"At Grumman, we are proud that in our person-toperson c:rmpaign over 10,000 employees joineC the Payroll Savings Plan and grasped the opportunitv to buy U. S. Savings Bonds regularlv every payday. These results were achieved through enthusiastic, patriotic teamwork. I urge every American company to reactivate their Bond Program now in a nationwide ef{ort to maintain sound money and a stable economv."
LEON SWIRBUL, Presiilento Grunrman
Air cral t E n gineerin g C ompany
If you have a hundred or more men and women, you can make a substantial contribution to sound money and a stable economy, and also help your employees to build personal security, by installing the Payroll Savings Plan, or reactivating an existing one.
A phone call, wire or letter to Savings Bonds Division, U. S. Treasury Department, Washington, D. C., will bring prompt response from your State Director, who will help you to organize a person-to-person canvass that will put a Payroll Savings Application in the hands of every employee. That's all you have to do. Your employees will grasp "the opportunity to buy U. S. Savings Bonds regularly every payday."
Thc United States Gouernrnent does not pay for this ad,xertising. The Treasury Departrnent thanks, for their patriotic donation, the Aduertising Council and,
Lumber shipments of 518 mills reporting to the National Lumber Trade Barometer wete 6'6/o above production in the week ended July 3O; new orders r'vere virtually the same, while unfilled orders were 5Oo/o of stocks. Compared with the week ended July 23, production was 1.7/o and shipments were 6.2% above, while orders were 3'9/o below. For the year to date, shipments were 4.0/o above producticrn and new orders were 5.8/o above.
The National Lumber Manufacturers Association reported national lumber production totaled an estimated 3,581,000,000 bf in June 1955, an increase of 5/o over May and, I5/o over June 1954. Softwood shipments were 3/o over production; hardwood shipments wete B/o greater. In the first half of 1955, estimated total lumber production of 13,391,000,000 bf was 3/o above the similar 1954 period, with softwoods up 8/o and hardwoods down l3/o- Both shipments and new orders exceeded production in the first six months this year at levels 7/o above last year.
The West Coast Lumbermen's Association reported for 175 mills (157 operating) in the rveek ended July 30: production, 116,033,397 feet; shipments, 135,148,633 feet (15.5% over production); orders, 1n,737,I89 feet. For the year to date, shipments were 2.2/o and orders 2.9/o over production.
The Western Pine Association reported for 114 mills in the rveek ended July 23: production, 91,350,000 feet; shipments, 85,633,000 feet; orders, 88,537,000 feet. Orders were 18.8% above the week ended July 16 and production for 1955 was 330,000 feet above 1954 to date.
The California Redwood Association reported the greatest volume of Redwood lumber production by California mills for any six-months period was recorded in the first half of this year. The 20 largest producers showed a l0/o production gain, a Z2/o increase in orders, and l5/o hike in shipments; production being up 29,916,000 feet and shipments up 43,544,A00 feet over the first half of 1954, with Redwood trees being sawed into lumber at the fastest clip (Continued on Page 60)
For the first time in Southern California history, building permits passed the $1,000,000,000 mark in the first six months of a year, according to figures available a{ter June 30 as compiled by the Research department of the SecurityFirst National Bank of Los Angeles and reported in The Los Angeles Examiner.
A tabulation of 66 representative cities, plus the nine unincorporated county areas, shows that 1955, to that date, had recorded $1,037,434,482. This is more than 28/o above the building total for 1954's first half-$809,540,392.
The importance of topping the billion-dollar mark in six months was underlined by the fact that in all its history, the Southland has had only six full years in which the $1 billion mark was reached or surpassed.
The permit total for June this year was $172,722,805-highest on record, and also made this June the fifth highest of any rnonth on record.
The city of Los Angeles recorded $39,176,422 this June. For the first six months, its total was $214,98,168, com.pared to $frI,644,a62 \n i954's first half. Los Angeles County's June total was $39,895,590 and its six-months total rn'as $216,049,020, 30% above last year's and ll/a above the previous record set in 1950.
Orange county nearly doubled its 1954 figures, as did Fullerton, and Riverside county, rvhile Palm Springs clearly doubled its 1954 mark. Oxnard, in June, nearly tripled its June 1954 and more than doubled 1954's first half-year.
Selma, Calif.-The Valley Lumber Co. yard here, a n'ellknown Selma business for at least 40 years, changed hands July 1 with its purchase by Bob Cross and Rich Bennett of Merced. The nerv o\\rners announced that the name will be changed to Selma Lumber & Hardware Co. They have purchased homes in the Bonnie View subdivision which are expected to be completed September 1 and will then move their families here.
Before buying the local yard, Cross and Bennett were associated rvith the Cross Lumber Co. at Merced for 10 years; they have severed that connection.
Riley Hallmark, manager for the Valley Lumber Co. here, said he will continue with the lineyard concern in a nerv assignment elsewhere after he closed out Valley's local accounts. Valley Lumber Co. has several California yards.
One nerv active member, the Buena Park (Calif.) Lumber Co., Inc., and two new associate members-E. L. Reitz Co., Long Beach, and Robert L. Taube \\rholesale, Beverly Hills, have joined the Southern California Retail Lumber Association. The firms were enrolled by Bob James, manager, Macco Lumber Co., Paramount, and Wilbur Barr, president, Barr Lurnber Co., Santa Ana.
With this issue, u'e u'elcome the follorving neu' advertisers into the ever-growing family of "Merchantisers" :
Chesney, Inc. (Page 52)
Lumber Carrier Service, Inc. (Page 59)
Martin Brothers Box Company (Pages 34-35) (Lumber Division)
In a transfer involving a half million dollars, Henrl' Hess made official the sale of l-ris Sebastopol and Guerneville, California, lumberyards on July 19. Mr. IIess, one of Sebastopol's oldest businessmen, sold the tu'o yards to thc Christenson family.
Henry Hess, who started the Sebastopol yard 42 years ago, turned over two of his four yards to a new corporation, the Sebastopol Lumber Company, controlled by the Christenson family with whom he has been associated for many years. E. A. Christenson and Henry Hess originated the Henry Hess Lumber Company in 7912. Mr. Hess will continue to operate his trvo other yards, in San Rafael and Novato.
Fred J. Foster, attorney for the Christenson family, stated that no change in policy is anticipated, and that every man of the old Hess personnel will remain employed in his same position with the new company.
Mr. Hess expressed his gratitude for the friendships he has found in both Sebastopol and Guerneville and adjoining areas. "They will often see me back there," he said. "Friendships of more than 42 years just do not fade."
Walnut Creek, Calif.-The Planning Commission met last month to consider several matters, including an application by Diamond Match Co. to operate a lumberyard and building materials store on a site at N{t. Diablo boulevard and Granger street here. The company \rras represented by Ira E. Brink of Chico, general manag'er of the national firm's operations in Northern California.
The comrnission recommended approval of the application u'ith a number of minor conditions. The area is non' occupied by the Kewin Lumber & Supply Co. and has been a lumberyard site for 39 years. Brink said that Diamonci Match would lease the property and make a number of improvements. It would also retain its present yard in the triangle formed by Locust, Dast and Cole streets but n'ould give up its storage yard across the street.
San Diego.-Construction started in unincorporated areas of San Diego county in June n'as valued at a total of $3.294,570, compared rvith $2.530,994 in June 195,1. The June totals brought the 1955 six-months' figure to $17,289,530, compared to $14,624,737 in the first six n-ronths of 1954.
Here ore fypicol exomples of horv Hyster Industriirl 'l'rucks are he lping to make trenteudous sin'ings in materials handling costs in lumber 1'ards.
Whether )'ou zrre norv using lift trucks, or hurven't ever used industrial trucks of any kind, your Hyster Dealer is ready to help vou achieve cost reductions. Because he keeps abreast of thc Inaterials handling problerns and improvcments' he has helped many lumber yards realize more profit frorn thcir operations. Wby not call ltim today and take advantage ol bis specialized serrices? Materials Handling Trucks front I ,000 to 30,000 pound capacities.
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There is an old and generally accepted bit of practical philosophy that says that if you live in a country run by a committee-get on the committee. Not true in Russia, the most notable example in history of a nation run by a committee. Most of the troubles of the Russian committees are short-lived; and so are the committees, because they kill each other. "IJneasy lies the head that wears" -not the crown as in other days, but the committee membership sign. ,<**
I shall take time out right here to give Los Angeles a pat on the back. Recently the American Legion of Southern California passed a unanimous resolution seeking to bar UNESCO from our schools; and now Los Angeles has elected a woman to the school board who was elected on an anti-UNESCO ticket; she has also been made president of that board. The days of radical leanings in Los Angeles seem over'
Wrote Fiona Macleod: "A handful of fine seeds wiil cover mountains with the green majesty of forest. I, too, will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high."
Some wag remarked an* *n"" the auto and steel workers got their recent raise, everybody got one. Wages were raised, costs were raised, prices were raised, and Mr. Consumer got raised right out of his chair.
Long ago the meat packers boasted that they utilized everything but the squeal of the pigs. Lately many lumber manufacturers boast that they utilize everything from the log but the squeal of the saws. And now we read about
a mdn who runs a worm farm. He grows worms by the million and feeds them to the turkeys on his farm. He dresses his own turkeys and feeds the leavings to the trout in his own ponds. The only thing left after he markets the trout are the fish heads, and he is planning to feed them to his worms, and make the circle complete. Is that merchandising or is that merchandising?
It is Godlike restlessne"l an.a lr.n." men do lofty things. They dream dreams, and then work to make those dreams come true. Vision without a task is impractical; task without vision is drudgery. Task and vision together mean success. * ,< ,<
The world owes all its onward impulses-from the day when Adam Stonehatchet chipped his first weapon out of the living rock up to now-to men who were unwilling to stay in a rut, to follow in the footsteps of plodders, who refused to be muzzled when the talking time arrived. ff it were not for men who could not be restrained from raring up on their hind legs and speaking the truth whether it pleased the powers that be or not, we would still be living in caves, clad in the skins of wild beasts, eating raw meat, knowing no God, and chasing one another around the rocks with knotty-headed clubs loaded to scatter.
The only difference O.*;" I .,ra and a grave is the depth, and it is through the fearlessness of men who would not be held down and could not be restrained that the world owes all its forward forging. Moses was of that type; so was Jesus, and Buddha, and Confucius, and Socrates, and Galileo, and Cromwell, and Roger Bacon, and George Washington, and Abraharn Lincoln, and Columbus, and the men who took the Bastille, and many others of the same strain. *t<*
Any man who fears not to tear down foolish illusions, or to strike with full thrust at unrighteous conditions, or laws, or edicts, is a friend of mankind. without whose brains and courage this race would long since have died of dry rot; or of somethin* *oT..* *
There is .something wonderful about a man who will not mind. It is to such that we owe our salvation, our present rights and privileges. Had we, in times of old, minded the kings, we would all be slaves; had we minded the clergy, we would all be idiots; had we minded the doctors, we would all be dead. {<t<*
That last reminds me of the time when the medical profession would not give water to a typhoid fever patient.
AIN'T IT FUNNY THAT SOME FOLKS YOU DON'T MISS. AND SOME FOLKS YOU JUST MrSS A MILE; AND THE FOLKS YOU DON'T MISS YOU SEE LOTS OF, THE OTHERS JUST ONCE IN A WHILE?
And many millions died of thirst before they found out that copious quantities of water was what those patients must have. But one day some poor devil who was burning down with typhoid said to himself, "Well, if I'm going to die anyway, I'm going to get me a drink FIRST." So he crawled out of bed and got hold of a big pitcher of ice water, and drank it all down. And when the frightened doctor was rushed in he took the patient's pulse and found it was slower; he took his temperature and found it was lower. But he couldn't see this sign that the Lord Himself was holding up in front of his eyes. He just threw up his hands and said: "Good God ! What a constitution this guy's got !" {< 1. *
A friend said to me the other day-"Maybe you're too conservative for the times we're living in." Maybe so. My opinions on old-fashioned Americanism have long been printed in these columns. I believe in the old fundamentals, such as the purgative properties of castor oil, and the killing qualities of carbolic acid, and other things along the same line. I believe that Americanism begins at home, and should stay there. Most of our efforts abroad remind me of a little bantam hen I used to hear about. That little hen would stray farther from home, cackle louder, and lay smaller eggs than
oal"t_ hen in history.
And some of them remind me of the philosophy of the long, lean country negro who was walking leisurely along outside the fence that lined a cemetery. As he walked along he read aloud the inscriptions and epitaphs on the
tall monuments. and he came to one that read: "Not dead, but sleeping." And the dark one shook his head, as he loudly remarked: "FIe ain't foolin' NOBODY but jus' HrssEF."
The way of the man who sees his duty and does it, in spite of the fact that it may be directly contrary to present popular beliefs, is not always the easy way. Far from it. They said of Galileo, torture him, because he said the world was round. They said of Servetus, burn him, because he condemned their religious acts' They said of Socrates, poison him, because he laughed at the amorous gods of Greece. They said of the Carpenter, crucify him, because he drove the money-changers from the temple, and declared that the fashionable preachers of that day were a lot of canting hypocrites.
This is not the easy way. It is the hard way, all too often. The easy way is to drift with the tide, side with those in power regardless of your real opinion of them, seek the line of least resistance. But that is not the American l'rray. It is not the man's way. All through history men have had to choose to either drift or fight; the easy way that leads downward, or the hard way that struggles upward. Remember Moses? He could have lived the life of ease and luxury in the palaces of the pharaohs, but he chose, instead, the tents of the wandering tribes of Israel' He took the hard way. But when he died, God gave him a mountain top for a burial place. And he's up there still !
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More and more lumber dealers are using the 4-Square Building Services to sell building prospects-and to increase the sale of every item in their yards. The Services work this way:
People who are interested in building a new home or a farm building read about the Weyerhaeuser 4-Square Ffome Building Service or the 4-Square Farm Building Service in leading national magazines. These advertisements advise prospects to go to their local Weyerhaeuser'4-square Lumber Dealer to see scores of professionally designed plans.
HowEach month thousands of prospects request literature offered in Weverhaeuser advertising. These people-are sent the names of Weyerhaeuser 4Square Building Service Dealerswhile their names are also furnished to dealers for local follow-up.
Many dealers are employing these Building Services because of the help gained in stimulating sales, and in identifying their yards as local building headquarters.
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National plywood distributors are to embark upon a revolutionary merchandising plan of local retail advertising intended to maintain sales at the record of 100 million feet a rveek and further expand n-rarkets. The plan, rvhich is to create as much as $500,000 for sales promotion unique to building materials, rvas voted at tl-re national convention of National'Plyrvood Distributors Association. The panel jobbers timed their annual meeting rvith the fir plyu'ood Golden Jubilee in late June at Portlancl, Oregon.
Through the distributors' associzrtion a new non-profit corporation has been formed, knorvn as Jobbers ply,"r,oocl I)romotional Fund, Inc. M. C. Davidson, president of llouston (Texas) Sash & Door Co., is president of the neu' organization.
The new advertising, which will be aimed at stimulating retail sales of fir plywood and thereby directly benefit retail lumber dealers, will be financed solely by distributors through paying an extra 15 cents on each thousand feet of plywood when purchased from mills. Since distributors sell more than g}o/s of all fir plywood, the fund could easily amount to a half million dollars with full participation.
Monies rvill be paid into the fund starting September 1, 1955. Just horv quickly campaigns rvill start after that has not been determinecl. Already more than 300 distributing warehouses have agreed to particiltate, and the progranr 'w'as rvell received by manufacturers l'hen presented to ther.n ezrrlier in the vear. Although clistributors t'ill pay the cost, plyu'ood mills will have a part through issrring menlo invoices to distributors for the additional 15 cents on all purcl.rzrses.
I)aviclson explained, follou'ing unanirnous adoption of the plan at the annual meeting, that the advertising program u'ill supplement, not supplant, the continuous promotion by individual plyrvood manufacturers and by Douglas Fir Plyrvood Association. "We distribrrtors n,il1 be filling a void by adding retail advertising sin-rilar to that for automobiles and other brand products," he reportecl. Also unfolded at the national con.i'ention, rvhicl-r attracted 250 distributors and their u'ives, is a plan for ;r Jobbers Pl1'rvood Service Bureau, Inc., to serve as a clearing house of information on what manufacturers u,ant to make and what distributors can sell. A west coast office would be established, probably at lrortland, to maintain close communication rvith manufacturers. The service bureau would NOT be a buying office, nor u,ould it be a substitute for mill sales organizations. The office would develop a complete file of mill specification preferences and production capabilities; it would similarly accumulate information on specification requirements (needs) of distributors. It rvill perform the dual function of assisting distributors to obtain requirements ancl aiding mills to sell unusual or surplus items.
Both the advertising fund ancl tlre proposed service bureau are developments of NPDA, the trade association of jobbers. Hon'ever, participation in both the advertising
endeavor and the service bureau is open to all distributing firms that perform such functions as carrying diversified plywood inventories, traveling salesmen and bearing credit risks.
Leonard E. Hall, vice-president of Lumber Products, Inc., Portland, Oregon, is the nerv president c-rf NPDA. lle succeeds Davidson, u'ho in reality is merely concentrating on the new prolnotional fund as president of that nerv organization. Earl G. Thuresson, president of Associated Door & Plywood Co., Chicago, is the new first vice-president of NPDA, and Theodore Merrill. president of the Interstate Lrrmberrnen's Supply Company, Nelvark, New Jersey, is second vice-president. Nen' directors include William F. Fahs, California Panel & Veneer Co., Los Angeles.
Charles E. Devlin is managing director. In his annual report of his first full year in that position, he advisecl jobbers that the road to continuing profits "lies in demand and sales." He had acknowledged the "perplexing situation in the jobbing business that has to do l'ith margins" for the functions performed.
"To round up my solution of the problem through sales, I believe that demand for plyrvood will continue to increase although probably at a slorver rate. I predict also that the total production u'ill level off, despite the building of new plants," Devlin said.
Directors of the nerv Jobbers Plywood Promotional F'und include Don McCaughey, Arizona Milhvork Co., Phoenix; Emil J. Kochton, Kochton Plyrvood & Veneer Co., Chicago; \\rilliam H. Hunt, United States Plyrvood Corp., New York; S. \A/. White, Georgia-Pacific Plywoocl Co., Olympia, Wash., and V. A. Breitenbncher, Roddis Plyrvood Corp., Marshfield, Wisc.
Business meetings at the NPDA convcntion centered (Continued on Page 47)
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An itinerant colored preacher came to the office door. No high-toned modern solicitor was he. He stepped into the office, hat in hand, and he bent slightly forward and met the eye of his white friend before he started to talk. He was calling on his "white folks," he said, asking for their "hep" in small amounts of cash. As he put it:
"All Ah axes is fo mah white frens to give me bout fo' bits er six bits er a dollah to hep me on mah way, doin de wuk o' de Lavrd an preachin de Baptis, gospel to mah cullud folks. Dass all."
He made that little speech with many gestur,es, elongations, and embellishments, because he was "jus' a humble preachah o'de word o' Gawd."
The gentleman to whom he made his plea-himself a Baptist-had to have his little joke, so he said:
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"You'se wrong now, Cap'n," said the preacher, fervently. "Ah wants to tell you dat de Cathlic chuch is de Mothah of all de othah chuches, de Baptis' an all of 'em."
"Why, IJncle," said the gentleman. "I'm surprised at a good Baptist like you admitting such a thing as that."
"Yassuh !" said the old preacher. "An whut's mo', Ahm de onlies' Baptis'preachah you gwine find whut wili admit hit fo fo' bits !"
Los Angeles metropolitalt area reiil estate loarrs totalerl $23,938,731 in the first half of 1955, according to rlisbursal by the s'estern home office of l)rudential Insurance Crt. Of the total, $16,394,611 u'as for residential prlrp()ses. .\ total of $71,222,898 u'as disltursed for loarrs in the l1 n.estern states zrnd Harvaii, of which $41,238,77I u-as residerrtial loans.
In California during the period, loans tot:rled $51,382,179, of rvhich $29]04,596 u'as resider,tial.
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The Friend & Terry Lumber Company in Sacramento really has a double-barreled claim to longevity. Not only was the firm IOZ years old in January, but it also holds the record of having been controlled by one family-a father and son-over the l0-decade span.
Records do not show just what day of January, 1853, the company was established, but it is believed by some the date was approximately in mid-mo4th. The fact that the firm was established in. the year 1853 is considered by most authorities to place the pioneer concern in the winner's circle as the oldest retail yard in Norther';T California if not the whole state !
Strangely, the company was not originally founded primarily for lumber, but rather as what Captain A. M. Simpson, a shipbuilder and sailor, hoped would become a shipbuilding organization.
Simpson organized the company in 1851, but in 1853 separated it from his shipping interests. At that time, Captain Simpson turned over the management, but not controlling interest, to Joseph S. Friend and W. E. Terry, and the concern was renamed the Friend & Terry Lumber Company.
Records do not show what happened to Friend and his family after a few years, but descendants of Terry remained with the company many years; Jo E. Terry, a son, continued as manager after the firm rvas incorporaterl in 1879.
Meanwhile, Capt. Simpson was plying his trade as a ship captain throughout the world, dealing heavily in lumber from mills he had established in Oregon. The salty old businessman and tar was not to return permanently to Sacramento until 1894, when he became president of the corporation, which had then increased its capital tb more than $250,0O0.
In the interim, the firm had also orvned yarcls at 12th and J Streets, Sacramento, and in Galt, only to dispose of both prior to the time Simpson took over active management.
The elder Simpson died in 1915, whereupon his son, E. M. Simpson-also a ship captain, was elected president, a position he still maintains.
Another father-son combination in the company began ,nany years earlier, when L. G. Shepard n.as emploved. He rvas named manager in 1902, and cuntinued in that post until ill liealth forced him to retire in 1921. Follo..ving his father's retirement, Jo Shepard became manager, and he, in turn, was succeeded by a brother and the present manager-treasurer, Charles L. Shepard, in 1939. Jo Shepard now operates the Builders Emporium lnmber yard in El Cerrito, California.
Charles Shepard, who entered the business in 1911, has worked for no other firm during his entire career.
The company has survived two fires-one in 1913 u'herr the yard, then located at Second and M Streets, was destroyed, and the second at the present location. A charred telephone pole on the east side of Front Street still offers rnute testimony to the blaze, rvhich attracted hundreds of spectators in June 1945.
Since the last fire, the firm has been continually expandrng and modernizing its operations. Storage sheds dc. stroyed in the last lire have been replaced by bigger sheds which give it one of the biggest undercover storage areas of any retail yard in Northern California. Besides modern facilities and handling equipment, Friend & Terry Lumber Company stresses modern merchandising techniques.
Ever conscious of the gror,'r,.ing do-it-yourself markei, the firm has, for many years, been devoting an annual crrt
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fRIEND & TERRY's huge storoge shed5 ore shown top lefr; builr ofrer I945 fire, they enclose some 55,0Oo sq ft.-opp. I,25o,Oo0 boord feet of lumber is stored here. Top right shows invenlory oll stocked by species. grode ond length; 20' overheod cleor ollows use ol l7'6" fork-iift. Unitired lots ot lower left ore reody for driver to lood ond deliver; mossive sloroge sheds in teor Protecl over 95^. of yord's invenlory. Lower center photo wos loken in yord ocross streel o5 the boys pul togelher on order. Right, onother view of :he F&T yord.
name-brand merchandise only has earned the firm the respect and trust of the commnnity.
In turn, the grorving, bustling city of Sacranrento hes looked to Friend & Terry for advice and help in filling its building needs and reciprocating in helping the firm rack up the enviable record of transacting business in the same tou'n for over 102 years I
During its existence, the firm has experienced many a notable event, such as a contract for ill of the Redwood planking used many years ago to construct d wooden road across Imperial Valley.
At one tin.re the busy plant housed 18 teams of horscs and many \vagons, rvhich rvere used to make deliveries. Chain hoists, installed in 1912 ancl designed to iift an entire load from a wagon in one lift, rTorv hang idlr:. The first internal combustior-r motor truck to be used by a yard in Sacramento rvas purchased by Friend & Terry in 1912, and since that time the firm has continued to be among the first to accept innovations in lumber handling and merchandising.
The period of activity during World \\rar II is all but forgotten, as the company is back on a busy, if not hectic, schedule, but Shepard likes to reminisce over the 50,000,000 board feet of lumber remanufactured in the Friend & 'ferry yard for use in btrilding the Sacramento Signal Depot. Other lumber remanufactured at the yard is nol' in military construction all over the Pacific. The firm has shipped to many parts of the t'orld in its long history, and
Shepard believes an unusually high percentage of hom':s in Sacramento contain lumber once stacked in the Friend & Terry yard.
Sin.rpson and Shepard are arclent horseureu, each owning several animals. Both enjoy driving multiple hitches, and Shepard is knor.vn throughout the Pacilic Coast for his ability as a six-horse hitcl-r expert. FIe has clriveu stage coaches and other oldtime vehicles in paracles and celeI'rations over much of California ancl Oregon.
In addition, Shepard has been cquite actir-e in civic affairs Ior many years, and is currently holding drx'r'n the big job of president of the I-umber Merchants -\ssociation oI ^\orthern California.
Clay l3rown, president of M and M Wood Worhir.rg C.rnpany, Portland, l-ras narred Larry T. Marshall of Arcata, Calif., manager of NI and M's California Timber Division in the big plywood door and lumber collcenl's long-range plans for a sustained yield timber l-rarvesting prograr.n irr Northern California. Marshall, who has had wide experience in timberland management, was chosen to put into operation plans that call for selective cutting, logging to provicle natural re-seeding of land, developn-rent of fire control sl.stems and the further acquisition of logs ancl timber. Prior to joining M and M, Marshall was logging rnanager of Dolly Varden Lumber Company, Arcata; and from 1946 to 1950 was with the West Gate Lumber Company of Sweet llome, Orcgon, in the same capacity. From 1930 to 1942, Marshall was employed in various capacities in mill and woods operations.
Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks said July 13 that preliminary results of a Commerce Department survey shorn' that vacant housing for sale and for rent during the second quarter of 1955 amounted to 2.2/o of all dwelling units in the United States. The current vacancy rate, compiled in a sample survey conducted by the Department's Business and Defense Services Administration and the Bureau of the Census, compares with a rate of 1.6/c f.or 1950, when housing shortages were prevalent in many areas and buyers and renters rvere restricted in their selection.
Secretary Weeks pointed out that, according to the survey, the demand for housing continues strong and is absorbing the near-record number of dwelling units being built this year. The current vacancy rate is also low enough to dispel recent apprehensions about overbuilding at this time, the Secretary said.
Under these circumstances, the survey seems to indi.cate that a major construction problem is not overbuilding, but ratl-rer building enough of the right kinds of housing in the right places. The "elbow-room" needed by the 2O/o of our population that moves each year is being provided more by rental housing than by sale housing, according to the survey. Since 1950 the ratio of housing for rent to total housing increased from l.I/o to I.8/o, while the ratio of housing that is for sale, 0.4/o, remains about the same as five years ago,
Earl W. Smith, president of the National Association of Home Builders, said the new Census Bureau survey released by Secretary of Commerce Weeks, showing a nationwide available vacancy rate of only 2.2/o, "fully sustains the position of the home building industry that no overbuilding problem exists in this country."
"The critics of the home building industry who have raised the cry of overbuilding will find neither comfort nor support in this survey by an institution of the high caliber of the Census Bureau," Smith said.
"There is neither overbuilding nor any prospect of it. As a matter of fact, considering the actual need for new housing, there is underbuilding. And in the light of our rapidly growing population, underbuilding is going to be the real problem in the years immediately ahead."
The home building industry, Smith said, expects to start approximately 1.3 million units in 1955. This compares with 1.2 million in 1954. The peak year was i950 with 1.4 million. "Builders are not building houses just to be building," Smith said.
The El Cerrito, Calif., builder has made an extended tour of the U. S. to study local housing conditions and talk with builders about the outlook for the industry. As president of NAHB, he heads an association with a membership of 33,000 which is responsible for approximately 80/o of the annual home building output.
Smith welcomed the trend towards home ownership reflected in the survey. Noting that most of the available vacancies were in rental .units, l-re said, "The American peo-
At the end of the first half, new housing in the U.S. was going up at the rate of 1,320,000 units a year in 1955. In the Los Angeles area (Los Angeles and Or- ' ange counties combined), the first six months brought 61,377 new family dwelling units, reports the Research department of the.Security-First National Bank. If the trend continues the same, the two counties together will again account for close to ONE OUT OF EVERY TEN new homes built IN THE NATION during 1955.
ple are continuir:g to exhibit olvn-a trend which has more ship in the last 15 years."
a desire for homes of their than cloubled home o\\.ner-
NAHB President Earl W. Smith told 5CI builders at the Ambassador hotel, Los Angeles, on July 22 that indicated national housing needs will reach an average of 2,000,000 homes a year in the 1960s. The industry members met for a mortgage clinic sponsored by the four associations of Region 15 of the National Association of Home Builders. Smith said building would continue good this year and possibly next year. He said there is a growing rush to the ar€as just outside cities and an increasingly large percentage now enjoys home ownership.
Washington, D.C.-On Saturday, July 30, after weeks of persistent denials that any tightening up on terms of federally backed mortgages was contemplated, both the FHA and VA tightened terms on homes built with the FHA mortgages or ones guaranteed by the VA. The terms had been a big prop under the huge homebuilding this year, accounting for about 50/. of the housing starts in the first half. In a joint statement, both Housing Commissioner Albert M. Cole and FHA Commissioner Norman P. Mason said they would require higher down payments and shorter maximum repayment periods.
The FHA will now require a cash payment of. 7o/s of the first $9000, plus 27o/o of the value over that (formerly 5/o plus 25%); the VA, which formerly required no down payment, will now require one of. 2o/o.
Both agencies cut the maximum term for repaying a mortgage loan from 30 to 25 years.
In a bitter statement following the action, NAHB President Earl W. Smith said the government action was "untimely, unwise, totally uncalled for . . . it would blast the aspirations of thousands of moderate-income families seeking and needing nerv homes." The National Association of Real Estate Boards agreed.
The FHA and VA statements called the action "antiinflationary" and a "mild and temporary precautionary measure," and also noted indications of "possible shortages of some building materials (cement, some steel items and n'allboard)."
r \ O$tr Mengel ha, do.re' it again with GoId Coast Cherrythe newest addition to our extensive line. In a few short months, Mengel Doors in rotary-cut Gold Coast Cherry have bounded, to sensationat populatity!
The price? Strictly competitive! And when you con_ sider the economies of finishing, doors of Gold Coast Cherry are achral n oney-saoers: One finish-coat on their smooth, close-textured surfaces is better than two coats on many other woods.
Traditional Mengel quallty and. Gaaranteegreater beauty-low cost! Don't take our word for it. Order an inspection lot.from your distributor,' and see for yourself bout beautiful rotary-cut Gold Coast Cherry is !
Door Department, TH'E MENGEL CO., Loaisaille 1, Ky, \forld's Largest Manufacrurer of Hardwood products (Mengel Permanized Furniture, Doors, Kitchen Cabinets, Vall Closets)
It isn't every.merchant who can go out in the highways and the byways and offer his stock and service for sale to Tom, Dick, and Flarry, not to mention all the rest of the boys-and girls-in the district.
The clothing merchant can't step out on the sidewalk in front of his store and grab a man by the arm and say: "Look here, Joe, that suit you've got on is older than Methuselah and twice as ugly, and doesn't do justice to your good looks and shape and position in the community, so come in here and let me drape your form with something that will give the gang a tearful little earful." He can't do that.
The shoe merchant hasn't a chance on earth to seize a passer-by and suggest: "My friend, those brogans you're wearing belong up on the shelf with the cold pie. They're worn and shapeless as a dish of mush. If you don't dress your feet up better than that, someone is going to take you for a bum. Come on into my store, and let me fix your foundations up so that someone will think you are interested in them." FIe can't do that.
The haberdashery man might get a rapid trip to the hospital if he were to lay hands on a man in front of his store, and say: "Old Timer, frayed cuffs aren't being worn this season except in the bread line. Smooth cuffs are all the rage. And that shirt of yours-that is a shirt, isn't it?looks as though the moths had been holding a carnival in
it. And where did you get that bilious-looking string you wear for a necktie? You can't win your way on earth wearing that sort of rags. Those clothes should go to the ash heap, and that last-season hat won't give you the look of prosperity you need to keep up your credit, and to give you a prosperous feeling, yourself. Drop into my store and let me make a new man of you." He can't say that.
No, none of those merchants can; and there are plenty of other local merchants that have not that opportunity of solicitation of business. But YOU have. You can do it with good grace, with good manners, and can be assured of a good reception. You can go to a man with a run-down house and, acting like a Good Samaritan, you can offer him ideas for his benefit. You can go to him, not as one who criticizes, but as one who offers benefits untold-until YOU tell him.
Yes, Sir, you can grab your prospect by the arm and say: "Joe, I want to show you and your wife, etc.," and then go ahead and tell him what you think he needs that you can furnish. No trouble about that sort of merchandising. No danger of intruding. No, indeed ! It isn't every merchant, by a whole lot, who has YOUR selling advantages, Mr. Lumberman!
Ofificial figures just released shorv Douglas fir lumber production led in 1952 in California u'ith Ponderosa pine a close second and Redrvood crorvded for third bv the true firs.
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The Sliding Glass Door and Window Institnte, a trade organization to service architects, builders, contractors, decorators and the home-minded public, has been formed on the west coast. The institute includes many of the leading manufacturers in the industry, together with allied suppliers as associate members.
Charles Morearty, manufacturer and president of the institute, announces that the main purpose of the organization is to serve as an authoritative voice for the industry; to provide a code of ethics, nomenclature, standard sizes, and to further popularize, through all types of media, the complete story of sliding glass doors and windows, and their influence in every type of construction. National headquarters rvill be at 7421 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles 36.
According to Morearty, the sliding glass door was originated and popularized in Southern California. Today, u'ith the development and perfcction of weather stripping and insulation tl-rrough double glazing, the idea of "bringing the outdoors indoors" has spread throughout the r,vorld, furnishing California outdoor living for any type of climate. In addition, sliding glass doors can now be found in hotels, schools, hospitals, country clubs and commercial buildings in all parts of the country.
The idea of sliding doors is not new, as they have been in existence for nearly a century. In 1935, when glass in vvalls was first utilized, the new trend of sliding GLASS doors was presented to a group of California architects. And so an idea was born. The result one of the fast-
est growing industries in the nation.
More than 40 firms are now actually engaged in manufacturing the products, with the majority centered in Southern California.
In the past few years the industry has grown to the ext.ent that 22,Un persons are now directly connected with the design, manufacture, distribution and sale of sliding glass doors and windows. Gross sales, according to the institute. will be in excess of $25 million for 1955.
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More than 200 Hoo-Hoo "beachcombers," with their wives, families and guests, attended this yearls Beach Partv and Fish Fry of San Diego Hoo-Hoo Clrrb 3. The annual outing was enjoyed at Solana Beach, as usual, on Sunday, luly 17, and the crowd relished one of the best beach days, and some of the finest food, yet.
Herschell Larrick, Jr., Lumber & Builders Supply Co., Solana Beach, provided the feast-which rvas the usual
1955 BEACH PARIY
ond Fish Fry qttrocted the lorgert crowds yel to the Son Diego Hoo-Hoo onnuol oul. ing. There pix show lhe building mqterial men ond gu$13 sunning on sond ond surf, whilc the chow rable is prepcred in photo ot right,
and eagerly expected bill-of-fare that makes tl-rese annual parties what they are. The barbecue sauce over the baked albacore, the creamy cole slaw, the barbecued beans, tl.re rolls, etc., served to make everyone savor the liquid refreshment even more.
John Collins and Al Frost, Jr., 'were in charge of the races and games and, if you think they've been hilarious before, you shoulda seen 'em this year. Everyone wl.rc participated in the events received a prize. Don Bufkin of L. A. Club 2 and deputy state snark, and N{rs. Bufkin attended from Los Angeles.
The entire Nine of the San Diego club servecl on the chow line. Snark Bob Baker officially reported later that the Beach Party this year was the largest yet and, from the homegoing enthusiasm, an even larger crowd is expected next year. Y'all come-you're all invited next year -just get your reservations in early. See ya there next Julv. -William H. Seeley, 48012, Gurdon, Hoo-Hoo Club 3.
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O DOUGTAS FIR
O PONDENOSA PINE
. WESTERN RED CEDAR
. CEDAR SHINGTES
. REDWOOD
DOUGTAS FIR PTYWOOD
FIR.TEX DIVISION
. FIR-TEX TIIE-PIANK.BOARD
. FIR.TEX ACOUSTICAT TIIE
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FIR.TEX HARDBOARD
. FIR.TEX ROOFDEK
FIR.TEX SHEATHING
. DOUGIAS FIR PIYWOOD
. COOS BAY HARDBOARD OVERTAY
TR,ESNO OFFICE
P. H. (PAr) IYNAN
FRESNO 9-49s9
SACRA}TENTO OFFICE
HUGH CRABB
HUnter 2-O52O
The Foxworth-Galbraith Lumber Company's yard in Mesa, Arizona, managed by Dovle Sewell, was recently honored in The Mesa Tribune, the local newspaper, rvith the designation of "Business of the Week." In a fourcolumn story with tr,vo large photos, the newspaper paid tribute to the line yard as one of the town's outstanding businesses.
"Prospective builders can rely on Foxworth-Galbraith Lumber Co., 158 S. Macdonald St., in Mesa to serve ther.n faithfully and honestly for any building service that is required," the newspaper told its readers.
The Mesa yard is one of serieral in Arizona operated by Foxworth-Galbraith. It has been in the town 20 years. The other F-G retail yartls are in Phoenix, Tucson, Prescott, Buckeye, Casa Grande, Chandler, Coolidge, Eloy, Flagstaff, Florence, Gilbert, Superior, Wickenburg, Winkelman, Benson, Nogales and Tombstone, Ariz.
The Foxworth-Galbraith Lumber Company started in Texas as far back as 1901, with the first Atizona yard opening in 1920. The company has 72 line yards operating in Arizona, Texas and New Mexico. It also runs a yard in Needles, Calif.
Eight persons are employed at the Mesa yard. Manager Sewell took over the top job three years ago and has recently seen the operation change from one of mainly sales to the building trade, to an important do-it-yourself business with the general pultlic's "shoulder trade'" Sewell says
nowadays he sells the handymen and women everything from materials for a birdhouse to a complete house.
Of the many items carried for the do-it-yourselfer, Sewell reports, the plan suggestions ofiered by Better Homes & Gardens are very popular.
Servell was born in Coleman, Texas, and entered the garage business. He u'ent to Arizona in 1935 and was with the irrigation service at Coolidge six years be{ore starting in the retail lumber business there in 1941. The following year he was made manager of the Florence branch of Foxrvorth-Galbraith and served in that capacity three years u,hen he was transferred to the Casa Grande yard, where he rvas manager until he went to N{esa in 1952.
Davis Williams became assistant manager of the Mesa yard this May, coming from the Wickenburg yard. He is also Texas-bc-rrn. For the past 10 years, Mrs. Marie Martens has been keeping the books for F-G's Mesa yard. Earlier, she was a bookkeeper for 13 years with a Minneapolis lumber company. Jack Ray is manager of the paint department and, for the past four years, Floyd Weldon has been employed as a salesman. In the trucking department, the yard has Walter Bror.vn, Nlonroe Wood and Clair Mendenhall.
I3esides lumber and a complete line of building materials, the Mesa store handles Fuller paints, Johns-Manville roofing and Stanley tools and hardrvare. It is currently featuring Alsynite and the new Shan-Tong lvood wall material. For cabinet rvork, the Foxu'orth-Galbraith yard pushes Malarkey plyrvood.
In his store promotion, Manager Ser,vell invites his local
FrR-TEX DIVISION
. FIR-TEX TITE.PLANK-BOARD
. FIR.TEX ACOUSTICAT TIIE
FIR.TEX HARDBOARD
FIR.TEX ROOFDEK
FIR-TEX SHEATHING
. DOUGIAS FIR PTYWOOD
. CORALITE
BY SiHIP O RAIL O BARGE . TRUCIK AXO TRAILERhome builders or repairers to drop into the Mesa store with a guarantee of complete satisfaction and help witLr their building or remodeling problems. For the do-it-yourself trade, he 1>ushes the Better Homes & Gardens handy plans. These include complete instructions in building such items as coffee taltles, barbecue taltles, TV bases, picnic and play tables, wardrobes, chests, sliding doors, sideboards, night tables, bookshelves, roonl diviclers, sandboxes, bunks, desks or chairs.
"The only book of its kind" is the description Jack F. Pomeroy, executive vice-president of the Lumber N{erchants Association of Northern California, gives of the Retail Store Merchandising book just published by the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association. It r,vas written and illustrated especially for lumber and building material dealers and is a positive approach to meeting and overcoming the current competitive race for consumer business and spendable income.
The contents, which thoroughly describe the steps to profitable retail lumber business, make this book a .,must" for management and employee reading. Subjects includecl are: Attractive Place of Business, 26 steps and illustrations showing all the things to do about modern store layout and design; Adequate and Dependable Merchan-
dise, showing u'hat to buy and horv; Efficient, Effective Management, administratior-r, lezrdership, organization development; Productive Organization, horv to train and get best results fron people in terms of bigger profits ; Sound, Ethical Business Practices, buyir-rg, pricing and selling policies plus consumer financing, credit and collections; Market Analysis, rvhat it is, hou' to go about it, and hor,v to get the most from your markets; Merchandising Plans, needs, essentials, horv to prlt your plan to r,vork, handling of customers; Advertising and Sales Promotion, hou' to plan and reach objectives, horv to set up a budget and use it; Public Relations, r,vhat it is, how it u,orks, u,hat it covers and rvhv it benefits; Continuous Research and Training, rvhere to look for help, u'hat to do, rvho is responsible. n'ho benefits.
Pomeroy says that firms planning on remodeling or building ner.v stores and progressive-minded firms lvanting a training guide for their employes rvill find this manual of great assistance. Available through the association's office at 24 Calilornia Street, San Francisco, it costs only $12 per copy or $10 each in quantities of two or more.
Sharp Park, Calif.-Ken Galpin of Manor Village, an olcl hand in the lumber business, opened a lumberyard at Coast Highway and County Road in Pacific Manor early in July specializing in Redrvood materials. Still in a very rough stage, Galpin plans to erect an office and store at an early date and, eventually, a warehonse. Gaipin u.as formerly in the lumber business in Monterey.
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I The Plywood Woll Poneling with the longue ond groove, rondom plonk effect.
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o Veneer is expertly selected ond put together . . grooves qre individuolly cut.
o Edges ore beveled when ponels ore instqlled there is no obvious "f1sqftr'iusl onolher longue ond groove ioinl oppeoronce.
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Lo Volenciq Hotel, Lq Jollq, Cqlif,, July ll-13, 1955
Toronlo, Conodor Mr. od lirr. C. J. ATKINSON, lobert Bu.y E Co.
Potlotch, Wo!h.: Roy BARTO.
Greenrboro, N. C.: llr. ond Mr. E. N. BEARD, E. N. Beord lumber Co.
T. B. BIEDSOE, Brown-Bledroe Lumber Co.
Broklyn, N. Y.r H. R. BLACK, Blqck & Yqtet, In(.
Philippine lslondr: Nicolqs CAPISTRANO, Mirmir Lcmber Co., repte.enting PLPA.
l{r. qnd ,tlr3. Horvey POPE ond doughter, Inrulqr Lunber Co.
5d Froncisco, Cqlif.: rtir. ond lllrr. Jmer DAVIS, Dwir Hordwood Co.
New Orleont, lq.: ilr. ond Mri. H.A. J. EVANS, Dixie lumber Co.
New York City, N.Y.: Mr. qnd Mrr. E. B. FORD, Geo. D. Emery Co.
Jore 5ORIANO, Ameticon-lnlernofionol Hordwood Co.
Allqntq, Gq.r H. D. FIORENCE, Atlqto Oqk Flooring Co.
Ooklond, Colif.r E. A. GORDON, Gordon-Mc<8eqth Ho.dwood Co.
Memphii, Tenn.: Mr. ond lir:. E. J. HEFFERIIIAN, Ni<key 8ro:.
Mr. ond Mrr. lutlell STADEIiiAN, Nickey Bros.
Forl Worth, Texdr: ll.. ond llr:. J. t. PAXTON, Frqnk Pqton Lumber Co.
Philodelphio, Po.: ltlr. ond Mrr. J. STEARNS, Inrvlor Lumber 5oler Corp,
Mr, qnd ilrr. H. S. IHOIIPSON, Inrulor l,umber Soles Corp.
Lor Angeler, Cqlif.: Mr. ond Mrr. H.V. COFFEY, Wqthqrd lmpotting Co.
Mr. qnd filrr. Jmer FORGIE, Robe.t Orgood.
Mr. ond l$rr. J. C. FELLOWS,John C, Fellow Co.
Mr. ond l{rr. W. A. HOWE, Anericqn-lnlernqlionol Hordwood Co,
Mr. ond llr. Phillip !ATA9A, Werlhqrd lmporting Co.
J.W. ltcLEOD, Mohogqny lmporting Co.
Mr. ond Mrr. Ole itAY, Colifomio Lunber rilerchont.
llr. ond llrr. lobe.t OSGOOD, Robert Otgood.
,{.. ond rrl.r. John OSGOOD, lobert O.good,
llr. qnd ,116. Fronk RAWOLLE, llohogony lmporling Co.
lAr. ond Mrr. G. D. SCRIM,Scrim Lumber Co.
llr. ond l rr. W. G. SCR|M, Scrim Lumber Co.
Fifty-four lumbermen, their wives and families attended the 28th annual convention of the Philippine Mahogany Association, Jrly 11-13, at the beautiful La Valencia resort hotel in La Jolla, California. Nestled in an atmosphere of charm, the members enjoyed every moment of their stay in the picttlresque city on the shoreline of the Pacific.
Registration for the three-day event started on Sunday, July 10, with the first business session at 10 a.m., July 11. This first meeting heard the reports frorn all officers and committeesl outlineC the campaign to cover advertising and promotion, and approved the various actions taken by the officers during the past year.
July 12 was devoted to hearing reports from Nicolas Capistrano, Misamis Lumber Company, and Harvey Pope, Insular Lumber Company, both of the Philippine Islands. Capistrano and Pope are both members of the Philippine Lumber Production Association and covered the ground thoroughly with reference to hardwood shipments from the islands and expected production for 1955-56. Adding to the international flavor of the event was C. J. Atkinson of Toronto, representing Robert Bury & Company, distributors of Philippine products throughout Canada.
Much of the time during the four-day period \\ras devoted to social activities. Mrs. Roltert Osgood, chairman of the entertainment committee, planned various trips to Coronadci, Mexico, Rancho Santa Fe and other interesting spots in the southern part of the state, and golf for the men was the leading action activity. Beautiful cocktail parties were held in the refreshing outdoor patio overlooking the sea. Flvening banquets were held in the Victorian room and the closing dinner-dance \vas held adjacent to the well-appointed Cafe I-a Rue.
All officers were re-elected for the coming year. Walter Scrim, president; H. R. Black, vice-president; H. V. Coffey, assistant secretary, and George D. Scrim, secretary-treasurer, are the members named to guide the affairs of the association for another year. John Fellor'vs, of the John C. Fellows Company, will continue with the advertising and research program for the coming year.
Chicago-Continued high level consumption of mahogany lumber by the furniture industry in the next six months is predicted by the Mahogany Association, which points out that shipments during the first five months of this year were rlrnning at the approximate rate of the top postwar year, 1950.
Providing the supply of logs holds up, 1955 should be a good year for the mahogany industry and possibly one of the better postwar years for mahogany lumlter sales. At the half-r.r,ay mark, it is virtually certain that 1955 rvill be better than 1954 and will come close to equaling the best post\\''ar year-1950.
Although mahogany veneer shipments are ahead of a year ago, they do not approximate the record year of 1950 as in the case of mahogany lumber. During the first quarter, mahogany veneer shipments were up around 15/o ovet the comparable period of a year ago and it is likely that this rate will continue throughout the rest of the year.
Central American Log Supply Low
Because of the political-economic conditions, Central American Nfahogany production is low with inventories definitely below normal. Central American Mahogany lumber and veneer logs will continue to remain in short supply throughout the balance of the year.
If the $'eather remains reasonably good, African Mahogany log production should keep up with the demand. Currently, production and shipments of African Mahogany are running about even, with the supply and demand just about in balance.
Horvever, there is very little likelihood that 1955 log imports will come even close to the record year of 1950 nor rvill they approximate some of the other better postwar years. Mahogany log imports to date are far behind the comparable period of the better years.
Philip J. McCoy, president of Western Pine Supply Company in E,meryville, announces that an addition to one of the firm's warehouse buildings rvill be completed about September 1. The new addition, which is of wood truss and frame construction, rvill add about 16,000 square feet and give the firm a total of approximately 40,000 square feet of good covered storage for its stock of lumber, plyu'ood, mouldings, doors, sash and millwork.
Other added facilities include a three-car spur to serve the nerv addition, and 20,000 square feet of leased land to serve as a parking area for Western Pine Supply's rolling equipment. Altogether, the firm occupies approximately trvo acres of land'at 57ffi Shellmound St. in'Emeryville, located one block from the Eastshore Freelvav.
Of interest to lumber dealers throughout the country is the nerv Lu-Re-Co Nlanagemer-rt ar,cl Sales Institute being organized in Champaign, I11., to train lumbervard personnel as specialists in Lu-Re-Co oper:rtions. NIen attending this seminar-type instruction course u'ill be ccluipped to head up separate Lu-Re-Co <lepartnrcnts as managers or salesmen. The well-knorvrr T-u-Ite-Co methocl oi home construction, a standardizecl way of builcling modular homes 'ivith pre-assembled u'al1 panels and roof trusses, lvas developed by the University of Illinois Smal1 Homes Council, under :r research grant from the Lunrber Dealers Research Council, so local lumber clealers corrlcl meet tl.re increased competition of prefabrication.
An intensive course of instruction has been planned bv Lumber Dealers Researcl.r Council and three professors from the University of lllinois. The conrse is set up in fonr major sections, covering desigr-r, constrncti<>n, matlufactrrring, estimating, supervision, and builcling operations; mortgage financing, general financing, lirrlrncing instruments and processes, FHA and VA, and lxriltling ancl development problems ; policies, policy deternrination, plzinning, organizing resources, clire cting olterations, anrl controlling operations, personnel problen-rs, ltrrrchasing, production, and managing for szrles.
Exact dates for the Institute u,ill bc sct to suit the convenience of the majority of participating lumbervards. Dealers r,vho are interested in sending one or more men are urged to contact C. A. Thompson, 612 S. Nei1, Charnpaign, Illinois, as soon :rs possible. *
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The House Manufacturing Company, formerly of Jackson, Miss., has begun operations of a new custom milling and milling-in-transit remanufacturing plant, located on the S.P. and N.W.P. right-of-way, and highways 12 and 37 at Schellville. California, three miles south of Sonoma.
They will have 4.5 acres of land for storage and yarding facilities, in addition to the unloading, milling, drying and other remanufacturing facilities. Fir, Redwood and Pine coming into this plant will be drawn principally from the areas served by the N.W.P. and S.P. systems to the north, as well as trucks moving lumber into the Central California and Southern California markets.
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This company will serve principally the wholesalers and mills in need of these services and a source of supply, near the central area for milling and distribution. Dry kilns are contemplated at a later date, should need for these services prove desirable.
Management of this company is under the direction of J. L. House, general manager, and W. H. Richardson, plant superintendent. House has been engaged in the lumber business for over 26 years in the south and on the west coast.
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Fort Bragg, Calif.-The merchandising challenge of a variety of nern' forest products was the primary theme of Union Lumber Company's national sales meeting held here July 19 and 20. Otis R. Johnson, company president, opened the conference with a review of its sales policy and development over the past years.
Sherman A. Bishop, vice-president in charge of sales, conducted the conference. During the opening session, A. I. Herman, secretary-treasurer, reviewed Union's credit and financial picture, and Ray E. Shreck, director of research and development, gave some dramatic examples of what wood chemistry and experimentation is uncovering in new products to sell.
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General Manager Russell Johnson discussed the nerv idea of selling the entire product of Union's timberlands, rather than just the lumber from the log. Recently developed products such as Redrvood Bark Fiber, Soil Booster and veneer provide a challenging group of nerv merchandising techniques 'rvhich IJnion's sales department is eager to meet.
Tl-re tu.o-day meeting also included roundtable discussions with key members of the production department. A healthy atmosphere of teamrvork betrveen the sales and production departments resulted from tl.rese meetings where mutual problems lvere discussed and solved.
Tours through the various plant departments brought the salespeople up to date on the many production improvements which Union Lumber Company has made in the last year.
At the conclusion of the sessions, Ijnion's sales force returned to their territories u'ith a reneu'ed enthusiasm for selling the ever-increasing number of products manufactured by the company.
Bakersfield, Calif.-A Farmers Home Administration office will be opened here soon, according to rvord from Washington. It 'n'ould operate as a suboffice under the Visalia FHA county office and make loans to farm families for the purchase, operation, expansior-r ancl improvement o{ farms and farm homes.
As reported in The California Lumber Merchant August 15,1930
The August conference of the ifornia, held at the Huntington 7-9, w,as a big success and largely Bernhauer presided and W. L. of arrangements.
Millwork Institute of Calhotel, Pasadena, August attended. President A. W. Leishman was in charge
The Southern district of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association held a conference at the Elk's club, Los Angeles, August 7, and was attended by dealers from all over Southern California. A. J. Stoner, Sawtelle Lumber Company, presided. Among the speakers were Frank N. Gibbs, Anaheim; Harrv A. Lake, Garden Grove; Dee C. Essley; Chas. P. Curran, Pomona; O. H. Barr, Santa Ana; Paul Hallingby, Los Angeles; Frank Kranz, Santa Monica; Henry Adams, Anaheim ; C. W. Pinkerton, Whittier; Hal Baly, J. NI. Buhler, Frank Burnaby, all {rom Los Angeles; R. \\/. Blanchard, North Hollywood; Wayne Mullin, Los Angeles. ancl F. N. Dudley, Santa Monica.
Ten years of idealistic service rvhich had rvon him zL place in the hearts of lurnbermen and Hoo-Hoo everyrvhere came to a ciose August 1 rvhen Parsolt Peter A. Simpkin, Supreme Chaplain of Hoo-Hoo, passed away. He died at
the home of a son in N arshfielcl, Ore., after a vear of lessening strength and health. A minister of the gospel for many years in Salt Lake City, he also servecl other chnrches for shorter periods of time, and then spent the last vears of his life actively I'orking for the Concatenatecl Order of Hoo-Hoo. He was second to no other American from a standpoint of sheer platform eloquence, and to see and listen to the slightly built little man soar into the very clouds in bursts of oratorv lvas somethinq ner.er to be forgotten.
J. H. Burnside, sales manager for the Fir-Tex Insulating Board Company, St. Helens, Oregon, is in California and announces the follol'ing sales connections for this territory: Dant & Russell, Inc., Portland, are general clistributors for California ancl Arizona; agents for California are Thomas W. Dant, for I-os Angeles, and Ralph C. Turner, for San Francisco.
C. A. Suiter. prominent Southern California rctail lumberman and an olficer of the Fox-Wooclsum Lunrber Company, Los Angeles, died there August 10 at the age of 41.
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resented for the girls' big event. The Cats attending the meeting were Stanley V. Dick, Harold "Hap" Renfort and Robert "Bud" Byard, Trinity River Lumber Sales Co.; Jack Dollar, The Robert Dollar Company; John Rhoda, Simpson Redwood Co.; Ralph Hardin, Weyerhaeuser Sales Co.; Frank Crawford, Hayfork Lumber Co.; Richard H. McKannay, Mar-Mac Lumber Co., and Hac Collins, Twin City Lumber Co. Many other Hoo-Hoo sent regrets but were unable to attend the distaff side's Concatenation for various good 1s45615.-plorence M. Barnes, Publicity chairman, Club 3.
Nen' subdivisions started in California during the fiscal year ended J,une 30 far surpassed all previous annual records, disclosed the state real estate .commissioner. A total of. 3373 tracts was filed, more than 30/o above the state's prior all-time record of 2588 set in the previous fiscal year. The June 1955 figure of 337 filings compares to 318 this May, and 258 new tracts started in June 1954. Commissioner Watson said the trend was notable in the continuation of large, new planned communities being developed on sites previously regarded as rural or agricultural.
Economy Lumber Supply in Sacramento is now sporting a brand new store building and showroom . completely air conditioned and modern-functional in every respect. The lumberyard is owned and managed by Jack Hackard and Jim Owens.
Independence, Calif.-Or.vens Valley and Inyo county this month rvill dedicate an historical monument to two lumber kilns on the shores of the now dry Owens lake near the point r,vhere Cottonwood creek comes out of the mountains. More than B0 years ago the trvo kilns were constructed to turn timber cut high on the west side of Owens Valley 15 miles from Lone Pine, into charcoal for use in smelters at the fabulous Cerro Gordo mines to the east.
The Eastern California Museum Assn. has erected a bronze plaque at the kilns to commemorate their part in the building of early California. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. deeded title to the kilns to tl-re association last year.
The bronze plaque, which will be placed in a stone monument by the kilns, reads:
"In June, 1873, Colonel Sherman Stevens built the sawmill and flume on Cottonrvood Creek, high in the Sierras directly rvest of this spot. The flume connected with the Los Angeles bullion road. The lumber from the flume rvas used in timbering in the mine and buildings, and wood was turned into charcoal in these kilps, then hauled to Stevens' wharf east of here on Orvens Lake. There it was put on the steamers 'Bessie Brady' and 'N'Iolly Stevens,' hauled directly across the lake and from there wagons took it up the'Yellow Grade' to Cerro Gordo, high in the Inyo Mountains above Keeler.
"The bullion s'hich n'as then taken out by the reverse of this route'was hauled to Los Angeles on Remi Nadeau's 14, 16 and l8-animal freight wagons and played a major part in the building of that pueblo into the city of today."
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The big Coast Counties Hoo-Hoo Club 114 annual barbecue and golf tournament will be held August 18 at the Salinas Golf & Country Club. Jack Thornburg, Homer T. Hayward Lumber Company, Salinas, is in charge of the Coast Counties annual, and Herb Swenson will be in charge of barbecuing the steaks; he is a former lumberman who now operates the Big Hat restaurant in Salinas, where the 114 Club usually holds its regular monthly meetings.
As usual, free cocktails will prevail for a "long hour" before the barbecue, compliments of the Coast Counties club. In addition, there just might be a few games to be found, according to back-door reports.
High spot of the tournament will be the fact that Sher-
wood Causley, Homer T. Hayward Lumber Company, is out for his third straight, perpetual trophy win and, if lTe u'ins it this time, the trophy will grace his mantle for the rest of his natural born days. That will be a big "if," though, as the club reports that they would hate to have to pay for a brand-nerv trophy when all they have to do is beat Sherrvood out of this one game.
The Coast Counties Hoo-Hoo is currently headed by President Ollie Lee, E. L. Bruce Co., Santa Clara; VicePresident Willard Lentz, Santa Cruz Lumber Company; and Secretary-Treasurer Norm Rose, Georgia-Pacific Plywood Co.. San lose.
More than 678,0ffi persons accidents last year. were injured in weekend
Visalia, Calif.-W. R. Spalding's remodeling of its building materials store here has been completed at a cost of $25,000. The design u,'as made with an eye to the present and the increasing demands of the future, said John Martin, president of United Lumber Co., rvhich operates the Spalding Lumber Co. here.
The contemporary styling is the keynote, with 28,000 square feet providing space for every possible innovation. The glass and plywood exterior is in keeping with the modern design and allows customers to shop in well-lighted comfort. Year-round air conditioning is provided.
The construction of the store took 3l months and is in line with the normal expansion of United Spalding stores. Increased customer traffic prompted the remodeling, Spalding officials said.
Harry D. Ashley, western division sales manager for Masonite Corporation, announces two sales changes in the Los Angeles area. Henry A. Kindness has taken over the north and west parts of L. A., plus Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Long Beach, Santa Monica, Inglewood, Venice, Huntington, and \Arilmington, succeeding the late Carl Mauldin. William G. Jenrich has taken over Kindness' previous territory, rvhich includes Santa Barbara, South Gate, Ventura, Whittier, Alhambra, Altadena, Burbank, Glendale. Pasadena. South Pasadena and the south and east parts of L. A.
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George E. Nfooney, fornrerly 'ivith lldward Hines I.unrber Co., Chicago, as lvholesale sales manager for the \\Iestfir division during the past seven years, has been appointed sales manager of the Pine division for the Nelson Lumber Co., Monrovi:r, according to Les Nelson, head man of the Southern California iumber concern. N'foolrey has been covering the midu'est and eastern territory for the flines compant/ for the past clecacle, and early this spring moved his familv to Arcadia.
Prior to his years of service u'itl-r the Hines organizzrtion, lloonev conducted the George E. \{ooney u,holesale lumber company in Medford, Oregon, specializing ir-r the distribution of pine. lle 'ivas born in the northu'est timber conntrv and, follol'ing graduaticln from school, starte(l his lumber experience in the production end of the business in 1922. He later became identified in sales promotion of frirest products on a national basis thr<mghout the eastern United States. Mooney u'ill har.e complete charge of the Pine dir,isior-r for Nelscin Lumber in N{onrovia, from procurement through sales.
"We expect to exparrd orrr I'ine clivisior-r to service al1 retail lumber dealers in our tr:rcle :rrea." clecl:rrecl Les Nelson. "George has a complete backgrourrcl ir-r sales oI all species of Pacific Coast softn'oods and I feel confident n,c shall offer :r good service to the trade," he continuecl. Mooney rr'il1 make ciirect contact u,ith all retailers in Southern California.
fn connectiorr rvith the expansion prograln, Don "Sullr"'
Sullitan n'ill remain in charge of general iurnber salcs for the Nelson organization and tvill aiso continue in '.he capacitv of office manager. Les Nelscn u'i1l devote most of his time to the promotion of Redrvoocl salcs ancl rctniurrlfacturir-rg, it rr'as said.
San Francisco.-Calar.eras Cement Cornpany's continuing plant bettermer-rt program enterecl a ne\\. phase June 23 rvhen the Calaveras boarrl of direct<>rs apPror-ed:r $4,000,000 expansion plan l'hich l'il1 adrl a fifth r(,tary kiln to the conrpanv's plant at San Anclreas, Calif., and increase plar.rt productive capacity an additional 30.71 The nelr, kiin, u.hich u,ill be fabricated by Allis-Chalmers I,Ifg. Co., rvill be 360' long u-ith a clianreter ol ll'3".
The comlianv's 1955 plant betterment pr()grarlt, itrer-iouslv approved, inclucles the erection of four neu- cernent storage silos, plus qtlarr\-. plant arrd shipping clepartment impror,ements alreadl' cor.npleted. These installations u.ere authorized in anticipation of the fifth kiln progran.r.
In presenting the fifth kiln proposal to the boar<1, Calaveras Presider-rt \\rm. \\ra11ace Nfein, Jr., declared, "It is our responsibilitv to supply cement to our customers in n'hatever quantities they require, and n'e rnust therefore further increase the production of onr plant." He pointed out that construction at the Callrr.eras plant has contir.rued almost rvithout pause sir-rce the end of \\rorld \\rar II. "Growth of the Northern California market for ce-
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Art \Villiamson, formerly sales manager of California Buiiders Supply Companv, joinecl Cords l-ur.nber Company July 1, according to Norm Cords, o\vner of the Oakland rvholesale concern.
\\rilliamson's lumber career dates back to the early '20s when he started rvork for the old California-Oregon Lumber Company at North Bend. In 1928, he joined California Builders Supply Company, which rvas just being organized at that time, and u'orked up through the finn to the position of sales manag'er. During the 27 years he has spent rvith California Builders. \Villiamson has made a host of friends among Northern California retail dealers.
\\'rilliamson l'il1 be l'orking at 3t0l Granci Ave., and rvill be serr.icir-rg the dealers in the Greater Bay arrd Coast Cottnties area i for Cords Lun.rber Companv.
Age is not an ,"r"ftfli:tll li"Jllo-; yo,tr, is not an infallible sign of foolishness. At 25 sorre young men are superior in judgment to many men of sixty. But the young man who is wise at 25 is usually still wiser at 60, whereas the fool at 25 is still a fool at 60, although he is probably less active and more guarded against.
The sweet young thing had broken her glasses. She took the remains back to the optometrist.
"Will f have to be examined all over again?" she asked. "No," he said. "Just your eyes."
(As told, by an American missionary recently returned, from India.)
I had heard this serious-looking, dignified Hindu mention the name of God several times, and I had a strong desire to ask him his idea of God. I refrained for some time, thinking it might be embarrassing to ask a heathen about God. I know it would embarrass the average American if you asked him that question, and how much more it ,might embarrass this Hindu.
But one day I plucked up my courage, and when I heard him mention God-in the most reverent fashion-f asked him if he could and would tell me his idea of who and what God is? He replied, "Why surely, my friend, I will be glad to tell you. It is so simple when you really understand God, to talk about Him. I will tell you just as my father told me:
"When I was a boy of ten, my father took me out one day into the garden. It was a wonderful day in spring. The sun was shining. The sky was blue and clear. The air was filled with the song of birds, and everywhere nature was smiling. The grass and flowers and shrubs were wonderful in their spring garments, the perfume of the fowers was everJrwhere, and everything was delightful to the eye, the ear, and all the senses.
"And my father said to me: 'Son, I have brought you out here to tell you about God, for it is time you knew and 'understood Him. Now, son, when you see all these wonderful trees, and flowers, and other delightful growing and .blooming things in the world, and all the other good and beautiful things that surround you and delight your mind and heart, always remember this, my son; that God made all these good and beautiful things. He MADE all the good and beautiful things; He is IN all these good and beautiful things; He is OF all these good and beautiful things; He IS all that is good and beautiful.
"'And, son, when you hear the music of the songs of birds, and the rustle of the wind in the trees, and the song of the brook, and all the harmonies and wonderful things
that surround you in life, remember THIS: that God made all that harmony. He MADE all harmony. He IS all harmony, my son.
"'And, son, when you see this wonderful ligtrt that illumines the world, making all things to grow and all beautiful and har,monious things to live, and making it possible for us to see and enjoy all these wonderful things of this world, remember THIS, my son; that God MADE the light; He is IN the light; He is OF the light; He IS the light, my son.
" 'And, son, remember THIS: that as you go through life, your duty is simply to remember that you must never DO anything, or SAY anything, or THINK anything that will mar the GOODNESS and BEAUTY and the HARMONY and the LIGHT that God made, and that God IS."'
Grandpa was very absent-minded, so his wife was not too surprised when he came in from a walk to the postoffice and announced that he had lost his umbrella.
"'When did you first miss it?" asked Grandma.
"Just now. It stopped raining and I reached up to put the umbrella fl6r,lyrr-3nd it wasn't there."
He may be six kinds of a liar, And he may be ten kinds of a fool, And he may be a wicked high-flyer, without any reason or rule; There may be a shadow above him, Of ruin or woe that impends, I may not admire-but I love himBecause-he's my friend.
I know he has faults by the million, But his faults are a portion of him, And although his record's vermillion, And he's far from a sweet seraphim; ' Ffe's always been square with yours truly, Always ready to give or to lend, And though he may be wild and unrulyI love him becauss-hs'5 my friend.
I knock him, but when only he's with me, And never when he is away, ff other folks knock him they'll wish, see? That they had had nothing to say. I never make diagrams of him, No maps of his soul have l.penned, f don't analyze, I just love himBecause-he's my friend.
-when he saw his mother sitting on the flee1-"t\d3riy, you're off your rocker."
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Bill Chatham, president and general manager of Loop Lumber & Mill Company in Alameda, is a man who is both successful and highly regarded by the California lumber industry, but he has a brother who's beginning to make the price of 2x4's (even on today's market) look lil<e pretty small stuff.
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Carroll F. Chatham, who is a San Francisco research chemist, has mastered the secret of growing gem crystals I Written up in Colliers, various newspapers and trade papers, Carroll Chatham came up with a real classic for display at the 16th annual convention of the California Federation of Mineralogical Societies in San Francisco's Civic Auditorium July B-10. A two-ounce, 300-CARAT emerald, no less ! The emerald had been developing in Chatham's secret research laboratory in San Francisco for over a year, and if the stone were the product of nature, its value would be in the hundreds, of thousands of dollars. As a man-made gem, its value is whatever Chatham puts on it. He is the only man in the world known to have cultivated emeralds successfully.
The emeralds Chatham grows for sale to the jewelry trade average one to five carats. They also take a year to mature, but Chatham gave the 300-carat stone "special cultivation" because it was to be an exhibition piece. He turns out some 5,000 carats of his cultivated emeralds a month. Except for a few stones that go to local lapiclaries, all are sold to a firm in Geneva, Switzerland.
Good natural emeralds bring $1,000 a carat and upwardmore than diamonds. Chatham sells his for about $100 a carat... and he's currently over $1,000,000 behind in orders.
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John P. Weyerhaeuser, Jr., president of Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., told members of the Los Angeles Rotary club at a noon luncheon at the Statler hotel, July 8, that Pacific Coast lumber company foresters are working u'ith nature to hasten the slorv process of gro'w'ing trees to useful maturity and that, 'ivith modern practices and research, the lumber industry can guarantee an uninterrupted flow of wood products to meet all future needs.
Every detail in lumlter production and remanufacture was covered by Mr. Weyerhaeuser in his complete address (highlights of which will be printed in an early issue) and his appearance was rvell received by members of the Los Angeles service club.
NIany Southern California lumllermen, Hoo-Hoo and building material merchants were in the audience to hear I I
the noted speaker. Included u,ere Bob Osgood, LeRoy H. Stanton, Sr., John Osgood, Jim Forgie, Les Lynch, Frode Kilstofte, George Fredrickson, John Lipani, Bert McKee, Ken Tinkler and Milan Michie.
California and Oregon norv lead the nation in lumber production, Weyerhaeuser said, and \\rashington is the top rvood pulp producer. Plywood, in 5O years, has become a regional phenomenon and does an annual $500 million business.
"I assure you that the nation is not running out of timber," the speaker stated. "Despite the gloomy predictions of some alarmists, our country is growing each year an amount of timber equal to that which is being harvested.
". . For the most part, our industry is deeply conscious of its stervardship," Weyerhaeuser continued. "Timber is renewable and rvith diligent research and intelligent management, its harvest tvill never end."
Consolidated earnings of Johns-Manville Corp. and subsidiary companies for the second quarter of 1955 rvere $6,531 ,742, compared u'ith $5,435,663 for the corresponding period last year, I-. NI. Cassidy. chairman of the board, reported July 20. Sales for the second quarter of 1955 rvere $75,450,847, compared u'ith $64,815,708 for tl.re second quarter of 195.1, and rvere the highest for any quarter in the company's history. For the year to date, sales were $131,720,469 and earnings were $9,262,441, compared with sales of $116,728,773 and earnings of $8,028,069 for the first six months last year. Sales for the first six months this year rvere higher than for any other comparable period.
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Knox Nfarshall. 43, longtime forester, ranger and lumberman from Cali{ornia to Alaska, has been appointed California forest engi4eer for the Western Pine Association. He replaces Ralph Hodges, rvho has taken a position 'ivith \\/etsel-Oviatt Lumber Co. near Sacramento. Since 1952 Marshall has been in charge of timber marlagement for the Kaniksu National Forest, headquartering at Sandpoint, Idalio. Born in San Leandro, Calif., Marshall had his first lumber job rvith Graeagle Lumber Co., in California, and later rvorked as a logger, fireguard and in retail yards in Washington.
Nervport Beach. Calif.-Construction totals here reached $5,564,713 for the first six months of 1955, a gain of $600,000 for the same midyear total of last vear. A survey of 72 Southland cities rates New'oort in Z2nd place.
The board of directors of the Southern California Lumber Seasoning Association met in June at Bowers restaurant, Long Beach, to discnss the association's program for the coming 1955-56 period. Several changes will be made in the SCLSA activities, the directors agreed follorvin.g dinner, when the meeting u,as called to order by President Herb Geisenheyner. The directors decided that the nerv approach should be tried during the coming season as arr experiment in order to learn r,vhether more interest can be stimulated ir: the seasoning of lumber and the dissemination of whatever knou,ledge the SCLSA has for the betterment of the industry.
Others attending the meeting were Al Wahl, vicepresident; Bob Inglis, secretary-treasurer; Arthur Koehler, consultant, and Charles Beckman.
In the interests of obtaining new members for the association a.nd of developing a year's program that rvill stimulate attendance, tl-re follovr,'ir-rg program was made for the year from September 1955 to June 1956:
Meetings r,vill be held each month as before, except in December. Rather than meet in a prir.ate dining room and stand "guarantees," members will meet in the main dining room and order from the menu; after dilrner, Rodger Young auditorium will furnish a room for the business sessionin this way, attendance u'ill be held to kiln operators and those interested; this will keep the size regulated and
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Large meetings u'ill be held in September, November, March and June, at which a planrred program will be given and many guests asked to attend. A private dining room will then be supplied. Furniture manufacturers in the SoCal area r'vill be invited to send delegates to the November meeting, when the SCLSA will try to "iron out" any difficulties and misunderstandings between the kiln or,vners and the consumers.
For the March meeting, the sash and door manufacturers will be invited to a similar type of program for their benefit and, in June, retail lumber dealers 'ivill be invited to that month's special meeting, at rvhich the SCLSA rvill have a planned program concerning the handling and caring for seasoned lumber.
It is recluested that ea-ch member company send its salesmen, yard foremen and anyone similarly interested to these four special meetings during the year. The list of names for special invitations should be sent to the secretary in time for him to organize and take care of them.
Other business at the June meeting included reading the minutes of the meeting of the officers of the seven r,vestern dry kiln clubs, and a discussion of them. A resolution-suggestion rvas made at that meeting that officers of each club be elected immediately following the annual during the year and making it easier for the host club to carry through to the annual. The SCLSA board took the necessary action to hold over its present offrcers until June 1956.
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(Continued from Page 8) in four panel discussions related to basic and continuing concern to the association's 156 members who operate 360 warehouses and sell 64/o of all the plywood in the nation. Both distributors and manufacturers lvere on the panels, a procedure followed for maximum co-operation of the two groups. Subjects were Plywood Grades and Quality, Transportation Problems, Plyrvood N{arkets, and Specialties and Hardwood Plywood.
From the panel on transportation came a resolution admonishing railroads for failure to keep abreast of shipping trends by supplying side-door cars for lift truck loading and unloading. The resolution provides for a committee
to meet with a similar committee of manufacturers to work with the railroads to overcome this bottleneck toward more efficient, more economical handling of materials.
The NPDA program was schedulecl to permit distributors and their wives to attend the outstanding functions of the Fir Plywood Golden Jubilee arranged by Douglas Fir Plywood Association. Social functions of NPDA were limited accordingly to an olrtstanding lawn barbecue beside Lake Osrvego, the annual banquet and one luncheon. At the luncheon, the jobbers were entertained by "Barefoot Distribution in Arkansas" by Roland R. Remmell of Southland Building Products Co., Little Rock. They also heard a New Zealand plywood maker, Carlton W. Pollard of Henderson & Pollard, Ltd., tell how scrub pine from the west coast of California transplanted in his countrv has
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grown fantastically to save the lumber industry there. Reno Odlin, president of Puget Sound National Bank of Tacoma, Washington, and the financier of many plywood plants summed up the purpose of the NPDA cor-rvention as well as the underlying objective of the association.
He observed, "There must be a smooth, intelligently operated distribution system to move 100 million feet of fir plywood a week. I am confident that, nnder effective, dynamic leadership and with progressive individual action, the nation's plywood distributors u'ill maintain their position as vital in plywood sales."
The National Plywood Distributors Association, in ob-
servance of the fir plywood Golden Anniversary. has selected the three outstanding salesmen of the first half century of the industry r,vhich had its origin in 1905. They are: Don L. Davis, Sr., of Chicago; W. E. Difford of Tacoma and the late Lawrence Ottinger of Ner'v York. Names of the three men are to be engraved on a bronze plaque placed by the association in the Forestrv building in Portland, beside the plyrvood shrine dedicated there in June during the Plywood Jubilee.
The alvard brings to plyrvood merchandising an honor considered equal to baseball's hall of fame, the Oscars arvarded motion picture stars, and similar acclaim in otl'rer areas for singular accomplishment and leadership.
Davis has built a chain of six distribution u'arehouses, helped found the distributors association, was the organi-
zation's first president and has aggressively and inspirationally merchandised plywood for nearly 50 years. Ottinger was a courageous and visionary business man who since World War I created the world's greatest plywood producing-selling company, United States Plywood Corp. The award was accepted by William H. Hunt, vice-president of the company. Difford is the managing director of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, the fir plywood manufacturers' promotion organizatioh that staged the spectacular Golden Jubilee celebration at Portland. His great contribution to plyll'ood advancement has been that of creating and directing an industry-supported advertising program that has spearheaded six-fold expansion of the industry since 1938.
Norton Simon, major stockholder in Ohio Match Co., announced in Los Angeles late last month that he is in control of Harbor Plyrn'ood Co. of Aberdeen, Wash. Simon lr'as elected chairn.ran of the Harbor Plywood board after a stockholders' meeting in Aberdeen at which Ohio Match gained a six-man majority on the ll-man board. Others elected to the board were Theodore Weisman, Arthur Winston and Bernard Briskman, all of Los Angeles; Jack Clumeck, San Francisco, and John Sanford.
Simon said an executive committee has been formed to study the best r.vays to utilize the company's Washington and Oregon plants and timber holdings in both states. He said an early move would be to seek listing of Harbor stock on a regional or national exchange.
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It psys to cxqmine ony offcr from cll angle:-when you road a Windeler Pricc Lisr there is rc "fne print." You need odd norhing for "extros." And sincc wc hove no:ccond grode tonks, we hqve no price lisr for them, Howevcr, you moy deduct for pqrlr unwonted. A rolid pricc 3timuldte5 conftdence. Investigote now if you wcnt lo sell economy ond volue in quolity tonks for profits.
Dean Jones, southern California manager for the Eureka Redwood Company, and Mrs. Jones visited the Pacific northwest last month on vacation. Dean took a busman's holiday and r,vent to Eureka to make sure the Redwoods were still there.
Bill Lawson, vice-president ancl general manager of Simpson Redrvood Company, sper-rt last rveek vacationing at his ranch near Cloverdale.
Bud Reitz, Long Beach, Caiifornia, u'holesale lumber distributor, spent part of the month of July traveling through the northern Caiifornia mill production country.
Fred Lamon, kingpin of Lamon Lurr-rber Company, San
Francisco, returned to his offlces July 11 after thorougirly enjoying a month "a\\'a)' {rom it all" at Harvaii r,r,ith \{rs. Larnon. The couple u'ent over by u,ay of the S. S. Lurline, visited all of the maior islands. ancl fleu' back on the return trip.
Francis "Brownie" Brown, Hollorv Tree Iledu'ood Co., T-ong Bcach, and his u'if e returnecl from f)es \Ioines, Iol'a, rr'here they attended the rvedding of their sorr Bard, u,ho is rvith the Mead Lumber Co., Fort }{organ, Colo., rvl.rere he is follou'ing the same career as his dad-lumber sales.
Norm Miller, \Vestern l)oor & Sash Cornpany. Oaklar-rd, and the Ntiller family retnrned to "realitr." August 1 after taking a t'rvo-n'eek r.acation in the southlarrcl. Thel- spent most of their time at Balboa ancl Rio Del Xfar.
Max Barnette. head man for Hollou'Tree Redt-ood Co., Long Beach, California, llerv to the Ukiah mills of the firm in the c()mpanv plane last rnonth.
XIr. anrl I,Irs. Jack Butler are currently in Sarr Francisco r,isiting Jack's folks, Ntr. arrcl NIrs. Seth Butler. Thev also plan to visit N{rs. Butier's parents in Long Beach before returning to Portlancl the end of this m<inth. Jack is u-ith Dant & Russell in Portland, and fortnerly had u'orkerl t'ith his father in the D&R San Fr:rncisco office.
The Essley familv of Los Angeles is on the beach tl'rese days. Jerry ancl family spent last month at Balboa Island. Wayne Wilson and family are presentlv vacationing at \s1vport, and Dee commtltes betl'een \\rhittier and the Laguna Beach residence throughout the summer.
Mac McCormick, assistant to Dave Davis at Sirnpson Redrvood Company in San Francisco, spent the last u.eek of July conferring u'ith James Perry, production manager of Simpson's miil at Arcata.
Chuck Lember, prominent met-nber of Hoo-Hoo and one of the outstanding young lumber executivcs of southern California, took his family on a vacation trip throrrgh the middle-rvest last month. Many of the national parks s'ere visited but most oi their time u'as spent 'round the Rocky mountains, r,vhere the'lveather u'as cool-so says Chuck.
Lew Godard, Hobbs \\rall Lumber Company, San Francisco, spent the first week of August conferring u'ith Russell Ells, president and general manager of \\rillits Redn'ood Products Company, in Willits.
Bert Coffey, \\resthard Importing Company, Wilmington-Terminal Islancl, California, left last month for Japan
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and the Philippines via Northrvest Airlines on a procurement trip. Bert expects to be in the Orient for at least six u'eeks, making arrangements for hardrvood shipments to the United States.
Bill Leonard, Emprise Lumber Company, Richmond, and family returned to the Bay area July 23 after vacationing at Lake Tahoe for two weeks.
Don Sullivan, office manager for the Nelson Lumler Company, Monrovia, Calif., spent the last trvo lveeks of July traveling through northern California visiting mill contacts of the wholesale lumber concern.
Ray Wiig, general manager, Southern California Lumber Sales, Monrovia, u'as a visitor in Reno on business last month.
Fred Anderson, who recently suffered severe injuries in an autc-rmobile accident, is norv back on the job part time and making a good recovery. Fred owns and manages Anderson Lumber Company in Sacramento.
Charlie Peirce, $'ell-known southern California lumberman, is back in Los Angeles following a one-year tour of the Lone Star state. He still has considerable work to do along the Rio Grande, so will return this fall to complete his mission.
U. S. and Japanese plywood operations rvere comparecl bv Einosuke Sakaguchi, vice-president, Shingu Shoko, Ltd., Japanese plylvood manufacturing company at Tokyo ant! Otaru, on a tour last month of the $fest coast. He said the Japanese industry is,confined chiefly to high grade hardn'ood plyrvood, using native r,voods.
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"Now ie the time lor cll good Hoo-Hoo to come to the party oI the cge"-when next month, Septem.ber 12-16, inclusive-Detroit Hoo-Hoo Club 28 will host the 1955 convenlion in lhe Motor City.
The theme ol this great meeting "Through Hoo-Hoo-ct United Lunber Induatry" will express the newly crdopted slogcn oI the lnteraationql Frcrlerncl Order oI Blcrcl Cqtr in every wcy. All ol the businegs sesrions will be devoled lo ihe problemr oI HooHoo admirriEtrciion, its coop€rqtionrin iriduatry progrcms oI educcrtion, qad the promoiion oI wood products.
Buginer: lesgions'will be blended with intereeting enterlcinment. Lively luncheong- with outstcnding specLers covering curent evenia+ horpitol- ity roon open to oll convention visitors-c well-orgcnited banquel cnd q line dinner doncecre but s lew ol lhe mcny, mcny exciting events scheduled lor your entertcinneni crnd plecrsure.
Iohn H. Dolccter, Snqrl ol the Univeree, will preside, crnd everything is being prepcred by the committeee lor lun cnd frolic. I hcrve plcnned to mcke this trip c pcrt oI my v<rcotion qnd I shall look towcrd seeing mony ol my old lriends cnd Brother Catg cAcin this yecr-hope you'll be numbered cmong them.
Keeping pace with the growing interest in planned garden areas, the California Redwood Association has issued its latest "silent 511g5ry1nn" - the full-color envelope stuffer, Garden and Patio Ideas. Illustrated in the stuffer are some of the many functions of California Redwood in outdoor living. The color rcproductions are particularly designed to assisr dealers in shou'ing their customers how beautifu!ly Redrvood can be integrated with other materials such as brick, stone, and tile, and rvith the outdoors itself. Garden and Patio Ideas may be obtained by writing the California Redrvood Association. 576 Sacramentrr St., San Francisco 11. Prices for the "sileni salesman" are $6 per 1000
Richard Briggs and his mother, I\[ary B. Briggs, are the new owners of the Briggs Lumber Co., n'hich opened at 6045 Reseda Blvd. tn Tarzana, Calif., early in July. Lloyd March is manager of the retail yard, rvhich u.ill feature large lumber stocks, building materials and a build-ityouiself yard.
The original .Briggs Lumber Co. u'as started in 1939 by Fred M. Briggs, Richard's father. His grandfather, Eugene Briggs, owned and operated a lumber business in Scottsville, Mich. Dick Briggs graduated from Van Nuys High in 1945 and attended Brigliam Young university, receiving his degree in 1951.
Announcement by the U. S. Department of Commerce that a Commercial Standard for machine-grooved shakes and rebutted-rejointed shingles has been established is hailed by shingle industry.manufacturers and distributors as a highly significant development which will bring benefits to producers and"users alike. Red Cedar shingle industry leaders recall the gains which followed the development of a similar Commerci;rl Standard for wood shingles in 1931, and predict equal advantages from the new standard for rnachine-grooved shakes.
Red Cedar Shingle Bureau is sponsor of the new Cornmercial Standard and has adopted grading rules which conform to the Commerce Department specifications. The bureau, through its inspection staff, maintains the same grade-quality super- plain, minimum order 100; $10 per 1000 imprinted.
Buffalo, N. Y.Earnings and sales of National Gypsum Company for the first six months of 1955 rvere the highest in tl-re company's history, Board Chairman IVIelvin H. Baker reported. Earnings rose more than 31flo to $7,789,000, compared rvith $5,914,000 in 1954.
Sales in the first half of tl-ris year jumped to $71,743,m0, about l9/o above the like 1954 period and the highest for any half year in the company's history.
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Anaheim, Calif.-statistically speaking, 3,500,000 board feet of lumber went into the construction of Disneyland, Calif., the new Walt Disney amusement park here for the public. The park, including its huge parking lot, contains 3 million square feet of paving; 350,000 cubic yards of dirt were removed for excavations for waterways and in building the lS-foot embankment surrounding the project; $500,000 is in shrubs and trees which were imported and transplanted. During a year's construction, 800 workmen, mostly skilled craftsmen, were employed, with the number increased to 25J/0: in l0-hour shifts as opening date neared in June and July. An old Los Angeles mansion with its wood paneling, stained-glass windows and crystal chandelier, supplied much of the interior of the Delmonico-style restaurant and other portions of the "Main Street" buildings. Permanent employes at Disneyland on and after public opening July 18 will number 850 to 1000.
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Machine-grooved shakes which have been manufactured under the bureau's grading supervision are identified by a trade-marked "Certigroove" label. Bureau officials describe it as a running-mate of the association's well-known "Certigrade" label which has designated bureau-inspected Red Cedar shingles for many years.
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Last month the O. \\,r. Ste.n'art Plyrvood Cornpany, Norwalk, Calif., moved into a fine neu' home at 14051 South Marquardt St., just ll mrles north of the Santa Ana Freervay on the corner of Rosecrans Boulevard and Stage Road. This new [t000-sq. ft. .rvarehouse marks a milestone of
progress for this three-year old rvholesale plyr,vood distributing firm. It rvas just 32 months ago that Orval Stewart decided to enter the business r,vorld on his orvn. Today, this young Southern California organization has 10 people operating the sales and service department arrd four units of mobile equiprner.rt tci l.randle the ever-increasing volume of business.
Situated on thc Santa Fc-with a spur track under construction-Stervart Plyu,'ood has facilities to handle the loading and unloacling of trucks at the dock from two platforms. Ten vehicles can be accommodated rvithout interruption of service and the inventory is so arranged that orders are made up and ready prior to pick-up or delivery time.
The beautiful nerv offices o{ the firm are permanent displays of the products sold. The interior finish features rotary-cut and ribbon-grain Philippine m:rhogany, Oriental ash, birch, knotty ,,r'hite pine, knotty red cedar, oai<, walnut, Grainglo and many other imported and domestic hardu'ood panels.
"We have applied one of our products, Celotex hard-
board, to the construction of the eaves of our new offices and have found this material furnishes complete ventilation and requires no further attention following installation," said Orval Stewart.
Thc neu' (). \\'. Steu'art plyu'ood nzlrehtittse is situate,l just minutes frot-u the Sar-rta An:r F-rees'ay itrrcl offcrs fast transl)ort to all Sotrthern Califontia commtttlities, c(,llnectir-rg u'ith the va1le1,s and hzirbor areas. Orval Sten'art is president and general manager, ltncl Ted Back. u'ell-ktlorvtr lurnber and lilvu'ocicl salesman, is in chargc of telephonc sales and office man:rger.
Pat Cardin. president of California I'lvrvoo<1 Con.rltanv in Emeryville, announced the adclition oi Davc Olnrstearl to'the California F'lyrvood sales staff July 15. Olmsteacl wils formerly rvith Caliiornia Builclcrs Supply Co. :rnd had been activc in s:rles ancl lrrotttotiotr u,orl< ior thltt firnr ior marly years.
In addition to Olmstcatl. s'ht., n'ill lrc scrvicing l',ast ll:ti' retailers, thc hrm's salcs stafl also irrcludes Jim Fair ltnci Dick Osmrrndsr.rn. Faiir services lutnl;err-ards thrortghout the San lirancisco :trezr. ancl ()stnnntlsort cztlls ou the cabirret shop tracle irr the .l'last IJav an<l Contrit Clost:i :rrear;. Leo Fleitz, r'ice-prcsident of tl.rc concern, rrnd Pat Carclin rLre also active in sales in addition to managemeut. Plus a complete line oi {ir plvrvotid. Caiifornia J'lyn,oocl Company is alst-r a distrilrutor of F'ormica ancl mairrtaius complete inventories of birch. I-attatr. Klinki. h:ircllroards, dor'vels and Sen.
. Tacoma, \['ash.-The appointment of James F. Folvler, :nanaging director of the Fir Door Institute here, to the newly created position of director of promotion for the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, was announced by W. E. Diffond, managing director of the plywood industry's trade group. According to Difford, Fowler will head a vastly expanded promotion effort undertaken during the industry's Golden Jubilee of 1955 by the association on behalf of western fir plywood manufacturers.
At the same time, Difford announced two other staff promotions: John D. Ritchie, allied products director, will take over as director of media advertising; Thomas C. Sias becomes publicity director.
Appointments were made effective July 1, although Fowler has been working closely with the plywood association since early this year. He is playing a major role in this year's $2.5 million celebration of the Golden Jubilee of the western fir plywood industry-a year-long promotion program aimed at stimulating increased plyrvood sales by 10 million feet per week. As director of promotion, Fowler will supervise and coordinate the enlarged activities of five key departments in association work, including those of advertising, publicity, merchandising, field promotion and allied products. No newcomer to the DFPA, Fowler was field representative for the association in the New England area three years ago.
Because of the expanded promotiondl program, Difford said, the advertising-publicity work has been split, creat-
The Riverside County Building Department reports that the county's unincorporated territory seems sure to chalk up its first $20 million building year since the county code was adopted in 1952. The total in this year's first six months was $11,876,389, or about $4,500,000 more than last year's similar period.
ing two separate departments.
John Ritchie has been with the plyrvood associatiorr since 1936. He began as inspector before the reorganization of the present DFPA. He has been a leading figure in the development and promotion of such well-known plywood specialties as Texture One-Eleven. plastic-overlaid plywoods and other new products presently gaining favor in the construction field.
Tom Sias has been with the publicity department of DFPA for the past four years as assistant to Winston I{. McCallum. Prior to that he was with International News Service in San Francisco for two years. His background includes work on several western newspapers i;r rddition to his wire service work.
Redlands, Calif.-A new record was set in two days here in July when the building inspector issued permits for 110 new homes in four tracts to cost $1,033,700. The permits brought the year's total to date over $5,600,000, which already surpasses the volume for the entire record year of 1954.
A former retail lumber yard, on the Pennsylvania Railroad, is now being opened as a storage-in-transit yard and warehouse by its owner, Clarence Bolt, under the name of Forest Products Storage & Woodwork Co., of Falmouth, Michigan. Bolt indicates there will be sufficient rvarehouse space to store from 25-30 cars of lumber in fully enclosed sheds (for kiln-dried selects, uppers and other shed items). 100 or more cars can be stored outside.
As a result of a new transit tarifi effective June 15, cars of lumber can now be shipped from the west coast or diverted at transit points to go through the Mackinaw gateway to the Pennsylvania Railroad for shipment to Falmouth, Michigan, for storage in transit. From there, they can be reloaded and shipped without additional freight charges to points south and east or almost any point on the blanket $1.3O rate of freight.
While the lumber is in storage, Forest Products Sales of Grand Rapids, an associated company, offers its services to the mills and wholesalers in selling their lumber. Forest Products Storage & Woodwork Co., says Bolt, is also interested in specifications on various kinds of contract woodworking on a milling-in-transit basis.
It is hoped by Mr. Bolt that this service will filI a real need in the lumber industry. It has so many different possibilities of application that any suggestion for extended service will be very vt'elcome. For further details, rvrite direct to Forest Products Storage & Woodwork Co. at 1967 Godfrey Ave. 5.14r., Grand Rapids 9, Michigan.
FIYING FOR FAIRHURST-F;onk Emenegger, left, ond Dqle Green now ey fhese lwo new Aoro Commonder execulive plones for Fairhurst Lumber Co., Eureko, Colif. This wos the first delivery of two of rhe 5-7 ploce plones, mode in Bethony, Oklo., to ony comPqny in one doy. Foirhurst, with mills ond yords oll up the wert coosl. hcs been using itr own plones:evarol yeors cnd the Aero Commondert hove been found sofe for nighr ond instrument eying. in mounloinous counlry ond in ond oul of smoll londing srrips. Besides execulive use, plones ore used in inventory of timber by oeriol observotion, when loggers fly.
SEVERAT hundred people suddenly found themselves pqrt ownors of Molorkej tiiiberlonds iil recent Portlqnd conyenfion3. M&M deeded o 3qudre foot eoch in the Eust Trocf, Del Norfe counly, Colif;, contcining Fir ond Redwood, to members of the DFPA, NPDA ond press onending rhe plywood doings in June.
First to receive q deed from l/l&M Vice-president Eberly Thompson wos Mory Emily Kochfon, 7, doughter of Emil Kochron, presidenl, Kochton Plywood & Veneer Co.. os Mrc. Kochton wolches'
TIN-HAITED SAIES^ EN of Simpson Redwood Compony recently visited compony'l lo99in9-milling operotions in Arcolq ond Klqmoth, Colif., during o soles meefing. In the usuol order, ol rhe right, ora W. E. lowson, vicepresident cnd generol monqgeri Kent Merrill, soulh cenllol soles :upervisor; Leroy l/lcGormick, ossl' soles monoger; E. G. "Dove" Dcvi:, soles mdnogeti Wolter Porks, ecslern soles rupervisor; John Driscoll, weslern scles :upervisor; fom Gleed, Jr., north centrol supervisor; John Rhodo. diroctor roles-production coordinotion.
IHE RAY Hllt IUMBER CO., los Angeles, hod rhe firsl enlry from fhe lumber indusfry in this year's motchbook odvertising awords competition. ond it is exomined, obove, by Rondo Bornord of the Morch Industry Informofion Burequ. Eitrie3 close September l. with forms ovoiloble from the Bureou.50O Fifth Ave.,'N. Y. 36. tn rhe photo. o pile of 50OO entry forms i: overshodowed by c pyromid of thot mony motchibooks. In submitling its enf.y, rhe Roy Hill Lumbcr Co. sqid its sqh3men distribule the books in corlons to rcttril lumbcr deolerc qnd, "We feel rhis is some of the mosl effeclive odvertising we con do." After ordering its mqtchbooks, with o piece of plywood piclured on fronl cover qnd o door on the bock, Roy Hill chonged its letterheod to duplicote cover design.
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A goodly number of "divot manufacturers" turned out for the Dubs, Ltd., annual meeting at the San Jose Country Club July 22. At stake, along with the golfing reputation of several of the members, u'as the club's Dave Davis Perpetual Trophy, held by Bert Hasselberg of Arcata Redrvood Company. The winer of the Dave Davis trophy for this year u'as Leo Cheim, Jr., Cheim Lumbe.r Companv, San Jose.
Fred Ziese Elected President
In addition to the banquet follorving the tournament and the trophy presentation, the meeting also marked the end of another Dubs year and, of course, the elections of officers for the coming year. A "no railroading" theme prevailed over the elections and Fred Ziese, Gamerston & Green l-umber Co.. was unable to "srvitch" off the main line leading to the presidency of the club for the comingyear.
Other officers elected rvere Leo Cheim, Sr., vice-president; Granville Geisert and Ev Ler,vis, sergeants-at-arms, and Jim Rossman, temporary secretary-treasurer.
Directors for the coming year rvill be Frank Brou'n, Bill Bonnell, Norm Miller, Hollis Jones, Jim Rossman, Al Boldt, Ben lVard, Bill Johnson and I'aul Gabonry.
The Guest Flight division \'r,'as won by Bill Ingram of the lVestrvood-Ingram Co., Oakland, with a 99-36. Ser.en guests, along rvith 28 members, attended the event.
The Dubs u'ill play again August 19 at the Nfeadou's Golf & Country Club, near Fairfax. This rvill be the kickoff meeting for the new club year, therefore members are invited to bring along as many guests as they like.
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The San Gabriel Valley's expanding industrial cleveloirrnent has taken another step ahead with the official opening of the Western States Plywood Corporation's new rvhole. sale distributing warehouse last month in Whittier, Calif. The brand new warehouse and modern offices are locateC at 705 West Sunny Slope Street, just minutes from the freeways and all southeastern commttnities.
According to J. R. "Dick" Fantz, well knon'n Southem California plywood and lumberman who is general manager and director of the firm, the organization rvill serve all retail and industrial users of plywood with a complete inventory of commercial sizes and grades of foreign and domestic materials. The imported plywoods will include Oriental ash, Philippine mahogany, poplar, birch, Limba and a variety of hardwoods from the markets of the r'vorlcl.
Domestic plywoods will include Douglas fir, Ponclerosa pine, knotty pine and a complete line of hardrn'oods from U. S. and Canadian mills.
Dick Fantz has been identified with the Southern California plywood distributing business for several years, and his associates in the ngw venture include Leonard Crofoot. treasurer and director; Marvin Kirkwood, vice-president, and J. F. Moses, president. All are well known throughout Southland business activities and development.
"We are particularly proud to offer this nerl' service Lo retail dealers in Los Angeles, Orange, Riversicle, Imperial,
San Bernardino and San Diego counties," cleclared Fantz. "\\re shall provide a completely new and convenient source of supply for plyrvood throughout this ursn-lvhere this particular rvood product is in ever-increasing demar.rd," he concluded.
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in three decades. For the month of June 1955, 20 Redr,vood mills reported production 63,316,000 feet, shipments 60,778,000 feet-compared to 51,018,000 feet and 51,596,000 feet. respectively, in June 1954.
The Southern Pine Association reported for 114 mills in the rveek ended July 3O: production, 19,184,000 feet; shipments, 19,513,000 feet; orders, 16,809,000 feet. For the year to date, production was B/o, shipments 7/c and orders 5/o ahead of 1954.
Pacific Coast waterborne lumber exports dropped during June, while domestic shipments increased, reported the Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau. June exports totaled 108,939,872 board feet; shipments to U. S. ports totaled 236,I:\0,625. For the first six months of 1955, coast exports totaled 8n,748,322 feet, compared to 765,213,822 last year, u'hile domestic shipments this year $'ere 1,032,895,584, against 1,064,6(fi,153 feet last year.
The Douglas Fir Plywood Association reported that orders continued 6l/o higher than production in the rveek ended July 30, although orders dropped l2/a from the rveek ended l:;iry 23 rvhile production rose 5/o, and orders in that rveek hit their highest rveekly total since mid-February. Recent reduction of $4 M sq. ft. in the mill price of sA" tLrick sheathing plyu'ood, norv sold by many mills for .$127 NI, was cited as one reason for the upsurge in orders. In the week ended July 30, plyu'oocl production was 92,078,000 feet and orders rvere 98,000,000 feet. For the year to date, production was 2,798,464,000 feet, compared to 2,|U,O94,O0O feet in 1954, rvhile orders *'ere 25.3/,'over 1954.
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Arcata, Calif.-Roddis Plywood Corp., Marshfield, Wis., has started construction of a $2,250,000 plant here to manufacture board from wood chips, said Robert T. Beggs, vicepresident. Roddis has obtained exclusive U. S. rights to manufacture and sell chipboard made under the Behr-Homogenholtz process. The plant, which will turn out 50 tons a day of finished board, is adjacent to Roddis's Humboldt plywood division. The chipboard will also be used to replace the diminishing.supply of lumber used as cores in the manufacture of plyr,vood.
Small manufacturing plants have been urged to register with the nearest Small Business Administration office, and dealers with millwork operations, interested in rnaking boxes, pallets; etc., for sale to the government, uray find some business through these offices.
Addresses of the Small Business Administration's regional offices include: 19th & Stout Sts., Denver, Colorado ; 870 Market Street, San Francisco, Calif.; 905 Second Aventte, Seattle, Washingtoq; 1031 Soutl.r Rroadway, Los Angeles, Calif.
Santa Ana, Calif.-Rural Orange County building rocketed upward in June rvith a record 1735 permits for $12,830,976, representing a 577o increase over June 1954 and the 6-months valuation in county territory to $73,452,144 for 9026 permits, compared to 5608 permits at $39,396,099 in the first six months last year.
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All inquiries regarding NE\f PRODUCTS, New Liter' ^tore 6r bookl6ts and other items mentioned in this section should be addressed to THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHA.I\T, Room 508, 108 rilfest 6th St., Los Angeles 14. Your inquiries will be promptly for' warded by us to the manufacturer or distributor, who will then answer your inquiries direct.
The carrier lvas the "brain child" of Stuart Williamson, a DFPA field representative rvho sa'iv the need for it u'hile making his rounds and visiting lumber dealers of his area on the east coast. The DFPA believes tl-re carrier is so valuable that it has applied for patent on it in Williamson's name. A11 rights to the carrier are being assigned to the association.
In line u,ith its regular policy of selling merchandise aids at about one-half the cost of producing them, DFPA has offered its cartop carriers in stock form-50 sets without imprint labels at $6; u'ith imprint labels, $7.50; l0O sets rvitl.rout imprint labels, $10, and with imprint labels, $13. These are the prices delivered to the dealer.
Something really new in a mercl.randising idea-simple, useful and one that takes the dealer's name home n'ith the customer-has just been produced by the Douglas Fir Plywood Association.
The item: A craftboard cartop carrier.
It's designed for the dealer to give away or sell at a low or practically "give-away" price. The big thing is this : It fills a hole in dealer service.
This is one of those "why-don't-they" ideas that someone actually did. It takes care of the nuisance haul-away deliveries rvhich lose so much time and money, even though there may be minimum charge involved. In addition, it serves as an advertising space for your firm's imprint.
The cartop carrier should have real attraction for the do-it-yourself trade. Although it was designed for carrying large and small panels of plywood, it also allows a hobbyist to pick up other kinds of lumber-2x4s, moulding, etc.-and haul it away on top of his car rvithout damaging the car's finish.
The actual carrier is about as simple a thing as you could imagine. It's shipped flat with the imprint "Fir Plywood" already on it. Dealer imprints are on stickers, shipped separately, and for applying at the store. The flat craftboard is pre-creased for easy folding. Push-out sections of the unit hold it in shape. When the carrier is ready for use, it's about three feet long, triangular in cross-section, three and a quarter inches on a side. Tn''o units are put crosswise atop the car. The load is put on them and tied dorvn. The rvhole operation takes only a ferv minutes.
The carriers are available either from the plyrvood association at Tacoma 2. \\rash., or from iobbers.
Ace Drive Screw Nails and Ace Fetter Ring Shank Nails now on the market are the result of many years of technical and field experience. The many plus, desirable and exclusive features of the product are:
1. Uniformity and precision; 2. high carbon steel; 3. sharp points; 4. smooth flat heads; 5. clean threads and fetters; 6. smooth shank under head for machine nailing.
Ace nails are used for anchor plate, boxes, crates, dryrval1, flooring, pallets, pallet-bins, siding, underlayment, etc.
Samples, engineering bulletins and price lists are available upon request to the manufacturer, the Frank L. Robinson Company, Ace Fastener Division, Latham Square Building, Oakland 12, Calif.
Three nen, one-rninute movie scenarios in color rvill be available in September to Masonite dealers for placement in local movie theaters or. in black and white, on sponsored television shou's. They deal rvith "Peg-Board" panels and fixtures in the living room, rvorkshop, garage and kitchen ; exterior and interior applications of Nfasonite Primecote
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lock assembly can norv be purchased for use on single acting gates and doors. An improvenrent over the ordinarl' latch. its positive slicle lrolt action effectively locks gate or door from the inside : pror-ides for use of padlock rvhere desired. A1l parts, except the phosphor bronze s1-iring, are made of heavy gauge l'rought steel. Antique black baked enamel finish, over an irridited, cadium plate base, resists rust. The assembly can be used on right or left hand gates su'inging either in or out. Ah,vays applied from the outside, the ornamental pull is l\z/s inches long. Arrowsmith Tool & Die Corporation, Dept. CLM, 9700 Bellanca Ave., Los Angeles 45, Calif.
J)exter Lock has just announced a nerv Sash Lock ancl Lift in solid brass or steel in standard finishes. Lock is onlv 76" high. It has por.r,erful camming action to pull upper ancl lou'er sash tightly together to seal out drafts and dirt and stop rattles. An installation template is furnished rvith each sash lock. The matching sash lift is 4 5/16,, wider,r'ide enough to cover old screu' holes and marks rvhen lift is used for replacdment. Lift is shaped u'ith an oi.erhang to givc rnaxinum purchase po\\:er to raise sash.
\\rith neu', self-cor-rtained "Speed Clamp" brackets, designed and manufactured by Chesney,Tnc.,7Z0 Towne Avenue, Los Angeles, a sarvhorse can be put up or knocked dou'n, r'vith ease, in a matter of seconds. Stronger than a regular san'horse, able to support anything from a boat to a banquet table, Chesney brackets require only scrap 2x4 and bare hands for construction.
Its adr.antages to the sportsman are self-evident. Huge, stationary blocks are ()ut-moded, making immeasurably easier the task rf readying the boat for summer fun. In addition, the garage, rvhich so often doubles as a workshop, can be kept clear as the sawhorse can be dismantled in seconds.
\\rith the do-it-yourself trend long out of the "fad" class, the value of these versatile brackets is only limited by the inventiveness and ingenuity of the user. Boat supports, trailer supports, picuic and ping-pong tables, display-stand supports, r'r'ork ltenches, tables-along with its more prosaic uses for scaffolding, rvinch supports, etc., make Chesney "Speecl Clamp:' brackets a "must" for the sp()rtsman, the craftsman, the amateur and the professional.
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Enclosing his subscription renewal and adding that "We like your paper," Henry A. Van Den Top of the H. A. Van Den Top retail lumber company in Long Beach, Calif., reports to The CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT that he just returned last month from a tour of Europe. Going by way of the polar route through Greenland, the trip took only 2l hours from Los Angeles International Airport to Copenhagen, Denmark. The lumber dealer says they had a rvonderful trip-l0 days in Denmark, 1O days in Holland and 10 days in England. When they started back, they left Copenhagen at 8:10 p.m. on a Wednesday, crossed the International Date Line, and got to Los Angeles airport the same day at 2:15 p.m.-or 5f hours "before they started" by Scandinavian Airlines System.
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Raymond B. White, president of Exchange Salr'mills Sales Co., Kansas City, Mo., a frequent California visitor and occasional resident, and Mrs. White left early in July for a European trip in 'ivhich they plan to visit Great Britain and the Scandinavian countries.
Carvel Brown, Orban Lumber Company, Pasadena, left the first of this month rvith his family on a tu'o-rveek vacation. They expect to cover several thousand miles by automobile, visiting interesting points in the rvestern U.S. Frank Timmers, Strable Lttmber Companv, and the Timmers family of Oakland, spent the last trvo rveeks cif July vacationing along the Redwood highr,vay and it Yosemite.
Bob Reed, Neiman-Reed Lumber Company, \ran Nuys, Calif., is spending his vacation this month at \\Ionder Valley Ranch in the High Sierras.
Wayne Page, manager of the Diamond Ntatch Company yard in Petaluma, returned the end of July frcim a trvoweek vacation at Salt Lake City.
Jim Tattersall, one of the lead horses in the Security Royal Dutch Paint Company, left bn an extended trip to Mexico the first part of this month. r
Ralph Bacon, Strable Lumber Complny,' Oakland, returned to the job August 1 after enjoying two weeks awayfrom-it-all on a fishing trip.
Bob Neiman, prominent San Fernando Valley lumberman, and Mrs. Neimar, spent part of last month at beautiful Hotel Coronado on San Diego bay.
Rudy Meleski, O'Neill Lumber Company, San Carlos, and the Meleski familv have iust returned from a trvo-rveek
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Torben Klenz, mi<l<lle-u'cstern rel)reselltativc for thcr I:trrek;r Recln'ood Conrpernv, n'ith ollices in Chicago, u-as :r recent r-isitor to the \\-est coast. \\'hile ir-r Califorrriir he sl)ent scver:Ll days in I'lurek:L :rn<1. enroute home , st()l)l)ecl o1l-in l-os -\r-rgelcs to lisit u'ith cornpun-r'entploves ilr l)orv ner-.
\'Ir.:rnd \lrs. John Brewer sperrt the last n'eek of Jrr11' in the high Sierras on :r fishing cxpedition. Brcu-er is a partner in the Ilnrnson-Ilrcu-cr I-umltcr C--r.rnrp:rnv of San Lorenzo-
Harry Selling, fast-rnoving saleslr:rn for the ('lough l-rrrnber ('onrpany, I)orl.nev, Cali{., is so lrusv in the var<l thesc clavs he has becrr unable to take his long-earnccl r,;rcation. Harry is thinking seriouslv of spending all of it ir-r the "sha<le," as hc s:r,r's he htrs h:rtl er-rough sunshilrc to liLst :L lifctimc.
Jack Dollar, head of Thc Roliert I)o11ar Comlranv's lunrber <lir,ision, spent 10 davs the last of Julv visiting the I)ollar Comlianr''s ntill at (i1enrlale. ()regon, ancl calline' orr nrill connectiorr,s in the I,lurek:r-^\rc;rta irre:r.
Bob Middleton, Nlirklleton Lumbcr Crimpanr-, I{erl<ling, sl)ent se veral davs in sorrthern C:rlifornizt 1:rst lnotrth. \\,'hilc in the southland he visited rvith Herb Meier, .\rc:rdia, u-ho rel)resents the \'l iddleton organizatiotr in that area.
Al Bell, IIobbs \\-all Lrrmber (lomparrr', :rnd NIrs. llell arc n()\\' r'ac:rtionir.rg at [,akc Tahoe. 'l'hev ]cft S:rn l,-r:Lncisco .\rrgust i anrl p1:rn to returrr arorrrrrl the er-rrl of this tnonth.
Joe Williams, sales manager, .\rrgelus Hardn'ood Co.. I-os Angcies, lna(le a fast business trilr to \\''ashington, D.('.. anrl eastenl cities the first purt of this month.
Pat Tynan, I)ant & Itrrssell's Fresr.ro nuLr.r, spent llre last u'eek of -f ulv c:rlling orr r-nill connections in rrorthcrn Clrliforni:r anrl r-isiting the ('oast Pacilic T,umlrcr Ciompanv in Lureka.
Byron Armstrong, forrrerl_r. n'ith \[onarch Lrrmber L'ot'tr1r;Lnr-, irnd ('ommcrcial Lunrlrcr L'om1t:rrr_r-, lroth oi Los -\ngeles. h;rs joined thc sales st:rlf oi l). ('. Essley & Son. Inc.. southcrn Ll:rliiorni:L n.holeslrlc rlistrilrrrting org:Lniz:rti,,r.r.
Charles Lund, lnalrzrger of tl'rc Hcnry lless ('onrpanr.. irr San I{:rfacl. spent tlre trrst rvccl< of -\rrgust irr northern L';tlifonrilr on u lrshirrg trip.
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Closing dtrtes lor copy, Sth cnd 20th
WANTED
Retail lumberyard assistant managers and salesmen. Excellent opportunity for advancement with fast-growing company. Give full particulars. Write
$/. L. Pickens, United Lumber Yards
Modesto, California
SASH AND DOOR SALESMAN WANTED
Well-established Los Angeles company selling to tract builders has opening for a high-caliber salesman with proven background and top performing ability; permanent job with insured earnings. State full background, earning capacity and when available. Applications handled in conidence; our employes know of this ad.
Address Box C-2390, California Lumber Merchant
108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
WANTED _ HARDWOOD MAN
Man who KNOWS hardwood (Western Red Alder and Maple) business in Los Angeles area. Well-rated lumber company located on Columbia River. would install kilns and milling plant in either Los Angeles area or on Columbia River. Adequate salary, expense account and percentage of profits to qualified man.
Address Box C-2380. California Lumber Merchant
108 W. 6th St., Room 5@, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
SALESMEN WANTED
Established wholesale lumber company needs services of one or two experienced lumber salesmen to sell west coast lumber and plywood in the Southern California area. Salary and expenses
Address Box C-2389. Califo'rnia Lumber Merchant
108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
OFFICE MANAGER-CONTROLLER, lumber sawmill in mountains 225 miles from Los Angeles. Heavy accounting. Mail details as to ability, references, etc., or apply Mt. Whitney Lumber Co., 3O3O E. Washington Blvd., Los Angeles 54, Calif. Phone: ANgelus 8-0171-Mr. Cullen
A. Long established yard (about 40 years) present ownership since 1937. Located in industrial co'mmunity adjacent to Los Angeles. Lease $115.00 monthly on about 50,000 sq. ft. Four years yet on pres€nt lease but extenson now being negotiated. Price for all buildings, ofrce and yard equipment (including 1954 Chevrolet truck) $f4,O00.0O Inventory about $6,00O.00. TERMS $10,0C0.00 down, balance spread over five-year period.
B. Located in ideal town in which to live; one hour's drive inland from Los Angeles; one ownership since 1903 ; think of the high standing this yard has in that fine community. R, R. lease with spur track $10.@ per day. Price: office and yard equipment including two trucks $5,000.00 Inventory about $50,00O.00; all buildings $25,00O.00 but owner might consider leasing improvements to well-rated concern. We highly recommend this yard.
C. Located near Coast about 15 miles from Loe Angeles; long established. About an acre with lots of buildings, mill & cabinet shop, etc. Six-year lease $10.00 per day and can no doubt be extended. Inventory around $35,000.00. Two trucks, all machinery and miscellaneous improvements made by lessee, $20,000.00 All subject to appraisal.
E. Riverside County yard only an hour's drive for your weekends at Palm Springs; established two years ago; about 30,000 sq. ft. with very good modern store building and LOTS of sheds. Price for ground and buildings $29,000.00; equipment $5,000.00. Inventory about $20,000.(D. Located on main highway. If vou want to sell your yard let us hear from yo'u. We have an inquiry for a yard in the San Fernando Valley.
TWOHY LUMBER CO.
7f4 W. Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles 15; Rlchmond 9-8746
Lurnber yard brokers for over forty years.
Nomes of Advertiserc in this Deportmcnt using o blind qddress connot ba divulged. All inquirier ond replio: should be qddrarscd to key shown in the sdvertisemenl
POSITION WANTED
Sales Manager-Manager, with over 7 years' experience in plywood and allied building materials distribution, desires position with established Bay Area building materials distributor. Fully experienced in sales management, administrative work, etc.-Age 31.
Address Box C-2392, California Lumber Merchant
108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
WHOLESALE CONNECTIONS WANTED
Large established Houston Wholesale firm desires additional connection with lumber manufacturers.
Address Box C-2391, California Lumber Merchant
108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
WILL INVEST
Experienced lumberman with excellent distribution connections will invest for part ownership in good sawmill with timber. Will exchange references.
Address Box C-2377, California Lumber Merchant
108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
Located 60 miles from Los Angeles near San Bernardino, same owner past l0 years. No inventory to buy. Over 25,000 sq. ft. of buildings with 3 to 5 acres of ground. A real deal for buying or will give lo'ng, reasonable lease. Write or call:
c. w. KELLY, JR., REALTOR 123 East Highland Ave., San Bernardino, Calif. Phone: 875-94
Retail Lumber and Building Material Yard in thriving San Joaquin Valley. Established l0 years. Attractive store, ample sheds, highway frontage, convenient sptrr, Investment over $50,000. Will sell for $25,C{n. Closed due to owner's health.
, Address Box C-2393, California Lumber Merchant Room 508, 108 West 6th St., Los Angeles 14, Calif.
Located in one. of the fastest growing areas anywhere, 60 miles from Los Angeles, Calif. On main boulevard, in town of 16,000 population. Ample buildings, approx. 10,00O sq. ft. under roof. Yearly gross over $100,000; high net profits. Prefer to sell land, inventory, equipment and business on one deal. $3O000 cash required. Books open to principals only.
Address Box C-2306, California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
ANNOUNCING OPERATION
Custom Re-Manufacturing and Unloading-Reloadin g-Storage Yarding. Fir, Redwood & Pine.
Located on S.P. & N.W.P.; Highways 12 and, 37. HOUSE MANUFACTURING COMPANY Sonoma. California
P.O. Box 387 Phone: 3937
FLUSH DOOR MANUFACTURERS
/s" Philippine Ribbon Mahogany doorskins, sizes 241 to 361 by 8Oz/. Guaranteed perfect in original crates-lLfc per sq. ft. carloads f.o.b. Los Angeles. Immediate delivery.
P. O. Box 829, Alhambra, California
HysterRoss - Clqrkfowmolor
Used-Good or Rebuilt & Guorqnteed. 2,OOO-|5,0OO lb. copocity.
Hyster 150 , 15,000 lb. <op., used-sood --,...--..-.------------..----..-----.-..-,----.-..$3950
Hyiter 150 15,000 lb. cop., rebuilt & guoronleed .--..---.-$4700
Hysrer VT-75 7,500\ lb. cop., pneu. tires, used-good --..-..---.-------.--..-..-.$2350
Ross l9 HT , . 6,000 lb. cop., used-sood -----,----------..------.-..----.-..-..---.,---.-.-.$1950
Clork 6,000 lb, cqp.. rebuilt & guoronteed ---.------.--..-.-..$1650
Towmofer LT41 .,1,000 lb. cop., us#ood --..------.-,---.-$l/t5C Brg Drscounts on New Surprus Pqrts lor Att ,llakes qnd l{odefs
NEW'SURPIUS PARTS FOR CONSTRUCIION EQUIPMENT
Gaterpillor - lnterndlionqlLe Tourneou
Lorsin - BuckeyeEuclidNorthwestetc.
BRID.GE CRANE LUMBER GRAPPLE HOOK
We recently changed to a 72" package for our Ross carriers, lift trlrcks and bridge crane, and have a 54" x 54" package grapple hook which has had very little use, which we are desirous of switching o'ver to a 72" package from Ederer. Price on this 54" grapple is $3,950.00 f.o.b. car Chicago. If you have need for this write us, or you may ask Ederer Engineering Co., Seattle, 4, about any details, as we would like to dispose of it quickly.
HUSS LUMBER COMPANY
1350 W. Fullerton Avenue Chicago, 14, Illinois
IERMS AVAILABTE I2324 CENTER STREET NEVADA 6.3327
New 3-fon Choin Hoisls Spur GearedIO fr. Ghain Foll-.--.
JOSEPH & soNS,lNC. ESTABUSHED reo6
HOLI.YDAI.E, SOUIH GATE, CAI.IF METCATF 0.3105
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Filer & Stowell type design, 1951. All steel package unit with complete sets orf gear motors and all air lifts on transfer rolls, chains and drives. 24" infeed rolls, 36" outfeed, Infeed & outfeeal each 44' long, 98' overall. Can handle 75,000 ft. per day for remanufacturing of cants. Is being used for sawing Clears into vertical grain Fir, Spruce, Cedar, etc. for rni Excellent for making mrnesweeper prograrl .E;xceuent m:rklng siding strips in VG for Redwood or Cedar mill, also mfg. items as srclrng strrps rn v(i tor -t(edwood uedar mrll, mtg. rtetns ladder stock, pole stock and spar & mast grades, etc. Can be seen in operation. Write for blueprint. Price, $18,750.00 net, f.o.b. cars Write for b Qhicago, without resaw.
HUSS LUMBER COMPANY
1350 W. Fullerton Ave. Chicago, 14, Illinois
One Overhead Shepard Crane-7{-ton capacity, $350.
MULLIN LUMBER CO. 1950 West Slauson Ave. Los Angeles 47, Cdif. AXminster 4-6191
20M mill close to Arcata; pond, 50 ft. burner, electric set and air dogs. Located on state highway and railroad.
Address Box C-2298, California Lumber Merchant lOE West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
f Sorting to Lengths
* Stick for Air-Dry
f Loading & Unloading
LUMBER HANDLING
CRANE & CO.
f Free 1955 Printed Rates
5143 Alhambr" A.,". Los Angeles 32, Calif. CApitol 2-8143
LIFT TRUCK WANTED
Late model 7/z-ton lift truck; must be guaranteed in first class condition.
EMPIRE PLANING MILLS, INC.
Gualala, California
FOR SALE_z CARRIERS, 2 LIF.T TRUCKS
9-ton ROSS Fork Lift; 6-ton ROSS FoTk-Lift; 66-inch wide GER- LINGER Carrier, 54-inch wide ROSS Carrier.
For Complete Information-Call or Write
ORBAN LUMBER COMPANY
77 South Pasadena Ave,, Pasadena, California RYan l-8401 SYcamore 6-4303
B UY-SELL-REPAIR_SERVICE
Fork Lifts and Straddle Trucks. Complete shop and field service. Portable Welding, $pgsixt Fabrication, Steam Cleaning and Painting. Service Available 7 Days a Week. All work guiranteed.
COMMERCIAL REPAIRS AND SERVICE
1115 North Alameda Street, Compton, Calif. Phones: NEwrnark l-8269, NEvada 6-48O5
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*Adve.tiaing
Lumber Soles Co, ...--...-...-.--.-...-.....-------...-.. I
Lumber Terminql, Inc. ---......--.-.-.-....-....----.-
MocBeath Hddwood Compony
ll*Doncld Co.,L.
Mople Bror.
Bfirr& Gotcr Lumber Co. --..-.--.-..------,-------47
Bluc Dionond Corporcfion --.--.-.-.-.-.-...-----.44
lohnhofi Lmber Co. a.
Eonnell-Wqrd t l(nopp --.-.-.-..----.-..---..,------*
Bonninqton Lumber Co. ....------...-...---.-...--.'*
Brcce Co., E. t. --.---.-..-...-....-....---.--------..-*
Brurh Indcslrlol Lumber Co. ----..-.------.--.63
Surns Lumber Co. -.--...-..-.-.....--.-....--..--..----15
Cqlweror Cemst Co. .--.-.--.-...-..-.--..-.---.....28
Colifmlo Bullder Supply Co. -.--..-----,-----. a
Cqlifoinio Door Co. of L. A. --.--.-.--..--..---.49
Ccfifomio lumber Soler -----.-------....--.--..-.--67
Colifornlo Ponel E Veneer Co. --------.,--.-----
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Nikkel, l. F, Lumber Co....-..-.-.-...--.-..-.-... tt
Noahern Redwocd lunber Co, ..-...--.-......--67
Olren-Ccpenter lwber Co. .-.--.--.--.--,-..-..rt
Orgood, nobert S. ----..----.---.-...-----..--..-----..*
Oiffing fttf9. Co. ......-.........-..-....................47
Pocillc Coqrl Aggrcgotet. Inc. --.---......-.--45
Pqiic Flr Scls .--..-......----...-..-...-.-.....--...-.-'|t
Pociic Forerl Produclr, Inc, ------.-.---.-.----... :l
Pqtific Hqdwood Sqler Co. -----.--..----..-..-.. *
P*lfc lmber Co.. The ---.----------------.-...--.,3
Pqcilc Lunber Deolcn Supply, Inc...-.--*
Poci0c Westein Lunber Co. ----..---.-.----..--.*
Pocillc Wire P.odsct! Co. .-..-.-.-...--..-.-....-57
Pon Ariqtic lroding Co. .-..----.--..-...-.-.....-.. *
Pormco. Inc.
Poul Bunyo tumber Co. ------.-..-.-..-...-..--..36
Penberlhy Imber Go.
Perry Door Co, ........-.-...------.-...-.......-...-...---
Phlppr Co., The
Plywood, Inc.
Doffor
Eckrlrom Plywood & Door Co.
Edwqrdr
Emrco Plywood .-----..--.--. *
Son,
Eurekc Redwood lumber Co.
Exchoge Somilb tolcr Co.
Foirhurrl Lunbar Co. of Cqlilomlo -----.------10
Fqr Werl Flr Sqler Co.
Fern Trucking Co, --.--.---.--...-...-..--.-..--.---.---60
Fidler'r Moufocturing Co.
Fir-fex
lirk & lloq
Founlqln. Ed tumber Co.
Forest Fibqr Produclr Co.
Forerf Produclr Sqles Co.
Freemon E Co., SteFhen G. -...-.....-...--.-.... *
Gollehcr Hordwood Co. ...-......-.-.-.----...-....61
Gmc.rlon & Green Lmber Co. --.--.-.---*
Gerlingcr Cq.ier Co. ----...-.--.---.-..--.-.--.-....38
Gelr Broa. & Co. .-.--.---..--.---..-..--.--.-...-....-,. *
Golden Gqte lmber Co. --.,..---------------...---- rt
Gorrfinl'Hqrding lmber Co. .-..----.--.....-.----&
Greqt loy Lvmber Sclcr .---.-...--....-..-.----..46
Holey Brl. ------.--.-.....-...42
Holl Co.. Joer L, :l
Hqllino lrlockin Lmber Co.. Inc. -....-..-. tlt
Hmond Imber Co. ---...---.-..-..........O.8.C.
Horbor Lumber Co., Inc. ---------.----..-....---.-.. r*
Hqbor Plyurood Corp. of Colifoniq-..-.--. *
Hcbor Plywod Corp. of 5o. Cqliforniq-*
Horri:, L. E. Lmber Co. ---...--.-...-.-...--.----55
Horln, F. L. Lumber .-..-.---...--..........,.----..5t
Hcdlund Lmbcr 5oler, Inc. --.-....-....-..-.------3t
Higglm Lmber Co., J. E. --...----..-....--..---*
Hlfl e liorton, ln.. .....-.-.-.--.-.-......-..-...-.--22
Hobbr Woll Lumbcr Co. --.-...-..-.-.-.....-...----3O
Hogon Whol*olc Bldg., Irloteriolr Co. ---- ,i
Hollow Tree ledwood Co. .-...-...-..----...-..-*
Holmcr Eureko Lumber €o. --.-............--..-- 't
Holmer Lumbcr Co., Fred C. --.-..-..-..--..-. *
Hoover Co., A. !.,...-.-.-....-..-..........--.--------54
Hughe. Brolhen ..,.....---. *
Hyrter Compony ---.-----.-- 3
Inlond Lumber Co. --.-...-..-.----...---..-------...--32
Johnr-Mqnville Corporqlion ..........,.-,..-------. *
Johnron Lumbcr Co., C. D,...-.---..----------.. 't
Jolly Glont lumber Co, .-..-.-......-.....-.....--.--66
Jordo Smh t Door Co., F. l. --...---.-...-.. *
Kefley. Afbert A, ..-...-...,................-............57
Kendoll lmbcr Dittribulort --.-..----.----..-.-.. i.
Kqhton Plywood t Vener Co., Inc.--------..9
Koehl & 5on, Inc., John W. --..-.---,------..--.. *
Koll Plming llilt, W. A. .-..------....--.---.-....56
L. A. Dry Xiln t Storoge, Inc,
William Fletcher Montgomery, 93, died August 1 at his home in Laguna Beach. One of the first Southern California retail lumbermen, he had retired in 1918 at the age of 56. Mr. Montgomery started working for the Ganahl Lumber Co. in 1886 and subsequently worked for the Western Lumber Co. at 9th and San Pedro streets. In 189O he went to Oregon to work for the Bridal Veil (Ore.) Lumber Co., but returned to Los Angeles in 1894 to start his olvn business. In 1900, he joined with John F. Mullin, who had formerly been associated with the San Pedro'Lumber Co. and who was then operating his own yard in Jerome, Ariz. They formed Montgomery & Mullin Lumber Co., which continued in operation till 1918. In that year Mr. Montgomery retired and the company sold its yards to the Patten-Davies Lumber Co.
Mr. Montgomery leaves his son, Ward Wells Montgomery, who is with the Owens-Parks Lumber Co. of Los Angeles. He also leaves three grandchildren, nine greatgrandchildren, and his present rvife of the home at 340 Diamond St., Laguna Beach.
l. t, Plywood Co.
Rcryner & llccubbin Wholesole Lumber-.--
Rcd Cedor Shinglc Bureou * Regol Door Cmpoy
Ricci & Krure Lumber Co.
lockpod Redwood Co.,--.------..---.-.-..-.--..--.
Roddir(qft, lnc.
Ro* [mber 5oler
loy Forelf Produ<fr Co.
lurco Primc Window Co, .......-..------...-..--
5oford-Lurler. lnc. --..-.-....-..-.-...--.-----------64
Sontd Fe Lmber Co. ---.------..--..-.---....,-.-.-*
Se.urity loyol Dutch P.irl tltfg. Co.--33. 64 Shively, Alo A. -----.---,---...-,--.--..-----...----.--55
Sierrq Lwber & Plywood, lnc. --..--.-------.-41
Slerrq Rcdwood Co. --------.-...-..-.-.--...-----------59
Simmonr Hqrdwood lumber €o. -.---.--..--.--. * Simpron Logging Co, .-..-.--.-......-.--.-.-...---..-*
Sinrp:on ledwood Co. .--..---.-.......---.-..----.-.. *
Smilh Lunbcr Co., Rolph l. ..-.-.--...-..-.-..-.. {t
So-Col lulldlng lrtqteriolr Co,, Inc.---.,..-.-.- {t
Sourh Bcy Lmber Co- ........-.----,--.---.----.-.. rt
Southem Gslifornio Lsnber 5ol* ---------.--39 Southwatf Plywood Corp. --.-.--.--,-..--..-----... tt
Southwerlsrn Portlqnd C€ment Co. -.-...-.-.ll stohl Lmber Co. -.-.--..-.-.----.-.----.-.-....-..-.-tl
Stqndo.d Lumber Co,, Inc. .---,-----...-..-....-.. t
Stilton t Son, E. J. .----.-.-...--.-----..-.--.-..-...43
Sferlfng Indwtria, Inc, ..-...-----.--..-.---...-.--27
Srewort Plnvood Co.' O. W. -,...-..-.----.--rt
Sfroble Imber Go. -.-....--.------..--..--..-...---.-.32
Svperlor Lumbr Sqler Co. ---.-...--.-..-.....-.--13
Tcms Lmber toler, Inc. --.....---........--.4t1
Torlar, Webrter
fwin Hqborr Lumber Co. -----..-...-........--59
U, 5. Plywood Corp. ...-....---.......-.......-.----.*
Vo Oorling, Pefer J.
Woll Dry Kiln Co.. Int. ----...-..-.-.........-.-.-..-53
Wotren Soulhwert, Inc. --.--..-....--.-..------------W
Woilt, Cqrl W. ---.-.-...---.---.--..---.--..--..,-..--..--64
Wendling-Nothon Co. .-----.-..--...-..-.--.-.---..---.14
Wett Co6t Fore.t Produ.l. Co. -..-.-----,-..-*
Weit Co6t Lunbermen': Arrn. --..--.-..--..-*
Werl Coqrl Screen Co. .-..---.....-....-.-....-..-.61
W6l C6t Tlmber Produclr Agen.y --.-....64
W€ilem D6r E Sqrh Co. --.--.-.....--......-.--45
Wertem Dry Xiln --------..------.--...-..-.-.........,.. *
Werten Hqdboqd Soler Co. --..-.--------.--. rt
Wertem llllll & [umber Co. -....-......-...--.-..48
Western Hlll & Mouldlng Co. -...--.---....-.-- 'l
Westen Plne A$ociolion ....-..---...---..--....-*
wesletn Plne Supply Co. ......-.--....-.----.''. *
Weyerhorwar 5qles Co. -----------------------.--67
Wheelql, E.
Edward Clark Crossett, 73, widely known lumberman, died July D at his home in suburban Montecito, Santa Barbara, Calif. Mr. Crossett was president of the Crossett Timber Co.. Wauna, Ore.; board chairman of Crossett Lumber Co., Crossett, Ark., and an official in the Fordyce Lumber Co., Fordyce, Ark., and the Crossett Timber & Development Co. Born in Davenport, Iowa, he held many national and international group memberships and honors, especially in photography. He leaves his wife and three daughters. The family also maintained a home at 1517 Lombardy Road, San Marino. Funeral services were August 1 at Forest Lawn in Los Angeles.
Leland P. Reeder, 64, president of Leland P. Reeder Co., Beverly Hills real estate firm, and former head of the California Real Estate Assn. and senior member of the board, died July 11. With his father he established the Beverly Hills firm in 1919 and last year celebrated total gross sales volume of over $100 million for the period of the company's existence . . . Lawrence L. Chapman, Fields Landing, Calif., president of Cooperative Timber Investment Co. and active in Split Redwood Products, died late in July Adolph Johnson, 50, Ukiah, former employee of Union Lumber Co. and at his death chopping foreman for Willitts Redwood Products Co., died in Ukiah last month . . . Arnold W. Leveen, 59, hardware merchant, Van Nuys, died July 11at Tahoe Forest hospital, Truckee, Calif.... Mrs. Louise Owens Hartranft, 83, president of California Home Extension Assn., died last month at her home in Sunland, Calif. With her late husband, Marshall V. Hartranft, she opened many new real estate sections in the North Los Angeles, Glendale, Montrose, Sunland and Tujunga areas. Their first development, in Glendale and Montrose, was made in 1892. ........26
OAKTAND - BER,KEIEY
(J. J. Req)..WYoming 1109
Attcs Lumber Co...... ......TRinity 2326
Avrcm Lumber Co...... ..RYcn l-8733 (Lq Ccncdc) SYlvcn 0-5545
Bcch Lumber'Co. .RAvnond 3-I9{tl PArkview l-6376
Bcct<, I. Willicm Lumber .ADcms I-{361
Baugb, ccrl w. (pcscdenc) ,*;;l1!l A:Bllt
Btiss d Gctes Lumber Co..RAynond 3-1681-3-3454
Brush ludustdql Lumber Co. (Montebello) .........BAymond 3-3301
Buns Lumber Compcny... .......WEbster 3-5861
Carr 6 Co., L, J. (W. D. Duuing)....... ....Rlchmond 9-8843
Georqe Clouch ..TOPcz l-1281 (Doiwney) ......LOgcn 8-6659
Consolidcted Lunber Co..........Rlchmoud 2l4l (Wilnington) ......NE. 6-1881 Wilm. Ier' l-2687
Cooper Wholescle Lunber Co., W. E...YOrk 8238
Pccilic Fir Scleg (P<rsqdonc) SYc"lgre 6-{328 RYm l-8103
Pqcilic Lunber Co., The ...RYcn l-9321 (Sqn Mcriao) ........SYccnorE 5-4349
Pacific Forest Produck, Inc'.'..AXniutor 2-0571
Dcni d Russell, Sqles Co.........ANgelus 9-0174
Dclton 4 Co., R. W. (Scn Mcriao) " tcaid l-ZlZ7
Doaover Co., Inc. ....BRcdshcw 2-4i6? (Beverly Hillg) CRestview 4-5IU3
Esglcy, D. C, 6 Son RAymoud 3-1147
Eurek-c Redwood Lumber Co. (Dowaey) ....L-Qvcn8-3339 TOpcz 9-0993
Pqcilic Western Lunbcr Co., ol C<rlil., Inc. (Pascdenq) SYccrnore 6-8869-L.4. RYaa l-8123
Phipps Compcny, Th. ......... .RAymond 3-5326
E. L. neilz Co,, Ocecn Ceater Bldg. (Lonq Becch) .....Long Beqch 6-96{7
Roddisirclt, Inc,, Lunber
Sctes Div. ....LOgqn 8-{031
Rov Forest Products Co. (Val Nuvs) STate 5-ll{l
Aldn A. Sbivelv (Glcndsle) CHcpncn 5-2083
South Bcy Lun6cr-Co.............Orborue 6-2261 (Hcwtbone) .........ORegon 8-4597
Sourhen Cclilornic Lunber Sslcr (Yif;l,Ti1\r'
.ATlcntic 2-5?79 ....RYcn l-9321 Svcomore 5-43,19 Sycomore
Kendcll Lumber Dislributors...'Blchmond 9-5341
Lcrsen-Merrilield, Iac. -l}li",ii: Hirii) .... ..........CRestview 6-91{9
*&?""",ih"ti,ti Lumb1r ::: BB-"d"baw. ?-43rj
t.;;i-tit#;;'Conpcnv..... RAvnoad 3-{?27
ii" 1""q:n.ll-t"-l"i co'. DUnhirL 7-1347
io" e"e;t"" Dry Kila Storcge, Inci'setus g_6273
Loe Aaseles Lumber, tnc'. Mtrdison 6-91!4
Wcalen Mill 6 Lunber Co..
Whito LuEbor Co., Hcny H...
Winton f,umber Co.....
E, K, Wood Lumber
Winton Lumber Sclea I E. K. Wood Lumber Co. (Whittier) ....BAynond 3-il80l-OXlord {-7d83 Wricht Lunber Co. (T-eniact lslqnd) ....TErilal 3-{$7 CRESOTED LI'MBEN-POLES_PtrING:_TIES
il!-ci'r"i"-iir.i Co...... .'Logou 5'5311
ilil;; Mli 6 suppry co.
sg:lH 3:3333
MccDoncld Co', L. W. *fi;;;iy- lltil)-. ..BBqdsbcw 2-5101
This ship loqded opproximcrtely | 8OO M BM of Hommond's Diqmond Brond Redwood for Hqwqiion lslqnd destinotions.
Pictured here is the Mqfson vessel 55 Hqwcriiqn Trqder looding Gqliforniq Redwood lumber of Hqmmond's dock qt Sqmoq, Cqlifornio. CERTIFIED.T
C LR.RWD\Y
For specicrl work or generql use fhere is q Hqmmond grode of R.edwood porticulorly suited tothot purpose. No motfer whot the lob, Diqmond H Redwood lumber con do it.
