oFRED C. HOTMES tUl,lBER COMPANYo

Speciolizing in Mixed Shipmenls of Douglos

Fred HOIMES/ C.a:l FORGE/|m BUCKNER P.O. Box 987 Fort Bragg, Cclif.

Produdion & Home Ofice: Bay Areo: Phil cOSStlN-Ooklond o TWX:4r5-89r-98g9

TtltlXt 707-573-8259

Phone: YOrktown 4.4lO58

Phone: KEllog 9-5g26

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Caiifornia Iumber Tiaerchant

Lumber Drying Short Course

A week-long lumber drying short coutse recentll' brought 27 representatives of lumber processors in Cali{olnia, Oregon. Arizontr" an<l \ew llexico to the Univelsitr' of California's Fort'st Products Lalroratory' in Richmond.

The course covered such essentials to Iumber seasoning as 'n'ood structure. mois. ture mo\-emcnt, drying stresses and defects, an<l kiln drying techniques and quality control.

Aim ol thc six-day tourse o{ lectures. demonstrations. and laboratorl- work wa-. to advance the technology of wood seasoning for western wood users.

Attending were Paul ll. Allt.n and l'loyd ilI. Black. Pealey Lumlrer Company. Arcata; Lester E. Andersorr and John, \\/. Davis" Koppers Company. Oroville; Ralph F. Beard. Modoc LumLrer Company. Kltrmath Falls. Oregon; William L. Benjamirr" Simpson Timber Company. Korbel; tlalph Blackner and Bernard Kessler" Summerbell Structures Division, Speedspace Corpc,ration, Santa Rosa; Bert Butler, Sequoia Forest Industries, Dinuba; Lloyd E. Callahan. Arcata Lumber Services, Montague: William NI. Kishpaugh and William Carlson, Hudson Lumber Company, San Leandro; Stanley W. Stephens and Earl B. Chambles,." Southwest Forest Industries. McNary. Arizona.

Nlartin Cline and NIark Foster. Kimberlv Clark Corporation. Anderson; 'Ierr1H. Dempsey" Fluor Products Company, Santa llosa; Ernest f). Giuseponi. California \I"ood Product,.. Santa Rosa; I'-lavel l). (,rulrb. Stolt Lurnlrer Company, Burney; L)avid Sandoval and Wilbert Han-ey. Navajo l'orest Products Industries, Navajo,

New Mexico: Darid lI. Jones, Westeru [)ry Kiln Company. Oakland; David A. l,azz:rrini. Union Lumber Company, l'ort Braggi Chester S. Pugh. Heron Mills. Redding; S. H. Rane.v, Pacific Hardwood (.omprany, Oakland; Ldrvin A. Smith. Californitr Cedar Produ< ts Company. Stockton: and Joseph ll. Spence. Siskiyou Mills.

ATTENDING THE TUMBER drying course were kiln operator, yard foremen, and management representatives concerned with wood seasoning at plants in four states. lt was held at the University of California Forest Products Laboratory. Pictured atel (L-R) the "students" and some faculty members; standing, Dr. Fred E. Dickinson, William M. Kishpaugh, Donald Arganbright, Terry H. Dempsey, Dr. Helmut Resch, Raymond G. Rietz, Chester S. Pugh, William Carlson, Martin Cline, John W. Davis, Bert

Stanley W. Stephens, Mark Foster, Wilbert Harvey, Earl B. Chambless, David Sandoval, Lester E. Anderson, Harvey H. Smith, Dr. Robert A. Cockrell, Lloyd E. Callahan, Floyd M. Black. Kneeling are (L-R): Edwin A. Smith, William A. Dost, Flavel D. Grubb, William L. Benjamin, Joseph R. Spence, Charles Newlon, Ralph F. Beard, Paul R. Allen, S. H. Raney, Ralph Blackner, Bernard Kessler and David A. Lazzarini. Puroose of course was to advance seasoning technology.

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