A. C. Horner

-Arthur Clinton "Jack" Horner, manager of the Western office of the National Lumber Manufaclurers Association. with headquarters at San Francisco, was born in the tbwn of G-reenwich, on Delaware Bay, N. J., March 8, 1889. He studied^civ^il engineering at the Univirsity of Pennsylvania, and at 8:30 a.m. in the morning of the day after he ieceived his diploma shook the dust of the East from his feet and Ieft for the West to grow up with the country.

He spent his first year in- the West in Spokane at engi- neering work in connection with the conversion of logg-ed off timberlands into thriving apple orchards. In the .o"u?re of this work he learned how to-cruise timber, and acquired a liking and respect for the products of the forest that has lasted up to the present day.

At the end of this year he decided that some other field might offer .a. quicker pathway to wealth than civil engi- neering, and joined th,e force'of the Holt Manufacturiig Co., where he assembled and operated Caterpillars for i I9ar., Then the West's call for civil engineeis got under lis ;\in_a1d he joined the engineering staE of thJSouthern P.acifi9 Railway at Stockton in 1913, Jnd with the exception of eigh_t months spent in the Army during the Great War, worked for this company until 1920 in fositions ranging from rodman in the maintenance of wjy departmenT tE assistant engineer and general foreman bn tire Stockton division.

,-After leaving the Southern Pacific Co. he spent a year in Nevada as superintendent of a fertilizer plini. and then returned to Stockton to become assistani engineer and building inspecto_r of the City of Stockton, whiJh positions he held until 1926.

. During this period he became greatlv impressed with the urgent .need for .uniformity in Uuitaing lode regula- tions, and devoted a lot of thought and stuiy to this"sub- ject, with the result that he took a major p.ri in the development of the Pacific Coast Uniform Building Code, which has since been adopted by more than l0O citiel. Mr. Horrre. was also named the first secretary of the pacific, Coast Building^^Offi.jll.- Conference, and'servecl in this position from 1922 to 1926.

About this time the lure of trade extension work took him away to Los Angeles, where he represented the portland Cement Association until late in 1927, when he was offered and -ac,cep-t-ed the position of manager of the Western ofifice of the National Lumber Manufi-cturers Association. with headquarters in San Francisco. Well equipped P/ Iri. previous.experience for the carrying out'of^ihe Natronal association's trade extension program in the West_ ern states, he threw himself into the work with the greatest enthusiasm.

.During the- pas-t fou.r years he has become acquainted with thousands of retail lumber dealers in the 1l iVestern states by rendering valuable assistance in individual towns in connection with building code work, and through attend_ ance at numerous annual conventions and local group meet_ ings, and has been successful in putting over*the idea to the retailer that the National is ieady ind eager to heip him to solve his problems.

His close contict with a large number of retail dealers has shown him that they are not normally alive to the importance of building code legislation and its efiect on many_of the products they sell. - Experience has proved to h.im that building code restrictions can nullify t""rnishi the most rntensive trade promotion efforts. Iie is a fi"rm believer, in this connection, that ,.an ounce of pr.""ni* i, worth a^pound of cure," and has demonstrat.d th" truth oi this saying.-on numerous.occasions by securing -oain."_ tions of building codes prior to their fbrmal ado"ption. He feels, however, that retail lumbermen are gradually becoming more alert to the necessity of early actlon in these matters, and he has yet to find any group of retailers who are unwilling to cooperate with him when asked to do so.

Back in L923 as a city building inspector he felt that lumber should be marketed as an identifiba product, and even prior to his connection with the lumber industry was advocating grade and trade marking of lumber, whiih has since become an adopted policy of regional and national lumber trade associations.

Closely identified with the development of the use of wood in the oil industry, Mr. Horner has been responsible for the working out of standard plans and specifications for nailed wood derricks, and for setting .down in black and white for the first time a standard method of designing wood walking beams.

He is a member of the executive committee of the Termite Investigations Committee, and has been exceedingly active in the past three years in tracing down and debuiking any misconceptions regarding termites which have been hurrie_dly accepted as. gospel by both dealers and the pub- lic. He is also devoting a considerable amount of timi to the preparation of the final r€port of the Termite Investiga- tions Committee with the object of making it the most-up to date and practical document on the prevention of termite damage.

He married Miss Esther Scovil, of Independence, Calif., in 1914, and they have two children, Robert Porter, 15, and Dorothy, 10.

Mr. Horner makes his home in Berkeley, atid is a member of the Berkeley Country Club. He shoots in the low 80's, so it can be said that golf is his main hobby. H9 is 1n honorary member of the Pacific Coast Building Offi9ia!9 Conference, and a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and other technical organizations. He is a membeiof various Masonic organizations, including the Mystic Shrine.

Weyerhaeuser Salesman Makes Headquarters in San Diego ii )

C. W. Miller, who has been connected with the WeylF/ haeuser Sales Company for many years at Minneapolis and St. Paul, has joined the company's sales force in California, it is announced by R. W. Hunt, district manager, San Fra-n' cisco, and is making his headquarters at San Diego. Mr. Miller's territory includes Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside, San Diego and Imperial Counties.

Coos B.y Reopen Los Angeles Office

The Coos Bay Lumber Company has reopene6 115 Tros Angeles office in the Petroleum Securities Building with Iack Thomas as their Southern California and Arizona repiesentative. Their telephone number is PRospect 5914. When the company closed their Los Angeles office last January, Mr. Thomas was transferred to San Francisco where he was connected with the executive offices of the comPany.

The company mills at Marshfield, Ore., will go down about December 15 for the holiday shutdorvn, resuming operations about January 15.

B. C. Lumber Prices Firming

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