Long-gell's Voughn Division Sends Huge Peeler log Holf-woy Across Country As Joycee Exhibit, Permcrnenl Forest Disploy

A Douglas fir peeler log from the Long-Bell Lumber Company's Vaughn division, loaded on a Mack logging truck, was the Oregon State Jaycee exhibit and parade entry at the United State Junior Chamber of Commerce convention, Jtne 26, 27 and 28, at Kansas City, Missouri.

The 245-foot tree from which the peeler was selected stood in the valley of the Siuslaw river, 40 miles southwest of Eugene, Oregon. A seedling when Columbus discovered America, and having an annual ring count of 465 years, the merchantable log length of the tree measured 170 feet and scaled 159n feet board measure. The diameter at the base, outside the bark, was eight feet. The ?4-loot peeler log has an average diameter, inside the bark at the butt, of 61 incl-res and 55 inches at the small end. It contains 3,680 board feet and a yield ol 9,2O0 square feet of three-eighths inch plywood.

Loaded on June 1 by Walter K. Andreassen, logging superintendent, where the tree was felled in the Siuslaw Valley, on a truck furnished by John D. Young, district manager, Mack Trucks, Inc., Portland, the peeler was hauled to Vaughn for a final inspection by J. M. White, Jr., general manager, and Charles L. Foster, forester, of the Vaughn division. It then moved to the Eugene retail yard, where it was met by a delegation of local members of the Junior Chamber and r,vas exhibited by Melvin L. Baker, manager of Long-Bell's retail yard.

On June 2, the royal blue and silver truck was on exhibition at Mack Trucks, Inc. in Portland. The following Monday, June 4, in charge of Gerald B. Rucker, who is a Parkrose Junior High School instructor and a successful logging truck driver during summer vacations, and Wayne McCall, of the Cottage Grove, Oregon, public schools, Rucker's assistant, the exhibit started for Kansas City. The route was by Boise, Idaho; Salt Lake City, Utah; to Denver, where, on June 8, the peeler was shown at the Barr Lumber Company by Joel Montgomery, Long-Bell Denver sales representative. Rucker then drove to Colorado Springs for a brief stop, and on Monday, June 11, arrived at the Garden City, Kansas, retail yard.

Beginning rvith Garden City, the peeler and the Mack were routed under the direction of L. G. Everitt, vicepresident, and Tom Hope, manager of advertising and merchandising, Retail department. The exhibit, having had previous rvide-spread publicity through local newspapers, was met by Junior Chamber of Commerce organizations and the public not only in Garden City, but also as it moved to the Liberal, Kansas, yard and to Oklahoma retail outlets, materials stores, and jobbing houses at Woodward, Fairview, Enid, Hennessey, Kingfisher, Oklahoma City, Ponca City and Blackweil. At Blackwell, Oklahoma, the truck headed back to Kansas, with calls at Caldwell, Wichita, Salina, and to Manhattan, where on June 24 it led the caravan of the Oregon State Junior Chamber of Commerce through Topeka to the national convention headquarters in Kansas City.

During the convention, the Vaughn division Long-Bell peeler and the Mack truck were entered as the Oregon float in the Parade of States at the convention.

Twelve thousand brochures in color, "West Coast Tree Farms-Grot'ing Trees for You," furnished by William D. Hagenstein, executive vice-president, Industrial Forestry Association, Portland, Oregon, together with a like number of folders printed for the Vaughn division, r,vere distributed as the exhibit passed through the Middle-\,'est and in Kansas City. The Vaughn division folder states rvhere the tree grew {rom rvhich the peeler was bucked, facts concerning the log, and includes a brief statement .concerning The Long-Bell Lumber Company, its manufacturing plants, products, sales offices and retail outlets, and the company's contribution to the perpetuation of American forests and America's future lumber supply'

At the close of the convention, the Vaughn peeler log was clelivered to the Retail department in Kansas City, where it will be placed as a permanent show piece'

Heoring on Mechqnics liens

On August 20 and 2I, the Senate Interim Judiciary committee will hold a hearing in Santa Barbara on mechanics liens. The general problem which has been under discussion concerns methods of protecting the homeowner in cases where the contractor h.as received payment of the contract price and has diverted the funds either to another construction job or otherwise.

Dealers are invited to attend this hearing and express their views as to any changes which they believe are desirable in the present mechanics lien law.

The Southern California Retail Lumber Assn. understands there will be a strong pitch at this hearing by the tract builders, building contractors and lending institutions to get the Mechanics Lien Law amended so as to require dealers to advise owners and contractors in writing within five days of the first delivery of their intention to furnish materials to the job; otherwise, they would lose their lien rights on the job. This change must be strongly opposed by all the dealers, otherwise their rights under the Mechanics Lien Law would be severely jeopardized, said the SCRLA. If you wish to appear at this hearing, to express your views, 1'ou should write the Judiciary committee giving the approximate time your presentation will take.

Dealers who do not wish to attend the hearing may advise as to necessary chaages, if any, in the Mechanics Lien Law, supported by any brief or other written document to support their views. Communications should be addressed to John A. Bohn, Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee, 903 First Street, Benicia, Calif.

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