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Portland, Oregon-After a slow start, hampered by a log shortage caused, strangely, by last summer's severe drouth and this winter's deep pnows, the Douglas fir industry appears to be hitting its full stride.

Production for the first quarter of the year stands at 2.516 billion board feet, according to Harris E. Smith, secretary, West Coast Lumbermen's Association. This is only 110 million feet below first quarter record output of last year.

Smith reminded that the Douglas fir industry in 1951 had its greatest year. He said the demand for West Coast region's lumber was above normal years and shipments were holding close to orders.

The weekly average of West Coast Lumber production in Mar,ch was 2O7,492.000 b.f. or t10.8% of the 1947-1951 average. Orders averaged 192,018,000 b.f.; shipments 201,561,000 b.f. Weekly averages for February were: Production TO,170,000 b.f. (106.9% of the t947-I95I average); orders 193,923,000 b.f.; shipments 2OO,928,000 b.f.

Three months of 1952 cumulative production 2,516,038,000 b.f.; three months of 1951, 2,627,380,M b.f.; three months of 1950, 2,007,M3,000b.f.

Orders for three months of. 1952 breakdown as follows: Rail & Truck 1,719,573,0N b.f.; Domestic Cargo 503,873,000 b.{.; Export 158,868,000 b.f.; Local 121,806,000 b.f.

The industry' unfilled order file stood at 960,638,000 at the end of March, gross stocks at 1,028,349,000 b.f.

Lumber shipments of 498 mills reporting to the National Luinber Trade Barometer were 7.6 per cent above produc- tion for the week ending April 5, t952' In the same week new orders of these mills were 9.8 per cent above production. Unfilled orders of the reporting mills amounted to 43 per cent of stocks. For the reporting softwood mills, unfilled orders were equivalent to 24 days' production at the current rate, and gross stocks were equivalent to 52 days' production.

For the year-to-date, shipments of reporting identical mills were 5.9 per cent above production; orders were 7.7 per cent above production.

Compared to the average corresponding week of 19351939, production of reporting mills was 77.9 per cent above; shipments rvere 87.9 per cent above; orders were 87.3 per (Continued on Page 48)

To insure an abundant supply of timber for the generations to come, the lumber production of the C. D. Johnson Lumber Corporation is kept consistent with the growth of its forests.

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Manufiaclurer: PACIFIC COAS? tUI BER

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Van Nuys \(/holesale Concern

Represents Established \(/est Coast Mills

Ted Roy

Roy Forest Products Company, whose ad appears on another page in this issue, was established last May. Their offices are at 6310 Van Nuys Boulevard, Van Nuys. Their phone number is STate.5-1141.

This company represents established West Coast mills, specializing in tru,ck and trailer shipments from Oregon and Northern California. They handle Douglas fir, redwood, Ponderosa pine and a small amodnt of White fir. Eighty per cent of their volume is moved by truck and trailer, and the rest by rail.

Ted Roy, the owner, was born in Canada, where his father was in the lumber manufacturing business at Kirkland Lake, Ontario, cutting Spruce, Jackpine, White pine, Red pine, and Aspen. He attended Brandon lJniversity, Branclon, Manitoba, and rvhen his father was killed in an automobile accident his mother became president of the company and Ted was made vice president and manager. Most of their lumber was exported to Detroit. Buffa1o. and New York.

N{r. Roy served four years in World War II with the RCAF as flying officer. This included service in England.

Zoel "Zo" Bourdon, formerly owner of the Lankershim Lumber Co., North Hollwood, became associated with Roy Forest Produ,cts Companv as salesman in the latter part of March. He was in the retail lumber business lor 72 years. His father was in the retail lumber business in Santa Monica. "Zo" was born in Michigan and raised in Canada. This concern recently took on more office space when they added an executive office. This is finished in Baylaun Philippine Mahogany 16 inch panels, with U. S. Gypsum acoustical tile on the ceilings of both offices.

Building Products Dealer Data Book

Special exhibits featuring the Building Produ,cts Dealer Data Book will be displayed at the 1952 meetings of the Federated Associations, according to the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association.

The plan for the exhibits was first presented at NRLDA's board of directors meeting in Chicago last October by Russell W. Nowels. chairman of the Products Data Subcommittee, and with the board's approval the National has since prepared the displays. Each exhibit includes an actual Data Book and highlights typical pages so that dealers attending the meetings will be able to see exactly what sort of information the participating manufacturers have furnished and how the book can be used.

More than 3500 books have already been distributed to dealers, and the Federated Asso'ciations, through which the books are sold, anticipate an upswing in their orders as a result of this promotion at the meetings.

The purpose of the Data Book, the National points out, is to provide a much-needed service for retail lumber and building materials dealers by gathering under one cover all the basic information on the products they generally handle. Thus it can prove an invaluable counter-sales tool to the dealer and his salesmen.

The data sheets are provided by building products manufacturers throughout the country, with the stress on essential facts about the products. The book, NRLDA emDhasizes, is not an advertising manual.

Since the data sheets are assembled in an expansible binder, new pages can be added and manufacturers already represented in the book can bring old sheets up-to-date by furnishing substitute pages.

Regular mailings of supplementary pages are made through the Federated Associations. The second set of such sheets 'rvas distributed at the end of December, and it is expected that a third set will be made available within the next quarter as additional manufacturers enter the program.

Celebrcte 40th Wedding Anniverscry

W. W. Wilkinson, Los Angeles lumberman, and Mrs. Wilkinson, celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary at Honolulu on April D. They will also make a tour of the fslands, and will return on May 10. They are making the trip both r,vays by air.