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B. FTOYD SCOTT

Hexberg lumber Sqles Opens New Offices in Posqdeno

Eric Hexberg, prominent lumber executive of the southland, has opened sales offices at 232 North Lake Avenue, Pasadena. The new firm will be known as Hexberg Lumber Sales, specializing in the distribution of pine, white fir, Douglas fir and incense cedar.

LOS ANGEIES 23, CALIF. KENNETH W. TINCKLER

Eric Hexberg started his lumber career in tr936 when, fresh out of school, he joined the Anglo-California Lumber Company in Los Angeles. ,IIe majored in business administration and immediately started his steady climb to an executive post with the company. In 1947, Tarter, Webster & Johnson were searching for an aggressive young man to open sales o,ffices in the Southern California territory. Due to his administrative experience and sales promotion background, Hexberg was picked for the job. He remained as manager of TW&J activity in Los Angeles and Van Nuys until he decided to organize his own firm this summer.

"We will concentrate our efforts on direct rail and truck and trailer shipments from reliable mills," Hexberg said, "and we will receive the retail dealers and industrial users onlv."

Senqtor Dirksen to Speok ot 60rh Annuol NHIA Convention

Hardwood lumbermen attending the 6oth annual convention of the National Hardwood Lumber Association in Chicago, O,ctober 1-2-3, will hear lJnited States Senator Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois, author of the book, "Communism in Action," a documented study of communism prepared by the Library of Congress under his direction. He is widely traveled and has earned a well-deserved reputation as a rail-splitting spellbinder and he is certain to have a significant message well worth listening to.

H. Keith Williams, vice-president of the Kroehler Manufacturing Co. and general manager of the Mengel Division, will speak as a representative of the furniture industry, one of the largest and most important hardwood consuming industries. Both Mr. Williams and Senator Dirksen will speak the second morning of the convention.

NHLA President Howard A. Hanlon of Odessa. N. Y. will open the proceedings on October 1 with the president's annual message. John W. Fisher will appear as the Canadian representative. The last order of business will be the report of the Rules,committee. On the final day of the convention, reports of the various committees will be made and the election of officers held for the ensuing year. Formal sessions will be held only in the mornings, allowing the members to attend other meetings and take care of personal business during the afternoon.

Tuesday noon, the graduates of the Association-sponsored Inspection Training School will hold their annual luncheon, and in the afternoon the Junior Conference will hold its annual cocktail Dartv and social hour. Also on Tuesday, a special lunch-eon-has been arranged for the ladies attending the convention, and this afiair will be held in the Bal Tabarin room of the Hotel Sherman.

Wednesday afternoon, the Lumbermen's Credit Association (the Red Book) rvill open its Hospitality Room to the members and guests of the NHLA. That evening at 7:00, the doors rvill open for the big annual banquet to be followed by a variety shor,v made up of the best vaudeville acts obtainable. Dancing rvill follorv the shorv.

Advance registration cards have been sent to all members, and the initial return indicates one of the biggest meetings the Association has ever held during its 6O years of activity.

Special arrangements have been made to facilitate the first day's registration, and there rvill be no delay especially to those rvho pre-register. All those who pre-register rvill be listed in a bulletin available on the {irst dav of the convention u.ith the name of their hotel for the convenience of other members desiring to contact them. Hotel reservations should be made directly rvith the Hotel Sherman.

Both of Chicago's professional football teams rvill be in action just before arnd follorving the convention, and tlrere is a strong likelihood that the \\rorld Series may be played in nearby Milu'aukee. Special sightseeing tours, boat rides, visits to the famed stores on State Street and to the museums, especially the Hardrvood Exhibit, all combine to make a trip to the NHLA Convention highly interesting and res.arding.

TMANC Adds Arroyo Grqnde Yqrd

The Farm and Home Supply, Arroyo Grande, has been enrolled into membership in the I-umber N{erchants Assn. of Northern California. Ou'ner of the retail vard is Herbert N{cCaslin.

July Housing Srorts-96,OOO

The preliminary estimate of 96,000 nerv nonfarm dwelling units started in July brings the estimate of starts for the first seven months of this year to 604,500 units,81,2O0 units less than the first seven months of 1955. reports the National Retail Lumber f)ealers Association. -

Construction started on 96,000 nonfarm houses and apartments in July was about the same as the 97p00 begun in June and 5/o belot' the Jrrly 1956 total, the U.S. f)epartrnent of Labor's lJureau of Labor Statistics announced. The 90,2A0 units of private housing begun in July, althorgh 9/o less than for July 1956 and the lorvest July figure since 1951, nevertheless represented an annual rate (seasonally adjusted) of 980,Gapproximately the rates of the previous trvo months, rvhich rvere the highest this year.

Although total housing volume in July showed little change from June, prelirninary information based on building-permit reports indicates an advance in the South and the largest decline in the \\,test, rvhere major rvork stoppages in construction rvere in progress throughout the month.

The 604,500 units started during the first seven months of 1957 rvere I2/o below the total for the same 1956 months and the lorvest for the period since 1949. The entire drop 'was in Government-assisted (FHA and VA) private housing, with the volume of conventionally financed units in 1957 mnning a little ahead of 1956 by tl-re end of the first seven montns.

While the dou'ntrend in single-family housing continues, the orrtlook for a greater volume of apartment construction has been improving. Preliminary indications for the first six months are that almost l5/o of the nonfarrn drvelling units were in multifamily, rental-type buildings tl-ris year, comparcd rvith about ll/o in the previous three years.

Sourhern Pocific Reforesting in Hoystcck FireRegion

"Forestry begins with a forest and not with bare land or individual trees."

Kermit Cuff, chief forester for the Southern Pacific, said this in announcing that the railroad is now planting trees in the Barkhouse creek area of Siskiyou county in Northern California to replace timber destroyed on 2,X)O acres of SP Land Company property by the disastrous Haystack Fire in 1955.

The railroad, long in the forefront as a pioneer in private conservation through sound management of timber properties to preserve and build op forest lands, is planting approximately 4O,000 three-year-old Douglas Fir and Jeffrey Pine seedlings as the first step in its program. The job is contracted to Owen H. Thomas, Medford, Oregon, who also handles plantings for the U.S.'Forest Service.

Only 55 acres are being planted this year since only a limited supply of trees were available, according to Cuff. Of the 15,000 acres affected by the burn, only 2,900 were denuded of timber and of sufficientlv high quality to justify replanting.

Cuff pointed out that the railroad has emphasized a program of natural restocking of forest lands. However, since most of the commercially productive land in the burned over area is beyond reforestation in this manner, the planting was undertaken. "We are going to analyze the results of this planting," he said, "and if proved satisfactory, we anticipate a greatly expanded program next year.

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We still like The CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT although we have quit business sold out last November, both the stock and the real estate. I built a small glass house at home and am having fun growing orchids and canaries.

-E. E. Scarborough San Pedro. California

"The Haystack Fire has dramatically shown us that large losses in timber can be incurred as a result of fire despite the excellent protection provided our lands. Our Railroad feels that good forestry is a matter of personal responsibility for any good citizen. Therefore, we regard reforestation, as a responsibility on the part of the landowner or logger," he said.

The seedlings planted this year and in the near future will not be ready for harvesting for about 60 years under SP's longrange planned-management program. But the fact that these trees are growing will make it possible for the railroad to sell a greater amount of timber annually elsewhere on its commercially productive timber lands.

Cufi estimates that planting the entire 2,900 acres of good timber-growing land denuded by the burn will increase allowable cut on all SP timberlands in Northern California by about 500,000 board feet per year under Southern Pacific's philosophy of treating timber as a sustained-yield crop rather than a limited quantity of raw material standing ready for use. The railroad has dedicated 425,An acres of its best commercial forestlands to per-