TwentY'FlyeTears Ago

As Reported in the November Lg4I,Issue of The Merchant, Est. 1922

George Tolliday has acquired the interests of Dean Cook in the Madera Lumber 'Co. at Madera, Calif. and will be associated with C. K. Lesan in the operation of the yard.

Roy E. Hills, Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco, rilas a business visitor to Los Angeles last week. IIe attended the Stanford-U.S.C. football game.

Earry Dowson, sales manag:er, Medford Corporation, Medford, Ore., recently spent a few days in Los Angeles on company business.

Ensign John S. (Jack) Butler, who has been stationed in the Ifawaiian Islands for the past several months, paid an unexpected visit to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Seth L. Butler, San Francisco, last week. Before entering the Navy, Jack called on the retail lumber trade for his father who is Northern California sales representative for Dant & Russell, Inc.

George T. Gerlinger, of Portland, president, Willamette Valley Lumber Co., was recently in San Francisco and Los Angeles on business.

O. V. Wilson of Central Lumber Co., Stockton, recently returned from a 30-day trip to the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.

Union Lumber Company announces that Ray Shannon, district sales manager at Los Angeles for the past several years, will be transferred to Fort Bragg, where he will be production superintendent and that Abe E. Jackson, production superintendent at Fort Bragg will take Mr. Shannon's place as district sales manager, Seth L. Butler, San Francisco, Northern California representative of Dant & Russell, Inc., recently spent a week in the Northwest where he visited the Portland office and called bn a number of the firm's sawmill connections.

W'. R. Morris, Eastern sales manager, Union Lumber Co., has returned to New York from a 10-day visit to the head office in San Francisco and the company's operations at Fort Bragg, Calif.

Jim Farley, assistant Western sales manager, The Pacific Lumber Co., San Francisco, made a business trip to Los Angeles last week.

E. C. Ilallinan of Hallinan-Mackin Co., San Francisco, recently spent a week at the companyts Los Angeles office.

John Yosmek, Dant & Russell, Inc., Portland, is on a business trip calling on the company's sales representatives in the Southern and Eastern states.

Ray Yan Ide has joined the sales staff of W. B. Jones Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and will call on the industrial trade in Southern California. Ray was formerly with Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., and ealled on the retail lumber trade, first in Southern California, and Iater in the San Joaquin Valley.

W. E (Bill) Cooper, vice-president, and J. W. (Jack) C,ooper, Southern California representative, of the Roseboro Lumber Co., have returned to Los Angeles after spending several days at the company's nill in Springfield, Oregon.

Eomilton von Breton, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, will be back after the first of the month from an extended business trip through the South, East and Middle West where he is visiting the lumber consuming centers.

Benj. Ostlind, well-known authority on plywood, is now with California Panel & Veneer 'Co., Los Angeles, as sales engineer.

Charles L. Cheeeeman is now with E. J. Stanton & Son of Los Angeles and is connected with their Fir and Pine department.

Walter S. Johnson of Tartar 'Webster & Johnson, San Francisco, and W. E. Arblagter of Mt. Whitney Lumber Co., Los Angeles, returned recently from a hunting trip to Canada.

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A congressman from California has urged a compromise national redwood park and seashore plan which he said would ,,make jobs. not take jobs."

Rep. Don Clausen (R-Calif), referred directly to the redwood park dispute that saw government figures and lumbermen in sharp disagreement recently. Clausen said his plan would include oui standing features of rival national park plans advocated by the Sierra CIub and the Save-the-Red*oodr L""guu.

The congressman's plan, if adopted, would comprise more than 360,000 acres of tlle redwood industry recreation aieas. tree farms. and demonstration forests, as well as multiple-use land management areas of the U.S. Forest Service.

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Clausen, in citing the need for such a compromise bocause it would erase insecurities among workers and buiinessmen in northern California, proposed a transfer of federally owned Kings Range conservation area in Humboldt County to the state of California. to be administered with the Humboldi Redwood State Park.

Tight Pqnts Crisis Loosens

A walkout of union workers at International Paper Co.'s Gardiner, Oregon plywood plant was due to a 'otight panG" griev. ance, union officials confessed recently.

Shapely Pat Morris, who works on the graveyard shift with six other women, was the center of the controversy. She had been told by a company loreman tlat her jeans were "too tight" and that she had better change them.

When Miss Morris stalked out of the plant so did orher members of Local 2195 of the Lumber & Sawmill Workers Union.

Company officials said the union did not comply with grievance procedures before striking as required in a written agreement. But pert Miss Morris, the wiser for her experience, now is wearing "different clothes," IP officials disclosed.

All workers are back on the job.

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Utility grade Douglas fir used as wall studs will resist hurricanetype forces at up to six times the loads required by building codes.

Now, over 5,000,000 feet ol dimension lumber and studs monthly manulactured especially for Southern California construction needs.

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Three recent tests showed this convincingly at the Forest Research Laboratory at Oregon State University in Corvallis, the Western Wood Products Association reported.

"Utility's tremendous performance in these tests will be of greal value in advancing the merits of this economical, highly usable grade of lumber for ordinary light frame construction," declared WWPA's technical services director, T. K. May.

Some building jurisdictions have been prohibiting the use of 2x4--inch Iumber of the third, or Utility, grade in conventional exterior walls of homes. So WWPA asked the Oregon laboratory to prove whether or not Utility grade is strong enough for this use.

Weyerhqeuser Sets Sqles Record

Weyerhaeuser Company achieved record sales of $606,(M2,306, during the first nine months of 1966, but profits dropped from record levels established in 1965.

Sales were up 15 percent from last year's comparable period, but net income for the third period declined to bring the nine month income total below that of last year.

President George H. Weyerhaeuser attributed the decline in earnings to a number of economic and market factors. A sharp drop in building materials prices, reflecting tle current tight money market which has dramatically cut housing starts, was amon€i those mentioned.

Sqcrcrmenlo Distribution Center

Weyerhaeuser Company dedicated its new Sacramento distribu. tion center with a buffet supper for some 300 lumber dealers, architects and wood products users from northern California. Tours displayed a wide variety of dry lumber, solid core and fire doors, Douglas fir and hardwood plywood, hardboard and particleboard.

Weyerhaeuser Prefinished Siding Panel 15 was used in con' struction of the warehouse building. It is an aluminum oveilaid plywood which performs three separate jobs in a single applica' tion: finished exterior siding, sheathing and reflective insulation. It is guaranteed not to need refinishing for 15 years.

The enlarged distribution center increases service to dealers and the construction industry in California according to Ray Welch, distribution center manaser.

Stronge Threqt to the Redwoods

Man's modern skills in stopping fires and floods could, over the long haul, eliminate California's great north coastal redwood for' ests as effectively as the chain saw.

That's the view of a University of California forest ecologist, Dr. Edward C. Stone, after some years of research on the potential of the redwood trees to thrive through repeated deposits of silt and debris.

If park managers are to preserve the giant redwood groves, Stone has said, they may have to burn periodically, use herbieideg or physically remove competing trees and- grind out the stumps to the ground line.

"Should the elimination of fire and flooding seriously alter the mineral cycle ttrat now involves redwood," he saido "and there is some strong evidence that this may indeed happen, then redwood could die out within tJre next 100 to 200 years and become a minor element in the fora of the alluvial flats."

If these trees become unhealthn tle University forest researcher pointed out, they tend to lose their balance and topple over, because tJrey are not laying down a supply of cellulose sr{ficient to maintain a prop€r center of gravity. Only a few of those that fall on the flats will produce sprouts, 'he said, and openings in the canopy will be created. Then will come Douglas fir and tanoak seedling+ and subsequently bay and lowland white fir in place of the Douglas fir.

"It is conceivable," he added, 'othat once the cycle is fully understood, blockages could be removed by application of soil a-endments.tt

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