THE CALIFORI\IA LT]MBER MERCHAi\T

Jack Dionne, Publisher

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LOS ANGELES 14, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 1, i958

How Lumber Looks

Shipments of 489 mills reporting to the National Lumber Manufacturers Assn- in the week ending March 15 were 5.3/o below production; new orders'were 3.3/o above Orders of 101,804,683 feet were 1.5/o below production at 159 mills reporting (133 operating) to the West Coast Lumbermenls Assn. in the week ending March 15; shipments were 8.6/o below. Orders of 87,515,000 feet were 13.4/o above production, and shipments were 1.9/o below, at 126 mills reporting to the Western Pine Association in the week ending March 15. Orders were 79.8/o above the previous week Production of 14 mills reporting to the California Redwood Association for February was 34,106,00O feet; shipments totaled 26,163,000 feet. Production was 11.6 million feet below February 1957, and shipments were 6.7 million feet below the same 1957 month and 6.3 million feet below January. Orders for this February, however, were 750,000 feet greater than the same 1957 month but fell 4.E million feet under the January level. February orders received were 7.5 million feet greater than shipments in the month, and orders on hand at month's end were over 12 million feet greater than the same 1957 date Orders of 16,679,000 feet wer€ 8.56%'below production at 92 mills reporting to the Southern Pine Association in the week ending March 15 Orders of 136,296,000 teet climbed 19.2/o higher than production and topped. output for the third straight week, the Douglas Fir Plywood Assn. reported for the week ending March 15. For the year to date, produ,ction was 11.3/o and orders 22.8/o greater than the same 1957 span. In the previous week ended March 8, orders had rocketed 5O% above production and hit a new weekly record, 63.3/o above the same 1957 week. With plywood prices still fluctuating, one large mill sales head declared, "We need something now to nail the plywood onto; the Spring homebuilding upturn has not yet rnaterialized."

Total retail lumber stocks on January 3l were 4,561,000000 feet, 13% above December 3l blut 8.2% 6elow th.e same January 1957 date. estimated the National Retail Lurnber Dealers Assn. Retail lumber sales, based on board-foot volume of the reporting yards, during January were 55% below December bt 3.6/o greater than the beginning of 1957. The Pacific region reported January sales rvere 0.5/o bel.ow December bat 10.4/o greater than January 1957. Lumberyard stocks in the west were 1.8/o under December and, 9.9Vo under January 1957.

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4lst Annual Convention

fuesdoy, April 8, t 958

OFFICIATING:

Hal A. Brown, President Board of Directors Breakfast

REGISTRATION l0:30 a.m.

Equipment and Products Exhibit

Embassy and Colonial Rooms

12:00 Noon

KICK-OFF LUNCHEON

Presiding: Homer H. Burnaby, Sun Lumber Co., Wilmington, Calif. INVOCATION:

Dr. Paul F. Huebner, Pastor, First Methodist Church, Inglewood "The Current Mortgage Money Market" by Joseph R. Jones, Vice-President, Security First National Bank

"Sales Training In The Economic Picture" by Dr. Frederick A. Breier, Educator, Economist and News Analvst.

2:30 p.m.

Equipment and Products Exhibit

Embassy and Colonial Rooms

3:15 p.m.

THE LITTLE THEATRE

Selected Industry Films

8:00 p.m.

OPEN HOUSE

Family Night at the Trade Show

Architects, Designers, Contractors and Builders are invited guests. All the Lumber Dealers in Southern California are designated as the Official Reception Committee. Registration is not necessary or required. Everything Free.

Presiding:

L. A. (Andy) Beckstrom, Jf., Co-Owner. Arcadia Lumber Company

REFRESHMENTS

ENTERTAINMENT Starrins : The Sinsine-Plavins Sons o' Guns I' r ne Hutton,Jrngrng-rla Jerry Sc ing-Playing Sons o' GunsBob Eddie Carver; Lu- nutton, Scrogglns, .llddle Lucille and Eddie Roberts, The Magical Mentalists, Originators of the popular Show "What's on Your Mind."

9:45 p.m.

Award of Attendance Prizes

Wednesdoy, April 9, 1958

8:00 a.m.

OLD TIMERS'BREAKFAST

Sunset Room

HONORING Active and Associate

Members of So. Calif. Retail Lumber Assn. who have completed forty (4O) years or more of continuous service in the lumber and allied products industry.

. Presiding:

Lathrop K. Leishmann, Partner, Crown City Lbr. & Mill Co., Pasadena Introduction of Old Timers

Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles