Twenty'FlveTears Ago

As Reported in the J"ly L94L, Issue of California Lumber Merchant, F-st. 1922

Stuart Smitlr, Fountain-Smith, Los Angeles, will leave for a month's vacation in the Northwest. He plans to cruise along the coast with friends and do some fishing.

Herb Klass, assistant to the president of The Pacific Lumber Co., San Francisco, is back at his desk from a two weeks'vacation spent at Richardson Springs, Calif.

K. E. MacBeath of Strable Hardwood Co., Oakland and his family, are spending their vacation in the High Sierra where they are fishing in a number of lakes.

C. C. Bohnhofi and C. W. Bohnhofr, Bohnhoff Lumber Co., Los Angeles are on a trip in Northern California and Oregon. They will call on the mills and spend a few days at Lake Tahoe.

Wm. Chatham, Jr. has been appointed manager of Loop Lumber & Mill Co., Alameda, succeeding Clement Fraser, who recently resigned.

Mr. and Mrs. Lew Blinn of The Pacific I,umber Co., San Francisco, stopped at Scotia on their way to Eureka to attend the wedding of Mrs. Blinn's cousin, Miss Gladys Kaull, who married George N. Gregerson of the Holmes Eureka Lumber Co., Eureka, on June 14.

Forrest K. Peil, salesman for Hamrnond Redwood Co., San Francisco, recently attended the graduation of his daughter at the University of Oregon.

Ifenry Winfree of Modesto, Calif., Valley representative for Seth L. Butler of Dant & Russell, Inc., recently made a trip to the Portland office and spent a week calling on the mills.

Howard J. Abbott, mill sales representative, Union Lumber Co., Fort Bragg, Calif., recently spent several days at the head office in San Francisco.

Hammond Lumber Company's coastwise steamer Lrcata was commandeered by the United States Army and received orders to proceed to San Francisco from where she is reportedly due to enter supply service to Alaska.

Geo. R. Kendrick, manager of the California lumber sales division of Pope & Talbot' Inc., has returned from spending two weeks in the Pacific Northwest, visiting the company's mills and ofrces.

Ray E. Hills of Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco, is playing a lot of golf on his favorite course while on his vacation at Wawona, Yosemite National Park,

Ray Shannon, manager of the Los Angeles office of Union Lumber Co., was a recent visitor at the San Francisco office.

Charlie IVIason, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, is back from his vacation trip in the East.

M. L. "Duke" Euphrat of Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco, left on a two weeks' vacation trip to Portland.

Glick Brothers Lumber Co. has opened their new lumber yard and store in Burbank. This is the fourth store they have opened in Southern California.

E. C. Hallinan of Hallinan Mackin Co., San Francisco, is at his desk again following several weeks' absence due to an operation.

Ross Kinney, formerly with E.K. Wood Lumber Co., Oakland, as salesman, is now with Loop Lumber & Mill Co., Alameda.

Amos Geib, Geib Lumber Company, Huntington Park, has returned from a business and plbasure trip to his Minnesota home.

Jas. E. (Jimmy) Atkinson, Atkinson-Stutz Co., San Francisco, was recently in the Northwest for two weeks calling on the firms' sawmill connections.

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R.R. lumber Hondling

A new, 2O-page booklet that tells how to handle retail lumber and gypsnm board in boxcars and flatcars has been issued by Clark Equipment Co.

Photos and text describe proven applications for lift trucks.

Tables of weights, sizes and counts for various types of lumber and gypsum board,drawings of difrerent kinds of pallets and unit load pattern! used for bagged items and shingles are given. Cost data on lumber handling and a glossary of building material industry terms.

The two-color booklet, t'Lum'ber and Material Handling," is

Volume XII in-the Clark Material Handling Library.

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Reseorch Society Reports

The following reports have reeently been published by the Forest Products Research Society and are now available in reprint form upon request.

"Beview of Wood Drying," by W. W. Rice, a concise review of research and production developments in kiln-drying, forcedair a^nd high temperature dry- ing, air-drying, special drying systems, wood-moisture relation.

"Turning for Profit: An Application of Operations Reseaxcli Techniques to a TVood Turning Plant," by Eugene B. Penick, Jr. firis program belped the plant manager eliminate production bottlenecks, and gave guidelines for competitive bidding, and told him which orders would give most profit.

"Projected Demands for Hardwood Veneerr" by Dwight Hair. The author emphasizes that effective action must be taken to improve both management and technology or the industry will be faced with further declines in size and quality.

"Future of Sawmilling in the North Woods," by F. C. Sim- mons. Lumber production in the North Woods will increase ?p- preciably within the next few years-most of it coming from expansion and improvement in existing mills.

"Cutting Characteristics of Chain Saw Teeth," by S. C. Gambrell, Jr. and E. F. Byars, describes the desigrr, construction, instrumentation and testing of a .machine capable of measuring the forces existing on and the energy requirements of a single c-hain saw tooth as it cuts through wood.

WRITE: Forest Products Research Society, Dept. L, 4L7 North Walnut St., Madison, Wis. 53705.

DOUGLAS FIR

REDWOOD PINE Construction