Club 9 Elects Goy Brqdt qnd Gets Right Down to Business

Gay Bradt of Wendling-Nathan Company, was unanimously named to captain San Francisco Hoo-Hoo Club 9 through the coming big 1960-61 club year at an election meeting held at the Leopard cafe, the evening of September 13. Gay, who also will chairman Club 9's coming big "Roundup" at the Jack Tar hotel (Oct. 7), has long been active in Club 9 affairs, having served continuously as an officer or director since 1954.

President Gay received the traditional gavel from Ben 'Ward, who will don his past-president's pin and get back to the full-time business of selling lumber for his firm, Ward & Knapp, of San Francisco.

The meeting officially got underway at 6:39 p.m. with free relaxers, compliments of J. E. Higgins Lumber Co., Wendling-Nathan Co. and Tarter, Webster & Johnson, Inc.

The traditional election banquet showed evidence that someone had really gotten "through" to the chef, because everyone agreed (and that in itself is unusual !) that the prime rib spread was just about the best for the price ($4.00 per) that they had ever come across in San Francisco, the "city of good eating."

Following a short, snappy introduction of the new and-his "c1ew," discurqsien o_! Club_9's part in the coming National Forest Products lVeek, October 16-22, brough"t out the fact that several downtown banks had agreed"to donate room for Forest Products displays. And -so have various downtown stores, including -Mlcy's downtown. h addition, the club has lined up Mayor Christopher to issue an official proclamation regaiding-the Week, with pretty lumbergals presenting the Mayor with a forest-product item. Further tie-in on the week, ihrough radio and- TV, will.be handled by CRA's Barney Bates and Jack Hays.

Through the efforts of Owen Stebbins of The pacific Lumbe.r Company, large office holders in the Shell Building, windows in that building facing the huge Battery Stre6t pedestrian commuter traffic will also iarrv the Forest Products "message" during the Week.

After a reminder o{ the club's coming annual Roundup, to be staged at the beautiful new Jack- Tar hotel in Sari Francisco, the evening of October 7, the first meeting of the new club year was adjourned.

New officers and directors of San Francisco Hoo-Hoo Club 9 are:

President, Gay Bradt, Wendling-Nathan Co.; First vicepresident, Max Cook, The California Lumber Merchant; second vice-president, Charlie White, White Lumber Company; Secretary, Art Wall, George Windeler Co., Ltd. ; Treasurer, Bob Nelson, Hobbs Wall Lumber Co.; First sgt.-at-arms, Dick Hogan, Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co.; and Second sgt.-at-arms, Chuck Dickinson, California Redwood Association.

Directors for the new year include the LMA's lack Pomeroy, Frank Egnell, and gitt Carter, J. E. Higgins Lumber Co., three new faces on the Board. Holdover directors include lfarry Hood, The Pacific Lumber Co.; Fred Buckley, F. S. euikley Door Co.; Doc White; Lloyd Hecathorn, Arcata Redwood Co.; Tim Knox, Rounds Lumber Co.; and Owen Stebbins. The iracific Lumber Co.

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Minutes of Meeting of Morch | 8, | 960 Placerville lumber Co., Smirh Flot, Golif" Plant Tour

During the morning, the new mill for small logs and drying facilities were inspected. All lumber cut is second giowth, principally ponderosa and sugar pine and white fir. Major production items are decking and starter boards. Logs are decked under sprays and passed through a Nicholson debarker to the band head saw operated together with a riderless carriage. Log cants from the headsaw are transferred to a 4{' gang saw with no special attempt being made to saw for grade because of the nature of the logs. All bark free residue is sent to a chipper where fines are separated from the chips, the fines being blown to the burner and the chips blown directly into rail cars. An oilfired boiler was used for kiln steam production; and according to Joe Gibson, 25 gallons of oil dried approximately 1000 bd. ft. of lumber.

Luncheon was hosted by the Placerville Lumber Company at the Blue Bell Cafe, Placerville.

Business Session

The meeting was called to order by President Grubb at I :30 p.m. The president thanked Joe Gibson (kiln operator) and Bob Weston (partner of Placerville Lumber Co.) for hosting plant tour and luncheon. The minutes of the January l5 meeting were read by the secretary and adopted as presented.

The Nominating Committee consisting of Ray Brown, Jim Jacobson and John Silva presented the slate of officers for the coming year,I9ffi-61, as follows:

President-Joe Hughes, Hughes Lumber Co.; First Vice President-Doug Skrimager, Associated Lumber & Box Co.; Second Vice President-Joe Gibson, Placerville Lumber Co.; Secretary-Treasurer-Harvey H. Smith, Pacific SW Forest & Range Experiment Station.

Nominations from the floor were then called for, and Bartdn Ecklund and Eric L. Ellwood, both of UC Forest Products Lab, were nominated as Secretary-Treasurer. Ellwood withdrew as a nominee.

Technical Session

The guest speaker, Niel Long, director of architectural services, California Woodwork Institute, was introduced by the secretary. Mr. Long described the Woodwork Institute as comprised of members who specialized in detailed architectural millwork encompassing. much custom building. Cabinets, miscellaneous internal fixtures, windows, and doors comprised the bulk of production. Woodwork fixtures for schools and government institutional buildings constituted a large proportion of Institute business. Mr. Long described the business as being highly competitive. and also indicated that materials which were competitive to wood were making inroads on fixtures which have conventionally been constructed from wood. Faultv construction or construction from faulty materials meint expensive replacement or refinishing besides strengthening the case for architects to look for alternate materials.

Mr. Long described his position as working with architects in an attempt to obtain realistic specifications for millwork as well as the fundamental business of promoting the use of wood.

The most important factors relating to drying which bothered the millwork industry were stated by Mr. Long to be (a) uniformity of moisture content, (b) pitch bleeding, and (c) case-hardening.

In the discussion which followed, several points were made. Many defects relating to level of moisture content, uniformity of moisture content, and casehardening would be reduced if the architects and millwork institute laminated their heavier members rather than specifying solid

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