JAMES L. HALL CO.

PHONE: SUtter l-752(' lo42 Mltls BUID|NG, SAN FRANCTSCO 4, CAuF. .- TWX S.F. g64 trADlult, BIEACHER ond ourDooR sEArtNo, HEAVY GoNStRucnor t AriRtArs, pot:s, TtEs, pAttETs. posrs, p1.tNc PORI OnFOtD CEDAR (Whirc Codcr or lcwron Cyprors)_AtASKA (ycllow) CEDAR_DOUGLAS Ftt rED CEDAI-TEDWOOD (SPIIT T SCWN)-SIIXA SPTUCE-WESTERN HEMIOCK_SUGAR PINE-PONDENOSA PINE

Normqn Dqvidson Esfqblishes New Compony

Norman Davidson, former president of Davidson plywood and Lumber Company of Los Angeles, has opened offices in the Statler Center for his new firm, the pacific \\'oocl products Company, and u'ill engage in the importation of Foreign plywoods and \/eneers.

"The Pacific Wood Products Company has been established for the express purpose to furnish imported and domestic plywoods and lumber to wholesale organizations ancl clistributors in the \\'restern States and will be operated on a cargo and direct shipment basis," said Nf r. Davidson. The companv also expects to handle domestic plywoods and lurnber as it presently represents mills in the Pacific Northwest for this purpose.

XIarch lst IIr. Davidson u.ill leave for an extensive survey trip to the Orient and will open procurement offices in Osaka, Japan and Manila, Philippine Islands. He expects to return during June to Los Angeles before making a European trip later in the summer. His firrn will handle both Criental an<l European plyrvoocls and veneers for the west coast trade.

During his absence the Los Angeles office will be handled by Hilda Adkins, well known in Southern California, Washington and Oregon lumber circles.

Weyerhoeuser Hordboqrds Introduced

(Continued from page 38) ment, mirror backs, furniture panels, drarver bottoms, slid_ ing cabinet doors, display racks, core materials for veneers and metals and plastics, perforated board, ply.rvood-andhardboard combinations called "Plyron," die-cut boarcls, template boards, interior dry-wall panels, tiling, millrvork items, toys, novelties, containers, u'indorv valances, home radiator covers, n'indol' seats. card table tops, bed headboards, rvaste-baskets, door panels, and many others.

The regular types of Weyerhaeuser hardboard are being made in four thicknesses : 1/l0th-inch 1/8th-inch, 3/1(iinch, and l/4th-inch. The board intended for floor underlayment rvill be 7/32nds of an inch thick. Tailored boarrls can be made in varying thicknesses, densities ,and types. Panel sizes for all types and thicknesses rvill be 4 feet rvide and up to 16 feet long.

Incluiries should be addressed to Hardboarcl Sales, Weyerhaeuser Sales Company, St. Paul, N{innesota.

lliltEns0il UilotESAtE LBn. $LES

36 N. Mcrengo Avenue

Posadeno f , Colifornio

"foketee" Doug. Fir WHOLESALE ONfy ldoho Whire pine Di?ect mill

Ponderoso Pine

Shipments

Sugcr Pine illl1s

Incense & Weslern Gedor Xlomoth Fclls, Ctregon Oregon White Fir Redding, Gotiforniq

RYqn l-7559

TWX-Poso Cq'l.7259

Sycqmore S-275s

Pacitic Lumher lfealers $upply Im.

25914 President Ave., Hortor Clty, Collf. P. O. Box 567

Telephone DAvenport 6-6273

Monufoctureri ond Jobberi of SASH AND DOORS

TO THE RETAIL LUTTBER, DEATER

Want Ads

R<rte-Position wcmted $2.00 per colurnn incb

All others, $3.00 per colunn inch Cloriug dctes lor cop& Sth cnd 20tb

Lumber Buyer Available

Reliable established buyer with excellent mill connections would like to contact wholesaler who would be interested in direct mill buying representation in Oregon and Northern California.

Address Box C-22L4, California Lumber Merchant

108 West 6th Street, Los Angeles 14, Calif.

For Sale

Lumber and Builders Hardware business-l952 sales $250,000.001953 will be over $300,000.00. Fastest growing community in Orange County. Three trucks, One-7{-ton 1951 Hyster-power sawmodern store building built in 1951-lumber sheds. A real goirrg business. Buildings and equipment $25,000.00, plus inventory at our cost.

Address Box C-2OL, California Lumber Merchant

108 West 6th St., Room .508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.

Position Wanted

Sales Manager for Southern California available. Hardwood and softwood lumber, plywood and doors, Have directed sales to over 2,flX) dealers and industrial users. Volume potential limited only by available captial.

Address Box C-22L6, California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th Street, Room 508, Los Angeles 14 Calif.

Leather Lumber Aprons

Sturdy lumbermen'e aprons made of top qudity reclaimed lcather, furnished in both single and double ply, approx. lA'x24" with or without belt and buckle. Special discounts to jobbers.

HENDRIE BELTING & RUBBER CO.

1105 Towne Ave., Los Angeles 13, Calif.

Phone TRinity 77E6

Car Unloading Contractors

FREE f953-54 printed price list malled upon request. Our-eleventh year, furnishing experienced labor fo unload and sort lumbcr cars. One-day service.

CRANE & COMPANY

1417 E. t2th St. Los Angeles, Cal. TR. 6973

SALESMAN WANTED

Mill Distributor desires Lumber Sales Representative to contact major Contractors and Industrial Lumber Accounts in Southwest Teiritory. State age, experience and qualifications.

Address Box C-2217, California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th Street, Room 508, Los Angeles 14' Calif.

B UY_S EL L_REPAIR_S ERV I CE

Fork Lifts and Straddle Trucks. Cdmplete shop and field service. Portable Welding, Special Fabrication, Steam Cleaning and Painting. Service Available 7 Days a Week. All work guaranteed.

COMMERCIAL REPAIRS AND SERVICE

1115 North Alameda Street, Compton, Calif.

Phones: NEwmark 1-8269, NEvada 6-'18O5

Noncr of Advcrlircr In thi. D.pothont udng o bftd oddrclt cannol bc dlvulgcd. All inqoidcr ond nglr rhould bo oddrcstcd lo kcy rhown 3n tho odvodlrornril

SMALL LUMBER YARD FOR SALE ( Do-it-yourself -trade)

Good 2-man operation in fast-growing suburban area 10 miles from center of Los Angeles on main Blvd. Over 270O sq. ft. -of modern masonry buildings, paved.pa.rking, alley at rear.- Price $1000 for Dodge roller lumber trutk, elec. power ,saw, -jointer, counter and misc. equipment plus inventory at our wholesale cost. Phone Owner, Mr. Rowley, days 10 a.m. to 4 pm' at 'RYan 1-8188' write 34 North Raymond, Pasadena l, Calif. Eves and Sunday only' phone DOuglas 7-1301.

Situation Wanted

In retail yard in Los Angeles area by married man. Thoroughly experienced on counter work and yard operations. Call Los Angeles phone ARizona 7-5167

For Sale

Used Gerlinger Carrier Highway Model 7866-N, 66-in. bolsters. 30,000 pound capacity. Excellent condition-low price.

BURNABY ANd WILLIAMS

Van Nuys, Calif. Phone STate 5-6561

Wanted

Lady for lumber office in Beverly Hills. Age 25 to 45. General office work. Must be good typist with lumber experience. S-day week

Address Box C-2218, California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14' Calif.

For Sale

Wholesale lumber yard and mill, fully equlene{ doing cju-s}om mill work for over 50 retail lumber yards in the San Gabriel Valley.

Address Box C-2177, California Lumber Merchant f08 W. 6th Street, Los Angelcs 14, Calif.

WANTED BLDG. MATERIAL SALES JOB

Age 27. College graduate. Prefer wholesale bldg., material in Norlhern California. Three years retail lumber yard experience. Ilave some money to invest.

Address Box C-7213 California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th Street, Room 508, Los Angeles 14' Calif.

FOR SALE

1951 Six Cylinder Ford Lumber Truck

I Addressograph

I Electric Typewriter

1 Ditto Machine

I Marchant Calculator

Phone ADams l-4361 204 East 32nd Street, Los Angeles 11, Calif.

Lumber Yards For Sale

We have some fine lumber yards for sale, and will be glad to give you full information. Call us if you are interested. If you want to sell your yard, give us a ring and we'll see what we can do.

TWOHY LUMBER CO.

LUMBER YARD AND SAWMILL BROKE'RS

7L4 W. Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles 15, Calif. PRospect 87'f6

CAR UNLOADING_HAUIING

Lumber and Freight RAY-HOW CO.

For Sale

Los Angeles 3 PL r-32t0

1951 Ford Lumber Truck, 6 Cylinder, Roller Bed. J.Wm BACK LUMBER CO.

Phone ADams 4-4361

Berkeley Gets Foresl Reseorch Units

Berkeley-Two new research units have been established in the California Forest and Range Experiment Station of the U. S. Forest Service to conduct forest insect and disease investigations, it is announced by Station Director Stephen N. Wyckoff. The tno are units transferred to the Forest Service from other Department of Agriculture Bureaus under the plan of reorganization put into effect by Secretary Ezar Taft Benson on November 2, 1953.

One of the units is the Berkeley Forest Insect Laboratory, formerly administered by the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, rvhich becomes the division of foresi insect investigations in the experiment station. The transfer brings to the station the Laboratory's 9-man staff and the accnmulated results of nearly 50 years of forest inser:t research in California.

C. B. Eaton, in charge of the Laboratory, will be chief of the experiment station's new division of forest insect investigations. The division will continue to occupy quarters in the Forestry Building on the University of California campus, where the U. S. forest experiment station is headquartered.

Also being transferred to the Berkeley station is the 3-man stafi of the former San Francisco Branch, Division of Forest Pathology, Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils and Agricultural Engineering. This branch has conducted research in the West since 1910. It becomes the station's division of forest disease investigations.

Dr. Willis W. Wagener rvill be chief of this new divisior,, which will deal with both forest tree diseases and problems in the deterioration of forest products. Work on diseases of shade and ornamental trees formerly conducted by the Branch of Horticultural Corps, Agiicultural Research Service.

Correspondence and inquiries formerly directed to the Forest Insect Laboratory, 29 Forestry Building, Berkeley, or to the Division of Forest Pathology, 720 Appraisers Building, San Francisco, should be addressed to the Director, California Forest and Range Experiment Station, P. O. Box 245, Berkelev 1. California.

West Coast hemlock is softwoods of the United one of the three strongest commercial States.

Wanted

Salesman experienced in Hardwood and Softwood Plywoods with local following. Excellent opportunity for the right man. GOLDENBERG PLYWOOD & LUMBER CO.

351 South Avenue 17, Los Angeles 31, Calif.

Telephone CApital 5-1311

LUMB ER MAN-F IR_PINE-R EDWO O D

Thirty-one, married, graduate of University of Washington, HooFfoo, wholesale buying and selling experience. Wants mill represen- tation in the Los Angeles area. In Los Angeles call CHurchill 9-2849 or

Address Box C-2219. California Lumber Merchant

1O8 West 6th Street, Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.

Amcrteur Builders Gef lots of Hurts

The Do-It-Yourself trend sweeping the country has turned thousands of American men-and some women, too-into spare time carpenters, bricklayers and painters, and up to now it has seemed a lot of fun.

But now an insurance company comes forward with the dismal information that an average of 638,000 persons annually suffer everything from broken fingernails to broken legs while doing home repairs and construction.

The company is not trying to halt the trend. It merely urges amateur carpenters to be careful and to use the right equipment. It does not say where or how it gets its statistics on minor accidents, but one wonders whether they include the fellow who reshingles the roof of his house without even hitting a finger with a hammer, and then slips on the soap in the shower and breaks a leg.

Bunco Mcrn Works Lumber Yords

A bunco man who specialized in making small profits from lumber yards in Southern California, was arrested recently in Inglewood. This was his scheme:

He would order a quantity of lumber, specified sizes, for delivery to an address that always proved fictitious. He would pay for the lumber vvith a bad check, and then ask for.2 per cent cash discount on the business, and get 2 per cent in cash from the lumberman. He seldom made more than $5 on a deal. The lumberyard was then stuck with a load of lumber and the cash discount. Long Beach police had a warrant for his arrest when he was picked up.

L.A. Enioys Huge Convenlion Income

Earle M. Jorgensen, chai'rman of the Visitors Committee of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, reports some remarkable facts concerning the huge convention business enjoyed by the city in 1953.

He says that conventions held in the city during 1953 brought something over $20,000,000 in spending. Of this amount, spent by 158,559 delegates to 240 conventions, spent something more than four million dollars with hotels, nearly four million dollars at retail sto'res, and more than four million-dollars in restaurants of all kinds.

This was second only to the 1950 records for convention spending. In that year the American Legion and the Shriners both held huge meetings that shoved up the spending total rnountain high.

Advertisers Index

Lobor Bureou Reports

On Buildins

Housing starts in 1953 fell 2 per cent under the year before, but still topped 1 million for the fifth cdnsecutive year.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated total non-farm residential starts last year at 1,102,400, compared with I,127,' 000 in 1952 and the record of 1,396,000 in 1950' llqron Supplier ll(Coy Plqning Mill liiddlelon &'Belrne Lumber Co.

Almost all of the decline was in public housing, the BLS said. At 35,000 units, it was 39 per cent below 1952, while private housing, at I,066,900 units, was only 1,600 under the year before.

The rate of starts throughout the year had indicated that the total would exceed I million, the BLS said. Seasonally adjusted the annual rate was higher than 1.1 million for five months of the year, and was above 1 million for all months except August, when part of the slowdown was blamed on work stoppages.

Although starts declined almost steadily from the Peak in April, the rate of decline in the closing months of the year was less than seasonal, the report said.

How lumber Looks

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Eqrthore lumbe] & Mill Co.

Co.

Gompony

Sonti Fe Lcm'ber-Co.

Edwordr Lumber t Mf9. Co. ............--,----,59 Sonford-Lulier, Inc.

Ellion, F. W. ..........-...-..-----

Emrro Plywood ..........----..--....59 5r. Pdul f lccmq Lumber Co.

E$ley & 3on, D. C.

Exchonge Sflmillr Sqler Co...-...---,---..--..-

Foirhurt Lumber Go.

Security noyol Dutch Point mtq. Co.

Shively, Alqn si--on. Hqrdwood Lumber Co.

Simpton Logginq Co.

Lumber shipments of 518 mills reporting to the National Lumber Trade Ilarometer werc 4.4 per cent belorv production for the week ended January 9, 1954. In the same week new orders of these mills were virtually the same as production. Unfilled orders of the reporting mills amounted to 32 per cent of stocks. For the reporting softwood mills unfilled orclers were equivalent to 20 days' production at the current rate, and gross stocks were equivalent to 61 days'production.

5o' -col Buildlng lloleriolr Go' ' Inc' ""--"21

Firk & ltoron 3!t Soulhe'n Collfornio Lunber Soler """""" *

IIT-':: ,'-.:lL^:';:" """""' ' ".'.""" ':"':.il :::li3L' tJH:". t,r:::...--..-.-.-::1!

;ffiIr'"#:T11ffi,'il.'........::..............-. ; :q{hw^sl?n.?.odrond cement co. .---. .---. * Foreif product. Solet Co. .-...-.--_----.-..--...-SS Springield llillr Co. ---------------------------.-.., * Fountoln Lunbe. Co., Ed, --..--.. """ "'-; Stdton t son' E' l' --------------------------------ll Freemcn & co. stephen G' .-...-...-..-:.:-...-.:: f grdlc Hordvood Co' """""""""""""""-' * Sltu.lurol iloloeriols Co. -----------------......* Gqlleher Hordwood Co. ...-.----,--.,,...--..--..-- * Suporlor Lumber 5sler -....----.-.-.,-..-...-......... i Gronerrlon & Green Lumber Co..........---61 Gqrciq Trqfiic seryrce, B. r. .:-.............:-i I:::T" l"Ib"t Sqler' Inc' """""'-""""""52 Gelinse; cqrrier Go. .... .................rr lllt:

For the year-to-date, shipments of reporting identical mills were 4.4 per cent below production; new orders were virtually the same as production.

Compared to the average corresponding. week in 1935-39, production of reporting mills was 150.0 per cent above i shipments were 108.9 per cent above; new orders were 93.5 per cent above. Compared to the corresponding week in 1953, production of reporting mills was 9.2 per cent below ; shipments were 11.2 per cent below;and new orders were 12.5 per cent below.

The Western Pine Association for the week ended January 9, 118 mills reporting, gave orders as 57,588,000 feet, shipments 56,769,000 feet, and production 54,032,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 200.608.000 feet.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended Janlrary 2,75 units (97 mills) reporting, gave orders as 7,218,000 feet, shipments 7,400,000 feet, and production 9,017,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 30,585,000 feet.

Johnr-Monvllle Corporqllon

W::Hl Tll.l.t^X:115?.;"'........................r1 l(ellcy, Albeil A. 't lhlte lrorh€r

Johnron Lumber Corp., D. C. .-------------.--... * Weyerhoeurer Soier'Co.

7 Jordm Sorh & Door Co., F, t, ................41 Whielock, lnc., E. U.

Kendoil Lmber Dlttrlbutorr....-..---..-.-..--.....27 Whltc, Horry H. ..-..-.....--...-.---.---.----..--..-... :3 (oehl E ion, Inc., John W. --....-...-...-..--.45 Wholerqle lmber Dlrfributor:, lnc' """"57 Kuhl tunber to., Corl H. -.,-.---...-.-...-..-...-... * Wllron' A. K.,

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended January 2, 178 mills reporting, gave orders as 100,966,000 feet, shipments 96,478,000 feet, and production 72,599,00O feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the week totaled 438,990,000 feet.

For the week ended January 9 these same mills reported orders as 110,048,000 feet, shipments 101,547,000 feet, and production 1O7,252,000 feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the week totaled 447,490,000 feet.

Co.. .GArlield l-7752

Holnc Eurekc Lumbcr Co........GArfield l-1921

Lqmon Lumbcr Co... YUkon 2-{3?6

The Loog-Bell Lumber Co..... EKbroot< 2-8696

LI'I\48EN

Cclilomic Lumber Scles KEUog 4-100{

Eagtsbore Lunber cnd Mill Co.....KEUoq; 3-Zl2l

Fairhuret Lumber Co, ol Colil.. .Twiuoqk; 3-2939

Gcmcrstoo 6 Green Lumber Co. KEUog 4-E{64

Golden Gcte Lumber Co. , (Wclnut Creek) .YEltowstone 4-rt4l6

Gosslin-Harding Lumber Co. (Wclnut Creek) ..YEllowstone4-877rt

Hill d Mortou, Inc...... ..... ANdover l-107?

Kelly, Albert A. (Alcmedc). .Lolchurst 2-2754

LI'IUBEN

Anderson Wholesole Lunber Sqleg (Pcscdcnc) .....Ryan l-?S59 Syccmore 5-2755

Arcotq Bedwood Co, (I. ). Rcc) Wyomiag I l0l!

Atlcniic Lumber Co, (C. P. Hcrry 6 Co.) PRorpect 652{

Atlog Lumber Co. ... TRiaiiy 2it26

Bcck Lumber Co., l. Wn. ADamr l-439t

Bcush' ccrl w' (Pcscdeno) s""*,".11 l8lil

Bliss d Gcles Lumber Co,.R.l,ymond 3-168l---3-3r!54

Brush Industricl Lumber Co......RAymond 3-3301

Buns Lumbcr Conpcuy .WEbrtcr 3-5861

Ccrr 6 Co., L. t, (W. D. Dunuing) PBospect 88,13

Chcnllod cnd Asrocicter, P. W. AXoiuistrr 5296

Chency Lunbcr Co, (Burns Lumber Co.)

Eoorgc Clough .... .WEbster 3-586t .....DUnkirk 2-2214

Coacolidotcd Lumber Co. .Blchnond Zllt (Wilminglon) ......NE. 6-1881 Wiln. Ter. 4-2687

Coopol-lleygqa Lunbcr Co, Wlllrrd T. Coopcr Lbr. Co. (Gtudatc)n 5_4800

Coopcr Wholcsale Lumber Co., W, E. ..yOrL g2itg

Dclloa d Co., R. W. (Sca Mcriro)

Dcat d Buraoll, Sqlcr Co.

Donovcr Co., Inc..

Essley, D. C. G Soa

Eureka Eedwood Lumber Co. (Long Becch)

Fcirhurgt Luber Co. ol Cqlil. (Loe Aagoloe Lumber , lac.).

Fisk G Mcron (So. Pascdcnc)