THE CATIFOR].IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

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HowLumber Looks

Lumber production of 483 mills reporting to the National Lumber Manufacturers Assn. in the week ended October 27 was 1.04o above the previous week, while shipments were 3.4/o and ordets 8.2/o above. In the current week, shipments were 9.4/o and orders 3.5/o below production. Orders were 0.7/o above the similar 1955 week.

Orders of 118,079,368 feet at 154 mills in the week ended October 27 were 0.5/o above production of 117,510,139, reported the West Coast Lumbcrmcn's Assn. Shipments of 106,761,532 leet were 9.1/o under production. Orders were almost l0/o higher than the previous week and 19.2/o above the similar week last year.

Western Pine Association reported orders of 79,831,000 feet in the week ended October 27 were 8.7Vo below production of 87,476,W feet, while shipments of 77,312,000 feet were ll.6/o below, according to reports of 116 mills.

Figures of 20 member inills reporting to the California Redwood Association for the month of September showed production, shipments and orders were all below the preceding month and also the corresponding month last year. Production of 55,958,000 feet this September was 5,509,000 below September 1955, while this year's shipments of 46,405,000 feet in September were 4,584,000 feet below the same months last year. Orders on hand September 30 of 55,953,000 feet compare with 92,6@,000 feet on the same 1955 date.

Southern Pine Association reported orders of 18,470,000 feet at 94 mills in the week ended October 27 were 0.27/o above production of 18,421,000 feet, while shipments of 17,683,000 feet were 4.01% below. A11 were well over the 3-year average, however.

Fir plywood industry production averaged 90.2/o of the normal S-day,3-shift output in the week ended October 27 b:ut was 5.5Vo above the same 1955 week, said the Douglas Fir Plywood Assn. Orders for the year-to-date, however, were running 2.6/o higher than a year ago.

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The next issue of The CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT will be the December I Christmas annual and Year-end Review issue, with its many Special Articles, photographs, Retail Yard features and Forecasts for 1957 markets and merchandising. As usual, the distribution of this big issue will be a little later, but it should be in the hands of all our subscribers and advertisers not later than December Z. If you haven't received your Christmas Merchant by that date then you can call us and we'll make sure that you get yours.

In This Issue

47th Western Foreslry Conference qt Victorio, B.G., Dec. 5-6-7

The 47th annual Western Forestry Conference will be held at the Empress hotel, Victoria, British Columbia, December 5-6-7. Stuart Moir, forest counsel of the conference, said earlier this month that an attendance of 700 is expected for this biggest forestry event the West has held, with the Canadian committees working overtime to assure its success and top brass coming from \Mashington, D. C., New York City, Montreal, Ottawa, the U. S. west coast and elsewhere,

The conference theme this year is Forest Management and accomplishments will be told in open forum discussions between management, landowners, loggers, foresters and public agencies. A protection equipment show will feature latest devices. The program to date is as follows:

Forest Management

Chairman; President John E. Liersch

Wednesday, December 5

Welcome to British Columbia-Premier W. A. C. Bennett

President's Address-Mr. Liersch

Progress Report, Western Forestry, 1956-Stuart Moir

"Canada's Stake in Forest Management"-J. D. B. Harrison, Ottawa

"Forestry Problems in British Columbia"-Hon. Gordon McG. Sloan, Chief Justice

"Management, Progress and Needs on Western National Forests"-

R. E. McArdle. Chief, United States Forest Service, Washington, D.C.

"Managing Our Forests (Old-growth)"-Moderator: C. D. Orchard, deputy minister of Lands and Forests, B. C. U. S. Department of the Interior-Edward Woozley, director, Bureau of Land Management, Department of Interior, Washington, D.C. States-Donald Fraser, Division of Forestry, Statc of Washing- ton. Introduction of A. D. Nutting, president, Association of State Foresters. Forest Industry (U.S.)-Vincent W. Bousquet, Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., Klamath Falls, Ore. Forest Industry (B.C.)-Thomas G. Wright, Can,adian Forest Prodtrcts, Ltd.,

Vancouver; British Columbia Forest Service-John Stokes, BCFS, Victoria Thursday, December 6

Committee Reports: Forest Soils-R. H. Spilsbury; Forest Pest Control-E. L. Kolbe; Nursery Practices-Charles A. Rindi; Forest Fire ResearchC. S. Cowan.

"Managing Our Forests (Young Growth)"-Moderator: Clarence W. Richen, Crown Zellerbach Corp., Intensive Management of Established Second-growth Stands in the West-(Douglas Fir) Albert O. Petzold, Simpson Logging Co., Shelton; (Western Pine) Royce G. Cox, Potlatch Forests, Inc., Lewiston; (Redwood) Russell Johnson, Union Lumber Co., Fort Bragg. Reestablishment of the Forest-(Douglas Fir) J. W. Coskey, Milwaukee Land Co., Centralia; (Western Pine) Knox Marshall, Western Pine Assn., Portland; (Redwood) Roy Wagner, Masonite Corp., Ukiah

"Management Applied to Industry and Public Programs"-Edward G. Grest, chief, Division of Cooperative Tree Planting, USFS, Washington, D.C.

FIRE PREVENTION IN THE MANAGED FOREST-Chairman: C. S. Cowan. "Review of the 1956 Forest Fire Season and Lessons to Be Learned From It'-Mr. Cowan; "What the States Are Doing in Fire-Control Research"-Keith Arnold, California Forest Eiperiment Station, Berkeley; "What Equipment Is Needed in Protecting a Tree Farm"-John A. Miles, Weyerhaeu.ser Timber Co., Aberdeen; "Helitack"-Carl Wilson, research forester, USFS, San Francisco; "Fire Prevention Vs. Fire Protection"-John Callaghan, State Division of Forestry, Sacramento, and "Preorganization for Fire Control"-William C. Hughes, State Forestry Dept., Salem, Ore.

Friday, December 7 l95l Essay Prizewinner Returns-William Walters, E&N R. R., Vancouver

THE BUSINESS OF FORES'IRY-Ch,airman: Corydon Wagner, St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co.

"Alaska's Forest Future"-W. H. Johnson, assistant regional forester, USFS, Juneau, Alaska

"Conserving the History of Western Forestry and Conservation"Elwood R. Maunder, director, Forest History Foundation, Inc., St. Paul, Minn.

"salient Features of the Little Watershed Act"-Charles A. Connaughton, regional forester, USFS, San Francisco

"Snake Oil and Smoke Signals"-Lincoln R. Thiesmeyer, Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canacla, Montreal

Strcrble Lumber Co. Sponsors Four Exhibirs ot Boy Areo D-l-Y Show

The Strable T,umber Company, Oakland, co-sponsored four exhibits at the fourth annual Bay Area Do-It-Yourself Show in the Oakland Exposition Building, Oct. 18-28. Manufacturers joining with Strable were Marsh Wall Products (displaying Marlite wall panels), Webb Products Co. (showing Duratite glues, surfacing putty and wood dough), and Masonite Corp. (featuring its new exterior products: r/a" Shadowvent lap siding, r/a" Rid,geline panels, 5/16" Ridgegroove panels and 5/le' Panelgroove panels).

In charge of the displays were Jack Schroeter for Marsh Wall, Wesley Woodard for Masonite, and Earl Webb, Mason Van Nuys and Mel Brown for Webb Products. Assisting from Strable Lumber Company were James B. Overcast, manager'; Frank Timmers, John Enright, C. E. Dame,

A record 73,000 persons attended the ll-day showing in Oakland, including many retail lumber dealers from all over Northern California and Nevada.

AND LIKE IT!

We're independent! And noJ even Morilyn Monroe in o bikini could lure us from our position. Being independent nof owned by some monufqcturer . . . ollows us lo give o freedom of choice in buying lhe finesl ovoiloble moteriols for eoch iob. Of course, we're not deserting oll the top suppliers, good mil,l sources ond friends we've developed in lhe post 38 yeors, but we're not sqcriffcing our conVictions oboul competilive bronds either. Your needs, plus our independence, gives you the best of o voriety of top lines.

Thomas Dreier, in a shortie in his delightful magazine, "The Vagabond," says that a postal card to a magazine asked that a man's name be dropped from their mailing list for the following reasons: "Deceased-moved-left no address." :i. :F :B

Thc report of the American officer during World War Two whoie report read "Sighted sub, sank same," sort of reminds us of what a British soldier told Rudyard Kipling when he was asked to tell what inspired him to charge into a mass of sword-swinging Afghans, th'us winning for himself the Victoria Cross. He explained it this way: "Well, they were there, and they wouldn't go away, so what was a man to do? Write '"-

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Fame doesn't always bring financial fortune. Take the case of the immortal Edgar Allan Poe. The highest pay he ever received was $800 a year in salary, and that was more than the income he got from the ten famous books he wrote. Great writers and jntll"l" often live on a thin diet.

"I am a little thing with a big meaning. I help everybody. I unlock doors, open hearts, dispel prejudice. I create friendships and good will. I inspire respect and admiration. Everybody loves me. I bore nobody. I violate no law. I cost nothing. Many have praised me. None have condemned me. I please those of both high and low degree. I am useful every moment of the day. I AM couRTESY."

Immanuel Kant, one of the acknowledged great thinkers of all time, wrote: "'We are told that 'man is the noblest work of God.' But, since no one has ever said so except himself, we should accept that statement with a grain of salt.t' ,. :F *

Adversity is the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, for it is then that he is free from fatterers.

It was Emerson who said: "With consistency a gicat soul has absolutely nothing to do. Speak what you think today with words as hard as iron balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said today."

BY JACK DIONNE

Once in a while a man is born who is not afraid. Then things begin to mov€. * * :&

The most hopeless hope is when hope leads a person to turn away from factS. * {< *

There are all sorts of men in the world who have been praised for all sorts of things-but the first prize, the blue ribbon, honorable mention, and likewise three cheers, for the man who always keeps his word.

There is one thing certain about business: it can wait for you just as long as you T" X"tj for it.

The five cardinal principles of business are: to properly equip yourself to supply your trade; to get the orders; to deliver the goods; to keep down expenses; to collect the bills. {. * rl.

A business argument that belongs in the age of flying horses and hairy mastodons is-"It isn't what my tradg wants" when something new comes along. Your trade wants all that is best, and it is up to expert merchants to show them what's what. George Washington didn't want an automobile, either. O1U t*o"*Onow why.

A very well-dressed and very drunk young man sat down in a hotel lobby and fell asleep. A friendly wag noticed him, and slipped a little package of limberger cheese inside his coat. The drunk rose, sniffed, and walked out of the lobby. Soon he returned and sat down again, as he remarked: "The whole world smells bad."

It's all in the way you look at it. It is an ordinary human fault to judge the whole world by their immediate situation. ***

Lincoln said: "From this day on, f mean to do the best I can. If I am right, time will prove it. If I am not right, then all the angels swearing I am right will not make itso." * * *

Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine; merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.-"otd ?tt;".*

"Books," wrote Henry D. Thoreau, "are the treasured wealth of the world, the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and best stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader, his common sense will not refuse them. Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every sociity and, more than kings or emperors, exert an infuence on mankind."