Log-Bucking Contest tVill Be Feature of Golden Gate Bridge Op"ning

Log-bucking champions of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, Idaho Pine and the California Redwoods will vie in a contest in the San Francisco Bay district May 28, not only unique in character but bear.ing a most outstanding honor for the lumber industry.

To the winner will go the honor of severing the last barrier to vehicular traffic at the dedication ceremonies of the spectacular Golden Gate Bridge, longest single span ord of IO2/5 seconds set in 1930, and is an exper'ienced competitor. He will be using a Simonds saw. in the world. Not only will he rece,ive honor but a $250 cash prize awarded by the three major saw companies, Henry Disston & Sons, Simonds Saw & Steel Company and E. C. Atkins & Co.

Shull, 22-year old employe of the Hammond Redwood Company at Crannell, towers 6 feet {7/2 inches and weighs 200 pounds. While a neophyte in log-bucking competition he defeated four men in his own company to win his way to the finals, where his time of 3:38 for a 36-inch log won over five other redwood company titlists. He will compete with an Atkins saw.

Each of the three finalists in the Golden Gate Bridge Barrier Contest will share in the $500 purse, first place drawing $250, second $150 and third $100. Sponsors of the three will defray their expenses to the Golden Gate Bridge Fiesta, also the expenses of their filers. Contest headquarters will be in the Drake-\&liltshire Hotcl, 34O Stockton Street, San Francisco.

Special features of the Barrier contest include its place as the head of an international motorized cavalcade, which will cross the bridge immediately after the Redwood log is severed, radio broadcasting of the event together with the dedication ceremonies and photographing by the principal news reel companies.

Ray Shull, Hatnmonil Reilwooil Compnty employee ,at Crannell, Calif., winner ol the log'buching championship of the Reilumoils, helil at Scotia, ApriJ 18, 1937, who utill . conpete in the finals on McY X!.

The three champions are Paul Searles of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, Longview, Wash., representing the West Coast Lumbermen's Association and the Pacific Northwest Loggers' Association; Myron Higbee of Kellogg, Idaho, champion of the Idaho pine belt; and Ray Shull, giant young Ar'cata, California woodsman who defeated a field of 30 competitors to win the undisputed championship of the Redwoods at Scotia Sunday, April 18.

Searles, a veteran competitor, has twice won the Pacific Logging Congress title in 1935 and 1936. He will pull a Disston saw in the bridge feature. Higbee is co-holder of the world's two-man bucking title on l8-inch logs, a rec-

Carl W. Bahr, president of the California Redwood Association, is chairman of the committee which has made the contest possible. He is assisted by Gordon Manary, logging superintendent of The Pacific Lumber Company, r,vho will serve as chief judge of the contest. Manary was general chairman of the redwood championship at Scotia' Archie Whisnant, secretary of the Pacific Logging Congress, will act as official starter and Tod Powell, The 'Woodsman of the San Francisco Chronicle, has been named chief timer. Three California newspapermen will assist ,Powell. J. E. Machie, manager of the San Francisco office of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, and Irving McCoy, West Coast Lumbermen's Association, will also act as judges.

Members of the contest committee besides Bahr, include George F. Cornwall, Portland; Sam Hawkins, G' A. Slacke, Walter Orcutt, A' L. Johnson of San Francisco; E' H' Meiklejohn and James Stevens' Seattle; Dr. M. M' Eaton, Kellogg, Idaho; Richard Fleisher, Scotia; and Lawrence "Scoop" Beal of Eureka.

Burns Buys Boat

Burns Steamship Company, Los Angeles, recently purchased the steamer Caddopeak from The Chas' Nelson Company.

The Caddopeak is one of the larger Point type vessels, and has a lumber carrying capacity of 2,100,000 feet' It is equipped 'tween decks for carrying northbound general .".go. It will be put in service between Puget Sound and Los Angeles.

Lumber Information Letters in Big Demand \Vill Erect Large Factory in London

Thirty-two hundred requests have already been received for the first edition of the lumber information series prepared by the technical division of the California Redwood Association.

The complete series will include six letters dealing with important phases of lumber and the lumber industry. The first letter "The Physiology of Trees," is already in circulation and will be followed May 1 by the second letter covering the subject of "Durability." Subsequent letters, to be released fortnightly, until the series is completed, will cover "Strength," "Shrinkage," "Weight Density and Specific Gravity," and "Workability and Application."

"The Physiology of Trees," a discussion of tree growths and differentiation between species, has attracted widespread attention, not only in lumber circles, but among educators. The remainder of the series presents the properties of wood in a scientific but interesting manner.

Each edition is punched and intended for inclusion in looseleaf binders. Copies of the first two letters may be received by writing the California Redwood Association, 4O5 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, and the remainder of the series will be forwarded upon each release date.

Fire Destroys Plant

A fire destroyed the C. E. Loyd Sash & Door Co. plant, Los Angeles, Saturday afternoon, April 25. The entire contents of the plant, including stocks and machinery, were lost.

to Manufacture Celotex Products

Organization by American and British interests of an English company to manufacture and market Celotex products in the British Isles and British colonial possessions has been announced by B. G. Dahlberg, president of The Celotex Corporation. The new company, with headquarters in Londcn, will be known as Celotex, Ltd.

Mr. Dahlberg said that underwriting arrangements have just been completed for the erection in the Wembley district of London, at an estimated cost of $1,250,000, of the first plant in England for the manufacture of Celotex products. The plant will have a production capacity ol 45,000,000 feet of Celotex. Construction will begin soon and the building is expected to be completed late this year.

G. S. Waddington, who for some years has headed the Celotex Company of Great Britain, sales organization for Celotex products abroad, has been appointed managing director of Celotex, Ltd.

The London plant will be equipped to manufacture not only Celotex insulation, but building board, wall sheathing, interior finishes, acousti-celotex and all other products now made by the Celotex Corporation in the United States. Existing demand for these materials in the British Isles and colonial possessions in the Eastern hemisphere are sufficient to absorb the entire output of the Wembley factory.

A. B. JOHNSON, SR., VISTTS LOS ANGELES

A. B. Johnson, Sr., A. B. Johnson Lumber Company, San Francisco, spent a ferv days in I-os Angeles the latter part of April where he was a visitor at the office of J. J. Rea, their Southern California representative. Mr. Johnson is one of California's pioneer lumbermen. He has been connected with the lumber business in San Francisco for over fifty vears, and before coming to California he followed the sawmill business in the Northwest rvhen the State of Washington was still a Territory. When he first arrived at Aberdeen on Grays Harbor, the town was then a community of only two hundred people. His many friends in the Southland were pleased to see him again.

Charters Boat

C. D. Johnson Lumber Corporation has chartered the steamer Corrales, which sailed for the mill at Toledo, Oregon, April 19 to load her first cargo.

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