The California Lumber Merchant - October 1945

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Let's see, where ARE we?

Four yecrs crgo the movement oI our lumber to the ncrtion's builders wcrs violently interrupted. It had begun in 1853 when the first one oI the grect Pope d Tcrlbot scrwmills in the west begcrn turning. That wcls crt Port Gcmble . . in the mcssive Douglcs Fir region of Puget Sound. When Pecrl Hcrrbor exploded, overnight, deliveries lrom crll our vqst operctions turned to wcr.

Now the scene has changed cgcrin. As we crre cbout to resume our history of dependcble supply to civilian lumber users, we look back to the brecrk crnd murmur, "Let's see, where were we?" But where we were hqs lost perspective. It's todcy's pressures that count. So we scy, "Let's see, where ARE we?"

Well, we're 14 million homes behind cn over' whelming luxnber mcrrket by itsell. There are the urgent lumber needs ol reconversion. Mil' lions of dollars worth of rcrilrocrd work crwcrits our bocrrds and timbers. Industries plcn expcrnsions. Foreign cclls for reconstruction swell the cosmic chorus. That's where we ABE.

Pope & Talbot witl fill your orders iust cs soon crs conditions permit, with service cs the underlying factor. An orgcnizqtion with the crbility to deliver lumber thct is properly milled-properly grcrded and properly hcrndled . . . with each depcrrtment working smoothly to expedite delivery to your complete satisfcrction.

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The Lumber Strike Situation

Portland, Ore., Oct. lO.-There are no major developments in the walkout of 61700 AFL lumber workers in the five Pacific Northwest States who are demanding a $1.10 minimum hourly wage. The strike is now in its third week.

Conciliation conferees met in an attempt to keep 40,000 CIO lumber workers from going on strike. The CIO union voted to strike September 18 but leaders withheld calling out the members pending conciliation. The organization seeks a wage increase of 25 cents an hour for the workers which includes an hourly minimum of $1.15.

Water movement of lumber was slowing down as the Sailors Union of the Pacific supported the striking AFL lumber workers, refusing to move by water what they termed "hot lumber."

The strike in the Pacific Northwest is making serious inroads on the production of lumber.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended September 29 reported production as 41,933,000 feet, orders as 57,509,000 feet, and shipments 55,444,000 feet. The figures for the rveek ended September 22 were; production 87,332,00A feet, orders 114,086,000 feet, and shipments 81,571,000 feet.

The Western Pine Association for the week ended September D gave production as 35,764,OAO feet, orders 38,322000 feet, and shipments 36,177,W feet. For the week

ended September 000 feet, orders feet.

22, the figures 47,784,W feet, were: production 57,3ot,' and shipments 51,457,000

Portland, Ore., September 28-Workers at the Klamath Falls mills returned to their work yesterday after a seven weeks' strike over union security. A settlement was reported to have been worked out between the CIO union and the employers.

As we go to press, the seven large lumber yards in the Los Angeles harbor district are still closed. 45 members of the AFL International Union of Operating Engineers went on strike September 17, demandirig a blanket increase of 12% cents an hour for lumber carrier and steam and electric crane operators, retroactive to July l, l9M. They turned down an offer of.7l cents an hour for carrier operators, and, lZl cents an hour for crane operators, retroactive to July l,1945.

There is no change in the strike situation in San Diego, and on October 11, several lumber companies were still down due to the strike called by the Millmen's Union and Teamsters Union of the AFL. The dispute is over the retroactive date when the wage increase should become efiective, the unions requesting the increase retroactive to December l,l9M. The companies have offered to make the increase retroactive to August 18, 1945, the date when General Order No. 4O was issued.

The U. S. Treqsury says: *Ask every employee to sign up lor regulcr pcyroll savings each week. Try to gdt 10"/" ol payroll-invested in Victory Bond*"

,,. r . PRACTICATLY IMP[|SSIBTE T[|

PERATE WITHl|UT THI$ EQU lPMEllT"

Thaf 's f he experience of The ROSS SYSTEM of

(Fron Loop lunbcr Golnpltrt/, San ]roncisco)

Our compony hos used Ross Ccrrriers since l93O ond resuhs hqve been very sotisfocto. ry. ln oddition, we hove fwo of your lifilrucks.

Due lo the lobor shortoge, it would have been procticolly impossibl,e to operote if we did not hove this type of equipmenf. The lifl-trucks qre used io pile luribbr, thus sqv- ing piling spacei olso in unlooding ccrs, which is done in much less time thon ilnder our old method. More imporlonl, oll rhls hcs been done with less help.. .

We ore pleosed that during the 15 yeqrs we have used Ross Cqrriers, service lendered by rhe foctory ond locol representdtives hqs been highly sotisfcctory. We hove found your Son Froncisco stock complete qnd no deloys coused by scorcify of repcir pqrls.

Very Truly

IOOP lUffIBER COMPANY,

this progressive mill with Unif-load Handling.. (

Performqnce of Ross Stroddle Corriers ond Lift-Trucks ol Loop Lumber Compony is fypicol of the iob these rugged mochines ore doing for owners everywhere . . . Hondling cosl musf be kept to o minimum fo insure the greolest possible profit-morgin - qnd thol's where Ross Stroddle Csrriers ond Lift-Trucks ore "lops"!

lncrcsle your profil-morgin by employing thc Ros Sy3tem lo rcduce hcndling co.B. Ro3t cngineer: can give you proctico! odvice on how to 3tr€omline your hondling methodr, Write todoy for Bullerin LJll-105.

Ark for your frcc copy of thc bcoutlful 40 pogc Roce Book, "HIGH SPEED HANDIINO./

Fron yorclor kiln lo dry sorter, plonlng nill ordry storogc.

*Based on a silrae! condtcted by Cu r t k Pu b Ih b in g C.omP anY amon g 4oo7 Jamilies in 118 diferent touns and cilies' 87,i% oJ tbose planning to baild or bry said tbey uould insist oz bome instt' lation Jor their Postuar bome!

Complele, rhirk insulotion in sidewqlls cnd aftic wirh

Johns-Monville Rork Wool is what the public wonts

//-r OVERNMENT endorsements of home

l.f i1s.r1"rion during the war years have sold the public on its valtre as never before.

By urging builders to use JohnsManville Super-Felt Rock \7ool Batts to meet this demand, you help them make their houses more quickly and easily salable and here are the reasons why:

l. Johns-Manville Insulation has the greatest consumer acceptance. Surveys prove that when prospective homeowners need home insulation, they think of Johns-Manville frst,

2. Super-Felt Batts are of recognized high quality. Made of Rock Wool, a fireproof, rotproof, verminproof mineral, they are prefabricated to the thickness and densiry which gives maximum comfort and fuel savings. Manufactured in full wall-stud thickness, they also act as an effective fire stop.

3. The Johns-Manville radio program gives you continuous sales help. In this program, "Bill Henry and the News," which reaches as many as thirty million listeners a month from coast to coast. the advantages ofJ-M Rock $(ool Insu-

lation are being constantly emphasized.

So why not sell the kind and quality of insulation that people know best, JobnsManaille RocA lYool.

And your builders, too, will profit when they can say to ptospective home buyers, "This house is completely insulated in roof and sidewalls with JohnsManville Rock Vool Batts."

For details write Johns -Manville, 22 East 4oth St., Ne* York 16, N. Y.

Lumber Merchants Association Directors New Agency \7ill Replace \fPB Meet in San Francisco

The board of directors of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California held a meeting at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, September 28. Members were invited to attend as this took the place of the annual meeting of the Association.

Ray Clotfelter presided. He announced the result of the mail ballot by which a large majority of the members voted to retain the officers and directors for another year. The officers are: Ray Clotfelter, W. R. Spalding Lumber Co., Visalia, president; J. H. Kirk, Southern Pacific Milling Co., San Luis Obispo, vice president; I. E. Horton, South City Lumber Co., South San Francisco, treasurer, and Bernard B. Barber, Fresno, secretary.

It was decided that J. H. Kirk and Bernard B. Barber should attend the annual meeting of the National Lumber Dealers Association to be held in Washington November 2.

The directors endorsed the proposed Business Planning Institute of the California State Department of Education, and instructed the secretary to explore the feasibility of forming a merchandising school of building materials in cooperation with the State Department.

The board adopted a resolution affirming the belief of the members that the wholesalers render a very necessary seivice in the distribution of lumber and that it is important that their services continue to be available to the retailers.

Purchase of a motion picture projector was authorized, in order that the Association may take advantage of the films issued by manufacturers, many of which can help to make their meetings more informative and interesting.

Will Rebuild Plant

Timber Structures, Inc., Portland, which suffered a $500,000 fire, will rebuild. Approximately ten acres of wooden structures and lumber materials were destroyed. Prior to the war the firm manufactured prefabricated industrial building trusses, arches and columns, using more than 80 million board feet of lumber annually. Offices and pattern loft, located across the street from the main plant, were not burned.

Washington, Oct. 4-President Truman today abolished the War Production Board effective Nov. 3 and replaced it with the newly created Civilian Production Administration to speed the transition to maximum peacetime production.

The new agency will be headed by J. D. Small, WPB chief of stafi. J. A. Krug, WPB chairman for more than a year, has resigned effective Nov. 3.

The President said the CPA will use its powers "to further a swift and orderly transition from wartime production to a maximum peacetime production in indusiry free from wartime government controls, with due regard for the stabilitv o{ orices and costs."

Purchase Sclmon River Logging Co.

The British Colurnbia Manufacturing Co., Ltd. and Westminster Shook Mills, Ltd., controlled by R. L. Cliff' J. H. McDonald and associates, operating at New Westminster, B. C., have purchased the timber holdings and logging op' erations of the Salmon River Logging Co. on Vancouver Island.

The sellers are J. G. Robson and associates of the Timberland Lumber Co., Ltd., of New Westminster, and Green Point Logging Co., Ltd., o;wned and operated for many years by C. Dewey Anderson, and his father P. B. Anderson.

Under the new ownership, the name Salmon River Logging Co. will be retained, and J. H. McDonald is the new president of the company.

Hkes'.Mcrgnilicent MccArthur"

" 'Magnificent MacArthur'! Put it there, Jack. I have been waiting ever since the surrender of Tolryo to see how you would acknowledge MacArthur's speech, and next to MacArthur's saying it, is the manner in which you reported it. And I am also indebted to you for the quotation you gave from MacArthur's 191E speech. Truly Greatness is still alive in the world and America has Lnother leader who will live iir history as a fitting companion with Washington and Lincoln. Give us more of 'Magnificent MacArthur" "

H. G. Larrick, Solana Beach, California.

GETTII{G BACK TO ATORMAL Entails Some Curtailment

-AT LEA,S? FOR THE TIME BEING

o During the wcr yecrs we hcd no opportunity to render maintencnce on our mill equipment. urgrency therelore demcnds our shutting down one complete rig ct a time until necessary repcrirs cnd replccements crre mcrde.

O During the wcr yecrs we hcd no chqnce to put cny lumber on stick to pre-dry. Therelore to insure cdequcrte dry stock lor spring delivery we must divert some production to our drying ycrrd inventory.

o The militcrry is still requisitioning hecvily on output.

AII in cll we're still trying to do the best, our more thcn three qucrters oI a century oI experience will permit, but gettin€t production bcrck to normal is no simple task.

THE PACIFIC LUMBER COMPANY

"The sheet anchor of the Ship of State is the common school. Teach, first and last, Americanism. Let no youth leave the school without being thoroughly grounded in the history, the principles, the incalculable blessings of American liberty. Let the boys be the trained soldiers of constitutional freedom, the girls the intelligent lovers of free men." ,< * -Qhsunssy Depew

Read the tolr paragraph over again. Never in our history was there a time when it was so vitally important that we grab that grand old Constitution, and hold onto it, and defend it, and fight for it if necessray-than right now. Mighty few of the present threats to the peace and prosperity of this country, are constitutional. That precious document is being stretched to cover things that should make Washington and Jefferson turn over in their graves. Let's get back to the Constitution'!

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Ben Hill, of Georgia, once said: "I declare to you that there is no remedy for us but adhering to the Constitution, and if the Constitution is dead, then your rightsand hopes for the future, and the hopes of your children, are dead." Various of our girarantees in the Bill of Rights are hanging in the balance today.

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Remember the story of the Centurion who asked the Apostle Paul if it were true that he was a free man? And Paul answelsd f1i6-"!s3." The Centurion wondered at it, and said: "With a great sum obtained I this freedom." Freedom was something he had had to buy and pay for through the nose. And Paul proudly said to him: "But I was born free." * * :r.

In the years that are to come when t[ris question of freedom arises with YOUR children and THEIR children, will they be able to say-"I was born free"-or may they have to reply like the Centurion-"\ /ith a great sum obtained I this freedom"?-this is, if they still have freedom. That's a thought for every American to keep in the front of his head right now, and in the years*that are just before us.

The great English thinker, Edmund Burke, once said of those who advocate the socialistic state: "To them the will, the wish, the want, the liberty, the toil, the blood of individuals is as nothing. Individuality is left out of the scheme of things. The state is all." ***

We went to Europe to fight for human freedom, so we said, and we won the war. We say we won it, because

without our aid the Allies must certainly have lost. And what do we find in Europe today, we enthusiasts for freedom and Democracy? Is there any liberty there? Search with your strongest magnifying glass and see if you can locate any! Is there any Democracy in Europe? Don't quibble, brother ! You know there isn't ! Again, as always, the famous remark of Francis Moore holds true. All that we get out of war is "taxes, widows, wooden legs, and debt"'

The United States would do well to conserve to the utmost its dwindling resources, and permit private enter.prise to remain in the hands of men who have done things before and know how to do them again, to build the strongest possible econorny here at home, It would do well to stop wasting its substance subsidizing its own exports, and supporting foreign collectivism. Free ehterprise will provide prosperity and stability here at home if we will give it a chance, and if we will begin at once to recognize the fact that we have NOT a bottomless reservoir of all valuable resources, and use what we have left to the greatest possible advantage to sustain free enterprise in a world where there is little if *t*t"tJ outside our own land.

President Truman told a press conference that the idea that money we hand out to England would be used to finance socialism is "silly." Friends, shake hands with a very silly guy. The Socialist Party carried the British elections by great promises to the lower strata of society over there. They were promised less work, more pay' an easier life, and a lot of new social security gifts. The voters expect the party to make good on its promises. But those promises were based on the expectation of billions of dollars of free "Lend-Lease" from the good old United States. When Lend-Lease was terminated, those promises went up on the shelf with the cold pie. Facing the certain disillu-' sionment of the voters, Britain sent emissaries fying over here to ask for billions to take the place of Lend-Lease. If they don't get them, the socialist experiment in Britain is in one hell of a fix. They must get money some place to save their political hides ! It is my opinion that if that happens, the "silly" fellow is the one who says we would NOT be financing socialism; and in this case, socialism with a definitely Communistic fringe, don't you know, old fellow?

What a world of hocus-pocus is being handed out to befuddle the mind of the everyday American citizen regardin! the hand-outs Europe is asking for. The champand the one most used-is that we must hand out many billions

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(Continued from Page 8) in order to stimulate our foreign trade. That bit of topsyturvy economics is designed especially for the thoughtless. Following that line of reasoning, all that any business man needs to do in order to succeed is to lend his customers the money they want to buy his goods and products with. That simple device will doubtless create an active market any place, any time. But where does the value come in?

Reminds me of a story. A highwayman went into a clothing store, held up the owner with a gun, and took a hrmdred dollars out of the cash drawer. He saw a coat he liked so he took the coat with a hundred dollar price tag on it, and handed the hundred back to the store owner. Then he remarked to the storekeeper: "You see what a splendid transaction that was for you? You sold an overcoat, you did a hundred dollars worth of business on which you made your regular margin of profit, we put money in circulation because that hundred changed hands twice in five minutes, and none of this new business would have developed if I hadn't dropped in." The gunman left the storekeeper scratching his head, trying to figure the economics of the transaction. Friends, don't let them kid you. When you prime b pump and only get back what you poured in, you are out just the energy of pumping and the wear and tear on the pump.

Students of business and politics who have watched the goings on in Washington the last ten years, feel no surprise at the avalanche of union labor work stoppages that have so completely floored our efforts at reconversion. Thousands of times in the last two years you have heard business men say: "I am not worried about the outcome of the war. Sooner or later we are certain to win. But it's what will happen as soon as the war ends that I'm afraid of." You can look about you now and you'll know what they meant. But what do the returned soldiers think about it? How will they react to closed shops, when they want jobs?

Job aid legislation has played a leading part in our legislative halls in Washington as well as in our newspaper columns of late. Those who would pass laws that put a premium on laziness and in time develop a sturdy brand of mendicants, have had much to say. But there is one thing every man should remember in all this job talk. We must draw a broad line of demarcation between job aid to our returned service men, and job aid to those who stayed at home. THE RETURNED SOLDIER AND sArLoR MUST HAVE A JOB-AS GOOD A JOB AS HE IS CAPABLE OF HOLDING_BUT A JOB HE MUST HAVE. THOSE MEN WHO FOUGHT, BLED, AND OFFERED THEIR LIVES IF NEED BE FOR US, SHOULD HAVE HONORABLE EMPLOYMENT NO MATTER WHAT ELSE HAPPENS. Looks right now as though those who stayed at home are in the saddle. Which is all wrong. OUR SERVICE MEN MUST HAVE J'BS FrRST'

The St. Louis Globe-Democrat says that a negro presented himself the other day at a City Hall office, and asked where to go to get "that rockin' chair money." Asked what

he meant he said "that money you get when you don't work." Someone told him to go to the U. S. Employment Service office, where Claims for unemployment corrpensa. tion are filed. He said: "No sir, I don't want no employment. I wants that rockin' chair money." And there are tens of thousands like him in this country right now, who not only want "rockin' chair money," but are moving heaven and earth to get it.

That there are invariabty penalties to great leadership is well illustrated in the case of General MacArthur. Picked up a paper the other day, and there was a fellow by the ' name of Dean Acheson, throwing punches at our great General. MacArthur had estimated the number of soldiers he thought would be necessary to handle the Japanese situation, and right away the new man in the State Department took exception. Ten thousand miles away and with nothing to mark him a military genius, he all of a sudden became an outspoken authority on the Jap military situa-' tion. What is the germ that bites these guys, anyway, the minute they get to Washington, and so magnifies them in their own eYes?

Always I have heard and read that there is no jealousy quite so keen as that of little men for big ones. And there, is no crime so hateful to the envious as that of daring to excel. The incident brought to mind all that MacArthur has done, for his country, for mankind, the tens of thousands of his men who still live and who owe their lives to the transcendent genius of his leadership. We owe him a debt of gratitude immeasurable. And just what do we owe his critic? As I studied the matter over, the only conclusion I could reach was the one-word reply that splendid American officer at "the bulge" made when the Germans called on him to surrender. He just said: "NIJTS!"

Other public critics including scandal mongers and keyhole peepers have been taking shots at MacArthur, also. Looks like he can't please all the wee small folks. The. littler they are, the louder they talk. Must make MacArthur feel like Gulliver did when the Liliputians got to shooting at his anldes. Every time I read one of these criticisms it reminds me of a remark I once heard the late great orator Senator Joe Bailey make. Lifting his graceful hands on high, and raising his eyes upward, he exclaimed in his great, sonorous voice : "Great God ! Witness this spectacle ! Here's a dirt dauber plucking an eagle !"

Admiral Halsey, reading about the criticism of MacArthur told the newspaper men that if the bureaucratswell meaning and otherwise-would just let MacArthur alone, he would do a grand job of handling the Japanese situation. Admiral, you took the words right out of my mouth'

Reports from Washington indicate that OPA will not get far with its demands for legislation giving it dictatorial powers over the home building industry. This industry is prepared to fight that proposition until hell freezes over, and then go a few rounds on the ice. Just think of having more Federal agents on a house job, than carpenters ! And that's what there would be, if Chester Bowles had his way.

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Age not guaranteed---Some I have told lor 20 years---Some Less

Curing TheLiquor Habit

A group of farmers, gathered together in the country store, got to discussing liquor, liquor-drinking, and finally whether or not a confirmed liquor-drinker could be cured of the habit. Conflicting opinions were ofiered. Some said it could. Others were doubtful, but finally one old fellow spoke:

"Well, they do say that there is a sure cure for the licker habit. Over in Jones Caounty they tell me that Silas Simmon's boy Zeke had been drunk fer 'bout three years hand runnin', an' Silas heerd of a cure fer it, an'he done gave the cure to Zeke not long ago. They took the insides of three green gourds, an' two pounds of green tobacco stems,

Ccrlled on Mills

Clint Laughlin, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, has returned from a three weeks' trip calling on the mills in Northern California and Oregon.

an' they put 'em on the stove an' biled 'em til they come to a simmerin' stew. Then they run the licker off this here stew, cooled it fer drinkin', an' they served Zeke a pint of it sudden-Iike, airly one mornin'."

The crowd was interested. One of them "Did it cure him?"

The old farmer said: "They cain't tell yit. It wuz three weeks ago they give this stuff to Zeke, an, he's jest gittin' so now that he kin hold orl his stummick a bit of water biled on the white of an egg. An' every time he sees a green gourd or a piece of tobacco stem he gits that excited they think he's got Saint Vitus dance.,,

Los Angeles Visitor

Sam Wilcox, O'Malley Lumber Company, phoenix, Ariz., was a recent Los Angeles visitor, following a trip to the Northwest.

WE HAVE FAITH

yes, unbounded lcith in the united stcrtes qnd in the cbility oI its manulacturers to meet the unprecedented demcnd in cll lines with record production.

In the plywood business we cre hcving to be patient for a little longer. Present lcbor troubles and mcnpower shortcrge will be ironed out, crnd industry will crgcin be able to opercte ct lull ccrpcrcity, we hope, ct no distcnt dcte.

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LUMBER IS THE TARGET

two needs dominote our sudden peoce-time economy throughout Americn "ReconYersion" & "Reemploymenl"

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Gus Russell Digests Bowles Home Building Figures

Gus Russell, Santa Fe Lumber Company, San Francisco, is good with a pencil. So, when he read Chester Bowles (OPA) figures on home construction in The Saturday Evening Post recently, in which Mr. Bowles told the world all about the home building industry, he took that pencil and 'ivent to checking Bowles' figures. Mr. Russell, in a letter, has this to say about those figures as distinguished from facts :

"In this article Mr. Bowles said that houses to be built will range in price as follows:

72/o are to be over $7,500.

2l/o are to be from $5,000 to $7,500.

53%% are to be under $5,000.

13%% are to be under $2,000.

Two F'lying ONeills Back In Lumber Business

Lt. W. H. (Bill) O'Neill, Jr., who received his discharge from the l2th Air Force, in which he piloted a B-25, September 25, is again associated with his father, W. H. O'Neill, Sr., in the O'Neill Lumber Co., San Francisco.

Kenneth O'Neill, who recently rejoined the firm following his discharge, was a lieutenant in the 8th Air Force, and was shot down over Germany February 9, on his 26th mission and liberated from a German prison camp April 20.

Gilmore, a lieutenant in the 14th Air Force, is an adjutant, stationed in China.

Richard, fourth member of the family in the Air Force, is an instructor in celestial navigation at Clovis Air Field, Clovis, N. M.

New Yard In Scn Frcncisco

R. E. (Dick) Mussallem, who has been a salesman for Smith Lumber Co., San Francisco, for the past 10 years, has opened a lumber yard in San Francisco, located on Jerrold Avenue at Quint Street. The telephone number is Mlssion D9Z

The new yard will be operated under the name of Dicknsons Lumber Co.

"Assuming the gentleman to be right the average would be $4,895 per house.

"Then he states that 4,5@,0C0 people would be employed to build 1,250,000 homes per year. With mechanics wages ranging around $12 per day it is certainly safe to assume that the 4,500,000 people will draw down a minimum of $2,000 per year which, according to my book, figures nine billion dollars.

"Now if 1,250,000 homes are to have a labor cost of nine billion dollars, the average labor cost per home will be $7,2m, while the average home to be built says Mr. Bowles, is going to cost $4,895. YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE CRAZY TO UNDERSTAND THESE FIGURES. BUT IT HELPS SOME."

Mckes Yard Improvements

The Eagle Ro,ck Lumber Co., Eagle Rock, has just completed extensive yard improvements. 15,000 square feet of blacktop has been laid and 5,00O feet of granite paving by the Hohnan & Powell Co. The paving gives the yard a neat, clean appearance and is proving to be a great convenience. Lumber bins and piles are being re-arranged together with sand and gravel pens. Emil Swanson is the owner.

Makes Hole-in-One

Bill Ream, George E. Ream Company, Los Angeles, made a hole-in-one on the 15th hole, 185 yards, at the Santa Anita Golf Course, Arcadia, on Sunday, September 23. Bill is highly elated over getting an ace, and no doubt the golf ball will be preserved, mounted, and kept with his many other trophies.

A. B. Griswold Visits Coqst

Arthur B. Griswold, who was manager of the San Francisco office of C. D. Johnson Lumber Corporation for many years, recently spent a few days in San Francisco. He also visited Portland. He made the trip by plane, and returned September 28 to his home in Mandeville, La.

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\(/ood-Ply Research Group Meets in Chicago

Formation of the Wood-Ply Research Foundation, a research and merchandising organization which was completed more than a year ago, was announced at a meeting held in the Morrison Hotel, Chicago, on September 17. Eighteen distributors, all old ar.rd well-established wholesale lumber firms, are members.

New plywood products on exhibit included plasticized plyrvood molded boats, plastic covered plywood for table and desk tops, molded plywood and plastic parts lor aircraft, plastic-plywood flush doors and building blocks for home construction, a new rvaterproof plastic glue for use in bonding wood, and various other items using plastic and plywood combinations.

The objectives of the Wood-Ply Foundation include the development and merchandising of new plywood and plastic products.

Products approved by the Foundation r,vill be merchandised under the label "Veriply".

It is expected that large quantities of these ner,,, products will be used in the home building, furniture, boating, refrigeration, outdoor advertising and transportation industries.

The eighteen approved distributors of Veriply products include the following rvholesale lumber firms : BennettBailey Lumber Co., Minneapolis, Minn.; Berg, Patterson & Buck, Inc., Detroit, Mich.; Daniel Buck, Inc., Philadelphia, Pa. ; Ehrlich-Harrison Co., Seattle, Wash.; Charles F. Fischer & Co., Inc., New York, N. Y.; Forest Products Corp., Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Fry-Fulton Lumber Co., St. Louis, Mo.; J. E. Higgins Lumber Co., San Francisco, Calif.; Huss Lumbcr Co.. Chicago, Ill.; Kilpatrick Bros.,

Oklahoma City, Okla.; Maclea Lumber Co., Baltimore, Md.; Omaha Hardwood Lumber Co., Omaha, Neb., and Sioux City, Ia.; Plunkett-Webster Lumber Co., Inc., New Rochelle, N. Y.; Texas Oak Flooring Co., Dallas, Tex.; Twin City Hardwood Lumber Co., St. Paul, Minn.; Western Hardwood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, Calif.; and Winde, McCormick & Chapin, Inc., Charlestown, Mass.

While every section of the country is now represented, additional distributors will be approved in the future.

Officers of the Foundation are: L. S. Clark, Twin City Hardwood Lumber Co., St. Paul, president; Geo. W. Bateman, Daniel Buck, Inc., Philadelphia, vice president, and Wellington R. Burt, Chicago, secretary-treasurer and managing director.

Included on the executive committee are: J. Glennon Cahill, Western Hardwood Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Alvin H. Huss, lluss Lumber Co., Chicago, and D. Carlysle Maclea, Maclea Lumber Co., Baltimore, Md.

Frqnk Brown Will Mcncge

Tyncrn d Rogers

Frank Brown has resigned his position in the sales department of Pope & Talbot Inc., Lumber Division, San Francisco, and will take over, effective October 15, the management of Tynan & Rogers, Salinas, manufacturers of Utility Fence.

Frank brings to his new position an experience of more than 12 years in selling, both in the office and on the road for Pope & Talbot, Inc., and as well a very large acquaintance among California lumber dealers. His many friends wish him success in the new field.

Exhibit oI rnolded plywood, compregnoted wood, cnd plcstic llush door section. LeIt .to right: George W. Bctemcn, Daniei Buclc Inc., Philadelphic; Doniel R. Forbes, Counsel, Wood-ply Research Foundction, Wcshington, D.C.; Frank J. Connolly, Western Hardwood Lumber 9"- tg" Angeles; I. A. Redpath, Forest Prlducts Corp., port Everglcdes, Flcr.,. Stucnt W' Buck, Dcniel Buck, Inc,, Philcrdelphicr.

The Higgins molded plcsticized 12' cuto-ccrry boqt mcde in one piece lrom plywood by Bcg Molding Method. Lelt to right: George D. pctterson, Berg, Patterson d Buck, Inc., Detroit; Vincent Arena, Higgins Industries, New Orlecns; J. Glennon Cchill, Western Hardwood Lumber Co., Los Angeles.

National Hardwood Association Reelects Officers

All officers of the National Hardwood Lumber Association were reelected at the annual meeting held in Chicago on September 20-21. They are: D. Carlysle Macl-ea, Baltimore, president; George H. Henderson, Lufkin, Texas, Frank W. Hutcheson, Huntsville, Ontario, and James C. Walsh, Chicago, vice presidents, and John W. McClure, Chicago, secretary-treasurer.

J. B. Veach, Washington, and Kerry L. Emmons, Memphis, were elected directors for three-year terms. Directors reelected for tl.rree-year terms are : A. J. Bailey, Toronto; A. H. Bankston, Savannah, Ga. ; F. G. Christmann. St. Louis; A. M. Fox, Iron Mountain, Mich. ; B. O. Gerrish, Boston; H. F. Gill, Montreal; O. B. Hayes, Norfolk, Va.; H. Ii. Kline, Louisville, and F. S. Underhill, Philadelphia. C. H. Barnaby Jr., Greencastle, Ind., and Charles Good, Bay de Noquet, Mich., filled vacancies caused by death in the 1947 directorship.

New Mcncger

W. E. Abrahamson has been appointed manager of the St. Helena yard of Hammond Lumber Company. He is a brother of E. E. (Abe) Abrahamson, well known member of the Hammond staff at Samoa, and was formerly in charge of retail sales at the Hammond Lumber Company, Eureka.

Announces Plans for New Research Center

Plans for a new Research Center in which greatly expanded and accelerated development work will be carried on in the fields of building materials, insulations and other products urgently needed to help house the nation and increase efficiency of industrial operations in the postwar period, were announced recently by Lewis H. Brown, president of Johns-Manville Corporation.

It is the first project announced in a company-wide expansion program in the United States, Canada and abroad which calls fbr the expenditure of approximately $CI,000,000 and which is hoped will provide 25 per cent more jobs than were available in the company's most successful prewar year, N{r. Brown said.

The Research Center, the first unit of which is already under construction, is planned ultimately to be a group of six buildings located on a 93-acre plot of land near Bound Brook; N. J., and across the Raritan River from the large Johns-Manville plant at Manville, N. J.

Resigns As WPB Millwork Chiel

Clifford T. Melander has resigned as Chief of the WPB Millwork Section after serving in that capacity since November, 1942. His plans for the future are indefinite at the present time. During his three years vvith the War Production Board, Mr. Melander did an excellent job of supervising government controls in the millwork industry. He has been identified with the industrv for about fifteen vears.

Iim Crow

It was away back in the early part of this century when Oklahoma had recently become a state and the "Jim Crow" or race segregation laws had been recently enacted and put into effect. A gentleman walked into the post office one day in Claremore and noticed a small negro boy looking hesitatingly around, in his hand a freshly stamped envelope. After a little, he went over to the gentleman, in he and asked:

"Cap'n, is dis de box whah de cullud folks puts dey mail?"

Olio Perhcps

The man in the restaurant was suspicious. He looked hard at the little pale yellow cube on the side dish, then sniffed at it, suspiciously. Then he picked up his knife in one hand and a hunk of bread in the other, and said to the bit of grease:

"I take thee for butter. or worse."

Lord Buddhc On Right Living

The first Good Level is Right Doctrine. Walk In fear of Dharmam, shunning all offense; In heed of Karma, which doth make man's fate; In lordship over sense.

The second is Right Purpose. Have good will To all that lives, letting unkindness die And greed and wrath; so that your lives be made Like soft airs passing by.

The third is Right Discourse. Govern the lips

As they were palace doors, the King within; Tranquil and fair and courteous be all words Which from that presence win.

The fourth is Right Behavior. Let each act Assail a fault or help a merit grow; Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads, Let Love through good deeds show.

Four higher roadways be. Only those feet May tread them which are done with earthly things; Right Purity; Right Thought; Right Loneliness; Right Rapture.

The Retort Courteous

He was digging into the mud around the wheel of his bogged down car, when a stranger hailed him.

"Stuck in the mud?" he wanted to know.

"Oh, no," said the sweating gentleman with the shovel. "You see, my motor died here, and I'm just digging it a grave."

Dryden On Love

Why should a foolish marriage vow, Which long ago was made, Oblige us to each other now, When passion is decayed?

Till our love was loved out in us both, But our marriage is dead when the pleasure is fled; 'Twas pleasure first made it an oath.

-Dryden.

To Be Poor

\Me have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. We have lost the power of even imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant; the liberation from material attachments, the unbribed soul, the manlier indifference, the paying our way by what we are or do and not by what we have, the right to fling away our life at any moment irresponsibly-the more athletic trim; in short, the moral fighting shape. It is certain that the prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

-Wm. James

The Personcl Touch

"And when did you first become acquainted with your husband?"

"When f asked him for five dollars the day after the wedding."

The Letter "E"

The most unfortunate letter in the alphabet, some say, is "e," because it is always out of cash, forever in debt, never out of danger, and in hell all the time. That's all true. Still, it is never found in war, is always in peace, and never out of eats. It is the beginning of existence, the commencement of ease, and the end of trouble. Without it there could be no life, no heaven. It is the center of honesty, and is always in love. It is likewise the beginning of encouragement and endeavor, and the final end of failure.

Hidden Rooms

Within my heart are hidden rooms, To which I hold the key, And even those who love me best. Can't wander there with me. The doors of love that dreaming built, I open if f choose, And find within the portals there, Romance I never lose. And when my rendezvous is done, I'm loath to turn the key, Upon the hidden little rooms, Within the heart of me.

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The prospect of the United States getting any lumber from the Philippines is still very remote, according to Walter G. Scrim, of Los Angeles, president of the Philippine Mahogany Manufacturers InTport Association. How long it will be is problematical, but it rvould be a good guess that it will be a year or more before production over there can be stepped up to where there is anything to spare over and above the building needs of the Islands themslves. At the present time it is understood that the only lumber being manufactured in the Philippines is being turned out by the Army Engineers. They are operating powerful portable sawmills at numerous places in the Islands, but the output is naturally very small, and the demands for lumber for every sort of building and rebuilding in the Islands is tremendous. l."It is reported that M. D. Thompson, of Philadelphia, an official of the Insular Lumber Company, is one of a number of Americans recently returned to this country from the Islands. He said on returning that when he left Minila there was just 79,000 feet of lumber in the city, whereas even in normal times the Islands consume four hundred million feet of lumber annually, and on top of this there is the tremendous amount of war destruction that must be rePlaced.

Nearly every sawmill in the Isands was destroyed by the Japs, including the biggest of them, that of the Insular Lumber Company, at Fabrica, Occidental Negros. They found the mill destroyed by fire, but salvaged most of the machinery for one of the band mills, which the Japs had crated and ready for shipment, evidently to Japan, when the Americans got there. The Findlay-Millar Timber Company, represented by Mr. Scrim, had a big mill at Kolambugan, and a smaller plant near Manila. Both were destroyed, the big mill having been fired by the management at Government orders, to save it from the Japs. Besides the big mill plant they destroyed thirty million feet of lumber. The lumber made a spectacular fire, and is reported, to have burned for weeks before it was finally consumed. The'army is operating portable mills at these plants now. It is also operating at the Insular plant at Fabrica, using the small mills and cutting a large supply of logs they found in the pond and in storage. The Americans who have just been over there say that the Army Engineers are doing a wonderful job of getting out lumber with all the attendant difficulties, as most ol the lZ4 mills that were there before the war, were destroyed by the Japs.

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From War To Peace

For the past several yecrs our mcrin eflort hcrs Now we are engqged in building uP our slocks been devoted to supplying circrdt lumber lor cnd mcking exlensive improvements in our wcr plcrnes cmd gliders. new yord so w€ mcry be cble to scy

in the Islands is Col. Joseph E. McCaffrey, who went out from Washington to take the job. Also busy in those operations is Major A. C. Jacobscin, of the 1002nd Engineer Forestry Battalion. These trvo officers accompanied the Insular representatives to the Fabrica mill. Besicles Mr. Thompson in the party there was J. Raymond Peck, president of the Insular Lumber Company. who has likewise recently returned to his home in Philadelphia. They reported that as soon as it is possible they r,r'ill build a mill from the machinery the Japs tried to get away with, and failed. This, however, will probably not be soon.

Many American sar,r'mill men died in the Jap internment camps, among'- those reported being E. B. Davis, J. W. Davey, and A. G. Leukhart, employes of Insular at the Fabrica mill. Harvev C. Pope, for 15 years manager at Fabrica, survived the trials of the prison camps, and is back with his family in San Francisco, recuperating. He served a year at the Bacolod prison camp, and then was sent to the hell hole at Santo Timas, and still later to l_os Banos. When more news is available there will no doubt be large lists of American sawmill men who were in the internment camps.

Not only will the Philippines be unable to ship lumber away for a long time on account of small production and great local needs, but the Islands are asking for'maximum quantities of softwood lumber from the United States as soon as transportation permits.

So far as timber is concerned, there is still a tremendous timber reserve in the Philippines, a recent estimate being

close to five hundred billion feet. Before the war about 18 per cent of the Philippine lumber production was exported, and the United States got most of that. Even during periods of highest Philippine lumber production, the Islands always imported a large amount of softwood from the United States, and also considerable from Australia.

We knorv of large quantities of softwood lumber for commercial uses that has been sold for shipment over there, and waiting transportation.

The 'West Coast , Lumbermen's Association, Seattle, Wash., has reported to us that Government purchases have moved in quantity to the Philippines and they presume that some is still going there. They do not know of actual commercial movement as yet, but inquiiies are out.

Elected President oI E. L. Bruce Co.

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Major E. L. Reitz, who was Chief o{ the Lumber Branch, Central Procuring Agency, Corps of Engineers, with headquarters in Washington, D.C., has been discharged from the army and is now back at his desk. He operates the E' L. Reitz Co., wholesale lumber firm, at Los Angeles' During his absence, W. H. Montgomery, who has been connected with the company for a long period, was in charge of the business.

First Lieut. Ray Van Ide, who was with the 15th Air Force in Italy, and spent seven months in a German prison camp, has been given an honorable discharge from the service, and has been appointed manager of the W' B' Jones Lumber Co., Los Angeles.

Ray has a good background of lumber experience, including several years selling for Hobbs Wall Lumber Co', and was with the W. B. Jones Lumber Co. before he entered the service.

Lieutenant Alfred D. Bell, Jr', USNR was released to inactive duty Septernber 27, and resumed his duties as I{edwood Division sales manager of Hammond Lumber Company, San Francisco, on October 1, after three years and eight months of service

Lieutenant John S. Butler, son of Seth L. Butler, San Francisco, Northern California sales representative for Dant & Russell, Inc., was recently promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Commander' He is on the USS General W' G. Haan, Navy transPort'

Major J. C. (Doc.) Snead, Army Air Corps, was discharged September 23, and has been taking a vacation with his family at Fresno. lle was with Wendling-Nathan Co', San Francisco, for many years before entering the service.

Lieut. James R. Pierce, USN., is expected home in about 30 days. He is on the destroyer Wedderburn, which rvas a part of Admiral Halsey's fleet, and was in Tokyo when last heard from. I{e was with Paramino Lumber Co', San Francisco, when he entered the service.

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Commander Henry H. Anderson, USN., who has been in charge of Naval Procurement at Portland for the past few years, has obtained his discharge. He is head of the Twin Harbors Lumber Co., Seattle'

Lieut. Hal Galbraith, son of is now stationed at LeYte. U. S. Navy.

Earl Galbraith, Los Angeles, He is in the Dental CorPs,

Lieut. Commander R. W. Caldwell, USNR was released to inactive duty October 1, after more than four years' service. He is the son of R. E. (Bob) Caldwell, Hammond Lumber Company, San Francisco. ,

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Portland, Oregon, September 29-An analysis of the current year's manufacture of Idaho White Pine, Ponderosa Pine, Sugar Pine and associated rvoods, and probable fourth qrlarter consumption was released today by S. V' Fullaway, Jr., Secretary-Manager, Western Pine Association. The statement in full is as follows:

"The third quarter of 1945 witnessed the end of the Japanese war, the lifting of practically all government controls on lumber distribution, the release of many men by war industries, and definite indications of the tremendous potential civilian demand for lumber. Notwithstanding such developments, the decline in the production of lumber in the United States during this period was g'reater than in the two previous quarters. 'The first half reduction ol loo/o under the same 1945 period is compared to a probable l8/o loss in the third quarter and to an even greater recession during the fourth quarter, even though the current strike situation in the West is ended quickly. Developments in the Western Pine region are indlcative of tl-ris condition.

"First quarter lumber production in the \Atestern Pine region rvas down only 2l/o below the same 1944 peroid. This was excellent performance under existing conditions since the 1944 first quarter production r,vas the largest in the industry's history. The decline of more than 8/o under 1944 during the second quarter was due primarily to the manpower situation which was more unfavorable than at any time during the u'ar. Extremely bad rveather in many sections of the region was also a contributing factor. The third quarter record, a decline over 18/o from 1944, was the result of vacations, V-J celebrations, and rvidespread strikes together with the already serious manpou'er shortage. The average 11/, loss in production for the first nine months of. 1945 can be expected to increase further during the fourth quarter even sl.rould a prompt solution of the current strike situation be found.

"To summarize the first 9 months performance of the Western Pine industry in 1945; lumber production was down 7l/o under same 1944 period, shipments were 1O/o lower, and stocks at the end of September are lower at this date than for many years.

"An accurate estimate of fourth quarter shipments (con-

sumption) of lumber from the Western Pine industry is impossible because of the indeterminate factors in the situation today. With probably 4O/o of the industry's productive capacity idle because of strikes and the threat of more widespread tie-ups, the only forecast which can be made is that there will be a ready market for every foot of lumber which the industry can ship during the next 3 months.

"'Ihe position of the Western Pine industry today is a difficult one. The average hourly earnings of $1.16 in 1944 were 4O/o above those in 1941 and the average minimum wage advanced 3l /o tn that period. Total production costs increased 28/o during this period and the average tealization for Ponderosa Pine lumber advanced 24/o' Current rvage increases demanded by the striking unions represent, in terms of added costs, from $5.00 per M in some districts 'to $8.00 per M in others.and must of course be reflected in the selling price of lumber if granted. With reconversion and full employment depending so much upon a tremendous ' expansion in the construction industry, which must have a plentiful supply of lumber, further advances in lumber prices are a matter of vital concern to the nation. Such an inflationary factor might well dry up construction demand and seriously delay the economic recovery so necessary to the reemployment of our veterans and of former war industrv workers."

San Francisco Hoo-Hoo Club to Hold

Luncheon at Palace Hotel Oct. 23

San Francisco Hoo-Hoo Club No. 9 will welcome all lumbermen to their luncheon to be held at the French Room, Palace Hotel, San Francisco, on Tuesday, October 23.

The luncheon will start promptly at 12:19, and adjournment will be at 1 :D p.m.

Plans will be formulated for a montl-rly meeting and the rejuvenation of Hoo-Hoo Club No. 9. The committee feels sure that San Francisco lumbermen will like the idea of a monthly luncheon.

After the initial meeting plans will be made for a golf tournament and a Concatenation.

Lumbermen are asked to phone Dave Davis, Sutter 6170; Norm Cords, DOuglas 2469, or Lew Godard, GArfield 7752, it they expect to attend. This will assist the committee in estimating the number to be provided for.

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Lumber for Homes Now Near Pre-War Level

Washington, D. C., September 29.Home and farm construction will be supplied between five and six billion board feet of 'lumber during the .last quarter of this year, if threatened strikes do not halt production, George T' Gerlinger, president of National Lumber Manufacturers Association, today told Hugh Potter, Co-ordinator of Construction, Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion.

"Total lumber production today is about equivalent to that of 19rc," said Gerlinger, who is in Washington, "and more than B0 per cent is norv flowing into normal peacetime channels,"

Another great aid in meeting civilian lumber requirements, Gerlinger stated, would b6 the early release of large and small Army and Navy inventories now held throughout the country, which are not specifically needed for the armed forces in the Pacific. It is presumed that the Army and Navy are now checking inventories, he stated, and they can reasonably be expected to release many millions of feet.

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Southern pine production, the Gerlinger survey shorvs, will reach lrl billion feet during the last quarter, the bulk of which will go into residential construction. Southern pine output could be increased another I billion feet through some reasonable price adjustments, according to the Southern Pine Association.

The southern hardwood flooring industry will supply around 100 million feet of flooring.

Western pine shipments, barring strikes, for the four months' period beginning October 1 will reach nearly lf billion feet, of which 200 million will be for fruit and vegetable containers, 250 million feet for the military, and over 1 billion feet for home building and other civilian uses, including sash, doors and millwork.

Mill reports {rom the Pacific Northwest show that fir production should increase during the fall months with home and farm building obtaining a minimum of over 1 billion feet during the last quarter, with probably somewhat greater amount next spring.

Additional production in all regions is absorbed in supplying government, furniture, industrial, highway, and railroad uses.

More than 80 per cent of current lumber production is now moving freely into civilian channels, and probably not more than 20 per cent for military requirements.

Total national production in the last quarter of 1939 was 6,549,000,000 board feet and in l94O it was 7,799,O0O,@O board feet. Total production in the last quarter of 1945 will exceed 1939's figure and is expected to be close to 194O's record, Gerlinger said.

The industry is still very short of both common and skilled labor, but it is reasonably expected that this will correct itself in the next thirty days.

The industry as a whole is optimistic about its ability to perform, Gerlinger declared. Inventories will build up accumulatively over a period and most lumber production will move rapidly to the job.

Hess Lumber Co. Moves

Hess Lumber Co. has moved its yard from San Mateo to 1739 Bayshore Boulevard, Redwood City.

RaiI Shippers

FIR YARD STOCK

Northon Cclilorda Rcproratctlro

- o. L BUSSI'M

lll Marbi SL, 3o Frclcirco, ?clepbono Y'IIloa 1160 southoncfr

Bobert S. Orgood

7Ol Sourl SDsbg Sbe.t, Lor iagclo. fdcphoao Vf,adlto SGll A'itoolTlll--rori-

1. C. DECf,En

P. O. lor 186!i, Pbooair, Trlcphom 3llll

PATRICK LUMBER co.

Termincl Scles Bldg., Portlccrd 5, Oregron Teletype No. PD 54

Douglcs FirSpruceHemlockCedcr Ponderosa and Sugcn PineDouglcrs Fir Pilingr

99 Ycarc Continuously Scrving Rctail Yerde end Railroadr

Ios

Angeles Bepresentative

EASTMAN LUMBER SATES

Petroleum Bldg., Ios Angeles 15 PRospect 5039

New Hoo-Hoo Supreme Nine Elected Masonite to Increase Plant Facilities

Secretary B. F. Springer of the International Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo, Milwaukee, Wis., has anonunced the members of the Supreme Nine for the year 1945-46 elected at the time of the Hoo-Hoo All-Out Annual, September 10. The new Supreme Nine includes the following: Snark of the lJniverse, Don S. Montgomery, Milwaukee, Wis.; Senior Hoo-Hoo, Hal R. Dixon, Spokane, Wash.; Junior Hoo-Hoo, Joe C. L. Evans, Buffalo, N. Y.; Scrivenoter, George V. Frederickson, Baltimore ,Md.; Bojum, Lewis Godard, San Francisco, Calif.; Jabberwock, Chas. W. Goodrum, Kansas City, Mo.; Custocatian, Ray E. Saberson, St. Paul, Minn.; Arcanoper, M. J. McDonald, Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada; Gurdon, H. C. Berckes. New Orleans, La.

Wholesqle Ycrd Association Reelects Olficers

Officers of the National Wholesale Lumber Distributing Yard Association rvere reelectecl at the annual meeting held in Chicago on September 18. They are: D. Carlysle Maclea, Baltimore, president; Fred G. Christmann, St. Louis, and Frank J. Connolly, Los Angeles, vice presidents, and J. Jackson Kidd, Baltimore, secretary-treasurer.

Among the directors reelected were J. E. Higgins, San Francisco, LeRoy H. Stanton, Los Angeles, and Dallas Donnan, Seattle.

Malcolm MacDonald, of the lumber division, OPA, Washington, D. C., was present and spoke before the members on the regulations affecting distribution yards.

Chicago, Oct. 3-To meet the increased postwar demand for Masonite products, the board of directors of the Masonite Corporation today approved an expenditure of over a million dollars for expanding the facilities of its plant at Laurel, Miss., according to M. P. McCullough, president.

"When complete, the additional facilities will increase production of Masonite Presdrvoods by more than 30 per cent," Mr. NfcCullough stated. "Capacity will also be greatly enlarged for tempering the Presdwoods."

The board of directors prepared for the financing of this addition more than a year ago, when the sale o1 62,00O shares of Masonite common stock was authorized and the proceeds placed in escrow for this one purpose.

Hammond Lumber Compcrny Buys Hecldsburg Ycrrd

The Hammond Lumber Company, San Francisco, announces the purchase of the Healdsburg Lttmber Company from the owner, Len Gilbert, effective October 1.

The new manager of the Healdsburg yard is James E. Clarke, formerly manager of the St. Helena yard.

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Meeting Oct. 16

Dr. Richard Vollrath, renowned scientist and head of the Physics Department at the University of Southern California, will be the speaker at the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club meeting, Tuesday noon, October 16, at the University Club, 614 South Hope Street, Los Angeles. His subject will be "The Atomic Bomb."

Pni,rronal -A{trt

Fred Amburgey, who has been stationed for some tirne at Medford, Oregon, as lumber buyer for Pope & Talbot, Inc., Lumber Division, San Francisco, has been transferred to the sales department at the head office. Fred has a well rounded lumber experience that includes retail, selling on the road, and buying.

G. R. (Jetr) Tully, sales manager, Douglas fir department, Hallinan-Mackin Lumber Co., San Francisco, left October 4 on a 10-day trip to mills in Northern California and Southern Oregon.

E. E. (Abe) Abrahamson and D. W. Wheeler of the mill sales department, Hammond Lumber Company, Samoa, spent a few days at the head office in San Francisco around the first of the month.

A. L. Hoover, Los Angeles, is on a trip North. He will spend a few days at The Pacific Lumber Company's mill at Scotia, then go on to Bremerton, Wash., rvhere he will visit his son, Bob, who is a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy.

W.. H. (Bill) Pettigro\re, manager of Crorvn Lumber Co., Disston. Ore.. is back at the mill after a week's visit to Wholesale Lumber Distributors, Inc., Oakland, owners of the operation.

Fred W. Blickle, sales manager, W. A. Co., Cottage .Grove, Oregon, r'r'as in San on business for his firm.

Henry Meyer, formerly with Oakland land, is norv associated with Wholesale tors. Inc.. Oakland.

L. W. MacDonald, is back from a trip to

Ted Wright, Los ington Veneer Co., the company's mill

Woodard Lumber Francisco recently

Lumber Co., OakLumber Distribu-

L.

Angeles, representative for the Washhas returned from a month's visit to at Olympia, Wash.

Don Coveney, sales manager, Atkinson-Stutz Co., San Francisco, recently spent two weeks calling on Northern California sawmills.

Henry M. Hink, president, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco, was back in his office O'ctober 1 following a vacation spent at Trinity Alps Resort, Trinity Countv. Calif.

Bob Grant, who has been tributors, Inc., Oakland for with l\{onarch Lumber Co.,

with Wholesale Lumber Disthe past several years, is now Oakland.

D. Normen Cords, Shevlin-Cords Lumber Co., Inc., San Francisco was back at his desk October 8 from a 10-day trip calling on Oregon fir mills.

Ross Blanchard, Hollywood, is on a

Blanchard Lumber trip to Detroit.

Company, North

John P. Ferri, Paramino Lumber Co., San Francisco, recently spent three rveeks in the Northwest, making his headquarters at the firm's Portland office.

G. F. (Jerry) Bonnington, Francisco, recently spent two the mills.

Lamon-Bonnington Co., San weeks in Oregon calling on

A. M. Charter, Wholesale Building Supply, Inc., Oakland, returned recently from a trip to the Pacific Northwest, where he called on sawmills and plywood plants.

Carl Hornibrook, was a Los Angeles

Ewauna Box Co., Klamath Falls, Ore., visitor the first of the month.

John Deats, Deats Sash & Door Co., Los Mrs. Deats, are or1 a trip to Mexico City.

Milton A. Smith, ber Manu{acturers resigned to accept Trade Association Commerce.

Angeles, and

assistant counsel of the National LumAssociation, Washington, D. C., has the post o{ assistant manager of the department of the U. S. Chamber of

\M. MacDonald Co., I-os Angeles, the Northwest.

CAMPBEIJIJ - CONRO ITUMBER CO.

Manufacturers and Wholesalers of West Coast Woods Piling and Poles, Fir and Cedar

Pittock Block, Portland 5, Oregon

Incentive \Vage Cases

Portland, Ore., Oct. 2-Following a three-day conference with representatives of the War Production Board and the West Coast Lumber Commission, a number of remaining wage incentive cases will be reviewed by the War Production Board before action is taken by the War Labor Board, Walter Durham, public member of the Lumber Commission, and J. Carroll Shoe, Regional Management Consultant of the War Production Board, announced in a joint statement today.

Although employers and unions are free to agree on wage and salary increases under National War Labor Board General Order 40, the establishment of incentive or contract rates is still subject to prior approval of the War Labor Board under its General Order 38, according to Durham.

"Because of the impending termination of the War Labor Board, not all of the undecided wage incentive cases can be accorded the customary joint review by the War Production Board and the Lumber Commission, Durham said. "Plans for disposing of other remaining cases and any new cases which may be filed with the Lumber Commission have not yet been developed."

In ruling on incentive wage cases, the West Coast Lumber Commission exercises the delegated authority of the National War Labor Board in the lumber and timber basic products industries of California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana.

E. K.WOOD

1UMBER CONilPANY

YOUR GUARANTEE FOR QUATITY AND SER,VICE

GENERAT OFFICE

NO. I Dnumil sT. ;ttE il.DG. sAN TRANC|SCO, CAUFOnNn

NORTHERN SATES OFFICE

ttRmtNAL SAr;S BIDO. PORTIAND, OREGON

frTAIN YARDS

1O5 ANGETE9, CAUTORNIA OAKIAND, CATITORNIA

NEED5PON,I, ORIGON ROSEDUne, oRtcoN

Crosby H. Shevlin D. 7{ormen Cords

R G. ROBBITIS IUI}IBER CO.

319 S. W. Wcrshington Portlcnd 4, Oregon

Distibators of Pacific Coast Forest Products

tOs ANGELES l5 Douglcs Fir SAN FBINCISCO il nr w.oorvutit#rvd. - n"-_ro.t

Ross i. Lcrshley Cedcr W. H. Ol[eil

Wholesale to Lumber Yards

Sash 'Windows

Gasements - DooFS, etc.

Mrs. Adella Bishop Mullin

Mrs. Adella Bishop Mullin, widow of John F. Mullin, pioneer Los Angeles lumberman, passed away at her home in Los Angeles on October 6. She was 73 years of age.

A native of Minnesota, she came to Pasadena in 1886, living there until her marriage seven years later to Mr. Mullin, who organized the Montgomery & Mullin Lumber Co. in Los Angeles, which was merged with another company about fifteen years ago.

Mrs. Mullin was an active member of the Wilshire Methodist Church, of the Ebell Club of Los Angeles, and of Town and Gown. She leaves three sons, Russell B' Mullin. of the Burbank Lumber Co., Burbank; Wayne F. Mullin, of the Mullin Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and J. Stanley Mullin of Pasadena; and a daughter, Mrs. Florence M. Tanquary of Los Angeles.

Funeral services were conducted Tuesday noon, October 9. at the Wee Kirk o' the Heather, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, by Rev. Willsie Martin, pastor of the Wilshire Methodist Church.

Charles S. Keith

Charles S. Keith, leader for many years in the lumber industry, passed away at his home in Kansas City, Mo., Tuesday afternoon, October 9. Funeral services were held October 11.

COMPANY

Mr. Keith was president of the Central Coal & Coke Company, which until the depression operated sawmills in the South and on the West Coast, and controlled large timberlands and coal mines. Like many other industrial concerns, it was forced into receivership in 1931.

Mr. Keith was one of the organizers and the first president of the Southern Pine Association; and a vice president and director in the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. l{e was regarded as a foremost student of lumber industrial and economic affairs and his counsel was generally sought by the industry.

In 194O, Mr. Keith was appointed mayor of Kansas City to fill an unexpired term of his predecessor, being selected as a compromise candidate in the adjustment of political chaos that prevailed in the city at that time. He had never previously been active in politics. He had served as president of the Kansas Citv Chamber of Commerce.

Pitcher Disappeafing Doors

We have on hcrnd Stock ol Pltcher

We now ship the lrcne set up complete which ioins with c 3/a" stud, mcrking no extcr thicloress lor cr sliding door. Detail Sbeets Sent to Lamba Trude on Reqaest

5ee5 \(/itshire Btvd., Los Ansetes " the Personal SerOice illan"

Awarded Army-Navy E

Employees of Northwest Door Co. of Tacoma, Wash., have the double distinction of being the first workers to earn the Army-Navy E, ar,vard for producing both fir plywood and fir doors as well as be among the last groups so honored by the military. The presentation was made Sept. 20 as one of the final 32 citations authorized by the joint Army-Navy E board at its closing meeting a mbnth earlier.

Production records speak well for the 480 men and women of Northwest Door for every year since 1941 they have boosted the volume of doors, sash and millwork from 1 to D per cent over the previous period. And after a slight decrease in 1942, plywood output, too, was bolstered appreciably each year until it now is at the rate of 45 million square feet annually. '

Joe Smith, erhployee of the firm for 14 of its 17 years of operation, received the worker's E lapel pin from Major John S. Detlie, c. e. Pins.for other workers were distributed later. Capt. E. A. Verpilot, USNR, presented the E pennant to H. E. Tenzler, president of the company,.who accepted it for the firm.

Buys Smith Wood-Products Plcnt

The Coos Bay Lumber Co., Marshfield, Ore., has purchased the properties of the Smith Wood-Products Co. at Coquille, Ore., which included a fir sawmill, Port Orford cedar sawmill and cedar specialty plant, and a fir plywood unit. The Smith company operated the plant at Coquille for seventeen years.

Telephone, YOrk 1168

Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club Elects Officers

Ray E. Burdg of Noah Adams Lumber Co., Clarksburg, Calif., was recently elected president of Sacramento HooHoo Club No. 109. Stanley Gustafson, Sierra Mill & Lumber Co., Sacramento, was elected vice president, and C. D. Le Master, Sacramento, was re-elected secretary.

The new directors are: Art Williamson, California Builders Supply Co., Sacramento; Walter Baker, Woodland Lumber Co., Woodland, and Signar Lindroth, Capital Lumber Co.. Sacramento.

Ed Bcruer Mckes An Ace

Ed Bauer of the Atlas Lumber was in fine form on Labor Day

Gene DeArmond over the South geles Country Club. He made a hole.

Moves Office

Washington Veneer Co. fice to 111 West 7th Street. the same. TUcker 6888.

Lumber Yqrd Fire

Company, Los Angeles, when playing golf with Course at the Los Anhole-in-one on the 1lth

has moved its Los Angeles ofThe telephone number remains

Fire destroyed the warehouse and office building of the Belvedere Lumber Company at Los Angeles on October 1. The warehouse was empty, and the office building had not been occupied since 1943, but was scheduled for renewed occupancy soon.

CIJAS SIF IED

Rate-$2.50

FOR LEASE OPEN FOR OCCUPANCY SIX MOAIT1HS AFTER THE WAR

(Agreement for lease now available)

The site of the Exposition Lurnber Yard, approximately 26,000 sq, ft., extending between Exposition and Jefferson Boulevards. Located on the North border of The Baldwin Hills subdivision developments. S. P, Railroad siding.

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

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

ASSISTANT MANAGER WANTED

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

Address Box C-I144, California Lumber Merchant, 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

LUMBE.R YARDS FOR SALE

Sec our ad in October I issue for operating lumber yards for saIe. We offer the following yard sites, all unimproved:

G. 4-l/3 acrq on San Fernando Road in Los Angeles, $35,000. Spur track could be put in.

H. On Vermont Avenue in Gardena, 28,000 sq. ft., $4,E50. 'We can offer trhe following acreage in San Fernando Valley:

I. 35 acres, or any part, near Canoga Park adjoining railroad, $2;500 per acre.

J. 5 acres on Magnolia Blvd. near Sepulveda Dam. $14,500.

K. 8 acres on S:rn Fernando Road between Pacoima and San Fernando, adjoining railroad, $20,000.

WOODWOTRKING PLANT outside of Los Angeles, established f919. Fully equipped; 8 lots, including five under roof and sprinklered. Price $125,000. Large inventory of raw material extra. General Appraisal Co. depreciated appraisal, not including grounds, S87,500.

If you want to sell your lumber yard let us know.

Twohy Lumber Co., Lumber Yard Brokers

801 Petroleum Bldg., Los Angeles 15, Calif. PRospect 8746

POSITION FOR ASSISTANT MANAGER

Wanted-Asssitant manager of retail lumber yard !7 miles south of San Francisco. Starting $200 per month. Splendid opportunity for the right party.

Burlingame Lumber Co. Box 356 Millbrae, Calif.

Los Angeles Building Permits

ADVE RTI SING

per Column Inch.

FOR SALE

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

Address Box C-1133 California Lumber Merchant, 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

POSITION WANTED

Experienced lurnberman" familiar with all angles of the lumber blrsiness-accounting, purchasing and sales-wants position in the Los Angeles area.

Address Box C-I147, California Lumber Merchant, 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

PERMANENT POSITION OPEN

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

Address Box C-134O California Lumber Merchant, 50E Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANACEMENT. CIRCUI.A. TION, ETC., REOUIRED BY THE ACTS OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST 24, 1912, AND MARCH 3, 1933.

Of The California Lumber Merchant, published Scmi-monthly at Los Angeles California, for October 1,1945.

Statc of California l County of Los Angetcr, l "' Biforc nc, a Notaiy Public ia ard lor tbc State end coaty aforc. said, personaliy appardd J. E, Martin, who, having bacn duly sworn according to law, diposcs and says tbat he is thc Business Manager of The California Lumber Merchant, and that the following is, to thc belt of his knowlcdgc and belief, a true statcmclt of the ownership, managcmcnt (aad if a daily paper, the circulation), ctc., o{ thc -aforcsaid- publication for the date sho*n'in the above caption,'required by the Act of Au8lsl24' l9l2' a! ;;;e; t" ttt. e"t of lvtaictr 3, t93r, embodied in scction 5!7, Postal Lawr .tia-nig"titiii", pii"t.d on the'rcveise of tbis form, to wit:

l. That the namcs and addrtsses of.tbc pubtisher,. cditor'- ma4agirq .aitoi. -airl- bri"-it""" manage.i-iti: -futtist-cr,-y. C' D-ioqng, 50B.Ceqtral bji;:: il; i\-;;;6 i+-Citii.; Ed1te1, J'-c-D-iomq 508 cmtral Br{s'' il"."i";i;.'i;: C"tit.;''ui"igi"f Pait'"r, J. E. Martin, 508 central Blds'' t; rff;i;; iii c"iiii's-u-.i;i!" -lr""ag.', i. E. Martin,508 central Bldg', Los Angcles 14, Calif. ---z--t-tat tbe owner is: (If owned by a corpo-ration,-its namc and rddrcss must bc stated and also irnmcdiatcly thertunder the nemcl r"d addte"scs of stockholders owning or holding one per ccnt- or more of total amount of stock. If not owned by a corporatr-on' the-l-amcl and addresgcr of tbc individual owners must be grven' ll omed bt r ;;;. -;;;;;;;. - ot olttir unincorporated @nccm' its name and rddrcss, is i,cti as- tddse of cach individual ncmber, must bc siven.) - - - -- iiti c"tii6-i. iu-6& Mirchant (a corpoiation), 508 Central Bldg" Ips ADcclcs. f. e. Dionne, Ias Angcles, Calif.

l. E. Martin, Los Angclcs, Calif.

W. T. Btack. San Francisco, Califomia.

T. P. Wier. Hoitston. Texes.

Mrs. A. C. Merryman, Pasadcca, Califomia Maymme Adams, Los Angeles, Calif.

Los Angeles Building permits approved during September totaled 2,612 with an estimated valuation of $9,036,979, the monthly report showed. Permits during the like month oI 194+ totaled 1,972 valued at $3,194,706.

Included were housing accommodations for a total of 639 families.

3. That thc known bondholdcrs, mortgagccs, snd otbcr rccrrity holdcrs owning or bolding I pcr ccnt or morc ol total amdnt oI- bo-nd3' mort' r.c.Ji"i other sicuriiicc are: (If there arc tone' 80 rttte.) Nonc'- - -4.-That the two paragraphs n€xt ebovc, givilg thc lamcr ol thc "*it., iio"tttJders, ind iecirrity holdcrc, if any, iontain not -onlv thc lisi oi'stockholders ind iecuritv -holders ic thev'apDear upo! thc boo&. of the company but also, in -cases whcrc thc stocLholdcr or ncu{ity holdcr appears upon the books of the compeny as trustcc or i! lly other fiiluciary rclation. tbe name of the pcrson or orpotatio tor whom such trustee is acting, ir givcn; also tbat thc caid two plraglrDhs cdtain statcments embracing afiiant's full knowledgc and belief ar to ihe circumstances aad condit-ioas undcr which ctockholdcrs aad remrity holdcre who do not appear upor the bmks of tbc cqmpany a!, trustca-t' hold stock and rmriiiis in a capacity other than that of a boaa 6dc omer; and this afiient has no rcason to believc that 1ny othcr -person' associition, or orporation has any interest dircct or indirect ia the aaid stock, bonds, or other sccuritics than as so stated bt bim.

5. That thc avcrage numbcr of cogies of cach ircue o! this publ-i: cation sold or distributed, through thc mails or , othcrwirc' tp paid subscribers during tbe twclve monihs prcccding tbc date shown abovc ir ........,..... (Thlis iaformatioa ir required from daily publicationr oaly.)

J. E. MARTIN, Busincss Manager. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 5th day of October, 1945' (SEAL) MARGARET S. EVANS, Notary Public. (My commission expircs Fcbruary A, l%7.)

BUTER'S GUIDE

SAN FNAIUGISCO

LUMBER

IUMBEN

.lrcqtc Bedwood Co. r20 Mcrket Street (ll). ....YUkon 2067

Atkilson-Stutz Compcay, ll2 Mcrlel Street (ll)............GArlield 1809

Bcrg Lunber Co. l5 Cqlilonic St....... ...GArlield 5748

Eurler, Setb L., Exbrooh 2082 2l{ Front St., (ll). .....GArlield 0292

Christensou Lumber Co.. Evcns Ave. ond Quint St. (2{). .VAlencic 5832

Dant G Russell, Inc,, Zlt! Front Street (ll). ...GArlield 0292

Dolbeer d Ccrsoo Lumbar Co., lllS Mercbcnig Exchcnge Eldg. ({) DOuglcs 64{6

Gqneralo! d Green l.umber Co.. 1800 Amy Slreel (21). ..ATwcter 1300

Hcll, Icmes L., 1032 Millg Bldg. ({). .....SUtter7520

Hcllincn Mcclia Lunber Co.

_63I Mqrtet S!. (5).. .DOuglca lg4l

Hcmmond Lunber Compqnv, , 4-17 Mortgonery Streit (6)......DOusrfqg 3O8g

Hobbs Wcll Lun5er Co.. ,105 Montgonery St. (l)...,......GArlietd ??52

Ilolmes Eurekc Lumber Co.. ll05 ligcncicl Center Bldg, ({)....GArfetd lg2l

C. D, lobnson Lunber Corporation, 260 Ccliloraia Street (ll).-.. .GArlietd 62ti8

Kilpctrick d Conpcuy, Croc}er Bldg. ({).:.... ...Ytfton 0912

Corl H. Kuhl Lunber Co., O, L. Bussun, Il2 Marlel Sr. (ll)..YULon l{60

LUMDEN

Conpbell-Conro Lumber Co. (Phil Gosstin), 2ll Prolesgioncl Bldg, (l).. .KElloe {-Ol?

Gcmerston 6 Green Lunber Co,, 2001 Livingsron Sr. (6). .KElloEr.{-1884

Hill d Morton, lnc., Deuigon Street Wbcrl (7). .ANdover 1077

Hogcl Lumber Conpony, Znd cnd Alice Streets ({)........Glencourt 6861

Kelley. Albcrt I. P. O. Box 2{ll (f,lcnedc)......Lclchurgt 2-275{

Lcmon-Boanington Compcny, 16 Cclilornic Street (ll)..........GArlield 6881

I-oaq Bell Lunber Compcny, - 601 Mission St. (5) .-. EXbrqok 8696

O'Neill Lunber Co., Ltd,,

16 Cqlilomiq St. (ll). ...GArlield 9ll0

Pccilic Lunber Co,, fhe 100 Sush StrEet ({). .GArlield llSl

Poreliug Lumber Co. (Pcul McCusker)' ll2 Mcrket Street (tl). ...GArtield {978

Paulson Lunber Scles Agency, 681 Market Street (5)................SUtter 8623

Pope d Tclbot. lqc., Luber Division, 461 Mqrket Street (5). ..DOuglce 2561

B. G. Robbiqs Lbr. Co. (W. H. O'Neill)

16 Cclilomic St. (rl). ...GArlield 9ll0

Soutc Fa Lumber Co.,

16 Cclilonic Streer (ll)..........EXbrook 2071

Schcler Bros. Lumber d Shingle Co,, I Drumm Street (ll). .......SUller l7'l7l

Shevlin-Cords Lunber Co., Inc,, 68 Post Street (4)...... ..DOuglcs 2{69 Shevlin Pine Scles Co., 1030 Moncdnock Bldg, (5). .EXbrooL 70{l Sudden 6 Chrislengon, Inc., 310 Sansome Street (4)..........GArlield 28{6

Tcrter, Webster 6 lohuon, Iac., I Moalgonery St. (4). .DOuglqe 2060 Ccrl W, Wctts, 975 Monqdnock Bldg. (5)..........YUkol 1590

Wendling-Ncthcn Co., 564 Marlet St. (4).. .......SUtter 5363

West Oregon Lumber Co,, 1995 Evcas trve. (24). ...ATwqter 56?8

OAKLANID

LUIIEEN

E. (. Wood Lumber Co., 2lll Fredericl Street (6). .f,,Ellog 2-4tf, Wholeaqle Euildina Surolv. Inc,, 160? 32nd Streer- (8) l. ..'. ...TEmptebcr 696,! Wholesale Lumber Diatributors, Inc,, 5{ Firgt Street (7). .TWinoclg 2515

HANDWOODS

Strcble Hqrdwood Companv, First cnd Clcy Streeti (?J....TEaplebqr 558{ White Brothers, 500 High Street (l). .ANdover 1600

LOS ANGELES

LUMBER

Pqcific LumbEr Co., The 5225 Wilshire Blvd. (36). .YOrk ll88

Pcrelius Lunber Co. (Toste Lunber Co.), 326 PEtroleum Bldg. (15)....,...PRospect 7805

Pqtrick Lumber Co., Ecslmqn Lumber Scles, 714 W. Otympic Blvd. (15). .PBospect 5039

Pope 6 Tclbot, Inc., Lumber Division 7l{ W. Olympic Blvd. (t5). .PRospect 8231

E, L. neitz Co., 333 Petroleun Blde. (15). .PRospect 2369

Scn Pedro Lumber Co,, 15l8 S, Centrql Ave, (21)......Rlchmond llll

1800-A Wilniagtou Rocd (Sqn Pedro).. .......Sqn Pedro 2200

LUIIBER

E. K. Wood Luaber Co., I Drum Street (ll). ...EXbrook c710

Weyerhceuser Sqler Co., 391 Sutter St. (8). .Glrtictd 391 HANDWOODS

E. L. Bruce Co,, 99 Sca Bruno Ave. (3). .MArLct 1838

Dcvis Hsrdwood Comranv, Bcy ct Mcsoa Streef (6i..........E&root l3ti

White Brothers,Fifth aud Brcaacn Stroot (7)......SUtcr 1385

sAsH-DOOnS-PLYWOOD

Hcrbor Plywood Corp. ol Catilonic, 5{0 l0tb St. (3). ..-.. .......Mf,rlci 870!l

United Stqtes Plywood Corp., 2727 Any St, -(t0).

CNEOSOTED LUMBEB_POLESPILINGI-TIES

Americcn Lumber d Trectiag Co., ll8 New Montgomery Street (5). .Sutter ltt5

Bcxter, I, H. G Co., 333 Montgomery Street ({)..... .DOuglcs 3880

Hqll, Jcaes L,, 1032 MiUs Bldq. ({). .....SUttcr 7520

Pope 6 Tclbot, Inc., Lunber Dividoa, {61 Mcrket Street (5). .DOuglcr 2561

Vqnder Lqcn Piliag & Lunber Co., 216 Pine Street ({). ....EXbroo} 1905

Wendlins-Nctha! Co,. 56d Mqrler Sr. (l). .....SUtlor 5363

PANELS_DOONS+ASH-SCNEENS PIYWOOD

Calilornic Buildere Supplv Co., ?00 6th Avenu€ (l).:... ..Hlgctc.6016

Hoqcn Lumber Compcar, 2;d ard AJice Strietr- (l)......Glcncourt 6861

E. C. Pitcher Conpcay, 608 tSrb St. (12)..... .Gfcncourt 3$0

Ulitod Stdt.s Plvwood Corp., 570 3rd St. (7). .TWiaoqlr 55{l

WeBtera Door d Sqsh Co., Sih d Cypress Sttoott (7)......TEnplebcr Sldl

E. f,. Wooil Lunbcr Co., 2lll Frederick Strcct (6)........f)lJ'og iEf,

HARDWOODS

American Hcrdwood Co', 1900 E. l5th Street (5{)..........P8orpect llilll

E. L, Bruce Co., 5975 So. Wesren Ave. ({'!). .fWhockr tll8

Peaberthv Lunber Co., 5800 S6urh Boyle Ave, (ll)......f,Ioboll Slll

Stqalon, E. I, d Son, 2050 Eqst {lst Street (ll).........CEntury 29lll

Westen Hqrdwood Lumbor Co., 2014 East l5tb Street (55).......PRorpcct 616l

sAsH-D OOnS-MIrJ.WORr-SCREENS

BLIIIDS-PANELS TND PLYWOOD IRONINC BOARDS

Cooper. W. E., 606-808 Richfield 8lds. (13).......MUtuql 2l3l

Dcat 6 Rusell, lnc.,

812 E. 59lh Street (l). .ADqns 8l0l

Dolbeer 6 Ccrgon, Lumber Co., 901 Fidelity Bldg. (13)..........VAndi&e 8792

Ed. Fouutcin Lumber Co., , 628 Pelroleun Btdg. (15). .PBospect {341

Hcllincn Mcclria Lumber Co.

-_ ll7 W.- g_tb qt. (l_5). .....TRinity 36{{

Hcmmond Lunber Compcav,

?0-t0 Sp, Alomedq !t.- (5{) PnoEpocr 1333

Hobbs Wcll Lunber Co,,

-_ 5-25 Rowcn_ Bldg. (-13) Tniaity 5088

Holnes Eurelq Luber Co., 7ll-712 Architecrs Blds. (13)......MUruqt 9l8l

Hoover, A. L., 52i6 Wilshire Dlvd. (391 ...........YOrk 1168

Kilpclriqlr d Gompcny (Wilniaglon)

l2l0 Sliu lve..... .NEvcdc 6-1888

Ccrl H. Xubl Lunber Co., (R. S. Ogcood), 704 S. Sprins St, (ll). ...TBiaitv 9225

Ross C. Lcebley (8. G. Robbiag Lunber Cb.), 7l'l W. Olynpic Blvd. (lS). .PBoepect |'nl

Lcwrence-Pbilips Lumber Co.,

_ 633 Petroleun Bldg. (lS)........Pno8poct 8l7l

Long Bell Lunbcr Conpcny, 318 W. gth St. (15)................TRinity 2819

MocDoncld Co., L. W., 7l{ W. Olynpic Blvd, (15)......PBospect 7lg4

Orbcn Lunber Co., 77 S. Pascdenc Ave., Pqgcdcncr (3)

Schcler Bros. Lumber d ShinEle Co., tl7 W. gth Street (15).

Shevlia Pine Sqles Co.. 330 Petroleun Btdg, (15).... .PBospect 0615

Simpson InduEtrieg, Inc., 1610 E. Wcshilston Blvd. (21)..PRospect 6183

Smilb, Stucrt C. (Pcscdenc) Pcrlwcy 3ldg. ( I ) SYcqmore 2-3837, ZEairh 6633

StaDioD, E, J. d Son, 2050 E. 4lst St. (ll). ...CEntury 29211 Suddeu 4 Christenson, Inc., 630 Boqrd oI Trcde Bldg. (ll)....TRinity 8844

Tccomq Lumber Scles, 837 Pelroleum Bldg, (15)........PRospect ll08

Togte Lunber Co,, 326 Petroleum Bldg. (I5)........PBospect 760!i

Wendling-Ncthcn Co., 5225 Wilsbiro Blvd. (36). ..YOrk 1168

West Oregon Lunber Co., 427 Petroleum Bldg. (15). .Rlchnond 0281

W. W. Wilkinson, 318 W. gth Street (!5). .TRiniry tl6l3

Weyerhceuser Scles Co.,

lll9 W. M. Gcrlcnd Btdg. (15)..Mlchiscn 835{

E. K. \lYood Lumber Co., 4710 So. Alcmedc St. (5{)........lEllerson 3lll

CREOSOTED LUIEEN_POLES

PILINGFTIES

Americcn Lumber d Treoting Co,, llSl So. Brocdqcy (15)..........PRoapect 1363

.SYccnore 6-t!373 BYan l-8997

rPostoffice Zone Number in Pareuthesis.

Bcxter, I. H, d Co,, 601 West Sth Street (13). .Mlchigcn 64|1

Pope & Tclbot, Inc., Lumber Divisioa, 7ll W. Olympic Blvd. (15). .PRoapect 82ill

HERE'S added proof-if any were neededthat Douglas fir FACTRI-FlT doors are pacing the modern trend.

Specifiers are selecting FACTRI-FlT doors because they assure a better installation everY time. Builders are using FACTRIFIT doors because they save time and money on the iob.

And more and more Dealers will stock FACTRI-FlT doors because they know these are the doors their customers will demand.

+ All lumber dealers in l0 southern states were asked this question by Southern Sash and Door Jobbers Assn. Twentyfive per cent replied, giving this potential market estimate.

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t FACTRI-FIT GAINING: 7f'

,Fl from top, ll" from bottom, Standard butt on | 3/8" doors, 3 l/2,, x 3 l/2n; on I l/+,, doorc, 4. x 4.. square corners. Centet gaining tot heaYy construction is equidistant between. B

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ixT': sizes listed in U. S. Commercial Standard 73-43. Doors scuff-stripped for protection.

'T FACTRI-FIT GRADES:

ru Doors are grade - marked for easy identification and specification.

Ti FACTRI-FIT LOCK BORE: J 111 5or;na to center knob 36" trcm bottom of door. Diameter of bore-in, 15/l6nl fenrth of bore-in, 3 3/4il froi edgel face plate. I" x fron edgei 2 l/4" x ll 2 i l/15", square shaPe' crosr-bore. 5/8" diametel on 2 3/8. cenler. These standard speiifications fit Yirtuallv all sDecitications fit virtuallY nitionally-distributed hardwaie.

15 /16" t Other fiachining on sPecial order.

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