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Stonton, Jr., Urges Wider Use of Speciolly-designed Cors for More Shipping Benefits

fn an undertaking which should be of benefit to all lumbermen, LeRoy Stanton, Jr., of E. J. Stanton & Son, Inc., Los Angeles, has written the operating officials of several railroads urging a wider adoption of railroad cars which could be more easily loaded. His letter is as follows:

"We have recently seen pictures of a new type of boxcar being used by the Seaboard Airline Railroad of Norfolk, Va. This is a specially designed boxcar with 20 doors on each side and at opposite ends of a 4A car. This has the facility of handling Steel strapped lumber packages and, of course, results in much faster foading and, similarly, unloading.

"One of .the biggest problems now being faced by distributors of lumber products is the extreme cost involved. This in part is contributed to by laborious loading and unlbading of one or two pieces.of lumber at a time.

"We have been trying to develop a paper wrap material for lumber packages for over two years now and, of course, know that some are in use at the present time. The problem in our case is that most hardwood sawmills are faced with the problem of being unable to create uniform length packages that would be suitable for paper wrapping due to the scarcity of lGfoot lengths in hardwood lumber; however, these constituting a portion of the production. It is, therefore, difficult to create uniform length packages containing lumber running from six to 16 feet in length that have sufficient of the longest length to create a substantial and square-ended package. Furthermore, this would be high-cost lumber having been processed by kiln drying and sometimes even surfacing and, therefore, the risk of damage to the paper wrapping and consequent damage to the lumber through fain or otherwise.

"The described boxcar would certainly be the answer to the question. Naturally, the Southern Pacific probably would not be supplying cars to shippers in New York State or other eastern locatiohs, but on the other hand we could make mu'ch use of such cars in shipments that we are making to the East, and no doubt the Southern Pacific Co. could be of assistance in the adoption by more railroads of this type of boxcar with the volume of lumber being shipped in mind."

With his letter, Stanton enclosed a reproduction of an illustrated article which appeared recently in "Distribution Age" featuring a rebuilt 40 boxcar with 20 openings diagonally opposed for convenient loading with a fork lift truck. Since lumber makes up a substantial proportion of total freight car loadings, it should not be unreasonable to encourage more consideration in making better provision for its handling and shipping as has been done for produce, coal, cement, livestock and other commodities. Higher demurrale rates and higher labor costs are factors which are certain to influence lumbermen everywhere to lend their assistance toward securing more economical shipping facilities, said a recent bulletin of the National Hardwood Lumber Assn., from which the Stanton letter above is quoted.

World Eucolyptus Conference Held

Woodbridge Metcalf, forester emeritus, University of California, was named head of the United States delegation to the World Eucalyptus Conference held in Rome, ftaly, the last two weeks in October. The Eucalyptus tree, a native of Australia, was introduced in California about 100 years ago, and is used widely all over the state, including 2,000 miles of windbreaks of citrus orchard in Southern California.

"There now is a marked increase of interest in the Eucalyptus," Metcalf says, "because of its demonstrated utility for the making of semi-chemical pulp for boxes and containers." The conference in Rome was to bring together foresters from all around the Mediterranean and other countries to discuss planting and utilization techniques.

Rodio System Across Grqnd Ccnyon Now Affords Kqibob lumber Co. New Generof Offices in Flogstaff, Ariz.

Kaibab Lumber Company of Fredonia, Arizona, announces the organization of general offices at Flagstaff, Arizona, to control their lumber operations located at Fredonia, Flagstaff and Holbrook, Arizona; Wanship, Utah, and Denver, Colorado. In the past each operation was controlled individually.

This organization will entail the transfer to Flagstaff of A. Milton Whiting, sales manager, who has lived in Fredonia for five years, and Orvil M. Bushman, contr,oller, who has lived in Fredonia for four years; along with the transfer or replacement of several of the personnel now employed at Fredonia as office and sales personnel. E. J. Whiting will remain in Fredonia as general manager; Mack Frost, who has worked in the past as shipping sup't, and ass't sales manager, will assume the duties of sales manager. Keith Anderson will be moved to office manager upon the transfer of Mr. Bushman. Tom Major, who has been employed for the past several months in a training program, will now assume the duties of yard sup't.

All production at the Fredonia plant will be coordinated by John Babich, who recently joined Kaibab Lumber Company at Fredonia in the capacity of production manager. All other supervisory personnel will remain unchanged.

Kaibab Lumber Company is now the second largest producer of lumber in the southwest area, with an annual production of 85 million board feet, employing 416 people. Their largest plant, located at Fredonia, produces 30,000,000 board feet annually. The centralization of these offrces is possible only through the newly installed 2-way radio system, which will give the central office in Flagstaff direct contact with its major lumber mills. The key link in this radio system is across the Grand Canyon from Flagstaff to Fredonia, which Kaibab Lumber Company has been working on for five years. This newly organized central office will be housed in temporary facilities until the new office building is completed during the summer of 1957.

Construction of 351 single-family homes was to start soon in the Valinda Village tract of La Puente, north of the city and east of Glendora and north of Amar road on 85 acres.

Wilson Appoints Dove Mensing Woodside lumber Co. Sqlesmonoger

The appointment of Dave Mensing (left) as salesmanager of Woodside Lumber Company is announced by Charlie Wilson, president of the San Francisco wholesale lumber concern. Mensing will work out of Woodside's No. 1 Drumm Street headquarters and will be covering the Redwood Empire-Peninsula-Coast Counties region. Prior to joining Woodside, Mensing had been covering substantially the same territory for Rounds Lumber Company since 1953, and for more than two years before that he had been with Rockport Redwood in Cloverdale.

A native Californian (Oakland) and a 1949 University of California School of Forestry grad, Mensing originally entered the lumber business in 1949 with the Alexander Yawkey Lumber Company in Prineville, Oregon. Ife was with the Yawkey mill for over two years and received a thorough training in all phases of that operation.

Woodside Lumber Company, which was established by Charlie Wilson in August of last year, has since established mill connections allowing direct-mill shipments of all west coast forest products-including poles and piling. In addition, the concern also handles imported hardwood plywood and Philippine mahogany lumber.

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