YESWE ST()Cl( BAXC(I-PYRESOTE fire-retardant LUMBER & PLYWOOD

Pressu re treatedfu I ly ki I n dried. Underwriters' Laboratories labeled. Meets all code requi rements. Fi re-retardant treated wood is now almost universally acceptable for uses formerly restricted to "non-combustible" materials. We can supply your growing demand.

Strabls

LUMBER CO.

STRABLEWOOD QUALIW

Hardwood & softwood lumber, flooring & plywoodl Fire-retardant and termite.resistant pressure treated wood. Masonite, Marlite, Upson, Celotex and hardwood mouldings.

255 Second St., Oakland 7, California Phone (415) 882-5584

Petery's plant meets federal specification TT-W-S71, Federal Housing Authority specifications, State of California Title 2I, Uniform Building Code in research recommendation 1971.2 and the American Wood Preservers Association Standards.

Early this year, a seeond retort of equal size was installed to keep up with the ever increasing demand for pressure treated lumber.

In addition to agricultural wood products, pressure treated lumber and poles have been added to the inventory. The pressure treated lumber is used for foundation plates, sills, and sub flooring as well as wherever decay and termite infestation are prevalent. The pressure treated poles are used for both utility and construction applications.

In an ideal location for treating dealer's lumber in transit, it is on Highway 99, just south of Fresno, on the Southern Pacific lines.

The plant operates seven days a week, 24 hours a day to insure customers prompt and efficient service.

Condon-King Purchose

Condon-King Company have purchased the manufacturing and marketing rights for the Manchester-Pierce prefabricated metal line of fireplaces. Purchase was from Pacific Steel Products Company in Seattle, Washington.

r[lnY.f,lrlUll, president 0f thr blg retsit chsin (utr por lefU, pauses at the handsome entrance to the firm's new offices in Tarzana Calif. At risht. Mullin inspects attrative fireplace installation a-t ihe new headquarters. Ralph Baker (second row, left) is op. erations manager and supervisor of branch yards for the firm. Photo at right offers exterior view of new office building, Al Lewis (lower left) is head of purchasing for Los Angeles area yards. Virginia Lailonte (center at lower center) is chief accountant, assisted by (l-r) Rose Mary Willey, Ruth Vesely, Virginia, Ruth Kahl and June Porter. At right is Orinda hazen, who lends a hand in sale pricing control. The new offices are the hub of activity for the Terry Lumber operations.

Mullin lumber Heodquorlers A Study in Quiel Elegonce

A N ELEGANT office building highlighted fI 5t unusual and exciting applications of wood products is the new "home" of the general ofrce stafi of the Terry Lumber companies.

The new offices, located in Tarzana, California, form a showcase for many of the lumber products handled by the group of companies, which includes Tarzana Lum' ber Co., Burbank Lumber Co., Terry Lum' ber Co., in Northridge and in Ventura County and a milling operations in Burbank. The new facility also functions as a general office for the Flagstaff Lumber Co., and the Verde Valley Lumber Co., both in Arizona.

'oAll we wanted was a quiet and peaceful place to work," mused aggressive young lumberman Terry Mullin, who masterminded the building.of the new offices.

Mullin, who calls himself a "frustrated architect," not bnly engineered the erection of the building but also served as its interior decorator, designing its custom ofrce furniture, light fixtures and even the doors.

Quiet elegance is the theme tlroughout the building. Handsome mahogany entrance doors, designed after similar ones which Mullin saw in Mexico, open on to a spa(Continued, on Page 72)

OLD-GROMH BAND.SAWN RElltv(ltlll from Bojock Lumber Co., Manchester OLD.GROMH II(|UGLAS FIR from Spacek Bros. Lumber Co,, Manchester

Precision-trimmed STUDSDouglas Fir o White Fir . Redwood

Deoler Group OKs Sizes

New lumber standard sizes were proposed and adoptcd by the NLBN{DA at its special meeting in Washington, D. C., on May 11. Cht'-.ter T. Hubbell, t'hairman of the national dealer group's standards and industry alTairs committee.,"aid the as-qociation shoul<l take a "positivt' starrd"' on lunrlrt'r star-rdards "inasmuclt as thr ledcral governmcnt would surclv do it" for them by the errd of the year. Ht' rcmindcd them of the Department of Com' mt'rce's notice to drop present standards September 15 il the industrv did not reach ar:t'ord.

The newlv-endorscd sizt's are equivalent. HLrbbell said. an<l conform to the government's requirement they be so designatecl. Thel are:

Nominal: 2" :1"

Dry: I-9,iI6" 2-1i2"

Gret:tr: l-5/8" 2-5/8"

\ominal '. []" 10" l)rr : 7-I/+" 9-1/4"

Green: 7-I,'2" 9-l 12" x" 6" :l-l/2" 5-I/2" 3-5/8" 5-5/8" 72" 14" I7-l / 4" l:l-l/4" lI-9i16" 1:l-9/'tI6

Following adoption of the sizes, \\'-a)'le Gardner, Lumber As' sociation of Southt'rn Cali{ornia" askcd that the board's action be communicatetl -.lviItl)' to all members anrl c-,rganizations r:onr:t:rned.

Hotch's Own Home Show

Twent"v-three demonstrations and displays highlighted Portland, Orcgon's Hatch Building Material's own Home Show, hcld the first thrce days in April.

llolr (lhaprnan, rnanager o{ the largest yard on Portland's east sidc, said the demonstration tied in with thcir sale and was an efiectivc sale,* tool. Stan and Harold Hatch founded the firm and Bob Hatch is now the president. Lloycl Blake is the 'r'icepresiderrt and Mrs. Alice Mitchell is the o{fice manager.

NIore than $1,000 was givt:n awaf in door prizes to an overflow crowd.

Hordwood Distributors Huddle

L.vall 0. llcll has been elected tht: ncw president of the Pacific Coast Wholt'salt' Hardrvood Distrilrutors Association at their recent '1,3rd annual convcntion, held in Maui" Hawaii.

Other officr,rs tapped to servt' rvere lst vp, Al Frost, Jr., San I)iego; 2nd vp, John I'{. Higg-ins. San l'rancisco; antl Rob Kahn, San Francisco. rs secretarv-tr('astlrer. President Bell is from Vancouver. B.C.

PCWHDA dirt:r'tors for the lrew tcrm are: Eddie Bauer, Los Angeles; K. Il. "NIac" MacBeath, Berkcley; Carl E. Johnson, Los Angeles; F'red Ahearn, Portland. and James Sullivan of San Dieeo.