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A strengthened plyu'ood industry lield service for maximum assistance to panel specifiers today and tomorrow, is announced frorn Tacoma, Wash., by Managing Director Charles E. Der'lin of Douglas Fir Plywood Association, the promotional organization for fir panel makers.
Nervly heading the field department is Joe Weston, long time proponent of plylvood for construction and industrial applicatic-rns and previously field representative for the plyr,vood industrv for eight years. Mr. Weston, Iormerly at Los Angeles, an architect and licensed contractor, has been connected t'ith design and construction of all types of plywood buildings since 1934.
He introduced modrrlar design for plywood in 1938, developed the popular light stain finishes for paneled interiors and rvas instrumental in simplification of plyrvood grades in 1941 . In addition, through his plywood promotion in Califorr-ria before the rvar, he helped establish that state as the leader in per capita consumption of the panels except the prociucing areas of Oregon and \Vashington.
"Basic function of the field service of the plvlr.ood Association," according to \\'eston, "is market level service to panel users and salesmen in furthering acceptance and proper use of Douglas fir plyu'ood." A principal aim of the department. in addition to developirrg the usefulness
of the material, r,vill be to render technical assistance to those who sell or use plywood.
Members of the fieid staff call upon as many retail lumber dealers, panel distributors, contractors, building authorities, government construction officials, agricultural and architectural colleges and industrial users o{ plyrvood as is possible. Likeryise, they stand ready to assist any such firms or inclividuals upon request.
As a result of the fire at the Ingleu'ood Golf Club it was necessary to cancel the plan for the golf tournament and dinner of the I-os Angeles Hoo-Hoo Cltrb at Inglervood September 5.
The postponed golf tournament and dinner will be held at Brentlvood C--ountrv Club on Friday evening, September 26.
Golfers rvill tee off at noon, and tlinner n'ill be served in the clubhouse in the evening, follorved by an entertainment program ancl a business session when ne.uv officers u'ill be elected and installed.
Paul Orban, Orban I-lrmber Co., Pasaclena, has been nominated by the nominating cornmittee for president for the coming Hoo-Hoo year; Bill Ream, George E. Ream Co., Los Angeles, has been norninated for r.ice president, and Earl Galbraith, T. M. Coblt Co., for secretary-tteasurer.
HARDWOOD PTYWOOD is c speciclty with us. For 3O yecrs we hqve fecrtured "the besl in plywood.,, More qnd lnore uses hqve been discovered for lhis versqlile msteriql. You will find the greqtest selection of woods for ony plrrpose in our sfockrooms. FORflIICA in qll of its potterns snd in oll of irs colors is now ovoilqble-in ony quontity. A new four poge Formics color chqrt is cvcriloble on request to help you choose cnd specify more cqrefully. Would you like one?
Simpson Insuloting Boqrd is qnother of our in-stock speciolties. ORDER Sfi,lPSON with confidence when specificotions cqll for excellent insulqtion.
l]ortland, September 10-August lurnber productior.r in the Douglas lir region of Oregon and \\rashington hit a postwar peak, u,hile orders continued a firm up'n'ard trend, FI. V. Simpson, executive vice president of the \\rest Coast Lumbermen's Association, annorlnced today.
Calling attention to the railroad car shortage in the Pacific Northr.vest, Simpson declarecl the entire nronth's Proiluction could have beer.r shipped hacl sufficient transportlttior.t been avail:rble.
The u'eekly average of \\rest Coast lumber Production ilt August u.as 145,573,000 board feet, as against an average ol 102,746,000 boarcl feet in July, Simpson said.
Or<lers jnmped to an average of 139,924,000 feet, an increase of 3,247,O00 over those for July. August shipments rose to 137,055,000 frcim 101,040,000 in -Tuly. Sharp increases river the preYiotls month, Simpson pt-rinted out, \\rere due to sau'mill shutclo'rvns during the Fourth of Jrrlv periocl.
"The encourirging pro(ltlction total," explained the lulnber execrrtive, "u.as due primarily to a heavy den.rar.rd for Irrnr'l>er from the l'acific Northn'est coul)led rr'ith fayoraltlc
\\reather cor-rditions."
Cumulative producti()n for the u'as 4,615,065,0O0 b.f.; 35 \\'eeks, 3.5 rveeks, 1945. 4,632,760,000 b.f.
first 35 ureeks ol 1947 1946, 4,168,167,000 b.f. ;
Orders for 35 u'eeks ol 1947 break dou'n as follorvs: Rail, 3,132,850,000 b.f. ; domestic cargo, 569,740,0A0 i export, 644,966,000 ; local, 447,255,000.
The industry's unfilled order file stood at 682,.191,000 b.f. at the end of August; gross stocks at 533,893,000 b.f.
I-umber shipments of 405 rr.rills reporting to the National I-umber Trade Barometer of the National I-umber NIanufacturers Association u,ere 12.5 percent belo'lv procluction for the rveek errded August 23, 1917. In tire same week new orders of these mills l'ere 3.0 percent belorl' production. Unfilled order files of the reporting mills amounted to 66 percent of stocks. For reporting softlvood mills, unfilled orders are ecluivalent to 32 days' production at the current rate, and gross stocks are equi\ralent to '16 davs' production.
For the year-to-date, shipnrents of reporting iclenti'cal mills u'ere 2.1 percent al>ove l)roductiorl; orders rverc 5.4 i)ercent rtbove l)roduction.
Coml>ared to the average corresponding \\:eek of 19351939, production of reporting mills u,as 14.6 percent above ; shipments \\'ere 5.2 percent above; orclers \\'ere 18.7 percent :rlrove. Compared to the corresponding \\'eek in 1946, production of reporting mills u'as 1.4 percent allove; sl-rillments u'ere 4.4 l)ercent lrelou,; itntl treu' orrlers u'erc 1.(t percent above.
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!(hen people plan houses, they have pictures in their minds-pictures of the beautiful homelike surroundings they hope to create. And, when it comes to woodwork, Curtis makes sure that they have the rigbt picnrres. Yeat after year, Curtis' consistent consumer advertising works to create a'definite preference for Curtis S(oodwork products.
ft's easy to see what that means to Curtis dealers. Customers are "pre-conditioned" to prefer Curtis designs-Curtis quality. They are pre-sold on the fine craftsmanship which has made Curtis Sl'oodwork famous since 1866. And, naturally, Curtis dealers reap the profit.
Today Cunis plants are taxed to capacity to fill part of the tremendous demands for Silentite I7'indows and Curtis'$7'oodwork. Bur we look forward with confidence to the time when we will be able to supply new dealers, as well as old, with all the Curtis S7'oodwork they can sell.
Neoer beJore baoe Cartis dealers bad aoailable a sales tool utitb so macb dynamic selling appeal as is packed into tbe big neut Ctrtis Voodutork Stlle Book, Many dealers are tsing tbis book nout to pre-sell tutare castomers. Leased nout onfu to estab lisbed Cartis dealers,
'Ihe \\restern Pine Association's semi-annual meeting held in l'ortland, Oregon, August 2l and 22 brought out the largest attendance er.er recorded for a midsummer rneeting. Itepresentatives from rnills producing Idaho White pine, Ponderosa pine, Sugar pine and associated species in all states west of the Rockies gathered together to discuss matters of importance to the industry.
Homer B. Jamison, of the Byles-Jamison Lumber Company, Fresno, California, president of the Association reviewed the events of the past six months in legislative and labor fields, citing the relaxing of most government controls and the rvage increase of Z2f cents per hour which not' brings the common labor minimum to $1.30 Per hrrql in much of the region.
"The Western Pine Industry Should Be Alert'to Ne'"v Trends" u'as lhe subject of S. V. Fullaway, Jr's address to the meeting. NIr. Fullaway, secretary-manager of the Association said these trends deserved the attention of all operators; such as change in volume, species and grades of regional production, change in proportion of regional production from different sized units, change in rvage, cost and price levels, change in manufacturing ancl utilization practice and change in distribution methods. It is anticipated annual volume of production for the next 10 years u'il1 be betr,r'een 5 billion and 6 billion feet board measure u'hich is eclual to the best years of the preu'ar level.
An analysis of pine select and shop grades shows very littie change in the percentages of each manufactured during the past 10 or 12 years. On the other hand 27a/o oI the log rvas sold as box and 35/o as commons during the 193539 period. This changed to 18% box and 12/o commons in 791O-44 period he said.
Nfr. Fullau,ay said further that increased output of White hr, larch and Douglas fir should be rr-raintained; that the trend is tou'ard a smaller a\Ierage production unit, and that the present high level of u,ages, costs and prices rvill be subject to adjustment witl-r a return to prervar levels not to be expected in the forseeable future. He also urged operators to consider greater refinement of the product ar-rd closer utilization of the tree for larger ecouotnic returns tl-rus permitting real forestry in the n'oods. An imrtrecliate objective sho-"rld be a return to sottnd distribution
merlrods during this period of readjustment with undesirable features eliminated according to Mr. Fullaway.
W. E. Grifiee, assistant secretary-manager said general business factors indicate little price drop, and a continuing high demand for lumber. FIe said: "The prices of building materials have gone up more than rve like and they have been a brake on construction activity the increase since 1939 has been just about the same as the average increase for all commodities and iust over half the rate of increase for farm products."
Chapin Coliins, managing director of the American Forest Products Industries Inc., lVashington, D.C., reviewed the activities of his organization and discussed plans for future work.
The rreeting concluded with reports of the chairmen of the grading, research, forest conservation, statistical, traffic and'promotion committees of the Association.
Lawrence Ottinger, president of L'nited States Plyr.r'oocl Corporation, rnade the follou'ing statement at the annual meeting of stockholders:
"The price policy of the company has resulted in numerous expressions of appreciation from customers throttghottt the country. Tire distribution prices are in gleneral substantialll. lorver than competition on all the important iten-rs both hardr'voods and softwoods.
"The critical shortage of the latter still exists and the gray market operators and other opportunists continue to take advantage of the situation. Industry production is increasing slou''ly btrt it is limited by the availabilitl. of old grorvth timber required for plys.ood manufacture so that it does not seem likely that supltlv rvill meet demand uniess there is a reversal in general economic c<tnditions.
"The compairy is straining every effort to increase its orvn production and has been successfttl as indicatecl bv the volume of business l>eing done. It is ur-rable to satisfy completelv its large lists of accotints."
The stockholders re-elected all present directors ar.r11 adderl E. 13. Creigh to the Board.
From the lorest, all the wcy to delivery, Pope d Talbot tcrke extreme ccre qnd every preccution to produce lumber thct is properly handled . . crll lor the purpose oI crssuring you cornplete scrtisIcrction. "Hcrndle With Cdre" hqs, since the earliest dcrys ol our lirm (now necrly 100 yecrs old), been c dcily commcnd to our persohnel. Specifu Pope d Talbot Lumber . . . the kade ncrme thcrt symbolizes lumber thct is properly milled, properly grrcded cnd.properly hcndled.
A class of 10 Kittens was initiated into the mysteries of Hoo-Hoo at a Concatenation held by San Diego Hoo-Hoo Club No. 3 on Friday evening, September 5, at the San Diego Hotel, San Diego. Tl.rere \\ras an attendance of 80, and errerybod;,' enjoyed a fine dinner and a good evening's entertainment. The Concatenation \\ras in charge of Charles D. McFarlane, Snark. 'Ihe other rner.nbers of the Nine r\rere: Senior Hoo-lloo, John Stewart; Junior Hoo-Hoo, Carl Gavotto; Scrir.enoter, Chuck Hampshire ; Custocatian. Syd' Smith; tsojum, Hugh McConnell; Gurdon, Herschell Larrick, Jr. ; Arcanoper, X{ike Gartner; Jabberrvock, Ed Glasson.
Huntly A. \\rark, Ilfodern Cabinet Co., Los Angeles, assisted in the degree of the playful Kitten, and also read the Hoo-Hoo Code of Ethics.
The nelv Kittens rvere the follorving:
i\1ex Childs, Lurnber & Building Stipply Co., Solana Beach; Eugene F. Scherer, W. D. Hall Co., El Cajon, Calif.; Normzrn R. Hahn, Glasson Mill & Lumber Co., San Diego; Oberlin J. Ilvenson, American Products Co., San Diego; Wesley P. 'fhomas, Dixie Lumber & Supply Co., San Diego; Joel Mr. Walton, Dixie Lumber.& Supply Co., San Diego; Al McAlpine, Sullivan Hardrvard Co., San Diego; Merrill C. Nforgan, Sullivan Hardu'oocl Co., San Diego, and Robert J. Sulli,r'an, Sullivan Hardrvood Co., San Diego.
A telegram lr'as ordered to be sent to Cliff E. Roberts
of San Diego, Supreme Scrivenoter of Hoo-Hoo, at Spokane, where he was attending the Hoo-Hoo Annual Convention, endorsing the renomination of Ray Saberson for Snark of the ljuiverse.
John Stelvart, Frost Hardwood Co., San Diego, was elected president of the San Diego Hoo-Hoo for the ensuing year. He was also appointed Vicegerent Snark of the San Diego district.
H. M. Schattr, Jr., South City Lumber & Suppll' Co., South San Francisco; li. G. (Dave) Davis, Union Lumber Co., San Francisco; Norr.r-r Cords, Cords Lumber Co., San Francisco; Ler'vis Godard, Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., San Francisco; \\/ayne Ra'ivlings, Harbor Plyrvood Corp. of California, San Francisco; and Albert A. Kelley, rvholesale lumber dealer, Alameda, fler'v to Spokane, \\rash., September 8, to attend the 56th annual convention of the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo, held at the Davenport Hotel in that city, September 8, 9, and 10,
Wayne Rarvlings and Herb Schaur r,vere delegattes from Hoo-Hoo Club No. 9. San Francisco, and Lew Godard and Norm Corcls u'ere delegates from Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39, Oakland.
Ray M. Holmes is non rvith Hallinan-Mackin Lumber Co., I-os Angeles, as salesman. He has been in the lumber business in Southern California for many years' and is rvell kno'n'n to the trade.
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Washington, D. C., August 21, 1947. A narning that much remains to be done to preserve the free enterprise system u,as sounded before the recent \\restern Pine Association meeting in Portland, Oregon, by R. A. Colgan, Jr., executive vice president of National Lumber Nfanufacturers Association.
Addressing the Western Pine annual n.reeting, Mr. Colgan pointed out encouraging signs for the lumber business, but s'arned that all of this could be endangered by continued drifting into a planr-red economy.
Citing our stepped-up production for the first six months of the year and continuing heavy demand, Mr. Colgan forecast continued volume output for lurnber. FIe stated tlrat production for the first half of 1947 was about 11 per cent over the same period a year ago. On the demand side, he pointed to the Nation's construction program which is norv at one of its highest peaks on record.
Although these are inclications of good times for the lumber industry, Mr. Colgan injected a warning to the industry to beurare of false inclicatigns of prosperity. "It seems to me," he stated in this connection, "that u'e should stop and reflect so thal \\re may determine whether or not all of this evidence of prosperity has a sound foundation. f am u'ondering if much of this so-called prosperity smacks of synthetic stimulation."
As to markets, Mr. Colgan declared, "ff rve are to main-
tain our industry on a high-volume ievel, rve r,t'ill all l-rave to continue aggressive anal)'sis of our operating problems, our markets, our merchandising, and the rules and conditions under rvhich we do our business. With reasonable application, with reasonable intelligence, rve can make pr( )gress.
Mr. Colgan pointed to discriminatory and biased buildir.rg codes as one of the greatest threats to lumller's markets. He told the \\Iestern lrine men of some of the elTorts of NLMA's staff of code er-rgineers during the past year in successfully heading off unnecessarity restrictive codes in many major cities, but, l-re said, "much l.I.r(lrc needs to be done."
"\\/e rvant to see to it that lumber's market is maintzlined and broadened, zrnd to see that lumber is Iree from improper restrictions. We lr,ant to be freed from unnecessary ancl burdensome federal regulation springing out of misconception and fostered by propaganda campaigns. \\re r,vant to put to good use the abundance of the forest and to see that this abundance is maintained bv sensible handiing. \\/e want to continue to do our part in the builcling of this countrv." he concluded.
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Kemp Hardware & I-urnber Co., 1133 liast 63rd Street, Los Angeles 1, recently secured a number of netv lines of merchandise. These include products of the Perkins Glue Companl', Heilig Screen Cloth Co., and Cumrnings Dowel Co.
lWE RE getting our stride and YV breath, too.. after starting production in our new, modern insulating board products plant. Production of Simpson Insulating Building Board is stepping up, fasr. And more and more of this new, improved building board is being delivered to western lumber dealers for western building. Soon you'll see more and more of the red and green labeled Simpson produets in your yard..
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Announcement is made by Dudley NI. Steele, president of Acme Sash Balance Company, Los Angeles, of the appointment of General Jonathan M. Wainwright as vice-president in charge of public relations. General Wainrvright vrill assume his duties u'ith the company Sept. 1.
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General Wainwrigl-rt was the principal speaker Sept. 11 at the closing session of the National Contract Hardware Association annual convention and National Builders Hardware Exposition at the Palmer House, Chicago, Sept. 8-11. On the same day he was guest of honor at a private luncheon given by Dudley Steele of Acme Sash Balance Company. General Wainwright 'rvas accompanied by his aide, Capt. M. M. Perkins.
Servente Hardwood Company announces removal of the company's yard to its orvn property at 366 Bay Shore Boulevard, San Francisco 24. The telephone number, VAlencia 4-42OO, is the same. 'llhe move will be made October 1, 1947.
Louis Servente, general manager of the company, has been in the hardrvood lumber business for 25 years. Harold Nail, yard sttperinterrdent, has had l0 years of experience in the business.
Mr. Servente says the firrr"s ner,r'location will be superior in every way to the present yard, being on one of the city's main trafific arteries, and stresses the fact that there rvill be plenty of parking space available for customers' cars.
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"Nfake plans now to attend the Association's eighth anntrai convention on October 15, 16 and 17 at the Hotel Casa Del Rey in Santa Cruz," R. J. (Bob) Wright, executive vice president of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California, says in a recent bulletin.
"Packed into the three days will be the exhibitors' shorv in the Casino ballroom, addresses by outstanding speakers, a golf tournament, luncheons and dinners featuring industry speakers, excellent entertainment and a dinner dance' There will be a special ladies' program throughout the three days. This convention t'ill be the biggest and best."
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What a grand sense of humor Eddie Cantor has ! He tells this one on himself. He sang for the boys in a veterans' hospital one day, and as he was leaving. he said to one boy: "I hope you get better, son." And (according to Cantor) the boy replied: "I hope you do, too, Mr. Cantor."
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Jones was beefing about the high cost of his vacation. He said "that hotel where I stayed charged me twenty dollars a day, and the meals were terrible. The food was not fit to eat. And to make it worse, the portions were so small." * :;3 *
During the First World War a man named Newton D. Baker was Secretary of War. He was noted for his amazing lack of personal egotism. One of his friends furiously complained to Baker one day that he was not being given a square deal in current history, and the calm gentleman replied: "I am not as concerned as I should be, I fear, about the verdict of history. For the same reason it seems to me unworthy to worry about myself when so many thousands participated in the War unselfishly and heroically, who will find no place at all in the records we make up and call history." Something tells me that the Unknown Soldier enjoyed that grand remark better than any wreath of flowers. ,r. * *
When someone offers a prize for the most graceful and scholarly scolding of recent times, the letter recently written by Dr. Lee De Forest to the National Association of Broadcasters should be a hot entry. Dr. De Forest, you know, is the man who, in 1907, invented the audion tube, and is therefore the father of modern radio. Dr. De Forest evidently is not pleased with the things his famous tube is being made to do, for he asks in his letter-"What have you gentlemen done to my child?" And then he goes on tosayi * I *
"fle was conceived as a potent instrumentality for culture. fine music, the uplifting of America's mass intelligence. You have debased this child. You have sent him out on the street to collect from all and sundry. You have made him a laughing stock of intelligence. Soap opera without end or sense floods each household daily, murder mysteries rule the waves at night, and children are rendered psycopathic by your bedtime stories. This child of mine has been resolutely kept to the average intelligence of 13 years, as though you and your sponsors believe the majority of listeners have only moron minds. The curse of your commercials has grown constantly more cursed, year by year." Them's harsh words. Doc !
Jim Stevens says that if you will consider the price of lumber at what it costs per pound, you will find it one of the cheapest of all useful commodities. Now, there's an angle that you, dear reader, probably had not considered. The same goes for me. Jim Stevens is a distinguished writer on lumber and forestry topics who lives in the Pacific Northwest. The Eugene Register Guard, a newspaper published in Eugene, Oregon, recently published an article under the signature of Mr. Stevens, which has been reprinted by the Trio Lumber Company, of Eugene. It is in this piece that the author*discusses lumber by the pound.
He says that he recently bought a little jag of lumber to do some repair work with, and when he paid the bill he got to figuring on the cost of this lumber. He had heard complaints about the high cost of the commodity. So it occurred to him to figure it by the pound, like most other valuable commodities are figured. He found that the lumber cost him 4 cents a pound, delivered in his yard. And right away he asked the question of himself and anyone interested-"what else have you bought for 4 cents a pound lately?" His jag of lumber cost him a total of $20, at 4 cents a pound. He got to thinking about apples, another prominent product of that region. He figured that at the rate the local groccr charged him, 500 pounds of apples would have cost him $72.50, instead of the $20 he paid for the same weight tr tr*b.;.. * *
"Now I'm not crying about the cost of apples," says Mr. Stevens. "Yet they only have to be picked, packed, and shipped over a short period of time by large crews, with a small force doing the prunlng, spraying, and irrigating in the months between crops. And there is a crop a year. The logger has to pay fire-protection costs on his trees until it comes time to pick the lumber. Then he has to lay out money for expensive roads and equipment. The lumber crop is harvested. Then the slash is to burn. Then more protection-and the next crop in 70 years. There are log hauls. Then the sa'*'miJl and planing mill and other processing and handling, before shipping. Then transportation charges. At the retail yard, unloading, storage, loading for retail delivery, and handling at delivery point. Quite a lot of doings and stuff for 4 cents a pou.nd, seems to rne. And this for a product built to*last a*minimum of 25 years."
He goes on to estimate that his home, which he bought in 1940, cost less than 2 cents a pound with garage, doghouse, and picket fence thrown in. Today you could replace this house for less than 5 cents a pound. "No question," concludes Mr. Stevens, "seven years ago houses were far (Continued on Page 14)
The Hines-Shelf is light in weight but it's o gioni in strength which mokes it universolly useful onywhere-in the home, office, foctory or store. Completely prefobricoted, the frome of cleor Ponderoso Pine, ond shelves of Mosonite Temperd Presdwood go together with potented codmium ploted
hordwore simply ond quickly. No noiling or sowing!The only tool you need is o screwdriver-ond instructions ore so simple, o child con ossemble o Hines-Shelf. Eosy to point or decorote to fit ony surroundings. Sold by leoding deolers everywhere ond oll ports come corton pocked.
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and away too cheap." One must admit, musn't one, that Mr. Stevens has a very t":...f,t?t angle on lumber prices?
One of these Vagabond Editorials back in the year 1943 discussed the various nations that had already fallen under the Nazi yoke, and I predicted that we wouldl have to "free them, feed them, and fight them." That prophecy wasn't a bad one. We had to free them. We are having to feed them. And the jury is still out about the fighting. With some of them it might happen.
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However, I must admit that I am nothing to brag about when it comes to predicting the future. Nothing, fancy, anyway. f have read these Vagabond Editorials over from the time they started some twenty years back, and no man ever missed more guesses than I. Take the depression. I kept guessing that it was about over from the time it started in 1929 until the war finally put an end to it twelve years later. How did I know it would go on indefinitely? No previous depression ever had, and I spent a lot of time studlring the history of depressions from the beginning of civilization. So I kept right on calling my shots about how soon the bedevilment was just naturally bound to end. But, as though totally unconcerned about my predictions, the depression kept right on its merry way. Only it wasn't merry. That's the trouble with depressions. They are unreliable. A sound tip to all editors and columnists is-lay off depression predictions. No one is that smart.
denly ended, and depression faded away like fog before the rising sun. But, like I was saying, during the first few years I guessed wTong every sixty days about the probable end of the trouble. And so, dear friends, did everyone else who had the temerity to suggest with Sir Walter Scott's sage that "coming events cast their shadows before." So I say again to all business sages; let depressions alone. You can't guess them.
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Two magic words have worked their way confidently into the consciousness of theAmerican lumber industry,and now occupy the very center of the stage: SUSTAINED YIELD. We find those words playing a prominent part in lumber r;onventions, in lumber discussionsg in lumber planning, in lumber advertising, in the entire lumber program. Turn back just a few short yearg and you find scarcely a handful of people in the lumber industry who seemed to have any thought or word concerning SUSTAINED YIELD. But when it came, it came fast. To put more and more sawmills on a sustained yield basis through practical scientific planning and manipulation is now the avowed chief aim of the lumber manufacturing industry. Themistocles, wise Athenian of long ago, boasted publicly that he could "tell you how to make a city grow." The American lumber industry today is just as prideful of the fact that it has learned at long last how to help timber grow, how to protect that growth, and how to harvest the crop on a sustained yield basis to the end that more and more mills may go on cutting continuously. "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free" says the Good Book. The lumber industry is learning the truth of timber growth, and the truth is gradually setting it free.
"We are doing a good volume of business in Alaska Yellow Cedar," says R. T. Evju of Evju Products Company, 486 California Street, San Francisco 4.
lfnemployment sud-
All sound economists know now that we kept the depression alive by feeding it billions, seeking a cure for that monumental business and financial illness. Always in the past history of depressions the thing ran its course like a fever, and then ended. Never before did a government try to cure a great depression with money. We tried it this time at unheard of cost, and we simply kept the depression running along waiting for something to happen. Something did. The war came along, a war so great and so demanding that the complete industrial might of this nation was called upon at generously profitable prices to furnish needed supplies of every sort.
"This lvood is almost identical rvith Port Orford Cedar, and is superior in many respects. It is used for boat framing, for heavy duty bridge and dock decking, and in general construction u'here a rvood .ilith qualities of higher resistance to rot and abrasion are reeuired," Mr. Eviu stated.
Your Customers Will Approve The Precision-Mode Feotures of These lmproved Doors!
A*" BUTLDER reports as many as seven installaVtions in the time previously required for a single door! Savings of from 5O/o to BO/o arc common.
That's why builders and specifiers so thoroughly "p- prove these improved Douglas fir stock doors-doors that are precision pre-fit at the factory. You deliver them to the job ready to hang, with no sawing, planing or squ&ring required. Corners are clean, trim, true-scuff-stripped for protection. The result: better and faster installations for your customers-and bigger volume potentials for you !
Douglas fir stock doors-featured in definite, plainly marked grades and a wide range of designs, including modern 3-panel layouts adaptable to all types of building-are also pre-sealed, at the factory. They reaoh the job fully prepared for a be.tter finish. They're protected against moisture and chec*ing, with resulting improvement in dimensional stabilitv.
Durable, attractive Douglas fir doors may also be ordered completely precisionmachined-not only pre-fit and pre-sealed, but gained for hinges and mortised or bored for locks as well. Here again, cleaner. trimmer jobs are assured, because all work is done at the facrory by high-speed precision tools. Time savings more than offset the slight additional cosr.
No on-the-job mortising or boring required!
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National Association ol Fir Door Manuf acturers'Ihe California Door Company celebrated its 60th Anniversary in Los Angeles on September l, 1947. The original ledger shows the first transaction as having taken place on September l, 1887, in the company's warehouse at 2nd and San Pedro Streets, Los Angeles.
As a part of the celebration the directors of the company held a regular meeting--the first ever held in Los 'Angeles-at the office of the company, 4940 District Boulevard. Those present were : George O. Kellogg, secretary; Chalmers Glenn O. Fogleman, resident and Kilburn Moore. P. L.
The company has made great strides under the able management of Glenn O. Fogleman, who became resident manager in 1928. New lines have been added, and the increased facilities of the new warehouse, opened in 1941 and recently increased in size, have helped a great deal in handling the larger volume of ,busineSs.
Mr. Fogleman has been with the firm since 1918. He started his career in the sash and door line in 1904 with the Cresmer Manufacturing Co. in Riverside, Calif., and from 1911 to 1918 rvas 'rvith Bisbee-Fishburn Co., 'ivholesale sash and door firm of Los Angeles.
Les Breiner, oflice manager, has been wittr the company for many years.
The three salesmen who cover the firm's sales territory are R. V. Pye, rvho travels San Luis Obispo, Ventura, and Orange Counties. and the Long Beach district; Duke Calori, who covers the San Fernando Valley, San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, and part of Los Angeles County, and Art Parkins, who covers the Los Angeles district.
The California Door Company's property at 4940 District Boulevard, Los Angeles 11, measures 120x66O feet. This is shown in an aerial view in the company's advertisement on another page of this issue. The original building on the property was 103x210 feet. This is now 103x310 feet, a 100-foot addition having been made in January, P47. The building is of reinforced concrete, and completely fireproof.
The truck indenture is an importarrt feature of the buildirg. Here six trucks can be loaded at one time. Four 'ailroad cars can be spotted for unloading on the private sprrr track, and an extra one in the yard.
All doors, plywood, and other merchandise are handled from cars into the u'arehouse by the Clark Carloader.
Doors, windows, screens, and insulation boards are placed on pallets in the cars, and are piled high in the warehouse ,by the Carloader, segregated as to sizes.
J. P. (Joe) Farrell was the first resident manager of The California Door Com-pany in Los Angeles. He began in 1887 and rvas succeeded in November. 1918. by J. A. Farnsworth, Jr., who was succeeded bv Mr. Fogleman in 1928.
The history of The California Door Company covers a period of almost a century.
Bartlett Doe, about 1850, received bv vessel from Boston via Cape Horn the first cargo of doors and windows to be landed at San Francisco, and in co-partnership rvith his brother, John S. Doe, began business as the firm of ts. & J. S. Doe at 36-4O Market Street.
About the same time, George O. Wilson arrived on the Pacific Coast, going first to Puget Sound but returning to San Francisco a year or so later to establish with his brother, Nathaniel Irving Wilson, a business in doors, windorvs and blinds at the corner of California and Drumm Streets, under the firm name of Wilson & Brother.
In the 60's, Charles Franklin Doe, a brother of Bartlett and John S. Doe, who operated a lumber yard at Spear and Howard Streets, acquired the business of John Hall & Son, which firm conducted a door and window business at 114-116 Market Street. E. H. Kittredge, who was associated vrith C. F. Doe, took charge of the business and the name was changed to E. H. Kittredge & Company.
During the seventies these three pioneer firms combined, but retained their individual identities until July, 1884, when their separate interests were consolidated and merged under the corporate name of The California Door Company. Following this consolidation, the largest plant west of the Rocky Mountains manufacturing doors, rvindows and blinds, was built and operated at 15th and Wood Streets in Oakland. Calif., the output of which through its distributing branches in Oakland, San Francisco arrd [,os Angeles, reached markets from the Pacific Coast to the Atlantic Seaboard, New Zealand. Australia and South Africa.
At the tr:rn of the centrrry, to insure a future supply sufficient to meet its growing requirements in Sugar and Ponderosa Pine lumber, the company purcl-rased in El
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I)uring the high and holy days all the pews in the synagogue were reserved for ticket-holders. Lapeedas tried to get past the doorkeeper.
"My brother," he said, "he's inside and I've got to talk to him."
"Have you got a ticket?" asked the doorkeeper.
The first luncheon meeting of the San Francisco Lumbermen's Club after tl.re vacation season rvill be held at the Palace Hotel, Sar.r Francisco, at noon, Tuesclay, September 23.
President Flcrb Schaur and other members lvho attended the Hoo-Hoo unnual meeting at Spokane will report on the doings there.
The nen' ofliccrs iclr the coming year'rvill be elected and installed.
"No," said Lapeedas, "but I've got to talk to my brother. It's a matter of life and death."
The doorkeeper relented. "All right" he said, "you can go in and talk to your brother. BUT DON'T YOU LET N,f E CATCH YOU PRAYING."
The manag'ement of Consolidated Luml>er Company, Wilmington, last week announced the appointment of George Hinkle to the position o{ assistant manager.
I\{r. Hinkle began his career in the lumber business at Consolidated in 1920 as an ordermdn. Subsequently he rvas employed by Hammond Lumbei Company at their 'ferminal Island plant, rvhere he became assistant office manager. He returned to Consolidated in 1935 as a clerk in the sales department and in the intervening years has advanced to his present position, irr which capacity he u'ill assist in directing the activities of Consolidated Lumber Cornpany.
AIR.DRIEDANDKIIN-DRIED ALDER, SAP GUtn, W|LLOW, MAGNOUA, tr/tAPLE
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Dorarlo County, California, a tracf of some 30,000 acres of heavily timbered forest lands, and in 1924, following the destruction of its sawmill at Caldor, built the presbnt large, electrically equipped plant at Diamond Springs, its products now being distributed by carload, as well as truck and trailer, to local and interstate points.
The company's first Los Angeles warehouse was established in 1887 at Second and San Pedro Streets. The business rvas moved to 237-241 Central Avenue in 1905. and the recent move to the present location was made y'ust 36 years later.
The Joshua Hendy Corporation, Torrancs, California, offers to help solve the material handling problem in the lumber industry rvith the Hendy N[odel lJ Crane. Through its construction and design it is admirably fitted for moving lumber, other materials and machinery used in the industry. One of its basic clairns is that it works with great success in hard-to-get-at locations under all conditions. The easy mobility and maneuverability of this new machine has proved results in reduced handling costs and u'ith quicker handling.
The Hendy Crane is distributed by the Industrial Equipment Company of Los Angeles and Oakland, California.
C. W. Pinkerton, manager of the Lumbermen's Governmental Service Rureau, 910 Sixth Street, Sacramento, r.vith Southern California office at P. O. Box 309, Whittier, Calif., draws attention in a letter to lumber dealers to the dangerous practice of failing to cinch or tie down their loads on lumber carriers lvhen using these carriers on the highway for deliveries. The practice, he says, is contrary to the motor vehicle code, and violates safety conditions.
The letter stated that Assembly Bill 2265 permits an overall width of 104" for carriers when they travel on the highways. This bill becomes effective September 19, 1947.
Oscar P. Kemp, Kemp Hardware & Lumber Co., [-os Angeles, flew to San Francisco, Klamath Falls, and Portland on business last month.
The fine new retail store and yard of the Diablo Lumber & Hardware Co., Inc., in Pittsburg, Calif., is one of the most modern retail plants on the I'acific Coast. It is located on a five-acre site, on the nerv extension of Central Avenue, between Solari Street and Railroad Avenue. This is the nervest of the company's three retail yarcls, tl-re main office and yard being in Antioch, and a branch vard in Farrar Park.
The picture reproduced here does not clo iull justice to the building, as since the picture rvas taken just before the opening in May, the large billboards on each side of the store have been painted u'ith advertising matter, and the
whole front of the yard has been landscaped u'ith florvers and lawn.
The partners in the Diablo l-umber & -Flardrvare Co., Inc., are Earl N[cClintock and Lewis W. Silvera. Both are u,ell known in that area, and have a rvide acquaintance' Mr. Silvera has lived in Antioch for 34 years, and Mr. McClintock ior 2O years. They have been associated in the lumber business for tl.re past six years, and have an excellent reputation as merchandisers of lumber and building materials. Mr. McClintock was with the Red'ivood Mauufacturers Co., Pittsburg, for 12 years, and before that was rvith the Hammond I-ttmber Co.. I-os Angeles, lot 12 years'
in modernizing kitchens, bcthrooms, dressing room& atore inieriors, etc,, by applying over present wqllg , and use in new construclion. Moderate cogt qnd F.H.A, APPROVED. Comes in lovely colors cnrd cttractive pcllerns. Lusirous, glcss-smooth bcked enamel finish won't cr<rck or chip, needs no repcinting, clecns with c dcmp cloth.
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FIR-IEX of SOUTHERN CAIIFORNIA
812 E. 59th St., los Angeles I ADqnr SlOl
FIR-TEX of NORTHERN CAIIFORNIA
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Forty-seven golfers turned out for the golf tournament put on by San Francisco I-umbermen's Club at the California Golf & Country Club course at Baden, August 22.
Roy Whipple, Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., San Francisco, and J. Lunny, \\r. R. Chamberlin & Co., were low net winners in Class A. Roy Mattock, A. F. Mattock Construction Co., San Francisco, won the low gross prize in Class A.
In Class B Harry Hood, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco, won the low net prize. Bill Whipple, son of Roy Whipple, won Class C lorv net, and Dave Gregory, Olympic S. S. Co. took the Class D low net prize.
Le'iv Godard, Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., rvon the booby prize for the higl-rest score. Lew says "This success proves that honesty pays."
The Perpetual Cup wzrs won by Gene Reynolds, Weyerhaeuser Sales Co., San Francisco. Last 1'ear's winner, Carl \Varden, did not compete.
Attendance at the dinner was 100. President Herb Schaur oresided.
Entertainrnent was furnished by John Dahlinger Agency.
Expansion of insurance of private lending by the Federal Housing Administration to embrace a wide field of nelv small homes for families of modest income was announced r\ugust 24 by Commissioner Franklin D. Richards.
Through revision of operations under 'fitle I of the National Housing Act simplifying required standards of size, construction, ar.rd ecluipment, FHA expects to assist efforts of the inclustrv to produce acceptable housing of minirnum t)'pe.
"\\'-e have been developing this revised program for some months," Mr. Richards said, "as an extension of our policy of broaclening the usefulness of FHA in tlie small homes field.
De c ay-re s ista22 f "lV6la4nizsd*" Iumber offerg all oI wood's natural advantaqes-il's light, easy lo erect, odorless, clean and paintable. This service-proved brand oI treated wood has over 20 years ol rot resigtance behiud it. American Lumber & Treatiug Conpany, 1648 McCormick Building, Chicago 4, Illinois. rBegirteted trademarl U. S. Pat OII
"\\rith this special assistance made available under Class 3, Title I FHA regulations, it is believed the program will be particularly effective in rural areas and smaller communities and in other sections u'here modest homes can be made available in the $3,000-$3,500 price range. Literature explaining details of the program u'ill be sent to FHA field offices and to all qualified lending institutions. This information includes copies of Part II of the nerv and revised Title I regulations efiective August 19, governing these Cl:rss 3 residential loans."
Northern California lumber dealers who rvill attend the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association convention in Nerv York City, October 28 to 31, will have a special car on the train leaving Los Angeles October 18 and returning November 6.
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Mr. and Mrs. F'rank Curran, Sr., celebrated the 55th anniversary of their wedding at their home, 2130 Victoria Drive, Santa Ana, on Sunday afternoon, September 7,1947.
It rvill be remembered that they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at their home just five years before, Sunday, Sptember 6, 1942. They rn'ere married in Rochelle, I11., and lived in Dixon, Ill., several years before coming to Los Angeles in 1901. They lived in Pomona, San Pedro, and Beverly Hills before making their home in Santa Ana.
A huge Douglas fir log, so big it cannot be handled by one of Oregon's largest mills, will be blasted in two so that it can go up the conveyor to the saws.
The big stick is 28 feet long and 119 inches in diameter. Ralph Liljeberg, Coos Bay Lumber Co., foreman, said it was one of the largest he had seen in his 14 years of experience.
The Southern California Retail Lumber Association sent out another reminder recently to its members of the annual meeting of the National Retail Lumber Dealers' Association to be held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.
"We are still short a sufficient number of reservations to secure a special car, although we do have several who have reservations and who will leave here October 22," the bulletin states. "Some areas are sending special train5, and for those r'r'ho would like to see something of New York, there is every indication that side trips will be prepared by the New York crowd for the convenience and pleasure of those in attendance."
on the Klcmcrth Lounsberry, Lounsberry & lloover, Los Angeles, are Calif. SAV-A-SPAC E STIDING DOOR COMPLETE WITH FINISH N0w AVAIIABI.E at MacDougall Door & frame Go 2035 E. 51st St., Los Angeles ll Phone f,Imbcll 316l
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465 California Street
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Wholesale A. K; wILSON LUMBER (0.
Phone YUkon 6-3969
"Bill, Sr." "Gil" "Bill, Jr." "Dick"
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Mciling Address-P. O. Box l5O, Compton, Colif. Telephone NEwmork l-8651
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All the step-scrving efficiency cnd restlul becruty you see in those kitchens illustrcted in todcry's mcrgczines devoted to the home wcrs inspired by Peerless, the pioneer of modern kitch. en desigm. It is our lenrent wish thct this.yecrr will enable us to supply crn increcsing number ol declers urith their needs lor modern kitcheu eguipment.
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Stainless, Eustlegs Aluminurn Sidewclls
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At last went to Ireland, 'Twas cats and dogs: no music in the glens, Nor in the bogs. And far as angels' laughter in the ly Liffy's tidedear old humbug lied.
Old Man of England, gave the following advice to g/class of students:
"Be assured that every of you has his place and vocation on this earth. find it. Do not believe succeeds like humble effort, s in youth, better
that it rests with himself to who too lightly say, 'Nothing Effort, gentleme4, honest, manful, by its reflectg{l action, especially success. which , too easily and winning the first y. Get knowledgethe more you breathe ating air and enjoy by1' Queen Victoria and of Hesse and Alex- the w
ander, heir-apparent to the throne Russia. Onlv one last detail remained to be accompli formal proposal of marriage by the young Russi prince and its acceptance by the young princess.
"My father, the Czar," sai the Prince, scrupulously conforming to the ceremony f proposal, "has commanded me heart."
A marriage had been arranged the Czar of Russia for Princess to offer you my hand
all you and the more
views, the more will know and feel how small is the elevation you have reached in comparison with those immeasurable altitudes that yet remain unscaled. Be thorough in all you do and remember that though ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable,"
"My grandmother, Princess, with equal
Queen of England," replied the ity, "has commanded me to accept your hand."ifBut then, being first a woman and second a princess, departed from the prescribed ritual to adld, "Your heart f shall take myself." And history proves that she did.
Fcrith
You cannot have too great fai You cannot believe too circle more than a fragmen much. All the believing you an possibly do cannot enthe truth. The universe is filled with more wonders n we can imagine. There is more good in existence we are able to use. ft is our personal limitations, n the limitations of the supply, that keeps us in poverty..
Mose:
take in washin'?"
Rastus: "Ah shud say not. Ah takes it in an, Ah takes it out. All she does is stav home an' wash it."
In days of old, when knights were bold, And sheet-iron trousers wore, They lived in peace, for then a crease, Would last ten years or more.
fn those old days they had the craze For cast-iron shirts, and wore 'em; And there was bliss enough in thisThe laundry never tore 'em !
-Rays of Sunshine.
You cannot pin her down fact
For woman seldom is
Although she can be rg6st persuasive
And everything she/says or does ' Has for its reasonld"Just because."
The ease with she tells white lies fs cause for and surprise. Her idios are many, But who would change her any?
-Louise ShawTogether we've adventured far, Exploring books and land and sea. And always I've been glad of you And always you've been glad of me. Gay comrades of the day and night
With minds and hearts and souls akin, Even had love not shed this light
What splendid friends we should have been.
-Claire McClure.The policeman's son was learning music:
"FIow many beats are there to the bar in this piece of music, Dad?" f
"Fancy asking a policeman " q.,.g/on like that,,' said the boy's mother. "If you asked\or/ Dad how many bars there were to the beat, he migh\y'have been able to tell you."
American Lumber and Treating Co., owner and operato, The annual convention of the Structural Clay Products of a large wood-preserving plant it Wilmington, Caiif., an- Institute, national association of brick and tile manufacnounced the sale of its Weed, Calif., plant to the Long-Bell turers, u'ill be held Sept' 22 to 25 on the St. Lawrence Lumber Co. River aboard the S. S. Richelieu, Roy A. Shipley, president
J. F. Linthicum, Chicago, president of American Lumber of the Institute, announced September 6. and Treating Co., stated that the change oT ownership The program will feature the industry's extensive mason was effective immediately. training program and plans for adapting brick and tile to
In addition to the Wilmington plant, American Lumber the Industry Engineered Housing Program. and Treating Co., is norv constructing a new plant at Ev- The convention will start on shipboard at Montreal and erett, Wash., and owns plants at Wauna, Ore. ; Port New- will end at the same city after a trip up the St. Larvrence ark, N. J. ; Baltimore, Md.; Florence, S. C.; Gainesville, and Saguenay Rivers with stops at Murray Bay, BagotFla.; Fordyce and Crossett, Ark., and Shreveport, La. ville, and Quebec.
Spring cushion foqmes and wood window units. Built up complete-recdy lor instcrllation. No weigrhts, no puUeys, no cords. Noncorrosive steel springs are the only working parts. These springs press the scrsh guides against the sash with the right crmount oI e\renly distributed pressure, permitting the scsh to be raised or lowered ecsily-yet holds lirmly in any position.
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San Diego, California--Forest Supervisor H. K. Pyles rnakes the following announcement regarding additional fire restrictions on the Cleveland National Forest.
"IJnder authoritv vested in the Regional Forester by the Regulation of the Secretary of Agriculture, T-1, Section I, the follorving clescribed areas of the Cleveland National Forest are hereby designated as areas of fire hazard and public entry is restricted, effective August l,1947 and until further notice, except b1'special entry permit for conduct of necessary business and except that no permit u'ill be required of actual residents going to and from their homes rvithin the restricted areas:
That portion of the Palomar Ranger District located north of the San Luis Rey River and meeting u'ith the south boundary of the restricted area proclaimed by the Regional Forester as effective July l, 1947. Nfore specifically: Beginning at a point on the .ivest bour.rdary of the Cleveland National Forest at its junction r,r,ith Nigger Nate road (in Section 2, T. 10 S., R 1 \\''., S.B.B.NI.) ; thence southerly and easterly along said boundary to the San Luis Rey River; thence easterlv and southerll' to the east boundary of the Forest; thence northerh' along said boundary to the Cottonrvoorl Truck Trail; thence southerly along the Cottonu'ood Truck Trail to its junction rvith the ()ak Grove Truck Trail ; thence u'esterly to the Obserr.atory Fire l)atrol Station ; thence northerly to the corner conrlnon to Sections 22, 23, 26 anrl 27,T.9 S., R 1 E., S.ll.B.Nf.;thence rvesterll. along tl.re south bottndaries of Sections 19, 20, 21, and 22 of said Tou'nship ; therrce southerly along the San Bernardino Nleridian to its junction u'ith the Nigger Nate road, tlte point of beginning: provided, honever, that the {ollou,ing campgrounds, roads, and highu'avs are open to travel and public use:
(a)
(h)
Douglas Fir- Redwood
Ponderosa and Sugar Pine
Manufacturers of SOFT TEXTURED
Yard and Oflice
510 East San Bernardino Road EL MONTE, CALIFORNIA
Terephones, BUji:u 3:3333
(c) The irnproved oiled roads crossing national forest lands rvithin the exterior boundaries of the Palomar Ranger District of Cler.eland National Forest.
All are:rs in u'hich use is restricted will be duly posted o11 the grour,d rvith suitable public notice given thereof.
Fir-Tex qnd Dcrnt & Russell
Hcve New Telephone Number
The Crestline Campground n'ithin its 1>osted limits.
San I-uis Rey Campground rvithin its posted limits.
The nerv telephone number of the Dant & Russell Sales -Agency, ancl of Fir-Tex of Northern California, San Francisco, is SUtter 1-6384. The change rvas made necessary by the installation of a neu' switchboard to handle the calls of botl.r companies, rvhich are on the fifth floor of the Nlarine Building, 214 Front Street, San Francisco 11.
A new high speed bcll becrring lour hecrd moulder that is revolutionizing the woodworking industry. This new machine will'run lour side detail up to 2 x 6Yz inches ct speeds lrom 30 to 125 leet per minute.
Priced approximctely $3,300.00 delivered including motors, the delivery is now 30 to 60 days.
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| 133 Eost 63rd Slreel, Los Angeles l, Cqlifornio CEntury 2-9235
"America's best-managed business concerns" is the title that has been conferred on 209 business and industrial organizations, large and small, as the result of a nation-nide survey by a leading national business service corporation.
Nominations for this handful of the nation's best-managed companies were made, from among the thousands of business concerns in the country, by bankers, business men. investment authorities, newspaper business page editors, and editors of leading business papers, rvho were invited to name the one company, in their community or industry, which they considered to be the best-rnanaged of all companies to their knowledge.
In the largest group selected, Il2 are manufacturers. With its background of 37 years of successful operation under one management, The Upson Company, of Lockport, N.Y., was named as one of the nation's 2@ best-managed companies, sharing this distinction with only two other manufacturers of interior wall and ceiling panels.
Longlyfe Shingle Company, Kalama, Wash., has become a member of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, and is nos' using the Certigrade label on their shingles.
Oflicers of this company are Henry P. Smith, president, and Hugh W. NIason, vice president. Mr. Mason is president of Fisk & Mason, wholesale shingle dealers, South Pasadena, Calif., and Mr. Smith is vice president.
Offers Combined Service Of:
Trucking Ccrr Unlocding
Pool Ccr Distribution
Sorting
Sticking lor Air Drving
Storing ol Any Qucrntity oI Forest Products
Ten Hecrvy Duty Trucks crrd Trcilers
Fourteen 3-Axle AJI Purpose Army Lumber Trucks
Seven 16,000 lb. Lilt Trucks
Twenty-Seven Acres Pcved Lcnd ct Two Locctions
Served by L. A. Junction Rcfuocd
Shed Spcce for Two Million Bocrd Feet
Spur Trcck to Accommodcrte Thirty Rcrilroad Ccrs
Bccked by Twenty-hro yecrrs of Experience in Hcrndling Lumber and Forest Products
This Compcny Is Owned cnrd Opercted by FERN-cmdo I. Negri
4550 Mcywood Ave., Los Angeles ll
lEflerson 7261
Gucrrcrnteed to meet or exceed requirements ol Americcrn Society lor Testing Mciericrls Specilicctions lor High Ecrly Strength Portlcrnd CemenL cs well as Federal Specificctions lor Cement, Porllcmd, High-Ecrly-Strength, No. E-SS-C-20 I q.
HTGH EARTY STRDTIGTH
(28 dcry concrete strengths in 2'l hours.)
SUTPHATE RISISTAIIT
(Result ol compound composition cnd usuclly tound only in specicrl cements designed lor this purpose.)
MII|IMUM IXPAIfSI0I| and COtfTRAGTI0tf
(Extremely severe outo-clave tesl results consistently indiccrte prccticclly no expcnsion or conlrqction, thus elimincrting one ol mosl dillicult problems in use ol c higb ecrrly strength cement.)
PAGIEID III MOISTURI. PROOT GRDDTI
PAPDR SACI
(Users' crssurcnce ol tresh stock, unilormity cnd proper results lor concrete.)
Mcrnulactured by
Washington-New building in the first six months of 1947 totaled $5,356 million, an increase of 4O.l% over the $3,284 million total for the like period last year.
Figures released by construction division of the Commerce Department also show that building construction in June increased by lO.9% over May. This jump from $958 million to $1,062 million is more than a seasonal gain.
Private building in the first half of this year totaled $4,115 million. This is 31.9% over the $3,119 million figure for the same period last year. Of this year's total of private building, private residential building (exclusive of farms) gained 63.2/o-f.rom $1,154 million in the first half of last year to $1,883 million in the like period of 1947. Private non-residential building, on the other hand, gained only 2.8/o in two periods-from $1,475 million last year to $1.517 million in 1947.
Total new public construction in the first six months of 1947 amounted to $I,24I million-a jump of 76/o over the $705 million in the same period last year. Of this total, public residential construction amounted to $130 million, compared with $74 million in 1946-an increase ol 75.6/o. Public non-residential building rose e3% from $140 million in 1946 to $230 million this year.
Ole May, E. J. Stanton & Sons, Los Angeles, has been in the Northrvest for the past two weeks. He attended the Hoo-Hoo annual conventon at Spokane, September 8 to 10.
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On the last day of the convention of the National Plywood f)istributors Association, held at the Olympic Hotel, Seattle. July 28 to 31, all of those who attended were invited by the Simpson Logging Company to visit their logging camp at Grisdale, Washington. The party contained a representative of almost every fir plywood mantrfacturer, and representatives of jobbers oi plywood from all over the country. One o{ those who went along was W. H. (Bill) Fahs, manager of California Panel & Veneer Co., Los Angeles. In speaking of the trip he said:
"Buses picked us up at the Olympic Hotel. and we had breakfast on the ferry to Bremerton, followed by the scenic drive to Shelton. Here the Simpson Logging Co. had three coaches, rented from the Northern Pacific Railroad, to take the party over their own railroad to Camp Grisdale, 50 rniles from Shelton. Inspection of the model logging camp followed. Visitors found it a real little city wirh its movie theater, bowling alleys, and general store. Then came a regular loggers' luncheon in the mess hall, an enjoyable
"&"In the afternoon trees were felled, one of which was almost 1O feet in diameter, atrd according to the ring count vtas 642 years old. Then there was a demonstration of expert tree-topping, and a log bucking contest. On the way back to Seattle the party was treated to a fried chicken dinner at a Hood Canal resort.
"ft 'ivas a full day ancl a rare treat for everybody. Everyone was extremely grateful to the principals in the Simpson Logging Co. for the opportunity of visiting a truly modern logging camp as tl-reir guest. The party, including the ladies, numbered about 200. All arrangements were made by Robert E. (Bob) Seeley, vice president in cl'rarge of sales."
PATRICK LUMBER CO.
Eostmnn
opened a lumber and Gutierrez Street. Santa O. L. Russum l12 frlorket Sl. Son Frqncisco I I YUkon 5-1460
Eugene, Oregon
Lumbermen's Exchqngie
Phone 3838
Washington, D.C., August 26, 1947-john Fies, long prominent in building code work in the Southwest, has been retained by the National Lumber Manufacturers Asso,ciation to represent its Technical Department on the Pacific Coast, R. A. Colgan, Jr., executive vice president of the association, announced today.
Prior to entcring the Army, Mr. Fies served as chief of the Division of tsuilding Inspection of Dallas, Texas, and was engaged in u,ork on building code standards. As a member of the executive committee of the Pacific Coast Building Officials Conference, and chairman of a sub-committee of the Building Officials Conference of America, Mr. Fies took active part in the drafting of builcling codes.
Upon his release from the Army r,vith the rank of Major, Mr. Fies served as a building code. specialist for the National House Agency in the Southwestern region.
Mr. Fies has rvritten numerous articles for Building Standards Monthly, Building Officials Digest, American City Magazine and other publications.
A graduate of Ohio State University, he is a registerecl professional engineer in the State of Texas and past president of the Technical Club of Dallas.
As representative of the Technical Division of the National Lumber iVlanufacturers Association, Nfr. Fies will spend his time in the seven u'estern states in the interest of improved building codes and technical activities for lumber.
On the persor.ral side-Mr. Fies was born in Marion, Ohio, is married, has trvo sons.
Scrn Francisco 4, Ccrlil. 444 Mcrrket Street
YUKON 6-2428
As part of its continuous program in behalf of lumber as a building n.raterial, West Coast Woods Promotion announces it is publishing "The.Farm Book, A Guide to Better Buildings."
It is planned to start distribution of the book, soon to be on the press, late this year. Sales will be handled through retail lumber dealers. Reservations for a free sample copy for retail lumber dealers are being taken now by the promotion organization's office, 1410 S. W. Morrison Street, Portlancl 5, Oregon.
Tl.re Farm Book, u'hich rvas compiled b1' the Doane Agricultural Service, St. Louis, rvill be 9 xl2 inches and contain approximately 100 pages ancl more than 100 illustrations.
"\\re feel there long has been a need for such a book," says a West Coast Woods announcement. "ft is not a compilation of building plans, but an economic study of farm buildings in relation to farm profits. With explanations based on actual experiences, the book tells horv to plan and locate farm structures so they rvill create and preserve income.
"More than 80 tables, in addition to the written matter, make the book a valuable soLlrce of reliable farm information."
\\/est Coast Wc-'ods Promotion is sponsored by manufacturers ancl lvl.rolesale distributors of Douglas fir, \,Vest Coast hemlock, \\/estern red cedar and Sitka spruce.
A ner,v directory of rnembership dated July 15, 1947 has just been issued by the Western Pine Association.
This directory which supercedes the one of December 1, 1946 contains more than 30 firms who were not listed irr the previous issue. In addition to the new listings there have been changes in daily capacities, species manufactured, lumber and allied items produced from the Western Pines and associated rvoods.
The directorf is a list o{ firms manufacturing the Western Pines and associated species. It gives the address of each general sales office, S-hour mill capacity, percentage of each species manufactured, lumber items produced and other items which are further refined before being shipped to consuming areas.
A free copy of the directory may be had by writing to the Western Pine Association, Yeon Building, Portland 4, Oregon.
Washington, D. C., July 27.-The Federal Housing Administration in the first half of 1947 received a record volume of applications for mortgage insurance, with all dwelling units involved totaling about 276,000, Commissioner Raymond M. Foley announced today.
Approximately 200,000 ne'iv units were covered by the total, Mr. Foley said, with more than a third in multiple family rental housing projects. There wete 1,671 rental housing project applications, comprising 68,702 units.
In addition to applications on mortgages covering new construction, FHA received applications involving approximately 76,000 units in existing one to four-family dwellings.
At the same time, loans reported for insurance for property improvement purposes reached a record high of 562,' 910 in the amount of $266,578,920. These loans included those for remodeling homes and other properties to provide additional living units for rent to veterans'
Mr. Foley pointed out that the Federal Housing Administration is currently insuring a far larger proportion of all residential mortgage financing than in 1945-46 although it
"lt lookcd ro prctty, Joe, I just couldn" rcsist putting it in for decorqlion!"
has not yet reached its pre-war maximum, percentage-wise.
FHA's total business, Mr. Foley said, has been gathering momentum since late in 1946 and reached an alltime monthly high in June, with total applications for mortgage insurance under all sections of the National Housing Act reaching 62,227 units. Of this nurnber 48,684 represented new construction and 13,543 existing residential units.
"The record June total," Mr. Foley said, "was particularly gratifying to FHA because it included 20,706 units in 47I rental projects. Since the emphasis has shifted from dwellings for sale to apartments for rent this phase of ottr business has shown steady expansion."
2832 Windsor DriveP. O. Box 240
AI.AMEDA, CAUFOBNIA
Telephone Lakehurst 2-2754
The five-fold benefits enjoyed by woodlot owners participating in the Tree Farm program were outlined at Tennessee Tree Farm Dedication ceremonies recently by lumberman D. M. Rose of Knoxville, Tennessee.
The five advantages enjoyed by timber owners who have joined the "Tree Farm" program are:
(1) Protection against governmental regulation
(2) Protection against loss
(3) Perpetuation of the operation of sawmills
(4) Protection against improper land use
(5) Protection of your investment and mine
Mr. Rose pointed out that the only effective way to combat the threat of government regulation was to "show by actual results that you can do the job of growing a bigger and better timber crop, not only for ourselves, but for the future generation." This, he declared, would not only stem any trend toward government regulation, but was just plain good business.
"The policy of skinning instead of thinning is ruinous, and results in a loss to the timber owner and to the sawmill operator," Mr. Rose said.
"Thinning and selective cutting increases timber growth anywhere from 1O per cent to 50 per cent, depending upon the species and loeation-I do not know of any better interest rate."
"Fire is another enemy of proper timber management," he stressed, "as it kills lots of small trees. and invites in-
Mr. Rose pointed out the advantages of present returns, future yields, and good land utilization in harvesting trees only when they are mature. He also issued a reminder that a mature tree "reached a point of diminishing return" when the deterioration of the heart center balances the annular growth, and that trees left standing beyond this stage are a waste.
"Selective cutting of timber assures the timber owner a perpetual crop of high grade, long-stemmed quality timber that will yield high grade lumber at a profit and maintain an economic balance that most farms should have."
State universities and colleges of agri'culture have published more than 150 blueprint plans and bulletins for farm buildings and offer them free or at a very nominal charge. These are obtained directly from the school which has developed and tested the structure.
The Douglas Fir Plywood Association, Tacoma 2, Wash., has published a catalogue listing all the bulletins and it will be furnished free upon request. It gives the names and addresses of the schools publishing the circulars as well as the names of agricultural engineers at the various institutions. Where there are charges for blueprints, these fees are indicated.
The construction and testing of plywood buildings of advanced design has been a forthright attempt to develop new or improved structures that will contribute to modern farming methods.
The Treasury Department and the banks of America are making it possible for people not on the Payroll Savings Plan to purchase Bonds monthly on an "automatic" arrangement with ' their banks. This program is intended for self-employed people and others to whom the advantages of Payroll Savings are not available.
Support this new campaign by devoting some of your advertising space to the "Buy Where You Bank" plan.
I. Feature a "sure-seller"-U. S. Savings Bonds.
2. Give it a dramatic headline-This is easv. because Bonds are such a good buy. They pay $a at maturity for errery $3 invested!
3. Tell all the facts clearly-Bonds pay a high cash profit. Bonds are as safe as U. S. currcnc)r. The purchase of Bonds builds security for the individual and for the nation. People can buy Bonds regularly on a convenient, "automatic" basis through the Payroll Savings Plan where they work, or, if they're self-employed, through their banks.
YOUR STORE BENEFITS every time you run an ad on Savings Bonds, because people respect the store that does a public service. No other type of ad can win your store more prestige and good will.
You'll benefit your store, your community, and your country by devoting a generous portion of your advertising schedule to Savings Bonds. If you wish to run the official Savings Bonds ads that have been prepared for retail stores, you can obtain mats by contacting your State Director of the Treasury Department's Savings Bonds Division. He can also help you build up your own Payroll Savings Plan-the plan that hrings a feeling of extra security to your employees enables them to be happier, more efficient workers.
OFTICE
1404 Frcnklin St., Ocklcnd 12TWinoaks 3-5291 Ycrd-Foot oI Fcllon St., Ocklcrnd
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The Western Pine Association for the week ended August 30, 78 mills reporting, gave orders as 45,360,000 feet, shipments 44,483,M feet, and production 49,639,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 156,394,000 feet.
For the week ended August 23, 108 mills reporting, orders were given as 65,305,000 feet, shipments 60,321,0@ feet, and production 7|,29,OOO feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 213.824.000 feet.
The Southern Pine Association for the week ended August 23,80 units (101 mills) reporting, gave orders as 21,434,000 feet, shipments lg,nz,O$ feet, and production 17.768.000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 95.558.00O feet.
The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended August 30, 143 mills reporting, gave orders as 93,174,(Xn feet, shipments 86,037,000 feet, and production 93,V29,@0 feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the u'eek totaled 569,825,@0 feet.
For the rveek ended August 23,141 mills reporting, orders were given as 95,043,000 feet, shipments 82,453,000 feet, and production 93,554,000 feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the week totaled 564.153.000 feet.
Frank Weaver. of the Roddis Lumber pany of Missouri, Kansas City, will be Los Angeles office from September 15 to
California Fabricators is building a new $100,000 woodworking plant on a l2-acre site in Arcata, Calif. This concern rvill manufacture prefabricated structures for cooling towers, tank towers, trusses, and other industrial .items. The plant is expected to be in operation this month.
Principals in the new firm are Alf Westberg, formerly associated with the Little River Redwood Co., Crannell, and later with the Hammond Lumber Company at Samoa, where he was in charge of the factory, and Harry W. Cole, former president of the Little River Redwood Co., and later associated .ivith the Hammond Lumber Company as vice president.
E. W. Pease, l\{edford, Oregon, associated r,r,'ith the Trail Creek Lumber Co., has been elected president of the Southern Oregon Lumber Mart, recently formed at Medford for cooperative marketing, remanufacturing, kiln-drying, and by-products manufacture.
H. E. Brown, Brown Brothers Lumber Co., Grants Pass, was named first vice president; C. B. Graves, Cal-Ore Lumber Co., Ashland, second vice president, and Ben Dierks, Ben Dierks Lumber Co., Grants Pass, treasurer.
Veneer ComviSitor at the l12 Mcrrket Street, Scsr Frrmcisco GArfield l-1809 TEIXTYPts NO. $ F. 23O
L. L. Simpson rvas appointed secretary, and George Mooney, Medford, general manager. Offices will be opened soon in Medford and Grants Pass.
I.oS ANGELES OFFICts: 628 Pctrotan Bldg. PRorpect 43,t1
During the first half of 1947 the supply of most construction materials continued to improve mainly because of high levels of produ,ction, the Construction Division, Department of Commerce, announced August 24.
The Department's composite production index indicates that the averag'e for the first 6 months this year was 19.1 percent above output in the same period of 1946, and 5.4 percent above the monthly averag'e for 1946 as a whole. The composite index for June 1947 indicates a current rate of output 37 percent higher than the monthly average for 1939 and almost equal to that for 1941.
These figures are disclosed in a special feature on the outlook for construction materials which will appear in the August Construction and Construction Materials Industry Report of the Department.
As compared with monthly average production in 1946, the larger advances during the first half of this year were registered in hardwood flooring, softwood plywood, clay sewer pipe, cast iron soil pipe and fittings, gypsu.m board (including lath), asphalt roofing materials, concrete reinforcing bars, r,r'ire nails and staples, cast iron radiation, rigid steel conduit and fittings, warm air furnaces, and water heaters (except electric). Only tu,o items in the Department's indsx-mechanical stokers and range boilers
-showed a lower rate of output.
Exports of 13 constru'ction materials rose along with production during the first half ol 1947. Exports of all 13
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We woke up. .. CARS ARE SHORT. Nevertheless we're shipping Douglos Fir ond Redwood every doy to retoil lumbermen.
materials incr:ased in actual quantities. Although in part increases in exports can be attributed to the gradual relaxation of export controls beginning early in 1974, exports of materials remaining under strict control also increased.
Despite the increases, exports of 11 of the 13 materials still represent relatively small percentages of total production. The major exceptions are concrete reinforcing bars and fabricated structural steel.
Despite the encouraging over-all picture, there are a few materials for which supply has not caught up with demand, the report points out. For example, sheet steel, continues very short. Several other materials, notably millwork and flooring, cast iron soil pipe and pressure pipe, and electrical supplies in general, apparently are still short in several areas, indicating that areawise, at least, the flow of construction materials has not yet come into tralance.
"Since there is every reason to believe that the current high rate of output for most materials will at least be rnaintained during the rest of the year, area shortages should diminish," the report states. "Sheet steel, however, is likely to continue tight.
"By the end of the year there should also be further improvement in inventories in the hands of distributors. The main factor that may retard such improvement in the inventory situation is an apparent unrvillingness on the part of distributors to stock up at the current high prices.
"It seems unlikely, however, that construction material prices will decline during the rest of 1947. In fact, they may rise slightly because of the repercussions of the recent increases in the prices of 'coal and steel."
Detailed tables concerning the quantities of major materials used in construction last year and the anticipated usage during 1947 are carried in the complete report.
Copies of the Construction and Construction Materials Industry Report may be obtained on request from the Constru'ction Division, Department of Commerce, Washington 25, D.C., or from the Department's field offices.
The 3Gday retail lumber training course, sponsored by the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California, has been postponed from September l5 to October 6. Dealers planning to send a man should forward the application immediately to the Association of,fice, 1833 Broadway, Fresno. Calif.
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one yeor old Circulor Rip & Rerow, lers molor. All Timpkin beoringr, three rpeed power feed workr, culs up lo 12" x 12" fimberr. Will socrificc for ll75O.0O.
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609 S. Grond Ave., Los Angeles 14, Cqlifornio Telephone Mlchigon 9326
CRANE & CO. l4l7 E. l2rh 5r. r fRiniry 6973
Telephone TVinoaks 3-951 5 54 First Street, Oakland 7, Calil.
The offices of the \,\'eyeihaeuser Sales Company were moved from the W. M. Garland Building to the Halliburton Building, 17@ West Eighth Street, Los Angeles, effective September 1. The company's nerv telephone number is FAirfax 8265.
R. E. Simons was recently added to the sales force in I-os Angeles. He will sell the bark products under the trade name of Silvacon
J. G. Lipani handles the sales of the Douglas fir products, and B. L. Adams the Ponderosa pine.
At El Monte, Cclil.
El Monte Lumber Company, 510 East San Bernardino Road, El Monte, Calif., is manufacturing soft textured Ponderosa pine mouldings at the company's plant there. This company is operating a rvholesale distribution yard, handling Douglas fir, California redr,'r'ood, Ponderosa, and Sugar pine lumber.
D. A. Douglas is president of the company. Fred H. Morehouse, lvell known Southern California lumberman, is sales manager.
Walter Koll, A. J. Koll Planing Mill, Ltd., Los Angeles, and Mrs. Koll, are back from a month's vacation trip to the Northwest, incuding Banff and Lake Louise, Canada. They traveled by automobile.
Draws cool crir lrom Iloor level, hecrts crnd recirculctes it throughout the whole room! Keeps crir Iresher. Furnishes cr complete lorm lor the mqson-sqveg Your customers' construction cnd opercrtion costs...Nosmoke. Adcrptcrble to qny mcrntel design. More scrles-better profits Ior youwith the Bennett Line-Fireplcce Units, Dcmrpers (Steel cnd Ccrst:iron), Clecrn-outs, Ash Dumps, Lintel Bcrs, etc. . to lit every prospeci's requirement.
1270 So. I-ra Brea Ave. WEbster 3-1614
IJOS ANGEIJES 35
Frank J. Connolly, ber Co., Los Angeles. Hawaiian Islands. He They flew both r,vays, 18.
FRAMES crnd HANGERS
Frcrmes shipped set up complete. We ccrn now lurnish c STEEL REINFORCED FRAME crt <r smqll crdditionol cost which mqkes c very solid wcll. In ordering specily Steel or Wood Type.
600 l6th Street, Ocklcnd 12, Glencourt l-3990 Fcctory 8103 Seven Hillg Rd,, Ccstro Vclley, Hayward, CcliL
president, \\iestern Hard'ivood Lumrecently made a business trip to the \\ras accompanied by Mrs. Connolly. and returned to Los Angeles August
Frank C. Surbaugh, u.ell knorvn Southern California lumber salesman, is nor,v n'ith Simpson Industries, Los Angeles. He was formerly rvith Back Panel Company for several years, and prior to that rvas u'ith Standard Lumber Company, Los Angeles.
D. A. Douglas, president, and Fred H. Morehouse, sales manag'er, El Monte Lun.rber Co., E,l Monte, Calif., are visiting mills this rveek in Northern California and Oregon. They are traveling by air, ancl rvill be back September 22.
James O. Kemp, Kemp Hardrvare & Lumber Co., Los Angeles, traveled by plane recently to tire east coast, and also visited Detroit, Chicago, N{inneapolis and St. Paul.
P. V. Maury, Smith Lumber Company, San Francisco, travelecl to Spokane to be in attendance at the Hoo-Ho<r Annual con".ention, September 8, 9 anci 10.
Ed La Franchi, Pacific made a trip to the Pacific August.
Forest Products, Northrvest in the Inc., C)akland, latter part of
Ray Schaecher, Taylor Lumber Co., Iiugene, and Hugh Hamilton, manager of the Gardiner Lumber Co., Gardiner, Oregon, flew to San Francisco on a business trip at the end of August.
Veral A. Smith, Consolidated Lumber Co., Eugene, Oregon, and his rvife r'vere in San Frar.rcisco at the first of the month for a feu' days on their l'ay back from Chicago.
Paul Orban, Orban Lumber Companl', Pasadena, attended the annual Hoo-Hoo convention at Spokane, S.pteml>er 13 to 10.
Amor.rg those rvho nill attend the 50th Annual meeting of the National Harclu.ood Lumber Association at the Congress Hotel, Chicago, September 15 to 19, will be the follou'ing: Frank J" Connolly, and J. Glennon Cahill, Western Hardrvood Lumber Co., Los Angeles; C. R. (Bob) Taenzer, American Hardrvood Lumber Co., I-os Angeles; P. R. (Bob) Kahn, Forsyth Hardu'ood Co., San Francisco; J. E. (Ted) Higgins, Jr., J. li. Higgins Lttmber Co., San Francisco; LeRoy Stanton, Ii. J. Stantor, & Son, Los Angeles.
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Lumber Co.
Lumber Co., C)akland, the Atlantic Coast .and several weeks. @eneral Offces: Spoulding Building Portlond 4 Oregon
Washington, D. C., Sept. 2.-The first meeting of the National Housing Council, established as part of the permanent Housing and Home Finance Agency, will be held in September, Raymond M. Foley, HHFA Administrator, announced today.
The council is comprised of the HHFA Administrator as chairman; the heads of the Home Loan Bank Board, the Federal l{ousing Administration, and the Public Housing Administration, rvhich are parts of the HHFA; and the Secretary of Agriculture, the Veterans Administrator, and the chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, or their representatives.
"The neu, Council," Mr. Foley said, "will be one of the very important parts of the new overall housing organization through rvhich complete coordination of governmental actir.ities relating to housing will be sought. It rvill also furrrish a means for thorough consideration of housing policy as related to general economic and fiscal policy of the government. It $'ill carry forl.ard and expand work done on an informal basis by a Coordinating Council established early this year."
NIr. Folel' said organization of the ne'rv Housing and Home Finance Agency is proceeding and rn''ill be completed soo11. In aclclition to general supervision and coordination of administration and overall housing policy of coustituents, he said it u'ould concern itself with basic problems in the housing field, such as studies of the cost problem in hous-
ing and the relationhip of financing methods thereto; approaches to develop commonly accepted standards in residential appraisal; improved statistical methods as to housing need and production ; and new techniques and materials that become available to industry.
"The cost of producing housing remains a number one problem," Mr. Foley said. "ft is necessary that overall costs be reduced as related to the ability of the mass of the people to pay. This is essentially a task for private industry.
"The HHFA itself has no power to force down costs, but it can, we believe, greatly assist the efforts of private enterprise in developing means to do so. For example, while, as we have repeatedly pointed out, liberalized financing methods are not in themselves a substitute for an attack upon housing costs, they should so far as possible be used as an incentive to the production of more lower-cost housing and a means of helping to develop the full pro= ductivity of the industry."
Mr. Foley said recent cost reports from FHA field offices indicate a continued leveling off of overall costs in housing, but no general tendency to'ivard lowering of costs at the present time. He said he is hopeful, horvever, that during the coming year a trend to lorver costs rvill develop with possible stabilization of costs at a lorver level. It is too early to tell, he said, what, i{ any, effect on possible price declines may result from lifting of non-housing controls.
Our usuql lree delivery to Lumber Ycrds cnywhere in Southenr Ccrlilornis
Blvd. (Centrcl MIg. Dist.) Los Angeles 22, Co'lil.
Loccrted on Spur of L. A. Junction R. R.
Telephone ANgelus 2-9147
Direct Mill Shipment And Distribution Ycrrd Scrles oI
Douglas Fir
Dimension, Uppers and Finish
Alley Lrumber Co., Inc.
201 So.Iskewood Blvd. DowneY, Q'li{.
Telephone LOgcm 3401
Mill crt Medlord, Oregon
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Los Angeles Phoae: AShley 1-2288 Scrntc Monic<r Phones: 4-3298{-3299
Pine
We hqve for prompt shipment 4" lo 12" sirdried boords surfoced four sides for truck delivery in opproximotely l2,OOO' londs.
Moriposo, Coliforniq
Phone 53 J
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Korbel, Humboldt County 24O8-lO Russ Bldg. Colifornio Son Froncisco 4
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J. G. ANDERSON JOHN F. HANSON
P. O. Box 513, Studio City, Colif.
Telephone SUnset l-0454
STonley 7-4721
P. O. Box I I, Dsllos l, Texqs
Brush Industrial Lumber Co.
Wholes ale Distriiutors
Hardwoods and Softwoods
5354 East Slauson Ave.
Los Angefes 22, Calil.
ANgelus 1-1155
Brothers
Ruth Hanson, West Coast Screen Co., I-os AngeleS, left by lran-American plane for Honolulu, on vacation, August 27. She is a daughter of Francis G. Hanson, and expects to be back in three rnreeks.
Charlie Schmitt, U. S. Plyrvood Corp., San Francisco, got a good deal of varietf into his vacation rvith a week at Carmel and a vreek at Lake Tahoe.
Sterling Stofle, vice presider-rt, Western Hardrvood Lumber Co., I-os Angeles, traveled to San Francisco on his vacation, and brought his nerv grandson back for a visit to Southern California. He also rvorked at improving his golf game on several difierent courses.
Bill Haskin, U. S. Plyrvood Corp., Oakland, is back frorn an automobile tour of the Pacific Coast states and Canada. lle motored through southern British Columbia to Banff and Lake Louise, and returned through Yello'wstone National Park, and home by way of Salt Lake City.
Clem Fraser, sales manager, land, spent an enjoyable vacation River Park, Blairsden, Calif.
Hogan Lumber Co., Oaku'ith his familv at Feather
Dud Else of the lumber department, Sudden & Christenson, and his wife, spent their vacation last month at their cabin at Camp Meeker, Sonoma Countl'.
Co., Pasadena, left by to Nerv York. He l,as
Howard Coor-Pender, MacDougall Door & Frame Co., Los Angeles, took a week off in August and rvith his wife spent it at Lake Tahoe.
Fred L. Sayre, secretary-treasurer, Sterling Lumber Co., Oakland, has returned from a vacation trip to Denver, his old home tolvn. He also paid visits to friends in Salt Lake City and in Wyoming.
Robert E. Seeley, vice president, Simpson Industries, Seattle, was host on a recent fishing trip to a number of friends on the Green River, in the mountains, 60 miles east of Tacoma. Included in the partv were W. F. (Bill) f'ahs, California Panel & Verreer Co., Los Angeles, George Melville, Simpson Industries, Los Angeles, and Gordon Frost, Frost Hardlvood Co., San Diego, all of u,hom were on vac:rtion in the Pacific Northwest. Tl-re men.rbers of the party caught lots o{ mour,tain trout.
Ed Tietjen, lumber department, Sudden & Christenson, Inc., San Francisco, returned Septenrber Z from a tworveek vacation spent at his cottage on the Russian River, near Healdsburg, Calif.
, Hamilton Von Breton, Tropical & Western Hardwood Co., I-os Angeles left September 1O for Milwaukee, Wis., to attend the meeting of the Philippine Mahogany Import Association. He will go from there to Chicago to attend the annual meeting of the National Hardwood Lumber Association, and will make a number of calls on hardwood producers in the East and South. He expects to return about October 10.
Amos Geib, Geib Lumber Co., Huntington Park, Calif., is on a vacation trip to the Pacific Northwest, and will also visit Yellowstone National Park.
Stanley McDonald, of Owens-Parks Lumber Angeles, is spending three weeks calling on mills ington, Oregon, and Northern California.
Co., Los in Wgsh-
William Litchfield, Litchfield Lumber Co., Glendale, and his u'ife, have returned from a vacation trip to Oregon, Washington and Britisl-r Columbia. They spent some time n hile in Washington exploring the Hood Canal country.
Ross Carter of Consolidated Lumber Co., E.,gene, Oregon, and his lvife, rvere San Francisco visitors around the first of September.
A contraseasonal increase in investment commitments for construction is revealed in tabulations of.project contracts arvarded in July in the thirty-seven states east of the Rocky Mountains, it rvas reported August 19, by F. W. Dodge Corporation, a fact-finding organization for the construction industry.
The Dodge field staff filed reports on 28,734 projects reachirlg the contract-award stage last month. These projects have a total value of $660,254,000, representing a gain of 9 per cent over the valuation of -June contracts and a decline of 8 per cent from the total for July of last vear.
Estcblished 1904 Pcul Orbqn, Owner
ORBAil I,UMBIR COMPAIIY
Olfice, Mill <rnd Ycrrd
77 So. Pcrsadena Ave., Pcrscrdencr 3, Ccrlil.
, Pcsqdena, SYccrmore 6-4373 relepnones: Los Angeles, RYcrn t-Ggg7
WHOTESALE cnd BETAIT
Specializing in truck and trailer lots.
HARBOB YAAD AT LONG BEACH
Since 1888
OFFICE, MILL. YARD AND DOCTS
2nd d Alice Sts., Ocrklcad Glencourt l-6861
Electrically Weldedl
OverheodType STEET A
DTho dmr to 16Dlac68wln0 typ6 and othsr old styl6 dooB... ALL STEEL aloctrically u.ld. €dru8t m!l3tant. Ru0!rdly bulltlmDrdcd m4hanl3n.
LCL and Carlot Diaributors
WHOIESALE BUITDING SUPPLY INC
1607 32nd 9r. Ooklond 8, Colif. TEmplebor 2-5964-5-5
Resawin g-Su rfacin g-Sticlcin g
5024 E. Washington Blvd. LOS ANGELES 92 ANgelus 1-8401
lrlroufacturcrrcnd Vholrrrbn
TUMBERMENS BUILDING PORTLAND 4, OREGON
Shipments By Rcril cnd Ccrrgo All Species Telephone Teletype BRocrdwcrv 3613 Ptld. 167
Exterior type Douglas fir plyr,vood is a material farmers like to use for silos, hog houses, chicken houses, brooders, feeders, grain bins, barns, milk houses and many other structures. Plyu'ood has gained rvide acceptance for small portable farm structures as lvell as larger farm buildings because it is sturdy and durable under repeated handling and for long periods of use.
The large, light-.iveight, puncture-proof panels speed construction no ntatter rvhether the farmer or carpenter does the work because each standard 4'x8' panel covers 32 square feet of area. And since plyrvood is real rvood, only ordinary carpentry tools are needed to rvork with it.
Plywoocl holcls nails and screlr,s close to the edge rvithout splitting or breaking ancl it is also the most logical material to be used in glued construction, which increases the strength and rigidity of a structure and permits simplified framir.rg. The tight u,alls formed with plyr,vood construction offer excellent insulating characteristics and at the same time reduce infiltration of dust and dirt to the minirnum.
Today, sanitation is recognized by agricultural engineers and farmers alike as an all important factor in successful hog raising. Pasturing has proved to lte the easiest system of keeping the animals in clean surroundings. To do so, horvever, invoives moving portable houses to a clean location from time to time. Here again plyl'ood, itecause o{ its great strength in all directions and nail-holding qualities, is the builcling material for best results.
In milk roonls and dairy barns, the advantage of painted, smooth, Puncture-proof plyrvood rvalls for strength and cleanliness is all-important. Here, u'here the panels are to be subjected to repeated rvetting and excessive moisture, Ilxterior type pl1'r'r'<>od is recommended.
Douglas fir plyrvood is nou, better equipped than ever
Fred Smales, lnanag'er California <livision, Unitecl States Plvu'ood Corp., Los Angeles, recently visitecl the firm's representatir-es, I-en,ers & Cooke, Ltd., in Honolulu.
IJe took part ilt the Trans-I'acific 1'acht race as a member of the creu. of a friend's competing yacht, and fleu' back to Los Angeles.
before to aid in tl.re construction of eflrcient ancl durable farm structures. An extensive research prograln l-ras been carried on for se\reral years, and striking evidence of the results already attained is presented in an ar-rav of plans for modern farm structures now available.
Tl-re nerv yard of the Simm<ins & Pettl. I-umber Cor.npany at Doheny l)ark, at the intersection of the Coast Highrvay and Highrvay 101, is no'n in operation. Scott Sirnmons, the manager, 'rvas formerly ri'ith E. K. \\'oocl I-unrber Clo., and I'atten-Blinn I-umber Co., Los Angeles.
V/HOLESALERS AND f ir and Other
Yards, Docks and Terminal Facilities
2000 Evans Avenue, San Francisco 24 VAlencia 4-4lOO
REPOSSESSION
4 Wilson Cut-Off Saws, 5 H.P. motor, gravities & table. Balance due $350.00 each.
1 Ross 3-Ton Lift-Saws & Lift about 1 year old... $2,450.00.
I 7-Ton Hyster-Late.Model-Make ofrer. CRANE & COMPANY
Los Angeles, Calif.1417 E. 12th St.TRrinity 6973
WOODWORKING STICKER FOR SALE
For sale Yates-American 8-inch ball bearing sticker. 20 HP motor and switch. Machine is in excellent condition. Now operating.
Monrovia Lumber Co.
132 West Colorado Blvd.
Monrovia, Calif.
Phone Monrovia 1-2431
Established wholesaler wants a capable softwood man as buyer and department sales manager.
Address Box C-1431, California Lumber Merchant 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles f4, Calif.
Hyster Fork Lift, Lumber Carrier, Matcher, Gang Rip Saw, Planer, Band Rip Saw, Blower, Cyclone, Incinerator, Air Compressor, Sorting Table, Drill Press, Chain Saw, Bench Grinder, Steel Lumber Dollies, Knife Grinder, Band Saw, Band Saw Blades, Stretcher, Welding Clamp, Snatch Blocks, Time Recorder, Industrial Siren, Time Clock
Immediate Delivery
HODGSON-GREENE-HAL,DEMAN SHIPBUILDE.RS
1'109 West 7th Street, Long Beach 13, Calif.
Telephone NEvada 6-2862
Fordyce-Qrossett
Frambes & Son, W. P..,,----------
Lumber Co., Ed..---
Products Sales Company
& Green Lumber Co.,
Johns Manville Corporation Kelley, AIbert A. ---------------- ----------------------------37 Kemp Hardware & Lumber Co..------------------ 30 Koehl & Son, fnc., John V.,-------
Lamon-Bonnington Company -------------------------* Lausmann Co., J. H.--- -- -----------41
Lawretrce-Philips Lurlber Co.
Lumbermen's Credit Association.------------------*
Lumber Buyers Exchange----------------Lumber Incorporated of Oregon.----
Lumber Tenninal C,o.------------------ ----------------46
MacDonald & Flarrington, Ltd.,MacDonald Co., L. W.----,------,-------, ----,----- 34
lVIacDougaII Door & Frame Co.----------,------.24
Mahogany Importing Co.
Manufacturers Lumber Company, Inc. ------- 35
Marquart Millwork Company
Mason Supplies, fnc..-.------. -.--'-------------------.41
Matthies C.o.. P. L. -..--..------,--.-,--.------,--,--,------*
McKinney Lumber Co.,,-----Mengel Company, The ---,,.---
Michigan-California Lumber Co. ------------------*
Moore Dry Kiln Co.
Monarch Lumber Co. -..- ---- ----------- 39
Nicolai Door Sales Co. ---------------,-
Northern Redwood Lumber Co. -----------,,-- ,-- 4a
O'Neill Brothers --.,.....-----,--------,25
Orban Lumbec Co. ------------- -----------------.45
Oregon Lumber Sales Inc. ----------,-----------,-- 34
Pacific Forest Products, Inc.,-,--------------
Pacific Lumber Co., The
Pacific Mutual Door Co..---,------------, Pacific Wire Products Co.--, --------------------------19
Parafrne Companies, The.-------------- ------------ 7
Patrick Lumber Co. -,--------------,----.13
Peerless Built-In Fixture Co.-- ,-- ,---------------.25
Pitcher Co.. E. C..---,-,--,----- ----------42
Penberthy Lumber Co. -.--.-------
Pope & Talbot, Inc., Lumber Divibion.------- 5
Ponderosa Pine Voodwork ---- ------.-
Portland Cement Association---:
Portland Shingle Co. --,------- ----------29
Ream Co., George E.----------- ---- - ----,,-------------13
Red Cedar Shingle Bureau----------------------------11
Rilco Laminated Products, Inc..--- ---------------*
Rolbins Lumber Co., R. G. -,---,--------------------42
Roddis California fnc..---,--------------------,--O.F.C.
Ross Carrier Co. ,----
Rounds Trading Company,------
Rudbach & Co.,-John A.-------------------
Rudiger-Lang Co. ------------------------------------------,--18
Ry-Lock Co., Ltd.,------- -.----------.32
San Pedro Lumber Company--..----------.-----------'
Santa Fe Lumber Co.
Servente Hardwood Co..-----------------,-------,------- 8
Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Cnmpany-.32
Shevlin Pihe Sales Co.------------------ ------------------37
Simpson Industries, Inc..----------------
Simpson Logging C.ompany-----,---,,---------------- 9
So-CaI Building Materials Co..------ ---------,---*
Southwestern Portland Cement Co. -,------------,31
Stanton & Son, E. J. -.- --"-
Strable Hardwood Co. --------------..----------,-------- l8
Sudden & Christenson, fnc..------------ .-------------29
Tacoma Lumber Sales.---------
Tarter, Vebster & Johnson, lnc ---. -----------.27
Toste Lumber Company------- ------------1O
Tropical & V€stern Lumber Co. --- --,------4O
United States Gypsum Company-------
U.S. Plywood Corporation - ----------:--.
Wendling-Nathan Co..-------- --,----.21
West Coast Screen Co. -- -------.23
West Coast Stained Shingle Co..---------- ------*
West Oregon Lumber Co..---,-.----------
Western Custom MilI. Inc. ,--,----------- -----43
Vestern Door & Sash Co.,------- 'Western Hardwood Lumber Co..-------------..---*
Western MiII & Moulding Co..-------------.---- t
Vestern Pine Supply Co. ,---------------- -- -.27
Weyerhaeuser Sales Company -----,---- --- - -- .-. *
White BrothersWilson Lumber Co.. A. K. -,---.--------------------- 25
Wholesale Building Supply, Inc. --------------45
Wholesale Lumber Distributors. Inc. - --------41
Wood Lumbcr Co.. E. K. -
Rate-f2.50 per Column Inch.
FOR RENT
LI'MBER CANRIENS _ TIFT TRUCKSROLI.ER TRUCKS SALES ALSO REPAIRS
LUMBER TNANSPORTATION
"Hysler Hculing"
Lcrgest Fleet ol Boss cnd Hyster
Lumber Ccrriers qnd LiIt Trucks
Ou The Webt Cocst
WESTERN TUMBER CARRIERS
1325 Eagt Opp St. NEvcdq 6-1371
P. O. Box 622 Wilmington, Cclil. TErmincl 4-6624
AUDITS; FINANCIAL STATEMENTS; TAX MATTERS
Part-Time Bookeeping
E. M. WORTHING
Public Accountant
P. O. Box 56, Station M Los Angeles 32, Calif.
Phones: Rlchmond 9251 ; CUmberland 3-1706
THIRTY YEARS LUMBER EXPERIENCE
Kiln drying and milling by one of the largest Custo=r Dry Kilns on the West Coast. We buy Shop Grades and Clears.
San Pedro Dry Kiln Co.
P.O. Box 622, Wilmington, Calif.
Phones-TErminal 44597 and 44598
SAWMILL-Douglas County, Oregon, located on Highway No. 99, about 7 miles from main line Southern Pacific. All steam mill, double circular, edger, trimmer, all complete with YATES No. 9l round head 4-side surfacer. New 3-block carriage and $8,000 burner now being installed. City fire protection. Now operating; mill actually averaged 39 M feet per 8-hour day for month of July. Price $68,000. Terms can bs had by responsible party. Eight million feet easily accessible timber can be also be bought with the mill at market price (about. $3.50 per M feet).
REDWOOD SHINGLE MILL-(Brand new) Mendocino County, California. Price $10,000. No timber owned but logs can be had from loggers at $20 per M delivered at mill.
LUMBER YARDS FOR SALE-See our ad in the Aueust 15th issue of ?he California Lumber Merchant.
LUI\{BER YARD WANTED-We have a customer for a going lumber yard in the San Fernando Valley. Must have spur track, located on a good through boulevard, about two acres. An all cash deal. If you own a yard like this and want to sell, get in touch with us.
BAND RESAW FOR SALE-New last year. Heavy duty type. All steel frame. 54 inch wheels, 8 inch blade. 50 H.P. and 7l H.P. motors. Handles up to 36" by 36". Can be seen operating in Los Angeles. Price $8,25O loaded on cars.
TWOHY LUMBER CO.
LUMBER YARD AND SAWMILL BROKERS
801 Petroleum Bldg., Los Angeles 15, Calif.
Shop foreman to take charge of mill-manufacturing cabinet work, sash, iloors and miscellaneous millwork Must be able to work out own shop details and bill in materials to cutters. Steady work.can be assur-ed with good pay to right man. State full qualifications and experience in first letter.
ARIZONA SASH DO,OR & GLASS COMPANY
P.O. Box 2310, Tucson, Arizbna
Mill and Lumber Yard located centrally between San Francisco and San Jose on the Peninsula. Stiop equipped for millwork. Yard equipment includes two stickerg planer, lumber stacker, and other equipment making it suitable for millwork and lumber sales or for a plant and office for a large scale builder. Price physical assets only.
Address Box C-1422, The California Lumber Merchant 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles f4, Calif.
WANTED
For mill town in Humboldt County, California, experienced lumber billing clerk. Must understand preparing bills of lading, figuring tallies and be fast and accurate tJryist. Single man or woman preferred. Good living conditions. Strike conditions existing. Give full details and reierences.
H. F. Walker. NORTHERN REDWOOD LUMBER CO. Korbel, Humboldt County,' California
STANDING TIMBER FOR SALE lst and PONDEROSA PINE, LARGE ACREAGE.
WRITE: IrAKE ARROWHEAD, CALIFORNIA, P.
2nd GROWTH FOR DETAILS o. Box 715
Half interest in small retail yard, located in mining, timber and resort region of Northern California. Ten thousand dollars cash, balance can be arranged. Inventory runs a out $20,000. Prefer party with experience.
Address Box C-1428, Cali{ornia Lumber Merchant 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.
Interested in Francisco area. agreeable.
Address 508
c::perienced lumberman, buying primarily, San Can become associated with new company if Box C-1430, California Lumber Merchant Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.
Minneapolis Maline Industrial Tractor, Model 3-3,/8 X 4 cylinder E.F., in first class condition, equipped with yoke to hanCle lumber, also six 2-wheeled carts.
WEBER SHOWCASE COMPANY-ADarns r-4221
LUMBER YARD FOR SALE
On desirable piece of property 150 by 165 feet, located in the heart of a good town 20 miles east of Los Angeles Complete lumber sheds, cement storage shed. Four-room modern apartment on the property, with immediate possession. Yard has complete mill, and has been established 25 years. No inventory to buy. One 2lton Dodge truck. Price $35,000. Part can be financed. This yard has a direct lumber rnill connection.
Address Box C-1427, California Lumber Merchant 5C8 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.
LUI|trEN
Arcqtc Rrdwood Co, 120 Mqrlct Str.et (ll) ..YIlLoa 6-A!67
AtLinso!-Stutr Conpcny, ll2 Markor Street (ll) .Gf,rlield 1.1809
Christeuon Lunber Co., Evang trve. cad Quiat Sr, (21). .VAlcncic {-5832
Cords Lunbu Compmy, 88 Port St. ({) .DOuglcs 2-2t!69
Dcnt 6 Eurcll, Inc., 2l'l Froat Sr. (ll) ......SUttcr l-638{
Dolbeer 6 Ccreon Lumber Co., lllSMerchqnteExchcageBldg.({)DOuglc 2-6{1,6
Ellioft, F. W., I Drunn Street (ll) .DOuglcc 2-{2ll
Eviu Producig Co., 485 Ccliloniq St. ({) .SUtter l-l{91
Gmenton d Grcrn Lunber Co,. 1800 Army Street (2{) .ATwqter 2-1300
Holl, Jcnes L., 1032 Mills BldE. ({) .....SUrter 1.7520
Hclliacn Mcckin tr unber Co.,
-_681 Mcrket S!. (5) ...DOuslcs 2-19{l
Hcnmond Lunber Conpcny,
__4_l? Mgatgoqrory Stroot (6) ....DOuglcs 2-3388
Hobbs Wcll Lumber Co., 405 Moatsonerv St. ({) ...GArlield l-7152
Holnes Eurokc f,unber Co.. ll05 Finaacicl Centor 8lds. ({). .Gf,rtield l-1921
Lcnoa-Bouilgton Compmy. 717 MqrLet St. (3) . ...Gf,rlield l-6881
Lumbcr Tonhcl Co,, Inc., 2000 Evqas tlve. (2{) ........Vf,lcuciq {-{100
MccDoncld C Hardngton, Ltd., I Drumn St. (ll) . ....Glrtield l-839i1
LUMBER
LUI'!!ER
Nortlern Redwood Lunbrr Co.,
2{08-10 Rugs Bldg. ({) ........Ettbrook 2-789{
O'Neill Brothen
465 Ccliloruiq St. ({) ..YII}oa 6-3959
Oregon Lunber Scler
4{{ Mcrket Sr. (ll) ...YUlon 8-2428
Pceilic Lunber Co., The I00 Buah Street ({) ...GArlield l-ll8l
Pcirick Lunber Co. (O. L. Ruseum)
ll2 Market St. (ll) . ....YUkon 6-1460
Pope d Talbot, Inc., Lunber Diviaion, 320 Cclilorniq St. (4) .DOustcs 2-2561
R. G. Robbins trunber Co., (L. J. Owca) I Druum Street (ll) ..DOuglcs 2-50fl1
Roundg Trcdiaq Conpcnv, Crocker Bldi. ({)' .YUkon 6-Gt2
Scntc Fe Lunber Co., I Drumn St. (ll) ....Efrrook2-2tr!11
Shevliu Piae Sales Co.,lQ!0 Moaqdnock Bldg. (5) ....EXbrook2-7011
Sudden d Chrigtensoa. lnc., 310 Sqnsome Street (4) ........Glrfeld l-2846
Tarter, Websler 6 Johnsou, Iac., I Montgomery St. (1) ....DOuglcs 2-2080
Carl W. Wqtta, 975 Monadnock Bldg. (5) .......YUkoa 6-1590
Wendling-Ncthca Co., 56d Mcrket St, ({) .....SUtter l-5383
West Oregon Lunber Co,, 130 Tentb Street (3) .IlNderhilt l-0720
Weslera Piae Supply Conpcay, l20l Hcrrison St. (3) .........IlNderhill l-8686
LT'MEEN
E. E. Wood Lunber Co,, ---l Drunn Srreet (ll) .EXbrook 2-gl0
li9cyerhceuser Scles- C6., 39I Sutter St. (8) ...GArliefd f-89?r!
HANDWOODS
Cola_itius_-Hcrdwood Co., George C., ^ 465 Cctilomic sr. ({) ..... ..l..cl*ietd t-87t8 serverle llcrdwood Lunber Co., ---!55 B_cmgveld Ave. (24) .VAtencic {-{200
While Broihers Filth cnd Brcmon Streets (7) ....SUtier t-136S
SASH_DOORS-PLYWOOD
Hcrbor Plywood Corp. oI Ccli{ornic, ---54q lorh sr. (3) .................MArker l-6705 Nicolqi Door Scles Co., , 3045 lgth St. (10) ...VAtencic {-22{l United Stdtes Plywood Corp., 2727 Atny St. (10) .ATwcter 2-tglXt CNEOSOTED I.UI\'BEN_POLES_ PILINGI-TIES
Americqa Lunber d Trecting Co., 604 Mission St. (5) Bcxler.
Piling 6 Lumber Co., 461 Mcrket Street (5) .EXbrook 2-ilgOl Wendling-Nctbcn Co., 56'l Mcrket St. (4) .....SUtter l-5363
Cclilornic Lumber Scles, '1615 Tidewqter Ave. (l) .........f,ellog 3-6707
Ecslghore Lumber d Mill Co., '!821 Tidewaler Ave (l). ..KEllog 3-2121
Firestone Lumber Industrieg, 3200 Percltc Sr. (8) .Plednont 5-2251
GGenloD d Greea Lumber Co., 2(Xll Livingston St. (6)...........X811og {-188d
Gordoa-MacBeclb Hqrdwood Co., 25{6 Scn Pcblo Ave,, Berkeley (2) .....Berkeley 7-5865
Gosslin-Hcrding Lumber Co., 2ll Prolessioncl Btde. (l)......... .KEllog {-20U
Hill G Morloa, Inc.,
Deanison Sireet Wharl (7) ....lIdovcr l-l0Z
llogcr Lunber Conpcny, 2nd cad Alice Sirebts ({) ....Glencourt l-6861
LUI\'!BER
Allev Lunber Co., 201 So. Lckewood Blvd. (Downey). .LOgca 3{01
Allied Veaeer C Lunbcr Co., 5100 So. Boyle Ave. (ll) ........LUccg ?291
Auderson-Hanson Co,, P. O, Box 513, Studio City........SUset l-0{51
Anslo Cclilornic Lunber Co., 655 E. Florence Ave. (l) .....THonwcll 3l{l
Arcctc Bedwood Co. (J. I. Rec)
5{10 Wilshire Elvd. (36)..........WEbrtcr 7828
Atkiuoa-Stutr Conpqly, 528 Petroleun 8tdg. 115) ........PRospect 4341
Atlog Lunber Co., 2035 E. l5th St. (21) ..PRospect 7{01
Bcrlo Lunber Co., Bqlph E. (Huntingtoa Pcrk) 2301 E. Ncdecu Ave. .. ....lEfiergon 7201
Brusb lndustricl Lumber Co..
535{ E, Slcuson Ave, (22) .... .Ailgelu l-llir
Burne Lumber Conrcnv.
?27 W. Seventh -Sr. -(ll) ... ..tBiaity lll6l
Cqrr d Co., L. l, (W. D. Duraiag),
{38 Ch. ol Con. Blds. (15) ......PRospect 8813
ConeolidcteC Lumber Co.,
122 W. lellerson St. (7). .Blchmond 2l{l
14,16 E. Ancheim Sr., Wilningtoa... ...Wiln. Ter. 4-2687; NE. 6-1881
Cooper W'holesale Lunber Co,, W. E,,
60E508 Richlield Blds. (13).. ......MUtual 2l3l
Dcnt G Ruescll, Inc.,
8I2 E, 59th Strect (l) .....ADcan 8l0l
Dell Lunber Co, (Burbonk)
124 So. Victorv Blvd..........CHcrlcgtoa 6-1182
Dolbeer d CcrgoL Lunber Co.,
901 Fidelity Eldc. (13)...........Vlldilc t792
Frcmbes 6 Son, 1ll. P.,
907 So. Alvcrcdo St. (6) ....FEdrral 7301
Ed. Fouatcia Luaber Co.,
7l{ W. Olynpic Blvd.. ..PBorpcct {il{l
Hcttincn Mcd}ii Lmber Co,
{188 E. Bcndhi Blvd. (23). ....ANgelua 2-8{Xl0
Hcnnond Luber Conpqnv,
2lll0 So. Atcnedc St. (51)......PRorpcct l3il3
Hcrrig Lunbcr Co., L. E.,
...Lllcyetto 8i179
.....MUtud 9l8l
f,elley, Albert A, P. O, Box 2{0 (Alcmedc). .Lckehurst 2-2751
PANELS_D OONS_SASH_SCBEENS PLYWOOD_MILLWONK
LI,I\1FER Cotilornic Buitders Supplv Co.. Monqrch Lumber Co.. 700 6rh n".i""1lj-il:..:..:....Iilgcre l-GgtS
1404 Frcnklin St. (12) ...TY[iaoc}s 3-5291 Hogcn Lumber Compcnv, Pccilic Foresl Products, Inc, 9th Avenue pier .........':....TWinocks 3-9g66 2ad cnd Alice Stre'ets'(4) ....Glencourt l-8861 E. K. Wood Lumber Co., E. C, Pitcher Compcny, 2lll Frederick Strcet (5) ........frllog2-1271 600 l6ih St. (12) .............Glencourt l-3990 Wboleecle Egilding Supply, Iac., Peerless Built-in Fixlure Co. (Berkeley)
1607 32nd Street (8) .TEmplebcr 2-698{ 2608 Scn Pcblo Ave. (2) ....THomwcll 3-0820 Wholescle f,umber Distribulors, Inc., United Sldtes ptywood Corp., 5{ First Street_(7)__._._.........TWinocks3-515 -stO-B^"f -Sr. iZl ......1 ....TWinocks3-554{ HAnDwooDs wl"t"ro Door d scsh co., Strcble Hqrdwood Conoqnv -'iil;;;'tl;3i.-.T""iil"....TEnptebcr2_S5B{ 5th 6 Cypress Streets (7) ....TEmplebcr2-8400 White Blothers, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., 500 Hish Street (l) ...ANdover l-16(ltl 2lll Fredcrick Street (6) .......KElloq 2-ltn
MacDonold G Hcrriagton, Ltd., Petroleum lldg. (15). ..PRoepect 3l?7
LUII'IBEn
Mchogcny Inportiug Co., 821 S. Sprias St. (l{). ..TRiaity 9851
Mcnulccturerg f,unbcr Co., 8145 Beccb Street (I). .....LUcqa 617l
Mqtthies Co., P, M. (Pqecdenc 5), 817 So. Arroyo Pcrkwcy.......SYccmore 3-2149
Orbcn Lunber Co., 77 S. Pcscdeaa Ave., Poscdeuq (3). .SYccnore 8-{373
Pqcific Lunber co., Tbc BYca l-69!7 5225 Wilshire Blvd. (36). ...YOrk 1168
Pctrick Lumber Co., Ecstman Lumber Scles, Tltl W, Olympic BIvd. (15). .PRospect 5039
Pone d Tclbot, Inc., Lumber Division7l{ W. Olvmpic Blvd. (15). ..PRo:pect 84|1
E. L. Reitz Co.l
Budbach d Co., John A. ll2 West gth Street (15)............TUcler 5ll9
Sqn Pedro Luaber Co., l5l8 S. Ceatrcl Ave. (21)... ..Bichmoad llll
1800-A Wilnbstou Bocd (Sqn Pedro). ........TEmiaql 2-5196
Shevlia Pine Scles Co., 330 Pelroleun Bldg. (l$1........PRospect 0615
Sinpson lnduslriea, Iac..
_ t6J0 E. Walhinglon Blvd. (21)...PBospeci 6183
Spalding Lumber Co., 803 Pelroleun Bldg. (15). .....Blcbnoud 7-48,11
Stanlon,E,LdSol, _ 2!5! E.-{lq! St. (ll). .CErtury 23211
Sudden 6 Chrisienron, Iuc., _630 Bocrd -ol Tg{e Bldg. (l{)....tlility 88{{
Tqcouc Lunber Salea, -837--Petro,leu Elqg. (15). .PRoepcct ll08
Wendliag-Ncthcn Co., 5Zl5 WilghLe Blvd. (35). ...YOrk It68
West OreEon Lunber Co,, ,O7 Pclroleum Bldg. (15). .Rlchnond 0281
W, W. Wilkinsoa, ll2 tVest Niat! Street (15)........Tniliiy {613
Weverhqeuger Saleg Co,, lltg W. M. Gcrlqad Bldg. (lg1 Mlchiq.n 63lil Wilgou Lumber Co,, A. f,. (Donlnquer luctioa) Del Ano 4 Alcmedcr Blvdr.....NEmarl l-8651
E. f,. Wood Luaber Co., {710 So. Almedc Sr. (5{)........IEflenoa 3lll
CNEOSOTED LT,IIEEN-POLES
PILING:-TIES
Ancricm Lumber 6 Treqtiag Co., ll2 Wesi gth Strc.t (lS). .TRinity 5361
Bcxter, f, H. d Co., 601 West sth Strcot (13).........Mlchicc 0291
McCormicl 6 Bc*ler Crcoroting Co., lll W. l{inth Strcet (13). .lrunftr $fg
Pope 6 Tclbot. Iac,, Lunber Divisioa, tl4 W. Ofynpic Btvd. (15)..... Pnospect 8231
HANDWOODS
Americqn Hardwood Co., 1900 E. lsth Streei (54).... .PRospect r!235
Sohnhofl Lumber Co., lnc., 1500 So. Alqnedc St. (21)........PRospect 32t!5
Brusb Induglriql Lumber Co., 535t1 E. Slauson Ave. (22). .ANgelus l.ll55
Penberthy Lunber Co., 5800 South Boyle Ave. (ll)......Klmbcll 5lll
Stdnton, E, I. d Son, 2050 Ecst 4lst Streel (ll)........CEntury 29211
Trooiccl d Western Lumber Co., 609 S. Grqnd 4ve..... ..Mlchigrcu gt25
Western Hardwood Lunber Co., 2014 Ecst l5tb Street (55).......PBospect 616l
SASH_DOORS_MILLWORK_SCNEENS
BLINDS_PANELS AND PLYWOOD InONING BOARDS
Back Panel Comocnv, 310-314 Ecst 32nd'streot (ll).....ADcns {225
Calilornic Door Compcny, The P. O. Box 126, Vernon Stction (ll) Klnbcll 2l{l Cclilonic Ponel d Veneer Co., P. O. Box 2096, Tenincl lnqex (54). ..:..........TRilitt 00!t? Cobb Co., T. M., 5800 Centrcl Avenue (ll).........ADcns llll7 Cole Door d Plvwood Co., 1049 E. Slcusoi Ave. (ll). .ADcns {371
Dcvidson Plywood d Veaeer Co,, 2135 Enterprise St. (21). ..TRinitv9858
Eubaal d Son, L. H. (Inglewood) 433 W. Redondo Blvd.. .OReson 8-2255
Hcley Broa. (Scutc Monicq) l6m lltb Street... .......AShley '!-2263
Koahl, lno. W. 6 Soa. 552 S. Myera Street (23)..........4N9e1us 8l9l
MccDougcll Door d Frame Co,, 2035 E. Slet Street (ll). .Klnbcll 316l
Pccific Mutucl Door Co,. 1600 E, Washhston Blvd. (21). ..PRospect lt5gl Recm Conpcny, Geo. E., 235 S. Alameda Street (12).....Mlchigcn l85l Roddis Cclilornic. Inc., 2860 E. 54lh St. (ll). ....JEflereon 3261
Scmpson Co. (Pcscdena), 7{5 So. Rcymoud Ave. (2).........BYo l-6939
Sinpson Indugtrles, 1610 E. Wclhiagton B!vd. (21)..PRospoct 6183
Uaited Stcies Plvwood Corn.. 1930 Ecst l5th-St. (21)...'.......Rlchnond 610l
Westem Cugton Mill, Inc., __-4200 -Bqndini Blvd.- (22) ANgelur ?-9107
\l9est Coqgl Screcn Co., ll27 Ecst 63rd Slre€t (I)..........ADcnr lll08
Weaten Mill d Mouldiag Co., 11615 Pcmelee Ave. (2). .Klnbcll 2953
E. K. Wood Lunber Co., {710 S. Alcneda St. (5{)........lEfferson Sllt
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