Pabco Exhibit at Fair is Mecca for Home-Folk

Mecca for those who have built, are building, or someday hope to build their own home is the Homes and Gardens building at the 1940 Golden Gate International Exposition on Treasure Island, near San Francisco.

Here, occupying nearly an entire end of the big structure, is the exhibit of The Paraffine Cos. Inc. It is the largest representative of the building industries at the Island.

In all its exhibits, Pabco emphasizes and re-emphasizes one point important to the industry-

Home building has been modernized. Values are better. The home building dollar purchases far more than it ever did in the past.

In explanation of the significance of Pabco's exhibit, E. F. Seagrave, manager of building rnaterials, remarks:

"In tune with modern merchandising, the display proves that lumber dealers and constrttction men of today are not selling piece-by-piece homes, but completely constructed residences, ready for occupancy.

Pabco has taken three ways of visualizing for thousands of Exposition visitors the easiness with which today's home can be built.

A packaged model home revolves on a disk in front of the exhibit. and shor'vs modern conveniences and built-in features that the modern lumber dealer or construction man offers to the home-builder.

Step-by-step constructional modern homes-six of them -show the house in the various processes of being built, painted and furnished. These are enlivened by the tiny figures of painters and builders, shown in various representative poses.

The mystery in home-building is removed for the layman by showing of an animated technicolor movie with sound, which depicts steps taken by a young couple in planning and building their home. This re-emphasizes the service and personal direction given by modern lumber dealers to the home builder, and includes details of lot and design selection, construction, and financing.

"All this," according to Mr. Seagrave, "shows that the modern home is one of the few 20th century productions that is not strictly standardized. People have not accepted and will not accept mass production in home building. If they did, homes would be sold even more inexpensively.

"But construction men have taken another way. They have standardized the essentiats-sa5hs5, doors, and the hidden features of construction. This brings down the price enormously, yet leaves design, shape, size and floor plan to the decision of the owner."

In approaching the building problem at the Exposition, Pabco has taken the vizualization method to show GGIE crowds the new utility, safety and satisfactory conditions apparent in modern building.

A giant linoleum mural, creation of Franz Bergman, Vienna artist, traces the history of building and contrasts the modern home to its prototypes.

By means of the constructional homes, a new system of creosoting foundations without danger to the workman is dramatized. Building papers, priced the same but of quality improved to the grade of an asphalt-coated roofing, are displayed. Paints more true, more durable, more decorative, make interior and exterior walls crisply new, shining, simple to clean.

"Service and quality," declares Mr. Seagrave, "is being sold with every modern home. Service and quality are the pivots of the streamlined 20th century building industry. Service and quality are the features dramatically visualized at Pabco's booth on Treasure Island-a display designed to represent Pabco dealers, the Pabco factory and the building profession as a whole."

Pope & Talbot Establighes Piling Concentration Yard Near Eugene

Pope & Talbot Lumber Co., oldest lumber manufacturers in the Northwest, has established a piling concentration yard near Eugene, Ore., which is operated under the direction of William Moores, head of the Portland piling division of the company. The piling yard serves as a point to gather piling purchased from loggers throughout the county for reshipmelt to the company's creosoting plant at St. Helens and other points.

The company has an office in Eugene which has been in operation for the past three years where it directs the rail shipments of lumber, the majority of which goes to California and Southern points. G. B. McGill is in charge of the Eugene office.

Pope & Talbot Lumber Co. is said to be the third largest producer of Douglas Fir in the world. The company has been operating in the Northwest for almost 90 years.

Henry L. Erdman

Funeral services for Henry L. Erdman, who had been associated with the sash and door business in Los Angeles for many years, was held on Monday, July 29. He had been with Whiting-Mead Co., Los Angeles, as manag'er of their sash and door department.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Agnes Erdman; a son, Joseph J. Erdman, two sisters and a brother.

Hoo-HooAnnual Convention at Chicago State Retailers' Annual Convention to be Septemb er 9-1O Held at Santa Barbara Nov. 7 -g -9

The annual convention of the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo, the fraternal order of lumbermen, will be held at the Stevens Hotel, Chicago, Ill., on Monday and Tuesday, September 9-lO, 194o.

The officers and members of the Supreme Nine will meet at the Stevens Hotel, Sunday, September 8, and all past snarks of the Order have been invited to attend. The first session of the convention opens at 9.O9 a.m., Mondal, September 9. A concatenation, banquet and entertainment has been arranged for Monday evening. The business session will be resumed Tuesday morning and the luncheon meeting that day will be addressed by a speaker of national importance. It is planned to conclude the business of the convention so that delegates and visitors may leave Chicago, Tuesday evening if they so desire. All members of the Order are invited and urged to be present and attend any and all sessions.

The United States and Canada are divided into nine jurisdictions. Each jurisdiction is entitled to one delegate for each fifty members in that jurisdiction.

The following members, in and near Chicago, make up the general arrangements committee: George W. Dulany, Clinton, fowa, honorary chairman; J. D. M,cCarthy, Springfield, Ill., chairman; Bernard L. Johnson, Chicago, vice-chairman; B. F. Springer, Milwaukee, 'Wis.; E. W. Kettlety, Chicago; J. M. Wright, Chicago; Joe Sanders, Chicago; John Parshall, Chicago; Robert Morris, Chicago; and D. S. Montgomery, Milwaukee, Wis.

It has been several years since the Order has held a general convention but with the renewed interest and increase in membership the past year, the committee in charge is making plans for a good attendance in Chicago this year.

Cobb Moves San Diego Warehouse

T. M. Cobb Co., wholesale dealers in sash, doors, mouldings and plywoods, with warehouses in Los Angeles and San Diego, recently moved to their new .warehouse at 4th and K Streets, San Diego.

The property which has been remodeled to suit this company's requirements, has a frontage of 100 feet on K Street, with a depth on its longest side of 190 feet. It has a loading pit on 4th Street, a 100 ft. loading platform on K Street and is situated on S. D. and A. and Santa Fe trackage.

The offices are finished in Mahogany wainscoting with National Gypsum Company's Gold Bond variegated tile on the ceiling and 16' cream texture tile on the walls.

The telephone numbers remain the same, Franklin 6673 and 6674. W. R. Hewitt is manager of the San Diego warehouse.

Calls On Mills

A meeting of the Board of Directors of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association was held at the Miramar Hotel, Santa Monica, Friday evening, August 9. Following dinner, there was a business session presided over by President A. E. Fickling. The group were the guests of John W. Fisher, Fisher-Swartz Lumber Company, of Santa Monica.

Secretary C. W. Pinkerton reported on Association activities.

The Association will be in charge of the arrangements for the State Retailers' annual convention this fall and it was voted to hold the convention at Santa Barbara on November 7-8-9.

A motion was passed that the Secretary advise the dealers that R. M. Anderson, Builders' Control Service, fnc., Los Angeles, will address a meeting of the dealers at an early date on Bonded Joint Control, the date and place of the meeting to be announced later. Several of the dealers reported on lumber market conditions in their territories.

Attending the meeting were: A. E. Fickling, Fickling Lumber Company, Long Beach; John W. Fisher, FisherSwartz Lumber Company, Santa Monica; George Lounsberry, Lounsberry & Harris, Los Angeles; C. W. Pinkerton. Southern California Retail Lumber Assn.. Los Angeles; E. L. Thomas, Dudley-Thomas Lumber Company, Santa Monica; Frank Gibbs, Gibbs Lumber Company, Anaheim; Jack Alley, Alley Bros., Santa Monica; R. M. Engstrand, Orange County Lumbermen's Club, Santa Ana; H. A. McAdams, IJnion Mill & Lumber Company, Santa Barbara; Ralph Baker, Hayward Lumber & fnvestment Co., Los Angeles; Frank Harrison, Harrison Wholesale Co., Santa Barbara; Ed Stoner, Sawtelle Lumber Company, West Los Angeles; Carl Laughlin, FisherSwartz Lumber Company, Santa Monica; O. A. Simmons, Golden State Lumber Company, Santa Monica; Tom Fox, 'Fisher-Swartz Lumber Company, Santa Monica; Gerald Curran, Curran Bros., Pomona; E. C. Parker, Patten-Blinn Lumber Company, Los Angeles; Chester Knight, San Fernando Lumber Company, San Fernando; J. E. Martin, The California Lumber Merchant, Los Angeles.

Hardwood Distributor3 Meet Aug. 29-31

The 18th annual convention of the Pacific Coast Wholesale Hardwood Distributors Association will be held at the Empress Hotel, Victoria, B. C., on August 29,30 and 31.

Norman C. Sawers, J. Fyfe-Smith Co., Ltd., Vancouver, B. C., is president of the Association; C. R.Taenzer, American Hardwood Co., Los Angeles, is vice-president, and K. L. Bates, Matthews Hardwoods, fnc., Seattle, is secretarv-treasurer.

HARRY T. KENDALL

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Harry T. Kendall, vice president and general manager of the Weyerhaeuser Sales Company, was a recent California visitor. While his home is in St. Paul, Minn., Mr. Kendall and family are spending the summer in Tacoma.