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OUR ADVERTISERS *Advertising appears in alternate iseues. Acme Blower & Pipe Co.--------- - _____-___---________31
American Flardwood Co.______-_____-_____-_-________-_.22 American Lumber and Treatihg Co.____-_----_-__ x Anglo California Lumber Co.-----------------_______- 12
Arcata Redwood Co.------------------_____-_____---______--__ Atkinson-Stutz Co. ----------.
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Back Panel Qempany Baxter & Co., J. H.--------________-_17 Blue Diamond Corporation--Bradley Lumber Co. of Arkan"".-------------------- * Brush fndustrial Lumber Co.,-----------______
Burnc Lumber Co.------------------------____--______-____--_31 California Builders Suppl:y Co.--. ------- --.. -------.21 California Door Co.. The--------_________ California Panel & Veneer Co.----,--------------___11 Carr & Co. L. J.---- - -- -- -----------------------.2g
Celotex C,orporation, The-----"-----------Christenson Lumber Co.---------_-_______ Cobb Co., T. M.------------Cble Door & Plywood Co.--------------------------------2G Consolidated Lumber Co.------------------ --------_-__- 2l Cooper Vholeeale Lumber Co., V. E.------______ * Cornitius llardwood Co., Geo. C.----____-_---_-___ 4 Curtis Companies fncorporated---.-,-------___________ * Dallas Machine & l,ocomotive Vorks._______-_ *
Dant & Russell, Inc.------------------------_________--____.21
Davidson Plywood & Veneer Co.----------_-_______._ ,* Douglas Fir Plywood Association____ Equipment Engineering Co.-----_________--Eubank & Son, L. H.------------------------_____-__________ 5
Fir Doot fnstitute--------Fir-Tex of Northern California------------------'----15
Fir-Tex of Southern California.------------------------l Fleishman Lumber Co.
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Ponderosa Pine Voorwork.----------------------------- 3 Pope & Talbot, Inc., Lumber Division---------- * Portland Cement Association ------------------------- *
Ream Co., George E.-------------------Red Cedar Shingle Bureau----------Robbins Lumber Co., R. G.------------------------------29 Ross Carrier Co.- ---- --- -- Santa Fe Lumber Co.--------------------------------- 9 Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle C,ompany---- *
San Pedro Lumber Company------- ---------------------17 Schumacher Tlfall Board Corporation---
Shevlin-Cords Lumber Co.-----------------Shevlin Pine Sales Co.------------ -------------------- 6 Southwestern Portland Cement Co.---------------- * Stanton & Son, E. J. - -----------
Sudden & Christenson, fnc.----------------------------14 Tacoma Lunber Sales------------------------------------- 7 Tarter, Vebster & Johncon----TerreII Lumber Co., The----------------------------------15 Tropical & Western Lumber Co.-------------------- * Truedson Cabinet Corp.------------------------ -------- 7 United States Gypsum Co.----- -- ,- - -U. S. Plywood Corporation---
Vendling-Nathan C,o. ------------13 West Coast Screen Co.---Veet Oregon Lumber Co.-------------------------------.2t Vestern Door & Sash Co.------------------------------15 Vestern llardwood Lumber Co.,-----------,O.F.C. Vestern Mill & Moulding Co.------------------------31 Western Pine Supply Co.------------------------------.29 Veyerhaeueer Sales Company----------------------- *
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Vholesale Builders Supply. fnc. ----,----------------31 Vholesale Lumber Distributors, Inc.-------------- * Villiame & Boulton Vood Lumber Co., E. K.-------------------------.I.F.C.
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How Lumber Looks Seattle, Washington, April 12, 1946-The weekly average of West Coast lumber production in March (4 weeks) was 122,692,n0 board feet, or U.7 per cent of 1942-1945 average, according to the West Coast Lumbermen's Association in its monthlv survey of the industry. Orders averaged 12I,540,W0 b.f.; shipments 128,274,00O. Weekly averages for February were: Production 112,339,000 b.f. (77.6 per cent of the 1942-1945 average); orders 1O5,722,W; shipments, 110,224,000.
Improved operating conditions in the woods, due to moderating weather and melting of snow in key logging areas, form the main factor of a 9 per cent gain for West Coast lumber production in March over the previous montH. Some mills that were shut down for lack of logs got going again in March. The average weekly production for the month of 123,000,000 (one hundred and twenty-three million) board feet rvas the highest since last August. A leveling off in production is in prospect because of the physical operating limitations of the West Coast lumber industry under present repressive controls. The industry's costs are mounting and its risks are multiplying. With many operations, profits are at the vanishing 'point. The clouds of confusion and uncertainties that rise steadily from the lumber control schemes of the government keep the lumber industry on a day to day basis of operaticn. Not enough time has passed to measure the efiect of the new Civilian Production Administration building regulation. In any event, lumber will unquestionably be available for veterans' housing and for other home building for
which other materials and labor can be secured, although supply may remain short for all kinds of constrttction demands.
West Coast lumber production for March alone would build approximately 50,0C0 homes, or at the rate of 600,000 homes per year. All the lumber that comes from the log, however, is not home building lumber and there is urgently needed construction apart from homes, such as farm and factory building, that requires lumber. The crying need of the lumber industry is freedom to produce to meet one and all building needs. The Western Pine Association for the week ended April 13, lO2 mills reporting, gave orders as 49,590,000 feet, shipments 51,061,000 feet, and production 50,249,W0 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 287,456,N0 teet.
The Southern Pine Association for the week ended April 13, 87 units (114 mills) reporting, gave orders as 13,436,000
feet, shipments 17,296,000 feet, and production 17,545,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 88,916,000 feet.
The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended April 13, 135 mills reporting, gave orders as 84,530,000 feet, shipments 78,133,000 feet, and production 81,164,000 feet. Unfilled orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 525.335.000 feet.
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Amendment 20 to 2nd RMPR 215 - Distribution Yard Sales ofSoftwood A statement of the considerations involved in the issu- for the handling and sale of the material bought and sold ance of this amendment has been issued simultaneously by it. (6) It is a separate and distinct operation from any conherewith and filed with the Division of the Federal Register. Second Revised Maximum Price Regulation2l5 is amended in the following resPects: 1. Section 3 (a) is amended to read as follows: (a) Transactions covered. This regulation covers all sales
out of distribution yard stock of products covered by this regulation within the continental limits of the United States made by lumber distribution yards whether wholesale or retail, except that where a distribution yard has any connection, either financially or through.family relationships, with any lumber producing operation, and such distribution yard is located within 500 miles of such lumber producing operation, sales oI lumber for rail shipment in carload quantities or water shipment in any quantity Qut of stock of such distribution yard whether freight cost is borne by the buyer or seller shall not be covered by this regulation. Sales of lumber from distribution yard stock not covered by this regulation shall be subject to the applicable mill regulation governing the species sold. 2. Section 16 (a) is amended to read as follows: (a) A distribution yard for the purpose of this regulation rneans an establishment which meets all of the following requirements: (1) It obtains lumber from mills, concentration yards, wholesalers or other distribution yards and unloads, sorts, stores, and resells such lumber. (2) It regularly maintains for sale an inventory of varied items, species, and classes of lumber, lumber products and other building materials. (3) It obtains its lumber, except for local species, mostly by rail or water and sells mostly for truck shipment, being stocked and equipped to make prompt delivery o{ different items of lumber products out of its yard. (4) It furnishes on all sales the usual distribution yard services, such as accepting returns, making exchanges, fi1ling shortages from stock. (5) It has an offrce and records at the yard site, is manned by a crew employed by the yard, and exclusively owns or controls all facilities of such establishment and uses the same
centration yard or mill operation as defined in the applicable mill regulation governing the species sold. For purposes of this requirement, such an establishment is not a separate and distinct operation unless it maintains for its use, exclusive of use by any mill or concentration yard, the following separate facilities, equipment, personnel and records, for the handling and sale of material of the distribution yard: yard and shed, offices, yard help, sales force, managerial staff, stock of lumber, inventory records, books of account, bank account, detailed charges to inventory by price, grade and sizes of items, and operating and profit and loss statements, none of which are used in connection with the operation of a mill or concentration yard as defined in the applicable mill regulation governing the species sold; Provided, however, that where a distribution yard has been continuously operating on the same site as a mill or concentration yard since prior to January l, 1943, the requirement that it shall not apply, and provided further that where a distribution yard has been continuously operating on the same site as a mill or concentration yard since prior to January l,1943, and the total sales volume including all building materials of such combined operation has not exceeded $120,000 during any twelve month period since prior to January l, 1943, the requirement that the above mentioned facilities need to be separately maintained shall not apply. 3. Section 16 is amended to add the following paragraphs: (j) Financial connection. Financial connection means all circttmstances of partial or total common ownership or beneficial interest, or profit or loss sharing arrangements. (k) Family relationship. Family relationship means any person related to the seller or to the seller's spouse within the fifth degree either by blood or marriage' 4. Section 23 is amended to read as {ollows: Sec. 23. New yards. Before making any sales of lumber at the maximum prices established by this regulation, any person who has set up or sets up a wholesale or retail distribution yard after December 31,1942, but who has not re(Continued on Page 16)
Geo. C. Cornitius Hardwood Co. 465 Calllornla Street, San Franclsco 4
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Sonoma Mission Inn Chosen for Hardwood Distributors Convention M.y 22'24 Reservations are coming in from the northern and southern areas of the Pacific Coast for the 22nd' annual convention of the Pacific Coast Wholesale Hardwood Distributors Association, to be held on May 22,23, and24 at the Sonoma Mission Inn, Boyes Springs, Calif. Committees responsible for convention arrangements met in San Francisco April 29 to complete plans for the meeting. Details of the program will be published in the next issue of this paper. In addition to the regular business sessions the committees are arranging for banquets, vaudeville, swimming, tennis, horseback riding, golfing and sightseeing. Reservations should be made through James Davis, secretary of the association, at Davis Hardwood Company, 350 Bay Street, San Francisco 6, Calif., telephone EXbrook
Sonomcr Mission Inn, Boyes Springs, C<rlit.
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Crow-Harr Lumber Company, located at 650 R Street, Fresno, has just about completed its buildings, and will have the official opening of the new yard June 1. The co-owners are Henry A. Harr, Fresno business man and former building contractor, rvho is now devoting himself to the lumber and building material business, and K.
The Charles Nelson Co. of San Francisco, and its subsidiary, Consolidated Lumber Company of Los Angeles, announce the election of A. J. Macmillan of Los Angeles as vice president of both companies, filling the vacancies created by the death of Sidney M. Hauptman. Mr. Macmillan was manager of the Consolidated Lumber Company. Rex Clark, sales manager of Consolidated Lumber Company, succeeds Mr. Macmillan as manager.
W. Crorv. Mr. Crow for several years before the war was associated with the C. S. Pierce Lumber Company, Fresno. He enlisted in the Navy Seabees and was commissioned after a Mcrkes High-Grcde Ccrbinet Work year of service. He saw service in the South Pacific, and The firm of Mangrum, Holbrook & Elkus is very busy was at Okinawa when the war ended. The new firm will carry builders hardr,vare and paints, in its two San Francisco plants making high grade cabiladies' and r,vill have as its advertising slogan "Complete Building net work for drug stores, lounges, restaurants, The iurniture. and church Supplies," indicating the supplying of everything to com- ready-to-wear stores, also lodge 1433 Van and plants are located at 2O Eleventh Street, plete an average home. Congrctulcrtions Mr. and Mrs. Philip J. McCoy are receiving congratulations on the birth of a daughter, Sarah, on April 1 in San Francisco.
Mr. McCoy is president of the Western Pine Supply Company. San Francisco.
Dyke Avenue, San Francisco. Arnold Smith, who has for many years been connected with this type of manufacturing, is manager o{ the firm's wood products division. This concern has a splendid rvar record, for during that period they manufactured the u,'oodn'ork for 933 ships. This included Libertys, tankers, Victorys, and C-4's.
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Probable Second Quarter 1946 ProductionConsumption of Western Pine Portland, Oregon, April 1.-An analysis of the first quarter, 1946, manufacture of Idaho White pine, ponderosa Pine, Sugar Pine and associated woods, and probable second quarter, 1946, production-consumption was released today by E. V. Fullaway, Jr., secretary-manager, Western Pine Association. The statement in full is as follows: "First quarter 1946 performance of the Western pine industry, although far below that of the same 1945 period. was somewhat better than the year-end situation promised. The settlement of strikes at many mills, reasonably good weather for this season of the year, and the tremendous need for lumber, all contributed to the relative improvement over the last quarter of 1945. "Present estimates of first quarter performance place production at 734 million feet, or 27.4% below the same 1945 period and shipments at 949 million, or 22.5/o under the first quarter a year ago. Lumber stocks on March 31,1946, rvill apparently be less than 700 million feet,l9/o below the inventories on that date last year and the lowest level in the industry's history. Such reduction, which in times past have seemed impractical, accounts in part for the somewhat better than anticipated shipments. "As during the war period, shipments from the Western Pine industry continue to hinge, not on demand, but on the mills' ability to ship. The outlook for the balance of the year is brighter than three months ago. Manpower and equipment difficulties are improving and recent OpA announcements promise early price ceiling relief. lfowever, labor troubles and weather are uncertainties which must be recognized.
"Based on such general factors and all other available information, it now seems probable that, during the second quarter of 1946, shipments (consumption) of lumber by the Western Pine industry will approximate 1500 million feet or about equal to those in the same 1945 period when shipments r,vere still above normal prewar levels.,,
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"There are three kinds of liars; plain liars, damn liars, and statisticians."
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I'll bet millions of American business men remembered that remark of the revered humorist of other days when they read the second boastful blast sent out by that statistically inclined bureau known as Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion, in which it sought to prove by an array of statistics and figures that our civilian postwar production effort is a huge success, and reconversion is a triumph
of accomplishment.
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They told us how much more goods we are now producing than we did in previous years' such as 1942, 1939, and even 1929, and offered scads of fiqures to prove it. President Truman chimed right in with songs of praise for our production accomplishments. Yes, sir, our bureaucratic statisticians grabbed the ball and ran down the field with it' Everything is hunky. We are shattering all records for producing things. The fact that we have nothing on God's earth to show for it mattered not a bit to those grinning economists. (You have heard, perhaps, that a bureaucratic economist is a fellow with a Phi Beta key on one end of his watch chain, and no watch on the other end.) ,<**
When the whole nation surged to its feet and roared back: "Show us the goods ! We want to buy some !" they simply replied after the manner of the bird store man in the old story. A customer asked him how to tell male and female canaries apart, and he told them to take some worms and put them in front of the pair of canaries, and the male canary will eat the female worms' and the female canary will eat the male worms-every time. But then when they asked him how to tell the male from the female worms' he said they would have to ask someone else about that-he was in the bird business.
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Everything we need is scarce, cried the public. Which impressed those Oh so practical bureaucrats not at all. They admitted that practically all the necessities of life are short and scarce, with the public clamoring for things to buyANY THINGS, ALMOST-but they stuck right to their guns. What became of this tidal wave of production they boasted about, they did not say. The stu'ff IS being produced in record quantities. And there they stopped. The fact that it apparently vanishes into thin air after leaving the production lines, seems to concern them not in the least, or the provable fact that the nation's shelves are nearly empty. Their business is statistics, proving what they
wish to prove. After that, someone else has to take over, like the bird store man and the worms. Now, understand, .ta". ]."lirrl,n.r" over and over again and then considering the era of great scarcity in which we find ourselves, I don't say that those figures and statements are either phony or counterfeit. But I do say that they will do the work until some phony and counterfeit figures come along. They remind me again of an old story' I once knew an old man who got a lot of fun trying to buy himself life insurance, although he was 85. He would corner a life insurance man and offer to buy insurance. When he told his age the insurance man would, of course, back away' He was too old. he would declare. What difference did that make, the old man wanted to know. "You are too likely to die," the insurance man would explain. The old gentleman would say: "If I were 25 years old you'd sell me insurance' wouldn't you?" And when the insurance man admitted that he would, the old man would drive home his clinching argument-the same sort that these production boasters use. He would say: "Young man, didn't it ever occur to you that a hell of a lot of more men die at the age of 25 than at the age of 85?" :& >k ,< Those are the same sort of trick statistics that are being offered us of late to prove that our postwar production effort is a success. In order to arrive quickly at the meat of this matter, let us consider the present situation from the standpoint of present supply. Not an unfair thing to do' would you think? The things the American people are clamoring for are shelter, wearing apparel, food, accessories, and luxuries. Since we are told that production is a rampant success, it would appear that the supply of some of these things would meet the present demand. But do they? Name one?
As a matter of self-evident fact that needs no proving, we are experiencing a terrific shortage of shelter and shelterbuilding materials; a sad and rather pitiful shortage of clothing; while no one is starving, the food situation is bad, shortages are many' and the black markets thrive; while accessories, such as motor cars, radios, furniture, household equipment of all kinds, and a thousand other things too numerous to list here, are practically AWOL' Are there any departments of supply today in anything worth while, that equal the demand? I can think of none. Take a look at the shelves and see for yourself.
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Just a couple of samples. A few days ago I visited (Continued on Page 10)
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(Continued from Page 8) warehouse of a very large jobber of building materials. I said to the manager, "What have you got in stock that a builder or dealer could buy from you today?" He said"NOT A DAMN THING." Not a door, not a window, not a screen, no roofing, no wallboard, no insulation, no builtins, nothing but a few odds and ends of paint. Otherwise his place was absolutely empty. Visit almost any lumber yard and you find the same condition.
*** I walked into one of the biggest food markets in the entire country, and looked over the goods for sale, and asked questions. What did they have for sale? Well, plenty of bread, a good supply of vegetables, eggs, chickens, cereals, and some canned goods. Not a single can or jar of standard brand fruits. Not a pound of standard coffee. No butter. No margarine. No fats. Not even a can of beans. And they were rationing flour, so much to a customer that day. Plenty of meat in sight, but no fancy cuts of any sort. There were more standard items of food missing than present. Ask any returned Need I recite the ""an-* "nl",iorrl Vet who has been trying to get into ciwies. Most of the decent clothes available are "stoopies"; they are under the counter and held for special customers. The shirt, suit, underwear, and necktie supply for men is nothing but pitiful. You can't buy a car. You can get tires by shopping around. I haven't seen a good radio for sale yet. Try and buy a decent rug for your house. How is the furniture supply? Tableware is scarce. Kitchen utensils likewise. Where can you buy a lawn mower? Where can you get your kid a tricycle or bicycle? As a matter of fact, where can you get any one of thousands of things of the most staple character ?
*** Yet Snyder says we have solved the production problem, and Snyder, like Brutus, "is an honorable man; so are they all, all honorable'men." Representatives of ,"u;.t;;ractically all industrystill troop to Washington to tell their troubles to Congress. And, without exception, they blame all our shortages-or practically all-on government planning, regulating, bungling. If you would judge the situation by what the bureaucrats, Chester Bowles et al, say, then you must believe that American business men as a whole are a lot of selfish, heartless harpies who seek deliberately to create destructive inflation; and that all that stands between this nation and destruction is that bunch of impractical, yet all-wise bureaucrats.
A United States Senator, Eastland of Mississippi, rose in the Senate the other day and delivered a body blow at OPA. fle was talking about the bungling of the cotton business by the government, and he read a list of top ranking cotton officials of OPA, described their present official positions and their salaries, and then uncovered facts concerning their past, to show that these "bureaucratic despots" as he called them, are just a bunch of former clerks and would-be economists, who came from nowhere into these positions of high importance, and who knew nothing
on earth about the industry over which they prevail. Most of them were cheap men who came from cheap jobs to assume positions of life and death over the cotton and textile industries. And this, they say, is typical. ,f*>f
I have heard and read some dreadful indictments of OPA, but nothing to compare with the blast against that agency that another Southern Senator turned loose the other day. He was Senator Edward Moore, of Oklahoma, and the things he said almost burned the paper they were printed on. *,k*
I would like to hear Senator Moore's opinion of the Labor Committee of the United States Senate. He could do justice
to that body of men. Few could. The other day that committee O.K.'d a new labor bill which, makes it a MISDEMEANOR to interfere with the transportation of perishable farm products to market by VIOLENCE, COERCION, or EXTORTION." Get it? If men with a union card use
VIOLENCE, EXTORTION, or COERCION against farmers hauling their produce to market, those acts, which on the part of any other men would be felonies with penitentiary punishments in attendance, become "MISDEMEANORS." Roll that around in your mind, and see what it means. And see what vou think of that Senate Committee.
Someone said the other day that the trouble with the United States and Russia is that they do not understand one another. We don't understand what the Russian army is doing in Iran, and Russia did not understand what the American army was doing in Montgomery Wards.
*** And another wag says that President Truman selects his high appointees from the North, the South, the East, and the West: Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western Missouri.
ARCATA REDtlrOOID CO ABCATA, CAI^IFONMA
f,rcqtc Luurber Sqles Co.
420 Morket St., San Frorcisco ll
Yllkon 2067
"Big trflill lumher From o Little ltill SALES AGENTS
So. Calilornic Representctive
l. I. Recr, 5410 Wilghire Blvd., L. tr. 36 WEbster 7828
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Back on the Job
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Receives OPA Appointment The Office of Price Administration has announced the Ralph W. Lamon, son appointment of D. N. (Nat) Edwards of Oakland, Calif., of Fred Lamon. of Lamonas price executive of the building materials branch of the Bonnington Co., Wholesale lumber dealers, San OPA Building and Construction Price Division. He sucFrancisco, has been re- ceeds W. S. Ingram, who was recently appointed price leased from the Army and
is back with the firm follorving four years' service. He rvas a Captain in the Army of U.S., on duty rvith the Post Exchange. He served two years in
Sncpshot taken qt Lqke
the United States, and t\\'o years in Europe as buyer for the post exchange system in Belgium, France, Sweden,
executive of the OPA lumber price branch, replacing peter A. Stone, who resigned. Mr. E,dwards has been general manager since 1936 of Wood Products Co., Oakland, a firm engaged in labor relations and lumber statistical information work. From 1912 until early this year he was a partner in the Oakland Planing Mill, a general millwork firm. Assisting Mr. Edwards and Gordon Rieley, director of the Building and Construction Price Division, will be John F. Young. Mr. Young, who has been head of the millwork section in the division for several years, u'ill become a special adviser on millwork problems.
Como, Itcly Denmark, and ltaly. During that two-year period on the Continent he bought $6,000,000 rvorth of varied products. These included Swedish New Ycrrd In Modesto crystal, jewelry, linen, lace, steel products, wood carving Clessen E. Perry and William Walker have formed the and ceramics. Perry-Walker Lumber Co., and have opened a new retail Ralph's lumber experience before entering the service in- lumber and building material yard at ll20 7th Street, Mocluded
two years in sau'mills and 18 months on the road selling lumber for Lamon-Bonnington Co. He will make his headquarters in E,ugene, Oregon, effective May 15, as the firm's Northwest buying representative.
desto. Calif.
Mr. Perry was formerly sales manager for Timber products Co., Medford, Oregon, and Mr. Walker, who has recently been released from the Army after three years, service, rvas also with that firm before the war.
PAlfElS now beroming oyoitabte .. . in limited quontities both hord ond soft wood
in oll grodes.
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Question of Experience The big, stout colored woman was brought before the judge charged with unmercifully beating her eight-yearold son. The Judge discovered that she was guilty of doing the beating, but that otherwise she was a good, hard-working widow whose white folks all spoke well of her, so, instead of punishing her, he proceeded to deliver a stern lecture on the responsibilities of a parent. He was waxing warm in his discussion of his own idea about how a parent
should control a child without using the rod to excess, when she broke in on his speech. o'Judge," she said, "kin I ax you jes' one question right now?" He said: "Certainly. What is it?" She said: "Judge, de questipn I wants to ax you is dis: Is you evah bin de parent of a puffickly wuthless niggah boy?"
Visits Pcrcilic Cocrst Cities Ycrd Has New Owners Richard G. Kimbell, director of technical services for the Hubbard & Byard purchased the Wightman Lumber Lumber Manufacturers Association, \Mashington, National the over and took Calif., yard at Sunnyvale, Company's property April 1. The new owners have plans for expansion of the yard's facilities. Robert Caulkins, formerly with the Pacific Manufacturing Co., San Jose, has been appointed manager of the yard'
D. C., is spending three weeks on the Pacific Coast in connection with building code work and other work for the association. He will visit Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle.
AIIGI.O CAI,IFORIIIA
INSECT SCREEN CLOTH
IUMBER CO,
'DUROID" Elcctro Gelvanired
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Weil Coafi Wool'r Ponderoscr Pine - Sugar Pine
Douglcs Fir - Redwood
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. Distribution Ycrd cmd Genercrl OIIice
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Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club Ray Burdg, Noah Adams Lum,ber Co., Clarksburg, Calif., president of Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club, presided at the monthly dinner meeting held at Wilson's Restaurant, Sacramento, April 17. There was the usual good attendance of members, and a program of interest was put on by three representatives oI the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co., San Francisco, demonstrating the various new methods of telephone communication that have been developed. Dave Davis, president of the San Francisco Lumbermen's Club, and Lewis A. Godard, Supreme Bojum of the International Order of Hoo-Hoo, spoke briefly. Homer Derr, J. M. Derr Lumber Co., Elk Grove., Calif., host for the evening, provided the refreshments.
Discuss Building Code Changes A number of representatives of San Francisco retail lumber firms met in San Francisco April 17, at the office of the
National Lumber Manufacturers Association, to discuss certain proposed changes in the San Francisco building code.
Richard G. Kimbell, the asso,ciation's director of technical services at Washington, D. C., presided, and explained the proposed changes.
A committee headed by Hugh W. Handley, Van ArsdaleIfarris Lumber Co., was appointed to meet with the city officials. A. C. Horner of the Timber Engineering Co. of California, San Francisco, who has had considerable experience in building code work, will handle the matter for the
NLMA.
Moves To New Site
The Lumber Yard, Lafayette, Calif., has completed a new office building and moved to its new and larger site on Mt. Diablo Boulevard. The owners of the vard are Goforth. Sandefur & Elliott. R. H. Elliott i. -unug., of the yard. The mailing address, P. O. Box 248, and the telephone number, Lafayette 4434, are unchanged.
Appointed West Coast Mcrncger S. R. Mathison has been appointed West Coast manager for the Youngstown Kitchens division of Mullins Manu-
facturing Corporation, Warren, Ohio, after having served as regional manager in New Engiand since 1940. His headquarters are at Redwood City, California.
Sells Irrterest in Ycrd On March 30, Robson Longwell sold his entire interest in the Longwell Lumber Company at Mar Vista, Calif. The yard will be operated at the same location by two experienced lumbermen, Walter Conway and Harold Rogers, under the name of Mar Vista Lumber Company.
Buildins Mill At Willits Harold Ca'steel is building a new sawmill at Willits, Calif., with a daily capacity of 70,000 feet. The mill is all-electric, and will cost $100,000. It is expected to be in operation
about lulv 15.
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PRODUGTS
WEIIDI.IilG.I| ATHAII COilPAIIY Dlain Olfice
564 Dlarlcet St. tOS ANGEI^ES 36 5225 Wilshire Blvd.
San francisco 4 POBTI.IIID 5 Pittock Block
THE CATIFORNIA LU'IABER }IERCHANT
Photo by Frank Sterrett ol Th.e Portlanil Oregonian.
Flies Lumber from Pacilic Northwest to Texas A "first" in the history of lumber transportation was ing approximately 5,000 pounds, was shipped by The Longestablished at the Portland Columbia Airport, Portland, Bell Lumber Company of Longview, Washington, for the Oregon, recently r,r'hen 3,000 board feet of selected Douglas fir paneling was loaded aboard a National Skyways C-47
cargo plane painted as the Thunderbird of Northwest Indians for aerial shipment on the Flying Tiger line to Galveston, Texas. This marked the first aerial shipment of lumber in continental United States. The lumber, weigh-
Sells Beverly Hills Ycrd Site-Will Build New Ycrd in Sqn Ferncndo Vclley The Sun Lumber Compar.ry, Beverly Hills, has sold the six acres of land norv occupied by them, and during the next few months will move to a new fourteen-acre site at 6i0O Sepulveda Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley. The nerv plant is to be the last word in a modern lumber yard. The present site in Beverly Hills has been occupied by the Sun Lumber Company since February,1924.
SUDDEN &
Maurice Angley Lumber Company of Houston, Texas, to Galveston for the annual convention of the Lumbermen's Association of Texas. Proceeds from the sale of this unique shipment will be used to erect a memorial to Texas lumbermen u'ho died in Service during World War IL
New Yard in Scn Leqndro Home Lumber & Supply Co., 14511 East 14th Street, San Leandro. Calif.. has started in the retail lumber and building material business. They expect to carry a complete line of building supplies.
The owner is Robert H. Meyer, who was with Oakland Lumber Co., Oakland, before the war. He rt'as recentlv released from the Signal Corps, in lvhich he rvas a Lieutenant, following four years' service.
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Lurnber and Shippingl
7th Floor, Alcska Commercicl Bldg., 310 Scrnsome Street, Scn Frcnrcisco BBANCTI OFFICES
LOS ANGEI.ES
830 Bocrd d Trcrde Bldg.
SEATTI.E
PONTIJIND
617 Arctic Bldg.
200 Henry Bldg.
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Telephones: Grcmts pcse 203 - 201
SATISFACTION . . . A mofter of. becuty ond service, plus the qssuronce of well-weorlng quolity. The three
go hond in hond wirh thls duroble ptcstic wollboord.
FIR.TEX
FIN-TEX OF SOUTHERN CATIFORNIA
FIR-TEX OF NORTHERN CATIFOTNIA
El2 E. 59th Sr., Lor Angrlo I o l!663 9191
206 Sonromr St., Son Froncirco a o SUilcr 2668
O'Neill Lumb e] Co., Ltd. 16 California Street, San Francisco
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DETHBUTORS Douglas Fir
Hemlock Redwood ponderosa pine Red Cedar and Redwood Shingles
WESTERN DOOR & SASH GO. BUFFEI^EN TNONT DOONS
Rcised Pcrnel
- Raisod Mould
Vertical Grcin Fir Philippiae Mcrhogcmy (Writc uc lor picturee ol there doon)
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Amendment 20 to 2nd Revised MPR
215 New Sources of Lumber
The May 1946 issue of the Reference Book oJ the LumBook Service is just off the press' ceived specific approval in writing from the Office of Price bermen's National Red of 129th issue the book, which is a semi-annual Administration of his use of the maximum prices established It is the service's twice-a-week bulletin of that by this regulation on his sales of lumber must file with the consolidation of industries. woodworking in the lumber and Office of Price Administration District Office nearest the changes Lumbermen's Credit Association Inc., Chicago 5, and location of his establishment a letter reading as follows : York 5, publishers of this service, advise that as comNew I (We) propose to establish a lumber distribution yard as pared with the issue of six months ago, there are an undefined in section 16 of. 2d Revised Maximum Price Regunumber of changes affecting the various branches of usual lation 215, Distribution Yard Sales of Softwood. This yard including dozens of newly listed sawmills, industry the .. . (give name of will be known as ... . brand new sources of lumber, others are which are some of .. . (wholecompany), will be operated as a... have resumed. mills which sale or retail, specify which) lumber distribution yard, and For the past 70 years, practically the entire lumber in(give address of will be located at.... and many othei industries marketing through retail dustry, vard). lumber dealers, or selling to furniture and other wood work(Signed). . have used this service as their guide in credit ing factories This Amendment No. 20 shall become effective April 23, They have also found that as an aid work. and collective t946. promotion sales and as a guide to sources of lumber and in Note: All reporting requirements of this Amendment is nothing as good. products there allied approved by the Bureau of the Budget in accord(Continueil from Page 4)
have been ance with the Federal Reports Act ol t942. Issued this 23d day of April, 1946. Office of Price Administration, Paul A. Porter. Administrator.
New Scrwmill Plqnned The Byron Creek Lumber Co., Brockrvay, Ore., capitalized at $25,000, has filed articles of incorporation at $alem. The incorporators are A. M. Dunn and others and the company will carry on a sawnlill, lumber and logging busiNESS.
Correction In the April 15 issue there was an item which stated that Ted Westrem of Everett, Wash., and Harry White of Portland, Ore., purchased the lumber business of the I{ardwood Sales Company at Harbor City from Harry McAfee, the owner. This was an error. Mr. McAfee advises that he leased the yard and sold the equipment to Mr. Westrem and Mr. White, but he is continuing his lumber business, Hardwood Sales Company, and his office is now at 1306 West 253rd Street, Harbor City.
U. S. Plywood Corp. Buys Timber And Lcrrge Scrwmill New York, April l7-Acquisition of the Seattle Export Lumber Company, and the purchase of an additional 5O per cent of the Kosmos Timber Company was announced today by the United States Plywood Corporation. The corporation previously held 31 per cent of Kosmos stock. Kosmos directly owns an estimated 300,000,000 feet o{ timber and holds exclusive logging rights on an estimated additional 400,000,000 feet owned by the Milwaukee Land Company, subsidiztry of Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis and Pacific Railroad Company. The Seattle Export Lumber Company, which operates a large sawmill on Puget Sound in the city of Seattle, produces in excess oI 175,000 feet of lumber per day.
Boyd-Gunton Miss Harriette Gunton was married to Robert W. Boyd at St. Clements Episcopal Church, Berkeley, on April 20. Miss Gunton is the daughter of Howard M. Gunton, vice president of MacDonald & Harrington, Ltd., San Francisco.
Mr. Boyd was recently released from the Army.
HAMMOND LUMBER COMPANY Manufacturers of
REDWOOD CALIFORNIA and Mills at Sarnoa
SAN FRANCISCO
Euneka, Califorrria
LOS ANGETES
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Mill Ceilings Increcrsed
On Western Bed Cedcrr
Washington, April l7-Mill ceilings for Western red cedar were increased an average of $4.50 a thousand board feet, or about 7.5 per cent by the Office of Price Administration. The increase is limited to prices of bevel, bungalow and special sidings to stimulate these home construction items, OPA said. The increase raises the mill ceilings of red cedar bevel by amounts ranging from $2 to $6 a thousand feet, bungalow sidings from $7 to $9, and special sidings from $5 to $9. The increase will be passed on at all level of sales.
BAXCO
CIIROMATED ZI 1{C CHT(lRIDE E TREATEII tU]NBEN
Western Box Shook Producers Grcnted Price Increqse An interim discretionarv iircrease of $7.50 a 1,000 board feet in manufacturers' ceiling prices for western agricultural shook was granted. (Amendment 15 to Revised MPR 186, effective April 12.)
Raise Mill Ceilings lor White Cedcrr Shingles Mill ceilings for rvhite cedar shingles manufactured in Micl-rigan, \Visconsin ando Minnesota have been increased
23 per cent. (Amendment 6 to Second Revised MPP. 222, effective Aprrl 22.)
Trecrted in trcrnsit ct our completely equipped
plcnt qt Alameda, CaliL
Treated crnd stocked crt our Long Becrch, Ccrlil., plcrnt 333 Montgomery St., Scn Fr<mcisco 4, Phone DOuglcr 3883
6tll W. Fitth St., Los Anseles 13, Phone MlchiEcn 8291
Trecrted Lumber
Persons who preservatively treat lumber by non-pressure methods .may add dollar-and-cents increases in the cost
of the untreated lumber since March, 1942, to their ceiling prices. (Amendment 25 to second revised supplementary Regulation 14 to the general MPR, efiective April 23') Stock Millwork
Manufacturers of stock millwork with increased costs may apply for individual price relief. (Amendment 15 to revised MPR 293, effective April 16.)
Construction Mqterials Regional OPA administrators and,OPA district directors may now adjust ceiling prices established under area orders for building and construction materials. (Amendment 4 to General Order 68, effective April 17.)
Gustom Milting Planer-Sticker-Rip and Resaw
Hodgson-Greene-Haldeman Shipbuilders (West ol Pico) Long Be<rch 6
1409 W. 7th St.
Los Angeles
'Telephones:
NEvcdcr 622-81
Long Becch 692-87
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THE CA]IFORNIA IUMBER TAERCHANT
A Builder A builder builded a temple, He wrought it with grace and skill; Pillars and groins and archesAll fashioned to work his will. And men said as they saw its beauty, "It shall never know decay; Great is thy skill, O, Builder ! Thy fame shall endure for aye."
A teacher builded a temple, With loving and infinite care, Planning each arch with patience, Laying each stone with care. No one could see this structure. None knew the builder's plan, For the temple the teacher builded, Was unseen by the eye of man. Gone is the builder's temple,
Crumbled into the dust; Low lies each stately pillar, Food for consuming dust. But the temple the teacher builded Will last while the ages roll, For that beatrtiful, unseen temple, Was a child's immortal soul.
-Anonymous.
Chcnged The G.I. going overseas in a storm and very seasick, uttered the following philosophy: "f have seen the time when I did not know where my next meal was coming from; and now I don't know where my last meal is going to."
Bigger
A man requested on his deathbed that his body be cremated and the ashes kept in an urn in his home. This wish was followed exactly, and his ashes were kept in a small open urn over the fireplace. It so happened that guests in the house, taking the urn for an ash container, would fick their cigarette ashes into it. One day a friendly visitor, noticing how the urn was filling up, remarked to the widow: "Say, the old man is sure gaining weight, isn't he?"
Ilqna B5yrnllEt
GRGS CIRGULATION KITTIS
The Task oI a Mcn
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote: "To be honest, to be kind, to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation; above all, on the same condition, to keep friends with himself ; here is a task for all a man has of fortitude and delicacy.',
Better Still Customer: "Do you give a guarantee with this bottle of hair restorer?" Druggist: "Guarantee, Hell ! We give a brush and comb."
Whose Horn? Two colored brothers were driving a car on a country highway, when suddenly the driver slammed on his brakes and stopped the car while a fast train barely missed their front fenders. The other darkey said: "Boy, why-for you blow dat hawn jes as dis cah stops?" The driver said: "Boy, dat wuzn't mah hawn-h'it wuz Gabrel's."
George Wcshington's Birthdcy In a letter written to his nephew, Bushrod Washington,
in 1873, George Washington offered the young man the following sage advice: "Be courteous to all, but'intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appelation. Let your heart feel for the distresses and affections of every one, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse, remembering always the estimation of the widow's mite, that it is not everyone that asketh that deserveth charity; all, however, are worthy of the inquiry, or the deserving might suffer. Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds. A plain genteel dress is more admired, obtains more credit than lace and embroidery, in the eyes of the j.rdi"ion. .tt.l j.r.tbl..,'
The Dilference The gum chewing girl and the cud chewing cow, There is a difference, I'll allow; What is the difference? I know it now, It's the thoughtful look on the face of the cow. Usc Moorekiln Paint Products for weatherproofing dry lciln and mill roofs.
l. 2r% ro 7O/o r..otc capeciry due to golid edge-to-cdge rtacking. Bcttor qudfuy drying on lor tempcraantcr rith a fert rcvcnib.e
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IAWRENGE.PHIIIPS TUMBER GO. Ulhofesafe Lrunber
Saginaw Shingles
Douglas Dir Los Angeles 15
714W. Olympic Blvd.
Phone PRospect 8174
Announces New Committees
San Francisco Lumbermen's Club San Francisco Lumbermen's Club held their regular monthly luncheon meeting in the Concert Room, Palace Hotel, San Francisco, April 23. There was a good attendance.
A feature of the luncheon was a raffle for hard-to-get items of merchandise. The prizes were won by the following: Half slab of bacon, Roy Bleecker, Wisnom Lumber Co., Burlingame; half slab of bacon, Bob Meyer, Home Lumber & Supply Co., San Leandro; six golf balls, Joe Fifer, Rockport Redwood Co., San Francisco; bottle of Bourbon, Jo H. Shepard, Builders Emporium, El Cerrito; bottle of Scotch, Gay Bradt, California Redwood Association, San Francisco; six golf balls, Ed Tietjen, Sudden & Christenson, fnc., San Francisco; 12 pound ham, Dick Mussallem, Dicknsons Lumber Co., San Francisco; two tickets for "Oklahoma," Ilarry W. Gamerston, Gamerston & Green Lumber Co., San Francisco. Al Nolan, chairman of the golf committee, announced that there will be six flights, with two prizes to each flight at the club's golf tournament, May 24, at Olympic Golf Club, Lakeside. Those who do not play golf are invited to attend the dinner.
The appointment of new committees to guide the affairs
of the Wirebound Box Manufacturers Association for the next year has been announced by R. F. Miles, president. T. I. Foster, Chicago representative of the T. R. Miller Mill Company of Brewton, Ala., was appointed by the board of directors to the post of chairman of the co-ordinating committee. The materials research committee will be headed by W. C. Embry of the General Box Company. Other committee chairmanships announced by Mr. Miles included H. C. Bullard, Chicago Mill and. Lumber Company, market research committee; George T. Walne, General Box Company, sales promotion committee; R. J. Byers, Chicago Mill and Lumber Company, design, specifications and quality committee; D. F. Hahn, General Box Company, manufacturing equipment committee; E. E. Johnson, Rathborne, Hair and Ridgway Company, sales training committee; J. A. Sowell, T. R. Miller Mill Company, cost committee; and N. W. Embry, General Box Compaqy, statistics committee.
Chcrnge oI Address R. W. Dalton & Co. moved their office on April 16 from 318 West Ninth Street to2l2 Ferguson Building, 307 South Hill Street, Los Angeles. Their telephone number, TRin-
Buys Scrn Frcrncisco Ycrd Site Lumber Distributors of San Francisco, Ltd. purchased the yard formerly occupied by Greater City Lumber Co. at 367 Bay Shore Boulevard, San Francisco, and will move their office from the Monadnock Building to this address. The yard has 24,000 square feet of storage space, most of which is paved. It is the intention of the new owner to make considerable improvements. George Chew is
ity 1513, and teletype number, LA99l, remain the same.
manager.
GamERsToN & Gnrrn LUmBER Co. Wholesale and Jobbing Yards Lumber-Timbern-Ties Fir
Redwood
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Gene Hall Now Located in Stockton E. W'. (Gene) Hall, who became sales manager of Builditrg M aterial Distributors, wholesalers and manufacturers'
agents, 1000 East Channel Street, Stockton, last September, is well knorvn throughout Northern California. He is a native San Franciscan, and was a plywood salesman there for Harbor Plywood Corp. of California for several years be{ore the war. He just comoleted three vears' service as a first navigator with the Air Transport Command last fall, flying into the South Pacific. During the last month of this period his ship carried airborne occupation trooPs into Japan. Building Material Distributors also operate a branch office and warehouse at 1855 Cherry Avenue, Fresno.
Trucklocd ol Plywood Stolen But Most OI It Is Becovered It really caused some excitement around the offrce and warehouse of Harbor Plywood Corp. of California, San Francisco, when it was found that a truckload of plywood containing 18,000 feet of the precious material, consigned to six retail yards in the San Joaquin Valley, April 9, had disappeared. llowever the mystery was solved, but not for a few' days. The truck driver had sold the plywood to the owner of a beer parlor, and abandoned the truck, which belonged to a contract carrier. The greater part of the load was recovered.
Constructing New Mill Troy Pine Mills, Inc., has started constrttction of a mill building at Enterprise, Ore., and when completed will have a 6o,000-foot daily capacity. It is expected that the mill will be erected and machinery installed the early part of June. W. M. Strickler is mill superintendent.
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Big Crowd Attends Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Spring Party and Golf Tournament "Spud" Jordan found the Oakmont Country Club course very much to his liking at the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo golf tournament on April 19 when he turned in a low gross of 79 and received a merchandise order for $10. Other winners in the tournament who received merchandise orders were: First Flight, first low net, Al Gavin, $10, second low net, Ed Bauer, $5; Second Flight, first low net, Jim Mace, $10, second low net, George Burnett, $5. Golf balls were awarded to the winners in the other special events. During the dinner hour, Dorothy Borchers, who is staff organist for Radio Station KFWB, played the accordion and sang songs. President George Clough presided over the after-dinner program. Dee Essley led the crowd in group singing, accompanied by Miss Borchers on the accordion, and I. S. "Brownie" Brown at the piano. Mike Narkoff was called on to sing a song, and Bob Osgood told a few of his famous Jap stories. The prizes, merchandise orders, were presented by Bob Osgood. Robert Forsyth, who has been a mem.ber of HooHoo for forty-six years, held the oldest Hoo-Hoo number and was awarded $10. The following won door prizes: Francis Mandis, 915; E. N. Boynton, $7.70, and George Ryness, 92.50.
Lou Weidner, A1 Clearman, Vern Huck and Tom Crain must have made a hit with their folks when they got home as they each won a pound of butter. The special entertainment number was a pistol shooting exhibition by Lieut. Sewell Griggers and Constable L. R. Keays, members of the Sheriffs' Exhibition Pistol Team of Los Angeles County. They both pariicipated in target shooting, then Lieut. Griggers had the boys holding onto their chairs as he exhibited his skill by performing a number of difficult feats, such as shooting off the end of a lighted cigar that Constable Keays was smoking. The Club donated $50 to the Sheriffs Rifle Range Ammunition Fund. There was a large turnout and 16O sat down to dinner. 55 played in the golf tournament.
New Ycrd Harp & Smith Lumber Co. has opened a yard four miles east of Oxnard, Calif., on Highway 101. The company is specializing in rvar surplus or used lumber.
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San Frcrncisco Bowlers Tcke First HalI oI Mctch Piling up a 3,735 pin total, the San Francisco Lumbermen's Club took the measure of the bowlers of the East Bay Lumbermen's Club in the first half of home and home match rolled on the East Lake Alleys in Oakland April 23. The San Franciscans enjoyed a 341 pin advantage going
into the final half, which was to be rolled at the Bagdad Alleys in San F-rancisco on April 30. Dave DBvis turned in a 216 ior high individual game; while Len Kupps grabbed high total with 524. Miland Grant's 522 was high for the losing East Bay team, with Irving Carter's 189 standing up for high individual game. Assistant Forester Wilh AFPI James C. McClellan, formerly with the forestry conservation staff of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, has assumed a position as Assistant Forester with the American Forest Products Industries, Inc., it .lvas announced in Washington, D. C. In his neu'position, Mr. McClellan will continue his work in practical forest management for continuous forest production on privately olr,ned lands started while with NLMA. He rvill conduct the field promotional work of the Tree Farm Program norv under the sponsorship of American Forest Products Industries. lfe comes to AFPI after nearly two years with the lumber association, and eleven previous years, duty rvith the Forest Service.
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NWTI Holds Annuql Meeting The annual meeting of the National Wood Tank Institute was held at the Sherman Hotel, Chicago, on April 3-6. The nerv officers elected were: Carl Carlson, Johnson & Carlson, Chicago, president; Sid Levine, Industrial Manufacturers, Ltd., Los Angeles, vice president; M. J. Marcuson, U. S. Challenge Company, Batavia, Ill., treasurer; F. W. Wendnagel, Wendnagel & Company, Chicago, secretary; S. E. Chaney, Glendale, Calif., executive director, The national Wood Tank Institute has a committee formulating wood tank standards covering all industries and general uses which should be in print and available during this year. Those desiring technical information may q'rite to the executive offices at 53 West fackson Boulevard, Chicago 4, Illinois.
Sqwmill ct Willits The Jensen Lumber Co. plans to build a sawrnill at Willits, Calif., which will cut about 25,000 feet per shift. The mill will be all-electric, and Robert Jensen, president of the company, expects it will be in operation in June or J.tly.
Ccrncrdian Plywood MiU Will Ship to U.S. International Plywoods Ltd. of Gatineau, Quebec, which is expected to be in production soon, will ship a part of its product to the United States. The capacity of the plant is 40,000,000 feet a year, mainly birch plywood.
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Ormie C. Lance, for thirteen years secretary of Northwestern Lumbermen's Association, joined the National Door Manufacturers' Association on April 25, as secretary-manager. He succeeds W. M. Steinbauer, former secretary - manager, who recently resigned to become associated with the Wabash Screen Door Co. In his ner.v work with N.D. M.A., Mr. Lance will devote himself to continuing the expanding program of product
development, standardization, research, public relations and general industry progress which the Association has so successfully carried on.
Mr. Lance, who is known from coast to coast in the lumber industry, brings to his new duties at N.D.M.A. a rvealth of experience and a wide acquaintance rvith building material manufacturers, jobbers and dealers, many of rn'hom value him as a personal friend. His public career began in the 1920's when, as a graduate of Northwestern College of Law, Minneapolis, he rvas admitted to practice in the Minnesota Federal District Court as well as the U. S. Supreme Court. He was elected secretary of the Northwestern Retail Coal Dealers' Association, Minneapolis, in 1927, and became secretary of the Northwestern Lumbermen's Association in October of 1929. He served that association until November, 1942, when he was called to active military service as Major in the Officers Reserve Corps. Also a veteran of World War I, Mr. Lance rose, in World War II, to the
rank of Lieutenant Colonel, Air Corps, Officers Reserve Corps. He has just been released from active duty.
Plans to Build Sawmill Necr Ukicrh I-umber Incorporated, a Southern California concern, has announced plans to build a. Fir sawmill near Ukiah, Calif., which will have a daily capacity of about 50,0@. feet.
50% Less Material Washington, D. C., April 2.-A new type oI timber truss, designed by Everett S. Lank, prominent timber engineer, uses less than 50 per cent of the material usually required for the usual type of flat trusses. Known as the Lank-Teco truss, a 50 ft. truss designed to carry 40 lbs. per sq. ft. over a 16 ft. spacing, was tested to failure lat week at the testing laboratory of the Timber Engineering Company. Prior to the failure test, the truss had carried full design load for over six months and had a total deflection of less than I inch. At twice design load the truss had a deflection of about 2 inches. (The original camber being 2 inches, the bottom chord of the truss was about level at this point.) Failure came in shearing out at the splice in the bottom chord at a load of over Zr/a times design load. At this time the truss was carrying over 36 tons of sand. In addition to the excellent strength performance of this truss. it is one of the most economical wood trusses ever designed. Teco connectors are used throughout. The test was conducted by Ralph Gloss, of Teco's engineering department, assisted by J. H. Carr and R. L. Fletcher, Teco engineers. The test was observed by R. A. Colgan, Jr., and R. G. Kimbell of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, C. E. Close of the Veneer Association, Frank J. Moore of the National Association of Commission Lumber Salesmen, E. S. and A. B. Lank of Lank Hardwood Company and Harry G. Uhl of Teco. Further full scale truss tests are contemplated.
Celebrates 92nd Birthdcy Charles F. Fischer, widely known old timer in the saw business, who is living in retirement at 414 Schrader Street,
San Francisco, put on a party for a number of his old friends who visited him on his 92nd birthday, April 15. Mr. Fischer was cofounder, and had a big part in the development of the California Saw Works, San Francisco. He is the father of Irving Fischer, also formerly well known for many years in the saw business as manager of both the San Francisco and Los Angeles branches of Simonds Saw & Steel Co., and later as vice president and sales manager of the California Saw Works.
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NHA lssues Order to Channel Building Materials Into Low-Cost Houses Washington, April 21-National Housing Expediter Wilson W. Wyatt today issued a National Housing Agency General Order which he described as the first step toward channeling building materials into moderate and low-cost housing under the Veterans' Emergency Housing Program. The order apportions certain definite percentages of new housing construction into rental units and low-cost homes, making allowances for geographical differences in construction costs. The order determines maximum costs in each bracket through a "dividing line" technique which is based on local builders' construction estimates for the first quarter of this year. Approximately one-third of the priorities issued through the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) during the first quarter of this year were for homes costing $6500 or less. The immediate efiect of the new order, Mr. Wyatt said, would be to increase by 50 per cent the homes built under $6500 in the seconcl quarter.
"The Veterans Emergency Housing Program contemplates the channeling of the largest part of available materials into homes and rental housing selling for not more than $6000 or renting for not more than $50 per month," Mr. Wyatt said. "Obviously these are objectives for the total program oI 2,7ffipffi houses. It does not mean that houses will be produced today under $6000 in all parts of the country, but it does mean that as we increase the production of materials and eliminate many of the present unnecessary costs due to delay, increased overhead, additional interest charges during construction, low volume, restrictive building codes, and the substitution of more expensive materials because ordinary materials are not available, we will obtain more and more housing under $6000 or under $50 until our goal is reached.
"Our price goals for the second quarter are practical and based on knowledge and experience in the first quarter' It should be possible to reduce prices progressively and appreciably in successive quarters." He pointed out that expansion of Title VI of the National
Housing Act, currently under consideration by Congress, should further stimulate the construction of low rental and low sales units. Mr. Wyatt added that he would set up a system of reviewing monthly reports from the field to check on the progress made in reducing sales prices and said that if the trend is unsatisfactory in any locality, it may be necessary to stop issuance of priorities in that locality until the condition is corrected. "This system is adopted in preference to wartime rationing" Mr. Wyatt said, "and I hope that cooperation by industry generally and by home builders particularly will make the program work, in order that wartime rigid quota methods for each locality will not have to be resumed. Here is a job where local emergency housing committees can be of invaluable aid," The order established a housing target for each state or district offrce of the FHA under the Veterans' Emergency Housing Program and authorizes each FHA director to apportion local housing targets for each city or area he may designate for the second quarter of 1946. The local housing target for each city or other area shall be broken down by the FHA director to provide that: (a) At least 25 per cent of the dwelling units authorized shall be rental units. Of that percentage of rental units, at least half must be subject to maximum shelter rents rvhich are at or below a "dividing line." The 'odividing line" in any particular city or area shall be the highest approved maximum shelter rent in the lowest third of applications approved in the local FHA office from January 15 to March 29, 1946, for rental dwelling units to be built under CPA Priorities Regulation 33. A further provision states that no "dividing line" shall be established exceeding $60 per month shelter rent unless submitted to the Washington Of;fice of the FHA for probable reduction before approval. (b) Of the authorized dwelling units to be sold, at least 50 per cent must be subject to a maximum sales price at or below an established "dividing line." The "dividing
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line" for the sale of dwelling units will be an amount equal to the highest maximum sales price in the lowest third of applications approved in the same base period for sale dwelling units to be built under Priorities Regulation 33. A further provision states that no "dividing line" in excess of $7,500 shall be established unless submitted to the Washington Office of the FHA for probable reduction before approval.
For purposes of illustration, Mr. Wyatt gave the following example: "Take a locality u.here 4,000 units are set as the goal for the second quarter. Under this channeling order, 25 per cent or 1,000 units must be rental units. If one third of the rental units built in the first quarter were below $50, then 500 of the 1000 units authorized in the second quarter must rent below that figure. A 'dividing line' for sale units would be established in the same way. If it is $6,500 {or this particular locality, then of the 3,000 sale units authorized in the second quarter, 1,500 will have to be below the 'dividing line' for that locality." Mr. Wyatt said that, as an inducement to build lou'ercost housing and rental housing, the expanded financing aids of Title VI of the National Housing Act, if approved by Congress, lvill be available for all housing ancl for sales housing below the "dividing line." The order specifies that applications submitted by veterans for construction of their own homes under Priorities Regulation 33 shall receive first preference in the order of processing. Next in line of preference shall'be applications for the construction of dwelling units to be sold or rented at or below the "dividing line." An accompanying regulation (NHA 80-1) provides that the maximum cost or sales price permitted veterans or servicemen building homes for their own use, and on rvhich priorities are sought under CPA Regulation 33, shall not exceed $10,000, whether rural or urban, and that repairs or alterations cannot exceed that amount. This supplements the ceiling regulations of $10,000 sales price and $8O rent already set for others building homes for veterans. Commenting on the "dividing line" determination to be used in the channeling order, Mr. Wyatt pointed out the differentials in construction costs in metropolitan versus rural areas as well as in different geographical regions. "Obviously," he said, "a house built in Nery England where greater amounts of insulation and heating equipment are
necessary is going to cost more than one of similar size and quality in the South." In that connection, he gave the follor.l'ing approximate figures based on reports for the first cluarter as the sales
price "dividing line" in various cities: New Orleans, $4,500; Atlanta, Louisville, Fort Worth, $5,500; Denver and Seattle, $6,000; Indianapolis and Kansas City, $6,500; Los Angeles and Milwaukee, $7,000; Philadelphia, Providence and Boston, $7,500; Pittsburgh, $8,000; Washington and Chicago, $8,500; New York, $9,000. Mr. Wyatt stressed again the fact that any "dividing line" over $7,5@ probably will be reduced. The rental "dividing line" for the same localities ranged from $40 a month in the lower construction cost cities to $65 in New York City. "It is impossible to set an arbitrary, blanket figure on construction costs over the nation as a whole," Mr. Wyatt said. "The same holds true of rental figures, which, of course, reflect the construction costs. "By utilizing this 'dividing line' technique to determine rental and sales prices, we are proceeding in a realistic manner, as the yardstick is based upon experience of local builders during the first quarter of this year." Mr. Wyatt stressed that the housing targets being set up by the FHA directors in cities and other areas are not intended to supplant any set by Mayors Emergency Housing Committees. Instead, he said, they should be considered as immediate targets to shoot at until local committees are suffrciently organized to set their own goals. Mr. Wyatt urged such committees to make available for housing still more improved land at lower prices. "The cost of the building lot is a big factor in the ultimate cost oi the home," he said, "and the more we can reduce land costs the more we can lower tlre eventual price of homes and dwelling units to veterans."
Mqkes lmprovements Manufacturers Lumber Co., sales agent for Commercial Lumber Co., Inc., has extended its spur track at the yard at 8145 Beach Street, Los Angeles, so that 11 cars can now be unloaded at a time, as compared with the former capacity of six. This was made necessary owing to increased volume of incoming stock in the last few months. This concern has also paved another 50,000 square feet of its yard to facilitate quicker unloading and handling of lumber.
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Cedar Shingles for Undercoursing Recent FHA approval of the use of No. 4 grade red cedar shingles as undercoursing for double-coursed shingle sidewalls not only is helping solve the critical shortage of sidewall materials but also is enabling shingle manufacturers to derive a greater utilization from available cedar timber, according to W. W. Woodbridge, secretary-manager of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau. A growing number of shingle mills in the Pacific Northwest are producing these new lower grades of shingles along with their regular output of other grades, and some manufacturers estimate they are achieving a ten per cent greater
conservation of timber as a result, Mr. Woodbridge said. The supply of cedar logs is a limiting factor in shingle production at present. FH;A headquarters in Washington recently included in its Minimum Requirements approval of the use of No. 4 and combination No. 3 and No. 4 grade shingles for undercoursing. These undercourse shingles are completely concealed by the outer layer of No. 1 grade untreated or prestained shingles, rvhich overhang the inner course about one-half inch.
In the new No. 4 grade shingles recognized by FHA, knots of prescribed size and certain other defects may occur throughout the area of the shingle. They are packed in the same manner as other shingles. Some of the mills, N{r. Woodbridge said, are manufacturing a combination No. 3 and No. 4 grade shingle instead of No. 4's. At least 50 per cent of these are No. 3 grade, which are clear of defects the first eight inches frorn the butt. Mr. Woodbridge pointed out that a double-coursed sidewall using one of the new lower grades as undercoursing, along with a top quality shingle for the outer layer, brings a most attractive and efficient r,l'all covering at nerv levels of economy.
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Portlcnd Rescrw Plcnt Burns Damage estimated at $75,000'\^'as caused by a fire in the resaw plant of Inman-Poulsen Lumber Co., Portland, April 9. The mill resumed its three-shift operation the next day. The fire department did a quick job in getting the fire tunder control in 37 minutes, and in confining the fire to the resaw plant. The annual capacity of the mill is 225,000,000 feet.
New Ycrrd In San Rcrlcrel E. M, Burke Lumber & Building Materials will open a Buys Sawrnill new yard in San Rafael, Calif., about May 15. A spur track is being laid, and buildings are being constructed. tr. M. Burke, o\vner and manager, was a Lieutenant in the Maritime Service, in which he served four vears overSEAS.
R. W. White of Kansas City has bought the Kruse Lumber Co. at Yoncalla, Ore., from Elmer Kruse. The plant has a daily capacity of about 45,000 feet per day. A. E. Sparks of Roseburg has been placed in cl.rarge of the mill by the new owner.
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Ptrtonal -,/'{r*t Albert A. Kelly, wholesale lumber dealer, Alameda, Calif., is on a business trip to the Pacific Northwest. P. R. (Bo,b) Kahn, Forsyth Hardwood Co., San Francisco, and Mrs. Kahn returned April 15th from their aqnual visit
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E. C. Hallinan, Hallinan Mackin Lumber Co., San F'rancisco, was back at his desk April 15 from spending three weeks in the Pacific Northwest. He visited the company's Portland and Eugene offices.
A. B. McKee, Jr., San Pedro Lumber Company, Los Angeles, has returned from a short business trip to San Francisco.
George J. Hawley of Atkinson-Stutz Co., San Francisco, was back at his desk April 25 Trom a business trip to Southern Oregon.
Hugh W. Handley, Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., San
Francisco., left April 22 for a business trip to the Pacific Northwest. He will make his headquarters in Portland for about three weeks.
G. G. (Jerry) Pearce, Sequoia Mill & Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned April 25 from a trip to Portland on business for his firm.
Larue Woodson, San Francisco,representative of Wheeler Osgood Co., and Mrs. Woodson recentlv spent a week at Palm Springs.
Henry Laws, Laws-Yeager Co., Santa Rosa, vacationed at Palm Springs in the first part of April.
P. W. Henry, Southern Pacific Milling Co., San Luis Obispo, was a recent Los Angeles visitor.
Kenneth Smith, president, California Redwood Association, San Francisco, left April 19 for Washington, D. C., on business for the association. John Vander Laan, Vander Laan Piling & Lumber Co.,
San Francisco, returned April 26 from' a tour of the Northwest which included the Willamette Valley, Portland, Eugene, and Seattle.
Lervis A. Godard. Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., San Francisco, and Mrs. Godard, recently spent a few days at the Desert fnn, Palm Springs. Douglas J. Freeman, Gosslin-Harding Lumber Co., Oakland, is now working at the company's sawmill at Orick, Calif.
W. A. Hunter, who was four years in the U. S. Army Air Force and the infantry, is now out of the service and intends to settle in San Francisco. Before entering the service he rvorked with his father in the Hunter Lumber Co., retail yard in Tulsa. Okla. Ronney Harwarth, who was in the Merchant Marine for two years, has resumed his old position as salesman with the \A/. P. Jones Lumber Co. of Los Angeles. George C. Cornitius, George C. Cornitius Hardwood Co., San Francisco. made a round trip by air to Portland early
in April. Rude Ilenderson, Lone Pine Lumber & Supply Co., Lone Pine, spent a few days in Los Angeles the latter part of April.
Les Lowell, who was a Captain in the Army Air Force, and operated out of England for three and a half years, is now with Cole Door & Plywood Co., Los Angeles, as salesman.
Paul McCusker. San Francisco wholesale lumberman, recently made a business trip to Coos Bay, Oregon.
Before the war he worked for the Chas. E. Sand Plywood Co. of Portland, Ore., selling plywood.
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Tree farms have passed the 11 there are now 945 tree farms en- Alabama leads the South with million acre mark, only four compassing a total of 11,134,950.09 303, Arkansas is in second place years after the program was in- acres. with 257. Other states are Missisaugurated with the dedication of In the West, where the move- sippi, 143, Texas, 90, North Carothe Clemons Tree Farm, near ment began, there are 138 tree lina, 14. Florida, South Carolina, Montesano, Washington. The farms totaling 4,266,547.32 acres. Tennessee, West Virginia, Marymovement is sponsored by forest The state of Washington leads Iand and New Jersey inaugurated industries to aid in perpetuating with 41 tree farms. while Mon- the program last year. The background of this chart tana and Idaho are tied for second the nation's forest wealth. Despite rigid requirements for place with 24 each. Oregon has shows a dense stand of second membership, which include main- 23 and California 21. Wisconsin growth Douelas fir on a Western tenance of good protection against joined the movement last Year. Iree farm dn land from which
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Announces New Stained Shingle Products The West Coast Stained Shingle Co. of Seattle, Wash., is introducing to the trade a completely new line of doublewall siding and shingle stain. Under a new trade name, "Olympic," the company is presenting a new 16-inch and lS-inch double-wall siding, labeled, Perfect-Fits, in five distinctive colors, and Olympic shingle stain which is formulated by an entirely new and improved process. The company is undertaking an advertising and marketing campaign, particularly on stain sales. Olympic Tri-Lap roofing is another product introduced by the company, which, like Perfect-Fits, is pre-stained by this new process. Philip W. Bailey is general manager of the West Coast Stained Shingle Co. Starting the business in 1934 with only one other employee besides himself, Mr. Bailey's company has made phenomenal growth, their pioducts now being distributed and sold throughout tfre entire eleven Western states. They are sold only to recognized lumber distributors and eventually through retail lumber yards. "Although the supply of materials for our Perfect-Fits is still quite scarce, we will have plenty of Olympic stain available for the trade this yeat," said Mr. Bailey. Associated with Mr. Bailey, and well known to the trade, is H. W. (Zip) Neuman, sales manag'er. He started with the Creo-Dipt Co. in North Tonawanda, N.Y., in 1919. He went to \rancouver, B. C., in 1925, where he managed their plant, then he was made manager of production of their Seattle operations. In 1938, he went with the West Coast Stained Shingle Co. as plant and production manager. The company is developing a new field organization and they are now training two men, Holmes Poozer and Roger Williams, in their Seattle plant who will soon be working with the dealers in the Western territory.
Directors oI Northern Cclilornicr Associcrtion Meet in Scrn Frcnciscco President Ray Clotfelter presided at a meeting of the directors of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California, held in the Assembly Room, Monadnock Building, San Francisco, April 9. Bernard B. Barber, assistant to the president, and Robert J. Wright, recently appointed executive vice president of the association, and a majority of the directors were present at the meeting. Practically all of the session was devoted to a round table discussion of industry problems, with emphasis on lumber distribution. and the OPA.
Ncme Chcrnged The name of Vieth-Beckemeier Lumber Company, Chow-
chilla, Calif., has been changed to Chqwchilla Lumber Company, A. H. Vieth having purchased the interest of Walter Beckemeier. There will be no change in the management of the yard. Mr. Vieth, who is active in the city's civic affairs, has been elected Mayor of Chowchilla.
Willamette Vclley Logging Conlerence The eighth annual Willamette Valley Logging Conference will be held at the Osburn Hotel, Eugene, Ore., on May 3-4.
N. G. ROBBITIS IUT}IBDR GO. 319 S. W. Wcrshington
Portlcnd 4, Oregon Distribators ol
Pacific Coast Forest Products Douglcrs Fir-Hemlock-Cedcn LOS trNGEI.ES 15 714 W. Oly-rnpic Blvd.
PBospect 072'l
Ross C. Lcrshley
Western Pine Supply Company Distribuiors of PONDEROSA PINE ond SUGAR. PINE
O LU'UIBER, O PLYWOOD O MOULDINGS Yord qnd Oftice ot l2Ol Hsrrison Street SAN FRANCISCO 3 Telephone UNderhill 8686
IIOGA]I LUilIBER GO. WHOI.ESAI.E AND'OBBING
LUTBER - ITIILLWORf, SASII and DO0RS Since 1888 OFFICE, MIIJ- YAAD AND DOCIS
znd e A[ce Sts., Oqkland Glencourt 6861
L. t. GARR & CO.
ColiJornia Sugor qrd Pondereo Pine Scles Agents For
SACRAMENTO BOX & LUMBER CO. Mills At Woodleafl Calif. SACNAMENTO Teletype Sc-13 P. O. Box 1282
tOS ANGEI€S W. D. Duuning {38 Chcobcr ol Gonncrce Elde.
Pogc 30
THE CAIIFONNIA 1UTBER 'IIIERCHANI
California Building Permits for March City
Alameda
... ...$
A!bany
March
r946
1945
257,r50
$ 55,523
54,461 726,853 178,306 49,000 r,388,695
Alhambra Anaheim
Antioch Arcadia
Azusa . .
March
.
Bakersfield Banning
r,ffis,229 165,645 168,950
Bell Berkeley
Beverly Hills . Brawley Burbank
Burlingame Chico
.
Emeryville
Oceanside
3,300
Ontario
135,987 16,507
Orange
Fullerton Gardena Glendale
Hanford
Hawthorne
Hayward Ifemet Hermosa Beach Huntington Park Inglewood
Laguna Beach
Manhattan Beach .....
tJl
22,821
20,291 172,535 260,940
t75 n,726
14,660
5,7r0
r6,537 351, I 85
48,500
Oxnard .. .
Redding Redlands
Redondo Beac n Redwood City Richmond Riverside Roseville Sacramento Salinas
San Anselmo San Bernardino ... San Bruno
17,420
San Gabriel
268,7r0 r,345,666
t7,450 156,636
277,320
20,500
312,081
15,865
156,580
4,110
58,600
395
16,448 33,972 87,725 20,830
tt,tJ5 49,240 1,024,335 2,757,604 r,873,432
37,r50
5,300
486,290
43,140
7,7r0 16,600 3,305
6,006 7,160
205,250 373,335
39,252
446,573
256.763
41,218 155,150
Pittsburg Porterville
18,522
2n9m
.
Piedmont
San Diego
532,454 2,184,804 206,273
70,440
85,650 481,018 42,715 46,688 12,448 110,240 44,502
r,047,440 99r,664
1,270,279
385, I 50
I,065
906,877 3,399,921
iii,06)
Oroville
San Francisco .,.. San Jose
San Leandro San Marino
t74,975
25,236
45,626
347,245
33,098
509,750 526,174 805,094 34,960 2,673,986 23,875 65,988
62,350 36,490 64,984 3,730
t17,A43 23,570 68,719
r,497,964
r29,428
901,000 3,050,095 12,718,603
8,500 939,242
r,334,705
st6,768
38,922
1,545,739
2t0,o78
159,325
t42,440 21,726
202,694
9,225
831,531
87,76r
752,8M 106,995 1,614,087
Santa Monica ....
Santa Rosa..
"'
"
Taft
Torrance
Upland Vallejo Ventura Vernon
342,t89
PATRICK LUMBER
Termincrl Sales Bldg., Portlord 5, Oregon feletype No. PD 5l Douglcrs Fir Spruce Cedcr - Hemlock - Fir Ponderosa and-Sugcn Pine Douglcs Piling
-
t7,268
914,042 50,410 206,505
t62,165
r,m0 17,735
1t,943 18,093
436,567
36,359
716,241
161,135
164,400 134,150
co.
3l Ycars Continuourly Serving Rctail Yardr and Railroads
EASTMAN LUMBER SALES
31r,796
25r,765
Woodland
40,687
1,178,860
r53,281
Watsonville
9,350 46,713
41,892 128,693
283,550
Visalia
47,4rl
96,762 77,250 1,450 29,078
nr,560
S"uth Fi.ra.;; .. ... Stockton ..........:.
PeEoleum Bldg., Ios Angeles 15 PRospect 5039
8,190
17s,030 254,975
216,078 52,090
Santa Maria
Ios Angeles Representative
l 14,550 220,823
653,189
San Rafael Santa Ana Santa Barbara .. .. Santa Clara Santa Cruz
Seal Beach Sierra Madre South Gate ........:.
I 1,820
s7,780
12,070 3,496
706,964
San Mateo
t9,M8
96,381
Pasadena
r3,779
(Unincorporated Area)
19,115
329,421 48,200 s,445 3s,650
56,553
Los Angeles (lncorporated Area) ..... m,$8,29s Los Angeles County
223,075 343,865
Palo Alto
184,883
153,746 281,331 288,150 6,624,675
La Mesa
1945
1,225
522,775 433,152 176,250
1,541,818
March
r9'16
Pacific Grove Palm Springs . . .. .
21,414
1,433,887
415,630
c;;;;
March
70,580 88,025 717,782 87,450 3,704,200
34,055
zrb,ioo
Eureka Fresno
Monrovia
Oakland
88,455
28,9ffi
El Centro El Monte El Segundo
Martinez Maywood Merced Modesto
2,Am 135,135
5,360
Coronado
Daly City
Newport
2,426,4t0
202,380
Corona .. Culver City .
12,212
2m,514
r07,7 55
Claremont Coalinga Colton Compton
57,20r
Montebello Monterey P;rk Napa
30,170
1,501,948
664,850
Chula Vista
City
6,986 19,190 13,905
lloy l, 1946
Pogr 3l
Obituaries Myron C. Woodcrd Myron Chester Woodard, widely known Pacific Northwest lumberman, passed away suddenly at his home in Portland, Oregon, April 20. He was 71, and for many years was president of Silver Falls Timber Company and Westport Lumber Company. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Edith Woodard; a daughter, Mrs. Catherine M. Wegman, Portland; a brother, William H. Woodard, Watertown, Wis., and two grandchildren, Edith M. and Joan C. Wegman, Portland. Funeral services were held in Portland on April 22.
Coy Burnett, Jr.
Funeral services for Coy Burnett, Jr., son of Coy Burnett, Sr., president of the Monolith-Portland Cement Co., were held in St. John's Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, Thursday afternoon, April 18. He was 2I years of age. He served as an Ensign in the Navy until his discharge last year, and was a student at the University of Southern California at the time of his death. He would have obtained his B.A. degree in June. Besides his father. he is survived bv his mother and three sisters.
Iohn Kelly
John Kelly, co-founder of the Booth-Kelly Lumber Co.,
and vice president of the Oregon Land and Livestock Co., passed away at his home in Eugene, Ore., on March 23. He was 88 years of age. Surviving are his widow, Ida L. Kelly; and two sisters, Mrs. James W. Seavey, Eugene, and Mrs. W. W. Brown. Portland.
A. E. Helmer A. E. llelmer, 58, salesman with Smith Lumber Co., Oakland, passed away at his home in Oakland, April 10. He had lived in Oakland lor 23 years. He is survived by his widow, one son, two daughters, a sister and his mother.
Hcrdwood Lumber Prices brcrecrsed Washington, April 19-OPA authorized today an average increase of $3.19 a thousand board feet in mill ceiling prices for hardwood lumber produced in the northeastern region.
OPA said the increase will amount to 3 per cent for number 2 common and lower grades of hardwood, and to 712 per cent for No. 1 and better grades. (Amendment 9 to MPR 368, effective April 24.)
wEsTERt ttLt & toulDtilG Go. WHOIESAIE Ponderosa & Sugcr Pine Lusrber 6 Mouldiugs 11615 Pcrmelee Avenu. qt rnperi<rl Highwcry
Ioa Angeles 2-rr-bcrll 2953
KITPATRICK & COMPANY Deelere in Forcst Producb
Douglcs Fir-Redwood Cedcrr-Spruce Genercl Office Crocker Bldg., ScEr Frcmcisco 4, Cdit. Southern Cclilornicr Office cnd Ycrd
l2l0 Blinn Ave.. Wilmiuqrton" CaUI., P. O. Box 518
IIMMAI,N BI]II,||Iilfi $UPP[Y, ilC. Wholesqle Distributors oI Lumber and itt Products in Ccrrlocrd Qucntities a
Warehouse Distibution of Wholescrle Building Supplies lor the Decler Trade
Telephone TErnplebcr 6964-5-6
'
160z 32nd st Ocrldcmd, Ctrlil
ACME BLOWER G' PTPE GO. ING. 1209 Ncrdequ Street, Los Angeles I
IElderson 4221 Mcrnulacturers
BLOWER 8.r8TEM8 and INGINERATONS See fhc Acme lncinerator with wqtcr woshcd top
THE CAIIFORNIA IUIABER IIERCHANT
Pcae 32
CI,ASSIFIED ADVERTISING Rate-$2.50 per Column Inch.
DO YOU WANT TO SELL?
RESAW
Full production now on "Mofrett" Resaw.
The lat€st, most modern designed band resaw on market today. 16 rveeks delivery, Writg wire or phone for particulars,
Phones: T\Icker 8ssfr-VAndike 0898-TUcker 3592
If you want to sell your lumber yard let us know. We have
several buyers who are interested in Southern California yards. For lumber yard sites (bare ground only) see our advertise-
ment in the April 15 issue.
TWOHY LUMBER CO., LUMBER YARD BROKERS 8Ol Petroleum Bldg., Los Angeles 15, Calif. PRospect 87,16.
CRANE & COMPANY-Distributors Kaycee Lurnber Machines, Inc. 1150 East Pico Boulevard, Loc Angeles 21, Calit.
STENOGRAPHER WANTED Wanted lady stenographer. Lumber experience preferred.
POSITION WANTED Man with 20 years' management and sales experience in retail lumber and building materials, Can give excellent references. W*tr position as m:utager or would consider active half interest rn gorng concern. Address Box C-1170, Califomia Lumber Merchant, 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.
Western Hardwood Lumber Company 2014 East 15th St., Los Angeles 55,.Calif. PRospect 6161. Ask for Mr. Spaulding.
SITUATION WANTED
Position wanted as rnnager, assistant or office manager of yard. At present employed, yard doing $25,000 per moithPrefer Phoenix or vicinity. Address Alison 320 West Roma Street.
or Phone 5-1271 Phoenix, Arizona. WANTED POSITION AS FACTORY SUPERINTENDENT -Factory._superintendent with 20 years' experience in millwork, ql"lgg mill_.and shipping, vrants permanent position. Well qualified in handling men. Best references will be furnished. Address Box C-1171, California Lumber Merchant, 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.
WANTS TO INVEST IN RETAIL YARD Southern California lumberman, experienced as branch yard
manager and owner-operator,--wishes to invest. money ?nd sgloices in going concern. Established contacts within trade and in Northwest should be of value. Address Box C-1173, California Lumber Merchant 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Cafif.
SALES EXECUTIVE and successful enterprise, warehousing and -.A .gpidly-gr-9llng distributing building materials
specialties, needs a young m-in of
good education, general business experience, with proven sales and executive ability for Los Angeles territory who 6as favorable contacts with sources of materials. He must iell us with the idea under our policies, build up and maintain an efiective !t. ""1,organization and grow rapidly with the rest of branch the company. - We want a man of broad training and ability in building materials who eventually will be prepared to assumeihe responsi-bilities of an "all around executivi". He must possess personalitv. adaptability, initiative and an intense interest in sales -work. His letter rnust be a frank and full statement of his qualifications and experie_nce, personal particulars, references, and he must be able and willing to stand investigation. Salary commensurate.
F'OR SALE
Well located Los Angeles city retail lumber yard on main
thoroughfare. One block from railroad spur track. 20 years same location. Real estate and improvements $8q0fi). Address Box C-1175, California Lumber Merchant, 508 Central Bldg., L,os Angeles 14 Catif.
POSITION WANTED Experienced m:rnager of lumber and building material business is now available for a position. Address Box C-1176, California Lumber Merchant, 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.
Address Box C_-1174, California Lumber Merchant 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Cdif.
Appcrlcchicn Hcrdwood Prices Rqised by OPA Washington, April ll-One-fifth of all the hardwood produced in this country received an average all-over in. crease of $4.65 a thousand boarcl feet under an OPA action announced yesterday.
OPA granted a mill ceiling increase averaging $5.80 a thousand feet for certain grades and thicknesses of poplar, oak, gum, beech, cotton wood and other hardwood lumber and bond items produced in the region which includes West Virginia and parts of Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland.
The higher prices will be passed along to.consumers, pending outcome of a cost study which is being made to determine ability of distributors to absorb the- increases, i OP,A said.
YARD MANAGER WANTED Wanted experienced retail lumberman for manager of retail yard in Los Angeles area. Address Box C-1177. California Lumber Merchant 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.
Log Inventories Log inventories at tidewater on Puget Sound, the Columbia River and Grays Harbor at the beginning of April rvere reported as having declined 6.4 per cent from March at less than 278 million feet of all species. A year ago, the combined supply was upwards ol 426 million feet, so that the present holdings at booms are about 11.3 per cent smaller than a year ago. The decline at Puget Sound and on the Columbia is somer,r'hat greater than these ratios indicate since Grays llarbor which holds about 13 per cent of the total, reported a 4.5 million increase in March and a gain of 12.6 million over a year ago.
BUTER'S GUIIDE SAN FRATGISGO ruulE Arcolc Ecdwood Co.
rl20 Mcrlcl Slrect (ll).
....Ylllor
Attiaroa-Stutz Conraav,
ll2 Marler Srr.or (li).
2067
..Gf,rlietd 18{19
Cbrirtonron Luaber Co. Evcas Ave. and Quiat St. (21). .VAloncic 5&12 Daal d Busgell, Inc., 2ll Froal Street (ll). ...GArlield 0292 Dolbecr ll Ccrson Lunber Co., lll8 Morcbcnts Excbcagc Bldg. ({) DOuglcs 6{16 Gcm.raloD G Grcen Lunber Co., 1800 f,rmy Street (24)............ATwqter l30ll Hcll, Jcncg L., 1032 Millg Bldg. ({). ......SUlter752Il Hcllincn Maclir Lunbor Co. 681 Marlct St. (5)... ...DOuglcr lg{l Hcmnond Lunber Conpcny, rllT Moatgonery Streit (-6). . . . . .Dougfds 3388
Hobbs Wcll Lunber Co., {05 Monlgomery St. (4)..........GArlield 7752 Holneg Eurelc Lunber Co., ll05 Finmcicl Certcr Bldg, ({). ...GArlield l92l Kilpctrick 6 Conpcay,
Crocker lldg. ({)......
...YU}on 0912
Ccrl H. f,uhl Lunber Co., O. L. Rumum, ll2 Mcrlel St. (ll)..Ylltor
1160
LUMBER Lcmon-Bonniuglon Conpqny,
16 Calilornic Srreel (ll)..........GArfic|d
6881
Northcn Bedwood f,unbcr Co., 2408-10 Buss Bldg. ({).
..EXbrook ?89{
O'Neill Lunber Co., Ltd., 16 Coliloruic St, (ll). Pccilic Lunber Co,, The
...Gf,rlield 9ll0
100 Busb Street (4).
......GArlield ll8l
Pope 6 Talbot, Inc., Lumber Division, {61 Mcrlet Streer (5). ..DOuglcg 2561 Scntc Fe Lunbor Co,, 16 Cclilornia Street (ll). .. .......EXbrook 20?4
.SUtler 1355
Schaler Brog. Lumber d Shingle Co., I Drumm Street (ll). .... . . . ...... ...SUtter lZll Shcvlin-Cords Luaber Co., lnc., ,-68
Ftreet (d).,...............DOuslca
2{69
-Post Shevlin Piae Sales Co., 1030 Monqdnock Bldg. (5). .. .. . . EXbrooL 70rll Sudden d Cbristensou, Inc., 310 Scnsons Sbeet ({)..........GArlield 28116 Tarler, Webster G Johuon, lne, ..DOuglcs 2060 _ I .Mo_ltgoEery St, ({). Ccrl W. Wcttg, 975 Moncdnock Bldg. (5)..........YUkou 1590 Wendliug-Nctbcn Co., 56'l Mcrler St. ({). . . .. . ..SUtter 5363 W€at OreEon Lumber Co., 1995 Evcns Ave. (24) ...ATwcter 56?8
......SUiter 1028
OAKLANID LUMEEN
LUIIBEN
Gcncrelon 6 Green Lumber Co.,
Wholeeqlc Buildiuq Supplv, Inc., 1607 32nd Streei (8). ...-. . . .. .TEmptebcr 6951
Godin-Harding Lmbcr Co.
Wholesale Lumber Distributors, Inc,, 5rl Firat Street (7). .. . . . . .. .. . . .TWiaoc}s 25ls
2001 Livinssror St. (6). .f,EUos.{-1881 2ll Profeuional Bldg. (r).......,....KEIIog 4-2017 Hill d Morton, Inc.,
Dcaniaor Slreel Wbcr! (7). .. .. .. .ANdover 10?7 Hogm Lumber Compqay, Zad cnd Alice Stroais (l). . . .. .. .Glcncourt 6861 Kollev, AJbcrt A. P. -o. Box 2{0 (Alcmcdc). . . . . .Lc}ehurgl 2-2ll51 Molqrch Lunber Co., .TWirocks 5291 lr!(l{ Frant<lia St. (12). E. f,. Wood Lunber Co.. 2lll FrodcricL Strcot (8). ...... .. .frllog Z-ltTI
HABDWOODS
Strcble Hardwood Comrcnv, First cnd Clcy Streerj (7i....fEEpl.bcr 558{ White BrotheB. 5ll0 HiEh Srre.r 0). ....ANdovrr l6m
LOS ANGELE9 LUMBEN
Anslo Ccliloraic Lunber Co., 855 E. Florence Ave. (I)......THoruwqll 3l{{ Arcqtq Ecdwood Co. (I. J. Beo)
5ll0 Wilsbire Blvd. (36)........WEbcLr 78?8 AtLilEon-Stutz Company, 628 Petrolcum Blds. (15)........PRorpccl {3{l f,ilcr Lunbcr Co., ...Pnorpccl 7{01 2txl5 E. lsrb Sl. (21). Erurh ladustricl Lumber Co.. 535{ E. Slcuron Ave. (22)... .... .Al{gelue l-1155 Eums Lumber Compqnv, -(l{). ..... . . .TBiaity l08l ?1? W. Scveath Sr. Ccrr 6 Co., L. t. (W. D. Duaaing), $8 Ch. oI Con. Bldg. (15)......PRospect 88{3
Couolidcted Lunber Co..
122 W. lelleregon St. (7). .. . . .Rlcbmord
ll{6 E. f,ncbcim Sr.'
2lll
Wilmiagton......Wit-. Ter. 4-2687; NE. 6-1881 Cooper lffholescle Lunber Co., W' E., 606-808 Richlield Eldc. (13)...... .MUtucl 2l3l Dcat G Rusell, Iac', 812 E. 59th Street (l).
....ADcm
Dolbccr 6 Ccrsoa, Lunber Co., 901 Fideliry Bldg. (13)..........VArdile
8l0l 8791
HANDWOODS
LIruBEN
Orbca Lumber Co.,
7 S. Pcsqdenc Ave., Pqssdeac (3) ..,.. .SYccmore 6-r[373 RYcn l-6997 Pcciric Lumber co., The 5225 Wilshire Blvd. (36)............YOIL 1168 Pctrick Lumber Co., Eaalmo Lumber Sales, 7l{ W. Olympic Blvd. (15). . . . . .PRospect 5039 Pope d Tclbot, lac,, Lumber Divisioa 7ll W, Olynpic Blvd. (15). . . . . .PBospect 8Zll E. L, Reitz Co., 333 Petroleum Bldg. (15). .. .. . . .. .PRospect Zt69 Scn Pedro Lumber Co.,
l5l8 S. Central Ave. (21)......Blchnond ll{l 1800-A Wilniaqton Boad (Scn Pedro). ........Sqt Pedro 2200 Schcler Bros. Lumber 6 Shinqle Co., It7 W. gth Sireer (15). Shevlin Pile Sales Co., 330 Petroleum Bldg. (15).....,..PBospeci 0615
Simpson llduslries, Iac., 1610 E,_W-cghiaston Blvd. (21)..PBospect
StcDto!, E. l. d Son,
6183
_ 2050 E, {L8t St. (ll).
...CErlury 292ll Sudden d Cbrislenson, Inc., _ 630 Bocrd _ol Trcde Btdg, (ll)... .TRiaity 88{{ Tccomc Lumber Sqles, __-8i17__Petro-leum
Bl_ds. (15)........PRoapcct ll08
Wendling-Ncthcn Co.,
5225 Wilshire Blvd. (36). .YOr} ll88 West Oregon lumber Co,, {27 Petroleun Bldg. (15). ...... .Rlcbnond 0281
W. W. Wilkinson, (I5). . . ... . .. .TBiniry {5t3 -_ ll2 lllesi Nint Street Weyerbceuser Scles Co., Itlg W. M, Garlcnd Bldg. (15)..Mlchiscn 6354 E. X. Wood Lunber Co.,{710 So. Alanedc Sr. (51)........lEffersoa 3lll CREOSOTED I.UMBEN_POLES
PILING-TIES
ll5l So. Brocdwcy (15)..........PBorpcct 1363
.Postofiicc Zone Number in Parenthesis.
609 S. Grcnd Ave...............Mlchigcn 9326 Westen Hcrdwood Lumbcr Co., 2014 Eagt l5th Streot (55).......PRosprct 616l SASH_D OONS-MILLWONK_SCNEEilS BLINDS_PANELS AND PLYWOOD
IRONING BOANDS Bcck Pqnel CompcnY,
310-31/t East 32ad- Street (ll). . . .ADur Cqlilornic Door Conpcly, Tbc P. O. Box 126, Vembn Statio!(ll)
l22!i
Elmbqll llll
Cclilornic Pcael d Veneer Co., P. O. Box 2{196, ferninql ...TBtrity 0lE7 Annex (54) Cobb Co., T, M., (ll)........ADcnr llll? 5800 Centrql Avenue Cole Dmr & Plywod Co.'
llx9 E. Slauen Ave. (rr) ........ ..ADamr a3?l
Davidson Plvwood d Veneer Co,, 2135 Eateririse Si. (21).
.TBhity 9858
Eubcnk d Son, L. H. (Inglewood) .OReqos 8-2255 433 W, Bedoudo Blvd.. Hcley Brog. (Scntc Moaicc) 1620 l{th Str€ri...
.......AShley l-2180
Koebl, Ino. W, C Son, 652 S. Myerg Street (Zl)........f,NgeIua 8l9t Oregon Wuhiagton Pllvood Co., tlz W. grh SkCot (15I. .. ...........Tnliry l5l3 Pccific Mutucl Door Co., 1600 E. Wcshington Blyd. (21)..PBogpect 9!i23 Beqm Compcnv, Geo, E., 235 S. Arlnedc Street (12).....Mlchigm l85l Scmp:on Co. (Pcscdeac), 715 So, Rcynond Ave. (2)........BYon l-6939 Simpaon ladustrieg, Iac,,
t6l0 !, Wcsliagton Blyd. (21)..PRospecl 6183 1930 Ecst l5th St. (21)........Blchnoad 610l
United Stctes Plywood Corp.,
Anoricca Lumber 6 Trecting Co.,
Bcxler, I. H, 6 Co., 601 Wesi Sth Strect (13). .......Mlchiscn
Americqn Hcrdwood Cot900 E. lsth Street (5{)..........PRoapect l2it5 Penberthv Lumber Co., 5800 S6uth Boyle Ave. (Il)......Xlmbcll 5lll StantoD, E. J. d Son, 2050 Eqgt {lrt Street (ll).........CEatury 192t1 Tropicql d Westoru lunber Co,,
6291
Popc 6 Talbot, Inc., Lumber Diviaioa, 7ll W. Olynpic Elvd. (15). .. . , .PBorprct Sllll
Wost Coagt Screeu Co.,
lll5 Ecrt 63rd Strect (l)..........f,Dcnr Weslern Mill 6 Moulding Co.,
11615 Pcmelee Avc. (2) . ... . . .Rlnbcll
E. X. Wood Lunber Co.,
llllll 2953
l7l0 S. llcncda Si, (31)....... lEfforroa 9lll
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u)utht THE PAYROII SAVINGS PIAN CONTINUED!
Thanks to the cooperation and encouragiement oI America's industrial executives, 85 million bond holders have bought U.S. Bonds in the greatest savings program in history. Employees who have purchased billions o{
dollars of these bonds during the war now wantto continue monthlypurchases oI savings bonds. Specific evidence of this desire to continue saving for personal security and prosperity through the PayroII Savings PIan was recently revealed by a survey which disclosed that 9O7o wanted the PIan continued. Every employer can write in his own set of reasons why the Payroll Savings PIan should be continued as a part of his personnel relations program, but the prlncipal advantages are obvious:
A large reserooir of national taoings; a sarong antil stable bulwark against inflation.
An "aulontatic" thrift habit fot the worker: to increate conter,tmen, and satisfactiott in his iob.
An opportunity for the returned
neteran ao share in the PaYroll Plan'a oaried benefits.
Your employees will require little "selling" on lhe idec-they cre qccustomed lo their monthly scving hcbit. With the Trecrsury Depcrtment's scrvings bond proqtrrqm now in peccetirne operction, your pcrlner' ship is crgcin invited lo conlinue this syslemctic, convenient meqns ol contribution to q prosperous peqce' time fulure.
Tbe Treasary Depdrt,,tettt dcknwlelgu tuitls ,.tppreciution the pablic,ttit,n rt tbis nesage bl
The Cqliforniq Lumber Merchanl Tltis is an offcial I). S. Treawrl, ddrertireiltcnt prepare,l undcr tbe aaspices of tbe Treanry De|artment aud Adtertiing Coancil