Lo, (0.. Lr* Lettetrs

Mr. David Cutler

California Lumber Merchant

Dear Dave:

You have scored again with your consistently fine issues of the Lumber Merchant.

I am referring at this time to the March publication which again had some excellent stories on familiar groups out on the West Coast.

Perhaps my enthusiasm for CLM is based on the fact that I can pick it up on any occasion and see pictures of my old associates in California and the Pacific Northwest.

Sincerely, Bernard C. Hartung

National Wood Promotion Committee

Washington, D. C.

California Lumber Merchant

Dear Sir,

One would gather from reading the article on page 16 of your April issue that the financial guaranteeing of lumber grades is something new.

Your readers may be interested to know, as we are confident many of them do, that "this most significant action ever taken by the lumber industry" took place over s half century ago, and it was taken by the National Hardwood Lumber Association.

During that time the association has provided financial assurance to members and nonmembers alike that the hardwoods they purchase or sell under National certificate will be up to grade. The guarantee is backed by a special cash resenre of $100,000.

Over the years the plan has worked with a high degee of success and under it no grade marking of the lumber is required. Last year our staff of over a hundred inspectors gtaded 286 million feet of hardwoods.

The regulations covering the ffnancial guaranteeing of hardwood lumber will be gladly sent to any interested party or organizetion, and we will be happy to give the benefit of our experience in the administration of the plan at any time.

Very truly yours,

M. B. Pendleton Secretary-Manager National Ilardwood Lumber Association

59 East Van Buren Street Chicago, Illinois 60606

Our a.pologies n NHLA, we were quoting the Western Wood, P roducts A ssociatinn.---E dinr.

Dear Sirs:

'Please accept our wa,nnest appreciation for the very fine eoverage you gave our association's Ninth Annual Convention at Scottsdale, Arizona.

I'his excellent reporting job -which you seem to 'take in stridet each year as routinewas of material help to us a,nd the imported hardwood plryood industry.

Again, ttranks.

Cordially,

Glo,rdon D. Ingraham Dxecutive SecretaryImportcd Hardwood Plywood Association, San Francisco.

Dear Ole:

As I promised, after my visit to the Burnieboard Mills in Burnie, Tasmania and Ipswick, and Queensland, I will offer a few observations.

Tasmania to the south of Australia and its smallest state is a beautiful place. It is reminiscent of old England and is awakening from letharry and coming alive, for Burnie Board Associated Paper alone has invested over $10 million in Northern Tasmanian industrT with its hardboard and paper mills in Burney and a newly expanded particleboard plant near Devanpoft, Tasmania. The westem coast of Tasmania is rugged bush country filled with rich deposits of zinc, iron, gold and copper. Only last year a road was completed through the northwesterzr mining regions. It took us six hours to go L25 miles through wallaby and kangaroo bush country.

About 180 miles further south is New Norfold, strictly English-oriented with bowling clubs complete with white pants, shoes and dark blue blazers, ties and hats in the noonday sun. Hobart is the real commercial seaport center of the state and is reminiscent of Laguna Beach in its residential areas, with a huge harbor.

From Melbourne to Brisbane we found a range from San Francisco climate in the south to Phoenix weather in the north. Sydney is like Las Vegas (complete with legal slot machines), Balboa and Los A.ngeles wrapped into one. Its population is two and one-half million and from the air its water playground area reveals what seems like half that many sailboats.

The entire population of Australia is roughly that of California. firese people are aggres- sive, fully employed, smart, progressive and mighty proud to have America^ns for friends and associates.

They need to sell to us in order to buy our products. Ttris week alone, TAA, the national-

CAIIFOnNIA LUIIBER 'TiERCHA}{T

owned airline bought six Doug- las DC-9s with Ansett-ANA, the private airling already on Douglas' books for two DC-9s with option on four more. We have to sell a lot of Burniewood Hardboard and yuba hardwood to offset 25 million dollars worth of southern California aircraft orders.

Jack Millikan

Vance Lumber Company

Los Angeles, but now in Melbourae, Australia

Dear Ole, ihe tax relief which has been forthcoming over the Past two years seems to have been directed toward manufacturing companies who have equiPment to write off and Plants to modernize. For small distributing companies with no caPitel equipment there has been no tax relief whatsoever.

The Small Business Administration has been helPful in financing problems for smaller business, but actuallY what is needed is help in allowing them to retain a better share of their earnings over tlte imPortant growth period so they may increase sales by carrying constantly growing inventories.

As an example, I am Personally interested in a small company that had Phenomenal growth over a period of three years. They started with five :mployees and within threeYears now employ thirty people witlt an annual payroll of over a quarter million dollars. However, after paying 6% CotllrrtY lnventor? Tax, 6tk% State Income Tax, and 60% Federal Income Tax, they find themselves absolutely st5rmied in further growth due to lack of capital.

I ask what can be done to solve this serious problemwhich prevents so many fine Progressive small companies from expanding and by doing so exPand our economy? My own idea would be to limit the income tax on these companies to 26y'o of the first $100,000 earnings. Cordially yours,

Leroy H. Stanton

E. J. Stanton & Sons, Inc. Los Angeles, California

Dear Sirs:

I have hung on so long' I iust can't let go eveD though there is little of interest to this 77 yeat old retired lumberman. I have been with you since the first issue in 1922.

The bumper sticker on my car reads, PLEASD, UNCLE SAM, I'D RATHER, DO IT MYSELF.

Tell Jack Dionne I said "hello." f have known him for 60 years.

Edgar B. Culnan Chula Vista, California

Plywood and Door Co. has Phenomenal First Year Growth

Trim-Rite Plywood & Door, Inc., in Sun Valley, Calif., is just a little over one year old and yet has experienced phenomenal growth. Their net worth has more than doubled and they presently have a backlog of sigrred contracts for the next four months.

But Cecil R. Bell, the president, is not one to sit back and be satisfied. He has his sights set for bigger horizons and re. veals that the warehouse and mill facility will be doubled in the next 30 days.

ooWe offer the builder frames, jambs, doors, finish lumber and mouldines of all types, plywood, paneling, wardrobe units and finish hardwarg" said Bell. o'And we are geared to furnish these materials in unlimited amounts for one to 100 houses and for apartncent unitsr" he continued. They also furnish installation labor and moving of materials direct to job-sites.

According to Bell, at Trim-Rite crews are equipped with the latest time-saving equipment and on many jobs these crews have cut the expected finish carpentry time in half. Every motion is highly organized and rigidly controlled from start to finish. This includes detailed cost accountins.

In addition to Bell are Lois N. Bell, vice president; Robert T. Benson, secretary; Delores Benson, treasurer and Ralph Jenkins, general superintendent, At present two shifts are operating in the 6000 plant and increased production is confidently expected.

Long-time building materials salesmen Al Sizemore and Al Niemeyer handle outside contracts.

Yes, there is gold in California and it's not all yellow. It is knowing what and how you want to do-then doing it.

This is what Cecil Bell says he and his associates have been doing this past year and look forward to doing for 20 years.

Ponderosq & 5u9or Pine

Douglos Fir Whilc Fir

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P. O. BOX I t72, EUGENE, OREGON PHONE: 345-0328

Cece Wingard Harolil Houser

SPECIATIZING IN INDUSTRIAI CRATING MATERIATS

Qrnot'll/nohrn -t**[n, Corporotion, 8713 Glelq Street- Downey, Colifornio LCt & Direct Mill Shipmenls

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Old Growrh Redwood, Shorts P. E. T. Green Commons, Dry Uppers ac R lumber Co.

Gustom Milling Industtiol Cul Stock

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COMPTETE CUSTOM MILTING lorge Timbers and Wide Sizes

Our Speciolty

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Cloverdale TWinbrook +2248

Simmons Anniversary

(Continued lrom, Page 38) sales manager; and Art Meehan, comptroller. They have a stafi with more than 500-man-years of experience in sales and distribution, many of them having been with Simmons since the company was formed.

Bill Deuel is the superintendent and keeps the action humming in the operations department. He runs production, remanufacturing and shipping. He heads 25 employees in the plant, including truck drivers.

The well-versed sales stafi includes Floyd Beaty, Marshall Jackson, Louie Kunert,

George McManus and Tom Reifer. These lumber experts have a large inventory in back of them of more than three million feet ready for immediate delivery. And in addition, Simmons stock large quantities of industrial clears and old growth Douglas fir.

Aaarketing Area

They blanket Santa Barbara and Ventura counties on the north, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties on the south. At Simmons, customer seryice is paramount and "nothing but the best" is shipped-so you can say everybody is a salesman. A full roster of Pacific Coast hardwoods. manufactured bv

Ross-Simmons mills at Longview, W'ashington are also on hand and ready for either fast delivery or pickup.

In the general office are Dorothy Simons, Betts Goodfellow, Dorothy Hagerman and Ida Walden. That old saying "there is no substitute for experience" surely applies here. All of these efficient ladies have been in the lumber business throughout their careers and they average better than I0 years with this firm. In fact, Dorothy Simons, is presently in her 14th year with the organization.

Sid Simmons is truly a long-timer in the lumber business. He arrived in the United States from England in 1922 where he had served his apprenticeship at the mill level. Immediately upon arrival in the U. S. he decided he would continue in tle wood products field. He was born to the lumber business and his progress has been steady and sure. He has been in no other all of his life.

Edwin Knight Retires

Edwin Knight, manager of the Western I[ood Products Association laboratory in Portland, Ore., has retired following 2l years of service to the western lumber industry.

He will be succeeded by Byron Foreman, who has Lreen assistant manager,

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AFPI Appointmenl

James G. Robinson, formerly assistant to the president of the Colorado School of Mines at Golden, Colo., has been appointed editorial director of the American Forest Products Industries, Inc., the forestry public relations agency of the nation's forest products industry.

In announcing the appointment, C. A. Gillett, manager director of AFPI, said Robinson will be responsible for public information campaigns connected with the firm's national programs such as Keep America Green and the American Tree Farm System. The firm has a field force

DIRECT of 14 men who work with forest industrv companies in all states to keep the pubHt abreast of forestry developments and forest industry progress.

IHPA Membership

The Imported Hardwood Plywood Association reports that one new associate member has joined and a former associate member has become a regular member.

T. B. Roach, Jr., president of Metropolitan Stevedore Company of Wilmington, California, is the new associate member.

Jack Baser, Baser & Company of Los Angeles, is the new regular member.

"when you need lumber, iust coll our number"

GIISSIFIED AlUERTlSlllGPosition Wanted $2.fl) per line, minimum $4.50. All ofter $3.00 per linq minimum $6.00. Two lines of address (your address or our box number) count as one line. Clming date for copy is 20th.

Position Wanted

Classified Advertisements

EXPERIENCED WIIOLESALE LUMBERMAN with well-rounded background of over 20 years in buying, selling, coordinating and management. Seeks permanent, challenging position in So. Calif. kcellent mill conections in Redwood. Well-known throughout the trade and have definite following in So. Calif. Write Box 173.

EXPERIENCED MANAGER. for Retail or 'Wholesale Lumber, Building Materials, Hardware & Paints. Resume & interview on request. Write Box 174.

MANAGER, Assistant Manager, Do-It-Yourself Expert, Counterman, with 30 years experience. Consider outside sales oi' yard superintendent. Resum6 on request. Write Box 178, or call collect 328-8639 (L.A.) after 6:00 p.m.

Heip Wanted

BUILDING MATERIAI,SI SALES flames of Advertisers in this l]epartment using a 8c Number cannot be released. All replies should be * dressed to box shown in the ad c/o Califomia Lutnbcf Merchant, 412 W. Sixth St., Los Angeles, Calif. 9001{.

Evans'growing "Action Line" of building materials is expanding into new territories in many parts of the United States. Additional openingg also exist in many of our established distribution centers.

'We seek men with prior successful building materials sales experience to dealers or jobbers who wish to increase their earnings as a direct result of their sales efforts. 'We prefer men aged 26-40 with minimum two years college, but every resume will receive careful consideration and a prompt reply.

Please write M. B. Shattuck, Evans Products Company, P.O. Box 3295, Portland, Oregon. An Equal Opportunity Ernployer.

EXPERIENCED YARD FOREMAN for long-established yard catering to industrial and small builder trade. Salary open. Contact South City Lumber & Supply, P.O. Box 349, South San Francisco or call (416) 658-5?11.

MANUFAC,TURER'S REPRDSENTATIVES WANTED !

Manufacturer of Sanspray pre-finished plywood panels. fire perfect pre-finished exterior siding. Pre-coated with life-time epoxy and textured with aggregate. NEVER NEEIDS PAINTING! NO MAINTDNANCE! Representative must now call on wholesale lumber and plywood trades. Reply to: Mr. Robert Schmitz, General Manager, Ifodges Chemicals Company, 778 Burlway Road, Burlingame, California.

EXP.ANDING WOOD PRESDRVING COMPANY has excellent opening for plant foreman. Irccated in Central Celifornia. Ideal climate and tiving conditions. Ifospitalization benefits paid by employer. Salary open. Applicant must have experience in supervising personnel. All replies held in strict confidence. Write Box 1?7, g'iving all qualifications in first letter.

BAY AREA SALESMAN wanted by progressive new wholesale lumber concern with controlled production as well as leading connections in all species. Prefer man with some knowledge of retail lumber trade in Bay Area, but overall ability is our main concern. All replies confidential. IV'rite Box 1?6.

ASSISTANT SALES MANAGEB for Northern California producer of ?0 million of Pine, White and Douglas Fir annually. National distribution. Good starting salary for qualified person. Submit eomplete resume in confidence and will arrange interrriew. Paul Bunyan Lumber Co., ,P.O. Drawer 487, Anderson, Calif.

WEOLESALE LUMBER EXPERIENCEprefer rnan with Eastern & industrial accounts experience. Large, well-established Northern California operation. Opportunity for aggressive man. Send full nesume. Our employees advised of this ad. P.O. Box 8685, Sacramento, Calif. 95822.

RELIABLE MILL CONNECIION preferably in S'ugar Pine a^r'ea wanted by established San Diego County wholesale lumber ya"rd. Can move softwoods in volume. Write Box 1?0.

LUMBER YARD MANAGER-Experienced man to age 45. Give resume and experience in first letter. Northern California location All answers confidential. Write Box 160.

SALESMAN to cover San Bernardino County for aggressive building materials distributor, wholesale only. \Mrite B,ox 527, Colton' California.

Business Opportunities

FOR SALE: FULLEIRTON LUMBER COIIIPANY flardware store, office & warehouse 9397 sq. fL $18,000

Trucks: 1k-ton'49 Ghev. & '63 Gtrev. pickup.-.- S 2,600 Mill, rip cutof planer & jointer.-..-.. $ 1,600

Fixtures & ofrce equipment, Orco warehouse membership $ 8,800

TO(IAI PRIqE... $26,000

Contact Richard Nelson, Buena Park Lumber Co., 6686 Beach Blvd., Buena Park, 'Calif., Phone LA 2-28U.

FOR LEIASE: 50,000 sq. ft. M-1, 188th & Pioneer Blvd., Artcsia, Calif. 7,000 sq. ft. modern bldg., r!13 ft. frontage plus RR trackage. $750 per month. Call Mr. McDaniel at AXminister 3-4114 (L.A.)

FOR SALE: Lumber yard and building materials store near Sacramento. Sales over a million last year. For details, write Box 176.

Exclusive Franchise

Amazing new plastic coating used on all types of surfaces interior or exterioi. Eliminates waxing when applied on Asphalt Tile, Vinyl, Linoleum, Vinyl Asbestos, Hardwood and Furniture. Completely eliminates painting when apdied to Wood, Metal or Concrete surfaces. This finish is alm recomm'ehded for boats and automobiles.

No Competition

As these are exclusive formulas in demand by all businesses, industry and homes. No franchise fee. Minimum investment-$3fi). Maximum investment-$7,000. Investment is secured by inventory. Factory trained personnel will help you set up your business.

For comptete dctails and descriptive literature write

CHEM-PLASTICS & PAINT CORP. 1828 Locust St., St. Louis 3, Missouri

Equipment For Saie

FOR SALE: 1951 Mack truck and trailer. Encellent condition 10-12 ton capacity, ten wheel. Sacriffce $1,500. Call 263-6138 (L..{u}

Services Offered

JOIINNY THE LUMBEB LOAD SIGN PRINIEB

Specializing in paper danger flags, side-load signs, job cards, etc. John \Meilet's kinting 14417 Hawthorne Blvd., Lawndale, Calif. Phone (213 ) 67 6-7622 ot 67 6-2W3.

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