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Lowell Kolb, purchasing head of the Mullin Lumber Company, Los Angeles, spent a couple of weeks last month on a buying trip to Eureka and Northern California.

Stuart Harris, Lounsberry-Harris Lumber Company, Los Angeles, visited sawmills in Northern California last month as far north as Eureka, California. He reports plenty of action prevails country.

Warren Hull, Hull Brothers Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and Mrs. Hull left last month on an extensive trip through British Columbia via automobile. They expect to be gone until the end of June and will spend considerable time in Vancouver and Victoria, B.C.

Frode Kilstofte, manag'er, Rossman Mill and Lumber Company, Wilmington, California, left on an extended vacation,last month. He expects to be away from business for several u'eeks.

Jim Suits, Golden State Lumber Company, Santa Monica, California, is spending the month of June at Pebble Beach with his family. He is expected back on the job the first week in Tuly.

Jack Murphy, former sales manager for E. J. Stanton & Son, fnc., has joined the sales staff of Los Angeles Lumber, fnc., according to Harry Whittemore, manager of the wholesale lumber concern. He will head the Pine and White Fir division with headquarters in Los Angeles.

John Sampson, Sampson Company, Pasadena, manufacturer and distributor of screen doors and allied building products, spent the latter part of May and the first of June fishing on Lake Mead, at Boulder City, Nevada.

Ray Robinson has been appointed to the sales staff of Lumber Mill & Supply Co., Los Angeles, according to Bill Belau, manager of the wholesale lumber concern. Ray will cover the southrvest territory, it was announced.

Don Bufkin, Hobbs Wall Lumber Company, Southern California representative, Mrs. Bufkin and daughter Donna, spent the latter part of May and the first part of June in Arizona. While in the Sun Country they visited with Herb Bufkin and family in Tucson.

Ray Sedall, with the James W. Newquist Lumber Sales, Pasadena, California, spent the last part of May visiting mills and suppliers in Northern California. On his return trip he called on customers enroute with first hand information regarding production and delivery schedules.

J. G. L."Monty" Montgomery, export manager for Lake Logging and Lumber Co., San Francisco, began a 2% month business trip to the Far East and Europe the latter part of May. His schedule calls for visits to Hawaii, the Fiji Islands, Nerv Zealand, Australia, South Africa and London. He will return to the States via plane to New York, and plans to be back in the San Francis,co office August 4.

L.A. ond Long Beqch Volume for 5 Yeors

The following S-year (1949-1953) Los Angeles District U. S. Customs figures of the water-borne export-import trade volume through Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbors, reflects the vital importance of two-way world trade-

Fire levels Grohom lumber Compony In Mqrin County

Fanned by winds up to 42 miles an hour, a raging fire destroyed the Graham Lumber Co. yard in Marin County early Wednesday morning, May '26. Damage was estimated at $200,000 by County Fire Chief Charles Reilley.

The lumber yard, at the San Quentin "Y" on the West side of Highway 101, stretches for about three blocks along the highway.

First call on'the fire came from the San Rafael Fire Department at 3:11 a.m., but the blaze lvas not brought under control until 5 :57 a.m. The height of the flames ,coupled with blustery winds drove the fire across the six lane Highway 101, cutting off through traffic for over 20 minutes.

An important volume (not reported in the foregoing Customs District figures) originates in our area, but clears through customs along the Canadian and Mexican borders, and at Gulf and Atlantic ports. For example: the impressive amount of citrus fruits and juice shipped to Canada; motion pictures produced in Hollywood, but exported from New York; and exports of commercial aircraft manufactured in our Area, which in 1953 totaled 310 units with a value of $1 14,600,000 and were "'flown away" to destination. Also, contributing to our economy is the annual $100,000,000 trade between Southern California and the Hawaiian Islands.

Government Specificqfions For Wood Producfs

WASHINGTON-Specifications for more than 1,400 products, purchased by the federal government for its military and other agencies, are listed in a 3?-page directory published by Timber Engineering Company, research affiliate of National Lumber Manufa'cturers Association, in cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

The booklet, "Directory of U.S. Government Specifications for Wood Products," lists the wood products and the agencies from whicl-r specifications may be obtained. A limited number of copies of the directory are available, without charge, on request to Timber Engineering Cornpany, 13318-18th Street, N. W., Washington 6, D. C.

The fire engulfed lumber piles and two buildings, one hou.sing an office and merchandise display, the other a 100 x 150 foot planing mill. In the office firemen found a safe, its door blown open. Whether this was due to the fire or other causes was not determined.

In all, 17 county fire fighting units and 40 county firemen were called to the scene, as well as one unit and four men from San Rafael.

Ed lvory Visits los Angeles

Ed P. Ivory was a recent visitor in Los Angeles, a guest of his business partner, Gus Luellowitz. Mr. Ivory and Mr. Luellowitz own the Ivory Lumber Company, of Dinuba, California, which operates a new and modern sawmill plant that cuts 20 million feet of lumber annually.

Codwcllqder Succeeds Mqson

Paul Cadwallader, Cadwallader Lumber Company, Pennington, N.J., has been appointed as a trustee of the Lumber Dealers Research Council to succeed Norman P. Mason, who is now with NHA.

Bob Gront To Scrn Frqncisco

Bob Grant, for several years past connected rvith the Los Angeles office of Davidson Plywood & Lumber Company, has been appointed manager of the San Francisco office of that concern.

Forestry Reporl For 1953

Eureka, Calif.: Deliveries of sawlogs from the Six Rivers National Forest and the Northern Redwood Purchase unit amounted to a total of 13.4 million feet during the calendar year of 1953, approximately half of the 1952 cut, according to a national forest service report.

The decrease was the result of several contributing factors, the report said, including lack of prepared sales, lack of access road surveys, and somewhat due to decreased demand on account of a slump in the fir market.

However, considerable progress was made in 1953 in preparing sales, which is expected to result in an ir-rcrease in cut of considerable proportions during 1954.

The Lower Trinity ranger district led other administrative units in 1953 'ivith a total cut of nearly six and a half million feet. The Redrvood Unit was next, with nearly five and a half million feet. Sixty-seven per cent of all timber scaled was Douglas fir,281 per cent was redwoocl, and 3/z per cent was ponderosa pine, with small volumes of sugar, pine, hemlock, Port Orford cedar, and incense cedar.

Hints for Home Pointers

Washington, D.C.-Grab that paint brush ! But before you start slapping paint on the exterior of your house, consider some ne\. facts that have come to light.

The National Lumber Manufacturers Association r,varns the home handyman that painting house exteriors too frequently may increase paint failures.

IJnder normal conditions and assuming that the surface is already covered rvith good quality paint, chan.ces are you won't need to repaint a house rvith wood siding more often than once every four to six vears.

Reports Record Soles

Portland, Ore.-N{ and XI Wood Working Company, one of the nation's largest plywood and door and lumber producers, reports sales cif $36,210,750 ancl net earnings of $I,760,412 for its fiscal year, ended February 28. This compared rvith sales of the preceding fiscal year of $33,634,279, a rise of well over $2 million, and earnings of $1,108,358, an increase of over $700,000. It u'as the largest dollar volume of sales in the company's 36-year historv.

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