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Merry Christmas, By Adetine
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VVISHES \.OIJ A VER\'
And our sincere thanks and appreciation for the friendship and loyalty you have accorded us \A/.
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lll heqris oI men thcn during ordincry seqsons, much is scid, cnd sung, crnd precrched lll lll concerningtheGoldenRule. Perhcpsii'iseven prcrcticed more generclly thcrn crt cny lll tr lll other time. Let us hope so.
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But fesus hcrd no pcrtent on the idec. He exemplilied it by His words, qnd works, qnd
fi| HIe; but He did not start'it. For long belore He crppecrred out oI the blecrk region oI
lll Nqzqreth to precch his kindly philosophy to q cold qnd cruel world, the strme thing hcId
lll been sqid by other prophets crnd thinkers in mcrny pcrts oI the qncient world. For in-
tr Buddhc tcught: "One should seek lor others the hcppiness one desires lor one-
sqid: "Let no one oI us treqt his brother in c wcry he himsell would
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The ecrly Persiqns said it this wcy: "Do qs you would be done by."
crncient Chinese scid: "Whct you would not wish done to yoursell, do not unt
Ecrly Esypticns tcushfi "He sousht lor others the good he desired lor himsell.'
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In their eqrliest dcrys the Greeks tcrught: "Do not thcrt to cr neighbor which you
would tcke ill lrom him."
In ecrrly Rome, they scid this: "The lcrw imprinted on the heqrts oI <rll men'is to love
lil the members ol society cs themselves."
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Long beloye the Golden Rule was uttered by the Ccrrpenter, Moses scrid: "Whqtso-
ever ye do not wish your neighbor to do to you, do not unto him."
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"Do to others .'s you would hcve them do to vou.,'
Thct is the soul cmd the essence oI the Golden Rule, and regcrdless oI how you
scy it, sing it, or whistle it, it is cll the same il you live up to its thought cnd philoso-
lll phy. For iI ihct thought prevciled qmong men, there would be no wqrs, humcrnity would
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Where do we get the story of Christmas?
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Who was it discovered the shepherds on the hills near Bethlehem?
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Who gave to mankind the picture of the angel who appeared to these simple shepherds to announce the coming of the King?
who, alone of all the olrrl"r l"ria.r", told the emotional story of the blessed Babe who was born in a manger in a stable, where those same shepherds found and worshipped Him? ***
What man was it who has thrilled the souls of men for nigh two thousand years with his sublime words: "And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, 'Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace, good will to men"'?
Because of this or," oJr,,]r, 1r,. *orta pauses once a year to celebrate in various ways the birthday of the Son of a carpenter. Without his writings all this beauty, all this inspiration, would have been lost to man. For this man gave us Christmas. ***
FIis name was Luke; Doctor Luke, of Antioch. Ife was a Greek physician in his earlier days. And toward the end of his splendid life he wrote a long, long letter to a Roman scholar named Theophilus. And the letter concerned the birth, life, works, and death of a humble Jew, the Son of a car'enter
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Thus it happened that the most sublime story in the history of mankind came to us through the means of a letter, written by a Greek, to a Roman, about a Jew. Wonderful, isn't it? ,< ,< *
One of the saddest sins of man is ingratitude. What is true of the individual, is true of the race. So I have long nursed the feeling that the entire human race, or at least the Christian world, has been guilty of gross ingratitude toward Doctor Luke by completely forgetting and seldom if ever mentioning his name in connection with the holiday and holy day of Christmas; a day of which, except for Doctor Luke. we would never have heard.
Because in the B"ok .fl;.,*"ra only in that beautiful book, do we find the story of Christmas. There and there only do we learn the thrilling story of the shepherds, the
angels, and the holy Babe who was born in a manger. There, and there only, do we get the inspirdtion for the ringing joys, the sublime inspiration that we call the Christmas spirit. There, and there only, do we find Christ-
We depend for our history of Jesus and the religion He founded, on the four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and the Acts, all in the New Testament. Mark and John tell us nothing of the birth of Jesus. Matthew does tell of that birth, and of the wise men who came from the East and found the newborn child in a house in Bethlehem. But nothing about the stable, the manger, the shepherds, and the glorified angelic chorus; nothing of the things that gave us Christrnas. Matthew, Mark, and John were contemporaries of Jesus. Luke was not. He was one who came after, and who, at least two generations after the crucifixion, gave us our beautiful Christmas story.
It is my conviction that the Christian world owes more to this man Luke than to any other man in biblical history. Not alone did he give us the story of Christmas, but in the wonderful book that he wrote in the sunset of his life, he told us many other stories; the most beautiful stories that any religionist ever told. And, like the story of Christmas, he alone related them.
It was Luke, and only Luke, who told the story of the Good Samaritan. It was Luke who gave to religious preachers the most trenchant text for sermons the world has known-the story of the repentant thief on the cross. It was Luke who told us the story of the Prodigal Son, concerning which the world has talked ever since. Those three stories, together with the story of Christmas, all of thern told only by Doctor Luke, have furnished the text for countless religious discussions and writings since the Christian era began; and will continue to do so as long as the new Testament exists. We owe all these to Doctor Luke. And we never even say thank you, or mention his name, or tip our hats to his memory.
who was this Doctor-
He was not only ttie writer of the most beautiful piece of literature the world has known-the Book of Luke-but he was likewise the greatest friend that history has any record of. His friendship for the Apostle Paul, his loyalty and devotion throughout their long lives and even unto the death of Paul, rnakes the love of Damon for Pythias seem like a.transient and weakly acquaintance, by comparison. The more you thinf of this fellow, Luke, the more you admire him; the rnore
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(Continued from Page 6) you w.ish you could have known him. That's the way he appeals to me. What "*lt he was!
The great events of history happen fast. A dozen substantial citizens were plying their regular occupations in the Holy Land a couple of thousand years ago. They were men of substance, and character. They had homes and families. One day a young Jew they had never seen before, dressed in the garments of the poor, with not a dime in His pockets, came in from the outer country and passed them by. And as He passed He beckoned to each of the twelve. He said "Come with me." And they dropped everything they had, and all that they were doing, and they followed Him. It was that sudden. Have you stopped to think what sort of personality that young Jew must have had? Give it a thought for Christmas.
Many years pass. The young Jew has fulfilled His mission, has been cru.cified, and is gone. A tough guy named Saul appears. He takes it on himself to root out and destroy the hated followers of the young Jew, Jesus. Saul is on the road to a place where he is going to kill some rnore Christians, when he meets a young Man he has never seen before. The same look that won the twelve apostles must have met the killer. Saul. For he bowed his head and said to that young Man-or His spirit-"What do you want me to do?"
Again with the speed of light, Saul the killer becomes Paul the Apostle, the greatest salesman, the greatest preacher the world has known. And he starts out to cover the civilized world and preach the gospel of that young Man he met that day on the road to Damascus. Years later, still on his mission and now magnificent in his power, he drops into a Greek city named Antioch. fn Antioch he meets another young man, a practicing physician whose name is Luke. And, just as the Twelve followed Jesus, and just as Paul had done likewise, Doctor Luke dropped all that he had, and followed Paul; followed him over all the world. and ministered unto him, and befriended him, and waited on him, even to his death on a cross in Rorne many years after. The same suddenness as in the previous events related here.
In his writings Paul refers to his devoted friend as "Luke, the beloved physician," and as such, history has come to name him. Now let us consider how Luke came upon the materials for his later writings. In addition to Paul and other early Christians, Luke had the opportunity of knowing personally many of those who had known. Jesus well. He tells us in his writings that Mary, the
mother of Jesus, was one of the Christian community in Jerusalem when he first went there, and it is reasonable to suppose that he knew her, and talked with her of her Son'
He could have known Mary, the mother of Mark. He could have known Peter, James, John, James the brother of Jesus, Silas, Mark, and others, who were in position to tell him much about the life of the carpenter's Son. But that would not explain the beautiful stories appearing in his books that are not found in the writings of the contemporaries of Jesus. Many historians therefore believe that after the death of Paul, Luki set out and personally followed the footsteps of Jesus, going all over the Palestine countryside, talking to those he met, asking questions about Jesus. How did He look? What did He say? How did He act? What do you remember? And making notes of the things he heard.
We shall never know where he heard the story of the Babe in the manger; the story of the thief on the cross, who pitied the dying Jesus; where he picked up these wonderful stories. Remember, this was now twenty or thirty yearsaccording to historiansafter the crucifixion' But Luke gathered his material, and then he wrote the Book of Luke, and his other book, the Acts of the Apostles. And both were addressed toa Roman scholar named Theophilus.
Ministers of the gospel should be Luke's greatest boosters, for he did much to supply them with sermon and lesson materials. Take the story of the thief on the cross, for example. Matthew, who was one of the Twelve, and who was evidently within close range when Jesus was crucified, says that both of the thieves between whom Jesus was crucified, reviled the dying Savior. But long afterwards, along came Luke with his incomparable story. He says that one of the thieves reviled Him, but that the other had pity on IIim, so that the dying Carpenter said to him: "This day shalt thou be with me in paradise." You don't hear any preaching about the Matthew account of the matter, although Matthew was an eye witness. But the story by Luke, a man who came long after, still thrills the world.
So wouldn't it be a matter of fairness for a service long since rendered and long forgotten if, sometirne during the Christmas season, we, who have so much to be grateful for at this time, should pause for a moment in thoughtful contemplation of one of the greatest guys that ever lived, and say: "THANKS, DOCTOR LUKE,A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU, TOO."
Our wish is a very Merry Christmas and a prosperotrs New Yeat
Keynote of the still-growing lumber industry in the Pacific Northwest is an overall program embracing greater utilization of forest products as well as practical steps to ensure the endurance of this billiondol1ar enterprise for generations to come.
Perhaps the most fundamental project in this general program is the establishment of Tree Farms. forests, which supply needs.
Scattered throughout the Douglas fir region, that relatively small, compact, rich forest-growing area west of the Cascade Mountains in Oregon and Washington, are more than 2AO re-logging operations. A re-logger goes in after the prime crop of huge trees has been harvested with conventional heavy equipment. lle uses small, light gear, tractors and a few men. He srveeps the forest floor clean of small tops, broken pieces, chunks, short logs, and material which the big logger with his heavy overhead and more costly operation has never been able to take out and come close to breaking even.
Private timberland owners hold titleto something less than half of the region's 26 million acres of commercial one-third of the nation's softtvood
Since 1943 the private operators have placed 2,2@,000 acres of their highly productive forests under intensive scientific forest management. Tl-rese lands have been certified as West Coast Tree Farms. More than one million additional acres, not yet certified, await full inspection to be so certified.
When a private timber owner applies for a Tree Farm rnembership, he agrees to commit his land to a long-range program of management.
What is a tree farm ?A tree farm is an area of land devoted primarily to the continuous grorvth of merchantable forest products under consciously applied forest practices.
In order to accomplish this purpose tree farmers commit themselves to maintain a specified area of land for gror,ving forest crops, to provide protection from fire, insects, disease, and other sources of injury; and to cut the timber so as to maintain continuous forest growth.
A vigorous program is now under way in our region to extend the principle of sustained yield forest management; that means we will so balance our annual harvest from the forests that it r'vill not exceed the capacity of the land to reproduce. It implies a practical balance betrveen cut and grorvth. By this program rve hope to sustain forever a steady florv of forest products from our soil.
Farsighted lumbermen are planning to delay complete harvest of the great stands of virgin timber until such time as the millions of acres of second crops are capable of sustaining this industry's woodworking and processing plants. As one method of achieving this, they have in recent years g'one more fully into the field of complete utilization.
Lumbermen today are reducing logging lvaste to a minimum. This maximum utilization program takes several paths.
Following on the heels of the re-logger has come a veritable horde of small portable mills. Logs for these mills, by and large, come from re-logging shows, or small, isolated holdings.
The re-logger gets a considerable volume of saw logs, pulp logs and wood volume valuable today in various wood processing plants.
A second operator who is turning former uneconomical wood volume of the forests into usable products is the salvage logger, working in burned areas. In the case of the Tillamook Burn salvage operation, some 35 logging firms, working since the first disastrous blaze ol 1933, which took a toll of 12 billion feet of prime, virgin timber, have salvaged nearly 6 billion feet of timber. Other salvage logging operations have been equally efficient where they moved in immediately on the last trurning embers of smaller fires.
Still another part of the utilization parade is the prelogging movement. Here loggers go into thi.ck stands of second grorvth, take out selected timber for pulp, piling and some sawlogs to give tl-re remaining stand room to spread and grow more rapidly. Other pre-loggers go into selected areas of dying, rotting old growth, and cut out the over-ripe areas 'ivhich need attention, leaving blocks of timber not so far gone.
Another important phase of our "helping nature" program is our re-planting activities. At Nisqually, Washington, east of Olympia, forest owners operate the Forest Industries Nursery where six million seedling trees are grown each year. These trees are planted in the fall and winter months on private forest holdings in Oregon and Washington. Planting is done on areas .ivhere natural restocking" failed to appear, generally on areas rvhere recurring fires have killed all seed sources.
It should be emphasized that hand planting, although of great significance, constitutes only a minor part-roughly 10 per cent-of reforestation. The Douglas fir region is the most prolific natural large tree-growing area in the world. Trees literally cannot be prevented from springing up in thick stands over vast acres if the simplest reforestatiqn measures are observed.
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These "reforestation rules" are followed by all loggers because they have become a part of the state law in Washington and Oregon. These laws were initiated by the timbermen themselves as a sensible means of perpetuating indefinitely the billion-dollar Northwest lumber industry'
Loggers and tree farmers may leave seed trees, several to the acre, which provide sufficient seeds to restock an area freshly harvested within a relatively ferv years. Still other operators leave solid blocks of timber adjacent to logged lands, under a staggered setting plan, which insures rapid restocking of cutover lands. The seed blocks are not cut until the first areas are restocked.
No work on closer utilization rvould be complete without mention of the scientific studies leading to developments which will be of immense practical benefit to this area in the future.
Pulp plants already have formed an "industry within an industry," drawing their rarv materials from formerly ignored products of the forest.
The manufacture of alcohol from 'ivood has been proved a success, and rapid expansion of this economically profitable operation may be looked for. Even the bark of the Douglas fir, long a waste product, is being utilized experimentally in the production of cork.
These are only a few of the hopeful developments. We are approaching the time when we 'ivill use every scrap of material from forests which are producing on a timeless basis.
Wood Mosaic Co., pioneer hardwood producers, operate eight sawmills in their own name in Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana and West Virginia, also one plant in Canada.
This ,concern was a prime producer of walnut gun stocks for the allies during the war, and supplied much other war material. It was the first hardwood manufacturing firm to receive the Army-Navy "E" award.
A. C. Pascoe, Los Angeles, is the company's sales representative for the Pacific Coast and Western Canada.
To the heart of the rveariest winter, Through the mystic silence of night, Comes a gracious and gentle presence With largess of joy and delight; And the pulses of life are quickened, As the hours of darkness depart And blossoms of love and devotion
Unfold in each waiting heart.
The past with its cares and sorrows
Fades from our thoughts away, When the bells of Christmas are chiming And the children are happv and gay; For over the hills of, tomorrow, Where lush, green meadows lie, A brave new age is dawning And the clouds are rolling by.
Sometimes our hearts are weary And the way seems long, so long; We are weak and our burdens are heavy And life's triumphs are for the strong; And then we hear the music That floats from realms afar And around us lies the glory Of a fair and ageless star.
To the heart of the merriest season, Through hours of the fading year, Comes the festive Spirit of Christmas, With gifts of good will and cheer; And the sweet old bells are chiming For a ne'iv day just begun And again it is Merry Christmas ! May "God bless us, gvery one."
-Adeline Merriam ConnerA new mill with a daily cut of 25,000 feet of maple plywood for furniture factories will be built on the Fraser River, east of Fraser Mills, B.C. The company's former mill at Langley, B.C. burned down last spring. F. D. Haddock is manager.'
Los Angeles, Calif.
Honorable Harry S. Truman, December 3' 1946 President of the United States of America. The White House, Washington, D. C.The following self-explanatory Resolution was unanimously passed this date by our board of directors, with instructions that it be immediately transmitted to you by Western Union wire, with the request that you be respectfully urged to take early favorable action which the matter rightfully deserves. To-wit:
"WHEREAS, by broadening its encroachment upon the freedom of private enterprise and imposing inequitable, discrimiinative, crippling and demoralizing controls, the Government has
(1) retarded and not stimulated home building activity in this area or throughout the nation; and
(2) caused higher and higher construction costs; and also
(3) unnecessarily delayed a balanced building economy; and
WHEREAS, it is quite evident from past and current happenings that the National Housing Agency and the Civilian Production Administration are using the powers granted to them to create, nurture and advance the manufacture and sale of experimental, untried and unsatisfactory types of impractical residential construction, while at thg same time undermining, impairing and retrograding the private construction industry that erects conventional-type homes and apartment buildings; and
WHEREAS, the private construction industry, if given the opportunity, would use its experience, ingenuity and known ability to construct sufficient conventional-type residential buildings of proven quality and desirability for veterans and other citizens in need of .shelter within a reasonable time and at a fair cost, thus more rapidly solving the housing problem and bringing about-much sooner, a balanced building economy.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED this 3rd day of December, 1946, by the board of directors of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association, representing more than 500 lumber dealers in this area to whom the
public and construction industry not only looks for its supplies but also for tangible assistance in solving housing problems, that it ls our firm conviction and belief :
(1) That the maximum number of homes of sound and lasting construction can be accomplished much quicker and at a lower price by immediately eliminating all allocations, set-asides, priority ratings, rental ceilings on new residential buildings and other Governmental controls dealing with and relating directly and indirectly to the housing program and construction in general; and
(2) That a copv of this Resolu,tion be sent to the President of the United States, and to the other heads of the Federal Government having jurisdiction over the removal of the regulations, orders and controls affecting the flow of building material or the uses thereof; and also
(3) That all such heads of Government, including Congress, are urgently requested to take whatever action is necessary to immediately bring about these removals."
Respectfully submitted, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA RETAIL LUMBER ASSOCIATION
Orrie W. Hamilton, Secretary-Manager.One way to solve the problem of Christmas shopping is by ordering several copies of "Old Trails And New," by Adeline Merriam Conner. who is Poet Laureate of the Lumber Industry. Mail orders direct to Mrs. Adeline M. Conner, North San Juan, Nevada County, California. The price is $1.50 per copy, postage prepaid.
A new sawmill, located 11 miles northeast of Paulina, Oregon, is being built by Marion Stilwell and Jack Vandevert of Bend, Oregon. The mill will have a capacity of from 30,000 to 35,000 feet daily. The owners have purchased five million feet of Ponderosa pine timber.
Lu Green and Jack Boorman do a professional job on the monthly "Meow," publication of Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39, which performs the useful job of keeping members up to the minute on the doings of the club.
E'IJ never know whct this little tyke is writing cs she sits belore the lire, but iI we were writing c letter to Santcr Claus, here's what we'd scy-"Dear Santq
-Plecse bring to cll our lriends in the lumber industry, the Merriest Christmcs they ever had,cnd see to it thqt all their dreams come true durin g 1947."
The longest major str:ike in California's history is the big story about Redwood for 1946. Starting |anuary 14, it is in its eleventh month as this is written.
It is a sorry story in the sense that it should never have happened to us-or to you-and it did happen to you who are our friends and our contact with the consuming public which has sorely needed the Red'lvood we could not supply.
It is a cheering story in its disclosure of the solid oldfashioned American manhood that captains the Redr,r'ood industry.
The strike was called to force the Redwood operators to coerce fellow Americans into carrying a union card whether they wished to or not-to deny them freedom of choiceto deprive them of the right to '"vork unless they first paid a toll called an initiation {ee-and continued thereaftqr to pay tribute called dues-to a private organization. BIG LABOR, grown arrogant under a subservient government, demanded of the little Redwood industry, as it had of many larger, that it knuckle under to the union shop demand as a condition precedent to discussing their other demands.
Nine plants were closed for six months unable even to negotiate because of that adamant "or else" demand. They were helpless under an unequal law that forces management to stand always ready to negotiate but puts no responsibility upon labor leaders.
Unable longer to sit idle with maximum costs going on, the operators offered in the middle of July to arbitrate all issues-including the union shop demand-to pay the same 20c increase which had been granted in the Northwest and make any additional award retroactive. Union leaders summarily rejected the offer. The operators than offered to abide by a secret vote of the union members and pay half the cost of taking the vote. This offer also was summarily rejected.
The struck companies then had three options.
One: They could knuckle under and buy from these leaders the dubious privilege of theoretically running the businesses they owned. The price was to agree to drive their workers, including returned veterans who had fought
all over the world to dethrone dictatorship and preserve freedom, into a slavery that could be escaped only by leaving the area or the industry. I have fervently given thanks, and I do here again, that I am privileged to work for men who refused peace at such a price.
Two: They could board up their plants, cut fixed costs to the bone, and quit. They are not quitters.
Three: They could open their plants and run them behind picket lines. This had, in the past decade, become a practically obsolete practice but they did it.
All nine struck companies are running. They are not fully manned yet. They are not profitable. But THEY ARE RUNNING.
Now the "Brotherhood" is attempting to keep veterans from using Redwood to build homes and you from selling it by running a secondary boycott in open and contemptuous violation of the law of California. Where they have closed shops and can tell workers what they can and cannot do irrespective of the wishes or instructions of owners-as they aspire to be able to do to Redwood production workers-they are getting away with it.
So far, all the Redwood that the operators can make is being shipped out to buyers willing and eager to take it. So mrich so that it is not possible yet to keep enough to re-establish the drying cycle necessary to ensure maximum production of worked uppers and particularly the fine siding you so badly need.
The operators are more unhappy than you can be at not being able to serve the public in this time of need but however much you may be inconvenienced, you will be patient, I am sure, and encourage and applaud these stalwart men who refused the easy way of appeasement-who refused to coerce free men-who have stood and made the fight long overdue in our industry and in our country.
They are not alone. All over America men have begun taking the fighting chance they still have to arrest the march toward a coercive state and restore government by 1311,, but it took high courage for the leaders of so small an industry as Redwood to stand and fight against such odds.
Don McCaughey has been appointed general manager and secretary of the Arizona Sash, Door & Glass Co., Phoenix and Tucson, Ar\zona, succeeding the late Mr. G' E. Engstrom.
Mr. McCaughey assumes his new duties with a wellrounded background ol 12 years' experience with the com' pany, the past seven years of which he served as nianager of the cgmpany's Tucson branch.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."-Benjamin Franklin
Mcry the blessings of this Christmas, Be yours, our friends, todoy. And touch your hecrt with glcdness, In some sort of speciol woy.
Moy the echo of soft corols
Bring cr song of joy to you, The loughter of a million kids, Moke your Christmqs brighter too.
Moy you find crmong your gifts
A greot prosperity, Peqce oneorth good will toword men, In our lond of liberty.
Merry, Merry Christmos, Moy Christmos olwcrys bringA new success ond hoppinessAnd the best of everythingl
Increased production of scarce building products resulting from removal of price ceilings will permit substantial improvement in the quality of veterans' homes and other buildings constructed from now on, Andrew L. Harris, executive secretary of the Producers' Council, national organization of building product manufacturers, declares.
"Because of materials shortages, builders and contractors have been forced in many instances to use inadecluate substitutes and to use a minimum of materials in order to get homes and other structures completed," Mr. Harris said.
"Moreover, since the most serious shortages were in the low-priced lines which now are coming onto the market in increasing quantities, it will be possible to build a considerably greater number of low-cost homes. The disappearance of black markets and more prompt arrival of materials on the construction site also will help to reduce the cost of building.
"In addition, the greater availability of materials will make it possible to shorten the time required to complete new homes, rvhich had risen from a pre-war average of about four months to as high as seven and one-half to eight morths and more."
John D. Small, Civilian Production Administrator, resigned December 5. The resignation became effective December 6.
A timely hint for builders is contained in the results of a survey recently conducted by Ponderosa Pine Woodwork among those who are eligible to undertake major home remodeling projects. The survey shows that more than half of those r";ho plan to remodel wish to do so for the purpose of creating additional rooms in existing homes.
This survey shows that of all those eligible to undertake major remodeling, more than half are planning to build more rooms in their homes. The survey indicates that attic and basement space will be increasingly utilized, and that, in many cases, over-large rooms will be converted into two or more smaller ones.
The survey provides additional evidence of the growing trend torvard increased partitioning in American homes. The extremely modern open plan home-in which most of the rooms are thrown together, or separated only by curtains and movable partitions-apparently finds little favor. The average American family still prefers the well-partitioned home with sturdy doors rvhich can be closed to assure privacy.
Sulo V. Sihvonen has been appointed head of the Forestry Division of Crossett, Arkansas Companies, P. F. Watzek, vice nresident and general manager of the company announced on October 15. He fills a post made vacant recently by the resignation of N. P. Worthington, rvho has joined the United Forest Service in Washington, D. C.
OUT OF CALIFORNIA'S REDWOOD REALM ROLL GIANT LOGS OF YULETIDE CHEER FOR OLD ST. NICK IS AT THB HELM AT THIS TIME EACH AND BVERY YEAR
---BEARING WISHES FOR A VERY MERRY XMAS AND A HAPPY AND SUCCESSFUL NEW YBAR
The U. S. Forest Service has recently issued a bulletin on commercial tree planting in the United States up to and including the year 1945, which shows interesting facts and figures.
In 1945 the tree plantings totalled 138,944 acres.
Previous to 1945 total tree plantings amounted to 6,344,688 acres.
Total tree plantings including 1945, 6,483,632 acres.
Total successful tree plantings, 4,243,788 actes.
Total tree plantings that failed of success, 2,239,844 actes.
It will be seen that more than one-third of the commercial trees that have been planted, failed to "take" for various reasons, weather, soil, disease, etc.
The report shows a staggering amount of replanting of trees still to be done, something like 75 million acres in all that need planting, 44 million of which are on farms. To do the farm planting job alone in the next forty years about one billion seedlings would have to be produced annually in the United States. The bulk of all forest tree seedlings are produced in state-operated nurseries.
The biggest year for seedling production on record was 1941, when 70 state nurseries in 42 ditrerent states produced 98 million forest tree seedlings; showing what a big job of tree planting and seedling raising lies ahead of us. Demand for seedlings is far greater than supplies every year. Some new nurseries are being planned by the Forest Serv-
ice in states that are getting increased forestry appropriations. The U.S. Forest Service has about $124,000 a year with which to cooperate in this production program, which is very small when the size of the job is considered, and still less from a viewpoint of its importance.
In 1945 the states put about $687,000 into state production of forest tree seedlings for farmers, with another $338,000 spent on production of forest seedlings for non-farm planting, industry lands, state lands, municipal watersheds, etc.
Taken altogether, the work that is being done, while admirable, is infinitesimal in contrast with that which looms ahead.
San Francisco Lumbermen's Club will eniertain the children from a San Francisco orphanage at their Christmas Party, to be held at the Palace Hotel on Tuesday, December 17, at noon.
Frank O'Connor will act as Santa Claus, and Committee Chairman Dick Mussallem anonunces that the services o{ Jo-Jo the clown and his party have been secured for the entertainment of the children. A big attendance is t'x' pected for this event.
Much of our success in life and business is due to the loyal cooperation of our friends and customers in the iumber trade, so we take this opportunity to express our appreciation and to wish you one and all
It was only a few years ago just before Christmas when thoughts of good ,cheer ordinarily inspired byits significance lost all prospect of early realization and were shoved into the background of consciousness by the blasts of enemy bombs falling on our own territory and among our own people. During those days of participation in a conflict for which we had long been destined, the dream of a White Christmas was often in people's thoughts. It became popular as a song, and was talked of in friendly social gatherings; longingly discussed in the quiet hours of family life at home; choked out in the tortured utterances of parting loved ones; and proclaimed with finality by our lads on far-flung battlefields as they rammed oily rags through rifle barrels to make sure, that it was not too long coming about. It isn't just a lot of snow blanketing the earth at Yuletide, it is all the good that Christmas has come to stand for and symbolize in our minds, school, comradeship, a chance to play on the team; living conditions favoring unfettered development of personality; the privilege of accomplishing social and economic progress through individual initiative and enterprise; the opportunity to have a home and loving family, to provide them the essentials of life and a reasonable amount of its pleasures.
Men of the armed services rvanted to go home because it meant a return to their r,vay of life, the best way of life. Bureaucracy had long been a part of it but its evils were little known primarily because the system had not achieved enough influence in enough of our lives to warrant widespread evaluation. Until the war it was a slorv-growing thing moving stealthily behind the mask of temporary gains it had bought for many, and multifarious promises of a Utopian future for all. War necessitated the expansion of bureaucracy into a fully-developed stage and at war's end there were many in tl-re system who had no desire to see its stature diminished. So the matter was turned over to the "brains" rvho reasoned that since men of the armed services lvant to return home above everything, they will therefore need homes to return to. Do they have homes to return to? Many of them certainly do not, there was a housing deficiency before the war, practically no civilian housing was built during the war, there have been great population shifts, there will be further population shifts. Then they nudged one another and said, after the manner of G.L's who developed the expression, "Brother, this is it ! We have found the goose with a golden egg, so now we'll take the goose out and put it before the people." Then with fanfare from ten thousand desks, each with two or three neat piles of applications for permission to perfornr some small act in life, ten thousand trumpets blared to the people that our boys are coming home, but they don't have homes, so we will build them homes, we'll build a million of 'em in the first year. To do this, they said, "We will of course keep many controls in effect and add some new
ones to make sure that we do not have a situation of too many, too few or too little, too soon."
Meanwhile industry and private enterprise set about producing materials for homes and building them as best they could under the restrictions imposed by government that made operating conditions cumbersome, the future uncertain and kept normal channels of distribution distorted beyond all recognition. Many homes were started but only a few completed compared with the wild promises that came from Washington. There were material shortages, black markets, green lumber, and the feeble cries of reds and pinks. All the while bureaucrats carried the torch for their system. The people were all wrong', they said, but not the system. It is much better, they insisted, to have a price ceiling and not be able to get things because they are not available than it is to be without a price ceiling and not be able to get things because the price is too high; but the claims of glory and the promises of great things to come were continued in abundance.
The people want to do a job and in spite of all restrictions have been steadily wearing away the barriers to full production and maximum achievement. The Western Pine industry will ship more lumber in 1946 than in any other peacetime year, around 5% billion feet, during a period when stocks have been lower than at any other time in the industry's history. A large percentage of this production is going into the building of homes. Retail lumber dealers have carried on unceasing efforts to get lumber and other materials channeled into the construction of houses. Building contractors likewise have carried on an all-out effort towards the same goal. From all these exertions have come some results. Heavy production has narrowed the gap between supply and demand, there are fewer scarce items and few items are as scarce as they were earlier. We have rounded the far turn and are preparing now for the drive in the stretch. We have seen bureaucracy infull bloom and we don't like the color of its petals. We have known for some time that it is not government by the people. Now we know it is not government for the people with the best interests of the whole society it represents as its principal objective. Rather bureaucracy has revealed itself as a governme.nt in which society must be changed to fit a presupposed pattern before efficient functioning of the system, and indeed the welfare ofits proponents, can be achieved. The people by their vote have spoken out against any system that fosters black markets, they have spoken out against the reds and the pinks. They have not relinquished the dream of a White Christmas and have not slackened their strides in that direction. So it is that we now stand closer to realization of this ideal than ever before.
As controls are being lifted it seems a fitting time to affirm the aims of our Western Pine industry towards (Continued on Page 26)
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More than one hundred prominent Hoo-Hoo from southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois were guests at a testimonial dinner given at the Pfister Hotel, Milu'aukee, on November 18, in honor of D. S. Montgomery, Rameses 39, at which time he was presented a beautiful wrist watch in aporeciation of his faithful service in behalf of Hoo-Hoo International.
Speakers on the program included well-known national figures, from Minneapolis : T. T. Jones, president; W. M. "Doc" Wattson, treasurer; {rom Chicago: A.A. Hood, Rameses 32; O. C. Lance, Hoo-Hoo Immortal; E. W. Kettlety Supreme Custocatian, R. E. Saberson, St. Paul, recently elected Snark of the lJniverse, made the presentation.
Ben F. Springer, secretary of Hoo-Hoo International was in charge of the arrangements, and George Mill, president of the Milwaukee Club presided. E. W. Kettlety headed the delegation of ten prominent Hoo-Hoo u,ho came from Chicago to participate in the ceremonies.
Don Montgomery not only enjoys the distinction of having served as Snark of the Universe for the longest period, but of having built up the Order substantially during the five war years in which he officiated. He was paid high tribute by the speakers who attributed the present thriving conditions of the Order to his wise counsel and enthusiastic promotion.
"The space wasted by each standard-size swinging door in the average IJ.S. one-story home costs $40'00," states Howard Coor-Pender of MacDougall Door & Plyrvood Co., Los Angeles, rvholesale distributors of Sav-A-Space Sliding Door Frames.
"Besides the eight square feet of floor area rvasted, at least 21 square.feet of wall area can serve no useful purpose except to allow the door to swing open.
"Sav-A-Space units have no noi'sy metal track, no clanking wheels. Any |s/s" thick stock door may be used with this unit, but a stock Douglas fir door will give the most satisfaction."
This company has a good supply of all stock sizes on hand, available for immediate delivery.
(Continued from Page 22) responsibilities in an economy of free enterprise. Efforts to furnish lumber urgently needed by the consumer for homebuilding, remodeling, and other essential purposes will continue unabated. It is the earnest desire of Western Pine manufacturers to serve consumers with a well manufactured product, suitable in every rvay for their needs and at fair prices. The industry is opposed to shipments of green lumber except as they might be made in conformity with this principle. Its endeavors to work closely with retail lumber dealers in taking care of consumer needs under all conditions of supply and demand will be carried on. Contrary to much that has been proclaimed by advocates of government control, existing stands of timber in the Western Pine region are not being devastated by private management. These fertile hills and valleys are not being laid barren and we are not rdnning out of timber for future use. All indications are that production of Western Pines and associated species can be continued at the present level of 5l ltillion per year forever, while plentiful reserves of timber are maintained. Through expansion of the already well-established tree farm program and large scale adherence to the forest practice rules devised by industry for its own use it can be anticipated with optimism that within the foreseeable future timber grou'th in our region will considerably exceed 5l billion feet annually.
D. H. Le llreton, chairman of the ticket committee for the annual Christmas Party of Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39, states that on account of the space available attendance u'ill be limited to 150 for this party, u'hich r'vill be held at the Claremont Hotel, Berkeley, on Friday evening, December 20. There rvill be a private bar for members, and entertainment rvill be handled by Lane Productions.
The 37th annual meeting of the Pacific Logging Congress rvill be held in Portland, Ore., February lO-11-12 with heaclquarters at tl-re Multnomah Hotel. Everett Griggs, St. Paul & Tacoma I-umber Co., Tacoma, is president of the Pacific Logging Congress. A. Whisnant is secretary.
The American Legion Housing Committee, appointed some time ago to study the Wyatt housing program has made its report to the Legion national executive committee. Included in the committee's recommendations are the following:
1. All priorities on home construction be abolished.
2. All price ceilings on construction of homes for sale be abolished.
3. Rent controls on existing homes be maintained until 4 million veterans homes have been completed.
4. All present permanent war housing, non-farm housing and other Government projects be offered for sale with preference to veterans or their widows.
5. The administration of all rent controls be transferred from the OPA to the FHA.
6: FHA be empowered by Congress to guarantee l@/o - loans on homes to veterans for forty years at four per cent, and the amount not to exceed $6,500.
7. The FPHA be returned to the jurisdiction of the Federal Works Agency.
8. Hoarding of building materials by Federal agencies be curbed through enforced filing of a biannual statement by each Government entity of all such materials in hand.
The War Assets Administration should throw its entire store of surplus building materials on the open market to be sold immediately at public auction. The Department of Justice shoulcl have responsibility of enforcing limitations on non.residential building instead of the CPA.
Inventories of lurnber at sawn-rills and concentration yards at the end of September totaled 4,@2,339,000 board feet, an increase ol 7.2 per cent over August, the Civilian Production Administration baid November 26.
The total rvas slightly more than one billion board feet over the inventories of March 31, the low point in 1946 inventories, and an increase ol 999,705,O00 board feet above the total in all yards on January 1.
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Charles L. Wheeler, executive vice president of Pope & Talbot, Inc., San Francisco, is serving as a trustee of the Rotary Foundation for the fiscal year 1946-47.
As a trustee, Mr. Wheeler is an international officer in the u''orld-wide Rotary organizalion extending from North and South America to Europe, Asia, Africa, and the islands of the Pacific.
As a Foundation Trustee, Mr. Wheeler, who was president of Rotary International in Ig43-44, is concerned with matters relating to the funds and investments of the Rotary Foundation, an enterprise established for charitable, educational and other philanthropic purposes. In 1945, he attended the United Nations Conference in San Francisco as a consultant to the United States delegation. He has been a member of the Rotary Club of San Francisco since 1925 and is a past President of that Club.
A price of about $7,183.00 should buy a home that is convenient and comfortable, in the opinion of those eligible to build under the Wyatt Plan. This iact was revealed by a nation-wide survey recently made by Ponderosa Pine Woodwork, which for the past several years has been conducting such surveys in the interests of the industry.
The figure of $7,183.00 is the average amount which those eligible to build homes under the Wyatt Plan are willing to spend. Those rvho are eligible to undertake major remodeling under the Wyatt Plan expect to spend an average of $1,216.00 for such work, while those eligible for major home repair jobs expect to spend an average of $674.00.
Except among those planning home repair jobs, those respondents who are not norv eligible to start work in 1946-47 expect to spend more money on their own particular housing projects than do the eligibles. For example, the average price which non-eligibles expect to spend for a new home is $7,441.00.
9t.l% of all eligibles and non-eligibles believe that present building costs are too high, and there is very little variation in opinions on this point between the eligible and non-eligible groups. On the question, "Do you think costs wrill be lower within a few years ?" there was a slight variation of opinion between the eligible and non-eligible groups, the latter tending more strongly to the belief that prices, eventually, will be lower.
One of these dcrys nol so lorr ofr, one will return to our midst who hqs been missing lor quite some time, qnd when he comes it will probcbly be to set up a petmqnent residence qmong us. I specrk oI SELLING.
For the pcst severcl yecrs there hqs been so selling, All lumber ccrd building lolks hqve devoted themselves, through no choice oI their own, to the science (il you mcry ccrll it that) oI buying. Or should we scy, procuring? All goods crnd products thct hcd cny vqlue oI crny sort sold thernselves. A buyer's mqrket oI mcrgnificent dirnensions qnd unheqrd-ol intensity prevcriled in crll worthy industries.
So business got entirely out oI prcrctice ct selling things. Ii likewise lost prcctice in the gentle qrl oI credit tixing. Time w<rs when scrles were preceded by c thoughtful lbok crt the credit rcting oI the buyer. Thct dcry pcrssed, clso, cmd is siill missing. Collection losses beccrme c thing unheqrd oI. All q m(m hcrd to do to stcry in business wcs get somelhing to sell. Not necessqrily the ihings it hcd been cccustomed to selling, either. Almost cnything would do.
' Old hcbits were forgotten. No longer did the scrles mqnqger ccll his lorce in to debcte crnd prepcre wily wcrys cnrd mecns lor inducing bashlul custqmers to buy their goods. No longer did scrlesmen prcrctice silver tongued selling or the iudicious cppliccrtion ol such smcll bribery <rs "licker" or steck dinners, to get some guy's ncrme on the dotted order line. No longer wcrs it even considered necesscrry to prcctice ordincrry civility when meeting old or new customers. Business simply becqme cr mctter oI doling oui sccrrce goods to clcrmorous buyers when there wcs crny to dole out, crnd hiding out the rest oI ihe time to keep lrom being hqrqssed.
It is still lhct wcy in most lines, crs cr mqtter oI lcrct. But with every dcry ihct pcrsses-bcrring the dcmncble strikes thcrt blccken the luture oI this country crnd oI all business cnd indtrstry-the time is coming necrrer when things will be in generous supply cg<rin crt prices people ccsr afford to pcry, qnd when the gentle crt oI selling will return to tcrke the lront seqt thcrt it used to occupy in the domcrin oI business. It is so much ol q ceriqinty thcrt it seems only lcrir to suggest lo one cnd all thcrt it might be cr good time right now to get out the old text book on selling qnd merchcndising, mcrking lriends crnd inlluencing scrles, etc., cnrd get brushed up on thct end oI ihe gqme.
Time wcs when the sales end ol every business wcrs the most importcrnt end. We used to scry-crnd truthlully -thcrt millions could be lound to mqnulcrcture satislcrctory goods, iI thouscrnds could iust be loccted who could creqte cr mcrrket lor them. Those dcrys crre coming bcrclc crnd it won't be long crnd when those dcrys come, they will come in c hurry. When the buyer's mqrket loses its dyncmite, cnd seller's end ol business will suddenly get cr touch of the V-Bomb energy. Don't you doubt it. So it wouldn't be cr bcrd idec lor crll oI us who sell things in order to ecrt, to lecrrn to scry "plecse" and "thcrnks" in sweet cnd dulcet tones, such crs would cppecrl to cr prospeciive buyer who can't mcrke up his mind.
Yes sir, the time is at hcrnd when salesmen will need: the curiosity oI q ccrt,' the. tenccity oI c bulldog; the de' termincrtion oI cr tcpci driver; the diplomcrcy oI c wcrywcrrd husband,'the pctience ol a wile,'the enthusicrsm oI c llcrp' per; the lriendliness oI c child; ihe good humor of cn idiot,'the simplicity of c jcrckcss,' the qssurance oI q college boy; the energy crnd sticktoitiveness oI cr successlul bill collector.
How crre you fixed clong those lines?
San Francisco, December Z-Revised Specifications for Grades of California redwood lumber have been adopted, it is announced by the California Redwood Association.
These new grades were adopted after many months of intensive study by the Association's grading committee in consultation with mill managers and sales managers of the producing companies. The objective was to develop from the redwood logs lumber which will best serve the needs and desires of redwood users, while keeping within the possibilities of practical and economical sawmill operation'
Specifically, the primary accomplishment of the new grades is to make available to users the maximum volume of redwood lumber in all heart grades. Sapwood is confined to the smallest practical volume of lumber, segregrated into grades useful for purposes not requiring the degree of resistance to decay and insect attack that is provided by the heartwood. The accomplishment of this end entails changes in mill and sales practices, as well as in grading.
The previous practice of having grades containing sapwood in limited amounts has been dis,continued. Now grades are either heartwood grades or sapwood may be present in any amount. Names assigned to the grades are intended to indicate more accurately the quality and usefulness of each grade.
The revised yard grades include three heartwood grades. Clear All Heart redwood, the highest quality finish grade,
is retained. Select Heart and Construction Heart are for contact-with-the-soil and other uses with high decay hazard, where redwood's durability has long served well.
The yard grades containing sapwood are A Grade, a high quality finish lumber; Utility, made in one-inch thickness only, for such uses as barn boards and garage siding; Sap Common, for general construction uses where decay resistance is not of primary importance, and No. 3 Common.
Special purpose grades have been retained, usually without change. These include Foundation Grade, regularly stocked by lumber dealers in many localities and Irrigation lleart, specified for irrigation structures by many large land owners. Structural grades have been revised, although the highest one, Dense Stru,ctural, remains unchanged. Among the other special purpose grades having wide usage are Shop, Tank Stock, Expansion Joint redwood and Ties. Rules are included for lath, shingles, and shakes.
Revised grading rule books will be available about the first of the year from the California Redwood Association, 405 Montgomery Street, San Francisco 4, California.
Rulan V. Harman, manager of the Northwest Lumber Co., Van Nuys, states that they have doubled their yard space, the additional space being 210 by 80 feet. This has been graded and a wire fence put around it. They have bought a l0-wheel Chevrolet truck and two lift trucks.
He also says that it is the company's intention to put in a.stock of doors, plywood, and hardware when these materials are available.
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Suppliers of building materials subject to HH-priority ratings are not prohibited from selling these kinds of materials on unrated orders, the Civilian Production Administration pointed out today in commenting on regulations for channeling those materials into the Veterans' Emergency Housing Program Moreover, for most of those materials, no set-aside of stock for future dated orders is required'
In the case of a few of the materials, suppliers are required to set aside materials for rated orders. These suppliers' set-asides are all less than 100 per cent, with the exception of prefabricated houses, sections, and panels'
This comment was prompted by reports that some suppliers have been refusing to sell to customers without ratings on the mistaken ground that CPA regulations require them to hold their whole supply for rated orders.
These materials are controlled by CPA's Schedules A and B to Priorities Regulation 33' Schedule A lists the materials for rvhich HH ratings may be used by builders, contractors, etc. Schedule B contains special provisions for the distribution of these materials. For most of thd Schedule A materials no set-aside is required. Instead, the regulations merely require that rated orders, when received, be filled in preference to unrated orders. This is a limited requirement, since suppliers do not have to use their whole stock for filling rated orders received. Instead, the "ceiling" ptovisions explained in Schedule B prevent ratings from preempting :he entire supply since they permit suppliers to
Frank G. Kranz, president of the Golden State Lumber Co., retail distribution yard in Santa Monica, Calif., and a sawmill in Washington, was recently honored by being invited, with 25 other Pacific Coast business and professional men, by Secretary Forrestal to be guests of the Navy on a land, sea, and air trip to the Hawaiian Islands.
In a talk at a noon luncheon meeting of the Santa Monica-Ocean Park Chamber of Commerce, December 2, Mr. Ktanz said the group had a fine reception in the islands. They traveled over on the aircraft 'carrier Boxer, and returned on a Santa Monica Douglas DC-4 plane. Mr. Kranz said he was both surprised and reassured at the preparedness of the U. S. Navy, and the advan'ces that are being made in the use of guided missiles and undersea craft. The amazing recovery of the American forces after the Pearl Harbor attack, the speaker said, can be attributed to four points: Radar superiority, Naval intelligence, air power, and the production and supply lines maintained by American Industry.
use a part of their supply for unrated orders.
A few of the Schedule A materials are especially scarce in relation to the housing requirements. Therefore, various percentages of suppliers' receipts of these scarcer materials have to be set aside physically under Schedule B to PR-33 and held for rated orders. Except for prefabricated housing, all of the set-aside amounts are under 1C0 per cent.
Two scouts from the Naval Academy were watching the Army football team in action, and marveled, as who does not (?)' at the terrific prowess of Blanchard. There was gloo,m on their faces. One of them said:
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William Brown, yard manager of the Western Hardwood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, has purchased a general store at Poplar, Calif. He was rvith the company {or twenty-five years. When he leit to take over his ner,v business, the employees at Western presented him r'vith a beatrtiful solid gold 'ivrist rvatch.
"Just one thing: graduation."
And then there was the sports writer who said to the football coach at the beginning of the season:
"Who's to do your kicking this season?"
And the gloomy-faced coach answered:
"The alumni, I'm afraid."
San Diego lumbermen, together with their wives and guests, had an enjoyable dinner dance at the Shalimar Club, San Diego, Saturday evening, November 23. 130 attended. The party was sponsored by the San Diego HooHoo Club. Chas. D. McFarlane is vicegerent snark of the San Diego Hoo-Hoo District.
At the annual meeting of its membership held on November 19, 1946, at Portland, Oregon, Pacific Lumber Remanufacturers' Association adopted the follow resolutions:
WHEREAS it is the consensus of opinion of the members of this Association and of practically all persons and business firms .with whom they have contact, that the need for governmental cohtrol on building and other materials no longer exists and that such controls result in endless confusion and substantially impede the reconversion program ancl that a return to the system of free enterprise will accomplish a solution to the housing and material shortage and related problems in the shortest possible period of time, NOW THEREFORE
BE IT RESOI VED that this Association does hereby go on record as advocating and urging the immediate decontrol o[ American industry, production and distribution and the elimination and liquidation of all federal agencies exercising such controls as typified by Civilian Production Administration, the Office of the Housing Expediter and National Housing Administration, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this resolution be published in such trade and other publications to which the Association has access and that copies hereof be dis-
tributed to all of the members of Congress representing the western states wherever our membership resides.
WHEREAS the OPA control and regulation of prices in the lumber and related service industries have been terminated and the purposes accomplished and
WHEREAS these industries fully coopdrated with the letter and spirit of such regulations and in all instances have attempted to abide by them and
WHEF-EAS notwithstanding an honest and sincere effort to comply therewith, numerous violation cases have been filed in the courts and are now pending therein and others are in the process of being and probably will be prepared and filed before the period of limitation has run and
WHEREAS practically all of such cases and the violations cla;med by the OPA to have occurred are neither wilful nor intentional, but result instead from varying interpretations of such regulations and the uncertainties inherent therein and
WHEREAS the prosecution of such cases and the comtinued filing thereof will not result in any clarification or precedent valuable in connection with the future administration of the price control law, NOW THEREFORE
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DISTRIBUTORS: Arizona-Arizona-Sash.&-D-oor Co., Phoenix; Southwestern SashCr.DogrCo.,Phoenix&Tucson Arkansas-DykeBros.,FortSmith,LitfleRock fr Texarkana California-L. H Eubank &-Son, lngiewood. 'Connecticut- Wm. H. Short Lumber Co., West Haiiloii]-- District of Columbia-Harbor Sales Co., Inc..,. Washington.. Florida - Harbor Plyvood Corp., .lacksonvilte, Miama Cr Tamq? cmrJiJ - t;iodi pjvwo=oa -Co'rp- etranta lilinois - Harbor ptywood corp.,.Chicago.. _lndiana-E. w. Camp Plywood co., ln'':.,.lndianaioli.s, loqa--Tip Top biitriuuiinl i6.;-ce6-;'ti#;;; 'be, M;i;;, d-'iiorm r_are Kentuckv-!, W Qamp Plywood Co.,. Inc., Louiwille Lolisiana-Davidson Sash & boor Co., t-ate -frirtes; Ngw-Orteafs i'asrr A ij6oi'i".1 Nlir"ort""ns Marvland-Harbor^Sales Co-, Inc.,.Baltimore_ M-assachusetts-Kimball Lumber Co.,.Watertown' Michig;n-'e. i.'Rnoerson Lmo!, eo., Detioli:-Anoerson- Dietrich Lumber Co-. Lansinq ^ Missouri^-Drvle Bros., .loplin &..Kansas.Ciiy_ Nibraska-Omaha HJrdilooa-lr.uei-tl_ 6;h; --'li;'-i;h;:1.#y Millwork Corp., lerey citv; I n. Qyigley ql-'Ciouies-tdr City New Mexico : souin*eii"rn_sish a ooor Co.l nru-rqrliqrq; The New_ Mexico Co., Atblquerque New York - Alpert Woodworking corp.,_ Brooklyn; -Davi.s. Plyvood. Corp., .Rochester ohio - E. w. cjmp ptvi,oo,i-ib., t"i., bi"ii-"'":""tii"iia'uiilry"ooa Corp., Cleveland, Col-umbus & Toledo Tennessee - Cole Man-uflcturirlg Co, Memphis Texas - Dividson sasii a b-ooi Co., Austiri; ftouiion s'as["a-il;'e;; Houston; Southmost SashCr Door co., Harlingen; Texas Sash &.Door Cb., Fort worth; Ceo. c.. Va_lrgha; c' -sd, sa; Anib;i;-' '*;;i-lildo;:'4";uJri uer. cantile, Aberdeen; Lundgren Dealers Supply, Taicoma.
It is currently apparent that some members of the lumber industry are unwisely celebrating the removal of price controls by boosting prices and service charges beyond reason.
Some dealers are reported to be contributing to this inflationary spiral by offering to pay higher prices than the producers had reason to expect. Also. some of the wholesalers are said to be collecting orders from dealers at excessive pri,ces with the expectation of placing the orders with producers at an attractive price. On the other hand, some of the producers who are thought to have dealt in the black market are now soliciting business at prices no person in his right mind would want to pay.
While it is admitted that some of the inequities created by OPA must of necessity be corrected at both the production and distribution levels, sound logic dictates that if unreasonably high prices become general and cause a run-
away market, the industry stands to lose public confidence which is so badly needed.
If this happens, the left-wing boys will undoubtedly lose no time in trying to convince the public that it made a grave mistake in taking action which led to decontrol of wages and pri'ces. This can be expected. llowever, the industry should not lend encourag'ement in that direction.
While it is realized that the lumber industry has a small minority of fly-by-night operators and get-rich-quick boys, who will-if encouraged, bring discredit to the industry, it is known that the vast majority of lumber producers, wholesalers and dealers, which make up the lumber industry, take personal pride in doing things that i,vill bring credit and respect to the industry.
Now is the time for all members, in each segment of the industry, to use self-restraint in their buying and selling practices. They would serve the public and industry's interest better by-
1. Resisting as far as possible inr,varranted price increase ;
2. Rejecting offers that will lead to further inflation;
3. Using self-restraint in establishing and carrying out their own pricing policies, and also
4. Effecting savings in operational expenses so as to assure a lower price to the public.
The industry will reap what it sorvs-either lasting prosperity and respect, or a business recession and disrepute.
The board of directors of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California met at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, December 6. President George Adams, Noah Adams Lumber Co., Walnut Grove, Calif., presided. Members of the association rvere invited to attend the meeting.
GERLf NGERS pay for themselv es every Few months and are a "must" it"r in almost any lumb et operation.
GERLINGERS not only cost less to bry and operate butthey out-perform and out-last all others.
Mcrnulcrctured by THE DAITAS MACHINE cnd LoCoMoTIvE woRKs
Speaking of building things, how many of you lumber folks ever r.ead the description of the construction of Solomon's Temple, one of the world's most famous structures?
We are told that he was the wisest man the world e'er saw, and that when his wisdom and powers were in their zenith, he built a great Temple to the Lord, that was the wonder of that age. So it is interesting to t ols [s1v, and of what, he built it.
The Temple was built of stone, and of wood, and was of very remarkable construction.
He used 150,000 men in the construction of the Temple, and it took them eleven years, with this huge army, to complete the job. There were 70,000 bearers, who carried the materials, both stone and wood, down from the hills and the mountains, and there were 3,300 foremen over the workmen.
It appears that the foundations, and the inner walls of the temple, were of rock, and it must have been hewn in wonderful manner so that it interlocked, or in some manner fastened together, for says Verse 7, ol the 6th Chapter of Kings: "And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither; so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building."
This also shows that the architecture was worked out in detail in advance, so that the rocks could be hewn to fit, in the quarries.
Then, in Verse 10, Chapter 5, of the First Book of Kings, we are told that: "So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire."
lliram, the King of Tyre, was Solomon's friend, and cooperated with him in furnishing materials for the temple.
Now, let us see ho'iv Solomon went about the construction after he had completed the stone part of the temple :
Verse 9, chapter 6, same book, tells us : "So he built the house and finished it, and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar."
Verse 15, same book and chapter, says : "And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house and the rvalls of the ceiling, and he
covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir."
Verse 34, same chapter, says: "And the two doors were of fir tree, and the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding."
Verse 18, says : "And the cedar of the house within was carved with knobs and open flowers, all was cedar."
You will note that he first built the house of stone. Then he "covered the house with beams and boards of cedar."
And then, in Verse 18, comes the line: "THERE WAS NO STONE, SEEN."
Get the idea? He used the stone for foundation and interior wall structure. Then he ,covered the whole thing with wood until "there was no stone seen."
So the wisest man of the Bible hands down to us the lesson that stone makes fine foundations, and stout walls, and that wood is the stuff for roofing, flooring, interiors, exteriors, and for all uses that meets the eye.
Plans for the erection ofa new redwood sawmill at Boonville, Calif., have been announced by the MerrittFoshee Lumber Co. The company has bought 1,700 acres of timber from the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad in Anderson Vallev.
Fire destroyed the cabinet shop and planing mill of the H & H Lumber Co., 7l2lO S. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, November 28. The damage was estimated at $30,000. Three fire companies kept the blaze from spreading to piled lumber in outer sections of the yard.
The Albany Shingle Mill, formerly operated by Clarence and Henry Esmond, at Albany, Ore., has been purchased by the Albany Shingle Mill, Inc., with ofrfices at Modesto, Calif. Incorporators of the new company are C. E. Jack, Thelma and Gladys Ulrich.
Retail lumber merchants in Northern California, getting their first breath of the pure air of free enterprise in many years, are inclined to look to the future as a challenge, and to watch very closely the trends and patterns that are forming in these first months of release from government control.
Since the demise of the OPA, greater quantities of lumber have begun to flow into the California retail yards, but the majority of the dealers have been cautious in their buying. Many have flatly refused shipments that were considered unreasonably priced. The prevailing attitude is to wait out the remainder of this year before doing any large scale ordering or buying.
A gradual shift is expected in the Northern California retail lumber scene with the fading seller's market of the past few years giving way to an increasing buyer's market, and as production increases there will be a proportionate increase in shopping around by buyers. Dealers in Northern California are determined not to be caught in the embarrassing position of having a yard full of high-priced lumber and being forced to sell below cost.
Increased competition will be given the retail yards by mail order houses in Northern California. This is especialty true in the building materials field. Many of the chain mail order firms are already well established in the roofing, paint, cement, nails, stock millwork, hardware, and pre-cut lumber business. To offset this expected competition, many of the dealers are enlarging their 1947 advertising budgets to allot more money to newspaper, radio, car cards, billboards and direct mail advertising than at any other time in previous years.
Manv alert Northern California retailers are planning to take more notice of their credit system in the months to come. Builders with overdue accounts will have a much more difficult time buying on credit than they previously encountered. In many localities contractors and others who orve lumber dealers for materials purchased on credit have already experienced this tightening up and have found themselves on a strict cash basis. This increase in the
standards for credit buying is accentuated during the present time when certain materials are critically scarce, and contractors are forced to leave jobs unfinished because they cannot afford to carry them until the shortage is alleviated. The lien laws that are now in effect are of no help to the lumber dealers in this instance because an unfinished house does not represent a tangible object and is not worthy of the full value of the mortgage. Hence the return of more strict credit systems.
The period that lies ahead for the California lumber merchants will be a "return period"-2 return to the job of selling, to smart merchandising, a return to better customer service, and, in general, a return to the prewar level of operating a business by selling quality merchandise at a reasonable profit. The return period may be Slow in coming and will have opposition from the unusual conditions of the times, but it must come.
The influx of ner,v products and commodities, developed during the war years as improvements or better substitutes, will definitely open new markets to the enterprising lumber dealer. There are numerous items already on the market that have turned the tide for many dealers in showing a profit when little or no lumber was available. But with the new products will come new problems in an increased inventory, in selling and in handling.
The general attitude among California lumbermen at the present is one of relief. The pressure of operating a business under government dictate has been lifted and a warranted feeling of optimism prevails throughout this section of the State. Although many shortages still exist and are hampering operations in many departments, relief is expected soon and many dealers believe their yards and stores will be well stocked by late Spring of next year.
The retail lumber dealers of Northern California are optimistic tou,'ard the future, yet cautious. They feel the period ahead will be one of tremendous grorvth and expansion but with keen competition growing with them. They feel that it rvill be the alert dealer r,vho takes advantage of all the merchandising and advertising techniques at his command will be the one to prosper.
FOR SEVENTY FIVE YEARS
the same spirit of friendliness and good will has prevailed at M"y we extend to both our old and new friends our sincere good wishes for
CHRISTMAS and
To our customers, our friends upon uhom our prosperity depends, we want to extend our best wishes f or
4,000,000 families desperately need housing now. That rreans not- only that more new homes must be built, but that more existing buildings must be remodeled into additional dwelling rrnits.
In many cases, faster remodeling is practically synonyrnous with faster partition building. That's why the manufacture of beveled edge Sheetrock rvallboard is'now being given extra emphasis by the United States Gypsum Company. Fcr this fireproof wallboard product builds safe partitions much faster than conventional methods.
The big 4' x & panels are quickly nailed to studs. The long sides of the panels are already beveled so that when matched thev form "V" joints. Result is a highly decorative paneied effect. Rooms may be planned so that joints fall at equal distances from either side of openings or room corners. .[t also is possible to match ceiling joints with sidewalls. The walls and ceilings can then be decorated by any finish that is brushed, sprayed or pasted on.
The Sheetrock is applied with edges snug to form the "V" joint. They are then nailed to the studs with regular 4d cement-coated nails. Nails are driven home so that a slight depression is left by the hammer head. The heads are covered with Sheetrock Finisher or Texolite Spackling Putty. When the cement is dry, it can quickly be sanded smooth, leaving the wall ready for decoration.
FIREPROOF 15 THE IST REASON WHY GRIP IATH IS ECTTER,I
The fireproof quqlity of GRIP LATH is uniquer nol only will GRIP IATH nol burn or support combustion, but high temperolures connol poss through it. The protection given by GRIP IATH ond Gypsum Plqster sofe-guordswoodogoinrt fire. Fireproof GRIP IATH builds sofer homes.
INSUTATION I5 THE 2ND REASON WHY GRIP LATH IS BETTERI
The low thermol conduciivity of GRIP IATH. its withstonding of high temperoturer, mqke it on insulotor of greoi efficiency. Add rhe noturol insulofing quolitier of Gypsum, fiber ond the fibroug rheets covering, ond you hove insulolion plus. o home worm ln wlnter, cool in 3ummer.
SAVES TIME IS THE 3RD REASON WHY GRIP IATH IS EETTERI Uniform thickness squore edge. foctory controlled suction ore oll combined in GRIP IATH to insure you greoter speed ond eose in plosiering. meons more homes per mon hour.
ECONO'IAY IS THE 4TH REASON WHY GRIP I.ATH IS BETTERI
The modern ploster bose, GRIP LATH, is not only economicol from o, stondpoint of speedy opplicotion, which soves consideroble conslruclion time, bul, olso, becouse of mogs produclion methods, it ir reosonobly low in cosl offers you o greoter dollor volue.
Ask About The "Froorins wolr rrss cRAcKs rs rHE srH REASOI| wHy syilem' wirh GRIP LATH GRTP. 1ATH TS BETTER!
@lmpervious lo exponsion or conlrqction, GRIP LATH reduces crocks to q minitnum. So, when you specify GRIP LATH, you provide in the plosfer bose the odvonloges of Fire Protection Durobility Economy...Better Bonding...Squore Edge...Uniform Suction... qnd Uniform Thickness.
EACH MONTH THE WEYERHAEUSER HOME BUITDING SERVICE IS ADVERTISED tN I.EADING NATIONAI SHEI.TER MAGAZINES
OIThen the New rVeyerhaeuser 4-Square Home BuilC:ng Service was announced some months ago, we said. .. "This service will grow and expand. Each month a fresh, crisp, new home design will be added to the scores of modern designs to make the service a living, growing, vital force in your business.
"Each month advertisements in National Shelter Magazines will feature the design of
the month and tell home planners that the service is available for their use at your yard."
The six houses selected in L946 together with the first of the 1947 designs are shown here. Each month the service moves forward; expanding, enlarging, maintaining its leadership and that of Veyerhaeuser 4-Square dealers as the best source for home planning and home building ideas and information.
Appointment of Clinton I. Hallsted as manager of the American Lumber and Treating Company's San Francisco sales office, located at 6O4 Mission Street, was announ,ced December 1 by J. F. Linthicum, Chicago, company president.
He succeeds Marx l{yatt who headed the San Francisco office for seven years, except lor 42 months of Army service. Mr. Hyatt recently resigned to enter business for himself.
A forestry graduate of the University of California, Mr. Hallsted was associated with the company's Los Angeles sales office before entering tl.re Navy in 1942. After rising to the rank of lieutenant-commander and seeing Naval service in New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, India, and the Hawaiian Islands, he rejoined the company early in 1946 and r,vas assigned to the San Francisco office.
He will be responsible for sales of the various treating services available at the American Lumber and Treating Company's Wauna, Oregon, and Weed, California plants.
FIR.TEX OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
214 Front Street, Scn Frcrncisco ll, Cclil.
Ernie BqconRosolie Renstrom "Red" Downing R. F. Reid
FIR.TEX OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
812 E. 59th Street, Los Angeles I
Stonley Moore chcnles conkey spence Fcrrow Dick Hunt Don cook
"Heb" Hebord Roy Holker Art Ashby stello Lqrsen Helen Toylor
i. c. MooreHorry HquPerry Neil Frcnk rucker "Blockie" Tucker
Lelt The complete story oI the grecrt tree exhibit at Northwest Door Co. oI Tcrcoma, Wcrsh., is recorded in this photogrcph. Meqsured diqmeter ol the 586-yeqr-old Douglcrs Fir moncrrch, bcrsed upon q circumlerence oI 40 leet, is 12 Ieet, 9 inches, crlthough the displcry block, crlter trimming, is slightly less.
Above: Downed gicrnt. The lower section oI the tree is shown in this photo. Alrecrdy the butt block hcs been cut Irom the tree.
A giant Douglas fir tree 12 leet 9 inches in diameteraccording to records, one of the biggest in cross section ever felled by man-has been cut in the prime forests southwest of Mount l{ainier in the center of 'western Washington.
This lvas revealed rvhen a short butt section of tl.re tremendous tree rras unveiled at Northrvest Door Co., Tacoma, Washington, ply'n'ood and door manufacturing firm in u'hose logging operations the tree u'as brought dorvn. First to vieu- the display block n''ere 100 retail lumber dealers from Texas, Nebraska, Nen' Mexico, Florida and Oklahoma n.ho visited the Tacoma factory en route to the convention of the National Retail Lumber Dealers' Association at Seattle.
Davis and N{aras Co. of Packrvood, Washington, were the contract loggers rvho cut the big stick.
Annual rings shou' the forest monarch rvas 586 years old ; it rvould have provided much good lumber even before Columbus landed in America. Long over-ripe, rot had begun to appear jr.rst insicle the bark at the base of the trunk and much of the upper part of the tree u'as decayed.
Man rvill never knorv whether this tree had been taller tl.ran any other fir cut because lightning or high 'r'",incl years ago shatterecl the "big one" 198 feet from its base. At that poirrt, the trunk diameter still was 29 inches. Neither rvill
it ever be knon'n lvhether at one time this forest monarch had a greater volume of usable timber in it than an1' other Douglas fir for much of the rvood volume, of course, u'as lost when the upper section rvas carried away.
Hou.ever, r,vere the 198-foot section rvhich fell before the woodsmen's sarv sound throughout, it r.vould contain an estimated ll,076 cubic feet of rvood or enough, theoretically, to produce 349,464 square feet of plywood. That much plywood would build 58 complete houses r,vith the panels covering rvalls both inside and out. How extensive the rot is in the upper section of the trunk is not yet known.
The tree grew at an elevation of 1,050 feet at a point 7 miles 'nvest of the logging town of Packwood and rvithin 500 feet of the Corvlitz river. With the lo'"vest limb 95 feet above the ground, there r,vas a long, straight trunk to provide knot-free plywood or lumber.
Records of the Pacific Northwest Forest Experiment Station of U. S. Forest Service at Portland, Oregon, show that the largest dian-reter Douglas fir tree previously reported cut $'as one lZ feet 6 inches across. Two larger fir treesone in Oregon and one in Washington-and each al>out 15 feet 6 inche5 261655-fsll of old age.
Trees do grorv bigger, notably the California Redwoods. But the Douglas firs provide the nation's most valuable timber crop, and they grou' in merchantable stands only (Continued on Page 54)
P ufu rnort f"ll"u up a tree on lrow to gtreet a frienl!
The tlolidcys cre here caain-qnd crs the Old year ends There's time to voice recrl grctitude lor kindry, helplul lriends. To you Mills cnd wholescrlers who hcve been loycl to your cores,. Through yecrs checrd may you enioy prosperity thct endures!
A country retail lumber ycrd continuing to {ullill crn idecl ol Mr. qnd Mrs. G. walter Dow's who worked2l years to mcrke it q reality. Thct scme ideal, we hope hcs been lullilled these pcrst 7 yecrs, becquse oI their honest elforts cnd intelligently cpplied energies.
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west of the Cascade mountains. The species is named for David Douglas, Scottish botanist who came to Fort Vancouver, Washington, in 1825.
The exhibit block brought to Tacoma is only 4 feet 5 inches long after being trimmed and sanded; it has been up-ended and placed on a concrete cradle. But this chunk
a half to fell the record tree. Most of this time was consumed in notching in 3 feet on opposite sides of the tree for the blade of their power saw was only 8 feet long, standard in the Douglas fir region. The remainder was spent in undercutting and finally finishing off with the main horizontal ,cut.
So far, only the short display block has been brought out of the woods. The main trunk, cut in suitable lengths, will be brought to market later although the handling of the oversize logs will be difficult in either plywood factories or sawmills. Most plants are equipped to handle logs up to about 8 feet in diameter
The forest monarch was brought down as the loggers were completing operations on that particular site. Had it been left standing, it would eventually have been a total loss as the rot-from old age and past injuries to the treecontinued its inroads.
The U. S. Maritime Commission has agreed to assign extra vessels needed to clear rvarehouses on the West Coast of stockpiled lumber, according to a recent announcement.
The shortage of available freight cars, together with the effects of the recently concluded shipping strike, resulted in a serious bottleneck of lumber 'critically needed for the Veterans Emergency Housing Program. Many West Coast mills rvere forced to shut down because of the lack of additional storage space in the Portland, Seattle and San Francisco areas.
Under the agreement con'cluded with the U. S. Maritine Commission, extra Government-ort'ned vessels will be operated by private shipping companies as adjuncts to their regularly established service to bring the lumber to principal East Coast and Gulf Ports.
itself weighs an estimated 18,576 pounds and contains 516 cubic feet of wood and bark. Theoretically, this short block alone would produce 13,602 square feet of plywood or enough for two all-plywood homes. However, usually logs for plywood plants must be 8 feet or longer; further, this exhibit piece is too big around for the lathe at Northwest Door Co.
It took three men, working with a power saw, a day and
The Office of Price Administration in its drive against alleged price violations in the lumber and building material industries, filed 93 civil suits in principal Pacific Coast cities, November 26.
Twenty-four Southern California firms and nine San Francisco Bay area firms were named in the complaints' The alleged violations pre-date suspension of OPA controls.
IN ITS TOTH YEAR
-hence you cctn depend on the lctest published rcting. Twice ecrch week you receive notificcrtion of hundreds of up-to-the-minute items crbout new concerns, chcrnges in credit rcrtings, fire losses, decths, chcnges in ownership cmd other fcrcts thqt cllect credit crnd scles. For convenience these TWICE-AWEEK Sheets qre consolidcted in cr Monthly Cumulctive Supplement elimincting the necesessity oI checking crll previously published Supplementcry mctter.
4 STnzal4e/ Se,rru,*n Nor CoNFIMD ro usE BY Lt[UBEBMEN-which hcs been relied on since 1826, in extending credit crnd promoting sqles to the lumber, lurrriture or woodworking trcrde.
AaL4a/tk Salel Slae&at -This conprehensive credit rcting book lists qucntity buyers ol lumber and crllied products thruout the United States
O From no other source ccn you obtain such c complete list oI Lumber Mcrnulcrcturers, Concentrqtion Ycrrds, Wholesnlers, Retcrilers, Commission Men, Furniture and other Woodworking fcrctories and alnost one hundred other clcsses ol industricrr concerns buying Lumber, Veneer, Plywood, etc. in quqntity.
3 Street crddresses qre shown in the lcrger cities mcking possible low postcge rqte circulcrrization.
For subscriplion terms sddress Department "G" or the nearer ol the offices shown befow
Military purchase of softwood plywood is held to a specified percentage of the monthly production and receipts ol mills and distribution yards by an action taken November 19 by the Civilian Production Administration.
CPA amended Limitation Order L-358 to state that a plywood manufacturer may not accept for delivery in any month MM (military) ratings for more than five per cent of his production of softwood plywood for that month. It also stated that a lumber distributor need only honor MXI ratings up to 10 per cent of his monthly receipts.
Creation of a new Division of State and Private Forestry in the California Region headquarters of the United States Forest Service, and the appointment of William S. Swingler as the division's first chief was announced recently by Lyle Watts, Chief of the Forest Service. Mr. Swingler was the recent head of the Japanese forestry organization of General Douglas MacArthur's staff.
Washington, Dec. 4.-President Truman tonight accepted the resignation of Wilson W. Wyatt as national housing idministrator. The resignation is effective immediately.
In a bulletin dated November 30, Lumber Merchants Associatic,n of Northern California reminded members that by State lar,v, Disability Insurance became compulsory on December l,1946, for all employers and employees who are subject to the California Unemployment Insurance Act. The bulletin continued: "The la/o employees' payroll deduction rvhich l/ott now make, and which has been heretofore used by the State for unemployment insurance, will norv be used to pay for this new Disability Insurance. The employer's contribution which you pay to the State on a quarterly basis u'ill continue to be used for unemploymellt benefits as in the past."
A summary of the Compulsory California Disability Insrlrance Act is printed on another page of this issue.
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ITHOTESAI,E TUMBER
234 Eqst Colorcrdo St. Pcrsqdencr l, Calil.
Telephone Pcrscrdenq, SYcqmore 3-2921
Eaerybod.y at oar place uishes eaerybod.y at your place
BE IT RESOLVED that Pacific Lurirber Remanufacturers' Association does hereby go on record as being opposed to the prosecution of all violation cases heretofore filed and the continued filing of violation cases in all instances where the Administrator is unable to prove a wilful and fraudulent intent to violate such regulations and
BE iT FURTHER RESOLVED that this resolution be published in such trade and other publications to which the Association has access and tl-rat copies hereoT be distributed to all of the members of Congress representing the rvestern states lvherever our membership resides.
"Friendship is a sheltering tree," The poet said-his words express Our feelings as the old yeor ends. For, as we list what we possess, Ve find a forest, full of friends, To whom wewish-as in the pastFor friendship-that we know will last
Fleaven, I think, will not be great, or strange, Nor shining with the glitter of all gold; There'll be no noise of cymbals or of harps, But only things we knew and loved of old.
Reading old books-having tea at fiveSmiling across a table at dear facesFforses and dogs-and lamplight on the snowHaving people in-and going places. (Anon)
I heard the bells on Christmas Day, Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet, the words repeat Of "peace on earth, good will to men."
And in despair I bowed my head, "There is no peace on earth," I said, "For hate is strong, and ,mocks the song, Of peace on earth, good will to men."
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep, "God is not dead nor doth He sleep ! The wrong shall fail ! The right prevail ! With peace on earth, good will to men."
"Remembering you at Christmas," Thus read your Christmas card, Forgetting,me was easy, Remembering me came hard. It seems so very long ago, The day you locked your heart, The universe has wheeled for me. Since we have been apart.
Remembering me at Christrnas ! Of course I thank you, dear; But oh, my love, lgrnsrnfslI remember all the year.
"Ah friends, dear friends, as years go on, And heads get grey, how fast the guests go! Touch hands, touch hands with those who stay, Forget, forgive, for who may say That Christmas Day may ever come
To host or guests again?
Touch hands ! Touch hands !"
Christmas is coming again ! And once again do we hear, The chiming bells and the dear old songs, And voices a-thrill with cheer. Christmas is coming again ! Flaunting the forces of night, Dispelling the shadows of fear, Filling our hearts with delight. Christmas is coming again ! Nothing can alter its sway, Ever this message it brings, "Night is succeeded by day." Clouds are dispersed by the sun, Stars do not fade with the years, Hope lights the pathway ahead, Smiles are more potent than tears.
I pray the prayer the easterners do, "May the peace of Allah abide with you. Wherever you stay, wherever you go, May the beautiful palms of Allah grow. Through days of pleasure and nights of rest, May the love of Allah rnake you blest."
So I touch my heart, as the easterners do, "May the love of Allah abide with you."
God rest you, Merry Innocents, While innocence endures, A sweeter Christmas than we to ours May you bequeath to yours.
When Christmas time comes and the choristers sing, With voices fresh, lilting, and true, I'd like you to know that the fond words they fling, Are things I am thinking of you. I'd like to join in and sing carols to you, But it's not as easy as that, I'm forced to report (don't you think I'm a sport?)
That my voice is horribly, downright deplorably-FlAT. So just let me saY
In my slap-happy way"Good luck without end, To you, my good friend."
(By Jack Dionne)
The Urremployment Insurance Act was amended in 1946 to require that the l/o payroll deduction made from employees for unemployment insurance purposes be paid into a disability insurance fund out of which may be paid weekly benefits to disabled workers in covered employment. 'fhe weekly benefits are the same as those payable under unemployment insurance, that is, from $lO to $20 per week depending upon employees' earnings in the highest quarter in his base period. The benefits are payable for 9 to 23.4 weeks, depending on the amount of wage credits ir-r the base period. The base period is the first four of the preceding five completed calendar quarters. An employee is disabled in any week rvhen by reason of his pl-rysical or mental condition he is unable to perform his regttlar or customary work. Pregnancies are exclnded up to termination and/or four weeks thereafter.
Benefits are not payable unless the employee is off rvork for a full l4-day period, then the benefits are retroactive to the 8th day. The employee must file a formal claim, accompanied by a medical certificate issued by a medical doc' tor, an osteopath, a chiropractor, or any approved religious practitioner. A11 persons in part time and full time employment and irrespective of age or sex are covered except agricultural labor, domestic service in a private home and those in the enrplov of the federal, state or local governments and employees of certain non-profitable charitable, educational and religious organizations.
The Act will be administered by the Unemployment fnsurance- Commission. An employee will not be eligible to receive benefits during any rveek in rvhich his employer pays all or part of his wages. Similarly the employee is not entitled to receive disability benefits if he is eligible to receive \\rorkmen's Compensation benefits.
The bil t provides that if the employer, rvith the consent of the majority of his employees or a majority of those in any distinct and separate establishment wishes, a private plan may be set up providing benefits greater than those provided in the State Plan in rvhich event the employee no longer would be required to pay the l/c payroll tax to the State Disability Fund.
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In the spirit of the Season we express our rnessage of good will and best wishes for your hap. piness in the coming y ear.
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ed for the basic benefits from the employee than the l/a on the first S3.000 of annual income. The benefits under the private plan may be greater in amount of weekly indemnity or the pavment may be for a greater duration and may start sooner. The private plan adopted must be made available to all employees. A waiting period before coming under the plan may be provided for. Private plans must be made effective for a minimum peribd of two years and may be cancelled thereafter upon 60 days'notice. {Jnder a private plan the insurance company will pay the claims directly to a disabled employee. If the employee is dissatisfied with the allowance made to him or with the denial of a clair-n, he may have the matter l-reard and determined by the Commission's Appeal Board.
The State Fund will pay {or disability incurred on and after December l, 1946. Private plans may be made effective on or at any time after December 1,1946.
The vaiidity period for licenses to export doors, moldings, and other milhvork items essential to the Veterans Emerging IJousing Program has been reduced from one year to six months, it was announced by the Office of International Trade, Department of Commerce. The action was taken at the reque;t of the National Housing Agency in order to control more effectivelv exportation of these commodities.
Thisman's house is going to last longer, because you've sold hinr Wolmanized Lumber for the places where dampness and termites make their attack. He'll appreciate your advice-will do business with yrou on all hislumber and building needs.
Wolmanized Lumber is building good will for lumber dealers all over the country. Why? Because this lumber, impregnated by pressure-treatment with Wolnan Salts* preservative, is giving customers more years of service.
!\fel6enized Lumber grives the builder all of wood'sadvantages. . . speed of erection, light weight, resilience, hiqh insulatingvalue, paintability, low first cost . . . plus long life.
Nearly 100 persons engaged in custom milling, operation of concentration yards, lumber fabrication and manufa,cture of cut-stock attended thefirst annual meeting of the Pacific Lumber remanufacturers' Association at the Multnomah Hotel in Portland, Oregon November 19. Members were present from California, Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
"Remanufacturethe Next Step in DeveloPment of Western Forest Industries," was the title of the keynote address by Paul M' Dunn, Dean of the School of Forestry, Oregon State College, who pointed out that remanufacturers have an important role to play in refining, drying and merchandising the product of small mills which are producing an increasing proportion of the lumber cut in Western states' "The present day remanufacturer should expand his operation into a stable, well-planned seasoning, remilling and cut-up plant," said Dean Dunn. "Well-dried lumber rvill satisfy
the trade; remilling and cut-stock will develop new products. They will all create labor and income in the Pacific Northwest which has been noted, in the past, as a producer of raw materials.
The luncheon speaker was Homer D. Angell, member of Congress from Oregon, who told his audience that in his opinion the 80th Congress will take steps to "return business to businessmen," balance the budget through elimination of needless spending and reduce the federal payroll by junking many of the bureaus and agencies which have hindered rather than expedited reconversion.
Charles W. English, president of Production Management Engineering Associates, San Francisco, told the conference that cost control is the key to profitable operations in a competitive market. He illustrated his remarks with some rather startling figures on the comparative costs of handling lumber of different lengths and thicknesses.
Other speakers on the program included E. E. Matson, U. S. Forest Service; Dan Hay, industrial relations counsellor, and Maurice Eben, Association attorney.
Considerable interest was shown in the round-table discussion on manufacture of industrial and construction cutstock, the speakers being H. S. Sackett of Portland, C. F. Dally of Seattle and Ted Ottis of Aberdeen, Washington.
Two resolutions were adopted by the Association, both addressed to the new Congress. One seeks complete de-
control of lumber and building through elimination of the CPA, the office of Housing Expediter, the NHA and similar agencies. The other urged the dropping of cases involving violations of OPA regulations committed with no intent to defraud.
Two new directors were chosen for a two-year termH. S. Vernon, Concrete Construction Co., Boise, Idaho; and R. H. Pryce, Siskiyou Planing Mills, Yreka, California.
At a meeting immediately following the general assembly the directors elected the following officers for the ensuing year:
President-J. H. Jones, Golden Gate Lumber Co., Eugene, Oregon, succeeding Raymond Lewis, of Raymond, Wash.
Vice President-I. E. Ford, Ford and Ford l-umber Co.. Portland, Ore.
Secretary-Treasurer-R. J. Ultican, Jt., R.J. Ultican Remanufacturing Co., Aberdeen, Wash.
R. T. Titus was retained as Executive Secretarv.
C. W. Guerrier Lumber Co., Springfield, Oregon, has been awarded sale of 19;853,000 board feet of Willamette national forest timber, according to J. R. Bruckart, forest supervisor. Purchase price of the stumpage, mostly Douglas fir, was approximately $150,000. Its estimated value, delivered at mill ponds, is about $500,000.
The Hi-Jinks and lumbermen's get-together at the Royal Palms Hotel, Los Angeles, the evening of November 29 brought out a big turnout, over 300 attending. The party was sponsored by Lumbermen's Post No. 403 of the American Legion.
Dinner was served at 7:00 p.m. and .ivas followed by a fine show. Rosalie Harris was mistress of ceremonies. The entertainment numbers included Topaz, dance numbers; Boo La Von, novelty dancer; Ted Waldman, comedy harmonica player; Heather English, novelty dancer; Marie Yoe, flirtation dancer; and Dayton brothers, the merry maniacs. Monroe Jockers acted as accompanist on the piano. It- was a swell party and everybody had an enjoyable time. The show was put on under the direction of the Walter Trask Theatrical Exchange of Los Angeles.
The committee on arrangements included Don Philips, Jr., Russell Gheen, Paul Queen, Don Dow and David Von Noy. Harold Hamilton is Commander of Lumbermen,s Post.
Bob Osgood with a gross of 77(66), and C. C. Bohnhoff, tr,r'o strokes behind him,81(68), won the prizes of the day at the 246th tournament of the Terrible Twenty, held at Anandale Golf Club, Pasadena, November 22.
The Christmas party will be held at the Los Angeles Country Club on Monday, December 16.
J. D. (Jack) Murphy, rvell knot,n Los Angeles lumberman, is now president of the Golden Bear Lumber Corporation, J. B. Hall, Jr.is secretary-treasurer, and the board of directors consists of E. E. Westman, J. D. N{urphy and J. B. Hall, Jr.
E. E. Westman. recently retired president of the Washington Veneer Company, Olympia, Wasl-r., has purchased the controlling interest in the corporation, including the stock previously orvned by a Douglas fir sawmill and also stock owned by Fred P. Grarn, formerly of Portland.
Mr. .Westman is now making his home in San Clemente, Calif., and his friends rvill be pleased to hear that he has partially come out of retirement to take an interest in the lumber and plywood business. He is not taking an active part in the business, but his association and guidance are an asset to the fitm. He is n'idely knou'n as one of the pioneers of the Douglas fir plyrvood inclustry, and as having directed the production of trvo billion square feet of plywood. He is also the originator of the plyrr,'ood grade known as wallboard.
J. 13. Hall, Jr. has purchased the stock of S. G. McDonald, former vice president of the corporation, and for many years vice president of Owens-Parks I-umlter Company.
joined the sales staff
He is a Navy veteran theater.
Permits for nerv building construction for the first 11 months of 1946 set a nerv all-time record for Los Angeles, G. E,. Morris, superintendent of the Building Department announced December 2.
During the year so far a total of 49,835 permits were issued and the value of new construction was set at $272,1A4,424.
This exceeds by $12,000,m0 the highest figure for an entire year, recorded in 1923 when nerv construction totaled $20O,133,181, he said.
For the month of November the total number of permits rvas 3669 rvith a valuation of $70,622,979.
Construction has started on the salvmill building of the Coastal Plywood & Timber Co., Cloverdale, Calif. The building rvill be 8O by 286 f.eet. The machine shop, truck garage and repair shop u'ere almost completed at the end of November. The company, u.hich is a co-operative organtzation, n'ill have an investment of about $1,000,000.
The plants are being erected on the company's 85-acre site, close to the Russian River. The site r,vill be served by a spur track from the Northwestern Pacific Railroad. Timber owned by the company is estimated to be about one billion feet of redwood, pine and Douglas fir. The plants are expected to be in production early in 1947.
For promotion of better painting results by so-called amateur painters-"most of whom can turn out a mighty neat performance if they try"-the Canadian Paint, Varnish and Lacquer Association has issued fifteen "rules." Some of these, it is commented, may be new, but most of them are long established and fundamental. All are simple and it is suggested that they be reviewed and observed when a paint job is to be done'
The 15 rules are as follows:
1. Use a good quality p|int. If the job is worth spending time on, it deserves a paint that will give best reSults.
2. Stir the paint thoroughly before using. Everybody knows that should be done, but plenty of people still are inclined to skimp on the stirring.
3. Be sure that the surface to be painted is absolutely free from dirt, oil or grease-and of course make sure it is dry.
4. Follow the directions on the can-the manufacturer really knows best how his product should be used. He has spent a lot of time and money to find out.
5. When, or if, paint needs thinning, thin it sparinglywith turpentine. Don't try thinning with linseed oil. The paint goes farther if you do, but it won't stand up as well because the careful balance between oils and pigments has been uPset.
6. Use a good quality brush. It pays off in a better paint job.
If it is a new brush, give it a 24-hour soaking in linseed oil before putting it in the paint.
Use a sensible size of brush. Don't try to do a wall with a little brush, and don't try to do fine work, or get into tight corners, with a big brush.
Allow plenty of time between coats. Not just enough time so that the paint is no longer tacky, but enough so that it has dried hard and firm.
Do your painting when the air is warm and dry for best results. In interior painting, make sure that there is plenty of air circulating.
In choosing paint colors from color chips in paint dealers' stores, remember that the color of the finished job will be somewhat deeper than that of the color chip, because the color has been applied to a greater area.
If the surface hasn't been painted before, use a good primer sealer undercoating for the first coat.
Two thin coats are always better than one thick one. Remember the simple rules of color-that blues, greens and allied tints are "cool" colors and that yellows and orange shades are "warm"; that light colors in a room give an impression of greater space and darker shades do the opposite.
Ask your paint dealer for advice on particular problems; or telephone or write any reputable pairtt company whose products you are using.
To
We Welcomc This Opportunity To Extend
With the outlook brightening, we qre hoping thot in 1947 we con "Soy it with Shipments."
In an address presented before the Construction Industry Advisory Council of the United States Chamber of Commerce at Washington, D. C., November 20, Norman P' Mason, president of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association said:
"For well over a year now, even back before hostilities in Europe and Japan had ceased, some of our governmental agencies have been pointing the finger of ridicule at the luitai.tg industry of this country' The present political administration, through the propaganda agencies of NHA, CPA. OPA, OWMR, and through inspired articles in our Leftist press and blurbs from certain of our radio commentators has deluged the American public with the story that the building industry of this nation is archaic, outmoded, greedy, and incompetent. A gullible public has been led to believe that the constrttction industry, and not the town and city of6cials, were responsible for restrictive buil<ling codes, that the industry was sprawling and uncollected and totally disinterested in its own future, that it thought only of ways to gouge the public.
"This propaganda has ignored the record of resear'ch of this industry just as it ignored the fact that the private construction industry has seen to it that America is the best housed nation in the world today.
"I could recount for you a long record of research, a research on products conducted that we might have better
structures at lower costs. The reseafch that produced the Teco rings and timber constructions of the lumber manufacturers group-the development of new kiln drying processes for lumber-the advancement in .the use of adhesives and the ner.r' types of plywoods-the discovery of a new sealer for painting over pine knots, the machine which firmly glues back in place the loose knots in low grade lumber-the new splicing joint rvhich permits the use of many small pieces of lumber to make up a regular studthe development of insulation materials-the development of a whole nerv line of wall treatments, decorated hardboards, ceiling panels, the evolution of the prefitted 'rvindow complete u'ith frame and screens and weatherstripping-the evolving of the new prefinished hardwood floorings.
"I could go on and on. I could tell you of the development of the modular size program-a plan for reducing costs in construction which has already gone so far that industry house plan books now carry its story."
The speaker told of the research in the line of reducing marketing costs carried on by retail lumber and building material dealers' associations in the Northeastern area, Ohio and Wisconsin, and the extensive research programs of the large building material manufacturers'
As an example of the desire of the industry to give better housing values for less money, Mr. Mason outlined (Continued on Page 82)
There was a large attendance at the luncheon meeting of the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club at the Chapman Park Hotel, Los Angeles, Tuesday, November 26.
Lieutenant Edwin Lombard, U. S. Navy, was the guest speaker and he showed a motion picture of the atomic bomb tests conducted by the Navy at Bikini in the South Pacific. The picture showed the explosion of the bombs in both the midair and under water tests. This is one of the most spectacular pictures ever taken.
George Clough introduced the speaker, and President Bob Osgood presided.
J. H. Booth, manager of a Roseburg bank, reported recently that more than 20 new sawmills have been started in the Roseburg, Oregon, district in the past few months.
Douglas County, in which Roseburg is situated, has the largest stand of virgin timber in the country, and this is a big factor in making Roseburg an important center of lumber operations, Mr. Booth said.
There was rejoicing in the homes of three employees of the United States Plywood Corp., Los Angeles, at the recent arrival of babies. A fine boy to Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Vernon, a handsome son to Mr. and Mrs. Herb Petersen, and a beautiful daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Art Michel.
The Christmas issue of the Stantonite, house publication of E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, contains a lot of interesting items. On the front page there is a Christmas message from the president, Leroy H. Stanton, Sr., and a personal sketch of Tom Haverfield, salesman for the company, with 72 vears' service. On another page there are some extracts from Jack Dionne's Vagabond Editorials, and there are more personal items that have particular interest for Stantonites, an article on accident prevention, and Clint Laughlin's column, "The Moving Finger." On one side of the insert page there is a two color reproduction of the full page Christmas ad that appears on the outside back cover of The California Lumber Merchant.
Art Twohy of the Twohy Lumber Company, lumber yarcl and sawmill brokers, sold the Baskett Lumber Company at Whittier to E. K. Wood Lumber Company. They will move their present retail yard in Whittier to the newly acquired location, possession having been taken December 4.
When H. C. Baskett passed away suddenly a few months ago, his brother, Val Baskett and his brother-in-law, Paul Griffith decided to dispose of the business.
The Basket Lumber Company was established 45 vears ago as the Whittier Lumber Company, and has occupied the same location continuously.
The new plant of Baugh Bros. & Co. at 2926 Sierra Pine Avenue, Los'Angeles, now almost completed, is one of the finest and most modern wholesale lumber yards in the country.
Much thought has gone into the designing of the general layout and buildings of the new yard, which occupies a site of lOl acres, with frontage on Sierra Pine Avenue of 700 feet. and 600 feet on Bandini Boulevard.
In planning the new plant the owners have looked ahead to the competitive days that will be here again in the not too distant future, and they now have an operation designed for low cost handling of lumber through a unique arrangement for employing lift trucks exclusively.
There are five storage sheds, each 6O feet wide, 120 feet long, and 24 leet high. These are separated by asphaltpaved lateral alleys 30 feet wide. These sheds have a total capacity of 5,000,000 feet of lumber. They are open at the sides, enabling lift trucks to drive through-an important feature that has had favorable comment from several large manufacturers.
The main alley between the storage sheds and the spur track is 50 feet wide, asphalt-paved. The spur track is 80o feet long.
This concern handles mainly dry, seasoned lumber, and specializes in California Ponderosa and Sugar pine for the commercial and industrial user.
Plans are projected for warehouse facilities for finished forest products such as plywood, etc. The overall development of the operation will be completed in about two years.
The assembling area is large enough for assembling orders for the trucks. This work will all be done with lift trucks, assuring the greatest possible speed and the least delay in loading customers' or the company's own trucks. They operate three lift trucks and six roller bed trucks.
Baugh Bros. & Co. consider themselves fortunate in having a completely equipped mill, the N{cCoy Planing Mill, alongside the plant, enabling them to give expedited milling service.
The office building contains a general of6ce, six private offices, and a shipping office. The interior is all finished in Douglas fir plywood. Stall showers have been provided for
the comfort of the office staff and the yard employees. The building has wood siding on the exterior. There is a forced air system that furnishes fresh air heat in winter, and cooled air in summer.
There is ample parking for customers' cars.
H. A. Olsson, Los Angeles, was the builder of the plant. The principals in the company are the two .partners, Robert P. Baugh, and his brother, William E. Baugh.
Frank P. Scrogin is sales manager. Tom Cyr is yard superintendent.
They expect to move to the new location about January r.1947.
For the fifth consecutive month, lumber production in September reached a total of more than 3 billion board feet, the Civilian Production Administration reported.
The total national output of 3,206,148,000 board feet was slightly below the August total, but was 44 per cent above the figure for the same month in 1945.
CPA said the decrease from the August total of 3,450,645,000 feet was caused by a combination of the continuing shortages of equipment and supplies, the shorter work month, and the abnormal shift of workers to agriculture.
The September figure brought lumber output so far this year to 25,494,81,W board feet.
The new offices of L. J. Carr & Co., Sacramento, wholesale lumber dealers, and sales agents for Sacramento Box Co., present a fine example of the use of hardwood panels for interior decoration. L. J. Carr's private office is finished in selected curly birch panels, and the general office in knotty pine. Doors are Rezo hardwood doors, made by Paine Lumber Co., Oshkosh, Wis. Armstrong sound deadening material is used on the ceiling; walls are insulated with fiberglas.
Fluorescent lighting and an air conditioning system for both winter and summer comfort complete a fine job.
One of the best known and liked men in the lumber and shipping industry of this country is A. B. Johnson, Sr., who is still active, and is to be found daily at the office of the A. B. Johnson Lumber Company, in the Fife Building, 1 Drumm Street, San Francisco.
Mr. Johnson came to Portland March 1, 1886, from Minnesota, where he was raised on a farm. His father and mother had come from Sweden and settled in Minnesota in 1852. He started in the lumber business driving a lumber team in Portland, but after three months was clerking in the retail lumber yard of Wilson Brothers. He went to San Francisco in 1888 from Grays Harbor to sell the lumber manufactured by Wilson Brothers in Aberdeen; became a junior partner in the firm on January 1, 1889, and continued with them until 1918, rvhen the partnership 'ivas dissolved.
In 7921 Mr. Johnson organized the A. B. Johnson Lumber Company in San Francisco, a partnership consisting of his wife, his son, A. B. (Bert) Johnson, Jr., and himself'
Mr. Johnson superintended the construction of six sailing vessels up to 1898, when steam vessels began to be used. Between 1898 and 1926 Wilson Brothers and A. B, Johnson built seven steamers. The Esther Johnson, built by Mr. Johnson, was the last rvooden lumber steamer constructed on the Pacific Coast. Later his company bought two coasting steamers. Mr. Johnson rvill be 82 next February.
The mill of Calvin-Richardson-Finley at Williams, Ore., 'ivas recently destroyed by fire.
-for the prospect oI once agcin entering cr lree mcrrket cdter five yecrs ol cr "control" which hcs chded cnrd gcrlled many ol us. And cr thcrnksgiving Ior all the understcurding shown by the trcde during the pcrst yecrrs ol shortcAes. And-
thct these shortcges will soon come to cm end, crnd thct we cqn once crgcin ;Ifi';'::ff,*:';:".l"L,T"1Tli;ifxT;i*ff
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the development of the Industry Engineered Home, in which the retail lumber industry and the Producers' Council are co-operating. The basic idea is through engineering research to design home plans and building materials so that cutting and reworking of materials on the job site can be avoided as far as possible. The basic plan of the Industry Engineered Homes program provides an indefinite number of exterior designs and interior arrang'ements. Already, he said, some 250 manufacturers of various kinds of building materials have indicated their interest in designing or packaging their materials for this program, and it is expected that actual homes will be under construction within six months, based on the research that the Producers' Council is now doing with the co-operation of a joint committee of retailers and producers.
Shares of Happiness are again being made available by Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 to those lumbermen who wish to subscribe to the Club's Christmas Fund. which is used to help those lumbermen who may be in need.
Shares are $1.50 each. Checks should be made payable to Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 and mailed to Thomas Jacobsen, c/o Piedmont Mill & Lumber Co., 351 40th Street, Oakland 9, Calif.
Plans for construction at Everett, Wash., ofa large plant capable of chemically processing more than a million board feet of lumber a month have been announced by A. E. Ferguson, Los Angeles, western sales manager of the American Lumber & Treating Co. Output of the new plant will consist of wood treated to resist fire, rot and insects.
The Everett plant will cover seven acres adjacent to the millof the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., and chemicallyprocessing facilities will be operated for that company and other members of the Pacific Northwest lumber industry. Operations are to include treatment of lumber with Wolman salts preservative, creosote and Minalith flameproofing salts. Two huge steel vacuum-pressure treating cylinders, each cap:Lble of handling approximately two carloads of lumber at one time, will be installed.
Three other west coast plants are located at Wauna, Ore., Weed, Calif., and Wilmington, Calif.
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"Expansion of facilities to conserve wood by chemical treatment is a major part of the lumber industry's effort to protect and develop the timber crop," Mr' Ferguson s2id. "Construction of this new plant at Everett is another forward step in the proper utilization of forest resources."
The new plant of the Tidewater Plywood Company at Brunswick, Ga., built at a cost of $1,0@,000, recently started operation.
Illttrough there may be plenty o{ consumer buying power to send your sales soaring this Christnas season, remember there are other seasons ahead! There's something you can do right now to help.keep buying power at a healthy level over the coming years:
Get behind the Christmas U. S. Savings Bond Campaign with every means you conhol Disploy Bonds-in windows and on counters. Advertise Bonds-in newspapers and over the radio. Promote Bonds-to every shbpper. Urge every employee to buy them regularly through your payroll savings plan. You'll be building tomorrow's business. You'll be helping to conhol prices. Investors Set $4 at maturity for every $3.
A Bond under every Christmas tree will be a befter guarantee of future prosperity than a world of wiEhlul thinking.
Conventions Scheduled
Jan. l3-1S-Kentucky Retail Lumber Dealers Association, Bror,r'n Hotel, Louisville.
Jan. 15-16-Northrvestern Lumbermen's Association, Radison Hotel, Minneapolis, Minn.
Jan. 22-24-Southwestern Lumbermen's Association, Auditorium, Kansas City, Mo.
Jan. 28-30-Nebraska Lumber Merchants itorium, Omaha.
Jan. 28-30-Ohio Association of Retail Deschler-Wallick Hotel. Columbus.
Association, AudLumber Dealers,
Feb. 10-11-Mountain States Lumber Dealers Association, Shirley-Savoy Hotel, Denver, Colo.
Feb. 19-CI-Mississippi Retail Lumber Dealers Association, Heidelburg Hotel, Jackson.
March 10-12-Lumbermen's Association of Texas, Munici' pal Pier, Galveston.
Aberdeen Compcrny Liquidcrtingf
Saginaw Lumber Co., Aberdeen, \Mash., is being liquidated, as result of action taken by stockholders, effective November 30. Saginaw Logging Co. is not afiected. Shingle mill operations will be continued temporarily under W. R. Morley, agent for shareholders in liquidated company.
Krooth Nqmed Housing Head
Washington, Dec. S.-President Truman announced to' night the appointment of David L. Krooth of Chicago as acting National Housing Administrator, replacing Wilson W. Wyatt.
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Jerome M. Higman,67, Reliable Lumber, Inc., Rosemead, passed away suddenly at his home there on November 27 following a heart attack.
Mr. Higman was in the retail lumber business in Los Angeles for a number of years before going to Rosernead to open a yard where his two sons, Brown and Herbert Higman, were associated with him. He had been a resident of Southern California since 1908.
Besides his sons, Brown and Herbert Higman, he is survived by his widow, Mrs. Jerome M. Higman, two younger sons, three daughters, three sisters, and a brother, Brown Higman. Funeral services were held at El Monte on November 29.
Joseph Richard Farmer, 66, sawmill foreman for The Pacific Lumber Company, Scotia, Calif. for 35 years, passed away November 20 at Scotia Hospital.
He was born in Mississippi, and came to California 40 years ago.
He is survived by two sons, two daughters, and five grandchildren.
T. John Torkelson, 54, Seattle lumberman, passed away suddenly in Seattle, November 13. He had been active in the lumber business for 3O years, and for some time had been an executive of the Western Retail Lumbermen's Association. During World War II he was with the WLB, where he assisted in expediting lumber production and shipments. He is survived by his widow and a daughter'
G. E. Engstrom, for many years general manager and secretary of the Arizona Sash, Door & Glass Co', Phoenix, Arizona, passed away suddenly October ?5, 1946'
DISAPPEABING DOOR FBAIUES AND HANGERS
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Wood-Moscic Co., Louisville, Ky, Ichabod T. Willicrms & Son, New York, N. Y. Veneer Productg Corporction
Penokee Veneer Co., Mellen, Wisconsin
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Los Angeles l, Ccrhl. ADcms 5221
Lumber shipments of 415 mills reporting to the National Lumber Trade Barometer were 14.0 per cent below production for the week ended November 16, 1946, according to the statistical division of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. In the same week new orders of these mills were 10.5 per cent below production. Unfilled order files of the reporting mills amounted to 56 per cent of stocks. For reporting softrvood mills, unfilled orders are equivalent to 24 days' production at the current rate, and gross stocks are equivalent to 4l days' production.
For the year-to-date, shipments of reporting identical mills were 3.3 per cent below production; orders were 0.8 per cent below produ,ction.
Compared to the' average corresponding week of 19351939, production of reporting mills was 19.6 per cent above; shipments were I3.2 per cent above; orders were 1.4 pdr cent below. Compared to the corresponding week in 1945, production of reporting mills was 75.5 per cent above; shipments were 62.5 per cent above; and new orders were 44.8 per cent above.
Production of Idaho white, ponderosa, sugar and associated species of pine for week ending November 23 totaled 63,205,000 feet, compared to 67,674W feet for previous week and 3I,526,Un feet during same week last year. Similar comparison of orders are 52,464,000 feet, 52,597,000 feet and 30,862,000 feet and of shipments: 58,660,000 feet, ffi,731,0}0 feet and 32,885,000 feet. Figures are compiled by Western Pine Association based on information from 106 identical mills.
The Southern Pine Association for the week ended November 23,84 units (114 mills) reporting, gave orders as 15,620,000 feet, shipments 15,706,000 feet, and production 16,182,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 76.277.ffiO feet.
The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended November 23, I39 mills reporting, gave orders as 65,458,000 feet, shipments 71,465,000 feet, and production 80,573,00O feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the week totaled 464.295.00O feet.
WHOLESALERS AND RETAILERS
Yards, Docks and Terminal Facilities
2OOO Evans Avenue, San Ftancisco 24 VAlencia 4100
We thank you for your cooperation and good will, and wish you
To Our Suppliers in the U. S. crnd Our Customers "Across the Border" We Wish
Taniler laan Piling and lumber Co.
461 Mcrket Street, Sqn Francisco 5 EXbrook 4904 g frilr:rry @lSristmu*
gU @oo! Wisltts for 1947 fo @ur filany frienbs
\A/. \'V. WILKINSON D. W. W|LKINSON
Douglos Fir Plywood-Lumber & Shingles
Creosoted Poles snd Piling
ll2 W.9fh Sr.-Los Angeles 15, Colif.-TRinify 4613
R. \V. (Jack) Dalton, R. W. Dalton Co., Los Angeles, sales representative for West Coast Plywood Co., Aberdeen, Wash. recently made a business trip to Albuquerque, New Mexico.
John A. McEvoy, who for the past 34 years has been with the Bloedel-Donovan Lumber Mills, is now representative of Theo. H. Davies Co., Ltd., Honolulu, with offices in the 1411 Fourth Street Building, Seattle. This company is one of the oldest and largest exporting and importing concerns in the Hatvaiian Islands, with offices at San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Manila.
Albert A. Calif., rvas in of November both ways by
Kelley, rvholesale lumber dealer, Alameda, Los Angeles for a few days around the end on business and pleasure. He made the trip plane.
Jack Davidson, Davidson Plywood & Veneer Co., Los Angeles, has returned from spending several weeks in the east and south calling on producers of hardrvood plywood and veneers
A. C. Pascoe, Los Angeles, recently to Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver, panied by J. J. Egan, vice president of Wood Mosaic Co., Louisville, Ky., sents.
made a business trip B.C. He was accomand general manager which firm he repre-
Ronnie Howarth, {ormerly rvith W. B. Jones Lumber Co., l,os Angeles, for several years, is n,r'lv with the Monarch Lumber Co., 4670 E. Washington, Los Angeles. He rvas in the Nferchant Marine for 18 months during the war.
F. B. Ware, of the Corona the Trojan Special that left bound for South Ber-rd, Ind., for the Notre Dame football
Lumber Co., Corona, was on Los Angeles November 26, with a big crowd of rooters game.
W. W. Woodbridge, manager, Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, Seattle was a recent Los Angeles and San Francisco visitor. He lvas enroute to Seattle following an extended business trip through the Nliddle West, East and South.
LUIUBEI
Arccts Redwood Co.
,O0 Market Street (ll) ...YIIkon 6-2067
Atltinsol-Siuh Conpqnv, ll2 Mqrlcr Srreet (li). ..GArlield 1809
Cbristeugoa Lumber Co. Evcns Ave. cnd Quiat St. (24)..VAlencic 5832
Cordg Lumber Compqnv, 68 Post St. (4)...:................DOuslcs 2469
Dcnt d Busgell, Inc., 2l{ Front Street (ll). ...GArlietd 0292
Dolbeer d Ccrsou Lunber Co., ll18 Merchcuta Exchcage Bldg. ({) DOuglas 64{6
Gcnerslon 6 Green Lumber Co., 1800 Army Srreet (2{). ..ATwcter 1300
Hall, lcmes L., 1032 Mills Btdg. ({). .SUuer 7520
Hollinqn Macldn Lumber Co. 681 Mcrler Si. (5).. ...DOuglos l9{l
Hcmmond Lumber Conpcny,4-17 Moatgonery Streit ('8)......DOuglas 3088
Hobbs Wcll Lumber Co., '105 Montgomery St. ({). .GArfield 7752
Holnes Eurekd Lumber Co..
ll05 Fiacncial Center Bldg, ({). ...GArlield l92t
Cqrl H. Kuhl Luober Co., O, L, Busgum, ll2 Mcrket St. (ll)..YUkoa l{60
Lcmon-Eoanbgton Coupqsy, 16 Cclilornic Street (ll). ...GArtietd 6801
Lunber Ternincl Co,, Inc., 2000 Evcu Ave. (24). ..VAlencio r!100
LUMAES
Gcmerslon 6 Green Lunber Co., 2001 Livingstoa Si. (6). .KEUos.{-1881
Gosslin-Harding Lumbcr Co.
__2ll -Prcfecrional Bldg. (r),.......,...KEIlog {-20U
llill 6 Morton, Inc., Droigon Slreet Whcrl (7). .ANdover 1077
Hogcu Lumber Compcny, 2nd cnd Alice Streets ll). .Glcncourt 6861
Kellay, Albert A. P, O. Box 240 (Alcmedc). ...Lokaburet 2-2751
Monqrch Lumber Co., l{0'l Frcuklin Sl. (f2). ..TWinoa}s 5291
E. K. Wood Lumber Co., 2lll Fredericlr Street (6). .KEllog 2-1277
LUMBEN Anglo Cclilonic Lumber Co., 655 E. Florence Ave. (l)......THornwcll 3l{4
Arcctc Redwood Co. (J. J. Beq)
5tll0 Wilshire Blvd. (36). .WEbster 7828
Atkinsou-Stutz Compcny, 628 Petroleum Blde, (15)........PRospect 4341
Atlcs Lumber Co., 2035 E. lSrh St. (21). ...P8ospect 7{01
Erueb ludustrial Lunber Co..
535t1 E. Slcugoa Ave. (22)..... .ANselus l-1155
Eurng Lumber Compquv, ?27 W. Sevenrh St. -(14).........TRinity t06l
Ccr & Co., L, I. (W. D. Duaning), tl38 Ch. ol Com. Btdg.'(15)......PRospect 8843
Consolidaied Lunber Co., 122 W. Jellereson St. (7)......8lchmond 2l4l 1446 E. Aaqheim St., Wilmilglon......Wilm. Ter. 4-268f ; NE, 6-1881
Cooper Wholescle Lunber Co., W. E., 605-608 Bichlield Bldg. (13).......MUtucl 2l3l
Dcut d Russell, Inc,, 8r2 E. 59th Street (l). .ADams 8l0l
Dell Lumber Co. (Burbcnk) 120 So. Victory Blvd. ........CHcrlEston 8-6052
Dolbeer 6 Cqrson, Lumber Co., 901 Fidelity Bldg. (13)..........VAndike 8792
Ed. Fountcin Lumber Co.,
714 W. Olympic Blvd.... .PBospect 4341
Hcllinon Mockin Lunber Co.
4188 E. Bqndiai Blvd (23).......ANgelus 2-8030
Hqmmond Lumber Compcny, 2010 So. Alqmedc Sr. (54)......PRospect 1333
Holmes Eurekq Lumber Co., 712 Architects Bldg. (t3). .Muiucl 9l8l
Hoover, A. L., 5225 Wilshire BIvd. (36). ...YOr& 1168
Ccrl H. Kuhl Lumber Co.. (8. S. Osgood), 70tl S. Spriag Si. (l{). ...TRinity 8225
Lcwrence-Philips fumber Co., 633 Petroleum Bldg. (15)........PRospect 817{
Ross C. Lcsbley (8. G. Robbins Lumber Cb.), 7l'! W. Olympic Blvd. (15). ..PRospect 0721
MccDoncld Co., L. W., 7Il W. Olympic Blvd. (15). .PRorpccl ?l9l
Mahogany lmporting Co., 821 S. Sprins St. (14). ...TBiniiy 9651
Orbcn Lunber Co,,
7? S. Pcadenc Ave., Paccdenc (3) .SYccnore 6-{373 RYcn l-6997
iPostoffice Zone Nutnber in Parenthesis.
LUMBER
Northern Bedwood Lunber Co., 2d08-10 Bws Blde, ({). ..EKbrook 789{
O'Neill Lumber Co.. Ltd.,
16 Cclilornic St. (ll). ...Glrlietd 9Il0
Pacilic lumber Go,, Tbe
100 Bush srreer ('l). .....GArlield ll8l
Pope d Tclbot, Inc., Lumber Divlsion, {61 Marlei Street (5). .DOuglcs 2li6l
R. G. Bobbias Lunber Co. (L, J. Owen) 16 Cclilonic St, (ll) .GArlield 9Il0
Rouads Trcdiaa Conpqav Crocker Btds-. ({).:..... .......YUlcon 0912
Scutc Fe Lunbcr Co., 16 Cclilorric Street (ll). .........EXbrooL 2071
Scquoia Mill G Lumber Compqny, Hobcrt Buildiug (4). .EXbrooL 35{0
Sbevlin Pine Scles Co., 1030 Moncdaocl Bldg. (5)........EXbrook ?0{l
Suddeu 6 Christenson, lnc., 310 Sqasome Strect ({)..........GArlicld 28{6
Tcrter, Webster G loblroa, Inc., I Montgonery St. ({).. .DOuglcs 2060
Ccrl W. Wcttg, 975 Moaodaock Bldg. (5). .Ylftoa 1590
Wendlisg-Nathan Co., 564 Mdrlct Sr. (4).. .......SUtter 5363
W€st Osegon Lumber Co., 1995 Evcns Ave: (2{). ...ATwcter 5678
Wesl€ru Pine Supplv Comrsav, l20l Hcrrison Si.-(5). ........:. .. .UNderhill 8686
E. K. Wood Lumber Co., I Drunn Street (ll). ...EXbrool 3710
LUMBEN
Wholesale Buildinq Supplv, Iac., 1607 32nd Stre.t- (8)..... ...TEmplebcr 6961
Wholegale Lumber Diglributors, Inc., 54 First Street (7). .TWiaoclc 2515
HANDWOODS
Strable Hcrdwood Compcny, First cnd Clcy Straetj (7i....TEmplebcr 558{
White Brothers, 500 High Street (l)... .ANdovcr 1600
LUMBEN
Pccilic Lumber Co., Tbe 5225 Wilghire Blvd. (36). .YOrh 1188
Potrick Lumber Co,, Easlmcn Lumber Sclcg, 7l{ W, Olvubic Blvd. (15)......PRospect 5039
Pope 6 Tclbot, Inc., Lumber Division 7l{ W, Olympic Blvd. (15). PRogpecl 82lll
E. L. Reitz Co., 333 Petroleum Bldg. (15)..........PBospecl 2369
Rounds Trading Compcny (Wilnington) 1240 Blinn Ave. ........-.........Nevqdq 6-l{lil
Scn Pedro Lumber Co,, l5l8 S. Centrcl Avc. (21)......Rlchmond lltll
1800-A Wilmiagtor Rocd (Scn Pedro) ......TErniacl 2-6496
Shevlin Pine Ssles Go., 330 Petroleum Bldg. (15)........PBospect 0615
Simpson Industries, Inc,,
l6l0 E. Wqshington Blvd. (21)..PRospect 8183
Stanto!, E. J. d Sou, 2050 E. tllst Si. (ll). ...CEntury 29211
Sudden d Chrislenson, Inc,. 630 Board ol Trade Bldg. (l{)....TBinity 884i1
Tqcomc Lumber Sales, 837 Petroleum Blde. (15)........PBospect lI08
Weudling-Ncthon Co., 5225 Wilshire Blvd. (36). .YOrk 1168
Wesl Orogon Lumber Co., 427 Petroleum Bldg. (15). .Blchmond 0281
W. W, Wilkinson, ll2 West Ninth StrEel (15). .TRidty {613
Weverhceuger Scles Co., rftg W. M. Gcrlcnd Bldg. (15)..Mlchigcu 835{ E. f,, Wood Lumber Co., {710 So. Alcmedc St. (5{)........lEllorroa 3lll
CNEOSOTED LUI\,3ER_POLES
PILINGFTIES
Americca Lumber G Trecting Co., ll5l So. Brocdwcy (15).....,....PRoapect 1353
Bcxter, I. H, 6 Co., 601 West sth Street (13)........Mlchigcr 629{ McComiclc d Bqxter Creosoting Co., ll2 W.grh Sheet (15). ...TBiuity t[613 Pope 6 Tclbot, hc., Lunber Division, itl W. olyEpic Blvd. (15). .PRorpcct 82lll
HtnDwooDs
Americca Hcrdwood Co., 1900 E. lstb Strort (5{)..........Pnorpecl l2il5
LUMBER
Weycrhceuser Scles Co., 391 Sutter St. (8). .GArlicld 891
BANDWOODS
Cornitius Hardwood Co,, George C., {65 Cqlilornic St. (l). ..GArlield 81ll8
Wbit. Brothers,Filth crd Brcnnco Srreels (7)......SUtter 1365
SASH_DOOBS_PLYWOOD
Harbor Plywood Corp. oI Cclilonic, 5{0 lOth St. (3). ........ ...... .....MArlct 6?lt5
Nicolci Door Salee Co,, 30{5 lgth St. (t0). .......VAleucic 22ll
Ulited Stctes Plvwood Corr., Tl27 Army St. -(10).
CREOSOTED LUMBEN_POLESPILINC:_TIES
Americqn Lumber 6 TrectbE Co., 60{ Miggion Sr. (5)....... .SUtlcr llllS
Baxter, J. H. 6 Co., 333 Moatgomery Street (l)... .DOuglcr 3883
Hqll, James L., 1032 Milts Blde. ({). .......SUtter7520
Pope d Tclbot, Inc., Lunber Divisiou, i6t Marlol Streot (5). ,..DOuglqr 2581
Scntc Fe Lumber Co., 16 Cclilorniq St, (ll). ...EKbrooL.2074
Vcnda Lacu Pilino G Lunber Co., 461 Mcrket Streel (5). ....EXbrooL {901 Wendliag-Ncthca Co., 58t Marlct St. ({)... ......SUtlcr 5363
TWiuocks 55{l
.Gllog 2-ltllll
Bohnholl Lunber Co', lnc. 1500 So. Alcmedc Sr. (21). .PRoepect 32'15 Penberthv Lumber Co., 58(X) S6uth Boyle Ave. (ll)......Klmbcll 5lll
Slqnlon,E.LdSon, 2050 Ecst ilst Streei (ll)... .CEuturv 29211
Tropicql d Weslen Lumbor Co., 609 s. Grdnd Ave'............'.Mlchigqn 9326
WesterE Hardwood Lumber Co., 2014 Ecet lstb Street (55).......PRospoct 615l
SASH_DOORS_MILLWOBK_SCNEENS BLINDS_PANELS AND PLYWOOD NONING BOABDS
Bcck Pqnel Compqnv, 310-314 East 32ad-Street (ll)....ADcms l2:E
Cclilorniq Door Company, The P. O. Box t26, Vernbn Stqtion (Il) Klnbqll 2lll
Calilorniq Pcael 6 Veneer Co., P. O. Eox 2096, Terniaql Aunex (5{) ...TRinitY 0057
Cobb Co., T. M., 5800 Centrcl lvenuc (lI)........4D4ms llllT
Cole Door & Plywmd Co.'
1049 E. Slauson Ave. (ll) '.........ADams l37l
Dqvidson Plvwood 6 Veneer Co., 2135 Euteririse St. (21)............TRinitv 9858
Eubank 6 Son, L. H. (Inglewood) 433 W. Bedondo Blvd..
Hclev Bros. (Scntq Moricc) 1620 l4rb Street... .......AShley l-2268
Koehl. Jno. W. d Son, 652 S. Myers Street (23)........ANgelue 8l9l
Pocilic Mutucl Door Co..
1600 E. WasbingtoE Blvd. (21)..Pnospect 9523
Recm Compqnv, Geo. E.. 235 S. Allneta StreEt (12). ....Mlchison 185{
Sqmpson Co. (Pcsqdena).
745 So. Bcymond Ave. (21........RYcn l-8939
Simpso! Indugtries, Inc.,
l6i0 E. Wcshilqton Blvd. (21)..PBospect 8183
Truedson Ccbinet Corp., 68?3 S. Vicloriq Ave. ({3) ....TWinocLe 165l
United Stqtes Plwood Corp., 1930 Ecgt lsth-St. (21)........Rlchnond 610l
Wesl Coqgt Scteen Co., tl{s Easl 63rd street (l)"""""4D48! lllm
Western Mill G Mouldisg Co., 11615 Pormelee Ave, (1)........Klmbqll 2953
E. K. Wood Lumber Co., {710 S, Alcnedc Sr (5{)........JEflcrros Stll
Ratc-{2.50 per Column Inch.
FON BENT
II,MEER CARNIERS _ LIFT TRUCTSROLI.EN TRUCKS SALES ALSO REPATBS
LI'MBEB TBANSPORTATION
"Hyster Hculing"
Lcrgesl Fleet oI Rose crnd Hyster
Lumber Cariers crnd Lilt Trucks On The West Cocst
WESTERN IT'MBER CANRIERS
1325 Eqet Opp St. NEvcdcr 6-1371
P. O. Box 622 Wilmington, Cqlil. TErminal 4-6624
LUMBERMA.N, 25 years continuous experience in WESTERN PINES, from manufacturing, grading, wholesale and industrial selling and buying, now employed, desires position where these qualifications can be used for the greatest efficiency and ranuneration. Will go anywhere, but prefer Southern California.
Address Box C-1188, California Lu,mber Merchant
508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, California
CHICAGO RETAIL LUMBERMAN
Desires te contact a progressive lumbtr concern who can use a man of his experience and ability. Age 43. Married, 25 years experience. Last position as yard superintendent of large modern yard. Previously manager of two difrerent yards. Ttroroughly familiar with all phases of large or small yard operations. Would like similar position, or what have you to offer? The very best of references.
Address Box C-1211 California Lumber Merchant
508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Cdif.
WANTED
- Experie4ced bookkeeper and office man for retail lumber yard in San Joaquin Valley. Splendid opportulrity for right man. In answering give references and salary expected.
Address Box C-1210, California Lumber Merchant
508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles ld Calif.
Lumberman, 18 years with same comlxrny as retail yard manager, 39 years of age, married, two children, now employed but desires change. References. Desires positlon as invoice checker, estimating, or assisting with audit and invoicing,
Address Box C-1215. California Lumber Merchant
508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.
Part-Time Bookeeping E. M. WORTHING
Public Accountant
P. O. Box 56, Station M Los Angeles 32, Ca\I, Phones: Rlchmond 9251; CUmbedand 3-1706
THIRTY YEARS LUMBER EXPERIENCE
LUMBER YARDS FOR SALE
The December lst ad in The California Lu,mber Merchant gives a list of a numbr of retail lumber yards we have for sale in Southern California.
If you are interested write or phone:
TWOHY LUMBER CO., LUMBER YARD AND SAWMILL BROKERS
801 Petroleum Bldg., Los Angeles 15, Calif.
Prospect 8746
FOR SALE
l6-foot steel burner, two separators, approximately 200 feet galvanized pipe, $1,000. Purchaser t.o remove.
Sun Lumber Company
Phone: "Fjj#"*tl'liiaf iit;. "**"""
SALESMAN WANTED
Wanted-by San Francisco lumber distributor selling Fir, Hernlock, Cedar and Spruce, a salesman now calling on trade in Sacramento, Stockton and Fresno, also Coast Counties, commission basis.
Address Box C-1212, California Lumber Merchant , 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.
WANTS IJUMBER BUYER
SOUTHERN MANUFACTURER AND WHOLESALER desiring to establish West Coast office, wants capable man to buy and maintain contact with lumber and plywood mills. Also handle sales
Address Box C-1216. California Lu,mber Merchant
5O8 Central Bldg., Los Angelcs 14, Calif.
POSITION WANTED
20 years' managernent and sales experience in retail hamber, millwork, real estate and home building. FuUy qualified by study and experierrce to be pa.rticipating partner in established business. Southern California town prefened but not essential.
Address Box C-1217, California Lunber Merchant 5O8 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.
One 42-inch Turner Twin Resaw.
California Wood Products Co.
570 East Commercial Street, Pomona, Calif. Teleohone Porlrona 1242
One circular type po'rrer feed resaw. A-1 condition. Guaranteed.
JA"MES PRATTY LUMBER CO.
563 So. Atlantic Blvd., Los Angeles 22y Calit. Phone: ANgelus 12758
Tennessee became the 15th state to enter the nationwide Tree Farm program when approximately 100,000 acres of privately owned forest lands were certified in a dedication program at Waynesboro, November 20. Largest area to be entered under the strict forest management requirements of the program was the 70,000 acres owned by the Hassell and Hughes Lumber Company of Wayne County. Nine other farm and investment owned woodland areas were certified as complying rvith tree farming standards. Early certification of several additional tree farm areas in other parts of the state was assured by applications of their owners.
