E. K.WOOD

Conapany

GENERAT OTFICE

NO. I DRUilII 9T. FIFE BIDG. sAN FRANCTSCO, CAUFORN|A

NORTHERN SATES OFFICE

IERfiIINAI SAIES BIDG.

PORIIAND, ONEGON

YARDS log ANGETEt CArrFOnNn OAKIAND, CAIIFORNIA

NEIDSPONT, OREGON ROsE3URG, OREGON

To Vice President

J. H. Kenesson, long time manag'er of production units for The Long-Bell Lumber Co., has been transferred to Longview, Wash., f rom Kansas City, Mo., and made assistant to Vibe President L. L. Chipman. Mr. Kenesson, who has been general manager of Long-Bell's southern operations since 1939, will carry the classification of assistant to the vice president.

He will assume some of the production duties of Mr. Chipman in the Longvieu' division of the company and will maintain headquarters at the Longview millsite. The position is newly created in the Long-Bell organization.- recently established a new iust outside the citv limits

Starting as a part time employe with Long-Bell at Thomasville, Indian Territory, now Oklahoma, in 1898, while attending school, Mr. Kenesson has spent his business life with Long-Bell. During his 47 years of Long-Bell association, he has spent the majority of his time in production with two years'in the sales department of the Kansas City ofifice of the company.

Prior to promotion to general manager of Long-Bell's southern operations, Mr. Kenesson served at Bon Ami, La., as plant superintendent of the Long-Bell operation, and was general manager of the company operations at Woodworth, La., and Doucette, Tex. He is being succeeded in the southern managership by C. V. Holbrook, who leaves the wood preserving operation at DeRidder, La.

Mr. Kenesson took over his new duties in Longview on October 15.

Public Will Determine Extent Of Public Housing

"Public housing will be limited by the amount of private construction. So, to a large extent, the latitude of public housing will be determined by the public itself. The building industry must assume the responsibility of keeping the public's present interest in private home building alive," said E. J. Curtis, president of Ponderosa Pine Woodwork, Chicago, during a recent interview.

"The lumber dealer, because of the confidence his community has in him, can aid materially in maintaining public interest in private home building and planning by providing practical suggestions for the modest as well as the low cost home," continued Mr. Curtis. "Many dealers are already efiectively contributing to this effort by distributing home idea booklets to their customers either from display racks in their,showrooms or through the mail.

"An exceedingly valuable booklet is'Today's Idea House' which is published by the Ponderosa Pine Woodwork for distribution by dealers. It is attractively printed and illustrated and contains information that will interest the home planner and builder.

"'Today's Idea House' is actually a result of a surv€y conducted to determine just what Mr. and Mrs. Home-Planner desire in their postwar home.

"One of the conclusions reached was that 83.78% of the home-planners consider more closet space a 'must' and an entire section of the booklet is devoted to practical suggestions on how to in'crease closet and storage space in the home.or to plan it into a new home.

"suggestions on how the home may be made more attractive-more gracious-more convenient-through the selection and arrangement of stock doors and windows are also completely discussed in Today's Idea House. Such a book will go a long way toward keeping public interest in home construction at its peak," Mr. Curtis concluded.

Scrles Mcncrger Resigns

Raymond Lewis has resigned his position as sales manager of the Willapa Harbor Lumber Mills at Raymond, Wash. He will be succeeded by C. S. Vanderslice-, Mr. Lewis will continus as president of the Raymond Lumber Co., South Bend, Wash., and will also continue to be associated with the South Bend Fabricating Co. and the Raymond Hardrvood Co.

\(/e are now making space reseryations, and our advertising department will be glad to make up a suggestion for your ad or assist you with copy.

Genius or IndustrY

I do not despise genius. Indeed, I wish I had a basketful of it instead of a brain; but yet, after a great deal of experience and observation I have become convinced that industry is a better horse to ride than genius. It may never carry any one man as far as genius has carried individuals, but industry will carry thousaads into comfort and even to celebrity, and with absolute certaint5r; whereas genius often refuses to be tamed or managed, and often goes with wrecked morals. If you must wish for either-wish for industry.-Julian RalPh.

Couldn't SPell Derelicts

A visitor in Los Angeles noticed hundreds of badly dressed men sitting around in the sun in Pershing Square, right across from the Biltmore Hotel, and so he asked the taxi-driver who had brought him up from the depot, who they were. The taxi man said:

"Them is durlicks."

"Never heard of durlicks before," said the visitor. "flow do you spell it?"

The cabby. studied the question a moment. He said: "I think you spell it 'd-u-r--' oh, hell, you know what I mean ! Dem is BUMS!"

To My Books

Good friends of other days, we do not see So much of one another as we used, And when we meet our discourse is confused By cares which make our friendship not so free, Not quite so certain as it seemed to me In other days. Too often, unexcused Locking away your wisdom unperused, I shun your door till time corrodes the key. But I shall take my oldest pipe some night, Tamp down its bowl, and settling in my chair, Converse with you again. We'll put to right This troubled world, commending what is fair, Condemning what is false, until all trite, All specious things, dissolve like smoke in air.

-Tumbleweed in Chicago Tribune.

Modern Selling

A gentleman was instructing his son in the technique of the optical business, showing him how to get the most out of a customer. He said:

"Son, after you have fitted glasses to a customer, and the customer asks, 'What is the charge?' you say: 'The charge is ten dollars.' Then you pause and watch for the flinch. If the customer does not flinch, you say: 'That's for the frames; the lenses will be another ten dollars.' Then you pause again-but this time only slightly-and again you watch for the finch. If the customer does not flinch this time, you say: 'Each.' "

The Tough UmPire

A number of visitors had been invited to witness a baseball game held in the courtyard of the State Penitentiary, in which all the players on both teams were convicts, and so was the umpire.

The entire population of the Pen was out to see the contest, which was spirited and well contested throughout, and there was as much interest and feeling engendered as in an exciting league game with a Pennant at stake.

But, oh, that umpire !

He wasn't extra big, and he didn't look formidable, but he was the hardest guy in the shape of an umpire the visitors had ever seen. His decisions were terrible; he seemed deliberately to be inviting the wrath of everyone about him. But he stuck to every decision, and no threats could budge him in the face of what looked at times like certain destruction. He finished the game just as hard-boiled as he started. He had done something that seemed magically bold, and gotten away with it.

When the game was over one of the visitors approached the umpire and asked him how come he dared to do such a tough job of umpiring and make such dreadful decisions in the face of all those desperate men on the teams. The umpire only grinned.

"Weren't you scared?" asked the visitor.

The umpire said: "Naw. I wasn't scared a minute. I'm going to be hung tomorrow."

The Lcnd oI Pretty Soon

The road that leads to that mystic land, Is strewn with pitiful wrecks, And the ships that have sailed for its shining strand, Have skeletons on their decks.

It is farther at noon than it was at dawn, And farther at night than noon, O let us beware of that land down there, The land of pretty soon.

' No Time To lose

Andrg. Maurois tells a story about the late Marshall Lyautey who was sent to Morocco as Governor many years ago. One day as he was riding through a forest of gigantic cedars he came to a spot where a cyclone had knocked down a whole patch of these big trees. F{e called his head men to him and ordered them to re-plant the cedars that had been thus destroyed.

One of the natives said to him: "Plant new cedars, Sir? But it takes two thousand years to grow one of these trees."

"Two thousand yeaqs?" answered Lyautey; "then we have no time to lose; let us start planting at once."

A Dillerence

The glance that over cocktails seems so sweet, May be less charming over shredded wheat.

New Tree Farms Certified

Thirty-eight new Tree Farms have been certifiecl, bringing the national total on August 1 to 850 Tree Farms with 10,858,455.50 acres. In the South, Mississippi aclded thirty Tree Farms covering 10,410 acres, giving the state a total of 87 Tree Farms with 78,555.3 acres and Texas added three Tree Farms covering 40,228 acres, ltringing the state total to 85 Tree Farms arrd 1,661,395.73 acres. The Western Pine Association certified four Tree Farms covering Bg,73O acres in Washington and the Winton-Amador Forest Tree Farm covering 27,749 acres in California. With these additions Western Pine now has eight Tree Farms in Washington with 107,813 acres and, 2I Tree Farms in California with 443,210 acres. These increases make a total of 4g Western Pine Tree Farms with 2,146,094.23 acres compared rvith 58 West Coast Tree Farms, including 2,046,655 acres.

TECO Announces New Ccncdiqn Diskibutor

The Timber Engineering Company, Washington, D. C., has announced the transfer of Canadian distribution rights of Teco Timber Connectors and other products from V. H. Mclntyre, Ltd., to J. E. Goodman, well-known Toronto engineer.

Mr. Goodman, who launched his new company in August, will continue the complete timber engineering, lumber information, and sales services established by the X{cIntyre Company under the late Verne H. Mclntyre.

{ graduate of Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, with a B.S. degree in civil engineering, Mr. Goodman spent three years with the McNamara Construction Com_ pany, Toronto, in charge of purchasing and later as project engineer.

Morris Sekstrom

Morris Sekstrom, vice president of the Simpson Logging Company in charge of the door and plywood division "i ttt._ Cleary, \'Vash., passed away on October 22 in a hosoital at Seattle, Wash. He u'as 59 years of age.

He was a long-time leader of the pacific Northrvest olv_ wood industry. He was one of the original shareholders -in Olympia Veneer Co., organized in 1921, and r.vas president of the company nine years until joining Simpson Logging Co. During the war, he was a member of the plyrvooJ industry advisory committee to the War production Board. He is survived by a sister, Mrs. Jennie Ronman of McCleary; a brother, John E. Sekstrom of Tacoma; a daughter in California, and brothers in S.lveden. Funeral services rvere held at Olympia, Wash., on October 27.

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