The California Lumber Merchant - May 1953

THE DOOR DESIGNED FOR A fi,r"V/*

More than a quarter century ago, builders of French luxury liners demanded a door whose grace and beauty befitted the elegance of its surroundings. But the door must also withstand the rigors of the dampness, the constant stresses and the strains imposed upon a "sea-going" door. Rezothe ffrst hollow-core doorwas the answer to these exacting demands! Since then Rezo Doors have sailed the seas with such famous luxury ships as the Normandie, Ile de France and many others. Today, millions of them grace American homes, offices and other tytrles of buildings, providing the same beauty, the same no-warp, no-sag qualities of the door originally designed to go to sea on a luxury liner. PAINE

There's a knack to handling lumber in loadins r rail or truck

Trained Pope & Talbot men know how to do it, assuring our California customers perfect delivery conditions at local yards. Good handling is a "must" with us.

Shipments are speeded from our Oregon and California sources of supply it whatever way you specify -rail or truck. Your inquiries receive the attention they deserve. Call us I

Douglos

JERRY HUNTIEY Soles Monoger

Jerry is well known in Southern Colifornio ond the Boy Areo. He works with your Foirhurst soles representotive lo expedite your lumber orders from our mills in Norlhern Coliforniq.

Timbers qnd Plonk... cut to your specificcrtions

For timbers, plonk, industriol cuttings or dimension lumber . . . GUt to specific lengths ond sizes . . cqll us. We con fill your order prompfly by roil or truck-troiler.

THE CATIFOR).IIA

JackDiorne.

How Ltumber Lrooks

Lumber shipments of 494 mills reporting to the National Trade Barometer were 6.1 per cent above production for the u'eek ended April 25, 1953. In the same u'eek new orders of these mills were 4.2 per cent allol'e production. Unfilled orders of the reporting mills amounted to 46 per'cent of stocks. For the reporting softu'ood mills unfilled orders were equivalent to 25 days' production at the current rate, and gross stocks were equivalent to 53 days' production.

For the year-to-date, shipments of reporting identical vere 4.2 per cent above production; nes' orders s'ere 8.0 per cent above production.

Compared to the average corresponding n'eek in 19351939, production of reporting mills rvere 68.7 per cent above; shipments were 73.3 per cent above: ne\\' orders n'ere 71.1 per cent above. Compared to the corresponding rveek in 1952, production of reporting mills s'as 3.9 per cent above; shipments lvere 1'5 per cent above; and nerv orders rvere 3.2 Der cent above.

The Western Pine Association for the s'eek endetl April 25, ll} mills reporting, gave orders as 71'659,000 feet' s;hipments 77,956,Uil feet, and production 69'329.000 feet' Orders on hand at the end of the rveek totaled 256'061'000 feet.

The California Redrvood Association for the month of March, 1953 19 companies reporting, gave orders received as 57,960,000 feet, shipments 53,592,000 feet, and production (fi,627,0ffi feet. Orders on hand at the end of the month totaled 64.007.000 feet.

The Southern Pine Association for the rveek ended April 25, 105 units (134 mills) reporting, gave orders at 2L,@,000 feet, shipments 20,673,m feet, and production 2,%1,(Continued on Page 68)

'How Lumber looLs Vcgcbond Editorials

Fcrvorite Story

Grqduqtion Time Approcche* An Editorfurl

Redwood Region Logging Cogrress

Stabilizcrtion rmd Relcted Problems, by E G Pqter .. Tbe Second Mle, An Editoriql

Fun-Facts-Filoaopby

Merithew Roun& Out 50 Yeqs in luber Businegg

Prompt Delivery I| It Brealcs Our Bc.L.

Shastc-Ccsccrde Hoo-Hoo Cocatenctioa ..

Peoples Lumber Co. Expqads Retcil Store crt Venlurr 25 Yecrs Ago

Obitucnies

Iemon Grove Lunber Co. Moderaizes

STUDS, BOARDS, DIMENSION ]UMBER

PLANK, TITIBERS, RAITROAD TIES, INDUSTRIAL CUTTII{GS

DOUGIAjS HR, REDWOOD, PINE, WHITE FIR

Erclusive Solcs Rcp'rcscnnrilivcr In Southem Collfomb for: folrhurt Lumbcr Co. of Collfornlo

818 General Peroleum Bldg., Los Angeles 17,Calif. Harry lThiaemore, Gen. Mgt. ML 69ly- Telctypc 763

Glamourous Beauties from'Round the l{orld!

Whether you're looking for old stondbys, or exolic qnd unusuql woods, you'll find Dovidson Plywood hqs in stock the widesl selection of plywood producls for every use thot you con imogine. You'll find woods well known qnd unfomiliqr, from neor qnd from for-off londs, reosonobly priced or expensive qnd luxuiious. In oddition to the U.S.A., woods come lo us regulorly f rom Jopon, the Philippines, lloly, Germony, lhe French Congo, New Guineo, Conodo, qnd scores of other counfries.

Populor Beouties

Africon Mohogony

Philippine Mohogony

Birch

Wolnul

Rifr Oqk

l,ef us show you sorne of these exofic woods.

fesger Known rrQueen3tt

Primo Verq Africon Cherry

Sopeli

Avodire Khoyo Mocobq Iimbo ANGELES 23 o Angelus 3-6931 r ZEnith 693I HWY.) SAN DIEGO I o WOODCREST 3r92 FRANCTSCO 24 MtSStON 7-2132

Interest Rates IncreasetJ bv FHA and VA Credit Controls Removed

The government on Nlav 2 raised to 4l per cent the interest rates that may be charged on private home loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration and guaranteed b1' the Veterans Administration.

For the \tA. that \\'as a raise of tl prt cent; for the l.-}{A % per cent.

FHA also raised by I per cent to 4f cent the rnaximurn rate on loans it guarantees for large rental housing projects.

The FHA rates in each instance are in addition to a I per cent. charge nhi.ch goes into the agencl''s insurance iund. VA makes no corresponding charge.

Left unchanged at 4 per cent are the maximum rates on milita.ry, defense and co-operative hotrsing projccts. on n'hich the rates are fixed bv lalv.

The militarv housing projects are those erected b1' private builders under authority of the \\rherry -\ct.

The nerv rates u'ill have no effect on mortgages alreadv in effect, but may be applied to loan applications nol- in process rvhere the loan has not been actually made.

The higher FH-\ rates became effective on IIa-"* 2. Those of the VA n'ent into effect on I\Iav 5.

Bill Frese Organizes Own Wholesale Lumber Business in Sacramento

Bill Frese, one of the best knon'n men in the 'r'holesale lumber business in Northern California. rl-ho has had mauv vears of r.vholesale experience s'ith Tarter, \\'ebster & Johnson, Inc. and rvith Superior Lnrnber Sales Companl'. has organized Conifer Lumber Sales, to do a general s'holesale business in Sacramento, handling I'ine items primaril-r'.

Associated rvith Mr. Frese as partner is Frank \/. Amaral, of the Oregon Creek Lumber Co., Ilarysrille. California.

The neu' concern is located on Fulton Avenue. in the Ton'n and Country area of Sacramento. The telephone trumlrer is IVanhoe 7-2557. P. O. Box number is 385.

Herman West, par.r1', has joined ton.

formerlv rvith San the Lumber Carrier

Pedro Lumber ComService at \\'ilming-

\\'ashington, D.C.. April l&-Administrator Albert \I. Cole of the HHFA todal' announced the removal of the remaining credit controls on government-assisted prirate housing u'hich s'ere imposed in October l95O under anthorit-v of the Defense Production -{ct.

I\Iost of the controls s'ere eliminated in September 1952 at the same time Regulation \ rvas repealed. Reg. N applied to privately-financed housing. Horvever, a ferv of the controls rvere retained on government-assisted housing. and they rvere affected b-r' todal''s action. Thev are:

Federal Housing Administration. The onl-v remaining control on FHA-insured mortgages rvas on the maturitr of the mortgage. limiting the maturitl' a maximum of 30 vears. By removing that control. maturitv no\\' reverts to the statutory terms t'hich permit maximum maturities up to 25 and 30 vears. depending on the amount of the morigage loan.

Veterans -\dministration. \fr. Cole has adrised Administrator Carl R. Gral'. Jr.. of the Veterans Administration that the \-A is norr released of the follorving remaining controls:

l. Dorvn Payment. The requirement as to minimum dos'n pay, u'hich has been for homes priced at not more than $8.00O-.1/r of sales price or closing costs, s'hichevcr n'as less; betu'een $8,0m and $8.,100--4fr ; more than $8.400-s%.

2. I\Iaturitv. Under the controls. the maximum maturitv rl'as fixed at 2O 1'ears. except in hardship cases rrhere up to 30 vears l'as permitted.

\/A is nos' free of all controls imposed under the Defense Production Act and an1- actions taken thereunder. and loans mav therefore be made rvith the maximurn 30 vear maturit_v perrnitted b1- the Servicemen's Readjustrnent Act.

Ncmred Sales Mcrncrger

\V. L. Brauning. formerl-v sales manager for Sinrps,rn Logging Co., has been appointed sales manager of Eureka Redu'ood Lumber Companv at Eureka. Calif.. a subsisdiarr of I\I and ]I \\-ood \\-orking Co.. trfanager Carl \\ralker announced.

hey! thqt's my qct '))

reod the story of n'The builder who put his heqd in the sdnd"

The poor ostrich takes quite a kidding because he buries his head in the sand. As a matter of fact, he's not so dumb . . . he's looking for things that may be hidden under the surfoce.

We know a builder who took a hint from the long-legged bird and discovered hidden costs under the surfoce covering he had been using for roofs. This particular builder had drifted into the habit of using "cheap" covering material, but had failed to notice that, in order to uSe it, he was paying dearly for extra sheathing lumber to support the cheap roofing.

When he looked at his facts and figures, he found that the solid roof decking required for non-rigid ma-

terials had been costing him more than he had "saved" by using inferior shingles. Here are the facts he uncovered by digging deep:

Genuine CERTIGRADE cedar shingles are so strong that they can be applied on spoced roof sheathing -you simply use about half as much sheathing lumber in building the roof deck. Naturally, it takes only about half as much labcir cost to apply the sheathing.

'Well, when he figured up these savings that just come naturally with CERTIGRADE cedar shingles, he found that the sq-called economy of cheap roof covering material is a false economy. Now he knows that he can give his home buyers the extra quality, extra long life ofgenu-

Eine cedar shingle roofs at little or no extra cost.

More and more builders are alert for quolity in these days of increasing competition. And they are finding that cedar shingles, applied on spaced roof sheathing, provide muchneeded sales quality at sensible cost.

No wonder so many builders are "going back" to those tried and true CERTIGRADE red cedar shingles!

If you would like to check the comparative costs of cedar shingles on spaced sheathing vs. competitive roofing on solid sheathing, in your community, write us for a free cost estimating form. Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, 5510 White'Building, Seattle 1, Washington or 425 Howe Street, Vancouver, B. C.

EAT HALF AS MUCH; LAUGH TWICE AS MUCH; AND YOU'LL LIVE LONGER.

Proverb

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-Chinese

Wtren you note that these writings are what "we" think, you will understand that the editorial privilege is being used. Only three men have a right to refer to themselves as "we"; an editor, a king, and a man with a tapewonn. ***

Fred Allen said five years ago that the 16-inch screen had taken the place of the S-foot shelf of books. The only change since then is that it is now the 21-inch screen, and it has taken the place of mostly all learning, history, and wisdom.

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Men have often been likened to sheep. The likeness remains unchanged in most directions. It has been said of late, and probably with much truth, that if television had been discovered first and radio then had come along as television is doing, people would be rushing around buying radio sets as they are now buying television, just to get rid of those awful pictures.

We hear continued thunder about the high cost of living keeping us groggy. And yet we know that it isn't the cost of living that does it, it's the high cost taxation. Remove high taxes and living costs are cheap. Figures to prove it can be read in abundance.

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The average man is not as fully impressed with the high cost of taxation as he should be. The same government that started the high tax level provided the wageearner with an anaesthetic to dull the pain. When the government began requiring employers to withhold income taxes from the employee's pay envelope, it put the worker to sleep. To hand a man fifty dollars and then take fifteen of it away from him hurts a whole lot more than to just give him the thirty-five in the first place. And it causes a lot less griping. ***

The immortal thinker and philosopher, Plato, who lived in Athens f.rom 427 to 347 B. C. evidently gave some ttpught to the subject of income taxes, for we find him writing: "Where there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust man less on the same amount of income." So, you see, tax evaders must have been prevalent in those old days, also. Wonder if they had infuence peddlers and tax fixers and five percenters around

Athens, such as flourished so widely in Washington during the days of H.S.T.?

You don't suppose, do you, that George \tr/ashingtea [3d a formula of his own for keeping down government c:rpenses? They didn't need income t'-es, high or low, in his day. During his first term as Presidcnt of the Uniteal States, the entire annual expenditures of the Fc&rd Government only amounted to $2,500,(x)0, which figurcd about 60 cents per year per person. Oh Gcorgc! George! How we miss you !

Just read a newspaper headline: "Machines fast replacing men and mules in fields." Bet that btittgs shouts of protests from that numerous school of thinkers wto cannot understand that in every ciase, modern machincs and modern mettrods actually increase thc use of men, with increased wages in the long run. History provcs it bcyond contradiction; but the school of disscnters will continue to cry loud that tbe machines are driving tte men out of business. John Billings used to say that the trouble with most Een is that they know :o T-t thiogs that aren't so.

One of this school of "damn-ttc-Eachine" thinksn 3top ped one day where one of thesc big ditch digging machincs was excavating for a new sewer line. He said to the ercavating contractor: "How Eany men with shovcls docs that machine displace?" The contractor said: "About fifty." The snooper said: "\f,Ihy don't you j'rnk that rrachine and put fifty men with shovels to work?" Thc contractor said: "Well, let's follow that line of thinking a little further. Why not ten thousand mcn with teaspoons?' And when he looked around a minute l,ater, thc snooper wasgone'

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fmpressive what sharp thrusts in what mild languagc a lady can make ! The other day we heard two ladics talking over the lunch table, and one of ttem spokc of tte wild abandon and fearful vulgarity with whicb thc whole nation, including the press, radio, dl the alleged humorists, and a vast number bf ottrers, have been discussing without gloves the recent changc of a man to a woman, through surgery. She said: "It was not many years ago that nice people would not discuss or listen to such ttings in public." And the other lady mildly replied: "If you ask me, nice people don't do it now. The affair just gavc the vulgarians a field day." ***

I repeated that remark to sevcral fricnds thc next dan

and a grey-haired gentleman spoke up and said: "I have thought the same thing numerous times as I have witnessed the shocking degradation of American manners as demonstrated in the publicity given this case." He paused a few moments, and then added: "But, after all, what can you expect of a public that spends three or fout times as much for booze as it does for books and education?" Do you, Junior, know any answere to that one?

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According to insurance figures, the death toll in trafEc accidents in the United States rose to 37,600 last year, an increase of 500 over the previous year; and that was the third successive year the death. toll has climbed. Also, more than 2,090,000 persons were injured in. traffic last year, an increase of. 127,0@ over 1951. Further interesting facts disclosed: three out of every four 1952 traffic accidents happened to passenger cars driving in clear weather on dry roads or streets; four out of five of the vehicles involved in fatal accidents were driving straight ahead; excessive speed was the main cause of traffic accidents, killing 13,430 and injurint*"?"I600,000 in 1952.

And the public is assured that every year the auto manufacturers are constantly increasing their engineering efrorts to the end that faster and more powerful cars will be produced, and sent forth to mangle human bodies. Of course, mechanical failures cause many accidents, but it is the weakness in human heads that is responsible for most of them. Bad driving causes most accidents, and drunk driving plays a dominant part in bad driving. An unwise mixture of gasoline and alcohol furnishes the ambulances and hospitals and mortuaries with much of their business. If it were possible to arrange that drunk drivers kill and maim only other drunk drivers, everything would be all right. Lfnfortunately, it is impossible to l'egislate such practical matters, and the wild drunks keep on killing the better folks in spite of all offorts to restrain them.

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The world needs faster and more powerful motor cars for ordinary use, about as much as General Custer needed another Sioux Indian. And, to sidestep and moralize a bit, Wilson Mizner once remarked that "more people get run down by gossip, than by automobiles." That last is difficult to prevent, and impossible to legislate against; also impossible to secure

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fn a recent issue, we revived in this column the story that went the rounds during the Henry Wallace days in the Department of Agriculture when they decided to supply the farmers with mare mules that were in foal, so that the farmer could have both the work animd, and its increment. Which brought back again another story of that same strange era when the Government was destroying food animals, and food crops, and settling with the owners for cash. As this story went, they sent a young man into a farm district to inspect live stock and put a value on it. He didn't know one animal from another, so they gave him a little book of instructions that described the various classes of live stock, and told how to value each animal according to species, age, breed and condition.

The first day out in the country he discovered a farm with a herd of goats, but was unable to find anything about this creature in his information book. He irnmediately wired his boss in Washington, as follows: "Have found an animal with a forlorn face, a long bcard, a skinny body, and a bare rump. What is its name, and what value shall f set upon it?" In a few hours the reply came back: 'The animal you describe is a farmer and you don't put any value on it."

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In this age of coffee hounds and coffee "brcaks" (meaning the mid-morning and mid-afternoon stops for cofree) we never forget that it was a lumberman who supplied us long years ago with the best coffee recipe on record. Hiram Smith was a California lumberman of the old school. He was a founder of the great Pacific Lumber Comlnny, and he was a great lover of coffee. He got his coffee recipc in the following fashion: * * *

Mat y years ago he visited a mine in Arizona which he was pLanning on buying. He atc noon dinner in the cook shack, and he was served coffee that was so amazingly good that he went to tte cook to get his recipe. Said cook was a hairy-chested man. Mr. Smith asked for his recipe for making coffee. The cook protested that he had no recipe. "You made ttis coffee, didn't you?" asked Mr. Smith. The cooked allowed as how he had. '"Then just tell me," insisted Smith, "how do you make it?" "Tbat's simple," said the cook. "f use a little watcr and a hell of a lot of coffee." And we've called that thc Hiram Smith recipe ever since we first heard him tell it. And you want to know something, Junior? That recipe will make good coffee every time. Add just two otter thin$ to tte recipe tfse a good brand of coffee, and senre it fresh and hot. That'll do it.

The Frenchman, Tallyrand, said that coffee should be black as the devil, sweet as love, pure as an angel, and hot as hell.

High Proise From New lleiico Civilion Defense Director

"Dear Mr. Dionne: Mr. Clyde Washburn, of the Star Lumber Co., in this city has just cdled my attention to your 'Vagabond Editorials' in the April f5th issue, and particularly the paragraph concerning 'the Communist threat here at home! Mr. Washburn calleC my attention to this paragraph because be knows that I am interested in doing something about what you have called 'The big battle is herc against tte entrenched forces of subversion, and that is where thc home folks can do the fighting.'

"I wish there were more Editors throughout the country who would take the position.expressed by you in your editorial."

(Signed)

Col. John W. Chapman State Director of Civilian Defense Sante Fe, New Mexico'

Progrersive monufocluring methods conslonlly mainloin producl quolity

Progressive manufacturing methods produce and efficient shipping facilities. Combined, top quality from selected timber. Dependable these advantages to yard.s have rriade CHENEY service is a result of strategic plant locations the largest producer of. zx4 studs.

Strolegic plonl locotions ond modern shipping focilities contribule lo dependoble delivery schedules. Shipmenls ore prolecled in lrongil by coreful hondling ond tooding.

Gheney limber is selected for quolity

JEfferson 2288

JEfferson 2370

We speciolize o o o in

BETTER

Kimsul Blcmket Insulqtion

US.G. Insulcrtion Prod.

Quietone Acousticcrl Tile

U.S.G. Structobocrrd

7a" Firestop Bestwcll

Hollywood Comb. DoorE

Nudor Sliding Frcrmes

Screen Doors

BUILlIING

Superior Scrsb Balcnces

Acme Scsh Bclcmces

Palco Wool-Rock Wool

Gilbresth Lunber Secrls

Woodlile koducts

Roofing koducts

Building Pcrpers

MATERIALS

Mcsonite Products

Celotex Products

Gypeum Products

Upeon Products

Plywood-Ncils

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Hoflow Tree Lumber Compcny Opent Own Sawmill Sales Offtce

\\'illiam Moores, president Hollow Tree Lumber Company, announced last month his company had opened its ou'n sawmill sales offices at 110 West Ocean Boulevard, I-ong Beach, California, in the Ocean Center Building. All sales, n'ith the exception of those handled in Northern California, will be handled from the Long Beach office under the direction of Max R. Barnette, veteran Southern California lumber executive.

Although young in years all of the executives of Hollow Tree Lumber Company are old in experience. Bill lVfoores, and Bill Smith, the vice president of the firm, were fresh out of school tu'enty vears ago when they joined the Pope and Talbot Lumber Company and spent the next ten years "doing everything" pertaining to logging timbers out of the forest. Following a series of many tasks Bill Moores became piling manager and tsill Smith was appointed to the important job of logging manager for Pope and Talbot. Mar Barnette, the new sales manager, has spent the past eighteen years in lumber sales in Southern California. He will be assisted by l-aura Larsen, as secretary-office manager. She is well known throughout the industry having spent many years in lumber sales promotion in this area.

The two "Bills" first organized Hollow Tree Lumber Company in May; 1946, near Rockport and named the company after the Hollow Tree school district located in kggett Valley. In 1949 they purchased their present property north of Ukiah and constructed a modern plant with attractive offices overlooking Ukiah Valley. This young organization is producing approximately 40,000,000 feet of lumber yearly under the direction of Wilburn Johnson, head sawyer, who r*'as born and raised in the Lake County big timber country, and as Bill Moores declared "born to his job right in the heart of the forest."

Hollow Tree Redwood Company will move material into the Southwest via continuous trucking service, with rail ship ments originating over the Northwestern Pacific Railroad spur at Ukiah, thereby offering fast delivery from its various sawmills as directed by the customer. This fast growing comPany is closely related to the trlasonite Corporation, furnishing them rvith all lon'er grade logs unsuitable for use in the Hollow Tree mill. "This assures our customers of top grade, good lumber, as \r:e are conscientious in our efforts to ship the kind of material ordered by the users of our products," said NIax Barnette.

Along u'ith the sales management of Hollorv Tree Redu.ood Companl-, IIax Barnette u'ill continue to handle the sales of Rockport Redu'ood Company and Rounds Lumber Company in Southern California through the Long Beach offices, for the distribution of their products at the r'r'holesale distribution level.

Mq & Bcnaette

TRADEMARKED

Gc .,rmbi.tation of APNII traclcnrark and DFPA grademark is 1'or.rr assurancc thzrt regardlcss of *'here 1'ou buy Associated ply'u'<lod, \'ou get the guarantccd products clf a pioneer mill in the industry.

There is a type, size ancl sradc of APNII plywood (extcrior and interior) for evcry building need:

D<ruglas fir pl1's'ood; Sea Su'irl decorative ply'uood; Philippinc mahogany facecl plr'vi'oocl; birch facccl pl1'u'ood; r'ertical grain fir plyvi'ood.

APNII products arc sold fronr ccntralll' located salcs u'arch()Llscs, sold by expcricnccd plyrvood men. Your inquirics arc inr itcd.

as rrell as grademarked ...your double guarantee of plywood quality

filV a]arotlife Shrul aa

BV leah Sioatte

Age not guaranteed---Some I have told lor 20 years---Somc Less

That Third Wish

The old Indian chief had lived an upright life, had helped and befriended the weaker Indians, and was dearly loved and highly respected by all of his tribe. So one day the Great Spirit appeared before him and told him that because he had been so fine a character, he would be given three wishes, and anything he wished for he could have.

The Indian chief stretched out his arm and pointed to the mighty lake, so wide that eye would not reach the other side, and he said:

"See-um Big Lake?"

The Great Spirit said yes. And the chief said: "All whiskey!"

Watson Cross, Consolidated Lumber salesman, Wilmington, is on an extended trip throughout the middle l'est and east. While he is arvay he s.ill visit rvith friends and relatives in Ohio and then continue on to Nen' York and Nerv E,ngland. Watson rvill be back on the job in six rrreeks.

Then the chief pointed to a great mountain whose snowy summit seemed to touch the skies. He said:

"See-um mountain?"

The Great Spirit said yes. And the chief said:

"All tobacco !"

Then the Indian chief stopped, and was deep in thought. The Great Spirit said:

"You have one more wish."

The the chief pointed again to the Great Lake, and said:

"Little more whiskey !"

Harry White, Harrl' \\'hite Nholesale Lumber Companv of Los Angeles, spent the first part of this nronth in Northern California and Southern Oregon checking rvith the various mills his company represents in Southern California. \\'hile he n'as as'ay Sterling Wolfe r,r'as ie charge of the local sales office.

ts fo, VABJBTY

And nol iust to be "difterenl." We speciolizc, il's lrue, but in the speciolized ilems we corry, you con find lhc grcotcst ossortment. Mind you, eoch piece is o quolity itcm.

Growth brings voriely, you know. During 35 yeors of business we couldn'l help but otlroct lhe new ilems qs they wcre introduced into the building moteriols field. We're mighry choosy, but the besl of lhe new wind up here.

So when you're looking for hordwood or softwood Plywoods, Mosonile Brond Producls, or Formico ond o lorge voriety of eoch give us o lry.

9ti toutx ^LALaOa o lllNlrY O0l7 o LOt AxGlll3

"Crown of the Magic Ttee" For Forest Festival Queen

Layko Ross & Company, Seatttle, as a new feature of the 1953 Mason County Forest Festival and Keep Washington Green. Jervels of various shades of green were mounted in the form of Douglas fir seedlings to make the first true "tree crolvn" of history. Christened "Crown of the Ilagic Tree", I{iss Sharll'n Brorvn, Shelton was invested rvith it as 1953 Queen of Mason County Forest Festival and Keep \\rashington Green, by Governor Arthur B. Langlie. at Seattle on April 10.

Governor Langlie pointed out that U. S. Forest Service Survev figures for Cowlitz County, Washington, home of the rvorld's trvo largest sarvmills, shorv an 8 per cent increase in sal'timber volume for the period 1933-1949, rvith a reduction in "nonstocked" areas from 136,00 acres to 53.0m acres. The tr{agic Tree Crorvn symbolizes this kind of grou'th.

The Forest Survey figures for l\Iason County have not been published. The effects of forest fire control efforts there, horvever. are shorvn in the fact that 1952 rvas the fourth successive year in rvhich forest areas burned amounted to less than 30 acres.

Second Model Home Announced

A second model house rvill be displayed during the 1953 Los ^{ngeles Home Shorv, June 4-14, at the Pan Pacific Auditorium.

"Tbe most beautilul crown I've ever plcrced on cr queen's heqd," said Woshington Stqte's Goveraor Arthur B. Lcuglie, qs he co-starred i! the coroncrtion ol Queen Shorlyn Browa of Sbelton, Wcsh.

The Nfason County Forest Festival, at Shelton, Washington, May 14-15-16, r,r'as centered on a great outdoor forest pageant, The Magic Tree. It rvas presented by the Shelton schools in support of the Keep \\rashington Grecn program of forest fire prevention. The cast was made up of 450 costumed students. The theme of the pageant rvas the magic of nature's power in grou'ing young trees on Douglas fir cutover. Shelton is the home base of the Simpson Industries.

A masterpiece of the jerveler's art rvas designed by

The model house rvill have more than l6(X) square feet, ieature more than 5O of the neu'est ideas in home planning, costing under $15,000, according to Home Show President Frank E. Hess. It will be called the "Coronation" in honoi of Queen Elizabeth's coronation this summer in England.

Hess said the "Coronation" will be constructed by the G.M.B. Corporation, developers in Bel-Air Highlands. Stanley A. l\{artson, President of G.M.B., said the model house rvill have a unique tv-den-family room, glass x'alled living room, open beam ceiling, a huge fireplace rnade of volcanic and Palos Verdes stone, three bedrooms, a hobbl' alcove, ts'o baths, breakfast bar, all sliding steel 'rvindorvs, an all-electric kitchen and many other luxury ideas.

Contemporary ranch in style, the "Cordnation" was designed by architects Don Ayres and Herbert F. Fiege, A.I.A.

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Graduation Time Approaches

A late great Southern jurist, Judge H. M. Carwood, once said, in addressing a graduating class: "The world you are about to enter is a stern world; but is a world of stern beauty, ever ready to welcome the true soldier of intellect, who shirks no duty, and who fears no foe."

We are being reminded on every hand that graduation time approaches for the students of the nation. All over this lhnd thousands of young men and women will soon accept those sheepskin testimonials of their years of labor in schools and colleges, and will turn wide-eyed to the great world, asking in their hearts that tragic question: "And what now?"

Tell them the truth-a truth that will cast no shadow of gloom over their spirits-which is that a mighty world awaits them, AND NEEDS THEM. Tell them that there never was a time when a greater premium was being offered for strong men and women; or when the world needed them more.

Tell them that there will be greater human progress in the next fifty years than in the wonderful last fifty and that theirs is the golden opportunity to share in its unfolding. Tell them that human ingenuity and invention hasn't really started yet, and that only those who cannot see the forest for the trees, think otherwise. Tell them that generations and centuries of inventive genius of every

Terrible Twenty GolI Tourncment

The 323 Terrible Twenty golf tournament was held at the Lakeside Country Club, North Hollywood, on April 14- Sterling Stofle was host, and he provided entertainment at dinner by inviting Peter DePaolo to tell some of his famous stories and also relate some of his racing experiences.

Rill Bucher was the winner of the first prize u'ith a net score of 61, and Curt McFadden won the second prize with a 65 net score. Burt Galleher won the T.T.T. shirt prize.

The annual tournament will be held at the l-os Angeles Country Club on May 19. Election of officers will be held, and the finals in the rnatch tournaments u'ill be played.

worthy kind beckon us on to higher ideals and to higher rounds of the ladder of life.

Tell them that their heritage lies in the vast rescrvoir and accumulation of human blessings yet to be discovcred and perfected. Tell them that there are countless nccessar.v things yet to be done; innumerable mighty problems for the benefit of humanity yet to be solved; countless amazing ideas yet to be unfolded; marvelous avenues to distinction and glory beckoning from the horizon of the future to every young man and wo-tn with brains and ambition and courage and staying qudities.

This is true regardless of what direction their ambitions may lead them. It is true in business, in industry, in tte arts, the sciences, in literature, in music, in mccbanics, and lines too nulnerous to repcat. In thcsc days, as in dl days gone by, th.e results will dcpend on ttc qudity and quantity of the effort made to succeed. There is no royal road, no easy road, to success of any sort. There ncver has been.

But the thing that will redly hclp the young mind to face the future rightln is the dcpcndablc knowledgc ttat the chance is here, the opportunity is at hand, for tte biave, and the strong, and the ambitious, an4 above all' the honest.

Tell them these things at graduation times"

Orgcrni.e New Compcmies

A change has taken place in the operation of the Glide-in Overhead Door Company of Oakland of rrhich Elmer O. Wieringa is the general manager. The installation department has been discontinued, and this rvork is norv done by the same men rvho have organized their orvn companies. One is knorv as the Glide-In of Alameda and the other as the Glide-In of Contra Costa. These nerv firms rvill act independently but carr)' on the installation rvork for the original companv. The latter rvill continue to manufacture the hardrvare in connection s'ith their Glide-In Doors.

Pagc 5 of "'I'he H-E Storv in Picrures." Photo shows a faller' nraking the ctrstomarr $'cdge-shaPcd cut' knolln as undercutting'

It takes choice timber to make good lunrber. '['hat's where H-E qualitr Redq,ood starts- Thc tin.rbcr, which rve log under a controlled conservation program, is in thosc stands of commercial Redwo<-rd that ,vield the world's finest lurnbcr. Everr lunrber dealer knows that Rcdwood has no equal for certain purposes, brrt it is important that the right grade be used u'here that grade is indicatcd. H-E qualitv Redu,ood delivcrs rnaximum r':rlue in evcr1, grade. 'I'o be surc of drr Rcdrl'ood. spccifr H-l'. Certifezl Drr.

N. L. M. A. Announces Scholarship Awards

Washington, D. C.-The National Lumber Manufacturers Association announced the award of four $500 scholarships to outstanding forestry school students in Washington, Minnesota, Connecticut and Michigan.

The winners, chosen from students nominated by 15 of the nation's leading forestry schools, are:

Douglas Neil McClary, 21, of Anacortes, \r{ash., a student at the University of Washington.

Donald Gene Butler, 22, of. St. Paul, Minn., a student at the University of Minnesota.

William Ralph Francis, 27, of Seattle, a student at Yale University.

Bruce Redmond Jones, 25, of Springfield, N. J., student at the University of Michigan.

The four scholarship winners will receive ten weeks of summer training at the Washington, D.C., research laboratory of the Timber Engineering Co., an affiliate of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. To defray their expenses, each scholarship winner will receive $500, plus travel expenses.

Leo V. Bodine, executive vice president of the National Lumber Manufacturers Assoication, said the ten-week training course, which begins June 29, will give the scholarship win-

ners practical experience in wood technology and utilization.

Mr. Bodine stated that the Natiornl Lumber Manufacturers Association also will help the winners and other nominees to try to find permanent employment in the forest products industries.

The scholarship program, now in its fourth year, is designed to encourage more technically-minded forestry students to prepare for employment in wood utilization with private wood industries.

The winners were selected by representatives of the lumber industry on the basis of scholastic ratings, general aptitude and the recommendations of the deans or department heads of participating universities.

N.BI{.D.A- Meetins Mcry 2l'22

The spring meeting of the National Building Material Distributors Association rvill be held at the Statler Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y., May 2l and 22, 1953. The program includes prominent business leaders who will address the meeitng. There rvill be special entertainment events for the ladies, including a sight-seeing trip to Niagara Falls. John I'. Ashton, Des Moines, fowa, l'is Association president, and S. M. Van Kirk is general manager. The Association headquarters are at 111 \\'est \\rashington Street, Chicago

Ordinory Shingle Stoins ore nol good enough for Filile Shokes

When you want something done "better than the rest"- you have to do it yourself. That's why, years ago, we learned to "roll our own" rich pigments to make the most superlative cedar shake stain in captivity. Fitite Shakes are pre-stained exclusively with our own Stayon Stains, made with our own pigment rolling equipment, and formulated by our own stafi of experts who have thirty years of shake-staining experience behind their work.

Dealers who know how important a good solid color-coating is in making cedar shakes a profftable and customer-satisfying line will want to know more about the Stayon Stains that have given Fitite Shakes their leadership in the market since 1922. Your inquiries are cordially invited. A telegram or letter will bring you prompt response. When you have the Fitite Shake and Stayon Stain lines, you can be confident that you have the best on the market today. Fitites are, of course, America's original processed cedar shakes.

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Appointed Executive Secretary

Donald Linville has beer.r named Executive Secretary of the neu'ly formed Hardboard Association, it was announced by Harold A. Miller, Forest Fiber Products Company, President of the neu. association.

Linville rvas formerly with the federal. government as Section Chief of the Roofing and Insulation and Board Section of the Office of Price Stabilization. He has also held positions with the Federal Housing Adrninistration, the \\-ar Production Board. the Civilian Production Authoritv. the Department of Commerce and with Penn \rentilator Company, Philadelphia, Pa., and the Ruberoid Company, Atlanta, Ga.

The following manufacturers are members of the Hardboard Association: Superior Wood Products Company, Duluth, NIinnesota; Oregon Lumber Company, Dee, Oregon; United States Gypsum Company, Chicago, Illinois; Masonite Corporation, Chicago, Illinois ; Chapman Manufacturing Company, Corvallis, Oregon; Forest Fiber Products Companv, Forest Grove, Oregon.

The nelv association has been formed to deal with technical and trade promotional problems related to the hardboard industry. Headquarters will be in Chicago.

San Joaquin Hoo-Hoo Club Holds Concat at Visalia

Fridal', Aprrl 24, the San Joaquin Hoo-Hoo Club No. 3l held a Concat at the Johnson Hotel in Visalia. Cocktail horrr was at 6:59, dinner at 7:59, and the Concat started promptlv at 8:29. It u'as under the direction of \ricegerent Snar k "Cap" Nichols, of Reid & \\-right, Fresno, who r,r'as assisted by Ray Noble of the \risalia Lumber Company, Visalia.

The follou'ing six Kittens u'ere initiated into the order: H. \\'. Bennett ....Atlas Supply Co., \:isalia

George D. \IcColl U. S. Plyn'ood Cotp., Fresnc V. James llorea Delano Bldg. Materials, Inc., Delarv

Bill Fisk Screentite Door Co., Fresno

Horvard H. \Iyers, Jr. .Insulite Co., Fresno

Joseph L. Castanos.. .California Builders Supply Inc., Fresno

The follow-ing were the menrbers of the Nine who put on the initiation:

Snark, Henry Carr, Crolr'-Harr Lumber Co.; Senior HooHoo, Ray E. Noble, \'isalia Lumber Co.; Junior [Ioo-Hoo, R. F. Reid, Reid & \Vright Co.; Bojum, Arthur G. Post, Delano Building trIaterials, Inc.; Scrivenoter, E. \\-. Wilson, Sequoia Lumber Co.; Jabber*'ock, James IVI. Duart, Tarter, \\'eb' ster & Johnson, Inc.; Custocatian, Arthur D. \\Iilson, Lumber Ilerchants Association; Arcanoper ,Carrol E. Nichols, Reid & Wright Co.; Gurdon, Bernard B. Barber, Jr., Bernie Barber & Associates.

The part of the Visiting Officer $'as acted by Ray Clotfelter, formerll,'of Spalding Lumber Company and now retired.

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Redwood Region Logging Congress At Eureka May 22-23

Eureka, April 28-Logging and highs-a-v safety, firc protection. utilization of leftovers, and financial aspects of logging s'ill be some of the topics discussed at the Redrvood Region Logging Conference at Eureka May ?2 and23. according to RoJ- G. \\ragner. IUasonite Corporation. Ukiah, conference president. The statement was made at a conference directors meeting at the Eureka Inn April 25.

\Voods and highrvay safetv rvill be the main theme of the conference. *'hich s'ill be held at the Eureka Municipal -\uditorium. Sidner'- trlackins, Hammond Lumber Companl-, Samoa. s'ill lead a panel discussion of industry safetv problems. Seven industrv safety engineers rvill assist in the discussion. s'hich rvill center around the importance of safety to the logger. and causes and prevention of accidents. Existing safety programs rvill be described and as. sistance rvill be offered to companies desiring to start them.

DeWitt Nelson, California State ForeFter, Sacramento. will explain revisions in the redrvood region forest practice rules.

A. H. I\Ierirll, Hammond Lumber Company, Samoa. u'ill lead a panel discussion on fire protection problems. A discussion of utilization of rvoods leftovers will be led by Ralph DeMoisl*, I\f and NI Wood Working Co.. Eureka. W. D. Pine, Humboldt Count_v Farm Advisor, rvill report on the neu'ly-formed Humboldt County Forestry Committee. Prof. Laq'rence Coolidge, Oregon State College, rvill present an address on financial aspects of logging.

Because of the region-rvide interest in the proposed government Klamath River Dam, Henry K. Trobitz, Simpson Logging Companl', Klamath, rvill present general information on the land area adjacent to the proposed dam. He rvill also discuss timberland that rvould be taken out of production bv the dam if it rvere built.

The conference directors were informed that the kitchen being added to the Eureka }funicipal Auditorium rvill be completed in time for the Conference. Entertainment at the banquet tr[a1' 22 :wrll be b1' professional entertainers arranged b1- the equipment dealers committee. The banquet rvill start at 7:3O p.m. at the auditorium and rvill bc preceded bl' a cocktail hour, knorvn as "The Sarvdust Bos'I." sponsored b1' the equipment dealers. The Sarvdust Bol'l rvill be held at the Eureka Inn from 4:30to 7Op.m.

An equipment shorv of all types of logging equipment u'ill again be a regular feature of the conference, \Vagncr added. Equipment rvill be displayed both inside and outside the auditorium and the general public is invited to inspect all displays.

A neu' feature of the conference this year, according to \\tagner, rvill be an invitation to the public to attend all sessions of the conference and the entertainment follou'ing the banquet Ma-v 22. There rvill be adequate seating space in the auditorium balconv, he said. and the public is rvelcome to attend.

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National Executives Secretaries To Convene at Berkeley M.y 22-24

Talbot, Inc.. Portland. and Eudora de Loge, Cords Lumber Co., Inc., San Francisco, rvho is vice president of the San Francisco Chapter.

Follorving the convention a group of rromen rvill leale for Honolulu by Pan American World Airs'avs to lav the ground-s'ork for the chartering of a chapter in that cit..'.

National-American Wholesalers I(/ill Meet at Colorado Springr

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Eudora de Loge ing businesses in any one chapVice Presideit ter. There are no\\' 14 chapters scn Fronciaco chcpter extending east to Chicago, north to Portland, and south to Dallas and New Orleans.

The lumber industry is represented by the follorving members: Alice K. Waterman, 'Western Lumber Co., San Diego; Mary Abernethy, San Pedro Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Claire Zimmerman, Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California, San Francisco; Marge Valente, Pacific Manufacturing Co., Santa Clara; Dora Giomboni, Chase Lumber Co., San Jose; Dorothy Wiitala. Pope -t

The annual convention of the National--\merican Wholesale Lumber Association will be held at the Broadmoor Hotel, Colorado Springs, Colo., on May 19-20. The annual meeting of the directors will be held on May 18. Business sessions rrill be held mornings only. There u'ill be a number of entertainment features, with special affairs arranged for the ladies.

Prominent business leaders will address the cortvention, including H. V. Simpson, executive vice president of the \\'est Coast Lumbermen's Association, Portland, Ore.; Everett Conover, vice president in charge of sales, Conover ]fotor Co., Colorado Springs; Elwood M. Brooks, president of the Central Bank & Trust Co., Denver, and Gene Flack, sales counsel for Sunshine Biscuits, I-ong Island City, N.Y.

Edward \\'. Conklin of Buffalo, N.Y., is president. and Sid t-. Darling is secretar,v. Association headquarters are at 4l East ,12nd Street, Nerv York 17, N.Y.

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National Forest Recreation Use Increases Army To Continue !(ood for Gondolas

Recreation use of the 18 National Forests in California increased l9/o in 1952, over the previous year, according to information reported by Nf. M. Barnum, Regional Chicf of Recreation and Lands for the Forest Service. The report summary for 1952 shorvs 4,730,W0 visits involving 12,726,W man-days use of forest facilities and improvcments. An additional 16 million visits to the Forest are recorded for sightseers passing through.

The 1952 summer recreation season got oft to a slorv start because of cold, stormy rveather in June. Horvever, July turned out to be the largest on record for public campgrounds as well as private resorts in the Forests.

"The ever increasing popularity of the outdoor recreational opportunities provided by the National Forests calls for a greatly intensified Forest Service program of sanitation control, fire prevention, and safe rvater supplies," N[r. Barnum explained. "Most of the present improvements and facilities for public recreation on the National Forests \'vere constructed in the early 1930's and are norv giving way from age and excessive use."

The importance of public cooperation in keeping campgrounds clean and facilities in good condition rvas stressed by the regional recreation chief.

Glen Ainsworth of the Ralph L. Steel took a trip back East on business last up a new car at the factory-.

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\\rashington, D.C.-The Army's Transportation Corps estimates that it will save $250,000 by using tongue-andgroove rvood sides instead of steel plates for an undisclosed number of 4o-ton high sided gondola freight cars to be ordered soon for o\'erseas use. This information confirms arguments long and vigorously advanced by the National Lumber l\Ianufacturers Association.

Transportation Corps officials said the difference in cost is one of the main reasons they r,r'ill continue to order overseas gondola cars exculsively with u'ood sides.

The Corps recognizes that not only is there a saving in initial costs but repairs also are easier and cheaper because no special material is required.

The Corps rvill not disclose the number of cars involved in the forthcoming order, or the estimated saving on each car, until it has let contracts for their construction.

Present plans call for steel underframes and undercarriages for the cars. The rvood sides rvill be bolted to steel superstructure frames rvhich, in turn, s'ill be attached to the underframes of the cars.

Los Angeles Building Permits

5,375 building permits rvere issued in the city of Los Angeles during the month of April rvith a valuation of $32,5%,4D. In the preceding month. lfarch, 6,413 permits rvere issued valued at ffi6,596,944.

Construction Activity in April 1953

Expenditures for new construction increased br-8 per cent during -\pril to $2.6 billron. and s'ere 5 per cent ab,'r-e -\pril 1952, according to preliminary estimates of the U. S. l-abor Department's Bureau of I-abor Statistics and the Building Ilaterials Division of the U. S. Department of Cornrnerce. Private outlays of $1,801 million last month represented an increase of 5 per cent from llarch mainly because of the rise in residential and public utilitl' construction. Seasonal gains in roadbuilding during April, and increased public spending ior industrial plants, including atomic energy facilities, accounted for nlost of the l-{ per cent risc to an $837 million t,rtal for new public construction.

The value of new u'ork done on private nonfarrn residential building amounted to 9887 million during April. about 6 per cent above the }Iarch figure and about 4 p€r cent ntore than in April 1952. Although private industrial building last month was slightly below the llarch figure, rvith indications of some, further tapering of expenditures on this srrrk, outlays remhined close to last year's record level.

April expenditures for commercial construction and rnost other major types of private nonresidential building held about even with March, and except for hospital construction. \r.ere considerably above out!;,vs during April 195?. I'rir-ate expenditures last month for neu' u'ork on public utilities, especially on electric po\{'er and gas facilities, continue(l the up trend that began in }Iarch.

Nlilitary and naval expenditures for neu- cr,nstruction showed a less than seasonal rise during April. s'hile public outlays for hospitals and schools remained at the \farch level. Among other types of public nonresidential building. rnonthly expenditures thus far in 1953 have been running at double last year's rate for construction of penal and corrective institutions.

The $185 million spent for neu' *'ork on highs'avs during April 1953 chiefly reflected outlavs by State and local sovernments. For public construction as a whole, State and local funds (principally for highways, schools, hospitals. and sewer and rn'ater facilities) accounted for about 55 per cent of total public expenditures for neu. construction during 1952 and thus far in 1953, compared w'ith 62 per cent in l95l and about 70 per cent in 1949 and 1950.

During the first 4 months of 1953, new construction rrith a total value of more than $9.6 billion was put in place, compared with $9.1 billion in the corresponding period oi 1952_ an increase of 6 per cent. Total private outla.vs of 96.7 billion u'ere 7 per cent above a year ago in this period, rvhile public expenditures of $2.9 billion rrere onlv 3 per cent higher.

J. W. Fitzpatrick, Consolidated Lumber Conrpanv at Wilmington, announced Wallace Anderson, formerlv rvith San Pedro Lumber Company, has joined Consolidated. "Fitz" and Anderson are old associates in the lumbcr business as both of them l'ere u-ith the same comyrarr-v for manv vears

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Orville Arnold Collects Greeting Cards as Hobby

The Bakersfield Californian carried an interesting storr- in its issue of l{arch 28 about Orville Arnold and his hobbycollecting greeting cards. \Ir. Arnold has been u'ith the King\Iarshall Lumber Co., Inc., of Bakersfield, since 1945 rvhen he was released from active duty r.r'ith the Air Corps.

\Ir. Arnold began his hobby seriousl.v during the years he \\'as overseas in 192425. \Iany of his friends sent him cards u'hich he saved and he decided it would be a good \tr'a)' to remember places he had visited and seen.

He has a collection of over 10,000 cards. The.v include cards commemorating Fourth of July, United States presidents fronr George \\-ashington to }Iarry Truman, Valentine's Day, anniversaries, weddings, the years, days of the week, the Gibson girl, Nlemorial Day, flags of all the states in the Urrited States, r,r'artime cards, and many others.

His collection has cards shon'ing George V, and the late Queen N{ary, when the King was Prince of Wales, as well as card photographs of King Edward VII and King George VI. One card he prizes greatly shows the participants in the I-ocrano Pact in 1925 and carries the actual signatures of Austin Chamberlin, Nlussolini, Briand, Benesch and others-I\Ir. Arnold found the card in an ash can at Frankfort, Germany.

I\{r. Arnold found it rather tedious to be showing visitors his cards in the albums so he conceived the idea of rvallpapering his den u'ith them. Spread out on the walls of the den are over 1700 cards, some that date back to the l88os and up to the present time. They are set into the rvall on 22x4&inch cardboards. Photographer's art corners are used for each card. He alternates the square with nine-inch panels r*'hich makes an interesting pattern. A cellophane covering protects the cards from fading and discoloration.

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Three New Vice Presidents Added

San Francisco, April 3O-Three nerv vice-presidents rvere added to the Calaveras Cement Company list of officers b.r' the company's board of directors at its organizational meeting today.

The three new officers are E. II. Barker, who has been manager of the company's plant at San Andreas, California, since 1947 ; Mel J. London, general sales manager, and Arnold lI. Ross, lvho has been assistant vice-president since 1952.

H. C. "Pat" \Iaginn continues as executive vice-president and A. A. Hoffman as vice-president. William \\'allace Vein, Jr., is president of the firm and William Wallace \[ein is chairman of the board.

The board appointed a finance committee consisting of IIaginn as chairman, A. A. Hoffman and Charles \\'. Fay, rvith Joseph Tedesco, Calaveras secretary-treasurer, as alternate member. The committee will advise the board on such matters as capital expenditures and dividend policies.

Portlond, OrcAon

The board also announced the appointment of Grant Metzger, mechanical superintendent, as acting manager of the San Andreas plant.

With Dave Davis Lumber Co.

James 4. t';im" Fraser has just been added to the sales staff of the Dave Davis Lumber Co. of San Rafael. Jim has been connected with the Collins Pine Company of Chester, California, for the past five years, working in various departments of the company and ending up the last year in the sales office.

He will cover the Bay Area, Peninsula and Coast Counties, as well as the Sacramento and upper San Joaquin Valleys.

Jim is a family man with two lcrmes A. (Iim) Frcser little girls and with his wife Barbara makes his home in Larkspur, Marin County. He is the son of a well known lumberman, Clem Fraser of Hogan Lumber Co. in Oakland.

\(/eyerha euser Purchases Airplane

For Intensive Aerial Survey \(/ork

Weyerhaeuser Timber Company announced the purchase of a single-engine airplane for use in surveying wind and insect damage to the firm's forest properties in Oregon.

"Our primary purpose in buying this Cessna 170-8 is to have available, on short notice, an aircraft capable of the intensive aerial survey work necessary on those Oregon tree farms which have been subject to severe insect infestations in the past few years," said E. F. Ifeacox, managing forester.

The aircraft, which carries four persons, will be outfitted with additional instruments and special equipment to adapt it to forest survey operations.

Weyerhaeuser's forestry department has leased aircraft from time to time during the past two years to do survey work on the Douglas fir bark beetle epidemic in southwestern Oregon and Western pine beetle infestations in the Klamath Falls area. The number of trees killed by these insects, coupled with extensive blow-down damage from the high winds of the past three winters, has assumecl serious proportions.

Forest entomologists know that wind-toppled timber provides the bark beetles with favorable breeding areas and leads to insect epidemics. For this reason both beetle surveys and windfall Surveys are necessary to keep abreast of the beetle developments.

Jack Crane, in charge of sales for Hobbs Wall Lumbcr Co., San Francisco, re'cently spent a week in Southern California, where he ciilled on the trade with Don Bufkin and Jim Richardson, sales representatives in that territory.

Robert H. Lawder, of American Factors, .,.isiting his ccmpany's

manager of the lumber department Inc., Honolulu, is on the mainland. lumber connectiorrs.

Now available to dealers f rom our Calif orn ia plants

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\$(e now carry the following Baxco Pressure Theated Foundation.Lumber in stock at Alameda and Long Beach for immediate shipment to dealers:

Douglos Fir S45 ALS 2x4,2x6,2x8,2x1O, 3x4,3x6,4x4ond4x6.

Special sizes will be purchased from local stocks and pressure treated without delay.

Ve offer prompt custom treating service at both our Alameda and Long Beach plants. Your lumber can be delivered to us by ruck or treated in transit in carload quantities. Consult us for additional information.

Baxco Pressure Tieated Foundation Lumber is impregnated with preservative salts in accordance with Fed. Spec. TT-V-571c. lt is approved by FHA, Uniform Building Code - P.C.B.O.C., State Architect for mudsills in School Construction. and U. S. Governmenr Specifications.

Railroadg and U.S. Forest Service Attack Fire Problem

Forest fires originating on railroad rights-of-rray is the specific problem that is now under pin-point attack b1' all major railroads in California under a training progranl sponsored by, and in cooperation rvith, the U. S. Forest Service.

A series of training meetings recently held in Klamath Falls, Dunsmuir, and Quincy, California, betrveen railroad ofticers and Forest Service officers is the direct result of earlier meetings rvhere cooperative attack rvas pledged by all top railroad executives. Follorv-up instructions l.ill be carried down to Section Foremen and crerv levels in an effort to eliminate existing right-of-rvay hazards. Recognition of hazards, and improved methods of fire proofing, based on the experience of fire history, are important points stressed in this training program.

The railroads participating in this cooperative fire prevention effort are: \\'estern Pacific, represented bl- J. C. Munson, vice president and general manager, and Frank Woolford, chief engineer; Great Northern, by T. A. Jerrou'. vice president and general manager, and E. F. Or-iatt, division superintendent; N[cCloud River Railroad, bv Flal'ke Willis, president; and Southern Pacific, by E. D. I\Iood-v, assistant general manager and R. \\r. Putman, engineer oi maintenance. Regional and local forest officers of the U. S. Forest Service are l-orking closely rvith railroad fielcl personnel to carry out fire prevention objectives set forth by top-level officials of both organizations. Intensified cooperati'r'e efforts are expected to materially reduce forest fires from railroad causes this coming fire season.

Personal Paperr of David T. Mason Will Become Pa* of Foundation

The personal papers and diaries of David T. Mason, nationallv kno*'n forestn' consultant of Portland, Oregon, rvill become a part of the manuscript collection of the Forest Products History Foundation it rvas announced this rveek bv Elrvood R. Ifaunder, executive representative of the Foundation.

"The personal records and memoirs of leaders in the lorest products industries and government are among tht most valuable sources of information rvhich the economic historian and professional rvriter must have in order tc accurately and permanently preserve the story of the American forests,' \launder said. "More and more leaders in American forestrv and forest industry are recognizing the value of their private papers and are making provision for their preservation by the Forest Products History Foundation."

The Foundation is the prirately-supported national r:pository of American forest history tvith headquarters iir Saint Paul. I\Iinnesota.

John T. Northam, manager of the Harbor Plyrvood Corporation of California at Los Angeles, rvill spend the last rveek of IlIay in the middle rrest. While there he rvill visit business associates in Cleveland, Indianapoplis and Chicago. He expects to return to his post the first of -fune.

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Redwood in sizes to 12" x 12" - lengths to 24'

Planer capacity for surfacing up to 24" x 24"

Remanufacturing facilities for resawing up to 34" x34"

Stabilization and Related Problems

Bv E. C. Parker President, Southern California Retail Lumber Association, And President, Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., Los Angeles

(Address delivered ot lhe Annuol Meeting of the Soulhern Colifornio Refoil Lumber Assocl:ofion ol lhe Hofel Sfofler, los Angeles, Colif ., on April 7-8-9, 1953.)

, Mr. Chairman, Fellorv , Lumbermen and Friends-

Your secretary has asked that I prepare a paper on the subject "Stabilization and Related Problems." I am sure your secretary vl'ill testify to the fact , that I struggled u-ith him re: garding the matter, and put up all the arguments I could think of to keep from doing it. But in his usual persistent way he insisted, and in order that he would not feel that I didn't u'ant to help him *-ith his program, I consented. So here I am again, trying to make a talk

on a subject that could be handled much better by many of ]-ou.

Stabilization, as you all know', is a ditlicult subject. We have been u'orrying and talking about it f or many years, and it is quite surprising in vierv of this that so little has really been accomplished to make our industry more stable. The concern over stabilization on the part of lumbermen varies with different periods. There has been only about a quarter of the time in the last twelve years that lumbermen could be bothered concerning it 1949 should have brought concern, but in l95l and 1952 there has been a growing anxiety relative to it, and in the three months of 1953 interest in it has greatly increased. Lumber dealers in Southern California and this association are not interested in price agreements. In the first plac.e, they are illegal uirder the Federal laws, and in the second place, we all konw that there are so many companies with varied methods of operation that any agreement as to price would not work anyway. But lumber dealers do think that many of the abuses to which the industry is subject could be corrected and the lumber industry brought up on a higher plane.

There are a good many reasons for the unstable condition in which our industry finds itself. One of the important reasons is the increased cost of doing business to which everyone is subject, and the natural and normal. desire of the dealer to try to do something to counteract them. Some of the reasons for increased costs is the progressive trend of all businesses, including the lumber industry, to render fine service to its customers. It is worth-while, it is progressive, it should be done. but the records over thirty-five yqrrs will show that it costs money, and that our industry does not charge for it. For example, the gradual evolvement from the old time lumber yard to the present dal' lumber and building material store, with its sof t lights and pastel colored walls; the change from the days when the lumber dealer stayed at his offrce and the customer came to I'rim to place his order, to the present da1', when it is very rare that you see any of 1'our best customers in the office, but instead a multitude of salesmen or service men in bright, pretty, snappy cars burning up gasoline and tin.re going to see customers in rvidely separated distrrcts and catering to their every r'ant; from the practice of furnishing stock finish and mouldings and stock sash and doors to the present day mode of freshly manufactured finish and moulding run to special patterns for u,'hich probably no setup is charged, and a variety of sash and doors known only to the architectural mind; and from the practice of insisting on proper notice of time for delivery to the practice of today of giving shotgun delivery service rvith trucks and equipment that would do credit to the florist industrl'. Do not misunderstand me, I do not intend to imply that rve should not render these services, brrt I do intend to imply that we should charge for them.

Then too, there is the gradual evolvement of the practice of taking off lists of finish and sash and doors from plans and giving the customer a guaranteed list for a guaranteed price. I am also informed that some companies will take off a rough lumber bill from plans, but whether or not they guarantee the list I do not know. In 9n-28-D there n'as a gradual evolvement rvhich involved the participants in more real trpuble than anything the industry ever did, and that \r'as the free financing service *-hereby your salesman spent days lining up the financing for a customer's job, lvhich usualll. rround up that you could sell the materials on a $10,000.00 house job if you *'ould onl-r' carry, on a second or third trust deed about $2,00.00 that the customer was unable to finance. It is m1'hope that the industry learned its lesson in this regard. and that it rvill not be an added and very dangerous increased cost in the years ahead.

The foregoing are some of the reasons for the increased cost of doing business. Thel'have evolved rather gradually, sometimes diflicult to see, and more difficrrlt to do an1'thing about rvhen you do see them. But there is another set of reasons for increased costs which are not difficult to see but just as difficult to do anything about. You are all familiar u-ith them: )'ou see them by month, or at least each y.ear on )'our own trial balance or statemehts. These visible increased costs and the natural desire to offset theni is the reason for the pressure for volume on the part of each company rvhich has rendered our industry unstable. At the risk of being repetitious, and onll' stating self-evident facts, I rvill mention a ferv visible expenses and show how they have increased.

If you do any advertising in local nerl'spapers )'ou are acquainted u'ith the great increase in rates over the last ten 1'ears. \\te are all anxious to donate all le can to charitable organizations, but if you are just talking about costs, thel' are an increasing item of cost each year. You are constantl)' urged by the Chamber of Commerce and such organizations to take additional memberships so the)' can pay their increased expenses. It is unnecessary- for me to drvell on these kinds of expenses, you are all rvell acquainted concerning them. Stationery and office supplies have follou'ed the trend;6% x 8% charge machine tickets rvere $8.57 per M in l94l and $11.32 per M nos.: Elliott Fisher billins machine tickets s'ere $23.21 per M in l94l and norr' ..e $39.$ per l[. A Royal t1'perrriter in l94l u'as $117.82 and non'is $181.02; a ten column Comptometer sas $418.0O in l9l and is norr $6%.56. A Ford car'for your collector sas $I,fi)S.fi) in l94l and norr is $19{0.9. Why, even the Los Angeles Times rvas $1.30 per month in l94l and now is $2.25. Basic telephone rates are up only ?5% in ten )'ears, but local calls are doubled, and besides 1'ou have a 20lo excise tax. Yard paving repairs in 1941 for 5" thick were 13% cents a foot, now 25 cents a foot. Every manner of general expense items have increased greatly such as salesmen's expenses, auto allorvances, travel eipense, and a multitude of such things. Our compan-r* is contemplating opening up a new account-burglari' expense. \\'e have had at least t*'enty-five burglaries in the last trvelve months, in one of n'hich they took $7m.m worth of tools.

Alother item of exp€nse l'hich is assuming more and more importtance is insurance, including compensation and accident, public liability and property danrage, and fire insurance. Compensation and accident is costing us over doutle rvhat it did ten years ago. This is due partly to higher \\ages, partl)' to increased cost of medical and hospital treatment, and partl]' to a peculiar phobia on the part of some employees norvadays to take a good rest and receive a non-taxable sum each rveek. Hearing boards and juries are most generous too $.ith other people's money. \Iiscellaneous insurance is high. The insurance company paid $2b,250.m for us last lear in a case where a customer in some way fell off the rvalkrraf in one of our lumber sheds. Fire insurance is double u'hat it rvas ten ]'ears ago. With the same unit quantity of lrrmber and merchandise 1-our valuations for insurance purposes r*'ould be double rvhat it rr'as ten years ago. (For example 2x4's ex vessel averaged about $32.00 in l94l and $84.00 in l9-;2). Public liability and property damage on orrr trucks and automobiles cost us three times u'hat it did in 1941, due largely to high garage repairs in'accidents with

E. C. Pcrler

WHO'S THROWING PARTIES IN YOUR HO'i'IE?

Would you waDt to pay lor a PartY like thir? TeritEs can enioy them' relvee in your hom-at your erPense -unlesa you bar theb lor good with rot. and tetmite-prool Wolmanized* lumber,

The prerewative ralta inWolnanized pre88ut9-tr6.ted luubet are lorced d6ep irto th6 wood'..uot iust bruched on. This givee srtra value iD ptot6c' tio! th.t will uot dinirish with age.

Wbea you use Wolaanized luober i! the tstmite "Dauger Zone"-the lowat 20% ol your hous+You enioY pem.lEut prolection lor less than I I of the coet ol your bome. And Wol' maaized lumber is clean, odorless, piintable.

Ask your lumber dealEr to tell You all about Wolmanized pree!ur9-tt6atgd

forourlree lolder, "When you Build or Recou-

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You'll do lhem o recl fovor when you coll their ottenlion fo Wolmonized* prei3ure.heoled lumber.

More lhon l90,0OO fomilies in the grect Soufhweslern morket reqd me33oge3 such d3 this in SUNSIT. fhey ore being odvised regulorly thqt lermite worries end when Wolmqnized pre33ure-treoled !umber is used in home con!lruclion.

They'll be dsking you obout Wolmonized lumber. Be certoin lhol you con tell them how ond where it con be used in lheir homes.

DO YOU KNOw??!

Scolping is lhe ocl, peculiqr to North Americon tndisn wqrfqre, of portly culling, portly teoring ofi d piece of the skin of the heod, with the hoir qttoched; whether the victim is olive or deqd qt the line does not offect the operqlion.

The lndions, wifh whom scclps ore ihe lrophies of victory, hove olwoys left o long lock or tuft on the scclp or o choltengc. Bounties hcve, in Americon hislory, more lhon once been ofiered for scolpr: in 1724 $50O wos oftercd by i/lcs3achusett. for lndisn scolps; in 175{, during the French ond lndion wor, o bounly wos ofiercd by the French for British scolps, ond by the colonios for Indion scclps; in 1755 tflosrqchusetb offcred $200 for every scolp of s mqle Indisn over 12 ycorr old ond $l0O for scolps of wornen ond childrcn. ln 1855 Hobbs Wqll storied their lumber compony in the rough, rugged ond primitive country of Del Noile County.

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other cars, and high medical and-hospital fees and high awards wherr persons are injured. Exclusive of the employees ll'elfare insurance we paid in 1952 on the same yards two and one-half times w'hat u'e paid in 1941 for insurance. As you knorv, we are all saddled u'ith additional expense for health and welfare insurance for all our employees amounting now to $4.00 per person per month. I hear by the grapevine that $+.OO ls a very modest and unsatisfactor)' amount for us to pay in each month, $11.65 a morrth would bul'much more and take in the rvhole family. Maybe it u''ould be nice for us to pav the gas and electric light bill too.

I hesitate almost to rnention the increasing cost of taxes as an item of your expense. There is little that I can say that you don't know already, and if you are not acquainted with taxes just turn on youl radio Lr television set almost any time. You rl'ill hear all about Federal income taxes and why they should be reduced. So I rvill talk briefly about City and Countl' taxes, unemployment taxes and social securitl' taxes. You pay these whether 1'ou do any good or not, and.like- the other expenses they are growing all the time. Due to the gro*'th of the city and county partly, but due to pressure groups nlostl)', citl' and county taxes gladuatty' increase. The politicians make a big play in the pipers about the rate of tax but do not mention the increase in ascs6ssment, I picked :rt random five pieces of property we orvn in tlte county. '1 he tax rate slnce ly4l has tncreased l1/o b$ tlte assessmelrt increased 39/o, and our taxes on these properties increascd 19/o' But the taxes on your stock of goods has doubled. For example, on N{a-rch lst, l94l a ihousand feet of 2x1's $l Common laid dorvn in Los Angeles Harbor cost $30.00 and u'as assessed at 15%, or $13.50, and thiJ at $5.73 per $100.00 amounted to 77 cents per \1. On llarch lst, 1953 a thousand feet of 2x4's #l Common laid down in Los -\ngeles Harbor cost about $83.00 and w'ill be assessed at 13%, or $37.35, and this at about $6.27 per $100.00 will amount to $2.31 per M. The taxes on your 2x4's are fhree times as much. Unemplyoment taxes in 1950' 1951 and 1952 were very high due largell' to the unenrplo]-ment reserve rness the state got into on account of liberality of application of the laws and the rates were based on the emergenc't' schedule. The state reserve has now been replenished and rates for l9-i3 reduced substantially. The Federal Unemployment (or Excise) Tax of 3/10 of llo is a constant exl)ense. Social Securit)' tax at ltl% on the 6rst $J600.00 for each emplojec has increased 50%. I u'ill not du'ell on the nuisance taxes, such as sales tax, transportation tax and the unfair city license taxes based on sales. I lvill not dtvell on the Excess l)rotits tax; feu' retail lumbermen are iuterested, as feu' of them have done as w'ell in 1952 as they did in the best three I'ears out of four-19'16 to 19'19. I am opposed to the Excess Prolits tax, it is often very lniair, and it should bi repealed, but I am opposed to repealing it and then increasing the general corporation rate to offset it.

All items e4tering into cartage expense have increased over the 1'ears, for example in 1941 gasoline in tank loads per gallon cost 14 cents, now 72.1 cents; 9.00 x 2O-12 ply tire and tube including tax in 19-ll cost $68.37, now $97.90. Stake body Ford truck in l94l cost $1,193.'lJ and now $2,n0.N, and truck license for same u'as $33.78 in 1941 and now is $62.00 Cartage expense is hard to compare, it depends on wlrat kind of trucks you have and what kind of hauls, etc. Aat one of our supply yards we keep a complete record on each truck, nunber of miles per day, amount of footage hauled, arnount of gas, oil, repairs, tires, men's time, depreciation, payroll taxes and other taxes, insurance, etc. We reduce the expenses to the rate per \I feet mile and it cost us in 1952 4l%% more per M ft. mile than it did in 191. As a matter of interest, we have consolidated the monthly relrcrts for a certain number of monihs ending December 31, 1952. These trucks traveled 1,226,103 miles round trip, used 249,823 gallons of gasoline, or 4.90 miles to the gallon, and cost us 4 cents per mile; used 5,559 quarts of oil, or 143 miles to the quart, or l/10 of I cent per mile; parts and grease cost us l% cents; tires cost us %. of I cent; garage labor ll cents per mile; driver's wages including time spent eating breakfast and pay -for overtime diesease was 163/a cents per mile; depreciation ll cents a mile; and payroll taxes, compensation and accident, public liability and property damage, fire insurance and license taxes u'as 2/3 cents per mile. This makes a total of 8tl cents per mile, and if 1'ou divide this b}' the average footage hauled per trip you get the cost per \I ft. mile. in our case about 4 cents per M ft. mile. We hauled in thr period of months we chose 158,718,110 ft., or an average cost of $2.19 per M. The time consumed was 98,670 hours or $3.52 per hour. Figures cornpiled in the same manner for twelve months in l94l cost us 18t1 cents per mile' or about 2.6 cents a M ft. mile. Each company's record u-ould be difterent due to the kind of trucks, length of haul, and other factors' and I cite these figures only to show how the cost of cartage has increased, but our charge for cartage stays just the same.

The item of expense which vitally affects every industrl', including our industry, is wages and salaries. Outgoing *'ages and salaries amount fo 64% of the expenses of the industry according to the Association expense survey. The wages and salaries of the people working for our company in 1941 (the last year before the war) was $1,817.13, and in 1952 was $4,086.83 or an increase of 124.9/o. But this does not show the full percentage increase because all our wage earners lvork about ten days less per year due to liberalized vacations and pay for six holidavs not worked. It does not include additional old age pensiorr

payments and health and t'etfare pa)'ments. A ferv straight time labor items might be .of interest: Yard labor, Los Angeles, April 194l-681 cents, nor' $1.671-increase 115/o; Orderman, .\pril l9ll--{l)/, cents, now $1.871 cents-increase 133/o; Stickerman, -{pril l9fl--$1.05, norv $2.O7tl-increase 98/o; 26 M lb. and under truck driver, .\pril l9l79 cents, now $1.80--increax l4/o: 26 M to 52 M lb. tmck driver. April l9l-88 cents, now $l.Lincrease 1167o;,52 M lb. and over truck driver, April l9l-91 cents. no*' $2.00-increax ll7/c: Carrier driver, April 19-ll-85 cents, norv $l.93lj-increase l27lc; and in addition, liberalized overtime, vacations, holidal's, health and rrelfare, etc. The cost of living index of the Department of Labor for Los .\ngeles, Old Series for April, l94l sas 103.2 and the latest for Los Angeles on same base is 192.0, or an increase oi 6:O/o. -\ surrel' of yotrr \\'age and Hour Department salaried ernployees will shorv practicalll' the same increase. I will not cite further figures on this matt€r: ]'ou are all fulll'aware of it and what it is doing to )'our rearlv record. We all w'ant our help to get as good r,r'ages as possible, and particularll' enough to more than offset their increased cost of living, and the record shorvs this has been more than done. Can any lumberman tell me hos' this industry in the light of its record in 1951 and 1952 and so far in t953 can stand another ruage increase? This matter u'ill be coming to an issue in another month or so, and it *'ill dep€nd largell' on 1'ou and your attitude as to what the final result $-ill be. I srrppose that some defense plants in excess profits rvill put us behind the eight ball before our negotiations even start.

Enorrgh has been said about the increased costs of all operations of 1'our business. \\'hen increased costs are mentioned before labor negotiators they will sa1', "Yes, but 1'orr ltave put up )'our prices to such an extent that the increased costs are more than offset," and I nright sa1' that most of 1'our os'n emplol'ees think likervise. This is an effective argument unless you knon'1'our facts. The facts are that dollar sales volunre in our nidustry has not kept up *'ith increased exlxnses over the past ten or twelve 1'ears. I anr using l94l as a comFrriion because it rvas the last 1'ear of an open economy before the rsar. It is m)' opinion that the expense per dollar of sales in l9't2 s'as 16.9/o more than 19{1. The cost sun'ey of the association s'ill shos' tltat expens€s in 1952 per dollar of sales hale increased 7.69/o even since 1950.

It nright be interesting to discuss at this point rvhat has happened to the gross margin on sales over the past ten or t*-elve 1'ears rvhile tfie expenses of doing business have been climbing. \\'ill an1' labor negotiator or )'our own employees believe 1'ou rvhen you say that the margin per dollar of sales has been going don-n, in view of your high prices, rvhile your expenses per dollar of sales have been going up? \A'ell the facts are, that that is true. The average going sales price on normal jobs of a 2x4 in 1952 rras 2.4 times s'hat it was in 1941. and incidentall;-, the average ex-sessel price of a 2x.[ in 1952 was 2.6 times rrhat it was in l9,ll. It is m1' opinion that the gross margin per dollar of sales in 1952 u'as 17.98/o less than it *'as in l%1. You are all rrell anare of *'hat happens to your net profit before Federal income taxes rrhen your nrargin reduces 18/o per dollar of sales and your cost of doing business increases l7/o per dollar of sales. The Association cost surve!' of l95l substantiated this fact clearll', and it is m;- opinion that the cost survey Ior 1952 will do likewise.

\\rhat has caused the gross margin on sales to reduce in the last ferr' 1'ears? \\'ell, there are a ferv direct or visible reasons, and then there are the indirect or invisible reasons. The operation oI your mill is an addition to purchases and affects the margin on your goods. I rtill not belabor the labor problem, 1'ou all knorv how it has afrected the cost of operating your mill and the cost of surfacing and milling 1'our goods. A feu'other items of milling cost might be of interest A 20 HP motor 1750 RPII 3 phase cost $195.00 in l94l and now costs $278.0; an increase of 43Vo; steel knives 15 x lll x rA'costZTl ents an inch in 1941 and now cost 50 cents an inch, or an increase of &y'o; copper transmission wire fOOT\\/ cost $175.00 per M ft- in l9ll and no$' costs $i66.00, or an increase of llo%: roller chain has increased 50%; sprockets 100/o, and most all electrical supplies about 5O/c. \'ou are all familiar with the great increase in any machine shop repairs. How many of 1'ou have increased your selling prices to take care of this? Then there is the increased cost of unloading cars, and sorting and piling a*'ay lumber r*'hich has reduced ]'our gross margin. Again labor is the most important item. A fes- other items might be of some interest. A Ross Carrier lS-ton capacit]' cost $5,551.70 in l94l and the comparative size now costs $9,fl0.0: a long heavy }ton fork lift cost about $6,250.00 in l9-ll and norv costs $9,258.56.

I am franlily astonished at the prohts before taxes'made by large manufacturers, seven steel companies l7/o on sales in 1950, autos fr/o, chemicals 33%, electric companies 16/o, farm machinery l1/c, wp 15y'o, business machinse A%, and. so on. Of course, statistics on the various retail industries do not shorr an1' such profits, but thel- do show difterently than our industry in Southern California. I have looked over cost sun'eys of retail lumher 1'ards in other states and almost invariably their gross margin is larger, and also the net before taxes.

\\Ihy is it that our industrf in Southern California has to be content rvith a lorv gross margin, and consequently a low net income on sales?

\Vell, there are a good man)' reasons, some of them hare been rvith us for twenty-five or more 1'ears, and some of them are nerv. I cannot clrange any of these long time reasons, and if I state them I must of

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necessity say some things whicl-r I have said on otlrer occasions, but since the reasons are still with us and not corrected, I think they should be repeated.

One of the most important old time reasons for our low gross margin is the fact that the goods we sell have no individuality. Your 2x4's are no better than ours, in fact, they may have come from the same mill and off the same boat. Goods that have no individuality tend to seek the lowest going level. Many of those industries I mentioned n'hich rvere making the big profits are producing distinctive things. There are many talking points about a Hotpoint refrigerator that cannot be said about some other make. Two bakers can take exactly the same quantity and exactly the same quality of shortening, eggs, sug:ar, milk, llour, flavoring, etc. and each make a cake of the same size. On one corner, baker "A" puts up a sign "Cakes 90 cents" and on the other corner baker "B" puts up a sign "Cakes $1.00," and yet )'ou may, after a few days, walk right past the baker with the 90 cent cake and pay $1.00 for one. Why ? Because of some little touch-some little individuality. But can you put up a sign no your corner "fl Common 2x-l's $100.00 per M" ar.rcl have anyone come over to you and pass up the fellow rvith a $90.([ sign? No! You as a lumber dealer are bound in a short time to sell your 2x4's grade for grade for the price your neighbor does, irrespective of what he knows about his costs. But, 1'ou say, he vvon't sell for $90.00 very long; he cannot afford to. Unfortunately, the other dealer thinks he can and usually doesn't knolv that he can't until the end of the year when an inventory is taken. Unfortunately the lumber dealer cannot earmark most of his goods and cannot cost his sales and know with accuracy how much he is making or losing periodically like a department store which marks its goods, or other Linds of businesses where inventory taking is not such a task. Any of you who have worked with average per M or p€rcentage monthly prol-rt and loss reports know the erroneous results those systems can sometimes show. Dealers in an industry which handles goods that have no individuality need to support and maintain a strong association.

Speaking of costing difficulties, I think one of the reasons for low prices and low margins is the prevalence in our industry of "stop watch" cost accounting. You stand in front of tll'o good men, one an orderman and one a helper, building up a mixed load of 4x6, 2x6,2x8, 2x4 or lx6 on a house job and figure their time at the scheduled rates. You figure it costs $2.43 per M, but what does it come to at the end of the year when the total footage sold is divided into the loading labor-almost double as much. The payroll time for resawing 2x6 is about $1.26 per M, and surfacing 2x4-2x6 is about $1.56 per trI, but what a difference when the end of the year comes and you divide the footage milled into your milling costs-more than double as much. The lost time or lvasted time and all the other expenses are factors that are too often overlooked. Another fallacy in the same category is standing in front of a lift truck or hammerhead crane and usually taking the men's time consumed as the cost of unloading a car. These "stop I'atch" costs must be part of the reason for the low prices quoted on some volume jobs.

Then certain dealers continue to sell some item at a lou' margin because they say it has a fast turnover. Nlost dealers and many accountants confuse turnover with an increased volume. You don't sell any more goods because a commodity has a high turnover. It can be definitely shown that if you can carry the inventory you are dollars alrea<l to sell a commodity that bears 25/o gross profit and turns one time in a year tlran to sell a commodity that bears l?fl/o gross ptoht tnd turns one hundred times in one year. I hasten to add, horvever, that the rate of return on your investment may be mrrch higher providing, of course, that your cost of doing business is less than the l2%%. I want to reiterate that you can turn 1'our inventory in a commodity a thousand times but when the end of the year comes, if your gross margin in that commodity is less than 1'our cost of doing business on tl.rat commodity, you w-ill have made a loss.

For many years we have had the "Don't Touch It" sales, and still lrave them. Some manufacturer or wholesaler or broker wants to deliver direct to the job and give you a gross pofit of 5% or 7% on sales. You have your office, yard, equipment, and a certain number of employees, and you could have handled that business and made tlre regular gross margin with which to pay your set expenses. Due to the grorvth of thc lumber indrrstry in Northern California and due to heavy fast trucks the "Don't Touch It" sales are becoming more alarming. At one time it was confined pretty much to specialtf items. The direct sale from a sawn-rill through some dealer has occurred with more frequency in the past year. It won't be long before the sawmill or wholesaler getting a taste of this sort of thing will by-pass the dealer entirely. In fact, in this connection we have been informed that two very large jobs in the San Fernando Valley are being sold by a broker and are to be deliv' ered direct from the north. It is my opinion that the builder cannot receive the proper service and would be better off to buy from local yards. If the jobs do go through satisfactorily, it will be because the dealers in Southern California pull their chestnuts out of the fire u'henever shortages occur and when hard items are needed. Quite often too the contractor uses the broker quotations to get the legitimate lumber dealer down to a handling service fee basis on price, knowing that the broker could not give the necessary service.

.{nother important factor leading to an unstabilized condition in our inrlustry is the great increase in the number of tract jobs in the past feu' 1'ears. They call for such a volume of material that the dealer probably using some "stop watch" cost accounting, figures he can afford to sell it pretty cheap. \\/hatever the reason, the facts are that more often than not, they are sold on a handling service fee basis. They also have the effect of breaking prices on commercial and other jobs. The contractor to whom you quoted a handling sen'ice fee price on a tract job todal'can't understand rvhy you can't sell a commercial or even a single house job for the same price tomorrou'. If you sell the franres or the sash and doors on a tract job you sell them also on a commission fee basis. Then, because you have sold the lumber on a handling service fee basis and find that you just cannot come out, the next step is to resort to salting of grades. This has brought about a condition in our industrl' n'hich is unstabilizing, to say the least. On account of these and other reasons I do not believe that tract jobs are tooked upon u'ith favor by most dealers. If I asked the dealers in this room, w'hich they rvould rather have permits for, in their town or city-a permit for a tract of five hundred houses or permits for 6ftf individual houses, I doubt if there r,l-ould be more than three or four hands raised in favor of the tract of fir'e hundred houses in preference to 6ft-r- individual houses.

As I stated in the beginning, the dealers in Southern California, the dealers belonging to this association, and the directors and officers of the association do not, and n'ill not, have an]'thing to do u'ith any pric.e agreement. In the first place, it is illegal, and in the second place, due to the varied operations it rvould not work any$'ay. But dealers do believe that many of the abuses can be corrected and the industry be on a higher plane.

As I stated previously, one of the reasons for our unstabilized condition.is the fact that each dealer is pressing volume in order to tr!' to ofiset the increasing cost of doing business,-and of course it is having the eftect of decreasing the industry's gross margin and net margin. For thirty-five )'ears I have been analyzing the y'early results of the yards which our company has. Each year I cdl each manager in separately and for a period of about two hours go over his past vear's work, volume of sales, gross margin on sales and expenses to sales. I have certainly received an education on what it takes for a lard to shorv a profit. Our yard managers are just like any group of lumbermen, some of them do a large volume and make a lo*' gross margin, sorne of them do a lorv volume and make a high gross margin, and some of them do a pretty good volume and make a pretty good gross margin. My opinion is that over a period of time you are better off to be content with a prettl' .good volume and make a pretty good gross margin. If dealers generally rrould recogrrize the truth of this statcment and b€ content u'ith their fair share of the volume it would be a very important step in stabilizing our industry.

To my mind, one of the most important $'ays to achieve stabilization in our industry is illustrated by a story of an actual experience that I'd like to tell. I told part of this story in San Dego at our conference in September of 1951, and I realize it is a little corny, but nith your indulgence I s-ant to repeat it. \Vhen I was a kid I lived in Redlands. Quite often on Saturdays, about this time of year, a bunch of kids would go to the Santa Ana River wash between Redlands and High- lands. In those days, before orange juice, only the best oranges n'ere shipped and the balance r,r'ere dumped in piles in the wash. We had trvo games $.e plal'ed, one rvas to choose up sides and have an orange fight, and t-he other u'as to play "follow the leader." On one Saturday the kids chose a leader and he proceeded to walk them right through pile after pile of squashl' oranges, and right on over the bank of a deep ravine and on to the rocks below. If he can do it I can do it too. that was the spirit, and many a kid was hurt on those rocks and manv a kid got the devil from his mother about his ctothes. Later on thit day another leader r,r'as chosen. He led them up the bluff out of the wash to the high level ground and into a fine orange gove. It looked as if this leader was leading the kids to swipe a few oranges, but instead he led the bunclr up to the ranch house, rapped on the door, and said to the rancher, "\Ve hear you got the best oranges in Redlands and we a'ant to try them." "Sure," the old man sai{ "go help y.ourself." \\'hat a difterence in these trvo leaders, one of them leading you through the mire of low prices and onto the rocks of ruinous margins, and the other leading you up on the high level ground and to the best conditions the industry can exp€ct. I sincerely believe that this industry rvill not achieve stabilization until each dealer picks out a good leader and follorr's.

' Another important step in the stabilization of our industrv is to trv and influence the manufacturers and the West Coast Lumbermenis Association to compile and put into effect a new set of grading rules for structural lumber and change from number grades to name grades. When this has been done, then lumber can be sold on a grade marked basis and one of the main reasons for our present unstabilized condition eliminated. There are very few industries outside of the lumber business that markets their product on a basis of $1, $2, $3 or #4 grade. The name Common is bad enough, but for an industry to market a good product under the name of $2 or S3 Common is just

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poor marketing. The log produces f 3 Common boards, the manufacturer wants to sell them, the dealer wants to sell them, the contractor knows they are very satisfactory for certain lvork and rvants to buy them, but the o\\'ner simply does not u'ant any S3 Comrnon lumber, $3 Common shirts, f3 Common meat, or SJ Common anything If it were markete<l as "Construction" lumber, everyone dolvn the line would be satisfied. The association has a committee composed of some of the best inforrned and experienced men in the irrdustry to work witl-r the \\'est Coast Lumber Association and try to put into effect a r-narketing plan rvl"rich, in the opinion of most lumbermen, will be of utmost value in stabilizing our industry.

Another important stabilizing influence is this association. \\'here is there any other group of men which can help to stabilize this industry in Southern California if this group cannot do it? You orve it to yourselves, to your stockohlders and to your companies to belong to this association and influence others to belong. It is organized and ready immediately to help lvhen problems arise, and u'ill take every step it legallv can take in our stabilization efforts. One of the reasons for loiv margins in our industry has been the lack of cost information. We have made a survey for 1950 and 1951 and are noN in the process of making one for 1952 which will show a greatly increased particip.ation. The monthll' rneetings of the association have been u'orth lvhile and the conference at Santa Barbara was successful. These meetings bring lumbermen together as friends, and after--sitting, at lunch w.ith a deiler it is pretty hard to go back to your ollice and do something

to injure him. Just remember that the othei dealer usually is doing what he is doing only because he thinks ]'ou are doing what you probably are doing.

I haven't said anything that you do not already know; you kno*' that !'our costs of operating have been gradualll'rising; you know that the margins on your goods have been decreasing, and that the net return on your investment has been getting smaller. In closing, it is my opinion that *'e must support the association and should participate in its cost surv)'es, be content to do our fair share of the available business and thus do a pretty good volume rvith a pretty good margin, lend our influence to promote the intelligent marketing of our product, and above all' put aside our pride, pick out a good leader and follo*' him to the high level gr6und.

Sherman Bishop of the Union Lumber Companv rvill attend the convention of the National American Wholesalers Lumber Association'at the Broadmoor Hotel, Colorado Sprin[s, \Iar' 19 and 20. \\'holesalers rvill be there from all part of the United States. After the convention he u'ill call on his companv's representatives in the Souih and East.

Forest Products Research Society Meets in San Francisco

The Forest Products Research Society met \[a\' 6 at the Palace Hotel. San Francisco. The meeting started at I I o'clock in the morning and luncheorr rvas held later on in the California room. Duiirg the afternoon four papers lr-ere read on log barki.,9.

The title of the first \as llechanical l-og Barking by Charles E. Prentiss. president of the E. \-. Prentiss Companv, Portland.

Second, Hvdraulic Log Barking by E. J. Flatdoe, president and general manager of the Sumner Iron \\'orks, Everett, \\-ashihngton.

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The Blue Diamond Plaster Lath production lioe is equipped with hich speed automatic machinery of latest design and is syncf,ronized from beginning to end.

The 6nest materials aod machinery are no better thao the meo who use them. Under standards set for them by men witb over a quarter century of continuous experieoce manufacnrring Blue Diamond productq skilled workers, aided by laboiatory control meihods, guard this loog productioo line against imperfectioo.

Third, Structural Board Production on Dielectric and Auxiliar-v Heating prepared bv Robert H. Iliiler, general superintendent of communications. P.G.&E., collaborating u-ith C. A. Wells of the \\-oodplate Development Company. The latter discussion covered the conventional processes and revieu'ed briefly the application of dielectric heating to wood \\'aste material. The advantages of combined dielectric heating svstems u'ere outlined along s'ith the savings and greater versatility in production methods.

Fourth, Log Barking for Greater Profit by E. P. lvory, Ivory Pine Compan.l', Dinuba, California.

In the after dinner program L. J. Carr, vice president of F.P.R.S. discussed forestry problems *'ith Florencio Tamesis, Director of Forestry for the Philippine Republic. This rvas carried on by a simultaneous t\\'o-\\'av radio telephone conversation. The latter \l'as arranged b1- Harry E. Austin of RC.\.

Jiur Ros'ne\- of the Rnrvnev flachinerv Conrpanr', Oakland. u'as the program chairman and Harvey Smith of the U. S. Forestry Service assisted in l'orking out the program.

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Joseph l. Steel Elected President Of Moore Dry Kiln Company o[ Oregon

At a recent meeting of the directors of l\Ioore Dry Kiln Company of Oregon, Joseph I. Steel lvas elected president to succeed the former president, Forrest Cobb, u'ho died March 19 after having been rvith the \{oore organization continuously for 34 years.

The present officers of the Oregon Company are Charles J. Williams, chairman board of directors, Joseph I Steel, president, Gordon A. Duncan, vice president, \\rillard R. Kelley, treasurer, Lloyd G. Evans, secretarv, and Franklin W. Cook, assistant secretary.

Mr. Williams stated it is the policy of the NIoore Drv Kiln Company to promote its loyal and experienced employees, Mr. Steel, better knorvn as "Joe" Steel joined the Moore organization in 1922, Gordon Duncan in 1923, \\'ili.ard Kellev in 1927. Llovd Evans in 1928 and Frank Cook

in 1948. 1\Ir. \\'illiams said there rvill be no change in the policy of the \'Ioore organization rvhich rvill celebrate its 75th annversary in 1954.

The above named officers are directors of the Oregon company also lloore Dry Kiln Company of Canada, Ltd., rvith plants at Brampton, Ontario, and Vancouver, B. C., rind also Vancouver Iron and Steel Foundry Company, Inc., Vancouver, Washington.

The }foore Dry Kiln Company at North Portland was Iormerly part of the Moore Dry Kiln Company, Jacksonville, Florida but in 1927 it rras incorporated as a separate Oregon compan)'. I!{r. Williams is also chairman of the board of directors of trIoore Dr1. Kiln Company at Jacksonville. Florida.

Appointed Distributor

Bate as a lumber manufacturer-wholesaler has facilities laige enough to enable it to control guality, shiPments and other service and is small enough so it can give individual attention to every customer. That's why Bate customers know theY can count on top quality, promPt shipments and special service when they need it.

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World Trade Wcek

World Trade \\:eek rrill be observed nationally throughout the countrv during the rveek of \Iay 17-24, 1953.

During the rveek a series of events rvill be held in Los Angeles and Long Beach and at the Harbors, which rvill be attended by leaders in commerce. industrl.. banking. transportation and many allied lines of business.

It is sponsored b1'the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, in cooperation u'ith the l-os Angeles and Long Beach Harbor Commissions, Long Beach Chamber of Commerce, and trade, civic and service organizations. The annual national celebration is aided by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. \\rashington, D.C.

Wbrld Trade rveek rvas originated by the Los Angeles Chamber of Cortrmerce in 1927. Its foreign commerce committee sought means of stimulating public interest in its shipping and international trade, and to disseminatc information about the industrial and agricultural resources of Southern, California. Since 1935 \\:orld Trade Week has been nationally observed. Each 1'ear it occurs on the rveek rvhich includes National Maritime Day, May 72, a date set by Congress to commemorate the sailing of the "S4vannah," first steam propelled vessel to make a trans-Atlantic crossing.

New Retail Lumber lrreinsss

Booth Lumber Comoany is operating a retail lumber business at 3491 E. Gage Ave., Huntington Park, Calif. The telephone number is LOgan 5-6321. D. F. Booth is president of the compan;r. and Jack Shacher. formerlv s'ith the Bell Lumber Company, is associated s'ith him. Ed Reeves is in the sales department.

West Coast Lumberrnan's Association

The Second Mile

The age-old story of "The Second Mile" has been told millions of times; yet not near often enough. Back in Bible days there was a Roman law that said that whenever a Jew met a Roman soldier, the Jew must carry the soldier's baggage a mile. The Jew hated tfiis law, of course. He railed and he cursed, but do it he must. Imagine the Jew meeting the soldier. The law says he must carry the burden, but puts on bar on his tongue, and we can see them as they go down the road, the Roman taunting the Jew, and the Jew blazing his wrath at the soldier.

The Nazarene saw this one day, and He said to the Jew "You don't like this law, do you?,' The Jew admits that he does. not. "Then" said the Master, ,.I,ll tell you what to do. Instead of carrying the load one mile, carry it two.', The Jew meets another soldier, who promptly drops his load. The Jew picks it up with a smile, tells the soldier a cheerful "Howdy," and turns back down the road with the soldier. The Roman rubs his eyes, and wonders if his

Earl Hoffman and his wife spent the months of March and April.in Honolulu, according to Jim Magee. They are taking life easy at present planning another junket later this summer

senses are in order. As they walk along together the Jew talks of the beauty of the day, of the pleasure of living, of the goodness there is in the world if you will just look for it, and the soldier's grimness melts, and they get acquainted. At the end of a mile the Roman reaches for the burden.

"Oh, no," said the Jew, "I'11 carry it 'another mile." The soldier pulls the equivalent of "FIow do you get that way?" and the Jew tells him of the advice of the gentle Nazarene.

They see each other in a new light. They talk over their families, the weather, the high cost of living, etc., and at the end of the second mile they have a new respect for one another. They shake hands when they part. The soldier says, "Jew, you're all right," and he never made another Jew carry his burden.

The first mile, is the one the average man has to go to get by.

The second mile is the one that counts.

Dan Fayles, formerly with E. J. Stanton and Son and Western Hardwood Lumber Company, has established his own trucking business in the Central Manufacturing District.

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TTIE FOOL'S PRAYER

By Edward Roland Sill

The royal feast was done; the King Sought some new sport to banish care, And to his jester said: "Sir Fool, Kneel thou, and make for us a prayer."

The jester doffed his cap and bells, And stood the mocking court before; They could not see the bitter smile Beneath the painted grin he wore.

He bowed his head, and bent his knee Upon the Monarch's silken stool, His pleading voice arose, "O Lord, Be merciful to me. a fool.

"No pity, Lord, could change the heart From red with wrong, to white as wool, The rod must heal the sin; but Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool.

"'Tis not by guilt the onward sweep Of truth and right, O Lord, we stay; 'Tis by our follies that so long We hold the earth from Heaven away'

"These clumsy feet, still in the mire, Go crushing blossoms without end, These hard, well-meaning hands we thrust Amid the heart-strings of a friend.

"The ill-timed truth we might have keptWho knows how sharp it pierced and stung? The word we had not sense to saYWho knows how grandly it had rung?

"Our faults no tenderness should ask, The chastening stripes must cleanse them all But for our blunders-Oh. in shame Before the eyes of Heaven we fall.

"Earth bears no balsam for mistakesMen crown the knave, but scourge the tool That did his will; but Thou. O Lord, Be merciful to me. a fool."

The room was hushed; in silence rose The King, and sought his gardens cool, And walked apart, and murmured low, "Be merciful to me, a fool."

Hicrurathcr's Mittens (Author Unknown)

When he killed the Mudjekeewis, Of the skin he made him mittens, Made them with the fur side inside, Made them with the skin side outside. He, to get the warrn side inside, Put the inside, skinside outside. And he to get the cold side outside, Put the warm side fur side inside. That's why he put the fur side inside Why he put the skin side outside Why he turned them inside outside.

Wcr

In an old, old book on the subject of war from which we brushed the dust of years just the other day, we discovered the following philosophies concerning war, somc of them old, some older:

"fle who fights and runs away, will live to fight another d"y;

But he who is in battle slain, can never rise to 6ght again."

Another is: "That army is the bravest which can bc whipped the greatest number of times, and fights again."

And this one: "The greatest test of courage on earth is to fear defeat without losing heart."

And this powerful line described a warrier of old: "He steered his exact line to the point of danger."

Lord Nelson said: "\Mhen I don't know whether to 6ght or not, I always fight."

Visibility Zero

It had rained hard. The windshield was sprayed and muddied, and the car had narrowly escaped collisions several times.

The anxious passenger asked: "Wouldn't it be a good idea to wipe off the windshield?"

"Woudn't do a bit of good," said the cheerful driver. "I left my glasses at home."

Ingersoll on Misers

The finest castigation of thc miserly man was uttered long ago by that famous orator, Col. R. G. Ingersoll. And in that speech he told in glowing words how a gcnerous man should act. He said: "If you've only got a dollar and you've got to spend it, spend it like a king; spend it as though it were but a dry leaf and you the owner of unbounded forests. That's the way to spend it ! I'd rather be a beggar and spend my last dollar like a king, than be a king and spend my money like a beggar!"

Merithew Rounds

Out 50 Years in Lumber Business

Percivql I. (Perc) Merithew

Percival I. (Perc) Merithelv, general purchasing agent and lumber buyer for E. K. \\'ood Lumber Company, Los Angeles, rounded out a half century of service in the industry last rnonth.

Perc entered the lumber business March l, 1903, when he joined the Southwestern Lumber Company, rvhich rvas then located at 316 Commercial Street and under the management of L. W. Blinn. Frank Bortels, asssitant manager at the time, was instrumental in starting Perc on his career as a general office clerk in the lumber business.

A few years later Southwestern merged rvith Nofziger Brothers and Perc spent the next 13 years with the ner,l' company known as Consolidated Lumber Company in various capacities in the Los Angeles office, and also at the docks in Wilmington. During the regime of E. U. Wheelock, Perc was appointed assistant manager and remained in this position until he joined E. K. Wood Lumber Companv January l, 1916.

In 1918 U. G. Richmards, manager, E. K. Wood, sent Perc to Phoenix as resident sales representative for Arizona ar.rd for the next ten years he covered the southll'est territory for his company. When he returned to the Los Angeles office in 1929 he was appointed wholesale sales manager for the firm and in this capacity also handled the purchasing of lumber.

During the war years Perc was sent to San Francisco as joint representative for five major lumber companies in the procurement offices of the United States Engineers handling material allocation and stock pile yards for the government. When this situation was set-up, and later dissolved, he returnecl to the E. K. Wood Lumber Companv and rvas assigned

to directing compliance rvith governmental rvar time controls and regulations.

Perc and his rvife Helen reside in Arcadia and he is highly regarded as a civic leader of his community. At this time he is back on one of his old jobs, that of lumber buyer, and his many friends in the lumber industry throughout Southern California u'ish him rvell. ['ifty years of continuous service *'ithin the industry and thirty-seven rvith E. K. Wood Lumber Company is an outstanding record and The California Lumber trIer.chant extends congratulations.

Long-Bell Announces Personnel Changes

Announcement Nas rnade in Kansas City on April 15 bv officials of The Long-Bell Lumber Companv of the retirement of three vice presidents of the company and the promotion of four men to administrative posts. The changes took place immediately. Long-Bell, a leader in the lumber industry for 78 vears, operates manufacturing plants in the south and on the Pacific coast, and maintains sales offices throughout the countrv.

Retiring as officers of the compan)' are R. P. Combs. Kansas Citl', rvho has been a vice president and chairman of the companv's finance committee; J. H. Kenesson, vicepresident and general manager of the Longview Division. and vice president and general manager of The Gardiner Lumber Companv. rvholly-orrned subsidiarl'; and R. F. Morse. vice president in charge of Timber and Loggrng for the Long-Bell and Gardiner Lumber Companies. All three rvill become members of the company's advisory committee.

Theo A. Deal, rvho has been assistant general manager of the Longvierv Division, becomes general manager of the division; and A. J. I\Iyers, Gardiner, Oregon, assistant general manager of The Gardiner Lumber Company, steps up to the position of general manager.

Ali J. Sandoz. chief forester of the Longvierv Division, has been named I\{anager of Northrvest Timber Departrnent and takes over l\forse's duties pertaining to acquisition of timber and timber lands in Washington and Oregon. Vern C. Hanson becomes log buyer for the Longvierv Division, u'hich rvas also a part of llorse's duties.

Spruce Loggers Wage All-Out \(/ar on Beetles

By Hanl"y Mors.

(In this, the first of a series of four articles, \Ir. Ilorse of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, M'estern Pine Association forest engineer for the Montana-Idaho-8. \\'ashington district, tells hou' a deadly beetle perils spruce forests of the region.)

Inland Empire loggers today are right in the thick of the greatest bug hunt and timber salvage job in the region's historv.

They are racing against time-and a hungry multitude of tree-killing insects-to save billions of feet of green, living timber and at the same time harvest for man's use trees already killed or doomed to death by a silent horde of beetles.

At stake in the mighty struggle are the Engehnann spruce stands of Western Montana and Northern Idal-ro, estimated at l2l billion board feet-enough sawtimber to ernplov everv lumberjack in the region about 10 years.

The loggers are battling a terrible outbreak of spruce bark beetles that started in 1950. They are doing this conservation job in the best rvay known, by hauling the bugs out of the ll'oocls on logging trucks, along u'ith the logs from stricket.t trees.

Emergency spruce logging has been the order of the da.v" in the region since last summer when tlte full impact of the beetle infestation came to light in the far-flung Iclaho-Ilontana forest empire. Today most of the forest industries have side-tracked their regular plans in order to cotrcentrate logging an<l rnanufacturing facilities on the spruce problenr. The spruce harvest has been stepped up almost six-fold, an<l tnttst be sped up to new record-breaking levels this vear and next if an ttnbearable loss is to be avoided.

Managers of the public forests and olvners of private tintberlands are tearned up in the dramatic fight to save the bulk of the spruce stands from the vicious little insects.

To understand the situation it is necessary to go back to November 26 and 27, 1949, when a violent rvindstorm felled many trees in the high country. Trees toppel thus do not always die right au'ay. Having still a feu' roots in the soil, thcv stay green a while. But in their weakened condition, they are prime beetle bait. The bugs, ever-present in the forest, seetn to gang up on such trees. There they thrive and build up large farnilies in a short u'hile. These emerge and deplov to attack other trees, windthrown or standing. They multiply incred-

ibly fast u'hen conditions favor them as the,v did the past three vears. By last summer a vast epidemic rvas raging, literally scourging some spruce forests like a fire.

Of course, not all spruce stands are, heavilv infested-r'et. If they rvere, this ruould be a straight salvage job, for the trees can't survive attack by great numbers of beetles.

Information no\\ at hand indicates that from three to 16 per cent of spruce trees in and near seven Irational forests are infested. In some stands more than 50 per cent of the trees are infested. Such trees are usually alreadl' dead or d-ving. It is to save the others that control by logging is undertaken.

The job norv facing the region is not just logging, but building roads to the high, remote spmce areas so that loggers can get the bug-killed trees out of the rvoods in tirne.

The timber industr-v is building roads as fast as trretr and equipment and knorv-horr permit. At least 150 miles of spruce roads have been built in the past year. Iiut five times that rnanv miles must be built this year to give the control plan a chance. The loggers admit the.v can't build that much road in so short a time and still keep on logging. So there's only one \\'a.\' to get the roads built-b1- contracting the jobs to construction firrns. Funds for such a progranr-€stimated to cost $10 nrillions-have been asked from Corrgress.

Spearheading he bark beetle fight is a "task force" made up of men from the forest industry', the U. S. Forest Service and the U. S. Rureau of Entomologl' and Plant Quarantine, rvith state forestrl' departments cooperatittg.

Jim Kirby Clarifies Position

"The \[a'r' I issue of The California l-urrrber ]lerchant carried a stor-y* u'ith reference to our moving to the Petroleum Bldg.. and some of the lumber people in Southern California nrisinterpreted the meaning of third paragraph." said Jim Kirby.

-Jim Kirbv \\'holesale Lumber, Inc. does not represent C. D. Johnson Lumber Corp. in this area exclusir-elv. but the Kirbv organization is the onll' representati\-e of Beit D. Campbell & Co. in Southern California; and tlter- ship C. D. Johnson products along rvith lumber from other mills. continued Kirbv. Jim Kirbl'\\-holesale Luurber. Irrc. handles products from various lumber manufacturers in Northern California and Southern Oregon. and is shipping all species of \\-est Coast Lumber Products.

INSECT SCREEN CLOTH

"Prompt Delivery lf lt Breaks Our Backt"

-Prupl Dclhcra Il lalr..LOuLcl

This interesting, and exclusive slogan, is the copl'right tradernark of the Mullin Lumber Company of 1950 \\'est Slauson Avenue, Los Angeles, California. And it is used by all branch offices of this firm for advertising ancl publicity purposes throughout Southern California and Arizona.

In 1898 John Mullin established the first lumber yard in the srnall rnining town of Jerome, Arizona. In those days the rniners hauled timbers to their projects via burro, and the day \'Ir. Nfullin saw three burros loaded w'ith lurnber leaving his yarrl he snapped their picture, not realizing in years to corne horv widespread its fame would reach in the business he had pioneered.

Early in 1901 Mr. Mullin, with W. F. \Iontgomery, organized the Montgomery & Mullin Lumber Cornpany and established a chain of yards in and around Los Angeles. As this conlpany became successful in Southern California they adopted the idea of the burros for a trade-mark and coined the siogan "Prompt Delivery If It Breaks Our Backs."

The year 1922 Mullin Lumber Company was established by Wayne and Russell Mullin following the successful operation of the Burbank Lumber Company which they purchased at the close of World War I. Russell remained as rnanager of the Burbank Company and Wayne headed the \Iullin Cornpany, rvhich positions they presently hold with the respectir.e cornpanies. They are the t'w'o sons of John l{ullin, but did not inherit their business. They started at the bottor.n and servecl their apprenticeship the hard way to gain their knorviedge of lumber and allied wood products.

Flowever, they did inherit the sound business principles, along with the trade-mark and pioneer spirit it depicts, from their father who truly followed its meaning to the letter, "Prompt Delivery If It Breaks Our Backs." The original photograph of the burros hangs in a prominent place in Wayne Mullin's office and is a constant reminder that it pays to givc goo<i scrvice.

Be Beady to Sell

Named Director of Dealer Merchandising

Dan Il. Sedgn'ick has been named director of dealer tnerchandising for Douglas Fir Plywood Association of Tacoma, \\'ash., in a nrove to broaden the scope of plywood sales promotiorr with ernphasis on modern dealer merchandising methods. The announcement was made by \\'. E. Difford. nranaging director of the association.

Sedgrvick, fornrer assistant sales promotion manager for Ilernington Rand, Inc. in Nerv York City rvill head up the plyu'ood industry trade association's nervly created departnrent of merchandising.

In his new post, Sedgrvick rvill direct the development of pl)'rvood sales literature, point-of-purchase material, displa.vs and otl.rer plvs'ood sales tools for retail lumber dealers, trade bul.ers and pl1'rrood users.

A graduate of the Universitl' of \\'ashington in business administration, Sedgu'ick was a Lt. Col. rvith the -\rmv of the United States, serving overseas in Europe for trvo lears. In 1940 he joined Remington Rand's sales department, returning in 1945 to specialize in sales promotion and advertising.

The neu' departr.nent u-hich Sedgu'ick heads rvas organized to handle an expanding program of plywood sales promotion. In the current carnpaign built around plans for eight nerv built-in plyr.r'ood storage units, the manufacturers have distributed 18,000 point-of-purchase sales kits and more than 2,(X)0,000 actual plans. In a follou'-up campaign earl.v this summer, the industr-"- s'ill offer a similar prornotion package keved to nen' plans for outdoor storage units r,r'ith an eye to building sales of exterior fir plywood u'ith u-aterproof glue.

Although the industry is increasing its emphasis on specific sales tools to help retail lumber dealers build plyrvood sales, it is continuing a broad program of plyu'ood sales promotion in other rnarkets rvhere plyrvood is used for homes, concrete forms, signs and displays, boats, farm structures, railroad cars, truck trailers and other industrial applications.

Roy Stanton, Sr., and his s'ife, left on an extended trip 'round the u'orld and expect to be gone at least three months. \\'hile awav thev s'ill again visit the I'hilippine Islands rvhere they have made man-r' friends since the end of \\-orld \\'ar II. Europe. the Near East and India are but a ferv of the manv places thev u'ill see before thel' return to Southern California so;netime the first part oi -\ugust.

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INCI.UDE ANY Otr|EI flAIEIIAIS YOU WISH

thi! i3 o cocv ot the Gcogc ?rlcc lirt urd by o p.mlnnf Colifomio lineyord fim od it yu Fl6

your om mqteriol3 ore timila lo thrir

?in o &llc blll rc y* lrtrcrhod 6d ridply wilc, "3qd ldt't Gcql ?rlc." tey boct if trot rdig iGd.

A. W. Holr & Asrocioles

3!Ol 3on Poblo Ar., O.U.nd f, CoEL

The Yoice of the American Revolution"

"ls life so deor or peoce so sweel lhoi we would purchose it qr rhe price of choins ond slovery? | know nol whot others moy do bul os for me' GIVE IAE

We qll remember thot closing port of Polrick Henry's hisioric speech but few of us know fhol he gove up hil form-his store-lo go up ond down ihe country side "iolking" liberty.

When his opponents tried to eniongle him with legol obstocles he decided to sludy low ond in only six months (qn unheord of feot) wos cdmitted to lhe bor. While South Corolinq wos hesitoting lo ioin the fight he reqlized the need for hoste ond would leove one convenlion lo trqvel oll night to be in time to speok qt dnother. We oll know the result, We too know the need for speed ond if you need custom milling in o rush-Coll Us forRip-Resow-Bevel

ResqwSurfcrce-Delcril-ln Trqnsit.

GEORGE OOUGH ffil

tU MBE R

Along with the vorious Pocilic Coqst Lumber hoducts we lurnish the Retoil Lumber Deoler we hove been developing o steody cuslomer demcrnd lor the PROPERLY MANUFACTURED REDWOOD we hove been ship ping ot competitive prices.

A couple ol months ogo we crdvertised FM REASONS why you should stock this moteriql Ior your customers-ond in view ol the fcct thot summer is here -we thought it would be c good ideo to repeot this inlormotion:

I. PRECISION BANDSAVfN

2. FULL SAWN to 2Xc-NO SCANT STOCK-EACH PIECE SALEABLE

3. OLD GROWTH HUMBOLDT REDWOOD

4. EXCELLENT GRADES ond TEXTURE

5. NO KILNS AT THE MILL cssuring shipment will not be picked over for light stock

You con depend on us to lollow through for you regordless ol your requirements-so the next time you need REDWOOD-oI ony Pocific Coost Lumber-just ccll DUnkirk 2-2214. We hdve the desire ond the lacilities to serve you qnd secure whot You need.

Appointed Hobbt \(/all Has New Source of Supply General Manager

San Francisco, Aprrl

D-L. I. Holmes, manager of the Rockport Redwood Company at Rockport, has been appointed general manager of the company and the Rounds and Kilpatrick Lumber Company, Cloverdalc, President F. C. Kilpatrick announced today.

Holmes will replace R. L. Turner, former general manager of the ttvo companies and thc Rounds Lumber Company, u,ho has resigned efiective trIay 15, Kilpatrick said.

The nerv general manager came to Rockport about a )'ear ago from the U. S. Plyrvood Corporation. Formerly, he was associated rvith the Weyerl-raeuser Timber Company. Holmes u'ill continue to make Rockport his headquarters.

New Plyurood Booklet

The plyu'ood story from tree to finished Product is told in a nerv 20-Page booklet recently issued by the Associated PIYu'ood Mills, fnc., Eugene, Oregon. Entitled "The Story of APMI Plywood," the booklet uses 39 action pictures to show and describe tl-re special machinery and processes employed in manufacturing this so-called "miracle" building material. APNII qrralitl'and the high standards of the plyn'o<-rd industrf in general are stressed. Copies of the booklet n-rar- be obtained by s'riting: Associated Pl1'rr'ood l\fills, Inc., Eugene, Oregon.

Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., San Francisco. recetttlr- anilounced that they have arranged to take over 50 per cent the 150NI daill' cut oi The Pacific Coast Co. at \\'illits, Calif.

In speaking of this nes connection Lervis A. Godard of Hobbs \\Iall said : "This additional source of suppll' rvill help our service to the retail lumber dealers of truck and trailer loads and carload shipments of qualitv redu'ood, and some fir lumber. It s'ill be an important addition to the production of the \\-illits Redrvood Products Co. for rvhich \\re are exclusive sales agents."

Millwork Institute OI Cclilonricr Directors Will Meet crt Fresno

The next regular meeting of the board of directors ot the \\roodrvork Institute of California according to Russell Bjorn, executive secretar!'. rvill take place in Fresno. Friday, I![ay 22 at the California Hotel. It is the plan cf Bob Hogan, president, to hold these meetings throughout the state during the balance of the 1'ear. Further programs for the meetings rvill be submitted b1' Seth Potter of the Stockton Box Company among l'hich u'ill be plans for the promotion of better milhvork. The technical committee rvill submit a report in reference to the furnishing of supplemental data for the Manual of trIilhvork. The chairman is S. F. Karns, chief engineer. Hollenbeck-Bush Planing I\Iill of Fresno.

THE LOW-COST, EASY.TO.INSTATL INSULATION thot Kceps Homct Coolcr in Summcr ond Worrncr in Wintcr!

Fireprool'l fermile-ProoJl Rot-Prorl}t

Zonolirr pourr rorily down ridovo[ dud ch.nn ], e.lg compbrcly opund obctructioru. Onr n'oi Glr irsbor on ovcrogc otlic in I hourr You iorr pour od lorrl

Honre ownerg get erlru volue in Zonolile insrloled homes!

DISIIISUTED !Y

'cofflE oN our...wE FINISHED NSUtANNG w/ith-

CNNFTENSON LUTTIBER CO.

Wholesole - Jobbing

TIMBERS A SPE CIALTY!

Redwood Timbers up to l2"xl2"-24' caruied in sfock Evons

PONDEROSA PINE'UIOULDINGS

QUAtIlT-Itlcplc

"gsk Our Present Customets, Tlen See For YourseU"

R, l. Jlelter,k & eo.

Dft€ct fitill Whofesoler: oi Westen Wood Erodudr

Generol Office: lO4O G Streel, ARCATA, CAUF., Phone 89O-Teletype 45

Cornpton Office: 5O5 E. Compton Blvd., COXIPTON, CAtlF., NEvoda 612595, NBrmod( 245|N4 flmlEns &

rebrpe Gompron 88028

Appointed Sales Manager

Announcement is made that Harry A. Merlo has been appointed sales manager of Rockport Reds'ood Company and Rounds Lumber Company to succeed D. H. LeBreton. I\fr. Lebreton has resigned his positi,tn after many I'ears rvith the company.

New lssue of Credit Rating Book

The May 1953 issue of the Credit Reference Book of the Lumbermen's National Red Book Service is just off the press. It is the 143rd issue of the book, which is a semi-annual consolidation of that service's T\VICE-A-\ry'EEK bulletin of changes in the lumber and woodworking industries.

Lumbermen's Credit Association Inc., 608 South Dearborn St., Chicago 5, Illinois, and 99 \\'all Street, New York 5, l.[ew York, publishers of this service, advise that as compared *'ith the previous issue there are an unusual number of changes affecting the various branches of the industry, including many new narnes of concerns buying lumber and lumber products. Also, there are listed numerous changes in business classifications as well as in credit ratings.

Hcrrry A. Merlo

Mr. NIerlo n'as at Rounds & Kilpatrick Lumber Company at Cloverdale, California, a division of Rockport Redrvood Company, for several years. In 1952 he was transferred to the San Francisco office assistant sales manager. He served as an officer in the Marine Corps during the rvar, and is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley.

Mr. Merlo's lumber career started with The Diamond Match Company at Stirling City, California. He is presently the president of Redwood-Empire Hoo-Hoo Club, No. o5.

Sitka spruce has been found superior for use as lagging on cable reels because of its comparative light rveight and inherent toughness, permitting it to be reused.

For the past 77 years, this sen'ice has been used by lumber shippers and shippers in many other industries who market through wholesale or retail lumber dealers, or who sell to furniture and other woodworking factories. It is their guide in credit and collection work, and aid in sales promotion and guide to sources of lumber and allied products.

Jack Pomeroy, executive secretary of the Lumber }lerchants Association of Northern California and Joc Kirk, Kirk Lumber and Building l\{aterial Co., Santa Maria, a dealer director, who-represents the Association in the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, left for \\rashington, May 2 to attend a director's meeting of the li.R.L. D.A. at the Shoreham Hotel. They traveled by air and returned to San Francisco l\tav 8.

"IHE BEST OF LUNBER"

Shasta-Cascade Hoo-Hoo Club Initiates 31 Kittens

A"fa,

Shasta-Cascade Hoo-Hoo Club held a very successful dinner meeting and concatenation on March 28 at the Golden Eagle Hotel in Redding, Calif., at rvhich time the follorving were initiated:

Earl C. Deering. '. .. .Redding Pine Mills, Inc'

Bill Herbert Hinan. ..Hanan Logging Company

John Edward Crandall ...Wildwood Lumber Company

-Paul EdwinKofiord. .....Shasta Box Company

Robert Irving Todd. Sha-sta Plyw-ood, Inc'

Iames Ivan il".ott. .Heron Mills, Inc'

"H.rty Reed Fossum.... ... 'Oregon \\'oodwork Ltd'

Jean'W. French. .Cal-Ore Lumber Sales

bonald Eugene ,Lengel Heron \{ills, Inc'

James Rollind Moore. ..F' M. Crawford Lumber, Inc'

iho.n"s Dean Haws ' Red Bluff \'Ioulding Company

Iohn Stuart Martin. Dant & Russell Sales Company

iack Willard Fisher Shasta Plvwood, Inc'

Weldon Morris Weaver....Ralph L. Smith Lumber Company

Alfred Justin O'Brien. ..Rock1- I.lo-u1t Iltjg. Comnanl

Kenneti Dale Gordon ......Havfork Lumber Company

John Callaghan... ....California State Division of Forestry

\ternotr E.-Daniels. ....:. .....Shasta Plywood

Albert W. Urton. .Inland Lumber Company

Daniel B. Langford Shasta Plywood Corporation

Robert Bailie Goldsu'orth. U. S. Plywood Corporation

Tames Walter Girard, Jr.. U. S. Plywood Corporation

Edward Roland lUcMahan. Ralph L. Smith Lumber Company

Fldward Joseph Johnson. .Ralph L. Smith Lumber Company

Vernal D. Camp. Ralph L. Smith Lumber Company

Wm. Main

James R. Sharv. '....Redding Pine Mills

john Koerner.... ..Pine Fir Sdes

Walker Smith, -Jr.. Shasta Forest Company

\\'m. Beaty .....Shasta Forest Qmpany

Henry Ghiglieri ..J. T. \IcDonald l-oggrng Companv

DO]IOUER GO. IJIG.

Established l9O2

MANUFACTUR,ER,S AND WHOLEIiALER,S of

PONDEROSA PINE . SUGAR PINE . WHITE FIR . DOUGLAS FIR . REDWOOD

WESTERN RED CEDAR . INCENSE CEDAR ' SHINGIES & SHAIGS

DOUGTAS FIR

Froni rows, Eittens iaitiated. Bqcl row, Degrree Tearn trnd visiting dignitqrier; left to right 4 -!"lt Suprene cgrta:ction rcd &rtcholor, Eud Moore, Bill Reuther, "".r.iJw,C"tir""""t] c. o. r..r"r""i.r, s.ii"i ihe Houge ol ArciJnrr, Bill 6arto'nr, Di.tricl Dcputt saorL w. L scho'

i"U Middleton, pr""id8rrl Bob Xorn, Les Cody, vice president, Erv Bcntel, State DePuty Sncrl-

PTYWOOD

2l I S. Beverly Drive, Beverty Hilts, Golif. CRcstvicw

Galifornia f,umber Sales \ur

WHOIJESAIJE IJUMBER

Douglas fir'-Redwood-Ponderosa pins-gggar pine

3124 E l4th St

Ocklcsrd l, Cali{. rnrej 4-1004

Lef Us Know Your Lumber Reguiremenfs

I',. A. Samuelson......Xliddleton & Beirne Lumber Company

President Bob Middleton presided at the meeting which r,vas attended by about 125 members. C. D. LeMaster, Seer of the House of Ancients and W. R. Schofield, both members of the Sacramento Club and Al Bell, Supreme Custocatian of San Francisco, were among the visitors present. Erv Bartel, State Deputy Snark for Northern California and the first president of Shasta-Cascade }foo-Hoo Club, was presented with a combination traveling bag and brief case by President Bob Middleton in appreciation for his work in connection with the organization of the Club.

Bill Constans, District Deputy Snark, presided at the initiation as Snark, assisted by Ted Batchelor, Bud Nloore, Bill Reuther, Carl Knauer, Bob Nfiddleton, Bob Korn, Les Cody and E,rv Bartel, with Al Bell as the visiting officer. The Junior Hoo-Hoo activities were under the supervision of Bud Moore.

From switchboard to pots and pans for permanent duration will be the experience of LaGene lferr, efficient "Girl Friday" at the Consolidated Lumber Company in Wilmington. LaGene is retiring from active business next month following a career of over sixteen years as a receptionist and P B X operator, most of them having been spent in the lumber industry.

Wendell Paquette of the Lumber Sales Francis,co recently made a trip up to the way visiting the sawmills and taking in Eureka. He said things looked good and ample order files.

How To lmprove Your Home

Company, San Redrvood HighGarberville and the mills have

Just off the press, this 32-page booklet, entitled "97 Ways to Improve Y<-'ur Home and Save N'Ioney," is designed to stimulate business for building materials dealers in the important home modernization, remodeling and repair market. fn simple, straightforrvard language it tells the homeowner what can be done to bring his horne up to date and horv this can be accomplished with remarkable economy. SuggesteC improvements range from a modern breakfast nook to a smart sun-deck. Practically every item the building ma_ terials dealer stocks gets a play. In picture-book style ever)' remodeling idea is illustrated informatively and dra_ matically. Subject headings include: New Rooms from IJn_ used Space; New Ceilings and Walls; Better Living Built In; 6 Ways to Brigl-rter Kitchens; Roofs and Their 3-Way Job; Hotv to Insulate; Permanent Beauty for Exterir_,r Walls; Practical Financing for Your Home Improvements; and many others. In standard 8l x ll inch size, printed in full color. The Celotex Corporation, 120 South Lil Salle Street, Chicago 3, Illinois.

Peoples Lumber Co. Expands Retail Stote at Ventura

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lnterior Views ol Peoples Lumber Co. Store crt Venturq

L. E. HARRI$ IU]IIBER C(ITIPA]IY

Wholesale Lumber

Truck and Trqiler and Ccrlocrd Shipments of Dougleis Fir

Redwood r Redwood Splir Products

Becrutilul Flower Gqrden Plcrnned

One of the most beautiful gardens planned for any rndustrial Exposition was announced this ll'eek by the Los Angeles Home Shorv, June 4-14.

More than $25,000 worth of flowers, trees, shrubs and plants will be used to transform huge Pan Pacific Auditorium into multi-colored wonderland, according to Executive Manager Carl Kraatz. The important task has beea

Shown

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the Southern Cclilornicr relcilers cnnucl meeting: Front row, lelt to right, Bill Seitz cnd Hcrllord Smith, both of Blue Dicmond Corporction. Bcck row: Willicm Berg, Los Angeles insulction contrcctor; Clcrence P. Sclisbury, generol gqles mcncger ol Blue Dicmond Corpoiciion; B. W. 8<ntels, genercl mcncger oI Peoples Lumber Co, oI Ventura, who wqs re-elected vice-president ol the Southern Cqlilornia Retail Lurrber Associctioru Don Wiltse oI Wiltse cnd Co., Blue Dicmoad's cdvertising qgency; Bclph Hcrrison oI Blue Diamond Corporction, and E. I. Thompson, genercl gcles mcrncAer oI Peoples Lumberr Co. oI Venturc.-

turned over to Armstrong Nurseries, rvhich will use manv of its prize winning champions.

Tutrrrv lun Lunnn fius (onpluy

NU.WOOD BUILDING BOARD

FtR, HEmIOCK, OAK FLOORTNG OAK THRESHOTD DOORS

Oftce: 3931 Gecry Blvd. son Frqnclsco 18, Colif.

BAtSAtut WOOI INSUIATION

FINISH & STEPPING

IUMBER (DIRECT MIIL SHIPfrIENTI

',l|lholcsale lo Lumb.r Yotdc Onlt''

SKyline 2-2050

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Blue Diqmond Corporclion's Exhibit qt the Southern Cclilornia Retcil Lumber f,ssociqtion qnnuol meeting held at the Hotel Statler in Los Angeles, April 7, 8, 9, 1953,

relcxing alter

session of

Chcrles W. Buckner

Aberdeen, \\'ash., XIa-v l-Death of Charles \\'. Buckner.78. sales engineer for Harbor Plvr,r'ood Corp., has claimed the star salesman rvho pioneered the use of plvrvood in tens of thousands of 'railroad cars. He died at home here, \\-ednesday night.

XIr. Buckner sold the first exterior fir plywood for the siding and lining of re f rigerator cars about 1936. At that time, panels u'ith lvaterproof glue had onlv been ntarrufactured about tlto years rvhen he helped railroad engineers design tlteir cars for greater strength and less weight rrith plvn'ood.

Similarly, he developed the railroad market for plastic surfaced pl1'wood, when it u'as introduced in 1938. It is estirrrated there are today 150,000 railroad cars built entirelv or substantially of fir plywood.

Mr. Buckner, rvho joined Harbor Plyu'oocl at its inception in 1925, also is credited for another milestone of plywood progress rvhen he sold 40 carloads for buildings at the 1939 San Francisco \\rorld Fair. That demonstration of the advantages of plr.u'ood in colrstruction rt'as a major factor in establishing fir plyrvood as a basic builcling t.r-raterial.

In another market area, he sold 500,fi[ feet for concrete forms against whicl-r the Golclen Gate bridge \\'as poured. Here, the re-use of the panels over and over demonstrated the economy of pl1'r,vood in a spectacular heavl' constrttction project.

In 1928, he u'as tnacle manager of the research and sales extension bureau of Harbor Plyu'ood Corp. and subsidiarv companies. He was active as a salesman until about a year ago'

Born in Missouri, Charles \\-. Buckner came to Tacoma, Wash., in 1906 as a lumber buyer for ]Iihvaukee Railroad. Later he u'as sales manager of Rrix Lumber Co. of Portland.

lle is survived by his u'iclolv at Aberdeen; three daughters, Mrs. A. John A. Hall of Tacotna, Louise and Lucille Buckner of Portland, Ore. ; and three sons, Stanley \-. Buckner of Tacoma; Harold N{. Ruckner, manager of Centralia Plylvood Co. of Centralia, and Rayn.rond \\'. Buckner, rlanager of \\'estern State Co-Operative Plyr,r'ood Co. of Port C)rford, Ore.

, Mrs. Hcrrriet A. Pqrsons

Mrs. Harriet A. Parsons, a resident of Pasadena for the past 30 years, passecl avi'ay \\rednesdav, April 22, after a long hospitalization. She lvas the u,ife of N. H. Parsons, u'ho has been associated with tl.re lumber business in Southern California since 1922, an<l now u'ith the Standard Lumber Companv, Inc. of Ingleu.ood.

Mrs. Parsons u'as born in Titusville, Pa., and soon moved to Winnebago, Ill., u'here she ancl NIr. Parsons u'ere married in 1898, just after he began his career in the lurnber business. They made their home in Rockford, Ill., until thel' carne to California. She was a member of the Pasadena Presbl-terian Church.

Besides.her husband, she is survived b1' a son, N. \rincent Parsons of Pasadena, a daughter-in-latv, XIrs. Ilargaret

Pierce Parsons, three grandchildrerr. Robert N. Parsons, Ann Nlarie Parsons, and Helen Evelvn Platt, and a sister, \[arv Elizabeth Coburn of Pasadena.

Funeral services rvere held at the Ives and \\'arren Chapel, Pasadena, Saturdal' afternoon, -\pril 25, the Rev. \\-illiam E. Roberts officiating.

Frcrnk B. Wcne

Memorial sen'ices s'ere held \ta1' 4 for Frank Burman \\'are. partner ot one of Southern California's pioneer lumber and building materials firms. the Corona Lumber Company of Corona. California. -\ged 61. Ilr. \\'are passed a\\'av at Lonra Linda Hospital. -\pril 30. follos'ing an illness of trr'o months.

Born in I-os Angeles. he later lived in \-entura Count;-. fronr shere he moved to Corona in 1905 to attend school and enter the emplov of his uncle. the late -\. J. \\'are. rvho had been one of the founders oi Corona Lumber Co. in 1m.+. Later he Nas manager of the Elsinore Lurnber Co. for l0 vears. Returning to Corona in 1923. he had been activell' engaged in the Corona Lumber Co. rvith his brother. Horvard S. Ware and son. T. R. \\'are. his copartners, until he became ill.

In addition to the building materials business. IUr. \\'are rvas also vice-president of the First National Bank of Coror,a. He l'as a past president of both the Corona Chaml,er of Commerce and Corona Rotar-v Club. a former rnember of the Corona Board of Edrrcation and a member trf the llethodist Cl.rurch.

High in ]Iasonic circles. IIr. \\'are \\'as a past master and past secretarv of Temescal Lodge No. 314, F and A NI; a mernber of Riverside Chapter No. 67, RAI\I; menrber of Pomona Council No.2l. R and S\[: member of Riverside Commanderv No. 28. KT: and member of Al lfalailiah Tenrple. -\AON\IS. of Los -\rrgeles.

Besides his l'idorv. \frs. Inez Kirbl' \\-are. he is survived bv his son. T. R. Ware. a daughter. IIrs. Ifarjorie Faris. fir'e grandchildren. three brothers and four sisters.

Jcmes

M. Rumsey

-Iames l\[. Rumse-v. rnanager of the Hammond Lumber Cornpahv branch 'r'ard at \-an \u1's. passed a\rav on -\pril 29 at his home in \-an Nu1's iollorsing a heart attack.

Born in \-ictor. Colorado. October 20. 1895. he has been associated rvith the Hammond Lumber Coman-v since 1919. and had been manager of the \-an \u-vs 1'ard for manl\.ears.

He is sun'ived b1- his s-idos'. ]Irs. Florence Rumsev. ancl a son. Janres F. Rumser'. Funeral services rrere held on \Iav 2 at the Prais'n'ater Funeral Home. \'an Nuys.

Adelbert R. Frederick

Adelbert R. Frederick, 51. credit manager of the Christenson I-umber Cornpanv. clied last -\pril 25 in San Fra'rcisco. He n'as thirt'r' vears l'ith the company and Nas a nepheu- of Henrv Hess of the Henr_v Hess Lumber Companl' and vice-president of Sudden & Christenson. He ieaves his l'idou-. \Irs. Beulah L. Frederick. and a son Bmce. IIr. Frederick s'as a nrember of the llasons, ParnASSus Lodge \o. 388. and \\ as r-erv actite in the Bo1' Scorrt movement.

Bob Bliss Howord S. Gqtes

BIiss & Gotes Lumber Co.

WHOIESALE R EDWOOD

SfeehJr/.t? da -0, e.2. 2aa,nliJa,t

Distribution Yqrd ond Office

7l5l Anqheim-Telegroph Rd., Los Angeles 22, Calll.

felephones: UNderhill O-3454 - 0-1681

T\TENTY.FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

As reported in The California Lumber Merchant May 15,1928

H. N. Wheeler, Chief Lecturer of the U. S. Forest Service, was the speaker at the Stockton Rotary Club meeting on April 25. Members of the Stockton Hoo-Hoo Club were invited to attend the meeting.

The Phoenix Hoo-Hoo Club held its first official meeting at the Adams Hotel Tuesday evening, May 8. N. H. (Hawk) Huey, State Counselor for Arizona, read the Constitution and By-Laws of the new Club, which was signed by the entire membership. Officers of the Club are: President, M. H. McCalla; Vice President, E. \,'. O'Malley, and Secretary-Treasurer, R. V. Baker. The Club has 42 members.

Winfield Scott, director of public relations for the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, was the principal speaker on "Lumbermen's Night," April 25, at the San Francisco celebration of Better Homes Week.

The tri-annual meeting of the Pacific Coast group of the National Assoication of Wooden Box Manufacturers was helcl at the Hotel Senator, Sacramento, on April 27-28. Walter S. Johnson, chairman of the executive committee of the pacific Coast group, was chairman of the meeting.

The Crange Belt Lumbermen's Club met at the White Spot Cafe,, Riverside, for a dinner meeting on May 8. Earl E. Bowe, Los Angeles representative of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, addressed the meeting. In the afternoon, the lumbermen visited the Cresmer Mfg. Co. plant at Riverside.

More than 50 members of the building industry in and around Stockton were guests of the Stockton Lumber Co. on April 24 at a dinner meeting at the Hotel Lincoln in Stockton. Tom V. Sawyer, Celotex Company, was the speaker of the evening. Chas. G. Bird, mandger of the Stockton Lumber Co., was in charge of the arrangements. for the meeting.

The Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club held a dinner dance at the Commercial Club, Los Angeles, on Saturday evening, April 30. Music for dancing was furnished by a five-piece orchestra, and there were several excellent-entertainment numbers presented during the evening.

O. D. Ruse and D. W. Blair opened a retail yard in Stockton, operating as the Ruse-Blair Lumber Co. Mr. Ruse and Mr. Blair were formerly associated u'ith the Tilden Lumber & Mill Co. yard at Stockton.

Attends Reno Concct

A. D. (Al) Bell, Jr.. of Hobbs \\rall Lumber Co., S:rn Francisco, Supreme Custocation of Hoo-Hoo, attended the Concat held in Reno, Nevada, April 18. u'hen 14 Kittens 'rvere initiated. He made the round trip b1' air.

Wholesrle to lunber Yrrds 0nly Windows, Doors, Plywood, Moulding

We have Slock Sosh, Doors, Frqmes Prompt service

John H. Tyson, president Charles Nelson Company and \\'holesale Lumber Distributors, fnc. of San Francisco and Oakland, spent the last rveek of April rvith Rex Clarke, executive r-ice-president and manager of Consolidated Lumber Companl- of \\'ilmington.

Detqil Free delivery

llAtEY Bnos. r sltrt tilrcr

Phones: Texss 0-4831 Sonto ilonico, EXbrook 4-3209

lclcphonc lluc Lcko 75

DISTRIBUI()RS ()F DOI]GLAS FIR PLYW.OOD

I.OBEl:r D(Or-l ^I ELltO. saN rnaNclsqo BXBR(X'E 2.Aa6a

NORTHERN REDWII(|D TUMBER Ct|.

&l-ood. and b"nglot 9ir {n*b", Milts ond Solcs Officc ot Korbcl, Humboldt

The Lemon Grove Lumber Co. dt Lemon Grove, Colil., receally ulderwent q DoderDirotion iob, and the above photog6cph rborr tbc ncl ycrd lront. Not shown in the picture is the 65-Ioot lower which ig o Lemon Grove lqnd-ck oad lornerly hourcd q -ir-e riron lhcn ihe torn Las a small citrus growing crrlc. The bose ol ihe tower htrg been dressed up to ncstch tbe desiqr o-I thc non t!trd font. St Edilg-il froDt oI the office is Mcniger Siephen lvestover ond members ol the otEce lorce. LeIt to right. Ernie Suaburf, Buth Schulte, Stepbca Wcdorcr. fim Dougherty cud Hcnk Lcnge. Photo is by A, cnd E. Jecsen ol Lenon Grove.

Taube & Bergstrom

9015 Wilshire Blvd.

Beverly Hills, Calif.

BRadshaw 2-67 82

slil F0Rll . [u ss tE R, tilG.

DISTilBUTORS AND WHOIESAIERS

Ook Sroir Treods-Thresholds Door Sills-Hordwood Floorings ond Domestic Hordwood lumber

Worchouss Delivery or Carload Sftipmcntr 610I SO. VAN NESS AVENUE los Angelos 47, Calit.

Phonc AXmlnster 2-9181

Hcrthcrnrcry Building

6214 \Mest Mcrrchester Ave. los Angeles 45, Ccrlifornia

NEPNESENTING

Multnomcfi Plywood Corporcrtion

Nicolci Door Mcrrufcrcturing Compcrry McCormick d Baxter Creosoting Compcrry

Telephone - ORegon 8-3726

\UHOLESALE

"For the Yards'

Generol

I)rvn llrvrs LunnBDB Oo.

Brush Industdal lumbel Go.

Wholesale Distributors

Hardwoodr and Softwoodc

5354 Erd Slauron Avc.

Lor Angelo 99, Glif.

UNdefiill 0-3301

Cnm H. KUHL LUMBER CoMPAI{Y FOREST PRODUCTS

Roif Shippers

ouAurY FIR YARD ST(I|!I

PITTOCK BLOCK pbnrrrxo 5, oREGoN

Out of the Woods

By Jim Stevens

A Tree Grows

The Ponderosa pine east of the Cascade }fountains and the Douglas fir of the rvest side bear fruit in the form of cones. Thev ripen in the fall. the seed chambers are opened b1' drv u'inds. and the seeds flv forth. -\ seed that alights on a sprouting place and keeps liie in its kernel through the l'inter u'ill au'aken in spring. \\'e do not knorv rrhat moves the seed from sleep. but spring rvarmth and moisture bring its grorvth hormone to life. The enzvmes in the chernical composition of the seed go to rvork. They make sugar of stt-rred fats and starches in the nut. Stored proteins are split into 2O or more soluble compouucis called amino acids. from s'hich enzvme forces form more materials to keep the embrvo tree grorving.

The nen' tree shoots into the open, like a tender blade of grass. Threacls of roots Norm dorvns'ard. Tinr. delicate leaves spread irom the bud at the top of the shoot. ,\ third area of gron'th is around the stem. This grorrth is the cambiun.r larver. It is a thin tissue. a single la1'er of cells that sheathes the stem. The cambium cells har-e the po\\'er to divide. -\s the_v begin to s'ork they split off ros's of u'ood cells s-ithin the cambium sheath and bLrk cells on its outside.

Bark and Roots

trIost of the bark is sloughed ott as the tree grol's. s'hilc each vear's neu- ring of u'ood is left in storage. -\s the tree gro\\-s ()n vear br' ;-ear. each annttal grorvth ring has a light circlet oi springn-ood and a darker band of sun'lmers'ood, forming the pattern seen in log end or stunlp top.

A tenth or more of a tree's s'ood is in its roots. They tie the tree to the place of its birth. Thel- supph' \\'ater and minerals in solution for liie and grorvth.

"The stomata open their little shutters earlv in the tnornirrg." sa-"*s U. S. Forester N. T. \Iirov. "At u,lotr they begin to close. and just before sunset thev are closed tight ior the night."

The stomata are srnall pores of leaf tissues. Thev open (Continued oa Page 68)

J. K. O'NEILL ilIItL & LBR,. CO.

RETIANUFACTURERS & WHOLESATERS OF WEST COAST FOREST PRODUCTS SPECIATIZING IN DIRECT-TO-JOBSITE REQUIRE'IIENTS

Ofiice, ffill & Yqrds Hoplond, Gqlifornio Telephoni 2881 taVX Hoplcnd 77

TIITOil TUTBER STHS GOiIPAilT (Colif.l

8Ol Ninrh Street '

Sqcromenlo 14, Coliforniq

LU'NBER, . MOUTDINGS

SUGAR PINE

.

TRI'N

PONDEROSA PINE OREGON FIR CALIFORNIA FIR

Phone Gllbert 3-1741

D. R. Garcia ltalfic Senice

Monqdnock Bldg., Son Frunclrco 5, Ylfkon 64509

Teletype SF lO8O

For 26 years we hcve specialized exclusively. in the trafiic and trqnsportction problems oI the lumber industry.

We oller cccurcte cnd prompt freight rcrte quotcrtions, both rcril crnd truck.

Frelght Eifls Ardired

IOE TARDY-WHOLESALE

LUMBER

lf olhers hqve fqiled you on hord items try us. Represenling some of the best mills ond occounts in Americq.

AIAN A. SHIVETY

Representing THE MAR.TIN BROS. BOX CO.

OSborne 5-3371 Poul Reiner, pr.

MOUI.DIIIG SERUICE

Ponderoso Pine Mouldings

Wholesole Only

Rlcct & fiffi$E tuilBER G0.

WHOLESALE - .IOBBING

Spcclolizing in IilLil

Ponderoso ond Sugor Pine Clear Fir crnd Redwood

3241 W. El Segundo Blvd. Howthome, Colif.

\YANT ADS

RETAIL LUMBERMAN

presently employed, experienced in purchasing, accounting, managc' ment, sales, desires progrcssive opportunity for utilizing cayabilities. Prefer sales or combination.

_ Address Box C-2133, California Lumber Merchant

108 W. 6th St., Rm. 5(8, Los Angeles 14, Calif.

FOR SALE ROSS LIFT TRUCK

194E Model 15 HT

17' 6" Lifting Height, Power Stccring

In Good Condition and Reasonably Priced

RED BLUFF MOULDING CO., RED BLUFF, CALIFORNIA

WANTED

Young man anxious to learn lumber businessHardwoodS, Pondero.-sa and Sugar Pine. Particularly selling. Can be experienced or not. Good salary, Excellent opportunity.

PENBERTHY LUMBER CO.

580O So. Boyle Ave., Los Angeles 58, Calif.

TelePhone Klmball 5111

FOR SALE

REMANUFACTURING LUMBER PLANT

Resawing, sticker work, planing mill, remanrrfacturing lumber, and lumbei'storage business in San Gabriel Valley area for sale.15,000 feet of fl-oor space under cover. Storage space paved and fenced.

Reason for selling due to illncss"

Address Box C-2142, California Lumber Merchant

lOE W. 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.

LUMBER TRUCK AND TRAILER FOR SALE

1951 Model GMC Truck, 450 Series, 3-axle 2l ton, 5 slrced transmission. Also one Pike Trailer with vacuum brakes. Both are equipped with steel rollers, and are in good condition.

Telephone KImb*ly 247 L7 or write P.O. Box 928, Santa Ana, California

Appointed Genercrl Mcrncger

Carl S. Walker has been named general manager of Eureka Redwood Lumber Co., Eureka, Calif., it was announced by President Thomas B. Malarkey of the M and I\{ Wood Working Co., of which Eureka Redrvood is a subsidiary. Walker has been for three years general manager of Feather River Lumber Mills, Feather River, Calif., and prior to that was general manager of Winton Lumber Company at Martell, Calif.

Will Move Administrcrtive Hecrdqucrrters Of Western Division to Santa Clcrcr

The administrative headquarters of Monsanto Chemical Company's Western Division will move to Santa Clara, Calif., from Seattle, Wash., it was announced by General Manager Irving C. Smith. Following construction of a new central administrative headquarters building at Santa Clara, about 20 general administrative and staff department personnel will be transferred from the Seattle office' Seattle will continue to be sales and production headquarters for the Monsanto line of Plywood adhersives, industrial resins and related products for the lumber and plywood field, Mr. Smith said.

FOR SALE ROSS LIFT TRUCK

f94E Uodd, f2 FL l7' 6" Lifting Height, Power Stecring. In Good Condrtion, Sec It At Our UilL

SUNSET UOULDING COUPANY

P.O. Box 326, Yuba Ci9, California Phonelivc OaL,OU

WANTED FOR SALE

30,0(D to 60,(m board fcct per day, mill run, rough grecn-P-on' derosa'Pine for 1953 season. Cash whco delivercd. Old csablished responsible 6rm. Box C-2136, IOE West 6th St, Cdifornia Lumbcr Uerchant Rom 5(8, Loe Ansele f4, CdiJ.

E-ton Gcdinger Lift Trucb Ofiset Carriagg 6{' Forls. Hydraulic stecring, in good condition. POMONA LUUBER COUPANY

160 East Holg Fomooa, Cdif. Pbonc 2-5175

FOR SALE OR TRADE

All equipment from rernanufacturing plant, low prices, gpod tcrrnsMatcber-Re-Saw-Blowcr Systeeall kinds of electric motors and othcr cquipment. Prefer to trade out in green pinc lutnbcr. Boz C-2137, Cdifornia Lrrmber Uerchant 108 West 6th St., Room 5{8, Loe Angeles 1+, Calif.

FOR SALE GERLINGER CARRIER

Model SH, carries 9f" Bolsters. Completcly overhauled and can be scen at our mill SIERRA }IOUNTAIN UILLS

Camptonville, Cdifornia

Phone CamPtonville $F-4

FOR SALE

One 2Il ton White Truck, 16 foot roller Bed. All in' fair condition ..1350.00 Phcrc Long Beach 6l'157

Elected Vice President

The election of Fred D. Unkel as vice president of Georgia-Pacific Plyrvood Companv, has been announced by Ou'en R. Cheatam, president. I\[r. Unkel joined GeorgiaPacific five years ago as manager of the company's Philadelphia rvarehouse. In 1951, he rvas appointed general manager of the Eastern Division lvith headquarters at Port Nervark.

Opens Iaw Office

Ben Danning, account executive and copyrvriter for the American Direct Mail Advertising Agency, announced last week he had opened offices in North Hollyrvood for the practice of larv. Ben passed the bar examination earllthis spring follorving graduation from UCLA and expects to lean toward specializing in lumber accounts. He is a member of Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club No. 2 and has been rvriting lumber advertising copy for the past t$'o years. The new firm rvill be knorvn as Danning & Bartfield and it is located at 6631 Laurel Canyon Boulevard, North Hollywood, California. Telephones STanley 7-3249 and SUnset l-6552.

WANT ADS

Bcrte-Position wqrted $2.00 per column incb

All others, $3.00 per colunn furch Cloeiag dtrtes lor copy, Stb cnd 20tb

LUMBER YARD_HARDWARE & PAINT STORE

Here's a GOODIEI Estab. small lumber yard with modern store building handling plumbing supplies, paint and hardware. Located in the growing Arcadia area. Includes 150-foot boulevard frontage, two 2400 sq. ft. store buildings and 90-ft. lumber shed. One store-leased. Owner reports good monthly profits. Approx. 918,000 stock and equipment. Will sell real estate and buildings for gl5,0ro0 down, plus cash for stock and equipment. The land alone should double in vllue in next ten years. This is ideal for two to operate. Will show to qualified buyer by appointment.

Call SPELTS H. PARKER, 102 S. Los Robles, Pasadena l, Calif. Phone SY 6-3114 days, or eves., DOuglas 7-4228

FOR SALE

J. T. Towsley Single Head Planer 7yz H.P. Motor, Extra Knives, Starter & Sudtch. A Bargain at $450,@. , Moore Lumber Company P.O. Box 297 643 Sanborn Rd. Salinas, Calif.

LEATHER LUMBER APRONS

Sturdy lumbermen's aprons made of top quality reclaimed leather, rurnished in both single and double ply, appro:. L6" *24" with or wrthout belt and buckle. Special discounts to jobbers.

HENDRIE BELTING & RUBBER CO.

405 Towne Ave., Los Angeles 13, Calif.

Phone TRinity 7786

FOR SALE

1941 International K-7 8 wheel COE truck with lumber rollers. Brown-Lipe auxiliary transmission. $1200.00 Model A Ford 6 wheel truck with lumber rollers. Can be fixed up for yard truck

19,10 Chevrolet fat bed yard truck. Oshkosh AB-5 16" cut-ofi saw. Orton Planer-<nc side. Da,maged.

GOLDEN STATE LUMBER COMPANY

2436 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica, California EXbrook 5-3275 TExas 0-4d08

LUMBER YARD FOR SALE OR LEASE

Ncrncr of Advcrtircrr in thir Dcportmcnt uring o blind qddrcrr cqnnol bc dlvulgcd. All inquiricr ond rcplier rhould bc oddrcrrcd lo kcy rhown in thr cdvcrtircmonl

LUMBER YARDS FOR SALE

Orange County retail lumber business, established over 50 years. Will require $67,5@.00, plus inventories.

TWOHY LUMBER CO.

LUMBER YARD AND SAWMILL BROKERS

714 W. Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles 15, Calif. PRospect 8746

Ir-OR'SA'LE

Willamette (Hyster) 7868 Carrier.

1953 License-66" Bolsters. Good condition-Now in operation.

SULLIVAN HARDWOOD LUMBER COMPANY

703 West F Street San Diego, Calif.' Phone-Franklin 3195

CAR UNLOADING CONTRACTORS

Experienccd labor furnished to unload and sort lumber cars. O.P.S. printed rates upon request. Eetablished l9[3.

CRANE & CO.

L4r7 E. lzth St.

TR.6973 Los Angeleq Calif.

$7s.00 ffi00.m $100.0o $100.00

FOR SALE

Lumber & Builders Hardware Business-I952 sales $250,000.00 and increasing every year in the fastest growing communit5r in Orange County. Three trucks, power saw (cut-off & rip), modern store building built in 1951. Trucks, buildings and eguipment 920,000, plus inventory.

Address Box C-2125, California Lumber Merchant 108 W. 6th St., Rm. 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.

SALESMAN WANTED

Established wholesale firm operating in Northern and Central California has opening for an experienced salesman, to call on the retail lumber trade and also do some buying in Northern California Excellent opportunity lor right party. Give full pa.rticul:rs indicating experience, and references, which will be treated confidentially.

Address Box C-2141, California Lumber Merchant fOB W. 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.

FOR LEA"SE

Good Los Angeles County location. Retail only. Easy to operate, low overhead. Priced right.

Address Box C-2138, California Lumber Merchant

108 W. 6th St., Rm. 508, Los Angeles 14, California

WANTED

Countermen who desire opportunity for advancement to assistant manager or manager with a reliable and expanding company.

Address Box C-2139, California Lumber Merchant 108 W. 6th St., Rm. 508, Los Angeles 14, California

WILL SELL OR TRADE

Hyster Model MH Lumber Carrier with new motor, top and seat, guaranteed good mechanical condition with 150 sets of 6Ginch carrier blocks, for One 8-ton lift truck in good condition.

Monarch Lumber Co. of Southern California

7727 Telegraph Road, Los Angeles 22, Calit.

Phone Underhill 0-12E3

Concrete block building, occupied last five years by Plywood dealer, now moving to larger quarters. M-l zone. Center of Building Materials District on Lankershim Blvd. in North Hollywood. Large parking area and 3O-foot wide driveway.

PHONE OWNER

POplar 5-,1O07

EXCEPTIONAL BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY

AUTOMATIC LUMBER SEPARATOR for large and small sawmills, concentration yards, lumber receiving terminals. Separates lumber for lengths, widths, and thicknesses (also for grade by use of lumber inspector). Eliminates green chain labor gang. Completely installed and guaranteed by manufacturer. Patented. Now in operation. Exclusive western states distributor will consider financially responsible associate for marketing. No material or inventory investment, no engineering required, selling job only. Substantial profit margin. Distributor will also consider exclusive franchose selling agencies in specified areas of each of eleven western states by financially responsible parties who are in close contact with sawmills, concentration yards, etc. Interested parties please advise of their contacts with prospective purchasers of this equipment and give financial and business references.

Address Box C-2140, California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.

INDEX TO ADYERTISERS Out of the Woods

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to let air in to cells that contain a green substance called chlorophyll. The air carries vital traces of carbon dioxide, and a tenth of it rvill be taken in by the chlorophyll. The process goes on in combination rvith the oxygen and hydroof rvater, forming sugar. The sun's energy supplies tht: power, so the process is called photosynthesis.

Tree Fat and Muscle . .

The sugar is the t1'pe knorvn ts "dextrose." From it 95 per cent of the body of the tree is built through a maze of reactions. One reaction combines dextrose rvith nitrogen to make amino acids from tvhich proteins can be created. Only plants create proteins, which are essential to all life. Trees are plants. A forest in nature is a family of plants.

The bole of a tree ma-v be 5O per cent rrater, rvith leaves and roots 90 per cent rvater content. All the processes oi tree life occur in rvater solutions. \\tater enters the roots, and rises up saprvood channels to the leaves by the drarving force of solar energy. The lift ma1' be as much as 3(X) leet in an old-grorvth Douglas fir.

Through the stomata the tree's excess rvater is given to the atmosphere through the tree by a process called transpiration. The surface of the leaf cells that contain chlorophyll are kept moist by transpiration.

A Douglas 6r that is four feet thick and trvo hundretl feet tall may have as much as 30,000 square feet of leaf or needle surface to catch the energv of the sun.

Ross Rasmussen is nou'associated rvith the \\'eyerhaeus<:r Sales Company and is rvorking in their Los Angeles office. He was formerly rvith Sanford-Lussier. Inc.

Southem Cclilornia Ltrmber Secrsoning Associcrtion Will Meet lune I

The Southern California Lumber Seasoning Association will hold a meeting at l\,Iike Lymans, 751 South Hill Street, I-os Angeles, Thursday, June 4. Dinner will be served at 7:00 p.m. and will be follorred by a business session. President Bob Inglis will preside.

How Lumber l"ooks (Continued

000 feet. Orders on hand 54.521.000 feet.

from Page 2) at the end of the s'eek totaled

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the rveek ended April 18, 185 mills reporting, gave orders as 151,595,000 feet. shipments 133.577,00O feet, and production 13-1,714,000 feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the rveek totaled 558.012.000 feet.

For the rveek ended April 25. these same mills reported orders as 143.388.00 feet. shipments 141.919,00 feet. and production 136,837.000. Unfilled orders at thc en<l of the s'eek totaled 559,481,00O feet.

Lcnon Lunbor Co.........

Tbc Long-Brll Lurbor Co..

LT'MBEB

BUYER'S GUIDD

SAITI fRAITGISGO

Lumber Scles Co. ..VtrIencic 6-1970

Mqrlircz Co., L. W.. .....EXbrooL 2-35{i!

Pqcilic Lunbcr Co., Tho. .GArlield l-3717

Pqrqniao Lumber Co.. GArfield l-S190

Popc 6 Tolbot, lnc., Lunbcr Division DOuglcs 2-2561

Ricci 6 Erugc Lunbcr Co......... ..Mssion 7-2576 ' Rounds Lunber Conpcly .....YIILou 6-0912

RuL Lrlhur 8........

Sotc Fc Luber Co.. .E)Fbrciok 2-Ztl4

Tcrlcs, Web.ter 6 lohnroa, Inc,...DOugtcs 2-21160 Trinity Rivcr Lumbor Sclor Co......Skylinc 2-2{150

Twia-Cily Luaber Co. ..SUtter l-0191

Twin Hcrborr Lubcr Co. (Frcdr l. O'Coaror). ..GArlield l-551t

Udon Lumbcr Conpcny. ..SUtlcr l-5170

Vcn Argdab-Ilcrrir Luabcr Co., lac. lUdpcr {-6591

Wendling-Nqthcn Co. ....SUttrr l-5363

W.st Cocal Ti4bcr Productt Agoncy.Yllloa 2-09r!5

Corp..... .ATwstrr 2-1993

CNEOSOTED LT'MBEB_POLES_ PTLINCi_TrES

Americo Lumbcr d Tr.ctilg Co.....SUtter l-1028

Baxler, J. H. d Co.................. .YUkoa 2-0200

Hcll, Janct L........ .SUttor l-?520

Pope 6 Tclbot, lnc., Lunbcr Divirion, wondlins-Ncrbca co. lotirlt"j ?:3!31

OA KLAIY D -BERKELEY-ALAIIIEDA

Ecrle D. Bcnder... .........f,E11o9 {-9812

Cclilonic Lunbcr Sqlcg. ...f,Ellog {-100{

Gqncreton 6 Grcea Lunbcr Co,....f,Ellog 4-6{64

Goldeu Gate Lumber Co. (Wclnut Creek) ..YEllowstone {-4{16

Hill d Mortoa, Inc.. -.. .ANdovrr l-I077

Kelly. AJbert A. (Alcncdc). .Lalrhurrt 2-275{

Loo;r Lumbcr d Mill Compcay (Alcncdc) ...........LAt<ehurst 3-5550

Lt titsEn

Aasctur Fir 6 piae sstor co. (t""r}f*l? r-rro

Arcqtc f,cdwood Co. (1. l. 8oc) ..WYouirs llll0

Atlcalic Lunbcr Co. (C, P. Hoary ll Co.) PRorprct 6521

Atlcr Lurnbcr Co. .... .....mility 2326

Bcck Luabcr Co., l. Wn. .lDcnr l-1361

Bcush, Ccl W. (Parcdonc) ....Ci;*I"? l#

Slir d Gqtcr Lunbor Co. ......IlNdcrhill 0-31!i{

Brush lndurlrlcl Lubrr Co. ....IlNdrrbtll 0-3il0l

Bunr Lunbu Conpcly .WEb3t.r 3-5881

Carr C Co- L. t. (W. D. Duadng) PBorpect 88$

Chqntlcad qrd Agodct.r, P. W. AXnidrtrr 5296

Chcaoy Luabrr Co. (8urnr furbrr Co.) ............WEbrtu 3-5851

Grorgo Clough .DU*irL 2-Zll4

Couolidotod Lunber Co. ........Blchnond 2l{l (Wilnington) ......NE. 8-1881 Wiln. Tcr. l-2587

Cooper-Morgo Lunbor Co.

Willrcd T. Cooprr Lbr. Co, (Gbadcb) Cllcpnan 5-{8(l

Cooper Wholorclc Lunbor Co., W. E. ..YOrh 82ll8

Dclloa 6 Co., B. W. (Sca Mcriao)PYrqnid l-2127

Dcnt il Bursrll, Sstor Co. .ADcnr El0l

ll Dorry Lunbcr Co, .....f,Ngdur 0856

Donover co.. rnc...

g*i:i,#i::l3i

Eelcy, D, C. d Soa ...llNdrrbill 0-ll{7

Fcirhurgt Lunber Co. o{ Cclit. (Lor Angolor Lumbrr , Iac,)..l.MAdiroa 6-Dl3{

FisL G Mcroa (So. Pqrcdrac) ....PYrcmid l-fl9 SYccmorc 9-26?{

EriL Flcmcr (Loag Bccch)..f.B. 6-52i17; NE 6-t72{

Forol Produclr Sqlce Co. (Ingtcwood)

Plecgot 3-ll{l

Frclnca ll Co., Stophon G. (Eclboc) Harbor tl&l,l

Ed. Fountsia Lunbor Co, .LOcoa 8-Zl3l

Hqllinan Mqckin Lunber Co.......ANg€tus 3-{l5l

Hqmiltoa, BiU ....DUd&t( 9-59qt

Hqanoad Lunbor Conpcay ......PRoapcct 7I7l

Hgrrir Lurbor Co., L. E, ........DUDLirL 2-2301

Hrbcrb d Co,, tr. J. (Conpton) ..NEvcdc 6-25!15

Hcnmiagr Lunbcr Co,..... .NOracady t-21{ll

Hill 6 Morloa, lac. .... ...... .BBq&hm- 2-1375

Pccilic Foregt Productt, Inc.. .TWho-Lr 3-9866

Tricngle Lunbcr Co.. ..TEaplcbcr 2-5855

Western Dry f,i,la Co.. .LOcLhcvcD 8-328{

Westera Pinc Supplv Co. (Enoryvilb) .:.. .Ptcdnont 5-?9ll

E. E. Wood Lunber Co.... .XEllog l-8168

HTNDWOODS

Erucr Co,, E. L.... ....XEUog 3-6677

Strable Hcrdwood Conpdy....TEnplcbcr 2-558,1

Whito Erotborr ..........ANdovrr t-1600

IOS AITGETES

Lor Aagclot Drv rib ll stoscer" hfirgclu, 3-6273

Lor Aagolor Luobrr, lac. ..............M4 6-913{

Lor-Ccl Lunbor Co. .tEflonoa 623{

Lunber l6tl il Suppty Co. ........ANgolue 3-1503

MccDoncld Co., L. W. .B8adahcw 2-5101

McCloud Luubcr Co.. .llEraoat 8-1963

Mcbogcay lnportiag Co. .....T8idty gBSl

Mouat Wbitncy Lunber Co., tac. ,.Alfgrtut 0l7l

Murphy funbor Co,, I. D. (So Mcriao) .....PYrqnid l-ll2{

lcmes Newquist Lunber Sclcs (Pcscdenc) ......RYcn l-8486 SYcqnorc 5.13,t0

Olgcn-Cqrpcnter Lunbrr Co. (Bevrrly Hilb) .BRcdrhcw 2-6651

Osgood, Eobcrt S. .DUD&|* 2-82t3

Pccilic Fir Sclu (pqscdcas) ....SycTiS i:!ffi

Pccific Lumber co.. rhe Sr;;ll";l lftx|

Pccilic Forest Productr, hc. (Dictr tO6;;!f)rr*

Pccilic Worten Lunber Co. ol Cctit., Iac. (Pcrsadcrro) SYccnorc 6-8869-L.4. BYao l-8t8

Popo d Tclbot, Itc., Lunber Divirioa PRoapcct 8?31

E. L, Reitz Co., Ocean Center Btdc, (Long Becch) ......Loni Beach 6-96{Z

Bouada Lumber co. (Long "."fl}rn!::""f g-.!ggi

Boy Forot Productr Co. (Vca l{uyr) STctc S-ltfr

Budbcch d Co., John A, .......DOuglcs 2-0888

S 6 S Luubrr Co. (Downry) ........TOpar 2-1010

Southen Calilornio Lunber Sctes (yiii.ilflril

Soulbon Lunber Co. ......TRinity 032{

Slsnto!, E. l. G Soa ......ADut d-9!!I

Tccomc Lumber Sslee, lac. ....MAdisoa 8-6gll

Tcrdy, foc ....WEbrtor 3-{X[?

Tcrter, Websler d Jobngoa, Iac. .INgelua 9-?llt

Tqubo & Bergstron ...BRcdshqw 2-6192

Tropiccl d Weetern Lunbor Co.....!Oga! O-gt7S

Twia-City Lumber Co. .BRcdrhsw 2-167{

Twia Hcrbon Lunbcr Co. (C. P. Henry d Co.) ............pRoepoct S,li2{

Urion Lumbcr Conpoy ...TBiDitt Zn2

wendling-Ncthcn co' 's*;"ltll ll3?l

Weyerbceuser Sclge Co. ........Rtchnoad 7-OSO5

Wesleh Pine Lunber Co, (Huntirgto! Pcrk) .LOgc! 8-Ol5

West Oresoa Lunbcr Co. (".t"tilj$hl_

PANELS_DOORS_SASH_SCREENS

PL]WOOD_MII.LWOBT

Diaaoad W. Supply Co. ....... .....XEllog 4-8166

Enrco Plywood .f,Elogf 6{3:t

Hogon Lunbcr Conpcay .......Glleacourf l-6861

Urit.d Slctcr Plywood Corp. ....TWiao-r. S55l{

Wcllor! Door d Scrh Co, ......IEnpfcbar Z-8llXt

E. tr. Wood L.-f.or Co. .fEUosf t-8,S5

CRESOTED L!,InIBER-POLES-PING:-IIES

Americca Lurbcr d Tnctiag Co...MAdiron g-igtg

p_cx-ler J: !I. 6 Co. .......Dunt&t g-9S91

McCorniclc 6 Bcrtrr Crorotiag Co.

pope d rclbot, Inc., Lunbor or*ronreon 8-3726

Plorpcct 82ilt

SASH_D OONS_MILLWORtr_SCNEENS PLYWOOD_INONING BOANDS

Asociqted Moldins Co. ........UNdorhill 0-3Zlt Back Pand Conpcny .....ADanr 3.lillS

Bel-Air Door Co. (Alhoabrc)..CUmberlaad 3-3731

Cqlilornic Door Conpcay ol Lor Aagdor, Thr ,...-,,.... .XJnbcll 2l{l

Cclilornic Paacl & Voaror Co. ......TBinity 0057

Carlow Conpcny .....ADcs l-0159

Cobb Co., T. M...................AD@r l-lll7

Coor-Prndrr 6 Loag ,,......... .NOnodl 3-938

Dcvideot Plywood 6 Lumbor Co. ANgdur 3-6931

Dcvis Plywood Corp. ...........CHcpncn 5-208it

Dicnoad W Supply Co. (Vonon) ..tEflrrson Zl88

Eclslron Pllwood 6 Door Co. ...ADqmr 3-{ll8

Fidler's Maaulccturiag Co. ......Pf,ccsqrt 3-lll2

Fir-Tex ol So. Cdil..... ,.ADqne 8l0l

Georgic-Pccific Plywood Co.., .NOrmoady &l 168

Holey 8rc. (Sotc Moaica) .......,TExcr 0-{831

C8eetview 6-316{

Zroraca Plysood Ccr

logs being unlooded into the Somoo pond from our own roilrood.lhis pond covens opproximotely 80 ocres wirh storoge spoce for 16 million feet. An oddirionol 25 million feet is stored in rfre Big I'ogoon pond.

The logs in these ponds gef mighfy wet, but rhey produce tfre finest Certified Kiln Dry Redwood obtainqble.

FINISH SIDING PATTER,N

There is no sotisfcrctory substitute for sound, properly grcded Redwood, qnd Hommond Diomond H Redwood fulfills oll milling, gruding, ond 5€osoning stondords.