OFRED C. HOTMES LUMBER COMPANYO

It is as old as the world and as old as the human passionsenvy, fear, greed, ambitt:" TU the desire to surpass.

Quoted from Winston Churchill's o'This Was Their Finest Hour'" ')Wh"t General Weygand called ''The Battle of France' is over'

I expect that the BaitL of Britain is about to begin. Up,on this battG depends the survival oi Christian civilization. On it depends our own British life and the long continuity of our institutions and our empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned upon us. Hitler knows that he will have to b.eik .rs in this island, or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free, and the life of the world may move forward into Lroad, sunlit uplands. Bu! if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, i.ncluding all that we have known and carJ for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age, made more sinister and perhaps more Protracted by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, a.rd so bear oursblves that, if the British Empire and its commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will say, -'THIS WAS THEIR FINEST HOUR'.''

Monthly Lumber Focts

Output at Douglas fir sawmills through the first nine months is slightly ahead of the same period for 1961, but is 355 million board feet behind 1960 and 772 million feet below the output in nine months'of 1959, the last full production year.

G. C. Edgett, executive vice president of West Coast Lumbermen's Association, said the corrosive efiect of mounting imports of Canadian lumber into U.S. markets was taking its toll of Dougl4s fir production. This drop.of three fourths of a billion feet of output since 1959 is about equal to the increased volume of Canadian lumber which British Columbia producers are selling in our mar' kets virtually duty free.

The weekly average of West Coast lumber production in Sep' tember was 157,917,000 b.f. or 99.4/o of the 1957-6I average' Orders averaged 148,680,000 b.f.; shipments 157,722,000 b.f.; weekly urn"."g.t for August were production 155,305,000 b.f., 97/o ol the 1957-61 average; orders 156,632,000 b.f.; shipments 161,696,000 b.{.

Nine months of the 1962 cumulative production 6,022,40I,000 b.f.; nine months of 1961, 5,942,182,000 b.f.; nine months of 1960, 6,378,699,000 b.f'; nine months of 1959, 6,794,956,N0 b.I.

Orders for nine months oI 1962 break down as follows: rail and truck 4,672,437,000 b.f.; domestic cargo 1,0O1,163,000 b.f.; export 257,402,000 b.f.; local 276,977,0000 b.f.

The industry's unfilled order file stood at M4,766,W0 b.f. at the end of Sep:ember, lumber inventory at 894,195,000 b.f' o Phone SUtter l -7520 o 105 Montgomery Streel SAN FRANCISCO 4

Second row, left: Bob Reid, winner of the Adoms Perpeluol Trophy for low nel, receiving some from Sneod. Righr: Hom Knotl, Yosemite Lumber Co., holding o beouti.ul door prize presented by bernle Borber.

Third row, leff: retiring prexy Chet Horschner, Bernie Borber, ond incoming presidenf Cop Nichols of Georgio-Pocific, Fresno. Right: Roy Auberry being congrofuloted by Bernie Borbei for on ouistonding iob of enfertdinmenl.

Bollom row, left: Centrol Lumber's Jim Ross, winne: of the TW&J Perpeluol Trophy for fhe bowling lourndment, receives his trophy from lournomenl choirmon Jim Duort. Rightr post presiderts WillorJ LoFronchi ond Bob Reid, E. E. Schlotthouer, ond posi prexT Don Wolker.