The California Lumber Merchant - September 1946

Septembet 7, 1946

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j?A ,/0U -To orchiiects ond builders lrouble free conslruction ond permonenl they meon the some, plus lorger profitsl

Roddiscroft Door Units meon fosler, client solisfoction. To lumber deolers

whet our mail tells about YOUR profits

You'a be surprised at the mail we're getting from prospective home owners ! Consumer advertising producing hundreds upon hundreds of inquiries for "Today's Idea House"-illustrated 32-page booklet showing how to use Ponderosa Pine doors, frames and windows. Response is breaking all records.

Those letters from eager home planners indicate just one thing. YOU can make bigger profits by sending "Today's Idea House" to your own customers-imprinted with your name. Lumber dealers who have done this find "Today's Idea House" brings them the better class of customers with more money to spend. Take their advice: send today for a free sample copy of 'Today's Idea House"-then order additional copies for your customer and prospect list. Mail the coupon !

..IT PIYS TO IIA]IDLE TIIE IEADERS"

HARBOR PLYWOOD

Hoo-Hoo Conccrtenqtion In Scur Frcmcirsco Sept. 4

All arrangements have been completed for the Hoo-Hoo Concatenation to be held in the Comstock Room, palace Hotel, San Francisco, on Wednesday, September 4. Cocktails will be served at 5:29 p.m.; Concat will .be held at 5:49 p.m., and Dinner will be served at 7 :39 p.m. ' Application forms for Kittens and reinstatements can be obtained from members of the general committee. These are: Lew Godard, Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., San Francisco, GArfietd 7752;Norm Cords, Cords Lumber Co., San Francisco, DOuglas 2469, and Dave Davis, Union Lumber Co.. San Francisco, SUtter 6170.

Returns From Service

The return of V. F. Hribar to his position as chief chemist of the American Lumber and Treating Company alter 42 months of duty with the Navy has been announced by F. W. Gottschalk, technical director. Commissioned in 1942, he worked in chemical warfare research at the Great Lakes Naval Station and the Ar,my's Edgewood Arsenal prior to participating in the New Guinea and Admiralty operations and the Philippine in'vasions.

Super Horbord Exterior Plywood

Horborite.Fibre-Fsced Ext. Plywood

Horbord Plypcnel-Sheothing-Plyf orm

Harbord Prefit Enlronce-Doors-lnterior

Celotex Building Boord-Celotex Tlle

Gelotex Hard Boards-Geloiex Plonk

Celotex Tempered Hord Bosrds

Geloiex Gelo Block-Gelotex Gelo-Siding

Decorolive-Colorf ul-Duroble

Brilliqnt Colors-Actual Reolwood Veneer No Poinling-No Spols-No Stoins

Siondord-Clgorelte Proof-Dull or Polished

New, Double Hung, Residentlol Windows

Complete, Including Frome,5 Sizes No Prlorlty! Recdy fo Install Designed For Any Type Construction

S. F. Firm to Receive Shipment oJ Philippine Mahogany

P. R. (Bob) Kahn, Forsyth Hardwood Co., San Frartcisco, announces that his company expects to receive late in September a shipment of Philippine Mahogany, consisting of 500,000 feet of lumber and cants, both light and dark red Lauan and similar species.

"We believe this to be the first large cargo of Philippine Mahogany to be shipped to the United States since the war, and we can say that we are pleased to get back into the business of supplying our customers with fine Philippine hardwoods," Mr. Kahn said to a representative of this paper.

Directors Meet In Scn Frcrncisco

Directors of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California met at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, August 16. Members were also invited to attend this meeti.g.

A feature of the meeting was a report given by Robert J. Wright, executive vice president, covering the last six months. The board ordered a copy of this report to be distributed to every retailer in Northern California.

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THE CALIFOR}.IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

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lscorporqrod usqsr rlo to"r ol Colilornic J. C. Diour. Proe. qnd'Trcqr.r I. E. l"lcrtin, Vice-Prer.; W. T. Blccl, Srcrctory Pubfirhod th. Itt cld lsth ot .ach noltb at 5('8-9-10 Ccotrql Buildbg, 108 Wrrt Sirth Strot, Lor Aagolor, CcI., lolcph_oor VAndiko {565 Eatercd cr S&oqd-clqs mqttct Scptohbcr 25. 1922' ol thc Pst Oflico qt Lor Angrlor, Cdilornio' uader Acl ol ltarcb 3, l8?9

How lrumber l"oolrs

Portland, Ore., August 22, 1946.-The rveekly average of West Coast lumber production in July (5 weeks) was 93,080,000 board feet, or 64.3 per cent of 1942-1945 aver' age, according to the West Coast Lumbermen's Association in its monthly survey of the industry.

Orders averaged 98,728,W b.f.; shipments 95,828,000. Weekly averages for June were: Production 124,196,000 b.f. (85.7 per cent of the 1942-1945 average); orders Il 4,192,0ffi ; shipments, 122,541,000.

Thirty-one weeks for 1946, cumulative production 3,520,561,000 b.f.; 31 weeks, 1945, 4,126,007,000; 31 weeks, 1944, 4,803,749,W.

Orders for 31 weeks of 1946 break down as follows: Rail, 2,274,391,000 b.f.; domestic cargo, 565,634,000; export, 204,189,000; local, 435,933,000.

The industry's unfilled order file stood at 544,717,0ffi b.f. at the end of July; gross stocks at 378,654,Affi.

Weekly production of West Coast lumber during July averaged better than 93 million feet, or a decrease of 31 million feet per week, as compared to June. This drop of approximately 25 per cent in the manufacture of lumber in the Douglas fir region of western Oregon and Washington last month, in contrast to the previous month, is attributed almost entirely to the annual vacation period given employees in the West Coast lumber industry.

The Western Pine Association for the week ended

Augtrst 10, 102 feet, shipments feet. Orders on 773,0N feet.

mills reporting, gave orders as 54,731,000 63,239,W feet, and production 76,457,m hand at the end of the week totaled zrc-

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended August 10,79 units (109 mills) reporting, gave orders as 15.024,000 feet, shipments 14,364,0@ feet, and production 15,070,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 78,003,000 feet.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended.August 10, 138 mills reporting, gave orders as 76,' 337,000 feet, shipments 75,915,000 feet, and production 83,617,000 feet. Unfilled orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 452,753,ffi0 Leet.

Redwood Production Increcsing

San Francisco, August 26.-Five of the nine Redwood mills that were afiected by the strike are now running' and some others are shipping. More men are being hired daily, and production is increasing each week.

New Appointments

Paul Hollenbeck has been appointed sales manager of Hayward Lumber & fnvestment Co., Los Angeles. Charles Hayward has been made supervisor of branch vards, succeeding Mr. Hollenbeck.

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Harold Hamilton Elected Commander Western Pine Ssmi-Annual Of Lumbermen's Poct No. 40?

Harold Hamilton, John W. Koehl & Son, Los Angeles, was elected Commander of Lumbermen's Post No. 403 of the American Legion, Los Angeles, at the annual meeting of the Post held at the Mayfair Hotel, Los Angeles, August 14.

Eric Hexberg, .{nglo California Lumber Co., Los Angeles, was elected lst Vice Commander

Max Vener, Vener Lumber & Trucking Co., Los Angeles, was elected 2nd Vice Commander.

Rex Kratz, R. P. Kratz Lumber Co., Los Angeles, is the new Adjutant.

Gaspar Lipani, Weyerhaeuser Sales Co., Los Angeles, is Finance officer.

The meeting place of the Post has been changed from the Royal Palms Hotel to the Mayfair Hotel, 1256 West 7th Street, corner of Witmer Street, Los Angeles.

The new officers will be installed at the next meeting, to be held at the Nlayfair Hotel, September 11.

Roy Stcnton To Give Bqrbecue lor Employees

Sparked by a fast softball contest 500 Stantonites and their families will participate in swimming, tennis and all recreation activities during their all-day picnic and parbecue Saturday, September 21, 1946, at Montebello Municipal Park.

Roast barbecue of beef with all the trimmings will be served from I 00 p.ttt. until 3:00 p.m. by the caterers and the various sports contests will get under way at 1O O0 a.m. From all indications the softball game between the "Old Timers" and the "Youngsters" will be the crowning event of the day.

Betcril Ceilingrs Increcsed

Washington, Aug. n.OPA granted price increases ranging from 5 to 10 per cent on five scarce items of building material.

Retail ceilings on the following items were raised to conform to a provision of the new Price Control Act which requires that dealers get the same percentage profit margin as on March 31,1946:

Stock millwork, up 10 per cent; pine stock millwork and douglas fir doors, both up 9 per cent; stock screen doors an{ other stock screen goods, up 5 per cent.

(Agrendment 19 to revised MPR 293, Amendment 2 ts MPR 44, and Amendment 9 to MPR 381, all effective Aug. 2r). oPA47r7.

Construction Stcrts On New Plyrnood Wcrehowe

Construction has started on the new Oakland warehouse of United States Plywood Corp. at 4th and Brush Streets, Oakland. Don Kesselring, manager, says they hope to move into the new building on or before the end of next December. The new structure will have 25,W feet of floor space, and will have excellent loading and unloading facillties.

Forest conservation, state and forestry legislation and proposed increases in freight rates were among the subjects discuised at the semi-annual meeting of the Western Pine Association, held at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, August 15 and 16.

The various committee meetings occupied the first day, and the reports of'the chairman were given at the second day's session.

A. J. Stange, president of the association gave a review of the industry's progress since the annual meeting.

Secretary-Manager S. V. Fullaway, Jr. gave an address on the subject of "Danger Signals." This is printed on.another page of this issue.

Heav.y Reservcrtions Received For National Retqilers' Convention

Special trains are scheduled to come from all sections of the country to the National Retail Lumber Dealers'convention to be held at the Olympic Hotel, Seattle, October 21, 22 and 23.

About 100 California dealers have already made reservations. Those who are planning to go from Southern California should notify the office of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association, 111 West 7th Street, Los Angeles. Northern California dealers should notify the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California. 1833 Broadway, Fresno.

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New Sawmills

Lumbermen's Supply Co., Sacramento, bought 100 million feet of fir and redwood timber on the Johnson road, north of Arcata, and are building. a sawmill which will be ready to operate late this year.

Bates Lumber Co., Drain, Oregon, started operating their new mill, located above the Chapman mill in Hayhurst. The mill has a capacity of 45,000 to 50,000 feet per day.

The sawmill of Mogan Lumber Co., destroyed by fire recently, is being rebuilt. Capacity of the new mill will be 60,@ feet in eight hours.

The mill being constructed by I. O. Chapman on the Crater Lake Highway, near Camp White, Oregon, will cut about 50,000 feet a dav, and is expected to be in operation soon.

Vetercns' Housing to Use Indicn Lcnds, Timber

Portland, Ore., Aug. 4.-Indian timber will be used for the veterans' emergency housing program as soon as 150 miles of new roads approved for Oregon and Washington Indian reservations can be constructed.

Word of this new move was received from Washington, D.C., where Housing Expediter Wilson Wyatt announced that $1,234,000 has been alloted by the National Housing Agency to be used by the Interior Department to iut an estimated 17 million board feet of lumber from Indian lands.

Aided by the new roads, enough timber can be cut to help construct approximately 17,000 homes.

Construction is slated to get underway in the next 30 days on the Warm Springs and Klamath reservations in Oregon and on the Colville, Yakima and Tahola reservations in Washington.

Stock Millwork

Jobbers' ceilings for stock millwork have been adjusted to conform u'ith resellers' provisions in the Price Control Extension Act. (Amendment 13 to MPR 525, effective Aug. 23.)

Hecrds Pccilic Cocst Hcrrdwood Distributors Ass'n

The good looking gentleman in the picture is Dallas Donnan, president of EhrlichHarrison Company, Seattle. He is the new president of the Pacific Coast Wholesale Hardwood Distributors Association. He is also a member of the industry advisory committee for the OPA of the National Hardwood Lumber Association.

Incidentally he is the popular president of the College Club, Seattle, and a member of Seattle's Rainier Club.

Western Hcrdwood Adds YcrrdSpcce

Western Hardwood Lumber Company, of Los Angeles, has added nearly an acre of yard space to the rear end of the big yard on Fifteenth Streetn has it all paved, and is using it for storage of the large volume of lumber that comes in by water to the Los Angeles docks. This consists of hardrvoods from Central and South America, and softwoods from the Northwest.

Western has also increased its delivery service by adding a fleet of straddle trucks that were used by Cal-Ship on th€ docks when that concern, was turning out Liberty Ships like hot cakes. These trucks are being used for general city delivery, and they have proved both efficient and economical, especially for delivering lumber to the various industrial plants.

Distribute Well Known Mcrterials

Appearing on lnother page of this issue is the advertisement of So-Cal Building Materials Co., a Los Angeles firm which does astrictly wholesale business in building materials.

They are distributors for Celotex; Paraffine roofing and roof coatings, and for Ogle double-hung residential aluminum windows.

They feature a full line of Wesco paints, mortar colors, cold water paints, etc.

John D. Scouller and J. F. Paulson are co-owners of SoCal Building Materials Co. Both are well known to the trade.

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Oalcland Wholerale Firm Distributes Insulation Products

Wholesale Building Supply, Inc., Oakland, is now distributor Lor Zonolite home insulation, and for Feltrock nodulated mineral wool for home insulation.

Arlie Charter, manag'er of this concern, is enthusiastic on the subject of retail lumber dealers selling insulation. He says: "'With these materials the homeowner can pick up what he needs at the lumber yard, take it home and do his own insulation at a moderate cost. Many lumber dealers get a lot of satisfaction out of the idea of selling comfort to the homeowner. Ceiling insulation alone reduces the summer temperature considerably, and it saves heat loss in the winter, and incidentally pays back in time the original cost."

HoId Fcnewell Pcrty For Populcr ErnFtoyEE

A farewell party for Miss Dorothy (Bunny) Bunnell, who has been a member of the stafi of Pope & Talbot, Inc., Lumber Division, Los AngeleS for many years, was given at the Paris fnn, Los Angeles. Nineteen members of the Pope & Talbot staff attended. Mr. Wickersham presided. Miss Bunnell spent most of her time on the switchboard, and in consequence her voice is known to most lumbermen in Southern California. For the past two years she has been secretary to W. B. Wickersham, manager. She has been transferred to the San Francisco office.

The same party also honored Mrs. Colburn, who resigned her position several months ago.

Appointed Ycnd Mcmcaer

E. J. (Tommy) Thompson, who was manager of the lumber yard at the Port Hueneme Naval Base, became manager of the yard of the Peoples Lumber Co., Oxnard, August 1, succeeding Harry Riley who retired from the position dfter 24 ye?rs' service. ,

Mr. Thompson handled about l0 billion board feet of lumber at the base from August1942 until July I of this year. He has been in the lumber business for 24 years, having been connected with the Curtis Companies, and the Hammond Lumber Co. at Los Angeles. He was in the Marine Corps in World War I, and is a graduate of the University of lowa.

SATISFACTION

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Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club Will Hold Dinner And e"oU Tournament Sept. 6

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club will hold a golf tournament, dinner and entertainment at the Brentwood Country Club, 590 South Burlingame, West Los Angeles, Septepber 6.

Golf will start at 12 noon, and dinner will be served at 7:00 p.m. There will be door prizes and golf prizes.

George Clough new officers for the coming ture of the meeting.

This will be the annual meeting of the club, and will tie in with the National Convention at Washington, D.C., in celebration of lfoo-Hoo's 55th annual. The election of Hoo-Hoo year will be a fea-

George Clough, president of the club and vicegbrent snark of the district, rvill preside at the dinner.

Commercial Veneer

Individual producers of commercial veneer who experience hardship under the industry-wide price ceilings may apply for price adjustments under the standards set for specified forest products by the price agency, the Office of Price Administration announced August 8. Inclusion of commercial veneer under the order became efiective August 13, 1946.

This action will make it possible for the price agency to provide relief to individual producers without increasirig the industry-wide price levels, OPA said.

(Amendment No. 3 to Supplementary Order No. 128.)

Lumber Merchcnts Association Will Hold Convention Oct. 29

The Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California will hold their annual convention at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, on Tuesday, October 29. This date has been chosen so that Northern California dealers may meet and hear some of the speakers who will be on the way home from the National convention at Seattle.

Governmcnt Punisheg Efficient Building Contiactor \(/ho Reduced Home Priceg

(From the Wall Street Journal)

Morris Bluestone is a contractor in Ohio. He built a group of small houses to sell for $5,850 each. The official ceiling on houses of that type is $7,250. As a result of the transaction Mr. Bluestone was hailed before a Government agency and penalized on the ground that rvhat he did was inflationary.

- Mr. Bluestone paid building trdde workers wages higher than the established scale. He said that by offering such wages he got only top men and that the extra work of which they were capable reduced his total labor costs. He said that a $1.50 an hour carpenter might hang only two doors in a day but a $2 carpenter could hang sufficient doors to make unit costs much lower.

Mr. Bluestone was brought before a wage adjustment board and the majority opinion of that body said that what he did "could lead only to spiral bidding for the limited labor force available." His conduct was "directly inflationary." The penalty decreed was the loss of $15,000 income tax deductions.

The labor members of'the board disagreed only as to the penalty, commenting that "it cannot be said that unstabilizing or inflationary conditions exists when the public is able to buy a home below the market value.

This builder increased production through a system of incentives. Under a regime of governr4ent control such a practice can be penalized. This is not thefirst case in which the question has arisen, for during the war Jhe Treasury in viewing the incentive system of the Lincoln Electric Co., made some similar rulings about the wages of labor.

There may be other cases which better illustrate that phrase about the "dead hand of government." But this one is sufficient.

Aluminum Windows Avcrilcble

'Western Door & Sash Co., 5th and Cypress Streets, Oakland, advertise in this issue that they have aluminum double hung windows available for immediate shipment. These are complete units including frame, glazed window, hardware, and aluminum flashing, ready to install. Their telephone number is TEmplebar 8400.

Visitor From Texcs

Pleas Davidson of Pleas Davidson Lumber Co., Dallas, Texas, representative of Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco, was a recent visitor to San Francis-co.

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But the comparison might well be drawn today to illustrate the disparity between the supply and the demand for building materials. A "mighty draught" indeed. And a thirst mightier than most of us can understand, even as we study it. For the supply of building materials today is absolutely and utterly swallowed up by the incessant and swelling demand, in much the same way that a cup of water disappears when poured over the summer sands of the desert.

It is difficutt not to U" J."i""i by the present situation. Looking at the empty warehouses, the empty yards, the empty stores, the empty shelves, and the empty bins, we naturally wonder whether it is because the demand for all this stuff is so great, or because the supply is so small? The fact that there seems to be no improvement in the situation adds to the confusion. The jobbers, the dealers, the distributors, the builders have no stocks of building materials and there seems little chance of early relief.

So I sat myself down with a man well equipped and located to knorr the ansqrers to this building material pluzzle. He is Mr. Art Seavey, a sales executive for that world famous concern, Johns-Manville, which makes practically everything you can think of in the line of building materials outside of lumber and lumber products. And I asked him two questions. First, how does the volume of J-M products compare with their volume before the war? Second, how does your present supply compare with the needs of your customers?

I had an old friend who always used to start an opinion by declaring: "Remember, I'm a man of few, but honest words." Well, this Art Seavey proved to be that same sort of man, and he gave me the answers to my two questions quickly and exactly. Answering my first question, he said that the total of J-M products today is fully THREE HUNDRED PER CENT GREATER THAN IT WAS IN 1939. Which means that they make four times as much building material of all sorts as they did just before the war was started'

And his reply to my second guestion was lhat this tremendous volume of J-M products enables them to supply

just about EIGHT PER CENT OF THE STUFF THEIR TRADE ASKS THEM FOR. They are able to let their customers have about one-twelfth of the goods they beg for, with all their multiplied:up*ply.

I think those facts on J-M products will give us a measuring stick with which we may come to a better understanding of what goes on in the building world. Read the newspapers from one end of the country to the other and you would be quickly convinced that the big building trouble is the LOW SUPPLY of building materials. Whereas the fact seems to be that the present demand is so great that it dwarfs the supply, in spite of the fact that the supply itself is of gigantic proportions. If the Johns-Manville figures are fair samples of the generbl situation, then it is not under-production but rather over-demand that creates our present building material

The same figures and facts do not apply to the production of lumber, and building materials made from wood. Lumber facts have been discussed in these columns continually for the past couple of years, and it is well understood that conditions affecting lumber production differ completely from conditions surrounding the manufacture and distribution of roofing, insulation materials, wall boards, sheathing, siding, etc. Since the end of the war, while production of lumber has been showing decline, the production of these other materials has been rapidly increasing in volume. And while there is little chance for any material increase in the production of lumber, there is vast opportunity for improvement in those building industries that are not limited for their raw materials to growing trees; or harassed by the varied and many conditions that directly affect the lumber*business.

Reminds me of the famous old story of the little colored boy sitting at the edge of a big melon'patch and eating his way into the heart of a great big, ripe, juicy watermelon. He had been at it for hours, and the melon was not more than half eaten, when the little fellow finally gave up, moved away from the remains of the melon, and just sat there rubbing his tummy and gasping for breath. Someone said to him "What's the matter, Mose, too much melon?" And the little fellow said:* "Nossuh. Not enough niggah."

Lest these and other statements now and heretofore made on the subject of the supply and demand of building materials lead you to believe that balancing the two is as hopeless as our national job of balancing the budget, let me say that I am NOT of that opinion. We ARE catching (Continued on Page 10)

"A mightv draught,h mightier thirst."

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(Continued from Page 8) up on our building needs, and the terrific production and supply of materials WILL in the not too distant future cut.down the demand to where the contest will not be so one-sided as at present. And, remember this; when we start to catch up on that demand, we will catch up fast. Then, the next thing we know, we will suddenly discover that the wo m has turned, and stocks-on-hand witl begin to appear here, there, and then everywhere. This building material demand seems insatiable for the moment. But it is like an empty stomach. When you first start to fill that void the demand for food is ravenous. But each rnouthful cuts down the pressure, and pretty soon the demand for food slows up rapidly. And so will the demand for bqilding materials; Watch and see. Which doesn't alter the fact that for the present they are mighty, Tt*lV*n*U to get.

And now, for fear you rnay be feeling too good or too optimistic, let me hand you a little stuff that will make you mad. You guessed it. It's about OPA; that dear, dear OPA that all businessmen love so well. The New York Sun sent a reporter to investigate and report on the PROPAGANDA SECTION of OPA, and he prints some interesting-if maddening-facts. He says that since V-J Day this Section has taken 77 new full-time employees, which is reported to be the largest in history, or i4 any government department. Seventy-seven new rrren justto hand out bull to the public about OPA. Says this reporter, the Propaganda Section averages six general press releases every day, besides two local releases through one thousand nine hundred price boards; uses around six hundred radio stations every week; makes its own films for free distribution to theatres; uses all fo,rms of advertising;. prepares infation

Huntingrton Tcrylor Named Mcncrger

OI Globe Lumber Compcrny

Huntington Taylor, well known lumberman, has been appointed manager of the Globe Lumber Company, Los Angeles, succeeding Guy W. Male, who resigned.

Mr. Taylor was rnanager of the Crater Lake Lumber Co., Sprague River, Oregon, for l0 years. He was with the War Production Board for several years during the war. He spent one year in Washington, and two years in the Portland office. In this work his knowledge of Pine manufacturing made him a \rery valuable man to the WPB.

coufses for schools. He says that this Propag'anda Section has 572 employees, who cost the taxpayers $3,724,590 for direct expenses, over three million dollars for prlnting and binding, nearly six million dollars for postage, a grand total of more than twelve million dollars annually. And, no matter how thin they slice it, Propaganda is still baloney. And they talk about cutting "T.T"r;

Got a laugh out of a remark by an old sawmill friend of mine. We were talking abo,ut lumber conditions, of course, and 'he remarked: "As long as the sawmill business has existed it was always said that there were two things no mill ever had enough of : power and shed-room. Well, some of them may still be short of power, but shed-room is something that gvery qill in the country now has a surplus of." And when you come to think of it, that was one statement full of gospel truth. Many times in the last couple of years I have heard a mill man say: "I nevqr knew how many big sheds we had until I saw them all empty." **rt

Heard a retail lumber friend of mine making a talk the other day on the subject of "Sidelines for the retail lumber yard," and he closed his remarks with this story: A New York author bought a farm in Northern New York State. He wanted a good, quiet place to write his books, and his wife agreed that the farm would be a grand place for their children to run loose and get the fresh air and sunshine. The day they moved to the farm, the author got to talking to a neighbor. The farmer said to him: "What are you planning to raise on your farm?" The author thought a moment, and then said: "Children." The farmer chewed a straw as he considered the matter. and then answered: "Up this way we sorta look on that as a sideline."

New Prelcrb Plcrnt In Burbank

The General Palrel Corp. of America has purchased from the War Assets Corp., for a consideration of nearly $800,000, a large building in the former wartime plant of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. in Burbank for conversion into a factory for mass production of prefabricated homes.

Employing 450 persons, the new enterprise expects to reach heavy production around Jan. 1, 1947, it is understood. The company is headed by Carl Dahlberg, nephew of B. G. Dahlberg, president of the Celotex Corp. and chairman of the board o; General Panel Corp.

LOS

GGo. C. Cornitius Hardwood Co.

465 Galllornla Stre-et, San Flanclseo 4 GArfletd 8748

Distributors ol Hardwood Lurhber

Douglas Fir -- Ponderosa Pine

LAM0t-BoililIilGToil GoMPAilY

Wh"l"nl"ru od Wert Coafi {n*6", CATERING EXCLUSIVELY TO CALIFORNIA RETAILERS

Douglas Fir

Ponderosa Pine

Sugar Pine

Redwood ShinglecLarh

Plywood

Telephone GArfield 63Sl

PAIIIUDO PIYWOOD

Mcruulcctured by ASSOCIAIED PIhVOOD MIIIS

Distributed Exclurively Sincc lg2l by PAGITIG MUTUAT DOOR GO.

Southonr Cclilondq Sqler O|Ece GIEN). BESSOITETTE Phoar PBoapect 9523 r tr Ntr?IoNAr. cAa\[ooD, N. t BII.TD{O8E

WHOITSAI.E OI{LY ZA

Warobouro: ldn E Wchington Elvd. tos At{eEIrs 2l tI0N

EjINSAS CITT SI. Pf,I'L

WEST OREGOIV I.UMBER GOMPANY

MccrulccturerB oI Douglcs Fir Lurnber cmd oI

trecrted lumber, poles cnrd posts-the Eecrtnrent thcrt protects cgcinst Termites cmd Deccry

Los Angeles Sqles Office 127-428 Peholeun Bldg. Telephoae-Rlcbnond 028 t Plcmt

filV M &to'ry

Bf le biatre

Age not guaranteed---Some I have told lor 20 years---Some Less

Which \(/as Doing Which?

Such countless numbers of stories have been told since the world began on the subject of fishing, it would seem that selecting a favorite on the subiect might be difiEcult. But it isn't with rne, for of all the fishing stories I ever heard, read, or told, I like one above all o'thers. So, the other day, when an old friend asked me what my favorite fishing story was, I did not hesitate to tell him this one. The fact that I have been telling it as far back as my storytelling goes, makes not the slightest difierence.

Cocrst Counties Lumber Decrlers

Plqn Party crnd Bcrbecue

The Coast Counties Lumber Dealers are extending a wel: come to all lumber dealers and their friends to attend their party and barbecue on Thursday, September 12, at Salinas Golf Club.

Activities will start early in the day with golf, followed by iefreshments and a special steak dinner.

A country negro was fishing on the bank of a deep bayou, when a big catfish grabbed his hook andJerked him headlong off the bank into the muddy water. He had to let go of his fish pole and struggle for life, for he was no expert swimmer. Finally he dragged himself up on the bank, and lay there gasping for breath, his mouth filled with muddy water and philosophy, and he was heard to say:

"What Ah wants t'know, is DIS! Is dis niggah fishin'? Or is dat fish niggerin'? Dass what Ah wants t'know."

Appointed Pcrcffic Coast Mcrncger

Charles H. Smith has been appointed Pacific Coast Division Sales Manager of Masonite Corporation, succeeding W. Page- Frambes, who has retired. Prior to this appoint-' ment Mr. Smith iepresented Masonite Corporation in the states of Washington and Oregon.

The company's office has been moved to 3275 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles.

'/s Distributors for YATES & SMART PAINT CO.

WE ANE NOW SUPPTYING

S TARTSHIELD

rJQnrD CoAITNGS

INSECT KITTING PAINT

Fine oil base pcint for interiors. DDT mixed in by specicl process-white cnd six pcstels -eqch color becrutilul to see, ecch deidly to mosquitoes, gncts, Ilie+ crnd similcrr insects thcrt light or crqwl on the Smcrtbrite pcinted surface.

Order

INSECT KIILING, RUSTPROOF

Clecr, or blcrck, contcrin DDT. Durable coctings Ior pcinting over wire screens, window sills, shutters, wood, crnd other surIcces. Guard the entry-silent sentinels crgcinst mosquitoes, gmcrts, Ilies, cnd other insects thcrt cre killed by crcwling or lighting onthe Smcrrtshield coated surlqce.

Bururrrfc MlrERrAr DsrRrBUToRs

'STOCKTON-I000 E. Chcnnel St.

Gamerston & Green Buys 9-Acre Site For New Yard

Gamerston & Green Lumber Co., with distributing yards in San Francisco and Oakland, recently bought nine acres of land in the Visitacion district of San Francisco for a lumber yard.

The capacity of the yard will be seven to eight million feet of lumber.

Construction of the new yard and plant will be started witiin 60 days. A planing mill will be added when the machinery becomes available.

The present office of the company at 1800 Army Street San Francisco, will be retained

Los Angeles Led Nction lre Building First Six Months

Los Angeles led all other cities of the nation in building with $133,142,0m worth of permits in the first six monthi of. 1946.

New York was second with $70,265,000; Detroit was third with $69,183,000, and Chicago fourthwith g6g,902,_ 000. These statistics were contained in the semi-annual building report of the U. S. Department of Labor.

Timber Rocds

The U. S. Forest Service has reported that 12 per cent of .the program to build access roads to out-of-the-way Gov_ ernment timber lands was completed as of Aug. 1.

ROUNDS TRADING COMPANY

(Successors to Kilpatrick & Conpany)

Dcelers in Forest Productr

Douglas Fir-Redwood

Cedcr$pruce

Genertrl Office

Crocker Bldg., Scur Frcrncisco 4, CcdiL Southern C<rlilornio Ollice crnd Ycrd

l2{0 Blinn Ave., Wihninsrton, CqUt., P. O. Bor 5{8

GUSTOM SANDING

Sp'ecial Cabinet and Millwork

Truedson

HERE THEY ANE, FOIJ(SI TTIE TEBRIBI.E TWENTY GOI.FERS! IN TTTE FI.ESHI

you,ve heard and read for years of the "Terrible Twenty" good, Ed Bauer, Ham Hamilton, Helmer Hoel, Bill Ream, golfers of Los Angeles, who meet, eat and golf once a Joe Tardy, Boney Bohnhofi' Bill Walker and John Padmonth, and are mostly lumber and building materialmen.

den' Front rorv' left to right: Gene DeArmand' Kurt weu, here they are, this picture was taken at their last Y,i.1"if,lk,;::.J3l?"il:T5r?:ffi"1 $:ffi#Tiil: meeting. I-eft to right, this rvill identify them. Back row: Bob Mason, Roy Stanton and DeWitt Clark. (Picture, Art Harff, Dee Essley, Frank Berger, Sid Alling, Bob Os- courtesy "The Stantonite'")

F.stcblishes Wholesale Distribution Yqrd

Coos Bav Lumber Company has established a wholesale distribution yard at 226 Sotth Santa Clara Avenue, Long Beach. The telephone number is L-B 7-4908'

V. A. Dimmick, Jr., is manager of the yard'

Lew Godcrrd To Attend Hoo-Hoo Annucrl

Lewis Godard, Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., San Francisco, Supreme Bojum of International Hoo-Hoo, will leave September 6 to attend the annual meeting to be held at Hotel Mayflor,ver, Washington, D. C., September 9 and 10.

OOITSOLIDATDD LT]MBBB OO.

Yard, I)oeks and Planing Mill

Wilmington, California

WE ARE GRATETUI.

to our many customers who hcve been so pcrtient through aU this time with our difficulties in obtcdning lumber lor their needs.

We cpprecicte their considerntion, crnd cre keeping up to the utmost our ellorts to get supplies into our yard.

Each month a new home is added to the ever-growing\Weyerhaeuser 4-Square Home Building Service. Each month \?eyerhaeuser advertises the current house design in national home rnagazrnes.

Each mooth the interest of homeplannersisstirnulated by emphasizing the new designs that are being added. These designs bring to the Service the latest development in planning, construction and naterials.

Now dealers can ofrer their community the latest and best in modern small homes, each designed by a skilled architect and engineered by \?'eyerhaeuser for good construction and economy.

fhir monfh's house relection ir feolured in full poge conlumer odvertiring, ilNu:fraled obove, In Americon Honre mogczine reoching millions of rend8ru-

Bright, crisp, modem lie-in, disploy ond promotionol moleriol, fumished eoch monlh..

teM'o' A ]TEW HOME IS ADDET)

fo rh EYER-GRowt xG

Weyerhoeuser 4-Squore Home Building Service

O To strengthen the position of the lumber dealers in the home building field, Veyerhaeuser is releasing a new home building service which includes many new and exclusive features. This modern and complete home planning and building service is available to retail lumber dealers exclusively.

S/hen the decision to build has been made. home planners, contractors and operative builders can look to the lumber dealer for experienced aid in home selection.

The New S7eyerhaeuser 4-Square Home Building Service is big and complete. It features scores of house desigos with working drawings, material lists and estimating guides. Itwill be kept up-to-date with the newest developments in the small home field.

WEYER,HAEUSEN. SATES COMPANY

FIRST NAflONAI BANK SLOO.'-:'". SL PAUI l, IIINNESOIA

Conditions Improved Fcrst

A traveler in the Ozarks stopped for a drink at a wayside bar, and a one gallus mountaineer sitting there asked him some queitions including where he was from. the traveler replied that he was from Br Texas, the hillbilly got right interested.

"Mister," he said, "I'm from Btazotia myself. Born and raised there. Got a brother named Jim Jenkins. Know him?"

The traveler said he did.

"Well," said the one-gallus fellow, you get back there tell Jinrr you saw his brother Sid, tell him I'm ais mortgaged and I

doin'mighty porely. Tell him my can't pay the interest, the cotton this fall, my chickens took up ease and died; and I don't kids to school this winter

et up by weevils new kind of disbe able to send the sorne he'p. So you

Purest Hecrven

May I reach That purest heaven, be to other souls

The cup of strength in some great agony, Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smilesthat hgrQ no cruelty, Be the good presfnc7/of. a good diffused, And, in diffusion,[g/er more intense. So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the \sladness of the world.

\George Eliot.

A WiIe

How uneasy is his life

tell Jirn if ever he is

The stranger was , now is the time." so much hard luck and invited the fellow to He accepted. Took without being invited. corn whiskey. Took a A big one. He wiped his on his sleeve, and said:

"So you know my

The traveler again

"Well, when you

out in Texas, eh?" he did. The one-gallus man said: back and see him, tell him things are gettin' a whole .better with me; a mighty lot better.t'

one-gallus man coming out of the gin-mill wiping his

The tr again said he was. So the hillbilly said:

'Look, When you get back to Texas and see Jim, tcll him is fine up here. Yes sir, tell him I'm a-doin' Tell him if he wer needs he'p, it don't make no diffrence how much, all he's got to do is cdl on me."

A Tough Question

And then, of course, therc was the littlc boy who said to his father: "Papa, I want to ask you a question. Suppose you and Ma had nevcr married each other, but each of you had married eomeone clsc. Antl suppose each of those couples had a boy. Now which of those boyr would I be, and rrho would the other one bc, urd what rclation would we be to each other, and if so-rhY?"

The Power of kcryer

"Grandsta," said littlc Olivc. !'Eve to bcd I pray to God to m& brothg, 'That's ftre, Olivei' stid Grandf,o

-ght beforc I g

Who is troubled with a wife, Be she ne'er so fair or comely, Be she de'er so young and toward,Be she ne'er so old and forward, Be she kind, with arms enfolding, Be she cross and always scolding, Be she blythe or melancholy, Have she wit, or have she folly, Be she -try, be she squandering, Be she staid, or be she wandering, Be she constant, be she fickle, Be she fire, or be she ickle, Be she pious or ungodly, Be she chaste, or what sounds oddly, Lastly, be she good or evil, Bi she saint or be she devil, Yet, uneasy is his life Who iS*tnarried to a wife.

-Charlcs Cotton.

Smith complainey'-tO. thc frequently embarras$d by remember the namLiof his was Hummock. One of iron out that difEculty dinary trick of the fit the

the boarder fills your til thc thing idea and

kcpt siying to AlI , ovcr

'ood boy.' nocl 6lls your stomach."

trble ln dl confidence,

office that he was always pcculiar name that he could an orrhyme to

j6ltyme, and thur\bring the c fucsested in this casc that

: "Missug HummocL fillsyour stomach," unthc tonguc. Hc liked the way homc tlrat wcning hq over again: !'Xirsur Humhc rat dorn to tbc dinncr at thc lendledt, end reid:

'But He ein't donc it tctr' ad, ),

PATRICK LUMBER

Trraincrl Scde Bldgf- PorltcEd 5, Orcaon

Dougkre

Ponderoco cmd Sugc Plne - Douglcs Fir Piling

!l lcrr Continucurly Scning Raril hrdr end Brilrordr

Loe Angrelee Bepreeutctive EASTMAN LUMBET

SAtES

Petroleum Bldg- Ior Ang€l* 15

PBosp€ct 5{Xl9

Obiturricr

Ccptcin lohn C. Rudbcch

Captain John C. Rudbach died at a hospital in San Pedro on August 6. He was 80 years of age.

He came to the Pacific Coasi in 1885, and operated lumber schooners in the Pacific Coast lumber trade from 1885 to 1906. He started in the ship chandlery business in San Pedro in 1906, retiring in 1938 and made his home in San Pedro.

Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Jane S. Rudbach; two sons, John A. Rudbach, Los Angeles wholesale lumberman, and Thomas C. Rudbach of Downey; two daughters, Hazel R. Cole of San Pedro, and Eva Hagglund of Honolulu.

Funeral services were held at San Pedro, Friday, August 9.

A. I. Voye

A. J. Voye, president and general manager of the Big Lakes Box Co., Klamath Falls, Oregon, passed away suddenly August 4. He was 58 years old, and began his lum'ber career more than 40 years ago in California. He came from Boston, Mass., and had been located at Klamath Falls since 1912. He was president of the 'Western Pine Association in I943-19M.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Louise L. Voye, and one son, Joseph J. Voye.

Hershel C. Bcskett

Hershel C. Baskett, 51, pass6d away at his home in Whittier August 8, of a heart attack.

He was born in Bakersfield, and was rvith the Burroughs Adding Machine Company lor 2l years. He made a number o{ trips abroad for this concern, and later was their San Francisco manager.

Since 1942 he had been associated with his brother Val Baskett in the ownership of the Baskett Lumber Company, Whittier.

He is survived hy his wife and three children.

Cited For Sclety Record

One of two Pacific Coast industrial firms so honored, the Permanente Cement Company has been awarded the Joseph A. Holmes Certificate of Honor for the outstanding safety re,co;d established by its quarry during the past five years, according to an announcement by the U. S. Bureau of Mirles.

Permanente, the world's largest cem.ent plant, was cited for the amazing record. it established during the period August !5, 1942, to January 23, 1946, rarhen it produced 5,510,565 tons of rock without a lost-time accident. The citation also commends the plant for operating its quarry without a fatal accident since its start on June 1, 1939.

Fresno Brcnctr Moved

The Fresno branch of the United States Plywood Corp. has been moved to 22t Divisaderp Street. Telephone number,2-226, remains the same. John Patriquin is manager.

IOOGT BEYEBSTBLE CROSIS CTNCULATION KILNT

2)lo to )O/o aore cap.ciry due to solid edge.to-edge $acking Bcttcr quality drying on low tcoperaturcc rith e fat rwlrribc circul,adon.

Lowsr rtaclcing corb-ru3t solid edge-to-cdge recldng rn th. rinplest fom.

Lumber Dealers Today Have Scmething to Sell

. In announcing their sponsorship of Home magazine, the National Lumber Dealers Association states: "We believe that lumber dealers today have something to sell' They must sell the idea of the private building industry and private enterprise to their own neighbors, friends, and customers. We believe that Jlomc rnagazine can do arrd is-doing this job for them.

"During this period of scarce materials, legislative battles, and building restrictions, Home magazine is devoting its pages to telling three essential stories:

"First, the truth about the home building situation, and the truth about why materials are scarce :

"Second, what can be done by a veteran in the way of home .building, .what can be done by other citizens in the way of remodeling under veterans' programs, or in the way of repair, decoration, maintenance, and minor construction; and

"Third, Home magazine features only such materials and such decoration, repairs, and remodeling as can reasonably be accomplished under the present material shortage.

"As Home magazine is published in two editions-a farm edition and a town edition-both editions are treated separately in the light of material supply and regulations governing the two fields.

"Every lumber dealer today needs to have these three types of information disseminated to his friends and prospects. He must keep his name out in front. He must preserve his customers and prospects. lIe must tell the true story about his business, for there is no one else who can do it for him.

"This is the job Home magazine has been designed to do and does do for hundreds of lumber dealers among industry and hundreds of thousands of American families tod.ay. It not only reaclies the home, but enters it and stays there. Home magazine is a salesman that makes

Kiln

More Than Half a Century

1,200 calls a year for only $58.80. The editors are constantly in tl-re field and in touch with present-day conditions. They are hand tailoring a public relations and, promotional medium for the lumber dealer that consistently tells his story month by month-and tellsthat story to the people who are his own neighbors, friends and customers."

Hoo-Hoo Makes 55th Annual An Old Style Convention

Reverting to the old style of convention with delegates from all jurisdictions and clubs, International Hoo-Hoo will hold its 55th annual at Hotel Mayflower, Washington, D.C., September 9 and 10.

Washington Hoo-Hoo Club No. 99 reports the appointment of Martin T. Weigand, No. 44882, as convention chairman.

The main sessions will be devoted to the affairs of HooHoo. Between these two there will be the National Concat, a cocktail party with the Washington Club as host, and the annual banquet with entertainment by courtesy of the Washington club.

The Supreme Nine also ruled that September 9 be designated as Hoo-Hoo Day to be observed by all jurisdictions and clubs with meetings and Concats, held simultaneously with the National meeting at the nation's capital.

New Yard in Monrovra

Myrtle Avenue Lumber Company has opened for business at 1525 S. Myrtle Avenue, Monrovia. Norbert Bundschuh, a veteran of many years in the lumber business, is yard manager. Paul Forman is foreman, Bob Bliss handles sales, and Bob Heestand runs the office. Warren L. Heestand is general manager of the organization. An expansion program includes the erection of a modern warehouse, office, and sales display rooms for buililing materials.

MONABOII LT]IIBEB OO.

Ue Moorekiln Paint Productr fot wcatherproofing &y kiln and mill roofr.

North Portland, Otr Jdtsonville. Flocid,

Builderu fot

Danger Signals

"There are indications that our industry ^uy have some rough r,r'eather ahea.d. Like a good sailor the industry should anticipate this, and as {ar as possible prepare to minimize the danger," said S. V. Fullarvay, Jr., secretary-manager of the Western Pine Association at the association's semi-annual meeting in San Francisco, August 16.

"'Fifty years ago there were 28,000 manufacturers of lumber and timber products. Now there are less than 12,000.'

"The NLMA wrote the Attorney General that his figures t'cre incorrect and misleading because these were obtained from. a Census Bureau series of figures which had suffered a change of base in the period it covered. In the first part of the series, beginning in.1899, the Census Bureau reported all manufacturers doing more than $500.00 gross. Between l9Z0 and l92l the base was changed and thereafter only those doing $5000.m gross were covered.

As a background for his remarks Mr. Fullaway gave a cuick revierv of the history of Iumber production by the Western Pine industry over the past 25 years. The average annual production from 1920 to 1929 was about 4f billion feet; from 1930 to 1939,' the depression period, it was about 3l billion feet, and for the five-year period 19,10 to 1944 it averaged almost 6 billion feet. In 1945 production declined to just under 5 billion ieet, due to the rvidespread strike. There ari definite indications that 1946 Western Pine production will pass thd 5 billion foot level, he said. and continued as follows:

S. V. Fullawcy, Jr.,

"fn view of this excellent war record and of the industry's demonstrated effort to meet reconversion needs, it would seem only natural that a grateful government should commend and give encouragement to the Western Pine industr,v. On the contrary, there appears to be a studied plan to discredit the lumber industry with the general public and to create the impression that our industry is responsible for the shortcomings of the reconversion program and of the Veterans I{ousing project which have resulted from mishandling by the government. It is this shameful situation which must be faced. Let us examine some of the evidence.

"With the announced purpose of checking compliance under the 1941 lumber c6nsent decrees, which give the Department of Justice authority to examine all records of the parties subject to such decrees, a horde of F.B.I. agents descended upon ihe western lumber industry last spring. There are indications that this investigation was of the "witch-hunt" variety, going far beyond a routine check for compliance with consent decree provisions and seeking to-locate any possible information which might be construed to the discredit of the industry.

"In a speech before the United States Chamber of Comnrerce at Atlantic City on May l, 1946, the Attorney General of the United States, Tom C. Clark, whom many of you will remember as a. member of Thurman Arnold's staff in charge of the 1941 anti-trust investigations of the lumber industry, made the following statement in complaining about the elimination of small business in the United States:

, "Clark's reply admits the above facts but refers to the l92l to 1939 Census figures which show a 15lo decline in the number of producers. This he says indicates the trend r'vhich he pointed out in his speech. He added, further, that this trend toward elimination of small business was. he believes, accelerated by the war and it is his hope that they will be able to reserve this trend and to open the door of opportunity to new business and particularly to veterans who want to go into business.

"The NLMA has furnished the Attorney General further facts which, at least, throw serious doubt on Clark's conclusions but an assisdnt, who acknowledged these has this to say:

"'ITowever, I must add that it would be hard to convince some of bur experts. here, on the basis of their over-all information, that there is not a trend toward concentration in the lumber industry.'

"Tt is general knowledge that it is the small portable mill of the "tea pot" type which has always accounted for the vast number, of lumber producers. Also, it is well known that this class of mill multiplies and prospers in periods of good demand and, because it has little investment or fixed charges, finds it desirable to close up during periods of low demand. The l5/o loss referred to by Clark is undoubtedly due to just that situation because the end of the comparative period used-1921 to 1939just happens to coincide with the last year of probably the most prolonged period of depressed demand in the industry's history.

"Although the small mill, like all small business and in fact business generally, suffered from the artificial controls of the war period and particularly from the inexcusable O.P.A. situation, anyone familiar with the lumber industry knorvs that the number of small mills has increased by leaps and bounds during the past few years. The statistical record of our own industry corroborates this. From 1935 to 1945, the proportion of the production from small mills, cutting less than 5 million annually has increased from ro% to 16%.

"From time to time during the past few months there has been considerable publicity which either directly or by inference gave the average citizen the impression that the industry was holding lumber in stock awaiting the demise of OPA or until higher ceiling prices were obtained. For example, a leading national weekly pictured a sawmill

,

with a considerable volume of lumber on the yard. The caption indicated this lumber was being held off the market for higher prices and that such practice was quite general. To-one familiar with the lumber business, it was obvious this was a medium sized mill of the better type and the lumber shown was piled for air drying.

"Naturally the lumber industry is not responsible for this kind of misleading publicity but it has somehow been inspired and to the discredit of the industry. The facts in eur own case show that stocks have been reduced month after month to levels which in the past would have been considered impractical. On January I, 1946, total lumber stocks in the 'Western Pine region were the lowest in the history of the industry and the actual footage was just one-half of the volume in stock on January I, 194t. By April 1, 1946, stocks were further depleted and for the 6 months ending July 1st the region had shipped almost 300 million more than it produced.

" Jort one more illustration of what is happening should be sufficient. About six weeks ag'o, an OPA news release, which received wide distribution, announced that some 4O western lumber operators were charged with lumber price violations and that damage claims involving millions of dollars were involved. This piece of propaganda was presented in a manner to give the misinformed reader the impression that the lumber industry generally was dealing in black market operations and failing to observe ceiling prices. If you saw this item and the list of those charged with violations, you realize that no real factor of the Western Pine industry was involved. I had never even heard of most of those listed and I have a rather wide acquaintance in the industry.

- "As an industry we should recognize what is being done. W'e must utilize every opportunity to give the public the real facts. We must continue, as our industry has always dohe, to meet our obligation in the production of needed lumber. We must maintain our enviable record of shipping well manufactured, thoroughly seasoned, and honestly graded lumber. It. goes without saying that, within the lirnits of human ability, our industry will continue to comply with the intricate government controls as long as these handicaps to the sound functioning of our ."orro*i" system remain.t' '

Wholcsalc to Lumber Yards

Sash - Windows

Gasements r Doots, otc.

TACOIIA TUIIBTB $ATT$

714 W. Oly:npic Blvd.

tOS ANGEIES 15, CAIJF.

Telephone PRosped ll08

CAAGO and EAIL

REPRESEI,ITING

St. Pcul d Tccomc Lumber Co. Tccomc, WastL

Dicloncrn Lumber Compcrny TccomcL Wash.

Kcrlen-Dcrvis Compcrry Tccomc, Wash.

Vcncouver Plyurood & Veneer Co. Vcnrcouver, Wash.

Tccomcr Hcrbor Lumber d Timber Co. Tqcomcr, Wasb"

Clear Fir Sctes Co. Eugene, Ore.

CdDLunberCo. Roseburg, Ore.

I(/heeler Osgood Management Buys Door Company

and treasurer. Mr. MacArthur, 20 years with the company, becomes a vice president, as does Mr. Phillips, who has been with the company f.or 27 years. Mr. Smith, with 18 years service, becomes secretary, and Mr. Woodson is now president of the Nicolai Door Sales Company, San Francisco, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Wheeler Osgood Company.

As the transaction was completed, Mr. Cruver predicted a great future for the Wheeler Osgood Company: "We are mass producing more and better products. Our nationwide sales and distribution organization is putting these products into the hands of builders.

"'We must manufacture millions of doors for the many millions of homes to be built in the next 10 years. We must rebuild jobbers inventories tg prewar levels.

"We have faith and confidence in the future of America and in the Wheeler Osgood Company-and the tremendous part it must play in building better products for better homes, for a better America."

In one of the Pacific Northwest's largest financial transactions in many years, management officials of the Wheeler Osgood Company, the world's largest manufacturer of doors, have purchased the company.

The sale puts ownership of the Wheeler Osgood Company in the hands of N. O. Cruver, W. M. MacArthur, Lionel J. Phillips, Paul M. Smith and L. J. Woodson, management officials of the company for many years.

Mr. Cruver,29 years with Wheeler Osgood and formerly vice president and general manager, becomes president

The Wheeler Osgood Company was founded in 1889 in Tacoma. Today, its plants and grounds cover over 2l acres, and its sales and distribution organization is nationwide. Over 700 people are employed in the Tacoma plant.

Ashlcnd Mill Sold

Sugar Pine Lumber Company, Ashland, Oregon, has sold the sawmill to New Jersey interests who will operate it under the name of Fir Planing & Milling Co. The capacity of the mill is 75,m feet in eight hours. The new owners plan to run two shifts.

has double strengrth crnd durability; is crdcrptcrble to timited spcce,'hcrs fireprool iron storaEe and metcrl-qsbestos iron.rest on board.

Nonncn O. Cruver, New President

SEOUOIA MI[t & IUMBER CO.

Producers of Redwood - Douglas Fir White Oak - California Alder

Distribution Ycrd

EDGE\AIAIEN LINMER COMPANY

Foot of Huntington Ave., Ecst Bgyshore Boulevcrd

- Hobcnt Building San Frcrncisco 4

El(brook 3540

ATTAS TUMBER COMPANY

ED BAUER -- CARL PORTER

Hsrdwoods r friftwoods

Conqdiqn Alder - Btrch - Itogle o

9035 E. 15th STREET LOS ANGELES T1

Tclephonc PRorpect 7401

L. t. GARR & CO.

frrlifio,rlnia Sugor ond Po,n&rrorla Pitp

Scles Agcnts For

SACRAMENTO BOX & LUMBER CO.

Millr At Woodlcaf, Calif. '

SACRf,MENTO tOS ANGEI.ES

HOGA]I LUTIBER GO.

WHOI.ESAI.E A}TD IOBBING

Qeoallzottnat. Ol A[ PBIVTTT

We dropped in for a call on Al Privett the other day, down at E. K. Wood's big Los Angeles yard. It's always a pleasure, because the gang in that offrce is one of tlle most friendly we find anywhere. Al Privett is really J. A. Privett, Manager, but he is "Al" to most of the lumber folks of the whole Western territory.

He is an old-time lumberman with a keen memory, who loves to travel back through the years, and cherry the fat about things that were in the lumber yesterdays around Los Angeles. So he said to us: "You folks are still in the Central Building aren't you?" We admitted that we were. "Do you know what was on that corner when I first saw it, away back in the nineties, when I was a kid? It was a retail lumber yard. Yes sir, that's what was there. It be' longed to D. J. Nofziger. At that time there was a lot of competition and price cutting going on in the retail lumber business in this town, showing that things have always been somewhat the same unless there's a war to change them temporarily. And that lumber yard was in the thick of the fight. I shall never forget the big sign that Nofziger had up in front of his yard. It read: 'We skin them all.' It referred to the price war, and warned folks that lumber prices were rock bottom at that yard.."

So we asked Al how far back his lumber service in Lob Angeles went, and learned that he went to work in a lumber yard in 1897. So next year he will round out his fiftieth year in the lumber business. We asked him if there are any other lumbermen living today who started here as early as he did, and he racked his memory and couldn't think of any, with one exception. He started his lumber career with the San Pedro Lumber Company, and O. C. Abbott, mill superintendent today for San Pedro, started with that firm at the same time, and has been with them ever since. But Al couldn't remember any other lumbermen living today, who were in it then. He said that George Lounsberry came along just a few years after he did, and also E. C. Parker, but he preceded both of them. Both these gentle-' men are still going strong in the Los Angeles lumber business.

tUilBER

_ TILtWORf, SASH and D0ORS

Sincc 1888

OINCE. MII& Yf,BD f,ilD DOCTB

2rd 6 Alice Sts., Oc}lcad

GLracourl 8881

Al Privett has worked for three generations of the Wood family,rfirst with the original E. K. Wood, and then with two later generations. He celebrated his 67th birthday just the other day, but is a young man'for his years, filled with optimism, good cheer, friendliness, helpfulness, and human understanding that has made him one of the most popular individuals in the lumber industry of California. To know him is to like him, to trust him, and to admire him. And if you too have reached that tide in life where the shadows are slanting from the West, he is a great man to walk around a lumber yard with, and ramble backward through the years, to other days, and other men. There should bemore Al Privetts in the industry.

P. O. Box l28il lflf. P. Punnlqg Iolotypo Sc-19 t38 Chcnbor ol Coonorco lldg.

ussDLL) INC.

Fo"ifi" il 1orefi Frol.uctt

Douglcrs Fir-Port orlord cedcn-sitkcr spruce-Noble Fir;Hemlock

Ponderosc d sugcrr Pine-Red cedcn-Red cedca shingleB

SAN FRANCISCO

Seth L Butler 214 Front SL

GArfieId 0292

MODESTO

W. H. Winfree 420 Myrtle Ave. Modesto 3874

Shevli n Pi n e",,S"p"f rt

SEIIING THE PRODUCTS OF tL lcGlcrd ltrc Lusbrr ColoDslt IcGlogd. Calllordo

o llr tfovlb-&oa Coaploy lcd. Ch.tos

IcD.r ol tb. Wdr.ro p|tt. Ar.octanoa. Portlcad. Orogoa

SHEVLIN PINE

Rcg. U. S. Pcr. O[. ErcuiltrE otTtcE n Fh ilctloocl 8oc l&. lultdbg MINNEAPOIJS, MINNEIOTA

DItEltCI SttJlS OTFTCES: -_ N_FW YOf,K clnc co 'S.fffl"?-r?igo'f3"S"xtl*&*i' rtH SAN FNANCIEC! tooffiffi,rue

LO6 AltcE.Es etl.Es OFftCE 3E Pooobun BHg. PRorpra Cls

IOS ANGEI.ES Heru.n A. Smith 812 E. 59rh Sr ADa-.'r 8l0l

EDECIEg

PONDEBOSf, PETE (PINI's PO}TDERGA)

EUGTA (Gorlbo WLlb) m|E (PINI'B I.I.IIBEBNANA) cf,,t**%t

O'Neill Lumb ei Co., Ltd.

16 California Strncet, San Frencisco lt GArfietd gtrO

DETRIBUTORS

Douglas Fir HeFlock Rcdwood ponderosa pine

Red Cdar and Redwood Shingl€r

Celifornia Building Permits for July

Ncw Plywood Plant In Arcata

Construction has started on a new fir plywood plant in Arcata, the first to be built in the Redwood Empire. The plant, which will cost $1,000,000, will be called the Humboldt Plywood Corporation. Clay Brown, well known in the Douglas Fir plywood business, is president of the new concern.

The plant will produce 5,000,000 feet of plywood a month for a start. Head ,'ffice of the organization will be in Portland. Other officers of the company are C. A. Hill, vice president; C. W. Booth, treasurer; C. N. Souther, secretary and legal counsel. Ted Snyder is production manager, and C. W. (Red) Spiering is logging manager.

Only fir plywood will be produced at first, but experiments in the prodrrction of Redwood plywood will be made, according to Mr. Brown. It is expected that the plant will be in operation by February l,1947.

Visitors From Oregron

Mace Tobin, Jack O'Neill and Rube Ross, Oregon lumbermen, were recent Los Angeles visitors.

Swartwout Ventilouver

The Swartwout Ventilouver, advertised on another page of this issue, meets the need for a serviceable lorv-cost attic ventilator in dwellings and other buildings. Its installation needs no wood framing or other construction.

Swartwout Ventilouvers are carried in stock bv Peter J. Van Oosting, 6527 San Fernando Road, Glendale 1, Calif. Telephone number is CHapman 5-2090.

Irlulan

Paul Orban, Orban Lumber Company, Pasadena, was back at his desk August 12 from I'acationing at Coronado.

W. W. "Bus" Davies, salesman for Pope & Talbot, Inc', Lumber Division, Los Angeles, has been transferred to the San Francisco office.

Everett Lewis, Gamerston & Green Lumber Co., Oakland, rvas back from vacation August 26. Part of the time he spent at Brookdale in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and part. on heavy projects in his well-equipped home woodworking shop.

William Haskin, formerly in the San Francisco office of the United States Plywood Corp., has returned from war service and is now in the Oakland office of this organization. He was a Lieutenant in the Army Engineers for tr,r'o and a half years, spent mainly in Europe and Japan.

John H. Tyson, Wholesale Lumber Distributors, Inc., Oakland, returned August 10 from a visit to the company's sawmill at Disston, Oregon.

W. T. (Bill) Meyer of White Brothers, San Francisco, has returned from three weeks'vacation spent at Carnelian Bay, Lake Tahoe.

E. H. (Ernie) Bacon, Fir-Tex of Northern California, San Francisco, recently spent tu,o u'eeks on business in the Northwest, and followed this u'ith a week in Los Angeles.

Carl W. Watts, wholesale lumber dealer, San Francisco, returned recently from a business trip to Mexico.

Earl Bleile, sales manag'er, Glendale, Oregon, was in San irr August on business.

Robert Dollar Company, Francisco and Los Angeles

W. T. White, president of White Brothers, San Francisco, attended the recent annual summer encampment of the San Francisctr Bohemian Club, held at the Bbhemian Grove.

Philip J. McCoy, president of Western Pine Supply Co., San Francisco, returned August 12 lrom vacationing with his family in Spokane and Northern Idaho.

J. E. Peggs, III, son of J. E. Peggs, Jr., well known Francisco lumberman, received his discharge from Navy recently following his return from Japan on battleship lowa.

Sar: the the

John W. Gamerston is norv associated with his father, Harry B. Gamerston in Gamerston & Green Lumber Co., San Francisco. He was four years in the Army, with service in the Aleutians and Germany, and received his discharge at the end of June rvith the rank of First Lieutenant.

Charles B. White, White Brothers, San Francisco, turned August 15 from vacationing at Lake Tahoe.

L. W. Martinez, returned early in called on mills.

rvholesale lumber dealer, San Francisco, August from the Northwest, where he

Al Peirce of the A. [.. Peirce Lumber Co., Coos Bay, Oregon, attended the Shriners' Convention held the week of July 22 in San Francisco. Ife was accompanied by Mrs. Peirce.

Wendell Brown, Orban Lumber Co., Pasadena, went north to Fcirtuna, Calif., to be present at the golden wedding anniversar;r of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Percy J. Brown.

R. E. (Dick) Freeman, released {rom the Navy two nronths ago, is no$, purchasing agent for So-Cal Building I,faterials Co., Los Angeles. He rvas attached to the Na'u'al Suppil' Depot at Seattie rvhile he rvas in the service.

L. O. Taylor, general manager, Sher'lin Pine Sales Cr.,., Minneapolis, and W. G. Kahman, district sales manager, San Francisco, recently spent a ferv days at the company's Los Angeles office.

C. L. Roach of the C. Ariz.. has returned from a

I-. Roach Lumber Co., Safford, trip to l-os Angeles.

W. M. (Bill) Killen, son, Ariz., made a trip Foxlvorth-Killen I-umber Co., Trrcto Los Angeles early in August.

Ed Houghton, rvell knorvn Los Angeles lumber salesman, spent July and August at his Forest Home cabin. He postcards that he will be back after Labor Day, and remarks that "This is the life of Reilly."

George Clough, sales manager, San Pedro l-umber Co., I-os Angeles, vacationed with his family at Ralboa Island.

Jack Phelps, assistant sales manager, E,. J. Stanton & Son, I.os Angeles, and his r,r'ife, rvill move into their new l-.ome on Longmor.rt Ave., North San Gabriel, August 24. llecently cornpletccl by H. O. Bollman, corrtractors, it is a modern rancho type dr,velling with every modern convenience, including breakfast bar and .swimming pool.

Northrup Swanson, son of Emil Srvanson of Eagle Ilock Lumber Co., rvas recently discharged from the Navy. He \tras a Lieutenant (j.g.) i" command of a P-C boat in the Sorrth l';rcific ancl brciught his ship to San Diego a short tirnc ago. Follou'ing his release from the service he accompanied his father and mother on a vacation trip to Northern California.

James L. Hall, wholesale lumber dealer, San Francisco, is back from a combination business and vacation trip in the lIigh Sierra. He rvas accompanied bv Mrs. I{aI1.

Jack Mulcahy of Mulcahy Lumber was a recent visitor to Los Angeles, other Northern California points.

Co., Ttrcsort, Ariz., San Francisco, and

CI,AS SIFIED ADVERTISING

Rate-$2.50 per Column Inch.

WANTED

SALESMEN calling on limtber and building supply dealers, to sell a beautiful line of decorative, protective Rustic fence, arbors and gates, also complete line of Rustic outdoor furniture, (garden houscs, picnic tables, lawn chairs, settees, swings). New designs, sr.rperior conatruction, shipped k d- Also a line of milled, fully machined chairs, settees and corner cabinets, shipped k.d. and rmfinished. Prompt shipments. Commission basis. In reply give complete information on territory covered and lines handled.

Address Box C-1195, Cdifornia Lrimber MerchAnt, 5@ Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

LUMBER CAR UNLOADING

30 Acres of storagc in Witmington, California

35 Lifts and Lrunber Carricrs for city hauls- Lu/nber crews dispatched for unloadingContract rates.

CRANT & COMPANY aftliated with Western Lurnbcr Carriers

TUcker E556-VAndyke 0898-Night Rlchmond 3221 1150 East Pico Boulcvard Los Angeles 2t, California

POSITION WANTED

LUMBERMAN,25 years continuous experiencc in WESTERN PINES, from manufacturing, grading, wholesale and industrial selling and buying, now employed, desires position where these qudifications can be uscd for tlre greatest efficiency and remuneration. Will go anywhere, but prefer Southern CaliforniaAddress Box C-1188, California Lurnber Merchant

50E Centrd Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

AUDITS; FINANCIAL STATEMENTS;

Part-Time Bookkecping and Incidental Work

E. M. WORTHING

P. O. Box 56, Station M

Loe Angeles 32, Calii.

Phones: Rlchmond 9251 ; CUmberland 3-1706 TITIRTY YEARS LUMBER EXPERIENCE. CONSERVATIVE FEES.

WANTED

4 Side Matcher-any good makc

6" Vertical Band Resaw rHE HEALt t?Yt3,kY,TJER CoMPANY

Healdsburg, Calif.

F'OR SALE

Planer 6" x l{

Plancr and Matcher

Makc-Fay & Egan

ROUCH'S SAWMILL Box 655

Springville, California

FOR SALE

If you want to buy a retail lumber yard in Southcrn California or a good Douglas Fir sawmill in Oregon, see our ad in the August lst issue of The California Lumber Merchant.

TWOHY LUMBER CO., LUMBER YARD & SAWMILL BROKERS 801 Petroleum Bldg., Los Angeles 15, Calif. PRospect 8746

ADVERTISERS

*Advertising eppears in alternate irsuer.

Acme Blower & Pipe Co. ---- .-..------------.?l

Ameri:an Hardwood Co. ---"--,"-----15

American Lumber and Treating Co..--------*

Anlo California Lumber e.o.----------------------24

Arcata Redwood Co. -------------21

Atkinson-Stutz Co.

Adas Lumber Co. --------------,-------------------------.26

Back Panel Company

Baxter & Co., J. H. - -------,--- -,---------- 29

Blue Diamond Corporation ----- - ----------------*

Bohnhoff Lumber Co., Inc.

Bradley Lrrmber Qo. of Arkansas

Brush Industrial Lumber Co. ------------------*

Building Material Distdbutors.---------------------lt

Burns Lumber Co. .,--... - --.,--,----------,- tl

California Builders Supply Co. ,-------- , -----,12

Cafifornia Door Co.. The .----- -,-,------- - 5

California Panel & Vencer Co. O.B.C.

Carr & Co. L. J. --------.26

Celotex Corporation. The .- ,--

Christeneon Lumber Co. --

Consolidated Lumb-r Co.

Cooo^r Wholecale Lumber Co., W. E.

Cordc Lumber Co.

Cornitius llardwood Co.. Geo. C. -----,--,------ 11

Curtis Comoaniec Incorporated .-- --------------{l

Dallac Machine & Locomotive Vortr ----. *

Dant & Rurrell, Inc. --------27

Davidron Plywood & Veneer Co. .-:------------*

Douglar Fir Plywood Association

Eubank & Son, L H. ---------------------------------.24

Fir Door Inrtitute .*

Fir-Tex of Northen California ------.----,-.---

Fir.Tex of Southern Califotnia ,------,--, -,--,

Kelley. Albert A.

.Iohns-Manville Co.p.

Koehl & Son, Inc., John V..,------ 28

Kuhl Lurrber Co. Carl H. ------------------------- 'f

Lamon-Bonnington

Talbot, Inc., Lumber Divirion-------*

Portland C,ement Association.----.-----------------*

Rean Co, George E.-----------------------------*

Red Cedar Shingle Bureau-----------

Robbins Lumber Co. R. G. --------------------------.lO

Rounds Tradrng Company.---------------------------14

San Pedro Lumber C.ompany -----------------------. 3l

Santa Fe Lumber Co. ---------------------------- 25

Schafer .Broe Lumber & Shingle Company -*

Sequgia Mill 6, Lumber Co..-------------------------- 26

Shevlin Pine Sales Co. ---------27

So-Cal. Building Materials Co. --------------------: 3

Southwestern Portland Cement Co.----,------------ t

Stanton & Son, E. J. -- ---- ----

Strable Hardrr,ood Co. ---

Sudden & Chrictenson, Inc..-------------------------15

Tacoma Lumber Sales -----------------------------------.23

Tarter, Webeter & Johnson, Inc.---------j *

Tropical '& Vestern Lumber C,o.------------- t

Truedron Cabinet Corp.-------------------------------r4

United Statec Gypsum Co.

U. S. Ptywood- Corporation---------------------*

Van Oocting, Peter J. - -------- --------------- 7

West C6art Streen Co.

Wendling-Nathan Co.

Wect Oregon Lumber Co. --------- -----------------11

Ve*ern Door 8, Sash Co.---;-------------------19

Vertern Hardwood Lumber Co.------------O.F.C.

Vertetn Mill & Moulding Co..------------------- 7

Vestern Pine Supply Co. .--- -----------------------.rl

Veyerhaeurer Saler C,ompaty ------------------16-17

Vhite Brothera ---------------------------------------. 14

Vh6le.sale Building Supply, Inc.-------------- lo

Vholesale Lumber Dirtributor, Inc.---------*

Vood Lumber Co., E. K. -------------------------------29

BUTER'S GUIDE SAN TNAI|GISGO

LUIGEI

Arccta Brdwood Co, rilt Mcrlct Sircct (ll). .YUtroa lFl

Al5lro!-Slutr Conpcnv, ll3 Mqrlct Stro.t (li). .GArfeld l8lXt

Chriatcneon Lunber Co. Evcnr Avc. aad Quiai St. (21)..Vllcncic 5&12

Cordg Lunber Conpqnv, 68 Pct St. (4). : ...DOuglca 2{69

Dqnt d Rurcll, hc,, 2l{ Froat Street (ll). ...GAr6eld 0292

Dolbeer 6 Ccnon Lumber Co., lllS Merchcntr ExcbcnEe Bldg. ({) DOuglcr 6,lt!6

Gqnenton il Grsen Lunber Co., lSlxl Any Strcct (Ztl). .ATwctcr 1300

Hcll, Jcmes L., llts2 Mills Bldg. ({). .SUttcr 75211

Hcllincn Mcclin Lunbcr Co. 581 Mcrlet St, (5)... ...DOuglcr l9ll

Hunoud Lunber Compcay, rll? Montgomcry Streat ('e). .DOugtca 3i188

Robbs Woll Lumber Co., O5 Montgonery St. (l)..........GArfield 752

Holnes Euelc Lunbcr Co..

llllS Finocicl Ccoter Bldg. (t!). ...Gtrrfield l92l

Carl IL Kuhl Lunbcr Co., O. L. Busun, ll2 Mcrkct Sr. (ll)..Ylllon 1160

Lcnoq-Boanington Conpcny, 16 Cqlilonic Strcet (ll). .. .Gf,rfield 5881

LI'MBER

Gcnontoa d Green Lunber Co., Ul0l Livilgrtou Sr. (6). .f,Ellog.d-f88/t

Goralln-Harding Luber Co.2ll Prcfacrional Bldg. (r)...,...,....K8Uo8 {-z0U

Hill 6 Morton, lnc., Deanieoa Street Wbcrl (7)........INdovcr lll77

Hogca Lunber Conpcny, 2ad qad trlicc Streets (l). .Glcacourt 6861

Eclley, Albcrt A.

P. O. Box 2il0 (Alcaedc). .. .Lclchurrt 2-1151

Moncrcb Lunber Co- l{ll Fra*lb St. (f2)............f\lrhocls S29l

E. f,. Wood Lunber Co., 2lll Frcdorlcl Strcet (6). .frllog Z-llfl

..THonwclt Slta ra)... .WEbsier 7828

....PRospecl {3ll

l.ll55

LT'TTBER

Nortbcrn Ecdwood Lunbcr Co., ?llt8.l0 trure Btdg. (l)............H||brook 789d

O'Ncill Lunber Co., ftd., l8 Cctilonic St. (fl). ...GArEeld 9ll0

Pccilic Lubcr Co., The 100 Bush Stroct ({). .....Gf,rlield llSl

Pope 6 Tclbot, Iuc,, Lunbor Divigioa, {61 Mcrlot Street (5). .DOuglcs 2561

Boundg Trcdias ComptnY Croclcr Dldg-. (l).:...:. ..YIlLon llgll

Scnlc Fc Lunber Co- tl8 CalilorBla Street (ll).. .EXbrooL 2Ol

Sequoic Mill ll fuuber Conpaay, Hobcrt Buildilg ({). ..-. .-.. .ExbrooL 3540

Shevlia Piac Sclsr Co., llB0 Moacdaoctc Bldg. (5). .Ellbroo} ill

Sudden 6 Chrieteugou, Inc., 310 Sqngonrc Stroct ({)..........GArlicld ?8,15

Thrter, Webgtcr 6 Jobnson, Inc., I Moalsomery St. (l). .DOuglc 2(b0

Curl W. Wcttg, 97S Moacdnocl Bldg. (5)..........Y|ILou 1590

Wendliag-Ncthcn Co., 561 Mcrlet St. (l)... .....SUttcr 5363

West Oregon Lumbcr Co., 199!i Evcns Ave. (2{). ...ATwctcr 5678

OAKLANID

LI'IUEEA

Wholcrclc Buildina Supplv, lnc,, 1607 32!d Streei (8)....-......TEmplebcr 6961

Wholeralo Lunber Dlrtribulora, lac., 5{ Firat Strcot (7)....... .TWiaoclg 2515

HANDWOODS

Strcble Hqrdwood CoEDclv, Fir.t qEd Ctcy Streeti (?)....lEnptclq 3581

Whitc Erothcrr, 500 Hlgb Strecr (l). .ANdovrr f6m

LOS ANGELES

LI'IU8EN

Patricl Lumber Co., Eastnc! Lunber Sclea, 7ll W. Olynpic Blvd. (15). .PBoapcct S|IF

Pope d Tqlbot, Iac., Lunber Diviaion

7l{ W. Olyopic Blvd, (15)......PBorpcct 8411

E. L, Reitz Co., 333 Petroleun Btdg. (f5). .PRoepoct &169

Rounds Tradinqr ConFatrv (WilnirgtoD)

l2{o Bli!! Ave. ......-....-........Nevcdc B-ltlli!

Scn Pedro Lunber Co., l5l8 S. Centrql Avc. (el)......Rlchmoad llll

1800-A Wilniueton. Rocd (Scr Pedro)... .....Scn Pedro 2flXt

Shevlin Pine Scles Co., 330 Petroleum Bldg. (15)........PRorpect 11613

Sinpson lndugtries, Iac., 1610 E. Wcshingloa Blvd. (21)..PRospect 6l&l

StalloD, E. I. ll Soa, 2050 E. llst St. (ll). ...CEaturr 29211

Sudden d Christeuon, Inc., 630 Board oI Trade Blde, (ll)....TBiaity 88{l

Tcrconc Lunber Soleg, 8il7 Peiroleum Bldg, (15)........PBoapect ll08

Weudliag-Ncthm Co., 5225 Wilsbire Blvd, (35). ..YOrL 1168

West Orcgon Lumber Co.,

'!27 Petroleu Bldg. (15). .Rlchnond Ol8l

W. W. Wilkiason, ll2 \[|crt NlnO Steet (15). ........ .Ifility {613

Weyerhceuser Scles Co., lll9 W. M. Gcrlcad Bldg. (15)..Mlchigcn 635'!

E. K. Wood Lubcr Co., {?10 So. Alaneda Sr. (5{) .......IEffcreou 3lll

CREOSOTED LUMEEN_POLES PILINCFTIES

Americqu Lunbcr d Trcctiag Co., ll5l So. Broqdrrqy (15)... .PBorpcct {Ftl

Baxter, f. H. 6 Co., 501 \l9est 5tb Street (13). .Mlchigau S29l

LUUBER

W.rt.rtr Pine Supplv Conrrry, l2ltl Harrison SL- (3)., : .UNdrrbltl t888

E. f,. Wood Lunber Co., I Drw Sucet (ll)...........'.E&rool 3!110

Wrvcrhseu:cr Sdcr Co., 3Sl Suttor Sr. (8). ...Gf,rfiold 8871

TTtrRDWOODS

Conitiu Hcrdwood Co- Gcorgr C., 1,65 Cctiloni<r St. (l).......:....CAsfiold 3748

White Erotbcrs, FUth cnd Brcmcn Streetr (7). .SUttcr 136!i strsH-DooRrPLlwooD

Harbor Plvwood Corp. ol Cclllonic, 510 loib- sr. (3). .... ..ltf,rlct 6illF

Unitcd States Plvsood Corp- tl|il Ant St. 110).......-.. .lfvotcr l99il

CREOSOTED I.I'UEEA-POIESPILING-IIES

Americcn Luber d Trecting Co.. 601-Mbdoa 8t. (5)..... '.... '.. ' ' 'SUtter lll28 Bq:<ter, I. lL ll Co., 9$l M6atgoncry Streer ({) '.......DOuglqr 3803

Ilcll, Icnar L., l03i M|lrr Bldc, ({). .. .. .EUtlor 75al Pop. & Talbot, Inc., Lunber Divlrloa, {isl Mar}ei Strcct (5) '..... '. ...Douglcr tstBl Vcnder Lccn Piliag G Lunber Co116l Mcrlet Streel (5). .....t[brool l90d Wendliaq-Ncthqtt Co., 56t M;rL.l Sr. (a). .SUttrr 538i1

PANELS-DO

ONS_SASII.-SCNEENS

PLY-TilOOD-MtrLWO8I

Cclilonic Builders Supplv Co?00 5tb Avenuc ({): :. .........Hlgct..8018

Hoocn Lunbor Conpcay, Zid aaa Alice Strictr- (l)......Glcncourl 5881

E. C. Pitcher Comtny, 608 l6th St. (fZ):.. .:.. .....Gloacourt 39S

Pecllels Built-iE Fixtur. Co. (Brrlclov) 2808. Saa Pqblo lve. (3)'.. ...IHorrwcll 0820

UDit.d Staies Pllvood CorP., - im srd sr. (?I...........;.......rWinoclr 55ll

Wcsteh Door d Scsh Co., ''5ih d Cvptegs Slreots (7). '. ' .TEnplcbcr 8lltr

E. I. llfooil Lunber Co., -'2lil Frcdericl Streot (8). .trEllog t'|lll?

!6hrT6fl Lunbcr Co., Inc. - ISOO So. Alqnedc St. (21).........PBorpect 32tlli

Peuberthv Lunbcr Co., --56i'$"fffrii.-iJ". (ll).. :...nnball slll

Stmto!, E. l. ll Soa, - zoiotcii ilet sirect (ll). ' .CEaturr 20211

Tropicql ll Wcrtonr Lunbsr Co., --6ft-S. Grqnd tvc..... .MlcLlgtro $ll8

Wostan Hcrdwood Lurber Co20llE at istt Strcct (55).-.....PRorp.at 816l

sf, sH-DOOAS-MI.LWOBr--SCnEEil8 8&INDS-Pf,NELS AI{D PLYWOOD INOMNC BOARDS

Back Ptrnel Conpcay, - 3lcala Etrst 31ad- Stto.t (ll). 'ADaro. ltts

Cclilornic Door Conpaav, The - p.6. nof 125, Vembr Statios(ll) Xlnbqll tlll

Cclilornic Pqacl il Vcaccr Co., P. O. Box 2{198, Tcrnlqrl Aanex (51) ...lBbitt 06?

Cobb Co., T. M., 58{!0 Central f,vouc (ll). .... ...ADqnr llllT

Colc Dor & Plyuood Co.'

1049 E. SlausG Avc. (ll) .....'..'.ADmc l37l

Doi&on Plwood ll Vcaccr Co., 2{15 Eateridge St. (2f). ...,,......Tniattv 9858 Eubqd. C Son, L. H. (lnclcwood) (t3 W. Bcdoado Blvd.. ..........OBegor 8-2t55

Hqlev Bror. (Scntc Moaica) l6t0 t{th sireet... : . . .AShler l-2250

Kochl, Ino. W. d Son,' 852 3. Mycra Street (11)........4N9c1u 8l9l

Pccilic Mutuql Door Co., t6O E. W(trbhsto! Blyd. (21)..PBorpea 95Xl

Reqn Conpqlv, Geo. E., 23ti S. Al-oe-dc Sireet (12).....Mlchigcu l85l Supgol Co. (Pcsadenc), 715 So, Rqvioad f,ve. (2).....,..BYqa l-6939

Pqcific Lmber Co,, Thc

SYecmore 8-{173 I RYqa l-69911

- l-crs wu"ht'; riii.- tdel. ...yorl 1168

rPostofiice Zone Number in Paranthesis.

McConick { Bcxter Creosoting Co., ll2 W.glh Street (15)... ..TRiaiiy {613 Popc 6 Tclbot, Inc., Luabcr Division, 7l{ W. Olymplc Blvd. (15). .PRorprct 82itt

HTBDWOODS

Americca Hcrdwood Co.. l90ll E. lStL 8trrct (51)...,......PBorprct ll9S

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It hosn't looked quite thof bod yet, but lumber merchonfs'demond for plywood ponels is still for beyond our supply. We ore providing-in limited quontif ies-ponels of wolnuf, ook ond mohogony.In spite of the shortoge, every plywood sheet must be up to our old stondord before it is put down in our wqrehsuse. All of it is ovoiloble to deolers.

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Specialists in Custom Milling and

CUSTOM MII.LING

Rescrwing, ripping, surfccing ond trimming of our re-monufocturing plcnt of Long Beqch, Colif.

KIIN DRYING

Our kilns ond operqtors cne certilied by Government {or drying aircroft lumber. We olso do other commerciol drying.

South Alomedc Sfreel o TRinity 0057 o ltloiling Address: P. O. Box 2096, Termincl Annex, lor Angele: