Lo, G L Lettctrs

Editor

California Lumber Merchant

Dear Sir:

Thank you vefy much for the article on our firm lvhich appealed in one of your r:ecent magazines (November, page 28).

We sincerely appreciate it and and know that it put our company name forward in places where it lr,'as not known.

Very truly yours,

E. Ray Gross

car just as they live. There are no cages. So, one has to staY in the car. You can actuallY see Cheetah kill impala for food, etc. You can feed bananas to wild baboons and their Young. You can ride into areas where wild lions roam. It's fantasticl of water buffalos, elePhants, wart hogs, monkeys, baboons, gazelle, impala and countless others I did not know. A former director of the Berlin Zoo who was with us and is writing a book about animals for his university rvas neally speechless flom the sight.

Holderness Supplies, Inc. Tucson, Arizona

Ed

Max Cook California Lumber Merchant

Dear Max:

A funny thing happened to me on my way to Dallas to attend the N.R.L.D. convention.

I had taken the Novembel issue of the California Lumber Merchant with rne and was enjoying reading it on the plane very much. Hou'ever, it developed that a very charnting passenger occupied the seat next to mine and subsequently I put my copy of the magazine in the pocket in front of the seat while dinner was being served. After dinner, this lovely passenger asked if she might look at the magazine as she was interested in the lumber business.

One thing led to another and natulally I didn't ask for my copy of the California Lumber Merchant back when I got off the plane at Dallas as the lady was thoroughly engrossed in reading it and she was going on to New Orleans. I had the choice of either going on to New Orleans ol being a complete heel and asking for my magazine back. Since neither one of these alternatives seemed appropriate at the time, I deplaned, leaving my copy 'with the lady.

If at all possible, I would like to obtain another copy inasmuch as I did not have an opportunity to read much of this issue. Anything you can do to be of assistance in seculing an additional copy for me would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely yours, Bernard

B. Barber. Jr. Bernie Barber and Associates Fresno, Calif.

Dear Ole:

A few months ago you published a note I sent you on Kenya. In reply to the calls and letters from lumbermen I thougl.rt the best way would be to lvrite again.

Any visitor to Kenya will be enthralled by the world famous Stanley Game Reser"ve within the Nairobi city limits. Wild animals of every kind and description can be seen from your'

For those of us in the lumber industly, the virtuallY untouched Mount KenYa folest of 400 square miles with its cedarlike trees, its African red colored lvoods and white colorecl lvoods ale a lefleshing sight. There is a small English-owned circular ail dried sawmill similar to the small cilcular mills around Nevada City in Califot'nia.

If one gets to Kenya, staY at the Treetops Hotel at Neli. This is the shack built in the rvild Fig Tree on the edge of a salt lick which is wor:ld famous.

Princess Elizabeth rvas there with her husband, Plince PhiIlip, the night King George died. The hotel rvill accommodate 20 people who are taken in and out by a hunter. Reservations must be made up to six months ahead of time. The top floor is a large observation deck from lvhich pictul'es can be taken. They turn on lights to illuminate the salt lick about 4 p.m. evely afternoon. The lights are on all night. Nobody can adequately desclibe the multitude

Neri, Ken-va is a beautiful place vvith streets lined rvith tall tlees resembling our Western red cedals. The Boy Scout founder, Lold Baden - Pot'ell spent his last yeals here. The Italian war prisoners built a chapel for their fallen ait' general, the young Duke of Aosta. during World War II. Nearby is 10,000-foot Aberdere Mountain and its forest from whele the Mau Mau used to launch their deadly attacks, and then retreat, a decade ago.

Kindest Regarcis, Jack Carlow Carlow Co.

Los Angeles

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Olympic PreSloining Mochine

Details of a new and improved machine for pre-staining lumber, plus three new solid color stains, were introduced at the National Association of Home Builders Show in Chicago by the Olympic Stained Products Company of Seattle.

Visitors saw Olympic's full range of stains and allied finishing materials. Included were ooGolden Sand," "Olive Branch,o' and o'Beige Grayi' new colors dictated by current fashion trends.

The new "Olympic Stainer" will make it possible for lumber yards to pre-stain enough lumber in one hour to surface the exterior of an average house, according to Olympic's general sales manager George Oistad.

It flows stain on the wood through a system of rollers and power-driven brushes.

Plywood Stondqrd Vole Upcoming

The Hardwood Plywood Manufacturerso Association, formerly the HPI, at its 1965 spring meeting will again consider and vote on a proposed standard for factory finished plywood.

The new, and much simpler standard proposed for consideration is as follows: The panel shall be evenly covered with finished material applied either