Some Old-Tiiney Sowmill Philosophy

(As printed in these pages 25 years ago)

Once upon a time there was a tnan who built a SAWMILL, and after he got it going he came to the conclusion that if he would put in live rolls he could increase the capacity of his plant 10 percent.

So he put in live rolls and that necessitated irnother trimmer saw.

So he put that in, and then he decidecl that if he had a bigger edger he could put tie cants through, and increase the capacity another 20 percent.

So he bought another edger and then found that he didn't have enough power.

So he bought a bigger engine. And it was so big he couldn't keep up steam.

So he bought another boiler; and by that time the mill was cutting so much lumber he couldn't keep it in logs.

So he bought another skidder, and then he founcl his log pond was too small.

So he bought a scraper, and dug himself a young lake.

But along in the summer the pond went dry, so fie built a mile and a half of flume, and turned a creek into it, and by that time the fall rains had set in and washed out the dam.

And the governor broke and the new engine ran away and the fly wheel busted.and cut ofF a steam pipe ancl scalded the engineer who was asleep in the sawdnst bin, but they got everything fixed up again, and the engineer sued him for-

TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS DAMAGES. but he did not mind that because he had been in the sawmill business all his life and was used to trouble.

So he got everything running smoothly again, but by this time he hld cut out all his timber and had no money to buy more.

So he sold the mill to the junk man and got himself a job as a whistle punk in a laundry. So, if a lot of these sawmill guys would run their sawmills the way they were built to run in the first place, and spent less time trying to increase their capacity, there would be less of them going broke.

Entz-White Nqmes Rhodes Soles Monoger of Yqrd

The promotion of James L. Rhodes, 26, to the position of sales manager of Entz-White Lumber and Supply, fnc., \4,'as announced by President John C. Entz ol the Phoenix retail yard. Rhodes joined Entz-White in January 1955 as a salesman. He attended the University of California at Berkeley and served briefly in the Army Infantry in 1950 as'a lieutenant.

Sesside Growing

Seaside, Calif.-City Administrator Gordon Howe said building permits in the fiscal year ending June 30 were valued at $4,910,442 and included 398 new homes.

SCRLA Selects Gommittees lo Arronge Areq Deoler Meefings

The Southern California Retail Lumber Assn. has completed plans to set up and conduct regular area meetings in eight SoCal zones and expects to organize still other areas for periodic meetings at the convenience of the local dealers. In each area a committee was named to assist a permanent chairman in naming the time, place and program for the meetings. SCRLA Executive Vice-President Orrie W. Hamilton said it is felt that much can be accomplished at these meetings by having a definite organization in each area with which the association headquarters can work. These are the first committees named:

BURBANK'GLENDALE Lumbermen's Group: Tom Fleming, Stuart Harris, co-chairmen; H. Park Arnold, Bill Litchfield.

HARBOR AREA Lumbermen's Group: Ralph D. Russell, chairman; E. J. Ballantyne, Rex Clark, Frode Kil- stofte, George T. Wiley.

EASTSIDE Lumbermen's Group: Carl Bauer, Wm. F. Van Matre, co-chairmen; Robert R. James, W. S. Russell.

RIVERSIDE Lumbermen's Group: F. W. Davidson, chairman; Russell Boyd, C. A. Pontius, K. G. Stalder, Fred Suverkrup.

SAN BERNARDINO Lumbermen's Group: E. Vaughn Davies, chairman; W. M. Dary, Davis F. Henley, George P. Loos, J. E. Suverkrup.

SAN GABRIEL VALLEY Lumbermen's Group: Norbert Bundschuh, chairman; L. A. Beckstrom, Jr., George Rodecker, Gale Stafford.

SAN FERNANDO VALLEY Lumbermen's Group: Stanley E. Brown, chairman; Frank Doepker, J. D. Eckardt, Wally Hull.

WESTSIDE Lumbermen's Group: W. J. Beuchell, Hal Brown, co-chairmen; Tom Fox, R. E. Haddock, Tom Mills, Lloyd Olson.

Penluah,

Pat Tynan, former Fresno representative for Dant & Russell Sales Co., and now the partner in Winfree & Tynan, moved his residence to San Rafael last month to be within commuting distance of his San Francisco office.

Charlie Schmitt, head man of the Atkins, Kroll & Co., lumber division, returned to the San Francisco ofifices from a week in Portland on business.

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Paul Orban and his wife are covering the east, deep south and midwest on a pleasurebusiness junket for Orban Lumber Co., Pasadena.

E. E. Bradford returned to Black Diamond Lumber Company's Sacramento office from a month's business trip in the east and midwest.

H. R. "Doc" Lind, one of Strable Lumber Company's "knights of the road," returned to Oakland after a week with northern California mill accounts.

Dick Marquart, vice-president of MarquartWolfe Lumber Co. at Menlo Park, attended the Northern Sash & Door Jobbers Assn. convention in Washington, D. C. last month. He was joined by his brother Tom of Oshkosh, Wis., and the two lumber executives covered dealers in the east bgfore returning to bases.

Wendlihg-Nathan's Fresno man, Herb Thompson, returned to home base from an extensive business trip through western Canada, Washington and Oregon.

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Euphrat returned to San Francisco the end of October from a 3-week honeymoon. Euphrat was married September D to the former Annette Hillman of the city.

Jim Connolly, sales executive of the F. C. Russell Company, returned to his southern California post from a swing through the