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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,

fhe Best

"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- ager of Shasta Box Company. Morrow will have jurisdiction over the company's plywood, Novoply, lumber and timber operations at Anderson, Redding, Douglas City and Willow Creek, California. He joined U. S. plywood as production manager of its Shasta plywood and Novoply operations in 1950.

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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.

Building permit valuations for 1955 are only 8/o short of 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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