WEN D tI N G. NATHAN COTIIPANY

Wholesalers of West Coost Foresl Producls

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Hoo-Hoo meeting, Dec. 19, and read letters allegedly written by some of the boys to Santa Claus. Another 1925 item reoorts that the Hoo-Hoo Bulletin says Fbrt Worth, Texas, is going to have a Hoo-Hoo club "because of the patriotic efforts of our old friend, Jack Dionne." And the Western Hardwood Lumber Co. won the pennant of the L. A. Lumber Baseball League. And

November Nonform Housing Stqrts Mointqin 1959 in lead Over'58

Nonfarm housing starts totaled 92,300 in November, according to preliminary estimates of the Bureau of the Census, U. S. Department of Commerce. The November 1959 starts for privately and publicly owned units were almost 16/o below November 1958.

The 90,700 privately owned dwelling units were 1l/o below October, a less than normal seasonal decrease. They represented a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,210,000, the Auburn (Calif.) Lumber Co. was building a new warehouse 100-feet long for building materials. And the Ilansen Lumber Co. opened a new yard in Fontana. up 3% from the estimated rate of 1,180,000 for October. When averaged for the first 11 months, the seasonally adiusted annual rate of orivate starts in 1959 amounted to i,343,000, compared wiih the much lower rate of 1,120,000 for the same 1958 period.

Mqrkee Joins Pqul Bunyon

Dick Markee, well-known former Sacramento lumberman and salesmanager of the old Bercut-Richards Lumber Co., has been named assistant salesmanager to A. L. Kerper of the Paul Bunyan Lumber Co.. Susanville, Calif.

FORMER,IY WORTHTESS LODGEPOIE FOR NEW JOHNS. MANVIIIE,

When the West Coast was selected bv Tohns-Manville as the location for its fourth insulating boaid plant, attention was focused on Lodgepole pine as the most likely raw material. In Oregon and Washington there are vast stands of this timber in which few of the trees are large enough to be of sawlog quality. The trees were considered to be weeds which crowded out more desirable species. No important commercial use had ever been found for them.

Thus, if it were possible to use Lodgepole pine for manufacturing insulating board, the supply would be abundant and the economy of the region would be bolstered by exploitation of a natural resource hitherto considered worthless.

The first step was to ship several carloads of Lodgepole pine to Johns-Manville's insulating board plant at Natchez,