LETTERS

Constonl Reoder

California Lumber Merchant

Gentlemen:

Enclosed please find check for year's subscription to your very interesting and informative magazine.In your news and editorial pages you get right down and squeeze the pig till he squeals. As long as a pig grunts, he's in fine shape for taking on more acorns, but when he squeals there's something aching and he opens his mouth like Truman and tells the world.-F. M. Riley, Wholesale Tools, 1021 Broadway, San Jose, Calif.

Out of rhe Smog Belt

California Lumber Merchant

Gentlemen:

After I spent 39 years in smog-bound Alhambra, I moved my family to smog-free Independence, California43 miles this side of Bishop. We sure like it up here plenty of trout.

Please change my mailing address, and keep my lumber Merchant coming.Al Setterlurul, P.O. Box 87, Independence, Calif.

Soles Tool

California Lumber Merchant

Gentlemen:

Many thanks for sending us tear sheets. The piece, "Striking Effects in Wood," as it appears in the California Lumber Merchant's September 1 issue, page 56, makes an excellent sales tool for us.

Would you send us twenty or so copies ?Jeffreys Hobart, "Editor," Hobart - Wilsie, San Francisco.

Whot Do YOU Think?

We are pleased' to publish the lollou,ing letter recently receiaed' at our office, and h.ope that it will spur conlment lrom our readers on this important industry subject ol lunt' ber standards.-Ed.itor.

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Since the tecent announcement of the formation of the Committee Against Chaos in Lumber Standards, many have asked who is the Committee and what is its purpose.

WHO ? It is a fast growing group of retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers. They view with great alarm the eforts of a small group of manufacturers to ramrod through The American Lumber Standards Committee new proposals for multiple

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Soulhern Cqliforniq Door lnstilute sizes and grade designation without adequate consideration of the detrimental efiects on the industry as a whole. The Committee is expanding rapidly a'nd will soon announce members of the steering committee representing manufacturers, dealers and users of lumber.

WHAT? The aim of the Committee is:

1. The complete dissemination of the facts regarding proposed changes.

2. The elimination of the secrecy surrounding the proposals.

3. The insistence that any changes be preceded by complete study that conclusively proves that there is a need for them which serves the best interests of the industry and the public.

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changes have constantlY inferred that they must come, the following fact should be known to all:

1. The Government is not asking for them. This ofrce has a letter which completely discredits this widely publicized statement by saying "no one in Government is advocating that green lumber be cut oversize". We will be happy to show it to any of you.

2. There is no widespread clamor for any changes and theY are neither desirable nor necessary unless the industry and the public as a whole ffnd them bdneficial. It is therefore not necessary to choose between various size change proposals. The present lumber standards have been fully acceptable to the public and should be left unchanged unless and until those

Olympic Stained Products Company of Seattle is now staging a contest with 33 prizes totaling well over $1,500 for its dealers. and the dealers' employees. First prize in the fall dealer-salesman contest is an all expense-paid trip for two to Las Vegas or $600 in cash, according to George Oistad, Olympic sales manager.

'Winners will be named Nov. 1 in the twomonth contest which began Aug. 24 and ends Oct. 27. To participate, a dealer or

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Rough & Milled Commons who use our product see a need that would be of benefit. There is little reason to feel impelled to make some change out of fear of the proposal for oversize gteen lumber; this proposal has met with no success for many reasons although advocated and attempted for 10 or more years. Again, we emphasize no change must be made and no change can be made if a substantial amount of opposition is known to exist. Ttris Committee has on record as opposing these proposals over 50% of. the produetion in the Douglas Fir area.

3. Although the current proposals are called "Grade Standardization" there are few who agree that they are standardization. Members of this group and others have conducted extensive survdys to determine customer opinion; the reaction has been any of his salesmen briefly fills out a postcard after every sale of Olympic stain and mails it to the Seattle firm.

Generally speaking, said Oistad, dealers in all kinds of stain everywhere have reason to welcome fall. In Septcmber, for example, stains go on easily and smoothly because the weather is neither too hot nor too wet, and they penetrate completely because the wood has dried and seasoned in the sumrner sun. Finally, many homeowners want recoating proteetion against cotning bad weather

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