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As Reported in the Augusr. L944 lssue of The Merchant, Est. 1922

John Morley, Homestead Lumber Co,, Sacramento, visited Portland and other Northwest points,

O. L. Russum, No. Calif. rep. for Carl H. Kuhl Lumber Co., Portland, returned from a 10 day business trip to the Northwest.

N. B. Bowden, Pacific Manufacturing Co.' Santa Clara, Calif., visited Portland on business.

A. J. "Gus" Russell, Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned from a two week business trip to the Northwest.

Owen Dalton, Dalton Lumber Co., Los Angeles, with Mrs. Dalton, visited San Francisco and Portland on business.

Jason C. McCune, J. H. Baxter & Co., Los Angeles, visited the company's San Francisco office.

George B. McGill, Eugene office manager for Pope & Talbot, visited the firm's Los Angeles and San Francisco offices.

Lieut. Commander R. TV. Caldwell, USN, son of R. E. "Bob" Caldwell, Hammond Lumber Co., San Francisco, visited home recently.

A. W. "Bates" Smith, manager, Los Angeles office of MacDonald & Harrington, recently spent several days at the head office in S,an Francisco.

William Swindell, asst. to the president, Willamette Valley Lumber Co., Dallas, Ore., recently spent two weeks in San Franeisco.

Carl R. Moore, president, Cape Arago Lumber Co., Empire, Ore., returned from a two week visit to his Oakland office.

Ed Schafer, sales manager, Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., has returned to Aberdeen, Wash., from a visit to Calif.

F. A. "Pete" Toste, So. Calif. manager, Kilpatrick & Co., Wilmington, is back from a trip to San Francisco, Portland and Eugene, Ore.

George R. Kendrick, sales manager, Pope & Talbot, Inc., San Francisco, returned to his desk from a week's trip to Portland and Seattle. He attended a meeting of the West Coast Lumbermen's Assn. in Portland.

John L. Todd, Western Door & Sash Co., Oakland, returned from a visit to Boston, Mass.

Frank Brown, Pope & Talbot, Inc., San Francisco, spent his vacation at Brookdale, in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

E. E. Abrahamson, Hammond Lumber Co., Samoa, Calif. visited Los Angeles, Dale Burns, ,assist. sales manager, Medford Corp., Medford, Ore., made a trip to San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Adolph E. Wanke, Wanke Panel Co., Portland, Ore., was elected a director of the National Plywood Distributors Assn.

Charles R. West, Phoenix, Ariz., lumberman, was in Los Angeles recently.

Kenneth Shipp, owner, California Builders Supply Co., Oakland, returrred from a trip to Washington, D. C., and Chicago.

Lewis Jennings, Jennings Lumber Co., Safford, Ariz,, was in Los Angeles on vacation.

B. O. Leftwich, Phoenix, Aiz., wholesale lumberman visited Los Angeles.

J. W. Copeland, J. W, Copeland Yards, Inc., Portland, Ore. visited Los Angeles recently.

Al Nolan, Western sales manager, The Pacific Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned from his vacation in Lake County, Calif.

Don E. Coveney, sales manager, AtkinsonStutz Co., San Francisco, will spend several weeks calling on northern California and Oregon mills.

Martin W. Parelius, owner, Parelius Lumber Co., Portland, Ore. vacationed in Aetna Springs, Lake County, Ca1if.

Sam Wilcox, general manager of O'Malley Lumber, Phoenix, Ariz., visited San Francisco.

Les Harris, Hoover Lumber, Los Angeles, recmtly vacationed in San Francisco.

Ed Tietjen, salesman, Sudden & Christenson, Inc., San Francisco returned from a vacation at Camp Rose, near Healdsburg, Calif.

N. II. "Ifawk" Huey, Phoenix, Ariz., recently visited Los Angeles.

D. E. Liggett, Liggett Lumber Co., Santa Ana, recently visited San Francisco on business.

Floyd Elliott, manager of Schafer Bros. San Francisco office, is recovering from the effects of a fall.

Bob Anderson, M. J. Murphy, Carmel, Calif., has been in Sutter Hospital recovering from a fractured leg.

C. E. Perry, manager of Timber Products Co. lumber dept., Medford, Ore., was in San l'rancisco recently.

Fred Lundblade, owner, Salmon Creek Redwood Co., Beatrice, Calif., recently visited

San Francisco and Hobbs Wall Lumber Co. Tomrny Tomlinson, Wholesale Lumber Distributors, Oakland, has recovered from an automobile accident.

C. Ilexburg, Union Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned from a vacation at Seiglers Springs, Lake County, Calif.

II. M. Schaur, Jr., recently joined South City Lumber & Supply Co., So. San Francisco.

Art Penberthy, Tacoma Lumber Sales, Los Angeles, has been on a business trip to the Pacific Northwest.

Fred B. Smales, mamager of California Div., U.S. Plywood Corp., Los Angeles, made an air trip to San Francisco.

Francis U. Mandis recently joined W. B. Jones Lumber, Los Angeles, as salesman.

George C. Phillips, Tacoma Lumber Sales' Los Angeles, recently completed a 30 day trip through northern California, Oregon and Washington.

F. A. "Pete" Toste, Toste Lumber Co., Los Angeles, recently called on sawmills in the redwood region.

\M. B. Wickersham, manager, Pope & Talbot, Los Angeles, spent Iast week in San Francisco.

A. B. "Bert" McKee, general manager, San Pedro Lumber Co., Los Angeles, was in San Frrancisco on business.

Carl Ilornibrook, sales manager, and Fred Schallock, president, Ewauna Box Co., Klamath Falls, Ore., were in Los Angeles recently.

E. Normen Cords, manager, pine dept., Wendling-Nathan Co., San Fnancisco, returned from calling on pine mills in northern Calif. and southera Oregon.

George F. Gerlinger, president, National Lumber Manufacturets Assn,, and of Willamette Valley Lumber Co., Dallas, Ore., was recently in San Francisco.

Frank Parkinson, shipping clerk, San Pedro Lumber Co., Los Angeles, recen'tly vacationed in the Bishop district.

Bill Davis, Pope & Talbot, Los Angeles, is back from two weeks vacation in northern Calif. 'Wayne lVlullin, Mullin Lumber Co., Los Angeles, is on a three week business trip to Chicago.

Jack Mulcahy, O'MalIey Lumber Co., Tucson, Ariz., recently visited San Francisco.

Co-op House Effort for | 970s

The California Design '70 house is one of five houses being built to demonstrate the findines of the National Lumber and Building Material Dealers R"search Committee on the preferences and needs of tomorrow's home buyers.

The architect gave attention to traffic flow, storage, children's activity center, clothes care, dressing area, indoor and outdoor relationships and a family living center.

The parent's wing has a small sitting room for quiet reading and conversation. For flexible family use, a long living-dining area is located in the activity section, opening to the main entrance, kitchen, children's rooms and rear patio area.

The sink area overlooks the breakfast room where most family meals will be enjoyed overlooking the entrance court garden.

A Bigger lVhrket For Spruce

Tests that could result in expanded markets for Englemann spruce have been concluded recendy by the Associated Home Builders of the Greater Eastlayo Inc.o in Berkeley, Calif. The results will be presented to the ICBO September meeting in Salt Lake City. AHB says the tests prove that Englemann spruce can do the work of Douglas fir as dimension lumber, all though it is only half as strong.

Tests showed that utility Englemann spruce can be safely placed 24lt o.c., rather than the conventional 16" o.c. and that this 25/o reduction in studs can save $200$300 per house.

William T. [,eonar4 exec. vp. of the AHB, said sand bags weighing more than 19,000 lbs. were placed on a 12 foot wide roof section and subjected to hurricane force winds. "If sprue,e can hold that load in that wind," Leonard said, "it can hold anything,"

June C.onslruclion Drops Bock

A lack of, unusually large projects and sluggishness in some credit-sensitive categories of building pushed the value of construction contracts in June back to the level of early Spring, F. W. Dodge reports.

The number of single-family housing units contracted in June fell below the yearago level for the fifth straight month, while multi-family units continued to gain. For the first six months of the year, apartments accounted for almost 42 percent of all housing units.

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