The California Lumber Merchant - December 1948

THE CALIFOR}.IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

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How Lrumber Lrooks

Portland, Oregon, November l8-Lumber Shipments from West Coast sawmills in 1948 are the highest for any peacetime year since the boom days of L929, according to H. V. Simpson, executive vice president of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association. Shipments so far in 1948 total 7,190,965,60 board feet, and will exceed 8.5 billion for the year. In the war years of L94L42 shipments were slightly over 1948 totals.

Simpson said these tremendous shipments of Douglas fir lumber fulfills the prophecy of this industry at war's end that they would supply a very large share of the lumber needed to convert America from a war to a peacetime economy if they were not hampered by restrictions.

Hope for the millions of people who need low cost homes was held out by Simpson who said West Coast sawmills have stepped up production of less expensive grades of lumber suitable for housing to 2 billion feet a year. This is a result of extensive conservation practices by lumbermen whose utilization of low grade and marginal logs have extended existing West Coast timb€r r'eserves by twenty-five per cent.

The weekly average of West Coast Lumber production in October was 163,331,000 board feet or 103.4% of the

L942-L947 average. Orders averaged 136,876,000 board feet; Shipments 151,268,000 board feet. Wgekly averages for September were: Production 169,958,0@ board feet (107.6% of the 1942-1947 average); Orders 151,174,000 board feet; Shipments 153,017,000 board feet.

Forty-three weeks of 1948 cumulative production 7,303,589,000 board feet; forty-three weeks of. 1947, 7,183,788,000 board feet; forty-three weeks ol L946, 6,4n,n4@ board

Orders for forty-three weeks of 1948 break-down as follows: Rail 5,O21,673,W board feet. Domestic Cargo 836,134,000 board feet. Export 282,396,n0 board feet. Local 832,381,000 board feet.

The industry's unfilled order file stood at 496,267,ffi0 bdard feet, at the end of October. Gro5s stocks at 848,801,000 board feet.

Lumber shipments of 398 mills reporting to the National Lumber Trade Barometer, National Lumber Manufacturers Association, were 13.6 per cent below production for the week ended November 6, 1948. In the same week new orders of these mills were 26.1 per cent below production.

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Flickering Lights that cheerfully express A Merry Christmas To All

Across the Ncrtion, its cross-rocrds cnd cities, crre the homes oI our citizens rellecting the Christmcrs Spirit. The flickering lights and the shcrdows lrom the hecrths'fires . . silently, yet glowingly ccclcrim cr Hqppy Christmcrs to all . . . Pecrce to mankind.

The home is the citcdel ol every Americcrn virtue the reql bqse upon which all the sociql cnd indushicrl grcrndeur oI Americcr hcs risen. It is the provider oI the spiritucl strengrth upon which mcrtericl thingrs cre built . . . it is the source oI all well-being.

More thcn ever belore the lumber industry is the vitcrl Iactor in the building ol homes. Every pcrrt oI this industry, lorest, mill, distributor, builder. hcrs plcryed crn importcrnt role in estcblishing the home in the Americcn wcry oI life.

Pope d Tcrlbot, now entering our l00th yecr, is proud to be c pcrrt ol this industry . . . to hcve been cr pioneer in the development oI the West crnd the entire ncrtion.

The need of America is not for qnen who can lift blocks of marble to the fortieth story of some great building, but for men who will lift the level of character-not men who dot the seas with the white sails of commerce, but for men who in their everyday living exemplify those homely virtues, those old fashioned verities, which in the last analysis, alone can bring happiness into the life of the individual, or build perpetuity in our civilization. The time has come when we must understand as never before that there is an everlasting difference between making a living and making a life. Life is not a goblet to be drained; it is a cup to be filled. The great need of America today is not for men who will add to the quantity of our materials, but men who will add to the quality of our living.-Dr. W. W. Youngston. !f !N. rF

Leadership. "A leader is best when people barely know that he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim hirn" worse when they despise him. Fail to honor people, they fail to honor you. But of a good leader who talks little, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will san 'We did this ourselvss'."-fae-fss. ***

The effects of our present type of civilization on the production of great men was well illustrated by Governor Henry J. Allen, of Kansas, when he said concerning Lincoln: "Had Abraham Lincoln been living today, the Rotary Club would supply him with a set of books; the Lions Club with a good reading lamp; the Cosmopolitan Club with writing equipment; the Kiwanis Club with a wooden foor for the cabin. He would have the protection of the child labor law and government old-age insurance. A kindly philanthropist would send him to college with a scholarship. A case worker would see that his father received a monthly check from the county. The OPA would reduce his rent by 50 per cent. He would receive a subsidy for rail splitting i another one for raising some crop he was going to raise anyway, and still another subsidy for not raising a crop he had no intention of raising. Result: There would have been no Abraham Lincoln."

Time to say something about the recent election, from a business standpoint, at least. The world watches President Truman as through a strong magnifying glass, to see what he will do. Previous to the election he had a lot of tough stuff to swallow. The bulk of the newspaper editors of the nation proclaimed him to be a "little man." Some of them praised his courage, and his fighting heart,

but added nevertheless that he was small; much too small for the job. That's why the world is particularly watching him. He will show clearly by his words and actions, whether or not they misjudged him, under-estimated him. If there is bigness in the man, now is a wonderful time to show it. And if he does, I think well enough of the American press to believe that they will confess they were wrong. And, vice versa, if he doesn't show signs of bigness, they will just say-"\iVe told you so." It will be interesting to watch.

Business has all eyes on Mr. Truman. Few business trren supported him in the recent election. Most business men were shocked out of their wits when the returns came in. Some of them immediately began seeing all sorts of dire things in the immediate offing, and rushed out to sell their securities as a first reaction. And now business is waiting to be shown, with all eyes on the President. If what he does in the next six months is of a character to reassure them and remove some of their fears, they will come slowly out of their holes. But to doubt that business has crawled in there for the time being at least, is to know nothing of business. For twelve years Mr. Roosevelt was openly hostile to business, and overlooked no opportunity to demonstrate that hostility. Mr. Truman, since taking the high seat, has also appeared to be anti-business. And sixteen years of anti-business administration is enough to give business folks the chills. So now-business watches. It hopes and prays-but waits to be reassured.

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The stock market has shown plainly since election day what the feeling of business is toward the situation. Tens of thousands of men rushed out to sell securities as soon as they got the election figures. These were not all big business men by any means. In fact the sale of stocks and bonds that comprised th'e savings of small folks throughout the land, has been seen everywhere. "I'd tather have the cash for a while anyway," is the way most of them explained their actions. Many of the more gloorny opinions that were uttered on all sides and quoted in all the newspapers right after the election, seem to have been toned down some. Bankers and other prominent financiers in profusion were quoted as saying-"This is the end of private enterprise,"-e1 "\[sq7 we have a labor government." {.**

I think most of them have calmed down by now, and are mixing some optimism with their opinions. But all are waiting. All the business, all the industry, all the employers of the nation are waiting to see what Mr. Truman

is going to do with his "mand.ate." And what business does, will depend on what the President does. Vice President Elect Barkley was quotedt in the press as asking, "\Mhat has business got to be afraid of," whe.n the wild rtrsh to sell securities was going on for several days follpwing election. That's an easy one to answer. Business is waiting to see what sort of a climate for business, for investments, for private enterprise is going to exist in this country the next four years. And they will have a pretty good idea on the subject inside of six months. By that time we will at least know which way the arrow points-right or left. If ta:res are to run riot, if strikes are to take over the land without government restriction, if socialistic philosophies are to be encouragea, if Comrnunism is to be allowed to grow'unrestrained in this land; these and many other "ifs" will decide the attitude of business within the next year. If things look bad; dollars will hide, jobs will be aborted by employers' fears.

Mr. Truman has the greatest opportunity in all Ameri-can history to do something big and dramatic. I beligve that he considers himself a man of high power and great ability. If true, he has an unprecedented chance to show it. And, if he does, he will have political writers and thinkers of the country eating humble pie again, as they were the day after election. History sits in this man's lap. He can pursue a vindictive and narrow course and doubly convince the critics that they were right about him all the time; or he can take the opposite course and perhaps build a high niche for himself in history. It will be interesting to see.

One great satisfaction f got out of the election. Those who read this column recall the many times I have expressed my very poor opinion of public opinion polls; my utter disbelief that they were entitled to respect of any sor! because, in my judgment, they never interviewed' enough people to make it even faintly possible to discover what the public thought. f don't believe you can tell what

Weyerhcreuser Timber

The Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, Tacoma, Washington, which is the timber and milling end of the vast Weyerhaeuser interests, owns 2,170,000 acres of forest timberland, and 40 billion feet of standing virgin timber. The company is engaged in a vast effort at scientific reforestation of its timber lands, aiming to increase the realization from each acre of land harvested, and to provide constantly growing commercial forests for all time to come.

Keeps Him Inlormed

i A grand and inexpensive way to keep a line on the many friends in the Lumber Industry. Thanks again.

R. (Pinky) Nortvedt

Western Hardwood Lumber Co.

'Los ,&ngeles, Calif.

one twin thinks by asking the other twin. So naturally rI consider any attempt to test public opinion by asking :a small handful-if any-to discover what a multitude thinkb, to be either senseless or sheer quackery. I trust we he{r no more from these polls. Or, if we must, let me suggeft one very practical thought. With every poll opinion published, let them state exactly how many people were ilrterviewed to get the opinions of how much of the public. Knowing these facts, I don't believe anyone would be impractical enough to give such opinions a second thought.

I or-..o" only the r""o".':"rf tJ" .,oooa research scientists of,this country. But already the foresters of Germany have done much better than that in actual practice. Always exemplars of scientific forest practices, the present economic condition of their land has taught them things about economizing that even they never thought of before this .last war. An outstanding British authority on such matters, says that in the German forests andr sawmills today ' "everything is used," particularly the' roots of the trees 'which they actually dig up from the ground, and the smallest limbs and twigs left in the logging woods. All this is used for domestic fuel. The twigs are cut to kindling lengths in machines specially created for that purpose. They pull the roots up with winches where possible, or . use blasting powder wher; necessary.

This authority tells about a German logger's experience that beats all records. The villagers nearby made a deal with him whereby they felled his trees, and trimmed and cut them into logs, in exchange for the roots, limbs, and twigs, and actually paid him some money in addition to getting his timber ready for market. When the deal was over his land had been logged free, it was entirely cleared of every bit of wood, and he had some honey in his pocket besides. All in exchange for what had always previously been left in the woods as necessary waste. firey have gone the American packers who utilize "all but the squeal"one better. ;

Dry KiIn Conl,erence

The Southern Oregon-Northern California Dry Kiln Club, the West Coast Dry Kiln Club, and the Washington-IdahoMontana Dry Kiln Club, held a big joint conference in Port'land, Oregon, November 19th and 20th. In addition to several interesting buisness sessions and a banquet, the program included an inspection visit to the Moore Dry Kiln Company plant at North Portland, and another to the Western Pine Association's laboratory to view its hlmber seasoning experi-

Worth The Price

Your editorials, Jack, are worth many times the price of the subscriotion

R. A. Johnson

" Oakdale, Califorraia' '/'

Shipping 8,000,000 Seedling Trees

Olympia; Washington, November 16-Work of lifting packing and shipping 8,000,000 seedling trees began yesterday at the Forest Industries Tree Nursery at nearby Nisqually. This is the largest crop of seedlings ever grown at this unique nursery established in 1942 and maintained by the forest products industry of the West Coast, according to W. D. Hagenstein, Forest Engineer for the West Coast Lumbermen's Association and the Pacific Northwest Loggers Association.

Hagenstein said these trees, planted 500 to 600 per acre, will cover about 15,000 acres. He said hand planting is necessary only where lands have been taken out of forest production by past fires or improvident timber harvesting. All seedlings will be used on private forest lands.

Only a very small portion of harvested timber lands have to be hand planted, Hagenstein pointed out. Since 1941 in Oregon and 1945 in Washington, loggers have been required by State law to reserve in each harvest area sufficient seed source to reforest the harvested lands naturally. He emphasized the preponderanqe of natural restocking of once harvested forest lands by pointing out that the 12,000,000 acres of second-growth timber now growing in the Douglas fir forests of western Oregon and Washington resulted mostly from natural restocking during the past 100 years of commercial logging.

Paying tribute to the private forest land owners who will spend several hundred thousand dollars this year in

artificially restocking non-productive areas, Hagenstein called them America's greatest risk takers. "These men have real faith in our country for they are planting crops today which will not be ready for harvest for 60 to lCI years." He said private operators this winter will plant many more thousands of acres by direct seeding, using helicopters and airplanes.

Nu Frcrme Protected Screens Now by Bonderite

Nu-Frame all metal window screens are now protected by the Bonderite process for greater resistance to corrosion, according to Rudiger-Lang Co., of Berkeley, California, manufacturers of this modern flat screen.

"Previously the steel frame was protected only by a baked enamel finish," Morris Levin, the firm's sales manager, explains.

"Bonderizing is not visible. It doesn't change the appearance of the screen. Only the result-longer service without rust or corrosion-can be seen." l

Although additional value will be given the customer by this process, there will be no increase in the price of Nu-Frame screens. Mr. Levin states.

New Calilorniq Box Fcrctory

Construction has started on a new box factory and cut-up plant by the Winton Lumber Company, at Martell, California. It will cost $200,000. James B. Lusk is in charge.

AI Bell qnd Lew Godcrrd

CInd All of the stoff of Hobbs Wall Lumber Co.

qnd Associoted Mills

Welcome this opportunity to wish oll of their good retcril friends

ond Hoppiness in The

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405 Montgomery St. GArfield l-7752

R. A. Colgoil, *fr,, R"ports on Lrumber Productionrrr Present and Prospective

By R. A. COLGAN, In. Executive Vice President Nationcl Lumber Mcnulcrc'turers Associcrtion Wcshingilon" D. C,

In the l.{ation's Capitol, as was true last year, the consensus of opinion is that the lumber industry has again done a bang up production job. Although final statistics are not now available, it is expected that more than 38 billion board feet of lumber will be produced. For the third quarter of 194& production was higher than during the same three mnoths in any of the past thirty years.

Production in most grades and sizes has been sufficient to meet the demand of the nation's builders, who have also had a record year. The building of more than one million new housing units has supplied a ready market for all lumber produced.

This outstanding accomplishment was achieved, in most part, without the help of government control, allocation or regulation. For that we may be thankful.

Now, two years since the lifting of controls and regulations, the building industry has reached full stride. Every month has seen additional production records ,set. Despite the hue and cry of a certain elemgnt of the riation's conservationists, there were ample trees in the lorest from which the necessary lumber for the eridless and varied jobs was produced.

The industry's Tree Faim Program has continued to expand. Now, twenty-five participating states have l,SD tree farms covering 16,151,830 acres. The cooperation of the land owners who are participating in the endeavor is a renewed guarantee that ed'ucation of the timber holders in the most economic methods of harvesting tree.,crops will assure the nation of a continuing abundance of fcjrests. These abundant forests, will in turn, -providQ a willirrg industry the raw materials with rvhich to supply the nation's builders. i

The many organizations vitally interested in problems confronting the lumber industry held successful meetings in many cities of the nation. At these gatherings, leaders

in the various divisions of America's oldest industry laid plans to overcome the obstacles u'hich must be removed, if we are to continue meeting the increased demand for wood products.

The overall picture f.or 1949 is good. There is the reassurance of a constantly impfoving supply of raw materials and a continuing high demand for our 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. ;

Those of us who might be perturbed, as a result of the general election, will do well to realize that despite the political allegiance of the majority of members of the new Congrels, many of them represent an economic viewpoint which has much in common with our own. For this reason it behooves us to continue to cooperate with these leaders for the principles cif a sound economic system based upon free enterprise and individual initiative. This change in the political allianie of the majority members of Congress would indicate an increased amount of public housing. Those of us who do not believe that "Public Housing" is the answer to the nation's "shortages," must never-the-less accept the challenge for furnishing the increased wood products that will be necessary for any socialistic method housing which may be authorized.

The effects of the European Recovery Program and an accelerated National Defense are just beginning to affect the industry. Additional acceleration can be expected from both of these programs. This will, in turn, aglin increase the demand for products of the lumber industry. The increased need for lumber, providing that we do not again turn to the totalitarian methods of regulation and price control, will remain at the present level in most cases. This may not.be trug in the instance of the less desirable giades, whose production will be increased proportionately as the demand for select lumber is met.

Our'1948 output again proved our contention that the industry could maintain production at a pace equal to demand, once it had the opportunity to perform without

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T HAS been said that sentiment and business can not go well together. \Ve sincercly believe they can! Believing so, we thank our many lumber dealer friends for patronage giveq usi . . . and af.the same time express our hope that

this holiday season will open a year of prosp eity and accomplishment for every one oI you.

R. A. Colgan, Jr., Reports

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the hamstringing which accompanies government regulation and control.

The challenge of a continuing lumber supply has been met rvithout any danger to the future supply of standing timber. The trend is entirely in the direction of an increasing growth and larger supply. Due to the expected demand for increased production in the year to come, this is a heartening sign. l\faximum effort will be necessary on the part of the lumber industry to continue the record lumber stocks, adequate to meet the steadily increasing demands made upon us. Only an act of God or' the olrstacles of government control rvill prevent onr srtccessfttl acceptance of 'the challenge.

Dmre Davis Appointed Deputy Stcte Sncrk

E. G. "Dave" Davis, Rounds Trading Company, San Francisco, has been appointed Deputy State Snark for Northern California by Snark of the lJniverse Roy Stanton, Los Angeles.

Dave has been active in Hoo-Hoo affairs for a long time, and was one of the prime movers in rejuvenating San Francisco Hoo-Hoo Club No. 9, and was first president of the San Francisco Lumbermen's Club, sponsored by Hoo-Hoo Club No. 9. He is also a past vicegerent Snark of the San Francisco district'

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Christmqs Party And GolI Tourncrment December 17

The Los Angeles Hoo Hoo Club will hold its aunual Christmas party and golf tournament Friday, December' 17, at the Oakmont Country Club, Glendale' 'fhe golfers will tee off at 12:19 p.m. Prizes to bc arvarded include the Roy E. Stanton, George E. Ream ancl The California Lumber Merchant trophies. Prizes will also be awarded to the rn'inners in the special events. The Christmas party will be held in the Club House in the evening. The dining room will be decorated in the usual holiday atmosphere, including a beautiful Christmas tree. Dinner will be served at 7:19 p.m., followed by a fine entertainment and the award of prizes to the winners in the golf tournament.

President Bill Ream and his committee are arranging a fine program, and a big turnout is expected. Send in your reservations early.

Plywood Plcnrt Stqrts Nov. First

A huge new plywood plant started turning out sheets on November first. It is that of the Eureka Plywood Company, at Eureka, C,alifornia, which is a branch of M & M Woodworking Company, of Portland, Oregon. The new plant is all housed in one tremendous building that measures 800 feet long by 160 feet wide, all under one roof. The blocks enter at one end of the great plant, and the finished product comes out at the shipping dock on the far end, 800 feet distant. Elmer Hall is general manager and Paul E. Freydig is the logging operator.

Red Cedar Shingles and Shakes Show Production Come-Back in 1948

(The lollowing qrticle prepcred lor Merchant by the Red Cedcr

Rcd cedar shingle production during 1948 has displayed a continuation of the upward trend which has been registered since the end of the war and, although not yet reaching the pre-rvar rate of output,. is norv at a substantial figure.

'Hard hit by wartime log and labor shortages, the shingle industry has shown a healthy recovery since the end of hostilities. Output in 1945 was only approximately onelralf that ol 1941, with the 1948 total expected to be approximately mid-way between these two years.

California, which claimed 105% of the shingle industry's total output last year, is expected to show a somewhat higher figure for 1948 when statistics are available.

Close observers of the shingle industry' attribute much of the "come-back" made by red cedar shingles to their increasing use for sidewall construction, in addition to roofs. They point to large residential projects in many sections of the country with rvalls built of cedar shingles, as evidence of this trend.

In most cases, the shingle .ivalls are built with double layers of shingles on each course, a technique known as double-coursing, and the industry, through the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, has placed great emphasis in its advertising and trade promotion on this type of construction. Double-coursing utilizes a top-grade shingle or shake for the inner and completely concealed layer. With half of the shingles of an economy grade, and with extended wea.ther exposures giving greater ,coverag'e, this type of application boasts real advantages of economy.

One outgrowth oI the increasing popularity of doublecoursed sidervall construction has been the growing prominence of machine-processed shingles. These processed shingles, knorvn popularly as shakes, enable builders to accentuate horizontal lines on sider'valls, in conformance with current architectural trends.

The shakes are applied double-coursed, with an under layer of low-grade shingles, thereby producing heavy bands of shadow at each course line. Cedar shingles are converted into shakes in a machine which grooves or striates one face and at the same time precisely trims the edges of the shingle so they are parallel and at right angles with the butt. They usually are applied with edges closely fitting. This fact, coupled with the grooves in the exposed face, almost completely eliminates the vertical joints be-

The Cclilornicr Lumber Shingle Burequ)

tween the shakes, providing smooth and unbroken expanses of wall separated by the deep shadow lines of each course.

The many advantages of red cedar shingles and shakes for sidervall construction are featured in an all-color motion picture produced during the year by the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, entitled "W'alls of Wisdom." The film stresses the beauty and e,conomy of double-coursed sidewalls, as well as the construction methods involved. It is being shown by Bureau representatives before audiences in all parts of the country.

While cedar shingles are enjoying steadily increasing

Double-coursed cEdqr rhingle or ghctre ridewclls qre economiccl cs well os qtlrcrctive. The double loyers ol shingler give cr becvy ghqdow line belween courses. Processed ghcLeg, with precirion- pcrclleled edges, cre lqid with closely-litted edger cnd elirnincte the crppecrcnce ol verticcl ioints between the shqLer.

usage for sidewall purposes, they also have maintained their traditional popularity for roofs. They assure roof coverings which are durable and long-lasting, have a high degree of insulation, and are most attractive. Aside from their longJasting characteristics, which provides low cost when figured on a per-year basis, cedar shingles also are found to afford advantages of economy due to the use of spaced sheathing boards. Whereas many types of roofirig require a solid sheathing deck, red cedar shingles, because of their inherent strength and rigidity, can and usually are applied to spaced sheathing boards. This practice enables builders to make appreciable savings in sheathing lumber as well as labor of application. Engineers point out that wood shingles constitute the only form of roof covering that actually adds to the strength of the roof section, this being due to the stiffness of the shingles themselves combined with a "bridging" efiect produced by the conventional overJapping method of laying, whereby a three-layer roof is produced.

During 1948 an important change was made in the grademarking of Certigrade shingles, which are produced by member mills oT the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau. The name of the second grade of Certigrade shingles was changed from No. 2 to Red Label, the change being made in deference to requests from dealers and shingle distributors throughout the country. The nelv name, Red Label, is expected to enable dealers to merchandise this l2-inch clear shingle more readily, without the disadvantages of a numerical designation which was felt to be inadequately descriptive of the merits inherent in this type of shingle.

Good Attendance at Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 Dinner Meeting

,IIoo-Hoo Club No. 39 turned out a good crowd at their November 15 dinner meeting at Hotel Claremont, Berkeley.

The speaker of the evening, Homer P. Buckely, Oakland attorney and Commander of the 10th district of the American Legionr gav€ a believe it or not talk on the odd quirks in many of California's laws. It was good entertainment and the speaker got a good hand.

Mel Matheny led community singing, and.as usual this was a big success.

President Tom Jacobsen presided. Chris Sechrist was program chairman, and introduced the speaker.

Door prizes consisted of football tickets. Two East-West game tickets donated by Bill Davis, Davis Millwork Co., Berkeley, were won by Victor Roth. Two tickets for the 49ers-Cleveland game November 28, donated by Wendell Paquette, Lumber Terminal Co., San Francisco, were won by Bill Haskin, U.S. Plywood Corp., Oakland.

Dry Shed Enlcrged At Sccr Frqncisco Yard

Gamerston & Green Lumber Co. recently completed an expansion of their dry shed space for Sugar pine, Ponderosa pine, and plywood, at their distribution yard, foot ot Tunnel Avenue, San Francisco.

They can now handle under cover up to 350,000 feet. R. T. (Bob) Bonner is in charge of the pine and plywood department. He is assisted by John Gamerston.

HOO.HOO REACHES OUT

By IeROY H. STANION, SR., Sncrrk ol the Universe Los Angeles, Cclilornicr

A great honor has come to me in my election as Snark of the lJniverse of the International Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo, the symbol of fraternity, cooperation, and usefulness to lumbermen for fifty-six years.

I am very mindful of my responsibility in taking over this office until September,1949, and humble when I think of the devotion and untiring efforts put forth in the building up of Hoo-Hoo by fine men like Arthur Bolling Johnson, "Le" LeMaster, Ray Saberson, and a host of other splendid characters that have seen in Hoo-Hoo an organization founded on fraternity among lumbermen, a vehicle which can be of tremendous value to our industry, if directed on a high plane of conduct and endeavor.

So I intend to carry on with all the energy at my disposal in order that the work of tl,ese devotees to tle shrine of Hoo-Hoo shall not have been in vain.

Many nerv Hoo-Hoo that I have had the pleasure of greeting after Concats of the new clubs in my jurisdiction have asked me: "What serious purpose does Hoo-Hoo have ? We know that it is a wonderful means of getting lumbermen and rvood dealers of all sorts together on common ground, thus promoting co-operation and friendship among all branches of the industry, but what does HooHoo have in the way of a constructive program ?"

I hope that the meeting of the Supreme Nine in Chicago held on November 4th and 5th provided some answers to this oft-propounded question. It has never been my pleasure to meet with a finer group of men and more serious in their zeal to build Hoo-Hoo into the strong, influential organization which is its destiny. Two days of earnest and diligent discussions were spent on the "Good of the Order," and one of the main topics of discussion was "How can Hoo-Hoo be of more service to the industry?" The answer was to develop a program of giving concrete suggestions to all of our more than fifty clubs (we hope this will be one hundred before the end of our term) as to how they can carry on activities which not only will render real service, but will enhance the prestige of Hoo-Hoo as an agent for good throughout lumberdom.

After our discussion we feel that Number One in this program rvill be our Educational Feature, through which

Wcshingrton State Forestry

The Washington State trbrestry Conference will hold its annual meeting in Seattle, December 3. The reforestation of Washington timber lands will be the general theme of the meeting.

our clubs can aid young men not only to learn the lumber business in splendid courses given in various universities throughout the country, but can help in securing competent and practical instructors for these courseb; also by assisting in locating jobs for these young men after they have finished their studies. Many lumber dealers, of tourse, will want to encourage and help young'men in whom they are interested in taking this valuable training.

Our Oakland Club No. 39 has been carrying on this fine educational program for young men in the San Francisco Bay district for several years, and they can well be proud of the great service rendered in developing young lumbermen and giving them a good start in life.

I feel confident that Hoo-Hoo clubs in all parts of the United States and Canada will be enthusiastic about this Number One program on the Hoo-Hoo agenda for 19,1849, and, will recognize the great good it can do in the development and training of young men of ,character who will incidentally make wonderful timber for Hoo-Hoo in the future.

We are fortunate in having Bill Bell, managing director of the Western Retail Lumbermen's Association, Seattle, Washington, on our Supreme Nine from Jurisdiction No. 3, as he has already done a lot of work in developing this educational program and will outline in broad form the program that will be presented very shortly to our clubs for action, and I believe it'will be tremendously popular with the great majority of our members.

Other activities will also be suggested to our Hoo-Hoo clubs and I fervently hope that our fine Order will make this coming year one of real accomplishment not only in the building of strong, closely-knit clubs, but in performing some constructive and important service to our industry and through it to our country.

Hoo-Hoo activities will be greatly assisted and coordinated from now on by our new form of organization with Deputy State Snarks to cover state activities and Vicegerent Snarks covering the various districts within the states. Leaders of the highest type are norv being appointed for these important posts, so watch Hoo-Hoo hum during the coming months.

Ivory Pine Mill Closes

The Ivory Pine Company sawmill at Bly, Oregon, has cut its last log after fifteen yeap of operation. This concern is building a new mill at Dinuba, California, that will be completed within six months timC.

Americans Buy Fifteen Billion Feet of Mexican Timber

One of the biggest timber sales in all history was recently made in Mexico, when the Vancouver Plywood & Veneer Company, of Vancouver, Washington, purchased timber and timber lands from the International Corporation of Chicago and Mexico City totaling an estimated fifteen billion feet of softwood and hardwod timber, located in various parts of Mexico. These holdings are scattered from the Southern tropical area for hardwoods, to the pine and oak regions lying West of Mexico City.

The official heads of Vancouver Plywood have been elected to succeed the former 'officers of Resources International. Frost Snyder, of Tacoma, Washington, is president; Wesley Kilworth and W. W. Kilworth, are vice presidents; John B. Power, general manager of Vancouver Plywood, is the new secretafy-treasurer.

Great logging and milling developments are projected.

1948 Construcrtion Shows Big Increcse

During the first 10 months of this year, the value of new construction put in place was $14.7 billion, a 31 per cent jump over the comparable L947 period, the Commerce Department announced.

Ner,r' construction valued at $1.7 billion was put in place during October. This was a 14 per cent increase over October, 1947 and a "seasonal drop" of 4 per cent from the September record volume, the department said.

On The Sellins Line

There isn't the place for a half-size man, In the front of the selling line; ft's a place for grit and tact and wit, And pluck that knows not when to quit, And a smile that sticks through the worst of itOut on the selling line.

There isn't a chance for a half-size brain, Out on the selling line;

For the buyer's aware when you spout hot airAnd clutch for a fact that isn't thereUnless you've a thought or two to spareDon't go on the selling line.

There's plenty of room for men-real menOut on the selling line; Men with a vision of things to do, Who set a mark to which to hewAnd then drive in, and carry it throughTo the front of the selling line.

Ncuned Advertising Mcncger

Philadelphia, Nov. 17-The appointment of John H. Dingee to the post of advertising manag€r of Henry Disston & Sons, fnc., has been announced by Walter H. Gebhart, vice president of the company, which manufactures saws, tools, files and steel. Mr. Dingee succeeds the late J. William Jay, who died October D.

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There's something more to Christmas than trees and Than songs to sing and sifts to bring that makes the It's somethins deeper, better, invisible but true---

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(This editorial appeared in our christmas issue of December 15th, 1946. since that time a succession of friends have asked that we repeat it. so here it is.)

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Christmas?

Who was it discovered the shepherds on the hills near Bethlehem?

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Who gave to mankind the picture of the angel who ap- peared to these simple shepherds to announce the coming of the King?

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Who, alone of all the biblical writers, told the emotional story of the blessed Babe who was born in a manger in a stable, where those same shepherds found and worshipped Him?

What man was it who has thrilled the souls of men for nigh two thousand years with his sublime words: ,,And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heav_ enly host praising God and saying, ,Glory to God in the highest and on on earth

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Because of this one writer, the world pauses once a year to celebrate in various ways the birthday of the Son of a carpenter. Without his writings alt this beauty, all this inspiration, would have been lost to man. For this m:rn gave us Christmas.

His name was Luke; Doctor Luke, of Antioch. He was a Greek physician in his earlier days. And toward the end of his splendid life he wrote a long, long letter to a Roman scholar named Theophilus. And the litter concerned the birth, life, works, and death of a humble Jew, the Son of a car.enter

Thus it happened that the most sublime story in the history of mankind came to us through the means of a letter, written by a Greek, to a Roman, iborrt a Jew. Won_ derful, isn't it?

One of the saddest sins of man is ingratitude. What is true of the individual, is true of the race. So I have long

nursed the feeling that the entire human race, or at least the Christian world, has been guilty of gross ingratitude toward Doctor Luke by completely forgetting and seldom if ever mentioning his name in connection with the holiday and holy day of Christmas; a day of which, except for Doctor Luke, we would i."f Y". heard.

Because in the Book of Luke, and only in that beautiful book, do we find the story of Christmas. There and there only do we learn the thrilling story of the shepherds, the angels, and the holy Babe who was born in a manger. There, and there only, do \r'e get the ins'.piration for the ringing joys, the sublime inspiration that we call the Christmas spirit. There, and there only, do we find Christmas' t :r. t

We depend for our history of Jesus and the religion He founded, on the four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and the Acts, all in the New Testament. Mark and John tell us nothing of the birth of Jesus. Matthew does tell of that birth, and of the wise men who came from the East and found the newborn child in a house in Bethlehem. But nothing about the stable, the manger, the shepherds, and the glorified angelic chorus; nothing of the things that gave us Christmas. Matthew, Mark, and John were contemporaries of Jesus. Luke was not. He was one who came after, and who, at least two generations after the crucifixion, gave us our beautiful Christmas story.

It is my conviction that the Christian world owes more to this man Luke than to any other man in biblical history. Not alone did he give us the story of Christmas, but in the wonderful book that he wrote in the sunset of his life, he told us many other stories; the most beautiful stories that any religionist ever told. And, like the story of Christmas, he alone related them.

It was Luke, and only Luke, who told the story of the Good Samaritan. ft was Luke who gave to religious preacher6 the most trenchant text for sermons the world

has known-the story of the repentant thief on the cross. It was Luke who told us the story of the Prodigal Son, concerning which the world has talked ever since. Those three stories, together with the story of Christmas, all of them told only by Doctor Luke, have furnished the text for countless religious discussions and writings since the Christian era began; and will continue to do so as long as the new Testament exists. We owe all these to Doctor Luke. And we never even say thank you, or mention his name, or tip our hats to his -i*ltt;

Who was this Doctor Luke? He was not only the writer of the most beautiful piece of literature the world has known-the Book of Luke-but he was likewise the greatest friend that history has any record of. His friendship for the Apostle Paul, his loyalty and devotion throughout their long lives and even unto the death of Paul, makes the love of Damon for Pythias seem like a transient and weakly acquaintance, by comparison. The more you think of this fellow, Luke, the more you admire him; the more you wish you could have known him. That's the way he appeals to me. What " t*ot*n"**""t

The great events of history happen fast. A dozen substantial citizens were plying their regular occupations in the Holy Land a couple of thousand years ago. They were men of substance, and character. They had homes and families. One day a young Jew they had never seen before, dressed in the garments of the poor, with not a dime in His pockets, came in from the outer country and passed them by. And as He passed He beckoned to each of the twelve. He said "Come with me." And they dropped everything they had, and all that they were doing, and they followed Him. It was that sudden. Have you stopped to think what sort of personality that young Jew must have had? Give it a thought for Christmas.

Many years pass. The young Jew has fulfilled His mission, has been crucified; and is gone. A tough guy named Saul appears. He takes it on himself to root out and destroy the hated followers of the young Jew, Jesus. Saul is on the road to a place where he is going to kill some more Christians, when he meets a young Man he has never seen before. The same look that won the twelve apostles must have met the killer, Saul. For he bowed his head and said to that young Man-or His spirit-"What do you want me to do?"

Again with the speed of light, Saul the killer becomes Paul the Apostle, the greatest salesman, the greatest preacher the world has known. And he starts out to cover the civilized world and preach the gospel of that young Man he met that day on the road to Damascus. years later, still on his mission and now magnificent in his power, he drops into a Greek city named, Antioch. In Antioch he meets another young man, a practicing physician whose name is Luke. And, just as the Twelve followed Jesus, and just as Paul had done likewise, Doctor Luke dropped all that he had, and followed paul; followed him over all the world, and ministered unto him, and befriended him, and waited on him, even to his death on a

cross in Rome many years after. The same suddenness as in the previous events related here.

In his writings Paul refers to his devoted friend as "Luke, the beloved physician," and as such, history has come to name him. Now let us consider how Luke came upon the materials for his later writings. In addition to Paul and other early Christians, Luke had the bpportunity of knowing personally many of those who had known Jesus well. He tells us in his writings that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was one of the Christian community in Jerusalem when he first went there, and it is reasonable to suppose that he lmew her, and talked with her of her son'***

He could have known Mary, the mother of Mark. He could have known Peter, James, John, James the brother of Jesus, Silas, Mark, and others, who were in position to tell him much about the life of the carpenter's Son. But that would not explain the beautiful stories appearing in his books that are not found in the writings of the contemporaries of Jesus. Many historians therefore believe that after the death of Paul, Luke set out and personally followed the footsteps of Jesus, going all over the Palestine countryside, talking to those he met, asking questions about Jesus. .How did He look? What did He say? How did He act? What do you remember? And making notes of the things he heard.

We shall never know where he heard the story of the Babe in the manger; the story of the thief on the cross, who pitied the dying Jesus; where he picked up these wonderful stories. Remember, this was now twenty or thirty years-according to historians-after the crucifixion. But Luke gathered his material, and then he wrote the Book of Luke, and his other book, the Acts of the Apostles. And both were addressed to a Roman scholar named Theophilus. ***

Ministers of the gospel should be Luke's greatest boosters, for he did much to supply them with sermon and lesson materials. Take the story of the thief on the cross, for example. Matthew, who was one of the Twelve, and who was evidently within close range when Jesus was crucified, says that both the thieves between whom Jesus was crucified, reviled the dying Savior. But long afterwards, along came Luke with his incomparable story. He says that one of the thieves reviled Hlm, but that the other had pity on Him, so that the dyrng Carpenter said to him: "This day shalt thou be with me in paradise." You don't hear any preaching about the Matthew account of the matter, although Matthew was an eye witness. But the story by Luke, a man who came tol***a:r, still thrills the world.

So wouldn't it be a matter of fairness for a service long since rendered and long forgotten if, sometime during the Christmas season, we, who have so much to be grateful for at this time, should pause for a moment in thoughtful ccintemplation of one of the greatest guys that ever lived, and say: "THANKS, DOCTOR LUKE, A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU. TOO.''

ECONOMY TUMBER

By H. v. SIMPSON Executive Vice President West Coast Lumbermen's Associction Portlcrnd, Oregon

'Ihe big story in the Douglas fir lumber industry lies in about 25 per cent of its production.

Our annual production is roughly 8l billion board feet a year. Of this about 6l billion feet is top quality, high grade lumber. About 2 billion feet is lower grade lumber.

Those 2 billion feet are important because they represent a fundamental change in the industry-a change that is taking place in every major lumber producing region.

They are important be.cause they stand for economy in home building and for conservation of our forest resources.

Since the first settlers landed in America, standing timber has been in surplus, and lumber has also been almost lvithout exception in surplus. It has been at all times a cheap building material.

.Increased values, however, now prevail on timber lands. Lumber is no longer available in such large surpluses, with the result that it fits into its competitive position on a higher level. Lumber has always been used extravagantly. Generally too much lumber of too high quality has been used in construction. This was a natural result oI the low price at which it was sold. The higher values of today do not reflect a lumber shortage now or foreshadow one in the future. Nor do they indicate that unsuitable lumber is to be employed. They mean simply that for the first time in American history lumber must be properly used. We began to work on this problem about a year ago.

We studied scores of houses, old and new. We dug into building records. We enlisted the talents of engineers, lumber grading experts, builders and building inspectors. We came, up with some startling findings. Too much of our lumber has been outlasting the house.

We found that there are plenty of places where low grade lumber can render fully satisfactory service. This means economy for the lumber user. It places us, curiously, in the position of promoting a loss item, for there is no manufacturing profit in low grade. Still, if no cheaper lumber were produced, the overall supply would be short, and the higher priced lumber would be even more expensive. And some markets now existing for the better grades would be lost. Thus, proper utilization of low grade would seem to benefit both the industry and the public, in ad. dition to being a prime conservation mea$ure.

The increased value of lumber has been accompanied by a wider spread in the price relationship of various trades. No. 3, for instance, has recently sold at from $20 to $30 per thousand feet less than No. 1, whereas the prewar spread was only $3 to $2. There was little incentive to use low grade lumber since the economies it made possible were relatively unimportant. With the present spread in price, proper utilization of the lower grades would obviously make a substantial saving in all construction.

No. 3 Douglas fir lumber inay properly be used in many

THE CAIJIFORNIA IJUMBER MERCHANT

places. As an example in house construction, No. 3 boards adequately serve as sheathing and sub-flooring, while No. 3 dimension may properly be.used in one-story dwellings for studs, plates, fire stops and bracing.

Low grade lumber contains the fine insulating qualities inherent in all grades of wood. In the uses suggested above it provides more strength than is normally required. Nor is its use for these purposes by any means experimental. Properly employed, it has given wholly satisfactory service.for many years, particularly in the manufacturing areas of the Pacific Northwest.

Nearly all low cost housing can use a large percentage of low grade lumber. By the substitution of No. 3 for No. 1 in most of these houses the cost oT the lumber in the house will not be 216/o over prewar as suggested by Bu, reau of Labor Statistics figures, but will probably be about ' l@%, which is certainly not out of line with the increase in other materials.

Of primary consideration in this picture are the conservation aspects. While costs of production have risen sharply, the advance in market value of the product has made it possible to harvest stdnding timber which as recently as 10 years ago was regarded as of doubtful value.

It has been estimated that we are now bringing in 25 per cent more timber per acre than we did a decade ago. This accounts in part, of course, for the augmented production of lower grades of lumber and the harvesting of species for which no large market existed before the war.

This trend toward greater utilization of our forest is

conservation of the highest order. Not only does it extend our present stands of mature timber, but it also leaves the forest lands in better condition for the new harvest and reduces the fire hazard. by the removal of much inflammable material.

The Douglas fir industry is taking active steps to obtain more specific information on the technical qualities of the product as well as its end uses. We are currently,proceeding on a program with the Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin, aimed at improving the utilization of lumber, particularly low grade lumber. Oregon State College is also conducting tests which will increase our knolvledge of low grade potentialities.

The Douglas fir industry is well aware that the changing status of lumber in the competitive field has sharpened the need for accurate grading. The West Coast Bureau of Lumber Grades and Inspection has enlarged its field staff from 58 men in l94l to more than 300 today. Altogether there are 2,000 men capable of grademarking lumber produced in the Douglas fir region. The number of mills using Bureau services stands at an alltime high.

On the whole we are making very substantial progress. The story of "economy and conservation" is beginning to catch hold. Nothing has been more encouraging than the steadily increasing support which full understanding has rvon for this program. 1948 witnessed its inauguration, and. 1949 may be expected to see it much farther along its way.

\rVestern Pine Production for 1948

Wiil Smash Previous Records

By ROBERT O. LEONARD Western Pine Association Portlcnd, Oregron

Based upon early fourth quarter trends, it appears probbable that Western Pine Region sawmills will set new shipment and production records of more than seven billion feet each in 194&-and at the same time building up mill inventories to a point where they can give better service to their dealer and user customers.

Each of the two figures is expected to exceed 1947 lecord volumes by some 500 million feet. Production, last year 6729 million, likely will top 72fi million, and shipments, 6552 million last year, will probably reach an even seven billion.

The prodigious production has been accomplished despite first-half factors which contrived, in the first six months, to hold output at only 102.9 per cent of the 1947 mid-point total. An uncertain economic outlook brought about by election year politics, unsettled foreign relations, unfavorable weather conditions, a sharp break in commodity prices and serious coal, meat packing and other industry strikes is widely considered to have been a depressive influence on general first quarter business over the nation. But, ignoring the momentary pessimism, Western Pine production rose to 1248 million feet, 11.8 per cent above the previous year's figure.

The worst spring weather in many years, including the disastrous northwest floods, hammered second quarter production down to 1824 million f.eet, 2.3 per cent below the 1947 mark, and reduced the first half margin to 2.9 per cent over 1947. But the third quarter output jumped t:o 2367 million feet, a record level and 14.1 per cent over that of the corresponding 1947 period,. The mark raised the three-quarter total to an estimated 5435 million, 7.6 per cent over the identical 1947 period,.

Shipments generally followed the course of production. The first period total was 1387 million, 5.9 per cent over 1947. Despite the bad weather, second quarter shipments failed to slump as sharply as production, amounting to 1716 million f.eet,2.4 per cent greater than for the previous year, and in the third quarter hit 2074 million, 13 per cent over 1947. The three-quarter total was 5177 million,7.2 per cent over the identical 1947 period

While continued high shipments have taken the great

bulk of production, inventories have continued to creep upward from wartime lows. Totaling 148 million feet at the end of 1947, gross stocks stood at 1479 million on Oct. 1, 1948, 40 per cent above the average wartime low for that time of year but still more than 25 per cent under the 2000 million average prevailing in the late 1930s, a period, too, when shipments were a great deal less.

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Four ol the principal wood apeciea ton wbich lunber ia ncnulactured in the Wegtern Pine Region cne illustraled ln this unutuql pboto. Leli to right: Ponderosq Pine, White Fir, Sugar Pine cnd Douglca Fir growing near Chester, Cclit

we Are Grateful

For thehaPPy relations whichhave existed these rna,ny years between ourselves and our customers and friends in the lumber and allied industries.

And so it is our privilege again this Holiday Season to greet you and to say we hope you will hwe a Happy and Profitable

C. B. Sweet Elected Prcsident of National Retail Lumber Dealers Association

Cyrus B. Sweet of Longview, Wash., manager of the LongBell retail stores in the Pacific Northrvest, was elected president of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association at the annual meeting held at Miami Beach, Florida, November B-11. He succeeds Norman Mason of North Chelmsford, Massachusetts.

Born in 1900, Mr. Sweet attended elementary schools in Kansas City, Mo., the Culver Academy at Culver, Indiana, and the lJniversity of Kansas at Lawrence. Kansas.

He started working for The Long-Bell Lumber Company in the summer of. 1922 at Longview, Wash., as a member of a construction crew. He was transferred to the buitding materials supply warehouse, which later was made the retail outlet for The Long-Bell Lumber Company in Long- view. Advanced to foreman and assistant manager at Longview, and in 1932 he was named manager of the Big Basin Lumber Company at Klamath Falls, Ore., which was a Long-Bell property. He returned to Longview in 1935

as manager of the Longview building materials store. In 1945 he was named manager of the Long-Bell retail stores in the Pacific Northwest of which there are now 13.

Mr. Sweet has long been active in retail lumbermen's associations. He was elected president of the Western Retail Lumber Dealers Association for the 1945-46 term. Elected vice president of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association for the 1946-47 term. He was re-elected to the same office for the 194748 term.

He is a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity; the Longview Rotary Club; B.P.O.E., and Hoo-Hoo. He is married and has one son, C. B., Jr., who is attending the University of Idaho.

Long-Bell operates 119 building material stores in the states of Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, California, Oregon and Washington.

Importqnt Vcrncouver Meeting

The annual conference of the Western Forestry and Conservation Association will take place at Vancouver, 8.C., December 9, 10, and 11, 1948. Forest management will be the chief topic of discussion.

New Ycrd in lJkicrh

F. E. Oden, former manager of the lumber department of Ukiah Farmers Club, Inc., Ukiah, has started in business for himself, under the name of Double 'O' Building Materials, fnc., at 247 East Perkins Street, Ukiah.

United Lumber Yards Buys \(/. R. Spalding Lumber Co.

United Lumber Yards (California), with general offices in Modesto, Calif., recently purchased the W. R. Spalding Lumber Co., of Visalia, with yards at Visalia, Porterville, Tulare, Exeter, Strathmore, Lindsay, and Woodlake.

The yards will be under the general management of J. B. Stricker, president of United Lumber Yards (California), with W. E. Bright in charge of the group, with headquarters at Visalia. No changes are contemplated in the local yard managers, and the business will be continued as before with the buying done at Visalia.

Mr. Stricker in commenting on the purchase said: "We are very much enthused about this addition to our business, and look forward to a good future."

Buys Wholegale Bugina3 ot R. G. Robbins Lumber Co.

The wholesale lumber business of R. G. Robbins Lumber Co., California sales office, I Drumm Street, San Francisco, has been taken over by Lashley Lumber Sales Co,, Inc., of which Ross C. Lashley is president and general manager. H. M. "Mike" Michael is assistant treasurer and manager of the San Francisco office. The new concern has a branch office at 35 North Raymond Avenue, Pasadena, telephone SYcamore 6-5397.

New Swedish Gcng Mill

The Wilbur Lumber Company is building a new sawmill at Wilbur, which is near Roseburg. The mill will be a Swedish gang type, and will cut about 60,000 feet of lumber daily.

Appointr Deputy State Snarks

Roy Stanton, Sr. of Los Angeles, Snark of the IJniverse, has announced the names of the Deputy State Hoo-Hoo Snarks for the various states in Jurisdiction 6. Here they are:

Southern California-J. W. Fitzpatrick, San Pedro Lumber Co., Los Angeles.

Northern CaliforniaE. G. (Dave) Davis, Rounds Trading Co., San Francisco.

Arizona-Harold R. Britt, Foxworth-McCalla Lumber Co., Phoenix.

New Mexico-L. N. McCullough, Broadway Lumber Co., Albuquerque.

Utah-H. M. (Dusty) Rhodes, Salt Lake Mill Co., Salt Lake City.

Northern Nevada-Bernard C. Hartung, California Association of Employers, Reno Employers Council, Reno.

Southern Nevada-Edward Von Tobel, Ed Von Tobel Lumber Co., Las Vegas.

Develotrx New Stain

The West Coast Stained Shingle Company of Seattle, Wash,, has developed a new stain designed primarily for use on redwood siding. The trade name is Olympic California rustic stain, and is designed to enhance the natural beauty of redwood. It is the natural redwood color, and. does not completely cover the grain of the wood, but will eliminate discoloration. The stain includes toxal preservative, the basis of which is pentachlorophenol.

California rustic stain may be used on other woods than redwood to secure a pleasing redwood effect. It is available in l-gallon, S-gallon, and 50- gallon containers.

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A Preacher Story

The colored preacher was making the rounds of some of his better friends in the congregation on Christmas morning, and exchanging holiday greetings with them. When he got to Deacon Jones'house he found the Deacon in his best holiday mood, and very proud to have the preacher call. He hastened to offer his hospitality.

'Will you have a cup of coffee, Preachah?', he asked. "No coffee, thank you Deacon," said the preacher.

New Arizonq Cement Plcrnt

Phoenix, Ariz., Nov. l?--Ihe Arizona Portland Cement Company has announced a contract has been awarded the Fisher Construction Company, of Phoenix, for construction of a cement plant at Rillito, to cost $1,300,000.

"Then, will you have a cup of tea, Preachah?" asked the Deacon.

"No tea, thank you Deacon," said the Preacher.

"WiU you have a whiskey and soda, Preachah?" asked the Deacon.

"No, thank you Deacon," answered the Preacher; "no soda."

Rogue River Veneers

The Rogue River Veneer Company, of Gold Beach, Oregon, has started operations at its new green veneer plant, located two miles from Gold Beach. The plant is peeling 25,000 board feet every eight hours, and is operating on a two-shift basis.

Facts About Dougias Fir Plywood

Achieving a 70 per cent production increase since the end of the war, the expanded Douglas fir plywood industry will manufacture a record two billion square feet of panels in 1948 to supply unprecedented demand for plywood in construction and industrv.

This manufacturing ".hi"lr"*.nt by a 4T-f.actory industry, which until a decade ago was merely an offshoot o{ lumbering, is listed as fact number one in a new booklet entitled "Facts about Douglas Fir ,Plywood" just pubilshed by Douglas Fir Plywood Association, the trade association for Pacific coast panel makers.

The question and answer edition, addressed to retail lumber dealers, plywood distributors, industrial plywood users and builders, is intended as a review of plywood past, present and future. Other salient points' covered include:

Specific Data

1. Some 99.2 per cent of all plywood produced this year is being used within the United States with volume shipments going to every corner of the nation. Only 8/10 of I per cent of fir plywood is being exported today.

2. Retail lumber dealers, who supply such important plywood consumers as builders and home owners, are handling over 1,M2,000 square feet of the material this year more than ever before. This volume is greater than the entire production of 1939 and almost as much as was manufactured in 1945, the year of victory.

3. The tremendous demand for plywood, which manufacturers are striving to satisfy, is based upon a dual market: construction and industry. Just prior to the war, plywood earned recognition as a basic building commodity for inside and outside use on homes, buildings, farm structures. Historically, plywood has been an industrial material, the facts booklet records, with railroads, furniture makers, boat builders and other manufacturers being important plywood users.

4. The so called "grey markets" in plywood, the result of an unbalanced supply-demand ratio, the same as fostered the "new used car" lots, are "fast disappearing," according to facts set forth in the booklet, as the desired impact of record production is being achieved. And the disruption caused by 100 per cent war allocation of plywood, followed by post-war allocation for veterans housing, are being overcome.

5. Under the new U. S. Commercial Standard CS45-48 (grading rules) effective Nov. 1, new grades are being introduced to meet express building needs, a new simp.lified system of grade identification has been adopted and performance requirements for Exterior (waterproof) plyrvood have been made more rigid than ever.

A, B, C,Identificdtion

Set forth as one of the most forward steps in plywood marketing in years and intended to benefit user and seller alike, is the new system of grade identification adopted by the operators of fir plywood plants supporting the industry grade-trademarking program. Henceforth, veneers (plys of wood) are being identified as A, B, C, D in order of

appearance value, A being the highest and previously being known as "sound." Combinations of these veneer qualities on outer plys (faces and backs) of panels determines the appearance grades.

There now are a half dozen grades within each of the Exterior (outdoor) and Interior types of plywood. SiSnificant grade additions include the A-B panels with an A (sound) face and B (solid) back. Such grade, produced both in the Exterior and fnterior types, is intended to supplement the supply of A-A panels used for cabinet doors and other applications where both sides are exposed to view.

The booklet records that 66 per cent of plywood is produced with one side only of high quality veneer with the back of economical, lower quality wood as "experience has shown that in the great bulk of plywood uses, only one face of the panel is exposed." A new one side grade with B quality veneer similarly is being introduced to perform certain backing jobs more efficiently than ever before.

Highest possible utilization of the natural resourcetimber-is achieved by precision repairing of nature's fail. ings and by placing veneer with minor defects on thc backs of the one side material. Veneer with natural ilefects is used as well in an unsanded sheathing or construction panel of unusual strength and rigidity.

Several Sizes

Now being produced, it is pointed out, are several stock sizes of Douglas fir plywood for convenient, efficient use irr meeting expressly many application needs. While the greatest volume of panels will continue to be made in 4, by 8' sheets, produ,ction will include panels narrower than 4', shorter than 8', longer than 4, and wider than 4r. Conversely, the overall number of items of Douglas fir plywood has been reduced by 25 per cent by tailoring grades and size to meet use needs.

Not only is the industry concentrating today on maximum overall production, but as well the greatest possible volume of relatively thin panels, for inside and outside walls, is being turned out. The booklet reports that more than half of all plywood, on a surface footage basis, is of tf" and, 3/&' panels. Quality of product remains ever a prime requisite as emphasized by the higher performance requirements under the new commercial standard.

That the now sizable plywood industry of Washington, Oregon and northern California is not a .,war baby" is evidenced in a tabulation of annual production figures set forth in the text. In 1938, the yean fir' plywood was first recognized as an important construction material, some 21 factories produced 650,000,000 feet of the sheet material. In three years 10 new factories were constructed and out_ put more than doubled to meet peacetime demand. There lvas no increase in the number of plants during the war, and production actually dropped abruptly beca.use of manpower shortages in the factories and the woods and diversion of logs from plywood plants.

Expansion of the industry was resumed again immed_

Manufaaurers: Pordet?sa Pire, Sagar Pine, Incmse Cedar, Doaglas Fir, Vbite Fir,

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wSautmills: Canby, Cailif. and Anderson, Calif.-kmanafactaring Plant: Klamatb Falk, Oregon

Box Factory: A.ltaras, Calif

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iately after the war with 11 new factories added during the past three years and the capacities and production methods of older plants improved greatly. Eleven additional plants are now being built and to be completed within the next year to further enlarge potential output.

Efficient Distribution

In a review of the distribution of fir plywood from its origin in one corner of the nation to markets and users in every state, the presentation shows that more than two thirds of the material is channeled through distribution warehouses located in strategic trading centers. Such distributors maintain complete stocks of types, grades, sizes and thicknesses to supply almost instantly both lumber dealers and retail users. Retail dealers, the "corner grocers to construction," get most of such supplies and receive some plywood direct, thereby selling 53.1 per cent of all fir plywood.

The military today is purchasing 5 per cent of all fir plywood produced, and some 16 per cent goes direct to industrials including railroads, prefabricators, door manufacturers, army contractors and others. Significantly, industrials use grades and thicknesses of plywood different from those usually handled by retail dealers and different from the wants of most dealer customers.

Plywood Developments

The booklet is concluded with a review of "what's ahead in plywood." Here, briefly, is the six-point program: l. Continued increased production with a higher proportion of the Exterior type all-purpose material.

Survey Shows What's \(/hat On Windowg

Beauty of design is the most important factor taken into consideration when people choose windows for their new homes, according to a recent nation-wide survey conducted by Ponderosa Pine Woodwork.

Almost half of the respondents to the survey gave "architectural design" as their principal reason for choosing wood windows. Wood windows, authorities point out, provide a wide range of design choices, embracing both modern and traditional styles. It is thus possible for the home owner to choose exactly the type of wood window which best fits his individual taste.

Another important reason for choosing wood rvindows, the survey indicates, is the fact that their original cost is moderate. A total of.43/o of the respondents to the survey gave "original cost" as their reason for centering their preferences on wood.

2. Constant betterment of product.

3. Continued sale of a high proportion of plywood through distributors and dealers, and continued supply of industrial users.

4. Conservation of the natural resource, timber, through ever higher utilization of raw material.

5. Continued product research.

6. Continued aggressive promotion of Douglas fir plywood, now a basic building commodity.

A copy of the 24-page facts booklet will be furnished free upon request to Douglas Fir Plywood Association, Taqoma 2, Wash.

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LENDERS MORE CAUTIOUS \TFH REAL ESTATE LOANS

Scys loseph Jones

Security-First Ngtionql Bcnk oI lori Angeles

(Reprinted from "Building Controctor of Cqlifornicr")

In the past year we have seen many changes concerning construction and real estate loan financing. Southern California has the most outstanding record of achievement in tbe production of homes of any section in the United States. The record of permits for new construction in I os Angeles County alone is as follows:

The authorization of this number of housing units in two and three-quarters years provides sufficient housing for more than 600,000 people. The tremendous scope of this achievement is 'better realized when we remember that there were only 192,888 units authorized in Los Angeles County in the entire ten-year period preceding the war, from 1931 to 1940.

This production was accomplished only by the coordinated efiort of the various segments of the building industry, (1) those who produced the materials used in construction, (2) the contractors, (3) labor, (4) lenders who provided the necessary finance.

ft was possible to build housing to the utmost of capacity since the end of the rvar because of certain definite conditions existing in this area. The first factor has been the apparently unlimited number of buyers for these homes, resulting from the pent up demand for housing, a net increase of approximately 300,000 in the population of Los Angeles County since January, 1946 resulting from inbigration, and the rise in incomes. The second very important factor in this program of development was the easy terms upon which money tvas available. Veterans could obtain at, or nearly at lffi/o of the purchase price. F.H.A. loans were available up to 90/o of the value under the special regulations under Title VI, created for this purpose. A third, and extremely important factor in this program of development, was the ability and willingness of lenders to provide the money needed for this purpose, relying on government guarantees.

In the building field, like all others, however, changes do occur. Beginning about the middle of last year, 'interest rates as reflected in the securities markets, began to rise from the extremely low level to which they had fallen during the rvar. This change was dramatically emphasized on December 24, when the Federal Reserve lowered their support price on long term government bonds to about par. Lenders who made a practice of purchasing loans, such as life insurance companies, had determined by analysis that the yield from F.H.A. loans that they had been making vvas

netting little more than 3/o after deducting acquisition and servicing costs. After taking into consideration tax advantages in certain kinds of bonds, and the absence oI the problems of servicing or possible foreclosure, the yield of F.H.A. loans was not attractive in comparison with the new yield possible from bond investments. It must also be remembered that lenders have suffered a serious increase in operating costs like everyone else, but without a compensating increase in the price of their commodity, money.

During the past year we found that the secondary market for loans practically disappeared. Many smaller lenders who made a practice of selling their loans and reinvesting in other loans were not able to continue their program. All of these things began to lessen the supply of real estate financing.

The scope of lending activity of banks prior to this change in the market is clearly revealed by statistics prepared by the Federal Reserve Bank. At the end of 1946, banks throughout the United States held 4.7 billion dotlars of real estate loans. By the year end of.1947, this had been increased to 9.3 billions, or nearly twice the amount. During the year 1947, banks actually loaned a billion dollars more upon real estate than the savings deposits increased.

This situation resulted in a careful study by the government agencies. S.E.C. released a report showing that in the first quarter of 1948, the individual holdings of currency and bank deposits had been reduced by approximately four billion dollars. This fact, coupled with the tremendous amount of loans that had been made during the previous year, gave rise to certain concern about further inflation of realty prices that would be caused by too easy credit. The Federal Reserve Board has issued warnings to all banks, recommending that greaer caution be used in the real estate loans. This was followed later by the imposition of increased reserve requirements on banks, which withdrew large amounts of funds available for loans or investments. It was followed still later by a regulation restricting installment credit of all forms, including loans upon real estate. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation also issued a warning to banks, cautioning them against the large amount of real estate loans made for long terms upon a commodity as high priced as real estate. The Comptroller of the Currency has issued a warning of a similar type. All oI this thinking and effort was directed toward curbing inflation of real estate, which already has attained' serious ProPortions.

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woods, hardrvoods more dimcult than soft- the most desirable native woods for structural purposes, rvoods, and heartwood more difficult than sapwood. and it has extensive use as poles, piling and ties.

Here is a picture oI the n€w office buildiagr ol E. E Wood Lunber Co- loccrted ct 727 f,ennedy Street Otrtlqtd. A dercription ol tbe build' ing, which ir 100 by 65 leet, was Eiven ia the Septenber 15 is:ue 9l Tbe Cclilornia Lumber Merchqnt. fen-inch Bedwood gidiag, red briclr, and glcar brick were used on the exterior ol the buildinE rngeneral,heavywoodSaremoredifficultt"c@intheformoflumberandtimberisoneof lightweight

J. di CRISTINA & SON, STAIR BUILDERS

Modern Stair Building Plant Corries on the Tradition and Fine \(orkmanship of Pioneers

One of the most interesting woodworking plants in Northern California is that of J. di Cristina & Son, stair builders, located at 350 Treat Avenue, San Francisco.

This business was founded in 1931 by J. di Cristina and his son, Charles di Cristina. Both had received a thorough training in the art of stair building in the plant of J. K. Stewart, pioneer stair builder, who came from Boston to San Francisco in the early 1900's and established his business there.

A few years later George and Edward di Cristina joined the firm. Their father passed away a little over a year ago. Charles is manager. George runs the mill, and Edward is outside estimator. Incidentally George had three years' service in the Army Air Force in World War II. He took part in the North African campaign, and the Sicilian and Italian invasions.

J. di Cristina & Son have a good crew of 45 stair builders. They are also training apprentices to carry on the tradition and fine workmanship established by their predecessor,

The new plant, completed two years ago, has an area of 23,000 square feet, and has frontage on Treat Avenue of 160 feet. There is a sprinkler system throughbut the mill and the lumber storage sheds.

The mill has the most modern machinery and equipment, with a total value of about $50,000 worth of machinery. The principal machines include the following: A new Mattison 6-inch electric moulder, a new X1 Moldmaster, a lZ-inch Yates-American moulder, a Jenkins glue joiner, a Hermance gang rip sarv. The glue room is also equipped with modern facilities.

The main operation is all on one floor, which is of concrete. The mezzanine area is reserved for a crew of five men who make circle stairs and stair railings. Here they have the necessary quietness to enable them to concentrate on their problems, some of which require knowledge of geometry.

All material is handled by hand trucks, special dollies built to receive lumber direct from carrier loads for transportation to either gang rip saw or moulders. This system, evolved by George di Cristina, works very smoothly.

The inventory carried includes the various hardwoods specified by architects, also Ponderosa and Sugar pine, and other softwoods. This inventory of selected woods usually amounts to about $50,000.

The volume of business has run $500,000 a year since 1940.

A considerable wholesale business in stair parts has been developed with mills that do not have a stair building department. Stair parts are also made to details and specifications.

The company specializes in the manufacture of special doors, standard mouldings, and mouldings for concrete forms.

If all pieces of lumber were straight grained and free of all blemishes as well as perfectly manufactured, there would be no need of grades or graders. This not being the case however, the lumber must be graded according to the characteristics or their equivalent permitted in the rules for these grades.

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Now Johns-Monville hus moking Insuloting Boor 2 dProducts! foctories

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This modern plant has been operating at top speed for the past nine years, in an effort to catch up with the demand forJ-M Glazecoat Building Board, Decorative Ceiling Panels, Bevel Planks, and other insulating board products. Despite capacity production, allotments to dealers have had to be on a limited basis.

Now a huge new plant has iust been completed at Natchez, Miss. Like Jarratt, the JohnsManville Natchez plant has the source of its principal raw materials right at its doorstep. It is located in the heart of Mississippi's vast pine forests. The entire production of Natchez will be devoted to the J-M Insulating Board line.

Betterproducfs-greaterproduc}ion!

o From these 2 big plants will come an everincreasing flow of Johns-Manville Insulating Board Products, including Building Board, Decorative Ceiliog Panels, and Bevel Planks.

These products have a smooth, finely textured, decorative surface called Glazecoat, produced by J-M finishing process.

Other items in the line include Veathertite Sheathing and J-M Insulating Lath, widely used to improve construction and cut costs.

All these insulating board products offer customers matry extra advantages. They are strucnrrally strong and tough yet light in weight . . are made to exacting standards ofuniform density throughout and have clean sharp edges that help to make a neat iob.

For further information about the various sizes and kiods ofJ-M Insulating Board products, write Johns-Manville, Box 29O, New York t6, New York.

Your lumhor Journal

Perhaps, gentle reader, you have read the heading and jumped to the conclusion that it is THIS lumber journal we are going to talk'about. ff so, dear friend, you have jumped correctly. It IS; this and the various others of the craft that help make the lumber industry.

Your lumber journal, wisely selected and thoughtfully read, is a mighty powerful and impressive element in the life of your business. Here's why-and how. It provides you with many things that enter into the successful operation o[ your business; it furnishes you with practical and interesting literature; it provides you with the shuttle that weaves the history of your business into the fabric of time.

Into that fabric is woven the life of your business, its joys, its sorrows, its triumphs, its failures, its general characteristics, and its memorable highlights. YOUR story is in its pages. So is the story of your fellow business men, the story of your district, your state, your territory, written in YOUR sort of language.

You cannot if you would escape this glimpsing of lumber history in the making of YOUR business, for the threads from which it is woven are gathered all around you. You are part and parcel of it. Your interest is with IT, and its interest is with YOU. You may be but a single thread in that fabric, but you are a part of it, and it is made up in part by you, and you cannot escape it.

An Dilitorial

One of the most powerful levers of modern business that has been directly instrumental in organizing the formerly tangled strands of business life and business activity, is the business magazine. It provides constant thought, idea, narrative, and historical exchange among'men in the same line of business. It is the everyday business association, which continually brings together men who are thinking and working along the same lines. Like the poor, it is always with you. You may shut down your mill or discontinue your yard; but your lumber journal has no such choice. Through good times and foul, it is always on the job, serving you and your industry. It follows all the ups and downs, the high tides and low, of that industry.

ft weaves together constantly and tirelessly the fabric of trade and business history, showing to the world always THE BEST SIDE of your business and YOU. It provides news, advice, information, encouragement, optimism, even inspiration. And, looking backward, it provides the history of your industry, the narrative of its stream of life.

Yes, gentle reader, your lumber journal is your faithful and devoted friend through thick and thin; and most of the pickings have been thin. It has earned your loyalty and friendship through the good old merit system. Don't forget it !

HAMMOND LUMBER COMPANY

17 Kittenc Initiated At Stockton Concat

The first general meeting and Concatenation of the newly reorganized Hoo-Hoo Club No. 62 of. Central California was held at Hotel Stockton, Stockton, Calif., on Saturday, November 6.

The president of Club No. 62 is R. E. Dunn, Valley Builders' Supply, Modesto, Calif., and Marion B. "Slim" Nelson, Hales & Symons, Sonora, Calif., is secretary.

All arrangements for the meeting and Concat were in the capable hands of Charles G. Bird of Stockton.

The Sacramento degree team, led by Mitch Landis, put on the initiation and they did a fine job. All of the team could not be present, but other members of Hoo-Hoo filled in, including Lewis A. Godard, San Francisco, former member of the Supreme Nine, and Charles Brace, Stockton.

Seventeen Kittens were initiated, and two old members were reinstated, and 39 members were present.

The dinner speaker was Elliot Taylor, Registrar of Admissions, at the College of the Pacific, Stockton. Having just returned from visiting the Balkans and the Mediterranean area he was able to give an interesting picture of conditions there.

The Kittens were the following:

Earl H. Botts, Valley Lumber Co., Lodi, Calif.

Estel W. Bright, United Lumber Yards, Modesto, Calif.

Jack Crane, Hobbs Wall Lmbr. Co., San Francisco, Cal.

Robert V. Dawson, Stockton Box Co., Stockton, Calif.

Robert E. Dunn, Valley Builders Supply Co., Modesto.

Robert S. Fuller, Valley Lumber Co., Lodi, Calif.

Donald J. Giottonini, Valley Lmbr. & Supply, Stockton.

Francis W. Grexton, Stockton Box Co., Stockton, Calif.

George E. Ground, Ground Lumber Co., Modesto, Calif.

Tom Jones, San Joaquin Lumber Co., Stockton, Calif.

Oran W. Lyons, Valley Builders Supply, Stockton, Cal.

Harold W. Munson, Cash Lmbr. Co., Stockton, Calif.

James R. Ridgley, IJnion Planing Mill, Stockton, Calif.

Ewing R. Stewart, United Lumber Yards, Modesto, Cal.

Carl E. Ulrich, Valley Bldrs. Supply, Modesto, Calif.

Donald O. Wells, Ground Lumber Co., Modesto, Calif.

Vincent Wilson, Central Lumber Co., Stockton, Calif.

Former members reinstated were Robert Forgie, Stockton Lumber Co., Stockton, and George E. Ground, Sr., Ground Lumber Company, Modesto.

Small Income Group Buys Bulk of Homes

The notion that home ownership is confined to families with high income is now thoroughly disproved by factual data, says Frank W. Cortright, Executive Vice President of the National Association of Home Builders.

Home ownership, as a result of the progress and production achieved by private home builders is now largely a matter of desire, rather than size of annual income, Mr. Cortright declares. Citing Bureau of Census figures for non-farm families, he points out fhat 82 per cent of all homes purchased last Srear were acquired by families with annual incomes of less than $5,000. About half of these families had incomes of less than $3,00O per year.

"Facts about the sale price of new houses are also a revelation. In spite of the infationary trend of the nation's economy, 80 per cent of all new homes were sold last year for less than $10,000, 40 per cent for less than $5,000. Low and middle income families can and do purchase homes when they decide to do so.

"Further evidence," says Mr. Cortright, "that home ownership vs. renting is now largely a matter of choice in this country is the fact that we find similar proportions of home owners and tenants in various low and middle income groups. For example, among families receiving from $5,000 to $9,999 per year 48.2 per cent owned their homes and 51.8 per cent rented. In the group earning from $3,000 to $4,99 the balance was exactly fifty-fifty."

Home ownership generally is on the increase. Seven per cent of all families in the $3,000-$4,99 bracket purchased new homes in 1947 as against six per cent in the group above $5,000 per year.

"As a matter of fact," Mr. Cortright said, "according to the U. S. Department of Commerce data, as much money was spent in 1947 for cosmetics, tobacco and alcoholic beverages as for all residential rent including the rental value of owner-occupied dwellings."

Timothy G. Turner Discusses Earthquakes and How to Build for Protection Against Them

A signed article in the Los Angeles Times, written by Timothy G. Turner, one of the regular columnists of that paper, is packed full of interesting reading on the subject of construction. Not just everyday construction, but construction that will protect against earthquakes. As Mr. Turner says, no earthquakes occur Tor a while, and people forget about them, and in their building devices and choices of materials they do things that they will sure regret should a real quake come along. Wood, of course, is the surest material from which to build earthquake protected structures. In the Los Angeles area, little thought is being given this matter, says Mr. Turner. But let him tell it. His article follows:

"ff Los Angeles should have an earthquake, a really good earthquake, it would do two things. It would remind us of how foolish we have been not to build for it, and it would thin out the population quite a bit.

"After the Long Beach earthquake in 1933 the roads were filled with tourists all heading east. A tourist in California is a stranger who has money.

"That earthquake was a great blow to the Board of Education. You would drive for miles and the only buildings you would see demolished were schools. It seemed that a school just couldn't stand up in that earthquake, but business houses, apartment houses, saloons and bowling alleys stood up pretty well except in the worst sections along the beach.

"After the Long Beach earthquake, which shook us up in Los Angeles pretty well (it shook me down seven flights of stairs in 45 seconds) they talked a long time about ordinances to prevent earthquake damage and injury to people.

"Practically nothing was done. (Don't pay any attention to me, I am the office cynic).

"Building against earthquakes is very simple. It is to have the building tied together, not made in units. A wooden building and a steel frame building are tied together. Brick, concrete blocks, tile roofs are units, and when they get a shake they fall to pieces. That is only common sense. But the architects will talk your arm off about lateral stress and fuid bases and f don't know what all.

"There should be nothing on buildings that may be shaken off and fall on people in the streets. But Los Angeles buildings are covered with 'such things-ornaments of concrete, brick cornices and electric signs. Some of these, often concrete statuaryt ztl directly over the entrances to buildings so they would fall on people rushing into the streets.

"That's all right with me because f won't rush into the street come the next earthquake. f will stay where I am. At least I will not go into the street until the temblors have apparently ended. The ceiling may fall, but you will find me under the arch of a doorway for that very reason.

"This tactic is specially important if you are in a brick btiilding, that is, a building of bricks held together with

mortar. Some buildings have a facing of brick on concrete which is safe enough. An ordinary brick wall falls outward if the sway of the buildings is that way.

"ft is best to wait until that happqns and then walk over the bricks. The interior of a well-constructed building holds in ordinary quakes.

"Another suggestion about what to do in an earthquake: If you are in bed, stay in bed. In the earthquake in Messina it was noted that people who stayed in bed fared best. When the floors of the houses collapsed they had a cushion to Tall on. So if there is an earthquake rush and get into bed.

"Of course we may not have an ordinary but a fi,rstclass quake in Los Angeles. fn recent times Southern California has only had minor quakes. A hundred years or so ago there was one down here that knocked the cattle down in the fields and broke their legs.

"The earthquake in San Francisco in 1906 was not really a first-class quake, but it was bad one. I meant to say the fire that shook San Francisco in 1906. We never were as silly as that down here.

"The San Francisco earthquake and fire killed not many more than 500 people. That wirs small pumpkins for modern earthquakes. One in 1923 in Tokyo and Yokohama killed more than 90,000 people; one in Quetta, India, in 1935, more than 50,000; one in Chile in 1939 some 50,000, and one in the city of Erzingan in Northern Turkey in 1935 killed 100,000.

"Then there was the famous earthquake in Lisbon in 1755. It came of a Sunday morning when the people were in church and many of the 100,000 killed lost their lives by having the churches fall on them. That was a tough one for the theologians to explain. It led to a controversy between intellectuals in France and led Voltaire to write his immortal satire 'Candide'."

Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 Will Hold Chrisrmas Pcrty December 16

The annual Christmas Party of Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 will be held at the Moose City Club, 1428 Alice Street, Oakland, on Thursday evening, December 16. As usual a big crowd is expected to be there for the festivities.

Ed LaFranchi is chairman of the Christmas Party committee.

Attended NH.DA Convention

George Adams, Noah Adams Lumber Co., Walnut Grove, Calif., president, Lumber Merchantg Association of Northern California; J. H. Kirk, Kirk Lumber & Building Materials, Santa Maria, vice president, and Jack Pomeroy, executive vice president of the Association, attended the annual convention of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, held in Miami Beach, Florida, November 8 to 11. Thev returned November 15.

Business Men Should Copy Eugene Field

One of the great human arts is letter writing. Modern business has come to understand horv important a part the writing of wise and interesting letters can play in business building. Splendid business successes have been built many times largely upon the willingness and ability of the business man to write remembered letters. Regardless of the line of business a man follows, the rvriting of successful letters can play a vital part.

One of the great letter writers of American history, was the poet, Eugene Field. So well did he follow this important part of his life, that Elbert Hubbard, wrote this about him:

"He had a great heart. He WAS a friend. He lived every day so that he loved and was loved in return. And his greatest works of friendship were the letters he wrote his friends. Here you find a new thought, f believe. This great man'd greatest claim to friend-making was based on the friendly letters he frequently 'n'rote. So, let us consider

a description of those letters; for in letter writing most men are woefully weak.

"His letters breathed kindness, appreciation, truth, understanding. A man who received one of these letters would no more part with it than he would with a portrait of his mother. Each letter bore an element of joy; a message of wisdom; a jigger of wit to give the wisdom flavor. Each letter was short. When he rvas through, the letter ended. No postscripts. He never preached. His letters never 'called you down.' They called you UP. Up into the sunlight of friendly interest. He never uttered a gloomy thought. Only happy thoughts should be perpetuated on paper. His letters made you pleased with yourself-with the world. He came right to the point; never hid a grain of kindness under a bushel of wordy chaff. A lot of loose words turn the milk of human kindness to clabber."

Such rvas the letter-writing of Eugene Field.

Building Contractors Held Convention Want To Build An Adobe Home?

The annual convention oI the Building Contractors Association of California was held in Elks Temple, in Los Angeles, November L2th and 13th, with about 2,000 building specialists in attendance. It rvas the 25th annual meeting of this organization, and was called the 25th Anniversary Congress and Builders Conference.

Advertising and merchandising, low cost housing, mortgage financing, building codes, and zoning laws, were among the subjects discussed. The Los Angeles Ad Club assisted at the advertising discussions. It was agreed that the two big problems facing the construction industry for the next year will be mortgage financing, and good quality housing at low cost.

Organized in 1923 in Los Angeles, this Association is no'w one of the strongest in the entire nation, and affiliated with the National Association of Home Builders.

You can get advice and practical directiops on that subr ject from a new book just out of the Ward Ritchie Press, in Los Angeles, written by M. R. Harrington.

It includes careful {escription of method, photographs and drawings of details, and a reading-list of nine books written especially for those who would like to tackle the job. Anyone interested, by the way, should not fail to visit the.Southwest Museum's Casa de Adobe, a full-sized replica of an old Spanish-Californian ranch house, massive adobe walls, red tile roofs and all. Mr. Harrington's text includes a bit of history (you'll find more in some of the books he recommends), but its chief purpose is to supply practical advice, which it does admirably.

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A Merry Ghristmas

National Retail Lumber, Building Material Dcalers Meet in Miami Beach

Miami Beach Florida, November 8The international situation has added the ingredient of suspense to the problem of home construction, H. R. Northup, executive vice president, National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, said today.

Approximately 700 lumber and building material dealers from all parts of the nation converged today upon Miami Beach and the Roney-Plaza Hotel, where the Board of Directors of the National Association will be in session November 8-11.

"The industry," Northup explained, "is concerned with problems of building material supply and export controls which are tied to the European Recovery Plan."

"Of course, we will have with us the ever-present question of public housing," Northup continued.

Further, the probability of stand-by control and regimentation laws, the freight rate basing point prohlem and the newly imposed credit restrictions will all have a vital bearing upon home construction rates, costs, and building material distribution, he pointed out.

One highlight of the program, according to Northup, will be the presentation November 11 of the first Annual Awards for Outstanding Service to the Industry and the Community to the 7 winners in this year's public relations program.

Some of the more interesting entlies will be displayed,

in addition to the 7 winner entries, he said, to enable dealers to compare their public service programs with those being conducted by dealers in other sections of the country.

"The meeting takes place just as nationwide publicity spotlights the outstanding building industry program for reducing home construction costs without sacrificing quality," Northup stated. Photoplay Magazine and Macfadden Publications, with over 6 million readers, are featuring the IE Home in a contest in which one such home built by the NRLDA will be given to the winner.

This is the high point in this year's development of lower cost building methods and procedures which have been under study at the University of Illinois for the past 8 months. The Illinois study bears out and supports the conclusions arrived at in the book "Here's a Better Way to Build," without an important exception, Northup concluded.

Ukiah Farmers Club Rebuilding Lumber Depcrrtment

Ukiah Farmers Club, Inc., Ukiah, Calif., which suffered considerable fire loss in October, is rebuilding the lumber and milling departments.

Abe Lincoln Elected Assemblymcrn

L. H. "Abe" Lincoln, president of Lincoln Lumber Company, Oakland, was elected Assemblyman for the 15th District of California. November 2.

BnDIU00D---$till $haking Down

Bv SEIIWYN I. SHARP Cclilornio Redwood Associction Sqn Frcncisco, Ccrlilornicr

When Kenneth Smith wrote The California Lumber Merchant about the Redwood situation a year ago, he used the title, "l948-Shakedown Year?" In his outline he included, "We started this year being sure that 1947 would be the year when the insistant demand for Redwood in any shape, form or fashion would let up and we come to the end of the year wondering if we can be as wrong again in expecting the industry to shake down in 1948 We believe that by the end of 1948 the pattern for the years to come will have been pretty well set." At the end of 1948, with back-sight to guide us, we appreciate the wisdom of putting the question mark in the title, and lack enthusiasm in making at attempt to look forward through 1949 and, guessing what will happen during the coming year.

There is no doubt that real and substantial progress has been made toward the conditions which Mr. Smith foretold but there is also no doubt that the pattern for the years to come has not yet been well set.

The seasoning committee of the Association has completed the test runs in their experimental kiln through which they developed procedures and schedules which will improve the quantity and quality of kiln dried lumber. New kilns which have been designed to take full advantage of the findings of the experirnental kiln have been completed by one member mill and are in process of construction at another. At least two dry kiln installations are definitely scheduled for early construction and others are planned for a less definite starting dafe.

The ,A,ssociation has recently established a research committee which will explore the possibility of undertaking other research projects which may benefit the Redwood industry and its customers as definitely as the rvork of the seasoning committee has done.

Since making the services of the Department of Inspection and Grades available to mills that are not full Association members, the number of mills that are using the graders training program of this department has more than doubled..

' The Association is regularly releasing new promotional literature; has established a little publication-Redwood News; has re-established the farm structures service and has intensif,ed field work with dealers, architects, builders and users. The Association's industrial motion picture in

'technicolor, rvhich is being produced by Gene K. Walker, should be released early next year.

Green lumber has continued to dominate mill shipments but much more kiln dried Redwood was shipped and used in 1948 than in the preceding year and still larger amounts of even better seasoned Redwood will be available in the future. The mills with kilns have succeeded in increasing their stock somewhat. This means that partial air seasoning before kiln drying is again possible for a larger portion of the kiln dried output which in turn means a larger output for a given battery of kilns and a better end producl Stocks piled for air dried shipments have also increased' somewhat and improvements have been made in many drying yards.

It is also a fact that a larger proportion of the new mill lumber entering the market is of a better quality from the standpoint of both manufacturing and grading. At the moment it looks as if selective buying will quite soon eliminate the poorly manufactured, untrimmed, poorly graded Redwood that has been marketed by some of the small mills. There has been progress toward the establishment of companies that will sort, grade and remanufacture the products of mills not equipped to {o this themselves. Progress toward seasoning lumber by companies of this kind has been much slower but is more clearly in the future picture than was the case a year ago.

.Another large, modern plywood plant has been completed. We hope that next year we can report that Redwood plywood is again available.

What will all cif this mean to the dealer and his Redwood customers in 1949? In our opinion, scarcity of just lumber without consideration of quality, grade or size, is past unless we get into another war or a stepped up defense program. There should be all the Redwood you want even though Association members alone will not yet be able to supply all the requirements of their custombrs. Quality, manufacturing and grading of Redwood from the newer mills should be better. There will be less "splashing,' green 'Redwood;' more air seasoned or partially seasonld Redwood; much more, but not nearly enough, high quality kiln dried Redwood. The Association will be better equipped to help the dealer do a better job in selling and servicing his Redwood customers and to help its member companies in their objective of furnishing a product that will best serve the rleeds of the desighi:rs, builders and owners of high quality homes.

Marvelous Truck Load o[ Sugar Pine

"Pinus Lambertiana" the botany sharps call it. But don't let that Latin fool you. Just good old Sugar Pine is the trade name of this wonderful species of true White Pine that grows only in Northern California and Southern Oregon. Here is a record-breaking truck load of same. The logs are wonderfully sound and symmetrical, which

permitted the loading of. 32,798 board feet on this one truck. This picture was taken in the logging woods of the Feather River Pine Mills, fnc., of Feather Falls, California. You will search a long time before you will find another such load of Sugar Pine. Beautiful, isn't it?

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A. I-. Hoover Company is the name of a new lumber copartnership in Los Angeles. But it is not a nerv business. The new name means that A. L. Hoover, well and favorably known to the lumber trade as "Gus" lloover, has taken into partnership with him three good men and true, consisting of R. R. Leishman, R. B. Hoover, and R. S. Hoover.

It. R. Leishman is Sales Manager of the concern, and n ell knou'n to the world as "Bob" Leishman. R. B. Hoover, is "Gus" Iloover's eldest son, "Bob," thirty-two years of age; and R. S. Hoover is his younger son, "Dick," thirty r-ears old. These are the sole members of the new firm of A. L. Hoover Company, rvhich has its offices at 5225 \Vilshire Boulevard on the corner of Wilshire and La Brea, in Los Angeles.

This should be and no doubt is one of the greatest quartettes that ever worked together selling lumber. The arrangement is not new by several years. Mr. Leishman has been right hand man to "Gus" Hoover for thirteen years. "Bob" Hoover joined the outfit-which has been operating as a personal business for 29 years-tr,vo years before the n'ar started, and as6oon as he graduated from Stanford, and hit the road chasing orders, specializing in Redrvood by-products. "Dick" Hoover graduated Trom Stanford just in time to get into the army. Ife came out of the army a Captain, and his brother "Bob" served through the war in the Navy with the rank of Lieut. J.G. When the war cnded they both rvent out selling lumber for their father, a.nd now join the partnership.

"Gus" Hoover started in the lumber business about

Top-Bob Hoover cnrd Dick Hoover Lower-Bob Leishmcrn crnd "Gus" Hoover

forty years ago in his home town of Fresno, California. He sold lumber on the road from Mt. Shasta to San Diego and got to know the lumber trade of the whole state very well. In 1919 he made what turned out to be one of the best lumber selling deals California has known. He moved to Los Angeles where he began handling the accounts of two great San Francisco concerns, The Pacific Lumber Company and Wendling-Nathan Company. The former concern manufactures Redwod lumber and oiher Redwood products, operating the greatest of all Redwood mills at Scotia, California. Wendling-Nathan Company is a wholesale concern handling all species of West Coast lumber and also Red Cedar Shingles. To say that WendlingNathan Company, the combination of the rare talents of "Duke" Euphrat and Roy Hills, is one of. the greatest wholesale lumber concerns on earth, is almost an understatement, so highly do they rank,

So "Gus" Hoover has been well sufplied with all the woods the West produces for twenty-nine years, and the combination has been a rare success. In Southern California "Gus" Hoover IS both Wendling-Nathan Company and Pacific Lumber Company. For these two he has sold tremendous quantities of lumber in this territory, and the relationship he has established through the years between the lumber trade, himself, and the two concerns for whom he sells, has been something to marvel at.

It would be no more than fair to declare that "Gus" Ifoover has for many years been something like a one man lumber trust in Southern California. He enjoys the friendship, the trust, and the affection of practically the entire industry of Southern California. And he has been backed up in all his operations by his two powerful suppliers from the North. His two boys come as near to being "chips ofi the old block" as ever happens in this world. They are another pair of "Gus" Hoovers on a youthful scale. And "Bob" Lieshman fits in peifectly with this Hoover trio. Before he joined Hoover he was several years with the California Redwood Association, and before that for many years with a big Redwood mill. All his business life has been spent in the lumber business. When he was made a partner in A. L. Hoover Company it was just a case of the right man finding the right place, and finding an employer who appreciated his worth. This "Bob" Leishman is a grand fellow, and a whale of a lumberman.

There is no change in the business. A. L. Hoover Com-

pany continues to represent The Pacific Lumber Company and Wendling-Nathan Company in Southern California' And there is no prouder man in California than "Gus" I{oover. Having such a trio as these three "ft'5"-ft. R. Leishman, R. B. Hoover, and R. S. Hoover-to take over the bulk of the load for him and carry on his business in the way he has always carried it-this fulfils his dream.

Cheatham Says -(onsumer Demand For Plywood Strong

Recent price dbclines 'in the lumbbr industry should serve tb stimulate volume, Owen I R. Cheatham, president of Georgia-Pacific Plywood & Lumber Co., said recently. "At the sahe.time," he 'continued, "lower lumber prices will bring about lower log costs.'' These savings, in turn'can be passed on to the public and be of 'definite help in the national anti-inflation campaign.

i'Our nation-wide sales organization has recently completed a suf,vey w|righ indicates that our customers are watching their inventories carefully.

"No slackening in the consumer" demand for plywood is in sight, and the continuing housing shortage coupled with probable further efiorts by the government to sustain the record volume of home building should serve to keep the demand for lumber and wood products at healthy levels.J'

The position of Georgia-Pacific Plywood in the current situation, according to Mr. Cheatham, is distinctly favorable in that a relatively small percentage of its investment is in standing timber carried at a 6xed price. Log requirements of the company are obtained largely on the open market at current prices or on adjustable royalty cutting contracts. fnventories of finished lumber and plywood are limited to short-term requirements at current sales volumes.

"While only about one-third of our sales volume is dependent upon the building industry as such," Mr. Cheatham reported, "a wide range of industrial consumers are continually increasing their demands. Export markets which account for the remainder of volume, are expected to become substantially larger users of our products as ERP develops."

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Lumbermen's Club

Get-together meeting drew lorge crowd,

The first annual Stag Day of the Northwestern California Lumbermen's Club, held at the Eureka fnn, Eureka, Calif., November 13, was an unqualified success.

The day started with a gettogether breakfast at the Inn at 8 o'clock. A large group traveled by automobile to Scotia, where they toured the big plant of The Pacific Lumber Company. From 2 to 4 in the afternoon there was golf at the Bayside golf course, and fishing in the Eel River. At 4:30 the big HooHoo Concatenation took place, r,r'hich initiated 84 Kittens into the International

President Jim Berry 'Order, and reinstated seven old Cats. The day was climaxed by the annual banquet and entertainment in the main dining room of the inn'at 7:45.

President Jim Berry of the Northwestern Lumbermen's Club, presided at the banquet, attended by 225, of whom many were from out of town. He called on Howard Libbey, general chairman of the affair, for a,.brief talk, and then turned the meeting over to Toastmaster Derby Bendorf, who gave a short talk on the value of cooperation between all branches of the forest products industry. Following this talk Horvard Libbey, chairman of the entertainment committee took over and a full hour of excellent professional entertainment was enjoyed by the large gathering.

At the close of the meeting President Jim Berry thanked everyone who had contributed to the success of the Lumbermen's Rendezvous, and so ended a memorable day.

The Nine who put on,the Concat were the following: Fred Ziese, Snark; Frank Watsci,n; Senior Hoo-Hoo; Al Bell, Junior Hoo-Hoo; Fred Amburgey, Bojum; Paul Overend, Scrivenoter ; Larry Owen, Jabberwock; Frank Egnell, Custocatian; Al Kelley, Arcanoper; Ed La Franchi, Gurdon.

Lew Godard, iormer member of the Supreme Nine, read the Hoo-Hoo Code of Ethics to the initiates.

In addition to those already mentioned, visitors from out of town included the following:

Erik Flamer, Long Beach; William Flamer, Long Beach; H. E. Whittemore, Los Angeles; Dewood G. Schultz, Minneapolis; L. S. Kupps, San Fran,cisco; S. V. McQueen, Medford, Oregon; Phil Gosslin, Oakland; I. J. Rea, Los Angeles; H. B. Pearne, Chehalis, Wash. ; M. D. Flagg, Philadelphia, Pa. ; Wayne Rawlings, San Francisco; Hugh

and 84 Kittens were initiated at Concat

W. Handley, San Francisco; E. M. Giles, San Francisco; E. T. Cryer, San Francisco; Max Schutte, San Francisco; Charles McPhee, San Francisco; H. M. Schaur, Jr., So. San Francisco; Eugene Frederick, Los Angeles; L. H. Doddington, San Francisco.

The following Kittens were initiated:

Clifford W. Addison, Addison & Sons Lumber Co..........Eureka

Don C. Anderson, Twin Harbors Lumber Co.... ' ..Eureka

Theodore Anderson, Associated Cooperative Inc.... .Eureka

James E. Atkinson, Humboldt Fir Lumber Co..... .Hoopa

Geo. D. Barry, Denbar Lumber Co..... .......Smith River

Derby Bendorf, The Pacific Lumber Co..... .Scotia

Jalmer Berg, Emmerson & Berg'. ...Arcata

James H. Berry, Twin Harbors Lumber Co..... .....^Eureka

Wayne E. Biord, Fairhurst Lumber Co. of Calif.. ..Eureka

Alan G. Bowers, Fairhurst Lumber Co. of Calif.. ..Eureka

Herbert C. Brede, Coast Redwood Co.. ....Klamath

Richard J. Brickell, Arcata Mfg. Co.. .......Arcata

Brousse Brizard, Logging. .. .Arcata

Judd :Brown, Twin Harbors Lumber Co., Eureka

R. L. Davis, Humboldt Plywood Corp... ....Arcata

R. B. Denney, Jr., Denbar Lumber Co..... ....Smith River

John J. Eilers, Northern Counties Lumber Co..... ..Eureka

Raleigh lI. Emmerson, Emmerson & Berg. ..Arcata

John H. Bastian, Black Butte Logging Co..........Fields Landing

Herbert P. Zeck, Black Butte Logging Co..... .....Eureka

James M. Simpson, South Bay Lumber Co..... .'..Eureka

Richard K. Hyland, Black Butte Logging Co..... ..Eureka

Chauncey E. Needham, Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co. .. . San Francisco

James C. Needham, Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co...San Francisco

Edgar M. Giles, Simpson Logging Co..... .San Francisco

M. D. Flasg, C. H. Wheeler Mfg. Co..... .Philadelphia, Pa.

C. D. Ahern, Simpson Logging Co.

Don M. Oder . .Eureka

Thomas Corbett, Strable Hardwood Co...,. .......Oakland

Paul V. Allen, Tacoma Lumber Sales .,Arcata

Gwynne V. French, Emmerson Ber,g Lumber Co...........Eureka

Walter N. Hansen, Willow Creek Mill. ., ..Willow Creek

Clarence W. Flesher. Sound Lumber Co.. ...Arcata

Frank R. Foster, Sound Lumber Co.. .Arcata

Clarence Magnuson, Sound Lumber Co.. ....Arcata

William W. French, Timber Cruiser. .Miranda

George W. Barnes, Northern Redwood Lumber Co.. Korbel

Howard V. Tollock, Addison & Sons Lumber Co...........Eureka

Edward H. Enquist, Jr., G. L. Speier Co.. ...Arcata

Nathaniel A. Evans, Northern Redwood Lumber Co.........Korbel

Jack Fairhurst, Fairhurst Lurnber Co. of Calif.. ....Eureka

Clarence, Gillson, Hammond Lumber Co.. . Samoa

Harold J. Goodrich, Arcata Timber Products. .......Arcata

Lesley B. Graham, Morrison & Jackson Lumber Co........Weott

Thomas V. Gray, Redwood Hi-way Lumber Co............Piercy

Thomas A. Groom, Calif. Barrel Co. Ltd.. ...Arcata

Everitt Hill, Northern Redwood Lumber Co..... ....Korbel

George E. Jackson, Morrison & Jackson Lumber Co........Weott

Lester A. Johnson, Arcata Timber Products Co............Arcata

Harry Jackson, Morrison & Jackson Lumber Co............Weott

Arney Jepsen, G. L. Speier Co.- ......Arcata

Harry Johnston, Redwood Hi-way Lumber Co..... .Piercy

J. J. Krohn, California Barrel Co. Ltd.... ....Arcata

Edmond J. Lessard, Crag Lumber Co..... ..,..Smith River

Allan W. Maki, M. E. Mitchell & Co.....i... ....Carlotta

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Extending sincerest wishes to all our friends for

Felling Redwood trees; lrom woodcut, 7886

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ehristmas Greetings

To All Our Friends In The Lumber Business

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Forest Products Laboratory lssues

Gordon J. Manary, The pacific Lumber co..... .....Scotia Book

Valentine F. Meyer, Northern Redwood Lumber Co.. Korbel

on Cut-Stock Possibilitieg

Edward C. Morrison, Northern Redwood Lumber Co........Korbel Stock cut to the dimensions required for the fabrication

Harlan Morrison, Morrison & Jackson Lumber Co..........Weott of various factory products is receiving increased attention

Walter Morrison, Morrison & Jackson Lumber Co...........Weott

charles J. Murray, pacific Forest products co.. Eureka by both consuming factories and consuming mills. Fac-

James P. Murray, Fairhurst Lumber Co..... .Arcata tories are interested in increasing their sources of wood

George W. Nelson, California Redwood Ass.ociation.......Eureka supply; sawmills in finding outlets for types of material

Harold E. Neville, The Pacific Lumber Co..... .....Scotia not adapted to manufacture into standard items of lumber.

cecil E' Nichols' The Pacific Lumber co"""""Fields Landing Basic economic problems of raw material utilization af-

William G. Norris, Van De Nor Lumber Co..... ...Arcata

Doyle F. euiggle, peerless Lumber co..... .Arcata fecting the forest and wood-using industries as a whole

Frank A. Ridley, Morrison & Jackson Lumber Co...........Weott are involved in cut-stock development as well as the im-

F. C' Riley, Simpson Logging Co.. . San Francisco mediate prosperity of individual units of industry.

William H. Rogers, Fortuna Bldg. Supply Co..... ..Fortuna

George F. Sauers, Sauers Forest Products.... .......Wlott To help industrial concerns become more familiar with Ray M. Spalding, Arcata Mfg. Co. Inc.... ...Arcata cut-stock utilization, a study was recently made by the John F' stegeman' stegeman Lumber co" " ' ...... 'weott Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, which was chief-

GeorgeW'Taggart,MorrisonJacksonLumberCo.........Weott

Francis M. Tann, M. F. Mitchell & Co.. ...Carlotta ly concerned with existing conditions that are conducive

Fred Versteeg, Northern Redwood Lumber C".............ililj to the increased use of cut-stock. A report on this study

D. L. Wheaton, West Coast Saw Mills Inc.. ...Garberville was made by Waldo M. Sands and Fred B. Malcolm under

Lawrence A. Wiklund, Fairhurst Lumber Co..... ..Eureka the supervision of Edward M. Davis, and has been con-

Charles F. Wilson, Jr., Pope & Talbot, Inc..........San Francisco denseJinto a thirty page booklet, illustrated with charts

Archie_,Welch, Walters-W_elch Mfg. Co. ...Eureka Hgh walteis; w;iG;;-w;l;ii M??. c;: .:.:...... ...Eureka and pictures, and this booklet has been placed at the dis-

The reinstatements were th1 following: posal of the consuming industries of the middle west which

Allison F' Baker, Roddis Lumber & Ve'eer Co.............Eureka make not only stock items like sash ,doors, boxes, etc.,

Edwin E. Bower, E. E. B,ower Lumber Co..........Dallas, Texas but likewise endless other wooden products of the factory.

George E. Knab.

Philip Garland' Arcata Timber Products co" ' ' ' ' ' ' 'Arcata rhe book is called "cut-Stock possibilities In wood-

......Arcata

Elmer E. McConnell, Black Butte Logging Co.. . Eureka Consuming Industries In Midwestern States," and. can be

Arthur S. McCurdy, South Bay Lumber C;.....

carl A' Libbev, orick Lumber co...

....Eureka secured through the Forest Products Laboratory, United

..Arcata States Department of Agriculture, Madison, \Misconsin.

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The World Needs Salesmen \|(ho -

Realize that courtesy is a vital human achievement in any kind of times;

Appreciate the fact that service to the other fellow can be practiced regardless of which rides the crest of the wave at the moment-supply or demand;

Understand that the Golden Rule still functions:

Love their fellow man and play square with him under all conditions;

Have grasped the thought that a kindly appreciation of the other fellow is the cornerstone of selling success;

Practice at all times the honest arts of selling, such as understanding, helpfulness, and appreciation of the other fellow's viewpoint.

Vclue ol Building Permits Hits All-Time High

"For the first nine months of 1948, building permit values f.or 215 cities amounted to $3,051,464,096," says a report by Dun & Bradstreet, Inc., which also states that:

"This was an all-time high for the period, and it was about equal to the volume Tor the entire year of 1947. 'Ihe current figure shows a gain of. 4l.l/o over the $2,162,411,726 for the corresponding nine months of 1947. It is almost three times the similar 1941 period with $1,152,388,547.

E. C. Pitcher

fiuneral services were held for Elmer C. Pitcher, president and owner of E. C. Pitcher Co., Hayward, Calif., at the Little Chapel of The Flowers, Berkeley, October 11. He passed way in Berkeley, October 9, following an illness of several months.

IIe was a native of Nerv York. where he was born 85 years ago.

He had a long career in the rnillwork business in San Francisco and Oakland. For many years he operated his own mill in San Francisco. He manufactured wood tanks and pipe, and did custom milling for a number of the large yards in the city.

After the fire in San Francisco he became manager of the Pacific Tank & Pipe Co. in Oakland, in I9O7, and helped forrn the National Mill & Lumber Company, Oakland, and was president of this concern from 1914 to 1927.

He developed and marketed the Pitcher Disappearing Doors for the past 20 years, and his company, E. C. Pitcher Co. has operated its own factory in Hayward, Calif., for the manufacture of the frames and hangers for these doors.

Mr. Pitcher was treasurer of the Hotel Leamington, Oakland, and was president of the Alta Bates Hospital, Berkeley.

Softwoods of light weight in general hold paint longer than heavy woods.

A M essdga dt Christmos Ti del

thoughts of business.

During the joyous Christmas season we are given new strength; we afe enabled to look forward to the New Year with courage and with full faith that 1949 will bring prosperity to all America and peace to all the wodd.

New U. S. Commercial Standard for Douglas Fir Plywood

Now in effect is a new U. S. Commercial Standard, known as CS4548, for Douglas fir plywood, setting forth performance requirements for both Exterior and Interior type panels and appearance details for grades within each type.

The standard, promulgated by industry through the National Bureau of Standards, is effective as of Nov. 1.

Simultaneously, the 37 fir plywood manufacturers supporting the industry's equality control and trademarking program has adopted a new simplified A-B-C grade identification system. In addition, the new standard also sets forth even higher performance qualifications for Exterior (waterproof) plywood.

The alphabetical grade marking system provides for A, B, C and D designations for the veneers (plys) which are bonded together into panels; appearance grades within the two plywood types-Exterior and Interior-are determined by the outer plys or face veneers. The A veneer, of course, is the highest quality and compares with that veneer quality previously known as "sound.'l The "B" quality is described in paragraph two below. C and D veneers are used primarily for inner or back plys; however, defect limitations are more strict for C, the lowest grade veneer permitted in any lamination of Exterior panels.

Grade trade names will continue to be used in the identification of fir plywood. Typical is the PlyPanel' designation for the one-side material intended for interior wall paneling. However, the letter classification of veneers will call for the incorporating of the letters "A-D" as part of the distinctive PlyPanel stamp rather than the words "sound 1 side."

Other important provisions in the new standard, which replaces CS45-47 previously in effect, include:

1. fntroduction of a new appearance quality of veneer -the B quality. This presents a smooth, solid surface suitable for painting. It, however, will permit machinemade, circular plugs as repair of natural defects as well as allowing for small, tight knots.

2. Introduction of two new grades within each of the .two types by utilizing the B quality veneer. The grades are PlyBase (having one B or solid face) in the fnterior type and Exterior Utility grade, a companion grade, but with waterproof bond between plys. Then there are the A-B (sound-solid) panels in both Interior and Exterior types which will supplement the supply of two-sides ply' wood.

3. Provision' for several stock sizes of panels in most grades so there will be 2%',3',3rf', and 4 widths, and 5', 6', 7',8',9', 10', and lZ,lengths. Conversely, the total

cLM Magazine Table Attracts Much Attention

Not long ago a visiting lumberman, Mr. Harry Seaman, head of The Kirby Lumber Corporation of Houston, Texas, dropped into The California Lumber N{erchant offices for a visit. In the outer office he stopped to stare at our big magazine table. He wanted to know horv big it rvas, rvhat it was made of, and how rve got it into the building. We told him it r,vas trvelve feet long, four and one-half feet wide, made by hand out of solid mahogany with an inlaicl leather top, and that rve didn't get it into the building_ we built the building around it. He sent out for a com_ mercial photographer and took a picture of the table. Here is the picture.

It IS a very unusual table, both for size and handiwork. How it got into the Central Building is something rve havs nsyel discovered. It was probably hoisted up f.othe outside and brought in through one of the big windo.vs.

Tree Farms are managed as sound business operations. They mean mills produ,cing a constant flow of forest prod_ ucts for America. Their keynote is a steady search for and employment of improved utilization techniques lvhich will assure the communities they support enduring and healthy lives.

The best painters apply paint in fairly thick coats roughly 600 square feet per gallon, while unskilled painters very often apply coating too thin, covering as much as 1,000 or 1,200 square feet per gallon.

It had belonged to a former tenant and .il'as there when rve moved in, twenty-five years ago. We bought it. It is very useful as a magazine table, the one dozen drawers are fine storage places for various things, and it always attracts attention.

Back of and above the table there can be seen on the wall three of the very large pictures of Western trees that adorn the 'lr'alls of the CLM offices. Twenty years ago the West Coast Lumbermen's Association showed a splendid exhibit of Western tree pictures in New Orleans, Louisiana, all the pictures being very large and specially made. When the exhibit closed The CLM bought many of the pictures. They now adorn our office walls. These pictures and the big table always furnish visitors ryith something to ponder over.

Strength is closely related to the rveight or density of 'the wood. Higher strength may be obtained by excluiing pieces that are obviously of exceptionally light rveight ancl by using rate of growth and percentage of summer wood in selecting pieces of superior strength from those species in rvhich these characteristics are acceptable criteria.

Whether we cut our timber fast or slow, we rvill sooner or later come to the end of our virgin forests. This need cause no alarm. Like the rest of the civilized world we r,vill then rely upon managed forests for our wood supply.

number of plywood items in the list is reduced by about 25 per cent as small-increment size graduations are dropped.

4. A new grade-traden,ark has been introduced for the A-C (sound one side) grade of Exterior type material; it is PlyShield and will appear on the edge and back of the panel in addition to the "EXT-DFPA" type designation. PlyShield, the outdoor paneling grade for modern siding, somts, commercial buildings, farm structures, etc., now represents'a thircl of all fir plywood produced.

5. New grade specifications for PlyForm, the multiple re-use concrete Iorm panel.

PlyForm, in conformance with the new standard, is produced with both faces of the B quality veneer described in point two above. PlyForm continues to be of special inner-ply construction and continues to be edge-sealed and mill-oiled unless otherwise specified. PlyForm, of course, is manufactured with highly moisture-resistant adhesives which will resist an average of wetting and drying cycles.

Laboratory tests and field case studies over the past two years have proved the complete adequacy of this grade to fulfill the contractor needs for a combined sheathing and lining on the great majority of all concrete jobs. The panels are sanded smooth. Further, the large panel size, the stability of the material and the accuracy of panel dimer-rsions assures achievement of smooth, fin-free concrete surfaces.

Altogether, the new standard sets forth specifications for seven grades of Interior type and six grades of Ex-

terior type plywood (see tables following). Grades and stock panel sizes are planned to offer the ultimate consumer a selection of panels carefully designed for specific applications and simultaneously achieve utilization of the raw material-timber.

Here are the plywood grades as provided for under cS45-48:

EXTERIOR TYPE GRADES

Grade-Trademark

EXT-DFPA A-A A

EXT-DFPA A-B A

EXT-DFPA PlyShield A

EXT-DFPA Utility B

EXT-DFPA Sheathing C

EXT-DFPA Concrete "ot*"

Face Back

(Sound) A (Sound)

(Sound) B (Solid)

(Sound) C (Ext. back)

(Solid) C (Ext. back)

(Ext. back) C (Ext. back)

(Solid) B (Solid)

INTERIOR TYPE GRADES

Grade-Trademark Face Back

Interior A-A A (Sound) A (Sound)

Interior A-B A (Sound) B (Solid)

Plypanel A (Sound) D (Int. back)

Plybase B (Solid) D (Int. back)

Plyscord (Sheathing) C (Ext. back) D (Int. back)

Pl1'fe.* (Concrete Form) B (Solid) B (Solid)

Door panels A (Sound) A (Sound)

A copy of the complete standard will be furnished free, upon request, by Douglas Fir Plywood Association, Tacoma 2, Wash. M.y

31 New Tree Farms in California and Washington

Portland, Ore., Nov. l3-Certification of 31 new Tree Farms covering 53,037 acres of Washington and California timberlands was announced today by the Western Pine association.

Brought into the rapidly expanding Tree Farm fold in the past six weeks, the new acreages constitute the largest number to be certified in a comparable period in the sixyear-old history of the program. The additions bring the total in the l2-state Western Pine region to 175 Tree Farms covering 2,694,447 acres.

Sixteen of the new farms covering 20,702 acres lie in California and 15 totaling 32,335 acres are in eastern Washington, the association reported.

Largest of the group is the 23,680-acre tract of the Klickitat Pine Box company, Klickitat, \Mash. Third largest in the Western Pine region of Washington, it consists of previously-logged land now covered with vigorous young stands of Ponderosa Pine and inland Douglas Fir. Smallest is the lGacre woodlot of Rodger S. Coate of White Salmon, Wash. The 15 new additions bring eastern Washington's total to 37, covering 203,231 acres.

More than half the California total was accounted for by the 13,120-acre Castle Crags Tree Farm of the Castle Creek Lumber company at Castella. The 24-acre Squirrel Creek Ranch Tree Farm at Grass Valley is the smallest of the new group. California's Tree Farms now number 40, covering 520,818 acres.

The Tree Farm movement, a nation-wide program sponsored by the country's forest products industries, requires that each certified area be protected and managed under sound forestry practices for the continuous production of commercial forest crops. Regional lumber associations administer the program in their areas. The American Forest Products Industries, fnc., on Oct. 4 reported an inventory of 1486 Tree Farms in the United States, coverilg t5,733,516 acres.

New California tree farmers are: California Door company, Diamond Spring, 2t00 acres; Arthur A. Kylander, Placerville, 235 acres; Barnes and Edwards Forest Products, Loomis, 1120 acres; M. B. Edwards, Auburn, 280 acres; E. G. Fellerson and L. W. Sanford, Grass Valley, 22 acres; Bert and Blair Harris, Placerville, 125 acres; C. E. Startt, Cassel, 2N acres; Yan Zee Sawmill, fnc., Weaverville, 2060 acres; Hat Creek Lumber company, Redding, 64O acres; E. J. Green, Shingletown, 140 acres; Castle Creek Lumber company, Castella, t3,120 acres; Jack B. Clinton, Groveland, 160 acres; Harry T. Meyer, Groveland, 82 acres; Ronald Rascoe, Grass Valley, 4O acres; M. I. Lacey, North San Juan, 200 acres; Dorothea Easton Nesbitt and Esther K. Easton, Groveland, 158 acres.

New Tree Farm owners in Washington are: Klickitat Pine Box company, Klickitat, 23,680 acres; Schmitten Lumber company, Cashmere, 6680 acres; Ray Carter, Ap(Continued on Page 130)

Announces New Process in the Manufacture Of Sulphite Wood Pulp

Tacoma, Wash., November 6-,4' revolutionary new process in the manufacture of sulphite wood pulp was announced here today by Howard W. Morgan, manager of the Pulp Division, Weyerhaeuser Timber Company. Carried on in a plant which is the first of its kind in the world, the process solves an eighty year old problem of the pulp industry.

The new method, now being used at Weyerhaeuser's Longview (Wash.) branch operation, allows more complete utilization of Pacific Northwest timber species. Eight buildings with a total floor area of about 44,m0 square feet house the apparatus, piping and special equipment for the process, which recovers materials formerly wasted.

Specifically, the development permits the Weyerhaeuser Pulp Division to recover from waste pulping liquors (1) chemicals used in the production of sulphite pulp, and (2) steam and power energy from organic solids in solution. As a result, stream pollution resulting from waste liquors being discharged into streams will be eliminated.

Morgan said the process installation climaxes about ten years of experimentation and research by the Howard Smith Paper Mills, Ltd., the Babcock and Wilcox Company and the Weyerhaeuser Company.

Normally, sulphite pulp is processed by cooking wood chips with an acid produced from the action of sulphur dioxide upon limestone, in the presence of water. A ton of waste organic solids is produced as a by-product for every ton of pulp manufactured. This waste, if dumped into lakes or streams as an effluent, may create a serious pollution problem.

Basically, the new process substitutes magnesium oxide for limestone through the use of specially designed equipment. Evaporation and burning of the leftover cooking liquors recovers cooking chemicals in a form which permits 'their reuse.

Pulp manufacturers in their 80 years search for a practical means of utilizing this waste have found most meth. ods unsatisfactory because of chemical and mechanical problems. Recovery of commercially salable products from

lignin in the pulping liquor involved costly marketing problems.

The new magnesium sulphite process allows Weyerhaeuser to recover from this former waste valuable cooking acid and organic solids for use as fuel.

Morgan pointed out that the organic solids reclaimed will produce enough steam. to furnish power for a large part of the recovery and pulping process. This will release sawmill waste wood, heretofore used for fuel in the sulphite mill, as raw material for the production of kraft pulp in Weyerhaeuser's new plant at Longview.'

George H. Tomlinson of the Howard Smith Paper Company, Ltd., discovered in the middle thirties that magnesium oxide was unique in that waste pulping liquor resulting.from its use could be evaporated and burned to give a high percentage of chemicals recovered. Tomlinson patented this process.

Working with Tomlinson, the Babcock and Wilcox Company developed boiler designs suitable for this process. Pilot plant operations were conducted at the Howard Smith mills at Cornwall, Ontario.

Meanwhile the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company had started independent research leading toward the same recovery objective. A pilot plant established by the firm indicated commercial feasibility of the process.

To eliminate further duplication of effort, the three trms combined their research effgrts. Weyerhaeuser's 700-acre integrated manufacturing center at Longview, Washington was selected as the site for the world's first commercial installation.

From ,the results of these combined studies the new plant at Longview was designed by O. C. Schoenwerk, consulting engineer of Chicago, and is now in operation. The revolutionary cyclic recovery process, consisting of seyen separate operations, will be made available to the nation's pulp industry and is expected to bring many international scientists to the Longview installation. Li. censes will be granted by Babcock and Wilcox Company, exclusive licensing agent, under patents and on terms best adapted to widespread use of the new process.

Ahe lincoln on $alesrnilmhip

Just the other day, in reading some of the known sayings of Abraham Lincoln, we came upon what seems to be one of the finest essays on Salesmanship we have ever encountered. We have re-read it many times, and with each reading new selling thoughts appear within its lines. For here is what Lincoln said about selling-influencingother people:

"When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasionkind, unassuming persuasionshould be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall'. So with men. ff you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the high road to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble convincing his judgrnent of the justice of

Scn Frcrncisco Lumbermen's Club Will Hold Christmcs Pcrty Dec. 2I

Announcement is made by Fred Ziese, president of San Francisco Lumbermen's Club, that the children of Edgewood Orphanage will again be luncheon guests of the club at the annual Christmas Party, to be held at the Palace

your cause, if indeed that cause be truly a just one.

"On the contrary, assume to dictate to his judgment, or command his action, and he will retreat within himself, close all the avenues to his head and heart; and, though your cause be naked truth itself transformed into the heaviest lance, harder than steel and sharper than steel can be made; and though you throw it with more than Herculean force and precision, you shall be no more able to pierce him than to penetrate the hard shell of a tortoise with a rye straw. Such is man, and so must he be understood by those who would lead him, even to his own best interests."

Mr. Lincoln, it seems, was convinced that you must sell a man through the heart and not through the head; and he was likewise convinced that the worst fault in selling is to try to "put the pressure" on the prospect.

Hotel, San Francisco, on Tuesday, December 21. Jo Jo the Clown and his two assistants will entertain, and Santa Claus will present to each child a gift as near to their own choosing as possible.

An invitation will be issued to the ladies to attend the Christmas Partv.

Germ.n Forests Helping Rebuild Germany---fngland Gets

Much. German Timber

American lumbermen will be much interested in German forest and lumber facts. The English lumber journal, ."Timber and Plywood," in a recent issue, devotes many .illustrated pages to the importation of German lumber bnd timber into Britain, in an article written and signed by Charles J. Venables, of the North Ge1mln .Tim,ber Control. In discussing and reporting on this subject,'the writer gives a very interesting picture of the German timber and lumber situation generally. It seems that the commercialization of her forests is playing a very great part in the huge job of restoring Germany's internal eco': nomy. The products of her forests are at present supplying the German mines rvith mine timbers, the German people with building materials for homes and other structures, a huge amount of wood for firewood, and leaves enough over to sell at export for cash, and thus bring in much-needed money to Germany.

To start with, Mr. Venables states that there was imported into Britain from Germany in L947,1,293,102 tons of logs and lumber. This is chiefly spruce and Scots pine, with some beech and a small amount of oak' Since most of this is brought in green, it probably means about 750,'000,000 board,feet. Part of this total that England gets from Germany is in the shape of round logs; part is in squared logs which they call "baulks"; part is battens, boards, and deals manufactured in German sawmills; and part is pitwood, or mine tirribers.

The round logs and squared timbers mostly come from mills operated by the ,British themselves in German forests, the North German Timber Control being a British organization created Ior the purpose of getting out German tisnber for England's home uses'

When Britain started her direct production of German timber there was a great job to be done' They had tried assisting the German timber trade to get out forest products for them, but there were too many obstacles, so Britain went at it in her own way. This article emphasizes the fact that "all timber exported from Germany is being paid for at world market prices." Britain sent innumerable small and portable sawmills, transportation vehicles of every sort to be used in logging and lumbering, and all the other materials and equipment essential to a great operation. To a large extent they had to depend for labor ' on entirely green Displaced Persons. Training these men and getting them in shape to do practical work, was a monumental job' But forests were plentiful, so the problem was solved successfully, and a great flood of much needed timber and lumber began flowing iirto England I from Germany. The Chetniks, natives of Yugoslavia, who had been held as prisoners of war in Italy, and who refused to return to their orvn homes, proved to be a great source- of 'manPow€r in -t-hesooperati'ons' They *were asked

to volunteer for timber and mill work, which they did in great numbers.

(Continues Mr. Venables) "One thing is certain: the German forests which were kept intact through the war, while occupigd countries and Great Britain were compelled to cut ten, ldelve, and twenty times the annual increment, can furnish supplies for export for several years to come."

In addition to these facts concerning Britain's own production of forest products in Germany, the Germans themselves maintain a very large and interesting lumber and timber industry. Hundreds of small sawmills are to be found throughout the British and American occupied areas. They are mostly in small villages in or near the forests. Following are some very interesting facts about the German lumber industry, as stated by Mi. Venables:

German Economy

"The thrifty usages in the Gerrnan forests, and the economical conversion of logs in the sawmills are amazing to the Britisher. In the forest everything is used, from the roots which are extracted by winches from the light sandy plains and by blasting from the heavier soil, to the twigs which are cut to kindling lengths in a sort of glorified chaff-cutting machine. Every bit of sawdust as well as edgings and trimmings is used for raising power for the sawmill, or else despatched to one of the large woodalcohol plants for the manufacture of alcohol, yeast, etc. One private owner explained that the villagers paid him quite a useful sum to be allowed to fell and trim a tree (which the owner retained), in order to extract and remove the roots and to cut and remove all firewood and twigs for domestic fuel. Thus the owner, besides having felled and ;rimmed timber to offer to the merchant, had had his forest completely cleared of lof,p, tops and roots ready for replanting and had received a contribution towards the cost of replanting.

"The woodworking industries too are for the most part scattered in the villages, and draw their own supplies of round logs direct from the forest, converting them to dimension stock and seasoning themselves. Every farmer owns or has some share in some forest, and the smallest hamlet has its small sawmill laid out exclusively for sawing and manufacturing for hire the trees which the farmers cart in to them with the farm horse and cart."

. Reforestation

It is particularly noteworthy that all these German forests, whether being cut by the British direct, or by the Germans themselves, are being scientifically reforested. Concerning the replanting of cut-over areas, Mr. Venables says:

"No expendive netting is required and sowing direct in the forest in furrows made by a special type of plough is -canied* out.sxtensively .a{rd tv.itlf Ve.r.y- g:re"at .success - -s ta nd s

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of mature timber of good quality are scheduled as suitable for seed production. Cones are collected and taken to the seed extraction ovens, which in turn distribute the seed to tl-re nurseries and forests. Natural regeneration is practised successfully with hardwood stands and in specially suitable sites with Scots pine. German foresters seem papticularly conservative and very few foreign species have been introduced. The Englishman wearies of the miles and miles of pure stands of Scots pine on the northwest plain and spruce on the higher levels. The beech forests on the crests of the limestone hills are wonderfully beautiful at all seasons. Here and there one sees attempts to introduce larch, and there are a ferv instances of mixed hard and softwood forests."

Dubs, Ltd. Plcry crt Los Gctos

Art Grey won the low net prize with a score of 60'at the Dubs, Ltd. golf tournament held at the I-a Rinconada Golf & Country Club, Los Gatos, November 12. Ev Lewis won 2nd low net with 61, Norm Cords took 3rd with 65, and Jack Butler was 4th with 66. Del Travis was chairman of the day. Attendance was 32.

Dick La Franchi won the low gross with 77. Fred Ziese' was second with79, Del Travis third with 81.

The new champion high gross man was Leo Cheim, Sr. Lloyd Swiger, who put down 8 for his score on the 9th hole, received a special honesty award. Seven prizes were won by guests. Praise was heard for the course' and the good dinner'

Strable Hardwood Company Celebratet 42 Years of Service With Expansion

Strable Hardwood 'Company, 537 First Street, Oakland, recently had all of ttieir warehouses steam-cleaned and repainted in silver color. New modern signs have been painted in black and red, showing the many items carried in stock for the lumber dealers of Northern California.

A new 'ivarehouse, containing 4@0 square feet of floor space has been added. This is at the rear of the other buildings, and was formerly occupied by Monarch Lumber Company. This addition gives Strable Hardwood Company 55,250 square feet of modern warehouse space, and 70,000 square feet of open yard space.

B. E. Bryan, general manager, states that stocks of cluality hardwood lumber and affiliated items are now more plentiful. New lifts and other methods of loading and handling have, improved the service that this distributor can give to the trade.

It is interesting to note that Strable Hardwood Company is celebrating 42 years of service at the same location.

New Crosscrm Mill

A mill specializing in the manufacture of wooden crossarms has started operations at Eureka, California. It is owned and operated by the Eureka Lumber & Crossarm Company. A steel and concrete building houses the mill.

National Awards in Ficld of Public Relations

The first National Retail Lumber Dealers Association Award Program in the field of public relations met with a dealer response far beyond the hope and expectation of all those who had a hand in promoting this activity. It is an absolute certainty that this public relations activity of awarding plaques to companies with outstanding public relations programs in their own community will gain prestige and influence year after year.

The purpose oI this most successful, nationwide campaign conducted by the National with the active support of federated associations and all independent trade publications in the field is wide enough to command the interest of dealers operating in towns of all types and sizes.

The first purpose of this continuing program is to focus public attention upon the outstanding services performed by lumber and bu-ilding material dealers through their public relations programs.

Second, this Annual Award Program will focus attention of allied building industry groups upon the practical public relations being performed by the distributors in local communities.

Third, the entries already received will provide outstanding examples of good public relations and will point out to all dealers concrete means of developing an active and effective public relations program of their own.

The basis of judging the entries is outlined by the following 12 public relations objectives:

To develop prestige; promotion of products and sales; employee good will; prevention and solution of labor problems; to foster community good will; good will of the stockholders; to overcome misconceptions and prejudices against the company; government understanding and good will; good will of other industry elements; education of the public to the use of products and services; education of the public to a viewpoint; good will of customers or consumers.'

The actual judging of the entries took place at the Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D. C., October 22,. Everyone connected with the review of the dealer entries was impressed with the abundance of material that could be used in newspaper publicity and public relations work, and was further impressed rvith the amount of material that would be most effective if used in connection with any legislation concerning ,retail lqmber and building material dealers and their field of endeavor. Here for the first time, actual facts from the field had been placed in the hands of the National Association in such a way as to provide it with adequate publicity and public relations tools.

The success of this year's program made it apparent that continuation would be certain, and to enable everyone to get ofi to a head start, therefore, the deadline date for receipt of dealer material in L949 was selected as Friday, September 16. The date for judging the entries in Wash-

ington, D. C., was selected as September 23,1949, and the material to be submitted by dealers should cover only activities engaged in between the dates September 10, 1948 and September lO, 1949. In January, a 4-page folder officially announcing the 1949 publi,c relations program for annual awards, together with all rules and information, will be sent in bulk shipments through the federated associations to all dealers interested in local public relations programs.

The actual presentation of Annual Awards for Outstanding Service to the Community and the Industry in the Field of Public Relations were presented during the National Annual Meeting at the Roney-Plaza Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida, Thursday morning, November 11, to the following 1948 company and organization winners.

Class 1 (For lumber and building material yards operating in towns of under 1,000)-F. S. Pendleton Lumber Company, McComb, Ohio, (population 987). Award made to Lois Pendleton who wrote: "f present for your approval my favorite lumberman, Floyd S. Pendleton" in submitting this entry for her husband, lumber dealer Flovd Pendleton.

Class 2 (For lumber and building material yards operating in towns of 1,000--5,000)-sterner Coal and Lumber Company, Belmar, New Jersey, (population 3,435). Award made to Don Sterner who introduced his entry with the remark: "Departing from the traditional conception of a lumber yard's function in the community, the Sterner Coal and Lumber Company, of Belmar, New Jersey, two years ago decided to apply methods of promoting business that were heretofore only used by department stores and similar retail institutions."

Class 3 (For lumber and building material yards operating in towns of 5,000-50,000)-Richards and Krueger Company, New Braunfels, Texas (population 6900).Award made to Harvey L. Richards, who states in his presentation that "Richards and Krueger has had a hand in building 920 of the 1,790 buildings which have almost doubled the pre-war size of New Braunfels."

Class 4 (For yards in towns with populations of 5OOOO100,000)-L. Grossman Sons, fnc., Quincy, Massachusetts (population 75,000). Award made to Mr. Joseph Grossman who has given the dignity of man its proper position in public relations inasmuch as "There isn't a 'Mr.' in the company. Even the president is known to all employees by his first name." Rank here has given way to the prestige of citizenship and a job at Grossmans.

Class 5 (For yards in towns with populations of over 100,000)-The A. W. Burritt Company, Bridgeport, Conneticut (population 147,W). Award made to Arthur Clifford, who stated that one of the company's main public relations purposes was "to spread information concerning the true facts relating to our industry, particularly home building, thereby combatling propaganda for public hous-

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Class 6 (Dealer group public relations programs) Tulsa Lumbermen's Association. Award made to Joe Morris, who. submitted his entry with the statement "we here in Tulsa not only realize the need for a public relations program, but are attempting in our own way to do something about it."

Special Industry Engineered Homes Arvard. Edward Hines Lumber Company, Chicago, Illinois. Arvard made to Phil Creden who prefaced his presentation rvith the vital statement "the whole building industry has been on the defensive before the bar of public opinion since the close of the war. The Edward Hines Lumber Company felt that the only answer to a better public attitude was the production of homes . When the Engineered Homes program was announced we knew rve had a dramatic means of bringing our story home to the public."

Runner-up in Class 2 tvas the Diamond Lumber and Hardware Co., Lovell, Wyoming; Class 3, Peak-Hightower Lumber & Supply Co., Cedartown, Georgia; Class 4, Peterson Lumber Co., El Paso, Texas; Class 5, Ruffin and Payne, Inc., Richmond, Virginia.

A number of other companies received special mention for submitting many outstanding and practical ideas.

The judges of the Award Program were: C. T. Parsons, Southern Lumber Journal; Robert Kerr, American Lumberman; Jack Parshall, Building Supply Nervs; W. G. Grinols, Mississippi Valley Lumberman; Stanley Horn,

!(/eyerhasuser Buys Ewauna Box Company's Timber, Plant, and Inventory as of Dec. 1

C. W. Hornibrook, sales manager of the Ewduna Box Company, Klamath Falls, Ore., in a letter to the trade on November 10, states:

"Announcement is hereby made of the sale to the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company of our timber, plant, and inventory as of December 1, 1948.

"The Weyerhaeuser Company will dispose of the inventory to their trade after all our present orders have been shipped. The plant will be dismantled.

"Barring unforeseen difficulties, it is anticipated that all our orders will have been shipped by the end of this month. In the event any orders should have to be carried over, they will be shipped during the first few days of December by our shipping organization.

"The Ewauna Box Company is to be liquidated following transfer of the plant and inventory.

"This sale has been made by us in view of the relatively small amount of timber left available fof us.

"To our trade, we extend our sincere appreciation for the pleasant association with you, and the many kindnesses that have been extended us."

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The fastest grorving this and the fastest growing that is always being exploited in these days of progress. So when a lumber item becomes far and away the fastest growing thing from a standpoint of building popularity, it is food for dfrcussion, and deserves specific report.

The lumber item that has developed more popularity than any other of any species during the past two years, is a very modest and unpretentious bit of Douglas Fir; the two-by-foureight. It has, in fact, completely outdistanced any other item of ordinary building material, so that there really isn't even any second in the race. In fact the two-by-four-eight has invaded much territory where Fir was never used before; and is sold in innumerable far-away lumber.yards where few if any other Fir items are carried. In addition to which its use has increased tremendously in all the territories where Douglas Fir has been in common use as a general building material.

What happened was that during the last two years the whole nation has gone to building tremendous numbers of small wooden dwellings in which eight foot ceilings are standaid, and in the construction of which two-by-four eights are the most natural of building materials. All the carpenter has to do is stick them in place and nail them there. They are straight. They make a flat wall. And a flat wall is imperative in tens of thousands of dwellings that have been built, and are beirig built, because the inside sheeting in most of these houses is wall board, and predominantly plaster board.

Now, a plasterboard wall has to be fastened to flat studs, or there will be trouble-soon. Most other boards also suffer from being nailed to a wall that is not perfectly flat, to studs

Coastql Plqningr MiU Starts

The new planing mill of the new Coastal Plywood Corporation has been completed and is in operation at Cloverdale, California. It will be used for custom milling, and remanufacturing. The new sawmill is well under way and will probably be in operation by early spring, manufacturing more than 150,000 feet daily.

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that are not perfectly straight. And Fir two-by-fours are uniformly straight, and walls built from them are uniformly flat' And, since these are days when poorly manufactured, poorly seasoned, and crooked lumber of many species has become all too common, mostly from small and inefficient mills, these straight two-by-four-eights have become more popular with, the carpenter, the contractor, and the builder himself, than words can tell.

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT asked Hal V. Simpson, big chief of the West Coast Lumbermen's.Association about this two-by-four-eight situation. He suggeste?l that probably five per cent of all Douglas Fir is now made into that item. ,IIe says that since the war quite a number of medium size mills have come into existence in the Fir region that specialize in the making of this one item. Many other mills make them from the side cut of mills that specialize in sawing railroad ties. But a greater number come from the core of the big peeler logs that have been peeled for plywood. A great volume of two-by-four-eighls is produced in this way, probably 15 to 25 per cent of all of the entire product of that item. Mr. Simpson explains the tremendous demand for this item by pointing to the tens of thousands of one story, low cost, and ranch style homes that are being built throughout the land.

It is reported that in some territories for outside regular Fir consuming regions ,every lumber yard now carries two-by four-eights. Once the carpenters get to use them, they demand them. Thus a once lowly lumber item has quickly become the national champ.

Lqth qnd Plqster Men To Meet

The 1949 annual convention of the California and Plastering Association will be held in San February 24, 25, and, ?$ next, according to the announcement of Executive Manager George J. Mannschreck. The headquarters will be the U. S. Grant Hotel.

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Een Shipp presided ct lhe cffcrir, which wcre purely inlormcl Sinilcr neetings will be held qt regulcn intervclr.

Lelt to right, sected: Willim Blctbrer, sclegncnr, Sacrcnenlo; Ptrul Wilti<rnso!, sclesoqn, Sccrcnento; Ed Mtrrcug, Oqllsnd wcrebouge superintend-nt,. Hcnrey Bchr, Ocklqnd office; Pcrler Allen, conptroller; Leo Bider, mcrncger- OaHcnd,' F. L "Bud' Gregor acler ncnrcaer Buddy Grcry', sclegmcu, Ocklcnd.

Stcrnding: George Ellifl, gqlesErcn, Fregno; Gcorge Jess€r, sctleatncrn, Oaklqnd; Hugh Gliedt, Ocllcnd office; Pctl Cardi-, purchtrsiag cgenl; Art Willicnson" Sccrclnenlo mcrocger llerb F<rrrell gcrlegmcrn, Otr&lcrnd; Dcve Olmgtecd, iaventory control; Wclter Olmstead, Fregno mtrncrgen Kenneth I. Shipp, preaidenl cnd owner.

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Suprcme Nine of Hoo-Hoo Mects in Chicago

Adopt Educational Program

Recognizing the vital need for the training and educa. tion in greater productivity of each and every classification of the lumber industry's manpower in all branches and at all levels the Supreme Nine of Hoo-Hoo in its annual meeting took positive action toward the adoption of an educational program for Club activity.

This adoption of an Educational program as a prime Club Activity was perhaps the principal accomplishment of the meeting, which was held in Chicago at the Sherman Hotel, November 4 and 5. A 100 per cent attendance gave evidence of the interest as well as acceptance of responsibility by the members of the Supreme Nine, elected at the September annual.

100/o Attendance

The new Snark, LeRoy H. Stanton, Sr., 3193O presided and presented a constructive program for the new HooHoo year, 194849. fn attendance were the five new members namely, Thomas A. Donlin, 45208; Lynn Boyd, 36660; Wiltiam C. Bell, 45306; Pdll P. Bellenger, 496t6 and Thomas M. Ralston, 22734. In addition there were present the three old memberS, E. W. Kettlety, 292C9; Martin T. Wiegand , 44882 and Martin J. McDonald,, n358 and the members of the Board of Councillors, namely, President, T. T. Jones, L-3I233 and Treasurer, W. M. Wattson, 327n and Secretary, B. F. Springer, 34265. Thus all Jurisdictions were represented.

Education-A Club Activity

The educational program at Club levels, was shaped to foster and aid existing educational programs and charges the Clubs with the responsibility of generating additional educational facilities. It stresses the functions of the Club to encompass three principal objectives, namely, to secure students for both the college courses as well as the 30-day courses; to create an idterest in the quality of instructions, initiating campaigns for better instructors, and to further perfect the necessary tools and visual aids to be made available for such instruction. A fuqther and final leg of the program, namely, the placement of men finishing such courses, was recognized as highly important.

The National Committee on Education. one man from

each of the nine Jurisdictions, was reappointed and Chairman W. C. Bell, Supreme Custocatian, was continued in office. Arthur Hood, past Chairman of this Committee and also Past Snark of Hoo-Hoo, attended the Educational session of the meeting, as guest, and helped formulate the, policy.

Cooperate Forest Products Promotion

The group also went on record to continue the committee on Forest Products Promotion and adopted as a Club program, activity based on the report of Chairman, Ormie C. Lance, 36511 which he had presented at the Hoo-Hoo Convention. In brief, the Club program provides that Clubs should familiarize themselves with the work of the various lumber associations in lumber promption and arrange to make available this information to the local group.

International Hoo-Hoo itself, through the Hoo-Hoo Bulletin should help to disseminate this information. The importance of championing lumber as against competing materials was stressed. Hoo-Hoo must recognize and accept the challenge and enlist every member in the cause of wood to maintain our industry's market.

Espouse F'ire Prevention

It was recommended that Clubs take an interest in and cooperate with established groups in the cause of fire prevention, and to publicize as well as to take an active part in the program of "Keeping the Forest Green." Each Club is to appoint a coordinating Committee.

Junior Achievement

. Among several additional programs for Club activity, was the suggestion of interest and participation in the Junior Achievement movement. ft was pointed out that a Hoo-Hoo Club could well and effectively sponsor a group rif young people especially because of its interest in free enterprise and good fundamental American Principles.

State Deputy Snarks

fn addition to planning these constructive programs, considerable time was spent on routine matters of Administration. A new departure which was provided for by Convention action, was taken up at this meeting, namely, the appointment of State Deputy Snarks. The idea is to have each member of the Supreme Nine, head of the Juris-

diction, appoint Deputies or Lieutenants in each state directly charged with promotional work and in building of Hoo-Hoo Clubs. In direct line and under him will be the Vicegerent Snarks. The Deputies will be directly responsible to the head of the Jurisdiction.

The Nine again approved the use of the several forms of Rituals, charging the Vicegerent Snarks with the responsibility of determining the use of the proper form at scheduled Concats. Hoo-Hoo Clubs now number over 50 and are increasing. The Secretary was instructed to publish a Club Directory. Eligibility rules were reaffirmed.

Each member of the Supreme Nine reported on the activity of his Jurisdiction with particular emphasis on the possibilities for organizing new Clubs. The members accepted the challenge of Snark Stanton to double the number of Clubs for the new year.

Board of Councillors Re-elected

The executive Board of Councillors was re-elected to serve for the 1948-49 Hoo-Hoo year. Elected were, President T. T. Jones, No. L-31233; Vice President, Harry F. Partridge, No. 1983; Treasurer, W. M. Wattson, No. 32734; Secretary B. F. Springer, 34265.

Girl Scouts Visit Big Mill

Flagstaff, Arizona: The big sawmill of the Saginaw & Manistee Lumber Company is seen by many visitors. Recently the Girl Scouts of Flagstafi visited the mill in a body, Frank Long acting as host and guide.

New Staff Engineer

Rober.t E. Bounds, well known in engineering circles, has recently been appointed staff engineer with the Insulations Division of The Paraffine Companies, fnc. His new headquarters will be at Pabco's home office in Sa,n Francisco.

Bounds, formerly an engineer in Los Angeles with The Plant Rubber and Asbestos \Morks, (a former subsidiary of Pabco and now merged with the parent company) will devote himself to engineering plans and projects entailing Pabco's newest building material-Corrugated Asbestos Siding and Accessories.

This material is now being manufactured at Pabco's new Asbestos-Cement Products Plant in Redwood City, California, the only factory of its kind in the West. In his new capacity, Bounds will work closely with industrial engineers and Pabco Engineering Erection Units throughout the West.

New Ccnadian Hcrdbocrd Plcrnt Opercting

The new hardwood plant of Canadian Forest Products, Ltd., has started operations at New Westminster, B.C. making 40,000 square feet of quarter-inch hardboard daily. Construction of this plant started in 1947. The plan tis entirely new and modern in every particular.

A,Dissertation On The Writing Of Mean Letters ,#

By Jack

Of all the habits that business men can 'contract, the worst is undoubtedly wife beating, and the second is un, questionably writing mCan letters.

Both are indefensible, both are cowardly, and both are entirely without justification, or return on the investment.

A man writes that mean letter, drops it in the mail box, and it is gone ! He can never get it back. The little thing that caused him to write it soon disappears and is forgotten. But the letter remains. And the bigger man you are ,supr posed to be, the littler that letter makes you appear.

The fellow on the receiving end of the line may not know the writer at all, may never have seen him, and may never see him. He must and will judge him simply by the meanness o[ his letter. IIe'tan't know that this may be just an unfortunate habit of the\ writer. He can't knOw that in his private life and his personal habits, he is genial, kindly, friqndly, possessing warmth of soul, and loving his fellow man.

All he can do is read the mean letter over, and wonder why God lets such crabs live on the top side of the earth; why He doesn't tip the sphere once in a while and rid the world of a Iew pests.

Most of us know such men. And the only feeling we can get from contemplation of such a habit, is one of sadness that an otherwise wise man may belittle himself and affront another man, for want of an injection of the milk of human kindness in his letter writing.

The man who is thoroughly worth while in this world, is the one who never willingly and knowingly steps on the corns of anothef fellqw,,either by wgrd,or act, . God and man both despise a grouch, whether he is grouchy in

Construdion Stcrts crt llkich

The new Masonite plant at Ukiah, California, announcement of which was made several months ago, is now under actual construction. It wiil probably be in operation by the end of 1949.' 's.

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his letters, or in his personal liie. The man whose ambition is to make a good and kindly impression on those with whom he comes in contact-to make them feel better and brighter because they have talked with him or read a letter from him-is worth a dozen smarter men who let their tempers creep into their personal contacts.

There isn't the shadow of an excuse for writing mean letters. No situation that arises justifies them. Edmund .Bqrke said of Benjamin Franklin, "Everything is play to ,him." And that is the chief reason that Franklin's memory is loved.

Eugene Field's letters were written sunshine, no matter how sick, or how harrassed, or in how much trouble he was, and the world that knew him, loved him for it.

I have in my possession a letter from Peter B. Kyne concerning a mutual friend in which Kyne said: "He has known sorrow, and ingratitude, and treachery, and broken' faith, and unrequited love, and a long Gethsemane of pain, yet he has never been embittered, nor ever spoken ill to anyone, or of anyone.t' But that man never wrote a mean letter. And isn't that a lovely thing to have said of you?

Writing mean letters is much worse than saying mean things vocally. The words may be forgotten. The letter remains.

And remember this: there isn't a man, or woman, or child in this world, regardless of who or wherlthey are, whose ill will or whose bad opinion any of us can afford to have.

Never write an ungenerous thing to any man on any subject. It is just a plain blunder, every time.

Evans Plyvood Plant Finishing

The Evans Products Company will have its big new plywood mill in operation by the first of January, according to report. This plant will have a capacity of 33 million feet of board annually.

At this time we wqnt to greet our fellow lumbermen, crnd to wish oll of you much hoppiness qnd prosperity in the

Desr CI\MPBELL.CONRO LUMBER CO.

Pittock Block, Portlqnd 5, Oregon

Representatives

Phil Gosslin 2ll Prolessioncl Bldg. OAKI.AIVD I, CAIJF. KElloss 4-2017

Andy Donovcn Rowcn Bldg. TOS ANGEIES 13, CAIJF. TBinity 5088

Fernnalt

C. Ken Rose, of Exeter Lumber Sales, Longview,'Wash., 'was a recent business visitor to San Francisco.

Paul Williamson, who has been for some time in the Sacramento office of California Builders Supply Co., is now a salesman for this concern in the northern Sacramento area, working out of the Sacramento office.

Fritz Dettmann, of Allen & Dettmann Lumber Co., San Francisco, who was away from the office for several weeks on account of illness, returned to his desk at the end of October.

C. E. Coates, Golden State Flooring Co., San Francisco, returned November 9 from a business trip to Los Angeles.

W. W. (Bill) Forrest, in charge of lumber sales for Northern California, for Simpson Logging Company, returned to San Francisco November t2 ftom a visit to the head office in Seattle and operations at Shelton and McCleary, Wash. He made the trip by air.

Thos. W. Dant, president of Dant & land, was a business visitor to San November.

Russell, Inc., PortFrancisco early in

Paul C. Stevens, western manager of the NationalAmerican Wholesale Lumber Association, Inc., with offices in the Yeon Building, Portland, was a recent visitor to San Francisco and Los Angeles on the business of the Association.

E. E. ("Abe") Abrahamson, mill sales and production departments, Hammond Lumber Company, Samoa, Calif., has returned from spending two weeks vacation in San Francisco.

Paul Overend, of the California Redwood Association, San Francisco, is back from a week's trip to the Redwood mills.

J. J. (Jack) Rea, Los Angeles wholesale lumberman, was a recent San Francisco and Northern California business visitor. He attended the lumbermen's meeting at Eureka, November 13.

Otis R. Johnson, president, Union Lumber Company, San Francisco, returned November 18 from a three-week eastern trip on which he visited the Chicago and New York offices of the company. He was accompanied by his wife.

Hez Montgomery Fred Egcrn

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Western Pine Production

(Continued from Page 34)

There's a story, of course, behind the statistics. Obviously, the huge production has helped answer the nation's tremendous pent-up demand for housing, a demand which is still not fully met. But equally important to the dealer and user of Western Pines, it has resulted in mounting mill inventoiies which spell time and facilities for more thorough drying, better manufacture, and more careful grading. fncreased total stocks for the industry as a whole do not necessarily mean that any individual mill operator's inventory is nearing his prewar figures since the greater number of mills now in business will reduce the average per mill stock. It does indicate, however, that many new mills, in 1947 just getting into operation, are now equipped with drying, sorting and planing facilities, and older mills are in better positions.

The general quality level of shipments in this year, therefore, has been steadily increased over L947 when the industry was just emerging from a controlled condition where colossal demand coupled with price curbs combined to furnish great incentive for job lot production and no incentive for further service in the way of proper seasoning, careful manufacture or accurate grading. This year has seen many new but small operations, finally permitted a fair profit on current high costs, complete enlargement and improvement of their facilities for the long haul. Capitalizing on a tailor-made opportunity for reputation establishment, new but forward-looking opera-

tors have set high standards in an effort to cement their positions in the industry for the day when the bloom has vanished from the postwar rose.

The trend has been reflected in the astonishing surge in 'Western Pine Association membership which on Dec. 31,1947, stood at 216 and, on Nov. 1 of this year had soared to D0. At least 74 mills, apparently, are counting on staying in business and want to identify themselves with industry mnaufacturing standards. The development means to dealers and users maintenance of standards and value from a wider selection of sources of supply.

Continued operation of, and the establishment of several new, concentration yards during the year indicates that postwar development will become a perinanent fixture in the Western Pine industry and will probably become a factor in keeping a number of the small mills in business. Relieved of sales burdens and reasonably assured of a fairly constant market, small mill operators may find a permanent place in the lumber production chain alongside that of the contract logger. The development is likely to accelerate as parcels of available timber become smaller.

Production and shipments by old, established mills during 1948 have continued at high rate and quality levels. Not troubled by problems of poor manufacture that plagued smaller and newer mills in the first two postwar readjustment years, the older mills today are in a better position than ever in customer relations over quality. And with inventories increasing, they're slowly getting back to more normal supply situations and consequent

THE SEASON'S GREETINGS And Best Wishes for 1949 LUMBER TnRMINAI GOMPANY

WHOLESALERS AND JOBBERS

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easing of the producer-customer delivery tug-o-war. which has been their No. I sales problem.

Shipments of White Fir, top priority wood on the industry's promotion schedule for 1948, jumped an indicated L2.7 per cent in the first nine months-against 7.2 per cent for all species combin'ed. Consumer reaction from throughoqt the nation has made it apparent that, when properly manufactured, White Fir is equal to most other soft woods for a majority of construction uses. Hbretofore only light- ly regarded by millmen and buyers alike, White Fir in the years ahead promises to become a major segment in the staple line of Western Pine lumber products.

Greater availability of trained young men is enabling the industry, through its association, to enlarge the scope and numbers of its field force from a wartime virtual nonexistence. Representatives have been sent into California and New England during the year and in 1949 field services will probably be expanded into the lake states and Washington, D. C.

The Tree Farm program made a surprising vault upward during 19,4. Forty-five new farms totaling 113,104 acres were certified by the Association. Washington led the list both in numbers and acreage with 18 new units covering 6I,720 acres. Sixteen new units in California totaled 20,702 acres. fdaho produced seven more f.or 23,215 acres, Montana listed three for 20f7 acres, and one 5460 acre unit was certified in Oregon. The additions gave the six-year-old program a total of. I75 Tree Farms covering 2,694,447 acres and pointed up a snowballing trend in the thinking of Western Pine operators toward permanent

sustained yield operations.

REDVOOD DOUGLAS FIR

Outcome of the November elections has muddied the outlook for 1949. Although housing requirements, despite some 950,000 unit completions expected for the year, are far from filled, any action of the 81st congress toward re-impostion of government controls could appreciably alter what up to November 2nd appeared would be an unobstructed year of good business. Continued failure of the Veterans Administration to approve the allowable % pet cent boost in GI loan interest rates will make it virtually impossible for veterans to take advantage of their GI bill of rights (4 per cent money is rapidly drying up) and thus may take a portion of the vets out of the market. That condition, however, may offset itself by enlarging tlle market for rental properties.

The chronic threat of war apparently will keep the Marshall plan and rearmament program spending going at full tilt which directly and indirectly will operate to maintain this year's heavy lumber demand. Trade reports indicate that 1949's No. I housing problems will center on the low income groups. If, from either private industry or public housing proponents, a solution is found, it may take up a slack in high income housing where the saturation point, according to the trade press, seems to be approaching.

Generally, the industry outlook f.or 1949 is more vague than if the country's voters had gone the other way and it probably won't be determined until early spring after a congressional heading is taken and the 1949 building year more fullv assessed.

Tour Trade Association

The trade association is the sole means by which the industry it serves can become active as a unit in time of need; it is the sole means by which uniform ways of doing business, such as methods, rates, rules, grades, etc., vital to every industry, can be arrived at; it is the best means through which the coordinated thought of the industry can be expressed; it is the sole means by which the government, in time of stress, can call upon an industry. It is a vital part and parcel of the industry.

Without lumber associations, for instance, there would be no lumber industry, in the real sense of the word. The man who fails to belong to his rightful association is neglecting a definite and genuine duty toward his industry, because it is only through the work of the association that the things vital to the well-being of the industry as a whole can be handled; and every man should do his share in the common cause.

The lumber industry is playing a leading role in forwarding good management of forest lands, in interesting others in growing trees, and in maintaining our forests in sound productive condition. In many places in the United States the trees being cut for lumber have been grown during the lives of the men who are cutting them. Many areas are supplying their second, third and fourth crops of trees.

An $ditorial

The old-fashioned saw said: "God helps those who help themselves." But industry has discovered a newer, better, broader business philosophy: "God helps those who help each other." The understanding that the well-being of the whole is paramount to that of the individual, and that the intelligent community interest really brings bigger and better returns than specific self-interest, is what the association idea consists of.

Association conventions have become of great and real importance. Men get together for the purpose of not only exchanging good fellowship, but IDEAS, understanding that those things that have helped others, can help you. So they get together at their conventions and carry home thoughts and ideas and plans and suggestions that they can use for themselves. The cooperative spirit is the redeeming spirit of this age.

A knot hole reduces strength probably even less than a tight intergrown knot. This is due to the fact that the fibers of a knot are at a right angle to the general direction of fibers of the tree and, therefore, contribute little strength; the lesser distortion of grain around a knot hole than around a knot intergrown with fibers of the wood more than offsets what strength the knot would give.

Under The Holly

Under the holly with Polly, With PollS bewitching and shy; A glint of warm gold, in her tresses, A hint of blue dream in her eye. A fig for the night and its storming, Some music, and laughter, and folly, We'll lift a blythe tune

When it's summer and JuneUnder the holly with PoUy.

Modesty

When every pool in &len was a mirror, That unto Eve her dainty charms proclaimed, She went undraped without a single fear or Thought that she had need to be ashamed.

'Twas only when she'd eaten of the apple, That she became inclined to be a prude, And found that evermore she'd have to grapple, With the much-debated problem of the nude.

Thereafter she devoted her attention, Her time and dl her money to her clothes, And that was the beginning of convention, And modesty as well, so f suppose.

Reactions come about in fashions recent, Now the girls conceal so little from the men, That it would seem in name of all that's decent, Someone should pass the apples round again.

Our Flcrg

"!t/hite is for purity; red, for valor; blue, for justice. And altogether, bunting, stripes, stars and colors, blazing in the sky, make the flag of our country, to be cherished by all our hearts, to be upheld by all our hands."-Charles Sumner.

Sherills In De Skv

You bless us, please sah, eben if we's doin' wrong tonight, Kase den we'll need de blessin' more'n ef we's doin' right; An'let de blessin' stay wid us untel we comes to die, An'goes to keep our Christmas, wid dem sheriffs in de sky.

-frwin Russell.

Christmcs

Everywhere, everywhere, Christmas tonight, Christmas in lands of the fir-tree and pine, Christmas in lands of the palm-tree and vine; Ch'ristmas, where snow peaks stand solemn and white.

-Phillips Brooks.

This Deserves neprinting

On Christmas night a little three-year-old girl was saying her prayers at her mother's knee, and she ended the prayer thus: "Thank yor4 God, for all the nice presents I got, and I certainly hope your son Jesus had a happy birthday."

An Engrlish Explcncrtion

An Englishman, trying to get a friend over ttre longdistance telephone, was having difficulty making the operator understand the name of the party, which was John Ealing. The central got the John part, dl right, but couldn't get the last name, so the Englishman explained: '3E-?s for'erbert; A-wot horses eat; I-where you goes when you dies; Hor ingine, them things in front of trains; N-what lays eggs; G-for gor-blime. Now, 'ave you got it?"

Once A Yecrr

What though upon his ho4ry head, Have fallen many a winter's snow, His wreath is still as green and red As 'twas a thousand years ago.

For what has he to do with care?

His wassail bowl and old armchair, Are ever standing ready there, For Christmas comes but once a year.

Miller.

-Thomas

lbe Roqd To Success

The road to success is over the rough hill of difficulty. The path to prosperity is through the swamps of sacrifice.

If you have decided that you are going to detour, going to duck the regular route and reach your ambitious goal without honest service and the hardest kind of hard work -pinch yourself, boy; you're dreaming.

College Stuff

Parson George Washington Lincoln had graduated from a university of high standing, and had learned the Harvard way of speaking. So, when he preached his first official sermon, he said: "Brethren ,unless you repent, in a measure, and become converted, as it were, you will, I regret to state, be damned."

The Lcst Lap

They sat alone in the moonlight, She smoothed his troubled brow, "My past's been fastr'r she said at last, "But I'm on my last lap nbw."

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ARGATA REDWOOD GO.

In commemorcrtion of the birth of the Golileon Prophet, mcry 'we, in the lumber industry, reiterote our resolve to exemplify the Golden Rule in cll our business trcrrscrdions.

TH'S 'S THE ONI.Y ROAD fO PEACE

STRABX.E HARDWOOD GO.

TEmplebcr 2-5584

OAKLAIID 7 CAIJFORTflA

INSECT SCREEN CLOTH

Rich Man, Poor Man, Mayor, Chief-Or ls He Just Your Lumber Dealer?

November 9, 1948-It some day you call at your local lumber and building material yard to buy a pound of tenpenny nails and the man behind the counter is wearing a Fire Chief's hat or a Sheriff's badge, don't be surprised.

Retail lumber and building material dealers as mayors, deacons, or chairmen of civic committees were graded as run-of-mill, but the National Retail Lumber Dealer Association's public relations contest which closed during its annual meeting in Miami Beach, Florida, revealed some communty services never listed on a lumber yard letterhead.

Not many dealers have secured new fire engines for their towns, or acted as Chief of the Volunteer Fire Department, but the head of the F. S. Pendleton Lumber Company in McComb, Ohio, has done just that. He also is credited with being a leader in securing the funds for a waterworks and reservoir for the town, and a movie projector for the local high school.

Swinging across country, we find a dealer in Lovell, Wyoming (the Diamond Lumber Company), who has formed a Future Farmers of America club in the local school and works consistently with the students to enable them to carry on their program, offering expert advice and materials when they are needed.

Down in Oklahoma, the 41 dealers belonging to the Tulsa Lumbermen's Association, just this past summer donated all the materials needed to construct a home for a Gold Star Widow with 5 children who could not find suitable accommodations elsewhere.

Among the unusual activities of members of L. Grossman Sons, Inc., Quincy, Massachusetts, was a magazine stand business provided for a blind veteran and a trip for the outstanding Boy Scout of the area to the World Jamboree in France.

And up in Detroit, the National Lumber Company, again thinking oI the youngsters, sent three children to summer camp with all expenses paid in an effort to combat juvenile delinquency during the summer months rvhen schools were recessed.

The new fiberboard plant of Stimson Lumber Company at Forest Grove, Oregon, is near completion, and production is scheduled to start soon after the first of the year. Capacity at the start will be 60,000 square feet daily, but eventually the plant will produce 150,000 square feet per day.

West Coast tree species put on their most growth during the second 50 years of their life. After that the volume of new wood added begins to decrease and the volume of decay increases. At the age of 300 years, volume of decay added begins to exceed the volume of new wood and the total volume of good wood in the old tree actually decreases each year.

ATTAS IUMBER COMPANY

Hardwoods Softwoods

Douglcs FirPlnryoodMouldingrs

2035 E. tsrh STREET tos ANGETES 2l

Telephones: PBospect 7401-1394

The world was troubled and weary, With doubts and fears oppressed, But night enfolded it gently And held it close to her breast; And all through the hours of darkness, She quieted grief and pain, 'Till dawn light tinted the shadows And the day star shone again.

The world forgot its sorro'wsThere was a joyous song, The beautiful song of the ages, That we have loved so long; And the hours were filled with gladness, For it was Christmas Day And the inner light of the spirit Was shining upon life's way.

Each year, at the Yuletide season, We stand by an open gate, Beyond whose smiling portals, Our dreams and our visions wait; Dreams of the past we cherishHow swiftly they pass in review ! Dreams of a brighter tomorrow, Dreams of a world made new.

We capture the soul of beauty

And the spirit of Yuletide joy, When we, with deeds of kindness, Our hearts and our hands emPloy; For the world and its troubled nations, There is balm of Gilead still, In the glorious Christmas message, "Peace upon Earth and Good Will."

Adeline Merriam Conner.

Phonc KEllog 4-1884

@brtstmdrs @reetings

To Our Friends and Customers

Gole Door & Plywood Go.

Doors - Plywood - Windows (Open) - Fromes - Metol Mouldlngs Lo-"K" Insulotion ADqms 9-4371 Los Angeles I l,

The Penalty 0f leailershrp

In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a rrian or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work.

In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same.

The reward is wide-spread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. When a man's work becomes a standard for the rvhole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work be merely mediocre, he will be left severely alone-if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a-wagging-

Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting..

Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you, unless your work be stamped rvith the seal of genius.

Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious continue to cry out that it cannot be done.

Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical

An tditorial

shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all.

The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by.

The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership.

Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy-but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant.

There is nothing new in this.

It is as old as the world and as old as the human passions-envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass.

And it all avails nothing.

If the leader truly leads, he remains-the leader.

Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages.

That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clatter of denial.

That which deserves to live-lives.

Chrirltmas fireetinus To Our ilIanv California Lumbsrmen triends MEDFoRD CoRPoRATIoN

MEDFORD, OREGON

Annual Capacity 70,000,000 Feet

Manufacturers of Kiln Dried

ponderosq Pine o Sugor Pine o Douglos Fir o Whife Fir

Members Vectern Pine Assn., Vest Coast Lumbermen'c Aeen. and Weat Coast Bureau of Lumber Gradec and Inspection

T\TENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

As reported in The California Lumber Merchant December 1, 1923

That there are still standing in built from Sugar Pine away back

E. J. Stanton & Son.

California many houses in "49," is reported by

The Japanese Government has just ordered practically one hundred million feet of sawn lumber from mills in the Pacific Northwest, this stock to be used in repairing and rebuilding structures damaged by the recent earthquake over there.

"Write Human Letters To l{uman Beings," is the title of an editorial, full page, black face. (Quote) "A warm, friendly, honest letter-these are three of the greatest things a man can invest in his business."

E,. E. Taenzer, President of Company, of Los Angeles, is strated story as "A Shriner, a Jonathan Club, expert checker

the American Hardwood described in a photo-illuHoo-Hoo, member of the player, and Good Fellow."

The newly qrganized Hoo-Hoo Club, of the Bay District, met at the Coryrmgrcial Club in San Francisco on November 23rd, with R. A. Hiscox, President, in the chair. Parson Simpkin was speaker of the day.

The annual meeting of the Southern California Retail Lumber Dealers Association was held in Long Beach on Nov. 17th, and it was then decided to join The California Retail Lumbermen's Association. E. A. Fickling, of Long Beach, is President.

R. F. Paige and R. H. Browne, both well knorvn sugar pine men, have joined forces and embarked in the wholesale lumber business in San Francisco under the name of Lumbermen's Exchange, First National Bank Bldg.

The new Hart-Wood flag ship "Point Loma," has just completed her maiden Pacific Coast voyage, bringing a cargo of Fir from Willapa Harbor to Los Angeles. This concern has opened an office at San Pedro.

W. E. Cooper Lumber Company is greatly enlarging and modernizing its wholesale lumber plant on East 15th Street, Los Angeles.

Members of the Sacramento Valley Lumbermen's Club, together with their wives and guests, visited the pine sawmill of the Hutchinson Lumber Company, at Oroville, California, on Nov. l7th. E. T. Robie is president of the Club.

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Wholesale Building Material Distributors

739 Decatur Street LOS ANGELES 91, CALIF.

Telephone: VAndlke 0708

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Santa Monica, California

A Source of Supply

The Building lrode Has lleeded

Oak Thresholds, Interior and Exterior

Oak Stair Treads

Vertical Grain Douglas Fir Stair Treads

Stair Parts To Your Details and Speciftcations

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WOOD PRODUCTS STAIR BUILDERS

350 Treat Ave., San Francisco 10 HEmlock 1-8111

Don Kesselring, manager of Oakland branch of United States Plywood Corp., flew to Los Angeles and back on business middle of November.

L. J. (Larry) Owen, manager of Nicholls Brothers, El Cerrito, Calif., with his wife and two children, flew to Portland to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with his familv there.

George W. Truitt, Truitt-Warren returned November 15 from an air ness.

Lumber Co., Berkeley, trip to Texas on busi-

H. L. Lake, Garden Grove den Grove, spent a few days Lumber & Cement Co., Garrecently in Eugene, Ore.

Bill Cowling, Dixie Lumber and Mrs. Cowling, vacationed Springs.

Ed Biggs was a on his lumbermen mill in Colorado.

& Supply Co., San Diego, for a few weeks at Palm

recent Los Angeles friends. Ed is now visitor and called operatrng a saw-

Leslie L5mch, Patten-Blinn Lumber and Mrs. Lynch, have returned from a .South America.

Co., Los Angeles, six weeks' trip to

John Eells, Roddis California, Inc., Los Angeles, is back from a business trip to Cincinnati and Chicago.

Reeves Taylor, president of the Taylor Lumber Co., Eugene, Ore., was a recent Los Angeles visitor. He took time off to attend the Oregon-U.C.L.A. and WashingtonSouthern California football games.

Jim Duart is now traveling the San Joaquin Valley for Tarter, Webster & Johnson, Inc., out of the Stockton office. He spent a little over a year at the Stockton office in training for the sales work. He is a graduate of the University of California, and was a Lieutenant in the Army during the war, with service in Japan. He comes from a lumber family. His father is superintendent at the White Pines operation of Blagen Lumber Co., and Jim worked at that plant for a while following his return from the service.

Otto W. Frese, San Francisco wholesale lumberman, recently made a combination business and pleasure trip to Seattle and Vancouver, B. C.

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Establishes Downtown Hecrdqucrrters In Los Angeles

Pacifi,c Forest Products, Inc. announces the establishment of dpwntown headquarters in the Pacific Electric Building, 6th and Main Stieets, Los Angeles. The offices are in charge of Jim Kirby. The new telephone numbers are TIJcker 1232 and,1233.

U. S. Plywood Corp. Will Build

New Scn Frcncisco Wcrehouse

United States Plywood Corporation has purchased 25,000 square feet of property on the north side of Army Street, between Minnesota and Tennessee Street, San Francisco, as a site for a new warehouse. They hope to get construction started early in December. The new site has frontage of Army Street ol M feet, and a depth of 125 feet.

Governor Mcrkes Appointments

Governor Earl Warren has appointed Carl Walker, manager o[ Winton Lumber Company, Martel, Calif. a member of the district forest practices committee, South Sierra Pine Forest District, vice Swift Berry, resigned.

He has also appointed E. E. Carriger, general manager of Santa Cruz Lumber Co., Santa Ctuz, Calif.., a member of the district forest practices committee, Redwood Forest District, vice Dana Gray, deceased'

' The appointments are for a term ending at the pleasure of the Governor.

Attend Scrles Meeting

The fourteen warehouse managers of the Roddis Plywood Corporation, Marshfield, Wis., attended a sales meeting at the Union League Club in Chicago on November 17-18 to discuss sales plans for the coming year. They were guests of the Formica Co. at Cincinnati on November 15-16 when they inspected the Formica plant.

Ed Halligan, manager of Roddiscraft, fnc., San Francisco, and John Eells, manager of Roddis California, Inc., Los Angeles, attended the meeting.

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George Wilson has joined Lumber Co., Los Angeles. & Plywood Jobbers, Inc.

the sales staff of the Ray Hill He was formerly with Door

Joe Petrash is a new salesm4n with Pacific Forest Products, Inc., working out of the Los Angeles office. He was in the Marines during the war; has been at U.S.C., which he left to take this position.

H. B. (Bert) Cooper of Cooper-Morgan Lumber Co., Portland, was a recent San Francisco visitor. He called on his firm's sales representatives, A. D. Evans & Co.; attended his U.C. class reunion, and took in the Big Game at Berkeley, November 20.

Mel Hirsch, Dolan Building Materials'Company, Sacramento, attended the California-Stanford game at Berkeley, November 20, and left for Los Angeles on a business trip after the game.

Season's Greetings

Sincere Wishus to Old and New Friends

JAMES L. HALL

Wholesole Wood Producfs

lO32 Mills Building

Sqn Froncisco 4, Coliforniq

Wishing you

A Merry Christmas and a Hoppy New Year

And Best Wishes For An Enioyablc

Ifoliday Season

Et MONTE LUMBER, CO.

Division oI D. A. Douglcrs Corp.

510 E. Sqn Bernardino Rocrd

EL MONTE, CALIF.

o FOresl 80383

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Lenders More Cautious

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Another factor which has caused more conservative thinking about real estate lending, was the tremendous amount being invested in the purchase of real estate, as compared to total expenditures and income. In tos Angeles County, in the year \940, real estate sales totaled an amount equal to approximately 34/o of total retail sales other than real estate. By 1946, this had risen so that it was equivalent to 8l/o. fn comparing total real estate sales with total income ,payments in Los Angeles County, we find that in 1940 the percentage .r.as 2l/o and by 1946 had risen to 47/o.

There has been a recent tendency, however, toward a reduction of real estate sales. Thus, for the first nine months of this year, the percentage as compared with retail sales has dropped, to 49%, and as compared to total income payments, has dropped. to 3l%. The actual number of transfers of property is also decreasing.

Thus, real estate lenders are faced with conditions which are changing quite rapidly. The ability of a speculative builder to sell promptly any house which could be completed has lessened. It requires more study and care as to location, total cost, and the amount of down payment required. There is not as much cash in the hands of the buyer for down payment and there has been a definite buyer resistance developing against the high prices of houses. Builders have recognized the problem, and in many instances are attempting to meet it by exerting every possible effort to reduce the price of a new home. All over the United States, programs of economy houses are being developed.

There has been no cessation of lending upon real estate, but there is dehnitely a feeling of more conservatism developing. Those who still have funds available for real estate lending are more reticent because of the indications of a possible reversal of trend. Institutions which lend the money of others must be acutely conscious of these trends. The problem is greatly aggravated by unsettled conditions, not only in the economic field but in the political world as well. The trend of individual incomes, and thus purchasing power, is dependent upon future political developments, the amount expended in rearming, and the possibility of war. It is quite probable that loans upon real estate will be more difficult to obtain until conditions become more settled, and the probable future trend is more clearly outlined.

New Oregon Plyurood Plant

Southern Oregon Plywood, Inc., has started the construction of a big new plywood plant at Grants Pass, Oregon, and will have it in operation in about six months. It will make two to three million feet of plywood monthly.

Olfice Moved to Loomis

The office of The Grass Valley ufacturers and wholesalers. has Valley, Calif. to Loomis, Calif. Box 395, Loomis. G. M. Wales

Lumber Company, manbeen moved from Grass Mailing address is P.O. is in charge of sales.

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Lurrser Production for Third Qucrrter oI 1948

Lumber production for the third quarter of 1948 reaclted the highest peak for that period since the time when such records were begun in 1936, according to the statistical department of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association.

Figures, released today, show 10.38 billion board feet as the amount recorded. This is more than was produced during the same three months of. 1942, the peak war year. The total output for the first nine'months of 1948 now stands at approximately 28 billion feet.

"If the present demand continues," Mr. R. A. Colgan, Jr., Executive Vice President of the Association, said, "we shall exceed all production records for the past 30 years."

The Vice President added, "With production at this high level, there is an increased demand for trees, thus giving land owners an added incentive to protect their woods and forests. It also stimulates cohtinuing improvement of forest resources by causing owners of both large and small tracts to manage their holdings so as to yield a continuous tree crop."

"IJnder the present Tree Farm Program, sponsored by the forest industries, we will soon reach the point where we are literally growing all the trees that are cut for use," Mr. Colgan added. At present the program functions in 21 states and embraces more than 15 million acres of private commercial forest lands. Under the plan, individual land owners pledge to manage and protect their holdings in accordance with industry-approved standards of sound forestrv.

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A. B. IOHNSON TUMBER GO.

FiIe Building Scn Frcncisco

5410

Edward S. Peer

330 Commerciql Exchcnge Bldgr.

416 West Eishth St.

Los Angeles 14, Cclil.

Mlchigcn 8631 VAndike 7063

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Wishes You

Joyous Yuletide

'49 Construction Forecast

The dollar volume of new ,construction in 1949 is expected to be about $18,175,000,000 or one per cent higher than this year's record-breaking total, according to a forecast by the Producers'Council, a national organization of building products manufacturers.

Among the major types of private building, increase are forecast only for utility, warehouse and office construction. All important categories of public construction are expected to gain. The largest dollar increase is anticipated in highway construction, which is forecast at $1,800,000,000, a gain of 13 per cent over 1948. The highest percentage gain in expenditures is estimated for hospital and institutional construction, which is expected to rise 56 per cent to $350,000,000 for the year.

An increase of 14 per cent is forecast in the value of construction of publicly financed schools and other educational buildings.

Private non-farm residential construction will total about $6,300,000,000, according to the forecast, although the num. ber of housing starts will decline only four per cent because of increased emphasis on low-cost housing.

Industrial building is expected to decline about seven per cent, with a volume of $1,300,000,000. Commercial construction is estimated at $1,300,000,000, down two per cent; farm construction, $400,000,000, down 20 per cent; utility construction, $2,900,000,000, up 16 per cent.

fn general, a nail with a higher holding power than long sharp point will have a one with the common point.

We hove enioyed our business contocts with you these mony yeqrs And now we wish you sincerely g frlewy

H. G. Dowson

A. W. Lingoos

ROGUE LUMBER SALES COMPAIIV

Clydc M. Shumoker, Solcr lllcnoger

P. O. Box 7O7, Medlordr Clregon

Phone: Centrql Point, Oregon l09l

l.T. Centrol Point 65

Specializing in the Distribution of Alt

wEsT c0AsT utooDs

Our subsidiqry, the Southern Oregon Plcning Mill Comp<rn1, tnc., is now iouetructing complete dry gheds Ior the winler montbs chead. Dry Kilns cre now opercting.

In cddition lo our geaercl wholeecle business, we will now be cble to lurnish lor prompt londing, mixed ccns contcriniag pine commona trnd cleois, bundled tir uppers, kiln &ied lir linish. These ccn be htrndlEd in coniunction with your selection ol li1 rlin611gi611 cnd boar& cll in one ccr. WE

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Standqrd Ysrd ltems

No. Collfornia RePrerentolivcr:

Rudboch Gorlin & ComponY

444 lrtorkel Slrcel

Son Frqncirco 4 Colif.

Phone: YUkon 6-1075

5o. Colifornio RcPrcrcntotiver:

John A. Rudbqch Comp<rnY

l12 Wect Ninfh Strcet

Lor Angeles 15, Coliforniq

Phonc: TUcker 5ll9

Othor R€putable Sotet Rcprc.ntolion Throughout lhc Nation

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Wilfred T. Cooper Lumber Co.

WHOI.ESAIE LI'MBER

234 Eqst Colorqdo St.

Pascrdena l, Calilornicr

Telephones

'RYqn l-7631 (Fr-om,Los Angeles)

SYccnnore 3-2921

From the Personnef At

BUtlDlilG tAtERlAlS CO.' Inc.

W h olesal e Dlsf ributors

1228 Produce Street

Los Angeles 21, Ccrlilornic

TRinity 5304

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NOR,TH AfiTER,ICA'S FINEST SIDEWAtt

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NORTHERN CATIFORNIA DISTRIBUTORS

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D, C. Essfey &Son

New Tree Farms

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pleton, 570 acres; Paul Caryl, Trout Lake, 280.acres; Rodger S. Coate, White Salmon, 16 acres; Earnest Hearn, White Salmon, 64 acres; Cecil Miller, White Salmon, 27 acres; Foster A. Morgan, Lyle, 26 acres; Carl pearson, Trout Lake, 18 acres; John S. Robinson, Lyle,375 acres; Dewey Schmid, 172 acres; John Schmid, Trout Lake, 40 acres; Adolph Schmid, Trout Lake, 56 acres; Tom Varnson, Lyle, 300 acres; Fred B. Wood, Trout Lake, 3l acres.

Trout Lake, Wash., Nov. l3-There,ll be timber forever in the state of Washington, if the Schmid family has its way.

Three of them, Adolph and John of Trout Lake and Dewey over in White Salmon, have brand new certified Western Pine Tree Farms of from 40 to l7Z acres each. John and Adolph are farmers aclding timber to their line of crops. Dewey,s full time job is enforcing forest conservation laws for the state.

A fourth Schmid, second generation, is in the logging business and has had a 160-acre Tree Farm near here since last summer.

His first name? Forest.

A feminine member of the clan, comely Nancy Pearson, drew nation-wide attention four years ago when she manned the Meadow Butte lookout in the top of a Ponderosa Pine tree near Glenwood. In the course of her duties she navigated an 8O-foot verti,cal ladder, up and down, five times a day, seven days a week.

Lumber Export Quotas for Fourth Quarter oi 1948

Washington-The Commerce Department will permit more lumber and lumber products exports in the final quarter of this year than during the previous quarter.

Fourth quarter export quotas for lumber total 327,g50,000 board feet, compared with 3lZ,6ZS,Offi board feet in the third quarter. fn addition, 20 million square feet of ply_ wood will be permitted for export in the final quarter, the same amount for which licenses were granted to export in the third quarter. An additional 10 million cedar batterv separator units will be allowed to leave this country during the last quarter. This is 2 million units less than the amount permitted for shipment in the previous quarter. About a500,000 square feet of cedar veneer would be used in the battery separator units which r4ay be shipped out in the final quarter.

The biggest increase in the export quotas of wood products appeared in railroad ties for which a quota was set at 50 million board feet, up 15 million board feet from the previous quarter and 30 million board feet higher than the second quarter quota. Another important quota increase, will permit I million board feet of oak to be shipped. This is 650,000 board feet higher than the quota foi-the third quarter.

Los Angeles Building Continues To Set Record-Brecrking Pqce

Los Angeles building permits totaled g324,O78,82I f.or the first 10 months of this year, as compared to $N4,I46,72? in the similar period of L947.

So far this year 20,462 housing units have been completed.

Permits for October were 4831 with a valuation of $19,752,649 as compared to 4888 and $23,094,627 in September, and 59ffi and $28,319,263 ior October, 1947.

However, 2927 housins units were completed in October, 540 more than in September.

Building Contrcctors Meet in Los Angreles

The Building Contractors Association of California held its 25th anniversary congress at the Elks Club, Los Angeles, on November 12-13. Officers were elected, and a series of resolutions aimed at solving problems of the industry were adopted.

The builders elected George Streit of Pomona, president for 1949; Marshall Tilden, Riverside, first vice president; C. J. William Millerburg, Sherman Oaks, second vice president; B. F. Jenkins, San Diego, secretary; Harry Hanson, Los Angeles, treasurer, and Edward M. Sills of Los Angeles was re-elected executive vice president.

Observation of trees and poles bent or broken by windstorms or in felling or handling as well as in tests of round timber shows that first failure often occurs between. rather than at knots.

SEASON'S GREETINGS

F. P. BAUGH S. D. BEA\IER WANREN HERZOG

Sincewnt r#islles

For r

BERT W. LeCRONE IIM NAY WATTER FRANCK MCK WHITIINGTON

FHA Mortgage Insurance Applications Largest in Volume Since March

Washington, Nov. 20-Applications for mortgage insurance received by insuring offices of the Federal Housing Administration during October covered 45,073 dwelling units, the largest volume reported in any month since March, Commissioner Franklin D. Richards announced today.

More than half this volume of applications, covering 25,355 units, was for financing the construction of new homes and apartments, Mr. Richards said. He added that this also is the largest volume since March and 3,253 units above September.

Included in the new ,construction figures for September were 18,348 units in structures for one to four families, all to be financed under the regular provisions of the National Housing Act (Section 203 of Title II and Title I Class 3).

Applications covering rental housing involved 7,ffi7 units, of which 408 were under the regular provisions of Section N7, Title fI, and 6,599 under the recently revived emergency provisions of Section 608, Title VI.

An additional 2,SgI new units were covered in previously rejected Section 608 cases which were reopened.

Harvesting methods which leave sufficient seed trees standing plus reasonable protection of young growth are providing continuing crops of trees to supply all of Ameiica's foreseeable needs.

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Unfilled irrder files of the rbporting mills amount to 32 per, cent of stocks. For reporting softwood mills ,unfilled orders are .equivelent to b fays'.production at the current rate, and--gross.stocks are equivalent to 61 days' production.

For the year-to-date, shipments of reporting identical mills were 0.6 per cent below production; orders were 2.8 per cent below production.

Compared to the average corresponding week of 19351939, production of reporting mills was 45.1 per cent above; shipments were 28.7 per certt above; orders were 13.9 per cent above. Compared to the corresponding week in L947; production of reporting mills was 6.5 per cent below; shipments were 22.6 per cent below; and new orders were 8.9 per cent below.

The Western Pine Association for the week ended November 6, 95 mills reporting, gave orders as 50,616,000 feet, shipments 54,942,000 feet, and production 67,412,00O feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 148,853.000 feet.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended November 6, 81 units (105 mills) reporting gave orders as t4,387,000 feet, shipments 16,475,000 feet, and production 16,506,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week 55,727,0N f.eet.

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The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended November 6, 163 mills reporting, gave orders as 62,845,W feet, shipments 79,490,@ feet ,and production, 92,250,ffi f.eet. Unfilled orders at the end of the week totaled 365,556,000 feet.

For the week ended November 13, 163 mills reporting, gave orders as 7O,172,000 feet, shipments 76,636,ffi f.eeti and production 88,841,000 feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the week totaled 368,439,000 feet.

Lumber from the Douglas fir region of Oregon and Washington is produced in approximately the following ratio: Douglas fir 8S/o, West Coast hemlock 10lo, Western red cedar 3/o, Sitka spruce l/o, all othets l/o.

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GATIF()RilII PAGIFIG LU]IBER G(l. -Gustom tilling

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Blower Systens and Incinerators

Telephone ORegon 8-3471

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Reid & Co. lumber & $upplies

4Ol Tenth Avenue

OAKTAND 6, CALIF.

TWinoqks 3-6745

Redwood Sidins Wholesale

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Cleat Vt" Bevel, Bocrd cnd Ecrt, Cbqanel, Cove, Anzac, or V-Ioint

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Bedwood Shecthing, Piclets, Posta, or Conplete Feace Redwood Moulding Any Pcltern Also Quclity Cugtom Milting Eillr Drying

Wallace Mill & Lumber (o.

Comer Roaecrcns Ave. and Pcrcunount Blvd. Clecnrcter Sttrtion" Pcnamount, Ccrlil.

P. O. Box 27

Telephones MEtccll 3-42693-2712

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Resawing-S urlccing-Ripping

New Stetson Ross Mctcher

Re-Milling In Trcnsit

Weslern Custom mlilr lnc.

4200 Bcmdiai Blvd. (Centrcrl Mtg. DLt)

Ios Angeles 22, Crrlil.

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Telephone ANgelus 2-9147

The Secrson's Greetings And Our Best Wishes

For 1949

SERYEIITE HARllWlI0DiLUMBER C0.

368 Bcry Shore Boulevcrd

SAN FRANCII|CO 24

VAlencic 4-4200

Louis Setrente, Gcn. Mgn. Hcrrold W. Nail, Yard Supt.

Fronk J. OtGonnor

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Ghfistmas Greetingrs

f,,nd Best Wishes For 1949

REEL LUMBER SERVICE

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1249 Ecst 63rd Street Los Angeles l, Cclif. ADcrrs 5221

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Paroliur Lunbor Co. (Pqul McCurlcr) (ll)

Pctrtcl Lurobrr co. (o. ,.. a,rooilot"fif }M YULbr 6-116ll

Pqrcolao Luabrr Co. (l) ........Gfrnrld l-5190

Popc 6 Tclbot, Iac., Lunbrr Dtvtrion. (l)

Roua& frcdiag Contnny ({) .... ..YU'i!oa

DOuglcr 3-2561 ..Ylftoa 8-ll9ll

Budbccb, Giard! 6 Co,1ll)........IT!Lo &10?5

5.8ttl

I. E. lfigcilr Luibor Co. (31) .;.VAbrdc *'8?lll

Srrrcdr Hcrdwood Coapqnt (*lr."O *

Whit. Broth.rr (ll) .............Ilwctor 8.1|lI

TTTTIH-DOORS-PLIWOOD

Anocdatrd Plrsood lfiUr, bc. (illt_or., Agggt

gqata F. Lunbor Co. (ll) .......Ellbrool &10'il{

gqata LrtDb.s

Ilarbor Plywood Corp. ol Cdllonlc (31.t l.grr*

I{olt!.. Eur.-La Llrnbcr Co. (rl) GArIidd l-l9fl

ff$:T{."'Hi.9"e,1')r,i : :'.. :e?H:iE ?:ii3i

tobgo_n LuEbar Co., A. B. (l) ..DOugls2-llll

Eloo ll BUI (5) .,....,......:. ..DOua; t-ist

Lanoa.loaalagto! CoEp@t (3) ...y[ftoa 65?21

LqiLI€y Luabcr Sdcr Co,, Iac. (ll)

Loop Lurobcr co. (r) ............t#tjo"i ?ig!

LuED.r Mqlutdcturbg Co. (Zl) ...IUaipcr Z-1260

LutlDrr foruiscl Co- lac. (l{) ,.VAlcnda d-{l0

llqcDoaqld ll llcrriagtoa Ltd.. (lt)

McrrJaor 9o, L. !t (r, .........f;8f;jH l:rs3

Northrra Rcdwood Lunbor Co. (rrOr."* ,-riri

LUMBEN

Cqlilomlc Lr-r.rr Satcr (t) ........XEllog 3-62(17

Eq.trhoro Lunbcr tt Mill Co. (f) ...fEUot 3-2121

Fluloro Lunbsr ladurtri.r (8) Pl.dnolr 5-t 6l

GsE.rrtoa ll Grcco Lunber Co. (G) f,Ellog &f88{

Go-rdil-ltqrdiag Lunbor Co. (l) ...I.Uo; &mU

I[ll il Morton, tac. (7) .........Al{dovci t-t(r7?

tclby, Albort A. (trIaaeda) ...Lobhurrt 2-?7li{

EUU Lunbcr Co., Ccrl. H.

Char. S. Dodgr (Bcrlolol 5)..fHornwqll 3-9t[S

MoacrcL Lunbcr Co. (12) ......TWiooqlr 3-S2Sl

Shcvlla.McCloud tsnt.3i Co. (5) Elbrool l-?0ll

Sidowsll Lunbrr Co. (ll) ........f,Twctrr a'8llt

$lrgvlh.McCloud tsnt.3j

Suddrn ll Cbrirlrnroa, bc. (l)..GArficld l-l8l8 Tart.r, Wcbtt.r G lobaron, lac. ({)

DOuglat &1060

Tcylor Luabrr Co. (Floyd W. Elllott)- (lf ) DOuglcr 2-Oll

Whrclor Pinr eo. (l)

Nicolcl Door Scto Co. (10) ..... .Mlrlon 7-?U

Roddlrcrqft lac. (21) ..............IUdprr TllS

9inproa ladurtrlo (ll) .YUfoa 84150

Ulit.d Siat.. Plycood Corp. (7) IlErdocl l{l9l

CNEOSOTED LUMBEB_POI.ESPILING:_TlES

Ancrico Luobor d r.ctlag co' $Itr., t-ro'3

Bco<tcr, J. H, d Co. (l) .......DOuglar ?'tt83

llcll, lqEor L., (l) ..SUtter l-7510

MacDoactd d Harrtngror tta. (tAL** ,-*

Popc 6 Tclboi. bc., trtrabor Divirifa (l) DOuglcr !.?S8l

Vcadcr Lccn Piliag at Lurbrr Co. (S)rool $.g0l

Wordbg-Nathca Co. (l) ..........SU|trr l-SiFil

O AK tAItD -BERK EtEY-ALAIIIED A

Tine Pccltc Co. (Rtchooad) .....Blchaoad 8915

Tricaglr Lunbrr Co. (12) ..,.TEoplcbat 2l!l9ll

Truitt-Wcrrca Luabcr Co. (BcrLCry 1) BErloloy 7.ll!ill

We.t.E Drr tritn Co. (3) ....LOclficvca 8.3181

E. E. Wood Luabor Co. (6) ........f,Etloc l-81156

WLolcrdo Buldiag Suppit, lac. (8) TEmolcbar 2-696{

WLolcrcb Luabrr Dirtrlbutorr. Itrc.- (t) fWiaoclc 3-515

Hf,NDWOODS

Whlto lrothrrr (l) ...............ANdovor 1.1800

PLTWOOD-MELWOST

Csliloraic Bulldrrr Supply Co. (l) tEnptrbqr Ct383

Ebo Productr Co. (Richuood) ....nichnoad,8!!!

Hosca Lunbrr Coapoy (l) ...Gilracourt l'3ttl

E C. Pitcbcr Coapby-(I2) ...GLrncout l-3000 prcrtrs Buitr-ia Fixrurc Co. tfrtHT"Sln +AfO

Nic!91t._Dro&.!r (El Conito) ....Rtchnoad TEBS

!cg$o_ F-oru_! Pr,oductc. lac. -....TWinoqlr 3-itSS6

Bdd 6 Co. Lunrbcr il Suppftcr (6) bocb 3-62{5

, LU!,!IER

lrucr Co., E. L.... ....,.........ENterprirc l-0309

Gordoa-MccSoqrl llcrdwood Co. (Bc;L.l.r 2) Bcrlebv 7-5885

Strablo llcrdrood Conpatti (7) TEEpl.bc; t-5584

IOS AIYGETES

Kubl Lunber Co,, Cqrl H.

Uultcd Slcios Ptywood Corp. (7) fWboclr 3{5ll

Wcrtrra Door 6 ScrL Co. (7) :.lEnCrbcr 18100

E, E. Wood Lurabor So. (6) ....IElog 1.8188

CNEOSO1ED LI'I'BER-POLES PILINGI-IIES

fi ii.l t:?:$ ccir,lB:rE:? ( ily::::i i'"81'iH

B. S. Orsood (ll)..... ,..TAinity 8225

Aadorron-Hcnroa Co. (Studlo -City)

!,nsto-cgtirorptc r.uubcr co. (t, fiLg;".fill?l

Arcclc'Bc'drood Co.'(J..1. n.q) '(36) ' -i ---

A|}rirca-sturr co. (ncy vcn ldc, ".Hl""ti tt*

f,rts6ris t-rr.3r co. (c. p. H.olYtE-co:o, 2'8192

PBospoct 852

Atlcr Lubcr Co. (2t) .pBospect 7{01

Bqrlo Luabcr Co,, Acfph E. (Huriagton' pcirii-JEffcrgon 7201

Ecugh Bror._ {--Co, (ZO) .ANsctu! 3.71t7

Bcueh. ccrl w. (Pqrddena o, i,*;;iilf l-Blli

Brurh Indurtriql Lubrr Co. (X2) ANcretur l-1155

Butar Lunber Comlmy (3C) -. .iJVFSri;i a-aS6i

Cclilonlc Pccfic LriabJr Co. (Irghwood) ....OBcgon 8-3{?t

Cqr ll Co., L. I. (W. D. Dunaiag) (IS) PRoepect 8&13

Chca[cad cad I'oclqtor, P. W. .[l3i_r., Sae

Co-n_rolidcted Luubor Co. (7) .....Btchnond 2lll (Wilnl!9rlo!) .....NE. 6-1881 Wiln. Tct. l-%37

Coopcr WLolcrqle Lunber Co.. W. E. (13)

.croic-Jrpoa L'.nber co., t"". (t) ..ASy;:"L?l8l

Pol ll nqrrcll Sctee Co. (l)-.......IDaE SiOt

Dolbeer d-Ccrron Luabcr Co. (l!) Vf,a.t:t e !?!!

D-'.-i!g, W. D. (15) ..P8orpect 88{3

El Monto Lunbcr Co. (El Moarc) Foiiet &9026

Erlry, D. G. il Soa (U).........ANselur 2-llgt

_ueatoae_Llr-lcr Indugtries (d) HEmpctcad 3lS5

!cne, ErtL (Loag Bcccb l2i-.......'..t8 6-5B7

Forcrt Producb Sqleg Co. (Inglcwood)

Frcnber 6 soa, w. p. (6) ......"g*gf;l rll?f

Eg. Ioulttci! Luaber Co. (l) .... .ioso 8-Ztgt

!/. E. Gilbert (Occcuside) :. .?W

Gosstin-Hcrding Lumbqr Co. (A. W. Dolovqn)

Hantncn Mqclcin Lunber c.. (23f tihllffi:t"s-i?8i

llcngord Lunbcr Compcny (5{)'..1n-orpeA l3O3

lgrrir Lumbcr Co., L, E. (5) .......Ffiilq 2il0l

$!Ib€!c_ Brothers Luuber Co. (2) ..LOgqa 5-61{9

Hilltop funber Co. (Scn Dios;'lo)

rcrr Honncn co. ({3) H'ffi*lrj8-8fii

Holnor Errrelc Lunblr Co. (13) ...MUtud 9f8l

loovor, A. f,. (36) ,............'.......YOIL tl88

Iobaroq Lumbcr Co. A. B. (L f ".iil"ffl,,r*

LcrUcy Lunbcr Sclcr Co,, Iuc. (Pcscdeac)

Lcwrcnce-phitipa Luabcr co. (l5lYFffi:i:"?tltl

Lunbor luyeri E:rchclgo (15)' ..'..PRog-pcct 2878

Lunb.r I!c. of Orogoa (lacl Bcrgntron) (Ilcraosa Beqch) , ..Froaticr 65ll

MccDoactd Co., L. W. (15) .......PRosnect 719{

MqeDonold d Hcniaston, Ltd. (15) PBor-pect 3127

lrlgcldr Luber Co, (Long Eecch 2) ....L8 7-2ffF

Mcbotcay lEportilg Co. (ld) .....Tnilitr 9651

Mmulqcturelr Lunbor Co. (l) -. .LUccg 8l7l

Mqtthi" co" P' L' (Pcrsdcnq SLtcc-orc a-ztrg

orbcu f,unbcr Co. (pqscdenq t) S".Tiff i:lgp

Ossood, Robcrt S. (t{) ....... .....TRi!it" 8225

Oweu Pcrlg Lunber Co. (ll) ......ADaEr Sttl

Pccllic Lunbcr Co., fbr (36) ..YOrL 1168

Pccific For.rt Produclr, Inc., (Jira Xirby) (l{) .......fllcLcr 1!|}1233

PqtricL Lunbcr Co. (Ecrtaca Lunbcr Sclu) (15)

pop€ d rqtboi, Iac., Lunbcr oi"i"ilfofr"sTt 5039

E. L. BeiE co. o5) .3f,::*:l*81

Roundg Trcdiag Co. (Loag Bcqch 2) ZEbith 6olf

Rudbccb d Co. John I. (15) ...... .TIIcLcr 5llg

Sm Pcdro Lumbcr Co. (2t) .....Rlchnoad llll

Scrla L*-rot Co. (ll) .......Tfrdror 75(t|l

Sbevlia-McCloud Lunbcr Conpcay JltJ"r.., *r,

Sicrrc Lumbcr Productg (Pcrcrdolc 2)BYca l-8316 SYcoore 8-2517

Sie}iyou Forcrt Productr Co., (C. P. Henry 6 Co.) (15) .......PRoepcct 652{

Spqldbg Lunbcr Co. (15) ....Rlchnond 7-18{l

Sudden d Chriglcngou, Iac, (l{) ..,.TRiBite 88{{

Tccouq Lumber Sqlcs, (15) .......PRogpec1 ll08

Tcrter, Webstcr 6 Johuon, Inc, 23) ANgeluc {l8ll

Tcflor Luuber Co. (CbcrIeE E. Ecadcll) (15)

Twin Harbors Lunbcr co. (ls) PRospect 8?0 (C. P. Henry lt Co.) .. .PRospect 6521

Uuioa Lumber Conpcly (15) .......TnihitT 2282

Wallcce Mill ll Lunber Co. (Cleamcter)MEtcclI 3-'!269

Weadliag-Natbqa Co. (36) ,.YOrL 1168

Wost Or.goa Lunbrr Co. (15) ...Bichnond 0281

W. W. WilLinso! (15) . ....Tni!itT {613

Weyerbccurer Sqtcr Co. (7) ....Blcbrooad 7-l!505

Whcley Lupbcr Co., L. S. (Loag Bcsch 5)

LB 2-8170 NEvcdc 6-1085

wilsoa L'lEbcr co., I. E. (o.*NgH"1lai:l?!l

E. !'. Wood Lubcr Co. (51) ...IEff.Eo! 3lll

Ancricqa Lurabcr d Trocdlg Co. (t5) TRilttr 5381

Bcn<tcr, I. H. il Co. (13) ..........Mchlgca 6291

l.tqcDoacld ll Hcrriagtor, Ltd. (15) PBorpcct 3l?

Pope d Tclbot lnc., lunbrr Divirto_r_ (15) PBorpoct SEll

HTNDWOODS

Eruce Co,, E. L. (ll)............Plrcrcrt 3-ll0l

Ancrico Hcrdwood Co. (S{) .....PRorp.ct 1235

AUcr Lunbrr Co. (21) .PRorpect 7{|ll

Bobahotr Lunbcr Co, Iac. (trI) ...PRoipocl 3ll5

Brurh ladurirlcl lunrbcr Co. (28) INgtrlur l-1155

Gqlleber Hcrdwood Co. (3) .....PLcq.a!t $37$

Peabcrthy Lunbcr Co. (lt) ........XIEball Slll

Sqalord d Lullicr Co. ({{) ,..A:Griaetrr &9181

Slcnrton, E. I, d Soa (lI) .......CEnrury &9?ll

Tropiccl ll Wcrlrn Lilhr.s Co, (la) Mlchlgcr 9t28

Wcsten Hcrdwoqd Lumbcr Co. (liS)-_ PRorpoct 8l5l

SASH_D OORS-MILLWOil-SCREEI| 3 PLNilOOD-IRONING BOTRDS

Advqncc Mmufccturiag Co., .....ANgelur l-t|0l

Arrocicted Moldiag Co. (91 ......Affgdut 8ll9

BccL Pcael Conpcay (tl) ........ADaan 3-lll5

Berson.tle d Ec}rtron, Inc. (ll) lDcor 3-1218

Coliloniq Door Conpcny, Thc (ll) nnbqll Sllt

Calilonia Pocl d Vcaccr Co. (51) miritr lllst

Cobb Co., T. lt. (ll) ...tDoor I.llI7

Colc Door 4 Plytpood Go: (ll) ...IDcnr 3.1371

Dcvi&on Pltryood 6 lunber Co. (31) ANcrlur &89ill

Door ll Pllvood Jobberr luc. (2i|) ..ANgelur 8188

Eubc* ll Sor, L. H. (Iagbwood) OBrs6 8-2155

Georgic-Pccilic Plnpood ll Lunber Co. (F. A. Toate) ({l) ...........Clcvelcad 6-2119

Hclcy Bror. (Sotc Moaicc) ....,.,TE:GI 0-2t88

Eoehl, Iao. W. {l Soa (23) ........f,!gdur 8l9l

Lunbcr Dcalen Suprrly Go. (Ilcrbor City)

ZEaiih ll58r Lonttc ll58

Mcple 8roa. (Fullrrtol)..,......,,,Fulllrtoll Ut8

MccDougcll Door 6 Frcnc Co. (2) XJnbctl 316l

Nicolci Door Sqler Co. (ll) .......,Logqa 5-6215

Plymod lac. (23) .......ANsclur &Glll

Becm Conpcay, Geo. E. (12) ....Mlchigor lt5l

Roddis Cqllloraic, Iac. (ll) .......JEfforroa 326l

Scnproa Co. (Pcrqdenc 2) ........RYca l-6939

Siapso! Iadurtricr (21) .,,........Pf,orpect 9|{ll

Uaited Stclcr Ptrwood Corp. (21) Blchaood 6f0l

Werlern Curton Mill, Inc. (21) ..ANgclur tr-8117

W.st Coqll Scrcca Co. (l) .,......ADcan l.llB

Worlen Mill ll Moulding Co. (2)...EIEbatl 2$it

*Pogtofiice 1616 li[rrnhsl in Pcnenlhcair

GR,OWING WITH SACRAfiTENTO AND CATIFOR,NIA

IIEFFERlIAlI SUPPLV GOTPAIIY, IilG.

Curton Milllng of Lumber Volume Productlonlflllling in Trsnrit - SurfccingRipplngRenwingPqtlemSpur Trsck Focilltlec p. o. Box t353 sAcRAllENtOIE|EPHONE 5-9t4t

Kindly Competition is Strictly Modern -(An Editorial)

Kindly, friendly tolerant competition is a product of our modern civilization that was unknown in the earlier days.

The history of the world shows that untit a few short decades ago the human mentality could not conceive of friendly toleration of a competitor.

The old Gods, the old kings, the old nations, all conceived it to be their duty to destroy their competitors, or make them their subjects. That there was room for allthat the world might thrive on competition-that men and things would develop cooperatively-was too great for their narrow comprehension.

Even the God of Israel describes himself innumerable times throughout the Old Testament as a "Jealous God."

Take the history of cities. Throughout the back ages, no city believed it could live, if another great city prospered. Cato went to Carthage as an ambassador, and he was so impressed with the prosperity and power of Carthage that he became obsessed with the idea that for Rome to live, Carthage must die. He made his eternal slogan the words, "Delenda est Carthago !" (Carthage must be destroyed.) He used it in all addresses to the Senate and to the people of Rome, until he brought about war, and Carthage was wiped from the face of the earth.

Cato did not realize that Carthage was helping civilize the world, and that through civilization the world would become better, and Rome would become better.

We have merchants today with the Cato instinct, who think their only hope of prosperous business is by cutting the throat of all competition.

They, like Cato, and like the ancient thinkers, are merely behind the times. Their thoughts, and methods, are still in the dark ages.

Cooperation and competition both are necessary in this day and age.

There are now more than 6000 uses of wood. Research is continuously developing new ones, always seeking useful products to effect more complete utilization of the tree. "Leave only the leaves" is the battle cry of wood research.

Nlewy [.tlristmsg

8nb

€[ Frogpsroud fleh Deur to @uu ffiany frien[d

w. Yv, wlLKlNsoN

Crebsoted Poles snd Plllng ;.-.

l12 W. 9th Sf.-los Angeles 15, Collf.-fRlnlty 4613

TMPORTER FROM TEXICO

Tcrbcrsco Mcrhogcmy Lunber, Sp@ish Cedcc Mchogcrny Doore Itficde To Your Specilicctions Slcb or Othenris€

Finest Qucliry in Workmcmship cnrd Mcterial Gucrcmteed'

Lowest Prices Possible--Qucmtity Buyers Only Contcrct

Don tonn

Pcnconericcm-Mex., S.A. 1816 Ismoncr Fre$ro, Cqlif.

2)/o to 7O/o mote capecity due to solid edge-to.edge stacking. Bcttcr qudig drying on low tcmperanrrer witb a farr revcreibic circulation.

Use Moorekiln Paint Produco for wcatherproofing &v kiln and nill roofr. Kiln Buildcrt for Morc

Hdf e C.cotury

SALESMAN WANTED

WANT ADS

Rate-$2.50 per Column Inch.

Wcll established tholesaler of Fir, Redwood, Pine and Hardwoods, with good connectioru wants experienccd man for Southern Cdifornia arca

Address Bor C-1582, California Lumber Mcrchant 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

WANTED RETAIL YARD MANAGER

Established retail lunber and buitding material yard in Ukiah, California requires man with expcrience in operating yard, figuring estimates oa building plans, purchasing, sales and credits. Good opportunity to develop new business in a growing community. Permanent pcition State experience, age, personal details and references. All replies strictly conf,dential.

Address Box C-1635. California Lumbir Merchant 508 Central Bld., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

SALESMAN WANTED

Lons established wholesalertr'irRedwoo'dPine - Shingt6Treated Lrrnbet, has opening San Diego Corurty. Good opportrmity for worker. San Diego rcsidcnt preferred.

Address Bo: 9l5EQ Cdifornia Lurnber Merchant 508 Central Bldg., Ios Angeles 14, Catif.

SALESMAN WANTED

By old establisrbcd lumber firm, expcrienced, reliable sqlesman, thoioughly acquaintcd with wholesale lum,ber business, and established in thc Southcrn Califon:,ia tade. Must have rcferenccs. \lrritc in confidence giving full dcails.

Address Box C-1636, Californira Lrurnber Merchant 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

WANTED

Small lumber yard wants second man for office, counter sales, estimating and bookkeeping. Three or more years experience essenud.

Address Box C-1640, California Lumber Merchant 508 Centrd Bldg., Los Angeles f4, Calif.

SAIJS MANAGER WANTED

Leading Redwood-Fir Remanrdacturer & Wholesaler having a monthly volume of five m.illion feet has an opening for a thoroughly qualified Sales Erecutive with a large natiorval following. Salary commensurate with abilig-from $10,fiX).00 pcr year up.

Forvard complete information with first letter to Box C-1642 California Lurnbcr Merchant, Loe Angeles 14, Calif.

LUMBER PURCHASING AGENT

Lcading rcdwood fabricator located in Stockton, Cdifornia has position for man with experiencc in buying redwood lurnber, to assumc duties of Purchasing Agent and Manager Inventory Control D'ept. Engincering backgrormd not esscntial but would bc advantageous.

Addrees Box C-l6ll, California Lumber Merchant

508 Central Bldg., Los Angelcs 14, Calif.

YEAR END PROBLEMS?

Audits and Statements Prepared

Bookkeeping Systeras Installed

Continuous Monthly Service.

PRODUCTIVE EXPENSE CONTROL

Phone: Rlchmond 9251

Thirty Years Lumber Experience

WANTED_EXPERIENCED LUMBERMAN

Lum,ber company operating a retail lumber and building materials business in San Diego County wanrts an experienced man to grad- ually take over the lu,mber end of the businees, Good opportudg for the right man. Must have clerical ability and undcrstand bookkceping. Give full qualifications, references, and compensation expected in first letter.

Address Box C-1644, California Lumbcr Merchant

50E Central Bldg., Los Angelcs 14, Cdif.

LTQUIDATIOil SAIE RTCHNOilD TUMBER COTPA]IV

All machinery and inventory to be sold.

I 6-ton Gerlinger Lumber Stacker, 1947 model.

1 10-ton Ross Lumber Carrier, 1942 model.

1 GMC Lumber Tfuck, 16-ft bed.

f 1948 Ford Cab-Over Truck, 14-ft bed

I GMC Pickup

I Woods High Speed Lumber Matcher and Planer, with 6-knife round heads, rear profile complete with blower, feed table, matched side heads for rustic, fooring, and moulding.

1 Idaco Gang Ripsaw.

Other \iloodworking items and office equipment and inventory not listed, including lumber, paint, hardware, wall board, sash and doors, roofing, etc.

Contact Richmond Lumber Company

Giant Rd., Richmond, Calif.

Phone Richmond 4550

BUSINESS CHANCE

For Sale or Tradc-A complete Island sarmrill with home and 20 A. of nice soi! located on paved rcad rl mi. to Mt. town about 35 mi. east of Marysville. Iniluded is ab6ut 200,000 bd. ft. of logs g yd. plus million and a half contract at S+ stunopage.- ?l-y-ear.old man-not able to o'pcrate. F'ull price $25,q0O including all reral p'rop' erty, equip., truck, tractor, tools, etc. Thie is a buy.

Another good mil,l worth the moncy locate4 ncar Redwood H-ighway with 8,00O,(X)O fL contract from $2.50 to 05 stumpage, short baul to San Francisco. This is a larger operation and strictly an operating sawmill and it's cheap at S30,000 with terms, including truck, tractor, tools, etc. Might consider somg trade. Better hurry on this one.

FRANCNS IIA'I,L & ASSO. RDALTORS

3m E. St., Marysville, Cdif. Phrotre 2l2li

HYSTER LUMBER CARRIER

1946 Modcl MHC 5'package, exccllcnt condition, priced to scll. F'or information phone STanley 7-3619.

TROJAN LUMBER & SUPPLY

?,A0 W. Olive Ave. Burbank, Calif.

F'OR SALE OR TRADE

Ross l9-HT 3-ton Lift Truck, $3,750.

Hystcr RT-150 7/z ton Lift Truck, $5,750.

Iaternatioul 6 r 6 Rollcr Bcd Lumbcr Truck, 83,(nO. Ross Model 90 54" Lumber Carrier, $5,000.

Hyster MHC 54" Lurnber Carrier, $5,000.

Hystcr MHC 66" Lumbcr Carrier, S6,800.

All late models cornpletely rebuilg new tires, 9O day guarantee. Older Model 11 and Model 12 Ross and CP Willamette available at dl 6mes.

We acccpt equipment in trade regardless of condition.

WESTERN LUMBIR CARRITRS

P.O. Box 622, Wilmington" Calif.

840 Rcalty Strcct

Telcphone Terminal 4.4597

WANT ADS

FOR SAI.E

GERLINGER LUMBPR CARRIER LOAD SIZE: 40'WIDE,'18" HIGH COMPLETELY EQUIPPED AND IN GOOD CONDITION.

FRANK CURRAN LUMBER CO., INC.

SANTA ANA, CALIF.

F'OR SALE

12-ton Ross and Hyster Straddle Trucks. Good condition. Priced to sell.

UNITED PIPE A"ND MASHINERY COMPANY

P.O. Box 498-Phone Sacto. 9-285E

NORTH SACRAMENTO, CALIF.

FOR, SALE

1 Tumer Model 6O-D 42" Twiln Resaw, tandecr angle, com6rlete with two 25 H.P. drive motors, V belts and sheaves, and with 10 band blades. Excellcnt condition, used very little.

. Call BUILDERS TMPORIUM OF VAN NUYS

5960 SePulveda Blvd.

Van Nuye, Calif.

Telephone State 5-3105

FOR SALE OR LEASE

Woodworking ptant, coarripletely equippcd. Now manufacturing sash and doors. Easily converted to other woodworking activities. Dollar for dollar valrrc with approximate valuation ae follows: machinery, $35,0fl); inventory, $+qOOO; buildings and land, $25,000. Located in Los Angeles.

Address Box C-f643, California Lumber Merchant 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

, LUMBER HOIST CRANE FOR SALE

Lumber hoist crane, 5-ton capacity, 33-foot beam, and 22 feet ligh. Assemble the next load while your trtrckis on the road. Ideal loading and unloading piece of equipment for lumber yard or steel planl

BOHNHOEF LUMBER CO., INC.

1500 So. Alameda St., Los Angeles 21, Calit.

Telephone PRoopect 3245

FOR SALE

8-Ton Gerlinger Lift truck, good .mechanical condition-offsct carriage, 66" tapered fotks. Price $4,9@.00.

ED FOUNTAIN LUMBER CO.

6218 So, Hooper Avenue Los Angeles I, Calif.

PhoneLOgan 8-2331

IN TRANSIT

Kiln dryiag aad mitling by onc of tho large-st-Curtom Dry Kilns on t.hc W-est-Coast We buy Shop Grades and Cl,eara

Wcgtern Dry Kiln & Eguipaents Co.

P.O. Box @2, Wilmineton, Cdif.

Phoncs-TErminal 40597 and 44598

PONDEROSA PINE IT'MBER FOR SAI.E

Green Uppers and Kiln Dried No. 1 and No. 2 Commons for immediate delivery. W.P.A. Grading. Kiln time and milling facilities available.

.Address P.O. Box lIIS Oakdcrle, Cclil

FOR SALE

14" | 32" Wicks Mfg Co.-Crang Saw complctc with saws-75 HP Electric Motor and Automatic Grinder.

Mark Paddock

MONTEREY BAY LUMBER COMPANY

P.O. Box 801, Santa Cruz, Calif.

FOR SALE

12 x 20-foot Sorting Table on skids. Complac with 3 HP electric motor and 3 live chains. Price $650. cdl

Rlchmond 7-5161 Los Angeles, Calif.

FOR SALE

Lumber Yard, Ap'proximately 86,0fl) sq. fL City of 25,0d). Only one other srnait yara. E:rcellent business. Real money maker. Forced to sell on account of health.

Addrcss Box C-1627, Cdifornia Lumber Mercbant 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

LUMBER YARDS FOR SALE

Fo'r lumber yards for sale see our ad in the Novqmrber 15 issrrc of The California Lumber Merchant. If you want to sell your yard let us know.

TWOHY LUMBER CO.

LUMBER YARD AND SAWMILL BROKERS 801 Petrolcun Bldg., Los Angeles 15, Cdif. PRospcct 87,t6

usED EQIITPMENT FOR SAIE AND IMMEDIA1E DELTVERY

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