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Sonto Monica, EXbrook 4-32019 llholesale to Lumber Yards 0nly will cut about six million feet of lumber monthly, the equipment being four bands, two gangs, six resaws, two trimmers, several edgers, one slasher, two hogs, and several shingle mills, all electrically driven. This is one of the biggest hardwood mills ever built on earth. founder of the Pope & his home in San Fran-

E. A. Wright has opened a sales office in Los Angeles to handle the sale of fir plywood, doors, moulding and finish, for the Washington Veneer Company of Olympia, Washington, and The Peterman Manufacturing Company of Tacoma.

It is reported in this issue that the sawmills of British Columbia are running less than half their normal capacity because of market conditions.

The Forest Service makes preliminary report on the lumber production of California for 1930, showing the lowest total since 1921. 1.512.787.M feet.

Charles F. A. Talbot, son of the Talbot Lumber Company, died at cisco, July 14, at the age of 83.

A trvo-day conference has been held in Chicago by leading lumber manufacturers from all parts of the nation for the purpose of discussing ways and means for stabilizing the badly confused lumber industry. C. S. Keith was chairman of the meeting, Col. W. B. Greeley was secretary, and R. A. Long was appointed chairman of a special committee to work with the entire industry in an effort to adjust lumber production to demancl.

BMD Appoinfed Armsfrong Distributor

The Armstrong Cork Company has named Building Materials Distributors, fnc., Stockton, as wholesale distributor for the Armstrong line of building products. BMD's four branches in Sacramento, Stockton, San Jose and Fresno will carry complete stocks of the entire Armstrong Building Products line.

Dubs Hold Rousing 94th Tournqment

A solid turnout of members and guests greeted Gran Geisert, new Dubs, Ltd. president, at the 94th monthly Dubs tournament, which was played on the Lakeside Course of the Olympic Country Club in San Francisco, the afternoon of July 20. Wayne Rawlings was sponsor for the event, in which 45 golfers participated. Although there were no low-gross records broken that day, Ev Lewis, Dubs reliable scorekeeper, noted that there were some pretty astronomical figures turned in that should be good for the coveted Dubs High-Gross Award.

I-ow gross man for the day was John Jenswold, who istered a 75 on his card. Charlie Larson, Chuck Noble

Dealers

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Ellsworth Keene took first, second and third low nets, respectively, in the first flight. In the second flight, Louis Larson copped first low net. Leo Cheim, Jr. followed closely with second low net, Wayne Rawlings with third, and Harry Hood took fourth position. The third flight low net score was tied between Jack Daniels and Hollis Jones. Bob Kilgore, Bill Ingram, Seth Butler and Tom Gray were 2, 3, 4 and 5, respectively. The guest flight dlvision winner was Ernie Pieper, followed by R. Makin and F. Zolezzi.

The 95th Dubs Tournament will the Meadow Golf & Country Club played August 17, at Fairfax. be and (Tell them you saw it in The California Lumber Mercltant)

TUMBER AND RAIIR,OAD GROUPS TAUNCH STUDIES TO REDUCE HOME.BUITDING COSIS BY CUTTING HANDI.ING EXPENSES

Several significant actions by lumber and railroacl trade representatives of leading railroads participating, the Nagroups to speed the introduction and greater use of more tional Retail Lumber Dealers Association has nor,v taken efficient lumber shipping and lumberyard handling prac- the first formal steps to translate some of these promised tices that should help reduce home-building costs are re- savings into reality, the magazine reports. ported in the -June House & Home, the magazine of the One recommendation of the Round Table suggested that home building industry. NRLDA sh<-iuld survey all its members promptly to find

Last fall a Round Table sponsored jointly by the Lum- out h6r.r, many already have the necessary equipment t<r ber Dealer's Research Council, the Prefabricated Flome handle ..unit loacls" (bundled or packaged quantities of Manuf:rcturers Institute and F{ouse & Home found that lumber, rather than customary loose board shipments), "mechanized materials handling could cut home-building and holv many more expect to mechanize for this purpose costs at least $1 billion a year." On the recommendations this year. This month NRLDA r,vill sen6 all its members of another session of this Round Table this spring, 'ivith a carefuily prepared questionnaire to obtain the most relial>le, current information on this score.

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In accord rvith another Round Table reccimmendation for NIILDA to assume immediate responsibility for educating and persuading its members to order lnmber in standard units, association oflrcials planned to make unit-ordering talks and displays one of the main featttres of the organization's national convention and exposition later this year.

A third recommendation of the ltound Table on which action is,already being taken pointed out the need for establishing industry-rvide agreement on the sizes for "unit loads," if this system of ordering and shipping is to become unir.ersal. This rrould be a job for NI{LDA ancl the National Lumber Manufacturers Associatior-r, in consultation rvith the Forest Products committee rif the American Associ:ttion of Railroacls, it rvas noted, plus research assistance from the Lumber l)ealers Research Council and the Timber Engineering ComPany.

Without any delay, NRLDA has alre:rdv appointed a top-ranking conmittee to develop the anslvers tci problerns in this field in cooperation lr.ith a group from NLMA, rei)orts Flouse & Horne. The chairman of this group is Jay O'N{alley, first vice-president of NRI-I)A. N'{embers ir-rcludc three llound Table participants, John Moeling, Clarence Thon.rpson ancl V. J. \\rardein, as well as Wayne F. Ntullin (above), president of the Southern California li.etail I-umber

Association, long chairman of its materials hanclling colxmittee; E. Il. Titcomb, of Cleveland, and S. S. Caves, of Honeoye Falls, N. Y.

Universal acloption of the "unit load" svstent oi shipping Iumber n'ould accentnate a shortage of suitable ireight cars, the Round f'able u.as informed. To meet this need (for bulkhead flatcars, or boxcars with 1S-foot double docirs) the qrrickest solution rvoulcl be the conversion of ordinarv flatcars to bulkhead type flatcars, says thc conl'erence report in House & Home.

"This costs an\.u'here from $400 to $1,800, depenclirrg on how good the cor.rdition of the old flatcar is and how much it has to be strengthened," the report aclds. "Thc average cost for reconditioning.. and bulkheading- combined \\'ould run arouncl $1,100 (compared u'ith about $2.500 for convertir-rg a boxcar u,ith ,S-foot doors into a boxcar n,itir 15-foot doulrle ckrors). \Ve lrelier.e the railroacls n'ould find both types of conversiolr profitable. As morc and nrore industries adopt trnit loads the clcmand for s'icle-cloor cArs u'ill increase rapidlv. Their faster lciading and rrnloading rvill reduce their dead tinre arrd n'rake them more prolrthblc."

For the guiclance of railroads an<1 car manufacturers the Rotrncl Table recommended that lrulkheacls shorrld l>e 8l feet high, ancl br.rlkhead cars shoulrl be lor.rg enough to provide 48-feet, lJ-inches cle;rrance betn'een bulkheads (or another 4 feet longer if roads n,iinte<l them that length to serve as all-purlrose cars).

Adclitional NlLl,DA offici:rls l'ho n'erc purtici|ants ir.r this llorrncl Tablc l'ere Il. .\. Schaulr, presiclent; Raymonrl

Harrell, man.

NRLDA Appoints Brown

In a move to stimulate further progress in the rapid development of improved carloadings and mechanized materials handling for lumber dealers, Robert B. Brown has been appointed Materials Handling Director of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association. For the new post, Brown rvill assist in the industry-wide research and educational activities of the newly-created Materials Handling committee of NRLDA, according to H. R. Northup. Brown has already stepped into the job of coordinating the giant materials handling demonstrations and clinics slated for the third annual NRLDA Exposition in Chicago, December 10-13.