The California Lumber Merchant - August 1945

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Thousands of American Retailers have won special recognition Ior "&stinguished service" for their share in the success oI the Mighty 7th War Ioan! Now, like many of our overseas heroes, taking tine out lor only a congratulatory handshake as they move lrom Europe to the Pacific, these retailers are busy planning new Bond selling strategies.

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Here's your 4point progrram to pace your Bond selling advance to the victory gains of our armed forces.

Regular Employee Bond Buying helps employees to sell more Bonds! Encourage this systematic saving to help tie the grasping hands of inllation -and build the thrift habit.

Advertising is the heavy artillery of Bond sales promotion! Every line of Bond advertising is a life-line to prosperity in the postwar world. Allot more space to Bond advertising.

Bond selling Window and Store Displays prevent let-downs in Bond sales! Use more eye-

catching displays to keep the urgency of Bond buying before the public.

Sell more Bonds by keeping your ?th War Ioan Bond selling organization on the job! Maintain all Bond Selling,Booths as essential "pill boxes against inflation."

"Eternally keeping at it" is the price of continued Bond sales-and the "unconditional surrender" Bonds help to speed. Today and EVERY DAY buy, advertise, display-and SELL War Bonds!

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Specialists in Custom Milling and Kiln Drying

CUSTOM MII.IING

Rescrwing, ripping crrd trimming crt our remcmufqcturing plont crt Long Beach, Colif.

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Our kilns ond operators cne certified by Government for drying circrqft lumber. We olso do other commerciol drying.

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Ponderosa Pine Voodwort------------

Pope & Talbot,

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Shevlin Pine Saleg Co.------------------ -------------------25

Sisalkraft Co., The-------

Smith, Stuart C.------------------- ----------------------------29

Southwestern Portland Cement Co.----------------'r

Stanton & Son, E. J.----- -- -

Sudden & Christencon. fnc.-------.---,-- -------------.2, Tacoma Lumber Salec---------------------------------------- 19

Tatte4 Vebcter & Johncon, Inc.-------------------*

Toete Lunber Company-----------------------------.--*

U. S. Plywood Corporation---

Vendling.Nathan Co.----- -- --,- - -------------------- 9

Ifest Coact Screen C-o.-,---

Virect Oregon Lumber Co.--------------------------------lj

Veatern Door & Sesh Co.-----------------------------.23

Vertern Hardwood Lu-ber Co.----------------O.F.C

Vestern MilI & Moulding e.o.----------------------.29

Veyerhaeueer Sales Company----------------_________ |

Vhite Btothers.----------------- __________- ____________2, Vholesale Building Supply, lnc. -------------------24

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I. E MANNN Mcacaiag Editor

THE CALIFOR}IIA LUMBERMERCHANT JadcDiorne,pflLfur

How Lrumber lrooks

Military requirements for 2 x 4 dimension have increased to the point that the following direction has been issued by the Portland office of the War Production Board, effective July 13, 1945:

Gentlemen:

"You are hereby directed to immediately stop all shipments ol 2x4 dimension, rough and surfaced, in the species of Douglas fir, West Coast hemlock, sitka spruce and white fir, in the grades of No. 3 and Better Common and B and Better, C and D Clears, except on purchase orders or memo of bids of the Portland office of C.P.A., bearing inquiry number prefixes as follows:

AA (m) -AO (m) -AP (m) -AP ( mo) -AQ (m) -AS (m) -AT (m)NA(m)-NM (m)-NY-D(a)

Shipments against any other inquiry number prefixes and to all others, are not permitted. Exception to this directive can cation to this office."

The freeze is at all rnills having are located rvest of the Cascades ton. It freezes all 2 x 4's, rough

be made only upon applisurfacing facilities which in Oregon and Washingand surfaced.

Ltrmber shipments oI 454 mills reporting to the National Lumber Trade Barometer were 13.2 per cent above production for the week July 7,1945. In the same week new orders of these mills were 53.7 per cent more than production. Unfilled order files of the reporting mills amounted

to 114 per cent of stocks. For reporting softwood mills, unfilled orders are equivalent to 43 days' production at the current rate, and gross stocks are equivalent to 36 days' production.

The Western Pine Asosciation for the week ended July 7, 96 mllls reporting, gave orders as 42,226,M feet, shipments 25,816,000 feet, and production 34,240,W feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week. totaled 380,588,000 feet. I

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended July 14,92 units (132 mills) reporting, gave orders as 19,145,000 feet, shipments 19,703'000 feet, and production 17,893,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 128,137,000 feet.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended July 14, 163 mills reporting, gave orders as U,G7,000 feet, shipments 68,907,000 feet, and production 74,461,000 feet.

The California Redwood Association reported production of 13 operations for the month of May, 1945, as 36,343,000 feet, shipments 37,191,000 feet, and orders received 30,301,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the month totaled 97.581.000 feet.

Appointed Southwestern Representative Quality Lumber Will Asain Be Available

Harold K. Wilson, registered architect of Hoquiam, Wash., and long-time advocate of construction with plywood, has been named southwestern representative for Douglas Fir Plywood Association and has established his office in the Chamb.er of Commerce Building at Los Angeles.

He succeeds Joseph Weston, who resigned after seven years employment with the industry trade association to manage The Warfield Co. a building development company which will construct houses designated as designed by Joseph Weston. The firm plans to operate throughout southern California with each house of special design for its individual location.

Mr. Wilson, who attended University of Washington school of architecture and is a,licensed architect in the state, has had wide experience with the panel material both as a practicing architect and as a designer of many types of plywood buildings and marine craft developed by a large plywood manufacturer.

As early as 1937, he incorporated the use of thick ply'r,r'ood panels as gusset plates and other structural members in light commercial buildings. During the war, he has desigired and supervised construction of prefabricated barges for the Bureau of Ships and assisted in the design and supervised construction of folding plywoocl assault boats and foot bridges.

His experience includes specification of plywood both for interior and exterior walls of new and remodeled homes of all sizes and types, including prefabricated structures. In addition, he has acted as consultant on the use of plywood in commercial and pleasure boats.

There is welcome assurance to farm builders regarding future lumber supplies in a statement recently released by Weyerhaeuser Sales Company of Saint Paul, Minnesota.

"As soon as war needs are satisfied, there will be plenty of quality lumber available for civilian consumption. The present scarcity of lumber for civilian needs is due almost entirely to the fact that war needs continue to absorb practically every foot that is manufactured.

"When the needs of our armed forces are satisfied, lumber can again flow freely into civilian markets. There should be no lag in this flow for there are no reconversion problems in the lumber industry. The millions of board feet now being produced daily can simply be channelled to civilian needs.

"The lumber quality will be equal to the best prervar quality, which was the most accurate and carefully finished lumber ever offered the American farmer. Accelerated methods of drying and new manufacturing procesbes assure quality lumber for all farm construction. Forest reserves are large. And modern lumbering practices are gradually putting our timber .operations on a sustained yield basis where the annual growth of neu'timber is approaching the harvest."

Sells Yard

G. H. Johnson has sold his lumber yard at Redlands, which he established thirteen years ago, to Carroll Crane, who has been connected with the business for over ten years.

Mr. Johnson was in the lumber business for forty-four years, twenty years at Redlands. He was with the Bowman-Johnson Lumber Co. first, and went to Redlands in 1925 lrom Fresno. He intends to take a rest, and then rvill make his future olans.

Mr. Weston, a leading small homes architect and chiei architect of a division of the federal Resettlement Administration before joining the plywood association, has contributed much toward the widespread acceptance of the panels as a building material. California now is recognized as the greatest per capita user of plywood both in peace and war.

Douglas Fir Plywood Association has two other field representatives, one at Chicago and one at Washington, D. C.

Harold K. Wilson

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Mon€Y-Mcrker. o. A Work-Sqver!

No wonder ownets of Wilson saws are enthusiastic about them. This versatile machine makes any kind of a cut...fasg accurately and safeln Turns scraps and ofi,size pieces into readily saleable lirm. ben It's a big time,saver, too... does jobe twice as fast. Easy for any of your men to operate You'll find a Wilson will be the busiest machine in your yard. It will quickly pay for itself and keep on mak, ing money for you" Write for a FREE demonstration" See for yourself!

"What General Weygand called 'The Battle of France' is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to bbgin. Upon this battle depends the burvival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life and the long continuity of our institutions and our empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned upon us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island, or lose the war. If,,we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free, and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age, made more sinister and perhaps mpre protracted by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British empire and its commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will say, THIS \VAS THEIR FINEST HOUR."

(Churchill.) ***

Folks, those of you whose eyes have just read and whose minds have just absorbed the above paragraph, write this down in your Book of Life: here is one of the most sublime utterances that ever fell from the lips of any human being in history. Before you read it over again, get THIS thought in your head: the speech was made immediately after the nameless horror of Dunkirk. It was delivered as a rallying cry to the British people and a defiance to the Hun at the most tragic time England has ever known, or can ever know. When Churchill uttered those words he knew that the British fighters gathered alonq the Eastern shores and the "White Cliffs of Dover," did not have sufficient amrnunition to last them more than TWENTY MINUTES if the Crermans came. Yet knowing these dreadful things and with head unbowed, Churchill called

this mighty declaration of Churchill's. It's hard to believe, is it not, that the man who uttered those inspired words and whose leadership undoubtedly saved Britain during the dark years that have just ended, is having to fight for his political life right at this time? If they knock off Churchill, those who love to roll the fumous charge of "Perfidious Albion" over their tongues will certainly have something to talk about. And if the reds and pinks take over the British government at this time, we'd better just hand the Old World to the Socialists and Communists and build our Democratic defenses here at home on the double.

Everywhere I turn, and in much of the mail I receiVe, I get the question: 'What do you think of Truman?" For Truman is very quietly and unobtrusively but very definitely nevertheless a very much discussed man nowadays. The answer is easy. I think rnighty well of Truman. I think he is a plain, simple, ordinary, straightforward, everyday American; and there is an overwhelming demand throughout this country for such a man. We greatly needed a Truman. ***

After having had grand opera for so long a time, this nation appreciates a singer of more homelike and simple songs. I think Truman is that sort of a songbird. "By their works ye shall know the.m" saith the Scripture. A man must indeed be hard to please who does not approve of the works in general that Truman has done since he so suddenly was catapulted by Fate into his high office. When he suddenly found himself in so difficult and trying a position, some good and benevolent spirit must have whispered into his ear these wise words: "BE NATURAL." Because that is exactly what he has done. It was a perfect prescription. It is working marvelously.

on the soul of the world to witness the courage and de- A musician himself, Truman must have been familiar fiance of Britain. When the listing is made of the most with that recently popular song entitled-"There Will Be amazing utterances that ever fell from human lips since Some Changes Made." Without fanfare or spotlight he tirne began, you will find the above paragraph at the very has been changing the face of the Government at Washtop of the heap. Churchill is one of the four or five great- ington so that in just a few weeks tirne it is already a comest orators in human history; and the above speech, all , p1.1. turnover; a great job of face lifting. I particularly

the conditions considered, is his masterpiece.

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No speech ever appearing in this column got so enthusiastic a response as Patton's speech to his soldiers before they invaded Germany, which ran.last issue. So I thought that, while we were on the subject of great speeches, it would be a perfect time to give you for your scrapbooks

like some of his selections for high office. Clinton Anderson, of New Mexicoi or Secretary of Agriculture, was an inspirational selection. A great guy in many ways. He used to be International President of Rotary, and in that way endeared himself to an army of thinking people all over the country. IIe's a guy you can go places with.

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And another great selection-or so it seems thus early in the game-is that of Lewis Schwellenbach, of the State of Washington, for the Labor cabinet post. Of course, anyone would have looked good succeeding well-intentioned, but hopelessly incompetent, Ma Perkins. She was probably the worst appointment in American official history. Almost the entire nation has been demanding her withdrawal for many years. But Schwellenbach displays a type of intelligence and good political sense that marks him as a real "find" for that very difEcult job. To appreciate this new official, just read the following remarks he made in a general order to his fellow-workers in the Labor Department:

"I must insist that in tii" l.J.r,*.n. there is given full recognition to the fact that it is the function of this department to execute the laws. The duty of an ofBcer in this department is to accept the laws as Congress has written them. The fact that he may think the Congress should have interpreted a law differently in no case justifies him in ignoring or trying to circumvent the law." And then he added to the newspaper men present: "You gentlemen know that in the past Congress has passed a law and after a department gets through interpreting it, you would not recognize it even if you met it on the street."

If that statement had been made publicly by a cabinet mernber six months ago it would have caused a political earthquake. But Schwellenbach calmly recognizes a condition that has caused most thinking Americans to sweat and fume for the past many years; the fact that when the Bureaus got through interpreting a piece of Legislation, they had changed it beyond possible recognition, and to suit their own ends. The Wagner Labor Relations Act is a good sample. The administration of that Act under the interpretations of its administrators has changed the meaning of the law in many vital ways. Things Congress never dreamed of in passing the Act, became the enforced law of the land. And so it was with rnost Bureaucratic Legislation. Congress passed a law that said one thing, and the Bureaucrats wrote interpretations that meant whatever they wanted it to mean. And now we have a most important cabinet member denouncing the practice. A bright ray of sunshine in official Washington.

And what a ihance .h"ir.; ,i..orne, General Clark has to make a name for himself, following in the footsteps of poor little old Francis Biddle. Clark is a splendid lawyer, and will get other splendid lawyers to assist him. Look for great improvement there. I like Vinson to succeed Morgenthau. But I have no critical thoughts or words for the retiring Secretary of the Treasury. ff ever a man had a tough job, Henry had one. And while I don'.t consider him any financial genius, he kept his chin up, his mouth shut, and won the respect of this nation. Henry Morgenthau, can take it. He HAS taken it, as a matter

of fact. Vinson will probably be a better man for the job, but there are no flies on Henry. ***

And if there remains in your mind the slightest doubt that this nation has become very broad-minded of late, consider the appointment of Jimmy Byrnes to the State Department leadership. Seventeen years ago the Ameri'can nation went to the polls and snowed under a candidate for President whom it loved and respected. Why? Because he was a Catholic. Yet when Truman appointed Catholic Jimmy Byrnes to be next man in line for the Presidency, it never caused a ripple. As these lines are being written, here is the situation: If Truman should die on this European trip, we would have Catholic Jimmy Byrnes for President. And if both of them had died before Vinson was sworn in as Secretary of the Treasury, we would have had Henry Morgenthau, a Jewish gentlernan, for Chief Magistrate. We ARE broadening out.

I can never resist the **a"i"" to tell an appropriate story. I think the smartest short political story in my collection is the one they told on Al Smith after the election of 1928 when lloover defeated him. They said that the day after the election when the landslide of votes was pretty well in, Al Smith sent a cable to the Pope of Rome, the cable consisting of just one word: "UNPACK.' ***

Yep. I think Truman has good quiet courage along with his simple, native intelligence, and that he has already won a firm place in the hearts of this nation. He has left in his cabinet just Ickes and Wallace. Report has it that Ickes will go soon. Ickes, the rough talking "hatchet man" of the New Deal, is now like Old Man River-"He don't say nuthin'." And lo and behold Henry Wallace! Not much space is being given Henry in the newspapers of late, but rve understand that his callers find him loudly proclaiming his love of our system of free enterprise and of private business. Maybe Henry has followed the doctrine of the New Testament, and has been "born again." He could stand a lot of re-borning, Henry could. ***

I'll be glad when Mr. Truman can get around to tossing the useless bureaus overboard, and cutting down that huge and unnecessary expense. There are plenty of them -expensive ones-that could be terminated on ten minutes' notice, and not a mite of harm come to our government or our domestic economy. The President has already demanded that all unnecessary expense be cut off in the government. But, of course, the myriads of useless bureaucrats fervently proclaim their usefulness, and deny the opposite. They will never quit. They must be throrrn out'***

And President Truman has great self control. He showed it at the beginning of the Big Three Conference at Potsdam" No, no, he didn't start singing that old one about the "Potsdam Dutch and all the other damn Dutch." That wasn't it. It was when Marshall Stalin failed to show up the day set for

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SCHAFER BROS. LUMBER & SHINGTE CO.

Home Office-Aberdeen, Wcshingrton

Mcrrufocturers of Douglcs Fir ccnd West Coost Hemlock

CALIFORNIA SAI-ES REPRESENTATIVE FOR Robert Gray Shingle Co.

Gardiner Lumber Co.

Aberdeen Plywood Corp.

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No Change \(/hatever

The part that the salesman plays in the commercial and industrial world that the war has created, comes in for lots of conversation. Naturally, Mr. Salesman has been the butt of a lot of jokes, and wise-cracks. One of the best is the story of the letter the Sales Manager of one of the larger lumber concerns is alleged to have received from one of his old customers. It reads like this:

Discuss Expcnsion Plcrns

Plans for expansion of the Longview plant of LongBell Lumber Co. were discussed by directors at a ten-day meeting, according to J. D. Tennant, vice president and manager. Plans call for expansion of the Longview facili' ties in the remanufacturing of lumber products and the utilization of lumber manufactured at the Longview mill for the refining of manufactured items.

"Dear Sir: I have noticed a great change in the attitude of your salesmen, since lumber has become so scarce' They are mean, arbitrary, and arrogant. All except Pete Jenkins. Pete hasn't changed a bit. -He is still the same dirty So and So he has always been. Yours truly, Sam Blake."

Buys Westfir Properties

Edward Hines Lumber Co., Chicago, announced that it had purchased from Blyth & Co. all the assets of the Westfir Lumber Co. of Westfir, Oregon. The property provides complete manufacturing facilities with planing mill, dry kilns, logging facilities and railroad and has an annual capacity fo 60 million board feet. ifhe Hines company will take possession of the plant on Aug. 1.

FEATARF Tlns otsPt[v .YO]I'IL FITTO TT'LL ?AV!

Millions of home gordeners ore being lold ond sold on Polco Pete's Mulch through o continuous odvertising progrom in leoding notionol gorden mogozines ond metropoliton newspopers. "Cosh-in" on the estoblished demond. Ploce your order fodoy. Keep your stock oul on disploy.

Why not sef-up on ollroctive gorden disploy FOI in your windows or on soles floor? When you F|FE sell gorden lools -or ollied items olwoys sug- OilLCn gesf o few bogs of Polco Pete's Mvlch.lt'll pay! ,rEL1g

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Is the ONE specification upon which builders, architects, dealers, owners, engineers, and finance people all agtee.

Horbor Plywood SUPER-Hqrbord Plywood (in oll grodor)

Hcrbord Sheothing

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Other Produqts

Horbord Plycretc (Goncrcte form plywood) SUPER-Horbord Plycrrtc (Concrete form plywood)

Horbord Indurlricl Plywood

Be sure tbat the plyutood. panels you buy bear tbe Harbor trad.emark in ad.dition to tbe supplementary gtad,e names "Plywallr" "Plypanel," "Plyscordr" "Plyformr" 'EXT-DFPA'" etc.

To-day SUPER-HARBORD is restricted for military purposes. Our engineers have collaborated with the war department in developing not only assault boats and pontoo bridges but innumerable other necessary war materials that have facilitated the success of our armed forces. SUPER-HARBORD has lived up to and surpassed all the requirements asked of it.

Competent sales engineers are available for special industrial problems involving the use of our plywoods and plastics.

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the Conference to start, and stood them up for a day. Did Truman, filled with righteous indignation, blurt out: "Look here Josif Vissarionovitch Dzugashvili, you can't do this to me?" Did he? He did NOT. He could have, because that's Stalin's full name back in Georgia (no, not Gawgia) where he came from. In fact, Truman never mentioned Josif Vissarionovitch Dzugashvili a single time. He just said: "Have a drink?" And Stalin replied: "What do you mean 'A' drink?" And they both smiled. And thus was a great diplomatic chasm bridged over.

When the postwar building days come round (thank God they get one day closer with every 24 hours that pass) there will be need for some straight and fair thinking among our lumber and building folks. Here's one thing I mean: every now and then you hear some lumber or building material buyer make the growling remark that when the postwar days come he is going to give his business preference to those concerns which "have not let me do\ rn" while war restrictions were in vogue. That's a thing that could be badly overdone. Don't you see that the more completely a manufacturer or distributor gives his products to the war effort, the less he has for his regular civilian trade, and therefore the more he might be exposed to the charge of "letting his customers down"? Tq feel antagonistic to a firm because that firm has entered more wholeheartedly into the job of winning the war than some of its competitors have done, seems to put an unfair burden on patriotism, doesn't it? It would be short-sighted policy to allow the irritations of the war period to cloud the postwar horizon; and it would hardly be. fair to penalize those who have done an all out job to help win the war, because in so doing they have been obliged to stint their regular trade. The thought is worth some quiet mulling over in many minds.

Rebuildins Mill

Rebuilding of the Whipple sawmill at Drain, Ore., is gettrng under way. The new mill will be all-electric. The old Whipple mill was burned down several months ago.

200-Foot Span Timber Arch Bridse

By C.J. Hogue, Chief Engineer West Coast Lumbermen's Association

A booklet illustrating a 2OGfoot span timber arch bridge has been published by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association. Among the distinctive features of the bridge design are: Arch chord with metal splices for the weight of the arch only, with spaces between members filled with concrete after erection to make a continuous compression member for the superimposed load;

Mesnager concrete hinges applied to a timber arch; A simple crown hinge;

Glued laminated floor beams to eliminate shrinkageglues for exterior use have recently been accredited; Composite wood-concrete deck serving also as a horizontal beam transmitting lateral loads to end pylons; Reinforced concrete side walk cantilevered from the composite wood-concrete deck;

Dog-leg cantilevered reinforced concrete post to take lateral thrust from rvood rail transmitting thrust to post; Lighting placed below rail to light'sidewalk and deck.

For free copy of this booklet write West Coast Lumbermen's Association, 364 Stuart Building, Seattle 1, Washington.

Opens S. F. Brcnch

Special Materials, with headquarters at 333O East 12th Street, Oakland, has opened a branch office and warehouse at 2ffi Harrison Street. San Francisco. Frank F. Fee is manager of both warehouses

We crpprecicte the loyclty cnd pctience oI our dealer customers in this difficult period, and assure them of the best possible service under existing conditions.

HALLINAN MACKIN TUMBER CO.

Successors to Hcltinan Mcrckin Co., Ltd.

Dishibutors of Sugcr 6 Ponderoscr Pine o Douglcs Fir o Sitkcr Spruce o Plyrryood o Box Shook o Assembled Boxes

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Rebuilds Red Bluff Yard

Sterling Lumber Company has replaced the Red Blufi yard, which was destroyed by fire last September, with a larger and more modern plant than the former oire' The rebuilt yard was opened formally in the middle of May'

It is located at 759 Walnut Street. Steve Pedrett is manager.

A store building purchased since the fire has been remodeled and converted into an office, store and display

WE ARE ENGAGED ETITIREI.Y

in mcrnulccturing crrticles lor importqnt war uses.

But our plcrns cre qbout completed lor postwar production oI an expcnded line of Eubank wholescrle millwork items.

room, and an extension added to serve as a warehouse for building materials.

The lumber sheds are larger than before, and cement foundations for lumber piles have beerl constructed throughout the yard.

The company is. justifiably proud of its rebuilt yard' They have occupied the present site for about eight years' The former'owners conducted a lumber business on this site for 25 years.

Fleishman Lumber Co. OPercting Ctrstom Plcrning Mill

At Modoc Point, Ore.

A nerv custom planing mill operation has been established by Fleishman Lumber Co., Portland, at Modoc Point, Oregon, on the site formerly occupied by Lamm Lumber Co. The plant is using the buildings on the site' Carl Hudson is manager.

The mill ofiers a complete custom planing mill service, including sorting, grading and finishing.

James Fleishman, head of Fleishman Lumber Co., which operates a large remanufacturing plant at Grants Pass, Oregon, believes that the Modoc Point mill will expand later in the remanufacturing field.

1209 Ncrdeau Streel, Los Angeles I IEllercon 4221

Mcrnulachrrers BLOWER STSTEMS and INCINENATONT

See thc Acme lncinerator wilh wster washed top

Exterior view of Sterling Lumber Co' crt Red BIuII

WE ARE KNOWN BY THE SUBSCRIBERS WE KEEP

Year after year, since 1876, we have been serving from coast to coasg the outstand' ing members of the Lumber Industry and of the other industries that market through the retail lumber dealer or who sell to furniture factories and other woodwotkers. They have found our service economical, dependable and accurate.

Dependability and adaptability to the problems of this special field are the two fore' most characteristics that have contributed so much to build our organization into the industry's authoritative credit, sales, buying, and collection service.

The fact that subscribers continue their subscriptions year aftet year proves that they recognize the unusual value of out service.

For Eubscription terrns, address Department "G" of the nearer of the offices shown below

Lu Lu

The keeper was showing the distinguished visitor through the wards of the insane asylum. They carne upon an inmate, a man, who sat on the edge of his bed with his head in his hands, tears streaming down his cheeks, and crying aloud:

"Oh, Lu Lu, Lu Lu!"

The keeper explained:

"FIe was engaged to a girl named Lu Lu, but she jilted him and married another man, and this poor fellow has been moutrning for her ever since, until he lost his rnind and became the poor wreck that you see there."

The visitor shook his head in sadness, and they went on. As they approached the violent ward he heard a great commotion inside one of tbe padded cells, and the keeper showed him a peek hole where he ccluld look in. There was a wild-eyed maniac inside the cell, who was punching the thick walls of the cell with both fists, and every time he struck a blow he shouted:

"Lu Lu! Lu Lu!"

The startled visitor asked:

"Who is that fearful man?"

And the keeper replied:

"That's the guy that married Lu Lu."

Sonnet For Redhecrds

E. L. Mayo, in Poetry

Red hair is dangerous; it goes deep in, Feeds at the central fire, and so must burn; As men who work at ovens and furnaces turn Pale, not red, your redhead has white skin; And though the heat of the sun is crueler To them than others, burns them, freckles them, It cannot change their'white to swart or dim The holocaust reflected in their hair.

Nero and Socrates and Lancelot

Will witness this, and Antony's sharp Queen, England's Eighth Flenry, great Elizabeth, Blake, Verlaine, Villon and-take one more breathShaw, Beatrice, Cesar Borgia, Magdalene, Christ, William Shakespeare and Iscariot.

He Could Add, Too

"What happened in 1483?" asked the history teacher.

"Luther was born," replied the student.

"And what happened in L487?"

"Luther was four years old." -----------------

Exercise

The human body is made up of four hundred muscles, evolved through centuries of physical activity. Unless they are used, they will deteriorate. The. business executive should look for ways of using his muscles, naturally, each day. Instead of always using his desk bells, he should occasionally do an office errand himself. He might, with profit, walk one way or part way to his office instead of riding; he should cultivate muscle hunger.

This Story Is Fighting Tclk In Errgland

The traveling circus going overland from city to city in Scotland, Iost a huge ape through disease. The carcass of the great, brown-haired beast was thrown alongside the road in a wooded district, and left there. Along came two country Scots, McTavish and McPherson, saw the dead beast, and stopped to examine it curiously. Said McTavish:

"He's nae a MacPhairson, fer the MacPhairsons hae red hair."

McPherson said: "An' he's nae a MacTavish, fer the MacTavishes are black as nicht."

There was silence. Then one of them said:

"I'll tell ye. Let's gae up ate the big hoose on th' hill an' ask the rich MacGregor if his English butler is missin,."

Dickens Said:

O, let us love our occupations, Bless the squire and his relations, Live upon our daily rations, And always know our proper stations.

Executive Ability

When you know rnen and how to handle them, you've licked the problem of how to run a business. The executive's job is to provide leadership, the kind that develops the best efforts of the men under him.

rooat Bavanttltf GRGS CIRGULATTON KILIITS

2)/o to )0/o raote capacif duc to solid edge-to-edge *acLing. Bctcr quality drying on low tcop.rarurcs rit! a frrt rcvcnbic crrculatron, Lowet stacking costs-just rolid edge-to-cdge stacking in the simolcct form.

Moorekiln Paint Products for weatherproofing &y kiln and mill roofr.

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Distribution Yard Sales of Softwood

Washington, D. C., July l3-Wholesale lumber yards may apply to the Office of Price Administration for permission to continue the operation of retail departments, if those departments were being operated separately before June 23, 1943, OPA said today. This is the date when the regulation covering distribution-yard sales first established separate selling prices for wholesale and retail distribution yards.

The action, effective July 18, 1945, instructs wholesale yards to file applications with the Building Materials Branch, OPA, Washington, D. C. Until agency approval has been granted in writing, the retail department of a wholesale yard may not sell lumber at the higher maximum prices established for retail distribution yards.

Another change in the regulation affects hardwood flooring manufacturers who during the years 1941 and 1942 operated distribution yards through which they sold flooring made by their own and other mills. Manufacturers who can show that they were operating in this way before 1942 may apply to the Building Materials Branch for authority to resume this practice. Until OPA has approved an application in writing, a manufacturer may not sell hardwood flooring produced in his own mill at distribution yard mark-ups. This change will relieye some cases of hardship among manufacturers in consuming areas who had normally been able to get a retail price for their product when sold through their distribution yards.

In approving applications either by wholesale yards or by'hardwood flooring manufacturers, OPA will make sure that mark-ups are restricted to sellers who per{orm the services required by the regulation. The two new provisions are not expected to have any significant effect on prices.

Today's action also permits distribution yards to charge premium prices for sorne special types of lumber produced by the yards in the course of their regular operations. Formerly, they could charge the premium prices for these types of lumber only when purchased from the mills.

The premium price is limited, however, to sales to customers needing lumber with these special qualities. For example, a yard may sell ladder stock at the premium price only to a ladder manufacturer or ladder repair shop. Customers who may pay the premium prices are designated by OPA either in the regulations or by special authorization.

The action also names California as one of the areas where trucking charges from the railhead to a yard 1O miles or more awav. may be added to maximum prices. Finally, two minor technical changes are made so that the regulation will conform with the revised regulation on Western pine and associated species of lumber.

(Amendment 10 to Second Revised Maximum Price Regulation 21S-Distribution Yard Sales of Softwood-effective July 18, 1945.)

TACOI|A TUIIBNB $ATT$

714 W. Olympic Blvd.

tOS ANGEIES 15, CAIJF.

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CAAGO and hAIL

NEPRESENTING

St. Pcul d Tcrcomc Lumber Co. TccomcL Wash.

Deliance Lumber Compcny Tccomq, Wcrsh.

Diclsncn Lumber Compcny Tccomq, Wash.

Kcrrlen-Davis Compcny Tdcomc, Wcrsh.

Vcncouver Plyurood & Veneer Co. Vcncouver, Wcsh.

Tcrcomcr Harbor Lumber & Timber Co. Tccomcr, Wash.

Clear Fir Scles Co. Eugrene, Ore.

C&DLumberCo. Roseburg, Ore.

s. s. WHIINEY OTSON

s. s. wEsT coAsT

Buys Plcrning MiU

Albany Planing Mill, by Dewey Lung from Albany, Ore., has been purchased M. Biberstein,.Portland.

A Serious Postwar Problem Will Be Keeping Business Men in Business

BY JACK

'We've been reading a lot of late about the postwar demands of labor. Nothing bashful about most of them. According to press reports the very potent left-wing group known as PAC-(a group that did more to carry the recent Presidential election than even the Solid South)-has handed its ultimatum to Truman, and is waiting to see what he will do about it.

In these matters no mention is made of the employer. How business can carry the loads demanded is apparently not worth discussion. The long established fact that wages, hours, and wage conditions are all a vital part of the production of goods, is also overlooked. Neither is the fact that in order to have employes and payrolls there must first be employers with capital.

It is true that now and again some mild-mannered and soft voiced person intimates that we should remember that if investments in employing businesses are to be increased and employment intensified and more widely distributed, there must be some inducement for the investor and employer. If a man with money is to stick his neck out, he must have some reassurance that he is going to get a run for his money. Men who have been undergoing the troubles and harassments of war-time business, must have some assurance of relief from unnecessary trouble. It is likewise true that Congress, just before adjourning for the summer, passed a tax law that will give corporations some relief in 1946, thus recognizing the wisdom of helping the people without whose cooperation investment will shrink and employment will suffer.

I want to point to a problem of enormous importance to postwar planning; one that I have yet to hear mentioned. In World War I our doughboys popularized a song that said: "How are you going to keep them down the farm, after they've seen Paree ?" The serious question I have in mind is, how are we going to keep a great army of tired American business men in business when there is no longer a war to be won?

DIONNE

It isn't a small problem. It's a whale. Don't you doubt it. If you DO, it's because you haven't been around. We all know that from purely patriotic motives a great army of elderly and aging business men have stayed in the harness, suffered all the killing worries and harassments of war-time business, and did a grand job when they wanted to quit and run just as though they were in the front line and under fire. Thousands of them have died in the harness. Your papers every day will tell you that story. Worry, high blood pressure, over-worked hearts have taken thousands of good men who were loyal enough to stick to their guns because there was a war to be won.

Now the end of the war approaches. The patriotic urge will be eliminated. They want to go fishing. They want to quit fighting the wars of business. They see dark clouds of trouble on the business horizon, and they feel they've had enough of trouble for the rest of their lives. I talk to lots of such men, and I know what they think. And my prediction is that such men are going to have to have something very different from the threat of more and more trouble in business, if they are to stay in much longer. They think they're entitled to a vacation from trouble and worrv. Can vou blame them?

Ritchie Ncmed Resecrrch Chiel

John D. Ritchie has been named chief of the research department of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association to succeed J. D. Long who is resuming his agricultural and educational work, curtailed during recent years because of the war. Mr. Ritchie has been chief of the inspection department of the association for the past four years. Ife was previously connected with the Elliott Bay Mill Co., Seattle. Succeeding Ritchie as chief inspector is George M. Williams, promoted from the staff, and formerly with Vancouver Plywood & Veneer Co., at Vancouver, Wash. Association headquarters are at Tacoma, Wash.

Ferronol Jt{"rt

Everett Lewis of Gamerston & Green Lumber Co., Oakland, enjoyed the fishing and swimming at Brookdale, in the Santa Cruz Mountains. on his recent vacation.

Henry H. Harding, facturers of Redwood company's main office

Gosslin-Harding at Orick, Calif., in Oakland.

Lumber Co., manurecently visited the

E. A. (Alex) Gordon, Gordon-MacBeath Hardwood Co., Berkeley, Calif., is back on the job after vacationing in Sequoia National Park.

S/Sgt. Douglas J. Freeman, Hqrs. Co., Replacement Command, is no"r' stationed in Manila. Doug was for: merly with Gorman Lumber Sales Co., Oakland.

Capt. King Goodrich, who was with the Air Forces in England, is now with the Air Transportation Corps and stationed in Memphis, Tenn. He was with the Goodrich Lumber Company, Los Angeles, before going into the service.

Crosby H. Shevlin and D. Normen Cords of ShevlinCords Lumber Company, San Francisco, returned July 30 from a two weeks' trip on which they called on sawmills in Northern California and Southern Oregon.

Frank Brown of the sales department, Pope & Talbot, fnc., Lumber Division, San Francisco, returned July 16 from his vacation sDent at Brookdale. in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

R. T. (Bob) Evju, sales manager, James L. Hall, wholesale lumber dealer, San Francisco, was back July 23 from vacationing in the High Sierra.

Ray Klots, Schafer Bros. Lumber geles, has returned from Spokane weeks visiting his mother. His wife panied him on the trip.

Shingle Co., Los Anwhere he spent two and daughter accomp-

Don Goodrich, Gamerston & Green Lumber Co.. Oakland, on a recent trip to the Northwest, visited relatives in Longview, Wash., and friends in and around Eugene, Ore.

First Lieut. R.y Van Ide, rvho rvas with the 15th Air Force in Italy, is back home ancl spending his leave with his family in Los Angeles. He was in a prison camp in Germany for seven months, when they were liberated by Gen. Patton's Third Army. Before going into the service, he was with the W. B. Jones Lumber Co. of Los Angeles.

Ken Lynch and Doug Douglas, Gamble & Douglas, Burbank, have returned from a ten days' business trip to the Northwest.

On many types of construction, concrete is helping meet four inportant requirements:

FIRESAFE CONSIRUCTION. Concrete provides rigid, durable, fire resistant construction for factory or home improvements and repairs. Many stnrctures, such as floors on ground, need no reinforcement.

TRANSPORTATION SAVED. Concrete imposes a rninimrrm burden on transportation facilities, since the bulk of tle material is usually found locdly.

TlrtAE SAVED. Simple methods and widely available local materials are helping concrete workers to erpedite construction jobs.

"WHAT lT TAKES" ASSURED. Strength, riSrdity, fre safety, economy of ffrst cost and maintenance are inherent with cotcrete. Concrete gives low annual cost serrice.

Concrete designers, contractors and products men are rendering valuable service by assisting in efiorts to use all tlrese advantages to the fullest where concrete is needed.

Wholesale to Lumber Yards Sash - Windows

Gasements - Doois, etc.

Our usual lree delivery to Lumber Ycrds cmywhere. in Southern Ccrlilomic

Order L-335 Amended

Washington, D. C., July 19.-No construction projects except those which have been granted priorities assistance may obtain lumber on certified orders, the War Production Board said today.

This restriction, effected by an amendment to the lumber control order, L-335, is designed to bring the order in line with recent relaxations in the construction order (L-41) and the utilities orders (U-1, U-3, and U-4), which have increased the dollar amount of construction work that may be undertaken without authorization.

ATTAS TUMBER COMPANY

Hardwoods

9035 E. 15th STREET LOS ANGELES 91 Telcphonc PRorpect 7401

ARCATA REDWOOD GO.

ANCATA, CAIJFONNIA

Mcrnulcrcturers Quclity Bedwood Lumber

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SAI^ES AGENTS

ANCATA IT'MBER SAI.ES CO.

420 Mcrket St., S<rn Frcrncisco ll Southern'Ccliloraicr Representcrtive

J. J. Becr,5410 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 36 WEbster 7828

PAREI,IUS I.UMBER GOMPATTY

420 Ptttock Block Portlcrnd 5, Oregon

Wholesale Disttibutots

Iforthwestern Timher Produets

SAN FRANGISCO 8 LOS ANGELES I5

Pcul McCusler F. A. (Pete) Togte

310 Eecrny Strect 326 Peholeum Bldg.

GArlield 4972 PRospect 7605

In many cases, construction projects of these kinds require an amount of lumber (50,000 board feet or more per quarter) that would have qualified the users as Class I consumers under L-335, prior to today's amendment, and would have entitled them to authorizations to purchase lumber on certified orders. However, the intention of the construction relaxations is that in general materials used in construction not requiring authorization are to be obtained without priorities assistance, WPB pointed out.

Lumber for projects (regardless of the amount required) must now be obtained on uncertified and unrated orders except where priorities assistance has been granted. Any construction project where priorities assistance has been granted qualifies as a Class fI consumer under L-335 ,and certified and rated orders may be placed for the amount of lumber authorized. Construction projects without priorities assistance are now in the categfry "all other consumers," under L-335, and may not place certified lumber orders, either rated or unrated.

Formerly construction projects authorized by WPB, or the National Housing Agency or other Federal agency authorizing construction for WPB, were among the types of projects excluded from qualifying as Class I consumers. Now, all construction whether authorized or permitted without authorization are excluded. Formerly. Class II consumers included construction jobs authorized by these agencies; now only construction projects that have priorities assistance are included in the Class II category.

Today's amendment to L-335 also removes former restrictions on the purchase of fabricated wooden products. Formerly, a Class I consumer who had facilities for making fabricated wooden products was permitted to use a rating of AA-3 or better to buy only the same amount of such products in any quarter as he used during the corresponding quarter of 1943. The restriction was designed to conserve manufacturing facilities for war production and is no longer considered necessary, WPB said. Moreover, reconversion from war to civilian production makes it necessary for many manufacturers to buy numerous fabricated items that they have not been buying during the last few vears.

Buy

Jim Dovey and Ash Varnedoe have taken over the ownership and operation of the Oxnard Lumber & Supply Co. at Oxnard, formerlv known as the Citizens Mill & I-umber Co.

Mr. Dovey, who will continue as manager, has been with the company for thirteen years, while Mr. Varnedoe, yard n.ranagdr, has been with the firm nine years.

Opens New Store

In order to properly celebrate the first year of the one hundred per cent locally owned partnership of the WhitingMead Co. of San Diego, they opene<i on July 9 a new store at 825 A Street, National City, just one block from the city's ,central business corner.

The new store will be supplied in all ten departments with all the merchandise available, and the company will continue to try and live up to its slogan, "Everything for Building," just as fast as materials can be obtained. A line of electric appliances will be added as soon as they are available. The various departments will include electric fixtures, material and appliances, hardware, paint, roofing, rvallboard, plumbing, sash and doors, cement and plaster, and lumber -the last item being very scarce.

John Gardner, who will be in charge, is not only a partner in the business but has been a member of the Whiting-Mead family for the past twenty-five years. He will continue to have charge of the Plumbing Installation Department, both in National City and San Diego. The stafi of competent and friendly employees will include three National City residents-IVlr. Gardner; his wife, Mrs. Marguerite Gardner; and Mrs. Sue Gray, and they will also have the services of Marce Jauregui of East San Diego. Mr. Gardrrer is a member of the City Planning Commission in National City.

This new store is tl-re company's fifth in San Diego Coun-

ty, and will be under the supervision of F. E. Miner, Branch Store Supervisor, whose special effort will be to keep it supplied with all the best merchandise that the market afiords.

Special credit should be given to William H. Stewart, one of the partners, who did a remarkable job in planning and 'completing this modern, up-to-date store. He, with Paul Stake, Merchandise Manager, planned the arrangement for display of the merchandise in their stock. There is now located on the site of an old warehouse, a remodeled, modern store, complete with yard, sheds and storage, occupyinga space of.l75 feet on A Street and 115 feet on Ninth Street.

For the past thirty-three years, the Whiting-Mead Co. of San Diego, has served home owners not only with material for new homes, but also for household needs as well, and they have been very fortunate during this critical war period in securing a remarkable amount of items for home owners.

Purchases Snellstrom Holdingn

The Long-Bell Lum,ber Co. has purchased the Snellstrom Lumber Co. holdings at Vaughn, Ore., eight miles west of Eugene, which include a sawmill with an annual capacity of 25,000,00O board feet, a planing mill, and ,lO,00O acres of timber.

Whiting-Mecd Co,'s store ct Nationcrl City

O'Neill Lumb et Co., Ltd.

16 California Street, San Francisco 1l

GArfield 9110

WHO LESALE DISTRIBUTORS

Douglas Fir Hemlock Redwood Ponderosa Pine

Red Cedar and Redwood Shingles

HARDWOODS FOR EVERY PURPOSE

It hqs clwcrys been our cim to hcve stocks crs complete cs possible, in !qct, "Hcrdwoods lor Every Purpose." And cs the Government's demcrnds crre ligrhtened it will then encble us to build up our stocks oI crll species. We crssure our old customers cnd new foiends that we will be recrdy lor postwcrr business with increcsed lacilities cnd with grecter efficiency than ever before.

Shevlin Pine Sales

City-

California Building Permits for June

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Appointed Advertising Manager

The Celotex Corporation has announced the aPPointment of Gates Ferguson as advertising manager. Mr. Ferguson was formerly associate director of the Federal Housing Administration for the Nerv York District.

The ner.t' Celotex executive has had a long and successful career in newspaper, advertising and public relations work. He was formerly head of the advertising dePartment of the B. F. Goodrich Co.,

and more recently was a member of the public relations stafi of N. W. Ayer & Son, Inc., and production consultant for The Princeton Film Center.

He served for five years as a director of the Association of National Advertisers, was also a director of the Advertising Club of New York, and is a past president of the Advertising Club of MinneaPolis.

Lumber Cut Up 34 Per Cent

Officials of the Placerville Lumber Company, Placerville, Calif., announce the company's 1945 lumber cut to July 1 was 17.386,&0 board feet, and increase of 34 per cent over last year when 12,991,334 board feet were cut during the same period. The company's 1945 goal is 55,000,000 board feet. They operate three sawmills, and all the lumber cut is going to the Army Air Forces and the Navy'

Direction 8 to L335 Amended

This amended Direction-permits homeowners, except farmers, to pur'chase lumber to repair their home damaged by fire, flood, earthquake, storm or similar disaster, or in any other case where the dwelling will be unfit for continued occupancy if not repaired immediately, by signing a special certilicate. Dealers will replace this lumber with a AA-3 rating, subject to certain limitations,-by also using a special certificate.

Farmers will continue to obtain lumber for emergency repairs through county committees of the Agricultural Adjustment Agency.

Restrictions on Distribution of Balsa Lumber Removcd

Washington, D.C., July 10.-Restrictions on the distribution of balsa lurnber, which limited sale to purchase orders rated AA-5 or better, were removed today by the War Production Board.

Military uses of balsa are for life rafts, life floats and aircraft plyvvood, WPB said. Before the war, balsa was used chiefly for model airplanes (approximately 65 per cent of production) and for toys, scale models, surgical supplies, iheatre and motion picture props' hat blocks and scientific equipment.

Order M-177 was revoked today because the amount of balsa now being brought into Jhe country is considered sufficient to meet military requirements and to build up an adequate stockpile, WPB said.

Hello Sheila!

Mr. and Mrs. Paul McCusker are receiving congratulations, the occasion being the arrival of their first baby at the Stanford Hospital, San Francisco. The young lady's name is Sheila.

Mr. McCusker is in the wholesale lumber business in San Francisco, where he represents Parelius Lumber Co.

Sells Plcrnt

Silver Falls Timber Co., Silverton, Ore., has sold its plant to R. A. Babb Hardware Co., Eugene, Ore. Mr. Babb indicated the sarvmill will be dismantled but the planer mill may be operated by his company or someone else, opening in early August.

Pickering Mill Destroyed By Fire

The sawmill of the Pickering Lumber Corporation at Standard, Calif., was destroyed by fire July 7, with an estimated loss of $500,000. The fire was said to have started under the resaw building. The capacity of the plant was 22.@0'feet an hour.

J. C. Rassenfoss, vice president and manager, announced July 11 that the mill will be rebuilt as rapidly as conditions permit, and that they are continuing to cut and stack logs, and are operating the box factory.

Gctes Ferguaon

John H. Ycncey

Obituaries

John Hardin Yancey, of Newman, Calif., well known San Joaquin Valley retail lumberman, passed away July 17. He was born in Stockton 73 years ago. His company operates yards at Newman, Patterson and Crow's Landing, with headquarters at Newman.

IIe is survived by his widow, Mrs. Merle Yancey; two sons, Thomas G. Yancey of Newman, and Joel H. Yancey, U. S. Army; and two daughters, Miss Madeline Yancey and Mrs. Sarah Orr.

Funeral services were held in Newman lulv 19.

George A. Sheldon

George A. Sheldon, Los Angeles, passed away on July 18 following a long illness. He was 67 years of age. He had been associated with the lumber business in Los Angeles for a long period, having been with the San Pedro Lumber Company for twenty-six years, and later with the E. K. Wood Lumber Company.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Frances L. Sheldon. Funeral services were held in the Wee Kirk o' the Heather, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale. on Tulv 20.

George M. Dunccn

George M. Duncan, retired lumberman, passed away on July 4 at the Veterans' Hospital, Portland, Ore. Before his retirement in 7936, he was well known in lumber circles, having served as president of the Duncan Lumber Co., the Corvallis Lumber Co. and the Leudinghouse Lumber Co.

Southern Pine

The temporqgry increase of $4 per 1,000 board feet in the carload ceiling price of southern pine 2x4 lumber of all common grades sold on direct mill shipment in lengths of 10 feet or longer may be charged only in sales to an agency of the U. S. Government or to a user for direct use in filling Government contracts, the OPA announced. (Amendment 1O to Second Revised MPR 19, effective Juty 23)

Furniture

WPB announces the revocation of Order L-260-A governing the use of wood in manufacture of furniture. The agency said. the action \l'as not expected to mean early increase in furniture production, but would remove impediments to output when supplies of other components ease.

WESTER]I If,ILL A ilOULDIilG GO. WHOLESAI.E

Ponderosa d Sugcrr Pine Lumber d Mouldings

11615 Parmelee Avenue crt Impericrl Highwcry

Los Angeles 2-Klmbcll 2953

CUSTOM MIIIING cnd SPECIATTY DETAIIS

L. t. GARR & CO,

Colifiqnia Sugcr and Ponderw Pine

Scrles Agents For SACRAMENTO BOX & TUMBER CO.

Mills At Woodlcaf, Calif.

SACRf,MENTO tOS ANGEI.ES

P. O. Eox 1282 tfif. p. lrrnnirg

Teletype Sc-13 {38 Chtnnber ol Connorcc Eldg.

Stuart C. Smith

WHOLDSALB LUMBEB PBODUCTS

539-541 Pcrlnrtry Building

Pcrscrdenq l, Calil.

Telephones-SYccrmore 2-3837

Enith 6633

KITPATRICK & COMPANY

Dcelcre in Forcrl Productr

, Douglas Fir-Redwood

Cedcr-Spruce

General Office

Crocker Bldg., Sor Frcurcisco 4, Calil.

Soulhenr Ccrlilornic Office cnd Ycnd

1240 Blinn Ave., Wilmingrton" Cclil., P. O. Box 518

CITASSIFIED ADVERTISING

Rate-$2.50 per Colunn Inch.

LUMBERMAN

San Diego County country lumber yard and hardware will sell some stock to man who can take charge of yard, assist with books and in the store. Earning from stock to pay for same. This'is permanent. Owner wishes to semi-retire. State age, full qualifications and minimum salary expected.

Address Box C-1107, California Lumber Merchant, 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

WANTED

Experienced Planing Mill Detailer and Lister wanted. Ideal working conditions. Permanent position for right man.

J. A. Hart Mill & Lumber Co. Jerrold Ave. and NaPoleon St. San Francisco 24, Calif.

WANTED

Sticker Man. $1.25 per hour for 40 hours, and 4 hours overtime each week at time and a half.

Address Box C-1125, California Lumber Merchant, 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14.

WANTS POSITION

Experienced lumberman wants position as branch yard manager, or order clerk in large yard. Will go anywhere. Address Apartment ll, 208 East Lomita, Glendale 5, Calif., or telephone Cltrus 29358.

LUMBER SET.UPS FOR SALE

?5 pairs of Lumber Set-Ups. In A-1 condition.

Ralph E. Barto Lumber Co.

2301 E. Nadeau-Huntington Park Phone-JEfferson 7201

FOR SALE

'ORTON" single surfacer l2x30, good condition, traveling bed, complete with motor, square head, V Belt drive. Available late August. Price $12O0.00.

300 sets 48" Carrier Blocks and 25 pairs 48" Front and Rear Horses. All for $350.00.

Twohy Lumber Co., Lumber Yard Brokers

801 Petroleum Bldg., Los Angeles 15, Calif. Phone PRosPect 8746

FOR LEASE AFTER THE WAR

The site of the Exposition Lumber Yard, approximately 26,000 sq. ft., extending between Exposition and tefferson Boulevards. Located on the North border'of The Baldwin Hills subdivision developments.

The only retail site in this territory with permits for both lumber and heavy manufacturing.

Address J. T. Mann, 45L2 W. l6th Place Los Angeles 6, Calif.

WHitney 1430

WANTED_POSITION AS MANAGER

Manager seeks position on salary-percentage arrange,tnent. Successful retail and wholesale experience. Southern California area. Prefer one to three-yard organization with partnership future.

Address Box C-1120, California Lumber Merchant, 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

LUMBER YARDS FOR SALE

Yard near Los Angeles Harbor with spur track. Has \MPB permit. Ground, buildings, machinery, two good trucks, offEce equipment. All for $25,000. Inventory about $4,000 additional.

Yard (closed) 10 miles from Los Angeles. Lease $225.00 a month, including residence.

Yard (closed) near Compton, sPur track across street, $12,500.

I Acre Yard site and building (closed), San Fernando Road, $11,000.

One acre yard site on Highway, Santa Barbara, no buildings, near by spur, $12,50O. Another site close by, 30,000 square feet, $20'000. There is only one yard in Santa Barbara.

F. Lf acres or more with spur, near Sepulveda Blvd. No buildings.

H. Lumber yard, L. A. County coast district. 10 acres but only three acres used for yard. Will only sell entire 10 acres. New owner could subdivide bdance. Complete with buildings and spur track. Price $30,000. Small stock additional,' Terms.

I. Lumber yard site, 2 acres with spur, Los Angeles Southwest district. No buildings. $10,000.

J. Metropolitan area yard (closed) on major highway. 97,000 square feet, 26,0(X) feet under roof. Spur track. Price $52,500. Terms.

If you want to sell your lumber yard, let us know. Twohy Lumber Co., Lumber Yard Brokers

801 Petroleum Bldg., Los Angeles 15, Calif. PRospect 8746

BUTER'S GUTIDE SAIII FBAilCISGO

LIID,DEI

Arcctc Bcdwood Co, l20 Mcrltct Strcct (ll). ...YIILoa 2067

f,ttiuoa-Shrh Conmv, ll2 Mcrlet Srrc.r (tf). ..GArficfd 1809

lcrg Lunber Co. 16 Calilonic St...... .Glrliold 5718

lutler, soth L., Exbrool 2082 tll Front St., (ll). .Gf,rliold 0112

Chrirtclron Lunber Co. Evcng .f,vo. cnd Quiat St. (24)..Vrtllcrcic 5832

Dot G Brgell. Inc.. 2ll Front Streot (ll). ...Glr6cld 0292

Dolbeer 6 Ccroa Lunber Co., lllS McrchcrB Excbcngo Eldg. ({) DOuglar 8|116

Gcmentoa d Greca Lunbcr Co., l8(l0 Any Stroot (2{). ..trTwctrr l3(l0

Hcll, IcneC L., lO32 Millr Bldg. ({). .SUttor 7520

Hclliaca Maclin Lunbcr Co.

-_681 Mcrlct S!. (5),. .....DOugtcr lgtl

Hqnuond Lunbcr Compcav,

-_l-17 Mortgonery Stre6t (6). .DOuElca 3389

Hobbr Wcll Lunber Co.. tl05 Mortg|oacry St. (l)..........GArfeld Zt52

Holncr Eurolo Lunber Co., ll05 Flaccicl Centor Eldg. (l). .. .GArfiold l98l

C. D. Jobnroa Lunber Corporctioa, 280 Caliloniq Street (ll).-.. .GArtield 62ti8

f,ilpciricl ll Conrpcnv. Crochcr Btds, (l).:. .ylllon 0gl2

Ccrl H. f,uhl Lunber Co., O, L. Rursum, ll2 McrLct Sr. (ll)..Ylltoa Il80

LUMIEN

Ccrpbcll-Corro Lumber Co. (Pbil Goglia), 2ll Prolerioncl Bldg, (l). .IEllog l-2017

Gsncntol ll Green Lunber Co,, Atrl Liviagbtoa Sr. (6)... .lEllog.lltSl

Hlll d Morton, Inc.. Deuiron Strcet Wharl (7). .lNdovcr IOt7

Hogo Lumbcr Conpcay, bd and Alice Srreitr l{). .Glcncourt 5861

felley, Albert A. P. O, Box 2{0 (Alqmcdc)......Lqkeburst 2-2751

Gf,rliotd 6881 ..El(brool n}ll

DOuglcr 416{l ..tIl}or l59ll

OAKLAND

LT'MBEN

E. f,, Wood Lumbdr Co., 2lll Frcdcric} Streot (5). .. .EEllos Z-lfn Wbollclc Buildinq Supplv, Iac,, 1607 32ad Ske.i (8)..-..... .TEoplebcr 6961 llfholcrdc Luuber Dittributorr, Iac., 5d Fisr Skoei (7). .T\lfiaockr tSlS

HANDWOODS

Strable Hcrdwood Conpmv, Firrt cnd Clcy Strcetr- (7i....TEEpl.bd 5581

Whitc Brothen, 5dt High Street (l). ...Alfdovcr 1600

LOS ANGELES

-.PRospcct 88i!3 .Blchnoad 2l{l ...Wiln, 0120; NE. 6-1881

MUtual

TAiEitr 88ll

LUMBER

Weycrhccucr Sqlo Co., 391 Suttrr Sr. (8). .GAr6old 80171

HIADWOODS

E. L. Erucc Co., 99 Scl Druro Avo. (3)....,.......M4r1o1 l!3t

Dqvir Hcrdwood Conpov, Bcy ct lrtcroa Strc.f (6i. .El6rool ,l9tl

Y9titc Erotherr,Filth cad Ercnacn Strcqtr (7).......SUtter lt6li

sAsH-DOOnS-PLYWOOD

Ilorbor Plywood Corp. of Cclilomic, 510 l0th St. (3). .Mf,rlct dlll5

Uaitcd Stclo Plwood Coro., tltl Awy Sr. 110).

CNEOSOTED LI'IT{BEA_POIESPILING_TIES

f,ncriccn Lumbcr ll Treqting Co., 116 Ncw Moltgoncry Street (5)., .Sutler 1225

Eclcr, I. IL d Co., 331 Moatgonery Street ({). .DOuglcr 38&l

Hcll, Ioer L., lGt2 l6lb Bldg. (l)..... ...Surtcr ?520

Popc ll Tclbot, Inc., Lunber Divi:ion, ,bl Mclei Street (5). ...DOuglqr 2581

Vodcr Lco Pilinq d Lunbcr Co., 216 Piae Strcct (l). .Ellbrool {9Gi

Wendlinq-Natbm Co., 56t Mqrler Si. (l). .SUttcr 5363

PANELS-DOOff i-9TSTT_SCNEENS PLYWOOD

Cclilonic Builden Supplr Co., 7(l(l 6th Avenu. (l).:..............Hlg4te.8{ll8

Hoqca Lunber Conpcay, 6d qld Alice Streot] (l). .Glcacourt 6861

E. C, Pitch.r CoEpq!?, 608 l6rh St. (12). .Glocourt 3991t

Uaited Stqtor Plywood Corp., 570 3rd St. (7)...'...........'.. .flVinoclr 55{l

W.sten Door d Sqsh Co., Sth 6 Cyprcer Sttcots (7). .TEnplebar 8|00

E. f,. Wooil Lunber Co., 2lll Fredericlr Streel (6). .......IEjllog l'Utn

', HtrNDWOODS

Anericcn Hcrdwood Co., t900 E. lsth Street (5{)..........PRorpect {135

E. L. Bruce Co., 59?5 So. Weglen lve. ({4). .f\llliaoalg 3128

StmloD, E. I. d Son, 21t50 Ecst ltst Street (ll).........CEntury 29211

Westem Hqrdwood Lumber Co., {lll Ecsr tStb Street (55).......PBoapect 615l

sAsH-DO OnS-MILLWOnE-SCnEENS

BLINDS_PANELS AND PLYWOOD INONING BOANDS

Bcch Poel Comrcrav, 310-31{ Eqst 3-2ad- Street (ll). .ADqnr l/15

Cclilonic Door Compqny, Tbc

P. O. Box 126, Vcnba St<rtion(ll) Klnbsll 2lll

Ccliloraic Pocl ll Vcncer Co., P. O. Box 2096, Tcmiacl Aucx (51) ...TRiaity Ul57

Cobb Co,, l. M., 5800 Ceatrcl lvcaur (ll)........ADcnr llll?

Dqvi&ol Plywood ll Vcarcr Co., 2135 Eaterpriro St. (ll). .t3idtr 2581

Eubcnl d Soa, L. H. (laglewood)

133 W, Bcdondo Dlvd.. .ORegon 8-2255

Hcley Bror. (Sqatq Molicc) 1820 l{ih Strcel... .......ASbley l-2268

Eoehl, Jno, W. 6 Son, 652 3. Mycrr Strcct (2i!). .ANsclu 8t9l

Orcgon Woebiagton Plywood Co., 318 Wat Niath Strcct (15). .IRinity 1613

Pacilic Mutucl Door Co., 1600 E. WqsbiuEto! Blyd. (21)..PBorpcct 9523

Recm Conpcuv, Geo. E., Zl5 S, f,l-omedc Street (12). .Mlchigo l85l

Scmpsoa Co. (Pcrcdcna), 715 So. Rcynoad Ave. (2)........RYca l-5939

Sinproa lndustrier, lnc., l6t0 E. Washirgton Elvd. (21)..PRorpcct 5l&l

Uuitcd Stctos Plwood Corp., t$10 Est lsth- St. (21)..:.....Blchnord 610l

Wst Coalt Scrcea Co., lll5 Eet 63rd Stroot (l)... .lDcar lll0l

lllcgtcn ltfill il Moulding Co., ll8l5 Pcneloc lvc. (2)........f,1nb911 l95t

E. E. Wood Lunbrr Co., l7l0 S. llqnrda St. (51)........lEflorroa Slll

THERE'S A GREAT DAY C()MING IN ()AI{ FT(I()RING

It'll be here the morning home-building starts agdn.

It'll be like nothing you ever saw before.

It's coming because most people, eagetly waitingto build, know exactly what they want.

They've said it in surveys, in answering questionnaires, in "lettelt to the editor," in tdking with architects and builders.

And what is it they want?

This means Pre-finished Hardwood Floors have caught on... means that millions of feet of Bradley Pre-finished laid in many big war housing projects during the last four years have made a powerful, convincing impression.

So the news has gotten'round. Certainly we've been spreading it ourselves, because we've developed a Prefinished (Straight-line) Flooring. in Oak, in Beech, in Pecan. that meets Bradley's recognized standards of excellence in workmanship, in quality, in color, in superb aPPearance. and we've got plenty of enthusiastic evidence that it's going to b9 the hard' wood flooring sensation of the coming new home-building era"

To get set Jor Tottr sbarc oJ tbis btsiness, to increase yoar toltmc oJ bardutoodflooring sales beyond anytbing yoa'oe bad beJore, urite ts todafior comPlete idormation, sPecifications end selling belPs.