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For the first time in many years, plywood is arriving in Los Angeles'harbor via barge, according to Phil Gilbert, Southern California manager of Coos Head Lumber and Plywood Co. "We have no knowledge of any other concern in the past that shipped plywood on regular schedule via cargo to this area," Gilbert declared when the first shipment arrived in Wilmington last month.

Under the management of Gilbert, the Coos Head firm is expanding its personnel and facilities to serve dealers throughout the eight counties of the Southland. New offices and warehouse were acquired last month at Pier 135 to handle the expanding inventory and personnel. Don Hathaway, a recent arrival from Oregon, has been placed in charge of the plywood sales division; Jean Goodloe, popular young lumber gal in the harbor district, has been named to the'important post of office secretary; Lyle Bailey, who helped Phil Gilbert establish the original location, is in charge of accounting, and George Wehrley, welt-known lumberman in the Wilmington district, has been named warehouse superintendent.

According to Mr. Gilbert, all inventory, lumber and plywood will be received from the north via cargo. In the wellorganized concentration yard in Wilmington the firm maintains complete stocks of grade-stamped lumber and DFPA-grade-stamped Douglas fir plywood, of all thicknesses and grades for dealers throughout Southern California. Regularly scheduled cargo shipments will be arriving at the company docks from the mills at Coos Bay, Oregon, it was said.

"ft is our desire to furnish the lumber dealers in our trade area with consistently and uniformly good products and the very best service that can be obtained," Gilbert declared. Complete inventories of both lumber and plywood will be maintained so that the dealers can depend on Coos Head for materials as needed, he pointed out.

New Window bnd Door Frqmes Stondord

A new commerciall standard, CS2f]lS.17, for wood window and door frames has been released by the Commodity Standards division of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The standard was proposed by the National Woodwork Manufacturers Association and circ.ulated to the woodwork industry. Satisfactory acceptance enabled the Department of Commerce to declare it a.commercial standard.

The standard provides minimum requirements for standard stock exterior wood window and door frames. The requirements cover moisture content, species of .lumber, construction, parts sizes, and opening sizes. Detail.s of basic frame parts are also shown. It is a prime aid to woodwork manufacturers, distributors and dealers and to h?chitects and builders. Copies of the standard may ber obtained at 15c each from the National Woodwork.Manufacturers Association, 332,South Michigan Avenue, Chicago 4, Illinois.

Deeter Construction Co. will build several new tracts in Shafter, Calif., on 34 acres recently annexed to the city. Immediate plans for 38 $10-$13,000 homes.

Blqck Bort Hoo-Hoo Heqr R.oy Stcnton

Leroy Stanton, Sr., head of E. J. Stanton & Son in Los Angeles, a man whose hardwood lumber business has taken him to all parts of the globe, was guest speaker at the March 20 meeting of Black Bart Hoo Hoo Club 181. The well-attended evening meeting was held at the Maple cafe

Mr, Lumber Desler:

YOU ore cordiolly invited to visit us in our new building ond offices ot Second Street ond Alice Street in Ooklond.

YOU will be surprised-po1y over on ocre under coverond pleosed with the speed your trucks moy be looded- vsoving you both time ond money.

See our lorge stocks of imported ond domestic Hordwoods ond Softwoods ond nome bronds of Better Building Moteriols

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Ooklond 7, Colifornio TEmplebor 2-5584 in Ukiah, rvith President Jim llennessy, Hollorv Tree Redwood Co., presiding.

Stanton was ably assisted by Lloyd Webb, also of Stanton & Son, and showed the group a large collection of slides which he had personally taken during a series of recent business trips to China, the Philippine Islands, Japan and other parts of the Orient. In addition to the slides, which pertained to Far East logging and sawmilling methods, Stanton also told the group of interested softwood logging and sawmill men a little bit about each scene.

The next Black Bart get-together will be a weekend affair to be held during May at Forest Lake Resort.

New WRCTA Film Avoilqble

Lumber salesmen who pride themselves on being authorities on thg siding they sell will welcome a new sound-slide film, "How to Sell Western Red Cedar," just made available to lumber wholesalers and retailers by the Western Red Cedar Lumber Association, guarantees Arthur I. Ellsworth, secretary-manager of the association. Many of the slides, and most of the text, are reproduced in a folder which accompanies the film for each viewer. The film is available, without charge, from the Western Red Cedar Lumber Association, 4403 White-Henry-Stuart Building, Seattle 1, Washington.

|.H.P.A. Holds Protest Meetings

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The importers' association hopes, therefore, to enlist the support of American farmers and other export organizations, as well as the users and handlers of imported plywood, in its campaign of truth and education about the plywood situation.

If the domestic plywood industry is suffering at all todaR t&re meeting was told, it is because of the decline in the softwood plywood industry, which has no import competition, and because of the drop in home construction, which is not the fault of any imports.

Present at the meetings conducted in San Francisco's World Trade Center were James Sharp, William J. Barnhard, Sharp and Bogan; Gordon D. Ingraham; Charles J. Schmitt, Atkins, Kroll & Co.; M. S. Cowen, M. S. Cowen Co.; L. V. Pease, L.V. Pease, Ltd.; Mogens Silleman, East Asiatic Company, Inc.; Thomas A. Parker, Getz Bros. & Co.; Jan van Wyngaarden, W. R. Grace & Co.; Gunter Silmar, Walter I. Khootin, Isbrandtsen Company of Calif., Inc.; Robert S. Reid, Ziel & Co., fnc., and R. H. Kahman, Eric Wagner, Del Valle, Kahman & Co.

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Ed Founroin Plqning Mill Now KeePs Accurote Count Wirh 'Elecfric Eye'

A lumber-tallying device was installed recently at the Ed Fountain I-umber Co. plant, near Medford, Oregon. The manager, John Kent, having difficulty in always finding tallymen that were capable of keeping up with the fast moving machines, spent considerable time and thought on different devices. Showing

Mqrion Shipe Joins Lindsoy Lumber

Marion Shipe, former owner-partner of the Quality Lumber Co., has joined the sales force of the Lindsay Lumber Company as assistant to Jack and Warren Lindsay. He has 28 years' experience in the lumber industry and is president of the Kiwanis club of Bellflower, where he is a well-known civic leader.

The tallier consists of a series of photo-electric cells, which individually light up and trip a counter when something passes through to break the beam. By placing them at