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Willominq lumber Emborks On lmprovement Progrom

Improvements to production and utilization facilities of Willamina Lumber Co. are now under wav with the placement of orders for the basic equipment, iccording to John C. Hampton of Portland.

The Nicholson Manufacturing Company is currently producing a 43" Roto Barker for the plant where bark free Douglas fir slabs and edgings will be reduced to chips and shipped to Kaiser Gypsum Company at St. Helens. Hemloc\ chips are destined for the Columbia River Paper Mills.

Hampton notes that Western hemlock has become increasingly important to the plant. In order to provide inventory balance and optimum quality control, modern Moore steam kilns will be installed within the next 30 days.

Since 1952, the plant has operated a 36" Mill Engineering Company gangsaw on a 2" dimension program. Conversion of this machine to incorporate automatic overhang will minimize log sorting and permit maximum feed rates on logs of varying diameter.

vSatisfaction is sweet music, because it brings them back for more.

Production and sales will be tailored around a log mix of about half each, Douglas fir and lvestern hemlock. Fir production is shipped unseasoned in specified lengths with 22' through 28' comprising a heavy percentage of the total. Kiln dried hemlock will be channeled mainly into 1200-F and 1500-F 2 x 4 for truss manufacturers. Complete control of humidity and temperature in the modern kilns will also permit quality drying of widths up to 2x12.

Hobbs has been grade and price, year after year, for over 95 years. That's why it can help build business for you. For mixed shipments, by carload or truck & trailer, check frsf with your Hobbs representative.

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During mid-March a Nicholson barker was installed at the company's Canadian division, Hampton Lumber Mills, Boston Bar, B.C. Since all logs there are handled without pond facilities, removal of the bark has stepped up the daily cut through elimination of the grit problem. In addition, better grade recovery has been achieved from .better analysis of clean logs by the sawyer.

Hampton also notes that better handling methods will result from the purchase of a Le Tourneau 60,000f log stacker. Faster truck unloading and smoother log flow to the barker infeed and cold decks are provided by this massive lifting capacity.

The combined annual cut of 50,000,000 bf for the Boston Bar and Willamina plants is sold by Hampton Lumber Sales Company of Portland, Oregon.

New Supplemenf-Rules No. 15

A new supplement to STANDARD GRADING AND DRESSING RULES No. 15 has been published by the West Coast Lumber Inspection Bureau, Portland, Oregon. The new supplement, Number IX, is in three parts, (a), (b) and (c).

Section (a) provides for grade stamps bearing "ALL HEART" designation for items of Western red cedar Dimension and Timbers which have been graded to exclude sapwood. This provides Western red cedar material which may be used as foundation lumber.

Section (b) provides for slight tolerance of I/64" f.or "sqrlare end trim" in "DEX" Heavy Wall and Roof Plank in ill West Coast species when orders specify this term.

Section (.) covers Western red cedar Bevel Siding grades, including several changes in nomenclature. The terms "New Bundling" and "Old Bundling" have been replaced with "Nested Bundling" and "Full Length Bundling" which more accurately describe the actual bundling practices used. Also, the top grade of cedar Bevel Siding has been changed from "Clear" Bevel Siding to "Clear" V.G. All Heart Bevel Siding.

The formerly-recommended head lap of l:/4" for 8" widths and wider has been changed to 1" in conformance with FHA Minimum Property Standards.

Two new paragraphs have been added to cover the new industry products of Factory Primed Bevel Siding and Glued-Up Bevel Siding.

Ch;pr and Sawl.ufi

We welcome to our ranks, new subscriber, Fairbanks Lumber Supply, Division of Ketchikan Spruce Mills, Fairbanks, Alaska. Let us have some news from you way, way up there.

Floyd and Birdie Frasier sold their Cloverdale Lumber & Supply yard last month to Elmer "Skeeter" Webb and Harold Stone. Both men are from the Santa Clara Valley region and have had experience in allied businesses.

The Buchanon Lumber Company, Sunnyslope, Arizona, has been sold to Howard Beals and partner Bulloch. Continuing business as usual, the yard will operate under the name of Beals Bullock Lumber Company.

Did you see the beautiful four-color page ad of National Lumber Manufacturers Association in the June 16 issue of LIFE Magazine? Theme "For a room that's fun to grow up in"-illustrating a child's bedroom and playroom, the ad is appealing enough to make us want to rush out and get specifications and prices for same-and we don't have any children!

This is the fifth in this outstanding series of NLMA, prepared by VanSant, Dugdale & Co., Advertising, of Baltimore.

Also guaranteed to draw interest is the two-page black-and-white spread of NLMA scheduled for the August, l96l issues of ARCHITECTURAL FORUM and ARCHITECTURAL RECORD; and the September, 1961 issue of PROGRESSIVE ARCHITECTURE.

The Len Woolf Company, Los Angeles advertising agency, is handling the national advertising campaign Lor H. Zwart and Co., importers and distributors of hardboard ,pro- duced in European mills. The two-color advertisements are directed to the woodworking industry.

Clay McNeil until recently the yard manager of Hibbert Lumber Company in Davis, is now manager of United Lumber's big Turlock yard.

Harold Price, for the past 10 years manager of Diamond National's Livermore yard, has joined Wholesale Building Supply, Inc., of Oakland, as the company's representative in Contra Costa County and the Coast Counties area. Price replaces John Blanton who has moved into the head office to assume managerial duties under Jack Volker.

M. F. MacDonald, Johns-Manville Building Products Division East Central Manager, has been promoted to the newly-created post of Principal Assistant to the Division General Manager, it has been announced by F. E. Dutcher, Vice President.

In his new position MacDonald will assist Mr. Dutcher in his capacity as General Manager in administering J-M Building Products Division o6rerations at 16 plants and a network of sales offices throughout the United States. Mr. MacDonald began his career with Johns-Manville in 1935.

Carl J. Binner of Morgan Company in Oshkosh, Wisconsin was elected chairman of the NWMA Preservative Standards Advisory Committee, at the May 22-23 rneeting of the committee at the Forest Products Laboratory in Madison.

Ben C. Shipman has been appointed vice president-marketing of Weyerhaeuser Company's Rilco engineered wood products division, Tacoma, Wash. Ife succeeds John B. Caton, who joins Rock Island Lumber Company in a sales and merchandising management capacity.

Shipman, who was previously manager of the division's District 4 at Linden, N.J., is succeeded there by Ron W. Moore, District 2 manager at Ft. Wayne, Ind. J. F. King, assistant district manager, becomes manager of the division's District 2.

Now. who's left on lst?

Permission has been given J. E. McCarty by the Kern County Planning Commission for establishment of a lumber and building materials yard on West Ridgecrest Boulevard at Ridgecrest, California; with the proviso that there be a building setback of 95 feet from the centerline of West Ridgecrest Boulevard. and that a six-foot solid screening fence be built around the perimeter of the yard.

Appointment of Robert R. Williams to the new position of general sales manager of Cal-Tech Systems, Inc., Glendale, California, has been announced by President Frank J, Schnoor. Williams formerly for six years was sales manager of Fullview Corporation which, following its recent acquisition, became a Cal-Tech division. Fullview is one of the nation's largest manufacturers of aluminum sliding glass doors and windows.

Williams and Fullview, with assembly plants in Columbus, Ohio and Atlanta, Georgia, as well as Glendale, and warehouse and sales facilities in l4 other cities nationally, shortly will open branches in several additional key marketing areas.

Norman G. Carlson, sales manager at Weyerhaeuser Company's Snoqualmie Falls branch since 1944. will become lumber sales manager at the Longview branch. He replaces Oscar F. Weed, who will become Portland area manager.

Rober"l Wells

Elected to Boord

At a meeting of the Board of Directors of American Forest Products Corporation on Wednesday, May 24, Robert S. Wells, general manager of Tarter, Webster & Johnson's Southern California distribution operations, was elected to the American Forest Products Corporation Board of Directors.

Bob Wells has been associated with TW&J since 1952, manager of the Los Angeles yards since 1956 and general manager of Southern California operations since 1957. Thirty-eight years old, Wells brings to his new position enthusiasm, youthful energy and a solid background of lumber distribution merchandising.