth vard Sunday, July 18. The neu' branch is knolvn as the Point Loma Lumber Co. and u'ill replace the former Ocean Reach Lumber Co. in the Point Loma district of San Diego. The nerv retail store is at 4975 Nortl.r Harbor Drive and u,as inaugurated rvith a free bar-b-q from the hours of 1-:00 to 5 p.-.
\Vith the opening of the Point Loma yard, the Sullivan family, o\\rners of Western Lumber Co., discontinued the Ocean Beach varcl after 32 years of operation. William H. Grorrau., former manager at Ocean lJeach, is also manlrging tl-re Point Loma yard.
Fred C. Heggie solcl his Tu'ain Harte Lun.rber Companv in Jull' to I'aul Lahmon and his father-in-lan Guy Headlee. They plan to continue the firm name in the California 1ou'n of the same name, Heggie reported.
Paul Lahmon has been in Mr. Heggie's empkry for some time and served as assistant manager of the retail yard. \\'ith his purchase of the business, Lahmon u'ill also take over the management at this time. Heggie said he pians to continue his resiclence in Trvain Harte.
Ben \\'. llartels, Ventura dealer anrl president oi the Southern Clalifornia Retail Lttmber Association talked on the Northu'est strike and its effects at the July 13 luncheon of the ass<iciation in the Los Angeles Biltmore. There n'ere al>out 25 members in attendance.
Arron' Building Supply & Lumber Companv is located at 534 North N{ission Road, I-os Angeles, and is open six da1-s each lr.eek f or the convenience of its ctlstomers throughout metropolitan Los Angeles.
As this issue of THE CALIFORNIA I-U\IBER N{ERCHANT goes to press July 27, here is the strike situation to date:
No change in the general Fir situation in Washington and Oregon, rr,'here the mills hold for uo increase itl n'ages. and no negotiations in progress. Sixty thousand rnen affected.
Fir production heavy among non-union miils and others not on strike in Southern Oregon and Northern California, but this small compared rvith volume of struck mills. Neu'spapers report several tl-rousand strikers hat'e returnecl to u''ork under separate agreements in Oregon.
Four large plyrn'ood plar-rt:; in Oregcln ancl California have started up under U. S. District Court injunction, totaling 1,650 men.
Reported several I'ine mills have been struck in \\''estern ()regon and others threatened u'ith u'alkout.
Only four mills of important size are strike-closed in the Redwood region of California.
Fir market declined in price after first ttpu'arcl thrust that started n'ith the strike news.
Several California mills formerly unionized have retttrne<1 to lvork on a non-union basis. Scattered mills of snrall size are reported to have startecl operations under separate agreements in Northern California llased on a tentative l>asis "until a pattern has been established." It is reported some of the larger miils in Oregon are considering such an arrangement.
The entire situation is confused, and it rvould rerluire pages to print the many rePorts printed in neu'spapers throughorrt Oregon and California.
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There is an old story about the colored preacher who was explaining his methods of sermonizing, who said, "Sometimes f preaches fum de text, but sometimes I jes' preaches fum de extemporan.J-;"
That came to mind when reading one of Bruce Barton's newspaper columns. Bruce Barton is a New York advertising man, and one of America's brightest and best citizens. His column is usually good for at least one thought to pack up and carry away. *{.
In this column he started right off telling about sitting down to his typewriter to prepare a newspaper column, and discovering that no thoughts, no ideas, nothing to write about would come up out of his mind that would make copy. Try as he would, he couldn't get started. He just couldn't think of anything to write about. So he quit trying.
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You'd think to read it that something unusual had happened to the gentleman, instead of the same thing that happens to the writer of this piece very frequently when he hits the typewriter and tries to dig up some interesting words, phrases, and thoughts. And it's been going on for years. No sir, Mr. Barton*n": "? corner on blank thinking.
And it not only happens to the writer of this piece but, judging from what we read, it also happens to lots of scribes who sign their names to newspaper columns. The difference is that Mr. Barton, finding he could dig up nothing to write about, gave up the effort for the time being; whereas newspaper pages are often well loaded with articles whose authors should have done the same thingbutdidn't'
The trouble with too many column writers is that they refuse to follow the example set by Mr. Barton and quit the typewriter when they discover that they have nothing to say. Instead, impelled by the desire to fill the space assigned to them, they go to writing anyway, with the only result that could reasonably be expected from such procedure' t *. ,r
There was an old saying among preachers long ago tJrat sermons should be extemporaneous; ".|ust open your mouth and the Lord will fill it." And along came an iconoclastic
BY JACK DIONNEsort of preacher who said, "Yes, the Lord will fill it, but he'll fill it with wind, and there are too many old airguns running loose in this country today."
This, of course, is the day of the columnist, the special writer, the commentator, the signed article. Wherever you read, there you will find them. And the careful reader is sometimes of the opinion that they may be likened to those old timey preachers who just open their mouths and let the Lord fill them. The filling is sometimes awfully thin fodder'
Now the writer of this column probably gets caught off base and without a single good idea to write about oftener than most, and in that case he follows either one of two plans of action. He either gets up from the typewriter and postpones the task until a more enlightened moment; or, as is often the case, he just reaches for the old scrapbook, seeks out the words and thoughts of other and better men, and uses them to fill the space. With quotation marks of course. A little comment, perhaps, but not enough to weaken the matter. If this be treason-well then, it's treason'
flowever, if a writer is not too particular in his selection of subjects, there can always be found plenty of things to write about. For instance, a person of authority prints the statement that since the end of the last war more than one hundred thousand books have been published, all of them attempting to answer the same question: "Where do we go from here?" * * *
There's a question that could furnish fodder for countless chapters of free-hand writing. What a subject ! Where does the world go, where does the United States go, where does humanity go from here? What comes next on the highways of history? Any enterprising typewriter pusher who cannot turn himself loose, high, wide, and handsome on so broad a subject "",|",*oti, just hasn't got the stuff.
In handling such a subject a writer meets with no restrictions. His opinion is as good as anybody's. He has the length and breadth of the world to wander over. Predictions he can make in countless numbers, and who is there to deny their truth? By the time history rolls around they will be forgotten, and no one to remind him that he guessedwrong' * * ,,<
In the old, old story, a lecturer rose before his audience
and asked: "Ffas anyone here ever been to Africa?" Nobody there had been to Africa. "Very well, then," said the lecturer, "we will talk about Africa." Nobody can say the gentleman wasn't careful in selecting his subject.
But when it comes ," ;r;.;g the questisn-"whs1s do we go from hgrsf"-3 writer needs ask no preliminary questions in order to protect himself. Nobody has been any particular distance into the future, so all men are equal when it comes to prophesying. The entire realm of future history spreads out before the writer of such a piece. ***
Ffe can talk politics, religion, business, commerce, sciience, anything and everything. He is as unfettered as was Groucho Marx the time he told about traveling in the Sahara Desert and meeting up with a huge Polar bear. Someone interrupted him, and asked: "What was a Polar bear doing in the Sahara Desert?" Groucho replied: "This bear was sick and had been South for his health; he was rich and could afford to travel; and besides that, you look after your animals and I'll look after mine."
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Heard about a man getting into a taxi, and having the taxi driver turn to him and ask: "Quo Vadis, Mac?" Surprising as the language was, the driver was simply asking the same question we have been discussing-r'1ry6ere do we go from here?" For, as we remember our Latin, Quo Vadis 6s3ns-"\ll/hither Goest Thou ?"
A well known public ";.;.lr".a to say that he would rather talk on a subject he knew nothing about, than on one that he did, because if he chose the latter his remarks were naturally restricted to the things he knew about the subject,
Lumbermen's Post No. 403 of the American Legion of Los Angeles held its annual election of officers Julv 14 at the Nfona Lisa restaurant.
Commander Matt Curovich, lumber hauler, called for :,r report from the nominating committee and the follorving were elected and n,ill be installed at the next meeting, to be held at Taix cafe, Wednesday night, August 11:
Commander-LaVerne Hubbard, credit manager of Hayu'ard Lumber & Investment Co.; First Vice CommanderHatry West, salesman for Sand Door & Plywood Co., of Los Angeles; Second Vice Commander-Bud Cabot, coowner of the Three Star Door Company, Gardena; AdjutantDave Schappel, co-owner of Cal-Pacific Wood Products of Do'ivney; Finance OfficerMilt Page, coo\vner of Cal-Pacific Wood Products; Sergeant-at-ArmsTom Mills, owner of T. W. Mills Lumber Co., Gardena; Chaplain-Fred Coady of the T. \\r. Mills Lumber Company; Historian-Andie Nlorrison of Owens-Park Lumber Company, and Executive Committee-Randy Secluine, U. S. Gypsum Company, and Maurice Boyd, R. W. Dorvner Company.
Membership is open to all personnel of lumber and allied industries rvho served in either World War I or II
while in the former case he had no restrictions or limitations, and therefore could talk freely. So, when the subject is "Where do we go from here?" a prolific writer with a working imagination has plenty of room for utterance.
As a sort of terminus*ao*anl colunin of twaddle. we might suggest to Bruce Barton that the next time he sits down to the typewriter, and discovers a lack of thoughts and things that seem to be worth writing about, he might simply take for his text-"Where do we go from here?"and a writer of his ability could certainly spread himself.
Abraham Lincoln must hale 1..r, trrirrr.ing along these same lines when he once remarked that-"If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it." It must be admitted that it would be simpler to discuss where we are going if we were fairly sure about where we are now.
They don't do much *rnina irlso.ri.t Russia these days. Or, if they do, they don't use much paper in the effort. Contrasting Russia with the United States has become common practice with writers. But here is one set of contrasting figures that you may not have seen, one that furnishes almost endless food for thought. In Russia the per capita consumption of paper is just 15 pounds per year. In the United States it is 400 pounds per year. Now there is a little set of figures from which many interesting conclusions might easily be drawn. It is likely that much of the fundamental difference between this country and Russia today might be traced to those figures on paper consumption.
or the Korean conflict. Harry West will also be membershio chairman.
The second annual National Do-It-Yourself Shorv, nearly trvice as large and far more extensive in the number of fields covered, opened a 10-day run at the Pan-Pacific auditoriunr in Los Angeles July 23. Hours r,vere 1:00 to 11 p.m. through closing day, Sunday, August 1.
There were more than 300 exhibits, covering nearly everv phase of the home handyman trend that has burgeoned in the U.S. since the war. Emphasis r\ras on visual demonstrations in the "Horv-to" field. A complete story u'ith pictures of the show r,vill be carried in the next issue ,If THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT.
Harvey Hanson and C)rlin "Bim" Neeley, o\vners of the H. N. Hanson Construction Co., Compton, Calif., purchased Phil's Lumber Yard, 500 E. Pine Ave., in Compton, last month. The nerv owners are rvell knou'n in the Lyn'rvood-compton area.
J. B. "Phil" Philpot opened the retail yard in 1917 and sold it last month due to failing health. The yard r,vill be open from 7:3O a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily and n'ill offer complete building service. including free estimates.
Philip J. McCoy, president of Western Pine Supply Company, announced the addition of Armstrong Cork Company's line of lumber dealer products. Western Pine Supply will handle Armstrong's Temlok insulating board, sheathing and roof slab, Temr,""ood hardboard, Cushion-tone acoustical tile, Monow'all tile board, and roof insulation.
Cornplete stocks will be maintained at Western Pine's Emer.rville location, supplernenting the company's line of lumber, Nfalarkey plywoods and doors, Pinecrest millwork and mouldings. Western Pine Supply Company is located at 5760 Shellrnound St., Emeryville, and serves several hundred lumber dealers throughout Northern California.
D'.rane Bennett, secretary of the Redwood Empire HooHoo Club 65, has been chosen to represent the club at the 63rd annual 1954 Hoo-Hoo national convention Sep-
tember 6, 7, 8. Texas. He has Club to advise boast one thing
and 9 at the Shamrock hotel, Ht-ruston, been instructed by the Redr'r'ood Empire the Texans that Northern Clalifornia can bigger than Texas-the biggest trees.
In the current Los Angeles labor sitttation, the Lumber Employers Council iound it necessart', to forestall "backdoor" deals, to propose an interim agreenrent, the terms oi rvhich Nlillmen's Local 2288 accepted July 19.
This interim agreement provides: (1) that the emplovers represented by the council in current negotiations rvill maintain the same wages and rvorking conditions as it-t the 195354 contract until such time as a new agreenlent is reached, or until cancelled by either party on three days'u,ritten notice. In the meantime, there shall be no strikes, lockouts, or disturbances of relations during which time negotiations will be carried on as are agreeable to both parties.
(2) That the effective date of the neu'agreenrent is subject to negotiations the same as all other issues (unions are seeking changes retroactive to July 1).
.'The Payroll Sar:ings PIan Jor Bond.s proai.d.es a conoenient and proJitable ury for Anericds uage edrnerE to Ea?te. I[illions oJ Payroll Saoers haoe beconte proud, ou)ners oJ homea purchased with Bond.s bought this uay. lt also helps our nartional gooerntnentwithits problemsof managing tha public debt. VeinNationalGypsum urgethe stirnulation oJ the Payroll Sauings Plan and. are proud to report that more than 6rO(X) oJ our employees are now participating."
flereoe another success story of a person-to-person canvas3:
In the Wahoo (Nebraska) ordnance plant of the National Gypsum Companyo employee participation in the Payroll Savings Plan was a very low 1.73/o.
In September of last year,with the whole.hearted encouragement of top management, the 3,000 employees of Gypsum's Ordnance Plant organized to conduct a person-to-person canvass to put a Payroll Savings Application Blank in the hands of every employee.
90/o of. the employees signed up in the opening days of the campaign. By September l2th, employee participation vtaa 93.7/o. On October 2nd, participation was almost 97/o-and still going up.
To quote from National Gypsumos printed report of the Payroll Savings campaign:
"Did we use fancy charts! Did we use advertisements? Did we have long-winded meetings. Did we
give prizes for production? The answer is No! Wb put the proposition squarely to the people, and we reported to the people once a week in bulletin form to let them know where they stood in relation to other departments as well as to the plant total. Once the spirit of competition and teamwork caught fireo once it became a matter of personal pride; a successful conclusion was only a matter of time and efiort.'o
Justifiably proud of its sponsorship of the Payroll Savings Plan and the97/o enrollment of its employees, National Gypsum Company prepared a very interesting folder, "Bombs and Bonds for National Defense. The Savings Bond Program of the National Gypeum Company." Savings Bond Division, IJ. S. Treasury De. partment, Suite 700, Washington Building, Washingtono D.C.o will be glad to send you a copy. Read how easy it is to build your Payroll Plan to 90/o or mote participation.
oo. , . M.ore than 6"000 of our employees are nou) participating , ,,"
MBTVIN H. BAKBR
Chairman of the Board, National Gypsum CompanyThe Uniteil States Gooernment il,oes not pay Jor this ailaertisement. It is ilonateil by this public* tion in cooperation uith the Adaertising Council and the Magazine Publishers oJ Arnerica.
Lou Costello, the comedian, is telling the story of the two elephants who had a little mouse for a playmate. For three years the mouse enjoyed himself by sliding down the elephants' trunks, swinging on their tails, and gleefully hopping from one elephant's foot to the other's.
Ed Dunigan last month acquired the Glendale Lumber Company, Glendale, Arizona. ,He had been manager of another lumberyard in that town for the past five years. Dunigan said he plans to install a complete line of builders hardware and paint, and soon add additional warehouse facilities. John Alsobrook, Glendale contractor who also had the lumber business for the past year, will devote full time to contracting.
Forest Fiber Products Company, Forest Grove, Ore', was five years old in June. "Our fifth annversary marks a milestone in our business development and particularly in satisfactory relations with the people who handle and buy our products," said Harold A. Miller, president'
One day one of the big elephants moved his foot suddenly, and crushed the little mousie. "You clumsy ox !" exclaimed the other elephant, "You've trampled our little playmate to death !"
"Aw, shucks !" replied the other, sadly; "I was only TRYING TO TRIP HIM !''
The recent acquisition oi Canadian \\restern Lumber Company by Crown Zellerbach Corporation has resulted in Zellerbach reporting production of lumber and related pro<lucts for the first time. For the ten months ended April 30, lumber output was 138,123,000 board feet; plylvood, 41,937,W feet. Output of doors was l2O,00O pieces, and shingles 145,000 squares.
Wendell B. Barnes, administrator of the Small Business Administration, announces that he has delegated authority to the agency's 14 regional directors to make many loans up to $50,000 without the prior approval of tl.re Washington office. Previously, a1l loans had to be approved.
Meqns promptly expedited . from Fqirhurst's own Trinity Mill ot Forl Sewqrd, Coliforniq . or from one of rhe other 35 mills in Northern Colifornio, whose production is mqrketed by Foirhurst. Some of these mony mills ore speciolized in meeting vqried specificqtions in
A "See your lumber dealer first" campaign, initiated by the Wood Conversion Company, has received wide dealer acceptance, the company reported. The campaign centers around a full page Wood Conversion ad in the July 31 issue of the Saturday Evening Post warning the consumer against fly-by-night applicators and pointing out the protection alTbrded a remodeling investment by local lumber dealers.
The ad explains the advantages of dealing rvith a local lumberyard instead of fly-by-night operators and outlines the dealer's permanence in the community, his acquaintance with honest local contractors, his knowledge of sound finance plans and his reputation for selling quality building materials.
Jerry Essley, John Lipani, Jim Forgie and other tslack Cats met in a luncheon session July 16 to plan Los Angeles HooHoo events for the coming 1954-55 season.
A new policy of entertainment, golf and all other Hoo-Hoo activities has been adopted by the policy committee and was activated at the July 16 session. A "bang-up" program will Le planned for each meeting in the new season, which starts next month.
The "open-end" mortgage-a source of credit for home improvement, repair and remodeling vuork-has received a shot-in-the-arm from the top legal authority in the $28,000,000,000 savings and loan business. Horace Russell, general counsel of the United States Savings ar-rd Loan League, gives his blessing to the "open-end" mortgage in the current edition of the League's magazine, Savings and Loan Nervs. His action is expected to stimulate interest of the League's 4,100-member savings association in the "open-end" mortgage program.
Under the "open-end" provision, a iamily u,hich has reduced the principal of its mortgage is permitted to reborrorv, rvith no change in interest rate, the amount of the principal so far repaid, or an even larger amount if the lending institution sees fit to do so. This "additional advance" is then amortized with the remainder of the mortgage over the life of the loan.
General Counsel Russell calls the "open-end" plan an essential part of what he thinks savings associations should use as a "flexible mortgage contract" to cover all family financing needs.
"If credit needs develop for a garage, driveu'ay and rvalkway, landscaping, another room or two or even some improvements to tl.re real estate, the family which has a flexible.mortgage obtains such funds at mortgage rates and terms, and these, too, are amortized," the League counsel explained.
The old slogan for lumberyard and retail store operations used to be, "Take two steps to the customer's one." But the "old order changeth" in this atomic era of supermarket merchandising, and retail lumberyards are not exempt.
Now California has one of the first building materials "supermarkets," but long before the Whiting-Mead Co. of San Diego opened its new Builders Market in the Southland city July 10, exhaustive surveys were made to determine that customers really wanted to "browse" in a lumberyard as they do in other stores, and that they definitely didn't want the salesmen constantly hovering around.
The new two-story Builders Market, located at l4th and K in dor,r'ntou'n San Diego, boasts a 10,000 square foot supermarket type sales floor, complete with self-service display racks and quick service check-out stand. Eleven different departments are represented in the supermarket section of the store. These departments include sash and door, roofing, wallboard, cement and plaster, hardware, electrical and plumbing equipment, appliances, paint and floor covering.
Four "floor men" are stationed on the main sales area to a-ssist customers as needecl and to provide technical advice on installation, construction, and application tecl-rniques.
In addition to these "advisors," the firm also maintains a plan department, which supplies the firm's "Save-Way" plan for do-it-yourself home construction. A model of a threcbedroom colonial home, built by the Whiting-Mead method, stands in the paved parking lot adjacent to the main store.
The San Diego firm was established in l9l2 as a brancir of the Whiting-Mead Co., of I-os Angeles. It became a 100/o San Diego-owned firm in 1944, when H. L. I\finer, the president, and his sons Glen M. Miner and F. Everett Miner, together with other longtime employes, purchased all the assets of the San Diego firm from the parent company.
H. L. Miner, who joined the San Diego organization in 1916, continues as president. 'Glen M. Miner is general manager and F. Everett Miner is sales manager.
In 1948 the firm was incorporated and the firm nan.re changed to Miner & Co., Builders Market. The business continues to be conducted as "Builders Market-WhitingL4ead Co. of San Diego," with the name "Builders Market" featured prominently in advertising, business forrns, ancl signs.
Designed and built by Virgil W. Cash of San Diego, the new supermarket has a 15,000 square foot warehouse adjacent to the main sales floor. Material may be moveC from the most distant point in the warehouse to its ds5ignated place on the sales floor in less than two minutes.
In addition to being designed to provide attractive and convenient quarters for the building materials supermarket, thr.r new store has been decorated to help provide ideas for home builders and designers. For example, the foyer and offices were finished to demonstrate the most modern use of plywood panels in decorative schemes. The fover is paneled in fir, gum and serrated plywood trimmed in redwood, and is lighted with both natural and artificial light coming through attractive wood "egg crate" ceiling.
Executive offices on the first and second floor are paneleC
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Plon,, erected on the
in a variety of woods, including ash, rotary and ribbon mahogany, birch, walnut, redwood, and gum. Exterior of the building is finished in two-tone green stucco with split brick trim. Two split brick planters flank one of the entrances. Radio, television and newspaper advertising was usecl to announce the opening of the Builders Market, and more than
5,000 visitors trooped through the new store building during the week-long open house celebration. Refreshments were served to guests in the yard's large employe recreation area on the second floor, and all visitors received souvenirs. The Whiting-Mead Co. Builders Market issued a cleyer invitation to the opening. The front piece, stating, "We
Cordially Invite You to ()ur Opening July lA-17," picturecl tn'o doors in a facsimile of the actual store front. When the invitation is opened, the doors also open and one reads, "The Home of l)o-It-Yourself," and it lists the products carried in the store and yard.
It also listed the do-it-yourself demonstrations to be seen Curing tl.re rveek of open house : Horv to lay asphalt tile, applying aluminum tile, taping and application of wallboard, the right and u'rong \\'ay of applying roofing, and the neu'est ideas on interior painting'
During the open house week, ten special exhibit booths '"vere in operation. Arrangecl and stafied by leacling manufacturels, these booths featured modern building materials and equiprrent. Among the suppliers of tools and basic materials exhibited at the opening were: Asphalt Tile Co., Black and Decker, Martin-Senour, U. S. Gypsum, Pioneer Flintkote, Alumiwall Tile Co., and Johns-Manville Co. Follou'ing the grand opening, the do-it-yourself demonstration and booth area reverts to the yard's finish clepartment.
The original San Diego yard was burned in a fire in 1944 ancl the Miner family did not consider it fitting to build a new store rvl-rile San Diegans still needed materials for homebuilding in the periocl of shortages immediately after the war. The present Builders Market location was the firtn's warehottse until the remodeling and building of the supermarket store that was opened last month.
Across the street, on what is left of the 1944 fire, stands the llargain Annex with "New and Used Building Nlaterials" -;1 uniqus operation in itself which will be reported in a later story.
E. P. Ervin is the store manager of the Builders Market ior the Nliners. He has served in that capacity for three and one-half years of his six years' employment there. And don't let the supermarket merchanclising theory in lumberyards fool yolr. Rrowsing for building materials may be a fine thing, and the pattern for the future, but the staff of sales clerks is still a very necessary thing for pricing, friendliness and good building advice.
An article appearing in the july l5 issue concerning R. F, Brou'n. n'ho is u'ith Getz lJros. & Co., San Francisco. erroneously stated that he sells to the retail trade' Mr. Bro.,-' n sells the lurnber products of the firm only to rvholesale distributors in the Bay area and',ve regret any misinformation caused by pultlication of the July 15 article.
The plant and oflice facilities of Fidler's \lanufacturing Co., Inc., n'holesale manufacturers ancl distributors <if harclrvood flush doors, has lteen moved to expandecl cluarters, announces Harry Iterry, presiclent of the concern.
The neu' location at 733 South Hindry Avenue, Ingleu'ood 1, Calif., consists of 100,000 square feet of production and mant-rfacturing space with air-conditioned offices for executivt' and clerical staffs. According to Louis Fidler, generai manager ancl secretary-treasurer of the firm, the nerv plant has a production schedule that r,r,i11 exceed 3.000 fl'rsh doors per shift.
"Our new expanded facility in Ingler'r'ood is one rlf the l.rrgest of its kind in California," declared President I'erry, "and our policy of distributing ottr products to retail dealers lrnd jobbers only has been tl.re major factor in tlur excellent growth," he continued.
Fidler's Manufacturing Co., Inc., has a nationu-ide distribution for its doors, which are produced exclusivelv in Caliiornia but have met u'ith ready acceptance throughout the east and middle rvest.
Tne new telephttne number of this pior.reer Southern California door firm is ORegon 8-8991. The executives o! ti,e company extend an invitation to all dealers to visit the plant, which is open daily Monday through Friday.
Phoenix, Ariz. -Arizona contractors, plagued by strikes ancl strike threats this summer, had a lumber shortage in July, reported J. C. Jorclan, exectttive manager of the Lumber Merchandisers Association. He said local lumber inventories were approaching depletion with the continued strike in the Northwest, and remaining stocks were already committed to jobs in progress.
Success is often due less to ability than to enthusiasm. The world makes way for the man who believes in his mission. No matter what objections may be raised, no matter how dark the outlook, he believes in his power to transform into reality the vision which he alone has seen.
It has been well said that all the liberties, reforms, and political achievements of society have been gained by nations thrilling and throbbing to one great enthusiasm.
Enthusiasm will steady the heart and strenghten the will; it will give force to the thought and nerve to the hand, until what was only a possibility becomes a reality.
No barrier, however formidable; no obstacle, however insurmountable it may seem to the timid or the fainthearted, can bar the way to any man possessed of enthusiasm for a high ideal. Never before in the world's history has the man fired by enthusiasm had such an opportunity as he has today.
Indifference is the opposite of enthusiasm. Indifference never leads armies that conquer, never models statues that live, nor moves with heroic philanthropies. Enthusiasm it was that wrought the statue of Memnon and hung the brazen gates of Thebes; it fixed the mariner's trembling needle upon its axis, and first heaved the great bar of the printing press. It opened the tubes of Galileo until world after world swept before his vision; and it reefed the topsail that ru,ffled over Columbus in the morning breezes of the Bahamas. It has held the sword with which freedom
has fought her battles, and poised the axe of the dauntless woodsman as he blazed the pathway of civilization. It turned the mystic leaves upon which Shakespeare and Milton inscribed their burning thoughts, and sustained and soothed the heroic soul of Thomas Jefferson in his declining days.
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything that is great. Without it, no man is to be feared. With it, no man is to be despised
Eureka, Calif.-A resolution urging the California state legislature to declare bear a predator in Humboldt County was submitted J,uly 9 by the Forest Management committee of the Redwood Region Conservation Council, according to Lawrence McCollum, committee chairman. The action was taken at the RRCC office in Eureka.
The resolution has been forwarded to the Bear Damage Study Committee appointed by Seth Gordon, director of the state department of fish and game. Larry Marshall of Arcata is chairman of this committee, which is composed of representatives of the timber industry, cattle and sheep growers, State Department'of Fish and Game, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the general public. The committee will prepare recommendations to be made to the state legislature on the bear damage problem.
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The Sierra-Cascade Logging Conference announces the second annual Sierra-Cascade Forest News Award for 'che calendar year of 7954. After revierving results of its 1953 forest nervs ar,l'ard, the board of directors of the conference has unanimously clecided to establish the award on a continuing annual basis, for excellence in reporting news of the forest products inclustries during each calendar year.
Judges of the 1954 award will be the same outstanding panel of men 'n'ho served in 1953 : Stewart Holbrook, author, Portland, Oregon; Swift Berry, state senator, forester, lumberman, Placerville, Calif. ; Myron Krueger, professor of forestry, University of California, Berkeley; Bob Letts, news bureau, P. G. & E., San Francisco, and Chilton R. Bush, director of the institute of journalism, Stanford lJniversity.
Invitations to participate in the 1954 Chicagoland Horne and Home Furnishings Festival have been mailed to horne builciers throughout Chicago and suburbs. Builders are no\v designating new houses which they will have available for public exhibition during the Sept. 9-Oct. 10 festival, sponsored by the Home and Home Furnishings Council with the co-operation of the Chica(ro Tribune.
S. W. Antoville, president of U. S. Plywood Corporation, announces the following changes in western personnel. Robert L. Heustis is the ner.r' manager of the Seattle, Washington, Northwestern division. Manager of the Portland branch is Robert N. Kruse, who has traveled that area for years past.
How many times ' ' ' for how many years ' ' ' have you heard this old refrain:
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A trip around the-country will quickly convince anyone that today's lumler a"]rlt "iit"*t-'u"d usss-rn6d61n merchandising technrques' new buildingsThe mlany smartly-planned' attractrve lumber dealers h"tt ";5;;A'ltL tnt most obvious example of this. Effective o"piivi"ittliuiu"tiiti"g' "how-to-do-it" demonstratior',, uno.o?iJ' p;;;9"111tercf, andising devices are also widely used by lumDer qcarrr)'
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Use of horizontal surface silos is an important new developrnent in cattle feeding. A nel'v folder rvhich describes how to build a self-feeding horizontal silo is announced by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association. This helpful, rvell-illustrated folder is packed
with useful information about silo size, capacity, and construction details. Copies may be obtained free of charge from West Coast Lumbertnen's Association, 1410 S.W. Morrison Street, Portland 5, Oregon.
Forest fires make idle lands, idle industries, and idle people. I\{ost fires are caused by locai people. Help prevent forest fires. Keep the Redu'ood Region Green !
THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT was born July L, 1922, making it thirty-two years old. On this July day, 1954, I sat and rambled through the early pages of the magazine, and found it intensely interesting looking at the lumber industry of California as it was then. And it occurred to me that many of the oldsters in the business, and perhaps many of the younger folks also, might like to know what was happening, what was doing, who were the personalities shown in those pages printed 32 years ago. So here goes just a brief publisher's-eye view of that time of long ago:
We have often heard and read that the timber industry \r'as very slorv in starting reforestation. The July 1922 pages of the "MERCHANT" declare that to be false. C. Stou'ell Smith of San Francisco, secretary of the California White and Sugar Pine l\fanufacturers Association, makes a glorving report of the efforts of the Pine people of California to regrow their forests and perpetuate them.Also, the Union Lumber Company of San Francisco announces that it has been practicing scientific reforestation of its timber lands for 12 years. (That has them starting this work 44 years ago). Otis R. Johnson makes the announcement. The article states that other Redwood manufacturers are also active in reforesting their cutover lands. Who says California timber o\lrners 'ivere slow getting started ?
l\{ention of C. Storvell Smith and his association brings historical recollections. In those days when the "MERCHANT" rr'as starting business, Ponderosa Pine rvas called California White Pine, and so was the lumber association' Along came the Federal Trade Commission and iorbade' them to call Ponderosa, White Pine, because botanically it is a Yellou' Pine. So the old association disappeared and the Western Pine Association came into being, and California \\rhite Pine was known no more. >krF*
As a matter of fact, in 1922 when the "MERCHANT" startecl. most of the wooden construction in California was done rvith green Douglas Fir, but much of the trade didn't call it Fir. It r'vas generally called "Oregon Pine," or just "O.P." The "MERCHANT" campaigned against the use of this term, used Douglas Fir exclusively in its columns, and very soon "Oregon Pine" had gone the rva;" of "California White Pine" and was known no more.
There are plenty of young men in the lumber industry today to whom the above historic facts will probably come as something of a surprise.
The first check received by the "MERCHANT'I came from R. C. Merryman, of Los Angeles, a former lumberman and at that time associated with Fruit Grorvers Supply Company. It was r $2 check for a year's subscription. A photo of the check appeared in these coiunrns.
The first illustrated *'rr,"* ot*" -oa".n retail iumber store in these columns concerned the plant of the BentleySchoenman Lumber Company, in Glendale. It shol,ved a modern display and sales room. (That yard has been one of the Hammond Lumber Company string for many years.)
The first annual .o,rlu., L, r.rr,t page of advertising received by the "MERCHANT" was from Gus Russell, Santa Fe Lumber Company, San Francisco. It called for a page every month, and has been running that n'ay to this day.
Trvo other lumber concerns advertising in the "MERCHANT" in July, 1922, have been continuously in these columns from that day to this: the W. E. Cooper Lumber Company, of Los Angeles, and the Wendling-Nathan Cornpany, of San Francisco.
Other concerns advertising rvith us that first month that still do so are Union Lumber Company, San Francisco; Holmes-Eureka Lumber Company, San Francisco; Western Hardr.vood Lumber Company, Los Angeles (until thel' sold out a year ago) ; M. R. Smith Lumber & Shingle Company, Seattle; Long-Bell Lumber Company,. Kansas City; Bradley Lumber Company, Warren, Arkansas, and E. L. Bruce Company, Memphis.
. Strange, isn't it, that a majority of the concerns advertising in the first "MERCHANT" when it started in July, 1922, are still with us? Lumber firms have long lives.
The California White and Sugar Pine Manufacturers Association has been mentioned. The California Redwood Association, San Francisco, was going strong, with R. F. Hammatt as secretary. There u,'as a Southern California Retail Lumber Dealers Association, headquarters Los Angeles; F. S. Morgan, secretary.
There was a California Lumbermen's Association rvith ofifices in San Francisco, a statewide organization that tvas therr in the course of reorganization. Fred Conner of Sacramento rvas president, and E. D. Tennant n'as secretary-manager and working on reorganization. Jack Ferger rvas president of the already old San Joaquin Valley Lumbermen's Club at Fresno.
In San Francisco, the Douglas Fir Club was a strong wholesale organization, headed by W. C. Ball. The Central California lumber retailers had their own club, of which H. S. Fuller, of Lodi, was secretary. The Orange County lumber dealers had their association. with C. W. Pinkerton
as president. The Lumbermen's Exchange of Los Angeles rqas made up of the large retailers of the city, with Henry S. Patten president and Henry Riddiford secretary. One of Mr. Riddiford's big jobs rvas keeping up_ with statistics concerning the water shipments of lumber into Los Angeles harbor, which was some job in itself, and he was a storehouse of information. In the six months preceding July, 1922, 703 million feet of softwood lumber came into Los Angeles by boat.
Hoo-Hoo .uu. .o-i,r| "o i,..rrl throughout the state, after several years when the order was in the doldrums nationally. An article in the July pages of the ,,MERCHANT" gives the lion's share of credit for holding the line in California during those lean years to two San Francisco stalwarts, Frank Trower and Dick Hiscox, both ex-Snarks of the Univeise. "They stood like a stone wall," reads the article. Everett G. Griggs of Tacoma, Washington, was Snark of the lJniverse, and Charlie LeMaster, of Fresno, was Supreme Arcanoper in charge of the California area. Parsorr Peter A. Simpkin was Supreme Chaplain of Hoo-Hoo, and a leader in putting the organization back on its feet with his eloquence. John C. Light was heaci of Arizona Hoo-Hoo. David Woodhead r,r,as Snark in Los Angeles; Homer Maris in San Francisco.
'fhere u'ere interesting doings in Los Angeles in July, 1922. The Hammond Lumber Company was operating "the biggest retail lumber yard in the world,,' selling, among other things, an average of one million feet of softu'ood lumber every weekday. Harry Mcleod was manager.
At Los Angeles harbor, there was something new. Thev were building a very large steel and concrete sawmill dorvn there to cut logs to be brought dou,.n in rafts from the Northwest. (This enterprise was short-lived.)
An average of 100 million of feet of lumber a month rvas entering Los Angeles harbor by water: 85 million Fir and l5 million Redwood.
Up at Kelso, Washington, the Long-Bell Lumber Com-. pany 1\'as starting construction on the biggest sawmill. to cut two million feet of lumber dailv. Kelso became I-ongvierv later.
In July, 1922, White Brothers, of San Francisco, already old in the hardwood game, r,vere advertising: ,,Finish your home in Hardwood." E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, u'ere advertising that they had been in the rvholesale pine business for 30 years, and were the oldest in the area. D. J. Cahill was spreading out his Western Hardrvood I-umber Company and helping make Los Angeles a great hardwood consuming center.
The retail lumber industry of the whole state of California, in July, 1922, was rallying in a drive to kill a bill before the legislature that would have outlawed the use of rvooden shingles on California roofs. Gus Russell, of San Francisco, spearheaded the retail effort, which met .ivith full success when the voting time came.
material that have become giants since then. Western softr,'i'ood plywood, for instance. No mention of same. Why? The stuff hadn't been born yet. Some softlr,ood panels for door manufacture were being made but piyrn,ood, as we knorv it in 1954, did not exist. Philippine X{ahoganv u'as in its infancy as a California building material. And there lvere others missing.
In July, 1922, Shad O. Krantz ran the "N'IERCHANT" as Managing Editor, having left the West Coast Lun.rbermen's Association, where he was Advertising Manager, to do so. Ed Martin had opened our San Francisco offrce, after a term with the Forest Service and several years selling West Coast lumber in the Northu'est. Bill Black joined the "ME,RCHANT" a year later.
A final historical note. Just the other day an old friend in the lumber business asked me holv long I've been a lumber journal editor. I had to admit my age in order to give him the facts. I established THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHAN'| in 1922. Ten years before that I had established THE GULF COAST LUMBERMAN. still going strong in Houston, Texas. And for five years before that, I was editor of an old Texas lumber journal. Making 47 years in all, continuously in this business. Vlany years longer than the service of anv other lumber' editor now in the harness.
This closes a review of the lumber business in California in July, 1922, when the "MERCHANT" made its bow.
Washington, D.C.-Housing Administrator Albert N{. Cole met here with representatives of leading lending institutions to make tentative plans to initiate an expanded voluntary home mortgage credit program as provided in the proposed Housing Act of 1954. The program is included in both the House and Senate versions of the Housing Act of 1954 and therefore will be included in the act as agreed to by the Senate-House conferees who are now considering the two versions.
The act calls for the creation of a National Voluntary Mortgage Credit Extension Committee which will be headed by N{r. Cole as Housing Administrator but which will consist of representatives from private industrytwo representatives each from private financing institutions, builders of residential properties, and real estate boards. Serving on the national committee in an advisory capacity will be a representative from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Home Loan Bank Board, and the Veterans Administration. Regional committees will also be set up.
The function of both the national committee ar.rd the regional subcommittees will be to facilitate the flow of funds for residential mortgage loans into areas or communities where there may be a shortage of local capital for sucl.r purposes.
Conspicuou, to. th"il ulJ.rr."
*trott . pages of the "MERCHANT? in JuJy,1922, were some items of building
"This is a private in<lustry program," 1\{r. Cole said. "Both the national committee and the regional sub-comr.nittees will be made up of private industry representatives. I, as chairman, and the advisory members from the Federal Reserve Board, the Home Loan Bank Board and the \,'eterans Administration will be there to assist private industry to do the job."
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New York-The Dodge Reports of contracts for future construction in the 37 states east of the Rockies again smashed records in June after breaking numerous other monthly records within the past year, it was announced by F. W. Dodge Corporation.
The total of $1,733,264,000 was the highest for any of the 63 Junes in Dodge's history and was 43 per cent ahead of June, 1953.
It rounded out the highest first half of any year, with a total of $9,251,149,000, up 17 cent from the first six months of 1953. It narrowly missed topping the total for the last six months of 1953, which was Dodge's biggest half year.
"A record-breaking June and a record-breaking half year in commitments for constrnction expenditures should prove conclusively," commented vice-chairman Thomas S. Holden of Dodge, "that vast thousands of Americans have had considerably greater faith in the business outlook than has been indicated in recent months by the more gloomy prophets of doom.
"You can scarcely have a real depression .ivhile people continue month after month to sign record-breaking commitments for facilities to be built in the coming months and to be trsed over a long-extended future.
"The average monthly contract total for the first six months was $1,542,000,000. The last six months need
average only a trifle over $1,000,000,000 to equal the alltime yearly high of $17,443,463,000 set in 1953. The Dodge grand total for the 37 eastern states has not fallen belorv $1,000,000,000 since February, 1952."
The board of directors of Riverside County Hoo-Hoo Club 117 called a meeting for Friday night, July 17, and a good turnout was on hand in spite of the warrn u'eather prevailing. Russ McCoy, fully recovered from his early fishing season accident, made arrangements for the meeting and dinner at the Hemet Elks Club. I{emet. Calif. Dinner rvas at 7:39 and the very popular steak dinner menu of a previous meeting was repeated.
The concatenation which had first been planned for this meeting was postponed until later and, instead, the directors secured Carl F. Ramstrom, district supervisor, Los Angeles, Ior the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, Portland, as a speaker. Ramstrom showed the highly recornmended \\rCLA motion picture, "The Magic of Lumber," and brought the Riverside Hoo-Hoo greetings from Hal V. Simpson, WCLA secretary-manager, who was in the area briefly earlier in the week on business.
Door prizes were awarded to bring to a close a tasty and entertaining evening.
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Modern advances in the lumber industry were outlined to young men entering the building trades in a commencement address by Leo V. Bodine, executive vicepresident of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, June 26 in Washington, D'C.
Mr. Bodine spoke to graduates completing the apprentice training program of the Joint Carpentry Apprenticeship committee of the Washington area.
"Your skilled use of our product will insure its best performance and appearance, and is essential to a continued and strong demand for lumber, of which there is an abundant supply," Mr. Bodine said. "Our mills have inptalled improved mechanical equipment to insure greater efficiency in obtaining the maximum usage of every log.
"New and vastly improved glues, and more to come, are opening new markets for laminated wood produ'cts. New and better products for interior finish are gaining markets and recapturing old ones. Heavy, laminated arches and beams are fast gaining favor and use in the construction industry today. For the home we are turning out modern and improved products that have a beauty and appearance often imitated but never duplicated by other materials. Accelerated research programs are sure to bring further refinements in product manufacture, and at a more rapid pace.
"As lrou work with these products, we hope you will come up with ideas for their better use and better performance. The lumber industry is an old industry but it
is still anxious for new ideas-the sort that come from challenging, scientific, technologicalminds rn'hich do not accept things as they are or as a matter of tradition. We will need and want your criticism. Indeed, rve invite them and promise serious consideration. I hope you lvill give us lumberjack assistants many things to think about in the years ahead and to worry about until solution is attained."
The building industry, because of its keystone position in the economy, ofiers far above average opportunity, Bodine told the young graduates.
"Our strength of country is in part due to past accomplishnrents of the building industry of r"u'hich you gentlemen are now a part," he said' "The work rvhich you are qualified to undertake by virtue of your training will contribute to the stability of the economy and n'ill help to attain its future potential. Your assignment is important. The industry which you join is large. Its record of achievement is awe-inspiring, as also is the job r,vhich it must perform in the years ahead, Neither in the afterglorv of the past, nor against the horizon of the {uture' is there a division of effort more sharply silhouetted as of vital importance."
Washington, D. C.-Walter L. Forward, Jr., San California, businessman, has been appointed director Federal Housing Administration insuring office in San it was announced July 14.
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WINNING SALES HAND. lmporfant element in fir plywood indusiry "8i9 Five" dealer merchandising plan is lhe direcl mail lit. Kif provides dealer with sales-building inseris lo slip into any mailingr {rom lhe comp.ny lo its customers,
Fir plywood manufacturers have come up with a complete new merchandising program that gives retail lumber dealers five essential sales promotion tools to bolster their individual selling programs. Called the "Big Five," it brings together in one package all the key elements of an integrated localized dealer merchandising campaign to help dealers capitalize locally on strong uational advertising.
A well-rounded plan from the standpoint of direct nuil, point-of-purchase, newspaper and TV promotion, it also has the added advantage of helping the dealer tap a market created by national fir plywood advertising which has totaled 475,-
000,000 impressions in builder, architect ancl consutner lnagazines thus far this year.
Here is what it includes:
1. Direct r-nail kit with 1,200 easy-to-use statement inserts, 100 for every month in the year. Dealer obtains as many kits as needed.
2. Point-of-purchase display items: Hancly Panel rack, silent salesman for small panels, and 3-D Vieu'er u'ith many full-color storage designs.
3. Quarterly newspaper ad mat service which covers fir plywood along witl.r dealer's other basic lines antl also carries out NRLDA merchandising themes.
4. TV spot commercials giving dealers an opportunity to utilize this new selling medium'
5. Nerv window banners to identify the dealer as headquarters for fir plywood, plans and do-it-yourself assistance'
For detailed information about the "Rig Five," the dealer should contact l-ris local source of fir plywood supply or write Douglas Fir Plywood Association, Tacoma 2, Wash.
Manteca. Calif.-A fire which drerv hundreds of spectltors and jammed the highways July 1 destro;'ed the planing mill of the Cunningham Lumber Co. here. The loss rvas estimated at ffi,000. The mill, t'hich u'as insured, was only about a year old. An estimated $120'000 r.r'orth of lumber and equipment was tl.rreatened. Highway patrol and sheriff's officers were sent to the scene to control the traffic, which hampered fire-fighting oPerati()ns'
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"I had an odd dream last night, my dear," Mr. Harris remarked at the breakfast table, "f thought I saw another man running off with you."
"Really?" rejoined Mrs. H. "And what did you say to him?"
Mr. H. set down his cofiee cup, pushed back his chair, and with a wary eye measured the distance to the back door.
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One of the old favorite California stories is that of the illiterate Chicago Jew who spent his vacation there one summer. The thought occurred to him on this trip that if he could manage to mechanically learn to spell the names of some of the outstanding resorts of California, he might stagger his friends with his knowledge when he returned. So he set out to accomplish this educational feat, and at each resort city he went to, he had someone teach him with much practice and effort to spell the name of the place. It was entirely mechanical, but he got so he could handle the job in fine shape. So the first chance he got when he returned to Chicago and found himself in a crowd of friends (all of whom knew he had never been able to read or spell), he tried his hand at his new accomplishment.
"You would never belief," he said to them, "how funny dey spell some of de names of dem California towns. F'er instance, how do you suppose dey bronounce Y-O-S-EM-I-T-E?''
And very promptly one of his friends said.
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And the traveler triumphantly replied: "Yo-some-ite, H-11! Dot's SAN I-UIS OBISPO!"
He shambled awkward on the stage, the while Across the waiting audience, swept a smile. With awkward touch when first he drew the bow He snapped a string, the audience tittered low. Another stroke, off flies another string; With laughter now the waiting galleries ring. A third string breaks its quivering strands And hisses greet the player as he stands. He stands-the while-his genius unbereft-is calm; One string, and Paganini, left. He plays-that one strihg's daring notes uprise Against that storm as if it sought the skies. A silence falls, the people bow, And they who erst had hissed, are weeping now. And, when the last note, trembling died away' Some shouted "Bravo !" Some, had learned to pray !
A Frenchman was relating his experience in trying to learn the English language. "When I first discovered that if I was quick I was fast, and that if I was tired I was fast, if I spent too freely I was fast, and that not to eat was to fast-I was discouraged. But when I came across the sentence, 'The first one won one one-dollar ptize,' I gave up trying to learn English."-Bramwords.
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Friend: "I see you're driving a new car. How come?" Insurance Agent: "Well, it was this way' I tried to sell an insurance policy to an automobile salesman'"
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Jim N{cKillop, left, joined the Bonnington Lumber Co. sales force July 1, and Jerry Bonnington has assigned him to cover the Sacramento Valley territory. He will make his headquarters at Sacramento, where he will also reside.
N{cKillop was formerly with the Posey Lumber Co., Inc., of Portland. For several years he was a fir buyer covering Oregon fir mills t, for that firm. He is a veteran of % three years with the air corps and his original lumber experience was gained after World War II with Associated Lumber Co., Portland, and in the training program of the Coos Bay (Oregon) Lumber Co.
A nerv door label has been issued by the National Woodu'ork Manufacturers Association for the use of its members and the industry. The new label is a revision of one that has been used by door manufacturers for many years. Pointers on the care and treatment of doors along u'ith instructions for finishing doors are incorporated into this ner,v label. Proper care of a door helps to insure maximum service and satisfaction to the owner of a door.
The door label may be used on both Ponderosa Pine uanel doors and hardwood veneered flush doors.
The Sonoma Golf and Country Club was the site of the Redwood E,mpire Hoo-Hoo Club's meeting July 9' The day got underrvay 'r'r'ith a golf tournament in the afternoon and swimming prior to dinner.
Bob Johnson of Sonoma Mill and Lumber Company, program chairman for the evening, secured Rear Admiral Wallace R. Dowd (former commandant of Pearl Harbor), authority on ship construction, as a most interesting guest speaker for the occasion.
Following Admiral Dorvd's talk, the attendants vier'ved the Long-Bell Lumber Company film, "Tree to Trade'"
Lt.-Gen. Albert Wedemeyer, IJSA, ret., was elected a vicepresident and director of the Rheem Manufacturing Co. rrr New York City, announces Richard S. Rheem, presirlent' He rvill assume duties there September 1' The general has resigned a similar post he held with Av,co I\fanufacturing Corp' since 1951.
Profit possibilities in products molded f rom granulated wood are outlined in an illustrated booklet prepared by Monsanto Chemical Company. The booklet, "Multiply Profits," sets forth the conservation aspects as well as profit potential in this conversion of wood scrap granulations and synthetic resin binders into durable, colorful and useful products.
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Frank W. Olson, formerly with the Olson Lumber Company in Alhambra, has taken a position with the Mullin Lumber Company, San Gabriel, Calif., and is presently assigned to retail counter sales. Young Olson was rais,:d in the retail lumber business.
Arlie Charter of Wholesale Building Supply, Inc., Oakland, and Mrs. Charter returned to the Bay area the first of July after enjoying a two-week vacation in Denver, Colo., Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., and Sun Valley, Ida.
R. J. "Dusty" Dussler, Southern California manager foi Pope & Talbot, Inc., recently spent a week at the seashore garnering a tan.
Paul McCusker of San Francisco been "living it up" at Lake Tahoe the Bay area.
Bert Cooper, pioneer has joined the sales force ports Plril Kelty. general concern. He rvill call on Los Angeles county.
and his famill' havc before returning to
Southern California lumberman, of Rajah Lumber Company, remanag'er of the wholesale lumber retail lumber dealers throughout
Bill McCubbin, San Francisco, recently returned home after a week's confinement following an operation July 9.
Ray Wiig, sales manager of Southern California Sales, Monrovia, spent four days in mid-July at the I.,urnber'Company mills in Fredonia, Ariz. His California distributor for the Kaibab companv.
Jo Anne Johns has Hardwood Products, F-.ells. western region
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been employed as office secretary for Inc., San Marino, Calif., reports John manager for the concern.
Stan Dick of the Trinity turned to San Francisco July trip to Los Angeles. While in Rea and Ed Fountain.
River Lumber Sales Co., re12 after a one-week business the Southland, he visited J. J.
Tom Philips of the Beverly Hills, Calif., mills.
Lawrence-Philips returned recentiy Lumber Company, from a trip to the
Paul Gaboury of the Golden Gate Lumber Co., \\''alnut Creek, Calif., and family recently made a tu-o-u-eek, 4,000mile motor trip to Edmonton, Canada. to visit their folks. E,n loute thev stopped off at Banff, and retttrned via Penticton, British Columbia, and Victoria.
Chuck Lember, salesman for D. C. Essley & Son, Angeles Redrvood distributing firm, and falnih' spent weeks on tl.re road last month visiting Nevada and Southern California beach cities 'lvhile o11 \'acation. r-eport the "kids" enjoyed tl.re zoo at San Diego most of
Los two also He all.
Horton Williams, lnanager of the Foxn-orth-Galbraith l,umber Company, Florence, Arizona, for the past few vears, was transferred the middle of June to Tombstone, Ariz., lvhere he rvill supervise construction of a nen' yard for Foxrvorth- Killen Supply Co. Upon completion of the retail yard, he rvill assume management of it. \\''illiams' transfer to Tombstone had been planned for some time but delav in purchasing land for the neu' vard prevented immediate start of building operations.
Richard L. Tucker of the Consolidated Lumber Company, \\rilmington, and his family headed ior a r.acation in the Redu''ood country. They lr,ent first to Gurneyville and then on to Eureka the last of Tulv.
Otto W. Frese's many friends will be glad to hear he is now back home after a recent 22-day stav in the hospital. IJe resides in Mill Valley, Marin county, Calif., and his maiiing address is P. O. Box 342. Nlr. Frese is just a "voungster" in the lumber business (58 years all told) and for many years l.ras maintained his offices at 320 Nlarket St.. San Francisco.
Gus Hoover, head man San Marino, Calif., spent San Francisco conierring
at the A. L. Hooler Company, the first tn'o u'eeks of July in with business associates.
J. H. Cyr of Pope & Talbot, Inc.. and family left the Bay area July 16 for a three-'lveek canrping trip in tire I{ings Canl'on and Sequoia National Park areas.
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Benj. Levinson & Co. of Seattle announces the appointment of A. C. Parnell as the company resident sales representative for Northerh California. For many years, J. J. Ittes of Manhattan Beach has handled the company affairs and sales solicitation in the Southern California area. The appointment of Parnell is a further move in the expansion and growth of the Levinson organization as exclusive sales representatives for many fine manufacturers of doors, plywood, veneers and other related wood products.
Robert L. Coburn, Phoenix, Ariz., has also joined the sales organization of Benj. Levinson & Co. From his Phoenix headquarters, Coburn will handle sales in Ari-
zona, New Mexico and west Texas.
Among the products available to the trade in the Southrvest through the facilities of the Levinson organization are those of Seattle Door Co., E. A. Nord Co., Allen Quimby Veneer Co., Nichols & Nichols, Roberts & Strack Veneer Co., Clarke Veneers & Plyl,vood, and Ziel & Co.
New York-The appointment of Arthur H. Remmel as western sales manager of the match and wooden\\'are division of the Diamond Match Company has been announced by William M. I{oward, general sales manager of the division. Mr. Remmel will make his headquarters in San Francisco.
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Trvelve of the country's best known and most rvidely read consumer magazines are planning, finishing, and decorating a series of model rooms which together rvill constitute the home of the future at the Building lrroducts Exposition and Merchandising Forum being conducted in New York City, at the Kingsbridge Armory, October 2-10, by the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association.
The public, builders, and distributors of building materials will get a preview and a guide to their future selling at this exposition when these big magazines present to the public their ideas of room arrangement, room decoration, and room furnishing in keeping with the modern trend.
The participating magazines are American Home, Better Homes and Gardens, House Beautiful, House and Garden, Life, Living for Young Homemakers, Look, McCall's, Parents, Small Homes Guide, Woman's Home Companion, and Woman's Day. These widely read publications have long been a potent influence in creating in the hearts of the womeri of America a desire for better living.
It I'vas pointed out by H. R. Northup, executive vicepresident of the association, that many thousands of architects, builders, and distributors of building materials have seen women come into their offices rvith pictures of a room torn from one of the magazines, saying: "This is what I r,vant in my new home," or "This is the way I want my present home fixed up."
This previerv of rooms for the home of the future rvill be one of manl' features of the Nerv York exposition, where the public, dealers, and builders r,r'ill be exposed to the latest developments in living rooms, clining rooms, kitchens. home n'orkshops, bath-dressing room combinations, bed-dressing room combinations, studio rooms for family actiyities, combination laundry and plav rooms, expansion attic, and so on.
Five special committees of dealers have been appointed by Henry Munnerlyn, president of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, and R. A. Schaub, general chairman of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Exposition, to arrange rnajor features of the exposition October 2 to 10 in Nerv York City.
The neu' committees will develop details of the materials handling demonstrations and workshops. the modei retail lumber store and rvorkshops, the Lu-Re-Co demonstrations. the merchandising forums, and dealer attendance.
In addition, the NRLDA has distributed to all members of its federated associations a brochure describing the features rvhich are being staged for dealers in connection rvith the materials exhibits.
The grand opening of the exposition rvill take place Saturday, October 2, when President N{unnerlvn n'ill cut
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The brochure also lists a full day-by-dav schedule of events fclr dealers during the nine-day period.
The Committee appointments are as follows:
General Exposition Committee: I'hil Creden, exposition chairman. Edu'ard Hines Lumber Co, Chicago; Grover McDonald, exposition manag'er. Neu. York, N.Y.; Paul Collier, Northeastern Retail Lumbermen's Association, Rochester. N.Y.; \\r. B. Kennedy, J.., T. H. Rogers Lumber Company, Oklahoma City, Okla.; H. L. Stokely. Frontier Lun.rber Company, Brou'nsville, Tex.; R. A. Jones, Middle Atlantic I-uml>ermen's Association, Philadelphia. Pa.; \\r. T. Spencer, Spencer Lumber Company. Gastonia, N.C.; Findlel' Torrence, The Ohio Association of Retail Lumber Dealers, Xenia.
Dealer Attendance Committee: J. D. N{cCarthv, Illinois Lumber & Nlaterial Dealers Association, Springfield ; Gene E,bersole, Lumbermen's Association of Texas, Houston.
Forum Committee: Cl1'de Fulton. chairman, ColbornFulton I-unrber Co., Charlotte, Mich.; Phil Creden, Chicago, and Everett B. \\rilson, NRLDA, \\rashington, D.C.
Materials Handling Committee: T. Nlerritt Ludrvig, chairman, \,Ierritt Lumber Yards, Inc.. Reading, Pa.; Clarence Thompson, Thompson I-umber Company, Champaign, Ill.; Craige Ruffin. Ruffin & Pavne, Inc., Richmond, Va.; John Moeling, Sterling Lumber & Supply Companl', Chicago; \\t.J. Salmon (advisory), Building Suppll- Neu's, (ihicago; John Rucuss (ach'isory), Acme Steel Cornl>any,
Chicago, and Ron Dooley (advisory), U.S. Gypsum Company, Chicago.
Lu-Re-Co Committee: Paul DeVille, chairman, DeVille Lumber Company, Canton, Ohio; Fred Dill, Dain & Dill, Carmel, N.Y.; Paul Cad'ivallader, Woolsey & Cadwallader, Pennington, N.J.; H. W. Blackstock, H. W. Blackstock Lumber Co., Seattle, Wash.; R. Needham Ball, Louisiana Building Material Dealers Association, Baton Rouge; Clarence Thompson, Champaign, Ill.; E. G. Gavin (advisory), American Builder, Chicago, and Roy Winters (advisory), National Plan Service, Inc., Chicago.
Retail Store Committee: Russell Nowels, cl.rairman, Nowels Lumber & Coal Co., Rochester, Mich.; R. A. Jones, Philadelphia; Paul Collier, Rochester; Homer Prakel, the George H. Worch Lumber Co., Versailles, Ohio; Hugh Peter, Peter Lumber Company, Pleasantville, N.J.; Elias Nuttle, Nuttle Lumber & Coal Co., Denton, Md., and C. T. Heberle, Jr., Gloucester Coal & Lumber Co., Gloucester, Mass.
The Board of Harbor Commissioners, San Pedro, Calif., last month formally referred to the general manager a request of the American Lumber & Treating Co. for approval of the transfer of all its assets to Koppers Co., Inc. Included in the transfer will be tidelands at \\rilmington to be used for the storage of lumber. Koppers is already in possession of the tract. The story of the national purchase by Koppers Co. was in the July I issue of THE CALIFORNIA LUMBE.R MERCHANT.
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At a meeting of the board of directors of Moore Dry Kiln Company of Oregon, helcl July 1, Gordon A. Duncan lvas elected president to succeed the late Joseph I. Steel. The directors also elected Willard B. Kelley, vice-president; Lloyd G. Evans, secretary-treasurer, and Franklin \\r. Cook, sales manager. Charles J. Williams 1\'as reelected chairman of the board.
The practical dry kiln experience of these five offrcers totals 141 years, u'hich is a very enviable record and one of which the Moore Dry Kiln Company is justifrably proud. These officers represent three generations of practical dry kiln experience to give maximum service to the lumber industry. Gordon A. Duncan, a forestry graduate of Oregon State College, joined the Moore organization in 1923. Willard R. Kelley joined in 1926, Lloyd G. Evans in 1927 and Franklin \\r. Cook, a graduate of the College of Forestry at the University of Washington, in 1947.
Charles J. Williams, rvho joined the Moore Dry Kiln Conrpany in Florida in 1906, organized the Moore Dry Kiln Company of Oregon and built the North Portland plant in 1918, u,itl-r the assistance of the late Forrest Cobb. The late President Joseph I. Steel joined Moore in 1922.
The Moore organization, originally founded by Lafayette Moore in 1879, is this year celebrating its 75th anniversary. This company is the world's largest manufacturer of drying equipment for seasoning forest products and
has more than 7,O00 installations of the t.t.todern CrossCirculation Kiln Design in daily operation. The first practical Cross-Circulation Drying System u'as int'ented, patented and has been constantly improved by l\Ioore engineers.
The Moore Dry Kiln Company is also the largest mantlfacturer of lumber stackers, unstackers, tilting hoists, electric transfer cars, electric su,edes and other labor-saving equipment.
I\foore Dry Kiln Company is also well knor,vn in the veneer and plywood field as manufacturers of Veneer Dryers and introduced during the past year the first direct heat gas-fired Cross-Circulation Veneer Dryer.
In addition to the plant at North Portland, Oregon, the Nloore organization also has manufacturing services and engineering facilities at Jacksonville, Florida; Vancouver, B.C., Canada; and Brampton, Ontario, Canada. The Vancouver Iron and Steel Foundry Company, Inc., at Vancouver, Washington, is operated by the Oregr>n company.
H. V. Simpson, secretary-manager of the West Coast Lurnbermen's Association, Portland, Ore., visited Los Angeles and San Diego, California, on general business the week of July 12. He conducted several meetings and talked on grading and other matters. He returnecl to his headquarters Tulv 17.
Latest in a neu. series of nationwide mortgage finance clinics for members of the National Association of Home Builders u'ill be San Francisco, August 20; Los Angeles, tugust 24, and Phoenix, August 27. This neu' service to members seeks to develop a broader understanding of FHA and GI. as rvell as conventional, financing.
With representatives of FHA, VA, mortgagees and builders as members of the panel, complete discussion of all facets of everyday financing problems will be provided. The clinics are under the overall supervision of V. O. "Bud" Stringfellor,r' and under personal direction of Hugh Askeu-, director of NAHB's mortgage finance department.
The National Gypsum Company's estimated $6 million development of its new Nova Scotia gypsum deposits, largest yet discovered in North America, u'i1l be ready for full scale quarrying operations by the spring of 195.5.
Melvin H. Baker, board chairman, said the ner,v mineral reserves would supply the company's needs at its four Atlantic Seaboard plants for at least 200 years. The Halifax development is part of a four-year, $37 million expansion program scheduled for completion by mid-1958.
The National Gypsum Company manufactures under the Gold Bond trademark a variety of building materials including such gypsum products as wallboard, lath, plaster and sheathing.
With 53 years of service to the lumber industry, one of the south's leading lumbermen, Ben A. Mayhew, retired last month as president of the Fordyce Lumber Company, Fordyce, Arkansas. He was succeeded bv E. C. Gates.
The retirement came as Mr. Mayhew completed 50 years of service with the Fordyce company. Edward C. Crossett, chairman of the board, announced the retirement at a commemorative dinner for Mayhew at Santa Barbara, California, July 20.
"While Mr. Mayhew is retiring from active day-to-day management of the company, he will continue to serve at a policy-making level on the board of directors," the announcement said. He will also continue to serve on the board of directors and as a vice-president of the Crossett Company, an organization affiliated with the Fordyce Company.
Ben Mayhew was first introduced to the lumber industry in 1901 when he became a stenographer, bill clerk and general office man with the Forest Hardwood Manu-
facturing Company in Little Rock. That December he moved to the Amos Kent Lumber & Brick Company at Kentwood, La., and, after seven months, he moved to a better position with the Gifford Lumber Company, Gifford, Ark. The Globe Lumber Company at Yellorv Pine, f,a., was the place of his next employment and then he moved to the Trinity County Lumber Company at Groveton, Texas. When he left there in July of 1904 he became a stenographer for the Fordy.ce Lumber Company. Here he remained for 50 years, serving in more than half a dozen capa,cities.
In 1925 Mayhew became assistant manager of the Fordyce Company, and 10 years later moved up to acting manager when D. C. Gates lesigned as manager. In January, 1936, he was made manager, the fifth person to hold that title in the history of the company.
When he moved into the manager's chair, he had long been acquainted with all phases of operations. Nearly I 5 years before he had taken over the purchase of land and timber for the company, and during the time he rvas charged with this responsibility, both the land and the board feet of timber were more than doubled.
In 794I-42 he also served as acting manager of the Crossett Lumber Company. It was in 1950 that Ben IVlayhew was elected president of the Fordyce Company. He is a member of the board of directors and a vice-
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president of the Fordyce Bank & Trust Company and president of the Princeton Railroad Company. But he had not devoted all his time to his job. He-*as a recognized civic leader. He organized the Fordyce Chamber of Commerce ancl served as its president. He is a charter member of the Rotary club and past president. He currently heads the Fordyce School Board and country club ancl he served as alderman for 38 years. He is also active in Masonry and has filled all the stations of his lodge.
Professional organizations, too, have claimed his attention In 1936 he rvas elected president of the National C)ak Flooring Manufacturers Association. He l-ras headed the Keep Arkansas Green Association and is current president of the Southern Pine Inspection Bureau. He is a member of Hoo-Hoo_
Newest sales tool for the retail paint dealer is a booklet featuring in full color a selection of outstanding kitchen decorative schemes from 10 of the country,s most popular and authoritative home de.corating magazines. Titled ,,A Portfolio of Colorful Kitchens," the l2-page booklet is made available to paint and paint accessory manufacturers for distribution to their dealers.
Available for supplementary store and u,indorv display are four-color, poster-size (IU,x22,,) enlargements of each of the 10 colorful kitchens. Similar posters have proved most effective in the stimulation of retail paint sales, according to Arcl.rer-Daniels-Midland Co., originator of the Weck-End Decorator program.
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More than one hundred years ago, a young Scotchman named David Douglas felt the call of the West and voyaged to the Pacific Northwest. Douglas was a naturalist and, in the woods of Oregon, he found a naturalist's paradise. Among the wonders that he saw in that virgin forest was a tree that interested him and those that came after him. He thought it was some new kind of Pine. It was like a Fir in the flexible quality of its needles; like a Spruce in its habit of bearing cones that hang downward from the twigs; like a Hemlock in the way its twigs droop; and like a Pine in the appearance of the wood. No wonder it puzzled David Douglas.
Then the United States Forest Service called it officially Douglas Fir, and a memorial to the young explorer who was so interested that he told the world about it.
Federal National Mortgage Association's funds available for the purchase of additional mortgages increased during the month of May by 921,000,0@-the first increase in FNMA's uncommitted funds in almost two years-FNMA President J. S. Baughman stated in his monthly report to Administrator Albert M. Cole of the Housing and Home Finance Agency.
The monthly report also showed that FNMA during the month of May sold 3981 mortgages in the gross amount of $30,000,000.
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The story of west coast logging and lumbering, from early bull team'days in the 1880's to modern tree farm operations, is recounted in an hour-long color film recently completed for Schafer Brothers Logging Co.. Aberdeen, Wash.
Using sketches, still Pictures and narration to bring long-gone scenes back to life, the picture carries through to present truckrailroad timber harvesting operations and manufacturing of lumber and shingles at the firm's GraYs Harbor plants.
Informal scenes show John, Carl, Ed, Maurice, Francis and Gerald Schafer, grandsons of the founclers, discussing Present oPerations and plans for the Schafer Tree Farn-r overlooking the SatsoP ValleY spot where John and Anna Schafer settlecl in 1880. Several years after settling there, John Schafer and his sons Peter, Hubert ancl Albert sold their first logs -choice Douglas fir-for $2.50 a thousand delivered at tidewater.
Narration for the fihn is by Stewart Holbrook, noted Portland author.
Vincent E. Sheridan has been appointed sales manager of the Norton Door Closer Company Division of The Yale & Towne Manufacturing ComPanY, it was announced by Samuel F. Rolph, general manager.
Sitka spruce rn'as introduced into Great Britain in 1831 and adopted as a forest tree 50 years later.
Washington, D.C.-Favorable military appraisal has been given the new all-wood Army truck bodies developed and constructed at the laboratory of Timber Engineering Company, research affiliate of Nationai Lumber'Manufacturers Association, in cooperation r,'"'ith the Army's Ordnance Department and Corps of Engineers, according to C' A' Rishell, TECO's director of research.
Three different prototype bodies, each incorporating the latest techniques in gluing, laminating, and preservative treating, have successfully completed 14 months of rigorous road tests at the Army's Aberdeen (Md.) Proving Ground'
The all-wood truck bodies, an innovation in military vehicle construction, were developed by the lumber industry as a contribution to national preparedness and conservation of forest resources. They are designed for mass production by existing furniture and woodworking facilities.
Successful results with the military truck bodies have prompted the hardwood industry to launch the development of all-wood commercial truck bodies at the TECO laboratory, for which plans are underwaY.
Mathis Hardwood Sales, Oakland, will represent \\reber Veneer & Ply'ivood Co. in Northern California, announces Bob Mathis. The manufacturer of hardrvood plyu'ood and veneers is located in Shawano, Wisconsin. The Ntathis frrm took on the Weber account effective July l.
Le.on Thomas, Supervisor of the Mendocino Nationel Forest, with headquarters at Willows, was transferred to the Sierra National Forest early in July, announced Regional Forester Clare Hendee. Thomas will fill the vacancy created at Fresno by the promotion of Supervisor Byron Beattie to assistant chief of fire control in the Washington Office of the Forest Service.
Robert E. Dasmann, assistant supervisor of the Sequoia National Forest, is being promoted to the Mendocino post, succeeding Thomas. Dasmann has served as assistant supervisor of the Tahoe National Forest and in various other capacities on the Eldorado and I-assen National Forests, as well as in the San Francisco timber management headquarters.
Security Royal Dutch Paint Manufacturing Company is now offering a perfe,cted Redwood Finish with SRO-101 added, which fortifies the original product to protect the natural beauty of Redwood from destructive ultra-violet rays of the sun. It also in'creases protection against rain and weather.
Security Royal Dutch is made of only heat-treated pure oils, contains no resin. With SRO-101, it is claimed to be the perfected redwood finish which can expand and contract without cracking. The manufacturer can supply the product in barrels, five-gallons, gallons, quarts and pints to retail dealers.
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Urbana-Champaign, I1l.A non-technical primer on framing a house-building its skeleton-has been prepared by the University of Illinois Small Homes Council to help homeou,ners recognize and appreciate the various approved methods of construction. The S-page circular, "\\rood Framing," tells advantages and disadvantages of tlvo 'rvall and five roof-framing systems. It also presents cost information resulting from a study sponsored by the federal Housing and Home Finance AgencY.
Among suggestions: "The most economical spacing for roof members is 24 inches.
"A flat roof of joist construction is the most economical roof construction, but recluires a central-bearing rn''all'
"For a global-roofed house, truss construction is more economical than rafter-and-joist construction.
"For truss construction, a house rvidth of 24 leet is the rnost economical span. If a wider span is used, the cost of exterior r,valls may be cut, but this saving is reduced by increased gable-end and roof-framing costs.
"An increase in spacing betr,l'een primary framing members reduces the square-foot cost of the bare framing' This saving, horvever, is quickly lost u'hen the necessary coverings for the rvide spacing are added, due to the fact that heavier rnaterials must be used for sheathing a ceiling'"
Single copies of the circular, prepared by Willard Worth, are free from the Small Homes Council, University of Iilinois, IJrbana, Ill., until Sept. 1, after rvhich they rvill be 10 cents.
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Sun King Aluminum Awning Co., of Fontana, California, is offering an all new, completely packaged, all aluminum awnirrg for patios, trailers, porch covers or carports for the evergrowing do-it-yourself market.
Sun King All Aluminum Awnings come completely packaged, n'itl.r 11sxyy rigid pipe bracing--all supports are attached with no cornplicated parts to worry about. Two people can assemble the entire unit in 25 minutes. The awnings are precision engineered and manufactured to last a housetime and are made from heavy 2O-guage embossed aluminum, afforcling maximum strength throughout the entire awning.
All awnings come in three standard lengths-8,6,,, 10,6,,, and l2'6"-sections lap 5,4,' in width, can be extencled trt any width in these multiples. Special sizes are made by request. It is claimed the awnings will not rust, sag or bend. They blend with any decor and come completely packaged with easy-to-follow instructions. The Sun King Company is nolv lining up dealers and distributors.
Jay Holmes, president of Hardrvood Flush l)oor Company, Los Angeles, spent several days early in July in the San Joaquin Valley calling on friends and business associates. He spent most of his time r.vith George euinif, owner of the Sequoia Door Company, porterville, rvho heads the firm that manufactures some of the products distributed by Holmes in Southern California.
Oregon and Washington lead the nation in the vast quantities of "Material X," an amazing substance found within their borders.
Material X, which renews itself almost as rapidly as man uses it, and for which new uses are constantly found, could be one of man's greatest boons and benefactors.
Material X has g'reat natural strength and it is competitive in price with other materials intended for the same use. Its resilience permits it to absorb shocks which might rupture other materials, It has natural insulating qualities'
It can be produced in large sizes when large sizes are
needed. It can be as readily worked into items of exceptional delicacy. It stands up ruggedly gnder abuse. When protected from moisture, it will last indefinitely' Left in its natural state, it ofiers an infinite variety of beautiful patterns. Painted, it presents a smooth, attractive, enduring surface. Its cellular structure causes it to absorb and deaden sound. It responds to the simplest of tools, and may be used repeatedly. It is relativelv light in weight.
If Material X suddenly came from the researcher's laboi'atories or out of scientists' test tubes and crucibles and retorts, it would be acclaimed by all the world as the greatest discovery of man since the wheel.
The average Oregonian and Washingtonian is so familiar with it and takes it so for granted as a very part of his daily life, he probably didn't recognize this description of the most plentiful of all natural resources of this region, the amazing substance called wood-Material X.
R. F. Morse, Longview, chairman of Industrial Forestry Association, said we too often forget what a '"r'onderfttl substance wood really is.
The age of wood has lasted longer than any other epic era in man's history. Wood was the first material used by primitive man to feed his open fire and provide a protection for his cave front from animals and cold. Throueh the ages, wood has been man's best friend.
As tools r,vere improved and man progressed through the stone age, the bronze age, and as he learned more of the flexibility of wood, his homes became larger and more sturdy. He started to build churches and multi-story structures.
Wood is the oldest building material, Morse points out, and yet the newest. He calls attention to the vast quantities of wood used in contemporary homes and structures by the most advanced designers and architects as proof that wood is still the most flexible of all materials and the only natural resource that renews itself.
The nation still uSes about as much wood as it did a century ago, Morse stated, but it has found thousands of new uses rvhile giving up some of its familiar and traditional oldtime ones. Best of all, the forest leader exclaimed, is the fact that timber is growing under consciously applied forest practices today just about as rapidly as man is using it. The time will come in the near future rvhen managed forest lands of the nation will produce even more rvood than is currently being used.
Charles A. Bowser, director of the underwriting division of the Federal Housing Aclministration, announcecl that an engineering bulletin is being issued by FHA to all insuring offices, indicating ,,the structural accepta_ bility of the special method of construction involved" in the Lu-Re-Co Panel System.
Pending receipt of the bulletin by FHA local and district offices, the Washington offices will issue instructions to its various field offices, "upon request,,, that houses utilizing the Lu-Re-Co system of construction be approvecl by such state offices as requested.
The Lu-Re-Co Panel System is the name of the new building system based on pre-cut and pre-assembled wall panels and truss rafters, developed by the Lumber Dealers Research Council. Its engineering principles were researched by the Small Homes Council of the University of Illinois, at Champaign-Llrbana.
It is claimed by the council that this system can help contractors build quality engineered houses and cut erec_ tion time and, by coordination betu'een lumber dealer and builder, competition of factory-built prefabs can be met and beat since the Lu-Re-Co panel Systembuilt on simple jigs in the lumb'eryardgives both speedy erec_ tion and flexibility of design and workmarrshlp.
This exotic corner, developed from Tonguile Ribbon Sliced Plywood, cut into lorge squores. By olterloiilg the squores veriicolly ond horizontolly, using BAYLAUN No. 190 Round os o ponel divider, qn interesting originol effect is ochieved.
Chicago, ll1.: The $400,000 hardwoods exhibit at Chicago's w'orlcl-famous Nluseum of Science and Industry has proved one of the outstanding tourist attractions in the Windy City' This industry-sponsored project has been a "must" for tourists, vacationers and students since its opening in March, 1953' During 14 months of operation, the exhibit has been viewed by nearly 2,500,000 personstwo-thirds from outside the Chicago area, according to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association.
Covering about 10,000 square feet, an area equal to the floor space in 10 to 12 average-size houses, the exhibit con-
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tains dramatic examples of the hundreds of ways in which hardwoods serve the nation's population. Numerous audience participation units, action displays, movies,. recordings, and lavish use of lights and color add interest to the exhibit. Couples pl.anning to build a new house, or rernodel an old one, find a wealth of new ideas on how they can irnprove their homes with hardwoods.
A hit with youngsters and adults alike is the Hall ,of Harclwoods, which contains full-size 3-D color scenes from the life of Skeezix, the popular comic strip character, which trace the influence of hardwoods on-Skeezix's life from the time he was found in an elm basket on a wooden cloorstep to the time he and Nina shopped for furniture for their new home.
Equally popular with the younger set is a special room in which America's woodland folklore comes to life. This room, finished like the interior of a log cabin, is constructecl at a tipsy angle to give the i,mpression it is being tilted by Paul Runyan, legendary hero of the lumber industry. Bunyan's seven-foothigh face peers through one of the windows while he tells tall tales of his experiences in the northwoods during pioneer days'
The first display that greets visitors to the exhibit is a huge "talking l1ss"a stately white oak which, through a recording, explains how a tree lives and grows. The physical makeup of the tree is illustrated by ingenious use of lights and drawings.
Cther highlights of the exhibit include:
1. A demonstration of how the home handyman can make beautiful and useful articles from hardwoods.
2. A wall paneled with 85 types of hardwoods, each clearly identified to show the wide variety available to the consumer'
3. Scale models of a sawmill, veneer mill and plywood plant that simulate actual operations of these facilities while a soundcolor movie is projected in the background.
4. A large globe encircled with a band of 48 different wood panels, each rvith a pushbutton. Visitors can press these buttons and light up tiny pinlights on the globe inclicating the native locale of each hardwood species.
5. The "of6ce of 2,000 A.D.," which illustrates the beauty and utility of hardwoods in business places. An executive's desk in the office features dropleaf sides that raise to form a 1O-person conference table, and convenient top-of-the-desk storage bins that disappear into the desk to leave a flat working surface.
Other displays show how hardwoods may be used in every
room oi the home-for flooring, furniture, paneling and scores of other items.
Also featured in the exhibit are displays of the adhesives and other raw materials that go into the manufacture of furniture and hardwood plywood, the role of hardwoods in modern warfare and defense, a history of hardwoods dating back to the days l'hen the Egyptian Pharaohs first usecl plyu'ood and veneers, and reforestation practices designed to insure a perpetual supply of hardu'ood timber.
The exhibit is sponsorecl by more than 175 individual firms and lurnber industry associations srrch as the Fine Hardwoocls Association, Hardwood Plywood Institute, Natior.ral H:rrtlwood Lumber Association, American Mralnut N'fanufacturers Association, Mahogany Association, Birch Club, National Oak Flooring X,fanufacturers Association, Maple Flooring Manufacturers Association, and Wood Oftice Furniture Institute.
Regional Forester Clare Hendee has been informed that Kenneth Parker, who was selected to be the chief of range management for the California region, is ill at his home in \Alashington, D.C. To permit Parker every opportunity and sufficient time to completely regain his health, Reginald M. DeNio has been appointed to the California range managerrent position, being transferred from the Colville National Forest, Colville, Washington, where he has been forest supervisor.
Roswell Leavitt, supervisor of the Trinity National Forest, will take over the supervisorship of the Colville National Forest, effective July 18. Norman Dole, resource staff offrcer at \\reaverville, has been designated as acting forest supervisor.
" For6r6, 42 yadt we hove been furnishing custom msda VENEERED DOORS, SIAB DOORS, PANET DOORS cnd SfORE DOORS-cny size, thicknerr or detqil-to rhe Reroil lumber Dealars of Southern Cqlifornia exclusively. fhe mony ifems we furnish oro cuslomcr plecsers -cnd mighry profitoble to hcndle, too.,,
Leo V. Bodine, Executive Vice President of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, urged Congress to authorize the expenditure of at least $45 million over a two-year period for the construction and maintenan(:e of timber access roads in the national forests.
At the same time Mr. Bodine called for stepped up road construction by private timber operators. He said more access roads are needed to speed the harvesting of billions of board feet of over-aged and damaged federal timber.
The NLMA official stated that a shortage of these roads may cause an estimated $30 million worth of national
forest timber to be lost to windstorms, insect and disease infections that developed during 1949-51.
In testimony before the House Public Works Committee, Mr. Bodine threu' the lumber industry's suppori behind the timber access roads provisions of a federal-aid highway bill offered bv Chairman McGregor (R) Ohio.
NfcGregor's bill rvould keep the U. S. Forest Service roads and trails authorization at its present annual level of $22.5 million during each of the fiscal years 1956 an<l 1957. The measure also 'r'r'ould retain the requirement in the present larv that adt'isory public hearings must be held on the construction and repair of timber access roads.
Mr. Bodine declared: "The government and private operators must rvork together in solving the problem of providing access to the large reservoirs of over-ripe, dead and dying government timber in many areas of the West. They must pool their financial resources, their efiorts. and their know-hou'. They must cooperate to the end that these tremendously valuable timber resources may nr-rt be lost to the economy.
"f n some areas old and deteriorating timber of the national forests is norv being replaced with vigorous voullg stands through proper cuttir-rg. But there still remain vast forest areas and billions of board feet of virgin timber rvhich is going downhill so fast that it is a matter of grave concern. Timber access roads are the key to the solution of this problem."
Mr. Bodine said that each year about 1.5 billion board feet of valuable timber is not being cut from the nationzrl forest for lack of access roads. He added that under intensive management present national forest timber production could be almost doubled.
Mr. Bodine insisted that the need for expensive timbersalvage and insect-control programs, nolv being undertaken in various parts of the West, could have been averted if sufficient roads had been constructed to permit regular harvesting of tlie timber on a rotation llasis. Hc stated :
"Timber access roads are an econoln)' nteasure rvhich not only pay their rvay by opening up the valuable timber resources, but also provide a means of saving large sums of money that otherwise u'ould have to be expended later for insect and disease control."
The lumber spokesman continued: "We ltelieve that mainline timber access roads constructed from appropri;r-
tions for forest roads and trails should be those roads which cannot be quickly and adequately financed by tim_ ber operators. They should be roads located and designed with the primary purpose of removing over-ripe and otherwise mature national forest timber. Road engineer- ing standards should be flexible anrl practicable ancl load limits established to permit maximum operating economies.
"Adr.isory public hearings should be held so that the public can see to it that it receives the most of its timber access road investment. We believe that the authorization ol $22.5 million is a minimum amount vvhich (together with unused amounts of past authorizations ancl allocations from the lo-per-cent-of-receipts fund) rvoulcl" pro- vide for reasonably adequate federal financial participa- tion in the huge government-private road building job that is so urgently needed.
"The construction of timber access roads by the federal government is not a gratuity to the timber operator who uses such roads and buys government timber marle accessible thereby. Timber access roads inct'ease the value of tributary timber. When the timber is sold and paid for, the government recovers the cost of the road. The U. S. Treasury also receives substantial revenues from the sale of this timber over and above the cost of the road. There are very few expenditures made by the tederal government that have such self-liquidating features."
Phil Gosslin, Gosslin-Harding Lumber Co., Walnut Creek, spent the second week of July calling on mill connections in Northern California.
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Simpson Logging Cornpany, Shelton, Wash., has become sales representative for the distribution o{ Kimsul insulation in 11 u''estern states, rvest Texas. and parts of Canada and'Alaska, following an agreement signed rvith the Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Neenah, Wis., manufacturer of Kimsul.
Simpson norv rvill make all contacts rvith 'tvestern distributors and dealers handling Kimsul, rvith 15 experienced fielcl men servicing the area formerlv handled directly by Kimberly-Clark salesmen. The result rvill be more specialized service and increased selling aid for Kimsul dealers and distributors, for eacl-r Simpson field man is supported by a merchandising stafi specializing in insulation products.
Fresh sales programs are being designed by Kimsul' based heavily on its value as a "Do-It-Yourself" insulating product and its appeal as a customer "take-u'itl.r" iten.r' Kimsul's feature as a compressed insulation lvhich costs less for dealers to ship, store, and handle also rviil be emphasized.
Simpson is one of the nation's oldest lumber and n'ciod products companies, \'ith vears tlf experience in insttlating bc,ard, sheathing and allied items' The \\'ashington firm lt,ttg has been a manttfacturer of some building prodrrcts and a rlistributor of "specialties" through $'hoiesalers.
salers as u,ell as through the present distributors of Sim son specialty lines. The agreement was completed by Henry Bacon Jr., vice-president and general ntanager Simpson, and H. l). Westler, western representative Kimberlv-Clark. at San Francisco.
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Dubs. Ltd., members and guests, 35 strong, turned out for the 72nd Dubs tournanlent July 1(r at the Meadon's Ciub, Fairfax. In addition to the usual tournament and banquet, this meeting featured election of nen' officers and directors, u,ho u'ill be steering the Dubs club for the coming year.
Del Travis, outgoing president, presided e1,s1 .r large banquet ttlrnout at the N{eadou's and then turned over the gavel to Tonr Jacobser-r of the Sun Vallev l-umber Co., the neu' club president.
(ltl.rer neu. offrcers elected s'ere : Hank Needham, vicepresident ; Jim Rossman, secretary-treasurer; Bert Hassellrerg, lst sergeant-at-arms, and Granville Geisert,Znd sergeant-at-arm s.
f)irectors for the coming 1'ear rr'il1 be F'rank Brou'n, Iiv Len'is. Chet Dennis, Jim Hall. Jr., Fred Ziese, Hollis Jones, Norr.n N'Iiller. Tom Corbett and Bill Bonnell.
\\-inners of the afternoon's tournament took their b<lu's as follon s :
First Flight, lon' gross, John Jensn'old (70) ; second lon'gross, Chet Dennis (71);lou-net. Don Kesselring (67); and second lol' net. \\Iayne Rau'lings (69)'
Kimsul rr,i11 be distr.buted, henceforth, in most \\rest coast areas tl-irough Kimlterly-clark's established NholeRepresenting on a wholesale, direct mill shipment basis some of the older and better Fir and Pine
Second Flight, lou' gross. Leo Cheim, |r. (83) ; second
lorv gross, John Frey (90) ; lorv net, E,rnie Bacon (69) ; and second lou' net tiecl three u'a1,'s betn'een Tom Jacclbsen, Bob Bonner and Granville Geisert at an uneven 71. Guest Flight honors were copped by Ellsn'orth Keene. California Mill & Lumber Co.. C)akland.
The I)ave Davis trophv \\'as presentecl by (of course)
I)ave Davis to the member tr.ho had the lon'est net for the best five games during the past clult year-llert Hasselberg, recipient of that prize rr'ith an enviable score of 325.
The next Dubs, I-td., tournament l'ill be plal-ed at the I)eninsula Goif and Countrv Club. San NIateo, cln Friday, August 20. Johnny Frev u,ill be host for the day at that meei.
San Francisco, Calif.-Appointment of the North Coast Mercantile Company of Eureka, Calif., as u.holesale agent of Westinghouse electrical apparatus, !\'as announced by Walter J. N{aytham, Pacific Coast vice president of the \\restinghouse E,lectric Corporation. The Eureka firn.r r,l'ill serve industries and contractors in Humboldt anrl Del Norte counties of northern California and Curry County, Ore.
\\rashington-I)avicl A. Norcross, 29-year-old armr- ofhcer u'ith Korean \\'ar service, has been promoted to assistant sales manager of Timber Engineering Companv, research alfiliate of the National l-umber Nfanufacturers .\ssociation, announced Harrv G. Uhl, company president.
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San Francisco-Conserving our forest resources at their point of origin and increasing the utilization of r,vood by developing a "conservation consciousness" in the consumer is the purpose of three consumer leaflets and one retail one just published by the California Itedwood Association.
Urgrng the use of the lowest grades and shortest lengths of lumber in order to utilize more of the tree and extend the life oi old-growth timber is the theme of the leaflets, r,r'hich are being distributed through redwood mills.to retailers in the larger cities of the country. In doing this, there will be more volume sales to the retailer, more savings to the consumer, and better conservation of our forest lands.
To the consumer, the leaflets deftly point out that the shorter lengths and lower grades are better suited to some jobs than the long, clear lumber, and at the same time are a fraction of the cost.
The Common grades of redwood have many of the same desirable properties as the upper grades' For uses around the home and particularly in the garden, common grades are an excellent choice. At the same time, "No. 1 Shop" redwood is available in standard lumber widths and thicknesses, yet is much less expensive than long pieces of redwood. And by planning work projects, every piece
of wood can be used.
The leaflet directed solely at the retailer shon's these same facts, and asks that he make a greater effort to acquaint his customers with the desirable properties of Shorts, Shop and Commons. It urges him to advise the buying of the shortest length and lowest grade that will do the job.
The CRA leaflets state that if the home carpenter rn'ill use shorts and commons where he can, buying full-length clear lumber only when he actually needs it, the lumber on the market will find itsef in more complete use, less trees rvill be felled annually to supply the demand made upon industry.
Publication of the U.S. Government Purchasing Directory, the first complete guide to military and civilian purchasing activities of the federal government, was announced by Wendell B. Barnes, administrator of the Small Business Administration. It lists some 4,000 classes of commodities covering the more than 5,000,000 items purchased by both military and civilian agencies, and makes it easy for the businessman to learn who in the federal government, biggest buyer in the world, buys what, and where.
The 9?-page directory is on sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Washington 25, D.C., for 50 cents. It is designed as a companion to SBA's U.S. Government Specifications Directory, now being revised, and which will be available soon'
Portland, Ore.-West Oregon Lumber Co., Linnton, Ore., another of the Portland-Longvierv area's major oceanshipping mills, will not reopen at the conclusion of the current AFL-CIO millrvorkers' strike. The announcement came from the mill's directors last month.
The recent sale of the Inman-Poulsen Lumber Co. to Georgia-Pacific Plvu'ood Co. was expected to lead to the closing of the large I-P sa.n'mill in Po.rtland. At Longview, M and M Wood Working Co. has closed its plyr.vood plant and sold an option to Long-Bell Lumber Co., rvhich rvill modernize and reopen if it decides to buy. All three operations suffered in recent years from long log hauls. Both of the latter deals were reported in recent issues of THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT.
West Oregon's official statement said the principal reason for the dissolution rvas failure to obtain an adequate loe supply at prices rvhich rvould permit the company to operate at a profit. Its mill operation was started in 1911 at Clatskanie. Prior to World War II the plant was turning out 700,000 board feet a day. Just before the strike, it rvas producing about i75,000 feet daily.
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Washington-Two decades of lumber and wood product developments, through engineering and research, feature the nelv 16mm, sound-color motion picture, .,Coming Out of the Woods," just released for general distribution to industrial, professional, and civic organizations, by Timber Engineering Company, research affiliate of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association.
The film depicts modern applications of engineered tim_ ber construction that range from homes, churches, schools and small industrial buildings, to gigantic industrial structures covering 28 acres.
G. J. Morgan, formerly vice president in charge of mer_ chandising, has been appointed vi,ce president-assistant to the chairman of the board, of United States Gypsum Com_ pany, it is announced by C. H. Shaver, board chairman.
A. J. Watt, formerly merchandise manager of dealer sales, has been promoted to general merchandise manager, and G. V. Lane, dealer sales manager of the South pacific division, has been promoted to merchandise manager of dealer sales.
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The Duro Metal Products Company of Chicago, large manufacturer of hand and power tools, has developed a brand new po\\rer tool workshop idea. It was introduced in a press preview at the Statler hotel, Los Angeles, July 15, following a Iuncheon for dealers and local writers.
For the first time, Duro representatives said, woodworkers will be able to own a complete workshop of individual single purpose tools at a budget price. The heart of this new workshop idea is a new patented "quick-change" motor mount attachment which permits one motor to operate any number of full size tools with a changeover that only takes ten seconds.
The entire shop is composed of five "most used" power tools, including an 8" Tilting Arbor Saw,4f" Jig Saw, 14" Drill Press, and a 27" Gap Lathe. As an entire shop, each of these units is equipped with the special motor mounting device that permits the rapid motor changeover. In addition to the five basic workshop units, Duro has included optional units which can be added to the basic workshop or can be purchased in place of any of the basic units within the shop itself. The optiorial units include a 10." Band Saw,6" Sander, a larger 10' x 31" Lathe, 5" x 6" Jointers. Rugged wood top tool stands are also available.
Professional craftsman and do-it-yourself handymen have recognized the superiority of working on individual tools but the rise in motor costs has posed a problem to prospective workshop owners. The new Duro "motorizing principle" combines the low cost of a one motor set-up plus the advantages of individual full size power tools. The "quick change" motor
Kamiah, Idaho-Cattle and trees. That's what the Western Pine Region's 500th Tree Farm grows. Wayne Randall, a 37-year-old farmer, was one of 40 forest land ()wners in the Kamiah country to have his woocled property certified as a !\'estern Pine Tree Farm early in June. His was the 500th tree farm to be brought under the tree farm banner in the l2-state Western Pine Region.
Randall has been farming his 752-acre place for a little over three years. He raises Hereford cattle-he runs al;out 85 head-and rotates his field crops in hay and grain. And now, with 520 acres of his land forested with old growth Ponderosa Pine and Douglas Fir, he plans to grow trees as a continuotls crop, while at the same time growing forage for his stock.
mount which has been developed after many years of researrh enables the power tool user to bring the motor to the tool quickly and easily instead of attempting to bring the tool to the motor. The Duro Nlaster Power Tool Workshop can bc "built up" a unit at a time. It can be started with any single unit or any combination of units to suit a particular budget or need-with the option of purchasing additional units later as desired.
The Duro \{aster Workshop of five individual full size tools, less rnotor and stands, will retail for $239.95.
On the night of July 12, fire swept much of the big Southern Pine sawmill plant of the Angelina County Lumber Company, at Keltys, Texas, destroying about $750,000 worth of property. 'lhe sawmill, planer, power plant and offrce "vei'e saved, but four million feet of sawn lumber, the dry kilns, and all their big sheds went up in smoke. Ernest I-. Kurth is the veteran l.read of Angelina.
Charlie Peirce returned July 2O from a business tour of Texas, where he serviced present accounts and opened up scne new territory for Lumber Service Co. of Burbank' Calif. Peirce covered most of the state on his July jauntPaul Hollenbeck is the owner of Lumber Service Co., rvhich lvorks rn'ith retail lumber dealers in Sottthern California and 'Iexas.
tf it comes from o lree I con furnish il. Coll me collect for onylhing. Hqrdwoods in Cor loods or LCI oul of L. A. Don'l hestilqle to bother mg-l \^tq6f io be BOTHERED.
Ilaxco Corporation has completed u.ork on its n.oo<l preserr-ation l)ressure treating plant at The I)alles, Ore ., makirrg this instiLllation one of tire most mocler-n and r-ersatile plants ir-r the U.S. This plant. originallr- constructe<1 in 1923 by the Union Pacific, rr-as rebrrilt in 1933 after being practicallv destroyecl by fire.
Baxco also has:i rvel1-ecluipped franring var<l for the ltrefabric:ition of 'lumber, timber ancl poles prior to treatment and is also erlrrippecl to full-lerrgth machine incise poles and piling as n.ell as lumber. Facilities h:rve nol' been added u'hich permit pressrlre treatnrent l-ith pentachloropl.renol and chemonite in addition to creosote :tnci creosote mixtures.
.\dditional facilities adrled to iiccommt>tlate preserr.lrtive trea.tlnents include a l)ressure treating c;-lincler, \\'irrehouse, tank farm and storage tanks. The nen' cylinder gives the plant a totzrl retort caltacitv of 25,000 cubic: feet or the erluivalent of about 9.5,000,000 lroard feet of pressure treated railroad ties a r-e:rr.
Baxco supplies large rlrrantities of cross ties, su'itch ties, poles, piling, posts, fabricated bridge timl;ers and inmber pressure treated to customers' specifications. This plant. located on the Oregon side of the Columbia Rir.er, transits shipments betrn'een the coast region, u-l.rich produces the rnajor portion of I)ouglas fir materials, ancl the miclrl'est and eastern markets.
Albert NI. Cole. HHF-{ Adrrinistrator, announced that the interest rate on ccillege housing loarrs fcrr the lteri,rd fr<rm July I to Decenr'ber 31, 195,1, u-ould be 3r/j per cent. The interest rate for l<tans under this program has been 3f per cent during the pzist tn'o 6-ntontl.r peri<irls.
Cole also announced that the administrative deterntir.ration as to "generally comparal)le terms" uncler Title I\,r n'as being changed from 1/10 ol one per cent to f <f one per cent.
C. B. Ranrsey, left, szrles man:rger for Ready Hung Door N{anufacturing Co. of Southern California, announces the appointr-r-rent of H. Cl. Falkell, Pieclmont, Calif., as northerrr representative for the pacliaged door units.
The hear')'volurne of incluiries fronr brrilders in the Ray area made necessary the Northern Cali fornia expansion progranl, Ilamsev said.
'fhe transfer of six national forest sullervisors in the California regior.r of the forest service \\'as to be macle about Jtrly 1, according to Regional Forester Clare Hendee.
P;rul W. Stathern, assistant in the Division of Informatirin ar.rcl liclucation, San Francisco, will be the new supervisor of the Shasta National Forest. The vacancy in the San Francisco office is to be fillecl by William F. Fischer, former supervisor of the Six Rivers National Forest, Eureka. Wesley W. Spinney of Placerville, supervisor of the Eldoraclo National Forest, is to take over the Six Rivers National Forest post. The vacancy at Placerville will be filled by Guerrlon Ellis, forrler supervisor of the Tahoe National F'orest, Nevada City. I-. A. Ricliel, Jr., supervisor of Los Padres National liorest, u'ith heatlquarters at Santa Barbara, is being transferrecl to Nevada City to head up the Tahoe National Forest. Robert I'1. Jones, l)resent supervisor of Shasta National Forest, u,illfill the vacancy created at Santa Barbara.
A selection has not yet been r.nacle to filI the Fresno vacancy on the Sierra National Forest which occurred with the prornotion of Byron B. Beattie to assistant chief of fire control in \\iashington, D.C.
Ftoyd Yates, pl1-.n'ood terrtled a [amilv reunion in
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Roy Stanton, president of E. J. Stanton & Son, Inc., Southern California wholesale lumber distributors. and Mrs. Stanton returned from Europe July 20. They rvere gone two months, during rvhich Mr. Stanton flerv around the rvorld and joined his wife in Naples, Ital1,. June 12.
"Mac" McCormick, Simpson Logging Co., San Francisco, recently spent a week calling on representatives in Oklahoma, and also teamed up rvith Kent Merrill (Simpson's new Kansas City representative) to make some calls in New Orleans.
Jack Pollard, head man of the Southr,vest l)ly,lvood Corp., I-os Angeles, spent part of last month on a combinecl business and fishing trip to the Pacific Northn'est. While there he visited the Elliott Bay Mill, Seattle, manufacturers of Raylaun Philippine Mahogany products. and M and M mills in Portland. He reports fishing lousy but the firms visited nake excellent ltlyu'oocl products.
Lloyd Hecathorn, Arcata Lumber Sales Co., returned tcl San Francisco in mid-July after a lveek's stav at the -\rcata Redwood Co. mill, rvhere he revierved production.
Pi Bliss,,\nderson-Hans()n Lumber Con.rpan,y executir.e, Studio City, California, accompanied bv his u,ife and familir, spent the month of July on a combined business and pleasure trip in the Pacific Northrvest. While arvav he called on business associates in Portland, Eugene and X{edford. Oregon, and visited relatives in Northern California.
Frank Cabrera, formerly with the E. K. Wood Lumber Company, Los Angeles, and before that engaged in construction in Honolulu, T.H., has joined the sales staff of I-umber Mill & Supply Co., Los Angeles, reports Bill Relau, Southern Caiifornia manag'er of tl.re u'holesale distribrrting firm. Caltrera was chief cost accountant for Wood and vvill also handle the office routine in his nen, berth.
Don Boyko has joined the production staff of Advertisting Associates in Fontana, Calif., announces Harry IJogan, account executive of the agency, rvhich specializes in lumber and industrial accounts in the Riverside-San Rernardino area.
Dave Davis, Simpson Logging Co., and Mrs. Davis u.ill return to the Bay area about August 5 after a trvo-rveek trip to the east. While in the east, Davis visited the Simpson Logging Co. offices in New York and Chicago.
A $100,000 blaze at the Pacific Molding & Lumber Co., Los Angeles, was battled by 50 firemen early in July. The fire, u'hich threatened three other buildings in the yard, destroyecl an entire milling plant. Irving Seidner, o\\rner, u,as unable to determine cause of the fire. About $1,000 damage rvas caused to the Carter N{ill & Lumber Co. behind the Pacific plant.
Flerman West of u'ell-earned vacation Lumber Carrier to points north Services is taking of Los Angeles.
Hugh Pessner of West Coast Timber Products Agency. San Francisco, spent a rveek calling on mill connections in Northern California during the first part of July.
Henry \Mescott has joined the sales staff of the Kochton Plywood & Veneer Company to call on dealers in the southwest section of l,os Angeles. John Walker, manag'er of the Southern California rvarehouse, said the latest addition to the staff is part of the plan to expand the local force.
John Hunter, executive manager C--o., Los Angeles, recently spent a Prne Co. mill at Oroville, and also office in San Francisco.
of Twin-City Lumber rveek at the Plumas visited the Twin-City
Hac Collins, Trvin-City Lumber Co., San Francisco, spent a week during the middle of July visiting mills at Portland, Seaside and soutl.rern Oregon.
Jack Murphy of Los Angeles Lumber Company, Inc., represer.rtatives of Fairhurst I-umber Company in Southern California, returned last month from an extended visit to Northern California mills.
Charlie Schmitt of Itlv 26 after a u'eek' Beton, Inc., returned s business trip to Los to San Francisco Angeles.
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Eureka, Calif.-New developments in forest fire prevention, cletection, and suppression were discussed at the third annual Forest Fire Roundtable held at Benbow Inn, June 12, under the sponsorship of the Redwood Region Conservation Council. The Roundtable is sponsored annually by the Council to provide discussion of common fire problems among industry, state, and federal foresters and fire fighting personnel'
Several timber operators in the Redwood Creek area northeast of Arcata have formed an informal cooperative fire fighting agreement, according to Larry Marshall, Dolly Varden Lumber Company logging manager, Arcata. Timber operators in the area exchange lists of fire fighting equipment and have an understanding to pool men and equipment in case of fire in their common area. I-ast year, Marshall said, the agreement hacl a chance to prove itself when a hot fire started on one company's land on a Sunday afternoon and was brought under control the next day through combined efforts.
Fire weather forecasts in the north coast area were recommendecl to be continued on a daily basis during the fire season by the Rouncltable participants, according to Earl l\{adray, Six Rivers National Forest dispatcher and fire weather forecaster at Eureka.
Harvey Zink, Six Rivers National Forest fire control officer at Eureka; \Alilliam Siler, State Division of Forestry ranger at Fortuna, and A. H. Merrill, Hammond Lumber Company forester at Samoa, participated in a panel discussion on fire protection problems. Stuart Schick, State Division of Forestry, Santa Rosa, presented an outline of the legal problems of a typical fire.
Improved distribution of fire prevention materials, continued anci more widespread use of aerial patrols in spotting fires, and use of prison labor camps for fire fighting personnel were discussed by the panel. Siler reported that a 30-man prison labor camp would be set up August 1 at High Rock near Garberville, to fight forest fires when needed.
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the Redwood Regional Conservation Council were reported by Fred Landenberger, RRCC field representative, Eureka' Arrangements for the Roundtable were handled by Larry McCollum, Pacific Lumber Company forester, Scotia, who is Roundtable chairman, and Nlr. Marshall, chairman of the RRC(I fire prevention committee.
The Pacific Lumber Company, Scotia. Calif', in a move to encourage forestry instruction of the highest and most useful quality, has signecl a lease with the Fortuna Union High School, granting the school a T)-acre u'orking area for their forestry field lvork. The lease covers 10 acres of selectively cut land, six acres of old-grorn'th timber, and an additional four acres of old second-grou'th' Timber cruising, scaling, line running and other operations can be carried out on the old-grorvth area, u'hile grorvth studies can be condttcted on the selectively cut lands' The lease expires Dec. 31, 1955' but the company says it plans to renerT'the lease for as long as the school desires to use the area. Technical assistance has been offered by the company. The company lease to the school is in line rvith industry policy, prompted through work of the Redrvood Region Conservation Council, to assist forestry students in gaining the knou'ledge and hrst-l.rand experience needed by tomorrou''s lumbermen'
Decoto, Calif.-A $250,000 fire July 8 destroyed a large sectiori of the 1S-acre Claude T. Lindsay Lumber Co' here,20 rniles southeast of Oakland' Fire fighting companies from several communities controlled it after two hours' A cabinet shop and another builcling were total losses' A large quantity of finished material, including window frames, cloors and cabinets, was destroyecl. The plant is both a wholesale and retail outlet. Traffic congestion, caused by 6,000 sightseers from 2.000 cars on the highway, hampered the firemen'
The Trinity and Shasta National Forests in Northern California u'ere administrati\.ely consolidated Jul1. 19 int<r a combined forest, u'ith headquarters located in Redding. acccircling to a statement just released bv Clare Hendee, regional forester of the California I{egion of the U.S. Forest Service.
The Goosenest District of the Shasta u.ill become a part of the Klamath National Forest, u.ith l.readrlrr:Lrters in Yreka, Calif. Tl-re balance of the Shasta and the Trinit,v n'il1 be con.rbined into one adminstrative unit to lte knon.n as the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. Parri \\'. Stathem, lecently named superu'isor oi the Shasta, l'ill be in charge of the neu'lv consolidated urrit. Stathem:rnd a skeleton force u'ill establisl.r the Retlding office immediatelv. The transfer of other personnel u'ill be l'orked ()ut as soon as cclnvenient.
This consoliclation is a continnation of a lorrg established policy of the Forest Serr-ice directed towar(1 providing better serr.ice to forest rlsers, says N{r. Hendee. -\t the same time, economies and efficiencv in management can be cffectecl bv reducing clverhead costs. Resultant savings u-ill be used to expand mucl.r needed fielcl operations and services.
Changing ltatterns of use, combined rvith impror.ed transportation and communications since the estaltlishn.rent of forests in the early 1900's, necessitate acljustments in national forest administration to meet present day standards o{ economy and efficiency in management of these pubiic forest lands. During the past tn'o vears, simiiar consolidations have been made in other regions r.vherebv 16 national forests have been comltined into eight administratir.e units.
Redding rvas selected as headquarters of the neu'shastaTrinitl' National Forest becanse of its grou'ing importance as the center of industry and other forest user business in Northern California. Forest Service ecluipment, supply and construction services for all of Northern California
forests are no\\' located in Redding. Existing government facilities u'il1 be used for the nen' forest headquarters. Former forest headquarters facilities at NIt. Shasta and \\ieaverville n'ill serr,'e as ranger district and project heacl(l rlarters.
The California State Board of Forestry, recognizing the public relations proltlems u'hich the timber industry of the ltedrr'oricl region has experienced in the past, has expressed to the California lledrn'ood Association its appreciation for the type of rvork and program presently being conducted ; ernd especially commended Ben Allen and his staff for their u,ork in helping to establish ancl carrv on the u'<;rk of the Re<lrvood Circles and the fire prevention u'ork o{ the ltedn'ood Region Conservation Council.
General Nfanager Philip T. Farnsrvorth of the California Redu'ood Association made the follol'ing reply:
The California Redn'ood Association and its staff cleeply aupreciate the action rvhich the State Boarcl of Forestry took at its June 25 meeting in passing the resolution commending the n'ork of the association and the Redrvood Region Conservation Council.
We consider ourselves fortunate in having had a man of Ben Allen's uniclue abilities to rvork out this program. \\'e u.ish, hou.ever, to point out that had it not been for the sympathy ancl understanding of the Board and the f)epartment of Forestry it might not have been possible to make the program succeed, let alone advance so far in so short a time.
Please convey to the board our appreciation of their action and our thanks for the verl' effective help 'rvhich thel' as individuals and as a group have given.
Don Bufkin, Southern California representative for Ilobbs \\ra11 l-umber C--ompany, San Francisco, securecl .delivery of a nerv 195.1 DeSoto from the home office.
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Wholesale lumber yard and mill, fully equipped, doing custom mi8 work for over 50 retail lumber yards in the San Gabriel Valley.
Address Box C-2L77. California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th Street, Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
LUMBER YARD FOR LEASE
Approximately 5O@0 sq. ft. with about 6,000 sq. ft. of it under cover. AT & SF RY. spur track alongside. Available in 3O days.
I-.ocated on Slauson Ave., near Normandie Avenue in Los Angeles. Now occupied by Saroyan Lumber Co. which is moving to a new location. Will lease for five years at $1O.0O per day; an extension for three additional years can be arranged for. No inventory to pufchase, This is a fine location for either retail or wholesale distribution yard.
TWOHY LUMBER CO.
LUMBER YARD AND SAWMILL BROKERS
714 West Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles 15, Calif. PRospect 8746
LUMBER YARD FOR SALE
Retail lumber yard in Van Nuys. Established 27 yeats. location. M2 Zone. Low Rent, Trucks, Equipment and $1500.00. Stock (approximately) $11,000.00.
M. E. Blasier
1mp Vag Nuys Poulevard Van Nuys, California sTate 5-4891
LUMBERYARD F'OR SALE
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Retail yard, conveniently located in the LAS VEGAS area, serve Las Vegas and Henderson, Nevada.
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5143 Alhambra Ave. Los Angeles 32, Cal. CApitol 2-8143
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ATlantic 1-3624
OVER 30 YEARS OF LUMBER EXPERIENCE
By a well rated Los Angeles wholesale lumber company, a sales rurnager. Must have a thorough knowledge of hardwoo'ds and softwoods, as well as a clientele.
Starting salary $10,000 yearly, plus a percentage of profits. A good opportunity to the right man that can qualify' All correspondence treated strictly confidential,
Address Box C-/268, California Lumber Merchant 108 W. 6th Street, Room 50B, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
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357 S(IUTH ROBERTSO]I BOUIEYARD
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BEVERLY HIILS, CALIFORI{IA
IEIEPH0]{ES: ERADSHAIY 2-2131 - CRESTYIEW 6-slfg
POSITION WANTED
F'Jeven (^l_l) years experience in retail building materials (lumber, roofing millwork,- paint, hard-ware, etc.). Expirience ."".1i" yard management, inside and _outside sales, collections, purchasing, isti_ mates from blueprints. Have worked in small ioirrtry yarts and larg_e_ metrop_olitan yards.. Presently employed. Willini to ,iio""t. in Western States with job that offers return for relia6le "orr*"i.rr- tious work. Can contact former employers for references. Age 33. Family.
Address Box C-2282, California Lumber Merchant
108 West 6th Street, Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
POSITION WANTDD
At present managing a small Ready Built factory and retail lumber -yard combination. Twenty years wholesale and retail lumber, h,ardware, paint, electrical and plumbing experience. Will considei all offers. Salary open. Best of references.
Address Box C-227a, California Lumber Merchant
1O8 West 6th Street, Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
Presently employed, experienced in purchasing, accounting, manage- ment, sales, desires progressive opportunity for utilizing ipabilitils. rrerer sales or combtnatron.
Address Box C-2283, California Lumber Merchant
108 W. 6th Street, Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
With.-l7 years experience in field sales work, sales management ard mill operationswgll acquainted with many lumber -buyerc througho-ut^ Southwest and Midwest-seeks sales oi buying arrange- rnent- and investment opportunity with progressive remanirfacturing or wholesale firm.
Address Box C-2277, California Lumber Merchant
108 West 6th Street, Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
District Sales Manager located in midwest with large west coast manufacturer seeks employment on west coast with wholesaler. Can offer many connections in midwest, south and east.
Address Box C-2272, California Lumber Merchant
fOB W. 6th Street, Room 508, Los Angeles f4, Calif.
WANTED
Industrial Salesman for Los Angeles Territory. profit sharing basis. Ed Fountain Lumber Co.
6218 So. Hooper Avenue Los Angeles 1, California
Would like to find work as salesman for retail lumber yard. Have had 18 years traveling sales experience and have oim interesi in small retail lumber yard. Have worked with large midwestern pillwork jotber.for_pasi 15 years and have consistentiy fedln safes. lJesire to live in Southern_ California; reason for leaving present em_plo;rment. I am married and have'three childre"; "--ld y""ri old. Present plans call for being in Cajlifornia the first two rieet<s in October and would appreciate an interview at that time.
Address Box C-2284, California Lumber Merchant fOB W. 6th Street, Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
-E-xpjrienced wholesale lumberman with good Los Angeles Indus- tri"l,-Furnit_ure, Sash & Door and Cabinet trade, is lookilng for good Egsition. Now_ employed with large wholesaie distribu-tion |ard. Wishes to_make change for bettef opportunity. Would like-Mill representation or wholesale yard deal. Will maki the right company a good profit on their investment.
Address Box C-2280, California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th Street, Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
Fully-qualified to take full charge of bookkeeping, pay rolls, cost acco-unting through to the net profit. Thoroughl]tfamiliai with hgur- ing lumber. Can type, and knows shorthand-.
Address Box C-2281, California Lumber Merchant 108 W. 6th St., ,Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
Lumberman with 13 years experience in Retail and Wholesale business as Salesman and Sales Manager, also 14 years exlrcrience in sawmill operations. Fully qualified to handle Administration. Office Management, Purchasing and Sales in Pine and Fir Mills or Wholesale Yard- Will consider sales position with a future.
Address Box C-2274, California Lumber Merchant 108 W. 6th Street, Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
SALESMAN WANTE"D
For Industrial Trade. Fir, Redwood and Pines. Commission with $400.00 monthly drawing account. Correspondence treated confidentially.
Address Box C-7279, California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th Street, Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif,
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Americil Foiest Produ(t: Corp. ..-..-........-*
Americon Hordwood Co, .......-..--.--.....-..---.,38
Ame.i(qn lumber & Treoting Co. ....-...---*
Americqn 5isqlkrofi Co., The ---.--....-......--*
Anderson Wholerqle Lumber Solec .-..-.----..55
Angelus Hqrdwood Co. ----.----.,.-.-....-.---.-..--56
Arcolq Redwood Co. --------..----------...---,--.--.- 48
Associofed frtolding Co.,.-.-.-..---.---.-..-------.-*
Asro(ioted Plywood Mill:, Inc. -.----..--.,1.F.C.
Atlq. lunber Co. .....-...-.....------.----..---.--,,--.-63
Boxtel & Co., J, H. -....-......---.--....----------,*
Elis: E Gotes Lumber Co. -...--..--...--......--. *
Blve Dimond Corporolion ---,-..----..-----.-...- t
Bohnhoff Lwber Co. ---------------..---..-.---......- t
Bonninglon Lumber Co. 44
Bonnell-Word & Knqpp ----.----.---.--,-.-------.-..5I
Bruce Co., E, t. ..---.---.-------.--..--.-----.---,,......18
Brssh lndurtriol Lumber Co. -,,,.-.---''-,,..-.-..59
Burns Lumber Co. -----,------,--...--,...-.,..-.---.-.--. t
Colweror Cement Co. ----.-.-,...-...-.-.,,..-.--.--.23
Cqliforniq Iumber Sqles --------..-,---,--.--..-'l
Cqlifornio Pqnel E Veneer Co, --------......-.17
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Coscode Pocific Lumber Co. ----.-----.-.......... *
Celotex Corporolion, fhe ..,--.--..,..........-..-..t*
Chontlond & As3ociqlee, P. W, -.-.,,-,--.....-55
Christen!on Lumber Co. -.--..---.---,.-.-...-...- 53
Clough fumber Co, .-,.-.---..-.....--...-.--.-------.---42
Cobb Cmpony, T. lt. --,.-.-,--..--,.. --.---.---..29
Consolidoted Iumber Co. --------,,-,----......-- 5I
Cooper Wholesqle lumber Co.. W. E. -.--., *
Cords Lumber Co.
Cros:et
C E S Lumber Co,
Dolton,
Dont E Ru33ell 5oles Co,
Dionond W. 5upply Co...,...---.,----.--.----------.
Dollor Co.. The Roberl
Dolly Vqrden Iumber
Donover Co., In(.
Douglo: Fir Plywood As:ociotion
Drokes Boy Lumber Co.
Eckrtrom Plywood & Door Co.
Em:<o Plywood
Ersley od 5on, D. C. .-------.--.----..---.------..45
Eureko Redwood Lumber Co. ......,.,,----...- 'l
Exchonge Sowmills 5oler Co. .-...-.-,-...--.-*
Foirhur.t Lumbe. Co. of Colifornio .---.-....--12
Feh Trucking Co. ---------------,---,--....------,-...... *
Fidler's Monufocturing Co. -...-....-...----.--.. *
Fir-Tex of Soulhern Cqlifornio ....-....-.---.-*
Fir-Tex .....-.-..--.-.. .---.-....-*
Fi:k & Mo:on ------,.-..-.-41
Flomer, Erik -.......--......--57
Fordyce Iumber Co. .-....----.--.--....--.-------..-*
Forest Fiber Productr Co. ---......-...-------..---. 't
FoJe.t P.oducl3 Soler Co- -...--.-------......-.-.52
Freemon E Co., Stephen G....-.-...........-...*
Golleher Hordwood Co. ...........--,-,---,--.-...--. *
Gomersron & Green Lumber Co, ----,-,,.-------6I
Gortio lrofilc Service, B. R. -,-----,--,,........ *
Gerlinger Cqrrier Co. .-....-....-.-....-....-..........44
Golden Gote Iunber Co. --...-.---..-,..--..-...-.-.41
Gosslin-Hording Icmber Co. -,---.----.-.......-.*
G.eot Bdy Lumber 9ole: ..............-.-.--...-.*
Grey-llmnion Plywood Co, .----.-,-..-....-....-'t
Holey Bror.
lumbemen's Credit A:rn., Inc. .....-,,-.-.-..- t
Lumber Mill & Supply Co. ..........-.-....-......36
Iumber Sqler Co. ..---.----.--..........-.----.--...-.-..40
MqcDonqld Co., L, W. -...--....--.---------........35
IllocDougall Door ond Frme Co. .....-......24
lrlohogony lmporling Co. ..".-......-.--------.--.. *
Mople Bros. ....--.--........-21
tilqrquq.f-Wolte Lumber Co. --,,...--..--.-.-.----'*
Morch Woll Produ(ls, InG. ----.-......... -*
Moltin Plywood Co.
Wesley Fenton Knee, 56, died July 13 in Los Angeles. He was a native of Minnesota but had lived 27 years in Southern California. where he was engaged in the lumber and hardware supply business. He had served as an American pilot irr Worlcl War 1. Mr. Knee leaves his wife ancl trvo claughtels. Nlasonic funeral service were conducted, with burial in Inglewood (Calif.) Park Cemetery.
Moore Dry Kiln Co. ..........-..-----,--,--..--,,--,..-31
Newquisl, Jqmes W. ........----------------,...--.-.-43
Northern Redwood Lumber Co. ---.--......---.,*
Olren-Corpenter Lumber Co. ---.'...---.---...--50
Olympic Sloined_Products Co. -..-..---.---.-... *
Orgood, Robert S. .-............-..---..---.----.-.-----47
Ostling ilf9. Co.
Pqcific Coq:t Aggregqler, In<. .-.......-,--....- r
Pqcific Fir Soles ..----......--.---,--..-.-,,..,...------..34
Pociftc Foresl Produ.t!, In<. -.-.-.........--------46
Poci0c Hordwood 5oler Co. .....--------.,-.... I
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Pqci0c Lumber Co., The .------.------,,-.,-...------- 3
Pociftc Lunber Deolerr Supply, fnc.--,.-..-..63
Pqcific Werlern Iumber Co.
Pqcific Wire Prodvrlr
Pm Aiiotic lroding
Pqrmco, Inr,
Penberthy Lumber
Maud Smith, wife of Bates Smith, died at her home in Carmel, California, on Wednesday, the 7th, and was btlried at Pacific Grove, on Saturday, July 10th. She is survived by her husl>and rvho, until l.ris retirement from active business, was for more than a generati()n one of the outstanding lumber wholesalers of Los Angeles. They retired and moved their home to Carmel about three years ago. Mrs. Smith was 71.
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Reody Hung Door ilfg. Co, of 5o. Cqlif. *
Red Cedor Shingle Bureou .-...-..-.-.----.-.-.,-.--
Ricci & Krure Lumber Co.
Ro<kport Redsood Co,
Ro:r Lumber 5oler
loy Forerf Producf: Co.
Rudbock t Co., John A, ,-----.-----.--.--..-------*
Ru..o PJime Window Co, .-------------,.-.,.--.- t
5ompron Compony,,.-..-..-------.--.--.-...........--I9
Sqnford-Lur:ier, Inc. --.-.-..---.-...--.-.-......,----*
Sonfo Fe Iumber Co. ........-.....--....--........---- 7
Schumqcher & Joyko Whl:e, Lumber ---..- {'
Scrim Iumber Co. .-...-.....-........------.....----.-.,. *
Seatlle Doo. Co. .-,........-......-.--.-.-.....--.---..... *
Seccrity Royol Dut(h Pqint Mfu. Co.35.57
5hlvely, Alqn .-.....--------*
Sierrd Redw@d Co. ...-......--.---......-------,--,-.*
Simmon5 Hdrdwood fumber Co. ----,,---.----44
Skosit rNill Co. -..---.......,..--.-......-.--........----.. *
Smith Lunber Co., Rqlph t. -----,-----.,---,-.. 3l
So-Col Bvilding l{qteriqlr Co., Inc. ........26
Southern Cqlifornio lumber Soler ..-...---...-. *
Soulhern Iumber Co. ....-......-..........-,----.--...60
Southwesl Plywood Corp, -.........................47
Southweslern Portlond Cmat Co. --,,-....... *
production of 45,384,000 feet, shipments of 44,769pO} feet, and orders of 61.188.000 feet.
The Southern Pine Association, rePorting for 122 mills in the $'eek ended July 17, showecl production 19,161,000 feet, shipment 22,469,C@ feet, and orders 20,583,000 feet' Orders were 7.42% altove production for the \\'eek, and shipments \tere 17.26% altove. For previous week ended July 10, ll7 mills reported production 15,214,000 feet, shipments 17,980,000 feet, and orders 17,664,OOO feet.
..,...--...* ..--6I Stqnton & 5on, E. J. ..--.............-..-....--.-.-.-*
Hqll Co., Jme: L. ---------..--.-------------.-.-...--.-5C
Hollinqn Mdckin Lumber Co., Inc., ......-..-49
Hmmond Iumber Co. ....-......-..-.--...-.....--.., *
Honsen Wholerole Lumber Corp. ---.----------54
Horbor Iunber Co. -------.,--------,-----,--.---.,-----*
Horbor Plywood Corp, of Colifornio.--..-..16
Horbor Plywood Corp. of 5o. Colifornio.-..:r
Hqrdwood Produclr Corp. .....-...-.--..--.....-...35
Hoyfork Lumber Co. ---.--.,------.---.-.....-.,--.....*
Hedlund tumber Soles, Inc. .............--------*
Hicginr Lumber Co., J. E. .-.----.--..--..--,,..--39
Hill Lunber Co., Roy -----,.--------------.---.--------43
Hill & ltoilon, In<. ---.--.----,---..---..-------,----21
Hobbr Woll Lumber Co. .--.----,--.--------,,-.-... *
Hoson Wholerole Bldq, Moteriqls Co. -----.37
Hollow Tree Redwood Compony ---.-----------.33
Holmes Eureko lumber Co. ,--.-.---.---,-..-..-. {t
Holmes lumber Co., Fred C. -.---------.------....55
Hughes Brothers
Hysler Compony
lnlond Lumber Co.
lnculile Co..--.---.-
Johns-ilqnville Corporolion --...--.
Johnson Lumber Co., C. D.
Jordon So:h E Door Co., F, L.
Kellev. Alberr A. --......-----.-,...,-..-
Kendqll Iumber Ditt]ibutor
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5pring0eld Mills Co.
Strqble Lumber Co. ...-.
Superior lumbe. Sqles .----,.-.--..---------------,..*
Tocomo Lumber 5oler, Inc. ...---------..-.--.... * fordy, Joe .-...-----,.---.--56
Torfer, Websler & Johnron, In<. .------....--...19
loube t Bergslrom ..------...............-..-.,-....,.'i Tobin Forett Productr --..--.-......-.------.---.-......
friongle Lumber Co.
Trinily River Lumber Sqle: Co.
Tropicol & Weetern Lumber Co.
lwin Horbor3 Lmber Co. ..------,---------....----
Union Lumber Co.
U:5. Plywood Corp, Wqtt!, Cqrl ....-.--.---.
Wendling-Nofhon Co.
Wesl Co6t Foreit Produ(f! Co.
We3t C@sl Lumbermen'r Arsn.
Well Cod.l Sqmillr
Wql Coost Screen Co.
Wert Coq3t limber Produclc
We3t Oregon Lumber Co.
Western Curtom Mill, Inc. .....-.-.....-.-.---.--*
Welfem Door & 5q:h Co. -------.--..--..-.-.--...I
Weslern Dry Kiln ---.-----------.,--.----..---.----.--.62
........_.46 *
Kochton Plywood & Veneer Co., Inc. ---..*
Koehl & 5on, In<., John W. .-...--.---------.----49
Kuhl Iumber Co,, Cqrl H. .....-...---.---..--,,-.
Lomon Lumber €o. -,..-----.-.-.,----,-
lqrren-Meirifield, fn.. ------.--.-----.,
Lwren<e-Phillips Lumber Co. -----.-
Ie]relt Lumber Co. .......--....-.-.-..
long-Bell Lumber Co.
..........25 ---.--..-.61 .._.......45
Looo Lumber & Mill Co. -,----.---.-.........--32
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Wesfern Lumber Int. ..---,---------.-,.--------------.4R
Werlern !.umber 5olec Co. ---,-.----.---,,-.,-,... 'l
Western Mill & lloulding Co. --,-...--.-....-....37
Werlern Pine Associolion
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OAKTAND - BER,KELEY - A]AMEDA
Cclilonia Lumbor Sclrr. ...KEltog l-100{
Fcirhunt Lumbrr Co. oI Cclil. Twiaoclcs 3-2939
Gqmcreton 6 Grrea Lunber Co.....f,Ellog l-6{6{
Goldea Gcte Lumber Co. (Wqlnut Creel) ..YEllowgtoue {-{{16
Gossliu-Hcrding Lumber Co. (Walnut Cree&) . ..YEllowrtone l-8774
Hill ll Mortoa, !nc...... .ANdovor l.l0?7
Kolly, Albcrt A. (Alamcda)..... .Lahhurri 2-2751
I.I'MIEN
Andorsou Wholesqle Lunber Sqlcg (Pcrcdrac) ....RYqa l-?559 Syccmorc 5-2?55
Arcqlc Bcdwood Co. (I. l. Acc) ..WYonirg ll09
Atlcr Lubrr Co. .....TRlaity ZIZS
Bcush, ccrt w. (parqdonc) Sr;A1? l:!l!l
Bligg 6 Gcteg Lunber Co..BAynond 3-1681-3-3rt5{
Erugh ludwtriql Lunber Co,. .RAymond 3-3301
lunr Lumbc Conpcay .WEbrtor 3-5E61
Ccrr 6 Go., L. l. (W. D. Dunniag) PBorpcct 88{3
Cho0aad crd Asrocictcr, P. W. AXninistor 5296
George Clough ...TOpcz l-1281 ZEnith 9771
Courolldctcd Lumbrr Co. ........Blchmond 2lll (\l9ilniagton) .NE. 6-1881 Wtln. Ter. l-2687
Cooprr Wholoealc Lunbrr Co., W. E. .YOrt 8Zl8
C.6 S, Lumber Conpoy, lnc.....NEvcdc 6-81114 NEwnark 8-{228
Dclloa ll Co., R. W. (Saa Marino)PYrmid l-2127
Dqnt d Russell, Sqles Co.........ANgetus 9-0174
Donovor Co., lac.. .....CRegivicw l-5103 Brq&hcw 2-4167
Eerlcy, D. -C. 6 S9a ..RAynoud 3-ll4?
Eurekq Redwood Lunbcr Co. (Coaptoa) .NEwmcrk 8-{138
Fcirhurgt Lumbcr co. ot cclil. NEvcdc 6-2201 (Lor Angoloe Luabcr , Inc.)....MAdiaon 6-9134
Firl & Mqrou (So. Pccqdouq) .PYrcnid l-ll9? SYccmore 9-267,1
Erik Flcmcr (Long Bccch)..L,8, 6-5237; NE 6-l72.f
Forrst Products Sclor Co. (Inghwood)
Plccgcnt 3-ll4l
Frconsn d Co., Strphrn G. (Eclboc) Harbor 2tl1
Hclliao Mackia Lunber Co.......ANgctus 3-{l8l
Hcmmond Lunbor ConpcDy .......PRospect ?l7l
Hrueu Wholoscle Lunber Corp. (Studio City)
Ein 6 Mortoa, Iac. ...BRq&hcw 2-137s
CBcstview 5-316{
Hill Lunber Co., Bq' ...Plocrsaat 3-3221
Hollow Tree Rcdwood Co. (Loag Beach) .........L8 7-2781
NEvqdc 6-{056
Holmes EurcLc Lumbcr Co. .MUtucl 9l8l
Hobbg Wcll Lunber Co. ......CUmberlqnd 3-{902
A. L. Hoover Co. (San Mcriao)......RYan l-9321
SYcmorc 5-{3{9
Kcndcll Lumbrr Dirlributors ......PRospect 53ll (uhl Lumber Co., Ccrl H.
R. S. Orgood ...TRinity 8225
Lqrsea-Merrifield, Iac. ..........CRestview 6-9149
Lcwreace-Philips Lunber Co. ..BRcdshcr 2-{37t
Lerrett Lunber Compcny .....NEmcrk l-8651
NEvcdc 6-8146
Tbo Loag-Bell Lumber Co. .......DUalcir} 7-13{?
Lor Augclm Dry Xila ll Storcgr, lac.
Lor Aagolor Luabor, Inc.
Lor-Cql Lunber Co.
Lunber Mill 6 Supply Co.
Loop Lumber d Mill Compcny (Alcmcdc) ..LAlehunr 3-5550
Pccilic Fir Scles ....TEnplebcr 6-1313
Pccific Fororl Productg. Inc......TWinoqL! 3-9886
Pccific Hcrdwood Scles Co.......lNdover l-6342
Strcble Lumber Conpqsy ......TEnplebcr 2-558{
Triogb Lumbcr Co..
CarI W. Wctts .......Plednoni5-7827
Wrrbn Dry ritr Co.. .LOct<bavrn 8-3281
Winton Lumber Scles Co, .f,Ettog 3-5250
IIANDWOODS
Brucr Co,, E. L.... ........lEllog 3-667?
tOS ANGETES
MccDoncld Co., L, W, B8cdrbaw 2-510t
MccDougcll Door cnd Frcme Compcny .Lorcia 6-3166
Mohogcny Importiag Compcny .....mirity g65f
Rudbach' Iohn A' 6 go' lArccdic)otmtic 7-9ds{
Mcrqucrr-worle Lumber co. HoDu?*1t"5 l93gg
Mctlick Whsle. Lunber Co., I. W. DUnlirlc 5.2618
McCloud Lumbcr Co........ ....VEmoat 8.1963
Middleton d Ecirac Lunber Co. (Scnta Anc) .........f,Inbcr\ Z-ltll
Jcmeg Newquist Lunbcr Scles (Pqscdeud) ......Ryqn l-8{86 Syccmorr S-t310
Olson.Ccrpcnter Lunbcr Co. (Ecverly Hilb) ...DBcdrhcs 2-6551
Orsood, Robrrt S. .DUd.lrL 2-Or!78
Pccilic Fir Sotcs (pcrqdoa", tr"Ti* i:lial
Pccific Lumbcr Co.. rhr S";"11";l li3?l
Pccilic Forest Producls, tnc. ...AXnireter 2-05ll
Pccilic Wcrtcn Lunbcr Co. ol Cqlll., tnc. (Pc:odoac) SYccnorc 6-8869-L.f. RYcn l-8l2lt
Phipps Conpany, The ..........RA1uoad 0-1019
Popr 6 Tolbot, lnc., Lubcr Did"iolno"p""t gzgt
Rcich Lumber Compcny, lnc. .RAymond 3-4505
E. L. Reitz Co., Ocean Contor Btdq, (Long Bccch) ......Loni Beqch 6-g6{?
Roy-Forort Productr Co. (Vaa Nuyr) Stqt. S-ltfl
Budbacb, lob A. G Co. (Arccdic)'.ATtqaric I-9{S{ DOuglcs 7-0888
Alqn A. Shively (Gtcndqlc) ....CHcpnca 5-2083
Sierrc Redwood Co. .PAtlview 8-7379
Sourheru Cclilonia Lumbcr Satl (Hii.il"fllr'
Southcrn Lumbcr Co. .....IBinity OtIl
Stqnto!, E. J. d Soo .ADaar l-9211
Tccono Lunber Scbs, Inc. ......Mf,diron 6-68ill
Tcrdy, Joc ....WEbetor 3-0&!il
Tcrt_.r, W.brter 6 Johason, Iac, INgelue 9-Zatt
Tcube 6 Bsrgstron ..BRcdshcs 2-8!l3S
Tobin Foregl Products (Long Bccch) L.4...91t6-3S8
Tropiccl 6 Wcstcm Lunbrr Co.....LOgG 8-2975
Twin Harbon Lumbrr Co. (C, P. Honry d Co.) .Pn6p.ct 6521
Union Lumbcr Conpcay ...TRinity Zl82
wendliag-Nathcn co' ' ,'*;"Y;: l:18?l
Westera Custom Mill, Inc. .ANgelus 2-4il8
Weyerbceuscr Scles Co. ........Btchnond 7-050s
West Coast Forest Producie Co.......STctc 9-1588
