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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.