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Gf. H. Stutz

J. H. "Jetry" Stutz, one of the best known lumber salesmen in Northern California. is a member of the young and progressive wholesale firm of Atkinson-Stutz Company, of San Francisco.

"Jrtry" was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and attended school in Washington, D. C., where he moved with his parents at an early age.

He later attended a school of forestry from which he graduated in 1912. His first job was with Gardiner & Howe, forest engineers, of Memphis, Tenn., cruising timber throughout the South. He entered the United States Forest Service in 1914, and after three years in this work joined the Army in 1917. On his return from service overseas he re-entered the Forest Service.

In 1922 he went to work for the Coos Bay Lumber Company at Bay Point, Calif. He traveled on the road for this firm from 1923 untll 1930, when he became a member of the sales staff of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Company, San Francisco. He covered the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valley territory for McCormick until 1936, when he resigned to enter business with Jas. E. "Jimmy" Atkinson.

Mr. Stutz married Ina Roberts of Dallas, Texas, in t928. They make their home in Stockton.

Los Angeles Visitors

C. H. Daggett, president, and Carl Hornibrook, sales manager, Ewauna Box Company, Klamath Falls, Ore., were Los Angeles visitors the first of the month where they spent a few days on company business.

Airplane Firm Large Users of Plywood

That.lumber-in the form of Douglas fir plywood-plays an important part in modern airplane production is indicated by the use of several carloads of plywood annually in the Boeing Aircraft Company plant in Seattle. Projects under way in this famous plant include huge four-engine bombers for the U. S. Army, four-engined land transports, and giant 72passenger "Clipper" flying boats for trans-oceanic service. Despite the fact that aluminum alloy metals are the principal materials used in construction of these planes, Douglas fir plywood is utilized in scores of ways in their production.

The ingenious uses of plywood by the Boeing company suggests scores of undeveloped outlets to the alert lumber dealer.

Perhaps the most spectacular use of Douglas fir plywood in the Boeing plant is in construction of "mock-ups" or actual, full-sized "dummy" reproductions of new types of planes in project. These "mock-ups" are as accurately fashioned as the finished plane which will take to the air. They provide the engineering staff with a visual reproduction of their plans and permit the actual testing of control locations, passenger accommodations, and other features of interior and exterior arfangement.

"We are using more plywood in our pla.nt today than we did in the days when airplanes were built largely of wood," states Claude Hill, foreman of the wood shop and oldest Boeing employee in point of service. "Plywood has many advantages for us-large size panels, freedom from shrinkage, swelling and warping, and the saving on labor cost in handling and reworking. In addition we can get it in any thickness we want, from one-eighth inch to an inch and one-half and in panels up to four by eight feet and even larger if necessary. Another advantage in an industrial plant such as ours is the freedom from waste-we even sell the scrap to our employees who are anxious to get it for use in their home workshops.

In addition to "mock-ups" Douglas fir plywood is used in the Boeing plant for the base of assembly jigs, frame work for full scale plaster of Paris forms from which dies are made. routing templates of various kinds, bulletin boards, time card racks, clothes lockers, temporary office partitions, blue print and vellum racks, drawer bottoms, patterns of all types, and scores of other uses.

Permits Required to Cut Christmas Trees in National Forests

Regional Forester S. B. Show today announced the appointment of law enforcement officers specially assigned to aid in the apprehension of trespassers having illegal possession of Chritmas trees for sale or engaged in cutting these trees on National Forest land without written permit from the U. S. Forest Service. Mr. Show called attention to violations of "Forest and Fire I-aws of the State of California" in which several trespass cases were successfully prosecuted last year because defendant failed to secure permits before cutting Christmas trees.

"In the interest of forest conservation," Mr. Show said "written permit or contract of sale must first be secured from National Forest Supervisor's headquarters by anyone planning to cut Christmas trees on Federal land. There are areas in several National Forests of the State where the cutting of trees is allowed but a permit is required in all cases. It is necessary that the Forest Service authorize these operations only in those areas which will not be harmed by the removal of the young trees."

Nearly all of the Christmas trees for the California and eastern markets have already been cut under permit and transported for storage. The assignment of special officers by the Forest Service has been made in an effort to reduce forest depredation by tree poachers whose activities are usually carried on just prior to the Christmas season.

Christmas tree cutting operations for the most part have been in Shasta, Lassen and Tahoe National Forests. Portions of other forest areas in the Sierra Nevada also have been opened this year to cutting under the supervision of National Forest Supervisors and District Rangers. In no instdnces are clear cuttings made or devastation permitted.

Most common of Christmas varieties in the California Region of the Forest Service are the red fir, popularily known as the silver tip, and the white fir. In greatest demand is the silver tip which annually enhances the Christmas atmosphere of many thousasnds of California homes.

No FHA Foreclosures in California Under Tltle 2

The effectiveness of government-insured loans for building and buying homes under Title 2 of the Federal Housing Act is shown in an announcement on December 11 by F. W. Marlow, Los Angeles, district director of the Federal Housing Administration for Southern California and Arizor'a. Up to Nov. 30 there have been no foreclosures in California, despite the fact that nearly 35,000 loans, with a total valuation of $147,151,986, have been made since the system's inception some three years ago.

In the nation as a whole, 45 foreclosures, out of an aggregate of 2Il,3O7 loans totaling $64,932,448, have resttlted, Mr. Marlcw said.

The mutual mortgage insurance fund now sta.nds at nearly $22,000,000, and is increasing at the rate of approximately $500,000 each month.