Corl W. Wotts Moyes Wholesqle Business To Ocrklond

Carl \\r. Watts, formerly located in Palo Alto, California, moved his u'holesale lumber business to Oakland. effective February 1, 1954. FIis new Oakland address is 3871 Piedmont Ave., telephone Pledmont 5-7827, teletype OA 264. Just in case someone would like to buy some lumber during the middle of the night, Carl will gladly get out of bed :rt his home in Oakland, at '%6 Lenox Ave. and answer his phone-TWinoaks 3-1981.

Carl had formerly operated his wholesale lumber business in Palo Alto since 1939, and will continue in Oakland, as before, to represent several Northern California and Soutlrern Oregon mills, specializing in ponderosa pine,

Douglas fir, redwood and plywood.

Prior to starting his own wholesale lumber business in 1939, Carl Watts rvas l0 years in the wholesale hardwood business, covering the Northern California area during that time. He received his introduction to the plyrvood industry many years ago with the Wheeler-Osgood Company at Tacoma, Washington, later going with the Northn'est Door Company, also at Tacoma.

Carl was educated at the University of \Vasl-rington and was a Forestry major. During World \\rar I, he served in the Marine Corps, and after his discharge commenccd his lumber career.

Elected President

The board of directors of The Formic;r Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, announced that at a meeting held on March 31, 1954, Daniel J. C)'Conor, Jr. was electecl president anrl general manager and Daniel J. O'Conor was elected chairman of the board of directors effective April 1, 1954.

New Booklet

A new piece of literature just issued by the Oregon Lumber Company gives detailed instructions for the use of the company's hardboard product in building. The booklet is entitled "Allwood Hardboard in Modern Building and Home Design."

Free copies may be obtained by u'riting to the Oregon Lumber Company, Hardboard Division, Dee, Oregon.

New Nome-Cooper Lumber Gompony

With the completion of the newesl ond nrost modern wollboqrd plonl in lhe Wesi, Blue Diqmond is in q position to moke prompt shipments of gypsum wollboord of the uniform high quclity which hqs chqrqclerized Blue Diomond products for 39 yeors.

H. B. Cooper has purchased all the stock in the Cooper-Morgan Lumber Co. formerly or'vned by Hal D. Morgan and will operate the business as the Cooper Lumber Company. The office will continue at 1309 American Bank Building, Portland, Oregon, where it has been located for many vears.

With Consolidqted lumber Co.

Bert Beless is now associated with the Consolidated Lumber Co. with headquarters in their Los Angeles office. For the past two years, he has been with the Lumber E,mployers Council, and prior to that he was with the Southern California Retail Lumber Association. Bert has been associated with the retail lumber business in Los Angeles for a long period and is well known in lumber circles.

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Morquorr-Wolfe lumber Compony Open Offices in Los Angeles

Hora'ce E. Wolfe, president of the Marquart-Wolfe Lumber Company, announced last month that the Pacific Coast general offices of the wholesale lumber concern had been established at 1680 North Vine Street, Los Angeles 28, California, telephone number HOllywood 4-7558' Mr. Wolfe has been identified in millwork and lumber distribution for many years and for the past eight years has represented the Marquart Millwork Company in California with offices in San Francisco. Prior to that time Mr. Wolfe was with the Army Air Forces in Los Angeles and the L. H. Eubanks & Son, millwork manufacturers, Inglewood, California.

The officers of the Marquart-Wolfe Lumber Companv rnclude Tom Marquart, Marquart Millwork Co., Oshkosh, Wisccnsin, secretary-treasurer; Ri'chard J. (Dick) Marquart, of the same firm, vice president, and Sterling Wolfe, well known in Southern California lumber circles and the Hoo-Hoo fraternity, general sales manager. Tom Marquart is also director of the Northern Sash & Door Jobbers Association and active in the Ponderosa Woodworking Association. The Marquart Millwork Co. has been established in Oshkosh for over 25 years, doing a wholesale lumber distribution business as well as jobbers of sash, door frame, moulding and millwork in the midwest.

According to Mr. Wolfe offices of the concern will also be maintained in San Francisco for the purpose of close contact with Northern California, Oregon and Washington production mills. "By extending our organization's servict)s to include Arizona, Nevada and Texas means we will also cxpand our sales staff throughout this territory," stated Mr. Wolfe, "and the Los Angeles ofifice will concentrate on sales of all species of lumber in this particular area," he continued.

Sterling Wolfe, sales manager of the firm, will concentrate his effort on the retail lumber dealers of Southern California and the management of the Los Angeles office. It is expected salesmen will be emploved to cover the Arizona. Nevada and Texas territory.

Appointed Monoging Ediror

Appointment of Albert Arnst as managing editor of The l-umberman, was announced by W. E. Crosby, editor. Mr. Arnst will make his headquarters in The Lumberman's Portland office. Mr. Crosby will continue as editor, located in Seattle, Washington, where the journal is published.

Mr. Arnst is a 1931 graduate of the Oregon State College S,chool of Forestry and has had wide experience in various phases of the lumber industry. In 1952, he became editor o{ The Timberman, resigning that position in 1953 to join the Western Forestry & Conservation Assn. in Portland, Ore. Currently, he is chairman of the Portland Chapter of the Society of American Foresters, and chairman of the weekly meeting of the Columbia River Section of the Pacific Northwest Logger's Association.

Wirh Diqmond Corporotion

Blue Diamond Corporation, Los Angeles, has added Frank Matchette to its wholesale sales staff. Matchette will specialize in the sale of gypsrlm wallboard, and will be working in the Southern California area.

He formerly was in charge of sales for tl-re Doug Hartley trucking service, a firrn which specialized in the hauling of r,vallboarcl for tract operators. Matchette is a graduate of the University of Southern California.

\rV.l.C. Technicol Committee Meets in Sqn Froncisco

The Woodu.ork Institute of California's Technical Committee met in the W.I.C. office on March 19 to consider some 250 suggestions and ideas that they have received recently from Architects from all over the State. The suggestions lrad to deal with additional data to the W.I.C. "Manual of Millwork."

The Technical Comrnittee will meet again in Fresno, April 16, to put some of the ideas into production; the most irecluent suggestions having to do with stock mouldings and modern profiles, awning type frames and sliding door and sash frames.

New Dofq Folder lssued by Western Wood-Preserying Operqlors' Assn.

Simplified guidance information for users and specifiers of pressure-treated Douglas fir and other west ,coast woods is offered in a data folder issued by tl-re Western WootlPreserving Operator's Association, 1410 S. W. Morrison Street, Portland 5, Oregon.

Comn.rercially available chemical treatments applied t<r rvood by vacutm-pressure methods to protect against rot, insects, fire and marine borers and described, together with recommended retentions of preservatives for safeguarding rvood when exposed to various hazards.

Pressure treatments covered in the guide are standards of either the federal government or the American WoorlPreservers' Association and include coal-tar creosote, crec)sote-petroleum solutions, pentachlorophenol, Boliden salts, Chenronite. Chromated Zinc Chloride and Wolman salts perservatives. Fire retardants are Minalith, Pyresote and Chromated Zinc Chloride (FR).

Recommendations for clesign practices, fabrication, treatment of glued-laminated wood and handling of pressuretreated lumber, poles and piling at the job site are covered in the guide.

Copies of the guide are available to the. construction industry and mav be obtained by writing the association.

Lyle Brewster, Southern California sales representative for Middleton & Beirne Lumber Company, spent April lst to 5th at the company home offices in Redding, Calif.

c.rrs .rl our mills will be loqded occording to specificotions odopted Soulhern Colifornio Reloil Lumber Deolers Associqlion. SAVE flmE EXPENSE-SAVE LA8OR. We loqd 'em exoctly like you wont'em. lhey unloqded in o msller of minules.

Foresf Tree Plonting lost Yeor Wos Record 715,548 Acres

Forest tree planting last year was a record 715,548 acres, the U. S. Department of Agriculture said. The Forest Service reported forest and shelterbelt planting by public agencies, forest industries and individual landowners in the year ending June 30, 1953, was 193,000 acres (37 per cent) more than was planted in the year ending June 30, 1952, which was the previous record year.

Of the total acres planted 77,512 were on federally ad= ministered lands, 63,791on lands administered by the states or other non-federal public agencies and 574,I45 on privately owned lands.

Private land planting, which was 168,000 acres over that of 1952, was particularly encouraging because about 80 per cent of the reforestation work to be done is on privately owned land. In 1940-41 only three states reported private land planting in excess of 15,000 acres a year, but last year (1953), 12 states reported more than that. Moreover, Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi each reported more than 57,000 acres planted in 1953.

Although planting increased 44 per cent on federal lands last year, it has dropped off 56 per cent during the past 15 years. In the four years between 1938 and 1941, 1,034,000 acres of publicly administered land was planted. During the four years between 1950 and 1953 only 453,000 acres were planted.

About 435,n6,n0 trees or almost 2/3 of. the trees used in reforestation in 1953 came from nurseries administered by the states under a state-federal cooperative program set up under the Clarke-McNary Act of 1924. These trees are distributed to private land owners at nominal cost.

Nurseries supplying the remaining trees were: 12 Forest Service, 81,211,000 trees; 35 commercial, 50,000,00O trees; 10 paper industry, 44,561,000 trees; 2 Tennessee Valley Authority, '?6,282,W trees; 12 Soil Conservation Service 22,O70,W trees ; 5 lumber industries, 9,717,0n trees ; 4 Soil Conservation Districts, 4,335,000 trees; and 2 city and country, 260.000 trees.

Adds Soles Representotive

J. Addison Porter, owner-manager of the J. A. Porter Lumber Co., Washington, D.C., announces the appointment of Patrick L. Kennedy to assist in the selling of lumber at wholesale. A veteran of World War II, he graduated from Santa Clara University at Santa Clara, Calif. He has worked for the Elk Lumber Co. of Medford, Ore., and is an authorized Association grader of Western lumber. Mr. Kennedy is a nephew of Henry Bahr, secretary, National Lumber Manufacturers Association, and of Carl Bahr of the Pacific Lumber Company.

Research indicates that applications of Douglas fir sawdust at thp rate of 10 tons per acre will increase crop yields without the addition of Nitrogen fertilizer. Sawdust applied at the rate of 100 tons per acre with the addition of 1,400 lbs. of arnmonium nitrate gave maximum yields.

Reduces construction costs by lcrster workingr schedules cnrd quicker re-use oI lorms.

Allows mcnked scnrings to the concrete products mqnulac'turer by reducing curing time, curing spcce, and inventories

Pcrticulcrly cdvcrntageous in pouring trcdlic intersections, repcdrs in opercrting lcrctories cnd stores, mcchinery loundcrtiotts, tunnel linings, AND ATI.

C. F. Groig Speoker ot Norfhwest Conference on Rood Building

Pressure-treated glued-laminated wood bridge stringer members up to 74 feet in length are now being extensiv'ely used in western highway structures, Charles F. Craig of the Western Wood-Preserving Operators Association reF.,orted at the recent Northwest Conference on Road Buiiding held at Seattle.

"For years the spans of timber stringer bridges have becn limited by the available lengths of sawn timber. This limitation no longer rules out wood stringer bridges as one recent structure employed gluedJaminated, pressure-treateC Douglas fir stringer 74 f.eet l0 7/8 inches long with an 11 inch by 43 7/8 inch cross section," he explained.

A leading factor in this development is the regional office of tl-re U. S. Forest Service at Portland. During the past two years that agency has designed 38 glued-laminated stringer structures. All of these structures are designed for H2O,S16 loading in accordance with American Association of the State Highway Officials specifications. A service life in excess of. 75 years, with minimum maintenance, is anticipated, Craig said.

Composite bridge deck construction, using pressure treated wood laminations with a concrete wearing surface, now lras passed 23 years of usage in the oldest structure and still is in excellent condition, Craig reported. The alternate treated wood laminations are elevated and dapped and grooved to provide a bond for the concrete and develop shear strength. Laminations are shop fabricated and as_ sembled in panels at the wood-preserving plant to reduce labor installation costs.

Craig, who spoke on behalf of the Western Wood_pre_ serving Operators' Association, is a civil engineer with the IJaxco Corporation, Portland, Oregon.

Finds New Pulp for Poper

Cleveland, Ohio-The Kinsley Chemical Co. announce it has successfully produced a newsprint paper from a pulp composed of 4O/o of relatively plentiful poplar wood.

Edward R. Timlowski, vice-president and technical direc_ tor, said previous experiments were unsuccessful when more than 20/o hardwood was used.

Hardwood such as poplar, gumwood and cottonwood are so plentiful they are regarded as waste, while softwoods currently used in producing newsprint are being used up faster than they can be grown.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer, one of the firm,s owners, sponsored the project. Timlowski said more than 1000 tons of the new paper were turned out in the experiment at the Hennepin Paper Co.'s mill at Little Falls, I\{inn.

The Kinsley Co. said it believes it can manufacture the paper for slightly less than the present $126 a ton Canadian price.