THE CALIFOR}.IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

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The lumber market at this lvriting is sensational. The price of Fir delivered in California approaches record heights. The u'orst .car shortage in all history contributes to the unusual situation. It is strictly a buver's market. Buying on open 61ds15-ne price mentioned-is a common occurfence.

Reports from the South indicate that similar conditions prevail in Yellow Pine, demand far exceeding supply, and prices reaching high altitudes.

Western Pine markets very strong but less sensational. It is too early to prophecy what comes next.

Lumber shipments of 4lZ mills reporting to the National Lumber Trade Barometer were 21 per cent below production for the u'eek ending July 22, 195O. I nthe same week neu' orders of these mills were 11.0 per cent above production. Unlilled orders of the reporting mills amounted to 63 per cent of stocks. For reporting softwood mills, unfilled orders r,vere equivalent tg 28 days' production at the current rate, and gross stocks were equivalent to 42 days' production.

For the )'ear-to-date, shipments of reporting identical mills were 11.4 per cent above production; orders rvere 16.7 per cent above production.

Compared to the average corresponding rveek of

1939, production of reporting mills .r.l'as 52.6 per cent above; shipments *'ere 56.2 per cent above; orders w,ere 73.2 per cent above. Compared to the corresponding week in 1949, production of reporting mills was 6.3 per cent above; shipments were 16.5 per cent above; and nerv orders were 2L.6 per cent above.

The Western Pine Association for 29, 96 mills reporting, gave orders as ments 78,801.000 feet, and production

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Foresters To Hold Golden Anniversary Commercial Standard CSl63-49 Meeting in \(/ashington, D. C. Now Available

The Golden Anniversary meeting of the Society of American Foresters, commemorating the founding of that organization in 1900, will be held in Washington, D.C., December 13 to 16. 1950.

First general session, to open at the Mayflower Hotel on December 14, will have as its theme, "The Society Takes Stock." The final general session on December 1(r will center on "The Society Looks Ahead."

Charles F. Evans of Atlanta, Georgia, president of the Society, anticipates an attendance of 1,000 members ancl guests. The Society has a membership of 6,800 technically trained foresters in the United States and Canada.

In addition to the general sessions, subject Divisions t,ill hold separate meetings during the four-day period on rnatters pertaining to private forestry, forest economics, Iorest recreation, forest products, forestry education, forest-rvildlife management, silviculture, public relations, and u'atershed nlanagement.

Outstanding American foresters ar.rrl others who har.e n.rade major contributions to the advancement of forestrr. over the past 50 years u'ill be honored at the annual barr(luet on December 15.

The Society t'as founded in Washington, D.C. in 1900. The Journal of Forestr'r', a professional mor-rthly magazirre devoted to all branches of forestrr-, is its official public:rtior.r. The Society's headquarters is in \\'ashington, D.C.

Eurekcr Bcse lor Big Lumber Firm

Eureka, Aug. 4.-Humboldt County u.ill be the main base of operations in northtves.tern California for A. C. Dutton Lumber Corp., Oregon and \\rashington lumber firm.

Mayor John F. Langer Jr. said today the city is concluding arrangements whereby the cornpany takes over a section of the Eureka waterfront.

The firm already has leased of6ce space in Eureka and plans to open headquarters in ten days.

The company is reported to plan spending about $1,500,000 apportioned betu'een Eureka and Crescent City, lvhere it has been interested the past tu'o years in development of port facilities.

\\rashington, D. C., July ZS-Printed copies of Commercial Standard CSl63-49, covering ponderosa pine windows, sash, and screens, are now available, the Commodity Standards Division of the Office of Industry and Commerce, U. S. Department of Commerce, reported today.

This standard, which was proposed by the National Woodu'ork Manufacturers Association, provides specifications for standard sizes, layouts and construction of pon<lerosa pine stock rvindows, sash, and screens. It serves as a guide to architects, builders, manufacturers, distributors and other interests. The standard covers l/s inch clreck rail, and Urt inch plain rail windou's. It also contains specification for casement, cellar, cupboard, hot bed, picture, porch, storm and barn or utility sash and transoms. Both full rvindow and half windou' screens are covcred by the standard, as .rvell as screens for one-light sash.

The booklet also includes a brief history of this standardization project, a list of the acceptors; and the membership of the Standing Committee, the chief function of rvhich n'ill lte to consider revisions of the standard to keep it abreast of 1>rogress in the industry.

l)rinted copies of Standard Stock Ponderosa Pine Winrlou's, Sash, and Screens, Commercial Standard CS163-49 r.nay be obtained from the Superintendent of Documents, \Vaslrington 25, D. C., for 15 cents per cop).. A discount of 25 percent rvill be allo'rved on orders for 100 or more copies sent to a single address.

Lumber Firm Expands

The \ran Deinse Lumber Sales Corporation, Eugene, Ore., rvholesalers of West Coast forest products, announces further expansion of its business by the addition to the organization of Henry Tomseth, W. L. Clabaugh, and H. J. (Herb) Cox;all lumbermen with wide acquaintance throughout the industry.

The Van Deinse Lumber Sales Corporation rvas organized in 1946 as successor to the Van Deinse Lumber Company, rvhich was organized in 1928.

Rufus F. van Deinse, president of the corporation, will be in active charge of sales. For 15 years prior to 1946 he was lnanager of the Edward Hines Pacific Coast Lurnber Companl', r,r'ith headquarters in Portland.

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"The coach had a dream of a miracle team, He hardly could wait until autumn, He had players galore, bilt along came a war, And the draft board came over and got em."

So wrote Bert McGran; *;rJury of the Football Writers Association of America, in discussing plans for the coming football season. For; as some modern philosopher has truthfully remarked-"There's no business like war business."

For this horrid "-", L,rJ.r.l." h"" happened with a suddenness, it seems to me, that even surpasses the surprise of Pearl Harbor. Before the treachery of the Japs at that time, we were in the midst of trouble. we knew we were sitting on a powder keg, and had been warned from every side that it might happen any minute.

But no such conditiorr* prlrr"ited before the slant-eyed slobs of Northern Korea started their march on June 25th. If anyone in this country knew of that threat, I have thus far failed to hear or read about it. It was a one hundred Per cent surPrise' + * ,< rt was almost as bad i" l";". The very next thing we knew there was an army of ninety to one hundred thousand men, thoroughly prepared for war, storming into South Korea. They were well trained, well equipped, well armed, well-officered, and well-supplied. Everything was ready. It was Ern army that might be compared somewhat favorably with the one that Hitler sent into Poland on that fateful day in 1939, when the whole world burst into hideous flame.

Then the news came that Northern Korea had invaded South Korea.. And promptly came the order of President Truman to use American forces to help stop the invaders. It did not sound very serious at the moment. Mr. Truman himself said that while he was concerned over the situation, he was not alarmed. There was nothing greatly dramatic about our entrance into the Korean situation. It was more like we had ordered a cop to arrest a drunk.

Our estimate of the "1.tJ,rrri."" of the situation was probably the greatest underestimate that has been made since the writers of Genesis said: "And He made the stars also." According to scripture, God had made this marvelous earth, and had quite a detailed job doing it. Then, as a sort of after-thought, "Ffe made the stars also." The fact that there were thousands of billions of stars so large that they make the earth look like a grain of sand by comparison, played no part in the after-thought of creation.

MacArthur flew over to size up the situation. To his keen mind must have come an unparalleled shock at what he discovered. The Southern Koreans were flying like a flock of frightened hens before a formidable army of slanteyed savages. The situation was well described by that excellent news writer and broadcaster, Bill Henry, when he wrote in the Los Angeles Times: writing about a *"r-l ,J". Lo"rr€ q7a1-in a column such as this, is as useless as a last year's birds nest. AS this is being typed reinforcements have come to the heroic yet still far outnumbered Americans, and a grand fight is being staged to hold the one-tenth part of South Korea still in American hands. Deeds have been done and are being done that history shall love to sing the praises of. The defenders of the Alamo, or of the pass at Thermopylae, were of the same strain and character as the thin line of Americans who have held back a hundred thousand Mongolian monkeys day after day and week after week since the thing started.

"General MacArthur, ,J, ,i" J."orra time in a decade, is being forced to fight a war without men, equipment, or time to prepare. When the story of this campaign is written it will probably go down in history as a miracle of improvisation by a handful of green troops, fighting under almost unbelievable difficulties against overwhelming numbers of fanatical but well-trained, excellently equipped troops."

Even the man of ,r,-i". i*irrr".r.,. ability must fall far short of attempting to even comprehend the unheard-of task that MacArthur found thrust upon him with such hcrrib.le suddenness. Some day it will be written, and when it does, it will make and break all-time records in the history of warfare. T'hat MacArthur is surpassing all his previous records of genius in warfare, there seems little reason to doubt.

Never was a time when the folks back home in this country prayed for their boys more fervently than they are praying fqr that small army in South Korea. Surely they need our Drayers now, if men ever did. The harbor city of Pusan is the center of the American defense. It is quite a city, even in normal times, with a population of about 300,000, possessing a splendid harbor, and quite an industrial district. With this city not many miles back of their lines, the Americans are making their last ditch stand for God and country; yes, and for civilization itself, for its fall would be a long step toward the ultimate destruction of