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ASSOCIATION GRADED PLYWOODS ARE JUST ONE OF OUR SPECIAtTIES

"We offer personofized service os well qs o complete line of on-grode producls" * -" #i l;:t'+;s-- t +gq Windeler

NIGHT LETTER TO:

KEEP Woter Cool, Profits High

YOU HAVE HEARD oboul "the cool woler from the wooden buckel." lt's frue. Wood keeps woler cooler. And Redwood is resistant to rot - fungi ond ineecls; does nol rust, They lcst longer,

So when you sell Redwood tonks, you noke o nice profit ond sotisfy your cu3lomor. Write now for the Windeler Plcn ond tonk prices.

"OUR 73rd YEAR"

Mcobcrol

(copv) SAN }.'I{ANCISCO

INTERSTATE COX{MERCE COI,[TTISSION

WASHINGTON 25, D. C.

June 1, 1958

AS ONE OF THE \IAJOR MANUFACTURERS AND PRODUCERS OF REDWOOD LUMBER IN TH.E STATE OF CALIFORNIA WITH PLANTS LOCATE,D AT EUREKA. CALIFORNIA, ON THE NORTHWE,STERN PACIFIC RAILROAD, SHIPPING APPROXIMATELY THIRTY MILLION BOARD FEET OF REDWOOD PRODUCTS ANNUALLY, WE HAVE A VITAL INTEREST WITH MANY OTHER LUMBER COMPANIES IN CALIFORNIA IN RECONSIDERATION BY THE INTE'RSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION OF SUSPENSION ORDER ISSUED BY DIVISION TWO IN I&S 6933 COVERING REDUCE,D INTERSTATE RAIL RATES ON LUMBER BETWEEN STATES OF OREGON, CALIFORNIA AND ARIZONA, AS REQUESTEI) THRU PETITION OF SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO., AT&SF AND OTHER WEST COAST RAIL LINES.

WE BELIEVE FINANCIALLY SOUND RAIL LINES REQUIRED BY PACIFIC COAST SHIPPERS CAN ONLY BE MAINTAINED BY PERMITTING THEM TO PUBLISH REDUCED RATES MAKING THEM COMPETITIVE WITH OTHER FORMS OF TRANSPORTATION TO WHICH THEY ARE CONSISTEiNTLY LOSING A GREAT PROPORTION OF LUMBER TRAFFIC WITH RESULTING ALARMING LOSS IN NEEDED FREIGHT REVENUE.

FURTHER LOWER TRANSPORTATION CHARGES WILL ALSO RESULT IN REDUCED BUILDING COSTS THUS ENCOURAGING INCREASED HOME CONSTRUCTION, A VITAL KEY TO IMPROVED BUSINESS CONDITIONS.

BOTH MARKE.TERS OF LUMBER AND COMMON CARRIERS TRANSPORTING FOREST PRODUCTS TO MARKETS ARE NOW FACED WITH SERIOUS UNFAiR COMPETITIVE. PRACTICES OF UNREGULATED CARRIERS. PROPOSED REDUCED RATES WILL PLACE RAIL LINE,S IN POSITION TO FAIRLY COMPE,TE AND THUS DiSCOURAGE SPREAD OF THESE QUESTIONABLE OPERATIONS.

BECAUSE WE FEEL SO STRONGLY THAT BOTH THE LUMBER AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY AS A WI{OLE WILL GREATLY BENEFIT FROM THESE PROPOSE,D RATES WHICH WILL ALSO LEAD TO A STRONGER RAIL TRANSPORTATION SYSTE\I WE HOPE THE COMMISSION WILL FAVORABLY CONSIDER CARRIE,RS PETITION.

HOLMES EUREKA LUMBER COMPANY

Fred V. Holmes. President side of Wheatland avenue north of from agricultural to suburban by

Sun Valley.-57 acres on east Tuxford street were rezoned L. A. City Council.

PAT]L E. KENT

Wholesale Lumber Douglas Fir Clears and flardwood Plywoods

For all species and proilucts call HOllywood 7-1L27

- 6404 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood 28, California J

fhe R,obeil Dollor Go. Reaciivotes Its Glendole, Oregon, Bond Mill

After nearly a year-long shutdown, the Robert Dollar Company will reopen its Glendale, Oregon, band mill July 1, Jack Dollar announced from his San Francisco offices. The completely revamped mill will be used to cut cants (up to 32-f.oot lengths) for the Dollar Company's large gang mill installation, located adjacent to the band mill. Although band facilities were shut down last Summer, the company continued to operate its gang mill which averages 150,000 bf (principally Douglas fir) per day.

In addition to the output of its gang mill, The Robert Dollar Compa.ny recently acquired the lease and produc- tion of the Dollar & Patterson mill, located right next to D-glQ{s big Glendale plant, which has a daily output of 100,000 bf. The D & P operation is a 26-foot mill with an 8-foot band cutting principally ponderosa and sugar pine lumber.

CDfrtfuclries

AI PEIR.CE

Complete details were not available at press time but word has been received that Al Peirce, well-known Coos Bay, Ore., lumberman and industry leader, was killed May 28 at the age of 50 in an accident near Oirick, Calif., involving his new sports car and a logging truck. Mr. Peirce was a frequent visitor to his Southern California branch and had recently attended the dealers convention at the Ambassador.

Gyril BENDORF

Funeral services were held in Arcata, May 29, for Cyril Bendorf, retired head of the California Redwood Box Co., Oakland, who died from a heart attack at his Arcata home, May 27. lf e leaves his wife, a son, two daughters, two sisters, and his two brothers, Harold of San Francisco and Derby of Scotia.

Arthur SETTERBERG

Funeral services were held Mav 26 f.or Oscar Arthur Setterberg, 72, known as "Art" to his many friends. He spent his early years around Portland, Oregon, where he worked for the W. P. Fuller Co., was with Columbia River Door Co. at Rainier, Ore., the Crosset-Western Lumber Co. in Wauna, Ore., and was a partner in the Central Planing Mill at Vancouver, Wash., f.rom 1919-24. He moved to Los Angeles in 1924 and was associated with the Pacific Door & Sash Co., which later became Pacific Wood Products Co. He served during World War II as an inspector of materials for the Navy and was afterwards connected rvith D. D. McCallum, fnc., Alhambra, until his retirement in 1955. He leaves his wife Ann of the home at 7657 Gentry Ave.. North Hollywood; a son and a diughter, six grandchildren, and his brother Harry of Portland.

In Memoricrm

Fred King, 83, a lumberman and native of San Juan Bautista, died last month in Santa Cruz, where he made his home Ernest Drew, 80, owner of the Rosemead Hardware, died in Rosemead, June 2.

Nevsdq Lumber Co. Joins LMA

The Nevada Lumber Company, Tahoe Valley, Calif., has been welcomed into active membership by the Lumber Merchants Assn. of Northern Calif. Harold Dayton, Jr. and F. K. Rahbeck are the managing partners of the stateline retail yard.

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