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Precision Equipment Co., which regularly publishes handy pocket-sized Equipment Manuals as a guide to executive planning, is now making our readers a very special introductory offer of a free one-yeay's subscription to their popular Manual. In the Equipment Manuals are described and illustrated the newest products and inventions for rboth plant and office. They include a wide selection of workbenches, the newest developments in adjustable steel shelving, new equipment and material-handling inventions. Just a o Douglas Fir

White Fir

Inland Fir and

Western Hemlock

Ponderosa Pine

Sugar Pine

Engelmann Spruce

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Sitka Spruce

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Dimension

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Shiplap and Boards

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Paneling and Uppers few minutes spent with each Equipment Manual as it's published will keep t,he executive aware of new products currently being marketed a valuable service to the busy executive. A popular feature of Precision's Equipment Manuals is their special "Heard in the Iacker Room" joke section and the sprinkling of famous cartoons to be found throughout its pages. To obtain your FREE ONE YEAR'S SUBSCRIPTION, just send you.r request to Precision Equipment Co.,44ll Ravenswood Ave., Chicago 4O Ill.

"The Story of the Redwood Lumber Industry" is the title of a new and versatile illustrated folder prepared by the California Redwood Association. Intended as a general interest piece of literature, the 8-page folder can be used as a counter-top give-away by wholesalers and deaiers, or as a mailing piece to commercial and individual customers.

The folder describes with illustrations and a minimum of tcxt where and how the unique redwoods grow, how they attain their great size and their age, and what gives them their amazing resistance to decay, insects and fire. The folder also explains how these same durability characteristics are possessed by lumber manufactured from the California redwoods. Feature of the booklet is an illustrated flow chart which explains the "selec- tive cutting" methods which ensure a supply of redwood lumber for years to come, and sketches the steps in the production of quality redwood lumber -from the forest to the finished product.

Single copies of the ,booklet may be obtained without charge, additional copies at cost, from the Dealer Service Library, California Redwood Association, 576 Sacramento Street, San Francisco 11. California.

P. B. Hazelton Wholesale Hardware, just completing 20 years in southern California, tells the Hazelton story in the nelv Anniversary issue of its Bulletin, which has been published the past 18 months showing New items, Closeouts and monthly Specials. The 'bulletin is mailed to about 1,800 dealers in southern California and Arizona. As an added service to dealers, Hazelton Hardware's new billing system shows both suggested retail price by each or pair, as well as dealer's guaranteed net cost, making it possible for the dealer to price the merchandise as it is unpacked, using either suggested List or a markup on cost. On May 1, Hazelton Hardware issued a comphte general catalog of 254 pages. It illustrates all items stocked, with List prices by each or pair, plus Dealer Net prices that are guaranteed for a period of four months. The catalog will be reissued every four months with prices Guaranteed for that period, says Howard Padrick, merchandising manager, P. B. Hazelton Wholesale Hardware, P.O. Box 710, ComPton, Calif.

The 19th Edition of "Bet,ter Ways to Package, Unitize and Ship," published by the Signode Steel Strapping Company, Chicago, Illinois, is crammed with ideas for improving packaging and shipping methods in all industries. This easy-to-read, 48page booklet is free to those interested and also contains Signode's complete line of strapping, tools, and equipment. A helpful reference for anyone who ships, a free copy may be obtained by writing to the Signode Steel Strapping Cornpany, 2600 North Western Avenue, Chicago 47, Illinois.

Wind Pressures in Various Areas of the United States, by G. N. Brekke, National Bureau of Standards Building Materials and Structures Report 752, issued April 24, 1959, 8 pages, 15 cents. (Order from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D.C.) The windpressure map and the table serve as practical guides in the writing of building codes and in the designing of structures.

Again expanding our service to the Western Building Industry, we will now laminate our 4'x 8' Coral-Coat Melamine-surfaced Coralite Pattern Board to (l) gypsum, (2) honeycomb paper, (3) Styrofoam, or (4) fiberglas cores. You can thus give custom walls or partitions, designed for insulation, fire- or sound-proofing, etc., the beautiful, long-wearing, easy-clean, scratch-, scorch-, and moisture-resistant finish of Coralite in popular Wood Grains (as shown), other leading patterns, or solid decorator colors. Coralite Wall Panel Moldings and Contact Bond Cement also available. Our complete new plant provides prompt delivery. Call us for details!

Bennetf 2-Way Ponel Sows Instolled ln Severql More Cqliforniq Yards

Recent installations of the popular Bennett 2-Way Panel Saw, reported by Wayne C. Ervine, Dealer-Service, Atascadero, Calif., include Joslin-Alexander Co., Inglewood; Partitions, Inc., Los Angeles; Bauer Lumber Co., Compton; Edwards Distributors, Inc. (which owns two units), El Monte; Village Building Supply (two units), San Lorenzo and Castro Valley; Roadline Trailer Co., El Monte, and Palisades Lumbei & Materials Co., Pacific Palisades.'

Ervine reports that Bennett Manufacturing Co., Lacey- ville, Pa., now has 4,200 of. the 2-Way Salr units in use throughout the world, of which he now has more than 500 saws installed in California during his past three years' sales out of Atascadero. The product has been advertised in the columns of The California Lumber Merchant from the first. \

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ft was the first real snow of the year and the teacher in the country school felt it her duty to caution her pupils before dismissing them.

"Boys and girls should be very careful about colds this time of the year," she said solemnly. "I once had a darling

Shipment of IOO-ft. Timbers Drows Nqtionql Attention

Eugene, Ore.-It has been quite a few years since a shipment of lumber drew as much attention in these lumbersophisticated parts as did the one that recently left the Hull-Oakes mill at nearby Bellfountain on a coast-to-coast trip.

But it has also been quite a few years since timbers of select structural Douglas fir 100 feet long have been cut and shipped-even in these parts.

So it was little wonder that stories about the 24 sticks that filled two 65-foot flatcars were flashed, along with pictures, across the country by the major news services.

The unusual timbers were bought through Oregon- Pacific Lumber of Portland, national lumber distribuling brother just six years old. One day he went out in the snow with his beautiful new sled and caught cold. In three days he was dead." ment, the timbers were wanted as stringers on a new car ferry dock the railroad is constructing at Jersey City, N.J. The lumber was cut from specially selected l20-year-old

The schoolroom was deathly quiet for a minute. Then a voice from the rear asked: "Where's his sled?"

Douglas firs. The mill had the trees felled in trenches filled with fir branches-to cushion the fall and ensure solid timber. Next big problem was getting the long logs to the mill-one of only two in this area still capable of handling such long lengths-over narrow coastal mountain roads. Once that had been accomplished and the logs milled, it took two straddle carriers, two forklift trucks and a crew of a dozen men, half a day of careful work to load the 24 sticks. Final end trimming was not done until the sticks were in olace on the cars.

Cross lectional dimensions of the timbers ranged from 6x14 to 7x16.'fhey contained more than 19,000 board feet of lumber.

A notable sidelight was that the rare 100-foot timbers were cut and shipped during the month in which Oregon celebrated its 100th anniversary as a state-a state whose economy has long been built, and still is, around the lumber industry.

Seven New Members From S. F. Hoo-Hoo-Et'te l,nitiqtion

Seven new members (one by proxy) were initiated into San Francisco Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club 3 ihe evening of May 12 at the Californian hotel in San Francisco. The initiation staff, resplendent in robes borrowed from San Francisco Hoo-Hoo Club 9, included Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club 3 President Ray Dolsen, along with Bunnie Bidwell, Winnie lVletzer, Sue Marsh, Lee -Eggers, Martha Greenfielcl, Julia N,Ic- Arthur, Minnie Wicklund and Deloris Leitner.

Kittens, and now new members of Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club 3, are: Marna Lee Popovich, Merner Lumber Co.; Philippa plril" Lomonaco, -O'Neill Lumber Co.; P.ggy Mairer, Fairhurst Lumber Co.; Terry Abrahamsen. Tiinitv River Lumber Sales; Elva Mittlestidt, Harbor Lirmber Co.. arrrl Helen Pearsell, Ward & Knapp, San Francisco.Liz Scholz, who was unable to attend,was concater-rated by proxy.

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Follows Up on 'Merchont' Ad

The 2-page advertisement of Wood Conversion Company which appeared on Pages 2-3 of. the May 15 issue of The CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT is being used as its current mailing piece by So-Cal Building Materials Co., Los Angeles. It is reproduced and accompanies a letter "To Our Retail Lumber and Building Material Dealer Customers," signed by R. E. Freeman, vice-president of the nrm.

Freeman's letter commends the Wood Conversion Company's advertisement for its honest statement of distribution policy and tells how So-Cal Building Materials Co. tries to perform the service functions expected of a reputable wholesale building materials distributor. The Los Angeles firm has marketed WC's Balsam-Wool Blanket L.rsulation exclusively through retail lumber dealers since Tune 1955.

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FPRS Hecrrs Neiman, Hoyt

The Southern California Section, Forest Products Research Society, met May 27 at Michael's, where more than 100 members and guests previewed the "New Horizons for Wood" film just released by the State College of Forestry, Syracuse, N.Y. Warren E. Hoyt, wood preserving consultant, Warren Southwest, Inc., presented the film and briefly discussed the progress in wood technology since the electron microscope expanded study of drying, gluing, penetration of chemicals and fire-retardant treatments.

Robert Neiman, president of Neiman-Reed Lumber & Plywood Co., Van Nuys, discussed boxing, crating and federal specifications in lumber grading.

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