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Redwood Disploy Pqnel for Point Color Chips

With the growing use of "silent salesmen" in the retailing of building supplies, the Muir Company of Mill Valley, California, has come up with an attractive, stand-up Redwood display panel for paint color chips. Designed by Burke and Hunt, industrial designers and merchandise counselors of San Francisco, the display stand is produced at a lower cost than stock display stands now on the market. Since January of this 1'931, the Muir Company has manufactured 2500 Redwood stands for six major paint companies. In the process they have consumed 45,000 lineal feet of 1" x 2" Clear All Heart, kiln-dried redwood, into which they have cut 800,000 quarter-inch slots to a depth of ls/s" wilh a special machine which slots six sticks in one operation.

The display stand (pictured) is 26x24" with 12 rows of 14 slqts each for display of color chips, space at the base for the display of six different paint folders, natural finish Redwood paint product sign at top, and a spring-clip attachment for showing the selected brand of paint can, The entire body of the display is bonded to a back oI %" Masonite. A stand-up removable brace (not shown) is of quarter-inch wrought iron. Each Redwood element of the display has been dipped in a mixture of clear lacquer and lacquer sealer (in equal proportions), together rvith a

Douglas Fir Plywood Association and bears the edge brand -EXT-DFPA.

FHA requirements permit the use of Harborite for all finish parts of the house-lapped siding, panel siding, soffits, gable ends, interior paneling-provided minimgm thickness requirements for each use are met. These are: lapped siding-sf"; plain panel siding-%" ; grooved panel siding-5/76"; when applied over plywood or lumber sheathing. When used without sheathing, over building paper increase thickness %". For interior paneling, 5f16" Harborite is recommended on studs 16" o.c., although FHA allows rf". Use 3/s" on studs 24" o.c.

New Morlire Ad Mots for Deqlers

A new series of dealer advertising mats for Marlite plastic-finished r,r'all and ceiling paneling is being distributed by Marsh Wall Products, Inc., Dover, Ohio. Illustrations and copy emphasize the th'eme of Marlite's suitability for any room of the house and its lasting beauty because of a baked plastic finish. Separate mats are provided for Woodpanels, Marble Panels and Plank and Block. Mats for the tongue-and-groove Plank and Block panels carry a do-ityourself appeal, one message suggesting "modernize a room in a weekend."

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Joseph W. Riglesberger

Joseph W. Riglesberger, 82, president of the Tropical Hardwood Co., Vernon, Calif., died suddenly October 3. Mr. Riglesberger was long recognized as one of the nation's leading authorities on rare woods and had been supplying fine hardwoods for hobbyists and others from l-ris company for more than 20 years. He lived in Arcadia and had been a Southern California resident more than 45 years.

Earlier in the day of his death, Mr. Riglesberger had visited the offices of The California Lumber Merchant in Los Angeles seeking a copy of J.oyce Kilmer's poem, "Trees," rvhich he remembered having been reprinted in one of tlre publisher's columns in the magazine. lle was apparently in the best of health and astonishment was expressed when he told his age to the staff, his vigor and mentality belieing his 82 years. He told us of requests from all over the world for his rare hardwoods and, at the time of his visit, an early appointment was made with the old gentleman to visit his company and prepare a feature story on him and his business for these pages.

Joseph Riglesberger leaves two sons, Louis F. Riglesberger, Sierra Madre, and Joseph H. Riggs, Balboa; two daughters, Mrs. Lucile Collins, Arcadia, and Mrs. Louise Kuntz in Germany, two grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren. Funeral services and interment were in Forest Lawn October 7.

254 glued laminated arches recently fabricated in Portland, Oregon for the field house of Union College in Schenectady, New York, set a new record for length of arch.

SCRTA Heqrs Overtime Tolk

"Does Or.ertime 1':ry" l'as the n-rain topic for cliscussion at the regrrlar nrceting oi the Southern California Retail Lumlrer -\ssn. at thc Biltmore hotel October 11. Iirank Rickinger, productior.r manager of Hzrnrmorr<l Lumlrcr Co., n'ho h:ts studierl the srrlrject nran\' ),ears, l.as the sPe:rker ar-rcl shorr'ed rccords of proclrrction l)er r-nan honr. -\t the Septemlrer meeting, Italph Hill, credit manaser of Ou,ensI)ark Lunrlter Co., talliecl on the compltny's creclit policies. Tclpics for the SCITLA's rlonthly mcetings are choscn for the greatest ltenefit to the inrlustrr-.

R.icci & Kruse Opens Yqrd No. 2

Iticci & Kmse I-umber Conrliarry is Putting the firrishillg touches on :r lrr:tnd-rreu', second rr'holesale clistribution

1'anl, reccntly estalrlished frlr the conr-enience of Ricci & Kruse crlst()mers, sul)pliers ancl truckers. The varcl, completc rvith undercover storage Iacilities arrd occupving sonre fottr :rcres of industrial pro1tert1.. u-i1l be locatecl at FJau.es & Arn.rstronfa streets in Sarr Francisco. The phone numlter renrains IIIssion 7-2576. Iticci ct Kruse Lumber Ciornpanv rvill :r1sti continue to opcrate 1'arri #7 at 912 Shotu.ell Street. San Francisct,.

Blokey wifh Lumber Service Co.

Blake lllakey, u'ho has beerr rvith Hayn'ard Lumlrer Co. fclr the past nine years-the last fir.e as manager ,rf its Barstoi,v, Clalif., 1'ard-joined I-urnber Serivce Clo., Burbank, Calif., October 1 in ar-r ofllce and sales capacitv. announces Parrl R. Hollenbeck.

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1955 Fires Devnslcrte Rich Colifornicr Forestlands

Forest fires burned a staggering total of 307,0N acres of timber, watershed, and recreational lands during the recent l8-day critical fire weather period-August 27 to September l3-DeWitt Nelson, State Director of Natural Resources, reported at Governor Knight's monthly council meeting in Sacramento. By comparison, Nelson said, this huge area would be equivalent to a strip of land one mile wide stretching from Sacramento to Los Angeles, a distance of over 400 miles.

This was the most critical fire weather period in 25 years, Nelson stated. Tinder dry fuels, extreme temperatures, adverse fire conditions and a large number of fire starts by lightning and careless users and residents combined to produce a devastating series of fires in all parts of California.

A field survey just completed by the State Forester and Regional Forester of the U. S. Forest Service placed commercial timber losses during the l8-day period at I/4 billion board feet, Nelson reported. This volurne of timber represents about one quarter of California's annual lumber production and only about six states produce that amount. The value of this lumber at wholesale would be in excess of 100 million dollars.

Plans are already underway by lumbermen and the U. S. Forest Service to salvage as much burned timber as possible from private and federal lands, but the future crop of seedlings and young trees were killed outright on more than 125,000 acres of timberland. Nelson estimated it would cost more than $5,000,000 to artificially replant this area with young trees.

Although the state and federal agencies could not place a dollar figure on watershed losses, they estimated a potential o{ more than $6,000,000 alone as a result of one fire that burned 72,ffi0 acres in the Santa Ynez mountain watershed north and west of Santa Barbara. In addition to timber

SUMTTIARY

306,986 oc.es burned during the period..---.--(14!,310 qcr6 rimberlodl

1I65,676 qcres woter:hed lqnd) lhir wc lhe worsl ire weother period experienced in lqst 25 yeors in Coliforniq, $3,610,oo0 of emergen<y FF (flre fightingl fundi lpent in :uppre:sion by Stote ild Fore.t serui(e.

COVER IYPES BURNED: Foreit Service only -....--.------......---.29,O85 ocres of old growlh

47,098 q<tes of culovet

4,272 xres of young groelh

97,346 ocres of grors & bru:h totol ..---.-...........-......-...-...........-lffii o.r""

Stote only -...-.--.. 60,855 qcres limberlqnd (no breokdownl

68,33O qcres woodlond, gross & brush totol ---..-..--...-...--...-------..------.----Iffi o.r.,

WHAT WAS IO5T: F. 5, Stqte 989,391 ll. fl. of stonding timber--...-....------..--.------.--------

Smoker, 140; Mircelloneous, ll2; Incendiory, 62; tightning, 59; Lvmbering. l3; Debri: burning, 33; Cmp0res, I | ; Roilroods, 9; (ltircl. in<ludexhildren, 32; other, 38; vehi<let, I 8; illucturol, l8t power lines, 6.1 rew and watershed damage, the stlrvey estimated property losses-including homes, buildings, equipment and other physical properties, at $3,800,000.

The fires restricted recreation and retarded lumber production and other business activities in many areas. The field survey showed 436 forest fires started during the August 27-September 13 period on the 50 million acres of foothill and mountain lands protected by the state of California and the U. S. Forest Service: 59 of these fires u'ere caused by lightning, 377 were man-caused. Local people living and working in or near the forest areas were responsible for trvo-thirds of the man-caused fires: vallev and urban residents accounted for one-third.

Careless use of cigarettes and matches led the list of man-caused fires. Other causes included incendiarism, fires started by hunters and fishermen, debris burning, children playing with matches, burned structures, lumbering operations, campfires and railroads in that order.

Nine out of every 10 fires that started during the period were suppressed before reaching 300 acres in size; 41 fires exceeded 300 acres and accounted for over 300,000 of the total acreage burned.

At the peak of the fire siege on September 10, more than 14,000 men, 550 bulldozers, and 3,000 fire-fighting supply