E UANITA pays tribute to: THE LUMBERYARD

Countermen

the first, qnd sometimes, only contqct with customers, Public Relqtionsmen with lumber knowledge cnd infinite potience, unsung heroes exploining to old lodies the di{lerence between boord ond lineol meosures. Men who hqve to smlle kindly, when some excited Week-end contrqctor wqnts to buy:

"A 2xJOIST AND A 4xSCANTLING TO MAKE A OxOUTHOUSE 8'HicH"

Remernber: No mqteriql in the world hos the wormth of Noturol Wood, with Coli{orniq's exclusive Redwood leoding the field, whether in Poneling, Sidinq or Trim.

Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 Elects Officers

The September 15 meeting of Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 of Oakland at the Claremont Hotel, Berkeley was the occasion of the election o[ new oFficers, as well as p:oviding the opportunity for some very good entertainment keyed to the coming presidential election. 90 members and guests turned out for the affair. A tribute was paid to the retiring president Lu Green of Gamerston and Green Lumber Co. before the new slate was voted in. Bill Chatham, Loop Lumber Co., as head of the nominating committee presented the new list of officers. Those elected were: Albert A. Kelley, lumber wholesaler of Alameda, president; Bob Hogan, Hogan Lumber Co., Oakland, vice president; G. W. (Chris) Sechrist, Loop Lumber and Mill Co., secretary and treasurer; Frank Timmers, Strable Hardwood Co. and Ralph P. Hill, Hill Lumber and Hardware Co., sergeants-at-arms. The board of directors are, Bill McCubbin, Cords Lumber Co.; Bob Meyers, Holm Lumber Co.; Jerry Mashek, Hill and Morton Inc.;Joe Pepetone, Gamerston and Green Lumber Co., and Herb Farrell, California Builders Supply.

On the amusing side of the meet, a parade of members carrying banners with inscriptions supporting or denouncing the various candidates, marched about the room shouting for their favorite. It gave the meeting the appearance of a national political convention. Bill Chatham's presentation of the candidates was something of a show in itself.

The most serious part of the entertainment was the discussion of the presidential candidates in the coming national election. A man was selected to support each one of the two opposing candidates. Backing General Eisenhower was Malcolm Champlin, prominent East Bay attorney, and chairman of the Veterans for Eisenhower Campaign. He is a graduate of Annapolis and served in the last World \\rar. His adversary was Assemblyman Robert L. Condon of the 10th District in Contra Costa County and a candidate for Congress from the 6th Congressional District. Each man ably extolled the merits of his candidate, and aroused great interest from the group by answering questions after their twenty minute presentation

Split Up Pcrtnership

Mason E. Kline and Arthur B. Ruf of the wholesale lumber firm of Kline & Ruf, San Francisco, split up their partnership effective July 1, 1952, and by friendly agreement are carrying on as individuals, keeping the same offices, phone numbers and teletype.

Mason E. Kline and his son, Mason E. Kline, Jr. continue the operation of Mason E. Kline & Co., and Arthur B. Ruf is operating his own wholesale lumber business under his olvn name.

Mason E. Kline Jr., has been on active duty as an Ensign in the Navy at San Diego. He will go to Korea this month.

W'e now carry the following Baxco Pressure Theated Foundation Lumber in stock at Alameda and Long Beach for immediate sbipment to dealers: rf?'e offer prompt custom treating service at both our Alameda and Long Beach plants. Your lumber can be delivered to us by truck or treated in transit in carload quantities. Consult us for additional information.

Douglos Fir 545 A[5 2x4,2x6,2x8,2x10, 3x4,3x5,4x4ond4x6.

Special sizes will be purchased from local stocks and pressure treated without delay.

Baxco Pressure Tieated Foundation Lumber is impregnated with preservative salts in accordance with Fed. Spec. TT-V-571C. k is approved by FHA, Uniform Building Code - P.C.B.O.C., State Architect for mudsills in School Construction. and U. S. Government Specifications.

Construction Activity in August, 1952

Expenditures for new construction in August rose seasopally (by 2 per cent) to $3,152 million, the highest monthly figure on record, according to preliminary estimates of the U. S. Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Building Materials Division, U. S. Department of Commerce. Special investigation into contract construction employment and the field operations of major public construction agencies revealed that the steel dispute had no demonstrable effect on construction expenditures in August.

A slow but steady decline has occurred in private industrial building during the past few months, but other major types of private and public construction have by and large shown the usual seasonal advances. Private new construction activity'as a whole stood at $2,A42 million this August, and public at $1,110 million. New homebuilding activity is the largest part of private volume and alone accounted for 46 per cent of the private total. Public construction for defense-chiefly work on atomic energy and military and naval facilities-accounted for 30 per cent of the public sector. Another 30 per cent of public outlays went for highway work.

Comparing dollar volume for the first 8 months of this year and last, public'construction gained by over a fifth, as major advances occurred in building atomic energy and military and naval facilities. Private construction lagged slightly over the year, because greater outlays in 1952 on private plant and public utility construction did not offset the drop in commercial and some other types of nonresidential building and on housing. The gap between this year's and last year's outlays for new housing is now fairly narrow, however, reflecting the continuous high level of home construction during the spring and summer months ot 1952.

Celotex Welcomes New 25-Yecr Club Members

New members of the 25-Year Club of The Celotex Corporation were introduced by Henry W. Collins, club president and exe,cutive vice-president and director of Celotex, at a special luncheon September- 16 in Chicago's Bismarck Hotel.

Those honored included O. S. Mansell, president of the corporation; W. D. Becker, controller; Angie Udell, head of addressograph dept.; Samuel Krajci, assistant to vicepresident in charge of production; G. K. Johnstone, head of order dept. ; Catherine Bercher-n, order dept. section supervisor; R. G. Janecek, cost accountant; Clara Hoelscher, secretary to corporation secretary; A. 1y. Chapman, technical supervisor of research dept.; T. G. Stapleton, senior sales representative of Chicago sales branch, and Elmer Cripe, assistant manager of Chicago sales branch.

Collins presented each new 2l-Year Club member with a gold 2S-Year Club pin, a hand-illuminated parchment scroll and a gift from the company.

Now More Than Ever

Nctionclly Advertised n.O.W. Windows are Americq's Fcvorite o More than 1,000,000 R.O.$f/. units were insralled in 1950 -that makes R.O.NZ. Removable Windows the largest selling wood window unit in the o The window that women rca,lly want!

Are you getting your sbare ol tbe profts from tbe increased. demand lor tbe R.O.V/. unit in your area?

If our sales representative can be of any help to you he will be glad to assist in any promotion work.

The Winton Lumber Company, operating a modern sawmill and lumber manufacturing plant in Amador County -at Martell, California, have a progressive and service minded unit that they can well be proud of. In the interest of producing quality items, additional timber has been secured and improvements in the sawmill and remanufacturing facilities have been made for a long term operation.

The sawmill cuts approximately 95,000,board feet per shift and operates the shifts five days a week. A planing mill and a remanufacturing plant specialize in the manufacture of box, moulding, sash and trim, in addition to standard surface items which are shipped throughout the Un!ted States.

With the recent installation of two additional kilns, the company now have six modern Moore Cross-Circulation Kilns 17' wide x 12U long in addition to their older kilns ilstalled several years ago. These new kilns are of the single ended design and are equipped with 77, diameter fans driven with 50 h.p. single speed motors. Moore Pressure Controllers on each kiln insure proper and adequate supply of steam and automatic temperature and humidity instruments assist in drying the lumber efficiently and economically. The kiln buildings themselves are constructed of basalt block with reinforced concrete pilasters. A concrete slab roof with 6 inches of insulation on top of this concrete insures minimum heat loss from the kiln roofs.

Outstanding features of the kiln installation include a special low pressure steam spray hook-up for accurate and complete humidity control, a total of 60 vents on each kiln to insure adequate fresh air, especially when drying

Winton Lumber Company lnstalls TwoAdditional Moore Kilns

Sugar Pine, also a completely fireproof control room constructed with a concrete wall with steel back wall and roof to give lowest insurance cost. ' These kilns are fully sprinklered.

Large capacity loads are transferred to and from the kilns with a power driven electric transfer car. A Moore package stacker and also a semi-automatic stacker are employed for stacking loads economically. An unstacker and tilting column hoist break down the loads on to the dry sorting chain.

A modern fleet of logging trucks are operated on well co_nstructed logging roads to give economical handling of logs from the company's logging operation to the mill.

Production of quality manufactured lumber and allied items is the purpose of the Winton Lumber Company personnel, including R. S. Kerns, Manager, and Assistant Manager Cliff Anderson. John Malmquist is plant superintendent and John Dean is sawmill foreman. Al Martin is planing mill foreman. John Owen is in charge of the kiln drying.

All sales for the mill are har-rdled through the Winton Sales Company who have offices at Sacramento, California and also Minneaoolis. Minnesota.

Forest Products Lcrb For Philippines

It is announced that a forest products laboratory will be established in Los Banos, Laguna, Philippine Islands, patterned after the forest products laboratory at Madison, Wisconsin. Filipino research specialists will be trained and employed in timber testing, wood. tecl-rnology, insect controls, industrial investigations, etc.