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Eslabllshed l87l enth, was the T. Walsh Company with Mr. Gillas A. Clark as manager and Charlie Humphreys as bookkeeper. They afterwards acquired the yard and operated it during the boom days under the name of Clark & Humphreys. Mr. Clark, a fiery young frishman, was a very aggressive individual and the cause of much grief to the other lumber dealers. For some reason the business languished and was liquidated. Charles Humphreys took a position with the Ganahl Lumber Co. which he still retains, I believe, and was indeed a pioneer in the lumber business here with a record of continuous service of nearly 50 years. Mr. Clark was associated with ex-mayor Bryson operating under the name of Clark & Bryson, but I believe lost his money in mining ventures and spent his last days in clerkship in the court house.

I will now revert back to the Ganahl Lumber Company whose employ I entered in the spring of 1885 as bookkeeper and afterwards as manager of the main yard until the fall of 1888. Mr. C. Ganahl recently purchased the yard from John Bryson, ex-Mayor, and owner of the Bryson Building, who had established it about 1883. The business was in charge of Mr. Schallert, a cousin to Mr. Ganahl who had just arrived from St. Louis and purchased an interest. Mr. Schallert was the father of Edwin Schallert, theatrical critic on the "Times" and his widow is still living in Los Angeles. The only one of the Ganahl boys at that time was Mr. Ed Ganahl who was yard salesman. His brother Joe was still in St. Louis and his half-brothers, Connie and Jean, being respectively a baby in arms and a youth of ten.

AfterMr. Schallert's death about 1895. Mr. Christian Ganahl took over the business which has continued with the same ownership but in different locations to the present time.

Quite a number of men prominent in lumber circles have graduated from the Ganahl business.

My successor as bookkeeper was Frank E. Walsh the insurance man and my successor as manager was Mr. Driscoll, a very active man who afterwards became manager of the L. W. Blinn Lumber Co. and died many years ago.

Mr. Boerstler who afterwards established the California Box Co. succeeded Mr. Driscoll, and Mr. Chas. Lynch also started his lumber career with them.

Upon my return to Los Angeles from my Eastern experiences, I found quite a few changes had occurred during my three years' absence, a number of new yards starting, and some of the older ones discontinued. The Stimpson Mill Co. had established a large yard on East Third Street in charge of Mr. Ezra Stimpson, the first manager being Mr. Clark who was succeeded by Jesse Ives, a very energetic man who was in charge of the Stimpson Mill at Seattle after the yard here was closed up. He became blind but was in active charge of the mill for a good many years before he died.

The Wilmette Lumber Co. had established a yard at Redondo and also in Los Angeles. Later on fnman, Paulson & Co. established a yard, which was afterwards sold to the Blinn Robinson Company and discontinued later.

About the year 1890 Mi. L. W. Blinn made his first appearance in Los Angeles, having come from Tombstone, Arizona, where he had operated a yard owned by the Hooper interests until the town collapsed. Mr. Blinn took the position as manager of the San Pedro Lumber Company vacated by Mr. Merrick Reynolds. Mr. Reynolds was for many years manager of this company and was recognized as probably the leading man in the lumber industry in Southern California, and it had created something of a sensation when he was deposed by Mr. Frank Hooper, his stock taken over, and he sank into comparative obscurity.

Mr. Blinn was also manager of the L. W. Blinn Lumber Company, owned by the Hooper interests, who had acquired the Davies Henderson Lumber Company and operated a yard on Third Street near San Pedro. Mr. Blinn was the leading figure in the lumber industry here for a great many years, until his final retirement. He severed his connection with the Hooper interests after a time, Mr. Driscoll succeeding him as manager of the L. W. Blinn Lumber Company, and Mr. T. L. Ely, manager of the San Pedro Co. which position he still occupies. Mr. Blinn afterwards organized the South Western Lumber Co. and the Blinn Robinson Co. and later on operated a mill on the Columbia River. He died a few months ago, his obituary appearing in this journal.

Among my early customers was Mr. Perry Whiting of the Whiting & Mead Company. Perry started as a small contractor and got his start by taking a contract to wreck the old lVlethodist Church on Broadway. .He needed a place to pile his second hand lumber and was lucky enough to purchase a piece of property in the rear of the Pacific Electric building where he started his second hand. lumber business. I supplied him with shingles and flooring in car load lots and also sold him material on his contracts. Mr. Huntington wanted his property for extra trackage and he sold it to him at a good price and this started him on the road to success.

Mr. E. J. Stanton was my only competitor when I first started in business, coming here from Williams, Arizona, and selling lumber and building materials, and making a specialty of yellow and sugar pine, and hardwoods.

He pursued a very successful policy of taking the exclusive agency for the best mills and this made it sometimes hard for me to secure stock. He had, I believe, some capital at the start and forged rapidly ahead, developing a fine business which is now operated by his son Roy.

I could pursue these reminiscences indefinitely, but space is limited and I will close by saying that it was the policy of the Montgomery Mullen Lumber Company to conduct business on an ethical basis, only establishing branch yards where they appeared to be needed and without infringing on our competitors, and I trust that we have left a record similar to that of the old stand-bys Kerckhoff-Cuzner and Ganahl Lumber Company, who had the confidence and esteem of the other lumber dealers for their high standards of business ethics.

Construction Activity in Octob er 1952

Expenditures for new construction in October declined slightly from $3.1 billion to $3.0 billion, according to preliminary estimates of the U. S. Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Building Materials Division of the U. S. Department of Commerce. The September-October decline was somewhat less than expected for this time of year largely because private building construction held about even with the September dollar volume. October marked the fifth successive month in which total dollar outlay for new construction was 5 per 'cent or more above the year-ago monthly total.

Both private and public construction expenditures declined less than seasonally this October to totals of $1,982 million and $1,025 million, respectively. In the private sector, residential building remained steady atjust above the billion-dollar level, and among the various types of non-residential building construction, school, church, commercial and industrial building rose somewhat. Publicutility construction was down by 5 per cent from September mainly because of declines in new work in the electric light, power, and gas utility group.

For the first 10 months of this year, new construction expenditures totaled $27,025 million, 4 per cent above the amount for the same 1951 period. When adjusted for price changes, however, construction activity was at about the same level for both years.

Private expenditures for new construction have been exceeding the year-ago monthly level since July, and by the end of October totaled $18,066 million-almost equalling last year's January-October estimate. For the first 10 months of. 1952, the dollar volume of private residential construction alone was slightly in excess of the entire public total. Public expenditures, totaling $8,959 million, were 16 per cent higher this year than last, the rise being influenced largely by increased spending in 1952 for public industrial construction and for military and naval facilities. Expenditures for public industrial construction were 80 per cent higher this year, and for military and navel projects 60 per cent higher, although dollar-outlays on the latter are running at significantly lower levels than published earlier because of extensive downward revisions received from the Corps of Engineers.

Donover Co. Inc. Opens Olftce

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Donover Co., fnc. has opened a Southern California office at 2lL S. Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, Calif. The telephone number is CRestview 4-5103. They will also have a BRadsharv telephone number as soon as available.

W. E. Calhoun, manager, says a cordial invitation is ektended to all our friends to come in and see us.

The company will operate as wholesalers only, and will handle Douglas fir, redwood, white fir, ponderosa pine, sugar pine, Western red cedar and incense cedar, Douglas fir plywood, cedar shingles and shakes.

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Hanrahan Appointed Executive Vice President of AITC

Ward Mayer, president of the American Institute of Timber Construction, Washington, D. C., and general manager of Timber Structures, f nc., Portland, Oregon, has announced the appointment of Frank J. Hanrahan as permanent executive vice president of the AITC. He comes to the Institute from the National Lumber Manufacturers Association where for the past sixteen years he has been chief engineer. T. C; Combs, president of the Arch Rib Truss Corporation, Los Angeles, one of the charter members of AITC, also serves as AITC secretary-treasurer. He temporarily assumed the responsibilities of executive vice president prior to Hanrahan's appointment.

The American Institute of Timber Construction is a technical organization in the important and rapidly growing business of engineered timber construction. It is composed of timber fabricators and allied interests. Individuals. firms, and corporations engaged in, or associated with, the design, fabrication, and erection of engineered structural timber are eligible for membership in some one of the various classes.

The American fnstitute of Timber Construction is fulfilling an important role in assembling and distributing technical data and information on fabricated structural timber, glued laminated structural members, wood assemblies, and timber construction generally. Recommendations conforming to the most advanced, reliable technical findings and information on the best industrial practices in timber will be made available to engineers, architects. and others for their information and assistance. Ward Mayer, president of the Institute has stated, "The need for expansion of activities which the Institute will now be able to undertake has existed for many years. The rasponse to the fnstitute's program is indeed gratifying."

Hanrahan, new AITC executive vice president. is a graduate of Purdue University and a registered civil engineer. He has broad experience and contacts in the engineering design and construction, building, railway, high'rvay, research, teaching, industrial, business, engineering society, and association fields-exceptional qualifications for his new responsibilities. He has been active in the engineering development of glued laminated lumber and standards for the past twenty years.

While with NLMA Hanrahan was r€sponsible for the detailed development of the "National Design Specificationfor Stress-Grade Lumber and Its Fastenings," tvhich is incorporated by reference or otherwise in practically all modern building codes and lumber design specifications. It is rvidely used by government agencies, engineers. teachers, and others as basic design data. ALso, rvhile rvith NLN{A he produced much of its engineering literature.

Among the many tokens of confidence which have been paid him bv his engineering associates were the presidencies of the Engineer's Club of Washington, of the District of Columbia Council of Engineering and Architectural Societies, and of the Washington Section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Also, he was asked to plan and coordinate the highly-successful two-day Wood

Symposium sponsored jointly by the American Raihn'ay Engineering Association, American Society ofCivil Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and American Society for Testing Materials at the recent Centennial of Engineering Convocation in Chicago.

In addition to President \{ayer, members of the board of directors of AITC are: Vice-president, M. C. Hanisch, Jr., president, Unit Structures, Inc., Peshtigo, Wisconsin; Charles C. Calvert, president, Summerbell Roof Structures, Los Angeles; C. W. Knoll, president, Roof Structures, fnc., Webster Groves, Missouri; and Val Gardner, Miller-Gardner Fabrication Company, Monroe, Oregon. T. C. Combs, president, Arch Rib Truss Corp., Los Angeles, is secretarytreasurer.

Vollstedt Kerr Lumber Co. Opens Sales Office at Long Beach

F. A. Vollstedt, president of The Vollstedt Kerr Lumber Co., announces that a sales office has been opened in Ocean Center Buliding, Long Beach 2, Calif. The telephone irunrber is Long Beach 70-8987, teletypre L,B 8W22. R. J. Reilley, formerly assistant sales manager of The Vollstedt Kerr Lumber Co. at McMinnville, Ore., will be general manager of the Long Beach office, in charge of rail and truck shipments, and W. W. Tobin n'ill manage the cargo departmerrt.

The company will offer a complete service including fir dimension, pine, redwood, and associated species of lurnber and plyr,vood, by rail and truck from California and Pacific Norths'est points. Cargo shipments of lumber will be made from its plant at Crescent City, Calif.

Frank Brown With Helms Lumber Compcrny

Frank Brorvn, well kno'ivn San Francisco Bay district lumberman, has gone into partnership with Stan Helms of Helms Lumber Company, rvhich has been operated as a wholesale lumber business at I f)rumm Street, San Francisco for several years.

The company will continue for the present to operate as the Helms Lumber Company. They rvill handle lumber of Cascade-Pacific Lumber Co. of Portland, and r,vill also be exclusive sales agents for Superior Timber Company's nerv mill at Carlotta, Calif., 'rn'hich 'ivill cut redu'ood, Douglas fir', and \\rhite fir. The phone number is YUkon 2-7066.

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(Continued from Page 17) installed at over 100 mills to turn leftover wood into valuable pulp chips. It is estimated that 400,000,000 tons a year is being thus salvaged. That change from whole log to a leftover wood for wood needs by these eleven kraft mills has come about in two short years. It is expected that fully three fourths of this industry's wood needs will come from leftover sources within another two years, running the total of salvaged wood close to 700,000,000 tons a year. Again this means extending the life of our forests.

Some retailers and customers have asked about the available supply of lumber. We have enough standing timber in the Douglas fir region to rebuild every home in America. More to the point, we are growing vast quantities of new timber up here in this rich, rain-drenched timber belt. There will never be a shortage of wood. We expect to be able to maintain the present high volume of timber cut perpetual under our forest management policies which treat our forests as crop land.

A good many millions of dollars is going into research to produce better lumber, more products from wood, and better trees.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association will continue its effective national advertising and promotion campaign. We will distribute more than 2,000,000 pieces of literature this year, much of it full-color.

Again we will feature. the retail lumberman in all advertising and literature. We recognize that the retailer is a major power in the lumber success picture. Heis the man on the firing line who disposes of a considerable portion of the lumber produced in Oregon, Washington and-California.

We are trying to give him the tools he needs and asks for to help him do the best possible job of selling. We will have available a new.issue of free newspaper advertising mats, new full-color literature, new motion pictures suitable for television and private showings, and other merchandise helps.

Every indication points to the most friendly acceptance of our West Coast Woods by retailers, contractors, architects, engineers and home builders. We are proud of these products.

Annual Meeting

The 36th annual meetigg of the Recl Cedar Shingle Bureau will be held at the Olympic Hotel, Seattle, Wash., on December 5.

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Christmas Party and Golf Tournament Dece mber 12

TheLos Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club will hold its annual Christmas party and golf tournament at the Oakmont Coun. try Club, Glendale, on December 12.

The golf tournament will get under way at 9:59 a.m. Thegolf prizes will include several trophies, and other prizes will be awarded to the winners of the special events. The Christmas Party will be held in the Clubhouse at 7:09 p.m., irnd everybody is asked to bring a Christmas gift which will be given to orphan children. Dinner will be served at 7:D p.m. Ole May has arranged for an excellent entertainment program.

A Christmas gift will be presented to the LeRoy,s Boys Home at LaVerne as in past years. The follorving gifts have been made to the Boys Home : 1947, furnished dormitories with drapes;' 1948, gymnasium equipment ; 1949, 16 millimeter projector set; 1950, 17" television set; and 1951, machinery for machine shop.

A big crowd is expected and everybody is requested to get their reservations in early. Reservations can be made by calling Ole May, Los Angeles, DUnkirk 2-7912.

Appointed Insurqnce Mcncger

Everett Burton Kelley has joined United States plywood Corporation as insurance manager, it was announced.

Mr. Kelley is president of the New york chapter of the National Insurance Buyers Association. In May of this year, he was chairman of the American Management Association insurance conference.

Before coming to the plywood company, NIr. Kelley served for six years as insurance consultant with Ebasco Services Incorporated.

Mr. Kelley began his career in the insurance ltusiness rvhen he joined Electric Bond and Share Company in l9E. Since then, he has been connected with S. B. penick and Company, National Fire Insurance Company, penn-Western Service Corporation, Best Foods Company, and Royal Insurance Company, Ltd.

A native of Hartford, Connecticut, Mr. Kelley attended. \\rorcester Polytechnic Institute.