The California Lumber Merchant - September 1943

BT]ILD A *FIJTT]RE WORK" FILE

(Of Needs You Can't Srpply TODAY)

Mcintcining a prospect list in normal times is iust good business. Why then isn't it iust crs good business to keep c record oI the needs you ccn't fill todcy -but which you ccn supply when the mctericls cre crgcrin crvcilcrble? Insteqd of closing the door to luture business by scrying, 'I{o, I'm sorry we hcven't this or that and cqn't get it," wouldn't it be better to scy, "V[fe hcven't such cnd such todqy, but we'll crdvise you when we ccn get it." Then iot it down cnd periodicclly check with your prospect to keep your records up-todcrte. Such c bcrcklog of luture scrles will ccrrry you well into the postwcrr period which lies checd.

AS A BACIOOG FOR TOMORROW'S BUSII\ESS

A St a"tement

TO OUR CUSTOfiERS . . . FROII WHEETEN OSGOOD

For years we have been able to say-"protnpt delivery, any amount of all types of doors." As America's largest door manufacturer we have always been able to make good on this statement. Flowever, for the present it is impossible for us to fulfill this service to our jobbers and deelers. And here's why-now it's

All OutforVirtory

There is only one thing that matters-win the war as quickly as possible. Ve know that this is uppermost in your minds, too. The great bulk of our output of doors and other kindred products is

going into war housing and for othet war purposes. That will be the situation with this company until the enemies of our country are defeated.

Neut Horizons After tbeVar

Big things are-already plenned end develo,ped for the post-ward period. You well remember how Vheeler Osgood "Color Grading" revolutionized the door.industry. After the war look again for Vheeler Osgood to be first to give you major improvements and sensational new developments. Until then we will do our best to fulfill your urgent needs.

WHEEtER, OSOOOD DOOR.S

WHEIIIR OSGOoD SATES CORPoRAiloll, rA(otA, WASHlllGroll

OUR ADVERTTSERS

*Advertirements appea! in afternatc irrueo.

American Hardwood C.o. --

Amedcan Lumber and Treating C.o. ------------21

Arcata Redwood Co. Atlinson-Stutz Co. ----------- ---. .-11

Bac! Panel Company ---.----... ---- 5

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

Blue Diamond Corpotation ----------------------------15

Bradley Lumber Co, of Arkansas

Brush Industrial Lumber Co.

Burns Lumber Co.

California Builders Supply Co. ---------------------.27

California Door Co., The --------------------------------15

California Panel & Veneer Co. ---------------------x

Carr & Co.' L. J. - --- -------------------------.29

Celotex Corporation, The ------------------------------ 7

Chrfutenson Lumber Co. --------,----*-

C,obb Co., T. M. ----------- ------------27

Cooper, W. E. ---------- ---------------1O

Dant & Russell, Inc. --------------------------------------27

Douglas Fir Plywood Airsociation

Eubank & Son, L. H. Ewauna Box Co.

Fordyce-Crocsett Seles Co

I. E MANNN Mcnoging Editor

W. T. BI.ACK

THE CALIFOR}IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

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How Lumber Looks

Lumber shipments of. 463 mills reporting to the National Lumber Trade Barometer were 2.3 per cent below production for the week ended August 28, 1943. In the same week new orders of these mills were 0.1 per cent less than production. Unfilled order files in the reporting mills amounted to lOZ per cent of stocks. For reporting softwood mills, unfilled orders are equivalent to 41 days' production at the current rate, and gross stocks are equivalent to 36 days' production.

For the year to date, shipments of reporting identical mills exceeded production by 8.9 per cent; orders by 11.3 per cent.

Compared to the average corresponding week of 193539 production of reporting mills was 18.1 per cent greater; shipments were N.9 per cent greater; and orders were 26.2 per cent greater.

The Western Pine Association for the week ended August 2l,106 mills reporting, gave orders as 84,361,000 feet, shipments 82,031,000 feet, and poduction 93,747,0@ feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 464,008,000 feet.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended August 28, 87 mills reporting, gave orders as 18,043,000 feet, shipments 22,V52,000 feet, and production 20,693.000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 124.493.0ffi feet.

The California Redwood Association reported production of. 12 operations for the rrionth of July, 1943, as 33,853,000 feet, shipments 39,641,000 feet, and orders received 59.415,000 feet.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended August 21 reported orders as L27,825,W feet, shipments 120,034,000 feet, and production 115,747,0A0 ket.

For the week ended August 28 orders rvere reported as 135,394,000 feet, shipments 115,714,000 feet, and production 119,475,000 feet.

Dealers M.y Add Dressing Costs to Remanufactured Fir Board Prices

A very important piece of nervs from O.P.A. in Washington came to both the Southern and Northerr.r California retail lumber association ofifices on September 8, and rvas officially announced. Here is a

verbatim copy of the announcement sent out by Orrie Hamilton, Secretary-Manager of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association:

"We have today received word from the Naticlnal I{etail Lumber Dealers Association which, in efiect, passes an official interpretation from the OPA in Washington to the effect that dealers may sell dressed boards, based on mill ceilings for dressed boards, including the $3.50 and $1.50 increases provided by anrendment 1 to MPR-26, even though these boards rvere made from dimension lumber by the dealers. OPA further states that the price for the end product listed in the regulation prevails, regardless of how it rvas produced. Your attention is callecl to the addition for dry lumber in MPR-26. This may be added even if the lumber is dried in the dealer's yard."

All of which means that under this interpretation a dealer who makes inch Fir boards out of bigger stuff, and dresses it, may charge the dressing price of $3.50 (plus the 3O/o mark-up) ; and may also add the dry lumber charge if he dries it, even though he doeS the drying himself.

Southern California Dealers to Meet in Late Fall

No plans will be made for the annual convention of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association until after the National convention in October, but Secretary-Manager Orrie Hamilton expects that it will take place about the last of November, and plans for a splendid meeting.

Southern Pine Concern First Lumber Manufacturer to Get "E" Award

The first Navy "E" Award for a lumber manufacturing concern, has just been announced. It goes to the Angelina County Lumber Company, of Keltys, Texas.

E. L. Kurth, head of that concern, is one of the outstanding business men of the entire South. Jack Dionne, publisher of The California Lumber Merchant, l-ras been invited to act as Master-of-Ceremonies when the ceremony of arvard takes place, and will leave Los Angeles for Texas as soon as the date is announced.

Northern California Association lssues lmportant Dealer Information

From the office of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California at Fresno comes a bulletin giving the following interesting information to lumber merchants:

Amendment No. I of MPR 215 provides that where lumber is remanufactured AT THE REQUEST OF THE CUSTOMER, charges may be made according to the schedule, EXCEPT where the finished product is standard boartls and dimension. In that case no charges may be made.

Another piece of info: MPR 215 now puts No. 3 Shop, No. 1 and No. 2 Box, and No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3 Dimension in Ponderosa Pine in the lower bracket which provides for a $5 mark-up per thousand and 30 per cent. No. 1 Common Ponderosa Dimension is considered equivalent to No. 3 Ponderosa Boards.

Still another: Amendment No. 5 to MPR 253, regarding Redwood, deletes the paragraph which formerly required persons buying or selling 34,000 pounds or more of Redwood lumber sold as "dry" or "partially dry" to send OPA invoices covering such transactions. This is no longer necessary.

CARL McDOWELL IN NAVY

Carl McDowell of Pope & Talbot, fnc., is now a Lieutenant (J.G.) in the Navy.

llry l(ilns Year Round Production

'?crul Bunycn's" kitns qt Westwood turned orul 221 million leet of lumber in 1942. Mcrnulccture and delivery ccrn thus be carried on at c stecrdy rcrte the yeqr round.

Research and its resulting improvements are giving Bed River better lcrcilities cnd "know-how" Ior postwcrr service.

*PAIIL BIII.IYAN'S" PBODUCTS

Soft Ponderosc and SugG Pine

IT'MBER MOUI.DING PTYWOOD VEIIETIAN BIJIID STATS

San Francisco.

California Redwood Performed Miracles in Rebuilding Hurricane

Damage in Houston-Galveston Are.

Many stories have been told and published concerning the great tropical hurricane that ravaged the HoustonGalveston area on the night of July 28th; and of splendid efforts that have been made by building material people to assist in repairing and rebuilding the storm-damaged territory; but the story of what California Redwood did is a masterpiece

Tremendous damage was done by the wind that sometimes reached 130 miles per hour to structures of all sorts; and no type of building things suffered more than wooden cooling towers. On a'ccount of the very character of their construction they have little to offer a great wind in the way of resistance. So countless small cooling towers all over the storm area were mashed and smashed and knocked around. Likewise some of the very largest ones. And some of the most serious events of this character was the damage to big cooling towers on several of the oil refineries, where they are busily engaged in turning out petroleum products vital to the war effort.

The Fluor Corporation, of Los Angeles, California, is the biggest fabricator of woqden cooling towers in the world. doing an international business of this sort. When the call from several storm-damaged refineries went to Fluor the very night of the storm, they got busy and performed some miracles perhaps never before attempted in that particular line. They jumped their plant operation from 48 to 68 hours per week, and intensified their work. They more than doubled their normal production. They went to fabricating California Redwood into cooling towers of certain specifications, in knock-down form. With Government aid they got express cars almost out of the blue, and they went to

STRESS GRADE LUMBER SPECIFICATIONS

As a result of numerous inquiries, the Conservation Division of WPB announced that printed copies of national emergency specifications for ihe design, fabrication and erection of stress grade lumber and its fastenings for buildings will be available about October 1, 1943.

loading these cars to the roof with this fabricated Redwood material. The storm was the night of Jaly 8th. On July 30th they were already moving express cars loaded with this material toward Houston. By August 13th they had delivered on the various jobs in the storm area SIXI'Y CARLOADS of Redwood cooling tower lumber, all shipped by express. They claim it was the biggest express shipment in the world's history. Besides that, they shipped ten cars by ordinary freight, making a total of seventy carloads of cooling tower lumber, all shipped in fifteen days. In board feet it amounted to about 900,000 feet of lumber. All of it was fabricated and ready for their own crews of men to erect and fit into place. The biggest damage was to the Shell oil refinery. They put fifty-six cars of Redwood into the Shell cooling tower and had it in operation in just three weeks from the time of the storm. Other large oil refineries in that area got the rest of the seventy cars. The sixty cars of express shipped lumber was all delivered in Houston fifteen days after ordered, all cut and fitted and ready for use. The fastest express and passenger trains hauled these shipments.

The miracle was made possible by the fact that they carry in stock at all times great quantities of Redwood lumber from The Pacific Lumber Company, of San Francisco, and with their crews of trained men and their systematized plan of operations, they were able to fabricate and ship this stock in a small fraction of normal time. The Fluor Corporation has its home in Los Angeles, and is headed by Peter Fluor, who built a world-wide business from a shoestring start. Their performance in this hurricane emergency is probably an all time world's record for an industrial efficiency.

HOME ON LEAVE

Capt. Fred Nutter, U. S. Marine Corps, owner of the Nutter Lumber Co., Pomona, Calif., was recently home on a 10-day leave. He has been on active duty since September, 1942, and has been stationed at Dutch Harbor since last October.

BIG NATIONAT ADVER,TISING PR,OGRAM ON Builds Increqsed Sqles for Deqlers

TT's HAppENINc all over the country! Sales of I Celotex Triple-Sealed Roofing are on the upswing. Celotex national advertising is doing a great job in building preference for this roofing among home-owners. One sale leads to another as enthusiastic users recommend Celotex tipleSealed Roofing to their friends.

This is definite proof that the advertising and merchandising program to make Celotex ThipleSealed Roofing the outstanding roofing line in America is well on its way. It is also proof that featuring Celotex Thiple-Sealed Roofing from now on will bring ever-increasing vol"rne and profits your way.

Advertising Thqt's Getting Results

Month after month Celotex national advertising appears in the largest group of publications used by any company in the building industry. These magazines include Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Better Homes and Gardens, House & Garden, House Beautiful, American Home, Parents' Magazine, Country Gentleman, Successful Farming-reaching millions of home-owners, hundreds of them right in your community.

ROOFING . INSULAIING BOARD . ROCK WOO]

GYPSUM WAIL BOARD IATH PI.ASTER

SOUND CONDITIONING PRODUCTS

THE CELOTEX GORPORATIOT{ o GHIGAGO

This tdl-page rati.onal adoertiseme* on Celotetc Tlipte. Scatred Roofing at|e4rs in Octobet. It is o* ol e sqics and demonstrates bout Celotex is lcading tbe ind*stry in bnilding, ptblit interest in baoingtnfing iobs donc aou.

"The Man upstairs brought me down. I talked to Him. I talked to Him plenty. And He must have heard me."

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One of the remarkable statements that has so far come out of this war. Lt. Matthew Vinson said it when he found himself alive "over there," after crash-landing a blazing and stricken bomber from which all others had parachuted. They asked him how he made it, and the above words were his reply. Read them again. There's inspiration in them.

"Parade" says that "r,; "" i-"rr""r, pilot had skidded his plane off the side of an aircraft carrier while taking off, he stuck up a sign on the edge that read: "Soft shoulder." You can't kill that spirit.

And then there were the two American soldiers sightseeing in London, who were walking down Whitehall looking for the War OfEce. They hailed a British Tommy in uniform, and asked: "Which side is the War Office on?" The Tommy looked startled, and answered: "Gorblimey! Ours, f 'opes."

"\11/hat is this Mason-Dixon line, soldier?" asked a rookie from New York of the private from Louisiana. The reply was quick: "It's the dividing line between you-all and youse-guys."

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Natal Mercury tells a swell army story about the American boys in an Italian prison camp where there was a particularly tough and nasty guard. So they conspired against him, and each boy who wrote home mentioned this particular guard, told what a swell fellow he was, and how good he was to the prisoners. Letters are censored, The guard was fired.

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A soldier in New York went into a restaurant and ordered sausage for breakfast. The waitress came back to say that they had none ready, but if he would wait a few minutes the cook would fix some. Just then someone in the kitchen stepped on the tail of a dog. The dog howled. The soldier left.

There was a man who went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among thieves. And along came a guy and gave him a cup of coffee with cream and sugar, and a thick ham sandwich on buttered bread. You've guessed it. That WAS the Good Samaritan.

The boy who can drop a precision bomb with precision is the hero of the battle fronts. And on the home front, it's tlre guy who knows where you can get a good steak.

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The vet of World War One was telling his wide-eyed son about some of his warlike exploits, how he took the gun away from a German and clubbed him with it, took the bayonet from an Austrian and stabbed him with it, took the sword from an Italian and sabred him with it. "Son," he said, "my system is, always fight them with their own weapons." The boy thought that over for a minute, and asked: "But, Dad, how would you sting a wasp?" ***

The fellow who said that two could live as cheaply as one, must have been talking about the farmer and the crow; or the horse and the sparrow. ***

A philosopher is a man who can't enjoy life because he's so busy trying to figure out what it's all about.

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Mose Hawkins, who raises cawn an' taters an' plenty of 'em, says de onlies kine of a 'oman fo' a fahm niggah to marry up wid is a tall, thin one what won't keep de sun offn de cawn an' taters wid huh shadow whilst she's hoein'.

Roping Joe, the cowboy from Wyoming, says that the radio may be fine for lots of folks, but it's about ruined the peace of mind of the cowhands. It learned them plenty of new cowboy songs, Joe says, but the trouble is it showed them that the cowboy talk they been usin' all their lives ain't the real thing, a-tall.

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And then, of course, there was the wag who, when someone asked him how much longer the war was going to last said: "Relax. ft's all over but the shootin'."

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tlefields where the greotest wor in history is being decided-tribute is being poid to o giont. The fighting spirit, the spirit of cooperotion thot is Uncle Som, is living up to its press notices. And the Axis heods ore rolling where they moy! Much of Uncle Som's bottle must be fought here ot home. Moteriols must be pr:ovided for wor industry plonts, giont wor construction projects, for shipyords, oircroft plonts, hospitols, borrocks, militory instollotions of oll kinds. The George E. Reom Compony is in the fight. Wherever construction is o port of the wor effort its "vitol victory moteriols" ore speeding the doy of complete ond losting victory!

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And then there was the boss who called the good-looking new steno in and told her he thought the clothes she wore to work were what might be described as "too little and too late." He suggested that she do something about them. She answered: "A woman's charms are her best weapons in the battle of life." He said, "O.K. Sister, but you'll never be arrested for carrying your weapons concealed." ***

Col. Robert L. Scott, in a new book he has written about ffying with that American hero of heroes, Chennault, in China, tells this priceless tale. He remarked to Chennault one day what a pity it is that we can't just press a button that will kill every Jap on the face of the earth, all at one time. Chennault said: "We don't want to do that. Think of the fun we have killing them slow."

When press reporo U*r*. ln. ,it.,"tion in Germany grows rapidly worse and the Nazis are revolting, someone always questions the truth of the report. I never do. They've always been that way to me. ***

?he barefoot dancing man who got so much painful pub. licity and lost his government job, had many critics, but also some defenders. Someone said: "What if he did dance? King David danced before the Ark of the Cove-

nant." Sure. And King David did many other things, such as murder and wife stealing. Which proves what?

Another good argument against predicting a long, long war, is based on sound economics. Millions of our war workers make a great deal more money now than they ever did before. If they thought the war would end in the near future it might be an incentive to them to save their nloney, buy bonds, and get out of the spending line. Whereas if they thought the war was going on indefinitely it would be human nature to say: "Let's spend this year, and save next."

Speaking of economics (and who, in these days, does not?) the pay-as-you-go income tax brings up numerous interesting situations. For instance, the Treasury Department has furnished employers generally a booklet explaining the tax, and also containing quick reference tables showing the employer at a glance how much to take from the pay of each employee. These figures are not in all cases exact, but are to be equalized at the end of the year when the employee makes out his annual income tax report. However, they do some queer things at the moment. The employee informs the employer of his exemption status regarding marriage and dependents. The employer simply turns to the

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book, looks at the table provided for a person of that status, and the table tells him how much to deduct from the employee's pay. Most employers, esPecially large ones, use this book.

I read the other day where several employees of a firm had petitioned the employer for a REDUCTION of salary, claiming that under the system of pay-as-you-go deduction used they would get more money, net, at a slightly lower salary scale. So I looked to see if this could happen, and sure 'nuf, it not only can but frequently does, no doubt. Take the case of a married man with no children who gets $200 a month. The book says take $23.20 a month from his check, leaving him $176.30. But if he got a salary of $199 a month instead of $20O, the deduction called for ii $tS.zO a month, leaving him $183.80 a month, or $7 more than if his salary was a dollar a month more. While the income tax paJment at the end of the year would adjust this, it is readily understandable that the average employee to whom it happens looks upon the system with dislike, if not suspicion.

A sawmill man reported to me that one of his employees came to him deeply puzzled. He had figured it out that if he had worked one day less in July than he did work, he

Frank White Retires

Announcement is made by the Hammond Lumber Cornpany, San Francisco, of the retirement, effective September 1. of Frank H. White.

Mr. White, who has been with the company for the past 25 yearc, has been in poor health for some time and finds himqelf unable to continue with his work. He is retiring to his home in Alameda. where he will be available for consultation when occasions arise where the company wishes to make use of his knowledge and experience. His many friends will wish him an early recovery.

YES SIR!

would have made more money, net. His conclusion was that he should keep track of such situations, and not work that other day. ft is reported by various employers that their employees are learning to adjust their working time to fit the "deducks."

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In the Southern cities there is recently reported a considerable increase in the number of men looking for work, particularly Negroes. Come to find out many of them have quit high wage industrial jobs because they don't want to pay the pay-as-you-go deductions. I read in a paper a statement by a Treasury man who said various employers reported to him that many men quit the first pay-day the pay-as-you-go deductions started. Employers report that many men seeking work have figured out what their exemptions are, and do not propose to earn a single dollar more than that, so that no deductions for income tax will be taken from their pay. They are rating themselves to stay under the tax level. Soms of them seek only day work for that reason. When they come to the income tax level, they figure they've worked enough for that week.

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And if you don't believe there are worlds of men who would rather make $24 a week and pay no tax than make twice that much and pay it, then you just don't know the psychology of these folks.

Lost Your Keys Mr. L. A. Lumberman ?

Larry Turnbull, the tall young man who represents the Shevlin Pine Sales Company in Los Angeles, phoned in to THE LUMBER MERCHANT office to report that a key container with the Shevlin name on it and two keys inside of it have been found and turned in to his office. He takes it for granted that some lumberman lost it, because of the Shevlin container. So, Mr. Lumberman, if you own the lost keys, phone Turnbull and get them back, courtesy of that young man and THE LUMBER MERCHIANT. Y.ou're welcome. kind sir.

From trees to plcrnes-one oI the mcrny mqrvels oI the lumber industry. The lull story will be told one dcry, crnd when it is we shqll be proud ol the part the industry hcs hcd in the war effort.

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Age not guaranteed---Sone I have told lor 20 years---Some Lers

Those Talking Animals

A couple of years ago the talking animal stories came into favor, and have been cropping up ever since, with just enough changes and variations to keep them funny.

They started with the one about P. T. Barnum, the circus king, finding a talking horse on a farm. The horse told him he'd won the Kentucky Derby. Barnum bought the horse from the farmer, and after getting possession declared him to be the most wonderful horse in history. The farmer said "Mr. Barnum, ydu didn't fall for that lie he tells about winning the Kentucky Derby, did you?"

In a funny movie a short time later two horses are seen talking, when in walks two dogs who are likewise conversing aloud. One horse looked at the other, and remarked: "Imagine ! A talking dog !"

Then there was the old race horse jockey who recognized an old horse pulling an ice wagon as a former famous stake horse he used to ride. He asked the horse if he wasn't

CAMII{O IIUALITY PII{E LUMBER

SUGAR Pll{E and PONDEROSA PIIIE

For the pcrst 40 yecrs our sawmill ct Pino Grande hcrs been turning out good Calilornia pine lumber.

We cre now producing hecvily to sugcr pine lumber lor the needs oI Wcr. Cclilornia sugqr pine lumber is outstcnding lor pqtterns cnd llqsks.

MICHIGAII.CATIFIIRIIIA TUMBER COMPAI{Y

CAMINO, Et DORADO COTINTY, CALIFONMA

Member Western Pine Association

Prince Robert the great runner, and the horse admitted he was; then told his old rider how he had gotten old, his legs had buckled, and so he finally ended up pulling an ice wagon. The jockey was indignant. "I'll find your owner and tell him who you are. I'm sure he wouldn't want one of the greatest horses in history pulling his ice wagon." "Don't do that," the horse begged him. "You don't lmow this guy. If he found out I could talk he'd make me go up and down the street yelling-'Ice !' "

Then there is the one about the drunk who staggered close to a milk wagon horse, and heard the horse say-"Get away from me you drunken bum." The drunk, amazed, asked eu1lsud-"Who said that? Who called me a drunken bum?" A little dog on the curb trlsreyslsd-"It was the horse there; he called you a drunken bum." The drunk drew a sigh of relief, and said as he staggered off: "Okay! Okay! For a moment I thought I was imagining things."

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Walter Scrim Has Three Sons in Uncle Samts Service in Pacific

Walter G. Scrim has three sons-his entire crop-in the service of Uncle Sam. all of them somewhere in the I'acific Ocean. The oldest son, Robert, is a Lieutenant Junior Grade in the Navy. The other two, George and Alexander, are twins. George is a Cadet Midshipman in the Merchant Marine, and is on ship training in the Pacific somewhere. Alexander is purser on a \Mar Shipping Administration ship, also in tl-re Far East somewhere.

Walter Scrim, as is rvell known, is a veteran Philippine Mahogany man who retired from that line of business for the duration the day the Japs struck the Philippines. While such things are, of course, uncertain, he hears by the grapevine that the mill he represented, that of the Findlay-Millar Timber Company, is being operated by the Japs; also that the very large plant of the Insular Lumber Company is being operated. These are two of the largest and most modern mills on the Islands, and it is reasonable to suppose that with their great need for lurnber for war purposes, the Japs are using them for lumber making.

Mr. Scrim had two retail lumber yards in the San Fernando Valley outside Los Angeles, one at Van Nuys and one at Encino. He has closed the Van Nuys yard and solcl the property, but is doing a land office business at Encino, the yard being on the Ventura Highway. Here he sells everything anyone can think of except ice cream sodas, ancl is getting by in great shape. "f am iunning the yard just as you have been advocating in your Lumber Merchant editorials," says Mr. Scrim, "and we are getting fine results. We sell anything and everything our local trade wants or needs, regardless of how little related it seems to be to a regular retail lumber business. But we are getting by nicely by so doing."

IO PER CENT INCREASE ANNOUNCED FOR MAPLE. BIRCH AND BEECH FLOORING

A flat 10 per cent increase in basic mill prices for Maple, Birch and Beech flooring sold by mills in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota was announced September 2 by the OPA. The price advance is authorized in Amendment No. 1 to MPR No. 432, and becomes effective September 8, 1943.

Douglas Fir White Fir

How Things Have Changed!

From the standpoint of the retail lumber dealer, lumber things have changed as much in California as the gal did who left home a decided brunette and came back a platinum blonde. No, friends, things aren't the same as they used to be in the good old days "befo' de wah." And the lumber dealer who is able to spend no more than half of his time doing head work and hand work both of a kind he never dreamed of in days gone by, is a lucky guy. The successful dealer must be more than a skillful merchant. fle must be an economic and commercial and industrial tight-rope walker of the finest sort. We used to say that the successful lumber merchant had to be "on his toes." He still does; but his toes are on a tight-wire stretched high up. The day of the salesman has gone. And the day of the procurer has come. And the dealer who succeeds in procuring sufficient lumber to keep his business top side up these days, deserves a medal for management.

Just a few thoughts to illustrate the point. Take Southern California in particular. This was by long standing a rough green lumber market. Most of the Fir lumber the dealers purchased came by water from tidewater mills not equipped to season and surface their product like most rail mills do. Southern California dealers could handle that rough, green stock because most of them had storage space for air-drying and the facilities for further manufacturing or at least dressing. And those who did not could secure such services from the larger distributing yards. Before the war this water-borne green lumber came to the dealers of this territory at a much lesser transportation rate than rail mills had to pay for bringing in dry lumber. Just prior to the beginning of the war, however, a considerable amount of small dimension was coming in in green 2 inch thickedge /a inch off, hit or miss, and a small amount came in S4S green-not at a saving in freight for the dealers but in order that more footage could be stored in the lumber vessels to help the owners meet mounting operating costs.

Today this district faces an entirely different situation. A very small amount of lumber is coming to Southern California by water. The freight rate is about double the prewar rate. Because there are few lumber vessels left in operation on this coast the great bulk of lumber that is coming in is rough and green, comes by rail, and because of its great weight the freight cost is terrific. Most of what the dealer can get his hands on is in unsalable sizes larger than the boards and dimension for which he and his trade longs. The Administrator for the government will not release to these dealers more than ten per cent of each shipment in boards, 4 inch dimension, and 6 inch dimension, which means that they must take at least 70 per cent of the lumber they can get in large dimension, timbers, planks, and uppers, most of which must be remanufactured to more or less extent to be salable and usable. And most of this remanufacture has to be done on old slow-speed machinery which comprises the average equipment owned by or available to the dealer.

As this is written there has been a considerable slabken-

By Jack Dionne

ing in the market for green, rough Fir timbers (with the exception of stringer sizes), and the dealer is being offered such stock more freely and in greater quantity than at any time since the emergency began. A man on the outside looking in would promptly jump to the conclusion that all the dealer has to do now is to buy plenty of this available material, rip or resaw it into the smaller sizes desired by his trade, and get started doing business with a bang. But now the present price ceilings raise their threatening heads. For the ceiling on timbers is higher than the ceiling on boards and dimension which may be ripped from these larger units. So every time the dealer cuts a timber down, he cuts down the price he can charge for the sizes he is creating. And what is more, the present regulations do NOT permit him to add the cost of ripping, resawing, or remanufacturing. Thus, if a dealer ripped some 6x6's into boards or 2 inch dimension, he cuts down the sales price of every foot of material, and is out whatever it costs him to do the machining.

This situation, of course, absolutely prohibits any wholesaler from indulging in any such habit as buying timbers and cutting them up small and selling them, because he can add nothing for his expense, and he must sell for the lower ceiling prices of the smaller sized items. But the dealer, on the other hand (or even on the same hand if you like it better that way) CAN do such merchandising if he wants to. And right now plenty of them DO. For while the dealer loses something on the price of the stock when it is cut up and also must go to the expense of the ripping or resawing, he has the advantage of his retail mark-up, and the recent increase in the retail mark-up has in reality put a lot of dealers back in the lumber business who have practically been on the cold outside for some time past.

SO TODAY \VE FIND a world of dealers buying rough, green Fir timbers coming in by rail, paying the tremendous freight charges on the 33(X) pound per thousand stock, resawing, ripping, dressing, and even kiln-drying the reducedsize lumber, absorbing all that cost and then selling it to their trade. Many of them claim that the margin of profit remaining from the retail mark-up is practically swallowed up by the increased costs; but they have the satisfaction of keeping their business going, and supplying some of their customer needs. ft is reported on the best authority that all of the commercial dry kilns and resawing and remanufacturing plants in Southern California are working day and night trying to keep up with the demand. A whale of a business is being done in this way. The streets are filled with trucks hauling lumber from retail yards to remanufacturing or kiln drying plants; and then hauling the worked lumber back.

One thing can be said: it is getting considerable lumber to people who need it and have previously not been able to get it; and it has put some life back in the retail lumber game.

The retail lumbermen of California are at this moment striving through their associations to bring pressure to bear

on the authorities at Washington to permit them to add the cost of resawing, ripping, and remanufacturing big and usable items of lumber into smaller and practical items. Up to this moment this is forbidden, so long as the items into which the timbers are reduced are standard lumber items. But a dealer may accept a service of cutting large stuff into smaller items of any kind that are not standard lumber items and therefore covered by a price ceiling, and charge for that service. The biggest thing the dealers of this territory are hoping for now is a revised order that will permit them to charge for remanufacturing. They are likewise clamoring through their associations for an equalization of the ceiling prices on small timbers with those of boards and dimension, so that they can rip timbers into boards and dimension without losing ceiling values. They don't care whether the price of the timbers is lowered, the price of the small stock is increased, or a little of each; but they hope for equalization.

This is all we have room for now. We'll talk about this more later.

National Retail Convention in Chicago in October

The annual convention of Dealers Association will be 18 and 19. Quite a number are expected to attend.

the National Retail Lumber held in Chicago, 1I1., October of California lumber dealers

HEADQUARTERS

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MANTTFACTI'RERS, PBODUCERS

AIID DISTRIBT'TONS|

BASIC BT'IIDING MATERIALS

PRODUCTS Quality

PLASTER, cll types, ACOUSTICOAT GYPSUM TIIE" CI.AY PNODUCTS

POBTLAI{D CEMEI{L crll other tlpes

TRANSIT - MIXED CO NCRETE

REINFOBCING STEET and MESH

ROCK d SAND, crll SPECIFICATIONS

cotoRED sTuccos, BnusHcoAT

IIME PUTTY, LIME, crll types

TATHING MATERIALS, all types

PIASTER, WOOD, METAL IATH

PI.ASTER BOARD, T & G STIEATTTING CHANNET IRON, STEET STUDS STUCCO MESH. TIE WIRE

ROOFING, PAPEB, NAILS, qll trpes

INSIII.AflON and WATERPROOFING SPECIALTIES

PLYPANELS-PLYFORM-PLYWALL

Seruice

Teco Metal Timber connsctors make it possible to ioin wood m€mbers; utilirc 80% ot mole oI the working strength ot wood.

Modern structural glues mak€ possible Glued Laminated wood roof trusses. arches, plybeams and other struct!ral members.

Glu€d wood laminated framing members combine rool ard sidewall in a unit, givinS stronger, more wind-resistant buildings.

.N€w Drmesses lor the treatmenl ol wood extond its service life, broaden its uses, and incr€ase iis value in many fields,

Lamber

gives stronger slructures of lower cosl

IN rnrsr soy bean storage bins wood again demonstrates its wide adaptability as a structural material that delivers the finest type of storage it the lowest cost Per bushel.

The development of modern structural glues made possible the fabrication of srong laminated wood bands. These bands were engineered to meet the load requirements. As the Pressure decreases at the top of the bins the number of plys in the bands are reduced. The wide, laminated wood bands in tension provide adequate resistance to bursting Pressures. Their broad bearing surfaces permit the use of relatively thin (tVainches) Douglas Fir flooring applied vertically which forms rigid walls and saves material.

The frame work supporring the conveyor housing, which extends along the top of the bins, consists of two timber Teco connected trusses. The span is forty-seven feet between the supports.

Advances that have been made in better and more economical use of lumber through wood lamination and the Teco connector system of construction, are well demonsuated in these bins. This cylindrical storage offers more cubage per linear foot of wall than any other type of structure.

Engineering in lumber will continue to broaden the field for lumberbuilt structures, because it will bring to our Peace-time needs better and more economical methods of building with wood.

3truilO tN TODAY'g tlltxlt-Today, more than in any other period, the home owner and farmer are more fully aware of the imponance of maintenance and repair. Notwithsanding the less than normal flow of lumber for civilian requirements, it is still serving these essential markets. Lumber used alone or in combination with other materials, will help you serve in many ways your city and farm customers.

DANIEL WEBSTER ON WASHINGTON

The following belongs in every scrapbook. It is part of Daniel Webster's eulogy of George Washington:

"Other misfortunes may be borne, or their effects overcome. If disastrous wars should sweep our commerce from the ocean, another generation may renew it; if it exhaust our treasury, future industry may replenish it; if it desolate and lay waste our fields, still, under a new cultivation, they will grow green again, and ripen to future harvests.

"It were but a trifle even if the walls of yonder Capitol were to crumble, if its lofty pillars should fall, and its gorgeous decorations be all covered by the dust of the valley. All these may be rebuilt.

"But who shall reconstruct the fabric of demolished government?

"Who shall rear again the well-proportioned columns of constitutional liberty?

"Who shall frame together the skillful architecture which unites national sovereignty with State rights, individual security, and public prosperity?

"No, if these columns fall, they will not be raised again. Like the Coliseum and the Parthenon, they wilt be destined to a mournful and melancholy immortality. Bitterer tears, however, will flow over them than ever were shed over the monuments of Roman or Grecian art; for they will be the monuments of a more glorious edifice than Greece or Rome ever saw; the edifice of constitutional American liberty."

I EXPECT NO MIRACLES TO FOLLOW VICTORY

A man to achieve anything in life will still need to live by the sweat of his brow. Life will still be rain with sunshine; pain with pleasure. There will be greed to check and evil to curb. We shall not impose a way of life upon other people. But, under God, a man who wants freedom, a man anywhere, can have our hand in help.-Gabriel Heatter.

Bill: "If f had some coffee I'd make some iced coffee, if I had some ice."

Jill: "Yes, and if you had some grass you could make yourself some butter-if you had a cow and a churn.',

DIFFERENT

Lieutenant: (Roaring with rage) "Who in the hell told you to put those flowers on the table, Corporal?"

Corporal: "The Colonel, Sir."

Lieutenant: "Lovely, aren't they?"

IN THE ARMY

Every office boy who is going into the army usually says: "Wow, I'd like to get my boss under me as a private, ifIbecameasergeant."

Well, among the people who are sergeants and have under them individuals whom they didn't like in civilian life, are the following:

A taxicab driver from Brooklyn has under him a policeman who gave him a lot of tickets for parking violations; a man from Missouri has under him his ex-wife's husband; a young lad who flunked chemistry has under him his chemistry teacher; a wrestler, barred from working in Kansas, has under him the referee who barred him for kicking his opponent in the eye.-Parade.

IN BALLYMORE

The boys go down to Ball5rmore to meet the lassies there, They love the sparkle of their eyes, the fragrance of their hair;

And O your heart would tingle as they dance upon the green, Each happy lad from Sheela and his beautiful colleen.

The boys go down from Sheela and there,s laughter all the wxY'

For all the girls of Ballymore are glamorous and gay, And when the dance is finished sure their hearts are founts of bliss,

For no one goes from Ballymore without a lassie's kiss.

I loved the town of Ballymore a score of years ago, My feet were always itching and my heart was all aglow, Whenever Sunday came around and all the chores were done,

And I could go to Ballymore to meet the ..lovely one.,'

I loved the town of Ballymore, but little joy it gave, Within its little churchyard there's an ivy-covered grave, And on a slab of marble there,s a name-my very own_

And O a mother and her babe are sleeping neath the stone.

I have no heart for rollicking since Mary went away, She's sleeping in her wedding dress beneath the mounded cIay,

And O it's f'll be lonesome and my heart exceeding sore, Tilt I shall sleep beside her in the sod of Ballymore. -T.E.B. in Chicago Tribune.

C PA Holds Auctions in Pine Districts Jack Daushertv Will Build

A series of meetings has been held by the Central Procuring Agency in conjunction with the War Production Board, in the \Mestern Pine producing districts.

Restrictive orders, directives, credits, and other subjects were discussed at the meetings and the CPA offered for placement as much of their current requirements as could be placed.

Present at the meetings representing the lumber brancl-r of the WPB was Huntington Taylor of Washington, D. C.; and Major W. M. Porter and James F. Mahoney, representing the CPA.

The meetings were held on the following dates: San Francisco, September 3; Klamath Falls, September 7; Portland, September 10; Spokane, September 14.

Y eneer Plant in Log Angelet

A. Jack Daugherty, head of the Hoosier Veneer Company, of Indianapolis, fndiana, has been spending most of his time in Los Angeles recently and is making active preparations to build and operate a modern veneer plant in Los Angeles. The site has been secured, the equipment is being secured and assembled, and Mr. Daugherty has rented a home and is getting ready to spend most of his time here. He is one of the nation's best known veneer manufacturers. His plans in building this Southern California plant are largely built on postwar expectations. He looks for wonderful development in the use of hardwood veneers in this territory when the war ends.

OPA Answers a Lot of lmportant Retail Lumber Questions Propounded bv Orrie Hamilton

California retail lumber dealers, struggling with the vital problem of getting lumber for their customers, have been firing questions of all sorts at Orrie Hamilton, SecretaryTreasurer of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association. Those he can answer get quick action. Those he cannot, he turns in to the authorities for enlightenment. A number of tough ones that have had the dealers scratching their heads having accumulated recently, he put them into terse shape and sent them in pronto to Peter A. Stone, Price Executive of the Lumber Branch of OPA in Washington.

Stone's reply was unusually prompt, and arrived in abouL ten days from the time the queries were put in the mail. Since all of these questions and replies are of direct interest to practically all retail lumber dealers, THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT is glad to reprint them for your information, and Mr. Stone made it easy for us by repeating each question and then answering each in its turn. Here they are:

Question 1(a). Where a dealer stocks 4x6 rough greerr lumber, may he base his selling price on prices and estimated average weights in the applicable mill regulation lor the size of rough green 4x6s and add his local surfacing charges as provided in Revised Maximum Price Regulation No. 215, when, after he receives the order, he is required to remanufacture that lumber into 2x6 S4S stock?

Answer 1(a). The end product being a standard size (2x6 S4S) he may not add any milling charges. He must base his price on the f.o.b. mill price and his inbound freight f.or 2x6 in the species and grade and weights listed in the applicable regulation.

Question 1(b). When a dealer purchases rough green clears and he stores that lumber in his yard for seasoning, may he base his price on the applicable mill regulation for the size of lumber he received and the weight of rough green clears and add the local milling charges as provided in Maximum Price Regulation No. 215 when he remanufactures that lumber into casing, base, flooring, finish, etc. ?

Answer (1)b. He must base his price and weights on the end product as listed in the applicable regulation unless the end product is non-standard or larger than boards and dimension. He may add milling charges only where the end product is substandard or larger than boards and dimension or the lumber is worked to special patterns.

Question 1(c). Does the senterice in sub-paragraph (6) of Section 10(a) ". Under any condition, these charges may not be added to produce any item of boards or dimension in standard sizes or sizes reasonably similar thereto, shown in the applicable regulation," apply only to the charges for ripping and resawing?

Answer 1(c). No. This applies to any type of millirig, where the end product is a standard size, pattern, or item.

Question(i). Does the term "boards and dimension" apply only to the common grades ?

Answer (i). No. Applies to any grade where the end product is not larger than the sizes described in Section lo(a) (a) Gi), (2 in. and thinner, 12 in. and narrower and 24 f.t. and shorter).

Question 2(a). What is meant by the term "outgauging" in Section 10(a) under Maximum Milling Charges?

Answer 2(a). Outgauging is the tapering the full length of one or more sides to a bevel as in a bevelled sleeper.

Question 2(b). Under Section 15, are dealers require<l to make out a sales ticket on each and every cash sale, regardless of size and include the name and address of the buyer, etc. ?

Answer 2(b). Yes, except cash sales of $10 or less.

Question 2(c). May a dealer use his March, 1942, "setup" charge when he is required to set-up his sticker or shaper to produce small quantities of special mounted patterns to meet the buyer's specifications ?

Answer 2(c). No. The table in revised Maximum Price Regulation No. 215 sets specific charges for working to special patterns.

Question 2(d). May a dealer use his March, 1942, price for work or service performed by him such as adzing, bandsawing, boring, dadoing, square-but including cutting to exact specified lengths, tapering or diagonal ripping, sanding, scalloping, pressure treating, including Wolmanizing, zinc chloride, creosoting, etc. ?

Answer 2(d). No. Where special specifications, workings or extras are not provided for in the regulation, seller must write to this office for a price as required in Section 25 of Revised Maximum Price Regulation No. 215.

Question 2(e). Where a dealer performs work or services which are not covered by Revised Maximum Price Regulation No. 215 on lumber, the sale of which is controlled thereby, may he apply the rules relative to caslr discounts contained in Section 16(b), (1) which provides that no discount over 2 per cent is considered a cash discount ?

Answer 2(e). Yes. All speeial services are controlled by Revised Maximum Price Regulation No. 215 and cash discount provisions are a part of the regulation.

Question (f). When a dealer purchases rough green clears, may he base his selling price on the applicable mill weight and prices for rough green clears and add his loca! mill and drying charges when he seasons and remanufactures that lumber into casing, base, finish, etc.

Answer (f). Drying and milling fir clears at distribution yards yard must base prices and weights basis end product sold as listed Maximum Price Regulation 26 unless end product is nonstandard or larger than dimension as defined in revised Maximum Price Regulation 215, Sec. 10 (4) (11).

Reaching Your Prospects Through Their Pocketbooks

In advertisements like this, we are telling businessmen, Governnent and induskial executves, architects and builders how Wolmanizsd Lumber* is saving time and money on all kinds oI conshuction. You'll certainly profit by the interest aroused.

Wolmanized Lumber is 61dina1y wood made hiShly resistant to decay and termite attack by vacuum-pressure impregnation with Wolrnan Salb* preservative, the "alloying ingredient". Be prepared to push the sale ef rhis treated lumber for poetwar usee. American Lumber & Treating Company, 1648 McCormick Bldg., Chicago 4, IlI.

'Regfutered trad+narb

Captain Afexand et A. McKenzie

.Captain Alexander A. McKenzie, master of The Pacific Lumber Company's S.S. Scotia when this vessel rvas plying in the lumber trade up and down the West Coast, passed away at sea on August 3 from a heart attack and was buried at sea.

Captain l\{cKenzie retired from sea duty after The pacific Lumber Company discontinued its coastwise service, but was commissioned a Captain in the U. S. Navy after this country entered World War II, and again went to sea as an active master.

He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, 57 years ago, and was known to his intimates as "Red Lead." He went to sea at the age of 14 and some years later came to San Francisco, where he made his home.

Captain McKenzie has also served as master for the Standard Oil Company, the old Oceanic Company, and the Matson Naviagation Company. During World I he saw active duty in the Navy as a Lieutenant Commander.

He is survived by his wife, Sara, and a son, Robert J,, Lieutenant Commander, U. S. Navy.

Retaifers' Committee Meets in S. F.

A meeting of the nominating committee of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California was held in the Palace lfotel, San Francisco, September 3, for the purpose of nominating the officers and directors of the Association, who will be elected at the annual meeting in October.

The following attended: Joe Rodgers, Square Deal Lumber Co., Salinas, chairman; E. S. McBride, Davis Lumber Co., Davis; Frank Minard, C. S. Pierce Lumber Co., Fresno; Al Stockton, A. L. Stockton Lumber Co., Daly City; Eddie Brush, Loop Lumber Co., San Fran,cisco, and Secretary Bernard B. Barber, Fresno.

George Carpenter Visit3 California and Interviews Lumber Trade

George Carpenter has been a recent visitor in California. He spent several days in Northern California visiting many of the prominent lumbermen and looking over the building and lumber situation, and several days in Los Angeles. Here he was the guest of Orrie Hamilton who arranged his schedule and guided him about. He met many of the leading lumbermen of Southern California. He left for Washington to be there a week or so, and will then return to his present headquarters in Portland, Oregon.

Mr. Carpenter, as Administrator of L218 is a person of great importance to the lumbermen of the West in general, and California in particular. His home is in the New England states, he was'moved to Washington when he joined the Government lumber service, and has been stationed in Portland for about a year, and will be there indefinitely. He is a genial and sympathetic student of lumber and building, able and willing to grasp the essentials of conditions as they are presented to him.

Ecrl Heber Manages Stcnton Sales

LeRoy Stanton announces that effective at once Earl Heber has been promoted from the sales department of E. J. Stanton & Son to the position of sales manag'er, working directly under Mr. Stanton. Mr. Heber has been with Stanton eighteen months, previous to which he has had twenty-five years expeiience in lumber and building material sales. He knows the Southern California building trade well, and has many friends in the industry.

WITH McDUFFEE LUMBER SALES CORP.

B. R. (Barnie) Garcia, who has been with Larsson Traffic Service, San Francisco, for the past 18 years, became associated with McDuffee Lumber Sales Corporation, Monadnock Building, San Francisco, September l.

Port Orford Cedar

(Alro Laown cr llVhttc Codcr or Lqrron C}!res)

UICTl| R High Early Sttength

PORTTANID GEMENT

Gucrrcnteed lo meet or dxceed requirements ol Americcm Society lor Testing Mcrtericrls Speciliccrtions lor High Ecrly Strength Portlcnd Cement, qs well crs Federcl Speciliccrtions lor Cement, Portlcnd, Hish-Ecrly-Strength, No. E-SS-C-201 a.

IIGH DANI.Y STNDilGTH

(28 dcy concrete strengths ia 2tl hours.)

SUI,PHATE RDSISTATIT

(Result ol compound composition crnd usucrlly lound only in specicrl cenents desigmed lor this purpose.)

MIIUDIUIU DXPAIT$0II and C0tfTRACTt0tl

(Extremely severe <ruto-clcrve test results consistently indiccrte prccticclly no expcnsion or contrcrction, thus elimincrting one oI most dif{icult problems in use oI c high ecrly sbength cement.)

PAGf,ED IIN MOISTURI - PNOOT GRDEII PAPIR SACT

(Users' qssurcrnce oI lresh stock, unilormity cnd proper results lor concrete.)

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o Birch lrom Canadr and Wisconsin

o Oak from the Appalachians

o Spruce and Fir from the Northwest

o Western Pine from Oregon and Califomia

o Mahogany, Balsa and Lignum Vitae from Tropical America

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All 0vsr the lTorld

Next time you pay a visit to a well-equipped swimming pool anywhere on the North American continent, or later on, abroad, take a good look at the springboard. You will find that in most cases it will bear on its side the well known name of the Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., 5th and Bran. nan Streets, San Francisco. And the springboard will be the famous "Brandsten" International and Intercollegiate Official Springboard, designed by Ernst Brandsten, outstanding authority on aquatic sports, and Hugh W. Hand' ley, sales manager of Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co.

This board has been adopted by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the Amateur Athletic Association o{ the United States and its affiliates, the Federation Internationale de Natation as the official International and Intercollegiate springboard.

It is officially used wherever competitive diving meets are held in the United States or abroad. It was the only springboard equipment used at the Antwerp Olympic Games, l92O; the Paris Olympic Games, 19241' the Amsterdam Olympic Games, 1928; the Los Angeles Olympic Games, 1932, and, the Berlin Olympic Games, 1936.

It is a one-piece board, 3 inches thick, 20 inches wide, and in both 14 ft. and 16 ft. lengths, made from strictly clear Douglas Fir. The grain of the board is dense and vertical, and the board is specially oil treated and tested.

In order to give the board even greater efficiency Mr. Brandsten developed the automatic adjustable fulcrunr, which was also designed by himself and Mr. Handley.

From a standing position on the springboard the individual performer can instantly adjust the fulcrum by a flip of the foot on the wheel. In this way the board can be made as rigid or limber as the height of take-off requires for the performer's particular weight and style. In this way performers of different weights suffer no disa.dvantage

The board is distributed throughout the world by Vau Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co. lVlany years of experience have gone into the selection, testing and fabricating of the wood used in the Brandsten springboard, with the result that this firm enjovs an enviable reputation that is world-wide.

Since the beginning of the war civilian orders for the springboards have been replaced almost entirely by orders for the equipment of pools for the armed forces in military and naval camps all over the United States and in many foreign countries.

This firm has always maintained heavy stocks of the upper grades of every species of lumber manufactured on the West Coast, and for many years has shipped special items of lumber to many foreign countries in both hemispheres.

At one time Scott & Van Arsdale, predecessors of the present company, owned the McCloud River Lumber Co., McCloud, Calif., manufacturers of Ponderosa and Sugar Pine. Scott & Van Arsdale, owned by Matt Harris and W. W. Van Arsdale, started in business at sth & Brannan Streets in 1886, and were succeeded by Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., Inc., in 1906 after the San Francisco earthquake and fire.

M. A. Harris, president of the company, has been on the job constantly since 1894. Frank H. Harris, vicepresident, started with the company in 1890. Hugh W. Handley, sales manager, has been there since 1901, and W. Wallace Bovyer, general superintendent, since 1900.

This company's slogan, "Need Lumber Quick-A Carload or a Stick," is widely known, and in normal times was an accurate description of the kind of service rendered by them. They have specialized in all industrial requirements ancl have been jobbers of hard-to-get grades and sizes. Now, of course, their business is practically 100 per cent connected with war needs, and as always they have been doing a good job.

Ernst Brcndston (lelt) cnd H. W. Handley, Designere ol the Boqrd aud llutomqtic, Adiueicble Fulcrun.

WPB Establishes Control Over \(/ood Products Machinery and Equipment

Control over the distribution and manufacture of logging, lumber, and wood products machinery and equipment is established by General Limitation Order L-311 issued August 27 by the War Production Board. Among the types of machinery covered by the order are dry kilns and redriers, machinery for logging, saw and planing mills, veneer and plywood products, wood containers, and general woodworking machinery and equipment. Full listing of machinery and equipment covered is given in Schedule A, attached to the order.

Purchase orders for machinery having a producer's list price of over $350 on October 15,1942 (designated as Class I) are restricted to those authorized by WPB. Application for authorization and preference rating is made by the purchaser on Form WPB-3131. Exempted from the authorization provision are purchase orders which are: (1) for machinery to be used directly by the Army, Navy, Maritime Commission or War Shipping Administration; (2) placed by a producer or dealer to fill authorized orders actually received, or to replace machinery delivered from inventory to filI authorized orders, or (3) included in preference ratings assigned under authorization to begin construction work (Form WPB-617, formerly PD-200.)

Purchase orders for machinery valued at $350 or less, by a producer's list price on October t5, 194?, (designated as Class II), are restricted to those with preference ratings of AA-5 or higher. Dealers' inventories of Class II machinery are limited to five of any one size or type irrespective of manufacturing make.

Effective date for restriction's on purchase orders is September 11.

Sccrcunento Hoo-Hoo Club

Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club held a dinner meeting September 9, in cooperation with Hoo-Hoo Clubs and districts throughout the country which have been requested by International Hoo-Hoo to celebrate Hoo-Hoo Day in this manner. LeRoy Miller, Burnett & Sons, Sacramento, is president of the club, and Russell Tracy, Tracy Lumber & Supply Co., Sacramento, is secretary.

HOGA]I TUNBER GO.

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OlFlCE. MII.L TTND AND DOCTS 2nd 6 Alice Sts., Oclclcrnd GLorcourl 6881

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Distributors ol Pacific Coast Forest Products

Forest Conservation

Featu res \(/estern Pine

Annual

Meetings

Forest conservation and tree farming held the spotlight ficient system of fire protection, that 95 per cent of Western at the Western Pine Association's semi-annual meetings at Pine cut-over lands are restocking satisfactorily, that memthe Palace Hotel, San Francisco, August 19. The show was ber company lands are left with adequate seed trees, and put on by Chairman J. F. Daggett and his Conservation that an increasing number of companies are giving considCommittee, assisted by the Association's five-man forest eration to the continued production possibilities of their engineering staff, which is headed by Stuart Moir, Associa- holdings. tion forester. State chairmen also reported upon the State forestry leg-

The Western Pine industry has conducted a well organ- islation which the industry is supporting in order to be sure ized and adequately financed forestry program for the past that occasional backward operators be required to follo\,\' ten years. Reporting to the Association's forest conserva- the sound forest practices which the industry has developed tion committee are separate forest practice committees for and found to be reasonable and practical.

Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California and Ari- The Association's forest engineers, in their answers to zona-New Mexico. Working closely with the forest prac- Chairman Daggett's questions, told of the work they are tice committees and individual operators are forest engi- doing to help individual operators practice better forestry. neers headquartered at Missoula, Montana; Yakima, Wash- Many operators employ their own foresters, of course, but ington; Portland and Klamath Falls, Oregon; and Sacra- the Association men, being familiar with methods and conmento, California. ditions over a wide area, often are able to suggest changes

The presentation to the industry representatives at San which will result in improved forest conditions rvithout Fran'cis'co was in the form of a roundtable discussion. with greatly increasing production costs. They realize that good Chairman Daggett interrogating State forest practice com- forestry must be based upon sound enonomics, a considermittee chairmen regarding the forestry problems in their tion too often lost sight of by Government agencies. respective areas, the self-imposed rules of operation under Another recent forward step coming up for further conwhich these problems are being met, and the plans for still sideration at the meeting was the Tree Farm Program, unfurther improving conditions under which a second crop der which operators who adopt the policy of adequately of timber is being grown on lands from which ripe or over- protecting their timber lands and keeping them in private ripe timber is being harvested for lumber, nearly the entire ownership for the continuous production of merchantable output of which now goes for war and only the most essen- forest crops may have their holdings certified as M/estern tial civilian uses. Pine Tree Farms. Already nearly a million acres have been

Discussion brought out the facts that the industry is so certified and it is expected that another million will be spending more than a million dollars a year on a very ef- added before the end of 1943.

Secried, lelt to right! E. C. Bettig, Potlqtch Forests, !rc., Lewiston, Idcbo; Swili Berry, Michig_cn-Cclilornic lumber Co., Ccmino, Cqlil.,. 8. A. Cotgcn, tr., Dicrmond Mctch Compcny, chico, cclil.; l. F. Dcggeit, Alexander-yawley Lumber co., prineville, ore.; B. R. Mcccrtney, Weyerhcreuser Tirnber Co- Klamcth Fqlls, Ore.,. T. P. Gclcrgher, New Mexico Timber Conpcny, Berncrlillo, N. M. Stcnding: C. V. Zccyer, Westem Pine Associciion, Sccramento, Cclil.; Curtis E. Price, Wegtera Pine Associction, Klamcth Fcrll+ Ore.; George H. Schroeder, Western Pine Associction, Yqkimcr, Wcsh.,' Stcrnley Hodgmcn, Weglern Pine Asgocicttioa. Misgoulo, Mont.; Siucrt Moir, Weslern Pine Associclion, Portlcnd; Kenneth R. Wclker, Red River Lumber Co., Westwood, Cclil.; E. T. F. Woblenberg, Edward Hines Lumber Corrpcny.

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WAR-USE MAHOGANY REQUIREMENTS

Requirements for war-use Mahogany during the remainder of 1943 will be met with a safe margin unless unforeseen shipping and weather conditions interfere with anticipated imports. This conclusion, based on accurate supply and demand figures, was reported to the War Production Board's Mahogany Importer-Manufacturers Industry Advisory Committee at its recent meeting in Washington.

WESTERN PINE

Amendment 6 to MPR 94, announced September 1 by the OPA, and effective September 7, authorizes producers of Western Pine lumber in Arizona and New Mexico to add $3.00 per 1000 board feet to basic maximum prices of 12 specific grades and sizes of material sold under War Production Board Limitation Order L-DO.

VISIT NORTHWEST

Paul Penberthy and Mrs. Penberthy, Penberthy Lumber Co., Los Angeles, returned recently from a trip to the Pacific Northwest, made in connection with the purchase of aircraft lumber, in which this company specializes.

Misg Pritzlaff Joins Wrcs

Miss T. Pritzlaff, ot and is now taking her the Middle West. The lady well, as she was Scrim in his Philippine as one of the lumber this territory.

Los Angeles, has joined the Wacs boot camp training somewhere in hardwood trade knows this youug for many years assistant to W. G. Mahogany business, and was known industrv's most efficient women in

AMENDMENT 27 TO MPR 165

Services of inspecting and grading lumber have been placed under the specific coverage of MPR No. 165 (Services), the OPA announ,ced. Previously ceilings for these services were determined under the General Maximum Price Regulation. Amendment No. 27 became effective August n, t943.

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C. H. White, r'ice-president and general manager ol White Brothers, San Francisco, and Mrs. White left August 29 to attend their daughter Shirley's wedding in New Jersey to Lieut. John Dudley Dozier, Jr., U. S. A. From there they traveled to Miami, Fla., to visit their son Don, who is a Lieutenant (J.G.) in the Navy, and is stationed there. After their Florida visit they returned to Nerv York and went on to Chicago, where they will attend the hardwood industry rvar conference, September 16 and 17, sponsored by the National Hardwood Lumber Association. They u'ill be gone about four weeks.

P. R. Kahn of Forsyth Hardu'ood Co., San Francisco, left September 5 on a business trip to Memphis, Tenn., and Louisville, Ky., and Chicago, where he will attend the war conference of the National Hardwood Lumber Association, September 16 and 17. He will be back about September 20.

Willard La Franchi, manager of the Fresno distributing yard of Hill & Morton, Inc., has returned from Oregon, where he called on a number of sawmills.

George C. Cornitius, George C. Cornitius Hardwood Co., San Francisco, will be in attendance at the war conference of the National Hardwood Lumber Association. to be held in Chicago, September 16 and 17. He will also call on mills in Virginia and West Virginia, and rvill visit Washington, D. C.

Nelson E. Jones, Jr., son of Nelson wood Co., San Francis'co, enlisted in tember 3.

E. Jones, Jones Hardthe Coast Guard Sep-

Bob Raymer, Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco, has returned from a trip on which he ,called on the firm's Pine sawmill connections in Northern California and Oregon.

Nelson E. Jones, Jones Hardwood Co., San Francisco, left a r.veek ago on a business trip to Washington, D. C., Memphis and Chicago. He is accompanied by Mrs. Jones and will attend the hardrvood industry war conference of the National Hardwood Lumber Association at the La Salle Hotel, Chicago, September 16 and 17.

Lieutenant-Commander Henry N. Anderson of the Naval Procurement Office, Portland, was a recent visitor to San Francisco and Los Angeles.

H. W. Irwin, Irwin & Lyons, lumber manufacturers, North Bend, Ore., was a San Francisco visitor early this month. He made his headquarters at the office of J. E. Peggs, Northern California representative for his mill.

sales manager, Pope & Talbot, Inc., Francisco, returned September 3 Angeles office. E. K. WOOD IUMBER GO.

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Redwood Tree To Be Dediccted To A. Merriam Conner

Arrangements have been completed to dedicate a Redwood tree to A. Merriam Conner, poet laureate of the lumber industry, at Woodminster Park (Joaquin Miller Heights), Oakland, on Sunday, September 26, at 3:00 p.m.

Professor Woodbridge Metcalf, Associate Forester, IJniversity of California, and a member of Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39, will dedicate the tree in behalf of the Club and the lumber industry. Other trees will be dedicated to Jos. R. Knowland, Wells Drury, James Mclafferty and Herbert Coggins.

These ceremonies will be followed by a play by Juanita Miller, daughter of Joaquin Miller, entitled "I{er Diamond Dream," rvith music provided by the Oakland SymphonlOrchestra, ,conducted by Dr. Orley See, through the courtesy of the Board of Park Directors of the City of Oakland.

Scn Frcncisco Hoo-Hoo Celebrcrte

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In line with the meetings being held simultaneously throughout the United States and Canada in observance of the 52nd Annual Meeting of International Hoo-Hoo, members of the Order held a luncheon meeting at El Jardin Restaurant, San Francisco, September 9.

Carl Warden, Vicegerent Snark of the San Francisco district, presided. Resolutions were passed expressing sympathy to the families of'members who have passed on during the year; congratulating the Snark of the lJniverse on the progress made, and thanking officers and directors for the work done. A resolution of thanks to the lumber trade press for their cooperation, was adopted. The subject ot' a change in the ritual was also discussed.

OPA Moves To Expedite Fir Boqrd Production

On September 6, OPA issued Amendment 3 to MPR-26, relieving all mills operating under WPB Circular No. 31 from securing certificates from CPA, WPB, and OPA, in order to make the price additions specified in that Circular for manufacturing rough Fir boards. The amendment is retroactive to August 24th.

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Hoo-Hoo Day Celebrated bv Los Angeles Lumbermen

The annual summer party, sponsored by Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club No. 2, celebrating the 52nd year of HooHoo, held at the Southern California Golf Club, Monterey Park, September 9, was a gteat success. The large. attendance indicated a new interest in Hoo-Hoo. There was an attendance of 140 at dinner, and 58 played golf in the afternoon. Five Kittens were received into the fold. and four old cats were reinstated.

Dee Essley, Vicegerent Snark for the Southern California district, presided at the dinner, held in the banquet room of the club house. He gave a brief talk on Hoo-Hoo, expressing the hope that monthly meetings of the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club will be resumed.

Other speakers who gave short Frank Curran and H. G. Larrick.

talks were R. A.

A Ccr oI Wood Thcil Becrlly Cost Some Money

Robert S. Osgood, of Los Angeles, Southern California representative of the Carl H. Kuhl Lumber Company, Portland, Oregon, recently sold a carload of wooden material the price of which really runs into phone book figures. It was a car of airplane plywood, and the invoice totaled $41,300. Mr. Osgood says he does not think this the highest priced car of this stuff ever sold, but it is the biggest he ever sold, and he is going to keep a copy of the invoice to frame for the office wall when the war is over, to remind him that such things could be.

Forsyth, Stumpage Ceiling Prices Set by OPA For Wegtern Strtes

The door prize of a $25 War Bond was won by Ed Fountain, Ed Fountain Lumber Co., Los Angeles. Other door prizes were won by I. S. Brown, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and J. W. Frey, Associated Lumber & Materials, fnc., Los Angeles.

In the golf tournament Clarence Bohnhoff, Bohnhoff Lumber Co., Los Angeles, won the Roy Stanton trophy with a low gross score of 85.

Loren F. Weddle, Weddle Wood,craft, Ifawthorne, Calif.. won the California Lumber Merchant trophy with a low net score of 63. The Znd low net prize was won by Buzz Blanchard, Blanchard Lumber Co., North Hollywood, with a score of 64. Gene De Armond, Pacific Cabinet Co., Los Angeles, who tied with Geo. Lockwood, J. Niederer Co., Los Angeles, won the 3rd low net prize on the toss of a coin. D. D. McCallum, D. D. McCallum Sash & Door Co., Los Angeles, won the 4th low net after a tie with Hoyt Klinck.

The President's Cup, a new perpetual trophy donated by George E. Ream of the George E. Ream Company, I-os Angeles, president of Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club No. 2, was won by Dee Essley, D. C. Essley & Son, Los Angeles. Only members of Hoo-Hoo are eligible to compete for the new trophy, a handsome cup 36 inches high.

Those who contributed the money for the golf prizes ancl entertainment were: Roy Stanton, E. J. Stanton & Son. Los Angeles; Frank Connolly, Western Hardrvood Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Harvey W. Koll, H. W. Koll Mill & l,umber Co., Los Angeles; Bohnhoff Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Bob Osgood, Los Angeles; Lounsberry & Harris, Los Angeles; Sun Lumber Co., Beverly Hills; D. D. McCallum; John W. Koehl & Son, Los Angeles; Dolbeer ct Carson Lumber Co., Los Angeles; San Pedro Lumber Co.. Los Angeles; Art Harff, Los Angeles; Andy Donovan, Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Ed Bauer, Bohnhoff Lumber Co., Los Angeles ; Dee Essley; Gene De Armond; George E. Ream.

Bob Osgood presented the golf prizes at the dinner, and Ed Bauer handled the drawings for the door prizes. Orrin Wright was in charge of finances, and Harvey Koll was handicapper.

Establishment of maximum prices for sales of all standing timber in the western states west of the great plains-an action designed to restrain rising timber prices and further stabilize present ceilings for logs, lumber and other forest products-was announced August 25 by the OPfice of Price Administration.

Ceiling prices are provided for all timber-both publicly and privately owned.

The new ceilings are established in Maximum Price Regulation No. 460 (Western timber), and became effective August 31, 1943. Until the issuance of the present regulation, there was no price control on either publicly owned or privately owned timber.

"ft was at first hoped that price control at the mill, wholesale distribution yard and retail dealer levels would keep the price of timber from advancing beyond the level of profitable purchase by lumber producers. But since 1941, when lumber price control began, advancing prices of stumpage have been making difficult the road for the lumber producers," OPA said.

RED CEDAR SHINGLES

Lumber mills were authorized by the Office of Price Administration September 4 to charge 10 per cent over specifie dmaximum prices, f.o.b. mill, in sales of Red Cedar shingles in amounts of 100 squares or less to any purchaser not buying for resale. The higher price is authorized irr Amendment No. 5 to MPR 164, and became effective September 9,1943.

VENEERS

Birch, maple and basswood veneers-Jvital materials irr the fabrication of plywood used in the manufacture of airplanes, gliders, pontoons and boats-are given dollar-s-andcents maximum prices by the OPA. The new maximums are approximately the March, 1942, prices, and bring no general increase or decrease in maximum levels. Also established in the regulation are dollars-and-cents top prices for No. 1 sheet stock grade birch and maple veneer (RMPR 338), effective August 26.

LUMBER

Arcata Rcdwood Co.

BUYBB9S GT]IDB SAIT BRANCISCO

,120 Markot StEt (u) .,.,.........Yukon m67

Ar&ineStutz CompuS ll2 Mrrkct Strcet (U) .......'.....GArfield rE09

Christenron Lumber Co. Evans Ave. and Quint St. (2a)....VAlencia 5Ell2

Dmt & Rurcell' Inc.'

2U Fmt Stmt (11) .............GArfield 0292

Dolbccr & Cuson Lumber Co., lllt Mcrchants Exchange Bldg. (l) SUtter 7456

Gmcrrto & Grm Luber Coo 1600 Any Strt (2{) ..........,,ATwater 1300

Hall, Jru: L, llXlz Millr Btdg. (a) ..........,......Sutter 7520

Hrmqod Lubcr Cmpuy, {lt Montgbmery StGt (5) ........DOuglae 3illl6

Hobbr }l/all lmbcr Co105 Montsom.ry St. (1) ...........GArfield 7752

Holmcr Eureka Luber Co., 116 Finucial Ccntcr Bldgl. (l) ...,GArficld l92f

C. D. Johncon Lumba Corporatlon' 28! California Strot (rr) ..........GArfidd 6256

Cul lL Kuhl Lmbcr Ca., O. L Rurm, ll2 Market St. (rr) YUkon 1160

hmon-Broington Compuy, 16 Cdifmis Stroct (rr) .......,..GArfic1d 66Er

LUMBER

LUMBER

McDufree Lumber Sales Corp., 526 Monadnock Bldg. (5).......... GArfield ?196

Orcgon lmber Salc (Carl W. lttattc), 975 Mooadnck Bldg. (5) ......,....Yukon 1590

Pacific Lumber Co., Th. llll Bueh Stet (1) .............,.GArfield llEl

Rcd Rivs Lmbcr Co., 3r5 Moadrek Blds. (5) ..........GArfie|d 0922

Suta Fc Lmber Co16 Califonir Stroet (ll) .,..,....EXbrok 2074

Schafcr Brcc. Lubcr & Shinglc Cl., I Dl.um Strc€t (U) ...,...........Sutter UZI

Shcvlin Pine Salcr Co,, 1030 Monadnah Bldg. (5) .........EXbrook ?04r

Sudda & Chrirtcnron, Inc, 3t0 Silmc Stret (l) .........,,.GArfield 2tl5

Cart W- Wattr (Orcgon lanbc Salce), 975 Monadnock Btdg. (5) ..........YUkon 1590

Wcndling-Natf,u CoU0 lfiukrt Srrut (fl) .............Sutt.r 536:t

Wcrt Orcgon Lubcr Co., 1995 Evur Avc. (A) ........,...ATwat r 567E

Ewauna Box Co. (Pyranid Lunber Salce Co.)

Pacific Bldg. (f2) ,... ,....,...,.Gl:nourt t293

Gu6t6 & Grccn lambe Co.,

2Ol Livingdon St. (6) .......,...,KEUog {-1E84

Hill & Morton, Inc.,

Dmion Strut Wharf (7) ..,...,ANdovcr l0??

Hogu Lubcr Compuy, ad erd Alloc Stratr (l) ..,.,,.Gbncourt 6t6l

E. K. Wood Lubcr Co.,

2lrl Frcdcrtc& Stret (6) ..........KElbg 2-4277

Whdcnlc Building Supply, Irc., 1607 3znd Strect (t) ............TEmplebar 6961

Wholesltc Lmba Diatributorr, Irc.,

9th Avcnuo Pia (6) .,....,..'....TWfnoakc 2515

LUMBER

Arcata Redwood Co. (J. J. Rea)

5410 Wilsbirc Blvd. (36) ..........WEbctcr ?!2t

Atkinmn-Stutz Compuy, 62t Pctrolcum BldS. (f5) .........,PRoepct {341

Bruch Industrial Lumbcr Co., 5901 S. Central A,ve. (1) .........CEntury 2-!r6E

Buns Lmbcr Company, 170 South Bwerly Drivc, (Bsaly Hillr) ...,............BRadghaw 2-33tt

Cm & Co., L. J. 0[r. D. Duning),

{3E Ch. of Con. Bldg. (rS) .......PRorpcct 6tl3

Copcr, W. E., 6ll6-60t Rlchfield Bldg. (r3) .......Munral 2r3r

Dut & Runcll, Inc.,

Erz E. 59th Stret (l) ....,.......,. .ADu3 El0l

Dolbecr & Ceron Lumber Co., 90r Fldcltty Blds. (r3) ............VAndike &792

Ed. Fontaln Lumbcr Co., 62t Pctrclcm Bldg. (f5) ...,.,...PRo3pect,t34l

Hannond Lubcr Compuy, 2010 So. Almc& St. (54) .., .PRorpcct 1333

Hobbr WeIl hnbcr Ca..

625 Rrya Bldg. (r3) ..............TRinity 50Et

Holma Eurcka Ilmber Co,,

?U-Zlz Archit.ctc Bldg. (l3) .,.... ,Mutual grtr

Hovcr, A. L,

5225 Wilehirc Blvd. (35) ............YOrk rr6t

Carl H, Kuhl Lmber Co,, (R. S. Oegood),

7U S. Sprirg St. (U) ......,.....VAndi1e603ir

Rs. C. Larhlcy (R. G. Robbing Lmbcr Co.), 7l{ W. Olympic Blvd. (15) ...,...PRospect 0721

Lawmo-Philipc Luinbcr Co., dl3 Pctrolem Blds. (r5) .....,....PRospect tl?r

MrcDondd Co., L. W.,

7ll W. Olympic Blvd. (r5) ........PRosp€ct ?19,1

Paclfic Lmbc Co., Thc

5225 Wibhirc Blvd. (36) ....YOrk ll6E

Pcnbcrthy llmbcr Co.,

2GS Elrt Slgt St. (rr) ......... ..Klnball Srll

LUMBER

E. K. W@d Lmber Co., I Dmm Streer (rl) .....,.........EXbrook 3?ll

Wcycrhacuer Saler Co., I,l9 Califomia Street (U) ,.,.,.,..GArficld t97{

HAR"DWOODS AND PANELS

Whlte Brctherr,Fifth aDd Brman gtct3 (7) .....SUtter 1365

SASH-DOORTPLYWOOD

Wheeler Osg6d Sdec Corp., 3{M5 19th sr. (r0) ................valmc|a 22ll

CREOSOTED LUMBER_POLES_PILING-TIES

Ancricu Lmbcr & Trcating Co.'

u6 NGw Montgoncry Stret (5) ..'..Sutter 1225

Butc. J. H. & Co..

3:t:3 llontspmGry Strcct (4) .....'..DOuglas 3&F

Hall, Jucr L., rS2 Mlllr Bldg. ({) .............'.'.Suttcr 7520

Poro & Talbol Inc- lmber Divirion' rer Mrrlct Strut (5) ...'.........DOuglar 2561

Vudr Lau Plltng & Lubcr Co. 2le Pins Strst (1) ..'.'.........Exbmh r9l5

Wendllnr-Nethu Co., ll0 ll/Lrkct Stret (ll) ..... .....Suttcr SitG|

PAN EIJ-DOORS-SASH-.SCRE ENS

Caltfmia Euitdcrr SupPlY Co., ?00 6tb Avcilrc (1) ......'.... .Hlgatc 5016

Horu Imbcr Company, znd ald Altcc Strctr (l) .......Glenourt 0t6l

lVc.tm Door & Sltb Co- '' irh e Cyprc.. Stretr (?) ......TEmPlebar El|lo

HARDWOODS

Strablc Hardrrood ConPuY, - Fint and Clay Strcte (7) .....TEmpl€bar 55{x

Whitc Brcthcrt. 50o Hlsh Stiet (r) .ANdover 16c0

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LUMBER

Pope & Tablot, Inc., Luber Division

7i{ W. Otymplc Blvd. (rD ..'...PRotD.ct tzll

Rcd Rivcr Lrrnbcr Co.,

?c2 E. Slauroa (ff) ..'...........CEnturv 29O?r

lGll S. Brcedway (f5) ..'.'........PRospect oitll

Su Pcdre Lmbcr Co.

tstE S. Cetrel Arc. ia) .....'...Rlchmond l14l

r8m-A WilniDgton Rod (San Pcdre) ;............'......Su Pcdrc 22|10

Santa Fc Lunbcr Co..

3ll Finucial Ccntir Bldg. (ra) ..VAndike {7r

Schafcr Brcr. Lumbs & Shinglc Co., rr? w. grh strut (r5) .............TRinitv {?r

Shwltn Pinc Salce Co.'

330 Pctmlun Bldg. (r5) ..........PRorp*t c6r5

Simprorr Indurtrlca, Inc.,

16ra E. Washington Blvd. (21) ...PRosFct 6tE3

Stetdr, E. J. & Son, 2050 E. ttlt St. (rr) ..'...'....'CEntury 29rr

Suddcn & Chrietcren' Inc.'

@ Bdrd of Tra& Bldg. (il) '.."TRinitv t84{

Taoma Lunbcr Saleg'

t3? Pctrclcm Bldg. (fS) .'.......PRoepect llOt

Wcndlinr-Nathu Co.. 5225 flllhirc Blvd: (36) .YOrk ll6t

Wert Orcgon Lmbq Co., 127 Pctioleum Bldg. (r5) .......'.Rlchmond 02El

W. W. Wilkinson, 316 w. 9rb srrut (r5) ..TRinity 4613

Wcycrhaas Salee Ca., llrg w. M. Gulud Bldg. (15) ...Mlchigen 635{

E. K. Wood lanber ColTrC Sc Alamcda St. (51) .......JEfreron 3lll

CREOSOTED LUMBER_POLEII-PILINC-TIES

Anericm Lumber & Trcating Co., lGtl S. Brcadrpay (f5) .,...........PRotpcct 1360

Butcr, J. H. & Co.. 6ll Wcrt sth Strcct (f3) ..,.Mlchlgel 62tM

Popc & Talbot, Inc., Lunbcr Divielon, 7U W. Olymplc Btvd. (r5) .....PRorpact t23l

*Postoffice Zone Number in Parenthesis.

HARDWOODS

Amsicm Hrdwod Co., rgn E. $th Strut (5,1) ......'..PRo.pct 1235

Brush Indu*rial Lmber Co.

5901 S. Ccntral Ave. (l) '..'.....CEntury 2'0ltt

Stero. E. J. & Son, A5O Eut llrt Strut (u) .......CEntury ztZU

TVcrtem Hardwood Luber Co., 20tl Eact lsth Stret (S5) .......PRospcct 616l

SASH_DOORS_MIIWORI(-SCREENT BLINDS-PANEI-S AND PLYWOODIRONING BOARDS

Back Pmel Cmpany' 310-31{ East 32nd Strect (rl) ...'....ADua {225 Cdtfomtr l)or Compaly' Thc

P. O. Bc 126, Vcmn Station (u) Klmball 2tll Calilornir Puel & Vaer Co-

P. O. Bq 2€5' Tmlnal . lanq (51) ........................TRlnity 005?

Cabb Co- T. M., sEtl0 Catral Amuc (lr) ...........ADm3 UU?

Euban} & Son, Inc., L H. (Inglcwmd) Eubank H. {33 W. Redondo Blvd. ... Halcy Brce. (Suta Monica) .1620 rlth Stret ..1626 rlrh Siret ....................AShIay {-z2it Kehl, Jno. W. & Son' 652 S. M:rerr Struct (23) ....,.....ANgclul El9l

Orogon-Wuhington Plywood Ca318 }1'6t Ninth StrFt (r5) ,.. ... .TRinitv 4613

Pacific Wood Productr Corporation, 360 Trdum Strut (26) ........'.Albuy0r0r

Pacific Mutual Dd Co., l6llo E. ll/aehingtm Blvd. (21) ..PRocFct 9523

Rem Compun C€. E' 235 S. Alucda Strtct (12) .....Mlchigan rE5{ Red River Lumber Co., ?@ S. Slaumn (lf) ..........'...CErhrrya0?f

Smpga Co. (Paredcna), 745 So. Raynond Avc. (2) ....'....RYu l-5!il9

Siuprcn Indu.trlo. Inc., 1610 E. wa3hlnsrron Blvd. (2r) ...PRorFct 6lt3

W6t Co.rt Ssrum Co.' U45 Eart dlrd StrG"t (r) ........ADamt llfG

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Lumber, serving as the nation's No. L structural material for war, at the same time is creating for itself a vast postwar market. Under stimulus of America's finest engineeting talent and manufacturing skill, it not only is meeting every vital structural need, but also is proving its ready adaptability to new applications which are sure to gteady expand its use in future construction.

As a case in point, much of the lumber and timbers today leave the mills flameproofed by pressure-ffeatment with MINAIITH Fire Retardant. Other progressive and significant steps include fabrication into laminated trusses, arches, beams, and other structural members delivered to the job ready to erect and to be joined by Teco Ring Connectors which utilize 80 per cent or more of the working strength of wood.

In producing for war, Fordyce and Crossett are in full stride with these progressive developments of war will be ready, with the removal of wartime restrictions, to supply you with lumber and lumber products which will meet all requirements of the coming new markets.

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Acharge of Arkansas Soft Prne entering a vacuum-pressure cyLnder for MINALITH Fire Retardant treatmenr.

This instrument panel provides accurate unt control at every stage of the MINALITH Fire R.erardant fte.tmenc