The California Lumber Merchant - July 1955

Fir Plywood House to Be Feoture of Third Annuol L.A. Do-ll-Yourself Show

A unique do-it-yourself Fir plywood house that combines the talents of the skilled contractor and the home craftsman has been built on the grounds of the Pan-Pacific auditorium as a major feature of the 3rd annual Do-ItYourself Show to be held July 2l-3I in Los Angeles.

One of the chief items showing the uses and practicality of lumber as a building material, the Fir plywood house plans are exceptional to the usual order of do-it-yourself projects in that they call for a skilled contractor to do some of the more difficult operations such as plumbing and wiring, while allowing the handyman to provide most of the labor.

With the do-it-yourself industry now a booming $6 billion-a-year business, according to Show Producer Ted Bentley, the ambitious project was started because of the interest shown in do-it-yourself house construction.

Grooved Fir plywood siding was used on the exterior siding, with relief grain Fir plywood for inside lumber. All lumber and windows and many other parts were precut to make the job easier for the do-it-yourselfer.

Complete plans and information on how-to-do-it and costs are available at the exposition.

S0O PxhiUitors Represented

In the exposition building itself, more than 300 leading manufacturers, retailers and distributors will be represented, with a five-room "cuta$'ay" house as the focal point of interest.

Contractor Dane Lowe, who supervised the construction of the five-room Fir plyrvood house, also designed the "cutaway" house to showcase various products, innovations and new methods to be displayed in the exposition pfoper.

The use of wood in both houses will be pointed up' because of its facility in use in every type of construction or installation.

Wood also comes into its orvn in the do-it-yourself woodwork section exhibit, where home projects will constantly be demonstrated showing the various types of woods used in furniture construction.

Tables, chairs, desks, bed sets, and also decorative rvall coverings, will be made for instruction and interest of doit-yourselfers. Walnut, Mahogany, .Pine, Maple, Birch, Cherry, and plywood are included among the woods to be used.

According to Bentley, more than 200,000 persons are expected to attend the ten-day show, the largest of t+'type in the country.

New Record for L. A. Gounty Building

Building activity in Los Angeles county areas set a new record in the fiscal year ended June 30, and new construction in Los Angeles city so far this year is more than $10 million ahead ol 1954, city and county .officials have revealed.

The county shows 57,687 building permits issued in the year just ended, representing $398,268,487 new construc-

Reqder Binds His Own 'Vogs'

Mr. Jack Dionne

108 West 6th St.

Los Angeles 14, Calif.

Dear Mr. Dionne:

A number of years ago, a reader of The CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT asked that you publish a book covering your "Vagabond Editorials" and "Fun-Facts & Filosophy." As you did not respond favorably at the time, I decided to do something about it. The result is that one of my most prized possessions is a handsomely bound volume:

Jack Dionne

Vagabond Fxlitorials

Fun-Facts & Filosophy

-a complete decade 1944-54, all taken from The CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT.

My family and friends constantly refer to this book -it is being read and re-read.

The pages for the next volumes are being accumulated, and will be read many times even before they are bound.

As one of your host of admirers, let me express my appreciation for your fine work. I always look forward to your words of interest and understanding. Sincerely yours,

Fred Crandall Hammond Lumber Company

Pasadena. California

tion in the unincorporated county areas' So far in 1955, D,2& permits have been issued at $215,696,307, showing a 30/o gain over the same period of 1954.

In the city, 31,611 permits were issued during 1955's first six months, compared to 30,628 in 1954. This year's valuation is $211,928,168. Permits slated for issue in the next few weeks should bring the 1955 building valuation to a new record beating the $430,21t 010 set by the city in 1953.

C. S. Pierce Sells Kermcrn Yqrd To United Lumber Yqrds

Fresno, Calif.-The C. S. Pierce Lumber Company has sold its line yarl :t Kerman, Calif., to United Lumber Yards of Modesl -,, which operates 26 yards in the San Joaquin Valley from Modesto to Porterville in Tulare county. The Kerman yard was the first yard to serve residents of Fresno county's west side and has been operating in Kerman more than half a century.

The new owners took over the yard June 20. A. J. Crow, who has been associated with the C. S. Pierce Company lor 44 years and manag'er of the Kerman yard for 40 years, said he soon will retire from the company.

Rubber Flooring Sqles Rise

New York, N. Y.-First quarter 1955 flooring exceeded those of the 1954 period ber Manufacturers Association reports. more than 16 times that of pre-war years.

sales of rubber by 5%, the RubSales volume is

How Lumber Looks

Lunrber shipnrents oi 521 nrills reporting to the National Lunrber Trade Barometer tt.ere 19.5/o below production in the rveek encled June 25 ; neu' orders \\rere 14.5% belon, and unfilled orders u'ere 48/c of stocks. For the year to date, shipnrents rvere 2.5/c above production ; neu. orclers 4.2/o above. Compared to the pre.,'ious n'eek er.rdedJrrne 18, prciduction u.as 23.1% above, shipments l'ere 9.0f' below, and ner,v orders 2.0/c belos,.

The \\rest Coast Lumbermens Association reported fclr 777 mrlls (152 operating) in the n-eek ended Julr'2: production, 108,659,621 feet ; shipments, 130,918,021 feet (20.5% over production); orders, 115,281,893 feet (6.1/c ox-er production). In the u.eek encled Jur-re 25, 167 operating milis

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Cunningham's 4th oI July Oration-An Editorial

Vcrgcbond Editoricrls

My Fcvorite Story

Scnr focquin Hoo-Hoo Bcol."ue .

NI^I\4A Meeting Aids Retcriler, Distributor ..

Hillsdcle Ycrd Mctes Hcndymcn cnrd Volume Sales

First Annucl 'Lumbercmc'Held in L.A. Oregon's Huge Timber Supply-An Editoricrl

25 Years Ago

Fun-Fcrcts-Filosophy

Proliles-AdolIo Ccrmcrillo

Society Americcsr Foreslers

New Products Inlormction, Personqls Obitucries

Wcrnt Ads

Cqlifornio lumber Merchonl-isers

With this issue, we welcome the following new advertisers into the ever-growing family of "Merchantisers" :

R. E. Doherty Lumber Co. (Page 60)

Jolly Giant Lumber Co. (Page 54)

Plyvuood, Inc. (Page 5)

Superior Lumber Sales Co. (Page 25)

reported production 125,527,865 feet, shipments 126,925,68(t feet, and orders 128,34(t,O99 feet.

The l'eekly average of n.est coast lumber production in NIay rvas 189,805,000 b.f. or 101.37( of the 1950-54 average, reported Harris E. Smith secretary, \\rCLA. Orders averaged 187,753,000 b.f., shiprnents 192,108,000 b.i. Five months of 1955 production rvere 4,199,173p00 b.f.. ccimpared to 4,137,942,000 in 1954. The inclustry's unfilled orcler file u-as cS55,230.000 b.f. :rt the end of May, gross stocks at 9rr1,078,000 b.f.

The \\'estern Pine Association reported for 115 mills in the iveek ended June 25 : production , 97,052,A00 feet ; shipnler1ts, 93.072,000 feet; orders,99,796,W0 leet (7.2(/o above shilrrrrents). Orders :t'ere 6.6/t, above the previous rveek. In the u'eek ended June 18, 115 mills reported production 9.5,963,000 f eet, shipments 90,02.+,000 f eet, and orders 93.277.040 feet.

Redn ood production, shiprnents and r.rrclers drrring NIav (Continued on I'age 55)

Bill Cunninghom's Fourfh of July Orqtion

We wish that every man, woman and child in this nation could have listened on July 3rd to Bill Cunningham's flag-waving oration about the United States and her Fourth of July. Mr. Cunningham, as you may or may not know, is a Boston newspaperman who writes a powerful column on political subjects, and likewise makes a fine and stirring speech.

And he turned himself loose that day. The patriotic speech lasted no more than seven or eight minutes, but it must have warmed the heart of every true American who listened. for it was the kind of talk that Americans need so sorely to hear in these strange days.

Having no script at hand and only our recollections from hearing the speech that one time, we can only attempt to give you the gist of his remarks. First, he erased with bold strokes of word and phrase, all the dividing lines that ever existed in this American nation. He said there is no longer a North or South or East or West, but that we are all one solid nation, strong, and proud, and capable of doing together more good than any nation in all history.

And he reviewed our past' He said we should remember that there is not a scar, not a cloud on our history. We have never invaded any other land for any selfish purpose, never enslaved any people, never took anything by force that belonged to others; we have stepped out several times to rescue those who deserved to be rescued

from the forces of evil, and when we did we made a job of it. Tliere is nothing in our entire history that we need be ashamed of ; that only pride is our heritage as we look back over the years. We are an honest, honorable, friendly, helpful people with no wrong designs on anyone, no acts of the past that we need dePlore.

And the Fourth of July is the time to cry those truths frorn the housetops, and the time to drive into the minds of our children these proud and blessed facts. Not America the international, but America the Beautiful and the honorable, the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. Thanks, Bill Cunningham, for that mighty sermon. We need something like Ihat-CONSTANTLY.

As Tom Jefferson wrote into the Declaration of Independence, "We hold these truths to be self-evident.!'

Americqn E egion Condemns UNESCO

The Caiifornia American Legion in annual convention at San f)iego on Jttne 29th, adopted a resolution asking thirt the teaching of UNESCO be prohibited in all public schools. The resolutittn carried unanimously b1' a resounding vote.

It has been estimated that if an Arnerican atttomollile costing $1,714 s'ere built n'ith 1910 1661s-2s houses in the U.S. are beir.rs buili todal'-its cost u'ould be $(10,000.

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Cqrdinol Directs Fir Door Instifute

Tacoma, Wash.-Benjamin T.

Cardinal has been appointed managing director of the Fir Door Institute with headquarters here. He was formerly midrvest field representative for the Douglas Fir Plywood Association and took over the position on July 1. He will direct trade promotion activities for the group rvhich produces a large percentage of residential doors used in this country.

In accepting the post, Cardinal expressed confidence in the future of the giant door industry. He pointed to the remarkable resurgence in popularity of panel doors during the past two years, saying:

"The unusual revival of interest in panel doors has been brought about mainly through the forward thinking of the industry. In the past year, the several new designs introduced by our members have opened new markets. Our order files bear this out. The fir door industry now produces nearly 70 styles of residential doors that cover every architectural need from traditional to high style modern."

Cardinal represented the plywood association in the mid_ west for three years. From 1948 until L952 he was a sales representative for U. S. Plywood Corporation in San Fran_

Voluoble to His Selling Job

I would appreciate very much yoJr entering my name on your subscription list. Also, if possible, I would like to buy 15 copies of the April 1 issue as there was an article in that issue that I believe will be very valuable to me in my selling job. I have recently transferred to the Alcoa San Francisco sales office from the midwest, where I was concentrating my efforts on the sale of Alcoa aluminum farm roofing, and have been much interested in the quality of the material edited in your magazine.

Fred Hall, Jr.

Oakland 8. Calif.

cisco. In outlining his plans for the next year, Cardinal stressed the importance of bringing the thinking of the consumer to the producer.

"During 1955 i will spend at least half my time traveling throughout the United States,,, he said. .,Learning the ideas and views of our consumers first hand cannot help but lead to advances in styling, marketing and manufacturing. It is imperative that today's manufacturers keep abreast of the advancing tastes of America's buyers. Our members are particularly conscious of this obligation and are continually working torvard improvements in tune with the needs of the public."

Cardinal succeeds James F. Fowler in the post. Fowler recently was named director of promotion for the Douglas Fir Plywood Association.

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"One of the penalties of leadership is that a leader is best when people barely know that he exists, not so good when people obey and ac_ claim him, worse when they despise him. Fail to honor people, they fail to honor you. But of a good leader who talks little, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say -'We did this ourselves.'

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Let your best be for your friend. If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood, also. For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill? Seek him always with hours to live, for it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness. And in the sweetness of friendship, let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures. For, in the dew of little things, the heart finds its morning, and is refreshed.-Kahlil Gibran.

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The Bible speaks thus of the duties of friendship and brotherliness (from Deuteronomy): ..Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray; thou shalt in any case bring them back to thy brother . . . Thou shalt de_ liver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down.',

Katherine Tupper *"]"nlu, wife of General George Marshall, writes well, and thinks likewise. In one of her writings, she says: "To catch hold of a luscious weed and jerk it until it comes out of the ground, roots and all, gives one a very satisfied feeling of accomplishment. As I look at the piles of uprooted weeds, dying in the sun where they no longer could suck the life of the seedlings strug- gling for air, I wished that the evils of the human race could be dealt with as satisfactorily. But man is too complex to obliterate his frailties so easily. And the evil he does lives after him."

"Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. ft is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place; and this only by doing that which is great and noble."-Petrarch.

As you travel "bo.rt "r,Jr.lu i"a listen, you meet people with deformed ideas, just as you do those with deformed bodies.

Billy Graham, thrilling evangelist, says: ,,W'e Americans need to get back to the old-fashioned idea of integrity; to be true to ideals."

Congressman Oscar Burleson, of Texas, told a grad-

BY JACK DIONNE

uating class about the fellow who could never seem to hold a job. Said Burleson, "FIe spent his life looking for a boss as smart as he was." We offer this as the best graduating thought of the season.

Walter Davenport, ", a"rli.rq says that the last time he was in Washington a man in one of the bureaus told him the following: the head of his department had given him permission to get rid of a couple of tons of old papers, directives, documents, etc., accumulated over many years. But, said the boss, he'd have to be certain to make copies of everything before he threw it away-just in case. Ah, Washington ! What confusion is created in thv name !

This small town deale: ;J. so dumb after all. rn his store he displayed a large sign that read: ,'WE SELL HAARDWARE." A friend said to him, ,,Hasn't anyone called your attention to the spelling in that sign?', ,'Hundreds of people," said the deaier. "And almost all of them bought something before they mentioned the sign.', ***

Dionysius, the Tyrant, while eating with some Spartan soldiers, declared that the food was tasteless and insipid. He probably said that it was lousy. The Spartan chef replied that the reason it tasted so to him, was that the seasoning was wanting. "What seasoning?" asked the Tyrant. "Running, sweating, fatigue, hunger, and thirst: these are the ingredients with which we Spartans season ourfood'" * * ,<

The old country lumber dealer had finally succeeded in making a very slow customer pay his bill in full. It took some pressure, and the customer was real cross about it. He demanded that the lumber dealer write across the receipt that the bill was paid in full. The dealer wrote: "Bearer doesn't owe the undersigned a penny-and he ain't ever going to again."

Herbert Hoover's ro.J"r*.ol',-r"rio' on government cost matters, now being closed because its job is com_ pleted, says that the U.S.A. is extending assistance to more than TWO THOUSAND projects in 55 countries of the world. As a fine example of what goes on, the report mentions the fact that we are financing .,social psychology" in the Netherlands. Get it? Social psychology! Next time you look over your pay check, Junior, and notice the deductions, it will no doubt sweeten your bread and soften your pillow to remember that you are handing "the Amsterdam Dutch, and the Rotterdam Dutch, thi

Pottsdam Dutch, and all the other dam Dutch" (quoting the old song), cash to O"1"": their "social psychology."

Honest, Junior, how would you like to see a map of the mental meanderings of the giant brain that conceived that original method of wasting YOUR wages?

A lot of our money waste seems as silly as wearing two hats at the same time; and as phoney as a three-dollar bill' t<t<*

Well, the United Nations held its week-long birthday party at San Francisco, commemorating the fact that it started there ten years before. It was a complete rveek of speeches. And what a variety of speakers there were. There were speeches by patriots of the purest ray serene' high in their hopes that the UN might heal the wounds of the world, and make smiles shine on millions of faces now wet with tears.

There were speech""'uf ptitoJopn.rs, trying to discover from the musty tomes of the past some precedent in history that might point the way out of our difficulties. And there were speeches by gangsters who would, if it were within their power, tear down every brick and stone and stick from which San Francisco is built, and scorch the very earth where that city stands.

The head man of the gangsters ranted and raved in his hatred of America and all that it represents. Samson slew the Philistines with the jawbone of an ass and, using that very same weapon, this bristling spokesman for whole-

sale murder, torture, rape, and human degredation of every sort, sought to lend a cloak of decency to a cause that knows none. And those whom he plastered with his insults sat there and gave him the studied respect with which a Kansas farmer treats a fast-moving cyclone' Why someone, some old-fashioned American, doesn't spit in his eye is something I have been trying to figure out for Years'

And I keep asking myself this question: was there in that assemblage which embraced a lot of mighty fine and patriotic men, anything resembling a statesman? We don't know. That question is ol.

must answer'

And, listening to and reading the events of that U'N' conference, my heart was filled with the same regret I have felt so often in the past years and have mentioned often in this column, what a pity that there was no Patrick flenry, no Daniel Webster, none of the mighty orators of America's past, to rise in that assemblage and thrill the hearts and minds of Americans up to heaven itself, with patriotic utterances' For stirring, flaming, thrilling eloquence is entirely missing today in this land that needs it as never before.

legion'Lumbermen Elect

Lumbermen's Post 403 of the American Legion met at the Mona Lisa restaurant, Los Angeles, July 13 for annual election of officers and a regutar business session' The new offrcers rvill be announced in a later issue'

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Yes, They Were Busy

When Major R. R. Witt, lumber and building material man of San Antonio, came back from European action in World War One, he used to delight audiences with won_ derful stories of the war. The following was his favorite:

A colored regiment was in the front line trenches and had been there for some time, with furious attack, counterattack, and heavy bombardments. It appeared that the Germans had deserted a couple of machine guns that were plainly visib.le out in "no man's land', and, as there was no sign of life around them, a white captain pointed thern out to a colored sergeant. He said:

"Take a squad of men, and the first time smoke closes down over those machine guns, go out and bring them in." The sergeant agreed. The captain departed for another part of the sector. Soon conditions seemed right and the sergeant with a few of his men climbed out of the trench and started on the run for the two machine guns. Then it quickly developed that the Germans had been playing possum, for several of them rose from a hole behind the machine guns and began firing at the sergeant

and his men. At full speed they returned to their trench. Soon the captain returned, and saw the same two machine guns, and he said to the sergeant:

"Didn't I tell you to go out and bring those guns in?', "Yassuh," said the sergeant.

"Then why didn't you?"

"Captain," said the sergeant plaintively, ,,DEy WUZ USIN' 'EM.''

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San Francisco.-Southern Pacific comDanv lines in Oregon and California carried r ,..orj ti,SSZ ,urloads of plywood products in the first four months of 1955, an increase of 4,797 cars over the same 1954 period. Plywood, veneer and built-up u,oods continue as pacesetters in achieving new lumber shipping marks, said W. G. Peoples, S. P. vice-president in charge of freight traffic. The 100 Pacific Coast mills are expected to produce 4 billion feet of plyn-ood this year, he added.

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Sqn Jooquin Hoo-Hoo Club 3l Holds Annucrl Bqrbecue in Fresno

San Joaquin Hoo-Hoo Club 31 held its annual barbecue at Roeding park in Fresno, Calif., June 17. This event has become a tradition with the San Joaquin Valley club and is exceptionally notable for the excellent prime ribs of beef barbecued and served under the direction of Chet Harsl-rner of Pabco, Inc.

Sixty-four members attended this year's feast and frolic, and the food, fellorvship and ?estivity were unsurpassed,

reports Bernard B. Barlter, Jr.. secretarl, of Clul> 31, and sends along these photos to prove it.

After the eight-to-the-barbecue, an electior-r o{ officers for the 1955-56 club year u'as held rvith the follorving results :

Presiclent-\Vally Kennedy, Geo. W. Kennedy & Sons, Fresn<r

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EIGHf-TO-THE-BARBECUE-Across the boord in top ponel ore Wolly Kennedy, newly elected president of Son Jooquin Volley Hoo-Hoo Club 3l; Kennedy (lefi) reloxing wirh Les Doddington (center) of Bernie Barber & Associotes, ond Gher Hqrshner (right) HIMSELF, chef of the borbecue; newly eleced boord member Bob Schlotthouer, who succeeded his forher, Ed, tokes ir mighty eosy with o good cigor in rhird photo, ond right-retiring president Roy Noble. Bottom ponel of pix shows two views of Hoo-Hoo seoted for dinner (lefi ond righr), while center scene shows Bob Reid, nominoling <ommillee choirmon, slonding.

\rice-presi<lent-Louie Frame, The Diamond Nlatch Co., .r1 resll(.)

Southern vice-president-Joe Aimar, Diarnond Match Co., Hanford

Secretary-treasurer-('1."ucl" Barber, Rernie Barber & Associates, Fresno

Sergeant-at-Arms-Clraig Gaffney, Bonnington Lumber Co., San Francisco

I)irectors-Bob Reid. Reid & Wright Co., Fresno; Bob Raymer, Raymer & McCubbin, San Francisco; Bob Schlotthauer, Willard Lumlter Co., Fresno; "Doc" Snead, C. S. Pierce Lumber Co., Fresno, and Ray Noble, Visalia Lrrmber Co., Visalia.

Everyone present had a fine time at the annual barbecue, rvhich brings to a close the scheduled activities of the club year until its annual Frolic. The eighth annual Valiey Frolic r.vill be held in Fresno on September 23 this year.

Owens Monoges Spclding Yord

Orosi, Calif.-Lamar Owens, Jr., has been promoted to manager of the Spalding Lumber Company's yard in Cutler, Calif. He replaces Bob Orr, rvho has been transferred

to Visalia. Or'vens was employed by B. A. Cannon in the Cutler lumber business for a number of years before selling to the Spalding company.

SCRTA Enrolls New Members

President Wayne F. Mullin and Membership Committee

Chairman Hal A. Brown have recently enrolled five new active members in the Southern California Retail Lumber Association. They are:

Ernest Ganahl Lumber Co., Lake Arrorvhead-Glenn Harris, manager; Hull Bros. Lurnber Co., Canoga Park\Vally llull, manager; Sunland Lumber Co., El NfonteMayer Weisel and Jack Adelstein, managers; Alert Building Nfaterials, Norlvalk-Earl and Ruth Lazear, owners; Mullin Lumber Co., Studio City-Paul Snyder, manager.

In addition, the follo'n,ing associate members have recently been enrolled in the SCRLA Honor Roll by President Mullin, Vice-President Bron n and Bob James:

Anderson-Hanson Co., Studio City; Ralph E. Barto Lumber Co., Downey; California Panel & Veneer Co., Los Angeles; W. E. Cooper Wholesale Lumber Co., L.A.; Wilfred T. Cooper Co., Glendale; Eckstrom Plywood & Door Co., L.A.; Ed Fountain Lumber Co., L.A.; Hyster Co., L.A. ; John E. N{arshall, Inc., Wilmington; N{oulding Service, Hawthorne; Robert S. Osgood, L.A. ; Pacific Fir Sales, Pasadena; Pacific Forest Products, Inc., L.A. ; Pacific Western Lumber Co., Pasadena; Union Lumber Co., L.A.; Western Mill & Moulding Co., L.A., and Yale & Towne Mfg. Co., L.A.

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tOS ANGELES, CATIFOR,NIA

tutrtBER DtvrsloN

DOUGLAS FIR

. REDWOOD

WESTERN RED CEDAR

. PORT ORFORD CEDAR

. PONDEROSA PINE

O IEDAR SHINGTES

. DOUGIAS FIR PTYWOOD

O COOS BAY'HARDBOARD

BY siHIP . RAIL.

OVERTAY BARGiE

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FIR.TEX DIVISION

FIR-TEX TItE.PIANK.BOARD

FIR-TEXACOUSTICAT IIIE

FIR.TEX HARDBOARD

O FIR-TEX ROOFDEK

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FIR-TEX SHEATHING

. DOUGLAS FIRPLYWOOD

. CORALITE

. JAIOUSIES

O ROOFING

. TRUCK AND TRAILER

Retqiler ond Disrributor Hqve Their lnnings qt

NLIUIA Spring Meetirg; More Aid Urged ro Deolers

Sea Island, Ga.-Wholesalers are succeeding in their efforts to throw off the "stigmatism of the 'profiteering middle man"' and gain recognition of the "value added by distribution," Martin T. Wiegand, vice-president of the National-American Wholesale Lumber Association, who operates a lumber wholesaling firm in Washington, D. C., told the 1955 spring meeting May 19-21 of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association here.

"The latest Department of Commerce figures show some 250,000 wholesalers of all kinds, doing an annual sales volume of $235 billion. Five hundred members of the N-AWLA are contributing, f believe, about a billion and a quarter dollars' worth of this total.

"So the present day lumber wholesaler, dressed in a new suit and with a record of volume business getters, popularly referred to now as the 'value added boys,, are ready to go to work for you."

The more than 100 leading lumber manufacturers gathered at Sea Island heard Wiegand give this report on the advantages of dealing with wholesalers:

"We guarantee to perform to satisfaction-the responsibility of being your representative. We'll deliver the goods into the possession of the retailer at his place of consumption when he rvants to use them. This is known as the place, time and possession utility. To do this-to get your

material on the job when wanted, where t'anted, and as wanted, involves such functions as the financing, storing and balancing of inventories. It calls for handling and delivery equipment.

"We assume the risks of unfavorable price changes. We carry the credit risks. We give you aggressive, intelligent and persuasive selling and some sales promotion work. We have sufficient capital to pay promptll' and handle special financing, and if you keep us informed about the production market u'e rvill give you the pulse beat in the consumption market.

"We save you the trouble and expense of expanding your own organization and capital structures. \\re give you complete market coverage which gives you full utilization of your production facilities."

Warning on Substitute Materials

One of the country's top magazine editors forecast a doubling of do-it-yourself sales in the near future, but warned lumbermen that competitive materials rvill grab wood's share of this new business unless the industry does a better job of selling.

Don Seiwell, associate editor of American magazine, called on lumber manufacturers to launch "an aggressive merchandising and advertising campaign" aimed at re-educating both the consumer and the retail lum-

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berman in the price and quality advantages of wood products.

Seiwell, lvho oversees American's do-it-yourself stories, said "most lumber dealers still think of themselves as warehousemen rather than as local retail merchants," and many are serving their shoulder trade in a "half-hearted sort of way." In a number of areas, he reported, "the local lumberyard is a place about as unknown as the local funeral parlor."

Addressing the 1955 spring meeting, Seiwell declared:

"As we all know, lumber is losing out to metals and plastics because people just don't know the facts about lumber. Maybe they should knorv these things but they don't and, until you tell them, potential customers will continue to go by the doors of your retail outlets and buy the products of your competitors."

To the more than 100 industry leaders gathered at Sea Island, the magazine spokesman suggested this approach to bolster do-it-yourself sales:

"The first proposed project for your association is an obvious one: education in the uses and virtues of lumber directed at the consumer and at the retailer not a technical discussion of lvood in industry terms, but education in the end uses of the product. You're manufacturing lumber, and you will sell it to the shoulder trade to the extent that you make working rvith wood enticing and attractive-and get across to the do-it-yourselfer its superiority of performance to competing metals and plastics.

"And we see this as an industry-wide job, with additional. specialized assistance from vour member associa-

tions and individual companies. The consumer part of the program should stress recipes and pictures-in y6s1 case, full size woodworking patterns and instruction sheets, each with simply written, easily understood, step-by-step directions and drawings or photographs of such steps."

Seiwell identified these as problems of the retail lumber dealer requiring attention by lumber manufacturer:si:

"He needs guidance in establishing a modern retail outlet in dealing with the uninformed in lumber terms, with women customers (and their number is legion, and increasing) in setting up a self-service department, with prices clearly marked in staging seasonal displays in learning to talk customers' interests and having information on hand to help the customer with his current problem, whether it be a boat, lawn furniture, toys or a cabinet for his hi-fi set.

"In brief, he needs the sort of education that will help him develop a consistent, year-round business with the do-it-yourselfers of his community."

Seiwell said present NLMA efforts to help retailers and consumers are a start in the right direction but need "greater implementation." He added:

"An aggressive merchandising and advertising campaign aimed at the re-education of people as to the value of wood in home building and home decoration and furnishings will, in my judgment, pay off handsomely to you and your dealers. But it's got to be done through the exploitation of end uses rather than the raw products, just as the electrical companies, the gas companies, the alumi(Continued on Page 20)

Sqn Moteo Yord Even Puts on Sqlu

Molinee for Shoulder Trode

Shotgun Vfedding 0f Do-lt-Yourself and Volume Sales

Triggered in Handsome New Hillsdale Showroom

Ilillsdale lSuilders Supply Company, establisl-red in San N{ateo, Calif., during 1946, recently lifted "the wroughtiron curtain" and threu' open the doors of its brand-nelv shou-room for the public to inspect. Well over 1500 residents of San \[ateo trouped dor,vn to vier,v the "nerv look" the San Mateo yard rvas sporting. Nearly 1,000 homeo\\'ners registered for the drarvings and admired the modern, functional construction of the ner,v building.

Strategically located just across from a nerv $30,000,000 shopping center, and u'ith the yard entrance and big customer parking lot guarded by traflic lights, the new Hillsdale Builders Supply sholvroom is a natural for the drop-in trade, 'n'hich has already shou'n gratifying action in the short time tl-re shorvroom has been open.

Ffowever, Herb Crawford, general manager of the Hillsdale yard, has not been content to just sit and wait for the customers to come in.

Besides the original ltames gathered on the registration cards during the open honse (these cards sho."ved the person's current home interest, as prizes rvere given out in accord rvith customers' notes), Crawford has embarked upon a vigorous advertising campaign. Tn addition to rlaily spots on KVSM, the local radio station, semi-weekly spreads in the local netvspaper and the firm's own direct mail advertising, Crarvford has entered a variety of other direct mail and participation programs.

Hillsdale Builders Supp11- recently joined the "Your Neighbor Service," an organization rvhich greets each new arrival in the fast grorving San Mateo area. This service provides each nerv arrival in the area with a discount card, good for l0/o oft on purchases up to $100 made at any of the members of the service.

The service also notes any future home projects planned by the family and turns over those leads to the member firm that could be of help.

Hillsdale Builders Supply also participates in a direct mail campaign carried on by local merchants. The regular mailings, running up to 10,000 letters, include discount tickets from the member merchants. When anyone comes into the store to use one of the tickets, Crawford has him endorse the ticket rvith his name and address, thus gaining additional names for Hillsdale's mailing list.

In the short time that the new showroom has been open, Hillsdale's mailing list has grown from almost nothing to well over 3,000 home-owners.

Not content to stop the campaign at that point, Crar,vford goes even further and has each of the two men that run the new showroom call at least 10 of the names on the prospect list each morning. Many of these calls lead to in-person calls, a sale, and a friend and permanent customer for the yard. Crawford maintains a budget of approximately lfi/o of the projected gross volume for advertising and sales promotion.

HERB CRAWFORD, generol msnoger, is shown ot left by yord sign; before becoming Hillsdole heod losr foll' he wos mqny yeors with S. P. Milling ot Sonfo Borboro, Colif, Sign (center below) morks entry lo 25-cor cuslom€r porking lirjcontrqctors hove sepoiote entry ond ofhce by sheds in bockground-note troftic signols which moke Lnr".irig o, leo"ing yord o snop, Scene ot right, below, shows port of yord's 2 million b.f. inveniory behind bi!l' bocrd ind fence. ionelof pictures ot boitom of poge shows (top) streel Yiew of showroom wilh full-lengrh disploy windows; (center) inviiingly open ond modernistic outside oppeoronce of showroom with store exierior oll in iegiwn VG clear heort 1,,x8,,- iedwood wirh 1"x2" Redwood bofts, ond (boftom) the do-it-yourself lumrber deporlmenl sheltered by overhong ol reor of showroom; deporlmeni hqs tqble -sow ond is eosily qccessible from porking lor, wirh qll lumber in rqcks ond ploinly price-morked. The interior of the mognificent new showroom is seen ii the ponel on the opposita poge. Top photo shows ceiling of Hemlock suppoiled by Redwood beams ond counter to righr ond reor'oi picfure. Centir photo shows wide voriefy of movoble disploys yet Plenty of room for customer movemant; or leosr one disploy is chonged eoch week qnd oll moieriols ore priced with ow_n signmoking mochine like deporrment stoies rr". Bono- phoio shows plon books ond remodeling oids in comforfoble olcove-ofi moin showroom, which olso disploys gorden furnilure knits; noie huge shopping cenlet ocross slreet.

Once the prospective customer has entered Hilisdale's new store, the showroom practically invites him to brorvse further. Attractive do-it-yourself displays are abundant, with pickup or "impulse" items rt'ithin a step from the checkout counter. The trvo sales clerks are specially trained in merchandising and retail selling, and are ahvays r'villing to discuss and help rvith customer might have.

Hor,'r'ard Gregorsen, f ormerly

any planning Problem the with Beronio Lumber Company in San Francisco, is manager of the new retail shorvroom, rvhich oPerates completely apart from Hillsdale's contractor and volume lumber business.

Did rve say volume lumber? Yes sir, Hillsdale Builders Supply Company is not just a do-it-yourself emporium ! The yard itself covers an averag'e inventory located on spur, is all

better than four acres and carries of 2.000.000 BF of lumber. It is hard surfaced and includes some under-cover storage as well as a planer, 12" joinler, DeWalt radial saw and a table san'.

The yard has a separate entrance for contractors, a separate parking area and omce and even separate bookkeeping from the retail operation. Jerry Kearney, formerly assistant manager of the S. P. Milling San Luis branch, is yard foreman. Besides Kearney, there are 11 men and trvo drivers in the yard operation.

In short, Herb Crawford's "baby" is shorving remarkable grorvth since its baptism April 16. The shorvroom is currently open six full days a week and features an oPen house each Saturday afternoon, during rvhich time representatives of various national manufacturers demonstrate their respective products and help people $Iith their planning problems.

In addition, Hillsdale Builders Supply Company rvill soon be open Friday nights to tie in r'vith the Friday night opening of the huge ne'rv shopping center just across the st reet.

Tire immediate success of the operation is directly due to the planning, research and thought that Herb Crarvford and his employes have put into the project . . . a successful marriage of a do-it-yotlrself and a volume lumber business.

FOR YOUR PROTECTIONCEMENTS!

Arl Woll Elected Vice-president Of George Windeler Co., Ltd.

Art Wall, sales manager, has been elected vice-president of the George Windeler Co., Ltd., announces Fred Windeler, president of the company. The George Windeler Co., Ltd., established in 1885, manufactures tanks for industry and the farm, builds cooling towers and does custom millwork. Mr. Wall fills the vacancy left by the retirement of Wm. S. Heger, Jr., who rvas with the company for 34 years. Wall started with the George Windeler Co. in 1943. He has been active in lumber since 1929, and has made many friends in the industry in the west.

Pqcific Goqst lumber Co. Mokes Monogeriol Ghonges in Exponsion

Santa Barbara, Calif.-Pacific Coast Lumber Co. on June 9 announced management changes and also plans for improvement of the store and yards at 4ll-415 E. Gutierrez St. here at a cost of between $30,- and $40,000.

J. C. Huston, general manager of the general offices at San Luis Obispo, said he was returning to Santa Barbara to live and take active charge of the local yard as well as the San Luis Obispo office. lfe announced that Arthur King has been named general manager of the local office, succeeding Gordon McAdams, who has resigned to open his own business. King rvas formerly with the King Lumber Co. in Bakersfield and has been with the company recently in Shell Beach.

Pacific Coast Lumber Co. is planning to b;ild a modern store at its yards here, with hardware, paint and building supplies departments. It is also putting in a mill operation. The company had its origin in 1876, when its primary interests lvere with steamshipand railroad operations.

NAHB Chief Urges FHA Locrn Boost

The Federal Housing Administration has provided a sound method of consumer home financing and should be given an adequate increase in the amount of its mortgage insurance authority, Earl W. Smith, president of the National Association of Home Builders, told the House Banking and Currency committee last month. The El Cerrito, Calif., builder, whose association represents 33,000 builders, also told the committee that NAHB believes additional public housing is unnecessary.

SCR.LA Okoys Gollecrion Plon

The Executive committee of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association has approved the collection plan of the Southern California Lumber Protective Bureau nolr' being offered to association members, and to eligible non-members who become and remain members in good standing, reports Orrie W. Hamilton, executive vice-president of SCRLA, who emphasizes that the plan is a "service" and not a collection agency.

Ostling--The Quality Door That Gives You More

Price is important r so is Quality

It is only when you hove the two together in full meqsure thqt you ore receiving Reol Volue.

Osrling Flush Doors ore engineered for Quqliry ond priced for competifion. Mode wirh qn All Wood Gore lo construction stqndqrds thql qre of the highest in the industry. Wirh o wide selecfion of bequtiful do' mesfic crnd imported veneers to choose from Osrling is your Reol Volue buy in Flush doors.

Osrling Mclnufclcturing Co.

Lumber Terminol, Inc., Storts New Service ql L. A. Horbor

George DeBritz, president of Lumber Terminal, Inc., Wilmington, California, announces that his concern has established lumber unloading facilities at Berth 233, Terminal Island, in the Los Angeles Harbor district, for the purpose of offering a complete service to cargo shippers and receivers throughout the Pacific Coast area.

Although this is a new operation by the DeBritz organization, his firm has been engaged in the equipment and lumber service busir-ress in the harbor area for many years.

In addition to cornplete docking, unloading and handling facilities, a 10-acre concentration yard for storage of over 1O million feet of lumber has been acquired by the firm adjacer.rt to its dock. The yard location, at 601 Seasicle Avenue on the island, is close to the new freeways for fast T I

transportation to metropolitan Los Angeles and all Southern California communities, DeBritz declared.

Modern nerv equipment has been purchased by Lumber Terminal, fnc., to expedite cargo handling from the ship and for loading trucks r,vith a minirnum of clelay.

SCRLA Regionol Groups Meef

The West Side Lumbermen's Group of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association held a dinner meeting at The Buggy Whip in Westchester on J:une D. Speaker r'vas William A. Barnes, area representative of the Research Institute of America, on "Selling for Profit."

The regular monthly luncheon for or,vners and principals of retail yards lvas held at the Biltmore hotel July 12. The San Gabriel Valley Lumbermen's Group rvill meet at liaton's, Arcadia, July 19. Duane Garvin, l{ammond Lurrrber Co.. East Pasadena. will be chairmau.

Do-lt-Yourself Book Published

HOW TO \\TORK WITFI TOOI,S AND WOOD \\'as published June I b1' l'ocket Books, Inc. An original 25 cent I'ocket Ilook, it is a practical volume for anyone of any age r,vho rvants to take up an enjoyable hobby or learn a money-saving skill. Fred Gross, editor of the book, is nlanager of the Educational department of Stanley Tools, Nerv Britain, Conn. He believes that anyone l'ith a reasonable knorvledge of tools can do home repairs u'ith this basic knorvledge in an easy-to-understand u'ay. Those already skilled u.ill find it a handy reference for sizes and varieties of tools and a practical source of helpful hints on u'oodworking. It contains a check-list of tools essential for the home tool chest rvith complete instructions on their use and care. Basic steps in carpentry, including the selection of lumber, the drawing up of designs ancl the use of finishes, are expl:rined in simple terms. There are also descriptions of more advanced projects in carpentry, such as hanging a door ar-rcl making a ping-pong table.

Blue Diqmond's uniform quolity choroclerislics qre imporlonl lo croflsmen os well qs owners.

UNlFORtvl CORE in hondling ond noiling

UNIFORTIA TAPER in ioint lreqlmenl

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All qdd up to improved opplicotion qnd better wqlls qnd ceilings.

IiOUIHERN OFFIGE: tOS ANGETES 54, CAttF.

NORTHERN OFFIGE: DAIY CltY, CAtlF.

Monqrch lumber Moves

The Monarch Lumber Company of Southern California, Los Angeles, held a successful auction June 27 u'hen several hundrecl thousand feet of Douglas Fir n'as sold to various wholesale and retail lumber dealers of the Southland. Action on the auction got underrvay at 10:30 a.m., and rvithin four hours all stock offered for sale had been sold, including n'all surfacing and various items of I{emlock.

The ml.rolesale lumber concern will move its operation to Los Nietos this month and rvill continue operation of lumber distribution to Southern California dealers from the new location, according to rnembers of the concern.

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BERRY LUMBER CO.-PINE GROVE, CAL|F.-High Aliituoe, Sofl Texture Pine-White Fir Roof Decking

OSCAR HEDLUND LUMBER CO.-BIDWELL BAR, CALIF.-

Kiln Dried Pine Eoards & Paneling-Douglas Fir Dimension, White Fir Roof Decking

MOSS LUMBER CO._BUR}.IT RANCH, TRINITY COUNTY, CALIF.-High Quality OId Growth Douglas Fir Boards, Dimen. sion & Timbers

SIERRA MOUNTAIN MILLS-NORTH SAN JUAN, CALIF.-

Kiln Dried Pine Boards-Shop & Uppero, Douglas Fir Dimension & White Fir Roof Decking

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relief of snffering and restoration of essential structures, as u,ell as for military uses."

Talbot told the 1955 spring meeting of the NLN{A board that his division has planned, "rvell in advance, for maintenzrnce of the lumber industry's production and distribution facilities" under enlergency conditions. He declared:

"\\,'e have, in cooperation rvith the lumber industry, deleloped a lunrber control order, to be put into operation n-hen needed. I)rarl,ing upon World War II experience u'ith problems of lrtmber supply, the order is designed to assure an ttninterrupted flou' of lumber from the mills to distributors, and to prevent dissipation of stocks and undue consumption of lumber fttr non-essential purposes during a mobtlization period.

"The procluction of lumber under emergency conditions has been complicated by demands for special grades and sizes, and for cluick delivery of large cluantities under difficult shipping schedules. \\'e are accumulating and analvz' ing information on these problems and considering what meastlres could be aclopted to eliminate or minimize them," he explained.

Talbot said much attention has been given to the problems that would develop if the normal movement of lumber and sawlogs, via rail, truck and water, was disrupted by enemY attack.

The BDSA ofllcial emphasized the role of "key defense materiztl," noting its inrportance and inclr-rstrizil construction, housing, and the of implements, vehicles, shiplling containers oroducts.

lumber as a to militarv manufacture ancl related

First Annual'Lumberama'Held in Los Angeles

wives and guests; executives in the furniture manufacturing industry, city officials and others attended the outstancling "Lumberama" staged June 7 at the Vernon plant of E. J. Stanton & Son, Inc., Los Angeles wholesale lumber concern,

Several hundred retail lurnber dealers and building material merchants made up a good portion of the huge crowd. Guests from San Diego, Santa Barbara, Kern and Riverside counties turned out for the unusual merchandising event and enjoyed the entertainment, food and refreshment, and educational features of the show.

Stanton's Lumberama started at 10 a. m. and continued with crou'ds always in attendance until 4:30 in the after_ noon. Many dozen species of lumber were on display out_ doors and under cover, as illustrated. euestion-ancl-Answer clinics were conducted throughout the day by representatives of trade associations and manufacturers. Instructionzrl movies for dealers and others rvere shown continuously in Stanton's 'n'arehouse of Arrnstrong products and each shou,ing attracted good attendance.

Numbered among the trade association representatives at the trade show were Carl Framstrom, Los Angeles dis_ trict supervisor, West Coast Lumbermen,s Association :

Harry L. Lorvell, California Redrvood Association, San Francisco; Don Comstock, Western pine Association, ar.rcl Harvey H. Smith, Forest Utilization Service, Universitr, of California, Berkeley.

The experts held their clinics from early morning till late evening at the l4-acre yard and remanufacturing plant, rvhere carloads and truckloads of their orvn ancl other ''oods were in process of handling and milling. Both foreign ancl domestic hardu'oods and softwoods were on display, and

Iil ii'!:;;iiri sii::itiffi i:--.irtfrflt lirl$iiiiMore than 1500 Southern California lumbermen. their

IUMBERAI/IA ArlRAcTloNs rhown rop of poge; inrtructionol movic rersion obove; Hortr Roy Stqnton, Sr. ond Jr., help cword prizer.

Over 1,500 Attend Show at E. J. Stanton & Son

IUITIBERAMA GUESIS sow Slonfon's l€rlrdhu' locturing ptonl in the yord (leffl. The big show feqtured lumber by cqrloqd ond lruck' ond trqiler. Second ponel balow shows (left) o disploy from McCloud Rivcr Lumber Co., severol fraighl-cor disploys (center), ond hqrdwood dimenrion disploy (righr)' cll on Stqnfon spur siding. Third ponel below shows disploy of rore woods including Mognolio ond Pecon (left), loqds from Oscor Hedlund Mill & Lumber Co. qnd Wesride lumber Co. (center), ond pockoged 9tcnwall (righr). All shipments from Slonton suppliers were limed to or.ive from mills by Lumberomo doy. Lower ponel shows the chow line of guests ond Stontonite3 (lefr), whilethe yord employes "gel theirs" in centor photo; 1i9ht shows lunching lumbermen'

tl-re many uses of the lumber were explained bv these and other experts in their fields.

A complete luncheon was served throughout the noon periorl in the Armstrong warehouse division of the Stanton firm to the invited guests, the office staff and yard employes The menu, which was prepared and served by a catering concern, included Pastrami, ham, beef, turkey, salads. lleverages and dessert.

Door prizes were awarded guests during luncheon' First prize was a new Polaroid camera; another was a beautiful

inlaid painting. Winners included E. G. Reeves of Reid Stoddard, L. D. Moore, Moore Mill & Lumber Co.; C' F. Hildebrand of the door concern, and Hervey Boles, prominent in Southern California lumber circles.

"Our first Lumberama lvas so successful we now plan on making it an annual event," declared LeRoy Stanton, Jr., cxecutive vice-president of the progressive lumber distributing firm, following the big shorv.

Official hostesses for the Lumberama were selected from Stanton's office force. Bernadine Robertson, traffic man-

ager, and Helen Proo, secretary to the vice-president, Starl Sr,vafford, did a splendid job in this department and were attractively costumed for the occasion. Betty Morrill acted as hostess at the Dimension division display, and the en-

tire Stanton force was on hand to concluct the visitors through the modern lumber plant.

business

LUMBERAI A HosTs I'EROY STANTON, Jr'. (lefi) ond 5r. (second from lefi) ond stonton stofi members (note costumes) showed visitors qround.

The E. J. Stanton & Son plant has been in

in Southern Califr-rrnia since 1894.

HARDWOOD PANET DISPIAY cnd pockoged Sronwqll were 3een by guesrs (rop Hordwood lumber Assn. clinics ot top ond lower right. Lumberomq irhitogroph", left). Cstifornio Redwood Rolph W. Gee cqtchcs our Assn., Wertcrn Pine Assn., W.C.|.A. ond Notionol own Olc lloy on the Cl,M Brownie oi lower left.

Vqluoble New Hqndbook ReodY

Professional builders, homeowners, prospective buyersin fact, anyone interested in building, remodeling, or maintaining a homewill find valuable help in a new handbook just issued by the U.S. Departrnent of Agriculture, according to Dr. George M. Jemison, clirector of the California Forest and Range Experiment Station of the U.S. Forest Service. The new publication, "Wood-Frame House Construction," listed as Agriculture Handbook No. 73, was prepared by L. C. Anderson and O. C. Heyer, engineers at the Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wis., a unit of the Forest Service.

"The handbook combines the results of 45 years of Laboratory research with practical building experience. It's a down-to-earth construction guide that covers every phase of home building from laying the foundation to applying the final coat of paint," Dr. Jemison said.

The handbook was thoroughly reviewed by representatives of the lumber and building industries and by engineers of the federal llousing and Home Finance Agency before it was released.

"It has something for everybody interested in wood houses," Dr. Jemison said. "And the homeowner, especially the do-ityourself fan, will find dozens of ideas that will help him remodel, add a room, or just keep his present home in top condition."

The handbook can be purchased from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D.C., for 65 cents.

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Prirchord Compony, Merced, Nqmes Sierro Redwood Co. Colifornio Distributor

The Sierra Redwood Company, Los Angeles, has been appointed its California distributor by the J. F. Pritchard Company, Merced, California, according to Jerry Wright, general manager of the lumber products division of the manufacturing concern, which maintains a production plant at Merced. P. J. Skill, president of Sierra, u,ill represent the firm in the wholesale distribution of all Redwood products presently manufactured, rvhich includes Pritchard Bevel Siding.

The J. F. l'ritchard Company is one oi the largest producers of cooling towers in the United States. The plant rvas established to furnish Redrvood for this particular project. Out of this operation a national market was developed for Redwood bevel siding and other by-products of the lumlter division.

In 1952, to increase tl.re volume and drying conditions, a remanufacturing plant rvas established and set in Merced. Under the general management of Jerry \\rright, 'rvith W. W. "Woody" Loflin, general superintendent, today this modern plant with latest milling machines employs over 50 people and ships over 300 carloads of various firrished products annually for national and foreign distribution. Loflin and Wright are veterans in lumber milling and maintain one of the most modern. cleanest operations in California.

in Merced covers 20 all paved, maintains its mill, has a spur SPECIALIZ]NG IN THE EFFICIENT DISTRIBUTION OF JAPANESE PTYWOOD ond TUMBER FOR THE TRADE ,. wruAm BACK .orPArrY 2O4 Eosr 32nd Streel Los Angeles I I, Golifornio IMPORTER JAPANESE HARDWOODS Alhms Wholesole Only llhms l -4361 | -4361 J.

Pritchard plar-rt area, which is machinery in

acres of prol4 units of track "r'ith a

F. PRITCHARD COI PANY plont ond invenfory drying or Alerced (top phoro).

Woody Lofin (lefi) ond Jerry Wright bcforc modcrn double curofi ssw (ienrer). Motchcr ond per:onnd rhown in lower photo.

Oregon's Huge Timber Supply

"The Forest Products Industry of Oregon" is the name of a new 36-page pamphlet published in Portland, Oregon, and giving a practical and understandable description of the forest industry of Oregon, and its future.

The book was published by a grouping of Portland businessmen in cooperation with Lewis and Clark College and Reed College, of Portland. Twenty men merged their efforts to bring out the facts contained in the book.

The book says that the virgin timber of Oregon would last 54 years at present rate of cutting (about 8.3 billion board feet annually) without making any allowance for

An Editorial

tree growth, and that the present rate of tree growth in both the Pine and Fir areas of the state is 3.3 billion feet a year.

The book says that continuation of present trends in forest management makes it reasonable to expect to increase the annual growth to more than 9 billion feet a year, and that it would be possible with maximum effort to grow about 16 billion feet a year in Oregon.

The present low tree growth is due largely to the lack of access roads to huge stands of old and ripe and overripe timber on government lands. On these there is no annual growth. When adequate roads are provided these old stands will be cut and rapid second growth of young

(Continued from Preceding Page) 74 - car capacity and can load and unload 12 simultaneously. cars timber provided for.

According to Jerry Wright, the greater portion of materials produced at Merced are moving to the eastern and southern markets. With the appointment of Sierra Redwood Company to handle sales in California it is expected distribution in the west will show a steady increase during the summer and fall months, he declared.

The J. F. Pritchard Company maintains a running inventory at Merced in excess of 2 million feet of uppers and runs over 3 million feet in custom milling in addition to its other products.

This company is considered one of the leading manrfacturers and distributors of Redwood products in the country, as these Photos indicate.

The facts and figures in this book make it reasonable to suppose that a balance between cutting and growing on Oregon forest lands is not too many years away.

Fresno Building Sets Record

Fresno, Calif.-May 1954 was a record-breaking month here in new building volume at $4,395,361, as compared with $4,149,625 in April 1955 and $2,825,669 in May 1954. The total for this year's first five months was $14,529,255, compared to $9,095,051 in the same period last year. The total value of construction permits in 1954 was $22,142,650. The May figures this year showed a total of $1,990,500 for single-family dwellings.

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T\(/ENTY.FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

As reported in The California Lumber Merchant July 15,1930

-1. C. \fcCune, California trade extensi{)rt representiitive oi the \\'est Coast I-rrmbermen's Association. told the Sacramento \talley Lun-rbermerr's Clulr, at Sacramento, all about grade marking oi lrrmber at the monthlv meeting oi tlrat orgar-rization on June 21.

J. Earle Heber

u'ork business ir-r Heber Conrpanv, u'ork plant on \\'

and D. Ii. X{:rule have enter-ed the millI-os .\ngeles ur-rder the name oi NIauleancl have leased a u'el1 equipped rnillest Slauson Ave.

Larue \\,'oodson, u.ho l-ras represented the Wheeler ()sgoocl Company in Northern California for ten years, has 'been nzrmecl manager of the Nicolai Door Sales Companl', of San Francisco, a subsidiarl' of \\rheeler Osgood.

J. E. "Ted" Higgins, of the J. E. Higgins Lrrnrber Cornpany of San Francisco, made the arrangements l'hereby the San Francisct-r Hard'n'ood Club held its recent mouthly meeting at Southampton I-ighthouse, in San Francisco Buy. N[r. Higgins also conducted the program for the occasion.

The San Joaqrrin Valley Lumbermen's Club held its

June meeting at Centrzrl Liamp, llarler:L countv. as grlests of the Sugar lrine I-umlrer Compan.,'. There thev visited the company's logging hea<lr1uarters. Jan'res Clifforcl. marrager for Sugar I'ine, acte<l as host.

In this issue is :tn modern retail plant lumber cleltartntent, acted as host.

attractive story u'ith pictures of the of the Pacific Coast Coal Cc,mpirnr''s at San l-uis Obispo. J. -'\. Greenclsh

Xlascin E. Kline, sales engineer of the Unior-r I-urnlrer C<->mp:rn1', San Francisco, has been making airplane sales trips throughout the country. Throrrgh his prorrrotion ir ner,v stadium at the state fair grouncls at Dallas, Texzis, will be constructed largely of Redn'ood, using one million feet.

This issue carries Meyer, of Oakiand, yard at that point.

a story ancl co-manager pictrrre of \\'illiam T. oi the White Brothers

The Roy Swenson Lnn-rber announces the installation oi a tion Kilns, in rvhich they u'ill

('uru.1rarrv. \-eneta. Oregon. set of lloore Cross CirculaseA>on the Fir tlimensiorr.

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New Retqil Yqrd in Indio SePt. I

Indio, Calif.-Don l{ozell, owner of the Nfonarch Lumber Con.rpany of Southerr-r California, u''hich also has tire Fell Lumber Company of Banning and Sav-On Lumber Company at I'almdale, Calif., said the firm has acquired 14 acres in southn'estern Indio and plans to be in operation u,ith a nelv retail yard here about September 1. "We will operate a lun.rberyard, hardr'vare and building materiais outlet, and are no\\r contemplating locating a sash and door manufacturer and cabinet shop on the same site," Rozell said. Allied material houses or contractors will be offered sites on about eight acres on a 99-year lease, he added'

The Monarch Lumber Company has been in the wholesale business 10 years and Fell l,umber Company has had 16 vears in retail and contractor trade in the desert area'

M qnd M Reports Soles Rise

Portlancl, Ore.-N[ and X{ \\rood \\rorking Co. reports sales of $11,.+58,195 in the quarter ended Ma1' 28, against $8,989.924 in the same 1954 period. Clay Brorvn, president, said major factors in the first-cluarter gain rvere a strong market this year compared to slorvdowns last year, and that Eureka Redrvood I-umber Company, the company's nerv l{edrvood division, operated profitably as production and sales gained momentum.

Coor-Pender

As of July 1, H. his partner, R. L. Angeles, and 'ivill under the name of

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Coor-Pender bought out the interest of Long, in Coor-Pender & Long Co., Los operate the building materials business Coor-Pender Co.

Whire Bros. Completes New Plywood Worehousing Areo

\\rhite Brothers, pioneer Bay area hardwood and lumber products distributor which recently re-entered the field of plywood distribution, has now completed separate storage facilities and added equipment for the new department at the big White Brothers Oakland rvarehouse. The 83year old firm, rvhich took over the entire staff of the old Associated Plyrvood Mills' San Francisco branch on March 1, maintains two large warehouses-one in Oakland, and the other in San Francisco.

The Oakland yard occupies three acres of land at 500 High Street, and has more than lf acres of undercover storage area. The White Brothers San Francisco distribution depot is located at 2I5O Oakdale Avenue, and occupies lf acres of land, of which nearly one-half is taken up by undercover storage facilities.

Heading up the new plywood division is E. C. "Ed" Gallagher, who is in complete charge of plyrvood procurement and distribution. The sales force consists of Wayne N. Foote, George C. Williamson, Harry G. Winkleman, Tom Corbett, Ed Follett, Keith Mclellan, Darwin D. Clay and Gordon Benson. These men also service White Bros. accounts with complete lines of foreign and domestic hardr,vood plywood and lumber, fir plywood, boat lumber and domestic softwoods. In addition, the firm recently became the Celotex distributor for the Greater Bay area, Coast counties and North Bay counties.

Clarence Johnson, formerly with the Associated Plyu,ood San Francisco branch, is warehouse superintendent of the nsur plywood department, and his brother, Clay, is yard superintendent of the White Brothers San Francisco operation. George Byrne, with White Brothers for the past nine years, is in charge of the rest of the big yard operation at Oakland.

The history of the firm dates back three generations to the year 1872 when two brothers left the lumber industry

OAKlAND YARD

rhown in lorge photo obove, kilns ore ol and of yord, storoge shed wqs buitt since this picture. Pholo al left shows High Sr. onlronce lo main worehoure. Lefl be low: for fosl unlood. ing, Whire Bros put! smoll Hyster inside boxcqr to feed lorger lift truck on ground. Center ond righr: plywood worehouge oc. commodola3 lwo boxcars.

of the east behind them and settled in San Francisco. They r,vere Asa L. and Peter White. Soon they were joined by another brother, Jacob, and together they established a wholesale hardr,vood lumber concern knou'n as White IJrothers in San Francisco. The business prospered under their able manag'ement, and the management of the succeeding generations of Whites. Today the operation in-

cludes tr"'o big warehouses on both sides of the bay, a drv kiln at the Oakland yard with a 70,000 BM holding capacity, the very latest in lumber handling and delivery equipment, and a diversified average inventory of over 3.500.@0 feet.

William T. Wl-rite, Sr., son of the original Asa L. \\rhite, continues as chairman of the board, and his son, W. T. White, Jr., is president and general sales manager. Don F. White, son of the late C. Harry White, is vice-president and general manager, and his brother, Charles B. White, is also a vice-president and in charge of yard operations.

E. S. Zittleman, who has been rvith White Brothers for the past 26 years, is general purchasing agent for both yards. Altogether, the firm employs more than 40 persons in its operation.

Southern Pine Monufcrcturers in Firm Stond Agoinst Minimum Woge

Washington, D. C., June 2l-Southern Pine lumber manufacturers asked Congress today to conduct "an exhaustive study to determine just how many industries, firms and workers will be put out of business and jobs" if the present 75-cent mir-rimum lvage is hiked to 90 cents or $1. Tom DeWeese of the A. DeWeese Lumber Co., Philadelphia, Miss., told the House Labor committee that, because of high production costs and narrow profit margins, it will be impossible for the "vast majority" of Southern sarvmills to absorb an increase in the wage floor.

As spokesman for the Southern Pine Industry committee, representing more than 23,000 Southern Pine producers who employ about 250,000 part-time and full-time rvorkers, DeWeese urged the House committee to vote "no increase" in the minimum wage. He explained tl-rat last year, even rvith home building and other construction at high levels, 26a/c ctl all Southern Pine producers operated at a loss.

The lumber rvitness declared :

"lJnless there is assurance tl-rat 'ive (Southern sawmill operators) can get a guaranteed price for our product just like the rvorker will get a guaranteed higher minimum, thousands of operators in the rural South will be forced to close dorvn, and their thousands of workers will have little hope forlvork elsewhere, because in many cases the sawmill is the only source of employment in the community."

Lumbermen are opposed to the principle of Congress legislating wages, DeWeese stated, but the industry rvould be just as much against "legislative support of minimum prices the last lap toward Socialism-American style." The lumber spokesman complained that the Senate's recent approval of a $1 minimum came before its members had time to study the testimony offered at public hearings of a Senate Labor subcommittee.

Another Southern lumber witness, Ellis S. Martin oi the lVlartin Timber Co., Castor, La., predicted that 25/o of small Southern Pine producers will be forced to shut dorvn if the minimum wage is hiked.

A $55 million expansion program, including $6 million outlay for its Redwood City, Calif., plant u'as announced by Ideal Cement Co., Denver.

"Hell"

They say sometimes, "It's cold as Hell"

Sometimes they say, "It's hot as Flell"

When it rains hard, "It's Hell," they cry, It's also Hell when it is dry; They hate like Hell to see it snow; It's a Hell of a wind, when it starts to blow; Now how in Hell can anyone tell What in Hell they mean by this word "Hell?"

This married life is "Hell," they say; When they come home late, there's Hell to pay; It's Hell when the kid you have to tote; When he starts to bawl it's a Hell of a note. It's Hell when the doctor sends his bills: For a Hell of a lot of trips and pills; When you get this you'll know real well, Just what is meant by this word "Flell."

Hell yes, Hell no, and Oh Hell, too; The Hell you don't; the Hell you do; What the Hell? The Hell it is?

The Hell with yours ! The Hell with his !

Now who in the Hell. and Oh Hell where?

And what in Hell do you think I care?

But the Hell of it is-it sure IS Hell

To find out what in the Hell is Hell?

No Bqnd Mqster

"'Jedge," said Uncle Mose as he faced the local Justice of the Peace, "you member dat woman you married me to las' week? Well, Jedge, dat woman's got six children by former gagements, an' ever last one ob dem plays some musical instrument. One's got a uke, one's got a guitar, one plays de flute, one plays de banjo, one plays de cornet, and de littlest one plays a French harp."

"Well, Mose," said the Judge, grinning, "what shall I do, get you a bass drum?"

"Nossuh, Jedge," said Uncle Mose, "Ah doan want to be no band leader. 'Ah wants to get DISBANDED."

John Ruskin on Freedom:

"No human being, however great or powerful, was ever so free as a fish. There is always something that he must or must not do; while the fish may do whatever he likes. All the kingdoms of the world put together are not half as large as the sea, and all the railroads and wheels that everwere or will be invented, are not as fine as fins. You will find, on fairly thinking of it, that it is his restraint which is honorable to man, not his liberty; and, what is more, it is restraint which is honorable, even in the lower animals. A butterfly is much more free than a bee; but you honor the bee more, just because it is subject to cer-

tain laws which fit it for orderly function in bee society. And throughout the world, of the two abstract things, liberty and restraint, restraint is always the more honorable. It is true, indeed, that in these and other matters you never can reason finally from the abstraction, for both liberty and restraint are good when they are nobly chosen, but of the two, I repeat, it is restraint which characterizes the higher creature and betters the lower creatures and, from the ministering of the arch-angel to the labor of the insect-from the poising of the planets to the gravitation of a grain of dust-the power and glory of all creatures, and all matter, consist in their obedience, not in their freedom. The sun has no liberty-a dead leaf has much. The dust of which you are formed has no liberty. Its liberty will come with its corruption. And, therefore, I say that as the first power of a nation consists in knowing how to guide a plow, its second power consists in knowing how to wear the fetter."

Just Prqcticql

The mayor of a small mountain town was about to engage a new preacher for their non-denominational church.

"Parson, he said, "I hope you're not a Baptist."

"I'm not," said the applicant, "but does that make any difference?"

"We have to be practical," said the mayor. "We have to haul our water twelve miles."

Kipling Wrote:

For this is the law of the jungle, It's as old and as true as the sky, And the wolf that shall keep it will prosper, And the wolf that shall break it will die; As the creeper that girdles the tree trunk, The law runneth forward and back. That the strength of the pack is the wolf, And the strength of the wolf is the pack.

Limited, However

The newly converted brother in the colored church asked the preacher what he could do to show how really sincere he was about getting religion.

Asked the preacher: "Well, Brothah Jones, what is you willing to do?"

And the repentant one said: "Ah'm willin t'do anything de Lawd wants me to, jes so long as hits fair an honest.i,

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"I hear," said one woman to another, ,,that you use a very seductive perfume in your home, to snare the men. What can it be?"

"The best on earth. Corned beef and cabbage."

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Redding, Calif.-Marshall R. Leeper has been appointed general manager of Associated plywood division operations of United States Plywood Corporation and Kenneth L. Morrow has been named general manager of its Shasta division operations, announced Gene C. Brer,ver, vice president. Leeper will manage the company's plywood, lumber and timber operations at Eugene, Willamina and Roseburg, Oregon, as well as a projected installation at Gold lleach. lle .rvas formerly president and general man-

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Handy Woods, in Ukiah, Mendocino county, took its place the week of June 4 as California's newest state park. It is 300 acres of fine Redwoods through which Highway 128, the Navarro River route, winds as it approaches philo on its way to the ocean. The wooded area contains nearly 16,500,000 board feet of timber.

For the second time this year, building permits valuation exceeded the $1 million mark in Orange, Calif., when May permits totaled $1,202,198, just short of the all-time mark of $1,607,916 established in February.

A $150,000 fire in downtown Orland, Calif., June 4 demolished Macy's Lumber Yard, where the fire broke out and spread rapidly through office and on to lumber and sawdust piles and a planing mill. In an hour the yard was a mass of flames.

Washington, D.C.-The United States has agreed to swap tariff concessions with Japan so it won,t become dependent on Red China for trade. Duties were reduced on $131,000,000 worth of Japanese goods and $48,000,000 worth of machinery, raw materials and equipment from 16 other countries. State officials, aware of domestic fears of cheap competition, said the tariff cut would not imperil vital American industries.

Lou Ohlson, Oroville, Calif., lumberman and community leader, has been elected a director of the First National bank there. Now president of the O,roville Chamber of Commerce, he went to Oroville in 1944 and organized the Oroville Lumber Co., which was later in'cotporated as High Sierra pine Mills, of which he is president.

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equaling the 1954 figure which set an all-time mark in Fullerton, Calif. One week's permits last month were valued at $1,192,486, boosting the year's total to $24,015,749 to date. Last year's l2-month record total was $26 million.

If this summer's program of field testing goes as well as expected, the Coleman Company, Wichita, Kans., expects next year to market limited production of a practical, economical gas-powered summer air conditioner for homes. The model rvould be driven by a gas motor and increased production is scheduled for 1957 as Coleman puts gas-powered air conditioning on the mass market. The research program stems from the present situation in which increasing sales of electric air-conditioning equipment are building a summer peak load on the electric utilities, and in which the heavy trend to gas heating has already built a winter peak load on the gas utilities. The electric industry is u'orking to develop an electric heat pump and resistance heating for a balancing winter load and, on the other hand, the gas industry needs a summer load.

Building permits for the first four 1955 months in Anaheim, Calif., exceeded those for eight months of 1954, $17,212,O7 2 against $16,333,998.

A Santa Fe Springs construction company and a Los Angeles builder-developer have purchased the old Hughes Park tract in North Tustin, Calif., for sites of small estate homes.

John W. Tucker has joined the field staff of Cummins Engine Co., Columbus, fnd., as a regional representative with headquarters in Los Angeles.

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Spectoculor Home-Building Records Reveqled for Counfies Neighboring Los Angeles; Oronge County ls rhe Leoder

ltesiclential building activity, a major sustaining element in Southern California during the business adjustment of 1953-54, is accounting for a signilicant portion of the present upu.ard trend, the Itesearch department of the SecurityFirst National Bank recently disclosed. I)uring the first quarter of 1955, building permits rvere issued in record volume in Southern California. Dlvelling urrits u'ere at a rate of 160,000 per year for the l4-county area, ll/o above last year's actual total, u'hich starts 1955 as the tenth consecutive year of high-level, home-building activity in the atea.

Tabulations by the U. S. Bureau of I-abor Statistics reveal tl.rat for the year 1954, metropolitan Los Angeles ranked first among n.retropolitan areas of the U. S. in nnmber of nerv cln'elling units built, follol'ed by Nen. York City, Chic:rgo ar-rd l)etroit.

Los Angeles County's 1954 total ol 87,2(t9 nelv drvelling ur-ritsexceeded the total of any state except California itself. More l.romes were built in this one connty than in all of Neu' York state or all of Texas.

Neighboring Orange County's spectacular rate of 23,500 neu' homes per year, rvith its population of 350,0O0 apparently grorving by 50,000 per year, exceeded the 1954 totals of all but 11 of the .18 states.

in 1954, residential building averaged 6 2/3 netr. du'elling units per thousand population for the U. S. as a u-hole. For Scrtrthern California, the averag'e was l\f per thou-

sand. The most active counties in t1.re are:t. l'ith nerv dwelling units per thousand in 1954, were:

Orange, (r0; S:rn Bernardino. 29; Itiverside,22; Ventrrra, 17; Los Angeles, 17; Kern, 14; San l)iego, 14, ancl Fresno, 13. The bank noted that Orange County homebuildir-rg is tu'ice as high, relatively, as in any other countv in Southern California. The researchers said it is significant that the greatest relative activity is in the counties in.rtnedilrtelv surrounding I-os Angeles.

Oronge County Building Homes Af Rqte of 23,5OO Per Yeqr

Santa Ana, Calif.-Constmction of neu, honres in C)rangc county is proceeding at a rate ()f 23,500 units pgr year, revealed'Walter Elieson, Los -A,ngeles heacl of the Li. S. Department of Cornmerce. "The number rif homes built in Orange county last year exceedecl the number built in all but 1l of the United States." he said. "Ilusiness is better this year in Southern California and in the errtire nation than it has ever been before, and there is every sign that it rvill be better next \-ear." he said June 2.5. Elieson preclicted that 500,000 neu-home units r.vill be built in Southern California betu'een norv and 19(t0.

Iluena Park, California's building pace set arr all-time record in April rvith permits at $5,697,736.

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UCIA to Start Construction Course

Recognition of the size and importance of Southern California's construction industry is pointed up r,vith announcement of a construction management course, first in the U. S., to start at the University of California at Los Angeles. I\fembers of the education committee of the Building Contractors Association of California rvorked with the UCLA faculty in planning the course, t'hich rvill start this September.

"No industry plays a more important role in maintaining national prosperity than the building industry, and in no other section of the nation has it been more significant than in Southern California," said Dean Neil H. Jacoby, School of Business Administration, UCLA, in announcing the new construction course.

John Meskell, president of the BCA, called the new course "one of the most forward-looking steps ever undertaken for the advancement of the industry." He said such a course had long been an aim of the NAHB, and that tl-re BCA, its largest affiliate, is the first member group to accomplish this purpose.

North, Jr., on Producerst Gouncil

Henry E. North, Jr.., president of Arcadia Metal Products, Southern California manufacturer of sliding glass doors, has been elected to the post of national director on Producers' Council, Inc., organizatron of leading manufacturers in the building products field. He is the only SoCal member of the grouP.

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Proflles , ,, Don Adolfo Cqmarillo

"90th Birthday Greetings to Camarillo's most beloved and distinguished citizen-Don Adolfo Camarillo" was the headline in a special edition of The Camarillo News on the occasion of the recent 90th birthday of the senior citizen of the town named for his family.

As president of the Peoples Lumber Company, Ventura, Calif., which has successfully operated eight line yards for many years, Adolfo Camarillo is also widely and affectionately known to Southern California lumbermen. The Peoples Lumber Company was incorporated September 30, 1890. Mr. Camarillo was elected a director on January 26, I9O7. After many years of his guidance and rvise counsel, he was elected president of the board June 17, 1940.

He is still an active voice in the 1955 operations of the retail lumber company, r,l'hose other present directors are C. A. Lind, first vice-president; A. J. Dingeman, second vice-president; J. C. Crump, secretary; C. E. Bonestel, H. H. Eastrvood, L. D. Willis, and Ben W. Bartels, who is general manager, treasurer and assistant secretary.

On this most recent milestone in his life, Mr. Camarillo recalled for The CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT that there was no railroad or pier to serve Ventura with transportation in the early days of his association with retail lumber to which his active memory goes back. The boats would anchor as close to shore as possible and transfer lumber onto a raft about 2Ax8'. This raft was drawn by horses winding a rope or cable around a large drum to get the lumber to shore.

When your lumber beqrs the qbove brond, you cqn be sure il's prolecled ogoinst dry rot qnd lermiles. Wilh focilities to hqndle ony quontity, your lumber con be treqted in tronsit by the cqrlood or moved in ond out by truck.

The veteran lumberman also recalled that the Ventura wharf was built in 1873 and that the first lumber boat to discharge its cargo was named the Kalorama. The firm receiving the first cargo was Daly & Rogers.

On his 90th birthday, the grand old gentleman invited everyone in town to his party, the highlight of the annual lima bean festival and community fair.

In his 90th year of useful living, Don Adolfo Camarillo goes about his regular workaday activities, which start at his rolltop desk in the spacious ranch house at the edge of the city. He watches the progress of the walnut and bean harvests on his land, visits the walnut packing sheds and sits at the meetings of the bank directors, lumber company directors and California Lima Bean Growers Association directors, of which he is one.

With almost all the vigor of former years, Mr. Camarillo actively participates in all of the business affairs. In 1953, just a week before his 89th birthday, Don Adolfo passed all the tests for the renewal of his driver's license so that he might continue driving to all the manifold activities that demand his time.

In its copyrighted article in the birthday "extra," The Camarillo Ner''u's also says Don Adolfo Camarillo, "last of the Spanish Dons," r,vas born in 1%4 in his father's house in Ventura. After his father's death in 1880, l6-year old Adolfo assumed control of the great 10,000-acre Rancho Calleguas and has managed it ever since.

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l)on Adolfo rnarrietl Isabella Xlenchaca. Seven chiidren ll'ere born to them on Rancho Calleguas, oi u,hom four survive, and the youngest daugl.rter, C-'armen, is the only one remainine' r.ith her father on the great estate. I)ona Isabella died in 1936 and their onll' son. Fr;tnk, died in 1952.

During the nrany years he has been part oi the Canrarillo community, Don Adolfo has been a driving force behind the development of better schools and the fountling of a church. Upon his retirement from the l>oard of the Pleasant Valley school district recer.rtly, he \vas Ventura county's senior trustee rvith 45 years' serr-ice.

For many )'ears. after having seen his first Ventura county fair in 1875, 1\{r. Camarillo servecl on the fair boards and recently \\'as given the lifetirne post of honorary president. Until only recently, he rode one of his famed rvhite Arabian horses in the county fair parade, for which he has served as grand marshal. and in other Ventura county celebrations.

(Jne of the patriarcl-r's highest honors, and one of the highest honors in his faith, came in 195O when Pope Pius XII created him a Knight of Saint Gregorv.

Paid Testimonials of Esteem

The esteem and honor in rvhich Nlr. Camarillo is held in his home place is shor,vn in the 16 pages of the special edition of the newspaper. Nearly all of its pages are cramn.red l'vith paid ads expressing the devotion rvith rvhich the beloved lumberman and citizen is regarded.

In its concluding paragraphs, the nervspaper states: "-A,s keynote speaker in the freeu'ay opening ceremonies

last spring, Don Adolfo remarked that 1>ublic speaking \\ras much easier for him tvhen he u'as clr-rly 'a boy of 50.' To those u'ho knorv and lor-e hirn. I)t.rn Adolfo still seems like a 'boy of 50' u'ith his uniailing ctinrtesy, ready rvit, and unflagging energy "lith rvhich lte n-railrtairrs s(, many positions of responsibility."

The edition concludes u-ith pulrlication of the poem, "The San Buena Ventura," by Her.rry Chamlterlain. It reads in part:

ln the son Bueno Venluro

Before the spring moon slqds lo wone,

The sons of Don Adolfo

Will be ofi to ihe mountqinr ogoin..

We don't ride driPPing in silverThot it not for such os we; The thing. lhqt Gounl ore lhe (ore of your mounl, Horremonship ond cmoroderie'

We're ofi to the hills (me dqylighl

Sefore the sun 5treqki the sky; We'll kirk up o breeze in the coltonwood tleer

And we'll make lhe bull pines :igh

Now we're bock ogoin in the willows, ll's the l6t night of fhe ridet

Don Adolfo presides ol dinner, There qre gvesls whom we greel with pride.

Tired nen, yes, qnd lired horses, A bequtiful slorlit 6ky; The men ol the nre ging softly

Old songs of doy: gone by

We of rhe older generqtion Reolize o: twilight foili

Younger men will rit our soddler, Younger horrer pound the troils.

Bul somebody'3 gon mqy rmember, Perhop: he will vnderstqnd

How we loved ond rode this country

When it w6 o young, young lond.

52 Plons Booklet

Fifty-two Fir plyrvood home storage plans-all nerv, all dramatic, all useful-are detailed in a booklet just published by the Douglas Fir Plvrvood Association.

The plans booklet is something unique in a point-of-sale promotion item. Amoug other things, it can bring a profit to the dealer in itself rvhile promoting sales of plyn'oocl, paint and hardrvare at the same time.

Items in the plans bookiet are designed to interest everyone in the family. Projects reach into every living area of the contemporary home-including living room, beclroom, music center, family room, hobltl' and sports areas, kitchen and utility room, outdoor storage areas, patio and garden. Individual items range from coffee tables t'ith storage through several desks, photo darkroom lixtures, various sports lockers, dog-proof bin fc,ir the trash can, patio serving \\ragon. And mttch mclre.

The booklet is prefaced with an information section on plywood-how to choose the proper panels for the job, how to work plywood, joint construction, how to fasten, how to assemble, how to construct drawers, shelf hanging, sliding doors, how to finish.

Sample copies of the booklet are free. Larger orders are sold under DFPA's general plan of putting out sales aids at about half the cost of producing them. In this instance, the booklets are 25c each up to, but not including, trvelve copies; $2.50 per dozen in self-display cartons, and $25 for trvelve dozen, also in display containers.

Dealers may distribute the booklets in several wayssell them for 50c a copv as indicated on the cover; col1-

ceal the price beneath a sticker which rvill booklet is available ,'free Nith '-' dollars chandise"; or the booklet may be distributed way that the dealer sees fit.

Douglas Fir Plywood Association rvill provide copy and newspaper ad mats to promote the plans booklet. These may be obtained upon request from DFPA's home office at Tacoma 2, Wash.

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..THE BIG tOG" ROILING EASTWAR.D ON ITS 4,sOO-MITE GOOD-WIII TOUR Pqrqde of |,OOO-Yeor-Old Douglos Fir Through 22 Slates crnd 28 Cities

A Georgia-Pacific Plywood Company plywood peeler log was traveling across the country on a 4,500-mile good-rvill tour from I'ortland, Oregon, to Atlanta; Georgia, under the auspices of the Oregon State Junior Chamber of Commerce. The mar.nrnoth, 1,000-year-old Douglas Fir tree section, 24 feet long arr<l 7 feet in diameter, was harvested in Georgia-Pacific's vast C)regon forests.

"The Big Log" was launched on its montl-r-long journey May 27, with official ceremonies in Portland in which Oregon state officials toolt part. Traveling by special trucli, the big log crossed 22 states and visitecl 28 major cities during its trip. Arriving in Atlanta, it was the offrcial C)regon state float in the "Parade of the States" during the Junior Chamber of Commerce national convention, June 20-24.

On its good-will tour from west to east and southward, "The Rig Log" lvas met everywhere along its route by governlrellt and civic officials. Millions saw the log as it was paradecl through the main business sections of cities and towns, rnanl' getting their first view of the important natural resources from u'hich plytvood is made. Millions rrore sa\\' it on television screens and through newspapers ancl newsreels.

"The l3ig I.og" was paraded along Chicago's Michigan Blvcl., exhibited in Nerv York City's Rockefeller Center, and paradecl through the dou.ntown Broadway business districts. Throngs gatherecl at Philadelphia's historic Indepenclence Hall to see it, ancl in \\'ashington, D.C., it rolled clown Pennsylvania Avenue ancl was clisplayecl in front of the Capitol building.

"The Big Log" weighs more than 22 tons and will supply plywood for construction of about 21 average American houses. It is a section from a giant Douglas Fir tree, approximately 200 feet tall. Tirnber experts say it was a sturdy young sapling when Norse sea rovers were sailing the North Atlantic and supposeclly discovering the American continent. It tloubtless, was a century-old tree in 1066 when William the Conqueror won the Battle of Hastings.

Gerry Rucker, national clirector of the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce from Oregon, accornpanies "The l3ig Log" which symbolizes the leadership of tl-re state of Oregon in national timber production, and the leadership of GeorgiaPacific Plywood in plywood production. En route, Mr. Ruckcr presented state and city officials with Oregon State Junior Chamber of Commerce awards for outstanding public service. Arrangements were made to "service" the forest giant at each scheduled stop, when the dirt and dust of highway travel were to be washed from its heavy bark, which is more than five inches thick.

Stop-overs were made in all principal cities and towns to enable millions of Americans to examine the log ancl learn more about the important, extensive uses of plywood in building and construction during the period of Fir Plywood's Golden Jubilee anniversary. Public and private schools, rvouren's clubs, church groups, builders, contractors and lumber <lealers' associations arranged to see "The Big I-og" in each town it visited.

Tom Fox lnsfolled os President Of Sonto Monico Rotory Glub

Tom Fox, prominent civic and social leader of Santa l\fonica, California, and president oI the John W. Fisher Lumber Company in the bay city, rvas installed as president of the Santa Monica Rotary Club, June 23.

The gala celebration marked the golden anniversary of Rotary International and rvas held at the exclusive Santa Ynez Inn. Over 300 attended the installation banquet and dinner dance marking one of the outstanding events of the summer season.

Tom Fox has been active in progressive afiairs for many years and is past president of the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce, past president of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association and past Snark of the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club. Although a busy lumber merchant, he has always given freely of his time to promote the welfare of his city and its citizens. He is also now serving as a director of the National Retail l-umber Dealers Association.

5. P. ro Add 95O More Boxcors

The Southern Pacific plans to add 950 boxcars to its expanding freight car fleet at a cost of $8,250,000. President D. J. Russell said the order raises the road's number of freight cars acquired or on order since WWII to 44,000, of which 26,N0 are boxcars.

Construction in Napa county topped the $1 million mark in Aoril.

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The Building Material Dealers Credit Assn. of Southern California will hold its fourth annual convention at the E,l Mirador hotel, Palm Springs, Oct. 2l-22. Several entertainment events are pianned to augment the business sessions.

Paul Clark, president of a I'asadena paint colnpany, rvas installed as president of the Retail Paint and Wallpaper Dealers Association of Southern California, Inc. Other nerv officers are Jim NIullins, Jr., Montrose, first vice-president ; C. R. Smith, Temple, second vice-president; \\rilliam Ward, Los Angeles, treasurer, and Robert Downey, Whittier, secretary.

The State Forestrv Board has declared the Big Lagoon area a hazardous fire region, along u,ith the Bear Mountain area of Fresno county.

Government timber is selling far above the minimum advertised sale price tl-ris year, reports A. I(. Crebbin. resources manager, Klamath National Forest.

U. S. Plyrvood Corp, has purchasecl the Kalpine Veneer Co., near Santa Rosa, for $250.000.

150,000 acres of Spruce budn'orm-in{ested forest in Oregon will be sprayed.

An amendment to the Federal Reserve Act now permits 'l>ankers to accept standing tin.rber as collateral on first mortgage loans.

Timber on tl-re County Line and Mahaley Creek units in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest was sold to Junker Logging Co. of Eureka and Ralph L. Smith Lumber Co. of Andersen and Castella, Calif., u.ho submitted high bids.

F. H. Raymond was appointed California's state forester on June 2I by DeWitt Nelson, director of the Dept. of Natural Resources.

The former O'Neil lumber mill in Hopland, Calif., was purchased by B. G. Buckley of Santa Rosa and will be known as the Buckley Lumber Co.

Herbert P. Ringer, Burbank, Calif., building superintendent since 1952, has resignecl to accept a similar post rvith the city of Santa Barbara, effective July 22.

The Pacific Luml>er Company plant at Scotia set a new record for visitors in 1954, t'ith 23,995 registering for the guided tours.

Western fir plywood manufacturers have unveiled a permanent memorial containing the first panel manufactured in Portland 50 years ago.

Plans for a $3,500,000 residential development on a 300-acre site near Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif ., were announced by a Costa Mesa contractor. The 1500-home project rvill be completed in December 1956.

Dave Willock and Cliff Arquette are returning to Los Angeles television 'rvith their "\\rillock's Workshop," a do-it-yourself program sponsored by an aluminum manufacturer.

Fire destroyed the planing mill of the Williams Lumber Co., Azusa, Calif., last month. Damage .was in excess of $25,000. George M. Rodecker ou'ned the vard.

A motor company has purchased the H. H. Shoup Lumber Co. building in Los Angeles as the site of a body shop.

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Sold Arcata, Calif.-l'roceedings for the voluntarv u'indingup and dissolution of Dolly Varden I-umber Company, a Caiifornia corporation, lvere started June 22. The salvmill and timber holclings of the company r'vere sold last month in one of the largest deals of the year, involving more than $2 million.

The Dolly Varden timber, covering 9,000 acres in the Snorv Mountain area northeast clf Eureka, n'as purchased by the Buck Mountain Logging Co., headed by Axel Erickson. It consists mostly of Douglas fir with son.re pine and will be cut for the Eureka-Arcata mill market. The sawmill was purchased by a group headed by Sam Davis, general manag'er of the Dolly Varden Lumber Co., u'ho 'rvill continrre in that capacity rvith the nen'operating

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The sawmill is the largest fir manufacturing plant in Humboldt county and one of the largest in the state, ll'ith $400,000 im1>rovements made last year. The sale marks the retirement of David D. Bohannon, president of Dolly Varden and u'idely knorvn San Francisco industrialist, from the Northern California lumber field. Bohannon previously had sold the cornpany's Rainborv mill and a large Redr,r,ood timber acreaqe to tl.re M and NI \\rood Working Co.

Orven McComas u,as tendered a luncheon recently by the building industry in Los Angeles honoring his past services and his new post as director of merchandising at Arcadia Metal Products.

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The Phoenix, Ariz., Hoo-Hoo held a Ladies Night June 23 and it was "the best entertainment I ever saw," reports Joe Tardy, well known Los Angeles lumber salesman who covers the neighbor state regularly. "Those fellows really put on a party at all times," adds Jose.

Howard Beals, Valley Lumber Co., is president of Phoenix Hoo-Hoo. Larry Griffith, of tl-re entertainment committee, provided some acts for the ladies headed by Johnny Turner of San Diego and Phoenix, 'ivho does an E,dgar Bergen type act with trvo boy and one girl dummies and his material is sparkling.

Excellent prizes were arranged for every lady present, including some $100 bonds.

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When the curtain fell on the 1955 Los Angeles Home Show June 19,227,591 persons had seen the multi-million dollar exposition and exhibitors rang up a sensational $1Q000,000 in sales, it was announced by Managing Director Carl F. Kraatz. He declared that the recordbreaking turnout and tremendous amount of money spent proved that the construction industry was still booming along. This year's show surpassed not only its own previous high, set last year, but established a national record for attendance, he reported.

Sowmill to Stqrf

The former Schafer Bros. sawmill in Aberdeen, Wash.. which has been acquired by Weyerhaeuser Timber Company from Simpson Logging Company,. is expected to start operations about the middle of July.

The mill will be known as the Grays Harbor Branch, Lumber division, Weyerhaeuser Timber Company.

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Joe Tardy also included Las Vegas on his recent sales trip and attended a Hoo-Hoo meeting there. He reports that since its reactivation earlier this year, the Las Vegas lumbermen are holding regular meetings and seem enthusiastic over their Hoo-Hoo activities again.

New DelrqWood Fence Disploy

DeitaWood, fnc., Tigard, Ore., has prepared a beautiful nerv DeltaWood Fence Display for increased dealer sales, Sized 3'x6'8", the handsome board can be hung or wall mounted and costs only $23.40 delivered by express. Cedar DeltaWood frames 14 beautiful photos of fence installations and clearly illustrates DeltaWood's r.ersatility of design and application.

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Bakersfield, Calif.-Kern County residential building permits in the first five months of 1955 indicate this year's building activity will come close to the 1954 banner year. A total of $6,049,252 rvas recorded through May for 642 residences, against 1366 in the whole year of 1954.

The city of Bakersfield issued $429,996 in building permits for this May alone, against $2,037,128 in the entire 12 months of 1954. The Kern County Board of Trade shorvs Taft leading the incorporated Kern County cities with a total of W54,416 for May, followed by Bakersfield; Delano, $118,425; Wasco, $80,350; Shafter, 979,500, and Tehachapi, $63,000.

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Richard (Dick) Saanders has been appointed sales representative to handle both industrial and dealer sales in the San Francisco bay and coastal r,egions for Forest Fiber Products Co., hardboard manufacturers, Forest Grove, Oregon. He lives in Berkeley and his headquarters are at the Forest Fiber Products Co. office at San Francisco. Formerly with Dant & Russell, Saanders is familiar with the building trades, having worked with architects, builders and building material dealers for the past seven years. He will be specializing in uses, applications and merchandising of Forest hardboard, having recently returned from Forest Grove, where he spent a week familiarizing himself at the factory with hardboard new product development and technical aspects of hardboard specifications.

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White Fir on Woy Up ond Coming Info lts Own, Foresters Told qt Northern Section 1955 Field Meetingi See Winton Sowmill

\\'hite fir, long the neglected orphan of .n-estern lumbering, is on its way up in lurnlter markets, rleclared E. P. Ivory, president of Ivory I'ine Companl. of California, at the banquet opening the 1955 field meeting of the Northern California Section, Society of American Foresters. Held June 3 and 4 in Amador and Calaveras counties, the field meeting \\'as one of an annual series sponsored by the professional society to acquaint members rvith nerv developments in rvoods and mills throughout the state.

Besides discussing manufacturing and marketing of r'vhite fir at the June 3 banquet, some 115 meml>ers and grlests inspected timber l.rarvesting and forest planting

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White fir owes its market advance, Mr. Ivory said, primarily to being well manufactured and properly seasoned. Drying makes the most of its weight and strength properties, which compare well with those of other western species, and it removes all traces of the green timber's disagreeable odor.

Remanufacturing and laminating are tu,o other practices he recommended as helpful in expanding markets for *.hite fir, u'hich makes up the bulk of his company's productior-r. Remanufacturir.rg improves the grade yield from the timber, which usu:rlly produces nrostly lon'er grades of lumber. Gluing up laminated members improves both stillness and shock resistance of tvhite fir.

Ability to take and hold glue is an outstanding merit of r,vhite fir, Ivory said, calling it tops in that quality. Other good qualities u'hich help in marketing the species are freedom fronr pitch, capacity to take paint and stains, relatively lou' shrinkage, and good nailing characteristics.

To improve the market position of .rvhite fir, Ivory, rvho is chairman of the Northern California Section. Forest 1)roclttcts Research Society, suggested greater research in several fields, inclucling chipping lor.v grade and cull logs in the 'rvoods, seasoning of exceptionally u-et timber, and use of sarvdust and shavings for by-products such as cornpost and rvood flour.

The June 4 field tour started at the sarvmill of Winton Lumber Company at Nlartell, 'rvhere the group r,r'atched a nrechanical barker clean off logs so that bark-free slabs could lie made into pulp chips. Deltarking also makes lumber manufacturing more efficient by giving sa\\'yers a better vierv of the rvood in logs.

From tl.re mill, the trip covered n.oods operations of Winton l,umber Company, Associated Lumber and Box Con'rpanr', l3lagen Lumber Company, and Calaveras Land and Timber Cornpany. Timber marking practices inspected on these properties includecl leaving all trees smaller than specified n.rinimrrm diameters as rvell as light and heavy selection cuts.

In a Lrurned-()ver area, the foresters sa\v trial plantings being made br. Associated and Blagen rvith sever:Ll species

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On the Stanislaus National Forest, the group saw a planting trial in a cutover area with a dense ground cover of mountain-misery, a low growing shrub. Trees highly susceptible to insect attack had been harvested on this area. Strips of ground were cleared by disking the dense mat of brush, and pines were planted in the cleared strip this spring.

K. M. Macdonald, of Woodleaf, newly elected chairman of the Northern California Section, presided at the field meeting. Other nerv officers are Don Knowlton, Nevada City, vice-chairman; Sam Bryan, Mokelumne Hill, treasurer, and Don Cosens, Strarvberry Valley, secretary.

Bryan was chairman of the program committee for the field meeting, and he lvas assisted by Warren Carleton, of Martell, and William H. Kuphaldt, of White Pine.

Finoncing Hondbook Avoiloble

A new "iumber Dealer's Handbook on Home Financing" has been prepared for its members by the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association. The Handbook explains the various types of home financing plans norv offered by the federal government and gives a complete detailed explanation of FHA's Title I property improve' ment and Title II insured housing loans and of the Veterans Administration guaranteed and insured loans. Copies are available to members through NRLDA's 33 federated state and regional associations at a cost of $1.00 each'

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Roddiscrqff, Inc., Buys New Scrn Frnncisco Wqrehouse

Roddiscraft, Inc., has purchased the rvarehouse and facilities formerly occupied by Associated plyr,vood Mills. Inc., at 925 Toland Avenue in San Francisco, where Roddis continues to stock complete lines of hardwood, Douglas fir, I)onderosa pine and Redl-ood plyr,voods, solid core and hollow core flrrsh doors, G. E. Textolite, and hardwood

16,000 sq. ft., it provides omple spoce for storoge ond forkJifi operotion. trim. In ad<lition, the San Francisco \,varehouse carries a full line of factory finished Craftwall patterned hardn.ood plyu'ood paneling. Craftu.all is available in birch, maple, oak, walnut, African mahogany, cherry, blonde linrba, elm, knotty pine ancl Lauan. The panels are completely prefinished and ready to install on the job no s:r"ncling, sealing, filling or staining required.

Roddiscraft, Inc., forn"rerlv maintained sonrer,r'hat snraller warehouse facilities at 345 \\rilliams Ave. in San Francisco. The nerv location affords better loading and unloading advantages, a more central location rvhich is easill, accessible to the freer,vay, and more modern facilities, according to Dave Bishop, manager of the San Francisco \\rarehouse.

Bishop became manager of the San Francisco Roddiscraft warehouse during l)ecemlter of last year. He had previously spent two years n'ith Roddiscraft, Inc., in Los Angeles, and before that u-as u-ith the firm at its X,Iarshfield, Wisconsin, headcluarters. Bishop is assisted by Don Reed, rvho covers the Peninsula area; Bill Feldmever, who covers San Francisco and N{arin county; Knute \\reidman, in charge of the rvholesale lumber division serving Northern California, and Harvey Owen, architectural representative, rvl.ro calls on Northern California architects.

East Bay and valley area sales are handled br. another Roddiscraft u'arehouse located at 72O Williams St. in San Leandro. Don Beggs, Iormerly manager of the San Francisco warehouse, is in charge of the San Leandro operation.

the Jones'exhibit include Arnold Jol-Dor ond iolousies, the Westerner Copri sliding door, Donr & Russell products, Southwesr Plywood Co., Roddis of Cqli. fornio, T, M. Cobb Compony, Pccific lumber Deolers Supply ond Jones,s own producfs. lhe Copri door disploy sold severol dozen units.

ORANGE COUNTY HOME SHOW, June l-5 losr monfh, included this exhibir by ihe Jones Lumber Compony, Sontq Anq retoiler. Top photo shows Nelson E. Jone3, ownet, wifh l/loyor Doro Hill of Newport Beoch, Colif., qnd Jomes Mortindole (right), Bqrr lumber Compony, Sontq Ano. The show, sponsored by the Oronge County Builders Assn. in o new exhibit building ot the fcirgrounds wos qn out3tonding one, Jones reporls. cnd hcs resulted in o lorge volume of business in bolh lhe hqrdwood lumber qnd plywood, cnd softwmd deportments of the Jones firms, he odds. 200,0fl) orended the five-doy show. The products at

FIR PIYWOOD'S GOIDEN JUBI1EE wcs norionolly odverrisad wirh rhis rwopage spreod in the June 27 issue of Life mogorine. Story ond pictures of fhe celebrotion in Portlond the week of June l9 will oppeor in the ntxt issue.

BCA Adds Personnel in Exponsion

Continued growth of Southern California's construction industry has caused an addition of new personnel and complete reorganization in the Building Contractors Association of California, President John Meskell announced last month. 'fhis oldest and largest regional association of contractors in the nation, with nearly 2000 members, has named a new executive director, Walter W. Underwood, former California director' of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He took over his duties March 2I and will direct internal affairs and activities of the BCA.

A newly organized department of labor relations will be headed by Edward M. Sills, with BCA 15 years. This is the first fulltime department to handle labor afiairs. Doris Rades of Chicago has joined the BCA as, executive assistant. Harry G. Steu'art, BCA public relations director, will head a third new fulltime department of public affairs and special events.

Mine Trip or Buffe Meeting

A trip through a mine r,vill be a unique feature at the summer meeting of the Forest Products Research Society, Inland Empire section, August 4 and 5 in Butte, Montana. The group will visit the Kelley Mine, operating shaft for the famous "Greater Butte" project, a $20 million undertaking.

A cocktail party and dinner will open the meeting on August 4. The next morning will be devoted to a program of technical papers. The mine visit the second afternoon r,vill be followed by a visit to the Central Timber Yard.

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Appointment of three key chairmen to stage the second annual Building Products Exposition being sponsored in Cleveland, Ohio, October 11-16, by the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, has been announced by Watson Malone III, NRLDA's president.

Phil Creden, Public Relations Director of the Edward Hines Lumber Co., Chicago, will serve as general chairman of the Exposition committee; R. A. Schaub, Northern Indiana Lumber & Coal Co., Whiting, Ind., was named chairman of the Exposition Finance committee, and Findley Torrence, secretary of the Ohio Association of Retail Lumber Dealers, will be chairman of the Exposition Program committee.

Malone announced that the Hotel Cleveland will be official

NRLDA headquarters, at which the annual meeting of the association's board of directors will be held just prior to the exposition, which will be held at Cleveland's public Auditorium. centrally located within walking distance of all of the city,s downtown hotels.

Reporting on preliminary exposition planning, N{r. Malone said that events will be scheduled to give dealers a maximum amount of time to spend with exhibitors on the floor of the expos,ition and that plans are being developed to feature exhibitor's products prominently in the special features to be sponsored by the consumer magazines.

In vie'll' of the huge dealer attendance expected from across the country, consideration is being given to holding still more dealer management and merchandising clinics than were conducted at the 1954 exposition in New York. The clinics are

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Jim Davis, president of Davis Hardrvood Company, San Francisco, announces that the Davis Hardwood Company has been appointed Northern California distributor for Insular Lumber Company of the Philippine Islands. Insular is a veteran producer of solid Philippine Nfahogany lumber, chiefly used in this country for paneling and siding.

Insular Lumber Company began operations in the Philippines in 1904, and, has since survived almost complete destruction by fire in 1930, and World War Il-with its triple disaster of occupation, bombing, ar-rd destruction by Japanese as they fled the islands. Since World War II, Insular's mill has been rebuilt almost from the ground up and modern equipment installed throughout the plant. One of the latest additions at the Insular planing mill is a new Stetson-Ross 6-10-Al Planer, an all-electric. 15" by 8" planer and matcher capable of rvorking 80,m0 BF in an S-hour shift.

The nerv planer has tremendously increased Insular's production of finished lumber. Insular Lurnber Company's output of wall paneling, siding and other plant products is currently averaging 1,750,000 BF monthly.

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Arcolcr Gommunity Forest ls Dedicqted to €olifornions

The Arcata Community Forest, an area of 600 acres of second-growth timberland owned by the city of Arcata, llumboldt county, California, was dedicated May 19 as the first community forest in California. The forest was set aside for the use and benefit of the communitv bv the city council

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last December 16, under a resolution presented by the Arcata Circle of the Redwood Region Conservation Council, under Chairman Brousse Brizard.

The new community forest will be used as a demonstration and study forest by the forestry students of the Arcata Union High school and Humboldt State college, whose carnpus adjoins the forest to the north. Francis H. Raymond, acting state forester of California, who gave the principal address at the dedication, said: "The Community Forest brings to our citizen's front door the opportunity to see forestry at work. In fact, he not only may see it operate but rnay also participate in the planning and benefits of forest projects."

Woodbridge Metcalf, extension forester, University of California, who first visited the forest in 1914, traced the history of the forest since its logging in 1872 and gave significant figures from growth studies which he has conducted in the second growth (redwood and other species) since 1923. The average present age of the stand is 78 years and a study of two one-acre plots in 1953 shor.r'ed a total board-foot volume per acre of more than 120,000 and an average annual growth rate per acre for the period 1943-53 of 2150 board feet.

This is particularly impressive in view of the fact that this is not a high quality growing site nor are there a large number of trees per acre (108 trees in one plot, 180 in the other).

Robert W. Matthews, member of the State Board of Forestry and past-president o'f the Redwood Region Conservation Council, congratulated the Arcata Circle for its foresight in carrying the community project through to realization and said, "Today we are seeing a lot of second growth timber being put on the market and, with our good growing climate, we have great hopes for plans which will be tried out in this forest so that we will have Trees for Tomorrow."

Wilson Holden, Munnell & Sherrill 'of California, Arcata, was the dedication chairman; James W. Timmins, chairman of the Arcata Redwood Circle, introduced Waldron Hyatt, resident manager, Hammond Lumber Company, Samoa, who acted as master of ceremonies.

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(Continued from Page 2) were above the levels of a year ago,2fr producing companies reported to the California Redrvood Association. Production was 60,686,000 feet and shipments 56,978,000 feet; pioduction r,r'as 6,046,0@ feet and shipments were 5,239,000 feet greater than May 1954. Production was 3.7/" above but shipments were 2.5/o below April 1955.

In the lirst five months of 1955, production at 267,605,NO b.f. was up 17,618,000 over the same period of 1954; shipments at267,942,000 were 34,362,0@ b.f. over 1954. As of May 31, orders on hand were 87,757,000 b.f., compared to 52,6L6,0N a year ago; stocks on hand were 345,514,000 b.f., against 355,546,000 on May 31, 1954.

The Southern Pine Association reported lor I2l mills in the week ended June 25 : production, 20,134,Un feet; shipments, 20,7 37,0n feet ; orders, 23,336,ffi0 feet (15.90/o above production). In the week ended June 18, 106 mills reported production 18,906,000 feet, shipments 19,925,W feet. and orders 18,262,0@ teet.

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Los Angeles' ne$' $7 million Furniture Mart will be bounded by Washington Blvd., Hill street and Broadway in downtown L.A. The Prudential Insurance Company of America will purchase the development on completion and lease it to the management of the present Los Angeles Furniture Mart, which has been at 2155 E. 7th St. for tlre past 72 years.

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A new decorative lumber planking, suggestive in appearance of ocean-washed driftwood, easily u,.orked and low in cost, has just been placed on the market by United States Plyr,vood Corporation. Knorvn as Surf Plank, its shorter lengths are ideal for wainscotting and the longer planks are rvell adapted to full length room paneling. The grain of the rvood stands out in relief from the etched-out background. The long edges of the planks are ship-lapped so no special vertical joint treatment is needed. Surf Plank comes in three widths, 6, B and 10 inches and in varying lengths from 4 to 10 feet. It is s/s inches thick.

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surface of the board in both tempered ancl standard grade and in 4'x8' panels. Plankette, as it is called, ts a 7,, and 9,, random plank pattern .ivith a series of embossed stripes dividing the various plank widths. Panels are 4rx8, and available in both tempered and standard grades.

Texture in /a,, and /4,, Hardboard

With the new OregonBORD Embossed Process it is norv possible to get striated texture and plank texture in both r/s" and t4" blond hardboard. This enables the builder to choose the fu" stock for applying directly over the studs and the thinner r/s" board for applying over old-style wall coverings. Modernizing will be an ideal use for this r/s,' board. It can be applied with small 2d nails or r,vith ahy of the contact cement products norv availaltle.

Blond OregonBORD hardboard is non' available in five different textures, including the nerv Rib-tex and Plankette plus Corru-tex, the corrugated board, Perf-O-tex, the perforated board, and the basic smooth hardboard. Manufactured by the Chapman Manufacturing Company, Corvallis, Oregon, and distributed nationally through GeorgiaPacific Plywood Co., and Western Hardboard Sales Co.

Beveling Service Avqilqble

Beveling service to its customers has been made available by Masonite Corporation at a nominal charge, according to E. W. Hadland, manager of dealer sales. Bevels r,vill be made at a 45-degree angle to the face of the panel and cut to one-half the panel's thickness. The service is available on all dealer products in sizes 4'x4' and larger, except P ri m e cote, Panelply, Temprtile, "Peg-Board," Leatherwood and other textured surface items.

Two New Blond fwins Added ro OregonBORD Line

Blond hardboard is making tremendous strides in the home building and commercial construction field, according to Chapman Manufacturing Company, which has recently introduced two new textured products that have received ready acceptance throughout the building field. Using the exclusive new OregonBORD Embossed Process, this manufacturer now is able to offer blond hardboard in a raised design. The texture is actually raised in a beadlike texture instead of the cut-out surface offered in many other products. Nothing is removed from the product. Therefore it is structurally stronger and with this new process they are able to offer a much harder surface that is easier to finish and maintain.

The two new products are the improved Rib-tex and the entirely new Plank-ette.

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OUTDOOR YARD SIGN, one of four new merchandising aids available from Douglas Fir Plywood Associafion, is designed lo atiach near an enirance for marimum visibility lo store trafiic, a re'minder fo customers lo order the fir plywood lhey need. Sign is an erample o{ medium-density overlaid plywood, panel surface dcrignod {or oplimum paintability.

A new "Free Do-It-Yourself Garage Plans" folder has been prepared by Taylor Made Steel Garage Doors for lumber dealers. Designed to promote the sale of garage materials as well as garage doors, the colorful folder offers a choice of six unusually attractive garage plans along with complete lists of building materials needed. According to Tom Connellan, national sales manager at Taylor Made Garage Doors, the new folder is already producing extra volume for dealers in every part of the country. Since these do-ityourself folders are designed to be used either as self-mailers, counter literature, or envelope stuffers, dealers find thern a l'randy way to reach 6rst rate prospects. Both the Free Do-It-Yourself Garage Plans folder and the garage plans themselves are available without charge to Taylor Made Garage Door dealers.

Plywood Wirh Plqstic Overloy Aiqiloble

A new development fusing a smooth plastic overlay on plywood makes a revolutionary new building material out of regular plyrvood. "Crezon" is the name given to this plastic surface. This tough overlay is supplied by Crorvn Zellerbach Corporation, San Francisco, to plywood mills. At the mills the Crezon is bonded to the plvwood under intense heat and pressure to gile plyrvood a tough, smooth, weather-resistant surface suitable for exterior use.

Crezon Fused Plyrvood-as the finished product is called -can be rn'orked u'ith conventional 'ivoodworking tools and equipment. Framing, fastenings and fabrication techniclues are the same as for ordinary plylvood. The plastic overlay takes paint better than u'oocl-holds it years longer without checking or cracking. This new ply\vood has l'ithstood every possible test in extreme rveather conditions outside. the company reports.

New Turn.ts "G" Clomp

With one "G" clamp, a German-made professional woodworking tool norv being sold in this country by Turnus Tools of East Hartforcl, Conn., it is possibie to do work which formerly required six different size "C" clamps. In addition to its versatility, the unique design of this new "G" clamp features "zip-action" setting in which the clamp is slipped up close to the work and tightened securely with only one or two turns of the screw. Disengaging the clamp is just as fast and simple.

The Turnus "G" clamp is called an ideal answer to 101 clamping jobs in the horne workshop or professional woodand metal-working shops. For the Do-It-Yourself market, Turnus Tools is offering this new clamp in two sizes-the twoinch $2.90 postpaid, and the three-inch $3.45 postpaid in U.S.A. Larger sizes are also available. Further information and details may be obtained.

NEW DEATER AD MATS

Thirteen new advertising mats have been prepared by the Western Pine Association for newspaper tlse by retail lumber dealers. Covering many phases of the uses of u'ooCs, including interiors, exteriors and home handicraft projects, the mats are ar.ailable in from one to four-column sizes and in varying depths. They were designed to tie-in .ivith the promotional program carried on by the association through its advertisements in national consumer publications. A catalog "proof sheet," printed on neu'sprint to show hor'r, the ads n'ill look u'hen published in newspapers, has been made available for convenience in ordering from the Western I'ine Association, Yeon Building, Portland 4, Oregon.

'lnstqll-lt-Yourself' Awning

An extremely economical and durable "install-it-yourself" awning has been developed by Fabricators, fnc., Schiller Park, Ill. Formed of Weyerhaeuser hardboard and exhibiting excellent resistive qualities against weather, the ar'vning comes in 6 different wiclths from 3' to 8'. Both door and rvindow models are offered. The arvnings are available direct from the factory in knocked-dorvn form and come rvith a durable u''hite undercoat. Necessary screws, wing nuts, and masonry anchors for assembly and mounting, plus suggestions for proper trimming and decorating, are included r,vith the au'ning. Either ornamental decorative iron

scroll side braces, or closed vented hardboard side panels rnay be specified when ordering. Unless otherl'ise ordered the au'nings are shipped bulk. They may be cartoned individually or 2 and 3 to the carton at slight additional cost. With orders of $100 or more, a half-size model 18" rvide is included free. The model is available rvith lesser orders at a cost oi $4. F.O.B. prices to the dealer on tl.re Sturdy Awning start at $6.50 for the 3' n'ide model and rar-rge up to $12.75 for the 8' u-ide model.

Flor Finish Avoiloble in 77 Colors

Homeorvners rvho want a flat finish for house exteriors no\\r can have a choice of.77 colors ranging from deep tones to bright pastels, the Martin-Senour paint companv announces. Originally developed for use on exterior rough lumber, shakes and rvood shingles, Shake Paint, after extensive field and laboratory tests, proved equally well suited for providing a flat finish on wood siding. The flat finish is recommended for the informal ranch type home, particularly when used in combination rn'ith rough natural wood or stone.

lr PAYs ro DEPEND oN Sinrca

Sfe Ship From CRA Mills Exclusively "For Better REDWOODBetter Call Sierra"

Also

DISTRIBUTOR OF BEVEL SIDING

Sinrro Redwood Compqny

Mothis Hqrdwood Soles Incorporqfes

Bob Nlathis and John Jensrvold, formerly partners in Nfathis Hardrvood Sales, have incorporated the business and 'lvill use the corporate name of Mathis-Jenswold Hardwoods, Inc., in all phases of the operation. In addition, effective the incorporation date of June 21, R. E. lJeckr:r

joined the firm as a sales representative for Northern California and Nevada. N athis-Jensrvold Hardrvoods, Inc., also has a Southern California representative in Pasaclena. He is Leu. Haynes, forrnerly u'ith the Regal Dorir Company in E,l Nfonte.

Bob Nf athis originally established N{athis Hardr'vood Sales in Oakland during N{arch 195.l. Prior to that, Mathis had been rvith the E. L. Bruce Co. in Oakland for many years. In October 1954, N{athis \\'as joined by John Jensrvold, formerly manager of the Bar. Plyl'ood Co. rvarehouse in Oakland. 'A partnership rvas formed betrveen the trvo men last January 1, remaining in effect until last month.

Mathis-Jensrn'old Hardwoods, Inc., olfices u'ill continue to be iocated at 610 16th Street in Oakland. and the phone number remains TEmplebar 2-083'+.

Western Red Gedqr Lumber Assn. Re-Elects lrs Officers

R. Nt. Ingram r,vas re-elected president of the Western Red Cedar Lumber Association at the organization's first annual meeting in Vancouver, B.C. The association, organized a year ago, is composed of 16 Western Red Cedar lumber manufacturers from Washington and British Columbia.

Featured speaker at the banquet rv:is Ceorge S. Allen, dear-r of the School of Forestry at the University of British Columbia. He outlined the forest resources of Westerrr Canada and pointed out that the supply of virgin Western Red Cedar along the u'estern coast of the province of British Columbia is sufficient to suppll. manufacturers {or the next 100 years.

The re-elected officers of the association are : R. N[. Ingram, E. C. Miller Cedar Lumber Co., Aberdeen, Wash., president; Don Johnston, Flavelle Cedar Limited, Port Moody, B.C., vice-president; John N'lcCrory, Seattle Cedar Lumber Manufactnring Co., Seattle, treasurer, and Arthur I. Ellsr,l'orth, Seattle, secretary-manager.

Two-Woy Rodio on Atl Trucks Assures

GOSSIIN- HARDI]IC TUTIBER CO.

P"aa*ala

Carr E. McCauley, olvner and manager of the Ontario (Calif.) Lumber and Hardrvare Co., and his r,vife returned June 30 from a 24-day Caribbean cruise on the Alcoa Clipper. The McCauleys left early last month {rom Nerv Orleans, spending 17 days on the rvater and reported it a "wonderful trip." The retail lumberman was especially impressed with the vast construction underway in Caracas, Venezuela. \\/hen their boat docked at Mobile, Ala., Mr. McCauley says that, in tl.re words of Amos 'n Andy, he rvas "completely unlaxed." As a footnote to their vacation, the dealer adds that he returned to his lumberyard to find the employes had done more business during his absence than he rvas doing before he left.

Jim Hall, Jr., James L. Hall Company, San Francisco, spent the last tlvo weeks of May making mill connection visits in Portland and other Oregon locations.

Gil Langley, veteran southern California lumber salesman, has joined the staff of Pacific \\restern Lumber Company, Pasadena. He rvill cover the southland along rvith Tobe Tyree.

Bob Hoover, of A. L. Hoover Company, San Marino wholesale lumber concern, returned from Scotia last month following tu'o l eeks ir.r tl-re mill country in northern California.

Lloyd Hecathorn, of the Arcata Redrvood Company San Francisco office, spent a rveek the last of June vacationing at Lake Tahoe rvith his n'ife, Carolyn, and the three Misses Hecathorn.

Ken Conway, southern Calif ornia representative of Holmes Eureka Lumber Company, attended sales conferences in Eureka last rnonth. Enroute home he spent several days fishing in the high Sierras.

Bill Belau, general sales manager of Lumber Mill & Supply Company, Roseville, California, has appointed Bob Hallsworth San Joaquin valley sales representative for the wholesale concern. The territory assigned Hallsworth wilt also include the San F'rancisco-Oakland bay area.

Fred Losch, head of the Specialty department, E. J. Stanton & Son., fnc., Los Angeles, became the father of eight-pound, eight-ounce Sarah Jean Losch, June 14.

Father Fred, mother Jean and baby Sarah are currently doing fine. Fred informed members of the lumber fra-

ternity it is his desire to have a family of eight and he is well on his rvay to achieve his goal.

Nate Parsons, veteran southern California lumberman rvith the Standard Lumber Company, Inglewood, left early in July for an indefinite visit u'ith his brother in the Yonkers section of New York City.

Carl Poynor, Pacific Forest Products, Inc., Los Angeles, recently visited Pacific Forest's main offrce in Oakland. He was accompanied by his family on the trip.

Dick Doherty, kingpin of the R. E. Doherty Lumber Co. in San Francisco, recently returned from a mill trip through northern California. Dick formerly managed the San Francisco offrce for West Oregon Lumber Company and formed his own business when West Oregon closed its San Fran-

R. E. DOHERTY TUMBER CO.

260 Keorny Slreet

cisco office. The R. E. Doherty Lumber Co. is located at 250 Kearny Street.

Ed Thomas, retired executive of E. J. Stanton & Son, Inc., is presently on an extended trip through Canada. He expects to spend the summer visiting relatives and friends and will return to southern California early next fall.

L. B. Nadeau, Triangle Lumber Co., Oakland, spent trvo r'veeks during June calling on mill connections in Portland, Eugene and Medford, Oregon.

W. E. Brady, sales promotion manager of Metallion Products, Inc., Los Angeles, is on a national sales survey trip, not expected back at his southern California post until early August. He heads the Tego hardn'are division of the

Robert L, Taube

Wholesale Lumber

9015 Wilshire Blvd.

Beverly Hills, Calif.

BRadshaw 2-8235

SAlI F(lRII . LU SSI ER, IJI(!.

DTSIRIBUTORS AND WHO1ESALERS

Ook Stoir Treods-Thresholds

Door Sills-Hqrdwood Mouldings ond

Pqnel-Wqll

qnd Domestic-Philippine-Jopqnese

Hnrdwoods

Worehouse Delivery or Carlosd Shipmcntr 6T0I SO. VAN NESS AVENUE

Los Angeles 47, Cslil. AXminster 2'9181

Ponderoso & Sugor Pine

manufacturing concern, lvhich produces builders' hardrvare for retail building material dealers.

George Hull, Pacific Forest Products, Inc., and the "Hull" family, spent the last two weeks of June vacationing at Grants Pass and Clear Lake.

That No. 1 fisherrnan of Pasadena, John Sampson, head man of the Sampson Company, returned from a successful trip to Lake Mead, Nevada, .ivhere the fish are hard to catch.

349th Terrible Twenty Tourney Ends Up in 'Apple-Pie Order'

The 349th Terrible Twenty tournament was held at Riviera Country Club June 77, with Harold LaVon acting as host, both at the golf club and at his restaurant, The Tally-Ho, for dinner. Karsten Woll won first prize, as is his custom at Riviera, and Robert Osgood took second place. The scores were 82-11-71 and Bl-9-72 (our "candidate," Rex Wall, shot 76-5-71 to tie Woll in the pari-mutuel).

At the board of directors meeting preceding the tournament, Rex Wall and John T. Fox rvere elected members . of Terrible Twenty Tournaments. So, after a two-week rvaiting period, the submission of applications, signing the by-larvs and paying their dues, they can start collecting ash trays. Our Most Terrible Woll appointed Doug Disney chairman of membership committee, u'ith Tom Fleming and Bob Alcorn assistants, to see that our guests receive more cordial reception at our tournaments. The new tournament schedule \\ras announced, rvith the only change being Oakmont'for L.A.A.C. in December. A "Lucky Strike Extra" is scheduled for Thunderbird, probably early in May, Harold LaVon host, as many members like to play there at least once a year and it could not be fitted into our regular schedule.

Last month's second place tie betrveen Hoel and Bohnhoff was won by Bohnhoff, 33 points to 31 by Hoel.

Harold LaVon's dinner at Tally-Ho rvas r,r.onderful, even though we had no special printed menus. We could really enjoy the roast beef and not feel an inferiority complex because you couldn't even pronounce the name of the dish. Harold's dinner is always the best of the year.

This month at Wilshire with Alcorn officiating.

-H. M. Alling.

A. L. 3sGUSrr HOOVER CO.

George J. Osgood

George J. Osgood, 86, longtime lumberman and father of Robert S. Osgood, prominent Los Angeles wholesale lumberman, died July 4 in Tacoma, Washington. Mr. Osgood's contributions to the growth and development of the lumber, millwork and plywood industries were outstanding and his service was long and distinguished.

George Osgood was a true pioneer in the Pacific Northwest. He moved to Tacoma with his father, George R. Osgood, in the late 1880s and, t'ogether with W. C. Wheeler, they formed the Wheeler, Osgood Company in 1889, and he remained active in its management until 1908. In the early 1900s he broadened his lumber interests by forming a partnership with Henry McCleary in the McCleary Timber Company and, in 1908, they bought the Chehalis Fir Door Company, at which time Mr. Osgood left the Wheeler, Osgood Company to devote full effort to management of the fir door business, u'hile Henry McCleary directed their lumber operations.

George Osgood sold his interests in both these companies in 1915 and moved to California to retire. Ilowever, when the war came he was called to Washington, D,C., and donated his services to the government as secretary of the War Service committee of the millwork industry, directing the placement of all millwork contracts.

After the war, he returned to active management of the Wheeler, Osgood Company, which grew under his guidance to the largest manufacturer of doors in the world. He retired as president of the company in 1931 and soon returned to the ,Ilenry McCleary Timber Company. When that firm was sold to Simpson Logging Company, Mr. Osgood joined the Simpson organization and remained until his final retirement in 1951, completihg 62 years in the lumber business. He was also one of the founders and a director of General of America Insurance Co. in Seattle.

George J. Osgood was a generous, friendly, forceful and modest man of great character, who leaves a host of devoted friends throughout the country, especially among the many successful men who started their business careers under his patient guidance. He leaves his wife, Rosalie Sturgiss Osgood, of Tacoma and, in addition to his son Bob Osgood of Los

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Your Lumber Order ls An rNvE|'rilEtur

Plqce lr Wirh Us For Greoler

D'VIDENDS

Redwood Fir Pine

Cqff YUkon 2-0945 or Tel 5F 530

West (oast Timber Products Agency

HUGH PESSNEI 420 Mqrket St., Sqn Frqncisco | |

HAIF MILLION FOOTAGE of Those Old Coloniql HARDWOODS:

They losl forev€r . . eyen beoutify wilh oge BESIDES, we qre SPECIAIISTS in SUGAR PINE UPPERSone lo four inch thickness -

Brush Industrial lumber Co.

15OO S. Greenwood Avenue, lYlontebello, Cqlifornio RAymond 3-3301

Whokule

Ponderoso Pine, Redwood, Douglos Fir ond Jombs

and Exclusively Representing

Apex Moulding Co., Scrnto R,oso

3871 Pledmont Ave. Phone: Ookland I l, Cqlifornio Pledmont 5-7827

2185 Hunringron Drivc, Son llcrino 9, Colif.

Rate-Position wanted 92.00 per column inch

All others, $3.00 per column inch

Closing dates lor copy, Sth snd 20th

WANTED

WANT ADS

Retail lumberyard assistant managers and salesmen. Excellent opportunity Ior advancement with fast-growing company. Give full particulars. Write

W. L. Pickens, United Lumber Yards

Modesto, California

WANTED _ HARDWOOD MAN

Man who KNOWS hardwood (Western Red Alder and Maple) business in Los Angeles area. \lVell-rated lumber company located on Columbia River would install kilns and milling plant in either Los Angeles area or on Columbia River. Adequate -alary, expense account and percentage of profits to qualified man.

Address Box C-2380. California Lumber Merchant

108 W. 6th St., Room 50E, Los Angeles 14, Calif.

WANTED

Established Bay Area door manufacturer and jobber desires experienced price clerk estimator. All replies confidential.

Address Box C-2378, California Lumber Merchant

108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.

RETAIL LUMBERMAN SEEKS POSITION

As assistant nranager or bookkeeper. Qualified dealer from middlewest, experienced most phases building materials business; have successfully managed large retail lumberyard and wholesale sashdoor company. Outstanding business and bank references; depend- able, diligent and cooperative. Woutd prefer co,mmunity i/ithin 100-mile radius of L. A.

Address Box C-2381. California Lumber Merchant 108 W. 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.

WILL INVEST

Experienced lumberman with excellent distribution connections will invest for part ownership in good sawmill with timber. Will exchange references.

Address Box C-2377, California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.

EXPERIE,NCED WOMAN DESIRES POSITION

12 years lgmber and lumber products. Thoroughly familiap with co-stil-g and pricing, credits, payroll & taxes, insurante, inventory & all office detail. Los Angeles area-preferably West.

Telephone evenings-WE ster 3-6036 Would consider vacation fill-in.

YARD. FOR SALE

"Do-It-Yo l{self" yard. !'stablished l2 years. Rapidly growing town. Small investment. Rent or buy reai estate.

Address Box C-2379, California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.

FOR SALE ESTABLISHED BUILDING SUPPLY BUSINESS

Located in one of the fastest growing areas anywhere. 60 miles from Los Angeles, Calif. On main boulevard, in town of 16,000 population. Ample buildings, approx. 10,000 sq. ft. under roof. Yearly gross over $100,000; high net profits. Piefet to sell land, inventory, eguipment and business on one deal. 93O000 cash re- quired. Books open to principals only.

Address Box C-2306, California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th St.,Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.

Names of Advedisers in this Deportment using o blind oddress connot be divulged. All inquiries ond replies should be oddressed to key shown in the odvertisemenl

HOT SIDELINE

For Salesmen calling on lurnber dealers & hardware trade. line mechanics' safety knives exclusive, patented. Good business knives & blades.

Flash Co., Dept. 3, 52 W. Houston St. New York 12. New York

LUMBER BUSINESS FOR SALE

New repeat

Owner hospitalized. Established in Salinas in 1937. Excellent drop-in trade and established customers. Sell or lease buildings and property.

WOODS LUMBER COMPANY

E. Market at Sanborn Road. Salinas. Calif.

FOR SALE_MILL

20M mill close to Arcata; pond,50 ft, burner, electric set and air dogs, Located on state highway and railroad.

Address Box C-2298, California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.

FOR SALE

irnmediate delivery

MERSHON-WOODS 54" direct motor drive Resaw, left hand, complete with 1l blades, all collector hoods. New would cost ap- proximately $10,000, Now running, can be inspected. Our pricl, net, F.O.B. car Chicago: $9750.

HUSS LUMBER COMPANY

1350 Fullerton Avenue Chicago 14, Illinois

Phone: Llneoln 9-1700

FOR SALE_GANG RIP SAW

Ifermance Gang Rip Saw, Ball-bearing, 4O-HP, direct connected new feedworks. ONLY 4 YEARS' USE. $2750.

ASSOCIATED MOLDING COMPANY

7125 Telegraph Road - Los Angeles 22, Calif.

RAymond 3-3221

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LUMBER YARDS FOR SALE

(1.)-Long-established yard near Coast, about 15 miles from Los Angeles. Six-year lease on acre of ground and buildings $10 per day. fnventory about $40!000: Two trucks and miscellaneous improvements made by lessee; plus cabinet shop and mill with all machinery, $20,000; all subject to appraisal.

(2.)-Thirty miles from Los Angeles, ideal city. You will like it for your home, that is why present owners have kept it for over fifty years, on same R. R. lease (only $10.00 per day). All buildings and equipment including two trucks $30,000,00; inventory about $50,000.00. Marshall & Stevens appraisal available.

(3.)-Here is another yard on a $10.00 per day lease. Now closed; located in south end of Los Angeles, three blocks frorrn Sears; ground about an acre; 5,O0O sq. ft. of sheds. Spur track Start a "Do-It-Yourself" business; let them load it themselves and pay you cash as you sit at the gate.

(4.)-Riverside County yard-handy for Palm Springs weekends. Two year old; 30,000 sq. ft.; with good store building and lots of sheds. Price for ground and buildings $29,000; equipment 95,000.@; inventory about $20,0OO.00. Located on main highway. TWOHY LUMBER CO.

714 W. Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles 15; Rlchmond, 9-8746

If YOU Want to Sell YOUR Lumber Yard-GIVE US A RING

We have a couple inquiries for a yard in the SanFernando Valley

]{IIRTHERN REDW(lllll TUMBER Ctl. &,rlrool. onl,

bouglot 7ir {u*b*

relcphonc Blue Loke 75 Mills ond Soles Office sl Korbel, Humboldf County, Cslifornio teletype Blue Lskc 56

FOR SALEGERLINGER 8-ton Lift Truck FOR SALE

***

immediate delivery

STETS O N-R OS S all-electric, ball-bearing &lGAl ( I 5" x 8" ) PlanerMatcher in practically new condition; complete with feed tablei profile yolks, all top and bottorn and side head equipment; complete grinding and joining machine together with portable knife grinder including hoods for collector; also other spare heads built for this machine, etc., supplies.

NOW IN OPERATION-Can Be Inspected.

Stetson-Ross state replac€ment cost of above equipment $40,000.

Our price, net, F.O.B. Cars Chicago: $2s,7 so

HUSS LUMBER COMPANY

1350 Fullerton Avenue Chicago 14, Illinois Phone: Llncoln 9-1700

FOR SALE

One Overhead Shepard Crane-7ft-ton capacity, $35C.

MULLIN LUMBER CO.

1950 West Slauson Ave. Los Angeles 47, Calif.. AXminster 4-6191

B UY_SELL-REPAIR_S ERV ICE

Fork Lifts andStraddle Trucks. Complete shop and field service. Portable Welding, Special Fabrication, Steam Cleaning andPainting. Service Available 7 Days a Week. All work guaranteed.

COMMERCIAL REPAIRS AND SERVICE

1115 North Alameda Street, Compton, Calif. Phones: NEwmark l-8269, NEvada 6-4805

FOR SAtE

Flush Door Plant Machinerv

Tennoner, Rip saw, High-speed Moulder, 48x96 hydraulic Cold Press, Door Sizer, small Fork Lift truck, and all .equipment to manufacture flush doors.

WILL SELL AS COMPLETE UNIT or BY THE PIECE

' Can beInspected at MEDFORD DOOR, CORPORATION White City, Oregon

Telephone Medford 3-3601 for Appointment

1947 Model in excellent condition, Rebuilt Mercury motor. Manual steering.' $3500. Can be inspected at B & K LUMBER DISTRIBUTORS, INC.

200 South Seaside. Terminal Island BRadshaw 2-4630

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Douglas Fir Plywood

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Angeles, leaves a brother, Robert Storrs Osgood, Chula Vista; five grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

Gerqld

J. Voyer

Gerald J. Voyer, 54,Reseda, Calif., retail lumberman, died June 30. Mr. Voyer came from Anaconda, Montana, and had been an owner and partner with E. C. Harris in the Reseda Lumber Company at 18430 Sherman Way for the past 10 years. His home was at 18309 Saticoy, also in Reseda. Requiem mass was celebrated July 5. Mr.. Voyer leaves his wife, Anne, a daughter and three grandchildren.

Alfred J. Costell

Funeral services for Alfred J. Castell, retired lumberman, were conducted July 1 in Whittier, Calif. He was a banker and lumberman in Colorado until he moved to California in 1926 to operate the California Lumber Yard in Montebello.

Frqnk H. Chopmcn

Frank H. Chapman, 60, died June 22 at his home, 6041 Simpson, North Hollywood. He had been employed by the Blanchard Lumber Co. at its North Hollywood yard in the custom mill ever since coming to Southern California about ten years ago. In the east he had been with the Horning Lumber Company, Akron, and the Falls Lumber Co., Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. He leaves his wife. Blanche. of the home.

Horry E. Hort

5eculity noyol Dutch Point ltfg, Co,.._.-.-.25

Alon A.

5iero Lmber & Plyrvood, Inc.

SimPron Logging Co.

lfarry E. Hart, 76, died June 20. He retired three years ago as a wholesale lumber salesman. Mr. Hart \^'as active in Masonic activities. He leaves, a son, Edwin P. Hart, and two daughters in addition to his wife, Beatrice, of the home at 2308 Manhattan Ave., Hermosa Beach.

Julius T. Nelson

Julius Theodore Nelson, 81, associated vr,'ith his son, Leslie T. Nelson, in the operation of the Nelson Lumber Co. wholesale lumber business in Nfonrovia, Calif., since 1947, died July 3.

Mrs. C. C. Borr

Mrs. Anna Barr, widow of C. C. Barr, prominent early da.r Southern California lumber dealer, died late last month and was buried July 2 in Whittier, Calif., where she came in 1911.

Building Confrqctors

Albert W. Pattinson, TS retired building contractor and Los Angeles resident for nearly 50 years, died there June 2

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Albert Mifflin Eaton, 72, who had lived in California 50 years, died at his home in Santa Monica Jrne 2 . . Funeral services for Allan R. Bradley, 71, building contractor in La Jolla, Calif., for 17 years, were held there June 11 ...

Clifford F. Reid, Southern California real estate developer and subdivider since 1923, died June 3 at his home in Hollywood Riviera, one of his developments, which also included large subdivisions in the Burbank, North Hollywood and Van Nuys areas Charles M. Neely, 85, contractor and builder who came to Los Angeles 51 years ago. died June 20 . John E. Andrus, 91, retired contractor who had lived in Los Angeles 45 years, died June n . Olof Johnson, 76, who came to Southern California 40 years ago, died June 2l Hans C. flansen, 89, retired building contractor who came to Los Angeles 33 years ago, died Iune23.

UYER'S GUID

SAN FRANCISCO

2-2?54 Bruce Co., E. L.... ..KElloE 3-66?7 Gordon-MqcBecth ...LOckhcveu 8-2578

3-5550 MccBecth Hcrdwood Co. .......THornwcll 3-4390

LOS ANGELES

LUIUBER Mcrquctl-Wolle Lunber Co.....HOllywood i!-7558

Andorgon-Hcagon ....SUuset l-6U8 McCloud Lunber Co.. .VEmont 8-4963 (Studio City)

.STcnley 7-4721 Mclrtolh Lunber Co.. .BRcdahqw 2-4353 Arcqtc Bedwood Co. (J. J. Res)..WYoningll09 (Bevcrlylflfe).. ....CRestview5-6634

Atls Lunbcr Co...... ......Taiaity2il26 Meier,HcrbLumberCo.(Arcadic)....RYcnl-8181

Avrsn Lunbcr Co...... ..RYcn l-8733 MouDt Whittrey Lumber Co., Iac,...ANgelus 0l7l (Lc Ccncdc) SIlvdD U-55{5 Ecch Lunber Co. ...............R[fi;;e i:i6ii Netnm'Rood Lunber Co...........STaalav 7-1129 pArkyicw l-6376 -1 {fcn Nuyr) .:-.t .: .: .. " " 'STate 5-8873

3cc1, J. Williom Lunber ..........ADcms1-{361 netaon Lumber (Monrovic)....--...Ellioti9-5'l2l

Bough, CcrI W. (Pcaqdenc) ......RYcn l-6382 Harotd A. Ncw-Whole. Lbr. ' SYccrnorc S-2S25 (Pcscdenc) .....SYccmore 5-3192

Bliss,S Gctes Lunbor Co,.Rlymond 3-1681-3-3{51 Jcmes Newquiat Lumber Scles

Brush InduJtrial Lumber Co.- (Pcscdeaci ......BYcn l-&186 SYccnore 5-1340

""o.""ow 2.665,

"i'*.X.8;"hli ... ..........Rlchnonde-8843 osgood' hobcrt s" """ DUakirt<2-82?8

Goorge Clough -ib;'*di-.l. 'Lb-;;6:6656 RYo r'8r03

Couolidqied Lumbcr Co..........Rlchloud 2l{l Pqcilic Luurber Co'. The " RYcn I-932! -iwifti";1o"t.l_..nr.-s-iebi'ffi'fi.-fr;].1-t6dt _(sqn Marino) sYcamores-43{s

i;il;c;:;w. E.'..Yo'i stii Pccilic Forcsl Productg, Inc.....AXminster 2-0571

Dcl|on d Co., R' W. (Sqn Marino) Pcilic Wcstcn Lunbcr Co.' o| Cclil.' Inc. Dv,,rir t-trtt tPascdcnc) SYcanore 6-8869-L.A' RYan l-8123

Dani 6 Buggel, Sqtea Co.........ift;;ffii-giti Phipps-CompcnYlTae -........RAvmond 3-5326

Donovrr Co., Inc. .........::::.rfriiiiiii liiei E.,L. Reitr Co.' Occcn Ccnter Bldc' (Devorty llills) .....CRertview rl-S103r*-gpg f-t"-tUj - "Long- Becch 6-9647

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EUlel3C ltedwood lUmDal |vO. F^ tar-- N...-^r aTi- t I I ll if:i,"1:r5*::: llilll .Yl:

Rov Forcsr Products co. (vo Nuvs) srato s-rr{r iH:l i:ilii Rudbqch,lohn A' 6 co' (Arccdiq)-",TJ,::,1:3;33

Atcn tr. Shively (Glcndcle)....Cllcpncra 5-2083 South Bey Lumber Co.. ..OsboruE 6-2261 (Hqwthonc) .ORegon 8-4597 southen cclilorda Lunber Scleg (I[!i"iil'f_lr' Stcadcrd Lunbcr Co., Iac. (Iaolcwood) .ORegon 8-21'll Slmloa, E. t. 6 Son..............ADcru {-9211 Siewarl, O. W. Plywood Co. (NorwqlL)

Ltrrren-Mertilield, Inc. (Bcverly Hills) ....CResrview 6-9149

lqwrencc-Philitx Lunber Co. (Bcverlv Hiui) ....BRcdshcw 2-,1377

Lonrtt Limber Conlnay .RAvnond 3-1727

Tbo Louq-Betl Lubci Co' .DUakirk 7'13{7

Los Anglles Dry Kiln Slorcge, Inc. - ANselus 3-6273

Los Aacrcles Lunber, lnc.........MAdison 5'913{

Lor-Ccl-LunberCo...... .LOgcn5-S3ll

Lumber Mitl d Supply Co. .......!!!eclus 9-32O lNgelus 3-6503

MscDoacld Co., L. W. (Brvcrly HiUs) BBcdshcw 2-5101

....TEminql 3-4437

CRESOTED I.I'MBEN-POLES-PIIING_TIES

Bo<ter. J. H. 6 Co.. ....DUnkirk 8-9591 Koppers Conpcnv luc, ..........MAdisou 6-5818 Wdien Southwesi, IEc.. ..NEvcdc 5-2983 (Wilniagtor) TEmisql {-2561

Zeesmc Plywood Co.. .LAloyette 0175

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SPECITY HAMMOND CERTIFIED IfltN DRY REDWOOD

Pictured here is o BucyrusErie 3/q yord shovel Gortverted for loqding solvoge timber for Hommond's Plcrnf 3 loccrted qt Big Logoon, Colifornio.

fhis mochine, nicknqmed "Eqrwig," moves in qfter the regulor first logging hos been completed qnd qssists in removing slobs, chunks ond pieces suifqble for sqwing of plonf 3.

fhere is no substitute for sound, property groded, Cerrified Kiln Dried Redwood' qnd Hqmmond's Diqmond H Brqnd fulfills qll milling cnd groding sfqndqrds.