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Letters

From A Long-Time Reqder

The California Lumber Merchant Gentlemen:

Many thanks for publishing the obituary and tribute to Alfred J. Little. I know that it will be read and appreciated by hurtdreds of his friends.

My kind regards to Jack Dionne, an old family friend of over 55 years standing. I knew Jack when I was a school boy and he was a red-headed reporter for the Marinette (Wisconsin) Star.-

Edgar B. Culnan, Chula, Vista, Calif.

Breakfost to Honor

Arr Hood

A specially planned "Workshop Breakfast" honoring Art Hood has been scheduted for all his "graduates" during the LASC Convention in Long Beach. It will be held Thursday, May 10, 8:00 a.m.. in the Red Velvet Room, Lafayette Hotel, Long Beach. A big crowd is anticipated.

LASC Show io Include Show lmprovement Progrom

Many lumber dealers are currently involved in, or about to become involved in, remodel, repair and kitchen programs. The CHIP National organization, (Comprehensive Home Improvsrnent Plan) which is now in the proces's of setting uP franchise arrangement.s f or retail lumber dealers in the rapidly expanding home improvement field, will sponso,r an importan,t Panel on this subject, Wednesday morning, May 9th, 9 to 1l:30 a.m. in the Cameo Room of the Lafayette Hotel, l-,ong Beach, at the Lumb,ermen's 45th Annual Convenition and Trade Show.

The CHIP National Franchise Plan is designed as a comPlete package, bringing pricing, rnanagement, advertising and selling techniques to the lumber dealers a,s well as providing all the necessary forms, Promotion material and selling equriPment needed to se t up a comPle,te home improvement dePartment.

Display booths designated A, B, C and D bv CHIP will also be included at the three day sh,ow.

New Drcfstop filogic'Seol Threshold To Be Introduced By The Roberts Co.

Claimed as "the first break-through in threshold design ,in years," this addition to the DRAFSTOP line of weatherproofing products 'combines a handsome threshold and automatic door bottom in one easy-toins,tall unit. According to Lowell E. Johnson, Director of Marke'ting of The ROBERTS Co., City of Industry, Calif., the Magic-Seal Threshold has been consumer-tested for almost two years with actual installations in more than 1500 homes.

(36" All-Purpose) $4.15; No. D'501 (32' AllPurpose) $3.98; No. D-502 (36" Hi-Carpet) $4.60 per unit.

Further information on DRAFSTOP Magic-Seal Thr.eshold is available from The ROBERTS Co., 600 N. Baldwin Park Blvd., City of Industry, Calif.

Douglos Fir Use Book

A new revised and expanded edition of the award-winning Douglas Fir Use Book is off the presses, reports the West Coast Lumbermen's Association.

This 1961 edition contains 326 pages, with addition of new chapters on HyperbolicParaboloid Shells and Wood Tanks and Pipe, states T. K. May, WCLA's technical director.

Some revisions have been made to bring the 1958 edition of the big, green-covered volume entirely up to date, such as a change in allowable loads for timber connectors.

Its structural data and design tables are invaluable for practical use by architects, engineers and students, May points out.

The Douglas Fir Use Book won the 1959 Certificate of Exceptional Merit in competi- tion sponsored by the American Institute of Architects and Producers' Council, Inc.

units with all necessary parts.

Informatiorn on availabili,ty and distribution of F'ence-Lifters may be obtained from The IVlaryland Company, P.O. Box 284, Hyattsville. Md.

PATCO Announces New Addirion to Sales Stoff

Tom Hinckley has joined Palco's eastern sales staff, it has been announced by Larry H. Sabey, Eastern Sales Man.ager.

Following several weeks orientation in the Chicago Sales office and a tour of The Pacific Lumber Company mills in California, Hinckley is now working with Palco wholesalers in sales of redwood, fir lumber and fir plywood products in the northern territory.

Hinckley had a year of mill experience and almost six years in eastern sales with Weyerhaeuser before joining Palco. Prior to that he had worked in his parents' lumber yard in Massachusetts.

The Threshold features a patented lif,t-bar with a vinyl bulb seal. Simple lever action raises the lift-bar automatically when the door is closed to seal out drafts. moisture. wind and sand. As the door opens, the bar' retracts flush to the threshold. In addition to its weatherproofing qualities, the Magic-Seal Threshold prevents the loss of heat and air-conditioning cooling. Because the new Thr,eshold does not require removal or alteration of existing doo,rs, it is a real boon to do-it-yourselfers and remodelers. It is a timeand-labor saver on new construction.

The Magic-Seal Threshold will be individually packaged in see-through poly envelopes, punch-holed at the top, to permit effective display on pegboards and walls. Colorful display cartons hold l0 Threshold units. The top of the carton can be lifted to expose the Thresholds and create an eye-catching, selfservice display f or t,raffic areas. Free merchandising aids are available to re,tailers. Available in both 32" and 35" lengths, the Magic-Seal Threshold is offered in two styles: ALL-PURPOSE for use when installed to wood, linoleum-covered or medium-pile carpeted floors and HI-CARPET for use when installed to floors covered with deep-pile carpeting.

Suggested retail prices for th,e DRAFSTOP Magic-Seal Threshold are: Item No. D-500

WCLA's technical staff prepared the volume under guidance of a committee rep- resenting architects, structural engineers, lumber manufacturers, timber fabricators and wood preservers.

The cloth, 811 x ll-inch book is available at $5 ,prepaid from West Coast Lumbermen's Association, 1410 S.W. Morrison Street, Portland 5, Oregon.

For owners of the 1958 edition. a seDarate corrtaining the principal revision and the trvo new chapters will be available at no charg:, early in 1962 on request sent to WCLA.

Lqwn Trimming Mode Easy

Lawn trimming at the base of chain link fenc'es need not be a bothe.rsome, backstraining t'ask, thanks to a new product by The Marylan'd Company of Hyat,tsville. Called a "Fence-Lifter," the device is installed quickly with no special tools and is inconspicuous in appearance.

Once installed, the fencing can be raised t,o a height providing clearance for lawn mowers, wheel barrows and similar equipment. The woven fence fabric is attached to an aluminum st,rip which slides up and down an aluminum track secured to .the fence oast, For the average residence, only one sit of Fence-Lifters is needed for each straight run of chain link f encing. Each se,t retails f or approximately $14 and contains two complete

He graduated from Tabor Academy, Marion, Mass,achusetts in 1951, and then served in the U. S. Marine Corps for three years. He lives with his wife and family in Indiana, Pennsylvania. Hinckley will assist Harold Royer, northeastern sales manager, in covering Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, the New England states, and eastern Canada.

Hodgson's to Distribute lnsulite

D. N. Hodgson, president of Hodgson's Building Materials, 1395 Cazad,ero, San Luis Obispo, Calif., has announced the appointment of his firm as a wholesale distributor of "Insulite" building, decorating and insulation products. Addition of the complete Insulite line, he stated, was in keeping with the policy of his company to expand its sales and merchandising service among building material dealers of the area.

Estabished in 1958, the Hodgson firm operates exclusively as a wholesaler in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties. The concern operates a warehouse with 11,000 sq. ft. of storage capacity on Edna road and maintains several large trucks for prompt delivery service to all parts of the trade territory. In addition to D. N. Hodgson, officers of the company are Mrs. M. E. Hodgson, vice president, and J. W. Hodgson, secretary.

Hodgson reported the company is now handling the complete line of Insulite products including Primed Siding, Roof Deck, sheathing, acoustical and decorative tileboard, hardboard and Fiberglas insulating woo1.

Nqlion's Lorgest

The nation's largest plywood manufac' turer, Portland-headquartered Georgia-Pacific Corp., has been revealed in another key role-the nation's largest lumber exporter as well.

The company, which also is a major supplier of domestic lumber in all parts of the U.S., has been quietly building its export business for many years and reached a peak of 150,000,000 board feet in 1960, it has been reported.

Julian N. Cheatham, G-P's vice president in charge of lumber sales and export, said company agents now are selling U.S. lumber world-wide for G-P in over 40 foreign centers.

The huge volume is mostly fir and redrl'ood lumber from the West Coast, yellow pine and hardwood lumber from the South and hardwood lumber from the Appalachian region, plus specialties such as hickory ski blanks for Europe, dogwood and persimmon shuttle blanks to several textile producing countries, hickroy "picker sticks" (also used orr textile machines) for England and India, plus thousands of ash baseball bat blanks to Japan, Cheatham indicated.

Major export offices now maintained by Ci-P are in Portland for the West Coast. New York for the East Coast and Atlanta for the South.

The big volume of lumber exports does not include sales to the U.S. government for use overseas "since we do not count this as a bona fide export," Cheatham explained.

NUYfA Grqnt Estoblishes Groduste Fellowship Timber Engineering

A giaduate fellowship in tin-rber engineering has been establi,shed in the University of California's Depar,tment of Civil Engineering through a grant from the National Lumber Manufacturers Association.

The granrt was announced by Dr. Nicholas V. Poletika, member of the NLMA Special Committee on Technical Studies and vice president of research at the Union Lumber Company, Fort B,ragg, California.

E,stablished under the National Wood Promotion Prograrn of NLMA, the $3,000 fel- 'lowship is intended to encourage an interest in timber engineering both as a major topic for graduate srtudy and as an attractive career field.

"We also hope the fellowship will cncourage greater irrterest in timber engineering among the students and faculty," Dr. Poletika said, "and that it rvill encourage the wood industry to become bertter acquainted wi'th the work of the Departmen.t of Civil E,ngineering."

The holder of 'the fellowship, to be selected from among qualified engineering students, will conduct advance<l s'tudies in the field of timber engineering leacling to a Masrter's or Ph.D. degree.

At ,the U.C. Berkley campus, receipt of the NLMA gran,t was acknowledged "with very deep gratitude" by Professor Howartl D. Eberhart, Chairman of the Department of Civil Engin,eering, and Dr. Fred E. Dickinson, Director of the University's Forest Products Laboratory.

According to Professor T. Y. Lin, research in timber engineering already forms an impontant p'a,r't of the p,rogram of the Structural Engineering Materials Labo,ratory and the Division of Struc'tural Engineering and Structural Mechanics at Berkeley.

Professor Lin, as head of both the Lahoratory and the Division, will supervise the graduate study program for the holder of the NLMA timber engineering fellowship.

OPPORTUNITY lN TltlEER-A groduale fellowrhip in timber engineering hos been estoblirhed in the University of Colifornic'r Depa?tment of Civil Engineering lhrough o gront from the Notionol Lumber l/lonufoclurers Associolion.. Here Profesror Howord D. Ebarhorr, Choirmon of the Deportmcnt of Civil Engineering on lhe Berkeley compu3 (second from leff) receives the fellowship check fro:n Dr. Nicholos V. Poleriko. member of rhe Nlf,lA Specicl Committae on feclnicql Srudies qnd vice president of reseorch ol ihe Union lumber Compony, Forl Brogg, Colif. Looking on ore Dr. Fred E, Dickinson, Director of lha U.C. Forest Products loborotory or Richnond (left) ond Professor T. Y, [in, Director of dre Structurcl Engineering Mcieriols Loborolory qt Berkeley.

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First shipments were made todav from lire nation's most highly automatcd cement nranufacturing plant.

The $15,000,000 installation approximately tt'n nriles north of Redding is operated by Calaveras Cement Company, a division of 1l'he l.'lintkote Company. It is northern Califolrria's first new cement manufacturirrg plant in nearly a quarter of a century.

The first ra.il ,car of bulk cement to leave the new plant went to Wildish Sand & Gravel in Eugene, Oregon. Three Redding tran,s'it mix companies drew lots for the first truck load of bulk cement. the shinnrent finally go,ing to Elledge & Davis Ready tr{ix Concrete. The first truck load of sack cement was shipped to Diamond National Corporation in Chico.

Civic leaders and company officials participated in brief ceremonies on the loadine rlocks. They included James Herbert, director of ,the Shasta County Planning Co,n-rmission; Jack Reiser, president of the Reddine Clramber of Commerce: Phillip Perrin, president of the Shasta Dam Area Charnber of Commerce; Wm. Wallace Mein, Jr., presiclent of Calaveras Cemen,t Company and a director of The Flin,tkote Conrpany; and Mel I. London, Calaveras vice-president in charge of markerting.

Mein saicl the electronic instruments which control mos,t plant processes are so sensitive and accurate 'that they are revolutionizing quality standards of the cenrent industry.

The Calaveras plant, with a production capacitl' of 1,500,000 barrels of cemen,t a year, will operate wi,th a normal comolement of 85 nren. On week-en<ls it will iun with a crew of five.

Phoenix Mon to Hesd New Forest Industries Group

James M. Boyd, vic.e president, Southwest Forest Industries, Inc., Phoenix, has been appointed chairm.an of the newly organ,ized Arizona Forest Industries Committee. acco,rding to an announ,cement by James D. Bronson, president, American Forest Products Industries, Inc., Washington, D. C.

Royd will serve on AFPI's National Coun- cil during the coming year representing Arizona's fore'st indus'try, along with other sitate chairmen and industry leaders from all over the nation.

Also named in the announcement as members of the statewide groups with additional duties were Mrs. George H. Nagel, Nagel Lumber & Timber Co., Winslow, chairman of a women's affairs subcommittee; L. P. Dunford, Southwes,t Forest Industries, Inc., Flagstaff, chairman, We,stern Pine Association forest practice committee; Aram Mardian, Glen-Mar Door Manufacturing Co., Phoenix, chairman of a w'ildlife and recreation subcommittee; Ralph Ililby, Babbitt Bros., Flagstaff, chairman of the educa,tion subconlnittee; and Jay Whiting, Kaibab Lumber Co., Flagstaff, chairman of the public relations advisory committee.

Others on the statewide comnrittee include Jay O'Malley, O'Malley Lumber Co., Phoenix; J. Knox Corbett, J. Knox Corbet,t Lumber Co., Tucson; Charles Mann, Arizona Sash Door & Glass, Phoenix; Bob Carlock, John II. Page Land Co., Phoenix; Wilfred Shurnrvay, Whiting Brothers, St. Johns; Harold Britt, Foxgal, Inc., Phoenix; L. D. Porter, Western Lumber & Moulding Co., Heber; Les Holmes, Navajo Forest Products Industries, Ft. Defiance; Charles Ray, Ray Lumber Co., Phoenix; and A. Louis Peterson, Peterson Lumber Co., Prescott.

Among other projects which the commi,ttee has undertaken are assistance to 4-H forestry, Boy Scout forestry programs, and multiple-use management of commercial forest acreages in Arizona. As a result of the M.arch 27 organizational meerting, Arizona became the 39th wood-producing state to join in the nationwide forest industry education and information program.

Simpson Timber Compony Nqmes

C. Henry Bqcon' Jr., President

Directors of Simpson Timber Company have announced the election of C. Henry Bacon, Jr. as president succeedng Thos. F. Gleed who has served as chief executive of the firm since 1951.

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Gleed left the presidency of the SeattleFirst National Bank a decade ago to become president of Sirnpson. He continues to serve as a director of Simpson and of numerous regional and national financial and industrial companies.

During the decade of his leadership, Sinrpson increased from operations in {our communities to 12; ex'panded from nine production plants to 20, and its payrolls grew from 2,5@' to 5,500 employees.

Simpson Timber Contpany today has over 500,000 acres ttnder pernlanelrt forest management and serves national market with lumber, plywood, doors, insulating board, hardboard, acoustical products and wood tarrks and pipe.

C. HENRY BACON, JR.

Chairman W. G. Reed said the promotion of Bacon from executive vice president, a position he has held since 1958, became effective foltowing a meeting of Simpson directors in Seattle on March 6. Gleed has accepted a new responsibility in Simpson management as chairman of the finance committee.

Bacon has been in executive capacities with Simpson since 1945 and ,is past president of the Douglas Fir Plywood Assn.; former vice-president of West Coast Lumbermens Assn.; and has been a director of the National Lumber Manufacturers Assn.

Pocific Wood Products Compcny hos onnounced lhe appointnent of Edword J. Beoumont qs Vice Presidenl-Finonce"

During the post six monlhs Beoumont hqs served PWP in on odvisory copccity. ond now ioins monogemenl to direci lhe conpcny's finonciol oclivities ond cordinote rhem wirh those of its foreign and domestic qf,iliotes.

Prior to ioining PWP, he heoded his own mqnogement consulting firm, ond is o Director of the Nctionsl Associotion of Accounlonls, post President ond present Inf€rnolionol Director of fhe Systems ond Procedures Associolion.

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Redwood is Personql Ghoice of Architects

The California Redwood Association. in preparing the current edition of REDWOOD HOMES, found, as in the past, that many architects were using redwood in homes designed for their own families. Of those who answered the questionnaire seeking information for the new edition of the booklet, 890 <lesigned their own home, and 647, or 73 per cent, used redwood.

More redwood, proportionately, was used by architects of the Pacific Coast states. Eighty- six per cent of the architects replyinglrom Washington, Oregon, California, Hawiii and Alaska used redwood in their own homes. This is not surprising, of course, because redwood is native to the Coast-but 78 per cent of the architects replying from the Lake states also used redwood f or their family home. Apparently, architects find redwood equally suitable for homes in sunny Califor_ nia and the contrasting climate of the Lake states.

The smallest proportion of redwood users were in the Southern states, where architects naturally make use of native pine species. But even here, more than half of the respondents said redwood found a place in their iromes.

Of the 2,380 architects who answered the questionnaire, 1,924 sajd. they would use red_ rvood in a future home. Another 139. who specifically noted that they had not used redtvood in their current home. said thev would use it in the future.

The architects said they used the redwood as siding, interior paneling, beams and trim. They used it for contemporary design in nell, homes, and for remodeling houses originally built as long ago as 1834. Manv of their aoplications of redwood are shown in the bool- let. You may obtain your free copy of REDWOOD HOMES by writing California Redwood Association, Dept. RH-2, 576 Sacramento Street, San Francisco 11, California.

Although the architects thought of redwood first as a material for homes-"I use redwood on all residences," said a Milwaukee architect -they also used it for their offices. More than a third of those who reported that they designed their own offices used redwood. In the far western states, 59 per cent of the architects replying had redwood offices. One used the new Redwood Acoustical Datterns to good effect.

Although modern technology is constantly developing new building materials, and architects find many uses for them, they still pre- fer the natural materials-wood and stonefor their own homes. Redwood is a distinctive and durable building material, offering a wide range of effects which appeal to an architect when he is most free to design the way he wants-when he is designing his own home.

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Hqrdwood Associqtion

Dr. Donald H. Clark, of Seattle. was named manager of the Northrvest Hardwood Association by its Board of Directors, at its semi-annual meeting, April 6th at the Marion Hotel, in Salem, Oregon.

It was Dr. Clark, who called the orieinal meeting of a group of men interested in hlrd_ woods together in 1955, while he was Director of the Institute of Forest products at the University of Washington. He acted as temporary chairman of the group until they were organized, and later incorporated iir Sept., 1955, by the state of Washington. He has served as consultant to the gro*up since that time. In 1959, he was given a citation