THE VOILSTEDT KERR LUMBER CO

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.

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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.