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Jack Carlow c/o California Lumber Merchant

Dear Jack,

We have all enjoyed reading youl article "A Lumberman's Look at Russia" (CLM, SePt.)We found your excerPts most enlightening and it did give us some heart that we are headed in the right direction in our millwork operation. While I was in Italy two Years ago I, too, noticed some of the millwork distribution in action.

While driving along the road I passed a small millwork shoP -- actually nothing more than an overgrown garage. From this "factory" an elderlY man was pulling three window units on a iittle kid's cart. The cart had wooden wheels.

I presume this is similar to the Mcrgan Millwork, Morgan Sash & Door and Carlow Company distribution sYstem although I made no formal cornparison.

Yours very trulY, Henry H. KimberlY, Jr. Vice President Morgan CompanY Oshkosh, Wisconsin

Gentlemen:

Would you Please accommodate me by giving me the address of Jack Dionne, as I have been enjoying for manY Years his splendid writings.

Thanking you in advance for your assistance.

Cordially yours, E. R. McDonald, Supervisor, Second District, County of San Mateo, Redwood City' Calif.

Dear Mr. McDonald, you nutY write laclc at our Los Angeles office where the rnagazine is publisheil.-Editor.

Dear Sirs,

Please find seven bucks to cover two years subscriPtion to the "California Lumber Merchant" magazine.

I find it very helpful in keePing up with whats going on in the "Lumber Business."

Very sincerely, Earl R. Reynolds Whittier, Calif.

David Cutler

California Lumber Merchant

Dear Mr. Cutler:

I do want to thank you for what you have done for my client Graylins Housewares, Inc.

Sincerely, Charles O. Puffer Davis, Kirby & Gray, Inc. Chicago, Illinois

California Lumber Merchant.

Dear Sirs:

We, today, are threatened with the loss of our right to private-property ownership. A pointed example of this is happening right now in the redwood region of northern California.

I am sure that you will find the enclosed reprint revealing and startling. We feel that this article gives an accurate picture of the lumber industry's side of this important controversy,

The operation of all of our businesses is threatened by the violation of this basic American freedom.

'We are distributing this reprint widely in the hopes that the public will be made aware of this threat to private-property ownership.

If you can use additional copies of this reprint we have a limited supply available.

Sincerely yours, Darrell Schroeder, General Manager, Miller Redwood Company.

For your cooies ol this important reprint write directly to Mr. Schroeder. Miller Rednrnd, Co., P.O. Box 247. Crescent City, Calil. 95531-Editor.

IU'IIBEI MENCHANT

Dear Mr. Cutler:

Please accept and provide Jack Dionne with our thanks and appreciation for the opportunity you have provided all of us with to benefft from the inspiration every reader can have from his Vagabond Editorials in the August California Lumber Merchant.

Your list paragraph subjects are so important and valuable in content for the people of our country that we request, and would like to have frorn you, permission to have so.me reprinted here with proper credit to Jack and yourselves. 'We want a few thousand other people to benefit, like we always do, from this you provide from Jack's gifted mind.

Sincerely, Wendell Robie Auburn Lumber Company Auburn, Calif,

Dear Ole:

Willy and Wolfgang Neuman are thanking You for the nice write-up in the SePtember issue' Glorii is my daughter and you made Bob's "aunt" out of her. But thanks, anyway. Bob's sister, theY are now in Rome and Capri.

Your old friend, Hans Wall, General Lumber & SuPPIY, Los Angeles, Calif.

Competitive Prices Dependability

Fast Service

Quality on our complete line of y' Exterior D.F. Door Fram,es y' Exterior D.F. Door lambs y' Interior D.F. Door Fratnes y' Pocket Sliiling D.F. Door Frames y' Exterior D.F. Door Frarnes uith Aluminum Sill

ALSO WHOLESALE LUMBER

Vern Poquetle . Norm Wendell Gene Courchqine

HOBBS WAtt lS l(x)

. (Continued lrom Page 7 ) the first office building entirely of redwood construction in northern California.

In 1960, Hobbs W'all began operating its own fleet of diesel truck-and-trailer units to augment common carrier shipping.

In January 1962, Hobbs Wall took two fundamental steps. The firm that had specialized in redwood for so long-and so successfullyexpanded its coverage to general lumber sales to include fir, pine, cedar, hemlock and spruce.

And, with a view to perpetuation, Hobbs Wall turned its active management over to 'oyounger blood" by selling interests to two well-qualified working executives: One was William C. Johnson (now executive vice-president) who had handled procurement and sales at Hobbs Wall for the 7 years preceding and had 6 years prior retail and wholesale experience with two other lumber firms. Johnson, a graduate in Forestry at the University of California, had also spent a year in the Oregon State Forestry service.

The other was Michael Coonan (now president) who had been manager of remanufacturine and wholesale distribution at Tarter, Webster and Johnson, with 12 years experience there. Before and after graduating from Stanford University,

Coonan had worked in the Pelican Bay Lumber Company sawmill at Klamath Falls.

In adfition to Coonan and Johnson, the directors of Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., Inc. are Godard, Bell and William T. Doyle. The seasoned sales stafi includes Larry Hansen, Walt Hjort, Hal Rolff, John Polach, Don Muller (who manages the Los Angeles office) and John Vertin.

With its redwood sales strong as ever, plus a sizable volume in other species developed in the past 2 and one-half years, the outlook appears bright indeed as Hobbs Wall celebrates its l00th anniversary in the Iumber business.

HOMES BUILT WITH Warren Pressure-

Treated MATERIALS ARE WORTH MORE!

-Approved by Federal, State, County, City and International Euilding Official's conference service is out businoss-Varlous items of treated materials are carried in stock for your added convenlence.

Blue Diqmond Co. Nqmes New Top Mqnogement Teom

BIue Diamond Company, a division of The Flintkote Company, has announced the appointment of Thomas L. Donoshue as executive vice president. Elevatel to vice presidencies and reporting to Donoghue are three Blue Diamond department heads: Harold S. Dillon, vice president, marketing-gypsum division, V/illiam B. Coleman, vice president, concrete division, and Richard L. AIIen, vice president, reinforcing steel division.

This realignment of BIue Diamond top manageme-nt responsibility brings a guidance to the company's activities that is based on a combined experience of serv. ing Blue Diamond customers for more than one hundred years.

Ed Wolsh to Col-Poc

Ed Welsh has been named to the sales stafi of California-Pacific Sales Corporation, according to general manager Pat $enson. Welsh, formerly owner and operator of \Velsh Lumber Company, has been active in the southern California lumber industry since 1948, when he arrived from Maryland. Welsh, whose background is primariiy redwood, should feel at home at CalPacific, one of the largest independent redwood firms in the West.

WESTERN DOOR & SASH

lContinued, lrom Page 10)

I as supervisor of the Oakland mill and ware' house, the Berkeley production plant, and f the entire truck fleet. i$.: vealed some 1600 items in stock), we'll only list a few of the leaders.: Mengel Door, ffi Rylock, Libbey-Owens-Ford E. A. Nord, ffit Clear Fir Sales, Morgan Millwork, Chico i JVloulding and Bellwood Doors. r-

W'estern Door goes a lot further to help color 50th Anniversary Catalogue as a selling tool for its dealer accounts. In addition, Western Door conducts a direct mail program reaching over I20O leading architectural firms. This program is backed up by a regular library of manufacturers litera' tureo each piece urging the interested parties to 'osee your local lurnber deaher." lncidentally, Western's dealer customers get the same mailing so they'll know what it's all about when the inquiries start coming in.

In all, it looks to us like they're playing heads up ball down at this store. And you sure have to in this day and age when "just good" ball will only get you second place.

Terrible Twenty Ploy

The ,l,60th Terrible Twenty Tournament was held at Bel-Air Country Club, September 10. with Bob Pierce master of cere' monies.

The lush locker room is finished and now the place is lush all over. The predicted 95o temperature failed to develop and it was a perfect afternoon. Clifi Simpson finally came to life (78-ll-67) and won the low ,bracket and the horse race, with Vern Huck (84-15-69) winning the high bracket.

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Monthly Lumber Focts

Weekly production at Douglas fir sawmills in the Western Wood Products Association producing region during August totaled 169 million feet, compared to l6l in the previous month. Orders and shipments. however, were down from the month of July.

Eight months output totaled 6.1 billion fect, according to WWPA. Through the first eight months, orders totaled 5.9 billion feet, and shipments, 6 billion feet. Unfilled order files were estimated at 470 million feet, up slightly from the previous year. Total industry inventory was esti- mated to be L009 billion feet for the first eight months ol 7964.

The weekly average of Douglas Fir Region lumber production in August was 169,809,000 b.f or I07.1/o of the 1959-63 average. Orders averaged 164,735,000 b.f.; shipments 169,574,000 b.f.; weekly averages for July were production 161,666,000 b.1., 102.0c/o of the 1959-63 average; or. ders 171,295,000 b.f.; shipments 177,579,000 b.f.

Eight months of the 1964 cumulative production 6,139,738,000 b.f.; eight months o{ 1963, 5,369,6L7,O00 b.f.; eight months oI 1962, 5,444,841,000 b.f.

Orders for eieht months of 196.1, break down as follows: Rail and truck 4,472,532.000 b.f.; domestic cargo 1,025,478,000 b.f.; export 260,8:16,000 b.f.; Iocal 235,4I9.000 b.f.

Plywood Group Nome Chonge

It is a good year for association namechanging, or must be as anotht'r group has taken the new-name plunge.

The Hardwood Plywood Manufacturers Association is the new name for the old Hardwood Plywood Institutt. The group has revamped the association's trademark to reflect the change and it is reminiscent of the old mark.