PACIFIC-MADISON TUMBER COMPANY

7117 Eost Firestone Blvd. DOWNEY, C.olif. SPruce 3-2292 P.O. Box 243 TOpoz l-6701

"SERVICE is our poromount stock-in-trode"

Redwood Region logging Conference

"Falling and Bucking-I)ras Sat's to Chain Saws" will be the subject of a panel discussion at the Redwood Region Logging (lonference at Eureka March 7. according to Robert E. Johnson, Art:ata. con{erence president.

J. E. Pickett, ['olf Creek Logging Co., Ax'ata. and past president of the Pacific Logging Congres-.. will be a panel moderator. Appearing with Pickett and talking about use of drag saws years ago in the redwoods will be Grav Evans, Georgia-Pacific Corp., Portland. Oregon. For many years Evans was in Humboldt County with the old Hammond Lumber Companv before it, sold to Georgia-Pacific in 1956.

Larrv NIcCollum. chief forester. The Pacific Lumber Co., Sr:otia. will discuss the advent of chain saws in the redwoods as part of the panel. N{cCollum, now a graduate forester, started his career in the woods on a chopping crew for Pacific. Modern falling and bucking in the redwoocls will be covered b1' Eugene Hofsted. forester. Arcata Redood Co., Orick. Chester Nicholls, Fortuna Union High School, Fortuna. will discuss hand falling years ago in fir timber. For manv 1'ears Nicholls was with Hammond Lumber Co.. at one time was camp boss of Cummings (ireek Camp near Carlotta. Rounding out the panel will be Sam Arness. Humboldt Fir, Inc. Hoopa. who will discuss modern falling and bucking methods in firm timber.

There will also be a heavy equipment shorv in connection with the logging conference at Redwood Acre-" NJarch 7-8-9.

Lumber Firms Consolidate

High Sierra Pine Mills, Oroville, Calif., has acguired all of the outstanding stock oI Meadow Vallev Lumber Co.. Quincy, it was announced on l-ebruary 6.

Consolidation of the two firms will make the largest lumber opelation and employer in Plumas county. Total lumber capacity l'ill lie U0 million board feet, and total operating costs will exceed $6 million a year.

Mqrsh Woll Producfs Opens West Coost Plont

Marsh Wall Products, Inc,, Dover, Ohio, has opened a nen'plant in Los Angeles to produce Marlite prefinished wall panels for the western state.s, according to an announcement by V. R. \'larsh, Executive Vice President and General Manager.

"To better service the large volume of business we have developed in our Western Division, we felt it necessarv to have a producing unit on the West Coast," Marsh stated.

The Los Angeles plant will not manufacture the full line of Marlite paneling and accessories, and there still will be a substantial movement of material from the main plant in Dover. Ohio, to West Coast accounts and warehouses.

Marsh Wall Products, the pioneer manufacturer o{ prefinished hardboard panel, already has branch offices and warehouses in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle. The new plant is located at 725I E. Condor St., formerly occupied by the Coralite Co.

The new plant augments a well established netu'ork o{ warehouses and offices in the eleven state area which makes up the Western Division. This enlarged manufacturing-distribution organization will provide the customer even better service than in the past, according to Marsh.

The Marlite paneling executive added, "The West is enjoying a tremendous increase in population, and this influx is adding substantially to the economic growth of the area, especially the building industry. We expect to become an even more prominent factor in this rapidly expanding West Coast building field now that our new plant is in operation."

LOs.CAt, WHERE QUATITY COUNTS

Complete lnvenlory: Sugor Pine, Ponderoso Pine, White Fir, Coliforniq

Douglos Fir qnd Cedor . Direct Mill

Shipmenls: Truck Lood, Truck & Troiler

And Cor Lood . Milling Focilities & Yord

TOPS FOR TOPS!

More than 85,000 cores for dinette table tops were shipped during a three-month period by the Duraflake Company. Albany, Oregon-enough to produce dinette tables for every family in Akron, Ohio !

The rapidly increasing popularity of Duraflake is due to the fact that leading manufacturers of dinette tables have found that it helps to accentuate and improve the quality of the design while cutting production time and costs. Most manufacturers overlay the Duraflake cores with high pressure plastic laminates, covering the edges with the same material or a decorative moulding of plastic or metal.

Duraflake's extremely smooth surface eliminates telegraphing for the life of the table. There are no coarse materials to cause "high spot wear" on the table surface. The core is {ormed by the air flotation principle o{ the unique Bison System which makes possible a board of engineered balanced construction. The largest

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California Lumber Inspection Service

tIgO tlNCOtN AVE. (Room l) o SAN JOSE 25, CeltfOnrull o CYpress 7-8O71 lnspection Services-DOUGLAS FIRo REDWOOD o PINE Mill Supervisien-flqnsient Inspection-Speciol Services los Angeles supervisor: NOrmondy 5-5431 (ofter 5:OO p.m.-NOrmondy 2-4065) British Columbio supervisor: Komloops 374-4303 flakes are in the middle; the finer particles form the surface. Duraflake's superior screw-holding qualities guarantee that the tables will remain tieht and firm.

[rith one of the few presses <.apa]rle of prodrrcing panels up to 5 by 16 feet, Duraflake can supply table tops cores (:ut to almost any rectangular size, and in anl' thickness from 3/t)" to I.3/16,,.

Back in 1940 a group of lumbermen in Oregon and Washington launched the tree farm program which rvas to encourage private forest land owners to apply sound, -scientifit' forest management to their taxpaying forest lands. Today- the Tree Farm program has spread nationwide and nearly 60 million acres of private lands are enrolled in this great conservation plan.

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IMMEDIATE WEST COAST DELIVERY

Sacromenlro Hoo-Hoo Club Spring Donce-Morch 9

Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club I09 will stage its annual Elite Spring Dinner Dance on March 9, at the Valley Hi Golf and Country Club. The very nominal tariff of $f5.99 includes a free cocktail hour, a prime rib dinner and dancing to a fine six piece orc:hegtra.

Peninsulo Hoo-Hoo-Etles to Fete Bosses-March | 9

The Peninsula Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club I will hold its annual Bosses Nite dinner at the El Rancho Restaurant, 3901 El Camino Real, South Palo Alto, on March 19. Cocktails are slated for 6:29 p.m., dinner at 7:29 p.m. and dancing until the limits described by the State Board of Equiliiation. All lumbernien and lumbergals are urged to join in the fun which will include door prizes and a big "huppy water" raffie.

Solid Subiects Scheduled for Remqinder of Eost Boy Lumber JAC Wood Products School

Excellent attendance, running well over lOQ has assured the success of the Lumber and Wood Products School, sponsored by East Bay Lumber JAC and held Tuesday evenings at Oakland Technical High School.

Still on the agenda is the following program:

7. a. Correct Wood Frame Construction Methods

SDeaker National Lumber Mfrs. Assn.-Neal Pi4son b..The Utleom llethd of fiouse Constructim

Speaker National Lumber Mfrs. Assn.-Neal Pinson

8. Lu,mber and Millwork Take-Ofis and Estimates

Speaker: To be announeed

9. a. FHA Requirements and Procedures

Speaker: FHA Representative b. Bank Financing

Speaker: To be announced c. Effects of Building Codes & Fire Insurance Rates on Wood Use

Speaker: National Lumber Mfrs. Assn.John Fies

10. Sales Aids, Promotion, Merchandising & Selling Techniques

Speaker: Art Hood

Anyone who wants to benefit through attendance at these meetings should contact Vic Roth, Triangle Lumber Co. (LA 4-9595), or Neal Pinson, NLMA (GA I-2595)

Presenting The Case For Wood

WCLIB Bqcks Progrom

The West Coast Lumber Inspection Bureau is backing the proposed use of the 1t/2-inch dry size for dimension lumber as the base in establishing equivalent shrinkage for unseasoned lumber.

To bring fresh evidence into the dry versus green lumber sizes controversy, WCLIB also is underwriting a large-scale measurement study of wood shrinkage by the Oregon Forest Research Laboratory at Corvallis.

The West Coast bureau's executive committee took this action January l7 by unanimous vote, reported Manager G. Cleveland Edgett. The Bureau's grading rules are used throughout the Douglas fir region of western Oregon and Washington, and northwest California.

The lr/2-inch dry size for nominal twoinch dimension lumber is part of the grade simplification and standardization program being supported by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association.

The Oregon laboratory was instructed to submit its findings to the West Coast bureau by April 15. This would afiord time to incorporate a green sizes proposal in I(ICLIB's recommendations to the American Lumber Standards Committee. which has scheduled action at its May meeting.

The study involves the principal west coast species, of which large amounts are shipped green to California, Atlantic Coast