TWENTY.FII'E YEARS AGO TODAY

As Reported in The California Lumber Merchant, April l, 1955

A golf tournament, sponsored by Lumbermen's Post No. ,lO3 of the American Legion, was being planned for the Southern California post by Commandant Leo Hubbard for May. On the committee were Herman Rosenberg, Don Philips, Francis Boyd, Ross Blanchard, Harry A. Graham, Roy Stanton, "Friday" Freeland, Jack Thomas, Stuart Smith, Clint Laughlin, Frank Burnaby, Kenneth Smith, "Cappy" Slade, Duff Hansen and Ed Martin . . . Fred H. Smith purchased the Elsinore-Pioneer Lumber Co. in Elsiof the Red Cedar nore Manager \V. W. Woodbridge

Shingle Rureau returned to Seattle after attending retail Shingle lumbermens' conventions in the east . Completing final arrangements for the Northern California Lumbermen's

Reveille for April 26 in Oakland were Chairman Larue Woodson and Secretary-treasurer Carl R. Moore with Committeemen H. S. Morton, G. F. Bonnington, B. E. Bryan, M. R. Grant, Earle Johnson, J. B. Overcast, Gordon Pierce, Clement Fraser and Henry Hink.

L. \V. MacDonald, MacDonald & Bergstrom, Inc., Los Angeles, returned from a business trip to San Francisco . . Ben Phillips, salesman for Nicolai Door Sales Co., San Francisco, got a fine reception when he addressed members of the Sacramento Rotary Club . . . Kelsey Flint and J. A. McNeill opened a yard at 49ffi So. Huntington Drive in Los Angeles . A. L. "Gus" Hoover returned to Los Angeles from a trip to The Pacific Lumber Co. mill at Scotia and the company's San Francisco offices.

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George C. Burnett, Burnett Lumber Co., Tulare, was re-elected president of the San joaquin Lumbermen's Club at its annual meeting in Fresno. F. Dean, Prescott, Valley Lumber Co., Fresno, was elected vice-president. Ralph P. Duncan, Merced Lumber Co., treasurer, and Harold J. Ford, Fresno, secretary, were re-elected H. J. Bailey of the Saginaw Timber Co. at Aberdeen, \Mash., visited his company's San Francisco agents, Santa Fe Lumber Co., on his way to the east The E. K. Wood Lumber Co. in Los Angeles was made distributor of the Wood Conversion Company's line of products Kenneth Shipp, president of California Builders Supply Co. in Oakland, revealed that business in their remodeled headquarters was ahead of 1934 in volume D. O. Druffel succeeded J. Harold Johnson at the Roth-Maier Lumber Co. of San Francisco .George R. Kendrick, Charles R. McCormick Lumber Co., San Francisco, was a Los Angeles visitor Clarence Hyde started the Boulevard Lumber Co. in Los Angeles, George N. Ley, Santa Cruz Lumber Co., was re-elected president, and Gharles G. Bird, Stockton Lumber Co., was re-elected vice-president of the California Lumbermen's Council at the annual meeting in San Francisco. Among those who spoke at the meeting were Jim Farley, The Pacific Lumber Co., and Frank Trower, Trower Lumber Co., San Francisco F. P. Roth purchased the Palmdale: Pioneer Lumber Co. at Palmdale Present at the Redwood Shingle Bureau meeting in San Francisco were George W. Gorman, Hammond Lumber Co.; Fred Holmes, Holmes Eureka Lumber Co.; Jack Williams, California Redwood Assn.; N. P. Burgess, Humboldt county; E. L. Moore, Santa Cruz, R. C. Turner, Navarro Shingle Co., and Jim Farley, The Pacific Lumber Co. Ben Levy opened a retail lumber yard in Los Angeles Carl Blackstock, Blackstock Lumber Co., Seattle, was elected president of the Western Retail Lumbermen's Assn. at the annual meeting

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Froming lumber Must Be Grode-Mcrrked

(Continued from Page 7) mark of a recognized association or independent inspection agency. Such association or independent inspection agency shall be certified by the Board of Review, American Lumber Standards Committee, Washington, D. C., to grade the species and shall be acceptable to FHA.

705-2.L Lumber Standards and Grade-Marking a. Board lumber shall complv with the American Lumber Stand-

TWX: OA88 ards, SPR 16 and with specific grading requirements of the association recognized as covering the species used and under whose grading rules it is produced. See Appendix C for list of associations issuing grading rules. b. Roard lumber shall be identified by the grade-mark of a recognized association or independent inspection agency. Such association or independent inspection agency shall be certified by the Board of Review, American Lumber Standards Committee, Washington, D. C., to grade the species and shall be acceptable to FHA.

No Increqse Seen in Prices of Grqde-mqrked Lumber in New Rule

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Tacoma, Wash.-In answer to a story in The Tacoma News-Tribune during March, in which lolal contractors expressed a belief that the new FHA rules requiring grademarked Framing lumber, starting April 1, would cause a rise in the cost of homes, James D. Cavanaugh, chairman of the Forest Products Promotion Committee, Tacoma Lumbermen's Club, Inc., submitted the following:

"There will be no increase in the price of grade-marked lumber in this area. A high percentage of West Coast lumber has been grade-marked for many years, and the few small mills that have not been grade-marking their lumber have already made arrangements to carry this out.

"The annual fee for a small mill by the West Coast Lumbermen's Assn. Grade Bureau is only $60. These mills use their own employes who are checked periodically by inspectors to insure their grades meeting the association standards.

"To my knowledge, the highest cost to large mills by the WCLA or Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau is only 10 cents per thousand. And when you consider the average house having 15,000 feet of common lumber, the cost is only $1.50, not $150.

"Some builders are confusing grade-marking with re-inspection that is done when there is a question of the lumber being up to grade. The re-inspection cost is approximately $30 to $35, which is absorbed by the mill or the lumber dealer.

"The FHA is requiring grade-marked lumber because some contractors are abusing the required grades established by the FHA on which they based their insurance. This matter is just as seriots as a contractor cheating on specifications for a new school or public building.

"In the end, we feel, every builder will be able to give the new home owner a better product without any additional cost."

Consolidqted Adds Anolher Mill

Consolidated Lumber Co., Wilmington, Calif., has increased its facilities at the harbor-area yard with the addition of another mill to take care of increased demand for its custom milling services.