The California Lumber Merchant - December 1947

6hn Snoton', Qreetingt 6o Jll

Steqdfcst in purpose, with the scme lcith cnd courdge as the Three Wise Men ol olden dcys, peoples ol the world cre lookingr to the Stcrr in The Eqst lor gruidcnce to peace. The obiective will be attained, for nothing cqn stop the guiding light of the spirit ol christmcs . yeqr clter yecrr down through the crges the ligrht shines brighter cnd brighter.

We who hcve helped cs pioneers in the development ol the Lumber Industry shclll be proud to shcrre, cs we have since 1849, in producing lunber |or the scrlegucrrding of homes, which is the bclsis of that grectest gilt of cll . "Peqce On Ecrth, Good Will Towcrrd Mcn."

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'. E. MARTIN Mcrncging Editor

W. T. BTACK

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Pointing With Pride

By R. A. Colgan, lr., Executioe Vice Presid,ent National Lumber Manulactuerc Association

Even back here in Washington, D. C., where opinions grow thicker than pines, the consensus is that the lumber industry did a bang-up production job in 1947. Final statistics will not be available for some months, of course, but it looks as if the total will be in the neighborhood of 34 billion board feetand that's a lot of lumber.

In most grades and. sizes, 1947 production was sufficient to meet the demand of the nation's builders-and that's a lot of derriand. With home building proceeding at the rate of one million new housing units a year, there was need and a ready market for every board that could be produced.

In all major aspects, 1947 prod.uction was accomplished without the help of government control, allocation, regulation or channeling-and that's a lot of improvement !

The year now closing has been one of unprecedented need for wood products in a peacetime America. With controls and regulations lifted, the nation's building industry flexed its muscles and went to work. From April until the bad weather set in, each succeeding month in 1947 saw a new record for home "starts" established. Our forests were .ready, and our "fallers" went to work. On the whole, there was lumber on hand to do any job required, and the jobs were endless and varied.

The lumber industry can look back on other achievements in 1947, too. One of the best "crop insurance" programs ever legislated-the Forest Pest Control Bill-was adopted by the 80th Congress. It is a milestone for the industry in its never-ending fight to curtail needless waste of our resource.

The industry's Tree Farm program enlisted the cooperation of six more states in its drive to perpetuate our timber crop through education of timber holders in the most economic means of harvesting timber. In all, more than 14 million acres of tree-producing lands in 22 states are being husbanded to provide perpetual crops of trees, under the Tree Farm banner.

In 1947, an alert, forward-looking lumber industry convened in Chicago for the American Lumber Congress-a nationwide sounding board to review recent progress and plan for the future of America's oldest industry.

The lumber industry can be proud of its achievements in 1947 and look forward to a good yebr in '48.

. There is the reassurance of a constantly improving supply of raw materials and a continuing high demand for orir finished products. America and the world needs lumber. 'We, as an industry, face a real challenge to supply that need, and supply it with the best possible product that can be manufactured.

More than ever, the 1948 air will be thick with the "hows" and "why-nots" of a housing program. Those of us who believe that saws in the woods rather than words in Washington are the answer to America's housing t'shortage" must keep sawing. Those of us who believe that in the list analysis, callouses, not committees, are going to provide the formula for an accelerated construction program must keep supply flowing to the nation's builders. This we must continue to strive for, although callouses are somewhat out of fashion. Shortened work weeks, pyramiding wages for overtime, lowered man-hour productivity -these are factors receiving the close scrutiny of several legislative investigating bodies at present. This is a tack which NLMA heartily recommends. Production is the basis for continuing prosperity.

The year 1947 was a challenging' one for the lumber industry. Since the end of the war, the lumber industry has stood firmly on the principle that production would keep pace with the nation's needs once it was turned loose and disruptive government controls were removed. Our 1947 production record is ample proof that the challenge has been met.

The challenge has been met without any danger to our future supplies of standing timber. The trend is all in the direction of increasing rate of growth and improved supply. This is heartening, for the trend in the immediate future is assuredly in the direction of increasing demand, both at home and abroad. To meet this demand will require maximum effort from each unit of our sprawling industry. Barring acts of God and government, the industrv r.vill make the effort and meet this demand in 1948.

Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 Holds

Christmas Party Dec. 18

Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 will hold its annual Christmas party on Thursday, December 18, in the Spanish Room, Claremont Hotel, Berkeley. Dinner will be served at 6:39 p.m.

Tom Jacobsen, the club's vice president, will be chairman of the Christmas party committee.

An attendance of 30o is expected. Ealh member is asked to bring an inexpensive gift, and the accumulated gifts will be given to an Oakland orphanage.

R. A. Colgcn, Ir.

-;:-"Christmas is coming again," sing the children, their light and happy hearts unaffected by the pall of pessimism concerning the future that hangs over the minds of the grown folks. Yes, Christmas is at hand, and it finds this world gloomy as seldom before in history.

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It finds this world divided into two well-defined camps, and between them a chasm of immeasurable depth. On one side are most of the nations who rvorship God and revere religion. On the other side a great army led by a power that is openly and belligerently anti-religious. What a terrible line-up for the Christmas season. What do you suppose Jesus thinks about it? Or Doctor Luke, the man who gave us Christmas?

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Things were looking gloomy in a political way at Christmas time a year ago, but not even the most pessimistic could have foretold what just one year would develop. What a beating the word "Democracy" is taking. For both sides of this world-wide fence calls itself "Democratic," in spite of the fact that their interpretations of the ri'ord are one-hundred per cent different; exactly opposite.

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fn one of these "Democracies" the individual is nothing. He has no rights. Freedo,m of speech, of opinion, of religion, of movement, of property ownership, of the pressall these things are denied him. Yet he is "Democratic," they say. On the other side the individual is everything. He has freedom of speech, of religion, of the press, of ownership, of movement, freedom to condemn or praise his government as he sees fit and change the management if he does not like it. For he IS the government. Thiq too, is "Democracy."

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But the greatest chasm that yawns between these two camps into which the civilized world is now divided, is that of religion. The one condemns religion utterly, and would savagely sta.mp it out of existence. It has no place in their world. God and Christ and church, in all places and on all occasions, are things to be made mockery of, and to be torn from the hearts'and minds of men at any cost as the greatest enemies of their sort of "Democracy."

On the other side are lined up the God-fearing and religionloving people of this earth, astonished beyond measure to suddenly discover that that most divine emotion of the human heart is threatened with violent extinction in a world that they had gotten into the habit of referring to as "Christian." ***

In the endless debates that have been uttered and printed

of late concerning this sudden and violent dividing of the earth into two hostile camps, too little has been said about the religious aspect of the situation. Politics, ideologies, geographic and philosophical differences are given most emphasis. The fact that here are two half-vyorlds with God on one side and His enemies on the other, has not been taken seriously enough. If the anti-God powers should secure the ascendancy in this present world quarrel, religion would be set back a thousand years on this earth. Because if they could destroy religion, the great civilization that was built largely on, and by and with religion, would be already half-destroyed.*

I cannot help believing that their hatred of and crusade against religion will be the chief weapons that will destroy them. Men, even the strongest and most redoubtable tyrants, are only incidents in the life of trurnanity. But religion is life itself. History abundantly demonstrates that when a people begin to doubt their God, they begin to lose their glory. Man is at heart a creature that requires sentiment, and religion is the deepest, most ineradicable sentiment of the hu,man heart. Its tendency is upward, torvard the stars and heaven. Strike out religion and you reduce a nation to the level of educated beasts. If there is no Fatherhood of God, there can be no Brotherhood of Man. Will the dictators ever succeed in driving religion from the soul of man with a maul, think you? ***

At this Christmas season, in spite of the serious threats to world peace and human happiness that seem to surround us, the peace-loving, God-loving people of this world will have a huge advantage spiritually over those on the other side of the fence. For those others will have nothinq to turn to, nothing to pin their faith to, but their own human force i while on this side of the fence hundreds of millions of souls at Christmas time will turn for aid and strength and guidance to "the Love that can make the wrong things right, can brine honey out of the rock and sweet waters out of the bitterest desert," secure in the faith that it was never intended by Providence that religion and civilization should go down into the dust of oblivion before the rush of the Godless men. ***

They will find solace in the belief that ages after the enemies of religion have disappeared into the "eternal promiscuity" of the dust, when the wild goats browse over their forgotten graves, and the lizard sleeps in their broken fortresses, the Rock of Ages at which they scoff will stand as it stands today, the citadel of a civilization built on Brotherly Love and the Golden Rule, that the powers of darkness have no permanent ability to harm.

The Ancients Built Beautiful Temples But Lived ln Lousy Homes

A philosopher recently remarked that we are living in a brutal, materialistic age, giving more reality to stupid, physical things than to Godlike, enduring IDEAS; that 'we are building fifty-story office buildings, and rocket planes but writing no Hamlets; that we are writing no Iliads.

To a considerable extent and from many viewpoints, the gentleman was right. But there is one particular way in which he was v/rong. There is one direction in which the thinkers and workers of this age have progressed farther than ever before in human history-something more beautiful and enduring than either Iliads or Hamlets-and that is in the building of HOMES.

In those old days when the world was young--or at least younger-mighty men of mighty ideas built the PYRAMIDS of Egypt, the Parthenon of Athens, and other mighty works-and to this day we wonder at the marvels that they wrought. But don't forget that the men who built those marvelous monuments, themselves lived in homes that no self-respecting bulldog in this time and age would care to call his own. Ever t\ink of that?

Homer wrote his Iliad and Odvssev and sent those priceless pearls down to us through tle ages, and wej almdst : worship at the shrine of his genius. But Hcimer':netrbr.

knew the comforts of a REAL HOME. For in those days of inspired ideas of one sort, home ideas were woefully lacking.

Shakespeare gave us his wondrous writings; and his fame grows brighter with the passing of the years. But Bill never looked through a cle4r pane of window glass in his life; never dreamed of the conveniences of a modern bathroom; never slept on a spring mattress; never heard of a built-in bookcase; never saw a glazed. sun-parlor or an air-conditioned sleeping room; and what Shakespeare did not know about steam heat, refrigeration, sanitary plumbing, hot and cold running water, ventilated windows, modernized kitchens, and all the other comforts. of the modest home of today, would'filI 'a bigger book than all those he wrote put together.

We of this present time are the'first people in all the history of the world to learn the science of,practical, attractive, convenient, cbmf ortablq, luxurioris HOME BUILDING. Afd, persbnally, we think.that this alone puts us so far aliead of all the thinkers and doers of ancient times, thit there isrrio room for'comparison.

lYtiu lake the Parthenon and the Pyramids. Give us the I{OMES.

California Lumber Production Sets Record High in 1946

Berkeley, Calif., October 1S-Lumber production of.2,82 million board feet in 1946 set a new record for California and Nevada, Stephen N. Wyckoff, director of the California Forest and Range Experiment Station, U. S. Forest ' Service, announced today. California sawmills cut more than 99.9 per cent of the total.

. Nineteen per cent higher than production in 1945, the 1946 cut is 9 per cent greater than production in 1944, the previous high year.

Preliminary lumber production statistics reported by Director Wyckoff are in Forest Researcti Note No. 55, "Production of lumber and other pawed products in California and'Nevada, 1946," compiled'from an annual canvass of all known sawmills conducted by the Forest Service in 'cooperation with the'Bureau of the Census. The Census Bureau.will issue the final statistics in the usual manner.

Almost doubling, the number of reporting sawmills increased from 475 in l945"to 909 in 1946, the report shows. Three'mills were,in Nevada, 906 in California. Mills in the ping l.region cut 82 per cent of the total. Redwood regitfulproduction, which accounted for the remaining 18 , : ,;F'"

per cent, was 1946 strike in

somewhat lower than usual because of the maior redwood mills.

Siskiyou County was the top lumber producer, capturing the lead from Humboldt County, ryhose production was lowered by the strike. The twelve leading counties were:

1946. Cut County (1,000 bd. ft.)

Siskiyou .:. ... ...n3J13

Humboldt .271,545

Plumas

Lassen -.22I,85

Eldorado ...... .".?11979

Shasta .....209,562 ,;

County

1946. Cut (1,000 bd. ft.)

Meridocino t44,674

Butte ...1?6,88

Calaveras .....,..111,2Q3

Tlrolumrte ...,1...102,619

Yuba . ,...'.99,n1 Modoc .....91.463

betails of the lumber "enr,r, contained in the research note include tables showiirg numbers of sawmills and lumber, lath and shingle production for both pine and redwood regions. Figures are given by species, by size of mill, and by counties. Copies are available upon request to the California Forest and Range Experiment Station, 329 Gian' nini Hall, Berkeley 4, California.

WHOLEST:

Here's to abannet yeat for all our friends, our fellow workers and rctail dealers. M^y the New Year hoist your spirits high and see your fondest hopes come true.

HOLMES EUREKA LUMBER COMPANY

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Today's Lumber---And Tomorrow s

Bt H,V. Sirnpson, Executioe West Coast Lumbermen's Vice President Association

If a competent understanding of today's lumber picture is to be had, a certain background of fact must be taken into consideration. It is these facts which will determine how much lumber we get in 1948, what kind it is, and how much we pay for it.

In 1946 over 50,000 sawmills in the Uni,ted States produced 34/z billion feet of lumber which was marketed through over 1,@0 wholesalers and 25,000 retailers. The 341 billion foot production represented an increase from 12 billion feet in 1932 and 25-t/a bitlion feet in 1939.

Few American industries are so subject to fluctuations in volume of production as is the lumber industry. Much of its product is dependent on construction which sharply increases during prosperous times, sharply decreases during recessions.

The 50,0@ sarvmills across the country vary in size from giants cutting over one million feet per day to small portable mills cutting but a few thousand feet per year. Some of these mills are highly efficient, some extremely inefficient. Some are located close to important markets; many are located at great distances from such markets.

But regardless of the conditions surrounding the individual mill, its product eventually enters into competition directly or indirectly with the products of all the others. Meantime no single company produces more than 3l per cent of the national production; very few so much as 1/10 of 1 per cent of production.

Lumber is not a single item. It is thousands of items. Lumber is produced in thousands of sizes, scores of grades, for thousands of uses and millions of users. Production of the best combination of these items from the grade and size of log available presents a constant challenge to the individual operator. This is particularly true because the cost of production of each individual item does not control the sales price of the item.

It costs just as much to produce from the log a low grade No. 3 Board as it does to produce a high grade B & Btr. Board. Yet the B & Btr. Board may sell for four or five times the price of the No. 3 Board. This same situation applies on 2 x 4, 12 x 12, flooring, siding, ceiling and all other lumber produ,cts. There will be a profit in the high grade and a loss in the lolv grade.

Price is set on a national level, not locally or regionally. A decline in construction in California or New England will affect the national market. It is estimated that 60 per cent of all lumber moves through rvholesalers; 90 per cent through retailers

Nearly all producers have wholesale connections, rvho in turn have connections throughout the United States. Through this organization lumber is sold by the producers to the buyer making the highest offer and bought by the

buyer from the producer making the lowest offer.

Sellers, through this process, are in contact with many buyers, and buyers are in contact with many sellers. Normally a seller offering higher prices or difficult terms does not do business until he meets the market; similarly a buyer offering low prices or difficult terms does not buy until he meets the market. Thousands of these transactions are carried on daily in every important community of our nation, and the results of all these transactions make the market for that day. The next day the Cealings start over again. Note that production costs of individual items do not set the price.

Normally the law of supply and demand affects both the rate of p:oduction and the price of lumber. Between 1926 and 1932 the demand for Douglas fir lumber fell steadily with production declining over 60 per cent. Prices at the same time fell 45 per cent and the number of operating mills was reduced by 40 per cent. Value of the total production in this area fell from 215 million dollars to 36 million dollars.

Following 1932 and up to 1939, demand for Douglas fir lumber increased to over double the 7932 rate 'ivith an 80 per cent inc:ease in price and an BO per cent increase in number of operating mills. By 1941 the production of Douglas fir was nearly three times the 1932 low rvith nearly three times as many mills operating and with price increased about 2l times. Increased demand brought higher prices, which brought more mills into operation and substantially increased production. The number of operat-

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Pcrt ol Pacilic NorthweEt's winter lo9 supply.

Paul Bunyan Turns Trce Farmer

"Paul Bunyan's Bears," written by James Stevens and published by Frank McCaffrey, Seattle, is a book with bark on it for rugged boys who know a good deal about the big outdoors and want to know more. It tells of modern tree farming by lumbermen, of timber raising and tree planting, of forest fires and fire-fighting, of hunting and fishing, and much else of life in the Douglas fir countryand tells it with the whizz-bang of the most exciting action stories in every line !

The real scene of the book is the tree farm of the Kelly Logging Company, somewhere in the Pacific Northwest. There lives an old-time logger, John Larrity, yet on the company's payroll as a fire rvarden. On,ce a rveek or so Micky Kelly, son of the tree farm's owner, and his dog come to the woods and have a visit with the old woodsman. Their real adventures are told in "Paul Bunyan's Bears." But Larrity also tells tall tales on the adventures that Paul Bunyan had with various breeds of bears as he logged across the continent in "the times beyond our count," and with the fire beasts that menaced his tree farms.

For Paul Bunyan turned tree farmer after he'd logged

Today's Lumber---And Tomorrow's

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ing mills in 1932 was 383; in 7939--616; in 1946-1375. . Prices rvers moving up throughout this period; more mills rvere started..

At the war's end the lumber industry as a rvhole found itself suffering many dislocations brought about by war conditions and war controls; short of proper repairs and manpower; behind in its natural expansion, and nearly without stocks.

At the same time it faced the greatest demand in history; a demand brought about by increased purchasing power in the hands of the people, three or four times greater in dollar value than prewar. The lumber industry did not create this demand. There lvas nothing the industry could do to control this demand.

Dotrglas fir production in 1947 exceeded that f.or 1946, but rvas limited by our ability to ship. Car shortages have retarded production and caused a 40 per cent increase in stocks at the mills in the last six months.

Prewar the Douglas fir region shipped over a billion feet annually to Atlantic Coast ports by water. 1947 shipments by water amounted to. about 600 million. Prewar rve shipped over a billion feet annually to California by water. In 1947 water shipments to this market totaled less than 200 million. With the car shortage in prospect for several years, transportation shortages may be expected to hinder future production.

Costs of production of lumber have steadily increased. Wages are up, stumpage is much higher, all supplies and services have advanced. New operations which make pos-

as far west as Coos Bay and Puget Sound, according to James Stevens-thus forming the pattern which the lumbermen of today are following. But armies of phosphorats came into the cutovers. A phosphorat was so constructed that he could mount a bunkhouse, drop his wire rope of a tail down the chimney, whisk up a blazing chunk and race off to find a hollow snag with a bear in it to set on fire. Phosphorats were crazy for roast bear. There were also the ember snakes, which gobbled underground, and other fiery terrors of the timberlands, All were exterminated by Paul Bunyan, in ,cahoots with the good bears of his time -one breed even being trained as tree planters.

Two of the chapters in "Paul Bunyan's Bears" are action stories of forest-fire fighting. All represent an effort to get away from repetitions of old saws and bewhiskered whoppers and adapt the lore of the woods to the modern forest and its men.

This is Stevens' third Paul Bunyan book. The first, published in April, 1925, introduced the legends to the general public. "The Saginaw Paul Bunyan," issued in 1932, assembled versions of old.time Lake States stories.

'sible increase in production of lumber are sharply hit by all these factors. Many are operating in lor,v grade timber, with heavy transportation costs, inefficient machinery and high overhead. Their production is needed today but they cannot operate unless the prices are high. When prices decline, some of these plants will close. In the lumber industry high production goes with high price; low production rvith low price. Some producers are always marginal; will close down at the first important decline in price and will reduce production to that extent.

The lumber industry 'can do little to influence demand. It has, despite transportation difficulties and shortages of equipment and supplies, made notable increases in the supply. ft cannot otherwise influence prices. No individual operator is of sufficient size to affect the market. Collective action is illegal.

The industry does not like present high prices of any of the important commodities, including lumber, but does not know how to ,correct them in view of demand created by purchasing power three or four times greater than prewar. This industry, along with all American industry, expects to continue to increase production, but sees little chance for inflation control if purchasing power continues to increase at a rate far greater than the rate of increase in production.

In ,conclusion, the present log supply in the Pacific Northrvest is at a high level, indicating that the lumber producers rvill be able to keep abreast of the demand during the winter months. With continuing strong demand, production during 1948 is likely to exceed that of any year since the war peak of 1941. Maximum production, however, will be subject to whatever limitations may be imposed by availability of transportation.

Latest ln Tree Farms The Oldest ls

Newest Tree Farm to be certified by the Joir-rt Committee on Forest Conservation of the West Coast Lumbermen's and Pacific Northwest Loggers Association is part of the oldest lumbering operation on the Pacific Coast. This is the Hood Canal Trec Farm of Pope & Talbot, Inc., with headquarters at Port Gamble in Washington State, and with extensive Oregon operations.

In the original Pope & Talbot headquarters on Gamble Bay the saws have been humming for 94 years. In the heyday of sail Pope & Talbot had 89 stout ships bearing lumber from the big-timber coast to the ports of 69 countries of the world. A mighty fleet of modern ships now steams under that name of old. The 60,000 acres of the Hood Canal Tree Farm are backing for a far-ranging future of busy saws at Port Gamble and lumber ships on the Seven Seas.

All combine to form an example in the best Paul Bunyan tradition of the contribution of the forest industries to the winning of the West and to the conservation, with wise use. of the West's natural resources.

Here are a few lines from the old-time saga of Port Gamble and its makers, who were makers of history, captains of adventure, princes of enterprise.

The records of the year !767, show the Popes and the Talbots of East Machias, Maine, as shippers of lumber. Andrew Pope and Frederick Talbot came to California at the head of the gold rush. They were already in the lighterage business when Captain William C. Talbot sailed his brig, the Oriental, through the Golden Gate. He had a cargo of Maine lumber, brought around Cape Horn, for the mines. In 1853 Captain Talbot took the schooner, Julius Pringle, up the big-timber .coast and chose Port Gamble as a prime place for a sawmill. The timber rose in a seemingly solid wall from blue water to white mountain peaks. The water was deep. 'Ihe site was good for buildings and docks.

Today's sawmill is the sixth on the site. The great black wall of virgin timber has been largely harvested. The white

William A. Thompson, 73, stcndg beside one oI the new mcrrkers erected lor the Hood Ctrnql Tree Fcrm. Mr. Thompson's fqther wcrs the first heod liler in the Port Gcmble mill crnd hcrd worked lor Pope qnd Tclbot lhree yecrs in East Mcchias, Me., belore corning to Puget Sound in 1853. Three generctions oI Thompsons hqve been employed by the compcny. The Icmily own one ol the two oldegt houEes in town.

Hood Ccncrl Tree Fcrm. These are 50 yecr old trees on Ludlow Hecd, the kind ol stqnd c lorest engineer likes most to see. Del Toylor, is Pope crnd Tclbot's lorester qt Port Gamble.

sails have vanished from the blue water. The old order changeth. The new bears the name of industrial forestry. The Hood Canal wilderness has become the Hood Canal Tree Farm. There are Port Gamble pioneers who have seen children and grandchildren grow up to work in the woods and the mill and on the water-and they feel as

pioneers again in this new day of a great West Coast forest. For these are still days of adventure and high enterprise for the Pope & Talbot people. They know that America still has her frontiers. Forestry is one of tl-rem. The Hood Canal Tree Farm is an inspiring example of the great nerv frontier of industrial forestry.

Fire protection lor the Hood Cqncl Tree Farm. Forest engineers inspect ihe tcnk cad pump truckg. There cre lour trucks and cr crew oI l0 Een lor fire suppression on the tree lqrm ol 60,000 ocrea. In bcckgrouad is finished luhbe; stacked on the Port Gcmble dock.

Oldest contiauous gawmill- ope-rtrtiolr in _Wcshington ig -qt the €4-yecr-old town ol Port Gcrmble on Hood Ccnql. The villcge which it aup- porls wcs pcrtlerned lcrgely clter Ecgt Mqchias, Me., lrom whence hailed the tounders ol the mill, Andrew Pope cnd Ccitcin Williqn t. Tcrlbot. 4 dglp vqter bqrbor pernits ocecnr vessels to lotrd ct the whcrrves, which deccdes cgo were liued wifh s"iti"g siips. To ifr" f.li, ggross Sagble Bcy, lies Little Bostoa, lron which Indiqnr still cone to work in rowboats iad dugout ccnoea, oe lid thitit oo"""tot". About 80 Eitstrp Couniy lndicns cre oa the conpqIry pcyroll.

1404 FrcrnHin Stseer, o3ffa l2-TWinocks g-s29t Yard-Foot of Fcllon Street, Oaklqnd

AT THIS SEASOIT OF EACH AI\D EVERY YEAR

A S we qpproach the yecrr's end,, we crre reminded of the lcrct thcrt it is time to stop crnd tcrke stock oI the mcrny pleascrnt contcrcts and associcrtions we have hcd with our dealers throughout the pcrssing months oI the current yecr. To us,thisaccruedinventory is one of our most valuable qssets, crnd is convertible into crn extrcr dividend of ourvery best wishes for: g

I948---Shake-Down Yea r?

By Kennetb Smitb, Presid.ent C ali f ornia Re d.u' o o d. As s o ciati on

When the figures f.or 1947 Redwood production are in they will probably show the largest total in the past 20 years and will seem unbelievable.

What is actually unbelievable is that there should have been such a terrific demand as to create a continuous shortage in spite of the tremendous production. We have lived out the year in lvhat Bill Woodbridge so aptly described at Los Angeles last April as "delectable chaos."

Never since this office opened in 1916 has there been a year when we knew as little about what was going on in the industry. The "Redwood region" has departed radically from the prewar pattern when production of species other than Redwood was less than fifteen per cent of the total ; when there were less than 50 small mills; and when the bulk of the production was highly refined dry Redwood from large mills. It has been estimated that at least 275 rnllls have operated in the region this year, most of them small, and rhost of them cutting Douglas fir rather than Redwood.

There are some permanent new Redwood band mills, Douglas fir bands, and mixed species mills. One large plywood plant and a second small one are in operation; another major plant is assured and two or three projected.

A very large number of small circular mills, parti'cularly those cutting second-grorvth Redwood, are probably temporary. Many are already down. A large percentage of the region's production has been Douglas fir. A preponderant proportion of both Redwod and Fir has been shipped rough green, and all too much has been poorly graded, poorly manufactured and unsorted. However, service organizations to load, sort or remanufacture have started and more are being talked about, and this will make much small mill production available in usable condition.

The first interest of the California Redwood Association is in seeing that the consuming public is served with propsrly manufactured and graded Redwood and, in an effort to encourage all who are interested in maintaining high standards, it has made the services of its Department of Inspection and Grading available on a cost basis to all concentration plants and manufacturers in the Redwood producing area.

We started this year being sure that 1947 would be the year rvhen the insistent demand for Redwood in any shape, form or fashion would let up and the industry would return to its normal pattern by rebuilding inventories essential to the supplying of its established market for dry worked sidings, finish and industrial grades. A start has been madedue in part to the car shortage-but far more has gone out green than we had anticipated and we come to the end of the year wondering if we can possibly be as wrong again in expecting the industry to shake down in 19€.

' , We are living in a crazy world equipped with a rubber dollar and a seemingly insatiable demand for lumber, without regard to price, but we will turn a sharp corner one of these days and meet buyers suddenly turned selective and looking again for value.

We expect that to happen in 1948 and believe that by the end of 1948 the pattern for the years to come will have been pretty well set. The responsible operators in the Redwood industry are keenly aware of the new merchandising problems they will get in trade for today'! production problems and have been carefully planning to r4eet them.

Three years of seasoning research, the new grade structure made effective last December, substantial improvement in sawing and manufacturing processes and expansion of inspection and grading service give assurance to our friends who distribute Redwood to the consuming trade that they will then be able to capitalize on the unusual qualities and characteristics of Redwood lumber and the endless special uses for which these qualities are needed.

We look forward with you to that happy day when we shall have available enough durable Redwood siding to supply the needs of your quality customers.

New Book Tells How To Make Profits From \(/oodlands

How to make profits in the management of small woodlands is the subject of a new book, just published by The American Forestry Association, Washington, D.C.

Under the title, "Managing Small Woodlands-a guide to good and p:ofitable use of forest land," the book tells, step by step, horv farmers and other owners of small timber tracts can grow and harvest repeated crops of pulpwood, ties, sawlogs, poles and bolts for the market arrd for home use. Popularly priced at $1.00 a copy and written in non-technical language, profusely illustrated with simple line dralvings, the secrets of woodland management are made availal>le to all landowners.

Two experts in the field of making small rvoodlands pay are the authors of the book. A Koroleff, forester for the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association has long been a consultant to timberland orvners and an active manager of industrial and non-industrial tracts. J. A. Fitzrvater, who collaborated u'ith Mr. Koroleff in the preparation of the book was formerly with the United States Forest Service where he developed and headed-up the federal-state cooperative projects iri farm woodland management.

In addition to serving the direct needs of woodland owners themselves, the book is proving to be a valuable guide to foresters, wood industry men and others who work with landowners.

Supreme Nine Meets At Milwaukee

The Supreme Nine of Hoo-Hoo recently held a two-day "shirt-sleeve" session at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where expansion plans for the coming year were completed and important committees were appointed to coordinate HooHoo activities with similar rvork being done in other branches of the industry. All members of the Nine were present for the third consecutive time.

W. C. Bell, Seattle, Washington, was selected as the chairman of the newly formed Committee on Education and Training made up of representatives from the nine jurisdictions of Hoo-Hoo. Other members of the committee are John K. McCormick, Charlestown, 1\1[ass.; A. A. Hood, Chicago; Ed B. Lemmons, Jackson, Mississippi; Ted Moorehouse, Winnipeg, Canada; J. Edward Martin, Los Angeles; Lynn Boyd, Pampa, Texas; Wilfred E. Gits, St. Paul; George V. Fredrickson, Baltimore.

Under Chairman Bell's dire,ction the Committee will function in all branches of educational and training worl< now being carried on in the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association. It includes promotion of the four-year course in light construction, engineering and marketing now available in leading universities and colleges, the thirtyday training courses which have proved so popular, and the nelv correspondence course now available to lumber dealers and their employees. Local Hoo-Hoo organizations will appoint committees to coordinate activities at club levels.

The Forest Products' Promotional Committee will be headed by Ormie C. Lance, Chicago, and the jurisdictional representatives appointed to assist him are IJ. M. Carlton, North Cambridge, Mass.; C. A. Stevens, Portland, Oregon; Walter H. Scales, New Orleans; Theodore A. Sparks, Winnipeg, Canada; George Clough, Los Angeles; S. Lamar

Forrest, Lubbock, Texas i John F. Bahr, Minneapolis; Henry Bahr, Washington, D.C.

In accordance with the resolution adopted at the Annual Meeting at Spokane, this committee rvill concern itself with such projects as will further the marketing and merchandising of forest products. Work along the same lines will be carried on by committees appointed by local clubs.

N{embers of the Supreme Nine rvill act as the Friends of the Forest Committee and the Industry Coordination Committee, both of u'hich \\'ere recommended and approved at Spokane.

Expansion plans for the coming year include specific organization u'ork in practically all areas under the jurisdiction of the members of the Supreme Nine representing the various jurisdictions. Important adjuncts in connection with this nation-rvide activity include the preparation of a Manual describing the objectives of Hoo-Hoo and how they can be achieved through the organization of local clubs. An interesting feature of the meeting was the report of D. C. Essley, Chairrnan, which revealed the elaborate plans already under way for the 1948 Convention to be held at Los Angeles.

Hoo-Hoo fnternational headquarters are maintained at l\{ilwaukee under the direction of Supreme Secretary Ben F. Springer who was in charge of the meeting. Supreme Nine members in attendance: R. D. Saberson, Snark, St. Paul; Martin T. Wiegand, Senior Hoo-Hoo, Washington, D.C.; LeRoy H. Stanton, Sr., Junior Hoo-Hoo, Los Angeles; Chas. W. Goodrum, Scrivenoter, Kansas City; M. J. McDonald, Bojum, Port Arthur, Canad.a; E. W. Kettlety, Jabberwock, Chicago; Carl C. Crow, Custocatian, Portland, Oregon; Stanley F. Horn, Arcanoper, Nashville, Tenn.; Russell L. Fish, Gurdon, Scituate, Mass.

Left to right! E. W. Kettlety, LeRoy II. Stcrnton, Sr,, Ccrl C. Crow, Russell L. Fish, R. E, Soberson, B. F. Springer, Stcnley F. Horn, Mcrrtin T. Wiegcnd, M. I. McDonqld, Chcs. W. Goo&um.

Lumber From \(/estern Pine Mills \X/ill Be Befter ln1948

By W. E, Gfifiee, Assistant Senetary-Manager W estern Pine Association

California's pine lumber production, like her population, grew during the war and then kept right on increasing after the war. In 1946 the total population of all species by the Western Pine sawmills of California hit a new high of nearly 2.2 billion board feet, or slightly over one-third of the cut in the entire far'flung \Mestern Pine industry.

The 1947 toial still is in doubt but during the first nine months of the year the whole region produced seven per cent more than in the same months of. 1946 and the increase in California must have been fully that mu,ch. Therefore, it is almost certain that production this year will set a new record.

The tremendous demand naturally resulted in the construction of a good many new mills, many of them small ones. Production could not have been stepped up so rapidly in any other way. Many of these new mills were not well equipped with drying, sorting and planing facilities. During the war, when boxes and crating were needed in tremendous quantities and users were willing to accept rough green lumber to get prompt delivery, the lack of these facilities was not too serious a handicap.

When the war ended, residential and other building again claimed their normal share of the lumber output. Millwork plants resumed the manufacture of windows, doors, cabinets, and numerous other housing items. For all of these uses properly seasoned lumber is necessary. As long as O.P.A. lasted, and good lumber sold for little, if any, more than poor lumber, dealers and contractors vied with each other to secure rough green lumber from the small mills and then dried and remanufactured much of it themselves.

Since the termination of ceiling prices, properly seasoned lumber again sells for a {air differential over the green lumber price. Dealers and contractors are not equipped to dry and surface their lumber as cheaply as the mill or concentration yard should be able to do the job, so it is logical for users to expect the mills to perform this service, just as they did before the war. Most ol the older established mills, particularly the larger ones, already were well equipped to dry and surface their lumber, in fact they had done so right through the war period. However, many new mills did not have such facilities so have been busy adding them during the past two years.

During the war there was much justified criticism of O.PA.'s policies which made it unprofitable for mills to dry their own lumber and at the same time fostered the mushroom development of custom drying and milling plants. Fortunately, a number of these custom plants are located in the California valleys, where air seasoning conditions are favorable, and they can do a reasonably efficient job of concentrating, drying and surfacing the cuts of neighboring small mills. Their facilities, plus new drying yards, kilns and planing mills installed by the newer mills during the past two years, are rapidly getting the industry back to

rvhere nearly all its pine lumber can be seasoned, and surfaced if desired, before shipment. The return to this normal practice r,vill be speeded if all users rvill buy only seasoned lumber. Don't take the lumber away from the millman until he has had time to dry it !

Another current dtvelopment is the improved grading work being done by many of the smaller mills. During the O.P.A. era there was scant incentive to grade accurately but now buyers are demanding lumber which is 'correctly graded. During the first ten months of. 1947 the Western Pine Association added 21 new members in California alone. All these new members are greatly interested in the Association's supervision of their grading work aqd in having the Grading Bureau's inspectors check and coach their graders each month.

If the current trend of housing construction continues into 1948, and lumber demand holds close to present levels, it seems likely that the Western Pine industry of California will continue to set new records. As new mills round out their facilities, and production permits further rebuilding of mill stocks, the shipment of green or poorly surfaced lumber should further decrease. With the industry freed of price and production. controls, dealers and users may again make effective their demand for dry, well manufactured and carefully graded lumber. It is this demand which will spur the mills to continued improvement of their product.

The same trends in the production and refinement of lumber are present in the other western states in which the Western Pine industry operates. Developments iu these states, as well as the demands of eastefn buyers, will help California users to encourage improvements by mills in California and southern Oregon which largely supply the tremendous California market.

Ccpt. H. F. McrcComsey Tcrlks To Club No. 39 Members

A brilliant talk by Capt. Henry F. MacComsey, USN, Commanding Officer of the Oakland Naval Air Station, was enjoyedby 77 lumbermen at,the regular dinner meeting of Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39, held at the Claremont Hotel, Berkeley, November 17. His subject was "Naval Aviation -First Line of Defense." Capt. MacComsey is a naval aviator with 23 years' flying experience.

Arthur Pratt, Oakland Lumber Co., Oakland, and Rodney Branson, Melrose Lumber & Supply Co., Oakland, were winners of the door prizes. The door prize at the next meeting will be $20.00.

President Everett Lewis presided. The program was arranged by Director "Lee" Le Breton, and Secretary James B. Overcast was on the job as usual.

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A young, well-dressed, good-looking member of the lightfingered gentry, dined one evening in the crowded main dining room of a very fashionable hotel. Finishing his dinner and preparing to leave, the temptation seized him to carry away the very handsome silver sugar bowl on his table. So he slipped it under his coat in such a way it could hardly be noticed, then rose and walked with dignity toward the door.

Forest Engineer Trcrnslers To Midwest

San Francisco, Nov. l-After three years as engineer in charge of the Los Angeles River upstream flood control project for the U.S. Forest Serv.ice, l\{alcolm B..Arthur is transferring to Milwaukee, Wis., to become regional engineer, it was announced today by Perrv A. Thompson, regional forester for California.

Effective Nov. 17. 1\{r. Arthur rvill take over super-

Just as he reached the door he discovered that the house detective was standing there, looking watchful. Instinctively he tried to place a tighter grip on the sugar bowl, with his elbow and as he did so it slipped and went clattering across the hardwood floor. Undaunted he turned with fashing eyes, and glaring back toward the crowd of curious diners he sho'uted:

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vision of engineering in the Lake States region of the Forest Service, covering nine states.

Regional Forester Thompson stated that Supervisor Wm. V. Mendenhall of the Angeles National Forest rvill take over direction of the project. Under Mr. Arthur, designs, plans and specifications lvere largely completed. The work remaining to be done is largely installation of planned units of the program.

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More Than 51000 People Attend Store Opening At Santa Paula

Following a well-planned advertising program, which included a full page ad in the Santa Paula Chronicle, the Forest Lumber Company, of Santa Paula, Calif., staged the formal opening of their new store at 1433 East Main Street, a few weeks ago.

The success of the opening can be judged by the fact that between 5,000 and 6,000 people attended during the day. Door prizes were given away every hour on the hour, and music and entertainment that featured a trained horse and dog act helped to keep the crowd interested. In addition everybody was supplied with apples, soft drinks, coffee and other refreshments.

A pre-opening invitation dinner was held by the company, attended by the city officials, Chief of Police, members of the Senior and Junior Chamber of Commerce, and contractors from Fillmore to Ventura.

Ofificers of the Forest Lumber Co. are: R. B. White, president; A. B. McKee, Jr., vice president; H. B. Grandin, treasurer, and C. E. Fortney, secretary and general manager.

New Supervisors For Scn Berncrrdino And Shcstcr Ncrtioncrl Forests

San Francisco, Nov. 2G-Regional Forester Perry A. Thompson of the U. S. Forest Service announced today the new supervisor of the San Bernardino National Forest rvill be Norman J. Farrell, who transfers to San Bernardino Jan. 1 from supervisorship of the Shasta National Forest.

Robert E. Jones will become supervisor of the Shasta, with headquarters at Mt. Shasta, by promotion from assistant supervisor of the. Plumas National Forest (Quincy, Calif.).

Terrible Twenty Visit Pebble Beach

Perfect weather favored the Terrible Twentv for their Pebble Beach tournament last month.

Ed Bauer had a net 7l at Pebble Beach, and a net 79 at Cypress Point, giving him the low total of 150. (Last year Bob Osgood won with a 149 total.) Jones won second prize with nets of 74 and,83. Hoel came within one stroke of second place, which he won last year.

The party had comfortable accommodations at Del Monte Lodge, with a room for the evening entertainment.

The new Btore ol Forest Lumber Comptrny.

Lelt to right: Mre. R. B. White, wile oI ihe president; Ecrl Nutt, store mcncger ot Sqnta Paulcr,' Curt Richqrdson, bookkeeper at Scrutq Pculc; Wm. F. Reeder, loccrl mcncger, Sqnttr Pculq; R. B. White, preridenl; C. E. Fortney, secretsry cnd genercl mqncfter,' Henry B. Grqndin, tredsurer,' R. A. Tirnmons, Ioccl mcncger ol the compcny'g Lcncagter ycrrd.

This most spectoculcrr iob in the woods ol th-. Pacilic Northwest is the high rigger or tree topper. This mcn hcrs climbed up cr Douglcrs lir tree. qround which he hcrs llung a rope. He removed the brcrnches cs he went up. Then he cuts oll the to-: ol the tree. This is known qs cr spdr tree, <rnd rigged with ccbles, it will be used to hcrul logs lron q surrounding arecr to a point where they crre locrded on rqilroad ccrs or trucks.

Lathrop K. Leishman Heads Southern Calilornia Retail Lumber Association

The annual meeting and election of officers of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association took place in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on November 21. There was a splendid crowd in attendance. The morning session was held in the Hotel Theatre. and the noon luncheon and afternoon session were held in the Embassy Room.

The meeting started with a breakfast at which the an-

noon speakers was introduced by President Arnold. He was Edmund T. Price, president and general manager of the Solar Aircraft Company, of San Diego, and also president of the San Diego Chamber of Commerce. He talked on the relationship of labor and management, and he did a mighty fine job of it. It was tolerance and understanding on both sides that he called for to help solve our present difficult employment situation, and his text was that both sides should work for two outstanding fundamentals: first, recognition of the dignity of the individual; second, equality before the law for both labor and management. He concluded that without these two things, industrial peace rvas impossible.

nual election of oflicers took place. After four years of splendid service, H. Park Arnold, of Glendale, retired as president, and that up-and-coming young building merchant from Pasadena, Lathrop K. Leishman, was elected in his place. Tom Fox, of the John W. Fisher Lumber Company, of Santa Monica, was elected vice president, Orrie W. Hamilton was re-elected secretary-treasurer, and Gerald V. Curran, of Pomona, was re-elected treasurer.

President Arnold presided throughout the day, and did so in his usual smooth and eloquent manner. The morning session gave much time to the reports of the executives. Park Arnold made report of his stewardship as president for the past four years. Orrie Hamilton reported on the recent meeting of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association in New York. Leslie G. Lynch reported on the Congressional hearing on housing, held recentlv in Los Angeles. It was a report replete with interest.

An interesting and informative talk on the "California Unemployment fnsurance Law" was made by John H. Nelson, assistant general counsel of the Merchants and Manufacturers Association, of Los Angeles. He called on the retailers to take an active interest in helping lumber yard workers toward continuous employment, to the end that the cost of unemployment insurance might be reduced. When a man is laid off, try and get him another job as soon as possible.

The luncheon in the Embassy Room was rvithout prog'ram, and immediately after it ended one of the two after-

The second speaker of the afternoon was the man of charts and statistics, Roy Wenzlick, of St. Louis, research economist, who has appeared on previous occasions before thiS organization. With a lot of informative charts Mr. Wenzlick traced the history of building for 150 years, ancl from those historical facts he drew conclusions as to the future. Mr. Wenzlick thinks that another depression is inevitable, based on history, but does not think it will come in the next two or three years, and he thinks that the severity of the next slump might well be softened by intelligent business operations. It costs more to build a home and buy a lot today than ever before in history, which brought him to the conclusion that this is not a good time to rush in and buy, that inventories should be kept as small as possible, and that when buying real propertlr today it is wise to do it with the smallest possible mortgage'

President Arnold then introduced the newly elected officers, already mentioned, and turned the gavel over to the new president, Lathrop Leishman, Mr. Leishman recognized E. C. Parker, of Los Angeles, rvho made a delightful little talk eulogizing the past president, Park Arnold, and then presented that gentleman with a beautiful wrist watch. Mr. Leishman made a nice little talk, thanking the members for electing him to high office and promising to do his best to follow in such worthy footsteps as those of Park Arnold.

Jack Dionne was introduced, told the gang hello, and took a bow. The meeting was then adjourned.

FTIA Tells New House Record

Washington, D.C., Nov. 23.-The Federal Housing Administration reported today that a record number oT new homes and housing projects were begun under auspices of FHA in Octc-,ber.

The Government's mortgage insurance agency said that construction of 30,251 new dwelling units was started during the month to exceed by more than 4000 the'previous peak record in -July, 1941.

FHA said that practically all of the homes and apartments are being built and financed under the veteran's emergency provisions of the National Housing Act.

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Million-Dollar Umpire

By Robert E. Mabaftay, Public Relations West Coast Lumbermen's Association

Dodging pop bottles is about half an umpire's job. A good eye for balls and strikes is helpful, but nimbleness under attack is what pays off.

Umpires expect abuse. The history of umpiring is one long blue-tinted tale of insult and harsh words. Even the arbiters who supervised contests betrveen Christians and lions in Rome got nothing but surly grorvls from the lions for their pains.

The West Coast Bureau of Lumber Grades and Inspection, umpire for the Pacific Northwest lumber industry, which annually ships more than a billion board feet of home-building lumber to California, comes close to being an exception. One of the highest-paid referees in the world, the West Coast Bureau did a million-dollar business in 1946. It was not, of course, wholly immune from pop bottle bombardments. In lumber, as elsewhere, ticketbuyers reserve the right to scream about decisions.

"Grading lumber is a good deal like calling a close one at second base," explained Howard L. Brown, general superintendent of the Bureau. "Every day you're in the ninth inning of the seventh game of a World Series."

Basic purpose of grading is to make sure that the piece of lumber in question will do the job for which it was intended, whether it be a matter of appearance, as in paneling, or a matter of stress, as in bridge timbers or 2 x 10 floor joists. "Right use" is the prime consideration.

At least half a d.ozen different grades of lumber and often more, are used in construction of the average house. Upon the grade of lumber used depends the quality of construction. No. 2, No. 1, or select structural grades, for example, may be used for the studding, rafters and joists; No. 3 or No. 4, f.or sheathing; B & Better vertiral grain may be used for exposed floorings; "C" grade for floors which are to be covered; and "D" grade for sub-flooring. Upon the lumber inspector, or grader, depends the proper marking of the lumber as it comes from the saws.

Nothing sends a buyer into a jumping-up-and-down fit faster than finding knot-holes in his ladder stock or pitch pockets in lumber intended for table tops. In the old days, before lumber grading was established, that used to happen a good deal. Lumber was separated on a rule-of-thumb basis into "good" stock, which was distributed to customers. and "bad" stock, which was thrown away.

In 1754, so far as can be determined, the world's first printed grading rules for lumber were distributed in Stockholm. They established and defined four grades of Scandinavian pine-Best, Good, Common and Culls.

So successful was the experiment that it became obvious some sort of standardization was required. When a man placed an order with a sawmill-often a couple of thousand miles away-he wanted to be sure the sawmill operator

understood lr'hat he r,vas talking about. By the latter half of the nineteenth century, the theory and practice of grading had become rooted in American industry.

Today the grading of lumber is one of the most important steps in its manufacture. All lumber selling ancl pricing is based on grades. Grading rules, therefore, become the sales catalogues of the lumber industry.

But no matter how high-flown a description of lumber grading becomes, the operation boils dorvn to the job of the individual grader, or inspector, as he stands beside the sawmill's sorting chain. An inspector has more facts ir, his head than a pinball machine has lights.

To begin with, the West Coast Bureau has some 17 grade marks, covering Douglas fir, Sitka spruce, West Coast hemlock and Western red cedar. The inspector keeps those marks loose and limber in the back of his head, ready to haul one out when needed. Next, as the lumber comes rolling at him along the chain from the salv or planer, he must be concentrating on the thousand-and-one characteristics lumber 62n h2vs-a knot here, a bark pocket there, a dash of heart stain somewhere else. Just as no trvo trees are alike, no two pieces of lumber are alike.

And over all in the grader's calculations must be an intimate understanding of the need which a specific piece of lumber is to fill. Traveling along the chain, in his eyes, may be a timber designed as part of a trestle, to support a streamliner; a piece of fine-grained paneling for a study's walls; a piece of flooring sturdy enough to take the punishment of a youngster's romping; or a scaffolding plank, true and stout, upon which human lives may depend.

In baseball, once a pitched ball is throu,n, it's thrown. The umpire can't ask to have it throrvn over again, so he can make up his mind. Neither can the grader. He sizes up his piece in a matter of seconds, marks it, and goes on to the next.

That sizing up takes quite a little doing. It's a rapid-fire evaluation of the characteristics which affect the appearance, durability or strength of any piece of lumber. Lummer characteristics fall roughly into trvo catagories-those naturally part of the wood, and those imparted to it during the process of manufacture. Characteristics are by no means defects. They simply are guideposts which determine the suitability of a piece of lumber for the use intended.

Into the first group fall knots, burls, pitch pockets, bark pockets, pitch blisters, pitch streaks, pitch seams, shakes (a lengthwise separation of the wood usually occurring between growth rings), heart stain (a reddish brown discoloration of the heartwood), decay er rot, white specks (an indication of decay), tap stain, and pinworm or grub-

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worm holes. A tight knot, by the way, is commonly the strongest part of a piece of lumber.

Manufacturing characteristics, or blemishes, like natural.. characteristics, do not necessarily impair a piece of lumber's structural value. They include variation in sawing; picaroon holes (a picaroon is a sharp-pointed instrument used in handling logs and large cants) ; dog and turner holes, caused when the planer knives have not planed smooth; torn grain, improper trimming, and other defects.

While Gertrude Stein might be able to dismiss the subject of knots with something as simple as "A knot is a knot is a knot," graders have no such luck. To a grader, a knot has more angles than a horse race.

There are, for example, "intergrown" knots, t'encased" knots, loose knots and tight knots, spike knots, and unsound knots, to say nothing of knots which leak pitch and knot clusters, or burls.

To a'very large degree, lumber grading depends on individual judgment. While the grading rules specify what characteristics are allowable in each grade, there is a certain leeway permitted the inspector. He may, for example, swap a slight burl for a bark pocket-so long as the piece remains suitable for the use intended. An inspector is allowed 5 per cent margin of error in his judgments; he must be right 95 per cent of the time. The best of them are able to grade as much as 450 lineal feet of lumber a minute, but that, according to Brown, "takes a crackerjack grader, and they don't grow on trees."

The Bureau has twenty-two supervisors and more than 350 inspectors, who are empowered to issue certificates without which, in many instances, buyers will not accept lumber.

"We aren't working for any mill, or for any retail fard," Brown said. "We ard an independent inspection bureau, with the sole purpose of doing an unbiased job for both yards and mills."

Brown doesn't deny having his troubles. Sometimes zr buyer will send along only part of his specifications, and then squawk because the unsent specifications have not been met. Or a buyer may loudly demand a re-inspection in the hope that a cash settlement will be made without it.

When requested, re-inspections are made anywhere in the United States. Always, day in and day out, both mills and buyers supervise the supervisors with a critical eye, each fearful that the other will be favored.

"We're the umpire," said Brown, "and we get abuse from both sides. Our boys are in the bight of the line, but they don't let it bother them too much."

Tclks to Scn Jose Botcry Club

Kenneth Smith, president of the California Redwood Association, San Francisco, addressed the San Jose Rotary Club, November 12, on the subject of "Ifuman Relations and the Taft-Hartley Act."

Hammond Uses Trucks In Logging Operation

California redwoods constitute one of the State's largest lumber operations by the Hammond Lumber Company, Samoa, Calif. For transporting the huge logs, the company employs ten Mack trucks, powered with 200 h.p. diesel engines and ten Fruehauf trailers, each unit equipped with Goodyear Hard Rock Lug tires. Bull o' the woods for Hammond, Walt Hyatt, believes truck-to-railhead procedure will continue exclusively.

Deciding factor in favor of the use of trucks in logging lvas a fire in October, 1945, in the Big Lagoon area, near Crannell. Over 20,000 acres of the Hammond Company's timber lands and 45,000,000 feet of down timber,23 raTltoad. bridges, 1,f00 acres of standing giant redwoods were bdrned. After the disaster, logging by trucks equipped with pneumatic rubber tires for efficiency of operation over rough terrain, has proved more economical than rebuilding the bridges.

For sometime this company has maintained a truck-torailhead show on the Van Duzen River, where it has a camp at Cummins Creek. Mainly a tractor logging qperation. two Mack and two White trucks are also on the job, hauling timber four miles to the railhead. About 5O-60M feet of logs go to the mill daily from this operation site. The ten Mack and Fruehauf units will be used in the Big Lagoon area of the Crannell operation. Truck hauls average a mile to slightly less than a mile from the landing to the railhead.

Twelve miles of main road will be built this year, using Caterpillar 'dozers, assisted by a one-half yard shovel. The company plans to build 12 miles of main road every year, until finally the truck haul will reach fr$m 30 to 35 miles to the railhead, and several hundreds ,bf miles of main roads in the tract.

The Hammond company has its own quarry for obtaining road building material. Terrain is varied, running in elevation from sea level,to 2,V@ feet. Timber, too, is varied in denseness, running from 30 16OM' Humboldt scale per acre. Boss chopper Fred Wiley, an old-timer with Hammond, has 72 sets of choppers under him, using drag saws and electric chain saws. Power units for the electric chain saws are mounted on sleds. One of the big problems faced by the loggers is rainfall, which totals from 30 to 60 inches per season.

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California Red Fir Compares Favorably With Other Western Species

By lobn T. Drout' and' L. N. Eticksenu Forest Seroice, U, S, Departrnent ol Agricultute

California red fir (Abies magnifica) grows principally at high elevations in the mountains of southern Oregon and northern. and central California. In Oregon it generally grows at elevations of 5,000 to 7,000 feet and in California at elevations up to about 10,000 feet. According to estimates by the Forest Service there are aPproximately 8 billion board feet of this species growing in California and about 2.5 billion board feet in Oregon. To date a very small percentage

of this volume has been cut. It is likely that the less accessible location of California red fir is the most important reason why little of it has been marketed in comparison with the related white fir (Abies concolor) species'

At the present time, however, timber once thought inaccessible is bein$ cut at increasing rates' This trend will grow in the future as our access road program develops, and it is likely, therefore, that more and more California red fir will find its way to market. In this respect, it is interesting to note how the quantity cut of related fir species, principally white fir, has increased in recent years in California. In 1932 the production was 3O million feet, in 1937 it rvas 63 million feet, in 1942 it was 133 million,

and in 1945 it had reached 285 million' White fir grows at lower altitudes than the red fir, and consetluently, has been cut in much greater volume than the red' Another factor, of course, is that there is about 3 or 4 tirnes as much white fir in California as there is red fir.

The true firs constitute about 15 percent of the total commercial sawtimber stand in California and in 1945 the production of true firs was 12 to 13 percent of the total lumber produced. Based upon these general figures, it is apparent that the production of true fir is on the up-grade and as the firs at higher elevations are cut in greater quantity a greater percentage of California red fir rvill be included.

It becomes desirable, therefore, to note how the properties of California red fir compare with other western species; and, if possible, to know horv the lumber can be best utilized. In this connection tests were completed recently at the U. S. Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, Wis., on four shipmerrts of California red fir submitted by the Regional Forester, San Francisco, Calif. This red fir included representative trees from Sierra, Madera, Amador, and Siskiyou Counties in California to supplement data from tests of a previous shipment of logs from Plumas County. The results of the re'cent tests, r'vith rvhich the results of previous findings are in general agreement, show that this species compares favorably rvith other western species. Figure 1 compares the physical and mechanical properties of California red fir 'ivith rvhite fir, Westerrr hemlock and ponderosa pine, and rvith Douglas fir of the "intermediate" type. This includes Douglas fir grown in eastern California and Oregon, rvith rvhich the California red fir is sometimes logged, milled, and marketed. Except for weight per cubic foot, the comparisons in figure 1 are based on composite values each of which r'vas arrived at by .combining several strength values determined in mechanical tests on small, clear specimens.

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The mechauical properties of California red fir show that it is entirely satisfactory for light construction and thus will fit in well with the present small home building prggram. For instance, red fir, because of its great stiffness for its weight, is excellent material for joists, studs, and subfloors. It is, of course, also suitable for roof anci wall sheathing, and since it is easy to cut, saw, and shape, the carpenters will enjoy working with it. It has low resistance to decay and should not be used untreated in close proximity to the ground.

California red fir is also entirely suitable for sawn box shook, and tests are being made by the Forest Products Laboratory and the California Forest and Range Experiment Station to obtain more.information on its performance as rotary cut veneer box shook. Its nail-holding properties have not been determnied, but it is reasonable to expect that they will fall between those of white fir and ponderosa pine. As even the nail-holding properties of white fir are satisfactory when properly designed containers are built, it is reasonable to expect that the red fir will be adequate in this respect.

As the red fir growing in dense stands is very free of branches, it is likely that considerably more select lumber will be obtained from red fir than is normally obtained from white fir. It is thus possible that red fir may be an.other source of sash and door and interior trim stock. It will likely prove satisfactory also for exterior trim and for siding. fts use for these latter purposes will depend to some extent on its paint-holding properties. Specific data on this are not available, but since white fir holds paint well and is classed with the hemlock, spruces, and ponderosa pine in this property, it appears logical to assume that California red fir will rate high too.

California red fir, the same as the other true firs, is well suited to the manufacture of pulp and paper. It produces a very strong pulp and reduces fairly readily in the sulphite and sulphate processes and very readily in the mechanical process.

rEngineer, Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wis.

zForest Utilization Service, California Forest and Range Experiment Station, Berkeley, Calif.

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Let us make this a happy Christmas, So gallantly bright and gay, That little children will keep it in mind For many and many a day; The baubles and toys we give them Will be broken or lost ere long, But the memory of Christmas will linger In young hearts like a beautiful song.

Let us make this a joyous Christmas

For those who have older grown, The very merriest Christmas

The lads and lassies have known; And now in life's magical springtime, In the fragrance and bloom of youth, May they garner the priceless jewels Of honor and courage and tru,th.

Let us make this a wonderful Christmas

For those who are near and dear, For the friends who have walked beside us For many a changing year;

And remembering the burdened and lonely, The disillusioned and sad, Set the joy bells of Christmas ringing, That they too may hear and be glad.

Let us make this a glorious Christmas, That the weary world may see The radiant dream of the ages In fulfillment where men are free; Send forth the Christmas message, Vibrant with heart-felt cheer; Good Will to all men and nations And Hope for a glad New Year !

Adeline Merriam Conner.

HAMMOND LUMBER COMPANY

47 Kittens lnitiated At Los Angeles Concat

There w-as a fine turnout at the Hoo-Hoo dinner meeting and concatenation at the Elks Club, Los Angeles, Tuesday evening, November 18. Over 150 attended. During the dinner hour there was an excellent entertainment program. Russell Gheen led the gathering in group singing.

Snark Paul Orban presided at the meeting. Bill Ream, chairman of the committee on arrangements for the Ghristmas party, announced it would be held at the Oakmont Country Club, Glendale, Thursday evening, December 11. There will be a golf tournament in the afternoon.

47 Kittens took the journey through the outer darkness of the Garden to the Onion Bed. The Nine in charge of the initiation included : Paul Orban, Snark; Bill Ream, Senior Hoo-Hoo; Huntly Wark, Junior Hoo-Hoo; Ole May, Scrivenoter; Ed Bauer, Bojum; J. W, Fitzpatrick, Jabberr,r'ock; Sid Simmons, Custocatian; Roy Stanton, Jr., Arcanoper; Stanton Swafford, Gurdon. Roy Stanton, Sr., Junior Hoo-Hoo on the Supreme Nine, read the Code of Ethics.

The following kittens were initiated:

Vemer F. Rush, Laguna Beach Lumber Co., Laguna Beach

William J. Beuchel, Inglewood Lumber Co., Inglewood

Harry W. Smeltzer, Public Mill & Lumber Co., Laguna Beach

Carvel D. Brown, Orban Lumber Co., Pasadena

Donald R. Philips, Jr., Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., Los Angeles

Rex S. Oxford, Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., Los Angeles

Wayne W'. Deats, Deats Sash & Door Co., Los Angeles

C. L. Slaght, T. M. Cobb Co., Los Angeles

E. H. Peterson, Raymond Lumber Co., Long Beach

Delbert F. Wingo, Raymond Lumber Co., Long Beach

Raymond Smith, Raymond Lumber Co., Long Beach

B. D. Pewthers, E. U. Wheelock, fnc., Los Angeles

f,ouis S. Kunert, Western Hardwood Lumber Co., Los Angeles

Clyde H. Thompson, Sunkist Lumber Co., Monrovia

B. L. Adams, \Meyerhaeuser Sales Co., Los Angeles

Wm. G. Hovze, Bohnhoff Lumber Co., Inc., Los Angeles

It. L. Mason, Furniture Lumber Co., Los Angeles

Hou'ard A. Collins, Ro'ckport Redwood Co., Wilmington

Deyo X. Breen, Butts Lumber Co., El Monte

Stuart H. Butts, Butts Lumber Co., El Monte

Anthony F. Fieger, Columbia Lumber Co., Los Angeles

Robt. B. Hoover, A. L. Hoover, Los Angeles

Chris Miller, Cooper Lumber Co., Pasadena

Milton Pastornak, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles

Alvin Sellers, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles

Norwood Kidd, Jr., E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles

James R. Griflin, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles

Austin L. Stafford, William-Wenholz Lumber Co., Bellflower

-John P. Weston, West Oregon Lttmber Co., I.os Angeles

Morrie Stone, Best Products Mfg. Co., Huntington Park

Albert G. Shaw, H. W. Brown Sash & Door Co., Los Angeles

Ray Gorden Van Heukelon, Crown City Lumber & Mill Co., Pasadena

Glen S. Allen, Alliance Lumber Co., Los Angeles

Francis lVlackprang, Southwest Sash & Door Co., Los Angeles

Chas. W. Straesser, Southr,vest Sash & Door Co., Los Angeles

Wayne Chas. Wilson, D. C. Essley & Son, Los Angeles

Robert J. Baker, Baker's Lumber Yard, Pomona

Richard S. Hoover, The Pacific Lumber Co., Los Angeles

John E. Marshall, John Marshall, Inc., Long Beach

Morgan S. Williams, John Marshall, Inc., Long Beach

Kenneth Nelson, American Lumber & Treating Co., I-os Angeles

Wm. M. Glenn, E. L. Bruce Co., Los Angeles

Joseph P.. Cleary, John Fisher Lumber Co., Santa Nlonica

Elwood E. Thomas, Manufacturers Lumber Co., Los Angeles

Gordon M. Dewart, Manufacturers Lumber Co., Los Angeles

Elmer Peterson, Owens Parks Lumber Co., Los Angeles

Paul D. Cherniss, Atlas Lumber Co., Los Angeles

REINSTATEMENTS

Richard Franklin Wells, Inglewood Lumber Co., Inglewood

Volney S. Spalding, Spalding Lumber Co., Los Angeles

James C. Owens, Los Angeles Millwork Co., Los Angeles

William H. Finke, Los Angeles Millwork Co., Los Angeles

Wendell M. Brown, Orban Lumber Co., Pasadena

Russell Gheen, Alliance Lumber Co., Los Angeles

Joe Tardy, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles

Pat Sublett, Carl W. Bau$h, Pasadena

Cliff Bergstrom, Hermosa Beach

Lester W. MacDonald, L. W. MacDonald Co., Los Angeles

5,000 Model Industry Engineercd Homes To Be Promoted Bv Lumber Dealers

New York, N. Y., Qctober 30, 1947-In wholehearted support of the Industry Ehgineered Homes Program to build better homes at lower cost, board members of the National Retail Lumber Dealels Association meeting at the Waldorf'Astoria in New Vork City recently were firm in their belief that lumber dealers and their customer contractors would start at once to build 5,000 model Industry Engineered Homes throughout this country.

H' 8' Northup

"The Industry Engineered Homes Program," H. R. Northup, Secretary-Manager of the Association stated, 'is no longer in the theory stage, but has advanced to the action stage. The program is now translated into workable home plans exemplifying the principles applied io small home construction by more than 100 engineers. The book 'Here's A Better Way To Build,' the plans, and the promotional material are ready for immediate use by dealers, contractors, and builders throughout the Nation."

In making a thorough and exhaustive study of building problems, the board of directors of the lumber dealers laid heavy stress on the unprecedented accomplishments of the construction industry. Since the relaxation of government controls and regulations last March, the building industry has steadily attained a higher rate of construction month by month. During August and September, when construction normally falls off, the rate of home building continued to rise to the unprecedented level of over a million homes a year.

Because such housing gains could not have been made

under control and regulation the board members of the Association were seriously concerned over the President's proposals to renew some type of controls at the manufacturing level. If this type of control were applied to the production of building materials, it would result in less production and a returh of black markets, according to Mr. Northup.

"References to the use of an allocation system likewise are alarming to this industry," he said, "because past experience has shown that allocation of building materials merely drives materials out of normal distribution chan.nels; leads to maldistribution, and black market operations.

"Some lumber and building material products are already being exported to other countries," Northup explained, "and. any additional building materials exported will directly affect the number of homes that can be constructed in this country."

As the lifting of export controls on lumber and building materials would result in decreasing the number of homes that could be built in this country, the Association is asking the support of the Office of fnternational Trade of the Department of Commerce, the Department of State, and also the support of Congressmen in limiting the export of any building products.

The effects of proposed housing legislation such as the Taft-Ellender-Wagner Bill were seriously discussed.

"We sought to determine whether legislation of any type could solve the housing problem," Northup pointed out, "but in every case we were forced to conclude that additional legislation might retard the present rate of home construction and there was no indication that legislation would aid or speed home production."

While the material supply situation prevented the accumulation of any local backlog of building materials for maintaining a steady flow of materials to job sites, the board of directors recommended that no slum clearance

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or public housing should be added to the already expanded housing program.

To speed production of homes and decrease costs, the lumber dealers made a number of recommendations regarding changes in the administration of certain existing laws affecting the building field.

Renewal of FHA Title VI financing of rental properties in 1948 was recommended.

The board also suggested that a more realistic appraisal of construction values and costs on the part of FHA would enable many veterans and others to purchase homes now denied them because of current appraisal practices.

Lack of uniformity between FHA and Veterans'Administration appraisals has also led to confusion and multiplied the difficulties faced in financing homes.

The board of directors also pointed out the effect of the recent statement made by the Federal Reserve Board in connection with the proposed revocation of wartime credit regulation W on November 1. The Federal Reserve Board cautioned banks to tighten credit, and this, the dealers believe, may have resulted in the recent refusals of banks to accept class 3, title I loans on low cost homes.

This is the type of loan most needed by lumber dealers in smaller communities and rural areas for building truly low cost homes, and the refusal of banks to make these loans actually prevents the construction of sound, low cost housing.

Also bearing upon the immediate home building situation is the pending Interstate Commerce Commission freight rate increase. The Board here again pointed out that this increase and the present car shortage would have some effect upon the price and availabilitv of building materials.

It was brought out that except for nails, cast iron radiation, and mechanical stokers, a Department of Commerce production estimate clearly showed a greatly expanded production picture in most building materials compared to pre-war 1939.

Present indications are that material shortages will be overcome, providing not too much material is exported out of the country. Contingent upon this and continued freedom from regulation and control, the building industry will be able to maintain and perhaps increase the rate of construction reached during August and September, which would enable the construction of a million homes in 1948. according to lumber dealer spokesmen.

Thouscrnd Oqks Ycrd Sold

Julian Bailey has sold his yard at Thousand Oaks, Calif., to Dorl Secord of Los Angeles, who was formerly in charge of the materials department of one of the large aircraft companies, and has had considerable experience in the builders hardware business.

Mr. Secord is building new sheds to accommodate larger stocks of finish lumber, and has made other improvements.

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Forest Facts and Figures

Celluloid, the first plastic, was developed in 1869 on a wood pulp base, as a result of a search for a substitute for ivory billiard balls-but they can't grow hair on plastics, either.

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In an average year, about 43 per cent of the rvorld's forest production comes from the United States-and. we can hold our own in sap production, too. 'F**

Man learned how to make paper from wood by watching the wasp. By not watching the wasp, other men have got the point, too.

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Almost five made regular ing vessels.

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Since replocing horse-drown wogons wifh ROSS Stroddle Corriers qnd Lift frucks, lhis progressive Conodion mill hos doubled hondling copocity. fheir first ROSSwhich wos still going slrong ofter more lhon fifleen yeors' conlinuous service-convinced them thot ROSS equipmenl is o "blue chip" inveslment. Ask o ROSS represenlolive to look over your loyout. He's quolified from long experience lo help you solve your hondling probletns ond "slock lhe blues" on your side of lhe loble with ROSS cost-cutting mclhods qnd mochines.

Reports on L947 Progress--And Outlines l0Point Program For I94B

Ad.d.ress ol Norman P. Mason, Prcsident ol tbe National Retail Lumber Dealerc Association, at annual meeting beld, in Neut York, October 31, 1947

It has been well said, I thirrk, that a business either progresses, either goes forward, or slides backward-a business cannot stand still.

Your National Retail Lumber Dealers Association is no different. ft, too, must go one way or the other. I'm happy to be able to report to you that we have really gone forrvard, that we have had a successful year, not jusr fighting a rear guard action, but forging ahead to serve this industry. As members of this association, as its directors, you can well be proud of its accomplishments.

For a number of years it has been necessary for us to fight these rear guard actions, to defend our position, to use our time and our efforts to keep our industry posted on what government bureaus told us rve could do. Now that is all past.

Last year at Seattle, you told us you were through with this sort of thing. You wanted your association to get to work to rid the industry of federal controls, price controls, distribution controls, and use controls. You told us to get that done and then to do something about lowering costs, about finding out if there was not some way that could be found which would result in the public getting a better house for less money and still give labor a better living than it has been getting in the past-labor both in the r,voods and mills-in the building material factorieslabor on the railroads and truck lines-labor in our distributing yards and labor on the site putting these materials together. You told us, find out if building costs cannot be

reduced but don't try to cut the earning polver of labor to do it.

You said all this and you said, too-provide for an educational program that will draw the youth of America into our industry-and especially a program rvhich will assist our returned veterans to get to earning a decent living quickly-a program which will make them worthwhile employees for us without the endless time that has been used for training in many of our yards in the past.

To implement the program you gave us the largest budget your National Association has had in many years and you told us to get some action.

Your suggestions have been carried out. With the helpful prodding which the voting public of America showed last November, the administration finally rvas forced to recognize the impossibility of carrying on the fiasco of controls. The most onerous ones were relaxed rather quickly after election day-after the voters had spoken, but bureaucracy held on grimly and it was not till late May that the last of the bothersome restrictions came off. We might still have tl-rem if we had not had a strong National Association at Washington continually working, if we hadn't had a united membership backing that Association all the way.

We took your instructions seriously, too, about doing something about reducing costs. The Industry Engineered Homes Program, a united attack by producers and distributors, was pushed with real enthusiasm and drive. You have no idea of the leadership that u'as required to bring the many minds of this construction industry together. Yott will hear of the progress of this later in the day. You can rvell be proud of your place in bringing this about.

But this is not all. \\re knew you really meant it rvhen you said you wanted our industry to spearhead the drive

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T I{AS been said that sentiment and business can not gowell together. We sinc ercly believe they can! Believing so, we thank our many lumber deder friends for patronage given us aJrd at the same time express our hope that a' year of

to find ways to get housing for the public at reasonable cost. So, we approached the problem from a new angle. The last Congress had appropriated money for the Research Department of the Department of Commerce. We found that some of this money was not earmarked and we felt that it might well be used to see if there were not some savings possible in routing materials to the job-in the timing of their delivery-in the method of using them. Your president with Mr. Tyler Rogers, president of Producers' Council, called at the Department of Commerce, ,urged the desirability of such research and were happy to receive a grant of $45,000 for the University of Illinois to use in such research. This research is now going forward. Like all research, no one knows what it will dscover. If it only proves present methods are correct, it will have done a vrtorthwhile service to the public of America.

We believe we followed your orders as to education, too. You will have the report of the actual accomplishmepts, but may I say hers that you can hold your heads high. Educators tell me that our educational program is head and shoulders above that of any other industry. Others are now following suit, but your industry pioneered a plan at the time it was needed most. It has been eminently successful.

We have done more. We have accepted the challenge that the importance of housing has laid upon our industry. and we have spoken for that industry before the public of America. You can be proud of the part that your Association has taken in bringing to the public of America the truth of the housing picture.

Today we have the most active housebuilding program going on in the United States of America that we have ever had. W'e are building at the rate of 1,156,000 houses per year. That was the September rate. Private industry is doing this-doing is largely without Federal aid except for financing guarantees from the Federal Housing Administration-a federal agency this industry was instrumental in seeking to have established. Think of it--35,700 houses in August,88,000 in September-and then look at last year's records when rve had a controlled economy and a federal bureau which was trying desperately to foster a new type of building called "prefabrication."

Why do we have this record-breaking building market ? One reason is that you members of this industry have striven mightily to provide the materials for this drivebut another and a more potential reason is that your Asso-

ciation has been really ott its toes and when its surveys showed serious consumer r:esistance to prices it was able to tell the truth about housing costs to the people of America; the truth that housing costs are not out of line. We did it in many ways. First-through a widely quoted keynote address before the annual meeting of the Chamber oI Commerce of the United States, to a hall packed with the business leaders of America. Secondly, we were able to get radio time on a much listened to program on a nationwide hook-up to tell the same story. Thirdly, we appeared before a national savings & loan group to argue our point creditably with an expert economist-a Federal Home Loan Bank president, and the chairman of the board of the National Committee on Housing. These things did not just happen. They were the result of thoughtful planning and of the time and energy of your National Association, They indicate the progressive viewpoint of your Associationa viewpoint which says it's not enough to do the commonplace, but that we must be in a position of leadership.

And now for the future.

As I said in the beginning, it is perfectly obvious to me that this Association can no longer afford to fight rearguard actions. We no longer should be merely answering our detractors. We should tell the public of America that this business is efficient, that it is economic. We have a nationwide network of community leaders who can, if they will, tell the story of this industry well-tell it far better than any million dollar program-better than the finest radio show.

Here are some of the actions we must take. Here is a program.

1. It is time the pubic of America began to realize that housing is no longer in the emergency status. We need more and more and more homes in many of our communities-.but the building record of this year has taken the word "emergency" out of the picture. The story that there is an emergency is being fostered now largely by uninformcd people and by people who seek to get the federal govcrnment into the housing business. Let's tell the home folk.

2. We must keep up an active campaigp of research in an attempt to find new methods of construction-new ways to build better homes for Americans at lower and lower costs. The news of our Industry Engineered Homes Program must be carried to the public, and it must be broadened and improved through further research, and we must tell the home folk that we are doing it.

3. We must see that the loaning institutions of this country Tully understand housing costs and housing values. A lack of realism in appraisals of present day construction is now retarding the industry's ability to deliver the needed homes in some areas today. We must tell the home folk the truth about housing costs.

4. We must do our part to see that the expansion of the labor force keeps pace with the expansion of the material marltrets. 'We must have the help of the home folk to accomplish this.

5. We must continue to improve our own abilities to serve the construction industry. We must constantly be on the alert for cost-saving methods and equipment for our yards. 'We must see that our places of business are modern and up to date, and we must remember that as we do these things we must tell the home folk so that they will recognize us for the progressive industry we really are.

6. Somehow, we must reduce taxes. Few politicians will explain that about $2,000 in the cost of an $8,000 house is taxes. They will not explain why the increased cost of government has so greatly exceeded the increased cost of housing. We must show the public that we cannot carry 2,074,833 federal employees on the government payroll, maintain prices oT foodstuffs, and not pay for it in the cost of housing. The home folk must be told that lowering taxes is one way to lower costs.

7. We must do our best'to see that manufacturers of the building items in short supply are encouraged to increase their production-to see to it as we have, that housing gets first chance at these articles when they do appear; and we must tell the home folk what we are doing along this line.

8. Naturally, we must continue the excellent lvork we have been doing of keeping the members of the Congress informed as to the truth of the housing question, and on taxation and the other matters of legislation.

9. We must continue our fine educational programbroadening it-improving it-making it more and more effective.

10. We must work for an American approach to the problem of slum ,clearance for our cities. We must help wipe out these breeding places of crime and disease and unrest. But we must not let the issue of slum clearance be clouded by the demand for public housing. There is no such thing as a little public housing. Let's clear our slums

Leading Construction Cities Of The West

The total valuation of the building permits issued during October by the twenty-five leading construction cities of the West was$81,265,228. In September,1947, these identical cities issued permits valued at$74/84,O98. The tu'entyfive leading construction cities are:

in the American way by the work and initiaiive of our own commur-rities. The program will rvork if we will tell the true story to our home folk.

Here is a lGpoint program for yott for the coming year. \Are have a real job to do for the home folk of America. If we r'vork together-if we really try-l:r'e can 'carry it through.

Going Home For Christmas

He was seated in his deSk chair with a time card in his hand,

And a smile upon his features that I could not understand;

When I found him in the office after hours and all alone, The lamps had long been lighted and the whistles long had blown.

"Well, old chap," said I, "why linger when your busy mates have gone?

Don't you know it's past the hour and you're still working o'n?"

But he reached out for a letter just as though he didn't hear,

Just opened it and read a part and smiled frorn ear to ear. "I'm going home for Christnas, going home for Christmas day,

I'm going to see my mother, man/, many miles away; ffere's a letter she has written asking that her boy come home,

The family is scattered and she's living all alone. I can't resist her letter, let me read you just a line, 'Come home and I will feed you on those mincemeat pies of mine;

I'll let you try my new preserves and sample all my jell' And bake some of the cookies that you used to love so well,'

Then at the end she says'please come, I'm getting old you ' know,

You've been away for seven years' I want to see you so.' So I'm going home for Christmas for I can't resist the call, It's the only place one ought to be at Christmas, after all."

Pcrcific Northwest Construction

October construction in 40 cities of the Pacific Northwest involved expend.itures of $17,296,m, ofi 5 per cent from September but 64 per cent above October, 1946. Total permits were 4,725, against 5,350 the previous month and 4,166 in the 1946 month. Washington state reported building volume of $7,484,000 in October, Oregon $6,768,000 and Idaho $1,106,000. The figures also include $1,937,000 for Vancouver and Victoria, B.C.

Terminal lsland Plant Scoreg V:ctory Over Los Angeles Plant

The second annual football pool contest between the employees of the Hammond Lumber Company, Los Angeles, and the Terminal Island plant has ended, in the words ' of one of the contestants, "after nine nerve-wracking weeks in victory for Terminal Island."

He says further: "Bill Woolsey, mill superintendent and Howard }Iughes, yard superintendent, from the Los Angeles plant led most of the way with Frank Rickinger, plant superintendent of Terminal Island, and Johnny Bryant, Terminal Island, expert Ross carrier driver, close on their trail.

"Frank Rickinger drew into the lead after the sixth week, and pulled away from the field of.27 contestants with ease and won by three games over his closest rival, Johnny Bryant. Third prize went to Phister from the Los Angeles office, and even the booby prize went to the Terminal plant, won by Carl Fabry.

"Besides winning $28.00 for first prizg Frank Rickinger received a beautiful football trophy, donated by none other than mastercraftsman Ralph Neal, in charge of the shipping department at the Terminal plant. Better luck next year, Los Angeles."

Hcrdwood Flooring Production

Output of hardwood flooring in the southern and Appalachian regions, the nation's major producing areas, exceeded one-half billion board feet for the first 10 months oif. 1947, it was announced by Secretary Henry H. Willins of the National Oak Flooring Manufacturers' Association. Production totaled nearly 511,000,000 board feet, more than double that of the corresponding period last year. With two full months to go, Willins said, it appears likely that an all-time annual high in excess of 600,000,000 board feet will be reached this year. He added that in the week ended November 1, output surpassed 15,000,000 board feet for the third consecutive week, a new record. The production figures cover oak and other hardwood flooring which have been in short supply for several years.

Appointed Scrles Mcncrger

Victor Clarke, who was formerly with Dant & Russell, Inc., Portland, has been made regional sales manager of the Ralph L. Smith Lumber Company at Portland. Thomas T. Denison is manager of the Portland office.

The New $un Lunrher Yard In $unny $an ternilnilo Valley

By Jack Dionne

Frank H, Bumcby President

The time is about midsummer, of the good year 1946. Location, a lunch place in Beverly Hills.

The Cast, two stalwart gentlemen, much alike in looks, much different in ages. Their names, Frank Burnaby, President and founder of the Sun Lumber Company, of Beverly Hills, and Homer Burnaby, his only son and the Vice President and responsible Manager of that same lumber c0ncern.

In the corner of the room close by stands a nickel-in-theslot record-playing machine. One of them drops a nickel in the slot, and they listen as Bing starts to sing-"Don't Fence Me In." And rvhen he finishes the song, the old gentleman (pardon me, I mean the OLDER gentleman), turns to the younger and says: "Homer, that song tells our story. 'W'e're fenced in, here in Beverly Flills. We've bulged every inch we can bulge, our business grows continually bigger, and we just haven't the room to handle it. Looks like we've got to move."

And almost automatically he shoved another nickel into the slot. And guess what Bing began to sing this time? "I'll Make the San Fernando Valley My Home." Yes, Sir, that's what he sang. And the light of inspiration came to the eyes of both men, as they picked up their hats, grabbed their modest, brand-new Cadillac car, and started for the San Fernando Valley to take a look-see for a new lumber yard site. Norv there are many beautiful little cities in the San Fernando Valley. They look much alike, all neat, attractive, colorful, live places, populated rvith live people' Tn fact there are four hundred thousand such people in that lovely and fertile Valley norv, and a million more on the lr'ay in the next ferv years.

The Burnabys drove around for several hours. Finally they came to Van Nuys, and the older gentleman cocked his head like a bird dog pointing, and said-"This is it." How he decided on Van Nuys is more than I can tell you. Probably like Adam named the elephant' As the animals walked by, you remember, Adam named them. A great hulk came along and Adam said-"I name him elephant." The Lord asked why, and Adam said-"Because hd looks more like an elephant than any other animal I ever sarv." Anyway, the younger man seconded the motion, and Van Nuys.it rvas; and Van Nuys it is. Personally I feel about

those lovely San Fernando Valley towns like the Irishman did about Americans. He said the thing he liked best about the United States is that in this country one man is as good as another, and some of them are a d-n sight better. So I have no criticism to make of the Burnaby selection. And in the light of the experiences already had, neither have they. With every day that passes they are more pleased with the whole set-up.

So they went along beautiful Sepulveda Boulevard, r'r'hich runs through the Valley and West to the Pacific Ocean. And they found a patch of fifteen acres of land that looked ready made for a big and modern lumber yard. They laid cash on the barrelhead (those boys have really gotten fat in Beverly Hills) and the fifteen acres :rvas theirs. Then they called in a skilled architect, he drew a plat of the land, and they all sat dorvn and built the yard on paper. They spotted every unit exactly, r'r'orked out its relaticlnship to every other unit to facilitate the operation of them all, and into this plan they built their hopes, their dreams, and all the ambitions they ever had with regard to a lumber yard. From their own viewpoints at least, they made a perfect layout. Then they went ahead and built it.

Just a few days ago, late in November it was, these same two stalwart men previously mentioned in this piece, stood side by side in a back corner of the new yard of the Sun

Homer H. Bunrcrby, vice prerident cad genercrl rncncger.

Lumber Com,pany, located on that fifteen acres in the free city of Van Nuys, on beautiful Sepulveda Boulevard. They \\'ere watching with keen interest a certain oPeration. Several kiln.cars, piled high with green lumber, rvere being shoved through the rvide doors of the last and latest unit of this yard to be completed; the dry kilns. Every other unit of the yard rvas finished and in operation but this. As the kiln door closed behind the lumber, the two men grinned at each other, then turned and u'alked back to the of6ce, fifteen acres away. Their dream had come true. Their building job was complete. There rvas nothing left to do with their dream yard but run her.

The new kilns-the final unit-deserve special mention. Made by the Moore Dry Kiln Company, they are the latest and most ingenious of their drying productions. For they are fan-type, cross-circulation kilns, but instead of steam they are heated with gas. This system of drying has only been perfected during the present year, and Moore has installed only a ferv of them. f,he Sun Lumber Company kilns hold about 45,000 feet at a time, and rvill dry that much lumber about trvice a week.

Now we have the yard completed, and the two stalwart guys back in their ofEces, so let's take a look at the finished job and see how we like it. Start with the office, right up

Heary L. Jensen, secretcry-tr€cEurer.

front on the Boulevard. It's a pip. It is big, beautiful, and unbelievably efficient. Air conditioned throughout, rvonderfully lighted, furnished, and equipped. Half a dozen private offices around the edges, all glassed in, and numerous working desks. Only one inclosed office, that of Homer Burnaby, General Manager, over in the corner, rvhere he can look out and watch everyone in the room. Earl C. Jameson, vice president in charge of sales, has a corner office behind glass, and so has Assistant General Manager Henry L. Jensen, who is also Secretary and Treasurer. Down the center of the big and handsome general office is an attractive sales counter, rvith five salesmen lined up behind it, ready to talk business to five different customers at once. They give service. When a sale is made the buyer gets a card rvith a number on it, and he takes his turn out back and has his order filled.

We r,vill follow him out in a minute to see that he is taken care of. but a bit more about the office. I can't tell you lvhat the counter sales are because Frank Burnaby gave me the hush-hush on that, but I'll slip you the info that it is several times as much as it was in their Beverly Hills yard; and they used to brag about their counter sales volume over there. Get it? Those building shopperq in the San Fernando Valley came in droves to do their lumber

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fhe olEce building lqces on Sepulvedc Boulevard. Ample pcrking ipqco ir provided lor cuslonerl

shopping. The entire interior of the ofifice is done in vertical grain Fir paneling and trim, specially treated and rubbed, and the efiect is wonderful. On the sceond floor is one office, that of President Frank Burnaby, the older gent I have already mentioned several times. And also on the floor is something unique; a very charming and practical little apartment with bath and everything, put there for the convenience of occasional out-of-town business callers who have been unable to g'et hotel accommodations. And I guess you realize, friends, that that is often a wonderful service. I suggested that maybe the apartment was a place to recuperate for customers who fainted when they saw their lumber bill, but it was no soap. The Burnabys stuck to their story.

Now let's quit fooling around and get back to the lumber yard or this story will fill this whole issue of The Lumber Merchant. Let me say right here that this entire operation is wonderfully mechanized. They have four lift trucks, three straddle trucks, and so many other trucks, truck-trailers, and sich like, that they no longer try to ceuRt 'em; they just sorta estimate 'em. These mechanical contrivances cafl do more practical tricks in that lumber yard than a monkey can on a hundred yards of grapevine. In the back of the yard there is a spur railroad track one thousand feet long, and these lift trucks rtnload these cars in just a bit less than no time at all (the way it looked to me), and when you remember how many men and how Iong it used to take just a short time ago to unload a single car of lumber, it makes you scratch your head thinking of all the money that used to be wasted that way. They have had as many as fifteen cars on that spur track at one time unloading lumber, and in these times that smacks of necromancy (sleight-of-hand to you, brother).

Just happened to remember (this story is not nearly as well streamlined as the Sun Lumber Company operation) that I left a'customer with a numbered card'in his hand going out the back door of the office several paragraphs back to get his order filled. Well, right back of the office they fill the counter oiders, fill them in turn as they come out, and here is one of the slick tricks at the new yard. Quite a cluster of order-fillers grab the custom", * h" comes through the door, look over his order, and they frisk off in different directions to a great mass of bins and boxes

and cubbyholes all close by, where they snatch up the items the order calls for and come a-running with them, and before the customer catches his breath he is loaded and out of the yard and on his way rejoicing; that is, if anyone can rejoice who has to buy lumber on this market. They have arranged an assembly of lumber items in the quadrangle of sheds right back of the office from which they can fill each and every small order in a hurry. And they do.

Gentle reader, if you are getting confused about this Sun

Lumber Company set-up, turn to the map you 'rvill find herewith, and get yourself oriented, so that you will knor,v rvhere you are as we whisk gaily from spot to spot, and unit to unit. You can look and see these sheds back of the offrce where the counter orders are filled. Well, look right back of the office and you find the panel shed. Here they keep wall board and insulation handy for the counter trade orders. Near it is the cabinet shop. This is a minor unit in the set-up, where they make custom-built doors, sash, and millwork. But not too many. This is not one of their main lines. There is a small stock of wooden shingles, and a modest stock of rolled roofing close by, but you see, this is

The genercrl offices with scrleg counler in the loregrouad.

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You kno'iv I plumb forgot to tell you about that. "This is a lumber yard," says Homer Burnaby, and he puts more emphasis on "lumber" than Vishinsky does when he says "Stalin." They carry very few sidelines. No paint, no hardware, no fancy roofings, no fancy fixings, and they do just a very small business in doors and windows. Just lumber, says lfomer. Okay, okay, then, it's just a lumber yard. Let's not forget.

Next unit you stumble over going backward from the office, is the planing mill. If the office is a pip, this planing mill is a zick. It's really a swell unit. Divided by the mill office, one end of the mill is stacked with resaws, and the other with lighter machinery. All in all they have a big resaw that cuts big timbers, and three smaller ones for lighter work; two band ripsaws, one pony-planer, four stickers, and a big sander. They make their own planer knives and have ten thousand dollars worth of knives on the rack. The filing room is as big as that of a big sawmill. Here they can bring in a big timber (and the back of the yard is piled high with them) and make them into anything and everything the trade desires.

Next you walk into a lift truck shed where they store and stock high grade dry lumber. The shed holds half a million feet and the stock is so piled that every package is available to the lift trucks for removal when needed. Down

at the far end of the yard from the lift truck shed is the new dry kiln unit already mentioned. Also we have mentioned the thousand foot spur track where the lumber is unloaded. At the end of this spur they have a very interesting and practical unit, a long conveyor chain where the lumber,is sorted, graded, and segregated. The lift trucks take the lumber from the cars and place the packages on the front end of the conveyor and then straddle trucks pick up the re-assembled packages and take them to their proper storage places.

Now I have mentioned all the major units of the yard but two, one a giant refuse burner back of the planer, and the other a giant crane used for sorting heavy lumber. Lumber is stored all over the fifteen acres not specifically covered by building units, yet there is plenty of clear space throughout the yard. In the back of the yard great stacks of timbers are piled high. They make no effort to carry stocks of smaller timbers. When they sell a small timber they take a big timber to the planer and the big resaw slices off the desired piece. Thus any size is available at any time on short notice. They carry a large stock of treated lumber, dealing in and stocking \\rolmanized, Chemonite, and. Zinc Chloride lumber.

For the employes there are ample rest rooms, lunch rooms, and wash rooms, much more attractive and practical than those generally seen in industrial plants.

Itl unitg of vqrious capacities, which deliver lumber all over the Valley crec.

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The whole fifteen acres is paved with concrete. When I asked Homer Burnaby how come they paved the. whole thing he said: "Have you forgotten what they charge for shoe shines these days?"

This story is getting long and Ed Martin is giving me the stop sign. Okay. But it's fun to write about a place like this. And about people like these. I've known Frank Burnaby 35 years. Remember like it was yesterday when he started the first Sun Yard in Beverly Hills, which has grown steadily from that time. The bulging of their business past the size of their plant, plus the fact that their land in Beverly Hills had become too doggoned expensive to pile lumber on, forced them to move. The business has been a continuous success from the start. It didn't iust

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happen. There was a reason. The reason is named Frank Burnaby. Then the son, Homer, came along. Today he is the big boss, and is about 99 per cent responsible for the new yard. I have known him since he graduated from Stanford. He used to say "Stanford" in loud tones. This year he sort of mumbles. Lost every g'ame, you know ! Ah, well ! But good folks, those Burnabys, both of them. Grand folks.

So, friends, we have finished our little journey. We took the Burnabys from small estate and years back, and brought them up to their present opulence, and their wonderful plant at Van Nuys. That's all we can do. From here they must carry on. They're on their own.

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Lumber Dealers Sell Patterns For Home \(/oodworkers

Woodworking patterns, created for the amateur by U-Bild Enterprises of 1 51 55 Saticoy Street, Van Nuys, Calif., are selling freely, and many lumber dealers are handling this line. Stephen W. Ellingson, manager of this firm, has this to say about the patterns:

"These are full size patterns designed for the home woodworker. All that is necessary is to lay the pattern on the lr'ood, trace it, sar,v it out, then put it together. There are no difficult dimensions, a ruler is not even needed. Every screu'and nail hole is clearly shou'n. Patterns are available for practically any article the amateur might tvant to make, and no special tools are needed.

"Buyers of the patterns are also customers for all the materials that go into a piece of furniture, suclr as lumber, plyrvood, both softrvood and hardwood, screws, bolts, nails, tacks, and also screw drivers, hammers, saws, tools of all kinds.

"Ilach pattern has a list of required materials on the back of the envelope it comes in.

"A recent issue of the Wall Street Journal had a special article stating that home owners will spend 50 million dollars this year for power tools, and further that the figure would have been 100 million dollars if materials had been available."

The telephone number of U-Bild Enterprises is State s-6368.

fllustrated on this page is a magazine rack and smoking stand combination that can be made in a few hours from one of the patterns. This versatile piece of furniture is useful as an end table or bed stand.

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Christmas Party And Golt Tournament December 11

The Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club will hold its annual Christmas party Thursday, December 11, 1947, at the Oakmont Country Club, Glendale.

There will be a golf tournament in the afternoon, and the golfers rvill tee off at noon. Prizes to be awarded include the Roy E. Stanton, George Ream, and The California Lumber Merchant trophies. Other prizes rvill go to the winners in the special events.

Dinner rvill be served in the clubhouse at 7:O9 p.m., and the committee has arranged for a fine entertainment program.

Those arranging for the party include Chairman Bill Ream, Dee Essley, George Clough, George Pike and Orval Stewart.

"JOE BEAVER"

Forest Service, U. S. Deptrtment of Agrlculturc !'h soves him o houling chorgel"

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1. 5. WHA1EY 1UMBER CO.

Sure I Sell Paint I

Should every lumber merchant sell

Should he ?

Should a fish srvim ? A bird fly ? golfer cuss?

Why, CERTAINLY.

paint ? A winner brag? A

As the colored brother says-"That's what he shouldn't do nothin' else but."

Study it for yourself and see if there's a flaw in the stone-a fly in the raisin pudding.

The lumber merchant is interested not only in the building materials that go out from his place of business, but in the satisfaction of the customer. In fact, that's first.

And the satisfaction of the customer depends on his getting the right kind of service out of the materlals he buys, whether it be for house, barn, or what have you. We agree on that, don't we ?

Then-

What is the use of the lumber dealer securing for his customer the right kind of boards, finish, ceiling, siding, shingles, and delivering them with pride to the Tellow who is going to use them, and then taking a chance that a bad paint job will destroy the appearance and value of the finished job?

Because you knorv beyond the shadow of a doubt that the finest lurnber you can put into a building can be despoiled of its nrerits bv a bad job of painting, or a lot of bad paint.

There's just as much sense in a lumber dealer selling the lumber and not the paint as there is in a tailor selling the suit but not the buttons. For paint is an inseparable part of the building on which it is used, and no building can be any better than the paint job that covers it.

A11 lumber exposed to view, or to the weather, should be painted. It should be painted intelligently and correctly if it is to have its full length of life, and also give satisfaction from an appearance standpoint.

So. the lumber merchant should stock and merchandise the right kind of paint, and sell it along with the building materials. Then he need have no doubt that his materials will be properly used, and give proper satisfaction. It is his business to see that the right kind of paint is always available to the folks rvho buy and use his building materials.

The natural and best paint merchant is the lumber dealer.

Elected To Board

James L. Buckley, vice president in charge of the eastern division of Georgia Hardwood Lumber Co., of Augusta, Ga., rvith headquarters in Nerv York, has been elected a mernber of the board of directors. He is a nationally knolvn figurq in the lumber, plyr'vood and building materials industries.

$olling iluman Happinoss

The planning, selling, and building of HOMES, is simply trafficking in HUMAN HAPPINESS.

A4d therefore a profession "dear to the gods."

The world owes no man a living.

But every man owes the world a LIFE.

And, as he pays the world that life he owes, the world in return will pay him a living-and as much more as he PAYS for.

The man who is devoting his life to the planning and selling of HOMES and other necessary buildings, is paying his debt to the world, and the world will reciprocate.

Philosophers have agreed from time immemorial-and their thought rings true in human experience every timethat only as a man makes other people happy, does he deserve happiness himself ; and only on that basis should he expect happiness.

And since the business of home building is the business of making humans h"ppy, the building merchant has the p:ivi-

Pacific Iogging Congrress

The 38th Session of the Pacific Logging Congress was held in Seattle, November 17, 18, and 19.

Subjects discussed at the three-day gathering included the use of two-way radio for logging purposes; establishment and use of natural resource roads, standardization of log transportation regulations.

Primary feature of the Congress was a display,of logging machinery in Seattle's Civic Auditorium, headquartrs for the meeting. The exhibit, to which scores of manufacturers contributed their newest products, was the largest of its kind offered in a decade.

The annual banquet and logger's ball was the final event on the program. This was held on the evening of the 19th in the Civic Auditorium.

lege and the opportunity in his everyday work, of paying his debt to the world and to Providence.

The man who is planning, selling, and building HOMES, is tuning in with the best there is in life.

And he has the splendid consciousness that he makes his way in life and his investment profit, and leaves happiness and satisfaction behind him as he goes.

Few professions can say as much.

The time is at hand in this world's history when that man will be the most respected who bestows the most benefits here and now.

In the old days that man carried the most weight who made the biggest promises about the life to come. We are learning that he who lives most abundantly here, and helps the other fellow to do the same, is making the best possible preparations for whatever the future may bring.

Emerson said: "That country is the fairest which is inhabited by noble minds."

And by live building merchants.

Giustinc Bros. Lumber Co. Appoints Forester

Giustina Bros. Lumber Co., Eugene, has appointed A. D. McReynolds, formerly forester for the West Coast Lumbermen's Association in Eugene, as forester for the company. He. is a graduate of the Oregon State College School of Forestry.

Long-3E11 Lumber Co. Puts Big Tree Section On Displcry

Long-Bell Lumber Co. has placed at the entrance to its office in Longview, Wash. a section of a big Douglas fir log measuring 12 f.eet three inches in diameter. The tree from which the section was taken stood over 200 feet high, and was logged by the Atlas Logging Co., a contract logger for the company.

Merry Ghristmas Happy New Year

How Lumber Loolc

Portland, Ore., November l?-Lumber is piling up at West Coast sawmills in ever increasing quantities due to the critical shortage of railroad cars, H. V. Simpson said today. Gross stocks on hand at the end of October stood at 559,756,000 board feet, an increase of. 54.7/o in six months over the 36I,778,m board feet of last May. Mills south of Portland on the Southern Pacific system are feeling the pinch most severely.

Lumber production in the Douglas fir.region for October continued at record levels, with weekly average totaling 146f82,W feet, a slight increase over September production. Orders equaled production for October, averaging 146,20I,0m feet, a jump of 13.7 millions over weekly averages for September. October shipments of 144,782,000 leet were almost identical with September's 143,055,000 feet.

"Continued strong order file, calling for heavy lumber shipments throughout the next several months," Mr. Simpson said, "certainly indicates heavier than usual construction right through the winter on home and industrial building. Normally building slorvs down during heavy weather months."

Cumulative orders for the first 44 weeks of 1947 was 6,223,ffiI,W b.t.; M weeks in 1946 was 5,614,558,000 b.f. and the 44 weeks of 1945 totaled 5,235,637,ffio b.f..

'Production for the first 44 weeks of. 1947 reached 6,083,9I7,06 b.f.; same period in 1946 was 5,857,581,000 b.f. and for 1945 totals were 5,334,930,000 b.f.

Orders by markets for 44 weeks of. 1947 rvere: rail, 3,942,757,W b.f.; domestic cargo, 860,948,000 b.f.; export 832,960.000 b.f. and local 586.936.000 b.f.

Western Pine Association reports orders for Ponderosa pine, Idaho rvhitq pine, sugar pine, and associated species for the week ended November 8 totaled 56,855,000 board feet as against 53,385,000 the previous week and 54,687,m for the like u'eek a year ago.

Shipments totaled 60,050,m0 feet compared with ffi,235,000 feet the previous week and 62,44O,000 the previous year. Comparisons on production showed 64,247,W feet as against 64,314,000 feet and 64,450,000 in 1946.

For the year to date, orders are 7 per cent above the same period last year, shipments are up 5 per cent, and production is up 3 per cent.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended November 15, 80 units (105 mills) reporting, gavs orders as I4,756,W board feet, shipments 16,653,000 feet, and production I5,773,0m feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 69,065,000 feet.

The West Coast Lumbeimen's Assqciation for the week ended November 8, 152 mills reporting, gave orders as 104,356,000 board feet, shipments 113,69,000 feet, and production 102,586,000 feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the week totaled 577,849,ffi [eet.

For the week ended November 15, 153 mills reporting, gave orders as 104,333,000 board feet, shipments 109,586,0@ feet, and production 100,457,000 Teet. Unfilled orders at the end of the week totaled 574,433,00O feet.

S.F. Lumbermen's Club

President Wayne Rawlings presided at the regular luncheon meeting of the San Francisco Lumbermen's Club, held October 27 at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco.

Dave Davis, program chairman, introduced the speaker, Paul Speegle, radio columnist of the San Francisco Chronicle.

Fred Ziese, Gamerston & Green Lumber Co. won the drawing for a $25.00 U.S. Savings Bond.

Buys Scwmill

E. K. Bregman, Cal-West Lumber Co., Garvey, Calif., has bought the J. Paul Campbell Lumber Co. sawmill at Canyonville, Ore. He will change the name of the operation to the Alcan Lumber Co. and the main office will be at the Cal-West Lumber Co.

Mr. Bregman's brother, George, rvill be mill manager, and Ralph Olsen, superintendent.

Scrn Diego Hoo-Hoo Club Holds Annuql Fcrll Dinner Dqnce

The annual fall dinner dance of the San Diego Hoo-Hoo Club, was held on Saturday evening, November 22, at Hotel Del Mar, Del Mar, Calif. There was an attendance of about. 200. John Stewart, Frost Hardwood Co., San Diego, the new Vicegerent Snark of the San Diego district, was in charge of arrangements.

Salesmen You Know FHA Mortgage Insurance Wm. C. (Bill) McGubbin

This cartoon of Bill McCubbin was made a couple of years ago when he was active in the San Francisco Junior Chamber of Commerce as vice president and secretary. It was made by Sotomayor, famous artist, and most of his friends would recognize him even ifit was run without a caption.

Bill is associated with Cords Lumber Co., San Francisco. Before he made his present connection he had eight years lumber experience, which included both wholesale and retail.

Weyerhcreuser Film Beceives High B<rting

In competition with nearly one hundred industrial moving pictures produced by leading American companies, Weyerhaeuser technicolor film Trees And Homes was selected as one of the world's six outstanding public relations films entered in the Films of the World contest held recently in Chicago.

As a result of the award the Weyerhaeuser picture is being widely publicized in advertising trade journals and other industrial publications.

' Produced by James Fitzpatrick of travelogue fame, the film has been shown to more than 15 million people and has had the distinction of appearing in first-run theatres in nearly all principal cities. More than 250 prints are required to meet current demand. Projection services are maintained at strategic points throughout the United States and showings are available without cost to interested groups of all kinds.

C. H. (Cbuck) Grifien,III, formerly sales manager, Monterey Bay Redwood Co., Santa Cruz, and who served during the ]\'ar as a Captain in the Merchant Marine, is now port director at Beirut, Lebanon, for the Trans-Arabian Pipe Line Co.

Applications Stopped

Washington, Nov. 20-The Senate Banking Committee agreed unanimously today to sponsor legislation for a $1,000,000,000 increase in the lending authority of the Federal Housing Administration.

Effective November 14 no more applications for FHA insurance of mortgages under Title VI, Sections 603 and 608, of the National Housing Act, have been accepted by the local FHA office according to Washington instructions received in a wire to Southern California District Director, John E. McGovern.

Mr. McGovern explained that the allowable insurable amount has been exhausted and that no more applications may be accepted unless additional authorization is granted by the Congress.

Title VI of the National Housing Act was passed by Congress as a Veterans Emergency Housing Program to alleviate the housing shortage by encouraging construction of residential units to meet the needs of returning veterans.

Title II, Section 2O3, of. the National Housing Act, involving projects consisting of from one- to four-family units, either to be built or already constructed, remains in full force and effect. Mr. McGovern stated.

Students In 63 Universities Study Lumber Construction

Washington-More than 4,000 students of civil engineering and architecture are studying the principles of good lumber construction this fall.

Following its practice of the past eleven years, the Timber Engineering Company, at the beginning of the fall term, offered professors of architecture and engineering free copies of technical lumber literature for classsroom use of their students.

In the past month 116 professors in 63 universities have requested 18,400 pieces of literature.

The offer of free literature to the students r.vas supplemented this year by supplying 450 professors a suggested outline course in timber engineering. Developed after two years study by the company's engineers and a group of leading professors, the course is highly regarded by the teaching profession.

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Fir-Tex Exhibit At Santa Cruz Convention Society of American Foresters to Hold National Meeting in Minneapolis

Tl-re annual meeting of the Society of American Foresters, an organizatior-r of professionally educated foresters with headquarters in Washington, D.C., will be held December 17-20 in Minneapolis, Minn. at the Nicollet Hotel. An attendance of 500 members and guests is anticipated.

According to S. W. Allen of Ann Arbor, Mi4h., president of the Society, the national assembly u.ill open on December 17 u'ith air all-day conference of the Society's Division of Edtrcation, and a meeting of the Society's Council, the organization's governing body, jointly rvith the officers of its 21 sections.

On December 18 will be held seven individual sessions of subject divisions devoted to private forestry, forest economics, forest recreation, forest products, wilcllife management, range management, and silviculture. Nonmembers intersted in these fields of specialization are rvelcome to attend any of these meetings.

Wcrterborne Lumber Exports

\\raterborne lumber exports from ports in the Pacific North'rvest for the first nine months of 1947 were llp 83.9% over the corresponding period of last year, Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau figures sho.il'. Exports amounted to 1,414.2 million board feet, compared lvith 769.7 the first nine months of 1946.

Shipments during September, totaling 164.1 million board feet, rvere almost double the September, 1946 figure, 87.6 million.

I)omestic 'n'aterborne shipments for nine months er,decl Sept. 30 totaled 1,912.5 million board feet, compared with 7,189.2 million for the like 1946 period. The Septerlber, 1947 domestic total was 221 million, compared witl-r 120.1 in the like 1946 month.

Waterborne lumber shipments to U.S. destinations in September, 1947 totaled 49.4 million board feet from \\rashington ports, 10.6 million from Oregon ports and 2.{ million from British Columbia.

The general sessions lvhicl-r start December 19 and continue through the morning of December 20 rvill feature technical papers and discussion of the progress of private forestry in the Lake States. On the evening of December l9 the Society's annnal dinner for members, their ladies, and guests rvill be served in the ltallroom of the Nicollet Hotel.

Organized in 1900, the Society of American Foresters has a membership of 5,5@ practicing technicians in thc United States and Canada. Its official organ is the monthly JOURNAL OIr FORESTRY, a professional publication devoted to forestry in all its branches.

Convclescing From Illness

Geo. M. Hammond, president and manager of Geo. Hammond & Sons, Inc., Northridge, has been ill at horne for several rveeks, and although he is nor.v up and around, is still unable to take an active part in the business.

Charles Hammond, his eldest son. has taken over Mr. llammond's <luties as general nlanager, while Carroll Hammond continues in his position as sales manag'er. Geo. Hammond & Sons, Inc., is the former Borverman Lumber Co. of Glendale. Mr. Hammond has been in the lumber business for tl-re past thirty years.

The illustration shows the attractive exhibit of Fir-Tex of Northern California at the recent convention of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California. held recently at Santa Cruz.

One booth rvas used to display Brixulation, insulating brick siding. The middle booth displayed Fir-Tex Tile ancl Irlank, and the booth on the right of the picture showed Coralite and Handityle, u'ith Hall-Mack medicine cabinets, and bathroom fixtures mounted on one wall.

Predicts 1948 New Construction Will Raach $15.2 Billion

New construction in 1948 probably will reach $15.2 billion, John L. Haynes, Chief, Construction Division, Department of Commerce, announced November 20.

This figure, a joint estimate of the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor, represents a 2O per cent gain over the $12,65 million expected in 1947.

About three-fourths of the 1948 total, or $11,375 million, will be privately financed, the remaining $3,825 million will be publicly financed, according to. the Government estimate.

r Private residential building (excluding farm) will again be the largest single component, Mr. Haynes stated. It will be valued at $6 billion, an increase of.25 per cent over the $4.8 billion total expected in 1947.

Expenditures for private non-residential building will rise slightly to $3,250 million as compared with $3,165 million in 7947. The probable increase in commercial building and in miscellaneous non-residential building (churches, theaters, hospitals, etc.) will be largely offset by a sizable decrease in industrial building.

Farm construction is expected to run about $500 million in 1948, slightly more than 10 per cent better than in 1947.

The greatest boost to privately financed non-residential construction will come from the increased expenditures Tor public utility enterprises. These will probably total $1,625 million, as compared with $1,315 million in 1947. The various public utilities, especially telephone, light and power, and gas, are striving to overcome the backlog of need created during the period of war restrictions and to expand commensurately with the large postwar demand arising from the high levels of industrial operation and of home building.

School For Lumbernen

The Weyerhaeuser Timber Company at Longview, Washington, has revived its school for lumbermen, started in 1936 and closed in l94I because of the war. Its 330 graduates are now widely scattered and many hold important supervisory positions in the lumber industry. The present school is limited to 30 men and a waiting list is growing.

Teco Trussed Rafters Speed Erection

The economy and simplicity of Teco trussed rafters has again been demonstrated in the erection of twenty-four 36 foot rafters in five hours by six men, according to Stuart Huckins of Timber Engineering Company of New England.

The rafters were fabricated at the job site by the Charles L. Briggs Company, Inc. of Clinton, Mass. for a 3d x 50 recreation and display room for the Southern New Englgnd Conference. An added feature in the structure is the use of the new Trip-L-Grip framing anchors in tying the rafters to the plate.

The design used by the Briggs Company was an adaptation of Timber Engineering Company's typical design No. 39, which is cne of a series of new rafter designs featuring clear span, non-bearing partitions for home and other light frame construction.

Over 2,800 housing units have been built with trussed rafters,and another 2,60O are specified. An increasing number of apartment designs are now being prepared to include the rafters. In dddition to homes, architects are now using this improved structural roof and ceiling framing system designed with Teco connectors for multiple dwellings, commercial and industrial buildings.

The framing anchors used on the job are a new type of timber connector {or secondary connections in homes and farm buildings. They are particularly good for tying down roofs, reinforcing rough openings and strengthening granaries, corn cribs and other farm buildings. Anchors are now available for immediate delivery from leading retail lumber dealers throughout the country.

Form New Compcrny

E. L. (Ted) Connor and H. W. (Zip) Neuman announce the formation of Colonial Cedar Company, Inc. to carry on the functions of the Colonial Cedar Company of staining and processing cedar shingles and handsplit shakes. The office and factory are at 600 W. Nickerson Street, Seattle, 99. Wash.

The policy of the company will be to continue to serve the buying and building public through all established retail lumber and building material dealers.

The companv manufactures Fitite cedar shakes, Stayon stains, Tapersplit shakes, and handsplit and resawn shakes.

Mr. Connor and Mr. Neuman will be in charge of all manufacturing and sales.

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Lumber Merchcrnts Associction Announces 4th 3O-dcry Course

Announcement is made by the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California of a fourth 30-Day Training Course, with a tentative starting date of Jantary 19, 1948.

Robert J. Wright, executive vice president of the Association, is negotiating with Santa Clara University to hold the course there. In the bulletin sent to members it is remarked that this particular time has been chosen because it is the height of the rainy season, and that therefore dealers will be in a better position to spare a man to attend the course than later in the spring.

Dealers are asked to notify the Association soon if they are interested in sending a man to this course. The expense for G.I.'s is 'cared for under the G.I. Bill of Rights. For non-veterans the cost of registration and tuition is $60.00.

The Association's address is 214 Front Street, San Francisco ll. Telephone number is YUkon 6-3705.

Another Lcrrge Tree Fqrm Ioins Forest Progrcm

Addition of. 227}84 acres to existing Tree Farms in gon and Washington, and the certification of a new Farm of 3,795 acres in Washington was announced by Warren G. Tilton, forest engineer for the Joint mittee on Forest Conservation.

Miccrrtcr Now Avcrilcrble

Decorative Micarta, a high pressure laminate, is now available in a variety of new colors and patterns, the United States Plyrvood Corporation announced.

Mother-of-pearl and linen patterns in gray, blue and tan have been developed together with mahogany, primavera, walnut and tru-rvood to fit into any color scheme, Willard F. Greiner, manager of the corporation's Micarta division said. He added that numerous photographs were taken of actual linen and mother-of-pearl to achieve an exact reproduction.

Micarta, manufactured by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation and distributed exclusively by the United States Plywood Corporation, resists.abrasion, acids, alcohol and a heat up to 280oF. It is also made in a special cigarette-burn-proof grade. Be'cause of its stain and burn proof qualities, it is widely used in homes, stores and offices where surfaces receive hard wear.

Mcncaement Chcrnges

OreTree today Com-

The newcomer in the ranks of the 78 Tree Farms in the Douglas fir region-and one of the most historic-is the Olney Cteek Tree Farm, owned by the Port Blakely Mill Company, in Snohomish County, Washington.

John L. Strickland, who has been manager of the Ward & Harrington Lumber Company's La Habra yard for the past four years, has been appointed manager of the com-pany's yard at Fullerton, Calif. He has been succeeded at the La Habra yard by George Brumley.

Retiring From Business

Announcement is made by Charles E. and Ruth man of the Colonial Cedar Company, Seattle, of tirement from active business, effective November 37 years in the shingle business.

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Louis Lake, Garden Grove Lumber & Cement Co., Garden Grove, Calif., has returned from a vacation trip to Texas.

Dick Nelson, BueRa Park Lumber Co., Buena Park, Calif., and his wife, have returned from a five weeks' automobile tour on which they visited Oregon mills, drove north to Winnipeg, Canada; south to Texas, and explored the Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico on the way home.

Amos Geib, Geib Lumber Co., Huntington back from a trip to Minnesota. Park, Calif., is

Mrs. Mai Field Douglas, of the Angeles Stenographic Co., in the Petroleum Building, Los Angeles, who has done a lot of work for lumbermen in the 20 years she operated her business, has sold out to Mrs. Marjorie J. Greer.

Clint Laughlin, of E. cently spent two weeks California.

Lemo5me Blanchard, Blanchard Lumber lywood, has returned from a business trip

J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, recalling on Pine mills in Northern Co., North Holto New York.

M. L. "Duke" Euphrat, Francisco, recently spent officd.

of Wendling-Nathan Co., San 10 days at the firm's Portland

Michael M. Jason is now a member of the sales department of the Paramino Lumber Company, San Francisco, in training for a position on the road, calling on the trade. During the war he spent three years overseas in the Southwest Pacific area as carpenter's mate in the United States Naval Reserve.

Fred Smales, manager, California Division, United States Plywood Corp., Los Angeles, has returned from a visit to the head office in New York.

Peter J. Van Oosting, wholesale lumber dealer, Glendale, Calif., returned early in November from a business trip to Arizona and Texas.

R. T. (Bob) Evju, Evju Products Co., San Francisco, left November 8 on a business trip to Honolulu. He expected to be gone about two weeks. He was accompanied by his wife, and they traveled by air.

A. L. (Gus) Hoover, Los Angeles, has returned from trip to The Pacific Lumber Company's mill at Scotia.

Weldon D. Smith, formerly with Cal-Ore Lumber Co', Ashland, Oregon, has joined the sales department of Atkinson-Stutz Co., San Francisco, and will later cover a part of the Northern California territory. He attended college at Arizona State, Tempe, Arizona.

H. W. (Hank) Aldrich, Jr., of Co., Eugene, Oregon, spent 10 fornia recently. While there he between Stanford and California.

H. W. Aldrich Lumber days in Northern Caliattended the big game

A .W. "Bates" Smith, manager of the of MacDonald & Harrington, Ltd., San trip to the Pacific Northwest, where he mills.

Los Angeles office Francisco, is on a is calling on saw-

Ed Fountain, Ed Fountain Lumber Co., Los Angeles, is back from a Northwest trip that included visits to Seattle and Portland. He also spent a felv days at the company's mill near Medford, O,regon.

"Bud" Burger is now in charge of the wholesale department and buying for E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles. He succeeds Max R. ,Burnette, who has resigned. Bud has been with the company since 1941, except for two years that he spent in the Navy, serving in the South Pacific area.

E. L. "Bud" Reitz, E. L. turned from a three weeks

Reitz Co., Los Angeles, trip to Florida. has re-

Bill Cowling, Dixie Lumber & Supply Co., San Diego, and his wife sojourned at Palm Springs for the month of November.

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Mqsonite To Build Plcrnt In Nqtal, Union ol South Alriccr

Eugene Holland, president of Masonite Corporation, has announced that a plant using the N{asonite process for making wood fiber hardboards and insulation boards is under construction at Estcourt, Natal, Union of South Africa. The cornerstone rvas laid recently, and the factory is expected to start operations next year.

The plant is being built by Masonite Africa, Ltd., in r,l'hich Nfasonite Corporation owns a substantial stock interest. Mr. Holland said Masonite bought part of its common stock interest in the African company and accepted the remainder in payment for engineering services and trade-mark rights in the Union of South Africa.

He pointed out that this acquisition brings to three the number of foreign companies owned in part by Masonite Corporation. The others are Masonite Corporation (Australia), Ltd., and Masonite Company of Canada, I-td.

New Yard ct Newport

Bayvierv Lumber Co., a retail lun.rlter and material yard, rvas opened November I at 701 31st Street, Nervport Beach, by Arlan W. I\{oore and John T. Boyd. The business is operated on the former 2/a-acre site of the Central Boat \\rorks. Bob Holmes, veteran lttmberman, is manager.

Resigns cs Expediter

Frank R. Creedon has resigned as Federal pediter, and President Truman has appointed E. Woods as Acting Expediter.

Announce Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 Regulcrr 1948 Meetings

E-verett Lewis, president of Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 has announced the follo'iving dates for 1948 meetings of the Club:

January 26, regular dinner meeting, Al Kelley, program chairman, at Claremont Hotel, Berkeley.

February 23, regular dinner meeting. Don Kesselring, program chairman, at Claremont Hotel, Berkeley'

March 22, regular dinner meeting, Chris Sechrist, program chairman, Claremont Hotel.

April 23, Annual Reveille, Tom Hogan, general chairman, to be held in the Spanish Room, Claremont Hotel, 13erkeley.

September 23, first fall meeting. Election of nerv officers'

Addresses Lumbermen's Meetingrs

General Jonathan M. Wainwright, vice president of Acme Sash Balance Company, Los Angeles, addressed the members of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California at a banquet at Fresno November 18' t General Wainwright also addressed members of the Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club at their regular dinner meeting, held at Sacramento November 19.

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A meeting of the board of directors of the chants Association of Northern California the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, November ber of the members attended in addition to

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Buy Sunkist Lumber Co., Monrovia

The retbil yard of the Sunkist Lumber Co., 815 South Ivy St., Monrovia has been purchased by Huntington Taylor, John J. (lack) Waldron, Fred L. Arndt, and Gus Luellwitz, formerly with Globe Lumber Co., Los Angeles. The business will be carried on along the same lines as in the past and under the same name, Sunkist Lumber Company.

This yard was established 25 years ago by Colorado interests owning the Independent Lumber Co., Grand Junction, and other yards in that state. They also own the California Lumber Co., Montebello, California which is under

the management of Douglas Groves, and the Perris Lumber Yard at Perris.

Arthur E. Twohy of the Twohy Lumber Co., lumber yard and sawmill brokers, handled the transaction.

Appointed Distributors

So-Cal Building Materials Co., 1228 Produce Street, Los Angeles 21, has been appointed wholesale distributor for United States Plywood Corporation's Weldwood Glue and Firzite. The latter is a remarkable new sealer that does a fine job of dressing up Fir plywood.

Wood Utilizqtion Expert Joins Teco Research Lab

Washington, D. C.-T. G. Gill, expert wood technologist, has joined the laboratory staff of the Timber Engineering Company it was announced by Carl A. Rishell, director of research.

Graduating in forestry in 1930 from the University of Michigan, Gill received his master's degree there the following year' in wood utilization and technology.

Following graduation he engaged in wood treating for a private concern, followed by a period of six years with the U. S. Forest Service on the Monongahela and Cumberland national forests.

In 1939 Gill joined the U. S. Soil Conservation Service in Mississippi where he specialized in farm forestry and utilization of farm woodland products.

Beginning with 1942 he served in the U. S. Coast Artillery and in 1944he was transferred to the Army Air Force for wood and wood products procurement. After the war, Gill continued on with the Army at Dayton, where as Chief of Wood Procurement Division he was technical advisor on inspection of lumber, veneer, plywood, glue, and processes used for fabrication of wood products.

Gill is a member of the Society of American Foresters and the Forest Products Research Societv.

Bcck From Neur York Convention

Among those who have returned from attending .the annual meeting of the National Lumber Dealers Association, held recently at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, N.Y. are the following: Mr. and Mrs. Park Arnold, Glendale, Calif.; Mr. and Mrs. Orrie W. Hamilton, Los Angeles; Mr and Mrs. C. E. frving, San Diego, Calif.; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kimble, Jr., Visalia, Calif.; J. H. Kirk, Santa Maria, Calif.; Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Lynch, Los Angeles, and Robert J Wright, San Francisco.

Ioins Robt. B. Young Advertising Agency

Mark Parnall, for many years connected with Chrysler advertising and a well-known Detroit agency executive has joined the stafi of the Robt. B. Young Advertising Agency as an account executive. During the war he served as public relations officer in the Western Flying Training Command with assignments at New Mexico and California air fields, and recently has been doing special advertising research in San Francisco.

The Robt. B. Young Advertising Agency was established, in l92L and serves a cross-section of commerce including manufacturers, distributors and specialized classifications of lumber and shipping. The agency is the exclusive San Francisco member of the Affiliated Advertising Agencies Network, an organization of 38 independently owned advertising agencies located in the major marketing areas of the United States.

Ross Announces Series 80 Carrier Lumber Company Holds 3-Day Group Meeting For Managers

An 8-ton straddlecarrier designed for the extra safety and handling speed that results from better visibility for the operator has been announced by the Ross Carrier Company of Benton Harbor, Michigan. Overall design of the machine and location of the driver eliminates all blind spots, making this the safest operating carrier ever designed. In addition, the position of the operator of a Series 80 enables him to see the entire load and one complete load hook thus giving him a long sighting radius for faster, more accurate load pick-ups. The Ross Series 80 exceeds the standards for safety established by state laws.

A nerv functional frame design eliminates many parts, adds to the smooth appearance of the machine, and improves visibility. Maximum utility is achieved in the use of every structural member. For example, the front and rear main cross members serve as gasoline tank and hydraulic oil reservoir, respectively.

Flydraulic systems for hoist and hook-srving are controlled by a single lever. The entire hydraulic mechanism is completely sealed and guarded. Wheels are suspended independntly, and all rvorking parts are enclosed in lubricated housings thoroughly sealed against dust and oil.

Ross "Radi-Arc" steering insures easy handling, even with heavy loads. It keeps all four wheels tracking exactly in the arc of the machine, thus avoiding side-slip and scuffing of tires. Headlights are mounted on front wheel forks, and turn with the wheels to provide extra safety and efficiency. Load lights enable the operator to see load hooks clearly at all times. Hydraulic brakes on all four wheels provide fast, easy control of the machine under all circumstances.

Hook controls are located so as to eliminate neck-craning while picking up, carrying, or setting dorvn loads. Metal

The Mullin Lumber Company, Los Angeles, held a threeday group meeting for the managers of the company's five Arizona branch yards and the five California yards, November 17, 18 and 19.

On the 17th the Arizona managers visited the California yards, and in the evening there was a banquet at Scully's Cafe, Los Angeles, attended by the managers and by all of the California yard employees who were able to be present, a total of 89. Wayne F. Mullin, general manager, and Russell Mullin presided.

Next day the managers visited the Schumacher Wall Board plant of the Paraffine Companies, fnc.; the Coralite factory; Union Hardware & Metal Co., and California Hardware Co.

On the morning of the 19th the managers received instruction on the grading of Douglas fir lumber from a representative of the West Coast Lumber Bureau, and in the afternoon the grou'p visited Los Angeles Harbor. In the evening there rvas a dinner for the key personrtel from the Arizona and California yards.

The Arizona yards of Mullin Lumber Company and their managers are as follows: Prescott Lumber Co., Prescott, Perry Underdown, manager; Jerome Lumber Co., Cottonwood, Lloyd Holman, manager; Flagstaff Lumber Co., Flagstaff, Carl Hollingshead, manager; Williams Lumber Co., Williams, John Mullen, manager; Mullin Lumber Co., Kingman, J,im Lewis, manager.

The traveling manager of Arizona yards is Frank Tutt.

The California yards are: Mullin Lumber Co., Los Angeles, Lowell Kolb, manager; Mullin Lumber Co., North Hollywood, Frank Doepker, manager; Mullin Lumber Co., San Gabriel, Gale Stafford, manager; Burbank Lumber Co., Btrrbank, Russell Mullin, manag'er; 'farzana Lumber Co., Tarzana, Tom Tones, manager.

Tony Hansen is traveling manager of California branch yards.

cab is fully enclosed, and has a convertible fabric top to provide operator comfort in all weather.

The San Francisco office of the Ross Carrier Company is located at 2440 Third Street. Ray G. Jacobs is manager.

Re-Named Chairman Of Douglat Fir Plywood lndustry Management Committee

For the tenth consecutive term, E. W. Daniels, president of Harbor Plywood Corp. of Hoquiam, 'Wash., is chairman of the Douglas fir plywood industry management committee which directs product development and promotion activities undertaken jointly by Pacific Northwest panel makers.

Mr. Daniels also l\ras named president of the board of trustees for Plywood Research Foundation, the trustees guiding the foundation just as the management committee directs activities of the promotional association.

Both organizations are maintained by the same group of plywood producers, who in the aggregate turn out two thirds of the nation's panel material. The research foundation, also with Tacoma headquarters and laboratories, is devoted to the development of new products, apart from plywood and lumber, that will utilize waste materials resulting from present logging and processing methods. Another function of the research organization is that of devising improved manufacturing machinery that will facilitate production of better plywood or introduce additional production effi ciencies.

Although selected by separate voting, trustees of the research foundation are the same nine men that comprised the management committee for the promotion effort. Officers of the board of trustees in addition to Mr. Daniels, and selected from within the board, include Mr. Snyder as vice president, Mr. Koutonen as secretary and Mr. Cruver as treasurer.

E. W. Dcnielr

He was ie-named to the position of prominence at the first meeting of the nineman committee since the annual election of members by the plywood manufacturers comprising the 35-factory ,industry of the area. Four men were selected for the governing body this year while five are carry-overs from a previous election; each committeeman serves two years.

Committee members, in addition to Mr. Daniels, include: Norman O. Cruver, president of The Wheeler, Osgood Co., Ilerman E. Tenzler, president of Northwest Door Co., and Charles E. Devlin, managing director of Douglas Fir Plywood Association, all of Tacoma; Frost Snyder, president of Vancouver (Wash.) Plywood and Veneer Co. of Vancouver and Tacoma.

Robert E. Seeley, vice president of Simpson Logging Co. of Seattle; Arnold Koutonen, general manager of the plywood division of St. Paul and Tacoma Lbr. Co., of Olympia; Thomas B. Malarkey, vice president of M & M Wood Working Co., and B. V. Hancock, vice president of Cascades Plywood Corp., both of Portland, Ore.

The management committee is the overall governing body for the plywood industry promotional program which includes, as well as various phases of product promotion, maintenance of rigid quality standards and studies of ply-' wood uses. The industry program, directed by the committee, is effected by Douglas Fir Plywood Association which has Tacoma headquarters.'

Directs Log Division Humboldt Plywood Corp.

R. L. (Ned) Davis has been elected vice president of the Humboldt Plywood Corporation and will direct the new timber and log division set up within the company, it was announced November 16 in Portland by Clay Brown, president.

Mr. Davis has been associated with the logging industry in the northwest for the past twenty years. After graduating from the University of Washington, he spent elever.r years with the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company of Longview, Washington, in their various woods operations. The following three years were spent with the Pacific Check Scaling Bureau covering Puget Sound and Grays Harbor, and since 1943 he has been assoeiated"with Harbor Plywood Corporation of Hoquiam, Washington. At Harbor he was employed cruising, scaling and scouting timber, and more recently he has managed Harbor Plywood Corporation's logging division at Riddle, Oregon.

Mr. Davis, his wife and their two children u,ill take up immediate residence in Humboldt County.

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thoughts of business. During the joyous Christmas season we are grven new strength; we are enabled to look forward to the New Year with courage and with full faith that 1948 will bring prosperity to all America and ^peac6 to all the wodd.

Personnel Changes Announced As Part of Expansion Plan

Max R. Burnette has been appointed manager of the Southern California ofifice of Rounds Trading Company at Wilmington, Calif. He rvill succeed H. A. "Hack" Collins rvho will move to San Francisco about the first of January, where he rvill be sales manager of Rounds Trading Company.

Lenn Pierson, formerly with NIt. Emily Lumber Co., La Grande, Oregon, is now rvith Rounds Trading Company as salesman in the Southern California territory.

Mr. Barnette has been rvith the E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, for more than 12 years, and for the past several years has been in charge of the wholesale department and buying. He is well equipped by his varied lumber experience for his new position, and is well known and liked in the Southern California and Arizona territories.

Mr. Pierson was a pilot in the Army Air Forces during the war, and has to his credit more than 100 trips over the "hump" in the China-Burma-India area. He owns and operates his own plane, an Avion, on business trips.

Mr. Collins was also an aviator in the Army Air Forces during the war, with the rank of Major. He saw service in both the European and Pacific theaters.

These changes are a part of an expansion plan that has been contemplated by Rounds Trading Company for some time.

Philippine Embargo Continues -- No Lumber In Sight For Export

In spite of reports to the contrary that have been spread abroad in the United States, Walter G. Scrim, of Los Angeles, president of the Philippine Mahogany Association, states positively that the embargo against shipping sawn lumber from the Islands to the United' States. still stands. and there is no indication that it rvill soon be lifted.

Reports from the Philippines state that there has been a considerable increase in building in the Islands, in fact, there is something like a building boom going on right norv that has raised the price of Philippine Mahogany, and also preempted the entire product for local consumption. Uncle Sam has been allocating funds for various public projects over there, and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation of the Philippines has been making many loans for private construction. Also the War Damage Commission has released large sums of money recently for the reconstruction of public buildings, such as schools, hospitals, government buildings, etc. One of Mr. Scrim's recent bulletins contains the information above.

San Frcnrcisco Lumbermen's Club Holds Christmqs Pcrrty Dec. 19

The annual Christmas party of the San Francisco Lumbermen's Club will be held in the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, on Friday, December 19 at noon.

The club will entertain 69 children from a local orphanage. A large aitendance of members is expected.

Christmas In The South

By Adeline M. Conner

In winter lands the snow lies deep, Beneath the stars of night, And like tall ghosts the pine trees stand Arrayed in robes of white.

But in our valleys of delight, The happy wild birds sing, And every vagrant wind that blows, Is whispering of spring.

In winter lands the home lights shine, Thru frosted window panes, And chiming betls ring merrily, O'er snow-hushed fields and lanes.

But in our valleys of delight, Spring weaves her magic spell, The fields are green, and flowers bloom, fn every fairy dell.

In rvinter lands the snow lies deep, The stars gleam cold and white, But here the incense of the flowers Perfumes the holy night.

And as we raise our eyes to catch The light of one fair star, We seem to hear a wondrous song, Ring out from realms afar.

"Peace, peace on earth, good-will fs 66p-" Ah, tender words and mild, Our questioning souls are led once more, To seek the new-born Child.

A Christmcrs Creed

To give a little ,more than the law requires. A smile to every customer.

A helpful hint to every purchaser.

Unfailing courtesy to every complaint.

To believe that business means something more than dollars and cents, and that something more than dollars and cents must be gotten out of it if we are to be successful.

To believe that the Golden Rule CAN be applied in business, and that its application simply means a sguare deal for all.

To make money to live-not to live to make money.

To try always to share with our co-workers what their brains and hearts have helped to make us.

Brotherhood

God! what a world, if men in street and mart

Felt that same kinship of the human heart Which makes them, irr the face of fire and food, Rise to the meaning of true brotherhood.

-Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Au

When he got home for are no longer two divided imagination of the boy of d

Hcrm?

played football in the been an all-American end. They investigated found out that he vras right-all the Americans ayed against ran around his end.

Customer: "I haven't found a bit ham in this sandwich yet."

Waiter: i'Try another bite." 1/

Customer: (taking big bit{"Nope. None yet."

Waiter: "Doggone ! Yorryf{rust have gone right by it."

Thought And

See to it that the world of actionthe world of thought

he boasted that he had camps. Build up the and the will power of

the dreamer, so that in the men will have the nerve to lead the way they shown, and men of action will have the vision to ne the consequ€nces of their decisions. (Prince Baden)

Surprised Him

Curious Old Lady: "Why, you've lgst your leg, haven't you?"

Crippled GI: "Well, doggoned if I haven't!"

O Little Town Ol Bethlehem

O little town of Bethlehern!

How still we see thee lie;

Above thy deep and dreamless sleep

The silent stars go by;

Yet in thy dark streets shineth

The everlasting Light;

the hopes and fears of all the years

Are met in thee to-night. t

A rt ".rnfrt fo, Ctor"*o" I

We thank Thee for this place in which we dwell; {6r the love thatunites us; for the peace accorded us this fiy; for the hope with which we expect the morrow; for the health, the worb the food, and the bright skies that make our lives delightful; for our friends in all parts of the earth, and our friendly helpers in this foreign isle. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavors. If it may not, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving one to another.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

We are grateful for our Lumber Industry Friends. And again we take pleasure in extending Cordial Good Wishes for

A Message To Hoo-Hoo Members In Jurisdiction No. 6, As Wdl As Lumbermen In General

By LeRoy H, Stanton Presid.ent, E, l, Stantoi & Soo, Los Angeles, Calif lunior Hoo-Hoo On Supreme Nine

I am very happy to report on my meeting with the Supreme Nine in Milwaukee in October, as I came away from this meeting with renewed enthusiasm and confidence in the march of HooHoo toward the goal set last year by our Exalted Snark Ray Saberson, that of our organization being the real service club of the lumber and wood industries, with powerful influence in the direction of harmony and co-operation among all elements of our industry.

I have never met a finer, more inspired group of men than the members of our Supreme Nine, and Hoo-Hoo can well be proud of the type selected by the various jurisdictions to represent them on the Nine.

Two full days of concentrated and interested effort were pubinto tonsideration and action on plans for the coming yeai and in discussing the great Hoo-Hoo Convention w.hich will be held in Los Angeles in September, 1948.

..A national committee on Education and Training for tlre* purpose of fostering and aiding existing educational programs and generating additional educational facilities in and by the forest products industry was appointed, Ed. Martin being the committeeman from our jurisdiction. Appointment was also made of the Forest Prodqcts Promotional committee and Friends of the Forest committee to initiate legislation and foster projects to perpetuate the forests, George Clough being chosen for Jurisdiction No. 6.

Hoo-Hoo is on the march in earnest, particularly in the West, and there is no question in my mind..but what this intense interest and activity will spread eastward and southrvard very rapidly now that the serious pttrposes of the organization have become so manifest.

Carl Crow, Custocatian, Jurisdiction No. 3, Washington, Oregon, etc., is doing nobly in his northern section in getting nerv clubs started, including Portland, Eugene, Medford, Roseburg, Klamath Falls, Santiam, etc., and I understand A. J. Daley is also doing splendid work in formation of clubs in Washington.

.In my jurisdiction that fine, old Citrus Belt Hoo-Hoo Club No. 44 is being reactivated, a live club will be reestablished in Orange County, and great interest is being shown by San Joaquin Valley lumbermen in reviving Valley Club No. 31. A unique club, No. 49, the "Forty-Niners," is being ,talked about in the pioneer Mother Lode country.

Long Beach lumbermen are being contacted about a club for the beach cities. It is hoped to establish a club in the Coast Counties district, including Santa Barbara, Santa Maria, and San Luis Obispo.

Work has already commenced on reviving that splendid, old Club No. 72 at Phoenix, Ariz., and I have high hopes of also reactivating Albuquerque Club No. 59 and Utah Club No. 7O, as well as Eureka Club No. 62.

From these activities it can be seen that Hoo-Hoo will soon be a mighty strong.service organization, which will really take its place as the pride and joy of all lumbermen.

Dee Essley, Chairman of the great Hoo-Hoo Convention to be held in Los Angeles in September, 1948, is doing a magnificent job, and heads a committee that has determined to have the greatest Hoo-Hoo meeting of all times. The forming of new clubs in our district will help Dee and his committee immeasurably to put over a.convention that will do great things in really putting Hoo-Hoo in its rightful place as the outstanding lumbermen's service club.

Hoo-Hoo can and will promote to the highest degree our watchword "Friendship" among all members of the lumber industry, and also strive to keep our motto "Health, Happiness, and Long Life" in the foreground; but in addition we can constantly put forth constructive efforts toward supporting real Americanism and combatting subversive elements, assisting veterans' housing by holding down unreasonable and prohibitive prices, promoting ethical practices among members of the industry, as well as the uses of our products, keeping the forests g'reen, educating our ' young men in the technique and uses of lumber, and other patriotic and beneficial projects as they come up.

Let us constantly keep in mind that the "Golden Rule" and the "Square Deal" are ideals of Hoo-Hoo, and its code of ethics is the very essence of these principles.

Finally, I think it is very important for members to rvear . their pin an{ shorv pride iq our fine order.

I hope that any groups interested in forming new HooHoo clubs will be sure to write me. I can assure them of my prompt and earnest co-operation. My box number is 3816 Terminal Annex, Los Angeles 54, Calif.

Elected President

Robert G. Fairburn, first vice president of Diamond Match Company, was recently elected president and chief executive officer, succeeding his father, the late William A. Fairburn. At the same time the board of directors elected H. F. Holman as chairman. Mr. Holman has been treasurer of the company since 1921 and a director since 1934. Henry G. Lucas, now secretary, was named vice president and secretary.

Le8oy H. Sianton

California Building Permits for October

Huntington Park

Inglewood

Kern County (Unincorporated Area)

Laguna Beach ........i....

La Mesa La Verne

Lodi

Long Beach

Los Angeles

Los Angeles County (Unincorp. Area)

Los Gatos

San Fernando .... San Francisco .;.

San Gabriel

San Jose

San Leandro

San Marino

San Mateo

San Mateo Countv (Unincorporated Area)

San Rafael

Santa Ana

Santa Barbara ....

Santa Clara

Santa Clara County (Unincorporated Area)

Santa Cruz

Santa Maria

Santa Monica , Santa Paula

Santa Rosa

Seal Beach

Shasta County (Unincorporated Area)

Sierra Madre

From rhe Valley of Green Gold . . . . r . Mty we wish all o( our many Calihrnia friends a yery

'[hrrg Chrittma, anl. o J{oppy Jt/r- Wo,

H. \M. AuonIcH LuMBER CovPANY

THE MINER BLDG. EUGENE. OREGON

INTERMOUNTAIN

Tom Gore

1105 Contincntal Banlc Buildins SALT LAKE CITY Representolives

CALIFORNIA

Cords Lumber Co.

68 Post Strcet SAN FRANCISCO 4, C/\LIF.

q,nd our best Wishes fora, Pr osper ous and

Illerty Ghristmas

L. '\ry'. l"IanTINEz Co.

}YHOLESALE

LUMBER

Balfour Building

SAN FRANCISCO ,f' CALIF.

1947 To Be Best Home Building Yecr Since 1925

Washington, Nov. 15-The Bureau today predicted that 1947 will be the year since 1925.

of Labor Statistics

' The bureau estimated that 92,M new permanent dwellings were begun in October, even better than the phenomenal 88,000 in September, which had been hailed as the probable peak this year. Favorable building weather was credited rvith the unusually high building activity.

The number of homes completed in the first 10 months of. L947 totaled 658,100-50 per cent more than during the

entire previous year. Within the last three months com: pletions have been rising at an average rate of about B per cent per month. They totaled 81,800 in October.

flcrrbbr Plywood Corp. Plcrns

To Build New Wcrshinerton Plant

Harbor Plywood Corp. of Hoquiam, Wash., plans to construct a $4 to $5 million plywood, door, sar,vmill, and shingle operation at Chelatchie Prairie, about 30 miles northeast of Vancouver, Wash. The operations rvill employ about 1,000 persons, D. C. Salley is general superintendent. Preliminary rvork is under way on the mill site.

New Ycrrd Opened At Huntingrton Becrch

Formal opening of the new Huntington Beach Builders Supply, Lake Avenue and Frankfort Street, Huntington Beach, Calif., took place November 1.

The yard is located on a three-quarter acre plot, and is olvned by Bart N. Hodak. His asssitant is Ralph "Ben" Moore.

\{r. Hodak has had more than 16 years' experience in the lumber business, working for E. K. Wood Lumber Co. Ben Moore was in the Navy during the war, and saw service in the European-African-Middle-East theater, and later in the Pacific area.

New Plywood Plant Plcnrned For Portland

Dlstrlbutcd la llorthem Callforale by WESTERN ASBESTOS

Main OfJtce:

67t fownrond Strcel,son Jronckco 3.. ll: l'a8tl

OAI(lAlfD: lothorn Squot Bulldlng. .la 2'7a7a

llGtAf,ttlto: lfll Eyc slrc.f . 2'8t93

Itl3lfo: f!37 terod 3lr.et t't27,

SAlf fotl: 201 South tortel Stte.l a^ |rt

CO.

Announcement has been made by George \turphy and associates of the Portland Spar Co. of the formation of the Portland Plywood Corporation, Portland, Oregon. The plant, n'hich will be erected on the property of the Portland Spar Co., will be of medium size, and rvill have one dryer to start.

Incorporators include E. S. Nelson, N. L. Easley, and J. K. Buell.

New Plywood Factory At Fairhmren

Mutual Plywood Corporation has completed preliminary financing plans for a plywood plant at Fairhaven, Humboldt County.

Educators Honored Bv Hoo-Hoo

Two nationally known educators and authors were elected Honorary Life Member3 of the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo at the meeting of the Supreme Nine held recently at Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Nelson Courtlandt Brown, Professor of Forest Utilization, the New York State College of Forestry, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, was honored in recognition of the highly valuable services rendered the lumber industry in educational work and in the preparation of the several authoritative books he has written. Professor Brown's latest book "Lumber" (John Wiley & Sons, New York) was published this year.

Professor E. G. "Bill" Cheyney, who recently retired to the status of professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota, was recrrgnized because of his 42 yearc of service to the industry as a teacher and personal friend of more than 900 graduates of the lJniversity's division of forestry. He is the author of several books on forestry and other subjects as well as a large number of articles which have gained wide circulation.

This brings to six the number who have received the Fame recognition during the past several years.

Distributes Dowels

Back Panel Company, Los Angeles, has always made a specialty of handling a complete line of birch dowels. This company has recently received new shipments of all sizes from the manufacturers.

Third Edition of Commercial Standard For Hardwood Plywood lssued

A third edition of the Commercial Standard for Hardwood Plywood, which has been in effect since February 20, 1947,has just been issued by the National Bureau of Standards. Several changes ,have been made which brings this standard up to date, the Bureau points out.

Plywood is one of the oldest products manufactured from timber, having been used to a limited extent by the ancient Egyptians and Chinese. However, it owes its present popularity to scientific control of the manufacturing process and the establishment of standard requirements and tests to insure uniformity of quality for the various grades.

In 1931 the producers, distributors and users of hardwood plywood cooperated with the Bureau in establishing a commercial standard to provide definite grade specifications. It has since been necessary to revise the standard twice in order to keep it abreast of improvement in this expanding industry.

The present edition provides minimum specifications for four standard types of hardwood plywood based on the water resistance and durability of the bond, in four standard grades. It covers tests, densities, standard thicknesses, widths and lengths, tolerances, workmanship, packing inspection, grade grarking and certification! method of ordering and nomenclature and definitions.

The booklet also includes a brief history of this standardization project, a list of the official acceptors, and the

membership of the Standing Committee, the chief Iunction of which will be to consider revisions of the standard to keep it abreast of prograss in the industry.

Printed copies of CS35-47 inay be obtained from the Superintendent of Documents, Washington 25, D.C., at l0 cents per copy.

Appoints Committee Chairmen

Committee chairmen for 1948 recently appointed by Everett Lewis, president of Hoo-Hgo Club No. 39, Oakland, are the following:

Editor of "Meow" and Publicity, Lu Green; Public Affairs, Jack Wood; Finance, Tom Branson; Membership, Herb Farrell; Attendance, Chris Sechrist; Program, Tom Jacobsen; Reception, Earl Carlson ; Fraternal, K. E. MacBeath; Sports, Don Kesselring; Educational, Clement Fraser; Reveille, Tom Hogan; Christmas Fellowship, Ed La Franchi; Activities, Jo Shepard; Fellowship. Fund, Miland Grant bnd G. F. Bonnington; Paraphernalia, Jas. B. Overcast; Christmas Party, Tom Jacobsen ; Historian, Bert Bryan.

Represents Frost Industries

A. C. Pascoe, Los Angeles, who is the largest hardwood lumber and veneer mill representative on the Pacific Coast, is now Pacific Coast representative of Frost Lumber fndustries, Inc., Shreveport, La., manufacturers of Southern hardwoods. This is a substantial addition to the list of manufacturers represented on the Coast for the past 2O years by Mr. Pascoe, who sells wholesale yards only.

PRESSURE TREATED 1UMBER

Gives Your Cuslomers

POSTTIVE PENTAXEilT PROTECTTOT

Againsi fiRMlrES DECAY ls DRY CTEAN oDoRtEss

AfiRACTIVE IN APPEARANCE IT DECREASES FTAIIIIABIIITY

Assures SATISFACflON TO YOUR CUSTOTNER ADDITIONA] PROFIT TO YOU

For Furtbe| Deuils Consult Your Wbolesaler NATTOIIAI

P. O. Box 351 oRovtu.E, cALtFoRNtA g ffiewy @tlristmag

, And best wishes to all our friends Ior g hunpy

Plywood Boat Review

Manufactured by the hot-plate synthetic resin method, meeting the strict requirements of U. S. Commercial Standad 45-45 . . Exterior type Douglas fir plywood is made especially for outdoor service. In the marine field it has proved its superior qualities in the laboratory . and on the sea.

Plywood's popularity as a boat construction material has increased rapidly since its introduction in 1934. At first it was used mainly for skiffs, dinghies, and other small boats. Now it is being used in both work and pleasure boats for bulkheads, cabins, decking and complete hulls.

Many of the water lovers building with plywood today are persons who have already built one or more boats of plywood and desire an additional or larger boat. They have learned how easy it is to build with the versatile 4' x 8' panels.

Use of the big shpets eliminates the necessity of caulking as in most boats built by amateurs a single plank of plywood will cover the bottom from keel to chine and cover the side from chine to gunwale. (Professional boat builders, too, recognize the value of these large panels and are using them in many parts of commercial craft.) Even if a joint or joints are required in the length of the boat, they are easily made by butting the plywood panels flush and using backing plates.

The cross-lamination of the individual plies in plywood makes the material puncture-proof against ordinary boating hazards. However, a damaged hull is easily repaired with a patch and backing plate. There is no need for tearing away a whole plank.

Of great importance to all boat builders whether professional or amateur, is the observance of two requisites for successful boat building with plywood panels.

The first is to use only exterior type panels regardless of r,vhether for the inside of the cabin or outer parts. Only exterior type plywood is bonded with completely waterproof phenolic resin adhesives which withstand constant subjection to water and weather conditions.

roolt llvlnalDl,l CRO88 CTRCULATION KILNS

Every exterior panel of Douglas fir plywood is edge stamped with the industry grademark "EXT-DFPA", identifying it as being manufactured with rvaterproof adhesives. There may be the brand name of the manufacturer, but this will be in addition to the grademark.

The second and equally important requisite is not to attempt to use plywood planking for a hull that has beep designed for other material. The amount of bending or curvature which the panel will accept is limited by the very rigidity which makes it invaluable as a boat material.

A boat plan catalogue listing plans of boats designed expressly for plywood is available free by rvriting to the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, Tacoma 2, Washington.

This catalogue consists of plans from all sources. Some were designed by the nation's foremost naval architects, others are those offered by boating and yachting publications, homecraf.t nagazines and boat builders. Several are offered by plywood manufacturers. Many of the plans are free or can be had for a small fee.

Plywood outbocnd is rugged, light, ecsily built.

l. 2r% to 5O/o norc cepacity due to solid edge-to-edge stacking.

2. Bcttcr qudftt drying on low tcmpcraturer rith a fart revcrribir circulation.

l. Lowcr rtacking cortr-just rolid edge-to-cdge stacking in thc doplest form.

Use Moorekiln Paint Products for weatherproofing your dry Liln and nill roofs.

Kiln Builderr for More fhan Hdf e C,entury

North Portlen4 Ora Ja&onvillc, Flori&

ond besf wishes for

Wholesale Foresf Producfs

llerchonts Exchcnge Bldg. 465 Goliforniq Streel, Son Frsncisco 4 YUkon 63969

}VEST COAST SCREEN CO.

1145 East 63rd Street LOS ANGELES I, CALIFORNIA

PRospect 7194-4590

lTholesale

$euilsn'B @rerJmgr

And May You Have Much Happiness in theNew Year

Orban lumber Company

EetsbliEhed 1904 Pcul Orbsn, Owner

77 So. Fqsqdenq Ave., Posodena 3, Colif.

, Pcrscrdenq, SYccmore 6-4373

lelePnones: Los Angeles, RYan l-6997

WHOLESALE ond RETAIL

Hqrbor Yord at Lonq Becrch

The Gallant Rebel

,a;,o,Xy"',f,ur'"1,j,ru),,ti::!,:1,,i;"f

oifintphis,renn.

At his secret rendezvous off the British coast near Funchal, Captain James Waddell kneu' there was adventure ahead as he ran up the Proud Confederate battle flag on the stern of the Shenandoah. Captain Waddell did not know, however, the ship he had manned and commissioned by stealth was at the starting point of the strangest sea campaign in American history, a one-ship war rvith a 6nal coup that might have turned the tide of the Civil War to the Confederacy-if the Civil War had not been ended a full six months earlier.

Courageous Captain Waddell did not knol, for instance, he and his ship r.vould terrorize Union men-of-'ivar on three oceans, that he rvould for the only time in history establish diplomatic relations with a cannibal king, that he 'ivould damage the Union's rvhole Arctic whaling fleet beyond repair, that he would plan a daring, single-handed attack on the city of San Francisco, that he would have to race a threatening mutiny around the vvorld, that he rvould finally come to berth again in a world at peace which was hard pressed to decide whether he should be considered a hero or a scoundrel.

From diaries o{ the cre'iv of the Shenandoah, from authentic battle records, Stanley F. Horn has spun out a true tale any fiction writer might envy. Readers 'ivill long rernember the voyage of The Gallant Rebel, a story bv the author of The Armv of Tennessee.

ANNOUIUCMENT

We crre proud to crnnounce that our lirm has been selected qs their Southern CcrliIornic distributor by the C. B. Cummings crnd Sons Compcny.

This crppointment by the oldest cnd lcrrgest dowel manulacturer in the world is oI utmost importcnce. to the woodworking trcde as it estcblishes in Southern Cclilornia the lirst complete stock oI dowel rods availcrble to lumber declers crnd wholesclers. We will be plecrsed to lorwcrrd price lists cnd discounts upon request. ,.

Kemp Hordwsre & Lumber Co.

| 133 Eost 63rd Street

Los Angeles I, Cqlifornio

GEntury 2-9235

Red Cedar Shingle Bureau Holds Annual December 10

The 31st annual meeting of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau will be held in Seattle, December 10, according to an announcement by W. W. Woodbridge, secretary-manager.

The meeting will be held at the Nerv Washington Hotel.

Kenneth Smith, president of the California Redwood Association, San Francisco; A. T. Brink of Kansas City, Mo., president of the National Association of Commission Lumber Salesmen; John Normile, Des Moines, fowa, building editor of Better Homes & Gardens, and W. C. Bell of Seattle, managing director of the Western Retail Lumbermens Association, will be among the list of speakers..

Mr. \A/oodbridge predicts an output of 6,000,000 squares for 1947, which is one-third greater than the 1945 production, but much lower than the 1941 peak of 9,000,000 squares.

Charles Plant of Vancouver, B.C. is president.

Pccilic Northwest Lumber Production

The Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment station at Portland this week confirmed privats industry's estimate of lumber production in Oregon and Washington last year. The station, using data compiled by the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Census Bureau, said the two :.tates produced 9,750,606,000 board feet last year, nearly one and one-half billion feet over 1945. Oregon turned out the larger share: more than 6,250,000,000. The West Coast Lumbermen's Association, and the Western Pine Association had figured the 1946 total at 9,790,2t4,W.

frlewy @brintmdrd

Each Christmas Season brings the joy of remem. bering our friends Mary the Spirit of Christmas be yours in the coming yeor.

fforilon-ilIacBeath Hardwood Co. 2546 San Pablo Avenue Berkeley 2, California

Season's Greelingrs

Sincere \X/irhus to Old and New Friends

JAMES L. HALL

Wholesqle Wood Products

lO32 Mills Building

Scrn Froncisco 4, Colifornio

ChristmEs Seols

r. Youtr Protedion)

Agqinst Tubertulosist

SEASONTS GREETINGS

A Sincere Wish for g fifrlry [,ISrtgtmug sn!

g hsppy fr.en Deur

To AII of You from All of Us

STRABIE HARIDWOOD GO-

TEmplebcrr 2-5584

OAKLAND

You'll find fhe lorgest stock of fine imported ond domestic Veneers on the Pocific Coost ot Allied Veneer. Plywood is now ovoiloble in every size ond we con moke ony Veneer you select into Plywood.

New Fabricating Plant At Arcata

Open house was held at the new prefabricating plant of the balifornia Fabricators just south of Arcata, Calif', the afternoon of October 14.

The company is operated jointly by Alf Westberg of Eureka, and Harry W. Cole of San Francisco' Both were associated with the Little River Lumber Co', Mr' Cole as vice president and general manager, and Mr' Westberg operated the Little River's factory at Fairhaven' They b"""-" affiliated with the Hammond Lumber Company when Hammond and Little River amalgamated in 1931' Mr. Cole resigned his position later, and Mr. Westberg left the company about a Year ago.

The new plant will manufacture fabricated material from redwood, including wooden parts for redwood tanks and cooling towers, as well as trusses for industrial construction.

Scrn Frcncisco To Hqve Home Show

The first home show to be held in northern California since before the war will be held in San Francisco's Civic Auditorium from April 7 through April 14, 1948.

The show is being sponsored by the San Francisco Real Estate Board and the Associated Home Builders of San Francisco, fncorporated.

Offices for the San Francisco National Home Show have been opened at 1011 Humboldt Building.

D, C.Essley& Son

WHOLESALE LUMBER

Gerqld E. Essley Woyne C. Wilson

PLY}YOOD

D. C. Essley

Southern Ccrlifornic Representcrtive

Vcncouver Plywood & Veneer Co.

Vcrncouver Wcshington

Ofiices:

909 Atlqntic Blvd., Los Angeles 22 ANselus 2-t183

9,nt ftest W&isbed for @be fren Pear

7e

2291 Ford St., Ocrklcmd 6, CaUf. Al{dover l-6088

Lyle S. Vincent, Genercrl Mcmnger

BUYER'S GUIDI

SAN FRANCISCO LUMBEB

Arcclc Redwood Co. 420 Mqrket StreEt (ll) .YUkou 6-2087

Atkinsotr-Stutz Compcny, ll2 Mqrket Streei (l[) .........GArfield l-I8fft

Christenson LumbEr Co., Evqus Ave. cnd Quint St. (24)..VAlencic 4'5832

Cords Lumber Compcuy, 68 Post St. (4)

Dcnt & Bussell, Scles Agency, 214 Front St. (Il) ..SUtter l-6384

Dolbeer d Cargoa LunbEr Co., lllSMercbcntgExcbcngeBldg.(4)DOuglas 2-6446

Ellioti, F. W., I Drumm Street (1I) ........DOuglas 2-4211

Eviu Producte Co., d65 Cctilornic St. (4) ..SUtter l-4491

Gcnerston 6 Green Lumber Co., 1800 Army Street (2{) .ATwqter 2-1300

Hcll, Iqmes L,, l03i Mills Blds. (4) ...SUtter l-?520

Hollincn Mcckin Lunber Co., 881 Mcrket St. (5) ..DOuglas 2-1941

Hqmmoud Lumber Compqny, {17 Montgomery Srreet (6) ....DOuglcg 2-3388

Hobbs Wcll Lumber Co,, 405 Montgomery St. ({) .......Gf,rlield l-7752

Holmes Eurekc Lumber Co'. tl05 Finaucicl Center BIdg., ({)..GArlield l-1921

Lqmon-Eonnirgtol Compcny, 717 Mqrket St. (3) .-. .GArlield l-6881

Lumber Muufqcturing Co., 225 Induetricl Str€et (24) .JUniper 7-U60

Lunber Ternhal Co., Inc., 2000 Evqu Ave. (2,!) .........VAlEncia 4'4100

MccDoacld 6 Hcrriugton, Ltd., I Drumm St. (tl) . ....GArlield l-8392

Norlhern Eedwood Lumber Co., ?108-10 Buss Blde. (4) .EXbrook 2-789{

O'Connor, Frank J., 260 Cclilornitr St. (ll).........GArfield 1,564d

O'Neill Brothers tl65 Cclilorniq St. (4) .YUkon 6-3969

Oreqoa Lumber Sales 441 Mcrket St. (ll) ...YUkon 6'2428

Pacific Lumber Co., Tbe 100 Bush Street (4) ..GArlield l-ll8l

Pctrick Lumber Co. (O. L. Russum)

ll2 Market St. (ll) ....YUkon 6-1460

Pope d Tqlbot, Inc,, Lumber Division, 3?0 Calilornic St. (4) .........DOuglcs 2-256I

R, G. Bobbins Lumber Co.. I Drumm Street (Il) .........DOuqlcs 2-5070

Rounds Trcding Compcny, Crocker Bldg. (4)

Squta Fe Lumber Co.. I Druma St. (ll) ....EXbrook 2-2074

Shevlin Pire Scles Co., 1030 Mouqdnoqk Bldg. (5) .. .EXbrook 2-704I

Sudden G Christensoa, Inq', 310 Sansome Street (4) ........GAr{ield l-2846

Tcrter, WebgtEr G Johnson, Inc., I Moalgomery St. (4) .DOuglcs 2-2060

Tcvlor Lumber Co. (Flovd W' Elliott) file Buildiag (ll).... .-..... .DOuglqs 2-4211

Carl W. Wqtts, 975 Moncdnock Bldg. (5) ....:...YUkon 6-1590

Wendling-Nctbcn Co., 564 Mqrket St. (4) .....SUtier l-5363

West Oregon LunbEr Co., 130 Tenih Street (3) .UNderhitl l-0720 Western Pine Supplv Compqnv. l20l Hcrrison Si. -(3) ........UNderhill l-8686

Wheeler Piao Co,, Russ 8ldg. (4) .EXbrook 2-3918

E. K. Wood Lumber Co., I Drumm Stteet (ll) .EXbrook 2-3710

\MeverhqeusEr Sales Co,, 3!il Sutter St, (8) ....GArtield l-8974

HABDWOODS

Cornitius Hardwood Co., George C., 465 Calilornic St. (4) .........GArlield l-8748

Servenle Hqrdwood Compqay, 365 Bcy Sbore Blvd. (24) ......VAlenciq 4-4200

White Brothers, FiJtb oud Brqnnqn Street8 (7) ....SUtter l-1365

sAsH-DOOnS-PLYWOOD

Hcrbor Plwood Corp. oI Cqlilomic, 540 10th St. (3) ..MArket l-6705

Nicolci Door Scles Co., 3045 tgth St. (t0) ...VAlencic 4-2241

United Stdtes Plvwood Corp., 2727 Army St.- (10) ....ATwcter 2-1993

CNEOSOTEDPII.INCFTIESLUIEEN_POLES_

Americqu Lumber d TrectiaE Co., 604 Mission St, (5) ....SUtter l-1028

BaxtEr. I. H, 6 Co., 333 Montgomery Street (tl) ....DOuglce 2-3883

Hcll, Icmes 1,, { 1032 Mills Bldq. (1) .....SUtter l-7520

Pooe 6 Talbot, Inc., Lunber Division.

..320 Cclilomic St, (4) DOuglca 2-2561

Soqtc Fe Lumber Co., I Drunn St. (ll) ....E)lbtook 2-2074

Vqnder Lccu Piling d Lumber Co., ,16l Market Street (5) .EKbrook 2-4904

Wendling-Ncthcn Co., 564 Mcrket St. ({) . ....SUfter l-5363

OAKTAND.BERKELEY-AIA}IEDA

LUMBEN

Cclilonic Lunber Scles, 11615 Tidewcter Ave. (l) ........EEltog 3-6707

Easlshore Lumber d Mill Co., rt82l Tidewqtor f,ve. (l) .........KEUo9 3-2121

Firestone Lunber Induslries, 3200 Peraltc St. I8) .Pledmont 5-2261

Gqmerglou d Green Lunber Co., 2flll Liviaggton St. (6) .f,,Ellog {-1884

ANdover l-1077

...Lakehurst 2-2754

...TWiaocts 3-5291

.Rlchmond 7565

TWinoaks 3-9866

...KEllos 2-4277 ,..Berkeley 7-5865

TEmplebcr 2-5584

...Andover l-1600

..Gleucourt l-6861

..TWiaoclcs 3-554t1

.TEmplebcr 2-8400

Allev Lumber Co., 20i So. Lckewood Blvd' (Downey). LOgcn 340I

Allied Veneer 6 Lumber Co., 5100 So. Bovle Ave. (ll) .LUcqg 7291

Anderson-Hcasbn Co. (Siudio City), P. O, Box 5t3 '..STcnley 7-4721

Anclo Cclilorniq Lumber Co.,

655 E. Florence Ave. (l) .....THornwcll 3144

Arcctc Redwood Co. (J. J' Bec)

5410 Wilshire Btvd. (36) .WEbster 7828

Allcntic Lumber Co. (C. P. Henry 6 Co'),

714 West Olympic Blvd.......... PRospect 652t1

Allos Lumber Co.,

2035 E. lstb.Sr. (21) .PRospect 7401

Bcrio Lumber Co., Rclph E, (Huntiagtou Park)

2301 E, Nadecu Ave. ............JEflerson 7201

Brush Indugtricl Lumber Co.,

5354 E. Stquson Ave, (22).,....ANgelus l-1155

Bums f,umber Compcny,

?27 W. Seventh St. (l{) ..........Tniaity 106l

Ccrr 6 Co., L. I. (W. D. Duuning), 438 Ch. ol Com. Blds' (15) ....'.P8ospect 8843

Consolidcted Lumber Co..

122 W. Jefferson St. (7) ..Rlchmond 2ltll

Itl46 E. Ancheim St., Wilmincton ...Wilm. Ter. 4-2631; NE. 6-1881

Cooper W[olescle Lumber Co', W. E.'

606-608 Bichfield Bldg. (13) ........MUlucl 2l3I

Crcig-Wood Lumber Co, (Wilnington)

8{0 nedltv Street ...TErmincl 4-1577

Daut 6 RuEiell, Scles AEency, 812 E. 59th Street (l) ...ADcms 8l0l

Dell Lumber Co. (Burbclk)

124 So. Victory Blvd. ........CHcrleston 6-4182

Dolbeer d Cqrson Lunber Co., 901 Fidetity Bldg. (13) ..VAndike 8792

El Monte Lumbei Co' (El Monte),

510 E, Scn Bernqrdiao Bocd ....Budloag 8-3026

Forest Producls Scles Conpcny,

1270 So. Lc Brec Ave. (35) ....WEbster 3-1614

Frcnbeg d Son, W. P., 907 So, Alvarado St. (6) ....FEderql ?301

Ed. Fouatcia Lumber Co..

714 West Olympic Blvd. (15)....PRospect 4341

W. E. Gilbert (Pcscdenc l), 331 Parkwcy Bldg. ...........SYcamore 2-3{61

Gosgli!-Hcrding Lumber Co. (4. W. Donovqn) 825 Rowqa Bidg. (13) .....TRirity 5088

Hcllincn Mcckil Lumber Co, 4186 E. Bcndini Blvd, (23) ......ANgelus 3-4161

Hqmmond Lumber Conpcny, 2010 So, Alcmeda St. (54) ......PRospect 1333

Orbqn Lunber Co., 77 S. Pcsqdenc Ave., Psscdenq (3) ..... r".1""H i:3331

Pccific Lunber Co., Tbe 5225 Wilghire Blvd. (36) ..YOIL 1168

Pqcilic Forest Products. Inc,, (Iim Kirby), 833 Wqlnut Ave., Puelto .......Puente 522'52

Pclrick Lumber Co., EoslmqD Lunber Scles, 714 W. Olvmpic Blvd. (I5) ....PRospect 5039

Pope d Tqlbot, Inc., Lumber Division, tl4 w. OlyEpic Blvd. (15) .....Pnospect 8231

E, L, Reitz Co., 333 Petroleum Eldg. (15) .......PBospect 2369

Rounds Trcding Compcuy (Wilmiagton), 1240 Bliun Ave.

Budbcch 6 Co,, John A. ll2 West gth Stteet (15) .TUcker 5ll9

Sou Pedro Lumber Co.. l5l8 S. Ceutrcl Ave. (21) ......Blcbmond lltll

1800-A Wilminqton Rocd (Scu Pedro) ....'.TErmincl 2-6496

Shevlin Pine Scles Co., 330 Petroleum 3ldg. (15) .......PRospect 0615

Simpson Industries, Inc., l6i0 E. Wdshilgton Blvd. (21)...PRospect 6183

Siskivou Foreat Producls Co., (C. P. Heury 6 Co.) ?I4 Wesi Olympic Blvd. (15).'..PRospect 652'l

Socldinc Lumber Go., '803 P5troleum Blds. (15) .....Rlchmond 7-48tll

SlqDton, E. I. d Son, 2050 E. 4l;r sr. (ll) . .cEntury 29211

Sudden & Christeqsou, Iuc.' 630 Bocrd ol Trade Bldg. (14) ....TRinity 8844

Tqcomq Lumber Sales, 837 Petroleun Blds. (15) ....PRospect ll08

Tcvlor Lunber Co. (Chcrles E. Kendall), Pitroleun Btdg. (f5) ...PRospect 8770

Toste Lumber Compqnv

2219 Fcir Pcrk Ave. 1{l) ....CLevEIod 6-22{9

Wcllace Mill d Lumber Co. (Clearucter), P.O. Box 27. : .MEtccll 3'4269

Wendlirq-Ncthqn Co., 5225 uTikhir€ Blvd. (36) ...YOrk 1168

West Oreqon Lumber Co', 427 Petrcleum 8lds. (15) ......Blchmond 0281

W. W. Wilkinsou, ll2 riyest Nintb Stroot (15) ........TBiaity tl6l3

Weverhceuser Scles Co,, 1709 W. 8th Sr. (l{) ....FAirIqx 8265

Wilson Lumber Co., A. K' (Dominguez lunction) Del Amo 6 Alcmsdc Blvds. ...NEwmcrk l-8651

E. K. Wood LumbEr Co., 4710 So. Alamedq St, (54) ......lEllerson 31ll CNEOSOTED LUMBER-POLES PTLING-TIES

Americqn Lumber d TrectiaE Co., ll2 West gth Str€et (15) '.... .TRinity 5361

Bcxter, J.'H. 4 Co,, 601 WLst Stb Street (13) .Mlchigcu 629{

McCormick d Bqxter Creosoting Co., ll2 W, Ninth Street (15) .....TRinity 4613 Pope d Tclbot Inc., Lumber Division, il4 W. Olympic Blvd. (15) .....PRospeci 8231 HARDWOODS

Americqn Hcrdwood Co., 1900 E, lsth Street (54) .PRospect tlZls

Bohnholl Lumber Co', Iuc., 1500 So. AtcmEdc St. (21) ......PBospect 32{5

Brush Iaduslricl Lumber Co.. 5354 E. Slcuson Ave' (22) ,....ANgelus l-1155

PenbErthv Lumber Co., 5800 S5uth Boyle Ave. (lt) ., .Klmbcll 5lll

Scnlord d Lugsier Co.,

5l0l S. Van Ness Ave' (4{) ...AXmiuier 2-9181

Slqnlo!, E. J, 6 Son, 2050 Ecst 4lst Street (lt) ........CEntury 29211

Tropiccl d Western Lumber Co., 609 S. Grqnd Ave. (l{) .........Mlchigcn 9326

Weatorn Hcrdwood Lumber Co., 2014 East lsth Streot (55) ......PRospect 618l

SASH_D O ORS_MILLWONK-.S CNEENS BLINDS_PANELS AND PLYWOOD INONINC BOARDS

Bock Pcael Compcny, 310-314 Edst 32nd Street (ll) ....ADcms 3-{225

Cclilonia Door Company, The.. P,O. Box 126, vera-oa Siction (ll) Klmbcll 2l4l

Calilornic Pqqel 6 Vaeer Co., P. O. Box 2(X16, Terminal Annex (54) ...TRinitY 0057

Cobb Co., T. M., 5800 Centrcl Aveaue (ll) ........ADdng llll?

Cole Door d Plywood Co,, 1049 E. Slauson Ave. (ll) .ADqms 3-4371

Dcvidson Plvwood d Veneer Co., 2435 Enter-prise St. (21). ..TRiDity 9858

Eubank d Son, L. H. (Inglewood), 433 W, Bedondo Blvd. ..........ORe9oq 8-2255

Hclev Bros. '(Scntc Monicc), 1620 l{th Stlget .......AShley 'l-2258

Koehl, Jno. W. 6 Sou, 652 S, Myerg Street (23) .........ANgelue 8l9l

MacDougcll Door 6 Frame Co., 2035 E, Slst Street (Il) .Klnbcll 316l

Pqcific Muluql Door Co., 2719 Compton Ave. (ll) .ADcns 3-4228

Reqm Compqav, Geo. E., 235 S, Aflmtidq Street (12) .....Mlchigca 185{

Roddie Cclilonic, Inc., 2860 E. 54th St. (ll) ..lEllerson 3261

Sqmpgon Co. (Pcscdena), 745 So. Rcynond Ave. (2) .......RYcn l-6939

Simoson Induelries, 16-10 E. Waghinston Blvd. (21) PRogpect 6183

United States Plywood Corp., 1930 Ecst l5th-St. (21) .-.......Rlcbnond 610I

Westen Cugtom Mill, lnc., 4200 Bcndiai Blvd. (2ll) .......ANselu 2-91{7

Wegt Cocst Screen Co., ll27 Ecst 63rd Street (l) ........4Dcor lll00

Wegten Mill & Mouldiag Co.' 11615 Pcrmelee Avc. (2) ........Klnball 2953

E, K. Wood Lumber Co., {710 S, Alqnedc St' (5{) IEffor.o! 3lll

*Postollice Zone Number in Pcnenthesis.

Obituaries

$ea$on'$ ftreetings WHEELER PINE CO.

Mcnufacturers ond Wholesalers of WEST COAST LU'IIBER PRODUCTS

Successors to the First Wheeler Lumber Operations Establisheil in 1795

febphone EXbrook 2-3918 - - Teletype SF 650 mills ot Klqmqth Folls, Oregon

SALES OFFICE-RUSs BLDG.. SAN FRANCISGO 4, CAIIF.

Our best wishes lor

g filewy @brtstmes

nn! g[ Tburpy flen Eesr

I.UTIBER DDAI.ENS SUPPIY CO.

Wholescrle Scrsh crnd Doors

25914 President Ave., Hcrrbor City, Calit. P.O. Box 285

Telephone: Iomitct 1156

Sesgon'g @twtinqs

Americiln hmher & ilIfg.

5 l0th Avenue (9thlrlven uc Terminal)

OAKTAND 5, CALIFORNIA

TWinooks 3-9656

Pcul Mcrull

Paul Maull, 68, manager of the Long Beach yard of the Hammond Lumber Company, passed away suddenly at his home in Long Beach on November 18.

He was born in Springfield, I11., and had lived in California f.or 45 years. He was in the employ of the Hammond Lumber Companv lor 42 years, and came to Long Beach 24 years ago from San Bernardino.

He was a Mason, a member of the Lions Club, and of the Builders Exchange.

Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Harriett Maull; two sons, Paul, Jr., who is manager of the San Bernardino yard of Hammond Lumber Company; and Lynn Maull of. Long Beach, and four grandchildren.

Fred A, McNulty

Fred A. McNulty, 69, retired lumberman, former San Bruno; Calif., lumber dealer, passed away after a short illness at his home in San Bruno, October 19.

He was born in Pescadero, Calif. He established the McNulty Lumber Co. in San Bruno in I9D, and was joined later by his brothers George and Frank. The company was abandoned in 1943 and sold to the San Bruno Lumber Co. in 1944. Mr. McNulty was in charge of lumber at the Belle Aire Shipyard during the war years.

Funeral services were held under the auspices of Pyramid Lodge No. 562, F. and A. M. of San Francisco.

George S. Beadle

George Sherman Beadle, 77, rctired owner and operator of one of the largest lumber fleets on the Pacific Coast, passed away in San Francisco Nov. 13.

A native of San Francisco, he founded the Beadle Brothers Shipping Line in 1900. This later became the Beadle Steamship Company. Mr. Beadle sold out his interest in 1937 and retired. He is survived by two daughters and four grandchildren.

Export Control To Remain Unchanged

Export controls over lumber will remain unchanged for the present, the Office of International Trade, Department of Commerce, announced November 17.

In line with the federal government's general policy of relaxing export controls as rapidly as the domestic supply situation will permit, OIT'made an extensive inquiry into the feasibility of removing export controls on the lower grades of softwood lumber. The investigation revealpd that these grades of softwood lumber are still in too short supply to meet the requirements of domestic demand and that the present situation would not justify relaxing export controls.

The fourth quarter export quota of softwood lumber has already been set at 365 million board feet, OIT pointed out. This quantity is being licensed with due consideration, as previously, to the end-use of the lumber, the sections of the country from which lumber exports will be forthcoming, the grades and sizes, and the country of destination.

9.,filew! @ltristmug

gfi @oo! t#isbes tor 1948 to @ur ffiany :frients

w. w. wlLKlNsoN

Douglcs Fir Flywood-lumber & Shinglee Greosoted Poles qnd Piling

l12 W. gth St.-[os Angeles t5, Colif.-TRinlry /6t3

Holiday Greetings

crnd best wistres lor your hcppiness in The New Year

A. J. ltott PtAlfltfc illtt Ltd.

421 Colyton St., Los Angeles, Mlchigan 7807

Mcmulcrcturers oI Koll Pcrtent Lock loint Columns cnd Scrv-A-Spcce Sliding Doors

Chtistmas Gteetings

And Best Wishes For 1948

SUGAR PIIIE, PONDEROSA PIIIE, SPRUCE HARDWOOD LIII'BER

1249 Ecst 63rd Street Loe Angele l, Calil. ADcrrs 5221

fl ffierty @bristmns

snD Segt Whisbes for tbe 9eb Pear @o @ur fitienls GENERAI I.UMBER, &

H huPx! frelo Desr

E. G. PITGHER GOTPA]IY

Mcrnulcclurers

PITCHER DISAPPEAffNG DOORS

600 l6tb Street, Oc}land 12, Glencoud l49ql

Fcctory 8103 Seven Hills Bd., Ccstro Vcltey, Ilcyrrcrd, CcliL

The Season'g Greetings

And Our Best Wishes For f948

SERVETITE HARDWOOD COMPAIIY

366 Bcy Shore Boulevard

sAN TnANCISCO 24

VAlencicr 4-4200

Iouia Servgnte, Gen. Mgn Htnold W. Nqil, ycrd Supt.

F-UPPY frew Desr

Hexberg Brothers

TUMBER COMPANY

10806 Soulh Gentrql Avenue loc Angeles 2, Colif. LOgan t-6719

7o ,4ll

LUMBER AND ITS PRODUCTS

WHOTESATE

lorest Products $ales Conpany

1270 So. Ic Brea Ave. WEbster 3-1614 tos ANGET.ES 35

cusToM QUAUTY MIIUNG

Milling in Trcrnsit

On S.P.Pqcific Electric

Midwcy Los Angeles cmd the Hcrrbor

Pine cnd Redwood Siding in Stock

Wallace Mill & Lumber (o.

Corner Rosecrcrns Ave. qnd Pcrramount Blvd.

Cleqrwcter, Cclilornicr

P. O. Box 27

Telephone MEtcqll 3-4269

Direct Mill Shipment And Distribution Ycrrd Scrles oI

Douglas Fir

Dimension, Uppersand Finish

Alley lrumber Co., Inc.

201 So. Lckewood Blvd.

Downey, Ccrlil.

Telephone LOgcn 3401

MiIl cri Medlord, Oregon

cusrom mIllllrc

Rescrwin g-S urlccing-Bippin g

Complete High Speed End-Mctching

Flooring Mcrchinery

Re-Milling In Transit

Weslern Custom till' lnc.

4200 Bccrdini Blvd. (Centrcrl MIg. Dist.)

Los Angeles 22, Co.lif, Locqted on Spur oI L. A. Junction B. R

Telephone ANgelus 2-9147

WANT ADS IN TRANSIT

Kiln drying and milling by one of the largest Custom Dry Kilns on the West Coast. We buy Shop Grades and Clears.

San Pedro Dry Kiln Co.

P.O. Box 622, Wilmington, Calif.

Phones-TErminal 44597 and ,14598

WANTED

RETAIL YARD LUMBER MANAGER WANTED. MUSt have good contacts with industrial and construction trade. Salary and bonus.

Address Box C-1452, Catfornia Lumber Merchant 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

FOR SALE

Lurnber Yard in Santa Rosa, Cdifornia.

Address Box C-1tt6l, California Lumber Merchant 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

FOR SAL,'E

45,0fi) Circular Sawmill all electrically equipped with the exception of carriage, Will sell cheap enough to dismantle and move. Also logging trucks, tractors, and highline.

ALCAP LUMBER CO.

P.O. Box 1712

Fresno, California

WANTED

Experienced retail man wants to buy established yard. Will consider long term lease. Mail reply te P.O. Box 521 Alhambra. California

POSITION OPErN

Man about 40 years of age with lumber and building material sxperience for permanent order desk position with building material firm in Los Angeles. State qualifications and salary eipected in reply.

Address Box C-146O, California Lumber Merchant 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

WANTED

Mill Foreman for mill connected with Lumber Yard in Orange County, making principally Sash, Doors, Frames, Cabinets, Finish, etc. Give references, experience and salary expected. Permanent position.

Address Box C-1473. California Lumber Merchant 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14' Calif.

New Pine Plywood Plant To Be Built At Anderson, Calif.

Plans are under way for construction at Anderson, Cal. near Redding of "the largest ponderosa and sugar pine plywood plant in the country," Lawrence Ottinger, president of the United States Plywood Corporation announced recently.

The plyu'ood plant and a small sawmill will cost $2,000,000. They will be built by United States Plywood with the Harbor Plywood Corporation having the option to participate. These concerns announced recently they had acquired more than 1,000,000,000 feet of timber, largell' ponderosa and sugar pine, covering 60,000 acres in the Anderson area of Shasta county.

"The nelv plant," Mr. Ottinger said, "r,vill employ 300 persons, exclusive of loggers, and will have a capacity of 6,000,000 feet a month of ponderosa and sugar pine plywood."

WANT ADS

1.

FOR SALE

Harb6r lumber yard, now closed, no inventory or equipment. 20,000 sq. ft. sheds; all 4" Blacktop; 8 car spur. Lease runs three years @ $310 monthly. Extension possible. Owned improvements consist of one 52 x 72 fL warehouse and 52 x l@ fruss Roof shed for Hyster piling, which may be re,moved. Blacktop and owned improvements cost $40,000; first man with $13,000 gets this one.

Large Central California retail lumber yard doing approximately $f,000,000 busine'ss annually. Lumber inventory about 3,00O,i Ofi) feet; large inventory hardware, plumbing and electrical supplies. 5 acres. Planing mill. Will require from $400,0O0 to $500,000 to handle.

See our November 15th ad in The California Lumber Merchant for ottter yards for sale including a bargain in a Ir.A. remilling plant.

ROSS Straddle truck for sale; Model f6057 (the little one) f,or 52" load. Brand neur, never used. Will sell at cost, $4,300 F.O.B. Los Angeles.

Two FABCO logging dollies (Model #88); capacity 13,0C10 lbs.; 8 wheel; l0 x 20 tiresl water cooled brakes; steel bunks. Price $1,500 each, Los Angeles delivery.

"Burroughs" Bookkeeping machine (electric), overhauled, Price $300. "Woodstock" Billing typewriter (all caps) rebtrilt, price $75.00. "Add-fndex" electric adding machine; table model, rebuilt, $100.

If you want to seU your yard let us hear from you.

TWOHY LUMBER CO.

LUMBER YARD AND SAWMILIJ BROKERS

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

OPENING FOR YOUNG MAN

Los Angeles Wholesale Hardwood and Softwood Distributing Yard has an opening for an energetic young man between the age of 25 and 35 years, with a High School or better education. For one who is not afraid to work and really wants to learn the most interesting phase of the lumber business. from yard to the consumer with an ultimate objective, sales work. Here is a golden opportunity with good pay as a starter.

Address Box C-1439, California Lumber Merchant 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

WANTED SALES EXECUTIVE

A rapidly growing and successful enterprise, warehousing and distributing building materials specialties, needs young man of good education, general business experience, with proven sales and executive ability for Los Angeles territory who has favorable contacts with sciurces of materials. He must sell us with the idea he cdn, under our policies, build up and maintain an effective branch org:rn- ization and grow rapidly with the rest of the company. We want a man of broad training arid ability in building materials who wentually will be prepared to assum€ the responsibilities of an "all around executive." He must posse$s p€rsonality, adaptability, initiativc, and an intense interest in sales work. His letter naust be a frank and full statement of his qualifications and experience, personal particulars, references, and he must be able and witting to stand investigation. Salary commensurate.

Address Box C-1473, California Lumbcr Merchant 5O8 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

FOR SALE

Calculator-Marchant-hand type, it adds, subtracts, and divides. Also have one Uarco Regrster for sale.

Phone P

FOR REI{T

TUMBEN CABNIENs _ LIFT TNUCKS _ BOLI.EN TRUCKS

SAI.ES ALSO NEPAIRS

TUMBEN TNANSPORTATION

."Hyster Htruling"

Lcrgost Fleet oI Boss crnd Hysler

Lumber Ccrrierg crnd Lilt Truckg

On The West Coast

WESTENN LUMBER CARRIERS

1325 Ecrst Opp St NEvsdcr 6-1371

P. O. Box 622 Wilmington, Cclil. TErmincl 4-6624

AUDITS; FINANCIAL STATEMENTS; TAX MATTERS

Part-Time Bookeeping

E. M. WORTHING

Public Accountant

P. O. Box 56, Station M

Los Angeles 32, Calif.

Phones: Rlchmond 9251 ; CUmberland 3-1706

THIRTY YEARS LUMBER EXPERIENCE

SAWMILL FOR SALE

Completely equipped Central California sawmill currently run- ning 30,ffiO feet per day in Sugar Pine, Pondersoa Pine, White Fir and Red Fir. Timber is easily accessible for continuous opera- tion. Log pond, green chain, diesel electric power, circu,lar iaws with head rig, carriage, etc. Get more details about this attractive buy. Write today.

Address Box C-1459. California Lumber Merchant 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

FOR SALE NAILS

6D-8D-l6D-20D

New Bright Common Wire Nails

Packed in 100 lbs. and 125 lbs. kegs

Immediate Delivery

Large Quantity on Hand

Will ship any quantity

$12.00 per CWT. F.O.B. Kansas City, Mo. Phone-Wire-Write

NATIO TAL DISTRIBUTORS

2008 East 36th Street - Kansas City, Missouri Phone Armour 3699

FOR SALE

(A)-l only 404 B-1 6 x 15 8-Knife Planer and Matcher Ball Bearings, Belt Driven top and bottom Motorized Side Heads Belt Driven Double Profile

1 - f00 H.P. Motor with Cor;rpensator

I - Woods Feed Table

I - Set of Jointer Heads

(B)-1 (c)-1

I - 4d H.P. Motor with Compensator for profile multiplies

Machine now operating Lausmann Lomber Company, Med- ford, Oregon only 35O H.P. 44O Motor only Portable Clayton 10o H.P. Steam Generator-lO5f Pressure

(D)-l only Complete 200 H.P. Automatic Ray O.iler Burner equipment and accessory equipment

(E)-1 only single extended 6O ft. Willamette Boiler with stack

LAUSMANN LUMBER COMPANY

FOR SAIE

Ideal loccrtion lor retcril, wholesale, or concentrqtion lumber vard. Over two qcres in ex-

tent, cll pcved, Ienced cnd lighted. Complete with 14,000 squcrre Ieet oI wcrehouse spcce, and 5000 squcre leet oI covered sheds.

The ycrd hcs a 440 ,1. spur track; hcs complete olfices, and is less than one mile frorn marine unlocding docks.

Very reqsonable rental. Asking- Ior improvements $13,000.00.

coAsT LIIMBER e EQUIPMENT CO.

1206 West 7th Street

tong Beach 6, Ccrlil.

Phone 7-2879

4.

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WHAT BRADLEY HAS DONE TO PROVIDE

Better Hardwood Floors

The secret of why Bradlev Pre-finished (Straight-line) Hardwood Floors enable you

to deliver a better hardwood floor at a stantial saving, is shown at the right.

The convincing proof of. bou mucb better Bradley Pre-finished (Straight-line) Hardwood Floors actually are, is impressively illustrated below.

At no time within the life of our operations has our determination to make a superior product been more successfully accomplished than in Bradley Pre-finished (Straight-line) Hardwood Floors.