GEORGE CTOUGH LU MB

History teoches us thqt Jqnucny hos olwoys been qn importcnt monlh-FDR, Generql MacArthur, Alexqnder Hcrmilton crnd "Stonewqll" ]oclson. olong with mony other prominent leoders, were born in the month ol fcnucFy.

This month-by the vote oI the people-o new Government will be b6rn in Woshington which should bring continued prosperity by encourcging thrilt in the crdministrotion of Notioncl crrd Foreign cfloirs by the United Stqtes.

Abrohom Lincoln once soid "You connot help men by doing whct they themselves should do"ond now is definitely the time Ior oll of us to put our shbulder to the wheel cnd "DO WHAT WE SHOULD DO" to qssure PROSPERITY, GOOD HEALTH ond PEACE AMONG MEN. Now thot inventory is "by the boord" it no doubt is tirne to look towqrd customer servicecnd with new initiqtive cnd wisdom being practiced ot top level -it is time lor oll of us to get in there ond pitch. . So-just remember-we're reody to tqte core of cll your lumber needs during 1953-moy this yedr be o good one for you.

Hoo-Hoo-Ettes Produces Morc Electrical Powcr Meet Than lt Consumcs

OnDecember8 the HooHoo-Ettes Club No. 1, Los Angeles, held their regular monthly dinner meeting at the Rodger YoungAuditorium. Sixteen new members were initiated, as follows: Corrinne Adams, E. J. Stanton & Son; Helen Behringer, U. S. Plywood Corp.; Hazel Davis, Lashley-Decker Lumber Co.; Marguerite Dixon, Allied Veneer & Lumber; Margaret Gladish, Tarter, Webster & Johnson; Lucille Graham, W. E. Cooper Lumber Co.; Edith Grannis, Patten - Blinn Lumber Co.; Irene Jamison, E. J. Stanton & Son; Pat Johnson, W. E. Cooper Lumber Co.; Margaret Knipper, E. J. Stanton & Son; Evelyn R. Paine, Carter Mill & Lumber Co. ; Elinor Robinson, Allied Veneer & Lumber; Zena Shepard,R&SPlywood Co.,Inc.; Evelyn M. Steed, E. J. Stanton & Son; Mable Pemberton Stacer, Ivory Pine of California; Marjorey Taylor, E. J. Stanton & Son.

A Christmas story was read by Sunday Washington, and the evening concluded rvith carol singing.

The next meeting u'ill be'held January 12, at Rodger Young Auditorium, and will be an open meeting, to which rnembers may bring guests.

Feature of the evening will be the shorving of a film by "Butch" Harringer.

A nerv Placement Chairman has been appointed to take care of employment calls, Bertha Latham, Tropical & Western Lumber Co.

Tacoma, Wash., Dec. 10.-In these days of critical power shortage in the Pacific Northwest, Weyerhaeuser Timber Company is a refreshing exception-a rnajor industrial firm that produces more electric Inwer than it consumes.

No, Weyerhaeuser isnt in the power business. In times of power shortage, however, Weyerhaeuser generators step up kilowatt production and the extra electricity is sold to local power companies and public utility districts.

Six Weyerhaeuser plants are interconnected electrically with the Northwest Power pool and are delivering approximately 1,500,(n0 kilowatt hours per week to the pool duri-ng the current shortage, while withdrawing less than 500,0m. This is a rlet gain to the pool of more than a million kilowatt hours a week.

In case you are wondering, a kilowatt hour (KWH) is enough electricity to light a l(XFwatt bulb fof ten hours. The average family home consumes about l0O KWH a w€ek; the modern electrically equipped home as much as five times more. On this basis, Weyerhaeuser is producing sufficient power to operate its own mills and, in addition, supply approximately 10,000 Pacific Northwest homes with electric energf.

The production of power at Weyerhaeuser mills is one result of the firm's determination to us€ as mudr of the forest harvest as possible. In this instance, electrical eoerg1r is creatd from bark, sawdust, and other sawmill leftovers that lpight otherwise be wasted.

The six Weyerhaeuser mills interconnected with the Northwest Power pool are the Everett, Wash., pulp division and V\'eyerhaeuser lumberdivision plants at Snoqualmie, Entnnclaw, Raymond and I-ongview, in Washington, and Springfield, Oregon.

Of these, only the Everett pulp division regularly takcs energy from the pool. On an average week-befoae lx)rer curtailments were ordered by the Defense Electric Power Administration-the Weyerhaeuser pulp mill at Evere-tt was using 334,000 KWH of pool energy.

Other Weyerhaeuser branches add various amounts of energy to the pool. The Snoqualmie Falls branch contributed a net gain to the pool of 179,m KWH d*iog a reced *eek, while the White River branch at Enumclaw was adding about 176,W KWH.

The firm's Willapa Harbor branch at Raymond furnishes the pool 50,000 KWH in an average week, the Longview branch generates 737,ffi KWH more than it consumes 1rr week and the Springfield branch provides the pool with 259,m KWH in a one-week period.

Although outside the Northwest Power pool area, Weyerhaeuser branches at Klarnath Falls and Coos Bay-North Bend, Oregon-are delivering substantid amounts of electricity to local power companies during the curri:nt shortage. The Klamath Falls branch furnished California-Oregon Power Company 143,000 KWH last week for example, while the Coos Bay branch at North.Beqd_y"a" supplying 670,000 KWH to Mountain States Power Company.

Kenneth J. Shipp, California Buiklers Supply Co., Oakland, and Mrs. Shipp, were recent vacationists in Southern California.

Eisenhower Stands On Wood

for economy reasons. Another advantage will be that virtually all the wood involved in this construction can be used again.

The choice of wood indicates that while the incoming Reputs lican Administration is thinking of economy in government, the Inaugural Committee is saving dollars in arranging the inauguration ceremonies.

Wood being used in the inaugural construction includes Ponderosa pine, whi'te fir, hemlock, Southern pine and Douglas fir.

The nation's lumbermen believe this will permit the new president to begin his term in office on a strong, sound platform.

So. California Lumber Searoning Asrociation Will Mcet tan. 9

The next meeting of the Southern California Lumber Seasoning Association will be held on Friday, January 9. The group will meet at the Associated Molding Co.,7125 Anaheim-Telegraph Road, Los Angeles, at 1l:30 a.m. for an inspection of their plant.

Lunch will 6e served at l:00 p.m. at Andary's, 5!)x) Atlantic Blvd.i Maywood, and will be followed b'y a business meeting. George B. Beckman, Precision Kiln Drying Co." Los Angeles, is Association president. All lumbermen are invited to attend.

rtcnds, plctlorns cnd enclogurer lor the iaougurcrtion ol President-elecl Eiserhower Jcnucq'20. Thir ie eaougb lunber to build cpprori.nctcly 125 cvercae-size frqne houeca ltlr. Eisenhower will tqle tbe oqth ol office in the colunned eaclosure being built in front ol the U. S. Ccpitolbuilding. (NctioaclLunberMcaulqcturenAerociction)

Washington, D. C.-Nearly one million board feet of mixeil softwood lumber is being used to build temporary stands, platforms and enclosures for the inauguration of President-elect Eisenhower, the National Lumber Manufacturers Association disclosed today.

Even the platform on which Mr. Eisenhower will take the oath of office, January 20, will be made of lumber.

A maximum of wood and a minimum of steel and other materials will be featured in the inaugural enclosure in front of the Capitol building, in the presidential reviewing stand in front of the White House, and in the press and spectator stands ,at these and other points.

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club Meeting January 16

The Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club will hold,a dinner meeting dt the Rodger Young Auditorium, Los Angeles, on Fridriy evening, January 16. Dinner will be served at 7:@ p.m.

George Clough .and Bob Osgood are arranging for an interesting program which will include a speaker, and a sound. motion picture. There will be a musical entertainment. President Don Bufkin will preside at the meeting.

Make your reservations early by calling Ole May, lll3 Venice Blvd., Los Angeles, telephone DUnkirk 2-7Y2.

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The builder of these projects, Skinker and Garrett of Wash;i.tgton, D. C., said wood was chosen as, the principal material

Dale Goodwin, purchasing agent for E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, was a recent visitor to Portland, Ore.