Huge distribution center opens

Tarter, Webster & Johnsono a division of American Forest Products Corp., has taken some pages out of the airport management books to create a more effective distribution setup at its new wholesale lumber distribution center here.

From glass-sided offices atop a handsome new office building, Robert Wells, the company's director of distribution, and Seth Potter, southern California regional manager, can survey the entire l5-acre complex with its 7.5 million board feet oI hardwoods and softwoods and, through an elaborate intercom system, direct activities and traffic at any location.

The new yard, complete with lI large pole-type storage buildings, a large office building, a railroad spur and acres of blacktop surfacing, is just off the Santa Ana Freeway in Cerritos, part of greater Los Angeles. It was occupied in December, 1968. The site replaces a smaller Ttr/ & J yard on Bandini Blvd. in Los Angeles.

Initially, the yard has 6 million bf. of softwoods, 1.5 million bf. of hardwoods and nearly one-half million sq. ft. of plywood. Frank Quattrocchi, manager, expects some increase, with the probability that the yard may maintain a normal supply of as much as 8 million bf. from which to serve southern California retail lumber yards and construction industry needs.

The 1l pole.type lumber storage buildings cover approximately 80,000 sq. ft. They were designed and erected by Treated Pole Builders, Inc. of Ontario, Calif., and the 244 poles used as main structural members were pressure treated by Koppers Co., Inc., using the "Cellon" process. This treat- ment not only gives long-lasting protection against decay and-termitos, but allows the poles to be eolor-coated; TW & J has colorcoated not the but the sides and

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At the new T\ff & J yard, four of the pole-type buildings are devoted to stolage of softwoods, three to hardwoods, and two fully-sided buildings to plywood storage. In addition, two pole-type buildings will be leased to Superior Custom Mill for production of special and custom millwork.

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The new TS/ & J office building at the site is two stories high. It is completely constructed with wood includine fine hardwood panel interiors. Operatiois, accounting, billing, etc., are handled predominantly on the first floor, with major sales and planniug on the second floor.

As part of their recent expansion and move to Ceritos, Calif., Summit Lumber Co. has added Ed Difani to the sales stafi. Ed. who has some 23 years in the lumber business, the last nine with Tartero Webster & Johnson. will handle both hardwoods and softwoods.

Leo S. Seidner, president of Summit Lumber, said ooWe will continue to broaden our domestic hardwood, softwood and plywood line and develop our newly acquired Liberian hardwood concession."

Rounding out Summit's stafi are David and Marc A. Seidner, sales, Art Johnson the yard manager and shipper and Jean Herron, billing and payments. The buying office at Tahoe Vista in northern California is headed by O. F. "Fred" Johnson.

Highway construction workers are "staying up nights" to help cut down the severity of accidents on Los Angeles' fantastically busy Harbor Freeway.

Frorn 9 p.m. to 5 a.m.when freeway traffic is at a minimum construction workers labor on new median barriers of pressure-creosoted posts and steel beams. More than 8,000 wood posts were pressure. creosoted by Koppers Co. Inc. for the six and one-half miles of freeway barrier. Wood post and metal beam barriers have been demonstrated to help cut severity of accidents.

Posts are square, Bt' x 8t' x 72t' long. 'fhey are placed 6' 3" apart with 41" underground and 3I" above. Pressure-creosoted wood blocks, each 8" x 8" x 14" are bolted to sides of the posts at the top and the steel beams fastened on horizontally.

Celotex Exponds Weslern Morkels

A new line of vinyl asbestos floor tiles for lumber and building material dealers in nine western states is being added to The Celotex Corporation's current lines of building and construction products, William D. Herbert, vp. reports.

Directors are Lyall Bell, Nicholas Capistrano, Jr., Carlos Fernandez. Henrv Fulcher, Jr., William Howe, James Mackav" Bruce Mclean, Douglas M. Dayton, H"n.y Thompson, Ron Winde, Jr. and Franl Paxton, Jr.'

Wickes Corp. plans to market manufactured homes thru their own outlets, D. M. Fitz-Gerald, president, has revealed.

ooThe grealest housing boom in history is on the way with 23 million more new households expected in the next 15 years, in the face of this knowledge," FitzGerald emphasized, "Wickes has definite goals and expects to become an integral part o{ the industrialized housing industty."

Timberline Forest Products has been appcinted distributor for Luronite, a manu. facturer of modern Deco.trim. Accordine to Richard Snider, president of Timberline] the distribution area is southern California. Nevada and Arizona.

The 1968 Fall meeting of the Hardwood Plywood Manufacturers Association in Los Angeles was an important one in the evolution of the association, as HPMA reconstituted its membership into product divisions.

Officers and directors elected are: president, J. R. Berger; division vice presidents: affliate, John Williamson; block flooring, Robert O'Donoghue; cut-to-size, Richafu Weber; prefinish, Hans Fischer; and stock panel, Jarnes Pratt. Directors at large: B. E. Bryan, James Lester, and Don Christensen. Directors elected by division membership: 1t9ck panel Ed Rutledge; prefinish, John M. Prince; and cut-to-size, Charles C,ousins.

Three of the five areas in the U.S. showing the greatest percentage increase in population since 1960 are in California, according to the Dept. of Commerce.

They are Anaheim-Santa Ana-Garden Grove, 74.9Vo1 San Jose, 49.9% and San Bernardino-Riverside-Onta rio, 33.9/o. The other areas are Washingjon, D.C., 3l/o and Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood, Florida, 46.2%.

Since 1960 Los Angeles'Long Beach in' creased in population 817,600 and San Francisco increased 367,000.

Reinforcement for the industry claim that multiple rise of forestlands will best serve an outdoor'recrbation'oriented public and the needs of the nation's economy

Wcrlcrn Lumbcr I Dutlding totcriclr mEtCtlAilT has been strongly demonstrated in a new American Forest Institute survey' Trends revealed by comparison with the three earlier surveys: more land open- to recreation, more comPanies charging fees for recreation use' more comPanies pub' lishing descriptive literature and more emplJyittg recreation specialists .and,p.ro' tes.ionat wildlife managers and making long range plans for recreational develop' ment. needs in mind.