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N. B. Bowden, Pacific Manufacturing Co., Santa Clara, recently returned from a two weeks' business trip to the Northwest. He visited Seattle, Tacoma and Portland, and on the way home paid a visit to the C. D. Johnson Lumber Company's mill at Toledo, Ore.
A. H. Landram, Sales Manager, St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co., Tacoma, Wash., was a visitor last week at the offi'ces of the Tacoma Lumber Sales, Los Angeles, and the Paramino Lumber Co., San Francisco, their California representatives. He made the trip by airplane.
Carl Hegge of the Superior Lumber & Fuel Co., Sacramento, is spending his two weeks' vacation at Homelan{ which is located on Lake Tahoe.
J. Roy Kenny, vice president of the Trans-Pacific Sales Corp., Port Orford,.Ore., was a recent San Francisco visitor. He was accompanied by his wife and two sons. Trans-Pacific Sales Corp. is represented in Southern California by MacDonald & Bergstrom, Los Angeles.
Elmore King, King Lumber Company, Bakersfield, returned recently from a vacation trip to the Pacific Northwest. He visited Tacoma, Portland, Dallas and Eugene, and traveled by automobile up the Pacific Highway and back by way of the Redwood Highway.
E. L. Williams of South Weymouth, Mass,, salesman for The Pacific Lumber Company in New England territory, re.cently spent a week at the company's sawmill in Scotia, and visited the main office in San Fran'cis,co. He also made a call at the Chicago office on his way home.
Francis Pool of Phoenix, Arizona representative for the E. K. Wood Lumber Co., was a recent visitor at the company's Los Angeles office.
BOB LEISHMAN ON VACATION
Bob Leishman, California Redwood Association, Los Angeles, has been spending his vacation in Northern California.
E. T. Robie, president of the Auburn Lumber Company, Auburn, has returned from a vacation trip to Alaska.
"Yal" Bonney, of the Hudson-Bonney Lumber Co., Burbank, is vacationing in the Northwest. He expects to spend about a month visiting the many points of interest in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia.
MAX PRICE VISITS THE DAKOTAS
Max Price, Roscoe Lumber Co., Roscoe, is on a motor trip to the Dakotas where he rvill spend a few weeks.
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Booth-Kelly Lumber Co.
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Buckley Lumber Dealers' Supply Co.-------------19
California Builderc Supply Co. --------------------17
California Panel & Veneer Co. ------------------- 5
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Hogan Lumber Co. -----------------------------------------19
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Koehl & Son, Inc., Jno. \V. ------------------------19
Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co. -----------------------19 Loop Lumber Company
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The Northwest lumber strike is ovet with the exception of the Grays Harbor area, where the strike is now in its l5th week. The situation was gloomy in Aberdeen and Hoquiam, August 12, following the rejection by the union of the blanket proposal submiced by 10 mills. Two sawmills which had been attempting to opef,ate cloced down again for an indefinite period, leaving only one sawmill, Grays Flarbor Lumber Company, operating in the Aberdeen-Floquiam atea. Aberdeen Plywood Companyts plant is operating under an agreement with the union. The two principal points of dispute remaining to be cleared up are (1) the extent of union recognition and (2) what should be done about the men, who in a few plants, have been working on and off during the strike period. The other issues as to wages, hours, overtime and similat disputes have been latgely settled.
Tacomats l3.week strike ended August 3 when the men voted overwhelrningly to accept the agreement o{fered by 22 rtll operator for return to work. Pickets were withdrawn immedl ately and union longshoremen sta*ed loading lumber August 5. More t{ran 1p00 men returned to work within four days aftet the settlemenL
At Villapa Flarbor the l4-week stdke was oficially settled when the local union voted 590 to 185 on August 8 to accept a proposd submitted by the Willapa Ffarbor lumber operators. ft was expected that 11200 men would return to work August 12.
At Anacortes, an agreement was signed betrveen E. K. \Vood Lumber Company and its striking employes August 2. President Fred J. \f""d announced the plant, idle three months, would teopetr August 12.
It was stated on reliable authodty on August 10 that Red Cedar Shingle production would be up to 7O pet cent of normal with the opening of many shingle mills August 12.
Tacoma shingle weevers turned down August 7 a proposal made by 25 operators in Tacoma, Seattle and other towns. Lee I{eppler, head of the Tacoma local of the Shingle Veaver's lfnion, said the proposal called for 50 centc an hour minimum wage, 40-hour week, two cents a sqrvue increase for sawyers and packers. The union demands are a 36-hour week, 60 cents an hour minimum wager two cents increase to sewyers and three cents increase to packers. Heppler stated that 102 mills had accepted the union agreement.
Grays Flarbor shingle weavers turned down by 145 to 32 ^ proposal submitted by the operators August 6. Port Angeles shingle weavers rejected by unanimous vote a proposal of the employers.
DOUGLAS FIR.-Prices on uppers are very firm. No. 3 Common price is firm, and No. 1 and No. 2 a little weaket. Lath prices are easiet.
WESTERN PINE.-For the yeat to date otders have been 75 p* cent greater than fot the period last year, according to
the report of the W'estern Pine Association for the week ended August 3. New business for the week totaled 52r82trOOO f.eet, 57 per cent above the three-year weekly average for July.
REDWOOD.-Prices are firm. Demand for dry uppers still exceeds the supply. Production has beefl increased to replenish stocks.
SHINGLES.-Vith the opening of many mills production of Red Cedar Shingles has been latgely increased, but mills will be busy for some time shipping accumulated orders. Prices ane very firm, and the outlook for business is very good fot the rest of the year.
Unsold stocks on the public docks at Los Angeles harbot totded 2,6211000 feet on August 8. Cargo arivals at Los Angeles harbor for the week ended August 5 totaled 6,769r0C{J feet, which included 9 cargoes of Fir carrying 61125rOOO f.eet and 2 cargoes of Redwood with 64410OO feet., 59 vessels were operating in the coastwise lumber service on August 8; 37 vessels were laid up.
The citizens of Sacramento at this time of the year always look forward to the big approachng event, the State Fair. Secretary Charles Paine is working hard to make the Fair this year the big success it always is. He announces that he has been fortunate in arranging fine programs for the horse show and racing events that will give the people a wide variety of entertainment. The many exhibits and temporary buildings which are needed at the Fair develop a good demand for lumber and building materials which the Sacrarnento dealers supply.
John H. Tyson, sales manager of the Chas Nelson Company, San Francisco, was married to Miss Cornelia M. Peterman in Advan,ce, Wisconsin, August 9. The couple met a few months ago when Mr. Tyson was a passenger on a Seattle-bound plane on which Miss Peterman was hostess. They are spending their honeymoon in New York.
The C. Ganahl Lumber Co. of Los Angeles has discontinued their retail lumber yard at Inglewood.
The Stanislaus Lumber Company of Modesto for the fourth yearwere awarded first prize for their entry in the Commercial Division in the Fourth of July parade at Modesto. The photograph reproduced here shows their prize winning entry with R. L. "Dick" Ustick portraying
sun bonnets and whiskers; County Grange units, fraternities and business houses-all entering time worn vehicles and arrayed in styles unfamiliar to motor cars and radios.
"'We entered 'Indians on the Move' and followed with about four thousand feet of lumber on an old wagon drawn by four registered Belgians. In the Indian set we cut poles to tie along side of the horse and crossed the drag end with short pieces bound together with bu'ck skin' Then we loaded baskets, pots, blankets, a tent, a bundle of fagots and even a sheaf of oats for the nag all on the drag. Jiand I spent considerable time with an Indian family with whom we are acquainted in preparing our entry as close to detail as possible. We also got quite a rate out of making ourselves up to represent a buck and squaw-he insisting that I go as buck because he couldn't remember having ever seen a long legged skinney squaw-so he squawed, trudging behind ,carrying a papoose and leading a dog.
an Indian riding the horse and Jim Gartin made up as an Indian squaw.
Writing about the event, Dick Ustick says:
"As in the past three years the event was marked by a parade entirely animal drawn. Horses, goats and mules;
Our well assorted stocks, our well known dealer policy and our centrd location guar' antee the kind of SERVICE you demand. For remodeling and modernizingthey are red economy.
"We took a prize for our Indian entry and one for the best entry of horses. This is the fourth parade in which we have taken first in the commer'cial division and we are in doubt whether to rest on our laurels or try again. We believe the advertising worth while but each year wears out one more original idea and if these old time parades continue we'll be up a stump for subject material after we do a cave man entry,"
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By Jack Dionne
I have entirely ceased to marvel at the sticking quality of good stories, well told. There seems no limit to their long life.
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More than fifteen years ago I made a speech to a business organization in a certain city. I hadn't been back there since until the other day, when I went back and spoke to ttrat same organizatio'rr. Thete were dozens of men in that room who were there on my last visit.
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On that fifteen year ago occasion I, naturally, illustrated my speech with a lot of stories in various dialects. When I talked there the other day I had requests from men in all parts of the room to tell them over again some of the stories I had told them so long ago, and they remembered perfectly what the stories were.
There was no one in an", tJ"*, including myself, who could remember even the subject of the talk I made at that time. But the stories stuck. I could have quoted Scripture, or faked the golden words and thoughts of all the great orators from Demosthenes to Daniel Webster; and three days later every word would have been erased from the minds of those present. But the Swede, and French, and Scotch, and nigger stories remained as permanent reminders of that little talk so long ago.
r have known, ""a a"lr"Jd, for years and years that good stories, well told, last longer and make a far greater impression than any af,nount of logic regardless of how well delivered. Frequently I have gone back to some city to make another speech after a Iapse of several years to find that my stories are all remembered while the subject I preached had been long forgotten. But the experience the other day of having eight or nine stories clearly remembered after fifteen years was to me a remarkable demonstration.
A newspaper reporter t*"*a-"U me not long ago on the subject of story-telling, and he asked me WHY I had years ago decided to specialize particularly on story-telling. I told him it was because story-telling is practically a non-competitive business. All the world loves stories. All the world tells stories. Every newsboy and bootblack on the streets, and from them up to the captains of industry-they al,l tell stories.
BUT THERE ARE ALMOST NO REAL STORY TELLERS. By real story tellers I mean men who can tell all or practically all dialects; who can handle high-powered declamation and oratory, emotion, pathos, or what have you -vocally. There aren't as many of those kind of story tellers in the entire country as you can count on the fingers of one hand. Ever think of that? Fact.
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A man going around the country making speeches meets red-hot competition everywhere. The world is full of men who can make a speech. But how often do you find a first class storr5r-teller? Every torurn and district has its well known story-tellers. Some of them are mighty good. But almost invariably they specialize in some one sort of story, or two or three at the most. You find marvelous tellers of negro stories, or country stories, of French, or Swede, or English (there are half a dozen different British Isle dialects that some men specialize in), or stammering, or hairlip, or some o'th,en type of stories. But the guy that can handle them all is mighty scarce. ***
The world loves to laugh. And undoubtedly the most dependable laugh producer known is a good story, well told. There isn't anything much you can do for the other fellow that helps him rnore than to give him something to laugh a! to chuckle at as he goes ibout his daily job. ,f**
I think the way this country has laughed itself through the depression has been one of the best safe-guards against tragedy. The fellow who couldn't laugh off his troubles had on additional burden to carry. The ability to laugh at his troubles has kept many a man from high window jumping. Seeing the bright side of a situation, helps a lot. The old negro story of the little colored boy who went coon hunting with his father, fell out of a tree and was killed, is a good illustration. A friend expressed his sympathy to the father. "Yassuh," said the old man. "Hit wuz mighty bad. But hit coulda bin wuss." "flow you rnean, hit coulda bin wuss?" asked the other. "lfe coulda fell on one of de houn's," said the old man' *
Speaking of stories, I was talking the other day to Henry Stude, President of the American Bakers Association. We were discussing the screwy sort of thinking going on in this country today, and Henry was reminded of a high-brow
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young man who graduated from college and got some historical organization to send him to Greece to ilo research work. For a year his reports were fat and lifeless. Then one day they got a wildly excited cable from him. He had made, he said, one of the most momentous'discoveries of the age. He had discovered that llomer never really wrote the Iliad. IT WAS ANOTHER GREEK BY THE SAME NAME.
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Said R. B. Goodman to the annual convention of the Northern Hemlock & Hardwood Manufacturers Association the other day: "So far as it (NRA) imposed industrial restraints it retarded recovery. The.imposition by force of law of limitations and restraints neither increases consumer power nor employment. fts effect is to diminish both. The law of supply and demand is just as real as the law of gravitation." *{<*
The New Mexico Lumber Institute holding its annual convention at Santa Fe, August 16th and 17th, has issued an interesting looking progriun. (The writer regrets sincerely his inability to accept an urgent invitation to appear on their program). One of the subjects listed for discussion is: "Who the Hell Says the New Deal is a Square Deal?" Another subject is "I{ow to Build a Home Quickly Under the F. H. A.", and there is a foot-note that reads: "All materials delivered on these National Housing Jobs must be tied in RED TAPE." "How to collect or how. to get on relief," is another slated subject.
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Henry E. Hardtner died the other day in Louisiana. Few men in the history of the American lumber industry accomplished so much in its behalf. Henry Hardtner was the father of forestry in the South. Inspired by the love of trees and imbued with a kindly and largely unselfish ambition to develop some known facts about Southern Pine and its regrowth, he spent two generations in experimentation-practical experimentation. And, he leaves behind him at Urania, Louisiana, a Pine forest that is easily the most amazing and convincing demonstration in practical forestry that the South, and, f befieve the nation generally, has known. Henry Ffardtner had certain theories about re-growing Southern Pine, and he had the great pleasure and satisfaction of seeing his theories proven beyond any measure of doubt. :F
fn a comparatively small forest in Central Louisiana he
has accomplished permanent timber supply for a gooil sized sawmill. The Government long ago became interested in his work, and essayed to work with him. Since that time the experiment at Urania has been continuously watched and supervised by Government Foresters. As in a European forest, every tree is numbered, and the growth, development, etc., under various circumstances and conditions, made note of. Because of what Henry Hardtner has done at Urania, we know more about the actual re-growth of Southern Pine than we would ever have known in any other way. And, it is practical, beneficial knowledge.
He discovered at Urania why Long Leaf Yellow Pine, when left to its natural bent, never re-grows Long Leaf, but rather Short Leaf, scrub Oak, and othertrees. And, you can go there and see the proof of the pudding plainly demonstrated. Side by side you can see two acres of second growth Pine. Both are fenced. Both are protected from cattle and fire. On one of these acres there is a fairly heaoy growth of timber. THERE ISN'T A LONG LEAF TR,E,E WITHIN THAT ENCLOSURE. Adjoining it is another acre. IT IS ENTIRELY LONG LEAF. The answer? The second acre where Long Leaf reproduced itself, IS PROTECTED FROM HOGS. The first is not. Strange, isn't it?
Henry Hardtner nro.r"l al"a an" long, succulent "taproot" of the Long Leaf Pine is natural food for the razorback hogs that abound in all So,uthern forests. They pull up the young tree, and eat the thick, fat root, that drives straight down into the ground. When a Long Leaf is five years old it is just a little bit of a shoot above the ground. But in the ground there is a long, juicy root, three to five feet long. The hogs love it. The Sho,rt Leaf Pine sends out a mass of spreading roots in all directions close to the.surface of the ground. They have no food value. So the hogs Iet them grow. This and many other useful and interesting facts about re-growing both Long and Short Leaf Pine Mr. Hardtner proved. The finest thing you can say about any 62n i5-('f{e made the world a better place to live in-he did something for others." Henry Hardtner rendered great service to the industry. llis name will live when many richer men have been forgotten.
Walter Peterson, manager of Bakersfield Building Materials Co., Bakersfield, returned August 2 irom a vacation trip with his family to the Redwood Empire.
"The whole Roman world was being slourly strangled with good intentions. The bureaucracy had grown so highly organized and efficient, so nicely ordered through its various grades of official life, that everybody walked in leading-strings to the music of official proclamations. Paternalism regulated everything with its watchful and benignant eye.
"The triumph of the systern may be seen in the famous Edict of Prices issued by Diocletian in A. D. 301. Here we find scheduled a maximum price for every possible commodity of trade and maximum wage for every kind of service. Death is the penalty for any trader who asks, or any purchaser who pays a higher price. No difference of locality or season is permitted. Trade is forbidden to fluctuate under penalty of death. This delightful scheme, which vvas engraved on stone in every market in Europe, was evidently the product of a highly efficient Board of Trade, which had sat late of nights over the study of statistics and political economy. Benevolent officials of this type swarmed all over the empire, spying and reporting on one another as well as on the general public. Naturally these advances in the direction of more and stronger goverrunent proved no alleviation of the woes which sprang from too much super-rrision."
That advertising pays is evidenced by the Builders' Supply House of Nevada City who recently received a letter from a woman in Lauren,ce, Kansas, as a result of their ad in The Nevada City Nugget. In her letter, the woman advises that she is about to sell her house there, would like to locate in Nevada City, and requests information as to what would be the cost to build a small neat home. Fred Conner is manager of the Builders' Supply House at Nevada City.
Washington, D. C., August 2.-A steady increase in insured modernization credit and mortgages selected for appraisal has brought a re,cord month for the Federal Housing Administration.
The volume of business done by this Administration during July totaled fi53,797,335, which is an increase of approximately 250 per cent over March, and the largest single month since the inauguration of the program. Insured modernization credit issued during the month amounted to $21,084,556. Mortgages selected for appraisal with fees paid during the month amounted to $32,712,769.
The r''i'eek ending July 27 also reached a new peak, with fi4,816,126 in modernization and repair notes being insured and $9,030,170 in mortgages selected for appraisal, the total business for the week being fi13,846,296.
Up to August l,288,149 modernization and repair notes had been insured since the start of the program in August, 1934, representing a total amount of $1I3,O77,642. There had been 31,02I mortgages selected for appraisal for a total of. $122,518,711.
At present 41 per cent of all mortgages accepted for insurance under Title II covers the construction of new homes. Figures released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics July 18 indicated an increase of more than 228 per ,cent in residential constru'ction for June, 1935, over June, 1934.
The above does not in'clude the low cost housing part of the program. Projects representing $15'678,148 have been tentatively accepted and $99,940,374 additional are under consideration.
Chas. B. "Brtiz" White, son of C. H. White, vice president and general manager of White Brothers, San Francisco, recently re,ceived his private pilot's license, making him the second aviator in the family. He trained at the Oakland Flying School, Oakland Airport.
Don F. White, Mr. White's eldest son, who works at White Brothers' Oakland yard, graduated from the University of California as Major of the Aviation Unit, R. O. T. C. Don recently became a father, making Mr. C. H. White, a grandfather.
Chicago, Aug. 1.-The Trade Promotion Committee of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association met here during the last three days of last week and canvassed the program of the Committee's work for the near future. Geo. W. Dulany, Jr., Chairman, explained that the purpose of this first meeting of the new Tlade Promotion Committee was that the members might be informed in detail of the activities of the Trade Promotion Department of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, and consider the recommendations of the stafi for trade promotion activities for the current year. He remarked that the trade promotion budget is deplorably small and gave it as his opinion that the Committee should keep rvithin the budget limit, although it would be proper to ,consider extra-budget projects.
Arthur T. Upson, trade promotion manager, took the position that there'are three classes of trade promotion activities, namely, those of general interest to the lumber industry, those which are of interest to some lumber manufacturers but not to all, and third, ,commercial exploitation of the results of research and investigation. Mr. Upson described and explained these industry activities at considerable length and outlined a number of desirable projects of less than general industry interest, for which there is definite need. Mr. Upson also drew a sharp line between the protective activities of the N. L. M. A. which are now being prosecuted and those of a more emphatically promotional character which should be undertaken as soon as possible.
In discussing the work of the Department of Government Spe,cifications, Mr. Upson said that it was a very broad, as well as detailed field, which could well employ a considerable number of competent men. Specific promotion projects of parti.cular interest to regions or companies mentioned by Mr. Upson are study of new devices of the type of timber connectors of interest to lumber manufacturers and distributors, a careful survey of the status of prefabricated building, exploration of the field of wood treatment for preservation and to prevent shrinkage, new architectural designs, dependable mechanical 'device for the measurement of moisture content of lumber, studies of improved design of wood sash and frame, resear,ch regarding superstru,cture of railway freight cars, investigation of the service records of wood used in tanks, vats and pipes, and research in.the furniture and fixture field.
Richard G. Kimbell, in charge of the building code activities of the National Association, gave the Committee some information as to the immensity of the field. There are, he said, 7822,cities in the United States, practically alt of which have building laws. There are also state laws relating more or less to building in all of the 48 states. There are 100 semi-public agencies constantly engaged in research and investigation of building ,codes and developing standards and recor-nmendations influencing them. Mr.
Kimbell emphasized the fact that a building code restriction is a type of prohibition which really rvorks-and if a code prohibits or restricts the use of lumber, prohibition or restriction is the result. He calculated that a market for 5,000,000,000 feet of lumber is at stake in communities with a total population of 50,000,000 people, in which are consumed 4O per ,cent of the softwood and 25 per cent of the hardwood output.
Mr. Kimbell emphasized the importance of insurance relations and the need of statistical information bearing on insurance. Technical publications on lumber, su'ch as those already published or on the l"'ay, Mr. Kimbell said, were of fundamental importance in promotion work.
The relations between N. L. M. A. and A. F. P. I. were discussed at length with a view to defining them as rigidly as possible. It was the opinion of the Committee that there should be no direct solicitation of regional association subscribers in behalf of A. F. P. I. under any circumstances wherein the association would act for its subscribers, and that if it would not so act there should be no soli'citation without its consent.
The Committee voted to approve and recommend as essential to the lumber industry the continuance by the N. L. M. A. of the following current promotion department activities:
Building Laws and Regulations; Government Specifications; National Housing; Retail Merchandising and Lumber IJse Information Service.
Regional associations not now aftiliated with the National were urged to join at once. In view of the desir4bility of extending basic activities it was considered that additional funds would be necessary.
The next advance in the program of trade promotion, it was decided, should include research features, development of a moisture meter and sorter, designs for building interiors and exteriors of wood, fabricated frame building, retail merchandising, and wood treatments.
Decisions were taken intended to be promotive of the work of the Committee through the regional associations. It was agreed that consideration be given to the advisability of establishing in Washington a worthrvhile exhibit of Iumber and timber produ,cts. It was also recommended that the series of National handbooks on wood structural design data should be published at the earliest possible moment.
Members of the Committee present in person or by proxy were: H. H. Butts (by T. R. Kerr) ; n. n.. Bailey (by W. A. Ellinger); J. F. Wigginton (by B. R. Ellis); W. T. Neal (by V. A. Stibolt); W. B. Earle (by E. C. Singler); M. C. Woodard (by I. N. Tate); C. L. Isted; M. E. Kline; Geo. W. Dulany, Jr.; J. W. Ma]'hew (by H. E. Everley). J. W. Watzek, Jr., President of the National Association, and the following members of the National staff were present: Wilson Compton, Carl Bahr, A. T. Upson, R. G. Kimbell. C. E. Close and L. W. Smith.
Chas. G. Bird, manager of the Stockton Lumber Company at Stockton, was the photographer of the a,ccompanying pi'ctures of George Ley of the Santa Cruz Lumber Company, Santa Cruz. Charlie had to use his "magic eye" to get these photographs and we are going to let him tell in his own words just how it all happened.
"On June 8th and 9th, George was one of the guests up at Fred Prescott's mountain lodge - 'Twin Brooks.'They have a very nice srvimming hole there about 13 feet deep and those who can take advantage of the swimming hole have built a raft -a very light affair, out 'of a couple of pieces of 2x6 with strips nailed across. As I recall it, it would be about 6 feet long and about 18 inches wide.
"After riding the raft myself and convincing Ed Robie to do likewise, we were then suocessful in getting George to take a try at it with the results as shown in the picture. I took the pictures as George was performing for us and then mounted them on a panel of which this is a print. The only one he posed for was the last one where he was drying out his 'undies'."
The plant of the Yosemite Falls Lumber Company at Merced Falls, Calif., closed sin,ce 1930, is to reopen about August 20, ac,cording to an announcement by Herbert W. Matthews, superinterrdent of the company, at Merced, recently.
J. R. Ball, Michigan lumberman, will be in charge of the mill. One thousand men will be employed in the mill and in the woods.
The reopening of the plant was made possible by an RFC loan of $400,000.
I HERE'S no use putting building paper in only part of a wall or foor. Protection means complete coverage.
But are your customers getting (rcomplete coveragett when they put in paper so weak it tearg in application or with expoa€d aephalt that will dry out and crack in a short time?
With your experience in building materialc-you are in a,pooition to warn them of the trouble and expense that follow poor building paper aoolications" They want to avoid cupped and w.arped foort' spotted oi-wet plastet. You help them and help yourself by ehowing them the difietenle between Sisalkraft and ordinary paper for backing up stucco and all other building applications.
Ownets dontt want incomplete jobs. You dontt want to cell them. So we repeat-if ittc building paper they need, let it be Sisaltraft.
The menagerie had a sign out "Colored Man Wanted."
A long, tall, lazy-looking darky applied. He got the job, and the office man who hired him was filling out his application blank. The name, residence, etc., was noted.
"There is one more question I want to ask you, Mose," said the white man. "In case of a fatal accident, where do you want your body sent?"
"Suh?" said the darkey. And the white man noticed that
the whites of his eyes were showing, and that apparently autornatically, but with definite certainty, his feet were "inching" toward the door.
"I say," said the manager, "in case of a fatal accident, that is, if one of these lions or tigers should get hold of you and kill you, where do you want us to send your body?"
"Cap'n," said the now livid darky, "if you doan mind, please Suh, Ahm goin't' take it along wid me, NOW."
And like a shadow, he was gone.
Portland, Ore., Aug. lsf-"f'1ess Tree to Car" would give an indication of the scope of an industrial movie recently completed by the Western Pine Association, and which had its first offi'cial showing at the Semi-Annual Meeting of the Association in San Francisco on July 18th.
The film is titled "Harvesting the Western Pines". It depicts in a most absorbing manner the wide activities incident to carrying on modern lumbering in the pine districts of the West. To secure the photographi,c material, the'camera man traveled over 350o miles, visiting forests of Ponderosa Pine, Sugar Pine and Idaho White Pine, logging operations and sarvmills throughout the territory. It is factual all the way through and should prove extremely interesting and informative to persons who have never visited these timbered areas.
It requires about 30 minutes to run, and is a non-inflammable, 16 millimeter sound-on-film talking motion picture, having a spoken story, describing the s,cenes, synchronized with the pictures. It is all on one reel and can be shown on any sound projection equipment taking films of this size. Additional prints are now available and are being loaned to interested organizations for showings.
The Association has announced that requests for the film should be sent to its headquarters oflices, 510 Yeon Building, Portland, Oregon.
Oakland building permits for July totaled $I,348,924. These include the $1,129,000 permit for the constru,ction of the Broa{way tunnel, but even without this permit the July, 1935, total showed an increase over the $203,562 total
issued during July ror 32 dwellings
Washington, July 31.-In planning Works Program projects, Harry L. Hopkins, Works Progress Administrator, says there is urgent necessity to care for the nation's rural and small-town unemployed, as shown by the fact that approximately 40 per cent of the 5,000,000 families on relief are to be found in the open country and in towns under 5,000 population.
"One of the main features of the Works Program for the benefit of the rural unemployed will be an extensive secondary road-building program", Mr. Hopkins continues, and he adds that "a substantial sum" will be spent by the Works Progress Administration for this purpose. He points out that about two-thirds of the roads in the United States are not highways subject to Federal funds. "ft is these roads which will come under the Works Progress Administration."
It is reasonably assumed that bridges on these secondary roads will not be built of ,concrete and steel, but that lumber will be preferred because of its adaptability, familiarity to rural people, and relative inexpensiveness. The State Works Progress Program Administrator in each state will, it is believed, have the ,controlling decision in the specification of type of construction to be followed in these secondary roads.
Permanent closing of the American Door Company's plant at Hoquiam was announced by the management July 30. Strike difficulties were given as the reason. When the plant was shut down by the strike the 'company had orders on hand for three months'operation. The plant, which employed 150, will be dismantled and the machinery removed elsewhere. The plant has operated ,continuously under a union contract for 10 years.
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Specifications for modernizing this beautiful dwelling included:
New joists, posts, girders and sills to be No. I Common Douglas Fir lumber, pressure-treated with Reilly Transparent Penetrating Creosote, in conformance with Sec. 106 of the Log Angeles Building Ordinance.
The entire frame of the structure, includ' ing roof parts, studding and other structural puit", "trd all sub-structure parts, to bq thorLughly spray-treated with Reilly Trans' paient Penetrating Creosote. Spray treating Ly California Termite Control Co., 6063 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood.
A certified construction survey and in' spection report was made by California T"rmite Control Company for presence and extent of termite and decay damage.
The tide of idle money is irresietible.
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Washington, August 4-Responding by letter to recommendations made by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, as the representative of the regional associations of lumber manufacturers and lumber export g'roups concerning the proposed trade agreement with Canada, Assistant Secretary of State Fran,cis B. Sayre has discussed the matter of British Empire preferential duties. Lumbermen have noted that while other parts of the British Empire, subject to State Department studies, would automatically enjoy all United State tarifi ,concessions made to Canada on other ,commodities, Canadian l-umber would continue to enjoy preferential treatment in ,competition with United States lumber in those countries.
Mr. Sayre mentions the fact that the lumber industry had recommended (in view of the Government's policy of generalization of tarifi concessions under trade agreements) that consideration be given to the withdrawal "of, our minimum duties from ea,ch of the British Dominions or Colonies which are granting preferen.ces in tariffs or other form to Canadian lumber," with due regard to obligations under the existing treaties or agreements. It is explained that in a press release issued by the Department of State on April 1, 1935, Canada is included among the countries with which trade agreement negotiations are now in prog'ress, to which our "minims6 1afss"-established in concluded agreements-have been extended for six months from April 1, 1935. Before the end of that period, it is hoped that a mutually satisfactory trade agreement can be concluded with each of these countries. The Assistant Secretary of State points out that if su,ch agreements are not concluded within the indicated period, or the foreign country has not agreed " to accord fair treatment to American products in respect of both modern and old forms of trade control measures, outr minimum rates may be withdrawn from such ,country on October 1, 1935."
Continuing, Mr. Sayre's letter states that Great Britain and other ((than Canada) members of the British Empire are included in that group of ,countries to which our minimum rates have been extended for unspecified periods. As stated in the above-mentioned press release, the policy of the Department is defined to be that of carefully studying the acts and policies of the countries in this group, with a view to determining. whether such countries merit the continued enjoyment of our minimum duties. A further point is made in the letter that the ,countries in the various groups may be shifted from one group to another, and that the views of the lumber industry regarding generalization of concpssions made by the United States under trade agreements have been noted.
fmportance of fncreasing Exports
Mr. Sayre dwells on the importance of increased export
trade to the lumber and lumber produ,cts industries of the Unirted States. Figures are qu,oted to shorv that the average annual exports of these goods were $150,0@,000 in 1926-1930 and only $39,000,000 in 1932, re,covering orrly to $62,000,000 in 1934. These figures do not include exports of naval stores or wood exported in the form of manufactured articles.
Our foreign markets, the Assistant Secretary asserts, must be restored if a full measure of prosperity and stable conditions are to be established in the United States, and adds : "The Administration is ,convinced that the trade agreements program offers the surest and most practicable means of restoring our foreign trade." It is remarked that the agreement with Cuba resulted in considerable tariff concessions for lumber and wood products, and that in the case of Belgium, concessions were obtained on various classes of sawn wood and carpentry work. The hope is expressed that as other trade agreements are negotiated, the field of exportation of American lumber will be "materially increased". The point is also made that an increase of exports of other American commodities will directly benefit a large number of lumber manufacturers whose products are used in the manufacture or packing of those commodities. It is also argued that an increase in foreign commerce of the United States will ,contribute to revival of the construction industry and hence of the domestic market for lumber.
Howard Coor-Pender has been appointed manager of the Frank Graves Sash, Door & Mill Co. of Los Angeles. Mr. Coor-Pender has been with the firm for a long period and was formerly sales manager. He is widely known in millwork cir,cles throughout California. Mr. Coor-Pender su,cceeds B. H. Horkin who recently died.
The Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. has appointed James P. Gibson as their Arizona and New Mexico representative. His headquarters are at 54 West Vernon Ave., Phoenix, Ariz., Telephone 3-7677.
Mr. Gibson is widely known in lumber circles in Arizona and New Mexico where he has been connected with the lumber industry for many years. He formerly r.prdsented the Frank Graves Sash, Door & Mill Co. of Los Angeles in that territory, and prior to taking over his new position, was with the Baskett Lumber Co. ,at Phoenix.
William McCullough, U. S. Gypsum Co., Los Angeles, was elected Commander of Lumbermen's Post, No. 403, American Legion, at the regular monthly meeting held at the Rosslyn Hotel on Tuesday evening, August 6' Other offices elected were Stuart Smith, Coos Bay Lumber Co', Los Angeles, First Vice Commander; Andrew Foster, California Portland Cement Co., Los Angeles, Secon'd Vi'ce Commander; Lloyd Milne, Macco Lumber Co., Clearwater, Adjutant; Carl Schreiber, Northwestern Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Los Angeles, Finan'ce Offr'cer; Jack Brush, Brush Industrial Lumber Co., Los Angeles' Historian; Russell Gheen, C. D. Johnson Lumber Co., Los Angeles, Chaplain, and Albert Albertieri, Hayward Lumber & Investment Co., Los Angeles, Sergeant-at-Arms. Commander Leo Hubbard, Ilayward Lumber & Investment Co', Los Angeles, presided at the meeting.
Delegates to the State Convention held at Fresno on August 12, 13 and 14 included Leo Hubbard, Fred Morehouse, MacDonald & Harrington, Ltd', Los Angeles, and Theodore Stearns, Hayward Lumber & Investment Co', Los Angeles. Alternate delegates to the State Convention were Russell Gheen, Stuart Smith and Ed Biggs, Union Lumber ComPanY, Los Angeles.
As in previous years, a large Balsa lvood gavel will be presented by the Post to the new State Commander elected at the convention. The gavel was made and presented to the Post by E. J. Stanton & Son of Los Angeles' Kenneth Smith, secretary of the Lumber & Allied Products Institute, Los Angeles, gave an interesting talk on the Federal Housing Act. Mr. Smith discussed the fundamentals of the Act and also spoke on the opportunities the Act ofiered the lumber industry to increase their business' Lieut. Jack Kennedy, U. S. N', and nationally known boxing referee, gave a fine inspirational talk on Athletics' Mr' Kennedy, who has refereed many of the major boxing matches throughout the country the past few years, gave the gathering many interesting high lights on some of the recent ,championship boxing matches. Lieut. T' P' Kane, U. S. N.. retired, also made a short talk.
William McCullough, the newly elected Commander, ad-
dressed the meeting, and on a motion by Russell Gheen, Leo Hubbard, the retiring Commander, was given a big hand for the successful year the Post enjoyed during his term of office.
The Lumbermen's Post is sponsoring the movement to construct a lodge and some log cabins at the camp site of the Camp Fire Girls of Los Angeles County which is located on the West Fork of the San Gabriel River, one mile below Opid's Camp on the Angelus Crest Highway' The camp has a wonderful location for week-end trips for the Camp Fire Girls of Los Angeles, Alhambra, Glendale, Highland Park and the surrounding territories. They have about an acre and a half to two acres of land located on the stream with a fine spring for water supply, and they have been able to secure all of the SERA labor that will be ne'cessary to put up the lodge and,cabins. It will take about a thousand dollars worth of material for the building. Mr' H'ubbard had a list of materials needed for the buildings, and copies of this list were distributed at the meeting. He urged the members to get behind the movement and asked their assistance in either getting real good prices on the materials from the wholesalers, or enough cash donations to buy the materials needed to complete the project.
The Sacramento Lumbermen's Clu6 at its meeting on August 8 appointed H. A. Pefley secretary and he will take over his new duties on August 22. He succeeds Ray Brown.
Phil Hirsch of the Dolan Building Material Company, Sacramento, has bought the interest of Geo. Fuller who had been associated with him for a number of years. In carrying on the business, Mr. Hirsch will be assisted by his son, Mel, and Roy Brown, who will have charge of the lumber dePartment.
(The following was written by Stanley in 1g69)
I don't believe that an unemployed man, however amiable and otherwise respectable, was ever, or ever can be, really happy. As work is our life, show me what you can do, and I will show you what you are. I have spbken of love of one's work as the best preventive of merely low and vicious tastes. I will go farther and say that it is the best preservative against petty anxieties, and the annoyances that arise out of indulged self-love.
Men have thought before now that they could take refuge from trouble and vexation by sheltering themselves, as it were, in a world of their own. The experiment has often been tried, and always with one result. you cannot escape from anxiety and labor-it is the destiny of humanity. Those who shirk from facing trouble find that trouble comes to them. The indolent may contrive that he shall have less than his share of the world's work to do, but Nature, proportioning the instinct to the work, contrives that the little shall be much and hard to him.
The man who has only himself to please finds sooner or later that he has got a very hard master; and the excessive weakness which shrinks from responsibility has its own punishment too, for where great interests are excluded little matters become great, and the same wear and tear of mind that might have been at least usefully and healthfully expended on the real business of life is often wasted in petty and imaginary vexations, such as breed and multiply in the unoccupied brain.
Boss-"When will your father's leg be well so he can come to work?"
Son-"It will be a long time, I think."
Boss-"Why?"
$orr-'(Qaqse, compensation's set in.',
Clear the tracks, you whippersnappers ! Out the way, you flaming youth ! Gangway, fashion plates and flappers, Your old granddad's heard the truth. From the old men's home he's hoppin', Dancing like a crazy man, Singing, shouting: "flell's a-poppin' !" Granddad's read the Townsend plan.
He has painted up his crutches, Folished up his wooden leg, Gave his other tooth some touches, look his toupee from a peg. Says he's found the youthful fountain And the primrose path he'll seek, He'll be "comin' ro rnd the mountain," Whoopee-fifty bucks a week.
Tell the chorus girls, the laddies With the cars they'll see no more; Now they'll meet their sugar daddies In their wheel chairs at the door. When your old man has expended All the fifties that he can, Cares are o'er, depression's ended, Gloom is dead; so's your old man. -fed Breton, in WalI Street Journal.
"There's just one honest way to make a living.', "Hoye is that?"
"I thought you wouldn't know."
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Professor (after a very baa\r "gdoq: .,Class is dismissed. And don't flap your ""r!%" you go out."
Invited by George W. Gorman, sales manager of the Hammond Lumber Company, San Francisco, to accompany him on a one-day air trip in a private plane to a number of points in the San Joaquin Valley, one of which is almost 300 miles distant from San Francisco, the California Lumber Merchant reporter promptly accepted the'opportunity to observe at first hand the use of this most modern form of transportation as a time-saving aid in the sales end of the lumber business.
made for Visalia, the 74-milp trip being made in 40 minutes. Before leaving George took Ray Clotfelter, general manager of W. R. Spalding Lumber Company for a 25-mile trip, his first experience in flying.
The 4O miles to Fresno were flown in 28 minutes, and the 56 miles from Fresno to Merced in 38 minutes. The total time spent in calling at the four places named was 6 hours and 54 minutes.
The journey back to Alameda was made at the usual 1l0-mile an hour cruising speed of the plane. A stop was made to inspect the emergency landing field at Westley, and a brief halt was made at Livermore for gas. The total time spent in the air was about 6 hours, and the distance flown was a little over 60O miles. A perfect three-point landing at Alameda at sundown completed the day's tour.
The same trip made in an automobile would keep one very busy for two days, with about 15 hours actually spent in driving.
The value of air transportation to modern business has been amply proved in recent years by the growing use of the regular air lines by business men all over the ,country, and in fact all over the world. The use of individual planes by business houses is also growing, and will ,continue to grow as flying equipment is improved and the time-saving possibilities become recognized.
An early start was made from the San Francisco Bay Airdrome at Alameda on the morning of July 30 in perfect flying weather. The plane was a two-place cabin Fairchild monoplane, with the seats side by side. The top speed of this plane is 130 miles an hour, with a cruising speed of 110 miles an hour.
The flight to Bakersfield, the first stop, made at an average altitude of 4,000 feet was most enjoyable, but uneventful, and was about as smooth as traveling in a ship on a lake. Bakersfield airport was reached, in 2 hours and 43 minutes. The gas consumption for the trip was 231 gallons, which works out at approximately 12 miles to the gallon.
After spending three hours in Bakersfield a start was
ago we started to manufacture CALIFORNIA SUGAR PINE AND PONDEROSA PINE
Today we are shipping quality products manufactured on the experience and underetanding of a quafter of a century of c€rvice.
It may be that the lead given by the Hammond Lumber Company in using the airplane in their business in California will be followed by other lumber companies, and that in the not distant future many may own and use planes for quick transportation of executives whose time is valuable to and from distant points.
In this pioneering experiment in air transportation the Hammond Lumber Company is particularly fortunate in having in George Gorman, their sales manager at the San Francisco office, a man who is also a veteran pilot.
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. White spent the month of July at Tahoe Tavern. Mr. White is president of White Brothers, San Fran'cisco.
LUMBER
Cbamberlin & Co, W. R., Ith Flm, Fifc Blds. ............DOuglac 5470
Dolber & Carsm Lubcr Co, 70 Msrchuts Excbangc Bldgr.......Sutter ?454
HaIl, Jaro L, .......,....,.. l02t Milk Bldg. .Sutter 13ts
Hamond & Littlc River Redwmd Co., ll0 Same St. ...............,,...DOuglar !3t!
Hdna Eurcka Lmber Co. 1505 Flnancirrl Ccntcr Bldg.......GArfieH r9zr
Loop Lmber Cmpany, Ft. of llth St...............,..,..EXbrook 4t!l
MacDonald ll Hanin3tm Ltd., ft CallfdrnL Strclt.......,.....,..GArfield !39t
McGomic&, Chaa. R., Lumbtr Cc, l.l Markct Strect,..... :......,,...DOuglaa 256l
Mom Mtll & Lunbcr Co, 525 Markct StEt .......,........Exbrco& 0U3
LUMBER
Pacific Lmber Co.. Tbe llll Bub Stret....................GArfield lltl
Red River Lumber Co. 315 Mmdnek 81d9..........,....GArfie|d 0e22
Santa Fe Lumber Cc, fC C.ltfmh Stret..,.,.......KEany 20?4
Schafer Bra. Lmbcr & ShlnSt€ Co., IZB Flfe BIds.....,.................SUtter lZll
Sudden & Chtlatruon, 310 Sam! StreGt................GArfie|d 2t4f
Trcwer Lunbc Co, ll0 Mukst Street.........,..........SUftq C.t2!
Unitn Lunbcr Cc, Ci'ocker Buildhg ..Sutter 5UO
Wodling-Natban Co, Ue Merkct St€et ..................Suttcr 5363
E. K. Wood Lubcr Co, I Drum Strat..........,......,,.KEany 3fla
LUMBER
Hill & Mrto, Inc., Dmnfuon St Wherf ......,.....ANdova lCtl
Hogel Luubcr C,mpany, tnl & AllG. StreGtJ.............Gkncorrrt 6ral
E. K. Wood Lunbcr Co. Fradarlck & KlDtt Sb...,.........Fruttnlc fl12
HARDW(X)D3
LUMBER
Weyerhuta Sateg Co. r{e Cdtfomi! Stffii......,........GArfie|d t9?d
HARDW(X)DS AND PANELS
Fonyth Hardwood Co, 355 Bayebm Blvd. .........,.....ATmtr lr5r
SASH_DOORS_PLYW(X)D
Buckley lanber Dealcrr' Supply Company, Ul Suttc Building...........,......SUIrtr C00C
Niolal Dm Saler Co., 30aS r9th Stre8t,............,......Mls|on ?920
Oregm--Wuhingto Plywod Co, 55 New Mmtgorery Street.......GArfietd ?0Ct
Wheler.Or-good Saler Corpcatiu, 30{5 l9th St. ......................VA|€DGir Ztr
CREOSOTIED LUMBER-POLES-PILINCTIES
Hdl, Janrer I-, ,..,.....,..... 1020 Mills Blds. .....,.............Sutter t3E5
McCmlc},-Ctu. R., Lunbcr Co., aor Mr*et Strct.....,.....,....,.Dorytar 25fr
PANEI.S-DOORS_SASH
Elltott Bay Salca Co., tlzl Brcdmy ....HI8at. aa?
Cdilarh Buildcrr SupplyCc, 501 ,th Avonue ,.ANdovcr ff$
Westan Dm & Sash Co. 5t! & Cyprcr Sti .........;....LAlai& taX
Strablc tlerdmod Gc- Silt Fint StrGGt.....,...........TiEnplcbar 55tl
LUMBER
LUMBER
Bool:tavcr-Bune Lubcr Co.
554 Chmbcr of Conncre BIdg.. 'PRGFct a23l
Chanbcrlin & Cq, W. R., 3tt Wcat Nhth SL..'.....'..'....TUcLar t{31
Dolb.Gr & Cm Lrmbc Co., lzt Shcll Bullding...,'.............VArd|Le f,J92
Hmmod & Llttlc Rivcr Redwood Co. r0|tf So. Brordmv ....;..........PRGFct oCdl
Hemmhgr,'E. W., 355? 3;. Hilt St. ......,......,..Rlchnod ur
Hohncs Euttln Lmbc Co..
Al-?12 Archttcctt Blds. '.. ' .Mutual ,ltl
Hos, A. L.. mo So Il Brca Ave. ..,.........,...YOrk ll3t
lmePhllips Luber Co
titit Pctrolem Seurlfiee"stdg...PRoapect 02!l
MacDoald & Bergrtrm, Inc., ?!til Pctroleu Sccuritiec Bldg.,,PRocp€€t ?lt{
MacDmald & Hmington, Ltd.,
5{7 Petrcleu Scuitiee BtdS....PRo.DGGt sClf
McCmick, Chs. R., Lumbq Co.-
Ut Wat tth SL ,..............,..TRinity 92{r
Pedfic Lubcr Co, lae
tO Sa b Bm Ave. ,..,............Y(Hr rrat
Patten-Bllnn Lunber Cc, 52l E. 5th St. .,..................VAndikc 2321
Red Rlvc Lunbcr Co, 7ll8 E. Slaurol .CEntury 2ttl?l
Slqrta Fc Lumbcr Co, tU Fluciat Cmter Bldg.......VAndlte fi?r
Schafer Bm. Lunber & SbtDSl,E Cc, I22.C W. M. Garhld Blds.........TRinityl?t
Sudden & Christeuon, ttlt Btrrd of Tn& Blds. ........TRirity!t{1
Union Luaber Co.. 92t W. M. Crrlard Bldt..,.....,..TRinity Ztz
Wendling-Nathu Co,, 70 ll* k Brua Ave. ...,..,.......YOrk lllt
E. K. Wmd lanbcr Co, l70l Suta Fo Avc. ......,.......JEffcrm 3lll
Wcyerhaos Salcr Co., E{9 Pcholeu Sccuritia Bld3...PRcpct sStO
CREOSOTED LUMBER_POLES-PILTNGTI;ES
McCmlck, Chu. R., Lmbcr Co, U7 l[/qt 9th St. ................TRinltlr sAf
Rellly Tar & Cbcmlcal Corp. tla U/. Flfth Strut................Mutul ealt
HARDW(X)D!I
strnto, E. J. & sm, 2050 Er't :ltth Strc.t..,.,......,CErtury !2ft
SAIIH-DOORS-MILLWORK
Buckley Lumbq Dealero' SupplyCo, 5il9 Petrcleln Seoritis Bldg....PRopect 5f5a
Kehlr Jn W.- & Smr, G2 Sc Myen St. ....,.,.,.......AN9e1$ lttl
Rcd Rticr Lunbcr Cq, 7ol E. Sburo ,.!....,..r,r,..!...CEntury rf?t
TYhcler-Osgood Salca Corpmtlon, 215it Sacranoto St. ., .. .TUcker llll
PANEI.S AND PLYWOOD
Califmia Parul & Vcrur Co., 955 So Ahmeda SL...............,TRirtty a06?
Elliott Bay Sals Co.
tlll Petrolqm Securitier Bldgf...PRcpect 36t0
Oregoa-Warhlngton Plywood Co, 3lt u/€Et Ninth Strctc .......,.....Tucktr l|ll
Puific Mutul Du C,o., CApltol ?il U23 Wotnlrrt r Arc. (Alhubn)
Whelsr-Ocg@d Sdc Ccpmtnn, Zlsit Ssuato St. ...,..,......,..TUckcr {'L
The Exchange Sawmills Company of Kansas City, Mo., one of the biggest producers of lumber in the South for the past twenty years, announ'ces the firm has closed a deal for the purchase of the timber, milling and railroad properties of the Modoc Lumber Company at Klamath Falls, Ore.
William Lowe has resigned as vi,ce president of the Whitelock Lumber Co. at Bell to return to Sidney, Neb., where he will be associated with the Nebraska-Colorado Grain Company.
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Reproduction of an advertisement by the Boyd Lumber & Mill Co. boosting wood for home constru,ction is a sample of the advertising the lumber firms of Santa Barbara have carried on since reconstruction started following the earthquake.
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The Redwood publicity contest which aims to boost "Better Homes" and which was announced in the August I issue of "The California Lumber Merchant" is warming up. To date the Redwood salesmen,have turned in a large quantity of Redwood selling and using ideas as they have gleaned thein from the retail trade, the Committee in charge of the contest reports.
The annual picnic ", arL ,r"t"" Lumber Company was held Sunday, July 26, at Eagle's Nest on the Noyo, Mendocino County. About 1400 attended the picnic.
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The Two Rock Commercial Co. at Two Rock has completed the ,construction of a new mill at their plant.
The Wisnom Lumber a: ; Sln M.teo is building a new shed which will be strictly modern in all details, and will contain many features of various types of lumber sheds throughout the state.
The Albion Lumber Company held at Northfork on Augdst 5.
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Frank Wisner, Laurel, Miss.; Wilson Compton, Washington, D. C. and John Blodgett, Grand Rapids, Mich., were San Francis,co visitors following the mid-summer meeting of ihe National Lumber Manufacturers Association held at Portland, Ore. They were guests at a luncheon at the Palace Hotel which was attended by twenty prominent San Francisco lumbermen.
H. A. Cahalan, Cahalan Co., Burlingame, has returned from a business trip to Oregon, Washington and Utah.
J. A. Mulcahy of Tucson, Arizona retailer. has been spending several days in San Francisco calling on his lumbermen friends. * :r. *
Ray Spencer, Spencer Lumber Co., Walnut Creek, has been vacationing at Morgan Springs in Tehama County.
This issue carries ",;r;;ion of the Sun Lumber Company full page advertisement that appeared in The Beverly Hills Citizen. * * *
In going over his old files, A. J. (Gus) Russell of the Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco, encountered an interesting momento of the wreck and fire caused by the train robbers at Siskiyou, Ore., in 1923. A picture of the check which was in a burnt and badly mutilated condition appears in this issue. The check was sent to the Patrick Lumber Company, Portland, and 'delivered many weeks later with the notation, "This mail damaged by fire and dynamite in hold-up of Ashland & Gerber Train No. 13, at Siskiyou, Ore., October 11,1923." In spite of the mutilated condition of the ,check, the Patrick Lumber Co. did not hesitate to clear the document with their endorsement.
The Waddell Lumber Co., Alameda, announces the sale of this large retail lumber yard to the Loop Lumber Co. of San Francisco.
Dan Schroebel, A. A. Hauerbach and Robert Inglis have purchased the stock control of the San Joaquin Lumber Co. at Stockton. The purchase of control was made from the Coos Bay Lumber Co.
This issue 'carries a two-page spread of photographs of San Francisco Hoo-Hoo officials, including J' Walter Kelly, G. W. Fraser, J. E. Peggs, Fred Roth, J. E. Martin, L. A. Godard, Chas. R. Wilson, C. C. Stibi'ch, R. E. Caldwell, J. E. Higgins, Jr., E. A. Chamberlin, R. A. Hiscox, Frank H. Harris, J. C. McCabe, C. Stowell Smith, Frank Trower, Frank O'Conner, and Rod Hendrickson.
Fred Burgers of the "rrl.rr-t,i"rber Company is back on his old territory again calling on the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley trade. For the past month he has been connected with the sales department in the company's San Francisco office. Roy Shannon, lvho covered the territory during his office detail, will be connected with the San Francisco office.
The Columbo Lumber Co. of Sebastopol has completed the construction of a new lumber shed, and recently purchased property adjoining their plant whi'ch will be used for lumber stocks.
King Lumber Company, Bakersfiel'd, has done a remarkably good job in insulating their ofifi'ce and store.
All the walls are insulated with Celotex. Fir-Tex is laid on top of the roof sheathing, and the ceiling is insulated with Palco Redwood Bark.
Acousti Celotex is used on the ceiling for sound deadening.purposes. Celotex is also used on the floor under the linoleum.
This insulation redu,ces the temperature of the office and store about 18 degrees below the outside temperature in hot weather. A cooling system effects a further reduction in temperature of six degrees.
This store and office building is one of the finest in the country.
The veneer plant of the Wheeler Osgood Sales Company, Tacoma, was damaged by fire, said to be due to spontaneous combustion, August 7.
E. J. Calloway, president, stated that there was no connection between the fire and the recent labor troubles. The entire crew was back at work and the plant was on a Z4hour basis.
The plant will be rebuilt as soon as possible.
Fire, said to have started from a smoke stack spark, burned the mill of the Klamath-California Redwood Company at Trinidad, August 2. The loss was estimated at $250,000.
The Los Angeles office of the Coos Bay Lumber Co. now has a new telephone number. The number is VAndyke 203r.
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Wanted to buy interest in retail lumber yard and assume management by man of 20 years' experience. State full particulars in first letter. Address Box C-565, California Lumber Merchant.
Wants sawmill operator to put up mitl near Placerville, California, to cut stand of Pine timber. 60,000,000 feet of Pine timber availabtre. Good opportunity for small sawmill operation. Address Box C-559, care California Lumber Merchant.
We can offer some attractive buys in retail lumber yards in Southern California. Twohy Lumber Co., Lumber Yard Brokers, 549 Petroleum Securities Bldg., Los Angeles. Telephone PRospect 8746.
The Roth-Maier Lumber Co. of San Francisco held a big barbe'cue at their branch home yard at Salada Beach on Saturday afternoon, July 20, between the hours of I :00 and 4:00 p.m. Over 250 attended which included many neighboring farmers and county officials.. There were g'ames for the children, such as, three-legged race, egg race, tug-of-war, etc. Music was furnished throughout the afternoon. Refreshments were'served.
A full page advertisement in the H'alf Moon Bay Review ,carried an announcement of the barbecue with cordial invitations from Fred Roth, Paul Maier and their staff to the residents of the Coastside to attend. The ad 'carried photographs of 'Fred,. Roth and Paul Maier, pictures showing the front and a part of the interior of the office of their San Francis,co yard, a list of seven "extra specials" in lumber and building materials, together with a coupon when signed entitling those present to purchase not more than one each of the specials advertised, which would be on sale at their yard the following week.
The purpose of the party was to get better acquainted with the residents of the Coastside and to show to them many of the new lines the ,company has added to serve that district. In addition to Mr. Roth and Mr. Maier, the company was also r,epresented at the barbecue by D. O. Duffell, pioneer lumberman and former mayor of Santa Clara; "Andy" Barberi, the ,compahy's field sales manager; Harry Gaetjen, manager of the Fmpire, Planing Mill and widely known in millwork circles, and other department heads.
Bill Giles, Giles Lumber Co., Lennox, is on a vacation trip to Illinois and other points in the I\{iddlewest
Lumberman with successful softwood and hardwood sales record, also experienced as executive and in all lumber offi,ce details, wants position. Will go anywhere. Will appreciate an interview. Address Box C-564, ,care California Lumber Merchant.
Management of Retail Yard wanted by experien,ced lumberman. Age 38, married. Fourteen years experience, eleven as manag'er. Understand bookkeeping and office details. With same firm seven years. Best of references. Address Box C-561, California Lumber Merchant.
Ameri,ca's Exposition at San Diego, California, is an exhibit of Nu-Wood interior finish units as well. Ovqr 100,000 square feet of these units help to make exhibits, auditoriums, restaurants and villages more attractive.
Just as in Chicago's Century of Progress in 1933 and 1934, Nu-Wood's striking texture and interesting variegated colors caused it to be selected for wall and ceiling treatment in a large number of exhibition buildings. Nu-Wood Plank has been used most frequently because of its easy ability to fit into the plans for Spanish design, which is the architectural basis of the San Diego Exhibition. Easily the show place of the Exhibit, the "Cafe of the World" is also the show place for Nu-Wood products. Nu-Wood Plank has been applied in walls and ceilings of its main dining room, its bar rooms and ,casino. On the side walls of the central bar room, Nu-Wood Plank has been applied in 45 degree angle matched panels on the upper sidewalls. The entire application has provided attractive interior finish as well as insulating value and acoustical correction.
Other outstanding examples of Nu-Wood interior finish application at the San Diego Fair are the auditorium in the "House of Hospitality", the exhibit of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, in the Hall of Science, the Fair Administration offi,ce and the office of the Department of Admissions.
Nu-Wood units are manufactured by Wood Conversion Company, St. Paul, Minnesota, a Weyerhaeuser unit. They are available in Tile, Plank and Wainscot units, as well as in Board form. This ,company also manufactures BalsamWool, flexible house insulation. The company,s products are marketed through retail lumber dealers exclusively.
George Grant, California sales manager of the Coos Bay Lumber Co., Oakland, was a Southern California visitor last week where he spent a few days at the company's Los Angeles office.
Twice each month we are sending out orrr mesrage of business newsr ideas and good cheer to the lumbermen of California. On every page there are matters of direct and practical interest to every California lumberman. Isn't this then an ideal medium who have a business story they send to these lumber follrs?
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Scene: (fn a retail oftce where John has just called).
"Who is that young Palco Bark salesman?"
"That's John Klass."
"Herb Klasst son?"
"No, Herb is John Klass' father!" While behind the scenes
You'll learn that John was born in 1907 in San Francisco but soon migtated to Scotia where he was brought up to the music of the saw mills.
After taking all that the schools of Scotia had to offer, John joined t{re.class of '29 at the Llniversity of California where he majored in Economics.
' His first practical experience was in a casket factory where he gained a first-hand knowledge of Redwoodts "workability."
Then recognizing the unusual opportunities which lay in the tapilly growing refrigeration field John cast his lot with Palco Bark, now serving as field representative and engineer for the Pacific Coast.
Palco Bark is young-so is John-watch them grow to' gether!
