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C. L. A. Monthly Lumber Facts

Seattle, Washington, November 16, 1945.-The u,'eekly average of West Coast lumber production in October (5 weeks) was 52,284,@0 board feet, or 32.2 per cent of l94l-l944 average. Orders averaged 57,673,On b.f. ; shipments 50,690,000. Weekly averages for September were:

Production 101,575,000 b.t. (62.6 per cent of the 194I-1944 average) ; orders 119,470,000; shipments 103,428,000.

Forty-four weeks for 1945, cumulative production 5,23I,849,000 b.l.;44 weeks. 1944, 6,816,211,000; 44 weeks 1943, 6,696,254,W0.

Orders lor 44 weeks of 1945 break down as follows: Rail, 4,183,717 W b.f. ; domestic cargo, 623,947,000; export, 308,057,000; local, 530,767,000.

The industry's unfilled order file stood at 694,063,000 b.f. at the end of September; gross stocks at 369,631,000.

The strike is the predominant influence on the current situation of the West Coast lumber industry. In October it cut production by about 50 per cent. Acceptance of new business was curtailed to the same degree during the month, although buyers persisted in efforts to purchase for both rail and water deliveries. West Coast mills remain reluctant to commit themselves to future deliveries while lacking any way to predict when they may be able to deliver lumber.

Building construction for the season is at its annual low; by spring, when activity normally is resumed, lumber should be freely available.

San Francisco Hoo-Hoo Club Holds

Christmag Luncheon Dec. 20

The Christmas luncheon and get-together Party of the' San Francisco Hoo-Hoo Club No. 9, will be held at noon, Thursday, December 20, in the Concert Room of the Palace Flotel, San Francisco.

Reservations for the Christmas party can be made by phoning Dave Davis, SIJtter 6170; Norm Cords, DOuglas 2469, or Lew Godard, GLrfield 7752.

Demurrage Penalty Charges on Box Cars

Effective 7:@ a.m., November 15, 1945, the Interstate Commerce Commission under Service Order 369 has ordered an increase in demurrag. .ha.ges on closed box cars. The order is effective for a period of 30 days, unless otherwise changed by ICC.

The order applies to intrastate as well as interstate traffic, but does not apply on coastwise, intercoastal, export or import traffic.

The new demurrage charges follow:

After expiration of free time demurrage charges on box cars held for loading or unloading shall be: 92.20 per day for first two days; $5.50 for the third day; $11.00 for the fourth day, and $16.50 for fifth and each succeeding day.

On closed cars subject to average agreement, credits earned may be used to offset only $2.2O per day debits.

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Christmas Party Joins Staff ol California

Dec. 11 - - Golf and Concat

The Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club will hold its annual Christmas Party at the Oakmont Country Club, Glendale, Tuesday, I)ecember 11. There will be a golf tournament in the afternoon, and dinner, entertainment, and a concatenation in the evening.

The golfers will tee-off at twelve o'clock, noon. The golf prizes will include the George E. Ream, Roy Stanton and The Califtrrnia Lumber Merchant trophies. Prizes will also be awarded to the winners in the special events.

Dinner rvill be served in the Club House in the evening. Those who d.o not play golf are especially invited to come out for dinner and the evening program. President George Clough will preside.

The concatenation will be put on following the dinner and the ctrramittee is rounding up a nice class of Kittens.

Application blanks for membership and reinstatement can be secured from Secretary-Treasurer Earl Galbraith, 627 Chamber of Commerce Bldg., Los Angeles, l5-telephone Rlt:hmond 5012; these will also be available at the meeting.

The committee has arranged for a fine program and a big turnout is expected. Members of the committee are: George Clough, Bill Ream, Earl Galbraith, Roy Stanton, Bob Osgood, Ed l3auer, Huntly Wark, Lloyd Miller, Harvey Koll, Fred .Smales, Max Barnette, Harold Hamilton, "Spud" Jorcian, Orville Stewart, Roy Pitcher, Dee Essley and Ed Martin.

Redwood Assosiation

San Francisco, California, November 9, 1945.-Lieutenant Colonel Byrne C. Manson, recently released from the Armed Services, has joined the staff of the California Redwood Association to actively conduct the postwar research program of its Redwood Seasoning Committee. This committee was set up two years ago by kiln operators at the various Redwood lumber mills to further advance the technique of drying durable and versatile Redwood.

Following graduation at Stanford University in 1935 as a lVlechanical Engineer, Mr. Manson took a post-graduate coui-se in forestry and lumbering at the lJniversity of California. IJpon completion of this post-graduate work, he was first employed by a lumber company to analyze drying problems, design kilns and train operators. Later he became associated'#ith a kiln 'consultant firm of the Pacific Nd;thwest with which he gained wide experience in kiln design and analysis of lumber seasoning problems at a number of large mills.

He was inducted into the armed forces at the end of 194O. He spent three and one-half years in the South Pacific zone, serving as a lieutenant colonel in Ordnance, and was decorated with the Legion of Merit.

With Ocrklcrnd C. oI C.

Robert S. Grant, who was for many door and millwork business, is now with of Commerce in charge of Housing and velopment.

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HARBOR PI.YWOOD GTI.OTDX

HARBORD PNODUCTS

Super-Hcrrbord Exterior Plyvvood

Hcrborite-Fibre-Faced Exterior Plywood

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CELOIEX PRODUCTS

Celotex Building Bocrd Celotex Tile

Celotex Plank Celotex Hard Boar&

Celotex Tempered Hcrrd Bocnds

Celotex Celo-Block Celotex Celo-siding

The Time oI Dcry

The tlme of day is a really important matter. You meet a man and a woman-not married to each other-on the street five in the afternoon, and you think nothing of it. But if you met that same man and woman on that same street at five o'clock in the morning ! Oh, well ! Maybe you shouldn't be up that early.

The Use ol The Universe

This earth with its infinitude of life and beauty and mystery, and the universe in the midst of which we are placed, with its overwhelming immensities of suns and nebulae, of light and motion, are as they are, firstly, for the development of life culminating in man; secondly, as a vast schoolhouse for the higher education of the human race in preparation for the enduring spiritual life to which it is destined.

-Alfred R. Wallace. Recrdy

I strove with none; for none was worthy my strife. Nature I loved and, next to nature, art. I warmed both hands before the fire of life: It sinks; and I am ready to depart.

-Walter Savage Landor.

Just Iike Thcrt

A high school girl seated next to a famous astronomer at a dinner party, struck up a conversation, asking, "What do you do in life?" He replied, "I study astronomy." "Dear me," said the young miss, "I finished astronomy Iast year."

Buddhcr Scrid

"The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.t'

Henry ward "".*tlJ3"t:lq.#; is the river of Life in this world. Think not that ye know it who stand at the little tinkling rill, the first small fountain. Not until you have gone through the rocky gorges, and not lost the stream; not until you have gone through the meadow, and the stream has widened and deepened until feets could ride on its bosom; not until beyond the meadow you have come to the unfathomable ocean, and poured your treasures into its depths-not until then can you know.what love is."

Candid Comrnent

Fellows who drive with one hand are usually headed for the church aisle. Some will walk dow.n, some will be carried.

Robert

Louis Stevenson Said

"O toiling hands of mortals ! O unwearied feet, traveling ye know not whither ! Soon, soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on some conspicuous hilltop, and but a little way further, against the setting sun, descry the spires of Eldorado ! Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is better thing than to arrive. and the true success is to labor."

Competition Mqkes Qucrlity

The tree that never had to fight, for sun and sky and air and light,

That stood out in the open plain, and always got its share of rain,

Never became a forest king, but lived and died a common thing.

The man who never had to toil, to heaven from the common soil,

Who never had to earn his share, of sun and sky and light and air

Never became a manly man, but lived and died as he began. L

Good timber does not grow in ease; the stronger wind, the tougher trees,

The farther sky the greater length; the more the storm the more the strength.

By sun and cold, by rain and snows, in tree or man good timber grows.

Where thickest stands the forest growth, we find the patriarchs of both;

And they hold converse with the stars, whose broken branches show the scars. This is the Common Law of Life.

The One Thcrt Appeqled To Him Teacher;-"fipd

what parable do you like best?"

Boy: "The one about the multitude that loafs and fishes."

Dcnrin Said

"If I had my life to live over again I would have made it a rule to read some poe'try and listen to some music at least once a week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature."

Iust Plumb Lczy

"Jones always strikes me as an indolent sort of ghap."

"Indolent? Why that fellow is so lazy he always runs his automobile over a bump to knock the ashes off his cigar."