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* Primarily,let me renind you to begin preparations for the Lumber Association of Southern California's 45th Annual Meeting and Trade Show, May 8,9 and 10 at the Lafayette Hotel in long Beach.

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Second, let me tell you that if you want to reap big results from your advertising dollars, sow them in the pages of the California Lumber Merchant.

* And finally, don't forget to support the activities of Hoo-Hoo, your loyal fraternal lumber organization.

OBITUAR,Y

Tribute lo o Deporled Friend

The California Lumber Merchant Gentlemen:

I wonder if you will permit one of your charter subscribers of over forty years ago to write an obituary for an old friend and widely known millman.

Alfred J. Little dropped dead from a heart attack on March 10th. Bad news about the death of a member of his family was just more than the old pump would stand.

Al was associated with the writer from 1932 to 1946 as mill superintendent and was known to hundreds of contractors, consumers, manufacturers and suPPliers in the lumber, sash and door and glass industries. They were all his friends; he did not have an enemy in the world.

He stqod straight, walked straight and talked straight. He was generous to a fault, alwaYs 6rst in line to donate blood or reach for his wallet when a friend was in need. His loyaltY to h,is country and his patriotism were outstanding. During the years of World War II when the pressure was on in this hot defense area, he woutd work 17 hours a daY for weeks at a time to keeP the governnent supplied with badly needed deliveries. Being an executive, he did not draw any overtime but he gave everything he had to speed up construction.

A1 was one of the highest rated millmen in the State. When a contractor or a consumer walked into his office to describe his requirements, Al's pencil was busy on a piece of drawing paper and when the client had finished, Al showed him a beautiful drawing or sketch of just what he had been talking about. He was proud of the achievements of his crew of master mechanics. On the wall of his office was a photograph of a semicircular stairway he constructed at the mill and delivered in two sections to a fine home in La Jotla. It had a beautiful heavy handrail and carved newel posts and '"vhen it was installed in the stairwell, it fitted like a kid glove. Yes, Al was a perfectionist, a real builder.

He leaves a wife, son and daughter and several grandchildren. Also his brother, Jack Little of Union Planing Mill at Stockton. He will be sorely missed by his hundreds of friends.

As I stood by his gravesite in Rosecrans Natioual Cemetery, just a simple grave surrounded by thousands of little white headstones, I heard a Voice from above saying, "Well done, Al, thou good and faithful servant."

Volunteer, combat Army Sgt. Alfred J. Little, WW I, has gone upstairs.

Sincerely yours,

Edgar B. Culnan Chula Vista, California

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Trvo additional West Coast softwood plywood mills have been added to the group of companies norv carrying the "Teco-Tested" stamp, reports L. A. Patronsky, manager' Timber Engineering Company's quality control service at Corvallis, Oregon.

One is Fir-Ply, Inc., White CitY, near Medford, which has a monthly capacity of some 5 million square feet (:r(-inch basis). E. A. (Ernie) Clark is president of this company, A. W. Michelson, Vice President and R. W. \ran Duker, General Manager.

The other one is Rogue Valley Plywood, Inc., Medford, w'hich will begin operation sometime in February, with a monthly production figure of about 5 million square feet. Officers of the company are Doug Gordenier, President, Glen F. Leach, vice president and Karl Goshorn, secretary. Others associated with the company are John LaFleur an<l Marvin Green.

Patronsky said Robert Eddings, formerly Teco Technician at Carolina Pacific Plywood. Inc., Medford, has been transferred to Fir-Ply, Inc. Eugene Cummings, technician at Teco headquarters at Corvallis, has been transferred to Carolina California Plywood, Inc. Eldon Branson, for 16 years with the Springfield Plywood Cornpany at Springfield, Oregon, is now with Tinrber Engineering Company and has beeu assigned to Cjrolina Pacific plywood ptant at White City, Oregon.

These new members of the exPanding Teco quality control service join two other new Teco clients. B. D. Mitchell, president of Carolina California Plywood, Inc., at Salyer, California, signed with Teco in January. In December, Ivor Kallin, entered the particleboard manufacturine field under the Teco grademarking program at Sweet Home, Oregon. Kallin was a pioneer in the distribution and sales of wood particle board in the Los Angeles markets' This organization is called the Kal-Wood Company with John Tyner as general nlana€Jer.

Timber Engineering Company is an affiliate of tl-re National Lumber Manufacturers Association, Washington, D.C. The "Teco- 'lested" quality control program now in effect in a number of West Coast plywood plants features daily Teco Technician service in each plant. They perform closely supervised quality control testing procedures io urtu.. compliance with generally accepted industry and commercial standards.

Simpson Easy Woll Cotolog Avoiloble

Complete detailed information and illustrations on Easy Wall partitions, panels, matching doors and door jamb units are contained in a four-page catalog (A.I.A' No. 23-L) available from Simpson Timber Company. Installation tips, cross-section drawings, physical properties and other specifications also are included on Easy Wall products' Copies of this full-color folder may be obtained by writing Simpson Timber Company, 2041 E. Washington Building, Seattle 1, Washington.

Flintkofe December Qusrter Sqles, Eornings Gain Over Previous Yeqr

The Ftintkote Company, major producer of building materials, containers and other products for home and industry, today (Feb. 8/ issued a preliminary report on last year's operations showing an improvement in sales and earnings for thi December quarter of 1961 compared with the final quarter of 1960.

For thi three months ended Dec' 3l' 1961'

Flintkote reported sales of $62,061,969 compared with $59,916,663 in the corresponding period a year earlier. Net income for the December quarter o{ 1961 amounted to $3,176,568, equal after preferred dividend requirements to 48 cents per share on 5,525,555 average common shares outstanding. This compares with $2,849,363, or 43 cents per share on 5,466,305 average common shares outstanding in the December quarter of 1960. Provision for federal and foreign income taxes totaled $2,019,550 against $2,449,438 for the respective periods.

For the full 1961 year Flintkote's sales totaled $248,758,325 compared with $252,171,900 in 1960' Net income amounted to $11,478,740 for 1961, equal after preferred dividend requirements to $1.72 per share on 5,535,893 average common shares outstanding, compared with $12,963,627, or $2.01 per share on 5,452,261 average common shares outstanding, in 1960. Provision for federal and foreign income taxes in 1961 was $9,573,269 against $10p41,998 in 1960.

New Public Relqtions Firm For Forest Products Industry

Formation of a new public relations firm, Berry Associates, with primary emphasis on service to the Forest Industry, has just been announced by Jack Berry, Sacramento wholesale lumberman. The firm will operate concurrently with his present wholesale business at the same address, 2118 P Street, Sacram.e11to, California.

f he aim of the new organization, according to Berry, is to bring together a broad and diversified experience in logging, lumber and forestry, with the specialized skills of affiliates, to offer a complete public relations and promotion service to the industry.

Berry, for the past eleven years owner of the Jack Berry Lumber Company, in Sacranlento, has been closely associated with organizational and promotion work in the lumber industry. He was executive secretary of the Sierra-Cascade Logging Conference at its founding and duriug the first six years of its rapid growth in Califorrria and Southern Oregon. In this capacity, he organized and administered the annual Sierra-Cascade Forest Ncws Award for newspapermen, conducted two three-day newsmeu's tours of the logging and lumber industry, and edited the conference's magazine type yearbook.

He has been an active leader in both local and national wood promotion programs and in 1960 served as National Coordinator of the industry's first National Forest Products Week. Berry holds a B.S. in Forestry from the University of California and was on the editorial staff of the college newspaper, "The Daily Californian." His work in the lumber industry, beginning in 1930, runs the broad range fronr choker setter for donkey engine and cats, log scaler, timber cruiser, lumber grader, company forester, construction engineer, to plant superir.rtendent. His work in these fields was m,ainly in California with the Diamond Match Company of Stirling City and the Michigan-California Lumber Company of Camino. During World War II, Berry commanded a combat engineer batallion in the Mediterranean Theatre and held the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

Berry is a member of the Society of American Foresters and the Forest Products Research Society. He has held regional and national offices in the lumbermen's international fraternity, Hoo-Hoo, including member of the Supreme Nine and National Chairman of the organization's Wood Promotion Committee. He was recently elected president of the Sierra-Cascade Logging Conference.

The new firm offers an all-round service, on both large and small assignments, to provide counsel, develop programs of public relations or wood promotion, work on legislative issues, prepare company publications, and plan specific events.

"We feel this is a most timely moment to enter the fie1d," Berry comments. "There is a growing awareness within the Forest Products Industry of the vital importance of all phases of public relations and promotion to the welfare of our industry. Berry Associates has a broad knowledge of the industry, its people and problems. With the backing of affiliates well qualiied in the use of all public relations tools, we hope to provide an extremely effective public relations counsel, tailor:ed for the wood products industry."

This Moy Help!

Plastic Credit Cards and I.D. cards can now be issued in any office, using nothing but a typewriter. No special equipment of any kind is needed. The new cards are intended to replace paper cards now being issued-membership cards, courtesy cards, employee cards, student body cards, customer cards, club cards, license cards, etc.

This new type of plastic card is not embossed and you cannot print from it. It is intended to be a durable, attractive card for iclentification purposes-an IDENTICARD.

The cards come to you in three parts: (l) blank plastic cards; (2) blank, pressure-sensitive labels, printed to order, with your design aud copy, which you feed through a typewriter and ty,pe on the name, address, date, account or member number and similar data; (3) plain, clear, blank, pressure-sensitive lanrinating labels.

You type a label, peel it off the backing sheet and place it down on the sheet of plastic and it adheres there. If the person receiving the card is present, he signs it. You then peel off the clear label and place it down over all. You have a completed, laminated, clurable, plastic card. If the person who is to sign the card is not present, the lanrinating label is sent to him separately and after he has signed the card, he applies the laminating labe1.

\\rhen large quantities are used, labels can bc furnished so they will feed automatically through tabulating machines and addressing machines; for writing in the names and account numbers.

Samples and details are available on requcst from the manufacturer, Addressing Machine Co. of Calif., 667 Mission St., San F'rancisco 5, California.

Technicnl Dotcl Avoilqble

Monsanto Chemical Company has announced the availability of a technical data sheet describing the use of ammonium phosphates for the control of forest and brush fires.

The sheet contains descriptions of the physical and chemical properties of both monoammonium phosphate and diammonium phosphate. Performance tests are cited and instructions given for preparation of ammoniurn phosphate solutions for controlling fires in both light fuels, such as found in the southeastern section of the country and in heavy fuels, such as found in the West and Northwest.

The sheets are obtainable free from the Inorganic Chemicals Division of Monsanto Chemicals Division of Monsanto Chemical Company, 800 North Lindbergh Blvd., St. Louis 66, Mo.