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LIYIA 25th Annuql Convention Dqtes

The silver anniversary convention of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California will be held at Monterey April 4, 5 and 6, it has been announced by convention chairman Ham Knott.

'oWe have excellent accommodations at the famed Mark Thomas Inn and look forward to this convention being the biggest and'best ever," says Knott. o'There will be a business program with much irnportant information for dealers and associates, plus a well planned social program for members and their wives." Just two hours drive from San Francisco, the area is especially beautiful in the spring.

to more and more California dealers and distributors. For year around supplies of dimension lumber and precision-trimmed studs, depend on D & R and these 4 Oregon and Washington mills:

Old Growth Fir Dimension from F,S.P, Lumber Co., Port Orford, Oregon

Hemlock Studs from Warrenton Lumber Co., Warrenton, Oregon

Hemlock Dimension from Westport Lumber Co., Westport, Oregon

More details on the 25th Annual Convention will be announced in the next issue of the Calilornin Lumber Merchant, but dealers and their associates are encouraged to mark the dates on the calendar today--LMA on April 4, 5 and 6th.

Hqrdwood Plywood Revision

Culminating over a year of efiort by the then technical cornmittee, Hardwood Plywood Manufacturers Association members have endorsed the proposed changes for Commercial Standard 35-Hardwood Plywood. The completed revision of CS35-61 will be submitted to the United States Department of Commerce before the end of the year. The new edition of the standard is expected to be efiective some time in 1965, following the procedural steps of standing committee review and comment; and acceptance by the industry, distributors, users, and other interested firms.

When it is issued, Hardwood Plywood CS35-65 will be a standard of substantial change. Certainly, more far reaching changes are evident in this, the sixth revision of CS35, than in any recent revision.

A new test for evaluating the glue bond performance of Type II hardwood plywood, decreasing the test time from 2I days to 3 days, and a new letter-number designation system for face grades of hardwood plywood are two of the mosl significant changes.

Fast, regular ocean shipments by barge from Southern Oregon and the Columbia River direct to Southern California.

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

Art Neth would appreciate an opportunity to tell you how you and your customers will benefit from using dependable D & R dimension and studs. You can reach him by calling TRiangle 3-2663 or STate 3-0544.

A. W. NETH, Lumber Sales

Southern California Representative for

Designation "(l)" for Premium Grade has been dropped in favor of "A", making a new grade designation line-up as follows: Premium Grade (A); Good Grade (l); Sound Grade (2); Utility Grade (3); Backing Grade (4). It is expected that the new designation system will expand the scope of the commercial standard use into regions and into product areas not greatly affected by prior CS35 revisions.

General requirements for, and a general description of factory finishes for hardwoood plywood are being introduced into the commercial standard for the first time.

Consolidation of the Premium Grade and Good Grade characteristics and delects tables; liberalization of the sapwood allowance (20%) for Good Grade walnut and Good Grade cherry (a conservation measure ) ; refinement of some of the characteristics permitted within Premium and Good Grades; utilization limitations for Type III glue bond plywood; and clarification of wood failure estimation for Type I boil and dry shear tests are among other changes proposed for CS35.

New Regulor for IHPA

Joe Durra, executive vice-president of the Imported Hardwood Plywood Association, extended a warrn welcome to the group's newest member, William Johnson, 449 Bruton Terrace, Suite B, Dallas, Texas. A national organization of leading import-export firms involved in the importation of hardwood plywood and lum. ber products, IHPA maintains headquarters in San Francisco and legal counsel at W-ashington, D.C.

Hordboord in Color

New customers are certain to be attracted to hardboard through a 28-page, full-color brochure called "The Wonderful World of H,ardboard" published this fall.

The publication is the first such brochure the American Hardboard Association has sponsored. It will fill the need for further information in a single booklet about hardboard and hardboard products and applications.

The brrcchure is being published to fill requests from consumers for additional inforrnation concerning various aspects of home uses of hardboard.

All the photographic illustrations in the booklet will be in full color, to best showcase the richness and beauty of hardboard in its many forms and faces.

Interior panels for every room in the home and hardboard exterior sidings will be featured in the colorful publicatioll, and the many other uses of hardboard in commercial construction, furniture and other industrial uses will be covered.

WRITE: American Hardboard Association, 20 No. Wacker' Drive, Chicago, Ill. 60606.

A New Pockel-Size Fire Roting Guide

File resistance ratings for gypsum wallboard constructions have been published in a handy pocket-size chart by The Celotex Corporation.

floor-ceiling assemblies and column fireproofing.

R.atings are based on tests by National Bureau of Standards, Underwriters' Laboratories, Inc., and Ohio State University.

WRITE: The Celotex Corp., 120 S. LaSalle, Chicago, Ill.

Promotion Films

Masonite Corporation has introduced two new sound-slide films in color for use by field representatives before u'holesaler and dealer groups.

"The Ladies Bless 'Em" is a 1i3-minute cartoon style film on the entire Masonite line of interior products. New products for 1965 are featured, and Royalcote woodgrained wall panels are emphasized. A number of actual room settings is shown.

Cedor Shoke Folder

Western red cedar shakes in a variety of textures and colors ar'e currently being featured in a full color, eight page folder. The folder illustrates the Shakertown line of Prefinished shakes and shake panels that are available for ne'l,t' construction or for moder-nizing older: homes. Sidewall shakes ale described as "luxurious ll'ood alive with color" and the PhotograPhs shorv holr they are aPPlied and hou' they look on the comPleted homes. Shakeltown also suPPlies these shakes in handy Glumac panels 463/+" long, and they are illustrated in full color in the folder.

Gives Well-Documented Fire Data

The folder enables the user' to quickly determine the material and constluction needed to yield specific time ratings for partition and wall assemblies,

"The Power{ul Plus" is a 7minute film, also cartoon style, which outlines Masonite's new products and marketing programs for 1965.

Designed basically for building materials wholesaler or dealers at consumel' clinics.

WRITE: Masonite Corp., 29 W. Wackel Dr'., Chicago, Il1.

A new baln shake panel is just being introduced to the market through this folder'. The baln shakes are bonded to a backelboard in panels 4634" long and the butts of the shakes al'e staggered for a verY intriguing effect. Eight foot long Shakertown E-Z Ply Panels are also included in this ver-v complete shake litelature, WltlTE: Shakeltown Corporation, 20310 Chagrin Boulevarcl, Cleveland. Ohio, 44122.

Deater Training Schoot

(Continued. lrom Page 7) exterior or wet conditions. The glues are so strong the wood, will actwlly break belore the glue separe.tes. The lumber is then stacked into presses to form the timbers. Waxed paper is used between each timber to separate them while gluing. After the lumber is stacked, a uniform hydraulic pressure of I50 p.s.i. is applied and holddown clamps are adjusted to maintain this pr'essure. When waterproof glue is used, it must be set by heat. Head hoods are lowered over the timber and hot moist air is pumped in. After 14 hours, the timbers are removed and stored 24 hours for final curing. The timbers are then milled to size and are ready for finishing. Fountain has the capacity to make a timber 200 ft. long. All Fountain timbers are straight, although they can be supplied with camber. When camber is desired, specially developed top and bottom blocks are placed into the laminating presses with the lumber which gives the desired shape.

Three differ,ent appearance grades are produced by Fountain: industrial, architectural, and premium. The company also provides beams with a saw size finish. The method of judging grade is covered very thoroughly, so the attending members knorv what to expect of a specific grade and will be able to give the customer an exact idea of what he will get when ordering a particular grade. The plant tour ends in the shipping department where they are shown how a timber is .registered and identified with a number tag and inspection report, so the building inspector on the job will have all the information necessary to pass on it. The plant tour requires approximately one and one-half hours. lF{FftX*ffiF*F*tfirr*F*MF*FAF*r*FAFfiX*FAFfiFAFAFfiF*F#xAr*5E*'l*F*F*rfir*MMF*F*XA}!*XAFfiF*Xfirrr{F*5!fiMl

After the tour, the visitors are taken to lunch at the nearby Industrial Club for further discussion. A Question and Answer booklet which has been developed by Fountain for handy reference is given out. It answers most of the questions a dealer will encounter when selling laminated limbers. lt also contains a chart for converting from steel to laminated timbers. After lunch, an open question and answer session allows the visitors to bring up any remaining questions. The session is then adjourned and the salesmen can return to their jobs or go back to the Fountain plant for additional briefing on various phases of production.

Everyone who attends the training session is awarded the Fountain "Expert Timberma,n" plaque which can be displayed by the dealer to show his company employs a laminated timber specialist. The individual is also added to the o'Bull's Eye" bulletin mailing list which is a periodic communique sent out by Fountain to keep dealers informed of product changes, new codes, shipping information and construction trends.

The total time required for the training session is approximately 3 hours.

John Ferri

Michoel Joson

John Weover

John Lowrentz

Robert O'Neill

John Hencken

Duql Southlqnd Concqt

The constantly expanding Hoo-Hoo-Ette clubs of Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley held another combined concat and meeting to initiate ten new members into their clubs on November 9.

The following girls were initiated lfrom Valley Club No. 6) Bobby Christensen of Tarzana Lumber Co. and Lora Lloyd of Far West Plywood. From Club No. I Trudy Smith of MarquartWol{e, Joyce Pistole of Hobbs Wall, Sherry Gentry of Cal-Pacific Sales, Alice Rogers of Ted Deacy Co. Girls initiated from Tarter, Webster and Johnson were. Mary Latham, Gloria Mezao Doris Tonan and Sally Walden.

I{EWLY ltllTlATED l1{I0 the two southland Hoo-HooEtte clubs are these ten brandnew members. They are all employed by lumber companies.

Other guests were three officers of the National, Pat Howard, president; Donna I)ean, lst vice president, and Peggy Mottola, board of directors. Officers from Club No. 6 were Lois Jones, president; Mary Williams, lst vice president; Marge Brooks, 2nd vice president; Orinda Hazen, treasurerI Ruth Slay, menr,bership chairman; Rene Lester, publicity chairmanl Betty Schoener, initiation. Other members from the Valley Club were Agnes Mclntyre and Jessie Culbertson.

Table decorations in Thanksgiving motif at the Chinatown restaurant. General Lee's. were raffied off after the initiation and the main table centerpiece was won by Sallye Bissell. Anne Murray, founder of Club No. l, was presented with a beautiful green corsage rvith "Good Luck" on it.

Moores Buys Welshingle

Pacific Coast Wood Products Inc. has purchased for an undisclosed figure, Welshingle Wood Products, in Arcata.

Pacific Coast Wood Products was incorporated Sept. 17 and will be involved in the wholesale wood shake roofing supply business, ultimately aiming at expansion throughout the northern portion of the state. The corporation is owned by William Moores, Ukiah.

Welshingle was founded by Leslie W. and Phyllis M. Welsh in 196I and increased its opening year sales by 300 percent in three years. The company has a modern manufacturing mill at Arcata.

Pacific Coast rvill continue distribution of Welsh products as well as western red cedar shakes, shingles, cedar and redwood fence palings, grape stakes and other lumber items.

The company has been appointed exclusive sales agent for Welshingle in northern California. Future plans include installation o{ dry kilns at the Welshs' manufacturing plant at Arcata.

Pacific Coast's sales manager 14. L. Bunker has seven years previous experience representing a major Vancouver, B.C., manu{acturer of cedar shakes in the Northeast.

Home lmprovemenl Gqins

Proof of the success of the National Home Improvement Council's Home Improvement Year '63 promotion program to stimulate remodeling is now in!

Bureau of Census figures for 1963 have just been released. $11,733,000,000 was spent by the nation on residential additions, alterations, maintenance and repairs, and replacements. That's nearly $400,000,000 above the 1962 outlay. Resident owners' expenditures on I to 4 housing unit properties were up over $700,. 000,000 among jobs classified as improvements. Other details: o There was a l2o/o increase over T962 in the spending of owner occupants of one housing unit properties on their homesup by $724,000,000. o A quarterly expenditure breakdown for 1963 shows heaviest expenditures for all residential properties took place July to September, followed by April to June, then October to December with January to March expenditure the lowest quarterly outlay. o As in past years 2%-5% of the nation's home owners accounted for about 50/o oL the 1963 remodeling outlay.

Trqnscontinentol Trqnsplont

A California redwood tree completed a transcontinental transplanting in New Jersey last month.

The six-foot evergreen, a young member oI the Giant Sequoia family, was planted by Kaiser Gypsum Company to symbolize new roots the California,based company is putting down in New Jersey. Redwoods, the state tree of California, are among the oldest living things on earth. In their native habitat, they sometimes attain heights exceeding 300 feet.

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Housing Storts to Rise

Nonfarm housing starts in 1965 will total 1,525,00G-a slight increase over this year's predicted volume-according to a forecast of the F. W. Dodge Co.

The National rlssociation of Home Builder's forecast came a day after NAHB President William Blackfield gave his estimate of slightly more than I,500,000 starts in 1964 to the Conference of Building Products Executives.

Dodge predicted the dollar volume of housing will increase even more in 1965 because of expansion in the average size single-family home. The forecast of $2I,925,000,000 would be three pereent over an estimated $21,275,000,000 total fior 1964.

It was more optimistic than most other construction industry forecasts, which have warned of a decrease next year. NAHB economists recently surveyed 35 metropolitan areas and concluded there would be a two percent decline in housing starts next year.

The Dodge prediction was based on an estimated five percent rise in contract value of one and two-family dwellings, a constant rate in apartment units, and a trvo percent decline in hotels, motels. etc.

Dodge forecast that all kinds of construction will be increased 3.4/q next year ro $49,575,000,000, based on a 1964 estimated total of $47,950,000,000. Although housing activity began levelling ofi about the middle of this year, much of that slack was taken up by continued strength in non-residential building. Dodge attributed the levelling ofi to the adjustment to local overbuilding.

Red Book Off the Press

The November issue oI the Lumbernlenos Red, Book is out. It is the l66th issue of the famous credit and sales guide.

Since 1876, the Red Book has been the principal source of credit information for the lumber, woodworking and allied industries of the United States. It lists-and evaluates- the manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers and quantity users of lumber and wood products of all kinds. The listings include credit ratings, business classifications, addresses and other facts of value to buyers and sellers alike.

The Red, Book is published semi-annually and is kept up to date by supplements that go out every Tuesday and Friday throughout the year. These Twice-A-Week Supplements contain hundreds of last-minute items of credit and sales information.

The Red Book agency also compiles detailed analytical credit reports, and conducts a collection service for the handling of commercial claims.

The Red, Book is published by the Lumbermen's Credit Association Inc., at 608 South Dearborn Street, Chicago 5, Illinois. An eastern branch is maintained at 99 Wall Street, New York 5, New York.

Hoo-Hoo Needs Your Help

to sustain a scholarship program that will help insure the future of the lumber and wood products in California.

A full 100 per cent of every dollar donated to the Los Angeles HooHoo Studcnt Foundatior will b9 used to establish college scholarships in the field of forestry and forest products for youngsters from LeRoy Boys' Home, La Verne, California.

For information on donations and bequests, please contact: