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Chas. B. Lyons Joins Russ Castell & Associates

Two veteran Lumbermen pooled their resources last week when Chas. B. Lyons joined Russ Castell & Associates merging their sales organizations and procurement staffs to service retail lumber yards at the wholesale level.

Charlie started his lumber career over thirty years ago in the sawmill country in Northern California and Oregon. Working his way through the various logging operations he latei became an expert pine grader and came to Southern California in 1972 to enter the sales promotion of lumber and forest products. For the past fifteen years he has operated his own wholesale lumber company ofiering his products throughout California, Arizona, Nevada, T"*u, and the Middle West.

With the merging of the two firms their complete wholesale service to mill operators, remanufacturers and retailers will be expanded and they will specialize in the distribution of Ponderosa and Sugar Pine, Douglas Fir, Redwood-in fact all Pacific Coast forest products.

Distribution yards and general offices will be maintained at 7159 Anaheim-Telegraph Road, Los Angeles, and truck, carload or LCL shipments will be offered the retail dealers.

Change in Grade Name

Builders Grade, the name for ft-inch thick Forest Board is being changed to Standard Grade, it is announced by Forest Fiber Products Company, Forest Grove, Oregon. The change is being made to bring a uniformity in product names.

All untreated Forest Board is now called Standard Grade regardless of the thickness of the panel. The controlled manufacturing process which produces a uniform light color for tl-re three thicknesses, /g-inch, 3/16-inch and rf-inch requires a uniform name for simplification. The name Standard Grade has applied b rrt-inch and 3/16-inch Forest Board since its introduction and it will now be applied to rl-inch.

The uniformity of name will make it easier for the dealers to identify when selling and the contractors and architects when ordering, the company announced. Forest Board is a Hardboard panel made of Douglas fir in both Standard grade and weather resistant Treated Grade.

Plywood Compcny Shortens Compcrny Ncme

A proposal to shorten the company name to GeorgiaPacific Plywood Co. was approved by 85 per cent of the stockholders of the Georgia-Pacific Plywood & Lumber Co.

Victor Olson, president and director of Washington Veneer Corporation, Olympia, Wash., and a pioneer in the Douglas fir plywood industry. was elected a GeorgiaPacific director. The Olympia mill is a subsidiary of Georgia-Pacific.

Western Pine Production Steady In Second Quarter, Shipments Off

Portland, June 30-The following report of second quarter, 1951, production and shipments of Western Pine region lumber and lumber products and estimate of probable third quarter shipments were released today by W. E. Grifiee, assistant secretary-manager of the Western Pine association, Portland. The report covered Idaho White Pine, Ponderosa Pine, Sugar Pine and Associated Woods. The statement in full:

"Both the production and the shipments of lumber from the Western Pine region held close to record levels through May and then, judging by preliminary reports, broke rather sharply below the booming rates that prevailed all through 1950. Nevertheless second quarter production of 2,198 million board feet was only .5 per aent below the 1950 second quarter and production for the entire first half of the year was up 8.5 per cent.

"second quarter shipments were 1,997 million feet, down 6.7 per cent from last year but still considerably above the volume expected at the beginning of the quarter. Shipments for the first six months o{ the year were down 1.9 per cent from 1950.

"Failure of the industry's shipments to taper off as soon as anticipated is due largely to the unexpectedly large volume of residential construction. The comparison of this year's non-farm housing starts with last year's all-time record has been less favorable each month. May starts of 97,000 units fell nearly 35 per cent below May, 1950 and yet total starts for the first six months will exceed 500,000. By comparison with any year except 1950 this number would be considered excellent.

"In spite of the fact that both orders and shipments slipped rather badly during June, there are reasons for thinking the demand won't decrease much more. It was well known that many retailers accumulated more stocks than they should have during last fall and winter, perhaps in anticipation of lumber shortage. Later they reduced their buying in order to work off exceSs stocks and then, as mill prices softened, were in no hurry to order more lumber. Thus a period of slow demand was an almost certain result of last fall's binge of speculative buying. Many other industries are having a similar experience.

"If rearmament work continues as now- planned, the I'overnment expe'cts to make direct purchases of 1.8 billion feet during the fiscal year starting July 1. Arms manufacturers who have been retooling for quantity production should be stepping up their output rather rapidly and using much more lumber as a result. In case the Russians a.re really in earnest about their current "peace offensive" the use of lumber by the government and arms manufacturers will not increase as fast as expected. That happy event would cause some shift back to housing, likely with loosened credit restriction.

"Based on such factors and all other available information, it now seems probable that during the third quarter of 1951 shipments (consumption) of lumber will approximate 2,000 million feet. This figure is approximately equal to second quarter production and is 15 per cent under the third quarter of 1951."

He is the man lou furobablY talk to when you cdll us on the Phone. He is lack Baser, general rnanager ol Zeesman Plywood Co., the man who has the answers f or you when you wd'nt to talk about qual;tJ) Douglas Fir PlYwood,, Doors, Hardboard, and Nersamar.

You'll never find, him too busY to talk things oaer with you, whetlt'er you are interested in buying eaerything he has in the wd,rehoase, or the smallest possible piece of ,Iyutood.

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Weothering lesls conducted in the desert sun 50 miles soulh of Deoth Volley, ond in the solt oir. seq fog, ond roin on Son Froncisco Boy proved thot Colifornio Red_ wood retoins its nolurol color ond lexlure longer when it hos been ireqied with "liquid Redwood."