The annual mini-convention

More than 100 lumbermen from four Southem California Hoo-Hoo clubs (Los Angeles, Orange County, Inland Empire and San Diego) attended this year's annual Mini-Convention, held in Montebello.

In elections held that night for new officers, Dennis Richardson, Inland Lumber Co., was chosen president; Carl Henoch, Simpson Building Supply, v.p./sec; and Frank Graves, Orange County Lumber, treas. Directors are Paul Boyle, Koppers Co.; Tom Culligan, Ward & Harrington; John Holstein, South Bay Forest Products; Dennis Kirk, Parr Lumber; Mike Jamison, Rygel Lumber Sales; and Bob McBride, McFarland Cascade.

In addition to a golf tournament, the nine oldest active members attending were honored. They were, in order of seniority: Dee Essley, Bert Holdren, Harl Crockett, Bernie

Barber, Wayne Wilson, Jim McFadden, Chuck Lember, Bob Golding and Don Derbes.

The top two officers in the international fraternal organization were present, president Laurn Champ and first v.p. Gene Zanck. Winner of the raffle for a lifetime membership was Wayne Solesbee of H&M Wholesale.

PRESIDENT'S luncheon for the fraternal organization's number one elder statesman, Boy Stanton, was held before the miniconvention at the posh Los Angeles Country Club. Among those present were (l-r) Chuck Lember; international lst v.p. Gene Zanck of Spokane; international pres. Laurn Champ from Kansas; Ken Coleman; Roy Stanton; and his old friend, lumberman Dee Essley.0espite his 88 years, Stanton remains interested and active in fraternity activities.

Redwood Soakin

BEDW00D PANELED soaking tub uses 1 x 6 clear all heart grade redwood in vertical t & g pattern, with redwood bench for stepping in or resting after long soak-now appearing in newspapers nationwide as part of special California Redwood Association remodeling promotion. For this year's record remodeling markets, dealers are urged t0 stock up on kiln dried redwood lumbergrades, recommended finishes and nails, and CRA design/construction literature. Free sample booklets are available from CRA. Dept. KB-C00P.0ne Lombard St., San Francisco, Ca, 9411 1.

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Spanish Cedar

(Continued from page 1 6) lumber in the sun and little, if any, seasoning degrade is encountered.

Green wood shrinks about 2.1% radially and 3.O% tangentially in drying to a moisture content of l5%. Shrinkage from the green condition to ovendry is similar to that of mahogany.

Spanish-cedar wood contains a gumlike substance with a volatile aromatic oil. The exudate is likely to stain materials in intimate contact with the wood, and air-seasoned boards in intimate contact may become literally "glued" together. The use of Spanish-cedar dried by conventional methods is not recommended for such products as closed cases for clocks and other precision equipment because the volatiles condense on the metal parts thus reducing the efficiency of the mechanism. The volatile content of the wood can be materially reduced by kiln drying the unsurfaced stocks to a moisture content of 6% to 8% and then heating at 2000 F. for 8 to 17 hours at a relative humidity of 6W. The oils and gums will exude to the rough surfaces, which can then be smoothed in the dressing process.

Among importers of Spanish-cedar it is the general consensus that wood from certain areas shows more exudate than others, the principal such areas being Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and the Amazon region. Spanish-cedar from Mexico, British Honduras, and Guatemala infrequently shows exudations and is therefore favored.

Decay Resistance

In soil tests conducted at Madison, Wis., and Saucier, Miss., Ecuadorian Cedrela odorata was rated as resistant to very resistant with respect to fungus attack and rated as resistant to attack by two white rot fungi in pure-culture tests.

Tests made at the Yale University School of Forestry show Cedrela angustifolia to be quite variable in resistance to decay. The heartwood proved to be durable to moderately durable upon exposure to both a white rot funsus and a brown rot fungus. Cedrela oaxacensis was rated as moderately durable to nondurable in resistance to a white rot organism and durable to moderately durable upon exposure to a brown rot fungus.

The heartwood is considered more resistant to dry-wood termites than mahogany, rating resistant as compared to moderately resistant for the mahogany. The wood is sometimes attacked by pin-hole borers and has low resistance to attack by marine borers.

The wood possesses excellent weathering properties when exposed to the elements without the protection of paint.

Spanish-cedar is worked very easily with both hand and power tools, giving good results in planing, s.fraping, mortising, and sanding. The wood is easily turned but is difficult to bore; torn and roughened grain occur in these operations. The presence ofgum in some material gives trouble in polishing but, in general, the wood stains and finishes well after filling. It has good nail- and screw-holding properties, is easy to glue, and is a fairly good bending wood. It is very popular in the veneer and plywood industry

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Long Dimension

Rough Dimension

Spanish Cedar

(Continued from page 54) because it peels cold, driesexceptionally well, and has good gluing properties. It is used locally for all purposes where an easy working, light but strong, straight-grained, and durable wood is required. The wood has characteristics which recommend it for millwork, cabinets, patterns, musical instruments, boats, decorative and utility veneer. It is still being used to a large extent in the form of very thin veneer for making cigar wrappers which are encased in cellophane and give the cigar a cedary odor formerly supplied by the box itself.

Spanish-cedar may be readily separated from other mahogany-like woods by the pronounced growth ring pattern which is distinct on all longitudinal surfaces. On a smoothlv cut end grain surface the growtir ring pattern is evident without magnification due to the larger sized pores in the earlywood zone and the wide band of light-colored parenchyma.

New Oregon Wholesaler

A new nationwide wholesaling service, Wysong Wood Products, for lumber, plywood and other wood products, has been formed in Eugene, Or., by William G. "Bill" Wysong.

Wysong has been affiliated with the industry since 1959. He was involved in the formation of the McKenzie River Plywood Corp. at that time and later became general manager of the firm for Georgia Pacific.

In 1969, Wysong became plywood sales manager and established the sales department for Corvallis-based Brand S Corp. He later merged the lumber and plywood sales departments and expanded into the export market.

Wysong says, "After 28 years in Oregon and 19 in the wood products industry, I feel that our new company will be able to offer a marketing service of unusual value to mills throughout the Northwest.

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MOULDINGS: Chico Divigion. Ron Hoppe, Al Ryan (916) 343-4451

LUMBER: Redding Sales Division. (916) 275-8812

Sawmills located at Arcata, Hayfork, Loyalton, Quincy, Redding,Sloat and Susanville, Ca.

Producing in excess of 400 million feet yearly: Douglas Fir, Incense Cedar, Ponderosa Pine, Sugar Pine, and White Fir. Green & Kiln Dried.

SALES: Perry Adcox, George Rogers, George Sharp, Paul Trueb, Bill Wessner and Sam Witzel.

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Home lmprovement Park

The "home improvement park" is the newest wrinkle in expanding the retail potential of shopping'center sites.

Oscar Reid, senior v.p. of Urban Investment and Development Co., Chicago, a major shopping center developer, explains that a home improvement park is a group of home improvement retailers in a single convenient location on the edge ofa regional shopping center.

"You could have a building materials store, appliance store, landscape center, paint and wallpaper store, lamp and light fixture salon, and related retailers, all in one location," he said.

There are two reasons for thinking that the home improvement park would be effective, Reid said. One is that

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