TWENTY.FII'E YEARS AGCD TODAY

As Reported in The California Lumber Merchant, October l, 1956

San Francisco-Announcement was made today by Moore Mill and Lumber Co. that their mill and logging camp has escaped the disastrous fire which practically destroyed the town of Bandon on Saturday night. The fire caused the deaths of nine lives and an estimated property loss of $1,500,000.

LeRoy H. Stanton, E. J. Stanton and Son, Los Angeles, is back at his desk following a vacation spent in the Northwest.

Geo. Gerlinger, president of Willamette Valley Lumber Co., Dallas, Ore., spent several days in San Francisco on a business trip.

That group of lumbermen known as the Soracity Club around the San Francisco Bay area recently made their annual trip to the High Sierra. Included in the group were Clem Fraser, Loop Lumber and Mill Co., Alameda; Jerry Bonnington, WendlingNathan Co., San Francisco; Eddie Tietjen, Sudden and Christenson, San Francisco: Larue Woodson, Wheeler-Osgood Sales Corp., San Francisco; and Earle Johnson, Watsonville.

Fred Johnson, West Coast Screen Co., Los Angeles, recently returned from a business trip to the Northwest. He reports that W. P. Fuller and Co. are now distributors in Seattle, Tacoma, and Portland for their well known Hollywood combination screen door.

The annual meeting of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association will be held at the Hotel Del Monte on Monterey Peninsula. J. O. Handley, M. J. Murphy, Inc., Carmel, is chairman of the Convention Committee.

R. M. Morriss, of Chicago, president of the American Lumber and Treating Co., is a California visitor at the present time, dividing a couple of weeks between Los Angeles and San Francisco.

C.B. McElroy, comptroller of E. K. lVood Lumber Company, has been transferred from the San Francisco office to the Los Angeles office.

Effective last month, Lumbermen's Credit Association Inc., Chicago, publishers of the

Lumbermen's Red and Blue Book Service, will send Special Reports by air mail to all subscribers located outside the territory in which regular mail is delivered the following day. This new service means remarkably quick delivery of credit information.

Ambrose Halstead. Phoenix retail lumberman, has been visiting his father, J. D. Halstead, of the J. D. Halstead Lumber Co., Los Angeles.

Jack Dionne, publisher of California Lumber Merchant, will be the speaker at the regular weekly luncheon meeting of the San Francisco Lumberman's Club.

J. F. Slater, sales manager for Dant & Russell, Inc., Portland, spent a few days at the company's Los Angeles office. He traveled both ways by airplane.

N. J. Sorenson, Pacific Coast Manager of United States Plywood Co., Los Angeles, and Langford W. Smith, district manager at San Francisco, have returned from a business trip to Seattle. They visited the company's Douglas Fir plywood plant there.

Philippine mahogany and Philippine hardwood imports into the United States, consigned to all ports for the month of September, totaled 3,023,000 board feet, 2 per cent of which was logs. Total imports into the United States for the first nine months of the year are 2(193,000 board feet, 3 per cent being logs.

Carl R. Moore, Moore Mill and Lumber Co.; R. O. Wilson, R. O. Wilson Lumber Co.; and H. J. DeVries, retail lumberman, all of San Francisco, have returned from a trip to Oregon. There they called on Moore Mill and Lumber Co. at Bandon. Ore. and other Fir mills.

J. Dwight O'Dell, Eureka newspaperman, was named director of information of the California Redwood Association. The appointment was announced by President Carl W. Bahr.

Jas. E. "Jimmy" Atkinson, who recently spent a week in Portland conferring Mark D. Campbell and Frank Moore, principals of Campbell-Moore Lumber Co., announces the formation ofa California Division of the company, of which he is manager. J. H. "Jerry" Stutz is secretary.

In line with its established policy of extending markets for Douglas Fir, West Coast hemlock, Western red cedar and Sitka spruce, the West Coast Lumbermen's Association announces it will make an intensive survey of the market possibilities for West Coast hemlock. The survey will be made by T. J. Torkelson, under the direction of C. J. Ilogue, director of the Association's trade extension bureau.

W. A. \Marner, of Portland, special representative of Vancouver Plywood and Veneer Co., Washington, has been touring California working with George C. Phillips, Southern California representative, on the promotion of their new product, Art-Ply.

"California Giants," sound film released by the California Redwood Association, is presently being shown throughout the San Diego area,

Collins to Produce New Flokeboord

"Collins Flakeboard" will be the trade name of a new flakeboard to be produced at the newly completed $2,000,000 Chester, California, plant of Collins Pine Company, one of the nation's oldest lumber firms.

Elmer R. Goudy, general manager of the company, said that exclusive use of selected Sierra softwoods will give the new Collins flakeboard an exceptional machineability and ultra-smooth faces and edges. The recently developed machinery used by the Collins company will produce a board with outstanding uniformity. Around-the-clock quality checks will ensure an unvarying standard of high quality.

The flakeboard will be made in thicknesses of from % to 7%-inches and in sheet sizes up to S-feet and l0-feet.

Seven years of market research and product study and over a year of testing in the Collins laboratory in Chester have preceded the flakeboard designed especially for use by manufacturers of furniture, cabinets, and similar products.

The highly automated plant will begin turning out the new flakeboard in October.

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Ngtionql Forest Products Week Commiilee Rockets Finol Stoges of Plcnning

The sixth meeting of the National Forest Products Week Committee on September 14 at the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Building was as tense as a Cape Canaveral countdown as the final plans began to materialize, especially since onlyfour weeks remained before the target week, October 75-22.

Publicity Chairman, Stella Roach, revealed plans of a Press Conference Luncheon to be held October 2 in the President's Room of the Furniture Mart. to which real estate editors, editorial writers and home economists from 29 newspapers have been invited. Miss Roach also announced that she is preparing press kits to be distributed to guests in attendance.

Elmer Osterman, of the California State Department of Forestry, stated that the cost of promotional slides to be handed out to Television Stations- will be defraved bv his department ft was announced that the next meeting would be held Thursday, October 5th at 3:30 p.m. in the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Building. ocroBER,t, t96t

Dr. Adams of Los Angeles Trade-Technical College announced that the school's 196l-62 model house to be constructed by the students will be designated as the "House of Wood," and that the woodworking students will select a Forest Products Week Queen. The N.F.P.W. Committee happily informed Dr. Adams that they had decided to annually award a $250.00 woodworking scholarship to some worthy student at L.A. Trade-Tech.

E,d Fountain reported on the progress being made on wood displays to be placed at 25 key business locations. He also volunteered to seek a source of wooden nickles to hand out during the week's activities.

Darrell Henderson, in the absence of I-eRoy Stanton, reported that the N.F.P.W. luncheon would again be cosponsored by the Southern California Building Industries Division of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.

It was proposed that Co-Chairman Wayne Mullin arrange to request Mayor Yorty to issue a proclamation recognizing the week in Los Angeles.

A National Forest Products Week program will be conducted Friday, October 13th, at the Los Angeles Rotary Club in the Statler Hilton with an expected audience of 500 to 600. The speaker will be Mr. Autoville, Chairman of the Board of the U.S. Plywood Corporation.

Less Foor of The California Lumber Merchant announced that the magazine will provide free copies of their October 15th National Forest Products Week issue to be distributed among the guests at the N.F.P.W. luncheon.

Committee members were also reminded that there will be a wood products booth at the first annual \Mestern Building Industries Exposition to be held at the Livestock Arena just off the Santa Ana Freeway from October 7-10. Twentyfive feet of space is being donated by The California Lumber Merchant. Robert Hannah, president of Spotnails of Southern California, who has leased an additional ten feet of space, will participate in the booth. A display of wooden kitchen cabinets will comprise fifteen feet and is being prepared by the Wood Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers of Southern California. In addition, Rossman Mill & Lumber Company is providing a ten foot booth to display various species and applications of wood.

Those present at the meeting were: Wayne Mullin, Ed Fountain, Elmer Osterman, Bob Blanford, Guy Barnett, John Anderson, Dwight Adams, Bob Hannah, Frank Daluiso, Leonard Crofoot, Darrell l{enderson, Less Foor, Harold Cole, Rod Buchan and Wayne Gardner.

Hoo-Hoo No. 2 Steering Gommittee Steers Srroighr Through Dense Fog

In spite of the dense fog which pre- vailed at Rodger Young Auditorium on September 11 Hoo-Hoo Number Two's Steering Committee managed to steer many pertinent items towards resolution. Snark loe Petrash called the well-attended meeting to order and announced the first item for discussion.

The primary item on the agenda was the October 2oth meeting at Palos Verdes Country Club. It was decided that this meeting will initiate the first round of the 54 hole golf tournament. Don Gow, golf chairman, defined his handicapping' system and mentioned the possibility of charging an entry fee. Lee Kramer will be in charge of arranging entertainment for the meeting, and Ben Gardiner and Phil Kelty are working on the grand door prize.

The next item opened for discussion was Hoo-Hoo's Disolav Booth at the Western Building Industries Exposition, October 7-lO. Wally Lingo and Don Swartzendruber are co-ordinating on the organization, construction and manning of the booth.

Thirdly the committee discussed the pros and cons of organizing a HooHoo Lumbermen's Placement Bureau. It was decided to appoint a sub-committee consisting of Harvey Koll, Harold Cole and Less Foor to further investigate the possibilities of organizing such a program.

The committee suggested and approved that the November 13 Steering Committee Meeting should be an open session to receive grievances and gripes from the members.

At the conclusion of the meeting Snark Joe thanked all members for their sustained interest and hard-work on the part of Hoo-Hoo and the lumber industry.

Those attending the Steering Committee Meeting were:Doug Maple, Don Braley, Phil Kelty, Ben Gardiner, Don McNew, Rex Walls, Rex Oxford, Ken Kenofel, Wally Lingo, John Osgood, Lee Kramer, Jim Forgie, Ilarvey Koll, Don Swartzendruber, Don Gow, Joe Petrash, Less Foor, Dr. Adams and Harold Cole.

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Good Reqsons For Supporting Your Assn.

Dear Member:

With the condng of Fall, I think we in the lumber and, bwilding vnaterials ind,ustry find oursektes on the threshold' of a new era in the building field.

During the last fezu years we haae all gained good erperience on hoza to trhn costs and. how to get the most out of our dollars spent. All indi,cations point to a possible upswing in our industry and we should do everything possible to wqke the best of the years ahead.

All of ws in the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California should continue to pool our effor.ts toward a program of training, understand,ing and cooperation tlwt will be beneficial to all.

I utould like all the owners and managers of our rePresented, yard,s to analyze eaery defartment of thei'r business to d,etermine zahat kind, ol training progranl or serai'ce the Association cou,ld, prottide which would enable our Per' sonnel to d,o a better job in hand'ling their work and thus enable u,s to get rnore out of our businesses as zue sen)e the public.

After you have thoroughly eaaluated each segtnent of your bisiness and haae lormulated some thowghts on zahat zue could do to improae our departments zpith speciol training, please send in your request or thoughts to our Association -office in San Francisco. As soon as the Erecutiae Cornd,ittee and your Board ol Directors can d,eterruine from your correspondence what your wishes o/'e) we will set ult a program lor this Fall, Winter and early Spring that I atm sure zaill be aery helplul to all'afuo partici\ate.

Please do not i,gnore this request. I avn sure that il you participate in this analysis and personnel eaaluotion we will be in fine position to acquire the right hind of prograrns to help us aII to make the best of the yeors that are ahead of us.

Thank you for taking tirne to consider the matter and please let us hear from you by Septernber 20th.

Yours very truly, Errrnn N. Reu, President Lumber Merchants Association of No. Calif.

American Foresl Products Corporotion Considers Land-Timber Purchose

C. T. Gray, president of American Forest Products Corporation, San Francisco, announced on September 72 that the corporation has made an offer to Calaveras Land & Timber Corporation to purchase from it all of its lands and timber. These properties comprise approximately 6O,000 acres located in Calaveras County, California and in adjoining counties. The tract is one of the largest areas of virgin and second-growth Pine and Fir timber in California still remaining in single ownershiP.

James R. Lowe, president of Calaveras Land & Timber Corporation, states that he has received this offer and that it is now under consideration by the Directors of Calaveras Land & Timber Corporation. He announced his intention of calling a special rneeting of stockholders of Calaveras Land & Timber. Corporation for October 17, 1961 to consider and act upon a plan of dissolution and complete liquidation of Calaveras, and thereafter to act upon the offer to purchase by American Forest Products Corporation.

Calaveras Land & Timber Corporation was organized in 1937 as successor to the Calaveras Timber Company. It has never actively operated itself but has held its timber for liquidation over the intervening years and during this period has distributed in excess of $10.00 per share to its stockholders.