TTMES HAME CHAN@EDOOO

but we still go overbocrrd on service!

Old Mon River keeps rolling olong . . but o poddle-wheel steomer like this one is strictly o relic of "showboot" doys. We like to keep rolling olong, too, with every new development we con find in hordwood ond softwood Plywood, Formico, ond Mosonite Brond products. But, like Old Mon River, we never chonge our ottitudes obout SERVICE. In some 34 yeors of it, we still come up with no better woy of giving service thon going overboord obout it . ond we'll do it every time.

Lumber Drying Plant Starts Operation in National City

National Dry Kiln and Processing Co. has started drying lumber in its $60,000 electronically-controlled plant at 1400 Tidelands Ave., National City, Calif.

Capacity of the plant is 600,000 board feet a month. John Davidson is president of the new concern, and Herbert J. Swanson is vice president and manager.

Mr. Swanson states that the bulk of the lumbe.r processerl so far in the plant has been Fir, Redwood, Pine and all types of hardwoods. Only one kiln is in operation at the plant but the 3600 square foot building is designed for the addition of another as the demand increases. The single kiln can accommodate up to five railroad cars at a time.

Lee LeBreton, Rounds Trading Co., San Francisco, and Mrs. L,eBreton vacationed in Lake county for a week, and traveled the second week to San Diego to visit their son, who is a Lieutenant in the Navy, stationed there.

Stu Smith of Stuart C. Smith Lumber Sales, Brownsville. Oregon, was a recent business visitor to Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

Al Kelley, Alameda wholesale lumberman, returned recently from a trip made by automobile to Portland, Eugene, and other Oregon points, where he called on mills.

We Stand Corrected, Lairy

In the July 15 issue we ran an item about the King-Marshall Lumber Co. celebrating their 10th anniversary. We stated the company was located at Fresno when it should have been Bakersfield. Our good friend, Larry King, wouldn't let us get away with it and sent in the following letter:

"f have just received the July 15 issue of your California Lumber Merchant, and noted a little 'squib' about our company on page 36. I have called this a'squib' for the reason that you have moved us up to Fresno, and in that case I have used the word properly, for we are really in Bakersfield, at the corner of 14th and L.

"f just wanted to get you straight on this as I know you have intended to stop in, and this will get you the correct address for your future trips.

"The California Lumber Merchant is always read from cover to cover by everyone in our organization, and you just can't get away with anything."

Sorry we got off the beam, I_,arry. We'll try to do better next time.

Bcck lrom Pennsylvcrnic Trip

F. E. Nicholson, sales manager of the California Builclers Supply Co., Oakland, attended a meeting of Armstrong Cork Company's policy committee at Lancaster, pa., last month. "Nick" is Western representative on Armstrong,s policy committee and this was the fir'st of four meetings that wifl be held during the coming year. He flew both ways, making a stop over in Los Angeles.

Tacolna lumber Sales, Inc.

714 W. Olympic Blvd.

tOS ANGETES 15, CAIJF.

Telephone PBospect Il08

Brqnch Olfice: 1030 G Street, Arccrtcr, Ccrlif., Phone 705

CABGO and EAIL fIR and REDWOOD REPBESENTING

St. Pqul d Tcrcomcr Lumber Co.

TccomcL Wcrsh.

Defiqnce Mill Co.

Tqcomcr, Wash.

Dickrncn Lumber Compcny

Tccomc, Wcsh.

Karlen-Dcnris Compcny

Tccomq, Wcsh.

Tcrcomc Harbor Lumber & Timber Co.

Tqcomq, Wcsh.

G. L. Speier Co.

Arccrtcr, Ccrlil.

Also

Northern Californicr and Southern Oregon

FIR crnd REDWOOD MIttS

Today it's WOODWOBK!

Woodwork for everythingIor windows, doors, built-in units, millwork products of every kind. Push the trend; feqture ond promote it. Thcrt's the nqturcrl, logicol course lor Iumber merchcrnts, qnyhow.

Woodwork Institute ol Colifornio is working lor you stirring up the interest beoting lhe drums. Its progrcm o{ odvertising, trode promotion ond public relqtions is olreody ofI to o good stqrt.

Maple and Birch Flooring Output Reportcd Up

Chicago, Aug. 4-Output of northern hard maple and birch flooring for the first half of 1951 totaled 34,130,000 f.eet,23.4/o over the 1950 half, according to L. M. Clady, secretary-manager of the Maple Flooring Nlanufacturers Association.

Clady said manufacturers in the northern producing regions are hopeful that their production record of the past six months will be matched during the last half of the year. This would enable the mannfacturers to accelerate delivery on their backlog of unfilled orders, he said.

"stocks for the industry now total only 5,720,000 feet, down 17.5% frorn June 30, 1950, while current unfilled orders of 17,360,000 feet reflect an increase of 39.2/o over the first half of last year," Clady explained.

Move to New Officet

J. D. I\4urphy Lumber Company recently moved into their new offrces in the Booth Bldg., 475 Huntington Drive, San Marino 9, Calif. The telephone number is PYramid I-1124' The teletype is TWX Pas Cal 7043.

Jack, as he is called by his many friends, has had 24 years experience in the various phases of the lumber business in Los Angeles, following in the footsteps of his father who has been in the lumber business all his life.

Hc startcd in the lumber business in l92B with the OwensParks Lumber Co. where he was employed for 18 years, serving as superintendent of the hardwood department and then manager of that clepartment. He resigned his position with OwensParks in 1946 and helped organize a retail yard, Golden Bear Lurnber Co., in which he was a stockholder and general manager until 1949, when he resigned. Late the same year he became a partner in the wholesale and commission firm, Phillips & Murphy Lumber Co. Last May he sold his interest to his partner ancl formed his own cornpany.

Jack is well known throughout the industry and he and his new partner, who is his wife, Jean, report that they are enjoying an increasing volume of business.

Attended Meeting in Chiccgo

Kenneth J. Shipp, president of California Builders Supply Company, Oakland, returned from a trip to Chicago recently where he attended a meeting of the National Plywood Distributors Association. He was elected president of the association at the annual convention held in Sun Valley, Idaho, last June. This was the first meeting at which he presided, and as his term of office is for one year, he will preside at several board and general meetings in the coming rnonths. Flying both ways, he ran into a 90-mi1e wind on the return trip.

James S. Chipman, manager of the San Francisco Plyrvood Co., San Francisco, and his u'ife vacationed for a 'rveek in Seattle where they visited friends. While there thev attended the u'edding of a daughter of J. W. McKay, vice president of Plywood, Inc., and manager of Plywood Tacoma, Inc. They made the trip by air both ways.

SKOOITUM fr/t r//, BRu5H'coATED PAINTED SHAKES

Increose soles with top quolity Weslern red cedor pre-pointed shokes monufoclured under rigid con' irols' by lhe nolion's leoding independent monu' {octurer of shingles qnd shokes.

OLD GROWTH WESTERN RED CEDAR givcs lifc'limc durobilily' tRU-CUt PROCES9ING mecls rcquirernenl3 of nost 'rocling croflsmcn.

IRUSH-COAftD wirh dccp pcnetroting colors which givc losfing bcouty.

SEtt 6 PERffIANENT BRUSH-COATED COIORS

SKOOKUI|Grecn SKOOKUilBurgundY.

3KOOKUIIBrown 3KOOKUIIBuff

SKOOKUil GroY SKOOI(Uil Prlmc Whltc

Avoilqbtc in :troighl or nixed co6 frorn fhc

SKOOKUII SHAKE COMPANY lFill-in quontitics ovqiloblc from ccntrolly locolcd dislributor worchoures.)

Forest

says GE(IRGE A. SillD(l McGREADY LUMBE

Seaside, 0regon

"We sell q lot of Forest Hordboord for woll ponels," George soys. "Our customers like the light color of the boord which con be left in its nolurol color or pointed to on ottroctive finish. Eiiher woy you sclve point ond money.

Not only hove we sold o lot of Foresl Boord, but it hos broughl in business for us."

Eoch ponel of high quolity Forest Hordboord musl meet rigid stondordr of hordness, density, woter' resisionce ond light color-tone. For woll boord, cobinet work, shower stolls or ony other use your best bvy is Forest Hordboord..."the quolity ponel WiTh SURFACE APPEAL.''

Ponet Sires: 4'x4', 4'x6', 4'x8', 4'tlo', 4'x12', ond 4'xl6', Wropped 6 ponels to o pockoge ercept for 4'x l6' whlch fr not wropped. (Thlcknesrer ol | /8",3/16"' | /4".

Qrdet Slondod Grcde or wealher'rcsislonl

"|rcoled" Forest Hordboord

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Monthly "lde"" Contest

Mrs. frene O'Connor, Amanda Park, Washington, has been awarded a check for $50 by the Portland Shingle Company for her suggestions submitted in the company's first monthly "Idea" contest, according to Alfred H. Schmidt, president of the firm.

The Portland Shingle Company of Portland, Oregon, is awarding a $50 check each month to the individual submitting the most u'orth-while suggestion for improving manufacturing methods and working conditions within the company, marketing, advertising, or utilization of it products, or developing new uses for Western red cedar and rvaste products resulting from manufacture of cedar shingles and shakes. Suggestions are r,velcomed from company employees, rvholesalers, dealers and users of Portland Shingle Company products, according to Schmidt.

I\{rs. O'Connor, rvife of one of tl-re company's employees at their Quinault Shingle Company mill, suggested greater use of "before and after" pictures on use of shingles and shakes in the company's own house organ, The Portland Shingle News. Judges lvho selected the winning entry for the first week were Jack lirlgecumbe, sales manager for Portland Shingle Company; Marion Billings, account exectuive for Alport & O'Rourke who handles the company's advertising; and Ralph Parker, mill superintendent at the Quinault Shingle Company.

Each contest runs from the fifteenth of one month to the fifteenth of the next, and winners are first announced in the company's o'il'n house organ. Five suggestions are selected from entries submitted, a rvinner is named, and the other four suggestions are re-entered automatically in the next month's cornpetition. Schmidt has indicated that numerous rvorth-rn'hile entries are being received from all parts of the country for consideration.

A new scaffolding plarrk that is lighter, stronger and far steadier than conventional wood planks is now available to contractors, painters and manufacturers. Constructed of Douglas fir plywood with aluminum framing members, the new Featherweight plank is being produced by the Stinson Manufacturing Co., Spokane, \\rash.

Featherweight Plank

Comparecl to a 16-foot long 2xI2 wood plank, whiclr rveighs about 70 pounds, a 16-foot long Featherweight plank weighs but 35 pounds. Yet deflection or bending of the plywood plank under a 300 pound dead center load is less than t'ivo inches. Under the same lveight, a wood plarrk

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(Continued from Page 38) deflects at least six inches. Therefore, while the F-eatherweight plank weighs only half as much as a 2 x 12 plank, it is over three times as rigid. Weights for different sizes are in the same ratio.

Key to the plank's unusually high strengtl-r-rveight raticr is its construction which perrnits the light, strong plywood top and bottom to act as integral structural mernbers as well as surfacing material. fn effect, the plywood top and bottom are the chords .of a three web box beam with the aluminum channels acting as the webs. The plank is built by riveting fu-inch-thick Exterior type Douglas fir plywood to either side of the three aluminum channels which run the length of the plank on both sides and in the center of the one foot wide plank. Because the middle of the plank gets the greatest amount of strain, the plywood plank tapers toward the ends. Standard lengths are l5'-9", 79'-6" and 23'-6n, all IZ' wide.

According to T. G. Stinson, inventor of the plank and head of the company which bears his name, the new scaffolding plank is used in the same way as the conventional wood plank. Coupled with increased safety, the light weight and all-around steadiness of the plywood plank also increases worker efficiency by lessening fatigue and by permitting workers to concentrate on the job at hand without being disturbed by a swaying platform. Stinson points out that the light weight of the plank is, in itself, a time and labor saver because it can be handled easily by one man rather than the two or more required to carry con- ventional scaffolding planks. In addition to its light weight and great strength, the plywood plank has all the advantages of the old fashioned plank as it can be used with A-type ladders, steel staging, extension ladders, etc.

Thousands of Featherweight planks are now being used throughout the country by painting contractors, builders and airplane manufacturers who have reported increased production and worker efficiency due to the new plank. In addition, it has been approved by numerous state, iounty and city safety commissioners.

Pabco Board Elects Thomcs C. Young

Thomas C. Young has been elected a member of the board of directors of Pabco Products Inc. to fill the unexpired term occasioned by the death of Henry Rosenfeld on January 5, 1951.

Young is president of Pacific Roofing Co. of Portland, Oregon, a wholly owned subsidiary of Pabco Products Inc., the entire capital stock having been acquired by Pabco on April 16, 1951. Pacific Roofing Co. operates a mill for the manufacture of felt and asphalt roofings.

Phillip Gosslin of the Gosslin-Harding Lumber Company, San Leandro, accompanied by his wife, spent a week in Eugene with their Eugene representative, Bob Sanders. They called on their mill connections while up there. The trip was made by train.