Your dependable statewide source for quality products

Fast service, complete inventories for all basic building needs - lumber, mouldings, plywood, millwork. Specialty products too -fencing, hardwood, beams, to name a few.

Whatever your customers' construction needs you'll do better at Tarter, Webster A Remanufacturing Plants \ & Johnson distribution yards.Buying Offices

Buildine materials for any needs at these ten conuenient locations :

LOS ANGELES

42OO Bandini Blvd.

LOS ANGELEg (Hardwoodf 4230 Bandini Blvd.

VAN NUYS

15150 Erwin St.

LANCASTER 4O5 West Newgrove Ave.

STOCKTON

Stockton Box Company 18OO Marshall Ave.

NATIONAL CITY

L64O Tidelands Ave.

RIALTO 555 West Rialto Ave.

FRESNO

1266 North Maple Ave.

NEWARK

5526 Central Ave.

PHOENIX, ARIZONA

Arizona Box Company

3203 Grand Ave.

An average yard-inventory of more than five million board feet assures customers of a diversified selection from stock. Specializing in kiln dried Douglas fir and redwood upper grades from 1x2 to 2xl2 and also a complete line of pine commons. Broad selection of other western species, green and dry, from stock or as direct mill shipments. [xtensive inventories of mouldings, millwork, fencing materials and AMTIIE exterior glued sheathing plywood grades.

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Ozd WESTERN BUILDING REVIEW

Features

LOS ANGELES RETAILERS CLOSE UP AS BUILDING LAGS

WORK AND WAGER MIX WELL AT LMA CONVENTION

RETAILER REBUILDS AFTER DISASTROUS FIRE

MEET AN AD }IAN WHO BECAME A LUMBERMAN

GREAT SOCIETY IS ASSAILED AT NFPA CONVENTION

THE IVIERCHANT'S PLAN OF THE MONTH

THE MERCHANT WINS NIAJOR AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE

DEALER GROUP APPROVES NEW LUMBER SIZES

CALIFORNIA REDWOODMEN ON THE MOVE

SAN DIEGO ANNUAL NITE LAUDS OLD-TIMERS

NATION'S HOME FIXUP INDUSTRY SEEN SURGING

MIAMI-CAREY'S NEW WESTERN EXPANSION

DUBS INAUGURATES FIRST REDWOOD EMPIRE TOURNEY

HOUSING NOW AWAITS POSTWAR BABY BOOM

NEW FEATURE: THE MERCHANT'S VACATION HOME PLANS

STUDY TURNS UP NEW MARKET FOR PLYW'OOD FLOORING

MANAGEMENT TAKES HELM AT BENNETT

Publigher A. D. BeU, Jr.

Manaelne Edltor - - David Cutler

Assl8tant Editor anil AdvertiBtng r'rOductlon Menagor walden Muns

ClrculatlonAndreal)epartmentFrlece

Publlshere Repr€tontatlves

NORTHEISN CAIIT'ORNIA

Max Cook, advertlslng and news' 420 Market Street, San Franciseo, Callfornla 94111, Phone (415) Yukon 2-4797.

SOUT}fDNN CAIITONNIA

Jerry Hlckoy, advertlslng and ne\ils. 412 West Slxth Street, Los Aneeles, Callfornla 90014, Phone (213) MAdison 2-4ffi5 or MAdison 2-0670, PACTFIC NORTHWEST

Peto Klaner, advertlsing and news, Terminal Sales Building, Portland. Oreson 97205, Phone (503) CApitol 7-4993.

CIIICAGO

N,C, "Budd" Bellow, advertislng and news, 11250 South Hat. ted Street. Chicago, Illlnois 60628, Phone (312) 564-7722.

DDITOBIAL OT'I'ICES

CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCIIANT ls Dubllshed monthly at 4lZ West Slxth Street, hs Anselos. Callfornia 90014. Pbone (2lS) MAdison 2-4565 or .DlAdicon 2-06?0 bv Callfornla Lumber Merchant, Iirc. Please address all correspondence to offlce of publicatlon. Second-class Dostage rates Paid at Los Angele;s, Callfornla. Advertlsing rates upon request, Subecrlotlon Ratee-U.S., Canada, Mexlco- and Latln Amerlca: lD4one year; $? - two Years' Overgeas:'S5 - one year; $8 - two Years. Sinsle coples 50 cents. Back coples ?5 aents when available.

Chanse of Address-Send subscrlp- tion orders and address changes to Circulation Department, Californta Lumber Merch-ant, 412 West Sixth St.. Los Anseles, Calif. 90014. Inclide address label from recent lssue lf posslble, plus new address, zone number or zip code.

IteDrlnt ServicoeReprints, preDri-nts. cover folders (in both black 'and white and color) on California Lumber Merchant articles and advertisins are avallable on reouest witFin the month of issue. eontact our editorial olfices for irrformation and prices on any quantity.

CATIFl|RI{IA TUMBER MERCHATIT is an intlepend,ent rnagaz'ine published rnonthW for those nlernbers of the lumber and build,i,ng materials industries who need a,nd uant factual, aceurate news and an objectiue anaWsis of euents and, proilucts of coneern to them in busi'ness.

Vlctoria 9-3109

20 EAST ATAMEDA AVE., BUNBANK, CALIFORNIA

THornwall 2-2158 lumber company

I HEMLOCK

I WTSTERN RED CEDAR atP Brand r Tight Knotted

I SPRUCE

I PINE

J INDUSTRIAL SPECIALTIES

I FACTORY.STATNED

Cedar: Siding, Decking Paneling

I SPRUCE & HEMLOCK

Pre-primed Facia, Decking lf you have problems in plywood cut-to-size, pre-finish, or imports, would twenty years experience help?

Mike Murphy offers two decades of knowledge in hardwood plywoods both imports and domestic. This outstanding lumber man not only pioneered Japanese plywoods in Southern California but has directed all functions of plywood and given technical assistance to lumber yards and builders. With one phone call his twenty years of problem solving experience is at your disposal.

Vqcqtion Wos Greol

\f/E HAVE JUST returned from two delightful YV weeks of vacation in the Caribbean.

Imagine being greeted on return with a call from our slavedriver (editor to you) asking for editorial copy, as the deadline was upon him. And here we were scratching and yawning without a thought for the business at hand. What to do?

First, let's see what has accumulated on'the deskmaybe we'll get an idea. Here's a letter from an attendee at the NFPA annual meeting in Washington, who also took in sessions of the Inter-Association Public Relations Group. We quote:

'oThe four days which we spent at Washington last week were productive only to the extent of contacting many of the manufacturers who attended. Insofar as the meetings themselves were concerned, I would have been ashamed of myself if we had urged you to make a trip across the country for the purpose of being there."

Next; &s,!dorn Lentfu surfcsed. Pnces *idded $5i00. So what? Everybody knew they would. They proliebly will be up and down twice more by the time you read this.

Then came a letter from a Birmingham, Alabama wholesaler screaming to his Congressman about a Defense Department order to substitute materials for lumber and plywood, (presumedly on the grounds that prices were too high; they should have waited a week), and to seek out sources fior loreign lumber. This last is serious. It made us sit up a little straighter and even go so f4r as to start the ball rolling to gather more facts. Maybe next month we'll be asking you to write your Congressman.

Finding nothing on the latest developments in the ALS committee we made a couple of phone calls and found out everybody had calmed down and were even agreed they could cooperate to the point of eventually arriving at a standard suitable to meet Commerce's September ISth deadline, but that's life isn't it, Sub-committee Chairman Pierson Plummer?

The Redwood Park? Nothing new worth commenting on.

Oh yes, here's something. The University of Oregon, under the abh leadership of Dr. Stuart Rich, is having its third Lumber Industry Marketing Conference, June 15-16, in Eugene, just before the big Hoo-Hoo golf tournamento but unfortunately just before school is out on the l7th. Dr. Rich has lined up a distinguished group of panelists who will discuss The Forest Products Industries in Transition. We found last year's seminar fascinating and plan to attend this year. Well worth while.

Well, here it is noon and we can't get worked up about developments in the last two weeks. Let's go to lunch with the boys and check out business.

Promotion is Vitol

nNE OF THE eleven points that is being dis- V cussed in current labor-management negotip. tisns :lictrhrirr l,oi Arrgelts maqeiment crr; 'td; Lumber and Sawmill Workers Local 2288 is the Wood and Wood Products Promotion Fund clause that was enacted when the contract was agreed upon three years ago.

It was a major step forward for both labor and management, but if for any reason the parties concerned in the present contract discussions should feel it no longer deserves solid backing, then the forest products industry on all sides will have taken a giant step backwards.

While the achievements of the promotional efiort were not staggering in their impact upon the public, neither was the size of the budget. It is remarkable that so much was done with so little money, But much remains to'be done.

The ,benefits from keepingo possibly expanding, the clause will amply prove that wood promotion can be the key to expanding business for all concerned.

Your growing confidence in Good Housekeeping guaranteed Miami-Carey products has led to more and more shipments of our Bathroom Cabinets and Range Hoods into the West. So we've decided to manufacture Miami-Carey products in the West. This coming August, you can expect ready availability of Miami-Carey Cabinets, Hoods, Door Chimes and RadioIntercoms from our modern new facility at Santa Fe Springs (Los Angeles), California. You can also expect the same dependable quality and advanced design that led you to prefer Miami-Carey in the first place.

Until our new plant opens, you can get complete information on MiamiCarey products by writing Dept. CL-666, MiamiCarey Division, The Philip Carey Mfg. Company, P. O. Box 58031, Los Angeles , California.