Exfro Width Boords, Giont logs Are Feqture of Atlqs Lumber Buying Trip

Atlas Lumber Co. president Carl Porter and general nranager N{ac Mclemore took advantage of a business trip to the deep South to get some unusually wide and fine lumber from areas nor generally logged.

Visiting the Jonesville, Louisiana site of the Mississippi Valley Hardwood Sales Co. mills. they found that extremelv drv seasons had opened new areas of the deep swamp near the -itt. Ii was the first time the areas had been logged in many years.

The resulting southern hardwood species are of a quality and quantity of higher standards than recently seen.

The spectacular log pictured produced 1086 board feet with some of the planks 34" to 37" in width. These selected pieces of tremendous width are set aside at the Atlas yard at 2170 East l4th St., Los Angeles. Carl Porter said that anyone who woultl like to see them is cordially invited to visit the yard.

After inspection of the logs it was agreed to manufacture the fine ash logs in 4/4 stack with 75,000 of the selected veneer type logs to be cut to 5/4,6/4 andB/4 and then shipped to Memphis, Tenn. for drying and millwork. The logs were then sent to Atlas in Los Angeles.

Prior to this Porter and Mclemore had visited various dr-v* kilns and met with the producers in the area for whom Atlas purchase lumber and millwork items.

The trip continued on to Natchez, Miss. and then to Farriday and Alexandria, Louisiana for visits with other producers,

Carl Porter and Mac Mclemore wound up in New Orleans to try some of the world-famous Southern cooking. "Right up to snufi," said Porter. "but none of it could touch the catfish at Jonesville, Louisiana."

Wholesqle Forest Products Division Receives Huge Borge Shipment

A huge, ocean going barge, 220 feet long and 55 feet at the beam, arrived last month at the Wilmington, California dock of the Wholesale Forest Products Division of U.S. Plywood.

It carried 2.2 million board feet of lumber (equivalent to 70 railroad boxcars) which had been loaded at the Mapleton, Oregon dock of the U.S. Plywood mill.

Los Angeles manager of the Division Carl Poynor reports that the shipment was made up of production from the Mapleton mill of U.S. Plywood and the nearby mills of Erskine Lumber Co. and Mt. Canary Lumber.

The barge, owned by Sause Brothers oI Coos Bay, is believed to be one of the largest vessels ever to travel up the Siuslaw River.

Only rivals to the sea-borne behemoth were the flat bottomed lumber schooners that plyed the river until the early 1920's. They were put out of action by the railroad.

The barge displaces 3,300 tons and can

Rust ond Corrosion Prevenlqtive Being Mode By Former Lumbermqn

A chemical compound that prevents rust and corrosion on all metals, lubricates, penetrates and displaces moisture, i" being manufactured by former lumbermal, C. E. "Cy" Irvingo president of Rocket Chemical Company in San Diego.

The product is WD-40, which has seen such varied service as orbiting the earth as a protective coating on the Atlas missile of Iohn Glenn, to protecting millions of dollars of machinery threatened by Hurricane Carla on the Gulf Coast,to such everyday uses as protecting tools, guns, household and electrical appliances at home or in your car, or both.

WD-40 is specified for corrosion protection of the Atlas missile by its manufacturer, General Dynamics/Astronautics. It prevents rust; displaces moisture, lubricates precision p'arts, prevents electrolysis, will not congeal and is a non-conductor.

Rocket Chemical Company rushed an l8 ton shipment of the rust preventative to Houston and Galveston, Texas jobbers after Hurricane Carla. Three truck drivers took turns at the wheel to hurry the shipment to the Gulf Coast cities.

It is credited by businessmen there with saving untold millions of dollars of machinery from salt water damage as a result of the coast-battering storm.

Cy Irving said that in addition to being sold nationally WD-40 is being marketed in l5 European countries and in the British be loaded at a rate of 100,000 board feet per hour, according to Jack Robertson, area manager for Sause Brothers. The hull design,. worked out by the Michigan Institute of Technology, adds up to a knot and a half of speed to the vessel over the conventional barge.

Another unusual feature, according to Robertson, is that everything is loaded above deck. The barge has no hold.

One 1,200 horsepower tug is needed to tow the carrier fully loaded.

The barge was moored at a new dock constructed by U.S. Plywood. Fork lifts brought the lumber to the dock in relays where a giant crane hoisted it onto the carrier's deck.

Isles by Sun Electric Company of Chicago under franchise from Rocket Chemical Company. It is made in San Diego then shipped in concentrate to London v,here it is repackaged for the overseas market.

Founded seven years ago, the c(impany also manufactures the product in Mexico City for the Mexican and South American trade. Other branches include Sydney, Australia, and Valparaiso, Chile.

It is widely distributed on the Pacific Coast to retail dealers through hardware, marine and sporting goods jobbers. Pacific Coast distributors are: Joseph F. Taraba Company, 1016 First Avenue South, Seat. tle, Washington; Joseph F. Taraba Company, 1824 S. E. 50th Avenue, Portland, Oregon; Rocket Distributing Company, l4B5 Bayshore Boulevard, San Frzrncisco, California and Adams Labaratory, 24 N. First Avenue. Arcadia. California.

Most popular of all hobbies is wood working because wood is easily worked with simple tools and by inexperienced men and boys. The joy of creation is the more readily achieved rvhen working with wood.

But the ftLerLory lingerson!

Christmas seems like a long gone season at this point. but reports continue to trickle in from the various Western Hoo-FIoo Clubs. This series of -qnapshots wa-q taken during the Coast Counties Hoo-Hoo I l-l Annual Christmas Party held December lJ. at the New Riverside in Santa Cruz. Nearlv 50 couples attended the evenl whieh was chairmanned by Fenner Angell of Soquel. The very reasonable $15.00 per couple package included cocktails, dinner and dancing to the music of Stephen Paul and his orchestra. In addition, the club arranged for gol{ the next day for a surprising turnout of hardy dubbers who survived the evening before.