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Byron Cannon

Byron Cannon, who established the Cutler-Orosi Lumber Yard at Cutler, Calif., in 1938, and who has been a director of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern Caiifornia for the past three years, has been active in l-umber Association work for 40 years. That record tells the story of a lumberman of the widest experience, who believes thoroughly in cooperation with his fellow lumbermen, and is willing to give freely of his time and ability to help accomplish rvhat will be of most benefit to the industry.

He was born at Langston, Montcalm County, Michigan, in a log house amid a stand of tall and uncut Michigan Cork Pine. His father, Samuel Cannon, was a "White Piner." He attended grade school, a one teacher school, in Pine Township. Later he attended Ferris Institute at Big Rapids, Michigan for three years.

In 1906 he left Michigan and went to Crossett, Arkansas,

Clint Laughlin in \(/holesale Lumber Business

Clint Laughlin, widely known Los Angeles lumberman' has started in the wholesale lumber business for himself' Until he gets established in office headquarters, he will work out of his home at 3025 Motor Ave., Los Angeles' His telephone number is VErmont 8-0614.

He will specialize in Pine, and will also handle Fir. He has mill connections in Northern California and the Pacific Northwest.

For the past seven years, Clint was with E. J' Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, as manager of the Softwood Division' Prior to that he was associated with the wholesale lumber business in Los Angeles for many years, and is well known to the Southern California lumber trade.

Appointed So. California Distributor for Panelyte

of the sal\-mill of wtltrlc uLydr Lrrr!rrL Crossett Lumber Company until he finally became assistant general manager of the Corporation.

Mr. Cannon was elected general manager and vice president of the Gates Lumber Company of Wilmar, Arkansas in 192O, and serveC in that capacitv for four years.

He came to California in 7925 as vice president and general manager of the Sugar Pine Lumber Company at Pineda1e, near Fresno, and held that position until 1929. He moved to Seattle in 1929, and operated a small box factory there for a year and a half.

Byron Cannon is an aggressive merchandiser, with good ideas. lle uses his display windows to the best advantage, and has utilized newspaper and radio advertising in the furtherance of his business. He has a catchy slogan : "You get the girl-we'll build the home."

This successful lumberman's hobbies are hunting and fishing, and he has done his share of both in nearly every state in the Union. Two years ago he made a wonderful trip to Southeastern Alaska with his family, and on this trip experienced the great thrill of killing an Alaska Brown bear. His son, By, also got a beatttiful Silvertip.

Announcement is made by Davidson Plywood & Lumber Co., Los Angeles, of their appointment as Southern California distributor for Panelyte, a high pressure plastic laminated sheet, which is available in a wide variety of colors and patterns, and is carried in stock sizes up to 4 feel by 10 feet. This is the only high pressure laminate that is offered in lO-foot lengths in Southern California, the distributor claims, pointing out that this extra length is an advantage inasmuch as in some installations joints can be eliminated.

Claims for Panelyte include that it is stain-proof, and unaffected by alcoholic drinks, grease, fruit juices, or food: also that a Panelyte top is chip-proof and crack-proof.

It is recommended as an ideal material for table tops. sink tops, and all workng surfaces in kitchens and pantries, counters, bars, trays, and furniture.

\(/estern Pine Association Semi-Annual Meeting

Portland, Ore., Aug. l2-This is a time of opportunity in the lumber business, leaders of the 'Western Pine industry were told today at the concluding session of therr Association's two-day semi-annual meeting in the Multnomah hotel here.

The end of the seller's market, S. V. Fullaway, Ir., Western Pine Association secretary-rnanager, said, has brought opportunities for customer service, product improvement, aggressive salesmanship, operating efficiency, closer timber utilization and forest management that can lead to a successful solution of the problems of readjustment.

W. E. Griffee, assistant to Fullaway, in analyzing the 1949 demand for lumber, noted that housing starts for the first half of the year were only five per cent fewer than in 1948 and that July was the largest single month since the war.

"I am frankly surprised," he said, "by the many encouraging angles there are to the way in which the recession has developed so far." The dollar volume of total construction, according to Department of Commerce gstimates, will be up only one per cent for the year but the physical volume, due to decreased costs, will be up considerably more, he said.

Fullaway reported that demand for Western Pine products during 1949 will apparently be somewhat above the six billion board feet level, or ten per cent under the record breaking demand of last year. "But," he said, "it will be above any year in the history of the industry with the exception of. 1941,1942, 1947 and 1948. ft is, as a minimum, 20 per cent above prewar demand. This is a big volume of business by any standard of comparison."

Undoubtedly, he said, there will be more lumber available than this volume of demand and it is this supplydemand relationship which has caused the present buyer's market.

"But therein lies opportunity," he asserted. "The prolonged seller's market brought abuses and careless practices. Prices soared, product quality and service standards deteriorated and operating efficiency and economy in management were neglected. Correction of these things is a painful process but economic readjustment demands that it be done."

Addressing the "young man entering the lumber business today," the Portland lumberman said "there never has been greater opportunity. The 'cradle to the grave' security philosophy, which has been a political issue for the past eighteen years, and the labor union progress in leveling off the differential between skilled and common labor have both operated to kill the incentive to strive for individual betterment and advancement Thus, fpr the young man who refuses to accept the 'assured' securitv theory and who is determined to provide for his own future, the possibilities for advancement are almost unlimited."

Griffee told the lumbermen assembled from the 11 western states that while there has been a slow but steady decline in index prices since early last fall, the Western Pine industry in the second quarter of this year actually shipped a little more lumber than in any previous second quarter, either during or after the war. Low dealer, stocks, he said, must be part of the explanation for the heavv volume of lumber business done all spring by eastern wholesale lumber distribution yards.

Total mill stocks, Griffee said, at the end of June were up 665 million feet over a year ago but were not out of line with shipments.

Addresses by Fullaway and Griffee were before the board of directors' meeting, attended by the membership, and followed yesterday's day-long committee sessions. Lum bermen from all the ll-state area covered by the Western Pine industry attended the two-day conference.

Lot Angeles Firm Increases Offtce Space

Door & Plywood Jobbers, Inc. moved into their expanded oflice quarters at 29'% Sierra Pine Avenue, Los Angeles 23, two weeks ago. The offices have been enlarged by the addition of 1400 square feet to the former office space.

At the same time Door & Plywood Jobbers, Inc. have improved their warehouse facilities considerably, for the better and more efificient handling of their products.

Noteworthy in the improvements has been the use of Philippine Mahogany plywood, with pleasing results.

Russ Castell is manager of the firm. Telephone number is ANgelus 9-8188.

\Mest Coast hemlock, a uniform fine-textured wood, is nonresinous and usually straight grained.

Pcrtrick Henry's Greqtest Orcrtion

Patrick Henry rose to reply with apparent embarrassment and some awkwardness, and began a faltering exordium. The people hung their heads at the unpromising commencement, and the clergy were observed to exchange sly looks with each other, while his father sank back in his chair in evident confusion.

All this was of short duration, however. As he proceeded and warmed up to his subject, a wondrous change came over him. His attitude became erect and lofty, his face lighted up with genius, and his eyes seemed to flash fire, his gestures became graceful and impressive, his voice and his emphasis peculiarly charming. His appeals to passion were overpowering. In the language of those who heard him "he made the blood to run cold, and their hair to rise on end." In a word. to the astonishment of all, he suddenly burst upon them as an orator of the highest order. The surprise of the people was only equalled by their delight, and so overcome was his father that tears flowed profusely down his cheeks.

He contended that in the case now before them the parsons deserved to be punished with signal severity.

"We have heard a great deal about the benevolence and holy zeal of our reverend clergy, but how is this manifested? Do they manifest their zeal in the cause of religion and humanity by practicing the mild and benevolent precepts of the gospel of Jesus? Do they feed the hungry and clothe the naked? Oh, No, gentlemen! Instead of feeding the hungry and clothing the naked these rapacious harpies would, were their powers equal to their will, snatch from the hearth of their honest parishioner his last hoecake, from the widow and her orphan children their last milch cow ! their last bed, nay, the last blanket from the lying-in woman !"

These words, uttered with all the power of the orator, aroused in the audience an intense feeling against the clergy, which became so apparent as to cause the reverend gentlemen to leave their seats on the bench, and to quit the courtroom in dismay.

(William Wirt Henry on "The Parson's Cause.")

Thomas Moore Wrote:

Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side

In the Cause of mankind, if our creeds agree ?

Shall I give up the friends f have valued and tried

If he kneel not before the same altar with me?

A Strcin

Said an Englishman to his friend:

"I live in Scotland now, but my seat is still in the House of Commons."

To which his friend replied:

"That must be an alvful strain on your suspenders."

Sccred Him

A motorist was picked up unconscious after a crash and carried into a near-by filling station. Opening his eyes he began struggling manfully to get away from his helpers. It seems it was a Shell Service Station, and the first thing he saw when he became conscious was the big SHELL sign with a man standing in front of the S.

Service

A lady who had been having trouble with the laundry, charging that they always shrunk her husband's shirts, found a large railroad spike. She put it in her next bundle that went to the laundry, with a note attached to the spike that read: "Try and shrink this." She got the laundry back, and enclosed with the clothes was a small carpet tack with a note that read: "We did."

The Right Education

The Arkansas hillbilly brought his overgrown son into a country school at the beginning of the term and said to the teacher:

"We wants this here boy to git some good larnin'. What's yore bill o' fare?"

The teacher said: "We teach arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and "

"Stop right thar," said the hillbilly father. "Load him down with triggernometry. He's the only pore shot in the fambly.'f

Spinozc Wrote:

"Though I were at times to find the fruit unreal which I gather by -y natural understanding, yet this would not make me otherwise than content; because in the gathering I am happy, and pass my days not in sighing and sorrow, but in peace, serenity, and joy."

The Rocd to Constqntine

The road winds up to Constantine, Through rolling hills of dull, sage green, And turbaned travelers' sandaled feet

A steady, rhythmic march-time beat, Or, mounted on a sturdy ass, The burnoosed-wrapped "patricians" pass.

The road winds up to Constantine, And silent shepherds, calm, serene, Stand out against a cloudless sky

And watch the flocks that graze close by. So have their fathers tended sheep, So will their sons their vigil keep.

K. Brower.