Scrn Frcrncisco Deolers Form New Associotion to Hqndle

All Union Negoticltions

A group of some 40 San Francisco lumber dealers met in the offices of Gamerston & Green Lumber Co. last month to establish an association for the sole purpose of handling union negotiations between the association and the Lumber Clerks and Lumbermen lJnion Local 2559, and the Brotherhood of Teamsters and Auto Truck Drivers Union Local 85. Heretofore, in San Francisco, the lumber dealers had been negotiating with the unions individua11y.

Now, one month later, the San Francisco Lumber Dealers Association contains 43 member firms, with the membership continuing to grow, according to Harry B. Garnerston. In addition to Mr. Gamerston, president of the association. other officers include Milton Beronio, Beronio Lumber Co., vice-president, and Jack Kaefer, U.S. Plyu'ood Corp., secretary. Directors of the association are as follows: Bob Kahn, Forsyth Hardwood Co. ; Fred Windeler, George Windeler Co., Ltd.; Leon Cohn, Cut Rate Wrecking & Lumber Co.; J. E. Higgins, Jt., J' E. Higgins Lumber Company, and the aforementioned officers.

The association, representing practically every lumber concern with a yard or warehouse within the city limits of San Francisco, is made up of the following member firms:

Acme Manufacturing Co., fnc., Associated Plywood l,{ills, Inc., Bayshore Lumber Co., Beronio Lumber Co., Big Bear Lumber Co., E. S. Brush & Sons, F. S. Buckley Door Co., City Builclers Supply Co., Cut Rate Wrecking

tlumberments Informotion Forumt Stqrted by Son Jooquin Hoo-Hoo

Directors of San Joaquin Hoo-Hoo Club 31 have orgarrized a free "Lumbermen's Information Forum" to cover such important phases of the business as selling, merchandishing and spreading information. Admission will be free to all meetings. The club's directors are sponsoring the idea as a business-builder for members, believing that information and ideas are the life-blood of the industry and it can best present new merchandising methods, new methods of application for the do-it-yourself trade, and new building materials to dealers through the fraternal medium of Hoo-Hoo.

The first class was held November 12 at 8 p.m., featuring W. Daht Wheeler, Dale Carnegie instructor, on "Human Relations." The club pointed out that such a course would ordinarily cost plenty but was being made available free through the Hoo-Hoo membership.

There will be nine Information Forum meetings in all, one a month, to be held in the meeting room of the Marion Nine Lumber Co., Clovis and Ventura avenues, Fresno. Everyone in the industry is invited to the forums and, while Club 31 sponsors the idea, it is not necessary to be a member to attend them. Registrations may be made with Bud Barber, 1833 Broadway, in Fresno, Calif., or phone 2-7134. Hamilton Knott and J. C. Snead are the Lumbermen's Information Forum committee.

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"The subscription bill is the one bill I look forward with pleasure to Paying'r..t-r"tt

G. Larrick, Sr.

Lumber & Builders Supply Co.

Solana Beach, Calif.

& Lumber Co., Davidson Plywood & Lumber Co., Davis Ifardwood Company, Eureka Sash Door & Moulding Mills, Forsyth Hardwood Co., Gamerston & Green Lumber Co., Gillon Lumber Co., Golden State Flooring Co., Goodman Lumber Co., Grev-Mannion Plywood Co., Harbor Lumber Co., fnc., Harbor Plywood Corp. of California, J. E. Higgins Lumber Co., Koenig Lumber Co., Leonard Lumber Co., McFarlane & Brown, Ocean Avenue Mill & Lumber Co., Portman's Mill & Cabinet Shop, Reinhart Lumber & Planing Mill Co., Ricci & Kruse, Roddiscraft, Inc., Rolando Lumber Co., Inc., Servente Hardwood Lumber Co., Service Lumber & Supply Co., E. D. Swift Co., Symon Bros. Wreckers Inc., H. S. Thomson Lumber Co., U. S. Plywood Corp., Warden Bros., West Coast Lumber Co., Schaefer & Woerner, White Brothers, George Windeler Co. Ltd., Woodall Industries of California, Central N[ill & Cabinet Co.

Los Angeles County Permits Hir AlLfime High in Ocrober

Los Angeles city and county building permits in the unincorporated area totaled $60,533,638 last month, witl-r the county figure of" $29,636,195 representing an all-time high in October. The figures were reported by G. E. Morris, Los Angeles superintendent of building, and county engineer William J. Fox.

The city permits totaled $30,897,443 last month, an increase of $80,723 over the valuation of permits issued in September. There were 5,092 permits issued in the city in October, of which 1,372 were for single-dwellir:g units. There were 7,972 housing units completed during the month.

Fox said 4,851 permits were represented by the county figure. The total for October 1953 was $19,760,410. Nerv dwelling units accounted for 2,685 of. last month's permits, with tract housing accounting for over half the new homes.

Brewer to Direct USP on Coosf

New York-Gene C. Brewer has been elected a vicepresident of United States Plywood Corporation, announces S. W. Antoville, president. He will direct U.S. Plywood's 16 west coast manufacturing operations.

Associated with the company since 1937, Brewer has headed its Shasta operation, located near Redding, where he resides. since 1950.

Dqnt & Russell Buy Heppner Compony

Dant & Russell, Inc., Portland, Ore., purchased with Moris Hitchcock, White Swan, Wash., the Heppner Lumber Co., at Heppner, Ore., and about 125 miilion board feet of timber. Purchase does not include Heppner's Elgin mill.

The reason for presenting these Vagabond Editorials in the pages of a business magazine, is based on the story of the Irishman in the brickyard who was seen pulling a wheelbarrow load of bricks behind him. The foreman said to him: "What's the idea, Clancy?

You know it's easier to push a wheelbarrow than it is to pull it." And the Irishman said: "I know it is, but I get so tired of looking at the blasted thing !"

We all get tired looking at our regular jobs, so a change is often both helpful and appreciated.

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Max Ehrmann wrote: "Spare me from bitterness and the sharp passions of unguarded moments. May I not forget that poverty and riches are of the spirit, and may my thought and actions be such as to keep me friendly with myself. Forbid that I should judge others, lest I condemn myself. Give me a few friends who will love me for what I am, and keep ever burning before my vagrant steps the kindly light of h*ope."

Sign seen in a gasoline station: "Don't smoke in this station. Your life may not be worth anything, but our gasoline is."

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Sign in a country hotel room: "Don't smoke in bed. The next ashes that hit*the foor may be your own."

Mark Twain said: "Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul."

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Ecclesiastes: "I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong." And the famous Damon Runyon once quoted the above, and added: "But that's the **"I ao bet your money."

REGARDING WAR: Frederick the Great said: "I've always noticed that the Lord seems to favor the side with the biggest cannon." Napoleon said: "I've always found heaven on the side of the biggest armies." Voltaire said: "It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions." The Dutch thinker of the 15th century, Erasmus, put it this way: "'War is the malady of princes." More than 100 years ago Mirabeau said: "The national industry of Germany is war." And our General Sherman topped them all by saying: 'lWar is hell."

The Augusta, Kansas, Gazette says that a "Dangerous when wet" sign should be hung on every driver who drinks.

BY JACK DIONNE

General Alexander Smith, a tedious member of the Congress in the time of Henry Clay, once said to Clay: "You, Sir, speak for the present generation; I speak for posterity." And the witty Kentuckian replied: "Yes, Sir, and you seem resolved to speak until the arrival of your audience'" ,.

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Henry M. Leland said: "Every man reaches a point in his career when he has to choose between two courses. If he chooses to be clever, he will meet with a great deal of competition. But if he chooses to be just plain old-fashioned honest, and work like a demon, he will be so unique that he will be an immediate success." ***

Thomas Carlisle wrote: "Your mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. It is no achievement to be beautiful when young; nature and heredity attend to that. But to be beautiful when old is an accomplishment, and is possible only to those who have lived a life of truth and beauty. Ten men banded together in love can do what ten thousand separately would fail*in."

It is said that a young oldster is a man who can remember when a girl in a bathing suit had hidden charms.

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And then there is the fellow who likes to lie in the sun; and who very seldom tells the truth in the shade, either. Someone tells about a man who has so high a regard for the truth that he uses it sparingly. ,8**

Louis Pasteur was looking intently into a big microscope in his laboratory. He was so concentrated that a student, observing him, said: "Pardon me; I thought you were praying." And Pasteur replied-"I was." A devout peasant once said that "To plow ig to pray." Pasteur was doing his praying that way.

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The story is told of the farmer who had no milking machine, and who came in one evening from the field, dead tired. He still had to milk the cow. He said to the cow: "f am so weary I doubt if I have the strength even to finish milking." And the sympathetic cow said to him: "You just hang on tight, and I'll jump up and down." That's cooPeration

Thomas Edison once had a top executive in his organization who was given to lots of loud laughter. Someorre in the organization complained to Edison about the noisy laughter. The great man listened. Then, the next day he

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