- FIVE YEARS in The California Lumber AGO Merchant TODAY

1, 1927 As reported

issue carried a personal write-up on Gus Angeles, Southern Califoriria representative Lumber Co. and Wendling-Nathan Co.

Hoover, events of The Grant

The lumbermen of the San Francisco Bay District held their annual picnic at Paradise Cove, Marin County, on Saturday, August 13. About 300 attended. There were field

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and a baseball game during the afternoon. Bob acted as master of teremonies.

N. H. (Nate) Parsons, wholesale hardwood dealer, Pasadena, entertained his customers and friends at the Pasadena Hotel with the showing of a motion picture on the woods' operations and manufacture of hardwood flooring.

Kenneth Smith, sales manager of E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, was the speaker at the luncheon meeting of the Whittier Rotary Club on August 12. His subject was "The Ethical Relations Between Competitors." C. W. ?inkerton, Whittier Lumber Co., presided at the meeting.

Johnny Stroud, E. J. Dodge Lumber Co., San Francisco, made a hole-in-one on the 10th hole at the Claremont Country Club on August 16. His golf partner was "\Iibs" Price, University of California football coach.

Announcement was made that the California Retail Lumbermen's Assoc.iation's annual convention would be held at the Alexandria Hotel, Los Angeles, on November 10-12.

A Hoo-Hoo banquet and concatenation was held at the Hotel Oaks, Chico, Calif., on August 13. A. J. "Gus" Russell was toastmaster and Parson Simpkin was the principal speaker. Following the dinner, the concatenation was held at the Elks Club and 15 Kittens were initiated.

J. D. Lowe was elected president of Hoo-Hoo Club No. 38 of Westwood, Calif., at a meeting held on August B. Other officers elected were: I. P. Gardner, vice president; J. A. Shere, secretary, and Alf Anderson, treasurer.

James E. Green was appointed manager of the Hammond Lumber Company yard at San Bernardino. He formerly was in charge of the company's yard at Long Beach.

Housing Starts Remain Abovc 100,000 Mark During July

Housing starts held strong during July, when 1O4,000 new permanent non-farm dwelling units were put under construction, according to preliminary estimates of the U. S. Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics. A small increase ih private housing was offset by a drop in publicly owned units, resulting in an over-all 2,000-unit decline from June in the total number of new dwelling units put under construction. Nevertheless, the July total was 13,500 units greater than a year ago, and the largest for the month of July in any year except 1950.

During the first seven months of 1952, a total of. 669,700 new dwelling units were begun-10,800 short of the comparable total for 1951. However, private housing started thus far ln 1952 (624,1A0 units) exceeded last year's JanuaryJuly volume by 8,200 units, while the number of publicly owned units begun (45,600) represented a 19,000-unit drop from last year's volume for the first seven months.

On a seasonally adjusted basis, preliminary estimates indicate that total housing starts (private and public) were at an annual rate of 1,088,000 during july, compared with June's annual rate of 1,063,000.

Forty years ago railroads considered treated ties a good investment with fifteen years life; today they are looking forward to a forty-year life for their treated railroad tir:s.

Namcd Assistant Manager Of Forestry Department

Royce O. Cornelius has been named assistant manager of Weyerhaeuser Timber comPany's forestry department, it was announced by C. Davis Weyerhaeuser, manager of the forestry, lands and timber department.

Cornelius comes to Tacoma from the firm's Coos Bay branch at North Bend, Oregon, where he has been branch forester since 1946. Hermann C. Sommer, assistant branch forester at Coos Bay, will succeed Cornelius there. Cornelius will assist E. F. Heacox in his new position.

Born in 1918, Cornelius attended Colorado State university and the University of Washington, graduating from the latter's school of forestry in 1941. He joined Weyerhaeuser shortly after graduation, and was assigned to the Vail-McDonald operation as assistant branch forester.

He left Vail-McDonald as branch forester in July, 1944, serving in the fieldartillery from that date until June, 1946. He rejoined WTCo. following his separation from military service and was named branch forester at Coos Bay in charge of the firm's Millicoma tree farm.

Cornelius is a member of the Society of American Foresters and is married and has two children.

4l% of. the nation's harnessed and potential hydro-power is sustained by streams of the forested watershed of the Columbia River.

Logger's new chcmpion, Olive Bcrber, meets lcmed induetry biographer Stewurt Holbrook cs lhe two discugg her liret booL on loggers, "The Lcdy and the Lumberjcrclr," ofl the prese ol Thomtrs Y. Crowell Compcny, New York, on September 15. Holbrook ccrlls this book ct lurty, rollicking cccount oI the lile oI the lumbericck cnd c must lor every lumbermcrn's librcry. It hcs ct scent ol the Douglcs fu tree on every page, Holbrook suggesis.

Lancaster-Palmdale-Moiave Declared Criticaf Delenee Area

John E. McGovern, director, for the Federal Housing Administration, Los Angeles, announced that Lancaster, Palmdale and I\fojave, California, area and vicinity, have again been declared a Critical Defense Housing Area, under the Defense Housing Program No. 2A for relaxation of credit restrictions.

The housing is for in-migrant ernployees or personnel of defense establishments at all Army, Air Force and Navy installations, Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Northrop Aircraft, fnc., Chance-Vought Aircraft Division, United Aircraft Corporation, North American Aviation, Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc., United Aircraft Service Corp., Republic Aviation Corporation.

The program consists of a total of 1000 units, of which 650 are for rent and 350 for sale. This program is in addi tion to the 100 rental and lCI sales units authorized in Prograrn No. 1, approved August B, 1951.

Building Expcnds

San Luis Obispo, Aug. lG-With building permits issued during the month of July totaling $209,850, construction work within the city of San Luis Obispo passed the $1,000,000 mark with a total of $1,049,825.

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