CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

Position Wanted

Wholesale and retail lumberman with twenty-one years' experience in Southern California-managing, purchasing and selling. Middle aged and in good healttr- Would like interview. Can furnish references.

Address Box C-930, California Lumber Merchant, 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles.

For Sale

No. 108 Berlin Sticker, 15 inch x 8 inch with 40 H. P. Motor-A-l condition. Price $1500.

Address Box 89, San Mateo, Calif.

Position Wanted

Lumberman with 16 years' experience as assistant manager and manager in California desires position. Will go anywhere. Address Box C-931, California Lumber Merchant, 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles.

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Therefore, the Association will carry right on its Home Foundations and other forms of cooperation with the retail lumber dealers. We will, of course, adapt our cooperative efforts to the realities and practical opportunities; but we will not relax our effort to back up in every possible direction the frontline salesmen of our products.

All Out for the War

The West Coast lumber industry has a good record for its year of National Defense. When Donald Nelson and Leon Henderson asked our mills to do everything possible for greater production, the cut of West Coast lumberwas stepped up to 15 and, fr per cent over the maximum rated capacity of the industry. That was done largely by overtime operation, at wages and one-half.

With rare exceptions, our deliveries of Defense lumber were made last year on time. There was practically no complaint from government representatives on this score. When the outbreak of war in the Pacific threw all manner of unforeseen demands upon the Army and Navy, our mills came through on the emergen'cy orders required to fill transports overnight. We have gained the confidence and appreciation of the government lumber buyers. We havc helped them out of many tough spots.

Now, shorn of heroics and generalities, brought down to everyday lumbering, just what do we mean by All Out for the War? It means such things as these:

Getting Defense orders out on the day they are needed, whatever operation at overtime wages that may take.

Standing ready to wire or telephone an offer, at the market, to any Defense agency, for emergency lumber needs. The Army and Navy will have to do a lot of overnight buying, when there is little time to discuss specifications and no time to take bids in the usual way.

For Sale

Chevrolet Truck-perfect condition-roller body reinforced with heavy duty bed. Heavy duty tires. Will handle 6 tons nicely. Holmes Lumber Co.,74l Camino Real, I{errnosa Beach, Phone Redondo 6130.

Yard Manager Wants Position

Man with twenty years' experience as lumber yard manager in San Joaquin Valley desires position. Also expert auditor. Can furnish good references. Address Box C-932 California Lumber Merchant, 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles.

Lumber Yards For Sale

We have a number of gobd yards in Southern California for sale. Twohy Lumber Co., Lurnber Yard Brokers, 801 Petroleum Building, Los Angeles. Telephone PRospect 8746.

Working our logs and stock piles for the tough specifications which the government needs. Finding 1200-lb. and 1400-lb. timbers, required for a structure originally designed in steel, instead of g the No. I cutting we would prefer to ship. Getting out ponton plank for the engineers; wide vertical grain boards for the mosquito boats of the Navy; long keel timbers for auxiliary water craft; and, of course, every foot of aircraft spruce that careful workmanship can find in the log.

Any of these things may raise h- with orderly protiuction or with costs or with the established trade which any manufacturer is jealous to preserve. But we are at war, gentlemen. These are the things, along with heavy taxes and Defense Bond subscriptions and extra fire precautions in our wood-that we have to take. It is our mild counterpart of what the boys on the shooting fronts have to take; and we will not let them down.

The Association will do its best to meet the day-by-day war problems of. 1942; to have the West Coast lumber industry intelligently understood and fairly dealt with by the war agencies. But our slogan will be, first and foremost, that Defense jobs must go through.

May I offer that slogan for the entire industry? The lumbermen of the Pacific Northwest have a special and distinctive part in this war. It aiises from the character and quality of our timber and our industrial processes. We can make things here that no other lumber region of the United States can produce. As the war drains our natural resources of aluminum anrn copper and steel, the West Coast is in the best position to meet the emergency. We can do it by drawing upon not only our marvelous raw material but upon our craftsmanship, our skilled labor, our technology. Let us all say: "Give us the tough specifications; send us more Japs."