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Bird's-eye view of the busy Soper-\Theeler Co. sawmill at Strawberry Valley, Calif ., one of the mills distributing its product through Ostrom Lumber Co. The mill produces Sugar Pine, Ponderosa Pine, Cedar, \7hite Fir and Douglas Fir from its own carefully managed timber stands and Forest Service timber. Under the able supervision of Bill Holmes, Soper-\Wheeler's skilled lumbermen take great pride in producing a cluality product. Ostrom remanufactures the rough-sawn lumber and ships it to practically every state in the Union. You can depend on Ostrom giving you the sarne high quality product euery time. Prove it to yourself by letting the Big "O" serve you on your next big order.
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Continuing demand from California and Arizona was a major factor in price strength, especially for southern Oregon mills, producing grien Fir dimension, reports Crow's Lumber Market News Servi& for the period ending Feb. 6. January's California and Arizona business was a lifesaver to Oregon mills, according to Crow's. Desoite rumbles that California demand had lost some zip, there was enough to keep d'lmension and board prices strong at mill level and bolstir the market at a time it would otherwise have sagged from midwestern storms and cold.
Shipments of 468 mills reporting to the National Lumber Manufacturers Assn. in the week ending Jan. 31 were 5.4/o above production: orders were 11.9/o above. With a strong rally in 1958's last four months, national lumber production for the year totaled 33,275,000,000 board feet, only l/o below 1957, estimates the NLMA. December's total was 2,678,000,000 b.f., highest total for the month in three years. 1958 shipments totaled 0.5% less than 1957, while new orders booked registered a scant 0.2/o annual gain Orders oI 106,982,573 feet were 6.9/o over production at 148 mills reporting (134 operating) to the West Coast Lumbermen's Assn. in the week ending Jan. 31; shipments w-ere 2.5/o above. Douglas fir region sawmill production for January reported by the WCLA averaged 145,736,000 b.f. weekly; orders averaged 158,098,000 b.f., and shipments 144,585,000 b.f. weekly Orders of 88,668,000 feet soared A.9% above production at 109 mills reporting to the Western Pine Association in the week ending Jan. 31; shipments were 11.0/o above.
In this issue, we welcome these new advertisers into the family of California Lumber "Merchant-isers":
Vogobond Editoriols .. . 2 Personqls
25 Yecns Ago . 14 Fun-Focts-Filosophy
Obituory ........ 18 Colendorof Events.....
My Fovorite Story .. 30 Wcurt Ads
Federol Aid hojects .... 48 ADVERTISERS' INDEX
New Creotive Selling Course O{fered Deolers
WCLA Offers Dcrtq on New Low-cost Wood Schools
Show Outstcrrding New Products ot Builders Convention
Serious FreighfCor Shortcge Fcces Lumber Industry
The A-LMA-NAC ol Northern Colif. Deqlers ...
Southicmd Sets $3 Billion 1958 Building Record
"Business Is Fun"An Editorial
Two Colifornic Ycnds in "Brond-Nome" Finols
A little boosting now and then Is relished by the most of men. No matter what your job may be, If cutting hay or serving tea, Or drafting laws, or making shot, A little boost may mean a lot.
A cheery word, a kindly smile, A friendly nod once in a while, May be the sanding of the track For some poor guy who's slipping back. It isn't blarney, bunk nor show To give a guy a glad hello; And let him know you mean it, too, For somehow it comes back to you And makes for you a brighter day.
The moral isagain I say - It's relished by the most of men, A little boosting now* and then.
"Women," says a modern sage, "run heavy to ads. They are ad-tractive at twenty, ad-tentive at thirty, and adhesive at forty."
Ilorace Walpole said: "The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel."
Emanuel Kant, acknowledged to have been one of the great thinkers of all time, once said: "We are told that man is the noblest work of God. but since no one ever said so except man himself, we should accept the statement with a grain of salt." {<**
It has been frequently remarked by thinking people that the folks you hear singing around a business institution are the employes. The folks who do the worrying seldom do the slngmg. ***
John Galsworthy, defining the essential characteristics of a gentlemen, said: "The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he himself would recoil; the power to do what seems to him to be right, without considering what others would say or think." {<+{.
Nothing is easier than fault-finding. No talent, no courage, no brains, no character is needed to set up in the grumbling business. *t{<
Vash Young said: "My entire span of life is from the time I wake in the morning until I go to sleep at night. The past is over; the future hasn't come; I do not worry over the one, or fear the other, for my concern is making a fine job of today." ***
And then there was the tourist who was driving by a factory building when he saw the big sign: Smith Manufac-
BY JACK DIONNEturing Company. "So," said the all come from."
"that's where they
"Man," wrote Addison, "is the merriest species of creation; all above him, or below him, are serious."
Weird forms of taxation are not new. In 1696, England levied a window tax on her people. You paid so much per window, per year. The result was that many economical builders got to sacrificing both light and ventilation to save the window tax.
Abbe Dimnit said that the history of the past interests us only so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
It has been wisely said that there are two occasions when you should keep your mouth shut; when swimming, and when angry.
The successful writer of sales letters must be one who is in love with his work. The successful sales letter should be written by one who is entirely in earnest. The successful letter-writer puts himself in the other fellow's place. Simplicity is essential. The dramatic and spectacular must be avoided.
Ben Ames Williams said: "Life is the acceptance of responsibilities, or their evasion; it is the business of meeting obligations, or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him." ***
An eminent architect was a witness in court and was being cross-examined. "You are a builder?" asked the lawyer. "No, I am an architect," said the witness. "Is there much difference?" asked the lawyer. The witness said, "Yes, an architect conceives the design, prepares the plans; in short, supplies the mind. The builder is the machine that puts it together." The lawyer said, "Very ingenious distinction. Could you tell me who was the architect of the Tower of Babel?" Said the architect: "There was none: hence the confusion."
The Prophet Isaiah evidently did not like cities for he wrote: "Woe to those who cause house to join on house, bring field near to field, till 3here be no more room." The song "Don't Fence Me In" would have been mighty popular with the old prophet.
And a truism if there ever was one is the waggish remark that "The old trails where two cars could hardly pass without colliding are being replaced by highways and freeways where six or eight cars can collide at the same titne.t'
" Babe, that there's what I call a SOUND FOUNDATION I " observed Paul Bunyan as he delicately lifted up the old house with his pinkie. The Blue Ox grunted. "See them mudsills, girders an' posts? Been settin' there 25 years in the damp an' dark, supportin' 50,000 pounds o' house-an' not a trace o' rot or termites anywhere. Sound as the day they was cut...Babe, sure as you're true blue, that's BAXCO Pressure Treated Foundation Lumber*."
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BAXCO pressure treated Foundation Lumber has been safeguarding thousands of ITestern homes against termites and wood-rot. Pressure treatment locks in the chemical protection for keeps. And when you figure, Paul, that just
one repair bill, caused by rot or termites, can run into hundreds of dollars-well, why take a chance ? Especially since BAXCO Pressure Treated Foundation Lumber adds so little to the total building cdst-just a few dollars. Write todav for free booklet.
PHOIOS BETOW rhow Store octivity ot fha brond-new yord which opencd Dec.mbs 15. Top photo show! lhc veLron D*ld C. C. Knight moking o <ounler !ole, olthough he cloims to bc "inoctive" lhete dqys, but good rcloil lunbqmcn (ond C. C. Knight lS oncl) nevq relly reliro; noia lhe plywood ponclirg dirploy on bock woll, ollro(tivo counlq, lhorc l€rrific afools for lhe cu.lomcrr'solr. ond the rock of plon bookr. Centtr photo showr some of sfore's ncrchondii€ itomt on iidy litlle irlond disployiwell-morked ond pri@d; olro nole vo@nl lot, lt9e5 ond di3tqnl mounloinr oul fronf window, n6n lighting ovd- hod in !lor.. lrys pholo thow. Store Sqlcrmen Bob ,{clandcz ( lsft} ond Bill Brighom by tho Bo.gqin C@niq ond thc trodemorked "Bill pi1g" lile rign of which the lumberyord i. q lo@l poiticipont; hordwore is dirployed on wollr
"$ERVICE" is the way they spell it at the San Fernando Lumber Company-and $ERVICE is what they're giving at the famous San Fernando Valley's newest retail yard. As a matter of fact, THE San Fernando Lumber Co. is one of the fabled Valley's oldest yards as time flies in this fastgrowing section.
The retail yard of that name was started in 1918 by Hal W. Baly, who had started his own retail lumber career in 1899 with the old Kerckhoff-Cuzner Mill & Lumber Co. in Los Angeles. But this is the story here of Chester C. Knight, a kindly and highly respected dealer of the Southern California industry who has shown many a competitor what makes a retail yard click, and of the son he raised in the business, Gerald R. Knightqlfue, together, have created one of the smartest retail operations anywhere in the Southland today.
The present San Fernando Lumber Co. was incorporated just 39 years ago, February l, 1920, including the Van Nuys Lumber Co., doing business as San Fernando Lumber Co., under management of Hal Baly, president, and C. C. Knight, secretary-treasurer, until December 1954. At that time, C. C. Knight and his wife Mrs. Adelaide L. Knight (sister of Hal Baly) purchased the interests of the Balys.
The official Biography roster of the Southern California Retail Lumber Assn. says that Chester Knight embarked on his lumber career in 1901 when he went to work for the Gualalo Mill Co. in Mendocino countv. Calif. In 1904. it adds, he moved to Wilmington and acquired a one-half interest in the Lumber Survevors Assn.. which was sold in 1908. Dealer.Knight, who admits he can remember the oxteam days and is trying to take the dealer's life a little easier nowadays. was himself raised in the industrv in which his fath6r,-Charles, was superintendent of a mili for lJnion Lumber Company in Mendocino county.
Until December 15, just two months ago, Mr. Knight operated his successful retail lumber business at 1229 San Fernando Road. It had earlier been the site of yards operated by Curran and then E. K. Wood, other respected names in Southern California lumber retailing. But the increasing land and real estate values in every section of the Southland, and burgeoning taxes every year, forced Dealer Knight to relocate on the new site. So the 1959 San Fernando Lumber Companv vard is now on an enviable corner site at lst and Hutibaia',q.venue in the city of San Fernando, a few blocks away from the old yard site.
The move was planned for th'ree years arrd, as you study the careful planning evident everywhere, the convenient layout of every department, the thought given to future expansion possibilities-you can understand that these dealers know their business.
The new location is right at the edge of the present town and still affords an unbroken view of trees, lots and the mountains beyond. BUT-the word is out that a huge shopping or industrial center will eventually go up just across the street. And what retail lumberyard wouldn't. envy THAT proximity? A railroad spur is just across the yard on the east.
'\rrrl so I)e:Ller Chestcr Krriglrt s:tvs, "\\'(' ar(' startiltg ltll ovt'r ag:rin," u itlr his soll (;cral(l Krriglit ils stcretar_\'lreasrlrcrr oi thc c()nlpatt_\-zrlr(1 lllilnilgcr ()i th('\'ar(l t()(l:I-\-.
(Correction : Jerry Knight says it is a STORE-not a yard-and more power to him for this forward-thinking, modern-day merchandising outlook.)
C. L.. Iinie-lrt scrve(l exccllentl_r' iIS nl:Irrag('r' of tltc cotrt prLn,r'iroru 1()21) to 1().5-1.,f crrf is rr<,n'irr chargc of the olrer;Ltions ":rrrrl <krirrq-a lntc'.job," sa-r's C. C. Krright, fol1o*'ing irr lris rlarl's succt's.ful footstt'1rs.
-l-hev have tlre ttcrr'\'ar(l rntir('lv colcrcd u'itlr blacl<totr, uitlr;rrr.l,ell \tcel lrrrililirrg rrlxll{ l';Lrtrl -15{ )0.,1. ft.,,i,,ltir't' lrrr<1 .:torr, arrrl ;r 22r80 nrorrl<ling :rncl lrl,r'n'ootl sherl. 'l'he :rcconrparr-r'ing' photos spe:Lk n'ell cttough for tlrcrttserlr-cs oi tlrc 1:rlorrt an(l :rrrangcrnent oi tlrc sireds iutd st()rt rlelr:rrtrrrt'rrts.:Lrrrl thc frrtrrrc of thc tn-o-nronths o1<1 "stort"'is still irr the f utrrre.
"\\'e rcall,r- rlon't krron' r't't jtrst e\actl-\' n'hat t,r1re tratle n,e n'i1l :rctrra.llv slroot ior." :rrlnrits \-oLllrg .l crry Iinight.
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irr ltcti()rr rLt tlrr stor(' rIltd c:trrVittg lter 0$ lt llo:trrl ottt t0 lrt'r t'ar.
"We rather like waiting on the ladies," says Jerry Knight in answer to our question on this subject. "They don't know what they want and admit it-and we can helo them with their needs and make sincere future cusiomers of them.
"'l'lrat's orrr of tlre thirrrrs \\'e'rc zlilning fr,r," he s:rir1.
.-\ I)o-l t Yoursclf (le1)irrtnrelrt n'i1l rrrobablv conrt' lvlre n tltr rltrLlers lt:Lvt ltlt,l ttt,,t'r: cll;trt(c lr,:lttrlv llit'f],,n,,f-cll. tonr('r tralhc irr tlrc infarrt storc. thev ll:o c-r1,t'11. This "study" can't take too long because on a recent Saturday morning there were 35 cars on the yard's parking facilities at one time. The yard, incidentally, is open from 7 :30 a.m. till Noon on that day.
.\sl<c<l :rbout Corrtr-act()r l)usincss, C. C. I(rriq-lrt. rvlro still r:rcks up a rlrrick, slr:rrp arrrl conrlrlt'te sale hirrrsclf u-lrcnc'r'er 1re's in the storc (as arrotlrcr- 1)ll()t() pr()\'('s ), saitl tlrc llrln (Corrtinrrc<l on l):rge l(r)
SO SHE PAID HER MONEY, picked up her boord ond wenl home lo do-i1-herself. Yep! Thol's o sure-enough, genuine lody lumberyord cuslomer there ot the righl, picking up the boord she hos iust boughl from Jerry Knight (cenier) ond loking it oul lo her <or porked on lhe yord's loi bv the side enlronae
A course designed to teach creative selling as an import_ant step on the ladder toward higher profits has been developed by United States Plywood Cbrporation as a cooperative sales-service aid to its nation-wide network of lumber dealers.
Playing to a standing-room-only audience during its preview at the recent NRLDA convention in Chicago, the program was hailed as olle of the most thought-provoking ever offered. #
A departure from the pedantic, stereotyped approach to sales training, the six-point, take-home study plan, packaged for easy handling, contains three segments :
1. A set of tl-rree records, each side relating in narrative fashion a ten-mirrute dramatization of the how-to's and how-not-to's of salesmanship within each of the six categories:
(a) Creative Selling.
(b) Weldwood Fir Plywood, Related Proclucts and Their Uses.
(c) The Paneling Department Concept.
(d) Selling Decorative Paneling.
(.) Selling Pine Plywood, 3f,, Weldwood Plywood, Duraply and Novoply.
(f ) Finishing the Installation.
A skilled sales veteran, Frank, explains to Scotty, a serious-minded neophyte, the profit-elements of crejtive selling in a humorous -and human-interest discourse.
2. A Sales Training Manual, outlining the A-B-C's of the skilled-sales formula, with sketches graphically illustrating the points involved at the point of1al-es.
3. A questionnaire designed to evaluate the student's receptivity to the major selling points suggested in the course. In the form of a self-mailer, the questionnaire may be sent to tl.re United States Plywood home office for graci-
ing. Certificates of merit will be issued to all students who receive a grade of 75 or over.
The cost to the dealer is $12.00 for the records, manual, questionnaire and grading. Extra sets of home-study material, excluding records, are available at $6.00.
Clrico, Calif.-Lester J. Motta, 29-year veteran with Diamond Gardner and the former Diamond Match Company, has been raised to assistant division manager of the California Retail Division. He will supervise all financing, credit and collections for the division. Motta started as a bookkeeper and has served in various accounting and financial positions throughout the division.
AN ATTRACTIVE TRADE AND PROFIT BUIIDER, because of its many appealing sales features. Goes with any architectural style-a true beauty for looks. Easy to install and to operate and keep clean. Also easy on your customer's pocketbook; a welcome and refreshing innovation these days. Outstanding is its complete weather protection feature. Hogan products have long been famous for enduring quality.
Our enlarged Metal Products Division carries complete stocks of building materials that retail lumber merchants can buy with confidence-products that are wanted, that yield a satisfactory profit and build volume.
Hogan Wholesale is headquarters for Aluminum Casement
Sash, Horizontal Sliding Windows, Patio Doors, Jalousie Windows, AwningWindows and other equally fine types of modern metal products for homes, industries and institutions. Windows are shop glazed at our plant-and aluminum beads installed. Complete units shipped to you, ready for your customers to install.
Portland, Oregon- (Special) -"Today's Better Schools Are Built of Wood," the most comprehensive booklet on wood schools ever developed by any segment of the lumber industry, has just been published by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association.
Designed to provide reliable and factual material for officials involved in school building programs and architects as well as the average citizen who is interested in economical educational facilities, the twelve-page, full-color, booklet will be distributed free of charge.
Aware of the critical shortage of classrooms currently
existing throughout the nation and the fact that a majority
of communities are operating on limited building budgets,
WCLA, after extensive reseirch, has provided ipecifiJ in-
formation on how attractive and durable wood sChools can
be constructed at lower costs to meet any area's needs.
In organizing the material for the bobklet, WCLA fol-
lowed actual school construction projects step by step. As
to finish with substantiating cost and consitruction data have
been included in the publication. Other important considerations in school building plans, such as fire safety and in-
surance, also are covered.
, Officials of existing wood schools permitted WCLA to
search records and come up, for the first time, with complete maintenance cost figures which refute the misconception
that wood structure upkeep is exorbitant. Technical aisist-
ance also is offered with valuable information and sketches
of labor-and cost-saving wood floor sysrems.
The booklet is available by writing to the West Coast Lumbermen's Association af 1410 S.W. Morrison Street.
Portland 5, Oregon.
Ohio's 1168 school districts have an opportunity today to take advantage of the economy, beauty and safety factois of o-ne-story wood frame schools featuring wood paneling in classrooms. A recent change in the OhiJstate Uditding Jode permits -the construction of one-story wood frame sihools up to 8,000 square feet, according to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. Previously. this tvoe of school construction was not permitted by th;-Ohio ;ode. Another change in Ohio building regulations permits the use of wood paneling and other typls oI interior wood finish in school classrooms, gymnasium and cafeterias.
The savings possible with wood-frame school construction were explained to members of the Ohio As-
sociation of Retail Lumber Dealers at their recent annual convention in Columbus.
Dr. Raymond J. Lockhart, school superintendent of Massapequa, N. Y., told the Ohio lumbermen that his community has been able to buy two schools for about the price of one by:
l Using wood frame-brick veneer construction instead of steel framing and solid masonry walls.
2. Retiring school bonds in L5 years instead of 30.
"In some cases, this has meant a saving of more than a million dollars a school," Dr. Lockhart reoorted. "Moreover, the children in our wood frame-brick veneer schools are as safe from fire as the youngsters in our steel framesolid masonry buildings," he emphasized.
"Human safety is a matter of exits rather than materials of, construction, and every classroom in our gne-story schools has its own outside door, permitting the building t-o be emptied in 25 seconds or less. -
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"An extra safeguard is provided by the heavy timber beams and arches used in fhe gymnajium and ot'her open areas of our wood frame schools. In case of fire. unoroteCted steel framing would buckle and fail structurally loirg before these heavy timbers would collapse.
"We're paying off our wood frame-brick veneer schools in only 15 years, as against 30 years for buildings of solid masonry-steel frame construction. In the case of the Hawthorn and East Lake schools, this will mean an important reduction in school bond interest-$602.480-in favor of the Hawthorn building."
Fire insurance rates are another factor to be figured, but in spite of the higher insurance rates on wood fiame-brick veneer.schools, Massapequa officials say they're still way ahead dollarwise with this type of construction
Here's how Dr. Lockhart iu-. up the difference in total cost between wood frame schools, like the Hawthorn unit, and masonry-steel frame structures, like the East Lake school:
"Figuring all our expenses-initial tonstruction costs, equipment, finance charges and insurance premiums-the price tag on the East Lake school is $2,747,320. For the Hawthorn school, the total cost figure is only $1,506,740or $7,240,570 less.
"We're proud that the money saved on the Hawthorn school was almost enough to pay for another, even larger wood frame school constructed the following year. And we feel that other communities can do much to solve their school construction problems by following our example."
(TeIl them Aou sau it in The California Lumber Merchant)
A new generation of expert "do-it-yourself" craftsmen is on the way.
Today's small fry starts working with wood before they're old enough to aim a hammer, according to spokesmen for the toy and wood industries.
Small children like the feel of wood because it was once a living thing, according to the Toy Guidance Council, Inc. And they now get an early start on creative building ,because their material is in more realistic form, the National Lumber Manufacturers Association adds.
Father may struggle with a pattern for making a coffee tablebut Junior already knows his way around such things as Gothic arches, elliptical curves, ramps and buttresses.
"Children's building blocks have evolved into miniature lumber yards," the National Lumber Manufacturers Association said. "Schools and nurseries are equipped with extensive 'lumber stacks'-solid wood units and large hollow wood blocks in modular sizes, together with boards cleated or notched for easy assembly. The nursery set builds airports, apartment houses, farms and stores.
"Even before they are old enough for hammer and nail projects, youngsters today are developing a lifetime familiarity with woodworking. This is because educators and toy designers some years ago found that children were happier when they could work creatively with wood. They discovered that a child outgrew his vari-colored ABC,blocks as soon as he realized that the house he was trying to build didn't look like a real house. This brousht to
A cutting board, combination "snack barrow"-chopping block, and name-and-number- plate have been selected for this year's three top Junior Achievement awards in the wood products competition sponsored annually by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association as a public service and to encourage teen-age interest in wood products manufacture
Under the Junior Achievement program, groups of boys and
the market sets of unpainted blocks in interrelated shapes that provided encouraging building material."
Now the trend is to large-size wood hollow ,blocks, prefabricated building components such as arches and buttresses, and use of boards and strips.
Use of wood equipment and wood materials in schools and nurseries has also influenced parents to provide similar playthings at home, it was pointed out by Mrs. Lenore K. Bartlett, former teacher and operator of the Play Center, which supplies many schools in the Washington, D.C. area with play equipment.
"We hope that the gadget era is on the way out," Mrs. Bartlett said. "Such toys do not hold a child's interest long and may break easily. The emphasis both at school and homs is now on toys and equipment that let the child's imaginative powers take over wh,ere the toy designers leave off. Wood usually fills this role well. Children undeniably like the feel of wood and feel secure and confident in working and playing with it.
"For example, gyms and ladder jungles for young children are made of wood. They are safer, don't rust or get hot or cold. These wood ladder networks offer long-lasting play ideas; they may be floored and roofed with cleated boards at different levels to make a ho,use. Large blocks are inserted into the ladder squares to make tables, seats and platforms."
Children are the original do-it-yourself enthusiasts, according to Mrs. Bartlett. "They don't like to be spectators and watch a toy work," she said. "They want to work their toys and put their own ideas into action."
girls,. 15 to 19 years of age, are given help in setting up and running their own small companies. Each company formed bv the youngsters has a sponsor, obtained by committees of local business leaders.
Each Junior Achievement company raises its own capital by selling stock at 50 cents a share. This is used by the-younssters to produce a product or provide a service. ln aiaiUo"n to wood products, the business classifications in which Tunior Achievement companies operate includes plastics, metals, ihemicals, printing, textiles., food products, leather goods, publishing, ceramics and secretarial service.
The 1957 winners included: Third Place-Associated Redwood Products, San Jose, Calif.; Sponsor: Ford Motor Co.; Product: name-and-number plate. Companies given Honorable Mention included: Forest Products, Tacoma, Wash.; Sponsor: Weyerhaeuser Timber Co.; Product: X-L knife holder.
Six models of power chain saws make up the 1958-59 Iine now bein_g introduced to the market by the McCulloch Corporation, Los Angeles, world's largest ihain saw manufacturer. The five new saws feature idvanced engineering improvements designed to give users more holsepower-. lighter weight, greater ease in handling and lower over-ali maintenance costs. The line will also include McCulloch,s popular high powefed saw, the Model 99; McCulloch pintail saw chain; the McCulloch Brushcutter, and other accessory power tools.
Stockton, Calif.-O. D. Ruse, veteran lumber dealer now in the Ruse Lumber Company here, celebrated 50 years in the lumber business on Februarv l. 1959. He has been in the business here for the last 37 yearjand, prior to coming to Stockton, spent 13 years in lumber in Kansas, Nebraska and Idaho.
In 1928, Mr. Ruse and Don Blair formed a partnership in the Rose-Blair Lumber Co. in Stockton and operated till 1946, when Dealer Ruse and his son, Dale E. Ruse, bought ottt Blair. Dale is his father's present partner in the Ruse Lumber Co.
The yard at 302 West Fremont St. offers its patrons lumber, lath, shingles, wallboard, doors, sash, windows, moulding, hardware and paint.
Veteran O. D. Ruse, now marking up his golden anniversary in the retail lumber field, was one of those honored at the
Old-Timers lumbermen's banquet in Fresno about five years ago. The dealer notifies The CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT that he has taken the magazine since 1922 (its very first year) and "very seldom misses anything."
Joe wil.UAMs ( righr)William C. Anderson, general manager of the Hardwood Corporation of America, announces the appointment of J. V. Williams, 310 North Hillcrest Boulevard, Apt. #4, Inglewood, California, as the company's exclusive West Coast representative. In this capacity, Mr. Williams will handle the company's complete line of high quality Hardwoods and Hardwoocl Products.
Joe Williams has been prominently identified with the lumber industry in California since 1919 both in the retail and wholesale diitribution phases of .the business. Since 1929 he has devoted his primary endeavors to hardwoods, having been associated with E,. J. Stanton & Son for nearly 19 years ancl as sales manager of Angelus Hardwood Con.rpany.
In announcing the appointment, Mr. Anderson stated that he felt the appointment of Mr. Williams represented a significant step forward in the service which the Hardwood Corporation of America would be able to render to its many West Coast customersl
New Orleans, La.-By order of the United States District Court for the Southern district of Florida, Miami division, dated December 19, a Miami retail lumber company was permanently enjoined from infringing upon the registered trade mark "SPIB" designating the Southern Pine Inspection Bureau, and required to forfeit any stamps that may be in its possession bearing this mark. The court decree is based on an injunction suit brought against this retail lumber company, alleging that it had used SPIB grade-marking stamps without authority on lumber delivered to several housing projects in the Miami area.
Early in 1931, Al E. Hollivet, who spent his entire life in the hardwood lumber business, established Angelus Hardwood Co., Inc., and introduced alder to the dealers and re'manufacturing plants in the greater Los Angeles area. Today, the modern plant located at 67C0 South Alameda Street maintains complete inventories of all imported and domestic hardwoods and specializes in the wholesale distribution of imported lumber from Japan and the Philippines. Complete stocks of Pacific Coast hardwoods and southern hardwoods are maintained in quantity for the trade, according to Thpmas W. "Tommy" Burden, general manager of the firm.
The distribution yard today covers a site in excess of five acres. The completely paved facility has six modern storage sheds, customer mill service and employs 18 production workers under the experienced guidance of John Pinnell, general superintendent, who is assisted by Hubert Ivie, yard foreman. Good housekeeping is evident throughout the plant, and the production area, including the mill, is as clean as a whistle.
It somewhat illustrates the woman's touch as Mrs. Al Hollivet is now president and chief executive officer of the
concern since her husband passed away last year. It is her opinion that a clean operation exemplifies cleanliness in doing business and she constantly emphasizes ethics in the daily transactions of all Angelus Hardwood Company employes.
In addition to General Manager Tommy Burden, who has been with Angelus 21 years, the executive and sales staff includes Bryce Wolfe, auditor and credit manager; Evelyn "E,oy" Silva, treasurer; Joe Tardy, Arizona,s?les representative; Dick Gentry, sales ; Chas. Jordan and Bob Kowarsch, Southern California sales. All of these lumber folks have been identified in lumber production and sales for manv vears in the Southland area.
It requires the service of eight units of mobile equipment and a 10-car Southern Pacific spur to keep stock moving into the plant and out to the customers of Angelus.
"Next year we will be ending a total of three decades of lumber distribution and sales in this area, and it has always been the policy of our organization to stock only the finest of materials for the trade. We shall continue to carry complete lines of all foreign and domestic hardwoods for every purpose, including the fine stock produced at the mills of the Goodyear-Nelson Hardwood Lumber Company," said Tommy Burden.
"It is our desire to practice the policies established by our late founder, Al Hollivet, by giving'prompt, efficient service and courteous treatment at all times," he continued.
Because all of the salesmen are out "hitting the ball" for that big sale, Jess Player, well known Southland lumberman, isln charge'of the order desk sales and service department. His job 1s to look after those customer orders and needs while the staff is beating the bushes. And a good job he is doing, too.
All in all, this happy group turies of man-hour sales and knit, hard-hitting bunch of hardwood lumber merchants.
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O Retail Lumber Dealers receive this news with great enthusiasm . Weyerhaeuser
4-Square Idaho White Pine is again readily available in Sterling and Standard grades. Beeause it ideally serves many uses, possesses enduring beauty, and is easy to work, builders and owners recognize the superior qualities of this fine species.
The grades indicated above are ideal for paneling, interior and exterior trim, cabinets, built-ins; boards and battens, and for scores ofother uses. That is the reason dealers are glad to know they can again maintain regular inventories of this favored species.
Professionals and weekend carpenters alike enjoy working with Idaho White Pine. It saws easily and sands quickly to a smooth finish, nails well, and takes stains and paints beautifully.
Because of its enviable reputation, dealers who stock Weyerhaeuser 4-Square Idaho White Pine confidently offer this lumber for a broad range of needs. It is the fine species that has always delivered extra building and decorative values for which white pine has been famous for generations. Your builder customers rely on it as their preferred multi-purpose lumber.
Your Weyerhaeuser District Representative will be glad to inform you as to the many desirable Idaho White Pine items which are readily available in Sterling and Standard grades.
The S.S. Point Loma, which had been in drydock at San Pedro for two weeks undergoing repairs, was put back in service by Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co. on the Coos Bay run . . A. J. Morley visited San Francisco and called on the Santa Fe Lumber Co., representatives of his Saginaw Timber Co. , E. J. Stewart, manager of the Fowler (Calif.) Lumber Co., renewed his subscription for 1934 and declared he wouldn't miss the "Vagabond Editorials" for anything. E. D. Kingsley of the West Oregon Lumber Co. made his headquarters at Wendling-Nathan Co. on a visit to San Francisco Redwood "Boxboard," a new product of the Hammond Lumber Co., was being used for shipments of California wines from Asti.
Ralph Duncan of the Merced Lumber Co. presided at the Feb.2 meeting in the Palace hotel of the Retail Lum-
ber and Building Material Code Authority James Tyson, president of the Chas. Nelson Co.. San Francisco. was recuperating at Palm Springs from a recent illness . A. E. Goodrich resigned as southern California manager of the Union Lumber Company operations D. H. Doud, salesmanager of Defiance Lumber Co., Tacoma, visited Los Angeles and conferred with A. C. Penberthy, manager of the Tacoma Lumber Sales Agency . . E. T. Robie of the Auburn Lumber Co. presided at the Feb. 9 meeting of the Northern Counties Lumbermen's Club.
Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau's order of January 24, suspending regulations in effect since 1931 on trade with Russia, was bringing large increases in imports of Russian ash to Pacific ports George Meissner of the Valley Lumber Co., Lodi, was visiting in Tucson Earl Warren,
district attorney of Alameda county, was secured by Chairman H. Sewall Morton as sDeaker for the Feb. 26 meeting of East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club 39 Henry Willard Taylor, retired lumberman who operated the Taylor Mill & Lumber Co. in Alameda, died in Berkeley Feb. 5.. George A. Slacke was appointed manager of the San Francisco branch of Henry Disston & Sons.
The Lumber Code Authority guaranteed contribution as a birthday gift to President Roosevelt of all lumber and timber products required for the Warm Springs Foundation building
The Philippine Mahogany Manufacturers' Imoort Assn. moved to new quarters in the Board of Trade Bldg., ll1 W. 7th St., Los Angeles . . President George Ley presided at the Feb. 10 meeting of the California Lumbermen's Council in the Hotel Stockton.
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And so, is you can see, the "story" of the "new" San Fernando Lumber Company remains to be written when the new buildings have all settled on the site just-occupied by the successful "old" company management. But these few facts must show that the younger Dealer Knight is well started down a high road well-marked by a knowledgeable father.
Chester Knight has extensive interests in Imperial Valley and spends lots of time down there nowadays (mostly duck-hunling, he says). He is entitled to that easier life he is now pursuing while Jerry Knight "minds the STORE." Mr. Knight is a 50-year member of the state retail lumber associations, joining first the old California Retail Lumber Assn., and later becoming a director of the present South-
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ern California Retail Lumber Assn., in which he served 25 vears from 1930-55. Dealer Knight has been a longtime, iamiliar figure at the annual SCRLA conventions-talking with his flllow lumber retailers, soaking up the valuable information at the business sessions, and always one of the first to visit the exhibit booths and remain to ask the salesmen manning them for additional points of information to help him in the successful conduct of a retail lumberyard.
The resignation of Robert B' Brown, materials handling director for- the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, Washington, D. C., effective January 15, is announced by H. R. Northup-, executive vice-president. Brown has- accepte.d a pPSition as'special representitive for the Materials Handling division of Ylle and Towne Manufacturing Co.
Mr. Brorvn has served as director of the NRLDA's materidls handling activities since July 1956' He org,anized and conducted an indu"stry-wide program in which lumber dealers, manufacturers and wholesileri, together with the railroads, cooperated in the test shipping of uniiized lumber and other building materials. He alsb conducted demonstration programs for the Expositions in 1956, 1957 and 1958, and'for various regional and- state lumber dealer conventions throughout the country'
Curtis Williams, 85, retired lumberman, died January 28 at his Los Angeles home. Mr. Williams was born in Oakland, Calif., reared in San Diego, and went to Los Angeles in 1895 and entered the lumber business. lle rose to assistant manager of the old L. \4r. Blinn Lumber Qo. but left there in the very early 1920s before it became the late Patten-Blinn operation. Mr. Williams then entered the wholesale lumber field and is believed to have partnered with the late Wilfrid M. Cooper and others, later dropping out of his own business to serve as secretary for the wholesalers' association in Southern California. He was later engaged in liquidating the Mox Wrecking Company and served the industry well in this capacity. Mr. Williams suffered a stroke about 25 years ago and retired from lumber activities and had been an invalid most of the time since. He leaves his wife, Ellen, of the home at 2237 S. Hobart Blvd.. where he died: a son in Rock Island. Ill.. and a daughter in Los Angeles, and a brother, Ernest S., the well-known retired Pasadena attorney.
John Hampton Tyson, president of Consolidated Lumber Co., Wilmington, division of The Chas. Nelson Co., died January 23. Mr. Tyson was only in his early 50s but had been in ill health the past several months with a liver ailment. He became president of The Chas. Nelson Co., lity ZS. 1952, in the election of officers following the death of his older brother, James Tyson, Jr., and had only moved his headquarters to Southern California last Tune. Iohn Tyson was a graduate of the University of California and had been in the lumber and building materials business with the Chas. Nelson Co. his entire career. He leaves his wife. Cornelia. of the home at 1915 Kewamee Drive, Corona del Mar, and two sons, John and James. Funeral services were held in an Oakland mortuary, January 27, and burial was also in his Northern California home city.
Jesse A. McCain, 60, well-known Los Angeles lumberman, died January 26. He had joined the old Kerckhoff-Cuzner Mill and Lumber Co. as a bov in the Pomona yard and remainea wittr the firm until it was liquidated in 1947. He then started his own wholesale business as a mill representative and was operating the McCain Lumber Co. in San Gabriel at his death. He had been in failing health the past few months but remained active and was in Santa Barbara, Calif ., for the day undergoing treatment and examination when he was stricken and died last month.
McClure E. Hall, Sr., 63, owner and manager of the Hall-Shepherd Lumber C,o.,_Long Beach, Calif., died January 20. The lumber dealer had been a dentist in Kansas City, Mo., until 1927 when he was stricken with polio. He took his family to Long Beach ln 1928. He leaves his wife Frances of the home at 3013 E. 6th St.; a son, McClure, Jr.; a brother, Harry, and two sisters.
Bert Levi Cook, 76, owner and operator of the Cook Lumber Companv in llawthorne, Calif., for 36 years, died January 24 in his home at 3525 W.79th St., Inglewood. He was a native of Iowa. Mr. Cook leaves his wife, Minnie E., and a son, Charles.
Perry E. Canfield, 87, died January 23 in Seattle, Wash., where he had been living. Since 1936 he had oper- ated the Canfield Lumber Co., Burbank, Calif., a branch of Perry E. Canfield Wholesale Lumber, Seattle. The Burbank yard had been closed for two weeks but was reopened February 6 with the reorganization to be announced shortly by a nephew of the deceased. The late Mr. Canfield started in the lumber business in the Midwest.
where he operated 58 years with yards in Denver, Kansas City, Omaha, Fort Wayne and Iowa locations which are leased.
James H. Bester, 87, former director of the Long-Bell Lumber Co. and general manager of the company's mercantile interests, died December 18 in Santa Monica, Calif., where he had retired. He joined Long-Bell in 1901 and became manager of the company store in Yellow Pine, La. In 1904 he was placed in charge of the entire Mercantile department, then consisting of seven stores, and continued in that capacity 43 years until his retirement at the end of 1947. LTnder Mr. Bester's manag'ement, the stores were elevated from the usual sawmill town commissaries to modern stores and the chain had grown to 18 in the South by 1920, which did not include the later West Coast stores. He headquartered in Kansas City, Mo., but transferred to Longview, Wash., a few years before his retirement. He was elected to the Long-Bell board in 1920. B:urial was in Inglewood, Calif. Emil W. Gallaher, 51, president of Slide Master Sales Co. and one of the originators of the sliding glass door, died January 30 in his home at Van Nuvs. Calif.
The San Diego Lumbermen's Association held election of officers at the regular meeting, January 20, in the city. For their 1959 president, the board of directors elected R. M. Sutton, Dixieline Lumber Co., San Diego. Gordon Frost, Frost Hardwood Lumber Co., San Diego, was elected vicepresident, and John Sullivan, Western Lumber Co. of San Diego, was elected treasurer. V. M. Capesius was reelected secretary-manager. All the choices were unanimouslv made.
A busy year is anticipated by the members and officers, reports "Cap," and various committees have already been appointed by the new presiderit and are at work.
Stockholders of the Fox-Woodsum Lumber Co., Glendale, Calif., elected last month to wind up the afiairs of the corporation and voluntarily dissolve thb successful retail lumberyard, announced H. Park Arnold, vice-president and general manager. Family considerations and eventual estate problems dictated the decision and sale of the inventory and_real.property were proceeding rapidly this month.
_ The liquidation closei a profitable 4}-year operation at the site and the yard has been guided by Dealer-Arnold for f2 years; since Aug. I, 1937. Prisident joseph F. Woodsum has not been active due to his age. The original Mr. Fox has a surviving sister in Long Beach and th&e are ten stockholders, of whom Park Arnold is one of the largest. Mr. Arnold has outside interests to which he now pla-ns to devote. his^major attjnti-on. IIe has long been a guiding light of the Southern California Retail Lumber Aisn., ai o*utstanding civic figure, and last year traveled 112,000 miles in 12 months as president of Kiwanis International.
_ Th" retail yard site is on a large block of Union pacific R.R. property and the railroad recently took up the yard's spur in a freeway advance. A supermarket ahdition also caused th-e yq.r{'s shrinkage. Civic progress cost the yard its parking-facilities and the APCD- hail to halt the yard's natural burnings. of waste materials. Altogether, like-many similiar old retail lumberyard situations in Southern California today, the Fox-Woodsum yard found itself in the path of_.population expansions and its liquidation will be accomplished by the end of the year.
Bill Welch, long identified with L. J. Carr & Co. in Sacramento, has joined the sales stafi of Tahoe Forest Products Co. in Sacramento, according to Henry Alsaker. Welch had been
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with L. J. Carr for the past seven years assisting Marshall Schmidt in the operation of that company's lumber division. More recently, he had been connected with Gordon-MacBeath Hardwood Co. at Sacramento.
A. A. Zander has just been promoted to advertising and promotion manager of the West Coast Lumbermen'i Association. He is a ten-year veteran with the association. having joined in 1949 arid held positions as office *"n"g"r, trade promotion staff member and, for the past year, promo- tion director.
Zander has had a large part in developing the utility farm building sponsored by WCLA and Michigln State Univer9ity. K9y to the building is the truss roof system which can be fabricated by the retail lumber dealer and enables him to sell components or parts of buildings instead of boards. The truss roof system perfected by Zander simplifies building and erecting of faqm buildings. The trusses are designed to pa-n distances of 24,30,36 or 40 feet and the buildings may be built to any length in multiples of four feet.
Ray Sedall, prominent wholesale lumber salesman of Southern California, was named a partner in Industrial Lumber, Glendale, earlier this month, according to I. S. "Brownie" Brown, owner of the wholesale distributing concern.
Sedall has been identified in the lumber business in the Los Angeles area since the close of World War II, when he was discharged from the Air Force following four years of service as a pilot. For the past decade Ray has been prominent in social and civic affairs in the Van Nuys area and is an active rrrember in Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Cfub 2.
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Many new products embodying the structural features of a home were dramatically displayed at the National Association of Home Builders convention, January 18-22, in Chicago. These new products are designed to speed up construction, effect greater economies and efficiency through factory controlled methods. The continuing trend is for manufacturers to do more fabricating of component parts at the factory, thus relieving the builder of costly piecemeal and time-consuming work.
The Redibrik company says its Redibrik components are pre-formed brick wall sections that enable three men to put irp the four walls of a house in 89 minutes.
The Plastics division of the Koppers Company showed its newly developed line of ready-to-be-installed exterior wall sections, roof panels, and pre-formed interior load bearirg walls, used in constructing the widely acclaimed N.A.H.B. Research House, South Bend, Indiana. The 3inch thick Dylite foam core is sandwiched between an exterior skin of redwood and interior of plywood.
The Hess Manufacturing Company introduced its new ready-formed Armaclad Roof Panels for quick and easy erection of patios.
Building products attractively and compactly wrapped to help the buil.ding supply dealer to merchandise more effectively were shown by the Georgia-Pacific Corporation, which now supplies its Douglas fir uppers in waterproof, clearly marked packages. These lend themselves to an attractive, self-service display of neatly stacked lumber in plainly marked bins. The Georgia-Pacific company is also introducing the only sealed redwood siding on the rnarket, shipped from the mill in colorful, plastic-protected kraft packages.
The Kordite Corporation brought out a self-dispensing carton that makes polyethylene sheeting as easy to use as wax-paper.
The Dino-Lite comparry is offering two-fold advances in modern constructionits new pre-finished l.rardwood paneling and the protective paper placed over it. The company says this pre-finished paneling cuts total construction time by days.
U.S. Plywood Corporation is also making it possible for builders to offer elegarrt pre-finished hard'ivood paneling at prices the average person can afford. The company applies a genuine lacquer finish that produces a smooth and lustrous surface.
The Protection Products Company is adding two new items to its line of water repellant hardwood finishes. These are Rustic Brown P.A.R. which is designed for those who like an outdoor "rustic" appearance, and Tinting Base white P.A.R.
Matching today's pre-finished paneling is E. L. Bruce Company's new line of prefinished l-rardwood molding. There are designs to match all types and finishes. The mold-
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Johns-Manville presented a lavish display of brand new Decroboard ceiling panels and wall-plank. There are stunning combinations of color and patterns for modern design and sweeping textured appearances.
Minnesota and Ontario Paper Company l-ras designed a new Insulite decorative ceiling tile that blends well with any style of decor or color scheme. It is available in two patterns-one giving the illusion of raising the ceiling, and the other of lowering it.
The Wasco Products new natural overhead daylighting an E'fan. Trimvent, manufactured a ventilator and trim strip. tion, it installs and naili like trim.
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The Certain-teecl Products Company says tl.re wind can huff and puff but it can't get in underneath its new Loc-On roofing asphalt strip shingles. Another ner,v roof protection device is the Carlton comDany's "Mono-Flash" neoDrene roof vent flashing.
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Perma Products Company is also displaying its new line of Shakertown shingles available in 4'x& lengths.
The Hastings Company says its "New }Iome" aluminum siding adds to the sales appeal of a home or commercial building and offers a cost savings as well. More labor time is cut with National Aluminum Products Company's aluminum railings. Similarly, Trimco's 3-piece adjustible steel door jamb is calculated to save labor time and material costs.
Builders showed considerable interest in the Yeomans Brothers Company's new sewage treatment plant; a factory assembled plant delivered on the job as a complete package ready to be placed into position and operation.
During 1957, there were 1,300 fewer highway traffic fatalities than in the previous year.
Portland, Oregon, February 2-The granddaddy of all freight-car shortages faces Northwest lumber shippers this Summer. K. C. Batchelder, traffic manager of West Coast Lumbermen's Association, warned railroads recently that lumbermen are alarmed at the loss in one vear of 75.000 serviceable freight cars from the nation's alreidy short fleet.
This policy can only lead to disaster, Batchelder emphasized. We are losing 5,000 freight cars a month from the operating fleet of the Class I railroads.
Serviceable cars, he said, have dropped from 1,730,000 to 1,654,369 in one year, and we were short of cars last year. With major commodity shippers announcing plans for increased production this year, the situation becomes extremely critical.
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A year ago, Batchelder said, the nation's Class I railroads had 61.000 cars on order. but currentlv there are less than half that many. Bad order cars have increased to a dangerous level, with 149,583 now inoperative.
Recently Batchelder attended a meeting in Chicago as the representative of the Pacific Coast lumber industry, with executives from leading railroads and other major shippers present. Batchelder made a strong case for more cars at this meeting.
There is only one alternative, Batchelder warned. Either the railroads take immediate steps to put bad order cars back into shaoe and increase orders for new cars in sufficient quantity to meet shippers' needs, or the nation's shippers will suffer tremendous losses.
The freight-car shortage will strike the lumber industry, he said, at the peak Summer production period when the mills can ill afford disruption in shipping.
Five more fir plywood mills were recently added to the membership of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, bringing the total number of DFPA plants to 109.
Three of the new members are Lane Laminators, Inc., Eugene, Oregon; McKenzie River Plywood Corp., Springfield, Oregon; and Elma Plywood Corp., Elma, Washington. These mills specialize in production of fir plywood sheathing. In addition, two present DFPA subscribers, Georgia-Pacific Corp. and Simpson Logging Co., have opened new fir plywood mills.
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During the month of January, the Lumber Merchants Association was pleased to welcome into membership the Ira Bounds Lumber Company of Salinas, of which Ira Bounds is owner-manager, and the Lemoore Lumber Company of Lemoore
Ben Thatcher, managing partner.
In recognition of steadily rising hospitalization and medical costs, and with a desire to assist member-yard employes in meeting the problems which normally confront families in serious illnesses, the Association has implemented its twelve-year old Hospital-Surgical-Medical group insurance plan with an optional Comprehensive Major Medical Benefits program. Through participation in the program, which became effective January 1 for more than 600 employes, each insured and his dependents are eligible for aggregate benefits of $10,000 for serious illnesses or protracted disabilities.
As in the Basic Benefits Plan, participation in such a group program will save member-firms and their employes many dollars each year through reduced premium costs relative to the expense of such a program normally available on a single-firm basis. With the protection offered through participation in these two Group Insurance Programs, employes of member-yards-whether one or one hundred em-
ployes-can receive benefits equal to those offered employes of many large organizations.
Following the success of last year's Yard Foreman School, the Lumber Merchants Association will conduct a similar program for yard foremen and their assistants to be held March 9 and 10 in Fresno. While human relations and motivation of personnel will be the principal theme of the two-day program, the participating supervisory personnel from member-yards will also learn of sound material handling techniques and of various methods used by other organizations to achieve reduced delivery costs. A highlight of the program will be a visit to several outstanding San Joaquin Valley yards to observe in actual operation many of the suggested practices.
On February 16 and 17 the Association is sponsoring a unique two-day conference in Palo Alto for approximately 45 owners and managers of member-firms. Outstanding
business personalities will review a broad vista of vital topics ranging from personnel practices and human relations through finaniial management and construction trends. A thorough review of important tax and depreciation rulings will ilso be discussed, as well as profit-making ideas in advertising and merchandising-in short, a highly stimulating 48 hours for executives to think about their respective-organizations, their industry and its role in tomorrow's construction picture.
19th Annual Association Convention will be held at the Ahwahnee hotel in Yosemite National Park, April 19, 20 and 21. The principal ingredients in -the well-rounded program recipe will be three parts ideamaking business sessions and two parts cheer-making entertainm&t designed for relaxing in the ideal climate of Yosemite Valley amid the pleasant atmosphere of the Ahwahnee hotel. A refreshing three days is guaranteed for all.
Southern California launched $3,033,572,000 in new construction during 1958 to mark the greatest annual volume in its history. It beat the previous record, set in 1957, by 9.6/o.
The 136,457 dwelling units started in the year (including dpartment structures) topped the 1957 total by 10,237, reports The Los Angeles Times.
Los Angeles set an annual record with $560,758,656 in 1958 construction, over $50 million more than the previous 1957 record. The total of 85 building permit-issuing cities in the Southland came to $1,500,133,037, which was $190,272,549 more than the 1957 total.
The December permits clinched the new annual total and also set a new all-time high for that month, reports The Los Angeles Examiner. It was $9 million above the previous December high of 1954. Los Angeles County's l2-months total was $230,690,502, which was $40 million below the 1957 total.
The Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce's Construction Industries Department reports a l2-months 1958 total of $1,265,987,800 for Los Angeles county, and a big gain in residential valuation during December. The ll.2/o increase over December 1957 was up 2I.0% in total dwelling units, with duplexes and multiples up 23.9/o and single units up 17.9/o.
December 1958 building permits issued by the Long Beach, Calif., Dept. of Building and Safety included 292 for family dwellings. Total valuation for the month was $5,574,355 on 2,307 permits. Wood-frame and miscellaneous construction was valued at $3,932,685 on 1,3161 permits issued.
MUTE IESTIMONY to thc violcnce of 6rc dqnqgc in lumbq oillr ond yordr orc lhcrc lwo rcene. fron lha Jqnuo.y l7 confiqgrotion ot Hollow Trc lcdwod Compony north of Ukioh. Wrcck ot l.ft i3 oll thot remoint of port of thc ncw omce building5 ere€ted iurt o fcw yorr ogo, while the oftcc fsrniturc pilcd up ot right i. qnothcr h6rtbrsoking .ight lo qll millmen ond dcolerr in our indutlry. Hollow Trec Proridenl Bill Moores-chin-up ond oll lhqfbrovely onnounced fhot rebuilding would 3lort lhe ncxt doy ond naw ofrer would be complolod by the timq thit irtuc oppeorr. And you know whot? They probqbly willl
Ukiah, Calif.-A 2-alarrn fire January 17 did an estimated $50,000 damage to the office building of the Hollow Tree Lumber Co., north of here, and burned fdur hours despite best efiorts of 25 firemen at the scene. The first alarm was sounded at 8:06 p.m. before the fire, believed started from defective wiring, destroyed the old office building and three offices in the new building. The vault enclosed in cement blocks saved the permanent records but the management's files and timber maps were lost, said President William Moores. The company offices stood about 600 feet from the mill, with the intervening space filled with stacked lumber within 100 feet of the blaze. Additional lumber stacks extended 1,0@ or more feet north of the office.
Bill Moores reported that Don Stover, manufacturing superintendent, was returning to the plant about 7:50 p'm. when he spotted what he believed to be a refuse fire. When he determined it was in the office, he hurriedly placed the alarm just before the telephone wires burned through. Although the mill's own water supply was a big factor in controlling the blaze and keeping it within the buildings' area, additional water to supply the five fire trucks was supplied from hydrants at the Masonite plant.
The presidenf added that plans were started the next day to rebuild and that new offices would be completed by Feb. 15.
Bill Rogers, president of the Northwestern California Lurnbermen's -Ctuf, reports a highly successful club-sponsorecl Ladies Night Dinner-Dance at Redwood Acres in Eureka, Tanuarv 3t. ']]he program included cocktails, dinner, entertainment and dancing. ticket committee included Lefty Waterston, Sound Lumber Ciompany; Runar Anderson, Emmerson & Son ; Otho Davis, D & M Lumber Co.; President Rogers, Fairhurst Lumber Co.; Don Metcalf, The Pacific Lumber Co., and FIarold Bratton, Hansen Pacific Corporation.
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An intensive one-week course entitled Troubleshooting in the Woodwork and Wood Furniture Industries will be held this year March 16 through 20 at the University of California Forest Products Laboratory in Richmond. According to Director Fred Il. Dickinson, the course is designed for plant management personnel including production supervisors, foremen, and quality control men.
Aim of the practical instruction 'is to help woodworking plants save time and money through reduction in the costly reworking or rejecting of manufactured parts. In lectures, dernonstrations, and laboratory sessions the course covers such topics as machining, finishing, gluing, lumber uses, and wood properties as related to use. Analysis of a wide variety of product defects is an important feature of the instruction.
The teaching staff for the course will include personnel at the laboratory and a visitor, Dr. Norman Franz of the University of Ntichigan, who will cover wood machining and wood finishing. Enrollment in the course is limited to 20 persons, and applications will be accepted in the order received. A course fee of $100 per person is charged to cover costs of instruction. Application forms and additional information may be obtained by writing to the Department o{ Conferences and Special Activities. Universitv Extension. Universitv of California. Berkelev 4. n ri, LallIornla.
John Beckstrom, chairman of the Associate Members Advisory Committee of the National Plywood Distributors Assn., has moved his Beckstrom & Co. to 1010 Doyle St. (P.O. Box 247), Menlo Park, Calif.
In addition to the listing published on Page 2 of the Februarv I issue. ihe Southern California Retaii Lumber Association added nine more dealers to the enrollment before the start of its Top Management Workshop, which Arthur A. Hood conducted at the Surf Rider Inn, Santa Monica, Feb. 9-13. The retailers were: Richard Anawalt. Anawalt Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Oscar Gibbs, Gibbs Lumber Co., Anaheim; Leon G. Gillaspie, Richard E. Hawthorne, Northridge Lumber Co.; Robert Harris, Lounsberry & lfarris, Los Angeles; John H. Milliken, Viney-Milliken Lumber Co., Covina; Bob Rodecker, Williams Lumber Yard, Azusa; John Suverkrup, John Suverkrup Lumber Co., San Bernardino, and Walt Tay- lor, Walt Tavlor Lumber Co., Anaheim.'
_ Appointment of George C. Oistad (above) as general sales manager of Olympic Stained Products Company, Seattle, Wash.. is announced by Philip W. Bailey, president. Oistad ioined [he^co-pany in 1958'as sales promo- tion manager. Widely expe- rienced in sales and sales management, Oistad had been in specialty sales before joining Olympic, which manufactures and distributes nationally pre-stained shakes. shingles and. siding and a complete line of Olympic stains.
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Vernon C. Gardner and Charles Park Eddie have been 'elected to the board of directors of the American Forest Products Corporation. Both men have a long and successful background of production experience and executive management with the corporation.
' Vern Gardner, who is general manag'er of two AFPC subsidiaries-General Box Distributors in Fresno and Harbor Box & Lumber Company in Los Angeles-started with the organization 36 years ago. At the age of 13 he got a job sweeping out the office at Stockton after school for 15 cents an hour. When he was a little older he worked summer vacations in the Stockton box factory nailing boxes, warehousing and driving truck. By the time Gardlner graduated from Oregon State in 1932 he was already a veteran in box production. During the years that followed he made steady
YOU HAVE HEARD qboul "lhe cool wqler from the wooden buckel." ll's true. Wood keeps woler cooler in summer ond helps prevenl freezing in winter. Redwood tqnks lqst longer.
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varnon C. GARDNER ( risht)progress with the organization. At,various times he was -ui"g.r of box warehouses in the Central California fruit and vEgetable growing areas and managed a _cornpany sawmill and logging opelation in the Mother l-ode -country. From that poiitio" lie progressed to managership of a larger operation near Portola that encompassed a lox tactory' pianing mill, sawmill and logglng operation. Mr. Gardner was transferred to Fresno in 1947 to take over the operation of General Box Distributors, one of the largest factories serving the agricultural trade in southern San,Joaquin Valley. H-e becJme a vice-president and general manager of that organi zation. In 1958 he was also named a -vice-president an? general manager of American Forest's big Southern Califoinia box factoiy, Harbor Box & Lumber Company at Los Angeles.
Charles-Park Eddie, who holds an AB degree from Stanford and an LLD degree from University of California Boalt Hall School of Law, served in the Navy during World War II in naval intelligence and Pacific naval operatio.ns on Saipan and Tinian Islands. At the time of his separation at wai's end he held the rank of lieutenant commander. Mr. Eddie joined American Forest Products as an assistant in the legal department in 1946. Later he entered the retail lumbei distribution division of the corporation and became general manager of all company retail yards. With headluarters at C[ase Lumber Company at San Jose, this also ettt"il.d managership of the Chaie lumber remanufactu-ring plant. When Ameriian Forest established a wholesale lumber distribution yard and rtmanufacturing plant at Newark, California, in 1950, Mr. Eddie was put in charge as general manager. This operation marked the com-pany's entry into the riarketing and remanufacture of redwood which has become a po6nt factor in the success of the southern Alameda County operation. At the beginning of 1958 Mr. Eddie was appoinied'assistant to Charles T.Gray, president of Ameriiin Forest Products Corporation, and moved to the San Francisco headquarters office.
With the election^of Mr. Gardner and Mr. Eddie and reelection of nine previous directors, American Forest Products has increased its directorship to 11.
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It was "red carpet" night for 12 Southern California - cabinet manufacture_rr January 26 when Sid Simmons, pres, ident of Simmons Hardwood Lumber Co., Downey.^Dre- sented six of thep r11t!r Safety Awards for outstinding safety re-cords during 1958, and six were recipients of Honorable Mention achievement trophies. '
More than 150 woodworkers,iumber executives and ply@1 .- wood salesmen attended the annual Safety Awards bano^ult .l: held this. year a.t Swally's lmokg Housi, l33l So. Boyle * ) Ave-., to honor the men -in the industry responsible for di- r€cting sl{e operations in their respective'plants and to listen to Sid Simmons tell his storiei while presentins the , trophies and plaques. Sid l-ras been doing this every y."'. fo,
quite some time and has the pre'sentation ceremony down pat.
_ The meeting was called to order promptly at 7 :ffi p.m. by Executive Secretary Frank W. Daluiso, who introduced Sid to the group and the show was on the road. Beautiful trophies were received by Mac McConnell, McConnell Cabinet Shop, Inc.; Frank Anderson, Anderson Cabinet Fltqp;Dee Ho\rsepian, De Craft Cabinet Shop; Bud Perry, Maid-Rite Cabinet Shop; George Smith, penn-Smith Ca6inets, and Joe Goebel, Western Wood products.
Honorable Mention plaques went to Hal Bourland, Sawyer Cabinets, Inc.; Les Hofiman, L. M. Hoffman Cabinets, Inc.; Cleon Benson, Benson Cabinet Works : Roy Ferrin, Ferrin Woodworking & Supply Co., Anthony DeLucio and Earl Tackson.
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l orlcr of Corcmonier Poll Stambs (lcff), Sid Simmons, SCAC.ll Exeutive S.crctory Fronk W. Dotuiro (right), l:t,:,'. SCACrt{ Pretidsnt D. D. Hourcpion. Cobinot A{onuto.fur.rr qnd Suppliers (left to right}r Roy Hoftmei.ter, Ken Tincklcr, Gerge Sullivon ond Hrrb Stromberg in rhrong qt mGting to re(eive onnuol owoJd3 from Sim. mons Hordwtrod lumber ComponySimmoni Hqrdwood Execulive Ru:s Swift poses with ons of qwqrds givsn by ffrm inet Manufacturers sponsors the awards banquet and for several years past Simmons Hardwood Lumber Company has honored the members who maintain outstanding safety records.
Sacramento, Calif.-A riding stable owner, Carl Tex Selby, was indicted Jan. 2I by the Sacramento County Grand Jury in the Dec. 23 kidnapping and attempted extortion of David Ostin, owner of the David Ostin Moulding Co. here. Sheriff's deputies and the district attorney's office presented testimony that Selby and an alleged accomplice, Roy A. Carnes, an ex-convict, hatched a plot to kidnap Ostin's son Harold, 15, and collect $10,000 ransom from the lumberman. Carnes forced Ostin at gunpoint to drive to a Bank of America branch for the money. The boy, however, was not being held as a hostage in the abortive demand
King Lumber Company, headquarters Bakersfield, is constructing a new modern showroom adjacent to its old Delano store. The new showroom will be operated on a semi self-service basis and is scheduled for completion during early Spring.
F. J. (Jack) Hyman, Jr., Fort Bragg cattle rancher and timber owner, has been appointed to serve as chairman of the 1959 RRCC Junior Logging Conference by Walker B. Tilley, Redwood Region Conservation Council president. This conference is the seventh and will again be conducted at the Mendocino Woodlands, nine miles east of the city of Mendocino.
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The Building Center is celebrating its first anniversary in Los Angeles with special exhibitions. The Architectural Gallery has featured the work of 74 members of the American Institute of Architects, with AIA hosting clients and friends in the Center's club room. Recent exhibits have included the work of Smith and Williams, Richard J. Neutra, Palmer and Krisel, Stiles and Robert Clements, the Orange County chapter AIA, and a current (2/16-28) Exhibit of Church Architecture.
Activities of the Building Center include meetings and conferences of professional groups in the Club room, a Garden Supper party last summer for 600 architects, decorators and landscape engineers, a daily dollar buffet luncheon in the Club room, etc. An Open House was recently held to herald the first anniversary.
The Northern California Building Center was just opened December I at 40 Gold St. in San Francisco, just off Jackson Square. As in Southern California, it is also headquarters for the Architects and Engineers Service, which has been in operation 22 yearc and has added Arizona, the West Coast and New York to now service about 3,000 offices. As an added activity in the Southern California area, the Building Center Plan Room has been reopened at 612l West 3rd St. and is available to subscribing manufacturers as well as subcontractors in all fields.
Detailed information on natural exterior finishes for California redwood is contained in a newly revised data sheet supplement prepared by the California Redr,r'ood Association, "Natural E,xterior Effects," revised four-page supplement to the CRA data sheet, "Exterior Finishes for Redwood" (483-1). The leaflet contains valuable information for dealers, specifiers, builders and homeowners. Single copies may be obtained without charge, additional copies at cost, from the Service Library, California Redwood Association, 576 Sacramento St., San Francisco 11, Calif.
Frank Desmond, general manager of Desmond Bros., I-os Angeles, California, and Alliance, Ohio, manufacturers of l)eft Wood Finish, reveals that the 1958 sales of Deft were 3l/o above t957. Desmond Bros. plan a stepped up advertising and sales program for 1959, using trade magazines, consumer rnagazines, Sunday supplements and several school magazines. Area television is also projerted for 1959.
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Beginning in March, Pacific Cement & Aggregates, fnc., will launch an aggressive advertising and merchandising campaign to assist dealers in selling its complete line of Mix-Kwik Cement Products. The hard-hitting promotion, slated to run from early Spring to Fall, will consist of a steady schedule in Sunset magazine plus newspaper advertising in key markets.
The series of sales-making ads will appeal to MixKwik dealers as each ad carries the copy, "Buy MixKwik From Your Favorite Dealer."
Alert dealers who stock and display the popular family of Mix-Kwik products concrete, mortar, patch, plaster, stucco and bonding adhesives, can set their sights on steady sales to the ever-growing "do-it-yourself" market.
Washington, D.C.- The National Association of Wholesalers announces completion of arrangements for the pre- sentation of a 1959 Wholesale Executive Management Course _on the campus of Stanford University, to be presented by the Graduate School of Business, at Palo Alto, California, in September. The course will be offered to 48
top wholesale management executives in two sections of 24 executives each. These sections will be further broken down into. small study groups of eight executives each for prac- tical management case studies and operating problems' analyses. All inquiries regarding the course should be directed to National Association of Wholesalers, 1001 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Washington 6, D.C.
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Phil Chon?lond o John VertinSan Francisco, Calif.-Despite a slow start in the first months of last year, redwood shipments by the major mills in the California redwood industry during 1958 were slightly ahead of the low 1957 redwood shipments.
Redwood shipments by the 14 mills reporting to the California Redwood Association totaled 498,920,0N board feet,
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approximately 3% above the 1957 shipments of 488,827,000 board feet. Redwood production totaled 489,211,000 feet during 1958, compared to 517,418,000 for 1957.
Orders on hand at the start of 1959 amounted to 61,225,000 board feet, about2T/o above the unfilled order file of 47,856,000 feet at the beginning of 1958. December 31st orders on hand were 7/o higher than the 57,562,000 feet outstanding at the end of November 1958.
December shipments totaled 34,492,m0 board feet-approxinrately 38/o above December 1957 shipments of 25,052,000. November 1958 shipments were 39,346,000.
Production during Deceurber totaled 43,095,000 board feet, compared to 42,542,000 in November, and 31,509,000 in cember 1957. Orders received during December added
38,950,000, compared to 37,362,000 feet received during vember, and 31,965,000 during December 1957.
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Stocks on hand added to 1957 d to i70.342.000 feet a at the end of Deon hand at the cember, compared to 402,794,000 board feet close of 1957.
To Discontinue Annual Report
Analysis of the Annual Report of production, shipments and stocks, usually issued about May or June each year by the California Redwood Association, indicates that the number of usable reports received are not enough to be statistically significant and the Annual Report will, therefore, be discontinued, says the CRA. The Distribution Report (redwood shipments by states) will be issued as usual at the earliest oossible date.
Ray Van Ide, prominent in Southern California lumber circles since the close of World War II, has beeu elected president of M & M Lumber Sales, Nortl-r Hollywood, replacing H. E. "Brownie" Markstrom, who resigned last month. Van Ide will head the administration, sales and procurement for the wholesale firm, according to Lionel A. Mason, secretary-treasurer and chairman of the executive committee.
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Tlre M & M organization represents sawmills in the Oregon and Northern California production area o11 a directshipment basis and specializes ip tail, truck and trailer delivery of all species of Pacific Coast softwoods.
Some business philosopher (unknown to us) has written the following:
Business is getting up at 6:00 to meet a customer at g:00 who doesn't show up until l0:00.
Business is pleading with a customer to be patient while you exercise the privilege of being impatient with your subordinates.
Business is scheming ways by which you can help your customers make an extra dollar in the hope that they will let you keep ten cents for yourself.
Business is driving all day to see a man who is busy ,,in conference" when you get there.
Business is reaching for the restaurant check, and getting
San Francisco.-A stimulating, informative program is all arrange*d fo. the opening of the 2-day Top Management Conference scheduled bv the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California at Rickey,s Studio Inn. Palo Alto, Feb. 16-12. Openins at 9:00 a.m. Monday, the program"ar- ranged by Executive Vice-President Jack F. Pomeroy includes:
"The Construition Outlook for Calif__o_rnia_ in 7959," by G. E. McGavran, The Daily PacifiC Builder: ..lluman Relations : Personnel Recruiting, Selective and Training Programs, fncerltives." by Harry G. Swift, president. Ilarry Swift and Company: ,.:Advertis_ ing and Merchandisine foi Retail Lum_ ber and Building Matirial Dealers.,, bv Lennen & Newell Advertising Asency; "Collection Laws, Lien Laws, *Bond. and Stop Notices," by Leo Hubbard, secretary, Hayward Lumber & Investment Co., Los Angeles; ..New . Markets, Merchandise aid Trends in the West." by Francis Brown, Western Buildine.
The Tuesday sessions start at 9:00 a.m. with a panel on "Financial Management," embracing discussion of sources of working capital. taxes. tax planning and tax iauuntug[. i.;;;;ii business, depreciation, soirrces of expansion capital, business insurance, investment of cash reserves, budgets, op- erating ratios, etc. The Diicussion leaders are Frank Muncy, a CpA; Arthur Merkt, a bankei; Wm. T. Doyle and Wm. Clecak, attorneys and legal consultants to the LMA; G. E. Tadlock, production manag.er. Lumbermen's Mutual InsurancJ Co.. and Paul Merner. president of the Merner L-umber Co.. Palo Alto. During the afternoon session. delegates will" submit written questions tJthe above men on.all phases of financial management and receive clear, concrse answers.
The enrollment fee of $35 in the Conference includes all sessions, two luncheons, refreshments and materials.
stuck with it nine times out of ten.
Business is getting indigestion and liver trouble trying to entertain the trade.
Business is pretending you are prosperous when you haven't made a dime for two years.
Business is showing a prospect how a job should be done, and then see him give the order to a competitor.
Business is feeling happy about landing a big job that will probably cause you to lose your shirt.
Business is erecting barriers against salesmen who want to see you, and advising your own salesmen how to get past the barriers that are erected against them.
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Dear Mr. Dionne:
We received our first copy of The California Lumber Merchant and have enjoyed reading it very much' You have a verv worthy publication.
W6 are esieiialty grateful to you for the nice write-up you gave us in youi magazine It is appreciated more than *" .itt write. Thanks Jmillion. Please send ten copies of the Feb. lst issue to this address, together with your invoice.
We have the following yards in Southern California: Bishop, Lone Pine, Brawley, Holtville, Banning, Rosemead -and Santa Ana. If they do not already subscribe to The California Lumber Merchant, please enter their subscriptions on the two-year basis and send your invoice to this office.
We hope at an early date to have the pleasure of making your acquaintance.
- Thanks and with our very best wishes, we remain Cordially yours,
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(Editor's note: The pleasure is al1 ours, Mr. Copeland. It is always gratifying to seek out and pay tribute to the outstanding retail lum,6e. o-peritions of this industry, and of which the J. W. Copeland Yards rate very, very high. Jack Dionne is at present at his other "very worthy publication," The Gulf Coast Lumberman, in llouston, Texas, but should be returning home shortly. And when you two greatly respected lumber gentlemen do have the pleasure of making each other's acquaintance, we hope we may be privileged to €avesdrop on some wonderful industry recollections.-R.P.)
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Twin-City Lumber Company is no-w handling its lumber sales undef a difierent order setup. Since January 5, when the change became effective, this is T-C's new sales and order procedure:
Redwood, Douglas Fir and Specialty items (industrial decking, roof decking, starter boards, cedar- siding,._etc.). for Sorfthern Californ-ia users art now ordered from "Hac" Collins and Bill Ramsay at the San Rafael office: P'O. Box 328, San Rafael, Calif.,-or Call Collect: Glenwood 4-7754; Ponderosa Pine, Sugar Pine and White Fir (green and dry) for Southern California users are now handled by Oiiar Green and lune Clark from the Fresno office: P.O. Box 926, Fresno, -Calif., or Call Collect: Clinton l-7I13. The company's old So-Cal office in Beverly Hills will now handle the- Aicounting only but, if desired, orders 9r inquiries may still be phonid into this office (BRadshaw 2-ZSSO or iRestview 1--6181) and they will be immediately referred to San Rafael or Fresno, according to the specie or item desired, for prompt reply and/or service, says H. A. Collins.
Vernon D. Chamberlen, Oroville, has been named plant manager of Georgia-Pacific Corporation's Feather River lumbe-r division. Retirement of Manager Frank E' Lisbon, 65, was announced simultaneously.
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The first book ever written on inspecting, testing and supervising the construction of buildings, Field Inspection of Building Construction, by Thomas H. McKaig, has just been published by F. W. Dodge Corporation, New York.
A 32-page, illustrated manual of handsplit red cedar shakesthe first of its kindhas been published by the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau. It is available free of charge to dealers, builders, architects and others interested in quality home construction. "The Certi-Split Manual of Handsplit Shakes" is by Dr. Donald H. Clark, assistant director, Washington State Institute of Forest Products, and an acknowledged authority on Western Red Cedar uses.
The text is well illustrated with both photographs and sketchesshowing proper application techniques and displaying the varied uses for handsplit shakes. Several photos show manufacturing and grading processes.
"Publication of this new manual reflects the remarkable increase in the popularity of handsplit cedar shakes as roof and wall coverings throughout the nation," stated Bureau Manager Virgil G. Peterson.
"The output. of these rugged and beautiful split shakes has doubled and redoubled in response to demands of discriminating architects and builders. The new booklet will fill a real need."
Free copies are available from the Bureau, 5510 White Bldg., Seattle 1, Wash.
It was a beautiful, clear sunny day, January 16, but only 43 golfers turned out for the first 1959 Los Angeles HooHoo Club 2 tournament held at Rio Hondo Country Club in Downey. It was the warmest January 16th on record for Southern California and Chairman Harvey Koll had made
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arrangements for at least a hundred Black Cats to participate, but the turnout was so small it affected the banquet attendance also, and less than 100 enjoyed the evening fun and good-fellowship.
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During the cocktail and dinner hour, entertainment was furnished by pretty Ruthie Servalle, who played the accordion and sang popular songs to please the youngsters ancl oldsters alike. Veterans Nate Dodds, Henry Pasek and Paul Fritchey got into the act and cut up like colts turned out to pasture. As usual, Chuck Lember selected several practical and useful door prizes for the lucky members to take home to the missus, which included kitchenware, toilet articles and games for the children. This feature of the evening always meets with complete cooperation and enthusiasm by members and guests because everybody has a chance to win.
The piece de resistance of the evening was reached when Snark Don Braley introduced Super-Salesman Charles "Chuck" Harper, national sales manager for Bel Canto Stereopl-ronic Recordings. He admitted recordings were not allied with lumber but hard-hitting sales techniques must be applied regardless of the commodity during the highly competitive years ahead. He embellished his speech with hnmorous and witty stories which held the interest of his audience right up to his last word. Although most of his remarks were amusing, his brilliant delivery soundecl a definitely serious note when he talked about resourceful, proficient salesmanship, sales promotion and advertising.
A competent and capable salesman is one that knows his product well, the needs of his customer and is versatile in l-ris delivery and approach, he said. All in all, Chuck was an excellent story teller and without a doubt one of the finest sales executive in the west. Along with the levity, members of the lumber fraternity got his message that jt takes Hard Hitting to develop the sale, regardless of the level, be it wholesale, distribution or consumer.
According to Golf Chairman Harvey Koll, the golfers had a field day. Guy Barnett walked away with the 933 Blind Bogey. Retailer Henry Pasek of Dudley-Thomas Lumber Company, Santa Monica, won the guest prize and Jo De La Poza also placed in the money. '
Don Vogt received the low-gross prize and Dick Voelzke, of Smith-Robbins, was low net in the third flite. In the first flite, Retailer and Past Snark Harry Boand was first low net and Chas. Jordan was second.
Retailer Dick Learned was 1st low net in the seconcl flite and Bud Oliver placed second. The prize money is always
welcome and the "boys" had a wonderful day under conditions that were ideal.
Prexy Don Braley presented to the club membership the LeRoy Boys Home plaque which was prepared by the boys at the home and given to Cl:ub 2 at the annual Christmas party in appreciation of the support Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo has given the home during the past years. He also remarked that the committee was planning a spring dinner dance.
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This is the second listing of Exhibitors who have signed for Booth Display space at the 1959 Convention and Trade Show of the S.C.R.L.A.:
Alsynite Company of Amcrica
San Diego, Calif.
Aluminum Company of America
Los Angeles, Calif.
Brown Company
San Francisco, Calif.
Carlow Company
I-os Angeles, Calif.
The Celotex Corporation
Chicago, I1l.
DEK Industries, Inc.
New York, N. Y.
Douglas Fir Plywood Assn.
Tacoma. Wash.
Encyclopaedla Britannica
Los Angeles, Calif.
Great Books
Los Angeles, Calif.
Harbor Plywood Corporation
Los Angeles, Calif.
Hyster Company
Los Angeles, Calif.
Insulite Division-Mando
Minneapolis, Minn.
Johns-Manville Sales Corp.
New York City, N. Y.
Kaibab Lumber Company
Flagstaff, Ariz.
Koppers Co., Inc.
Los Angeles, Calif.
United States Plywood Corp.
Los Angeles, Calif.
United States .Stcel Supply- Alhambra, Calif.
Moisture Register Company
Division of United Staies Steel Porter-Cable Machine Co. Los Angeles, ,Calif.
Los Angeles, Calif.
Putty Stik, Inc.
Seattle, Wash.
Sager Weatherstrip & Calking
Chicago, Ill.
Sargent & Company
New Haven, Conn.
Southwest Plywood Corp.
Compton, Calif.
Now, with Blue Diamond /8" Fire Halt special core wallboard, applicator craftsmen have a fine handling and ffnishing gypsum wallboard with a one hour fire resistioe ruting.
Fire Halt may be used in institutional, commercial, indusbial, apartment and home construction-wherever high quality interiors combining great strengfh with increased fire resi.st&nce are desired or required by building codes.
Blue Diamondt Fire Halt data sheet will be sent you on request. It gives full information on how to use Fire Halt in one hour walls, partitions and ceilings, in accordance with Underwriters' Laboratories' ffre resistive mting requirements.
West Coast Lumbermen's Assn.
Portland, Ore.
Western Duo-Fast, Inc.
Los Angeles, Calif.
Western Pine Association
Portland, Ore.
\llleyerhaeuser Sales Co, Los Angeles, Calif.
Seattle, Wash.-It is reported in the trade here that W. C. "Bi11" Bell, executive vice-president of the Western Retail Lumbermen's Assn. here, plans to announce his retirement effective at the conclusion of the 56th annual convention of the Northwest dealers group at the Multnomah hotel, Portland, Feb. l7-I9. Mr. Bell has been directing the affairs of the association f.or 25 years. He will be succeeded in the office by Ross Kincaid, managing director, who joined the association a few years ago and was given the larger responsibility in 1957 to groom him for the executive iob under Mr. Bell's guidance.
Ventura, Calif.Real Estate Developer Harris Goldberg has purchased for $1,300,000 a 547-aue parcel of his Z,M-acre Ventura county cattle ranch from Joel McCrea, which the movie star purchased years ago on advice of the late Will Rogers. It was one of the largest financial transactions in the history of the Conejo Valley. Goldberg had previously bought 11 acres from W. A. Rothschild and said he would extend his residential construction to the newly acquired acreage.
fn 1957, 7,500 pedestriana were killed by autos in the U.S.
Although prefinished panels account for 40/o of all hardwood plywood sales on a national basis, they have been slower in the West. Accordingly, Plywall Products Co., Inc., has initiated an introductory program intended to build sales for all participating lumber dealers in Southern California.
Plywall, a relatively new product, was first fabricated in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1957. Later an additional plant was built in Corona, California, and already its capacity has been doubled. This assures adequate stocks in the West and relieves dealers of the need for excessive inventory.
The rapid expansion of Plywall sales is said to be due to its unique character. It is hardwood plywood finished in some ten distinctive domestic grains. Because Plywall is prefinished at the factory ready to use, the builder or homeowner has no sanding, sealing or painting to do. Furthermore, the finish is said to be durable and scuff resistant, requiring practically no maintenance.
To bring these features to the attention of Southland home owners, Plywall is launching an extensive advertising campaign in The LoS Angeles Times "Home" magazine. Full-color, full-page ads will be used to show the beauty of the perfectly matched grains and colors. In addition, each
By Woter, Roil or Highwoylumber operotors conship lo onywhere in the world from Olson Terminol. Olson's 600 foot dock occommodotes coostwise, intercooslol ond offshore vessels. Olson's spur lrocks hqndle roilrood cors. And Olson's truck looding focilities serve highwoy routed loods.
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This promotion has been developed by Len Woolf Company, which handles Plywall advertising in the West.
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Jack Allenby- (right), pop- ular Northern California lumberman-m i 11man, has joined \A/estern Dry Kiln in Oakland, where he will assist Owner Bud Kinney (left) in sales and management of the firm. Allenbv. who has been active in salls operation at the mill level in Northern California for the past several years, was at or.re time salesmanager of the old Walter Brix mill at Briceland. He later sDent several years as sales ihief of Ukiah Pine Lumber Co. at Potter Valley, and more recently had served as assistant salesmanager of the Medford Corporation. A long-time member of HooHoo, Jack served as presider.rt of Black Bart Hoo-Hoo Club 181 prior to moving to Medford.
The Newhall Land & Farm Co.. which owns 45.000 acres in Ventura and Los Angeles counties, has just won approval by the Board of Supervisors of a zone plan covering 145 sq. miles of Saugus, Castaic and Val Verde for future development as an integrated community of 300,000 population. The area of the Santa Clara River Valley included in the master zoning plan is more than one-fourth the size of Los Angeles. All was placed under Agricultural for future protection.
Key item in the new zoning is a 198-acre site in Rye Canyon two miles east of Castaic Junction on th e south boundary of the Sher-
iff's Honor Farm. This has been bought by Lockheed Aircraft for a $5 million research center to employ 3,500. There will be no heavy, smog-producing industry in the area, it was said. The new community is on the general site of the 79-yearold Newhall Ranch and the community plan was first studied by Stanford Research Institute, which set it up as Saugus Properties, Inc., with William E. Rand of SRI as president.
Tom Fox. president of the John W. Fisher Lumber Co., Santa Monica, has been notified by Executive VicePresident H. R. Northup of his election to the Executive committee of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Assn., Washington, D.C., as dealer-director of the Southern California Retail Lumber Assn., one of the NRLDA federated associations. Dealer Fox is a past president of the SCRLA ancl has long been active in its affairs. He was in the capital the week of Feb. 9
on Executive committee business and had to miss the SCRLA's Management Workshop taking place that week in his yard's lown's new Surf Rider Inn, for which the Fisher Lumber Co. sold much of the construction lumber.
Installations of the Bennett 2-Way Saw at the following yards and firms are reported by Wayne C. Ervine, DealerService, Atascadero, Calif.: Porterville (Calif.) Lumber & Materials ; Riswell Industries, Los Angeles; Hagle-DeCou Lumber Co. (a second unit), Atascadero; Brunk Cabinet Shop, Newport Beach, and Montgomery-Ward (retail dept.), Oakland.
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Three important new retail dealer promotional aids are available free of charge from the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau. The 1959 Bureau program to help dealers sell cedar shingles and shakes includes a complete advertising mat service, an award-winning cedar shingle roof display unit and the "Certi-Split Manual of Handsplit Red Cedar Shakes."
The new mats offer dealers a wide selection for local advertising of shingles and grooved shakes. Varying in width from one to four columns and in depth from two to ten inches, many of the new mats are complete advertisements, others may be used within a larger ad, and some are artwork with suggested copy. Space is provided for dealer signature.
The new mats stress cedar's texture and beauty for new and remodeled homes. Insulation and durability also are emphasized, as well as the Certigrade and Certigroove inspection labels.
For dealer showroom Dromotion. the Bureau offers a shingle roof display. Built as both a dealer and model-home display, it recently was awarded a Certificate of Merit in the 1958 Ideas for Home Builders Contest co-soonsored bv the NAHB and the Producers' Council. It is a^roof sectioir of full-sized cedar shingles mounted upon a white hardboard base which carries sales messages on three sides.
The third promotion piece, the "Certi-Split Manual," tells the complete story of handsplit cedar shakes, from manufacture to application. The 32-page, illustrated booklet will serve to inform the trade of a product whose growing popularity sometimes has spread faster than knowledge of its application and use.
These free merchandising tools may be obtained from the Bureau, 5510 White Building, Seattle 1, Washington.
New York, Jan. 3O-Contracts for future construction in the Urrited States in December rose l5/o above a year ago, reports F. W. Dodge- Corporation, construction news and marketing specialists. The December contracts amounted to $2,281,881,000 and brought the annual total for 1958 to an all-time high of $35,089,703,000, marking the eleventh consecutive record year.
According to Dodge Vice-President and Economist George Cline Smith, the most remarkable feature of the 1958 contracts was the sharp rebound that took place beginning in April after a poor first quarter.
In December, all the major construction categories showed gains but, as in other recent months, most of the strength was in the residential sector. December contracts for residential buildings were valued at $981,012,000, an increase of 29/o over the year-earlier level. The number of dwelling units represented by the residential contracts totalled 79,263, up 36/o over last December. Sharp gains were recorded for one- and twofamily homes as well as for apartment units.
For the year 1958 as a whole, residential building contracts amounted to $14,695,531,000, up l3/o over 7957.
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A $46,975 CFAdvance was approved to the Pacific Grove Unified School District of Monterey County to finance preparation of complete plans for additions to convert an existing junior high school in Pacific Grove, Calif., to a high school to accommodate 900 students. The $798,025 project will start by the Spring of 1959 and include 13 classrooms, arts building, girls' gym, playground and site work. Refer: Secretary Thomas R. Turner; Project No' Calif. 4-P-3248.
Community Facilities Administration Commissioner John C. Hazeltine approved a $51,761 advance to the University of Nevada to finance final planning for construction of housing and dining facilities to cost an est,imated $1,382,000 and consist of a dormitory building for 150 students, dining hall, etc., and four apartment truildings to ,house 40 married student families. Refer: William R. Wood, acting president: Project No. Nev. 26-P-30O2.
Newhall Elementary :School District of Los Angeles county received a $34,445 CFAdvance to finance complete plans for construction of a l6-classroom elementary school in Newhall, Calif., at estimated $638,850 costs and tentatively scheduled to start construction in November. New subdivision construction in the district increased daily purpil attendance from 619 to 710 last year and was anticipated to hit 815 this year. Refer: D'ist. Supt. Glenn A. Riddlebarger; Project No. Calif. 4-P-3261.
Two CFAdvances totaling $85,700 were approved to finance planning for .construction of water and sewerage facilities in Lompoc, Santa Barbara county, Calif., with construction to start by next Spring to meet an.urg:ent situation when the population is expected to increase from 7,000 to E,NA du,ring 1959 because of the Defense Department program in the Camp Cooke A,F.B. and Point Arguello areas. E,stimated cost of the project is $915,500. Refer Mayor H. G. Thompson; Project Nos. Cabf. 4-P-3268 (Water), Calif. 4-P-3267.
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, was approved a $2,000,000 CFA loan for construction of a student union building with dining facilities. Refer: Joseph M. Whaley, business manager-treasurer. Project No. Colo. 5-CH-30 (S).
Douglas, Alaska, a city of 700 a few miles from Juneau, received HHFA recertification until July I, 1959, of its workable program for elimination of slums and blight. A number of substandard buildings were demolished during the year. It has adopted a uniform standard housing code and, working with the Alaska Housing Authority, has a survey underway to determine feasibility of an urban renewal project.
A CFA loan of $260,000 wad approved to the Tri-City Water District for construction of a waterworks system in Myrtle Creek, Douglas county, Oregon. The mining and wood processing community of 1,650 persons is 70 miles from Eugene. Refer: Secretary II. C. Stokes, Jr., Tri-City Water District; Project No. PFL-VI-35-39.
The University of Oregon will prepare 'a comprehensive plan for the growth and development of the Portland metropolitan area with the aid of a $34,150 federal grant approved by Urban Renewal Commissioner Richard L. .Steiner. Refer: Di'rector llerman Kehrli, Bureau of Municipal Research and Service, University of Oregon, Eugene, Ore.
Central 'Washington College of Education, Ellensburg, Wash., received CFApproval of a $1,260,00O 'federal loan to build six clustertype dormitory buildings to house 232 men students, and two apartment buildings for 42 student families. Refer: President Robert E. McConnell; Projecl No. Wash. 45'CH-31 (D).
Yuba City, California, has received HH'FApproval of its workable prograrn for elirnrination of slums and blight. The community of 11,000 in Sutter county 40 miles north of Saoramento was founded in 1849 but not incorporated until 1908 after a fire that destroyed much of the town. It has one urban renewal project in planning and a study in 1957 indicated six areas in need of renewal treatment. Public housing will be provided to relocate displaced farnilies.
Riverside county, California, received CFApproral of a $550,0@ federal loan for construction of a complete water distribution system in the Good llope area to provide water for a settled rural are'a of about 10 sq. miles serving 1200 persorrs rbetween Perris and Elsinore. Ref er: Doyle F. Boen, general manager and chief engineer, Hemet, Calif.; Project No. PFL-VI-4-18.
The California communities of Biggs, Campbell, Chico, Coalinga, Gridley, Oroville, San Clemente and Santa Clara will get aid in preparation of plans for their growth and development under a $616'500 federal grant appr'oved by Urban Renewal C.ommissioner Richard L. Steiner. The project, which wil'l include studies of subdivision regulations, is expected to,be completed in l8 months. Refer: Elton R. Andrews,. local planning ofificer, State Dept. of Finance, Capitol Bldg., Sacramento 14, Calif.
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The use of wood paneling in one or more rooms was desired by eight-out-of-ten delegates who recently attended McCall's second annual "Congress on Better Living" in Washington, D.C. The 100 homemakers who traveled from their homes in all 49 states to air their views were forwardthinking housewives, selected by McCall's for their knowledge of and interest in homemaking. Of those delegates desiring paneling, almost one-third chose it for the family or recreation room; one-fourth for the living room; oneseventh for the den or study; and one-eleventh for the kitchen.
One-ninth of the delegates who favored wood paneling said they wanted to use it throughout the house.
Reno Hoo-Hoo Club 129 held its first meeting of the New Year, January L6, in Reno, Nevada, to elect a new slate of officers and directors for the coming year. Speakers for the occasion were Al Kerper, Paul Bunyan Lumber Co., and Sacramento Wholesaler Jack Berry, Supreme Custocatian of Hoo-Hoo International.
The club's new president is A. R. "Red" Waller, Waller Lumber Sales, Reno. Darwin Vaughn, Vaughn Millwork, R6no,
was elected vice-president, and Don Moses, Home Lumber Company, Reno, was elected secretary-treasurer.
Directors for the new year will be George Pierce, Reno Lumber Company; John Hassett, Meadow Valley Lumber Co., Quincy; A. F. Horning, Horning Lumber Co., and Oscar Blum of Reno.
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.R. R. Chafiee, The Pacific Coast Company, San Francisco, was_elected president of the Redwood-Region Con-
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in Eureka, January 23, at the Eureka I-nn. Electe*d to serve
with him for the coming year were Larry Marshall, forest counsel, Arca_ta, vice-prdsident; Norman'8. Lilr..*ore, Jr.,
The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, treasurer;
and re-elected secretary, Carney J. Campion, Santa Rosa.
Four new members of the RRCC board of directors. elected for three-year terms, are Arne E. Gabrielson, Simpson Redwood Company, Arcata; Bernard J. Vaughn, Union Lumber Company, Fort Bragg; James-Timmons, wool-
grolve5 and. rancher, Arcata, and Kirk R. Cooper, Roddis- craft Inc., Arcata.
Following a short, fast-paced business session which included elections and reports on RRCC committee and circle activities, over 160 perions convened for a presidential re-
ception and banquet. They heard Walker B. Tilley, Masonite Corp., Ukiah, outgoing president, discuss the role, objectives and programs of RRCC as they relate to the people and to the future of the redwood region.
"In my book," he stated, "the greatesthazard is the lack of knowledge about, and appreciation of, the forest and its . role. From this lack, coupled with an indifierence born of it, . stem most of the other hazards. They include wildfire, insect and disease damage, destructive harvesting methods, injudicious legislation, and inequitable or confiscitory taxation. Reduction . . of these hizards . must become the fgS:, - concern and objective of all of our citizens."
-During the ifternoon session, the delegates heard a de- / tailed report on the 1958 activities of the Fire Prevention committee, chaired by Al Rueger, Fairhurst Lumber Co., Eureka. Bernard J. Vaughn, Union Lumber Co., Fort . Bragg, reported the results of the 1958 Junior Logging
Conference. A brief report from J. Harold Robinson, Willits Redwood Products Co., Willits, on finances, and Carney J. Campion, on other business, led up to the final review of the activities of the nine RRCC Circles, given in a single report for the first time.
Ben S. Allen, California Redwood Assn., San Francisco, and honorary lifetime vice-president of RRCC, headed up the Resolutions committee. Among the many resolutions adopted by the membership were those of specific thanks to the region radio, TV and press for "Keep Green" cooperation; the Foundation for American Resource Management, San Francisco, for funds making possible completion of the high school curriculum guide for forestry, logging and lum-
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The Willits Circle, headed by Miles Sullivan, The Pacific Cc-rast Co., Willits, won both the Outstanding Circle Fire Prevention Program Award and the Outstanding Overall Circle Program Award.
Harry A. Perry, president of Fidler's Manufactrrring Co., Inc., Inglewood, reports, "When we anllorlllced production of our new Kambercore Birch-Board Doors in the lanuary 15 edition of The CALIFORNIA LUMtsER XIERCHANf n'e had to shift into high gear to keep up with the demancl for this brand new unit of the latest innovation in hardrvood doors." Birch-Board Doors are exclusive lvith Fidler's and are fine enough to finish naturally an<l are perfect for the finest paint finish for special decor.
In ordei to keep abreast-of the clemand for this beautiful new Bircl-r-Board Kambercore unit, Fidler's are presently operating a srving-sl.rift in adclition to the regular pioductioir schedule, it lvas saicl
"We sl-rall make deliveries to our customers on regular schedule to assure adeouate stocks for builders and contractors regardless of quantities desired," said Mr. Perry, "u'hether they need just a few doors, a truck load or a carload."
Because Fidler's are receiving Birch-Boarcl door skins by the boatload at the modern manufacturing plant in Inglell'ood, unlimited production is assured for the spring ancl srln-rrrer demand by dealers and distributors.
Tacoma, Wash.-A new four-color folcler of hardboarrl ideas describes uses of Weverhaeuser's Silvatek line of hardboards in home interiois, for new construction ancl remodeling. Illustrations are worked out in Weyerhaeuser's versatile Silvatek line of hardboard. Product soecifications are included for all items in the line. Write for your copy of Hardboard ldeas. to Silvatek. Box S. Weverhaeuser Timber Comparry, Tacoma, Washington
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\{inneapolis, Minn.-Appointment of Gerald M. Cotl-res as "Insulite" territory representative with headquarters in Dallas, Texas, was announced by K. G. Maclntosh, dealer sales manager for the Insulite division of Minnesota and Ontario Paper Company. Cothes joined Insulite in 1958 after several years of sales experience in California.
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Jim Linderman, prominent Southern California lumberman and head of James S. Linderman Wholesale Lumber Division, has purchased the modern building at 4601 East Anaheim Street, Long Beach, and sales offices have been established in the new location to service retail dealers in the Southwest, including Southern California, Nevada and Arizona, with cargo shipments of old-growth Douglas fir from the Socomi mills at Brookings, Oregon.
"We are presently offering a complete line of Socomi brand products, including the finest old-growth Douglas fir boards, dimension and special cfittings," said Linderman. His concern is the exclusive representative in the Southland for Socomi Lumber Sales, it was said. Other species of Pacific Coast lumber are being offered the trade via rail and truck and trailer shioments direct when so specified.
Assisting Linderman at the new location are the veteran lumber salesmen, Gil Langley and By Armstrong. Both are well known and experienced men in the wholesale field. Lee Sullie manages the office details, including secretarial, billing, bookkeeping and finance. She has a busy job indeed. (Pictured from left to right are: Gil Langley, Lee Sullie, Byron Armstrong afrd Jim Linderman.)
The first meeting of the year for the CCDKC was held at the Snider Lumber Products Company, Turlock, California, on Friday, January 9. Twenty members and friends participated in the all-day meeting. The remanufacturing facilities of the company were inspected during the morning. This operation processes lumber from two or more small mills. Ponderosa pine is the principal species. The operation consists of a band resaw, two green-chains for dipping, grading and sorting lumber; an excellent air drying yard; three dry kilns (one single track, one double-track and one sideloading kiln) ; a complete surfacing and molding plant; and a box and cut-stock factory. There is also a large storage shed with holding capacity for over a million bd. ft. of lumber.
Bernell Snider, general manager of the Snider plant, rn'as host at lunch, served at Alberti's near Modesto. The business meeting and the technical meeting were held here also. James W. Jacobsen, kiln superintendent at the R. L. Smith " Co., Anderson, and V. P. of the club, presided during the 'afternoon meetings.
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The secretary was also requested to keep the membership informed of the program on wood drying being organized for the annual meeting of the Forest Products Research Society scheduled for June 28 to July 3 in San Francisco.
Technical Meeting:
The technical program was then turned back to V.-P. Jacobsen by H. H. Smith, who had moderated the technical discussion. Jacobsen thanked the Snider Lumber Products Co. for the opportunity to see their operation and for the fine lunch. Bernell Snider, our gracious host, invited the members to visit his plant at anatime.
The next meeting of the Central California Dry Kiln Club
Kiln-Dried PINE WHITE FIR INCENSE CEDAR P1ACERYIllE
will be on March 6, at the Cal. F.P.L., Richmond. The program will be a presentation and discussion of the results of the study of the moisture content of wood in use. This study was initiated for the kiln clubs in the fall of 1956 and thi field work was completed last summer.
1UTBER CONPAilY
MAIN OFFICE: (Mock Giles)
711 D Street-P.O. Box 71, 1 o Son Rofoel, Colif. o Phone Glenwood 4-1854 . TWX Son Rofoel 25
DISTRIBUTION Y,ARD: (Art Bond)
Highwqy l0l . Cloverdqle, Colifornio . Phone TWinbrook 4-2312
Irvington Machine Works, Portland, Oregon, has assumed dealership of the complete line of dry-kiln equipment and prefabricated kiln buildings manufactured by Standard Dry Kiln Co., Indianapolis, Indiana, kiln manufacturers since 1887. In addition, Irvington will manufacture certain kiln parts and will warehouse replacement parts.
Irvington's decision to handle the Standard Dry Kiln line was largely influenced by the success of a Standard installation of prefabricated kilns at the MacMillan & Bloedel plant, \/ancouver, B. C.
Starting operations February 16 in the Los Angeles Central Manufacturing District, Lebanite Products Co., a subsidiary of Cascades Plywood Corporation, Portland, Oregon, will serve manufacturing and industrial firms in the Greater Los Angeles area with a board rnaterial components custom manufacturing service.
"The opening of the Lebanite Products plant will solve many production problems for industrial users of the service in Los Angeles," says C. W. Fox, president, Cascades Plywood Corporation. "The plant will provide 14,000 square feet of materials warehousing space and 16,000 square feet of operating space. The use of pre-cut component parts by manufacturing and industrial firms eliminates their problems of materials inventory, specialized equipn.rent investment, and waste materials disposal."
Equipped with suction-type dust removal system and modern woodworking machines, the plant will produce component parts fabricated from Lebanite hardboard and Lebanex panel, products of Cascades Plywood Corporation, and from other board materials specified bv the customer. A complete array of equipment permits operations of sawing and bandsawing, edge-shaping, drilling, boring, routing, dadoing, mortise and tenon joints, die-punching, and perforating, to customers' specifications.
The new, earthquake-proof building housing the Lebanite Products Co. plant is constructed of tilt-up concrete walls with solid, plywood sheathing roof. There are no windows in the building. This is the first inverted truss-type building erected in Los Angeles, with 75-foot span, supported by only four interior posts. The construction of the building entitles the company to one of the lowest fire-insurance rates in the city.
Located on a Santa Fe rail spur, the yard area of the plant is black-topped and completely fenced. Construction of the loading dock required 300 yards of fill.
The new plant is staffed by Lowell Dunham, Jr., manager; Harlan Faccou, superintendent, and Caryl Knudsen, general secretary.
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Jim (Twin Harbors Lumber Co.) Rossman and his Alice motored to Florida (traitors!) early this nronth for a 3-week vacation.
"Producers" Virginia and Arthur Froehle, Somerville Plywood Corp., cleverly announced a "new product" to their friends this month on a postcard size strip of veneer. The specie is female, the brand is Pamela Ann Froehle, the size is heavyweight (asso. weight: 81 lbs., 12 oz.) and the delivery date was Jan. 25.
Bill Brauning, head of Associated Retlwood Mills, returned to Arcata Feb. 9 fronr a 2-week 'business survey in Texas, the midwest and east. John Dtiscoll, who recently joined ARM, held down the fort during his absence.
Bovard (Union Lumber) Shibley and his Pat had a real close one last month when a large slide narrowly missed their Ross (Marin county) home. "Shib" and Pat may lose two neighbors, though, because it didn't nriss them.
Jim Linderman and family returned to Balboa Bay from a vacation with friends and relatives in Dallas and the Lone Star state. Cal-Pacific Redwood's Frank Billings made a 2-week business trip to Denver, Albuquerc1ue, El Paso and Oklahoma City.
Mrs. and Roy Stanton return this month to his lumber tbusiness and their social activities in the Southland following an extended cruise around South Arnerica since last November.
"Fitz" Fitzpatrick, manager of the wholesale division of Consolidated Lumber Co., Wilmington, returned early this month fronr covering Arizona for his firm.
Bo,b Nikkel, head of R. F. Nikkel Lumber Co., left Sacramento and business behind for three January weeks so he and Phyllis could absorb a little Hawaiian climate.
Earle Bleile of Parr-Thomas Lun.rber Co., spent the last week of January on business in Eugene, Ore.
Don }Ianauer, nlanager of Fidler's i{anufacturing Co., Inglewood, and the Mrs. enjoyed their trip to Honolulu last month at the expense of Art Linkletter. Don combined business and pleasure on his "all-expense" tour and Mrs. Hanauer secured a golden tanRounds Lumber Sales Chief Harry Merlo and his wife Sheila (that gorgeous "cover girl") took the last week of January off for
Woody Fritz (above), resident buyer for American Products Corp., San Diego, is making another "good buy" from his elevenyear old Maurine, recently name<1 "Miss Cooky" for the Southern California Girl Scouts annual cookie sale running Feb.7-23. She was selected from a host of aspirants to head the 1959 cam,paign and, from what we gather, the cookie market ma1' currently be in better shape than the you-know-what. Anyway, we're confident that Maurine Fritz and her little colleagues will shatter all existing sales recortls.
"Roundsman" Hugo Miller is winding up a 2-week business trip to Salt Lake City, Denver, Albuquerque and parts thereabouts. City oflicials, state dignitaries, chamber of commerce heads, entertainment personalities and San Fernando Valley service club representatives will be among 200 people turning out Feb. 25 to honor Fritz B. Burns, nationally known developer and founder of Panorama City, Calif., with a "Spade of Progress" celebration narking the 10th anniversary of the town. The event will be held at the Sportsmen's Lodge.
Bill Buettner, partner in Geo. J. Silbernagel, Inc., returned to San Francisco last month after three weeks on midwest business.
Warren Hoyt, sales engirreering ex1;ert for Warren Southwest, Inc., Torrance, Calif and consultant to the wood preserving industry, has been in Arizona on another business trip and, naturally, soaking up a little of that sunshine, too.
Superior-Conifer Lumber Co., Partner Bill Frese, a captain in the USAFR, put in two weeks' active duty last month in Japan with stopovers each way in Hawaii.
"Gus" Hoover has returned to his A. L. Hoover Company in San Marino from a trip to Scotia on wholesale lprocurement.
lf your door soles ore folling off becouse you do not offer o PRE-HUNG DOOR UNIT, consider doing so. PRE-HUNG DOORS ore toking over fhe morkei! Write to us oboul mochinery.
some skiing and sunning at Squaw Valley Lodge.
Ray Van Ide, M & M Lumber, North Hollywood, spent the February 2 week contacting suppliers in Oregon and northern California-his first official trip as new rpresident of the wholesale firm.
Black Diamond Lumber Company's Larry Backes spent the recent holiday season in southern California and Palm Springs visiting friends and playing a few rounds of golf.
Sterling Wolfe, general salesmanager of Marquart-Wolfe Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and Lorraine attended the annual Ladies Nite of the Northwestern California Lumbermen's Club at Eureka, Jan. 31. They combined a little business, of course.
Glenn Butler, partner in Rosenberry-But-
ler Lumber Sales, Sacramento, called on sup- pliers along the Redwood Highway with Office Manager Henry Barta the week of Jan. 19.
Erv Bartel, salesmanager of Scott Lumrber Co., Burney, who ,has long been active in scouting activities, received the coveted Silver Beaver award of the Scouts last month, the first award of its type to be made in Shasta county.
Rich Robbins, Pacific-Western Lumber Co., Portland, was a January Los Angeles visitor to discuss 1959 sales with Val Larson and Ross Lashley.
Dean Jones of S&S Lumber Co., Downey, made a desert survey in January in the interests of the "Swirlwood Homes" being manufactured iby the wholesale redwood concern.
George Myers, southern California sales representative for Kaibab Lumber Co., returned early this month from the company mills at Flagstaff and Fredonia, Ariz. He also attended the general sales meeting called in Kanab, Utah, by executives of the firm.
Hollow Tree Redwood's Jim llcnnessey, spent a January week in and about Humboldt county on business.
Gran Geisert, head of Oakland's Peerless Lumber Co., has joined the immortal holein-one "Golfer's Hall of Fame" out at Castlewood in Pleasanton; he got one (his first) with a No, 4 wood on the fourth hole of the valley course ( a l8Gyarder) last month.
Robert Evju of Evju Products Co. in San Flancisco has returned after spending January calling on'Hawaiian connections.
P. J. Skill, Sierra Redwood Co., Los Angeles, and his wife Dorothy are on a procurement swing thiough the Pacific Northwest. It is Dorothy's first trip in over a year and the mill folks said they'd missed her, The Skills will also do the midwest and east before returning home.
Ev Lewis, recently retired executive at Gamerston & Green Lumber Co., and his wife have returned to San Francisco from a month's vacation south of that border.
Kathleen Hughes, well-known southern California lumber office secretary (recently from the desert area), has returned to her former job as "girl Friday" to Harry White at the Harry H. White Wholesale Lunlber Co. in Long Beach.
Jackson Beaman, longtime general manager of Southern Oregon Plywoods, Inc., Grants Pass, Oregon, and well known personally to many plywood dealers around the country, is head of a group of investors who purchased Southern Oregon Plywoods, Inc., late in December. In addition to being president of the new company, now known as Southern Oregon Plywood, Mr. Beaman will remain as general manager.
Things happened so fast around So-Ply for a while that this transaction was actually the second transfer within a few days for the plywood manufacturing plant. Don Plymmer, general manager of Vancouver Plywood Co., Vancouver, 'Wash., announced purchase of the plant and tirnber holdings in a $2,100,000 deal in December, then announced the sale, a few days later, to Mr. Beaman's group. Mr. Beaman stated that Vancouver Plywood is retaining a stock interest in the new company, and Mr. Plymmer will be one of the officers.
About $200,000 will be spent for new equipment that will enable the plant to immediately achieve increased and diversified production that will double the output. In addition to the company's own extensive timber holdings, it was learned that it will now be in a position to bid on any government tracts that are offered for sale, and also to receive and process green veneer from Springfield and Crescent City, assuring year-round oDeration.
"Economic Prospects for Our Industry in1959" will be the theme of the fourth annual Membership Conference of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association. which comes off the 23rd of this month at the Statler-Hilton hotel in downtown Los Angeles at the hub of the freeways. The Open Forum type program arranged for this year by President Hal Brown and Executive Vice-President Orrie W. Hamilton promises to be as stimulating and provocative as ever to the Active retail and Associate wholesale SCRLA members who will be there with questions and answers.
The closed meeting, for members in good standing only, will start with luncheon at noon in the hotel's Golden Staie room. It will be followed bv the Conference discussion. with leaders from all parts of ihe industry talking and taking part in-the s.ubjects under discussion. Every person present is.privileged to ask questions from the fl6oi or spiak his mind in answer. Cards for suggested question topics will be available.
The fourth annual Membership Conference will be attende_d by owners, principals. purlhasing agents. salesmen and key personnel of SCRLA member retail yards and wholesale and manufacturing firms.
Following this business session will be the annual Recep-
Yes, we're speeding the replocing of our recenily burned-oul production equipment wifh new, modern ond even more emcient mochinery which, in our new convenient quorters, will enoble us to give you more producl fqsler, ond betfer service ihon ever!
(Meontime, pleose beor with us in ony slight deloy. Our opologies ond ihonks!)
tion with cocktails in the Los Angeles Room for delegates only. The $8.50 registration fee will cover the luncheon, business session and cocktails, including taxes and tips. Price goes up to $9.50, however, if registration is not received at the SCRLA offices, 111 W.7th St., Los Angeles 14, before February 23.
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The 392nd, Terrible Twenty tournament was held at Riviera Country Club, January 16, with Dr. Paul Rekers and Carsten Woll our hosts. It was a bright and warm day with a rejuvenated golf course and clubhouse. It was beautiful but long and tough. There were no net 60's and mighty few net 70's. Rex Wall (78-76) and Tom Fleming (81-76)
tied for lst place in the low handicap bracket and Carsten Woll (91-79) won the high handicap bracket. Wall and Fleming will play it off this month at San Gabriel.
Paul Rekers showed color pictures taken at our October tournament at Carmel with a few from Ojai in June. The members look pretty good posing on the tees with their handsome-looking golf clothes, but if he would have taken some pictures in slow motion of their golf swings it would really have been a riot.
The board of directors approved the applications of Bob Fields of Austin, Fields & Fry, Architects, (Reeder) of San Gabriel CC; (A. L.) Bud P6zzo Construction Co. (Wo11) of Lakeside CC; Bill Marmion, San Gabriel Lumber Co', (Alling) of Glendora CC; O. A. (Pick) Maule, C. M. Ma1ufacturing Co., (Osgood) of Glendora CC. (Maule will be on a guest basis until there is an opening.) In accordance with the by-laws, these fellows will appear at one tournament as candidates and are eligible for membership the following month, (if no one screams).
George Gartz has arranged our February tournament at San Ga-briel, and he guarantees umbrellas will not be necessary. The date i.
Richard T. Nishikawa joined the imported lumber products division of Atkins, Kroll & Co., San Francisco, on January 19, according to Division Chief Charlie Schmitt. Nishikawa, who has spenlt nearly 23 years with Japan's timber industry, will assist Schmitt in buying.
Nishikawa was at oie time plant superintendent and liaison man to'the president of Japan Lumber Cornpany. During the early occupaiion years he was assigned to the Sth Army- Engineeis as piywood procurement man for U. S. Forces in the Far East Theaire. In addition, he was also active in the Japan Plywood Manufacturers Association, where he helped to develop the plywood industry during its early post-war years. More recentiy, Nishikawa had been connected with the Japan Rureaq of Forlstrv. where he assisted in the control and allocation of Japanese-produ..d plyrvootr ."d lt*h:_
Herman Langbehn has been named sales representative -in Central California for Stanley Steel Strapping division of The Stanley Works of New Britain, Conn.
" but we must not forget that it is going to take cooperation f,rom the sawmills throughoul thJcountry righ.t through. to the retailer if we are going to pui lumber back into the -place -it .deserves. The'indusiry does need the economical, efficient and informed services of the wholesale lumberman. I think it would be a wonderful idea if the substantial wholesalers through- out the country could make it possible, as the yeirs go along,_ to have_some of theia sales representatives come to the mills for educational trips. We have had a number of these chaps go through our plant, and I know they are better ialesmen aft& they see how lumber is made and the problems that we hal e on the manufacturing end. I am confident that all of our regional manufacturing groups will pull together, and Xg gglpilly. are anxious to work with your group (N .A.W L+ ) tI se_e_ing that our promotion piogt"nt'do.s click."A. B. Hood, presidint, Western "pine Association, and general chairman, National Wood promotion- Committee, quoted in January 19 bulletin, National-American Wholesale Lumber Assn.
From thousands of entries in the annual ,,Brand Name Retailer-of-the-Year" Competition, sponsored by Brand Names Foundation, fnc., 558 of the top retiilers in 49 states, Canada and Hawaii have been selected to compete for retailing's most coveted honors. Twenty dealers in the Building Materia"ls Deal_ ers category are among these "Finalists" who in March lvill submit full presentations of their 1958 brand advertising, sales training and other pron.rotional activities to be reviewed"6y the Judging Panel.
_ -Comp-eting again this year is L. Grossman Sons, Inc., euincy, Mass., fourth place Ceitificate of Distinction *i,rner' fi tgiO and second-place winner in 1957's Competition.
Other "Finalists" in this category in the 1958 Competition include A A A Lumber,Co.,_Waco,-Texas; The Builcling Materials Center, Inc., Pueblo, Colo. ; Herring-price Lumbe"r Co., Laredo, T"as; J. Neils Lumber Co.. Lib6y, Mont. ; progresi Lunrber, Redwood City, California: Richards & Krueger"Co.. _\9w B,raunfels, Texas; South Bay Lumber Co., Ltd] Cnula Vista, Calif.
With this announcement of "Finalists', by Brand Nanres Foundation! president, Henry E. Abt, the ietail competition entered its final phase. The climax will be the Awards ..i"-orr.,, to take place April 15 in the Waldorf's Grand Ballroom at tht annual Brand Names Dinner to be attended by more than 1500 leaders of manufacturing,. media, advertising and retailing.
In releasing the "Finalists" list, Mr. Abicredited the isnr.._ sive. and imaginative selling exemplified by this grbuf-with navnrg been a prlmary factor in the swift econonric recoverv from the 1958 recession. "Sound merchandising, ancl efficieni distribution," l.re said, "are powerful factors iimai'taini'g a high lev_el of prosperity. Baiked up by effective manufactu"rer advertising _and sales planning, retiiling of the calibre carried on by merchants such as these made a notable contribution to puJlins the. economy out of last year's business slump."
The Judging Panel will -eei in early March to assess the detailed presentations. Its personnel will-be the chief executives of the stores that took home Brand Name Retailer-of-the-year plaques in the Spring of 1958. The latter stores themselves are ineligible to compete for the next five years.
Tarter, Webster & Johnston, Inc.,4200 Bandini Blvd., wholesale lumber distribution, is a new member of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, with Seth I. potter listed. Officeis of the firm were listed as Charles Gray, president; Harolcl Ford, vice-president, and Robert S. Wells, gineral manager.
vClear Heart to Merch...dryor green. Hobbs Wall has them all!
To meet the growing demand for the best tn redusood. it pays to Specify Hobbs Wall Redwood. For prompt, courteous servicebacked by 94 years of milling and shipping experience-it pays to lmow your Hobbs Wall wholesaler or commission man. Write us for his name.
Teacher: "Willie, define the word 'Puncture'."
Willie: "A puncture is a hole in a tire usually found a great distance from a garage."
Lord, let me never tag a moral to a tale, nor tell a story without a meaning. Make me respect my material so much that I dare not slight my work. Help me to deal honestly with words and people, for they are both alive. Show me that as in a river, so in a writing, clearness is the best quality, and a little that is pure is worth more than much that is mixed.
Teach me to see the local color without being blind to the inner light.
Give me an ideal that will stand the strain of weaving into human stufr on the loom of the real.
Keep me from caring more for books than for folks, for art than for life.
Steady me to do the full stint of work as well as I can; and when that is done, stop me; pay what wages Thou wilt, and help me to say from a quiet heart a grateful Amen.
A general and a colonel were walking down the street together. They met many privates and each time the colonel saluted one, the general heard him mutter, "So are you."
The general's curiosity got the better of him and he asked, "Why do you keep saying that?"
The colonel replied, "I was a private once myself, and I know what they are thinking."
"God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please-you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first religious creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meetsmost likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth. He in whom the love of truth predominates will keep himself aloof from all moorings, and afloat. He will abstain from dogmatism, and recognize all the opposite negations be-
tween which, as walls, his being is swung. He submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion, but he is a candidate for truth, as the other is not, and respects the highest law of his being."
A boy entered a country store and asked the storekeeper for a dime's worth of asafoetida. The storekeeper wrapped it up and handed it to the lad, who said, "Pa said to charge it.tt
The storekeeper said, "All right. What's your name?" "Shermerhorn," said the boy.
The storekeeper said, "You can have it for nothing. I ain't going to write asafoetida and Shermerhorn for no dime."
Under the cherry tree I spread Pieces of apple, crusts of breadA whir of wings, and the boarders come Down from each cozy treetop home.
Robins, thrushes, and here a crowd Of poor relations, the sparrows loud; A cardinal flutters his plumage red, Whistling, "I never did care for breadChange your menu if you want me To keep my lease on your maple tree."
So I look in the bird books and try to find What each boarder has in his mind. For I want to keep themthey're splendid pay' As they sing for their breakfast, every day.
rhey had b""" "i.f"sc;il'.t'*:in the moonright. No word broke the stillness for half an hour until"suppose you had money," said the girl. "Would you travel ?"
He threw out his chest in all the glory of young manhood. "I'd travel," he said,
He felt her warm young hand slide into his. When he looked up, she was gone.
But in his hand was a nickel.
3315 West Fifth Street, Los Angeles 5 Dunkirl( 2-8278
Western Red Ceilar Lumber and, Sidings
Lun:,ber Merchants Ass,n. of Nortbern California Management Conference, Rickey's Studio Inn, Palo Alto, Feb. 16-17.
Western Retail Lumbermen's Assn. (333 First Ave., West, Seattle 99, Wash.) annual Convention and Trade Show, Multnomah hotel, Portland, Ore., Feb. l7-19.
California State Council of Carpenters 3lst annual convention, U.S. Grant hotel, San Diego, Feb. 17-20.
Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club 109 dinner meeting, Sherwood Room, Sacramento; Dick Merritt, chairman; Feb. 18.
Black Bart Hoo-Hoo Club 181 Concatenation, El and Lou's, Ukiah, Feb. 18.
Oakland HeHoo Club 39 annual Birthday party and Dinner-dance, Empire room, Claremont hotel, Berkeley, 7:39 p.m., Feb. 20; chairman: Sky Lewis.
Southern California Retail Lumber Assn 4th annual Membership Conference luncheon, otpen forum meeting and reception, starting 12:00 Noon, Statler-Hilton hotel, Los Angeles, Feb. 23.
American Concrete Institute annual convention, Los Angeles, Feb.23-26.
San Francisco Hoo-Hoo Club 9 dinner meeting"6:29 p.m., Leopard Cafe; Bob Kilgore, program chairman-Fillp; "The Jet Age," and Speaker; Feb.24.
Lumber Merchants Assn of Northern CaliforniaYard For€men's Seminan Hacienda motel, Fresno, Calif., March 9-10.
Western Pine Associatiron annual meeting, Sheraton-Palace hotel, San Francisco, March 11-14.
Redwood Region Logging Conferencg Flamingo hotel, Santa Rosa, March 12, including Equifment show, Sawdust Bowl and Loggers' banquet; president: William E. Baker.
Oakland Hoo-Hoo Clu,b 39 Saint Patrick'. D3y meeting, March 16; chairman: Jim Hendrick
Bryan P. McDonald has been named national sales manager for American Sisalkraft Corporation, Attleboro, Mass. He previously was in charge of the firm's Special Industries sales division. Assistant National Sales Manager will be James E. Helsel. J. P. Burke has been appointed Merchandising manager.
New York City, N. Y.-The National-American Wholesale Lumber Assn. has appointed Gordon A. Atwater, New Rochelle, N. Y., as assistant executive vice-president. The Nebraskan joined the staff January 16 under Sid L. Darling, executive vice-president.
Rate-Position lYanted $2.00 per column inch
All others, $3.00 per column inch
Closing dates for copy, 5th and 20th
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Old Established Yard. Must be TOP MAN For D O-IT-YO URSELF Department.
Fine Op'portunity for RIGHT MAN. Good Salary. Plus part of Profits.
Address Box C-2818, California Lumber Merchant
108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
HARDWARE MAN WANTED
Excellent opportunity with established, progtessive Tucson, Arizona, lumber yarcl. Requiiites are experience in contract hardware, tracts, estimatiirg and puichasing. ThiS is key position and applicant should luvs good sales record and personality. Compensation open. Send complete information-
LUMBER DISTRIBUTORS, INC.
970 S. Cherry Ave., Tucson; or Phone: I. Manspeaker, MAin 4-4451
WANTED _ GIRL
THORO.UGHLY EXPERIENCED IN FIGURING LUMBER & MILLING COSTS; ALSO INVENTORY. Call Mr. Alan Sinclair.
PENBERTHY LUMBER COMPANY
58OO So. Boyle Avenue, Los Angeles 58 Phone: LUdlow 3-4511
WANTE.D
Good typist for general office work Girl with some lumber experience preferred.
PACIFIC FIR SALES
2491 Mission Street, San Marino, Calif.
Phones: SYcamore 9-1147 or RYan 1-3369
ENERGETIC CAPABLE LUMBERMAN
Desires position with scope and challenge. 12 years' experience in all phasce of lumber and plywood management, sales and purchasing.
Married, age 33.
Address Box C-2837, California Lumber Merchant
108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
SALESMAN AVAILABLE
Experienced Lumber & Plywood salesman available for SoCal area. Ilave contractor contacts for Retail and also straight Wholesale selling experience. flave been identified with the woodworking induetry, at all levels, for more than 25 years. If you are in need of a man with "Know-Ilow":
Address Box C-2834, California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
and StrTES FOn SAI.E/I.EASL
FOR SALE OR LEASE
LUMBER AND BUILDING SUPPLY CO. Long-established going business, located in heart o,f town, Big Bear Lake, SoCal's most popular, all-year mountain resort. Serving entire area with a rnost complete line of lumber and building materials, including fir,ll line of plumbing, electrical, paint, appliances, cement, builders' sup- plies and hardware. Principal business building 2-story, provides attractive spacious modern apt. Six supply buildings, 72fi) sq. ft. covered lumber sheds, loading docks, etc. Yearly gross $120,0fi). Can show .2O/6 net. Price S55,0O0 for real estate and improvements. Owner retired, offers excellent terma. $5,000 down will handle to qualified buyer.
AN EXCEPTIONAL OPPORTUNITY. A TE.RRIFIC BUSINESS POTENTIAL WITH UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES
WAITING TO BE TAKEN BY THE ABLE, AMBITIOUS, ENTERPRISING OPERATOR. For particulars contact owner:
M. J. GATOV
552 North Park Ave., Pomona, Calif.
Phones: NAtional 2-65L4: o,r evenings: 2-8771
FOR LEASE
3-6110 acres improved, fenced; includes modern 2&140 office building. lQ(fi sq. ft. storage sheds. Steel buildings 2rl-years old. Spur track. Located near intersection Lakewood and Firestone Blvds. For information call or write:
WINTON LUMBER SALES, INC.
8713 Cleta St., Downey, Calif.; Phone: TOpaz 2-2186
We are interested in locating one or more good California yards (prefer in Southern California) for a well-financed out-of-state lumberman. DO YOU WANT TO SELL? It would be an ALLCASH Deal.
TWOHY LUMBER CO.-Lumberyard and Sawmill Brokers
714 W. Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles 15; Rlchmond 9-8746
DRY-KILN MATERIALS NEEDED
WANT TO BUY 3O0 dry-kiln trucks, end-piling, 8-inch diameter wheels, Bunks at four-foot centers. Exact dimensions requested with quotations.
Call: Mr. Aitken
INDEPENDENT BUILDING MATERIALS CO.
525 Maple Avenue Torrance, California FAirfax 8-3540
36-inch to 52-inch single and twin. VIKING MACHINERY
1000 Foothill Blvd., La Verne, Calif.
Phone: LYcoming 3-3021
FOR SALE:
HYSTER Lumber Carricr, good condition. WILL SELL CHEAP
Write: P. O. Box E3 or Cdl: TErminal 2-4504 San Pedro, California
FOR SALE
H-Dpe Moulder Heads. Seven six-knife, 6". Like new. Half new price. Various Milled-to-pattern knives and sleeves included. KLAMATH MOULDING MILL
P.O. Box 237 Yreka. Calif.
FOR SALE
Industrial Incinerator. Air-Pollution Control Approved. 2000 lb. per hour capacity with Storage Silo.
SUMMERBELL ROOF STRUCTURES
825 East 29th Street, Los Angeles 1l Phone ADams 2-6166
FOR SALE
Hyster Lift Truck-Model RC-150 LIKE NEW_ONE OWNER Small Lumber Yard
$6'9oo
Address Box C-2833, California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.
_SPECIAL SENVICESBUY _ SELL _REPAIR- SERVICE
Fork Lifts and Straddle !rucks. Completc strop and field service. Portable Welding, Special Fabrication, Steam Cleanins and Paintine. Service Available 7 Days a Week. All work guaranteed. COMMERCIAL REPAIRS AND SERVICE
1115 North Alameda Street, Compton, Calif.
Phones: NEwmark l-8269, NEvida 6-,+805
Cqlifornio lumber I|IERCHANI-IZE
All Your Wonts Here
Jordon Sosh & Door Co., F. t. .-.-5it
Koibob lumbe Co. --..--..-.-,-,,---..,*
Kelley, Alberl A.
Kent, Pqul E. -.-.------....---.-.----..-_--5,t
Kvolheim r\{ochiner! Co. ..,--,-----.--56
L. A. D.y Kiln & Storoge, Inc. .,-- r
Lonon Iumber Co. ------....--,,---.---. *
[cbonite Producti Co, ---,--------..,--.36 lindqmon Wholesolq [umber --,--t Long-Bell Div.-lnt'l Pqper Co. ---*
loop Lsmbcr & Mill Co. lot Ang6l.r lunbcr Co. [or.Col lumbcr Co. .-----..,-.-. Lovcll LumbcrCqp.Solc C!. --.........-.-.-----,I
M & t\4 Lumber Soler ----...,---.--
llocBmth Hqrdwood Co, ....--.,_--.
Mohogony lmporling Co. .----.".,... *
l{qpla Bror. Mortin Plywood Co, .-----.-....-..--.-. *
,r{qrquqrt.WolI. tumbsr Co. ..-.-..,55 ,rloron Suppli€r, Inc. ........-.-.--..-..-37 iMqrorile Corpotolion Mox Hqrdwood Compony -...-.....-. * llcCloud Iumber Co, ........-..-......-.56
,r{€iqr Iumbar Co., Hqrb -.".-......- | Mines Bondini, Inc. .......-..-.---.--.... * Moore Dry Kiln Co.
Smith-Robbinr lumber Corp. ----.-43
So-Col Euildins Mqteriolt Co..--. I
South Bqy Lumber Co. -.-....,-.--.-----
Southern Colif. [umbcr Sqlar -...56
Soulhwe!lern Portlond Ccmcnt -....19
St. Regi: Pqpcr Co.
Stqhl Iumber Co. -.------------...-..----
Stondord Lumbd Co., Inc. .-.--....- r
Stonlon & Son, E. J, Stroble Lumbq Compony ----.--...--28 : Sfrqit Door Mfg. Co. --.-.--.-----..----r .l
Tocomo lumbcr Soler, Inc. -.--------
fqhoe ilillwork Co. ------.-----Cocr 3 r
Tolbot Iumbq Co. .-.-.--..-.-----,-------16
Torfs, Webstsr & Johnron -._---_._.1|
Triqngle Lumber Co. -.-------.-.--------.-38
Trinily River Lbr. Soler Co. -----t I
Twin-Cily lunbs Co. t l,
Twin Hqrbors Lumber Co. ---..---.... 9
U. S. Plywood Cqp. --------------.-------29 -, Union lunber Co- ------------...---------31
Unitcd Whsle, Ibr. Co. ---:---------.--51
Word & Knopp .r.
Wqrrgn Soulhwstf, Inc. ---.--....---Walt3 Culton,{illwork --,----------,--'
Wehdling-Nothon Co. ------.----------,26 ' ,,
Wort Cdrf lunbqma'r Ar:n.----33
Wst Cdrt Scrcn Co. -.-,--------------53
Wctt C6rt Tinbd Product! --.---49 :l
Wcstern Dq & Sorh Co.
Wottarn Dry Kiln .--.----.--.-...--.--... r
rff.rlcrn torert Produclr of S. f.---./tl
Wcrldn forcrt Produclr Co. -.-....-.
Woltarn Iumbor Co. .--.--.-.----------...,t3
Wcrtdn Mill & Lumbc.Co. -.-..--.--58
Wqlrn Pina A$ociofion
W.tlc.n Pln! Supply Co....-......-... t Weycrhocurcr Sqlcr Co. -.,----..-.-l3 | White, Horry H. .-...-.-.---.----...-.--.--- t 'i
Wholc:olc Forqlt Productr Co. ----38 Wickerrhom, H. H. -.-.--.-...-.--.---..* I Windelsr Co,, Ltd., Georgc --..---..-32 ..:
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IUTIaET ANO IUIIEER PTODUCIS
Al Poirce Cmpoy ....--NEvodo 6-2t146
Amdco Hcdwood Co. ..-----...-..-----.----Rldmdd 9-4235
Andy Jcn tunbcr Co. ---.-----.-.--.CUmbqlod 3-E261
Angrelw Hcdrood Cmpcty .....-.......------.tUdlw 7-61 6E
Arcao tedwd Co. (J, J. leo) .......-..-.WEbcrcr 9-1109
Arsfoted Redrrcod lllllr -.--.-------.-..--..-...NEvqdo 5-77&
At*ir l(rcll t Co. ..-.-.----..----.--.-----.-.---.-.AlAdi.on 6-4;f57
Alo Lmber Co. .---.-...--...--..-.....---.-..-.-lttAdlro 7-2326
lwln Hcbqr lmter Co.
lC. P. Hcnry E Co.l -.-...-.-.--....--.--.--Rlchmond 9-6524
llnf o Lunbcr Compoy .-----.---------........I{Adi.on 7-2282
Unitcd Whdc. Lunbcr Co.--.----.-.......---...-.At{9.16 3-6t66
lhd Stot6 Plywod Corp. .....--.....----LUdlry 3-344I
U. 3. Plyyrood Corp. lCulva Cityl .----.......-lEx6 G5666
U. t. Plywod Cqp. (Glmdolel ----....----.-----Clhut 4-2I33
U. 5. Plnrood Corp, lSqrfc Arcl -.------Xlmbcrley 7-1691
Wendllng-Noahc Go. -.---.--.--..--.--.------.----...-RYn t-9321
Wrrtem
...............-Cunb6lod 3-3505
Dimond Cqporqfiq
Goc Hcod lbr, & Plywood Co.-.-.--.-NEvcdo 6-3606
Dot E lurqtl, Inc. -..--.-....------.--.--.--SToley3-2663
Dolc Lrntq, Ccl ------.-...-....-----.------..CHoplrtd 5{186
Dcl Volle, Kdmd & Co. -.----..--...---.--.--llAdi:o &6831
Doover Co., Inc. -.---.-.--..-.--..------Bfo&l|ff 2-4167
Dolcy I Co. .--...--.---.--.--.-.---.--.----.----RAymod 3-4874
Ed Fmrsln lunter Co. -.------.-.-.-----.----ludlry 3J38t
Erby I 5o, D.G. ----.-..-.--..--..---------RAnnod 3Jt47
Eubonk & 5m, [. H. -Olegn E-2255
FdrhuBt tmbd Go. -.-.-.-.------..-.-.---..-.,-.Bnodrhs 2-0641
fqnb Lmber Go. ------.----....-.-.-..----.---.-.-FAculry l-2003
Fmo & Co.. stephm G, .....---..---------.--ORiole 3-350O
Fmonf For6l Productr .--.----..--... - -. - -. - -. ---OXtqd 4-7 557
Golloha llcdwod Co. ---.-...--..-..-.--...PLe6ol 2-3796
Gorgt|ePcific Corp..-..--..----...-..---.--.-----.-.-----RYil I -21 l9
ght |til. cf Collfomlo, lnc. ..--.-------.---.lkc 04l,'C
Oca t Go., W. R. ........................-...-.llAdra l|.l3tl
Hexberg lunbcr 5oler .---..-,.---....--.-.-.-.-.-.-RYd l-63E6
Hill & ilo.}il, lnc. --.---......---........-....O[emdq5-90i13
flobb Wdl Lurnber Co. --..--....-.--.-.--.---.ATlolic
2-5779
Hdro lmbe Go., Frcd C. .-...--..--.-.-.-.RAytrond 3-9983
Hova Co., A. 1. .---..-.--.-..----.....---------.-.--....RYm l-9321
Hufr fqDb€? Cmpoy ..----..--------...-.---..Ptyilflth
lmpcriol Lmbs Go.--....--.-..-...--........-....-.-..CApitol 2-026I
lndepcndat Bldg. flrlr. Go. ..-.---.-..-.-...-FAlrfq E-35r|o
tndurlriol Lmbcr ---.----.---.-..-....-...-....-...CHopmo
5-l7lO
Door Co. of t. A. .-....-.--.....-[Udlry 8-2I41
Hcley Bror. (Soto lionlcol --------.----......-.---TExG G4831
Sch & Doq -.--.--.-.---.---...-.---.-...Pl,coot
lkGloud lmbsr Co. ..-.-..---..........-.------.--VEmot 84t(Xl
llclcr lmbq Co,. Herb nYm l-8181
lLunr Whllmy lmbs Co. -.-..----.-..---.---ANgelur 8-OI7l
,fhrtuol lloulding od Lqnb$ Co. --.---.---.-FAcully 1-(,,77
Natm*tecd Lrmber Co, ..-.---------,-----.----.-SToley &l(XlO
iHro Lmbcr.-. .--.-...-.-.-Etliort 9-4521
Norh Lmber 9oler, A. W. --.---.------.-.--------SToley 3-2663
Nwqultf lmber Sols, Jme --....--.-.---.---RYo l-06t|6
Olrd CmDOy, T. E. --.---.---.-....,--------BRodrhw 2-7943
Oreood, lobc* 3. --...-...-----..--------..----DUnkitt 2-827t
Odord Lurnber Co., Rex ----..--....-.-------Axmin3ter 3-6238
P*iic Fir 3qlcr,-.----------.----..-..--...--.--...-..,-..-..-.lYc | -3369
Pclfic Lmber Co., tbe --....------..-.---.-.--.....-IYo l-9321
Pclir Wood Productr -------.-....-.....-.---.--tltAdlrcn 8-7261
Pcnberthy lmbq Co. -.lUdlow 3-4lll
Phillpr 8ru. lmba Co. ..------.-........HEmlotk 5-8ltl|
Lif. Co., E. t. ---------------.--..-....-....--.-'-.--..--ORlole 3-t2t0
lccnbcrry-Butls Lbr. Solc ..-.--.-.--..--.......TOPu I -51 20
lqndc lunrbcr Co. -.-...--..-.-------.-...-....-.-PRdp*r 4-I 902
loy FGI Produclr Co. STda 5-ll4l
3. t 3. Uittb.r Co. ----..---..-..-."..-..---.--.-..--.5Pru<e 3-2292
5ofqd-turiqr, Inc, .--.....-..-....-...------..AXmlBler 2-9181
3ccburgh Co...-----------------..-..--.....-..-.....--.-.WEb3ter 8-6261
Shlvcly, Alo A. --.-.--.....-..---...-...-.-.--.----CHqFmn 5-2O83
Sim lmbgr & Plyvood, lnc. ......-.--.-..5Tote 5-1196
Slxo lcdmod Cmpdy ..-..---....--.-----.J{Evqdc 6-0139
3im Hordrrod lwbd Go. --.--.--....3Pruce 3-l9lo
5nirh Copov. C. 8......-...-.....--..-.--...-.......-..lYo I -6759
Smith Hordryood Co.. t. l. ....-.......-.....-.-.--Ludlow 3-4585
SillrlFlobbh tmbcr Cap. --..----........P1ecot 3-4321
ldth E y lmbor Co. Olegon 8-2268
3outhm Gollfmlo Lmlr Sola3 --.-------.RYn l4l05
tldrl Lmbs Co. .......-----.---------...-........-..ANgelu 3-6844
tto&rd tunbr Co.. lnc. .-.-.--.--.---------Olqdd 5-7151
gt6ld & 3o, E. J. ----ADmr 4-9211
lcm Lrnsq Sds, lm. -----.--------..--..lYo l-6361
Tatcr, W.SaLr & Jolrmo, Inc. .--..---Al{gelur 9-7231
TulFCf fy lmbcr Co. lAcctg. ----..---.---Bldzhq 2-7723
5o. Collf, scn cdl Coll.Gt--.(F.tDl
[uilaER4ll LDING ltAtEilAtl
Arrowheod lmber Cmpoy .-.---...--.---..-..lum] +7511
Arrryheod Plywood Cornpcy ----..---......-...-TUm 4751 | lnlod lmbsr Cmpoy .--.--.-....-.-------.....-.TRlDity 7-2@l
SAN DIEGO
LUIISER AND turliBEn PRODUCIS
fnlod lnmbcr Cmpoy .--..-.--------,-.--BElmqr 2-8694
Wcyedrocurc 5clc Co.--.-..--.---.-.-.--....-..GLemourt 9-l 756
BUIIDING 'ITAIERIAIS United 5td.3 Plnrod Corp. ---------------....BElDst 2-5178 MAftRIAI.S HANDIING EQUIPTITENT Hyrte? Cmpoy ..-.--..-iEl|Mt 9-4343
SACRA'VTENTO
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A, & B. Lmbq Solq ----.------------..-.--.-Gr63 Volley 23O0
B & lt Lqnbo. Co, --..--.-------------.-....---....Gllbdl 3-5783
Gordon-lloc0coth Hdwd. Co, .----.--.---Glodrrm 2-2657
Hedlmd tmbq Sds -.----.--...-.-.-----.-.--...-GArda 8-9O20
Nikkel Lmbq Co., R. F. -.....-....-.-...--.lvohoc 7-8675
OltM twber Co. ------.----.------,--..---.5Hry@d 2-3211
Ploceryille !mbq Co.--..---.....--.----.--.---.......Gllborf l-l 573
Rorenberry-Buller Lbr. Soler --------..----.-Glod!lone 2-667 | Twin Hdrtor lunbcr Co, ------..--....--..--lVohoe 3-2916
Weyahouer Sqlct Co. -.---.--..-....---........--Gllb.rt 3-7l|5l
-..-...----....-----.--THmwdl I -f73O
Gord*rJtctedh Hdwd. Go. ..,---.-----1Od(lwm &2578
Hcndrick Co., J. W. ...---.-.------.--....-.-.------Olyrmlt
Hlll ! rJtoild, lnc. .--......-.----------.-.--..----AN&Yd l-lql l(elley, AtbErt A. -.--..--..--.......--......-.------fA.|(ehmt
TN JUST EIGHT rnonths since beautiful Morgan Kitchens were introduced I to California lumber dealers and kitchen specialists, 97 bate becorne dealers! Enthusiastic receDtion? Yes. and the public acceDtance has been euen ntore enthttsiastic! Li a word-Morgan Ki'tchens haue'been a"HIT!"
The reason is basic. Morgan flush type cabinets give you highest quality hardwood cabinets at moderate pricli. The net "resuit is a" brani netu market for your retail lumber storeihat is loaded with extra profit potenlial!
If you haven't investigated a Morgan dealership you may be missing the year's brightert lteu sales opportunity. Morgai products arc sold only through retail lumber dealers and kitchen specialists . and are backed by extensiue aduertising, merchandising and marketing at the regional and local level. There are irore than thirtlproducts in thE Morgan "woodwork ling-all highly salable at good profit rha^rgins. Vrite or phone the exclusive California"diit.ibotor. t-ahoe'tr,t;tl*ork"Co.. now for' information on a Morgan dealership.
The complete MORGAN line includes:
o CABINEfS: flush type kifchen cobinefs; chino, storqge, corner, ufility & oll-purpose cobineis.
lVrite todal' for full color, FREE 36-page Kitchen Cabinet Booklet.
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Mony choice terrilories qre open. Write or phone for full porliculors nowt
FOREST PRODUCTS CO. A Division of TAHOE
a DOORS: cuslom-line enlronce doors, pine ponel & sosh doors; hordwood ponel & sosh doors; hollow & solid flush doors; combinolion doors; louver doors ond folding doors of hordwood ond ponderoso pine.
aSPECIAITIES: entrqnces, monlels. sloirwork, moulding, medollions, stroddle moulding, light & louver units, blinds, shutters, etc,
Attractive as a good volume and profir builder; attractive, too, for its supreme qualities as a buildirg product. Nothing surpasses the enduring beauty of Rockport's Certified Dty Redwood Bevel Siding and Finish. Rockport Redwood is always well up to grade.
Soles Agents
Rounds Lumber Coml>any is exclusive disrributor for Rockport Redwood and sales agent irr other leading Redwood mills. Rounds also represents producers of top quality Douglas Fir, White Fir and Ponderosa Pine.