T{ ERE'S A FELLO\7 who really makes his ^^ nark in the world! He is the grader at \Winton's Martell mill, and his keen eye and unerring pencil give $Tinton lumber its well-deserved reputation f.or dependable grading.
A trained grader can quickly size up a board as it comes down the sloping ramP, and he marks his grade on the board with an indelible pencil. This is only the f.rst of several gradings. The board is graded again at the dry sorting chain as it comes frorn the dry kiln and goes to the planer. Follovring planing, it is graded for the tbird time.
A f.nal grading is given just before shipping by truck and trailer or freight car by a certified grader, who has plenty of time to check the boards in
detail. Nothing is left to chance in making sure euery Winton board comes up to \Tinton's high standard of qaality!
A recent addition to the Martell mill is an electronic moisture detector, which assures ,tcurate moisture control of \Winton lumber; along with consistent grade.
If you are looking for a steady .source of supply for high quality, dependably graded lumber, you should try \Winton. More than 67 years in the lumbering business stands behind every \Winton end-starnped and u,axed board.
Give your lVintonman a call and get the complete \flinton story today.
OCTOBER.
Wood'work Institute of California Northern Gener,al Membership Ifeeting, Mark Hopkins hotel, San Francisco, Oct. 3.
Santa Clara Valley Hoo-Hoo Club 170 dinner meeting, Chez Yvonne, Oct. 9.
Redwood Empire Hoo-Hoo Club 65 annual Fort Bragg junket, Oct. 10. Host: Union Lumber Co.; Fred Dias, chairman.
L. A. Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club No. I Hawaiian Luau, 5:29 p.m., Oct. 13.
Sacramento Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club 5 annual Boss's Nite, Sacramento
Inn, Oct. 14.
Dubs, Ltd. tournament and banquet, Orinda Country Club, Oc,t. 17. Host: Brian Bonnington.
Oakland Hoo-Hoo Club 39 dinner meeting, Clarernont hotel, Berkeley, Oct.20.
Terrible Twerrty Tournament, Monterey, Calif.., Oct. 23-24.
Building Material Dealers Credit Assn. (Los Angeles), El Mirador hotel, Palm Springs, Oct. 24-25.
American Forestry Assn. 83rd Annual Meeting, p,ioneer hoitel, Tucson, Ariz., Oct. 27-3A.
San Francisco Hoo-Hoo Club 9 dinner meeting, Leopard cafe, Oct.28.
National Building Material Distributors Assn. 7th Annual Convention, Sheraton hotel, C,hicago5 I11., Nov. 9-12.
Pacific LlSSinS Congress, Multnomah hotel, portland, Ore., Nov. 10-12.
National Hardwood Lumber Assn. 6lst annual convention. Hotel Sherr an, C,hicago, Nov. 11-13.
Southern California Retail Lurrber Assn. 9th annual Fall Confer_ ence, El Mirador hotel, Palm Springs, Nov. 13-15.
National Retail Lumber Dealers Asen- 5th annual Exposition, Con_ rad Hilton hotel, International Amphitheatre, Chicago, Nov. Z2_25.
In this issue, we welcome these new advertisers into the family of California Lumber "Merchant-isers":
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The most dynamic merchandis.ing prog,ram ever presented for the retail building materials dealer will be featured at the 1958 Building Protucts Exposition, -according toPhil Creden, mercfrandising manager of the Edward Hines Lumber Company of Chicago and general chairman of the Exposition.
Case histories of an even dozen successful building material merchandising operations will be graphically outlined in a dramatically diffeient type of Store Planning and Merchandising Cenier at the Nalional Retail Lumber Dealers AssociatiJn show in Chicago, November 22-25. As an important part of the Exposition's new "Sales Huddles" fea^ture. Chiirman Creden revealed, the program will be developed and handled by the Joseph-G-uillozet firm of marketing "nd -rn"gement consultants-of Cleveland, Ohio' Working against a background of panel displays fully documenting t*elve of the company's most representative client stores, the full staff of Guiilo/et's store planning' management, and merchandising experts will cover six vital asp-ects of retail building mate*rial bperation with questions and answers being exchanged freely on each subject.
Tack Kellv. better known to millions of television fais as "Brother Bart" of Kaiser Industries' top-rated "Maverick" series. will be the center of attraction at the drst event on the social and entertainment calendar of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association's fifth annual Building Products Exposition in Chicago. His participation ha1 been arranged !f -Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Company, one of the show's annual exhibitors.
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"Nevei before," said Creden, "has such a wealth of specialized merchandising and store planning knowhbw been brought together at one place and time for the benefit of the retail dealer in this industry. In addition to getting very valuable help from th-e graphic displays and tht small-group question-and-answer ses3ions, any dealer at the Exposition will have the unprecedenied opportunity to walk into the Store Planning and Merchandising Center with plans, pictures, and-problems under his arm and make an appointment for frivate, confidential counseling with any one-or all of the Guillozet specialists."
Set up to handle small groups of approximately 50 dealers at a time, the Merchandiiing Huddle will get rolling each morning with a capsule course by Joseph Guillozet on how the dealer, with a 'ido-it-yourself'r market survey, can-check his own trading area to determine the kind and size of store which would bie most successful in his community. Questions such as, should you build ' ' or remodel ' what kind of store how large . . . what is needed in human resources for efiective store management ' ' and others, will be handled by Mr. Guillozet.
Illustrating points of his discussion with pho-tographs, drawings, blde prints, and models, Mr. Guillozet will talk investmeit, operating economics, financial management, basic costs, fixtuies, etc] based on the twelve case histories depicted in the center which cover a wide variation in store iize and serve small, medium, metropolitan, supermarket and farm trading areas.
Handling dealers' questions on merchandising management, purchasing, inventory controls, personnel controls, operati;g budgets and financial controls, will be Richard Siegel, rn'erchandising manager of the Guillozet firm. Tbirty yeais'- experience in-packaged home improvement ..!ilg -backs upihe presentition by n. B. Fitzgibbon'of the Guillozet fiim in discussing how to organizJand get started i-n packaged remodeling sales. How to develop reliable standirds for quoting a piice on the installed package, Jrow t-o develop material-lisls for specific projects, training of the "pac-kage" salesman, estimlting cost of labor and material, and how to get big-ticket sales from the consumer are some of the points Mr. Fitzgibbon will cover.
Architect Robert Douglass will handle the Merchandising Huddle's discussion of siore remodeling, fixture design, display, and principles of good store layout for most effective movement of merchandise. Practical how-to-do-it of adver-
The appearance of Maverick, "all duded up" in the best horie-opera style and arriving early in the evening on the eastbbund siage from Hollywood, will provide a hiehlv appropriate cfimax to the NRLDA Exposition's wJstern-iheme festivities at the Industry Reception on Saturday evening, November 22. Billed' as the Chuck Wagon ?arty wilh western atmosphere, the event will be s"taged in the Arena adjacent to NRLDA's Exhibit Hall in the International Amphitheatre.
The evening of western fun is scheduled-to begin.at 5 :00 p.m. andlll Exposition visitorsds4ls15, exhibitors,'personnel, wives and guests-.are-invited to attend.'There *ill be western souvenirs for everybody, presented by pretty costumed "cowgirls"; and cowboy iineine. lasso-twiriing, and exhibitibn square dancing witT bi' the order of the day. Guitar-playing "cowDokes" in ten-gallon Stetsons will stroll around the A."nr serenadiig Chuck Wagon guests whose "chuck" will include hotbarbecue beef plus other western fare, and free beer. Two orchestras in range-riding costume will provide real dosey-do-ing music for country-93"tins as well as for the-plain, city-slicker variety. \Vhen thEy are not busy swinging'their partners, Chuck Wason guests catt loungl on bales of hay or lean against b*arrels and wagon wheels lined up against the corral fence,
Hieh point of the partv will be the arrival of "I\'IaverickR in an authentic stige coach of the early 1870's' He is expected to be accompanied by his wife, lovely TV Actriss Mae Wvnn. Thi Kellys will arrive in the comDany of NRLDA President ind Mrs. James C' O'Malley. President O'Malley recently had a pleasant brief visit with Kelly on the Warner Brothers location where the 1959 Maverick series is now being filmed' Dealer O'Malley said, "\Me are delighted with the plans which Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Company has presented to us for Kelly's visit at the NRLDA Exposition."
tising and sales promotion, policy, planning, and budgeting, will 6e handled by James IVI. Newman, whose ten.years' experience in store management, consumer adverttstng'.a.nd ioordination of merchaidise presentation qualify him soundly in this field. Mr. Newman will also cover the closely related subject of applied community relations and how to develop a good company personality.
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sta'te of "hori,-to" discussions rvill be John Nich6ls, highlighting simple steps to achieve better itore and windo# dGplayi, betler point-of-sale promotion, and better package design for dealer display.
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During all f6ur dayl of the Exposilion, Joseph Guillozet anI his entire itaff will be available for free, pri-
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The shipping of unitized lumber in boxcars has been a practical possibility for many retail lumber dealers for nearly two years and has become a very important factor in their Materials Handling operations. It also has had farreaching effects on many mills and wholesale lumber dealers, reports the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association.
To date, comparatively few retail dealers have specified unit loading for all the lumber they order to be shipped in Additional stories found in this issue on on this timely subject will be Pages 20,26 and,37.
boxcars. Those who have are savings, not only in unloading handling operation.
reporting very substantial costs but in every lumber-
Kelsey & Freeman Lumber Company, good example of this. After attending Toledo, Ohio, is a the 1956 NRLDA
Speciolists in Efricient Dislribution
Wholesole Lumber
Roil/Trvck-&-Troiler Shipmenls
OID.GROWTH, BAND.SAWN REDWOOD from Boiock Lumber Co., llonchesler
OTD.GROWTH DOUGTAS FIR From Spocek Lumber Go., llqnchesler
PRECISION-TRIfrIITED STUDS
Douglos Fir o White Fir o Redwood
REDWOOD POSTS ond FENCING
Fred HOLMES / Corl FORCE
P. O. Box 987
Fort Bragg, Colif.
IWX: Fort Brogg 49
Phone: YOrktown 4-37OO
Southern Colifornlo C)ffice: Russ SHARP | | 194 Locusl Ave., Bloomlngton
PIIONES: (Los Angeles) ZEnlrh 4925 (Colton) TRinitY 7-O33O
convention in Chicago, where he saw the demonstrations of unloading unitized lumber from boxcars, Dealer John Kelsey deciiied this would be the way they would get all of their lumber. Today over X)/o of thlir lumber is reieived unitized and unloaded with their two fork trucks.
Unloading of average unitized cars containing 35M board feet is accomplished in three hours by one man. He uses their 4,000 and 6,000-capacity fork trucks, working from ground level on both sides of the cars. Hand-loaded cars formerly took two men as much as three days to unload.
What does this mean to Kelsey & Freeman? The greatest saving they have effected is a 500/6 reduction in their yard laboi force. This alone has paid for their fork trucks several times over during the two years they have been mechanized. Demurrage has been reduced from as high as $175 per month to nothing.
When several cars of lumber arrive at the same time, it is no longer necessary to upset delivery schedules and the general yard routine to get them unloaded. The unloader is assisted by another man, when one is available, and the two men can easily unload and put three cars into storage in one day.
Mr. i(elsey feels that still greater savings can be 1€|i:ed when unit sizes are reduced. This will permit the original units to be delivered to the job just as they are received from the mill. The 42" wide units which he now receives are a step in this direction, and he feels that the 2' wide McCracken Packets might prove to be the answer.
The Cicero Smith Lumber Company, Fort Worth, Texas, has had a similar experience and now states that they "do not intend to purchase any lumber at their Lubbock, Texas, yard in the future from any mill that is not able and willing to bundle this lumber for unitized shipping and fork-lift unloading."
A few mills have worked out their own system of unitizing and mechanical loading and are effecting appreciable savings. The methods used by several of these do not insure perfect arrival, so all too often those cars must be unloaded by hand.
RCS Lumber Company, Antonito, California, makes its units three feet wide and loads them three wide in boxcars.
Haining Lumber Company, Williams, Arizona, now unitizes their entire production and also loads cars for their own convenience. Two of their men load a 3OM-foot boxcar in slightly over an hour's time at a savings of thirty cents per M -over hand-loading methods. Jesse C. Fowler, superintendent of production and developer of the Fowler loader, reports customer satisfaction with their method. He feels thiir cars should be unloaded in approximately an hour and states that one customer reported unloading a car in 52 minutes.
Elk Lumber Company, Medford, Oregon, is now shipping (Continued on Page 53)
Whohukru of Douglas Fir . While Fir
Wesrern Pines o Redwood . Specified Cuf Sfock
llfere's a remarkable new wood paneling development that can mean increased sales for you. It's Weyerhaeuser 4-Square Loc-Wer,r., available in panels 32' wide and 7' and.8' long. This slip-together paneling enhances walls with the natural beauty of wood while assuring big savings in application time and labor hours. Nailing strips applied at the factory speed installation and permit hidden nailing'on broad wall surfaces.
On-the-job time studies show that two carpenters can panel an average living room in about one half day or less than one "man-minute" for each square foot of wall in a room with the average window and door openings.
Loc-War,r, is available in four species, each in three patterns, and some in both clear and knotty.
TO HELP YOU SEtt [OC-WA[[, it is now being featured in Southern California through television spots and in advertising in the Los Angeles Times and builder publications.
Merchandising material for Loc-War,r. selling is yours on request. Included are: a four-color booklet, a colorful envelope stuffer, counter displays, store banners, ad mats, radio scripts, installation instructions and a folder showing results of the application time study mentioned above.
This easy-to-install wood paneling product has tremendous cons'umer appeal and will gain great popularity. Make sure you share the profits to be made in selling Loc-Wu,r,. Send in the coupon for literature or talk to your Weyerhaeuser District Representative.
Weyerhaeuser Sales Company
3552 S. Hill St., Los Angeles 7, Colif.
Weyerhoeuser Soles Company
3552 S. Hill Srreel, tos Angeles 7, Colif.
Plecse send me:
n FuU-color booklet on new Loc-Werr, slip-together wall paneling.
fl Loc-Werr, application time study report.
Ll Loc-Wlrr. irotallation instructions.
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Hundreds of tables giving "worked-out" answers needed in designing structural members of lumber are contained in a newly-revised edition of Wood Structural Design Data, publication of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association widqly used by the building industries.
The new editionbf WSDD wi-ll save architects, engineers and builders many of the time-consuming computations heretofore necessary in connection with structural designs of wood. The revised volume also includes "latest design criteria which will make it easier for the building trades to use rvood economically and efficiently."
More than 100,000 copies of past editions of WSDD have been distributed to the building trades and related industries. The revised edition contains 362 pages of design information, formulas, drawings, charts, graphs, and safe load tables for wood beams, columns, plank and laminated floors and roof decks. and stud walls. Also included are data on wood truss designs and maximum spans for joists and rafters.
WSDD is designed for use with local building codes or the National Design Specification for Stress-Grade Lumber and its Fastenings, another lumber association publication regarded as the standard for engineered timber constfuctron.
In effect, National Design Specification gives the strength factors to use in figuring the load-carrying capacity of various lumber grades and species, while WSDD reports the loads which the various sizes of these grades and species will support.
Both publications are available from headquarters of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, 1319 18th St., N.W., Washington 6, D. C. Wood Structural Design Data is priced at $4 a copy; National Design Specification may be obtained for 50 cents a copy.
Subiects covered by the new WSDD include:
Colorfully-illustrated 1959 calendars with a weekend handyman project printed on the back of each page are being offered by Masonite Corporation to its dealers. The do-it-yourself plans, designed to promote the sales of Presdwood and other building materials, are complete in detail, diagram and illustration. They include a built-in bedroom layout, "his and hers" workshop, linen closet, corner storage unit, carport, pigeonhole shelving, picnic table and lawn chair,.laundry room, "double duty" garage, bedside table, attic room, and corner wardrobe.
The calendars have a space on each page for the dealer's imprint. Orders are being filled on a non-profit basis, accolding to Ray S. Chase, sales promotion manager.
Physical properties of wood; heat transmission througtr wood; specific heat of wood ; chemical composition of wood ; thermal-expansion of wood; mechanical properties of wood; adiustment of stresses for duration of loads.
bther parts of the volume deal with:
Allowable loads on beams, joists, columns, and plank decks; lumber terms; board measure; lumber quantity costs; standard lumber sizes ; properties of sawn and glued laminated lumber sections ; notations and symbols.
Appointment of Al E. Rueger, Fairhurst Lumber Company, Eureka, to chairmanship of the Fire Prevention committee of the Redwood Region Conservation Council was announced by Walker B. Tilley, council president.
(Tetl them gou sau it in The California Lumber Merchant)
one inch thickncss of Simpson Kiln Dried Rcdx,ood givcs insulation equal to 6.1 inch thickncss ol brick, 9.5 inch thickness of centcnt block or 15.0 inch thickncss of concrcte I This cxceptiorral insulation vi.rlue is tluc to Rorlr.r,ood's lorv clcnsity libers and millions of air-filled ccils.
Thc lo* cost of Rcd*,ood offcrs your customers fttr nrore for thcir moncy whcn thcy usc Simpson Ccrtificd Kiln Dried Redu,ood Siding.
Sirlpson Rcclw,ood is casy to work, takes and holds paint or stains bcttcr, lasts longer. and its rcsistancc. to tcrnrites and dccav rs trLrJy lcnr,,rkablc. Disctricr how economical Sin-rpsorr -Rcclriood lif s your cLlstontcr neccls contact your Luntber- Distributor or r.r,ritc:
P. O. BOX 127, ARC,A,TA, CALIFORNIA
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The doctor told him he was discharged and handed him his bill.
It was a very modest bill, considering that he had set and cared for a broken leg, a broken arm, some bad ribs, and various cuts and bruises, scalp wounds, etc.
"Doc," said the patient, "you've been mighty good to me and done a splendid job all the way through. Wouldn't be surprised if you didn't save that leg from amputation. All that worries me is that I don't know when I'll be able to pay you for all you've done."
"Why !" said the doctor. "Didn't you tell me when you
Several key iities have had special housing inveutories taken bv the Census Bureau to document changes since tire 1950 census. The summqry o-f- fi1( ings -showed Los Angeles, California, added 630,000 units through new construction, 26,000 units changed by merger and conversion. More than,3}/o of all housirig in L. A. has been added since 1950.
first came in here that you had six hundred dollars in the bank?"
"Sure I have," said the patient, "but I'm saving that for an EMERGENCY."
Dick Bartlett, prominent in Southern California wood products distribution for the past decade, l1a,s b-e-91- elected hrst vice-president and a direclor of the Findlay Millar Tim-ber Comfany, manufacturers of plywoodr *i!h- general.offices in Manila, Philippine Islands' He will divide his time between the Orient ana tne mainland as he will still hold the position of vice-president of Pacific Wood Products, Los Angeles, national diitributors for Findlay Millar's "Fineply" plywood. ^ 'Bartlett has made himself highly respected throughout the Philippine Islands and is prominent in the United States with dealers and distributors of plywood imports. Prior to becoming identified with Pacific Wood Products he was general iales manager for Davidson Plywood & -L-umber eo-patty, Los Angeles, following the close of World War II.
Whotever fype of lumber you ore drying, there's o Moore Cross-Circulotion Kiln specificolly designed for the iob! This individuol design hos enobled lorge ond smoll mills olike to turn oul top quolity kiln-seosoned lurnf,grq1 minimum cosls ond moximum profits.
Lorge diometer fons, oufomolic vent conlrol ond speciol steel fin pipe ore only o few of mony feotures included in this double trock Moore Cross-Circulotion Kiln ot Big Beor Timber Co., Redlonds, Colif.
f Todoy, over 10,000 Moore Cross-Circulolion Kilns ore helping millsiust like yoursto move oui front in ihe competition for seosoned lumber morkets. The some reservoir of engineering experience ond "know-how" is ovoiloble to you. Why not wrile us todoy?
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We've all heard the saying that "There's nothing new under the sun," but it's not true, really-. Actually, there's always iomething that can be improved-if people are really intirested enough in improving it.
One of the newest swilches we've seen in lumber handling (and there've been a bunch of them lately) comes from Hubbard & Johnson Lumber Company, at the firm's recently installed Port of Redwood City cargo yard. Although Partners Bud Hubbard and Chet Johnson and Yard Manager Bill Wray had their lumber handling rvorked out just aJwell as any other cargo yard, as in all cases there was still room for improvement.Every piece of equipment was doing its job and the Skippers were more than satisfied with their disiharge rate, bui Bud and Chet continued to eye the operationlor a better way of getting lumber from the ship to their S-acre dockside yard.
Then an idea came from an old and tested method used by canners to move their products within and out of their plants... rollers! A free-wheeling roller con' veyor for lumberwhy not?
And so, Bud and Chet checked with the Food Machinery Corp. in San Jose and became convinced that it would work. Together with Yard Manager lMray, the three men work:d up the plans and had a local welding shop build the- system. -When installed, the lumber conveyor stretched from the dock, some 300 feet down into the yard. The conveyor has
a 6-foot rise from the yard to the dock, and is absolutely true and levelaccountirig for the fact that they've never had a unit "sidetrack" out oT the millions of board feet that have already traveled over the system. By installation of the system, Dealers Hubbard and Johnson have eliminated three truck-and-trailer rigs Irom their discharge cost sheeta savings right there of approximately $600. Fornierlv. tire ti'ucks 'ivere used as carriers betlveeu the
dock and the yard, with lift trucks doing the loading and unloading at either end. In addition, on the l'ery first cargo' Hubbard ancl Johnson's already good discharge time was cut an additional 20/o| And each uew cargo load brings a new record as the yard crew.gets tl.re hang of it.
In actual operaliot-t, the system is foolproof. Tu'o lift
Sells well because it's a space saver
Silent-Smooth modern, attractive
DE LUXE and Standard models
By "strictly Hogan" rve mean the quality line of our own manufacture-nothing but the best and priced to sell profftably and fast. Montclair is our own trade name. It includes such popular items in our Millwork Products Division as Montclair Sliding Wardrobe Pockets.
The Metal Products Division is headquarters for Aluminum Casement Sash, Horizontal Sliding Windows, Patio Doors, Jalousie Windows, Arvning Windows and other equally fine types of modern metal products for homes, industries and institutions. Windows are shop glazed at our plantand aluminum beads installed. Complete units shipped to you, ready for your customers to install.
trucks merely pick up the units on the dock as cargo slings are removed and place the units on the conveyor. The units gravity feed down the line for a hundred feet where the flow to the two lift trucks in the yard is regulated by a braking system on one roller section.
Units are stopped just short of the end of the conveyor bv five "dead" rollers. Roller system needs absolutely no niaintenance, roller bearings are sealed and entire system is supported by permanent concrete footings.
Yqrd l{onogq qnd Buycr lill Wroy (l.trl hqd q hond in dcvcloping n.w tytlqm wilh Dcqlcrr Hubbord ond Johnron qnd ir rhown with Pqtlncr Johnron in l"{l photo. Ship'! vilw of ryrlom rhowr litt plo<ing unit on rolhrr (c.ntcr photo), unitt furlhcr down linc hqvc b6n rtoppad by brokc rytlcm (right photo) which regulqtcr fioiv to lift lruckt in yord ond eliminolcr "iomming" ot qnd of line.
Increasing use of fences to provide privacy and shade offers many opportunities for lumber dealers to increase their sales of Masonite r/4" Tempered Presdwood and "Peg-Board" panels. Durable, weather-resistant hardboards can be used either in panel form or cut into strips and woven about the fence posts. When the panels are cut into strips from 6 to 12 inches wide, it's easy to attain either complementary or contrasting color effects.
The photo shows how both a carport screen and fence can be constructed with horizontal strips forming a flowing continuity of design. Or the strips can be ap- plied vertically on the carport screen and horizontally on the fence.
"Peg-Board" panels can be inter-
spersed with Tempered Presdwood to provide variety within the pattern and { place for hanging potted plants, garden equipment, and other items used in the yard.
The fences should be primed and painted. Customers will sive on their labor*by buying factory-primed pan- els. t ence posts and other framework should be painted before the hardboard is nailed in place and should be "capped" with a 4" piece of hardboard
to prevent moisture from soaking into the post and causing it to rot.
Hardboard fence plans can be obtained free for dealer distribution by writing to the Masonite Home Service Bureau, Suite 2037, 111 West Washington St., Chicago
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At las,t-a telephone index has been inven,ted and patented- called "Dextra"*that is firm'ly attached to ths fing.t-stop-ON .the telephone dial. T,his means that "Dextra"in addition to being always where it's needed -is automatically, at the same eye-level, diallevel, of the telephone dial-righ't at the rtip of the "dialing finger." "Dextra" is made in l0 colors rplus black-to match every known telephone color. It retails for $2.0G--and is a product of Rest-A-Phone Com,pany, P. O. Box 10554, Dallas 7, Texas.
(TeIl them uou saw it in The California Lumber MercLnnt)
For fhese Nofionally adverfised productss
CORPORATION
Roofing - Insulqtion - Expqnsion Joint KAISER, SHADE SCREEN
COLUMBIA Aluminum Screene, Doors
}TASONITE CORPORATION
Presdwood Ponels
. wooD coNvERstoN
Bolsqm Wool - NuWood
O ftIODERNFOTD DOOR,S
. RICHKRAFT Poper qnd Polyethylene
. WOODLIFE - PAR.
. ilnPOnTED NAIIS ond WIRE
COLOR,ADO FUEI & IRON COR,PORATION
Noils-all types Screen snd Hsrdwore Gloilr
Wire - Slucco Netting - Poultry Netting - Fencing - Welded Fabric
In the next four vears it is estimated that more rhan $t: biliion will be spent on new schools in the United States. And your share will depend on how well YOU sell the idea of schools of wood to key people in your community. Lumber dealers in Tacoma, \Washington, whipped this same problem with a concerted plan of action.
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Pool your information and fix your sights on the key men in the school program. Appoint members of your dealer group to explain to these people the services you can offer. Make yourself available to furnish information to key personnel in the school building program. Swing these people to building with wood and you automatically increase your market potential.
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A Russian wolfhound arrived in England and was inter' viewed by a British setter. Asked how he was fed in Russia, the wolfhound replied that he had all he could eat of the finest meat. Asked the setter: "Then why do you come here where fine meat is scarce and expensive?" Said the wolfhound: "Well, a fellow likes to bark once in a while, too."
Lord chesterfield ""ia,*"ul"a "la" ,"q,tir" long study and application, but the most useful of all, that of pleasing, require3 only the desire." * * *
De Maupassant said: "\i[/hat is conversation? Mystery?
BY JACK DIONNEIt is the art of never seeming wearisome, of knowing how to say everything interestingly, of pleasing with no matter what, of fascinating with nothing at all." **t<
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler used to say that in every organization there are a few who really do things, a scmewhat larger group who just stand still and watch, and the rest of the gang just take things for granted and don't care. ***
Gie me ane spark o'nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire; Then, tho I trudge through mud and mire, At plow or cart; My muse, though hamely in attireMay touch the heart.
* *-Robert Burns'
Eight hundred years ago a Russian poet named S'Hota Rustaveli wrote this wonderful pattern for friendship: "What you keep is lost; what you give is yours forever." *t<*
The greatest "triple-threat" man in history was, of course, Aristotle. When Will Durant was asked to name the greatest thinkers in history he put Aristotle at the top of the list. When H. G. Wells was asked to name the greatest men in history, he put Aristotle on his very short list. When Elbert Hubbard was asked to name the best educated men in history, he named Aristotle.
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Dangerous times, such as panics and depressions, produce dangerous men. The railroad panic of 1847 started in the United States and spread abroad, with riots following unemployment and starvation. Then arose a God-hating young man named Karl Marx, preaching his hatred of employers and property owners. His preachings still have vast numbers of followersCommunists. rS * tN.
Montaigne said that fashion is a tax placed on the vanity of the rich by the industry of the poor. He was also the author of the remark that if you want to know what God thinks about wealth, take a look at a lot of the folks He gives it to.
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To be "ill-clad, ilt-rrouJea Jnu ,lr-r"u" is not a state that awakens enthusiasm. Yet philosophers have long reminded mankind that is has some wonderful compensations. They recall that a majoritya very large majorityof the great men of historythe truly great menthe intellectual giants, have been nursed at the breast of poverty, and that genius is much more likely to be found in a cottage, or even a hovel, than in a mansion.
Our sense of humor is the only weapon we possess that is strong enough to overthrow self-pity.Maude Taylor.
Most of those who have climbed highest'on the ladder of lasting fame have started at the lowest round. In the midst of toil and the sweat of labor, on the verge of want or in the midst of financial worry, an army of the great souls of history have been fashioned and forged. That may be worth remembering wheri sorneone compares the economic condition of teachers and scholars with that of men in other walks of life. Read history. Sublimity,and wealth go seldom hand in hand.
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Portland, Ore.The Western Pine Association proposed its industry adopt grade names, in place of present number rts rnclustry or presen[ numDer grades in effect on most of its, lumber products, in the ac-
t-ions taken at the group's 1958 semi-annual meeting held here September 10-12.
The group also approved a consumer advertising program which would feature "full-color" advertisements in leading shelter magazines and handicraft books, while maintaining a strong trade advertising program. At the same time, it set up rnachinery for a study on earnings resulting from goveinment timber pricing by an independent agency and called for full "allowable-cut" and reasonable contracts for timber being sold by government agencies.
Sacramento (Special)More than 100 thousand Californians depend on the wood-using industries of this state for J livelihood, according to A. B. Hood, manager of Ralph L. Smith Lumber Company i,n Anderson and president of the Western Pine Association.
"Assuming that national averages apply equally in California, fbr every person employed by industry there are four others providing goods and services. In this respect," Hood said, "the forest industry payrolls become even more important in communities and cities all over California.
"Individual participation in the program offered by the Keep California Green association is an investment in your own and the state's future. Join the hundreds of California residents," Hood urged, "who are already actively participating and proud to share the slogan, Keep California Green."
About 250 representatives from mills scattered throughout the l2-state-Western Pine region attended the three-day sessions. Association membership, consisting of nearly 400 mills, represents about 85/o of. the region's 8-billion board feet of annual lumber Production.
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In recommending the change to name grades, the association's board of directors referred the proposal to a referendum vote of the group's member mills. As proposed, all but shop grades would change from numbers to names' following the pattern set by Idaho White Pineone of the three Wistern Pinesin the 1930s, and more recently the West Coast fir region grades. Final action is to be taken at the annual association meeting in San Francisco next March.
The association's advertising campaigncarried on since 1924 on an almost continuous basisswitched from halfpage black and white consumer advertisements to a schedule iatting for both half and full-page ads in four cblors. The ads will feature all 10 of the western pine region's important species.
- Other elements of the group's promotion program will continue as before, including a strong trade campaign.
In deciding to undertake a study of earnings resulting from operatihg federal timber, the association members pointed- out thi industry's contribution to the economy of the nation is dependent-largely upon fair market pricing of government stumpage. About 70/o of the commercial tim5er in the regior iJ government controlled. The study is planned because of complaints that current conditions
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San Diego Hoo-Hoo Club 3 met September 5 in the private San Diego Speed Boat Club on Harbor Drive for a Concatenation and election of 1958-59 of6cers' The attendance was off because of the conflicting climax of the weeklong Fiesta del Pacifico celebration, but those faithful HooHoo on hand enjoyed a stimulating evening, starting with the two free drinls courtesy of Sullivan Hardwood Lumber Co. The swiss steak dinner was served at 7:29 as the sun sank off Point Loma.
New officers of the active club for the coming year, duly elected and installed, will be Snark: John F. Collins, National Lumber Co., Chula Vista; Vice-President: Roy Batt, Lightfoot Lqmber Co., San Diego ; Secretary-Tre,asurer: Chuck Hampshire (the 14th year now), De Falco Markets, San Diego; Junior Hoo-Hoo: Bill Seeley, Dixieline Lumber Co., San Diego; Scrivenoter: William F. Evenson, American Milling Co., San Diego; Bojum: William J. Pumfrey, Tarter, Webster & Johnson, San Diego; Jabberwock: Wes Thomas, Dixieline Lumber Co., San Diego; Custocatian: Don Schrage, Sullivan Hardwood Lumber Co., San Diego; Arcanoper: Perry Smith, Solano Lumber & tsuilders' Supply Co., Solano Beach, and Gurdon: Eddie Gavotto, South Bay Lumber Co., San Diego.
The club concatenated five Kittens at the well-organized
and smooth-running initiation ceremony. The new members are Luther Campbell, Syd Smith Lumber Co.; D. E. Conger, Weyerhaeuser Sales Co.; William T. Olmstead, Mission Valley Lumber Co.; John M. Ransom, Tarter, Webster & Johnson, and Alex S. Thompson, Western Lumber Co. of San Diego.
Officiating audibly and excellently on the orderly, welldrilled degr-ee team were John Coilins, Bob gakei, Bob Heckel, Bill Evenson, Jim Smith, Bill Pumfrey, Wes Thomas, Don Schrage and Perry Smith. The initiation mysteries and sacraments were dextrously managed and administered by O. J. Evenson and Harry Irion.
One of the most effective highlights of the meeting was the installation of Dealer John Colllns as the new Snark by Old-Hand Clif Roberts. Brother Roberts, at great p"trotrul sacrifice (he'd been to the dentist that day), surmounted all physical difficulties in an impressive seaiing of the Snark.
Well-deserved tribute was paid to retiring Snark Jim Smith for the success of his 1957-58 term of office.
Visitors from Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club 2 who made the trip down for the evening included Custocatian Don Bufkin of the Supreme 9, Deputy State Snark Southern California Jim Forgie, and Freeman Campbell, an officer in Club 2. The visitors were, as always, much impressed with the workings and cameraderie of San Diego Club 3. Supreme Bufkin also functioned ably and impressively as the Visiting Officer for the Concatenation and orefaced his work with a few remarks on Hoo-Hoo aims anci ideals.
FHA applications in Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona, have zoomed I3I/o over last year, according to latest estimates. The state's population has swelled 100/o in the past decade.
Washington 6, D.C.-As a result of many requests received from lumber dealers in the test program, the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association recently made a survey among all the mills that were listed as cooperating and many other mills that have shipped unitized lumber in boxcars or had indicated they would ship lumber by this method. The list below is of the mills which definitely will ship unitized lumber in boxcars. Many other mills indicated they would begin at some future date. The NRLDA will appreciate it if dealer members will advise it of any added mills, and also asks to be advised if any mills here listed will not accept orders for unitizing and shipping lumber in boxcars so they may be removed from the list.
The NRLDA thanks the dealers for reports and photos of unitized lumber shipments which have been received, reports Robert B. Brown, materials handling director of the NRLDA.
These western mills are now making unitized lumber shipments in boxcars :
J. Herbert Bate Co., Wallowa, Ore.; Black Diamond Lumber Co., Sacramento (Perkins), Calif.; Dalles Lumber & Mfg. Co., The Dalles, Ore.; Dant & Warnock, Menlo Park, Calif.; Diamond-Gardner Corp., Red Bluff, Calif.; Duke City Lumber Co., Albuquerque, N. M.; Elk Lumber Co., Medford, Ore.; Fortson Mill Co., Fortson, Wash.; Georgia-Pacific Corp., Portland, Ore.; High Sierra Pine Mills, Oroville, Calif.; Intermountain Lumber Co., Missoula, Mont.; Koppers Company, Wauna, Ore.; L & H Lumber Sales, Southerlin, Ore.; Meadow Valley Lumber Co., Quincy, Calif.; Michigan-California Lumber Co., Camino, Calif.; Modoc Lumber Co., Klamath Falls, Ore ; J. Neils Lumber Co., Libby, Mont.; Nettleton Forest Products, Redding, Calif.; The Ohio Match Co., Coeur d'Alene, Ida.; Packloading Company, Portland, Ore.; Pickering Lumber Corp.,
Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, during the session of Congress just closed, recently declared on the Senate floor: " those who think there is a depression ought to take advantage of their vacation period to visit Arizona," and went on to report that FHA applications in Phoenix and Tucson zoomed l3l/o over the same period of last year, population has risen almost 100/o in the last decade, personal income is up 17I/. and retail sales 160%.
Standard. Calif. ; Pine Mountain Lumber Co., Yreka, Calif.; RCS Lumber Co.. Antonito, Colo.; St. Maries Lumber Co., St. Maries, Ida.; Scott Lumber Co., Burney, Calif. ; Ralph L. Smith Lumber Co., Anderson, Calif .; Southwest Lumber Mills, Phoenix, Ariz.; Walter A. Swanson Lumber Co., Springfield, Ore. ; Tahoe Timber Co. of Nevada, Reno, Nev.; Templeton Lumber Corp., Spokane, Wash.; Ukiah Pine Lumber Co., Potter Valley, Calif.; Weyerhaeuser Sales Co., Tacoma, Wash., Willamette Valley Lumber Co., Dallas, Ore., and Willamina Lumber Co., Portland, Ore. It is known that the Winton Lumber Sales Co. was also one of the first California unitized shippers.
Some of the companies listed represent more than one mill, and those that make a slight additional charge for unitizing report an average charge of $1.50 per M.
Dun & Bradstreet has released for general showings a new film, "Small Business U.S.A.-The Story of Main Street." Rental fee for the 3O-minute movie is $2.75 from Ideal Pictures, 58 E,. South Water St., Chicago l, I11.
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Rounds Lumber Company has opened a Southern California sales office at 416 Primrose Street, Anaheim, according to Sales Chief Harry Merlo. San Joaquin Valley "Roundsman" Burt Goebel has been placed in charge of the of6ce, Merlo disclosed, noting that Goebel has been servicing much of the Southern California trade from his old office at Fresno since 1956.
Manager Jim Overcast and ZZ-yeat Strable veteran, Clarence Dame (both standing), greet Dave Jopes, who joined the S2-year-old organization on August 15. Jopes, who will assist Dame in office sales, goes to Strable with 23 years of inside sales experience with White Brothers in Oakland. A native of Missouri, Jopes coincidentally got his start in the hardwood lumber business in 1929 with George Brown, who back in the early 1900's had established another hardwood concern that was later to become Strable Lumber Company.
The lumber dealer is the natural paint salesman.
He has the opportunity, because he sells the lumber and other building materials on which paint is needed and used.
He has the incentive, because the man who sells the lumber would be overlooking a fine bet if he failed to try and sell the paint to cover it.
He knows from experience that there is no dirtier trick can be played on a nice, bright, smooth board than not to paint it, or to paint it with inferior paint.
No board or surface can possibly be any better than the paint that covers it. It is apparently not only to the dealer's interest to sell paint but it is actually his duty to see that
A new color booklet designed to help retailers sell redwood siding has been prepared by the California Redwood Association. The booklet, designed also for use by builders who feature redwood siding in quality homes, is the initial step in a redwood siding promotion campaign being undertaken by the CRA.
The eight-page fold-out booklet explains how the utilization of California redwood siding on a home can be the soundest investment made by the houseownerin terms of beauty, durability, and comfortthat will pay dividends in carefree living year after year. The booklet is illustrated by fullcolor photographs showing the various siding patterns in use on both traditional and contemDorarv homes.
Design driwings illustrate sidewall variations using five siding patterns.
Redwood's unique characteristics-strong selling points for retailers-are outlined in the booklet. "Though it holds paint better than other woods," the redwood publication points out, "it needs no paint for its orvn protection." Without any coating whatever, heartwood grades of redwood will last indefinitely. Even unfinished, redwood presents a handsome appearance suited to certain styles of architecture.
Redwood's natural resistance to decay and destructive insects is also brought out, as well as its insulation qualities.
Single copies of the new CRA sales aid may be obtained without charge, bulk orders at costeither imprinted or unimprinted -by writing the Service Library, California San Francisco 11. California, or by request Redwood Association, 576 Sacramento St., from redwood mill suppliers.
The S & S Lumber Company, 7177 E. Firestone Blvd., Downey, has joined the Southern California Retail Lumber Assn. as an Associate member. Officers of the wholesale firm are Fred A. Schiel, president; Lewis D. Jones, secretary-treas-urer, and Fred A. Schiel, Jr., vice-president.
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the material he sells is painted right.
It isn't every dealer who is in a position to go out and offer his materials for sale to the public. But the lumber dealer's business is going out after building material business, and should include paint as a natural sideline to his building materials.
Paint has been called "the badge of solvency." Certainly well-painted buildings command far more respect than the unpainted ones, and the enthusiastic paint dealer does something important for his business, for his customers, and for the neighborhood in general.
It looks like the lumber dealer is an ideal paint merchant.
Washington, D.C.-Following the decision at the 1957 membership meeting of the Hardwood Plywood Institute to consolidate the former national office in Chicago and laboratory in Atlanta, a site has been selected in Arlington, Va., 3r/z miles from Washington, D.C. An Alexandria contractor is "o* erecting the building for completion about Jatruary 1.
The ofifrce-liboratory will be 4,000 sq. ft. constructed of concrete blocks with biick veneerbut don't go away mad, lumbermen !- the HPI is doing allright by the industry: Wood is being used wherever feasible, including colonial entrance, handsplit shingles over the entrance, vertical paneling on exterior front wall, windows, garage_door, etc. Easv a&ess to the roof will be available so the Ihstitute's test'fence of hardwood plywood panels can be maintained on the roof for testing effects of sun and weather.
Members of the Hardwood Plywood Institute are furnishing the genuine American-made hardwood plywood paneling, flooiing, trim, and exterior and interior doors for all o6ces. ThJReception room will be done in 2'x8' select Red Birch prefinished panels with prefinished oak plywood block ilooring. Th-e managing -director's office will be l16'x244' and will be done in a diamond pattern of prefinished cherry. The office of the manager of the Institute's Laboratory and Inspection Service will be done in 2x10 and 4x10 paneis of prefinished sliced cypress. The general office will b1 done in 4x10 panels of walnut with a panel overlay in another diamond pattern. The library will be paneled. in V-grooved white oak. The corridor connecting the recepti,o_n room and the lab will be in butternut or brown ash, Vgrooved, cross-scored and pegged. Even the rest rooms will be paneled in maple, poplar and gum. Doors throughout the offices will match the panelings in the various rooms.
Donald Gott, president of the Institute, said the consolidation of office and lab will effect considerable economies in of-
fice personnel and complete liaison between laboratory and administration to result in expanded service to HPI's members. Also Managing Director Clark E. McDonald will have an opportunity to work closer with HPI's counsel on the Institute's many Washington industry problems.
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vate consultation by appointment to advise individual dealers on any management problems they wish to discuss. This service will be available without charge to everyone who attends the Exposition. Mr. Creden believes this is the most effective way in which such a merchandising and planning center can be presented in order to give the greatest number of dealers an opportunity to realize the best possible results from attendance at the Exposition.
He suggests that dealers who may wish to take advantage of the free counseling services of the Guillozet staff at the NRLDA show should bring with them as much documentary material on their store and yard problems as possiblesnapshots, sketches, plans, and any budget or operating figures they may wish to discuss-so that Guillozet experts rvill have the best possible backgrounding with which to advise them on their individual management or merchandising problems.
The Store Planning and Merchandising Center will be located in the International Arnphitheatre at the far end opposite the entrance of the NRLDA Exposition Hall. Centered in the area and further documenting the basic or "minimum" store of the group of twelve, will be an unusual l8-foot scale model showing sales area, warehottse, and fully mechanized yard. Complete reference material, including cost data and additional operating information such as the percentage of builder trade versus consumer busitress, will be on hand for each of the twelve stores.
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The NRLDA Building Products Exposition is your national market place for industryknowledge-of products, grades, meth. ods, applications, availability, cost, financing, management. Hear outstanding dealers and industry experts discuss-
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A common sight to shippers and receivers of lumber is the hand unloading of lumber, but it is not always apparent the number of motions involved in unloading a freight car by hand, or by mechanical means. So Leonard Koenen, president of the Mayfair Lumber Company, Chicago, Illinois, and 1958 Exposition Materials Handling committee chairman of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, and lloward Carlson of the Signode Steel Strapping Company thought it would be interesting to conduc,t a light streak motion study to dramatically show the advantages of handling packaged lumber, as compared to loose lumber.
One "moonless" night recently, Koenen and Carlson conducted this photo experiment in the Mayfair lumberyard.
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dramatically how one package of 160 boards, more than 30 times as many boards, can be mechanically unloaded in one swing by one man with the aicl of a fork truck with a boom attachment.
Here is visible proof that packaged lumber will be the answer to reducing the amount of work that has been needed in the past to unload lumber. This is also true in the yard handling of packaged lumber and when delivery is made at the building site.
For further information on the handling of packaged Iumber in the lumberyard and at the jobsite, write Signode Steel Strapping Company, 2ffi0 North \Arestern Avenue, Chicago 47, Illinois. (Tell
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The preliminary estimate of 119,000 new nonfarm dwelling units started in August, boosted by a substantial amount of Capehart Housing, is 19,000 units more than August a year ago and brings the seasonally adjusted annual rate of private starts up to 1,170,000 units.
The 768,0@ units started the first eight months of this year is 56,ffi0 units more than the same eight months last year, reports the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association.
119,000 housing starts in August compared with 111,000 in July and 100,000 in August 1957, according to preliminary estimates of the U.S. Labor Department's Bureau of l*abor Statistics. Privately owned housing starts edged up a little over the year's previous high in July, to 108,800 in August- l2/o above a year earlier, and the best monthly figure in more than two years. The increase over the month and over the year was all in housing begun with Government-backed mortgage asslstance.
Seasonally adjusted, private starts in August were at an annual rate of 1,170,000, the highest since January 1956, and 28/a above the 9-year low of last February. When averaged for the first eight months, the 1958 rate was 1,037,000 units, compared with 982,000 in 1957.
The Western Lumber Co. of San Diego recently purchased and has installed Bennett 2-Way Panel Saws in its retail lumberyards at La Jolla, Point Loma, National City and Pacific Beach, Calif., reports Dealer-Salesman .Wayne C. Ervine of Atascadero, Calif., area representative of the Richard C. Bennett Mfg. Co.
Carter Ludwig of North Hollywood and Russell W. Puls of Sepulveda have startedtheL&PLumber Co. at 508 Glenoaks Blvd., San Fernando, Calif The certificate of business was filed September 3.
A growing number of lun-rber dealers are welcoming the "Showcase of Famous Brands" model-homes program as one of the finest profit-rnaking merchandising aids of its type ever offered, according to Paul B. Shoemaker, vice-president in charge of sales for Masonite Corporation.
Purpose of the program is to provide lumber dealers with a vehicle whereby they can acquaint homeowners and builders with the latest materials and trends in the building and home improvement industry, the newest household labor-saving devices and the names of local merchants where these things are available. Co-operating with the lurnber dealers and the Masonite Corporation in sponsoring the local "Showcase" homes are other local merchants u'ho are furnishing the homes, contractors and home builders.
Several dealers have seen such great opportunity in the program that they are erecting more than one of tlie Rudolph Matern "Living Core" homes designed especially for the promotion. He designed seven for their selection. Praise for the program, which was introduced early in April, has been received from many quarters.
Among the most enthusiastic dealers participating in the prograln are the Temple Lumber Company of Texarkana, Tex., and the Knecht Lumber Company of Rapid City, S. D. Each will erect three of the homes designed around the "Living Core" in the two 25,000 population communities. Distinction of being the first dealer to announce participation goes to the Robert Brrrns Lumber Company in Mitchell, S. D.
The "Living Core" home, Architect Matern explains, is built around a "core" consisting of an entrance foyer, living room, dining room, family room, kitchen, bathroom and a rear-entrance mud room and lavatory. To this are added bedrooms and other rooms as desired by individual families. The idea was developed from home requirements listed by women delegates to the second
I wish to take this time to thank you for calling my attention to the Subscription due on The California Lumber Merchant magarine. It is indeed of great satisfaction and gratification to know that we of the lumber industries have the famous "California Lumber Merchant." It is a well-organized, magazine and contains all that one could wish for. Keep up the fine work by your well-trained staff. Please find the $5 to cover the 2-year subscription.
-Earl R. Reynolds 1253 N. Workman Nlill Road Whittier, Californiaannual "Congress of Better Living" held in Washington, D. C., and from research done on the popularity of hundreds of other home plans.
Designed by the Masonite Corporation primarily as a merchandising aid for its lumber dealer customers, the "Showcase" program also is gaining wide acclaim from contractors and home builders who see in it an opportunity to display their skills and obtain customer leads through lumber dealers with whom they wofk.
The dollar value of new construction put in place rose seasonally in August to a record monthly high of $4.8 billion, 3/o above a year earlier, according to preliminary estimates prepared jointly by the U. S. Departments of Labor and Commerce. Outlays for the first eight months of 1958, at $31.5 billion, were up a little from the comparable 1957 period, but physical volume was probably abbut the same'in both years.
Lumber dealers in Albany, Oregorr, benefitted recent[y when an Albany dairy floated boats on milkfiguratively speaking. The Snow Peak Dairy, in an effort to boost local payrolls and build good will for local industries, offerecl its customers free boat plans, and suggested that they buy fir plywood and other materials to build the boats from local lumber dealers. The offer appeared on 75,000 of the company's milk cartons distributed during April and May.
The results were gratifying, according to Floyd llopeman of Snow Peak. Nearly four hundred milk ourchasers came into the dairl to pick up the free boat plans. Hopeman reports that all those he talked to were highly enthusiastic about the project.
Lumber dealers, too, were pleased. After the expiration of the offer, Hopeman asked several local firms what effect, if any, the promotion had had on their business.
William Scharof of Twin Oaks Building Supply Company felt the promotion was an excellent idea, from the standpoints of both plywood sales and boosting salesmen's morale. His sales of exterior fir plyrvood are running ahead of 1957, and he attributes some of this to the boat plan promotion.,
Alton Parks of Copeland Lumber Yards also reported favorably. He feels the dairy's promotion may well have stimulated his sales of exterior plywood, pleased, too, with the fact that promotional material was provided without cost to the dealer in this case.
The boat olans. which normally are sold for 25c each, were supplied by the Douglas Fir Plywood Association. All eight boats in the "fir plywood fleet" were included. Snow Peak customers had their choice of plans, ranging from a 7'9" prant dinghy to a20' cabin cruiser. The plans give complete illustrated step-by-step instructions and lists of materials.
llopeman was so encouraged by the success of the promotion that he plans to repeat it in the fall, with an offer of free Datterns to make outdoor Christmas decorations of fir plywood.
A major product development announced by U. S. Plywood is a new and improved Weldwood Satinlac-the clear wood finish which seals and pri,mes, as well as finishes. The following imptovemen'ts have been,made in Sat,inlac:
l. The amoun't of solids has been doubled, meaning that only two coats of Satinlac are now required, instead of three.
2. An added chemical pr'ovides an ultraviolet ray scr€en, which inhibits color change to the the effect of sunlight.
3. Several year,s of research have resul,ted in superior solvents, w,hich make Satinlac easier to apply and dramatically reduce the odor.
4. The new Satinlac will not turn yellow or darken with age.
The new Satinlac and Satinlac Lightener, as well as Weldwood clear Firzite and White Firzite are now being shipped to dealers in completely redesigned packages. Striking new labels tell clearly what the products are and what they will do; and will result in greater satisfaction to the customer and greater sales and profits for the dealers.
New four-color catalogue sheets-one covering all Weldwood finishes, the other covering all Weldwood adhesives-have been designcd to give both wholesaler and retailer comprehensive information on the new program. They are available by writing to Nancy Stuart, United States Plywood Corporation, 55 W. 44th S't., New York 36, N. Y.
A new 14" woodcu,tting rband saw, model J-l14, made by the Yates-American Machine Company, Beloit, Wis., features a heavily rib,bed, one-piece frame that eliminates vibration and provides sturdy support for heavy production. A window in the up,per guard enables the o{perator to check blade tension from the front of the machine. Adjustments for table tilt, wheel tracking, blade tension, guide placement, and changing blades are all m,ade from the operator's position.
The table, supported by double trunnions, .tilts 45" right and l0' lef't. A spring-loaded s'top p,in quickly resets the table at 90o. For accurate blade tracking, the side guide sup-
All inquiries regarding NEW PRODUCTS, New Literature or booHets and other items mentioned in this section should bC AddTCSSCd tO THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT, Room 508, 108 West 6th St., Los Angeles 14. Your inquiries will be promptly forwarded by us to tbe manufacturer or distributor, who will then answer your inquiries direct.
ports the blade ,both above and below the ball bearing backing guide.
Wheels are covered by hinged doors, and the blade i,s completely guarded excep,t at point of cut. Wheels are aluminum for quick acceleration. Distance from saw blade to frame is 13fu", distance under gulde, 61".
The Sky-Hi-Lift developed by the Au.tomatic Transportation Company of Chicago for its fork lif,t trucks solves a costly, timeconsuming problem of manufacturers, warehousemen, shippers and others who must move high stacked loads out of storage areas into the low-ceiling narrow confines of highway trailers.
One eleitric fork lift truck equipped with the Sky-Hilift becornes a dual purpose machine that can be used for high stacking and unstacking as well as for the loading and unloading of merchandise in over-the-road trailers, operations which {ormerly required two separate fork tru,cks.
The Sky-Hi-Lift is the o,nly mast of its type offered with a collapsed height of 68 inches that can lift to 144 inches. The low 68-inch mast has been especially designed for Automatic trucks with 2,000- and 3,000-pound capacities since the vast majority of trailertruck beds have difficulty suprporting lift trucks of greater capacity.
A simple method for making picture frames has been developed by Maple Bros., Inc., West Coast manufacturer of mouldings. It is a pre-cut framing kit called "Beauty Frame" which contains precision-cut frame mouldings and special metal fasteners (See No. l).
Special "Mitre-Tite" metal fasteners are the secret to the easy assembly of Beauty Frames. The Mitre-Tite fasteners fit into a groove in the back of the frame and can be easily inserted by hand pressure without the use of tools (No. 2). When the precisionmitred mouldings are glued together, the Mitre-Tite fasteners hold the frame in place and reinforce the joint (No. 3). The result is an attractive frame, assembled with professional precision, which can be finished to filI any framing need.
Beauty Frames are available in a variety of patterns and sizes. For additional information about Beauty Frames, contact or write to Maple Bros., lnc.,527 West Putnam Drive, Whittier, California.
A full lifting height of 144 i.nches is obtained by the Sky-Hi-Lift which is an increase of 39 lift inches over the standard 68inch mast and has a 2O-inch free lift. These features will make it possible for the user to make additional use of non-productive overhead areas when stacking merchandise.
Additional information about the Sky-HiLift may 'be ob,tained from Automatic Transportation Company, 101 West 87th Street, Chicago 20, Illinois.
San Gabriel, Calif.Clary Corporation, opening the way to replace pencil arithmetic with an electric adding machine in thousands of small businesses, has introduced a new, I'ow-priced unit to the office machine field. At $169.50, a price the company claims is the lowest for any heavy duty, Clary has put a full-keyboard instrument on the market. At the same time, the company introduced an inexpensive hand-operated cash register at $199.50 and an ehctric printing calculator at $499.50.
"Our research shows there is a pent-up demand for these machines ainong small merchants and one-man offices.'' said Williarn G.
Zaenglein, executive vice president and general sales manager. "The main problem has been that too many people thought they couldn',t afford them."
The San Gabriel firm is one of the first in the field to capitalize on a change in public buying habits wh'ich has seen business machines evolve from a speoialty sales item ,to a nrass-purchase commodity. These three new models are free-selling and o'pf n to many retail outlets which never before stocked business machines.
A newly designed, quality aluminum car:port, packaged for the do-it-yourself market, has been introduced by Hunter Douglas Aluminum Corrp. The "ljniverse Carpo,rt," trim looking 1O' x 2U shelter, is also ideally suited as a patio cover, boat port, and utility
canopy for a wide variety of purposes. It comes wi'th supports for a free-standing installation, or it can be easily attached to an existing structure. Either way only simple to,o'ls are required for installation.
Principal feature is the 6" wide interlocking aluminum panels which slide together to form a weathertight roof. Panels are made of a special Hun,ter Douglas alloy finished with two coats of high quality baked ena,mel. The finish has passed salt spray and Weatherometer tests and will not bliste.r, corrode. chalk or change color. IJnder-structure is galvanized and ,bonderized steel painted for maxi,mum resistance ,to rust and corrosion. The car,port has been thoroughly te.sted for 10 pound and. ?A pound load req.uirements. A separate package'of understructure converts the basic ca4)ort to 20 pound lo,ading.
The Universe Carport is finished in gleam-
ing white enamel with emerald green trim around the perimeter of the roof. I,t will be widely marketed through awning, lumber and buildine m.aterial letailers.
A new nylon ,truck tire with steel cord breaker strips has been introduced ,by The Goodyear Tire & Ru'bber Company for use in mining, logging, construction and industrial sites and in other areas where sharp puncturing objects are a h,azard. Two crisscrossed s,teel cord breaker strips are built into the tire beneath the t,read to prote,ct an area considered mos't vulnearable to punctures. Combined with triple-tempered 3-T nylon cord, the protec.tive steel shield gives truck owners a low cost-per-mile tire for rugged use.
Berkeley-Technical appraisal of a proposed price-reporting ser,rice for basic fbiest products, including standing timber, is hampered by a "primitive state of knowledge" concerning the price-determining mechanisms involved in timber sales, say forest economists at the University of
California. The proposed reporting service for timber would resemble otieri now ofiired by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to provide market reports on livestock, grain and other farm commodities.
As outlined in a Senate bill introduced last year, such a service would aim "to provide farmers and other owners of small forest properties with current information on markets and prices and to aid them in more effrciently and profitably marketing forest products,"
Asked about the technical feasibility of forestry price reporting, especially for standing timber, the forest economists admit they're stumped. Researchers John
Zivriuska(Phoio by Ed Frcitqt.l
Seventy-nine-year-old Earl Scott of Lake County, Calif., presented a photographic study in durability when he turned up at Union Lumber Company's retail yard at Fort Bragg, Calif., recently to buy lumber for a new cabin. Scott drove a one-ton, fat-bed 1926 Chevrolet truck over the steep mountain range to the coast to pick up the lumber. He told onlookers his truck has rolled up 300,000 miles and still runs smoothly. Scott's choice of lumber for the cabin matched the Chevvy truck in terms of service. He picked out 5,000 feet of California redwood lumbermost durable of the softwoods. Scott himself is pretty hardy. At 79, he plans to build the cabin alone.
A. W. NETH IU'VTBER SATES
13625-C Venturq Blvd.
Shermqn Ooks, Colif.
Phone: STonley 3-2663
TWX: Von Nuys 7576
and Ann Shideler of the lJniversity's School of Forestry recently made a study of the price determinants in national forest timber sales in Califoinia. Their analysis, they report,, "failed to reveal any usable relationship between Ponderosa Pine prices and such factors as voluhe of timber,_ proportion of pine, density of cut, and length of log haul."
From a technical viewpoint, many unsolved problems might block the way to successful jnd realistic brice re- porting: Do-zens of changeable factors, rnatly rrt.ttilated to market conditions, can inhuence the price in-a timber sale: most timber sales are negotiated on jn individual and scattered basis, unlike many farm crops rvhich are sold in mar- ket centers ; standing timber, especially in the mountainous W".!,^ is.poorly adapted_to any syjtem of grading and classlhcatlon ; accurate and unbiased sources to-reporiprice information might be hard to find ; and the cost if op.rut_ rng a reporting service might be high.
DANT & RUSSELI. INC.
MedicolArts Bldg.
Eurekc, Colif.
Phone: Hlllside 3-4561
TWX: Eurekq 63
WINFREE & TYNAN
2717 N. Mqin 5t. Wqlnul Creek, Colif.
Phone: YEllowstone 5-l4OO
"In short, it has yet- 1o be demonstrated that forestry price-reporting is feasible," Zivnuska and Shideler state. "lfowever, no final verdict, either pro or con, can be reached without additional factual information and objec_ tive analysis. Further debate on this issue may well provide the stinrulus needed to transform speculation into its pro_ cluctive counterpart-investigation.,t
Masonite Corp. General Salesmanager F. O. Marion, Chi_ cago, announces promotions for two former western Mason_ rte salesmen. L. C. Kummerow, former assistant manager of dealer sales in San- Francisco, was promoted t" if,. W"?t ington, D.C., area. Howard_ M. Findliy, former dealer sales_ 1lr"l.il. Seattle, is now product -.r.g.. of peg_Boaia S"i* in Chicago.
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We're nol iust heod ond shoulders obove lhe crowd we're qbove the crowd, period! We believe in freedom from brond fovorites ond complete independence lo recommend the right moieriol for eoch customer's individuol needs. Noturolly, ofter 40 yeors of deoling with the yords ond fobricqtors of Southern Colifornio, we've develo,ped top su,ppliers, good mill sources ond o lot of friends . . ond we're not forgetting obout ihem. But it's our speciolized experience, combined wilh our independent pol,icy, lhot poys off in double ossets on your cosl sheels.
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Your good will odds mconing lo our good miilr.
Traveling one city block on Corona's Main Street ip 50 years ! ThJ businesi "journey" from__5th and Main to 4th and Main has been the happy lot of Howard S. Ware, who is now closing a 50-year caieer in the lumber and building materials business in Corona, Calif. From a beginning as part-time helper to retirement as_ senior partner of the firm, Howard Waie spent his entire business life helping other people find happiness in building things. Keeping up with iast-changing irends wasn't always easy but he has-enough zip lelt t6 lo=ok back on 50 years and call the lumberyard life one of "fun."
Mr. Ware last month announced the sale of his interests in the Corona Lumber Company to Roy Brenkman and Ross Wall, both of Riverside, Calif., and both of whom are now on the job greeting the retail yard's old and new customers.
The Corona Lumber Co., now one of the oldest firms in Corona and even in Southern California, was founded in 1904 by the late Andrew J. Ware on a quarter block at 5th and Miin streets. Soon thereafter his young nephew, Howard Ware, became a part-time helper stacking lumber and delivering with the hoise-and-wagon. With no fancy driver's cab to sh-elter him, young Howard picked a soft spot on the board with the fewest slivers and jogged along the ruts or through the dust of Corona's unpaved streets. He urged the faithlul nag, Molly, to her best pulling sp,eed because another new house was abuilding and needed the young yard's lumber.
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' Quolity products from the world's best Mills
' Dependoble service from quototion lo finol delivery
' Over 50 yeors experience in the exporl-im' port field
' Prime imporlers serving the wholesole lumber trode exclusivelY
Coll lhe Atkins, Kroli represenfolive neoresl you for de' pendoble cnd occurole informofion ond quolotions on oll imported wood Producls:
After three years as a schoolboy part-timer, Howard went on a steady schedule in 1911. He subsequently became a partner wifh his uncle, A. J., and his brother, the late Frank B. Ware. The business was later moved to the present location at 4th and Main streets. In recent years' Howard's nephew, T. R. "Terry" Ware, has been btr _p3lqqr !t !h-" .r.id. *hi.h was wriiten up in The CALIFORNIA LUM- 'epR \ABRCHANT of August 15, 1954' Terry will retain his interest in the yard and be associated with Dealers Brenkman and Wall-in the new organization under the old firm name.
Howard S. Ware has helped to build Corona, California, from the days of "mud" streets, iron hitching postg and -the horse-drawn deliveries, and has been active in all its civic betterment plans, including a "stretch" on the city council. Upon his retirement as a lumber dealer to the townsfolk, he expressed sincere appreciation for the 50 years of friendships enloyed with both his customers and his suppliers. His confidence in their ability and integrity is a fine recommendation for the three younger men who will now carry _on the fine old Corona Lumb& Company tradition and add new ideas to its successful policies as they expand the retail lumber operation.
Mr. Wire and his wife Irene, known to the yard's trade over the familiar signature of "I. J. Ware," have announced no plans for the future other than to remain in Corona, whiih has been their home since 1906, and to take a wellearned rest before starting any new activities.
Roy Brenkman, one of the new owners, was born in Detroit, reared in Glendale and Los Angeles and graduated from L.A.C.C. He was employed by Douglas Aircraft and
attained the rank of Lt.-Commander in his 6-vear Navv hitch. For the past nine years, Brenkman has iepresented U. S. Gypsum eo., mainly in Riverside county. He person- ally built homes in North Hollywood and San Diego for his wife Bernice and lO-year-old daughter Jill.
New Owners Well-versed in Building
Ross Wall, the other new man, also of Riverside, was born in Glendale. He is a Redlands University grad and did an S-year Navy hitch. Wall was also with USG, for the past five and one-half years, so the new retail lumbermen share common building experience as well as a lumberyard. Dealer Wall is married to the former Dorris Sheard of Covina, a member of the Cook family with exclusive ranch holdings in Fallbrook and Ventura.
The Brenkmans and Walls plan to sell their Riverside homes and settle in Corona, *h.re they expect to identify themselves with the civic and social as well-as the business life of the community. They join Terry Ware in announcing that the Welcome sign is il*ayr out for get-acquaintet visits from the fellow dealers and the suppliers'representatives.
IJrban Renewal Commissioner Richard L. Steiner, Washington, D. C., has granted the Washington State Dept. of Co-mer.e and Rconomic Development a $49,030 federal grani to create long-range plans for .the growth and development of Bell€vue, Buckley,-En,tiit, Kent, Mountlake Terrace, Olympia, Omak, Orting and puyallup. Project to be completed in one year includes planning of new Lo"iig and subdivision regulations under the Housing Act of 1954. Refer: 4.' W. Burchill, assistant director, Dept. of Commerce, Olympia, Wash.
Cornmunity Facilities Administration Commissioner John C. Hazgltil., Washington, D. C., approved four CFAdvances totaling $101,460 to the city and county of Honolulu, Hawaii, for prepara-1to" ul complete plans for public school facilities estimated af $2;148,- 190. These are: Waialae High School, Oahu-$39,120 to plan additions of eight regular and 10 special classrooms, five units and three shops to cost $710,580; Central Immediate Schoot, HonoluluJ15,450 to plan tdditions of four special classrooms, two units and locker room to cost 9280,675; Haiku E,lementary School, Kanoehe- 919,440 to plan 18 classrooms and facilities to cost $363,160 (the Bishop Estate plans subdivision construction totaling 5,000 homes in thi area); Elementary School, Moanalua--$27,450 advance to plan 24 classroorns and facilities to cost $793,675 for students attending Fort Shafter Elementary school which must be replaced by Septemrber 1959 to make room for Capehart housing. Project Numbers: T.H. 5l-P-3006 (Waialae), T.H. 51-P-3007 (Honolutu), T.H. 51-p-3008 (Kanoehe), T.H. 51-P-3010 (Moanalua). Refer: Ralph S. Inouye, Supt. of Buildings, Honolulu, Oahu, T.H.
Adams State College, Alamosa, Colo., has received a 9400,000 CFA loan to construct 13 four-unit buildings to house 52 student families. Twelve other apartment buildings are under construction. Refer: Dr. Fred J. Plachy, president. Project No. Colo. 5-CH-33 (D).
The state of Washington has received a $108,000 CFAdvance to finance planning for construction of an addition to the state omce building in Olympia to provide 114,600 sq. ft. of floor space and cost an estimated $2,140,000. Construction is expected to start in the last half of 1959 under the Housing Act of 1954. Refer: Lloyd K. Nelson, director, Dept. of General Administration, Olympia, Wash. Project No. Wash. 45-P-3029.
A $375,000 CFA loan was approved to Kanab, Kane county, Utah, for construction of water and sewerage facilities to cost an estimated $483,730. Workers employed on the 9421,000,000 Glen Canvon Dam construction have moved their families to Kanab, overtaxing existing facilities, with 200 house trailers crowding the city. Plans have been developed for a Z7-unit rental tract and a 50-home subdivision when water and sewer facilities are completed. Refer: Mayor George R. Aiken. Project No. PFL-VI-42-32.
The Chula Vista City School District of San Diego county, Calif., has ieceived a $29,456 CFAdvance to inance complete plans for an elementary school of four buildings with 16 classrooms, kindergarten and auxiliary rooms, to start construction ,by February 1959 at estimated cost of $577,320. An average annual increase of 785 pupils has necessitated construction of a new school in the district every year in recent years. Refer: J. C. Lauderbach, Supt., Chula Vista, Calif. Project No. Calif. 4-P-3236.
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Forest fires were held to a record low of 83,400 nationwide in 1957, breaking the 100,000 mark for the first time, announces the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Last year's record compares with 143,000 forest fires in 1956 and 200,800 in 1947. The area burned was almost halved, dropping from
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6,605,900 acres in 1956 to 3,409,000 in 1957. Ten years ago fires burned 23,225,932 acres.
USDA commended three programs for outstanding contributions to forest fire prevention. One is the Smokey Bear campaign sponsored by its Forest Service and the state foreiters under the leadership of the Advertising Council. Another is the Keep Green Programs conducted by forest industries and the states. The third is the work of the Amercan Forestry Association in spearheading the Southern Forest Fire'Conference which did much to decrease fires in the South.
In some states, acreages burned increased two to seven times. In Idaho, for initance, 1,252 fires in 1956 burned 18,995 acres, while last year 1,327 fires burned 135,899 acres. Alaska, not included in the totals above, had one of its worst years, with 264 fires burning 4,778,372 acres.
The three major causes of forest fires during the past few years have been incendiarists, debris burners, and smokers. -In 1956, incendiarists topped the list:. in 1957, debris burners were No. l, starting 16,181 forest fires on lands given organized protection.
- A chart shorving the number of fires in 1957 and'1956 by States follows :
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Cleors & Exposed Beqms
. Ponderoso Pine - Plywoods
. Simpson Products - Sheetrock
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Jesse C. Fowler has developed and built the new Model SD-22 F'owler Loader specifically for the purpose of loading 2'x2' packages of lumber weighing not over one ton through 6' wide freight-car doorways. The new Model SD-22 makes it possible to load 40' boxcars equipped with a 6' wide doorway from one side of the car only. It can be used on any lift truck with at least 8,000 pounds of capacity to lift lumber packages weighing not over one ton each.
This Model SD-22 Fowler Loader differs from the original larger models in that it is pivoted at the front of the base and is able to swing 45 degrees each side of center. It is equipped with a set of stops and metal block to be placed in them when it is desired to transport the load pointing straight forward of the lift truck. Then when the lift truck enters the car this block can be pulled ont and the boom is
free to swivel 45 degrees on each side. The boom extends 10 feet forward of the front of the forks and consists of a 5" diameter extra heavy pipe boom with a swivel plate on a telescoping tube at the front similar to the large model.
NIr. Fowler reports that he loads a 40' car in about two lrours with the Model SD-22, using two men and a lift truck clriver. This is for 2'x2' packages 16' long.
The Fowler Loader Model SD-22 is priced at 9950.00 f.o.b. Prescott, Arizona, and is distributed exclusively by the Signode Steel Strapping Company, 2600 North Western Ave., Chicago 47, Illinois.
Thomas Industries, Inc., has moved into its new Los Angeles warehouse. Firm's "Moe Light" equipment is sold !1 many retail lumberyards, reports L. A. Plant Manager Nicholas Condos. A. O. Grotenhuis is west coast salesmanager,
His dispatches were filled with the wordsSuccess, Riches, Glory, Fame-these were the talismanic words of Napoleon, and yet there is in all the tragic story of man no sadder failure. Even in the days of his power he was called "the great unloved." Though master of the world-save only one little island lying in the fog of the North Atlantic"that wart on the nose of Europe," as he persisted in calling England; though master of the world his friends could only affirm: "Napoleon, grand, gloomy and peculiar, sits upon his throne a sculptured hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own ambition."
' Made dizzy by his own power' drunken with his own success, he attempts to stride the world like a Colossus. And in an evil hour, more by his own failure than through the strength of his foes, he falters and fails, as power always does and always will, for it is certain' sooner or later, to encounter a greater Power' -wm. Day Simonds.
How far is it to Avalon?
That shining place of dreams,
Where care and sorrow trouble not,
Where morning casts its beams
Forever down on friendlY lands, Where children play in happy bands.
So far it seems to those who toil
In brutal haunts of greed;
So far to those who strive and sweat
In poverty and need;
And yet their eyes oft look uPon
The shining heights of Avalon.
For faith can build a road that'leads
From penury and night, And hope can glimPse the Palaces Of fairy realms of light, And love canfindfate cannot barWhere Avalon and beautY are. -T.
C. Clark.Once while on a lecture tour, Mark Twain arrived at a small town and visited the barber shop in the hotel. The barber, while waiting on the famous humorist, remarked that Mark Twain was speaking in town that night but that the visitor would have to stand if he wished to attend the lecture, because all the seats had been sold.
t'Remarkable coincidence," said Mark. "I've gone to hear him speak several times, and always I had to stand while he spoke."
Chemical Specifications of That Little-known Element .
Symbol: Wo (or sometimes "Wow !")
Accepted Atomic Weight: 120
Physical Properties: Boils at nothing and freezes at any minute. Melts when treated properly. Very bitter if not well used.
Occurrence: Found wherever man exists.
Chemical Property: Possesses great affrnity for gold, silver, platinum and precious stones. Violent reactions if left alone. Turns green when placed beside a better-looking specimen.
IJses: Highly ornamental, useful as a tonic in acceleration of low spirits and as an equalizer in distribution of wealth. Probably the most effective income-reducing agent known.
Caution: Highly explosive in inexperienced hands ! (Courtesy of The Kaiser Builder. By R. E. Whitson, Jr.,'Kyanite Minin'g Corp., iullen, Va., and Engineering and Mining Journal.)
"See to it that the world of action and the world of thought are no longer two divided hostile camps. Build up the imagination of the boy of decision, and the will power of the dreamer, so that in the future men of thought will have the nerve to lead the way they have shown, and men of action will have the vision to imagine the consequences of their decisions."
-Max of Baden.Customer: "I haven't found a bite of ham in this sandwich."
Waiter: "Try another bite."
Customer (taking a bite): "Nope, none yet."
Waiter: "Doggone! You must have gone right by it."
Wm. E. Gladstone, England's grand old man, gave the following advice to a class of law students:
"Be assured that every one of you has his place and vocation on this earth, and that it rests with himself to find it. Do not believe those who too lightly say, 'Nothing succeeds like success.' Effort, gentlemenhonest, manful, humble effort-succeeds by its reflected action, especially in youth, which, indeed, too easily and too early not seldom serves, like winning the first throw of the dice, to blind and stupify. Get knowledge, all you can; and the more you get, the more you breathe upon its nearer heights the invigorating air, and enjoy the widening views, the more you will know and feel how small is the elevation you have reached in comparison with those immeasurable that yet remain unscaled. Be thorough in all you do, and remember that while ignorance may often be innocent, pretension is always despicable."
The wood kitchen business offers a bright future for able, aggressive specialists because modern kitchens are among the features most wanted by home owners, students werE told at the second annual training school for kitchen specialists, held at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich.
Fifty-eight persons from 16 states, an increase of more than 35/o over the enrollment for the 1957 school, attended. The school was conducted by Michigan State's Continuing Education Service in cooperation with the National Insti-tute of Wood Kitchen Cabinets. It consisted of a two-week basic course from Aug. 17 to Aug. 29 and a one-week advanced course which ended Aug.22.
Arthur A. Hood, Chicago, chairman of the board of American Lumberman magazine, who lectured on Creative Kit-
chen Selling, cited returns from a questionnaire distributed to 80,000 persons by the Home Improvement Council. With 55.2% expressing a need for kitchen cabinets, the market for cabinets was shown to be greater than for any other product category handled by retail lumber dealers.
Certificates of completion of the 27-subject basic course and the l7-subject advanced curriculum were awarded in "graduation" luncheons by Institute Manager Fred F. Montiegel and Clayton Wells, Michigan State conference coordinator. Basic course registrants underwent a comprehensive final examination which, along with class participation and cooperation, formed the basis for rankings. In the "top ten" were: Lewis J. Gutowski, kitchen specialist with Morgan Millwork Co., Wilmington Del., and Robert M. Sieren, salesman, Rock Island Lumber Co., Davenport, Iowa. Wood kitchen dealers and distributors predominated in the two courses with 31 trainees. Of these, 14 represented lumber dealers.
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J. W. (Bill) Graham, a 47-year of the most colorful figures in the try, is hanging up his tally book
lumber veteran and one west coast lumber indusand grading pencil. Best
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identified as a supervisor for the West Coast Lumber Inspection Bureau for the past23 years, Bill Graham is known from coast to coast wherever lumbermen get together.
IIe was born in 1893 in Gardiner, at the mouth of the Umpqua River, and was knee deep in sawdust from the time he was a toddler. His 9O-year-old mother, Mrs. James Graham. still lives in the house in Gardiner where son Bill was born and where she has lived for 73 years. Bill's father, Captain James Graham, was likewise born in Gardiner, and operated the stern-wheeler "Eva" from Gardiner to Scottsburg for the Umpqua Navigation Company, of which he was a stockholder.
Bill Graham was one of six children and, after graduating from the old Gardiner grade school, entered Oregon Agricultural College at 14, graduating in 1911 with bn engineering degree. His first job was with the old Gardiner Mill Company, a pioneer lumber firm founded by the famed Hinsdale family.
In 1919, fresh from his navy duty, Bill Graham took a job as inspector for the Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau :until 1923. For two years he conducted classes in lumber grading for the State Board of Vocational Education under the Smith-Hughes Act.
Bill Graham has a restless energy and always has to be cloing something interesting and constructive. He became chief inspector and shipping clerk for the old Pacific Spruce Company (C. D. Johnson Lumber Corporation) in 1925 and worked in that capacity until 1933. As early as 194O he was conducting joint grading classes for the Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau and West Coast Lumber Inspection Bureau. Seventeen of his 23 vears with West Coast Lumber Inspection Bureau were spent in the San Francisco area, and the last six years he has headquartered at Gardiner to be near his aged mother.
Bill always stayed at the Golden State hotel in San Francisco, a sort of hangout for'the lumber inspecting crowd. Tommy McCormick, long-time manag'er, recalls ihat Bill Graham and Tom Andrews, an old-time California Redwood Asso_ciation inspector, always kept the lobby knee deep in sawdust when they were around. They would figuratively grade pieces of lumber half the night,-arguing over allowable characteristics. It was a sort of mental gymnastics exercise these two hardies took every night just to keep fit and in shape for the next day's work, McCormick believes.
Many a young inspector and supervisor for the West
Coast- tgdayowes much of his early training and knowledge of lumber to loquacious Bill Graham, the man who was never at a loss for a word. He would spend endless hours with these young men who were eager to learn their trade, and he was a dedicated teacher whoSe one interest in life was lumber, and who lived, ate and slept lumber.
In his last few years in Gardiner, Bill Graham has channeled some of his restless energy into youth work and, although a bachelor, has acted i. spottsbt and mentor of a teen-age basketball te-am, paying their expenses on trips and in general looking after [hem.-He traini boys in hunting, teache.s them safety in handling of firearms,-and buys arimunition for those who otherwise couldn't afford thij sport.
"Bill Graham was one of our most valued employes,,,'said his immediate sup_erior,_ Howard Brown, g.tteraf superin- tendent of the West Coast Lumber Insfection Bureau. "There will never be another just like him.^He was honest,
conscientiouj;, and no job was too tough or too mean for him to handle. He had a way with people. I have never known a man with so many friends. I hope he enjoys his retirement clown there along the Oregon Cbast, the iountry he loves and b-elongs-to, but.I don't know how he is ever going to completely disassociate himself from the lumber induitrv of which he has been an important part for nearly half i century. All of us here at West Coasf wish him the best of Iuck."
. Tlris amazing lumber expert has been on an intimate, first-name basis with yirtllally every important lumber fig_ ture of the West Coast. Numbered-among his friends aie such men as Howard Hinsdale, former Gardiner lumberrnan ; Jud_g_e Carl Wimberly of Roseburg; Colonel W. BGreeley; Harry Murphy, nbw head of th"e' pacific Lumber lnspect_i_o_n Bureau; Hal Simpson, executive vice president of the West Coast Lumbermen's Associatior, atrd a world of others.
Engineered Plywood, Inc., has been organized to cooPerate wTth jobbers Lnd the 16 mills in the Grants Pass Hub in opening idditional markets for plywood, lumber, chipboard and hardboard.
Fir plywood must go to market in new-sizes, shapes and forms ^if it i. to cont-inue to absorb the increased production, and opening additional markets for.plywood, as well as increasing util-ization, is the object 9f _thi9 new company' Morris Milbank is president, Nichols Milbank, treasurer, and David S. Betcone, vice-president in charge of sales.
The plant will produce cut-up items to specification and will be-able to do-a better job of manufacturing at less cost than users would otherwise be able to obtain. By providing additional steps in manufacturing beyond the standard 4x8 panel, the corirpany will help develop new marke-ts for plyiood. The site wiil consist of SOOO Jquare feet of manufacturing area with adequate loading facilities for both truck and rail shipments.
Principal-equipment in the plant will be a specially designed d-ouble edge shaper which can produce three car loads of Texture One-Eleven, shiplap or tongue and grooved
panels each eight-hour operation. Other equipment will consist of multiscore machine for random grooving, cutoft saws, multiple rip saws, band saws,.drill presses, shapers and processes for gluing special products.
' Principal pioduction will center around the double edge shaper iir producing tongue and grooved, shiplap, Texture One-Eleven and raidom-grooved panels. Bulk storage bins,
lug boxes and parts for overseas shipping will also play an important part in the production. The service is organized to serve all the mills in the Grants Pass area to custom cut or machine tl.reir requirements through regular jobber channels.
The newly formed Sacramento Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club 5, with President Florence M. Mueller (Steiner Lumber Co.) at the helm, will hold its first annual Boss's Night at the Sacramento Inn on October 14. The big night out for the "boss" will begin .ivith cocktails at 6:39 p.m., followed by dinner at 7 :39 p.m., or thereabouts. Entertainment and dCtails will be handled by Mary Caplis, Setzer Forest Products; "Lou" llowe, Hedlund Lumber Sales, and Barbara Adams, Sacramento Box & Lumber Company.
S. W. Antoville, president of United States Plywood Corporation, announces the sale of the company's minority interest in Valsetz Lumber Co. of Portland, Oregon for $3,450,000. f'he investment was obtained by United States Plywood in 1955 when it acquired all of the assets of Associated Plywood Mills, Inc.
Herbert A. Templeton, chairman of the board of Valsetz, said. "We are sorry indeed to lose our close association with United States Plywood and we would have preferred to avoid the very substantial outlay necessary to redeem the stock in view of the major construction and improvement plans which we have in mind. However, we did not feel we could stand in the way of United States Plywood's expressed desire to withdraw from further direct participation in our affairs."
Bob Wright left Partner Bob Reid holding down the Fresno offrce for a late August week while he called on Reid & Wright customers in Hawaii.
Western Pine Supply Company's "Shel" Sussman and Ross Ingraham spent a felv early September days on busi'
ness at McCloud Lumber Co. with Customers Len Robinson and Ed Heim of Bailev Lumber Co.. Max Lowe of McElroy Lumber Co. and Keitli Douglas of Progress Lumber Co.
A group of friends and employes of Ted Roy surprised the head of Roy Forest Products Co., Van Nuys, at his Lake Arrowhead home the weekend of September 6 to celebrate his birthday. It turned out to be a dual celebration with news that Ted and his wife Kae had become U.S. citizens just the day before after passing their examinations at the federal b.uilding in L. A. Lumber folks in the group included Mr. ind Mrs. Don Philips, Sr., the Jim Russells, the Jim Carpenters and Anne Murray of the RFPC office. Fishing, swimming, yachting, tennis and bridge were enjoyed by these and other guests.
"Red" Pendleton, assistant manager of American Sisalkraft's S. F. office, spent the Sept. 15 week in Portland and Seattle checking on the company's storage cover sales, including its new clear plastic "Sisal-Glaze."
Sel Sharp of tl-re California Redwood Assn. is back on the job and looking right fit after a month's convalescence from his recent illness.
Jim Forgie spent two September weeks touring western Canada mills for the Robert S. Osgood Co. of Los Angeles, in which Jim is a partner.
Urrion Lumber Company's Bovard Shibley spent most of last month calling on redwood users in Texas, Georgia and thereabouts.
Ken Schmidtke, Inland Lumber Company's sales representative in Los Angeles, and his wife are touring the west on an extended vacation and visiting friends and kin in Tillamook, Ore., enroute to the Canadian playgrounds of Banff and Lake Louise. They will return late in October.
Jim Hall, Jr,, now head of James L. Hall Co., returned to the San Francisco offices Sept. 29 from a Northwest mill trip.
Hill & Morton's southern California representative, Jack 'Waldron, took a Labor Day weekend trip to northern California to inspect Mt. King sawmills at Honeydew and the Iron Peak Lumber Corp. at Laytonville.
Al Heup, Valley representative for Talbot Lumber Co., San Rafael, called on Oregon and northern California mill connections for two September weeks.
Frode B. Kilstofte, who heads the Rossman Mill & Lumber Co., Wilmington, and also functions civicly as an official of the Recreation and Park Dept. of Los Angeles, helped ac-
cept a plaque last month commemorating the 100th anniversary of the community of Wilmington during the 108th anniversary observance of the state of California. Dealer Kilstofte helped the Native Daughters of the Golden West unveil the plaque in the torvn square at Avalon and I streets.
Hobbs Wall's Al Bell left Lew Godard holding down the fort while he made his annual eastern sales safari but planned to be back in San Francisco by October.
New management appointments in the sales department of International Paper Company's Long-Bell Division have been announced.
F. L. Foval has been named assistant general sales manager in charge of all factory sales as well as plywood sales. He will continue at Longview, Washington, where he has served since 1944. Foval began with Long-Bell in 1923 and
was district sales manager in the San Francisco sales office before returning to Longview In 1944.
O. D. Harrington was appointed assistant general sales manag'er, with headquarters in Longview. He will be in charge of sales of all lumber products. lle was formerly l'readquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, as assistant to the general sales manager. Harrington started with Long-Bell at DeRidder, Louisiana, in 1924.
R. E. Wallace has been named manaqer of eastern sales. with headquarters in Kansas City. HJ is responsible foi lumber sales made through the Kansas City office. Wallace was formerly manager of lumber sales, headquartered in I(ansas City. He joined Long-Bell in 1946.
C. E. Hadley continues as manager of western sales, at Longview, Washington. He started with the company at Longview as a lumber buyer and assistant purchasing agent in 1922.
(The Story of a Singular Safari Among the Shingles)
Al Lewis, as most of the trade knows, is the purchasing agent for the -Iarzana (Calif.) Lumber Co., th_e Burbank (eailf.) Lumber Co., and the Terry Lumber Co., Northridge, Calif. During August, of all things, he decided to take a Z--week vacation. When Al left, he enjoyed a nice, quiet, air-conditioned office at the Tarzana yard. BUT, while he was off on vacation, Tarzana Lumber Co. underwent another expansion program and Al, not being present to defend his premises, was moved.
When Mr. Lewis returned he found a sign directing him to the new "offrces" of the Purchasing Departmenta tent perched precariously on the edge of the sun-baked roof. Of course, it was a DELUXE tent and featured many extras such as Awning, Umbrella, Potted Plants, Coleman
lanterns and stove, canvasback Water Cooler and a,,large supply of Insect Spray.
Because Al had been away two whole weeks, it was felt he would be so far behind in his work that he would probably have to spend all of his days AND nights on the job till he caught up again. Being kind-hearted, fellow employes put a cot in the tent so he might take occasional catnaps as the nights wore on. And, as a crowning gesture and with full knowledge of the August heat that might seem even hotter in a tent on the roof, Al was supplied with a complete and proper wardrobe for his new office: pith helmet, sandals and shorts-but let the accompanying photos perpetrated by Terry Mullin tell the story.
P.S.-II is reliably reported that Al Lewis was finally catching up on his bickl6g as September simmered out and is now allowed to go home nights. In fact, since the recent skyrocketing rises in material prices, it was suggested by Virginia LaMonte of the yard's accounting department that Mr. Lewis stay home not only nights but also days . so that he wouldn't run the Mullin vards out of monev with any high-priced purchases.
Red Cedar Shingles bearing the Certigrade label of inspected quality are your best buy. Specify Certigrade! Insist that this famous label appear beneath the bandstick of every shingle bundle. Put there for your protection, the Certigrade label costs you nothing. and is your one sure way to tell qwlity.
Jim Hall, Jr., a personable, wellliked member of Northern California's "new" lumber generation, has succeeded his father, James L. Hall, to the active control of the 4}-year old Tames L. Hall Co. in San Francisco. Tim. who has been with his dad since September 1945 and *ho itar served as a general partner for the past seven years, will have complete control of the veteran wholesale organization with continubd financial backing from his father and the Stonyford Corp. in the form of limited partnerships.
With the James L. Hall Co. in his son's able hands, the senior Hall will finally put his long-planned and well-earned retirement into full effect. Mr. Hall, with a little over 50 years of lumber experience under his belt, originally got his start in the lumber field when he caught the "Come \Mest" fever after attending the Naval Academy (class of '07) at Annapolis. After several years' experience in the Pacific
Northwest woods, Hall interrupted his plans to help fight the Kaiser during World War L Right after his discharge, in l9l9 to be exact, Hall, Sr., moved to San Francisco and re-entered the lumber business-this time as his own bosswith headquarters in the Mills Building, where James L. Hall Co. continues to do business today.
P. P. "Peyt" Maloney, headman of Continental Lumber Sales, San Gabriel, California, has appointed Dave Lashley, prominent Southland lumber executive, to the sales staff of his firm. Lashley has been associated in wholesale lumber sales since the close of World War II. He formerly held the post of general manager for Western Mill & Lumber Co., Los Angeles. Dave will cover the "customer beat" including Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego counties, it was said.
(Tell them Aou sau it in The California Lumber Merchant)
San Francisco (Special)-Forest tree planting by California's forest induitries and tree farmers is on the increase. So far in the 1957-58 planting season, industry has ordered nearly 200,000 timber-species seedlings from the California Division of Forestry-principal supplier of nurs-
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ery-grown seedlings. In the entire previous planting season, 158.5 thousand rvere ordered.
Hammond-California Reclwood Co. is experimenting in burn and logged-off rehabilitation in the redwood region. Southern Pacific Land Co. has embarked on its first reforestation prograrn. Southern California Edison Co. made news recently when it opened its own nursery on the Edison Tree Farm in the high Sierras at Shaver Lake.
Fibreboard Paper Poducts Corp. is experimenting in
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Joe Shipman and Fred C. "Ted" Talbot (center and right), owners of Talbot Lumber Company, with E. G. "Dave" Davis, who recently became associated with the San Rafael wholesale lumber firm, have reason to be proud as they pose in front of Talbot Lumber Company's new quarters at 711 "D" Street Annex in San Rafael. Shipman and Talbot moved their operation into the larger quarters September 15 in order to accommodate Talbot Lumber's growing sales force, now manned by a staff including Al Heup and newly associated Dave Davis. Outside of the change of address, the phones will remain the same and the pleasing voice you'll hear when you dial Glenwood 3-4322 will continue to be that of attractive Carol Rourke, lumbergal supreme and longtime Talbot Lumber Girl Friday.
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Members: Western Pine Associotion, West Coosl Lumbermen's Asscciotron, Ponderoso Pine Woodwork.
Lake county with species exotic to the area, such as Monterey pine. Eucalyptus prcmises to make news in Humboldt county. County Forester Eugene A" Hofsted reports plans of Roddiscraft, Inc., at Arcata, for planting some eucalyptus late this year as a source of fiber material on short rotation.
Other companies planting in the 1957-58 season include Arcata Redwood Co.. Arcata: Berry Lumber Co.. Pine Grove; Calaveras Land & Timber io., X{okelumne Hill ; Diamond-Gardner Corp., Red Bluff; Georgetown Lumber Co., Georgetown; N'Iichigan-California Lumber Co., Camino ; Placerville Lumber Co., Placerville; Ralph L. Smith Co., Anderson; Scott Lumber Co., Burney; Soper Wheeler Co., Strawberry Valley; Stockton Box Co., Foresthill ; Union Lumber Co., Fort Bragg; R. G. \Aratt, Redding, and Shasta Forest Co., Redding.
Aggressive experiments are under way or ir.r tl-re devel-
opment stage I\'lany barren by or
industry and government in California. poorly stocked acres need replanting.
The annual Fall meeting of the Northern California Section, Forest Products Research Society, at Red Bluff, California, or.r October 16 will feature an extensive tour through the new integrated Forest Products Center of the Diamond Gardner Corporation. Rendezvous point for the tour, which begins at I :45 p.m., will be at the main office of the corporati<ln in Red Bluff. A dinner meeting at the Tremont hotel in Red Bluff will follow at 6:00 p.m. Section Chairman R. M. Kuhn of Rees Blow Pipe Nlanufacturing Company, Berkeley, will preside. Speaker will be Donald Peterson, chief chemist of the molded pulp plant at Diamond Gardner's Center.
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New President New York, Sept. 17-The board of directors of the United States Plywood Corporation today elected S. W. Antoville chairman of the board and Gene C. Brewer president. Mr. Antoville will continue as chief executive officer. He had been president since September 1953. The position of chairman of the board had been vacated upon the death of the company's founder, Lawrence Ottinger, in December 1954.
Mr. Brewer's previous assignment was vice-president in charge of U.S. Plywood's West Coast operations. He joined
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the company in 1937 and has been a member of the board since 1956.
In his report to the stockholders' meeting which precedld the directors meeting, Mr. Antoville pointed out that U.S. Plywood's improved earnings for the first quarter end.ed Juiy 31 could be attributed only in small measure to inireased prices for fir plywood. The major factor he cited was efficienry in sales and in plant operation, particularly in the West Coast manufacturing operations. Mr. Antoville was optimistic about prospects for increased earnings in the immediate future. Sales for the month of August, he said, were $18,963,000 as against $18,547,000 for July. Further gains during the first half of September point to record sales in the current quarter, with continued improvement in earnrngs.
S. W. "Tony" Antoville joined United States Plywood as an office boy in 1921. He has been with the company ever since, becoming president in 1953 and chairman of the board today. Mr. Antoville has remained the star salesman of the plywood industry. He still maintains close friendships with iome of his earliest customers. He has a son ("Tony," Jr.) who works for U.S. Plywood at the Anderson, Cal., operations. Mr. and Mrs. Antoville reside in Manhattan though they spend approximately half of their time visiting the company's far-flung operations.
Gene C. Brewer, U.S. Plywood's new president, was bortt Oct. 13, 1913, on a farm in Grays Harbor county, Washington, the youngest of six children. He graduated from high school at Montesano, Washington, and studied business administration at the University of Oregon. Mr. Brewer started his business career as a butter-and-egg salesman, in which capacity he traveled western Washington from 1934 to 1937 while living in Centralia.
"In 1937," he says, "I was lured by the future of plywood." He moved to Seattle to join the United States Plywood Corporation, working throughout the plant, learning production methods and advancing to a supervisory position. The company transferred him to Orangeburg, South Carolina, in 1943 to become superintendent of U.S. Plywood's hardwood plywood operation there. He subsequently took part in designing two highly advanced plywood plants, one of them for French interests in Equatorial Africa. He was elected a vice-president and director of the United States Plywood Corporation (South Carolina).
In 1949, he transferred to Shasta Plywood Inc., a subsidiary of U.S. Plywood near Redding, Cal., to serve as ply-
wood plant manager. He was elected president of Shasta Plywood Inc. in 1950. Mr. Brewer was elected a vice-president of United States Plywood Corporation in 1954 and placed in full charge of the company's West Coast manufacturing operations.
During Mr. Brewer's time with U.S. Plywood on the West Coast, the company's operations have grown from the original Seattle plant to a complex operation which includes six plywood plants, one box factory and the plant which manufactures Novoply. U.S. Plywood's proprietary panel made of wood chips and flakes. Timber holdings in Washington, Oregon and California have grown under his management to several billion feet.
During the time he had made his headquarters in Redding, Mr. Brewer has taken an active part in outside civic and industry affairs. Present activities include membership on the Douglas Fir Plywood Association management committee and a director of the Industrial Forestry Association.
A new "Home Improvement Guide" is offered free by Masonite Corporation, a charter member of the Home Improvement Council, "in the hope that it \Mill encourage and inspire homeowners to better living in the homes they have." Illustrated in color, the 24-page guide gives ideas on using Masonite hardboards for interior and exterior home improvements. Thumbnail sketches taken from 33 free fixup and modernization plans are shown, and the book includes color reproductions of several late additions to the line of decorator hardboards carried by the company and available from lumber dealers.
A copy of "Masonite Home Improvement Guide" may be obtained by sending a postcard request to the Horne Serviee, Bureau, Suite 2037,111 W. Washington St., Chicago 2, Ill.
The Caloric Appliance Corporation of Topton, Pa., offers to lumber dealers and home building contractors a 16-page, two-color brochure on kitchen design for Lu-Re-Co homes. E,mpl-rasizing a broad selection of colors and decorative schemes for kitchen equipment, the booklet has been prelrared to assist Lu-Re-Co (Lumber I)ealers Researcl-r Coutr-
cil) dealers. as well as clealers in vising prospective home buyers on kitchen arrang'ements.
Caloric appliarrces, in adthe selectior.r of attractive
The adclition of Dick N{erritt to Tu'in Harbors Lurnber Company's grou'ing sales force was announced by VicePresiclent Donald Anderson on September 1. Nlerritt rvill heaclcluarter as the company's Sacramento manager at 3101 Fulton Avenue and u'ill service clealers from Sacramento to Fresno, Anderson disclosed. N{erritt, a native Californiarr ancl a graduate of the U. C. Scl-rool of Forestry, formerly hacl covered a similar territorv for \Vir.rton Lumber Sales Company, of Sacramento, for ihe past three years.
Ted Roy, president of Roy Forest Products Co., Van Nuys, California, has appointed Jack Allenby, of Ukiah, to heacl the pine department of the wholesale lumber firm. Allenby was formerly sales manager for the Ukiah Pine Lumber Co., and was also manag'er for Walter G. Brix, Inc., and assistant sales manager for Medco prior to joining the Roy Forest Products organization.
lle was presider.rt of Black Bart Hoo-Hoo Club 18i in Northern California and has been orominent in lumber oronrotiorr activity for the past severai years in the timber procluction country of Northern California and Oregon.
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(Continued from page 4) all of their dimension in 2, wide McCracken packets at a considerable savings in loading costs over hand-loading methods.
Southwest Lumber Mills, Phoenix, Arizona, is workins on a complete layout to handle and ship all their lumber ii units which will be 2, wid,9 and2, high. They now ship some of their lumber in this fashion an-d enclose in each car a photograph showing the loaded car iust before it is shiooed. The number of mills shipping unitized lumber is ste'ahily increasing. Those who have bien shipping in this fashion regularly and for some time are generiily ieporting fine re- sults. The.change-to unit shipping has prbduied mJny prob_ Iems which have had to be &eriome^but, of all the mills now reporting that they are shipping units, not one seems
to be unhappy with this practice or is planning to discontinue it.
Wholesalers have also felt the impact of unitized lumber shipping. Many of them state that, because of the fact that retail dealers are so desirous of receiving lumber for mechanical unloading, they are making salei they would not otherwise make.
Paul R. Williams of Winton Lumber Sales Company says, "IJnit loading has made salesmen out of us again and has sold lumber for us."
Similar experiences are being reported in all sections of the country by both large and small lumber mills, retail and wholesale lumber dealers. As time goes by they are certain to become commonplace, since the slippin! of unitized lumber is progress ""d tl lurnb". ]lt.r..t: must keep pace.
(TelI them Aou sau it in The Cakfornia Lumber Merciant)
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The third regular meeting of the Central California,Dry Kiln Club was-held on July 18 at the Scott Lumber Company, Burney, California. Thirty-six members and friends itt.ttded the-one-day meeting arranged by F. D. "Doc" Grubb, kiln superintendent of the host company.
The morning was devoted to a show-me trip through the Scott Lumber Company operation. Of particular interest to club members were the lumber-handling and drying operations, including both yard drying and kiln drying. There are 8 single-trick Moore kilns with a holding capacity of over 300M board feet.
Scott Lumber Company has resorted to double-coursing the bottom two courses of. 4l4lumber to prevent breakage of lumber and the loss of stickers from the unit packages during handling with fork lifts and carriers. Wet lumber is repbrted in these courses. Extra stickgr,s at the bearing poinis of the chisels of the lift-truck should overcome these difficulties. Of general interest were the new Nicholson logdebarker and automatic carriage.
The Scott Lumber Company was host at the luncheon meeting held at the Shasta Tavern. Vice-President Ray Hampsin of the R. L. Smith Wildwood operation presided at the business meeting and technical meetings that followed.
"Doc" Grubb introduced the Scott Lumber Company representatives. General Manager Ray Berry welcomed the grbup and in a brief talk stressed the importance -of proper drying in the lumber manufacturing process. Other members introduced themselves and their friends.
Business Meeting:
The following ofifrcers for the coming year were elected by secret ballot:
President-John Owens, Paul Bunyan Lumber Company, Anderson
lst Vice President-James Jacobsen, R. L. Smith Lumber Company, Anderson
2nd Vite President-Elvie Ericson, Michigan-California Lumber Company, Camino
Secretary-Treasurer-Harvey H. Smith, California Forest and Range Experiment Station, Berkeley
Future Meetings:
September 5-Southern Oregon and Northern California and Central California Dry Kiln Clubs, McCloud
November 7-Pickering Lumber Company, Sonora
January 9, 1959-Snider Lumber Products, Turlock (tentative)
March 6, t9l9-Califorr-ria Forest Products Laboratory, Richmond
May l, 1959-Annual Meeting, Eureka, California
Julj' 10, 1959-Blagen Lumber Company, Toyon (tentative)
September 4, 1959-Southern Oregon and Northern California and Central California Dry Kiln Clubs, Collins Pine Company, Chester
We also have a tentative invitation for a future meeting at the Lorenz Lumber Company, Burney.
Technical Meeting:
Bob Keeling, U.S. Plywood Company, Anderson, asked for information on roofing material to go over the masonry roofs of their 10 kilns. John Owens told of using two coats of a silicone coating over masonry. Lyle Winkle, \Mestern Pine Association, said that a built-up wood roof over masonry would have a high moisture pickup if not vented well. (References: News Digest-July 1956, U.S. Forest Products Laboratory Report No. 1646).
Bob also wanted to know how many were using an antibrown-stain dip such as "Bozide." This dip is being used at U.S. Plywood on green lumber and is even sprayed on piles
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ii any s_igns_ o_f blue or brown stain show. They feel the ch-emical is helpful in preventing serious stain. '
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No_ one present k-new of a new drying process developed by Manreso, Inc. of Reno, Nevada, and reported brieflv in the July issue of The Lumberman.
Two members described their new kilns: Hughes Brothers.Lumber Company, Foresthill, have 2 new slngle track, 40 board foot capacity, Moore kilns. Loring Lum6er Company, Bu-rnel,_is just completing 8 Medford Machinery Company kilns. They are all double track, but of different lengths as follows:- 4-54 feet long, 3-86 feet long, 1-110 feet long.
Lyle Winkle gave a brief talk on the cause and efiect of drying stresses, including the following points : Residual stresses (casehardening) are a normal development during air-drying and kiln drying. If not removed, there mav bE "working" (cupping) of remanufactured lumber. A ielatively short conditioning treatment is required if a mild drying schedule is used, while a longer conditioning treatment is needed if a severe drying ichedule is usJd. The faster drying with the severe schedule may result in a shorter over_-all drying time, however. Drying stresses can be relieved by a final co:rditioning treatmeniof high temperature and humidity. (References: Western pine Associa- tion Seasoning Manual, Chapter 8; U.S. Forest products Laboratory Technical Note 2i3; Report No. D1269-9).
Respectfully submitted, HARVEY H. SMITH.
Henry Winfr,ee, owner of Winfree & Tynan in San Franc_isco, has just finished moving his office nearer his Walnut Creek home. The former San Francisco wholesale lumber firm is now located at 2717 North Main St., Walnut Creekphone YEllowstone 5-1400.
A recommended revision of Commercial Standard CS17G 51, Pre-finished Wall Panels, has been released by the Commodity Standards Division, Office of Technical Services, U. S. Department of Commerce, for industry consideration and acceptance., It establishes definite criteria of physical requirements which should be possessed by the base material and the finish coating. It also presents a basis on which performance guarantees may be made by the manufacturer. This recommended revision was originally proposed by a manufacturer and has been adiusted several times to cbnform as nearly as practicable io suggestions of interested organizations. Where possible the requirements have been upgraded to provide a more satisfactory product.
__Li-ryjted copies of the recommended-rivision, designated T5-5396, are available on request from the Commoditv Standards Division, U. S. Depaitment of Commerce, Wastiington 25, D. C.
Production of an educational motion picture dramatizing the true role of the wholesaler in the nation's econor.ny il announced by the National Association of Wholesalers which represents over 8,000 .wholesalers in 15 national trade_-groups. The l6mm film, l'The Devil to Pay,', will run 20 minutes. Buster Keaton, deadpan star of'- motion pictures, is being considered for the leading role. The film is being prepared specifically for showing on pub- lic service television time and for presentation before service clubs, religious, fraternal and business groups. Prints will be available to all wholesalers and other interested groups at $100 per copy from the National Association of Wholesalers, 1001 Connecticut Avenue, N. W., Washington 6, D. C.
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Although United States Plywood Corp. had been planning for some time to establish a Santa Barbara, Calif., branch, it was able to move ahead of its timetable when the warehouse there of the Channel City Plywood Co. was put up for sale. USP bought the old firm and took over operations September 15 for its newest California branch warehouse.
William N. Bradley, Glendale branch manager, will supervise the new Santa Barbara warehouse, and Torben Nielsen, who has been successfully handling the Glendale order desk, will be transferred to the channel city order desk. Lee Brown, well-known driver for the old Channel City Plywood Co., will be retained by the new owners and USP will shortly announce its outside salesmen for its latest branch.
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penalize development of a healthy, integrated forest products industry needed to fully utilize federal timber resources.
A. B. Hood, general manager of the Ralph L. Smith Lumber Co., Anderson, Calif., and the association president, told the group that though the lumber market is showing signs of strength, it was chiefly in the lower grades, and the industry could be but "mildly optimistic" about the future.
"Market reaction in the last couple of months makes us feel we may be emerging from the 'slough of despond' onto solid ground," he said.
"But before we think we are on the high road to recovery, we need a firming up on all grades," he added.
"Nevertheless, we do feel better and we will be going into this winter with a lot more confidence than we had a year ago when we met in Portland."
Strongly endorsing the industry's "great movement of growing trees" on private timberland which keynoted the meeting, Hood reported the tree farm program has spread to 46 million acres nationally now, and continues to grow. In the Western Pine region, the score stands at 1,350 holdings certified, totaling close to seven million acres.
Hood's market analysis coincided with that of W. E. Griffee, association assistant secretary-manager and close observer of market trends.
"General business conditions and prospects have improved quite a lot since our meetings last March," Griffee said, "though you would never suspect it from a comparison of prices being received in March and now for the No. 2 Common and better grades in any of our pines."
Griffee said construction activity has staged a "surprising upturn" in the past few months, with much of the increase accounted for in apartment and factory-
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_ Nearly everyone, he said, was surprised at upturn for fir dimension lumber starting about two months ago.
"T, ooking back, we can see that increased housing starts, stock conditions at retail yards, July vacations at sawmills, some bad fire weather and local car shortages, and now strikes all made their contributions," he explained.
"One sales manager said he thought that just the fact that so many wholesalers and retailers read the same few market letters had a lot to do with their all jumping into the market at the same time."
Kenneth R. Walker. Atherton, Calif., chairman of the industry's forest conservation committee. called for further expansion of the tree farm program among small timberland owners of the region. "Sbun-d economici of raising tim-
ber as a crop. irlstifres small _owners in going in for forest management," Walker,lresident of the paul-Bunyan Lum_ ber Co., of Susanville, Calif., declared.
Mortimer B. Doyle, Washington D.C., executive vice_ p.resident of the National Lumber Manufacturers Associa_ tion, applaude-d the Western pine region,s tree-iarm progress.."If the past foretells the future-j' he said, ,,there is Irttl.e doubt in my mind that practically all privatelv owned trmberlands in this region will be certffied tree farms in an_ other 15 to 20 vears."
^ C. A. Gilleti, Washington D.C., managing director of American Forest Products Industiies, Ind., dalled for in- tensified effort on the part oJ the lumber industry t" "r.lrt small owners in getting timber crops into high ge;r., ----"-
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The Pacific Coast Hardwood Flooring Dealers Assn. held its 1933 annual in the Palace hotel, San Francisco, with Kenneth Smith as main speaker. He told the convention of the separate codes set up by the Maple and Oak flooring associati6ns. A standing cbde committee was app-ointed and -consisted of Frank eonnolly, Jerry Sullivan, Grover.Gearhart, B. E. Bryan, James Ahearn-and K. L. Bates. President Chas. M. Cooper cilled the convention to order and brief fPorts were helard from K. L. Bates, James Ahearn, B. E. Bryan, Al Frost, and Bert Galleher of Reid-Galleher Co', Los A1-
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geles, who was also named chairman of an advertising comil-titte. which included E. A. Howard, M. A. Thomsen and Iohn Johnson. Short talks were given by D. J. Cahill' Gronei Gearhart, C. H. White, Chas' Koenig, A. J' Bowry11 and President Cooper. Frank Connolly was elected 1933-34 president, with B. 'E. Btyan and Grovlr,Gearhart re-elected io the other two top chairs. Re-elected direqtors-were Jerry Sullivan, C. H. White, G. H. Brown, J. E. -Higgins, Jr., Roger Sands, E. E. Hall and H. W. Swafford'
H. W. Cole was elected president of the California Redwood Assn., Sept. 21, to succeed Leonard Hammond, who had resigned Ray H. Hill joined the sales force of Lawrence-Pfilips Lumber Co. in Los Angeles. He was formerly with Bloe<iel-Donovan . The Emergency Conservation Camos CorDs., Washington, D.C., placed an order for 250,000.0b0 feet'of softwoodi to build winter civilian camps. The order created huge excitement in the industry. and was expected to drain t-he entire industry to immediately supply it C. R. Johnson returned to Union l.uryber Company after several-months in Washington and Chicago on the code for the redwood industry ' C. C. Stibich was named secretary of the California White & !"g{ Pine Assn., which moved tb 1065 Monadnock Bldg. in San Francisco.
H. G. Larrick arrived in Los Angeles from Solano Beach on a dav's business . . Chas. F. Dlll and Hayward Dill of the Dil[ yards in Redlands and Ranning, respectiv"ly.j :9turned from a western auto trip with their wives H. H. Spalding, Ilemet, Calif., lumbbr dealer, returned from an AilantiJ coast auto trip and visit to the Chicago World's Fair . Dealers Franl Park of La Mesa and Bob Reid of San Diego took in the L. A. lumbermen's golf tourney, Sept. 22-. . George Burnett of the Burnett Lumber Co., Tulare, was back on the job after a recent illness.
S. I. Hathawav of the Sunkist Lumber Co., Monrovia, returied with his family from a Colorado vacation . Max E. Cook, agricultural ehgineer-of The P-acific Lumber Co., is spending-several months in Scotia on Palco redwood prefabiicated-products H. O. Warde of Patten-Blinn won low gross it the Fox Hills play, Sept. 22. Bill Godshall of Blue-Diamond won low net. The tournament comrnittee consisted of Don Philips, Kenneth Smith, Harry Graham,-Jack Thomas, W. B. Wiikersham, Ross Blanchard and Ed Martin Taylor L. Sublett, formerly _of Strable Hardwood Co., joined ihe stafi of J. E. Higgins Lumber Co'
East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club 39 met at the Athens Club, Sept. 18, wittr C. I. Gilbert succeeding Earle E. Johnson as
president. H. Sewall Morton presented Dealer Johnson with a handsome wrist watch from the club. The Iverson Quartet played and Lumberman Mitch Landis of Hill & Morton sang two solos accompanied by Secretary Carl Moore A large group of lumbermen planned to visit the Parson Simpkin memorial tree in Calaveras State Park, Oct. 8, and see the large C.C.C. camp nearby Curtis Williams postcards L. A. lumber friends that he is cruising the coast of Maine Sherman A. Bishop of the Union Lumber Company sales department is spending a few months in the Chicago territory.
TPL transferred O. G. Grimes to the L. A. office, where he will assist Gus lloover with the company's lumber sales
G. R. Bleecker resumed lumber sales in the Northern California area .. The address by H. W. Swafford at the recent annual of the PCHDA in Sin Francisco was printed in full in this issue . . . The usual 85c dinner was promised
for the September 18 meeting of the East Bay Hoo-Hoo in the Athens Club. Committee chairmen named to serve the coming club year were H. Sewall Morton, entertainment; Larue Woodson, entertainment; Bert Bryan, atteudance; Henry M. Hink, sports; Prof. Emanuel Fritz, education; Frank W. Trower, public affairs; Clem Fraser, reception; Gordon D. Pierce, finance; Miland R. Grant, membership, and Chas. S. Lamb, fraternal. A. H. Silligo was appointed sergeant-at-arms.
The formation of a wholesale lumber firm, Tahoe Sierra Lumber Co., at 1420 Merkley in West Sacramento was announced September I by Ross Beall, who will manage the new concern.
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Bardarr Officials Frank Jackson, Jr., presiclent; Karl Rigor, vice-president ; I-ouis E. Misippo, board member, ancl Danilo Prodanovich, chairmarr of the board, were extremely enthusiastic following the completion of the moclel home,
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all day during the sales event. Visitors from practicallv every community in Southern California signed the registei, and it was noted that Mr. and Mrs. Fran[ Crawford]came jfg1rr_u. far-away as Ukiah. Mr. Crawford operates mills in Ukiah and Covelo and is a source of supply f,6r Lloyd Webb, m-alaggr of the softwoods department. iirrery departmeni of the Stanton organization was represented at the sale, including the specialty division maniged by Fred Loesch.
RoI Stanton, Jr., executive vice-president of the wholesale firm,. informed the CLM represenlative that plans call for moving to the new seven-acre, million-dollar piant in Comp- ton near Dominguez Junction early in 1959. Architectural plans. were on display for the guests, showing the exact location on the corner of South Alameda and Santa Fe ave_ nues in the industrial area near the Harbor Freewav. and just minutes,from the Wilmington-San Pedro shipping center and the docks. Also fast delivery to all Southiind-cities will be made via company-operated trucks, and trucks and trailers.
During the "Red Tag Days" sale, every item was properly marked for quick identificJtion with red tags. Red'banners were flying all over the plant and all saleimen and office employes wore bright red western shirts. It was not onlv a profitable sale bui ? gala affair, which the Stanton peopl'e expect to hold annually.
"We are not sure at this time just how many service yards we will operate in Los Angeles and Orange tounties,,t said Roy Stanton, Jr. "It will depend on the pi&-up demand and our_experience regarding delivery problems^after we are settled in our new home."
C.gryplete remanufacturing mill machinery will be installed. at the new plant, which will be brand-new through- out. The pioneer hard-wood organization will still specialTze in the distribution of domesticind imported hardwobds, and will also continue handling various jpecies of pacific ioast softwoods and specialty it6ms, it was said.
"The central location of our new Compton concentration and distribution yard will help us offer ai-, ..rer, better service to our Los Angeles and Oiange county customers," said young S.tanton. The n_ew facilitie!, including complete mill_ ing equipment and lO-car spur, are preseitly t:rrd., .o.r- struction, with every mo_d9rn convenience ior employee comfort beingincorporated in the new structure. All pu6fi" and_private offices will be finished in the various speiies of hardwoods sold by the wholesale firm, it was said. ^
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John G. O'Malley, Sr., last of the founders of the O'Malley Lumber Company of Arizona, died September 14 at his Phoenix home at ihe age of 81. He had been in ill health for several years. Mr. O'Malley was chairman of the board of the Affiliated O'Malley Companies, which originated in Phoenix in 1908 with a single -retail lumberyard. The company today comprises 22 separate corporations dealing in ietail and wholesale lumber, many allied building materials, investments, real estate, and operating in three states'
The senior O'Malley leaves his wife, Mary C', of the home at 2222 N. Alvarado;-three sons: James C., president of the National Retail Lumbers Dealers Assn. and vice-president of the O'Malley companies, handling the retail yards.; John G., Ir., vice-president of the companies and general malagei of MallCo Distributors, and Robert E., secretaryof the c6mpanies and active in management of the El Paso, Texas, branch; nine grandchildren; a sister, Nora O'Malley, _o_f Colorado Springs, Colo., and four nephews: Edward V. O'Malley, Iidwird V. O'Malley, Jr., Thomas E. O'Malley and Charles F. O'Mall.yall of whom are active in the O'Malley lumber and materials companieS.
John G. O'Malley, Sr., was born in St. Louis, Mo., and went to Phoenix, Arizona,50 years ago from Lamar, Colo., where he had operated the first family lumber yard, started in the late 1800i. He was one of four sons of the first John G. O'Malley and his brothers Edward and Charles soon joined John in Phoenix, where he had purchased the assets bt tn. -DeMund Lumber Co., while biother James stayed behind to operate the Colorado yard. The first of the fourth generation bf Lumber O'Malleys has already started in the business at Phoenix.
The founder of the tradition of the O'Malleys of Arizona first expressed his business principles man;r years ago. Said John G. O'Malley, Sr.: "Always be conservative in. your irabits and in your business dealings. By hard work and sober living, you will always get your fair share of the available business."
Mr. O'Malley was a founder and one-time president of the Arizona Building and Loan Assn., a charter member of the Phoenix Rotary, holder of a life membership in the Arizona Club, and past president of the Phoenix Country Club. Catholic funeral services were held September 16 under direction of Whitney and Murphy Funeral Home, and remembrances in Mr. O'Malley's name were directed to Saint Joseph's hospital in Phoenix.
R. Stanley Dollar, 78, president of the Dollar Steamship Line and member of the prominent Robert Dollar Company lumber and affiliated industries, died September 24 in his suite at the Drake hotel, New York City. He was stricken by an apparent heart attack as he was arising in the morning aira niJwite attended him in the several minutes before his death. Mr. Dollar was the son of the late Capt. Robert Dollarlumberman, founder of the shipping line and popularly believed to be the prototype of Peter B. Kyne's belovid "Cappy Ricks" stories. Stanley got his start in his father's offiies. Mr. Dollar also leaves two children, R. Stan-
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ley Dollar, Jr., San Francisco, and N'Irs. Joseph C. Hickingbothan, San Rafael. He had a home in Walnut Creek, Calif., and offices in the Robert Dollar Building at San Francisco.
George C. Byrne, 52, died September 7 at his home in Manhattan Beach, Calif., of injuries incurred 22 months ago in an automobile accident. He was president of B. W. Byrne & Son, the lumber company in Lomita. Mr. Byrne had started his lumber career with the old Mrestern llarclwood Co. in Los Angeles, and later formed the present company with his brother, B. W. Byrne II, in Long Beach. He leaves his wife, Charlotte, of the home at 2305 Crest Drive ; a son, five daughters; his mother, Mrs. B. W. Byrne, Sr., and the brother.
Russell A. Austin, former salesmanager of Harbor Plywood Co. ancl more recently associated with Durable Plv-
',vood Sales Co. (CLM, 9/l/58), died suddenly September 6 following an operation at Palo Alto hospital. N[r. Austin, rvho joined Durable Plywood earlier this year, had spent his entire career in lumber and plywood. He was a native of Aberdeen, \\rash., and originally joined Harbor Plywood Corp- during 1931, becoming salesmanager of that organiza- tion in 1946.
Washington-\\rilliam H. Scheick, well known ir.r the building research field has been appointed vice presidentresearch and development for the Timber Engineering Company, researcl.r-engineering affiliate of the National Lumber Nlanufacturers Association, effective September 15. He succeeds Carl A. Rishell, vice-president, who will retire in several months after 22 years service with Teco and NLMA.
Eureka, Calif.-The Pacific Lumber Company of Scotia has removed several large redwood trees in the Division of Highways construction on 101 to eliminate a "death" curve a riile north of Pepperwood. The $27,800 job includes widening and realigning two-tenths of a mile on the curve that has claimed several lives in the past fqw years.
Harold R. Crane, prominent Paskenta lumberman and president of Crane Mills who died last month, left an estate of $2,517,280, it was revealed with probate of his will in superlor court.
Portland, Ore.Georgia-Pacific Corp. has transferred one of its three Olympia, Wash., plywood plants to Simpson Logging Co. G-P halted operations at the mill July 21. Transfer includes purchase of equipment and longterm lease of buildings. Simpson will use the mill to produce
sheathing and industrial plywood beginning. about Nov. 1 with monthly capdcity of about 4 million sq. ft.
San Mateo, Calif.-Daniel G. Minto, former Peninsula automobile dealer, has been sworn in as new district director of the Federal Housing Administration in San Fran: cisco. He had the backing of many builders in the area for the appointment.
' Alturas, Calif.-The White Pine Lumber Co. here has purchased the Poison Lake timber-sale unit put up for bid by the Modoc Natl. Forest. Volume is lll million bf pine and 4 million bf white fir. Logging plans are indefinite.
Yale & Towne Mfg. Co. has established a factory branch for sale and service of industrial lift trucks in San Diego, under direction of James B. Cunningham.
The Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Co. recently dedicated its new southern California headquarters building at 3545 Wilshire Blvd. The $2 million building job was celebrated with an open house.
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Finest location in Chico, on main highway in modern surroundings. 3-plus qcres, well laid-out for mechanical bperation. Catering mosaly to retail and farm trade. NO SET-UP LIKE IT IN THIS-AREA. Other interests make this sale necessary. For further information contact above at P.O. Box 673, Chico, California.
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HERE IT ISI Retail Lumberyard, Paint, Hardware, Building Materials located in heart od one of fastest-growing Calif, Areaa lhng- established, well-praying business. Principal owntr selling because iil health. Will sell inventory, equipment and lease land, bldgs. or sell all. Approx. 2 acres with office, store, sheds, +Mrm., 2-ba home on IIwy.2l in Pleasant Hill, close to Walnut Creek, Martinez, Concord. Partner would retain interest, rnanage if desired. Write: 'Stafford fnvestment, lnc., 1237 Stafford Ave., Concord, Calif.
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AVALON WOODWORKING CO.. INC. 12411 South Avalon Blvd., Los Angeles 61, Calif. Phone: Plymouth 4-2874
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Reconditioned Gerlinger Material Carrier, 3O,mO lbr. capacitn insidc width 69 inches, inside height 7E inches.{6" bolsters.
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Arociqtod trlolding
Asroclqlcd Redwod
Atlqr lunber Co...
Atkin!, Kroll & Co,
Avrom lumber Co.
8c ond Do Sqler
8&MlumberCo,
Bqck Co., J. Williqm.---......
Bough Bror. & Co.-----.-------.
Bosgh, Cqrl W...------....---.------------.
Boxicr & Co., J. H.,.,..............-.....:.
Bdnett Vcn*rt. Inc.--.--.--
Blirs Lumber Co. Inc.---..---
Bluo Dionond Corpqolion
lunber
Bonncll-Word & Knqpp..--
Bonington [unber Co.--.
Bromnq Iunbd Soles------.
Brwn & Co., Cloy .--.-....
Erurh lndurtriol
Col-Pocifrc Rcdwod
Colov{q! Crmdl
Colifornio Pcnel
Colifornio ncdwood
The sag in the green Douglas fir market produced some abnormal price patterns in the pe'riod ending Sept. 26, reports Crow's Lumber Market News Service. Random Standard & Btr dimension dropped faster than s,pecified shipments, ringing an unusual rprice spread, an.d an exceptionally large spread between rail and ,cargo shirpment prices. British Columbia longshoremen were back at work after their strike and mills were holding out for top prices on the large backlog of orders to handle. Utility green dimension suffered some hard price blows, studs stagged ,material,ly, and boards joined the decline, K-D Standard & Btr dimension di'd not tumble so fa'r in price b,ut mills are talking quicker shipment than before . Mixed-car shippers in the Western Pine region raised price sights on ponderosa common boards and No. 4 eight-inch was still a leader.
Shipments of 476 mills reporting to the National Lumber Manufacturers Assn- in the week ending Sept. 13 were 2.9/o above p,roduction, while orders were 0.1/o above. Shirpments of 723,O84,757 teet were l0.8/o above production at 152' mills reporting (145 orperating) to the West Coast Lumbermen's Assn- in the week ending Sept. 20; orders were 1.8/o below produc,tion Shipments o,f 95,034,000 feet were 2.9/o above production at 128 mills reporting to the Western Pine Association in the week ended Sept. 13; orders were 3.4/o below Both production of 38,975,000 feet and shiprnents of 47,327,000 feet were ahead of July at 14 mills reporting to the California Redwood Association during August. While shipments were also ahead of July 1957, production was materially lower. August shipments shot 6.7 rnillion feet ahead of this July and were 167,W0 feet ahead of last August, continuing their climb of six ,successive months. August orders totaled 48,119,000 fieet-2.4 million feet ahead of July and 7.5 million feet ahead of last August. Orders on hand August 31 were 16.6 mil,lion feet ahead of the same 1957 date. Stocks on hand were 365,685,000 feet, lowest mill inventory of record since April 1956 Shipments of 24,388,000 feet were 13.16% above production at 95 mills reporting to the Southern Pine Association in the week ending Sept. 20; orders were 2.84/o above.
Los Angcles 32, Cdit. CApitol 2-8143
Watch for the little skunk, remember he says "FIRE STARTERS ARE STINKERS" keep the Redwood Region Green.
*Adwtl.lng cPPm In olt.mdc l$u
(TeIl them Aur sau it in The California Lumber Merchant)
Long.Bell Div.-lnt'l Pqpcr Co.--.-.--.----.,..---- 9
Lop f.umber & Mill Co.--.----.----.-.--------...------26
lor Anselcr Iunbcr Co,----------.-------.-.--......-44
Lor-Col lumbsr Co..----.----------.----.-.-------.......15
Iumbqr Fqclorr, Inc.--------.---.-.---------.---.... t
Lumber Sqles Cq.--.-----------.---------------..-...-.--55
f.umberma's Credit Arsn., ln<.---------.---,-.--27
M & A{ Lunber Sqler-.------..--.-.--------.-.----.---.... *
MqcBmth Hqrdwood €ompqny.-.-----.---------.-36
Mohogony mporting Co.--------.-..--.--.----.-----.-42
l{oplc 8ros. .-----.--.-------.--65
Mqrtin Plywood Co.-.--.-.----.------------------------.-45 i qrquqrt-Wolfo Lumber Co.---........-.-..--...-.. *
Moson Supplies, Inc.-.-----.---.-.-.--.-------...-. *
Mo3onile Cqporolion --.--.----.---------.-.--.------..'
l ofzlcy Corporotion
Mqx Hqrdwood Compony--------------------.------.--28
l*cClqd lunbs Co,.-...-------------.--.-.
M.iq Lumbd Co., H6rb---.-------.--
Holl Co., Jomgr L.------...------------,--------------.---'14
Hqllinon [{ockin Lumbq Co.---.------..-.".---.----36
Hqlldtqrk Lunber & Plywod Co..-..-.--------.---22
Hon.sn Forctl Productr Co,--------------.-------36
Horbor lunber Co., Inc,-.---.....-.-------.-.........-- 4
Heqrin Iumber Compony----,----------------.--.--..--- I
Hedlund Iunber Soles, lnc.----------------.....----. I
Hcxburg lumber Soler.---.-.--------------
Hissins lunbq Co., J. 8,.-..--------------..--.---..-14
Hill & llqton, Inc.-----.--..--..-.-------------.....-----.19
Hobbs Woll Lumber qo.-.--..-..-.
Hol low Tree Rcdwood Co.---.-.----------....----39
A{in6 Bqndini, nc.--.--.-.--.--------.-.--------.--40
iAoore Dry Kiln Co.------.--.-.--------.-,-....--..-------- 8
Mount Whifney lumb.r Co.------.--.----.--------51
lrtutuol t\{oulding ond Lumber Co.---.---........-61
Noimon-Red tumbs Co,...---.........-.-........19
Nefh Lunbar Solss, A. W.-----------.--.-:---------50
Nwquist, Jomer W..------------------.----.-....------il
Nikkel Lumbcr Co., R. F.-.----------.----.----.-----50
Norco Dirtribufing Co.----.-..------------.-..---------- |
Obcn Conpqny, T. E......-....--------------.--.-....... *
Obon & Co., Oliver J,.-.......-.----
Red Cedqr Shingle Bur{u-----.-----.----------------/16
Regof Door Conpony-.------------- ----.-------.-------.57
Ricci & Krure Iumber Co.-.---------.--.-.-.-.,.----.-. *
Roundr lumbq €o...----------------------
Roy Forest Products Co.-.--....-------...-...--...-.-,-48
S & S Lumbs Co..-------.---......-.-----------------..-31
Sonford-[uricr, Inc. -------------------.-.-.....-----. *
Sontq Fe Lumbs, Inc.------.--.-..-.-.----.------------21
Scvriiy Point Mfg. Co.-.---.-.--.-.-----".-...-....-..16
Shivcl.. Alqn A..---.--...-.--.---.-.-----
Sierrq Lumber & Ptywood, Inc.-------.--....- *
Sierrq Redwod Co.--------------..-----.--
Silbcrnogel, Inc., Gargo J..-..---.-.-.--....--...*
Simmons Hordwod lumbcr Co.--.---------..-.-*
Simpron Redwod Co.----------------.----.--........-- 7
Smith Hqrdwood Co., L. R.-.-...-....-.
5milh, Hermon A. & Co.-----.-.------.-----.-.----64
Smith lumber Co., Rolph t..-.----.--------.........19
Smifh-Robbinr Lunbc Corp......--.---.-.---.....--26
So-Col Euilding Motriols Co., lnc.--..---...--12
South 8qy Lumber Co.-.-.-----.---.-----.-.-...--.-59
Soulhern Coliforniq Iumber Solcr.-.----.....----60
Southwcat Plywood Corp.--.-.-
Soulhwcalern Portlqnd Cemenl Co.------------.. Slohl Lunber Co..--.---..---------.--.-------..-.---.--32
Slqndqrd Iumbs Co., lnc.-------.--.-.-.--.--..----.-40
Stonton & Son, E. J.-----.---.--.
Siroble lumbs Compqny--------.-..-.--.---------.--. t
Strqit Door Mfg. Co.--.-------,.-----.---.-.Bock Covq
Sun Lumbar Co.--.--..-.....--.---.----
Tqcomq Lunbq Solcr, Inc.---.-.-.---------.----..-- 6
Tohe Millwork Co -.------.... t
Tqlboi Lumber Compqny----.--...-......-..-------.-.-. I
Torltr, Webtter & Johnson, lnc...-.---..-..-- t
Triqngle lumbq Co.-----.----------------------------.. t
Trinify Rivq tbr, Solcr Co.--------....----..------.. *
Twln-Ciry lumbq Cp.-----------.---------....------.---*
Twin-Hqrborr Lumber Co.-------------.Fronl Covar
U. S. Plywood Cqp..--.....-.---.-.-----
Union Lumber Co...----------.--------.--
Uniled lumbs Co.---.----.---.-----------
Cf oy Lumber Co.-.--.--.----.------..-.- -. -.. --.-..-..-.----15
Coort Iumber, Inc.-.-------.-.---.-.---.- -----"--------..-57
Cobb Compony, T. M.---..----------..----
Conrolidotod Iumber Co..--.-.--------.---------....--37
Conlin.nlol Lunber Soles----.......----.---------.----12
Cook. Inc., D. O.--------.--.---.------.-.-------.-------.-16
Coma Wholerole Iunbq Co..-..-------.---.......56
Corolita Co., The-. -.----.-...-. *
Dollon & Co., R. W.-.----------........-------------.----'
Doni & Ru3sell, Inc.-...---.----.....------------.--32, 33
Dovis Hordwood Co,-----------.----..-...---.---.------.-56
Diebofd [umber Co,, Cqrl----............-..-..........21
Doffor Co.. The Robert---------,.-----....----....-.-...22
Dolcy & Co.--..---.--.--.--.--------.........-.-------.-----.
Douglor Fir Plywood Arrn.------
Droke'r Bcy Lumbcr Co., Inc.----.-.------- |
Durobls Plyw@d Solc: Co.-------.----..
Edwordr [umbq qnd lvtfg. Co.--------.----------.--52
Emsco Plywod --.---------..*
Errley & Son, D. C.--------....--------------..------.-----63
Eubqnk & Son, L. H.-.-.......----..----.....----------...
Hogqn Wholerqle Bldg. ,{tlr. Co.--.-......------l I
Holmes lunber Co., Fred C.--------.----.-..-...--- 4
Homqsole Cgnpony ---------- Hovs Co., A. [..--.-----.--....-.---------.---.----..-.-. *
Huff Lunba Co.-.--.------.-.---.-.-.-..-----------.---31
Hyrtar Compony
I ndurlriol Iumbtr Co.-----.-.-...-.----------......-.-.-. I
lnlond Lunb.r Co.---------.------.---.----.-.--.--....-..18
Johnt-l{qnvilla Corp, -.-----..-.-.------
Johnron-flqherty, Inc, ------------...-.--.-.---...-.-. *
Jones Iunber Co., Andy-------------.-----.------....--65
Jqdon Sosh & Door Co.. F. L.------------.-.-.---.. *
Koibob Lunbc
Kellcy. Albert A..- ----.--..... *
Kent, Poul E.-.-.----..-..--..-----------....-.----.----.--..-- |
Koohl & Son, John W...--------..----..-----------.---.--43
L. A. Dry Kiln & Storqge, Inc.....-----.------..-.-.5.1 Lonon Lumber Co,-----------------.-.---...---------..--.43
[.wrcnc]Philiot Lumber Co.---.....------------....48
Lerrett lumbd Compony---..--.-.--.--...-.-.----..". I
Olympic Stoinqd Product! Co.----.---...---..-----*
Otllins Mqnufqcluring Co.-------------.--------------66
Orlrom lumber Co
Oxford Lumbq €o., Rqx--.---.-,----------.--------22
Pocific Cement & Asgr€soter, Inc..--.....---... *
Pqcific Fir Sqler.-.-.----.-..-.--.-.-----.-.---.-.--..--..--61
Pociffc Hordwsd 9oles Co.--.--------.----.---...-.-55
Poclflc Lumbq Co., The-.........--...
Pqcific Lumbs Dmlqr Supply, Inc.-.....-.--..42
Pocinc Wirs Productr Cr.---..--...-.,--..-......---.58
Pocfic Wood Product3--------.-...---.--.----......-...52
Pqdulo [umbd Co,, E. A.-......-----.-.......-.-.... *
Pqromounf Polc Conrt, Co.------------------------.. r
Pcuf Bunyqn Lunbq Co.--------.-. --.-.-.-----.....--11
Porf rrc Lunbq Co.-----------.---.--------------------..61
Picic Co., Af....-------------------.......----..---...-.--.A7
Penbcrfhy [umbq Co,-.--------.-
Phlllpr Bror. lumbt Co.--..-".....-.--.--.-......37
Phlppr Co., Tha--.-..-----------.-.----------.-.--....39
Pickcrlng Lumbcr Corp.-------.----.----------,..-..... 1
Popc & Tqlbot, Inc.----------------..-.-----------...-... I
Worren Soulhweel, Inc.--.----..-----.-.
Wendling-Nofhon Co. ..-.---.----.---.-.--...-.......15
Watt Coqrl Lumbermen'c Assn.-----.-...--..------'13
Werl C@.1 Scren Co..--------.-.
Wart Cooll Tinbq Productr Agency-.----.----*
Warlern D@r & Sosh Co.-----------
W6tern Dry Kiln..---------.-...--.----------...----..54
Wat€rn Fd6l Products Co..-.-.-----------......--18
Werlqn Ismbcr Co..--..-......--.-----------.-.....--. *
Watarn Mill & [unber Co.-..--------------.-...--.. '
Wcttern Pinc Atsociqlion----.------.-------.....----17
