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By PUT ROBBINS Executive Director, Hawaiian Wood Products Association

nNE OF THE most distressing problems v plaguing Honolulu lumbermen is shipping damage. Most mills are more accustomed to rail shipment and seem to have difficulty in adjusting packaging and handling for water transport.

Regularly when checking incoming lumber shipments we see C & Btr 2x4, IxB construction shiplap and sometimes even lx8 clear redwood T & G that has changed from a basically square package to something that resem,bles a ball in cross section. You can imagine what happens to milled edges or our square edge 2x4's from this kind of handling. Many shippers fail to realize that with Hawaiian single wall construction all surfaces of lumber are exposed, there is little chance to hide damaqes of anv kind.

CZ Appoints Ed Fountoin

Crown Zellerbach Building Products, Ltd. and Ed Fountain Lumber Company of Los Angeles disclosed recently that Fountain is the new .southern California representative {or Crown Zellerbach's complete line o{ western red cedar.

The products include 2", !' and 4l' heavy decking, siding in specified lengths (smooth and sawsize), lumber for cabinets and millwork, paneling, fencing, patio decking and planters.

Fountain said it will warehouse 1t/, million feet of western red cedar along with other products. Lumber will be shipped from Canada as deck cargo on pulp ships ln recent years regular shippers to our market have developed special packaging to eliminate damage. Simpson Timber found a very successful packaging method that has cut damage of redwood T & G down to nothing. Others have followed Simpson's lead, but we still find an excessive amount of damage in some wood products.

Thus we are so pleased that Matson Navigation Company has developed the flat and be airdried at dockside, then transferred to Fountain's wholesale yard.

Several new pieces of equipment will provide faster in and out truck service, the company said.

Trucks will pick up other items such as Lam-Loc pecky cedar, laminated timbers, decking in many species and construction lumber. This will save truckers time, as various items can be picked up at one location.

Shermon A. Bishop Relires

Union Lumber Company's vice president of sales, Sherman A. Bishop, will retire December l, C. Russell Johnson, companypresident, has announced.

Descri,bed by his colleagues as the redwood industry's oodean of salesmen," Bishop's retirement has prompted industry leaders to credit him with being one of the originators of redwood promotion. "Sherm set the pattern for redwood promotion and redwood's been the better ofi for it ever since," sums up Philip T. Farnsworth of California Redwood Association.

rack method of shipping mentioned below. Matson has been shipping lumber to Hawaii since near the turn of the century. Recently, breakthroughs in shipping techniques have increased the amount of lumber shipped to the Islands by Matson.

The development of a flat rack cargo container for lumber is an example of Matson's advancement in shipping. The flat rack has enabled Matson to make "door to (Continueil on Page 66)

CRA Elecfs New Presidenl

Harry A. Merlo, vice president and general manager of the Rockport Redwood Co. has been elected president of the California Redwood Association. He suceeeds John L. Robins of Simpson Timber Co. Merlo has served three terms as president of the Redwood Inspection Service, and has been associated with the Grading Commission and the National Wood Products Association.