The California Lumber Merchant - September 1956

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For new consfruction or remodeling

There's no longer ony need for sloroge spoce shortoge in ony home, whether it's o new home under conslruclion or q remodeling iob, Becouse Bilt-Well cobinef unils ore ovoilqble in oll shopes ond sizes fo perform iust obout every sloroge iob. They offer home owners ond builders oftroclive, efficient, spoce-soving sloroge oreos of o mosl moderote cosl.

Mode in seporole unils, complele in every corton ond reody for eosy ossembly.

This brond nome brings you

Dealers tell us what their customers are doing with wide Glued-Up Lumber

O People are doing interesting things with glued-up lumber. Here are just a few of the uses that dealers have reported to us recentlyuses which reflect the confidence of the public in Weyerhaeuser 4-Square GIued-Up Lumber.

"One of my customers is buying 1" r 30'-5' B & Btr VG stock for use as surfboards." This is a good demonstration of the strength of the glue joint on exposure to water.

"I sell a considerable amount of 1" x 72" and 7" x 74" VG for flower boxes and housing for window cooling units." Like most dealers who have had experience with glued-up lumber, this man orders "glued-up and/ or regular".

" Around hcre, people are using gluedup for such things as bleacher seats, feeding racks and trailer side boards." One of the most common uses reported was for grain wagon boxes and similar farm construction.

"A lot of my glued-up stock goes tn small cabinet shops for use in cabinet doors, counter tops and shelues." Wide glued-up is equally popular for exterior use, with many dealers reporting a substantial volume used for siding, fascia, trim and soffits.

It will pay you to talk to your Weyerhaeuser District Representative about the advantages of stocking Weyerhaeuser 4-Square Glued-Up Lumber.

THE CATIFOR)-IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

JackDiorne,ptblishu'

How Lumber Looks

One Invocotion for Hoo-Hoo

Lord, we ash Thy blessing upon, this assenr,bly of HooHoo and their guests. Grant tlmt friendships may here be fornted, staunch as the oah. flerihle as the hichory, ond eternal as tlt,e redwood. Kee! us from. pathways croohed, and from zuals that are cheched. Giae us wisd,om to meet the wiles of tltose who approach with, firsf clear manners and skahl-clear souls. Help us to discount our bills; especially help us, O Lord, to discount tales of owr neighbor's sins. And at last, wh.en the mill of life be silent and, the last l,iece tally is zwitten in th.e led.ger of destiny, guide ws uncl cleli.ver us, O Lord, surfaced fottr sides and sanded, F.O.B., Th,ine eternal Kin,sd,oru, for Hoo-Hoo sahe, Amen.

55th Annuql Convenfion Internafionql Concotandted Order of Hoo-Hoo Son Froncisco, Colifornio, Septembar l5-19, t956

West Coast Lumbermen's Association reported ior 162 rnills (148 operating) in the week ended September 1: production, 772,962,287 feet; shipments, 106,533,979 leet (5.7/o under production); orders, 90,663,746 feet (19.7/o under production). Production, orilers an<i shipments were ali below the previous week and also under the like week last year. For the year-to-date, orders were 0.3/o und,er production and shipments were l.l/o over. \il/estern Pine Association reported for 115 mills in tlie week ended August 25: production, 94,562,000 feet; shipments, 83,121,000; orders, 79,212,000 feet. Shipments were 13.8/o and orders 16.2/6 below preduction but orders were 7.3% above the previous week. For the year-to-date, all were below the 195.5 figures.

Production of 51,894,000 feet was an increase of 5,089,000 feet over June in the 20 mills reporting to the California Redwood Association during July. Shipments increased 8,466,000 feet from tl.re previous month to hit 47,358,000 feet. Redwoocl orders on hand July 3l were

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Yord-Pionning Kit Oflered to Deqlers

Plcrn Moteriols Hondling Clinic ot Exposition

"Sold by Lumber Deolers Only"-Whot

W.I.C. Meeting Heqrs

Home-building

Imported Hordwood Plywood Assn. Moking Goins

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..THE IMPORTANCE OF COSTING TICKETS IN THE RETAIL LUMBER BUSINESS,"

latest article by Paul R. HOLLENBECK'of the Lumber Service Co., Burbank, will appear in the October I issue of The CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT. Copies of Mr. Hollenbeck's recent series, "The Dealer's Cost of Doing Business," were extremely popular and back issues are nearly €xhausted, so please watch for this one in advance.

WENDTING.NATHAN EMP1OYES (posr ond presenr) gorhered ro do honor ro "rhe Duke,, ond wish him even greoler succes3es oheqd were (back row): Bill McCubbin, "Doc" Sneqd, Bud Hills ond Poul Euphrct. of lhe S. F. oftce; Bill Froser, Socromento; Goy Brcdt, Son Froncisco; Les Ookley, Portlond buyer; Elberl ButE, Medford buyer; Bert Cooper, Tom Jones, Bob Roymer. ond Herb Thompson, Fresno. In the froni row ore Fred lomon ond Jerry Bonnington, then Dorothy Brotford, Portlond office secrefory; Mrs. Euphrot. "rhe Duke" himself ond fhelmq Stutzmon, Son Froncisco ofiice secretqry

'Duke' Euphrot Honored by qndWendling-Nothqn Friends on 8Orh Birrhdoy Milestone

MAURICE [. "Duke" EUPHRAT wos hoppily (ond genuinely) surprised when o group of his long-time friends qnd leqmmotes ot Wendling-Nothqn Compony greeted him in the Coloniol room of the St. Froncis hotel in Sqn Froncisco, Augusf 8, lo honor "the mognificenl Duke" on the grond occosion of his 80rh birrhdoy milestone. Following oppetize13 in o sentimenfql ofmosphere ot 5 p.m.. rhe friends tendered "Duke" o steok dinner oi 7:30. Bill McCubbin wos looslmoster of the event ond Rex Sporleder of Fresno mode the birrhdoy toost, then John O'Donnell, rhe Wendling-Nothqn qitorney. presented "Duke" wiih c 2l-iewel, gold pocker wofch on beholf of oll the present ond posf W-N employes.

AMONG THE 75 MEN AND WOn EN who gothered to poy tribute to "the Duke" were these oufof-lown cssociotes ond former ossociqles of Mr. Euphrot (excluding Wendling-Nothon employes): Bob Leishmon, A. L. Hoover Co., los Angeles; Mr. and Mrs. Som Nigh, Hebbron"Nigh lumber Co., Sonto Cruz; Arch Kingsley, Kingsley Lumber Co,, linnton, Oregon; Rex Sporleder, Hollenbeck Bush Ploning Mill, Frcsno; Berl Cooper, Cooper Wholesale Co., Portlond; Lester Eoslin. Fresno; Mr. ond Mrs. Uoyd Hsbbron, Sr., ond Mr. ond Mrs. Lloyd Hebbron, Jr., Hebbron-Nigh lumber Co.; Mr. ond Mrs. Arthur Querin, Willomette Vclley lumber Co.; Mr. ond Mrs. Msce Tobin, Westwood lumber Soles, Eugene" ond Mr, qnd Mrs. H. W. Aldrich, H. W. Aldrich lumber Co., Eugene (-Phoros by Cristof Studio, Son Froncisco)

Arthur Uecker Opens Spring Volley

Yqrd Wirh R.oy Bott os Mqnqger

The Star Lumber Company, o\\rned by Arthur Uecker, was opened for business last month in new quarters at 360y', Bancroft Drive, Spring Valley, Calif. Roy Batt, who has wide experience in the lumber and hardware business, is the rnanager. He has been in the lumber business since 1930 and was with City Lumber Co., Lemon Grove, for seven years.

The yard is new throughout, with lf acres of ground, and has a 40x40 showroom. Hardrvare and paints rvill be handled and do-it-yourself trade, as il'ell as contractor business, will be sought under the slogan, "tl.re largest and most complete lumber yard in the fclothills." Two trucks will be used for delivery; clrafting service and financial assistance will be available to the yard's custonlers. A Z2xl28 building 'rvill house dry materials ; concrete blocks, brick and cement 'ivill be handled and there is ample l'oom for lumber storage in the yard.

George Cox is the yard stlperintendent. A Spring Valley resident 11 years, he has 25 years'experience in lumber of rvhich 20 years rvas spent at La Mesa.

New Socol Building Peok in August

I-os Angeles issued building permits valued at$49,422,515 in August, compared to $47,317.341 in July, but under the $5(r,012,719 figure of August 1955. City constrtlction in the first eight months of 1956, hou.ever, totaled $335,118,48-l as compared to $297,O16,51.3 in the same period last yezrr.

The county area's $37,820,065 set a ne\\' August record, far topping this July and August 1955. For the year-todate, hor,vever, the unincorporated area's $266,656,228 is under last year's total of $279,854,269. August sa\\' permits lor 2919 housing units in the cit'.' and 2353 in the county.

DUKE MAKES SHORT WORK of eight condles (one for eoch decqde of his life) os his wife, Groce, woiches in iop photo obove. Congrctulqtions ore extended in lower phoro by Mrs. Myrtle Hills (lefr), widow of Roy Hills. Duke's former business ossociote, ond Cospor ond Mrs. Wood (righr) to Mrs, cnd Mr. Euphrol (center). Groce Euphrot is c sister of the lote Corl Crow qnd wqs one of Duke's first secrelqrias

IF YOU MOVE MATERIALS... YOU NEED A HYSTER INDUSTRIAL TRUCK

Pictured above is one of many typical examples of how Hyster@ Industrial Trucks are helprng to effect tremendous savings in the cosr of handling Lumber.

Even if you are now using lift trucks or have never used industrial trucks of any kind, your Hyster dealer can show you how you can quickly rcalize more profit from your operation with these multi-purpose utility tools. Your Hyster dealer knows materials handling. he is an expert on the problems and their solution. He can help you with special techniques and cosr reducing methods. Call him today...N'hy not rake advantage of his materials handling know-how? He is listed under "Trucks-Industrial" in your telephone directorv.

3td Slreel, Sqn Frqncisco 24, Cslil. Mlssion 8-0680

GIVE YOU ALL 3!

HYSTER DEALERS 1

PIANNING-your Hyster Deoler will plon your moferiols hondling operolion from scrolch. or will onolyzc your present syslem fo see if il con be improved.

Tl{E RIGHT TRUCKfor your iob fron Hysler's complele line of indusfriol trucks (1,000-30,000 lbs.) ond over 100 iob-otlochmenls lor economicol lood hondling.

IHE RIGHI SERYICE-omple spore ports slock, shop focililies, foclory-lroined mechonics ond on efficient field service thot leep your Hyster lifl lrucks going on yout iob, wherever your iob might be locofed. Hysler lrucks ore noted the world over lor their low downlime.

Hyrter 80 equipped with duol drive wheels ir o lop performer in lhis yord operotion. Truck is olso used for oll lumber sto(kpiling.

Building Producls Mokers

Plon Stondord Poinl-of-Sole

Disploy Ponel for Reroil Yords

More than 50 building products manufacturers have informally endorsed a standard point-of-sale display medium that has been recommended to its members by tl,e National Retail Lumber Dealers Association and have indicated their intention of providing display materials.

The informal commitments were received at recent meetings of manufacturers held in Chicago, New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle. The sessions were arranged by a manufacturers' committee named by NRLDA consisting of the following members: James Rowland, Anderson Corporation; J. V. Jones, Armstrong Cork Company; F. E. Bissell, Carr, Adams & Collier; Marvin Greenwood, Celotex Corporation; R. S. Hammond, Johns-Manville Sales Corporation; P. B. Shoemaker, Masonite Corporation; A. J. Watt, United States Gypsum Corporation ; W. H. Hunt, United States Plyrvood Corporation; T. L. O'Gara, Weyerhaeuser Sales Company, and Marland Wolf, Wood Conversion Company.

The panels usually consist of perforated hardboard or other material in a swinging metal frame measuring 30x80 inches. They have attracted widespread attention because thev give dealers a selling display which combines a manufacturer's product samples and literature with signs that describe consumer benefits and quote time payment or unit prices.

WETCOME

In this issue, we welcome these new advertisers into the farnily of California Lumber "Merchant-isers":

The panels appeal to many dealers because they make it possible to put any product out on display, take up a minimum of display space, cost relatively little to install and service, help pre-sell the waiting customer, and save time in selling.

Co-operation of many building supply manufacturers in supplying dealers with a display kit for each of their major -products was expected by the NRLDA's merchandising committee to implement the display program dramatically and effectively. It was pointed out that the program is a step in establishing a standardized type of display and does not necessarily replace other types. Also, many dealers will want to use the recommended panels with their own selections of materials and layouts.

At the meetings with the manufacturers, the committee suggested that layouts and material be organized as follows:

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A New STholesale Distribution Yard Locatedat Port Hueneme for the Convenience of RETAIL LUMBER YARDS in Ventuta, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Kern Counties.

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For the First Time, CARGO SHIPMENTS v are NO\$Z available to RETAIL DEATERS in the San Fernando Valley, Northern Los Angeles County, Bakersfield, Ventura, Oxnard, Santa Batbata and ALL THE COASTAL CITIES presently depending on other sources. CARGO

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BY JACK DIONNE

who knew and loved him, told in unforgettable words. He said: "The doctors gave him up as a hopeless invalid at the age of 40, but HE LOVED LIFE, AND LOVING, AND LAUGHING so much that he stayed around until he rvas 89 before he called it a life." IIe was having too much fun to die, and those who knew him had fun with him, so he probably added*to*their life span also. Nice, eh?

H. Burnham

MAKE NO LITTLE PLANS. THEY HAVE NO MAGIC TO STIR MEN'S BLOOD, AND PROBABLY THEMSELVES WILL NOT BE REALIZED. MAKE BIG PLANS. REMEMBER THAT OUR SONS AND GRANDSONS ARE GOING TO DO THINGS THAT WOULD STAGGER US. LET OUR WATCHWORD BE ORDER. AND OUR BEACON_ BEAUTY. * * * -D.

Recently when the two top Russians were visiting in England, there appeared in a Swiss newspaper, "Weltwoche," an editorial headed "Co-existence With Murderers," that said: "Those who kill one person are sentenced to death; but those who kill millions are being received by the English Queen." And, after enumerating some of the horrors the Kremlin has perpetrated, this weekly newspaper contends that "with such a band of malefactors," there cannot be a peaceful co-existence, but only a gnashing one'

When it came to describing h.uman beings, Eugene Field was a past master. Once when talking about mean folks, he said some people are so mean they "won't let their little baby have more than one measle at a time." Behind the iron curtain, there have been scads of such nice neighbors for decades past. ,F * *

Someth.ing to cling to and hope for in a troubled world was affirmed by a group of prominent clergymen in a report to the Second Assembly of the World Council of Churches, when they wrote: "Because God has not abandoned this World, becaus€ He rules and overrules its tangled history, and because we have beqn given a share in the power of His Spirit, we can with confidence hope and expect that what is built upon the foundations which He has laid, will stand." ***

A man who makes a hit with me is the one who does good deeds privately and stealth.ily, the way others commit crime. Some men are just honest enough to keep out of the pen, and just smart enough to make all their charitable contributions publicly.***

According to "Texas Outlook," young farmers in that state are practical minded. One of them was asked in an exam: "FIow does one gain good posture?" And he answered: "Keep the cows off it and let it grow a while." ***

When a friend of mine died at the age of 89, the secret of his longevity was well expressed by a newspaper man

I recall another wonderful obituary written by one veteran newspaper editor about another who had crossed the river. The words simply were: "Dear old Jim! He was the disciple whom Jesus lov.ed !"

Ray Saberson says that the toughest time in the life of the average lumber dealer is when a guy with a bill of materials in one hand and a roll of good American money in the other walks up to his desk, lays down the material bill, and says: "Now figger, by gummy !" R"y says that how to handle this kind of a guy TOT..: a sales guide all by itself.

Get up right in the morning. Go to bed right at night. Start each day with joy in your heart, hope in the future, and kindliness in your manner. If it is a dark day, never mind; you will ligh.ten it up. If it is a bright day, you will add to the brightness. ff all of us would remember that happiness is from within and not from without, there would be a well-spring of joy in every heart, and the sun would shine forever. (Anon.) {<

The first great man in the world's history to adopt woman suffrage was Gautama Buddha. IIis memory should be well thought of by the female sex for that reason. The notion that women first won equal rights with men in the recent past, ignores history. For Buddha, founder of Buddhism, more than 500 years before Ch,rist, began admitting wom€n disciples into his free democracy of spirit on equal terms with men. History tells us that he finally did so after three times refusing to admit them. Like Caesar and the crown, the third offer was too much for the gentle preacher and teacher. But, although he then recognized women's suffrage in his growing organization, he took an awful slap at the fair sex in so doing, for he uttered the prediction that their presence in his order would reduce the life of the order by half, for, he wrote:

"As when mildew t"n. ln L.rU the rice is doomed, so when women leave the household life and join an Order, that Order shall not long endure." Wonder what old Gautama would think today if he could look this country over and see the part that women play in our national life? His opinion concerning the bad effect of taking in the women proved far wrong, didn't it, because the Order that

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Ihe finesl flot groin ovoiloble, with full benefil of oll heortwood quolifics. PAICO Archifcclurol Quolity fcolures lhe pollean surfoca cul from lhe bork sidc lo prev.nt roised shell grcin.

A selected grode of verlicol groin confoining rone cleor sopwood - unsurpossed os o poinl surfoceoflen chosen for decorolive volue of color conlro3ls where more duroble heort quolitier ore nol es3entiol.

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Performance of redwood is vitally dependent on specification of the proper grade for each job. Through

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he founded has more followers than any other on earth today. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that's what the religious statistics "no*.

Quite a fellow, this Gautama, who has so many followers. On May 28, 1956, his anniversary was observed by over 500 million Buddhist believers in Asia and the Orient. His teachings were gentle, kindly, humble. He sat in a grove of trees in Bihar, and preached that there are five things necessary to achieve release from fear, and unhappiness. He said these five things are: restraint, proper discourse, energy in producing good thoughts, firmness in pursuing them, a,nd acquisition of true insight. But, he said, above all the seeker must learn to be a good friend. When he was asked what he meant by friendliness, he said: "It means to have hope of the welfare of others more than for one's self. It means affection unsullied by hope or thought of reward on earth or in heaven." And he said that "compassion and knowledge and virtue are the only possessions that do not fade away." And he also said that "friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of p€ace."

Deqlerns Home Feofured in Mogozine

The home of Richard Learned, president of the LearnedSmith Lumber Co.. Hermosa Beach, Calif., u,'as featured in the August issue of Better llomes and Gardens. LearnedSmith also has a branch yard in Gardena and is a member of the SCRLA. Dick Learned's home featured in the interesting pictorial article is in Rolling l{ills.

Philippine Mohogqny Associofion

Hofds 29rh

Annuol Meeting

Members, families and guests of the Philippine Maltogany Association, I nc., gathered at the Greenbrier hotel in \\rhite Sulphur Springs, \\rest Virginia, July 16, 17 and 18 for their annual meeting. Principal items of business \vere the election of the board of directors and oflicers.

Members elected to the board include W. A. Horve, R. S. Osgood, W. G. Scrim, H. R. Black, E. B. Ford, E. J. Heffernan, C. J. Atkinson, H. S.Thompson, and H. D. Florence.

New officers are: W. G. Scrim, president; H. R. Black, vice-president; G. D. Scrim, secretary-treasurer, and H. V. Coffey, assistant secretary.

Other business included a general discussion of matters affecting the industry, a revier.v of the advertising program for the preceding year, and the establishment of the advertising and sales promotion program for 1956 and 1957.

The Philippine Lumber Producers'Association, fnc., was represented by G. S. Manalac of N{anila. Mr. Nlanalac gave a comprehensive report covering tl.re cut and export of logs, production of lumber and veneers, ancl a first-hand account of conditions in the Philippines as tirey aftect the industry.

Walter SCRIM

/llV a]auuilfe Shtul Bf le Swun

Age not guaranteed---Some I have told for 20 years---Some Less Things Hod Brighrened Up

In The Los Angeles Mirror-News, that good columnist, Matt Weinstock, tells the following story, which has added much to our mirth:

A hungry, thirsty rvino sat under a railroad bridge, disconsolately pondering his fate, and decided to end it all. As. a last, decent gesture he started to compose a farewell note to his dear old mother. He wrote:

"Dear Mother of Mine: Just a few lines to let you know that I'm a failure, a no-good bum. Demon Rum has bested me. I have no money, no home, nothing, g9-"

'Merchcrnf' Keeps Them in Touch

We have received your magazine for some time now and enjoyed it very mucl.r. It has kept us in touch with the new things that come along, rvhich in turn we were able to pass on to the trade.

-Pagel Lumber Companv Tucson, Arizona

He paused and gazed absently around. Suddenly his eyes focused on a bottle in the weeds. He got it, found that it was nearly full of his favorite muscatel, and drank it.

Then he went back to his letter: "-$e if you ever need help, Mother, be sure to let me know. Your Son."

Ccrlifornio Tops U.5. Home-builcllnn

Six states account for almost half of total U.S. homebuilding, and the leading 15 states for more than 75/o of it, according to a survey of the Commerce and Labor Departments reported in House & Home, professional n.ragazine of the homebuilding industry. Based on the government's figures for 1955 nonfarm housing starts, California rvas far and a'rvay the first with 212,493 new units started, or 18.5/a of the national total, and Nerv York second. rvith 93.882 starts, or 8.27o. Texas u'as third rvth 69,214.

Plans for 375 nelv homes, including five residential tracts, are before Ventura, Calif., city officials.

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O'Neill Lumber Co. Turns Precuning lnto Profirs

"When I .first became interested in precutting and began to check into its potential, I was told that it couldn't be doneprofitably. Fortunately, I wasn't enough of a lumberman then t() realize that at the time," srniled Dave Wigl-rt (left), president of the O'Neill Lumber Company in San Carlos, Calif. As Wight spoke, he contemplated his crew busily marlning nine on-station saws in the big O'Neill precrltting assembly line.

"I originally became interested in precutting partially because I felt that it was a good answer to the threat of prefabrication, and also because I noted that small builders were losing out more and more to the big fellows because of the latter's buying power and production-line methods. The last point is what really decided me to take on the job of precutting framing lumber for the builder-the end of the business that was not being handled efficiently, except by the prefabricator," Wight said.

Not strangely, though, Wight soon found himself

serving big and small builders a[ke, because both have come to recognize the advantages of letting a lumber yard pr€cut specialist supply their framing lumber in solid packages-as much as four units to a truckloadin shipments with no "air," unlike the costly delivery of prefab panels.

Besides the elimination of waste, precutting also helps the builder by allowing him to use a greater percentage of unskilled labor on the job; his lumber arrives on the job in the proper order it is to be used-ready to nail in place. Precutting also slashes the builder's handling and shipping costs and, in addition, it greatly simplifies his accounting,

PRECUT FnArYllNG FOR FOUR HOIIES lccvcs fhe San Corlor yord on on O'Neill lumbcr Co. truck bound for on Elk Grove iob in top photo of left-hond ponel of picturcr on opposite pogc, 9ccond sccne: Dove Wight discustes o future preculting iob with Builder John McKcy ond Archiroct Bob Anrhen (designer of Itlockoy Homer), borh of whom qre :olidly sold on O'Neill's precut method. lhird shor: porlion of the big Son Corlos yord cutting shed wirh nine on-slation row:; rollcr: belwoen sows ollow cuts (such cs notchinE rofters) wirh minimum hondling, no chonging of selups, ond lengths up to 24' con be cut on 3om. 3qv due to movoble stop.. Fourh: thc Redwood City ycrd'r ycrd crew. Fifth: on cromple of why builderr cre coming oround to Dcve Wight's procuiting seryicc; brsider soving money, pr.crrlting ofiers relioble delivery in the order thsl molcriols ore needcd. TOP PHOIO of RIGHT-HAND PANEL: Aerial view of s-ocre Ssn Corlor ycrd ond below thot, port of thc yord crew which conrirfs of lO in regulor yord ond precut operotion. fhird scene: Scw operolor on Rcdwood Ciry line cuto roften; pockoged roof dccking stonds behind (note cutring lisr mounted over sow). Lower'right pholo shows oporotor culting freeze boord on one of on-3lqtion 3dw3 to lba stored for loocing

COMPTEIED PRE-CUI PACKAGE re3b on cort (mode from wqrrurplus bornb dolly), in foreground of photo ot left, ol the end of onc of the Son Corlos yard'r three looding lines. lr i: builr up by clerk os cort progrer:er down rhe looding line; ot the end, pcckcae is stropped ond reody for rhe forklifl.

turl,lBER coMPANY't san Gorlos reom (loft ro right, below): l. C. Reynoldr, W. H. McKoig, E. C. Robinson (precuf monogar), Rudy ilclesky (generol monoger), W. C. Pouhon, President Dove Wight ond l/irc. Dirie Gross

PRECUT FRAIIING TUMBER delivered to McKellsr & Associol*. Sonto Clcrc, iob (l€fr) in order ir i: to be used; lumber on top of "packcge" goes inlo con3lruclion

Srst snd builders woik their woy "down." Some unit stondr reody lo receive precul rofterr ond roof docking (ccnter). The completed home (righr). i/tcKellor ond thc other builderr rupplied by O'Neill lumber Compony hove found precutting sovet lhern anywhere from $100.$200 a unir

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because lumber is billed at a contract price per house, instead of by individual pieces.

Dave Wight speaks for thousands of lumber dealers when he says: "Many builders are notoriously poor accountants. They are continually charging off costs to the wrong operation." As an example: rvhen a builder decides to set up his own precutting operation, he frequently is unable to determine just how much labor he will need in his yard, how much he u'ill have to invest in handling equipment, whether he needs an extra man to control inventory, what his trucking costs will run, u'hat he should pay for insurance, and even horv much time his field superintendent will have to allot for cutting-yard liaison.

Comments Wight: "Do builders add these costs to their lumber? Of course not! A11 of these costs originate with lumber, yet they are added to administration ancl overhead. Conversely, we are geared to accounting, as rvell as cutting."

Precutting Now One-th.ird of Total Volume

In the past three years that O'Neil1 Lumber Company has been actively precutting lumber, the yard has supplied nearly 3,000 precut units to jobs in Stockton, Antioch, Pittsburg, Elk Grove, Tara Hills (Pinole), Santa Clara, San Jose, the East Bay arrd all along tl.re San Francisco Penirreula. The precut division, lvhich now accounts for over one-third of O'Neill Lumber's total volurle, is now geared to cut from six to eight units of different design per day. A unit includes everything except siding, roof deck and sub floor.

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In addition, O'Neill carries a large stock of precut studs (cut at the mill) in lengths varying an eighth of an inch. This stud inventory insures a ready stock for any job specification.

It is also interesting to note that O'Neill uses no Economy Grade in its precut operation. "We discovered long ago that our waste loss and cost o{ extra lumber handling far offsets what lve save on the initial purchase of Economy," Wight states.

A good case of growing pains has resulted from the success of the O'Neill precut operation. In addition to the five-acre San Carlos yard, Wight opened another yard in Redwood City during July 1955. The Redrvood City yard occupies 2f acres and is also set up for precutting. In all, the O'Neill operation carries an average inventory of 3,000,000 {eet of lumber between the trvo locations, and Wight indicates that he may soon expand his San Carlos yard again.

Once more focusing his attention or.r the small builder, this time the one-business builder, Wight is currently working up cutting lists for several stock plans, each rvith alternate elevations. These cutting lists rvill enable him to supply precut materials for one unit at a time-thereby giving the one-house builder the full advantage of productionJine efficiency and placing him in a competitive position to big builders and even prefabricators.

"When you put a small builder in a competitive position to prefabricators, you give him a distinct edge," Wight notes, "because he can add individuality and extra service to the job, while the prefab operator can not.

"I would like to make this one point clear though,"

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Wight emphasized. "We are not selling lumber by offering a pr€cutting service. We are in the lumber business and we are in the precutting business. That means that we make a justifiable profit on both operations.

"As a result of this policy, our year-end net has shown a substantial increase each year since we formed the precutting division to say nothing about strengthening our position in the volume lumber distribution picture," Wight added.

"After all, the only way to increase your hold on today's competitive market, and to justify your being in business, is to ofier and keep'offering additional services-services that will be profitable to your customer. as well as you."

Cloy Brown Stokes Out Eurekcr Yord lh Downey on Simpson-M&M Deol

Purchase of the Eureka Redwood Lumber Company

wholesale distribution yard which has been serving Southern California retail lumber dealers at 7l8I E. Firestone Boulevard, Downey, for the past two years, by Clay Brown of Portland, Oregon, was revealed in an announcement by Dean Jones, yard manager, who said that Brown had acquired the company name and properties from the Simpson Redwood Company of San Francisco. Simpson had taken possession of the distribution yard as one of the assets obtained in their recent $50,000,000 purchase of the M and M Wood Working Company of Portland, Oregon.

Clay Brown, president of the M and M division of Simpson, is also president of Brown Timber Company, which

represents a number of Pacific Coast mills producing a variety of western species. The Brown Timber Company, with ofifices in Beverly Hills, California, and general offices in Portland, Oregon, serves as exclusive sales agent in Southern California for the fir lumber production of Fortuha Sawmills, Inc. of Fortuna, California.

No changes in personnel or policies u'ere anticipated, the announcement stated. The Eureka Redwood Lumber Company distribution yard will continue to serve Southern California lumber dealers with a complete selection of redwood lumber in less than carload lots, and 'rvill arrange direct mill shipments of carload orders. Simpson redwood products will be featured.

Formal acquisition of the $50 million M and M Wood Working Corp., Portland, by Simpson Redwood Co., Seattle, was made on August 17.

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ATKINS, KROTL & CO. 417 Montgomery 5t. Son Froncisco 4, Colif.

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BETON & COMPANY, INC.

579 Howord 5t. Sqn Frqncisco 5, Colif.

M.5. COWEN CO. 150 Colifornio 5t. Son Froncisco 1 1, Colif.

IHE EAST ASIATIC COMPANY, IN 465 Cqliforniq St. Son Frqncisco 4, Colif.

GETZ BROS. & CO. 231 Sqnsome St. Son Frqniisco 4, Cqlif.

GRACE & CO. (PACTFIC COAST) 2 Pine St. Son Froncisco 11, Colif.

HEIDNER & COMPANY P.O. Box 1525 Tocomtr 1, Woshington

ISBRANDTSEN COMPANY OF CATIFORNIA, INC. 123 Colifornio 51. Sqn Frqncisco 1 1, Colif.

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ztEL & co., lNc. 230 Colifornio St. Son Frqncisco 1 l, Colif.

Selling to Friends

Sometimes you hear someqne say in a derisive manner concerning some successful salesman:

SELLS ONLY TO HIS FRIENDS.''

Well, don't we all? You certainly can't make any head-

Redwood Mqnufqclurer Wins Nqtionql Aword

For the second time in three years, the large red-, wood producer, The Pacific Lumber Company, with' mills at Scotia, California, eastern headquarters in Chicago and nationwide distribution, won first prize as the lumber manufacturer u'hich had done most in 1955 to promote the proper use of lumber in competition with other materials. The contest is an annual affair and is national in scope, being sponsored by the technical magazine of the lumber industry, the Wood Working Digest.

Judging is based on the efforts put forth ancl the results obtained by the nation's lumber producers. fabricators a3d distributors in furthering the continued satisfactory use of lumber and lumber products by home builders, farmers, industry and the general public.

In addition to operating the world's largest redrvoocl sarvmill, The Pacific Lumber Company is the largest manufacturer of house siding and thus is an important cog in the house building industry.

r'/ay or profit trying to sell your enemies, can you?

Folks who don't like you won't trade with you at all unless it is to your disadvantage.

Of course, a successful salesman sells only to his friends.

And the more friends he has, the more he sells, and the easier.

So, of course, the man who is able to make friends out of his business prospects is creating a mine to be worked as he goes along.

The salesman whose prospects are all friends has a terrific advantage over his competitors, assuming that he has anything like an even break in the value of the products he sells.

A"nd, as far as that goes, he is usually able to outsell and beat competition that may have an ev€n better product. It happens every day.

Give your friends the best deal you possibly can, and you have built the finest and firmest foundation a salesman can have-a world of friends.

Liffrell Offers Deoler Aid

Ralph Littrell, popular speaker at the recent SCRI-A convention, of Littrell Hardware Lines, Los Angeles, an exhibitor at the SCRLA show, representing tl"re "Stronghold" line of Independent Nail & Packing Co., is putting out an attractive nails and fastenings display for retail yards, which is available from the firm at Bridgervater, Mass.

AND tIKE IT!

We're independent! And iust like Gorbo we like io be olone. We're peoked obout ony monufocturer whb tries to force us to push his porticulor brond. Why should the customer be the goot? Being independent qllows us lo give eoch of our cuslomers o freedom of choice in buying to suit his individuol needs. Our independence is our customers' qssuronce of quolity. Noturolly, ofter 38 yeors of deoling with the yords ond fqbricotors of Southern Colifornio, we've developed top suppliers, good mill sources ond o lot of friends qnd we're nol forgetting oboul them. But we've olso developed speciqlized experience which tells us which moteriql is best for o porliculor iob. Thot's on osset you con counl on your cosl sheets.

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- other patenls peniling

Kathryn Murray of the staff of the Southern California Retail Lumber Assn., and executive secretary to Orrie W. Hamilton for the past three years, was married August 29 to Ralph Thurmon and resigned her position. After a short Hawaiian honeymoon, the couple will be at home at 2616% Broadway in Huntington Park, Calif., where Mr. Thurmon is a machinist. Kay was well and favorably known to a legion of lumber dealers and suppliers in southern California and will be sincerely missed in SCRLA activities.

Penaa,all.

Tom Fleming of the Fleming & Hightower Lumber Co., Los Angeles, is back at the retail yard from Tahiti, where he sailed as a passenger in the recent yacht races.

Bill Ramsay, Twin-City Lumber Co. partner, returned to San Rafael headquarters in late August from a three-week business trip through the east, midwest and parts of Canada.

Bill Eagan of the L. W. MacDonald Co., Pasadena, proudly fathered another baby boy August 24. It's re-

ported they ordered a girl child but the order got cold-decked, and Robert Anthony Eagan joins tr,vo brothers aged three and ten.

L. C. Cotner, general manager of Redwood Empire Products Co., Palm SpYings, and Mrs. Cotner were recent visitors in Los Angeles calling on lumber firms and preparing for the winter influx of business at the desert resort.

Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Schmitt spent a mid-August week vacationing in the Pinecrest area before he started his new berth as manager of the lumber division for Atkins, Kroll & Co. of San Francisco.

Carl Dupray is back on the job at Eureka Redwood Lumber Co. in Downey after a solo vacation at Sequoia National Park; seems his wife doesn't like to "rough it."

I. S.'Brown, president of Industrial Lumber, Glendale, and Art Evans, Atlas Plywood Co., Oakland, and their wives spent several days last month at Pebble Beacl-r and l\{onterey. Lazy days, good food and a high old time was shared by the foursome.

E. C. "Brandy" Brandeberry, officer with Bill Buettner in A&B Lumber Sales, San Francisco, spent the week of August 20 calling on Oregon mill connections.

Creighton Anfinson, his wife and family of three boys, with Chuck Bush and his family of four boys, spent two recent r,veeks at Eagle Lake, Lassen county, California. The 'boys ranged in age from two to eight and reportedly had the time of their young lives. Creighton is salesmanager for Eureka Redwood Lumber Co., Downey, and Chuck is with the Fairway Lumber Co., Garden Grove.

Jack Butler of Dant & Russell in Portland spent a Calilornia vacation with his wife for two weeks last month.

Nelson Jones, San Francisco hardwood and plywood distributor, returned early his month from a business trip to Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, El Paso and Texas waypoints drumming up business for the wood products his firm imports.

California has enough standing timber in its forests to build 35 million new houses, hlmost enough to rebuild every dwelling in the U.S.

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TRINITY 2326

History of Lumbering ls q History of Progress

(Reprinted lrom fhe GULF COAST LUMBERMAN, March |, 1956)

By A. J. BR.OWN Assistqnl Editor, The GULF COAST IUIIBERMAN

When the Centennial Exposition was held at Philadelphia, Penn. in 1876, there were two visitors among the gaping crowds who brought home with them ideas which had their imprint on the lumber industry. W. Scott Gerrish, a logger who did a great deal of contract work in southern Michigan, saw a small steam locomotive offered for sale. He came away with the idea that a steam-railway could be used in the woods. Like so many pioneers in thought, he was told that he "was getting foolish,". but he went ahead with his idea anyhow. Not long afterwards he had a seven-mile logging road in operation. It connected Lake George with Muskegon. Five years after his locomotive puffed its way along the track with log cars behind it there were 71 logging railroads operating in Michigan

Another man who made his name known in the lumber and logging industry was another logging contractor by the name of E. E. Shay. He designed a rather unusual type of steam locomotive. which made use of gears for driving power, rather than the usual piston and drivihg wheels. Some 40 to 50 years ago the Shay locomotive was a common sight in the woods. It is difficult to find one today outside of a museum.

The handling of logs from the woods has come a long

way, but even more astounding is the advance n-rade in sar,r,.mills themselves. As you stand on the cat 'ivalk of a modern mill, shut your eyes for a moment and consider the evolution of making square boards out of round logs.

Sawmaking Old Art

Saws go back deep into antiquity. Probably the first tools used as saws rvere long pieces of flint chipped so as to have a series of teeth. Such tools have actually been found. Sbme of them were fitted tightly into a stick. Saws such as these have been found in the bottom of a lake in

Switzerland, where men thousands of years ago lived in houses built on pilings to be safe from animals and enemies. In Mexico, primitive people made saws somewhat like these with bits of sharp volcanic glass. In the South Seas they used shark's teeth. The Egyptians had the first metal saws, made of copper and bronze. These saws, u'hile in principal much like our own, had no "set." For thousands of years all boards were either split or sawed by hand.

Pitsawing

All over the world this sawing was done very much in the same way. The log was placed over a pit (hence the term "Pit sawing") or else the log was held in a framework. Two men furnished the motive power. One man stood on or above the log, while the pitman stood below. The saw, a crude instrttment not entirely unlike an ordinary crosscut handsaw, had a handle on each end. Only the ancient sal',/ was raked to lvork in one direction-in tl-ris case it was the down stroke. Thus the pitman did most of the work by pulling the iaw down. This methocl is still used in some primitive countries today. There was an early pitsawing operation in Texas, something over a hundred years ago in Sabine Pass, where Davis R. Wingate had such a plant.

The saw evolved into a most useful instrument as man learned to make better steels. Usually the sawmills in the Middle Ages and down to pioneer times in America consisted of a .fairly thin blade held under tension in a big wooden framework, much as a hacksaw works today. The

U. S. Forest Service Pholo

Eorly type Sowmill U. S. Forest Servica Pholo

View of up-on-down sow in sclion

'Lumbering' in fhe Shqdow of Mounf Shoslq, Colifornicl

frame resembled somewhat in appearance and action the window sash that you raise up and down in your home. They termed these sash saws. Later when heavier and stronger blades were made they ran in a sort of guide or , slot and called them "Mulay" sa$'s.

Early Power Methods

From the beginning of time men have been devising ways and means of avoiding hand labor. Along about l3Z2 : in Germany somebody first hitched up a water-wheel to ' more lumber. At various times other methods of power were devised. At various times windmills were used and,

as you would expect of the early Texans, horses and often bxen operated sawmills. Teams walked around in a circle ' and operated wooden gearing which made the. saw blade move up and much after the same fashion you may find cane being pressed for syrup in some parts of the country today.

The first American sawmill run by water started making lumber in 1634, on the falls of the Piscatque on a line between Maine and New Hampshire, according to "A Popular History of American Invention," published in 1924. It made use of the up-and-down saws, and was con-

sidered a big improvement over the "pit saw."

Circul,ar Saw Rediscovered

I The lumber industry did not make much .progress- in the speedy production of lumber until the introduction of ' the circular saw. This was a re-discovery. rather than a .:; n€w invention. Hippocrates thought up the idea back in ' ancient Greece (460 BC), but his application was some. what difierent. He used it in cutting holes in the skulls ' of some of his patients to relieve pressure on the brain, an operation which surgeons call trepanning.

Benjamin Cummings is usually given credit for being the first American to make use of the circular saw. He made the first one in his own black-"mith shop, although Samuel Miller had obtained a patent for a circular saw for woodworking in England in 1777. However, it is claimed that circular saws were used in Holland nearly a century before. The American, Benjamin Cummings, a miliwright by trade, hammered out his first in 1814 for use in his own sawmill at Schenectady, N. Y. It took him some time to adjust it to the existing power, but he finally got it working in fair shape.

About 1814 a patent was granted to Robert Eastman and J. Jacquith, of Brunswick, Maine. Eastman arranged for putting some extra notches into the rims, which he called "false teeth." Some time later, it was in 1846, an inventor named Spaulding, in Sacramento, California, devised a curved socket which held the "false teeth" sornewhat more securely.

Steam Causes Trouble

The harnessing of steam as motive power caused trouble both here and abroad. In 1663 a power mill was set up in London, but it caused riots by the pit sawyers who feared that the new contraption would drive them from their jobs. A similar thing happened in New Orleans where the first steam sawmill in this country was built in 1830. The rvorkers tore it apart, driven by the mistaken notion that it would throw the pit sawyers out of a means of livelihood.

Band Saw Developments

One of the sensations in the same Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia was a band saw in swift operation, which was exhibited by Henry Disston and Sons, Inc. Disston was a mechanic working in Philadelphia, where saws were made in a small shop. When the concern failed he took

Pilsowing, eorly lumber monufocfuring mlhod

U. S. Forest Service Photo

it over in payment for a claim for wages. Starting on the proverbial "shoestring" almost without capital, he built the solid foundations of the great manufacturing house which today bears his name. Another well known firm of sawmakers, the Simmonds Manufacturing Company of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, began as a scythe-factory.

At this same Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, a young man by the name. of Rufus Learned saw a scroll saw using a tl-inch band. He made up his mind that the band head rig would be the coming thing in sawmills.

The origin of the band saw is much older than is generally believed. William Newberry of London, England, patented the first endless bandsaw in 1808, but his machine and saw were not developed. His big trouble was his inability of making a smooth, strong joint. About 1846, a patent was obtained for a bandsaw, and the inventor was perhaps the last person you would suspect. It was Made,moiselle Crepin, a young woman of Paris, a member of a family in high social standing. This saw was exhibited in I&44 at the French International Exhibition in Paris. Another patent was later obtained by M. Perin who greatly improved the saw by improving the weakness in the Englishman's saw. He did a better job of perfecting the joint. It was he, more than anyone else, who made the general use of these saws possible This will help to explain why Rufus Learned ended up by going to France to get his first head rig band saw made.

Rufus Learned was an interesting character. Born at Jackson, Mississippi, then the political center of that part of the state. His mother disliked the idea of having the

young man grow up in Jackson because it was the scene then of many brawls and duels, and so she sent him at 13 years of age to an aunt in Maine, where the family came from originally. This aunt died two years later and Mrs. Learned sent the boy money to come home. In those days that meant a trip by water to New Orleans, then up the river to Natchez, and then overland to Jackson.

Another sawmill incident about this time influenced the young man's life. John A. Sutter was building a'sawmill in California. It was a water-powered sawmill on a river in the mountains above Sacramento. The ditch leading awav from the water wheel proved to be too small. In an effort to deepen this tailrace the water was turned into it one night in 1848. After shutting off the water one morning, some large flakes were found which proved to be gold, an event which led to the great gold rush in California in 1850. Young Learned did not get to Jackson, not on that trip at least, for hearing of the gold excitement he went via the Nicaragua route as a steerage passenger. After 15 months of gold mining along with a partner from Tennessee, they succurnbed to the lure of gold in Australia.

This venture reads more like one of the dime novels of that period than a recital of facts. Learned and his partner took shares in a Tontine boat which was bought by 400 men., The agreement was that any member of the company could leave the boat at any port, but only those who completed the voyage could share in the profits, and those who left earlier lost all their interest in the ship as well as the profits. Sidney was at that time an English penal colony. The first stop was at Honolulu. The Hula dancers must

have spoken eloquently rvith hands and hips, for at that point the boat lost about 50 men. Their next stop was at Apia, where they lost 75 to 100 men from the same cause.

In Australia they staked their claims up in the hills, and found it necessary to build a long ditch, which they did after encountering many difficulties. Finally they swapped a ranch nearby for one-third interest in their ditch and mine. [-ater, Rufus Learned, then 18 years old, became poisoned and his eyes became so badly infected that he was ordered to take a sea voyage by his doctor and came back to the states, just prior to the opening of the War Between the States.

After the war, Mr. Learned came back to Natchez, I\{ississippi, to find the affairs of his step-father, Andrerv Brown, in bad shape, due to the vicissitudes following the conflict, and then decided to stay and help Mr. Brown get his sawmill properties out of the difficulty which they were in. Another influencing factor was that he wanted to marry Brown's daughter, which he did.

So, to get back to our sawmill narrative, when Rufus Learned saw that band scroll saw at the Philadelphia Exposition, he had a feeling that he must have a band saw to get the mill at Natchez back in good working order. Shortly after he got back from the Exposition, he saw the

A "Peckerwood" Saw

But to go back a little: in 1855 or 1856, when Andrerv Brou'n rvas running the mill, he tried out what was called a "peckerwood saw." This was simply an iron bar six to eight inches wide and about seven feet long, swung at the center with teeth on each end. It simply and literally chewed its way through the log, and though it could cut a three-foot log, it did such rough work it rvas abandoned. Incidentally, this sawmill, now known as R. F. Learned & Son, established in 1828, and still operating today "under the Hill" at almost the-same site, is the oldest sawmill in America to stay in the possession of the same family during the entire life of its ooeration.

The Future?

If, by this time, you choose to move out of the past and ponder for a moment on what the "sawmill" of the future r'vill look like, you can study preseat trends to help you dream up your picture. Will sawmills of today, cutting only LUMI3E,R, be regarded as quaint, the way we now view the old water-powered sash mills? Who knorvs?

l)ebarkers are l)ecoming as common as ants at a picnic. Start counting the things made of bark alone on your fingers and you will be out of hands before you have named them all. Slabs, edgings and trimmings now go tcr the chipper to be made into pulp, soon to become the nervsprint of tomorrow's paper. Shavings are made into lvall boards. Some pilot plants are even producing molasses from u'ood. The list of things using wood fiber as a base grorvs year by year, so is it too fantastic to believe that some day the entire tree may be dropped into a l.ropper, reduced to pulp, and then remade into a tl-rousand items for our use?

In the meantime, where can I get a car of 2x4-8 studs for quick shipment?

Northern Goliforniq Foresters Hold Meefing qf Fort Brogg

S. Forest Service Pho{o account of a mill in Indiana operating with a 4-inch band saw. He went to see it and at once tried to have the man who built it make him up a 6-inch saw. He was told that this was impossible, and that a 6-inch band would never be used. Later he learned that a man in New York at Peck's Slip had a mill similar to the Indiana plant. After studying this mill, Mr. Learned went to see Thomas P. Egan, of the concern which later became J.A. Fay & Egan Co., of Cincinnati, Ohio. One of Egan's best mill designers laid out a mill designed to carry a Ginch saw. But they had to go to France to get the saws made.

The original band mill had wooden wheels covered with leather. The first improvement was to put in an iron lower wheel and a little later an iron wheel was put in above. They had no precedent to go by, so the first idea was that it was necessary to crown the wheel in order to keep on the band saw. They found this would not rvork, so they figured out a plan of tensioning the saws on the edges, as it is done todav. and ran them on flat surfaced rvheels.

Professional foresters-the men responsible for growing California's timber crops-held their annual spring field meeting in the Fort Bragg area June 1 and 2 this year, announced Leon R. Thomas, Fresno, chairman of the Northern California Section, Society of American Foresters. To give members of the professional society an opportunity to inspect recent developments in forestry methods on the ground, a different section of the state's timberland is visited each year. From 125 to 150 of the Society's 750 members in Northern California attended at Fort Bragg. They looked at North Coast forestry in all stages, by visiting everything from a forest tree nursery to sawmills.

On June 1, the program covered sawmilling operations and featured the work of Union Lumber Company. A banquet was held at 7:@ p.m. at the Anchor Inn, Noyo Harbor. John Philbrick spoke on early-day logging along the Mendocino Coast. Trips to the woods were scheduled June 2. Production of trees for reforestation was seen at the Parlin Fork nursery, operated by the California Division of Forestry. At Jackson State Forest, the group inspected a pine plantation and timber harvesting operations. Union Lumber Companv rvas host at a lumberiack lunch.

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Lumber Yord Plcnning Kit Offered by Hyster Gompony

This new Hyster-produced lurnber dealer's Yard Planning Kit now makes it possible for the lumber dealer to duplicate his yard in miniature and see at a glance all elements that make up a yard. A variety of storage arrangements can be tried until the best solution is reached and before any physical labor or alteration costs have been expended.

The Yard Planning Kit consists of templets to scale, representing standard items or package sizes sorted by a

retail or wholesale yard, and industrial trucks in sizes and types commonly used in lumber yards. Instructions and a large, clear acetate grid sheet, inventory forms and industrial truck specifications, are included. The kit can be obtained at production cost, $5.00, through any Hyster industrial truck dealer or by writing to Hyster Company, 2902 N.E. Clackamas Street, Portland 8, Oregon.

Wesfern Pine's 'Fence Folio' Recdy

A colorful consumer publication entitled "Western Pine's Fence Folio," from the Western Pine Association, is designed to show how the 10 versatile woods of the Western Pine Region can be used in fences and details all important information about fences, their design and building for the home craftsman. Included is a variety of fence ideas in full color, details on the "what" of material selection, a basic plan of fence construction and a check list for the home fence designer and builder. Single copies of the new folder may be obtained by writing the Western Pine Association, Yeon Building, Portland 4, Oregon.

For retailers who may wish to utilize the publications in large numbers, special quantity rates of lf cents each for from two to 999 folders are available; for quantities greater than a thousand, rates are $10 per thousand, F.O.B. Portland.

The publications make excellent envelope enclosures (they were especially designed for this use) with customer mailings of invoices and other matter. They also make excellent counter sales helps or sales-stimulators at home shou's, fairs and similar occasions.

L. \ t. Mortinez Qo. Moves lo Berkeley

L. W. Martinez, owner of the wholesale lumber firm bearing his name, moved his offices across San Francisco Bay and closer to his Berkeley home on September 1. The new L. W. Martinez Company offices are in Berkeley's Mercantile Building, 208,2 Center Street. The new phone number is THornwall 5-2577, and the teletype has been changed to OA 336. The firm had been located in San Francisco for nearly N years, originally at 16 California Street, and since 1942 in the Hobart building on Market street.

Martinez began his long lumber career back around 1920 with Pelican Bay Lumber Company. He later wen( with Sudden and Christenson and became salesmanager of, first,

Hoquium Lumber t Uiit Company and, later, Sudden & Christenson's Prosper Mill Company. During the late twenties, Martinez organized his own sawmill at Coos Bay, Oregon, and operated that venture until establishing L. W. Martinez Company in San Francisco in 1937.

Boy Areo Building Up

San Francisco-Industrial and commercial building reported in nine Bay area counties during the second quarter of 1956 more than doubled the like 1955 period, reported the San Francisco Bay Area Council. Building permits totaled $18.4 million in the quarter, against $8 million last year.

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All new houses in the $10,000-plus price range in southern California will have vear-round air conditioning, recently predicted Francis S. Cornell, vice-president and general manager of the A. O. Smith Corp., on the occasion of planning the firm's new $2,500,@0 equipment plant to serve the 11 western states.

Millionaire lumberman and financier Arthur King Wilson, 57, was sentenced to 18 months in prison and a $5000 fine for tax evasion, reported The San Francisco Chronicle August 3. He remained free in $2500 bail after his attorney, Spurgeon Auakian, announced he would appeal.

' Officials of Georgia-Pacific Corp. and their u'ives last month visited the Hammond Lumber Company properties in California on an inspection tour {rom their Portland, Oregon, headquarters. The Hammond purchase by G-F was recently made and the deal is expected to be finalized early this fall.

The new office building of the Durable Plywood Co. was singed by flames last month, with unofficial estimates of the fire and water damage running well into the thousands of dollars.

Herb Galitz was recently elected president of the Southern California Chapter, Producers Council, Inc., whose members number 80 national manufacturers of building materials.

Southwest Lumber Mills, Inc., rvith mills in Flagstaff and McNary, Ariz., shorved a net improrzement in earnings of $1,0O4,880 last year.

More serious damage was averted in a recent fire at the Save Way Lumber Co., near Buena Park, Calif., when firemen from the Knott station confined the blaze to lumber piles in the yard and arvay from the building, said Owner Ben Turner.

Spokane, Wash.-Potlatch Forests, Inc., Lerviston, Idaho, is acquiring the assets of Deer Park (Wash.) Pine Industry, Inc. Deer Park's mill produces about 45 million board feet of lumber a year with sales of $5 million. Potlatch's holdings include a $12 million pulp mill, several lumber mills and extensive timber.

Bakersfield, Calif.-The Kern County Planning Commission has approved a 180-1ot subdivision in a $1,960,000 investment here.

Phoenix, Ariz.-Federal court has denied jurisdiction in litigation surrounding receivership and dissolution of the F. P. Drew & Sons Lumber Co., Mesa, Ariz.

Harry W. Steiff was elected president of the Vermiculite Institute at its recent l5th annual at Chandler, Ariz. Speakers included Gilbert E. Morris, superintendent of building for the City of Los Angeles. Guest Speaker Clifford Warren, Phoenix, said mass production has brought air conditioning within reach of modest-income families, with many new houses being engineered for it; 1951 had only 7500 home units but this year there will be about 200,000.

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Fqirhurst Adds Hosselberg to Force

Bert Hasselberg, for the past two and one-half years associated with Arcata Redwood Company's San Francisco sales office, joined the sales staff of Fairhurst Lumber Company on August 16. The announcement was made from the San Rafael headquarters of Fairhurst Lumber Com{iny (Calif.) by General Salesmanager Chuck Noble. Hasselberg will rnake San Rafael his headquarters and will continue to service the Northern California trade.

Bert Hasselberg, a graduate of the University of Washington '42, began a career of lumber in the late 30's when he worked part time in various woods operations while attending school and college. After his graduation from college, he went to work for the A.'M. Paulson Lumber Agen-

cy, first at Scott Lumber Company, Burney, and later in tfre Paulson Lumber Agency sales offices in San Francisco. In 1946, Hasselberg became a partner and manager of a retail yard in San Carlos, remaining at that point until 1948, when he joined California Lumber Sales in Oakland. He was with the latter firm up to the time that he went to Arcata Redwood Company.

NPDA in S. F. Oclober 25

Among the Fall regional meetings National Plywood Distributors Assn. is Francis hotel, San Francisco, Thursday,

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Mqteriols Hondling Clinics ot NRTDA Exposition lo Show Deolers

How to Cut Costs

Lumber and building material dealers from coast to coast, representing large and small retail yards, will be in Chicago this December eager to listen to anyone describe a cost-savings method of moving and handling lumber and building products, an operation costing dealers thousands of dollars annually. The wide interest in materials handling in our industry is evidenced by the large attendance at the Materials Handling Clinics staged at the two previous National Retail Lumber Dealers'Expositions in New York and Cleveland.

The potentialities of using the latest techniques and devices to handle building materials has opened up a complete new field for substantial cost reduction in our industry. This trend has encouraged the 1956 NRLDA Exposition Committee to formulate plans for an even larger and more extensive clinic at the third 'fProducts in Action" Exposition, to be held in Chicago at the International Amphitheatre, December 10-13, 1956. In the fine facilities of the Amphitheatre, where a depressed railroad track comes right into the building, there will be full-scale demonstrations of car-unloading techniques to the thousands of dealers in attendance. At the 1955 Cleveland Exposition, Z2 railroad cars of lumber and building materials were shipped direct from the mills and manufacturers' plants. Dealers witnessed these demonstrations in life-like, realistic industry situations and conditions showing modern shipping methods for lumber, plaster board, insulating board and other construction materials.

As'a direct result of these Exposition Materials Handling Clinics, dealers who were previously preoccupied with the cost of direct labor are now conscious of their indirect labor and the mounting costs of moving material from one place to another. The hidden costs of indirect labor is uppermost in our dealers' thinking because in no other industry does there lie such a remarkable opportunity for cost reduction in the co-ordinating of yard handling, warehousing and delivery methods.

In addition to car-unloading demonstrations, wherein the latest materials handling equipment will be used such as fork trucks, straddle trucks, delivery trucks and strapping, there will be a model warehouse containing upwards to

3rd Annual NATIONAL RETAIL LUMBER DEALERS EXPOSITION

CHICAGO-DECEMBER 10-13

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8:00 A.M. to 10:00 A.M.

Management Workshops-Dealers Only

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Special buses from Conrad Hilton to Amphitheatre

10:00 A.M. to 5 :00 P.M.

Action Clinics and Product Exhibits

fnternational Amphitheatre, Dec. 10-11-12-13

Evening Hours

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Special. Events, including Model Homes for Dealer Inspection

1,000 square feet of floor space. In this warehouse dealers will see demonstrations of the most advanced equipment and techniques in storage methods, using full size typical building material products sold by retail lumber and building material dealers.

Some of the subjects which will be thoroughly discussed by material handling experts will be:

1. "What Kind of Equipment Should I Use to Start Mechanization of a Yard."

2, "Why Is Planned Ordering'and Standard Units Essential to Mechanized Handling of Building Materials?"

3. "Yard and Building Layout and Revisions."

'4. "Cost Accounting and^ Time Study Analysis in the Yard."

5. "Success Stories of Converted Operations."

6. "How to Get More of These Cars and Unitized Shipments from the Suppliers and Railroads."

Coupled with demonstrations and ,clinic discussions will be a little theatre where many new and ,constructive movie films, showing improved materials handling methods for building material and lumber products, will be shown every day of the Exposition. In the past few months several large companies have been making these films, and several more are scheduled for production this year and will be ready for showing at the time of the Exposition. One large manufacturer of ,materials handling equipment has completed a new film on lumberyard operations, while a large

building material manufacturer is working on a similar film which is already in the "Shooting" stage at the present time. Another film of wide interest has just been produced by a manufacturer of protective papers which shows the best methods of wrapping lumber for freight car shipment and outside storage which eliminates expenses in bufiding lumber sheds.

The Committee, in addition to the demonstrations, plans to have an exhibit of new type railroad cars being developed by railroad cotnpanies and car builders. The Materials Handling Clinic will run two days and will be put on twice during the four-day exposition. This schedule will enable dealers to visit product exhibits as well as attend three other action clinics and ten morning management sessions.

Yole & Towne Nqmes Poir for L.A.

Eric B. Insley and James N. McEntee have been appointed manager and sales manager, respectively, of the newly created Materials Handling division, Los Angeles Sales and Service branch, of The Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company, announced Paul R. Minich, Jr., general sales manager.

Slructurol €loy Hike l4o/o

The brick and structural tile industry last year increased its productionl4/o, announced Df. Robinson Newcomb, market analyst for the Structural Clay Products Institute. This is the greatest increase of any major structural building material during 1955, he added.

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"Sold by Lumber Deqlers Only"

This famous slogan by the manufacturers of Balsam-Wool Insulation has been seen by lumber dealers everywhere. It represents a sales policy that should peisonally interest each and every dealer.

A manufacturer has two things he sells-quality and policy. To cheapen either would appear unwise. To be successful, he must constantly improve quality so as to provide a better value. To "cheapen" his sales policy, he "weakens" orderly distribution (the wholesaler and retail lumber dealer). Yet, a manufacturer has a primary obligation to sell his merchandise at a profit to an ever-expanding market.

Did you know that out of a total insulation market of 160 million dollars, the lumber dealers' share has shrunk from 63/o to 42/o in the past few years? On an average, that's over $5,300 worth of business for each dealer-which seems to be headed right out the front door. I

Possibly the biggest single reason for this serious drop in dealer insulation business is the fact that many manufacturers are by-passing the dealer-and selling directly to builders and applicators. They have no "lumber dealer" sales policy.

This is a serious threat to all lumber dealers. Our economy is fast-growing and housing is a major factor. What effect will this "by-pass the dealer" policv have in tire next 5,or 10 y"t.r?-And what po.ribl" eifect will it have on other products the lumber dealer now sells? Will the lumber dealer be a maior factor in the distribution of building materials?

What can be done about this ?

The manufacturer can take business where he finds it, ever widening his distribution pattern. Or the lumber. dealer can awaken to his role in this insulation business-and promote and sell products that are his alone.

What are you going to do to protect your business now-and in the future ?

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Sales, total e4rnings and earnings per share of common stock for the second quarter of 1956 were the highest for any quarter in the history of Johns-Manville, L. M. Cassidy, chairman of the board, reported July 18. Consolidated earnings of Johns-Manville Corporation and subsidiary companies for the second quarter were $7,893,737, compared with $6,531,742 for the corresponding period last year. Sales for the quarter were $82,684,500, compared with $75,45O,U7 for the second quarter of 1955. Income taxes for the second quarter u'ere $6,440,000, compared with $5,310,00o for the same period last year. F'or the year to date, sales were $147,359,m6.

Cqlaveros Promgtes Feise

Gene Feise has beer( appointed traffic manager for Calaveras Cement Company. He joined the company's traffic department in 1953, and has been assistant traffic manager since 1954.

R,R,IC Directors Meet to Plqn 1957 Gonference

The directors of the Redwood Region Logging Conference met in Eureka, August 11, to review the 1956 convention in Ukiah and discuss preliminary plans for the next conference to be held in Eureka, May 24 and 25, 1957, according to Ted Carlson of The Pacific Lumber Company, Scotia, conference president.

The program of the Ukiah conference was considered appropriate for the times and the panel chairmen and speakers were commended for their discussion of "Problems Facing Loggers." Among subjects discussed at the conference were fire protection, control of timber trespass, use of aircraft, and stream clearance. The conference was well attended and well handled, in most respects. The management of banquet tickets received some criticism, since some dues-paying conference members were unable to obtain seats. More than 800 people requested tickets, but only 700 seats were available for the excellent Hollywood entertainment show put on by the exhibitors.

Considerable thought was given to the suggestion that the May meeting date prevented attendance of many woods personnel. A date in February or March is being considered for future conferences, after next year, but actual decision to move up to this date would depend on finding a meeting place with buildings large enough and high enough to display all equipment indoors. In this regard, Conference Secretary-Manager Emanuel Fritz was directed to investigate the possibility of having the conference at the Hum-

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boldt County Fair grounds at Ferndale at a future date. The Logging Conference attracts the largest crorvds ever assembled in the Redwood Region. A total of more than 2,000 people, conference members and visitors, attended the Ukiah conference.

Sontq Grvz Yord Wins Prize

The Norton Phelps Lumber Co., Santa Cruz, Calif., was one of 20 dealers winning week-long, all-expense-paid vacation trips for two to Bermuda, Nassau, Montreal or Mexico City, plus $50 cash, in the recent contest by Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. for best window and store displays. Winners could instead have a $700 cash award if they chose. J. E. Norton was listed as winner at the Santa Cruz vard.

New Series of Keep Green Ads

A new series of forest fire prevention ads, timed for use during the late summer and early fall fire periods, is being distributed by American Forest Products Industries, Inc. The series consists of 14 ads, 3 columns wide and 10 inches deep, calling attention to the danger of forest fires and the economic importance of protecting timberlands. Free mats may be ordered from AFPI's headquarters, 1816 N Street, N.W., Washington 6, D.C. Eight of the ads employ comic art as an eye-catcher.

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Four Top Tolks Tell Members How to Hike Profirs

A general meeting of the Woodwork Institute of California was held August 3 at the Sheraton-Palace hotel in San Francisco. The luncheon and afternoon business session, which was held in the Comstock room, was presided over by W.I.C. President Byron K. Taylor, Taylor Millwork & Stair Co., Los Angeles.

Through the efiorts of Program Chairman Phil McCoy, Western Pine Supply Co., Emeryville, the general membership meeting was treated to four excellent talks about a subject dear to the heart of any businessman-llow to Increase Profits.

Keynote speaker for the afternoon session was Lester T. Bartman, vice-president of the Crocker-Anglo National Bank in San Francisco, rvho presented a straight-from-theshoulder banker's point of vieu'on the fascinating subject of "How to Borror."' Money."

Following Bartman's helpful discussion on the "do's and don'ts" of borrorving money, Phil McCoy moderated a series of three panel discussions. The first rvas headed by James Dean, one-time salesmanager of Standard Oil Co. of California, and norv secretary-manager of the Building Material Dealer's Credit Association of Los Angeles. Dean rvas assisted by Ralph Hill and Perry Acuff.

Amazing Rise in Bankruptcies

Dean's interesting talk on "Lien Laws" brought forth several informative facts about u,hat poor credit management can cost a business. "Based upon national figures," Dean noted, "if your accounts run past due 30 davs, you are losing l5/o of your net profit. If they run 60 days slou., you've lost 35/o of your net; a past-due account of 90 days costs you 50/" of your profit, and an account over one year past due will cost you all of your profit-plus a portion of your principal !"

In addition, Dean pointed out the rise in building trades bankruptcies (using Southern California as an example) from 135 in 1950 to 650 in 1955, with 1956 scoring 468 as of July 31. Dean also noted that the average bankruptcy in 1950 ran approximately $2,000 in assets against 93,000 in

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and San Bernardino county registered a sobering 51/o ':l lien ratio. :

In closing, Dean urged credit caution and the importance to a seller of making out complete sales tags for all transactions in order to protect his lien rights.

Les Carr, of L. J. Carr & Co., Sacramento, was the second'speaker on the panel. His topic was "Expanding and Contracting With the Market," and he was assisted by Jim Pierce and Seth Potrer.

Carr urged all lumbermen to recognize their real. competition and, as a result, the necessity for cooperation among the entire lumber industqy. He noted that the amount of wood being used in home building is continuing to decline b€cause, "'We are being designed out of it."

Carr went on to state that he felt the industry's main weakness was the promotion of wood with young people in the nation's various architectural schools. He pointed out , the necessity of promoting lumber industry products to this quarter, as well as increasing consumer promotions.

In addition, Carr discussed the adrantages of installing a perpetual inventory system, and also the advisability of furnishing all salesmen with a company profitand-loss statement each month

In regard to the latter point, Carr stated that all of his salesmen receive such a statement and he has found the result of this action quite gratifying. both in increased sales and "esprit de corps."

The windup panel discussion on "Margin, Volume and Profits" was headed by another expert, Laurence A. Smith, Jr., of the management consultant firm of Booz, Allen and Hamilton. Smith, who was assisted by Bob Hogan and Charles Murra, gave the group a graphic picture of the many factors that can lead to business illness . . and what can be done to nurse it back to health again..

The successful general meeting, which was attended by 85 millwork men from all parts of the state, followed a board of directors meeting earlier in the day, at which Ji^ Pierce, Pacific Manufacturing Co., San Jose, was appointed to serve out the term of his father as vice-president and director of W.I.C.

Record Gonstruction Totol of $2O Billion Put in Plsce Firsf Holf of Yeor

liabilities-compared to glO,00O in liabilities for 1955.

assets against $25,000

"The right to lien is a poor reason to sell," Dean continued, "because only L|o/s of the liens filed in California are ever paid in full. Over 8oo/o of contractor failures are du€ to inadequate capital."

Dean further pointed out that in Orange county alone, 34/o of. all n€w home construction was liened last year. Slightly more than 25/o was liened in Los Angeles county,

The value of new construction put in place rose seasonallv in June 1956 to $4 billion, slightly above the previous June record ($3.9 billion) set in 1955, according tci preliminary estimates prepared jointly by the U. S. Departments of Labor and Commerce. For the first six months of this year, construction activity amounted to an all-time high of $2O billion, 2/o above the figure reported for the first half of 1955. On a seasonally adjusted basis, outlays thus far in 1956 were at an annual rate of nearly $44 billion, compared with actual expenditures of $43 billion for the year 1955.

Private construction in June, at $2.7 billion, was slightly below the June 1955 total, mostly because spending for residential building, although above the May level, was off 12/o frorn last June's extraordinary volume.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS met ot 8:30 A.lA. (lefr phoro ot rop of opposire poge): Rcx Sporleder, front, (ond behind him) Jock lirtle, Adotph Worvorovtky, Horry tibby, Jim Pierce, ler Horter, Perry Acufi, Ernie Atkinson, C. E. Morrison qnd Ston Gtrstqfson. The righr-hand photo ocross the woy shows Progrom Chqirmqn Phil XlcCoy or rhe mike; to rhe right of him is WIC president Byron K. Toylor

SOME OF tHE 1UNCHEON group3 ore shown in rha five photos obove

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Trrker the tnucken haule mang a fog. Through evnehine ard nain . . . and even Lhrough, fog. gaye IIEDIUND4 tne sreatest lve had on mg SlGr{orBeaulg and Qualitg, iL reattg ie BIG !

Sales Rcpresentativct for:

' 8ERRY LUMBER CO.-PINE GROVE, CALIF.-High Aliiiude, So{i Teriure Pine-Whife Fir Roof Decking

O OSCAR HEDLUND LUMEER CO._BIDWELL BAR, CALIF.-

Kiln Dried Pine Boords & PanelingrDouglas Fir Dimension, White Fir Roof Decking

MOSS LUMBER CO._BURNT RANCH. TRINITY COUNTY. CALIF.-Hi9h Quality Old Growlh Douglas Fir Boards, Dimension & TimbErs

SIERRA MOUNTAIN MILLS-NORTH SAN JUAN. CALIF._

Kiln Dried Pine Boards-Shop & Uppers, Douglos Fir Dimension & White Fir Roof Decking

Shipped prompt\ b1 truch and trailcr anlwhere it Cdlifomia , . or b1 rail to yur tpur or iding any' vherc in America,

In the Next lssue

..THE IMPORTANCE OF COSTING TICKETS IN THE RETAIL LUMBER BUSINESS,'. the latest article by Paul R. HOLLENBECK of the Lumber Service Co., Burbank, will appear in the October I issue of The CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT. Copies of Mr. Hollenbeck's recent series, "The Deal.er's Cost of Doing Business," were extremely popular and back issues are nearly exhausted, so please watch for this one in advance.

Foresi Fire Proteclion Should Be Stepped Up

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tected, whoever makes the study, they agreed, should consider such .factors as: the number of woods and mill operations dependent on the forests; the amount of invested capital in forest industries; the economic losses that could be expected to follow fires of varying severities; the losses to recreation, wildlife, forage, and water resources and the industries dependent on them.

Oronge Gounry Permirs tt65 million

Santa Ana.-Rural building in Orange county in 1956's first half was below the volume of the same 1955 period, and this Jtrne's figure of $5,418,743 compares to $73,452,144 last June. The June 1956 figure included 313 single-family homes.

Doscher Nomes OHI Aide

As part of the plans to carry the Operation Home Improvement sales promotion campaign into 1957, John R. Doscher, executive director, has appointed James E. Hoffer as Local Level Manager to further implement local OHI activities. Hoffer was the publicity chairman of the Lane County, Oregon, OHI committee, where dollar volume of remodeling permits has increasedby 30/o and bank lending for home improvement is up 8O/o. To date, better than 1000 cities and towns have OHI campaigns in progress. I

Southwest Airways airplane service to the is considering abandoning scheduled Fort Bragg-Mendocino coastal area.

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Jqmes P. CRONIN

James P. Cronin, 58, former owner of the Cronin Lumber Co. in Van Nuys, Calii., died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage August 19 in Maryland, where he and his wife had gone to a naval air station on vacation to visit their daughter and her husband. Jim Cronin was born in South Dakota and grew up in retail yards owned by his father, John S. Cronin, a pioneer lumber merchant.' Coming to California, he was first with two retail yards in the west San Fernando Valley and then, in 1928, bought the yard at 14423 Calvert St. from Alley Bros. Lumber Co. After 27 years, he sold it June 20, 1955, to Gordon Leadbetter. A large property owner, he had been in semi-retirement the past year. The body was flown back for burial in California and Mr. Cronin's funeral was held August 24.

In Memoriqm

William Allen Merigold, authority on building construction and plywood, died August 9 at his home in New York City. For the past eight years he had been associated with Georgia-Pacific Corp. as manager of plastic plyrr,'ood sales, and earlier with Kimberly-Clark Corp. in the research and sales of building materials. lle was a key figure in the development of plastic-faced plywood, widely used in industrial construction . . Clifford C. C. Tatum, 76, prominent Los Angeles realtor, died recently at his home there. Active in real estate since the turn of the century until he suffered a stroke in i948, he helped found the Los Angeles Real Estate Board and served as its president in 1925. In 1922 he was president of the California Real Estate Assn., and two years later served as vice-president of the National Assn. of Real Estate Boards . . Herman J. Spaulding, 88, retired Long Beach hardware merchant, died August 11.

Bethel L. Lillie

Bethel I-. Lillie, 45, former assistant manager of the Fallbrook Lumber Co., died July 29 in Grossmont. The Escondido Times said he had been found wounded July 23 in the warehouse of the Spring Valley Lumber Co., of which he had been assistant manager for the past year. The coroner's office described the gunshot wounds as selfinflicted. Little and his family had moved to San Diego from Fallbrook.

'Stqrt Pilot' Slqrfs Motors{luickly

Blub Diomond's uniform quolity chqrqclerislics ore importont lo crqflsmen qs well os ownens.

UNIFORI CORE in hondling ond noiling

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UNIFORTYI SURFACE in decorqlion

Start fllot, a proven. permanently installed device .ivhich provides quick starting for all gasoline and Diesel engines, comes to the U.S.A. after more than eight successful years of use in Euiope. Start Pilot is distributed by the Wilco Company and Start Pilot Corp. Simple. compact and economical, Start Pilot injects a small quantity of ignition-promoting fluid as a fine spray, mixed u'ith air, into the engine intake manifold; has been scientifically tested for use on trucks, tractors, busses, hoists, 'dozers, marine engines, snow plows plus all other gasoline and Diesel-porvered equipment. The Sta?t Pilot unit is selfcontained, making it easy and quick to install even by unskilled labor. The Start Pilot kit consists of the main unit containing the Capsule chamber and the hand-operated double action air pump; a spray nozzle which is screwed into the engine intake manifold, and copper tubing 'ivhich connects the pump unit to the spray nozzle. Write for additional information to: Wilco Company, 4425 Bandini Blvd., Los Angeles 23, Calif.

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RESURFACE wolls with new texture...floors with colored CEMENT. worn ond lroken steps. cinderblock or concrele.

REPAIR cement floors, drives, wolks ond sieps...brick or 3lone wolls, romps, swimming pool oprons ond thresholds.

'How 19 Build Wood Fences' Now Reody for Deqler Distribution

"l{otr\' to Build Wood Fences," latest in a series of lumber merchandising aids published by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, is now' ready for lumber industry distribution to fencing prospects. The two-color brochure-type booklet shows a variety of wood fence installations, along with suggestions for the best and most appropriate uses of each type; considerable emphasis is placed on horv-to drawings and construction tips.

In announcing publication of the new selling tool, NLMA Executive Vice-President Leo V. Bodine said it is based on the idea that "selling fences is easier than selling fencing," and is intended to bridge the gap between the fence

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ARCHTTECTS AND HO'}IEOWNERS LIKE 'T becouse it mokes o lough, srrooth f,oor. eosier to polish, eqsier to poinl, ecsier lo sweeP.

Order Concrclc Adhcrivc wftorcvcr you buy

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as the homeowner visualizes it and the fencing he sees at his lumber dealer's yard.

"Just about everyone is sold on the idea of a fence," the lumber spokesman noted. "It's a big market and getting bigger. What we in the lumber industry must sell first is the idea of a wood fence. Once the homeowner decides on wood, he becomes a customer for lumber."

Copies of "How to Build Wood Fences" are available at: One to 49 copies, 25 cents each; 50 to 499 copies, 20 cents each;500 or more copies, 15 cents each. Orders should be sent to National Lumber Manufacturers Association. Washington 6, D.C.

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Phenomenol occelerolion in the ftelds of TRANSPORTATIONCOIIITVIUNICATIONKNOWTEDGE durins the pqst decode hos creoted its impoct on Hordwood Lum,ber ond Plywood distribution prqclices.

Todoy our ielephone offers inslonlqneous business inlercourse governing movements of our products from World sources. Colls to Monilo, Jopon, Strqits Settlemenls, Brozil, Guolemolo, Finlond, including domeslic prgducing cenler!, ore commonploce ond produce instqnlqneous resulls. World produclion cenlers ore qt our finger tips. Distribution of Hordwoods hos become intensified-simplified.

lf you ore o purchoser of Hordwoods in reosonobly substonliol guontities-our service is indispensoble lo you. Forly yeors supplying the Hqrdwood consuming trode spells experience in on importont field. lt ploces us in FIRST posilion lo chonnel our producls lo your plonl-economicolly -efficiently-personolized. Direct from monufoclurer ond producer to you.

We conduct this operqtion os wholesolers, principols, brokers ond imporlers. We submit spot invenlories oggregoting seven figuret-plus, of our own ond olhers for your considerqlion.

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NRTDA Sets FHA-Deqler Meefings

A number of federated associations of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Assn. are holding meetings to better acquaint their dealer members with programs and procedure of the Federal Housing Administration. In July, meetings were held in Indiana, Ohio, Virginia and South Carolina on an experimental basis. The results of these meetings are now iir and the meetings were, without question, highly successful and well received.

At each of the meetings the following FHA officials participated: Zone Operations Commissioner, State (or district). Director, Chief of Operations, Chief Underwriter, Chief Valuator, Chief Architect, Chief of Mortgage Credit and Title I Representative (Washington, D.C.). Where possible, it is also helpful to have a representative of the Voluntary Home Mortgage Credit Committee on the program.

From the experience gained from the trial meetings and frorn the suggestions received from those who participated, a suggested format or agenda has been prepared. In some instances it will be found that the State Director of FHA can moderate the meetings. At other meetings the Managing Officer or the Association President may wish to moderate the meeting

A "Financing Guide" was prepared by the NRLDA in cooperation with FHA to use at the first group of meetings and will be available for future meetings on order from the secretaries. This Guide carries the name of the federated association on the cover. The Guide has completed forms for examples, for both Title I Home Improvement Loans

and Sec. 203 Sales Housing. There is also a brief explanation preceding each section.

For future meetings the cost of the Guide will not exceed $1.25 each to the federated association, plus shipping charges. At the first group of meetings a charge was made of those attending of $5.00, which was adequate to defray this cost plus the meeting cost.

Kenneth E. Nelson Joins Eviu Products

Kenneth E,. Nelson has joined the sales staff of Evju Products Company, Inc., and will work out of the Huntington Park offices of the wholesale lumber distributing firm, it is announced by Bob Evju, president of the concern. Nelson has been identified with the industry in Southern

invited to drive in and take advantage of our \__/|vg|9|r|'rlv\ redwood lumber distribution yard in Downey or we'll gladly deliver. There's prompt, convenient loading for your pick-up. Carload orders are sent direct from our mill.

We carry a complete inventory of assorted grades and sizes of redwood lumber. Make us your redwood lumber information and supply center. Come in or call us for quotations.

Send for price list and grade sheets.

These helpful sheets will be sent upon request. Write today: Eureka Redwood Lumber Co., 7l8l East Firestone Blvd,, Downey, Calif.

Douney, California

Pbone LUdlout 3-3339 or TOpaz 9499)

Member: Calif ornia Redntood. Association

CaLifornia for the past 10 years. lle was formerly with the American Lumber and Treating Company and during the past .three years has been covering the territory for Koppers Co., Inc.

Ken Nelson is a 1943 graduate of the University of Michigan School of Forestry, and spent over two years as a forest ranger. He resides in Newport Beach with his wife Barbara and children Susan and Lori.

In addition to distributing the well-known Wynne Wood products, presently being manufactured in Jackscinville, Texas, Evju Products Company handles the wholesale distribution of all Pacific Coast lumber, including plywoods and allied products. The home offices of the firm are located in the World Trade Center, San Francisco.

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Drqkes Boy Lumber Go. Reorgonized to lnclude Cloverdole Plonf

A reorganization of Drakes Bay Lumber Co., San Rafael, is announced by E. M. "Mack" Giles, of San Rafael, and Arthur E. Bond of Cloverdale. The new firm, 'uvhich has been set up as Drakes Bay Lumber Company, Inc., continues to be headed by former partners Giles, now president, and Bond, nor,v secretary-treasurer.

In addition to continuing the same rvholesale business as before with main offices at 7ll "D" Street, San Rafael, the new firm also norv operates a concentration and distribution yard specializing in redwood at Cloverdale, under the direction of Art Bond. This yard is located approximately two miles north of Cloverdale on Highway 101 at the Van Dennis Planing Mill. Facilities for running surfaced and pattern stock, as well as resawing and kiln drying, are available.

Redlvood for the Cloverdale yard is procured from Gallacci Lumber Company, located approximately 3O miles west of Garberville. The lumber is brought in as 2', and resawn, trimmed, graded and tallied, with the exception of 2x4 stock, which is left as 2" but also graded, trimmed ancl tallied. In addition to specializing in redwood boards, the plant processes other 2- and 4-inch stock for mixed shipments and also turns out a quantity of fence stock run to various patterns and cut to length.

The Cloverdale yard is currently maintaining an inventory of over 750,0O0 BM, including. practically every size and grade in 1" and most of the popular items in Z- and

4-inch, which enables prompt shipment of practically anything in green redwood. In addition, Giles and Bond plan to bring in a sizable amount of Utility & Btr. later this year. This inventory will be put on sticks and offered as Air and/or Kiln Dried stock next year, along with existing green items.

Jock- in-the-Box Deoler Exhibit Of Georgio-Pcrcific Ponelings

A portable new Jack-in-the-Box unit that sets up as an attention-arresting exhibit of exclusive plywood panelings now is available to lumber dealers on loan by Georgia-Pacific Corporation. The impressive display, designed for use in local shows, and at county ancl state fairs, packs into a compact carrying case quickly and is easily set up for use.

Osrling r The Glucrlity Flush Door &tr"l, fu Eeaat$ol

Beech is not only bequtiful, it is q strong wood with o high degree of ruggedness.

It hos cr bequtiful, close, hcrrd groin thot con be finished nofurql or pqinted.

It is kind to the purse.

It permits you to give your cuslomer qn excellent flush door ql on excitingly low price.

NEW DRAKES BAY lumber Co.. lNC. ofiicers qre Art Bond, lefi, ond Mock Giles in righr phoro. New Cloverdole plont. ot lefi. covers 7r/z octes ond stocks more rhon 75OMBM in green redwood items; plont is locoted on roil opproximotely two miles north of Cloverdole on Highway I0l

Producers and Wholesalers ol Western Forest Products

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A 'Foreign' Affqir

A few years ago the: nation was startled when it heard that an American was up in Alaska selling iceboxes to the Eskimos. Almost as startling was the recent announcement that carload lots of pre-stained cedar products were being sold in the heart of California's redwood empire. 'Ihe third carload, containing pre-stained cedar shakes, boards and battens, siding, and stain r,vas shipped to Eureka, Calif., by Olympic Stained Products Co. last month.

To reach Eureka the carload shipment went from Seattle to San Francisco and then up the coast to llureka. During much of that later part of the trip the cedar traveled the California coast. \\ihile this may sound like a new version of "carrying coals to Nervcastle"-it isn't. Because

Eureka is in the center of the redwood country, while cedar must be shipped in, the advantages of using pre-stained cedar must be great enough to override the freight differential. Cedar's advantages, according to Burr Odell, Olympic sales manager, are greater durability, more resistance to weathering, and shows color better.than wood which has been stained.

This isn't the first time a carload shipment by Olympic has developed into a trend. Several vears ago the company made history in the industry by shipping a huge load of stain via steamship into New York. Prior to that shipment, all carloads of stains had been from east to west. However, since that first lvater shipment, Olympic has made many others to eastern ports.

Senor and Senora Ben Ward have returned to San Francisco, complete with trophies, Mexican lingo and a good suntan, following a vacation south of the border, where they visited with friends in Guadalajara and made side trips to Mexico City and Acapulco.

Ken Co,nway, southern California representative for Holmes Eureka Lumber Co., is on his annual deer hunting trip this month to Montana and Utah. He expects to spend at least three weeks roughing it in those wide open spaces.

Pentaaala

Dee Essley, dean of southern California Hoo-Hoo. and his wife Ada spent several days of August in the midwest and east on a business-pleasure jaunt.

Emil Kochton, Kochton Plywood. Co., Chicago, spent several weeks in California and the western states last month and this. He is president of the nationwide manufacturing and distributing concern.

Wendell ("Lucky Buck") Paquette, boss of Lumber Sales Co., San Fran-

cisco, has gone and done it again ! Wendell's newest run of luck and claim to fame occurred while golfing up Clear Lake way in August-a holein-one ! The 130-yard shot rung the cup on the fly, too, according to "unimpeachable" sources (not Wendell!).

Nate Miller, superintendent of shipping at E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, spent his August vacation superintending the sun, wind and tides.

Bill Bonnell, of Bonnell-Ward & Knapp, San Francisco, spent two August weeks calling on cedar and shingle and shake mills throughout Washington and parts of Oregon.

Harry Whittemore, general manager of Los Angeles Lumber, Inc., was a recent visitor to Eureka, where he ,conferred with executives of Fairhurst Lumber Co. He also visited the general sales offices of the firm in San Rafael, Calif.

Frank Paramino, of the San Francisco lumber company of the same name, returned to his offices late last month from three weeks in Oregon on business.

Ray Wiig, head man of Southern California Lumber Sales, Monrovia, was a recent visitor in Nevada and Arizona.

Mr. and Mrs. Clair Lundburg vacationed for two weeks in August in Denver and the nearby Rockies. Mrs. L., better known as "Sarah," is the gal with the pleasing voice who answers the phone for Arcata Redwood Company in the San Francisco office.

Hans Wall, prominent Los Angeles retail lumber dealer. left last month for Europe to be gone for at least ten weeks. He will spend most of his time in Germany, Italy and France. Dealer Wall is a native of Germany but has been in the U. S. for many years. At one time he actively operated his own lumberyard in the Rhineland and will look after family interests there now.

Hollis Jones, salesmanager of Western Door & Sash Co., Oakland, spent a mid-August week in the Pacific Northwest on business.

. Bill Tobin, Long Beach wholesale distributor, spent the last two weeks of August in the Washington, Oregon and California mill country.

California forest industries sponsor a Tree Farm program to encourage continuing production of timber crops from privately-owned lands.

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Major Supplier of Quality Lumber for Flush-Door Manufacturers

Common Grades of Pine and \Zhite Fir Dimension for Retail Lumber Yards

Mixed or Straight Truck & Trailer Shipments or LCL from Yard Stocks

Ray lViig Sales Manager

Goloveros Opens Tronsfer Plqnt

Calaveras Cement Company has opened a bulk cement transfer plant in San I-eandro to provide the San Francisco and East Bay .construction industry with its nearest supply of bulk cement. The $100,000 installation has a storage capacity of 5,000 barrels of cement. It is replenished daily by rail.

Mel J. London, Calaveras vice-president in charge of marketing, said the new transfer plant is making it possible for Bay area truckers to pick up from ll to 4 loads of cement in the time that would normally be consumed bringing back a single load from a manufacturing plant. The San Leandro installation is on Washington avenue, where it is easily accessible from the East Shore Freeway. It is equipped to handle four varieties of bulk cement but will stock only Types I and II portland cement except on special order. Two trucks can be loaded at a time. In addition to supplying East Bay and San Francisco bulk users, the plant will serve North Bay and peninsula points within a radius of 25 miles.

NIWKC Proposes Modulor Plcnning

An interesting proposal on modular planning for built-in cooking appliances, made by the National Institute of Wood Kitchen Cabinets, puts forth the view that although wood, as a highly workable material, is compatible with varying sizes of built-ins and can "live with" the present situation, it would be better for all concerned if modular planning were adopted by the industry. It is recommended that appliance manufacturers, when re-tooling or re-designing their units in the normal course of events, give very careful consideration to modular planning.

815 So. Iw Ave. Monrovia'Calif.

H- Iu* I*,*MATr'N o

All inquiries regarding NE$f PRODUCTS, New Literature or booklets and other items mentioned in this section should be addressed to THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT, Room 508, 108 Sfest 6th St., Los Angeles 14. Your inquiries will be promptly forwarded -bv us to the manofactorer or dis^tribuiotl who will then'answer your inquiries direct.

lots and utility yards. Further information from Chemical Division of Golden Bear Oil Co.. P. O. Box 4.16. Oildale, California.

New Semi-Hollow Plywood

Mqrlite Korelock Uses

New Studders Squore

"Better Workmanship With Better Tools" is Fairgate Rule Company's slogan for its new Studders Square. The tool is hard aluminum, light to handle, easy to read. Sized l€' x 4U' it aligns, measures, marks perfect 16" sections rvith ease and accuracy. The square is an all-purpose tool for erecting and applying all types of wallboards to studs. It is easy to use for: marking and cutting all forms bf wall and ceiling boards, handy for millwork and squaring 9Gdegree angles on inside walls; has projection lip for quick marking. Can also be used on studs 24" apart by marking ofr 16" and adding 8" to it. Graduations are rft' and l/16". Price $12.50 each. Address the manufacturer direct: The Fairgate Rule Company, fnc., Cold Spring-onthe Hudson, New York.

For Gontrol of Dusl

A new product to combat dust went into full production on July 16. This new industrial product is Golden Bear Dust-Binder, said to be the most effective means of dust control yet developed. Golden Bear Oil Co., Los Angeles, has devoted a great deal of its research to the dust problem. Golden Bear Dust-Binder has proven itself on logging roads, driveways, parking

A ttew, patented, interwoven veneer core construction that makes possible lighter weight, structurally stable, semi-hollow plywood, called "Sigeru Board," is now available in the U. S., according to Getz Bros. & Co., importing distributors. Basically, this new plywood was designed to meet the same characteristic needs as hollow-core, flusl-r door panels; stresses due to entrapped moisture, the principal cause of twisting and warping, are greatly reduced. The core is all Philippine n-rahogany selected for its long straight grain. It is claimed that weight and freight savings rp to 28/o can be achieved.

Among its many suggested uses are cabinet doors, furniture blanks, wardrobe doors, table and counter tops, partitioning and regluing stock. It can be furnished for interior or ex-

: Ceilings of many new store canopies and theater marquees are being lined rvith a prefinished hollow-core paneli.g, I\{arlite Korelock. When this tongue-groove paneling is nailed over open framern'ork, the ceiling is both enclosed and decorated at the same time. While Marlite Korelock is designed for interior use, its baked plastic surface and its construction make it suitable for this type of exterior application, rvhere exposure to weather is limited. In such installations, it is recommended that ventilation grills be installed at about 3O-foot intervals and that an expansion joint (%" gup covered by 1%" molding) be provided every 2O feet. Korelock, which consists of tlvo sheets of Masonite Tempered Duolux and an interlocking rvood core, is made in 2'x4' and 7x8' panels, tongued and grooved at sides and ends.

New Pqcksge Design For Chollenger Locks

terior bond with various panel facings such as rotary or ribbon grain Philippine Malrrogany, Birch, ;1nd "$sn"(oriental ash).

It is constructed with a 2" edge banding of 7-ply veneer in standard panels-4x6, 7 , and 8 in fu", l" and, lft" thickness. Table top sizes are furnished 3CX' to 48"x3€' to 96". Also, 3f" cabinet door blanks come in 77' through 24" widths and 18" to 38" lengths.

Further details contained in a new "Sigeru Board" bulletin are available from Getz Bros. & Co., (Dept. S.P.) 231 Sansome Street, San Francisco.

Challenger Lock Co., Los Angeles, is 1-reightening product identification by use of a striking neur package design. This ne'iv carton (rvhich will be standard for all Challenger locksets) employs a dramatic use of magenta and black. Its size is convenient for handling ancl shelf statking. A desirable feature of Challenger's new package is the printing of a template for installation on the inside cover. Packaging also includes complete instruction sheet. Challenger's complete line of locks and latchsets includes multi-purpose semi-heavy duty cylindrical locks for home, light industrial and commercial use. Available in a wide selection of smart designs and finishes, these solid brass locks are famous for their rugged durability and outstanding safety features. For information about all Challenger products, write Dept. CLM, Challenger Lock Co., 4865 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles 16, California.

DeKqlb Inlroduces'Lumberiock, Sr.'

DeKalb Commercial Body Corporation has announced production of the DeKalb "LUMBERJACK, SR." The .rrew delivery body, similar in most respects to the original Lumberjack, was designed to meet heavier requirements of the lumber trade. The body is available for Chevrolet, Ford, GMC, Dodge or IHC forward control chassis, with dual rear wheels.

Less than 12 months ago DeKalb introduced the first "Lumberjack" to the trade. Today it has been accepted as the unit for faster and more efficient "jag load" delivery. DeKalb, in close cooperation with the lumber and building industry designed and built the unit for the particular requirements of the building trade. It provides for handling of lumber, nails, hardboard, paints, etc. The half-cab

ket by United States Plywood Corporation. So lasting is the bond effected by this glue, and so invulnerable are its general adhesive qualities, that all government specifications for marine and aircraft work are met. It is known as Weldwood Waterproof Resorcinol Glue. It may be safely used for a permanent bond on sporting equipment; for home repairs, especially in basement rooms and others subject to dampness, and for outdoor furniture.

The bond formed by this glue will withstand cold, heat, 'and other elements. It is retailed in l/4-pint, pint, quart and gallon packages. It has an indefinite storage life.

New Weyerhoeuser Porticle Boqrd 'Floor Underloymenl

Following the trend to underlayment over rough sub floor, Weyerhaeuser product tesea.ch alnounces'its new underlayment product . Weyerhaeuser 4-Square Particle Board Underlayment. This new underlayment material offers specific advantages in installation and performance not the least of which are improved appearance and longer life for floor coverings.

ft no longer becomes necessary to lay finished flooring when the final decorative flooring will be in any of the tiles, linoleums, or carpeting.

Weyerhaeuser 4-Square Particle Board Underlayment has the density and strength to withstand heavy furniture or accessory indentation. Free of grains or knots, it provides a base which eliminates the tendency to mirror underlayment imperfections to floor covering. Basically

and either front or rear loading and unloading. The nerv unit affords heavier loads.

The Lumberjack, Sr. incorporates a short wheelbase (722" to l2e') with maximum maneuverability and l6x7' loading space. The new unit eliminates approximately 9' from the overall length of conventional types of trucks. A lower loading space area is provided for plywood panels, insulation board, and other flat materials. Access to this compartment is from the rear.

The body is available with stake rack sections, three single stake posts, rope tie hooks on the sides and other optional equipment features. In addition, cabinets can be supplied in the curb side skirt area to accommodate small items.

New Lengths on Mosonite Products

To meet a demand from builders for home exteriors, Masonite Corporation has established 4'x9' and 4'x10 lengths as standard sizes in six exterior products.

Tempered Presdwood in l/4" and 5/16" thicknesses has become available in these lengths at no increase in price, Ridgeline l/4' panels at an increase of $5 per thousand square f.eet, Sflf' Panelgroove and Ridgegroove at an increase of $10. These new sizes in l/4" and 5/18'Tempered Presdwood, as well as Ridgbline panels, are also available factory primed for easy painting.

Added to the line is Ridgeline in 5/16" thickness, now available in a complete range oFsizes.

USP Brings Out Wcterproof Adhesive

"A new boon to do-it-yourself woodworking craftsmen, an absolutely waterproof adhesive, is being placed on the mar-

available in 4'x8' sheets, it also is offered in a range of smaller sizes to permit easy fitting of ready panels. It is easily worked rvith ordinary on-the-job tools.

Further information can be obtained from the Weyerhaeuser Sales Company, St. Paul 1, Minnesota.

Use Woodlife on Hsrdwood Flooring

Robbins hardwood flooring is now available impregnated with Woodlife, the original water repellent preservative containing Pentachlorophenol. Although Woodlife has been used extensively on all kinds of lumber for several years, Robbins is the first company to apply it to flooring by the Dri-Vac process. Woodlife leaves no perceptible surface coating, yet makes an excellent base for finishes. It is odorless rvhen dry, and does not discolor the wood. The solution penetrates deeply into the wood through controlled vacuum application.

NAHB Sees Continued Upword Spirol in Home-building Costs

Washington, D.C.-John M. Dickerman, executive director of the National Association of Home Builders, declares there is "every indication" that the cost of new homes will continue to rise in the months ahead. He called the situation "highly regrettable."

"Although higher steel prices resulting from the recent negotiations will have little direct impact on the homebuilding industry, which uses comparatively little steel, the indirect effects certainly will be felt throughout the entire economy," Dickerman said. "These cannot help but adversely influence the prices of building materials and home builders must take this into consideration in the planning of future construction programs."

Furthermore, the NAHB official said, the tremendously high level of overall construction-now at an annual rate of $44.4 billion-is exerting strong upward pressures on prices. And these, he pointed out, will be increased sharply wl-ren the new highway program, which will make heavy demands on cement and steel capacity, gets fully underway.

"It is h,ighly regrettable that our industry has to be confronted with a new round of increases at a time when it already is plagued with the high costs of land, labor, money and material," Dickerman continued.

"Every increase in building costs acts to eliminate some potential home buyers on the lower end of the income scale and aggravates an already unsettled market. The more efficie,nt use of labor and materials which home

builders are constantly search'ing out can offset only part of the increases."

fnformation reaching NAHB indicates that ready-mixed concrete prices are up 6.6/o from a year ago; brick prices, have shown a comparable rise, and yellow pine lumber has shown a 4/o increase. Other increases over the year include plumbing equipment, up 9%; hardware, up 5%; plate glass and paint, sp 4%. The only significant exceptions are plywood and insulation materials, down 4 and 7/o, respectively.

As of May, the last month for which figures are available, hourly wages in the construction industry averaged $2.76, an increase of 5/o, and this does not take into full account the effect of the 1956 construction labor negotiations.

"According to the Boeckh index, home-building costs set a new peak in June-the 16th month in a row to show a rise," Dickerman said, "and realities must be facedthere are no present signs that this upward spiral is going to be halted."

L. A. Home Building Declined l7olo

Home building in Los Angeles and Orange counties in the 1956 first-half declined 77/o from the like 1955 period, reported Reese Myers, president of the Home Builders Institute, Los Angeles.

The greatest decline was noted in Orange county, where 1956 permits for 10,450 units dropped 25/o from the 14,050 homes started last year. Los Angeles county's 40,300 dwelling permits in this year's first six months were a l5/o decline from last year's same period's 47,300 units.

Don Kesselring Nclmed USPIy Northern Gqlif. District Mgr.

, fn order to better co-ordinate the activities of its expanding distributing operation in Northern California, United States Plywood Corporation has created a district including branches at Oakland, San Francisco, Santa Clara, Fresno and Sacramento. This newly created unit will be supervised by Don L. Kesselring of Lafayette, California, rvho is named Northern California district manager.

Kesselring was born in Oakland and is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. After a brief career in the coffee business which to<lk him to Mexico, Bogata, Colombia and New York, he joined United States Plywood in 1936 as a sales representative for its Flexible Materials division in Northern California. At that time, USP maintained western warehouses only in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Sensing a need for added distribution to efficiently serve the expanding Northern California market, Kesselring sold company officials on the program of establishing a sub-branch in Oakland during the latter part of 1938.

The operation was an immediate success and, following two intermediate moves, a large and modern companyowned warehouse was established in the area bordered by Third, Fourth and Brush streets, which Mr. Kesselring will still actively manage in addition to his supervisory duties.

' Don Braley Manages USP SoCal District

Donald L. Braley, of Arcadia, was recently named manager of the Southern California district of United States Plywood Corporation. The district includes branches at Los Angeles, Culver City, Glendale and San Diego and will include one to be opened in Santa Ana. Braley began his career with U.S. Plywood as a clerk in the Los Angeles branch in 1938. For a number of years he served as the manager of the San Francisco branch, and from there returned to Los Angeies as manager.

Green Veneer Plont for Stimson

Installation of a green veneer plant at the site of Stimson Lumber Co. is announced by Harold A. Miller, president. The veneer plant, with a ratd capacity of one shift of 90 million sq. ft. per year (t/V'base), will replace part of the present lumber production and will result in a completely integrated operation. Logs will be put through a barker and then routed to the veneer plant or the lumber plant, depending upon the best utilization. The leftovers and trim from these two operations will go in the form of chips to the hardboard division

(Forest Fiber Products Co., a'subsidiary of Stimson Lurnber Co.) and wood flour will be utilized in the making of plastofil and Fil-tite by the wood plastic division. A splitter will be used to break up broken log ends arrd veneer pond lilies for use in hardboard.

"This integrated operation efiects such complete utilization that other sources will have to be found for fuel,', Miller remarked. Production is slated to begin in November and veneer will be sold on the open market to plywood plants in the Northwest.

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lmported Hordwood Plywood Asgn. Now Goining Good Foofhold in U. S. Morket

The Imported Hardwood Plywood Association, composed of the major importers of Japanese and other plywood in the United States, has been making good progress toward its goal of promoting the use of imported plywood and the stability of the imported plywood market, all of which should instill cor4plete confidence on the part of the American buyer in Japanese and other imported plywood.

An aggressive advertising program has been started and, as the months go by, will reach an ever-increasing number of the plywood consumers at every level in all sections of the U.S.

The growth of the Japanese plyu'ood business in the United States has been due to the consistently high quality and attractive prices which have become well known throughout much of the country. The plywood is attractive, weli-constructed, carefully bonded with urea resin glue or exterior glue and, with its distinctive grain characteristics, is generally a most satisfactory and as reasonably priced as any truly fine hardwood plywood available to the American buyer, the IHPA declared.

The members o{ the Imported Hardwood Pl1'n'ood Association are dedicated to the service of the American market, with constant and careful attention to excellent quality, reliable shipments, stabilized market conditions and ortho-

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Pqul Hollenbeck Morks Cqlendqr

During September, Paul R. Hollenbeck of the Lumber Service Co., Burbank, Calif., is with a large line-yard lumber operator in the midwest on a consulting basis. Next month, he will conduct a dealer clinic in Lansing, Mich., Oct. 5-6; another in Des Nloines, Iowa, Oct. 15-16, and trvo clinics in Milwaukee, Wis., the following week. For tl-re balance of October and all of November, the popular author

of the dealer's "Market Analizer" will be giving 12 of his cost-of-doing-business clinics in Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma under auspices of the Southwestern Lumbermen's Association, Kansas City.

Looking into next year, Hollenbeck is already scheduled to make two convention speeches for the Northwestern association during the first part of 1957.

lorge Corgo Reqches Son Diego

San Diego, Calif.-The freighter President Taft reached here August 2I with the largest load of Japanese lumber ever imported here, 100,00C board feet.

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Western Pine Production Up; Expected Drop in Shipments

The report of the second quarter, 1956, production'and shipments of Western Pine region lumber products, and estimate of probable third quarter, 1956, shipments, .was released by W. E. Griffee, assistant secretary-manager of the Western Pine Association. The report said production of lumber during the second quarter hit a new high. Shipments of 2273 nillion feet lagged a little behind the cut and also were oft I.8/o from the record second quarter of 1955.

Although the demand for softwood lumber still is closely related to the volume of residential building, the Western Pine industry's shipments so far this year have held up better than has the construction of homes. The value of residential construction put in place the first five months was down 7/o and, for May down l2Vo from last year. For the first six months the Western Pine region's shipments were down only 1.3/o, evidently because of heavy industrial demand and increased home modernizing.

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"The Federal Resbrve System has begun to loosen up on the credit squeeze which is blamed for much of the reduction in home building. How soon the change in policy may increase the rate of housing starts is problematical but it can hardly have much effect before early fall. Meanwhile the Department of Commerce has reduced its forecast of housing starts this year to 1,150,000 new private homes. This compares with a 1.2 million forecast made last November and 1,310,000 actual housing starts in 1955," the report said.

"Based upon such factors and all other available infor-

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Texqs Forest lqnd Increqsed

East Texas has almost one million acres llrore forest land than it had in 1935 because so much land once cleared has reverted to forest, according to a recently completed survey of the state's forest resources, the U. S. I)epartment of Agriculture announced. Forests cover 11,655,800 acres of a total land area of 19,038,700 acres in the commercial timber beit of east Texas. The most heavily timbered portion is the southeast. The volume of all merchantable trees totals 7 billion cubic feet. Over half of this is softrvoods, mainl.v southern yellorv pines with some cypress and red cedar.

Plqn R"eunion of NHLA Grqduqtes

One of the important affairs schedule<l for the Natl. Hardrvood Lumber Association's 59th annuerl convention, and the lirst of its kind, r,vill be a reunion and luncheon for all of the graduates of the association's Inspection Training School. The reunion is appropriately planned to mark the retirement of School Director L. C. Nicely, l.ho rvill be the honored guest of the group at the luncheon October i8 at 1 :0O p.m. in the Hilton hotel, Chiczrgo. The gracluates nou, nnmber over 700.

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A. J. "Gus" Russell, manager of the Santa Fe Company, San Francisco, suggests in this issue that industry get together on a "use Wood" campaign. "By doing so, you are directly helping the lumber and the I-ord knows it needs it."

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H. C. White of White Bros., San Francisco, writes in this issue the "History of the Hardwood Industry on the Pacific Coast." He says that it began in 1849 and 1850 when clipper ships carried hardwood lumber around the Horn and stocked in San Francisco. Most of this early hardwood was for building wagons and coaches.

The Sugar Pine Lumber Co., Pinedale, Calif., is making up a solid trainload of pine lumber, mostly sugar pine, to be distributed over the eastern states and Canada.

An article appears in this issue written by F. A. Hofheins, Snark of the Universe of Hoo-Hoo, titled:."When the Depression Is Over-Then What?" (Little did the writer know that the depression then was only started and would run for years. )

In this issue is a full-page picture and historical sketch of

H. Sewall Morton of San Francisco, in which is stated the fact that his grand-uncle, Reuben Morton, built the first railroad in the streets of San Francisco, a horse-drawn line that ran out Turk street to Lone Mountain.

Paul Masters, Petroleum Building, Los Angeles wholesaler, announces that he is quitting the lumber business at once and engaging in the bond business.

R: W. Smith of the Trade Extension department of the California Redwood Association, is making a series of talks on the uses of redwood at various civic clubs throughout northern California. The talk is illustrated with motion pictures.

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United States Plywood Corporation reports that its consolidated net profit for the three months ended July 31, 1956. amounted to $2,629,600 after estimated income taxes of $2,087,100. This compared with $2,654,700 net profit ir-r the same quarter of 1955 after $2,312,600 income taxes. Consolidated sales for the three months ended July 31 were $51,O12,000, compared with $49,019,00O in the corresponding three months of 1955.

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Sepfember Criticol Time for Forests ond Foresters

Getting new forests started on National Forest areas destroyed by raging forest fires just a year ago depends, ironically, on how many forest fires start in the next fe'w' weeks. This statement was made Augrist 24 by Chas. A. Connaughton, regional forester of the Forest Service in San Francisco.

This is a good seed year, and seed supplies are sorely needed to replenish short supplies now in the cold-storage seed bank at Mt. Shasta nursery. Good seed years occur only at intervals of three to five years, he said, and r,ve need all we can collect this year for the expected lean years ahead. A large portion of the seed collected this year will go toward reforesting the Hay.stack burn on the Klamath National Forest and tl-re McGee burn on the Sequoia National Forest.

It is only during a short period of about tlvo weeks in September that seed is ripe in the cones before the cones start to open. Then it is too late for picking. "We have to rely to a large extent on our field forces for collection, and most of these are fire-going personnel," Connaughton pointed out. The critical period coming as it does over the Labor Day holiday, and extending into the beginning of the late deer-hunting season, adds greatly to the risks of fires starting from people vacationing in the National Forests and other wildland areas of the state.

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W. R. SPATDING IUMBER CO., Visolio, Calif., received the first corlood shipment of Blue Diomond Corporclion's Diomonlite this summer. The new product, o perlited gypsum bose coot ploster, is received by, lefr ro righr: Bill Clophom, Blue Diqmond Corp.; Bob Roder, Spolding Lumber Co.; Conlroclor Lowell C. Strong ond Bill Chichesler, Blue Diomond I

50 YEARS OF TEADERSHTP by rhe lore Chorles J. Willioms, boord choirmon of the Moore Dry Kiln Compony of Oregon, wos ccmmemoroted ol the 30th onnuol meeling lost month when Presidenl Gordon Duncon presented c bronze ploque to Mrs. Willioms (qbove). To be hung in lhe North Portlond offices, ihe ploque cites Mr. Willioms' building Moore Dry Kiln to its dominonce in seosoning equipment

LOS ANGETES' THIRD ANNUAT DO'II-YOURSEIF SHOW, held recently ot Pon Pqcific ouditorium, otlrocled fhe usuol recordbreoking crowds in its l0-doy run, occording to Producer Ted Bentley. The crowd scenes obove show lwo of rhe disploy booths. At for lefr of the top photo is the booth of the Arcodio (Cqlif,) lumber Co. The fourfh qnnuql Northern Coliforniq D-t-Y 5how is in Oqklond, Oct. I8'28

AII-HANDS MEETING of the lumber Soles division of Rod*scroft, lnc., wos held ot Rickey's Studio lnn, Polo Alto, Augusf l0-12. Generql plons for the improvement of cusiomer service ond exponsion of soles octivities in other territories were discussed ot the semi-onnuol. lefr to right: Bob Eldredge, Polo Alto; Pete Speek, Bill Broley, Arcodio; Doryl Bond, Art Milhoupl, Arcolo. Knute Weidmon, heod mon ot Polo Alro, wos busy toking this fine photo obove. Review of yeor's octivities showed Roddiscrqft wholesole lumber soles doubled

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Boom men at Weyerhaeuser T.imber company's Everett (Washington) lurnber division are no happier about falling in their Snohomish river log pond than they ever were, but feel a lot more confident about floating than they did a month or so ago.

I)uring wet, windy rveather the men rvho jockey the big sticks around the pond .lvear bright yellolv rain coats and pants, rvith built-in life preservers. Inside each jacket are 28 air tubes and lining the pants :rre two king-size tubes. The combination makes it literally impossible for a man to sink, no matter horv big his shoes or how heavy his clothing.

"We have been looking for a long time Ior a r,vtry to make working on the pond safer," explains Keene Strobel, Weyerhaeuser's Everett lumber division safety engineer. "But every sort of life preserver we tried proved bulky and awkward. By buying regular rain jackets and pants, and having a local firm make the liie-saving lining to our specifications," claims Strobel, "we have come Llp with .lvhat seems to be the best ansrvet yet to the potential danger of rvorking on the pond."

Design of the new safety gear was the result of six months'trial on the pond by boom men. The inflatable air tubes are fastened to the inside of the rain clothing with snaPS.

Life preserver ecluipment is also worn by boom men at Weyerhaeuser's Springfield, Klamath Falls and Coos Bay branches in Oregon, and at the company's White River branch at Enumclaw. Wash.

New Timber lnstitute Officers

George E. Schweitzer, Rilco Laminated Products, Inc., St. Paul, u'as elected president of the American Institute of Timber Construction at the annual meeting in Wash'ington last month. He succeeds Frank B. Benzon, president of Timber Structures, Inc. of California, Ricl-rn-rond, who will continue on the board. Val Gardner, sales manager, Rosboro Lumber Co., Springfield, Ore., rvas elected vice-president and treasurer of the Institute.

L. A. Jacobson, president, Associated Wood Products Co., Berkeley, Calif., Max C. Hanisch, Jr., Peshtigo, !Vis., and Ward Mayer, Portland, Ore., continue on the board. Frank J. Hanrahan is executive vice-president and secretary.

The Standards Committee met to consider numerous projects, including a second edition of the AITC Timber Construction Standards, and Part I: Trusses and Bracing of a proposed Timber Construction Manual, both now in final draft form. E. R. Butler, manager of publicity and advertising, Timber Engineering Co., discussed trade promotion activities, and John Shope, director of building codes,

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Build Long-losting Porches

For a long-lasting porch floor or stoop, a lumber salesman can sell redrvood, cedar, or 'Iidewater Red Cypress rvith enthusiasm and a feeling that he reallv has done something worthwhile for his customer.

The best specification is 1"x4" kiln dried vertical grain, Clear heart run to standard flcioring pattern. The next best is 1"x4" as above, except flat grain with the top side rrln on the "bark" side of the board.

Do not sell any grades rvhich permit sapwood to be present.

To those rvho think these rvoods are so soft they will wear away quickly, the answer is that if one keeps the floor properly coated with floor enamel, there rvill be practically no wearing away. The wood will not rvear until the enamel'has rt'orn off. All one treeds to do is to keep the floor properly enan.reled.

If the floor is over earth and rvith the space under the floor enclosed, then lay 5-ply asphalt impregnated glossy coated roofing paper on the ground ciose against the sides rvith the sheets lapped about three or four inches.

If builders and homeorvners could be sold on a porch floor as above described, they would be getting a completely satisfactory, long lasting installation that would gain praise from everybody.-by The Pacific Lumber Company.

National Lumber Manttfacturers Association, was the speaker at the AITC Building Code Committee meeting. W. MacGregor Graham, sales manager, and Elon Ellis, vice-president, Timber Structures, Inc. of California, will continue to head up the work of these two committees during the corrring year.

A symposium on "Determination and Proper Recognition of Fire Safety of Timber Construction" included Harry W. Bolin of Ventura, Calif., well-known structural engineering consultant retained to conduct the Institute's research studies in this field, and representatives of the U. S. Forest Products Laboratory, the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, Southern Pine Association, West Coast Lumbermen's Association, and treating and coating industries.

Although established only four years ago, AITC has many accomplishments to its credit-among them, publication of manuals on construction standards and inspection, adoption of a code of ethics and an official emblem, organization of a coast-to-coast netlvork of technical committees, and initiation of a research project on the fire resistance of engineered timber.

At the annual meeting of the membership which climaxed

the lveek-long' convention, speakers included Thomas C. Mason, acting assistant director for lumber and wood products, Forest Products Division, Business and Defense Services Administration, U. S. Department of Commerce, and Wilson B. Sayers, assistant managing director, American Forest Products Industries. Inc.

Speaking on "The Timber Outlook in the United States," Sayers gave assurance of adequate supplies of timber rvith factual data from the Timber Resource Review, which, said Sayers, "shows that in every section of the country where olcl growth forests are gone and n'here regror.vth forests are being harvested, growth is far in excess of removal Our forest acreage is increasing. The supply of wood structural species is in danger nowhere Under good management and protection, our forests shorv promise of being able to grow all the timber rve need in the foreseeable future."

During the convention rveek, AITC and CITC delegates toured the laboratory facilities of the Timber Engineering Co., and visited the headquarters offices of the National Lumber Mannfactnrers Association.

Members chose Palm Springs, Calif., as the site for the 1957 meeting, tentatively scheduled to be held in late February or early March.

Reroil Yqrd's Design in Home-O-Rqnro

Eleven exhibition homes of the 1956 l{ome-O-rama, September 15-30 in Rialto, timed to coir.rcidc rvith the opening day of National Home Week, rvill include the "Morning Star" designed by Thompson Lumber Co., San Bernardino.

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ment of forest and range policy in the United States from earliest colonial times to the present. The developments relating to a particular subject are discussed together within the different periods. Special attention is paid to the forces that have been instrumental in controlling the evolution of policy, and to the legislation which has been the means of expressing policy. A good deal of emphasis is placed on Federal policies, partly because major developments in policy have usqally centered around Federal activities.

All the material is strictly up to date and covers fully the recent striking advances in private forestry. Three valuable appendixes are included-

A. The firsi provides a brief survey of Federal policies dealing with wildlife, soil, water, and mineral resources, often closely related to forest and range policy.

B. The second is invaluable for reference purposes: it brings together for the first time in compact, usable form a complete list of major events in the development of Federal policy relating to the conservation of all natural resources, with exact citations for all legislation and Supreme Court decisions.

C. The third gives a selected. bibliography. FOREST AND RANGE POLICY, as a reference for students of forestry, range management, and other fields of natural-resource manag'ement, will prove of inestimable v4lue. It will also be helpful to professional men and executives in business and government, and to the general reader with an interest in the subiect.

Forest R,eceipts Top $l OO Million

A record $100 million in revenue was collected from national forests during the first 11 months of fiscal year 195556, according to the U. S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service. This compares with the previous high of $79,520,880 collected during fiscal 1954-55.

Russions See WGLA Film

A motion picture on use of west coast lumber in home construction was one of six selected by the State Department for showing to Russian audiences in connection with the recent tour of Russia by U. S. builders. This beautiful full-color and sound movie, "Lumber for Homes," was filmed in the northwest by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association under direction of its advertising and promotion manager, Robert E. Mahaffay.

Because the filmed sequences convey their message so clearly, it was decided by the State Department that it would not be necessary to provide a sound track in the Russian language. "Lumber for Homes" is one of several films by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association in the past three or four years which have had widespread showing on television and in theatres.

Tree Nursery Honors Greeley

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association and Industrial Forestry Association have signed a 2}-year lease for the operation of Forest Industries Trqe Nursery at Nisqually, Washington, N. B. Giustina and N. B. Hult, presidents of the two associations. announced. The directors of the two associations have renamed the nursery to honor and commemorate the late Colonel W. B. Greeley, outstanding Arnerican forester. It will now be known as "Colonel W. B. Greeley For'est Nursery."

The nursery was started by West Coast Lumbermen's Association in 1942 and has grown 75 million trees for artificial reforestation on tree farms in western Washington and Oregon. It is the west's largest forest tree nursery and is a nonprofit enterprise.

Norrh Stor Timber Corp. Opens Port Lumber Co., Disrribution Yord of Port Hueneme, Colifr, for Corgo Loods lo Areo Decllers

Lumber ships are returning to Port Hueneme, Calif., with over 4,0O0,000 board feet of material expected to arrive each month, according to Gerard "Van" Van Brynke, president of North Star Timber Corporation, r'vho announces the organization of a subsidiary wholesale concern to be known as Port Lumber Co., Inc.

"The service is being established irnmediately," Van Brynke declared, "and we have appointed Phil Kelty, veteran Southern California lumberman, to manage the cotnplete operation and sales. Machinery for our remantlfacturing plant is being assembled in Coos Bay, Oregon, for our mill operation at Port llueneme," he said.

Lumber storage sheds are available at the new plant and additional mill sheds are under construction at the Port Lumber Co. site, it was made known'to a representative of The CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT.

According to General Manager Kelty, it will require the services of 10 experienced lumber people immediately and

=the staff will be increased to an additional 25 men when the 'mill is placed in operation.

With the establishment of the rle\\' yard at Port Hueneme, a complete wholesale distribution of lumber products is offered retail dealers from San Luis Obispo, parts of the greater Lcls Angeles and Santa Barbara counties, San Joaquin Valley, Ventura and San Fernando Valley cities, according to Kelty. There has been a tremendous demand for the establishment of lumber cargo shipments at Port Hueneme, he declared.

According to President Van Brynke, the expected volume of lumber will bring at least two freighters into port each month. Many retail lumber dealers have shorvn interest in the operation, and the Port Lumber Company will improve dealer service throughout the entire coastal and valley areas, it rvas said.

"It will now require less time for a retail lumber dealer to secure his shipments and it will require less operating cost to lay lumber down in his yard if his business is located anywhere within the great circle out of Port Flueneme," Van Brynke said.

In addition to the appointment of Phil Kelty as general manager of Port Lumber Co., Inc., President Van Brynke also reports that Chris Miller, another veteran lumberman of Southern California, has been appointed to the sales staff of the North Star Timber Corporation.

"We shall endeavor to build an organization of experienced lumber people under the guidance of Kelty," Van said, "and rve 'ivill offer a service to retail lumber dealers rvhich they have never before enjoyed in the territorv we intend to serve," he promised.

Bolster UC Forest Products Lqb

Wood Technologist Joseph E. Marian, one of the world's leading experts on gluing and glued products, 'ivill head research in that field at the University of California. Forest Products Laboratory. Norv in charge of adhesives and wood finishes at the Swedish Forest Products Laboratory in Stockholm, he will start rvork at the U. C. laboratory October 1, said Director Fred E. Dickinson. Nfarian's appointment rvill bolster research important to California's plywood and furniture industries as rvell as to sawmills interested in finding uses for valuable scrap lumber. f)ickinson also announced the prornotion of Arno Sclrniewind to assistant specialist in charge of timber mechartics research. He rvill specialize in studies of strength properties of California hardwoods and second-grorvth softrvoods, including redwood, ponderosa pine, conifers, recl fir and t'hite fir.

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Mdsonite Buys Bufler Go., Moker of Its Fqmous 'Peg-boord' Ponels

Purchase of the B. R. Butler Mfg. Co., Bellwood. i11., and its subsidiaries by Masonite Corporation is announced by John M. Coates, president. For three and a half years, Masonite Corporation has distributed Butler "Peg-Board" panels, made of Masonite Presdrvood, under the corporation's brand name through lumber dealers.

Backed by the nationviide distribution and aggressive promotion, Masonite "Peg-Board" panels fast became not only a household word but a big selling item in lumberyards. It has become one of the most widely applied building products sold for use in homes, businesses and industry.

Masonite "Peg-Board" panels and matching fixtures are a "natural" to sell, lumber dealers agree, because of the hardboard's strength, diversity of function with the fixtures, excellent appearance, wide appeal and first-rate profit. Nationwide advertising and publicity fostered by the company rvere instrumental also in the rapid acceptance of this product. Mr. Coates said.

Sims lumber Go. fo Expond

Sims Lumber Co., 31597 Highway 99, Yucaipa, Calif., announced last month thai it is embarking on an expansion program and rvill add 2,000 sq. ft. of showroom space to itt' present facility. A builders hardware and supplies section rvill be added under the management of L. A. Dick.inson, former business associate of Claude E. Sims, the owner. Formal opdning .rvas scheduled for September.

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long-Bell Policies to Remoin

Amplifying on the recent statement that the present management and personnel of the Long-Bell Lumber Company will continue to operate its properties as the LongBell Division of International Paper Co. after the forthcoming merger (CLM, g/L,/56), E. H. Houston, vice-presi-

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HPI Awords Gertificotes

Constant improvement in quality of 'attractive hardwood products for the home was highlighted at the recent National Association of ,llome Builders convention in Chicago in a series of citations awarded by the Hardwood Plywood Institute when 14 leading exhibitors received "Citations for Saleability" for technical, design or marketing progress in use of hardwood plywood for such products as wall paneling, kitchen cabinets, flush doors, block flooring and prefabricated closet units.

The awards included:

' Atlas Plywood Corporation: New surfacing (burnishing) treatment for better finishing of doors.

E. L. Bruce Company: Research in developing plywood block flooring for slab installation.

Georgia-Pacific Plywood Company: Development and promotion of southern hardwoods, particularly Savannah Oak and red gum.

The Mengel Company: Concealed hinge system on kitchen cabinet doors; pioneering in development of prefabricated closet units.

Roddis Plywood Corporation: Research on finishin! systems for wall paneling; promotion of elm plywood.

United States Plywood Corporation: Development and promotion of prefinished wall panels and trim.

Bresee Joins Greot

Orville Bresee of Redway, Calif., who has had several years of manufacturing and selling experience in redwood and fir, joined Great Bay Lumber Sales, Inc., Eureka, Calif., on August 15, reports Jim H. Berry.

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Fn order to furnish architects, contractors, buiiders and the general public with complete information of its product, the Sliding Glass Door and Window Institute'has developed a brochure for general distribution. A nomenclature of stock door sizes with immediate delivery by most manufacturers, plus Institute activities and accomplishments, and a complete list of manufacturing members and associate members, who furnish related products, is included. The brochure is available to the building field from the Sliding Glass Door and Window Institute, 7421 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles 36, California.

Modernfold Disrributes Ador line

Appointrnent of Modernfold Doors, fnc., as exclusive distributors in the Seattle-Tacoma and adjoining.area for Ador Sales, Inc., is revealed by C. E. IVfunson, vice-president and sales manager of the sliding glass door firm with headquarters in Fullerton, Calif. Modernfold will handle the quality Ador all-aluminum sliding glass doors as well as the new Ador all-aluminum unit designed especially for tract construction.

Son Diego Holds Concqf

Final Concatenation pf the 1955-56 term of San Diego Hoo-Hoo Club 3 was held September 7 at the North Park Lions Club at 6:59 p.rn. Dinner (pot roast) and free cocktails were included in the $3.5O tarifi. C)fficers were elected for the 1956-57 term. John Collins and Snark Bob HeckeJ had charge of the meeting.

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Pretty Tough

By J.J. Montague

Much fault with trees has long been found, Because their trunks are fashioned round, And when sawed up leave bulging flanks, Which will not serve at all as planks. If trees grew square, the mill men say, Their cares would vanish all away, So men have searched the Seven Seas To try and find square-sided trees.

If trees would only saw themselves, In shingles, lath, and pantry shelves, And turn themselves to tidy rows, Of small suburban bungalows, Or fall apart in any plan

That fitted with the needs of man. What stacks of money could be made, By people in the lumber trade.

Too bad that everything of worth

Produced by this imperfect earth, The trees, the stones, the coal, the oilInvolves, in getting, so much toil.

Too bad that m4n, who would prefer

To lie around and never stir

Where fields are green and skies are blue, Has alvrays so much work to do.

Self-Preservqtion

"Please be careful as you walk across my hardwood foors," said the lady of the house to the plumber who had come to fix the bath.room.

"Don't worry about me slipping, lady," the plumber answered. "I always wear hob-nailed shoes."

Romsoy McDonold Soid:

The educated man is a man with certain subtle spiritual qualities which make him calm in adversity, happy when alone, just in his dealings, rational and sane in the fullest meaning of that rvord in all the affairs of life.

Nerve

A man may smile in the face of death, But never will there be found, A man who can draw a placid breattq With his garters coming down.

Disinterested?

"Why do you weep over the sorrows of people in whom you have no interest, when you go to the theatre?" he asked.

"I don't know," replied the lady, "unless it's for the same reason you cheer wildly when a man with whom you are not even personally acquainted makes a long run for a touchdown."

Love ond Friendship

"That I am unable to appreciate that Platonic yearning of soul for soul, that deep calling unto deep of which I have read, is .my misfortune rather than my fault. It app€ars to me too niuch like voting the Prohibition ticket or playing poker with Confederate currency.

"When I love a woman, I love her up one side and down the other. I may be an uncultured and barbaric noodle, but I want to get hold of her and bite her neck. I rvant to cuddle her sunny curls on my heaving shirt-front when I talk to her. I believp with Tennyson in the spirits rushing together at the touching of the lips, and I just crowd up and let'em rush.

"Some men may esteem women for their society with never a though.t of sex, but that isn't love. Love, as I understand the term, is to friendehip's nonconsuming flame what the fierce glare of the noonday sun is to the mild radiance of the harvest moon. It is something that makes two persons of the opposite sex absolutely necessary to each other. It is a glory in which the soul is bathed; an almost savage melody that beats within the blood. Love is not altogether of the earth earthly. It is born of the spirit, as well as the flesh; of the perfume, as well as the beauty of the great red rose."

-Wm. Cowper Brann

Tongible Medium

"Papa," queried the sqn, "What is the person called who brings you in contact with the spirit world?"

"A bartender, my son," replied the father.

Dizziness

In Huron a hewer Hugh Hughes, Hewed yew-trees of unusual hues. Hugh Hughes used blue yews To build sheds for his ewes; So his ewes a blue-hued yew-shed use. ***

A canny young canner of Cannee

One morning observed to h.is granny: A canner can can

A lot of things, gran, But a canner can't can a can, can 'e?

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"Let us fly," said the fleaSo they few through a flaw in the flue.

A right-handed writer ""r".U JVrigfrt, In writing "write," always wrote "rite" Where he meant to write "right," If he'd written "right" right, Wright would not have wrought rot writing "rite."

NCIC Eyes Hoo-Hoo Affiliqtion

The Northn estern California Lumbermen's Club, Eureka, is circularizing its membership on rvhether ttr-rey wish to join the International Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo. Snark of the Universe Dave Davis and Hoo-Hoo Club 9 President Al Bell, San Francisco, attended the NCLC's latest meeting to present an invitation to affiliate with Hoo-Hoo. Ballots are now in the hands of the members.

NCI-C President Al Thraser cited these merits for afrflliation : association with an organization of 18,000 lumltermen, the international convention, and the fact that many NCLC members are already Hoo-Hoo. Merits for cbntinuing the club as it is rvere cited : the closer, more local nature of the NCLC; the fact it is the only lumbermen's club in the U.S. not now a Hoo-Hoo club; the members who are not l-umbermen but in close, allied industry and who could belong as associate mem!,ers but would not be able to vote, hold office or attend concatenations, and the additional dues.

The NCLC already has a Hoo-Hoo charter for the area and can hold a concatenation at any time desirable. The directors and officers declared they will take any action in line with a majority wish of its members. The NCLC's next meeting will be this month.

NIWKC Meef in New Hompshire

The first annual meeting of the National Institute of Wood Kitchen Cabinets will be held in New Hampshire October 2-4 during the heiglit of tl-re fall foliage season. Site of the threeday meeting will be the Crawford Club House, Crawford Notch. in the White Nlountains.

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1. An attractive sign, to go at the top, containing an attention-getting head line and a few selling points telling how the consumer will benefit when he buys the product or package.

2. An end-use photo, preferably in color, and measuring about 8"xl9', shor.ving the product or idea in use, in a home or elsewhere.

3. Samples of the products in a form that easily can be placed on the panel with the usual fixtures designed for use with perforated hardboard or solid panels.

4. Product literature, preferably 3r/a"x61/a" or 6"x9' in size, for display on the panel.

5. A list of related items commonly used with the product being featured.

6. Small price cards on which the dealer can write the selling price of individual products, and a larger card on which he can rvrite thd approximate cost per montl.r, if a typical job is financed with a time payment plan.

R. A. SchzLub, NRLDA's president, states that the dis-

play panels are ideal for any yard, large or small, and provide a basic unit around which any display can be built.

The display panel has been approved by the association's con-rmittee on education and merchandising and by its board of directors. A color slide program explaining the idea in detail and showing numerous panels in actual use has been prepared to assist NRLDA's federated associations in promoting the idea among their members.

U. S. Plywood Corp. Offers Deqlers tJunior' ond rSeniort Ponel Pqrodes

A ne'iv merchandising program designed to provide an increasingly profitable operation for retail lumber dealers has been introduced bv United States Plywood Corporation. The progra- *". outlined ahd disiussed at dealer meetings recently held throughout the country by the company's distribution branches. Taking Operation Home Improvement as its theme, the new program is based on the increasing desire of homeowners for the decorative materials the lumber dealer has to offer. U. S. Ply'ivood reasons that these homeowners can most effectively be sold in the dealer's shorvroom.

A ner,v sltorvroom display of decorative Weldrn'ood plyrvoods rvas introduced to dealers at the meetings. Called the "Panel Parade," this display can be installed rvith ease in existing showroom areas.

U. S. Plywood is mass producing these units, and dealers can purchase them at cost through their Weldwood represgntatives. Dealers can also procure plans for building the units themselves.

The Senior Panel Parade, using 20 leet of wall space, displays all the popular veneer species and textured plywoods in 24x32 inch units. While compact, the samples are large enough for the customer to visualize the beauty of the surface. For dealers with comparatively restricted display space, a "Junior Panel Parade" to fit a l2-foot wall

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Promotibn of NRLDA Display Panels

A Dealer Operating Guide chapter entitled "How to Use NRLDA Display Panels" has already been sent to members of federated dealer associations. It shol,vs and tells dealers, step by step, how to prepare 48 display panels to sttpplement tl-rose that manufacturers will provide.

The NRLDA has also sent a letter to all of the larger building product manufacturers telling them that 30 or more of the largest producers have already announced their intention of providing panel materials for dealers and urging all manufacturers to adopt the idea.

"We believe this is one of the most important new merchandising ideas that has been developed in our industry in a long time," said H. R. Northup, executive vice-president of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Assn. "It has immense possibilities for improving dealer displays ancl helping increasp sales. In meetings with manufacturers who are planning to adopt the plan, rve have promised to make every effort to interest dealers in using the Display Panel plan. This D.O.G. chapter is a first step."

The NRLDA bulletin accompanying the Dealer Operating Guide chapter says it hopes deaiers rvill make effective use of this thoroughly tested and widely approved idea as it is an amazingly simple and economical rvay to step up merchandising efforts and increase dealer profits.

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Evcrns Gets Coos Boy Timber

Evans Products Company has doubled its timber supply on the west coast by the acquisition of cutting rights on a half-billion feet of timber in Oregon. The acquisition will help supply veneer for production of the company's Evaneer plyr.vood operations. This tract rvas formerly part of the huge Coos Bay I-umber Company timber holdings and girres tl-re Evans Company-among the nation's top 10 plyrvood producers-tt'o billion, 200 million feet of Douglas frr in the United States and Canada. Cutting in the new tract, which consists principally of old-gror'vth Douglas fir, will begin next year.

McKeehqn Nqmed Soles Monoger of Mengel Door ond Plywood Depqfimenl

The Mengel Company, Lottisville, announces the promotion of C. Burt \[cKeehan (left) to the post of sales manager of the Door and Plyrvood department, lvitl-r headquarters in Louisville. R. F. Kulmer rviil continue in his present position as general manager of the department, rvith McKeehan assuming full responsibility for sales. He joined The Mengel Ccrmpany rn 1949 as a sales representative in Dallas, transferring in 1952 to Baltimore as district manager. In 1954 he rvas promoted to sales manager, eastern division, rvith headquarters in Nelv York, and assumed responsibility for sales of doors and plyu'ood.

This appointment is part of Mengel's new plan for a more concentrated sales effort and more iutensive coverage of territories in order to meet present-day conditions in the flush door industry.

Horbor Produces Only Exterior Fir Plywood ot Aberdeen Mill

Harbor Plywood Corporation, Aberdeen, \\rashington, has again taken a lead in the west coast's giant fir ply'ivood industry by permanently converting all production of its Aberdeen mill to exterior type, waterproof adhesives, according to Martin N. Deggeller, president.

Commenting on the change, Deggeller stated, "Harbor has for a long time felt that the elimination of interior type adhesives would result in more satisfactory end-use performance and dcvelop greater consumer confidence."

Substantiating this statement he pointed out that in Canada, where all fir plywood is manufactured r'vith exterior adhesives, the per capita consumption is approximately double that of the United States, 'ivhere substantially more interior type is produced than exterior.

In some instances, plyrvood with interior type glues is inadvertently used by builders for exterior purposes, ac-

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Gluoliry

Ponderoso Pine Mouldings

cording to Deggeller. He emphasized that end-use satisfaction is a factor of great importance as the plywood industry faces added and keener competition from other building materials.

Harbor has many "firsts" to its credit. In its ou,'n laboratories in 1934, Harbor perfected the first completely rvaterproof adhesive and used it in their Super-Harbord. It is still recognized by boat buiiders throughout the country as the leading exterior fir plyrvood. This type of panel opened new markets not previously available. As a result, at a later date, glue manufacturers produced similar adhesives and others in the industry began marketing waterproof plyrvood. During World War II, the entire production of Super-Harbord rvas allocated to demands of the military service.

Harbor also led tl-re way in the production of overlaid fir plywood. HARBORITE, a medium density resin-impregnated overlay panel using SUPER-Harbord as the core body, was the first overlay panel in the industry and lvas developed in the Harbor laboratory in 1938. Since that time, other fir plywood manufacturers have produced similar type panels, on a royalty basis, using overlays produced by other manufacturers.

Some of the principal advantages of HARBORITE, in addition to its thoroughly waterproof qualities, are the virtual elimination of grain-raising and checking of the wood fibers when subjected to natural weather conditions.

The industry is experiencing a rapid increase in demand for this type of product, due in part to Harbor's extensive promotion and marketing campaign through their own distribution warehouses and carefully selected distributors throughout the country.

Field promotion men and an extensive national advertising campaign on HARBORITE, directed principally to such end-uses as boats, outdoor signs and displays, concrete forms and the construction industry, are accounting for a substantial part of Harbor's production.

Monk Nqmed Colif. Regionol Forester

Regional Forester Chas. A. Connaughton has announced the transfer of Gordon G. Mark to the California Regional Office of the United States Forest Service to fill the position vacated upon the retirement of Paul R. Kevin in the Division of State and Private Forestrv.

Mr, Lumber Dealer:

CATIFORNIA BUITDING PERMITS FOR JUIY

Sacrarn€nto

Sacramento

St. Helena Salinas

San Bruno

San Carlos

San Clemente

San Diego

Beach Escondido Eureka

Fillmore

Glendale

Glendora Hanford

Hawthorne

Hayward

Hemet

Hermosa Beach

Huntington Beaclr

Huntington Park

Inglewood

Kern County

Laguna Beach

Lakewood

La Mesa

La Verne

Lodi

Lompoc

Long Beach

Los Angeles

Los Angeles County

Los Gatos

Lynwood

Madera

Manhattan Beach

Marin County

Martinez

Marysville

Maywood

Menlo Park

Merced

Mi11 Valley

Modesto

Monrovia

Montebello

San Joaquin County

San Jose

San Leandro

San Luis Obispo

San Marino

San Mateo

San Mateo County

San Pablo

San Rafael

Santa Ana

Santa Barbara

Santa Clara

Santa Clara County

Santa Cruz

Santa Maria

Santa Monica

Santa Paula

Santa Rosa

Seal Beach

Selma

Shasta Courtty

Sierra Madre

Solano County

South Gate

South Pasadena

South San Francisco

Stanislaus County

Stockton

Sunnyvale

Torrance

Tracy

Tulare

Tulare County

Turlock

Ukiah

Upland

Vallejo

Ventura

Ventura County

Vernon

Visalia

Watsonville

West Covina

Whittier

Woodland

Yreka

TnoprcAl. e, W'nsrERN LuMsnn CoupANy

ARIZONA BUITDING PERMITS

Winfree Retires 'Tempororilyt os Dqnt & Russell Closes S.F. Offices

With the closing of the Dant & I{ussell Sales Co. lumber division offices in San Francisco

September 15, Henry Winfree

(left) announces his ten.rporary retirement fronl the lun.rber bttsiness, efiective August 31. It is "temporary" becanse, although Henry originally intended to leave the lumber business completely behind, he is already beginning to shorv signs of weakening.

"Margaret and I are planning to spend a fen' rveeks at the lake and maybe a month or so down south visiting relatives, in addition to seeing our son Don in Modesto and daughter Beverly in Sacramento; then r've'll see," he confided. And it's easy to see r,vhy he's having trouble shaking the "sawdust trail," a trail that he has been follor,ving for over 30 years.

Winfree, a native of Kentucky, has resided in the San Francisco Bay area since he rvas a boy. Like so many young men in the early 190Os, his hrst love rvas heavy machinery and, more specifically, the railroad. After 11 years with both the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific, he was induced to leave railroading in 1927 for a position as traffic manager for Redwood Manufacturing Co. at Pittsburg. Tn 1938. however. his interest in lumber had increased to the point that he decided to "hit the road" for Redwood Manufacturing Co. as its San Joaquin and Sacramento Valley representative.

Winfree remained u.ith that firm until April 1941, at which tirne he joined Seth Butler at the San Francisco sales office of Dant & Russell, Inc., and continuecl to travel the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valley for it. In 1946, Winfree u'as sent to Oroville by Dant & Russell to organize and operate a distribution yard. During this period, he also became a retailer with the purchase of Clark Lumber Company in Modesto, a firm he later sold to Leonard Coffee of that city.

Winfree later returned to his Valley territory and, since building a new home in Walnut Creek in 1950, had been headquartered at the Dant & Russell Sales Co. office in San Francisco.

Sell REDWOOD TANKS for Economicol Storoge

Automdtic Wsler Systems do foil, ond lhcn wqler ir cl tr premium. Redwood Storoge Tonks ore lhe morl economicql. Initiol cost is lower, cnd they hove o longer life. Rcdwood hos high insulotiorr volue; keeps woler cool, Redwood is resistqnt to fungi ond insect ottock, Furthermore, wo con give immedioic dclivery.

Complete Your Line with REDWOOD TANKS

Rcte-Position wanted $2.00 per column inch

All others, $3.00 per column inch

Cloeing dctes lor copy, Sth and 20fh

RETAIL YARD NEEDS COUNTERMAN

WANT ADS

With thorough understanding of retail lumber business and willing to work. Must be exceptionally good at figuring lumber. Call Mr. McCoig for appointment.

TARZANA LUMBER COMPANY

Tarzana, Calif. Phones: Dlckens 2-318f3., STanley 7-0333

WE HAVE A POSITION for a good retail lumber and millwork salesman. Must be able to read plans and list stock. Job offers permanent position and real opportunity with large, established San Francisco Bay area yard. All replies will be he,ld in strict confidence.

Address Box C-2546, California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.

SALESMAN WANTED to call on industrial users of Western softwoods in Metropolitan Los Angeles. Share of profits with starting guarantee. Man with established trade can make good money.

ED FOUNTAIN LUMBER CO.

6218 So. Hooper Avenue Los Angeles 1, Calif. LUdlow 3-1381

SALESMAN WANTED

Lumber and Plywood salesman wanted by well-rated Los Angeles Wholesaler, for combination outside and telephone selling. We don't care how old or young you are, if you are in good health, honest, intelligent, and willing to work 40 hours per week. Salary and expenses. All replies treated confidentially.

Address Box C-2545. California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th St., Room 5OB, Los Angeles 14, Calif.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WHOLESALE LUMBER COMPANY NEEDS EXPERIENCED PERSONNEL IN PINE AND REDWOOD SALES.

Address Box C-2553. California Lumber Merchant

f08 W. 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, California

WANTED

Energetic young man to learn hardwood lumber sales. Permanent position with future ofrered to right man.

PENBERTHY LUMBER CO.

5800 So. Boyle Ave., Los Angeles 58, California Phone LUdlow 3-4511

W-A-N-T-E.D

EXPERIENCED ESTIMATOR, lister and bitler in general millwork, sash and door firm. Los Angeles vicinity. SALARY OPEN.

Address Box C-2555, California Lumber Merchant 108 W. 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles ld California

IMPORT PLYWOOD TRADER

Salesman wanted by old established California importer to cover Southern California market. Excellent opportunity for qualified ma'rr tho_roughly experienced in qlywood and acquainted wittr jobber trade. Salary open. Send full details to:

Address Box C-2:547, California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.

SALESMEN WANTED

Men now calling on Retail Lumber Yards who can add established (12 years) line of "PENTA" Wood Preservative. Conforms to NWMA, WPA and U.S. Gov't specifications.* Territories open Southern and Central Calif., portions of Northern Calif. Write: ADMIRALTY MANUFACTURING CO. 2530 Eighteenth Street San Francisco 10. Calif.

*Excellent repeat business. Good Commissions.

ffi** .GIPO' LUMBER HANDLING

Labor available for Car Unloading, Sorting, Sticking. "Free', 1956 Printed Price List. Arrangements made for Lift oi Carrier Hauls from any public team tracks.

CRANE & CO.

cA. 2-8143

5143 Alhambra Avenue Los Angeles 32, Calif..

Nomes of Adveilisers in this Deporlment using o blind oddress cqnnot be divulged, All inquirie: and replier should be oddressed to kcy shown in the odvertiscmcnt

POSITION WANTED

Wholesale lumberman, with years of successful experience in buy- ing, selling and management, wants contact where unusual abilities will be of real service-either as associate or in management.

Address Box C-2554. California Lumber Merchant 108 W. 6,th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, California

DO YOU NEED HELP in selling in this critical softening market? Experienced over 25 years selling at mills and wholesale. Presently employed in lumrber business but would like permanent connection with reliable Bay area wholesaler. Qualified to take charge of Pine department, also handle sales for large western Pine mills. Age and experience a big asset in times like these.

Address Box C-2551, California Lumber Merchant 108 W. 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, California

POSITION WANTED

20 years' experience as manager of retail lumber yards in Nebraska and 7 years as manager of retail yard in Bay area. Age 52. Desire position in retail yard in Northern California. Best of references. Available October 15th.

MARTIN BECKMAN Otoe. Nebraska

EXPERIENCED LUMBER OFFICE WOMAN

Seeking change to Pasadena-San Gabrie,l area. Willing and conscientious worker with several years' lumber office experience. Now employed but wish location nearer home. Billing, invoicing and all office detail are my "list of materials."

Address Box C-2556, California Lumber Merchant 108 W. 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, California

TOP QUALTTY PRODUCER ACCOUNTS are invited to become supplier members of National Forest Products Exchange, now forming to ofrer centralized buying source for all forest products as required by well-rated Industries, Distributors and Retail Yards. Products include all species of lumber, plywood, hardboards, mouldings, sidings, paneling, industrial and furniture cut-stock, doors, shingles, shakes, special requirements, Membership restricted to producers of highest ethics, payable $300 in advance and returnable in 12 months or sooner if membership is rejected or cancelled. Supplier member to invoice direct and pay selling commrission on shipments to any territory. Complete stock and price lists to be supplied regularly. The right to reject any membership is reserved..

Address Box C-255O, California Lumber Merchant 108 W. 8th St., Room 508, Los Angeles ld California

EXPANDING-WANT WHOLESALE CONNECTIONS

Af.ter 12 years as largest individual exporter to Mexico, want to cover U.S.A. accounts (Douglas Fir, Pine, Redwood) in San Diego, Imperial Counties and possibly Arizona.

332 Spreckels Bldg.

JoE A. BUGLEY BElmont 2-0337 San Diego 1, Calif.

VIRGIN PINE TIMBER

One-half billion feet. 4000 ft. per acre-Mexico. Price $3.00 acre cash, or $1.00 acre plus royalty to qualified operators. Perfect Title. First offer.

527 Ogden Street M, E. BOGLE

cA 6-e500 San Antonio. Texas

FOR SALE

Lumber yard with re-manufacturing plant and with or urithout 60M Steam Dry Kiln. Re-manufacturing plant has #408 Woods Matcher 6xl5 with Double Profile, BB Side Heads and several pattern Heads. 54" Resaw-tilting Feed Rolls. Sel{-Feed Ripsaw. Cut-Ofr Saw. Grinding & Filing equipment. #150 Hyster Fork-lift. TERMS. Will sell or lease land, 1027 Terminal Way, San Carlos, Calif.; Phone: Lytell 3-7881

FOR SALE TO CLOSE ESTATE

Good. small 3-room house at Loyalton, Calif. Fine place for hunting, fishing and skiing.

MRS. IRENE RANDALL. Owner

6153 Lexington Ave. HOllywood t5706 Hollywood 38, Calif.

JOLLY GIANT TUMBER COMPANY

Sqme GIUALITY Sdms SERVICE 5am6 PERSONNEI

AAILTS & GENERAT OFFICES:

(Formerly DOttY VARDEN lumber Compony)

BAND'IAILLS

EXCLUSIVETY ARCATA, CAIIF.

CALIFORNIA LUMBER YARDS FOR SALE

A. CODE "ARROYO"-This is E. K. Wood's yard in Pasadena (now closed). R. R. lease with spur track Will sell all improvements for only $11,000. No inventory to buy.

B. CODE "HARRY"-Located in San Gabriel Valley; established over 30 years ago. Ground about 30,000 sq. ft. Very good office bldg. and one-story sheds; paved yard. Price for ground and buildings $40,000; inventory about $30,000. Might consider leasing at $350 monthly plus taxes. Sales seven months this year, $110,000; fine opportunity for "Do-It-Yourself" trade,. A money maker.

C. CODE "BILL"-This is the long established H&H Lumber Co. at ll2th & Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles. Lease on ground and portion of buildings, $250 monthly. Two owned buildings on said lease $10,000; two trucks, mill machinery and office equipment $10,000, Inventory around $30,000. Yard is a money maker; has a big weekend business. P&L will be shown,

D. CODE *SAN JOAQUIN"-Two southern San Joaquin Valley yards, long established. One yard on RR lease, the other on owned ground; will not sell separately. Both yards have made, money every year for the last ten years. Books will be open. General Appraisal Co. report will be shown. Price for both yards, $37,000 plus inventory of about $50,000. Would like purchaser to take over accounts receivable on guaranteed basis.

E. CODE "FERNANDO"-Located in San Fernando Valley on main through street. One owner 12 years. RAILROAD LEASE only $12 per month. Ground 125x392 ft. More available. PRICE $7,000 for buildings, improvements and truck; Inventory about $7,00O. This is a steal.

F. We also have several long-established but recently closed yards in Southern California for sale. No inventory or equipment to buy. The cheapest one is located on a R.R. lease between Los Angeles and Santa Monica. Price for all improvements only $15,000.

TWOHY LUMBER CO.

714 W. Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles 15; Rlchmond 9-8746

CEDAR LUMBER & SHINGLE MANUFACTURER

Northwest Washington. Ideal location. All equipment on 725-foot navigable river. R.E. included in low sale price. Dept. No. 23187.

CHARLES FORD & ASSOCIATES. INC.

6425 Hollywood Blvd. Los Ange,les 28, Calif,

SAVE! FORK.IIFT BARGAINS SAVE!

lfg Drscouots on Ncw torplus Pqrts tor Att ttlokes ond Models ol Forklllls

Used Good, Reconditioned or Rebuih & Gtd.

2,O0O-l5,0OO lb. cop.

Hyster 150 15,000-lb. Copocity; rcbuill ond guorqnleed

Hycter 75 7,500-lb. Copqcity; recondilioned

Ross l9 HT 6,000-lb. Copocily; recondilioncd

Clqrk .'6,000-lb. Copocily; rebuilt qnd guoronteed Clork . . 3,000 ond 4,000-lb. Copocity; reconditioned

Towmolor LT56 , . 6,000-lb. Copqcity; rebuill dnd guoronlsed

GERLINGER FORK-LIFT, 12,OOO lb. cop.

Psrls for CoterpillorInlernotionalLe Tournesu

NEVADA RETAIL YARD FOR SALE

For sale at cost of inventory & equipment, approx. $35,000, a retail lumber yard and general building supplies. Located in one of the fastest-going areas in Nevada. Doing approx. $200,000. Owner will carry land and buildings on ten-year contract or lease.

P. O. Box 661, Fallon, Nevada

LUMBERYARD FOR SALE

Small retail Lum,ber and Building Materials business; .large sheds, deluxe office and store. All fenced. Located in Northern $an Joaquin valley. For further information:

Address Box C-2552. California Lumber Merchant 108 W. 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, California

FOR SALE OR TRADE_ROSS

STRADDLE CARRIER, Model 90, 1941. Price-$1200. Sell or Trade for Lumber or Building Materials.

GOLDEN STATE LUMBER COMPANY

2436 Santa Monica Boulevard

EXbrook 5-3275 Santa Monica, Calif. TExas 0-,1608

FOR SALE-USED LIFT

Two Gerlingers-8-ton capacity

TRUCKS

These machines are in good operating condition.

BURNABY and WILLIAMS

6102 Sepulveda Blvd.

Van Nuys, Calif. STate 5-6561

BUY_SELL-REPAIR_SERVICE

Fork Lifts and Straddle Trucks. Complete shop and field scrvice. Portable Welding, Special Fabrication, Steam Cleaning and Painting. Service Available 7 Days a Week. All work guaranteed.

COMMERCIAL REPAIRS AND SERVICE

ll15 North Alameda Street, Compton, Calif. Phones: NEwmark l-8269, NEvada 6-4805

FOR SALE

One Berlin 40"-3-drum Sander with 15-HP motor and starter. Good shape. $950. One American #2?-L4"x6" molder with 20-HP motor and starter, hoods and pipes. Goocl shape. This machine will convert to excellent, ball-bearing 14" molder. Only 9475. Call collect for additional information. Phones: 624 or 629.

SAN LUIS MILL & LUMBER CO, 246 Higuera Street San Luis Obispo, Calif.

FOR SALE

Late nr,odel Lumber Carrier-excellent running condition. 66" Blocks, can take 56" Blocks. TERMS.

1027 Terminal Way, San Carlos, Calif.; Phone: Lytell 3-7881

Loroin - BuckeyeEuclidNorlhweslelc. 17 €FM Port. Compressors, pebui!r -.-....-.-.......-.--.....$375 & soNS.lNc. EsrABtlsHED reo6

TERIIS AVAItABtE

HOtLYDALE (Sourh

Everyone R.eods These Poges-Just Like You Csliforniq Lumber MERCHANT-aZE

All Your Wqnts Here

How Lumber Looks

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73,349,M0 feet, compared with 104,019,000 on July 31 last year. Redwood stocks on hand July 31 were 367,267,000 feet, compared to 351.860.000 feet on the same 1955 date. Production and shioments are above, but orders are below, the 1955 figures for the year-to-date.

Southern Pine Association reported for 97 mills in the week ended September 1: production, 19,947,000 feet; shipments, 19,939,000 feet; orders, 21,624,000 feet (8.41/o above production). P roduction was 3.71%, shipments 3.67% and orders 12.43% above the 3-year average.

Tlre fu-inch sheathing plywood accounted tor 43/o of the industry's production of 101,230,000 feet reported by the Douglas Fir Plywood Association in the week ended September 1; orders were 98,464,0m feet in the week and unfilled orders were 291,474,000 feet. All were slightly below the previous week and unfilled orders were 297,474,A00 feet. All were slightly below the previous week but above the like 1955 week. For the year-to-date, orders were 1.2/o below 1955 but production was 6.0/o above. There were signs this month that curtailments in the fir plywood industry were bringing supply and demand closer to balance. Production was cut nearly 75/o ftotrn nornral industry capacity and orders were within 2.6/o of output. Mill men say that more plywood is going into housing and this offsets the decline in housing starts; any real trouble, they claim, is a 6/o increase in fir plywood production so far this year.

In the general lumber market, not all plywood and lumber prices were as weak as the bread-and-butter items. "Higher-class home building using kiln-dried lumber continues at a good pace," said an Oregon lumberman; "it's in the medium-priced homes that the slowdown in construction has taken place."

Anaheim, Calif., building permits in the first three months of 1956 totaled $11,771,M. March rang up $4,153,750 f.or 298 permits, of rvhich 228 were residential.

In the Next lssue - ..THE IMPORTANCE OF COSTING TICKETS IN THE RETAIL LUMBER BUSINESS,',

the latest article by Paul R. HOLLENBECK of the Lumber Service Co., Burbank, will appear in the October 1 issue of The CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT. Copies of Mr. Hollenbeck's recent series, "The Dealer's Cost of Doing Business," were extremely popular and back issues are nearly exhausted, so please watch for this one in advance.

Volume of Wood freqted Wirh Preservqtives Shows lncreqse

Volume of wood treated with preservatives in 1955 increased 3/o over the preceding year, according to reports from 300 of 331 knou'n wood-treating plants in the nation, the U. S. Department of Agriculture revealed.

TPI Elecfs Stqn Murphy

Stanwood A. Murphy was elected vice-president of The Pacific Lumber Company on August 17. He has been resident manager of TPL's large timber and manufacturing operations at Scotia, Calif.

ADVERTISER,S INDEX

Loop Lumber & Itlill

Lor-Col Lunber Co.

Lor Angeler Lumber, Inc.

Awom Lumber Co. ---.--.-....--.--..-...-.-,.,--.-----. t

Bck, J. Williom Co. -.,--..-.-...-..-.--...-...----71

Bough, Corl W. .-,--.-....-..--....-.-..-.---.--'------''-. *

Bqrlir & Co., J. H. ..--....".".......--------.-...-----34

Behr, Joseph & 5on:, In<. -....-......--. ----------79

Bel-Air

*

Holey Bror. .-..--..-.--------..36

Holl Co., Jmer L. ---------.---..-.-......-..---...... *

Hqllinon llockin Lumber Co., Inc. -...-.--.*

Hqllmqrk Lcmber & Plyrvood Co. -...-.,...-,.. 'i

Hmmond lumber Co. ..---------------.,-----O,B.C.

Hqnren Fore3l Produclt Co. ---.--.....-..-.-.-.-*

Horbor Lumber Co., Inc. ------------------.------..*

Horbor Plywood Corp. -------.----,,-.--,---..-,---.-.'l

Hqrrir, L. E. Lunber Co. --.------------.--,.,,.---65

Hedrin, F. L. Lcmber .---..--------------..-..--.----61

Hedlund Iumber 5oler, Inc. .--------.-------.--..40

Helms-Brown Lvmber Co, --..---.----------.--.----'t

Heron Iumber Compony ....---.-----....-....--....75

Lumber Cqrrier Seryi.e, Inc. -...--.-....

Lvmber Soler Co, -

Lumber Service Co.

Lumber Terminql, In€. ---...--.-......--.--.--..-

Lvmbermen': Credit Assn,, Inc. .-.......-

MED Store Fixturer, lnc. ..-.-.-.....,--,--.-...,-- 't

llocBeqth Hordwood Compony -.-.-.----.-..,-.*

McDonold Co,, L. W. .---..------..--.-,,--....---. *

lAole E Porkinr .-.......-..47

ilople Bror. ..-...-----.--.--. lt

iforquort-Woffe Lvmber Co. -.....................73

Morsh Woll Productr, Inc. --------.-...-.....-....63

llorlin Bro:. Cntr. & Tbr. Prod. Corp. --.... {t

Mortin Plywood Co.

I'lortinez Co., L. W.

Iilcon Supplier. Inc. .-....-...--------.-...-.-,.-.-*

Moronite Corporolion .-.---------.-.-.-.---,--.----.*

l/lcCloud Lmber Co. -...-.....-.-.--..---..---......,-59

Meier, HeA Lumber Co. -.-.---,-.----...-....-..*

Mengel Co., The ....--.-...-..-.------..-.-,-------_--_. *

Middleton lmber Co., Bob .-...-..-------------. :;

Middleton Lumber 5oler, D. R. ---,--..---,,_-,75

llodemfold Dort, In<. .---..--.----.-,------.-_.---. *

lioore Dry Kiln Co. .........-----------...-..,---,---,i

,$oent Whitney Lumber Co. .-...-.-....------.._*

Hill & Morton, 1".. ........-.-.-.--.----.--. t 25

HiEgins Iumber Co., J. E...---.-.

Hobbs Wqll Lunber Co. --...-..---.....--....-.-...53

Hogon Wholerole Dldg. llatcriol: Co, ----ti

Hollow Tree Rqdwood Co. ..-.--..--.---,--..---,-.. rt

Holmes Eureko Iumber Co, ...,-..--.,,..,---.-..-. *

Holmer Lcmber Co., Fred C. ........-,-.-------. *

Homcofe Compony .--....-....-..-.-----,.---,---,..-. *

Hooyer Co., A. L, --..--...----......--.---..-.----.----64

Huf, Lumber Co. --.--,--,---

Hugher Brolhert .---.--.,.-.

Hylt6r Cmpqny .-......-.--

._..--.---_._--,--...-,. * .--,--..--_,-.--------_* ._...................-.. 3

lmportad Hordwood Plywood A!3n. ...-------17 fnfqnd Lumber Co.---.-. .-........-..-.-....-...--.-..57

Indcrtriol Lumber ------.-..-.-.-..-......-..,--..--.-...-68

Notl.-Ameriron Whrle. [mbr. Asn. --,--.-*

Nqtl. Retoil Lbr. Deoler: A$n. .-......,.---- {t

Neimqn-Reed Iumber Co. -...--.-...-.,--..---.--.-41

Nelson lumber ....-.------..43

New, Horold A. -----.-...--.,--.--.-.....-...--.-....-.--'l

Newquiit, Jmes W. .-........--..--..--...----.-.---_ *

Norlh stor Timber Co]p. ....-.-----.--.-......----.- I

Olren Cmpony, T. E. ---.--.-.....-......-----.--.-68

Osgood, nobert 5. -,-...-.,,--------.....----...--.----. *

Ortling ltfg. Co. -...--.-...-..,.--...........-..........45

Oxford Lumber Co,, Rex ..-.----...-,.-..-.....--... *

Pqciic Coqrt Aggregotes, lnc. ..----.-....--.-.-62

Pocific Fir 5ol* -.------..--.----.--..--.--..-.--...-...-*

Pqcinc Fore:t Produclr, Inc. ----...-......--.-.... 'a

John:-llmville Corpordtion * Pqciflc Lumber Co., The --.--'---.'.....'-....----.. 7

Joffy Giqnt lcnbei Co. .-........-......-....-.....79 Pcifl< -L-umbcr Deoler:Supply, Inc, ..-,.-,,*

Jonir Hordwood & Pllnrood Co. -...-.....-.--M Pqcillc Wire-Producls Co. -.-----'-.--'....---.,,-..33

Jordqn Sqrh & Door to., F. t. ..........-..- 1 Potific Wood Ptoduct5 Co. -.-------.-..--...... * Poul Bunyon Lumber Co. -...-..-.....-_-.-...._.37

Kelfey, Afbert A. ..,,-..,--.,-----......-....----..--..71 Penberthy Lumber Co. --...-.-,,----.--.-...-,..-.-..*

Kendqll Lumber Dirtributorr

Unio Lumber Co. ......--.---------.--.......-......-.-

Exchonge Sqwnills Soles Co' -

Long-Bell Lumber Co.

BUYER'S GUIDE

tOS ANGELES

BAY AREA

SPECIFY HAMMOI{D CERTIFIED IfiLN DRY RED|TOOD

This scene from Hommond's Big logoon woods wos photogrophed over 30 yeqrs ogo, qnd shows one of rhe lorgest Redwood lrees in fhe lrqcl.

Trees such os these produce rhe fine Golifornio R,edwood lumber identified by Hommondts Diqmond H brond.

For speciql use or generol work there is q Hcrmmond grode of Redwood pcirficulcrly suited to thqt purpose. No mqtfer whqt the iob, Diomond H Redwood lumber con do it.