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r "Just what all does Bruce make?" Here's the answer to that often-asked question. All these products are either made of wood or, as in the case of Bruce Floor Finishes and Terminix, developed for the maintenance and preservation of wood. They are right at the top in their fields and backed by 35 years of Bruce experience and research in flooring and wood products.

The first cooperative forest in second growth Douglas fir has been established by agreement between the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. and the Pacific Northwest forest and range experiment station. The tract is 20 miles southeast of Tacoma on land long since logged by the company. Second growth is now large enough to thin commercially. The agreement provides that the forest service will lay out plans for cuttings and analyze results.

"We want to work out the best methods to get maximum growth and value on a permanent basis," said Norman G. Jacobson, chief forester for the company.

The lease agreement anticipates a fuyear program of forest management research in growing methods, wood utilization, and costs and returns.

Arizoncr Deqlers WilI HoId Annucrl Convention Mcry 14-16

Gus R. Michaels, Phoenix, secretary-manager of the Arizona Retail Lumber and Builders Supply Association, fnc., announces that the Association rvill hold its annual convention at the Grand Canyon, Arizona, on May 14-15-16, 1948.

Orcrnge County Hoo-Hoo

Headed by Les Steffensen, of the Barr Lumber Company, Santa Ana, a movement is under way to activate the Hoo-Hoo Club of Orange County, which will take in the outlying cities of that area.

Meetings are being held with lumber executives of Santa Ana, Orange, Fullerton, Anaheim, Costa Mesa, and other various Beach cities, and it is expected they will make plans for a concatenation during the early spring. Roy Stanton, Sr., Supreme Junior Hoo-Hoo, and a large delegation of Hoo-Hoo members from Los Angeles, 'rvill attend the concatenation.

Appointed Sales Manager

Charles A. Zahlout, Portland, has been appointed sales manager of Portland Shingle Company.

Announcement of the appointment was made by Alfred Schmidt, president and general manager of the company.

Mr. Zahlout's first assignment will be the introduction of Patch Pack. Patch Pack. a new patented product, is an especially packaged shingle repair kit designed for use by the average home and farm owner. The Patch Pack contains a new type of tapered shingle.

Mr. Zahlout rvill be in charge of sales in the eleven rvestern states for Patch Pack, Skookum Shakes, and Portland Brend Shingles. He r,vas formerly of Vallejo, California. Patch Pack will be introduced first on the Pacific Coast, and the company plans later to further expand distribution on a national scale.

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Meeting

There was a large attendance at the Los Angeles HooHoo Club lun,cheon meeting at the Elks Club on January 13. Art Penberthy, Tacoma Lumber Sales, Los Angeles, told of his experiences shipping logs from Mexico into this country, which made an interesting story, and Carl Crorv, Portland, publisher of Crow's Pacific Coast Lumber Digest and Crow's Weekly Letter, gave a fine talk on lumber market conditions.

The membe'rs voted to reserve a round table at the fndustry Club, 5944 Avalon Blvd., Los Angeles, on Tuesday of each week and all lumbermen are invited to sit in for lunch.

President Paul Orban presided. He announced that the next luncheon meeting will be held at the Elks Club, Tuesday, February 10.

Discusses Plywood Situation

Lawrencs Ottinger, president of the United States plywood Corporation, states:

"Demand for plywood continues to exceed supply and the gray market still persists. Additional plants are being built, some of which lvill come into production early in 1948 and Some not until the end of the year. The total new produ,ction is not likely to expand present facilities by more than approximately l0/o.

"Basic prices at the mills have advanced considerably during the year due in part to higher prices for timber and labor.

"The extremely high prices demanded by distributors, Iegitimate and illegitimate, have had their efiect upon mill prices since rrianufacturers seem less inclined to hold their prices down if in so doing they are not benefiting the ultimate consumer.

"ff the anti-inflation bill recently signed by the president, r,vill permit the manulacturers as a group to limit resale markups, a sharp reduction in the price of lumber and plywood to the consumer is likelv to result.,,

Lumbermen's Hi-Jinks

The Lumbermen's Hi-Jinks, sponsored by Lumbermen's Post No. 403 of the American Legion, was held in the Rainbow Isle, Mayfair Hotel, Los Angeles, Friday evening, January 23, and was a very successful party, over 25O attending.

After dinner there was a fine floor show with Al Herman as master of ceremonies whi.ch was enjoyed by the big crorvd. The entertainment rvas Turnished bv the Lou Dorn Theatrical Agency of Hollywood.

In the prize drawing contest, C. H. Henry, Capitol Chair Co., Culver City, won the first prize, a leather brief case. Art Milliken, Viney-Milliken Lumber Co., Covina, was awarded the second prize, a fountain pen and pencil.

Don Gow was chairman of the Arrangements Committee, and was assisted by Post Commander Randy Seguine, Harold Hamilton and George Stow.

Lumber Co., Portland, spent and Los Angeles when en-

\(/estern. Pine Production Breaks Record High Production Follows High Prices, ln 1947; Small Mills Responsible Hardwood Lumberman Testifies

Washington, D. C., !an' 12, 1948.-"Housing publicity has greatly exaggerated the efiect of present lumber prices upon housing costs," lumber manufacturer A. J. Glassow, Bend, Oregon, told members of the Joint Committee on Housing at an open hearing this morning. Mr. Glassow is vice president and general manager of the Bend division of Brooks-Scanlon, Incorporated.

Speaking for the 'Western Pine industry, Mr. Glassow pointed out that, despite all contrary publi'city, the average home requires less than 10 thousand board feet of lumber. "Any change in the cost of lumber would account for only a very small part of the difierence between present and prewar housing costs," he said.

Pointing to the all-time high in production established by the Western Pine region in 1947 as visual evidence that the industry is making every effort to supply the nation with the lumber it needs, Mr. Glassow presented statistics to illustrate the direct relationship between this high production and present high prices of lumber.

"substantial increases in lumber production are accomplished only when the number of productive units is increased. Such increase in productive units, and hence output is dependent upon rising prices," he asserted.

The statistical data contrasted the low production, low prices, and small number of mills in operations during the "thirties" with the 2400 mills which turned out six and three quarter billion board feet of western pine in 1947.

Mr. Glassow stated that artificial depression of prices under OPA stifled production once the win-the-war motive was gone, and created scarcities and a scramble for available supply

"The general level of housing costs cannot be expected to decline in any amount so long as this country's present wage levels are maintained, current labor efficiency continues and the government fiscal, export and home loan policies are unchanged," Mr. Glassow concluded.

Carl Bahr, manager of The Pacific Lumber Company's 'Chicago office, arrived in San Francisco January 15 to spend several weeks at the company's San Francisco office, and their plant at Scotia, Calif.

Washington, D.C., Jan. 12, L948 The Congressional Joint Committee on Housing heard testimony today on conditions in the hardwood lumber industry by lumber manufacturer John B. Veach, Washington, D.C., president of the Appalachian Hardwood Manufacturers Association. Representing the small mills which account for the bulk of total production of hardwoods, Mr. Veach told the Committee that the number of these mills in operation has increased from 14,000 in 1938 to 45,000 in 1947. Production of hardwoods in 1947 broke all records since before World War I, he stated.

"It is historical in the lumber industry that a substantial increase in the price of lumber has always been followed by a startling increase in production," Mr. Veach stated. adding that whenever this production resulted in oversupply prices automatically dropped.

Terming present demands "inordinate," the sjokesman told the Committee that the industry has gone "all out and has spared no effort to meet the unanticipated situation." "Government control cannot increase the quantity of available lumber, either present or future. The history of such control demonstrates that it has the reverse effect of retarding and reducing production," he emphasized.

Mr. Veach called attention to the industry's long range program to provide adequate lumber at reasonable cost through improvements in plant and equipment, discovering neans of obtaining greater utilization of the log, and growing its own trees for tomorrow's use.

"It must be remembered that only through profits can American industry modernize and expand its plant structure. There is no other source for this vast sum except the industry's profit margin. The buying polver of the corporate dollar, or the small mill man's dollar shrunk in exactly the same proportion as the laborer's dollar and the farmer's dollar." he reminded the Committee.

Kenneth O'Rourke, Houston Sash & Door Co., Houston, Texas, and his wife, have returned from a vacation trip to Southern Califronia. While in Los Angeles Mr. O'Rourke paid a visit to the West Coast Screen Co., for which his firm is a Texas sales representative.

The Villqge Preccher

(From Goldsmith's "Deserted Village.")

At church, with meek and una,ffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With ready zeal each honest rustic ran; E'en children followed with endearing wile, And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile. His ready smile a parent's joy expressed, Their welfare pleased him, and their cares distressed; To the,m his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thought had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread' Eternal sunshine settles on its head.

GettingAnd Keeping In Tune

We may be poverty poor, or rich in this wodd's goods.

We may walk on crutches, or run in the glory of perfect health.

We may live in the flower garden of beautiful dreams, or in the thicket of stern reality.

We may have the daily companionship of the most beautiful rose in the Garden of Love, or tread the by-ways of life, alone.

We may ride the softened cushions of a Rolls-Royce, or travel the dusty roads on foot.

But it makes little difrerence if we KEEP OUR HEARTS IN TUNE WITH THE. INFINITE PLAN.

Plan for good, face today's problems with courage, and meet our fellowmen with the smile of happiness.

Yes, it takes backbone to do it, and sometimes the smile must work its way out through the tears.

But that's Service, and you know, "'Ife profits most who serves best."

-Chili Sauce.

The Only Wcy Out

A negro with a damaged head came into the doctor's office.

"Hello, Sam. Get cut up again?" ttYassuh."

"Why don't you stay out of bad company and then you won't get hurt so often?"

"Ah'd lak to," said Sam, "but Ah caint git nuff money togetheh to buy me a deevoce."

The Truly Poor Mqn

A man is poor when he gets out of tune with his environments, when his friends have lost confidence in him, when he has but dark pictures on the walls of his inner life, when his character is diseased and dishonest tricks of evasion dominate his heart and soul' He is indeed poor when he puts something over his friends at the expense of his character, when the Golden Rule ceases to direct his thoughts and his everyday actions. When a man's character is spotted by dirty tricks of his own conceiving, he is facing the most abject poverty. A man is not necessarily poor because he has little of this world's possessions. If he maintains his integrity, keeps his character unblemished and square to the world, he is not poor, even though hunger is staring him in the face and he has no place to lay his head.

_Frank O,Donnell.

Johnny Asked A Tough One

The head of the family, pipe in hand and newspaPer outspread, had settled into his favorite chair for a peaceful hour before bedtime.

On the other side of the table sat his son, Johnny, his 8-year old forehead indicating that he was wrestling with some most serious problem. He looked toward his comfort-loving parent, and with hopeless inflection asked: ttPa.tt

"Yes, my son."

"Can I ask you a question?"

"Certainly, son,"

"Pa, can the Lord make anything?"

"Yes, my boy."

..ANYTHING?''

"Of course, son, why?"

"Pa, could He make a clock that would strike less than one ?"

"Son, go right upstairs to bed. You see Ilm busy."

And After That

"flow long yo' in jail fo', Mose?"

"Two weeks."

"'What am de charge?"

"No charge. Evathing's free."

"Ah means, what did youall did?"

"Shot mah wife."

"Youall killed yo'wife an' only in jail fo' two weeks?"

"Uh huh. After dat ah gits hung."

And He Still Thought So

This country's going straight to heck, My granddad told me so.

The old gent ought to know.

I asked him why he was so sure; He said long years and years agoHis granddad told him so.

Training Course For Retail Lumber Personnel To Be Held In Los Angeles

Orrie W. Hamilton, secretary-manager of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association, announces that arrangements have been completed to conduct another Short Training Course for lumber yard personnel at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, beginning March I, L948, and terminating April 9.

The course has been approved by the Veterans, Administration for training of veterans under Public Law No. 346. This means that tuition fee not exceeding $50.00, and books, supplies and equipment not in excess of $25.00, and sustenance in the amount of $90.00 per month for married veterans and $65.00 per month for single veterans will be paid to veterans who qualify.

The coursg is open to veterans, employees or prospective employees of retail lumber companies. Applications will be filed with the Southern California Retail Lumber Association, Los Angeles.

Portlcrnd Wholesclers Elect Officers

Robert B. Kuhl, Carl H. Kuhl Lumber Co., has been elected president of the Portland Wholesale Lumbermen's Association, succeeding Martin W. parelius of the Parelius Lumber Co. Other officers are Clare A. Miller, Bert D. Campbell & Co., vice president, and R. H. Bunnage, Karlen-Davis Company, secretary-treasurer.

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