TWENTY.FII'E YEARS AGC' TODAV fu Reported in The California Lumber Merchant, June l, 1955

Practically all the Fir cargo mills in Oregon and Washington were down as the result of the strike called May 6 by the Sawmill & Timber Workers' Union. 4,000 workers in the Humboldt County redwood industry were to be a.ffected by a strike voted May 10 to start May 15; only 100 members of the Lumber & Sawmill Workers' Union local voted for the strike but the vote represented 94Vo ot the membership. Employes of Dolbeer & Carson signed 706% a pledge of loyalty to J. M. Ca,rson, "our president and friend," P. J. Rutledge and E. J. Stewart in answer to the ljnion announcement that all mills would close down as a result of the strike call. At the Long-Bell mill, meanwhile, 2,100 voted 8-to-1 to strike and the west coast lumber industry was in turmoil. A telegram from The Gulf Coast Lumberman, in Houston, Texas, reported that the Yellow Pine, oak and hardwood mills of the South were flooded with westcoast orders.

The National Lumber Manufacturers Association completed its organizational meetings in Chicago, April 23-27,1935, and was expected to complete federation of 16 regional associations in a short time . R. R. Leishman, Los Angeles representative of the California Redwood Assn., returned from the San F rancisco headquarters E. W. Hemmings was named to represent the Swayne Lumber Co. of Oroville, Calif., in southern Caiifornia Hugh Forgie, resident of Oakland for over 50 years, died May 2 at Merritt hospital. He was born in 1852 at Girvan, Scotland, and was the father of John and Bob Forgle of Los Angeles. The latter is southern California rep-. resentative for the Santa Fe Lumber Co.

George La Pointor president of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Assn., told the federation meeting of the NLMA in Chicago that his own retail yard has ap exceptional record of loyalty to lumber but it represents less than 30/o of. his business volume Meanwhile, the Federal Housing Administration reports an increased demand for lumber from all sections of the country , F. I)ean Prescott of the Valley Lumber Co., Fresno, was appointed to the Executive committee of the NRLDA at its annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Harry Gaetjen reorganized the old Empire Planing Mill Co. in San F rancisco A. M. Batllner of the Long-Bell Lumber Co. sales sta.ff in Los Angeles left May 11 with his wife and children to visit the old home in Missouri.

G. W. Maddox bought the Geib Lumber Co. yard at SaJx Gabriel . The Associate Lumber Co. opened a yard at 59th and Central in L. A. .. The Graharn-Weir Lumber Co. has started a retail yard at 5511 Whittier Blvd. in L. A. Earl C. Hughes purchased the former Roper & Dabadie Lumber Co. in Santa Cruz and renamed it the Hughes Lumber Co. . The

San F'rancisco Builders' Exchange first annual Exposition at the Civic auditorium there featured exhibits by Wheeler Osgood Sales Corp., the California Redwood Assn., Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., Maris Plywood Corp., White Bros., Jones Hardwood Co., Sudden Lumber Co., and Mallott & Peterson. The show was in cooperation with the FHA . . Wilfretl T. Coope,r, L' A. representative for Wendling-Nathan Company, The Paciflc Lumber Co. and A. L. Iloover Company, wast on a trip to visit the northern mills Lumber of a quantity -to fill to capacity seven vessels of 1,250,000 feet-capacity, has already been used in construction at the Catifornia Pacific International Exposition in San Diego. No estimate is available of the amount used to build seven frame structures in the "Gold Gulch" area, but 16X18 timbers were the main cords used in a truss 64 feet long'on the Palace of F'oods and Beverages'

II. S. Patten of the Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., and \lV. T. Davtee of the Patten-Davies Lumber Co. returned to their Los Angeles and Pasadena businesses, respectively, following a 3-week auto trip to Washington, D.C. . Ralph Brindley' general plant supt., returned to the Wheeler Osgood Sales Corp. in Tacoma a.fter three weeks in California The nation was shocked at the kidnapping of Goorge Phillp Weyerha€user' 9-year-old son of ilohn P. Weyerhaeuser, Jr., at noon, May 9, on his waY home from

P. O. Box No. 340 Berkeley l, Colif.

school. Several thousand Weyerhaeuser workers swore to march into the woods and search every acre of forestland near Tacoma if necessary. F. R. Titcomb, general manager of the Timber Co., is acting intermediary with the kidnappers on ransom money.

The strike situation in the Northwest is unchanged-practically all the flr cargo mills shut down but the redwood mills still operating, and the loyalty of those mill workers was commended by the operators. About 40,000 workers were idle

The California Lumber Merchant announces that, because of the strike and general industry conditions, the annual Anniversary issue, July 1, would be postponed till a later date Jack Dionne's "Vagabond Editorials" in this issue start off: .,NRA is dead!" (It had been ruled Unconstitutional by the Supreme Court) . . Fred If. Morehouse joined the L. A. sales staff of MacDonald & Harrington L. A. Beckstrom of MacDonald & Harrington and his wife are the parents of a baby boy, John Ertc Beckstrom, born May 5.

After the strikers had brutally beaten three persons in the Paciflc Northwest strike violence, Oregon Gov. Charles H. Martin dispersed 300 pickets near the Stimson Lumber Co. mill upon his threat to call out the National Guard . Kenneth Conrvay has joined the Holmes Eureka Lumber Co. in charge of the L. A. office President Jerry Bonnlngton chaired the May 20 meeting: of the East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club at the Hotel Coit, Oakland . President W. G. Scrim announced that the annual meeting of the Philippine Mahogany Assn. will be held June 10 at the Association offices in Los Angeles .w. A. Bonestel, pioneer lumberman and one of the founders of the Peoples Lumber Co. at Ventura, died there suddenly on May 12. His wife Mary had died just one week earlier, on May 5. Survivors include his son Charles E. Bonestel of Ventura, malrag:er of the Peoples Lumber Co.

The Southern California Lumbermen's Golf Tournament, sponsored by Legion Lumbermen's Post 403, brought out 82 golfers at Brentwood, May 17. There were 120 present for the evening dinner and entertainment. If. F. Bowles won the low net prize. Other winners included Francis Boyd,

Fire Burns for 2 Hours ot Independenf Lumber Co., Venturq

A fire that apparently went undetected for about two hours damaged the Independent Lumber Co. on the outs.kirts -of_Ventura, Calif., in the early morning hours of Apiil 6. The'fire's head start enabled i[ to destrdv a 250-f.t.. !ry_o--story building-materials structure and its iontents, a 125-f.t. shed and two trucks. It also damaged the offices, a smaller storage building and a third truck. The fire pre- g"T?.bly smoldered for some time inside the two-sfory building at the rear of the yard and then exploded into thl open about 5 a.m. Firemen were further hambered by a lack of pater to combat the blaze.

Owner Tom Maher said his loss, largely covered by insurance, might reach between 975,000 aira $1OO.OOO. He added that it was the first fire of consequence in his 24 years in business and he couldn't understand how it sDread so fast.

W. R. Lindsey, }{arcy Graham, Scott Boyd, C. C. Bohnhotr, C. H. Crane, C. W. Wuest, Frank Burnaby, H. Hughes, E. Steffensen, S. N. Simmons, W. T. Davies, Duncan McNeil, Ross Blanchard and J. Walter Kelly. Chairman of the committee was Loo Hubbard, assisted by Don Philips, Roy Stanton and C. M. Freeland.

The Hayward Lumber & Investment Co. furnished a model home for the National Housing: Exposition in Pan-Paciflc auditorium at Los Ang'eles. Exhibitors included W. E. Cooper Lumber Co. and J. H. Baxter & Co. Niel Comegys, Don Proudfoot, H. E. Shugart and Tom Crain are pictured beside the new Display Service Truck of The Celotex Corp. at Los Angeles in this issue John Philip Weyerhaeuser, Sr., son of the founder of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Coinpany, who died in 1914, passed away from penumonia, May 16, at his home in ?acoma. He was born Nov. 4, 1858. near Rock Island, Ill., where his father was conducting a retail lumber business The TVohy Lumber Co., yard brokers in the Petroleum Securities Bldg. was offering some attractive buys in retail yards in this issue.

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