Your Lumber Journol

Ever think of this-as you sit down and prepare to read the latest issue of your lumber journal?

If you should get but one good suggestion, if you should receive just one good idea from your lumber journal in the course of a whole year's reading, 24 issues; if you should get the germ of a single thought that resulted in helping you or your business in any way-you would be well repaid for your year's reading and the subscription price. Ever think of that?

AS AN INDUSTRIAL AMALGAMATOR, your lumber journal acts as a gathering place for the ideas of the industry and succeeds in no small degree in tightening the

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bonds of common interest that hold together those engaged in the same line of business. And if you grab and hold just one useful plan or idea in a year's time, then your lumber journal has paid its way.

AS A MOUTHPIECE FOR THE INDUSTRY, the trade journal holds a position second only to the regularly organized associations in the industry, and likewise vocalizes those associations.

AS A NEWS MEDIUM, /our lumber journal eliminates all matter foreign to your industry and to the territory served, and gives you the selected news of your fellow lumbermen and of the industry at large.

AS AN ADVERTISING MEDIUM, your lumber journal concentrates in its pages the business notices of sources of supply from which you can draw your goods and supplies.

So your lumber journal grows better and more useful as the industry grows older, and plays an ever-increasing part in the lumber drama.

Dick "Ski" Voelzke, alert salesman with Smith-Robbins Lumber Co., Los Angeles, looking over the brand new Hyster Fork Lift recently secured by the wholesale distribution yard. This is the latest step in the expansion pro- gram presently being conducted by Bill Smith, headman of the firm. New offices will be completed during September and another new all-steel, lumber-storage shed will be erected during the fall months, making a total of three new warehouses built this year by the progressive organization.

To Discuss Pros qnd Cons of Resilient Flooring qt BR.l Meet

Nine leading manufacturers of resilient smooth surface flooring (tile and linoleum) and one fastenings manufacturer will take the stand at a Building Research Institute conference Sept. 17-18 in Washington, to analyze their various products and the best methods of installation and maintenance. In turn, the users of these prodrrcts, represented by architects, building and flooring contractors, owners and operators of commercial and industrial buildings, lumber and building materials dealers, will present in the form of a BRI survey the problems they have encountered with these materials.

Trvo workshop-discussion sessions will then attempt to arrive at recommendations to solve present-day difficulties such as color-matching, indentation, failure of adhesive bond, and maintenance problems. Panel members for the workshop discussions will include representatives of FHA, NAHB, National Bureau

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ln lumber Freight Rotes

San Francisco.The Southern Pacific R. R., at the freight-rate hearings which opened here August 18, complained that the number of railroad cars carrying lumber from Oregon to Southern California and Arizona decreased 58/o from 1950-57, as ICC Examiner Walter Baumgartner heard testimony on the proposed decrease in lumber freight rates which would eliminate price discrepancies in the controversies between Oregon and Northern California lumber shippers.

It was declared that the discriminatorv rates were set up in 1954 to attract Northerir California business away from truckers but they did not reverse the declining rate of intrastate traffic, which dropped by 8,600 cars a year between 1954 and 1957 as Oregon shippers turned more and more to truck and ship. Truckers were also expected to present testimony against the proposed freight rate changes as the hearings continued into press time.

lond o' Goshen!

, Goshen,' Calif.-Both drivers escaped injury June 7 in a spectacular crash in which the huge front wheel of a heavy lumber truck-trailer rode piggyback on a passenger car, and the shifting lumber load sheared off the cab of the truck. The truckdriver is reported to have turned out to pass a Los Angeles woman driving the passenger car, misjudged his course, and a front wheel struck the car and rolled right onto the automobile from the rear. The sudden halt sent the truck's load forward, shearing off the cab, and landing it 4O feet ahead of the truck, which rolled over.

Bielec Boys Buy Gement Firm

La Puente. Calif.-The Bielec Lumber Co. here has purchased the George's Red-EMix Concrete Co., El Monte, for an undisclosed price. Steve Bielec, co-owner of the retail lumberyard with his brother Paul, said the cement company will be expanded and more equipment added. The plant had been operating at a capacity of 350 yards per day. The Bielec boys, both in their early 30s, have been leading lumber dealers in La Puente the past 10 years.

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lien Lqw Meeting Sept. 9

An industry-wide conference is scheduled September 9' at 10:00 a.m., in the Title Insurance & Trust Bldg., 433 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, in an attempt to arrive at some conclusions on California's controversial lien law. Scheduled by Assemblyman f{anna, discussion will center on relationships between subdividers, contractors, subcontractors, materials dealers, owner-builders and owners. Members of the industry are invited to express their view at the meeting, with written presentations prepared in advance if possible and mailed to Francis R. Ruggieri, committee consultant, P.O. Box 827, Modesto, Calif.

(Tell them Aou sa@ it in The California Lumber Merchant)

[u-Re-Co Building System Goining New Deqler Members Sreodily

Details on the licensing agreement for manufacturerdealers of the Lu-Re-Co system of homebuilding and the important new Federal Housing Administration engineering bulletin are incorporated in an informational folder just released by the Lumber Dealers Research Council. Copies of the folder have been mailed to over 1300 current Lu-ReCo members and to 13,000 "prospective members," according to Council President Clarence A. Thompson of Champaign, I1l. The folder, which also is being sent to all regional F.H.A. offices, incorporates important decisions reached at the May meeting of the Lumber Dealers Research Council directorate in Washington, D. C.

The Lu-Re-Co system of manufacturing modular building components has been gaining new members steadily among retail lumber dealers throughout the