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Table No. 1, Redwood Shlpments in Thousands of Board Feet

D. C. Essl ey e. Son WHOLESALE TUMBER

7257 EAST TEIEGRAPH ROAD tOS ANGEIES 22, CAIIF.

Phone: RAymond 3-1147

Total Canada in 1960 had increases of 1% million over 1959 and 5/2 million over 1958.

Build'n Sove Ycrrd in Lqkewood Lqtches C)nto the 'Wobble-Boqrd'

Lumber dealers are invading the musical instrument fleld to take advantage of a new import from Australia, the wobble-board, an "instrument" used to furnish the background rhythm on a recording of a song called "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport," the dying lament of an Aussie rancher. It was reported extensively on Page 42 of t}re recent November 1, special NRLDA Exposition issue.

Where do lumber dealers come in ?

The wobble-board actually is a 2-foot by 3-foot panel of special Masonite hardboard with hand-holds cut out at each end. When "wobbled," the panel gives out a "gloop, gloop" sound, something like that of a tight bongo drum.

Because it can be used to promote other Masonite products, lumber dealers are being given an opportunity to distribute a package consisting of a record affixed to a wobble-board, on which appears a silk-screened kangaroo design and the Masonite identification. The board and record are protected by a polyethylene envelope, Retail price is $2.98, the same as is being charged by record and department stores and other usual distributors. Also, because some buyers want only one record but several wobble-boards, the board alone also is available in the polyethylene envelope, priced at $1.98.

Extensive promotion of both the record and wobble-boards is planned by Masonite Corporation, 20th-F ox Records, and Ramrod Products, Inc., distributor of the package. Already the wobbleboard has been featured three times on Dave Garroway's "Today" television show, once on the Jack Parr show, and on scores of discjockey programs throughout the country.

One lumber oomp&ny, Build 'n Save in Long Beach' Callf.' plans a big promotlon featuring Hllo lla,ttie, popular west-coast entertainer, at a "gra,nd-openlng" celebration and has ordered 1,000 of the record and wobtrle-board packages.

Record and wobble-board packages can be obtained through either the l\fasonite Corporation or Ramrod Products, Inc.

World's Softwood Trode Increosed loo/o

The total world exports and imports of sawn and planed softwood in 1959 balanced at a rounded-off average of 6.9 million standards, as compared with 6.3 million stds in 1958, 6.4 million in 1957, and an annual average of 5.7 million for the pre-war years 7934-37, reports the Swedlsh Timber and Wood Pulp ilournal.

While. the European turnover showed an average increase of 500,000 stds, or LBVo over 1958, the combined increase in other parts of the world did not exceed 100,000 stds, or 47o. Ls reg:ards exports, European shipments showed a net increase of just over 500,000 stds, almost entirely accounted for by Sweden (151,000 stds), Finland (196,000), and the Soviet Union (165,000). In the non-European sector, where exports were up by only 90,000 stds, Canadian shipments rose by 100,000 stds and U.S. exports by 30,000 stds, whereas Brazilian exports declined by 45,000 stds.

Wishes to You

iThing, Aren't All They Gould Be ln the Terrible Twenty Tourneys

The 414th Terrible T\Menty Tournament was held at South Hills Country Club, Friday, November 18, with tr rank Ruppert and Bob Dilworth our hosts. A perfect day and the course beautiful- with the greens fast. Our hosts took both brackets: Dilworth 78-9-69, Ruppert 87-L4-73-75.. Bauer beat Rodecker in the finals of the match play, lower bracket, and Huck beat Bohnhoff in the upper bracket. Bob Dilworth had an even par on the backside 85, one birdie, one bogey-fast greens didn't bother him.

Carsten Woll was taken ill at our Monterey tournament but is now out of the hospital and well on the road to recovery. We hope he will make Oakmont December g.

An effort is to be made to have our tournaments in the middle of the week, avoiding Friday as much as possible. Some of the clubs will only allow us to come on F.ridays, but Frank King is appointing a committee to work on it.

Apparently there is an epidemic of thefts at the local golf clubs, principally from lockers during play. Vern Huck lost a valuable ring and watch during our tournament, a similar loss at Oakmont and theft of bags at L.A.C.C. Better take your valuables with you! -H. M. Alling.

Stondord for Heovy Timber Decking

Washington, D.C.-The publication of a new Standard For Heavy Timber Decking (Section 1200) is announced by !.rank J. Hanrahan, executive vice-president of the American Institute of Timber Constmction. The 28-page standard, under development for two years, represents a compilation of the best information available within the industry.

Section 1200 applies to sawn decking only. It does not apply to laminated decking. The Standard covers species, sizes, patterns, length, moisture content, application, specifications, applicable allowable unit stresses and roof-load span tables. Single copies of the Standard For Heavy Timber Decking are available from American Instltute of Timber Construction, 1?5? I( Street, \ila,shlngton 6, D.C., without charge.

Music

Muslc ls to me a.n ethereal ra,ln, an ever-soft dlstlllatlon, fragrant a,nd llquttl a,nd lvholesome to the soul, as dew to flowersl an lncomprehenslble delight, a joy, a volce of mystery, that seems to stand on the boundary between the sphere of the sonses and the soul' and plea.tl wlth pure, unrefined human na.turo to ascend lnto regions of seraphic uncontalned llfe.

O wondrous power! Art thou not the nea,reot breath of God's own beauty, born to us amid the lnffntte, whfuportng gallery of Hls reconclliatlon! Type of all love a'nd reconclliatlon, solvent of hard' contrary elemente-blender of soul wlth soul, and all wlth the Infinlte Harmony.-fohn

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Writers Hove o SnoP

By Don ltlarquls

Webster has the worda, and I

Plck them uP from where thoY lle; Ilere a word and there a word-

It's eo ea"sY, 'tls absurd.

I merely range them ln a row

\ilebster's done a,ll the work you know; Words follow words, tlll, lnch by inch'

I have a column. What a clnch!

I ta,ke the words that Webster Pennd And merely lay them end to end.

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Bed

Bed ls a bundle of paradoxes; we go to lt wlth reluctance, yet we qult tt wlth regret; we make up our mlnds overy nlght to leave It early, but we make up our bodles every mornlng to keep tt late.

-colton' | * r

How Poppo Knows Mqmmcr

The club mernbers were blddlng forewell to one who was leavlng for Inilla. In the conversatlon, a frlend sald: "ft gets pretty hot ln Inalia at tlrnes. Aren't you afrald tho cllmate mlght dlsagree wlth your w{fe ?"

The ma.n looked a.t him reproechfully. "ft wouldn't d&re."

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Evolution

By John Banlster Tabb

Out of the dusk a shadow, Then, & spark; Out of the cloud a sllence, Then, a lark; Out of the heart a rapture' Then, a paln; Out of the dead, cold ashes, Llle agaln.

-lF ilo Stavs ofr the tteewats!

A century ago, a man wolted 70 hours a wesl and had a life-erpectancy 0t 40 years, roday he worls 40 hours a wsek and has a lite'expectanct ot 70 years'

Lost Tolenf

A great deal of talent ls lost ln the world for want of a llttle courage. Every day sends to their gtaves obscure men whom ftnfdiry prevented irom maklng a ffrst effort; who, lf they could have bion lnduced to bogin, woulil ln all probablllty have gone to great lengths ln the career of fame. The fact ls, that to tlo anyinfng h the world worth doing, we must not stand back shlverlng and thinklng of the cold a,nd dangor, but jump tn a,nd scramble through as well as we con. It wlll not do to be perpetually calculatlng rtsks and awatting nlce chances; tt tlid vory well before tho Flood, when a, man would consult his frlenils upon an lntonded publlcatlon for a hundred anil fffty yea,rs, anil llve to see hls success afterwa,rds; but, at preeent, a. nran walts, and doubts' and consults hls brother, and hls particular frlends, tilll ono day he ffnds he ls slxty years old ond that he has lost so much time ln consulting couslne and frlends that he has no more tlme to follow thelr advlce.-SytlneySmlth. * s *

Wlt conslsts ln knowtng the reaemblance of thlngs which dlffer, and the dlfference of things whlch a,re a,llke.-Madame De Stoel.

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By Bliss Carman

There ls somethlng tn Autumn thst ls natlve to mY blood, Touch of m&nnet' hint of mood;

Anil my heart ls llke a rhYme' Wtth the yellow and the purple and the crlmson keeplng tlme.

The scarlet of the maples can sha.ke me llke a cry Of bugles golng bY.

And my lonelY sPtrlt thrllls si*

To seo the frost asters llke smoke upon the hills.

There ls something ln October sets the gypsy blootl astlr; We must follow her, When from every hlll afl.ame, She calls and calls each vagabond by name.

Price;Cutters

Customer: "What! Flfteen cents a pound for sulphur! It's outrageous! I can go across the stroet and get it for ten."

Druggist: "Yes, and I know where you can get lt for nothtng."

O'Molley Sells Site of OId Downtown Phoenix Yqrd

Phoenix, Ariz.-Sale of the downtown O'Malley building supply store and lumberyard property was announced Nov. 12 by E. V. O'MaIley, president of the AfrIiated O'Malley Companies. The site, comprising lY+ city blocks at Fourth Avenue and Madison, has been purchased by a Cincinnati investor-developer presently in South America. It houses the main yard and general offices of O'Malley.

The new owner will not take possession for another six to eight months, according to Elmer Neeriemer, O'MaIIey vice-president and general manager. In the meantime, O'Malley will build a new lumberyard at 51st Avenue and Missouri, just north of the booming suburban Maryvale development.

O'Malley has been in the old downtown location the past 53 years. The buildings and yard face on both sides of tr'ourth Avenue between Jefferson and Madison streets, separated into four sections by an alley. The firm's general office building and retail store is on the northeast corner of 4th and Madison. The importance of the transaction hinges on the fact that the four blocks embraced by Washington and Madison, Third and First avenues, now are owned by either the city or county as prospective building sites. The sale was handled by G. M. Sollenberger and James Witty of the O'Malley Investment and Realty Co. The buyer paid approxi- mately $5 per sq. ft. for land and building, it was stated. The Cincinnati owner is reported to be ready to raze all structures on the property except the general office building, and use the space for parking until he is ready to build.

Union Hqrdwore & Metol Co. Sold

The Union llardware & Metal Co., Los Angeles, was acquired the end of November by Mclaughlin Industrial Distributors, Inc., reports Edward H. Mclaughlin, Jr., president of the firm. Headquarters will be moved to 7141 S. Paramount Blvd., Pico Rivera, the flrst of the year. E. H. Mclaughlin, Sr., former president of Union Hardware, will be chairman of the new company.

Vost Chonges inBuilding Indusfiy Forecost or FPR.S Meet in Stockton

(Continued from Page 17) of ways for various efrects. Available in widths of four feet and up to 24 feet long, this panel is a free-spanning product with roof sheathing and ceiling applied-all in one package.

"Today, until production can bring the price down, the market for stressed skin panels has its best application in commercial buildings. In houses, it will find its market when more post and beam with curtain walls and non-bearing interior partitions are used in the competitive home," Doud stated.

Remarking upon the recent entry of the large prefabricator in the California home market, Doud conceded that, "Now, of course, we come to that market we all have our eyes on, the MassProduced House. f have been told that in 1959,8Eo of the homes built in california were Pre-Fab, and my ggess is that just about all were truly manufactured homes.

"The gentleman from National.Homes (Peterson) is aware that the manufactured home industry is a highly integrated business requiring lots of capital and know-how-plus the very important catalyst financing. To meet this competition, component manufacturers will eventually have to get some kind of financing, and since most of us can't afford ttre plant that is needed to completely manufacture, we have to do something else: we must offer design assistance in using standard components so that wall panels can be mass produced."

In concluding, Doud noted that it was essential that a component manufacturer develop enough volume to keep steady production; develop a highly org'anized selling division; increage the efficiency

-ond o Lumbermqn Stqrted F All!

In atltliti Forest Pror tles also dr TVeek throt additlon to many State proclamations for National rt Products Week, a growlng number of local communirlso declared thelr support of Natlonal Forest Products r through announcements by clty counclls and mayors. e such procla,rnation from the Mayor of Sa,cramento, ls McKlnney, pointed out that it was a Sacra.mento erman who first discoveretl gold in Callfornia and bega,n ;reat mlgratlon of people into that state. The statement on to say that the gold wa,s but a flash in the pan comI the goltl ln the forests which has sustained a growpopulation and helped to bulltl homes, schools and of the entire operation each year; and the tough one, convince the buyer that this is the building method of the future.

One sucl James B. I Iumberman the great n g:oes on to pared to th lng popula churches.

Final speaker on the morning's program was Charles Peterson, representing National llomes Corporation of Newark, California, who outlined his company's history since its inception in Lafayette, Indiana, during 1940. National Homes would, incidentally, during November 1960, build house number 200,000, representing a billiondollar investment by American families in the company.

Referring to his company's multi-million dollar Newark plant, which was constructed earlier this year, Peterson estimated present plant capacity at from 8 to 10 homes per shift, with a projected capacity of 60 homes per shift within the next 2 to 4 years.

"At the present time," Peterson noted, "National Homes Corporation is delivering the most complete package ever assembled in California. It includes all materials above the finish floor excepting rough plumbing and fixtures, electrical wiring and fixtures, and heating and sheet metal work. The exterior paJrels of National's Viking line have gyp applied on the interior surfaces, and are insulated with 2" rock wool batts if the builder desires. The exterior surfaces are covered wit}r L/2" strong board sheathing, with prefinished batten aluminum siding applied over the board with nails amd mastic (the Newark plant is currently running 9ook to aluminum siding). Windows are installed, pre-glazed and caulked in the siding panels at tJle plant. When this exterior panel is erected at the jobsite, nothing further need be done except the application of skirt board and, of course, the flnishing of the interior surfaces.

"Interior partitions," Peterson continued, "are built on 2" framing with lz" gyp applied both sides. Double plumbing walls are shipped with gyp supplied for fleld application. Gyp board is also supplied for the ceiling.

"All exterior doors are pre-hung and shipped primed for a onecoat field finish job. Interior doors are also pre-hung and are shipped pre-finished.

"Interior trim materials, including basic closet components and the various specifled items of decorative trim, are included. In the kitchen, complete preflnished select birch cabinets are supplied, together with built-in appliances normally including range, oven, dishwasher and disposal. Formica counter tops, together with sink and swing spout hardware are supplied in the package.

"Above the ceiling, the package includes one-piece roof-trusses, insulation if desired, roof sheathing and composition shingles, all fasteners necessary, including roof ply clips."

Peterson went on to explain that the trend in National Homes' production is toward a basic house, a house that is designed to give more space for the home owner's dollar, even at the expense of some deluxe features.

"It is our feeling," he said, "that prefabrication must compete for the tremendous market in which the second-time buyer desires more space at the possible expense of some of the more expensive luxury conveniences.

"In our opinion," Peterson said, "the advantages of prefabrication are manifest: From ground breaking to occupancy, the entire construction operation consumes less than 30 days. Realize the savings in interest, overhead, depreciation, and obsolescence under such a program. Consider that the builder maintains no inventory of building materials with the resultant downfall, pilferage and