KILN-DRIED SUGAR PINE

Instollotion of o lorge boitery of Moore Cross-Ventilotion Dry Kilns ot our Anderson, Colifornio, plonl hos been rushed to complelion-lo meel your needs for increosed supplies of occurotely monufoctured ond groded Sugor Pine, lhe premier wood for lhe millwork induslry, potlern workers ond foundries.

The kind of lumber you wont, when you wonl it, occurotely monufoctured "from our own foresls ond mills." Uniformity of grode ossured by using groders cerlified by the Wesiern Pine Associotion.

Orders being occepted now for prompt shipmenl. Send us your inq uiries.

We monulocture ond speciolize in:

Furniture Dimension o Glued-Up Slock o Cqrpenlers' qnd Speciol

Mouldings o Industricl Shook o Venetion Blind Slots, Rqils qnd

Fosciq o Lodder Stock o Reqdy-to-Assemble Furniiure Pqrts

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Wholesole:

Ponderoso Pine, Sugor Pine, Douglos ond Whire Fir

A a B Lumber Sales Opens Offices in San Francisco

Offices were opened early in April by A & B Lumber Sales at 424 and 425 Underwood Building, 525 Market Street, San Francisco. The principals in this firm are P. A. (Pete) Albertson, and E. C. Brandeberry. The telephone number is SUtter 1-0631. A general wholesale lumber business will be conducted, spe,cializing in fir and pine.

Mr. Albertson is well known, having been with Pelican Bay Lumber Co., Klamath Falls, Oregon, for the past 28 years, most of this time as sales manager, and general manager Tor the last two years. He also held important executive positions in the east and south, including six years with the J. P. Nlorgan Co. in New York.

Also well known is Mr. Brande,berry, who was sales manager for Ivory Pine Company, Klamath Falls for five years and a half, and was with Weyerhaeuser Sales Co. at Longview, Washington for more than four years. He studied forestry for three years at Oregon State College, and worked for some time for Hammond Lumber Company at Mill City, Oregon. He rvill make his headquarters at 630 Pine Street, Klamath Falls.

New Phone Number

The telephone number of B. R. Garcia Traffic Service, 524 Monadnock Building, San Francisco, has been changed to YUkon 6-0509.

Redwood Logging Congress M.y 28-29

The Redwood Logging Conference is to be resumed this year and dates of the next meeting have been set for May 28, D, 1948. The meeting will be held at the Eureka Inn, Eureka, California.

One day will be used for indoor discussions and the other day for a field trip. James Hughes, engineer, HolmesEureka Lumber Company is chairman.

The tentative program calls for discussion of the following topics: Better logging roads to facilitate winter logging; re-logging practices and possibilities; reduction of logging losses; salvaging clear cants from rotten-center logs; centralized barkpeeling; fire protection; secondgrowth ; and, the operation of the State Forest Practice Act.

All loggers of the North California Coast are invited to attend.

Announces Chcnge in Mqncgers

James Ingebretsen, president of Ely Lumber & Coal Company, E,ly, Nevada, announces with regret the resignation of Thomas O. Bath, manager for over fourteen years. Mr. Ingebretsen has taken over the duties of manager, assisted 'by his son, John, as operating manager. John joined the company in 1939, and with the exception of a war detour as far as Okinawa, has been with them ever since. The Ely Lumber & Coal Company was organized over forty-one years ago.

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With lhe long, tough fiber found in no olher oreo. Simpson Insuloting Boord mode of 1000/" pure Douglos fir combines o finer oppeoronce wifh greoter slrength ond superior insulotion. Thol's why we stock it , olong with . ."The Besl in Plywood ' ."

"Let your best be for your friend. If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood, also. For what is Your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill? Seek him alwaYs with hours to live. for it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness. And in the sweetness of friendship, let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, the heart finds its morning, and is refreshed'"

'The above is a scrapbook entry if I ever'saw one' Gibran wrote several precious books, but "The Prophet" and "Jesus, the Son of Man," are things to read slowly, thoughttrilly, and rejoice over. Next time you're buying yourself a worthy gift-buY rr""".

"Let not thy mind run on what thou lackest, as on what thou hast already," said Marcus Aurelius' In other words' do not say-"my purse is nearly half empty," but say rather' "my purse is more than half fu11."

James L. Reston of the New York Times, made a remark about Congress that is much quoted: "If you tell them too little, they go fishing; if you tell them too much, they go crazy."

Seneca said: "Many -; rl"tu have attained wisdom if they had not presumed that they already had it'"

"What would life be vJt,nl", **ee?" asked Louis the Fifteenth of France. Then he thought for a few moments' andadded:"But,afterall,whatislifeevenWITHcoffee?"

Some wag suggests that perhaps we should substitute the pelican for ihe ""gt" "" our national bird; on account of the BrG BrLL'

"If Stalin is a Democrat, so was. Nero," (Dallas News)' Howunkind;!YouknowtheSovietgovernmentlacksonly two things-honor and integritY' :!*tF

What a Stalinist Homer's Odysseus would have made' Flomer tells us what a smoothie this Greek chieftain was, his chiefest pride being his ability to deceive, and we find the Goddess Athene saying to Odysseus: "Cunning must be he, and knavish, who would go beyond thee in all man,r., oi guife, aye, though it were a gd that met thee' Bold man, crafty in counsel, insatiate in deceit, not even in thine own house, it seems, wast thou to cease from guile and deceitful tales, which thou lovest from the bottom of thy heart." Reads like Lenin himself, praising his faithful followers.

"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality." Thus wrote Dante, some seven l"".Ut"f years ago.

"A silent sage has less influence than an articulate fool," says a famous old adage. These are times when men of wisdom should speak and speak definitely; for the "articulate fools" are never backward in spreading their hogwash.

Time and experience convince us that the man with the small brain almost always has a big mouth; and the man with a soul so small that it rattles loose in a peanut shell, is always making a terrific fuss about saving it.

I rate Calvin Coolidge a worth-while philosopher. While he was President, Rupert Hughes published his book on George Washington, in which he told some devastating things about the personal and moral character of the Father of our Country. A reader of the book called Coolidge's attention to these revelations. Cal remarked: "f notice the Washington monument is,still standing." ***

News dispatches tell us that the big Hollywood movie studios have made deep cuts in the salaries of their executives and stars. Now ain't that just too bad? How do you suppose those big executives and stars are going to get along, selling their push-cart peddler abilities for a pitiful several thousand a week, instead of double that amount like they have been getting? Consider the sad plight of the dizzy young actors and actorines who jumped frorn a truck driver's seat or over a ribbon counter and from twenty a week into the thousands, and now are having their pay reduced a bit ! Ain't is just too awful? How sad it must make the $250 a month college teachers feel ! Oh please don't tell any more of those sad*stories. They break my heart !

Governor Dewey, of New York, in a recent speech, made a short talk on salesmanship that impressed me greatly. I think it was the soundest criticism of America's foreign policy I have heard. Here is the thought: We advertise ourselves as a nation of salesmen. American salesmanship has been exploited as highly as American freedom and prosperity. Right now and for some time past we have been engaged in a competitive sales contest. We have been trying

(Continued on Page 8) manufactured from loblolly Pine, which insures a board with hiqh strength properties and excellent surlace appearance. a hardboard product which will come in both tempered and untempered grades in various thicknesses. a decorative board which comes in various colors for home and commercial installations.

W. expect to have Temlok, Temwood, Monowall, and Armstrong's Insulating \lllool, a fibreglass product, for our retail trade after fune l, 1948.

IT WON'T BE LONG NOW UNTIL WE WILL HAVE ALL OF THESE QUALITY PRODUCTS, INCLUDING ARMSTRONG'S SHEATHING AND PLASTER LATH

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(Continued from Page 6) to sell America to the peoples of Europe and Asia. At the same time our ponderous adversary of the hammer and sickle has been offering the Russian way of life instead. On our side we have the greatest prosperity the world has ever witnessed. Ours are the best dressed, the best housed, the best fed, the most prosperous people in history, with everything including freedom to make us happy. Our adversary has little to ofrer except a police government where the rights of the individual are completely ignored, and where there is penury, and poverty, and slavery, and misery on all sides. Yet, says Governor Dewey, they are outselling us. And, come to think of it, that's exactly what they have been doing. Nation after nation falls before their sales talk, and ignores ours. Maybe we're not the salesmen we have alway" t"_*ld. *Do )'ou reckon?

Speaking of depression threats, keep in mind the old French allegory that points a moral worth remembering. It concerns the "Vicious Circle." A portrait'painter sat at his favorite cafe, sipping his wine. A wealthy builder had just given him an order to paint his portrait. His small bottle finished, he was about to order a second when his eye fell on a headline in a copy of "Figaro" at the next table. The line lsad-"Ha1d Times Are Coming." So, instead of ordering his second bottle of wine, he called for his check. "Is there anything wrong with the wine?" asked the landlord. "The wine is good, but I did not order the second bottle because hard times are coming and I must economize," said the artist. "Hard times," said the landlord, "then my wife must not order the silk dress she planned." "I{ard times," repeated the dressmaker when the order was cancelled, "then this no time to expand; I must not make the improvement I had planned to this place." "Ifard times," said the builder, when the dressmaker cancelled the building plans, "then f cannot have my portrait painted." So he wrote the artist 9nd cancelled the order. After receiving the letter the portrait painter went again to his favorite cafe and ordered a small bottle of wine to soothe himself. On a near-by chair lay the same copy of "Figaro." ffe again read the headlines, but this time he also read the date. The paper was ten years old. But the harm was done.

No matter what else you may say in your morning prayers, let it always include these words: "Lord, help me to keep my damn nose out of other people's business."

The old saying that "figures won't lie, brft liars wili figure," is well authenticated by the following table which is going the rounds, purporting to be a breakdown of the nation's work potential, facetious, of course, but fun:

2: You and I ! And you'd better get a wiggle on. I'm getting tired of doing all the work.

"Rezo" Door

George Paine Nevitt, president of the Paine Lumber Company, Oshkosh, 'Wisconsin, re,cently visited the Sacramento office of L. J. Carr & Co., Pacific Coast distributors of his firm's "Rezo" hardwood doors. He also visited the mills of the Sacramento Box Co. at Woodleaf, Calif. Mr. Paine was accompanied by his wife, and they spent three weeks in Southern California before returning to Wisconsin.

O We wanted a top-grade Decorative Vallboard for our trade, so Simpson combed the market and selected what we believe to be the finest product of its kind . Wal-lite. We investigated rnarkets where Wal-lite is being sold and found that it is a good seller.. . in both the conmercial bnd home building fields. That's why we say there's good news for Southern California lumber dealers. Here's a splendid product best in its field that will fill out your line and provide increased volume. Why not contsct us for samples and details?

Installation of New Drying Plant Completed

The Ralph L. Smith Lumber Company l-ras recently completed installation of a new drying plant at Anderson, California. The large battery of newest type of Nloore Cross-Ventilation Dry Kilns installed provides a capacity of 5 to 6 million feet a month, according to Ralph L. Smith, president of the company.

Production from these new kilns will be devoted largely to the production of increased supplies of precision manufactured Sugar Pine, rvhich has been in restricted supply for sometime. Also, to assure uniform grading, 1!Ir. Smith states that their graders are certified by the Western Pine Association, of rvhich the Ralph L. Smith Lumber Company is a mem,ber.

Large stands of Sugar Pine and the mill at Anderson were included in the recent California purchase of the Ralph L. Smith interests. The installation of new kilns is one of several facilitv exoansions announced at that time.

Builds New Yard

Home Lumber Company, Marysville, Calif., has completed its new warehouse and display rooms and moved into the new yard, rvhich is at the corner of Sutter and Teegarden Streets. Loyal C. Tipton, the owner, nranaged yards for The Diamond N{atch Companl' at Live Oak and Marysville before starting in business for himself.

Opent Denver Olftce

Wood Conversion Company, St. Paul, Minn., has opened a new Western District sales office in Denver, Colorado. J. D. Spencer, Western district sales manager of the company, will be director of activities.

The new oFfice will serve Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming and parts of Montana.

Mr. Spencer joined Wood Conversion Company as a sales representative in 1926 and has served the companies' sales organization continuously since that time, except for a leave of absence while in the armed forces. While serving as a Lieutenant Colonel of the Fifteenth Air Force in the Mediterranean Theatre, he received the Legion of Nferit, fourth highest army ar,vard.

One of the Weyerhaeuser Forest Products groupr Wood Conversion Company has its general offices at Saint Paul, Minnesota, with plants at Cloquet, Minnesota. In addition to the new Denver offrce, the company maintains district sales offices at Chicago, New York and Saint Paul.

Medlord Corporcrtion Starts Up

Nledford Corporation started operation of its big mill April 15 after a shutdorvn of 30 days for general repairs. Thev expect to produce 7O million feet of lumber in 1948, Douglas fir, Ponderosa pine, Sugar pine, and white fir.

Russell J. Hogue is sales manager for Medford Corporation, and R. L. Nutting is general manager.