THE CALIFORI\IA LUMBER MERCHAI\T

Jack Dionne, Publisher

Incorporatcd Edor lb€ lcw ol Cclilorniq

Publishcd the lst cnd lSth oI eacb month at Rooms 508-9-10, 108 Wegt Sixtb Street, Loa Angreles, C<dif.; Telephoner Mf,dison 2-4565

Ealercd qe Second-clqsr Edtter Sept.Eber ?,5, 1t22, at the PoBt OIIice ct Lol Aagelcg, Cclilomic, under Acl ol Mcrch 3, 1879

LOS ANGELES 14, CALIFORNIA, SEPTEMBER 1, 1958

Ht]W LUMBER Lt]t]KS

Crow's Lumber Price Index trounced up again in the period ending Aug. 22, reflecting the strong demand for hoards, dimension and studs in the past two weeks. Green Douglas fir, kiln-dried fir and western pine region species all shared in the rise. Plank and tim,bers were firmer. Many species have ,become scarce for prom'pt shipment and mills are booked well ahead with orders. Latest s'tatistics on production and orders indicate the market strength is based on heavy demand rather than lack of production, although logging shutdowns in western Oregon and Washington are a factor. ,Crow's said a current freig'hrt-car shortage, though not acut€, could add to the market strength fr'om buyers needing prompt shipment . Some producers of plywood sheathing are on a price-at-time-of-shipment basis for September and later.

Shipments of 472 rniils reporting to the National Lumber Manufacturers Assn. in the week ending Augus,t 16 were 1.7/o above produc,tion; o'rders shot 15.9/o above. National production o,f lumber in the year's first half totaled 15,443,000,000 board feet, estimated the NLMA. This is a decline of 9/o f.rcm t,he same 1957 period. Shipments were 7/o and orders 8/o below the same 1957 span. Gross mill stocks on hand were 6/o below year-ago levels. June 1958 production was 3/o below the previous June, with softwoods down 6Vo while hardwood output galned, l4Vo over June 1957 . . . Orders of 125,522,763 feet were 15.4/o above 'produc'tion at 155 mills repo,rting (141 operating) to the West Coast Lrmbermen's Assn.,in the week ending Aug. 16. The weekly avfrage of Douglas fir region sawmill production during July was 128,264,AAO feet; orders averaged 175,433,000 feet and shipments 149,459,000 fee,t S.hipments of 95,9'40,000 fee't were S.l/o above production at 119 mills reporting to the Western Pine Association in the week ended August 9; orders we,re 2.9/o above . Orders of 25,6,46,O00 feet were 24.35% above production at 9,4 mills reporting to the Southern Pine Association in the week ending August 16; shipments were 12.777o above.

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IALENNAR tlF IOMING EVENTS

SEPTH}TBER, fn the year 1601 a thinker named Gracian wrote these wise words: "A shrewd man knows that others, when they seek him, do not seek him but seek rather their advantage in him and by him." * * *

CENTRAL CALIFORNIA DRY KILN CLUB, joint meeting with Southern Oregon-California Dry Kiln Club, McCloud Lumber Co., McCloud, Calif., Sept. 5.

San Diego Hoo-Hoo Club 3, Concat and Election, Sept. 5.

NO,RTHERN CALIFORNIA LUMBERMEN'S CLUB 3rd annual Golf Tournament, Sierra View Country Clu,b, Roseville; George R. Duff, Au,burn, chairman, Sept. 5.

NATIONAL BUILDING MATERIAL DISTRIBUTORS ASSN. California Regional Meeting, Ambassador hotel, Los Angeles, Sept.9.

San Francisco Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club 3, Californian hotel, Sept. 9.

Santa Clara Valley Hoo-Hoo Club 170, Election meeting, Chez Yvonne., Mountain View,'Calif., Sept. 11.

SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY HOO-HOO CLUB 3l ann,ual Valley Frolic, Hacienda Motel, Fresno, Sept. 12.

INTERNATIONAL CONCATENAT'ED ORDER OF HOOHOO 67th Annual Convention, Sahara hotel, Las Vegas, Nev., Sept. 1,1-17; Host Club: Las Vegas Hoo-Hoo Club 106. (Official Convention hotels: Sahara, Thunderbird, Riviera, El Rancho Vegas.)

NATIONAL BUILDING MATERIAL DISTRIBUTORS ASSN. Regional Meeting, Seattle, Sept. 15-16.

DUBS, LTD. Tournament, San Francisco Presidio--Hos't, Jim Hall; Dinner, Fisherman's Wharf, Sept. 19.

OAKLAND HOO-HOO CLUB Election Nite, Andy's Fishermen's Pier, Sept.22.

LOS ANGELES HOO-HOO CLUB 2 golf tournament and dinner meeting (installation of 1958-59 officers), Lakewood Country Club, Sept. 25.

SAN FRANCISCO HOO-HOO CLUB 9 annual Round-up, The Village, 915 Columbus, San Francisco; Jack Dollar, chairrnan, Sept. 26.

NORTHWEST HARDWOOD ASSN. Annual Meeting, Hotel Congress, Portland, Ore., Sept. 26-27.

IN THIS COLUMN many years ago there appeared a paragraph that caused a multitude of laughs and appears to justify its reprinting at this time. It said: "High authorities oppose the toothpick. But they also oppose grabbing both ends of an ear of sweet corn, and eating peas with a spoon, both of which are common-sense, comfortable practices. It may be that etiquette arbiters do not use toothpicks in public but indulge in them in the privacy of their own bailiwicks. It is cheerfully admitted that toothpicks can be dangerous and the user should employ judgment as he prods and searches for strings of ham and pot roast. Perhaps one shouldn't put both elbows on the table as he campaigns among the caves and crevices. It hasn't happened yet but any day now there ought to be a plastic toothpick on the market. Then a man could carry it in his vest pocket and have it ready whenever a*situation needs clearing up."

IT IS RELATED that an Englishwoman moving her home from London to India sent for a native electrician and gave him the job of wiring her house. She said to him: "Just go ahead and use common sense." And he gravely replied: "Madame, common sense is a rare gift of God. All I have is a technical education."

And Ben Franklin said: "When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views."

In This Issue

BY JACK DIONNE

Richard Mansfield's reason for loving children is somewhat different from that of most folks. He said: 'iI love children. They do not prattle of yesterday, their interests are all of today and tomorrow. I love children !" {<X.*

The President of the United States is the only federal official who swears to "Preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution." All others swear to "Uphold the Constitution." {. rl. {.

PLENTY OF TALK about rackets here and there are found in the press these days, bringing to mind the famous four-liner: "In vain we call old notions fudge, and bend our conscience to our dealing; the 10 Commandments will not budge, and stealing will continue stealing."

A real smart guy named Seneca once said: "If we wish to be judges of all things, let us persuade ourselves of thisthat there is not one of us without fault: no man is found who can acquit himself ; and he who calls himself innocent does so with reference to a witness, and not to his conscience,"

AND THEN THERE WAS the proprietor of a local store who got a letter from a customer that read: "You have a big sign in your store that says 'We Aim to Please.' Well, all I've got to say is that you ought to spend a lot more time at target practice." ***

And then again there was the beauty parlor with a sign in the window that read: "Don't whistle at a girl leaving hsls-shs may be your grandma." ***

The late Lewis Browne, gifted lecturer and author, was blessed with the gift of fine phrases. In his great book, "This Believing World," he wrote of the various forms of religion old and new, and declared all this effort at religious education to be "A mighty draught for a mightier thirst." *!F*

Phillips Brooks left this fine thought for humans to mull over: "The ideal of life is in our blood, and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing; where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows he was made and meant to do."

AND, IF YOU Sppf lo, " r**" in the facts concerning human ambitions, read over these words of that great thinker, Robert Louis Stevenson:

"A strange picture we make on our way to our chimeras;

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