THE LUMBER Vol. 31 No. 12 RCHANT December 15, 1952 M ESIERIl IAnDW00ll LUiIBER C0ilP[1lY
* i * * Merry Christmas every MILLS Af OAKRIDGE, OREGON SI. HETENS, OREGON PORT GAMBLE, WASH. * i i I * I * * * * I I * * POPE & TALBOT.INC. LUMBERMEN S'NCE 1849 SAN FRANCISCO: 320 CALIFORNIA SIREEI tOS ANGELES: 714 W,OtYllPlC BOUTEVARD
According to Your Specificorions
Whether il's precision-trimmed sfuds or plonk qnd timber cul to specific lenglhs and sizes . . your order from Foirhurst's gets "priority" lreotmenl . including correct groding ond shipping on time. DOUGLAS FIR AND REDWOOD BOARDS DI'IAENSION IU'IABER '
Soles Monoger, Foirhurst Lumber Co. of Colifornio, Eureko, Cqlifornio
Al's eorly boyhood wq3 spenl in Chino, where hisfother served sr o U. S. diplomor. A Stonford groduofa in en. gineering , former Seo Beo cnd experienced in lumber monufocturing. He coordinqtes Fqirhurst soles qctivities mokos surc your order is filled cs requested,
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Yecn-End Review, by Thomcs C. Sicrs
My Fcrvorite Story
NAHB Awcsd Progrcm
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Meog from pure, long, tough, Douglas Fir fibers, OREGONBORD passes strength tests with fying colors! Its quality is insured by a special Resinized process. OREGONBORD, "the original Oregon Hardboardr" is available in 4' x 8' panels of l/8" r 3/16" and l/4" thicknesses.
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OREGONBORD is a fast moving, rePeat item. Customers like its low costr easy'to'use features. Youtll make NEW customers-new and mOre profits-with OREGONBORD.
Deccmber 15, 1952 -r ------..f \l \\ DEATERS ll will poy you dividends lo see your iobber obout OREGONBORD "The Orlginal Oregon Hardboqrd" ( 7
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RecommendWHITE Firzite for magical woodsy effects on hardwood or soft, plywood or solid lumber, For light pastel tones, recommendWHITEFirzite tinted with Colorsin-Oil. I'or soft wood and fir plywood patnt johs, recommendWHITE Firzite as an undercoat, to help prevent grain raise or checking. (For soft wood or 6r plywood srorn jobs, recom. ment CLEAR Firzite, to tame wild. unsightly grain. Over zlo million leei of fir plywood sold every week-whst a market for Firzite! r
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helps you sell homeowners-\ rhcn you offcr Shakcrtox.'n Sidel-alls, the No. 1 Certigrade red cedar shinglcs. Architccts and builders go for Shakertorvns' quick construction features-their distinctive appcarance, their truly factorystained cxterior r,vith no further fir-rishing on the job. Labor costs are low, too. And winter or summer, rain or shine, you can finish ncore homes faster-with Shakertown Sidervalls.
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The night porter of the house where artist pablo Picasso, the extreme modernist, was staying in Paris; helped police catch a burglar by remembering the man's appearance and then sketching it. Picasso was impressed, so, when his place was robbed soon after, he observed the burglar who had bound him with a rope, and later did a painting of the man which he handed to the police. Guided by his sketch the police promptly rounded up two hundred people, a horse, a hearse, a pair of old boots, and a can opener;-l"", Madrid.
The above hasn't a thing in the world to do with what this piece will.be about, but it seemed funny enough to deserve top billing. ***
This will be a rambling editorial concerning ,,the planned program Weyerhaeuser has established for all its branches -permanent manufacture, development and improvement of forest products, and a permanent yield from its tree farms'
The above quotes are from a recent official Weyerhaeuser publication, telling numerous details of the drive toward perfection in all phases of lumbering which is being made by the various Weyerhaeuser enterprises of wood and lumber character'
This same publication on another page tells of the Weyerhaeuser progress "through the advantage of research and the sustained-yield plan of growing trees on a commercial basis." It is a fact well known to many that Weyerhaeuser owns and operates vast possessions that have to do with trees and wood; mighty sawmills in Oregon, Washington, and the Inland Empire. But the even greater fact, and not so well known, is that every unit of every sort is being operated and managed on a planned permanent basis. Every Weyerhaeuser wood enterprise is being operated for planned perpetuity.
And every Weyerhaeuser wood-using operation has hehind it certain selected forests-tree farms-certified by their army of foresters to be capable of supplying that unit perpetually with commercial trees. How much timber Weyerhaeuser owns is probably their own business, but it amounts to a staggering total in all the states in which they operate. And their timber growing, and timber cutting, and logging, has al1 been mapped out for one hundred years to COme.
No Weyerhaeuser wood using operation stands still. All
of them must improve, and modernize, and progress. Through the research efforts of an army of chemists and engineers, new products are continually coming from Weyerhaeuser. As an example, take the Clearwater Unit of Potlatch Forests, Inc., located at Lewiston, fdaho. Here they operate the biggest White Pine sawmill in existence. They incorporated the outfit in 1900, and then spent 25 years buying timber, and getting ready to some day build and operate a mill there. They built the original plant in 1925 and 1926. It started just as a lumber mill, modern, and of large propotator..
In 1930 one of their engineers perfected the Pres-to-log, which has become one of their outstanding sidelines; a pressed wood log for use as fuel. This business has grown steadily. Glued-up lumber to build narrow boards into wide ones of any width desired, came.next, with specially created hot presses to cement the ltrmber together on the edges. Sound and solid boards of great width have been a famous Clearwater product ever since. ln t947 they added a huge cut-up department; in 1949 they built a veneer plant as a new unit; in 1950 they built a pulp and paper mill; in 1952 they expanded the veneer plant to produce Pine plywood; in 1952 they are expanding the pulp and paper mill to twice the original size. A sample of how Weyerhaeuser mills grow. And remember, there is a perpetual supply of trees for all this equipment, and all these units' * * *
They make Pine plywood in Idaho, and Fir plywood in Washington and Oregon. Their newest unit to reach completion and go into production is a Fir plywood plant at Springfield, Oregon. They boast that while the meat packers use everything except the squeal, at Springfield they use ever5rthing-no l'eftovers. They even use all the bark from the big Fir peeler logs. Sound wood from small peeler cores, veneer edgings and other l'eftovers from the plywood plant are chipped and sent to the sulphate pulp mill. Whatever is not suitable for pulp, and the bark removed from the logs by a dry debarker, go through the hog and then are burned in the power house to generate steam and electricity.
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A product is made from the tree bark by a Weyerhaeuser formula in another Weyerhaeuser plant that helps extend the phenolic resins in plywood glue, and the Springfield plywood operation consumes about 13 tons of this bark product every month. The product is called Silvacon 472, and is manufactured at Weyerhaeuser's Longview operation. So it is that every bit of the log, bark and all, is made into valuable products at the new Springfield plant. The Spring-
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field plywood unit is an integrated part of the great new Springfield sawmill plant.
The same sort of recitals can be made with regard to all Weyerhaeuser manufacturing units. Take Evere.tt, Washington, where in 1902 they built th'eir first Pacific Northwest sawmill. That first mill was transformed into a sulphate pulp plant in 1936. In 1915 they built tr{ill B in Everett, then the biggest and most modern sawmill on earth. In 1927 they built Mill C at Everett. Here also they are growing trees on a sustained-yield basis, and here they plan to operate these mills perpetually. As the story in the official publication puts it, after fifty years of operation the'mills of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company's Everett Branch "are only beginning their stay in Everett."
Mill B, buitt in 1915, and modernized continually ever since, is today one of the most efficient and up-to-date sawmill plants to be found anywhere. To illustrate, when that mill first started operations it was powered by 50 electric motors. Today there are 1,900 bigger and more powerful motors replacing the fifty, the result being a lot more production per man than ever before, and a mill ol highest efficiency. The company spends six and one-half million dollars a year in Everett for payroll. And the units will operate tto- r:*
Little can be said in this brief sketch of the marr)' other great Weyerhaeuser operations. There is not room. The plant at Longview, Washington, is not a sawmill. but a group of integrated sawmills, together with varior.s other units that make Weyerhaeuser wood into an unbelievable assortment of products. Longview alone would fill a book on what can be made from wood besides lumber-
The Longview plant is a good example of a great lesson learned; that the manufacture of various forest products can be profitably integrated on one plant site, thus eli.minating waste and lowering production costs. Ilere, fir logs are cleaned of bark by hydraulic or other means. The bark goes to a plant where it is refined into new industrial products, chiefy five different laboratory products all known as Silvacon. The sawmill and plywood plants make lumber and plywood from bark-free logs. The waste is chipped and goes to the pulp mill where it is made into bleached sulphate pulp. Shavings from the planing mill go to the Pres-to-log plant to be made into fuel briquettes. There is no longer a burner at Longview. There is no waste to burn'
All of the many big Weyerhaeuser sawmill plants make and sell materials other than lumber. To list them all would fill pages. In addition, several Weyerhaeuser affiliates not in the sawmill business, manufacture wonderful materials from wood fiber. The Wood Conversion Company is an outstanding example, manufacturing large quantities of world-famous products of their own discovery and creation, such as Balsam Wool, Nu-Wood, and various others. Another affiliate. the Rock Island Millwork Company, is now manufacturing strong, sound, attractive
boards out of the sawdust and shavings from its own plant. A giant press specially built for the purpose, makes this wood waste accumulated in cutting lumber, right back into lumber. They call this Resinwood, and find a ready market for the product.
It is indeed a slack season when some Weyerhaeuser plant fails to announce something new in the way of wood products. Right now there is a new plant at Weyerhaeuser's Snoqualmie Falls branch, in Washington. It is engaged in manufacturing waste wood into what they call Silvacel, a complete line of whole-wood fibers, resulting from the efforts of their army of engineers and chemists. These whole-wood fiber products suitable for a wide variety of uses, are made from sawmill left-overs and small, broken, or unusable sawlogs from the woods. This wood is made into chips exactly like pulp chips, then defibrated by heat and pressure. While these wood fibers have many uses' such as insulation, the chief one thus far is for oil field drilling. Nine truckloads of chips are manufactured daily into valuable products tt *an.* new plant.
At Klamath Falls, Oregon, Weyerhaeuser has laid the foundations for a two million dollar plant to make hardboard, which is pressed from chewed-up wood fiber. The raw material is white fir, not suitable for lumber. Molded hardboard will be one of the;rrlducts of the new plant.
The poet wrote: "Give us men to match our mountains, give us men to match our plains, men with eras in their purpose, men with epochs in their, brains." It looks like the Weyerhaeuser organization has both the eras and the epochs, judging by "the planned program Weyerhaeuser has established for all its branches-permanent manufacture, development and improvement of forest products, and a permanent yield from its tree farms." Vast forests to last forever; tremendous mill plants that have become factories for the production of many things besides lumber; this is Weyerhaeuser as the world knows it today. Compare all this with the timber and srill business of a generation back: and then sit and wonder.
Small Elficient Ccrlilorniq Mills
Trvo small but highly efificient California sawmills n'ere recently publicized in "The i,umberman." The San Andreas Lumber Products Company, San Andreas, California, by use of electricity, air, and diesel power, cuts five thousand feet of lumber per hour, with only three men employed in the sawmill unit. The Soper-Wheeler Company, Strarvberry Valley, Yuba County, California, operates an autornatic portable sarvmill that employs just tr,vo men in the mill unit, but cuts an average of 18,0O0 feet daily, from snrall trees and thinnings
Bedwood Debcrked Hydrculiccrlly
The Masonite Corporation is successfully operating a hydraulic debarker for Redwood logs at its new mill at Ukiah, California. This Simons machine is said to be the first of its size and type in the Redrvood region.
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J. D. Murphy Lumber Company Expansion Program
The accompanying photographs on this page indicate the modern home of the J. D. Murphy Lumber Company, located at 475 Huntington Drive, in San Marino-right in the heart of the Greater Eastside of the Los Angeles and Pasadena metropolitan area.
Jack-as he has been knorvn to his friends in the industry for the past trventy-fir,e years in Southern Californiawas born to his job so to speak, as his father also comes from a family of lumbermen. His experience and background in both rvholesale and retail of hardwoods and softwoods is complete-right from the tree to the consumer. His firm presentlv represents, exclusively in Southern California, the mills oi Evans Forest Products, Inc., and J. W. Wilder, Inc., specializing in the efficient distribution of Pacific Coast lumber products.
Jean Murphy is "Girl Friday" to her husband and plays an integral part in the smooth operation of this efficiently conducted organization. Her experience dates back some fifteen years in lumber sales and her genial personality plays an important part in the fast growth of the firmand the fine customer relations.
Herb Meier who joined the sales staff of the company several months ago, has had many years of experience as a building contractor, and also in tl-re wholesale distribution of lumber. Herb spent five years in the South Pacific during World War II as a procurement officer rvith the Corps of Engineers of the United States Army. His whole adult life has been spent in the lumber and building construction business and he is a most valued member of this progressive young company.
Ray H. Benson was an associate of Jack's for over fifteen years when they both were employed by a large l.holesale ltr,mber firm in Vernon. He has been connected 'n'ith various wood products organizations covering doors, plyrvoods and allied products. He has a complete education in buying and selling at all levels of marketing and is rvell kno'ivn throughout Southern California for his ability as a straight shooting executive.
\\rith over a century of man years of experience, it is expected the J. D. Murphy Lumber Company u'ill continue to expand rvith the years, rendering a good .service to the retail lumber dealers in the California and Arizona trade area. We wish Jack and his associates continued success.
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fr cando something for you because of the efiras it offers!The Simpson Allwood Hardboards-Standard and Hardlite-are not just anotherbrand of hardboard but are superior in many ways due to the manufacturing process used. They have an unusuauy smooth surface which has beauty in its natural color or will take and hold finishes, from wiping stains to high quality enamels. They cut with a clean edge-no burr or fuzziness when sawed or when beveled with a plane. They are easy tonail or drill for screws. They have no grain or knots, won't split or warp, and are hard and rigid. That is why they offer something extra for building, remodeling and repairing -for hundreds of useseverywhere. These hardboards are low in cost-and Hardlite, which issimilar to but lower in density than Standard, gives you additional economy.
lF YOU ARE A BUIIDER. Simpson Allwood Hardboards are the ideal permanent materials for enclosing space. On walls, ceilings, and partitions, the big panels go up fast. The heavier thicknesses can be nailed directly to thestudding, saving time and labor. They take and hold applied. finishes beautifully. They addstrength, durability andbeauty to construction. Panels are 4' wide with a full range of lengths from 3' to 16'; Standard thicknesses-l/8,, 3/L6L and. If 4"; Hardlite thicknesses-3/16' and.l/4'. Ask your lumber dealer for Simpson AllwoodHardboardtoday!
lF VOU ARE A DEA1ER Simpson Allwood Hardboards ofrer fine, quality products for dealers. The potential market is tremendous. Ideal for home-owners building a fruit closet or contractors building houses by the hundreds for stores up and down your street for industry and farm. There are practically unlimited uses for these modern building materials. People like to work with Simpson Allwood Hardboard, and. you are the man who can sell it!
WRITE TODAY to our Soles Division in Seottle office for free somples ond literofure, or conloct one of our regionol offices llisted belowlfor your neoresf supplier of Simpron Allwood Hordboords.
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Year-End Review of Fir Plywood fndustry
By Thomas C. Sias Douglas Fir Plywood Association
\Mest coast plyrvood manufacturers approached the turn of the vear with another all-timc pr.rduction rccord in sight. At the same time most sigus poilted to a good year in 1953 for Douglas fir plylood sales at the retail level.
Housing starts fcr 1952 rvhere the in-place cost of plvwood for structural applications is highly competitive appeared to be measuring up to eariier estimates that they rvould top a million. And 700,000 to anothei' million starts are predicteC for next ,vea:.
Remodcling, too. where plyrvood's competitive position in terms of end-use values is highly favorable constituted a continuing demand. Estimated dollar volume for all remodeling. maintenance and building repair in 1952 rvas $9 billion and next year is expected to be just as good.
The "do-it-yourself" trend was well established as a major outlet for plywood through retail dcaler yards and .very indication shows that this rna-rket rvill continue to expancl in 1953.
Throughout almost the entire i952 period, demand for plywood in all fields including hea.ry construction, remanufacture, boat building and other fields was strong and steady lrringing production to a record ar.erage of 56 million square feet rvcekly. The year opened, in fact, with a rush <rf business that sent 'lveekly sales to better than'70 million square feet for some six 'lveeks.
Output this year totaled 2.4 billion square feet as of October 25 and the industry expects the figure to equal or exceed the 2.8 billion record high set last year.
Although demand remains firm, the immediate shortterm outlook at the manufacturing level was marred some-
'"r''hat by fourth quarter sluggishness which resulted in a .len per cent drop in price by October.
Although this period of uncasiness came at about the same time as the sudden and precipitous plunge in the market last October, it bore ferv of the earmarks of that period. For one thing, with wages up a $1 a day and the cost of ra-n' materials holding steady or increasing, there was considerably less margin between profit and loss. Secondly, jobber stocks in October appeared to be far lou.er than at this tiine last year. To manufacturers these conditions point to a likely rush of orders again in the months ahead.
In assessing what's ahead for retail plyrvood sales in 1953, it is imperative to see rvhere the retail dealer fits into the picture. Investigation indicates that he gcts and sells more than 50 per cent of total industry output or an estimated 1.4 billion square feet of plyrvood in 1952. Arid a just completed indepenCent market survey ir-iitiated by the industry indicates that 10 per ccnt of output-practically all of which is sold by dealers-goes to home-on'ners.
This means that the dealer constitutes the plywood industry's biggest single outlet, and the manufacturers have long recognized this in their joint plyrvood sales promotion rvith a'continuing florv of dealer sales helps.
Hou'ever, in Scptember o{ this vear, W. E. Difforcl, t'ho held the post of managing director of the industry's trade association from 1938 to 1946, rvas lured back to the joli from his orvn plywood and lumber sales firm. Immediately after rejoining the Association, Difford put his finger on the strategic position of the retail dealer in the plyu'ood market oicture and within trvo u,eeks after he was on the
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Ccse-Study Remodeling. Complete plywood remodeling ol thig old lcrm home serves cs thebasis lor qn qll-qround remodelingr promotion and cn outstcnding movie. Plywood lcpped siding wcs crpplied right over old drop siding, Further promotion ol this proiect designed to eell plywood in rurcl crecs is on the wcy.
job, the manufacturers had the ball rolling on the current "Best Buy" plywood sales promotion campaign.
This is a coordinated packaged promotion rifled at specific dealer sales outlets for plywood. It includes national advertising in Saturday Evening Post and Pathfinder, strong campaigns in builder and dealer trade journals, and a tie-in kit of dealer sales aids topped with a new display-mobile for pl1'u'ood being used in the building materials field for the first time.
The program bilLs Douglas fir plywood as "today's best buy" in terms of in-place cost and end-use values in new homes, remodeling, 1>uilt-ins, farm buildings, boats, and home rvorkshop projects. And it has been itiled on top of the industry's continuing promotion program to architects. builders, industrial users and home owners.
The program climaxed a y.ear of intense Dromotional a-ctivity in the industry-most of which was instrumental in maintaining or building dealer sales of plywood. Early in the spring plyu'ood .n,as selected as the primary structural material for the n.idely publicized "Farm-In-A-Day" horne and buildings erected in Washington's Columbia irrigation for the nation's most deserving young veteran.
Immediately follon'ing this project which is still resulting in follol,v-up publicity came the industry's "Room-for-fmpror.ement" plyrvood remodeling contest which drerv 36,000 requests for plyr,r'ood remodeling idea literature and 13,500 actual entries.
The promotion generated new interest in plywood for rer-nodeling and the entries have developed priceless information on rvhat the nation needs and prefers in remodeling developments. The announcement of r,vinners has lteen completed but the greatest benefits to dealers will be the before and after remodeling case studies which will be made available in the form of remodeling sales literature.
Also getting its start during the year was the industry's program to merchandise standard small sizes of plywriocl called Handy Panels. An esiimated 3,000 Han<ly Panel
display racks have been put into use or ordered bv dealers. Results vary depending upon the kind of business the dealer has concentrated upon and the intensity of his merchandising.but some have sold as much as 2,50O to 5,000 square feet in the first six rveeks after installing a rack.
Dealer sales next year to contractors and builders r,vrll be stimulated by industry promotion of success stories in the use of fir plywood for structural applications like subflooring, rvall sheathing and roof decking. Demand for roof sheathing was sparked during the past year by a change in FHA minimum property requirements permitting 3f" plywood roof decking over rafters spaced 24" o.c. Builders using this construction have reported they can lay decking in half the man hours required for conventional -.l.reathing materials.
One Detroit builder reports a totai dollar saving of $112 per house rvith a combination of plywood roof decking and pre-built plyrvood-shea'ched \\'a11 sections. In Southern California particularly plyrn'ood sales for underlayment as a base for wall-to-wall carpeting have increased considerably and in some cases, a combination subfloor and underlayment in a heavy thickness of fir plywood is proving a profitable dealer sales outlet.
Plyrvood for these applications and others like new siding and interior r,vall paneling 'ivill be dramatized the first part of the year with a story in Farm Joumal on a case-
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New Plywood Plctn Fotders. Up.coming series oI how-to-do-it lolders on live striking modern lurniture pieces will be mcde <rvqilqble to deqlers lor building plywood scles. Ecchpiece is designed on modules corresponding to new etcrndcrd smcll sized Hcrndy Pcnels oI lii plywood. Shown here ig colfee tcble cnd end table.
New Techniques lir Selling Plywood,Hcndy pcnel displcy rcrc}s pueh scles ol industry'sstondqrd sizes ol plywood. Abour 2,500 hcve been ordered lor deqler sqles rooms. Rccks simplily emcll pcriel scles operotions, siimulate impulse buying cnd increage prolit: in relqled items like pcint cnd hcrdwqre.
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Handy Panels are top-quality Douglas fir plywood produced in strict accord with Commercial Standard CS45-48. Made in both Exterior-type (EXT-DFPA) with waterproof glue and Interiortype. Panel sizes 2x4-feet and smaller. Handy Panel selling aids include window banners, plans, folders, ad mats. See your plywood supplier or write Douglas Fir Plywood Associatisn, Tacoma, Wash.
CROSSET T LUTI BE R COTIPA]IY
December f5, 1952
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Age not guaranteed---Some I have told lor 20 years---Soms Less
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"I notices wid intrust," said the Rev. Jeremiah Jawbones to the Rev. Obadiah Perkins, 'ndat de colleckshun plate in you' chu'ch dis mawnin' wuz passed by a brothah wid only one ahm. Dass a smaht idea."
"Sho is," said Rev. Perkins. "FIit wuz de idea of Slim
With Woodworkers' Supply Co.
Lloyd Jorgensen is nou. n'ith the \\'ood'rvorkers' Supply Co., Los Angeles, and is covering -\rizona, Neu' Mexico and all Southern California except Los Angeles county. He is selling the proclucts of the Mattison N[achine \\rorks and Greenlee Bros. & Co. He is also selling machinery ior the Stetson-Ross Nfachine Company.
For the past three years Lloyd has been selling machinery in this territory as direct factor-r'represerttative for the Stetson-Ross Nlachinerv Companl'.
Henry, one of mah congregashun who is a refo'med gamblah."
"Which goes to prove," said Rev. Jawboqes, "how true is de words of de 'postle which says dat de chillun of darkness is wiser dan de chillun of light."
Westwood Logrgringr Rocrd
The Fruit Growers Supply logging road 25 miles long to foot stand of their timber.
Chipper Bcdly Needed
Companl- is buildir,g a new tap a three hundred million
Phil Reinmuth, of Potlatch Forests, Inc., toid the recent san.mill operating conference in Portland that one of the definite and crying needs of the lumber business in the Northn'est is a mechanical barker that can serve mills cutting from 50,00O to l0O,O00 feet dailr'.
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t953 JANUARY
CA1IFONNIA TUiASER MENCHANI ffi t*$tl \#, fitulo ffi ia4 ilt*r't \ffi Coming your wqf .., TIASONITE SIDING -q Presdwood Product
OFEATURES IN A FTASH qbou] new 'NASONITE SIDING
Deeper shodowl Shadowline wood srips, specially designed for use with Masonite Siding, produce a deep shadow. permit smaller overlap-put more of the width to work.
Durobilityl $/on't rrust, rot or corrode. out-weathers the weather! Tough-resists surface injuries.
Stobitiry, Knotless, grainless. Keeps its shape. SZon't split, splinter or crack. \$Zon't push nails out.
Paint-ahilityl super-smooth, even surface that won't check and crack the finish. Takes less paiot, less painting tine. Extrayears berween paint lobs.
Economyl No short lengths. packaged in convenient gr, I O/ and. lzt lengths in conventional 12,,, wide 16// andextra-wi de 24', widths. /<' and%e" thicknesses.
You'll be playing a new hit tune-on your cash register!
rt'll come from sales of Masonite siding-the newest member of the famous Presdwood@ family.
Masonite corporation is launching a vigorous, all-out promotion campaign -addressed to your customers-telling how and why thiJ new siding -ai""iol will make their homes look better and last longer!
Man, what an oppornrnity!
rrere's a superior product, tested and. not found waating. A famous brand name' acnrally a household word. A full-fledged announcemenr program to inroduce, educate and sell! And, to cap it all, a market potential as long and broad as your entire tradin g arca.
Your Masonite representative has the story. It's a short one, but it speaks volumes-plus profits! 9ONPORATION
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To all fl frIewy [,llristmsd and a Thuppy rril! lProsperous fretr Desr in the retail lumber business TACOMA LUMBER Corgo onJ Poi/ I4I4 STATLER CENTER 9OO WILSHIRE SALES, INC. BLVD., LOS ANGELES 17 friends
TIENGEl F1USH DOORS
HELP YOU TOYET COST IESS THAN TTANY DOTfiEST'C WOODS.I
When home-owners buy furniture, they naturally prefer genuine Mahogany overthe ordinary run of domestic woods., Mengel Mahogany Flush Doors are the built-in furniture of the house. Your customers will vasdy prefer themutill bay your hones tnore read.ily, because ol them!
Yel you ccn equip ony bulldlng with Mengel Flurh Doors or Slqndordor Flush Doors. wllh foces of genulnc Africqn Mohogony. for fewer dollcrc lhon yol'd pcy fcr ccrnporcble dccrg of ncny dcmeslic wccdrl
Arnotd Smirh, Western Disfricf Manages
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The Mengel Company operates its own logging concession and mill in the best Mahogany section of Africa, and imports this King of Voods in tremendous volume. Yoa get tbe saoings!
Furthermore, Mengel Flush Doors and Standardor Flush Doors arc better-built, to give better setoice. Compare specifications, either in Sweet's or at yuur dealer's. Then judge for yourself!
Door Department
THE MENGEL COMPANIY
Loaisoille, Kentucky
America's targest manufacruers of 'batdwood Droducts o giowers and ptocessors of timber 1 manufacturers of fine furniture a veoeetg o plywood r flush doors corrugated con' raiieis r kitchen cabinets and wall closets.
Docombcr 15, 1952 2l
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Enthusiastic users everywhere are praising the new and improved Monolith Waterproof Plastic Cement. It is the result of years of costly research and effort. Competitive tests prove that it out-performs them all under the most exacting conditions.
Irook at these plus values ! Greater workability, both as stucco and concrete. Virtually perfect waterproofness resulting from exceptional density. No additives necessary. Costs little more than standard Portland Cement,
CATIFORNIA I.UIIEER IIERCHANT ffi
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effimpfu@Na,rr IUONOIITH If,|ATERPROOF 8lf;ffiI$ Get the fuII story from your building supply dealer or write toMONOIJITH PORTIJAND CEMENT COMPANY 3326 San Fernando Road, Los Angeles 65, California
Telephone: Cleveland ?-8211
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Now, when piling loads, the driver of a Ross Fork Truck can hold the truck right where he wants it even on a grade. Automatic Brake Lock... another advanced-engineering feature of Ross Fork Trucks. .leaves the driver free to manipulate the load. Result? Faster piling, safer piling and neat, square piles... even on rough ground.
Here's how the Ross Automatic Brake Lock works: As the truck approaches.the pile, the driver flips an electric switch. rWhen truck is in desired position, he applies the foot brakes as usual. The brakes lock automatically. and stay locked, when he removes his foot from the brake pedal. This leaves him free to concentrate his attention on hoisting and tilting operations because the truck cannot creep forward or backward. lWhen ready to back away from the pile, he again flips the electric switch, unlocking the brakes and returning them to normal foot-pedal operation.
fiink of the time this Ross feature can save for you! It's another of a long list of features developed and pioneered by ROSS. Remember, look to ROSS lrsl for the latest!
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Klothes-Katch Available
Klothes - Katch is the name of a new article for basement laundry chutes. Fastened to a basement ceiling under the clothes chute, the Klothes-Katch collects the week's laundty as it accumulates. Advertised as a means of keeping basements neat and orderly by doing awal' with the helter-skelter pile of laundrv, the article also keeps clothing off damp basement floors.
The Klothes-Katch is being marketed through lumber dealers and is an item that builds store traffic since it can be advertised and sold as an over-tl-re-counter sale.
Each unit is individually packaged in a shipping carton. Everything is included for easy assembly of the prefabricated sections, including four flexible metal hangers adjustable to any position for suspending the Klothes-Katch from ceiling joists. Size of the Klothes-Katch is 2A'x30" x36" deep. Additional information from the manufacturer: Klothe.s-Katch Co., 3413 Boone Avenue, Minneapolis 16, Minri.
Nqmed Assistcnt Mcrncrging Director oI AFPI
Washington, D.C.-A former Pacific Northwest nelvspaperman, Ronald Richardson of Goldendale, Wash., is the new assistant managing director of American Forest Products Industries, Inc. Mr. Richardson's appointment rvas announced by AFPI Managing Director C. A. Gillett, folIorving the annual meeting of the organization this month.
Mr. Richardson has been with the forest industry organization since 1948 and has served as editorial director of AFPI since 1950. He will continue to direct the editorial activities of this organization which speaks nationally for the country's lumber, pulp and paper, plywood and other wood-dependent industries and forestland owners.
A graduate of the school of journalism of the University of Washington, Mr. Richardson did newspaper work in Shelton, Olympia and Goldendale, Wash., prior to World War II. For four years prior to the war he was editor of the Goldendale Sentinel.
American Forest Products Industries coordinates the Keep Green and Tree Farm programs underway in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and 39 other states.
Bcrck From Honolulu
Herb Geisenheyner, Coast Kiln & Lumber Co., Vernon, I\'[rs. Geisenheyner, and I\{r. and Mrs. W. L. McGinnis of Silverton, Ore., have returned from a three weeks' trip to Honolulu. Mr. McGinnis, now retired, was formerly vice president and general manager of the Silver Falls Timber Co. at Silverton.
EASIEST TO SEIT AIT YEAR'ROUND
... elways profitable!
SISATKRAFT: rr'u BEST BUY in protctive paper is the BEST SELLER! Imilcdiate deliaeries stggest it's a good time right now to stock up for the demand tomorow.
You can tie in the sale of SISALKRAFT with many other materials, for protection on the job. For instance, with every sale of cment, suggest SISALKRAFT for curing and protection. Lmber, aggretatB, etc., also ned this protction on the iob, For aery farmer wbo comes into yora y"ad, SISALKRAFT has many u*s. Talk up ALL the applications. Display rolls of SISALKRAFT. You'll sell more.
Stock it in widths of 16il,48D, 6oil 72n, 84il, 96" . all popular.
SISALATION: tu mod€m row-cost rF flective insulation and vapor-barrier combined. Stock it nou it 36n tsd 48,, widths.
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FOR FREE SAMP|,ES, PIOSIERS, AD MATS cnd
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AND o.o. a o o YOU ARE ASSURED OF a o o PROtIiPI DETIVERIES Complete stock of SISALKRATI PRODUCIS worehoused on the west Goost Contocr! rHE STSAII(RAFT CO. 33 New llontgomsry Strccl Scn Frqncisco 5, Cqlifornio aoa
Last year 76 deep-water vessels loaded 97 million feet of lumber at C. D. Johnson's harbor facilities on Yaquina Bay. These cargoes... easy to check, unload anddispatch reached Atlantic Coast, Gulf, California and foreign destinations in the same prime condition in which they were shipped. For prompt shipments of quality lumber it will pay you to contact
C. D. Johnson first.
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Natural Exterior Finishes For Redwood Get Tough!
Bv \(illard E. Pratt Colilornia Redwood Association
Most lumbermen like to see their merchandise used in a manner which reflects creditably upon the material and upon themselves. They make it a point not only to supply their customers with quality lumber and the accessories to its use but also to furnish information rvhich rvill enable the customer to real-rze a full mersure of satisfaction from his purchases.
In recommending exterior finishcs, the lumberman was always safe in suggesting a good grade of standard house paint. He became somewhat less sure of his position u'hen asked to recommend a na.tural finish for exterior use. Natural finishes, rvhich had given excellent service when used on interior u'oodwork, failed to give satisfactory service where exposed to the vu'eather. NIany of the clear varnishes, developed for marine use, shorved limited resistance to lveathering and failed in such a manner that the old finish had to be removed before the rvood could be refinished.
Tests Tell Story
Recognizing these problems, the California Redwood Association, in cooperation r,r'ith manufacturers of exterior finishes, inaugurated a finish testing program late in 1949. The purpose of this program \\'as to determine the relative abilities of natural exterior finishes for redn'ood to rvithstand the effects of rveathering. In order that this information could be obtained as quickly as possible, tests r,vere made in an accelerated l,veathering machine as rvell as under natur:rl n.eatl-rering conditions.
In the u'eathering machine, small redrvood test panels, treated with various finish systems. are exposed to tl'. intense lieht of a carbon arc and are sprayed intermittentl'' with water These conditions are intended to duplicate the effects of sun and moisture in natural weathering. One hour of this type of accelerated r.veathering is often considered as being equivalent to one day of natural rveatheri.tg. Unfortunately, this is only an approximate relationship and varies considerably, not only 'ivith the different types of finishes, but also u'ithin each type. It does, horvever, provide a good bas:s for comparing finishes having similar formulations and, for this reason, the use of the machine has been continued as one ohase of the test program.
The natural weathering tests are conducted on a test fence, maintained by the California Redwood Association, on a dry kiln roof at Cloverdale, Celifornia. Here, larger test panels are exposed at an angle of 45 degrees to the horizontal and facing in a southwesterly direction. From time to time vents in the kiln roof open allowing hot humid air to escape near the panels. This exposure is quite severe and it is felt that one year on this test fence is equivalent to between a year-and-a-hzilf and trvo years of average sidewall exposure.
To date, a total of 98 finish systems, including clears, both oils and varnishes, stain and clear combinations, penetrating sealers, water-repellent preservatives, lacquers, pigmented stains and ltleaches, in fact, nearly every type of finish, other than the conventional paints, have been tested. Tests on 45 additional finishes are in process at this time.
Manufacturers Cooperate
From the very beginning of this program, finish manufacturers have taken a keen interest in these tests :rnd l-rave cooperated l'holeheartedly in improving the natural exterior finishes for redr,"'ood u'hich are being offered to the public. Improved formulations have resulted in better finish life In some cases. increases of as much as 300 to 400 per cent have been indicated.
Finish systems lvhich, on the basis of these tests, n'ere judged to possess satisfactory resistance to weathering are listed in the supplement to the Caliiornia Redu'ood Association's Data Sheet "Exterior Finishes for Redrvood." The current supplement lists 14 such systems and, together u'ith the data sheet, is available vvithorrt charqe upon recruest. The listed finishes are being subjected to an additional series of tests. These finishes, purch:tsed from paint dealers s.helf stocks \vere applied to standard siding panels and are being exposed to natural u,'eathering on the roof of the building housing tl.re Association's San Francisco offices and at se...eral locations across the United States. The follou'ing lumber dealers are cooperating in this phase of the testing pl'osram by exposing the siding panels to natural rveatl.rering in their areas: Forest Products Corporation, Port Everglades, Florida; Harrison Lumber & Hardl.are Company. St. Louis 7, Missouri; Edu'ard Hines Lumber Company, St. Charles, Illinois; \\'n-,. B. Morse Lumlter Company. Rochester, Nerv York; Stahlman l,umber Com1-r"y. Horrston 5, Texas; The O'N{allev I-umlter Companl', Phoenix, Arizona.
Answers Justify Work
The results of this second phase of the natural weather;ng tests r,vill not lte knolvn for trvo or three years but, u'hen available, they u'ill probably furnish the best basis ior judging resistrrce to naturrl n-ei.thering and will be r.sed to further screen the listed finish systems.
While the California Redwood Association does not feel that it has found the ansrver to exterior finish problems, information developed in the last three years makes it possible to list a variety of finish systems which will give satisfactory results u'hen applied to Certified Dry Redu'ood in accordance rr'ith the manufacturers' recommendations.
W. G. (Bill) Hamilton, Holmes Eureka Lumber Co., Los Angeles, Mrs. Hamilton, and their daughter, Betty, have returned from a tour of the South American countries. They reported that they had an cn.ioyable trip.
CATIFORNIA TUIABER IIERCHANT
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Tomorrow's Buildings Begin Here...
llre Douglas fir that grows in Oregon's rich rain forests isthefinest in the wodd. That's why we use it. The mills in which we produce plywood are models of eftciency in the industry. The people who work with us are skilled, interested, productive-with pride in their jobs.
From these ingredients of materials, machines and men comes APMI Plywood that caries double marks of quality-the DFPA grademark andour own trademark.
APMI plywood isavailable in major building and distribution areas, sold by experienced plywood men. Your inquiries are invited.
SRANCH 5AI,E5 WARTHOUSTS:
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Vacuum Method of Treating Millwork Studied by Technical Committee
For the purpose of studying the vacuum method of treating millwork to safeguard against decay, and to minimize swelling and shrinking, the Preservative Standards Advisory Committee of the National Woodwork Manufacturers Association met in Spokane, Washington, on October 23 and 24. The study rvas made at the \,\rhite Pine Sash Company's factory where a new vacuum treating plant was recently installed.
The purpose of the meeting rvas to recommend a standard treatment for the vacuum process r,r'hich rvill insure adequate penetration and retention of the treating solution. Experimental test runs by this process indicate that the vacrlum process has greater flexibility than the conventional 3-minu1-e dip, because of the force exerted by normal atmospheric pressure rvhen the initial vacuum is broken after it has partially exhausted the air from the pores of the wood. A final vacuum then u.ithdraws the surplus solution from the u'ood surface and leaves it relatively dry. In this rvay the delay for draining and volatilization required by the 3-minute dip method is eliminated and there is a great reduction in the waiting period before glazing, puttying or painting.
Kenneth H. Klopp, president of White Pine Sash Company, told the committee he is enthusiastic about the possibilities offered by the vacuum process, and believes it will speed production, conser\-e ntanpower and do a
better treating job than is possible with the 3-minute dipPresent at the meeting were L. C. Paisley of Dubuque, for'va, and O. C. Lance of Chicago, representing the National Woodrvork l\Ianufacturers Association. Dr. A. \V. Stout of the \Vestern Pine Association, chairman of the Preserr.ative Standards Advisory Committee, presided at the meeting. Other committee members present were J. O. Ble'rv, Forest Products Laboratory i Dr. E. E. Hubcrt, University of Idaho School of Forestry; Robert A. Zabel, Nerv York State University School of Forestry; G. G. Garlick and S. O. Hall, Protection Products l\fanufacturing Company and R. N[. Morriss, Jr., of the Wood-Treating Chemicals Company.
Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39
Christmas Party December 17
Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 will hold its annual Christmas party on December 17 at the Leamington Bowl, Leamington Hotel, Oakland. They will entertain some 25 children from the Oakland Boys' Club. The Club has 30 donors to buy presents or clothes for the 1'oungsters, and they rvill be given a fine turkey dinner. There rvill also be appropriate entertainment for the children rvith a Santa Claus.
Robert (Bob) Hogan will be chairman for the evening, and r,vill be ably assisted by Bill NlcCubbin. A1 Kelley is Club president.
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So. California Lumber Seasoning Association Meets
The Southern California Lumber Seasoning Association held a meeting at Mike Lyman's Grill, Los Angeles, on Friday evening, November 21. Follorving dinner, there u'as a business session presided over by President George B. Beckman.
Guests at the meeting were Gordon Wilkinson, Lumber Manufacturers, Inc., Portland; Franklin Cook, Moore Dry Kiln Co., Portland; Harvey Smith, California Forest & Range Experiment Station, Berkeley; R. A. Hathorn and Connie Mack, C. M. Lovestead & Co., Los Angeles; and Ed Martin. The California Lumber I\[erchant.
Secretary Herb Geisenheyner gave a report of his recent tt'ip to Hawaii describing some of the planing mills there, and he also touched on the lumber and building situation on the Islands.
Harvey Smith talked on the development of the stress pattern that develops in the kiln drying of lumber. anC he ansu'ered a number of questions from the floor.
A motion was passed requesting the secretary to send the minutes of the Association.meetings to Raymoncl Rietz, Subject Matter Chairman of the Forest Products Research Society, Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wis.
The next meeting will be held Friday, January 9. The group rvill meet at 11:30 a.m. at the Associated Molding Co., Los Angeles, for an inspection of their plant, then thev rvill have lunch at 1 p.-. at Andary's, 5920 Atlantic Blvd., n{ayu'ood. A11 lumbermen are invited to attend.
The follorving attended the meeting:
C. G. Canady, Penberthy Lumber Co. . I-os Angeles
Harvey Robinson, Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., Wilmington
Charles Beckman, Precision Kiln Drying Co.,Long Beach
Franklin C. Peck, Precision Kiln Drying Co., Long Beach
Kile Weeks, Precision Kiln Drying Co. .l,ong Beach
fohn Cummings, McKinney Dry Kiln Co. .. Los Angeles
Cort Mason, Precision Kiln Drying Co. .......LongBeach
CarlMcConnell,S&SLumberCo. Downey
Fred A. Schiel, Jr., S & S Lumber Co. ...Downey
B. L. Lauron, Consolidated Lumber Co. ......Wiknington
J. L. Moody, Consolidated Lumber Co. .Wilmington
A. H. Wahl, Consolidated Lumber Co. .......Wilmington
Arthur W. Furcron, Consolidated Lumber Co., Wilmington
Robert P. Inglis, Associated Nlolding Co. .I-os Angeles
Bud Roberts, Associated Molding Co. Los Angeles
Bill Nleyer, Associated Molding Co. .LosAngeles
John Kurzhals, Sun Lumber Co. .... .Van Nuys
J. H. Van Patten, The J. H. Van Patten Lumber Industries, Los Angeles
Joseph Warren, McKinney Dry Kiln Co. Los Angeles
Ho'ivard Pitts, Wall Dry Kiln Co. .. Compton
Franklin Cook, Moore Dry Kiln Co. Portland, Ore.
Charles Lackman, E. J. Stanton & Son Los Angeles
Henry L. Olguin, McCoy Planing l\f ill Los Angeles
Arman Scheiffele, Western Hardrvood Lumber Co.
R. E. Hathorn, C. M. Lovestead & Co. . L:: tlg:[:
Connie Mack, C. M. Lovestead & Co. . Los Angeles
E,arl Simon, Hammond Lumber Company Los Angeles
Gordon Wilkinson, Lumber Manufactnrers, fnc.
Portland, Ore.
Ed Martin, The California Lumber l\'Ierchant, Los Angeles
George B. Beckman, Precision Kiln Drying Co., Los Angeles
Herb Geisenheyner, Coast Kiln & Lumber Co. .. .Vernon
Harvey Smith, California Forest * *u"*S,l#,i.rfl?1i,."
Hardboard Association Organized
The Hardboard Association u'as f ormally organized November 13 by the following hardboard manufacturers, whose representatives met in Chicago: Superior \\,'ood Products Company, of Duiuth, Minnesota; Oregon Lumber Company, of Dee, Oregon; United States Gypsum Company, Chicago, Illinois; Masonite Corporation, Chicago, Illinois; Chapman N{anuf acturing Company, Corvallis, Oregon; Forest Fiber ProCucts Company, Forest Grove, Uregon.
Officers of the new organization are Harold A. Miller. Forest Fiber Products Cornpany, president; K. V. Hafner. Superior Wood Products Company, vice president; Paul B. Shoemaker, Masonite Corporation, secretary-treasurer. Headquarters for the nerv Association are in Chicago.
-Ihe major objectives of the nerv Association are to promote the use of hardboard and to deal .rvith technical and trade promotional problems pertinent to the hardboard industry
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Home Ownership Essay Contest Announced by Home Builders
There is unprecedented interest in housing among school students, the National Association of Home Builders said in announcing details of its first annual essay contest.
R. G. "Dick" Hughes, NAHB Educational Committee Chairman, said schools already had requested over 80,000 copies of NAHB's eight-page school lesson on housing, "Better Homes for Family Living."
"With this type of response to our educational projects, we are looking for wide participation by students and teachers in our essay contest," he added.
The nation-wide essay type competition involves submission by students of a 600-rvord theme on the subject, "Why Home Ownership Builds Good Citizenship."
Arvards range from $500 to $25. Teachers of winning students will receive cash ar,r,ards equal to the amount paid the vr.'inner. The contest closes April l, i953.
First place student-teacher team each get $.500 cash and an all-expense trip to Washington, D. C., next May, where they rvill be honored at the annual spring meeting of the NAHB board of directors.
Second place prize is $250 to both student and teacher Third place r,vinner and his instructor get $100. Entries placing fourth through tenth, as rvell as the teachers, get $25 apiece.
Any school student betlueen the ages of 10 to 18 inclusive is eligible to enter the contest.
The NAHB recently issued the S-page classroom teaching unit mentioned. above, for intermediate and upper grades, supplementing school curriculum material. Aim u'as to build better citizenship by acquainting children with lital aspects of home orvnership.
So n,idespread 'ivas the response to the popular "Better Homes for Family Living" lesson, the NAHB Educational Committee decided to expand the program with the essay contest just announced and concerning the same subject.
In cities where the NAHB has an affiliated home building association, contest entries will be handled through the local group. Deadline for submission of essays is April 1, 1953. Final judging by nationally prominent civic leaders rvill take place in Washington shortly thereafter.
Where no local NAHB building group exists, contestants may forivard entries direct to the Essay Contest Director, National Association of Home Builders, 1028 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Washington 6, D. C.
Bcrrker For Fort Brcgg
The Union Lumber Company is reported planning to install a mammoth hydraulic log barker at its Fort Bragg, California plant. The project includes a necessary water s1'stem.
Roy Barto, Mahogany Importing Co,, Los Angeles, and Mrs. Barto, have returned to Southern California after spending the summer at their summer home on Hoods Canal, Washington. Roy has tied up his sailing boat, "Battan," at Olympia, Wlsh., for the lvinter. ;ll
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' I-umber shipments of 494 mills reporting to the National I-umber Trade Barometer were 6.1 per cent below production for the week ended November 22, 1952. In the same n'eek ner.v orders of these mills wpre 1.0 per cent below production. Unfilled orders of the reporting mills amonnted to 33 per cent of stocks. For the reporting softrvood mills unfilled orders were equivalent to 19 days' production at the current rate, and gross stocks tvere equivalent to 19 days' production at the current rate, and gross stocks rvere equivalent to 56 days' production.
For the year-to-date, shipments of reporting identical mills rvere 3.9 per cent abor.e production; orders u'ere 2.I per cent above production.
Compared to the average corresponding week of 19351939, production of reporting mills u'as 86.1 per cent above; shipments were 83.5 per cent abor.ei nerv orders we:,e 77.3 per cent above. Compared to the corresponding week irr 1951, production of reporting mills rvas 23.5 per cent abor.e ; shipments were 16.1 per cent above; and new orders t'cre 362 Per cent above
The Western Pine Association for the week ended November 22, lI5 mills reporting, gave orders as 66,788.000
Los Angeles Building at Record High
4,520 building permits with a valuation of 934,705,992 s.ere issued in the city of Los Angeles during the month of November, as compared to 3,892 permits for $18,119,803 for November, 1951, according to G. E. Morris, superintendent of building.
Permits approved last month provide for construction of 2,067 housing units rvhile 1,452 \\.ere completed during the month.
Nlr. Morris said the November valuation brings the year's total to $316, 494,607 compared to $256,530,409 at the samc time last year.
New Interior Finish Displcy
A nerv full-color Nu-Wood display, featuring dramatic "before" and "after" photographs of remodeled interiors, has been added to Wood Conversion Company's list of dealer sales helps, according to Advertising N{anager, K. C. Lindley.
Aimed at present consumer r-reeds for more living space, the displays shorv a complete line of cellophane-wrapped Nu-\\rood interior finish samples in a unit that can [e used in the window, or on the counter of yard offices, or at dealel home shows and open houses.
The display is available in tu'o sizes, both of u'hich contain the complete line of cellophane-rvrapped samples of Nu-Wood board, plank, and tile in Sta-Lite and KolorFast finishes. New sample labels shorv methods of application, and photographs of beautifully remodeled Nu-Wood interiors.
Both full-color displays are available for lumber dealer use through Wood Conversion Company representatives.
feet, shipments 70,798,000 feet, and production 74,441,NC feet. Orders on hand at the end of the month totaled 189,099,000 feet.
The California Redrvo* Orr".r"tion for the month of October, 1952, 17 companies reporting, gave orders received as17,412,000 feet, shipments 52,636,W0 feet, and production (11,434,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the month totaled 48.894.000 feet.
The Southern Pine Association for the week ended November 22, I03 units (130 mills) reporting, gave orders as 20,116,0W feet, shipments 20,320,000 feet, and production 20,467,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the .ivc.e!< totaled 53.904.000 feet.
The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the u'eek ended November 22, nl mills reporting, gave orders as l42,7ll,Wo feet, shipments 716,727,467 feet, and oroduction 133.452,028 feet.
For the u'eek ended November 15, 199 miils reporting, gave orders as 104,364,000 feet. shipments 114,086,000 feet, and production 127.102.000 feet.
(Continued from Page 13) study in remodeling a farm house n'ith plywood. The pro- ject ri'ill receive further sales-building promotion and a movie on the job is in production.
Up-coming dealer sales aids designed to build new overthe-counter business include plans for five modern furniture pieces designed on a module to correspond r,vith present sizes of Handy Panels, plans for a unique plywooci building set for rvalk-in play houses and a catalog of proven practical farm structures. Other do-it-yourself literature is in the works.
The irnportance of plans and idea literature in buiiding plvr,r.ood sales at retail levels is ernphasized by past reqrlests for plvu'ood literature. The association has fil1ed rerluests for 60,000 copies of the hor'-to-build-it folder on a plyn'ood shelf-doonvardrobe, 120,000 copies of the portfolio of ideas for plyr,vood built-ins, 20,000 requests for the catalog of plyrvood boat plans and 10.000 requests for boat plans.
In looking ahead, of course, the question of plywc,od sales at the dealer level is dominated by the fact of a buyer's market. That is the basic reasoning beh;nd the plyn'ood industry's increasing concentration on a sales promotion program primarily ke1'ed to helping dealers build their or,vn sales of this versatile panel material.
Tl.re manufacturers tvill hammer home to buycrs and dealers a merchandising slogan they voice as a simple statement of fact-"from either side of the counter fir plvrvood outvalues them all." From the buyer standpoint. fir plvwood does rnore different building jobs than anv other material and in terms of cnd use values in a competitive market it is truly "today's best buy." From ihe dealer's standpoint, it is a profit leader that is easy to stock, easy to handle and easy to sell.
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Southern Lumber Company New Wholesale Concern
Southern Lumber Company has opened offices in the Park Central Bldg., 412 West 6th Street, Los Angeles, and will carry on a rvholesale lumber business handling Fir, Pine and Redrvood. Porter M. Waldron is the owner, Mrs. Grace E. Harter, office manager, and Carl Davies, sales manager.
Mr. Waldron has been associated with the paint and varnish industry for over thirty years' during which time he served in a technical capacity, then as owner of the Progressive \rarnish Works from 1936 until 1947, when he sold to an eastern concern. Although he owris the controlling interest in another paint and varnish concern, he is actively interested in the lumber business.
NIrs. Harter, oflice manager and bookkeeper, lias been associated rvith N[r. Waldron for over ten years, having full charge of the books and finances of the enterprises in rvhich he rvas interested.
Carl Davies u,ill handle all sales for the company. Cari started in the lumber business r,vhen he was 16 years of age at the E. K. Wood Lumber Co. at Los Angeles u'here l-re remained for four years. He then served in the Army in World \\rar I for a year and a half. After his discharge from the Armr', he u'ent rvith Hammond Lumber Co. at Terminal Island, and later to their Los Angeles yard for a year or more in the shipping department. In the follorving years he u,as u,ith Woodhead Lurnlter Co., Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., and the Globe Lumber Co. During World War II, he handled a Service Contract for the U.S. Armv Air Corps and Corps of Engineers, involving over fifty million feet of lumber. Carl's son, Warren recently returned from active service with the trirst Division, U.S. N{arines, in Korea 'ivhere he r,vas. awarded the Purple Heart.
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Field Economic Mobili.ation Course
Held at Long Beach
A Field Economic lllobilization Course of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces was conducted at the Station Theater,U. S. Naval Station, Long Beach (Terminal Island), Calif., from November 10-21, 1952. The course was sponsored by the Eleventh Naval District, Fourth Air Force, Sixth Army, and Long Beach Chamber of Ccmmerce. 300, including officers and civilians, attended tl.re course.
The faculty instructional team included Col. Chauncey E. I{ou'land, U. S. Army; Col. Ralph I. Williams, USAF ; Col. Ralph H. Sievers, T. C., U. S. Army; Col. Wilmer E. Barnes, U. S. Marine Corps; Col. Thomas E. McMahan, USAF; i.nd Commander Dermott V. Hickey, USN.
The Field Economic Mobilization Course is a condensed version o{ the full ten-months' course at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in Washington, D. C. This is a broad presentation of the principles of economic mobilization from an educational aspect. The Industrial College is neither ;r planning nor operational agency and does not furnish information for individuals or organizations regarding the specific part they will play in mobilization.
At the completion of the collrse those attending n'ere presentecl n'ith diplomas. Lervis S. Kunert, Marine salesman, Western llardwood Lumber Co., and Col. H. H. \Vhiteside, USAR, \\'hiteside Lumber Co., both of Los Angeles, attendecl the course.
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U. S. Plywood Opent New Sales And Distributing Unit in Phoenix
United States Plywood Corporation has opened a new srlcs l--.' distribution unit in Phoenix, Arizona, it was announced by S- \\r. Antoville, vice presidenr. This represents the fortv-third such unit in a chain covering the United States and Canada.
Opened to insure faster and better service to the grorving needs of the Phoenix trading area, IIr. Antoville said the nerv ur.rit distributes the complete Welclu.ood family of plywoods, piastics and building materials to the
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Carroll iumber dealers, manufacturers, builders ancl buiiding supllv houses. It is located at 909 East Nladison Street.
J. J. Carroll has been named manager of the nerv branch. He joined United States Plyu'oocl in 1936 and has served in many varied capacities. A native of Portland, Oregoir, he started in the lumber bnsiness in 1916,'ivorking in r';lrious logging camps in Washington and C)regon.
After tu'o years in France during World War I, \'Ir. Carroll n.ent to China as logging superintendent for the China Export and Inrport Lumber Company.
Among the nen' products produced by the company's tn'enty-seven manufacturing plants, the Phoenix branch distributes a rvarp-free panel called Novoply, l'hich is fabricated from tiny all-n'ood chips and flakes. Hazelu'ood Plankn.eld, another neu' product, is a pre-finished, pre-ctlt, install-it-1'ourself hardl'ood plyrvood rvall paneling.
Fir-Tex General Offices Moved to Oakland \(/arehouse
Ellective December l, 1952, the general offices of FirTex of Northern California rvere moved to the companv's Oakland 'n'arehouse, located at 9O29 San Leandro Street, Oakland 3. The telephone number is LOckhaven 9-7914. 'fhere rvill be no change in service, u'hich u'ill be as complete as it alrvays has been.
Fir-Tex of Northern California makes a special announcement that in addition to their Fir-Tex products and regular line of ltuilding materials they have taken over from Dant & Russell Sales Co. the rvarehouse clistribution of plyu'ood, mouldings, doors and jambs.
E. H. Bacon is manager of Fir-Tex of Northern California.
Long Becrch Shows Building Increqse
Long Beach, Dec. 3-During the first 11 months this year, building permits issued here totaled $35,041.355 compared with $32,523,530 in the corresponding period cf 1951, Edward N{. O'Connor, building superintendenr, announcecl today
Figures for November totaled $2,235,380, including gl,028,860 for 148 housing units.
u,as held at the Annandale Country Club, Pasadena, Tuesday afternoon, November 18. Svd Alling and Tom Fleming u'ere hosts to the group. Trventy-one nrembers and four guests plaved golf. Flarry Whittaker u'on the first prize n'itl-r a net score of 65 ; the second prize rvent to Cecil Dees lvho turned ia ;i net ,score of 66. Bob Osgood won the T.T.T. shirt rvith a four on the seventh hole, the onlv par turned in orr that hole.
The group playeC the ThunderSird Country Club coqrse at Palm Springs oq Decemb er 1-2.
Moves to New Yqrd And Olfice
Announcement is made by Ralph Barto Lumber Companl' that on December 1 they moved to their new yard and office at 7 251 East Firestone Blvd.. Dorvney. The telephone numbers are JEffersor.r 7201 and TOpaz 9-6631.
Plcning Mill Fire
The plar-ring mill of the \Vhiting Bros. Land & Timber Co. at Eager, Arizona, rvas darnaged by fire on November 15. They are rebuil<ling the mill.
Moves Los Angeles OIIices
Sin.rpson l-ogging Company has moved its I-os Angeles offices to Strite' 1006, 3440 Wilshire Bllcl. The telephone number is DUnkirk 8-0655. Its w-are-' house rvill be at the old address 1610 Ea,tt \\Iashington Blvd.
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The Old Stcrge Road
Around the narrow bend the swerving stage
Careens and turns, resumes its drunken pace. The whip fings out in writhing, snapping rage
Thick clouds of dust begrime the driver's face. And others go the curving, ghade-flecked wayA herder leading sheep to distant fold- '
A thief, a rogue, a priest in sackoloth grey
A miner with his bags of virgin gblti.
But now, in lone and solitary state
The road draws close its bape of dust-choked weeds
The oaks bend low in grief at the long wait
For men and carts, and reckless, daring deeds. The wagon ruts grow faint and then are gone; In memory alone the past lives on"
-Jeannette Gould.
Absent Minded
The absent-minded Professor's wife said to him: '1A truck just ran over your hat." And the absent-minded Professor lboked mildly interested, and inquired: "Was I wearing it?"
The Hclo OI The Years
Why grieve that time's fine etchinS round the eyes, Thus marks the field where mirth has vanished fears, Or mourn' since silver hair but glorifies, A head that boasts the halo of the years?
Mary Laidley Rudasill.
Which?
The liner was approaching the port of Athens and an .old lady said to one of the sailors: "Can you tell me what that white stuff is on those mountains?" "That is snow, Madam," said the sailor. "I knew they were lying," she ,said, triumphantly. "They tried to make me think it was greece."
Overhecrd In An Orchcrrd
Said the Robin to the Sparrow, "I would really like to know
Why these restless human beings Rush about and worry so?"
Said the Sparrow to the Robin, "Friend, I think that it must be That they have no Heavenly Father Such as cares for you and me."
-E. Cheney.
How To Increase What We Give
"We simply cannot compel love to come to us. We simply invite it. When it comes, let us give thanks for it and see what we can do to attract still more. We should express affection, even if all we do is pat dogs. The more love we give away, the greater love we have to share."-Thomas Dreier.
The Little Old Womcn
Three salesmen wanted to discuss some things at lunch but couldn't find an empty table. They sat at one where a little, elderly woman was eating.
One said" "You know, boys, it's been three weeks since I've been able to take a bath." The second caught on quickly and said, "Well, it's been six weeks since I've had a bath." And the third backed them up and said, "Shucks, you guys are plumb clean. I haven't had a bath since last August."
They waited to see what would happen. The little old woman finally popped up. "Will one of you stinkers please pass the salt?"
Lincoln Said:
"Do not worry. Eat three square meals a day, say your prayers, be courteous to your creditors, keep your digestion good, exercise, go slow, and go easy. Maybe you require other things to make you happy, but, my friend' these I reckon will give you a good life."
Dirt Roads
They hold a charm the concrete highways lack, So homey-like, so leisurely they are; Winding beside low hills, and looping back To softly creep beside some pasture-bar.
Dirt roads were made for buggy wheels, and boys
To walk on barefoot, and for lines of geese; The choiring meadow larks above them poise, The cradling arms of twilight give them peace.
Their dusty beds are written like a scroll
Where Nature's children passed and left a sign; With here and there a tiny water-hole
Where.yellow butterflies drift dovvn to dine.
Dusk comes to trail brown shadows through the air. The humble wayside weeds grow moist with dew; Couched in the road, his note a moaning prayer, The whip-poor-will now sings the whole night through.
-Edwin Carlile Litsev.
40 €A1IFOINIA TUMBER MENCHAII'
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Despite High Ha.ards, Fire Losses \(/ere Held to a Minimum in Oregon-\(/ashington
TOMORROW'S LUMBER GOING UP IN SMOKE:-"A scissorbill rourisi Ilipped c hot cigcrrelte out otrthe roadside instecd ol socking it inio his auto cshtrcy," croqked one oI theloggers onthis lireline. "That's why there's hell to pcy on this hill-qnd thetcxpcyers will be pdyrng it lor q long time to come."
The lire scene shown here is on theSnoqualmie (Wcrshington) Nq- tional Forest cnd it is everybody'slosE, A fine stcnd oI Douglcs lir young growth cnd its pcrent trees, crll pcrrt oI cr plcn to produce lumber lor tomorrow. cre being deslroyed. Loggers ond equipment lrom q neighboring industricl tree lqrm are in the fight. There were mcny other acenes oIthe kind on theWest Cocstduring <r Eummer and lcrll of record drought. Spots oI destruction resulted but the Ioresls were sovedlrom disqster, through the science cnd mcchinery oI modern lire conlrol.
Foresters and West Coast Tree Farmers by late October were much like the regiment of soldiers which came through an intense artillery barrage r,vith only minor casualties. In t952, Oregon and Washington had one of its most potentially dangerous forest fire seasons-over 100 days lvith only one slight rain. Despite the high hazards, fire losses were held to a minimum.
Oregon, for instance had only 463 man-caused forest blazes, and Washington reported a similar low number through September.
Cooperation was the keynote of this amazing record, confirms W. D. Hagenstein, chief forester of Industrial Forestry Association. The big forester paid high tribute to the Keep Oregon and Washington Green programs ancl the outstanding support given this work by the general public.
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Dccomber 15, 1952
In the t$'enty years Reel Lumber Service of Los Angeles has been in operation, its policl' has been to specialize in the better grades''of Hardrvood and Soft Pine lumber. They have built a reputation of having on hand for imrnediate delivery, the uppers in the t'oods they stock. Having cjeveloped contacts 'ivith the better producers, both foreign and domestic, has made it possible for them to build up and maintain a n'ell balanced inventorl of these hard to get items.
E. G. Reel started in the lttmber business in 1924 with Bohnhoff f-rrmber Co., Inc. and u-as u,ith them until 1932 when he u'ent in business for himself, renting office space and a corner of a warehouse on \\rest 58th Street. On January 1, 1935 he moved into the first unit at his present
Reel Lumber Service--Twenty Years in Lumber Business
location, 1249 East 63rd Street, and since then has added five more units to the yard. All lumber is stored under cover; the sheds are arranged for the operation of a lift truck.
This firm has just completed building a new shed, 1C{) feet long, 42 Ieetrvide and 2Of.eet high. Ed Fountain Lumber Co.'s Lam-Loc timbers were used in the shed ccnstruction. I-umber can be stored in the shed with a lift truck through large sliding doors at both ends of the building, and in the center through two alleys, allowing easy operation of the lift truck to the lumber storage space within the building.
The company offers prompt, efficient and personalized service to the industrial, cabinet and lumber trade'
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Cafifornia Lumber Merchant Dec. 15,1927 ! As reported in The
S. P. Johns, Snoqualmie Falls Lumber Co., Snoqualmie Falls, Wash., was elected president of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, at the 11th annual Congress held in Seattle.
A joint meeting of the San Gabriel Valley Lumbermen's Club and the Pasadena Lumbermen's Club r,vas held at the Tavern, San Gabriel, on November 28. Wm. H. Sievert, president of the San Gabriel Club presided, and Albert R' Israel of the West Coast Lumber Trade Extension Bureau, Longvieu', Wash., was the speaker.
An attractive feature of the Builders' Exposition of Southern California, sponsored by the Builders' Exchange, was the exhibit of Northu'est forest products which rvas prepared by the West Coast Lumber Trade Extension Bureau and loaned to the California Retail Lumbermen's Association. The exhibit rvas placed on display in the Exposition through the cooperation of three Los Angeles lunrber firmsHammond Lumber Company, Consolidatecl f-umbet Co. and E. K. \\/ood Lumber Co.
On Saturday, November 26, the Sacramento Vallel' Lumbermen's Club held their monthly meeting at the Hctel Senator, Sacramento. Jo Shepard, Friend & Terry Lumber Co., presided. Jim Farley, Paciflc Lumber Co., San Francisco, shorved a motion picture of Pacific's mill and logging operations at Scotia.
n'as cut at a West Coast mill as the last o{ three "big sticks" for a special government order. It was taken from a log more than four feet in diameter at the small end n'lrich scaled 9,925 board feet. These timbers were to be used as anchoring "spuds" on goYernment dredges in the l'ananra Canal Zone.
Final arrangements a Lumbermen's Club at the Boyes Springs
Hotel. Mead Clark, Santa Rosa, lvas Gilbert, Healdsburg, vice president, Petaluma, secretary-treasurer.
were completed for the organizing of in Sonoma County at a meeting held elected president, Len and Herb Cochrane,
Albion Lumber Co., San Francisco, presented to the children of San Francisco what was presumed to be the largest Redwood Christmas tree ever brought into San Francisco. The tree was cut near Albion, Mendocino county, and was 125 feet tall, 30 inches in diameter, and had a limb spread of 30 to 35 feet. The tree was brought down on the Steamer Pasadena and required a fleet of trucks to transport it from the docks to Twin Peaks rvhere it r,vas set up' The tree rveighed eight tons.
This issue carried an illustrated article on building of the Hammond Lumber Company
Percy I. Merithew, Phoenix, Ariz., representatlve
the nerv office at Pasadena. for E. to the
A Douglas fir timber, 80 feet long and K. Wood Lumber Co., 34 inches squarc, company's Los Angeles in Arizona, rvas transferred office.
Knotty Pine lt ls
George C. Faulkner, Jr., Sierra Pine, Inc., San Francisco, sent us a tearsheet from "The Reserve Marine" rvhich carries an interesting article in the Korea Section titled "Knotty Pine It Is" which reads as follorvs : '
"War or no war, Chief Hospital Corpsman Eugene P. Lentz of Kenosha, Wis., decided his front line aid station was going to have knotty pine furniture.
"The fact that there was no such pine available didn't faze him. In his spare time, using 'ivood from ammunition cases, he l>uilt benches, chairs, cabinets, and an operating table for the Navy medical personnel attached to the First Battation. Fifth Marines.
"Then he u'ent over the n'orks u'ith a blon'torcl.r. scol'ching the rvood here and there until he rvas pleased.
"'We're the only front line aid station with knotty pine equipment,' he insists.
"Visitors are impressed."
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Loggers came in for a vigorous pat on the back, too, for logger firt:s were among the lowest on record. Hagenstein said sportsmen had responded to appeals for care with fire in a most encouraging manner.
There were long periods during the summerivhen strong and persistent east rvinds kept the humidities below the danger point and rvl-ren moisture content of the forest fuel \,vas near zero. This is the time foresters dread. Any careless act can cause a conflagration and manls mightiest efforts are puny once a fire gets started'
Foresters look back on 1951 rvhen forest fires took a heavy toll, like the Forks fire on the Olympic National Forest in \\rashington in late Septembeln'l.rich burned 500,000'000 feet of prime timber, and breathe easier now that fall rains have come. Keep \\rashington Green used huge painted signs on highways throughout their state with "IJse Your Ashtray" warnings to tourists and motorists.
Keep Oregon Green put on a "Radio Alert Week" rvith the state's 45 commercial stations putting the entire public on the alert in early June. Both states' newspapers have done a rvonderful education job as rvell.
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Amos Geib, Geib returned from a trip Lumber Co., Huntington to the Middlervest. Park, has
Modernized Plant Producing OREGONBORD in Larse
Quantities
OREGONBORD, a high quality hardboard produced by the Chapman Manufacturing Company of Corvallis, Oregon, is creating a strong impact in Western building circles. The hardboard is rolling off production lines at an ever increasing rate, following modernization of the Chapman plant last August. Improved facilities represent an investment of over a million dollars.
Chapman utilizes a special wet batch process in the manufacture of OREGONBORD. Douglas Fir slabs containing long, tough fibers are presently o"eing used. These are passed through an Asplund defibrator after screening, and then refined further in a Bauer refiner. Binders, size wax and other additives are then mixed with the pulp in the stock chest. The mass receives further additives and agitation before going to the 4'x8' deckel box for forming.
A mat is produced by constant reduction of water content. Additional preliminary pressing occurs at this stage, until finally the panels are formed under higher pressure and discharged into a rack. The board is then brought up to a moisture content of from 5 to tOV by going through a humidifier. Tempering is accomplished in custom-built ovens. The Chapman Manufacturing Company is currentlv placing considerable emphasis on the manufacture of their
tempered board, and management is enthused over progress ' made in perfecting this grade of OREQONBORD. In the last stage of production, the panels aie trimmed to size and wrapped for shipment.
The notelvorthy feature of this process is the fact that complete felting and loading operations can be stopped or started by one button on the press control panel without affecting the operations before or after the "forming" sections.
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Drcombor 15, 1952
Hugo Schmidt, plcnt superinlendent,regulctes defibrctor equipment by mecns ol complex electtical control pcnels.
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E. G. Reel is the owner and manager and his brother, M. W. Reel, is assistant manager. R. H. (Bob) Kowarsch is superintendent. Outside sales are taken care of by M. W. Reel and Norman Quient. Mrs. Pearle Sanders is bookkeeper. The company operates a lift truck, and has tu'o trucks to make deliveries. A spur track runs into the yard.
Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Reel have tn'o sons, Don wl-ro was associated n'ith his father in business. is now in the Air
Force, Communications Division, stationed at Stead Air Force Base at Reno, Nevada. When h,: is discharged from the Sen'ice he rvill rejoin his father -again. The youngest son, Gilbert, is atterrding Fullerton Junior College, and plans to join his father in the business ar some later date.
\'tr. Reel rvill hold open house during the Christmas Season commemorating his t'n'enty _years in the lumber business.
CAIIFORNIA TU'IIBER flIERCHANT
Left to right: Normcn Quient, Mrs. Pesrle Scnders, M.W. Reel
Iilew lumber shed
Hoo-Hoo Club No, 9 Christmas Party
Hoo-Hoo Club No. 9 n'ill entertain fifty children from Harold Meyer's San Francisco Boys' Home at the annual Christmas Party to be held at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, Thursday noon, December 18. There u-ill be a Christmas tree and entertainment, also gif ts for the youngsters.
The Committee arranging for the party includes Chairman Ralph Mannion. Ernie Bacon, Jack Kaefer, Hac Collins, Bob Strable. Fred Ziese, Iack Pomeroy and Tack Butler.
Begin Shipments to Folsom Dcrm
Calaveras Cement Company has begun shipments on its 900,000 barrel contract for construction of Folsor.n Dam. H. C. "Pat" Nfaginn, executive vice president and chairman of the management committee, has announced. The company, wl.rich already is supplying cement for Pine Flat Dam near Fresno, u,ill continue to sl-rip to Folson.r through 1954.
Because of the recent expansion of its plant at San Andreas, Calaveras can fill its commitments to both dam projects 'rvhile at the same time making full shipments to dealers and other customers, Maginn reported.
He added that neu' equipment at the Calaveras plant also has enabled the company to make refinements in the manufacture of its u'hite Portland cement.
Selling the Producls of fhe ftlcGloud River lumber Go. tlcGloud, Golil.
December 15, 1952
Mc(loud Lumber Co. lO3O Monqdnock Bldg. 2545 Alken Ave
This Year Marks 59 Years of Reliahle $eruice 1893 . lg52 4848 W. PICO BOULEVARD . tOS ANGETES 19 . PHONE YORK 8238 WE SPECIATIZE IN STRAIGHT CAR.TRUCK & TRAITER SHIPMENTS Wf,. GooPDR WHolDsaLE Luurun GoupErv The Dependoble Wholesoler PONDEROSA PIIIE DOUGLAS FIR REDWOOD W. E. COOPER . CHARTES AA. COOPER
OREGONBORD Plant
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is primarily responsible for the careful selection of rarv materials, special resins and tested techniques so necessary to make a sound hardboard. The counsel of such an outstanding authority has been of tremendous value to us," Gilkey stated.
A large and competent staff at the Chapman plant is virtually "loaded" with forest products know-how. But management is not content in having produced a harclboard already recognized as one of the finest in the industry. Research go?s on-in an up-to-date laboratory featuring the most advanced testing e<luipment available. It contributes important findings rvhich make possible a strict quality control, and lends punch to OREGONBORD'S trade slogan, "Toughest by Test."
The expanded production of OREGONBORD is marketed in the eleven Western states by Western Hardboard Sales Company. Paul M. Smith, well known for many years in the industry, heads up this aggressive organization. "We strongly believe that hardboard has a' tremendous future," Smith said. "An increasing number of cost-conscious contractors and individual consumers have founci this product to be an answer to many building problems," he continued. "Costs are often materially cut because of the simplicity and speed of application. The fact that these panels can be sarved, nailed, painted, planed and bored give them almost unlimited uses." Smith is assisted at Western Hardboard Sales by Mrs. Ruth Berliner, a capable lady lr.ho has an impressive total of twenty years in the forest products business.
The building trade has been seeing quite a bit of ORI::GONBORD's promotion lately-and it is due to see much more. A hard hitting schedule of direct mail and large trade magazine ads has been scheduled to promote the product in the Western states.
CATIFORNIA LU'IIBER MENCHANI
A view oI ihe new Chcrpmtrn Manulacturing Co. hot presa, c vitcl pcrtin the mcnulqcture ol OBEGONBORD.
"Our process of making hardboard rvas conceived and developed years ago by Ralph Chapman, the founder of this business," David R. Gilkey, plant manager said. "FIe
A view ol the old equigment in the Chcpmcn plcnt belore recent modernizctioa. Note conkcst with complex new ncchinery.
Forrest Wilson, Olympic Stained Products Co., Los Angeles, and Mrs. Wilson, have returned from a three wecks' visit to Honolulu and report that they had an enjoyable trip. They traveled both rvays on the S.S. Lurline.
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Glenn L. Thomas has been named manager of Hammond Lumber Conrpany's yaid at Arcadia, California. He was ureviously irssistant manager at Arcadia where he has ireen employed since 1943 with time out for a year's military service at Camp Roberts in 1945 and early 1946. Previous to hrs emplovntent at Arcadia he rvas rvith Hammond's ljasadena yard for six years, excepting a shorr time in defense work.
Glenn, his wife and three children make their home in nearby Azusa.
C.lni.n. Meets in San Frqncisco
Officers, directors and members of the California Lumbermen's Accident Prevention Association to the number of 21, met at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco on November 10, 1952. The scope of association activities was the principal subject of a discussion, at the conclusion of which it u'as moved. seconded and carried past policy l:e continued without change, namely that C. L. A. P. A. activities be confined to the task of reducing industrial accidents in the "forest products inclustries" in the State of California.
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Dccrmber 15, 1952
ft was our Christmas message to our friends the trade back r894 rt our wish to vou today. E. J.STANTON & SON, INC. 2o5o E.41st St. Box 3816 Terminal Annex o Los Angeles 54 Phone: ADams 4-9211
This oflroctly. rubdivlrloa 15 locol.d ot Pllhburr, Collfornio
* Season's Greetings
NLMA Holds Annual Meetins
R. R. Macartney Elected President
Wasliington, D. C.-The National Lumber Manuf:,-cturers Association highlighted its 1951 annual meeting, Nov. 11-14, in Washington, I). C., by electing Oregon lumberrnan Ralph R. Macartney as president and demanding that the federal government keep hands off private timber management.
Between 150 and 200 of the nation's leading lumbermr:n, representing all sections of the countrv. attended tl-re fourday conclave at the Shoreham Hotel.
U. S. Chamber of Commerce President Laurence F. Lee grabbed the spotlight at a luncheon mei:ting by proposing thet the new Congress suspend all non-nrilitary federal la:ld acquisition pending a re-study of the problem.
A special feature of the meeting rvas the unveiling of a nerv all-rvood truck body, developed at the Washington, D. C., laboratory of the Timber Engineering Comptny. The all-wood body is intended primarily for military use but also is considered adaptable to civilian trucks.
l\{acartney, manager of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Companv at Klamath Falls, Ore., repiaces lohn B. Veach as \II-NIA president for 1953. Veach, president of the Hardwood Corporation of America, Asheville. N. C., was elected NLI\{A board chairman, succeeding Corydon Wagirer, vice president and treasurer of the St. Paul and Tacoma Lurnber Company, Tacoma, Wash.
J. R. Bemis, president of the Ozan l-umber Company. Prescott, Ark., was named first vice president of NL1!fA, succeeding Macartney. Bemis was recently elected president of the Southern Pine Association.
Veach set the tone of the meeting with a predictiun that consumers will get "greater value and better service for tl-reir dollars spent on lumber in the year ahead."
Veach said the prospect of "bettcr buys" in lumber results from more efficient production methods, greater :utilizaticy,r
of rvaste materials, improved cutting practices and ltetter merchandising programs. He added: "This 'ivill help lunrber to maintain its position in the builcling materials field and to pace the cievelopment of nerv products."
A n.rain objective of the meeting t,as to map nen strategy to offset the inroads made in ltimber markets bv other building products. Spurred by \reach's warning that lunrbermen "may face a serious chalienge" from con,petitii'e products, industry representatives developed a "blueprint of action," designed to promote greater use of 11'6s{ 31p6n. civilian and defense consumers in the year ahead.
\/each also u,arned the lurnber leaders that they "face the prospect of a possible over-supply lf timber." Ife said this "points up the need for rvell-planned action to increase ottr markets "
Resolutions adopted by NLMA's 54-man board of directors called on the federal government to build more roads to speed the l.rarvesting of over-aged and d;:maged federal timber, and denounced several recommend:Ltions of the President's Materials Policy Commission, herded by CBS Board Chairman William Paley
NLNIA directors took a special rap at the Paley proposal for federal-state controls on private tirrrber cuttiug. The directors insisted that any public regulation of private timber cutting should be left entirelv to the states.
At the outset of the meeting, sevei'al lunri.>er leaders charged that the Paley proposal for federal-stlte controls rvas based on "the false philosophy that we face :r timber fan:rine." Thev claimed that the commission's predictions of future timber needs were "unjustifiably high" and that its estimates of present and future timber grou'th r'r'ere "pessimistically low."
IILMA also attacked the Paley proposal for a svstem of federally-financed forest loans and insurance. Thr: associ-
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New o{Iicers ol the Nqtional Lumber Mcnuftrcturers Associction, elected qt the qssociotion's cnnuql meeting held November ll-15 in Wcshington, D. C,, qre shown with NLMA Execulive Vice President Leo V. Bodine ({cr right). LeIt to right cre: FirEt Vice President J, R.
Bemis, presidenl, Ozan Lumber Compcny, Prescott, Ark.; Chqirmcn oI the Boord Iohn B. Vecch, president, Hqrdwood Corporction of Americc, AEheville, N. C.; cnd PreEidenl R.R.Mqcqrtney, mdndger, Weyerhceuser Timber Compcny, Klcmoth Fclls, Ore.
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ation asserted that these matters should be liandled rrxclusively by private banks and insurance firms. Tl.:e Paley Commission proposals, made public a fer, monills ztgo, are being considered by various federal agencies es the basis for possible legislation when Congress reconvenes.
To step up the harvesting of deteriorating federal timber, NLMA urged that the government sperid $30,000,000 annually over the next five years for construction of uerv timber access roads in federal forests. This is appro:<imately triple present outlays. The association aCded that the government should finance timber road construction onlv where private building is not feasible and that each prc,iecli should be subject to a public hearing.
Other NlMA-approved resolutions, suggestc'd by the association's Forest Conservation Committee :
1. Recommended that state forestry depaftnrents lev.v a service charge (based on production) for techuicitl assistance furnished private forest operators In this connection, NLMA rejected a Paley Commission proposa'l that the Agriculture Department eventually be authorized to increase its staff for this work to 2,000 field mer-r and that the cost be borne equally by federal and state governments.
2. Recommended that the forest managemeni standards for federal lands be raised to the level mainta:ned on intensively managed private lands.
3. Called on federal, state and private intere:-;ts to step up their forest insect and disease research, and to improve their detection and control facilities.
.1. Suggested that a national forest research advisory conr-rcil be established to bolster the forest research programs of all federal, state and private agencies. NLNIA c-rpposed a Paley Commission proposal that the .r\griculture Department's forest research funds be doubled, end insisted that the agency streamline these activities instead.
5. Proposed that state forestry departments encourage private operators to plant more seedlings on i,lic lands. NI,\IA insisted, however, that the states should boost their charges for seedlings to the extent that state :tnd federal subsidies could be eliminated wherever 'state l:rrvs permit.
6. Demanded that the matter of property taxation and special forest tax larvs be left entirely tt'r the states.
In his luncheon address, U. S. Chamber oi Cc.mmerce President Lee cautioned that the U. S. is becomi'eg second onlv to Russia in the extent of government lantl-holdings. The business leader noted that the federal govcrnment now owns 24 per cent of all land in the U. S.. and suggested that NLNIA combine ryith other groups to iormulate sound policies of federal land on'nershili
"In the nineteenth century," Lee said, "our government dilTused land o'ivnership (through the Homesteacl Acts). In t.he t'iventieth century, it has been taking the land back. That is not progress. It is sheer reaction."
Today, Lee added, the federal gor,ernment holds in cxcess of 455 million acres, not including Indian reservations nor the federal lands in Alask:r ancl the otl-rer terr:tories.
"E,r'en the federal bureaus themselr'es do not kttorv holr, much they own," he said.
I-ee asserted federal land ou'nership not only tax loss, but prevents profitable development of mealls a resorlrces such as timber, coal and othel minerals vate, taxpaying ou'ners.
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He suggested that NLNIA call together such gioups as the pulp and paper industry, several state cattle and sheep gron'ers' organizations, the Council of State Govert.rors, the taxpal'ers' associations, the National F.clucation Associaticn and the local and state chaml;ers of c()rlmerce to \\'ork out a four-point program as follou's:
l. Registration of all federal lands t'ith the Department of tire Interior. The record shouid disclc,se the anilual rate of increase or decrease of federal land holdings. and so end the confusion as to the exact extent of gor'ernmenton'ned lands.
2. Organtzation by Congress of joint boards representing federal, state and private land-orvnership to provide nrore acctlrate data on federal lands and- to estatilish criteria on rvhich to base the type of ou'ners}rip.
3. Examination of federal land holdings by Corrgress to determine vghat property is best suited for private ownership.
4. Suspension of all federal land ac<luisition, except that needed by the military, during the period of registration and examination.
Another feature of the lumber meeting was a special discussion of legislation which affects the industry'
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Philippines Have Great Stands o[ Hardwood Timber
Hon Antonio De Las Alas, prominent in Philippine Island affairs for more than thirty years and president of the Island's Chamber of Commerce, addressed the directors of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce on October 30.
Frank J. Connolly, president of \\restern Hardn'ood Lumber Co. and chairman of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce World Trade Committee, introduced the speakel as follo'rvs :
"Born in Taal, Batangas, Philippine Islands, Mr. De Las Alas obtained his LL.B. degree from Indiana University, ind his I-L.M. from Yale Universitv.
"In l9l9 and l92O he rn'as Chief of the Executive Bureau, rvhich n'as then the Office of the Governor General of the Philippines. From the latter part of 1920 to 1922, he u'as Undersecretary of the Interior and Acting Secretary of the Interior and Acting Secretary of Justice. In 1922, he u'as elected Congressman. Having been re-elected four times he continued in Congress until 1933 when he u.as made a N{ember of the Cabinet, having been appointed Secretary of Public \\rorks and Communications. In Congress, he u'as Chairman of the most powerful and important Committee, the Appropriations Committee, and was Speaker pro-tempore many times.
"He continued in the Department of Public \Vorks and Con"rmunications until 193 rvhen he was appointed Secretary of Finance. While Secretary of Finance, he l as Chairrnan of the National Economic Council, the policvmaking body insofar as economic affairs rvere concerned, and also Chairman of the National Development Companv, the entity charged r,vith the management of large economic projects rvhich private initiative could not vet undertake. ln 1938. he u'as sent to Washington as a member of the Philippine Mission entrusted u'ith tl-re u'ork of having the economic provisions of the Philippine Independence ,\ct
modified so as to prolong for many more years tl,e exportation of certain Philippine products to the United States free of duty.
"In 7941, he.il'as elected Senator for a term of four years. FIe is norv vice president of Nlarsman & Co., a corporation engaged principally in merchandising and mining.
"lIe 'ivas appointed by his Excellency, the President of the Philippines, as one of the members of the Monetary Board of the Central Bank. The Central Bank administer's the monetary and banking systems in the Philippines.
"At present he is president of the Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines and also president of the I'hilippine Lumber Prodncers' Association."
The follo'iving are excerpts from the address of Mr. De Las Alas:
He described the conditions that existed from 1900 to 1941 under American influence, bringing out the development of the agricultural and industrial gror."'th and establishment of the splendid educational svstem, starting rvith the lorver grades and carrying through to the college le.,'el, lvhich includes a special school of forestry rvhich has progressed under the able direction of Florencio Tarnesis, rvho is not only the Director of Forestry of the Republic of the Philippines, but also Dean of the College of Forestrv.
The second phase of his talk touched upon the period of the occupation by the .fapanese and the trials and vicissitudes of that period, stating that the Cjty of N{anila suffered a greater percentage of destruction than any other metropolitan area in World \\rar II, not exclucling either Berlin or Tokyo.
He acknor,vledged the depth of gratitude that the Philippine people feel towards the Unitecl States, not only because of the opportunity which under the An-rerican regime offered, but the Philippine people received their independence as a
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Photo tqlen in the Log Angreles Chcmber oI Commerce Board ol Directora Room.Lelt to right: Joht W. Grchqm,chcirmqn ol the Philip- pine Trcde Committee; Antonio de lcef,lcg, president ol tbeChcrrber ol Commerce oI the Philippineg; Tetzell C. Drinkwcter, president ot
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common\\realth among the nations of the rvorld without one drop of blood being shed. By this accomplishment Mr. De Las Alas brought out the fact that the natural resources of the Philippines are of tremendous value to the rvorld at large, and particularly to the United States. There exists in the Islands the greatest stand of hardwood forests in the rvorld today, rvhich is easily accessible, the conservative estimate reaching 465,000 billion feet of forest area that is nolv ripe and ready to cut, but the forests of the Philippines grow 24 hours a day 12 months a year and becatrse of this condition shorv no annual growth rings, therefore it reflects a perpetual growth under a proper reforestation program, and lumber is fourth among the natnral resources in value, copra, sugar, herap (abaca) come under the heading of re-production resources. There are great
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areas in which iron ore, gold, magnesium and other metallic minerals rvhich are in the early stages of development. There are also great deposits of non-metallic minerals, such as lime, silica, and pumice which have scarcely been touched. This great storehouse of natural resources rvith such a close brotherhood of influence and background u'ith the United States should be a source of mutual benefit for centuries to come, and as a closing statement it is qrrite significant that the Philippine Republic is the only Christian nation in the Far East. \{r. De Las Alas was also a guest of the Philippine Mahoganl' A'ssociation at a luncheon meeting at the Jonathan Club on October 29 when he talked to the members and their guests. President Walter Scrim presided at the meeting.
industrial wood supply.
But the existing wood-using industries of the n'orld have been mainly built to employ softwoods, and vast areas of the untapped forests are tropical hardwoods. Hundreds of millions of the softwood forests, too, are in the Soviet Ijnion and its satellite countries.
Canada and Us
Up theie our Canadian cousins have 37 per cent of their cotlntry in forests and down here 33 per cent of the nation's land area i.s classified as forest land.
The contrast is 'ivider in terms of forest acres per person. In Canada it is 67.2 acres for each man, woman and child, rvhile the per capita .share of the U.S.A. woodlands is but 4.61 acres.
Each country has roughly 500,000,000 acres of "accessible" tir.nber suited for commercial uses.
Billions of Canadian and U. S. dollars are already deeply invested in mills, roads, machinery and all kindred items for getting out logs and making lumber, paper, plylvood and other forest products.
Additional billior-rs of dollars are invested in North American industries and businesses such as newspaper publishing and building constrttction, and each investment depends on contintting material supplies from forest land.
WorldView...
The surr-eys of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the Ur-rited Nations shorv that out of all the world's forests sone 2,862,000,000 acres can be made to yield an
Today only Canada is a net exporter of r,r'ood-shipping out more cubic feet than the Canadians themsel'u'es consume. South America, Africa, Asia, Oceania are nornr net irnporters of rvood.
But research in wood chemisfry and in forest engineering is regularly opening new wavs and provicling nerv means for man to master the problems of grou'ing trees and of producing shelter, reading matter, clothing and food from the u'ood of trees.
Private Citizens Are Big Timber Owners
Tlrere are over 4,225,000 individual private os'ners of commercial forest lands in the United States, ou'ning aprrroximatelv 345 million acres.
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Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club Christmas Party December 2O
Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club No. 109 held its regular dinner meeting November 19, at the Old Tavern on NI Street.
Seventy lumbermen attended the meeting called to order at 6:39 p.m. by President Bill Blattner of California Buiiders Supply Company.
Program Cl.rairman Al Baltus of The Diamond NIatch Company arranged rvith the Standard Oil Company for the shorving of two excellent fishing and hunting pictures in natural colors. Refreshment hosts were Lumber Dealer's Materials Company with Hilmar Hauge in charge.
Lumbermen present from other areas were Hugir E. Aseltine of Aseltine-Bethune Lumber Company, Redciing; Dave l)avis of the Dave Devis Lumber Company, San Rafael; and Lerv Godard of HobbS-Wall Lumber Co.. San F-rancisco.
The Club December 20. hold tl-re annual Christmas Party
Prior to World $25,000,000 every
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National Retail Directors Meet
Henry J. Munnerlyn Elected President
The nation's retail lumber and building feel confident that they are making steady ultimate solution of their "marketing problems," judging bv opinions expressed meeting of the board of directors of the Luml;er Dealers Association.
materials dealers condition and the organization is operating rvithin its progress tor,r'ard budget according to Treasurer Stair. and distribution The current status of emergency controls and regulaat the November tions u'as summarized by Secretary Libbey u'ho expressed National Retail the feeling that all or most controls would be removed by the middle of 1953.
Other in.rportant developments at the meeting were the election of nelr' officers, the decision to expand the industry's educational activities, and approval in principle of the grade marking of lumber and descriptive grade names for lumber.
Henry J. Nfunnerlvn, Bennettsville, S. C., 'rvas elected president of NRI-D-\, succeeding Clyde A. Fulton, of Charlotte, l\{ich., and \\ratson Malone III of Philadelphia, u'as named vice president. Fred R. Stair, Knoxville, Tenn., treasurer; H. R. Nortl.rup, executive vice president, and Edn'ard H. Libbey, secretary, n'ere reelected by the board.
Retiring President Fulton told the directors that NRLDA l.rad been serving its members in splendid fashion ar-rd expressed the opinion that the retail lumber industry as a rr hole is in healthl- condition and performing ntore valuable services to its customers than ever before. At this point the board unanimously approved a resolution deploring the untimely death of Vice President Clement W. Gamble and pledging adherence to the liigh principles for u,hi.ch he had stood.
Executive Vice President Northup stated that the activities to be conclucted by NRLDA during the coming year were designed to meet the needs of the day and predicted that the neu' Aclministration in Washington will give full consideration to industry's viewpoints and endeavor to encourage and aid private enterprise instead of harrassing and condemning it.
The Association's finances are in thorougl-rly sound
John H. Else, NRLDA's Legislative Counsel, reported that it l'as too early to predict what the nerv Adrninistratior-r will clo in the r'vay of housing legislation and deplored the premature attempts of some industry groups to dictate policr- to the imposing Administration. He said there was good reason to hope ior gradual elimination of extravagance in government and reduction of taxes, and a better climate for business generally.
Dealers \\'ere rvarned by Harold P. Braman, assistant manager of the National Savings and Loan l-eague, that attempts rvere being made to sponsor discriminatory tax legislation u'hich might attract funds away from institutions sucl.r as savings and loan associations t hich provide funds for mortgage financing and said it was to the interest of dealers as n'ell as lenders to make sure that suflicient funds are available to finance their customers.
\\'. C. 8e11, chairman of the Educational Committee. reported that dealers everyu'here are shorving great interest in management conferences and said that valuabie experience has been gained in conferences and 'lvorkshops held by the Nortireastern, N{iddle Atlantic, Tennessee, Indiana, and other associations.
He said that, rvhile the committee u'as not ready to recommend any one pattern as being the most desirable, the rvorkshop idea, based largely on dealer discussion, appears to hold special appeal and that materials developed in the N'Iiddle Atlantic and Northeastern workshops would be made available to other Federated Associations.
CAI,IFONNIA TUIIBER'IAERCHANT
Elected qt the bocrd oI directors meeting al the qnnucl convention president, Philadelphic, Penusylvcnio; Henry J. Munnerlyn, president, ol the Nctional RetcrilLumber Declers lesociqtion in Wcshington, Bennelieville, South Ccrolinc; H. R. Northup, executive vice president, D. C., November 20, were the lollowing officers, lrom lett to right: Frod Wcrshinqton, D, C., <rnd Edward R. Libbey, secretcry, W<rshington, D'C. R, Stcrir, trecsurer, Knoxville, Tennessee,' Wctson Mqlone IIL vice
Bob Bliss
Howqrd 5. Gqles
Bliss & Gotes Lumber Co.
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The committee was agreed, he said that the State and Regional Associations should be encouraged to continue holding management conferences and that NRLDA rvould act as a clearing-house. to assemble and disseminate information on the subject, pending another meeting of the Committee.
The directors also were told that trvo ne.n' educational programs rn"ere being developed to help individual dealers train their own employees in the yard and to guide employees in studying the retail lumber business ancl its products on their own.
These programs will be based on the Dealer Operating Guide and the Dealer Data Book. The guides to be prepared by NRLDA will be made available to dealers through their dealer associations at nominal cost.
At numerous points during the meeting, emphasis .lvas placed on the fact that the workshops and other educational programs and materials provide members l'ith invaluable information needed to guide them in meeting competition and distribution problems successfully.
The Lumber Dealers Research Council, according to Chairman Clarence Thompson, expects to complete its studies of windows and of dealer merchandising practices during the first part of next year and is considering nerv research projects on materials handling and otl-rer subjects. The Council plans to hold a spring meeting at .ivhich further decisions will be made.
Donald A. Campbell, chairman of the Standards Cornmittee, submitted a report which led to the action mentioned previously regarding lumber standards and marking
ar,d said that his committee n'ould cr.rntinue to studv the rvhole subject.
A housing panel composed of Norman Mason, past president, \\ralter J. Howard, secretarv-manager, Montana Retail Lumbermens Association and Findley M. Torrence, secretary, Ohio Association of Retail Lumber Dealers, told the board that the industry needs to sell the public on the fact that good housing is rvell rvorth the money it costs. They added that the industry shorrld participate in der.eloping a sound plan of slum clearance, that private industry has developed good low-cost housing, and that the availability o{ such housing should be brought to the attention of tolvn and city officials.
They recommended that private lending institutions should be persuaded to take an interest in Title I, Section 8 housing and called for FHA approval of the Open-End Mortgage.
In reporting on NRLDA's Public Relations Program, Chairman Creden stated that the Nlinute Man program, u.hereby individual dealers send nen's releases to their local ne'rvspapers and radio stations continues to shorv excellent results and urged the managers of the Federated Associations to appoint additional Nlinute Men rvhere possible.
He expressed the belief that the nen' Public Reiations Contest to be held next year tvould attract even more entries than the 1952 contest and urgecl dealers not to be modest about telling the industry of the good work they do in their local communities.
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\|(/lll Stroamline \(/ood' And Mill Activities
Enumclalv, Wash., Oct. 23-The big rvaste-burner at \\'eyerhaeuser Timber company's White River branchsymbol of the lumber industry that has caught the eye of countless travelers over the Chinook pass highrvay-is livirrg on borrorved titne.
"\\re're going to let it go black and, eventually, rve lvill tear it down." The ln'ords came, vesterday, from Garfield Olson, manager of Weyerhaettser's White River operation near here. "Elimination of the rvaste-burner is part of a program to integrate and streamline our u''oods and mill activities at White River," Olson continued. "Our aim is more complete utilization of the forest crop."
\\rel erhaeuser officials and engineers have been making a detailed studl' of the White River operation for the past year. Among the changes projected are the substitution of trucks for the present system of rail logging the addition of a hydraulic barker in front of the sarvmill a"nd revisions within the sawmill to effect a more efficient handling of the srnaller diameter logs that rvill be harvested from the \Vhite Rir.er tree farm in years to come.
Rail logging has been a fixture at \\rhite River since 1904 and the shift to truck logging is a major one. The "offhighrvay" log trucks will operate on company roads bringing their loads to the log pond via the converted main-line railroad grade. A special log dump for trucks rvill be built and the 1og pond 'n'ill_ be enlarged to provide additional storage.
A pile drir.er is already at t,ork preparing a foundation for the new hydraulic barker. When the construction is
completed, logs will be lifted directly from tl-re pond to a log deck at the head end of the barker rather than with the conventional "bull chain" conveyor.
Bark t'ill be removed from the logs and converted to fuel along u'ith sawdust and shavings to provide steam and electricity for the plant. Barked logs will move on chain conveyors to the sawmill. Material not suitable for lumber manufacture, such as small tops, defective logs, slabs and edgings, rvill go to the chippers and be shipped to Weyerhaeuser pulp mills at Everett.
"We anticipate doing the great bulk of the nerv construction and remodeling without interrupting production," said Olson. "Hbwever, certain portions of the mill will be required to shut down for short periods while rvork is being done in the immediate vicinity. A general shutdo'ivn of approximately 30 days will be necessary to connect up with present mill facilities. The two-week vacation period will be set during this shutdown if construction schedules perm1t.
"The key change inside the sawmill will be the addition of a log cut-off saw and the substitution of a fast, short-log carriage for the present double-cut rig," Olson continued. "The storage area ahead of the gang saw (machine which reduces partially squared timbers to boards or dimension) will be enlarged to permit a more efficient breakdou'n of the log at the headrig and fewer changes at the gang saw.
"Inventories made on sample areas have prol'ided us with detailed information on diameter, height, volume and species of the trees in White River tree farm," said Olson. "This information on the future 1og type, together with studies on sau'mill layout made at various Weyerhaeuser mills, resulted in the present modernization program. ft's our biggest step ton'ard complete utilization of the forest crop."
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' In addition, Nfr. Creden reported that the National Plarr Service has agreed to develop tu'o ideas recommended by the committee: the preparation of zr series of Hon'-to-Do-It sheets for dealers to provide to customers as a means of enabling them to use materials properly and efficiently and the development of a program to guide dealers in acquainting school children with the products and services of the retail lumber industry.
NIr. Creden also said that NRLDA rvill give active support to promotion of the Nlortgage Advance Plan (OpenEnd I\Iortgage) and thanked the building industry publications for their excellent support of the public relations program.
'Everett B. \\rilson, Public Relations Director, described the development of the Dealer Operating Guide, rvhich has been unusually rvell received b1 the industry. He said that 11 chapters have been issued to date, four more have been printed and are ready for distribution, two more are out being approved, and four others are being prepared. The directors saw for the first time four new chapters on Estimating, Merchandising, Display, and Personnel, together
'ivith the first of a series of procluct sheets u'hich rvill con-stitute the section on product information in the Guide.
He explained that in 1953 members will receire one new chapter and one product sheet each month.
The Budget Committee recommended a moderate increase in dues rvhich was approved by the hoard, as were a series of amendments recommended by the By-Laws Committee, including a provision under rn'hich the Texas Association becomes a separate Region with representation ;on NRLDA's Executive Committee.
There is good reason to expect that there lvill be an r ample supply of mortgage money in 1953 as a u'hole, al- lthough there may be some local shortages in the early part of the year, according to Miles L. Colean, economist, '"r'ho addressed the board. Mr. Colean expressed the belief that the private building industry can look for a more constructive attitude toward its problems on the part of the neu' Administration and that for the first time in a good many years the industry can make recommendations w-ith confidence that they will receive due consideration.
It u'as announced that the 1953 board meetings rvould bel held in Washington during May and Sun Vallev, Idaho, in September.
50 CA]IFORNIA IUIIBER MERCHANT
Jt50, J350, Jt350, J600
SIURDE: SIIET PTODUCIS COilIPA}IY,
SERIES
hordwore
Now you moy selal the proper set of lomb type hordwore occording lo your door weight. Poy no more thon the'weightroled'set of hordwore your door requires. Eoch set lifls o moximum copocity os designoted by lhe model numbers. Jl50 is for lightweight oluminum or wooden doors noi exceeding 150 pounds in weight. J350 is for normol weight single or double doors not exceeding 350 pounds in weight. J1350 is for some door requiremenls os the J350 bui where low heodroom is necessory; this set requires only 3Yz" heodroom, J6O0 is for excePlionolly heovy single ond double doors. This is ihe finest set of iomb type hordwore ovoiloble.
6E20 BRYI{HUnSI AVL r0S Ailen:s 43, CAUrcniln
6t Dec:n-brr 15,1952 Slqndee cutc4nc,u,ceo tie c4eo0
'weight-Roted'
of
for overheod goroge doors
D00RS "Rezd', "General" and "Trussed Gore" D00RS lrAtlS SOFTWOOD A]ID HANDWOOD P1YWOOD Beick Panel Componl/ PIYWIID 3ro-3r4 Eosr 32ndosrree'j-l;1"'.res r r, dcrrir. ' PLYW[[]! -need lumber quiek? a earload ot a stiek? stNcE r888 Redwood Sugor Pine Port Orford Cedcr Douglos Fir Ponderosq Spruce In Ail Grodes Custom D"y Kilning valf aRSDALD.HARRIS LUMBER C0., II|G. 595 TttNNEt AVE. SAN FBANCISCO 24, CAIIF, PHONE lUniper 1-6592 .. o Jor lhe mos] work, power and ruggednGssr Ieqs] upkeepr longesl liQet g reales] menevverebilily! Cew Ismbet operalors 6-3r 6 csn affotd noJ ]o own fhem.
Dougfas Fir Beetle
A double-pronged forest catastrophe, second only to the famed Tillamook Burn in severity, has struck the Douglas fir forests of \Arestern Oregon and killed more than ten billion board feet of prime timber,
W. D. Hagenstein, chairman of a recently formed Subcommittee of the Northr,vest Forest Pest Action Committee, reporting in October to inter-agency membership, said a new pest, the Douglas fir beetle, had teamed up with a vast windstorm to rvreak havoc on two million acres of Oregon's rich virgin forests.
About one billion feet of timber has been killed in the past year, Hagensteir-r reported, by the Douglas fir beetle. Another nine billion feet was blown over by extremely high rvinds of hurricane velocity during the winter of 1951-52. Additional damage may run two to five billion board feet.
Much of the blor,v-dorvn timber has been infested by the beetle, which finds in the freshly destroyed timber an ideal breeding place.
The problem no\\/, the forester warned, is to salvage as much of the dorvn and beetle-infested timber as possible in the quickest possible time. There is no known means of checking the beetle b1' spraying.
Surveys which revealed the timber killed, he said, were made under the direction of A. W. Greeley, Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, and R. L. Furniss, entomologist in charge, U. S. Forest Insect Laboratory, Portland.
These surveys show that the scattered nature of the blowdowns make salvage exceedingly difficult. One reason is that much cf the heaviest blowdown and beetle-kill has been in wilderness areas not yet developed with systems.
Furniss told the committee that additional heavy killing by the beetle is expected during the next tu'o or three years and the situation could become increasingly serious if rvinter storms blou' down more timber.
Another threat to western Oregon forests stemming from this vast area of dead and dying timber is fire danger, Hagenstein stated. Blowdolvn is exceptionally heavy along ridges rvhere the wind had full sweep, and here is rvhere bad fires could get underrvay, posing a threat to surrounding green timber.
Loggers and lando'ivners have been urged to undertake a vast salvage program. Much of the timber will deteriorate once the beetles have made their attack and should be taken out as quickly as roads can be built.
Salvage of this timber appears to be the Number One task of C)regon Douglas fir owners in the next five years. Roads are needed, Hagenstein said, to salvage the killed timber, and the combined efforts of private and public forest agencies will be required to develop a road system into the most heavily infested areas. In many cases, these roads will have to be built several years in advance of the projected schedule where tree farm owners are operating on a long-range cutting cycle. This will be a costly job and 'ivill upset management plans in some areas, it is thought, unless maximum cooperation can be realized from all interested companies and agencies.
Annual surveys throughout the area have been urged on all landor,vners to determine the extent of spread of the beetle and also to keep posted on any additional wind damage.
A unique feature of the aerial survey of the vast 13,500,000 acre area came to light during the committee meeting. A skilled forester rode the low-flying airplane and mapped out the wind-throw and beetle-infested areas during each flight. Nlost of this aerial flying survey work rvas done during July.
Cost of the aerial survey was $83,600. Th" Douglas fir beetle has always been present in forests of this region, but reached epidemic proportions only when a vast lush breeding and lunch table was set for him in the billions of feet of u'indthrown timber. The beetle bores through the bark and takes up residence in the cambium la1'er of the tree t,here he lays his eggs, increases, and feeds.
CATIFONNIA IUI'IBEN MERCHANI
OSborne 5-3371
MOUI.DIIG SERVICE Ponderosq Pine Mouldings Wholesale Only 3241 W. El Segundo Blvd. Howthorne, Colif. = l Southern Lunber Gompany Wholesale Distributors fir -- PinG --Redwogd 412 West 6th St.-Pcrrk Centrql Bldgl.. Los Angeles 14, Ccrlil. TRinity 0374 Phonc: Glcnwood tLl854 IDrvn IhVIS LUNTBBB OO. WHOtESALE REDWOODDOUG1AS FIRPONDEROSA PINESUOAR PINE 834 FIFTH AVENUE - P. O. Box 711 - SAN RAFAEL, CALIF. Teletypc Son Rofocl 25
Poul Reiner, pr.
F, VY. Elliott
Wholesale Forest Products
Representing Reeves Taylor Lumber Co. Eugene, Oregon
I Drumm Slreel, Sqn Froncisco | |
UITT(lil tUilIBER SATES G|IMPA]IT (Cqlif.l
l2l9 3oth Street
Sccrqmento 16, Colifornio
tUftIBER . MOUTDINGS . TRIM
SUGAR PINE
PONDEROSA PINE OREGON FIR CATIFORNIA FIR
Phone: Hlllcrest 7-5786
SAVE-A-SPACE
Interior Sliding Door Unils
Model I l9O Low Gost Units
-No longer an extrauagdnceDOORMASTER
UholzAak aaA fuUtht?
Sinca 1888
OFFICE, l,tl[L, YARD AND DOCKS
2nd & Alice 9s., Ooklond 4 Glencourl l-686t
Los Angeles offlce 639 S. Arden Blvd. Phone Webster 3-0327
Wholesqle Lumber-All Species
Kiqbob Pine-to your door by truck qnd troiler
Covering S. Cql.-Nevqdq qnd Arizono ofiering FirPine - Hemlock . Cedqr - Shingles - Shokes - Plywood and E. J. Stcnton & Son's Hsrdwoods.
Friends: Coll us colfecf onytime.
Exlerior Sliding Door Units
Literatare and prices furnished on reqaes, COOR,.PENDER, & LONG CO.
1753 Bloko Avc., Lor Angolcr 3l NOrmsndic 3€23E
\(iHOLESALE MANUFACTURER
"For the Yards'
Generol Millwork - Sosh ond Doors
Wholesole Only
5370 Alhombro Avenue Los Angeles 32, Colifornio CApitol 2-5109
December 15, 1952 NtlRTHERN
&nl.ool. onl. Souglor 1ir {u*b", Telephone Blue loke 75 Mills snd Soles Ofiice ot Korbel, Humboldt County, Colifornio rererype Btue Lokc 56 Teletype Telephone 5.F. 5l EXbrook 2.It5l
REtlwtltlD TUMBER C(l.
lr IOe lC|rclY
-t
D. D. McCALLUM, lNC.
J. K. O'NElLt ftlltt & tBR. CO. REMANUFACTURERg & WHOIESALERS OF WEST COAST FORESI PRODUCTS SPECIATIZING IN DIRECT.TO.JOBSITE REQUIRE'IIENTS Office, tUlill & Yords Hoplond, Colifornio Telephone 2881 IWX Hopland 77
Congrctulqtions
Nu-Wood.
O STOGI
INSTAIL ffi DISTRIBLI'IORS OF DOUGLAS FIR PLYWOOD ROBERT DOLLAR BLDG. SAN TRANCTSCO EXBROOK 2-4454 CATIFORNTA REDWOOD O DOUGLAS FIR TDACO TUMBER COIUIPA]IY 32OO PERATTA STREEI, OAKI.AND 8, CAIIFORNIA O IE1EPHONE OLY'VIPIC 2.24OO ilill od Wholerole Yord. Sohitl qt Janer, €olif. :iis\%?-,f-\:i{*;F.lisee- HegldrbuE, Colif, ---.,:::r':::.'rl::::-...'..,.3.--R. TU IDAITON & GO. 475 Huntington Drive Scm Mcnino 9, CqliI.-PY l-2L27 Luhrs Building-Phoenix, Arizoncr Lcrrry Griffith-Phone 3-ll2l UTHOLESATE LUMBER
CAIIFONNIA LUI'IBER MERCHANT -. _ .ooooo.ooo.o.oo.oo.o..o... \ ( 'Ns'sr oN ""+"iil"iiiiiiiiili":'1'''i::l,.1.rl#" \ I loRDAM l i " EEN TEATHER* | : ',ble I i nnil'o"r'DrNc sAsH uNtrs I i- . -- I 3 The most a I 'Ll lll, lll I ll m rt\]- a o r-,,-^r -L^..r illll ll llll lll' lll lr I l ! 3 rotked obour, illftl\ li ,t,. : lll i i customersotisfyins, Nl ,[ lilE]q I procticol Sliding Sosh ;,' -";"\4}/Tl 4J : unil qvoiloble todoY! .: z.-/'\;1. S.$$ : a O o a a o a a
MinnecpoliE model "Ginnie" Cecge looks over the new collophane' wrcpped Nu-Wood ecmples designed to help the customer "sell himseli." To the leli cnd righi cre the new lull-color displcrys lor lumber dealer soles promotion oI
WEATHERTIGHT ' SIMPLE TO
N{r. and Mrs. Wm. E. I}augh are the happy parents of a baby daughter born at St. Luke's Hospital, Pasadena, on November 26. Mr. Baugh is a member of the firm of Raugh Bros. & Co., I-os -\ngeles, rn'holesale lumber distributors. : . EASY TO OFERATE ' ECONOMICAT : a AVAILABIE IN AtL SIZES .por. pcnd. Monufoctured solely by Cnm H. KuHr LUMBER CoMPAI{Y FOREST PRODUCTS Roil Shippers QUAUTY FtR YARD PITTOCK BTOCK PORTLAND 5, OREGON
TRIANGITE ITUMBER CO.
wHoT.F_sAIE LITMBER
Pcrcific Bldg- 610-l6th Street, Oqkland 12, Calilorniq
Phone lEmplebcn 2-5855
Teletype OA 262
ffiewp [.llrigtmag
sn! ebsrp goo! nisl) for 1953
West (oast Timber Products Agency
HUGH PESSNER
42O Mqrkel St., Son Froncisco I I
RIGGI & IIRUSE IUiIBER G(l.
WHOtqiAtE - JOBBING
Speciolizing in
r(|Ht lrRtED rutBER
Ponderosa ond Sugor Pine
Gleor Fir qnd R.edwood
9t2 SHOTWEI ST., SAN FRANCTSCO tO, CAL|F.
TEIEPHONE TttISStON 7-2576
llrnnv LurrrBER GorrrPAilr
-W holesale DlstributorsSpecializing in Ponderosq Pine
Sugor Pine
Douglos Fir Cleqrs
Office crnd Yqrd
4230 Bondini Blvd., los Angeles 23, Colif.
ANgelus 0856
Brush Industrial Lumber Co.
Wholesale Distributors
Hardwoods and Softwoodc
5354 Eail Slauron Avc.
Lor Angeler 29, Calif.
UNdeAill 0-3301
B, R. Garcia Trallic Service
lllonodnock Bldg., Son Fruncirco S, VU*on 6-0509
Teletype SF lOSO
For 26 yecrs we have speciclized exclusively in the trcrllic crnd trcrnsportction problems ol the lumber indr.rstry.
We oller qccurcte cnd prompt freight rcte quotcrtions, both rcril crnd truck.
Frelght Bills Audited
tholesale to Lurirber Yards Only
Windows, Doors, Plywood, tloulding
Wc hqvc
ITIE COMPIETE WIIIDOW I'NIT Built Up With Screen rmd Bcrlcmce In StoclWesten,Sizes
HATEY Bn0S. -. SAilII t0tlGt
Pho'es: 3Hfr l;:11:". Er(brook r-320e
FIR-REDWOOD
Deccmber t5, 1952
[t
in Southern Calilomic: Thc Pacilic Lumber Company-Wendling-Nathrn Co.-Clay
& Company A. L. 33GUS'' HOOYER CO. 5195 Vil*irc Btvd., Lor Anscla PercOnAI SeniCe Tclcphonc,
Rcprerenting
Brown
yOd.li6s
WANT ADS
Rcrte-Position wcnrted 52.00 per colurnn inch
All others, $3.00 per column inch
Closing dctes lor copy, Sth crnd 20th
SOUTHERN CATIFORNIA IUMBER, COMPANY FOR SAIE
Three yords locqled in Oronge Counfy, estqblished over 5O yeors ogo. Best of reosons for selling.
Venturo County yord, sqlls o-uour $ts,oOo monthly. will cost $20,000 including ground, buildings, trucks & equiPmeni. lnvenlory obout $2O,OOO qdditionol. Thisyord, in o fine district, mqkes o yery good impression. Books open lo quolifted porties.
lf you wont to sell youryo.a, *" us q ring.
TWOHY LUMBER, CO.
LUMBER YARD AND SAWMILL BROKERS
714 W. Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles 15, Calif.
PRospect 8746
FOR SAIE
Southwest LA M-2.County. Trackage; 3 acres; 2 dry kilns on property. 7-ton Hyster available if desired. Prime industrial area, near Northrup Aircraft. Owner, ORegon 8-4793 or
ERONEL INDUSTRIES
12607 Cerise Ave. Hawthorne. Calif.
CAR UNLOADING CONTRACTORS
Experienced labor furnished to unload and sort lumber cars. O.P.S. printed ratesupon request. Established 1943.
CRANE & CO.
t+r7 E. r2th St.
TR. 6973 Los Angeles, Calif.
LEATHER LUMBER APRONS
Sturdy lumbermenjs aprons made of top quality reclaimed leather, furnished in both single and double ply, approx. tV'xZ(' with or without belt and bucklc. Specialdiscounts to jobbers.
HENDRIE BELTING & RUBBER CO.
,105 Towne Ave., Los Angeles 13, Calif.
Phone TRinity 7786
VIILUME PLYWOOD WHOTESATER
Serving cll ol Southern Ccrlilornia
Looking'lor permcnent connection with A DOUGIJTS FIR PTYWOOD MItt
that will keep him regulcrly supplied cnrd competitive. Ccrn lurnish highest ccrlibre bank cnd trcrde relerences.
Address Box C-2088
CAIJFORNA LUMBER MENCHANT
Ncmcr of Adverlircrs in this Dcporlmcnl using o bllnd oddrc:s ccnnot bc divulgcd. All inquiricr ond rplir should bc oddresrcd to kcy :hown in lho odvcrlbcmrnl
SMALL LUMBER YA,RD FOR SALE
Sales $52,388 first 9 months 1952' ($35,927 in lumber,- $16'461 in hardware, paint & plumb.) Est. profits $14,991. Low overhead. Rent $185 rrro.' -Good 2-man yard, Mbdern retail store & 90 ft. lumber shed. Main blvd. center SanGabriel Valley. Stock around $15'@0 plus equipment. CASH, no terms. Retiring. Phone owner for appt' ROWLEY, days9 a.m. to 3 p.m. RYan l-8188, or write 34 No. Raymond Ave' Pasadena 1, Calif.
FOR SALE
Rebuilt Carriers and Lift Trucks
All sizes and capacities
Immediate deliverY
THE ROSS CARRIER COMPANY
2440 Third St., SanFrancisco 7, Calit. ATwater 2,-2428
CARR, IERS & IIFT TRUCKS For Sqle or Rent
Following Equipment Remanufactured Carries 90-Day
Volts, 1800 R.P.M. Machine located at 8801 Crocker St., Los Angeles.
M. E. O'CONNOR
542 S. Berend,o St., Los Angeles 5, Calif.
Phone DUnkirk 7-7433
WALLACE MILL and LUMBER COMPANY
General custom milling, grading and drying. In transit. Half way betweerr Los Angeles and Long Beach. Corner Rosecrans Ave. and Paramount BlvdP.O. Box 27, Cle*atet Station
Paramount, Calif.
MEtcalf 3-4269-NEvada 6-3625 Pacific s. P.
CUSTOM MILLING and KILN DRYING
MCCOY PLANING MILL
3rl0o East 26th St., Loe Angeles 23,Calif.
Phone ANgelus 9-E216
CATIFORN]A LUITBER IAERCHANT
6th St., Rm. 508, Los Angeles 14, Cclil.
108 West
Lift Trucks: 2-RT-f50 Hystcr, ?ll-Ton. '.$6,500.00 Ea. 1-15 HT Ross, 7f-Ton ' s,(n0.(X) Carriers: 142" Getlinger Motlel 4L . 2,9)0.00 ?',42" Willarncttc Model CP .. 2'7$.00 Ea. F l-[2" Ross Model 90 2,5q).00 2-54" Willamettc Model CP .. .. . 3,5fi).00 Ea l-54" Gerlinger Model 4 MHS. 3'850.00 - 2-66" Ross ilIodel 12 : . 3,5d).fi) Ea. 2-66" Willamette Modcl CP ... . 3,500.fi) Ea. We Have New and Used Parts WESTERN'DRY KrLN & EQUTPMENT CO. P. O.Box 6t2, Wilrnir^gton, Calif. Phone NEvada 6-1371
SALE Scripps-Pearson Gang Rip, 30 H.P., General Electric Motor attached, 240 to 440
Guararrtee
FOR
WANTED
\(ANT ADS
Position as yard manager, Bay or Peninsula area preferrd.
Address Box C-2093, California Lumber Merchant
108 W. 6th St., Rm. 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
MACHINERY FOR SALE
DIESEL GENERATING UNITS:
GMC Model 471 RC 38A
List Price .....$6640.00
Our selling price .....$4480.00
GMC Model RC 671 38A
List Price ......$7744.00
Our selling price ..$5300.00
These units have been run less than 20 hours.
Ross Lumber Carrier Model 90-7968N
Year Made-1947, perfect shape
Oursellingprice. .....$4500.00
Towermobile Concrete Lift
45'working boom
y4 Yd. hopper
Like n-w, selling price .......$45q).00
McADAMS BUICK, INC.
333 Abbott St., Salinas, California
USED MACHINERY & ROSS CARRIER FOR SALE
Woods 4{XB matcher, 6"x15". Belt drive with Outside head motorized. Autoanatic feed table. running condition. Price $4,000.
Ross Carrier, Model 90-7968. Send for our list o'f 20 pieces of used planing including timber sizer; drum sander; two stage four side planer. Etc., Etc., Etc.
TWOHY LUMBER CO.
714 W. Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles PRospect 8746
motor. 6 knifes. Etc,, Etc. Good
mill machinery, arr compressor;
WOODWOR KING MACH IN ER,Y
US,ED
American #65-3o" planer and matcher, 6 knife heads, belt driven with 75 H.P. motor. Fine operating conditioa g45OO.
Yates P-16 timber sizer fo,r stock up to 16x16, 4 krrife heads, less motor. $3(D0.
New Yates American 18" surfacer.
DON G. JENNESS COMPANY
3010 E. Olympic Blvd. Los Angeles 23 ANgelus 9-7378
IIFT TR,UCKS FOR, SALE
Completely rebuilt with Factory-new motors. . (Guaranteed 90 days)
39-19 H. T. Ross 33/ ton, lO-foot lift. z-Lg H. T. Ross 3y4ton, 14 foot lift.
USED CONDITION
l-Model 15 H. T. Ross, 7f-ton, l7rl f,oot lift. l-Gedinger Model S R H 6Ginch carrier.
We specialize in lift truck and carrier repair and service. Special prices to equipment dealers.
COMMERCIAL REPAIR & SERVICE
1ll5 No. Alameda, Compton, Calif. Phone NEwmark 1-E269
POSITION WANTED
Lumberman, 15 years experience in wholesale and LCL selling in Southern California, seeks connection with reputable mill or wholesaler shipping a consistent good grade of Redwood and Fir.
Address Box C-2095, California Lumber Merchant i08 W. 6th St.,Rm. 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
POSITION WANTED
I have moved to California to make my home. Have 10 years experience as m:rnager of retail lumber yard in Minnesota & North Dakota. Married & have three children. Would like to work for active lumber company.
MANVIL A. LUND
17811 East Chapman, Orange, California
POSITION WANTED
Married, 27 years old, college graduate, serving overs€as Air Corps, available January lst. Grew up :uound sawmills, 4 years retail experience. Consider wholesale companysawmill sales dept or retail. Willing to do some traveling.
Address Box C-2091, California Lumber Merchant, 108 W. 6th St., Rnr. 508, Los Angeles 14,Calif.
SPECIALTY SALESMAN WANTED
To work out of Los Angelesoffice calling on architects and contractors in California and Arizona. Must havegeneral knowledge of Plywood, Doors and Lumber.
Address Box C-2096, California Lumber Merchant f08 W. 6th St.,Rm. 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
RETAIL LUMBERMAN WANTED
Wanted good retail lumberman, young mnn preferred, for bookkeeping,estimating, counter sales, and all-round work. Rapid and accurate with figures. Three or more years experience in retail lumber is a "must."
One qualified to be second man or better in small line yard might fill the bill. Good salary if lrou qurtify. Excellent opening for qualified p€rson. Give experience, qualifications, age, and pertinent information. Replies confidential if you wish.
HYDE PARK LUMBER CO.
6722 Crenshaw Blvd., Los Angeles 43
WANTED_SALESMEN
Well financed, reliable wholesale lumber firm interviewing qualified salesmen for Southern Calif. territories. Only interested in thosc who have confidence in thems€lves to produce.
Address Box C-2094. California Lumber Merchant f08 W. 6th St.,Rm. 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
WANTED
Live wire salesman for old established company. Experienced in both contractor & industrial sales.
Address Box C-2W2, The California Lumber Merchant, 108 W. 6th St., Rrn 508, Los Angeles 14,Calif.
WANTED
Work for 15,0@ lb. Ross Fork Lift; also lumber trucks. 235 S. Kellogg, Fullerton, Calif.
Phone cve. LAmbert 9,'38E2 Rates reosonable
Dccenber 15, 1952
INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
*Adve.titing qppeori in qllernole iruer Koehl & Son, In<', John W. -'..-.........-------- | Acne 5o3h Bqloce Co, ..-------.-.-.-....-...-.-----49 Kuhl Lumber Co.' Corl H.-----.--'-'----....------64 Almqc Wood lndu:lrier, In<. ----..............-. 1 t. A. Dry Kiln & Storoge, InG, ..-........----- f Ame.i<on Hordwood Co, --..,-.--.---------.--...-.. I Lmon Lumber Co. -...-...-.---,,..-....--..----------:|
Anericqn Lumber & Treqting Co, -...------ 43 Lorence-Philips Lunber Co
Arcoto Redwood Co. ,-..
Lumbei Co,
Asrociofed Molding Co. .----,..--...-.--.----.....---53 Long-Bell Lumber Co.
Associoted Ptywood Millr, ln.. ....-...........27. Lor Angeler Lumber Inc, AtlqnfiG Lumber Co. .,-..-----,,-.,-,-....- Los-Ccl Iumber Co. -.---.....-..-..-.....--....---. Lumber Dryers, In<. -,--.......--,,-.-.....-.......-...- | Bock Ponel Compoy-........-.---------,--.-,.......61 Lumbet In<'Boxter & Co., J. H. Lmber lionufocture.s, Inc, Bqxler 'tlonufdclurets, Inc' ""Bender, Eorle D. .--.-------....--------. :l' Lumber Mill &. Sup-ply C?:. -"":
gli5, & Gqtes Lumber Co, .--.-_.---...-._.--.--....59 Lumber Re:owing E Hodling Co. Blue Diqmond Cotporotion * Lumber 5oles -Co'.-" --------------'--- -'
B & ,lt Lunbet Co. --..-.-------.--.
Bohnhofr Lumber Co., Inc.
Bunyon Lumber Co., Posl..-.--,-,. Burns tumber Co. -,,,....-----,---...-,..
Coscqde Pocific Co, --..--.-.,-,.-.--.--.-...-..---...--52
Celoter Co.porqtion, The --.-....--.-.-..-----.---. I
Chqntlond li Arocioter, P. W. ----,,....-'---.. *
Chriirenion fumber Co. --------.....-.---.---..-,,,--59
Clough, George -------,-.-,,,39
Cobb Compony, T. i,l. ----,,--.....-.-.--.-.-,.,,-,- |
Coloniql Cedor Co., In<. ,,,,--..-.--,,-,-.---...-.-*
Consolidoted Lumber Co. .-.-..------........-*
Cooper-Morgon Lumber Co. ...-----.,.--,-.---,..--38
Coor-Pender & Long -----.....,,-.--..,..,,-------.,,,,63
Cooper Wholesole Lumber Co., W. E..--.--47
Cords Lumber Co. .--.--,,...-.,.---.--.--.-.--.-....---I0
Crosgel! Lunbe. Co. .-----..,,,,.-,,,,.----.----.-.-,-,.15
Curlir Componies .......------...-..- I
Dqlton, R. W. & Co. .-----.-,-----------,----,-.-..--.64
Dont & Rus:ell, Inc.,--.--.,...-,,,,......---..-----..43
Dove Dqvis Lumber Co. ....--.--.---.-.------------.-62
Dovidion Plywood E lumber Co. -----,-.--OBC
Dovis Plywood Corp. -.--,,...------.--.-.--------,..-- |
Dell Lumber Corp.,,,..,,,,.,..-..------,-.--,,,-.....-*
Derry Lumber Co., Al .-..----.,,--,-.,....-.--.--.--.65
Diomond W Supply Co.
Pa\ed Drllrr Co .....-.-.....,.--.,,.-.,.-.-...--...64
Donover Lumber Co,.-.-.-.-.....-.-.--,----.--.-,,-,..-3-J
Douglqs Fir Plywood Arsociotion ---.------..--14
Eckstrom Plywood E Door Co. --.,--..----.-..-*
Elliott. F. W. -..-.,.......,....,.-...,-,,-,.--.......,-,,..63
Eells-Wolker Plywood E Door Co. .-.,.,,-,,,. t
Empire Redwood Co. ..--------..,-.,,---.-.-,.,,-..,,. *
Emsco Plywood -,...------.----.------..-- |
Essley & 5on, D. C. -.----........----------,-.-,,-.,t
Eubonk & Son, L. H. -..-----.-..-.-.-----.----,-.,-.-, *
Ex<honge Sowmills Soles Co. -......
FqiJhurst Lumber Co. ....--.......-...
Fern Tru<king Co. .....-...........-.-.-..--.--
Fidlers Monu{octuring Co, -............-....
Filk E Mqlon
Flomer, Erik
Fordyce Lumber Co. .......--....-..--.........
Fore3l Fibe. Produ<lc Co.
Forert Productr 5qles Co. -.........--
Founloin Lcmber Co., Ed --..,-.-.:.-,,,,..
Freemon & Co., Stephen G. ........--....
Golleher Hqrdwood Co. ..............
Golden Gqte lumber Co. -...
Gordon-MocBeolh
Gosslin-Hording Lumber Co.
Holey B.o!.
Hommond Lumber Co, .-..-.-.
Hiqhlqnd lumber Co.
Northern Redwood Lmber Co. --.---.....-.....-63
Olren-Corpenle. Lumber Co. -...--....-.....--.... :|
O'Ne.ll lrr,ll E Lumber Co., J. K. .-..-----.--63
Orgood, Robe.t 5. --,....--.,-----------.--..---........ *
Pobco Products:, In(. -..-----.....--..-.,,.-...-...- i
Pqcrlic Cod!t Aggregote3, Inc. -.------..--.,----51
Poqfic Fir 5ole: --.-----..-..,,---.---.------............-32
Pociftc Forest Produ.ts, In(. ---..---..-.--....-..- :|
Pqcific Lumber Deolers Supply, ln<. --....-, *
Pqcifi< Lumber Co., The .------...----..--....-....-
Pqcific 5oles a Equipment Co. --.---.-..------
Pocrfic Wrre Products Co. --------.--.--.-...-...... *
Podulq Lumber Co., E. A. .-..--..-.--.,,,...,----41
Pcromrno Lumber Co.
Penberlhy Lumber Co. ---..--,---------.--..-,,-,,.--. *
Permq P.odu(ls Co. ---.----..---------.-------.--.----- 5
Pelry Dooi Co. .,,,.,-,--------.-------.-....-._.,_-------31
Ponderoso Pine Woodwork ---------.--.--------.-*
Pope & Tolbot, In<., Lumber Div. -.......-.lFC
Portlond Cement Asiociolion ...,.--..-.....-...... *
Ptecrsron Kiln Dryrng Co. -----.---.-.--..-..-...... *
Red Cedor 5hingle Bureou
Recdy Hung Door lilfg, Co. of 5o.
leef lumber Servi(e
Rrrci & Kruse Lumber
Rocs Corrier Co.
Roundi Lumber Compony
Roy Forest Producls Co.
J. M. Hotchkiss
0latuaaiea
Funeral services were held in Oakland for J. Miller Hotchkiss, for manl' years active in lumber and farming investments in California, n'ho died November 17 at his I home of a heart attack after a long illness. He was 71 | years of age.
FIe u,as formerlv president of Hobbs Wall & Co.. San Francisco, and $'as a former president of the California I Redr.r,ood Association.
Mr. Hotchkiss, a native Californian, graduated from the University of California in 1902. For more than forty years he maintained an investment office in San Francisco. He was a director of the Visalia Orchard Company and the Westates Petroleum Corporation at the time of his death. His survivors include his rn'idorv, Margaretta, and two I sons, \Villiam J. Hotchkiss and James NI. Hotchkiss, Jr., I both of Oakland, and three grandchildren. -
Hrr r.umber Go., Roy ......:....; w::1.:.'..",.,'1.*Tnii !l... ....._.,...,.....,..... I
Hill a llo.ton. lnc. ..............,.-,...... . 33 ii;;l;;; ;;;.-".d sqrh co. .-........_..,.,.,.... *
Hobbs Woll Lumber Co...-,,.-....
Mrs. Ruby Esther Liggett
Hoqon Lumbe, c". ..,..........................-.....ci w::Hl 3llrll'l,j"'...............,.................... :
Holmes Eureko Lumber co " -" ' l.l it;.i;t; 'i";;*"od Lumber Go. -......---..oFC
Hoover €o., A. t. ....-...,........., .... ..55 vi;;;;;; ditt'l Arirains co. ,....:........... t
Hylter componv I tii;;;;;; i;;; lssociofion ._,_....._..,._........... +
Funeral services for Mrs. Rubv Esther Liggett. wife of F Delbert E. Liggett, real estate broker and retired lumber-l man, who operated a retail lumber yard at Santa Ana forl many years, \\'ere,held at Santa Ana on November 20.
NIrs. Liggett, a resident of Santa Ana for 36 years, alsof leaves a daughter, Mrs. David E,. Kellar, of Santa Ana;l tu'o sisters, Mrs. Golda Allen of Portland, Ore., and Mis.l Pearl Liggett, Santa -Ana. and a hrother, Harold.
68 CAIIFONNIA TUMBER MENCHANT
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--.---.---.--.-...-.--...... * Rudboch & Co., Joha A. -...--------..-----------... * 3 & 5 Lumber Co. .....----------.----------..-,-------* Sqnto Fe Ismber Co. ,,--.,-...-..,-,-.-....-...-.... * * Sierro Redwood Co. Bonninglon Iumber Co. --...-..----.------.-.-,,...--53 llcCollum, In<,, D. D. .....-------.--.--..-,.-....--63 Brown & Compony, CdlY .......-.-----..--.---..---- * liccloud Lumber Co. ----...-..-..-----..-...--..--,.--47 Cqlwerq: Cemenl Co. ------.,Cqliforniq Door Co. -..-------,-. Cqlifornio Lumber Soler Co. '.-----.....57 mqish Wqll Product!, ln<. -.-..-..-.......----.--. * -..----.... * Alqrlin Plywood Co. -......-.....-.-..---.--.-....-.--.. * -_-----...* ,|lqrliner Co., L. W. ..-.-.,-,..-.....-.....---.----,-. I Cqfifornio Ponel & Veneer Co. -...-.----.----.35 llonolilh Portlond Cemenl Co. ..-....-..--.---.-22 Cclifornio Redwood Acrn. iloote Dry Kiln Co. Evont Fotesl P.odu(li, Inc, .-.--.------.-.:.---..-. * Sonford-Lussier, In<. ..--,,.-.....--..-.-.......-----,. * Srmp3on logging Co. ---.----,--,..-------.--..11, 29 Sirqfkroft Co., The ...,....,...,,...-.----.-.-...........24 Smith Lumber Co,, Rolph L. ---.-.----...-,,..---* So-Col Building iloteriqls Co., In<. -,------28 Southern Lumber Co. -...--.-,--.....,--,,-....-...-...62 Southwerl Plywood Corp. -.,--..-.--.,--..-----.... * southwelte.n Porllqnd Cement Co, I Slqnton & 5on, E. J, ..,,.-,-,-.---,------.-.----.---49 Strqble Hordwood Co.,,.--,..---,-,,.-.,-.,,.--..---- * Sturdee Steel Producti Co. ---.-,--.,-----.--.-----61 -65 Union lumber Co, ,.., I ..-.57 .-..31 ....57 ...* ..--,---55 Superior Lwber Soles --. -- -------- --.-------- i Gomerslon & Green Lumber Co. ._--.-....-.--_- * Tqcomo Lmber Sqler ....-......-......,,-_.--.-_..--20 Gorclo Troftc Seili.e, B. R. ---.-,-,-,------.--.--65 Tordy, Joe ----....--..--....-'-.---------...-....---,........-63 Gerlinger Cqrrier Co. --,..-...-.,..,..........-......--61 Tdrler, Weblfer E Johnron, Inc. ----,---...----. 9 Gett Bioi. & Co. -..__-....--._..---_--..._----_-_...----33 Triongle Lumber Co. -----.-,--,----.,---------.-....--65 Gilbreofh Chemicol Co. .......-----_.-.-,--_.,--_.,-- * Tr:nity River Lumber Soler Co I 56 Upson Compony, The..,........-..-.....-...-........* Hofl Co., Jqmes L. ._,,,--....,__,,_,,__.__...-,..--..- * U. S. Plywood Corp, ------.---,-------.-------..-----, 4 Hqrrir Lumber Co., L. E. .....-....-.. * Vqn Arsdole-Horrir lumber Co., Inc.---..---.-6I fdqro lumber Co. -.--...----.,----.------.--..-------64 Weyerhoeuser 5oles Co. Heberle & Co., R. J. -----,---.----..-..------.--------38 Virsinio Hordwood Co. .....-_------_---,_,-----_,-..55
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Hemminst Lumber
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Heron Lumber co', ln<'
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ORt6ON IN C}iECTER,@AED-LIPE BLOCXS. CIEAR.CUT PAICIIf6 AETE PESEEDEP NATURATIY BY 6PESI.I TREE' 6ROIJ|,IN6 IN N€ARBY €EED BLOCR9
One can travel the \\'restern Washington and Oregon highways and never be out of sight of Douglas fir trees.
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BUYER'S GUIDE SAT
Windolrr Co., Ltd,, Gcorge. ..VAtcncic t-l8ll
Ziel 6 Co,. Inc...... .......YIItcon2-0210
HANDWOODS
Whit. Erothers .ATwatcr 8-1400
CNEOSOTED LT'IVIBEN_POLESPILINGI_TIES
Americcl Lumber C Trcciing Co.....SUtter l-t028
Bcxter, l. H. d Co..........:........yukou 2-0i00
Hcll, fcner L........ .......Suuer i-i5i0
Pope d Tclbot, Iuc., Lunbcr Divigion, wcndtins-Nothcn co. .. .?o"tlt* ?:3i3i
Plernont 5-7322
KEUos l-8{66
Brucc Co., E, L,... ........Gtlog3-8677
Slroblc Hcrdwood Conpary....TEnplcbcr 2-SS8{ White Brothcn .ANdovcr l-1600
f,OS ANGETES
LI'MBER
Aagelus Fir d Pile Scleg Co. (Son Mcrino)
Arccrc Redwood co. (1. I. Bcc) .:rl&"#*"t-?i33
Atkirson-Slutz Co, (E. W. "Ed', Gould) .... .....CApitol t269
Atlsntic Lumber Co. (C. P. Henry d Co.)
Aucs r.umber co. .... l.tr"itril !|el
Bcck Luuber Co., J. Wn. .ADcur l-(t6l
Bcush, ccrl w. (Pqscdens) St;*18 IlS3
Bliss 6 Gqtes Lumber Co. ......UNderhill 0-3d5{
Brown d Compoay, Clcy .YOrt< 1168
Brush Industricl Luuber Co. ....IlNderbitt 0-gg0l
Eums Lunber Conpcny .WEbgter 3-5861
Cclilonic Soltwood Sctcs ........CApitol 2-0284 (Volsted!trer! Lbr. Co. ol McMiuville, Orr.
Ccrr d Co., L. I. (W. D. Dunniag) pRospect 88{3
Chcltlcud cnd Aseociates, P. W. AXninistor 5296
Cbeuey Lumber Co, (Burns Lumber Co.) ............WEbster 3-5961
Goorse Clough .DUn&ir& 2-221{
Consolidcted Lumber Co. ........Rlchmoad 2t{t (Wilmington) ......NE, 6-188t Wilm. Ter. ,t-263i
Cooper-Morgcn Lumber Co, Willrsd T. Cooper Lbr. Co. (Glcadcle) CHclmcu 5-{800
Cooper Wholescle Lumber Co., W. E. ..yOrk 82it8
Cozby Lumber Co. (South Gcte ....LOrqiu 6-5121
Dqllon d Co., B. 1lg, (Scr Mcrino) t,rcmid l-2127
Dqnt d Russoll, Scler Co. ...ADmt 8I0l
Dorl Lumber Corp. (Studio Cily) ..STanfey i_i6m
Al Derry Lunber Co. .....ANgclur 0956
Denuis Lumber Conpaay .......BBcdshcw 2-5931
Donover Co,, lnc. ........ADcng l-rl|l05
Essley, D. C. d Sou IJNderbill 0-l14?
Fcirhurst Lumber Co. of Cqlil. (Los Angebe Lunber , Inc.). .MAdison 5-9l3rf
Fisk 6 Mceou (So. Pcscdenc) Sil;l?ll lllil
Erik Flqner (Loug Eeach). .L.8. 6-5232; NE 6-2Z2{
Foresl Products Sqles Co, (Inglewood) Plecsaat 3-ll4l
Freenqu d Co., Stcphen G. (Bctboc) Hatbor ZO21
Ed. Fountoin Lunbcr Co. .LOgcn 8-Zl3l
Getz Bros. d Co. .Blchmond 9l?g
Gosalia-Hcrding Lunber Co. (Joc Prtrogb) .........trNgclue 3-8951
Hannond Lunber Compcny .PRospect llTl
Hsrris Lumber Co., L.E. .......DUntrirtr 2-2301
Hcbcrlc d Co., R. J, (Conpton) ..NEvqdq 6-2595
Hennings Lumber Co...........NOnody l-2t{3
rnt d Morron. rnc. .. t*f,*:g 3:i?3:
EorlHollnoa Co. OBrgon 8-5019
llolmcs Eurelc Lumber Co. .MUtucl glSl
Hoovor Co., A. I.. ..YOrL 1168
ltrhitr lunbor Co.. Hcny H...
Wilroa Luabor Co., A. f,. Wileoa, Wn. lrl lfileor, lrl E:-r. iv;;e-iu;*; C;: : : Wood, Ecrl F.
CRESOTED LUMBEN_POLES_PILING]-TTES
trmerical Lumber d Trectiaq Co...MAdison B-S818
Bcxter J. H. 6 Co.
McCoruicl d Bcxlcr
fRATGISGO
..PYrcnid l-1I24
Creototiag Co. ORccon 8-3725 Popc 6 Tclbot, Inc., Lunbcr DivisionPRoepect 823t HANDWOODS Brucr Co.. E. L. .Plccrcnt 3-ll0l Amcdcm Hcrdwood Co. ..........PRomect {!l3S AO.rr Lubcr Co. ...Tltiaitv Z3zs Eohlboff Lumber Co., Inc. .P8orprci 3Z{5 Brugh lndurrriql Lumbcr Co. ....UNd.rf,itt 0-330t Gcllehcr Hardwood Co. .Plccrtrnt 2-3ig6 McEianey Hqrdwood Co. .LOrain 9-2055 Peabcrthy Lunber Co. .f,Inbclt Sltl Scnlord-Lusier, lac. ..........AXminister 2-9181 Stahl Lumber Co., Inc. .ANgclus 0-6109 Slqntoq d Son, E. J. ...... .ADug {-9211 T-{opical 0_ Weatorg Lunbor Co. ....LOgcn 8-23?5 lirgiric Hcr{wood Co. (Monrovic) E[iott 8-{594 We3tem Hqrdwood Luabcr Co. ...'.PBospoct 6ttit SASH_D O ONS_MILLWONT-SCREENS PLYWOOD_TRONING BOANDS
Beoutiful 3-dimensionol PIY' wood with oqk hnrd roised groin surfoces. ln eosy lo instoll Douglqs Fir Plywood. Eosy to mqinlqin, Etchwood is the originol plywood lextured poneling.
Pegged qnd textured for beouty"..longueond grooved for conven. ience. Solid Redwood poneling. Builders, controclors, architects, specify Etchwqll for hqndsome, drqmqtic effects.
DISTR.IBUTED IN THE FAR WEST
Plywood Los Angeles Los Angeles, Colif.
Dovidson Plywood & Lumber Co. Los Angeles, Gcli{.
Dovidson Plywood & lumber Co. Ssn Frqncisco, Golif.
Dovidson Plywood lnc. Son Diego, Golif.
Dovidson Plywood & Lumber Go.
THE FOttOWING WHOIESAIERS:
8oy Plywood Compony Ooklcnd, Galif.
Copitol Plywood Socr.rmenlo, Ccllf.
= Sqlt Loke Giry, Utoh
Plywood Portlond Porllond, Orc.
Plyngod Tocomo ' locornc, Wosh.
DISTRIBUTED NATIONATTY THROUGH WHOIESALE IU}TBER DEALERS
STOCI IHESE UERSAIITE PERF(INMERS . . F(lN EXIRA PR(IFITS!
THE ORIGINAT T.M. Rcg.
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