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"Luke-The Beloved Physician," By lack Dionne-----"... Lumber Industry Is One of "Ups and Downs," By Ricbaril A. Colgan.--____--..__...._.

Along Your Shores, Oh Galilee, By Ad.eline Merriam Conner

Lumber Dips Then Rebounds in'4), An Editorial-----.---.--.------

Annual Meeting of NRLDA Held in San Francisco-------.----------

Review of \$Testern Pine Industry for 1949, By Robefi O, Leonard. I Want To Build A Home, By C. C. Sberlock,---..

Philippine Mahogany, By Walter G. Scrim-.--..

Redwood Outlook f.or 195O, By Sbennan A. Bisbop.... Disuibution, Not Production, Makes Low Costs Possible, By C. B. Stueet....__..___

Dealers Plan Nationwide Program of Low Cost Home Construction

Pope & Talbot Centennial Year Heralds Growth of \7est Coast Lumbering-_--___.----

To Be Growers Of Trees, An Editorial Douglas Fir Mills Have Another Record Yea4 By Artbar V. Priaulx._

How The $Telfare State \STorks In New Zealand........ oaklandYardHasBecomeImportantFactofInArea...-.-.

rDfestern Hardwood Organization Hears "The Upson Story"

Douglas Fir Lumber, By Robefi A. Mabaffay

County-By-County Breakdown of Lumber Production In The Fir Region_Timber Is A Cro5The Ffarvest Is Homes----

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Portland, Oregon, November 17-For the eleventh straight week orders for West Coast lumber exceeded production from the Douglas fir sawmills of western Washington and Oregon, according to H. V. Simpson, executive vice president of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association. Orders averaged 185,654,000 feet per week during October as against production averages ol 168,626,000 feet per week.

Unfilled order files at West Coast mills stood at ffi9,049,000 feet at the end of October, Simpson pointed out, which is the highest point reached since March of this year. Gross stocks at Douglas fir mills shrunk during October to 918,508,000 feet, lowest they have been since October of 1948.

Continued strong demand for all West Coast species is best indicated by total orders for the first 43 weeks of this year of 7,077,?f,8,0W board feet as compared to 6,972,584,000 for the same period last year, Simpson said. An unusually heavy demand from Atlantic Coast states has accounted for 909,598,000 board feet shipments by water so far this year as against 599,8D,0m to the same area for the first 43 weeks of last year. Shipments ol 6,916,233,ffi0 board feet for the ten months of. 1949 top production for the same period by 143 million feet, the lumber leader stated.

The weekly average of West Coast lumber production in October was 16,626,000 b.f. or 1L2.8/o of the 1943-1948 average. Orders averaged 185,654,000 b.f.; Shipments 177,708,000 b.f . Weekly averages for September were : Production 170,076,0m GJ37% of the 1943-1948 average) ; Orders 18B,956,000 b.f. ; Shipments 183,196,000 b.f.

Forty-three weeks of. 1949 cumulative production 6,772,751,000 b.f.; Forty-three weeks of 1948, 7,303,589,000 b.f.; Forty-three weeks of 1947, 7,183,788,000.

Orders for Forty-three weeks of. 1949 break down as follows: Rail 4,426,0n,W b.f.; Truck 325,050,000 b.f. Domestic Cargo 1,244,874,N0 b.f.; Export 291,257,ffiO b.f. Local 7W,079,000 b.f.

The Industry's unfilled order file stood at 609,049,000 b.f. at the end of October. Gross stocks at 918.508.000.

Lumber shipments of 418 mills reporting to the National Lumber Trade Barometer, National Lumber Manufacturers Association, were 3.6 per cent above production for the week ending November 5, 1949. In the same week new orders of these mills were 1.0 per cent above production. Unfilled orders of the reporting mills amount to 38 per cent of stocks. For reporting softwood mills, unfilled orders are equivalent to 22 d,ays' production atthe current rate, and gross stocks are equivalent to 55 days' production.

For the year-to-date, shipments of reporting identical mills were 4.5 per cent above production; orders were 6.5 per cent above production.

Compared to the average corresponding week of 19351939, production of reporting mills was 47.0 per cent above ;

shipments were 56.2 per cent above; orders were 57.5 per cent above. Compared to the corresponding week in 1948, production of reporting mills was 7.3 per cent above; shipments were 26.7 per cent above; and new orders were 42.0 per cent above.

The Western Pine Association for the week ended October D, 91 mills reporting, gave orders as 58,523,000 feet, shipments 64,011,000 feet, and production 61,771,W f.eet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 181,915,000 feet.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended November 5, 93 units (121 mills) reporting, gave orders as 18,344,000 feet, shipments L9,447,000 feet, and production 18,460,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 58,748,000 feet.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended November 5, 167 mills reporting, gave orders as 112,724,M feet, shipments 114,483,000 feet, and produc. tion 1O8,817,000 feet. Unfilled orders at the end oi the week totaled 449,599,n0 feet.

For the week ended November 12, tli€se same mills reported orders as 101,654,000 feet, shipments l@,714,W feet, and production 102,095,000 feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the week totaled 442.626.000 f.eet.

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Many people who spent a lifetime in it, can tell us less of lovethan the child who lost a dog yesterday.

"The man who does ;, ;"J good books, has no advantage over the man who can't read."-Mark Twain.

"The love of liberty *-anJ rJ,. or others. The love of power is the love of eq15glyss."-Wm. Hazlitt.

"You cannot leave aolnrrlro* in the sands of time by sitting down."-Dr. Karl Berns.

A man's real timitatt"": ": ,io. at " things he wants to do but cannot; they are the things he ought to do, but does not. ***

"There never was-nor will ever be-a smart lia1."Amos Parrish.

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Never write an ungenerous thing'to anyone, on any subject, under any circumstances, at any time. Such writing is just plain blund'ering. ,|<*{.

"Never lose an opportunity to see something beautiful. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank Him for it Whois the fountain of all loveliness."-Chas. Kingsley.

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"What do people say about my announcement as a candidate for political office?" asked the new politician. "They don't say anything," replied the newspaper reporter, "they just laugh." **(*

Horses get scarcer in this motor age. So does old-time horse sense.

Stalin wrote to xa-irlrrr*"io "noose one's victim, to prepare one's plans minutely, to stake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed-there is nothing sweeter in the world." (Nice fellow, Joe.)

Heloise wrote to aueu'ra I "Jro"o.rrty setdom chooses the side of the virtuous, and fortune is so blind that in a crowd in which there is perhaps one wise and brave man, it is not to be expected that she should single him out."

"Regardless of how r.J-i"; or strive, You'll never get out of this world alive."

Georgie Solotaire.

"How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness?" asked the wise Seneca. A great question. Check over a lot of folks you know, and see what you think. *:|<>|<

Things done by men who enjoy doing them, are likely to be done well. That applies to both the big and little things of life. ***

If the rut-riders, the get-nowheres, the good-enough-forfather-and-good-enough-for-me folks speak ill of you-Rejoice ! You may be getting somewhere. But if they speak well of you-Beware ! You may be joining their ranks.

"If everyone would look after his own affairs, God would look after everybody's."-p1sflg1ic Bastiat.

A truly successful -""1r".""1 who is always trying to stir up a little fun and laughter for himself and the other fellow. That is a mission of helpfulness in itself.

Herbert Spencer ,"id, *"Nl ,1"r, i" equal to his book. All the best products of his mental activity he puts into his book, where they are separated from the mass of inferior products with which they are mingled in his daily talk."

NEVER: t-Play ""ruJ*,iln J ,tr"rg.r. 2-Carrya bundle by the string. 3-Try to climb a fence that is leaning towards you. 4--Try to kiss a girl who is leaning from you.

A jaw in gear and a J"tl tJ neutral doesn't make an orator; it makes a wind mill.

A small trickle or uusinlss trrlrr.r" sometimes leads to a great river of business success.

Put more vision irrto yolr ir..* *n"a inspiration can you get from the billions of stars in the sky if you insist on living in the basement? l , >r,L*

You can tell an arrogant man a block away, but you can't tell him much. And the things an arrog:rnt man tells you, aren't generally worth listening to. **1.

A successful man is one who saw an opportunity and grasped it. A great man is one who created an opportunity, grasped it, and then started f"Tt"t another.

The Prophet Isaiah did not like cities, for he wrote: "'Woe unto those who cause house to join on house, bring field near to field, till there be no more room." (Rough on real estate subdividers.)

"Arms invite retaliation," said Lao-Tzrt. "The more weapons the people have, the more troubled the state." And Lord Grey, British foreign minister not long since, said: "Great armaments lead inevitably to war." t<**

The Bible speaks of merchandising, in Proverbs, when it says: "Happy is the man that findeth wisdom and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold"' ,< :F ,<

"ff your fields lie fallow, your granaries will be empty; if your books are not studied, your children will be fools."

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Arthur Brisbane, famous editor, wrote: "Prosperity depends on the mental attitude of the people and their private talking. No president, no collection of men, no promises to spend billions can wipe out the bad effects of a nationally pessimistic mood." :r * :N<

Now the Christmas season approaches, the time-as the old saying goes-"for getting and for giving, forgetting and forgiving." In many lands, among countless millions of people, the words of the Carpenter of Galilee will be quoted. They were simple words. Never was a plainer, more understandable philosophy uttered. Be kind, be honorable, be just, be decent, take an interest in the other fellow and lend a hand. That pretty well covers His entire formula. Any child can understand it.

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A preacher by the name of Rev. Norman Vincent Peale, of New York City, is going around the country making a mighty fine speech that should be heard or at least read, by all our middle-aged citizens, and by businessmen in particular. He calls his speech "The Art of Living" and he is preaching and warning against the high tension of this very nervous age, when every newspaper you pick up tells of the untimely deaths of too-energetic and too-enthusiastic men who let themselves go, and then can't get themselves back. The increasing daily toll of men in their forties and fifties from heart attacks and strokes is his subject. Cracking mind and hearts and nervous systems, he says, have reached such proportions that we are creating a generation of widows, and all because this generation is taking life too seriously, and living it too strenuously. ***

Our middle aged men are committing suicide through hypertension, said the Reverend philosopher. They never loosen up and take it easy. And the next thing that happens, it's too late. He says that England's patron saint is St. George; Ireland's patron saint is St. Patrick. And today our patron saint is ST. VITUS. The answer-take it easy, brother! Or easier, at any rate.

Appointed Deputy State Sncrrk

Dave Davis, Hoo-Hoo Supreme Nine member, San Francisco, announces the appointment of Joe Tardy, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles as State Deputy Snark for Southern California.

Approves 10,000 Housing Units For Los Angeles

A federal loan of $1,150,000 for astarton 1Q000 lowrent homes and apartments in Los Angeles has been approved by President Truman, it was announced recently in Washington.

Loans for 14O in Redlands, 85 in Colton, 350 in Kern County and additional units elsewhere in the Southland were approved also.

The loans were described by the Public Housing Administration as "preliminaryl' to prepare plans and cost estimates. Money for actual construction will be granted when the detailed plans are approved, officials said.

New Sound Conditioning Tile

To meet the need for an easy-to-apply, efficient acoustical tile, a new product with many exclusive features is now made available to lumber and building supply dealers, according to an announcement by the Simpson Logging Company, manufacturers of a wide variety of insulating board products and acoustical tile.

The new Simpson sound conditioning tile is called Noisemaster Acoustical Tile, and incorporates a "SplineLok" system of application which simplifies the installation of this material.

Each tile is 12 in. x 12 in. x Lh in. and is perforated by means of Simpson's specially created Hollokore drilling process which makes round clean holes with no loose fibers to encourage unsightlypaint bridging when refinishing.

The big feature of Noisemaster Acoustical Tile is the "Spline-Lok" system of application. Each tile is grooved on two opposite edges and snug-fitting wood splines are provided which help make straight, even lines and automatically level corners. Only two nails instead of four are required when applying onfurring strips, thus saving on labor costs. Because nailing is done through the splines, there is less danger of marring the tile. Splines, which are at right angles to furring strips, seal transverse joints and eliminate "breathing".

Simpson Noisemaster Acoustical Tile is factory-finished an attractive tapestry white and provides high light reflection without glare. Tests show that this tile has a high sound absorption value. Made of the long, tough fibers of Douglas fir, the material is treated with Pentachlorophenol to resist dry rot, decay and termites. The sales office of Simpson Logging Company is 1065 Stuart Building, Seattle, Washington.

COBPOBATION

/ UST as is old St. Nick, so is the Christ' mas season around, rosy and jolly one. But the other seasons too aregood, for the lumber busi' ness in Southern California is year'round fun in a genuine manner. It's fun because of you dealers who are the industry -- indi' vidualists, interesting, fine per. sonalities--a grand group of real people. And it will be fun next year, and the year following -just as long as you all are with it. So a give me Wassail to help

big Merry Christmas, and nothing would more pleasure than to deliver a brimming cup to each of you -- and to stay around you empty it !

Greetings,

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Northwestern California Lumb ermen's Club Holds

Second Annual Stag D.y

More than 300 lumbermen from California, Oregon, Washington, and other states attended the Second Annual Stag Day of the Northwestern California Lumbermen's Club at the Eureka Inn. Eureka. Calif.. November 11.

The first event of the day was a get-together breakfast. This was followed by golfing and fishing, and late in the afternoon a Hoo-Hoo Concatenation.

Derby Bendorf, president of the Club, presided at the banquet, and welcomed the big gathering. He paid a tribute to Jim Berry, originator of the Stag Day meeting last year, and introduced ma.ny visiting lumbermen from all parts of the country. The president made several awards, including Dewey Lung, winner of the bald head contest, andRobert Gardner, runner-up, who both received hair clippers. Another award was made to Tom Carter, oldest Hoo-Hoo member present, and one to a man fromOhio who had traveled the greatest distance to attend the E,ureka festivities.

The banquet rvas preceded by a cocktail party, and was followed by entertainment at which Vince Silk was master of ceremonies.

Jim Berry, Twin Harbors Lumber Co., Eureka, was presiding officer at the Concatenation at which 17 Kittens were initiated into the mysteries of Hoo-Hoo. The Nine who conducted the initiation were the following:

Snark, Frank Perry .....Santa Barbara

Senior Hoo Hoo, Ed LaFranchi... ..Oakland

Junior Hoo Hoo, Derby Bendorf . ....Scotia

Scrivenoter, Paul Overend ....San Francisco

Bojum, F. Paul Baugh Los Angeles

Jabberwock, Ralph Mannion San Francisco

Custocatian, Duke Morrison... .....Myers Flat

Arcanoper, Jack Fairhurst.. ...Eureka

Gurdon, H. S. Schaur.... ....South San Francisco

The following Hoo-Hoo kittens were initiated:

Elmer E. Abrahamson, Hammond Lumber Company. Samoa

Whitney A. Archibald, Sound Lumber Company. ..Arcata

Robin P. Arkley, Consolidated Lumber Co.................Eureka

Edward M. Carpenter, The Pacific Lumber Company. Scotia

Erling M. Ericksen,

Trinity National Lumber Corp... .......Fort Seward

Paul E. Freydig, M & M Woodworking Company........Eureka

A. M. Holland, Precision Lumber Company. ......Eureka

Charles J. Jaehnig, The Pacific Lumber Company. ..Scotia

Lloyd E. Kircher, Grizzly Park Lumber Corp.. ..Blue Lake

Thomas R. Lannin, Twin Harbors Lumber Company. Eureka

Charles A. Magnuson, Dant & Russell . .......San Francisco

R. V. Nicholas, Grizzly Park Lumber Corp. .....Blue Lake

Paul U. Pond, The Pacific Lumber Company. ..Scotia

Wm. H. Sommerhause, Addison & Sons Lumber Co.......Eureka

E. W. Strauser, Mutual Plywood Corp... ...Eureka

E. W. Thrasher, Cannon Ball Lumber Companv. ...Arcata

Lloyd D. Wambold, The Pacific Lumber Co-bany........Scotia

Among the prominent men from out of town who attended were: Dave Davis, Rounds Trading Company, San

Francisco; Ralph Mannion, J. E. Higgins Lumber Co., San Francisco; Hollis Jones, Western Door & Sash Co., Oakland; Mike Crook, Tacoma Lumber Sales, Los Angeles; Herb Schaur, South City Lumber & Supply Co., South San Francisco; Paul Overend, California Redwood Association, San Francisco; F. P. Baugh, Wholesale Lumber, Los Angeles; Ed La Franchi, Pacific Forest Products, Inc., Oakland; Chas. McPhee, American Stevedore Co., San Francisco; Hugh G. McPhee, American Stevedore Co., San Francisco; Art Grey, J. E. Higgins Lumber Co., San Francisco; Ed Cryer, J. E. Higgins Lumber Co., San Francisco; Frank Perry, Wholesale Lumber, Santa Barbara.

Dave Davis, member of the Supreme Nine, read the Code of Ethics, and gave a short talk on Hoo-Hoo for the benefit of the new members.

Sponsors of the Second undermentioned firms:

Addison & Sons

American Stevedore

Arcata Builders Supply

Arcata Lumber Services

Arcata Manufacturing Co.

Arcata Redwood

Arrow Mill Company

Fred E. Barnett Co.

Charles R. Barnum

F. P. Baugh

Brizard-Matthews

Machinery Co.

California Barrel Co.

AlexH. Christie

Dolbeer-Carson Lbr. Co.

Dolly Varden Lbr. Co.

Eureka Boiler Works

Eureka Lumber & Crossarm

Fairhurst Lumber Co.

Fortuna Builders Supply

Tony Gosselin

Gosslin-Harding Lbr. Co.

Grizzly Park Lbr. Co.

Ilammond Lumber Co.

llansen Machine & Supply

Holmes-Eureka Lbr. Co.

AnnualStag Day were the

Humboldt Lumber Handlers

Humboldt Plywood Corp.

Geo. C. Jacobs

McGaraghan Supply Co.

M. F. Mitchell Company

Morrison & Jackson

Nlutual Plywood Corp.

Northern Redwood Lumber Co.

Pacific Forest Products

The Pacific Lumber Co.

E. W. Pierce Company

Pre-Cut Lumber Co.

Peerless Lumber Co.

E,. L. Reitz Company

Sauers Forest Products

Simpson Logging Co.

Sound Lumber Co.

South Bay Lumber Co.

Stegeman Lumber Co.

Tacoma Lumber Sales

Twin Harbors Lbr. Co.

Twin Parks Lbr. Co.

Van De Nor Lbr. Co.

Van Dyke & Davis

Willow Creek Mill

Annual Meeting Red Cedcrr

Shingrle BurecruDecember 9

The 33rd annual meeting of the Red Bureau will be held at the New Washington Wash., December 9.

Cedar Shingle Hotel, Seattle,

Gus Hoover Bob Leishmon

Bob Hoover Dick Hoover

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TATBOT CENTENNIAT I TEII r 0not|lril & ?noEnEss

A century ago, it was "Westward Ho" to the fabulous country of the West. On December 3, 1849, Andrew J. Pope and Frederic Talbot set up business in San Francisco to engage in lumber and trading. Four years later, the first sawmill was producing lumber at Port Gamble, Washington. In rapid succession, timber holdings were acquired, other mills built and soon a fleet of ships were carrying Pope & Talbot lumber to ports of the Seven Seas. In the span of 100 years, Pope & Talbot have been progressively identified with the growth and development of the West Coast.

Today, direct descendants of the original founders, actively manage the firm of Pope & Talbot, Inc., which comprises vast timber holdings, three large sawmills-a creosoting plant and a fleet of modern cargo vessels with customers throughout the world. Participating in our progress are 2228 eoworkers-men and women of experience, initiative and ability--enabling us to produce Douglas Fir lumber that is properly milled, properly graded and properly handled. We look forward with confidence to another century of growth and progress,

CUTTING CAPACITY 1,000,000 Board Feet Daily

MILLS: Port Gamble, Washington; St. Helens and Oakridge, Oregon

CREOSOTING PLANT: St. Helens, Oregon

TREE FARMS: Hood Canal and Upper Willamette River

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By Jock Dionne

"He was speaking to His friends of love and strength. I know He spoke of love because there was melody in His voice; and I know He spoke of strength because there were armies in His gestures. His speech was simple and joyous, and the sound of His voice was like cool water in a land of draught The rhythm of His step was different from other men's, and the movement of His body was like naught I had seen before. Men do not pace the earth in that manner. And even now I do not know whether He walked fast or slow. And I gazed at Him and my soul quivered within mg-fe1 IIe was beautiful. He looked at me even as the seasons might look upon the field. and He smiled. And then He walked away. But no other man ever walked as He walked." (From Kahlil Gibran's description of Jesus.)

Always at this season I have written a Christmas sermon. Last year this sermon was devoted to "Doctor Luke, of Antioch, the Man Who Gave Us Christmas." That brought an enthusiastic response that surprised and delighted me. One old friend wrote, "Your Christmas editorial has brought me a new and valued friend, Doctor Luke. From here on I shall become better acquainted with him." Few letters have ever pleased me more, because Dr. Luke has long been an intimate friend of mine. Many sermons were preached last Christmas by clergymen whose lumber friends carried the Luke sermon to them. One preacher wrote me personally that he was going to use it for a sermon and hoped he might do it justice. ***

I always resent the fact that so few people, and that'includes even the best Bible students, know the origin of the Christmas story. Here is a holiday and a holy day combined that the whole world-except perhaps Russia and

other pagan lands-stops to celebrate in colorful and magnificent fashion every year, with song, and sermon, and ceremony, and sentiment, and emotion, and feasting and rejoicing. Yet you can ask almost anyone you meet the quesliqn-"\ rhe gave us Christmas?"-3nd few can tell. Most folks never stopped to consider the matter before. Which brings me to the conclusion that my friend Doctor Luke has never gotten a fair deal from either laymen or clergy. *'k*

"From the Bible," is generally the answer you get if you ask the above question. Sure, But the Bible is filled with the writings of an army of men. And only one of those writers gave us Christmas. So I have appointed myself Doctor Luke's press agent, insofar as my circl6 is concerned, and decided that every year at Christmas time I would remind my friends who it was that gave us the Christmas Story, with'all the Christmas glory. For, had it not been for Luke, Christmas would never been heard of. It istruethat Matthew, the Apostle, wrote about the birth of Jesus in a house in Bethlehem, and about the wise men from the East who came seeking Him. But that was all. And no other Biblical writer mentioned it. **>|<

In the Book of Luke, and only there, do we find the story of Christmas. There alone do we read the thrilling picture of the shepherds o4 the hillside, the angel'chorus, the virgin mother tending her Babe whose cradle was a manger. There only do we find the inspiration for all the ringing joys, the sublime emotions that have caused the world for near two thousand years to celebrate Christmas. Yes, it was Luke alone who gave us Christmas. ***

Luke, you may recall, was a practicing physician in the Greek city of Antioch a number of years after the crucifixion, when Paul dropped in there to preach and teach Christianity. And, just as the Twelve dropped all that they had and followed the Carpenter, and as Paul had done later, so did Doctor Luke-no doubt a man of culture and education-drop all that he had and followPaul. He followed the great Salesman throughout the world, caring for him,

ministering to him, never forsaking him through prison and out and right to Rome where Paul was putto death. FIe was the greatest friend history has any record of, steadfast as Truth itself, and he stayed with his friend until death did them part. Paul called him "the beloved physician."

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And after Paul's death, Luke, who never saw Jesus, being one who came after, set out to gather the materials for the two mighty books he was to write, The Book of Luke, and the Acts of the Apostles. It is thought likely by Bibli cal students that Luke went back over the land where Jesus had spent His short life. We can imagine him visiting many parts of the Palestinian countryside, seeking traces of Him, asking the old folks if they had seen Him, and what they remembered. And so he wrote into his books many stories that have beautified the world and brightened the hearts and souls of men ever since; stories that the Biblical writers who were contemporaries of Jesus apparently never knew.

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He heard the story of the Prodigal Son, the story of the Good Samaritan, the sublime tale of the repentant thief on the cross, and others that make the Book of Luke the most beautiful composition in all literature. And just think ! ft was simply a long, long letter, written by a Greek doc-

Animated Displays Developed

By Weyerhaeuser

Tacoma, Wash., Nov. 12-Two animated displays have been developed by the Weyerha€user Timber Company to tell the stories of tree farming and diversified manufacturing. Central unit of each 3-panel exhibit is an automatic slide projector unit, which screens 35 color slides that illustrate highlights of tree farming and forest product manufacturing. Background panels of the display graphically show the importance of a permanent forest industry to employees, communities, tax-dependent bodies, customers, the general public and shareholders.

The displays can be transported readily and are available for use by banks and other interested public agencies in Oregon and Washington communities.

tor to a Roman scholar named Theophilus, about a Jewish Carpenter named Jesus. yn:, a drama !

And in that book he wrote the story of Christmas. Somewhere, somehow-where and how we shall never knowsomeone told him that precious story. Was it some bearded shepherd leaning on his staff and dreaming backward through the years to a wondrous figure he once saw, who related that tale to Luke? Was it some grey-haired grandmother, spinning in the doorway somewhere along the Sea of Galilee? Was it some dreamy-eyed religionist who had heard the story and car.ried it in his heart until along came Luke? We shall not know.We can only assume that it gave added zest to the writing genius of Luke, and from his pen came "the sweetest story ever told"; the story of Christmas had become. tTrl."t;

And so every Christmas carol that comes piping from happy, childish lips; every "Merry Christmas', that carries its message of good-will, of friendship, of love; every bit of happiness the joyous season affords; every good thing that has to do with the Christmas season, is certainly a gift from Doctor Luke of Antioch, the man who gave us Christmas. So why should not each of us, on Christmas day, take just a moment and devote it to contemplation of one of the greatest guys who ever lived, and say, .,A Merry Christmas to you, too, Doctor Luke?"

Celotex Continues Successful Campaign

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Now,, advertising program snowballing, The Celotex Corporation is continuing its campaign through the late summer and early fall months with full page insertions in national magazines according to Henry W. Collins, Celotex Executive vice president.

Two more attractive, low-cost homes have been designed for Celotex and will be featured in these advertisements. Celo-Charts containing floor plans, elevation drawings, areas, dimensions and other cost estimating data on each house have been prepared and are being offered to prospective home builders in the forthcoming ads.

Tens of thousands of interested people have sent for Celo Charts on the first three houses featured earlier this year. These prospects were referred to Celotex dealers, and to date, dealers from all parts of the country are reporting most satisfactory results in the form of business directly traceable to this campaign.

Mr. Collins cites the experience of the Liverpool Lumber Co., Liverpool, N. Y., as indicative of what can be expected from 100 per cent cooperation on the local level with the Celotex national campaign. This dealer reports the sale of materials for 40 houses directlv attributable to his tie-in with the Celotex program.

Special literature, display material, newspaper ad mats and other effective sales aids are available to dealers who wish to tie in their own local campaign with the Celotex national promotion to stimulate home building and remodeling. See your local Celotex representative or write direct to The Celotex Corporation, Chicago 3, Ill.

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WHETHER you've ever bought from us

Or whether you ever will;

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We enjoy the holiday pleasure

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A veryMerry Christmas

And the wealth of our Good Will

lrumber Industry Is One of "ffps and Dowrls"

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Richord A. Colgon, Jr., Executive Vice President National LumberManulocturersAssociation

Historically, the lumber industry is one of "ups and downs." Our "ups" go higher and our "downs" lower thar, almost any other American industry. In 1949 we experienced a little of each. Starting at a relatively low level, production and shipments picked up through the year, and the last severalmonthshave approached the near-record highs for this time last year.

The official figures tell only a part of the story because they include only the starts for which permits are requiredA short drive through the rural communities in any part of the country should convince us that farm building has kept pace with construction activities in the city. It has been estimated unofficially that more than a quarter million rural homes were built in 1949.

Richard A, Colgan, Jr.

Because of the slow start at the beginning of the year, total production will be several billion feet below the 36 billion feet figure of 1948. This slow start, lasting for seven months, rvas largely due to the dropping off in the building of new homes the last half of 1948 and the first few months of 1919.

During that time, the lumber market was influenced very largely by the overall weakness of business in general and the shrinkage in consumer buying. From the peak in August, 1948, prices of lumber decreased on an average of 15 per cent in twelve months, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Lumber distributors feared further declines and most dealers placed their orders from day to day to take care of current requirements only. Inventories at the mill increased at an alarming rate and became more and more unbalanced.

First quarter production was also held down by one of the most severe winters on record. There was a general lack of confidence on the part of the industry, and a feeling cf uncertainty regarding what Congress was going to do about wage increases, public housing, and about the everincreased spending of the taxpayers' money. As a result, thousands of marginal mills discontinued operations, and many of the better-established mills shortened their hours or eliminated extra shifts. The lumber industry feared that it rvas due for one of its lowest "downs."

But in the third quarter the lumber industry made a quick reccvery. In August there was a general upswing in business throughout the country; and the volume of building continued to climb month by month, reaching its peak in September when 100,000 new non-farm dwelling units were started, according to Government figures. It now appears likely Ihat 1949 will prove to be a record-breaking year in the building of new homes.

No industry is more sensitive to the laws of supply and demand than that of the lumberman. The general improvement of business conditions and the continued upsurge of building we:e reflected in increased orders for lumber. While production during August, September, and October compared favorably u'ith last year's high levels, a more encouraging sign was evidenced by the continuing high rate cf orders received by the mills. From mid-July, the National Lumber Trade Barometer has consistently shown new orders to exceed production. The rapid increase in mill stocks was halted, and there was a healthier relationship between unfilled orders and inventories. A number of mills which had been unable to cope with the combination of decreased prices and the ever-increasing cost of production resumed operations.

In spite of a discouraging first two quarters, it is believed that total production in 1949 will reach the 31 billion foot mark.

Many of the uncertainties which kept the industry in a state of suspense during the year have been resolved, some of them unfavorably. The 75c minimum wage law has been passed by Congress and signed by the President, to be effective January 24, 1950. Industry now faces an extension cf the Wage and Hour Law to groups of its employees not formerly covered.

The existing problems are still unsolved and ner,v problems must be met. The upswing in building, while increasing the demand for lumber, introduces a new risk in the form of a greatly extended credit made available to homebuilders of less than substantial means through the facilities of the F.H.A. Obviously any substantial increase in general unemployment could seriously threaten those too dependent upon this type of risk.

On the other hand, it may be assumed that the public housing program, which will cost the taxpayers billions of dollars, will help hold the demand for construction lumber at fairly high levels during 1950, particularly in those large metropolitan areas where local housing authorities have already planned new developments. The Timber Engineering Company, an affiliate of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, has distributed a list of housing proj-

ects planned formilitary and naval bases (TECO release 74O).

The lumber industry should not be lulled into a sense of false security by the defeat of the Administration's attempts to repeal the Taft-Hartley Law. The continuous threat of new pro-labor legislation cannot be disregarded.

Another problem which faces industry is the depressed condition of lumber exports. At the time the Marshall Plan was put into effect in the spring of 1948, it was naturally expected the enormous amounts of money furnished the E.R.P. countries would result in increased purchases of American products. In the case of lumber, the reverse was true. Lumber exports to Europe, especially to the United Kingdom, are far below the 1947 levels, and much lower than during the depression days.

The full effect of the devaluation of the English pound and the reduction of our import tariffs will probably be made more clear to us in 1950. The minimum effect of the lowering of our tariff walls will be to increase competition for foreign goods. Certainly the devaluation of the pound will stifle the hopes of those expecting to reestablish the export of lumber on a prewar scale.

In looking ahead, the lumber industry will have need for its faith in the private enterprise system. We will need aggressiveness in salesmanship and in the customer service policies which have characterized the lumberman over the years. And most of all we have need of forgetting personal differences and sectional interests, to close our ranks in preparation for the most determined fight of which we are capable to preserve not only the lumber industry itself but to insure the right of every American business man to operate without fear of Government interference. coercion. or regulation.

Named Industrial Relctions Mancarer

Ukiah, Calif.-Bernhard M. Carlson has been selected as industrial relations manager for Masonite Corporation's wood fiber hardboard plant, which is under constructiou here.

E. T. F. Wohlenberg, Masonite's local general manager, said Mr. Carlson, whose appointment became effective Oct. l, has gone to the company's Laurel, Miss., plant where he will remain several weeks.

Prior to joining Masonite, Mr. Carlson had been for two years supervisor of industrial relations and industrial engineering for Pacific States Steel Corporation at Niles, Calif. Earlier he had been with the Columbia Steel Company at Pittsburg, Calif., for more than eight years.

Mr. Carlson is a licensed professional engineer in mechanical engineering in the state of California and a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He received a B. S. degree from the University of California in 7937.

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R. A. Johnson, Oakdale. Calif.

9long Dour srborrs, @l) Gslilee

Along your shores, oh Galilee, The silvery tides sing low tonight, And shadows as they come and go, Are luminous with mystic light; Upon your dreaming breast there lies, The mirrored image ofa star And golden overtones of peace Float down from unseen realms afar.

Along your shores, oh Galilee, Tonight the tides sing low and sweet; Perchance they sing of that blest time When first they laved the Master's feet: For here He walked beside the sea, Bidding its restless tumult cease, And lifting high that all might know The guiding lights of love and peace.

Along your shores, oh Galilee, As wind and tides in glad refrain, Acclaim the coming of the dawn, The Golden Legend lives again; The Master speaks to every heart"Love one another, is his plea, "Let kindly brotherhood prevail, In every land from sea to sea."

Along your shores, oh Galilee, The paths he trod are leading still And those who follow find the ways Of peace and justice and good will; And so we ring the Christmas bells And trim the lighted Christmas tree, In memory of One who gave The world its song of victory.

Peace Upon Earth, Good Will To Men ! The song rings out across the years, Putting our anxious doubts to flight, Calming and comforting our fears, Until in visions we behold The Master walking by the sea, And hear His voice in tides that sing, Along your shores, oh Galilee.

-Adeline Merriam Conner.

T HAS been said thatsentiment and business can not go well together. \f,/e sinc ercly believe they can! Believing so, we thank our many lumber dealer friends for patronage given Lrs and at the same time express our hope that this holiday season will open a ye*r of prosp erity and accomplishment for every one of you.

AS wE BEGIN OUR SSTtl YEAR in the efficient manufacture and distribution of QUALITY Sash and Door products

JOHN W. KOEHL & SON, INC. is starting ,95O with TWO extra value-highly acceptable-building items for the Retail Lumber Trade...The most thorough architects and discriminating builders will choose fFUnfEDOR[ and oEZ WAY' folJing stairway becauseethey excel allsothers in STURDY CONSTRUCTION. DEPENDABILITY and ECONOMY.

During these many years we have endeavored to attain maximum Value and extra proffts for IOU by distributing our materials through RETAIL LUMBER DEALERS ONLY. We adopted this policy in l9l2 and it will be our responsibility for next year-and throughout the years to come-to assure YOU high-quality-equitable price-and dependable service

As we have measured up in character and integrity in the past-so shall we in the future.

John'W.Ko ehl & S orl, rnc.

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The Modern Doctor

Much has been written about that great character of a couple of generations back, the country doctor, who played a tremendously important part in the community he served. One of the best loved modern paintings depicts him leaning studiously over the sick child, while the anxious parents wait breathless on his opinion.

But the modern doctor is likewise a gentleman of parts. IIe must be diplomat, philosopher, and understanding psychologist, in addition to a sound man with the prescription and the scalpel. Likewise, he must possess a sense of humor, or he might break under the strain of other folks'

Named Sales Mcrncger

Cecil Whiteside, who has been a salesman for some time for South Bay Lumber Co., Hawthorne, Calif., which specializes in redwood lumber, has been appointed sales manager.

troubles.

This doctor we are about to tell about, was distinctly a hurhorist. The anxious young lady who had been advised to have that threatening appendix out as soon as possible, and was trying hard to build up her courage to the point of agreement, asked many questions that were answered in most kindly and reassuring fashion. Finally she asked:

"Doctor. will the scar show?"

He looked at her a long moment, then a twinkle came into his eye, and he replied:

"That, my dear, is entirely up to you."

Buys Ycrrd

Timm-Wenholz Lumber Co. has purchased the Artesia Lumber Co. at Artesia. Leonard G. Veenker, former owner, closed down the business several months ago because of illness. Timm-Wenholz Lumber Company is owned jointly by Lyle W.Timm and Alvin L. Wenholz.

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lumber Dips Then Rebounds in Forty-Nine An Editorial

Aboutthe first of last July it looked like the lumber industry was headed for some sort of depression. A recession had admittedly arrived and taken over the situation. The demand for lumber fell continually, prices dipped and dipped some more, pretty much in keeping with what was taking place in all the other important industries in the country. The effects of the dip differed considerably with various species and territories, but the whole lumber structure showed a lot of weakness.

Douglas Fir,withits tremendous mills and elasticity of production, seemed to suffer the sharpest blows, and, with the high price of labor and supplies in the Northwest, it was the weak link in the big lumber chain when the second half of 1949 started. The vacation season was deliberately lengthened, and numerous mills closed down, stating frankly that it was because of market conditions. Western Pine districts reported general market weakness, also, as did Southern Pine, while Southern hardwoods went deeply into the doldrums. The Redwood situation was not happy, either.

Then, quite suddenly and almost without warning, lumber began picking up. Lumber students watched the improvement warily, and had little to say in the way of prophecy. The demand for Fir drove steadily back up the hill, and prices went along. The mills were all soon running again.

To help the situation in Fir along came a very real and in some districi:s severe car shortage which still prevails as this is written. Southern Yellow Pine reports on produ,ction, sales, and shipments, suddenly took a right-aboutface and showed orders considerably surpassing production. Southern Pine boomed. The entire Western Pine market took on the same improved picture, and Southern Hardwoods came back into strong demand with improved prices. The whole face of the lumber industry changed in optimistic fashion. Hardwood flooring, which had become deplorably weak, especially with low grade items, acted like it had a shot in the arm, and swung sharply upward, both in price and demand. Redwood showed a general surge upwards.

As this piece is being written, optimism is reflected in every part and parcel of the lumber market. What of the immediate future ? Every man to his own notion, but most of the calm students of lumber think we are certain of a strcng lumber market for several months to come, at the veryleast. We have a very powerful market today in Southern Pine, Douglas Fir, Redwood, Western Pine, and Southern hardwoods.

Things are in far better condition throughout the indutry than the most optimistic would have predicted on July 1.

This Is The Philips lumher ffang

Here is a picture of a group that has made, is making, and rvill continue to make lumber history in California. It's a mighty nice likeness of Don Philips and his sons. And it's a mighty fine gang to make a picture of. If that isn't a look of great pride that we see on the handsome mug of Don Philips, Sr., tl.ren we're not seeing so good. And why shouldn't he be proud? He's got a complete lumber trust right here in his own family, and all mixed up in his own business-the Larvrence-Philips Lumber Company, of Los Angeles. Trvo of the three sons shown here with their father are already u'orking partners in the business, and the third will be as soon as he finishes school. Don Philips has the right idea; if you want good lumber salesmenraise 'em.

You can go back through the history of the Philips group, and all you find is lumber; and California lumber at that. Don Philips, Sr., was born in South Dakota, but early in his life his people pulled up stakes and moved to lumber and timber headquarters for California-Humboldt County. Of course that u'as not so far back as time goes, for the

Redwoods were already there when Don arrived, and he hustled and got educated so he could get started in the Iumber business. He graduated from Eureka High School and then from Humboldt State College. L-r his school days he used to spend part of his vacation time 'n'orking in the Itedwood sawmills, and the smell of sar,vdust \\/as permanently in his nostrils before he put on long pants.

In 1919 rve find him working for J. R. Hanifv Company in the lumber business in San Francisco, and he \r'as on his .rvay. In 1922 he moved to Los Angeles, Hanifv rnaking him Southern California manager, so the bo1' u.as evidently making good. Two years later he left Hanifr- and joined forces r,i'ith the Hart-Wood Lumber Companl', rvhose Southern California manager was a youllg man u.ho was destined to play a great part in his life. He 'r,r'as T. B. (Ted) Lawrence, a man gifted with business ability and personal charm to a high degree.

It was inevitable that these two so much alike young men shorrld become more closely allied as time went by, and in December, l9D, Don Philips and Ted Larvrence organ-

Lelt to right: Tom Philips, Don Philips, Sr., Don Philips, Jr.

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Let us co,try your heovy lumber invenlories - we render fosf, dependoble service on lumber speciolties qnd other requirements.

Weyerhcreuser Los Angeles Yord hqs huge stocks on which to drcrw. Effi. cienf, mechqnized equipment is mqintoined to qssure fqst hqndling of orders ond prompt deliveries. lf you need custom milling, we qre olso odmirobly equipped to service those needs quickly ond efficienfly.

You will like Weyerhoeuser service. Try us on your nexf lumber order.

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ized the Lawrence-Philips Lumber Company, and began doing a rail and cargo lumber business in Los Angeles. They made a grand team, enjoying the respect and liking of the entire lumber fraternity of California. So the business grew and prospered under the coordinated drive of these two fine men.

Ted Lawrence died on Feb. 2I, 1941, and Don Philips took over the business and has operated it with high success ever since. The company is now celebrating its 20th year in business.

At the time Mr. Philips left Humboldt County to move to San Francisco, he got a great break in life when he married Dorothy Anne Falk, she also of lumber origin and the granddaughter of Noah Falk, a pioneer lumberman of Humboldt County.This couple has four children. Don, Jr., and Tom are partners with their father in the Lawrence-Philips Lumber Company, and hold active sales jobs under his direction. A third boy, Lawrence, is attending Los Angeles High School, and when he finishes his education he will join the company and make it a quartette. Don, Jr., the eldest son, has been with the company nearly ten years. He spent two years in the Navy. Tom was in the Army a yeat and a half, and has been with the company two years. The fourth Philips' heir is a girl, Mrs. Rex Oxford, whose husband is a lumberman also. He is with the Ray Hill Lumber Company, Los Angeles.

This distinguished looking gentleman, Don Philips, Sr., is the grandfather of eight lusty kids, thus putting him right up there rvith Gus Hoover in the champion lumber grandfather race.

Well, folks, that in brief is the Philips lumber story for this time. It's the story of an unusually fine man rvho married a still finer woman and started raising a group of stout sons who will soon be doing all his work forhim.A very wise man, that Don Philips. And inall ways, a very successful one.

New Typ" Hardwood Flooring And Lumber'\X/arehouse

E. L. BruceCo., Inc., has constructed a new type lrardwood flooring and lumber warehouse at 47th Avenue and East 12th Street, Oakland, Calif.

The company also continues to operate its present San Francisco warehouse at 99 San Bruno Avenue.

It is expected that thenew Oakland rvarehouse will be open for business about December 1.

According to S. W. Eznekier, district manager, San Francisco, both flooring and lumber will be palletized in the new rn'arehouse in order to eliminate loss of time in loading lumber yard customers' trucks. "We will therefore be in a position to load any quantity of either of the two items on the customer's truck within a matter of minutes," Mr. Eznekier said.

Merchandising Help for Dealers

The Celotex Corporation has just released an important new type of merchandising help for the retail lumber dealer-a combined Sales Manual-Product Catalog-Retail Price List.

This new multi-purpose book is the result of a series of discussions between Celotex management and a number of dealers and industry leaders. The object of the talks rvas to find out just what Celotex might provide, in addition to their strong national advertising, literature, and other local sales aids, to further help the lumber dealer get a larger share of the dollars spent in his community.

It was determined that one of the most pressing needs was for complete, organized product information for use in training salesmen and for point-of-sale use by the salesman. As sales training equipment and as a point-of-sale aid, the Celotex book is a splendid tool. On each product page is practically all the information needed to do a real selling job at thepoint of sale-description-picture o{ product-uses-advantages (selling points)-data on sizes, cclors, packaging, etc.application instructionsretail price-and list of related items to helpsell the whole package at one time.

The necessity for a higher standard of salesmanship in these strongly competitive times has been repeatedly pointed out. Expansion of lines must be matched with expanded knorvledge. The salesman must answer all sorts of questions on use, application, sizes, etc. of hundreds of items. To do a really good selling job, he should know all the answers-or at least be able to find them quickly. Time and sales are lost when the information is scattered and incomplete.

An enthusiastic reception of the nerv Celotex book is predicted. It could well be adopted as a model for manufacturers in all lines servi4g the lumber dealer.

The telephone number at the Oakland warehouse is ItEllog 3-6677.

Aspen is one of ljnited States

Under a microscope \Mestern red cedar and Bald cypress look very much alike, although they do differ greatly in color, smell and texture when seen normally.

the most widely distributed trees in the

Annual Meeting National Retail Lumber Dealers Association Held in San Francisco

World in Which We Live," asserted that Government spending if not curbed will mean bankruptcy for both Government and business. He said that the federal budget for 1950 mav reach $45,000,000,000, and that if every owner of a life insurance policy cashed that policy, the sum, $44,000,C00,000 rvould maintain the federal Government for jtrst one year.

"Tl-re job of industry," Senator Cain stated, "is to sell its story to the American people. Those whoare selling Statism are doing it from door to door, pushing doorbells; and perhaps industry for the first time will have to sell the story of private enterprise in the same wa)'-from door to cloor-pushing doorbells."

Ilmmett J. Leahy, executive director, National Records N{anagement Council, and member of the Hoover Commission, spoke on "The Hoover Commission Report."

Arthur Srvorn Goldman, director of marketing and research, Architectural Forum, discussed "The Open-End NIortgage."

What can be done to lower construction costs was thoroughly discussed during the three-day annual meeting of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, held at the Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, November 9 to 11.

Effect of national and international trends, scientific and economic developments was spotlighted by national figures and authorities who addressed the convention.

Nationally known speakers included Senators Kenneth S. Wherry and Harry P. Cain; Arthur S. Goldman, director, marketing and research, Architectural Forum ; Emmett J. Leahy, member of the Hoover Commission, and Public Relations Counsellors, Ted Baldwin of New York, and Russell F. Bjorn of Stockton, Calif.

George K. Adams of Walnut Grove, Calif., president of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California, made a short address of welcome to the big gathering of lumber and building material dealers from all over the country.

President C. B. Su'eet of Longview, Wash., in his report said that the building industry has proved conclusively the superiority of free enterprise over government operation. "This system," he said, "still produces and distributes the best and the most, and, if living standards mean anything, at lowest individual cost in labor, in man hours, and in human effort."

Executive Vice President H. R. (Cotton) Northup declared that "the watchword of the 1949 annual meeting is that r.vithout adequate and aggressive distribution mass production fails to deliver lower costs to the buying public."

Senator HarryP. Cain of Washington, member of the Senate banking and currency committee, in discussing "The

Stanley lIorn, editor of the Southern Lurnberman, presided as master of ceremonies in presenting the plaques and awards to lumber dealers whose public relations work in their own communities has merited national recognition. The handsome bronze plaques were mounted on walnut.

"Government Relations-A Statement of Industry Contacts," lr.as the subject of a talk by H. R. (Cotton) Northup, executive vice president.

Ted Baldu'in, public relations counsel, Nerv York City, u,hose "Good American llomes Program" is being sponsored by the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association and the LI. S. Savings and Loan League, told of the devclopment of his program, r,r'hich is devoted to showing the average citizen of moderate means how to build a home of his ou'n and pay for it.

Tl-re Thursday, November 10, session r,vas opened by a report of the Educational Committee, by W. C. Bell, chairman. of Seattle, rvho outlined the developments of the retail lumber dealer's 30-day Short Course norv being held in l8 major universities of the country.

George Brosch follorved rvith a demonstration of the visual aid plans being developed for this year's use in conjunction u'ith university andlocal lumber dealer yard training.

Senertor Kenneth S. Wllerry of Nebraska, minority leader of the 81st Congress, delivered an address on "Congress and American fndustry." He said that the Pacific Coast's opportunities for development of trade u'ith the Far East are "slipping away to Red Communism" because of the administration's policy of vacillation and appeasement.

I{e u'as critical of both the foreign and domestic policy

George K. Adcms Presideut, Lumber Mer- Jcck Pomeroy chcnts Associqtiorr ol Executive Vice President, Northern Cslilonricr, wel- Lumber Merchants Assocomed delegctes. ciqtion oI Northern CcliIornic' :ncde

of the Government. He assailed federal spending and trends totvard regimentation at home, contradictions in European aid, and failure to move against Communism in China.

Clarence Thompson, Champaign, Illiniois, reported on the progress of the Dealer Research Committee of 100, an independent lumber dealer committee which has undertaken the raising of funds for research in the field of constructiori.

James Mack of Hollywood, Florida, chairman of the Materials Handling Committee, reported on progress made in analyzins the effectiveness and availability of materials handling equipment in retail lumber yards.

"What Is Public Relations" was thetopic chosen by Russell F. Bjorn, public relations counsel of Stockton, Calif. He outlined the job that confronts retailers in any field to make the public understand the business and functions of distribution and the part it plays in lowering costs.

Paul W. Watson, director of public relations of the National Association, reported on the scope of the present aational public relations program, and the effect of its activities.

Phil Creden, advertising manager, E,dward Hines Lumber Company, Chicago, and chairman of the National public relations committee, described the objectives and rec.ommendations of the public relations program. He pointed 'out means whereby the retail lumber dealer can carry out an essential public relations program in his own home town.

The Friday, November 11, session was an executive meeting of the board of directors. Reports were received from the treasurer, W. A. Barksdale, and the Budget Committee, J. Hammond Geis, chairman.

It rvas decided to hcld the annual meeting in Houston, Texas, in 1950.

Actual registration was 577, but it was estimated that the attendance numbered at least 675, as many did not register.

Nfuch admiration \,vas expressed for the registration desk and fittings, which were designed and executed by the 'California Redwood Association as a demonstration of the utility of common grades in short lengths and narrow rvidths of redwood lumber. Ernest Born, AIA, was the architect. Fabricator was the South City Lumber & Supply Co., South San Francisco.

Praise was heard from many of the visiting lumbermen and their r.vives for the complete arrangements made by the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern Cali{ornia as hosts for sightseeing trips of great interest, and other entertainrnent.

A Hoo-Hoo Concatenation staged jointly by San Francisco Hoo-Hoo Club No. 9 and Oakland Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 r,vas held in the Empire Room of the Fairmont Hotel, on Tuesday evening, November 8.

A11 the officers of the Association were unanimously reelected. These are : President, C. B. Sweet, Long-Bell I-umber Company, Longview, Wash.; Vice president, Clyde A. Fulton, Colburn-Fulton Lumber Company, Charlotte, N ich.; Treasurer, W. Albie Barksdale. Charlottes-

New General Manager

William H. Kilkenny, wellknown r,r'est coast materials handling engineer, is the new general manager of the Hyster Company Southern California retail store, 5301 Pacific Building, Huntington Park, according to an announcement from Ray Ronald, western division sales manager.

Kilkenny, as a lieutenant commander, specialized for four years in naval material handling programs. He has since been engaged as a materials handling field consultant and in sales administrative work for the Hyster Company and has planned many of the large industrial installations on the lvest coast.

A graduate of Willamette IJniversity with post-graduate work at both M.I.T. and the Harvard Graduate School of Business, Kilkenny will head up all Hyster lift truck sales and service activities in Southern California counties.

HARVESTED Wg57 (',AST FO"E5T? F.E.,EED NATURATLY FROM SEED -TP.;EFS reFT B,t t-o@e?9. AT NI5QUALLY WA9H I NGfON, TI MBEiEMEN GROW MILLIONS OF BABY lqEgg EACI4 YEAR. TO PLANT 5POT5 WHER,E FIRE HAg oE9'tR;o,leD 9EEDIZEE5 OP.WHERE NATU RAL REFOtr,ESTATIO N FAILED FOLLOWING PP:9VIoUS HARVE9T1NG.

ville Lumber Company, Charlottesville, tive Vice President, H. R. Northup, 1200 Washington 6,D.C.; Secretary, E. H. Street, N.W., Washington 6, D.C.

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ByRobert O. Leonard \(/estern Pine Association

and it was this development which forced a number of the higher cost pine operations out of the picture, at least temporarily. The loss of these units, presence of which in 1948 provided the extra footage for the record 7144 million production, was in a large measure responsible for the deep cut in output. Even established mills, hobbled by weather, were unable to manufacture and ship at a pace comparable with 1948.

At the turn of the quarter, authoritative industry estimates foresaw a reduction of approximately ten per cent in second quarter shipments under 1948 but, surprisingly, actual performance showed a 0.6 per cent increase, on July 1. The trend reversal was more comparative than real, however. Where during the second quarter of 1948, excessive rainfall and flood greatly hampered operations, 1949 weather was the exact opposite and operators were able to compensate in part for handicapped first quarter performances.

Nineteen hundred and forty-nine-is apparently destined to be known, in the vernacular of Paul Bunyan, as the Year of the Big Winnow in the \Mestern Pine industry.

Like a rusty logger, the postwar pine industry, in common with so many others, ran into its first thoroughgoing test in the sweat of a changing market. And as everyone predicted, some of the superfluous poundage melted away, but the frame, sound like the basic economy it is, came through swineing.

Entering 1949 on the momentum of the largest production and shipment year in its history, the industry was beginning to feel the pinch of a shrinking demand. Late in 1948 many retailers, uneasy over the general election outcome and perhaps unsure that 1948's incredible building record could be duplicated, reduced their stocks in contrast to the previous early winter when they were still expanding.

And one of the worst winters in the history of the west chose that time to happen. The net result was a production reduction of 32.5 per cent in the first quarter ol 1949from 7248 million board feet to 842 million-and a drop of 28.8 per cent (1387 million to 987 million) in shipments.

The residential building market, meanwhile, was obviouslyshort of the strength of a year before. Starts lagged well behind in 1948 and, while the economy home program was getting underwav, the outlook was not bright.

As a consequence, the market showed no signs of reversing a downward trend that set in earlier in the year

Shipments in the second period totaled 1727 million against 1716 million for the year before and production jumped 4.8 per cent-1911 million over l8Z4 million board feet.

An approximation of the true condition appeared in figures for the entire first half. In that period shipments dropped from 3103 in 1948 to 2714 million-a slip of 12.5 per cent. Production meanwhile slidfrom 3072 to 2753 million, or 10.3 per cent.

But at thispointwell established mills, able to meet customer requirements and ship thoroughly dried, wellmanufactured stock, were handling a volume of orders not far removed from the same period of 1948. Continuing lack of firmness in the market, however, kept many highcost plants under slow bell or entirely suspended.

The situation remained unchanged through the third quarter. Uncertainty as to the ultimate outcome of the then current economic readjustment was the basis for mid-year predictions of third period shipments approximately ten per cent under 1948-still, by prervar standards, indicative of a good lumber demand.

Preliminary estimates at the end of the quarter showed shipments were 10.7 per cent under those of 1948 and production was off 14.7 per cent. The figures were: Shipments, 1852 million against 2O74 in 1948; production, 2019 million in 1949 and 2367 the year before. For the first three quarters shipments of 4566 million were off 11.8 per cent from 1948 and production of 4772 million was down 12.3 per cent.

But, again, decreased production and shipments were felt onlyslightly by the backbone of the industry. Despite the turn froma seller's to a buyerls market, most

Log deck silhouette-operctions qt most established Weetera Pine Mills equipped to meet customer requirements continued ct lull tilt ihrough 1949

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millswhich could furnish product quality demanded by the buyer, and could produce at a cost in line with current market values, maintained a volume of business at near 1948 levels. The reduction in total regional performance resulted largely from the lower operating rate of marginal unitsand of units with facilities inadequate to satisfy custonrer requirements.

Unfilled order files exceeded 700 million feet at the end of September, the largest order file at any time over the past three years.

Inventories follou'ed their usual pattern during the year and while larger than 1948 were still below those of prervar when, in addition, demand was considerably less. Starrding at 1625 million on Dec. 31, 1948, they dwindled to 1527 on March 31 before turning uprvard to 1700 on June 30 and 1880 million on Sept. 30, 1949.

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hos moved to o new locolion in order lo keep poce with our exponding production-lo offer o better service during l95O-ond lhroughout lhe yeors io comelo our old cuslomers ond new occounts .

,9tadoaPodis monufoclured from kiln dried lumberproducts of selected QUAilTY ond GRAIN. li is processed by speciol equipment io remove the soff, or summer growth wood, leoving the hord groin or winter growth slond out-creoting the SHADOWOOD effect. Color schemes for finishing ore truly unlimited. Beoutiful qs well os unusuol ontique effects moy be developed for SHADOWOOD which ore impossible to obtoin from ony other wood surfocing.

,9tdoanodis monufoctured for use in Southern Colifornio homes-for remodeling ond new conslruction. SHADOWOOD is new ond different-it connot be motched ot ANY PRICE. Contocl us lodoy for courleous cooperolion, ond so you will be oble to offer this product of DISTINCTION to your potrons

Fronk W. Biggs, President,

Predictions on Oct. 1 were fora volume of shipments during the balance of the year at about the same level rvith those of 1948 or about 1500 million feet. Home construction, despite its hesitant start, bounced upward in the summer months and in August exceeded its 1948 pace by 11,000 starts. Good early fall weather promised building at the same rate.

The Western Pine outlook for 1950 rests, as always, very largely on the home construction industry. And that apparently depends upon the willingness of builders to accept a market like that of late 1949 which, as one penetrating observer pin-pointed it, was neither a buyer's market nor a seller's market, but a salesman's market.

Alert builders in 1949 found that better planning, more equipment, better locations, extra neighborhood features and salesmanship paid off, in low brackets and high. At the lor,ver end of the scale, Long Island builder William Levitt boosted his plans from 4000 to 4700 units on his $7990 house. And at the other end, Washington and Chicago developments ranging from $25,000 to $50,000 per house-'rvell located and attractively designed-were filled as rapidly as the doors were hung. Builders who simply built houses, on the other hand, found them standing empty months after completion.

Income is currently 7 per cent higher and purchasing power 6 per cent above 1948. Savings are three times rvhat they 'ivere in 1940 and private debt is at an all time lorv. Some 22 per cent of all families have incomes of $5000 or more and 47 per cent have incomes of $3000 or over. If 1950 rvill hold forth as a buyer's market, it will be unlike any in history.

It \\'ill then, in truth, be a salesman's market, up and dorvn the line. From manufacturer, through rvholesaler to dealer, the organization with the ability to produce and a 'rvillingness and facility to sell will probably find 1950 a year of good business.

Appointed Mcncger

Bob Sutton, formerly with Associated Lumber Co., Los Ar.rgeles, has been appointed manager of Airline Lumber Company, San Diego.

John Boone is yard superintendent.

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IWq,nt To Build a, Honte C. C. Sherlock

I want to build a home. A house of generous size and low-flung roofs, caressed by the gentle shade of great trees, where Permanence and Strength shall be reflected; a house where little voices may babble in the ecstacy of babyhood, and grow to the full blush of youth, and in the fullness of Time come to maturity, and age, and grow old, and nod, and sleep. A house where my children's children shall be nourished and fed and protected by these same walls that have sheltered and protected me.

I want to build these little lives which have rooted in the garden-soil of my soul so that they, too, shall endure. Build them so that they will know the glory that Love is, the joy that Happiness is, the peace that Contentment is. I want to root them in the eternal truths, and nourish them witl-r the true ideas of usefulness and service. I want to build them unafraid-gentle as the daisies nodding in the fields, sturdy as the rock-ribbed hills, strong as Love.

I want to build a garden where loveliness dwells; a gar-

den where the lingering pictures in Memory's eye come into being, and all the dreams I have dreamed of Paradise nestle at my feet in my own dooryard. A garden where mine enemy dare not come lest he, too, be charmed into forgiveness. A garden where the divine laboratory of Eternity lies in my hand, and speaks in untold tones the delights, the mysteries, the wonders of the Hand behind it all.

I want to build a home where Love will drvell. A home valued not by the dollars it cost, or the richness or materials of furnishings going into it, so much as by the happiness it has created. A home which has grown dear and near because of the stress and storm it has weathered, the tears it has dried, the smiles it has caused. A home where patience, and effort, and denial have brought their treasures of happiness, and contentment, and peace.

I want to build a home.

In Charge of Research Department

Chris L. Christensen, vice president in charge of research for The Celotex Corporation, ?ilnounces that Edrvard J. Jones is designated as in charge of the Corporation's Research Department, effective November l, 1949.

Dr. Jones, a member of the Celotex Research staff, is being raised to his new duties upon the resignation of Wallace Waterfall .as Celotex Director of Research to become Executive Secretary of the American Institute of Physics.

Edwqrd l' Jones

previous to his association with The Celotex Corporation, Dr. Jones was for several years engaged in research activities in the building material field. He received his doctorate degree from the Institute of Paper Chemistry, Appleton, Wisconsin.

Hears Talk on Hoover Commission Report

Roy Stanton, Sr., co-chairman of the Los Angeles HooHoo Legislative and Educational Committee, called a group of lumbermen together, including the heads of the Los Angeles yards, and other persons interested, for a luncheon meeting at the University Club on November 16.

Neil Petree, president of Barker Bros. and distinguished Los Angeles civic leader, was the speaker and he gave an excellent talk on the Hoover Commission report, pointing out what the lumber industry can do to assist in this most important u'ork.

Attending the meeting were Roy Stanton, Sr., D. C. Essley, Al Privett, Park Arnold, Lathrop Leishman, Paul Orban, Orval Stewart, George Clough, Bob Osgood, Ole Mny, Paul Hallingby, George Lounsberry, Tom Fox, George Kelly, Wayne Mullin, Jack Brodie, Jack Brush, Roy Stanton, Jr., Harry Welton, Harl Crockett, Birk Loeffler, Ed Martin and Neil Petree.

The Legislative and Educational Committee of the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club includes Co-chairmen Roy Stanton, Sr. and D. C. Essley; Harl Crockett, George Lounsberry, Al Privett, ParkArnold, Bert McKee, Lathrop Leisl-rman, Paul Orban and Orval Stewart.

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A. M. Batliner of the Long-Bell Lumber Cornpany's Los Angeles office, pictured above with Mrs. Batliner, recentl;r received his 30 year pin. He started with the company as a stenographer in the Kansas City office and reports that he was first employed by Mr. W. A. Barker, norv retired and living within a few blocks of the Batliner home. Irr 1920 he was moved to the Sash and Door Department as an order clerk, and in 1922 rvas transferred to the Los Angeles sales office. After about trvo years in the office he went on the road and now covers the Southern California territory. N{r. and Mrs. Batliner have two sons, Bill witli LJniversal International Pictures Corp., and Larry, a senior at the University of Southern California.

-The Log of Long-Bell, October, 1949

Colf ins & Meyer,lnc., Specializing In Dry Redwood

Collins & Meyer, Inc., rn'ith offices at 42OO Bandini Boulevard, Los Angeles 23, manufacturers and rvholesale distributors of redwood lumber, have available 500,000 feet of dry redrvood per month. This lumber is manufactured and produced in conjunction with Empire Redrvood Co., Gualala, Calif. Mc-.st of their lumber is being distributed in the east, middle west and south, including bevel siding, pattern stock, mouldings, dimension, finish and dry commons. Green commons are sold in the Southern California market.

Wm.. F. N eyer of Portland is president of Coliins & Meyer, Inc. C. D. Collins is vice president. Rruce Yergen is secretary-treasurer, and Dean Jones is sales manager. The company's telephcne number is ANgelus 3-5133.

Wilh C. P. Henry & Co.

Joe Matlick has joined the sales staff of C. P. Henry & Co., Los Angeles rvholesalers. Joe was formerly sales manager for the Whiting-Mead Co. in their Los Angeles office and was with the company for fourteen years. He is rvidely known in the lumber trade.

Philippine Mahogany

By Valter G. Scrim President, Philippine Mahogany Associotion

The year 1949 has been a period of readjustment for the Philippine Mahogany industry. As this year draws to a close the industry finds itself in a much firmer position than at any time since the 'close of the war. Again supplies are adequate and the discriminating buyer is turning towards Philippine Mahogany, knowing that this wood offers the utmost in beauty and economy.

In the period immediately following the war the industry was plagued with apparently insurmountable obstacles. The destruction of many mills in the Islands by the retreating American forces and the attempt of the Japanese to move mill machinery to their homeland had resulted in the disappearance of many of the larger mills. Many experienced lumbermen had lost their lives and others were anxious to leave the Islands. Mill machinery was very difficult, if not impossible, to secure. The need for all the lumber that could be produced for reconstruction work irr the Philippine Islands themselves was very acute and strict export controls were established by the Philippine governmerlt.

In the United States the problems were also very diffictrlt. After an absence of four or five years from the American market the public had to again be made Philippine Mahogany conscious. Organizations which had specialized in Philippine Mahogany, both in its sale and use, had been forced to turnto other woods during the war years.

When the Philippine government finally eased export controls and limited quant'rties of Philippine lumber were finally available the importers entered the market with 'vigor and were pleased to find a strong response on the part of the consuming trade. However, another problem appeared. Maritime strikes on the Pacific and Atlantic coasts paralyzed. imports and once again the consumers were forced to turn to other woods for a source of supply.

It is not necessary to point out that the first months of this year were difficult for all types of industry. The buying public reduced their purchasing at the retail level. Retailers and manufacturers, fearing the worst, and anxious to reduce their large inventories of raw materials saw fit to curtail their Purchases.

The Philippine lumber industry, both in the United States and in the Islands, faced the problem squarely' Lower costs of production due to increased output and the mod-

ernization of the larger mills and the utilization of more advanced methods of logging and milling enabled a reduction in prices, although it was realized that the decrease in purchasing was not rvholly, or even in any substantial part, due to prices.

The Philippine Mahogany Association, composed of a majority of the larger importers in the United States, spearheaded action to gain reductions in freight rates. Some reductions have been granted and others are pending at this time.

The problems of the industry were discussed fully at the Annual Meeting of the members of the Philippine Mahogany Association held at Colorado Springs, Colorado. An advertising program was outlined and work was immediately started. At this time over 30,000 brochures are being distributed throughout the United States by the P.M.A. and its members. These brochures, in addition to listing the salient features of Philippine Mahogany, also contain a guide to finishing Philippine Mahogany which has met with the enthusiastic response of all who have seen it.

The Philippine Mahogany Association has also been joined by the Philippine I umber Producers Association of the Philippine Islands in their efforts to promote the use of Philippine woods in the United States. These two organizations u'orking together are attempting to show the ultimate consumer, as well as the manufacturer. the many advantages of these Philippine woods.

While the importation of sawn lumber has been much lower than prewar the importation of logs has increased several hundred per cent. Only high-grade peeler and veneer logs are being imported for the manufacture of veneer for panels and doors. As the use of these items beccme widespread it is only logical to assume that the demand for sawn lumber for furniture and trim will increase also.

The Philippine Mahogany industry faces the year 1950 with the assurance that it will provide an even wider market for their product. At the present time Philippine Mahogany is coming onto the market at prices comparable to domestic and other foreign woods. The high cutting value of Philippine woods, together with its strict grading makes it an economical and sound buy.

Appointed Scrles Mcrncarer

Harry Shedrick has been appointed sales manager for the Whiting-Mead Co. of Los Angeles, succeeding Joe Matlick. Harry has been with the company for the last ten years, and was formerly assistant to Joe Matlick. His many friends in the trade are glad to hear of his promotion.

Wclter G. Scrim

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club Christmas Party And Golf Tournament

Tl-re Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo will hold its annual Christmas Party and golf tournament at the Oakmont Country Club, Glendale, on Friday, December 16.

The golfers rvill tee off at 12:19 p.m. Prizes to be arvarded will include the Roy Stanton, George .E. Rearn and The California Lumber N{erchant trophies. Other prizes will be ar,varded to the rvinners of the various special events. Door prizes will be given to the holders of the lucky tickets.

The Christmas party rvill be held in the Club House in the evening. Dinner rvill be served at 7 :I9 p.m., followed

bya fine entertainment program and the ar,vard of prizes to the winners in the golf tournament. The dining room will be decorated in the usual holiday atmosphere, including a beautiful Christmas tree.

President Tom Fox and his committee are arranging for a splendid program and a big turnout is expected. Send in your reservations early.

New Plywood Compcny

North Pacific Plyrvood, Inc., is the name of a new concern that is operating the plant formerly operated by the Oregon-Washington Plywood Co. in Tacoma, Wash. The 11ew company is headed by Alvie Erb, and with him are nine former employees of Oregon-Washington Plyr,vood Co.

October Construction Volume Sustains Upward Trend

New York, Nov. 10.-The building upswing which started in August gained striking momentum in October, according to an analysis by F-. W. Dodge Corporation released here today.

Contracts awarded last month in the thirtyseven states east of the Rocky Mountains totaled $1,061,751,0m, the third highest monthly volume in the Dodge statistical series dating back to pre-boom days of the Tr'venties.

The only other months showing a higher volume rvere June, t942, when construction for war purposes was at a peak, the total then being $1,190,2&,000, and September of this year, when tlre total rvas $1,093,724,WA.

Last month's building and engineering contract volume rvas off 3 per cent from September's record, but was up 36 per cent over October of last year.

Investment commitments last month brought the cumulative total for this year in the thirtyseven states to $8,472,459,0@ or 4 per cent higher than in the corresponding ten months of last year.

The October upswing was reflected inall major classifications of building and engineering r,r'orks, and in both public-account and privateaccount contracts, with public-account projects contributing slightly more than private work to the over-all trend.

Nonresidential a'rvards in October amouuted to $357,085,000 or 3 per cent more than in Septernber and 13 per cent more than in October last year. Striking gains over the two previous months of comparison were reported for educational and science building, hospital and institutional construction and public nonresidential buildings.

Residential awards last month totaled $500,702,000. This volume was dorvn 5 per cent from September but was up a phenomenal 69 per cent over October of last vear.

ook with wolnuf pegs New"Decorqlor" Afternnte 2Vq" and 3Y+" widlhs,

We ore grotefui for our Lumber Industry Friends. And crgoin we toke pleosure in extending Cordiol Good Wishes for

Redwood Outlook for 1950

By Sherman A. Bishop, General Monoger California Redwood Association

The year 1949 u'as cne of preparation, for the redwood industry in general, for what is believed will be an active selling year in 1950. The California Redwood Association and its member mills, fully cognizant of this, have been active in research. A more complete utilization of the log has been studied; improved and accelerated methods in both air seasoning and kiln drying have been developed, and new and broader marketing ideas are being perfected. It should further shermcn A' Bishop be noted that for some time now a sincere effort has been made by responsible operators to perpetuate yield through better forest management. The adoption of the Redwood Tree Farm movement is the latest proof of sincerity in this regard.

As a preliminary step in the preparation for the coming year, the Association produced a new 3o-minute sound and color film-"Sempervirens." The film deals primarily with the uses for redwood, but includes woods, mill, and secondgrowth sequences to round out a complete redwood story. Bookings for over 5O prints owned by members and the Association have been solid since production and current requests indicate almost solid bookings for the coming year. The favorable reaction to "Sernpervirens" occasioned the decision to produce another fifteen minute training slide film in color. The latest film,entitled "Box Score." is made up of about eighty slides that are automatically projected in conjunction with an appropriate narrative record. "Box Score" tells the story of the physical and mechanical properties of redwood, quoting and showing the authority for each statement made. Like "Sempervirens" the film "Box Score" is getting heavy bookings.

The value and usefulness of the Red.ivood Data Book cannot be over-emphasized. This manual, rvith letter size pages, represents the findings, records and authoritative data collected during the existence of the Association, now inits 33rd year. More than 300 pages of factual redwood data in the possession of redwood salesmen equips these men with uncluestioned authority on redwood. The Redwood Data Book is recognized by deak:rs, architects, specifiers and schools asthe most authentic and complete compilation of redwood data the world over. Recognizing it as a potent sales tool for 1950, many sheets have been revised and new ones added in anticipation of next year's demands. A pocket-size Data Book has just been printed,

which, while it does not serve as a substitute for the larger one, contains helpful factual data on redwood. This book_ let is also available through member mills.

To prepare for the upsurge in farm building, the Association has been busy reactivating its farm division. New Data Sheets and specifications on popular farm units have been added to the Redwood Data Book and, others now onthe drawing board, will soon make their appearance.

Numerous calls on dealers, farm bureaus, and schools, have indicated the need for more of this kind of contact rvork in 1950. Twelve miniature redwood farm units, constructed to exact scale, were made and exhibited at test county fairs and dealer shows. The enthusiastic ac_ ceptance already received means that the Association will schedule many suchexhibits during the forthcoming year.

With an eye toward next year's industrial business, the member mills and the Association have been gathering facts and making testcalls on industrial users of redwood. Heretofore, the bulk of industrial business for redwood has been east of the Rockies, but, with the tremendous increase in population industrial growth in the west, industrial customers for redwood has picked up proportionately. This condition warrants considerable attention on the part of the redwood operators. Known outlets, such as tank companies, cooling tower concerns, casket manufacturers, and pattern makers, are being maintained. Nerv users, such as smog control manufacturing companies, recovery tower concerns, and core stock buyers, are being developed. Smallindustrial customers are being sought too, and lumber dealers, realizing this, are putting in stocks of commons and shop redwood to service these industrial needs. Considerable emphasis will be placed on industrial sales in the future, as redwood is a specialty wood serving special uses best.

Perhaps the most outstanding marketing experiment of the year was the two test redwood seminars conducted in Texas. The Dallas and llouston trading areas were selected for the experiment because they represent a comparatively nerv field for redwood. Each seminar, of two days' duration, r,vas an attempt to bring the sawmill to dealers and architects, as well as sales representatives, since it was impractical to bring these people to the sawmill. At each seminar a complete carload of mixed redu.cod was unloaded and displayed. Grades and uses were discussed in detail.The story of redwood, the Association, and its many sales aids was outlined tothis entire group and both new films were shown. These sessions, made up of more than 200 dealers, architects and specifiers, were climaxed with lively floor discussions.

The seminar experiments proved so successful that a

gcod many will be scheduled for 1950. This, it is believecl, will aid materially in increasing the demand for redwoocl where it is needed most and a widening ofits uses across the nation.

Shipments for 1949 overthe previous year were not as heavy as might have been expected in spite of the fact that p:-oduction ran higher than in 1948. Knowing full wellthat the demand for processed lumber is increasing and will continue to increase in 1950, the redwood operators have put many millions on sticks for subsequent drying in the kilns. This of necessity has meant the sacrifice of many sales during 1949, but now that the drying cycle is nearing completion, shipments should shor,r, a decided increase next year.

Additional kilns, new kilns, new milling and handling

equipment are becoming more and more evident at the major redwood mills. This is their acknowledgment of the fact that the most desirable and dependable outlets want redwood that is properly milled and thoroughly processed.

The California Redwood Association and its member mills feel that their intensive preparation this year will .pay dividends next year. They feel that the ground work made this year was necessary to qualify them for next year's potential volume. While prospects are good for redwood in 1950, the buyers will be more discriminating and insist on higher standards ofmilling, seasoning, and grading. Good markets for redwood will be developed in 1950, but to hold them, good merchandise and sound merchandising practices must be improved.

New Booklet Now Avcdlcble

"Be Sure When You Build," the newly-published booklet of the West Coast Lumbermen,s Association is now available free in quantity to retail lumber dealers. This eight-page booklet in full color is proving to be a highly effective sales aid for direct merchandising to customers and potential home builders. Widely different architectural styles and settings illustrate the versatility of wood as a home building material.

The textand illustrations tell thestory of wood in a dramatic way. The four main sections of the booklet serve to back up the title. They tell the reader to "Be sure your home will be practical," "Be sure of everyday liveability," "Be sure you're building for the future.', and "When you build a home, be sure and see your friendly lumber dealer."

Currently featured in the association,s national consumer advertising, "Be Sure When You Build" has already been mailed in response to thousands of individual requests. It will be distributed free in any quantity to retail lumber dealers u,ho request it from West Coast Lumbermen's Association, 74tO S. W. Morrison Street, Portland 5, Oregon.

Pennsylvcnic Tops Ecst in Tree Fcrm Acrecrges

Washington, D. C.-With the certification of 58,448 acres of privately owned, actively managed forestland October 5, Pennsylvania became the E,ast's number one Tree Farm state. Acreage certified represents 13 farm and industrial or.vnerships in the Keystone State's North Central Allegheny hardwood region near the cities of Kane, \Varren, Johnsonburg and Coudersport, Penna.

Largest of the Tree Farms dedicated in thc October 5 ceremonies !\'as a 57,538 acre tracr orvned by the Armstrong Forest Company of Johnsonburg.

Merry Christ

Distribution, Not Production Malres Lrow Costs Possible

"Thcre never has been such a thing as normalcy," C. B. Sweet, president of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, Washington, D. C., told the 700 delegates and members assembled in annual meeting at the Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, November 9.

"Let the industry lose faith in a mythical prosperity and a legendary past and grow up to face present day reality," he stated.

"We can look at ourselves now as a part of the huge distribution industry, which has, through aggressive selling, financing, merchandising techniclues,, persistency, honesty, integrity, solidarity, made it possible for mass production to flourish in this country and bring to the American people the greatest abundance of material rvealth ever bestowed on individual man."

American distribution ingenuity has made it possible for this country to distribute the unparalleled production of its factories, forests, farms, so that the individual citizen of this country has a standard of living exceeding that oi any other nationality, race, or sub-division of humanity, Mr. Sweet said.

"We can think of ourselves as an organized industry norv-the distribution arm of the second largest industry in the U. S.-the construction industry, employing over 5 million people in its manufacturing, distribution, construction segments."

This is the industry, he continued, that has been under

Roy StantontGets Official Recognition Of His Services to Hoo-Hoo

At a meeting of the newly elected Supreme Nine, held on October 28 and D, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and marked by 100 per cent attendance, representing each of the Nine Jurisdictions of Hoo-Hoo, the following resolution was adopted by unanimous vote:

Whereas, this past Hoo-Hoo year, ending September 9, the International Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo has experienced phenomenal progress, both in membership and in activities, resulting in recognition throughout the Industry, and

Whereas, these results have been due in great measure to the outstanding leadership of Past Supreme Snark, LeRoy H. Stanton, Sr., 31930, Nor.v Rameses 41, and

fire from socialist and communist high points, sniped at by bureaucrats entrenched in government foxholes. This is theindustry that government experts said last year couldn't beat its own 192.5 record. The industry did, but we had to publicize it ourselys5-eys1 1 million, one hundred thousand homes were built last year.

This is the same industry, he went on, that government expertssaid this year couldn't equal last year's record, but the sudden rise in construction rate figures are apt to disappoint our critics again. We certainly will beat the old 1925 record this year and we may very well equal the 1948 record again.

"This industry proved conclusively that the free private enterprise system still produces and distributes the best and the most, and if living standards mean anything, at lowest individual cost in labor, in man-hours, in human effort," Mr. Sweet declared.

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"Of course this was all accomplished without direct limitation upon needed stores and shops and industrial growth and development. We had abundant years in those departments of construction, too. The bureaucrat reasons wrongly that to have a lot of one thing, you must have less of something else. But the private initiative system says 'If you want to have something bad enough to work for it, you can have plenty of everything you really want., That philosophy works to produce an abundance of physical wealth for the American people just the same as it did before the depression and before WorldWar I."

"The Socialists and social planners tell us that we are all helpless victims of circumstance; unable to withstand the power of social mass movements. And rve would be helpless if we stood still and let false leaders ballyhoo false theories and lead us dolvn the path to slaverv." he concluded.

Whereas, LeRoy Stanton, through his unselfish and untiring efforts and his dynamic personality has inspired all Hoo-Hoo to greater accomplishments, and

Whereas, he has contributed unstintingly of his time and substance to spread fraternalism and the principles of Hoo-Hoo,

Now, therefore, be it resolved, thatthis Supreme Nine in annual meeting assembled, give official recognition to the service rendered to Hoo-Hoo by LeRoy Stanton, 31930, Rameses 41, as a member of the Supreme Nine, and particularly, as Snark of the lJniverse, and

That, the grateful appreciation of the Order be duly recorded in the Arctrives of Hoo-Hoo, and

That, a copy of this resolution be presented to him as evidence oI our brotherly affection, esteem and appreciation.

C. B. Sweet

Hoo-Hoo Club 39 Members Hear Wm. G. Paden

\Villiam G. Paden, superintendent of Alameda schools, was the speaker of the evening at the monthly dinner meeting of Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39, held at the Claremont Hotel, November 14.

The speaker was introduced by Al Kelley, Alameda wholesale lumberman, who was program chairman. Mr. Iraden's subject was "Cali{ornia Stage Lines," and he gave a rapid-fire account of the stage lines from their inception until the railroads gradually toc-,k their place.

Mel Matheny led the crowd in community singing. George Hull furnisl-red the piano accompaniment.

President Ed LaFranchi of Pacific Forest Products, Inc., Oakland, presided.

Jim Robinson, Wholesale Building Supply, Inc., Oakland, was the winner of the attendance prize of $10.00.

New Kiln Dryingr Concern

Castro Valley Kilns, Pat Stebbins, owner, recently started operation at 6Cf2 Castro Valley Boulevard, Hayward, Calif.

The kiln has a capacity of 60,000 feet, has direct and reversible air flow, is steam heated, and has automatic humidity and heat controls.

The r.rer'v plant handles custom kiln drying and milling in transit.

Kentucky Becomes Nqtion's TwentySixth Keep Green Stcrte

Washington, D. C.-More than 600 leading citizens of Kentucky, summoned by their governor to attend a forestry conference in Louisville October 28, voted unanimously to launcrrl a state-wide Keep Green program to prevent man-caused forest fires.

So enthusiastic rvas the overflorv forestry conference that the influential Louisville CourierJournal, in reporting the event, likened it to "an old fashioned revival meeting." The Keep Kentucky Forests Green program received endorsement not only from representatives of the rvood-using industries, but also from bankers, professional men, state offrcials, labor leaders, farmers, educators, newspaper publishers and u'omen's club spokesmen.

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Up Elm Street in homes, schools and churches , Down Main Street in stores, theatres, oflices, service stations and hospitals in every type of building, small or large, old or new, you'll find a ready market Ior Marlite.

Tap these profitable sales opportunities now, let your prospects plan on Marlite plastic-Iinished wall and ceiling panels to create beautiful, attractive interiors. The cost of the materials required lor a complete Marlite installation has increased less than 15% since 1940, meaning economy lor your customers and low-cost inventory lor you.

MAR,KET!

Don A. Campbell, secretary-treasurer of the Kentucky Retail Lumber Dealers Association, u,as named by acclamation to directthe permanent Keep Kentucky Forests Green organization. To assist Mr. Campbell in forming the permanent organization, Keep Green chairmen rvere elected to represent each of the state's nine Congressional districts.

Appointed Mcncrger of Mchogcrny Depcrtment

Frank L. Stork, long associated with the mah,ogany veneer and lumber business, has been appointed manager of the Mahogany Department of the Plyrn'ood Division of The Mengel Company, it was today announced by A. L. E,r.rtu'istle, vice president and general manager of the Plywood Division.

New Brochure

A new brochure describing Weldwood fire doors, designed for hospitals, schools, institutions, offices and apartment buildings, has just been issued by United State Plywood Corporation.

P"rronal,

Tom Fox of John W. Fisher Lumber Co., Santa Monica, and Mrs. Fox attended the National retail convention in San Francisco, November 9 to 11, and stayed over to take in the California-Oregon football game November 12, and the Santa Clara-St. Marys game on the 13th.

R. E. (Bob) Caldwell, sales engineer, Hammond Lumber Company, San Francisco, spent a week in Southern California on business, making his headquarters at the company's Los Angeles office. He returned to his desk November 21.

Volney Spalding of the Spalding Lumber Co., Los Angeles, returned November 2l from a business trip to Northern California and Southern Oregon, where he called on sawmills.

Elmer Hexberg, Hexberg Bros. geles, his wife and family, spent a Las Vegas, Grand Canyon of the

Lumber Co., Los Anweek's vacation visiting Colorado. and Phoenix.

Harold Baker, who has been associated sale lumber business in Los Angeles for now with Hill & Morton, Inc., working Angeles office.

with the wholea long period, is out of their Los

Roy Stanton, Sr., E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, and Mrs. Stanton, attended the California-Stanford football game at Palo Alto on November 19.

"Jerry"A. Nesmith, lvho was & Supply Co., Los Angeles, for left to open a market in the San folks. Good luck, Jerry.

Bill Cowling, Dixie Lumber and Mrs. Cowling, spent their

with the General Lumber the past four years, has Fernando Valley with his

& Supply Co., San Diego, vacation at Palm Springs.

Dale Fischer, sales manager, Fischer Lumber Company, Marcola, attended the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association convention in San Francisco, November 9 to 11. He took in the California-Oregon football game on the lZth, and left on a business trio to forva.

Stu Smith, Sierra Lumber Products, Brownsville, Oregon, attended the National Retailers annual convention in San Francisco, Novemtrer 9 to 11, and stayed over to be at the California-Oregon football game November 12.

Ralph M. Rounds, Wichita, Kansas, president Rockport Redwood Co. and Rounds Trading Co., visited the San Francisco office and the remanufacturing plants at Rounds and Marysville, Calif., around the middle of November.

\V. H. (Bill) Fahs, manager, California Panel & Veneer Co., Los Angeles, was in San Francisco on business early in November.

Forrest Wilson, Los Angeles, manager of the \Mestern Division of General Plywood Corporation, attended the annual convention of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association at San Francisco. November 9 to 11.

Tom Fox of the John W. Fisher Lumber Co., Santa Monica, president, and Orrie W. Hamilton, secretary-manager, of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association, attended the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, held in San Francisco, November 9 to 11.

L. J. (Larry) Owen, manager of the pine department, Atkinson-Slutz Co., San Francisco, recently called on pine mills in Northern California and Oregon.

Wayne Rawlings, manager of Harbor Plyrvood Corporation of California, San Francisco, and M. S. Munson, manager of Harbor Plywood Corporation of Southern California, Los Angeles, left November 11 on a trip to Chicago to attend a general sales conference. They traveled bv air, and rvill return November 15.

Earl E. Bowe, 1695 Catharine Street, Santa Clara, Calif., is sales representative for Wood Products Co., rvholesale Iumber dealers, Portland, specializing in California pine and Douglas fir.

Willard Ivarson, geles, and his rvife clistrict and oaid a

Tacoma Lumber Sales Co.. Los Anvacationed in the San Francisco Bay visit to the Redwood Empire.

Joe Allen, Jr., is now calling on west section of Los Angeles for Los Angeles. He has been with tober 15.

the trade in the SouthRoddis California, Inc., the company since Oc-

H.B.(Bert) Cooper

and John Lumber Co., Portland, attended ber Dealers Association annual cisco, November 9 to 11.

Mann of Cooper-Morgan the National Retail Lumconvention in San Fran-

Hank Aldrich, of I{. W. Aldrich Lumber Company, Eugene, Oregon, has returned from spending 10 days in the San Francisco Bay area. Before leaving for home he took in the big game between California and Stanford.

C. \V. Buckner, sales engineer, Harbor Plywood Corporation, Hoquiam, Wash., visited San Francisco and Los Angeles on business the first two lveeks of November, making l-ris headquarters at the company's warehouses.

Congrctulctions

Friends are congratulating Mr. and Mrs. L. J. (Larry) Owen on the birth in Oakland, October 13, of their fourth child, and first boy, David Llewellyn. Mr. Owen is in charge of the pine departmnet of Atkinson-Stutz Co., San Francisco.

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Lumbermen's Classes Draw Good Attendance The Three Bears

The Lumbermen's Class being held at Fresno State College, Fresno, which began October 18, will end December 13. Attendance at this class numbered 42. The roster is as follows:

Andrews, Laverne Yosemite Lumber Co., Fresno

Bevins, Floyd . K-Y Lumber Co., Fresno

Campbell, Jack .. C. S. Pierce Lumber Co., Fresno

Clifton, Jim Willard Lumber Co., Fresno

Clifton, Les Willard Lumber Co., Fresno

Clothier, Floyd A. C. S. Pierce Lumber Co., Fresno

Copland, Hugh Willard Lumber Co., Fresno

Davidson, W. C. C. S. Pierce Lumber Co., Fresno

Drake, Llewellyn R. .... .C. S. Pierce Lumber Co., Fresno

Englund, Eldon . C. S. Pierce Lumber Co., Fresno

Farrice, W. C. . .... tr'I. Kellner & Son Lumber Co., Fresno

Gallagher, Joe ... ..... Willard Lumber Co." Fresno

Green, O. N. .. . Yosemite Lumber Co., Fresno

Gurrola, Ernest C. S. Pierce Lumber Co., Fresno

Hanneman, J. G. C. S. Pierce Lumber Co., Fresno

Hedges, Carl R. Blackstone Lumber Co., Fresno

Howard, Vic C. S. Pierce Lumber Co., Biola

Johnson, Lawrence A.......,... Blackstone Lumber Co., Fresno

Johnson, C. T.. .. K-Y Lumber Co., Fresno

Kellner, Sam M. ... M. Kellner & Son Lumber Co., Fresno

Ladd, Howard .. Yosemite Lumber Co., Fresno

Madsen, Donald M. . Blackstone Lumber Co., Fresno

McKinnie, Charles E. . M. Kellner & Son Lumber Co., Fresno

Nelson, Reuben V. M. Kellner & Son Lumber Co., Fresno

Paniccia, W. D. Blackstone Lumber Co., Fresno

Popovich, Pete .. M/illard Lumber Co., Fresno

Prestridge, Homer M. Kellner & Son Lumber Co., Fresno

Rasmussen, Donald . H. C. Kofoid Lumber Co., Riverdale

Reed, William .. K-Y Lumber Co., Fresno

Rische, Robert C. S. Pierce l,umber Co., Fresno

Roehl, J. Wynne M. Kellner & Son Lumber Co., Fresno

Sanders, Robert M. C. S. Pierce Lumber Co., Fresno

Schaffer, Charles L. .... ... Citizens Lumber Co., Reedley

Schlothauer, Robert Willard Lumber Co., Fresno

Smith, Rudell ..... Yosemite Lumber Co., Fresno

Smith, Art .. Willard Lunlber Co., Fresno

Sisler, George . M. Ketl-rer & Son Lumber Co., Fresno

Snead, J. C. C. S. Pierce Lumber Co., Fresno

Waring, Dick Willard Lumber Co., Fresno

Watkins, Lewis H. Marion Nine Lumber Co., Fresno

Wood, Carl M. Kellner & Son Lumber Co., Fresno

M/ulf, Andrew, Jr. M. Kellner & Son Lumber Co., Fresno

The Santa Rosa Lumbermen's Class which began October 25 and r'vill end December 2A has an enrollment of 36.It is being held at Santa Rosa Junior College.

These courses have been sponsored by the Lumber I\ferchants Association of Northern California.

The Santa Rosa roster follows:

Arneson, Vernon Hammond Lumber Co., Cloverdale

Ault, William K. ......... A. F. Stevens Lumber Co., Healdsburg

Bartlett, Margaret Hammond Lumber Co., Sonoma

Belford, Ray Hammond Lurnber Co., Cloverdale

Bittenbender, Wiiiiam . Bittenbender Lumber Co., Ukiah

Bloyd, Donald Laws & Yaeger Co., Santa Rosa

Boom, Les Laws & Yaeger Co., Santa Rosa

Brunst, Frank Hammond Lumber Co., St. Helena

Cook, Clyde . Hammond Lumber Co., Healdsburg

Douglas, Leland . Hammond Lumber Co., Sonoma

Durdle, Ben Laws & Yaeger Co., Santa Rosa

Ganrber, Tino . Laws & Yaeger Co., Santa Rosa

Gardella, George Laws & Yaeger Co., Santa Rosa

Goodrich, W. Wayne A. F. Stevens Lumber Co., Healdsburg

Graham, Melvin Laws & Yaeger Co., Santa Rosa

Harris, Bill............ Double-O-Building Materials, Inc., Ukiah

Heer, Frank Hammond Lumber Co., Sonoma & Boyes Springs

Howard, Ray Laws & Yaeger Co., Santa Rosa

Johnson, Robert C. Sonoma Mill & Lumber, Sonoma

Kinsey, Russell . A. F. Stevens Lumber Co., Cloverdale

Knapper, John . A. F. Stevens Lumber Co., Cloverdale

Krie, Reuben . Hammond Lumber Co., Boyes Springs

1\{anning, Richard A. F. Stevens Lurnber Co., Healdsburg

Marcus, George J. Double-O-Building Materials, Inc., Ukiah Moore, Casey Hammond Lumber Co., Napa

The three bears, or their southwest Washington cousins, are playing havoc with the second growth Douglas fir stands in the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company's St. Helens Tree Farm, according to Ed Heacox, Weyerhaeuser managing forester.

Mortalityin ten to fifteen-year-old stands in the Longview area has been especially high the last two springs. Eighty percent of the damage is attributed to Bruin by Weyerhaeuser foresters.

The bears, according to John G. Miles, company forester who has been making a.survey of the damage, pick on the largest and most vigorous trees, usually in spots where the stocking is relatively light. They cherv the bark off, generally girdling the tree in the process. "The bears seem to relish the tender cambium layer between the wood and the bark in the early spring when it is especially sweet and moist and apparently more effective as a tonic and laxative," said Miles.

The exact extent of the damage has not been ascertaineC, but appears to be scattered over several thousand acres. Miles says there is an increasing bear population in the vicinity and cover is becoming increasingly favorable to them.

Furthermortality in the area is attributed to aphids. bark beetles, branch dieback, conk, carpenter ants, a variety of fungus diseases and winterkill. Damage from ail these sources is slightly higher than .nomal due to the severe winter this year, according to lleacox. "Growing and protecting trees for 80 to 100 years until they mature andcan be harvested requires continual vigilance," he added.

"Forest fires, disease, weather and bugs are bad enough without bears," Clyde Corman, Weyerhaeuser logging manager at Longview said in commenting on the unusual damage. "Timber is a crop," he added, "but we're not growing trees for those bears to harvest."

New Flush Veneer Door

Development of a ner,v Weldwood flush veneer door, with solid lumber staved core, is announced by United States Plywood Corporation.

Ray Arndt, manager of the company's door division, pointed out that the Lumber Staved Core Door comes in a wide range of sizes and in the popular species of hardwood face veneers. The carefully assembled core is made up of thoroughly kiln-dried basswood lumber, laid on edge in staved construction' Because 100 per cent waterproof phenolic resin glue is used, the door may

Maring, ]v\/illiam Hammond Lumber Co.' !t. Helena Morrii John .. Laws & Yaeger Lumber Co., Santa Rosa Novelli, James Laws & Yaeger Lurnber Co., Santa Rosa Oden, Ed. Double-O-Building Materials, Inc', Ukiah Pollman, Alfred Laws & Yaeger'Lumber Co., Santa Rosa Remy, Robert Hammond Lumber Co., Boyes Springs Seimeans, Fred ........ Laws & Yaeger Lumber Co., Santa Rosa Snow, Harry A. .... Hammond Lumber Co., Sonoma Stewart, William A. F. Stevens Lumber Co., Geyserville Tremblay, Fred ...... Sterling Lumber Co., Santa Rosa Zobel, Dale A. F. Stevens Lumber Co., Healdsburg

Dealers Plan Nationwide Program of Low Cost Home Construction

Over 500 dealers and builders from all parts of the country have pledged themselves to construct Good American l{omes based upon theIndustry Engineered Home principles, Ted Baldwin, Public Relations Counsel of New York City, told members and directors of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association in convention, Fairmont llotel, San Francisco; November 10.

Horv this nationwide program to construct better quality hon-res at lorver cost is being developed with Detroit ancl other Michigan cities as a pattern for the U. S. rvas explained.

"The National Retail Lumber Dealers Association and the U. S. Sar.ings & Loan League have joined forces in a promotional and educational program to promote home orvr-rership on a sound financial basis," Mr. Baldwin stated.

"The enthusiasm being reflected in hundreds of answers being received from all parts of the country poses now only one major problem, tl-rat of logically developing the program as it spreads across the U. S. in such manner as to provide each area 'ivitl-r the full advantages of a concerted newspaper effort."

Following the complete development in the Detroit and Michigan areas, the program will be put in force early in January in Florida, and move progressively foru'ard north and u'est as weather permits building to open up. Each region of the country will be timed and scheduled so that the man power available in industry, theater, radio, newspaper and other interested elements of the program can be coordinated and utilized to the fullest,the speaker explained.

The program has been heralded as a means of showing Joe Citizen how he can build a home of his own and pay for it. The program attacks the housing problem in a new way-by a well-rounded plan of education. First, the prospective home builder is sholvn the newest developments. Second, he is advised which type home would best suit his needs and income. Finally, he is shorn'n hor'v he can pay for it, Baldwin reported.

"Plans are being laid in Detroit for the construction of approximately 7500 Good American Homes to be built by Detroit builders in 1950 when the program is at its height," Mr. Baldn'in concluded.

Something has been added in the labeling of plywood produced at Associated Plywood Mills, Inc. It is the APMI trademark, and you'll find it together with the DFPA grademark on both exterior-type and interior-type panels manufactured by this company.

This combination of trademark and grademark isyour assurance that regardless of where you buy APMI plywood, you get the guaranteed products of a pioneer mill in theindustry...And you can purchase APMI plywood at any one of 14 centrally located sales warehouses from coast to coast, from experienced plywood men who ate eaget to sefve you.

APM| Stock I lengths: 6O"- 72" - 84' - 95' - l 08" - l 20" - 1 44"

Ponel Sizes I Widths: 24"- 3O"- 36"- 42"- 48"

ASSOCIATED PTYWOOD MILLs. INC.

fillLLSr Eugene, Oregon, and Willomina, Oregon

BRANCH SALES WAREHOUSES: Eusene ond Willomino, Oregon; 925 Tolond St., Son Froncisco 24, Colif.; 4814 Bengol St., Dollos 9, fex.; 4268 Utoh 5t., St. Louis l6, Mo.

SALES WAREHOUSES: Bessonefte & Eckstrom, 2719 S. Compton, Los Angeles I l, Colif.; Pocific Mutuol Eoor Go., 626 Tocomo Bldg, (Home Office), Tocomo, Wn.; l4O7 Fleet St., Boltimore 31, Md.; 214l Throop St., Chicogo 8, lll.; 5'16 South Ave., Gorwood, N. J.; Adoms ond Shownee Sts., Konsos City; 2235 Territoriol Rood, St. Poul 4, Minn.

New Building Material of Translucent Corrugated Glass Fiber Laminate

A new featherweight translucent building material, "Alsynite," is offered for use as interior screens, partitions, skylights, g'reen houses, patios, wind breaks, etc.

Because of the fact that it is shatter-proof, it presents an entirely new concept in shatter-proof shower doors and enclosures. Combining safety and beauty, its dimensional stability, strength, shatter-resistance and characteristics of withstanding water, heat and mild chemicals make it ideal for bathroom use.

Alsynite is available in a variety of colors, including rose, green, yellow, acquamarine, maize and opalescent, blue, as well as white. Panels come in large and small corrugations and flat sheets with symmetrical waffle indentations. It transmits light freely yet screens vision. Reflected light from the symmetrical patterns complements any type of architecture or color s.cheme.

Alsynite is a plastic resin, reinforced with long fiberglas fibers. Its richness in appearance is not unlike marble, except of course that marble is opaque, while this material screens vision, yet transmits light.

Strong, lightweight and easy to handle, it can be drilled, nailed, cut with shears andsaw. A special translucent mastic fastens it to wood, metal, cement, and all other materials. Ordinary sheet metal screws or bolts fasten the material to such surfaces. Used as a wall covering or partition, metal molding can be used to secure it in place.

Industrially, it is constantly finding new fields of application. Its exterior and interior uses are limited onlv bv one's ingenuity.

For further information on residence, commercial, or industrial applications, write or telephone to W. D. O'Morrow & Co., 4509 Firestone Boulevard, South Gate, Calif. Telephone is LOgan 5-5381.

Western red cedar bri,rgalow and beveled siding is sold in every state in the Union.

Picture showe excellenl excmple ol the uge ol Alsynite on the rool. gide qnd end wqlls oI c pctio.

Pope and Talbot Centennial Year Heralds Growth lVest Coast Lumbering

Tire year 1949 is a notable one for the state of California, since it marks the centennial anniversary of so many significant events of pioneering days. In the lumber industry, one of these early events which later came to have great importance was the organization in San Francisco on December 3, 1849, of the lumber finn of Pope and Talbot. For ever since, the story of Pope and 'Ilalbot's growth has been interwoven through the dramatic pages of the history of California

George A. Pope, Ir. and the West.

the firm-one at Oakridge the other at the Hood Canal near Port Gamble.

Direct descendants of the founders occupy executive positions today at the firm's modern offices at 320 California Street, San Francisco.

George A. Pope, Jr., president, has been in that position since 1940. Practically all his life has been spent with the company, beginning when he worked as a helper in the sawmills atPort Gamble during his school vacation periods. In the last war, Mr. Pope served as a major in the Transportation Corps of the United States Army. He is a grandson of Andrew J. Pope, one of the founders.

President

Today Pope andTalbot has three big sarvmills rvhich cnt logs into lumber at the rate of a million board feet a day. These mills are located at Po;t Gamble, \\rashington ; and St. Helens and Oakridge, Oregon.

Branch offices for administration and sales are locatecl throughout the United States from Vancouver to San Juan. A total ol l2A0 Pope and Talbot .ivorkers are entployed in the lumber division alone. A perpetuating timber supply is furnished by two Tree Farms operated by

Fred C. Talbot, first vice president, has also gained his entire business experience with thefirm, largely in the Iumber divisir,,n. Before taking up his present duties, Mr. Talbot was the manager of the Puget Mill Division, following a number of years spent in the rvoods and mills. He is the grandson of Captain William C. 'falbot.

The Graduate School of Business of Stanford University, recognizing the part played by, Pope & Talbot in the development of the Western United States during the past century, has just completed a comprehensive history of the firm titled: "Time, Tide and Timber." This book, comprising about 500 pages, authored by Edwin T. Coman, Jr., and Helen Gibbs is the first of a series of books to be published by the Stanford University Press

St. Helens Scrwmill.

ccncerning Pacific Coast businesses, and is scheduled for release in December of this year.

The history of lrope and Talbot lumber operations is a tale interwoven u'ith the story of winning the West, starting with the Gold Rush in 1849.

When Andrerv J. Pope and Captain William C. Talbot came \Mest a century ago, it was not for gold to be panned out of a mountain stream-but rather for the profits to be made in the lumber business in booming San Francisco. This business, Pope and Talbot, Inc., rvas begun December 3, 1849.

In 1852, with a grolving trade assured, Pope and Talbot both journeyed back to Mair-re to get the required backing for a neu, enterprise : a logging and sawmill operation in the vast timberlands of the Washington Territory. They secured the aid they needed, made arrangements to have all necessarv equipment (including a prefabricated sarvmill) sent by ship around Cape Horn to the Pacific Coast, ahd then returned to San Francisco to make further preparations for their project.

During the nextyear, 1853, Captain Talbot chose a site on Puget Sound called Teekalet by the Indians (now I'ort Gamble).

The following interesting account taken from the book, "Time, Tide and Timber," describes the dense timber stands that met the eye of Captain Talbot on his exploratory voyage:

"Iintering the ten-mile wide strait, close to the American side, the Pringle sailed for miles along the curved line <.rf the upper Olympic Peninsula, past miles of land so densely rvooded that a later traveler was led to exclaim, 'Timber ! timber-till you can't sleep.' Even at a distance, the coast line showed a covering of forest so dense that jungle seemed a better word than timber. The trees presented a continuity of green, impenetrable shade. They extended to the water's edge, and on the headlands tlrrust their arrowlike heads higher into the horizon. Even Mount Olympus in the distance reared its snow-capped crest above a collar of firs. Nothing was visible except an expanse of rvater and the still broader expanse of the 'forest primeval.'"

In September of 1853, the sailing ship L. P. Foster, 154 days out of Boston, was anchored in Puget Sound discharging her valuable cargo of machinery and equipment for the mill. By the end of the year lumber production s'as under \vay, and five years later the Port Gamble mill u'as the largest of 37 sawmills operating in the Puget Sound area.

In the 1870's the company bought two other milis in the Puget Sound area, one at Port Ludlow and another at Utsalady. With these and the Port Gamble millin operation, Pope and Talbot continued to bethe largest producer of lumber in the Northwest up to 1890.

The period from 1880 to 1900 was one of achievement

Hculing logs lrom ihe Pope & Tcrlbot loregt

and rapid growth. Duringthe 1880's production at the three mills was approximately 99 million board feet annually. In 1882 arc lights were installed in the mill at Port Gamble, and the company thus became the first user of electricity in the Washington Territory. In 1887 and '88 there was a real estate boom in Southern California, and Pope and Talbot spurred the rapid growth of that area by supplying millions cf board feet of lumber to builders. The following year, 1889, Seattle was the scene of a major fire; Pope and Talbot answered the call for help by contributing money and sending boatloads of supplies to aid the victims, andlater supplied great amounts of lumber to help rebuild the city.

Again in 1906, after the great earthquake and fire disaster in San Francisco, lumber from Pope and Talbot mills played an important part in rebuilding the city.

The year 1909 marked the establishment of a large lumber mill at St. llelens, Oregon, which was to come under the company's control at a later period. Three years after the mill was put into operation, a giant wood preservative treating plant was built in the same area.

The next big step came in October, 1925, when the company effected a merger with the Charles R. McCormick Company of Delaware, which also had large interests in lumbering. The result of this huge transaction was to create a new leadership on the Pacific Coast.

During World War II, Pope and Talbot turned every facility and all its manpower to helping the war effort. An Army-Navy "E" Award-one of only six given among 750 sawmills in Washington and Oregon-was presented to

the mill at St. Helens for its outstanding production record.

Operations in the Pope and Talbot Lumber Division today are a great contrast from the first Port Gamble Days of 1853, when a 45x70 foot mill was producing only 2000 bcard feet a day with a simple sash saw as a head-rig. Today the three modern large sar,vmills at Port Gamble, Washington; St. Helens, and Oakridge, Oregon, have a normal output of one million board feet daily.

Always a West Coast leader in the lumber industry, Pope and Talbot today ranks third in production among I'acific Coast organizations. Production is almost entirely concentrated on Douglas fir lumber. Its extensive timber holdings in the Pacific Northwest total more than 137,000 acres, with cutting rights on a great deal more land.

Tr,vo large tree farms have been established by the firm. Early in 1947 an area of 60,000 acres near Port Gamble was designated as the Hood Canal Tree Farm. Subsequent purchases at this tract have increased thetotal acreage to 75,000 acres. About a year later an area of 30,000 acres was set aside at Oakridge, which is now known as the Upper Willamette River Tree Farm.

In addition to President Pope and Vice President Talbot, officials of the firm include:

Hiilman Lueddemann-vice president and general manager, whose ofifices are in Portland.

J. Harold Cyr-acting Northern California sales manager (San Francisco).

W. B. Wickersham-manag'er, Southern California (Los Angeles).

In announcing the firm's Centennial Year and looking

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Double coursing creqles deep shodow lines, gives doubte insulotion qf no exlrq cosl. No wonder CEDARWAIIS, double cooled by the new WonderKole process, cqrry q double soles punch. No wonder lhey're populor qs qn exlrq profit moker for deqlers.

ahead to the future, George A. Pope, Jr., president, stated:

"The past century of growth of Pope and Talbot is an accomplishment of which we are naturally proud, since the achievement is shared by thousands ofloyal workers who have played their own important parts in the firm's history. Building on the sound foundation laid down by Andrew J. Pope and Captain William C. Talbot, employees of the past and the present-at the sawmills, on the ships, and in the offices-have made this company a vital force and a leader in the development of the West.

"Strength and leadership in any industry today and in the years ahead, in order to be rvorthwhile, must be accompanied by a deep sense of responsibility to the welfare of our citizens and our country. Pope and Talbot has always endeavored to follorv policies which serve the public interest as well as itsown-and lve will constantly strive to chart our course by the same standards in our second century ahead.

"It is our thought that the sound pioneering spirit of individual and collective enterprise which led to the establishment of Pope and Talbot 100 years ago still prevails today. With this steadfast resolution we look forward to continued progress for the welfare of our customers, our employees, and our nation."

Pope and Talbot, Inc.

Chronology of Lumber Division

1849-December 3, Pope and Talbot started in business.

1850-First lumber sales rvere early in January. First intercoastal lumber cargo, brought on the brig, "Oriental," by Capt. William C. Talbot, arrived in San Francisco March 4.

l853-Teekalet (Port Gamble), \\rashington, chosen as the site for the company's first lumber mill. Machinery and equipment were shipped from Boston to the Puget Sound location, and the mill was in operation by the end of the year. In the fall of the year, Captain Talbot brought the first cargo of lumber down the Pacific Coast-from Seattle to San Francisco.

1870's-Port Ludlorv and Utsalady mills on Puget Sound purchased.

1880-1890-Period of growth. Up to 1890 the company was the largest lumber producer in the Northwest, with an annual output in the 1880's of 99 million board feet. Port Gamble mill had electric arclights installed in 1882, marking first use of electricity in Washington Territory. Growth of Southern California helped by supplying lumber in the real estate

Survey Shows Preierence For Dining Room Color Scheme

What is the best color scheme for a dining room? According to homeowners and prospective homeowners all over the country, it's pastel r'vallpaper for the r,valls, rvith painted or enameled doors in white or cream. This is shorvn by a nationrvide survey of decorative preferences recently made by Ponderosa Pine Woodwork. Paint or enamel in white or cream is also preferred for dining room trim, the survey disclosed.

boom of 1887-88. Helped in Seattle fire disaster of 1889.

1906-Shipped 32 million feet of lumber to San Francisco to help rebuild the city following the great earthquake and fire disaster in 1906.

7925-Company merged with the Charles R. McCormick Company of Delaware, creating a new West Coast leadership in the lumber industry.

l94l-1945-War service. Achieved output of almost three hundred million board feet annually with double shift production at both mill sites. Pope and Talbot ranked third among 566 lumber producers on the Pacific Coast.

7947-Hood Canal Tree' Farm offrcially established.

1948-Third sawmill of company started production in April at Oakridge, Oregon. Three mills operate: Port Gamble, Washington; St. Helens, and Oakridge, Oregon.

1949-Upper Willamette RiverTree Farm officially established.

Pope & Talbot, fnc., Lumber Division Executive Offices

320 California Street, San Francisco 4, California

George A. Pope, Jr., President.

F. C. Talbot, First Vice President.

E. N. W. Hunter, Vice President and Assistant to Mr. Pope.

Charles L. Wheeler, Executive Vice President.

J. L. Paiva, Secretary-Treasurer and Controller.

I-umber Division Headquarters

3070 N. W. Front Avenue-Portland 10, Oregon

Hillman Lueddemann, Vice President and General Manager and Northwest Manager.

Cyrus T. Walker, Vice President.

Saxton B. Ferrell, Sales Manager.

Fred C. Talbot, Jr., Assistant Sales Manager.

W. N. Hammerschmith, General Mill Superintendent.

Clyde W. Osborne, Manager Creosoting Plant.

Port Gamble Mill-L. U. Hammerschmith, Manager.

St. Helens Mill-Nels Johnson, Mill Superintendent.

Oakridge Mill-A. M. Brooks, Manager of Operations.

St. Helens Creosoting Plant-R. B. Williamson, Plant Superintendent.

San Francisco-J. Harold Cyr, Acting Northern California Sales Manager.

Los Angeles-W. B. \\rickersham, Manager Soutl-rern California.

Nen' York-A. P. Leatherbury, Atlantic Coast Manager. San Juan, I'. R.-Emil G. Lassus, Manager.

Although paint leads in preference as a finisl"r for dining room doors, waxed or natural rvood finishes run a close second. The survey showed that 42.1/o of those responding preferred paint or enamel, while 30.6% preferred waxed or naturalwood. In woodwork trim, horvever. 48.8% preferred paint or enamel, while 25.6/o preferred waxed or natural wood. The preference for the natural woodlook u'as especially strong in the north central and 'ivestern regions, the survey shorved, while the northeastern and southern regions tend to prefer painted interior doors.

To Be firowers of Troes

"Our principal business is no longer the manufacturer of lumber," remarked a speaker ata recent national convention of lumber manufacturers; "our principal business today is the growing of trees."

And that statement is amazingly true. When sawmill men get together in any part of this country today to talk business, they talk more about trees than they do about lumber. What a mighty'change has taken place injust a few short years !

In the old days-that literally means from ten to one hundred years back-there was no talk of tree growing; no thiught of tree farms. They told each other how much stumpage they had left, and how much longer this timber would supply their mills. Hundreds of clear-eyed, brightbrained men all through the nation's lumber industry, did their thinking along this line, cut their timber, tore down their mills, junked their machinery, and moved along to other timber patches, or to other climes. I can name a legion of such men.

Today there are many mill and timber men who will tell you how far back they saw this perpetual timber supply coming, but if you'll check up you'll find they are kidding themselves-and you. Few were those who had even a forward glimpse of what could be done torvard commercial timber growing; while a constant supply of logs from the same land was merely a will-o-the-wisp indulged in by few and discredited by rr:'any, That magic term-selective logging-with all that it implies, was like sulpha and penicillin; it hadn't come along yet. A few men knew and practiced it two generations back, but not more than a handful of men believed in it enough to start doing it, until the last decade or two at the most.

But when the idea finally drove home, it was as contagious as human enthusiasm. First a fewgotinto the reforesting game, then many, then the multitude. Todav, as the old song went"Everybody's Doing It." There was a time, say thirty years ago, when any man who really believed the things about timber growing that we all know norv, could have parlayed a hundred dollars into a million. Those times are gone now; but the opportunity prevailed for a long while.

And so today the sawmill and timber men of this nation are genuine growers of trees, going continually farther and deeper into the practical practice of creating and providing a perpetual supply of logs for their mills.

Not long since a mill man threatened with a strike remarked: "f believe I would make more profit on the growth of my timber than I am making cutting it into lumber, so a shutdor,vn has no terrors for me from a financial standpoint." There are numerous others r,r'ho are in that same position. Another sawmill man recently shut down his mill and dismantled it, while still making

money cutting up his timber. He figured that if he would let his trees grow for ten years he could then rebuild a mill and go to cutting, and be far ahead financially of n'hat he would have been had he continued the present operation of his plant.

Specific examples of the miracle of tree growth are too numerous to be listed. They are found everywhere. There are more of them in the South where the Pines grou' fast than in other territories, but even the slower growing species of commercial woods are proving without question that tree growing pays, and that a commercial treesupply can be perpetuated almost anywhere trees normally grolv.

And with each year that passes from this time on, this situation will be intensified.

To be gro\vers of trees ! An inspiring philosophy !

San Frcrncisco Lumbermen's Club Christmcrs Pcrty

The annual Christmas Party of the San Francisco Lumbermen's Ciub will be held at the Palace Hotel at noon, December 20. Particulars of the program will appear in the December 15 issue.

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Appointed Scrles Mcncrger ol Veneer Depcrrtment

William H. Werst, formerly assistant sales manager, has been appointed sales manager of the Veneer Department, according to an announcement made by Bruce A. Dean, general sales manager of the Plywood Division of The Mengel Company. Mr. \Verst has long been identified with the production and sale of mahogany veneers and lumber.

USG Displcy

A pictorial presentation of United States Gypsum's plastering activities was exhibited at the 32nd annual Contracting Plasterers' f nternational Association's convention, held recently at the Statler Hotel in Washington, D. C.

A huge, 36-foot background supported photomural panels depicting various phases of United States Gypsum Company activities, rvith a central theme of "50 Years of Plastering Teamwork."

Supplementing this elaborate presentation, USG also had a large room adjacent to the main exhibition space. In this room IJSG had a display stressing the "continuous promotion of plastering to architects and builders across the nation." A second display that drerv a good deal of attention and interest was one illustrating, by means of samples, assemblies, and literature, the 18 new USG plasteritg developments introduced in the last 10 years, morenew developments than all other producers combined.

Alabama Lumberman Heads American Forest Products Industries

Washington, D. C.-N. F. McGowin, of the W. T. Smith Lumber Company of Chapman, Alabama, today (Nov. 2) was named president of American Forest Products Industries, Inc. He succeeds Sydney Ferguson, president of the Mead Corporation of New York, who has headed the industry-sponsored forestry otganization for the past two years.

Other officers named by the board of trustees at their annual meeting in the Mayflower Hotel here included: Walter J. Damtoft, Champion Paper & Fibre Company of Canton, N. C., vice president; Clyde S. Martin, Weyerhaeuser Timber Company of Tacoma, Wash.' vice president; P. H. Glatfelter, P. H. Glatfelter Company of Spring Grove, Penna., treasurer; Col. William B. Greeley, of Seattle, chairman of the board; and Charles A. Gillett, of Washington, D. C., secretary. Mr. Damtoft, Mr. Glatfelter, Colonel Greeley and Mr. Gillett were re-elected.

Nerv members named to the board of trustees for three year terms include: Charles H. Sage, Kimberly-Clark Corporation of Neenah, Wis.; Fred Dierks, Dierks Lumber and Coal Company of Kansas City, Mo.; and W. S. Lucey, Rayonier Incorporated of New York. They replace Stuart B. Copeland, Northwest Paper Company of Cloquet, Minn.; M. L. Fleishel, St. Joe Lumber and Export Company of Port St. Joe, Fla.; and WilliamD. Welsh, Crorvn Zelletbach Corporation of San Francisco.

W. O. McKay, Great Northern Paper Company of Boston, and D. B. Frampton, D. B.,Frampton Company of Columbus, Ohio, were named to fill three and one year vacancies on the board of trustees. Three other members of the board, Alexander Calder, Union Bag and Paper Corporation of New York; Leonard G. Carpenter, ShevlinMcCloud Lumber Company of Minneapolis; and Clyde S. Martin, Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, were re-elected to three year terms.

Holdover members on the board of AFPI trustees include: W. J. Bailey, West Virginia Pulp & Paper Company of New York; C. O. Brown, International Paper Company of New York; J. M. Brown, Northwest Timber Company of Spokane, Wash.; E. W. Daniels, Harbor Ply'ivood Corporation of Hoquiam, Wash'; James L. Madden, Hcllingsworth & Whitney of Boston; William Swindells, Willamette Valley Lumber Company of Portland, Ore.; John B. Veach, Hardwood Corporation of America of Asheville, N. C.; R. C. Winton, Wintdn Lumber Company, of N{inneapolis; Sydney Ferguson, Mead Corporation of New York; Walter J. Damtoft, Champion Paper & Fibre Co., of Canton, N. C.; P. H. Glatfelter, P. H. Glatfelter Company, Spring Grove, Penna.; W. B. Greeley, Seattle; and N. F. McGorvin, Chapman, Ala.

A non-profit organization, American Forest Products Industries sponsors educational programs in the fields of forest fire prevention, good woodland management and treegrowing. It is national sponsor of Keep America Green, the American Tree Farm System and More Trees for America. The organization maintains headquarters in Washington, D. C.

Douglas fir Mills Have Another Record Year

By Arthur \fl. Priaulx, Public Relations Director \West Coast Lumbermen's Associotion

Douglas fir sawmills of Western Washington and Oregon had their second largest postwar production year in 1949, according to H. V. Simpson, executive vice president of West Coast Lumbermen's Association. The 1675 mills of the region in 1948 cut 9.4 billion board feet, largest production since 1929's high cut of 10'3 billion feet. It is estimated the 1949 output in Douglas Fir Region of Oregon and Washington will be 9 billion feet, off about five percent from 1948.

"The demand for West Coast woods during 1949 has kept pace with our forecasts of a year ago," Simpson pointed out. "New home starts will reach one million in 1949, topping the 950,000 starts of the previous year'"

"America will need to build at or near the rate of the last two years for a number of years in the future," the lumber leader said, "if we are to meet the demands o{ an increasing population and expanding economy."

Pointing out that West Coast mills have the capacity and the forest lands to supply a large share of the nation's needs for lumber, Simpson said increasing investments by many operators in long-range forestry promised a perpetual florv of high-grade lumber from this region.

The growth of Tree Farms, now embracing more tharl 3 million acres of taxpaying timberlands in the Douglas fir region alone, and the adoption of scientific timber cropping policies by a large segment of the industry, is one of the outstanding industrial developments of the country. IJnder this program, private timberlands are being kept in full production, lands are being left after harvest so new crops r,l'ill come in rapidly from natural reseeding from seed trees and blocks of adjoining seed trees. All forests are being given excellent protection against fire, insects and disease. Improved utilization of forest resources, developed in the past decade, have greatiy increased the volume of usable material now brought from the forests. Mainly this has been possible because new markets have been opened up for the utility grades of lumber cut from this type of log. Expensive hancl planting programs have been adcpted by some o\\rners of forestlands and 6 to 7 million trees a year, grown by the Forest Industries Tree Nursery at Nisqually, Washington, are planted on.lands that will not restock naturally.

Simpson said tl-re West Coast lumber industry was preparing for a long-range demand for its products. He pointed out that the industry's national advertising program' rvhich during the past year has been so successful in acquainting lumber consumers with the importance of using the right grade of lumber for each job, had created a heavy demand for lou'er grades of lumber.

Their national advertising has two main purposes: to accluaint consumers with lumber's many uses and great flexibility and to aid retailers in selling all grades of lumber' Promotion during 1950 will be directed at three major lumber using groups: (1) new home builders, (2) remodeling and modernizing of older homes, and (3)to the farm industry, stressing both new homes and building and remcdeling.

The great increase in population in the nation will require construction during 1950 and the years ahead of homes and schools in tremendous volume, the West Coast lumber chief said.

Here on the West Coast particularly, Simpson said, an increase in population in the last decade of some 5O/o has caused a building boom of unprecedented proportions. This growth of the Pacific slope states has just begun. Industrial and business building will keep pace with home and school construction and all this means a ready market for lumber.

One of the great opportunities for retail lumbermen and lumber manufacturers during the next few years, Simpson believes, is in the field of home remodeling. During the year just ended, despite the heavy expenditures for new homes in a near record building year, Americans laid out $6/z b1|ition for new homes while remodeling took $7 billion. Of the nation's 37 million dwellings now in use, 21 million are said to be in good condition rvhile 16 million need to be replaced or rehabilitated. "IIere is a great potential market for lumber," Simpson urged, "rvhich both retailers and manufacturers should not overlook. Lumber lends itself readily to use in remodeling because of its great flexibility and versatility. Since most of the nation's homes are made entirely of wood or largely of u'ood, the use of lumber for modernizing and remodeling is axiomatic."

"We are putting our forest resources in shape for the long pull," the West Coast lumber leader pointed out. "We are taking steps nolv, while n'e still have many decades of supply of virgin timber, to provide continuing crops of timber for generations ahead. We have nearly licked the problem of fire protection. Now we are moving forward to obtain the maximum possible gror'vth of {orest crops on privately held timber land."

From the states of Oregon and Washington, we expect to continue to supply a large share of the nation's need for lumber and other forest products under a sound business program of permanent forest management, Simpson stated.

The West Coast lumber manufacturing industry is be- Wood is the only building material that grows again and coming increasingly promotion min<led, Si-p.on ot...rred. again. It is our only reproducible natural resourcc.

Ilonesty ilnd Dependilhility

It has often been said by philosophers that the fundamentals of human success are attainable by the man lvith a mind to think and a will to do.

Those fundamentals are honesty, dependability, ambi' tion, vision, courage, enthusiasm, energy, punch, and sticktoitiveness. And it has been as frequently said that "the last shall be first and the first shall be last." For, beyond any doubt the one prima asset that a man MUST possess in the race for human success, and upon which he must build ALL his superstructure with the other virtures mentioned-is HONtrSTY.

Lacking that first fundamental, the brighter, the smarter, the more ambitious, the more energetic, the more enthusiastic, the more punchful, the more courageous he is, the more staying qualities he has, the more dangerous a member of society he may be. There is no real place in the eternal scheme of things for the man who is not morally, mentally, physically, and eternally HONEST.

Opens New

The business 'rn,orld has learned that HONESTY is EVERYTHING. The most capable and vigorous and powerful personality on earth sinks below the level of mediocrity in the eye of the thinking world, when it is known that his integrity is questionable. To really succeed, a man MUST be straight.

And closely akin to dishonesty comes unreliability. A man may notbe downright dishonest, perhaps wouldn't take anything that did not belong to him under any circumstances, but if he is unreliable, undependable, then, so far as business is concerned at least, he is of little more value than the light-fingered man.

There is mighty little room in the world of men today for the man you can't "put your finger on" all the time. When you say of a man-"he is thoroughly honest and dependable"-you have given him praise that cannot be imoroved on.

Building in San Francisco

With an open house between the hours ol 2 and 9 p.-. Friday, December 2, Ihe Hyster Company will formally open its new industrial truck retail sales and service building at 4445 Third Street, San Francisco 24, California, according to announcement from Ray Ronald, western division sales manag'er.

The new store, covering 10,000 square feet, is located on a four-lane, arterial highway in a rapidly developing industrial area, and is considered one of the most modern materials handling equipment distributorships in the United States. Complete service for all makes of industrial trucks is provided in the 7pN square feet of the maintenance shop.

On display for the several hundred visitors expected to tour the new show room, of6ces, parts and service departments, will be seven different models of industrial trucks and a number of special-purpose attachments, manufactured by the Hyster Company atits factories in Portland, Oregon; Danville and Peoria, Illinois. Refreshments rvill be served.

R. L. Golden is manager of the organization, whose staff of 18 persons handles industrial truck sales and service in 43 counties of Northern California and 11 counties of \Arestern Nevada.

How The \Veff are State \(/orks in Ne* Zealand

The followingare excerpts from a letter from New Zealand, recently printed in The Mississippi Valley Lumberman:

"I have just returned from a two-months study of conditions in New Zealand after 12 years of Labor Government, 10 years of Social Security, and 8 years of Socialized Medicine

"The Labor Department defines 'social Security' as a 'social obligation to be financed by society' .I will simply state that in New Zealand today it is almost impossible to get anyone to work. The want ad pages of the newspapers corroborate this statement. Column after column of helpwanted ads with not more than one-tenth of one column of position-wanted ads, and the applicants clearly state that they must be their own boss or mistress or. in the case of a domestic servant, 'one of the family.,

"Under Social Security, which includes Superannuation Benefits, Age Benefits, Invalids' Benefits, Widows' Benefits, Orphans' Benefits, Family Benefits, Minors' Benefits, Sickness Benefits, Unemployment Benefits, Maori War Benefits, and Emergency Benefits, taxes are so high that there just are no private savings with which to provide the tools of production so desperately needed. And, as practically everyone is eligible for benefits of some kind, there is little incentive for people to work.

"Every family receives 10 shillings a week for every child from birth to 16 years of age. Consequently thcse rvho have large families (and the Maoris, who are prolific breeders, also bor;ow children when the government inspector comes around) are able to live comfortably on the g.overnment dcle. As housing is heavily subsidized by the government, it is possible to secure homes at a very low rate.

"IJnder Socialized Medicine it is extremely difficult to get a doctor to leave his office and come to a patient. Since everything is free people flock to the doctors for treatment cf the mcst minor ailments. Consequently the doctors are

treating three and four times the number of patients by remaining in their offices as they would by making calls. I'm talking quantitively now. I could give some shocking evidence of the quality of the treatments-some that happened in my own family. Medicine is free; so you are given prescriptions for twice as much as you need. you don,t pay for medicine at the drug store-simply sign a form.

"Obviously the money for all this must come from somewhere, and that somewhere is that part of the people's earnings that, left alone, would be used to create additional tools of production. As a result, the only step that would raise living standards by giving this magnificent ,country a balanced economy (agriculture and manufacturing) is being neglected. It is virtually impossible to save, and it is stupid to work, because most of one's earnings are used to sup_ port people who work very little or not at all.

"Under the Labor Government it is necessary to get a permit for constructing or importing anything. .Ihe bu_ reaucrats decide on how many rooms, how many bath_ rooms, and what color your house will be. My brother_in_ lat'l' spent more than six months getting the necessary permits to add two rooms to his house to accommodate a growing family. People don't voice their criticism for fear of being put on the black list or branded anti-labor. The upshot of it all is that the women of New Zealand are the hardest working people I have ever seen.

"They work from sun-up to long past sun-down. They do the cooking, housekeeping, marketing, baby-tending, washing, and cleaning-even shoe shining. yOU CAN'T GET A SHOE

SHINE

IN NEW ZEALAND. There are no deliveries and no servants to look after their babies. The mothers take their babies to market. The street cars have ro.ivs of baby carriages outside, on back and front. The carriages do perform an extra service, however, for one seldom finds a paper sack for groceries. Every item is wrapped individually in newspapers."

Long-Bell \|flill Be Seventy-Five Years Phil Pcndleton New Sisalkraft Old in 1950

The Long-Bell Lumber Corporation will be 75 years old next year, and will celebrate the anniversary in some very important fashions. Members of the Long-Bell staff are busy gathering data concerning the detailed history of the company, and literature of a most interesting character will be released to the public early in the coming year. The entire organization will join in the celebration, and some important dedications now in the course of preparation. will officiallv mark the anniversary.

Representative in Valleys

Phil Pendleton is thenew Sisalkraft representative in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys, succeeding Jim Murray, who has been promoted to an executive position in the Western Division offices of the Sisalkraft Co. in San Francisco.

Mr. Pendleton, a graduate of the University of penn_ sylvania, has been working with P. M. (pat) Olsen, West_ ern manager in the San Francisco office for the past year.

Oakland Yard Has Become lmportant Factor In Supplying Area's Building Needs

InterbayLumber Company, located at 333 Kennedy Street in Oakland, owns and occupies a four-acre tract with a 7@ foot frontage on the Oakland Estuary, and a deep-water dock covering the entire water frontage of the yard property.

Paralleling this 700-fcot dock is a spur track of the samt' length, allowing 13 fifty-foot flat cars to be spotted at one time when occasion demands. The yard at present emplovs about fifty-five persons.

The administration building, which houses the building store, fronts on a four-lane divided highway approactr connecting the ne.r,v six-lane Super Freervay from Oakland (and San Francisco) to Alameda and San Leandro. This r.vill eventually extend as far south as San Jose. The eastern side of the property has a truck entrance at the junction of two arterial highways, 23rd and 29th Avenues, connecting Oakland with the City of Alameda. Rapid access to arterials, either North, South, East or West, minimizes truck delivery time from the Interbal, yard.

'fhe company operates two modern 1S-ton lift trucks, three late model 66-inch lumber carriers, besides five large recent model delivery trucks, including one truck-andtrailer for longer highway hauls.

A complete stock of kiln dried fir, pine and redwood finish, large and varied stocks of sash, doors, and sundri,millwork items, plywood. plasterboard and insulation are carried intwo exceptionally large storage sheds, the largest being 50 x 120 feet with access to lumber carriers or lift truck handling from any portion of this shed.

The building store represents modern trends in designing lumber retail stores large windows fronting on Kennedy Street and flanked by beautiful, as well as bountiful flower planting, which not only is an eye-catcher in this heavy-industrial area but sets off the redwood rustic, stained sidewall shingle and brick exterior, all of which materials are commonly used in residence as well as commercial buildings. Inside this attractive exterior, a cllstomer is greeted by an attractive and efficient receptionisi and several well-trained retail salesmen who have estab-

Exterior view oI cdminietrction building which houses the Building Store.

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lished an enviable reputation for courtesy and kno'n,ledge -valuable to the professional as well as the lay-builder. The interior of the sto:e is enhanced by the use of several types of redrn'ood finish, Weldtex and other. items sold by the company.

Tool and hardware islands, neatly arranged shelves of Boysen Paints, complete stocks of building hardware, nails, samples of plasterboard, and all other types of building m:rterials are attractively displayed.

The entire second floor of the store building is occupied by administrative, accounting, and credit departments, its well as estimating and "take-off" rooms.

The yar<l is orvned by the Trvin Harbors Lumber Cotnpany, which has headquarters in Aberdeen, Washington, and Lyle S. Vincent, the latter acting as general manager of the yard rvhich, during a little more than three years' time, has become an established factor in supplying the building needs of this rapidly growing area.

Will Be Associated with Hawk lluey

Harrison Cale, wholesale lumberman of Denver, Colo., is moving to Phoenix, Ariz., and will be associated rvith Har,vk Huey.

Mr. Cale has been in the lumber business most of his life. He has covered the Kansas territory. Moving to Pittsburgh, Pa., he handled Douglas fir and Ponderosa pine, covering the territory from Buffalo to Detroit. For the past twenty years he has been located at Denver.

During World War I, Mr. Cale served in the Marines, :ud rvas decorated with the Purple Heart.

Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 Christmcs Pcrrty To be Held December 15

The annual Christnras Party of Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 will be held at the Claremont Hotel, Berkeley, on Thursday evening; December 15. A big crowd is expected for this event. As in former years there rvill be a good dinner and a shorv. D. H. (Lee) LeBreton is cl.rairman.

Los Angeles Lumber Firm Presents Lumber Book Shelf to Hish School Students

Eric M. Hexberg, L. A. Cuscnovich, Dr. Vierling Kersey

Furthering the program inaugurated by members of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association to make available to high school and college students information on the lumber industry onthe West Coast, Tarter, Webster & Johnson, Inc., Wholesale Lumber, has presented a 12 Volume Lumber Book Shelf to the Van Nuys High School and Valley Junior College.

EricM. Hexberg, resident manager of Tarter, Webster & Johnson, Inc., Los Angeles, made the presentation at the October 26th meeting of the Kiwanis Club of Van Nuys, and Dr. Vierling Kersey, principal of Van Nuys High Schools, accepted on behalf of the schools. L. A. (Lou) Cusanovich, of the Val Verde Lumber Co., Van Nuys, and president of the Van Nuys Kiu'anis Club, was also present.

Future lumbermen and lumber customers will have an excellent reference library of factual information on lumber, logging, forestry and lumber history as a result of this fine cooperation between a great industry and the schools of tl-re Western States.

The Book Shelf, which is available through the J. K. Gill Company of Portland, Oregon, contains the follorving: Knorving Ycur Trees, by Collingrvood and Brush; Burning an Empire, by Steu'art Holbrook; Douglas of the Fir, by Athelstan George Harvey; American Conservation, by Ovid Butler; This Fascinating Lumber Business, by Stanley Horn; The LostWoods, by EdwinWayTeale; Paul Bunyan, by James Stevens i Nou' We're Lcggin', by Paul Hosmer; Tall Timber, by Stewart Holbrook; Timber, by James Stevens; Skyo, by I\{artha Hardy, and Forest Trees of the Pacific Coast, by \\r. A. Eliot. On the bookplate attached to the flyleaf of each volume, the following is transcribed:

Presented to

The Van Nuys High School and Junior College

Through the Van Nuys Kiwanis Club

by Tarter,. \A/ebster & Johnson, Inc.

Wholesale Lumber

Los Angeles, California

Building Store ofice where customerE dre received.

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\(/estern Hardwood Lumber Organization Hears "The Upson Story"

"The Upson Story" was told, from many angles and through various media, at a sales meeting of offrcers, salesmen and key employees of the Western Hardwood Lumber Company, of Los Angeles, California, held recently in the Anchor Room at the Jonathan Club in Los Angeles.

Colorful displays descriptive of Upson products-StrongBilt full-wall laminated wall and ceiling panels; KuverKrak panels for recovering cracked plaster; DublThik.Fibre-Tile, both smooth and indented; Easy-Curve board for display purposes; and Upson Floating Fasteners -filled one end of the meeting room.

Henry O. Parry, Upson sales representative on the West Coast, discussed the jobber policies of The Upson Company, and assisted by George E. Ream explained the many uses and merits of the various Upson products for use in the construction field.

The meeting featured the promotional program that is being carried out by Western Hardwood Lumber Company, one of the leading lumber wholesalers on the West Coast, as jobbers of Upson Laminated Panels designed to serve the lumber dealer trade.

Displays of the Upson products used at the meeting rvili

be used at a number of various other dealer and salesmen meetings, conventions, and building shows throughout Southern California and adjacent territories.

Western Hardwood Lumber Company officers at the meeting included Frank J. Connolly, president and general manager; J. Glennon Cahill, vice president and secretary; Sterling L. Stofle, vice president and treasurer, and George E. Ream, vice president.

Sqcramento Hoo-Hoo Club

Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club No. 109 met at Wilson's Cafe for the regular monthly dinner meeting, November 16.

President Mitch Landis presided. The speaker of the evening was H. E. Hinshaw, district freight agent for the Southern Pacific Company. M. L. Bullard, freight agent at Sacramento, \,vas the Club's guest. Mr. Hinshaw's subject was "Transportation Difficulties and Their Efiect orr the Sacramento District."

Refreshment host for the evening was Building Supply Company, Sacramento.

OIlicerg cnd members oI the Western Hardwood Lumber Compcny orgcrnizction, oI Los Angeles, gcthered ct the Joncrthan Club in Los Angeles to heqr the story ol ihe Upton Compcny's products.

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Douglas Fir l,rumber (Coast

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Robert E. Mahaffay, Trode Extension Director \Uest Coast Lumbermen's Association

Douglas fir from the coastal region of Washington, Oregon and Northern California is one of the strongest woods, pound for pound, that has ever been tested. Tt enjoys a reputation throughout the u'orld as an all-pttrpose rvood o{ great dependability, and is sllprerne for both heavy and light construction. It commands respect n'herever it is used.

Coast Region Douglas fir is the most serviceable of all American sof twoods, being manuf actured into more use items than any other lumber soecies.

Through years of the most favorable grou'ing conditions, Coast Region Douglas fir has acquired the characteristics necessary to fine construction uses-stiffness, strength, ease of working, durability, and comparative freedom from rvarping, cupping or t'"r,'isting. These qualities have won it the preference of professional men, builders and consumers for cottage or mansion and industrial or utility use.

Carpenters and builders like to 'ivork with Douglas fir lumber since, rvhen in place, its performance and appearance rvin favorable comment from owner and architect alike. After framing, there is little or no distortion, pulled nails or black stain. These are among' the reasons for its popularity as framing members-sills, posts, beams, floor and ceiling joists, roof rafters, studding, plates, floor boards and sheathing. These items are available in various gradds; proper use of the lower grades where they will adequately serve the purpose, makes for economical construction. For exteriors, Douglas fir siding in various patterns is especially popular.

The appropriate grades of kiln-dried Douglas fir are excellent for the interior woodwork or finish of the finest residence as well as for the most modest summer cottage. The wood is beautifully figured, easily finished, and the color mellorvs with age. For interior trim, Douglas fir casing and base may be had in attractive patterns in both vertical and flat grain; it offers the advantages of a w'ortd having a substantial wearing surface that can be stained in engaging colors and that forms a fine base for both "vax and varnish finishes. Its beauty and serviceability are assets also in mouldings, milh,vork and stairrvays, and in rvindow sash and frames.

For interior floofs vertical grain Douglas fir presents a handsome appearance and will give long and worthy service; flat grain Douglas fir is recommended for surfaces which receive lesser degrees of wear and for floors to be covered rvith linoleum. For porch floors no material can equal vertical grain Douglas fir since it does not become slippery r'vhen wet, and when properly painted and otherrvise cared for it will not warp or buckle.

Douglas fir supplies the best in structural timbers. For trusses ofall sizes it offers superior strength values combined with greater ease in framing, lower erection costs. and lower dead weight. Structural timbers for this purpose are cut from straight-grained logs and remain straight as they season. The durability ofthis lumber is of eslrecial advantage in exposed trusses.

Close, straight-grained timbers for bridges and other types of heavy construction are produced from Douglas fir. Their stiffness and rigidity and their availability in reasonably long lengths, combined rvith r.veight thatis relatively lorv, permit the construction of spans of maximum length at minimum cost.

For highrvay bridges preservatively treated Douglas fir provides an economical long-lived installation rvhich can be easily dismantled and moved when highways are relocated.

It is used extensively in the construction of docks and rvharves. It provides piling, ties, timbers, plank, conduits, paving blocks and telephone and telegraph poles, either treated or untreated. Large quantities of Douglas fir timl>ers and planking are employed in mill or heavy timber construction. Construction of reinforced concrete buildings calls for forms lvhich are strong and stiff, and which rvill hold heavy masses of concrete rigidly in place. Douglas fir is l.ithout a peer for making fcrms for this purpose.

The railroads are exacting users of lumber; they are .rn1.Jng the largest users of Douglas fir. This species serves a mrrltitude of purposes, being popular among the carriers for ballasted deck bridges and trestles, station and other right-of-u'ay buildings, and many other items. It finds wide application as car material, giving high-caliber service for all softrvcod requirements, from clear siding to sills, framing and decking.

Again because of its strength, stiffness and durability, Douglas fir is sought for mine timbers, masts and spars, cross arms, wood stave pipe lines and flumes, ladders, tanks and tight cooperage. Its maximum stifiness and strength together rvith its light weight, make it desirable for crates and packing cases.

In the last tu,o rvars Douglas fir was the main suppl;r

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source for items such as ship decking and margin pieces, barge framing, ship planking and scaffold plank as well as heavy shipyard construction material tl-rat was used in building and maintaining shipyards. From the keel to the topmast, every item in wood that is needed in shipbuilding is supplied by this species.

Douglas fir lumber supplies many industrial plants with special industrial clear items manufactured according to the particular user's specifications. These users require high quality, specially selected lumber possessing distinct qualities essential to each use requirement. Among such products are farm implement parts, laundry washers, truck bodies and fire extension ladder stock.

The fine-textured stock obtained from Douglas fir provides many industrial users with stock parts or complete items, such as doors, window frames, sash, jambs and trim. The exceptional workability, durability and finish options make Douglas fir an excellent value for such use. It is also extensively used for gutter, adding a graceful finish to the eaves.

The natural regenerative characteristics of Douglas fir in its native region, coupled with wise forest practice, give full assurance that there will be a permanent supply of this all-purpose timber to meet all foreseeable needs.

Our Short-sighted Critics

(Editorial from Aug. 1949 lssueof the British Columbia Lumberman)

Short-sighted critics in Congress and some sections of the American trade press have, with increasing frequency oi late, voiced protests against the use of ECA dollars for the purchase of British Columbia lumber for the United Kingdom to the alleged detriment of West Coast U.S. trade with that market.

Such myopic critics casually overlook, or are possibly unaware of, the fact that Canada is the best customer the United States of America has. As the biggest market for United States exports of all kinds, she annually spends hundreds of millions of dollars more for U.S.-made products than she receives by way of American purchases from the Dominion.

Since no small part of these imports from the United States is bought with dollars secured through the sale of Canadian goods, including lumber, in overseas markets, particularly the United Kingdom, the thinking American realizes that it is vital to Canada's ability to support her U.S. trade relations that her historic export lumber movement should be maintained on as high a level as current international trade restrictions will perrnit.

If Canadians are to continue to buy in volume from the United States they must have the necessary U.S. dollars. A substantial part of these dollars come from overseas exports which today are dependent to a large extent upon the availability of Marshall Aid funds.

American critics are inclined to overlook, too, the substantial stake which U.S. capital enjoys in this Dominion, a stake which increased by a billion dollars between 1939 and 1947.

According to the Bank of Montreal, official estimates reveal

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George J. Stow

George Stow, office manager and inside salesman for Roddis California, Inc., Los Angeles, has a great capacity for work, and is always happy when there is plenty to do, as there is in his present position.

He was born in New York City 36 years ago, and came to California in 1923. He went to school at St. Catherine's M.ilitary School in Anaheim, Calif., and graduated from Polytechnic High School, Los Angeles. He attended Los Angeles Junior College for a year, and then decided to go to work. His first job was driving a truck for Max Vener in the lumber hauling business. He worked up to office manager, and then rvent with Back Panel Company, Los Angeles. He r,vorked in the office, applied himself to learning the plyrvcod business, and became an inside salesman.

George J. Stow

In December, 1942, he rvent into the Service with the lO4tlr Infantry Division, spent a year in the United States, and about a year overseas, where he saw action in Belgium, Holland, and Germany.

He got out of the Army in December,1945, and returned immediately to Back Panel Company, where he sold plyu.ood, doors, hardwoods, and softwood lumber.

In June, 1947, he came to Roddis California, Inc., as order clerk. l{e was promoted to office manager in July, 1948. George is enthusiastic about the plywood and door business, and is truly glad that the period is over when he had to say no so often.

In February, 1946, George married Miss Shirley Tittley of Los Angeles. They have two little boys, Mike 2 and Stephen, l.

George is a member of American Legion Lumbermen's Post 4O3, Los Angeles, and of the 104th Timberwolf Association.

He is a numismatist, a collector of coins, and finds relaxation in the pursuit of his hobby.

that United States-controlled manufacturing companies represented abort 37 per cent of the total capital invested in Canadian manufacturing in 1946. For Canadian industries as a whole, including non-manufacturing categories, the percentage of total capital investment which is U.S.-controlled is officially stated to be something less than 20 per cent.

Enlightened self-interest alone should go a long way towards silencing the voice of criticism in the American House and press.

Season's Greetings

SATES COTIPANY

Brings on opportuniiy to express our oppreciotion to oli who hqve contributedtoonotheryeqrofpleosont business reiotions.

Sincere thonks to you ond oll good wishes for your hoppiness ond prosperity in the coming yeor.

County-by-County Breakdown o[ Lumber Production in the Fir Region

Portland, Oregon, November l0-\\restern Oregon and Waslrington's 1,675 sawmills in 1948 broke lumber production records which have stood since 1929, according to H' V. Simpson, executive vice president of the West Coast Lumberrnen's Association. Douglas fir region mills cut 9.4 billion board feet last year.

This record volume of lumber was worth $690,0O0,000 in cash to the trvo states, Simpson said. It amounted to 26.1/o of the nation's total lumber cut last year. Oregon retained its plr.ce for the eleventh straight year, since 1938, as the nation's leading lumber producing state, and Washington held on to second place.

This production came from 26 million acres of rich, rairr forests of the Douglas fir region, Simpson said. This compact forest region, which makes up onlv 5.6/a ol the nation's 461 million acres of commercial forests. can sustain tl-ris lumber output perpetually foreste:s claim under forest management practices now being widely followed, Simpson pointed out.

Biggest consumer of Douglas fir lumber, Simpson stated, u,as California, u''hich took 2O/a of the total cut from the region. Next largest consumers are \Arashington and Oregon, follorved byIllinois, New York and Texas.

Output for 1948 topped production lor 1947 by more than 700 millicn feet, the lumber leader stated.

Lane County's 1,311,573,154 board feet output in 1948 rvas the largest for the entire region.Only three other counties in the Douglas fir section have exceeded a billionfootcut in the last quarter century, Simpson said. They rvere Grays Harbor, which topped a billion feet for three years, lrom 1926 to 192f., Snchomish and Pierce Counties, all in Washington. Multnomah County fell short of the mark by a few million feet in its best year in 1925.

Second highest producing county was Oregon's Douglas r,'i'ith 796,509,033 board feet. Top Washington lumber county is Cowlitz r.vith 573,975,446 board feet production, third largest in the Douglas fir region. Snohomish County, with 508,733,680 board feet cut in 1948 rn'as the second highest in Washington and fourth highest in the region. Other top p:oducers were: Coos with 504,91I,607, Jackson 'r'vith 502,810,261, Linn rvith 4K),316,759 (a11 in Oregon) and King in \\/ashington \\'ith 465,672,7 32.

Oregon's Douglas fir region (19 counties west of the Cascades) cut 6,366,466,809 feet in 1948 and Washington's fir region (19 counties west of the Cascades) produced 3,038,637,129.

Simpson said the forest products industries in the 38 counties of Western Washington and Oregon gave employment in their top month in 1948 to 147,378 wage earners.

Oregon's top month of employment for the 19 western counties was August, 1948, when 71,707 persons were em-

ployecl in the basic timber and forest products industries' This included logging, pulp and paper, plywood and other rvood-using industries, except furniture'

Washington's peak employment period in 1948 found 6l,96l persons engaged in logging, lumbering, plywood making and basic forest products, and 13,710 employed in pulp and paper making for the 19 western counties for a total of 75,671.

Lane county, rvith 12,517 persons employed in forest products industries, in August, 1948, lead the region, follorvecl closely by Pierce Ccunty with 10,032 in its peak month. Grays Harbor County, where a highly intensified manufacturing industry has sprung up in wood, was third highest employer for the region with 9,300 in its biggest month last year. King County with 8,822 persons employecl in forest products and Douglas County with 8,357 u.e:e third and fourth in the region. Much of this increased employment in cottnties where lumber production has dropped off is due to improved utilization methods, increasing re-manufacturing and expansion of the woodusing industries of the region providing more jobs per thousand feet of lumber processed, Simpson said'

Itoundup of fir region lumber production for 1948 for 19 \\restern \\rashington and 19 Western Oregon counties:

Timber ls a Crop -The Harvest ls Homes

ders on their peaks, are especially prominent in the Willamette Valley and Southern Oregon. On Puget Sound and Grays Harbor the great waterways carry floating islands of fir, hemlock, cedar and spruce logs.

"It's like stacking hay for winter feeding," says Kenneth Murdock, a forester whose business is checking log inventories in the fir region. "The loggers cut and store logs to feed the building market. They have faith in the future building demands for lumber."

Recently Forester Murdock put on his store clothes between trips to the timber and paid a visit to an apartmentdwelling project near Seattle. He talked logging and forestry to the carpenters on the big building job and the carpenters talked about the use of lumber in the woodframe units to him. Murdock returned to the woods with a new vision of the great log islands and mountains in winter storage.

Mighty mountcins of logs hcve been piled the length ol the Wegt Cocrgt to keep the mills humming cll winter in the ncrking oI lumber Ior home building. Here c Douglcs fir loresier ccllg on ccqrentere who cne working on one ol the 700 units oI cn cpcrtment house proiect. The logs in this picture would qII be needed io provide the lumber Ior 700 dwellings. In the bcckground youag Douglcrs 6rs trre growing to provide wood lor the homeg oI the luture.

Large islands of logs in water, mountains of logs in dry storage to keep the sawmills of the West Coast producing through the worst of winter weather, are a common sight nowadays in the Douglas fir region.

The log mountains, some with huge and power{ul skid-

County-by-County Breakdown

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"I now see a cold deck of logs," says the forester, "in terms of stacks of dimension lumber and sheathing on the home-building site. A project of 700 units really represents a log mountain."

There are now 2,700 technically trained foresters in private employment throughout the country. There are 34 forestry schools in our universities and state colleges. America's forestry programs are assurance of good forest matragement on both private and public lands, for improvement of forest products and the growing of adequate timber crops for the country's future home-building needs.

Riverside Hoo-Hoo Hold Meeting qt Hemet

The Riverside Hoo-Hoo Clubmet at the Allqsandro Hotel, Hemet, Friday evening, C)ctober 28. Dinner was served at 7:29 p.m., and was followed by a concatenation. There was a good turnout of Old Cats for the occasion.

Stcrtement oI Income

Tacoma, Wash., Nov. 9.-Weyerhaeuser Timber Company reported net earnings of $5.45 a share for the first nine months ol 1949, in a statement of consolidated income issued to shareholders today.

The company reported sales of lumber, lumber products, logs and pulp totalling $91,339,204, and other income (net) totaling $3,266,925 for the first nine months of 1949. Net income was $17,037,823 lor the nine months' period.

The firm's quarterly reports supplement annual financial statements and are subject to adjustment at year's end after accounts have been examined by independent oublic accountants.

Christmcs With Dickens

Nurrierous indeed are the hearts to which Christmas brings a brief season of happiness and enjoyment. How many families whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggle of life, are then reunited, and meet once again in that happy state of companionship and mutual goodwill, which is a source of such pirre and unalloyed delight, and one so incompatible with cares and sorrows of the world, that the religious belief of the most civilized nations, and the rude traditions of the roughest savages, alike number it among the first days of a future state of existence, provided for the blest and happy.

How many old recollections andhow many dormant sympathies, Christmas time awakens ! We write these words now, many miles distant from the spot at which, year after year, we met on that day, a merry and joyous circle. Many of the hearts that throbbed so gaily then, have ceased to beat; many of the looks that shone so brightly then, have ceased to glow. The hands we grasped have grown cold. The eyes we sought, have hid their lustre in thegrave.Andyet the old house, the room, the merry voices and smiling faces, thejest, the laugh, the most minute and trivial circumstance connected with those happy meetings, crowd upon our mind at each recurrence of the season, as if the last assemblage had been but yesterday.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home !-Charles

Dickens.

Christmcrs Turkey Protests

How blessed, how envied were our life, Could we but scape the poulterer's knife ! But man, cursed man, on turkeys preys, And Christmas shortens all our days: Sometimes with oysters we combine, Sometimes assist the savory chine; From the low peasant to the lord, The turkey smokes on every board.

-Alfred Domett.

King of Kings

What babe new born is this that in a manger cries?

Near on her lowly bed His happy mother lies. Oh, see the airis shaken withwhite heavenly wings ! This is the Lord of all the earth ! This is the King of Kings !

Christmas Night

I{ere, there, everywhere, Christmas tonight ! Christmas in lands of the fir tree and pine, Christmas in lands of the palm tree and vine; Christmas where snow peaks stand solemn and white, Christmas where corn fields lie sunny and bright.

-Phillips Brooks.

Eqchto His Iob

It was Christmas dinner, and the lovely young thing was partaking rather lightly of the delicious food with which the table was heaped.

The adoring young man said to her: "Why don't you eat more of this wonderful food?"

She said: "I have to watch my figure."

"Go ahead and eat all youwantto,bright eyes," he said; "I'11 watch your figure."

Christmas in England

England was merry England when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broached the mightiest ale; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer, The poor man's heart through half the year.

Scott in Marmion.

-Walter

A Christmcrs Thought

Lord, when we cry Thee far and near, And thunder through all lands unknown, The Gospel into every ear, Lord, let us not forget our own ! Cleanse us from ire of creed or class, The anger of the idle kinds; Sow in our souls, like living grass, rhe raught" "-11.t?]t#.L?i;"".

All You Ccrn

Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, As long as ever you can.

-John WesleY.

He Understood

Soldier: "I like the shy, demure type of girl."

Sailor' ('l\l[s 1se-the kind vou have to whistle at twice."

South Sets Reforestation Record

fn a remarkable expansion of reforestation ofold fields and idle forest lands in 12 Southern States during the past winter and spring planting season, industry playecl an outstanding part according to a survey released by the Southern Pine Association, New Orleans, Louisiana.

State Forestry Departments produced and distribute<i from 19 state-operated nurseries 154,779,526 forest tree seedlings. This compares with the 1947-48 season's production of 98,424,000 seedlings from 15 State nurseries. Private industry purchased for planting on company lands and for free distribution to small landowners 82,032,600 seedlings-53/o ol thetotal State nursery production in the 1948-49 planting season. According to State Foresters reports of seedlings purchased, the pulp and paper industry acccunted for 26.2/o, the lumber industry 16.4% and all other industries IO.4/o of total industry purchases. Approximately 80,000 acres of industry orvned lands were reforested while over 9,000,000 forest tree seedlings were distributed free to small landowners by the lumber and pulp and paper industries. States covered in the survev included Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tenncssce, Tcxas and Virginia.

The survey also revealed thatthe lumber industry is already planning for the coming season and will continue to playan important role in the program of reforesting lands in the South. With the next planting season still some months away, 69 lumber manufacturers have already signified their intentions to purchase more than 2 ,000,000 seedlings.

South Carolina led all Southern States for the 1948-49 season with 32,093,750 seedlings. Georgia ranked seconcl with 27,362,203 and Alabama and Florida ran a close third and fourth place rvith 19.821,927 and 19,573,185 seedlings respectively. State Foresters estimates of production at 20 nurseries during this year indicate an even larger rcforestation program during the coming planting season. The 1949-50 production figures indicate that more than 234,000,000 forest tree seedlings will be available for distribution to landorvners from State nurseries. Georgia's 3 nurseries show a step-up in production to 55,000,000 seedlings with noticeable increases also indicated for l\{ississippi and Louisiana with expected production of. 25 million and 34 million seedlings respectively.

In addition to seedlings purchased from state-owned nurseries, thepulp and paper industry planted over 13 n-rillior-r seedlings grown in company-owned nurseries and the lumber industry planted over 2 2/3 mrllion seedlings grown in company nurseries and purchased from other sources.

An analysis of planting by the lumber industry alone sho'ivs that over 28,000 acres of company:owned lands 'ivere reforested by 122 manufacturers in the 12 States. 60 of these manufacturers are members of the Southern Pine Association whose plantings accounted for 8O/o of the total. Texas lumber manufacturers ranked first r,vith a planting of more than 7 million seedlings on company

\(illis Branch Appointed For Forest Co-op Work

San Francisco, Nov. l-Selection of Willis C. Branch as assistant regional forester in charge of State and privatt: forestry activities of the California region of U.S. Foresi Service was anounced tcday by Regional Forester Perry A. Thompson. Mr. Branch will take over Dec. 1 as successor to \\r. S. Swingler, lvho recentty became regior al forester at Philadelphia.

Mr. Branch, 18 years in the Forest Service, has worked out of Washington, D.C. headquarters since 1945, inspecting and aiding prograrns under cooperative agreements l>etu'een the Federal and State g'overnments for protecting State and private forests against fire. He comes to California rvith a close working knorvledge of its problems, having spent considerable time .ivorking rvith State and Federal forestry officials here. He recently completed a special study of rvatershed areas in California r,vhich are being consi<lered for cooperative fire protection.

After obtaining forestry degrees from the University of Michigan and Harvard Graduate Forestry School, he joined the Forest Service in 1931, t'orked np from district ranger to forest su1>ervisor in southern states, and became inspector of state cooperative fire control rvork in 11 southern states.

In his nerv assignment at the San Francisco regional office, Mr. Branch 'ivill work u'ith State oflicials in all phases of cool>erative forestry, including forest fire protection anri the promotion of good forest practices in California and southrvestern Nevada.

One o[ Nature's Masterpaeces

Nfany lut.nbermen have been admiring a rlc\v u'alnut table u'hich has recently been added to the mair-r office of Strable llardu.ood Company, Oakland. The top is made of one solid piece of American Walnut and is 4" thick, 25" wide, ancl l0 feet long. Jint Overcast says "It is one of Nature's masterpieces, since it is clear and all heari, black wood rvith a beautiful figure." Modernistic square lcgs 18" x 18" support the top n'hich u'eighs 315 pounds rtnd contains 83 board feet. The 'rvalnut r,vas taken fronr Strable's regnlar stock ir-r 7929 and has been considererl n nluseum piece during recent years.

To cnter the main Strable ofifice fron"r the l'arehouses iris tlorv necessary to pass through a doonvay t.hich has bcen cttt ir-r a piece of Clear Sugar pine t'hich is |fu" x 55" r.vidc x 16 feet containir-rg 92 board feet ancl rveighing 185 pounds. Lovers of the unusual in rvood are invitecl trr call and inspect these u'onders of the r,vorld.

lands while Georgia manufacturers placed second with more than 5 million seedlings, and Alabama and Arkansas third and fourth rvith 4,740,000 and slightly over 4 million seedlings respectively

Purveyors

Constant Solicitation

A great salesman once said: "Orders come as the result of CONSTANT SOLICITATION, and not just because customers ask for things." This is particularly true of the retail building material business.

Constant solicitation must necessarily be hinged directly on leg work, and solicitation, in the full sense of the word, must mean something more than just the formal call and query. It must mean that the salesrnan shall know his goods, know their value and their uses, and be able to explair-r to the other fellow just what they mean to HIM.

The average buyer is not interested in your goods, simply as goods. He is interested in what he can do with them, what he can use them for, and how he can make them a thing of profit and satisfaction to himself. Successful so-

Southern Calilornicr Lumbermen Attend Ncrtioncrl Convention

Southern California lumbermen who attended the annual convention of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, held at the Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, November 9 to 11, included the following: Tom Fox, president, and Gilmore Ward, vice president, Southern California Itetail Lumber Association; John W. Fisher, Santa Monica lumberman; George Lounsberry, Lounsberry & Ilarris, Los Angeles; A. E. Fickling, Fickling Lumber Co., Long Beach; Leslie Lynch, Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Paul Hallingby, Hammond Lumber Company, Los Angeles; L. E. (Les) Harris, L. E. Harris Lumber Company, Los Angeles.

Walter G. Scrim, Scrim Lumber Co., Los Angeles, returned recently from San Francisco where he spent a few days on business. While there he conferred with Major A. W. Bird of Millar's Timber & Trading Co., London, England, who left on the President Cleveland for the Philippines to make arrangements for construction of the new mill of Findlay-Millar Timber Co., which is controlled bythe London firm.

licitation means applying the needs of the prospective buyer to your goods, and explaining the matter to him in such practical fashion that his desire for your goods is greater than his desire to keep his money.

That's successful solicitation.

The buyer knows mighty well that his money has value. And the way for you to get your share of that money is to demonstrate andprove to him that what you are offering for sale is of greater value to him than his cash.

That means the use of BRAINS.

Use leg work and constant solicitation for the first fundamental of your selling effort. And for the rest, learn skillfully to apply YOUR goods to the other fellow's NEEDS.

Mecd Kibbey Visits Los Angeles

Mead Kibbey, manager of the Ber'cut-Richards Lumber Co., Sacramento, was a recent Los Angeles visitor where he spent a few days on business.

The company's mill at Oregon House, Calif., has a daily capacity of 50 M board feet per an eight-hour shift, sawing mostly Ponderosa pine and Sugar pine. They operate a planing mill and remanufacturing plant at Sacramento. F. P. Baugh and A. W. Donovan represent the company in the Southern California territory.

Salt Lcke City Hoo-Hoo Meet

The Salt Lake City Hoo-Hoo Club held a meeting in the White Maple Room of the Newhouse Hotel on Thursday evening, November 17. Dinner was served at 7:29 p.m. after which Bingo was played. There was a good attendance.

Instclls Hot Press

Woodlawn Plywood Co., Hoquiam, Wash., has installed a new 60-ton Columbia plywood hot press to handle western poplar panels, according to an announcement by Ted Stolesen, president of the company.

HenryJ. Warsap-Founder of Blue Christmas Party o[ Industrial Diamond.'s Research Laboratory Lumbermen's Club December 9

The Christmas Party of the Industrial Lumbermen's Club of Southern California will be held at the Industry Club, 5944 South Avalon Boulevard, on Friday, December 9. Cocktails will be served from 6:00 to 6:45 p.m. Dinner will be at 6:45 sharp.

Each member firm will invite its salesmen and other key men to the party.

The hardwood film "Mahogany, Wood of the Ages,,, produced by the Genuine Mahogany Industry, will be shown. No expense was spared in the making of this film, and it is certain to be of the greatest interest to all hardwood men.

Henry l. Wcrscp

"Doc" Warsap celebrated his 88th birthday a few months ago . to him it was just another working day-another day in a line of days extending back over twenty-eight years at the Alameda street plant of Blue Diamond Corporation in Los Angeles.

Blue Diamond officials believe Henry J. Warsap has had more experience with cement and its uses than any other person active in the field today. Although he relinquished command of the Blue Diamond research laboratory some years ago, he daily continues work as a chemist and consultant. Blue Diamond Corporation is proud of him and of course it is understood that he writes his own ticket.

Doc began working for the West Medina Cement Co., located on the Isle of Wight, England, in 1876, seventythree years ago. Those were the transitionary days of cement, changing from Roman to Portland cement. Chemical analysis, as we know it now, was non-existent. He used the pilot kiln method of controlling standards in his early laboratory experience and studied chemistry under Dr. Otto Heiner, professor of chemistry, at London Polytechnic Institute. He had the encouragement of his father, works manager, of the West Medina Cement Co. He remained with the West Medina Cement Co. until 1891 and a short time later was recommended to the Canadian Pacific by Dr. Heiner, as the man they needed to reopen their Canadian cement plant. The mill had closed due to lack of operating knowledge.

It is difficult to calculate the set-back in cement manufacture that might have occurred had Doc failed to reopen the mill to the satisfaction of the Canadian Pacific they had invested only to prove the feasibility of cement manufacturing in the new world; till then, the shipments had been from Europe. Years later he went to Mexico under similar circumstances and reopened a bogged down plant. These were pioneer mills and Doc Warsap's know-how kept them operating to the encouragement of the industry.

He modernized the Mexican plant; changing from steam to electric power from millstone to mechanical limestone crushers from stationary to rotary kilns, etc. I{e was very comfortable in Mexico until the Madero revo-

Officers of the Club are: Hal Von Breton, Tropical & \Mestern Lumber Co., Los Angeles, president; Ed Bauer, Atlas Lumber Co., Los Angeles, vice president; E. G. Reel, Reel Lumber Service, Los Angeles, secretary.

Open Wholescle Wqrehouses

The Diamond W Supply Co. has opened wholesale warehouses at 901 King Street, Oakland, and 2335 East 48th Street, Vernon. Harry Holtgen is the Oakland manager, and Percy Merithew is manager at Vernon.

These warehouses, formerly operated by E. K. Wood Lumber Co., will now stock the following products for distribution to the dealer trade : Celotex, Douglas fir plywood, Rock Wool, Masonite, Sheetrock wallboard, composition roofing, etc. The Vernon telephone number is JEfferson 22f,8; the Oakland telephone number is KEllog 4-8466.

Centrcl Manulcrcturing Plcrnt For Smcll Mills

Western United Lumber Manufacturers is the name of a new company organized to remanufacture and sell the product of a number of small sawmills. The site of the plant is located near McClelland Field, Sacramento.

Griswold to Mcncrge Yard

Roscoe Griswold, who has been salesman for Hersum Lumber Co., Chula Vista, Calif., for the pasr two years, has been made manager of the North Shore Lumber Company, San Diego.

Mcking Cottonwood Pcrnels

Tyee Plywood, Beaver, Wash., is manufacturing 30,000 square feet daily of C and D grade sheathing from cot- t"'@

lutionaries pressed in, when he and his family leftfor the United States just a jump ahead of them.

Doc founded Blue Diamond's research laboratory and turned its activities to the gypsum research in furtherance of high standards in plaster manufacturing. He speaks today with authority concerning either cement or gypsum products.

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California Building Permits lor October

T\TENTY.FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

As reported in The California Lumber Merchant December 1,1924

N{el N. Salomon has been elected president ber Salesmen's Club of San Francisco. He Associated Lumber company.

This issue has a picture pleted main yard of the C. South Park Avenue, Los gene Ganahl are the active

of is the Lum- president. with the Jeff Tully, Gus Hoover, Roy and Ed Wheelock, Stanton, "Dooley" Goodrich, all of Los Angeles, attended.

and write-up of the newly comGanahl Lumber Company, 5900 Angeles. C. C. Ganahl and Euheads of the business.

W. H. IIahn, president of the Swastica Lumber Com' pany, Fresno, died suddenly on November 9th.

Tilden Lumber & Mill Company, Oakland, has taken over the management and operations of the Sunset Lumber Company yards at Fresno and Fig Gardens, and the Lucerne Lumber Company at Hanford.

The King Lumber Company, of Bakersfield, is opening new branch lumber yards at Corcoran and Delano.

The Central California Lumbermen's Club, Stockton, has issued an invite to the San Joaquin Valley and the Sacramento Valley Lumbermen's Clubs to hold a joint meeting at Stockton the coming February. S. J. Irrvin is president of the Central.

The Arizona Lumbermen's tion at Phoenix on Nov. 13,

Club held its annual conven14, and 15. H. S. Corbett is

Heqr Talk on Commercial Aviation

Jerry Pettis, assistant to the president of United Airlines, was the speaker at the Los Angeles Hoo--Hoo lunchon at the Nikabob restaurant, Los Angeles, Friday noon, November 18.He gave an excellent talk on commercial aviation, stressing the safety and dependability of

On November 5 the its biggest days when the Northwest within

lumber port of San Pedro had one of eight lumber carriers arrived from twenty-four hours.

Fred J. Crozier, long with Sudden & Christenson, has been named manager of the Los Angeles office of the C. D. Johnson Lumber Company, of Portland.

The C. D. Johnson Lumber Company, gon, has opened an office in the. NeehalL Francisco, with F. S. Locke in charge.

The meeting of in Garden Grove ber reminiscences

of Portland, OreBuilding, in San

the Orange County Lumbermen's Club on November 20 heard interesting lumfrom 87-year-old "Daddy" Schofield.

The Long-Bell Lumber Company, of Longview, \Mashington, has opened a sales office in the First Natibnal Bank Building, San Francisco, under the management of Kenneth Smith.

The annual meeting of the Millwork Institute of California was held in the St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, November 20 and 21, with President Henry Gaetjen in the chair, and Hank Didesch, secretary.

the scheduled airlines. George Clough introduced the speaker.

Dee Essley reported on the Legislative and Educational Committee meeting held on November 16 at which Neil Petree, president of Barker Bros., was the speaker. There was a good turnout of members for the meeting. President Tom Fox presided.

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714 W. Olympic Blvd. Los Angeles 15, Calil. Phone Rlchmond 0592

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HOTIDAY CHEER

HAPPY NEW YEAR.

Paint Products for weatherproofing &v Liln and mill roofr. Kiln Buildcn for Morc Tha! Half r C.catury

Portlerr4 Orr. Jectronvillc, Slorid.

Sales Display Distributed to Dealert

ter-shelf of pocket-size books. A sturdy, decorative set-up display manufactured by Flintkote's container divisionis stacked with five rows of actual samples of the linebuilding board, insulation tile and plank, insulation lath and asphalt coated sheathing. Each pocket-size sample board is covered by an attractive jacket which sells its merits at a glance. Secured by an envelope flap, the jacket cpens easily to reveal additional sales messages as well as the product itself.

"Give-away" appeal, actual handling of the product in a clean, handy form; take-home "reminder" value and a strong initial talking point for the dealer are all furnished by this new piece, which should do much to boost sales of insulation board products. Enthusiastic reports have already been received from the first outlets using the new display to good advantage.

A point of sale display now being distributed to dealers bythe Flintkote Company at Los Angeles is a new apprcach to the problem of bringing actual building materials to the attention of the end consumer in a new and forceful way. This colorful dealer-help not only acts as a "three-dimensional ,catalog" but also as a dispenser of samples of Flintkote's versatile line of Insulation Board Products.

The new sales booster resembles an eye-catching coun-

Made of Hawaiian cane fibre, Flintkote Insulation Board Products form a highly versatile line of materials for building, decorating and insulating either new or renovated structures of all types-residential, industrial and commercial. And this effective dealer-help does an excellent job of putting that fact across to the consumer.

Fire DcrmagesGcrrden Grove Ycrrd

Damage of about $50,000 was caused by of Garden Grove Lumber & Cement Co.. Calif., November 1.

The yard is being rebuilt and business usual.

fire in the yard Garden Grove, is going on as

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New Booklet-Sell With Plywood

A new 32-page booklet covering the use and construction of plywood displays, fixtures and signs has been published by the Douglas Fir Plywood Association.

The new two-color booklet, entitled Sell with Plywood, is based upon a series of pamphlets written by the late A. E. Hurst, nationally known display expert and author of numerous texts on the subject.

Containing over 125 illustrations, the booklet covers the field from interior and window displays to outdoor posters. The book contains many suggestions and illustrations for building plywood fixtures for all types of businesses along with technical information on how to finish plywood, plywood bending radii and recommended plywood grades for various displays and fixtures.

Single copies of Sell with Plywood are available free to all dealers, displaymen and merchants from Douglas Fir Plywood Association, Tacoma 2, Washington.

Mcyor Bowron Will Be Specrker

At Lumbermen's Post Meeting Dec. 14

Lumbermen's Post No. 403 of the American Legion lvill hold its next meeting at the MayfairHotel, 1256 West Seventh Street, Los Angeles, Wednesday evening, December 14. Dinner will be served at 6:45 p.m.

Mayor Fletcher Bowron, of Los Angeles, will be the speaker.

All former servicemen who are connected with the lumber and building material industry are invited to attend.

Named Advertising crnd Scles Promotion Mcncrger

W. B. Tyrrell has been appointed advertising and sales promotion manager of the Plywood Division of The Mengel Company according to an announcement made today by Bruce A. Dean, general sales manager of the Plywood Division.

Mr. Tyrrell was formerly with Westinghouse Electric Corporation in an advertising supervisory capacity and prior to this association was on the editorial staff of Diesel Publications, Inc., New York publishers of technical trade magazines.

How Christmas Trees Began

The author, Jim Stevens, claims that Paul Bunyan was the inventor of Christmas trees. It seems there was no standing timber in Paul Bunyan's early days, "the trees being free to pull up roots and trot around at will." The mighty Paul was able to tame the big trees into standing timber, and of course, the little unweaned trees would stand by their parents. It was the great groves of weaned young trees that kept running wild until Paul worked out a plan. About the second week in November Paul Bunyan closed down halfof his side and set the men to chopping and sawing out gold ribbons and red bells, silver stars and silver rain and all through the week before Christmas the loggers prettied up the good little unweaned saplings that stood shyly beside their parent trees. "On the night before Christmas more little firs than you might shake a stick at glittered in beauty as the sun sank low and crystals of evening frost sparkled red on the snow," the first Christmas trees of America. "The wild weaned trees stood and watched. Afterwards they kept right on standing in the hopes that they too could be Christmas trees next year,"

The most popular Christmas trees are Balsam fir and Douglas fir, which comprise over SO/a of the total number of trees used, Black spruce, Eastern red cedar and White spruce. Other species commonly used are Scotch pine, Southern pine, Red Spruce, Virginia pine, White fir and Norway spruce.

The President of the United dedicated a living Christmas tree every year since t924.

Properly supervised harvest of ficial to the remaining stands of As soon as a Christmas tree

stored in a cool, shady place with water and the branches sprinkled buttcut about an inch above the the absorption of water.

States has lighted and in Washington, D. C.,

Christmas trees is benetrees left to mature. is obtained it should be the butt end placed in daily. A fresh diagonal original cut will aid in

The bountiful forests of the Pacific Northwest lead in the production of Christmas trees, producing about 30% of the Nation's total production.

The total number of Christmas trees distributed in the United States is about 28.000,000.

One of the largest Christmas trees ever brought in from the forest was placed in PerShing Square in Los Angeles before Christmas, 1948. It was 67 year old White fir that measured 96 feet, 2 inches tall.

BUYER'S GUIDD SAIS

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Arcctc ncdwood Co. (tl) .........lUkoq 6-2067

Atliaion-Stutr Compcay (lf) ...'GArfield l'l8ql

Cor& Lumbcr Compmy ({) .......YIlLoa 6$308

Dcut d Bussell, Scleg Co. (ll) .SUtter l-6i18!

Deuir Lunber Conpcar' (ll) .., .,Ylftoa 6-3869

Dolbecr 6 Cqnon Lubir Co. (4) ' 'YULon 6-5{2I

Elriofi, F. W, (ll) ......Doqglss ?-!?!!

Evju Products Co. (l) 'YULon 6-5515

Fcirburet Lumber Co. ,*. *. to".".ji*(jl a-rrra

canerstoD d Green Lunber co. (zlaJoip", s-soss

HctL lancs L. ({) ......sutt.r l-7529

Hqrinbnd Luubir' Co. ({) .......DOuglqs 2-3388

Hobbg Watt Lurber Co. (l) .....GArlield l-7752

Holmcr Eurelc fuber Co. (l) GArlield t'lgzf

f,tinc d Rut (5) '...DOuglcs 2'1387

Lcnon-Bouiagton Compcuy (3) ...YIILor 6-5721

Laghley Luber Sqler Co', lo". (Bbrgto" Z-SOZO

MacDmatd 6 Hcrinsrtoo t,a., (t!"*.r" ,_rr*

Msrlitr.: Co., [. W. (l) .........DOuglsr 2'3903

Northcra Rcdwood Lunber Co. ({)Er6rooL 2-7ggl

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Cclilomic Lunbcr Sclca (l) ......XEllog {-ldl'!

Fir.slonc Lumbcr Indugtriee (8) PleduoEt 5-2251

GcEeEioB l! Green Lunbor Co. (6) XEtlog l-8{64

FRANGISGO

Pccific Luber Co., The (l) '.Glrlield l'll8l

Patric} Lueb.r Co. (O. L. n"o-)t{}l)oo 6-l{60

Pcrcmiao Lunber Co. ({) ........GArlicld l'5190

Pope d Tclbot, Iac., Lumber Ot-1]31i",,"41 ,-ra'

Rouuds Trcding Compcny (l) .,....YIIfroa 6-0912

Scntq Fe Lunber Co. (lf ) ... ....$tutoolr Z'l0ll.f, Sleviia-rvrcCtoud Lunbir Co. (5) Elt]roo] 2-70'!l

Sidowctl fumber Co. (24) ..Afwqtor 2'8112

Siskiyou Foregt Producls ot ""tiloOiorlll ,rrrn

Sudden & Christenson, Iac. (il)"GArlield l'28t15

Tcrler, Wcbctcr 6 lohuou, I".. $l3ugto" Z-ZO'O

Tcvlor Lumber Co., Beeveg

Twin tlcrbore L--ber Co. (ll)

fFloyd W. Elliott) (ll) '.......DOuglcr }'lilll

aF qlt - t; o'Couor) .:... .GAricld l'55{l

Unioa Lunber Conpcly (l) ..'.'.SUttrr l-6170

lllendliaq-Ncthca Co. ({) '.SUttcr l-5363

wc* 6r-ccon Lubcr d6. (3) ..IlNderbilt l-0720

\ltleetcrn Fise Supply Compcny {fiacrUt f_eeg.

Whcclcr Pine Co. (l) ..........E:l{broo! }!9!0

Wjvcrhqcuser Sctcr'Co. (8) ....GArEcld l-8971

Widdelcr Co, Ltd', George (2{)..VNencic l'18{l

Rcid 6 co' fuabor d suppllor (Pwinoorr g-Ezrs

Triqucrle Lunbrr Co. (f2) .....TEnplcbqr 2'2197

Wertin Drt trilD Co. (3) ....LOclbcrvea 8'328{

Wholegqlc Lunbcr Digtrlbutorr, Inc. (?) ....T\lfioocls 3'2515

HABDWOODS

Brucc Co- E. L. (3). .MArlct l'l8iF

bcvis Hqrdwood Co. (9) '..TUxcdo 5-6ZE

W*t" Srothcis (2{) .'.;....... '..Afwcter 8'1130

sAsH-DOOnS-PLYWOOD

Associal€d Ptlryood Millg, !nc. (ilif_ot", &egSl

Busktcv Door Co., F, S. (21). -.. .ATsslet ?-XXfl

Georgi-c-Pccilic Plywood il Lunbor h!?*r*

Hcrbor Pfuvood Corp. oI C"li|o-it{l?l.r t-S?'S

Nicolci Door Sqleg Co. (t0) ......Mlesion 7-79211

Roddissclt Inc. (2{) '. 'IUniper l'3136

Sinpsoa Logging Co. (5) '...YIlLoa 54i126

United Stcteg Ptywood Corp. (2{) ATwctrr 2'1998

CREOSOTED LUMBER_POLESPILINGi_TIES

Ancriccn Lunber d Trrcting Co. (!Itt., r-ruzu

Bcxler, t. H. 6 Co. (l) ........DOug1- l9!{

Hall, lqmes L., (4) 'Sutt.s l'754!

MccDoaqld d Hqrrinston t,a. (tLr"ra ,_*

Popc d Tqlbot, Inc., Lunbcr ot*86"$L *rr'

Wendliag-Ncthm Co. (l) ..........SUttrr l$36!l

PANELS_D OOBS_SASH_SCREENS

PLYWOOD_MIIJWOBT

Cclilornic Builderg SuPPIY Co. (l) TEmplcbcr l"0l!8|

Gosrlin-Hcrdiag Lunbcr Co.

-Scn Lrcndro- ..Ioclhcvol 9'1681

tfllt l! Mortoa, Inc. (7) .........INdovrt l'lWI

Eellcy, Albort f,. (Atcaodc) '..Lclchurrt $2751

tubl- Lunbcr Co., Ccrl H.

Cbo. S. Dodgr (Borlclcy 5)..lHornwcll 3-90$

Pcrcilic Forort Produclr, Ilc. ....11lliaocLr 3'9886

LUITIBEB

Ardonoa-Hcnsoa Co. (Studio Citl)STolcv 7-1721

Ancto-Cclilomic Luubcr Co. (l) Tllonwqll 3l{l

Arcqtc Redwood Co. (I. I. 8.o) (36)rrfl",., ?g2g

Atliaros-Stutr Co. (Rcv Vcn ldc, Parcdenc) AYd^ bTAn' SYcqmore 2'8192

Atlotic Lubcr Co. (C. P. Hrnry peno!3]"t e*l

Attce Lubor Co. (2r) .Pnorlrct lfQl

Bcush 8ror. G Co. (23i .INgclur 3'7117

Bcugh. cqrl w. (Pasadenq o) S";*|H l:ll$

Browl & Conpcny, Clov (36)....\f,Ebrter 3-0lll5

Bruh tndutridl L-ubcr-Co' (22) ANgelur l-1155

Buns Lumber Conpcuy (36) ....WEbrter 3-5861

Ccrr d Co., L. I. (W. D. Duiag) (15) Plorpect 88{3

Chcntlod and L$ocictcr, P. W. f,fliurcr S296

Georce Clouob (5)... " 'FAirlq 22lt!

Coltiis d Meier, Iuc. (23)........'ANgelua 3-5133

Couolidatod-LuEber Co. (7) .Blcbnond 2l4l (Wilniaglon) .....NE. 6-188I Wilm. Ter. {-2637

Cooper-Morgcn Lunber Co.

Wiltred T.-Cooner Lbr. Co. (Pcscdenc l) - RYcn l-7631; SYcqrore 3-2921

Cooper Wholcscle Luber Co., W. fiirr{lli rr'

Dalton il Co., B. W. (13) ........MAdison 9-2173

Dcnt d Rurgell, Sclet Co. (l) .......4D4u 8l0l

Dolbeer 6 Cqrsoa Lumbor Co. (13) VIndiLe 8792

Doaovcr Co. Iac. (f f ) ..ADcns l-{A)5

Dooley and Co. ({l) .......Albcnv 1822

Esrlev, D. C. d Soa (nl ........ANgclus 2-1183

Fcirhurat Lunbsr Co. (Phillips d Murphy Lbr. Co.) (15) .........PRospect 0!l7l

E. f,. Wood Lunbor Co. (6) 'XEUog &8185

HTBDWOODS

Bruce Co., E. L. (l).. .f,Ellog 3'657?

Pccilic llardwood Sclc Co. (6) ...ANdovcr l'6312

Strqblo tlcrd*ood Conpcay (7) lEnpbbsr 2'5581

Wbitr Brotltrr (t) ..ANdoYor l'l8(l0

LOS ANGEI.ES

Lmreaco-Phitipc Lunbcr Co. (15) P8otpect 817{

Log-Ccl Lunbir Co' (ll)..........JEflcnon 523'l

Lunber Mcrt (23) Al{gclur 3'75(ts

MccDonqld Co., L. W. (15) .......PBorpect ?pl

MccDoaald d Hcrrirctol, Ltd. (15) PRorncct 3127

Mchogcay ImportiaC Co. (l'l) .....TBisitY 965f

Osgood, Robcrt S. (U) ..TBidtf,r8225

Pccific Lunber Co., Tbc (38)

Pocilic Forert Productr, lnc., (l{)

Pctric} Lunber Co, (Eqrtnca

Hcrbor Plywood Corp. ol Cclilornlc (8)TEnpbbar 8-3li{l

Hogca Lunber Conpcly ({) ...Gifoacourt l{E8l

Unit.d Stctes Plywood Corp. (7) lllViaocb 3{5ll

WoslcrD Door 6 Saeh Co. (7) ..TEaplcbcr 18ll[

E. tr. Wood Luabrr So. (6) ....f,Ellog &8138

HANDWOODS

Brucc Co., E. L. (1{). ...Pl.ecror !'!!Q!

inericqn Hardwood Co. (21) '. 'PBorpcct l1l5

Atlqs LuEbcr Co. (21) .P[oeprct !{f!

Eohahofl Lumbcr Co. Iac' (21) ...PBo.p.ci 3L!i

Brugh laduetrial Lunbcr Co. (22) ANgclur l'1155

Penberlhv Lumbor Co. (ll) ........trIDb411 stlt

Slsnton, E. I. 6 Son (ll) .......CEstuY 2-9llf

Trooicct d Weatcm Lunbrr Co. (lt) LOga! 8-23t8

Weitern Hcrdwood Lunbcr Co. (S5)PRorprct 616l

SASH-DOOBS-MIIJWOBT_SCREENS PLYWOOD_INONING BOANDS

Associaied Moldisg Co. (2) .....ANgelua $8119

Bcctr Poel Compcny (tl) ........ADcu 3'122!i

Be$onotte d Eclatrom, Inc. (ll) ADcns 3-{228

Calilonic Door Conpcay. The (ll) Klnball 2lll

Calilonia Mlllwor&, Iac. Inclewood) .ORegon 8-3{51

Cqtiioraiq Pcnel 6 Veucer Co. (54) TRbiV 00f7

Ccrlow Cirmpcny (l) .CEatury !9865

Cobb Co., T-. M. (ll) ...ADm l-lll7

Dcvidgon plrmood d fumber co. SiL.hr s-093t

Door G Plywood lobbcn lrc. (23)..ANgelug 9-8188

Tcconq Lunber Sqlee, (fS) .......PRospect ll08

Tcrter, Wcbstcr ll lohnson, lac. 2il) ANgelur {183

Tcylor Lumbcr Co. (Chcrlea g Een_dqll) (15)--^ PBoepect 8770

Tcvlor Lumber Co., Reevcr (i. I. Roa) 36 ....lllEbater 7828

Iwin Hcrborg Lumber Co. (15) (C. P. Henrv 6 Co.) .PRoePect 8524

Unioa Lumbei Conpqay (15) .......TRiaity 2i182

Georsic-Pqcilic Plvwood d Luraber Co. (F.-4. Toste) (ll) ...........Clevelcnd 6-2219

Hclev 8ros, (Sqntc Monicc) .......TExru 0-2280

Harbbr Plvwood Corp. ol So. Cclii. .......... ....Mlchigcn l85l

Ining Lumber aad Mouldiag, Ind (22) .... .Logqn 5-5141{

Koehl, Ino. W.6 Son (23) .......ANgelus 9-8191

Firestonj Lunber Industries (4) HEnpsteqd 3155

FisL d Mcgon (so. Pcacdenc) .rlljl3! l:ll?l

EriL Flqner (fongr Becch 12). .Loag Bocrsh 6-52t7

Foreel Products Sclcr Co, (laglewood) ORegoa 8-3858

Freemca 6 Co., Stephen G. (Bolboollorbo, 20A

Ed. Fountcin Lumbcr Co, (l) .....LOscn 8-2{t3l

Goslin-Harding Lumbor Co. (A' W. DonovqD) (13) MAdisoa 9-2355

Hcnnond Lunber Coopmy (51) ..PBospcct 1333

Hqrris Lunber Co., L. E. 15) ....DUaldrL 2-El0l

Eqtl Hoflmqu Co, (43) .Axninstct -5281

Hiu d Morroa, rnc. (46) .

Holmes EureLc Lumber Co' (13) ...MUtucl 9l8l

Hoover, f,. L. (38) .YOIL 1168

Kuhl Lubcr Co., Ccrl Il.

R. S. Oesood (l|)......'......... .fBitdE 82t!;

Lcshlev Lunbcr Scles Co', Iac' (Pcgcdcnc)

SYccnore 6-53!17L.A. Phone - BTon l-8lZl

Wendlius-Ncthaa Cb. (36) ..YOrL 1168

W€st Olego! Lunbcr Co. (15) ...Eicbaond 0281

Weverhceueer Sclcs Co. (?) ....Blcbnond 7-0505

Whqlev Lumber Co., L. S. (Loag Bccch 5) - LB 2-2070 NEvcda 6-1085

Wheeloctc, Inc., E. U. (12).........Mlchigcq 2!Q!

Mcpte Bros, (Fullorton)...,........Fullcrtoa 1826

MqlDougcll Door d Frane Co. (2)..LOrqi! 6-3166

Nicolai Door MIg. Co. "ORegon 8-3725

Oregon-Wcahington Ptywood Co...ORegoa 8-3726

Pqcitic Lumber Declen Supply Co., Inc' (Hcrbgr Citv) ......ZEDith ll55; Lonitc 1156

Wilson LuEbcr Co., A. -K' (Doningucr tuDction)

White Lumbcr Co., Hcriy H' (15) ..Blchnoad 0592

t{Evcdq 6'21t83 NEmerk l'8651

E, 8. Wood Lunbcr Co. (5{) ...lEfler:on 3lll

Wood, Earl F. (23) .........ANgclw 3-3801

CBEOSOTED LUMBER_POLES PtrING_TIES

Americo Lumber d Trectiag "o. (ttl"-,",r'

Bcxtcr, J. H. G Co. (13) ..........Mlchigcu 629'l

MacDonctd G Hcniagton, Lrd. (15) PRospect 3lf7

McComicL G Bcrcr Creosorias "8h!f;f!.-r?2, Popo il rqlbot lac., Lumbcr Di"i"il"Bolfl.r S?gr

Pcdui'Plywood Inc. (l) .ADtrnr 3$196

Roddis Cclitonic, Inc. (ll) .......IEfforon 3251

Scmpson Co. (Pcecdenq) ...RYca l-6939

Siuison Loggriag Co' (21) .........PRorpect 9tl0l

United Stctes Plysood Corp. (21) Bicbaoad 7'1166l

Uuited Stctes Pllvood CorP. (Glendcle Arec) .Cltrut l't133

Weetern Cugtom Mill, Iac. (22) ..ANgclur 2-9117

West Coagl Plywood Co. (13)....MAdiron 9'2t7il wett Coasl Screen Co' (l) ' '....ADaEs l'ltlp

Weslen Mill & Mouldiag Co. (2l..LOrcin 6-0lSl

*Postolfice Zone Number in Pcenthesit

WANT ADS

Rate-$2.50 per Colurnn Inch.

Closing dcleg for copy, Stb crd 20th

Wcrrehouse Fqcilities to Leqse

Particularly desirable for dustless buildine rnaterials and related goods, located central- L. A. fading area on S. P. spur with excelbnt.-loading and receiving arrangement for railway- and,/or trucks. Facility- contains 8,000 sq. ft. for active warehouling or may be ope-rated on- arran-gement with present tenants, using Jxisting irew. 15,9Q0 sq. ft. additiond inactive storage space av-ailable G same building.

Address Box C-1741, California Lumber Merchant

50E Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

KILN DRYING

'\fle are one of the largest custom dry kilns on the West Coast. We also sell, rent, or repair lumber carriers and lift trucks. Will .xchange equipment for lumber.

WESTE,RN DRY KILN& EQUIPMENT CO.

P.O. Box 622, Wilmtngton, Calif.

Phones: NEvada G1371 and TErminal ,l-6624

TIME CLOCKS_WATCHMEN'S CLOCKS

Detex 'Watchmen's Clocks-to record watchmen's activities. An appro-ved Detex system usually reduces insurance rates. Employees' and Job-Time Clocks-Time cards-card racks. AutomatiC clbcks to control signals for start and stop work.

LOS ANGELE.S TIME CLOCK AND SERVICE CO.

803 West llth, Los Angeles 15, Calif.

PRospect 2129

LUMBER YARD FOR SALE OR LEASE

15 miles from San Francisco. Net sales last year $149,0OO. Reason for selling, other interests out of state. Very;heap.

Address Box C-1767, California Lumber Merchant 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Cdif.

, BAND SAW FOR SALE

Maureen-Johnsot 42r, Band Rip-3 speeds of feed-S H.p. 3 ph. motor and starter switcll some blades (rtses 4rr-4/2,r). All in g5od working order and reasonable.

R. J. WELTON

128 4th Ave., Chula Vista, Calif.

MACHINE.RY FOR SALE

BORING MACHINE: Root type CH-IO spindle, hydraulic feed, all ball bearing, current type machine, excellent condition.

CUT-OF'F SAW: Irvington "Hill" automatic, cor:rrplete with table and gauges. Like new.

RIP SAWS: Hermance #300GS g.rng, run less than 100 hrs.

Rebuilt Sinker Davis gang Rip Saw. -

SANDERS: Yates #431-42" endless bed, 3-drum. American 49' Columbia with all operating equipment.

MATCHERS: Stetson-Ross 25" t0-knife, with motorized ripping attachment and feed table, complete with motor, belts, etc. - -Ball b_earing botlom cylinder and side heads. Ideal box.factory machine. Woods 4O4-B 20" &knife matcher, complete with all operaling equip. WAGNER MACHINERY CO.

1961 Santa Fe Ave., Los Angeles Zl, Calif.. VAndike 2431

LUMBER YARDS FOR SALE

-_Do you want to_b-uy a lumber yard? See our ad in the September 15 issue of The California Lumber Merchant.

If y9r are thinking of selling your yard why don t you give us a rrng t

TWOHY LUMBER CO.

LUMBER YARD AND SAWMILL BROKERS

810 Petroleum Bldg., Los Angelee 15, Calif. PRoepect E7,16

Nomcr of Adverliren in thir Department uring o blind oddrcrs connot be divulged. All inquiricr cnd rcplior rhould be addressed to key rhown in thc sdvartircncnt.

FOR SALE

Excell.ent Redwood Sawmill. Now infull operation, Humboldt County, Heart of Redwood Empire.

Daily capacity 30,000-,10,000 BM. All new diesel power (elec_ tricity now available). Modern equiprnent: new carriage, high line, etc_._.!og deck-year around operation. Employee housing. Mill free of encumbrances. Complete invintbry figureJ available. Owner dealing on larger mill, desires quick sale. Interested parties contact

Box C-1757, California Lumber Merchant 50 Central Bldg., LoLs Angeles 14, Calif.

LUMBER YARD FOR SALE

Retail lu-mber yard in Southern California, doing g6,000 to g7,ffi0 a month, for sale. It will take 930,000 to buy yard plus inventory.

Address Box C-1769, California Lumber Merchant 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14 Calif.

MACHINERY FOR SALE

Solem SE74 431, 4-drum Endless Bed Sander, First three drums 7tl IIP,last drum 5 HP. Machine used very little. price 99,000.00.

ALAMO MANUFACTURERS' AGENT

208 Gibbs Bldg., San Antonio, Texas

FOR SALE

Two good lumber yard operations. Well located in Southern Oregon points. May be purchased individually or as a pair. ff interested write

Box C-1768, California Lumber Merchant 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

MILL WANTED

Wish to lease small Redwood mill, Humboldt or Mendocino Coun- ties preferred. Must be in good operating condition near housing. Qa-paqity -approximately 10,0@ BFM per day. All replies confidei- tial. Send particulars to

Box C-1765, California Lumber Merchant 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

FOR SALE

I lumber truck 1938 International D400, lO-wheeler. with 200 Hp motors, Brown Lipe transmission, tandclm axles. Good rubber, clean cab. Gwheel lumber trailer to go with, above truck, Westinghouse air brakes. Price $4250.

Address Box C-1766, California Lumber Merchant 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

WOODWORKING MACHINER,Y FOR SALE

PLANER-MATCHER 15" x 8-' , ball bearing, all electric (direct drive).with top and bottom profiles,6 knife round heads, now in operatron.

F-qSA!_V_ l+_i pf^t_!ga;ng, used 6 months, in operation. MATTISON MOULDERS 4" & 6", AII CICCtril. HYSTER FORK LIFT '46 Model llo. 75. rebuitt. IRVINGTON SWING SAW,60f' arm, 5 Hp direct. NQ_BIIEI_ELDJOINTER, iZ" round head, 3 Hp direcr TANNEWITZ BAND SAW, 30" wheels, direct motor drive.

ROY FORTE,

Prod,uction Machinery for the Woodutorking Trad.e 1417 East l?th Street, Los Angeles 2t, Calif,. Phones: TUcker 8556-Res. VlE;tcalf. 3-2562

You erre invited lo visil CHAPCO HOUSE

Located on Chintimmini W"y, Country Club Heighu, Corvallis, Ore.

WITI{ESS A PRAGTIGAI.

DTMOIISTRATIOI{ OT THIS ORICII{AI.

WOI{DIR PROIDUCT OT THE WTST

See for yourself the ECONOMY, BEAUTY cnd DURABITITY of this

ALL-PURPOSE STRUCTURAT HARDBOARD

Used for both Exterior crnd

SEE the newly developed method ol woll instollction using slip joint corners qnd furring strips, eliminoting the possibility ol crqcks thot might be cqused Irom exponsion qnd contrqction.

SEE exterior drop siding ol Chopco. SEE exterior verticql siding ond bottencrqcks.

SEE exterior ceiiing ponels.

SEE Chopco Iloor loid on cement slob.

Interior Finish for CHAPCO HOUSE

SEE Chopco subfloor instollotion for linoleum bqse.

SEE Chopco cobinets with door ond drqwer focings.

SEE Chopco flush doors.

SEE Chopco gqrqge door ponels. SEE how to use this procticolly inde- structible Chopco Hcrdboord to cut your buiiding cosis.

ARCHITECTS, CONTRACTORS, BUITDING MATERIAT DEATERS AND SAIES PEOPLE ore especiolly invited io virit Chqoco Hou3e ot corvollis, oregon, ond leorn first hond lhe mony stortling developments using Chcpco Boord "Rerinized." leorn lhe proper methods of instollotion. €ul lobor costs. mcteriol costs ond insure enduring beouty ond low moinlenonce costs.

RETAIT TUMBER DEALERS OF CALIFORNIA:

Next lo visiting CHAPCO HOUS.E' lhe- best woy to become ocqucinted with CHApco BoARD, its uses ond odvontoges,. ond its profit os o fine-selling item, is lo conioct by letter oi phone our Coliforniq representqlive

G. K. WENTWORTH, 5Ol Toylor St., Son Frqncisco 2, phone ORdwoy 3-g3gg

CHAPCO SALES' BOX 581, CORYAIf 15, OREGO]|, PHOI|E t4tl

TS THE YEAR OF FIFTY-SlX yeqrs

o wholesole distributor of IMPORTED ond DOMESTIC Hordwood ond Softwood lumber in SouthernColifornio.

S|NCE

1894 o o o w€ hove been srowins with Los Anseles

-olwoys trying to offer o BETTER SERVICE to our customers... Our focilities--including new worehouses-o modern plont, on oggressive soles orgonizotion plus o yord personnel of wide experience embodies improved methods of lumber hondling which ossures QUALITY PRODUCTS ond TOP PERFORMANCE. During these doys of stern competition successful lumber deolers must mointoin their position by continuously offering BETTER, PR,ODUCTS- BETTER SER,VICE- AT THE R,IGHT PR|CE...We ore going to continue to offer THE BEST in the efficient distribution of selected lumber...

And so-this yeor osolwoys

-to our old customers ond steodily increosing new potrons-our mills ond friends-we extend the .