The California Lumber Merchant - January 1953

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How Lrumber Lrook,s

Lumber shipments of 485 mills reporting to the \ational Lumber Trade Barometer rvere 3.3 per cent belorv production for the neek ended December 27,1952. In the same u'eek nel'orders of these mills u'ere 11.2 per cent above production. Unfilled orders of the reporting mills amounted to 34 per cent of stocks. For the reporting softrrood mills rrnfilled orders u'ere equivalent to 20 dar-s' production at rl.rc curr€flt rate, and gross stocks \vere ecluir-alent to 56 days' production.

For the year-to-date, shipments of reporting identical mills rvere 3.3 per cent above production; nen- orders \\:ere 1.9 per cent above production.

Compared to the average corresponding u'eek in 19351939, production of reporting mills u'as 73.2 per cent above : shipments u'ere 28.6 per cent above; nerr' orders lvere 3l.l per cent above. Compared to the corresponding rveek in 1951, production of reporting mills rvas 8.7 per cent abor-e; shipments l'ere 1.2 per cent above; and nerv orders s'ere 8.5 per cent belorv.

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ceir-ed as 4(>.23O,000 feet, shiprnents 47.1&3.000 feet. and production 52.586.000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the month totaled -18.995,000 feet.

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The Southern Pine -\ssociation for the rveek ended December 27. lO3 units (126 mills) reporting. gave orders as 10.0-+9,000 feet. shipments 10.785.000 feet, and productiorr 11.361.000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the rveek totaled48,790.000feet.

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for the n'eek ended Dccember 20,97 mills reporting, gave orders as 57.D1,@0 feet, shipments 57,474,000 feet, and production 63.224.000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the u'eek totaled l(r1.533,000feet.

The California Redwood Association for the month of November. 1952, 17 companies reporting. gave orders re-

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Building Prospects for 1953

New construction activity in 1953 is expected to reach a new peak, perhaps rising about $l billion over the $3217$ billion apparent for 1952, according to outlook estimates prepared jointly by the U. S. Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Building Materials Division of the U. S. Department of Commerce. Some expansion is likely in the coming year in both private and public construction.

The outlook for record construction activity in 1953 assumes that business will remain good, buoyed in part by increasing defense expenditures, at.least in the early part of the year. Barring major international developments in 1953. it rvas assumed also that materials rvould be plentiful, that the limited controls in force would not interrupt construction operations, that the labor supply rvould be adequate, and that costs u'ould remain relatively stable.

A peak ol $22.2 billion in 1953 expenditures for new private construction is anticipated, supported by a continuing high level of housing activity anC expansion in public utility plant and commercial building.

About as many private dwelling units are expected to be started as in 1952, when the million-unit mark again exceeded. Fixpenditures for new private housing actually put in place, however, at $10.2 billion, will be somewhat greater than in 1952, because 1953 will begin with a larger number of units already under way, as the unseasonally large numbers of dn'ellings begun this fall are completed. Prediction of an active home-building year is based primarily on the anticipated favorable economic climate and ready availability oi mortgage funds.

The next year is expected to be the tenth in succession of increasjng construction activity by the public utilities. Announced expansion goals suggest unprecedented expenditures of about $47r billion in 1953. Most of the 1l-per cent rise in volume over 1952 will occui in the gas and electric light and po\lrer group, for whieh an extensive backlog of both indu."trial and domestic need exists.

Commercial building activity will probably jump by over a fourth rn 1953, continuing the recovery evident in recent months as a result of improved materials availability and removal of credit controls. On the other hand, private industrial building is expected t:r drop by about the same proportion, from the 1952 record outlay of about $2% billion, as defense plant expansion programs approach completion.

Although 1953 rvill be another active defense year, the anticipated rise in total public expenditures for new construction, from $10.6 to $11.3 billion, is expected to result as much from increasing activity on civilian as on military types of public work. Highway construction will probably reach a new high of $.3 billion in 1953, or nearly l0 per cent above the 1952 level, refiecting the expanding program of federal ard to highway building, and an anticipated large volume of state toll-road construction. Ground has already been broken for the $300 million Ohio Turn-pike project, and work is proceeding rapidly on the $500 million New York State Thruway.

Public school building u'ill continue its post-war expansion into !953 responding to constantly growing classroom needs. Expected expenditures for schools of about $1.8 billion represents a lGper cent increase over the 1952 total, and the largest amount of classroom space ever to be put in place in a single year.

C)n the military side, outlays for military and naval facilities rvil! probably rise around a fifth to about gl.6 billion, as considerable new work gets under way, much of it already under contract, and the extensive current program is completed. A much more moderate rise (3 per cent) will occur in public industrial construction resulting entirely from ad-. ditions to existing atomic energy facilities and commencement of the huge atomc plant near Portsmouth, Ohio. Industrial facilities construction for the Army, Navy, and Air Force, mcstly the rehabilitation of existing orilnxncsrplants, will be substantially completed during 1953.

Public residential building will drop f.rom 1952level, reflecting the tightened statutory limitation on the start of new federally subsidized housing units. Virtual completion of the Veterans Administration program of hospital construction and reduced funds for the program of Federal aid to State and local hospitals will cause a substaptial decline in the rate of publicity aided hospital building.

Old Stoclcton Mansion Bcing Demoli*cd '

Gus Russell sends in a nervspaper clipping of considerable home interest. It concerns the historic Gray mansion in Stockton, California, which is now being demolished. The Gray family built and began occupying the beautiful home in 1872, and since that tirne none but members of that family have lived ther6. The first Gray was George Gray, an early day Stockton lumberman. The last was Mrs. Abbie Gray Garrvood rvho died recently. The magnificent Victorian parlor, a museum piece in itself, is picturid in the nervspaper clipping

In tearing dou'n the big mansion it is reported that the u'orkmen discovered not a single knot in any of the various n'oods used. It rvas one of the finest homes ever built in California. It rvas demolished to make room for a modern medical center.

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ended December n, 2W mills reporting, gave orders as 135,659,000 feet, shipments II2,227,000 feet, and pgoduction 128,783,000 feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the rveek totaled 485,560,00O feet.

' For the u'eek ended December 27, these same mills reported orders as 75,U4,W feet, shipments 71,175,(X)0 feet, and production 8OJ15,000 feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the week totaled 4XJ,29,W feet-

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Someone asked a well known New York wit why he drank liquor during the holidays, and he replied: "It makes other people seem so much more interesting."

He may have a thought ther'e. It is said that the right condition of alcoholism makes dim-wits seem like brightwits, and snub-nosed milkmaids*look like cover girls.

"Mike" Quinn, an old friend of ours, is an Episcopal Bishop with a keen sense of humor. He likes to hand out little reminders like: "Drive carefully; the man you hit might be an Epis"oP"t-i' * *

After- reading one of Vishinsky's bloody diatribes before the United Nations, someone was heard to remark: "Any man who has Vishinsky for a friend---doesn't need any enemies.t' * * *

"The Kablegram," a bright little advertising magazine, offers a fine bit of philosophy. It tells about a big league baseball pitcher who pitched a no-hit game, yet struck out only one man, and suggests: "I{e needed eight other men to help him, and demonstrates again that the big potatoes are on the top of the heap because a lot of little potatoes are in there holding him up."

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The story went the rounds during the football season concerning three star players, on three di,fferent teams, who funked their studies and were dropped from competition. They met and talked it over. Said one: "That trig was what threw me." Said the second: "I couldn't handle that calculus." Said the boy from Notre Dame: "Either of you guys ever hear of long division?"

The gag has been goirrj.*rl ,1""u" for some time about the two drunks walt<ing down the railroad track. Said one: "These are the longest stairs I ever saw." The second said: "Yah, but what gets me "r;-,1"": low handrails."

Which brings up th.e one about the last lecture of the semester and the professor said: "Study hard if you want to pass. The examination papers are already in the hands of the printer." And then he added: "Are there any questions?" And a voice from the rear asked: "Who's the printer?"

The busy business -"rr."i"rl comes in fgr a drubbing, as in the following: Busy Business Man: "'Where is my pencil ?" Secretary: "Behind your ear." Busy Business Man : "Come, come young lady, I'm a busy man. Which ear?"

And hcre is one that will bring a touch of sadncss: The old man boasted ttat he must bc getting strongcr in hiE old age; he can carry twenty dollars worth of goceriEs today much easier than he could carry five dollan worth when he was young. :3 :; *

The heat of the Presidential campaign brought to mind many times the old story of the Irish nationalist speaker, who said: "My friendq it is my pride that in dl my years of sacrifice to tte cause of lrcland, I have ncver said one unkind or untrue word against anyooc, not even against Tories and Orangemerl lying, thieving bigots and reactionary scoundrels

The practical joker in the high-toned eating p; ""-- plained lbudly to the waiter that hc could not cat the soup that was set in front of him. The w'aiter brought thi head waiter, and he brought the managcr, and to cach the customer made the same loud complaint that he couldnt eat the soup. "\f,Ihat's wrong with the soup?" askd the manager. "Dlothing," gnnnd the joter, "only I havont got a sPoon'" -. * * *

The philosophy that opportunity should bc tahen advantage of the minute it appears, is well illustratcd by thc story of a young man who was an invcstigator for a large insurance concern. He was sent to ftrd a young w@an who had come, unknown to herself, into a large eetate. He accepted the assignment and was not sccn again for weeks. When he finally returned, the lady was with hirn. He bad marriedher' * * 'r

Is this the atom age, as has been so often said, or is it in fact the chlorophyll age? Onc of the mcdicd journals tells of a doctor who mixed aspirin with e,hloro,phyll, for stinking headaches. * :r *

Then there was ttre wo'naq who was told by her husband's doctor to give him as mucb of a sleeping 1rcwdcr as she could get on a nickel. She didn't have a nickel, so she used five pennies. He slept five days. **:l

Tom Dreier tells of a boy who could bc wonderfully good, arrd yet be dangerous. He said that Danicl Bliss, of the class of 1E52 at Amherst, in his youtt proftssed no particular religion, yet was acknowledgcd to be the bcst boy in town. A pious brother said to him: "Darq you are the most dangerous boy in town- You neither lie, drin\ swear, nor quarrel, and people say 'Dan Bliss is not a Christian, yet what a good boy he is."'

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It was Voltaire who said: "He who serves his country well, has no need for ancestors."

Intolerance is generally either blind, ignorant, or both. The newspapers carried a story about a minister of the gospel who publicly burned a copy of the new and well advertised Bible, because it does not mention the virgin birth. Wonder if he tore out of his own Bible the mighty books writtgn by St. Mark and St. John, and St. Paul? They don't mention it either. You sometimes wonder whether or not the most fanatic religionists ever read the Good Book.

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"If I had a million," \prote George W. Olinger, "I would quietly search for those elderly women, most of them mothers, who through no fault of their own are obliged in their sunset years to go out to work, washing, scrubbing, dusting the offices and homes of others. These heroic souls who must earn their way to the end of the trail, whose grey hair is the symbol of America's best womanhood, desire only the peace and contentment of a home, and freedirm from worry, work, and fear. Build, if you will, your great monuments and memorials, give your bonuses to the returned soldiers who are still able to work; but surely no individual, citn or state could do better than to provide generously for those who havg given so much to so many and who ask so little in return."

Before the next i".,r. lr L** ro,.rrr"l rolls around, wr will have a new President of ttre United States. We have great hopes for him, chiefly because of the high personal

quallfications hc has demonstrated gince Novembcr 4th. He has been kindly, he has been consideratc, b has shown simple courtesy wherever poasiblc, and given qecrlz lran who desenred one a kindly hearing. He bar endearcd himself much more to tte American pcoplc:incc clection, trnan he had before. When gratuitour insultr were shoutcd at him by the oh so fittle inan is tbc \f,Ihite Houle, he has never shown a sign of hurt, or pique; he has nevcr anrptred. ft is no small thing to Lnow that we have a Lindln courtcous gentleman presiding over tte deetiDics of +hir gr,eat nationThcre could be no 6ner foundation for the sucecrs of hig administration. ff there is a grain of pcttishncs in hiE make-up, it has failed to appcar, afthough thcrc har becn much provocation.

Bill Henry, skiUull andyst for thc Los Angetc Timca, says: "So what we havc now-at least m thc suifecc-ig a real leader who makes swift dccisionc plu a hanoonious Congressional group, and a busincadike hard core of professional executives of Cabinet rank dl ready to tale over and function with trminimurn of fuss and confurion- Now, :rnyone in his right r.i"d knows tbat it tates nore than this for a successful adrninistration, but it loob lihe a mighty businesslike operation at this point an4 ofthand, f'd say that's about wbat the folks who votcd for Ikc had expected of him."

Yes, Sir, he's made a finc start. He wm oycr aa diftcult an individual as MacArthur by sinply giving hin a pr@pt hearing when he announced hc had somcthing to ray. ft's easier than ever before to accliaim-*I LIKE fKE."

Hammond Announces Huge Redwood Reforestation Program

A quarter-million dollar program designed to bring 51,000 acres of cut-over or heavily burned land in California's redwood region up to Tree Farnr standards was announced recently by the Hammond Lumber Company.

"We consider this program part and parcel of the company's policy to operate its lands on a sustaining yield basis," Waldron Hyatt, general manager of the firm's redwood division stated.

Plans call for installation and maintenance of I protection system for about 48,000 acres cf cut-over land located in the Little River and Maple Creek basins. About 3,000 acres of land, heavily burned in 1945, will be replanted. The Hammond Lumber Company already operates two Tree Farms totalling 21,221 acres.

"'We believe our present logging is up to Tree Farm standards," Mr. Hyatt said. "Now we want to bring the protection system on our early logged lands up to the same high standards maintained on operating areas."

Hammond's forestry staff has completed mapping the project and expects to have the protection system completed by 1957. A road system now underway will make any point in a high hazard area withip 1,000 feet of a road. The completed project will contain 178 miles of roads and fire trails. Nearly 70 miles of the rcad system has been completed.

Twelve and one-half miles of snag-free fire breaks will

be made along key ridges. Three lookout points, an aerial patrol during fire weather, 6re fighting equipmenland radio communication are part of the protection system.

Hammond's re-planting operations will be the first extensive job of its kind in the redwood region in nearly 30 years.

During the next five years thc company expects to seed 2,145 acres with redrvood and Douglas fir. About 785 acres will be planted with two-year-old trees.

E. T. F. Wohlenberg, president of the Redwood Region Conservation Council, hails the Hammond Lumber Company program as a "great forward step in the direction of sustained yield forest management." The American Tree Farm System coordinated nationally by American Forest Products Industries is underway in 35 states. In the redwood region Tree Farms are sponsored by The California Redwood Association.

Visit Big Lcgoon O,perction

A group of German public relations men rvith Fred Landenberger of the California Redwood Association, and under the sponsorship of the United States State Department, recently visited the Big I-agoon operation of the Union Lumber Company. Thev were particularly impressed rvith tree farming methods of the company, its heavy trucking of logs and mechanical equipment and skill.

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\(/eyerhaeuser Will Plant Three Million Douglas Fir Seedlings Thig Winter

Vail, Wash., Dec. 24-Weyerhaeuser Timber company announced today that it expects tri plant approximately three million Douglas fir seedlings on its tree farms this v;inter, with a third of them going to the company's Vail-.lIc Dorrald operation.

Supervising the planting of approximately 1,000,000 one and two-year old trees on the Vail and l{cDonald tree farms is James W. Church, Weyerhaeuser branch forester. The million seedlings rvill be split evenly between the trvo tre.: farms, according to Church.

and held that post, except for a three and one-half year wartime hitch in the air force, until transferred to VailMcDonald.

Church, rvho normally has 25 to 30 men including five graduate foresters in his Vail-McDonald forestr5r crews, will supervise planting crews of approximately l5O men, mainly teen-agers, during the late-fall and early-spring planting seasons.

"The Vail-NIcDonald area is ideal for forest growth," says Church. "Natural regeneration of fir stands is.excellent in most instances. However, planting is necessary in some areas that have failed to reseed naturally. A total ol 9,7N acres have been planted on the Vail-McDonald tree farms to datc."

A tall, bespectacled fellorv, Church puts hundreds of miles each month on a radio-equipped Weyerhaeuser pick-pp truck patroling the Vail and McDonald tree farms. Ranging from eastern Pierce county to western I-ewis county, Church keeps in constant touch with all areas of the VailMcDonald operation through his two-way radio.

Born and raised in Seattle, hc is married, the father of a eration, replacing Vincent Bousquet as branch forester in daughter, 5, and a member of the Puget Sound chapter, September of this year when Bousquet was transferred to' Society of American Foresters. He resides in Centralia. the firm's Klamath Falls, Ore., branch.

Church, 36, is relatively new to thc Vail-McDonald op-

No stranger to forestry or the Weyerhaeuser Timber company, 'Church joined the firm in I94O, following his graduation from the University of Washington college of forestry. After 18 month,s as tinrekeeper at Weyerhaeuser's Snoqualmie Falls branch, he rvas named branch forester

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Not OffOf His Hcad

Some forty years ago when Miss Annie Oakley was the world's most famous rifle shot, her name well known to everyone from coast to coast, she was touring tlre country giving exhibitions of marksmanship.

One afternoon when she was showing in New Orleans, the property man found before the show started that one of their stage helpers was missing, so he went out on the street looking for a substitute. Right back of the theatre he saw a tall, lazy-looking colored brother leaning against a railing and sunning himself. He said to the man:

Logging Officers for Next Year

At the annual convention of the Pacific Logging Congress held in San Francisco in November, the following officers v,'ere elected for the ensuing year, and to preside at the 1953 meeting to be held in Seattle: President, Clyde Corman, Weyerhaeuser Timber Co , Longview, Wash.; vice-presicient, Roy A. Gould, Diamond Lumber Co., Portland, Ore. ;treasurer, Robert F. Dwyer, Dwyer Lumber Co., Portland, Ore.; secretary, Carwin A. Woolley, Portland,Ore.

Closing the meeting Col. W. B. Greeley told-the loggers that while great strides forward have been made, "Western loggers arrd Western forestry are still handicapped by many practices and conceptions that became fixed during the days when forcst products were excessively cheap and competitive." l{e predicted that the value of wood and the diversity of its uses will soon put forest inventories and measurements into cubic feet or r,cales based on cubic contents of rarv materials. He predicted increased ingenuity for devising equipment and methods for moving out of the woods low value materials at a profit.

"Boy, how would you like to male two dollars in just about five minutes time?"

"Yassuh, yassuh," replied the dusky one. 'I sho do wants to. Whuts f'm goin't'do to make dis two bucks so quick?"

Said the property Ean: "Miss Annie Oatley is going to shoot an apple ofr your head with a rif,c during the afternoon pctformance."

Instinctively tte otter began cdging backrar4 his eyes fixed on the face of tle prop nu'l. He said:

"Miss Annie who . . is goin' t'sboot what . . . offa WHOSE haid . . . ?" and hc vanished around the corncr.

Holdr Annual Mccting at Mcnphir

Thomas C. Matthews, sales manager of the M. B. Farrin Lumber Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, was elected president of the National Oak Flooring Manufacturers Association at its annual meeting in December in Memphis, Tenn. For the past three years he has served as vice president and a director in the administration of the retiring president, Milton Craft, president of Chapman and Dewey Lumber Co., Memphis. '

Sam Nickey, Jr., Nickey Brothers, Inc-, Memphis, was elected vice president, and Henry I{. Willins, Memphis, was re-elected to the secretary-treasurer post which he has held for ten years.

"The 1953 outlook points to auother year of high volume oak flooring sales," according to Mr. Willins. A special feature of the meeting was the presentation of a full-color motion picture showing the effects of oak wilt and the methods developed by plant pathologists to combat it. The film was narrated by Dr. A. J. Riker of the University of Wisconsin, chairman of the advisory committee of the National Oak Wilt Research Committee.

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This fs A Growing Country

Bv H. V. Simpson" Executive Vice President \flest Coast Lumbermeq's Association

One sure index of prosperity in the United States is a high volume of activity in the light construction industry. Historically. we have always had "good times" when the nation was building homes, schools, churches and commercial structu4es in great numbers. Bad times inevitably follow a slump in construction activity.

Douglas fir producers in 1952 have had one of their biggest volume years in history. Mills in this reglon will produce some 10,200,000,000 board feet, just slightly below the record highs of last year.

Next year ? There is no evidence that we have satisfied the persistent demand of a booming, growing, expanding nation for new homes. Every fact point5 to a need for vast numbers of new school rooms to accommodate the "war baby" crop. Expansion of our industrial facilities to keep pace with new products, new markets and an increasing standard of living is by no means ended. Commercial construction may be expected' to increase as the development of suburban centers continues.

The same factors which produced a record year for us in 1952 here in the Douglas fir region appear destined to carry on through 1953.

It looks to us like another 1,000,000 new homes in 1953. School construction must be stepped up to care for the millions of new school children. Commercial and industrial requirements are still behind the nation's needs. Public works projects already approved are immense.

The great farm market, always a vital consideration in the country's prosperity, will continue to offer important merchandising opportunities. Farmers are in good shape financially and will continue the modernization of their farmsteads and homes.

It has been evident to all of us that political considerations have strongly influenced economic circumstances since World War II. Controls were used to retard housing at the outbreak of the Korean War. The pattern has been clear since then. When housing lagged, credits were relaxed. Congress recognized the basic premise that an active, vigorous light construction industry is the key to national prosperity. In the last session Congress ordered the Federal Reserve Bank to withdraw credit restrictions oh housing when new starts fell below the rate of 1,200,000 annually.

' We can expect continuing controls in varying degree in our economy. Whenever the government thinks the economy needs support, the light construction industry will be given a shot in the arm, by one means or another. Because the lumber industry

is a pa.rt of the light construction industry and so much of our well-being is tied in with that industry, it is obvious that we will be affected by any support that may be developed for it.

Despite the millions of new homes built in ttre United States since World War II, no estimates that we have seen indicate that the housing shortage is completely eliminated. A Natioml Association of Home Builders now forecasts the nation will be building 2,Un,(X)0 homes a yer;r by 1970. Since the war, estimators viewing the future have in every instance underestimated the housing demand. There is no reason to believe that they are more accurate now than they have been in recent years. Estimates that housing will drop below 1,0(X),(X)0 in 1953 are unduly pessimistic.

Ilere's a word for lumber retailers all over America who have asked about the available supply of lumber. Lumber is in plentiful supply, and always will be. There is enough timber in the Douglas fir region alone to rebuild every home in America. More important, we are growing billions of feet of new timber every year here in the west. We are doing something about the business of growing and managing our forrests for perpetual crops of trees.

Cur industry has energetically participated in developing the great Tree Farm program, which has spread from the west to the south and east. We invented the Keep America Green Program, which has reduced the number of man-caused forest fires, and this program, too, has spread througtrout ttrc nation.

Here in the West we have made tremendous strides in better utilization of our forests. We are able to use at least twentyfive percent more wood from each acre, hicause riye have markets for this type of wmd today.

Today, we re-log many thousands of acres. This means ttat small crews of loggers follow after big cnews, and salvage small logs, short pieces and margind logs which still have sound wood. These logs are used by sawmills, plywmd plants, hardboard plants and pulp mills. We also pre-log forcst land in some areas in advance of main logging taking out smdl logs which might be damaged when the big ones are felled.

We are spending millions of doll,ars in research to produce better lumber, and to develop more products from wood.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association has just voted to continue its highly successful national advertisine Droerani. We will distribute more than 2,(X)0,(X)0 pieces of lumber pro' motion literature this year, most of it highly-effective full-color booklets developed to help sell lumber.

Retail lumbermen get headline billing in all our advertising and literature. We have worked up much new material and selling aids for retail lumbermen for 1953. This includes free newspaper advertising mats, new full-color selling literature, new motion pictures suitable either for television or private showings, and other merchandising helps.

Douglas fir, West Coast hemlock, Western red cedar and Sitka spruce--<ur four fine woods--<njoy an alldme high in acceptance by the American lumber buyer. We are proud of our lumber products, their uniform high quality and fine manufacture. Yes, we're still on the high road.

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"We are Growing Trees"

This general fact has had freguent mention in these columns during the past ybar, but at New Year's time it seems particularly pertinent. The entirt ltrmber manufacturing industry of the United States has in the past twelve months, gone into the business of growing trees at an acctlerated rate. And spends a lot of time and space bragging about it.

The advertising columns of the lumber journals, particularly in the South and West, keep druamirig into the eyes of their readers the fact that plans ftir future forests and thus a future lumber supply, are foremost in their thoughts and in their actions.

Honest-isn't that remarkable? Isn't it wonderful?

For instance, here are two short paragraphs, one from an advertisement of Southern Pine and the other from one of Fir, the first from THE GULF COAST LUMBERMAN and the other from THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT, that are fair examples of the kind of publicity scores of manufacturing concerns are handing out to the trade:

(The Southern Pine ad says:) "Our sawmills are fed from

CPR 181---Stock Millworlt

New ceiling prices were announced today by OPS on direct mill sales of stock millwork and stock millwork specialties.

They are set forth in Ceiling Price Regulation 181, efiective December 9,1952.

Dollars-and-cents ceiling prices are fixed for a wide range of standard stock millwork items. Except for screen doors these ceilings are about 3 per cent higher than the average of individual ceilings established under the General Ceiling Price Regulation (GCPR), which froze prices on January 26,1951. Ceilings on screen doors are about 4f per cent higher.

On stock millwork specialties and hollow core flush doors veneered in all woods except Douglas fir each seller is authorized to determine his own individual ceilings by increasing his GCPR ceiling by 3 per cent.

The action was iaken to provide the industry with equitable, uniform and identifiable ceiling prices and a regulation tailored to conform to the customary pricing practices of the industry.

The increases were granted in conformity with the OPS industry earnings standard. The standard, fulfilling the requirement of the Defense Production Act that ceilings be fair and equitable, provides that if an industry's earnings fall below 85 per cent of its earirings, based on net worth, during the best three out of the four years from 1946 to 1949, it may obtain higher ceilings sufficient to bring its earnings up to that level.

Available data, though not collected for the purposes of applying the standard, nevertheless indicated earnings'during 1951 were below 85 per cent of earnings from 1947 to 1949. OPS stated a new survey based on the earnings standard will be made to determine whether further adjustments are.required.

The regulation covers millwork made in whole or in part

a well-managcd forest which promircs a never-failing f,ow of logs from timberlands'whosc production will bc as unending as the flow of water in the river . .'Forwet' ir a long time, but ttat is the rneasure wG usc ."

(The Fir ad says:) '"Thc idea of a foreet that can be loggcd . . forever. . would ha?c sounded strange to tbc lumbermen of a generation ago . . But . . wehave begun dcwlopment of such a forest. For our custoncrs, a pcnna: nent forest merns a trcrnanent milt and a pcrnsncot aouace of quality lumber."

And ttus it goes, dozens and dozens of conccrns advertising notting whatener about their product but driving home by word and picture tte fact tbat they will dways havc forests, and always have lumbcr to cut and rcll To call tbat a healthy situation for the lumbcr ind$txy and for thc building world, is stating it nildty.

1952 saw grcater progress dong tbat line than any prwious year. Tree farms have not added, but multiplicd And a tree farm ic simply a farm where commetcid trG6 arc skillfully and scientifica[y grown.

of Ponderosa, Idaho, Sugar, Northern and Northeastern pine, and, when indicated below, of certain other species.

Dollars-and-cents ceilings are fixed on the following:

Open u'indows and sash, lineal sash stock, glazed windows and sash, panel doors, garage doors, window and door frame stock, window and door frames including frames of Douglas fir, wired window and sash screen, outside blinds and shutters, solid core;flush veneered doors having cores of any softwood, and screen doors.

Millwork on which manufacturers' GCPR ceilings may be increased 3 per cent includes, but is not limited to, the following:

Hollon' core flush doors veneered in all woods except Douglas fir, ornamental entrance frames, complete casement sash and window units including frames, louwe frames, complete gable frame and sash units, combination storm and screen units, door and frame units, stair work, hardwood panel and sash doors, overhead garage doors without hardware, porch work, knockdown or set-up lock-joint or mitred trim, mantels, china and corner closets, breakfast nooks, linen cabinets, ironing boards, telephone and medicine cabinets, sectional kitchen units in the white, disappearing stairrvays, softwood mouldings when they are part of lock-joint or mitred trim, and other stock millwork specialties.

The regulation does not cover other moulding, millwork manufactured according td architects' details, millwork made of Southern yellow pine, or Douglas fir or Western hemlock doors.

For most of the standard stock millwork items for which dollars-and-cents ceilings are fixed, the ceiling prices are specified as plus or minus percentage adjustments to be applied to standard lists of designs and prices commonly used in the industry. Ceilings are spelled out directly in dollars-and-cents for Ponderosa pine scfeen doors, garage doors, and blinds and shutters.

In a so-called "buyers market," every retailer can strengthcn his position b1' fcaturing ccrtain extravalue products. That's *'hcre H-E quality Rcdu'ood offers yriu definite advantagcs. As every lr.rr.r.rber man knou's, Nature endowed Rcdu'ood u'ith rcmarkable properties-thc kind that count heavili' u'ith l,our custoir.rers toclal'. For exan-rple, H-E qualitl' Redu'ood keeps labor costs lou'bccausc it handles and uorks so q'ell. Repeated tests have proved its exccllcnce in shapir.rg, cntting, fitting, gluing; also thc u'ay it takes any paint or linish over its natural sun tan color. To be sure <rf clrr Reds'ood, t>rder H-E Cerli{icd Kilu Dried,

nolith Waterproof is orrr choice

Enthusiastic users everywhere are praising the new and improved Monolith Waterprool Plastic Cement. It is the result of years of costly research and effort. Competitive tests prove that it out-performs them all under the most exacting conditions.

Irook at these plus values ! Greater workability, both as stucco and concrete. Virtually perlect waterproo{ness resulting from exceptional density. No additives necessary. Cqsts little more than standard Portland Cement'

'52 \(/as Homebuilders Second Biggest Year

By Frank \il. Cortright, Executive Vice President National Association o[ Home Builders

NEW I'ilNS NSIJRED BY Ei-1 l!t{6-52

The home brrilding industry tn 1952 overcame high costs. excessive Government reguletions and an acute shortage of mortgage capital to roll up the second biggest production record in its history.

For the fourth straight year, construction of nerv housing ran above 1,00C,000 units, an achievement made all the more remarkable by the fact that use of materials s'as restricted through the first iralf of the year and that the Federal Reserve Board's Regulation X curbs on home credit were not suspended until mid-September.

The 1952 record spotlights the tremendous progress the industry has made since the close of \\rorld \\rar II tos'ard its goal of decent housing for all the American people. In the past six years, it has provided ner,r' housing for 7,000,000 families, r'l'ith :r resultant rise in the living standards of millions of others rvho were enabled to "move up" into quarters vacated by the new home buyers.

That six-year production feiLt rvas a major factor in averting the post-war business collapse predicted by many rvell known economists, including some in the Kremlin. The home building industry has played the same part in maintaining American prosperity a.fter World \\rar II, as did the automobile industry at the close of \\rorld \\'ar I.

When \\rorld War II ended. the United States faced an unprecedented housing shortage brought on by 16 years of depression anc[ rvar. I\{illion; of returning veterans rvere forming families and searching for homes of their ou.n, adding to the pressure for more housing.

American builders accepted that challenge. They l.ent into mass production in 1946 and turned out more than 670,000 nelr'' homes. They increased that volume in each subsequent year until they hit a record peak of 1,396,000 housing units in 1950, .lvhen Communist aggression in Korea again forced the nation to divert part of its resources to rearmament.

Although handcuffed Ly restrictions on housing materials. manpower and credit, the indu.;try combined practical ingenuity with scientific research in the difficult months after Korea to carry on its job of providing more and better housing for the American people. In 1951, almost 1,100,000 dwelling units lvere started, and this year's production ran slightly ahead of that rate.

The need for improverl materials and building techniques u'as emphasized as never before by the stringencies of that mobilization pe:iod. To meet lhat need, the NAHB expanded its techni,:al services to the industry last October rvith the creation of a "Home Builder's Research Institute." The Institute, bi. conducting practical field tests of its orvn, and coordinating the scattered rcsearch under rvay in universitv and industrial laboratorie:,, promises to give tremendous impetus to the deselopmenr of modern, mid-Z)th century housing b_v operative builders.

Rising costs s:ill are a major obstacle to the building industrv's eftort; to give the home bu1'er more housing for his monev Construction costs are at a record high level. more than half again as high as in 1946. and the trend is still ups'ard. although the ratc of climb has slorved sub.stantially in the p.est 12 months

The cost of building materials remained practicallv stationary throughout 1952. but construction $ages continued upn'ard, and thcre is nc clear-cut indication that the end is in sight. As measureC by the Boeckh index, the average cost of frame house construction for the country as a rvhole reached 251.5 per cent of the 1926-?9 average at the beginning of October, compared s'ith a l95l ar.erage of. 243.3 per cent.

The Boeckh index for frame construction costs stood at 161.8 in 1946. and climbed progressively, rvith one small interruption in !948, to its present peak.

Those cost increases h:.r'e beer: almost exactly duplicated in brick house construction, rvhere the Boeckh index rvorked dorvn from a 1916 level of 161.9 per cent to a high of 244.9 in October, 1952 based on a 19%-D index.

The inflationary pressures that have ballooned construction costs also have hit the monev market. making it increasinglv difficrrlt for home bul'ers to obtain adequate financing. Today. the scarcity of mortgage mone'v. particularly for GI housing, is the principal limiting factor in the home market, a r-ondition over'rvhich home builders have no control.

\\'hile conditions are not identical all over the countrv, most areas report great Cifficulty in obtaining private capital for investment in 4 per cent mortgages guaranteed by the (Continued on Page Z2')

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Veterans's Administration. There is considerable pressure for an increa.se in that rate to a level more realistic in terms of the general money market, and a nell' Administration may now change the rate.

As a result, VA guaranteed hans in 195? measured far below 1951 in numbers and dollar volume. The agency closed an estimated 306,(n0 home loans totaling an estimated $2,700,000,000 in the twelve-month period, contrasting with 447,373 ioans totalinS $3.614,479,644 |or all of 1951.

While the money squeeze hurt the GI home market in 1952, FHA activity ran slightly ahead of 1951, with an estimated 275,M units started under FHA inspection in 1952. On a quarterly average basis, that was about 7 per cent more than in 1951, when FHA :,tarts totaled 263,523 units for the full year.

FHA activity this year has been little more than half as great as in 1950, the oost-war building peak, when 485,932 units were started under FHA inspection. FHA starts accounted for 36O,D3 units in 1949, for Dl,O53 in 1948, for 28,818 in 1947 and 69,033 in 1946.

Defense housing rvas handicapped for a good part of 1952 by the Government's unwillingness to recognize that in some high cost areas it was impossible to build good homes under the arbitrary $8,100 mortgage limit. It was not until late in the year and after vigorous effort by NAHB, that FHA agreed to raise that limit in high cost areas. The program is norv beginning to roll in bigh gear By mid-October, 9,1,531 units of defense housing had been programmed for 194 critical areas, of which almost 36,m0 had been started and about 18,000 completed.

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Sisalkraft Adds Two Plantr

The Sisalkraft Co.. now in its 25th year of business, announces the addition of two plants rvhich rvill help meet the increasing needs of industrial, construction, and agricultural users of reinforced rvaterproof paper.

A nerv plant has recently gone into operation at Cary, Illinois, about 40 miles north of Chicago. Its complete rvarehousing facilities are helping to speed deliverv of all Sisalkraft products in the immediate }fidtvestern area.

Construction has begun on a new mill at Tracy, California, which, rvhen completed and in operation, will service most requirements on the West Coast. Stocks of all Sisalkraft products will also be s'arehoused at Tracy.

This production expansion will supplement the main manufacturing plant located at Attleboro, 1\{assachusetts.

New Westetn Pine Membership Diredory Published

A nerv Directory of Membership, dated Jan. l, 1953, has been published by the Western Pine association.

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I i The Blue Diamond Plaster Lath production line is equioDod XlcllltlEs I i with high speed automatic machinery of latest desigo- -I: and is synchtooized from begioning to eod. i ws:mal:{,:3ffiI

FX The 6oest materials and machinery are oo better than the oco $:j who use them. Under standards sdt for them by men wi6 rfl ['l over a quanter century of cootinuous experieoce ns ${ manufacnrriog Blue Diamond productg skilled workers, &l aided by laboratory cootrol methods, guard this long production line aga.inst imperfection

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Listing the production by species, staple products handled and factory products and specialties of 3l I member companies, the directory contains 20 8fuxll" pages punched for insertion in threering binders. Listed by the 3ll companies are 3-16 mills.

The nerv directory is printed on white paper, in contrast to the yellow stock of previous years. It gives dry kiln facilities and sales office addresses of all member;.

Up to l0 copies are available n'ithout charge from \\restern Pine association. Yeon Building, Portland 4, Oregon.

Endora deloge of Cords Lumber Company, San Francisco, rvas a recent visitor in Pasadena. visiting her family during the holidays.

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don'l get cought flot-footed. The building industry hos leorned over lhe posi 30 yeors lhot this is the most odequolely stocked spot in lown. We don't pussy-foot with quolity either. It's either the best . or we don'l corry il. And when it comes to billing. We've leorned thot the besl costs less in the long run. So when new products hit the industry, you'll find the best of the newesl find their woy here. The compony is good here: only the finest in hordwood ond soflwood plywoods. And olong with them we cqrry Simpson Insuloting boord products; Tile, Mosonite Brond Producls; ond Formico. SERVICE plus QUAHTY plus ADEQUATE STOCK thot's lifornia l0Veneer 6m

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F.rom top to bottom - throughout the TW&J organizationour people live by our policy of over 40 years standing - pron'r.pt, courteouso efficient seruice.

Ten large saw mills, augmented by an extensive wholesale distributing organization. You are assured a dependable supply of West Coast lumber and lumber products in a wide choice of sizes and grades.

White Fir, Douglas Fir, Incense Cedar, Sugar Pine, Ponderosa Pine; also Pine doors, K.D. sash, Pine and Fir mouldings, Pine plywood.

9tt SOUTH ALAMaD o ltlNlTY 005? LOI t{GaLat

Appointed Vice President In Charge o[ Salct

"In 1923, Sherman Bishop of the third generation entered the services of Union I.umber Company. He first u'orked for the company at Fort Bragg, s'here he became innoculated in the primarl' manufacture of Redwood by s'ork in the mills. Then he joined the sates force at San Francisco. His next move was to Chicago rvhere he handled llids'estern sales for the company. In 1938 he became district manager for Congoleum Nairn, manufacturers of floor covering. In 1942 he assumed the post of merchandising manager for Croslev Corporation, manufacturers of radios and refrigerators. In 1948, he joined the staft of the California Redrvood Association as executive vice president and general manager.

"l\{r. Bishop has done a splendid job in his f6rmer capacity, as general manager of the California Redrvood Association. Its program of sales promotion, research, public relations and conservation rvith emphasis on the certifying of tree farms in the Redrvood region has been under his able direction.

"This Association program has been so rvell developed that his successor s'ill find a sound-going organization under. his charge."

The appointment of Sherman A. Bishop as vice president in charge of sales was announced today by President Otis R. Johnson of Union Lumber Company. In accepting a vice presidency of Union Lumber Company I\Ir. Bishop retires from his position as executive vice president and general manager of the California Redrvood Association rvhich he has held for the past four years. He replaces William R. Morris, u'hc has resigned from the company after many years of service and who has held this position for the past five years. l\[r. I\forris has not announced his plans for the future.

In announcing the appointment President Johnson said, "We are very happy to make this announcement about I\[r. Bishop, rvho returns to a comDany rvith tvhich he rvas formerly associated for many years, and rvho is intimately acquainted u'ith both our operating and sales problems.

"FIe comes from a pioneer lledrvood family, his grandfather having been associated rvith one of the earliest operations in California, Dolbeer & Carson in Humboldt County. His father, Sherman A. Bishop, Sr., carried on the family tradition in Mendocino County.

"Sherman -A,. Bishop is also executive lice president of the Redrvood Region Conservation Council and rvill remain as a director at large for this rapidly grorving forest conservation organization."

San Francisco Hoo-Hoo Club

Christmar Party

The Christmas party of San Francisco Hoo-Hoo Club No. 9 rvas one of the ouistanding social events of the year. Some 200 guests Nere present including members of the Club and their rvives. The fifty children, boys and girls from the Harold Meyer'.; San Francisco Boys' Home had the time of their lives. Joe Pepetone as Santa Claus gave each one a present, and the trained dogs rvith their clever antics entertained and pleased them mightily.

Bovard Shibley's hard rvork as chairman resulted in a highly successful event. He rvas assisted by Ralph Mannion, Ernie Bacon, Jack Kaefer, Hac Collins, Bob Strable, Fred Ziese, Jack Pomerov and Jack Butler. The party took place in the Rose Room of the Palace Hotel, at noon December 18.

Sbermcn A. Bishop

All-\(/ood Truck Body Expected To Return Lumber to Vehicle Market

Washington-The return of lumber to one of its largest markets of the yesteryears is visualized by lumber industry leaders who viewed-casually at first, then intently-the new all-wood army truck body displayed, for the first time, during the annual meeting of National Lumber Manufacturers Association here on November 11-14.

Designed and constructed by laboratory personnel of Timber Engineering Company, in cooperation with Army Ordnance and Corps of Engineers officials, the new truck body is a project of the hardwood industry's research program at the Teco laboratory.

An innovation in military vehicle manufacture, the construction of the new truck body employs the latest developments in wood technology, including those being applied successfully in the Navy's minesweepers and other modern shipbuilding programs.

A far cry from the old boxlike wood truck bodies of World War II, the new all-wood body is much stronger, yet lighter in weight. The basic design factors providing maximum strength are the one-piece, U-shaped, bent laminated frame members made of tough black gum veneer, These frame members extend down one side, across under the bottom, and up the other side-an idea borrowed from the time-tested method of building ship frames.

The side and floor panels are made of edge-glued solid red oak planks, with those on the sides being glued permanentlv to the frames, making a one-piece truss of the entire structure. The floor panels are made in four sections for ease of assembly and quick replacement.

To avert possibility of buckling, the floor panels are attached to the frames with expansion bolts working through elliptical holes. This compensates any lateral movement, and the panels can be removed easily and quickly without damage to frames or panels. Being extremely rigid, the floor will not dent or buckle between frames as a result of constant heavy loading.

All wood parts of the truck body have been thoroughly impregnated to provide complete protection from fungus attack and decay. Furthermore, they have been treated w'ith a dimensional stabilizing chemical to minimize shrinking and swelling.

The adhesive, used in larninating the frame members and edge-gluing the solid lumber parts for sides and floor, is 100 per cent waterproof. This will prevent delamination, even in exposure to humid tropical conditions or complete imrnersion in water. The wood, the protective treatments and the adhesive will withstand extremes in temperature.

Designated as Type III, this is the first of the three all-u,ood prototype truck bodies, each of a different design, being built at the industry-owned Teco laboratory. The continuous laminated frame members are being used as a basic strength factor in all three body types.

Type I incorporates an aircraft engineering principle known as "stressed skin" construction, meaning it will have red oak plywood securely glued over both sides of the rigid, laminated frame members. This results in a single unit that develops exceptional strength per pound of weight.

Type II will be similar to Type I, except the "stressed skin" of plywood will cover the truck's floor only, leaving the frames

exposed on the side panels as in Type III, just completed.

Upon completion, Types I and II also will be mounted on 2f-ton,6x6 dual wheel, M45 truck chassis supplied by Army Ordnance. They r+'ill be put on exhibit at the Pentagon, early in 1953, then tested at the Army's Aberdeen, Maryland, proving grounds, for design selection.

"These all-wood truck bodies," declared C. A. Rishell, Teco's Director of Research, "are offered by the hardwood lumber industry as an industrial research product for national preparedness. They are designed for mass production with the facilities of the furniture and woodworking industries of America-a vast production potential upon which the nation can rely in any emergency.

"The design and construction of these new wood bodies were made possible by the great advancements in wood technology over the past few years. We have superb waterproof glues in ample quantity. In addition, we have gained valuable knowledge in the bending, pressure treating, stabilizing, and scientific testing of wood.

"Even more important to the truck body program," Mr. Rishell pointed out, "is that we have developed methods, in the course of our extensive work for the Bureau of Ships, for gluing pressure treated wood, and we can even steam bend this laminated and treated wood when desirable.

"By combining chemistry with rvood technology, the prosaic lumber pile has become raw material for a new era of progressive n'ood utilization.

"Although designed and built primarily for the military," Mr. Rishell concluded, "there is no reason why manufacturers cannot put all-wood truck bodies into production now for commercial use. If produced in quantities permitting modern assembly line methods, the available data indicate a cost within the practical limits acceptable to the military and industry, and economicallv competitive rvith metal.

"There being plenty of lumber, as usual, and rvith ample supplies coming on, a manufacturer of these modern r*-ood truck bodies shpuld have no rvorries about a scarcity of materials."

Western Pine Prints New Edition ol Grcr.ling Rules

A complete ns11' printing of Western Pine association Standard Grading Rules lvas announced today by the association.

Ilffective Jannarv I, 1953, ilre nerv printing incorporates into the main bodl' all supplemental rules adopted by the gronp since October 1, 19.19.

The nen' edition also contains nelv rules for grading Engelmann Spruce and Select grades of Lodgepole Pine adopted at the association's September meeting in Portland. Ileasuring 3lx6f", the book has 147 pages. A marginal index provides eas'r. reference to rules ior each species of \\-estern Pines and Associirted \Yoods.

Copies are available at 25 cents each from \\'estern Pine association. Yeon Building. Portland 4, Oregon.

G. N. (Jerry) Dodge oi G. N. Dodge vada Citv. rvith IIrs. Dodge, left last the N.A.]I. in Nes' York and after France, Ss'itzerland and Spain.

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Union Made

Fidler's Mqnufqcturing Co. lnc.

Monu{qcturers of the finest door in the West, with mcmy yecns ol experience in slob door mcrnufocturing.

Gucnontee of one (1) yeor.

Come in crnd poy us cr coll or phone us crt Plecrscrnt 3-1132. We ccrrry on omple stock of Gum, Birch, Rotcry ond Ribbon Mqhogcny, Ash and Duolux Mqsonite {lush doors.

Ask lor Hcrry Perry or Louis Fidler.

l9ll W.60th St., Los Angeles 47, Calil.

Fisk a Mason Introduces New Red Cedar Shinsle

To meet the exacting recluirements of F.II..-\. regulations. plus those of the better roofing and gencrrl contractor. Fisk & l\fasor-r of South Itasadena ancl Garderra. manufacturing distributors of Red Cedar Shingles and Shakes recently introduced to the traile a noteu'orthv dimensional shingle under the label of F.IJ.A. Roofers pack.

This product is being manufactured in their I-onglvfe Shingle Mill in Kalama, Washington ttnder the expert direction of Sidnev \\ralker u'h.tse man\' \'ears of nranufltcturing experience has given him the required knorvledge necessary to manufacture this select Recl Cedar Shingle.

The excellent results reporre<l by licensed roofitrg cot-ttractors using F.H.A. Roofers pack is proof the slight additional cost pe?' s(luare over tlre customary No. I shingle,

is more than offset b1' the sariirgs in application labor costs. The finished roof of Red Cedar F.H.-{. Roofers Pack Shingles has met rvith orvner builder enthusiastic approval because of the rare beauty of this select Red Cedar Shingle. Irisk & Ilason having introduced the F.H.A. Roofers Pack Ilecl Cedar Shingle establishes a neN high standard of clualitv in the shingling industr.r' that greatlv benefits the ultimate horne cn'ner.

Bcrck from Ecrstern Trip

G. R. (Jeff) Tull-v of I{allinan Nlackin Lumber Co.. San Francisc<,. recentl-r- completed a trip covering Detroit, pittsburgh. Nlinneapolis. Chicago anC Denver. It s'as a matter of calling on old friends amons his business connections and learning something of conditions in the East. For the most part, the trade rvas looking forrvard rvith confidence to 1953.

Go{/. Admns Former Lumbermcn And Forester

Sherman Adams, Governor of New Hamp shire, u'ho is soon to become the "Assistant President to Eisenhos.er, lvas formerlv a lumbernran and forester. His first job after leaving Dartmouth College w'as in a lumber camp at Verrnont, and later he !\.as manager of titnberlands and lumbering operations for the Parker-Young Companv of Lincoln, Nebraska. He belongs to the Societv oi American Foresters.

Buys Lclcryette Ltrmber d Supply Co.

All orders shipped as confirmed. For example, prefer to lose an order rather than lose a customer by

failing to ship on time. That's rvhy Bate Customers knorv their lumber will come out as scheduled.

Member

'Westerar Pine Association

Southern Pine Association

'West Coast Lumberman's

The Piedmont Lumber and Supply Co. of Oakland has purchased the I-afayette Lumber and Suppl.v Co., l-afavette, and will be known as the Piedrnont Lumber and Supply Co. Wm. (Bill) C. llver, secretary and treasurer of the company, u'ill manage the yard in Oakland as n'ell as the branch in l-afavette. The local manager is George ]IcConnell. flrs. Orabelle Gerken is president of the companv. A full line of general building supplies is carried in stock.

New Forest Supenisor crt Scn Benrcndino

Regional Forester Clare Hendee announced the appointment of Simeri E. Jarvi as supervisor of the San Bernardino National Forest. He took over his nerv duties on January l, 1953. Mr. Jarvi rras formerlv asslstant chief of Fire Control for the region. He replaces Norman Farrell u'ho has been transferred to the regional headquarters in San Francisco to head special project s'ork.

PACIFIC FIR SALES

SYcamore 6-4328

RYan 1-8103

Northern California and Oregon Mills

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Reduces construction costs by lcster worling schedules crnd quicker re-use oI lorms. Allows mcnked scrvings to the concrete products mcrnulcrcturer by reducing curing time, curing spcce, and inventories

Pcrticulcrrly cdvcntcgeous in pouring trcdlic intersections, repcrirs in opercting lcrctories crnd stores, mcrchinery loundations, tunnel linings, AM

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when you tie in with these heovily odverfised BAXCO Foundofion lumber items: Mudsills Joists Girders

Posts Sub Flooring Fence Posls

STOCK lUMBER -We now corry the following Boxco Pressure Treoted Foundotion Lumber in stock in Alomedo ond Long Beoch f or immediote shipmenl to deolers, Douglos Fir S4S ALS

2 x 4, 2 x 6, 2 x B, 2 x 10, 3 x 4, 3 x 6, 4 x 4 ond 4 x 6

Speciol sizes will be purchosed from locol slocks ond pressure freoied without deloy.

CUSTOM TREATING-We ofler prompt cusrom treoting service ot both our Alomedo ond Long Beoch plonls. Your lumber con be delivered io us by iruck or treoted in fronsit in corlood quonlities. Consult us for odditionol inf o rmotion.

APPROVED TREATMENT-Boxco Pressure Treoied

Foundotion Lumber is impregnoted with preservotive solls in occordonce with Fed. Spec. TT-W-57,lc. lt is opproved by FHA, uniform Euilding Code-P. C. B O. C., Stote Archilecl for mudsills in School Conslruction, ond U. S. Governmenl Specificotions,

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AnCHITECTS. home o\\-ners. and m:rnv builders the protection against rot-and-terntitcs that onlv Prcl treated lumber can givc. The dcmand is fast gro since thc added building cost is so small.

BAXCO Pressure Treated Found:rtion Lumber-l on thc \X/est Coast-has been s'idelv advertiscd 1949. The theme l'ras al*'avs bccn: "Sec Your Lumber Dealer." ResultsT Hundrcds oi vards are "C:rshing In" on more profit s'ith high qualin'BA Foundation Lumbcr.

\{'h1- don't )'ou "Cash In" on BAXCO's biege vertising program ever? It's under *'ar'l Rced the dt

WHY'PRESSURE TREATING?"

Even rhe besr *c:o p ese !c'ives, *hen cpplied by dipping c- poiniing'the wood s;'lcces cc1 g Ye cn ' -i'ed proteclion. Only pressJ.e treoting, which Crives cnd Ceposits the chemicol p.eservc'ives deeo infc the wood ce s res,,s in -cxiTJ- profectton. R ;^i-^ a-.a. .. ^ -ia --'" I l.ssfing fc. cpp-cvc s

lo scAstt IN/. do thisr.

/ B".or" o deoler who corries BAXCO Pressure Treoled Lumber ond be in o position fo serve your cuslomers when they osk for it-os more will do when this odvertising progrom goes into 1953.

2 S"U rhe ideo of "Beller Construction"-quole Boxco Foundotion Lumber ond tell your conlroclors why-it will help them sell their homes ond moke friends for you in lhe long run.

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Oakland Hoo-Hoo Club Christmas Party

Boys' Chrb \\'ere guests of the Club, each of the youngsters being spcnsored by a Club member. Joe Pepetone acted as Santa Claus and presented eacl-. of the children rvith an appropriate gift.

A closn. trainecl monkeys and sleight of hand performei contributed much to the enjovment of the children.

For the "gros'n ups" there $'as a turkey shoot rvith a fat turkey gc.ing to the best marksman of the evening.

Bob Hogan s'as chairrnan of the evening. and rvas ablv assisted by llill llcCubhin and Joe Pepetone. Club president Al Kellel' presided.

loe Pepetone, cs Scrntc Clcug

The Oakland Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 annual Christmas Party rva-s held in the Leantington Bou-I, I-eamington Hotel. Oakland, cn Wednesday evenirrg, Decenrber 17, and rtas a very successful affair. 25 needy children from the Oakland

Year-End Review of Construction Industry

New York, Dec. 3l-The construction industry established a ne\v peak of over $42 billion in volume during 1952, and may well exceed this figure b1'gl billion in 1953, according to Harold R. Berlin, vice president oi Johns-Ilanville Corporation.

Mr. Berlin, u'ho is general manager of the CompanT's Building Products Division, pointed out that construction is nor''i' in second position, behind defense, as the nation's leading industry.

"A sigr.rificant development in the home builcling industrr. is its dependence on 'iniernal rnigration' and mobilitv of people to a greater degree than on famill' formation for its most dyriamic impulses

"The nrass exodus frorn cities to sulturbs is indicated bv the census figures from 1940 to 1950 u'hich indicate that while 80,000 more persc'ns moved out of Neu' York Citv than moved in, an estinrated 5C0.000 more persons mor-ed into the suburbs than mcved out. During that decade, the 168 standard metropolitan areas of the U. S. increascd bv 15,200,00C persons but c,nly 6,000,000 of the increase nas in the cities proper. The remaining 9,200,000 increase t'as in the suburban areas.

"Side by side rvith this tremendous suburban rnigration we continue to have a vast regicnal migration. Of the 19.000,000 population increase during the census vears, 5.700,000 occured in the west and 5,500,000 in the south.

"The gor-ernment decision ro 'stretch out' defense expenditures and reduce them from the original estimate oi $72 to $7,1 billion for 1952 to $60 billion took a lot of pressure oft the ccnstruction industrv and enabled it to reach its huge 1952 r'olume.

"Had defense decided to follos' the original plan of speeding defense expenditures to the $72 to $74 billion level by the end of 1952, entire classes o! the construction industry u'ould have found it exceedingly difficult to operate because of lack of critical materials. intense labor shortage, and tighter governmental controls."

trfr. Berlin cautioned tirat "if the Korean \\'ar or the Cold \\-ar in general is stepped-up the optimistic estimate of a $l billion increase for the industry in 1953 rvould have to be revised considerablv."

Mcncrges Plyrrood Division

E. \\'. Ha-r-es. rvho has been l'ith the ilI. & NI. \\'ood \\'orking Companv for manl' \'ears. has been nrade nranager of the Eureka Plv*'ood Companv, at Eureka, s'hich is a Division of tI. & I\f.

Logrgring Consultant

Hubert I. B<-rn'er. for many I'ears rvith the Pacific Companv at Scotia as logging engineer. has gone business of consultant on logging and forestry He makes his home at Rio Dell, Calif.

Lumber into the matters.

Left to right: Herb I. Fqrell Gcorge Ccrh" I. G. McrboL Dob Meycr. Al Eelley, Bob Hogca, Lu Greoa Torn Jacobrn" Ev hlir

JEfferson 2288

JEfierson 2370

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Kimsul Blcnket Insulcrtion

U.S.G. Insulation Prod.

Quietone Acousticcrl Tile

U.S.G. Structoboqrd

7e" Firestop Beshrcrll

Hollywood Comb. Doors

Nudor Sliding Frsrnes

Screen Doors

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Superior Scsh Ecrlcnrces

Acme Scsh Bqlcnces

Pclco Wool-Bock Wool

Gilbrecrth Lurnber Seqls

Woodlile Products

Rooling Products

Building Pcrpers

MATERIALS

Mcrsonite Products

Celotex Products

Gypsum Products

Upson Products

Plywood-Ncrils

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About the ArmyWorm?

It is so cqlled from it's hobit of morching in compsct bodies of enormous numbers,destroying olmosl every green thing it meels. lt is obout | % inches long, greenish in color, with blqck stripes ond is porticulorly deslruclive in North Americq. Speoking of morching, do you know thot the slqnd- ing Army of the United Stoles in lhe yeor of l9O0 wos 9,196 officers ond 105,166 men qnd thqt Msles were lioble to service from | 8 to 45 yeors of oge?

At the time of the releqse of these figures, Hobbs Wqll wos qn old estqblished firm with 35 yeors of Colifornio Hordwood experience. Todoy, 53 yeors loter, Hobbs Woll Lumber Compony is conlinuing lo grow with the supply ond demqnd of the Nqtion.

From Cut Out To Cut Always

A well nigh perfect example of the miracles that have been wrought in late years by ventures into forest growing and reforestation is the Southern Lumber Company, of Warren, Arkansas. This concern cut its last virgin Southern Pine trees nearly two decades ago, shut down the big sawmill, blew the farewell whistle, and prepared to cdl it the end of a big mill.

Then a fellow named "Dick" Warner, who at the time was m:rnager of the concern, decided to take another look. His stockholders backed him up, and they sent forest experts into their large cut-over land holdings with instructions to find out what the possibilities might be for growing timber scientifically. The foresters made such glowing reports of the golden opportunities they found, that the Southern Lumber Company went back into business again. They modernized and enlarged the mill in various fashions, turning out a much finer sawmill than they ever had during

Private Mortgage Lending Institutions

Private mortgage lending institutions are urged to provide a suitable secondar.v mortgage market for the benefit of home builders and mortgagees in all sections of the country irr a resolution approved by the Board of Directors of the National Re1:ail Lumber Dealers Association, according to an announcement by Henry J I\Iunnerlyn, tl.re organization's new presiCent.

"Private enterprise should not have to depend on Congressiona-l action to meer this need, and can not afford to rely solely on uncertain political action in so vital a matter," Mr- l\funnerlyn said.

"Early termination of emergcncy controls, elimination of unnecessary federal expenditures, and continued study of means of giving the public more house for the monev were amc,ng other recommendations appoved by the Board in a 10-point policy prog!'am, u'hich reads as follorvs:

"Permit the Defense Producticn Act to terminate as provided for by the 82nd Congress thus terminating priorities and allocation authority, price and rvage stabilization, real estate credit control authority, and all other defense production Dowers.

"IJrge ihe examination and overhauling of regulations of federal agencies affectinq business, and particularly recommend to the Congress that no 'stand by' control authoritv be given to any agency of government, unless that authority provides specifically for future Congressional approval of the use of the control euthority in any field of business activity.

"Eliminate all unnecessary defense and non-defense expenditures in order to reduce the tax burden.

"Encoulage the further study of the entire tax structure and seek to distribute the burden of taxation equitably upon all branches of business and industry,

the thirty odd years when they cut virgin timber. And they really went to town at timber growing.

To make the story short, this mill that cut out and quit is now planning with confidence to run for atl timc to come, and has the timber prospectus to show for it. And it is one of the most modern and efficient mills in the entire South. The Southern Lumber Company now has just rwo lines of business: first, growing commercial trces; second, cutting them into high class lumber. The prospective life of the institution is "from now on."

As an example of the progressiveness of tte concern, it recently suffered "the most disastrous single forest 6rc in Arkansas' recorded history." Four ttousand acres of young timber was wiped out completely. Thev re-seeded the area by airplane, taking six days to do the job. It cost $24,(X)0, or about $6 per acre. A little less than a pound of sced to the acre was sown from the air.

That's the way the Southern Lumber Company and "Dick" Warner does timber growing.

"Restore the principle of freight absorption as a means of providing a iree and even florv of goods to the distribution system.

"Study and eliminate in so far as possible the many, and some timcs duplicating, mandatory business and financial questionnaires of agencier of the government l'hich are sent to the srr^all business man.

"By either Congressional or administrative action promptlv unfreeze the fixed-intcrest rJ-te on FH-\ and VA loans for residerrtial constructicn in order that thev ma-v be competitive n'ith the free-market rate of the conventional lender.

"IJrge upon private mortgage lending institutions that they provide a suitable secondarv mortgage market for the benefit of mortgagees end builders in all sections of the country.

"Continue to cooperate in the exploration of means of providing the home buying public rvith 'more house for the nroney.'

"Continue to assist the industly in acquiring knorvledge and information as to product and management problems in an effort to further improve the efficiency of the essential distributicn function performed b-v the retail lumber and building materials dealer."

Douglcs Fir crnd West Coast Hemlock Lumber-Rounding Out Delivery Chcrges

I\{anufacturers of Pacific Northrvest Douglas fir. true fir and \\rest Coast hemlock lumber are required to round out their deliverl' charges to the nearest quarter dollar per 1,000 board feet or other applicable measure, OPS announced today.

Previously no provision rvas made for rounding out freight charges. The change is made to conform to industrv practices. It rvill have no effect on the averat'e level of prices. The change is provided for in Amendment 2 to Ceiling Price Regulation 128, and is eft'ective December n, 1952.

eahfutaea

Lumbermen

dock knocked out by a typhoon and helped in the preliminarv survey of. 17 miles of logging railroad. The establishing of standards for the grading of hardrvood rvas also part of his job. Hos'ever, after six months of travel through the Orient he came home.

John R. Freeman

John R. Freeman, ansrvering to Johnny rvherever men have to do rvith Redrvood, is a scientist in training and a fisherrnan at heart. It is hard to knon- l'hich comes first in the telllng, but there is, no question that he rvas born in Sacramento in 1902. He attended the Unir-ersitv of California, wliere he received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1927, but before he li-'oked for a job after graduating, he went on a three months' fishing trip in }lontana and Canada.

Fishing interests paralleled his scientific interests, but he did not ncglect the latter After rvorking in the lumber industry for a rvhile, he returned to college. and in 1932 u,as granted a scholarship and technical assistantship in teaching at the graduate school of Forestry, Universitv of California. A{ter advanced study he obtained a l\Iaster's Degree in u'ood technology and econornics, and t'as later elected to the Forestry llonor Society. Sigma Pi. It rvas after this that he l;egan his rvork l'ith the California Redrvood Association in 1933.

Just a year later found him gaining experience as a lumber salesman for one of the Association mills, u.hich rvas follou'ed by his entry into the farming field. He began the development of 160 acres in the lorver end of Santa Clara Valley, raising nalnuts, grapes. prunes and pears.

He returned to the Californi:r Redn'ood Association in 1947 as a field representative, and l.ras spent.the last feu. years in doing promotional rvork throughout the United States. He is norv a member of tlr€ Association's Tree Farm Committee.

Johnny's first job after graduating frorn college \\,as converting an old coal r-ard into a lumber r-ard in San Francisco. A load of Philippine hardn.ood arrived. and he found himself in the lumber business irr a big rvay.

His next move \rras to be transferred to the company's lumber mill sixty-five miles north of Zaml>oaga, IlIindanao, Philippine Islands. He had the ;ob of repairing 2000 feet of

Johnny Freeman is an authoritv on Redrvood. He has talked to a s'orld of people on the subject and is rvell knorvn throughout the country. If you \iere on an automobile trip n'ith him up through the Redrvood country, and examined the trunk of his car, regardless of rvhat his errand might be, you rvould find a complete fishing outfit. If the steelhead rvere running on the Eel, vou nright find yourself held up, or rvaiting over, until he had done a little fishing. And rrhile traveling through this Redrvood land vou rrould find that Johnnv had a unique lntelligence service. Every motel, restauranl, service station has its tipsters on where the fish are hiding, and this is c.nlv for those rvho belong to the fraternity.

No one knorvs more about the rvoods than John R. Freeman. lle has a real love for trees. Looking over his ranch rvith him. Johnnv n'ill point to this or that tree, and almost affectionetely give its story, its age, production and characteristics. His business is that of a scientist and an educator of the industry in the latest methods in conservation and producticn, but his hobbies are fishing and the care of. his ranch. In his farming rvhich is a rveek-end occupation. he is ably assisted by his u'ife, Bert, rvhom he married in 1932, knorvn before the event as I\Iyrtle Borvman.

He is e- member of San Francisco Hoo-Hoo Club No. 9, Oakland Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39. Dubs Ltd., and plays golf rvith a big handicap.

San Joaquin Hoo-Hoo Club

Meeting lanuary 24

The San Joaquin Hoo-Hoo Club rvill start the Nes' Year activities lvith a Ladies Night at the Elks Club, Fresno, on Saturdal' evening, January 21. "Doc" Snead and Ham Knott are arranging the program for the evening. Dinner will be served at 8:09 p.m.. there rvill be an entertainment, and music for dancing l.ill be furnished by Lou l\fonte and his orcliestra. Door prizes rvill be arvarded during the evening.

Reservations can be made b1' rvriting or telephoning Bud Barber, P O. Ilox 627. Fresno, Calif.. phone 2-71U.

Holiday Curtailment Not Heavy

The sau'mill curtailment of production among the California san'rnills \\'as not hear'1- during the holida.r's. It is estimated that the Fir mills lost no more than 3oft of their normal production during the ts'o holiday s-eeks of Christmas and Neu' \'ears, t'hile ihe major Redrrood mills lost a little less than that amount.

Horvever there rvill be considerable curtailment of production throughout Northern California from norv on, due to rvinter logging conditions. Onlv mills rrith log decks can do any amount of cutting.

Profitable Windows ... in Metal

There's a trend that's reached a demand . . . that can mean dollars for you. It's the growing popularity of metal windows. Capitalize on it with Lupton Aluminum or Steel \7indows.

They're consumer accepted throughout the U.S.A. they're precision engineered for low-cost, long life they're backed by over 40 yearc experience . . they're merchandised to help your sales.

Profit minded? . . be a Lupton Distributor. There are some very desirable territories open. \7rite, wire or phone our Los Angeles office for all the Lupton facts.

1UPTON HT]PS YOU SEll

Your sales efforts are backed by national advertising in Better Homes & Gardens, House Beautiful Maintenance and Building Manual, Small Homes Guide. Your customers in the building profession know the Lupton Metal \Tindow story through our advertising in architecnrral and building magazines.

The Lupton plan includes literature and catalogs for your prospects, mats for local advertising.

MICHAEL FLYNN MFG. CO.

612 S. Lafayette Park Place, Los Angeles ), Calif,

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a--tGAtIF(lNil IA REIIU(l(lII STAI II

As time goes by, more ond more conlroclors ond builders ore using Redwood-so deolers get inlo the swing of things by stocking ond selling the weother tested Redwood color preservorive "HQUID REDWOOD."

STOP DOWN GRADING by reducing end splitting of lumber in slocks use "Lum,ber Seol." Eosy to opply by sproying ond it cosls only obout 30f per MBF.

"250''

The heovy duty wood preservolive used by conlroctors ond induslry becouse it is eosier ond sofer lo use. Applied by sproy, brush or dip.

A N D ER

GEORGE CTOUGH tU MB

Next week in Woshington history will be mode ond ior the first time in t\,Venty yecrrs o new odministrotion tokes over to help leod us out ol the "woods"

A greot number ol business surveys hove been mode in on eIiort to second guess the situcrtion crnd ihe consensus ol opinion seems to be thot ony price declines will be very moderote.

The reosoning behind this trend ol thought is corried out by the lact thot toxes, woges, tronsportotion ond the costs ol corrying on business will remoin, for mony months, substontiolly the some.

Competition, crnd the low of supply ond demond, will govern our {uture in the lumber industry. The shortoges ol mcrteriqls seems to be over ond there is on crbundqnce o{ good lumber ot the time this column is written.

We ore going to double, crnd then redouble our eflort, ro secure QUALITY Lumber ot the PROPER PRICE. . . We will help our customers stretch their purchosing dollor-so they con poss on to the consumer the price decreoses we will be cdcle to obtoin. So, purchose NOW-ond keep your inventory ot the proper level.

White City cmd Southern Oregon Sugcrpine Compcmy Sold

Negotiations have been completed for sale of the assets by the stockholders of the \Vhite City and Southern Oregon Sugar Pine Company to Bregman Associates.

Transaction involved all timber and timberland in Josephine, Jackson and Douglas County, Oregon, Cisco County, California; sawmills at Tiller, Oregon, and Central Point, Oregon, and remanufacturing plant at White City, Oregon.

The consideration is reported to be a cash transaction in excess of three million dollars. The new ow'ners are \\r. H. Daugh_ ertlii Cottage Grove, Oregon; S. \\r. Daugherty, Cottage Grove, Oregon and E. Bregman, Los Angeles. The new owners took possession January l, 1953. Mr. Bregman, whose ternporar-y h ead quarters are l\fedford Hotel. N[edford, Oregon rvill be in charge of the operation. Mr. Bregman is well knou'n in the lumber industry, being president of the Cal-West Lumber Corporation in South San Gabriel, California, and Alcan Lumber Mill, Inc., Canyonville. Oregon.

Presented Wrist Watch

Judge S. Durham retired December 31 from the service of Hammond Lumber Company, Los Angeles. At that time his many friends throughout the company's Southern Division presented him a Hamilton r,vrist'lvatch.

Memphis Lunberaen's Club to Awqrd Scholcrships lor the lohn 1,V. McOure School

Action taken by the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis at its meeting on November 20 rvill have a strong influence on the future trend of the educational activities of the John W. McClure School of the National Hardwood Lumber Association at Memphis, in the opinion of President Philip D. Houston and other leaders of the l\femphis Club. A report was submitted by the Finance Committee and the Executive Committee of the Club iecommending the establishment of two $100.00 scholarships, one for each of the two 1953 classes of the Scitool. These recommendations rvere confirmed by unanimous vote of the membership of the Club. These scholarships u'ill be arvarded through competition by eligible young men of Memphis and the l\Iid-South area who are deslrous of training for a hardrvood career through the training course provided by the Association.

-The next five months'course rvill begin on February 16, and the second 1953 course is scheduled to start on September 8. These courses are conducted b1' Assistant Chief Inspector L. C. Nicely of the Association and have proved to be most effective in vocational training. The graduates of the School are in strong demand for employment by hardrvood lumber firms in the United States and Canada and many have located in foreign fields.

The rvinners of these scholarships rvill be known as }femphis Lumbermen's Club students, sponsored by the Club. This is an innovetion rvhich, it is hoped. rrill be adopted by other local and regional hardrvood groups throughout the United State; and Canadian hardrvood fields. The capacit)' of the School is limited to 50 students and, if this plan is generallv tdopte.l, it rvil! have the effect of bringing together ambiti,tus and capable young men representative of every segment of the industrv, thereby cementing friendships, broadening 3cquaintances and establishing greater rrnderstanding and uniformitv in the grading and trading practices of this important industr-v. No previous experience in hardu'oods is required for admission but students are carefulll' selected for character. general abilit;* and a serious desire to rvork and advar,ce themselves in the hardwood lumber trade. Character references and at least a high school educational background are essential. This new program of scholarships in the School will not interfere rvith the regular proced':re of individtral application for admission and registration u.hich has been follorved in the past but it is expected that this nelv plan rvill tend to keep the personnei of the student bodv under closer obsen'ation of the industrv as a rvholc and rvill make the classes more representative in character.

Local and regional hardrvood groups interested in adopting this plan ma1' applv to the Chicago office of the Association for complete information. Individuals desiring to enter the contest for the }femphis scholarships should rvrite to the Lumbermen's Club cf Nlemphis, Commerce Title Bldg., trIemphis 3. Tenn. Other individuals rvho rvish to make independcnt application for admission may rvrite to the Chicago office. 59 E. \ran Burerr St., Chicago 5. Registration for the next class to begin February 16, 1953 rvas opened Ncivember I and several applications have been entered. -National Hardrvood Nervs.

DAilT & RU$$TT[ SAI,T$ CO.

Douglos Fir - Redwood - Western Red

Gedqr - Pine - Port Orford Cedqr

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TRUCK AND TRAIIER, Representing

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lnmon-Poulsen Lumber Co., Portlond

Coost Pocific Lumber Co., Eurekq

Honley lumber Go., Eurekc

High Sierro Pine Mills, Oroville ond other

Northern Golifornio ond Oregon Mills

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Farewell!-But Whenever You Welcome The Hour

Farewell !-But whenever you welcome the hour, That awakens the night-song of mirth in your bower, ' Then think of the friend who welcomed it too, And forgot his own griefs to be happy with you. His griefs may return, not a hope may remain Of the few that have brightened his pathway of pain, But he ne'er will forget the short vision that threw Its enchantment around him, while lingering with you.

And still on that evening, when pleasure fills up To the highest top sparkle each heart and each cup, Where'er my path lies, be it gloomy or bright

My soul, happy friends, shall be with you that night; Shall join in your revels, your sports, and your wil€s, And return to me, beaming all o'er with your smilesToo blest, if it tells me that, mid the gay cheer

Some kind voice had murmured, "I wish he was here !"

Let Fate do her worst, there are relics of joy, Bright dreams of the past, which she cannot destroy; Which come in the night-time of sorrow and care, And bring back the features that joy used to wear.

Long, long be my heart with such memories 6lled: Like the vase, in which roses have once been distilledYou may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will; But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.

-Thomas Moore

Iust Didn't Fit

The gentleman carefully suneyed the man who had asked him for money, and asked him why he didn't go to work?

Said the hobo: "Sir, I'm an unhappy medium."

"And what is that?" asked the other.

"I'm too heavy for light work, and too light for heavy work."

LiIe

Life is but a garment. When it's dirty, brush it. When it's torn, mend it. Make it last as long and as good as you can.-Tagore.

None Ol That

The tiresome young lawyer was wearing out both the court and the jury with the length of his tedious harangue to the jury. Finally he paused and said to the judge: "Your honor, is it your pleasure that I proceed with my argument?" Whereat the honest judge said: "Young man, the pleasure of listening to you ended an hour ago; but you may proceed."

A Grecrt Messcge From llfoodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson. war President of the United States said: "I do not want to live under a Philanthropy, I do not want to be taken care of by the Government either directly or by any instruments through which tte Government is acting, I want only to have right and justice prevail so far as I am concerned. Give me right and justice and I will undertake to take care of myself. I will not fivc under trustees if I can help it. I do not care how wise, how patriotic the trustees may be. I have never heard of any group of men in whose hands I am willing to lodge tte libertics of America in trust."

Decoys

Grocer: "Here's your fy-paper. Anything else?"

Rastus: "Yassuh, f wants six raisins."

Grocer: "You mean six pounds?"

Rastus: "Nossuh, not six pounds--+ix raisins; fo' decoys."

In Bepcrir

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life he will soon find himself done. A man must keep his friendships in repair.-S*nuel Johnson.

The Cost OI Boolcs

Col. R. G. Ingersoll was famous for tte library of agnostic literature he owned. One day he was showing a ncwspaper man his library, and the interviewer asked what the library cost him? fngersoll replied thoughdully: "Young man, those books cost me many thousands of dollars, the governorship of Illinois, and perhaps the presidency of the United States."

A Boy's Esscry On ftlitors

f don't know how newspapers got into the worl4 and I don't think God does, for He ain't got notting to say about thein in the Bible. I think the editor is the missing lint we read about, and stayed in the bushes after the flood and then came out and wrote the thing up and has been here ever since. If the editor makes mistakes, folks say he ought to be hung;but if the doctor makes mistakes he buries them and people don't say nothing, because ttey can't read and write Latin. When the editor makes mistakes there is a big lawsuit, and swearing, and a big fuss; but if .the doctor makes one there is a funeral, cut flowers, and a pcrfect silence. A doctor can use a word a yard long without him or anyonc else knowing what it means, but if tte editor uscs one, he has to spell it. Any college can make docton to order, but editors has to be born.

Terriblc Twenty Golf Tournament

The 319th Terrible Twenty golf tournament was held at the Thunderbird Ranch and Country Club, Palm Springs, on December 12, 1952. Bob Pierce and Bob Falconer were the hosts. 19 members and ll guests played golf, and many of the wives joined the group for dinner.

DeWitt Clark won the first rrrize, turning in a net score of 67. Harry Whittaker, with a net score of 68, won the second prize. Sterling Stofle won the T.T.T. shirt with his 9 on the 7th hole.

Braven Dyer, sports writer for the Los Angeles Times, was the guest of H. R. (Ham) Hamilton, and he must have enjoyed the day as the following is from his column "Sports Parade" in the Times of December 13 in which he gives the Terrible Twenties some nice publicity:

"Palm Springs, Dec. 12-I'm writing this on the first tee at the Thunderbird Golf Course, waiting my turn to drive off with members of the Terrible Twenty . This is the oldest links group in the United States which never has missed a monthly tournament.

"Organized more than 25 years ago by hookers and slicers with handicaps of 20 or worse, it'numbers two original members . George Gartz and DeWitt Clark . Needless to say the gang has had a lot of fun, playing a different course every month That 20 handicap almost suits my game but I doubt if I can come close to keeping up with H. R. (Ham) Hamilton, Roy Stanton, Gene DeArmond, Curtis McFadden and some of the other city slickers."

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CPR 152, Amendment l-Bounding Out OI Trcnsportation Chcnges

Manufacturers of lumber cut from western pine and associated species are required ir round out their delivery charges to the nearest quarter Collar per 1,000 board feet or other applicable measure, OPS announced today.

Previously no provision was made for rounding out freight charges. The change is made to conform- to industry practices. It will have no effect on the average level of prices. The change is provided for in Amendment 1 to Ceiling Price Regulation 152, and is effective December 16, 1952.

Albert W. Baker Retires

Albert W. Baker, who has been in charge of Hammond Lumber Company's Timekeeping Department for many years at their 2oth and Alameda Street yard, Los Angeles, retired December 30 after over 30 years service with the company. Baker was born in Cleveland, Ohio and started his career there as-cost accountant with Cleveland Twist Drill Co. In 1972 he moved with his family to Los Angeles rvhere he went to work for Hammond.

U. S. Plnrood Increoses Holdingn

U.S. Plywood Corporation, through some recent purchases, now controls 913,000,000 feet of standing timber in Shasta County, California.

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Frcrnk B. Walker Retires

Frank B. Walker retired from the service of Hammond Lumber Company, Los Angeles, on D.ecember 31. He has been employe_d as sash and door salesman out of the companyrs Los Angeles office since April 7,1941. Walker was one of the original employees of National Lumber Co., predecessors of Hammond Lumber Company.

Holds Open House

E. G. Reel Lumber Service, Los Angeles, celebrated its 20th anniversary in business with an open house from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday. December 23. E. G. Reel, owner, and his staff were on hand to greet the many lumbermen and friends that called during the afternoon. Refreshments were served.

Second Biggest Yeat

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It is interesting to note that the Government, while clinging to policies th.it retarded defense housing, allowed starts on 49,000 public housing units during the same period.

The miiitary housing program. which as recently as the summer of 1951 was criticized by Senate investigators, also hit its stride in 1952. Adequate living quarters are being provided at a rapid rate for service families at army, navy and air force installations around the country. Much of the credit for that achievement must be given to the efforts of NAHB's Past-Prcsident Thomas P. Coogan in his capacity as director of military housing for the Department of Defense and to thc NAHB Committee headed bv R. G. Hughes.

As concerns the future, NAHB's First Vice President Emanual M. Spiegel, speaking recently before the Building Contractors Association of Califcrrnia said. "The new Administration will come into power determined that therc will be no economic letdown. Every sign indicates President-elect Eisenhower and his aides will try every means at their disposal to maintain a high level of prosperity. In my personal opinion the home building industry can look forr,r'ard to a policy of high volun:e which will keep housing production at a high level and will maintain full employment in the construction trades."

Los Ang eles 1952 Building Ercccdr 1951 bv J76,517,455

Building permits issued during the month of December by the City of Los Angeles numbered 4,735 and were valued at $35,142,506, while in the same month in l95l building permits numbered 3,108 with a valuation of 918,589349.

Nerv construction started in I-os Angeles in lgS}amounted to $351,637,113 as against $275,119658 in 1951. The 1952 volume is the third highest on record, exceeded by the high mark of $4O7,178,693 in 1950 and of 9373O5O,82 in 1948.

"The increased availability of construction materials, combined with the continuing demand for industry building and residential housing, may be expected to keep.construction at a high level this year," G. E. Morris, city superintendent of building, said.

During 1952 there rvere 17,461 housing units completed. The permits for the year totaled 61,314 as compared to 51,973 in 1951.

Iqps Would Enter Aldskc tunber lrdusEll

It is reported that a group ef Japanese industrialists have been trying to find a way to get into the timber and lumber business in Alaska. They wanted to buy timber to be logged and shipped to Japan, but the law says that logs produced in Alaska mrlst be manufactured there. Then they suggested building a sarvmill in Alaska and bringing in Jap crervs to do the manufacturing, but here they ran into the immigration laws. It seems that they could buy timber without trouble, but that's about all. They are still invdstigating the possibilities.

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Discusses Mahogany Situation

Geo. N. Lamb, Secretary-Manager of the Mahogany Association, Chicago, Ill. has this to say about the mahogany situation:

"The business of trying to tell what is going to happen in the Mahogany industry in 1953 rvould be a cinch if we had a good idea of what's going to happen to business generally and to the furniture and television industries in particular. Some folks say that business is going to be good the first half of this year but that there will be or may be a mild recession toward the end of the year.

"It is noticeable that there have been some postponements in the date of this expected slowdown in business and it could be that it may be delayed still further and possibly not put in appearance at all this year.

"The past year has been only fair for the Mahogany industrl', based on postwar standards. The importation of I\{ahogany probably rvill be about 20/o below the banner year of 1951. Lumber inventories by the end of the year s'ill be almost the same as they were at the end of 1951. Veneer industries probably rvill be l0/o less than they rvere at the end of 1951.

"The Mahogany business started to pick up in September. In October it reached a high for the year."

Larry Backes, Unit Lumber Sales Co., Beverly Hills, Calif., and his daughter, have returned from a month's trip to Honolulu. They made the trip both rvays by plane. Larry rvas impressed rvith the large volume of home building in the Islands.

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Fairhurgt Lumber Moveg To New Quarters

Fairhurst Lqmber Company of California recently purchased and remddeled, es general offices, the building at the corner of. 7th and J Streets !n Eureka, California, formerly occupied by a business college.

The interior is completely redecorated and finished in both redr*-ood and fir, with executive offices and conference room on the second floor. Photographic sepia murals of logging and mill operations decorate the walls.

The Loggers Best Friend ls The Cat Buildins Oudook for 1953

Today's logger-unlike the legendary Paul Bunyanhas no fabulous blue ox to skid his logs to a landing. But he does have what is possibly the next best "animal": the "cat" or track tractor-the rnechanized ox of present-day logging.

No cat, be it either in fact or fiction, has ever performed on a logging show quite like Paul Bunyan's blue Babe. Babe once hooked onto a whole section of timber (64O acres of it) and dragged the works, land and all, down to a river. It's not likely-even in this age of atomic power-that any man-made tractor will ever equal that feat. But, nevertheless, the big diesel cats now useC on logging operations have a few things in common with Paul Bunyan's famous blue ox.

Like Babe, a cat has prodigious strength. It can walk over wind-felled trees and thick underbrush. It can move quickly from onc place to another to pick up logs and snake them off to a landing as if the;* were so many twigs.

The track tractor, in fact, can do a few things that might even startle the great Paul Bunyan. Paul's blui ox, for example, never gouged out a logging road with his nose. But the cat, fitted with a bulldozer blade, can do just that. The track tractor is a road builder, earth mover and log skidder rolled into a single machine. It is one of the loggerrs most efficient and versatile tools.

Strictly speaking, the "cat" is a track tractor manufactured by the Caterpillar Tractor Company of Peoria, Illinois. But loggers, construction workers and farmers apply the word "cat" to zrny sizeable crawler-type tractor made by any manufacturer. They dub the man rvho drives a cat a "cat skinner."

(From "Weyerhaeuser News.")

Washington, D. C., Dec. 28-The record breaking volume of light construction achieved in 1952 should be surpassed in the new year, H. R. Northup, executive vice president of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, stated Saturday.

"New high marks are expecied in residential modernization and commercial construction as materials of all kinds once again become available in full supply," Mr. Northup said.

"Retail dealers' inventories are norrnal, and prices .of most building materials are below OPS ceilings at the present time.

"While new housing starts may fall slightly under the 1952 level, continued demand and greater availability of mortgage funds give gocid reason to believe that at least another 1,000,m0 nerv homes will be started in 1953.

"While the building industry will continue to meet the demand for smaller homes wherever it exists, a larger than usual percentage of three and four bedroom homes probably rvill be put under construction in the ne$'year to make up for the reduced number built in the last two years while tight construction controls were in effecr.

"Farm construction is likely to remain at a high level and there will be a sharp upturn in the construction of new stores, office buildings, warehouses, and other commercial buildings.

"Only in heavy industrial construction is there any question matk."

Ncrti,oncrl Forests

With the exceptions of Connecticut, Delaware, New ferse;r, New York and Rhode Island, every state in the Union has one or more national forests.

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Big Doings in Montreal . .

The 9,000 members rif the Societl' of American Foresters and their 1,200 prt-,fessior.ral brothers rif the Canadian Institute of Forestry are specialists rvho hol<l technological kevs to the future of a billion (1,000,000,000) acres of North Arnericau tirnber land.

In terms of trees and the bounclary betn'een Canada and the United States is a "phantom borur<llrr1'," as K. G. Iietrsor.u, president of the Canaclian L.rstitute, said in opening the recent four-day meeting of the two groups ir-r llontreal. It is also a phantom boundary for the science of the silviculturist. the forest engineer, the wood chemist, the iorestrv eclttcator and the forest laboratory technician.

The then.re c-,f the joint convention n'as "Tretrtls in North American Forestry." Each of the Ileetings an<l technical sessions had tn-o chairmen. Press releases antl suttttnaries of technical pal)ers u'ere issued in the tu'o langttltgcs of the Pror'ince of Quebec. I-nglish antl Frer.rch.

Highlights . .

The main entertainrlent feature at Jlontreal presented Frencl.r-Canaclian folk songs anrl danccs b-v a -l-H girls' club. 'fhe ancient Quebec ballad. "Alouette," is an all-Anrerica forestr,r' school song. S-{F delegates from Alaska, California, Florida ancl ]Iissouri chanted it in \Iontreal s'ith the spirit, if not the accent of Joe I-e \Iurphas'.

Back of the convention's forrnal theme and technical topics loorned a giant challenge. "\\'hat of the trees for tornorrorv? Are u'e grorling the rvood rvc shall neecll"

The foresters faced predictions of building authorities that another million dn'ellings rvill be built in the United States alone clrrring 1953. and that U. S. annual hotrsing reqtrirernents u'ill rise ()n to t\\'o nrillion units in 1970.

No substitute is ir1 sight for lurr.rber as the basic material of housing, or for the rvood railroad tie or u'oodpulp nes'sprint. The foresters heartl estirnates that U. S. consunrption rvill expand frorn the 1951 figure of 26,500.000 cords to 33,000,000 cor<ls br' 1975.

Cana<la has vast reaches of untappe<l forest u'ealth. s'ith 92 per cent of its acreage government orvnerl. Canadian foresters reported at Jfontreal that fire. insects and disease rvere killing rnore forest trees than the logging in<lustr_r' of the countrv u'as cutting.

(Continuerl on Page 52)

TWENTY.FIVE YEARS

As report€d in The Calilornia Lumber

A part;,- of 60, including manv of the foresters u'ho attencled the meeting of the Societv of .\mericarr Iioresters in San Francisco. r-isited the mill operations of The I'acific I-umber (-onrpanv at Scotia l'here thev rr'ere gtlests of the col11Danv

A. C. ITorner. lnanager of the \\-estern l)ir-ision of the National Lumber \Ianufacturers Associltiott. :tttnottnced that E. Il. Ilr.ru'e. field engineer of the \\-estern Divisiorr offrce has been assigned to head<lttarters ir.r Los ^\ngeles in connectioll n'ith the -\ssrtciation's tracle extetlsirln activities.

John Suverkrup. vartl at Iliverside.

Merchant Jan.

15, 1928

E. JI. I'rescott. generxl manager of the Prescott tsrick & I-umber Co.. Fresno. spoke at a rneeting of the Fresno Optimist Club on "European I-rrnrlter \Ianufacttrring \[ethods." ]Ir. l'rescott had recentlr- conrpleted a torrr of the Fiuropean coun tries.

R. F. Hanrrnatt. secretar-\'-nranager of ihe California Redu'ood -\ssociation. annorrqced that a tot:rl of 99 entries had lreen recrived in thc Second Redu',rorl Sales Contest that closerl on Decenrlrcr 31. The entries gave informati()n (ln all conceivable uscs of Iiedn'ood. frorrr lrridges to interior finish. and fr,rm pipe lines to vi<>lins. ][r. Hammatt stated.

Sar-r l',ernitrclino. olrenetl ir retail lumlrer It is expccted the as'ards n'ill lre ma<le lrr-Tantrarv 20

The Hoo-Hoo Clul>s throuqhout California l'ere shou-itrg a kecn irrterest in the loving cul)s that n'ere clottltted lrv Iirc<i l{oth of San lii-ttrrcisco. 13ojum otr the Hoo-Hrto Sul)remc Nine, for the lrest attenclance recorcl during the vear. Al1 Hoo-Hoo Cltrbs u-erc invited to llarticillate.

13rrilding constrttction in Los --\ngeles during l9l7 l'as approximatelv the sarrle as tn 1()2(t. The 1927 t()tals alll()tlrlted to $123.027.239 :rs c()mpared to $123.006.215 in 192b.

This issue carried an illustratetl Philippines b1- I')rvin R. I:dgctiml-' Lur"nl;er Co.

article on Lrgging in the secretarv of the Insular

\\-. R. \\'icke rsh:rrrr. \-icegcrent Snark of the I-os -\ngeles IJoo-Hoo <listrict. \\'as rec()ntnrentletl for the apltointnrent r.rf Hoo-Iloo State Coun.elor fcr California.

The I-,rs -\ngeles Hoo-Hoo ('lub hel<l its rrronthl-r- nleeting at the I'-lite Cafe. l-.,s --\r,geles. on Thrrrsrkl_\- noon, _fanrrarr- 12. I'rcsident ['-rl flartin presi<letl ar rhe lrusiness sessit,n. I':rul Ilallingltr-. H:rnrin,,n<l I-rrmber lo. and presiclent of the California Ilct:ril Lurnberrnen's -\ssociatiorr n-as chairrn:rn of the !neeting. anrl -\llrert .-\. Israel. \\-est Coast I-unrlrer Tracle F-xtensi,,'r Ilrrreau. n':rs the spe:rker ,rf thc clar'.

-\n illustrated :rrticle ,rn 'l'he Pacihc Lumller Iornlxrn.r' neu' retai! lumber r-ard .rt Scotilt n'as in this issue.

Pacific Plyboard Company is having a grand opening of their new Builders Supermart at 2181 West Washington Blvd., Los Angeles, and a cordial invitation has been extended to their many friends, customers, and the general public to attend the month-long celebration, rvhich began on January 5.

Norman Nussbaum and Larry Miller, co-owners, both well known in wholesale and retail materials distribution for the past ten years, have expanded Pacific Plyboard Company from a 2,0N square foot warehouse to its neu' 12'000

Out of the Woods

(Continued from Page 50)

DarkSide...

Many at Montreal were just ofi the lines of fires that had blazed up from record fall droughts continent-wide. Smoke clouds huge enough to swallow atomic bomb blasts had darkened Manhattan and other metropolitan areas.

A single cigarette had unloosed fire in a National Forest, killing ancient Douglas firs on thousands of acres of America's finest stand of virgin timber. Added to this account of sacrifice to the great god, tobacco, was that of Kentucky and Virginia soil that has been cropped to death in the growing of the weed and on which tree crops ofier the only hope of restoration.

There were more dark and thorny vistas of the continental forest scene exposed by the forestry men at Montreal. But they also had light to show. It revealed that trees will grow, men will learn, and that earth is ever forgiving and ready to return good for evil.

Pacific Plyboard Company Opens New Builders Supemart

square foot Builders Supermart, including a large parking ldt. Their motto is "What You Want-When You'Want It."

The neu' Supermart is brightly iluminated and provides fqr a free flow of materials from two loading entrances. Wide aisles and high roof construction permit easy handling of plyrvoods and lumber. The adjoining parking lot will provide ample parking for all customers.

Pacific Plyboard Company carrics a complete stock of nationally advertised products. They are direct importers and distributors of many rvell known items, specializing in finished products such as doors, sash, mouldings, hardwood lumber and paneling.

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L. A. Home Builders Institute Elects Officers

K. Sande Menness, prominent Southern California community developer, has been elected president of thJ Los Angelep llome Builders Institute. He succeeds I\Iark A. Thoren of Van Nuys.

Other officers elected at the recent dinner meeting at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, are: Arthur C. \\'right, Los Angeles, first vice president; \\'alter \\-. Keusder, Los Angeles, second rice prL'sident ; Charles \\'. Getchell, Panorama Citl', third vice president; Earl L. White, North Hollyrvood, treasurer.

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Redwood Fir Pine

Colf YUkon 24945 or Tel 5F 530

West (oast Timber Products Agency

HUGH PESSNET

42O Morket St., Sqn Frqncisco | |

\UHOLESALE MANUFACTURER

"For the Yords'

Genersl ililhro*- Sosh ond Door3

Wholesole OnlY

5370 Alhqmbro Avcnuc los Angele: 32, Colifornio CApitol 2-5109

DISTRIBUT()RS OF DOUGLAS FIR PLY.WOOD

R, t[[ DATTON & CO.

WHOI.ESALD LUMBER

475 Huntington Drive Scn Mcrino 9, CaliI.-PY l-2127

Southern Lumber Gompany

Wholescrle Distributors

fir -- PinG -- Redwood

412 West 6th St.-Pqrk Centrcl Bldg.

Los Angeles 14, Calif.

TRinity 0974

B. R. Garsia Trallic Senrice

ilonqdnock Bldg., Son Frunclrco 5, YUkon 6-0509

felerype SF |OSO

For 26 yeqrs we hcve speciclized exclusinely in the trdlic crnd trcrnsportction problems ol the lumber industry.

We oller cccurqte cnd prompt freight rcrte quotctions, both rail cnd truck.

Frelght Bills Audited

los Angeles offlce 639 S. Arden Blvd.

Phone Webster 3-0927

JOe lqr(|Y t

Wholescrle Lumber-All Species

Kiqbob Pine-fo your door by truck qnd troiler

Covering S. Coll-Nevodq ond Arizonq offering FirPine - Hemlock - Cedsr - Shingles - thqkes - Plltwood ond E J. Srqnton & Son's Hqrdwoods

Friends: Colf us coffecf onylime.

Luhrs Building-Phoenix, Arizoncr Icrry Griffith-Phone 3-ll2t

Wholesrle to Lumber Yards 0nly Windows, Doors, Plywood, Moulding

We have odd Quolity

Stock Economy - Flush DoorsGum, Fir, Birch, Iflosonite

HATEY BNOS. I SAITAil(IlIICA

Phones: Texqs O-4831

Sonlq Monico, EXbrook 4-3209

sAll f0nD - [us.$l ER, I ]lc.

DISTRIBUTORS AND WHOLESALERS

Ook Stsir Treqds-Thresholds

Door Sills-Hordwood Floorings

snd Domestic Hqrdwood Lumber

Worehouse Delivery or Corlosd Shipmenlr 6IOI SO. VAN NESS AVENUE

Los Angeles 47, Cslil. Phone AXminster 2.9181

Sina L888

OFFICE, 'YIILL, YARD AND DOCKS 2nd & Alice Sfr., Ookland 4 Glencourl l-6861

California Building Pemits for Novcmber

-nr-Gg*F ----- < ::;-*;.;-- ilonufqclurers ond Wholesole Distributors FA-,. CALIFoRNIA REDwooD ' DoUGLAS FIR hr- * IDAGO IUilBER GOIIIPAI|Y

=Fi:.-32ooPE|AtrA3TRlET,oAKrAND8,cA1|FoRN|A.tEtEPHoNEolYMP|c2.24oo Itllll od Wholcrolc yod, sm||l.'J.m.1,c.l|f...?iffirFr*t.:.r-r*S#c-'.'......If|&-b:e,..c"tll.

RIGGI & ITRUSE IUiIBER G(l.

WHOIESAIE - JOBBING

Speciotizing In

TII]I IIRIEII IU]TBER

Ponderoso ond Sugor Pine

Gleor Fir ond R,edwood

912 SHOTWELI ST., sAN FRANCISCO t0, CAUF.

TETEPHONE T|I|SSTON 7-2s76

Brush lndustrial Lumber Co.

Wholesale Distributors

Hardwoodc and Softwoodr

5354 Ea* Slauron Avc.

Lor Angcla 99, Calif.

UNderhill 0-3301

'd'r

Itf. Itf. Witkinson D. Itf. Wilkinson

Hcrthcrwcry Building

6214 West Mcrrchester Ave.

Los Angeles 45, Cclifornia

NEPRESENTING

Multnomatr Plywood Corporcrtion

Nicolcri Door Mcrrulacturing Compcrry

McCormick d Boxter Creosoting Compctny

Telephone - ORegon 8-3726

SAYE-A-SPACE

lnterlor 9llding Door Unlts

ilodel t 190 Low Cost Unltt

-No longer an extrauaganceDOORMASTER

Exferior Sllding Door Unilr

Literature and prices farnished on rcqae$ COOR.PENDER & LONG CO.

1753 Elokc Avo., lor Airgolcr 3l NOrmcndir t323!

F. W. Elliott

Wholesale Forest Products

Representing

Reeves Taylor Lumber Co.

Eugcne, Orcaon

I Drumm Strecf, Scn Fronclsco I I

New Display-Mobile

Ever hear of a mobile ? In art circles this may be a bit of abstract sculpture consisting of a hank of hair and an old bone suspended from a thread so they swing freely inside a piece of bent wire or an automobile spring.

West coast plywood manufacturers have adapted this idea to the production of a unique customer-stopping display-mobile for retail lumber dealer show-rooms. The display is f':z.tured in the industr-v's hard-hitting "best buy" plywood sales promotion kit norv available to dealers everywhere. The kit is a complete package of tie-in sales aids designed to help dealers exploit to the limit.the industry's new promotion campaign billirrg Douglas fir plywood as "Today's Best Buy."

The nerv display-mobile carries five brightly colored cards in abstrac'. shapes pointing up the "best buy" theme in connection rvith general uses for plyu'ood like nerv building, remodeling, built-ins, boats and farm structures.

Sales ards in the plyrvcod promotibn kit include two big window banners. three ad mats. ten radio commercials and six bin tags featuring the "best buy" theme rvith space to mark the price. In addition. there are sample copies of plywood sales literature and home rvorkshop plans.

The material can be cbtained through plyrvood jobbers and distributors or by s'riting Douglas Fir Plvwood Association, Tacoma 2, Wash. The display-mobile is 50 cents. The packaged kit of sales aids is offered rvithout charge.

The California Redwoqd i10.000 acres in tree farms Association has certified over in the redwood region.

The first solo flight across the Atlantic from New York to Paris was made in an airplane with Sitka spruce formed wings. This plane, "The Spirit of St. Louis," was flown by Charles Lindbergh.

WANT ADS

-LIFT TRUCKS & GAN,RIENS

Rebuilr ond Guoruntd

Lift Trucks:

l-Ross Modcl 12 HT, lE,lXX, lb. cepacity, l|W Wt

2-Ross Model 19 HT, 6,0(x) lb. cepacity, tY fft

f-Ross Model 15 HT, 15,(nO lb. canscitt, 1116'Wr

l-Hyster, RT-fs{r, 15,000 lb. cepacity, LTIA nft

Carricc:

lid'Ross Modcl $796t

1-56" Rosa Uodel E(}'?255

l-Hyster todel UH 6370

R,OSs CAR,RTEN COMPANY

2700 S. Santa Fe, Lo AaSGlcr 5t Pbooc LOgan &2Zll

CARRIER,S & tTFT TRUCKS

For Sole ot lont

Following Equipmcnt Rcnrndl*t-.d Csdcr SDry Glrdcr.

Lift Tmcls:

.2-RT-19, IIJEtcr, ?Yl'-To. ...5jmm El

f-15 HT Rrxrs,I%-Tq .... 5'0O'O

Carriers:

1-12' Gcdingcr lfiodcl 4L asqtJX|

?-1f Willarearc fodcl CP - 115o.n EJ

l{2, Ross Uodcl 90 . zJmJXl

2-3t'Willernctte Uoatd CP . 3jCI.m E

l-5+' (icrlinccr Uodcl 4 UHS.. ..- 3t5O0

24 R6 fodd 12 -... .... 3J0OIX! E

246'Willancttc UoddSP 3j|n.qt E "

Wc llavc Ncr od U$d Prrt3

WESTERN DRY trILN & EQI'IPUBTTT CO.

P. O. Bol OZZ' WildUU' Cdf.

Pho. NEYrdr 6.13?l

STOP THAT CUSTOMER! New point of sale maierial of,ered ty plyrood manufaclurers for "best buy" rales- promotion ""tp"iqn is cuslomer-slopping displey-mobile. Display- h.angs i-"1 rtri ceilinq anwheie in-the showroom, is pcrt of "best tuy" iie-in p"!t"g" vhich includes radio commcrciclr, ad mals, bin lags and scles lilerafure.

Jonoory 15, 1953

WANT ADS

Rate-Position wcsrted 52.00 per column inch

All others, 53.00 per column inch

Clogiag datee lor copy, Sth crnd 20th

SMALL LUMBER BUSINESS FOR'SALE

dood 2-man operation, fast-growing suburban area 8 miles N. E. of center of Los Angeles on main blvd. Modern store and 90-ft. lumber shed. Est. gross profits S16,660 first 10 months 1952. Low overhead, Sell for inveartory (approx. $15,000), plus equip. Retiring. Phone owner, ROWLEY, days 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. RYan 1-8188, or write 34 North Raymond Ave., Pasadena l, California.

CUSTOM MILLING and KILN DRYING

McCOY PLANING MILL

3,f{D East 26ttr St., Lbs Angcles 23, Calit.

Phoire ANgclus 9-E216

WALLACE MILL and LUMBER COMPANY

General custom milling, grading and drying. ln transit Half way between Los Angeles and Long Beach.. Corner Rosecrans Ave. and Paramount BlvdP.O. Box 27, Clcerater Station

Paramount, Calif.

MEtcalf 3-426$-NEvada 6-3625 t

LEATHER LUMBER APRONS

Pacific tlectric S. P.

Noncr of Advcilircn ln thir Dcpcrtm.nt uring a bf,n l oddrcrc cannot bc dlvulgcd. All inquirio ond ropllr rhould bc cddrcscd lo kcy rhown in lhr odvortlronrnf

RELIABLE BUYER WANTS CONNECTION

Reliable commission lumber buyer covering heavy Oregon production area. would like to contact well r:ated and reliable wholesaler who is interested in arranging direct mill shipments,

Address Box C-2100, California Lumber Merchant f08 W. 6th St., Rrn 508, Los Angeles 14' Calif.

POSITION WANTED

Man with 20 year's experience in the retail lumber business desires position. Can do estimJting, counter work, some drafting, good all tround man. Will go anywhere in th. State of California.

Address Box C-2101, California Lumber Merchant Room 508, 10S W. 6th St., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

WANT MANAGER

Small yard Phoenix. Salary plus. Must be able and willing take full charge. Real opportunity for worker,

Address Box C-2098, California Lumber Merchant 16 W. 6th St., Rm. 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.

SALESMAN WANTED

Exclusive territory in California. Man experienced in carrier and lift truck salei preferable. Exceptional oppoftunity for right man. THE ROSS CARRIER COMPANY 2440 Third Street, San Francisco 7, California

POSITION WANTED

Lumberman-over 20 years experience-wholesale-retail-selliggbuyrng. Would like connection with L' A. wholesaler or yard. Well acquainted locally. Salary or commission.

Sturdy lumbermen'e aprons made of top quality reclaimcd lcather, furnished in both single and double ply, appror. tV't2(' with or without belt and buckle. Special discounts to jobbers.

HENDRIE BELTING & RUBBTR CO.

rO5 Towne Ave., Los Angelce 13, Qalif.

Phone TRinity 77E6

CAR UNLOADING CONTRACTORS

Erperienced labor furnished to unload and sort lumber cars.

O.P.S. printed rates upon request. Established 1943.

Address Box C-2099, California Lumber Merchant 108 W. 6th St., Rm. 5OB, Los Angeles 14, Calif-

BUYER WANTS PERMANENT CONNECTION

Several good fir and redwood rnill outputs nrow available by e-xperienced Suyer wanting permanent connection with reliable wholesaler.

Address Box 58, Ferndale, California

POSITION WANTED

Man with 10 years lumber experience, both inside and selling, desires position. Prefcrs Southern California.

CRANE & CO.

1417 E. lzth st. TR. 6973 Los Angeles, Cdif.

WANTED

Work for 15,000 lb. Ross Fork Lift, dso lumber trucks. 235 S. Kellogg, Fullerton, Calif.

Phone eve. LAmbert 5-3EE2

Rotes reasonable

WOODWOR,KING MACH IN ERY

Complete

YATES.AMERICAN LINE

Machines-Cutterhcads-Knives-Parts

DON G. JENNESS COMPANY

3010 E. Olympic Blvd. Los Angeles 23 ANgelus 9-7378

Address Box C-21(2. California Lumber Merchant Room 508, l0S W. 6th St., Loe Angeles 14, Calif.

SOUTHER,N CATIFORNIA IUMBER, COMPANY FOR SAIE

Three yards located in Orange County, established over 50 years ago. Best of reasons for selling.

Ventura County yard, sales about Sl5,fiD monthly. Will cost $20,000 including ground, buildings, trucks & equipment. Inventory about S20,fi)0 additional. This yard in a fine district, makes a vcry good impression. Books open to qualified parties.

If you want to sell your yard, give us a ring.

TWOHY LUMBER CO.

LUMBER YARD AND SAWMILL BROTERS

714 W, Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles 15' Calif.

PRospect E7,16

FOR SALE

Lumber yard and custom planing rnill, 42 miles north of San Francisco. Planing mill, Ross fork lift, and all equipment can be purchased as a unit separate from the property. Rt. 2, Box 345-8, Sonoma, Calif. ' Telephone Sonoma 2781

INDEX TO ADYERTISERS

*Adverliring oppeor in ohemqfe i3.!er Xuhl Lmber Co., Corl H. -52

Appointed Assistant Fire Chiel

Aoe 5ch Bolqce Co.

* l. A. Dry Xiln t Storoge, Inc. -------.--..-.-* Almo< Wood Indutltiet, l*. - ------------,--,1 lmon lunrber Co"'-"'-"""" -""- --------'-"" *

Aneri.on Hordwod C.. ------- -.-.-...-......-* Lowrenc+Philipr Lmber Co. ..-.--.----......---25 Ameti(on Lunber & leroting Co. .--.-,.,----,.39 Leretl Lunbet Co' -- -----

A$o.iqted Plywoo-d

Loig-lell lmber Co'

Regional Forester Clare Hendee announced the appointment of Richard F. Droege to the position of Assistant Fire Chief of the California region. He took up his nerv duties on Januarv l. 1953. IIr. Droege n'as formerlv Fire Chief of the Los Padres National Fcrest. Santa Barbara. Calif.

Remodels Store cmd Office Building

Tempe Lumber Companv, Tempe, -\rizona, has remodeled its office and store buildrng. Paneling is used on the front of the building, and stucco is used on the area above the marquee. The number of rvindos's on the front have been increased from three to six, and office space has also been considerablv enlarged. Grover Stanlev is vard manager.

Bob Forgie, Stockton Lumber Co., Stockton, and l\[rs. Forgie, rvere the guests of their son Jim in Los Angeles over the holidays. Bob attendcC a couple sessions of the Los Angeles Open go!f tournamerrt held at the Rivera Country Club, Santa trfonica.

Olltuaa,aa

Huag Doo llfg. Co.

leel Lmbs swice........-..-...--..-..---.-_.-......

Percl'H. Winsor

Percy H. \\'insor, 63. of Glendale, passed as'av in a Burbank hospital Saturdav evening. Januarv 3 follorving a heart attack

Eef r-Wof ker Pf ywood

Empire Redwood Co.

tic<i t l(ue Lmbcr Co.

Ro:: Corrier Co. ....--............_.,.-...--..--......-...

Emr<o Plywood .--....-...-.. : loundr lmber Cmpony

Es:ley E 5on, D. C. --,,.....-....-..-. * toy Forert P.oduct! Co. ___.---.-4( .....-.-*

Eubonkr E 5o, 1,. H. ...-.---..-.-------,-,--.--.---- 'l tcf, A.fhur B. --..---.,-..---.-.-.----.-..-.........__---_.-.15

Evqni Forert Productr, Inc. - -.....--:

-...............................2. l,;;; C;-p;;. rhe .._......._......,.._,..._........ r

Hoil co., Joer r. ._........,,. 1 ul-i. rr_!J'io.p. ..._..,._.,._.,..-......_......... 9

Horrir I'mbcr co.' L. E. i i- l.iii.lionir Lmbar Go., ln<. ......-.53

Born in Kansas Citv, Kansas, he had been a resident of Southern California for 45 vears. and rvas associated rvith the mills'ork industrv for manv years. He carried on a brokerage business specializing in mouldings.

He is survived b)r his rvidorv, Irfrs. Irene Winsor; trvo sons, Dell \\;insor, Dell Lumber Co., Studio Citl-. and Norman \Vinsor, Great \\Iestern Lumber Co., Glendale; a daughter, Mrs. I\farilvn Bell ; trvo brothers. a sister. and trvo grandchildren.

Funeral sen'ices u'ere conducted b1'the Palestine Masonic Lodge in the Wee Kirk o' the Heather. Forest Larvn IIemorial Park. Glendale. Tuesdav afternoon. lanuarr' 6.

Chcrles I. Alexander

Hedtund !umber soter, Inc. ..,..--..-:--.-...--; virginio Hordrood co' ----"-----'-'-"--------- ---51

Heberle t Co., t. J.

Hmningr Lmber Co. - .- .....--..---.---- ladlitrg-Nothon Co' """"""""""""""'---'-35

Heron Limber Go., In<. .,-.-.,.-...--..-------------- a Wof C@t t(s Co' """"""""""""""'-rl2

Highlod tmbe, io. .. - -- ----------- I W"tt CGt Timbcr ?rcductr Ag"nty "-""n

Hiil Lmbe. Go., Roy -.-..--..-----. ,.,--..--..---.-- a Wat OEco Lmbcr Co' """ ----""-" """ r Hill ! ilorton, 1".. ...-.---..-..--.,-....--------..----Zf W6lGm Cslm mitl, ]tr' '-"" """""""" "'5

Hobbr Woll Lunba Co. .-........-..-.-..-----...-_3:f W6f.n O@r dd Sqh Co. ..-..-.-_.-.----.._--. I

Hofncr Eurelo lmbcr Co. ____..---_----------1, Yy6tm D.y Xiln --..------..-.-.....-......-..----....-- a Hogo lumber Co. ,...,...-,.--..-..--..-.-..-----.----55 Wolm Hqdboord ----------"-- -- """"""-------- '

Hoiwr Co., A. t. .-..---.-,--....---..---------------..--55

Charles John Alexander, 58. oNner of the Joslvn-Alexander Co.. Inglewood, passed arvay suddenlv on December 22 in the Centinela Hospital. follorving a heart attack.

Born in London, England, Mr. Alexander came to Southern California 29 years ago, and before going in the lumber business, he was a general contractor. He rvas a member of the Masonic Lodge.

3ola Co.

Whif' !Prht:- --"""--"""""""""""'-""""" ' Johni-ilovillc Cqgorcfion !!!1t9, t!"qt {. -..-. ...-....--..........--....--.-...-a2 Johnro twber Gon., C. D. --..-.-...---------- 7 W-holaolc tmba Dirtributq, hc. ....--"'- t Jordo Sqh r Ds; 'Cs., F.-.nrl:...... ....-. Willimo, W' W' " " ''"'-" """""""""""57 Jordo Sorh I Doa Co., i. t. .,,,--.----..... I l!ln-.! tmbcr- Co', A. |(' ......-...--.--.---'..'- t Kelley, Albcrt A. -....-..--....-.-----------------.----.-51 lttiadclcr Cc-., ttd., Gcorge --..-.----.-...------.-- ' Kendcil Lmbcr Dirrribetor a WiDt6 tmbcr tolq Cc. ..-......-----------------57 (ir5y, Jim !!o"{, Eotl F. ..-'--'-"" ' --" """ --'-"-'-"'--"-' ' Kniglrr-Hcdro. In<. -.-.---- | Wood tmbq Co.' C. I. '..........--...----'---'---- r XGhl t lon, lnc., John W. .--,,---------..,---- I Zermo Plywod Co. ..-.--.,-.-,...,...-,-,-.---.-.. *

lvory Pine Co. of Golif.

Surviving are his u'idow, Mrs. Eva M. Alexander. and trvo sisters, Mrs. Edward Tynan of Easton. Pa.. and l{rs. Fred Goold of Ottau'a. Canada.

Funeral services rvere conducted at the Church of the Recessional. Forest Larvn \femorial Park. Glendale. on December 26.

LII\'IBEB

BUYER'S GUIDE

SAIU TRANGISGO

Lcnon Lumber Co...... ...Ylllroa 2-{i176

The Long-Bell Lunber Co.. .EXbrooL 2-8696

Lunber Scles Co. .... ...VAlencic 6-4970

Mqrtiaez Co., L. W.. .EXbrook 2-36{{

Pccilic Lumber Co., The. .GArlield l-3717

Padulc Lunber Co., E. A, ......EXbrook 2-5524

Pcrmiao Lunber Co.. ..

DOuglcs 2-2561 .......Mlssiou 7-2576 ........YULon 6-0912 ........EXlrooL 2-2074 Inc.. .DOuglcs 2-2060 Co..... .Skyline 2-2050 .SUtter l-019I

OAKIAND-BERKDLEY-AIAMEDA

Pccilic Forest Productg, Iac,.....TWinockg 3-9886

Triogle Lunbor Co.. ..TEmptebcr 2-5855 PLYWOOD-MIIIWORI

.Lockhwcn 9-1661 .....ANdover l-1077

..Olympic 2-2400

.Lclchurgt 2-2754

LAkehurst 3-5550

Aagclua Fir d Pine Sales Co. (Scn Mcriao) PYrqnid l-2172

Arcclc Eedwood Co. (J. I. Bcc) ..WYomirg ll09

Atkinso!-Stut! Co. (E. W. "Ed"

Gould) . ......CApitol {269

Atlcatic Lunbcr Co. (C. P. Henry d Co.)

Auag Lumber co. .... . .:lt:itr$ iiiS

BccL fumbor Co,, l. Wn, .trDanr l-4il8l

Bcugh, Ccrl W. (Pcradsac) ...RYca l-5382 SYcqmore 5-2525

Blirs & Gctes Lunber Co. ......UNderhill 0-3{5{

Brom d Compcny, Clcy .YOIL 1168

Bruab Indusiricl Lunbcr Co. ....IlNderhill 0-3301

Buns Luber Coapcny .WEbster 3-5861

Cclilornicr Soltwood Sales ........CApitol 2-028{ (Volatedt-Kerr Lbr. Co. oI McMinaville, Orc.

Ccrr G Co., L. I. (W. D. Duuaing) PRospect 8843

Chqntlcd qnd f,gociotcg, P. W. AXministcr 5296

Cbcnry Lumber Co. (Burae fumber Co.) .WEbster 3-5861

Gcorgo Clough .DUnLirk 2-2214

Coarolldatod Lumber Co. ........Rlchmond 2l{l (Wilnfagroa) ......NE. 6-188t Wilm. Tet. 4-2637

Coopcr-Morgoa Lunber Co. Willrcd T. Cooper Lbr. Co. (Gleadcle) CHcpmca 5-4800

Cooper Whobaclc l.umber Co., W. E. ..YOrk 8238

Corby Lunbor Co. (South Gcte ....fOrcia 6-5121

Dcltoo 6 Co- R' W' (Scn Mcriao)""rcmid l-2127

Dant ll Ruoll Sclu Co, ...ADcmg 8l0l

Dell Lumber Corp. (Studio City) ..STcnley 7-5606

Al Drny Lunber Co, .....ANgelus 0856

Deaair Lunber Conpcny .......BRcdahcw 2-5$ll

Donovcr Co., lnc. ..ADcng l-{i105

Emlcy, D. C. ll Son .IINderbill 0-ll{7

Fcirhurst Luobcr Co. o{ Ccli!. (Loe Aagclo Lurbar , Iac.)....MAdisoa 8-9134

FisL G Maron (So. Psscdeaa) ....PYrcnid l-1197 SYccmore 9-2574

Eril Flcner (Loag Bcccb)..L.8. 6-5237; NE 6-2724

Forort Productr Saler Co. (Inglewood)

Pl.ecgqnt 3-ll4l

Frrono d Co., Stcphen G. (Bqlboc) Harbot 2O2l

Ed. Fountqin Luber Co, LOso 8-2331

Gotr Eros, 6 Co. .Rlch-ond gl78

Gorlia-Ilardiag Luaber Co. (Joc Porash) .......ANselua 3-6951

Eqnnoad Lunber Compcay ...PBospect 7l7l

HsrrL Lunbor Co., L. E, ........DUukirk 2-2301

Hoborb ll Co., R. l. (Conpioa) ..NEvcdc 6-2595

Twia Hcrbors Lunber Co, ...ENterprise l-0036 Boy Plywood Conpcay.........Glencoun 2'?N, Westen Drv Eiln Co............LOckhcven 8-328{ CqliloEic Bulldera Supply Co...TEnplebcr '!'8383 We:ten Piae Supply Co. Diamond W. Supply Co. .....f,Ellog {-8{66 (Emeryville) .:....... .Plej:l9at 5-?322 i-g"o ptr-ooa ..XEUog 6_{233

E, K. Wood Lumber Co......-__.....EEltog {-8{66 ilgooL*b", CoEpqDy ........Gltrencourt l-6g61 IrAnDwooDs uited Srcies Pl!ryood corp. ....T\ivinoqt! 3-551{ Bi;'"ii""fi;,F;*i'

fgffi ivl","- Door r! Sceb co. .....rEoptcbcr 2-8{00 Whitc Brothcr

TOS ANGEI.ES

lvory Piac Co. ol Cqlil. (Mourovic)..Eltiot 8-1151 CBESOTED LUMBEB-POLES-PILING-TIES Kendqll Lumbcr Distribuiors ......PRospect 53{l Ancriccn Lumber ll Trectiag Co...MAdison 8-5!!8 Kirby, Iia. .Rlch6ond 9392 Bqxter J. H, d Co. Kubl Luabcr Co., Cqrl H. McConic} d Bqxtor Crcorotiag Co. R. S. Oesood ....TRinilv &t25 ORegon 8-3726

Lcwrence-Pbitipg Lumber Co. ..Bnc&haw 2-437 Pope ll Tclbot, Inc., Lumbcr Divirion PRospect 8231 Lerrett Lunber Co.. Inc. .ANgolug 3-6165 IIf,RDWOODS

The Loag Bell Luber Co. .DUnldrL ?-13d7 Bruco Co., E. L. .Pfeqaqnt 3-ll0l Los Angeler Dry Kila d Storcge, Iac. Anericca.Hcrdwood Co. ...'.."..Pn::n."! !.2!I

jiilgelus 3-62?3 5!19".!l-I::S9.;:"';:"" *Tglf llp Los Ansolcr Inc. .... .MA 0-9134 il,1tf,ii,r-,.iili1j'r-i,l.i-1--d^" " "ri

Anseler Dry Kila G storcae' tTi,-.,-. .-.rr" f-,fitir-fi,'t:l'.i.91..::::::::::TTfifi?il l3H r.os Ansor* Lurnbcr, rnc. .... ' ..:ffi ffi;; B:Hit"rt":3li'rSi1,1".io:.:::.ii'fL',ffi"b-8l|?

Los-Ccl Lumber Co. .lEttcrson 6234 GJI"U", Hardwood co. ........'.'.pieqi*t Z-Si9S Luber Itfill d Supply Co. ...ANgelue 3-2503 f,fcfiuev HcrdwoJd Co. .LOrain 9-?1155

MccDoncld Co., L. W. .Bnqdsbcw 2-5101 Penberth;' Luber Co.

Olseu-Ccrpenter Lunber Co. PLYWOOD-TNONING BOARDS (Bevcrty Hitts) .BRadsbqw 2-8651 er-"" wiiii""aiiiiil,"illjll..1Yfif,li"" a-rss{ Oesood, Roberr S. .DUnLirk 2-8278 i*."i"iJJ-t{ol-a:ac-e;: :......UNd;hill g-g??!

Pccilic Fir Scles (Pcrcdenc) .. .SYccnore 6-4328 Bqct Pqacl Compcay ...ADor !-!!!! ----B-Y; i-di65 Bsl-Air Door Co.- (f,lhcmbrc) CUnberlcad 3'373I BYo l-8103 Eal-Air Co. (AlbaEltrc' (;umDotlclq o' Pccilic Lunber Co., Thc .....Yort< 1168 Coliloniq Door Compcny ol Pccilic Forest Productg, tac. (Dick LcFrcn-chi)---- ,Lof ASgolas, Thf r_....-...:........{tgUgU TUcler 1232

Pqcilic Wesien Lumbcr Co. ol Calil.. Inc. (Pc:cdenc) SYccmorc 6-8869-L,4. RYca I-8123 Pope d Tclbot, Iac., Luber Divigion R 6 E Lunbcr co. ..... .trff:8""1-333; E, L, Reitz Co,, Ocecn Center Bldg. (Long Becch) ......Long Becch 6-964? Bouadg Lunber Co. (Loug Beacb) NEvcdc 6-4056 trong Beccb 7i2781 Roy Forest Productg Co. (Vcn Nuys) STcte 5-ll{r Budbqcb 6 Co., loha A. ............TUcter 5llg

Sieuc Redwood Co. Souihern Lumber Co. Spclding Lunber Co.

.WEbsier l-8165

....TOpqz 9-1081

.....TBinity 0374 IlNdcrhill 0-1281

StdntoD, E. I. d Son .. .ADans il-9211

Sudden d Christouo!, Iac. .TRiniry 884i1

Tsconq Lumbar Scles, Iac. ......MAdison 5-6831

....TBinily 2282

......YOIL 1168

Blch-ond 7-0505

Hill d Morton, Inc.

lfunniag3 Lumber Co.. .NOrncndy l-2143 .BRcdsbcw 2-d375

Ecrl Holloca Co.

Holocg Eurcka Lunber Co.

Hoovrr Co., A. L.

CRestview 6-7164

OBegor 8-5{ll9

....MUtucl 9l8l

Tcrdy, Ioe .WEbster 3-0327 Tcrler, Webster d tohnson, Iac. ...ANgelus 9-7231 Tropiccl d Weglen Luriber Co.....LOgqq 8-2375 S. A. Troxel Lunber Co. .IlNderhill 0-19{{ Twiu-City trunber Co. .BRadshcw 2-167{ Twia Harbos Lunber Co. (C, P. Heary d Co.) .PRospect 652{ Union Lumber Conpoy Weadling-Ncthcu Co, ... Weyerbceuser Scleg Co. Weslern Pile Lumber Co. (Huntiagtoa Park) LOscu 8-4215 liUs)

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