Season's Greetings. . .

Presently engcged directly in wcr elfort, we hope to contcct old lriends cnd customers clter the wcn.

-STEAMERS-All Operuting in War Traffic

\M. R. CHAMBERITIN & CO.

LT'MBER AND SHIPPING

465 Cclilornicr St. . Telephone DOuglcs 5470 o San Frcrncisco

Joseph A. Gabel \(/as i Real Pioneer In the Door and Plywood Business

A representative of this paper was in the office of Pacific Mutual Door Company in Tacoma the other day when T. F. Eckstrom, vice president and general ntanager, was closing out the files of the late Joseph A. Gabel, founder and president of this old established concern.

There were many interesting pictures in Mr. Gabel's collection, and one of the most interesting was a picture of a big Douglas Fir spar which he sent as a present to Theodore Roosevelt for a flagpole for his home at Oyster Bay, N. Y., in 1916. There vras a gracious letter of acknowledgment from "Teddy" of the "big stick," which was 165 feet long, with 28-inch butt, l4-inch top, weighed 12 tons, and required four flat cars each 45 feet long to carry it.

Mr. Gabel established the Pacific Mutual Door Company in l9L2 in Tacoma. He was a pioneer in trade-marking and promoting the sale of Fir doors, a pioneer in the introduction of plywood, and also pioneered the shipping of plywood and doors through the Panama Canal to the Atlantic Coast.

In May, 1915, he suggested the trade-marking of Douglas Fir and Hemlock lumber and worked out a system for doing this.

H,e established warehouses in Garwood, N. J., Baltimore, Chicago, Kansas City and St. Paul, and the company continues to market doors, plywood and other wood products under the "Pamudo" trade-mark which he originated many years ago. Mr. Gabel passed away on May l'2, 1943.

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C.R. Taenzer, American Hardwood Company, Satr Francisco. and Mrs. Taenzer returned December 12 Lrom a visit to San Francisco. Their daughter, Mrs. Russell Bond, whose husband is in the Navy, and is stationed near San Francisco. returned with them.

Albert A. Kelley, wholesale lumberman of Alameda, and his family spent the Thanksgiving week-end in Los Angeles.

F. A. "Pete" Toste, Toste Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and H. H. Barg, Barg Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned December 2 Lrom visiting mills in the Redwood Empire.

E. A. Klinger, sales manager, Chapman Lumber Co., Portland, was a recent visitor to Los Angeles, where he conferred with his company's Southern California repre' sentative, Charles P. Henry.

E. M. (Milton) Taenzer, secretary-treasurer, and Julie Smith, sales manager, American Hardwood Company,'Los Angeles, returned November 29 lrom a business trip to San Francisco, Oakland, and Sacramento.

Harry Adcock, sales manager, L.H.L. Lumber Co., Carlton, Ore., spent the Thanksgiving holiday with his daughter at San Mateo, Calif.

@be Sesgon of @nibergsl 6oo! WilL again trfngs uB tllt, opportu nity of extenling greetf ngg to our frienld in s[[ brand)* of tbe lumter bugineig.

Lumber Firms Take Delivery of Many Ross Carriers and Lift Truclcs

two carriers, two lift trucks; Kaiser Company, Shipyard No. 3, Richmond, one lift truck.

Other companies which have recently added to their fleets of Ross equipment are: Gamerston & Green Lumber Co., San Francisco, two carriers; Lumber Terminal Co', San Francis,co, six carriers, one lift truck; Pickering Lumber Co., Standard, one lift truck; Inner Harbor Terminal Co., Wilmington, two carriers; Christenson Lumber Co'. San Francisco, one carrier, one lift truck; Loop Lumber Company, San Francisco, one carrier'

Lieut. Frese Prisoner oI Wcrr

Recent deliveries of Ross Lumber Carriers and Ross Lift Trucks in California include the following: Western Terminals Co., Oakland, eight carriers, two lift trucks; Mutual Moulding & Lumber Co., Los Angeles, one carrier; Barr Lumber Co., Santa Ana, one carrier; Industrial Manufacturers Co., Ltd., Los Angeles, one lift truck; Western Pipe & Steel Co., San Francisco' one large Ross carrier, especially made for han.dling large steel plates; Forward Bros. Lumber Co., Manton, Calif', one carrier, one lift truck; Northern Redwood Co., Korbel, Calif., two carriers, one lift truck; Kaiser Company, Shipyard No. 2, Richmond,

News was received by his parents on Novembet 12, that First Lieutenant Wm. L. Frese, Army Air Force, who was reported missing in combat over Bulgaria, on July 31, is now a prisoner of war of the German Government. Lieut. Frese is the son of Otto W. Frese, San Francisco wholesale lumberman. He was on his sfth mission when the plane, a Liberator bomber, failed to return. On all his previous missions he was a bombardier, but was acting as navigator on the last one.

He had previously been awarded the Purple Heart, four oak clusters. and the Air Medal.

Bcrck From Northwest

Homer Maris, Northern California representative of Simpson Industries, Inc., returned recently from visiting the company's mills and plants in Washington.

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Named Regional Forester of Northern Region

P. D. Hinson, qssistant regional forester in charge of timber managemept and private forestry in the California Region, U. S. Foiest Service, has been named Regional Forester of the Northern Region with headquarters at Missoula, Montana, according to an announcement by Lyle Watts, Chief Forester. Hanson will be responsible for all U.'S. $orest Service activities except forest and range research in Montana, northeastern Washington, northern Idaho, and northwestern South Dakota.

Mr. Hanson will succeed Regional Forester Evan W. Kelley, a native of Downieville, Sierra County, who is retiring after nearly 40 years in the Forest Service. Long regarded as one of the ablest administrators in the Forest Service, Major Kelley's most recent large-scale achievement was the organization of the guayule rubber project in California, of which he was the field director from its inception in February, 1942, until July, 1943.

Home Shortcrge in U. S. is Growing

Shortage of single-family homes has spread to 95 per cent of American cities, as compared to 88 per cent a year ago, according to the forty-third semi-annual real estate survey just completed in 377 key cities by the National Association of Real Estate Boards.

Sales volume is greater than last year in two-thirds of the cities, and new houses command higher prices in 84 per cent of them.

Merny Christiviasi

"I wish there were some new way to say 'Merry Christmas.'"

Twice today I have overheard that remark. And each time I have said reverently to myself : "Thank God there isn't."

The spirit of Christmas is as simple as the heart of a child.

It needs no new slogan and no special sales effort. No advertising agent can lend new glamour to its ancient magic.

It is as elemental as the sun and the wind and the rain, as the stars that glowed on Galilee one holy night and now shed their same steady light on an older and ' perhaps a wiser world.

No, there is no new way of saying Merry Christmas. Nor would we want one.

The tree you will deck is the same as all the trees ofits kind that have stood on the hills since the world was young.

The joy in a child's eyes on Christmas morning is the joy that has filled the eyes of children since Christmas became an annual institution.

Back of the gifts and the gaiety is an immortal spirit of good will to men.

Christmas is still Christmas. In a world awry with changes let us give thanks for one precious i"r-"nency !