The California Lumber Merchant - October 1945

SOLID as the pine timbers from which its core is built, the Roddiscrafr Flush Hardwood Door is an outstanding achievement in modern building technique. Five plies, bonded into a single waterproof; fungi-proof unit, give the Roddiscraft door strength and durability unequalled. But that isn't all.... actual tests prove conclusively that these solid core doors are more fire and sound resistant than any other flush door. Ideally suited for either interior or exterior installation, Roddiscraft doors are available now in a wide range of pizes and in a number of beautiful hardwoods. See your local lumber dealer or write or call-

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Through personal contact ask every employee to sign up for regular payroll savings each week. Keep it up until you get at least 9ols participation and LOls oI payroll applied to the purchase oI War Bonds.

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Strikes Close Lumber Plants

Portland, Ore., Sept. 24-An estimated 40 per cent of Northwest lumbering camps, sawmills and plants were shut dorvn today as 60,000 A.F.L. workers launched a strike to force negotiations of wage demands on an industry-wide scale.

Production at 348 logging camps, sarvmills and woodworking plants was stilled effective at 12:0L a.m. today in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana.

The strike was called after conciliation efforts of the Labor Department's special lumber commission broke down over industry-wide demands for a $1.10 hourly minimum wage,

Operators estimated the strike r,r'ill affect about 15 cent of the nation's lumber and u'ood products supply.

met. CIO demands for a 25 cents per hour increase in' cludes an hourly minimum of $1.15 an hour'

The seven large lumber yards in the Los Angeles harbor district were closed on September 17 when 45 members of the A.F.L. International Union of Operating Engineers went on strike.

The union <iemancled a blanket increase ol l2l cents an hour for lumber carrier and steam and electric crane operators, retroactive to July 1, 1944. They turned down an ofier of 7l cents for carrier operators, and l2l cents for crane operators, retroactive to July l, 1945.

per The strikers embrace two classifications of workers, crane drivers who get $1.37% cents an hour and carrier drivers who get $1.11% cents an hour.

Yreka,. Calif., Sept. 25.-Several hundred A.F.L. lumber workers in Siskiyou County were out on strike today as labor troubles spread into California from the Pacific Northwest. A union spokesman here said: "We have received no official word to go on strike, and we will not until the plants are picketed."

Portland, Ore., Sept. 27.-The negotiating committee of the International Woodrvorkers of America (CIO) continued policy meetings but did not issue a strike call to its 40,000 workers. The commitiee has been authorized by the locals to call a strike if the wage demands are not

. On September ?7, eight lumber companies in San Diego were closed by a strike called by the Millmen's Union and the Teamsters lJnion of the A.F.L. The dispute is over the retroactive date, the unions requesting the increase retroactive to December l,1944. The companies have offered to make the increase retroactive to August 18, 1945, the date when the General Order No. 40 was issued which permitted the employers of the nation to increase wages without board approval, providing the increase would not be used in whole or in part to increase or resist the reduction of ceiling prices. Thirty-three lumber companies in the San Diego area are involved in the dispute.

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All Buildins Restrictions Lifted October 15

Snyder Turns Down OPA Demond for Control of Ceilins Prices on Construction

The biggest news in years came out of Washington on September 18, when Reconversion Director John W. Snyder, just returned from an official trip to Europe, announced that effective October 15 all building restrictions would be lifted, and home and other construction could go into high gear. The only restriction after that day will be the difficulty of getting materials and labor.

In announcing this most important news, Mr. Snyder turned down the plan of OPA and NHA to place price ceilings on all home construction, and turn the home building industry virtually over to the confused and impractical mercy of these bureaus. (See Vagabond Editorial, this issue.) This in spite of the fact that on the day of Snyder's announcement, Chester Bowles, head of OPA, had urged Congress to give his agency that complete control. No doubt the thousands of vigorous protests from every part of the country against this proposed OPA plan, fixed Mr. Snyder's decision. The building industry unanimously declares that to turn building restrictions loose and at the same time give OPA ceiling price control over the building of homes, would nullify the restriction cancellation, and leave the great home building industry in despair.

Snyder said swift expansion of building activity offered "the greatest single additional source of jobs in our entire economy," and he announced the following program:

l. The War Production Board revoked its hotly disputed order, L-41, effective October 15, including the $8,000 limit on permitted houses.

The action will permit unhampered construction of stores, theaters, dwellings, office and hotel buildings. It will also uncork a big public works program which has been bottled up for three years. Curbs on factory and road building are already off.

2. The OPA prepared to issue strict dollars-and-cents price ceilings on nearly all building supplies. These will cover plumbing, hardware, and materials as well as rooflaying and contractors services-in fact, almost everything but the price of the lot and the finished house.

Snyder's office announced six plans to combat inflation,

along with the announcement of restriction termination, as follows:

1. Increasing the supply of scarce building materials, if necessary by granting priorities to the producers and-as in the case of bricks-by modest price increases to step up production.

2. Strengthening inventory control, the machinery by which the WPB prevents over-buying and hoarding of scarce supplies.

3. Tightening of price controls over building materials. (This is understood to include issuance of flat dollars-andcents ceilings, uniform in each community.)

4. Cooperation of the federal lending agencies to "discourage excessive and unsound lending on mortgages," and the enlistment of voluntary help from banks, loan companies and other private lenders.

5. Calling of real estate men, building supply dealers and contractors to Washington to lay out a voluntary program for holding down costs and increasing production of homes snd materials.

6. Advisory service to home buyers, to be given by the national housing agency whether or not the prospective buyer gets federal aid in financing his purchase.

THE GREATEST BUILDING BOOM IN HISTORY IS NOW STARTING.

Appointed Secretcrry oI Burbcnk Chamber oI Commerce

Harry E. Whittemore, of San Diego, has been appointed secretary of the Burbank Chamber of Commerce to succeed C. C. Richards who recently resigned. He took over his new duties on September 15. Harry is well known in Cali fornia lumber circles, and was with the Benson Lumber Co., San Diego, for eighteen years, the last six years as general manager. He is a former president of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association. For the last two and one-half years, he was Industrial Manager for the San Diego Chamber of Commerce.

John Helm Heads Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 Lumber Order L-335 Revoked

John J. Helm, Santa Fe Lumber Company, San Francisco, was elected president, and Tom Hogan III, Hogan Lumber Company, Oakland, was elected vice president of Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39, at the meeting of this organization held at Hotel Claremont, Berkeley, September 17.

G. W. Sechrist, who has served as secretary-treasurer for several years, remains for the time being as acting secretary.

K. E. MacBeath. GordonMacBeath .Hardwood Co., Berkeley, was appointed Sergeant-At-Arms.

The new directors are: Tom Jacobsen, Piedmont Mill & Lumber Co., Oakland; Everett Lewis, Gamerston & Green Lumber Co., Oakland; Jack Wood, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Oakland; W. J. ("Nick") Nicholson, California Plywood Inc., Oakland, and Albert A. Kelley, Wholesale Lumber, Alameda,

William R. Paden, superintendent of schools for the City of Alameda, gave an interesting address on "The Oregon Trail."

Retiring President Wm. Chatham, Jr., who is an enthusiastic angler, was presented with a beautiful fly rod. Lewis Godard made the presentation on behalf of the Club

New Ycrd in Scrn Mcrteo

Horne & Winfrey recently opened a yard at 2701 South El Camino Real, San Mateo, for the sale of lumber and building materials. Lee Horne will have full management of .the yard. His partner, Mr. Winfrey, will not take an active part in the business.

Mr. Horne is well known in the retail lumber business, having been with Wisnom Lumber Co., Burlingame, since 1924. He was manager of the yard until it was closed during the war.

Washington, D. C., September l2-Distribution of lumber will be free from controls October 1, the War Production Board announced today.

The lumber order, L-335, issued in June 1944 to provide the vast amounts of lumber needed for carrying on the war, was revoked today, effective September 30.

Though lumber production this year is expected to amount to only 29,500,000,000 board feet, as compared with 32,500,000,000 board feet in 1944, military requirements' have declined so sharply since the end of the war that lumber is no longer in critically short supply. Controls established by Order L-335 are no longer considered ne€essary' WPB said.

The order was "open-ended" by an August 22 amendment to permit the sale of any kind of lumber on uncertified and unrated orders, provided such sale did not interfere with filling certified and rated orders'

Allotments of lumber for the third quarter remain in force until the expiration of the order, but no further allocation of lumber will be made, WPB pointed out.

Military requirements mounted from 15 per cent of total consumption in 1941 to 74 per cent in 1944. This heavy demand made necessary the issuance of an over-all control order.

Order L-335 was designed to provide lumber for military and essential civilian uses'through quarterly alloca-tion. The order controlled all species and grades of lum-' ber, and restricted sale by sawmills, purchase and'sale by distributors, and purchase by consumers. Allotments were made to the military, War Food Administration, National Housing Agency and other Government agencies charged with lumber distribution, and to WPB divisions for reallotment to industrial consumers and for other civilian uses. The amount of lumber available for householders and other small users was controlled by allotments to distributors. Purchasers were permitted to place certified and rated orders for the amount of lumber they were authorized to receive.

Convention Bcn Ends Oct. I

The ban on all conventions, group meetings, and trade shows will end October 1, according tb an announcement by the Office of Defense Transportation Septembet L2.

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-lhuss Barton ***

For all good scrapbooks to remind us in days to come of these days that are now, let us not forget the following pair of remarks by two of our war heroes:

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When MacArthur entered Tokyo and took over, he inspected the American embassy, so long in Jap hands. On one of the walls he spied a big picture of George Washington. Looking up at it, MacArthur remarked to his companions: "George must feel better no\ r."

The other has been *", *Oir"ized in the public press, but I want it in these fi.les. I mean the advice that Admiral Halsey radioed his pilots immediately after Japan capitulated. He said: "It looks like the war is over. Cease firing. But if any enemy planes appear, shoot them down in friendly fashion."

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And now, as the late Senator Joe Bailey used to say when he got ready to give his opponents a verbal fit, "We are approaching a very distasteful subject." We are going to talk about the recent effort of the higher up OpA gang in Washington to take over the home building industry; take it over root and branch under the artful guise of protecting the builder of homes against possible inflation. I have seen some dreadful things done during the past several years; lots of blunders and confusion that were excused because there was a war on. And in all cases, even the most outrageous, I kept my temper. Many's the time I have been sore tempted to turn loose a lot of diatribe and billingsgate a la Harold fckes; but I restrained myself.

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But when I first got hold of this proposal of OpA to loosen up material and building restrictions of various sorts, but to put a ceiling on home construction-on every minutest detail of such construction-when I realized the monumental gall, the unbelievable impudence of that rule or ruin idea-I just closed my office doors and made a speech with only myself to listen. I blew off steam until I got cooled off some. f know l called the perpetrators of this proposed outrage everything men could be called except apples and oranges. Those words f overlooked.

Here we have been fighting the war in this building industry the best we knew how. With other industries we have done our bit the best way we could, without squealing, without kicking. We took the bitter. with the sweet. Knowing the huge volum6 of dammed up construction that would be pending when the war ended, we assumed and never doubted that as soon as possible after peace came, restrictions and regulations not conducive to safety, would be removed, and the building industry, the lumber industry, and all the allied industries of construction would be turned loose to furnish the public with housing and with employment. Personally, I never doubted that it would be done. And then to have this effort made to grab the industry, wrap it around with bureaucratic red tape, and delay, and confusion, and unwholesome and unnecessary regulationswas just too much.

I soon found that I had no patent on indignation over this matter. On my desk as I write are a pile of printed and written opinions on this subject. Some of them fairly burn the paper. T[ey are from builders, editors, business men. All of them are seething with righteous indignation.

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As one newspaper editorial puts it, these "master minds" in OPA are trying to institute "unrestrained bureaucracy setting up the familiar merry-go-round of regulations, techniques, orders, collection of information, examinations, reexaminations, operating instructions, trade consultations, inter-agency committees, parallel programs, consumer education, compliance programs, and not the least significant 'appointment of new personnel.' If recruitment fails, reassignment of personnel from other branches or divisions, is contemplated." Just one great, big, horrible hurdy-gurdy under the auspices of the bureaucrats, instead of an orderly, intelligent, practical effort on the pdrt of American business to attack a vital business program, and put millions of men to work.

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The plan drawn up by OPA's Building Materials Branch and fndustrial Materials Price Division, would have authorized OPA to set individual price ceilings on every house and on every part of every house built by private enterprise, would retain price ceilings on all building products, and for the first time in American history (not even in war was such a drastic proposal ever made) would rigidly limit the profit margins of tens of thousands of small business men who do the nation's building, as well as that of tens of thousands of building material manufacturers and distri-

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butors and contractors. And they had the audacity to an,rorrr". that they proposed to make these restrictions and regulations-not temporary, mind you-but "continuous."

Yes sir, all they oro*J.u*ao*uo *", load the building industry and all its branches with the galling shackles of a lot of slaves. The whole idea was outrageous. The whole. plan unworkable. It could never be enforced. It would' require a great army to even try it. It would lead to more trouble, crookedness, black markets, and general bedevilment than the prohibition laws.

And the soft and tu, n:"r:r"lla" .nu proponents of this measure stuffed the newspapers with ! "OPA relaxes builtiing restrictions, and substitutes some simple dollars-andcents ceilings on home building instead," is a sample of what the public read. And in the Saturday Evening Post Mr. Chester Bowles takes up the cudgels for this New Deal in home building. He says all they want to do is impose "realistic, clear-eyed planning, and some wise measures of control." In my opinion and the opinion of every man with whom I have discussed this matter, those "wise measures of control" would have about the same effect on the postwar home building industry as some firm and well directed pressure on the jugular vein would have on a human being.

Elsewhere in this journal is printed the announcement of Reconversion Director John W. Snyder that all building restrictions and regulations have been turned loose, effective October 15. He did NOT include in his announced plans the price ceiling authority that OPA had asked for, although to the last minute the head of that bureau kept demanding it. However, there is still a threat of impending trouble in the announcement that OPA is going to put a ceiling on everything that goes into a home, if not permitted to do so on the home itself. It remains to be seen what these job-hunters and power-seekers are going to do along that line, and whether or not the industry is going to have to do battle to get the homes of our people built. All Washington bureaucrats are scrambling madly to hold their jobs, and OPA is no exception. Had they secured the home building control they were seeking they would have created new jobs in this department for all the thousands in other units they have been compelled to cancel. It looks from where we sit as though these self-constituted protectors of ihe home builders of America would, to secure their ends, wreck without remorse, and ruin without regret, the mighty opportunity now at hand to house and employ our people.

Should you, dear reader, seek grounds for suspicion that the OPA boys in Washington are fearfully fallible-consider meat. A month ago there was no meat. No meat in our cupboards; we had Old Mother Hubbard backed off the board for meatlessness. No meat in our markets. And, the wise boys told us, no improvement in sight. Evqr5r' well-informed cattle authority, insisted that we had a sur' plus of meat; that it need never have been rationed so far as beef was concerned. They quoted facts. OPA said it

wasn't so. They quoted figures. Now, friends, full grown beef doesn't grow over night. Steaks and roasts take time to develop-<n the hoof. Yet look at the situatior tlow; We have meat galore. Meat men scream to high heaven in the newspapers that if they are not allowed to sell rnore meat, it will spoil. Only the fact that we have got to save up to save Europe this winter prevents beef from going off rationing right now. There is plenty of meat; just a month after there was little meat, and no more in sight. From this we can draw but one of two conclusions. Either millions upon millions of beef cattle have appeared sirddenly full grourn upon this earth; or else the fool-killer is away overdue in the City of Washington. Which, dear reader, do you think? Has there been a beef miracle-millions of them?

Jules Romains, writing about bureaucracy in "Town and Country" and reprinted in "Readers Digest," warns Americans not to think bureaucracy is a harmless thing to make jokes about, but warns us that-"We must crush it (bureaucracy), lest it crush us." We are learning the truth of that opinion.

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What a paradoxical nation we are ! We can reach into a man's home, drag him out, put a uniform on his back and a gun in his hands, and send him forth to war, regardless of what he thinks about it. We can separate him from his home, his loved ones, from everything that life holds dear for him, and place him in the firing line where he may !e torn to bits, maimed, crippled, or mutilated' We can force him to suffer the tortures of the damned, as so many of our boys have been suffering these last few years. We can do all those things because we have the power. We have the authority. We have the legal right. But if. that boy survives the hazards of war, and comes home to find his chance for honorable employment blocked by strikes all about him-of course we can't do anything about that, or the fact that he fought for liberty abroad and lost some of his most precious liberties at home. We haven't the power. We haven't the authority. We haven't the legal right. And nothing will be done for this boy-unless he does it himself.

Opens Woodworking Plcrnt

Dan Leighter has leased the milling plant at the Beckwith Lumber Co., Palmdale, and will manufacture a complete line of millwork and cabinets. I\{r. Leighter has had long experience in the millwork business, and has operated plants in Los Angeles. He will add additional equipment to the plant.

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lssues Reprint of RMPR 94

The Western Pine Association has issued a reprint of RMPR 94, effective September 11, 1945, including Amendment 1 and the nelv Amendment 2' Since there are so many changes the Association suggests that the entire schedule be reviewed carefully. OPA's "Statement of Considerations" explaining Amendment 2 runs to 16 typervritten pages, but the following are the more important changes:

1. Prices of dry 4/4 Boards are increased $1.00

2. Tables are added lor /+" and ll/16" Boards species.

3. Differentials |or 5/4, 6/4, 7/4 and 8/4 Commons are changed by varying amounts.

4. Commons thicker than 8/4, except in Idaho White Pine and Sugar Pine, are eliminated from the schedule so now become subject to special pricing. So are Board grades of 8/4 Larch-Douglas Fir, White Fir and Hemlock.

5. Differentials for rough and for green Commons are increased. Numerous other differentials also have been changed.

6. Changes are made in prices f.or 13" and Wider Commons.

7. Section 28 Differentials and Rules include amended or new rules numbers 20, 22,23, 24 and 25. Several of these are very. important.

8. California mills may norv charge Susanville rate of freight on certain ot their f.o.b. mill sales. Copies of this RMPR will be furnished free to members. Prices to others in quantities of less than 100 are 2O cents each by third class mail or 25 cents each by first class mail from Western P.ine Association, 510 Yeon Building, Portland 4, Oregon.

Lumber Price Control Will Be Continued

Chicago, Sept. 2l-Peter Stone, OPA price executive, said today price controls on lumber would remain in effect until the Price Control Act expires next year, and may be extended until lumber supplies show a substantial increase.

Mr. Stone said in an address before the National Hardwood Lumber Association that he would not recommend lifting pfice controls until stock on hand in yards reached 6,000,000,000 board feet and mill inventories were up to 8,000,000,000.

Mckes Hole-in-One

Helmer Hoel, Claremont Lumber Co., Claremont, made a hole-in-one on tl.re 4th hole at the Red Hill Country Club, Upland, on Saturday, September 15. Although Helmer is a superb golfer, and has been playing the game a number of years, rve believe this is his first hole-in-one.

New Yard ct Big Becr

Harvey Sprague, formerly with Murphy Lumber Co., Lynwood, Calif., has opened a lumber and building material. yard at Big Bear, Calif. The yard will be called Harvey's Lumber Co.

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APersistent Lion

One of the great Alrican hunting stories is that of the persistent lion.

Once upon a time in the early days of white invasion of the "Dark Continent," the chaplain of an exploring expedition was standing alone in an African yard that they had surrounded for protection by a six foot post wall. He had a magazine rifle in his hands, and suddenly he heard a roar right behind him and turning, stared into the ferocious eyes of a great lion whose head was raised above the wall.

New Lumber Ycrd

Dan L. Hieb and John Davis have opened a retail lumber yard at Rialto, Calif., rvhich they will operate under the name of Rialto Lumber Company. The office building, 3O by 120 feet will have a plate glass front, and the lumber sheds u'ill be 18 by 25O feet. They plan to carry a full line of lumber and building materials.

A fine rifle shot, the chaplain took quick aim and fired, and the lion disappeared. A moment later the lion head bobbed up again above the wall. Again the chaplain fired, and again the lion ducked down, roaring frightfully. Again and again in quick succession the lion's head kept reappearing above the wall, and the chaplain kept firing, until he had fired all the eight shells in his rifle. Then, all was still. When the lion failed to appear for the ninth time, the chaplain walked over and looked over the wall.

He fainted when he saw eight dead lions lying there.

Writes Guest Editoricl

N. H. (Hawk) Huey was guest editorial writer for the Phoenix (Arizona) Gazette in its issue of September 12. His editorial was titled "Tact." Outstanding men and women of Phoenix and Arizona write the "Guest Editorial" in the Phoenix Gazette each day, and the subject on which they write is their own selection.

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FIR WEIDWOOD. \fPB resuictions on the manufacture and sale of Fir plywood have been completely removed. Our warehouses will be stocked as rapidly as conditions will permit. For the present most of this stock will be in sizn 4{' x 96" and larger, although ultimately we will have a full range of grades, sizes and thicknesses.

HARDWOOD WELDWOOD. Stock sizes and thicknesses in the regular run of domestic woods will soon be available in our warehouses. Imported woods will be available shordy after new supplies of logs or veneer reach this country. Substantial quantities of /a" guri, good one side, largely in size 48" x.96" will soon be available in our warehouses.

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News of Our Friends in the Servicer

Don Philips, Jr., RDM 2/c is stationed on the U.S.S. Talladega, APA, now running between the Philippines and Tokyo transporting troops. It was the first of the APA vessels to dock at Yokohama. He was at Iwo Jima on D-Day, and he also took part in the early stages of the campaigns in the Philippines and Okinawa.

Pfc. Bill Flamer, son of Erik Flamer, Coast Lumber & Equipment Co., Long Beach, is a member of the ground crew of the 20th Air Force. I{e is now in Okinawa, has been three years in the Air Force, and has seen service in Australia, India and the Marianas. His 'ivork has been mainly wlth B-29 Bombers.

Pfc. Erik D. Flamer, another son of Mr. Flamer's, is stationed in San Francisco, attacl-red to the Army Medicai Corps.

Pfc. \A/allace Towle. son of S. W. Towle, West Coast Lumber Co., San Francisco, who was in the Army for several years and recently was serving on a {.J. S. hospital ship, has been honorably discharged and is again associated rvith his father in business.

Major Charles J. Schmitt, U. S. Army, recently arrived in San Francisco on leave after 34 months overseas service in the Pacific area. He was associated with the United States Plywood Corp. when he entered the service

Lieut. Col. C. A. Middleton AUS, who served in the Aleutians, and for some time was liaison officer of the War Relocation Board, has received his discharge from the Army and is now back with Anderson-Mdidleton Lumber Co., Aberdeen, Wash., of which 'company he is vice president.

Lt. Hank Aldrich USN, son of Harry W. Aldrich of Aldrich Lumber Co., Eugene, Oregon, is home on leave. IIe was an offrcer on the destroyer Callaghan, which was a victim of a Jap suicide plane.

Release of Shop Lumber Will Boogt Production of Stock Millwork

New home construction in the postwar period will not be held up for lack of stock woodwork products, according to W. M. Steinbauer, secretary-manager of the National Door Manufacturers Association. The Association represents thirty of the country's largest producers of Ponderosa pine sto,ck windorvs, doors, frames, cabinets and trirn.

"Following the cessation of hostilities in the Pacific, the demand for containers has dropped precipitously. This will release shop lumber in substantial volume to the woodwork industry to which it normally flor,vs. In this connection it should be borne in mind that approximately 5O per cent of the nation's total lumber production of all species has been going into containers, crating and dunnage.

"Since no reconversion problem is involved, the production and availability of woodwork products will bear a direct relation to the availability of shop lumber. With woodrvork products still flowing in fair quantities to distributors and with the prospect of the millwork industry resuming a normal rate of production shortly, the possibility of stock woodwork products remaining in short supply for any extended period is extremely remote."

Yumcr Ycrrd Sold

The yard of the Yuma Lumber & Supply Company, Yuma, Arizona, has been sold to the O'Malley Lumber Company and H. Marvin Smith. The new firm is operating under the name of O'Malley-Smith Lumber Co. at the same location.

Mr. Smith, who has for the past eight years been engaged in the contracting and retail lumber business, is manager of the yard.

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Frcrncisco Hoo-Hoo Club

To Hold Luncheon Oct, 23

San Francisco Hoo-Hoo Club No. 9 will irold a luncheon meeting in the Concert Room of the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, at 12:09 p.m., Tuesday, October 23. The meeting will end promptly at 1:D p.m.

This luncheon will be followed by a monthly meeting, and all lumbermen and those in allied industries are invited to attend.

ANNOUNGEMENT

Hcrrry Terrell qnnounces thct he purchcsed the entire interest oI his pcrtner, . Thomas G. Ross, in The Ross-Terrell Co, ol Grcrnts Pcss, Oregon, on July 28, 1945. The ncme of the company wcs chqnged, eflective September I, 1945, to The Terrell Lumber Co., which will continue the business cs it hcrs operated in the pqst.

HALLINAN IIACKIN tUilBEN CO.

Successors to Hcrllirurn Mcrckin Co., Ltd.

Disbibutors oI

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Horace \(/o!fe with L. H. Eubank & Son Lumber for Home Building Moving Frcely

Horace E. Wolfe, who owned and operated his own special millwork business lor 2O years in Cleveland, Ohio, became associated with L. H. Eubank & Son, Inglewood, Calif., manufacturers of wholesale millwork, last May as salesman. Before entering business for himself he was with the Diamond Glass Co., Cleveland, for seven years as sales manager of the wholesale department.

Mr. Wolfe sold out his business in Cleveland and came to California in 1941. He was with the Army Air Force from May 1942 to May 1945. Two years of this time he was in the inspection section in charge of aircraft lumber and plywood, and the last year was civilian chief in the packaging branch of the Army Air Forces.

Lumbermen's Post No. 403 Davites World Wcrr II Veterans to Ioin

The annual meeting of Lumbermen's Post No' 403 of the American Legion, was held September 12 at the Royal Palms Hotel, Los Angeles' George Melville, Simpson Industries, Inc., Los Angeles, was installed as Commander.

Lumbermen's Post No. 4O3 invites all World War II veterans who were or are associated with the lumber and allied industries to join.

The Post meets on the second Wednesday of each month at the Royal Palms Hotel, 360 So. Westlake Avenue, Los Angeles. Dinner is served at 6:30 p.m'

Moves Ollice

Paul McCusker, wholesale lumberman, and representative in Northern Callfornia for Parelius Lumber Co., Portland, has moved his office to room 432 Santa Marina Building, ll2 Market Street, San Francisco 11.

lnto Civilian Channels

Washington, D. C., Sept. 24-Early relief for the home biulding market, long starved of lumber by military necessity, is seen by Henry Bahr, director, economic and statistical services. National Lumber Manufacturers Association. More than 80 per cent of current lumber production, he reports, is now moving freely into civilian channels.

"Since the current rate of lumber production, while substantially lower than peak war-time levels, is about 20 per cent above the pre-war rate," he said, "the present rate of civilian supply is at least as great as in the pre-war period.

"Of course, the pipeline must be pumped full again. Stocks at retail yards are at an all-time low as a result of diversion to military uses, and a substantial part of production during the next 60 or 9O days will be needed to restore minimum working inventories. It is not probable that stocks will reach pre-war levels in the near future, but lumber is now moving to consumers in substantial volume and should be adequate to meet immediate construction requirements.

"Available manpower is inadequate and governmental restrictions are retarding production'in some areas. OPA, for example, refuses to make price adjustments as long ag 75 per cent of an industry is breaking even or making a profit. In lumber, many of the marginal operators, representing the other 25 per cent, have been closing and more may be expected to close.

"While the labor supply situation is improving slightly, the gradual return to a 40-hour week, at the insistence of the unions in the west, probably will prevent any increase in production. In the final analysis, ceiling price limitations and curtailment of hours will probably mean further declines, but it is anticipated that total production will remain above the pre-war rate during th'e coming twelve-month."

Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 Meets Oct. t5

President John Helm announces that the next meeting of Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 will be held on Monday evening, October 15, at Hotel Claremont, Berkeley, with dinner being served at 6:39 p.m.

There will be a good speaker and a good prograrn, he says, and he is looking forward to a successful year for the Club, with a substantial increase in membership.

The Fcrrmer crnd His Mule

(The following was published in these columns many years ago, yet u/e have frequent requests for copies of it. Here it is.)

Over a dusty, hot hill there carne a man working a muledrawn plow. The man stopped the mule to wipe the grime and perspiration from his face, and spoke to the mule as follows:

"Bill, you're a mule, the son of a jackass. I'm a man, made in the image of God. Yet here we work, year in and year out, hitched together. Often I wonder if you work for me, or if I work for you. By golly, I'm beginning to think this is a partnership between a mule and a fool. Don't I work as hard as you? We cover the same distance, but you do it on four legs, and I do it on two. I do twice as much work per leg as you do.

"Soon we'll be preparing the corn crop. When I get it harvested I give one-third to the landlord for the right to work this land; one-third you get to eat; the other third I get. You go ahead and eat all your third, while I have to divide my third with seven kids, a dozen chickens, a cow, two ducks. and a banker.

"When we both need shoes, you're the one that gets 'em. And all you do is help plow this corn. I have to cut it, shock and husk it, while you look over the pasture fence and heehaw at me. All winter long me and the old woman save and do without so we can pay the interest on the mortgage and buy you a new collar.

"Bill, about the only time I'm your better is on election day. Then f can vote and you can't. But after election I get to thinking that I was a jackass like your papa. I get to wondering if politics was made for men or jackasses; or to make jackasses out of men."

A Smcll Boy's ldeq oI Hecrven

A place with trees and hills to climb, When nature calls to him; And in the heat of summer time, A pool in which to swim.

A place with pantries full of cakes, Or cookies, crisp and brown, Where there can be no stomach aches, For castor oil to drown.

A place with streams a-teem with fish, Of every size and sort, Where he may gratify his wish For restful outdoor sport.

A place where necks, and hands, and ears, Tho smeared with dirt and grime, May go unwashed throughout the years, Of never ending time.

-Michael H. Daly

Tcxes

Michael Farady, one of the fathers of our electrical age, was giving a demonstration before the Royal Scientific Society of London. A rising young politician of that day, named Wm. Gladstone, became bored, and said: "It's all very interesting, Mr. Faraday, but what in God's name good is it?" And Faraday replied: "Some day, Mr. Gladstone, you politicians will be able to tax it."

Ed Howe on LiIe

"Life," wrote Ed Howe, "is like a game of cards. Reliability is the ace; industry is the king; politeness is the queen; and thrift is the jack. Common sense is playing to best advantage the cards you draw. And every day, as the game proceeds, you will find the ace, king, queen, and jack in your hand, and the opportunity to use them."

Work cnd Leisure

Henry L. Doherty said: "Don't expect to be paid a dollar an hour for your working hours if you then use your leisure hours as though they were not worth a dime a dozen."

GuiltY

The lawyer faced the jury; "My friends," he softly said, "My client did the murder; He shot those women dead. They both worked in his office, And every time he spoke, The blonde replied 'All righty'; And the redhead-'Okie Doke'."

Scrlvcrge

A happily married college professor delivered a graduation address in which he tendered this sage advice:

"Gentlemen, many of you will marry. Let me entreat you to be kind to your wives. Be patient with them. When you are going out together, don't worry if your wife is not ready at the appointed time. Have a good book nearby. Read it while you wait. And, gentlemen, I assure you that you will be astonished at the amount of information you will acquire."

Books

"In every golden age, whether of Pericles, Augustus, the troubadours and Minnesaenger, or Elizabeth, the cultural life has sprung from and rested upon, books or their equivalent. The geometry of Pythagorus and Euclid, the history of Thucydides and Livy, the grammar of Quintilian, the bible of Ulfilas, the Epistolae of Einhard, the scholastic lectures of Abelard, the so-called heresies of Roger Bacon, all were the textbooks of their times, and all contributed to the sum total of knowledge represented by the textbooks of today."-Paul V. Bacon.

Ed Rowley Joins Campbell-Conro

Ed Rowley, who as head of the western auction division o{ the Central Procurement Agency bought millions of feet of fir during the past three years, has joined the Campbell-Conro Lumber Company with offices in the Pittock Block at Portland where he will handle the rvholesale division of that r.r'ell-knorn'n organization. Ed Rorvley has had a long and broad experience in both the merchandising and manufacturing of all species of timber produced rvest of the Cascades and is familiar rvith the markets as well as the sources of supply. His extensive acquaintance with the fir mills has during his active part in the Central Procurement Agency been broadened to where he is probably as well known among the sales managers and operators as any man in the Northwest.

The Campbell-Conro Lumber Company, operated by Mark D. Campbell and Harry S. Conro, has been in business many years. In addition to doing a general wholesale business they also operate the Coastal Lumber Company at Grand Ronde, a plant u''hich produces 90,000 feet on each eight-hour shift. Mr. Campbell devotes a considerable part of his time to general management of that plant and will continue to do so. Iid Rowley has, through his intelligent and considerate handling of the auctions, gained a host of friends throughout the industry u'ho r,r'ish him rvell in this new connection.

New Ycrrd in Shalter

A. F. Ingraham announces that he is starting constmction of a new lumber and building material yard in Shafter. The yard will operate under the name of Ingraham I-umber Co. Postal address is P.O. Box 277.

Mr. Ingraham is well knorvn. He has been rvith the Be1ridge Oil Co., located in the Shafter district, for 28 years as purchasing agent and in charge of stores, and has just resigned to enter into lun-rber business.

Scrn Bernardino Ycrd Reopens

The yard formerly operated by Paul L Kelly in San Bernardino as the Southwest Lumber Co., and which wa-. closed for the duration, has been reopened by Irrvin Bluhm, who will operate under the name of Southu'est Lumber & Material Co.

Win \(/ilson Re-enters Business

Win Wilson, proponent of prefabrication who in 1939 developed the Plywood Structures System under which more than 5,000 pre-built homes and dormitories were erected to shelter Southern California war workers, is reentering business at Tacoma, Wash.

Returning to civilian life after three years in the South Pacific as an Army Air Force lieutenant colonel, the former Los Angeles man has opened offices in the Puget Sound city and is resuming his prefabrication activities. In the immediate future he rvill erect a model prefabricated plywood home in a preferred residential district of Tacoma on property already secured.

At present his office is at the plant o{ Tacoma Lumber Fabricating Co., successor to Henry Mill Co., with which firm he is associated as consultant.

OOITSOLIDATDI} LIJMBBB OO.

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Predicts Annuql Five-Yecrr Construction

Iob of $15,000,000,000

The U. S. Department of Labor in a recent report predicts an averag'e volume of new construction ol $10,924,000,000 per year and an averag'e volume of maintenance and repair work of $4,418,m0,000 per year during the final war year and the first five postwar years. The average for private new constJuction'is estimated at $7,896,000,00O per 1'ear and for public new construction at $4,028,000,000.

The largest single-item of private new construction is residential, non-farm building estimated at 850,000 units per year average. In addition the report predicts 50,000 publicly financed non-farm units per year average. This total of 900,000 units is about 3 per cent above the highest previous five year average of 872,0ffi non-farm units realized from 1923 through 1927.

With respect to construction materials, the report states:

"Greater use may be expected of 'certain materials introduced within recent )'ears, and there are strong indications that other neu' materials will be introduced. Sp"cifically, it seems almost certain that panel boards (plywood, panels made from various fibrous materials, and those made from inorganic materials) will be more prominent, and it is quite probable that war-expanded capacity for production of light metals may lead to considerable increase in their use in construction."

If lumber is to cut its full slice of this rich market in the face of the intensive competition that is certain to be battling to encroach on its territory, it will require more concentrated and co-ordinated efforts on the part of lum-

bermen than they have ever put forth before.

The NLMA Building Code & Trade Promotion Committee recently met and laid down an ambitious 1946 program to this end. The Lumber Manufacturer-Retailer Co-Operative Program, which is aimed primarily at home building, will spearhead the. attack.

Studying Germcn Forest Industries

Headed by Director Carlisle P. Winslow, eight staff members of the U. S. Forest Products Laboratory are in Germany investigating, industrial and technical secrets of its forest products industries. Much of the information .acquired will be of value to American industry, reports Acting Director George M. Hunt.

Director Winslow and D. G. Coleman of the Laboratory staff are representing a forest products subcommittee of the Technical Industrial Intelligence Committee organized by the Foreign Economic Administration, War and Navy Departments, Office of Strategic Services, War Production Board, and Department of Agriculture. George W. Trayer, Chief of the Division of Forest Products, Washington, D. C., heads the subcommittee.

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo

Meeting

Oct. 16

The Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club will meet at the University Club, 614 South Hope Street, Los Angeles, Tuesday noon, October 16. Dr. Richard Vollrath, world. renowned scientist, head of the physics department at the University of Southern California, will be the speaker. His subject will be "The Atom Bomb." President George Clough will preside.

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Shipping

FIIA Will Now Opercrte Under Peacetime Procedures

Formal orders to all field offlces of the Federal Housing Administration to terminate the war housing program have been issued by FHA Commissioner Raymond M. Foley.

From no'iv on all FHA home financing insurance operations will be conducted under normal peacetime procedures. FHA has available $2,000,000,000 in authorizations for insurance'of loans to buy, build, or improve homes. The authorization for mortgage insurance may be increased another $1,000,000,000 by Presidential approval.

At the time instructions to halt operations under Title Vl-the war housing program provision of the National Housing Act-were issued, substantially all of the authorization under the program, $1,800,000,00O, had been used, either in mortgages endorsed for insurance, commitrnents to insure outstanding, or mortgages in process of examination.

Since Congress enacted Title VI in March, 1941, to August 31. 1945. FHA has insured more than 325.000 one-tofour family dwellings and 470 large-scale rental projects, more than 400,000 dwelling units altogether.

Funds for this construction by private builders were advanced by private lending institutions with FHA able, under Title VI, to accept wartime risks in insuring the loans,

In his instructions to field offices, Mr. Foley said that in cases where applications for war housing insurance are in process, a new determination of the actual need for the housing must be made. In cases of outstanding commitments where construction has not started. a review of each

Hoo-Hoo Appointments

Lewis A. Godard, Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., San Francisco, has been appointed Supreme Bojum for the coming Hoo-Hoo year.

E. G. (Dave) Davis, Union Lumber Co., San Francisco, has been appointed Vicegerent Snark for the San Francisco district.

D. Normen Cords, Shevlin-Cords Lumber Co., San Francisco, has been re-appointed Vicegerent Snark of the Oakland district.

Guest Specker on Radio Progrcm

First produced in 1914, insulation board in 30 years has become an almost indispensable building material, particularly since the rvar, Henry W. Collins of Chicago, president of 'the Insulation Board Institute and vice president of The Celotex Corp., told a nation-wide radio audience recently.

Mr. Collins was guest of honor on the Union Pacific Railroad's radio program, "Your America." Looking ahead to postwar building, he discussed anticipated developments in the insulating industry.

Fcrirlax Ycrrd Sold

The yard of the Fairfax Lumber Company, Fairfax, Marin County, has been purchased by Frank W. Boileau, who was for many years with Henry Hess Company.

case was ordered as cumstances brought

to the continuing need in light of cirabout by the end of the war.

Frrnnal Jternt

P. R. Kahn, Forsyth Hardwood Co., San Francisco, attended the National Hardwood Lurnber Association and National Wholesale Lumber Distributing Yard Association meetings held September 19 and N at the La Salle Hotel, Chicago. He made the trip by automobile and called on mills in the hardwood producing centers of the Middle West and South.

Crosby Sheviin, Shevlin-Cords Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned recently from calling on the Pine mills of Northern California and Southern Oregon.

Bob Cole, formerly in the wholesale sash ness in Los Angeles, left September 12, to locate permanently in Mexico City.

and door busiwith his wife,

Walter Koll, A. J. has returned from a Koll Planing Mill Ltd., trip to the Northwest. Los Angeles,

Jack Holrvay, 'ivho ts ttr ment for Whiting-Mead Co., sick list, and Joe Matlick is

Frank G. Duttle, land, has returned Washington.

charge of the lumber departLos Angeles, has been on the in charge during his absence.

president, Sterling Lumber Co., Oakfrom a business trip to Oregon and

Charles T. Gartin, Oregon Lumber Sales, Eugene, Oregon, was a recent business visitor to the San Francisco Bay district. He also paid a visit to his old home in Modesto, Calif.

W. G. (Bill) Hamilton, manager of the Los Angeles office of Holmes Eureka l-urnber Co., recently spent a {ew davs at the companv's head office in San Francisct.r.

W. W. (Bill) Jackson, J. H. cisco, returned in the latter part ing his vacation in Oregon.

Baxter & Co., San Franof September from spend-

He ls Yours

If he's yours, Uncle Sam, in the morning, When his young heart is joyous and gay, If he's yours ere the dawn tints have faded, He is yours for the rest of the day.

If he's yours when his thoughts and his fancies, Thrill the world with a nameless delight, He is yours, LTncle Sam, when he's groping Through the mists and the shadows of night.

If he's yours in the flower of his manhood, If he's yours in the pride of his youth, With his fine and unsullied ideals Of loyalty, honor and truth, If he's yours when from blue skies above him, The sun spills its gold on his way, He's yours, IJncle Sam, in the twilight, When the world has. grown somber and grey.

If he's yours, Uncle Sam, when you call him From the home and the friends of his vouth. To pledge his undying devotion To freedom and justice and truth, If he's yours in the maelstrom of battle, Where the banshees of death shriek and wail, He's yours lvhen the madness is overlfets yours at the end of the trail.

Then open your arms to enfold him, Let him lay his young head on your breast; He has tasted life's sweet and its bitter. Itre knows now the worst and the best; New pathways lie open before him, Keep faith with him all the long way; He was yours in the sunlight of morning And he's yours till the close of the day.

Adeline Merriam Conner.

Rain Stops Forest Fires

Northern California's first fall rain on September 2l smothered widespread forest fires. Dewitt Nelson, State forester. said the timber loss would run into several million dollars.

In Butte County, where flames destroyed 11,800 acres of timber and threatened evacuation of Stirling City, the fire was declared by county officials as completely out. Unofficial estimates placed the loss of fir and redwood timber in Mendocino Countv at 50.@O acres.

", walle Exsept a )OB"

Here is a real application for a job as a logger and the logging foreman's humorous reply. Bill Chantland, manager of Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Company's Los Angeles office has known Mint Look for many years, and says he is one of their most capable foremen, with a great sense of humor and a lot of ability as a story teller.

Chehalis, Wash., August 20, 1945. Dearsir i wille Be in psition to Exsept a JoB as a Bucker or left Handed faller in your lincoln Crick Camp on Ore About October the 20 Ore Before that time i Havent worked in any loging camp sense the 7.1O 44 july ona count of injurdy I am having my teeth Extracted now and new plate made if you can use me on that dat let me no at least a week a Head of time i will Haft stay in camp so infrmea wat i should Bring my lunch pail ore not and Ration Boks ore not ii same are still in use

Yours truly Elmer Cook rot 3 Box 396A ps if i can cone on a Earlyer date rvill let you no .ivat Date

Schqler Bros. Lincoln Creek Camp l0 \ugust 22, l9+5.

Hordwoods

IIMM$AI,N

Mr. Elmer

Cook, Chehalis, Wash.

Dear Sir:

In reply to your letter of Aug. 20th will give you the following information. All the timber around Camp 10 is cut except about 500 acres r,vhich is located on top of billygoat mt. This mt. is very rough and rugged and is covered with a heavy growth of big timber and a dense growth of underbrush. It also has a lot of high rocky cliffs and caves. Some of the Canyons are f mile deep and very steep. On account of the surrounding country being all logged off all of the bears and cougars have retreated to this tract of timber. All fallers and buckers must carry a rifle and protect themselves at all times. They must r,vork in pairs. One man works while the other man rvatches. Last winter I missed two buckers in the deep snorv but this Spring I found the poor fellows' shoes so I know the wild animals caqght them. The State of Washington does not pay insurance for men killed by tvild animals but if you want to take a chance you can bring your old smooth bore and come on over. Do not come in October because all the men go hunt_ ing deer and the camp shuts down. Most of the men working here are hill billys and ridge runners from tl-re States of West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee and are expert shots.

In regard to your teeth you had better g'et a set of stain_ less steel about two inches long and very sharp. The cougar and bear meat we live on is very tough and you must have sharp teeth to chelv it. The beds are all fillecl up but you can bring a couple of old blankets and sleep under the trees until a bunk gets empty.

I'f you want to work under these conditions you can come over at once.

Yours truly, Mint Look.

Wholesale

Sash

Gasements

Pnrtonal -/'{n*t

F. J. Connolly, president, and J. G. Cahill, vice president, Western Hardwood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, left September 12 on a three r,,'eeks' trip to Chicago and other Middle West points. They attended the annual meetings held at the La Salle Hotel, Chicago, September 17 to20, of the National Hardwood Lumber Association, the National Wholesale Lumber Distributing Yard Association (of which Mr. Connolly is vice president) and the meeting of the Woodply Foundation. They also visited birch and maple mills in Wisconsin.

A. Co., and and

J. Macmillan, general manag'er, Consolidated Lumber Wilmington, Calif., left September 18 on a business pleasure trip to Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, B. C., Canmore, Alberta. He will be away three weeks.

B. W. Byrne of B. W. Byrne & Sons, hardrvood lumber dealers, Long Beach, left September 8 to cover the hardwood manufacturing centers of the Middle West and South. He will also visit New York, and will return about the middle of November.

Bill Sampson, Sampson Company, Pasadena, a successful deer hunting trip in the High packed in from Olancha, Inyo County.

Fred Morehouse, to Salt Lake City to and made the return

is back from Sierra. He

Anglo California Lumber Co., flew spend his vacation with his family, journey also by the air route.

Robert Lee, Escondido Lumber Co., Escondido, returned September 18 from a two weeks' trip to Henderson, Ky. The trip was made necessary by the death of his father.

C. R. Taenzer, American Hardwood Co., Los Angeles, left September 15 to attend the annual conventions of the National Hardrvood Lumber Association, and the National Wholesale Lumber Distributing Yard Association, held at the La Salle Hotel, Chicago, September 19 and' 20. He was accompanied on the trip by Mrs. Taenzer.

M. I-. (Duke) Euphrat, Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco, is back from a three weeks' visit to the Northwest, rvhere he called on the firm's sawmill connections, making his headquarters at the Portland office.

Fred Smales, manag'er of the California ed States Plywood Corp., recently made a Phoenix, Arizona, and followed this with Francisco, Oakland, and Fresno branches.

division of Unitbusiness trip to visits to the San

Seth L. Butler, Northern California sales representatives of Dant & Russell, Inc., returned to San Francisco recently from spending three weeks calling on mills in the Pacific Northwest. He made his headquarters at the firm's home office in Portland.

Nate Parsons of San Pedro Lumber Company, Los Angeles, and Mrs. Parsons spent part of their vacation at San Diego and "South of the Border," finishing up in the San Bernardino mountain area.

LeRoy H. Stanton, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, traveled to Chicago to attend the conventions of the National Hardwood Lumber Association and the National Wholesale Lumber Distributing Yards Association, which were held at the La Salle Hotel, September 19 and 20. Mt. Stanton is a director of the last named organization.

Roy Barto, Precision Kiln Drying Co., Los Angeles, hardrvood importers, is on a six weeks' business trip to Colombia, South America, where he is calling bn their lumber connections.

Bob Evju, sales manager, James L. Hall, wholesale lumber dealer, San Francisco, was a recent Los Angeles visitor.

Ed Huffman, nanager of San Pedro Lumber Company's plant at San Pedro, and Mrs. Huffman, spent a week recentlv at Crestline. in the Lake Arrowhead district.

GmERSToN & Gnrrx LutrlBER Co.

FIR-TEX

GIEAMING, PIASTIC-COATED WAttS qnd CEIUNGS

For kitchens, bothrooms, ond commerciol insfqllqtionswherever o high-sheen, eqsy-lo-cleqn qnd duroble surfoce is desired. Equolly suilqble for new conslruction qnd re. modeling; opplied over exisling wolls, regordless of condition.

WE ARE GRATEFUI

Ior the opportunity thct comes with pecce to lecve behind most oI the hcrmpering restrictions mqde necesscrry by wcrr.

Our biggest iob right now is buying lumber, cnd getting it into our yardand we cre very busy crt it.

Talccs Over Sales Agency For Plywood Mill

Carl W. Watts, San Francisco wholesale lumberman, recently bought a block of stock in the Oregon PlywoodCorporation of Sweet Home, Oregon, and has taken over the exclusive sales agency for their products in the 11 Western States. This is handled under contract with the AmMex Sales Company, Inc., of Buffalo. N. Y.. which has the exclusive sales agency for Oregon Plywood Corporation products for the whole of the United States.

carl w' wcits Oregon Plywood Corporation manufactures both exterior and moisture-resistant plywood, with an annual capacity of approximately 30,000,000 feet a year.

Mr. Watts has been identified with the lumber and plywood business for the past 20 years. He attended the University of Washington, lvhere he majored in Forestry, following his honorable discharge from the U. S. IVlarine Corps after World War 1. He has a background of practical experience in woods operations in the State of Maine, and in plywood and door plants in the Pacific Northwest. His offices are in the Monadnock Building, San Francisco. Telephone number is YUkon 1590.

Ycrd Moved to New Site

D. C. MacPherson, o\\rner of MacPherson's Lurnber and Building Materials, Torrance, Calif., (formerly the Keystone Lumber Co.), announces that the yard has been moved to 21808 So. Figueroa Street, Torrance. The telephone number is Torrance 855.

Mr. MacPherson has purchased a two-acre yard site there, and has completed an office building. Storage sheds will soon be under construction.

New Gypsum Plcnt ct Bichmond

Standard Gypsum Co. of Calif. has started construction of a new plant at Richmond, Calif., to cost several hundred thousand dollars. The nerv plant will produce wall board, gypsum lath, hardwall plaster, agricultural gypsum, tile and gypsum products. Gypsum will be secured from deposits on San Marcos Island in the Gulf of Lower California. Mexico.

CRGS CIRSULATION

Col. Greeley Announces Future Activitiec

Col. W. B. Greeley, who is retiring shortly after October 1 as secretary-manager of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, a position he has held for the past 17 years, announced in a recent letter to the members and war subscribers of the Association that he will remain for a while in a part time, advisory capacity to the new manager and trustees, to complete some of the special jobs such as the estimate of log supply for the next 20 years, and to help out in other matters where he can.

He said he is particularly anxious to take a more active part personally ih the forestry and sustained yield developments of the industry, which are going to be doubly important from now on.

He also announced that the headquarters office of the Association will be moved to Portland, Oregon, about January l,1947. In taking this action the trustees recognized the trend of industry production southward, and the gradual movement of Association membership with it. The moving date has been deferred another year to give the Seattle employees time to work out the disposition of their homes and other personal acljustments with the least possible sacrifice.

Appoints Scrles Mcrncrger

Erik Flamer, vice president and general manager of Coast Lumber & Equipment Co., 1206 West 7th Street, Long Beach, announces the appointment o.f Francis U. Mandis, formerly with W. B. Jones Lumber Co., Los Angeles, as sales manager. Urban Mandis, for many years with OwensParks Lumber Co., has been made assistant sales manager, in charge of local sales.

Terrible Twenty GolI Tourncment

Helmer Hoel won the first prize, a sterling silver goblet, n'ith a net 7l in the 232nd Terrible Twenty Golf Tournament held at the Virginia Country Club, Long'Beach, on September 13. Second prize, a sterling silver ash tray, was rvon by Roy Stanton with a net score ol 72. "Boney" Bohnhoff and Helmer Hoel sponsored the tournament.

WESTERT TILL & ItrOUIDITG GO.

NOOIA N.EYEBSIIil,E

KILNS

2JVo to 5O/o lnorc capacity due to solid edge-to.edge stacking. Bener guality drying on low temperanrrer with a fart rcvcrriba circulation. Lower stacking cost-just solid edge-ro-edgc stacking in thc sirnplest form.

Moorekiln paint Producrs for weatherproofing your dry kiln and milt roofs. use

Prefabricated Plywood Houses Shelter Atomic Bomb Workers

The 6,300 prefabricated plywood houses which shelter workers at the nation's two sprawling atomic bomb plants in Washington and Tennessee are said to be of a design as advanced in the housing field as is the scientific discovery which brought about the terrifying weapon.

In contrast to the war-fostered search for destructive force, however, development by Tennessee Valley Author-' ity of pre-built sectional houses was undertaken to provide comfortable living quarters for families at the great construction projects which harnessed water power of the southeast part of the nation.

Representing the ultimate in prefabrication so far attained, the TVA type houses are manufactured in three' dimension sections 2O or 24 feet long, 8 feet high and 8 feet rvide so they may be transported over highways. Inside and out the structures are of plywood with outer walls painted and interiors finished with light stains. At the factory most furniture is built in and plumbing and light fixtures installed.

Only 5 to l0 per cent of the total work of constructing the fully furnished home remains to be done in the field, principally the placing of sections on foundations and joining the units. Two sections fonn a one-bedroom home, three sections a two-bedroom structure and four sections a three' bedroom home.

Into the houses went 35 million {eet of plywood for interior and exterior walls, roofs and floors. But a minimum of framing members was required because the stressed skin principle of construction was followed with the plywood carrying part of the structural load as well as acting as a covering panel.

A single prefabricator, Prefabrication Engineering Co. of Portland, Ore., delivered the 1,810 one-, two- and threebedroom units to Richland, Wash., the residential city for rvorkers at Hanford Engineer Works. Fabrication of the units was in the plant of C. D. Johnson Lumber Corporation at Toledo. Ore. : the sections were trucked more than 400 miles to Richland with furnishings, supplementing thrr built-in features, installed at Portland en route.

Thousands of Doors

At Richland an additional 256 houses were built by the slower methods of on-the-site construction. The units are primarily lumber but, like the other houses, required mucir additional plywood for the tens of thousands of entrance and interior doors and for cabinets. In all, more than 100,000 doors were required at the two projects as closures for the houses and other buildings.

Five companies turned out the TVA type houses for Oak Ridge, Tenn., a community for workers at the Clinton Engineer Works and their families. They are: E. L. .Bruce Co., Memphis, Tenn.; Schult Corp., Elkhart, Ind.; Gunnison lTousing Corp., New Albany, Ind; National Homes Corp., Lafayette, Ind., and Alma Trailer Co., Alma, Mich. The five eastern and one western concerns had a combined productive capacity of 55 two-bedroom houses a day.

KILPATRICK & (OMPANY

Dcelcrr in Forcrt Productr

Douglcrs Fir-Redwood

Cedar-Spruce

Genercrl Oflice

Crocker Bldg., Scm Frcnrcisco 4, Cqlil. Southern Cclilornicr Office cnd Ycnd l2{0 Bli!! Ave., Wilrrringrton" C,alil., P. O. Bo: 518

PAREI,IUS I.UMBDR GOMPATIY

{20 Ptttock Block Porilcrnd 5, Oregon

Whole sale Distributott ol Norlhwestern Timbet Ptoduets

SAN FNANCTSCO 11 LOS ANGEITS 15 Paul McCug&er F. A. (Pete) Tortc ll2 MarLet Street 326 Peholeun Bldg. GArlield 4978 PRoepect 7605 \

ANGATA NIDWOOD CO.

ARCATA, CAI.IFORNIA

Manulcrcturers Quclity Redwood Lumber

"Big fitiil Lumber From o Little tlil"

SAI.ES AGENTS

ARCATA TTIUIBER SAI.ES CO. 420 Market St., Scrn Francisco ll

Southern Ccrlilomia Representcrtive J. J. Recr,5410 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 36 WEbster 7828

Obituaries

O. H. Bcrr

O. H. Barr, president of the Barr Lumber Company, Santa Ana, Calif., passed away in a Pasadena sanitarium on September 16 following a long illness. He was 72 years of age.

Mr. Barr was born in West Virginia, and the family moved to Holyoke, Colo., r,vhen he was a youngster, and later to North Platte, Neb. He became affiliated with a large lurnber company in Denver in 1892, and was assigned to a branch yard in Hastings, Neb., remaining there until 1903 when he resigned as secretary to go into business for himself. He sold his Nebraska holdings in 1910, and moved to Whittier, Calif., where he purchased a lumber business which was established under his own name. In 1921, Mr. Barr acquired the holdings of the Griffith Lumber Company of Santa Ana and the family moved to that city. From time to time, other units have been added and at present the Barr Lumber Company operates eight yards in Southern California.

Always active in community affairs, Mr. Barr was past president of the Kiwanis Club, a director of the First National Bank, and a member of the advisory board of the YMCA. He belonged to the First Methodist Church and the Masonic Lodge.

Mr. Barr is survived by his widow, Lou D. Barr; a son, Wilbur Barr, executive vice president of the Barr Lumber Company; two daughters, Mrs. Frances Mickley of San Marino and Mrs. Katherine Atherton of Glendale; two brothers, C. C. Barr of Whittier and W. B. Barr of Denver, Colo., and a sister, Miss Mabel Barr of 'Whittier.

Frineral services were held in Santa Ana Wednesday afternoon, September 19, with Rev. John Ashley of the First Methodist Church officiating.

Fred Fischer

Fred Fischer, president and manager of the Fischer Lumber Co., Marcola, Ore., passed away suddenly in his mill office on August 31. He was 68 years of age.

Ife was born in Bayfield, Wisconsin, and came to Marcola in 1903 with his father, Fred, Sr., and three brothers, and they bought a small mill. His three brothers retired

from the business, but he and his father stayed on and built a fine sawmill and logging railroad. Three times their rnill rvas destroyed by fire. He, and his son, Dale, built the present mill at Marcola which he was operating when he died. Dale Fischer has taken over the manag'ement of the plant.

Dr. Albert B. McKee

Dr. Albert B. McKee passed arvay at his home in Woodside, San Mateo County, California, on August 19 after a two months'illness. He was 82 years of age.

He was born in Stockton, Calif., the son of William F. and Mary S. McKee. He graduated from the College of the Pacific, then in Santa Clara County, in 1883, and received his MD degree from Cooper Medical College in 1886. He was at the Southern Pacific Hospital in Sacramento for a year, then practised medicine at Tuscarora, Nevada, until 1892, when he went to Europe for post-graduate work studying in Berlin, Heidelberg and London.

Returning to California, he be,came assistant professor in the eye, ear, nose and throat department at Cooper Medical College, and in l9O2 he was made head of the department. Iri 1909, he was made professor of Ophthalmology and retained this position until 1928. In the meantime, the institution became a part of Stanford University. Dr. McKee held the title of Professor Emeritus of Stanford University, and he also had an honorary degree of Master of Philosophy from the College of the Pacific, now located at Stockton. He was a member of the American and California Medical Associations, Sigma Nu Medical Fraternity, Phi Kappa Psi, and the University and Commonwealth Clubs of San Francisco. His home was in San Francisco for many years, after which he resided in Woodside for thirty-eight years.

Dr. McKee was married in 1898 to Alice Hooper, daughter of John A. Hooper, pioneer California lumberman. He is survived by his widow, and five sons, Albert B. McKee, Jr., general manager of the San Pedro Lumber Co. at Los Angeles, and John A., Norma4 C., Donald H. and Robert N. McKee.

California Building Permits for August

..........$

Modular Standard for \(/ood Windows

Published bv NDMA

A new Modular Standard for ponderosa pine stock windows aud sash has just been made public by the National Door Manufacturers Association.

Published in complete detail in an attractive 32 page brochure, the Standard represents over two years of intensive study on the part of the producers of Ponderosa pine stock woodwork products. The work was done under the direction of a technical committee composed of W. H. Schwab, Chairman, Huttig Manufacturing Company, Muscatine, Iowa; Glen Converse, Anson & Gilkey Company, Merrill, Wisconsin; C. K. Paine, Curtis Companies Incorperated, Clinton, Iowa; B. J. Triller, Farley & Loetscher Manufacturing Company, Dubuque, Iowa, and W. M. Steinbauer, Secretary-N{anager of NDMA.

The development and publication of the new Standard had its origin in the Association's desire to cooperate with the building industry in the advancement of American Standard Association Project A62. Sponsored by the American Institute of Architects and the Producers' Council, the purpose of the project is to coordinate the dimensions of all building materials through the adoption of a common denominator or unit of measurement. The four inch module has been the unit adopted for this purpose. It is the module or increment used by the woodwork industry in developing its new sizes for wood windows and sash.

The use of modular-coordinated products is expected tcr bring about important economies in building construction. It will permit the assembly of building parts with a minimum of .cutting and fitting on the job. This means a reduction in waste and substantial savings in material and labor.

The new booklet published by NDMA contains a wealth of valuable technical information. The text of the Stand' ard sets up minimum specifications for two nominal thicknesses of Ponderosa Pine windows and sash-lrft' and l%". It also covers construction, grades and tolerances for these requirements.

The new Manual is being given'i'r'ide distribution. Copies are being mailed direct to over 400 sash and door jobbers, 22,000 retail lumber dealers and to over 6,500 architects and government specifying offices. Single copies may be obtained without charge bv writing the National Door Manufacturers Association, 332 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago 4, Illinois, and asking for Manual WSS-45.

The Association is also making plans to n-reet with groups of distributors to analyze the new Standard in further detail and to show horv it fits into the requirements of ASA Project 462.

New Mill

M. & R. Lumber Co., Sutherlin, Ore., ble diesel mill to cut railroad ties and 25,000 feet per day. Owners are Bergerson.

recently built a porta2x4's. The capacity is R. L. Tozier and M.

Here's o "live" producl with plenfy of soles ond profit oppeol, plus steody yeor'round repeols. Get your customers lo lry it-ond they'll continue to buy it. Avoiloble in lorge ond medium size bogs lo meel every gorden need. Order your stock todoythen keep it on disploy.

- Di sptoyE sert fel"t ?tful IHT YTAR 'ROU}ID MUICH

CIJASSIFIED ADVERTISING

Rate-$2.50 per Column Inch.

oPEN FoR o8corlPkRtPrt* MoNTHS AFTER THP.WAR

(Agreement for lease now available)

The site of the Expoaition Lumber Yard, approximately 26,0fi) sq. ft., extending betwecn Exposition and Jefferson Borilevards. Located on the North border of The Baldwin Hills subdivisio,n developrnents. S. P. Railroad siding.

- The only retail site in this territory with permits for both lumber and heavy manufacturing.

Address J. T. Mann, 4512 W. l6th Place, Los Angeles 6, Calif. WHitney 1430

WANTED

Experienced bookkeeper-secretary. Good wages for capa.ble man or woman.

Also want yard man who can handle yard trade and stock,tnust know lumber.

Privately owned and independent sawmill located in good town in Southcrn Oregon.

Write P. O. Box 681, Grants Pass, Oregon.

WANTED

EXPERIENCED LUMBERMAN to manage yard of independent lumber company in prosperous agricultural com,rnunity. S-ome loowledge hardware and plumbing. Good opportunity for right man.

Address Box C-1145, California Lumber Merchant, 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

POSITION FOR ASSISTANT MANAGER

Wanted-Asssitant manager of retail lumber yard 17 miles south of San Francisco. Starting $200 per month. Spleridid opportunity for the right party.

Burlingame Lumber Co. Box 356 Millbrae. Calif.

FOR SALE

4-Wheel lumber yard tnrcks

Incinerator, 11 feet outside diameter, ,$ feet high Electric moto'rs

Swing saws

Industrial Manufacturers Ltd. 5401 So. Boyle Ave., Los Angeles f t, Calif. Telephone LUcas 9171

WANTED PLANING MILL FOREMAN

Mill at Santa Maria, California.

Address inquiries to Pacific Coast Lunr,ber Co. Box 192, San Luis Obispo, California

YARD MANAGER AND SALESM

A.LESMAN WANTED

Wanted competent manager for retail lurr terial yard in San Francisco Bay district. knows lumber and other building materialr

etail lumber and building madistrict. Also salesman who materials.

Address Box C-11,16, California Lumber I Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

,umber Merchant, 508 Central

PERMANENT POSITION OPEN

Position open Central California for setup man capable making knives for four moulder stock nrill. Steady job old establistred concerrl Give age, references and expcrience in first lettcr, and advise when would be available. Good propositoin for reliable party. Prefer man not over forty and one who is interested in future.

Address Box C-134Q California Lumber Merchant, 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Cdif.

FOR SALE

30 M capacity sawrnill, steam and electric. 200 miles from Los Angeles. Private timber.

Address Box C-1133 California Lumber Merchang 508 Centrd Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

SAWMILL FOR SALE

Ponderosa Pine-Central California" 50M ft. capacity-now running.

Address Box C-1143, California Lwnber Merchant, 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

ASSISTANT MANAGER WANTED

Experienccd retail lumberman wantd at once as assistant manager of a yard at ,Fresno where a complete line of building materials are sold, including plumbing and electrical materials. This is a permanent position for a good man.

Address Box C-1144, California Lurnber Merchant, 508 Cesrtral Bldg., Los Angeles l4 Cdif.

LUMBER YARD:S FOR SALE

A.

Located over 1(X) miles from Loe Angeles. Five ycar sales ?,verage S360,000 annually. No war industries. Nct profits before income tax for same period average $23,000 annually. Yard -will cost, inventory about $50,000; trucks and equiprnent $15,000; goodwill $20,m0. Will leasc ground ard bililaing, at l/zo/o of annual gross sales, $300 monthty foinimum.

Yard in Loe Angelea County Coast town Plenty of heavy puildrngs, 10 acres, spur track. All for t30,0@, teims. Srrrail rnventory cxtra.

Yard site near Sepulveda- No buildings, west side of Los Angeles; about 33,(Xn sq. ft. wittr spur track. $14,000.

I a*e on San Fernando Road in Los Angeles, with shed. sI1,000.

Yard in Harbor Dis.trict on boulevard. Frincipal business remanufacturing used timbers for sale as lumber. Has srirall portable sawmi[ two trucks, etc. All fo'r $4,500, plus 91,200 owing on ground (100 x 121 feet), payable $20 monthly. Additional ground can be purchased reasonably. Plenty of used timber now available at ship yards. Srnall invcntory extra-

If you want to sell Srour lumber yard let us lmo\r.

T\rohy Lumber Co., Lumber Yard Brokers 801 Pettoleum BIfu., Loe Angeles 15, Calif. PRospect E746

BUYER'S GUIIDE SAN FRANCISGO

LUIITIBEB

Arcctc Bodwood Co, il20 Mcrtet Street (ll). ....YUkon 2067

Aildlsoa-Stulz Compcuy, ll2 Mcrket Street (ll). ..GArlield 1809

Bcrg Lumber Co. 16 Colilornia St....... Exbrook 2{182

Butler. Seth L., 2I4 Frout Sl., (ll). ......GArtield 0292

Chrisienson Lumber Co. Evos Ave. 6d Quilt St. (24).rVAlencia 5832

Dcnt d Eussell, lnc., 214 Front Street (ll). ....GArlield 0292

Dolbeer d Ccrson lumber Co., lllS Merchants Exchcage Bldg. (4) DOuglcs 6446

Gqmersto! 4 GrEeu lunber Co,, 1800 Arny Streel (24). ..ATwcter l3fil

Hqtl, Icmei L., 1032 Mills Blds. (4) .......SUtrer 7520

Hqllincn Mcckin Lunber Co. 681 Mcrket S!. (5). .....DOuglcs l94l

Hammond Lumber Comoqnv, {-17 Montgonery Streir (6). .DOuslcs 3388

Hobbs Wcll Lumber Co., 405 Montgomerv St. ({)..........GArlield 7752

Holmes Eurekq Lumber Co., ll05 Fincncicl Center Blds. (4). .GArlietd I92l

C. D. Iobnson Lumber Corporqtion, 260 Ccliloraic Street (ll) .GArtield 6258

Kilpctrick d Compcny, Crocker Bldg. (4)...... ...YUkon 0912

Ccrl H, Kuhl Lumber Co., O. L, Russun, ll2 Mcrket St. (ll)..YIIkon l{60

LUIVIBEN

Compbell-Conro Lumber Co. (Phil Gosslin), 2ll Prolegsionql Bldg. (l)..........KEUogf 4-2017

Gcmerston E Green Lumber Go., 2001 Liviageton St. (6). .KEuos.4-1884

Hill d Morlon, Inc..

Dennison $treet Whcrl (7'r........ANdover 1077

Hogcn Lumber Conpcny. 2nd cnd Alice Stre€t8 (4) .......Gl.encourt 6861

Eelley, Alberr A. P. O. Box 240 (Alqneds). .Lckehurgt 2-2754

LUMBER

Anglo Cclilorniq Lumber Co., 655 E, Florence Ave, (l)......THornwcll 3141

Arcctc Bedwood Co. (J. J. Bec)

5410 Wilsbire Blvd. (36)........WEbster 7828

AtkinsoB-Stutz Compcav, 628 Petroleum Bldlg. (tS) .....Pnospecr 4341

Atlag Lumber Co., -m35 E. l5th q!. (21). ...PBospect 7{01'

Burns Lumber Compqnv, 727 W. Seventh St. -(14). ......TRinitv 106l

Ccmpbell-Conro Lumber Co. (R. M, Eirgstrcnd),

704 South Spriug Si.. ..VAndike 55ll

Ccrr d Co., L. I. (W. D, Dunniug),

438 C!, oI Com. Bl-dg. (15). .PRospect 8843

Consolidcted Lumber Co., 122 W. Jellereson St. (7)......Rlchmond 2l4l 14{6 E. Anaheim St,, Wilmbgton. ..Wiln. 0120; NE. 6-1881

Cooper, W. E., 606-608 Richlield Blds. (13).......MUtucl 2l3l

Dcut G Busell, Inc,, 812 E. 59th Street (l). .ADams 8l0l

Dolbeer d Ccrson, Lumber Co,, 901 FidElity Btdg. (13)..........VAndike 8792

Ed. Fountqin Lumber Co., 628 Pelroleum BIdg. (15). ,. .PRospact l34l

Hcllinan Mcckin Lumber Co.

tl7 W.gth St. (15). .....TBinity 36{{

Hcmmond Lumber Compqnv,

2!10 So. Alcmedc Sl,-(54)......PBoapect 1333

Hobbs Woll Lumber Co..

--625 Rowcn Bldg. (f3). ...TRinity 5088

Holmes Eurekc Lumber Co..

7ll-712 Arcbitects Bldg. (13)......MUtuol 9l8l

Hoover, A. L., 5225 Wilshire Blvd. (36)...........YOrk 1168

Kilpctrick d Compcny (Wilnington)

1240 Blinn Ave..... .NEvqdc 6-1888

Ccrl H. Kuhl Lumber Co., (8. S. Osgood), 704 S. Sprius St. (l{). ...TRinitv 82%

Ross C, Lcshley (8. G, Robbins Lumber Cb.),

714 W. Q-lyppic Blvd. (15). .PBospect 0721

Lcwrence-Plilips Lunber Co.,

_ 533 Peiroleu"! BIdg. (15). .Pnospect 8171

Loug BelI Lunber Conpcny, 3I8 W. gth St. (15)................TRiniry 2819

MacDoncld Co., L. W., , ZI{ W. Olynpic Blvd. (15). .Pnospoct 719{ Orban Lunber Co,, 77 S, Pqscdenc Ave., Pqgcdenc (3)

.SYccnore 6.t!373 RYon l-6997

+Postoffice Zotts \luur1r.r irr Parerrthesis.

..GArlield 6881 ,.....EXbrook 8696

.Gtrrlield 9ll0

LUMBER

E. K. Wood Lunber Co., I Drunm Streot ( ll) . .Ellbroo} 3710

Weyerhceuser Scles Co., 391 Sutter St. (8)......... HANDWOODS

E. L. Bruce Co., 99 Scn Bruno Ave. (3). Dqvis Hqrdwood Compqnv, Bcy ct Mcson Streei (6i.

GArlield 8974

.MArket 1838 EXbrook {322

Whits Brothers,Filth cnd Brcnaqn Streets (7)......SUtter 1365

SASH_DOORS_PLYWOOD

Harbor Plywood Corp. ol Cclilomic, 540 l0th St, (3). .Mf,rlel 67ll!i

United Stcte8 Plvwood Corr., 2727 Army Sr. il0)..

CNEOSOTED LUMBER-POIES_

.Sutter lTTl PILINCFTIES

DOuglas 2{69 Americqn Lumber d Trecting Co., 116 New Montgomery Street (5). .Sutter 1225

EXbrook 70{l Bcxter, J. H. d Co..

GArrietd 2846 ""ttT ,T::t"1:"rY slreet (4)' ' ' Douglc 3883

Dousrcs 2060 "#i11i"".11i";".1n1.-"., b,;*ro;, "t"""t'o yukon r5e0 u"Tl"yi'j;j iiii? f';;;;;; ;;- "_:""'1" i:: " " " Vcnder Lqqn Pilias 6 Lumber Co., ...SUtter S3B3 216 Pine Street- (i!) ....EXbroo} t!905 Wendlinc-Ncthcn Co., .ATwcter 56?8 5a{ M;rket St. (4) .......SUttcr 536t

OAKLAND

LI'MBEN PANELS_DOqES=94'qH-SCNEENS

E. K. wood Lumber Co,, YwooD - zi ir 'iiJJe,icr sii"Ji'(sl. ..-. .ffiitog 2-rn7 1b'6.'rl'f *:t*y i.ill]I .fl.: .Hrgcre 5016

Wholescle Buildinq Supply, Iac,, " i6dt-it;f 3ilii tiilll'.'. .'litrnprebo, 6e6r t.rlf "t":-lii!."gillfl"inl

Glencourr 686r Wholegcle Lumber Distribulors, lnc., sr ii'* si,*ilzrl...l..l.-.'ll.liiviooor." 25rs ttf;,. i,il;}Si.?ifrlll]:...........Glencourr 3ee0

IIARDWOODS Unilcd Stqtes Plywood Corp., srrcbte Hcrdwood compqrr 5t0 3rd st' (7) " " " " ' TWinockg 554{ -'i'i;;i *fi'-iifi'si;.-Ji""i?i:. .rEmprobcr ss8{ t3ff.'3 &ff"f" ti,i3.8''irt. .rEnprebcr 8{00 white Brothers, E' K' Wooil Luqrbel Co" '-soiimir--dti-,ior (t)..............ANdover 1600 -2lll FredericL strect (6).....'..ftlloe2-4In

LOS ANGELES

LUMBEN

HANDWOODS

Pqcilic Lumber Co., The Americqn Hqrdwood Co,, 5225 wilshire Bfvd. (36).......-....YOrk ll88 1900 E. lsth Stroot (5{)..........PRospect tlzils

Pqrelius Lumber Co. (Toste Lumber Co.), E, L. Bruce Co., 326 Petroleum Bldg.'(t5)......'..PBospict 7605 5975 So. Weglorn Ave. (4t).....TWinocle 9128

Pclrick Luober Co., Peaberthv Lunber Co.. Edstmcn Lumber Scles, 5800 S6uih Eoyle Ave. (ll)......Klmbcll Slll 7I4 W. Olympic Blvd. (15)......PBospect 5039 St*ton, E. I. d Son, Pope 6 Tctbot, Inc., Lunber Division 2050 EqEt alEt Str€et (Il).........CEntury 29211

714 W. Olympic Blvd. (t5). .PRospect 8231 Wostern Hcrdwood Lumber Co,. E, L. Reitz Co., 20lr! Ecst l5lh Stt€ot (55).......PRopect 616l

f,Imbart 2rrr

333 Petroleum Bldg. (15). .PRospect 2369 SASH_DOO'S_MILLWORK_SC1EENS Sqn Pedro Lunber Co., t5l8 s. ceDrtal Ave. (2t)......Rlchmond u4t BIINDS-PANELS AND PLYWOOD IRONING BOANDS 1800-A Wifnington Roqd (Scn Pedro). ........Scn Pedro 22il1 toqs reqre' ; : D1n r.qto 4w Bcck Panel compdny, Schcler Bros. Lumber 6 Shinste Go., - "ti_6ii-'i;i"li|ii"Srr".r 6l)....ADcms ttzs ll7 W. gth Street (15).tt"#ti"?,'3r".fftiir3]'i,r,. .p'ospecr 0615 "3,i,3;t";tl11,t;4:lj"tlUL(rr)

P, O. Box 2098, Teminal l8l0 E. Wcshiaston Blvd. (21)..PRospect 6183 Anaex (54) ...TBidty 0057 Smith, Stuart C. (Pcscdena) Cobb Co., T. M., PcrkwcyBldg. il)..SYccmore2-3837,ZEuirb6633 58fi! Ceatrcl Aveaue (ll)........ADcms llllT Stcnton, E, I. & Soo, Cole Dor & Plywod Co.' 2050 E. 4llt St. (lt). ...CEntury 29211 ltxg E. Slauon Ave. '(rr) '.-......ADams 4371 Suddea d Christenson, tnc., - Dcvi{so-n Plywood-d V^encer Co., - 640-B;J;t-tiEa"'ntai.'(t{)....Tniniry 8841 _2{35.EDr€r-prise St. (.2-l)............TniDiiy 2581

Simpson luduslties, Inc.,

Tqcomq Lumber Scles, ' Eubcnk 6.Sou, L. H. (Inglewood)__ -Lt-t"r';6; ara-s.' rrsl. .......pRospecr il(ts ,jf,r" Y;.3..t3Xli"tiij;;;i ..... o*esron 8-22s5

Tosie Lumber Co., --std p-"r'"tJi,- Ciag. tts)........pnospecr 760s *.t:f;ro, iltl ii:"il *;; " AShrev 4-2268 w...1*Tg,:l!g!ulo-9o,., ,^^. -- elli'si-l,iyjii Br*.1'tesl. .ANselur slel

Weudling-Ncthcn Co., -;i-' '--' szE rririliiJrrvd. (36). ..york 1168 0,6#.:'#e$"ri,lji""r{3};c'c;.',ANn"t"" ttet

West _Oreson Lulqber Co- 316 Wegr Ninifi Streot- (t5). .... .TBiriry {613 4?7 Petroleum Bldg. (t5)... .Blchmond 0281 Pccilic Mutucl Door Co.,

*fu1"'rYtffi',1,;or os). ..rRiuily {613 "j# "t;JIn1,':"d::."H:' (2r) PRoepecr es23

W9-v_eg!g_eqs_er_S-,tes _C_o., 235 S. AJLnedc S11eer (12). ....Mlchigcn l85l lll9 W. M, Gcrlcud Bldg. (15)..Mlchigca 635{ Scnlxoa Co. (Psacdenc), E. K, Wood Lumber Co., 745 So. Rqynond Ave. (21........8Ycn l-6939 4710 So. Alcnedc St. (51)........JEllersoa 3lll Sinpson lndustrieg, Inc., cnEosorED LUr\ilB_En-poLES g"tllo. "r',"Y;"1ix*33r"td3;"11t)

Pnospect 6183

PrLrNGl-rrEs -]'ridd' Eiii-isif'5rl-?zrjl.i.i...Brchnond 610l American Lumber 6 Trecting Co,, West Cocgt Screen Co., ll5l So. Brocdwcy (15)..........PRospect {363 ll45 Ecst 63rd Str€et (l)..........ADcna lllon

Bcxter, J. H. 6 Co., Westen Mill 6 MouldinE Co.. 601 WestStb Siro€t (13)......Mlqhigan 8291 11615 Pcmelee Ave. (2)........Klnbcll 2953 Pope d Tclbot, Inc., Lunber Division, E. f,. Wood Lunber Co., 7ll W, Olympic Elvd. (15)......PRospcct 82itl {710 S. llqneda St. (51)........JEllat8on 3lfl

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