The California Lumber Merchant - August 1943

INSECT SCREEN CLOTH

"DUROID" Electro Gatvanized

Knmps that 6(70% for Tilar Bonds isn't enough these days"

I(orkers' Living Costs going up. and Income and Victory Tax now deducted at source for thousands ofworkers...

Check! You're perfectly right but all these burdens are more than balaoced by mtch higlnrEA:J$/'ILY INCOMESpT most ofyou utorLers!

Millions of new workers have entered the picture. Millions of women who never worked before. Millions of others who never began to garn what they are getting today!

This spoce is o contribuiion lo Americo's oll-out wor effort by IHE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

A 1096 Pay-Roll Allotment for SZar Bonds from the wages of the family bread-winner is one thing-o1o% PayRoll Allotment from eacb of seueral uorhers in ,he same fanily is qaite anotber matter! !flhy, in many such cases, ir could well be jacked tp to 30%-50% or even more of the family's neu moneyl

That's why the teasury Departme.rt now urges you to revise your ITar Bond tbinAing-and your \$(ar Bond selliry--on the basis cf fanilll incomes. T,he currenr

lfar Bond campaign is built around the family unit-and labor-management sales programs should be revised accordingly.

For details get in touch with your local I(ar Savings Staffwhich will supply you with all necessary material for the proper presentation of the new plan.

Iast year's bonds got us staned-t&i year's bonds 4re to uin! So let's all raise our sights, and get going. If we all pull together, we'll put it over with a bang!

you've done your bit

now do your best!

TACOMA LUMBER SALES

714 W. OTYMPIC BwD., LOS ANGELES, CAIIF.

CARGO and RAIL

NEPNESENTING

St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co.

FIR HEMLOCK SHINGLES LATH

Dickman Lumber Company

FIB LI'I'IBEB

Hart MillCompany FIN SPRUCE

Vancouver Plywood & Yeneer Co. PLNAIOOD

Opercting S. S. WHITNEY OTSON

PHONE: PBOSPECT TIOS OUR

*Advertisements appear in alternate isgues.

American Hardrvood Co.

American Lumber and Treating Co. -------------r

Arcata Redwood Co. --------------.24

Atlinson-Stutz Co.

Back Panel Company

Bexter & Co., J. H. -----------------------------------.12

Blue Diamond Corporatiotl -----------------------*

Bradley Lumber C,o., of Arkansas

Brugh Industrial Lumber Co. --,--------------------.12

Burnc Lumber C,o. ---------- -----------------------------.22

California Builders S.tpply Co. ------------------- 25

California

Tacoma Harbor Lumber Co. Fln LT'MBEN

Peterman Manufacturing Co. FIR LI'MBEB

Eatonville Lumber Company FIR IIEMLOCT NAIL SHINGI.ES

De(iance Lumber Company FIB LI'MBEB trND LATII

Opertrting s. s. wEsr coAsT

ADVERTISERS

Lumber Co. ----------------f4

Hall, James L. Ha--ond Lumber Co. ---------------------------------.21 Hill & Morton, Inc.

HobSa Vall Lumber Co. ------------------------------

Flogan Lumber Co. Floover, A. L.

Johnron Lumber Corporation, C. D. -----------*

Koehl & Son, fnc., John W. ------------,,--------.29

Kuhl Lumber Co., Carl H. -- - -- -----

Lamon-Bonnington Company ------------------------ 4

Lawrence-Philips Lumbet Co.

Lumbermentg Credit Association -------,---.-.----

tunber Co., R. G. ------------------------2O

San Pedro Lumber Company -----------------------19

Santa Fe tumber Co. --------------------------.O.8.C.

Schafer Broc. Lumber & Shingle Co. ------------11

Schumacher Vall Board C,orporation ---------- 5

Shevlin Pine Saler Co. ------------------------------14

Southwesterir Portland Cement Co. -----------i

Sudden & Chrirtenron, Inc. -------------------2, Stanton & Son, E. J. --

Tacoma Lumber Salec -------------------------- t

Timber Engineering Co. of C,alifotnia--------*

Vendling-Nathan Co. --------- 9

Wect Coact Screen Co.

Vest Oregon Lumber Co. ----------------------------22

Vertern Door & Sagh C,o. --------------------------.2O

Wertern Hardwood Lumber Co. ------------------- 7

Vestern Mill & Moulding e.o. -------------------27

Weyerhaeuser Saler C,ompany ---------------------r

Vhite Brotherr -------------------------25

Vholesale &rilding Supply' Inc. ---------------.2i2

Wood Lumber Cr., E. K. ------------------------------24

THE CALIFOR}.IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

JackDionne,prblislw

How Lumber lrooks

Seattle, Washington, July 13, 1943.-The weekly average of West'Coast lumber production in June (5 weeks) was 163,279,W board feet, or 107.5 per cent of. 1939-1942 average, according to the West,Coast Lumbermen's Association in its monthly survey of the industry. Orders averaged. 174,476,@0 board feet; shipments, 165,502,000. Weekly averages for May were: Production, 168,621,000 board feet (111 per cent of the1939-1942 average); orders, 180,251,000; shipments, 166,355,000.

The industry's unfilled order file stood at 1,111,311,000 board feet at the end of June; gross stocks, at 5O4,664,000.

The drive of the industry for maximum production continues. The logging camps have obtained several hundred more men; and tidewater log inventories increased nearly 5O million feet during June.

Lumber production dropped slightly below May, on account of holidays, vacations with pay under the terms of current working agreements, together with log shortages at some of the mills.

'War demands for West Coast lumber continue heavy, with special emphasis upon box and crating, barge material and stockpiles for overseas bases. The Central Procuring Agency is buying between forty and fifty per cent of the West Coast production for war requirements. More lumber is flowing into civilian uses, especially for railroad and agricultural requirements.

The Western Pine Association for the week ended July

17,98 mills reporting, gave orders as 85,125,000 feet, shipments 75,55q000 feet, and production 89,481,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled, 478,710,M feet.

The Southern Pine Ass;ciatio; for the week ended July lO, I7l mills reporting, gave orders as 72,9A6,0ffi feet, shipments 23,487,0W feet, and production 2I,978,W feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 141,499,000 feet.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended July 3 reported orders as 130,433,000 feet, shipments 125,m4,000 feet and production 114,489,000 feet.

For the week ended July 10 orders were reporti.d as 92,212,ffi0 feet shipments 82,361,000 feet, and production 76,051,000 feet.

HERB KLASS GOES EAST

Herb Klass, assistant to the president of The Pacific Lumber Co., San Francisco, left July 23 to visit the offices of California Redwood Distributors in Chicago and New York. He expected to be gone about three weeks.

BACK FROM OREGON

W. E. Cooper, president of W. E. Cooper Wholesale Lumber, Los Angeles, returned a few days ago from a two weeks' business trip to Oregon.

ON SOME PEACEFUL KNOLL

You and Sch umile will huild lim's Ccstle!

Hundreds of thousands of feet of Schumite Gypsum lVatl Board is monthly bcing installed on both the inside and thc outside of Army baracks. (Th" Navy, Maritime and F.P.H.A. are users, too.)

Consequently, very little Schumite Gypsum Tfall Board is available for normal trade and warchouse stocks.

However, when the enemy is routed completely and forever, you'll find Schumite Vall Board and other Schumite Products in full production for peacetime pursuits. building Jim's castle for one.

Reorganization of lfPB Lumber and Lumber Distdbution Yard Sales of Products Division Announced Hardwood Lumber

Reorganization of the WPB Lumber and Lumber Proclucts Division was announced by J. Philip Boyd, director of the division, "Recognizing the importance of lumber and lumber products in the war program, the War Production Board has authorized the reoganization with inceased staff to obtain maximum production and best distribution for war and essential civilian needs," Mr. Boyd explained.

The reorganization, effective immediately, emphasizes three over-all phases of the Division's work: program, operations and marketing control, which have been set up as branches. The branches will report to the director and to the deputy director, Mathias W. Niewenhous, the latter formerly with the Niewenhous Company, Inc. (construction), New York City.

The Program Branch will gather, analyze, and report on data relative to the supply and demand for lumber and lumber products and the productive capacity of the industry. Chief of the Program Branch is Henry Clepper, on leave of absence as executive secretary of the Society of American Foresters and managing editor of the Journal of Forestry.

The Operations Branch will deal with problems affecting production of lumber and lumber products, including development of new sources of supply or nelv productive facilities, the review of applications and assignment of preference ratings for the allotment of material necessary in production, initiation and administration of limitation and conservation orders concerning production, the review of applications for production machinery and equipment, development and improvement of production methods and facilities, and the rendering of assistance to the industry on transportation, manpower, and price problems affecting production. Acting chief of the Operations Branch is Harold E. Holman, who since Tuly, 1942, has been chief of the Division's Production Section.

The Marketing Control Branch will direct the allocation and distribution of lumber and lumber products. Its functions will include cooperation with the Canadian Timber Control Office, control of imports and exports of lumber, and the initiation of limitation and conservation orders affecting distribution. J. N. \Minton, chief of the Marketing

Distribution yard sales of hardwood lumber now may be made with an agreement between seller and buyer that if the Office of Price Administration adjusts upward its maximum prices after delivery, the prices in the sale may be increased accordingly.

The adjustment procedure was provided by OPA in Order No. 1 under Section No. 1499.19a of the General Maximum Price Regulation, and becomes effective July 17, 1943.

OPA pointed out that maximum prices for distribution yard sales of hardwood lumber are established by the General Maximum Price Regulation as the highest prices individual sellers charged during the month of. March, 1942.

In many instances, OPA added, the March, 1942, prices were based on inventory costs of preceding' years, which do not provide an adequate margin of return for the yard on the basis of present replacement costs.

Carl Moore Heads Cape Arago Mill

Carl R. Moore has succeeded his brother, Ralph T. Moore, as president of Cape Arago Lumber Co. at Empire, Oregon, and is now giving most of his time to this operation. Ralph continues as a director, but will devote more time to his work as head of the Moore Mill & Lumber Co. and of the McKinley Lumber Co.

Fred T. Moore, Jr., and J. S. Moore are also directors of the Cape Arago Lumber ,Co., which has about the same daily capacity as the Bandon plant and ships both by water and rail.

ELECTED POST COMMANDER

Benj. Ostlind of California Panel & Veneer Co., Los Angeles, was elected Commander of Lumbermen's Post No. 403, American Legion, at the monthly meeting of the Post, July 14.

Control Branch, has been with WPB since March, 1942, and for the past year has been chief of the Resources Section, Lumber and Lumber Products Division.

The status of the office of the Western Log and Lumber Administrator and of the administrator of Order L-218, both at Portland, Oregon, remain unchanged.

Famous Flyer Has Had Interesting Career

Major Edmund Fryer Overend, son of Paul E. Overend of the California Redwood Association, San Francisco, now an instructor in the Marine Air Force, has had a most interesting and adventurous career since he was called to active duty with the Marine Corps shortly after his graduation from San Diego State college in 1939. He took his basic training at the San Diego Air Base before being transferred to Quantico, Va., where he qualified for a commission. Late in 1940 he resigned his commission to go into training as a Navy aviation cadet at the Pensacola, Florida, Naval Air Base. He won his wings in January, 1941, and immediately asked for duty in the Marine Air Force.

When General Chennault called for 100 volunteers in the summer of. l94l for his American Volunteer Group (Flying Tigers) Lt. Overend answered the call along with four other Marine pilots.

Major Overend has been arvarded the Distinguished Flying Cross of Great Britain; the Chinese Silver Star for conspicuous gallantry in the air; the Hahn Shewi Award for downing five or more enemy planes, and the coveted Chinese Order of the Flying Cloud, better known as the "White Cloud Banner," personally presented by Madame Chiang Kai-shek.

For his part in the battles of Rangoon, Maguay and Loi Wing, Kumming, in Burma, the Leatherneck flyer wears three stars in his Asiatic campaign ribbon.

Parelius Lumber Co. Starts Business in Portland Aug.9

Martin W. Parelius, who has been in charge of the Portland office of MacDonald & Harrington, Ltd., for the past six years, resigned his position effective July 15 and announces that he will open his own wholesale lumber business August 9, under the name of Parelius Lumber Company, with offices at 479 Pittock Block, Portland, Oregon.

"For the past 23 years I have been buying for California firms and feel that this experience qualifies me well to service properly the retail yards in that state," Mr. Parelius says, in his announcement.

Prior to his connnection with MacDonald & Harrington, Ltd., he was with Chapman Lumber Co., Portland, for three years, specializing in railroad material. For 14 years before that was with J. R. Hanify Co., and was manager of their Portland office for 13 years of that time.

Mr. Parelius has been making personal calls on California retail lumber yards during the last two weeks in July.

ELECTED DIRECTOR

Leonard C. Hammond, president of, the Hammond Lumber Company, San Francisco, was recently elected to the board of directors of American Trust Company, San Francisco.

PIANNING fOR THE fUTURE

Mcritime Commissiou Awtrrd

is a very important part of our work- in the midst of intense activity and endless detail involved in supplying the exacting demands for high grade materials for the war effort.

It is our belief, based on sound deduction and observation, that the retail lumber dealer will be much more in the picture in the future, in the merchandising of hardwoods to the customer.

Uncover your head, and hold your breath, This boon not every lifetime hath, To look on men who have walked with death, _ And have not been afraid.

A well-turned Latin phrase is the one Mussolini kept telling the Italian nation; that if they lose the war the Allies will leave them "nothing but their eyes to weep with." That deflated conqueror WOULD turn poetic on us.

There was nothing poetic about Admiral Halsey's remark that when he got to Tokyo if there was anything left of it he'd burn it down. But there was lots of justice in it. rtr {. {.

In San Francisco they tell the story of the Californian who became alarmed after Pearl Flarbor, since he had a house full of Japanese servants, so he said to his valet, who had been with him many years and was practically a member of the family: "Moto, you wouldn't stab me in the back, would you?" And Moto said: "No s-s-sir. Not at all. That's the gardener's job. Me burn down house." :F*{3

Speaking of well-turned remarks, Col. McCormick, Chicago publisher, recently landed one on Willkie's whiskers, when he said: "f've known lots of men who let success go to their heads, but Willkie is the only man I ever knew who let defeat go to his." ***

And one of the radio programs where they get soldiers and sailors up to the mike and ask them questions, ran into this one. The quiz master asked: .'What are our soldiers and sailors fighting for?" And the boy answered: 'ESQUIRE." {3{.*

And then, of coulse, there was the good looking blonde who was deftly working at a bench in a munitions pLant, and when a visitor said to her "Are you doing piece work?,' ehe said, "Nix! \ll/ar work." l.*:t

And by the way, won't it be a grand and glorious feel-

ing when we can look back and say "Do you remember when the Second World \f,/ar was going on?" :li**

Those days will come as su.re as the sun will rise tomorrow morning. Of that I have no doubt. I wish I was just half as certain that the bureaus would likewise be gone and forgotten.

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A Washington columnist who went around interviewing the man and woman in the street about all this postwar planning talk, quoted a taxi driver as saying: "Looks like this time they're going to make the duration last longer than the war.i' ***

Someone sent me a story about a race horse bookie who got caught in the draft, and before leaving for the Pacific sent all his clients a formal invitation to attend ,'the early opening of our Toyko branch, which will be located in the Colin Kelly Building on MacArthur Avenue, Tokyo, Japan. There will be dining, dancing, long shots, and daily doubles."

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William Allen White, the famous Kansas editor and humorist, has facetiously predicted that Germany will take the final count on F'ebruary 9th, 1946, at 1l A.M. The "New Yorker" refuses to accept this as final; wants to know if he means eastern war time, or what?

A friend of mine *h.i:*""**tr, enthusiastic about the fine training our boys are getting in the army today says that three months of intensive training in one of our camps today will fix a boy up so that he'll be fit to ride in one of our crowded civilian busses wittrout permanent physical disabilities. ***

The story goes the rounds that many of the older men in the Navy are finding it difficult to pass the reguliation physical exams for active duty. Lord Nelson had only one eye when he won the battle of Trafalgar, which of course, must have been strictly against regulations. And it's too late to go into court and have that battle thrown out, isn't it?

And if you're looking for excellent examples of the differences between the old days and the new, consider the fact that in the old days we used to carefully scrutinize our chicken sandwiches to make sure they were not veal; and now we scrutinize with extra care our veal sandwiches to make certain they're not chicken.

And then there was the Marine who danced with the good looker at the Army Canteen. She remarked: "My husband is in the Navy in the Western Pacific." And the Marine said: "Ah ! Then your anchor's aweigh !" ***

When a guy starts to prophesy, particularly with regard to the war, do as you would if you were considering a prospective employee; ask him what his record on Predictions is. Our papers are filled with would-be prophets wh*like ttre heads of most of our bureaus-have no record of successful accomplishment behind them. In other words, let prophets stand on their record, or be quiet.

So far as I've discovered, this war has produced but one successful prophet-President Benes of Czechoslovakia. He can stand on his very enviable record. All other prophets are either amateurs or phonies. When the Nazi smashed his country, Benes spoke loud and clear to the rest of the world, and this is what he said: Next they will

strike Poland, then tr'rance, the Low Countries, England, and Russia; furthermore, he said, they would pull thc United States in. He batted a thousand, and qualified as a first-class and dependable soothsayer about future things. **{3

Now Mr. Benes says that Germany will collapse suddenly, when she goes. There will be no gradt'al crumbling. One day she will be terrific in her might; the next day she will be down and out. And, if such is the case, it could come at any minute. The shush-shush society in Washington wants to soft pedal such ideas for fear of hurting the war offort, making us too confident, ctc. Which is all folderol. Optimism and enthusiasm can do more good than viewing with alarm. If we'd had any prophets in Washington, we wouldn't have had any Pearl Harbor. *r|!*

Whether Hitler will pass out ahead of his nation or not, is a nice point for those who indulge in prophesying. That Germany will fight on should Hitler die, I very much doubt. He is the breath of its nostrils, the pulse of its war efrort. His crusade swept sky-high, now languishes, and next it will flicker and expire, and the nation that plays Sweet Alice to his loathsome Ben Bolt, will know him no more. He will be swept, together with his credo, his crusade, and his maniacal boo\ into the rubbish heap of

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TUMBER IS HEI,PING WIN THE IITAR

In mcny wcrys-in shipbuilding, wcr indusuies, housing tor wcr workers, camp bqracks, on supply lines and at the front; While ure cre cooperating l00t| with todqy's wqr effort, we qre crleo looking lonvcrrd to the luture,'when the building progrrcrr will demcrnd the use oI tremendous quqntities ol lumber through usuql retail disbibution chqnnels.

(Continued from Page 9) oblivion. .The Nazi party would not survive him; nor the German war effort.

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The other day a prominent lumber manufacturer told a gathering of lurnbermen that the man who made the price rule for log cutting for OPA was a lawyer who knew nothing of log cutting, and refused to be guided or advised by experts. Which, of course, is the way most of the confusion is being brought about. Mr. Heinz told a Congressional Committee that the men who made the rules for canning had never seen canning done, and failed to call into consultation anyone who knew anything about it. Congressman Everett Dirksen, who passed a resolution before Congress adjourned specifying that price fixing executives must be men of experience in the business whose rules they are writing,.announces that the use of inexperienced men in OPA is the rule, rather than the exception.

He says, for instanc":;". 10" nrr". executive over building materials is an oil economist; a college professor is the man in charge of iron and steel; the man fixing prices on industrial materials is a college economist; a political expert from Princeton with no business experience is executive of the paper branch; the price executive over chemicals and drugs is a Harvard economist with no business experience; the price executive over restaurants is an analyst and economist without practical experience in the restaurant line; the durable goods division is headed by an editor; etc.

It seems that these "n" ,.b.-rhat a'ffect the lives of so many Americans generally go either to economists, lawyers, or political lame ducks. A lame duck is a man who doesn't know anything and can't do anything. An economist is a man who knows everything and can't do anything. And if you want to know what a lawyer is,

turn to the Eleventh Chapter bf Luke, and see what Jesus Christ said about an"*

You don't find all your good horse sense in serious writings. The other day I got a thrill from a light-hearted story by Kelland, in the Saturday Evening Post in which he makes a wise-cracking young lady make these sage remarks to some men: "What America gives you is a place to do something for yourself in. But it doesn't do your work for you. It simply says that here is a wonderful place where nothing can stop you from doing your best, and nobody puts on the brakes when you try, and the sky is the limit. There's everything for you to use to help yourself, like a ladder up to the roof, only the.ladder is no good unless you climb it yourself. Neither the world nor America owes you a living just for being around and breathing, but you have to use your own arms and legs and climb the ladder, with no one hanging onto your coattails to drag you back. ft's how I always think about this country, but not as an automatic elevator to get you to the top. But the door is open at the bottom to get on the ladder, and open at the top to get off on the roof and see the scenery. Only you got to do your own climbing."

George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson, and Ben Franklin would have.said "Amen" to that kind of talk.

Mill to beMoved to Roseburg

The mill of Young's Bay Lumber Co. at 'Warrenton, Ore., which has operated there since 1930 will be dismantled, according to an announcement by Chas. E. Miller, manager, and the machinery will be moved to Roseburg, Ore., where a plant will be operated for the U. S. Defense Plants Corporation. The new mill will have a daily capacity of 350,000 feet of one-inch boards, and will cut boards exclusively.

Mr. Miller has obtained a large supply of timber. The mill site is just east of Roseburg.

AW0RLDT0REBUILD.'..,

After the war, what ?

All thinking men ask that question. For lumber, for example, there will be a shattered, war-torn world to rebuild. In all the theaters of conflict habitations and buildings of every sort are being destroyed literally by the tens of thousands. And they must be rebuilt, and the weary world will look to us for building materials.

Here at home the practical stagnation of civilian building creates a reservoir of housing needs that is growing into stupendous figures. And it will continue to grow until the conflict ends and we go back to the solemn task of bringing the housing situation in this country, up to the level of its modern needs.

It is logical to assume that the lumber industry is one that should know no slackening or let down of any consequence when the war ends. For then the reconstruction really starts on all continents. There should be vital and terrific need for everything our mills can produce for a decade to ,come. Only something tragic in the world's financial and economic systems, like unrestrained inflation or a dramatic depression, should be able to shake the firm situation of lumber.

The first thing that will happen to lumbpr production when the war ends, will be an immediate let down in the production of most species. Uncounted mills that are now cutting trees to meet the war demands that otherwise would

be left to stand and grow for years to come, will quit that sort of operating. And in contrast to this certain diminishment of production we will find more than ten thousand sawmills and more than thirty thousand retail and wholesale lumber yards-practically empty of stocks. Some time they must be refilled. If the mills had no demand for lumber whatever for a year after the war, they could keep busy doing nothing but normalizing lumber stocks and inventories. But naturally there will be heavy calls upon their production, and the normal expectation is that it will take a long long time, adding just a little as circumstances permit, for the mills and yards to restore anything like normalcy in their stocks on hand. They have been running practically empty now for many months, with little hope of any decided change until the war ends.

When you go to postwar planning, you can put it down in the book with considerable confidence, that only a financial debacle of some sort can keep the lumber business from enjoying a powerful demand for all its products for long years after the war ends. There need be no dramatic switch from war to peace-time operations. Sales and distribution will slip noiselessly back from war selling to civilian selling at home; and to the supplying of foreign demands as best they may, under the circumstances that will then present themselves.

No American industry seems so secure in its certainty of a postwar market as lumber.

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Heard an Abe Lincoln story recently that never came my way before.

It seems that "Honest Abe" was called upon for a speech at a certain meeting before the Civil War, and when he took the platform he left his hat in his chair. He had hardly proceeded more than a minute when he saw a big, two hundred pound woman come in and sit down on his hat.

RETURNS FROM EASTERN TRIP

C. R. Taenzer, president of American Hardwood Co., Los Angeles, was back at his desk July 3O after an absence of five weeks. He attended the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Wholesale Hardwood Distributors Association at Portland, July 8,D and 30, and traveled East from there to Minneapolis; called on hardwood mills in Wisconsin; visited Chicago, Louisville, Ky., Memphis and Kansas'City.

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The speech ended, Mr. Lincoln approached her and courteously asked for the return of his hat. She rose, discovered the hat, and was all apologies.

"That's all right, Madam," said Mr. Lincoln. "Don't worry a bit about it. But I could have told you when you sat down, it wouldn't fit you."

VISITING PACIFIC COAST

Stanley Deas and Brooks Toler, staff members of the Southern Pine Association, New Orleans, who are on a visit to the Pacific Coast. visited San Francisco about two weeks ago.

ATTENDING RADIO SCHOOL

Donald S. Winfree, son of Henry Winfree, Dant & Russell, Inc., Stockton, is now attending advanced radio school at Camp Crowder, Mo.

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Wooden Container Material Price Change \7ood Pulp Control Announced by !(/PB

A change in OPA pricing provisions designed to permit producers of wooden container materials, particularly those used in the manufacture of cooperage products, to increase their prices under certain limited circumstances, was announced by the Office of Price Administration.

The producer of any wooden material subject to the general maximum price regulation which is to be used in manufacture of a container made principally of wood and which also is subject to the general maximum price regulation, may apply to OPA for an adjustment of prices under the following conditions :

1. When the unit cost of producing the miterial is higher than the maximum price permitted by the general maximum price regulatiori.

2. When the War Production Board has designated as essential both the container for which the material is to be used, and the product to be packaged.

3. When the buyer of the material has started he will not use the increased cost as the basis for asking an increase in the maximum price of his own products, or for resisting otherwise justifiable decreases in his maximum prices.

To permit such adjustments, OPA has issued amendment No. 7 to supplementary regulation No. 15 to the general maximum price regulation. The amendment becomes effective July 6, 1943.

Demands of the several claimant agencies for paper and paper products have become so insistent and the shortages of wood pulp so severe that the War Production Board has found it necessary to assume control over the use of all grades of wood pulp, it was announced.

The WPB Pulp and Paper Division is empowered to direct the use of any or all wood pulp by manufacturers of paper, paperboard and other products, under general preference order l\{-93 as amended and issued today. This will insure that sufficient wood pulp is reserved for the production of essential paper and paperboard products as well as for the manufacture of certain essential products of the chemical and textile industries.

Until May, 1943, War Production Board exercised control only over delivery of pulp and its acceptance by consumers. On May 4, 1943, however, the "withholding" clause of M-93 was invoked by the issuance of supplementary general preference order M-93-a, which enabled the Pulp and Paper Division to require the withholding of pulp by pulp producers for delivery as directed by WPB. Subsequently, producers of pulp were directed to withhold 20 per cent of all pulp produced during June and each month thereafter, and to make deliveries of such withheld pulp only at the direction of WPB. This action was prompted by the necessity for ensuring the availability of wood pulp for essential uses.

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Aircraft Plywood

Glider and cargo aircraft programs now being reconsidered indicate that there may be a slight increase in the demand for aircraft plywood, Government officials told the Hardwood Plywood Industry Advisory Committee of the War'Production Board at its meeting in Washington. It was pointed out, however, that production of aircraft plywood is at present, and will probably continue to be, in excess of requirements.

The industry's major problem is manpower and shortages are affecting production of hardwood plywood needed for ships, boxing and crating and other war uses, committee members stated. Lower wage rates as compared with those of some other war industries have caused a serious drain on personnel. Women are now being used in every capacity where their employment is feasible, but it has not been possible to replace lost manpower to a sufficient degree.

Reports on log supply, given for various parts of the country by industry members, brought out the fact that inventories are low, particularly for yellow birch and maple.

Adhesives used in manufacturing commercial grades of hardwood plywood are becoming increasingly critical, an official of the Chemical Division told the comrnittee. Casein, urea resins, and tapioca flour are controlled by WPB orclers and every effort should be made, the official stated, to conserve adhesives.

Clifford Setter, of WPB's Lumber and Lumber Protltrcls Division, presided at the meeting. The committee will lrolcl its next meeting in September.

O PA Food Nishtmare (From Advertising Age)

Castigated and calumniated, pilloried and pummeled, slandered and smacked from pillar to post, OPA can take it. But the most vituperative and acidulous barbs yet thrust at the OPAers came from the Piggly Wiggly Corporation, Atlanta, in a scathing denunciation of the nation's food program. A few choice tid-bits follow:

"The OPA food nightmare must go."

"fnept and inane administration by this wartime agency."

"Leon Henderson tried to do the right thing as well as he could. When Prentiss Brown, a political lame duck, took his place we suspected that OPA was being thrown to the dogs."

"We wanted to remain tolerant while OPA was going through its birth pains."

"Today OPA is a sorry spectacle. Hit-or-miss rulings issued today, amended tomorrow, and killed the week after."

"If there ever was a case of fiddling while Rome burned, this is it."

"The professors of philosophy, the welfare workers, and others of the long haired ilk, must go."

"This is war, and we don't have the time to act as guinea pigs for a lot of crackpots."

LUMBER PRODUCTION FOR MAY

Lumber production for May, totaling 2,958 million board feet, showed, a 4 per cent increase over April production, WPB reports.

SheYlin Pine Sales Gompany

\Torkers in \(/ood Mobilte

To Tell John Citizen

Mobilization of the vast potential force of all those who work in wood, whether in the abstract sense of a paper salesman or in the physical sense of a cabinet maker, to carry the torch of forest industry information to their neighbors in their own communities, is being called by the Public Relations Department of the American Forest Products Industries, Inc.

It is estimated that a million or more men and women depend for their living on the harvesting, manufacture, and sale of wood products. The aim of AFPI is to convert this dormant group into an active, aggressive missionary corps to tell the general public the true facts about the forests.

The first implement in this endeavor is a simple, easily digested booklet, called Our Friend, John Citizen, which is being distributed freely within the industry. It tells those who work with wood of the dangerous misapprehensions about their business that exist in the mind of the average citizen, as established by a public opinion poll on a nationwide scale, and what steps are being taken to correct them, and calls on each to take an active part in the work. It is available free in bulk to associations or firms for distribution to their members, employees, or stockholders.

Another booklet is called Tools for the Improvement of Forest Industry Public Relations. As the name indicates. it is an illustrated catalog of booklets, advertisements,

charts, posters, speeches, news features, motion pictures, and other equipment for local application of the public relations campaign, which are furnished to the volunteers within the industry who enlist to help the cause.

Both these booklets may be procured from the national headquarters of the American Forest Products Industries, Inc., 1319 Eighteenth Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.

Sicilyrrrland of Countless Invasions

When our gallant American boys marched into the ancient city of Syracuse, in Sicily, just a few days since, I could not help wondering how many of them realized how historic a place it was that they were taking over; or how many of our,people here at home remembered that Sicily is one of the world's most historic battlefields, and that Syracuse at one time fairly saved the soul of the world, and of Christendom.

I believe every reader of these words would do himself a real favor if he would dig up a book of European history just at this time, and read the dramatic story of Sicily, beginning with the formation of the first Greek city of Cantana about 78 years before Christ, and through to those fateful centuries beginning about 830 A.D. when all the forces of Christianity and of civilization had their bulwark and their rallying ground in Syracuse. It is worth while in particular to recall the fact that for 230 years Syracuse was the center of 'Christianity and of civilization, withstanding the overwhelming hordes of the Saracen through all those years and generations. It was only with the coming of the Normans in 1060 that the long struggle between the Sicilian Christians and the Saracens, ended. That Norman Conquest took in all of Sicily and settled all internal battling. But had it not been for the noble defense of the Christians of Syracuse for more than two hundred years, the world might well have been set back a thousand years in its upward climb toward enlightenment.

As far as invasion is concerned, Sicily has been invaded more times by armies and navies than Hollywood has been by movie-mad maidens. ft was no novelty to that warscarred old Island when the Allies landed. The same thing had been going on with frequency since about 50O years B.C. Syracuse has been attacked literally thousands of times; Cantana more often than Syracuse; many of the other Sicilian-Grecian cities countless times. The history of Sicily is the history of warfare. Lying as it does in a spot that makes it a stepping-stone between Africa and Europe, all warring peoples of the Mediterranean have used it over and over again. And when outsiders were not invading Sicily, various divisions of the big island were fighting among themselves. The raising of grain was the chief industry of Sicily from early days; but fighting was its most serious business.

Your history will recall to your minds the fact that Sicily, in spite of its warlike record, has done great cultural things, also. Great artists, great poets, great dramatists, great orators, great scientists were produced and lived their lives in Sicily, which, from the beginning, was essentially a Greek land. In fact, for several centuries before Christ when the Greek cities along the East, South, and part of the North Coast of Sicily were enjoying a booming civilization, Sicily was known as "Magna Graecia", or Greater Greece. The great Sicilian Greek cities were bigger and more important than Athens and the cities of Old Greece. And when Old Greece got jealous and invaded Sicily, the Sicil-

ians licked them, and sent them home to stay.

The great men of the world came to Sicily, great artists, great teachers, great writers, great architects, great builders. Plato, greatest of all ancient philosophers and teachers, came to Syracuse as teacher and adviser of the Tyrant Dionysius. Archimedes, the most famous ancient inventor and mathematician, was a citizen of Syracuse. Theocritus was Sicily's greatest poet. Aeschylus, the immortal Greek poet, moved his home to Sicily and died in the city of Gela on the South Coast-the ,city where the American forces landed just recently. He was one of the greatest of the Greek dramatists, and his tomb is to be seen in Gela, with one of the world's most famous epitaphs engraved thereon. Ruins of the mighty theatres in which the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides were often shown in Sicily are still to be found in the Sicilian cities of Syracuse, Taormina, Catania, Tindaro, Palazzolo Acreide, and Alcamo.

It was probably in Sicily that Hitler learned such infamies as he performed at Lidice. In the year 480 B.C. the great and growing city of Carthage decided to take over Sicily, so they sent a great army and navy under Hamilcar to do the job. But the S'icilian Greeks beat and killed Hamilcar, at Himera, and thus started a long peace with Carthage. But 71 years later, in 40 8.C., Hannibal, the grandson of Hamilcar, invaded Sicily again, and this time successfully, for he took the town of Silinius, sacked Himera, and slaughtered 3,000 Sicilians on the grave of his grandfather. Then he sailed back to Carthage. All together, Carthage invaded Sicily five times. Sicily returned the compliment once or twice by invading Africa and Carthage.

The Greek cities of Sicily, during several hundred years of prosperity before the Christian era, were all separate governments, each headid by a Tyrant. That term in those days did not mean what it does today. The Tyrant was simply a ruler, and he could or need not be a real tyrant at all. Many famous men were Tyrants of these cities, but greatest of all was Dionysius of Syracuse, who reigned for 38 years; a long reign for any kind of a tyrant. He encouraged all culture, preferably the drama and public speaking. He was himself a dramatist of ability, and every year or so he entered one of his writings in the dramatic festivals at Athens, Greece. Finally his play, "The Ransom of Hector," won first prize. He celebrated his victory by a great drunk, which left him so nervous that his doctor gave him a sedative, and he took too much of it and it killed him, thus ending one of the great Sicilian careers.

Archimedes, of Syracuse, is related to have created so tremendous a set of burning glasses that he used them to set fire to a Roman fleet that was invading Sicily, thus destroying them.

When the Greeks first invaded Sicily they found there two ancient peoples whom history knows little about, the Saculi on the east coast. and the 'Sicani on the west. The Greeks chased them around, and settled where they pleased,

building Greek cities very rapidly. But before the Greeks came the island had frequently been invaded by the Phoenicians, who had some settlements on the Sicilian coasts. Sicily and Lower Italy were colonized by the Greeks at about the same time. The Greeks fought the Phoenicians, Saculi, and Sicani, and also fought between themselves. Their first fights against invaders came when Carthage moved against them in the year 480 B.C. Then the Athenians invaded and were beaten. Then Carthage came back four more times. Rome and Sicily fought for centuries. Two great slave revolts took place in Sicily in the centuries immediately B.C., and there was mu,ch civil war on the Island. Rome colonized Sicily, but the Island remained Greek. In the fourth century A.D. came new invaders. The Vandals went down through Spain into Africa, and took over Cartfrage. Thus Vandals replaced Phoenicians,, and they invaded Sicily and subdued the entire fsland, as well as Sardinia and Corsica.

They ruled Sicily from 4D to 477, when the Goths invaded Sicily, and took it over and ruled it for twenty years. In the Gothic Wars Rome won Sicily back in 535 A.D., and Sicily remained a Roman province for over four hundred years. fnternal wars in Italy swept back and forth over Sicily. There was seldom peace. St. Paul visited Syracuse in the first century A.D. Christianity took early root there, until Syracuse became the citadel of Christendom. In the 6th century A.D. the long war started between Christians and Saracens in Sicily that lasted four hundred years. Tirtre and again parts of Sicily were plundered by the Mohammedans. They came from Alexandria and sacked Syracuse at one time. They got a toehold in Sicily and gradually increased it by spasmodic fighting. They occupied the south of the Island. They raided all of Sicily all the time. They finally got half of the Island in their possession. fn 877, Syracuse fell and passed under the Mohammedan yoke. Besides fighting the Christians, the Mohammeds in Sicily fought among'themselves most of the time. In 908, Sicily passed entirely into Saracen hands. In 1038, Rome invaded Sicily again and fought the Saracens, getting most of the Island back. Then they lost it again under other leaders, and the Saracens again took charge. But Christianity and the Greek language lived through it all in Sicily.

Then the Normans came in 106O, and they cleaned up all elements and took over the Island. They brought the French language with them. Strange to relate Greek, Arabic, and French"tongues all finally gave way to a dialect of ltalian, the Sicilian language, spoken all over the Island now. The Normans ruled wisely, encouraged all religions, etc., and warring stopped in the Island. The Normans held England at the same time they did Sicily, so much trade grew up between the two fslands, since both were Norman possessions. Then inll94, the Germans came and conquered Sicily, and for many years the land was torn with war and revolt of all kinds. Sicily had Empero/s and Kings from then on. Finally Sicily was absorbed into the modern Italian Kingdom, where we find her today. Now, once again, the shock of war rings across the big Island.

But, after reading the preceding synopsis of her warlike history, do you blame me for saying that the Allied invasion was no novelty to that Island.

MItE HIGH FOREST YIELDS (IUALITY PRODUCT

Red Biver's log supply comes from cr region where pines hcve crttcrined c growth ol soft, even texture. Scrqring, kitn-drtring and remanulqcture are desigmed and opercrted lor pine oI these characteristice.

The luture lorest is lostered by selective logrgringr crnd by lire prevention crnd suppression. These estcrblished policies are not relcxed under pres sure ol Wcr production.

.PAT'L BT'NYAN'S" PBODUCTS

Soft Ponderosc cnd Sugcrr Plne

LI'IIBER MOI'I.DING PLYWOOD \IEIIETIAN BIIITD SI.ATS

The RED RIYER tUllBER C0.

FRIENDSHIP

"A true friend," said Mose, "is de man whut is jes' de same t'you afteh he done got prosperity."

"You is wrong'bout dat, boy," said Abner. "H'it is jes' de opposite, in fack. A friend is a fellah whut treats YOU jes' de same afteh de vice-versas is done gotcha."

WHY HE QUIT

"That fellow on crutches is Bill FIy, who got famous years ago writing letters in the sky with smoke."

"\i[fhy did he guit?"

"His motor went dead on him one day, and he got writer's cramp."

HONEST

A friend may smile and bid you hail, Yet wish you with the Devil; But when a good dog wags his tail, You know he's on the level.

, EFFICIENCY POINTERS

All men are created equal-to something.

To get UP in the world you must get DOWN to work. Hard knocks never hurt a man, unless he is doing the hard lcrocking himself.

What YOU don't lsrow about YOUR business is the point where your competitor skins you.

If you do your work with a snap, you may some day enjoy that kind of a job.

In killing time you often murder a fine opportunity.

WILL POWER

After having shot his enemy full of holes with his trusty forty-five, the toughest citizen in Westville immediately gave himself up to the authorities.

"\ilhat made you shoot this man?" asked the sheriff.

"Self control was what done it," proudly replied the toughest citizen. "If .it hadn't been fqr that I'd broke his neck and chewed both his ears off."

PEDDLING AND SELLING

The parrot talks when you leave his cage uncovered. He cannot reason, therefore hc often talks out of turn. To be a successdul salesman it is more necessary to reason than it is to talk. The parrot is a pcddler.

WASTING HIS WISDOM

A man traveling in the mountains of Arkansas, stopped at a cabin for a drink A woman handed him water, and as he quenched his thirst, he talked for a time of things he had seen and places he had been, and of wonders he had seen in different parts of the great world. She listened with deepest interest. Finally she lighted her pipe, smoked thoughtfully for a minute, and said: "You know, stranger, if I lcrowed as much as you do I'd go som'eres and start me a little grocery."

WHY DIVORCE

The Judge said to the dusky woman who was seeking a divorce from her husband:

"Mandy, do you believe in divorce?"

She said, "Yassuh, Jedge, I sho do."

He said, "Well, tell me, Mandy, just why you believe in divorce?"

She said, "Well, Jedge, h'it's disaway. I jes' sorta feels we needs some way t'keep us women in circulation."

WATCH YOURSELF GO BY

Just stand aside and watch yourself go by, Think of yourself as "he" instead of "f," Note clearly, as the other men you note, The bag-kneed trousers and the seedy coat. Pick flaws, find fault, forget the man is you, And try to make your estimate ring true. Despise your cowardice; condemn what'er You note of falseness in you, any where. Defend not one defect that shames your eyeJust stand aside, and watch yourself go by.

And then, with eyes unveiled to what you loathe, To sins that with sweet charity you'd clothe, Back to your self-walled tenement you go With tolerance for those who dwell below. The faults of others will dwarf and shrink; Love's chain grows stronger by one mighty linf When you with "he" as substitute for "I," Have stood aside, and watched yourself go by.

W. Gillilan.

lumber is a Critical lltlar Material

crrd Uncle Scur comes first. It must continue to hcrve the right-of-wcry lor wor needs.

We cre supplying mcteriols lor mcnry wor projects but wcn:t to serve ihe retoil hode too. If materiols cre crvciloble, we will get them.

For 60 yecns we hcrve been serving the Southern Calilornia lumber trode.

SAN TUMBER COMPANY

PEDRO

$3.50 Pramium on Fir Boards M.y Be Passed on to the Buyer

Lumber distribution yards, including retail yards, were authorized by the Office of Price AdminiStration to pass on to their buyers the $3.50 per 1,000 board feet premium on Douglas fir boards which was recently authorized to accompany a special board cutting directive of the War Production Board.

The $3.50 mark-up is applicable to the three upper grades of Douglas fir boards-select merchantable, No. 1 common and No. 2 common boards. For No. 3 common boards, a mark-up of $1.50 per 1,000 board feet is established.

The increases are authorized in Amendment No. 1 to Revised Maximum Price Regulation No. 26 (Douglas Fir and Other West Coast Lumber) and become effective July 15. 1943.

On April 16 of this year, producers of Douglas fir boards were authorized to increase their prices by $3.5O per 1,000 board feet on the three upper grades, and $1.50 on No. 3 boards. Purpose of the increase was to permit compliance with WPB"s directive calling for an increase in board production from a normal percentage of.7 per cent to 30 or 40 per cent.

Distribution yards until the issuance of today's amendment were required to absorb the higher cost of the lumber from the mills, since the increased flow of boards was expected to go to United States Government purchasers rather than to the yards.

Distribution yards since April 16, however, have sold out of inventory the bulk of their Douglas fir lumber obtained prior to the $3.50 producer's mark-up, and the War Production Board, under Limitation Order L-218, is releasing increasing footage of boards to the yards.

As a consequence, OPA said, the yards could not be expected to continue to absorb the higher mill prices, so

the amendment was issued, permitting the yards hereafter to pass on to buyers the increased cost.

Technically, the only distribution yards permitted to raise their prices under the Amendment are those making sales under Maximum Price Regulation No. 215 (Distribution Yard Sales of Softwood Lumber). The majority of yards operate under that regulation, but some still calculate their prices under the General Maximum Price Regu: lation. However, OPA said, it is anticipated that very shortly all yards will be brought under the provisions of Maximum Price Regulation No. 215, relieving any squeeze in Douglas fir board prices now causing hardship to yards operating under the General Maximum Price Regulation.

This action will have no effect on the cost of living, OPA said, because fir boards go almost entirely into government use or into industrial production and packaging of agricultural commodities. OPA added that actually a cheaper source of fir boards is made available by the change because yards have had to produce boards by resawing thicker stock, and the higher cost of the thicker stock plus the resawing built up to a price in excess of that authorized by this action.

COOS BAY LUMBER CO.

Report of Coos Bay Lumber Co. for six months ended June 3O, 1943, shorvs net profit of. $211,437 after all charges and federal and state taxes. This is equivalent to $3.33 a share on 63,500 sha-res of capital stock outstanding and compares with $254,5i78, ot $4.01 a share, earned in the like 1942 period.

LIKES MERCHANT

I enjoy the magazine always. It is one of my favorites.

tOS

Otis Fry

R. G. ROBBINS IUMBER GO.

Distributors ot Pacific Coast Forest Products

Otis Fry, who was well known in California' lumber circles for the past forty years, passed away at his home in Arcadia on July 25. He was 72 years of age.

Mr. Fry retired from active business in 1940, having operated the South Gate Lumber Company and the Southern California Lumber Company for some years prior to his retirement. Before that he, lvas an active partner in the Home Lumber Company at Long Beach, and later with the Interstate Dock and Lumber Co. in Long Beach.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Nellie H. Fry; two daughters, Mrs. Lucienne Wright and Mrs. Virginia Lewis, and a son, John O. Fry.

Funeral services were held on July 28 at Grace Chapel, Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood.

WITH HUGHES AIRCRAFT

Dick Twohy, son of Arthur Twohy, Twohy Lumber Co., Los Angeles, is a Senior Stress Analyst at Hughes Aircraft, Culver City. Dick graduated from the University of California at Berkelev last Tune.

JOHN VOSMEK ON EASTERN TRrP

John Vosmek, rail sales manager, Dant & Russell, Inc., Portland, recently made a trip to his old home in Iowa before reporting for service in the Navy Seabees at Farragut, Idaho.

LOS ANGELES VISITOR

R. A. Seemann, Seemann Lumber Company, Encinitas, was a Los Angeles visitor last week.

Destructive Timber Control Law Proposed in U. S. Senate

Complete control of the cutting of privately owned timber in the United States and possessions, whether one tree or a million acres, is vested in the Secretary of Agriculture by a bill, S. 1330, which was introduced July 8 by Sen. Mon C. Wallgren (D., Wash.). For failing to keep all records required by the Secretary or his designated agency (presumably the Forest Service), or for falsifying such records, a fine of $50 a day for each violation is authorized.

For violating any one of the regulations that may be set up under the proposed act, a fine of $10,000 may be imposed.

This bill, if enacted, would authorize the Secretary to require a certificate of clearance for any shipment of forest products, large or small; and either the selling or ofiering for sale, the transporting or ofiering for transport, of forest products without such certificate will be a violation subject to the $10,000 fine. This applies to either the lumberman or the carrier.

The bill was referred to the committee on agriculture and forestry.

A. N. SANDERS COMMISSIONED

A. N. Sanders, representative of R. W. Dalton & Co., at Phoenix, Ariz., before he entered the Army in Jaly, 1942, is now a Znd Lieutenant in the Coast Artillery, Anti-Aircraft, stationed at Seattle.

Logs for Victory

Tbese cre buay dcyr in the Pcrcific Northwest lorest cl wood is needed vitctly lor the wcr effort. Thia big ftuehcul loggdng trailer is hculing

91100 leet ol Douglcr fir lor tbe Fischer Lumber Conpcrny ol Marcolcr, Ore.

JERRY ESSLEY NOW TNSTRUCTOR

Jerry Essley of D. C. Essley & Son, wholesale lumber dealers, Los Angeles, is now an instructor in the Army Overhaul Depot, San Bernardino, where he is instructing Army personnel in airplane engine overhaul.

In preparation for this work Jerry took an eight-months' course at the Curtis-Wright Airplane School, and followed with a field service course at North American Aviation. Inc.

JACK BRUSH IN EAST

Jack Brush of the Brush Industrial Lumber Co., Los Angeles, left July 23 on an extended Eastern tour, He went direct to Washington Borough, Pa., to visit his mother, who is 82. Following his stay there he will call on many Northern and Appalachian hardwood mills, and will attend the war service conference and annual meeting of the National Hardwood Lumber Association at Chicago, September 1G17.

He will return by way of Seattle and Portland, and will call on Pine mills in Southern Oregon and Northern California on his way south to Los Angeles.

L. A. ISSUES 1,219 BUILDING PERMITS

Additions and alterations to existing building amounting to $454,605 accounted for nearly half of the total valuation of 1,219 building permits totaling $1,U0,772 issued in Los Angeles in June. This compares with 1,181 permits with a valuation of $980,4O7 in May and 1,511 permits with a valuation of $1,969,523 in June, 1942.

Provision f.or 42 families was made by permits for 42 single dwellings. This compares with provisions lor 2lO families in May and 335 in June, 1942. Average cost of single dwellings in June was $2,037 as compared with $2,434 in May and $3,143 in June, 1942.

TIDEWATER RED CYPRESS LUMBER CETLINGS

Dollars-and-cents maximum prices for Tidewater red cypress lumber-a wood vital in the w21 sffe1f-ruere announced by the Office of Price Administration.

The specific ceilings are established in Maximum Price Regulation No. 412 (Tidewater Red Cypress Lumber), and became effective June D, 1943.

ttrtsr 0REG0[{ IUMBER c0, Portland, Oregron

Manufacturerc of Old Growth Douglas Fir Rail and Cargo Shippers

\(/hv Retailers Go Mad

From Section23 of. the OPA's MPR 355, governing retail ceiling prices for beef, veal, lamb and mutton cuts:

"Fourth, the excess loin (lumbar) and pelvic (sacral) fat shall be trimmed from the inside of the full loin upon a flat surface, with no other support to ,change its position, meat side down, and removing all fat which extends above a flat plane parallel with the flat surface supporting the full loin and on a level with the full length of the protruding edge of the lumbar section of the chine-bone. Then all fat shall be removed which extends above a flat plane, using the following two lines as guides for each side of the plane; an imaginary line parallel with the full length of the protruding edge of the lumbar section oi the chine-bone, which line extends one inch directly above such protruding edge; a line on the inside of the loin two inches from the flank edge and running parallel with such edge for the full length of the loin. All fat obstructing the measurement of the second line shall be removed. In addition to the foregoing, all rough fat in the pelvic cavity of the heavy end of the loin (sirloin) shall be trimmed smooth and trimming by a knife shall be apparent. No fat remaining in the pelvic cavity shall exceed one inch in depth."

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of Butchers of America.

COPPER WIRE

A procedure is set up by may apply for copper wire countv USDA r,var boards.

Forsyth Hardwood Plant Destroyed-Will Rebuild

The plant of the Forsyth Hardwood Company at 355 Bay Shore Boulevard, San Francisco, was destroyed by fire July 16. The cause of the fire is unknown.

A total of approximately 1,000,000 feet of high grade cabinet hardwoods was lost, comprising one of the last completely balanced stocks of. 4/4 to L2/4 dry material left in the country. All of the kiln-dried material, the sheds and equipment were destroyed. About 15 per cent of the total on sticks in the air drying yard was saved.

Forsyth Hardwood Company will rebuild and continue in business according to P. R. Kahn, manager.

This was the second destructive fire the Forsyth yard has suffered in the last 1O years. Included in the stocks were 175,00O feet of Birch and Maple, First and Seconds, all of which was going into Government work; 68,000 feet of Walnut, Clear grade; 400,000 feet of Oak; 100,000 feet of Clear Oak; 50,000 feet of genuine Mahogany, and stocks of other valuable hardwoods. In addition four carloads of Douglas Fir plywood recently arrived were burned.

PINE AUCTION IN SAN FRANCISCO

A Pine auction under the direction of Leo Hennessy, head of the Central Procurement Agency, Portland, was held at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, July 23.

Only a small percentage was purchased of the requirements, which totaled about 35,000,000 feet, mostly one-inch Ponderosa, for packing, crating and box'material.

PAMUDO PIYWOOD

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Dietributed Exclusively Since l92l by PAGITIC MUTUAI. DOOR GO.

Just !(/onderin'

I wonder if you'd like to hear A little tale of yesteryearA tale as apropos today, As in a time now far away, When river boats came floating down With,cargoes for a southern town, Wherein a winsome little maid Con,cerned herself with debts unpaid.

Once in the ever so long ago, a little girl who lived by a great river which was often spoken of as "an artery of commerce," Ieaned against her father's knee and looking up with wistful eyes, said,-

"Father, I wish the river would rise, for then the big boats would run, if the boats ran, they would bring the cotton down. If the cotton came down, you could sell it; then you'd have plenty of money, then you could pay mother that twenty dollar gold piece you borrowed from her, then mother could pay Aunt Sarah the ten dollars she owes her, then Aunt Sarah could give Sister Jane the one dollar she promised to give her Nerv Years; Sister Jane could pay brother John his fifty cents back, and John said when he got it he would give me the half dime he owes me and two whole dimes to buy marbles. That's why I want the river to rise and the big boats to run. f or,r,e nurse a dinre, and I do want to pay my debts."

"There you are," groaned father, "we are all, big and little, like a rol\,' of bricks; touch one and away we all go. Even down to my little fairy here, she has, as a child, as

great an interest in the rise of the river as I have. We are all, old and young, waiting for money with which to buy marbles."

I found this little tale in an issue of The North San Juan Times which bore the date, September 11, 1874. The olcl pioneer newspaper has been defunct for many a long year, but the story is as fresh and vital today as upon the day in which it was published. It needs no illucidation, for toda1, as then we are realizing more than ever our interdependence and we know that what touches one of us, individually or nationally, is felt by all.

Appointed Art Director

The appointment of Howard W. Rapport as art director of The Celotex Corporation, Chicago, has been announced by W. C. Rodd, advertising manager. Mr. Rapport will continue to supervise copy as well as art for several of the company's lines of products, including acoustical and roofing materials. He has been a member of the Celotex advertising department for eight years. Previously, he was with Western Newspaper Union and Columbia Broadcasting System.

WITH SUMMERBELL ROO,F STRUCTURES

Frank Watson, San Francisco Bay district lumber salesman, formerly with MacDonald & Harrington, I_td., and Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., is now associated with Sunrmerbell Roof Structures, Oakland.

Your Guarantee for Quality and Service E. K. WOOD I.UMBER GO.

Notice of Amendment to Hazardous- Makes Legislative Report

Occupations Order No' 4

Hazardous-Occupations Order No. 4 was amended June 24, 1943. This amendment, comprising subsection "(f)," opens to lG and l7-year'old minors employment under the Fair Labor Standards Act in certain auxiliary occupations in logging work for the duration of the war and six months after its termination. This is the second amendment that has been made to this order during the war period' In each case supplementary investigations were made to determine whether a critical labor situation existed in the industry affected and which are the least hazardous occupations among those originally covered by the order. Order No. 4 when first issued covered all occupations in logging and in the operation of sawmills, lath mills, shingle mills, and cooperage-stock mills, with a few specified exceptions'

The first amendment, effective September 12, 1942, opened certain sawmilling occupations, mainly work in the lumber yard outside of the sawmill proper, to 16- ar,d t7year-old workers. This second amendment opens to workers of these ages for the war period specified occupations in connection with logging that were found to be the least hazardous among those originally covered in the order. The occupations in which employment is now permitted are fire patrolmen and watchmen, also construction and maintenance of roads and railroads and similar types of work removed from the immediate site of the actual logging process.

Logging operators employing any minors 16 to 19 years

C. W. Pinkerton, Lumbermen's Governmental Service Bureau, Whittier, in a legislative report of bills that were enacted in the recent session of the California legislature and received the Governor's signature, states the construction industries came out of the session in a most satisfactory manner, millions of dollars were appropriated for postwar work, all adverse legislation was defeated, and many bills were passed that will be a benefit to the industry.

The report covers the principal bills that concerned the building material industry.

WAR HOUSING

More than $360 million in contract agreements with private construction companies for publicly financed war housing projects were closed by the Federal Public llousing Authority in the first five months of 1943 according to FPHA Commissioner Herbert Emmerich.

WALTER OHMAN GETS COMMISSION

Walter Ohman, former secretary to A. S. Murphy, The Pacific Lumber Co., San Francisco, has received his commission as 2nd Lieutenant, and is stationed in the Adjutant General's Office at Washington, D. C.

of age should, as a protection against unintentional violation of the act, obtain age or employment certificates for every such minor. These are issued in most States by the local schools or by the State Department of Labor.

REDWOOD GO.

CAIJFOBNTf, Mcmulacturerg Qucrlity Redwood Lunbcr (Bqd-Scrwtr)

niil llllnhlr Frcn o little nilt"

WHOLDSALD Sash Doors Millworlc Panclg Wall Board

TWfNTY YEAAS

From the August I, fOzA Issue AGO

Booth-Kelly Lumber Co., Eugene, Ore., opened a Los Angeles office with H. C. Clark, their representative for many years in the Sacramento Valley, in charge.

Emil Swanson of the Eagie Rock Lumber Company, Eagle Rock, purchased the property that he has been leasing for his yard and planned to .make various improvements to the establishment.

Hales & Symons, fnc., Sonora, took over the retail lumber business of the Standard Lumber Company. The Standard Lumber Company carried on a retail lumber business at Sonora for over twenty years in connection with their mill operations.

J. L. Green and Bert Wilberg opened the Wilberg-Green Company in Long Beach.

G. R. Tully, who was connected with ment of the Show Lumber Company, signed to become a sales executive with Lumber Products Corporation.

the sales departLos Angeles, rethe I os Angeles

John Ross established a retail lumber yard at Modesto which he will operate as the Ross Lumber Company.

San Francisco retail lumber dealers were guests of the Lumber Salesmen's Club of San Francisco at their weekly luncheon on June 25. President Richard C. Jones presided.

The mid-summer meeting of the board of directors of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association was held at the Palace Hotel, San Francis-co, on July 24, 25 and 26.

The name of the Covina Lumber Company at Covina was changed to the Viney-Milliken Lumber Company.

Blanchard mill, 40 feet Lumber Company, Lankershim, added a new by 6O feet to its plant.

The Barr Lumber Company of Santa Ana advertised in their local papers offering a prize of $1O.00 for the oldest wooden shingle found in use in Orange County. The prize was won by E. F. Marks, who brought in a sawn Redwood shingle that was taken from a ranch house built in 1868. The company received many entries in the contest.

The Western Lumber Company of San Diego purchased the Coronado Lumber Company at Coronado.

California Building Permits for June

Remodeling lmportant in \Var Housing Program

Remodeling or adding to existing properties for the purpose of creating additional dwelling units has become increasingly important in the war housing program, in the opinion of Wilson G. Binghanr, Southern California district director, Federal Housing Administration. "Recently the San Fernando Valley was given a conversion quota of 1,000 units and other communities have similar type programs," he said.

"The importance of this type housing program arises because of its simplicity, lot cost, minimum use of critical materials, and quickness of delivery into the occupancy of war workers," to further quote Mr. Bingham.

"The need for additional housing in critical war areas cannot be over-emphasized," he said. "Many properties are per{ectly suited to this conversion program. Often a small amount of remodeling will provide additional units and can be rented to war workers. Conversions to produce additional dwelling units may be accomplished by taking a habitable portion of any existing residence and using it as a nucleus to which is added sufficient building to create a residential unit, consisting of combination living roornbedroom, bath and kitchen.

"This conversion type of new housing, and also the use of 'existing homes' represent the major avenues of housing accommodations for the present day home seeker. These housing programs require a minimum drain on critical materials and the minimum of effort from labor and the quickest method of delivery.

"FHA-insured loans are available in each of these programs. Conversions often do not require real estate as security because the loans are often classed as 'character' loans and as such are available through approved lending institution,s generally, and in turn insured by FHA.

"FHA-insured loans to finance the purchase of existing properties are likewise available through most lending institutions. FHA property standards have just recently been modified in relation to existing properties which results in eliminating many minor mandatory construction requirements. Eligibility may now be declared primarily upon location, continuing marketability, structural soundness, and desirable living conditions."

BOB HALES F'LYING INSTRUCTOR

Bob Hales, formerly of the order department, The Pacific Lumber Co., San Francisco, recently completed his flying course and is now an instructor at Phoenix, Ariz. He was commissioned, a 2nd, Lieutenant.

Y(lU G(IME FIRST after

BUT the well known EWAUNA mark will always be-

FIRST for texture

FIRST for millwork

FIRST for kiln-drying

FIRST for unifonn grades

FIRST for service

BOX GO, Mill, Factory,

and

Saler Ofice KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON

Central California Representative Pyramid Lumber Sales Co., Oaktand

TO THE DEATERS

We hcve been engaged for some time in the lcrbriccrtion oI materiqls lor cnticles that qre directly connected with wcr needs. lltfe cre, therelore not cble to lurnish any oI the items lor which we hcd developed cr wide mcrket-Eubcnk honing Bocrrds, Cabinets, or Mcntels.

However, we cre crlso plcnning lor the future, crnd when the time comes will cnnounce c new crnd more extensive line of Eubcnk products.

MAPLE, BIRCH AND BEECH FLOORING

Maple, birch and beech flooring are provided by tliE OPA with specific dollars-and-cents maximum prices at the producers' level which are approximately 7/o higher than the old GMPR prices, the increases representing adjustments for advances in cost of material and labor whiclr has taken place since March, 1942. (MPR 432), effective luly 24..

CMP ALLOTMENTS

According to a WPB interpretation of CMP Regtrlatiorr 1, a manufacturer may use an allotment to replace in inventory controlled materials used to manufacture the protluct for which the allotment was originally made. This interpretation states that the quarter for which an allotment is made and the quarter in which delivery of a class A product is to be made need not be the same, making it possible for a manufacturer to use an earlier or later quarterly allotment to fit in with production needs (Interpretation 11 to CMPR 1), issued July 19.

NORTHERN SOFTWOOD BOARDS

Species of northern softwood rough box or crating boards that may not be included in mixed shipments by sellers are white pine, northern pine, eastern spruce and jack pine, the OPA declares. Through an error the OPA explains, the names of the specials were omitted from the table of maximum prices for mixed shipments of these boards and they are now inserted in the mixed shipments table of ceiling prices (Amendment 1 to Revised Maximum Price Regulation 222), effective July N.

WOODEN FENCE POSTS

Specific dollars-and-cents prices for all principal grades of wooden fence posts at production, wholesale and retail levels throughout the nation are set by OPA' The new maximums authorize some increases ranging up to 35/o in the prices farmers and other actual users generally may be required to pay for a post of Southern yellow pine and Western red cedar, but no change from the Match, 1942, level is made in other species (Revised Maximum Price Regulation 324), eftective July 2'

SHOOK LUMBER

Growers' service organizations are authorized by OPA to add a markup of. lo/o to their maximum prices in sales

of shook (used for agricultural wooden containers) and covers to farmers and other fruit and vegetable growers in carload lots. For sales in less-than-carload lots, a markup of. 2O/o is established. The amendment also rewords a section to state specifically that maximum prices for warehouses in the Northwest area shall be their charges for warehousing and delivery, plus the basic price, plus freight from the mill to the warehouse. (Amendment 7 to Maximum Price Regulation 186), efiective July 13'

LOGGING

Loggers are given an additional 30 days by the OPA in which to file proposals for dollars-and-cents prices for contract logging services and for stumpage. The new deadline is August 14. (Amendment 6 to MPR 348), effective July 16.

APPALACHIAN HARDWOOD LUMBER

To relieve the industry of the necessity of filing proposed prices for the grades with the OPA, that agency announces the streamlining of provisions for pricing certain grades of Appalachian hardwood lumber (Amendment 13 to MPR 146), effective July 23.

RE?AIR MATERIALS

According to the WPB, products or materials for repairs or replacements may not be obtained under CMP regulation 5 if they are capitalized on the purchaser's books, except insofar as this is expressly permitted with respect to minor capital additions (interpretation 8 to CMPR 5), issued Jaly 17.

HOUSING RATINGS

Preference ratings and symbols assigned by CMP Regulation 5A may not be used by any local housing authority according to a WPB direction (Direction 1 to CMP Regulation 5A), issued July 19.

CONSTRUCTION

Provisions for the individual adjustment of maximum prices for contractors who supply construction services or who install building and industrial equipment in local shortage situations are announced by OPA. OPA regional directors are authorized to act in such situations. (Amendment 2 to Maximum Price Regulation 251), effective July t2.

COPPER WIRE AND CABLE

Copper wire and cable in distributors, stocks are no longer subject to inventory restrictions on Order L-63. The exemption covers any .,bare or insulated wire or cable for electrical conduction made from copper or copper base alloy" (Suppliers' Inventory Order L-63, ", amended), issued July 10.

STREAMLINES PRICE REGULATION

To eliminate, whenever possible, necessity of the lumber industry filing of forms with OpA and at the sanre time to simplify pricing procedures, the OpA streamlines its price regulation for Central hardwood lumber (Amend_ mentT to MPR 155), effective July 14.

CONSTRUCTION

WPB brings materials for construction under CMp in a regulation which provides a uniform method which may be used to obtain materials for construction (CMp Regulation No. 6), issued June 30.

FURNITURE INDUSTRY

The WPB agrees to afford partial relief for a limited period to furniture manufacturers that are running into serious difficulties through inability to obtain fiber ship_ ping-containers by granting a rating of AA_5 for a 3Gday supply to concerns which are urgently in need of assrstance. In the meantime, the furniture industry and their container suppliers will initiate programs to eliminate un_ necessary uses of shipping containers.

WOOD MATCHES

Maximum prices for distributors of wood matches which were established April 14,1943, ot ll|/o of the actual prices charged by the manufacturer are increased by OpA to lfr/o for sales of less than case quantities and continued at ll5/o for deliveries of full ."r".

1A-"ndment 1 to Maxi_ mum Price Regulation 365), efieciive July 15.

AIRCRAFT VENEER

COPPER WIRE

A simple method for use by retailers and warehouses in supplying copper wire to farmers under CMp is set forth by WPB. To obtain copper wire in excess of the 75 f.eet permitted under Priorities Regulations 19, farmers may obtain "copper wire allotment certificates', which are issued by county USDA War Boards on the basis of aplica- tions which show actual need of such wire for farm operations. Retailers receiving ordirs for this wire supported by such certificates are given two alternative methods by which they may obtain such wire, but only one of these methods may be used during any one month (Direction 2l to CMP Regulation 1), issued July lZ.

WAR HOUSING

In a joint declaration of policy the WpB and NHA liberalize the regulations controlling the sale of privately financed war-housing so that a builder may sell ,rf to orr"third of the total dwelling units in all projects which he had placed under construction in any one war housing area under WPB priorities applied for on or after Febru_ ary lO, 1943. Remaining units which must be held for rental, may be sold to eligible war worker occupants after two months rental occupancy, at the option of the tenant.

MOHOGANY

At a meeting in Washington the WpB mahogany importer-manufactuiers' industry advisory committee -is informed that mahogany requirements for 1944 will be slightly greater than those of the present year and the committee makes various recommendations among them one that action on the General Conservation Order M-IZZ be delayed until inventory and distribution is further studied.

WOODEN BARRELS

"Tight" wooden barrels and the wooden parts used in their manufacture are provided with specific dollars and cents maximum prices by OPA. Another regulation is to be issued later, OPA says, covering .,slack,' barrels which are not constructed according to the existing tiqlia_nota_ ing specifications demanded in tight barrels. For the highest grade barrels such as "Bourbon,, barrels for aging whisky the new maximums are lower than those previously provided but for the lower grade barrels the n"o, -a*imums are sharply higher (Maximum price Regulation 424), retroactive to April 3, 1943.

At a recent meeting of the WpB hardwood veneer manu_ facturing industry advisory committee, it was revealed that it may become necessary to allocate birch and hard maple logs since requirements for birch and hard maple aircraft veneer are greatly in excess of present production. Sdte /9/2

CIJASSIFIED ADVERTISING

LUMBER YARD FOREMAN WANTED

Must understand lumber and hardware and be able to direct yard labor. Certificate of availability required. State age, experience and references in answering.

THE O'MALLEY LUMBER COMPANY

4th Ave. & Jefferson St. Phoenix, Arizona

TWO LUMBER TRUCKS WANTED WANTED TWO LUMBER TRUCKS, tl to 3/z ton, with rollers. Must be in good condition.

ForsYth Hardwood ComPanY

355 BaY Shore Blvd.

San Francisco

ATwater O151

UP AND DOWN THE STATE

A. M. Schwarz of Schwarz Lumber Co., Miami, Ariz', with his wife and family returned recently from a vacation spent at Long Beach, Calif.

WANTED

A capable lurnberman, good health, good judgment, quick wits, proved integrity reguired. Sawmill and wholesale experience preferred-+hould speak Spanish. To handle buying and shipping in Ecuador and Colombia for established lumber importers now acting for government. 'War work that will last. Write with complete references.

Address Box C-1001, California Lumber Merchant, 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

LUMBER YARDS AVAILABLE

We have some lumber yards closed for the duration that are available for manufacturing purposes' Twohy Lumber Co., Lumber Yard Brokers, 801 Petroleum Bldg., Los Angeles. Telephone PRospect 8746.

EXPERIENCED

SALESMAN WANTED

SALESMAN WANTED FOR INDUSTRIAL AND GOVERNMENT BUSINESS. SHOULD BE FAMILIAR WITH SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA. POSITION PAYS STRAIGHT SALARY AND IS PERMANENT. MUST HAVE OWN CAR.

Company, a business the trip by Carl Specht, representative of R. W. Dalton & Co' at Phoenix, Ariz., was in Los Angeles on business around the middle of July.

Paul H. Morton of the Central Commercial Kingman, Ariz., returned early in July from trip to Los Angeles. He was accompanied on Mrs. Morton.

CHRISTENSON LUMBER CO. SAN FRANCISCO

Harold J. Ford, Tarter, Webster & Johnson, Stockton, Calif. was in Los Angeles recently on business for his firm'

W. L. Williams, manager of the American Portland, spent a few days recently in Los business. He traveled both ways by air.

Chas, R. West, Phoenix, Ariz., wholesale lumberman, was a visitor in Los Angeles recently on his way back fronr a business trip to the Pacific Northwest.

G. C. Wilkinson of Chapman Lumber Co., ited Los Angeles on business the middle of Portland. vislast month. Chas. T. of Schafer in the San

Glenn Fogleman, district manager, The California Door Company, Los Angeles, attended the annual meeting of the company in San Francisco, luly 20.

W. F. Fahs, manager of California Panel & Veneer Co', recently made a round trip by the air route to Washington, D. C., to attend the second meeting of the Plywood Distributors Industry Advisory Committee' Bill likes this method of travel, because it gets you there and gets you back quickly-as long as you have a priority'

Norm Cords, Wendling-Nathan Co., back from his vacation on the Russion

Lewis A. Godard, Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned a few days ago from a visit to the company's Los Angeles office.

Gartin, manager of the Reedsport, Ore', office Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., spent his vacation Francisco Bay district.

Val Larsen, manager of Burns Lumber Co. Steamship Co., Beverly Hills, returned July business trip to San Fran'cisco. He traveled by plane.

K. P. Hopey, General Hardwood recently from spending his vacation with his wife and two children.

Mail Line, Angeles on and Burns 22 from a both ways

Co., Tacoma, returned at Long Beach, Calif.,

LUMBER

Arcata Rcdwood Co.

BT]YBB9S GI]IDD SAN FBAITCISCO

aeo Mark.t St6t (u) .............YUkon 206?

At}lnmStutz Conpuy, 112 Mrrt.t Str..t (ll) .............GArficld 1809

Chrictcnon Lumbqr Co. Evans Ave. ud Qulnt St. (Z)....VAlencia 5632

Dant & Rurcll, Inc., ?ll Frc4t Srmt (rr) .............GArfic|d C292

Dolbor & Carron Lumbc Co., lllE Msrchaatr Exchugc BldS. (1) SUtter ?{56

Gansntm & Grm Lubcr Co, 1800 Any StEt (2a) ............ATwatcr l30||

Hall, Jmr L, 1002 Milb Bldc. (1) ....Suttcr 7520

Har-o.d Lmbcr Compuy, {17 Montgomry Strut (6) ...,....DOuglaa 33EE

Hobbs Wall Imbcr Co{a5 Montgo&ry St. (4) .,...,.....GArfield ?752

Holner Eure|ra Lumber Co.. 116 Finucial ceDrcr Blda: (4) ....GArfietd r92r

C. D. Johnron Luba Corporation, 200 Caliiornia Stret (f f) ,. .., ..GArfield 625E

Cul I'L Kuhl L'rber Co.. O. L Rum, Uz Market St. (ll) YUkon U60

Iamon-Bouington Compuy, 16 Califorcia Strcd (rr) ,.....G.Arfield 66Er

LUMBER

MrDoneld & Harrlngton, Ltd,, 16 Cdllornle St. (rr) .,. ,.. .GArfield t393

Orcepn lrnbcr Salce (Carl 11t. Wattr), 95 Itlmadrck BLls. (5) ...........YUkon l59c

Pacific Lumbcr Co., Th. rO Bu.h Strut (1) ...............GArfieH utr

Popc & Talbot, Inc., Lumbcr 461 Markct Strcct (5)

Rcd Rivcr Lubcr Coo 315 Moadmk Bldg. (5) ..........cArneld 0922

Seta Fc Lumba Co., l5 Califonia Strut (U) .,......,EXbmL 2OZ1

Schafer Broc. Lumbcr & Shlnglc Co., I Dmm Street (lr) ....SUtter t?ltt

Shcvlin Pine Salcr Co., 1030 Monadnck Btdg. (5) .........E,xbroo& 70{t

Suddo & Christmn, lnc., 310 Smme Strct ({) ............GArfi.ld 2S45

Carl W. Wattt (Oregon lanbc Salcc), 975 Mmadnock BIds. (5) ,.........YUton 1590

Wcndling-Natbil Co., ll0 Muket Street (rr) .............Sutrcr5363

Weet Oregon Luber Co., 1995 Evur Ave. (Z) ............ATwatcr 56?8

OAIILANI)

LUMBER, Ewauna Bq Co. (Pyramid Luber galcs Co.) Pacific Bldg. (rz) ......,.,......Gl*nourt i29l

Gamentm & Gren lJmb€r Co., Z|trt Livinsston St. (6) .......:....KEllog 4-lEE4

Hill & Morton, Inc., Demion Stret Wharf (7) .......ANdovcr l0t?

Hogan Lumba Canpuy, hd ud Alie Stretr ({) .......Gbncourt 6E6t

E. K. W6d Luber Co., 2lll Frederick Stret (0) ..........KEIlog 2-42??

Wholcgalc Building Supply, Irc1607 32nd Str€et (E) .,.,........TEmplcbar 6964

Wholaale Luber Dictributors, Inc., 9tA Avauc Pir (6) ....,....,...TWinoaks 2515

LUMBER

Arcata Redwood Co. (J. J. Rea)

54le Wibhirc Blvd. (36) ..........WEbster ?tzt

Atkinrn-Stutz Compuy, 62E Petrclcu Bldg. (15) .........,PRospcr 43,|l

Brurh Industrial Lumbcr Co

seol S:-G;;;i -Are. -Ol-. .l ..century 2-0lEE

Bumr Lr,rmber Cmpany, t70 Sruth Beverly Drivc, (Boaly Hilb) -...............BRadrhaw 2-BEE

Can & €o., L. J. (W. D. Dunning), ,l3t Ch. of Com. Bldg. (r5) .......PRoapect t6,t3

Copcr, W. 8., 6a6-60E Richfield Btdg. (r3) .......Muhral 2l3t

Dmt & Rusrell, Inc., il2 E. seth Strct (l) ...............ADams Elol

Dolbccr & Cgrcn Lumber Co..

9Cl Fidcllty Blds. (r3) ............VAndike 6?92

Ed. Fontain Lumber Co.,

62E Pctrclcum Bldg. (f5) ......,..PRospEt ,13{t

Hanmond Lunbcr Company, 20lO So. Aimcda St. (54) .........PRospcct l3,ilt

Hobbr Wall Lunbar Co..

625 Rowan Bldg. (r3) .............,TRinity 50tE

Holmcr Eureka Lmbar Co.,

7ll-712 Archltcctr Bld:r. (l3) ,.., ,Mutud grEr

Hovcr, A. L,

5225 Wibhlrc Blvd. (36)............YOrk 1166

Carl H. Kuhl Lunbcr Co., (R. S. Orgood), 704 S. Sprlng St. (r4) .VAndike Elxt3

Rmr C. Larhley (R. G. Robblnr t umbcr Co.),

714 W. Olynptc Blvd. (f5) .......PRo3pect 0?24

Lawme-Pbillpr Lumbcr Co,,

63il Pctrclcu BldS. (15) ..,.....,,PRorDGct tl?,|

MacDondd Co., I- W., 7U W. Olynptc Blvd. (f5) ........PRo!pcct 7194

M.cDorld & Hmtngton, Ltd., PGtrcl.un Bldg. (15),..,.........PRo.pcct 312?

Pacific Imbq Co., Thc

5225 Wihhirc Blvd. (36) ...........,YOrk ll6E

LUMBER

E. K. Ufmd lrnbcr Co., I Dru Stret (ll) ...............Exbmk t?r0

Itreyeh*uw Salct CL, ll9 Callfomia StrGd (U) .........GArfi.1d t9?{

HARDWOODS AND PANELS

Whitc Brcthar,Flfth ad Brman Strrctr (?) ...,.SUtter 1365

CREOSOTED LUMBER-POLE!'PILING-TIES

Anclcu Lubcr & Tratlng Co., UO Nry Montgomory Street (5) .....SUtter 1225

ButGr, J. H. lt Co., 333 MontSomGry Strect (t) ........DOuglar 3EE3

Hdl, Jmcr L., 1082 Millr Bldg. (a) .................Sutter ?5m

Popc & Talbot, Inc., Luber Division, 16l Markct Strut (5) .............D0ug!c 256t

Vu&r lran Piling & Lunber Co., 2le Pine Strc.t (1) ,.............Exbrcok4905

WendlinS-N.than Co.' ll0 Markct Strct (u) ..............Sutter 5t6:t

PANEIS-DOORTSASH_SCREENS

Callfomia Buildere Supply Co., 700 6th Avenuc (1) .....,.,..,.......Hlgatc 6116

Hogu Lumber Compay, zrd and Alio Strctr (4) .......Gl*nourt 6661

Wcctm Dor & Sarh Co., Sth & Cyprcce Stre€k (7) ....,.TEmplebarElO

HARDll'OODS

Strablc Hardrrood Conpuy' Firlt ud Clay Stretr (7) .....TEmple$ar 55E4

WhitG Brcthcrs, 50O High Stret (r) ..............ANdover 1600

LOS ANGDLNS

LUMBER

Pcnbcrthy Iamber Co.,

21155 Eart Srct St. (rr) ,......,...,...Ktnba!| sUl

Pope & Tablot, Inc., Lmbcr Divklon

714 W. Olympic Blvd. (r5) ......PRoepect tzlf

Rcd Rivcr lamber Co.,

?02 E. Slaus (u) ..............CEntury290?l

l0Bl S. Brcadrray (rO .............PRosFGt 03u

Su Pcdrc Lubcr 6.,

l5lE S. Catral Avc. (2f) .,.Rlchnond llll

,..Su Pedrc 22O

311 Financial Crntlr Blda. (U) ..VAndike 4{71

Schafcr Bne. Lmbcr & Shinglc Co., lr7 W. 9th Strut (rS) .............TRinity 4271

Sbwlln Ptnc Salc Colll Pctrolm Bldg. (15) ........,.PRcpct 0615

Slnpm Indurtrlo, Inc.,

1610 E. ll|uhtngton Blvd. (2r) ,..PRdFd 6r$

Sletdr, E. J. & Son,

2Gi0 E. llrt St. (rr) ,. .CEntury 29211

Sud&n & Chrletcmn, Inc.,

610 Borrd of Tra& Bldg. (ra) .....TRinity t6,l{

Taou Lumbcr Salcr, t37 Fetrolcura BHg. (f5) .........PRorpcct ll0E

Wendling-Nathu Co.,

526 \f,/ilrhirc Blvd. (36) ..............YOrk rl6!t

Wcrt Orcgm Lmbq Co.,

,lz7 Pctrclom Bldg. (15) .........Rlchmond 02El

W. W. lltilkinron, 3rt W. 9th Strcd (r5) ............TRinity{613

Wcycrhaeuu Salcr Cl., lug W. M. Garlmd Bldg. (r5) ...Mlctrlgu 635{

E. K. Wood Lmbs Co.

4710 So. .Alamcda St. (5,1) ,.. ..JEficron 3lll

CREOSOTED LUMBER-POLEIIPILING-TIES

Amricu Lrmbcr &.Tratiag Ca- lGl S. Bmdway (rS) ....,........PRorpcct {!63

Butcr. J. H. at Cr.. 601 }l'clt sth Slrat (l3) .,........Mlchlgu .201

Popc & Talbot, Inc., Lumbcr Dlvidm, 711 W. Olynpic Blvd. (r5) .....PRorpcct tZll

*Postoffice Zone Number in Parenthesis.

HARDWOODS

Amsicm Hudwod Cp.,

1900 E. lsth Strcet (54) .PRcpct 4235

Brurh Indugtrial Lubcr Co.

5901 S. Central Avc. (f) ....-....CEntury 2-0lEt Stmton, E. J, & Son,

2C50 Eart {l!t Strst (rf) .......CEnturv292fr

Wgrtem Hardwood Lmbs Co., 201{ Ealt lsth Strct (55) ,PRospct 616l

SASH-DOORgMILLWORK-SCREENr BLINDS-PANEI-S AND PLYWOODIRONING BOARDS

Back Pmcl Conpany, 3lG3U Ea.t 32nd Strut (11) ........ADu:1225

START BUITDING

TOMORROW'S BUSII\ESS TODAY:

No business large or small can long exist on cr dcry-todcry bcrsis. Its course must be plcrnned, plotted and set lcrr in cdvqnce. The lumber business, yours ctnd ours, opercting under wcr-time restrictions crnd shortcrges irs no exception to this rule. It's therelore not too e<rrly to stcrrt lcrying plcrns todcy lor tomorrow's PRE cnd POST WAn luture. As q stcrrt, sunrey the needs oI your community. Find out whqt plcrrrs your customers cnd prospects hcrve in mind lor repcriring, repcinting, remodeling or modernizing their present homes, buildings or other structures. We too qre thinking crnd plcnning in terms oI your luture crnd ours.

Co. -- -

Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co. -------* Schumacher Wall Board Corporation

Shevlin Pine Sales Co. --- -- ----------------------26

Southw€stern Portland Cement Co. ------------11 Stanton & Son, E. J. --- ---- ------------------------1, Suddetr & Christenson, fnc. ----------,-------------14

Tacoma Lumber Sales Timber Engineering Co. of California --------12

Vendling-Nathan Co. -------------21

West Coast Screen Co. ---------29

Vest Oregon Lumber Co.

Vestern Door & Sash Co.

Vestern Hardwood Lumber Co. -------------------r

Vestetn Mill & Moulding C,o. -------------------*

Weyerhaeuser Sales C.ompany ---------------16'17

White Brothers

Vholesale Building Supply, Inc. ----------------19

Vood Lumber Co., E. K. -----------.----------,O.F.C- Fordyce-C,roccett Salee Co.

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THE CALIFOR}IIA LUMBERMERCTIANT

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Lumber shipments of 472 mills reporting to the National Lumber Trade Barometer were 3.2 per lent fslelv pro- duction for the week ended luly 24,'t943. In the same week new orders of these milis were'0.03 per cent greater than production. Unfilled order files in the reportin! mills amounted.to-lO6 per cent of stocks. For reporting soTtwood mills, unfilled orders are equivalent to 41 iays, lroduction at the cur.rent rate, and gross stocks are eqlirralent to 36 <rays' procluctlon.

For the year to date, shipments of reporting identical mills exceeded production by 10.6 per ceni; ordErs by 13.g per cent.

Compared to the average corresponding week of 1935-39 production of re^p^orting mills wis 2T.S per cent greater; shrpments rvere 29.8 per cent greater; and orders rvere 30.2 per cent greater.

The Western Pine Association for the week ended Tulv 24,97 mills reporting, gave orders as 67,981,000 teet, slip- ments 76,625,W feet, and production 88,411,000 feet. drders on hand at the end of the week totaled 423,%4.ffi0 feet.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended July 24,159 mills reporting, gave orders as 22,783,000 f.eet, shipments 22,492,W feet, and production Zl,9SZ,0ffi feet. Orders on hand at the end of tlie week totaled l31,42l,mo {eet.

The California Redwood Association reported production of twelve operations for the month of June, 1943,-as 38,489,O00 feet, shipments 42,624,W feet, and orders received 23863,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the month totaled 118,148,000 feet.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended July 24 reported orders as lD,l46,W feet, shipments t22,46I,W feet, and production 122,465,W f.eet.

For the week ended July 31 orders were reported as 125,545,W feet, shipments I27,2&,000 feet, and production 121,034,000 feet.

!f. A. Conctans Will Manage Anglo Calilornia Lumber Co.

W. A. Constans, for the past thirteen years sales manager of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company at Klamath Falls, Ore., has been named general manager of the Anglo California Lumber Company, wholesale lumber distributors at Los Angeles, and has taken over his new duties.

He was with Weyerhaeuser for twenty-five years, and is rvidely known in Pacific Coast lumber circles.

During his residence in Klamath Falls, Mr. Constans took an active part in the civic life of the community. He lvas originator of the Quarterback Club in 1939 and served as its first president, was managing director of the Kalpine Plywood Company, past member of the board of directors of the Reames Golf and Country Club, past president of the Lions Club, past vice-president of the Boy Scout executive council. and a member of the Shrine Club.

TOMORROV/ it will be a PLYWOOD t-

World ! Designs for Post-\flar Living call lor an ever expanding use of this vital material which we ate now furnishing in vast quantities for war construction. \(/hen war orders have been filled the George E' Ream Company, having aided step by step in the development of FLY\flOOD, will continue as the Prime source of supply in the Southwest.

235 South Alameda Street - Los Angeles, Calif.

fnterim Price Ceifings

Establishment of "interim price ceilings" for distribution yard sales of softwood lumber in six"additio"at ,p""ih. areas was announced on August 4 by the Office of'price Administration.

-T!"y are established in Amendment No. 1 to Revised Maximum Price Regulation No. 215 lOlririUuiio"-V;;; Sales of Softwood Lumber), and became .tre"ti"" l"guri 10, 1943.

The six new areas for which interim ceilings are now provided are : the Great plains area (Minnesotal North Da_ k_o_ta, South Dakota and Iowa), th! South C""ti"i-.r* (Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma), the C"fif*_ nia area (State of California), the Texas "i"" (Si"i" .i T_exas),.the_ Louisiana a_r9a. (State of Louisianil) ""d-tfr. Mountain States area (Arizona, Colorado, Ne# M;-i;;, Utah and Wyoming).

Interim ceilings for the North Atrantic and North central areas were established on- June, D. Interim ceilings for the Northwestern Sta,tes, for Wisconsin and upper idi.hi_ gan, and for the South will be issued shortly.

The following are excerpts from the amendment:

1. Section 2 (a) is amended to read as follorvs: Sec. 2. Summary of the regulation.

(a) The general plan of this regulation divides lumber yards into two groups: wholesale and retail.

Wholesale distribution yards have one fixed mark_np for all their sales, regardless of quantity or purchaser: $f ancl 1O per cent.

As to retail yards, the plan is to extend specific mark_ ups to them for all sales as soon as they can be workerl out. So far, the only specific mark-up which applies to all retail yards in the country is the mark-up of $5 and 1O per cent for "wholesale-type,, sales, that is, sales to five large-scale classes of buyers in quantities of 5,000 feet or more. An optional pricing provision permits the appli_ cation of a similar mark-up to all other sales in the com_ mon grades. Specific mark-ups are established herein for . California as set forth in Section 6, para_ graphs (b) and (c)

2. Section 3 is amended by adding to the list of species and regulations covered, the following:

Western Red Cedar lumber-MpR-402.

Tidewater Red Cypress lumber-MpR-412.

3. Section 4 (a) is amended by inserting at the end of the first sentence the following sentence: .,In determining the dollar volume of softwood lumber hereunder. direct mill sales shall not be included.,,

4. Section 5 (a) is amended by adding at the end of the paragraph the following sentence: ,.fn determining the dollar volume of softwood lumber hereunder. direci mill sales shall not be included."

5. Section 6 is amended to read as follows:

Section 6. Maximum prices for retail yards: All other sales (other than "wholesale-type") :

(a) General. All sales out of retail yard stock other than the "wholesale" typ. are subject to the General Maximum Price Regulation, except in . . . California

(b) Area definitions .

(5) The California area consists of California.

(c) Mark-ups for California.

The maximum prices for sales out of retail yard stock in . California other than,,wholesale-type,, sales is the sum of the following:

(1) F.o.b. mill maximum price, in the mill regulation for the particular species; plus

(2) Inbound transportation charges to the distribution yard figured under the rules of Section Z; plus

(3) $5 "handling charge" (or 30c per square for shingles, and 60c per M pieces for lath) plus

(4) The following percentage mark-ups, to be applied to the sum of (l), (2) and (3) above.

(III) In California Area all quantities:

"Lower bracket" items, 3O per cent.

"IJpper bracket" items, 50 per cent.

(VI) . If sale of softwood lumber and/or shingles. totals less than $7.50 add 10 per cent of total.

(d) Meaning of "Lower and Upper Bracket,, Items.

(1) "Lower Bracket" Items include the following grades and sizes:

(I) Grades.

No. 1 Common and Lower in the following species: Southern Pine (Longleaf and Shortleaf), Douglas Fir, West Coast Hemlock, Sitka Spruce, White Fir (W.C.L.A. Rules), Redwood, Eastern Spruce, Aspen, Eastern Hemlock, Recl Cedar, Tidewater Red Cypress.

No. 2 Common and Lower in the following species: Jack Pine, Engelman Spruce, Lodgepole pine, Larch.

No. 3 Common and Lower in the following species: Ponderosa Pine, Norway Pine, Idaho pine, Sugai pirr", Eastern and Northern White pine (pinus Strobus), Ot_ tawa Valley White Pine.

Note: "Lower bracket" items include all special specifi_ cations applicable to the grades listed, such as d.ense or medium grain, or stress grades, and also any items of flooring, ceiling and similar patterns in the grades listed.

(II) Sizes. All thicknesses of boards and strips: All widths in boards and Dimension lZ inch and under in nomi_ nal width; all 3 inch and 4 inch timbers lO inches and under in nominal width; all 5 inch and 6 inch timbers g inches and under in nominal width; and all lengths in the above up to and including 24 f.eet; also all shingles and lath.

(2) "Upper Bracket" items include all grades higher, sizes larger and lengths longer than those listed as .,Lower Bracket" items.

(f) Delivery in other speci,fied areas. The mark-up for sales (other than "wholesale-type,,) in California . . include delivery within a radius of l0 miles to those classes of customers to whom free delivery was extended in March, 1942, and thereafter. For deliveries more than l0 miles to such classes of customers an addition of loc per M feet BM may be made for each mile beyond the first 1e but not for any part of the return trip. If the buyer picks up the lumber at the yard, no reduction in price is requirqd, but it is a violation of this regulation for a yard unreasonably to refuse to make delivery when requested to do so or unreasonably to insist that the buyer pick up the lumber at the yard.

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IHE EX E WHO OIH ooa

Knmus that ((70% for TMar Bonds isn't enough these days"

'Workers' Living Costs going up. : an4 Income and Victory Tax now deducted at source for thousands ofworkers...

Check! You're perfectly right . but all these burdens ate more than balanced by macb bigherF}o/.lLY INCOMES/r most ofyoar workers!

Millions of new workers have entered the picture. Millions of women who nevei worked before. Millions of others who nevet began to earn what they are getting today!

This spoce is o contribution lo Americo's oll'oui wor eftort bY

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

A lo% Pay-Roll Allotment for 'War Bonds from'the wages of the familY bread-winner is one thing-a 70/o Pay' Roll Allotment from eacb of sercral uorkers in ,be same fanily is qaite anotber matter! Ifhy, in many such cases, it could well be jacked tp to 30%-50% or even more of the family's neu moneyl

That's why the Treasury Department now urges you to revise your'!Var Bond tltinking--atd your ITar Bonl selling-on the basis of fanil incomes. f.ne cunent

lVar Bond campaign is built around the family unit-and labor-management sales programs should be revised accordingly.

For details get in touch with your locat 'War Savings Staffwhich will supply you with all necessary material for the proper Presentation of the new plan.

Last year's bonds got us started-r&i ,year's bonds are to uin! So let's all raise bur sights, and get going. If we all pull rogether, we'll put it over with a bang!

you've done your bit

. nolv do your best! i

"I{ow long, O Lord, how long?" we cry, fmpatient with the painful tramp of years, But in the mind of God, it's done, And we have learned the reason for our tears.

-Virginia Prebis. ,t rF :k

Much discussion of courage, bravery, fear, etc., with relation to war and battle. General Douglas MacArthur was recently quoted as saying that "most all soldiers are afraid." Robert Louis Stevenson sirid that courage consists in doing something you are mortally afraid to try. Mark Twain, who said things well, declared that "courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.', ***

A stout-hearted friend of mine who fought in the first World War and is fighting again in this one, insists that a man facing death is always afraid; but that doesn't keep him from meeting it face to face. And he speaks from experience. +:f*

Another old lumber friend of mine who was one of "Pershing's Hundred Heroes" in the first World War and was cited for exceptional bravery, has never talked to anyone about his exploits. \Mon't do it even now. If you corner him on the subject and want to know what happened and how, he just says: "Aw, I was drunk."

rsrael Putnam, ot .""tj ;.:r""" history, used to say that he deserved no credit for being brave since he had never been afraid of anything.

Looks like we've already produced scores of fighters in this war fit to be classed with the immortal Alvin York of the first World War. And, like York, most of them have lived so far to tell the tale. And what stories they tell ! It has long been maintained that "truth is stranger than fiction," and this war has certainly taken most of the color out of the wildest fictional tales-by contrast.

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You sit at your radio and listen. while they interview many of these plain-spoken heroes-totally unimpressed with their own heroism-and the things they tell make the stories of Horatio Alger look cheap by comparison.

War is certainly a stern teacher of stern things. ***

Madame de Stael said on the scafrold: "Ah, Liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name !" And we can well paraphrase her famous words as we listen to tales of dauntless heroism of our American soldiers and sailors, and say: "Ah, Liberty! What marvels are performed in thy name !"

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Liberty. The French convention of long ago gave the world a definition of Liberty that has since been accepted as the most perfect definition ever offered, when it wrote: "The liberty of one citizen ceases only when the liberty of another citizen commences.t'

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Victor Hugo wrote: "Man is neither the master of his life nor of his fate. He can but offer to his fellow men his efrorts to diminish human suffering; he can but ofrer to his God his indomitable faith in human liberty."

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In St. PatriclCs Cathedral in Dublin, frehnd, over the remains of Jonathan Swift, is this inscription: "Here lies the body of Jonathan Swift, Dean of this Cathedral, where fierce indignation can no longer rend his heart. Go, wayfarer, and imitate if thou canst one who, so far as in him lay, was an earnest champion of Liberty."

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All the war comrnentators, political and journalistic, take as the text of their remarks the sentiment that this war must be so ended that it will put an end to wars for all time to come. I'll say one thing; if there is another within the next one hundred years, it will have to be on the cuff; "for free" as the kids say. This war we're going through now is going to soak up all the surplus dollars and credit of generations to come. ***

The Bible tells of the futility of riches. But if you want to get a real, practical understanding of the subject, study a recent.income tax blank. ***

Henry Ford is credited-and truthfully so-with a lot of sage remarks, but this recent one should be classed

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The omozing response to the Celotex "Mirocle Home" compoign shows thot people ore plcnning now for posf-wor homes !

erNcB the f,rst of the yaar, The t J Celotex C,orporation has featured a "Miracle Home" each month in its national advertising. The function of this continuing program is to stimulate the interest of America in building and onming hones after the war.

The campaign isbringing in thousands of inquiries. Everyoneof them

is sent on to you to use io building up your prospect list. Every one of these inquiries represents a family that's interested ia building a home after the war . . . foll6 who are buying \V'ar Bonds now and planning on using them as the downlnyment. These are real prospects! And you can stzut working with them right now . . . helping them with their plans, and advising them so that when the war is over you ll have a market that's already sold and ready to start building without delay!

'We at C.elotex are determined to build this "after-the-war" market for you and we will continue to use all the merchandising and selling methods that will help make home ownership the number one deshe of every family in America"

(Continued from Page 8) among his best: "I'm looking for a lot of men with an infinite capacity for not knowing what can't be done." Isn't that a dandy? *

painted; baby chick brooders, etc. All the buildings were advertised as "all \nrood." Hou/s that for a change from peacetime merchandising? Probably like that famous dog that climbed the tree when the bear chased him: he HAD to.

Most men know that Henry Ford was the father of high wages for working men. I{e started paying workers-without their suggestion-more wages than any of them would have thought of asking for at that time. But not so many realize that, when the records of these days are written, it will be found that Henry is the author of more splendid and practical and yorkable maxims and philosophic remarks than any other man now living. Few men since Ben Franklin have uttered so many priceless pearls of true wisdom.

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It's an ill wind that blows no one any good, says the old saw. Most of the folks who are profiting most in cash-inthe-pocket from this wave of war prosperity, will end up with nothing. That's human nature. History declares it. But the U. S. railroads aren't going to be that way. They look to me like the very head of the class in the race for "who profits most." They are coming out of this war with their roadbeds, equipment, and all other properties in wonderful condition. Hurrah for the railroads, say I. They've had their dog kicked around so much and so hard in the last two decades that their rejuvenation fills me with satisfaction. And their magnificent physical condition will be a fine platform on which to establish our postwar bid for continued prosperity.

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CHANGED MERCHANDISING: Macy's great store in New York City recently ran full page ads offering for sale such items as these: thousands of yor.rng barred-rock pullets, nearly ready to lay; thousands of live baby chicks; thousands of rabbits, for food, various breeds, kinds, and prices; two sizes of poultry houses, ready-built for use and

Heard anything from Mexico lately? Returned travelers tell of abundant prosperity across the border, due entirely to the drift of United States money looking for something to buy. Mexico City fairly sizzles with life, prosperity, sports, and fun of all kinds. Money fies everywhere. They're really sitting pretty "South of the Border Down Mexico Wry," as the baltad has it.- No restrictions. Plenty of things to trade ofr for American cash. It isn't hard to imagine what has happened to the next door neighbor of a country bursting with billions of cash and little to buy with them. Well, that's what's happened to Mexico. And don't let the ruling crowd down there fool you. They're smart. They knew what would happen with such a financial condition as the war has developed here. And it has.

WARTIME SALESMANSHIP RULES (Of course, nobody sent out any such notice as this, but it could have been done): "Beg to advise our customers that we will receive applications for allotments of our stocks for the duration from eleven-thirty to eleven-forty-five, Friday morning of each week, only. Please do not ask for concessions from this rule. Your applications for materials will be filed, numbered consecutively, and filled in that order, if ever. Substitutions will be made at our discretion, and without notice to buyer. No complaints regarding either quality or quantity will be tolerated. All shipments must be paid for in advance. No credits will be extended. These rules apply only for the duration, you understand. After the war we'll be back on our bellies, as usual, begging for stray crumbs from the business table. As always, John Salesman."

fnterim Price Ceilings

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To all ,classes of customers to whom free delivery was not included in March, 1942, and thereafter an additional charge for delivery may be made: Provided, that such charge does not exceed that made for the same type of delivery during March, 1942. Any amount added for delivery must be shown separately on the invoice, bill of sale, or other billing.

6. Section 7 (a) is amended by the addition of the following subparagraphs (11) and (12):

(11) Western Red Cedar Lumber MPR 4O2. Seattle, Washington.

(12) Tidewater Red Cypress Lumber-MPR 412. Ponchatoula, Louisiana:. California. Distribution yards located in Callfornia may make the additions allowed for Louisiana producers in calculating mill prices. See Section 24 of MPR 412.

9. Section 10(a) is amended by the addition of the following subparagraph (6) :

(6) Where a distribution yard purchases lumber rough or green and works that lumber prior to the time of sale the milling or drying charges shall not exceed those charges for these services provided for in the mill regulation governing that particular species for the same type of processing. The maximum processing charges herein provided may only be added where the lumber is stocked rough or green and the method or type of processing required cannot be determined until the sale is made and the buyer's specifications are received. Under any condition, these charges may not be added to produce any item 'of boards or dimension in standard sizes, or sizes reasonably similar thereto, shown in the applicable regulation.

10. Section 24 is amended by the addition of the following sentence immediately at the end of the first sentence: "(Ary wholesale yard as defined in section 4 (a) hereof, which prior to June 23,1943, separately operated a retail department under conditions conforming with the definition of a retail yard as set forth in Section 5 (a) hereof, may apply for approval to continue the operations of its retail yard department in the manner and under the conditions above set forth.)"

This amendment shall become effective August I0, 1943, except that:

(a) If this amendment lowers any maximum price below that fixed in any earlier regulation, contracts that were in existence before the date of issuance of this amendment at lawful prices may be completed according to their terms. if delivery is made on or before September l, 1943.

(b) The mere fact that this amendment increases some maximum prices does not of itself allow any seller to apply the higher prices to existing uncompleted contracts without the consent of the buyer. The regulation permits the making of certain adjustable pricing agreements to cover such situations. Apart from that, increasing prices in existing uncompleted contracts to the level of increased maximum prices in the amendment is purely a matter of agreement between buver and seller.

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PORTI.AND GEMENT

Gucrqnteed to meet or exceed reguirements ol Americcm Society lor Testing Mctericrls Specilicc' tions lor High Ecrrh Strength Portland Cement, crs well qs Federcl Specificcrtions lor Cement, Portlcnrd, High-Etrly-Strength, No. SS-G201.

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ST'I.PHATE RDSISTAIIT

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DilIUIIUM DXPAIfSnil and C0tfTRACTI0tf

(Extremely aevcre <ruto-ckrve test results consistently indiccrte prcc. ficclly no expcrnsion or contrcrction, thus elimincting one oI most rti{ficult problems in use ol cr high ecrrly strength cemenl)

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America's Favorite Sport

An Englishman who had recently returned from a visit to New York City, was sitting in a group of friends one evening and reciting to them many of the incidents and highlights of his trip, and particularly discussing the very unusual habits and peculiarities of these "blawsted h'Americans." Finalln one of the group asked him:

"fs baseball still the most popular pastime over there?"

"No indeed," replied the returned traveler. "The way it looked to me around New York baseball has taken a back seat, and the most popular game they all play is something

APPOINTED YARD MANAGER

L. I. Cronkhite of Hughson has been made manager of the United Lumber Yards at Oakdale. He succeeds Glen Karnes, who has gone to Twain Harte to operate a lumber mill. Mr. Cronkhite has been associated rt'ith the compan.v for several years.

new to me that they call-"Aw Nuts,!"

Naturally his listeners all wanted to know how this new game with the very strange name is played, so he told them:

"ft's very simple, old deahs. They crowd into a room where there are a lot of seats at tables, and they sit down and start filling in the blanks on a lot of cards with beans,. or counters of some sort. When one of the blighters fills in all the rows on his card he shouts out-"Bingo !" And everyone else in the room hollers-"Aw-NUTS !"

OXNARD DORMITORY CONTRACT AWARDED

Oxnard, July 31.-A contract for 61 dormitory conversions here has been awarded by the Federal Public Housing Authority. The contract was given to Jensen & Jepson of Los Angeles at $22,500, according to word from San Francisco.

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cotonED sTuccos, BRUSHCoAT

IIME PUTTY, LIME, cll types

TATHING MATERIALS, crll types

PIASTER, WOOD, METAL LATH

PI.ASTER BOAND, T & G SHEAfiIING

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STUCCO MESH, TIE WIRE

ROOFING, PAPER, NAILSi, cll types

INSIIATION and WATERPROOFING SPECIAITIES

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Almost every paper I read carries news of the granting of some Governmental award of some sort for special merit or service in the way of war production to some particular war industrial concern.

And it was not until I received a letter from a well posted friend of mine who simply called attention to the fact and asked "why," that there was impressed on my mind the fact that so far no such award or specific recognition of any kind has been given to lumber, or to any lumber concern, for special merit in helping win the war.

And when the thought did strike me, and careful consideration declared it to be true, it sure made me sore. And I do mean sore. There is no feeling of narrowness or jealousy for those who HAVE been given their just recognition; far from it. No doubt every concern that has been cited for special service has been deserving. Which only makes it seem the more definitely strange that the lumber industry has been overlooked.

We have quoted frequently in these columns of late the generous remarks of a number of army men who are in position to judge, about the outstanding service of the lumber industry toward helping win the war by producing those things without which there could be no victory. And basking in the warmth of such appreciation we have overlooked the fact that no medals of honor have been pinned on lumber lapels.

It is my opinion, based on everything I can read and hear, that while American industry generally has performed unbelievable miracles in its transposition from peactime to wartime production, no department of that total industry has done a finer, a more practical, a more commendable job than lumber. f search in vain to discover one that has, and that takes in everything from ships to shells-from biscuits to bombs-from planes to parachutes.

I think it has been definitely proven that in this tremendous rush to supply this nation and its fighting men with the materials and vital necessities of war, lumber is the one commodity for which no successful substitute has been found; and lumbermen have set a pace that the best can do no more than follow. f may be slightly prejudiced, but

that's my opinion.

With their own money at stake-rather than Government funds-the lumber folks from Coast to Coast and Nort]r to South have met innumerable obstacles and difficulties, and delivered the goods. They have had to improvise as few other industries have. They have had problems of raw materials, of supplies, of transportation, of man shortage, of worn equipment, of compulsory substitutions, of developing hitherto unheard-of methods of getting maximum efficiency out of equipment and men; and they met these obstacles and whipped them. They have had to change methods, change equipment, by-pass their timber to get at the kind of trees the war machine needed. They have had to get by with conditions that would have closed them down flat at any previous time of lumber history. Continuous high-balling and high-tailing day and night without the opportunity of stopping for repairs, together with the difficulty of replacing equipment, has worn their machinery to the nub in thousands upon thousands of cases. But they keep on making lumber.

Lumbermen are part bulldog. If there was any quit in the breed, thousands of sawmills would have blown the whistle and sent home the crew during the trials of the past tvvo years. Numerous concerns in other industries have been given well merited rewards and public recognition WHO MADE NO SACRIFICES IN THEIR EFFORT. Show me a sawmill concern that has not made sacrifices innumerable in the past two years, and worn their brains tired and their hair thin with figuring how to keep up the pace !I doubt if you can find one.

And let me repeat: THEY DID IT WITH THEIR OWN MONEY, almost without exception. ft's a whole lot easier to perform miracles of production if the money problem and the angle of financial danger is eliminated. The lumber industry and its loyal units may never get any official award marks for their war work. I don't suppose most of them have ever considered the matter. Their patriotism is a light that shines in any sort of weather. But when the war ends, history will recite the fact that their names, like Abou ben Adhem's, will be second to none.

!(/estern Poles and Piling

Western poles and piling were given specific maximum prices by the Office of Price Administration.

The prices are established in Amendment No. 1 to Revised Maximum Price Regulation No. 284 (Western Primary Forest Products), and become effective August 2, 1943.

Previously maximums for most poles and all piling were provided by the General Maximum Price Regulation, and were the highest prices individual sellers charged during the month of March, 1942.

The new ceiling prices for piling are slightly belqw those charged in March, 1942, whrle those for poles generally are at the March, 1942, level.

Separate schedules of prices are provided for Western red cedar, Douglas fir and lodgepole pine poles and piling, the principal western species from which the items are made.

Producers of poles and piling of other species or specifications not priced in the amendment are instructed to submit proposed prices to the Office of Price Administration in Washington, D. C., for approval.

HARDWOOD LOGS

fn conformity with recent legislation pertaining to grade labeling, the OPA removes from its price regulation on prime grade hardwood logs the requirement that the words "prime grade" must be marked on such logs (Amendment 5 to MPR 313), effective August 10.

Lumber Stocks Survey

Returns thus far received in the lumber stocks survey being made by WPBS Lumber and Lumber Products Division indicate a critical reduction in inventories during the past six months. A large number of yards report little or no stocks on hand and some report that they have been forced to close because they cannot obtain needed species, grades and sizes of lumber. Particularly in rural areas, stocks are unbalanced in relation to local demand. The survey returns are designed to show in detail the areas and extent of the stock shortages.

"The distributors response to our questionnaire sent to a 1O per cent sampling of the industry is highly gratifyitrg" J. Philip Boyd, director of the Division said. "Approximately half of the questionnaires have been returned to date but a greater coverage is necessary before working estimates of conditions can be made."

Urging prompt replies from the remaining distributors, Mr. Boyd stated that the survey will give the lumber division the factual data needed for a program of production stimulation. Returns are'being analysed by the U. S. Forest Service and the over-all data will be released as soon as the survey is completed.

AT OFFICERS TRAINING SCHOOL

Bovard Shib_ley, Union Lumber Co., San Francisco, is at the Coast Artillery officers training school, Camp Callan, Calif.

Lamb, cr broeidens

the use of wood

Tur sprrov FTcHTER of the sea lanes, the versatile p.T. boat of light wood construction has proved to be one of the sensational weapons of the war. The success of the P.T. boar has given America another concepr of the value of wood and its ever widening range of udlity.

A funher development of lumber that is going to help your business is the wood laminated arch, arch rafter and other structural members. These arches are engineered to meet the requirements of the job.

They have been serving the war effort from the very beginning, in the fast and economical construcdon of large, post-free structures-huge airplane hangars, drill halls, recreation centers, chapels. On the farm, smaller wood laminated arches are used in the building of barns, machine sheds, poultry and hog houses, combination corn cribs and granaries.

The Teco engineered connector sysrem of construction has opened the way to a wider and more economical application of timbers in construction. The Teco meral connector made ir possible to utilize go% or more of the working strength of wood as compared rc 40% to 6o% under old methods of joining timbers.

You will find gready expanded posr-war markers for lumber in your community because engineering in lumber is developing new and better ways in which wood can serve in building.

SlltlNG rN toDAy's merrrt-Today, more than in any other period, the home owner and farmer are more fully aware of the imponance of maintenance and repair. Notwithstanding the less than normal llow of lumber for civilian requirements, it is still serving these essential markets. Lumber used alone or in combination with other materials, will help you serve in many ways your city aod farm cusromers.

SATES COilPANY

THE GOOD NEW DAYS

None but the futile mourn the past, Or waste their hours in vain berating; Each day is richer than the last; There are new worlds to conquer waiting. There is no going back. Why bind Your swift pace with a phantom fetter?

Forget the good old days behind, Go on-and make the new ones better. {< * * -tedolson'

SHE TAUGHT HIM

Christopher Morley, in his translations from the Chinese, tells this one:

The learned behaviorist

Who had lectured for twenty years

At the Imperial University

On analytical GynosoPhy

And predicated Stimulus and Response in Woman

Met a young wench at the Feast of Lanterns

Who proved him cockeyed in thirty minutes. ***

EXASPERATING MOMENTS

The merchant seaman was visiting in the home of the patriotic lady, who, despite her patriotism wasn't too well posted about things. The seaman was telling of an adventure.

"I was on the aft deck," he said, "when I saw a torpedo coming straight at us."

"Heavens," said the hostess. "I hope it was one of ours." ***

NO TROUBLE

"Honey chile," said one dusky waitress to another. "I unestans dat you an' Mose done had trouble."

"Das a lie," said the other. "We jess had a li'l ahgument, an' I shot him, and dass as fur as h'it went."

A WORRYING FOOL

Bruce Magazine tells about the darkey whose friend remarked to him that he looked worried. He said:

"Boy, I'se booked up solid on worryin'. I'se got so many worries on my mind now dat if'n sumpin' happens t'me t'day, no mattah how bad h'it is, I won't have time t'worrv 'bout h'it fo' at leas' two weeks-an' mebbe mo'."

PARSLEY ON PLATES?

Thomas Dreier says that The American Association for the Prevention of Putting Parsley on Plates isn't making the progress that it should. There are still too many restaurant and hotel people who persist in putting parsley on plates. When members of the Association have thrownsuch parsley on the floor the attendants have simply picked it up and put it on other plates. It is now recommended that the patrons throw the whole plate and its contents on the foor and walk out without paytng. It is admitted that this will lead to unpleasantness with the police, but the Association for the Prevention of Putting Parsley on Plates will get valuable publicity.

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OUR HORSE

"I'd like to take a ride," he said, "For it would be a thrill

To gallup as we used to do

Across the wooded hill.

Where is the steed I used to ride?

I never shall forget him."

I felt my face grow hot with shameAs f confes5gd_..11rg et him.,, A. Merriam Conner.

THAT WAS A RELIEF

Tit-Bits tells about two Gurkha soldiers who had volunteered with the India sky troops, asking an officer:

"From what height are we supposed to jump?"

"Five hundred feet," said the officer.

"Nothing doing," they said. "That's too high. Can't we jump from three hundred feet?"

The officer explained that from such a low height there was danger that their parachutes wbuld not open. The Gurkhas broke into grins.

"That's different," they said. "So we get parachutes."

TNT

Wm. Cameron's "Mitre" pulls this one:

"We had a bad explosion at our house last night. Somebody told Dad the new maid was d5rnamite, so he decided to investigate. As soon as he touched her she exploded' Mother went through the foor, Grandma hit the ceiling, and Dad went all to Pieces."

HOBBS WAI.f, TUMBER GO.

Governor Snell Dedicate s Tree Farm Southern Pine

Governor Earl Snell of Oregon made a special trip to Klamath Falls on August 5 to dedicate the WeyerhaeuserKlamath Tree Farm, the first to be certified by the'Western Pine Association which embraces the Pine industry of eleven 'Western states. The area of this farm is 506,000 acres, much of which has been cut over once, and is being managed by a full-time resident forester and staff for permanent forest crops.

The dedication was in connection with a dinner at which the Governor officially presented the Tree Farm Certificate No. 1 to Ralph Macartney, manager of the Klamath Falls branch, of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company. This is the first Tree Farm in the Western pine region. J. P. Weyerhaeuser, Jr., executive vice-president of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, was a speaker at the dedication and his address appears elsewhere in this issue.

Canadian Lumber

Sales of Canadian lumber priced in OPA's regulation on Northeastern hardwood were put on a straight f.o.b. mill basis by the Office of Price Administration.

Sellers in direct mill shipment transactions henceforth may charge f.o.b. mill prices plus actual transportation charges from point of shipment to destination.

The change in calculating transportation charges is made in Amendment No. 2 to Maximum Price Regulation No. 368 (Northeastern Hardwood Lumber), and became effective August 4, 1943.

H. Kunl

Rail Shippers

OUATITY FIR

STOCK

Increases in mill maximum prices for Southern pine lumber of $3 per 1,000 board feet for No. I and "D" grades and of $4 per 1,000 board feet for No. 2 grades and lower were announced by the Office of Price Administration.

Purpose of the increases is to provide prices adequate to permit maximum production of Southern pine, principally in the medium and lower grades. No price increases are provided for upper grades or for timbers.

The increases are authorized in Amendment No. 3 to Revised Maximum Price Regulation No. 19 (Southern pine Lumber),, and became effective July 30, 1943.

N;ls M. Quist

Nils M. Quist, 46, passed away in an Oakland hospital Jaly 19. He was a member of the firm of Quist Brothers & Co., Hayward, Calif.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mildred euist; a daughter, Marjorie, and a son, Richard Quist; his mother, three sisters and a brother, Charles Quist.

He was a member of Eucalyptus Lodge No. 243, F. and A. M., and the Hayward Rotary Club.

STUART SMITH IN HAWAII

Stuart Smith, formerly in the wholesale lumber business in Los Angeles, and now with the Offi,ce of price Administration, Washington, D. C., was in San Francisco recently on his way to Honolulu on Government business. He will be gone about two months.

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Lookins Ahead

Timber Company, on the Occasion of the Dedication of the Weyerhreuser-Klamath Trec Farm, Klamath Falls, Orcgon, Augurt 5, 1943

You have all met the smoking car theorist lvho observes freely on any subject.' There are millions of him. One of them said to me the other day, "Why doesn't the lumber industry get rid of the horse and buggy and stop annihilating our trees with prodigious waste?" Many of you have heard him ask questions like that. Perhaps, for some few of you, that might even have been your own question in another's mouth.

Such incidents cloud us in doubt. Is ours a backward business? Or could it be that the general public is nqt keeping up to date with information? Does John Q. have any idea of the money and efiort going into forest indttstry research?

Suppose, instead, another question lvere compounded: "ITow much research is going on; where is it being done; and who's paying for it?"

That question covers so much territory and reaches dorvn so many bypaths, all having to do with the future of rvood, that it is impossible to more than set a few survey stakes in quick summary. Suppose we take a ferv illustrations from the field, beginning at home'

The Western Pine Association l'ras for trventy years directed and consistently expanded an intelligent line of rtsearch in its own laboratory at Portland. It has dotre mttclt to improve Pine lumber.

The Douglas Fir Plywood Association, in its own laboratory at Tacoma, has porrred many tens of thousands of dollars of the profits of its member mills back into research to make plywood a better, more economical and rnore widely useful product for those rvho buy it'

The National Lumber Manufacturer's Association has more recently initiated a research program. For years before that, its affiliate, the Tinrber Engineering Company, had pioneered in developing engineered rvooden structures fabricated rvith metal connectors. That researcl.r has borne important fruit in America's n'ar by providing tl.re natiorr with an answer to its steel shortage.

The Institute of Paper Chemistry, at Appletorr, \Ar'iscotrsin, has for many years been generonsly and exclttsively financecl by manufacturers of pulp and paper who rvishe<l to unlock still further secrets from lvood cellulose :rnd at the sarne time train competent technicians to carrY olr the endless task of research.

The Pacific I-umber Co., in the rechvoocl countrv rrrlt far from here, at Scotia, California, lras a well-knou'n record for developing nerv products fronr forest resotlrces. Its research in u'ood plastics and bark fibre products is particularly notable.

Crown-Zellerbach Corporation, and its allied com;larries, largest users of rvood on the Pacific Coast for pulp and paper manufacture, has been investing for years in rvootl cellulose research.

All of the enterprises mentioned are, I believe, financed entirely with private funds. But, the list is much longer. In the hunt for who among the private enterprise companies are doing research on wood, one meets such vvellknorvn names as: United States Plywood Companv and Harbor Plywood Company, outstanding in plywood developments; Masonite Corporation of Mississippi, a pioneer in the field of wood fibre insulation; and the Marathorr organization of Wisconsin with an excellent research aud development record in wood pulp, paper and chemicals.

In addition, many companies-some of them well-known to you-are developing new products that are either derived from wood or are to be used in combination rvith rvood to improve its usefulness-paints, preservatives, toxic treatments, and so on. There is only time to mention er few narnes: Dow Chemical, Tennessee Eastman, Monsanto Chemical, Hercules Powder, DuPont. These are among the leading pioneers who are blazing a new industrial trail today and opening an entirely nerv vista of forest resources utilization. With wood as their prime material, they are unfolding a marvelous new array of products in the fields of textiles, plastics, photographic film, bristles, lacquers-to mention only a few.

I doubt if there is a dime of taxpayers' money in this vast and ramified wood research program being carried on bv private companies such as I have mentioned up tt'r now.

But, as one would expect, wood research is also going aheacl in public or semi-public laboratories. The largest of tlrese is the Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, Wisconsin, where, under the general direction of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and with the generotls help of annual federal appropriations of from $600,000 to $1,000,000, rvork in many fields of wood utilization has been going on for years .with brilliant accomplishments.

There are many schools and colleges specializing irt n'ood research. Amonq them are: Oregon State. Pennsyir.ania State, McGill University at Montreal, New York State College of Forestry, Yale and such state universities as \\'ashington, Idaho and Minnesota. Such research is variously financed through public funds and,/or by scholarships and foundations supported by private funds.

There are also numerous specific projects being pursued by independent research agencies such as the Armour Institute at Chicago. It is doubtful whether a complete list of such projects has ever been compiled.

In all the major fields of exploration into forest resources, Weyerhaeuser Timber Company is conducting a bro'ad research and development program of its ort'n. Part of this has been done through its affiliate, the Wood Conversion Company of Cloquet, Minnesota, on a consistent program that goes back some twenty years. More recently,

we have broadened our fields and sharply expanded our laboratory facilities.

Within the past year we have completed and put into active use a new Development Department, housed in its own laboratory of special design at Longview, Washington. The facilities and staff of that new department are actually an integral part of our manufacturing operations here at Klamath Falls. It is our hope that from time to time we may apply some of the findings of that department in practical form right here and translate them into terms of new kinds of jobs for citizen's of this community.

In fact, we are just about to make one such translation. W-hile not a product of our own laboratory, it is nevertheless a product of another member mill of the Western Pine Association. Reference is made to the manufacture of Pres-to-logs from planer mill waste, a product and process developed by Potlatch Forest, Inc., at Lewiston, Idaho, following many years of experimentation and since developed into a new-type fuel business now carried on widely. A new Pres-toJog manufacturing unit is now nearing completion in our Klamath Falls mill and you will, before so very long, have full announcement of this new enterprise from Manager Macartney.

The Pres-to-log is one tangible symbol of more efficient wood utilization. I'd like to mention another-a product of our own study-to illustrate a point.

In our wood pulp mill at Everett, Washington, we have recently placed in operation a $75Q000 "dream machine" for barking and chipping hemlock logs.

With this installation we can take the bark ofr a 36inch log cleanly in about a minute and then chip the whole log without breaking it down to smaller sizes. One result is a byproduct of clean bark from which tannin, used in leather processing, can be manufactured. But, more importantly, we are able to get N per cent more pulp from the same log.

Imagine, if you please, one such process developmenr which would make the Klamath forest resources 4 p". cent more productive.

And now, in conclusion, I challenge the insult of the smoking car theorist. I feel that he is the one who is driving the mental horse and buggy. The forest industries have traded theirs in for a post-Victory, self-propelled vehicle. I say that Progress is with us and all about us, both as to creating permanence through Tree Farms and creating new products and new Processes to utilize with ever-increasing efficiency the wood grown on those Tree Farms.

It is not a backward industry that will delay desired progress. Rather, the danger is that people like you and me will hesitate to take the risks involved in the new ventures suggested by research, because government has removed our chance to reap the benefits of the hard work and enterprise involved in putting those ventures over.

You know what the individual has to do about taxes. That comes over and above what happens to the company in which he may own stock. That company under

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TUMBER IS HEIPING WIN THE WAR

br mcny wcrys-in shipbuilding, wcr indushies, housing lor war workers, camp bcrrrcrcks, on supply lines and crt the front. While we cre cooperating 100% with todcy's wcr ellort, we cre crlso looking lonrcrd to the Iuture, when the building progrrcurt will demcrnd the use oI tremendous quantities oI lumber through usucl retail disbibution chcnnels.

World's Biggest Hardwood Sawmill Plant

The biggest hardwood lumber manufacturing plant in the whole world, according to all available figures, is located in the Philippine Islands, and has been in the hands of the Japs since Pearl Harbor. Since that date no news has come from that mill.

It is that of the Insular Lumber Company, at Fabrica, in the Philippines. It is not only the largest, but likewise one of the most modern in equipment.

Here are a couple of pictures of the Fabrica plant, giving some idea of its size, and impressive location. It is located on a bluff in the river bend, as you will notice,

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and the architecture of the mill looks unlike that of any American sawmill.

The Fabrica mill has a normal manufacturing capacity of about 75,000,000 feet of Philippine hardwood lumber every year, according to the figures of its owners, the Insular Lumber Company, which has its general offices in Philadelphia, Pa.

The sawmill at Fabrica is equipped with trvo 9-foot band headrigs; one 8-foot pony rig; two 6-foot resaws, a slicer; a gang trimmer; two edgers, and other equipment, making a whale of a mill. The planing mill is modern in every particular, and very large. The dry kilns are a battery of 13 Moore Cross-Circulation kilns that take this wonderful cabinet wood green from the saw, and season it perfectly.

This mill was cutting from one of the finest tracts of virgin hardwood timber in the Orient when the Japs moved in. With this story will be found a picture showing what the butt of a big Philippine hardwood tree looks like. No other species of hardwood in the world produces so large a percentage of straight, clear lumber as these Philippine trees.

J. Raymond Peck, of Philadelphia, is president of the Insular Lumber Company. H. C. Pope was general manager at Fabrica .rvhen the Japs took possession.

WILL ATTEND STATE LEGION CONFERENCE

Fred Morehouse, Anglo California Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Benj. Ostlind, California Panel & Veneer Co., Los Angeles, and Milton Taenzer, American Hardwood Co., Los Angeles, expect to attend the State War Conference of the American Legion in San Francisco, August 16, 17 and 18.

Port Orford Cedar

(Also kaown cs Wbite Ced<rr or Lqssoa Cypress)

Crossing PlcnlsDeckingTunnel TimbersVenetian Blind Stock

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Lumber Industry Declared Essential ln Southern California

In accordance with the authority of H. R. Harnish, Deputy Regional Director for Southern California, \Arar Manpower Commission, the yarding, warehousing, remanufacturing and the wholesale and retail distribution of lumber and lumber products are hereby declared to be activities essential in Southern California.

This declaration was effective July 26,1943, lor the Southern California area, which includes the following counties: Santa Barbara, Ventura, Inyo, Mono, Kern, Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside, San Diego, and Imperial, except that this declaration shall be effective in San Diego County only after approval of the San Diego War Manpower Committee.

War Housing Construction Standards

Study of recently built residential structures throughout the Southern California area discloses some excellent examples of housing built under the current War Housing Construction Standards as promulgated by the War Production Board, which is in distinction to the unwarranted impression, in some localities, that cheap, sub-standard, undesirable housing must result, is was announced today by Wilson G. Bingham, Southern California district director, Federal Housing Administration.

"Su,ch housing, when built under FHA inspection, meets the critical requirements of war conditions, complies with required savings of critical materials, and yet produces an exceptionally comfortable, modern, desirable home," says Mr. Bingham.

Construction

In cases r,r'here specific WPB authorization is not required under Order L-41 to begin construction, CI\[P Regulation No. 5 procedures may be used to obtain required materials and products up to $500 in cost, the War Production Board pointed out.

However, CPM Regulation No. 5 procedures may not be used to get materials or products for any construction work of the type which requires authorization under Order L-41, unless the authorization specifically states that CMP Regulation No. 5 may be used.

These points are brought out in Interpretation No. 9 to CMP Regulation No. 5, issued July 29,7943.

MItE }|IGH FOREST YIELDS OUATITY PRODUCT

Red Biver's log supply comes from a region where pines hcrve cttcined cr growth of soft, even texture. Scwing, kiln-drying qnd remqnulacture are designed and opercrted lor pine oI theee chcrrqcteristics.

The luture lorest is lostered by selective logging crnd by lire prevention and suppression. These estcblished policies cre not relcrxed under pressure oI Wcr production"

. .PATIL B['IYYAI{'S" PNODUCTS Soft Ponderoscr crnd Sugcrr Pine

LI'MBER MOI'I.DING PLNffOOD VENETIAN BUIVD STATS

R. G. ROBBINS IUMBER GO.

Distributors ol Pacific Coast Forest Products

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Lookins Ahead

(Continued from I'age 21)

n'ar conditions is probably pa1-ing 81 per cent of its final dollar of earnings in income taxes to the federal government.

Take our own company's savings on this barker and chipper at Everett as an example. In a practical sense, 81 per cent cif the resulting substantial savings went to the government in 1942. In addition, to the extent that the resulting pulp was sold to the government, the other 19 per cent also was taken through the process now coming to be well known as renegotiation.

There exists today no incentive whatsoever for a colllpany like ours to risk $750,000 or any other sum of money to efiect cost reductions, to pursue research or bring out new products, except the hope that after the war the taxing power will be more gently exercised.

This company's present and post-Victory policies are entirely predicated upon a belief in a return of endurable taxes and a degree of business freedom commensurate with the responsibilities that we are willing to assume. We expect to continue to remold our plant facilities as new markets can be developed-markets that will utilize the wood now growing on the Weyerhaeuser-Klamath Tree Farm and on other similar areas.

In short, with your permission, we exPect to stay in business.

Scheduling of Softwood Plywood

Limitation Order L-l50, covering the scheduling of softwood plywood, was interpreted today by the War Production Board as requiring producers of softwood plywood to accept all orders for that product which meet their regular established prices and terms.

This condition, the interpretation holds, applies to the seller who regularly supplies only certain types of purchasers such as wholesalers, jobbers and retailers. He may reject orders from other types of purchasers only when it is practicable for such purchasers to obtain the merchandise required and in the quantity desired through regular trade channels.

\Vest Coagt Logr

Sellers of West Coast logs produced in a specific section of the Southern Oregon Tillamook District were authorized by the Office of Price Administration to charge Tillamook District prices for logs delivered at railroad heads or mill ponds in the Columbia River District.

The pricing procedure is applicable to logs produced in Lincoln County, Oregon, north of the Siletz River, and in Tillamook County, Oregon, south of a line running east and west through Hebo, Oregon.

Authorization to use Tillamook prices on deliveries to Columbia River District rail heads is given in Amendment No. 6 to Revised Maximum Price Regulation No. 161 (West Coast Logs), and becomes effective August 4, 1943.

YES SIR!

The rocrd to victory hqs not yet been pdved. Now is the time to invest thcrt extr<r dollcrr to pcnre the road to shorten the war to bring our lighters home.

ATKIilSOT.ST I'TZ GOMPANY

Lumber Deliveries -- Revised Application Form \fPB 2720

Authorization to make and accept deliveries of restricted Western lumber, required under the provisions of Limitation Order L-D0, is simplified and speeded up by the revised application Form WPB 27N (formerly PD-872) just issued by WPB's Lumber and Lumber Products Division.

The prospective purchaser is instructed in the new form to make application for delivery authorization only after he has obtained assurance from his producer that the approved purchase order can be filled.

Distribution controls established by L-N, Division officials pointed out, do not provide complete allocation of each shipment but channel supplies to the most essential needs. In carrying out this objective, applications have hitherto been denied when the ability of the producer to make shipments was not known.

The revised form also asks for the preference rating, if any, which has been authorized for the lumber requested. In the past some applicants have given the preference rating which they wished to have assigned rather than the one already assigned.

Form WPB 2720 may be filed by either the prospective receiver of the shipment or the producer. Both will be notified of action taken by WPB and authorizations will specify the time within which deliveries are to be made. In this way the producer who has earmarked a shipment for a particular purchaser will know when to ship it if the

Pacific Wood Products Corp. Plant Leased to Lockheed Aircraft Corp.

George A. J. IJoward, president and general manager of the Pacific Wood Products Corporation, announces that its plant at 3600 Tyburn Street, Los Angeles, has just been leased for a term of from three to five years to the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. This corporation required additional space and found that the plant was suitable for that purpose.

The inventory, machinery and equipment will be disposed of as rapidly as possible so that the space may be delivered to the lessee without delay.

EASTMAN URGES NO CONVENTIONS

Joseph B. Eastman, Director of the Office of Defense Transportation, has again issued a serious request to all concerned for cancellation of all conventions or group meetings not directly beneficial to the winning of the war.

IN SICILY

Jack Cooper, sentative for the gon, is with the

Los Angeles, Southern California repreRosboro Lumber Co. of Spring{ield, OreIJ. S. armed forces in Sicily.

delivery has been approved and, if it has been denied, he will be able to use the lumber for other purchase orders.

Copies of Form WPB 7720 arc obtainable at all WPB field offices and from the Lumber and Lumber Products Division in Washington.

Shevlin Pine Sales Gompany

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48-Hour !(/orkweekfor Five Southern Standard OPA Uniform Adjustable California Counties Pricing Provision

The War Manpower Commission has ordered that the counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, San Bernardino and Riverside go on a 48-hour workweek by August 22, 1943.

Lumber yards where less than eight employees are employed, including both full-time and part-time employees, are exempt. Branch yards having less than eight employees are exempt, each branch yard is considered a separate establishment. Individuals who are under 16 years of age, or individuals who are not available for full-time employment because of factors such as other employment, household responsibilities, or physical limitations, are also exempt from the order.

The order stated that an employer could request a minimum wartime workweek of less than 48 hours for specific establishments, or for certain departments or occupations therein, if the 48-hour week:

(1) Would be impossible in view of the nature of the operations of the establishment.

(2) Would not reduce the present labor force or reduce the future labor requirements of the establishment.

(3) Would conflict with Federal, State, or local la'iv or regulation limiting hours of work.

If an exemption is granted for any of these three reasons. the workweek shall be the maximum number of hours (less than 48) that is feasible.

Requests for exemption should have been made by a separate letter for each establishment (specific place of business) and filed in duplicate with the War Manpower Commission, Wartime Workweek Section, 1100 South Flower Street, Los Angeles 15, not later than August 7, 1943.

An order inserting the standard OPA uniform adjustable pricing provision in all 35 price regulations for lumber and lumber products was issued by the Office of Price Administration.

The order is titled Supplementary Order No. 50 on Adjustable Pricing in Certain Maximum Price Regulations on Lumber and Lumber Products, and became effective July 27,1943.

"There are two kinds of adjustable pricing," OPA said, explaining the standard procedure. "The first permits a buyer and seller to agree that a price in a sale shall be adjusted up to the ceiling price in effect at time of delivery if the maximum price is increased between the time of sale and delivery. No special permission from OPA is required in adjustable pricing of this kind.

"The second kind of adjustable pricing relates to readjustment of prices to the ,ceiling in effect at some time after delivery is completed. This type of adjustable pricing cannot be used without special permission from OPA.

"One situation in which OPA might approve adjustable pricing after delivery is that which exists when an industry knows that a price increase for its products is under discussion in OPA, and when shipments, as a result, might be in a state of suspense as sellers await outcome of the price discussion."

Supplementary Order 50, effective July n, 1943.

According to the order, all of the establishments within an industry could file their requests for exemption together to facilitate processing.

Further information on this program can be obtained by telephoning or writing the United' States Employment Service Office which serves you.

IAWRENGE.PHII.IPS I.UMBER GO.

UP AND DOWN THE STATE

William Erdman, yard superintendent, Pacific Coast Coal Co., San Luis Obispo, Calif., enjoyed watching his favorite baseball team, the San Francisco Seals, on his recent vacation in San Francisco.

Christ Ost, Ost Francisco visitor Oregon.

Lumber Yard, Los in the latter part of Angeles, was a San July on his way to

Seth L. Butler, San Francisco, Northern California representative of Dant & Russell, Inc., on a recent business trip took the opportunity to spend the week-end in Long Beach with his son, Lieut. Jack S. Butler, U.S.N. He was accompanied on the trip by Mrs. Butler.

Vernon Malloy, Washington, D. C., representative of California Redwood Distributors, recently spent two weeks on the Pacific Coast. He visited the mills of the members of his organization at Scotia and Samoa, Calif., and the home offices in San Francisco.

George Clough, San Pedro Lurnber Company, Los Angeles, and Mrs. Clough, left on July 31 for a two weeks' trip in Northern California and Oregon. They planned to spend a few days with Don Philips, Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and his family, who are vacationing at Redway, Calif.

H. F. Vincent, vice-president and general manager of. E. K. Wood Lumber Co., San Francisco, was back at his desk August 2 from a trip to Oregon which included visits to Portland, Klamath Falls, and the companJ"s big mill at Reedsport.

O. L. Russum, Northern California representative of Carl H. Kuhl Lumber Co., Portland, returned early in August from a trip to Portland.

Reed Hicken, United Lumber Yards, Inc., I\fodesto, made a combined business and pleasure trip to the Pacific Northwest last month. He was accompanied by his wife.

Manuel Cicogni, Hills Flat Lumber Co., Grass Valley, is now a Storekeeper in the Navy.

Don Doud, Defiance Lumber Company, Tacoma, Wash., was a recent Los Angeles visitor.

Fred H. Hartung, has returned from a

Sun Lumber Company, Beverly Hills, two weeks' trip to the Northwest.

Roy Stanton and Earle Heber, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, spent several days visiting the pine niills in Northern California.

Hugh W. Handley, sales manager, Van Arsdale-Harns Lumber Co., San Francisco, was in the Northwest for three weeks last month on business for his firm. He made his headquarters in Portland and visited Seattle, Grays Harbor and other points in Oregon and Washington.

Carl W. Watts, Oregon Lumber Sales ,San Francisco, is on a trip to Mexico, where he is looking over some timber holdings.

Gene Reynolds, who has been connected with the Weyerhaeuser Sales Company's St. Paul, Minn., office, has joined the company's sales staff at San Francisco. He succeeds Bill Freeman, who has taken a position with the War Production Board in Washington, D. C.

ROSBORO IUMBER GO.

Springfield, Oregon

Manufacturer of High Grade Kiln Dried Old Growth Douglas Fir

If,I. E. GOOPER

149 South Orcnge Dilve - Los Angeles - Telephone YlYoning 2770

1943 Hoo-Hoo All-Out Annual

International Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo announces that the 52nd Hoo-Hoo annual is put on a new, patriotic basis, and this year an unusual and different program will be put on. Instead of the usual convention held in one city, it is planned to have a 1943 Hoo-Hoo All-Out Annual with meetings throughout the United States and Canada, wherever Hoo-Hoo is organized. This means that all clubs will meet simultaneously, the same day, the same hour, all on Hoo-Hoo Day, September 9.

In addition, rvherever there are unorganized Hoo-Hoo. the individuals will be asked to meet on FIoo-Hoo Day to toast Hoo-Hoo and the Great Black Cat.

Milwaukee, the home of the Supreme Snark of the Universe and the International Secretary, will be the spearhead-the hub of all meetings, and from this central point will radiate the details, the Hoo-Hoo messages, and the Hoo-Hoo spirit, to all participating clubs, gatherings and individuals.

The program to be follou'ed will be the same for each gathering, but may be modified in detail to suit each particular group. The tentative program is as follorvs:

1. Registration of attending members.

2. A patriotic motive. By rvay of suggestion, flag presentation, singing of the National Anthem of both the United States and Canada, buglers, Boy Scouts, rePresentatives of the Armed Forces to take part, Oath of Allegiance. etc,

3. The program A, B and C.

A. One or two speakers on some dustry.

may be divided into three parts,

talks by Hoo-Hoo members or outside phase of tl're forestry or the lumber in-

B. A Hoo-Hoo business meeting, patterned after a regular convention business session, rvill constitute the second part of the program.

C. Provisions should be made to hold a concat which should be held immediately follorving the sessions above referred to. . In all cases u'here clubs have Hoo-Hoo equipment, the regular ritual should be followed. Due to not enough equipment for concats at all gatherings, a brief or modified form of concat may be held in such localities where equipment is not available.

The entertainment feature should not be overlooked. and the arrangements for the meetings are left entirely to the discretion of the members in charge of each particular gathering.

OVID BUTLER VISITS WEST

Ovid Butler, executive secretary of the American Forestry Association, Washington, D. C., has recently been on a swing through the West. He visited timber holders and tree farms in Washington and Oregon, spent some time in San Francisco, and conferred with W. S. Rose. crans, Los Angeles, rvho is president of the Association.

Procedure to Be Followed in Making Application for Dry Kiln Equipment

The War Production Board has issued a procedure directive letter regarding proper procedure to follorv in making application for dry kiln equipment.

The following is a brief explanation of the priorities situation at present regarding dry kiln equipment, and which is in line with the procedure directive'letter (CMPL-304) issued by the director of the General Industrial Equipment Division of the WPB:

When a dry kiln is installed witl,in an existing structure, such installation is not to be considered as constuction. Whenever old kilns are remodeled, Form WPB-541 (formerly PD-IA) is the correct form on which to apply.

When a customer is constructing a completely nerv kiln, including the building, then he should use Form WP8-617 (formerly PD-200).

In both cases, the dry kiln equipment purchased will be listed in the equipment section of the form as one dry kiln and the value in dollars shou'n. It $'ill not be necessary to show detailed breakdorvn of the items of dry kiln equipment, as the unit norv set up for dry kiln equipment is "dollars."

MOVES TO WHITTIER

G. W. Dow, who sold the Lone Pine Lumber & Supply Co. at Lone Pine to Rudie Henderson a feu' years ago, has disposed of the remainder of his ir-rterests in Lone Pine, including the Dow Hotel, and with Mrs. Dorv moved to Whittier where he will devote his time to his 6O acres of citrus land to rvhich he is adding an additional 20 acres.

INSECT SCREEN CLOTH

BACK PANEL COMPANY

\(/HOLESALE PLYITOODS

310-314 East 32nd Strea

LOS ANGELES

ADamg 4995

VACATIONING

Ed Tietjen, Sudden & Christenson, San Francisco, returned August 2 from vacationing on the Russian River, near Healdsburg, Calif. His vacation was made particularly enjoyable by the fact that his two sons were able to be with the family. John was on furlough from the 4th Cavalry, and Robert, supervising engineer with the General Electric Co. at La Guardia Field, New York, was also on leave from his war iob.

George Lounsberry and A. geles, have returned from a Klamath River in Humboldt

L. (Gus) Hoover, Los Anten-days' fishing trip on the County.

M. A. Harris, Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., San Francisco, is back from vacationing at Glenbrook, on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe.

Ken Shipp, California Builders spent an enjoyable vacation recently Supply Co., Oakland, at Lake Tahoe.

A. W. (Lance) Green, Union Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned July 29 from his vacation, spent at San Ysidro Ranch. Santa

Roy spent Calif.

L. t. GARR & CO,

hlifornia Svgor ond Potrdlettrc Pine

Scrles Agents For

SACRAMENTO BOX &,LUMBER CO.

MOUNT HOUGH LUMBER CO.

SACRAMENTO LOS ANGETES

P. O. Box 1282 W. D. Dunning Teletype Sc-13 438 Chcmber ol Cornrnercc lldg.

J. O. Handley, Carmel Builders Supply, Carmel, returned recently from a Southern California vacation.

E. G. (Dave) Davis, Union Lumber Co., San Francisco, left August 4 on a vacation trip to Southern California.

CI.,AS SIFIE D ADVERTI SING

COUNTER SALESMAN WANTED

Wanted-Counter salesman for old established retail yard in San Joaquin Valley. Salary S180.00. Opportunity for advancement. Give full particulars. Address Box C-1002, California Lumber Merchant, 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

LUMBER YARDS AVAILABLE

We have some lumber yards closed for the duration that are available for manufacturing purposes. Twohy Lumber Co., Lumber Yard Brokers, 801 Petroleum Bldg., Los Angeles. Telephone PRospect 87+6.

EQUIPMENT FOR RENT

1 D8 Caterpillar Tractor with angledozer.

I D8 Caterpillar Tractor with bulldozer.

E. Hills, Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco, his vacation at Menlo Countrv Club. Menlo Park.

Frank H. White, Hammond Lumber Co., San Francisco; returned to his desk August 8 from vacation.

3 50 KW ILO-?2f,-++O Volt Palmer generator sets, complete with f00 HP International Diesel motors. And other miscellaneous equipment.

Address Placer Exploration Company, 256 Montgomery Street, San Francisco 4, Calif. Telephone EXbrook 0396.

Reprercnting in Southcrn Californic: Thc Paciftc Lumber Comprny-Wcndling-Nathan Co.

5i95 VibhireBlvd., LorAnsolcr "the Personal Seroice lllan" retephone, yo* 116s

BT]YBB9S GT]IIIB SAN FBANCISCO

LUMBER

Arcata Redwood Co. 420 Markct Str€rt (ff) ,............YUkon 206?

Atkinsshtz Cmpmn rrz Markct Strset (rl) .............GArficH rE09

Christenrcn Lumber Co. Evm: Ave. and Qrint St. (Z)....VAlencia 5&li!

Dut & Rurgell, Inc211 FIut Strut (rr) .............GArfie|d@92

Dobecr & Cson l'ubc Co., Ult M.rchutr Exchusc Bldg. (l) SUttq 7{55

Gucntd & Grea Luber Co1600 Army StEt (21) ............ATwater l3ll0

Hall, Jancr Ll0,i|2 Millr Bldg. (a) ......,..........Sutter 7520

Harnmond luber Cmpmy, 117 Montgomny Stret (6) ....,...DOugla:33&l

Hobbs lltall Imber Cl., 405 MdtgoEsry St. (4) ,..........GArfield 7752

Holmcs Eureka Lubcr Co., ll05 Finucid Cenrer Bldg. (4) ....GArfield r92r

C. D. Johnn Lr'-hr Corporation, 260 Callfcnia Street (ll) ..........GArfield @5E

Carl H. KubI Lumbcr Co., O. L Rusm, U2 Market St. (rr) YUkon U60

Iamm-Bomington Compuy, ll Califmta Strc€t (rr) .GArfield 566r

LUMBER,

LUMBER

MacDmald & Hanineton, Ltd., 16 Califmia St. (rr) .............GArfield t393

Oregon hurbcr Salc (Carl W. lllatte), 975 ltlonadnock Bldc. (5) .....,.....YIJkm 1590

Pacific Ilmber Co., Iac l0 Bush Stct ({) ........,......GArficld rlEl

Popc & Talbot, Ine. Lubcr Divirion, 461 Market StEt (5) .............Douglu 256r

Rcd River L'*bcr Co3r5 Monadrek Bl&. (5) ...,......GArfte1d 0922

Suta Fc Lmbq Co. l0 Califoraia Stret (ff) ,...,....EXlbrook 2ll?4

Schafcr Bros. Lunbcr & Shlnglc Co. I Dmm Stred (rr) ..,............Sutter U?l

Shevlin Pie Salcr Co.

1030 Mmadnak Bldg. (5) .....,.,.Exbroo& ?Ml

Sudda & Chrtutmn, Inc., 3lO Sume Strt (l) ............GArfic1d 2t46

Carl W. Watb (Orcgon r -nlia Salcr), 9?5 Mmadnock Bldg. (5) ,.,.....,.YUkon 1590

Wendling-Nathil Co., ll0 Market Strut (ll) .............Suttd 5363

Wcet ()regm Lmber Co., 1995 Evus Ave. (Ul ............ATwatcr 567E

OAtrILANII

Eyaua Bc Co. (Pyruid Lmber Sales Co.)

Pactfrc Bldg. (U) ...............Glrnourt E293

Gumtm & Gren lamba Co.

zlpl Livinsrbr St. (5) ..KEllog 4-18E4

Hill & Morton, Ibc.,

Dmlon Strut Whart (7) .......ANdover lC77

Hogu Lubcr Conpany, ad sd Alle StEt! (4) .......Gl*ncourt 6851

E. K. Wood Lubcr Co.,

2fU Fred.rick Stret (6) .KEllog 2-4277

Wholerale Building Suppty, Irc.,

160Z 3Ard Street (6) ..,...TEmplebar 6961

Wholaale Lubcr Dietributorr, lnc.,

9tb Avenuc Picr (6) ..,.. ..TWinoakr 2515

LUMBER

Arcata Rcdwood Co. (J, J. Rca) 5410 Wilshirc Btvd. (36) ..........WEbster TtZl

Atkinrn-Stutz Conpmy, 62t Pctrcleu Blds. (rS) ..........PRospst {3{l

Brugh Indurtrlal Ianbcr Co., 590r S.'Central A,vc. (1) .........CEntury 2-0lEE

Bunr Lmbcr Cmpmy. l70 Sdth Bcvcrly Drlvc, (Bwrly Htllr) .........,..,...BRadrhaw 2-336E

Cm & Co- L. J. (l'lf. D. Dming), 43E Ch. of Oom. Bld:r. (rS) .......PRocpcct &,|3

Cloper, W. E., 606-60E Richfield Bldg. (xl) .......Muhnl 2r3t

Dant & Rurcll, Inc., trz E. 59th Stret (r) ...............ADamr 6101

Dolbccr & Crrrcn Lumbcr Co901 Fldcltty Btds. (r3) ............vAndike En|2

Ed. Fantaln Imbcr Ca., 62t Patrclcum Btdg. (f5) ..,......PRo.Det t3lr

Hrnnoad Lubcr Conpany, zfD So. Al.-cda SL (5{) .,.......PRocpcct 1333

Hobbr lVall hmbr Co.. 625 Rmu Bldg. (r3) ..............TRinity Sllt

Hdnc Eurcka IJnbGr Co.,

?ll-712 Architctr Btdg. (13) .......Mutual glEl

How, A. L, 5225 Wilrbire Blvd. (36) .......,....YOrk rr6t

Cul H. Kuhl Lumbcr Co., (R. S. Orgood), ?tl S. Sprhg SL (U) .......,....VAndike 603it

Rcr C. Larhley (R. G. Robblnr lubcr Co.), 7ll W. Olymplc Blvd. (rS) .......PRoepcct O2{

I:wrcacc-Philipr Lunbcr Co., Gilil Pctmlcm Bldg. (r5) .......,..PRo.pGct tU{

MrcDonrld Co., L W., ?tl W. Olyrptc Blvd. (rS) ........PRospcct ?194

MrcDonald & Herrlnrton, Ltd., Pctrolcu Bldt. (r5) .....,.....,.PRorpct 312?

Prtlfic lmba Co. Thc

5225 Wlbhlrc Blvd. (3i) ............YOrk ll6t

LUMBER

E. K. TV@d luber Co., I Drum Strst (ff) ..........,.,.,EXbrooL 37fC

Wcyerhreurer Sabr Co; l{9 Cdifmia Str..t (rr) .........G4rfidd t971

HARDWOODS AND PAIIEI.S

Wbitc Brcthcn,Fifth ald Bramm Str6tr (?) .....Sutter 1365

CREOSOTED LUMBER-POLES'PILING-TIES

Americu Lunber & TrGating Co., 116 New Montgoncry Stret (5) .....SUtter 1225

Burs, J. H. & Co., A:It MoDttomery Str€et (4) ........DOuglas 3tE3

Hall, Jus I-, lqtz Milb Blds. (4) .................SUttcr ?520

Popc & Talbot, Inc., Lmber Diwicion' i6f MtrLGt Strut (5) .............DOuslat 2501

Vm&r Laan Pillng & Lunber Co., 216 Pinc Strot (4) ...........'..Er(brok 4905

Wendling-Nethu Co., rl0 Markct Stret (U) ,.....,.......Sutter 5:16ll

PAI\[ EIJ-DOORTSASH_SCRE ENS

Callfmia Buildcre Supply Co., ?00 6th Avcm (4) ....,.............Hlgare 6016

Hocu l$bcr Cmpuy, ard ud Alla Strutt (l) ...'.'.Gl:nourt 6861

Wcdm Dor & Sarh Coo Stb & Cyprcs Str*t! (?) ......TEmplebar El00

HARDWOODS

Strablc Hardrood CompanY, Ffu.t and CIav Strctr (7) .....TEmplebu 55t{

Whitc Brothcr:' 5ltO High Stret (r) .............'ANdovcr 16O

LOS ANGBLDS

LUMBER

Pcnberthy lubcr Ca.'

2065 Eaci Slst St. (tl) ........KImbaU sru

Popc & Tablot, Inc., Lumbcr Divfulon

714 W. Olympic Btvd. (r5) ......PRorpect tZll

Rcd River lambcr Co.,

?@ E. Shuto (fr) ,.............CEntury200?l

IGrl S. Bmdray (rO ...,.........PRosFct 0illl

Su Pcdro Luber C,o.,

rSrE S. C6trd Avc. (2r) ,, ,.. ..Rlchmond llll

fEo-A w'ilmlrgtoo Rord (San Pcdrc) ,....,....,.........3m Pcdrc zO

Sdrtr F. Lubcr Co..

3ll Finffiirl Centir Bldg. (r1) ..VAndiLc fi7r

Schafcr Brce. Lubcr & Shllgt Co. rr7 W. grh Skr.t (r5) .............TRinity lztl

Shwlin Pinc Salct C.o.,

3ll Pctrclm Bldg. (r5) ....,.,...PR4pGd 615

9tmpto Indudrict, Inc., fora E. Warhirston Blvd. (2r) ..,PRdpet 6ltil

Stutorr E. J. & Son,

2lE0 E. ll.t St. (rr) .'..........CEntury 29zll

Srd&n & Chrlrtemn' lnco Gn Board ol Tra& BldS, (ll) .....TRinlty EE4l

Teoma Lunbcr Salcr,

1Il7 Pctrolaun Bldg. (rS) .........PRospcct 1l0t

Wcndling-Netbu Co.

5225 Wilrblro Blvd. (36) ..............YOrk u6t

Wcst ()rcgm Lmbcr Co., l? Pctrolcun Bldg. (rS) .,.,.....Rlchnond 02tr

W' W. Wilklnon,

3lE W. gth Str.Gt (r5) .....,....,.TRin|ty {613

Weyerhus Salcs CL, lrrg W. M. Gulud Bldg. (r5) ...Mlchlsu 635a

E. K. Wood Luba Co. {?ft SD. Alamcda SL (51) ..,....JEficrron 3ll1

CREOSOTED LUMBER-POLESPILING-TIES

Arucrlru lJnb.r & 1t66+lnt Cor lUtl S. Bmdrny (f5) ..........,..PRo.Fct 4363

Butcr, J. H. e Co.. 6tl WGrt sth Slr.Gt (l3) ..........Mlchlgu 6i!94 Popo & Tdbot, lnc., Lunbar Divfulm, ?ll W. Olymplc Blvd. (r5) .....PRopet 6231

*Postoffice Zone Number in Parenthesis.

HARDWOODS

Amsican Hardwmd Co.' rgee E. lsth Strcct (54) .........PRolD€ct 4235

BruCr Inductrial Lmber Ca. 5901 S. Cmtral Avc. (r) ........'CEntury 2-Ot6t Stetm, E. J. & Son' E0 Eut llst Stret .(fr) .......CEntury 2l2tf

Wertem Hardwood Lubs Cq, 20ll Eart 15th Strcet (55) .......PRoocct 616r

SAI;H-DOORS_MIIJWORK-SCREENS_ BLINDS-PANEI.S AND PLYWOODIRONING BOARDS

BacL Pusl Cmpany' 310-314 Eart 3hd Strut (ll) .ADanr 1225

Callfornia Dmr Conpany, Thc

P. O. BG 126, Vem Station (ll) Klmbal 2r4r

CaXlmia Panal & Vmer Co-

P. O. Box 2110. Tcrninal

Auq (91) .....TRinitY 015?

Cobb Co- T. Msso Ccatral Avouc (ll) ...........ADaru llu?

EubrDL & Son, Inc., L H. (Inglcwood) {33 W. Redondo Btvd. .....'....,.ORGaoD t-2255

Hdey Bro. (Suta Montca) ..1620 r4th StrcGt ....................AShlcy 1-26t

Kochl Jno. W. & Son'

652 S. MyGrr StrGGt (A) ..........AN3e1o tl91

Orcson-Washirltm Plvwood Co.'

3iS w.3t Nlnth strut (r5) .......TRinity 4613

Paclfic Wood Pro&rctr ConDratloD'

36lF Tyburn Srrmt (26) .........'Albuy arar

Pactfic Mutual Doa Co-

166 E. llfaAlnglon Blvd. (2f) ..PRo!p.ct 9523

Rau Compuy, G.o. E '

235 S. AtrEGdr Str.Gt (f2) ....'Mlchtgar f$a

Rcd Rlvcr Lunbar Co,

?@ S. Slaurn (1f) ,...'...' ..CEbtrry aotf Supn Co. (Psradma),

?{5 Sc Rrymnd Ava. (2) ...."...RYu 1-G039

Slnprm Indurtric, Inc.

r6ta E, Wuhinsrton Blvd. (2f) ...PRdFct ar8

Wct Cort Sro Co., tus Eart 63rd Str6t (r) ........ADru ffll

Watcm Mill & Moldlnr Co., 59al lll Wotra Avc. (ll) ....TWimLr llt|

.ooooountil he gets home cgoin

Before he joined the Marines he had a good job. He liked his work, had been promoted twice, knew the front ofrce thought well of him, felt his chances for advancement wefe good. That was his groove in the good old U. S. A.

Then came Poland and Pearl Harbor. An Austrian paranoiac with a phoney name and an oriental nation of ritualistic savages had set out to murder their way to world supremacy. This boy answered, "Not without a fight, they won't," said good-bye to his job, and joined up.

Today he:s standing sentinel in the South Pacific; tomorrow he'll be shooting frorn a fox hole; next week, attacking from a landing barge . rfar cry from the safety of his old iob and all it meant to

him, but with his gun. . . ind a grin . he's doing this job well, too.

Vhat has our job to do with his? It has the obligation and responsibility to see that there is enough lumber to build ships to supply him; enough to package the fighting cargoes of those ships; enough to build plenty of sub-chasers and convoy escorts to protect those ships in short, enough to deliver everything he needs to win.

That's the pattern cut out for the lumber industry. And, because it takes so much of all each manufacnrrer can produce, that's why there will be so little lumber for civilian use until we can bring him home again to take up his old iob, right where he left off.

(Donl ftgpt ,k rlrr norc War Botdt oll 4 vs buy, tfio rconor wo'll got ,nn horrlrj.

BRADIEY tUmBER COilPAilY of ARKAIrSAS

WARREN, ARKANSAS

In the hearts of America's men and women lie the plans for sevefal million new homes at peacetime.

Your skill and ours will be called uPon to build these "Dream Homes" quickty beautifully. sturdily... and safe.

Meanwhile, it's war! The Schumite Products formedy diverted to you for normal trade and for warehouse stocks, are now mosdy used for monthly installation on projects of the Army, Navy, Maritime, as well as aiding construction for the F. P. H. A. and F. H. A.

But, with peace, the dependable Schumite Products will return to full production for you-then' we'll build better homes together!

NE\r HARDWOODS

We have had to put forth a lot of volving much traveling and diligent experts, for new sources ol supply those shut off by the war.

insearch bv to replace

\7e have been successful in locating new hardwoodg in Central and SouthAmerica that will remain permanent additions to our stocks.

THE CALIFOR}.IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

JackDionne. puiltdrn

How Lumbcr Loolcs

Seattle, Washington, August 10, 1943-The weekly average of West Coast lumber production in July (4 weeks) was 153,373,000 board feet, or 101.0 per cent of 1939-1942 average, according to the West Coast Lumbermen's Association in its monthly survey of the industry. Orders averaged 161,560,000 board feet; shipments, 158,424,000. Weekly averages for June were: Production, I63,779,W board feet (107.5 per cent of the 1939-1942 acerage) ; orders, 174,476,O00; shipments, 165,502,000.

Thirty weeks of 1943, cumulative production, 4,499,479,00O board feet; 30 weeks, 1942-5,401,012,000; 30 weeks, 1941-4,995;705,000.

Orders for 30 weeks of 1943 break down as follows: rail, 3,656,388,000 board feet; domestic cargo, 412,3,8,000; export, 87,269,000; local 594,635,000.

The industry's unfilled order file stood at 1,102,840,000 board feet at the end of July; gross stocks at 5M,262,M.

The war demand for West Coast lumber continues with no substantial change. One-half of all production is going directly into war channels through Central Procurement office, and a considerable share of the balance is finding its way into various types of lvar production. No decline in demand is in prospect with the war in its present stage.

Most encouraging development in July was the gain of 78 million feet in tidewater 1og inventory, coupled with the 115 million-foot gain over immediate mill requirements for May and June. This is slightly under a third of the .700 million feet needed by summer's end to carry mills through

probably seasonal gaps this winter. The log inventory gain is due in part to the fact that many mills have been giving crews vacation with pay, encouraged by WPB.

Biggest headache in lumber industry continues to be the critical shortage of manpower. In early July there was a slight gain in number employed, but this fell off in late July. fnroads by Selective Service and other war in{ustries has been serious, and manpower shortage remains the No. 1 problem of the industry today.

Lumber and log production in next three months, when log production should be at peak, will be governed entirely by available supply of skilled men. Today several mills are suffering curtailed production because of shortage of men, and some report possibility of complete shutdown unless situation eases. Log inventory must be built up by the end of October when heavy weather curtails many logging operations.

Overall lumber production continues to lag about 7 per cent weekly behind 1942 figarcs, and about 17 pet cent behind for the year, the early spring floods and storms accounting for this production loss.

The Western Pine Association for the week ended August 14,99 mills reporting, gave orders as 69,377,ffiO feet, shipments 81,208,000 feet, and production 92,ffi9,000 f.eet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 435,153,000 feet.

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?/QTHER; rs A SHOR,TAGE OF R,ED CEDAR, SHINGLEIi

I The shifting of manpower to war iobs and the armed forces

2 The imperative demand for Certigrade shingles for essential war housing

3 An unusually bad winter for logging

4 The substitution of Cedar iot itozen lumber, and the use of Cedar logs for pulP

Insofar as the war permits, the manufacturers of Certigrade Shingles are striving to maintain an equitable distribution among their dealer friends. RED'CEDAR SHINGIE aUnglu, Seattle, U. S. A., rnd Vancouver, B. C., Canade.

TH'S 'S OUR WARLET'S F'GHT 'T NOWI

Timber Production \(/ar Project Launched bv WPB

To help stimulate the output of lumber, veneer logs, pulpu'ood, and other forest products urgently needed for war, a special Timber Production War Project is being Iaunched by the War Production Board and cooperating agencies, it was announced recently.

The project will be under the general direction of J. Philip Boyd, Director of WPB's Lurnber and Lumber Products Division. It will be administered in the field bv the U. S. Forest Service.

Critical shortages of wood for many war uses make it imperative that the greatest possible production from the forests, consistent with proper forest conservation practice, be obtained. It is reported, for example, that unless additional production of boxing and crating lumber is obtained, transoceanic shipnrent of essential war equipment vitally needed at the fighting fronts may be seriously delayed.

"The setting up of this project does not mean that we will enter into the cutting and milling business," Mr. Boyd stated. "This program is designed to stimulate production in existing facilities that are not operating at full capacity. In the eastern half of the country there are 7,500 smaller mills, many of which are now idle much, if not all, of the time and which have an annual average cut of less than 100,000 board feet. While their individual capacity is small, their numbers make them an important factor in meeting wartime lumber products requirements. The project will deal with all owners and operators, large and small, in need of lssistance."

The projec_t, as approved by the participating agencies, is designed to: bring together stumpage owners and operators; help operators obtain needed logging and mill equipment, repair parts, trucks and tires; give technical advice on

LYLE VINCENT, JR., WITH SEABEES

Lyle S. Vincent, Jr., is now with the Navy Seabees ai Camp Peary, Va. He is a son of Lyle S. Vincent, Sr., manager of the San Francisco office of West Oregon Lumber Co. Lyle, Jr., is also a lumberman, having been with West Oregon Lumber Co. for three years at their mill at Linnton, Oregon.

Mr. Vincent's other son, Robert, is a I-ieutenant in the Army Air Corps.

logging, milling methods and devices; cooperate with War Manpower Commission in locating, recruiting and training manpower; assist in cost and production analyses; give advice on financing of operators, and provide help in investigating the need for access roads. The project also will cooperate with Selective Service and OPA on all problems affecting production.

The U. S. Forest Service will administer the project through its three eastern regions-Eastern, Southern and Lake States-with headquarters at Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Milwaukee, respectively. The project, implemented by an agreement between WPB and the Forest Service, is designed to stimulate production of log and forest products in the area east of the prairies. It is to be financed primarily by WPB with personnel and additional funds contributed by the Forest Service, the Agricultural Extension Service and other forestry agencies in the several participating states.

The project foresters and woodsmen will rvork in close cooperation with all interested Federal and state agencies, with state forestry organizations, county agricultural services, other local organizations, lumber industry in general, and with labor. It is believed that needed products can be obtained without destructive cutting that would jeopardize future productivity of the forests, WPB said.

Lumber advisers attached to some of the WPB regional and district offices have been carrying on work along similar lines. Mr. Boyd commended them highly; holvever, their limited number has made it impossible for them to give the intensive and widespread assistance that will be provided, to augment their efforts, by this new Timber Production War Project. Close cooperation rvill be maintained between field forces of the WPB and the Forest Service.

East Bay Club Meets Sept. 13

The first dinner meeting of East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 following the vacation season will be held at Hotet Leamington, Oakland, on Monday evening, September 13.

The principal business of the meeting will be the electiorr of officers and directors for the coming year. There will also be an entertainnient program.

Southern Hardwood Prices Increased

An increase of $6 per 1,000 board {eet, in the maximum prices of all standard grades and items of southern hardwood board lumber has been announced by the Office of Price Administration. This increase which affects slight1y over 90 per cent of the Southern hardwood production' will add $5.50 per 1,00O board feet, or 14.5 per cent to mill realizations.

The higher prices are authorized' in Amendment No. 8 to revised Maximum Price Regulation No. 97 Southern Hardwood Lumber, and became effective August 2I,1943.

The increases are the first general increases granted for Southern hardwood since ceilings were established in February, 1942, and are given to compensate mills for increased production costs since that date'

The markups are applicable to all standard grades and items, but not to construction boards, lvhite oak and red oak structural stock or sound square edge material, or to white or red oak freight car stock, common dimension, mine car lumber, or to special grades and items for which maximum prices have been established for particular mills under the regulation's pricing provisions.

New Ceiling Prices for Oak Flooring

Oak flooring was given specific dollars-and-cents maximum prices by the Office of Price Administration August 23.

They are contained in Maximum Price Regulation No. 458, and became effective August 28,1943.

Previous ceilings for oak flooring were established under the General Maximum Price Regulation for individual producers and were the highest prices the individual sellers charged during the month of. Mar'ch, 1942.

The nerv dollars-and-cents prices, in substance, reflect the average level of prices charged by the industry under the General Maximum Price Regulation, and will cause no essential ,change in the current price level, OPA said.

\fPB Estimates 1942 Lumber Production

Washington, August l7.-Lumber production in 7942 totaled 36,,101,895,000 board feet according to revised estimates issued today by the War Production Board.

Chief producing areas in 1942, with a breakdown of their total production figures: North Pacific, II,456,542,000 board feet; South, tO,928,264,00O board feet; Central Pine (North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), 4,016,467,000 board feet; Central States, 2,6LO,242,0ffi board feet; South Pacifrc,2,329,74O.000 board feet; Northern Rocky Mountain, 1,363,509,000 board feet; Lake States, 1,246,764,m board feet, and New England, 1p36,263,000 board feet.

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"Pcul Bunycn's" kihils crt Westwood turned oul 221 million leet oI lumber in 1942. Mcrnufacture cnd delivery ccrn thus be ccrrried on crt cr stecrdy rate the yecr round.

Research and its resulting improvements crre giving Red River better lcrcilities cnd "kno'w-how" Ior postwcrr service. .PAT'L BTII{YAN'S" PRODUCTS

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The above is the inscrr$.J"J. bronze tablet at Austin, Texas, immortalizing the University of Texas boys who fell in World War One. As the casualty lists of World War Two keep growing and spreading their sadness over the land, our loyal pcople will turn with some degree of comfort to such sentiments as those above, which appty so exactly to our boys of today.

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Speaking of the work the home army is doing to help win the war, Mr. \l[|. C. Mullendore, a California business man, recently uttered these fine thoughts: .'Our industrial production could far outstrip that of the Axis because free men in America, over a century and a half, had developed not only mechanical and electrical power and surpassing skill in its use, but greater self-reliance, courage, and enterprise, more boldness and more resourcefulness than the world evcr bcfore has seen within one nation."

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Senator George, of Georgia, recently made a speech to the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, in which he brilliantly described free enterprise, as follows: ..The circle is simple: The system lives upon the savings of the people; those savings are available only if industry can offer an attractive inducement; and hope of profit after taxes is the sound incentive. But the circle is also fragile; it is broken perhaps beyond repair, if taxes destroy all hope of profit. When the circle is broken, then free enterprise cannot function, and the government steps in."

It is, therefore, not only the so-called capitalist who is interested in free enterprise. The worker is just as much interested. FIe saves something for a "rainy day,,' then wants to use it to produce some revenue. So he invests it in safe securities. But securities that pay no return are as useless as a savings bank account, where they no longer pay interest. He could invest his savings in government securities, of course, but if the time ever comes in this land when only government securities are safe investments and

pay returns, then free enterprise will be dead, and the American people will live in a socialistic state, instead of the free democracy that Washington et al founded.

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Every time I look at a picture of Douglas MacArthur, I think of what Shakespeare said about one of his heroes: "He is a soldier fit to stand with Caesar, and give directions." Surely he is one of the most inspiring military figures, in the purely physical sense, that has ever fought beneath the Stars and Stripes. It requires no psychic sense to realize how easily an army would follow such a man to the cannon's mouth, though armed only with peashooters.

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I particularly resent the frequently printed declaration that our American detcrmination to win the war might sag if there were indications of early enemy collapse. I wonder if men who make that suggestion stop to think what a poor compliment that is to our American people? It makes you wonder if a lot of the folks who are doing such talking and writing, have ever rcad American history. Americans fight best when they fight with enthusiasm, ahd they don't quit, whether it be an uphill or downhill battle. The greatest spur to American fighting spirit would be to say-"They're cracking men !"

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It is not alone the high incomc group that get caught by the income taxes. I saw a listing the other day made by a tax expert, which showed that there are 148 separate taxes on a pair of overalls, and 52 on a loaf of bread. Even in these days of high direct taxes, the indirect or hidden taxes still take a whale of a bite out of every dollar spent by John Citizen. *t*

If you don't believe the old saytng that "nothing succeeds like success," consider the case of one Adotph Hitler. Just one short year ago the military commentators and authorities the world over hailed him as an outstanding military genius. "Mein Kampf" was the most discussed piece of literature, its every page being digested and commented upon by the commentators. Today they say Hitler is a bum, a military punk, a literary jerk, who is on his way out and will never be heard from again. The case of Mussolini is difrerent. Few authorities ever gave him credit for out-

"O happy death, when the debt due to nature is paid for one's country first and foremost. Short is the life given by nature; but the memory of a life nobly surrendered, is eternal."

standing ability of any sort. But while it regarded his works with horror, the world spoke of Hitler's genius with conviction. Today it throws rocks at him. Another step down the ladder and there will be "none so poor as to do him honor." From the top to oblivion will probably be a much shorter trip for the little man with the mustache, than from the painter's ladder to the top.

I have torn up half a d:r; sleets of paper on which I had tried to express my opinion of the oil and gasoline Czar, Mr. fckes, and his rgcent lordly ordering of the driving affairs of this great nation. ft's no use. You can't do justice to that subject, and send it through the mails. But I thought I would remind you that up in Canada the gasoline ration allowance is much higher than in this country, there is no ban on pleasure driving, AND THEY GET THEIR GASOLINE FROM US. Does that make you any happier?

"Editor & Publisher,"*irr*diJ"ussing home economics, tells about the town where butter was particularly scarce, and the young man that decided he'd make his own. So he bought a pint of heavy cream, put it in 4 jar, and went to shaking it. Finally a little butter rose to the top. He gathered it up, washed it in ice water, salted it, and finding it was very pale in color, he added some food coloring. He got some of the stuff on his suit and shirt. When he weighed

the little roll of butter he found it weighed less than oneeighth of a pound, and counting all the costs and cleaning, the stuff cost $16.50 a pound. So he went out and bought a pound of oleo. Guess lots of Victory gardeners and chicken raisers have had something like that experience.

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During the Civil War newspapers were so expensive and so scarce that people of modest means could not afford them, and people used to read them in groups in the post office, courthouse, and other public places. Some difference between the war news service then and now ! What with the daily papers, the radio, camera, lightning news reporting, and special columns and wires hot off the battle field, the war is brought right to our doors, not once but many times daily. Especially that radio ! What a world this is !

The head of one of the big synthetic rubber plants that is already turning out tires in the South is quoted as saying that there is no doubt but that the synthetic rubber industry will continue in full blast after the war. He is certain it will be a permanent industry. He says that they will be able to make tires out of synthetic rubber that will be entirely puncture-proof, and will last as long as the life of a car, and do other things with the synthetic product that they have never succeeded in doing with natural rub-

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THE MOST IMPORTAI{T WAR IIIDUSTRY

.I PERSONAITY CONSIDER TIIE II'MBEB IIIIDUSTNY fiIE Mosr IMPORTAT{I wAR II{DUsrnY IN TIIE coItNTBy. Ir pro- vides the wherewithcl lor troop housing, for the constructio-n of shilx'_mcnulccturin_g plgnts, cnd hospitals. And, rincrly, no ccceptcrble substitute has been devised to box, pcrck crnd &cne the cmrmunition, the bombs, the torpedoes, the guns, the tcnrks, the automotive equipment, the lood, the clothing, the other impedi- mentq oI wcrr necesscry to_get to the ligrhting fronts not orly to properly equip our lorces, but to kill the enemy."

(Ertrrct froyt, rgcer*^speech by _col. F. c. sh.errill, chiel ol the Materials and Eqwipment Sectior4 Opera,tions tr:ft;fi2:ffion' Dioision'ol the U. S;. Cirps

(Continued from Page 9) ber. So far as the greater cost of the synthetic rubber is concerned, he calls attention to the fact that the poorestpaid most poverty-stricken laborers on earth were the rubber workers in the British and Dutch islands of the \tt/estern Pacific. If, after the war, we fulfill our promises to extend freedom from want and decent wages and living conditions to the workers of those climes, natural rubber will cost as much as synthetic; that it is the ten cents a day wages paid laborers on the rubber plantations that made the cost of natural rubber tires so low. They won't be any more; or shouldn't, at any rate.

And now, friends "rra r.iroJ "rtrr.rr", we are about to try another novelty in government; taxation by expectation' It has never been tried or even thought of-before in all the tide of times. Taxing a man on his property is almost as old as property itself. Taxing a man for what he makes has been with us for a generation, and is generally understood and approved. But, come September fifteenth this year of our Lord, we're going to start taxing people for what they expect to make four months in advance; and we're going to collect those taxes in advance. That's where the novelty comes in.

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If you are single and make over $2,700 a year, or married and make over $3,500 a year, you become one of the taxation by expectation group. On or before September fifteenth you must file an income tax report for the year that will be just two-thirds over. You must show in this report not only what you have earned to that date, but likewise you are compelled to estimate what you are going to make between then and the last day of the year; and you must pay the tax, not only on what you have earned but also on what you expect to earn. That's why I call it taxation by expectation.

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Being human and therefore subject to the laws that rule humanity, you may die before the ink on the report is cold' Many will do iust that. That would make your report decidedly inaccurate. Or something may happen in the way

of illness or accident that lays you up for the rest of the year, thus knocking your estimate of your earnings all out of kilter. You and your family may incur great medical expense before the year ends, which is deductible. It will happen to many. Or, you may suffer heavy financial losses for the rest of the year, instead of gains. All such things can-and to many, will-happen. Contrariwise' you malr strike money-making opportunities in some way during the balance of the year, and gleatly upset your September estimate. If that happens you will probably have to Pay the government a penalty for under-guessing. Nevertheless the law says that you are compelled to indulge in prognosticating, in prophecying, in sooth-saying about the future. And you must n"t 1,TT your guesses.

I highly approve of the pay-as-you-go system of income tax collection. But when I consider the mechanics of this new law we are now struggling with, I am appalled. No wonder thinking men threw rocks at it from every direction when it first came out of the legislative hopper last spring. Taxation without representation filled Boston harbor with good old English tea a long time ago; inspire{ Paul'Revere to founder a good saddle horse; and caused many a patriotic American eye to glance down a musket barrel until they saw redcoats in front of the muzzles at Bunker Hill. But what about taxation on expectation? Friends, what a mess of strange and laborious bookkeeping that new thought is going to engender in the next few months ! As this is written millions of willing taxpayers are scratching their heads trying to figure out the mechanics of compliance with this law (especially in community property states), and only getting a headache for their pains thus far. It will work out, of course; but what a job ! The fellow I feel sorry for right now is the treasury employee who has to try and answer so many apparently unanswerablequestions.

"Coming in on a wing and a prayer" is a popular song that has brought much joy to music lovers. But coming in on a rim with no spare-Boy! Try and find any happiness in that!

Lumbermen to Play Gol[ on Hoo-Hoo D.y Sept. 9

A11 lumbermen and sash, door and millwork men are invited to attend the Hoo-Hoo golf tournament and dinner at the Southern California Golf & Country Club (Midwick). Monterey Park, on Thursday, September 9. Tee off will be at 1?:09 p.m., and there will be a big steak dinner at 7:39 p.m., followed by high class musical entertainment.

Those who do not play golf can attend the dinner, and for them there will be a special door price ol a $25.00 War Bond.

There 'ivill be many valuable prizes for the golfers, including two Hoo-Hoo golf cups.

In accordance with the plan of the International Order of Hoo-Hoo for the celebration of Hoo-Hoo Day, September 9.

HARDWOOD MEN ATTEND CONFERENCE

J. E. Higgins, Jr., J. E. Higgins Lumber Co., San l.'rarrcisco, and Dallas Donnan of Ehrlich-Harrison Co., Seattle, left San Francisco August 26 on a business trip. They will call on hardwood lumber and flooring mills in the Middle West and South. and will attend the war service confer'ence and annual meeting of the National Hardlvood Lumber Association at Chicago, September 16 and 17.

IN AUSTRALIA

Maurice L. Euphrat, Jr., 18 year old son of Maurice L. (Duke) Euphrat, Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco, is now with the U. S. Army in Australia.

this tournament and dinner meeting has been arranged by the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club, of which George E. Ream is president.

Dee Essley, Vicegerent Snark for the Southern California district, is chairman of the committee handling the affair. The other members are: LeRoy Stanton, Andy Donovan, Ed Bauer, Orrin Wright, Gene De Armond, Harvey \A/. Koll, Hervey Bowles, A. B. (Bert) McKee, W. B. Wickersham, R. S. (Bob) Osgood, W. T. Black.

Bob Osgood is chairman of the membership committee.

An appeal is being made by the committee to all the old cats in the district, asking them to reinstate their membership in Hoo-Hoo.

STOCKTON LUMBER COMPANY SOLD

The old established yard of the Stockton Lumber Company, Stockton, has been sold to new owners. Elmore W. King of King Lumber Company, Bakersfield, is president, and A. J. Russell, Santa Fe Lumber Compar,y, San Franisco, is secretary of the new concern.

IN THE ARMY

John Osgood, son of Bob Osgood, Los Angeles wholesale lumberman, is in the army and with the A-12 Army Specialized Training Program, and is stationed at Fort McClellan, Amiston, Alabama. John just completed his first year at the University of California at Berkeley.

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Quiet in New York

A young American soldier who had been wounded in the Africa fighting, was ordered home as soon as he was fit to travel. Being from the middle west and never having seen New York City, the news that he was to be landed in New York brought him a big thrill. To him New York had always meant something highly exciting, glamorous, with great crowds of interesting people rushing hither and yon.

But they landed in New York on a Sunday morning, and when our young soldier hurried to the heart of the city to see the wonderful sights he had anticipated, he got a let-down that was shocking. Fifth Avenue was just a street, and a practically deserted street. There was no motor traffic but an occasional taxicab. Broadway was no better.

There was nothing noisy, exciting, or glamorous. So far as he was concerned it looked like Podunk, only bigger. So he walked up to a big Irish cop on the corner, and said to him:

"Officer, is this really New York City?"

The cop said: "Sure is, soldier. Why?"

So the boy told him of his great anticipations and expectations, and what a terrific disappointment he was having, New York City not being anything like what he had hoped for. The cop said:

"Well, soldier, I'll tell you. It's kind of a bad time. Sunday morning, you see. All the Catholics are in church. All the Protestants are in bed. And all the Jews are in Washington."

With Tacoma Lumber Sales

W. J. (Jack) Ivey, who has been rvith the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau for 18 years, will become a member of the sales staff of Tacoma Lumber Sales, Los Angeles, September 1. For the past nine years Jack has covered the 11 \Mestern states, including California, and since 1939 has paid most attention to the Southwestertr states, spending the greater part of his time in California. As a result of his work he has a large acquaintance with retail lumber dealers in California and throughout the West. He has made his home for the past several years in North Hollywood.

Cadwallader-Gibson Co. Liquidating

Cadwallader-Gibson Co., Inc., Los Angeles, manufacturers and importers of Philippine hardwoods, announce that their business is being liquidated for the duration.

Precision Kiln Drying Company, with main offices at 621 So. Spring Street, Los Angeles, has leased and is operating the Long Beach dry kilns and mill, and the Los Angeles dry kilns of Cadwallader-Gibson Co.

Principals in the Precision Kiln Drying Company are Roy Barto, J. W. Mcleod, and George Beckman.

Roy Barto continues to operate as an importer of hardwoods from South and Central America and Mexico, with offices at 621 So. Spring Street.

LUMBERMAN'S SON ON FURLOUGH

Earl K. Carlson, son of Earl Carlson, Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco, is spending a 30-day furlough with his parents. He is with the Navy's Amphibious Forces, and took part in the landing in Sicily. He will report for duty again soon somewhere in Virginia.

Earl's other son, James R. Carlson, is in India n'ith tl"rc Army Ferry Command. HARDWOODS (FOREIGN

Douglos Fir Plywood INVASION BAR,GES mqde for United Ncrtions!

O Add invosion borges to ihe long list of wor iobs Douglos Fir Plywood is doing. This sturdy, lightweight engineered lumber is being used for lronsporlotion equipment of oll kinds, for militory ond wor worker housing, for foctory construclion ond scores of oiher purposes. Becouse of this wide ond voried experience, you're sure to find Douglos Fir Plywoodone of your most useful posf-wor construction moteriols.

O Herc's onothcr typc of plywood borgcofficiolly lnown os o lighter-buili by Higgins Induslrios, Inc., of New Orleons. Sider qnd dccts of th$c 18x64foot borgcs orc covcrcd wilh 2 loyers of ft-inch Extcrior-type Douglos Fir Plpood. This Mirqcle Wood oddr rigidity, i: quickly opplicd ond cosily rcpoired if domogcd.

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thc Douglor Fir Plywood Indurfqf ir drvoting itr on tlr. copqcity lo wor productlon. Wcknowfhlrpo. grom hor your opprovol.

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Scores of ocluol photogrophs show plyrood's busywor corcer. Write Douglor Fir PlywoodAssociotion, Tocono 8ldg,, Tocomo, Woshington for YOUR copy.

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Here uill be listeil, lrom ksuc to issue, names ol men lrom the lumber ht' dustry uho haoe cntereil war sernice, in any branch ol the armcil forccs. Please scnd in thc names ol ony lumbermdn you knou ol that uc can lkt hcrc.

E. J. LaFranchi, Hill & Morton, Inc., Oakland ....Navy

Charles B. White, White Brothers, San Francisco Navy

C. M. (Chuck) Flanagin, King Lumber Company, Delano, Calif. ....Naval Air Force

John Vosmek, Dant & Russell, Inc., Portland........Navy

Ilorace R. Williams, West Oregon Lumber Co., San Francisco .. ......Navy

Bovard Shibley, Union Lumber Co., San Francisco..Army

Manuel Cicogni, Hills Flat Lumber Co., Grass Valley ... .Navy

Lyle S. Vincent, Jr., West Oregon Lumber Co., Portland Navy Seabees

CALLS ON MILLS

A. M. Charter, manager of Wholesale Builcling Supply. fnc., wholesale lumber and building material dealers, Oakland, returned August 2O from a trip to Northrvest anrl Northern California sawmills.

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207th Terrible Twenty Golf Tournament

Eddie Bauer, Bohnhoff Lumber Co., Los Angeles, was host to about twenty members and guests of the "Terrible Twenty Tournaments" at the regular monthly tournament held at Hacienda Country Club, August 12, at which "Most Terrible" Bob Falconer won the handsome gold filled trophy put up as first prize. It turned out a great day for Bobs, with Bob Osgood taking second prize. Scores were: Falconer 88-18-70; and Osgood 80-9-7I. Art Harff, Nickey Bros., Los Angeles, woll the guest prize, r.r'hich the donor termed a "doggy" sweater.

In the match play, first flight, Bob Osgood won with a bye; Roy Stanton, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, defeated Frank Berger 1 up; Eddie Bauer defeated Helmer Hoel, Claremont Lumber Co., Claremont, Calif., 4/3; and Clarence Bohnhoff, Bohnhoff Lumber Co., defeated Geo. Lockwood, J. C. Niederer Co., Los Angeles, on the 21st hole. In the second flight Vic Jones defeated Bill Broxholme 1 up; Hervey Bowles, Long-Bell Lumber Co., Los Angeles, defeated Earl Heber, E. J .Stanton & Son, 5/4; and Gene De Armond, Pacific Cabinet Co., Los Angeles, defeated George Gartz I up.

Winners of the annual trophies for medal and match play during the past 12 months rvere: Helmer Hoel (Radio) ; Bob Osgood (War Bonds) ; Sid Alling (Fly Rod); Roy Stanton (Smoking Set); Bob Falconer (Dining Table); and De Witt Clark (War Bond).

Frank Berger will be host at the next tournament, to be held at Oakmont Golf Club in September.

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Dickman Lumber Company

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Vancouver Plywood & Y eneer Co. PLYWOOD

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Tacoma Harbor Lumber Co.

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Peterman Manufacturing Co.

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Eatonville Lumber Company

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QUALITY STUCCO

Becquse of the high stcrndords of stucco crcltsmcrnship mqintcrined through post yeors, cgencies engoged in housing ond other wcr construction todoy Iook to stucco qs ct meons of securing good ctppeqrqnce ond durobility with economY.

Protect this quolity reputotion, ond gucnontee the luture ol stucco by seeing thot only portlcrnd cement or wcrterprool portlcnd cement is used for oll coots-mixed, opplied cmd cured occording to crpproved methods.

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WPBAction Makes More Softwood Lumber Available ]or Egsential Farm Needs

Action to make available softwood lumber for essential Jarm needs was announced August 14 by J. Philip Boyd, Director WPB's Lumber and Lumber Products Division. The following steps have been taken:

l. In the allocation of Douglas Fir lumber for civilian use under Limitation Order L-2L8, AA-2 farm and disaster orders will be given precedence over all other orders except those for direct military use, and releases will be confined wherever practicable to farm and disaster orders until further notice. It is estimated that this action will divert an additional 25 million board feet of Douglas Fir lumber per week to farm orders. Heretofore shipments were made by loading cars with approximately 75 percent heavy stock and, 25 percent boards and small dimension needed for farm use. The Administrator will now, however, allocate all requested farm items that the mills can furnish.

2, Certain mills in the Western Pine region producing Fir and Larch are being directed to earmark 75 per cent of their cut produced during August and September exclusive of timbers and ties for agricultural orders rated AA-2.

3. Under Limitation Order L-m (Western Lumber), all orders for Western Pine carrying the AA-2 farm, and disaster rating will be filled as deliveries are needed to replenish depleted inventory.

4. The lumber industry in the South, has been inforrnetl, through WPB field offices and industry associations, that AA-2 farm orders must be accepted in accordance with pri-

ority regulations.

In a statement to the Southern Pine War Committee, Mr. Boyd said:

"I ask that you inform your industry members that this lumber is of great importance in meeting the War Food Program and to remind them that these rated farm orders must be filled except when refusal is specifically permitted by WPB regulations."

Five hundred million board feet of softwood lumber were released for the third quarter of 1943 for essential farnr repair and construction by WPB Directive 26, issued in June. Distribution of this lumber, for which preferenco ratings not higher than AA-2 were assigned, was the responsibility of the War Food Administration on a state quota basis. Dealers, however, have not in all cases been able to purchase lumber on AA-2 ratings because of competition with higher rated orders. This situation and a general shortage of lumber of 1 inch thickness and small dimension needed by farmers has to a large extent retarded the effectiveness of the Division in supplying lumber for essential farm needs.

It is believed by WPB that the action announced and the cooperation of the lumber industry will make sufficieni lumber available for agricultural needs.

BACK FROM UTAH TRIP

C. C. Stibich of Tarter, Webster & Johnson, San cisco, returned recently from a trip to Salt Lake City he attended the funeral of his mother, who passed at the age of 83.

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RMPR 26 AMENDMENT 2

Altogether 40 specific changes, most of them of a minor nature and generally designed to remove ambiguities in its regulation for Douglas fir and allied species of lumber are made by the OPA, thus bringing the regulation into conformity with present day lumber industry requirements and practices (RMPR 26 Amendm ent 2), effective August 24.

AROMATIC RED CEDAR

Aromatic red cedar lumber is provided with dollars-andcents ceiling prices at the producer's level by the OPA. The new prices maintain the general levels prevailing in March, L942. In lieu of individual ceilings, the regulation provides uniform maximum prices for all sellers (MPR 454), effective August 24.

HARDWOOD LUMBER

OPA announces revocation of additions of from $1 to $45 per 1,000 board feet which sellers of southern hardwood lumber were permitted to make to maximum prices on sales of lumber prepared in "standard special" widths and lengths (Amendment 7 to MPR 97), effective August 14.

TRUCK TIRES

New rationing provisions for adding to the supply of used and recapped truck tires are announced by the OPA where dealers with recappable truck tire carcasses in their possession may get truck-type camelback needed to recap these tires by applying to their OPA district office. Also manufacturers may sell used truck tires to dealers without rationing certificates under authorization of the OPA district office (Amendment 46 to Ration Order 1-A), effective August 19.

GRAIN DOORS

All sellers of general manager type grain doors are authorized by the OPA to charge prices adjustable later on to new maximum prices for the doors to be established by the price agency (Order 2 under Section 1499.19 of GMPR), effective August 14.

NEW MAXIMUMS ON WOOD VENEERS

Washington, Aug. 20.-The Office of Price Administration today fixed dollars and cents maximum prices for birch, maple and basswood veneers-vital to the plywood used in gliders and pontoons-but said the order wouldn't change the prices much.

Previously the veneers were given price ceilings at the highest price of March, 1942.The new maximums are about the same, but fix uniform ceilings throughout the industrl'.

AMENDMENT TO LIMITATION ORDER L-150

Washington, August l4-Applications for authorization of purchase orders of softwood plywood manufactured in Washington, Oregon and California are now made by the users of this plywood or by distributors when purchases are for warehouse replacement. Applications were formerly made by prospective purchasers. This change is effected by an amended version of Limitation Order L-150 issued by the War Production Board.

The amended order also requires five instead of four copies of applications form WPB-2532 and four instead of three copies of monthly schedules filed by producers form wPB-2531.

ORDER NO. 1 MPR 293 EFFECTIVE AUG. 19

Pending a revision of ceiling prices in Maximum Price Regulation No..293 stock millwork, now under way, sellers of wooden doors, frames, sash and other items priced in the regulation may sell at prices to be adjusted later to the new ceilings to appear in the revision, the Office of Price Administration announced August 19.

This permission is granted in order No. I under Maximum Price Regulation No. 293, and becomes effective August 19, 1943.

The order automatically is revoked, OPA said, on issuance of the revised regulation.

UNIF'ORM LOG GRADING RULES

Ilniform grading and scaling rules for logs produced in Oregon and Washington west of the crest of the Cascade Mountains were announced August 13 by the Office of Price Administration.

The new rules-to be used by all grading and scaling bureaus and independent graders and scalers-were drawtr after extensive consultation between scaling and grading bureaus, independent scalers, the lumber and logging industry and OPA representatives.

They are incorporated into Revised Maximum Price Regulation No. 161 (West Coast Logs) in Amendment No. 7 to that regulation, and became effective August 24, 1943.

Published grading and scaling rules have been in effect in the West Coast area for many years, but differed slightly in various logging regions. The new uniform rules resolve the differences, assist in the effective operation of price control for logs, and provide the log buyer with assurance that a 1og of a certain grade is of the same quality and scale, no matter from what part of the territory it was produced, graded and scaled.

The new uniform rules will provide uniform grading quality and scaling quantity for all logs graded and scaled in the territory.

TO BE ALIVE

Life is what we are alive to. It is not length, but breadth. To be alive to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and no to goodness and kindness, purity and love, God and eternal hopes-is to be all but dead.-M. D. Babcock.

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A SENTENCE

Teacher: "Billy, give me a sentence using the word 'torture.t "

Billy: "A heavy knock at the door, he leaped from her embrace, and said'I torture husband was out of town.",

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LEGAL EVIDENCE

A man was charged with shooting a farmer's pigeons. Counsel for the defense tried to frighten the farmer.

"Are you prepared to swear," he demanded, ,.that this man shot your pigeons?"

"f didn't say I saw him shoot them," the farmer said. "I said f suspected him of shooting them."

"Ah l" shouted the lawyer. "Just a matter of suspicion. Will you tell this court what made you suspect that he shot your pigeons?"

The farmer said: "Well, first, I caught him on my land with a gun in his hands. Second, I heard his gun go ofr and saw some of my pigeons fall. Third, I found four of my pigeons in his pocket, and I don't believe them birds committed suicide and then flew into his pocket."

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VACATION

The old man his vacation takes, Although he thinks it's rash, Convinced, without his guiding hand, The biz will go to smash. On his return he then finds out, Though not with unmixed jo5 The business has been finely run, Just by the office boy. There's nothing that will jolt us so, Upon the other shore, As finding out the world we left, Is running as before.

**:l€ STEWING

"Do you slunmer in the country?"

"No, f simmer in the city."

A RHYME IN TIME

Perhaps no bust in English use is more frequent tharr the misuse of lie and lay. Christopher Morley once wrote the following verse as an aid to straightening out the use of the two verbs:

"Lie and lay offer clips to the pen, That have bothered most excellent men: You may say that you lay In bed yesterday;

If you do it today, you're a hen.,' ***

ouR PUP, JOHN STLVER

We have a pup that was wished on us, A dear little, queer little ornery cuss; Four big feet and a mop of hair, Two foppy ears and a baby stare; fle's exceedingly friendly, infrequently riled, And kindly disposed toward adult and chitdSo we named him John Silver.

Now he's not so bad, and he's not so good, As the ways of a puppy are understood; He sleeps in the sun when he's not at play, Sometimes he prowls through the woods all day, Comes home with brambles and bugs in his hair, . We have to de-tick him right then and thereOur reckless John Silver.

He bays at the moon as it climbs o'er the hill, And at midnight when everything's spooky and still, He fairly curdles the roots of our hair By yapping at things that we know aren't there; IIe's ruined four shoes and a good garden hat, But one just can't blame a poor puppy for that_ Well, not our John Silver.

Sometimes when we tire of his mischievous play, lVe solemnly mutter "Let's give him away.,, Then he stares at us with his big round eyes, His look seems to say-"You won't if you're wise_ My naughty pup habits I'm willing to break_ My loyal pup heart it is yours to takeI'm your puppy-John Silver."

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Red Cedar Shingle Bureau Announcement New \Tholesalc Lumber Concern

In this issue of The California Lumber Merchant there appears an announcement of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau which frankly sets forth the predicament which the manufacturers find themselves in. In the interest of the retail lumber dealer this announcement perhaps should have been made earlier in the year, but it was hoped and believed that conditions in the Pacific Northwest would improve. The shingle industry is in a critical area and conditions are aggravated by a shortage of logs and manpower and the imperative demand for shingles created by war housing and other government requirements.

The situation calls for sympathy rather than blame' The Red Cedar shingle industry is one of the oldest in the United States. In the last decade it has done much to promote its product and improve quality, and throughottt the years has fostered the sale of their product through the wholesale and retail lumber dealers.

BOX FACTORY HAS NEW OWNER

The American Box Corporation took over the box factory and lumber inventory of the Crater Lake Lumber Co. at Sprague River, Ore., August 2. The liquidation of the Crater Lake Lumber Co. is proceeding.

P. M. Cowbrough, formerly sales manager of Crater Lake Lumber Co. has been appointed resident manager for Associated Box Corporation at Sprague River.

Announcement is made of the opening of offices by tlre McDuffee Lumber Sales Corporation at 58 Monadrrocl< Building, San Francisco.

The new organization is headed by a rvell known Sarr Francisco lumberman, Dana E' McDuffee.

Mr. McDufiee was associated with Tarter, Webster & Johnson, San Francisco for the past nine years, and was nranager since the beginning of 1937 until he resigned recently to go into business for himself. Prior to that he was with Weyerhaeuser Sales Company for 12 years, part of this time on the road, and later as manager of the district office at Minneapolis, and manager of the industrial division at Chicago.

For the past 15 months he has been a member of the Lumber Manufacturers' Advisory Committee of the War Production Board.

The telephone number of McDufiee Lumber Sales Corporation is GArfield 7196.

MAKES AIR TRIP TO CENTRAL AMERICA

James Davis of the Davis Hardwood Company, San Francisco, recently made a business trip to Mexico, Guate' mala and Nicaragua. He traveled by Pan American Airways.

Davis Hardwood Company is doing a large business with shipyards, the United States Government and war industries. They are dealers in domestic and foreign hardwoods and plywood, and manufacturers of hardwood ply panels.

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When a retail lumber dealer can't get flooring for a customer it may be due to the fact that the portion of the log from which flooring comes is going into ship decking for the smallest patrol boat or the mightiest aircraft carrier of our fleet. Lumber that might have been drop siding is norv serving as barge planking, and logs once cut into strrrctural timbers for engineered construction now are converted at sawmills throughout the Pacific Northwest into 136foot long keels, for these long ship timbers are available only from Douglas Fir trees of great height. Douglas Fir is also used for keelsons, stern and rudder posts, shaft logs, garboards, planking, decking, stanchions, deck and hold beams, bulkheads. hatch covers and all other parts of wood boats.

Today the wooden boat building program of our govemment includes a vast fleet of craft from tightly built life boats to the grim, business-like subchasers, minesweepers, mine-layers and submarine net tenders; from small scows to ship-size cargo barges, built to carry 4,00O tons. For U. S. Navy, for Coast Guard, for Army and for Jrfaritime Commission, shipyards are launching these wooden craft by the dozens every day. For instance, in one day recently there were launched in the Pacific Northwest six wooden barges costing a million and a half dollars and requiring approximately 4,500,000 feet of lumber to construct.

On July 3 there slid down the ways at Anacortes, Washington the largest all-wood vessel constructed in the United States since World War I. This 274-f.oot barge, one ol Z2 under construction on the Pacific Coast for the U. S. Maritime Commission, contains approximately 1,700,000 feet of Douglas Fir. These barges are complete ships in every respect except that they lack propelling machinery. They are designed to be towed by an ocean tug which can handle two barges. The hulls are similar to the wooden ships constructed during the last war and to them are added 2-story deckhouses and pilot houses with crew's quarters, galleys, carpenter shops and power for operating winches, pumps and anchors. Such wood hulls when properly serviced out-

Offiicicl U. S. Nwy Photogroph last those of,steel; and they have the added advantage of being less vulnerable to damage by metallic mines.

While Douglas Fir is the principal West Coast wood which goes into the boat building program, large quantities of Port Orford Cedar, Western Red Cedar and Alaska Cedar are used for trim and for small boats; Sitka Spruce and West Coast Hemlock go into hatch covers, bulkheads and the like. Although not a part of the vessel, large quantities of lumber are required also for dunnage.

One of the reasons for the tremendous number of wooden vessels in this war is the need for a variety of boats rnany of them designed to operate in particular waters and along specific shore lines. Among the modern craft in action ancl a-building from wood for Uncle Sam's forces are patrol craft, lighters, power scows, mine layers and sweepers, subchasers, crash boats, powered and non-powered barges, motor torpedo boats, tugs and all sorts of life boats. One of the largest wooden fighting vessels being built today is the 196-foot AMC type mine-srveeper carrying small guns, Y-guns and depth charges.

Lumber which once went into homes, farm buildings and commercial structures is now found in ships wherever our men are fighting. When pearl Harbor was bombed there were 187 wooden patrol craft of various sizes in service and 247 building. Since then the increase in construction has been alrnost incredible. How much is still a military secret. These wooden boats slip into shallow bays and along dangerous shorelines every day of this war doing a noble work. They lay the mines to protect our harbors, and in turn srveep up enemy mine fields so our boats can go through. They patrol our shores, occasionally getting some real sport when they do battle with a submarine. Thousands of wooden barges, the draft horses of the fleet, daily endure bombing and gunning to get cargo to its destination.

It may seem tough on civilians today wheh they can,t get the lumber they need for ordinary use, but when they understand where this lumber is going they are mighty glad that Paul Bunyan has joined the Navy.

lfestern Pine Semi-Annual Meeting

The semi-annual meeting of the board of directors of the Western Pine Association was held at the Palace Hotel. San Francisco, August 19. The various standing committees met on the previous day.

President A. J. Voye, Big Lakes Box Co., Klamath Falls, presided at the meeting and made his report.

Treasurer C. L. Isted, The Shevlin-Hixon Co.. Bend. Ore., followed vvith his recommendations.

Secretary-Manager S. V. Fullaway, Jr., gave a review of the period since the annual meeting, and Assistant Manager W. E. Griffee reported on the industry's statistical position.

The reports of the standing committees were made by the following: Executive, A. J. Voye; Forest Conservation, J. F. Daggett; Grading, .W. G. Kahman; Promotion, W. J. Glassow; The Ponderosa Pine Millwork. Program, R. M. Bodkin; Research, W. P. Marsh; Statistics, H. F. Root; Traffic, W. M. Leuthold.

How Lumber Looks

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The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended August 7 reported orders as 121,218,000 feet, shipments 123,683,000 feet, and production 12t,377,NA f.eet. ' For the week ended August 14 orders are reported as ll 5,17 2,W feet, .shipme nts 124,377,00O feet, and production 119,068,000 feet.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended August 7, 169 mills reporting, gave orders as 26,154,000 feet, shipments 22,373,W feet, and production 22,453,W f.eet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled I32,779,W feet.

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Clint Crane has joined the W. B. Jones Lumber Co. organization, wholesale lumber distributors at Los Angeles. Clint was connected with the lumber business in Los Angeles for about twenty years and is well known to the trade. For the past year and a half he has been ranching in Oregon.

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QUIOK ACTION

During the first World War a colored American soldier was with a detachment of troops that was awaiting orders to go over the top. He was highly nervous as the minutes ticked by. "Men,'o he said, "I hates dis waitin'. What I craves is action-dass what f qlayss-3ction !" Just then a fragment of a bomb conked him on the steel helmet, halfstunned him, and down he went. fn a minute he had recovered, shook the dizziness out of his head, and said: "Men, dem Huns sho do give you service, don't dey?"

That's the way I felt on August l5th. I published an editorial in the August 15th issue deploring the fact that the lumber industry, which in my judgment is doing a warservice job second to none, had been getting very little public recognition and no awards at all for its effective contribution to the war effort, in spite of abnormal difficulties.

On the day that was printed, one of the widely published Washington syndicated columns certainly gave me the service, as the colored soldier said. He let fy at the lumber industry with both barrels, and every statement was an insult to the industry. I got quick action, all right, on my demand for public recognition of the industry; but it was not exactly the kind I was asking for.

This writer gave the lumber industry several very black eyes in three-quarters of a column of smearing. And just to show that he was broad-minded he dragged in the Army, the WPB, and the government generally in his sweeping charges that the lumber industry has done a rotten job in its war effort. He spanked the lumber industry as a whole, and the South in particular. He more than doubled the. membership of the Southern Pine Association, more than quadrupled the mills of the South, and shut down most of the sawmills of the entire country. That's what I call having influence. He has the army in cahoots with the bigger mills to keep the smaller mills from selling the government. The big mills do this to prevent an over-production of lumber that might be hurtful after the war. They also refuse to pay over-time, so they run short hours. And the government is charged with letting the mills get away with it.

Of course the entire industry seethed with indignation for days after the thing appeared. Too bad Mr. Ickes, the hatchet-man. couldn't have listened in on thousands of

lumber conversations. He might have added something worth while to his sulphurous vocabulary. But they have gradually cooled off, most of them perhaps wisely deciding that the old adage that "it's a waste of lather to shave a jackass" still holds good; likewise that the best way to scatter and distribute a falsehood is to vigorously deny it.

I searched in vain through the article for some glimmer of fact or truth, but failed to find any. Some of these scandal-mongers wait for nothing so foolishly nonessential as facts, in order to scatter their peculiar publicity. I'll give you just one idea of how close this guy came to telling the truth about lumber. He said that in May of this year there were 9,7,10 sawmills shut down; and blamed the industry for that condition.

Friends, do you know how many ESTABLISHED sawmills there are in this whole country? By established I mean mills that have a location, timber to supply their operations, and money to finance them. My estimate is that there are not more than TEN THOUSAND such sawmills in the whole 48 states. So far as I can judge from first-hand reports every one of those mills except such as were closed. by fire or some other calamity were running in May, and in June, July, in August, and they are running now. They are running every hour they can run, regardless of cost or over-time. They are running to help the war effort and for no other reason, in spite of difficulties that would frighten ordinary business men. Big mills and little mills, great mills and small mills, are all doing their best to get out lumber. No big mill is interfering with that effort. No little mill is being impeded by anything except natural and normal difficulties. The lumber industry would double its production if it possibly could, to help the war effort and its neglected domestic trade.

There wasn't a word of truth in that Washington column. Not one word. And that fact could have been authenticated in no time at all by any fair and interested man. And the only thing I can think of that might do justice to the situation would be for someone to compile the remarks that have been made in the last two weeks by the lumbermen of the United States concerning that Washington writer, and present them to him under permanent cover. It would make swell reading.

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Miss Betty Haring moclels the slogan of E. K. Wood Lumber Cornpany. Tl-ris talentecl and vivacious girl, known as Princess Pontiac of the Delarvare tribe, has done the rvar dance at Victory llonses in colorful Indian regalia. Her motto is "I3uy More War Boncls."

WITH MACHINERY CONCERN

A. R. (Art) Martin, rvho rvas associated rvith Hales & Symons, retail lumber dealers, of Sonora, Calif., lor 17 years, is norv with the Nead Machinery Co., Sonora, which operates a Ponderosa Pine sawmill 'ivith a daily capacity of 10.000 feet at Mount Elizabeth, near Sonora.

Mr. Martin, who is a World War I veteran, recently completed 15 months' service 'ivith the California State Guard, in u'hich he held the rank of Captain.

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crrd Uncle Scnn comes lirst. It must continue to hcrve the right-of-wcry lor wor needs.

We cre supplying moteriqls for mcrry wcr projects but wcrrt to serve the retqil hode too. If mcteriqls cre avoilcible, we will get them. For 60 yeors we hcrve been serving the Southern C,olifornia lumber trode.

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Frank G. Duttle, president of Sterling Lumber Co., Oakland, left August 11 for a two weeks'business trip to the Pacific Northwest.

Harry W. Aldrich, Aldrich Lumber Co., Eugene, and Mrs. Aldrich were in San Francisco recently for a visit with their son Hank, who is an Ensign in the Navy.

Horace R. Williams, formerly with West Oregon Lunrber Co., San Francisco, has been commissioned a Lieutenant (J.G.) in the Navy. He is in training at Camp Peary, Virginia.

W. B. Jones, W. B. Jones Lumber Co., Los Angeles, has returned from a business trip to the Northwest.

Matt Handley, formerly with Van Arsdale-Harris Luruber Co., San Francisco, was home recently on a 15-day furlough from the Navy camp at Farragut, Idaho.

Carl R. Moore, president of Cape Arago Lumber Co., Empire, Ore., who is giving most of his time to this operation, recently spent 10 days at his Oakland office..

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Jim Farley,'assistant Western sales manager, The Pacific Lumber Company, who has been spending some time at the companyfs mill at Scotia, Calif., was recently back at his desk in the main office at San Francisco for two weeks during the absence of Al Nolan, Western sales manager, in the Pacific Northwest.

J. V. McAlister, sales manager, Co., Linnton, Ore., recently visited Los Angeles offices of his company.

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Justin Evenson of American Products, Inc., wholesale lumber dealers, San Diego, was a San Francisco visitor August 17 on his way to the Northwest on business for his firm.

Jack Mulcahy, Mulcahy Mrs. Mulcahy left August trip to Los Angeles.

Lumber Co., Tucson, Ariz., and 2O after a business and pleasure

K. E. MacBeath of the sales department, Strable Hardwood Co., Oakland, left August 16 to spend his vacation on his ranch near Santa Rosa, Calif. A big job of drying prunes occupied most of his time, and made a good contribution to the war effort.

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Lor Angeles Area Mobilizes For War Chest

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slovak Fund, United Yugoslav Relief Fund, Refugee Relief Trustees and the United States Committee for the Care of European Children.

Labor, business, professional men and women, housewives and students of Los Angeles and eighteen neighboring towns and unincorporated communities are mobilizing for an all embracing War Chest which will appeal this fall for the necessary funds to service the material, medical ant{ psychological needs of three major war fronts-military, home, and the United Nations fronts.

Despite heavy pressure of business and war activities, scores of civic and industrial leaders have accepted the honor and added responsibility of heading the newly created Los Angeles Area War Chest. President of the board of directors is Harvey S. Mudd. General chairman of the forthcoming campaign is P. G. Winnett.

Included in the united War Chest appeal are sixteen major war related causes for civilian and Allied war front relief and the American military front; also the 92 hialth and welfare agencies of the Community Chest which prcr tect the home front in the dislocations of war as well as in peacetime.

War Chest agencies supplying Allies with food, clothing, shelter, medical supplies and ambulance units, so far as distribution permits, are the Belgian War Relief Society, British War Relief Society, French Fund, Friends of Luxemburg, Greek War Relief Association, Norwegian Relief Fund, Queen Wilhelmina Fund, Polish War Relief Inc., Russian War Relief. United China Relief. United Czecho-

On the American military front of the united War Chest appeal are the United Service Organizations which provide homes-away-from-home for servicemen and women and send "Camp Shows" everywhere. Also included are agencies that provide rest homes and convalescent centers for the merchant seamen who convoy supply ships through enemy waters. In the War Chest, too, is the War Prisoners Aid Committee which keeps American and Allied prisoners of war in touch with the outside world, through its international representatives from neutral countries.

Declaring that 50,000 volunteers are needed to carry the whole story of the appeal to everyone, Chairman Winnett urges:

"The united War Chest is a tremendous service appeal that can not be measured by a slide rule. Whatever we can do through it to shorten the war even for a few days or hours will play a momentous part in the nation's on-tovictory program.

"Offer your services now, by telephoning TRinity 6441 or calling at War Chest headquarters on the ground floor of the Van Nuys building, at fr4 West Seventh street."

CALLS ON OREGON MILLS

G. F. (Jerry) Bonnington of Lamon-Bonnington Co., San Francisco, returned recently from a lLday trip to Oregon, where he called on a number of mills.

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Estimated Consumption of Westcrn Pine Lumber for Third Quarter ol 194?

Portland, Oregon.-An estimate of the probable consumption of lumber from the Western Pine region for the third quarter of. 1943 is given in a statement issued by the Western Pine Association. The statement in full is as follolvs:

Recently many newspapers carried a WPB release that a Forest Service survey showed 27 per cent of the country's 31,814 sarvmills u'ere idle in May because of the shortage of logs, manpower and equipment, and that 688 of these idle mills rvere in the West. Casual readers might easily have gained the impression from the condensed release that a large proportion of the lumber industrv, evert in the West, was not contributing to the war effort. Such was not the case. Actually there is relatively verv little capacity in the \Mestern Pine region which is idle and that is nearly all in small mills. In the pine sections of Oregon and Washington, for example, all of the burned, dismantled and idle mills listed in the Forest Service report could not have accounted for over 3 per cent of the lumber actually produced last year by mills in those areas.

It is true that the Western Pine indus'try, during the second quarter, faced new difficulties in its efforts to maintain production and shipments. Limitation Order L-290, which became effective May 6, caused quite a little confusion and temporarily slowed or shut down the shipping departments of some operations. Meat rationing was a headache for logging superintendents, and shortages of manpower, tractors and other equipment items became more stringent.

Nevertheless the industry, during the second quarter, managed to produce 1652 million feet, only 2.7 per cent less than production during the second quarter of 1942.

The extremeiy low stocks of 851 million feet with which the mills started the quarter caused the anticipated difficulty in maintaining shipments. Shipments were but 111 million feet less than production, however, the 1541 million feet total being 10.6 per cent under last year's performance. Stocks still are far below normal and must be further rebuilt during the summer and fall.

Based upon general predictions and all other available information regarding the industry's ability to make and ship lumber, it is expected that during the third quarter of 1943 the shipments (consumption) of Western Pine lumber will be about 1670 million feet. This volume is 10 per cent under the very heavy shipments during the third quarter of. 1942. This estimate contemplates a somewhat normal stock increase during the quarter. If stocks are not built up there will be a corresponding lack of lumber to ship next winter.

Although the WPB estimates total lumber requirements this year at well under those for 1942, there has been a consistent increase in anticipated needs for boxing and crating, uses for which Idaho White Pine, Ponderosa Pine. Sugar Pine and several of their associated species are so much preferred that the lower grades have been frozen for those uses. It is therefore apparent that the industry,s shipments will continue to be restricted only by the ability of management and labor to produce the utmost with the equipment, supplies and manpower that are available.

UP AND DOWN THE STATE

Leo Hulett of Hobbs Wall Lumbsl Co., San Francisco, is spending several weeks visiting the firm's sawmill connections in Humboldt County. He is doing some salmon fishing in the Klamath River on week-ends, thereby doing his bit towards increasing the non-rationed food supply.

James L. Hall, San Francisco wholesale lumberman, ancl Msr. Hall returned recently from two weeks' vacatiorl, spent at Glenbrook, Nev., Lake Tahoe resorr.

W. B. Wickersham, Pope & Talbot, sion, Los Angeles, returned August spent in Yosemite National Park.

BRUSH I}IDUSTRIAT LUMBER CO.

5901 South Centrcl Ave., Ios Angeles Phone CE 2-0188

W HOLES ALE DISTRIBUTORS

Hardwoods and Softwoods

Inc., Lumber Divi23 from vacation

Carl Specht, Phoenix, Ariz., representative of R. W. Dalton & Co., Los Angeles, recently visited Los Angeles on a combined business and vacation trip. He was accompanied by Mrs. Specht.

Wayne Mullin, Mullin Lumber returned from a fishing trip in the

Co., Los Angeles, High Sierra. has

W. Paul Clarke of Timberlane Lumber Co., Eugene, Ore., was in Los Angeles last rveek on business.

George J. Koonze, E. K. Wood Angeles, vacationed at Long Beach

Lumber Company, Los in August.

YtlU

COME FIRST

after uncle San

BUT the well known EWAUNA mark will always be-

FIRST for texture

FIRST for millwork

FIRST for kilndrying

FIRST for uniforln grades

FIRST for service

EWAUNA BOX GO.

Mill, Factory, and Saler Ofice

KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON

Centml California Rcprescntative

Pyranid Lumber Salcs Co., Oekland

WE SPECIALIZE IN ESSENTIAL WAR MATERIAIS

'We hove cr well rounded inventory of Fcdory cnd Better Grades of Ponderoscr crrd Sugcr Pine ccnd Spruce. In Hcndwoods-No. I Common cmd Better Grcrdes of Alder, Beech, Birch, Cedcr, Gum, Tobqsco Mchogany, Magnolic, Mcrple, Oak crrd Wcrlnut.

Member National Hardwood Lumber Association

clrR0iTATED ililc cilt0RtDE

Scll lumber thar yields a ptolit and lqrting latkldction. CZC, thc prctccled lumber, ic clco, odorlcsa dld pdintcblc. tt b t€mite ortd deccy resiatcat cnrd 6rc rciandi.DE. You cqn cell ll lor F.H.A., U. S. Govcmneat, loe Angelcs City ctrd Count" crd Unilona Building Codc jobs. CZC tr€qt;d lurabcr il rtoclcd lor iEmediotc rhipoent in conocrciql !izc! dt IrDq Begch ccrd Alc4edo. ArL cbout our crch<ngo actwicr cnii uill rhipnant plco, Gtrrb E* lFh - UESI-C0IST f00D tRESEnYilG C0.. Srdllr ml W. Fitrl SL Lor Argrl;, Cdll., ?hoor Mlcllgcr 8231 3iXl Molrgoorrt 3r., Sos Frcrcirco, CaL, Ploro DOuilo tll0

California Building Permits for July

Forest Indugtrier Publish Handy Booklet for Speakers

"Speak IJp" is the appropriate title of a new booklet published by American Forest Products Industries, Inc. to provide material and suggestions for industry executives who are called upon to make public speeches.

The 48 pages, of the booklet are replete with pertinent facts, figures, and anecdotes about the forests, their management, and their trends. Added convenience comes from the booklet's orderly arrangement and index. In addition to presenting significant statistics in convenient form, "Speak IJp" presents a series of articles which may be requoted verbatim, or revised by users to fit local audiences. Among the titles of these articles are: "Forest Products in 'War," "The Background of American Forestry," "Tree Farms," and "Science in the Forest." The booklet also presents a condensed bibliography of reference material relating to forestry-obtainable from several associations.

The booklet was prepared by the Public Relations headquarters of American Forest Products Industries, Inc., 1319 Eighteenth Street, Washington, D. C. and copies are being mailed to about 2,000 executives and leaders in timber-producing companies and to others in response to special request.

A four-page supplement, accompanying the booklet, reminds foiest industry executives that, although leaders within the industry know the vastness of the forest products contribution to the war effort and know of the foresight and skill being used to grow abundant trees for the future, there are many people within and without the industry who do not know these facts.

"Many of the people in your home community and some of your best friends are unaware that management methods in the forest industries have undergone great changes in the last decade," the supplement asserts, and adds, "One way you can help them to know and understand the full story of new progress in the forest industries is to speak up with the facts whenever you have an opportunity."

GIULII RENAMED HOUSING HEAD

Nicola Giulii has been elected chairman of the Los Angeles Housing Authority for the sixth successive term, it was announced,

He has been chairman of the authority since it was organized in June, 1938. Prior to 1938 he served five years as a member of the Municipal Housing Commission.

Maurice Saeta, attorney, was re-elected vice-chairman of the authority. He has been a member of the authority for a year and served as vice-chairman since last December.

Other members include Mrs. Jessie L. Terry, John E. Fishburn Jr. and Lloyd A. Mashburn.

TRANSFERRED TO DENVER

B. L. Adams, salesman with the Weyerhaeuser Sales Company at Los Angeles for the past seven years, has been transferred to the company's Denver office.

Material Substitution and Supply List

A general tightening of an already critical lumber situation was evidenced in Issue No. 9 of the Material Substitution and Supply List, which places most hardwoods and most one inch boards of all species in Group I.

The list, released by the WPB Conservation Division, groups some 500 materials essential to the war program in three categories reflecting relative availability: Group I, materials INSUFFI'CIENT for essential war and industry needs; Group II, materials approximately in BALANCE with requirements; and Group III, materials available for SUBSTITUTES in essential applications.

Several substitutes for lumber, demand for which has been increased by many factors, including requirements for overseas containers, are now listed in Group III. These include asphalt laminated board; asbestos cement sheets; granule surface insulation board; and'structural surface board.

The new issue of the Substitution and Supply List contains numerous changes in the group listings. Moved from Group I to Group II, (indicative of an easing supply trend) were the following chemicals: Acrylic acid; aluminum chloride; ammonia and derivatives; chlorosulphonic acid; and sulphur chlorides. On the other hand, sulphuric acid and gycols have become more critical.

Among other products moved to Group I from Group II, reflecting greater demand, are: horse tail and mane cattle tail hair; alkyd resins; cadmium pigments ; linseed oil; Ponderosa Pine plywood; and silicon carbide abrasives.

A trend towards downgrading-the replacement of critical materials with generally satisfactory substitutes with slightly modified characteristics-is indicated in the introduction to the list by reference to the Conservation Divisions' "Downgrading Chart for Brass and Bronze" and "Aluminum Alloy Substitution Chart," both of which allow generous use of scrap materials.

The follgwing clue to the relative position of steel and wood in industrial applications was given in the introductory notes to the list: "The choice between steel and wood depends largely on type of need, application, and local conditions. However, no relative change has occurred in the wood supply situation which necessitates wholesale switches back to steel.

Copies of Material Substitutions and Supply List, Issue No. 9, may be obtained upon written request to the Conservation Division, War Production Board, Washington 1. D. C.

COLLECTOR OF PAINTINGS

Jim Tyrrell, Sudden & Christenson, Los Angeles, returned August 13 from his vacation which he spent at Laguna Beach, Calif., with his old artist friends and associates.

For many years Jim has been a collector of fine paintings, and seven of them are now being shown in an exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum.

PAilUDO PI.YWOOD

Mcmufcctured by ASSOCIATED PLhTOOD MII.ISI Distdbutcd Brchrsivcly Sincc l92l by PAGITIG MUTUAI.

DOOR GO.

TWENTY YIAAS AGO

Fron the Septernber Ir lg28r Issue

Neil B. Taylor took over the management of the Coronado Lumber Company at Coronado. This company was bought from J. M. Helderbrand by the Western Lumber Company of San Diego.

The Grenfell Lumber Company of Colusa purchased the A. A. Thayer Lumber Company at Grimes. R. W. Grenfell is proprietor of the Grenfell Lumber Company.

The Frost Hardwood Company of San Diego started the building of a new yard on West Market Street in that city. The new buildings will be of brick and concrete construction. and the offices will be finished in various kinds of hardwoods.

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo held a successful picnic and concatenation at Perry Whiting's ranch in the La Crescenta Valley. The feature of the afternoon was a baseball ganre between the retailers and the wholesalers. The concatenation was held in the evening and twenty Kittens were initiated.

Booklet on Timber Construction Details

Widespread use of wood in factory construction throughout the United States has prompted the publication of "Heavy Timber Construction Details", the latest technical publication of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association.

Heavy timber construction is a distinct type of building construction having a recognized record for fire safety. Upto-date information on heavy timber framing, beam and column connection details and roof truss details are illustrated in this booklet. The Building Code requirements of the National Board of Fire lJnderwriters for heavy timber framing are also included. Architects, engineers, contractors, builders and factory maintenance men will be interested in these details. Copies of this booklet are available upon request from the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, 1319-18th Street, N.W., Washington, 6, D. C.

CITASSIFIED ADVERTISING WANTED

Want to buy, lease, or operate on a percentage, a smaU well located lumber yard.

George Cole, 43? West 64th Place, Inglewood, Calif.

POSITIONS OPEN

Because of building restrictions in certain localities some men with office or yard experience in retail lumber are now turning to other employment not altogether to their liking. If you are such a person communicate v/ith

BARR LUMBER COMPANY, Santa Ana, Calif.

Availability certificate required.

FOR SALE

BERLIN 26" single surfacer, Model No. 156, belt drive, 4 knife, together with 15 H.P. 50 cycle, 3 phase 22O volt motor. Both for .$ ZgS.OO

36" Band saw, tilt table, belt drive . 125.00

Cut off saw, foot pedal iron frame, 14" saur, belt drive

75.00

Six inch AMERICAN sash sticker, square head, belt drive . 375.00

BERLIN sander 4Z",Royal Invincible 3 drum 300.00

CRESCENT 2 spindle shaper, belt drive, babbitt bearings, table 36x54 200.00

Rolling table cut off saw, wooden frame ... 75.00

HAWKER dowel machine, overhauled with ,f0 fittings to make all dowels from /4" to 2" net .. 1,100.00

Also WOODSTOCK Billing Typewriter; and some adding machines, both manual and electric.

Twohy Lumber Co., Lumber Yard Brokers, 801 Petroleum Bldg., Los Angeles. Telephone PRospect 8746.

BT]YEB9S GTIIIDD SAN I.BANCISCO

LUMBER

LUMBER

Arcata Rcdwood Co. 420 Mukct StGt (rr) ...........,.YUkon 21157

Arkinn-Stutz Cmpuy' ll2 Markct Stret (ll) ........'....GArfreE 1809

Chrigtenlon Lumber Co. Evans Ave. and Quint St. (Z)....VAlencia 5E?

Dant & Rusaell, Inc.'

2U FIut StrLet (rr) '......'.....GArfield 0292

Dolbccr & Ccon hmbs Co.' Itl6 Mcrchutr Exchangc Bldt. (4) Sutter ?d58

Gucrrto & Grea Lubcr Coo lE0l &my Stret (24) .'..........ATwater 1300

Hall. Jarer Lr$2 Milb Bl&. (4) .................Sutter ?520

Hammond Lmbcr CmPanY' {17 Montgomery Stret (6) ........DOuglac 3:l6E

Hobbr Wall Lunbcr Co., 405 Montgpncry St. (4) ...........GArfield ?752

Holmcr Eureka Lumbcr Co., 116 Finucial Centcr Bldg. (4) .'..GArfield f92r

C. D. Johm Imbc CorPoration' 260 California Stret (rl) ....'.....GArficld 6258

Cul H. Kuhl Luber Cr., O. I- Ruenn, ll2 Market St. (rr) YUkon 1460

hnon-Bouington ComPmY, 16 Califomii Stret (rr) .........'GArficld 6EEl

LUMBER

MacDonald & Hrington, Ltd. 15 Catifomia St. (rr) .............GArfreld 8393

Orcson l$ber Salct (Carl W. Watts), 9?5 Mmadnck Blds. (5) ...........YUkon 1590

Pacific Lumber Co,, Th. lO Burb Stre.l (1) ....'.......'..GArield rlEl

Pope & Talbot, Inc.. Lubcr Dlvieion' lsf Uat*et Strca (5) ............'D()uglas 2561

Rcd River Lmber Co., 315 Moadmk Bld8. (5) .".......GArfie1d 0922

Santa Fc Lubs Co.' 16 Califomia Struat (u) .........EXibro& 2o7{

Schafer Brog. Lumbcr & Sbdngle 6., I Dmm Straet (ff) .'.............Suttor l71'l

Shcvlin Pine Salce Co, r03C Mmadnock Bldg. (5) .........EXbrook TlXl

Suddm & Chriataon, Inc., 3lo Sum€ Strut (l) ............GArfi.1d 2646

Cart W. Wattr (Orcgon lrubc Salcr), 975 MonsdDoclt Blds. (5) ..........YUkon 1590

Wendling-Nathm Ca., ll0 Mukct StHt (rr) .............Suttcr 5363 West Oregon Luber Co., 1995 Eves Avc. (z{) ,............ATwatcr 557E

OAIILAlTI}

Ewauna Bq Co, (Pyruid Lrmbcr Salcc Co.) Pacific Blds. (f2) ...............GIaD@urt 6293

Gmmton & Gren Imber Co., 261 Livingeton St. (6) ............K811og 4-lEE4

Hill & Morton, Inc, Dmim Sbcst Wharf (7) .......ANdovcr 10?7

Hogu Lumba Conpuy, hd and AJloc Strectr (4) .,.....Gbncourt 6661

E. K. Wood Lmbcr Co. zrrl Frcdcrtct Str6t (6) .......,..KE1b9 2-1217

Wholcralc Bulldlng Supply, Irc., 1607 32nd Srret (E) ..........,.TEmplebar 6961

Wboleeale Lumbcr Dietributorr, Inc9th Avanuc Ptr (6) .............Twtmaks Z5l5

LUMBER

Arcata Rcdwood Co. (J. J. Rea)

SllC Wilehira Blvd. (35) ..........TlfEbrta ?tzt

Atkinon-Stutz Compuy, 62t Petrclcm Bldg. (f5) .......,..PRorpet,lltll

Brueh Induetrlal Lumbcr Co., 5901 S. Crntral Avc. (l) ,...'....CEntury 2-U6E

Bmr lrrober Cmpany, r70 Sdth Bcverly Drlvc, (Bwsly Hilb) .......,........BRadrhrw 2-33EE

Can & Co- L. J. (ll/. D. Dwning),

43t Ch. of Con. Bldg. (15) .'.....PRdFct E&r3

Copcr, W. E"

606-60E Rtchfi.ld Bldg. (r3) .......lllrhral 2l3l

Dut & Ruercll' Inc.'

tlz E. 59th Stret (r) ..'......'.....ADmt 6lal

Dolbccr & Crron Lumber Co.,

gcr Fidcltty Blds. (r3) .,...'.'.."VAndike Eilez

Ed. Founteln lrtmbcr Co.,

62t Pctrclcun Bldg. (f5) ...'.'...PRorpect 4311

Hamnond Lumbcr Campuy,

2010 So. Alancda SL (5{) .........PRorpcct l33il

Hobbr Wall l{Ebcr Co..

625 Rwu Bldg. (r3) .......'......TRinitv 50tt

Holmce Eurc&a lsmbcr Co.,

7U-7rZ ArchirEtr Bldg. (l3) ,.....Mutual gttl

Hover. A. L.,

5225 Wilehin Btvd. (36).....'.'.'..YOrL rrct

Cul H. Kuhl Lmbcr Co., (R' S. Osgood), ?ol s. spring sL (u) ............vAndike6033

R6r C. Larhlev (R. G. Robbinr llmbcr Co.)'

7ll W. Olymplc Blvd. (r5) .......PRorpcct 0724

Lawroe-Philipc Lunbcr Co.'

633 Pctrolcu BH3. (fS) .....,....PRo3pcct t17'l

MacDon:ld Co., L. W.,

7ll W. Olynpic Blvd. (f5) ........PRo3p.ct 7194

MrcDonald & Hanlngton, Ltd., Pctrclcun Bldg. (f5) ......'......PRo3Fct 3lA

Prcific Imbcr Co.. Thc

5225 Wilshirc Blvd. (36) ...'.'......YOrk ll6li

LUMBER

E. K. lllmd Luber Co.' I DI'mm Street (ll) ...............Exbroo& 3710

\f,frycrharuer Salgr Co.. li9 Califomia Street '(rr) ..GArGeld t974

HARDWOODS AND PANELS

Whito Brctharr, Fifth ud Br-man Strcetr (?) ..'..Sutter 1365

CREOSOTEDPILINE-TTESLUMBER_POLES_

Anqica Lubcr & Trcating CoU6 Ntr Mmtgomory Strect (5) .....Sutter 1225

Buta. J. H. & Co.. ililit ilontgomcry Strect (1) .DOuglar 3Ellil

Hdl. Jano L.. rGz Milb Blds. ({) ............'...'suttcr 7520

Pom & Talbot. Inc- Lumber Divirio' iei M*k.t !5tre4 (5) .............Dous|a! 2551

Vm&r l:an Piling & Lubcr Co210 Pln. Strect- (1) ..............Exbrco& 1905

Wendllnc-Nathan Co., rro Mlrklt Street (ll) ..............Sutter 5363

PAN EI.S-DOORS-SASH-SCRE ENS

Catlfmia Buildcrr SuPPIY Co.' - iO stt Averuc ({) -. ' ' .Hlgate 6116

Hogu llmbcr ComPanY' -- fii ""a A[ca Stricti ({) ...Gbnourt 6651

Wc*m Door & Sash Co" "a& a typt"s St"".tt (7) '.....TEmplebarE400

HARDWOODS

Strablc Hardrrod CoPaaY' --rrrit *i-ciii struie (il .....TEnplcbar 55E4

Wbite Brcthcrt, " SO- fltU Stict (r) ..............ANdovcr l5ll

LOS ANGELDS

LUMBER

Penbertly Lubcr Cozosi-e"ri sbt st. ori '. .Klmbail 5rll

PE & Tablot, lnc., Lubcr Divirlon ?il }1'. Olym'pic Blvd. (r5) ......PRorpcct tg|r

Rcd Rivcr lJnbcr Co.

?3 E. Sleuna (fr) ..'...........qEnturv 29o7r letl S. Brcadrra:r (iO .............PRoIPGGI 03u

Su Pcdro Lunbcr Ca.' rsri S. Clntral Avc. ia) ..'.'....Rlchnond ll|r

It00-A wllnlngtqr Road (San Pcdro) :....'.-'...........Su Pcdn zo

Suta Fo Lumbcr Cn., itt Flnmctal Cmtlr Btdr. (rl) ..Vilndltc '|l71

Schalcr Brcr. Lunbcr & Shinglc Co., rU W. 9rh Stct (r5) '.........."TRinitv {27r

Sbwlln Plnc Srlcs Co.

30 Pctrolann Bldg' (r5) ..........PRorp*t 0615

Sinrm hdurtric, Inc., ror| E. Wuhirsior Blvd. (21) '..PRopect 6rE:l

Stute E. J. & Son. zGc E. rlsr St. (li) 'CEnturv 29ll

Suddcn & Chrittcmn, Inc., 630 Bdrd ol Tra& Btds. (il) .....TRinitv tt{1

Taoma Lunbcr Saler'

63? Prtrclcm Btdg. (15) .......'.PRorpcct ll0E

Wcndlinz-Nathu Co-

526 \tillhire Blvd. (36) ' '.... .YOrk rldt

Wcet Orcron Lmber Co.,

aA Pct;olilm Bldg. (f5) '. ....Rlchmond 0261

W. W. Wilkinrn, 3rS W. 9th Stnct (r5) .TRinitv {613

lf,/cycrhauer Sdcr Ca., rirg w. M. Grrud Bldg. (t5) .'.Mlchigu 635r

E. K. Wood Lubcr Go{tio So. Alucda St.'(51) ..'....JEfrcron 3lll

CREOSOTED LUMBER-POLEIiPILINC-TIES

Amcricu llmbcr & Trcating Co.'

lBl S. Brcadway (f5) '.... .PRolpcct 1363

Buter. J. H. & Co..

6ll iVcrt 5th Str.Gt (l3) ' .Mlchigu 62111

Poa & Talbot. tnc., Imbcr Divirion' h4 W. Olynplc Blvd. (r5) .....PRotp6t 8231

*Postoffice Zone Number in Parenthesis.

HARD\IIOODS

Aarics Hsdwmd Co. r90O E. l5th Str6t (5{) ........'PRoDGct {235

BruCr Indurtrlal Luber Co. 5901 S. Cotral Ave. (r) ...'.'...CEnturv 2-0ltt

sruto. E. J. & Son.

2e50 Eart {t.t Str*t (rf) .......CEnturvA2rr

Wotem Hardwod Luba Cozou Ealt lsth Stret (55) .......PRo!EGct 615l

SASH-DOORS_MIIIWORK_SCREEN.r

BLINDS_PANEI-S AND PLYWq)D- IRONING BOARDS

Back Pucl Conpany, 3lG3l4 Elrt 32nd Sarut (lr) .....'..ADms {225 Cdliomh l)or C,mponv, Thc P. O. Bq 126. Vcmi Station (u) Klmball 2lll

Hdcy Brcc. (Suta Montca) ..fezl utf Siret ...'................AShlcv l'221t Kocbl. Jno. }1f. & SoL

652- S. Mvcrr Strut (23) .ANaslur tl9l

Orccon-lVuhington Plvwood Co.'

3i8 ll'at Nlnth Strct (r5) ....-..TRlnitv 4613

Pacific Wood Prcdueta CorPoration'

36@ Tybum Str..t (26) .......'..A.Lbalry 0r0r

Pacific Mutual Door Co., 16D E. Wadington Blvd. (2f)..PRorytctgsal

Rcam Clmpanv. G€o. E'

235 S. Af8;;d8 SFGGT (12) .....Mlchlgan 1t9l

Rcd River Lumbcr Co.'

?@ S. Slausn (rr) '.......'......CEnturvdO?r

Smon Co. (Paradana),

748 So. Ray;ond Ave. (2) ......'..RYu l-6!ltg

Sinoon Induilrlq Inc., r6ra E. Wa*lniton Blvd. (21) '..PRorpcct 6lt3 V|6t Cdrt Scm Co.. lus E!!t 63rd StGi (r) ..Allanr rrt6

W6tcn Mill & Mdldint Co.' 59tl So. \f,fcrtm Avc. (a{) ....TWiuLr ltt|

BT]ILD A *FIJTT]RE WORK" FILE

(Of Needs You Can't Srpply TODAY)

Mcintcining a prospect list in normal times is iust good business. Why then isn't it iust crs good business to keep c record oI the needs you ccn't fill todcy -but which you ccn supply when the mctericls cre crgcrin crvcilcrble? Insteqd of closing the door to luture business by scrying, 'I{o, I'm sorry we hcven't this or that and cqn't get it," wouldn't it be better to scy, "V[fe hcven't such cnd such todqy, but we'll crdvise you when we ccn get it." Then iot it down cnd periodicclly check with your prospect to keep your records up-todcrte. Such c bcrcklog of luture scrles will ccrrry you well into the postwcrr period which lies checd.

AS A BACIOOG FOR TOMORROW'S BUSII\ESS

A St a"tement

TO OUR CUSTOfiERS . . . FROII WHEETEN OSGOOD

For years we have been able to say-"protnpt delivery, any amount of all types of doors." As America's largest door manufacturer we have always been able to make good on this statement. Flowever, for the present it is impossible for us to fulfill this service to our jobbers and deelers. And here's why-now it's

All OutforVirtory

There is only one thing that matters-win the war as quickly as possible. Ve know that this is uppermost in your minds, too. The great bulk of our output of doors and other kindred products is

going into war housing and for othet war purposes. That will be the situation with this company until the enemies of our country are defeated.

Neut Horizons After tbeVar

Big things are-already plenned end develo,ped for the post-ward period. You well remember how Vheeler Osgood "Color Grading" revolutionized the door.industry. After the war look again for Vheeler Osgood to be first to give you major improvements and sensational new developments. Until then we will do our best to fulfill your urgent needs.

WHEEtER, OSOOOD DOOR.S

WHEIIIR OSGOoD SATES CORPoRAiloll, rA(otA, WASHlllGroll

OUR ADVERTTSERS

*Advertirements appea! in afternatc irrueo.

American Hardwood C.o. --

Amedcan Lumber and Treating C.o. ------------21

Arcata Redwood Co. Atlinson-Stutz Co. ----------- ---. .-11

Bac! Panel Company ---.----... ---- 5

Baxter & Co., J. H. -----"------

Blue Diamond Corpotation ----------------------------15

Bradley Lumber Co, of Arkansas

Brush Industrial Lumber Co.

Burns Lumber Co.

California Builders Supply Co. ---------------------.27

California Door Co., The --------------------------------15

California Panel & Veneer Co. ---------------------x

Carr & Co.' L. J. - --- -------------------------.29

Celotex Corporation, The ------------------------------ 7

Chrfutenson Lumber Co. --------,----*-

C,obb Co., T. M. ----------- ------------27

Cooper, W. E. ---------- ---------------1O

Dant & Russell, Inc. --------------------------------------27

Douglas Fir Plywood Airsociation

Eubank & Son, L. H. Ewauna Box Co.

Fordyce-Crocsett Seles Co

THE CALIFOR}IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

Subccription Price, $2.00 per Year Single Copies, 25 cents

How Lumber Looks

Lumber shipments of. 463 mills reporting to the National Lumber Trade Barometer were 2.3 per cent below production for the week ended August 28, 1943. In the same week new orders of these mills were 0.1 per cent less than production. Unfilled order files in the reporting mills amounted to lOZ per cent of stocks. For reporting softwood mills, unfilled orders are equivalent to 41 days' production at the current rate, and gross stocks are equivalent to 36 days' production.

For the year to date, shipments of reporting identical mills exceeded production by 8.9 per cent; orders by 11.3 per cent.

Compared to the average corresponding week of 193539 production of reporting mills was 18.1 per cent greater; shipments were N.9 per cent greater; and orders were 26.2 per cent greater.

The Western Pine Association for the week ended August 2l,106 mills reporting, gave orders as 84,361,000 feet, shipments 82,031,000 feet, and poduction 93,747,0@ feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 464,008,000 feet.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended August 28, 87 mills reporting, gave orders as 18,043,000 feet, shipments 22,V52,000 feet, and production 20,693.000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 124.493.0ffi feet.

The California Redwood Association reported production of. 12 operations for the rrionth of July, 1943, as 33,853,000 feet, shipments 39,641,000 feet, and orders received 59.415,000 feet.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended August 21 reported orders as L27,825,W feet, shipments 120,034,000 feet, and production 115,747,0A0 ket.

For the week ended August 28 orders rvere reported as 135,394,000 feet, shipments 115,714,000 feet, and production 119,475,000 feet.

Dealers M.y Add Dressing Costs to Remanufactured Fir Board Prices

A very important piece of nervs from O.P.A. in Washington came to both the Southern and Northerr.r California retail lumber association ofifices on September 8, and rvas officially announced. Here is a

verbatim copy of the announcement sent out by Orrie Hamilton, Secretary-Manager of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association:

"We have today received word from the Naticlnal I{etail Lumber Dealers Association which, in efiect, passes an official interpretation from the OPA in Washington to the effect that dealers may sell dressed boards, based on mill ceilings for dressed boards, including the $3.50 and $1.50 increases provided by anrendment 1 to MPR-26, even though these boards rvere made from dimension lumber by the dealers. OPA further states that the price for the end product listed in the regulation prevails, regardless of how it rvas produced. Your attention is callecl to the addition for dry lumber in MPR-26. This may be added even if the lumber is dried in the dealer's yard."

All of which means that under this interpretation a dealer who makes inch Fir boards out of bigger stuff, and dresses it, may charge the dressing price of $3.50 (plus the 3O/o mark-up) ; and may also add the dry lumber charge if he dries it, even though he doeS the drying himself.

Southern California Dealers to Meet in Late Fall

No plans will be made for the annual convention of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association until after the National convention in October, but Secretary-Manager Orrie Hamilton expects that it will take place about the last of November, and plans for a splendid meeting.

Southern Pine Concern First Lumber Manufacturer to Get "E" Award

The first Navy "E" Award for a lumber manufacturing concern, has just been announced. It goes to the Angelina County Lumber Company, of Keltys, Texas.

E. L. Kurth, head of that concern, is one of the outstanding business men of the entire South. Jack Dionne, publisher of The California Lumber Merchant, l-ras been invited to act as Master-of-Ceremonies when the ceremony of arvard takes place, and will leave Los Angeles for Texas as soon as the date is announced.

Northern California Association lssues lmportant Dealer Information

From the office of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California at Fresno comes a bulletin giving the following interesting information to lumber merchants:

Amendment No. I of MPR 215 provides that where lumber is remanufactured AT THE REQUEST OF THE CUSTOMER, charges may be made according to the schedule, EXCEPT where the finished product is standard boartls and dimension. In that case no charges may be made.

Another piece of info: MPR 215 now puts No. 3 Shop, No. 1 and No. 2 Box, and No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3 Dimension in Ponderosa Pine in the lower bracket which provides for a $5 mark-up per thousand and 30 per cent. No. 1 Common Ponderosa Dimension is considered equivalent to No. 3 Ponderosa Boards.

Still another: Amendment No. 5 to MPR 253, regarding Redwood, deletes the paragraph which formerly required persons buying or selling 34,000 pounds or more of Redwood lumber sold as "dry" or "partially dry" to send OPA invoices covering such transactions. This is no longer necessary.

CARL McDOWELL IN NAVY

Carl McDowell of Pope & Talbot, fnc., is now a Lieutenant (J.G.) in the Navy.

llry l(ilns Year Round Production

'?crul Bunycn's" kitns qt Westwood turned orul 221 million leet of lumber in 1942. Mcrnulccture and delivery ccrn thus be carried on at c stecrdy rcrte the yeqr round.

Research and its resulting improvements are giving Bed River better lcrcilities cnd "know-how" Ior postwcrr service.

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California Redwood Performed Miracles in Rebuilding Hurricane

Damage in Houston-Galveston Are.

Many stories have been told and published concerning the great tropical hurricane that ravaged the HoustonGalveston area on the night of July 28th; and of splendid efforts that have been made by building material people to assist in repairing and rebuilding the storm-damaged territory; but the story of what California Redwood did is a masterpiece

Tremendous damage was done by the wind that sometimes reached 130 miles per hour to structures of all sorts; and no type of building things suffered more than wooden cooling towers. On a'ccount of the very character of their construction they have little to offer a great wind in the way of resistance. So countless small cooling towers all over the storm area were mashed and smashed and knocked around. Likewise some of the very largest ones. And some of the most serious events of this character was the damage to big cooling towers on several of the oil refineries, where they are busily engaged in turning out petroleum products vital to the war effort.

The Fluor Corporation, of Los Angeles, California, is the biggest fabricator of woqden cooling towers in the world. doing an international business of this sort. When the call from several storm-damaged refineries went to Fluor the very night of the storm, they got busy and performed some miracles perhaps never before attempted in that particular line. They jumped their plant operation from 48 to 68 hours per week, and intensified their work. They more than doubled their normal production. They went to fabricating California Redwood into cooling towers of certain specifications, in knock-down form. With Government aid they got express cars almost out of the blue, and they went to

STRESS GRADE LUMBER SPECIFICATIONS

As a result of numerous inquiries, the Conservation Division of WPB announced that printed copies of national emergency specifications for ihe design, fabrication and erection of stress grade lumber and its fastenings for buildings will be available about October 1, 1943.

loading these cars to the roof with this fabricated Redwood material. The storm was the night of Jaly 8th. On July 30th they were already moving express cars loaded with this material toward Houston. By August 13th they had delivered on the various jobs in the storm area SIXI'Y CARLOADS of Redwood cooling tower lumber, all shipped by express. They claim it was the biggest express shipment in the world's history. Besides that, they shipped ten cars by ordinary freight, making a total of seventy carloads of cooling tower lumber, all shipped in fifteen days. In board feet it amounted to about 900,000 feet of lumber. All of it was fabricated and ready for their own crews of men to erect and fit into place. The biggest damage was to the Shell oil refinery. They put fifty-six cars of Redwood into the Shell cooling tower and had it in operation in just three weeks from the time of the storm. Other large oil refineries in that area got the rest of the seventy cars. The sixty cars of express shipped lumber was all delivered in Houston fifteen days after ordered, all cut and fitted and ready for use. The fastest express and passenger trains hauled these shipments.

The miracle was made possible by the fact that they carry in stock at all times great quantities of Redwood lumber from The Pacific Lumber Company, of San Francisco, and with their crews of trained men and their systematized plan of operations, they were able to fabricate and ship this stock in a small fraction of normal time. The Fluor Corporation has its home in Los Angeles, and is headed by Peter Fluor, who built a world-wide business from a shoestring start. Their performance in this hurricane emergency is probably an all time world's record for an industrial efficiency.

HOME ON LEAVE

Capt. Fred Nutter, U. S. Marine Corps, owner of the Nutter Lumber Co., Pomona, Calif., was recently home on a 10-day leave. He has been on active duty since September, 1942, and has been stationed at Dutch Harbor since last October.

BIG NATIONAT ADVER,TISING PR,OGRAM ON Builds Increqsed Sqles for Deqlers

TT's HAppENINc all over the country! Sales of I Celotex Triple-Sealed Roofing are on the upswing. Celotex national advertising is doing a great job in building preference for this roofing among home-owners. One sale leads to another as enthusiastic users recommend Celotex tipleSealed Roofing to their friends.

This is definite proof that the advertising and merchandising program to make Celotex ThipleSealed Roofing the outstanding roofing line in America is well on its way. It is also proof that featuring Celotex Thiple-Sealed Roofing from now on will bring ever-increasing vol"rne and profits your way.

Advertising Thqt's Getting Results

Month after month Celotex national advertising appears in the largest group of publications used by any company in the building industry. These magazines include Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Better Homes and Gardens, House & Garden, House Beautiful, American Home, Parents' Magazine, Country Gentleman, Successful Farming-reaching millions of home-owners, hundreds of them right in your community.

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"The Man upstairs brought me down. I talked to Him. I talked to Him plenty. And He must have heard me."

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One of the remarkable statements that has so far come out of this war. Lt. Matthew Vinson said it when he found himself alive "over there," after crash-landing a blazing and stricken bomber from which all others had parachuted. They asked him how he made it, and the above words were his reply. Read them again. There's inspiration in them.

"Parade" says that "r,; ""i-"rr""r, pilot had skidded his plane off the side of an aircraft carrier while taking off, he stuck up a sign on the edge that read: "Soft shoulder." You can't kill that spirit.

And then there were the two American soldiers sightseeing in London, who were walking down Whitehall looking for the War OfEce. They hailed a British Tommy in uniform, and asked: "Which side is the War Office on?" The Tommy looked startled, and answered: "Gorblimey! Ours, f 'opes."

"\11/hat is this Mason-Dixon line, soldier?" asked a rookie from New York of the private from Louisiana. The reply was quick: "It's the dividing line between you-all and youse-guys."

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Natal Mercury tells a swell army story about the American boys in an Italian prison camp where there was a particularly tough and nasty guard. So they conspired against him, and each boy who wrote home mentioned this particular guard, told what a swell fellow he was, and how good he was to the prisoners. Letters are censored, The guard was fired.

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A soldier in New York went into a restaurant and ordered sausage for breakfast. The waitress came back to say that they had none ready, but if he would wait a few minutes the cook would fix some. Just then someone in the kitchen stepped on the tail of a dog. The dog howled. The soldier left.

There was a man who went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among thieves. And along came a guy and gave him a cup of coffee with cream and sugar, and a thick ham sandwich on buttered bread. You've guessed it. That WAS the Good Samaritan.

The boy who can drop a precision bomb with precision is the hero of the battle fronts. And on the home front, it's tlre guy who knows where you can get a good steak.

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The vet of World War One was telling his wide-eyed son about some of his warlike exploits, how he took the gun away from a German and clubbed him with it, took the bayonet from an Austrian and stabbed him with it, took the sword from an Italian and sabred him with it. "Son," he said, "my system is, always fight them with their own weapons." The boy thought that over for a minute, and asked: "But, Dad, how would you sting a wasp?" ***

The fellow who said that two could live as cheaply as one, must have been talking about the farmer and the crow; or the horse and the sparrow. ***

A philosopher is a man who can't enjoy life because he's so busy trying to figure out what it's all about.

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Mose Hawkins, who raises cawn an' taters an' plenty of 'em, says de onlies kine of a 'oman fo' a fahm niggah to marry up wid is a tall, thin one what won't keep de sun offn de cawn an' taters wid huh shadow whilst she's hoein'.

Roping Joe, the cowboy from Wyoming, says that the radio may be fine for lots of folks, but it's about ruined the peace of mind of the cowhands. It learned them plenty of new cowboy songs, Joe says, but the trouble is it showed them that the cowboy talk they been usin' all their lives ain't the real thing, a-tall.

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And then, of course, there was the wag who, when someone asked him how much longer the war was going to last said: "Relax. ft's all over but the shootin'."

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tlefieldswherethe greotest wor in history is being decided-tribute is being poid to o giont. The fighting spirit, the spirit of cooperotion thot is Uncle Som, is living up to its press notices. And the Axis heods ore rolling where they moy! Much of Uncle Som's bottle must be fought here ot home. Moteriols must be pr:ovided for wor industryplonts, giont wor construction projects, for shipyords, oircroft plonts, hospitols, borrocks, militory instollotions of oll kinds. The George E. Reom Compony is in the fight. Wherever construction is o port of the wor effort its "vitol victory moteriols" ore speeding the doy of complete ond losting victory!

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And then there was the boss who called the good-looking new steno in and told her he thought the clothes she wore to work were what might be described as "too little and too late." He suggested that she do something about them. She answered: "A woman's charms are her best weapons in the battle of life." He said, "O.K. Sister, but you'll never be arrested for carrying your weapons concealed." ***

Col. Robert L. Scott, in a new book he has written about ffying with that American hero of heroes, Chennault, in China, tells this priceless tale. He remarked to Chennault one day what a pity it is that we can't just press a button that will kill every Jap on the face of the earth, all at one time. Chennault said: "We don't want to do that. Think of the fun we have killing them slow."

When press reporo U*r*. ln. ,it.,"tion in Germany grows rapidly worse and the Nazis are revolting, someone always questions the truth of the report. I never do. They've always been that way to me. ***

?he barefoot dancing man who got so much painful pub. licity and lost his government job, had many critics, but also some defenders. Someone said: "What if he did dance? King David danced before the Ark of the Cove-

nant." Sure. And King David did many other things, such as murder and wife stealing. Which proves what?

Another good argument against predicting a long, long war, is based on sound economics. Millions of our war workers make a great deal more money now than they ever did before. If they thought the war would end in the near future it might be an incentive to them to save their nloney, buy bonds, and get out of the spending line. Whereas if they thought the war was going on indefinitely it would be human nature to say: "Let's spend this year, and save next."

Speaking of economics (and who, in these days, does not?) the pay-as-you-go income tax brings up numerous interesting situations. For instance, the Treasury Department has furnished employers generally a booklet explaining the tax, and also containing quick reference tables showing the employer at a glance how much to take from the pay of each employee. These figures are not in all cases exact, but are to be equalized at the end of the year when the employee makes out his annual income tax report. However, they do some queer things at the moment. The employee informs the employer of his exemption status regarding marriage and dependents. The employer simply turns to the

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book, looks at the table provided for a person of that status, and the table tells him how much to deduct from the employee's pay. Most employers, esPecially large ones, use this book.

I read the other day where several employees of a firm had petitioned the employer for a REDUCTION of salary, claiming that under the system of pay-as-you-go deduction used they would get more money, net, at a slightly lower salary scale. So I looked to see if this could happen, and sure 'nuf, it not only can but frequently does, no doubt. Take the case of a married man with no children who gets $200 a month. The book says take $23.20 a month from his check, leaving him $176.30. But if he got a salary of $199 a month instead of $20O, the deduction called for ii $tS.zO a month, leaving him $183.80 a month, or $7 more than if his salary was a dollar a month more. While the income tax paJment at the end of the year would adjust this, it is readily understandable that the average employee to whom it happens looks upon the system with dislike, if not suspicion.

A sawmill man reported to me that one of his employees came to him deeply puzzled. He had figured it out that if he had worked one day less in July than he did work, he

Frank White Retires

Announcement is made by the Hammond Lumber Cornpany, San Francisco, of the retirement, effective September 1. of Frank H. White.

Mr. White, who has been with the company for the past 25 yearc, has been in poor health for some time and finds himqelf unable to continue with his work. He is retiring to his home in Alameda. where he will be available for consultation when occasions arise where the company wishes to make use of his knowledge and experience. His many friends will wish him an early recovery.

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would have made more money, net. His conclusion was that he should keep track of such situations, and not work that other day. ft is reported by various employers that their employees are learning to adjust their working time to fit the "deducks."

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In the Southern cities there is recently reported a considerable increase in the number of men looking for work, particularly Negroes. Come to find out many of them have quit high wage industrial jobs because they don't want to pay the pay-as-you-go deductions. I read in a paper a statement by a Treasury man who said various employers reported to him that many men quit the first pay-day the pay-as-you-go deductions started. Employers report that many men seeking work have figured out what their exemptions are, and do not propose to earn a single dollar more than that, so that no deductions for income tax will be taken from their pay. They are rating themselves to stay under the tax level. Soms of them seek only day work for that reason. When they come to the income tax level, they figure they've worked enough for that week.

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And if you don't believe there are worlds of men who would rather make $24 a week and pay no tax than make twice that much and pay it, then you just don't know the psychology of these folks.

Lost Your Keys Mr. L. A. Lumberman ?

Larry Turnbull, the tall young man who represents the Shevlin Pine Sales Company in Los Angeles, phoned in to THE LUMBER MERCHANT office to report that a key container with the Shevlin name on it and two keys inside of it have been found and turned in to his office. He takes it for granted that some lumberman lost it, because of the Shevlin container. So, Mr. Lumberman, if you own the lost keys, phone Turnbull and get them back, courtesy of that young man and THE LUMBER MERCHIANT. Y.ou're welcome. kind sir.

From trees to plcrnes-one oI the mcrny mqrvels oI the lumber industry. The lull story will be told one dcry, crnd when it is we shqll be proud ol the part the industry hcs hcd in the war effort.

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Age not guaranteed---Sone I have toldlor 20 years---Some Lers

Those Talking Animals

A couple of years ago the talking animal stories came into favor, and have been cropping up ever since, with just enough changes and variations to keep them funny.

They started with the one about P. T. Barnum, the circus king, finding a talking horse on a farm. The horse told him he'd won the Kentucky Derby. Barnum bought the horse from the farmer, and after getting possession declared him to be the most wonderful horse in history. The farmer said "Mr. Barnum, ydu didn't fall for that lie he tells about winning the Kentucky Derby, did you?"

In a funny movie a short time later two horses are seen talking, when in walks two dogs who are likewise conversing aloud. One horse looked at the other, and remarked: "Imagine ! A talking dog !"

Then there was the old race horse jockey who recognized an old horse pulling an ice wagon as a former famous stake horse he used to ride. He asked the horse if he wasn't

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Prince Robert the great runner, and the horse admitted he was; then told his old rider how he had gotten old, his legs had buckled, and so he finally ended up pulling an ice wagon. The jockey was indignant. "I'll find your owner and tell him who you are. I'm sure he wouldn't want one of the greatest horses in history pulling his ice wagon." "Don't do that," the horse begged him. "You don't lmow this guy. If he found out I could talk he'd make me go up and down the street yelling-'Ice !' "

Then there is the one about the drunk who staggered close to a milk wagon horse, and heard the horse say-"Get away from me you drunken bum." The drunk, amazed, asked eu1lsud-"Who said that? Who called me a drunken bum?" A little dog on the curb trlsreyslsd-"It was the horse there; he called you a drunken bum." The drunk drew a sigh of relief, and said as he staggered off: "Okay! Okay! For a moment I thought I was imagining things."

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Walter Scrim Has Three Sons in Uncle Samts Service in Pacific

Walter G. Scrim has three sons-his entire crop-in the service of Uncle Sam. all of them somewhere in the I'acific Ocean. The oldest son, Robert, is a Lieutenant Junior Grade in the Navy. The other two, George and Alexander, are twins. George is a Cadet Midshipman in the Merchant Marine, and is on ship training in the Pacific somewhere. Alexander is purser on a \Mar Shipping Administration ship, also in tl-re Far East somewhere.

Walter Scrim, as is rvell known, is a veteran Philippine Mahogany man who retired from that line of business for the duration the day the Japs struck the Philippines. While such things are, of course, uncertain, he hears by the grapevine that the mill he represented, that of the Findlay-Millar Timber Company, is being operated by the Japs; also that the very large plant of the Insular Lumber Company is being operated. These are two of the largest and most modern mills on the Islands, and it is reasonable to suppose that with their great need for lurnber for war purposes, the Japs are using them for lumber making.

Mr. Scrim had two retail lumber yards in the San Fernando Valley outside Los Angeles, one at Van Nuys and one at Encino. He has closed the Van Nuys yard and solcl the property, but is doing a land office business at Encino, the yard being on the Ventura Highway. Here he sells everything anyone can think of except ice cream sodas, ancl is getting by in great shape. "f am iunning the yard just as you have been advocating in your Lumber Merchant editorials," says Mr. Scrim, "and we are getting fine results. We sell anything and everything our local trade wants or needs, regardless of how little related it seems to be to a regular retail lumber business. But we are getting by nicely by so doing."

IO PER CENT INCREASE ANNOUNCED FOR MAPLE. BIRCH AND BEECH FLOORING

A flat 10 per cent increase in basic mill prices for Maple, Birch and Beech flooring sold by mills in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota was announced September 2 by the OPA. The price advance is authorized in Amendment No. 1 to MPR No. 432, and becomes effective September 8, 1943.

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How Things Have Changed!

From the standpoint of the retail lumber dealer, lumber things have changed as much in California as the gal did who left home a decided brunette and came back a platinum blonde. No, friends, things aren't the same as they used to be in the good old days "befo' de wah." And the lumber dealer who is able to spend no more than half of his time doing head work and hand work both of a kind he never dreamed of in days gone by, is a lucky guy. The successful dealer must be more than a skillful merchant. fle must be an economic and commercial and industrial tight-rope walker of the finest sort. We used to say that the successful lumber merchant had to be "on his toes." He still does; but his toes are on a tight-wire stretched high up. The day of the salesman has gone. And the day of the procurer has come. And the dealer who succeeds in procuring sufficient lumber to keep his business top side up these days, deserves a medal for management.

Just a few thoughts to illustrate the point. Take Southern California in particular. This was by long standing a rough green lumber market. Most of the Fir lumber the dealers purchased came by water from tidewater mills not equipped to season and surface their product like most rail mills do. Southern California dealers could handle that rough, green stock because most of them had storage space for air-drying and the facilities for further manufacturing or at least dressing. And those who did not could secure such services from the larger distributing yards. Before the war this water-borne green lumber came to the dealers of this territory at a much lesser transportation rate than rail mills had to pay for bringing in dry lumber. Just prior to the beginning of the war, however, a considerable amount of small dimension was coming in in green 2 inch thickedge /a inch off, hit or miss, and a small amount came in S4S green-not at a saving in freight for the dealers but in order that more footage could be stored in the lumber vessels to help the owners meet mounting operating costs.

Today this district faces an entirely different situation. A very small amount of lumber is coming to Southern California by water. The freight rate is about double the prewar rate. Because there are few lumber vessels left in operation on this coast the great bulk of lumber that is coming in is rough and green, comes by rail, and because of its great weight the freight cost is terrific. Most of what the dealer can get his hands on is in unsalable sizes larger than the boards and dimension for which he and his trade longs. The Administrator for the government will not release to these dealers more than ten per cent of each shipment in boards, 4 inch dimension, and 6 inch dimension, which means that they must take at least 70 per cent of the lumber they can get in large dimension, timbers, planks, and uppers, most of which must be remanufactured to more or less extent to be salable and usable. And most of this remanufacture has to be done on old slow-speed machinery which comprises the average equipment owned by or available to the dealer.

As this is written there has been a considerable slabken-

ing in the market for green, rough Fir timbers (with the exception of stringer sizes), and the dealer is being offered such stock more freely and in greater quantity than at any time since the emergency began. A man on the outside looking in would promptly jump to the conclusion that all the dealer has to do now is to buy plenty of this available material, rip or resaw it into the smaller sizes desired by his trade, and get started doing business with a bang. But now the present price ceilings raise their threatening heads. For the ceiling on timbers is higher than the ceiling on boards and dimension which may be ripped from these larger units. So every time the dealer cuts a timber down, he cuts down the price he can charge for the sizes he is creating. And what is more, the present regulations do NOT permit him to add the cost of ripping, resawing, or remanufacturing. Thus, if a dealer ripped some 6x6's into boards or 2 inch dimension, he cuts down the sales price of every foot of material, and is out whatever it costs him to do the machining.

This situation, of course, absolutely prohibits any wholesaler from indulging in any such habit as buying timbers and cutting them up small and selling them, because he can add nothing for his expense, and he must sell for the lower ceiling prices of the smaller sized items. But the dealer, on the other hand (or even on the same hand if you like it better that way) CAN do such merchandising if he wants to. And right now plenty of them DO. For while the dealer loses something on the price of the stock when it is cut up and also must go to the expense of the ripping or resawing, he has the advantage of his retail mark-up, and the recent increase in the retail mark-up has in reality put a lot of dealers back in the lumber business who have practically been on the cold outside for some time past.

SO TODAY \VE FIND a world of dealers buying rough, green Fir timbers coming in by rail, paying the tremendous freight charges on the 33(X) pound per thousand stock, resawing, ripping, dressing, and even kiln-drying the reducedsize lumber, absorbing all that cost and then selling it to their trade. Many of them claim that the margin of profit remaining from the retail mark-up is practically swallowed up by the increased costs; but they have the satisfaction of keeping their business going, and supplying some of their customer needs. ft is reported on the best authority that all of the commercial dry kilns and resawing and remanufacturing plants in Southern California are working day and night trying to keep up with the demand. A whale of a business is being done in this way. The streets are filled with trucks hauling lumber from retail yards to remanufacturing or kiln drying plants; and then hauling the worked lumber back.

One thing can be said: it is getting considerable lumber to people who need it and have previously not been able to get it; and it has put some life back in the retail lumber game.

The retail lumbermen of California are at this moment striving through their associations to bring pressure to bear

on the authorities at Washington to permit them to add the cost of resawing, ripping, and remanufacturing big and usable items of lumber into smaller and practical items. Up to this moment this is forbidden, so long as the items into which the timbers are reduced are standard lumber items. But a dealer may accept a service of cutting large stuff into smaller items of any kind that are not standard lumber items and therefore covered by a price ceiling, and charge for that service. The biggest thing the dealers of this territory are hoping for now is a revised order that will permit them to charge for remanufacturing. They are likewise clamoring through their associations for an equalization of the ceiling prices on small timbers with those of boards and dimension, so that they can rip timbers into boards and dimension without losing ceiling values. They don't care whether the price of the timbers is lowered, the price of the small stock is increased, or a little of each; but they hope for equalization.

This is all we have room for now. We'll talk about this more later.

National Retail Convention in Chicago in October

The annual convention of Dealers Association will be 18 and 19. Quite a number are expected to attend.

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ROOFING, PAPEB, NAILS, qll trpes INSIII.AflON and WATERPROOFING SPECIALTIES

PLYPANELS-PLYFORM-PLYWALL

Seruice

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gives stronger slructures of lower cosl

IN rnrsr soy bean storage bins wood again demonstrates its wide adaptability as a structural material that delivers the finest type of storage it the lowest cost Per bushel.

The development of modern structural glues made possible the fabrication of srong laminated wood bands. These bands were engineered to meet the load requirements. As the Pressure decreases at the top of the bins the number of plys in the bands are reduced. The wide, laminated wood bands in tension provide adequate resistance to bursting Pressures. Their broad bearing surfaces permit the use of relatively thin (tVainches) Douglas Fir flooring applied vertically which forms rigid walls and saves material.

The frame work supporring the conveyor housing, which extends along the top of the bins, consists of two timber Teco connected trusses. The span is forty-seven feet between the supports.

Advances that have been made in better and more economical use of lumber through wood lamination and the Teco connector system of construction, are well demonsuated in these bins. This cylindrical storage offers more cubage per linear foot of wall than any other type of structure.

Engineering in lumber will continue to broaden the field for lumberbuilt structures, because it will bring to our Peace-time needs better and more economical methods of building with wood.

3truilO tN TODAY'g tlltxlt-Today, more than in any other period, the home owner and farmer are more fully aware of the imponance of maintenance and repair. Notwithsanding the less than normal flow of lumber for civilian requirements, it is still serving these essential markets. Lumber used alone or in combination with other materials, will help you serve in many ways your city and farm customers.

DANIEL WEBSTER ON WASHINGTON

The following belongs in every scrapbook. It is part of Daniel Webster's eulogy of George Washington:

"Other misfortunes may be borne, or their effects overcome. If disastrous wars should sweep our commerce from the ocean, another generation may renew it; if it exhaust our treasury, future industry may replenish it; if it desolate and lay waste our fields, still, under a new cultivation, they will grow green again, and ripen to future harvests.

"It were but a trifle even if the walls of yonder Capitol were to crumble, if its lofty pillars should fall, and its gorgeous decorations be all covered by the dust of the valley. All these may be rebuilt.

"But who shall reconstruct the fabric of demolished government?

"Who shall rear again the well-proportioned columns of constitutional liberty?

"Who shall frame together the skillful architecture which unites national sovereignty with State rights, individual security, and public prosperity?

"No, if these columns fall, they will not be raised again. Like the Coliseum and the Parthenon, they wilt be destined to a mournful and melancholy immortality. Bitterer tears, however, will flow over them than ever were shed over the monuments of Roman or Grecian art; for they will be the monuments of a more glorious edifice than Greece or Rome ever saw; the edifice of constitutional American liberty."

I EXPECT NO MIRACLES TO FOLLOW VICTORY

A man to achieve anything in life will still need to live by the sweat of his brow. Life will still be rain with sunshine; pain with pleasure. There will be greed to check and evil to curb. We shall not impose a way of life upon other people. But, under God, a man who wants freedom, a man anywhere, can have our hand in help.-Gabriel Heatter.

Bill: "If f had some coffee I'd make some iced coffee, if I had some ice."

Jill: "Yes, and if you had some grass you could make yourself some butter-if you had a cow and a churn.',

DIFFERENT

Lieutenant: (Roaring with rage) "Who in the hell told you to put those flowers on the table, Corporal?"

Corporal: "The Colonel, Sir."

Lieutenant: "Lovely, aren't they?"

IN THE ARMY

Every office boy who is going into the army usually says: "Wow, I'd like to get my boss under me as a private, ifIbecameasergeant."

Well, among the people who are sergeants and have under them individuals whom they didn't like in civilian life, are the following:

A taxicab driver from Brooklyn has under him a policeman who gave him a lot of tickets for parking violations; a man from Missouri has under him his ex-wife's husband; a young lad who flunked chemistry has under him his chemistry teacher; a wrestler, barred from working in Kansas, has under him the referee who barred him for kicking his opponent in the eye.-Parade.

IN BALLYMORE

The boys go down to Ball5rmore to meet the lassies there, They love the sparkle of their eyes, the fragrance of their hair;

And O your heart would tingle as they dance upon the green, Each happy lad from Sheela and his beautiful colleen.

The boys go down from Sheela and there,s laughter all the wxY'

For all the girls of Ballymore are glamorous and gay, And when the dance is finished sure their hearts are founts of bliss,

For no one goes from Ballymore without a lassie's kiss.

I loved the town of Ballymore a score of years ago, My feet were always itching and my heart was all aglow, Whenever Sunday came around and all the chores were done,

And I could go to Ballymore to meet the ..lovely one.,'

I loved the town of Ballymore, but little joy it gave, Within its little churchyard there's an ivy-covered grave, And on a slab of marble there,s a name-my very own_

And O a mother and her babe are sleeping neath the stone.

I have no heart for rollicking since Mary went away, She's sleeping in her wedding dress beneath the mounded cIay,

And O it's f'll be lonesome and my heart exceeding sore, Tilt I shall sleep beside her in the sod of Ballymore. -T.E.B. in Chicago Tribune.

C PA Holds Auctions in Pine Districts Jack Daushertv Will Build

A series of meetings has been held by the Central Procuring Agency in conjunction with the War Production Board, in the \Mestern Pine producing districts.

Restrictive orders, directives, credits, and other subjects were discussed at the meetings and the CPA offered for placement as much of their current requirements as could be placed.

Present at the meetings representing the lumber brancl-r of the WPB was Huntington Taylor of Washington, D. C.; and Major W. M. Porter and James F. Mahoney, representing the CPA.

The meetings were held on the following dates: San Francisco, September 3; Klamath Falls, September 7; Portland, September 10; Spokane, September 14.

Y eneer Plant in Log Angelet

A. Jack Daugherty, head of the Hoosier Veneer Company, of Indianapolis, fndiana, has been spending most of his time in Los Angeles recently and is making active preparations to build and operate a modern veneer plant in Los Angeles. The site has been secured, the equipment is being secured and assembled, and Mr. Daugherty has rented a home and is getting ready to spend most of his time here. He is one of the nation's best known veneer manufacturers. His plans in building this Southern California plant are largely built on postwar expectations. He looks for wonderful development in the use of hardwood veneers in this territory when the war ends.

OPA Answers a Lot of lmportant Retail Lumber Questions Propounded bv Orrie Hamilton

California retail lumber dealers, struggling with the vital problem of getting lumber for their customers, have been firing questions of all sorts at Orrie Hamilton, SecretaryTreasurer of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association. Those he can answer get quick action. Those he cannot, he turns in to the authorities for enlightenment. A number of tough ones that have had the dealers scratching their heads having accumulated recently, he put them into terse shape and sent them in pronto to Peter A. Stone, Price Executive of the Lumber Branch of OPA in Washington.

Stone's reply was unusually prompt, and arrived in abouL ten days from the time the queries were put in the mail. Since all of these questions and replies are of direct interest to practically all retail lumber dealers, THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT is glad to reprint them for your information, and Mr. Stone made it easy for us by repeating each question and then answering each in its turn. Here they are:

Question 1(a). Where a dealer stocks 4x6 rough greerr lumber, may he base his selling price on prices and estimated average weights in the applicable mill regulation lor the size of rough green 4x6s and add his local surfacing charges as provided in Revised Maximum Price Regulation No. 215, when, after he receives the order, he is required to remanufacture that lumber into 2x6 S4S stock?

Answer 1(a). The end product being a standard size (2x6 S4S) he may not add any milling charges. He must base his price on the f.o.b. mill price and his inbound freight f.or 2x6 in the species and grade and weights listed in the applicable regulation.

Question 1(b). When a dealer purchases rough green clears and he stores that lumber in his yard for seasoning, may he base his price on the applicable mill regulation for the size of lumber he received and the weight of rough green clears and add the local milling charges as provided in Maximum Price Regulation No. 215 when he remanufactures that lumber into casing, base, flooring, finish, etc. ?

Answer (1)b. He must base his price and weights on the end product as listed in the applicable regulation unless the end product is non-standard or larger than boards and dimension. He may add milling charges only where the end product is substandard or larger than boards and dimension or the lumber is worked to special patterns.

Question 1(c). Does the senterice in sub-paragraph (6) of Section 10(a) ". Under any condition, these charges may not be added to produce any item of boards or dimension in standard sizes or sizes reasonably similar thereto, shown in the applicable regulation," apply only to the charges for ripping and resawing?

Answer 1(c). No. This applies to any type of millirig, where the end product is a standard size, pattern, or item.

Question(i). Does the term "boards and dimension" apply only to the common grades ?

Answer (i). No. Applies to any grade where the end product is not larger than the sizes described in Section lo(a) (a) Gi), (2 in. and thinner, 12 in. and narrower and 24 f.t. and shorter).

Question 2(a). What is meant by the term "outgauging" in Section 10(a) under Maximum Milling Charges?

Answer 2(a). Outgauging is the tapering the full length of one or more sides to a bevel as in a bevelled sleeper.

Question 2(b). Under Section 15, are dealers require<l to make out a sales ticket on each and every cash sale, regardless of size and include the name and address of the buyer, etc. ?

Answer 2(b). Yes, except cash sales of $10 or less.

Question 2(c). May a dealer use his March, 1942, "setup" charge when he is required to set-up his sticker or shaper to produce small quantities of special mounted patterns to meet the buyer's specifications ?

Answer 2(c). No. The table in revised Maximum Price Regulation No. 215 sets specific charges for working to special patterns.

Question 2(d). May a dealer use his March, 1942, price for work or service performed by him such as adzing, bandsawing, boring, dadoing, square-but including cutting to exact specified lengths, tapering or diagonal ripping, sanding, scalloping, pressure treating, including Wolmanizing, zinc chloride, creosoting, etc. ?

Answer 2(d). No. Where special specifications, workings or extras are not provided for in the regulation, seller must write to this office for a price as required in Section 25 of Revised Maximum Price Regulation No. 215.

Question 2(e). Where a dealer performs work or services which are not covered by Revised Maximum Price Regulation No. 215 on lumber, the sale of which is controlled thereby, may he apply the rules relative to caslr discounts contained in Section 16(b), (1) which provides that no discount over 2 per cent is considered a cash discount ?

Answer 2(e). Yes. All speeial services are controlled by Revised Maximum Price Regulation No. 215 and cash discount provisions are a part of the regulation.

Question (f). When a dealer purchases rough green clears, may he base his selling price on the applicable mill weight and prices for rough green clears and add his loca! mill and drying charges when he seasons and remanufactures that lumber into casing, base, finish, etc.

Answer (f). Drying and milling fir clears at distribution yards yard must base prices and weights basis end product sold as listed Maximum Price Regulation 26 unless end product is nonstandard or larger than dimension as defined in revised Maximum Price Regulation 215, Sec. 10 (4) (11).

Reaching Your Prospects Through Their Pocketbooks

In advertisements like this, we are telling businessmen, Governnent and induskial executves, architects and builders how Wolmanizsd Lumber* is saving time and money on all kinds oI conshuction. You'll certainly profit by the interest aroused.

Wolmanized Lumber is 61dina1y wood made hiShly resistant to decay and termite attack by vacuum-pressure impregnation with Wolrnan Salb* preservative, the "alloying ingredient". Be prepared to push the sale ef rhis treated lumber for poetwar usee. American Lumber & Treating Company, 1648 McCormick Bldg., Chicago 4, IlI.

'Regfutered trad+narb

Captain Afexand et A. McKenzie

.Captain Alexander A. McKenzie, master of The Pacific Lumber Company's S.S. Scotia when this vessel rvas plying in the lumber trade up and down the West Coast, passed away at sea on August 3 from a heart attack and was buried at sea.

Captain l\{cKenzie retired from sea duty after The pacific Lumber Company discontinued its coastwise service, but was commissioned a Captain in the U. S. Navy after this country entered World War II, and again went to sea as an active master.

He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, 57 years ago, and was known to his intimates as "Red Lead." He went to sea at the age of 14 and some years later came to San Francisco, where he made his home.

Captain McKenzie has also served as master for the Standard Oil Company, the old Oceanic Company, and the Matson Naviagation Company. During World I he saw active duty in the Navy as a Lieutenant Commander.

He is survived by his wife, Sara, and a son, Robert J,, Lieutenant Commander, U. S. Navy.

Retaifers' Committee Meets in S. F.

A meeting of the nominating committee of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California was held in the Palace lfotel, San Francisco, September 3, for the purpose of nominating the officers and directors of the Association, who will be elected at the annual meeting in October.

The following attended: Joe Rodgers, Square Deal Lumber Co., Salinas, chairman; E. S. McBride, Davis Lumber Co., Davis; Frank Minard, C. S. Pierce Lumber Co., Fresno; Al Stockton, A. L. Stockton Lumber Co., Daly City; Eddie Brush, Loop Lumber Co., San Fran,cisco, and Secretary Bernard B. Barber, Fresno.

George Carpenter Visit3 California and Interviews Lumber Trade

George Carpenter has been a recent visitor in California. He spent several days in Northern California visiting many of the prominent lumbermen and looking over the building and lumber situation, and several days in Los Angeles. Here he was the guest of Orrie Hamilton who arranged his schedule and guided him about. He met many of the leading lumbermen of Southern California. He left for Washington to be there a week or so, and will then return to his present headquarters in Portland, Oregon.

Mr. Carpenter, as Administrator of L218 is a person of great importance to the lumbermen of the West in general, and California in particular. His home is in the New England states, he was'moved to Washington when he joined the Government lumber service, and has been stationed in Portland for about a year, and will be there indefinitely. He is a genial and sympathetic student of lumber and building, able and willing to grasp the essentials of conditions as they are presented to him.

Ecrl Heber Manages Stcnton Sales

LeRoy Stanton announces that effective at once Earl Heber has been promoted from the sales department of E. J. Stanton & Son to the position of sales manag'er, working directly under Mr. Stanton. Mr. Heber has been with Stanton eighteen months, previous to which he has had twenty-five years expeiience in lumber and building material sales. He knows the Southern California building trade well, and has many friends in the industry.

WITH McDUFFEE LUMBER SALES CORP.

B. R. (Barnie) Garcia, who has been with Larsson Traffic Service, San Francisco, for the past 18 years, became associated with McDuffee Lumber Sales Corporation, Monadnock Building, San Francisco, September l.

Port Orford Cedar

(Alro Laown cr llVhttc Codcr or Lqrron C}!res)

UICTl| R High Early Sttength

PORTTANID GEMENT

Gucrrcnteed lo meet or dxceed requirements ol Americcm Society lor Testing Mcrtericrls Speciliccrtions lor High Ecrly Strength Portlcnd Cement, qs well crs Federcl Speciliccrtions lor Cement, Portlcnd, Hish-Ecrly-Strength, No. E-SS-C-201 a.

IIGH DANI.Y STNDilGTH

(28 dcy concrete strengths ia 2tl hours.)

SUI,PHATE RDSISTATIT

(Result ol compound composition crnd usucrlly lound only in specicrl cenents desigmed lor this purpose.)

MIIUDIUIU DXPAIT$0II and C0tfTRACTt0tl

(Extremely severe <ruto-clcrve test results consistently indiccrte prccticclly no expcnsion or contrcrction, thus elimincrting one oI most dif{icult problems in use oI c high ecrly sbength cement.)

PAGf,ED IIN MOISTURI - PNOOT GRDEII PAPIR SACT

(Users' qssurcrnce oI lresh stock, unilormity cnd proper results lor concrete.)

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o Oak from the Appalachians

o Spruce and Fir from the Northwest

o Western Pine from Oregon and Califomia

o Mahogany, Balsa and Lignum Vitae from Tropical America

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All 0vsr the lTorld

Next time you pay a visit to a well-equipped swimming pool anywhere on the North American continent, or later on, abroad, take a good look at the springboard. You will find that in most cases it will bear on its side the well known name of the Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., 5th and Bran. nan Streets, San Francisco. And the springboard will be the famous "Brandsten" International and Intercollegiate Official Springboard, designed by Ernst Brandsten, outstanding authority on aquatic sports, and Hugh W. Hand' ley, sales manager of Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co.

This board has been adopted by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the Amateur Athletic Association o{ the United States and its affiliates, the Federation Internationale de Natation as the official International and Intercollegiate springboard.

It is officially used wherever competitive diving meets are held in the United States or abroad. It was the only springboard equipment used at the Antwerp Olympic Games, l92O; the Paris Olympic Games, 19241' the Amsterdam Olympic Games, 1928; the Los Angeles Olympic Games, 1932, and, the Berlin Olympic Games, 1936.

It is a one-piece board, 3 inches thick, 20 inches wide, and in both 14 ft. and 16 ft. lengths, made from strictly clear Douglas Fir. The grain of the board is dense and vertical, and the board is specially oil treated and tested.

In order to give the board even greater efficiency Mr. Brandsten developed the automatic adjustable fulcrunr, which was also designed by himself and Mr. Handley.

From a standing position on the springboard the individual performer can instantly adjust the fulcrum by a flip of the foot on the wheel. In this way the board can be made as rigid or limber as the height of take-off requires for the performer's particular weight and style. In this way performers of different weights suffer no disa.dvantage

The board is distributed throughout the world by Vau Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co. lVlany years of experience have gone into the selection, testing and fabricating of the wood used in the Brandsten springboard, with the result that this firm enjovs an enviable reputation that is world-wide.

Since the beginning of the war civilian orders for the springboards have been replaced almost entirely by orders for the equipment of pools for the armed forces in military and naval camps all over the United States and in many foreign countries.

This firm has always maintained heavy stocks of the upper grades of every species of lumber manufactured on the West Coast, and for many years has shipped special items of lumber to many foreign countries in both hemispheres.

At one time Scott & Van Arsdale, predecessors of the present company, owned the McCloud River Lumber Co., McCloud, Calif., manufacturers of Ponderosa and Sugar Pine. Scott & Van Arsdale, owned by Matt Harris and W. W. Van Arsdale, started in business at sth & Brannan Streets in 1886, and were succeeded by Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., Inc., in 1906 after the San Francisco earthquake and fire.

M. A. Harris, president of the company, has been on the job constantly since 1894. Frank H. Harris, vicepresident, started with the company in 1890. Hugh W. Handley, sales manager, has been there since 1901, and W. Wallace Bovyer, general superintendent, since 1900.

This company's slogan, "Need Lumber Quick-A Carload or a Stick," is widely known, and in normal times was an accurate description of the kind of service rendered by them. They have specialized in all industrial requirements ancl have been jobbers of hard-to-get grades and sizes. Now, of course, their business is practically 100 per cent connected with war needs, and as always they have been doing a good job.

WPB Establishes Control Over \(/ood Products Machinery and Equipment

Control over the distribution and manufacture of logging, lumber, and wood products machinery and equipment is established by General Limitation Order L-311 issued August 27 by the War Production Board. Among the types of machinery covered by the order are dry kilns and redriers, machinery for logging, saw and planing mills, veneer and plywood products, wood containers, and general woodworking machinery and equipment. Full listing of machinery and equipment covered is given in Schedule A, attached to the order.

Purchase orders for machinery having a producer's list price of over $350 on October 15,1942 (designated as Class I) are restricted to those authorized by WPB. Application for authorization and preference rating is made by the purchaser on Form WPB-3131. Exempted from the authorization provision are purchase orders which are: (1) for machinery to be used directly by the Army, Navy, Maritime Commission or War Shipping Administration; (2) placed by a producer or dealer to fill authorized orders actually received, or to replace machinery delivered from inventory to filI authorized orders, or (3) included in preference ratings assigned under authorization to begin construction work (Form WPB-617, formerly PD-200.)

Purchase orders for machinery valued at $350 or less, by a producer's list price on October t5, 194?, (designated as Class II), are restricted to those with preference ratings of AA-5 or higher. Dealers' inventories of Class II machinery are limited to five of any one size or type irrespective of manufacturing make.

Effective date for restriction's on purchase orders is September 11.

Sccrcunento Hoo-Hoo Club

Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club held a dinner meeting September 9, in cooperation with Hoo-Hoo Clubs and districts throughout the country which have been requested by International Hoo-Hoo to celebrate Hoo-Hoo Day in this manner. LeRoy Miller, Burnett & Sons, Sacramento, is president of the club, and Russell Tracy, Tracy Lumber & Supply Co., Sacramento, is secretary.

HOGA]I TUNBER GO.

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LUilIBERTILTWORT S[Sll and D0ORS

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R. G. ROBBINS IUMBER GO.

Forest Conservation

Featu res \(/estern Pine

Annual

Meetings

Forest conservation and tree farming held the spotlight ficient system of fire protection, that 95 per cent of Western at the Western Pine Association's semi-annual meetings at Pine cut-over lands are restocking satisfactorily, that memthe Palace Hotel, San Francisco, August 19. The show was ber company lands are left with adequate seed trees, and put on by Chairman J. F. Daggett and his Conservation that an increasing number of companies are giving considCommittee, assisted by the Association's five-man forest eration to the continued production possibilities of their engineering staff, which is headed by Stuart Moir, Associa- holdings. tion forester. State chairmen also reported upon the State forestry leg-

The Western Pine industry has conducted a well organ- islation which the industry is supporting in order to be sure ized and adequately financed forestry program for the past that occasional backward operators be required to follo\,\' ten years. Reporting to the Association's forest conserva- the sound forest practices which the industry has developed tion committee are separate forest practice committees for and found to be reasonable and practical.

Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California and Ari- The Association's forest engineers, in their answers to zona-New Mexico. Working closely with the forest prac- Chairman Daggett's questions, told of the work they are tice committees and individual operators are forest engi- doing to help individual operators practice better forestry. neers headquartered at Missoula, Montana; Yakima, Wash- Many operators employ their own foresters, of course, but ington; Portland and Klamath Falls, Oregon; and Sacra- the Association men, being familiar with methods and conmento, California. ditions over a wide area, often are able to suggest changes

The presentation to the industry representatives at San which will result in improved forest conditions rvithout Fran'cis'co was in the form of a roundtable discussion. with greatly increasing production costs. They realize that good Chairman Daggett interrogating State forest practice com- forestry must be based upon sound enonomics, a considermittee chairmen regarding the forestry problems in their tion too often lost sight of by Government agencies. respective areas, the self-imposed rules of operation under Another recent forward step coming up for further conwhich these problems are being met, and the plans for still sideration at the meeting was the Tree Farm Program, unfurther improving conditions under which a second crop der which operators who adopt the policy of adequately of timber is being grown on lands from which ripe or over- protecting their timber lands and keeping them in private ripe timber is being harvested for lumber, nearly the entire ownership for the continuous production of merchantable output of which now goes for war and only the most essen- forest crops may have their holdings certified as M/estern tial civilian uses. Pine Tree Farms. Already nearly a million acres have been

Discussion brought out the facts that the industry is so certified and it is expected that another million will be spending more than a million dollars a year on a very ef- added before the end of 1943.

Sach Doorr Millwork Pancls Wall Board CAUFORNIA

WAR-USE MAHOGANY REQUIREMENTS

Requirements for war-use Mahogany during the remainder of 1943 will be met with a safe margin unless unforeseen shipping and weather conditions interfere with anticipated imports. This conclusion, based on accurate supply and demand figures, was reported to the War Production Board's Mahogany Importer-Manufacturers Industry Advisory Committee at its recent meeting in Washington.

WESTERN PINE

Amendment 6 to MPR 94, announced September 1 by the OPA, and effective September 7, authorizes producers of Western Pine lumber in Arizona and New Mexico to add $3.00 per 1000 board feet to basic maximum prices of 12 specific grades and sizes of material sold under War Production Board Limitation Order L-DO.

VISIT NORTHWEST

Paul Penberthy and Mrs. Penberthy, Penberthy Lumber Co., Los Angeles, returned recently from a trip to the Pacific Northwest, made in connection with the purchase of aircraft lumber, in which this company specializes.

Misg Pritzlaff Joins Wrcs

Miss T. Pritzlaff, ot and is now taking her the Middle West. The lady well, as she was Scrim in his Philippine as one of the lumber this territory.

Los Angeles, has joined the Wacs boot camp training somewhere in hardwood trade knows this youug for many years assistant to W. G. Mahogany business, and was known industrv's most efficient women in

AMENDMENT 27 TO MPR 165

Services of inspecting and grading lumber have been placed under the specific coverage of MPR No. 165 (Services), the OPA announ,ced. Previously ceilings for these services were determined under the General Maximum Price Regulation. Amendment No. 27 became effective August n, t943.

Some paint, some nails, and a lot of fight, Can make a town look new and bright.

ROSBORO I.UMBER GO.

Springfield, Oregron

Manu(acturer of High Grade Kiln Dried Old Growth Douglas Fir

TTT. E. GOOPDR

149 South Orange Drive - Los Angeles - TelephoneWYoning 2770

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C. H. White, r'ice-president and general manager ol White Brothers, San Francisco, and Mrs. White left August 29 to attend their daughter Shirley's wedding in New Jersey to Lieut. John Dudley Dozier, Jr., U. S. A. From there they traveled to Miami, Fla., to visit their son Don, who is a Lieutenant (J.G.) in the Navy, and is stationed there. After their Florida visit they returned to Nerv York and went on to Chicago, where they will attend the hardwood industry rvar conference, September 16 and 17, sponsored by the National Hardwood Lumber Association. They u'ill be gone about four weeks.

P. R. Kahn of Forsyth Hardu'ood Co., San Francisco, left September 5 on a business trip to Memphis, Tenn., and Louisville, Ky., and Chicago, where he will attend the war conference of the National Hardwood Lumber Association, September 16 and 17. He will be back about September 20.

Willard La Franchi, manager of the Fresno distributing yard of Hill & Morton, Inc., has returned from Oregon, where he called on a number of sawmills.

George C. Cornitius, George C. Cornitius Hardwood Co., San Francisco, will be in attendance at the war conference of the National Hardwood Lumber Association. to be held in Chicago, September 16 and 17. He will also call on mills in Virginia and West Virginia, and rvill visit Washington, D. C.

Nelson E. Jones, Jr., son of Nelson wood Co., San Francis'co, enlisted in tember 3.

E. Jones, Jones Hardthe Coast Guard Sep-

Bob Raymer, Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco, has returned from a trip on which he ,called on the firm's Pine sawmill connections in Northern California and Oregon.

Nelson E. Jones, Jones Hardwood Co., San Francisco, left a r.veek ago on a business trip to Washington, D. C., Memphis and Chicago. He is accompanied by Mrs. Jones and will attend the hardrvood industry war conference of the National Hardwood Lumber Association at the La Salle Hotel, Chicago, September 16 and 17.

Lieutenant-Commander Henry N. Anderson of the Naval Procurement Office, Portland, was a recent visitor to San Francisco and Los Angeles.

H. W. Irwin, Irwin & Lyons, lumber manufacturers, North Bend, Ore., was a San Francisco visitor early this month. He made his headquarters at the office of J. E. Peggs, Northern California representative for his mill.

sales manager, Pope & Talbot, Inc., Francisco, returned September 3 Angeles office. E. K. WOOD IUMBER GO.

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Redwood Tree To Be Dediccted To A. Merriam Conner

Arrangements have been completed to dedicate a Redwood tree to A. Merriam Conner, poet laureate of the lumber industry, at Woodminster Park (Joaquin Miller Heights), Oakland, on Sunday, September 26, at 3:00 p.m.

Professor Woodbridge Metcalf, Associate Forester, IJniversity of California, and a member of Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39, will dedicate the tree in behalf of the Club and the lumber industry. Other trees will be dedicated to Jos. R. Knowland, Wells Drury, James Mclafferty and Herbert Coggins.

These ceremonies will be followed by a play by Juanita Miller, daughter of Joaquin Miller, entitled "I{er Diamond Dream," rvith music provided by the Oakland SymphonlOrchestra, ,conducted by Dr. Orley See, through the courtesy of the Board of Park Directors of the City of Oakland.

Scn Frcncisco Hoo-Hoo Celebrcrte

Hoo-Hoo

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In line with the meetings being held simultaneously throughout the United States and Canada in observance of the 52nd Annual Meeting of International Hoo-Hoo, members of the Order held a luncheon meeting at El Jardin Restaurant, San Francisco, September 9.

Carl Warden, Vicegerent Snark of the San Francisco district, presided. Resolutions were passed expressing sympathy to the families of'members who have passed on during the year; congratulating the Snark of the lJniverse on the progress made, and thanking officers and directors for the work done. A resolution of thanks to the lumber trade press for their cooperation, was adopted. The subject ot' a change in the ritual was also discussed.

OPA Moves To Expedite Fir Boqrd Production

On September 6, OPA issued Amendment 3 to MPR-26, relieving all mills operating under WPB Circular No. 31 from securing certificates from CPA, WPB, and OPA, in order to make the price additions specified in that Circular for manufacturing rough Fir boards. The amendment is retroactive to August 24th.

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Hoo-Hoo Day Celebrated bv Los Angeles Lumbermen

The annual summer party, sponsored by Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club No. 2, celebrating the 52nd year of HooHoo, held at the Southern California Golf Club, Monterey Park, September 9, was a gteat success. The large. attendance indicated a new interest in Hoo-Hoo. There was an attendance of 140 at dinner, and 58 played golf in the afternoon. Five Kittens were received into the fold. and four old cats were reinstated.

Dee Essley, Vicegerent Snark for the Southern California district, presided at the dinner, held in the banquet room of the club house. He gave a brief talk on Hoo-Hoo, expressing the hope that monthly meetings of the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club will be resumed.

Other speakers who gave short Frank Curran and H. G. Larrick.

talks were R. A.

A Ccr oI Wood Thcil Becrlly Cost Some Money

Robert S. Osgood, of Los Angeles, Southern California representative of the Carl H. Kuhl Lumber Company, Portland, Oregon, recently sold a carload of wooden material the price of which really runs into phone book figures. It was a car of airplane plywood, and the invoice totaled $41,300. Mr. Osgood says he does not think this the highest priced car of this stuff ever sold, but it is the biggest he ever sold, and he is going to keep a copy of the invoice to frame for the office wall when the war is over, to remind him that such things could be.

Forsyth, Stumpage Ceiling Prices Set by OPA For Wegtern Strtes

The door prize of a $25 War Bond was won by Ed Fountain, Ed Fountain Lumber Co., Los Angeles. Other door prizes were won by I. S. Brown, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and J. W. Frey, Associated Lumber & Materials, fnc., Los Angeles.

In the golf tournament Clarence Bohnhoff, Bohnhoff Lumber Co., Los Angeles, won the Roy Stanton trophy with a low gross score of 85.

Loren F. Weddle, Weddle Wood,craft, Ifawthorne, Calif.. won the California Lumber Merchant trophy with a low net score of 63. The Znd low net prize was won by Buzz Blanchard, Blanchard Lumber Co., North Hollywood, with a score of 64. Gene De Armond, Pacific Cabinet Co., Los Angeles, who tied with Geo. Lockwood, J. Niederer Co., Los Angeles, won the 3rd low net prize on the toss of a coin. D. D. McCallum, D. D. McCallum Sash & Door Co., Los Angeles, won the 4th low net after a tie with Hoyt Klinck.

The President's Cup, a new perpetual trophy donated by George E. Ream of the George E. Ream Company, I-os Angeles, president of Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club No. 2, was won by Dee Essley, D. C. Essley & Son, Los Angeles. Only members of Hoo-Hoo are eligible to compete for the new trophy, a handsome cup 36 inches high.

Those who contributed the money for the golf prizes ancl entertainment were: Roy Stanton, E. J. Stanton & Son. Los Angeles; Frank Connolly, Western Hardrvood Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Harvey W. Koll, H. W. Koll Mill & l,umber Co., Los Angeles; Bohnhoff Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Bob Osgood, Los Angeles; Lounsberry & Harris, Los Angeles; Sun Lumber Co., Beverly Hills; D. D. McCallum; John W. Koehl & Son, Los Angeles; Dolbeer ct Carson Lumber Co., Los Angeles; San Pedro Lumber Co.. Los Angeles; Art Harff, Los Angeles; Andy Donovan, Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Ed Bauer, Bohnhoff Lumber Co., Los Angeles ; Dee Essley; Gene De Armond; George E. Ream.

Bob Osgood presented the golf prizes at the dinner, and Ed Bauer handled the drawings for the door prizes. Orrin Wright was in charge of finances, and Harvey Koll was handicapper.

Establishment of maximum prices for sales of all standing timber in the western states west of the great plains-an action designed to restrain rising timber prices and further stabilize present ceilings for logs, lumber and other forest products-was announced August 25 by the OPfice of Price Administration.

Ceiling prices are provided for all timber-both publicly and privately owned.

The new ceilings are established in Maximum Price Regulation No. 460 (Western timber), and became effective August 31, 1943. Until the issuance of the present regulation, there was no price control on either publicly owned or privately owned timber.

"ft was at first hoped that price control at the mill, wholesale distribution yard and retail dealer levels would keep the price of timber from advancing beyond the level of profitable purchase by lumber producers. But since 1941, when lumber price control began, advancing prices of stumpage have been making difficult the road for the lumber producers," OPA said.

RED CEDAR SHINGLES

Lumber mills were authorized by the Office of Price Administration September 4 to charge 10 per cent over specifie dmaximum prices, f.o.b. mill, in sales of Red Cedar shingles in amounts of 100 squares or less to any purchaser not buying for resale. The higher price is authorized irr Amendment No. 5 to MPR 164, and became effective September 9,1943.

VENEERS

Birch, maple and basswood veneers-Jvital materials irr the fabrication of plywood used in the manufacture of airplanes, gliders, pontoons and boats-are given dollar-s-andcents maximum prices by the OPA. The new maximums are approximately the March, 1942, prices, and bring no general increase or decrease in maximum levels. Also established in the regulation are dollars-and-cents top prices for No. 1 sheet stock grade birch and maple veneer (RMPR 338), effective August 26.

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BUYBB9S GT]IDB SAIT BRANCISCO

,120 Markot StEt (u) .,.,.........Yukon m67

Ar&ineStutz CompuS ll2 Mrrkct Strcet (U) .......'.....GArfield rE09

Christenron Lumber Co. Evans Ave. and Quint St. (2a)....VAlencia 5Ell2

Dmt & Rurcell' Inc.'

2U Fmt Stmt (11) .............GArfield 0292

Dolbccr & Cuson Lumber Co., lllt Mcrchants Exchange Bldg. (l) SUtter 7456

Gmcrrto & Grm Luber Coo 1600 Any Strt (2{) ..........,,ATwater 1300

Hall, Jru: L, llXlz Millr Btdg. (a) ..........,......Sutter 7520

Hrmqod Lubcr Cmpuy, {lt Montgbmery StGt (5) ........DOuglae 3illl6

Hobbr }l/all lmbcr Co105 Montsom.ry St. (1) ...........GArfield 7752

Holmcr Eureka Luber Co., 116 Finucial Ccntcr Bldgl. (l) ...,GArficld l92f

C. D. Johncon Lumba Corporatlon' 28! California Strot (rr) ..........GArfidd 6256

Cul lL Kuhl Lmbcr Ca., O. L Rurm, ll2 Market St. (rr) YUkon 1160

hmon-Broington Compuy, 16 Cdifmis Stroct (rr) .......,..GArfic1d 66Er

LUMBER

LUMBER

McDufree Lumber Sales Corp., 526 Monadnock Bldg. (5).......... GArfield ?196

Orcgon lmber Salc (Carl W. lttattc), 975 Mooadnck Bldg. (5) ......,....Yukon 1590

Pacific Lumber Co., Th. llll Bueh Stet (1) .............,.GArfield llEl

Rcd Rivs Lmbcr Co., 3r5 Moadrek Blds. (5) ..........GArfie|d 0922

Suta Fc Lmber Co16 Califonir Stroet (ll) .,..,....EXbrok 2074

Schafcr Brcc. Lubcr & Shinglc Cl., I Dl.um Strc€t (U) ...,...........Sutter UZI

Shcvlin Pine Salcr Co,, 1030 Monadnah Bldg. (5) .........EXbrook ?04r

Sudda & Chrirtcnron, Inc, 3t0 Silmc Stret (l) .........,,.GArfield 2tl5

Cart W- Wattr (Orcgon lanbc Salce), 975 Monadnock Btdg. (5) ..........YUkon 1590

Wcndling-Natf,u CoU0 lfiukrt Srrut (fl) .............Sutt.r 536:t

Wcrt Orcgon Lubcr Co., 1995 Evur Avc. (A) ........,...ATwat r 567E

Ewauna Box Co. (Pyranid Lunber Salce Co.)

Pacific Bldg. (f2) ,... ,....,...,.Gl:nourt t293

Gu6t6 & Grccn lambe Co.,

2Ol Livingdon St. (6) .......,...,KEUog {-1E84

Hill & Morton, Inc.,

Dmion Strut Wharf (7) ..,...,ANdovcr l0??

Hogu Lubcr Compuy, ad erd Alloc Stratr (l) ..,.,,.Gbncourt 6t6l

E. K. Wood Lubcr Co.,

2lrl Frcdcrtc& Stret (6) ..........KElbg 2-4277

Whdcnlc Building Supply, Irc., 1607 3znd Strect (t) ............TEmplebar 6961

Wholesltc Lmba Diatributorr, Irc.,

9th Avcnuo Pia (6) .,....,..'....TWfnoakc 2515

LUMBER

Arcata Redwood Co. (J. J. Rea)

5410 Wilsbirc Blvd. (36) ..........WEbctcr ?!2t

Atkinmn-Stutz Compuy, 62t Pctrolcum BldS. (f5) .........,PRoepct {341

Bruch Industrial Lumbcr Co., 5901 S. Central A,ve. (1) .........CEntury 2-!r6E

Buns Lmbcr Company, 170 South Bwerly Drivc, (Bsaly Hillr) ...,............BRadghaw 2-33tt

Cm & Co., L. J. 0[r. D. Duning),

{3E Ch. of Con. Bldg. (rS) .......PRorpcct 6tl3

Copcr, W. E., 6ll6-60t Rlchfield Bldg. (r3) .......Munral 2r3r

Dut & Runcll, Inc.,

Erz E. 59th Stret (l) ....,.......,. .ADu3 El0l

Dolbecr & Ceron Lumber Co., 90r Fldcltty Blds. (r3) ............VAndike &792

Ed. Fontaln Lumbcr Co., 62t Pctrclcm Bldg. (f5) ...,.,...PRo3pect,t34l

Hannond Lubcr Compuy, 2010 So. Almc& St. (54) .., .PRorpcct 1333

Hobbr WeIl hnbcr Ca..

625 Rrya Bldg. (r3) ..............TRinity 50Et

Holma Eurcka Ilmber Co,,

?U-Zlz Archit.ctc Bldg. (l3) .,.... ,Mutual grtr

Hovcr, A. L,

5225 Wilehirc Blvd. (35) ............YOrk rr6t

Carl H, Kuhl Lmber Co,, (R. S. Oegood),

7U S. Sprirg St. (U) ......,.....VAndi1e603ir

Rs. C. Larhlcy (R. G. Robbing Lmbcr Co.), 7l{ W. Olympic Blvd. (15) ...,...PRospect 0721

Lawmo-Philipc Luinbcr Co., dl3 Pctrolem Blds. (r5) .....,....PRospect tl?r

MrcDondd Co., L. W.,

7ll W. Olympic Blvd. (r5) ........PRosp€ct ?19,1

Paclfic Lmbc Co., Thc

5225 Wibhirc Blvd. (36) ....YOrk ll6E

Pcnbcrthy llmbcr Co.,

2GS Elrt Slgt St. (rr) ......... ..Klnball Srll

LUMBER

E. K. W@d Lmber Co., I Dmm Streer (rl) .....,.........EXbrook 3?ll

Wcycrhacuer Saler Co., I,l9 Califomia Street (U) ,.,.,.,..GArficld t97{

HAR"DWOODS AND PANELS

Whlte Brctherr,Fifth aDd Brman gtct3 (7) .....SUtter 1365

SASH-DOORTPLYWOOD

Wheeler Osg6d Sdec Corp., 3{M5 19th sr. (r0) ................valmc|a 22ll

CREOSOTED LUMBER_POLES_PILING-TIES

Ancricu Lmbcr & Trcating Co.'

u6 NGw Montgoncry Stret (5) ..'..Sutter 1225

Butc. J. H. & Co..

3:t:3 llontspmGry Strcct (4) .....'..DOuglas 3&F

Hall, Jucr L., rS2 Mlllr Bldg. ({) .............'.'.Suttcr 7520

Poro & Talbol Inc- lmber Divirion' rer Mrrlct Strut (5) ...'.........DOuglar 2561

Vudr Lau Plltng & Lubcr Co. 2le Pins Strst (1) ..'.'.........Exbmh r9l5

Wendllnr-Nethu Co., ll0 ll/Lrkct Stret (ll) ..... .....Suttcr SitG|

PAN EIJ-DOORS-SASH-.SCRE ENS

Caltfmia Euitdcrr SupPlY Co., ?00 6tb Avcilrc (1) ......'.... .Hlgatc 5016

Horu Imbcr Company, znd ald Altcc Strctr (l) .......Glenourt 0t6l

lVc.tm Door & Sltb Co- '' irh e Cyprc.. Stretr (?) ......TEmPlebar El|lo

HARDWOODS

Strablc Hardrrood ConPuY, - Fint and Clay Strcte (7) .....TEmpl€bar 55{x

Whitc Brcthcrt. 50o Hlsh Stiet (r) .ANdover 16c0

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LUMBER

Pope & Tablot, Inc., Luber Division

7i{ W. Otymplc Blvd. (rD ..'...PRotD.ct tzll

Rcd Rivcr Lrrnbcr Co.,

?c2 E. Slauroa (ff) ..'...........CEnturv 29O?r

lGll S. Brcedway (f5) ..'.'........PRospect oitll

Su Pcdre Lmbcr Co.

tstE S. Cetrel Arc. ia) .....'...Rlchmond l14l

r8m-A WilniDgton Rod (San Pcdre) ;............'......Su Pcdrc 22|10

Santa Fc Lunbcr Co..

3ll Finucial Ccntir Bldg. (ra) ..VAndike {7r

Schafcr Brcr. Lumbs & Shinglc Co., rr? w. grh strut (r5) .............TRinitv {?r

Shwltn Pinc Salce Co.'

330 Pctmlun Bldg. (r5) ..........PRorp*t c6r5

Simprorr Indurtrlca, Inc.,

16ra E. Washington Blvd. (21) ...PRosFct 6tE3

Stetdr, E. J. & Son, 2050 E. ttlt St. (rr) ..'...'....'CEntury 29rr

Suddcn & Chrietcren' Inc.'

@ Bdrd of Tra& Bldg. (il) '.."TRinitv t84{

Taoma Lunbcr Saleg'

t3? Pctrclcm Bldg. (fS) .'.......PRoepect llOt

Wcndlinr-Nathu Co.. 5225 flllhirc Blvd: (36) .YOrk ll6t

Wert Orcgon Lmbq Co., 127 Pctioleum Bldg. (r5) .......'.Rlchmond 02El

W. W. Wilkinson, 316 w. 9rb srrut (r5) ..TRinity 4613

Wcycrhaas Salee Ca., llrg w. M. Gulud Bldg. (15) ...Mlchigen 635{

E. K. Wood lanber ColTrC Sc Alamcda St. (51) .......JEfreron 3lll

CREOSOTED LUMBER_POLEII-PILINC-TIES

Anericm Lumber & Trcating Co., lGtl S. Brcadrpay (f5) .,...........PRotpcct 1360

Butcr, J. H. & Co.. 6ll Wcrt sth Strcct (f3) ..,.Mlchlgel 62tM

Popc & Talbot, Inc., Lunbcr Divielon, 7U W. Olymplc Btvd. (r5) .....PRorpact t23l

*Postoffice Zone Number in Parenthesis.

HARDWOODS

Amsicm Hrdwod Co., rgn E. $th Strut (5,1) ......'..PRo.pct 1235

Brush Indu*rial Lmber Co.

5901 S. Ccntral Ave. (l) '..'.....CEntury 2'0ltt

Stero. E. J. & Son, A5O Eut llrt Strut (u) .......CEntury ztZU

TVcrtem Hardwood Luber Co., 20tl Eact lsth Stret (S5) .......PRospcct 616l

SASH_DOORS_MIIWORI(-SCREENT BLINDS-PANEI-S AND PLYWOODIRONING BOARDS

Back Pmel Cmpany' 310-31{ East 32nd Strect (rl) ...'....ADua {225 Cdtfomtr l)or Compaly' Thc

P. O. Bc 126, Vcmn Station (u) Klmball 2tll Calilornir Puel & Vaer Co-

P. O. Bq 2€5' Tmlnal . lanq (51) ........................TRlnity 005?

Cabb Co- T. M., sEtl0 Catral Amuc (lr) ...........ADm3 UU?

Euban} & Son, Inc., L H. (Inglcwmd) Eubank H. {33 W. Redondo Blvd. ... Halcy Brce. (Suta Monica) .1620 rlth Stret ..1626 rlrh Siret ....................AShIay {-z2it Kehl, Jno. W. & Son' 652 S. M:rerr Struct (23) ....,.....ANgclul El9l

Orogon-Wuhington Plywood Ca318 }1'6t Ninth StrFt (r5) ,.. ... .TRinitv 4613

Pacific Wood Productr Corporation, 360 Trdum Strut (26) ........'.Albuy0r0r

Pacific Mutual Dd Co., l6llo E. ll/aehingtm Blvd. (21) ..PRocFct 9523

Rem Compun C€. E' 235 S. Alucda Strtct (12) .....Mlchigan rE5{ Red River Lumber Co., ?@ S. Slaumn (lf) ..........'...CErhrrya0?f

Smpga Co. (Paredcna), 745 So. Raynond Avc. (2) ....'....RYu l-5!il9

Siuprcn Indu.trlo. Inc., 1610 E. wa3hlnsrron Blvd. (2r) ...PRorFct 6lt3

W6t Co.rt Ssrum Co.' U45 Eart dlrd StrG"t (r) ........ADamt llfG

\f,/estcm MiU & Mdldhs Co.' s9{r So. Wutcm Avc. (ll) ...,Tll/tukr le6l Wheler Oggmd Sales Corp., 922 So. Flower St. ................VAndike 6i126

Lumber, serving as the nation's No. L structural material for war, at the same time is creating for itself a vast postwar market. Under stimulus of America's finest engineeting talent and manufacturing skill, it not only is meeting every vital structural need, but also is proving its ready adaptability to new applications which are sure to gteady expand its use in future construction.

As a case in point, much of the lumber and timbers today leave the mills flameproofed by pressure-ffeatment with MINAIITH Fire Retardant. Other progressive and significant steps include fabrication into laminated trusses, arches, beams, and other structural members delivered to the job ready to erect and to be joined by Teco Ring Connectors which utilize 80 per cent or more of the working strength of wood.

In producing for war, Fordyce and Crossett are in full stride with these progressive developments of war will be ready, with the removal of wartime restrictions, to supply you with lumber and lumber products which will meet all requirements of the coming new markets.

To speed that comingr buy more 'V'ar Bonds.

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Much time and labor hag been saved by the use of plywood fon hundreds of different jobs in connection udth the wan. This will help to shorten the duration.

TACOMA LUMBER SALES

7I4 W. OIYMPIC BLVD., LOS ANGEI.ES, CALIF.

Diclcman

Door C-,o., The

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THE CALIFOR}.IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

JaclsDiorne ,ptblidtu

How Lumber Loofcs

Seattle, Wash.-The weekly average of West Coast lumber production in August (4 weeks). was 165,163,000 board feet, or 108.7 per cent of 1939-1942 average, according to the West Coast Lumbermen's Association in its monthly survey of the industry. Orders averaged 173,477,W board feet; shipments, 167,!89,000. Weekly averages for July rv'ere: Production, 153,373,000 board feet (101.0 per cent of the 1939-1942 average); orders, 161,560,000; shipments, 158,424,ffi.

Thirty-four weeks ol 1943, cumulative production, 5,088,484,000 board feet; 34 weeks, 1942-5,781973,W;34 weeks, tg4l, 5,67,162,000.

Orders for 34 weeks of 1943 break down as follows: rail, 4p41,4ffi,W board feet; domestic cargo, 449,341,000; export, 102,958,000 ; local, 67 4,768,000.

The industry's unfilled order file stood at 1,116,915,000 board feet at the end of August; gross stocks, at 5O2,995,N0.

There is a lull in the volume of war demand for West Coast lumber because the construction of the war plant in the United States has been substantially completed. This lull will turn into another heavy load upon the industry when the signal is given for further offensive operations, especially in the Pacific.

Meanwhile, there are two or more places for every foot of lumber in the essential civilian uses, which have been kept on short rations for many months. Farm requirements are now particularly in front and railroad demand is very large.

To fit changing needs of the war situation, especially the tremendous requirements for box and crating lumber rather than for heavy construction lumber, the West Coast industry is changing over from industrial cutting of heavy timbers to production that will be 50 per cent boards and dimension within the next few months-something unprecedented in the history of Douglas fir mills. The industry and the War Production Board are working out ways and means to reach the new objective. It is a difficult war job but one necessary in meetihg current needs.

The Western Pine Association for the week ended September 18, 98 mills reporting, gave orders as 66,580,000 feet, shipments 73p50,000 feet, and production 83,341,00 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 400,028,000 feet.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended September ll, 152 mills reporting, gave orders as 25,398,00i) feet, shipments fr,794,000 feet, and production 19,678,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 139.511,000 feet.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended September 11 reported orders as 108,763,0CD feet, shipments 103,636,000 feet, and production 107,010,000 feet.

For the week ended September 18 orders were reported as 118,537,00O feet, shipments 120,199,000 feet, and production 120,O72,000 feet.

TOR WAR IUEEDS!

Northern California Retaibrs lVlll Hold Annual

War Conler ence in San Francisco Octobcr 13

The annual war conference of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California will be held at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, on Wednesday, October 13.

speaker. Col. Chevalier graduated from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1910. He served from May, l9l7 to May, 1919 as Captain, Major and Lieut' Colonel with the l1th U. S' Engineers in France and entered the publishing field in 1972 as associate editor of Engineering News-Record. In 1938 he assumed his present post as publisher of Business Week. In this capacity he maintains a close contact with the whole broad field of American business and industry, through the comprehensive organization of that paper, and through personal contact with business leaders the country over.

The conference will begin promptly at 2:30 p.m' with a heavy schedule which will carry through the afternoon. There will be a banquet at 7:00 P.m.

Kenneth Smith, president of the California Redwood Association, San Francisco, will be toastmaster.

The officers of the Association are: President, Ray Clotfelter, W. R. Spalding Lumber Co., Visalia, Calif.; vice president F. Dean Prescott, Valley Lumber Co., Fresno; treasurer, I. E. Horton, South City Lumber & Supply Co., South San Francisco, secretary, Bernard B. Barber, Fresno.

A large attendance is expected. The splendid work of the Association deserves the appreciation and support of every retail lumberman. and director the principal

Four Lumber Firms Get Army-Navy rtE" Awatd-

Weyerhaeuser Has First Presentation Ceremony

On August 26th a wire from Washington announced to THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT that the Angelina County Lumber Company, of Keltys, Texas, had been awarded an Army-Navy "E" citation of merit. Later, on September 16th, came the announcement that four lumber firms in all had been given such an award, namely: Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, Longview, Washington; Willamette Valley Lumber Company, Dallas, Oregon; Consolidated Timber Company, Glenwood, Oregon; and the Angelina County Lumber Company. The first three are producers of Douglas Fir, the other of Southern Yellow Pine.

The frrst actual presentation ceremony was held at Longview, Washington, on Saturday, September 18th. The Angelina County Lumber Company presentation was delayed until September 25th, to arrange radio time and secure the speakers desired. The Willamette Valley Lumber Co. award was presented on September 21.

Col. Fred G. Sherrill of the U. S. Engineers, made the presentation speech at the Longview presentation, and sai<l in part: "Your industry is the prime war industry in the Arsenal of Democracy. Upon you and each of you of the lumber industry depends the magnitude of our military operations and thus upon you depends the duration of the war. Your performance is magnificent ! What an example you have set ! One may say that this is your maxim: 'As long as men are laying down their lives on the fighting end of the war, no man shall lay down his tools on the production end.' Never give up ! That is the lesson of our time. Look at our great Allies-Britain, China, and Russia, determined to hold on to the end, no matter how long the road. Keep the lumber coming in a never-ending avalanche until the weight of the v/eapons packed in it becomes a burden too great for our enemies to bear. That way, and in that way only, lies victory, lies peace, lies freedom, for ourselves, for our allies, and for all the world. Because of your loyalty-your contribution to the war, you.have been granted the Army-Navy Prodution Award. On behalf of the Under Secretary of War, the Honorable Robert P. Patterson, the Under Secretary of the Navy, the Hon-

orable James V. Forrestal, and the Chief of Engineers, Major General Eugene Reybold, there is herewith presented to the men and women of the Longview branch of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company this "E" for Excellence Banner. It is tangible evidence of the appreciation of the United States for your accomplishments-of a task well done."

Stcrtus oI Wood Industdeg Employees Clcdlied

The status of employees in the woods industries in reference to their essentiality in the $rar program was clarified at the recent meeting of the Log and Lumber Policy Committee which is comprised of representatives of the War Production Board, 'War Labor Board, War Manpower Commission, 'War Department, Office of Price Administration, and the U. S. Forest Service. Woods and woods products industries, the committee was informed, are recognized by the Selective Service System and War Manpower Commission as essential activities and are included in WMC's list of essential occupations. WMC's list of critical occupations published on August 16 does not include specific jobs in the woods industries, but this does not indicate that woods and woods products workers are ineligible for draft deferment.

J. Philip Boyd, Chairman of the Log and Lumber Policy Committee and director of WPB's Lumber and Lumber Products Division, said: "Jobs in the woods industries which are eligible for the Critical Occupations list were omitted purposely. It was unnecessary to include them because the manpower program already established for these industries has taken into account critical as well as other essential occupations."

A worker in the woods industries may qualify as a "necessary man" if (1) he is or would be engaged in war production or in support of the war effort except for a seasonal or temporary interruption; (2) his removal would cause a serious loss of production effectiveness; and (3) he cannot be replaced.

Col. Greeley Talks to Los Angeles Lumbermen

Col. W. B. Greeley, secretary-manager of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, Seattle, was the principal speaker before a large group of wholesale and retail lumbermen at a luncheon meeting held at the Jonathan Club, Los Angeles, September 10.

A. A. Kayser, manager of the Association's Los Angeles office, presided.

The speaker told of the many problems that have to be dealt with by the mills of the West Coast lumber industry in their endeavor to co-operate with the various Government agencies and to cope with the manpower shortage. Production in the Northwest mills in August was six per cent behind August, 1942, and it is expected that production for 1943 will be about eight billion feet, or about 10 per cent less than last year, he said.

In discussing the prospects of more lumber becoming available for civilian trade Col. Greeley said an increasing amount of lumber has been released through the office of the Administrator of. L-2LB in recent months. However it is hard to predict the amount of lumber that will be available for civilian uses. The Army and Navy requirements for lumber when the big offensive starts in the Pacific will probably increase the demand for West Coast lumber to a very great extent. There was considerable discussion on this subject and Col. Greeley answered many questions.

The meeting was closed with a brief humorous talk by Jack Dionne, publisher of The California Lumber Merchant.

San Diego County Lumber Indurtry Declrred Egsential by Manpower Commission

In July, 1943, the War Manpower Commission issued a Declaration of Essentiality covering the'wholesale and retail lumber industry of all counties in Southern California with the exception of San Diego County. The exception was made because San Diego County was under a separate Manpower Commission. The petition that resulted in this Declaration of Essentiality was made by the Southern California Retail Lumber Association.

A few days ago, in response to a petition by Orrie Hamilton, Secretary of this same Association, the Manpower Commission of San Diego issued a like Declaration of Essentiality covering the wholesale and retail lumber industry of San Diego County.

Mr. Hamilton has a letter from the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, at Washington, stating that no other such Declaration has been issued anywhere else in the entire nation, and congratulated Mr. Hamilton on securing this outstanding official acknowledgment of the essentiality of the lumber business in this territory.

New Pine Mill Stcrts Opercrtions In Plumas County

A new Pine mill has started operations at Grays Flat, Plumas County, California, on the site where the Plumas Lumber Inc., mill burned last year. A. C. Dellinger and J. K. Metzker, of Quincy, Calif., are the owners.

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About a year ago I wrote in these columns: "Lumber is the only vital war material for which no successful substitute has yet been discovered." I was sure of that then. But every day that has passed since that time, and all the history of the lumber war effort, furnishes puncture-proof evidence that the statement was entirely truthful. It might even-in the light of things I have seen lately- be called an understatement.

Let me write here " t.L, **tt", things about lumber and wood and so.me hair-raising facts about them as related to the prosecution of the war, particularly in relation to aircraft wood, as seen in the Los Angeles district. If you were to declare that the entire Los Angeles district of California has been turned over to the production of air: craft in all of its ramifications and complexities, it is most unlikely that anyone would charge you even with exaggeration. To put the world on wings is the serious business of Los Angeles today. And the part that lumber plays in that program you would have to see to believe. What you read and hear would put too great a strain on your credulity, if the story in all its details could be written; which it cannot. ***

For example, and just to give you an idea. On the outskirts of Culver City, which is itself on the outskirts of Los Angeles, they have just completed construction of an industrial plant. There are many buildings of various sizes in this plant which covers perhaps a square mile of ground. All these buildings are of wood. If you have been wondering where all the lumber goes, one glance at these buildings of stupendous size will give you at least a hint. The central and largest building is all of wood, sides, roof, foors, and framework. I didn't ask for exact measurements. fn war plants it's best not to ask too many questions. But listen, friends: you walk in the door at one end of this central building, and then you just stop and stare, and gape, and there aren't enough adjectives in Mr. Webster's biggest book to even start doing justice to your feelings. You are inside a building that looks big as the whole outdoors. It is all done in white inside. The lighting is perfect. In every nook and corner there is plenty of light for perfect vision.

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You look to the far end of the building-which is one gigantic room-and that other end wall looks as far off as the horizon. You look up, and that roof is as far ofr as the sky. There is not a support in sight except a line of wood running down the center from end to end and extending from floor to roof center. That apparently endless roof and those

mighty walls are held in place by wooden girders, and trusses, and timber connectors, all built-up stuff, no big timbers. It is all Douglas Fir, that framework and roof, as well as that mysterious array of fabricated wooden-work things running from end to end of the building. And the outside is sheeted with Redwood siding. When you stand away and look at it you wonder if there can be any Redwood left. Even the downspouts that carry away rain, are of Redwood. The foors of that building are of wooden blocks, Yellow Pine blocks treated in the East for that purpose. And that apparently endless amphitheatre of a building is air conditioned.

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So much for that one building There are many others, as stated, one of the others being of great size, but with nothing like the height of the one just described. And there is a vast army of workers in those buildings, chiefy technicians. Not much common labor there. And what are they doing in that new plant with that busy army of people and that array of equipment (the greater part of which meant nothing on earth to me even after the highly intelligent engineer who guided me had done his best to make me understand) ? They .are building an airplane. Not AIRPLANES, you understand. AN AIRPLANE. Just one. And when they get to assembling it (they haven't gotten that far along yet and won't for some time), the entire foor space and most of the upper space in that mighty central building I told you about, will be required to hold its members. And they won't be able to put the things together inside, of course, for there would be no way to get it out. When all member parts are complete they will have to be put together outside the building.

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Howard Hughes, world famous aviator of Houston and Los Angeles, built the plant I am talking about, and is building that plane. It will be bigger than any plane ever thought of before. My understanding is that when the tips are on the wings and the wings are attached to the fuselage, it will be 340 feet from wing tip to wing tip. It will carry sixty tons of freight great distances. It will carry three hundred people, each with plenty of baggage or equipment. It will be powered with many motors. Trucks will drive right in and out of the body of the plane, handling tonnage'

They are building that plane, not only entirely out of wood but out of one single species of wood-Birch. Birch, I would have you know, my lumber friends, is the king of aircraft woods. trn our aircraft production, Birch leads all the rest. It has qualifications lmown to no other woo4

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has this heretofore little-thought-of hardwood from the far North. They usc it for purposes that these aircraft technicians say no other wood hard or soft can begin to perforrn- The Birch going into this plane is all from Wisconsin, and from the Dominion of Canada. In the last World lVar we heard much of Spruce for aircraft. Spruce is in no less demand for aircraft now than it was then for all the uses for which it is so well fitted. But Birch and Spruce are not competitive in any way in aircraft construction. They are used in entirely different ways, for different purposes. Birch is very hard, yet workable, and possesses unapproachable strength and resistance to breakage. You can't break Birch, even the thinnest piece. You have to apply enough power to literally tear the fiber apart. The first rupture leaves something like a wooden rope that defies complete breakage. And it surfaces beautifully and smoothly, takes glue perfectly, and offers the most perfect laminating characteristics. The aircraft technicians would rather find a substitute for Birch than for almost any other material they use.

While it is reported that in those districts of the North where Birch is to be found they are using all-out efforts to produce a maximum amount of the wood, yet the supply is constantly dwarfed by the need for more and more wood of its characteristics. I'll have to tell you more later about the things they do with Birch. Suffice it to say here that this greatest of planes will be built entirely of Birch, ANd thAt it v/iII tAKC THREE MILLION FEET Of BirCh lumber to build it. The framing, the sheeting, the fuselage,

the furniture, the wings, the wing coverings-all will be of Birch. And they make everything out of thin slices of this wood, not out of boards or planks. The stufr arrives about one-eighth of an inch thic\ six to eight inches wide, and in no long lengths. The second biggest building in the Hughes plant is the place where they do their Birch fabricating. Here this thin lumber comes in, and here it is glued-up, built-up, and worked to any size, or even any length, desired. They end glue these slices of wood together and make them as long as they wish. Birch strips will run the full length of the wings in that fashion. They build every piece of that great plane out of this thin Birch. Could you believe it? They build heavy framing and thin coverings, all from the same original raw material. It can be wonderfully bent and moulded in its fabricated form. rf*rF

Tell me, gentle reader, does this uncouth but enthusiastic tale of this Howard Hughes plane interest you as it does me?

I saw Birch used profusely in other aircraft plants. They mould and build it into wonderful things for planes. I saw a lot of Mahogany. Most of the gliders I saw building were covered with sliced Mahogany veneers. This famous cabinet wood also is used in quantity throughout the aircraft industry. Of the softwoods that go into aircraft, Spruce is far and away the most useful and popular wood, with Noble Fir nott, and Hemlock and Douglas Fir close behind. That's the way I sized the thing up.

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The aircraft lumber business is the most thoroughly and practically regimented part of the lumber business of the nation. I use the word regimented in no critical manner. It had to be done that way to get results. In Dayton, Ohio, the whole aircraft lumber industry is handled. They call this the Aircraft Schedule Unit. Nobody on the Pacific Coast (or anywhere else, I assume), can buy, sell, or produce aircraft lumber except through this agency. It allocates the logs to begin with. It then allocates the lumber produced from the logs. In Los Angeles there are tremendous lumber yards specializing in aircraft lumber. They are equipped with remanufacturing and drying facilities. They buy aircraft lumber in flitches and cants and small timbers from the milts of the Northwest. They have to get permits from the Aircraft Schedule Unit for every purchase. They are told how much they can buy, and of which species. This same agency tells the aircraft manufacturers how much of this lumber they can buy, and also tells them how much of each species they can buy. Everything is done through this unit, thus keeping the available supply of aircraft lumber thoughtfully and practically distributed.

fn these aircraft lumber yards they stack and air-dry the Spruce. They mostly kiln-dry the Hemlock, Noble Fir, and Douglas Fir. It is all bought green, and has to be seasoned in these distribution yards. Most aircraft lumber is resawn to thicknesses from one-eighth to six-quarters in thickness. Aircraft lumber in all species must be absolutely free from all defects, and straight grained from end to end. The inspectors of this lumber give most of their attention to the straightness of the grain. They inspect it very slowly, thoughtfully, thoroughly, as befits wood on whose quality the lives of our fighting men must depend. It takes several days to load a car of airplane lumber, at the very best. Sometimes it takes as much as ten days to load a car, on account of the deliberateness of inspection. The inspector feels each piece of lumber from end to end with his hands to judge the straightness of grain.

The price of this aircraft lumber, cut from the most perfect parts of the most perfect logs, is interesting. It is, of course, fixed with a ceiling. The lowest price on green lumber is $90 at the mill and the highest is $690 per thousand, at the mill. To this is added freight, remanufacturing,

dryrng etc., and the result is that the seasoned and prepared lumber sells from anywhere from $140 to $750 per thousand, in Los Angeles. It is interesting to note that this same price prevails for Spruce, Noble Fir, Hemlock and Douglas Fir in the same grades and items. A fact that impressed me is the difficulty of telling Spruce and ltremlock and Noble Fir apart when they are piled together. I mean just at first glance. There is great similarity. For that reason every piece comes from the mill plainly marked as to species.

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They tell me that there is just one type of lumber for war purposes made at the Northwest mills that is even higher in grade and more difficult in specifications than aircraft lumber, and that is ponton bridge lumber. (No, brother, not pontoon lumber. The pontoon is the float on which the ponton bridge is built. But the bridge itself is ponton.) There are three items of ponton bridge lumber, six by eight, four and one-half by six and one-half, and two and one-half by twelve. And the stuff has to be absolutely clear and free from defects, and even straighter of grain than the specifications for aircraft lumber. Lrmrbermen tell me that our troops training in engineering units in Southern California and Arizona will build a ponton bridge out of this stuff across the rushing Colorado River in about three hours, and have heavy trucks running over it. *r**

The more f see of the war effort, the prouder I get of lumber. The things I have recited are just samples. For example, it takes ten thousand feet of lumber-good lumber -to crate a wooden glider, and they are building these big gliders by the wholesale in the Los Angeles district, with scores of pl,ants working at nothing else. I am told that these big aircraft plants use around half a million feet of lumber-+ach-a month, for crating and boxing planes and plane parts. When they crate these babies, they take no chances. More later.

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L. W. MacDonald of L. W. MacDonald Co., Los Angeles wholesale lumber firm has three sons in the country,s service. Jack is a Lieutenant in the Anti-Aircraft, stationed at Camp Haan, Calif., Robert is in the Medical Corps at Camp Barkeley, Texas, and James is in the Coast Guard, stationed at Orick, Calif.

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"You can't fight a war, much less carve out ultimate victory without wood," says Rear Admiral Clark Howell Woodward, Chief, Navy Incentive Division, in an article enumerating the services wood and wood products have performed toward victory on the Seven Seas.

The article, Wood at 'War, a Naval salute to the forest industries' contribution to the Navy's splendid performance, has been published as a small booklet, sized to fit into pay envelopes, by American Forest Products Industries, Inc., and is being distributed to forest industry firms in bulk, gratis, to be redistributed to their employees. It is hoped that this formal tribute from the Navy will stimulate woods and mill workers to redoubled efforts to step up urgently needed production. Copies may be procured on request from American Forest Products Industries, Inc., 1319 Eighteenth Street, N. W., Washington 6, D. C.

Many Scunpon Employees in Senrices

Many former employees of the Sampson Company, screen manufacturers, Pasadena, are now in the services. Jerry Thompson of the sales department is a 3rd Class carpenter's mate in the Navy Seabees at Camp Peary, Va.; Hance Thornton, bookkeeper, is a private in the Ferrying Command at Palm Springs; Sterling Hairell is a machinist's mate, lst Class in the Navy, and has seen considerable combat service; Glen Spires is in the Navy, stationed at Midway Island; Jack Becker is in the Signal Corps at Seattle and Joe Herrera is a Sergeant in the Army.

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He was a Harvard man, this new rookie, and when he got so sick he couldn't work they sent him in to the hospital to see the doctor.

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Southern Cclilornia Retcril Lumber Association Office Moved to L A.

The offices of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association which have heretofore been located in San Diego with a branch at 111 West Seventh Street, Los Angeles, will all be moved to the Los Angeles location the end of September, and be ready for business October lst at that point. Four people will be moved, as well as the San Diego office equipment and records. One large additional room next to the present ones at 111 West Seventh Street, has been secured. Orrie Hamilton's Lumbermen's Service Bureau remains in San Diego.

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Aditrstcrble Pricing Allowed For Ock Flooring

Manufacturers of Oak flooring were authorized by the Office of Price Administration September 7 to sell and deliver flooring at prices which may be adjusted later if an amendment, now under study, becomes effective.

The adjustable pricing procedure is required, OPA sai4 to encourage.immediate delivery of oak flooring which is urgently needed in the war effort.

The procedure is established in Order No. I under Section No. 6 of Maximum Price Regulation No. 458 (Oak Flooring), and became effective September 8,1943.

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California Yards Clamor For Lumber Lifts

The harder it is to get men, the louder becomes the clamor for power equipment that will take the place oi human labor.

So it is that at the present time the lumber yards, retail and wholesale, of California are clamoring for permits to purchase lift trucks for handling lumber in units rather than in boards. During the past two years many a California yard has entirely changed the character of its lumber handling by the installation of power trucks that handle, lift, and carry heavy units of lumber at a rate not equalled by a small army of men. To do this they have to pave their runways and shed floors, and entirely remodel their sheds. These splendid machines unload lumber from gondola cars, pile it in yard or shed, carry it about for unloading or milling, and finally prepare it for loading out of the yard.

With such yards there is of course a great demand for

Smcll Repcirs Should Be Mcde Now

In a bulletin issued recently by the NHA, emphasis was placed on'the importairce of making essential property repairs in order that the nation's supply of existing homes be maintained in a sound and habitable condition. No authorization is needed for such work that does not exceed $200 nor involve the purchase of critical materials.

Supporting this government policy, Henry W. Collins, The Colotex Corporation vice-president in charge of merchandising, declared in a recent interview:

"Little business is big business today in the housing industry. Hundreds of thousands of small repair and maintenance jobs should be done right now on the home front from coast to coast if more serious and more expensive jobs are to be avoided in the fall and winter months ahead.

"Due to the u'artime emergency, manufacturers cannot always supply even non-critical materials as rapidly as they are ordered or needed", Mr. Collins said, "so each order gotten through to the dealer and applied to strengthening the home front is of vital importance. Consequently, home owners should have their repairs made right now, and not take a chance on waiting until later when certain needed products may not be easily available."

lumber to come into their yards on open cars, so that these power trucks may be employed in the unloading. Man.y yards make definite arrangements with mills shipping them lumber to put it on gondola cars in lift units, so that one of these machines can unload in a few minutes a shipment of lumber that would take a crew of men many hours.

With this change has come the banishment of the type of lumber sheds that used to be standard in every California lumber yards, namely, the end-stacking sheds. Where the power lift truck comes in, the end-stacking shed g'oes out, and the high-roofed open shed that takes its place will store and shelter several times as much lumber in lift units as it formerly did in end stacks.

Time, indeed, marches on. And changes in lumber handling marches with it.

Mitls Cut Extrcr 250,000 Feet Sept, 9 lor Victory

An extra 250,000 feet of lumber was cut at the Fresh Pond and Lake Valley mills of the Placerville Lumber Company, Placerville, Calif., on Labor Day. According to Harvey West, manager of the company, the cut at the Fresh Pond mill on August 27 was 235,690 feet, at the rate of 13,000 feet an hour, a record. George Williamson and Harold Downs were the sawyers. The company's cut this season up to September 1 was 25,000,000 feet, a 38 per cent increase over the same period last year. Prospects are, he said, that the total cut this year will be about 4O,00@,000 feet.

W. W. Forrest Promoted

W. W. Forrest, formerly lumber buyer at Richmond Yard No. 2 ol the Permanent Metpls Corporation, has been made chief buyer in charge of lumber purchases for the four Kaiser Company Richmond Shipyards, with offices in the Central Purchasing Office at 14th and Clay Streets, Oakland.

Mr. Forrest was until laly, 1942 a partner in the TildenForrest Lumber Company at Richmond, Calif.

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The West Coast Lumbermen's Association reports that the employment of women in its member mills has been steadily increasing for the past two years, due to man shortage, until today the total number of employees of these mills is ten to fifteen per cent women.

The greater number of these women are employed in planing mills, taking the lighter .items from the planers, sorting to lengths, bundling, marking, etc. They are appearing more and more frequently in other jobs, even in: cluding the putling of the lighter items from the green chains. Col. W. B. Greeley tells about seeing a slip of a girl at one sawmill operating the tongs that move clear cants to the rolls for the gang-saw. But he says the prize thing he has so far seen along that line was a strapping young woman over six feet in height and powerfully built, sorting logs in a mill pond and poling them into position for the jackJadder to take them to the mill. She was capable of handling any log that came along. The prevailing report from the Fir mills on women workers is

Lumbenrrcrn's Son Sp-e-nds t8 Days in Lilebocrt

It was a grand and glorious feeling for Herbert B. Cooper, Jr. when with other survivors of a torpedoed Liberty ship he saw a rescue plane after spending 18 days in a lifeboat on the Indian ocean.

Herbert, 19, son of Herbert B. Cooper of the Cooper Lumber Co., Portland, and nephew of Wilfred T. Cooper, Cooper-spalding Lumber Co., Los Angeles, graduated from high school in 1941, attended Stanford University for a year, and trained for two months at San Mateo as a marine cadet before going to sea. His ship was sunk by a German torpedo. Lifeboats were launched in five minutes and only three members of the crew were lost.

Now on survivors' leave, Herbert is eager to get back to his two months' sea duty and eight months' academy training that will give him his commission and the opportunity for further service.

favorable. They stand the work surprisingly well and learn the requirements of their jobs very quickly.

In the Western Pine mills the employment of women varies a great deal. Some mills report less than one per cent of their employees women, while others, with large box and planer operations report as much aS ten per cent women. They are employed mostly in the planing mills, box factories, moulding plants, etc., where the lifting is in keeping with their abilities, but some mills report a few women working on heavier jobs both in and out of the sawmill units, such as taking lumber from chains and machines, and even working around the headrigs.

The California Redwood Association reports a total of about 650 women employed in its member mills at the present time. Several of the larger plants with factories and remanufacturing plants where there are plenty of light jobs that women can do, are the chief employers of female labor. The number continually grows, however, as the manpowef emergency grows.

Peter Stone Meets With Cclilornicr Decler Groups

Peter Stone, of Washington, the OPA lumber authority, held two meetings of late with lumber dealers in California.

On Friday, Septimber 24, he met with the officers and directors of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California, in San Francisco.

On Saturday, the 25th, he met with a selected committee of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association, in Los Angeles.

Grcrndlcther Twice in 3 Weeks

Hugh M. Handley, sales manager, Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., San Francisco, recently became a grandfather twice inside of three weeks, when baby boys arrived at the homes of his daughter, Mrs. Verne Rucker, and his son, Warren. His daughter's boy was born on Mr. and Mrs. Handley's 36th wedding anniversary.

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Purchases Interest in Cole Door d Plyvvood Co.

The Cole Door & Plywood Co. (formerly Cole Door & Sash Co.), 1O49 East Slauson Ave., Los Angeles, is now functioning under the joint management of R. A. (Bob) Cole and Robert C. Sand, the latter having purchased half interest in the firm.

Bob Cole has been connected with the door and panel business in Los Angeles and Southern California for the past twenty years and has operated the present business since 1938. Mr. Sand helped organize the Peninsula Plywood Corporation of Port Angeles, Wash., and has been general manager of that firm since its inception. A desire to enter the jobbing field in Southern California brought him to Los Angeles and into affiliation with the Cole Door & Plywood Co,

Mr. Sand brings with him into the business a wide acquaintance among the producers of plywood, doors and lumber in the Northwest, and a valuable knowledge of the manufacturer's problems, as well as an understanding of the jobber's side of the picture.

The new firm will continue to distribute Fir doors and plywood in the Southern California area.

Douglcrs Fir Plrnvood

The OPA simplifies and clarifies its price regulation for Douglas fir plywood explaining that changes in the pricing provisions brought about by the revision are all minor (Second Revised Maximum Price Regulation 13), efiective September 27.

Pcunphlet Issued by WPB on Delerment oI Lumber cand Woods Workers

A statement of the Selective Service System policy affecting the induction of workers in the logging, lumbering and related industries has been released for the use of the lumber industry by the War Production Board's Lumber and Lumber Products Division in cooperation with War Manpower Commission. The pamphlet contains lnformation on deferment, authority of local selective servicc boards, manning tables, etc., and is designed to serve as an authoritative guide for the woods industries.

Copies are available on request from all WPB field offices and from the Lumber Division in Washington.

Bcclc From North

George D. Eubank, manager, L. H. Eubank & Son, Inglewood, returned September 20 from a business trip to San Francisco and Portland.

Walter George Ennis

Walter George (Pat) Ennis, plant superintendent, Globe Lumber Co., Los Angeles, passed away September lQ in Los Angeles.

He was with Globe Lumber Co. for the past six years and for many years with Hammond Lumber Co., Los Angeles.

He is survived by his widow, a daughter, Mrs. Richard Albano, and a grandson, Richard James Albano. He was a native of Missouri.

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lfPB Estimater Lumber Needs Exceed Production

Lumber production during the first six months of 1943 totaled I6,023,743,W board feet, according to estimates released by WPB's Lumber and Lumber Products Division. This figure represents half the 1943 domestic production goal of 32 billion board feet set by the Division last January, but it does not assure that revised 1943 requirements will be met, Division officials stated. The year's lumber consumption for military and essential civilian needs is now estimated at about 36 billion board feet. Moreover, a normal seasonal decrease in production is to be expected in the fourth quarter of the year.

June' production was 3,015,030,000 board feet, a 1.9 per cent increase from that of May, approximating the normal seasonal rise for the country as a whole.

Breakdown of June production by regions, as estimated from field surveys and samplings made by the U. S. Forest Service in cooperation with WPB, follows:

East: Northeastern, L94,7n,W0 board feet; Appalachian, 170,595,000 board feet; North Central, 50,576,000 board feet; South Central, 76,3O7,W board feet; Lake States, 85,8(n,000 board feet; South, 997,723W board feet; Prairie, 5,710,000 board feet.

West: North Pacific, 1,018,865,000 board feet; South Pacific, 250,352,000 board feet; Northern Rocky Mountain, 111,048,000 board feet; Southern Rocky Mountain, 53,325,000 board feet.

MPR 467-Hcndwood Lumber

The OPA sets up a new procedure for calculating maximum prices for distribution yard sales of hardwood lumber at both wholesale and retail levels. The new regulation, in substance, preserves the general level of prices previously in effect under GMPR, yet removes some of the inequities that existed under the general regulation, the OPA states. (Maximum Price Regulation 467), efrective September 2O.

Mcde Trip to Texcs

Floyd Elliott, manager of the San Francisco office of Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., returned September 2l from a trip to Dallas, Texas, where he went to meet his daughter, Mrs. William L. Blair, wife of Lieut. Blair of the Army Air Corps, who was driving across the country from North Carolina. Incidentally, the young grandson, Steven, was making his second Coast to Coast trip within a few months, his first being made by air at the age of five weeks.

Terrible Twenty Golf Tournament

The 208th Terrible Twenty golf tournament was held at Oakmont Golf Club, Thursday, September 16. Frank Berger did a fine job as host to seventeen members and nine guests. No luncheon, "as this is war," was the edict, but a real chicken dinner was served after the game and there was plenty of entertainment during the evening.

Joining the T.T.T. in March, 1942, George Lockwood, J. Niederer Co., won his first prize, his net 73 took in the unbreakable poker chips and case. Frank Berger, Standard Lime Products Co., and Bob Falconer, General Tile Co., seem to have a way all their own in shooting the elusive pill over the barrancas and amongst the trees. Their net 75's tied for second prize-a sweater. This tie will be played off at next month's tournament. The three scarce and prized golf balls were awarded to Harold Jackson, Jackson Bros. & Le Sage; Bob Falconer and Vic Jones.

The third round of match play follows: First Flight: Bob Osgood defeated Roy Stanton by default; Ed Bauer defeated C. C. Bohnhoff, I up. Second Flight: Hervey Bowles defeated Vic Jones, 4 and 2; Gene DeArmond won, drawing a bye.

Earl Heber, E. J. Stanton & Son, will handle the details for the next tournament, which will be held on October 14.

Kenneth Smith Back from North

Kenneth Smith, president of the California Redwood Association, San Francisco, returned September 20 from two weeks in Washington, spent calling on Douglas Fir mills.

He was accompanied by J. P. McGovern of The Pacific Lumber Company, Scotia, Calif., and I. G. Utschig of IJnion Lumber Company, Fort Bragg, Calif.

OPA Puts Shingiles on New Price Bcse

Washington, Sept. 25.-Pending action on a petition for a ceiling price increase, the Office of Price Administration (OPA) today authorized producers of red cedar shingles to make sales and deliveries on an adjustable pricing basis.

The action permits an agreement between sellers and buyers that the price may be increased to cover any upward adjustment OPA may make. Producers claim the increase is necessary to meet higher production costs.

When the WiId Geese Fly

Every year when the grass grows gray, And the sun hangs low on a soggy day, When the late rose lifts a faltering head, To the summer days that are almost dead; Every year when a mellow note, Floats down from some squadron-leader's throat, Faint and clear through the gun-room runs, A rustle of boots and a whisper of guns. A whisper of guns. A memory lifts

And out of a rain-torn curtain drifts

A rushing sound from ordered wings

As a phantom legion wheels and swings. Wheels and swings on an airy track, Now faint, now clear, now beating back. Feathered troopa from a fog-drenched land, Ruled by the beck of a Master's hand.

Ah, gallant geese of the misty dawn, What age-old instinct leads you on?

What voice from some soft summer sea Calls out, and winging wild and free Your mighty pinions beat the air, To bear you, all unguided there? No man may know; but a spirit sings

And a heart beats high to the rush of wings.

Bcd Mcnrners

The colored preacher was loud in his praise of the brown and juicy bird his host had served him generously for dinner. Finally he asked:

"Mistah Green, whah did you get sich a fine goose?"

Mr. Green looked much disappointed in the preacherman. He said:

"Pahson, when you preaches a good suhmon, does I evah ax you whah you got h'it? Nossuh. An' f craves hab de same consideration fo' me."

Diplomcrcy

The Bcnker Reporter: "And how did you start your financial career?"

Financier: "I had nothing to do so I rented an empty store and put up a sign 'Bank.' A man dropped in and made a deposit of $25O. The next day another man came in and deposited $300. The third day I had developed so much confidence in my own enterprise that I put in $50 of my own. And that's the way the thing started."

Brocrdening

Reginald, in a fit of choler, Thrust his head neath a big steamroller. The folks were all surprised to fin4 How the treatment broadened Reggie's mind.

Ttre Trcrinmcn's Prcryer

An old railroad man was converted at a religious revival, and when they asked him to lead the congregation in prayer. he diil this way:

"O Lord, now that f have flagged Thee, tift my feet off the rough deck of life and plant them firmly on the deck of the train of Salvation. Let me use the safety lampi known as prudence, make all couplings on the train with the strong link of Thy Love, and, Heavenly Father, keep all the switches closed that lead off the sidings, especially those with a blind end. O Lord, if it be Thy pleasure, have every semiphore blocked along the line; show the white Iight of hope, ttrat I may make the run of Life without stopping; and, Lord, give us the Ten Commandments as a schedule. And when my train shall have pulled into the great, dark station of Death, may Thou say with a smile: "Well done, thou good and faithful servant! Come up and sign the payroll, and receive your check for eternal happiness !"

dat You personcl Note

Chesterfield said: "Put your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket, and do not pull it out just to show you have it. If you are asked what o'clock it is, tell it; but do not proclaim it hourly and unasked, Iike the watchman.',

Work

The young freshman was half asleep when suddenly the professor's voice said:

"Mr. Jones, what is work?"

The freshman rubbed his eyes, hesitated a moment, and then answered:

"Sir, ever5rthing is work."

"What? Everything is work?"

t'Yes, sir."

"That desk you are leaning on-is that iyork?"

"Yes, sir. 'Woodwork."

"The many friends of Bogus Wilbanks, who for the past several weeks has been so sick he hasn't even been able to raise a knife to his mouth, will be glad to know that he is at last on the mend."

Quick Retort

"A fortune teller," said Mrs. Brown, .,told me something very interesting today."

Brown wanted to know what it was.

She said: "lfe described my second husband; said he would be both handsome and clever.',

Brown said: "Do you mean to tell me that you were married before and never told me anything about it?"

Worse

"fs there anything worse than to be old and bent?r' asked a philosopher, watching an aged male figure passing by. "Much worse," answered the wayward.youth. .,Tike be, ing young and broke, for instance."

Clay Brown With U. S. Plywood Corp.

Lawrence Ottinger, president of the United States Plywood Corporation, the world's largest producer of plywood, today announced the appointment of Clay Brown as assistant to the president of the corporation.

The new executive of United States Plywood has spent his entire business career in the lumber, plywood and allied wood products lines.

Following graduation from the Institute of Technology in Kansas City, Missouri, Mr. Brown commenced his business life with the Long-Bell Lumber Company in that city. He also served the company at Longview, Washington. He left Long-Bell to join the M. & M. Woodworking Company, of Portland, Oregon, as general sales manager. More recently he had been with Smith Wood-Products, fnc., likewise of Portland, where he served as vice-president of the Plywood Division.

Mr. Brown is recognized as one of the country's leading experts on aircraft woods, spar materials and plywood. His business experience has covered the major wood products markets of the United States, particularly in the West anrl along the Pacific Coast. He also has had international dealings. Before he war, he visited England and France and induced the British and the French to increase their purchases of American woods. Both the British and French governments bought West Coast woods for many uses in the woodworking industry, including'aircraft and marine Purposes.

Mr. Brown will make his office at the headquarters of United States Plywood Corporation in New York City, 616 West 46th Street.

The new executive of United States Plywood is married and has three children, two boys and a girl. Mr. Brown was born in Kansas City, Mo., 41 years ago.

New Mill ct Winslow

George Nagel is now operating a modeSt, single-band sawmill at Winslow, Ariz. He started construction last spring, and now has the mill in regular operation. It will cut about thirty thousand feet of Ponderosa pine daily, and the lumber is shipped rough. Mr. Nagel came from Oklahoma.

Rebuilding MiU ct Gcrbenrille

The Tiffany Construction Company, of San Jose, Calif., are rebuilding and enlarging a sawmill at Garberville, Calif., which they recently bought from the Morgan Lumber Company. A double circular equipment will give them about 4O,000 feet daily production. The new owners have timber possessions in that vicinity, which will be brought to this mill for cutting.

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Fire Retardant Treatment of Lumber

There is increasing interest in the fire retardant treatment of lumber. This has been under study for some time by the wood preservation industry, and much work has been done by the Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, 'Wis., over the last 10 years in studying the different chemicals that have fire retardant value, their comparative costs, and their treatability of lumber.

War has brought rapidly increasing interest in this development, and the Forest Products Laboratory has now prepared preliminary Federal standards both for fire retardant chemical formulas and for treating processes. The Bureau of Ships of the Navy has used these standards in calling for fire retardant treatment on 20 large patrol blimp hangers of all 'r,r'ood construction. One of the formulas included in both Navy specifications and Federal tentative standards is zinc chloride or chromated zinc chloride (czc).

IJnderwriters' Laboratories, Inc., a non-profit organization, sponsored by the National Board of Fire LJnderwriters, recently made a test to determine the fire hazard classification of l-inch T & G Dressed Douglas Fir and Southern Pine, impregnated by chromated, zinc chloride. The results of the test and the description of the apparatus developed to conduct the test are shown in the report. Further investigation is under way to determine the effective depth of penetration required for lumber of greater thickness.

Test panels 2O inches by 25 ieet were constructed and in the tests these constituted the top of a furnace. At one end of this furnace a gas jet was directed against the roof panel and a draught of known volume was passed through the furnace. Peepholes at various points along the length

Will Attend Ncrtioncrl Retcil Convention

Orrie Hamilton, secretary manager, Southern California Retail Lumber Association, and Paul Hallingby, Hammond Lumber Co., Los Angeles, will attend the annual convention of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, to be held in Chicago, October 18 and 19.

of the furnace permitted observation of the spread of flame, and thermometers recorded the temperatures at the various points. Control panels of asbestos cement and of untreated red Oak were likewise tested under the same conditions. The asbestos cement panels were rated at 0 per cent combustible, and the red Oak as 100 per cent combustible. The treated panels were then rated between these limits and under the three separate headings of flame spread, fuel contributed, and smoke developed. The ratings are indicated for the varying poundages of treatment ranging from I lb. to 4 lbs. of the dry salts per cubic foot of wood.

For example under the conclusions and recommendations of this report a 4 lb. treatment with chromated zinc chloride results in a recommended flame spread factor of 30 and a fuel contributed factor of. 25. The limitations of the tests did not permit of definite factors under the heading of smoke developed, but the observations rvere conclusive that the treated samples developed less than the untreated samples. Furthermore the smoke from the treated samples was no more toxic than that from the untreated samples.

J. H. Baxter & Co., 601 West 5th Street, Los Angeles 13, and 333 Montgomery Street, San Francisco 4, have copies of this report, which they will be glad to send without charge to anyone interested in having one.

This concern has for many years treated lumber with chromated zinc chloride (CZC), for protection against termites and decay. It is only necessary to increase the poundage of the chemical to give the added fire retardant value. Some of the formulas in the Federal specifications provide fire retardant value only, whereas chromated zinc chloride provides protection against decay, termites and fire.

Hart Visits Cclifornia

Al Hart, of the Hart Mill Company, Raymond, Washington, rvas a recent visitor in Los Angeles and San Francisco. He sells lots of lumber in California, and his mill is represented in Southern California by Tacoma Lumber Sales, Los Angeles.

TWENTY YIAAS AGO

From the Oetober I,1028, fsaue

Announcement was made that Lumbermen's Association would vention at the Palace Hotel. San and,27.

Congervation Order M;208 Amended

the California Retail hold their annual conFrancisco, October 26

This issue carried a personal write-up of R. L. Cuzner, manager of the Kerckhoff-Cuzner Mill & Lumber Company of Los Angeles.

C. D. Johnspn Lumber Company of opened an office in Los Angeles with Portland, Oregon, Frank Karrick as manager.

Peoples Lumber Company, Ventura, purchased the Fillmore vard of the Havward Lumber & Investment Co.

Hammond Lumber Company made extensive improvements to their plant in Van Nuys.

A large number of Hoo-Hoo members from the Bay District and various parts of the State attended the Concatenation held at the Plantation Inn, San Francisco, Saturday evening, September 15. Sixteen Kittens were initiated.

David Woodhead, Woodhead Lumber Company, Los Angeles, was appointed Hoo-Hoo State Counselor for California by the newly elected Snark of the lJniverse, C. D. LeMaster.

Herman L. Rosenberg, Hipolito Company, Los Angeles, was elected Vicegerent Snark of the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo district.

A. A. Frost, Frost Hardwood Company and San Diego Lumber Company, San Diego, was elected Vicegerent Snark of the San Diego Hoo-Hoo district.

Iobs Ecsy to Get

Sorneone asked Paul Sanderson, president of the Southern Pine Association, if jobs were plentiful in the mills at present. Paul answered: "Any man who can be wheeled up to a machine, can get one."

To eliminate duplication between Conservation Order M-208 (Softwood Lumber), CMP Regulations 5 and 5A, and various preference rirting orders, M-208 as amended was issued today by the War Production Board.

M-208 formerly assigned ratings to purchase orders for softwood lumber, as defined, to be useif for maintenance and repair as well as for other specified purposes. Higher ratings for industrial and commercial maintenance and repair lumber, however, are assigned by CMP Regulations 5 and 5A and P orders, and it was not.clear whether the lower ratings of M-208 or the higher ratings should be used.

As amended, M.208 clarfies this point by deleting all assignments of preference ratings for maintenance and repair except for agricultural buildings and dwellings. Ratings for these two purposes are not assigned by any other order.

Amendment to Conservation Order M-mB, issued September 16.

Set Prices on Mexican Pine Lumber

The Defense Supplies Corporation, a subsidiary of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, has been authorized by_ the OPA to sell Mexican pine lumber in the United States at the highest prevailing price established for any private importer. The Mexican lumber to be imported by DSC is purchased under the direction of the Office of Economic Warfare and, as is the case with privately imported stock, will be sold only to government procurement agencies.

The present highest private importer's ceiling price is $6.50 per 1000 board feet above the maximum price for Western Pine established by Maximum Price Regulation No. 94. This permission is found in Amendment No. 8 to MPR 94, and becomes effective on September 25, 1943,

Four Sons in Army Air Force

The four sons of W. H. O'Neill, O'Neill Lumber Co., San Francisco, are all making good progress in the Army Aii Force.

Gil is a lst Lieutenant, stationed at Seattle; Ken is an aviation cadet in training at Tulare, Calif.; Bill is an aviation cadet at Yuma, Ariz., and Dick, a Link instructor at Herington, Kansas, is a Corporal.

Eagt B.y Hoo-Hoo Club

Electg Officers

D. Nornon Cor&

D. Normen Cords, Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco, was elected president of East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club at the dinner meeting held at Hotel Leamington, Oakland, September 13.

Wm. Chatham, Jr., Loop Lumber & Mill Co., Alameda, was elected vice-president, and G. W. Sechrist was reelected secretary-treasurer. Al Kelley was appointed sergeant-at-arms.

The new directors are Thomas P. Hogan III, Hogan Lumber Co., Oakland; John Helm, Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco; Thomas Jacobsen, Piedmont Lumber & Mill Co., Oakland; A.M. Charter. Wholesale Building Supply Co., Oakland; Earl Chalfan, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Oakland.

Committee chairmen appointed by the new president are the following: Finance, James McNab; Public Affairs, Clement Fraser; Membership, Earl Chalfan ; Attendance, Everett Lewis; Program and Entertainment, Thomas Hogan III; Reception, John Helm; Fraternal, B. E. Bryan; Publicity, Frank Brown; Activities and Sports, A. M. Charter; Educational, Thomas T. Branson; Meetings, Thomas Jacobsen; Paraphernalia, G. W. Sechrist; Nominating, L. J. Woodson; Christmas Party, Wm. Chatham, Jr.; Reveille, Geo. C. Clayberg, Christmas Fellowship Fund, Jack Wood.

The speaker of the evening was Col. W. B. Greeley, secretary-manager of the West Coast Lumbermen's As' sociation, Seattle.

There was an attendance of 128 at the dinner. Lewis Godard presented a wrist watch on behalf of the Club to George Clayberg, retiring president, and a fine engraved letter writing case to ex-secretary Jim Overcast, who is now a private, first class, in the Army.

ImportE Mexiccm Hcrdwoo&

George A. Hill,, formerly sales manager for CadwalladerGibson Co., is now importing some Mexican hardwoods. All his sales are in connection with the war effort. He is also marketing miscellaneous run to detail softwood items.

Red Rivcr Operrta Splcndid Rcbuih Pine Mill !t Suranville

This season the Red River Lumber Company, of Westwood, California, is operating in addition to the great Westwood plant, a mighty fine sawmill of smaller caliber at Susanville. It is a rebuilt institution. Charles Sewell, who previously had spent two years rebuilding and remodeling the great Westwood mill, completely overhauled the Susanville plant, installed a lot of new equipment, and gave them a splendidly arranged mill that will make more than twenty million feet of Pine lumber this year.

The sawmill is now operated throughout with electric power. The log cutting equipment consists of a band and band resaw, the latter being of the merry-go-round variety. New installations include an air-cooled refuse burner, and a small planing mill. Lumber around the plant is handled with Gerlinger carriers. The pond was enlarged and deepened. Power saws are used in the woods in their timber cutting.

R. L. Kemp is plant superintendent. The mill is under the general jurisdiction of Kenneth Walker.

Sto* I\fillwor&

Producers of stock millwork-wooden doors, frames, windows, sash and allied items-are authorized by OPA to shorten their discounts. Thus they may pass on to buyers their increased lumber costs resulting from price advances of$3 to $6 per 1000 board feet in shop grades of Ponderosa pine since last April.

Jobbers and retail distributors also,are given permission to add to their prices as established by GMPR the actual dollars and cents sums by which their "net costs'f of stock millwork are increased as the result of smaller discounts by producers. These price adjustments will increase maximum retail prices around 3 per cent above present levels. Increases in costs of ponderosa pine, chief material used by stock millwork manufacturers caused these adjustments. (Revised Maximum Price Regulation 293), effective September 21.

Wins Arny-Ncrva Slcr Awcrd

A new Army-Navy "E" pennant with one star affixed ryas presented September 15 to the men and women of the Masonite Corporation by the Navy Board for production Awards. There were no ceremonies held in connection with the presentation of the additional honor, which was made in recognition of the high production level of Masonite presdwoods and hardboards during the six-month period ending June 15. Masonite Corporation received the original Army-Navy "E" pennant on February 23 of this year.

Stalled on Madeline H:ll

The grade was deep on Madeline Hill, And labored the engine's breathing; The night was dark, a wild storm raged, And the river was angrily seething. Dan Steel, the husky young engineer, Opined that he "sure was whipped;" He struggled hard on that treacherous grade, But the whole train balked and slipped.

Now, the station master at Reno town 'Was new to the job and place, So he waited there for old thirty three With an anxiously puckered up face. "By gum, but that train's long after due !" He snapped in angry tones, Then he listened a while to the pouring rain And the mad wind's shrieks and moans.

Then over the wires with a snap and a crack Came a message from up near Gunther, "f'm stuck," it said, "on Madeline Hill, And I can't get no further."

Then the station master, new to the place, Uprose in a swirl of wrath; "No whipper snapper like Steel," he yelled, "Can philander along my path !"

"I'm out to make a record, by gar, And I'm betting dollars to dimes, That as long as I hold down this job, The trains will come in on time." So he snapped this answer out through the night

"By all the gods of Zeno, You gotta marry that gal, Dan Steel, And bring her along into Reno !"

Pete Toste Cclls

on Mills

F. A. "Pete" Toste, manager of the Southern California office of Kilpatrick & Company, Wilmington, Calif., will be back from visiting Fir mills in the Pacific Northwest about October 1.

This company is specializing in the sale of Fir timbers, 40 feet and longer.

470,924 Units Completed Since 1940

Housing for war workers under the publicly-financed phase of the war housing program has been completed at an average rate of 1,000 dwelling units a day in the past several months, the Federal Public Housing Authority reported September 26. Some 32,177 units were completed in July alone.

In the first seven months of this year 236,697 units were completed, which is twice the number completed in the last seven months of 1942, according to Herbert Emmerich, FPHA Commissioner, and 174,306 dwelling units were under construction at the end of July and contracts were yet to be let for 60,747 more under the presenr program.

Since July l,l94o., 470,924 units have been completed, of which 321,3W were family dwelling units,L2Z,I3Z dormitory units and 27,407 trailer units.

These production records do not include the dwelling units to be made available through Government conversion of existing homes and other structures under the National Housing Agency's Homes IJse program. As of the end of August, 26,1W such units were under lease to the Government for conversion, some 15,531 of which were completed or under construction

As of July 31, a total of 706,000 dwelling units were und"er development or management in the Government-financed phase of the National Housing Agency,s war housing prog'ram.

Asbestos-Cement Building Materials

Maximum dollars and cents ceilings for sales of asbestos_ 'cement building materials from a factory are established by the OPA. This maintains the current level of prices chargei in sales from factory for several classes of building mat'erials made from asbestos-cement such as roofing and siding shingles, lumber, flat sheets, sheathing and wallboard, iexible wallboard and decorative wallboard. The 10/o increase on corrugated sheets put into effect by most of the industrv in the spring of. l94l is ordered eliminated (Maximum price Regulation 466), efrective September 18.

Ccpt. Russell Johnson Visits S. F.

Captain Russell Johnson, son of Otis R. Johnson, presi_ dent of the Union Lumber Co., San Francisco, was recentlv home on leave. He is in the Army Air Force, and is stationed at Santa Ana.

Manufacturers Lumber Co. Opens New Yard

Manufacturers Lumber Co., Inc. has opened a new yard at 1830 West Slauson Avenue, Los Angeles. The site, recently purchased by the company, has an area of 100,000 square feet. As will be seen by the picture the sign on the front of the yard carries the patriotic suggestion to "Buy 'War Bonds."

This concern, which is sales agent for Commercial Lumber Co., Inc., Los Angeles, was established in 1941 and has two other yards, at 610O St. Andrews Place and 6200 Man-

WPB Estimqtes Gross Lumber Stocks

Estimated gross lumber stocks at sawmills totaled 3,879,040,000 board feet at the close of the second quarter of 1943 (June 30), a decrease of 21.7 per cent since the beginning of the year, the War Production Board's Lumber and Lumber Products Division reports.

This figure represents a decrease of 3.3 per cent for the country as a whole from stocks on hand at the close of the first quarter.

Appointed Mcncger

Clinton H. Crane was recently appointed manager of W. B. Jones Lumber Co., Los Angeles. He was formerly with Owens-Parks Lumber Co., and has had a lot of experience in the lumber business.

hattan Place, Los Angeles.

Manufacturers Lumber Co. does a large industrial lumber business, and carries an inventory of from 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 feet at all times, consisting of West Coast woods, Southern hardwoods, Mexican hardwoods, furniture dimension, softwood and hardwood plywood. The company operates a fleet of 11 trucks.

The principals in the company are Donald L. Allison, James L. Linderman, and Noble K. Lay.

Fell Over Cliff

W. A. Wood, resident manager of the Mount Whitney Lumber Company at Johnsondale, California, has practically recovered from a very serious accident. On a Sunday fishing trip he fell over a cliff, breaking one leg, spraining the other ankle, and suffering other injuries. He was taken to a hospital in Bakersfield for treatment, and remained there several weeks.

With Christenson Lurnber Co.

Ray Julien, who was for many years Lumber Co., Los Angeles, as salesman, activities to San Francisco, where he Christenson Lumber Co.

with E. K. Wood has transferred his is associated with

Itillamette Yalley lumber (o. Presented Army-Navy rrltr Award

The Willamette Valley Lumber Company was awarded the Army-Navy "E" Pennant and the employees .,E', pins for outstanding achievement ir1 the production of materials needed in the war effort in appropriate ceremonies held at Dallas, Oregon, on September 21, 1943.

Col. W. B. Greeley, secretary-manager of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, was master of ceremonies. America was played by the Camp Adair Military Band, and the invocation was given by Major L. V. Harmon, U. S. Army Chaplain Corps, Camp Adair. The opening remarks were made by Honorable Earl Snell, Governor of Oregon.

The presentation of the Army-Navy ',E', Pennant was

1943 Output of Fire-Retardant Lumber Tripfes 1942 Figures

Statistics on wood processed in 1942 by the nation's 231 wood preserving plants have just been completed by R. K. Helphenstine, Jr., If. S. Forest Service, and released through the American Wood-Preservers' Association. Although the total volume of wood treated with creosote, toxic salts, and fire- retardants in 7942 (3,755,000,000 board feet) was down 1.9 per cent from 1941, it remained nearly 20 per cent above 194O, reflecting the flattening curve in war construction.

Treatment of lumber and timber with salts was down.12 per cent from 1941. Wolmanized lumber accounted for half of the total salt production; zinc chloride, chromated zinc chloride, zinc-meta-arsenite, and celcure making up. the balance.

Predictions that the demand for fireproofed wood for war construction would result in a heavy increase in its production have been fully substantiated, according to T. F. Linthicum, president of American Lumber and Treating Company, Chicago. "The development of new federal specifications designed to simplify and widen the field of wood-fireproofing, as a metal-conservation move, was responsible in great part for the expansion,', he said. The total output for 1943 of pressure-fireproofed lumber, Mr.

made by Col. Fred G. Sherrill, Corps of Engineers, Chief, Materials and Equipment Branch, Construction Department, 'War Department, Washington, D. C., and was accepted by George T. Gerlinger, president of the Willamette Valley Lumber Company.

Lt. Comdr. H. N. Anderson, U.S.N.R., officer in charge of the Branch Lumber Procurement Office, portland, Oregon, presented the "E" Pins which were accepted by W. B. Sleeman, International Representative of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, portland, Oregon, on behalf of the employees.

The rendition of the Star Spangled Banner by the Camp Adair Military Band concluded the ceremonies.

Linthicum estimates, will nearly triple that of last year. "Nine of our eleven plants treated more lumber with fireretardant chemical 'salts' in the first six months oL 1943 than the whole industry treated in 1942,,, he said.

The present time finds flameproofed wood going into huge lighter-than-air bases, synthetic rubber plants, oil refineries, and the like. Largest user of flameproofed wood has been the U. S. Navy, which adopted the specially treated wood for nearly a score of giant hangars built for the Navy blimp fleet.

Personnel Chcrnges Announced

Smith Wood-Products, Inc., announ,ces the following changes: George H. Royer is now manager of the plywood Division, with offices in Portland, succeeding Clay Brown, resigned.

A. A. Hamilton, of the home office in Kansas City, is now located in the Portland office as manager of plywood sales, succeeding Mr. Royer.

Grcducrtes As Lieutencnt

William Lewis Frese, son of Otto W. Frese, San Fran_ cisco wholesale lumberman, graduated recently as a Lieutenant in the Army Air Corps at Kirkland Field, Albu_ querque, N. M. Following his graduation he spent a week's leave at home, and left {or Tucson, Ariz., rvhere he is now stationed.

lnformaf Tallc by Col. Greeley

To San Francisco Lumbermen

An informal talk was given by Col. W. B. Greeley, secretary-manager of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, Seattle, to San Francisco wholesale lumbermen and manufacturers' representatives, at a luncheon meeting held at the San Francisco Commercial Club on Monday, September 13.

George R. Kendrick, sales manager, Pope & Talbot, Inc., Lumber Division, San Francisco, presided.

Col. Greeley spoke on the present conditions in the trade, and what lumber the mills may be able to make available for civilian trade in-the near future, and also what the Association can do to cooperate with the distributors to the fullest extent possible.

In the course of his talk the speaker referred to some of the difficutties that confront the mills at this time in trying to keep up production. Mills are employing a growing percentage of women, and have employed many high school boys in the vacation season, and have been helped to some extent by the older men released from the services. He expressed the hope that loggers now in the armed services may be furloughed for the purpose of working in the woods.

However, in spite of all the efiorts being made to maintain production, it is estimated .that total production in the Douglas Fir area this year will be around 8,000,000,000 feet, which will be-about l0 per cent less than in 1942, the speaker said.

Some questions rvere asked by members of the audience and answered by Col. Greeley.

Will Tcrke Plyvvood Business

Wendling-Nathan Co., sales agents for California for the Plywood Division of Smith Wood-Products, Inc., announce that they are prepared to take business for plywood provided that the buyers have the proper releases from the War Production Board, Washington, D. C.

Cclilornic Door Compcny Lumber Production

The sawmill of The California Door Company, at Diamond Springs, Calif., is operating full time this season in spite of employment difficulties, and will produce about thirty million feet of pine lumber during the season.

Postrl Zoning and the Public

Many residents of cities not included in the Postal zoning scheme have requested an explanation of Postal zoning. Even though the zone system may not be in use in the city in which you live, nevertheless, to insure speedy delivery of your mail sent to cities where the zone system is used, you must use the zone number on this mail.

The Zone 'System *"s ttoi originated to annoy you or cause you more work. It is the Post Office Department's solution to a problem brought on by the war. With over 35,000 trained Postal employees now in the Armed Forces, the Department was forced to hire untrained employees to replace those in the Armed Forces. In the larger cities, many of which have 6,000 or more streets, new employees were unable to distribute the mail because they were not familiar with tle 6,000 streets and the proper separation in which each block of the city must be placed. The only solution was the zone number. When the zone number appears on a letter, the new employee can distribute it with the same speed and efficiency as the veteran distributor. It should "pp."t after the name of the city as: "Los Angeles 52, California." That zone number may be the difference between the continuance of the present rapid and efficient Postal service and a breakdown in the rnails.

Many people have asked, "Suppose I do not use the zone number. Will my letter be delivered?" Yes, it will be delivered as fast as it can be handled. But mail bearing the zone number will be handled first, because such mail can be distributed by untrained employees. The mail with no zone number will have to wait until a trained distributor is available. The zone number means that your mail will encounter no delay in distribution.

Watch the return address of your correspondents that live in cities where the zone system is in use. It should bear the correct zone number of the person writing you. If it doesn't, ask for it in your next letter. If you have a sizable list of addresses in any city using the zone system, you may send them to the Postmaster of that city where it will be zoned and returned to you without charge.

Remember this: By conscientious use of the zone number you are aiding in the continuance of the time honored adage, "THE MAIL MUST GO THROUGH."

South American Hardwoods are Augmenting Lumber Needs in U. S.

The insistent demand for more lumber of every sort than the American mills have been able to produce, has had the effect of developing new sources of supply not previously known in the United States. The fact that the Japs captured all the Philippine Mahogany mills and timber deprived the hardwood and cabinet wood users of this country of a source of supply of wonderful character. In the 'West, Philippine had become almost as everyday a wood as Western softwoods. The entire country had become accustomed to a certain amount of Philippine supply.

With the demand so gfeat and the Philippine loss so keenly felt, it was but natural that American lumber importers should turn to other sources outside this countrv for needed hardwoods. One of these sources that is now delivering cabinet woods into this country in considerable quantity and promising more, is Columbia, South America. When Philippine was cut off, Roy Barto, of Los Angeles, President of one of the oldest Philippine lumber concerns, Cadwallader-Gibson Company, turned his eyes toward South America. Also his feet. He heard of the timber and mills of Columbia, so he went down there to look. And he found a big concern manufacturing cabinet hardwoods in two quite modern sawmills at Barranguilla, Columbia, the name of which is Compania National de Maderas .,La fndustria." It is generally known as simply ,'La fndustria.,, This concern has two sawmills, one with a 7 foot and a 9 foot band headrig, and the other with an 8 foot band headrig and a pony saw. He made a deal with this concern to act as their Agent for the entire United States. He likewise sent them some highly capable and experienced hardwood men to assist in their manufacturing operations, and introduced American grades and grading rules.

Buys Encinitcs Lrimber Co.

Eugene Gauthier, who has been manager for the Bauer Lumber Co., Carlsbad, Calif., for the past ll years, purchased the Encinitas Lumber Co., Encinitas, Calif., and took over the yard September l, 1943.

He is now shipping some of the products of these mills into this country, entering at New Orleans. It is only four or five days' time by freighter from Columbia to New Orleans, as compared with thirty to sixty days required to ship lumber from the Philippines to the West Coast. All the lumber they have shipped in has gone to the United States Government through the Defense Supply Corporation. About a million feet has arrived so far, all of one outstanding species called Albarco. It is a dark red, close grained, ribbon striped wood, much heavier than Philippine Mahogany. It has been tested and accepted by the Navy as a substitute for both Mahogany and Birch. It slices well and makes wonderful looking veneer. This is already an established wood, of great beauty, density, and usefulness. Mr. Barto is busily engaged in trying to discover markets and secure acceptance for various other species produced by his company. They vary in color, density, and probably in usefulness. Some of them are most interesting woods. He displays samples of one wood he thinks is a substitute for Spruce. Mr. Barto says it weighs one-fourth as much as Spruce, and has greater strength. It really lifts like cork. There are many other woods that he thinks will win acceptance in this country as soon as they are tried out.

"La Industria" has been manufacturing lumber right' there for 65 years, and has a splendid reputation. They have timber for all time to come, apparently. They have planing mills and dry kilns at their plants, and are building more. They already have many resaws, trimmers, edgers, and a forest of othgr equipment for manufacturing and remanufacturing their lumber, so they have something really up-to-date to offer. Their big problem so far has been getting shipping space from the mills to New Orleans. Mr. Barto's offices are at 621 South Spring St.

"Shorty" Nelson Vtsits Calilornicr

"Shorty" Nelson, Chief Inspector for the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, left Los Angeles September 16, after a two weeks' visit in Southern California. He stopped at San Francisco, and then went on to Portland.

California Building Permits for August

7m 6dr Avenuc, Oakhnd Hlsr0c &16

Sagrincuz d Mcnistee Lumber Compcny Opercrtes Big Rebuilt Sawmill ct Flcrgrstcff

Millwork Panels Wall Board BUITDERS SUPPLY

CO.

19{r & S Strtffiir?'

One of the most modern sawmill plants in the entire Southwest is the result of the rebuilding and remodernrzing job done by the Saginaw & Manistee Lumber Company on the plant formerly operated by the Atizona Lumber & Timber Company, at Flagstaff, Arizona. The mill is equipped with two band headrigs and a band resaw; there is a modern planing mill; and a highly efficient box factory. The saymill today will turn out about 135,000 feet of Ponderosa Fine in an eight hour shift. The box factory will handle about 50,000 feet of lumber daily, and sells its entire output in local Arizona territory for crating and boxing fruit, vegetables, and melons. The remainder of the output of the sawmill is all sold to the trade in Arizona and New Mexico. There are no dry kilns at this plant, but special arrangement of yard for air drying. Lumber rs handled around the plant by carriers, and piled by an automatic stacker. They employ two Willamette Hysters also. This company operates the only steam logging road lelt in Arizona, and hauls logs for its own plant and also for the plant of Southwest Lumber Mills, Inc., of Flagstaff. Both Saginaw & Manistee and Southwest manufacture Ponderosa from Government timber, and are reported to have a twenty year supply in that territory. J. M. Bedford is manager for the new plant.

Can Handle More Custom Mi[ing

M. O. Parrick of Western Mill & Moulding Co., 5841 So. Western Avenue, Los Angeles, reports that his firm is busy on orders mainly connected with the war efiort. A large part of the business is custom milling, and they are willing to take on some more of this kind of work. Their equipment consists of the latest type of motor driven nlachines, and they are fortunate in having some of the best mechanics in the business.

IOC!aSyrlttttl

CNOCT GNNCUI.ATION

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Back From Mexico

Carl W. Watts, Oregon Lumber Sales, San Francisco, on a recent 30-day trip to Mexico went off the beaten track to look over some property in Palenque. He flew by Pan-American Airways throughout the trip wherever possible. From Mexico City he went by Pan-American to Villa Hermosa, and took a local plane from there to Palenque. After completing his business he decided it was safer to take the nine-hour horseback trip back to Villa Hermosa.

In Minatitlan, Vera Cruz, he met H. B. "Chad" Chadbourne, formerly in the retail lumber business at Salinas, and now with the Mahogany Division of the Office of Economic 'Warfare, at that place. Chad asked to be remembered to his friends in the lumber business in California.

On the way back from Mexico City the Pan-American plane made a detour westward to circle the new Paracutin Volcano, which has killed every green thing in an area of 100 square miles. Incidentally on this part of the journey three of the passengers were the well-known movie figures, Walter Pidgeon, Hedy Lamarr and her husband, John Loder.

Tourist traffic to Mexico by plane is very heavy, and it is necessary to make reservations far ahead, Carl says.

New Lumber Se[ing Methods

One of the wholesale lumber yards in Los Angeles swears and be doggoned that they were offered Ponderosa Pine by a California sawmill, as follows: 1 inch and thicker; 4 inches and wider; 10 to 48 inches long; No. 4 common and better; at $25.00 a TON. "That will give you an idea," said the manager, "of how Pine is selling in Southern California."

Norrl ltordro4 Orr. J.cb.cril., FLdd.

UP AND DOWN THE STATE Aa

LeRoy H. Stanton, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, returned September 23 from an eastern trip. He attended the war conference of the National Hardwood Lumber Association at Chicago, September 16 and 17, and, called on a number of Southern hardwood mills. He made the trip by air.

A. C. Pascoe, Pacific Coast representative of Wood-Mosaic Co., Louisville, Ky., and other hardwood mills, was back at his desk September 22 lrom a month's trip to eastern points. He visited mill connections in 'Wisconsin and Louisville, and attended the annual meeting of the National Hardwood Lumber Association, held in Chicago, September 16 and,17.

Jack Murphy, manager of the hardwood department of Owens-Parks Lumber Co., Los Angeles, attended the war conference of the National llardwood Lumber Association, held at the La Salle Hotel, Chicago, on September 16 and,17.

George J. Hawley-, secretary of Atkinson-Stutz Co., San Francisco, is back from a vacation spent at Trinity Alps, Trinity County, Calif.

Fred Lamon, Lamon-Bonnington Co., San Francisco, left for Portland, September 25. He will spend two weeks calling on Northwest sawmills.

Russell Mullin, Burbank Lumber Co., Burbank. was a recent visitor to San Francisco.

Henry M. Hink, president of Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco, was back at his desk September 30 following a business trip to Southern California.

Walter A. Stippich, Wichita, Kansas, wholesale lumberman, spent the past month in the Northwest and California on business. Mr. Stippich states that he is devoting much of his time to the promotion of prefabricated lumber for heavy construction.

Joe Bugley, salesman for W. B. Jones Lumber Co., Los Angeles, returned September 2l ftom a business trip to Mexico.

Frank J. Connolly, executive vice-president, Western Hardwood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, is back from a business trip to the East. He attended the hardwood industry war conference of the National Hardwood Lumber Association, held in Chicago, September 16 and' 17.

Dick Emison, manager, Santa Ana Lumber Co., Santa Ana, left recently on a business trip to Indiana.

Joe Hearin, .manager of Lumber Wholesalers' mill at Ashland, Ore., was in Pasadena around the middle of September to confer with Lee Canfield of Lumber Wholesalers.

Walter Koll, A. J. Koll Planing Mill, Ltd., Los Angeles, has returned from a business trip to Fort Bragg, Calif.

D. N. Cords of the Pine Department, Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco, returned a few days ago from calling oq the Pine mills in Northern California and Southern Oregon.

Frederick T. Staats, New York City lumberman, representative of Clover Valley Lumber Co., and Lamm Lumber Co., left for New York September 22 after spending several months in San Francisco.

W. G. (Bill) Wright, of the Wright Lumber Co., Stockton, Calif., and now with the Navy Seabees, was recently home on leave.

Dee Essley of D. C. Essley & Son, Los Angeles, left Los Angeles September 10 on a trip to Vancouver, Wash., and Seattle. At Vancouver he visited the mill of the Vancouver Plywood & Veneer Co., of which he is Southern California representative. He was accompanied by Mrs. Essley.

CIJASSIFIE D ADVERTISING

WANTED POSITION

Position wanted by lumberman, 46, ve:satile and adaptable, with exccllcnt backgtound of manufacturing, sdes, office and buying experience, in Fir, Pine and hardwoods. Address Box C-1003, California Lum' ber Merchant, 508 Central Bldg., Los Angclcs 14, Qalif.

WHOLESALER WANTS POSITION

Wholesale Lumbcrman rpants connection. California experience.

Address Box C-100,t, Cdifornia Lumbcr Merchant, 5O8 Ccntral Bldg., Los Angclee 14, Calif.

WANTED

All around lumberman who can work both in office and yard.

Victory Lumber Company, Chula Vista, California.

PORTABLE SAWMILL F'OR SALE

Locatcd in Nevada County; Cdif. All complete, sawed for short time last year. Capacity 8-dX) fcet pcr cight hours. $9,0(n.@. Stumpage, principally Sugar Pine, $3.fi) per M feet; other woods, $2.00 pcr M fect. All within yarding dirtance.

Twohy Lumbcr Co., Petroleum Building, Loa An' gelcs 15, Calif.

LUMBER

lnarr Rrdrood Co.

BIIYDB9S GI]IDB SAN FNANCISCO

aa Mrrkot Stn t (rr) .....,.......YUkon 206ll

AthrreStrtr Coprny, Ul M.rt t Strr.t (U) ...,......,..GArfnld rt|t

Chrlrtcmn Lumbc Co.

Evue Arc. add (luht Sr (Z)..,.VAlcrde 5!3z

Drd & Rursll hc., Zil Frot Str.t (rf) .......,.....G.trhcHeD

DoDorr ri Cun Lunbc Co., lllt Mlrchutr Brchure Bldr. (a) SUtt r 7l5ia

Genrntm & GE f.rrDbc Co. rtt ArE Srrlt (z) ............ATvrtr 130

H.n, Jll$. I- rla ltilb Bldr. (a) .................SUtt r 7521

H..-od Lunbc Coprny, ll? Montrnrry Srrt.t (a) ........DOudar 33tt

Hobbr Wall lrrnbcr Coaa5 Mmtron.rr St. (l) ...........GArficld ?752

Holnor EurcLr LinbGr Co. ---rrg-fl"r".l.t C-t"i- giai ({) ....c4rfi .td r92t

C. D. Johnro Lnu,bc Grporrtlon, 2|0 Crlllomh Strrt (rr) ..........GArfic1d C4lt

I(lhlblck & Cmpany, GmcLa Blds. ({) ..................YUkon @12

Crrl H. Kuht l{Dbcr C-., O. L Ruuun, UZ Mar&ct St. (11) Ytlton l{O

lamm.Bminfto Cupuy

l. - cJtl-t- -itr-.il_rr)' : GAricld 6$r

LUMBER

McDufic Lmbcr Salcr Corp., 52t MmadnocL Bldc. (5)..........GArficH ?196

Orcroo l-urbc Satn (Carl !Y. lllertr), t?5 llmrdroct BHS. (O ...........YUtm r59a

Peclfic Lunbcr Co., Tb. rt Burh Stn t (l) ,..............GArficH rrtr

PoD. & Tdbot, IE. I.rrnbc aaf Mrrtrt Strct (5) ..,..

Red Rlvor Luubcr Co. tr3 MorduL Bldr. (5) ..........G4r6dd c022

Sutr Fc hubc Co., rC Califonh StRt (rf) ......"..ErGtDL 2071

Schalcr Bror. Lurbe & Shbrh Go. I l)nurn Str.ct Of) ...,..........,Suurr l?l

Shwlb Pb llrlo Cofqt| Mmrdnoel Btds. (3) .........ErGrooL 7l|r

Suddcn & 6ddm, lnc, 3la See. Str..t (a) ............GArfr.1.1 ztla

Cad W. lVrttr (Orctu lubcr 9do), 9?3 Moednoch Btdr. (5) ..........Ytjton 1590

LUMBER

E. K. Wod Luabcr Co.. r Dnrm Sb..t (ft) ...............E)Gru& 3nl

Wcrrchrrre Srtaa Cot l{l Cdlbmlr Str.d (U) .........G4rfrc1d !r7{

IIARDWOODS AND PANF| S

VYhttc Brothon,Flfth ud Brurn Srrotr (7) .....SUttcr litlS

SAIIH-DOORS_PLYWOOD

Whebr Orjood Selcr Ccp., 30a5 r$h sr. (r0) ,.......,.......vrlanc|a 22lt

CREOIIOTED LUMBERT.POI.ESPILTNG-TIE3

Amlcu l.6bGr rl Tuth8 Co., Ua Nil Mmt||@cry Strc.t (5) .....SUttcr 12iE

Bsta, J. H. & Cr., 333 Mont|oE ry Strrt (l) ........DOuSLt $!0

Hdl, Jrnce L- l@ lllUr. Bl&. (r) ...........,.....SUttor ?5?l

Popr I Tdbot, Inco Lubcr Dlvlrlon, 16r MrrLct Strut (5) ...........,.DOrylm 25tl

Wodlh3-Nrrhu Coo , Vu.Lr brl Plllry & Lunbc Go. Itf Markct Str€t (rr) .............Suttrr 536l Zlt Ptr. SE..a- ({) ..............ExbmL {|c5

Wqrt (lngon Lumbcr Co- Tttadlbl-Nethu Ca.' l9!5 EJanr Avo. (z) -............ATwrtc 56tt rrO Mrrlct EEet (rr) '..'.."..'...SUtt r 5il6

OAKLANI)

LUtttBEN, Evaunr Bc Cc (Pyrantd Lunbcr'Salol Cr.)

Prclic Bldc. (r2) .........,.....Glaqrt t2lt

Grnarrto & Crrtar fruba Cor

2Ol Llvlrr.bn St. (O ............KEUos 1-r&{

Hltr & Matoo, Inc",

Damfro Str.Gt Wllrf Q) .....,.AN&vcr l0fil

Ilo:rn Luubor Cmpeny, bd rDd Allco Stmtr (l) .......Glaurt atat

E. l(. TVood llurbcr Co-

2rU F 6&rf& SkG.t (6) ,-..,.,...KE1b2 z-En

Whclcnb Bqldlns Suppln lrc., ri0' lad Str..t (t) ,,..........TEnp1cbr 6'Cl

Uthqtaarl,r l.rrnb.r Dt tr[u!on, lac, llL Avonr Pl- (O .........:...Tivhoakr 2Sl5

LUMBER

Arote X,cdrood Co. (J. J. Rer) 5llt Wibhln Blvd. (10) .....'.,...T[/Ebrrcr ?!Z!

Atklnm-Stutz Cmpany, @ PotrcIann Blds. (15) ..........PRorper t3tt

Bnrh lndqrHd, lrrrbc Co., 5t0f S. C.ntrd Ava (r) .........CEntury Z-ttO

Brmr lrrnbc Copuy.

,!71 Slouth Bwcrly Drlw, (Bacrly Htlb) ..........,,....BRedrhav 2-Btt

Caq & -Co. L J. (lV. D. DrmlDs), 4tt Ch. ol Cou. Blds. (r5) .......PRoeFct Sg3

C-oop.r, 1l|. E6|a-alt Ric[6rld Bkls. (n) ...,...MUhd zrlt

Deat & Rurrcll, Iac., trz E. Stth Str..t (r) ...............ADau tr|l

Dotbc.q & Cu:o Lunbc Qoo

t.r Fi&Uty Btdt. Ot) ............VAnd|hc E?!tz

Ed. Foatdr l.rrnbcr C.o.,

|2! Pdroloun Blir. (fS) .........PRorpoct |!|l

Hennood t4nDq C,onran

Ant So. Ahu.dr SL (5{) .,....,..PRo.Dcct rtlr

Hdba Wrtr hDbc Co..

|el Roru BHs. G3) ..............TRbrty 3.ss

Hdno Eurd:r llabor Co-

7ff.7f2 Ardttoctr. Btdr. (t3) ..,. ...Muturl grst

lloovcr, rL l-

5t25 WlLhln Btvd. (!t) .......,.,..Yd rrct

K[D.tri4 & Cmpany (Wtlmtryron)

fZO Bl|ar Avr. .....,........,..,NEvedr Clltt

Grrl H. Krf,l Lubrr Cr- (R. S. Orrloal.

?I g. Srt.bs SL (r)'............VAd|Lc !B

ns C. bdlrrr (& G. Rof,btu Lrrnbe Co.).

7ll W. Olyuglc Bhd. (t') .......PRBFcr'o?,1

Lrnocr-Phlltpr Lnubrr Co-

at8 P.tdru BUs. (r5) ..:.......PRoFGt nil

XrcDoda Go. L W-

Aa W. Olrunto BM. (lt .......,PRBFGr ?rtr

Peciic Llabrr Co." Th.

_ rF -W4$tn BIv{. (!O ............YOft rr.!

Plbrrty Lolc Cr-

a E .a trd S0. (nt ...............8tubrl 5rrl

PAI{EI.S-D(DRS-SASH-9CRE ENs

Cdllmh Buil.fln Supply Co.

'f, 6th AvcN (l) ..,...............HI3rtG 6.16

Horu lubcr CmprnY' hd rrd Allcr StncU (l) .......Gbnccut ttll

Wcrton Dor & Sarh Co-

5rL e Cynrg Stnrtr (?) ......TEnplcbr tllO

HAnI'WOODS

StnlL Hrrdr@d ConpelY, Ffnrt .!d Ghv Stratr (7) '....TEnphbu 55ta

Whltc Erottan. 50 Hlrh Stfu (l) .'......'.....ANdovcr 16o

LOS ANGDLDS

LUMBER

Popc & Tablot, Inc- Lunbcr Dlvlrion

?rl W. Olynplc Btvd. (15) ......Pno4cct tEf

Rrd Rlvu rnr-Lcr Co-

7e E. Shu.oo (rr) .............,CEatury 210?l

lGn S. Bmd;rt (f5) ...,......,.,PRopcct Ottl

Srn Podro Lmbor 6.' rslt S. C6trd Aw. (a) .......'.RlAmod tLr

rtca-A Wllnhsb nod

(llea Pcdrc) :.,,....,...........3u Pcdrc 22t

Sutr Fc Lunb.r Co..

lll Finamtd Ccntir Bldl. (rl) ..VAndft. L7l

tlchdcr Bn Lunb.r e Sbbsb Co.

tr7 W. grf, sb..t (rt .............TRhftt rztl

Sfpvl|n PlnG Srlcr Ca., 3l Pctrolm Bldt. (r$ ........,.PRocnct fars

Slnpeon lndurtrlor, Inc. ralt E. Wirhhdor Blvd. (a) .,.PRorpcct alt3

Srutdr, E. J. & Sil. fra E. rlrt St. (fr) ............CErturt egzlf

Sud.br e ChrLbaro, Inc.

|3a Bood ol Trrdc Bldr. (il) .....TRlnlty ttl{

Teema Lunbcr Sdcq &fl Pctrolcun BH3. (13) .....,...PRoepct ffat

WcndltnrrNethra Co. 5za; Wilrhln Blvd. (3O ..............YOrt 116r

Wod Orrrpa l.lrnbqr C'a. azl Porrolaum Bldr. (15) .........Rlchnmd l2tl

W. \il. Wlltlnm' tlt W. tth Stnld (rO .,..........TR1n1ty a6r3

Wryorbrrus Sdo GolrD W. M. e,rrhtd Bldf. 05) ...Mlchlru t35a

E. l(. Wood lrtnbc Oo- lfla So Alrrdr 3L (51) ..,....JEficm 3lU

CREOSOTED II'MBENJOI.ESPILING-TTE3

A[dcu tuubrr I Trrldlf Go- f3l S. Brodrry 05) ....,........PRoo.cr alaC

Brrbr. J. H. f Cc. n W..t 9b ttr..t (r!) ..........f,lchlru at a

Pq I Tr&qq !rc, Lunbc Dlvlrloo, tU W. Oltlplc Bhrd. (t5, ...,.PnoeD.Gt fat

*Postofficc Zone Numbcr in Parcnthegis.

HANDWOODSI Analm Hrrdwod co.

l9O E. lsth Srrut (51) .........PRorpcct aas

Brudr Indurtrtd Lubr Ca.

59Ol S. Ccntral Ava (1) ,........CEntury l-lttl

Sunlon, E. J. & Son, ACI E!.t at.t Str..t (rf) .......CEnhry 2t2rr

Wotcn Hrrdvood Lubcr Co.'

20la Eart fsth Str..t (55) .......PRotDcct lfo

sAIrH-. DOOR TMITIWOR!(-SCREENIFBLINDSI-PANEI.S AND PLYWOODIRONING BOARDS

Br& Pual C;opany, 3ll-3tl E!.t t3td StFGt (lr) .,....,.ADrnr 12215 Cdlfmtr Du Coprny, Tbo

P. O. Bc l2a, Vcm Statlon (rr) KIEbdl Anr Crltmh PmC e Vas Co-

a62 S. Mrr. StrtGt (a) ,.........41{rtlur n$

Oraroo-Wuhlryto Plywood Cs, 3lt WG.t Nlnth Strut (r5) .......TRhlty lart

Prclfic Wood Pn&retr Ccpc*lon, 3c00 Tvbun Str..t (2r) ..........Albuy arlr

Peclfic Mntud It a C.taa E. W..rlndo Blvd. (A) ,.PRorD.ct 95qt

Rcm Copan Go. E, Zl5 3. Al.D.dr Strut (rz) ...,.Dtlchh! f$l

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Helplng You Get Buclnegc Nowl

Gelotex is running the greatest advertisiog campaign in its history, urgiog Americans to keep their homes in good repair-totrunxraste slnce into rooms forwinworkers-to build and repairfarmbuild' i-"gr. Stilt another campign reaches -ili*t and induscial bulers, buildersr contract-ors' architects, roofers' lathers' and plas' t".".. Both programs are designed to help the industry and you' enen though some Celotet products rray not alwap be imme' diately available.

Results have been outstanding. Thousands of reguests have been received for the bookleg "!9'artime Guide to Better flones"' This is real proof that Crlotex advertising is setting the- pace for the industrland pda a kind of force that gea fast action'

Greotlng Posl-Wor Home Bulldlng for You

After the war, Americans will have billions of dolkars saved up to buy the things they need. Month after mooth, C-clotex is running the biggest campaign i" .hi -industry -t" ry1r5 dJlers a maJor-share of these saved up billious. llly rypl" in your territory willuant to build oew ho-mes with l?'ar Bon& bought today, Lec"ose Celotex national advertising is creating that dehe tmtt.

As a result of this advertising, lequesut for the booklet, 'Your Miracle Hone of Tomorow," have been received from tens of thousands of proopective hone'owners. The inqrliries from your territory *il]cooitiooe to be sent to yo]r to- enable you- to Yl developing new-home ProsPeco imneaiatety. Th- en, when *Y' a.y "tii"i, you ll be alt seifor I gpat buiness boom!

How Lrumber Lrooks

Lumber shipments ol 46I mills reporting to the National Lumber Trade Barometer were 3.3 per cent below production for the week ended September 25, 1943. In the same week new orders of these mills were 2'6 per cent greater than production. Unfilled order files in the reporting mills amounted to 102 per cent of stocks. For reporting softwood mills, unfilled orders are equivalent to 40 days' production at the current rate, and gross stocks are equivalent to 37 days'production.

For the year to date, shipments of reporting identical mills exceeded production by 8.4 per cent; orders by 10.2 per cent.

Compared to the average corresponding week of 1935-39 production of reporting mills was l7.l per cent greatcr; shipments were 16.6 per cent greater; and orders were 17.8 per cent greater.

The Western Pine Association for the week ended September 25, t00 mills reporting, gave orders as 67,215,000 feet, shipments 79,466,000 feet, and production 87,348,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 397,324,' 000 feet.

The Southern Pine Assocation for the week ended October 2,95 units (158 mills) reporting, gave orders as 19,203,000 feet, shipments 22,993,W feet, and production 20,969,'

000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 142,05O,000 feet.

The California Redwood Association reported production of twelve operations for the month of August 1943, as 38,528,000 feet, shipments 4O,212,00O feet, and orders received 30,731,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the month totaled 126,551,000 feet.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended September 25 reported orders as I47,671,W f'eet, shipments 116,825,000 feet, and production 1?f,702,Offi f.eet. For the week er,ded October 2 orders were reported as 122,800,000 feet, shipments 122,289,000 feet, and production 113,931,000 feet.

Red Cedar Shingles

Pending action on a petition filed by producers seeking higher ceiling prices, sellers of red cedar shingles are authorized by the OPA to make sales and deliveries on an adjustable pricing basis. Thus sales will be continued, OPA declares, with the understanding that prices will be adjusted after the OPA acts on the requested price increase. (Order I under Maxirnum Price Regulation 165), effective September 27.

Los Angeles Hoo-HooMeeting Oct. 26

The Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo committee appointed by Vicegerent Snark Dee Essley met at the University Club, Thursday noon, October 5, where they were the guests of Roy Stanton.

The committee included Roy Stanton, E. J. Stanton & Son, chairman; Bob Osgood; Ed Bauer, Bohnhoff Lumber Co., fnc.; W. B. Wickersham, Pope & Talbot, Inc., Lumber Division; Gene DeArmond, Pacific Cabinet Co.; Hervey Bowles, Long-Bell Lumber Co.; Ed Martin, The California Lumber Merchant. Dee Essley is ex-officio member of the committee.

Other committees appointed are: program, Ed Bauer, Bob Osgood and W. B. Wickersham; arrangements, Hervey Bowles and Gene DeArmond; announcements, Roy Stanton.

It was decided to hold Hoo-Hoo meetings once a month. The next meeting will be held Tuesday noon, October 26, 1943 at the Utriversity Club, 614 South Hope Street, Los Angeles. There will be a guest speaker. Luncheon will be served at l2:@ p.m.

The meetings are sponsored by Hoo-Hoo, and all members of the lumber, sash, door and millwork industries are invited to attend.

Plans are already under way for a Christmas party, and a golf tournament to be held after the first of the year. A concatenation was held at the Southern California Golf Ciub, Monterey Park, the evening of September 9, following the golf tournament, when 13 Kittens were initiated and 5 Old Cats reinstated.

Made Assistant to Precident

Carleton Smith has been appointed assistant to Bror Dahlberg, president of The Celotex Corporation, to assist in the company's crusade for better homes. Mr. Smith was Financial Research Adviser to the Rubber Development Corporation, a subsidiary of RFC, before joining Celotex. He has years of experience as an economist and analyst of foreign trade, and is an author and lecturer on business and political problems.

AA-Z Ratings Extended

AA-2 ratings on "Lumber for Farmers" will be continued for another 90 days without granting any additional quota of lumber. The original program and plan for allocating 500,000,000 feet of AA-2 farm lumber was scheduled to expire on September 30.

Pulpwood

fn an effort to decentralize the pulpwood activities of the WPB and expedite production, seven regional aides charged with the responsibility of stimulating pulpwood cutting in the United States and Canada will be designated shortly.

Douglcrs Fir

The term "producer" is redefined by WPB in its Limitation Order L-218 controlling distribution of Douglas fir lumber to embrace only plants located in Oregon and Washington (Amendment I to Limitation Order L-218), issued September 23.

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Plnpood is doing mcny. big iobs lor the war effort. We will hcrve many interesting stories to tell cbout this lcrter, cnd cr lot of uselul suggestions to make qbout postnrar uses lor plyrood.

National Forest Receipts Set New Record Lor Angeles County to Get 131000

reached an all-time high of $10,056448 in the fiscal year ending June 3O, 1943, according to Lyle F. Watts, chief of the Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture. This amount is three million dollars greater than last year's figures which broke all previous records. The gain reflects the increasing contribution to the war made by 160 national forests located in 40 states and Alaska and Puerto Rico, according to the Chief Forester.

Timber sales, which have been stepped up materiallv to meet the demand for wood for war uses, accounted for $7,537,ffi7 of the total. Next in importance were returns from grazing fees on 10 million head of livestock, mostly in the western states, producing meat, wool and leathet for the armed forces and civilian population.

Of the ten national forest regions, including Alaska, receipts from the Pacific Northwest (Washington and Oregon) amounting to $3,445,733, topped all others; the Southern national forest region was second, and the California Region (California and southwestern Nevada) third with a total of 9976,131.

The principal source of receipts from the California and Nevada national forests were: Timber sales, $582,D6; grazing, $205,148; special land use, $147,877; water power rentals, $31,566. The Plumas and Lassen National Forests held first and second place in timber sales business and accounted for $373,560 of the total received from this resource.

Since Federal property is not taxed, 25 per cent of all money received from each national forest is turned over in lieu of taxes to the State to be expended for the benefit of public schools and roads of the counties in which the forest is located. An additional 10 per cent is also used for road and trail building and upkeep on the forests, making in all a total of 35 per cent of the receipts returned directlv to benefit national-forest communities.

Lieut. Icck Butler Visits Scn Frcrncisco

Lieut. Jack S. Butler, U.S.N., spent a week recently with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Seth L. Butler, San Francisco. He was formerly associated with his father, who is Northern California representative of Dant & Russell, Inc.

Construction of 13,000 more homes for Los Angeles County war workers has been authorized by the National Housing Agency.

Added to 23,868 other homes already authorized or under construction, the new Los Angeles County dwellings will increase to 77,353 the number of units built here since Pearl Harbor.

Eugene Weston, Jr., regional representative of the NHA, announced the 13,000-unit program at a luncheon of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce construction industries executive committee. Its cost will exceed $62,000,000. 4O00 of the new structures will be built in San Fernando Valley, 4000 in the Santa Monica-Inglewood area, 2000 in the eastern metropolitan Los Angeles area, including Whittier, and 2000 in the Long Beach section. All these will be financed by private capital. In addition government funds will be used for 1000 units for the Roosevelt Naval Base on Terminal Island.

Luther H. Atkinson Resigns

Luther H. Atkinson, Saint Paul, iVlinn., vice-president in charge of marketing for the Weyerhaeuser Sales Company, has resigned to become associated with the Elastic Stop Nut Corporation of America at lJnion, New Jersey, in the capacity of vice-president, and will assume full responsibility for the marketing of the pro-ducts manufactured by that organization at their lJnion, New Jersey, and Lincoln, Nebraska, plants.

Lieut. Allred Bell on Lecrve

Lieutenant Alfred D. Bell, Jr., U.S.N., was recently home on leave in San Francisco, and left to report at an East Coast port.

He is on leave of absence from Hammond Lumber Co., for which concern he was general sales manager.

Visited Pine Mills

Bob Leishman, with A. L. (Gus) Hoover, Los Angeles, has returned from a trip to the pine mills in Northern California and Southern Oregon.

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IT'S ALL 'OURStomorrow in thrt rmezing post-wal world that will comc with Yictory.

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What if the Eunset's drawing ncarer? What if the shadows gather in, Thick with ghosts o'f the mates who've headed Into space, where the comets spin?

Eyes to the front tho the mists are heavy, Life, at best, is a brief parade, Keep one dream in your hearts, my brothers, Nothing shatters the unafraid.

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It was Grantland Rice who wrote that. Rice, as you know, is a veteran sports writer who has lived to become a legend. More than that, he has lived to find himself hailed as a true poet by the best of contemporary literary men. Those who so proclaim him generally quote the above stanza from one of his poems. Matty declare it to be the finest bit of genuine poetry that the present decade has produced, here or elsewhere.

of course another tol"u* "itts writer has likewise stepped into the brightest glare of the national limelight in the past few years, John Kieran Lovers of Information Please, the astoundingly successfut radio program, have discovered that this football and baseball writer and critic is in fact the best posted man in America on all important subjects. And besides, he knows the works of Shakespeare almost by heart.

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A friend sent me a short prayer that takes first prize in my book right now. He says that it is posted on a bulletin board in the Navy Supply Depot in Oakland, California prominently displayed, and here's what it says: "Oh Lord, give me the strength to keep my big mouth shut when I don't know what the Hell I'm talking about." Honestt fsn't that a pip? It would do well for display in a few million other places throughout this land at present.

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Thc moet successful speech I've listened to in many a day was made recently by a veteran federal judgc to a big gathering of business and professional men. The fact that it was probably the most successful speech he cver madc in his life was due as much to his subject as it was to his logic and delivery. For he was talking about the Constitution of th3 United Stateq the position in which that Cpnstitution at present finds isclf, and whcthcr or not that Constitution still lives. The deadly interest of every man in that audience showcd how reriously thinHng men arc worricd about t'he inroads that have been made of late into the hitherto impregneblc fortress of that Constitution. And you *rould

have heard them roar when he referred to certain OPA practices as "purely dictatorid." He held that there is no legat right, even under wartime emergencies' to remove one fiber from the strength of our written Constitution, and urged that when this war ends all thinking men get together to see that a government of laws based on the Constitution be reinstated in this land. It was an unusual speech for a high court federal judge to make, but this man spoke as one who feels that it is time for patriots to speak out. His biggest applause came when he mentioned the present U. S. Supreme Court, and raised his eyebrows and shrugged his shoulders.

Gus Dyer, of Nashville, Tennessee, for many years Professor of Econo'mics at Vanderbilt University, has been going around the country making eloquent speeches that point in the same direction. Gus says that the men who made our Constitution never intended that it should be set aside for any emergency, any more than God intended that the Ten Commandments be so treated. He says: "God did not say 'thou shalt not steal except in an emergency'; He said 'thou shalt not steal."'

And Eric A. Johnson, the liberal and much quoted President of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, pulled a good line in one of his recent speeches, when he said: "'We must preserve the American tradition of freedom to take a chanc+to lose your shirt if you wanrt to." Taking chances was what made America what America is.

Our lawmakers are again in session in Washington. Every man of them.who can distinguish right from wrong, muat ' rcalize that the equalization by fair legislation of labor's responsibilities to fit its gleatly enlarged privileges should be an early goal of every legislator who wants to do gomething for his countrn and who isn't frightened at the thought of next election. But it won't be done, as we too well know, because politics won't permit, regardless of the vital need. rf**

Had a long talk-a couple of them, in fact-with a most interesting gentleman, on the subject of postwar matters. Wish I could tell you who he is, because it would impress you as his personality and his opinions did me. But f can tell you some of the personal opinions he cxpressed, fceling that they will find a welcome in the mind of every thinker. Su6ce it to say that he is a foreign ofEcer who was at DunHrk, nras recently in Africa, and dso in Russia, on duty for his country. Few men anywhere are in better poaition to hold opinions on thc subjccts discueeed, than hc.

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I askcd him what he thought of Russia? Would she be a dangcrous, or a depcndable postwar ally. That guestion, as you know, is what they call a "moot" one in the world today. Hc spokc quickly, decisively on that subiect. He likes thc Russians, thinks they are swinging rapidly to the right in their politics (which is what Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker said on returning from there recently), and thinks they will make splendid allies after the war, and will work with Britain and the United States to help protect the future of the world. And he thinks Germany is on the rapid road to utter destruction.

What about this stutr lve*re"l or " great movement in Ruseia to make peacc with the Germans once they get rid of their Nazi masters? Nothing, he declared, could be more ridiculous. Can anyone who has watched Stalin through the years and studied the psychology of the man, suppose for an instant that he will set aside his day of vengeance for all the horror Germany has heaped upon Russia? Will the man who killed and purged his own followers and friends by the thousands, who let millions of his own people die of hunger only a few years back, hold back his vengeance from Germany? Or have any gualms about killing Germans? No, said this ofEcer. When Germany falls, Stalin will say to Britain and the United States: "Look the other way for a while, gentlemen; I have some business to attend to in Germany." And it will be the kind of business that Germany has attended to when she swept into other countries. I don't know how you feel, gentle reader, but most of the men I talk to think such action would be pure-if brutal-justice. And "Uncle Joe" is the boy who would

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And how about Japan when she is crushed? What will be her future?, I asked. My personal opinion is, Japan will be a slave state, said this gentleman. Japan has uttcrly failcd, he said, to measure up to even the lowest level of a civilized nation. She is not fit for self-gotlernment, and she is not fit for a place in the brotherhood of nations. So she shall lose her status as an independent nation, and her people will become a slave people; at least until th€ time when they can prove that the beast-like ferocity that has marked their conduct of the war thus far, has been cleansed by the wash of time.

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That opinion also seems to me most wise. Shall that nation made up of savages who tear and torture and rape and ravage decent men and women, be given a place in the sun with civilized people when this war ends? Shall those who murder the wounded and torture the defenseless be made free people again; free to connive again against the safety and salvation of the world? Not if this officer who talked to me, knows anything about it. Let them become carriers of burdens and cutters of wood, as the Bible says, for the decent people of the earth, until such time as they have demonstrated their fitness for better things.

Yes, my foreign friend l"nl* i have just told about, left with me impressions that were tremendously thought-provoking. Of all the postwar predictions that I have either heard or read-and they are legion-his are the only ones I have encountered on those trnrticular subjects that seem wise, just, and sensible. What do you think?

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That Orange Color

George McManus, the delightful little Irishman who draws the Maggie and Jiggs cartoons and funny strip, loves to tell Irish stories, and, of course tells them mighty well.

One of his favorites is about two Irishmen green frorn the "auld sod" who landed in New York, and the first time they tried to cross a street were stopped by a big cop because the red light was on. The cop held them on the curb until the red light went off. Then ttte orange-colored warning light fickered for just a few seconds, and then came the green light. The cop said to

Will Attend Ncrtional Retail Meeting

Leslie Lynch, Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and Gerald Curran, Curran Bros., Pomona, will attend the annual meeting of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association which will be held at the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago, October 18-19.

them:

"You can cross now on the green light. You'll have plenty of time."

The two Micks had watched the long red signal, then the short orange signal, and now the deliberate green signal with much interest, and as they stepped off the curb to cross the street one of them turned to the cop with a ficker in his eye and a grin on his chin, and said:

"They don't give the d-n Protestants much time to cross, do they?"

Moves Office

Cooper-Spalding Lumber Co. has moved its office to 615 Security Building, Pasadena. The mailing address is 234 East Colorado Street, Pasadena 1, California. The telephone numbers are: Los Angeles, RYan 1-6659; Pasadena, SYcamore 3-D21.

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SGHUIIIITE and Y(lU Bulill il0llERN H0[|ES

Throughout the lfest, war constnrction roiun at high e1rced backed up by Schumite Products.

Almost lcgendary are thc achievements of our Military Enginecrs with the fast, efficient Schumite construcrion matcrials. Millions of feet alone of Schumite Fireproof

Roof Plank and Schumite Gypsum S7all Board are fighting shoulder to shoulder with no't only the Army, but the Navy, the Maritime, and the F. P. H. A.

Tomorrow, our fighting engineers, many of whom are architects, will return home ready to help you use Shumite's dependability in better modern homes. Meanwhile, please be patient if fewer Shumite Products are available for your stocks and warehouse.

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I'm ashamed to say that I've forgotten his name, but there used to be a platform speaker'<ne of these Chautauqua type philosophers-who talked around this country for manS many years' using an illustration of one of his main poinb that made a terrific hit with me the first time I saw it. I still remember how it impressed his entire audience as no array or arrangement of words or phrases could have done. He used to talk about people, the succees of Bome, the failure of others, and the whys and wherefores of human nature. To illustrate his opinions he would produce a glass iar that held about half a bushel. He would almost fiIl this glass jar with potatoes; potatoes of all sizes from very smdl to very large.

He would invite his audience to watch what happened when he shook that glass jar filled with potatoes. And he would start shaking. And as he shook, you know of course what happened. The little potatoes went to the bottom: the big potatoes came to the top; and the rest of the potatoes took their place between top and bottom, just according to their size. And he would say: "See? Now, folks, that's what happens when you shake the bushel basket of humanity. That's exactly what happens. The big people come to the top, the small people go to the bottom, and the other people will take their place just according to their size." And then he would say to his audience: "Now stop and thinkl What can a person do to get closer to the top in this battle of life?" And everyone would shout: "He must make himself bigger." And, of course, that was the answer he was looking for, and he would go on and discuss the subject furthcr; just how a man, or woman, or even a child, can work to make himself bigger.

That spcaker and his glass jar often comes to mind now as I watch the battle for survival of thc fittest going on throughout this lumber industry. That "the weak must go to thc wdl" there can be no doubt. A world of them already havc. And with thosc that remain in thc rctail lumber business there is strictly and definitely a "survival of the fittcst" struggle taking place. It requires strength, in-

genuity, imagination, resourcefulness, optimism, and plenty of sticktoitiveness to stay in thc retail lumber business today. Say what you will about it in normal times, but this retail lumber game is a he-man's job now, and don't doubt it for a moment.

This war thing is shaking the glass jar of business today, just as my friend, the talking philosopher, used to shake it from the Chautauqua platform long ago. And the result is the same. Identically the same. The big men shake to the top. The little ones shake to the bottom. And the others take their place according to their size. And their size means the caliber to which they have recently developed. The battle for survival is bringing out the stronger characteristics in a world of men; developing the wea,knesses of others. Surely the old saying that "it isn't the size of the dog in the fight that counts, it's the size of the fight in the dog," is liquid truth.

I'm a great believer in the law of compensation. It's a law heavy-laden with justice and fairness and the Hnd of equity that plain humans can understand and appreciate. And one of the big compensations that I get out of sitting on a sort of watch-tower and watching this wartime lumber industry take the jumps and the hurdles, is remembering what a magnificent breed of lumber dealers we are golng to have in this industry when the cmergency ends, and we start back toward normal business again. Can you doubt for a minute that the survivors of this scramble for existence are going to be better merchants than thcy evcr drcamed of being before?

'We're coming out of this confict with a breed of super dealers to whom the problems of peacetimo-problems that previously looked difEcult enough-will be only molchillr in comparison with what they have bcen through. Yeg, sir, the lumber dealer of today is getting a new sort of education, and getting it the hard way. The buy, sell, and collect days will be pretty soft comparcd with these think, work, and substitute times, and don't doubt it. Thc stiffest problems will seem easy.

But it's a hard school to learn in, isn't it mcn?

Private Houring Units for War Workerc

The Federal Housing Administration announced that over 8,000 private housing units for war workers have been placed under construction in Southern California during the first nine months of this year.

During September alone, . tottl of 1,14O of such units were placed under construction in the district, according to W. G. Birlgham, district director.

Since the first of the year private lending institutions in Southern California operating under the FHA-insured mortgage program have made applications for insured mortgages totaling $34,5,{0,000 to finance 7,136 new war housing residential units to be constructed in the various critical areas throughout Southern California, Mr. Bingham reported.

In addition to the applications for financing of new war housing residences received during the first nine months of 1943, the FHA offices of this District also received 3,1,+6 applications for insuranie of mortgages totaling $16,494,000, to finance the purchase of, or to refund mortgages on existing homes. These applications were filed under Section X3 of. the National Housing Act, which permits loans, in some cases, up to 90 per cent of the FHA-appraised value and terms for as long as 4 years.

Many applications for priorities for residential conversions are being received in the local FHA offices. This program offers a special Title I insured-loan available, through private lending institutions, up to $5,000 for property owners who want to convert existing properties into additional housing units'

Elect Officers

D, C. Maclea, Maclea Lumber Company, Baltimore, was re-elected president of the National Wholesale Lumber Distributing Yards Association at the annual meeting held in Chicago last month.

Fred G. Christmann, Christmann Veneer & Lumber Co., St. Louis, was elected first vice-president, and Frank J. Connolly, 'Western Hardwood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, second vice-president. J. J. Kidd, Kidd & Buckingham Lumber Co., Baltimore, was re-elected secretary-treasurer.

LeRoy H. Stanton, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, was elected a director. J. E. Higgins, Jr., J. E. Higgins Lumber Co., San Francisco, and Dallas Donnan, EhrlichHarrison Co., Seattle, were among the directors continued for another year.

PRESENTATIOIU of the aRMY-NAVY rrErt PRODUGTION AUTARD

wcs conlerred upon the employees of our compqny on September 21, 1943 for outstcnding achievement in the production ol mcrterials needed in the wcrr effort.

We are deeply appreciative oI this honor which was made possible through the enthusicstic cooperation oI all the brcrrrches of our organizcrtion. It is the ayowed intention oI the mcnagement cnrd employees oI our compcrny to continue cnd improve our

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Memory of C, R

Johnson Honored by Citizens of Fort Bragg

Sedion oI Huge Bedwood Tree

Dediccrted crs Memoricrl to the City's Founder

The dedication of a plaque and a section oI a huge Redwood tree to C. R. Johnson, founder and former head of the Union Lumber Company, by the citizens of the City of Fort Bragg, California, on Monday, September LPaul Bunyan Day-was a fitting tribute to the memory of a man who was one of the great pioneers of the lumber industry of the United States.

More than 500 people were present on the grounds of the Union Lumber Company's office for the outdoor cere-

The Charler Bussell Iohnson Menoricrl a base which was also a Redwood log. The plaque was placed on the lower half of the section.

The dimensions of the tree were: total height, 334 feet ; height to first break, N4 f.eet; top diameter, 94 inches; diameter at 16 feet, 172 inches; diameter at stump, 2l feet,2 inches; log scale, 140,800 feet (Spaulding Scale).

The ceremonies opened with music by the band of the 107th Regiment. James Snell, master of ceremonies, introduced Charles M. Mannon, who read an address pre-

monies,

In his address Mr. McNab gave a brief outline of some

of the world's historical events during the period of nearly 18 centuries since the Redwood tree, from rvhich the section was cut, first sprouted. "Only a century and a half had gone by at the day of its sprouting since the Son of Man left the imprint of his sandals on the dusty hills of Judea," the speaker said.

, Among the u'orld events he included William the Conqueror's victory at Hastings in 1065 when this Redwood was over 850 years old; the signing of Magna Charta; Columbus' historic discovery of America; George Washington's triumph at Yorktown; the writing of the Constitution of the United States, and the overthrow of Napoleon.

He referred to the inventions which have transformed the world during this period, mentioning the cotton gin, the steam engine, the steamship, the telegraph, Atlantic cable, the telephone, the wireless, the radio, and now Radar.

In his tribute to Mr. Johnson the speaker said in part:

"Carried on the face of this great slab is a dedication to the memory of C. R. Johnson. He was one of the kindliest men that ever lived. He proved that a successful man of the industrial world could still remain a graciotts and lovable gentleman. Behind his smile was a will of steel. But he never found it necessary to sacrifice the gentleness of the gentleman in order to exert his power. To him tl-rere was an aristocracy that comes from the success of selfeffort. He builded his own career and he demanded that all others should have the right to live their own lives in independence of thought and action, as did he himself. His life was dedicated to fair play. He was a believer in free and unrestricted enterprise. He believed in free employment, and the right of every man to work according to his own calling and for whom he chose. It is a marvelous thing to have builded an industrial empire, but it is a greater thing, amidst that creation, to have retained the sr,r'eetness and charm of a human being-a human being that loved his friends; treasured his family; and considered his riches not measured in dollars but in the grace and tenderness and the sweetness which made up the story of his relations with his fellow man.

"For such a man there could be no finer memorial than this great cut from the Redwood trees among which he spent his life.

"With you I join in dedicating this rnemorial, and with you I pray that so long as its fiber shall endure against the wind and rain and sun, so long shall live the memory of the friend of us all, and of this community-C. R. John. son-in whose honor we meet today."

Prof. Emanuel Fritz, professor of Forestry at the University of California, gave a brief talk on the life of the big Redwood. He also paid tribute to the memory of Mr. C. R. Johnson, whom he knew quite well. In speaking of Mr. Johnson, Prof. Fritz stated that as far as he knew, Mr. Johnson was the first man to actively try and reforest the cut-ofr regions with Redwoods; was the first to try to plant seedlings and was the man largely responsible for the success of various experiments by Prof. Fritz.

In his talk about the tree, Prof. Fritz gave the age of the section that was used in the memorial as 1728 years.

Mr. Snell introduced Mr. Otis Johnson, son of the man being honored, and present head of the Union Lumber Com-

pany. In his remarks Mr. Johnson said he felt very deeply the respect that was being paid to the memory of his father. He expressed his regret at the enforced absence of Mr. McNab, and his gratitude for the part taken by i!Ir. McNab, Mr. Mannon and Professor Fritz in the ceremonies, and before the plaque was unveiled spoke briefly of some of the achievements and practical ideals of N{r. C. R. Johnson as follows:

"To me this huge sectiorr of this great tree is a symbol linking us with the far distarit past, which has seen the world go by for many centuries and three times that many generations. It has seen various parts of the world at different times pull themselves up by their boot straps only to suffer the inevitable reaction and only to recover, if it did, through the return of thrift and industry of its people inspired by the intelligence, courage and imagination of outstanding men who through the system of free enterprise have created things for other men to do in the way of producing goods and services that other men need and want.

"Such a man was' the man to whom we are dedicating this tree and almost everything we see around us here today, (Continued on Page 20)

Iove Restrcined

Believe me if dl those endearing young charms, That I view with admiring dismaY; Are going to rub off on my shoulders and arms, Of this suit that was cleaned just todayThou wilt still bc adored with my usual zeal, My swectheart, my darling' my own' But I'll stcrnly rcprcss the cmotions I feel, Ill love you, but leave You alone.

'Tis not that your bcauty is any the less, Or your checks unaccustomedly gay; They're loveln indced, as I gladly confees, I And I think I ahould leave them that way. For the bloom on your lips isn't on very tighg And thc powder rubs off of Your nose, So my dream is platonic, my dear, for tonightFor these are mY verY best clothes.

Short Bctions ProbablY

Teacher-"Can any of you tell me what makes ttte Tower of Pisa lean?"

Fat Girl-"I donit know or I'd takc some myself."

Lord Byron Scrid

"Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence."

Righto

Traveler: "What's the use of having a time-table for this railroad when the trains never run on time?"

Porter: "Cap'n, if'n we didn't hab no time-table, how could we tell was we runnin' late?"

Our Budget

Our guests have departed; and now we're aghast, Our grocery budget's a thing of the past; Our cupboard, like Hubbard's, yields nothing to eat, Our brave ration books lying low in defeat'

You loved playing hostess, I loved playing host, But guests cannot live on just coffee and toast; Our diet's like Gandhi's, and we'll hardly eat, Until our sick budget gets back on its feet.

Different Qucrrters

"Mose, dat uppity niggah, Sam Johnsing, say he doan smoke nufiin only quahtah seegahs"'

"Dass the trufe Sam done tole you, boy. But he fogot to menshun dc fack dat some white genman has done smoked de othah ttrree-quahtahs fust"'

Ethics

Judge (to negro charged with stealing chickens): "f,liastus, are you ready for trid?"

Rastus: "Yassuh, Jedge."

Judge: "llave you your witnesses here?"

Rastus: "Nossuh, Jedge. When Ah goes out to steal chickings, Ah doan take no witness erlong wid me."

What Olher One?

To be a perfect hostees you must sometimes be very, very quick witted. No better sample of quick thinking has been produced than that of thc lady in Chungking who invitcd several Americans to Thanksgiving dinner, promising them something almost incredible under the circumstances-a turkey.

As thc No. I boy entcrcd the dining room, he alippcd and the priceless turkey fcll from the platter he was carrying, and skidded across the floor.

"Never mind, boy," said the hostess, smiling and quict. "Take it back to the kitchen, and bring in the other one."

Vcn Dyke on Living

Henry Van Dyke wrote: "To be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and play and to look up at the stars. To be satisfied with your possessions, but not to be content with yourself until you have made the best of them. To despise nothing in the world exccpt falsehood and meanness, and to fear nothing except corrardice. To be governed by your admirations rather than your disgusts; to covet nothing that is your neighbor's, except his kindness of heart and gentleness of manners. To think seldom of your enemies, often of your friends, and every day of Christ, and to spend as much time as you can with body and with spirit in God's out of doors. These are the guide-posts on the footpaths to pcace."

Musical Soldiers

The top sergeant sang out just before the company was dismissed: "All those who are fond of music, step two paces forward." With visions of some soft job or entertainment, half a dozen men stepped forth. The sergeant growled: "Nour then you six mugs get busy and carry that grand piano up to the top foor of the officer's quarters."

The Right Answer

In the fine morrie "Stage Door Canteen," they show a quizz contest where the soldier who makes the best answcr gets a cash prize.

"If you could be any animal you wished, what animal would you rather be?" asked the quizzlady.

. "A skunk " quicHy replied a handsome Marine. "So f could choose my own friends."

AS YOU NEVER DROVE BEFOR,E!

Many a soldier owes his life to a commander who drove him to the utmost in baale-zcwr let ltim slacAen for a skgh fatal instant! And after the war, maay ^ worker will owe his economic safety to a leader who drove him contiouously for higher Pay-Roll allotments for the purchase of ITar Bonds!

Despite higher taxes and prices, the ave|3ge worker still has more money than ever before-paniculady on the basis of the/zmilyincome. With others in the family earning, too, just let the worker 'figure ir out for himself, and he usually will realize that nou he can

put more into $Var Bonds than he has been doing.

That's why the Treasury Department has set new quotas fot the cuffent PayRoll Allotment Drive-qaotas rrnning about 50% abow former fgaret. These quotas are designed to reach the neu money that's coming into the family income. Coming from millions of new workers from women who never worked before . . . from millions who never before earned anything like what they are getting today!

The current ITar Bond elfort is built around the fanily unit, and the Treasury Department oow urges you to or-

ganize your lVar Bond tbinding-atd your War Bond'nlliry-on the basis of your employees' family incomes. For details, get in touch with your local TfarFinance Comrniffee which will sup. ply you with all necessary material for the proper presentation ofthe new plan to your workers through your laborrnanagement comminees.

Today about 30,000,000 wage earners, io 17!,000 plants, are buying lfar Bonds at the rate of nearly half a billion dollars a month. Great as this sum is, it is not enoagb! So turn-to today! Get this aew family income plan worhing!

The C. R. Johnron Memorial (Continued from Page 17)

this industry and this city, are the living proof of what he believed in and what he did.

"And when he did these and many other constructive things he created employment for men which has continued and increased for nearly sixty years. He increased public revenues by the taxes he paid and in the meantime he furnished needed material for homes, farms, railroads, and factories and he made it possible for us now to be doing an important part in furnishing material vital to our armed forces in this war. This sort of thing and this only spells real progress.

"If this ceremony today and the dedication of this huge tree section does any lasting good, it will be to keep before our minds the principles and the wisdom of a great man-a man among men, whom all other men looked up to and respected just as this tree which towered above the others was looked up to and commanded the respect of all other trees in the forest. If as we see this great monument and read the plaque upon it throughout the years to come and are reminded of how Mr. C. R. Johnson would have advised us on our various problems, we will be guided to better and sounder decisions. If we do this this ceremony and this dedication will have been well worthwhile.

"I will now unveil the plaque with the help of the two grandsons, who I am very glad are here, Captain Charles Russell Johnson II and Peter Lowe. In doing so I express my gratitude to all who took part in these ceremonies, this large assemblage of people, the splendid military band, the speakers, Mr. Mannon for his own speech and for reading Mr. McNab's impressive words, to Professor Fritz, who has told us among other interesting things the age of the tree, to Mr. Snell, who has so ably conducted the proceedings, to Miss Norma Bainbridge, Mrs. Grace Harlow for their beautiful music, and especially to the citizens of the City of Fort Bragg for their thoughtfulness, consideration and vision in holding this ceremony, donating this plaque and in dedicating this tree to the memory of Charles Russell Johnson, who founded their city August 5, 1889."

New Lumbcr Indurtry Advirory Committca

Formation of two new five-man lumber industry advisory committees has been announced by the Office of Price Administration.

They are the Western Red Cedar Lumber Industry Advisory Committee and the Sitka Spruce Lumber Industry Advisory Committee.

The two committees--composed of leading West Coast lumbermen-will consult with OPA officials on pricing matters or whenever advice and consultation on special situations is needed.

Mem,bers of the Western Red Cedar Lumber Industry Adi'isory Committee are:

L. S. Black, treasurer, Seattle Cedar Lumber Manufacturing Company, Seattle, Washington.

M. J. Butler, sales manager, E. C. Miller Cedar Lumber Company, Aberdeen, Washington.

S. P. Johns, Jr., manag'er, Cedar Sales, Weyerhaeuser Sales Company, Tacoma, Washington.

W. C. McMaster, president-manager, McMaster Lumber & Shingle Company, Marysville, Washington.

Paul R. Smith, president, M. R. Smith Lumber & Shingle Company, Seattle, Washington.

Members of the Sitka Spruce Lumber Industry Advisory Committee are:

A. W. Hart, manager, Hart Mill Company, Raymond, Washington.

F. H. Hulbert, manager, American Mill Company, Aberdeen, Washington.

E. C. Kaune, manag'er, Polson Lumber & Shingle Company, Hoquiam, Washington.

L. B. Morrison, manager, Crown Zellerbach Corporation, Portland, Oregon.

E. W. Weiss, manager, Multnomah Lumber & Box Sales Company, Portland, Oregon.

"All these men are active in companies providing lumber of the type and species their committee represent, and are well acquainted with operations and problems of the industry," OPA said. "It is expected that their employment will serve to further the good relationships.between the Office of Price Administration and the lumber industry."

Gompany

Onl,y One Thing Matters Noq,ul

t^o," oF us remember the ThenLsgiving story about the backwoods led who, after his seventh helping, said. "I can chaw, but I cant swaller!"

Vell, that's pretty much the way it is now with Vheeler Osgood. \[e're so packed with lUncle Sam's orders that there just isn't room for very much else. And that's the way it should be -until victory is won. For that, beyond question, is the only thing that matters now:

IMPOR ANT IO JOBBERS, DEALERS

Vhen even America's largest manufacturer of doors is thus no longer able to promise immediate delivery, it is obvious that these are trying times

for both jobbers and dealers. But of this you can be assured: Vheeler Osgood is not forgetting its friends-and our every spare moment is devoted not only to supplying yorr present needs, but also to developing plans and capacity,for your future benefit.

A NEW DAY'S DAWNING

Vithout revealing too much of tomorrow's promise, it's safe to say that the originators of "Color Grading" have many another important contribution in at least the blueprint stage. Until "V-day," then, we ask that you bear with us. After that, we are sure you'll f,nd thewaiting well anrtlntbile!

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Compliment To Lumber Industry's

Poet Lcurecrte

The dedication of a Redwood tree to the lumber industry's poet laureate, A. Merriam Conner, took place in the amphitheater at Woodminster Park (Joaquin Miller Heights), Oakland, on Sunday afternoon, September 26.

Professor Woodbridge Metcalf, Associate Forester, IJniversity of California, was the speaker, representing HooHoo Club No. 39, Oakland, and the lumber industry'

Lumber Finns Get Delivery oI Lilt Trucks

Ross Lift Trucks were recently delivered to the following firms in California: Christenson Lumber Co., San Francisco; Western Hardwood Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Penberthy Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Barr Lumber Co., Santa Ana; American Hardwood Co., Los Angeles (2) ; Loop Lumber Co., San Francisco; Stockton Box Co., Stockton; Stockton Box Co., Toyon; Associated Lumber & Box Co., Dorris; Associated Lumber & Box Co., Toyon; E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles.

Douglcrs Fir Doors

Maximum prices of Douglas fir doors are increased 8.9 per cent at the producer level by the OPA. Jobber and retailer sales are removed from the GMPR coverage and put under the revised regulation. Jobbers and retailers are allowed to pass on higher prices to consumers (Amendment 2 to Revised Price Schedule 44), effective October ?

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Screen Doors and Frcorres, Storm Doors and SGtr

To end duplicate coverage, screen doors and wooden frame screens are removed by OPA from list of commodities subject to Maximum Price Regulation 142. They now are subject to revised Maximum Price Regulation D3 or Maximum Price Regulation 381. Present retail ceilings for these products remain unchanged (Amendment 5 to Maximum Price Regulation 142, effect\ve September D.

Also to end duplicate coverage storm doors and storm sash are removed from coverage of Maximum Price'Regulation 210. They now are subject to revised Maximum Price Regulation D3 hich covers wholesale and retail prices as well as producers' ceilings. Likewise retail ceilings remain unchanged (Amendment 13 to Maximum Price Regulation 210), effective September D.

Housing Authority

Ratings and symbols assigned by Regulation 5A, maintenance, repair and operating supplies regulation, for governmental agencies and institutions, may be used by local authorities as a result of a WPB revocation (Revocation of Direction 1 to CMP Regulation 5A), issued September 30.

Mcrde Fly:ng Instructor

LeRoy Stanton, Jr., recently passed all tests and has been made a flying instructor at Sequoia Field, California. Prior to going into the Army Air Corps, he was assistant general manager of E. J. Stanton & Son at Los Angeles.

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New Book on Plywood;

"Plywoods-Their Development, Manufacture and Application" by Andrew Dick Wood and Thomas Gray Linn, is a new book published by the Cheniical Publishing Co., Inc., 234 King Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.

The preface is by Lawrence Ottinger, president of the United States Plywood Corporation. The entire process ot manufacturing, from the tree in the forest to the various types of finished commercial plywoods is given, and many interesting applications of the use of plywoods in furniture, housing, ship-building, airplane construction, and other fields are gone into in great detail. The book is profusely illustrated with original photographs showing the many varieties of plywood and their most useful applications.

The extensive glossary is by H. M. Wigg of the United States Plywood Corporation, and familiarizes the reader with the technical terms used in the plywood industry. Architects, builders, construction engineers in all fields, executives, students and others who have or expect to have contact with this increasingly useful material, will find this a practical book. It sells for $4.00 per copy.

Fire Destroys Lumber Plcnt

Fire of undetermined origin destroyed the plant of thr: North Hollywood Lumber Co., North Hollywood, on October 3. The loss was estimated as $50.000.

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hom the October 15, l028r Iccue

This issue carried a personal write-up of M. A. Harris of San Francisco, president and general manager of the Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co.

The sash and door dedlers of Southern California had big get-together party at Big Bear.

A picture showed the unique advertising coupe used by the sales department of the Barr Lumber Company of Santa Ana. A miniature two-story colonial house, exact in all details, was built on the body of the machine. The company's name appeared on all sides of the car.

Sterling Lumber Company at Morgan Hill purchased a tract of land adjoining their yard on which they built an additional shed and mill building.

Clint Laughlin was chairman at the Los Angeles HooHoo Club meeting on October 4. August Vollmer, Los Angeles police chief, was the speaker.

"Miss Brey-Building teresting article by Jack

Merchant Extraordinary," an inDionne. was in this number.

The Diamond Match Company purchased the Oroville Lumber Company yard at Oroville.

Alcrskc Timber

Nearly 7 million board feet of Alaska timber has so far been delivered to mills in the Puget Sound area under the Alaska spruce log project to help meet war demands for airplane lumber, the Agriculture Dgpartment reports. The Forest Service, in charge cif the project, expects that deliveries will soon reach a rate of about 5 million feet a month.

Los Angeles Building Permits

Building permits issued in Los Angeles during September totaled 1,987, showing increases over the August total of. 1,799, and the 1,904 issued in September, 1942.

The $3,024,991 valuation for September's permits,, however, is under that of August, which totaled $3,192,914, and September a year ago, which totaled $4,063,190.

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Frcd Roth Vrita From Honolulu

Fred Roth, former San Francisco lumberman, has sent us a newsy letter from Honolulu. Fred is now a manufacturer's representative for Transpacific importers and exporters operating under the name of Oceanic Traders. His letter follows:

"LET US ALL PULL TOGETHER." I quote fom an adVertisement of Lewers & Cooke, Building Material Specialists-"Our 91st Year. Just think, founded in 1852; twenty-three years before Hawaii granted to the United States the use of Pearl Harbor as a naval base; forty-six years before Hawaii was admitted to the United States as a territory and become its first line of defense in the Paci6c to aid in our war against Spain. Again on December 7, 194L, when the Japanese Government perpetrated its dastardly crime against Pearl Harbor in particular, and mankind in general, Lewers & Cooke, together with other local building material houses, were in your front linc trenches as your outpost of the Pacific. Thanks to our largc stocks of Douglas Fir from the Pacific Northwest and the Redwoods of California, rve were able to carry on a great emergency war program."

Today, as I now sit in the office of Fred D. Lowrey, president of Lewers & Cooke, we glance over a monthly business letter from the Chamber of Commerce of Honolulu and read as follows:

"Business and industry in Hawaii in the first six months of 1943 has effected a recovery from disruption which existed during the corresponding 1942 interval following tlre outbreak of war.

"Retail and wholesale trade shows an average gain of dbout D/o in the first half of this year "o-p"r"d with the same period last year.

"The opening six months of the current year ended with business at improved levels. Sugar and pineapple shipments are approaching their prewar volume. Bank clearings and. real estate transactions continue to gain. private construction has remained at a low ebb, but it is expected

that this situation may improve with the expected release of materials at such time as fulfillment of war needs will permit."

Hugh Alderman, who by the way is now in charge of purchases and sales of Lewers & Cooke's lumber department, operating directly under C. S. Goodknight, first vice-president, comes into the office with a smile on his face as broad as a Georgia colored boy eating watermelon. "Fred, f wonder how many lumbermen dusted off their Bibles to check on Jack Dionne's editorial pertaining to what Jesus Christ had to say about lawyers in the Eleventh Chapter of Luke?" f confessed I was one of them.

Fred Lowrey asks Jack Dionne and Ed Martin to extend his Aloha to the lumber fraternity in California and the Pacific Northwest. He states: "'We have all your difficulties of the OPA and WPB and the rest of the alphabet plus the obvious transportation difficulties due to our situation.

"fn conclusion may we ask our mainland contemporaries to pull with us and for us until that day when we can all get together and say weren't we great in the last war. If only we could find as great a market today to build for everlasting peace."

It has been my privilege to meet with Stuart Smith in conference and to have him at my home for dinner. Needless to say, our conversation ran like this: "Remember open house dav when Eddie Peggs opened up his office; remember that Hoo-Hoo concat in Los Angeles; remember that Lumbermen's banquet at Harry Marquard's in San Francisco," and so far into the night- Stuart has gained a warm Aloha from the entire lumber fraternity in Honolulu.

Lieut. Iim Pierce Home on Leave

Lieut. Jas. R. Pierce (j.S.) U.S.N., who was home on leave with his family in Piedmont, Calif., for 3O days while his ship was undergoing repairs and overhaul, left for duty early in October. A big event in his homecoming was seeing his son, James R. Pierce, Ir., Z% months old, for the first time. Lieut. Pierce was formerly associated with Paramino Lumber Co., San Francisco.

J. Earle Heber

Obitueriec

J. Earle Heber, sales manager for E. J. Stanton & Son, died of a heart attack at his home in Los Angeles, Saturday morning, October 2. He worked a full day on Friday, and while apparently in good health was stricken suddenly during the night. He was 64 years of age.

Born in Marengo, Iowa, Mr. Heber came to Los Angeles in 1901, and had long been identified with the lumber and building material business. A number of years ago he managed several lumber yards in the Imperial Valley which were owned by his father. Later he was general manager of the Truscon. Steel Co. at Los Angeles for several years. He also served as secretary of the Metropolitan District Material Dealers Association, after which he was a member of the millwork firm of Maule-Heber Co. About two years ago he went with E. J. Stanton and Son.

Mr. Heber was a member of the Chapparal Club and the Terrible Twenty Tournament Golf Club.

Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Charlotte Heber, two daughters, Mrs. John Lyman and Mrs. Richard Paulin oi Los Angeles, and four grandchildren.

Ivlrs. W. E. Cooper

Services were held on Wednesday, September D at the Wee Kirk o' The Heather, Forest Lawn, Glendale, for Mrs. W. E. Cooper who passed away at the Huntington Memorial Hospital, Pasadena, as the result of a heart attack, on September 26.

Mrs. Cooper was the wife of W. E. Cooper, Los Angeles lumberman, president of W. E. Cooper Lumber Co., and W. E. Cooper Wholesale Lumber. She was prominent in club and philanthropic circles, and was a member of both the San Marino and South Pasadena Women's Clubs.

In addition to her husband she is survived by her mother, Mrs. Alma Kleindinst; two sisters, Mrs. William Mobley and Mrs. Minnie Vigles of Los Angeles; three brothers, Walter Kleindinst of Los Angeles, and Earl and Arthur Kleindinst of Milwaukee, Wis.

Three step-children also survive: Mrs. George Bradford of'Bakersfield, Calif.; Mrs. Robert H. Garrison, Los Angeles, and Charles M. Cooper of Westwood.

George A. Houston

George A. Houston,'Weyerhaeuser Sales Company executive, died suddenly on September 30 at Vancouver, B.C., while attending a meeting of Weyerhaeuser officials. Mr. Houston was stricken with a heart attack shortly after his arrival from St. Paul where he made his headquarters as general sales manager in charge of specialty lines. He was born at Dixon, Missouri, in 1881, and had spent most of his business life in the lumber industry where he was widely known. For several years he represented l,ong-Beli Lumber Company in various important metropolitan markets and then as general sales manager with headquarters at Kansas City. He joined the Weyerhaeuser organization in 1936.

He is survived by his wife, a son, a sister and two brothers, Homer and Earl. The latter is West Coast sales manager for Long-rBel,l Lumber Company, Longview, Washington. fnterment at Springfield, Missouri.

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Watts and Compton Debate Public Regulation of Forest Lands

"Comprehensive forest legislation, including but not limited to regulation of cutting practices, is now more urgently needed than ever before," Lyle F. Watts, Chiefr U. S. Forest Service, said in a statement to a meeting of foresters at Milwaukee on September 30.

In reply Dr. Wilson Compton, Secretary-Manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, said that observant forest owners agree that the forest situation is unsatisfactory but has been greatly improved in recent years; that further regulation should be determined in each forest region, by regional facts and experience, and administered under state laws; and that the Forest Service in cooperation with states and forest owners should extend its forest fire protection and other services generally, within the framework of private forest ownership and enterprise rather than by nationalizing our forest resources.

Digests of the two statements follow:

Speaking of "Planning for Peace," Mr. Watts cited the needs of public forest and range land for improvements, as a source of postwar employment. "The volume and geographic distribution of work in these fields may be greatly expanded by pushing the acquisition of millions of acres of forest land which seem destined for public ownership."

Better care and protection of forests is required if they are to be kept highly productive, said the Forest Servicc Chief, "yet today, after decades of agitation and educational efiort, the bulk of cutting on private forest lands is not under any plans for perpetuating the productivity of the resource and one-third of the private forest area, including a large part of the best timber growing land in the South, is still without organized fire protection."

Mr. Watts thought that post-war needs for lumber and other forest products will continue near the wartime level. Declining needs for the war efiort will be offset by demands for housing, the use of new techniques for using wood in construction of all kinds, the upward trend in pulp

and paper products. Moulded plywood, plastics and the many wood derivatives will make a new outlet. Huge quantities of lumber will be needed to rebuild war-torn Europe. "Only by the most aggressive measures can we hope to bring saw-timber growth in line with needs," Watts stated.

"Comprehensive forest legislation, including but not limited to regulation of cutting practices, is now more urgently needed than ever before. In making this statement I am not in the least overlooking or discounting the many examples of good forest management by private owners in almost every section of the country." Mr. Watts cited the Goodman Lumber Company and the Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Company and the J. Neils Lumber Company as examples in the Lake States and the Pacific Northwest. Forest protection on Weyerhaeuser's Clemons Tree Farm in Washington is far beyond that given the National Forests, he said. "But I have seen much more destructive cutting than good forestry. I want to say with all the force I have that nation-wide regulation of cutting practices on private forest land under strong federal leadership is absolutely essential if needless destruction of productive growing stock is to be stopped," the Chief Forester declared.

"It is unfortunate that a well-financed publicity campaign sponsored by the forest industries during the recent past should tend to cultivate public complacency when the situation with respect to our forest resources is so unsatisfactory. As head of this agency chiefly concerned with the public interest in maintaining the productivity of our forests, I cannot let the misleading publicity of the forest industries pass unchallenged.

"This campaign creates the impression that little not already being done on private land is needed to assure the nation ample timber supplies for the future. It exaggerates the extent and adequacy of industry progress in good forest practice. I cannot escape the conclusion that the real object of this campaign is to ward off

public regulation which was recommended in one form by the Department of Agriculture in 194O, brought before Congress in several forms since then and proposed for legislation in 14 states during the past winter.

"Conservation leaders are not in agreement as to the responsibility of the federal government in such regulation. It is my firm belief that regulation by state action unsupported by strong federal legislation cannot be effective. . I do not believe that financial aid to the states to meet the costs of regulation will induce reluctant or strongly independent states to enact appropriate regulatorv legislation.

"fn order that nation-wide regulation of cutting practices may come promptly and be reasonably uniform in star.rclards and enforcement, federal legislation is needed wbich will as a minimum give the Secretary of Agriculture authority (1) to set the standards for required forest practices; (2) to pass on the practices adopted by the states; (3) to inspect enforcement; and (4) to take direct action where suitable state legislation is not enacted and where enforcement or the standards established are not acceptable."

Mr. Watts said that federal contributions to fire control and extension services, research, the forest survey, and forest credit and insurance call for action on a national level. He expressed surprise that federal regulation of cutting practices has become so controversial. He gives credit to several strong states that have taken "appropriate measures," but believes strongly that only federal leadership carr assure a uniform policy and prevent undesirable competitive conditions between states.

Private enterprise offers better opportunity for progress in forestry than nationalization proposed by Forest Service.

Briefing the issue, Dr. Compton said that the Forest Service thinks the national situation of our forest resottrce is critical and that the Service should have more authority to correct it; while the forest industries think the situation is not so critical, that it is improving and that with public cooperation they can handle the task on their own lands.

The Forest Service survey published in 1938 reported 83 per cent of the 341 million acres of commercial forest lands in private ownership in "productive condition," Comptott pointed out. A survey conducted by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association in 194243, to bring the information up to date, covered 346 million acres of privatelyowned lands in 36 states. State foresters and other agencies on the ground supplied the data. Eight per cent of the

346 million acres are under intensive forest management; 2l per cent in "continuous forest production;" 60 per cent in "productive growth." That leaves 11 per cent in "nonproductive condition." Of the 151 million acres industrially owned or operated, 16.5 per cent are under managemeni "plans;" D per cent are operated for continuous forest production; 48.5 per cent are in "productive condition." That leaves 6 per cent classed as "nonproductive." Such figures, Compton sai<l, do not show a critical condition becoming more critical.

In proportion to our population we have ten times as much commercial forest as has Germany, for example, Dr. Compton continued. Their elaborate system of "manicuring" their forest lands is not needed here. It is not necessary and it is too expensive.

Forest Service estimates published in 1938 indicate more than 11 billion cubic feet of new wood grows in our forests every year, and that use and the 2 billion cubic feet lost bv fire, insects and disease, total 13 billion feet annually. With better forest protection, it is possible to foresee a balance in lvhich rvood used is replaced annually.

The timber famine publicity of the past'half century has put the forest problem in a false perspective. Forests have been the target for fear psychology and scarcity propaganda. The end of commercial forest operations was just around the corner. Many Americans suspect that we are on the verge of forest famine. It has not materialized because the distinguished statisticians have known so little about the phenomenal rate of timber growth.

In 1832 Americans were assured that lumber was almost exhausted. In 1871 the Secretary of the Interior disclosed that within 20 years our supply of wood would "fall considerably short of our home necessities." In l92O a Senate Committee forecast that "for commercial purposes the timber of the Southern states will be depleted by 1940." In 1941, the eleven Southern states produced I3l billion f.eet of lumber.

Over-cutting exists in some places. There will be more while this war lasts. At least there should be. 'We are harvesting extra trees because we need them now. After the war they can be replaced.

In this matter of policy there is probably general concurrence that federal regulation is the wrong way to seek a right objective. There is no magic in regulation to control fires and make trees grow. Certain practices in forest

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Debate Public Regulation of Forest Lands

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land management can be required by law, but to achieve them by education, economic inducement and public and private cooperation is our American way of getting things done.

The sooner we stop treating forestry as a perpetual emerg'ency the more progress we will make. People do not invest in things they are uncertain about. American forestry needs less agitation and more silviculture.

No country has solved its forest land problem without some public regulation, and this country will not either. Certain simple requirements are necessary and desirable but they should be based on the experience of forest land owners in each region and administered by state law. Federal regulation would force action more quickly, but its consequence would be substitution of public for private forest ownership. Those who want that will favor Federal regulation.

There will be no national shortage of timber. There are and will be local and regional shortages which should be rectified. Fundamentally, and except for the present fantastic wartime stimulation, American forests need markets more than they need more legislation.

The Chief Forester has criticized as "misleading" some of the information published by the forest industries. The Forest Service for half a century has had a gloomy approactr

to the whole conservation problem. This attitude is traditional, impregnable, and perhaps almost professional. It is the logical approach to a program of intended domination of a great industry by a federal bureau. The forest industries see a simpler, more constructive and a safer answer to the forest problem than is to be found in more federal laws.

The information program of the forest industries has created a lively curiosity about our forests. The public was never more keenly aware of the dangers of forest fires or the importance of junior forests or the possibilities in "Tree Farms." This public awareness has encouraged better forest practices in the industry itself. For this reason the forest industries should continue this industry information.

Officers Re-eleded

The following officers were re-elected at the 46th annual meeting of the National Hardwood Lumber Association held in Chicago on September 1G17.

President, Abbott M. Fox, fron Mountain, Mich.; vicepresidents, D. C. Maclea, Baltimore, Md., George H. Henderson, Keltys, Tex., F. W. Hutcheson, Huntsville, Ontario, Canada; secretary-treasurer, John W. McClure, Chicago, Ill.

With Scrn Pedro Lumber Co.

Fred Kozac is back with the San Pedro Lumber Co. and holding down his old desk in their Los Angeles office. For the past nine months he was with the Los AngelesAlbuquerque Express.

Estimated Consumption of lfestern Pine Lumbcr for Fourth Quarter of 1943

Portland, Oregon, Sept. 30.-An estimate of the probable consumption of lumber from the Western Pine region for the fourth quarter of 1943 is given in a statement issued by the Western Pine Association. The statement follows:

Now that the country's war plant program is substantially completed the principal braki on the production of all critical items is the almost universal shortage of manpower. Recent accounts from Washington all agree that the labor situation in the West is as tight as it is anywhere in the nation.

The producers of Idaho White Pine, Ponderosa Pine and Sugar Pine are just as hard pressed for labor as are any other war industries in the area. Early in the war they lost some of their best employees to new cost plus industries which rvere not operating under ceiling prices. Even now, with the critical nature of the industry's output well recognized, experienced men are being lost to the armed forces, to farm employers who can ofier almost automatic draft exemption and no withholding tax, and a few to other industries.

Evidence that there is no labor hoarding in the Western Pine industry is furnished by the production of 4318 million feet of lumber in the first nine months of this year. This is bat 6.7 per cent behind last year and only 7.7 per cent under the all-time high set by the industry in 1941. It is the best record of any principal section of the lumber industry.

During the third quarter the industry made some progress toward rebuilding stocks from which to maintain next winter's shipments but the insistant war demand for pine boxes and crating, which resulted in Limitation Order L-DU, kept the stock increase below normal. Stocks o!

1139 million feet are up 172 million feet in the past three months but still are 287 million feet under a year ago.

Based upon general predictions and all other available information regarding the industry's ability to make and ship lumber, it is expected that during the fourth quarter of 1943 the shipments (consumption) of Western Pine lumber will be about 1410 million feet, or 10 per cent under the fourth quarter of last year. This prediction contemplates a substantial reduction of stocks during the quarter, so that the year's shipments from the mills will exceed production by I75 to 200 million feet.

PLYPANELS-PLYFORM-PLYWALL

Rcprerenting in Southcrn Cdllomh: The Paclftc Lumber Compeny-Wcndling-Ncthrn Co.

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5tt5 vibhirc Btvd., Lor Angcls "the Personal Seraice lllant' Tclephonc, YO* 1168

UP AND DOWN THE STATE

Harold Bendorf of California cago office, left September 26 tion's member mills at Scotia offices in San Fi.ancisco.

Redwood Distributors Chiafter visiting his organizaand Samoa, Calif., and the

Al Nolan, Western sales manager, The Co., San Francisco, was back at his desk a business trip to Portland and Seattle.

Pacific Lumber October I from

W. K. Kendrick, sales manager, Valley Lumber Co., Fresno, visited Portland late in September.

N. B. Bowden, general facturing Co., Santa Clara, a business trip to Portland.

superintendent. Pacific Manureturned about October 1 frorn

R. E. (Bob) Caldwell, Hammond Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned September 30 from a business trip to the Northwest. He traveled both ways by plane.

Mason E. Kline, general sales Co., made a business trip by the the end of September.

manag'er, Union Lumber air route to Portland at

Jas. E. (Jimmy) Atkinson, Atkinson-Stutz Co., San Francisco, left October 4 to spend several weeks in the Northwest calling on sawmills.

Charles M. Cooper of W. E. Angeles, left October 10 to call California and Southern Oregon. about 10 davs.

Cooper Lumber Co., Los on sawmills in Northern He expected to be gone

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WANTS LUMBER YARDS

If you want to sell your lumber yard, lct us know, aa we have inquiries from parties wishing to buy.

Twohy Lumber Co., Petroleum Building, Los Angeles 15, Calif.

NUMBER THREE

I think that I shall never see Such lousyJooking Number Three

Each board was full of big spike knots With skips in dressing, too, in spots And on each edge there was some lvane And there were worm-holes, too, and stain. Each piece was checked for several feet And just to make my joy complete The stock was crooked, too, and green Such lumber I have never seen It looked like Number Five to me ,A,nd only God could make it Three.

STATE.IqENT 9F' THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT. CIRCUI.A. TroN.^EJc.L BEOUTRED By rHig Acrs oF Cor*cnBSS---- OF AUGUST A, 1912, AND MARCH 3. 1933.

_ Ot ThS Califomia Lumbe.r Mcrchant, ptrbtished Siiri.monthly at Ios Angeles,, Califomia, for October l, 1943.'

Strtc of Celifomie ) County of Los Argeles. I tl'

-Before mc, a Notery Pubtic il and for tbc Stete end maty tforc. sard, .persona_ily a-ppered J. E. Martin, wbo, having been duly uom 1cgg-rdrng t_o taw, dcposc8 and says that he is tbe Businerg Maaager of Thc California Lumber Mcrchant, and that tbe following ic, to the bcst of hir knowledge and belief, a true ltatcmcnt of thc owncirhip, management (rad if a daily pepcr, thc circulation), ctc., of the aforesaid publication for thc date shown in the abovc eption, rcquircd bt thc Act o[ August 21, l9l?,., amended by the Act of Marth 3, 1933, cmbodicd in rcction 537, Pctal Ltwr and Regrrlations, printed on the revcrsc of this form, to wit: l. That the n.mc! end addttrces of the publicher, editor, meneging editor, and busincss mana8rrs are: Publishcr, J. C. Dionnc, 508 Ccntral Blds., Irs Angeles 14, Calif.; Editor, J. C. Dionne, 508 Central Bldg,' Los Angeles 14, Calif.; Managing Editor, J. E. Martin,50B Central Bldg., hs Angeles 14, Calif ; Business Manager, J. E. Martin, 508 Central Bldg., Los Anceles 14, Calif. 2. T-hat thc owncr ir: (If omed bt corporetim, itr aamc rnd eddrers must be steted and alro immcdietely thertundcr thc namc! lnd lddresscs of rtockholdcr: oming or holding mc pcr ent d aorc of totet amount of rtoclc. If not orocd bt r corpontin, thc arnar rnd eddrccscc of tbc individud omcrl rnurt bc given. If omcd by r firm, ompeny, or other unincorporrted Goacem, itr namc ead rddrur, er well ar thce of cech individurl nember, mwt be givcn.)

The Cglifomia Lumbcr Mcrchut (a corporation), 508 Centrel Bldg., Lor Angclca.

J. C. Dionne, hc Angcles, Calif.

J. E. Martin, Lor Angcles, Calil.

W. T. Bleck, Sen Francisco. C:lilonlr.

T. P. Wicr, Ilonrtor. Tcxr!.

Mrs. A. C, Mcrryman, Pasadae, Califoraia Maymme Adams, Los Angelcs, Calif.

3. Thst thc Lnom boldholdcn, mortSr8cc!, end otbcr .ccuritt boldcrr oming or holding I pcr ccnt or morc of totrl rmount of, bcds, uut8rgcs, or other rccuriticr rrc: (If thcrc rrc nonc, ao rtrtc.) Noac.

a. Ttrt thc tro pengrrphr ncxt rbwe, giviag thc oener of thc omeru, stocLholdcrr, rad reuritt boldcr!, if rny, contrin tlot oal'l tlc list of rtockholdcrr and :ccnrity holdcrr er they epgerr uDos the boo&r of thc compuy but ebo, il carcr rherc thc stocLholdcr or ccnritt holder appcrrr uDon tlc bootr of the coopray rr tnrtcc or in iay other fiduciery rcletioo, thc arne of the pcrroo or corpontioa for whon ruch truttce i! ecting, ir jivea; rlro thrt thc .rld tto Denlnphr contriD rtrtcncnt! cmbrrcing rftirnt'r full Lnothdgc rnd bclict .r to tte circunrtlnccr and conditioar uadcr qhich rtoctlolderr rad rccsrity holdcn wbo do nol epperr upoa thc boolr of tbc comDalt !t tniltcar. hold rtock end rccuriticr ln e crpecity other th.r thrl ol e bon 6dc omer; end tbir rfiirat her oo rciroa to bclievc tttt rny othcr ocrro. ecrbciatio, or corpor.tid her rny intarcrt dirrct or indirlct in t5c rrid rtock, bonds, or other recuriticr thra tr ro rtttcd by hira,

5. That lhe rvcrrge lunbcr of copier of crch iuue of rhir publi- cetion rold q dirtributed, throogt thc rnrib or othcrwi3c, to nid rubrcriberr during thc trclve Eonth! Drcccding thc drtc rbom tbovl ir (Ttir iafonnrtioa ir _rqaircd lrom drily publicetioor oaly.) slrorn to and subscribcd r.r.J;3',if"A[Tt]!, ".f '3:i3#l"t?ffj' (SEAL) MARGARET S. EVANS. Notarv Public. (l[y commireio crpircs Fcbru.ry 4 tga?.)

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SA1T FRANCISCO

LUIIBER

LUMBER

Arc.tr Rdvood Co.

aA l',dltr,r Strt t (rr) .............Yl Ln 2aa?

Ailhs.slutr Coptav. ru llrrt t Strtd- (rf)'',..........'G/\rfiou rt|'

Chrlrtsnron Lurnbcr Ca.

Evail Ava. and Qulnt St. (z)...'VAlocia 5t3z

Dut & Ruull. hc., Aa Fmt Stra r (rr) .............G4ricld la|l

DoDorr e Curo Lunbor Co. uu Mtrcrhrr. Erchulc Bldt. (') 9uttd ils'

Gulrrtoa & Gm Lubcr Co. rt0c ArE Str..t (2a) ............4Tt!tc l30l

HdL Jenlr Lr0i?2 Mllb Bur. (1) .................sutt r 7524

H.hhond hobs C,;oopuy, aU Montrury Srrct (a) ........Dou3til 33tt

Hobbr \[fdl Ltmbor Go,L5 Montremrry St. (l) ..'...'....GAr6cld ?752

Holmr Eurdre Lmbcr Co-, fl6 Flaucld Cootcr Bldr. (a) ....G/trtr3E f92r

C. D. Johnru LutDbG CnDorrtlon' t|t CditomL gtrrt (U) '.'.'....'GArflold 625t

KilDarick & ConPanY. tuha Btdt. -({)' .'.............'.'YUkon 0912

Carl H. Kuhl llrnbc Co.. O. L nuurn lu Mrrli.t St. (rr) Yulon l{6f

fm-Boirytm Cenpuy, ra Crlltmla Srr..t (lr) ..........GArfi.|d 6Etl

McDuficc Lumbcr Salar CorP-

52E Moadnah Bldg. (5)'.........GArfieH ?196

Ororu Lunbc Srlo (Cul W. Wettr), t?5 Moednodr Bldt. (5) ...........YULm l3L

Paclic tr nnbcc Co.' Th. ll Burh Str..t (l) .."........'..GAtfidd lrtl

Popc & TrDor' llc. Lunbcr aer Mdr.t gtr..r (5) ..'..

Rcd Rlvc lrnb.r Co.

3r5 ModmcL Bldt. (5) ..........G4rfrCd c'22

Suh Fc Lubcr C;c. rr CalliomL srrui (rr) .........E)GmL 2or

Schdor Brcr. L'-bc & Shlarh coI Dnrnn Str..t (ff) .........'.....Sullor lzl

Shcvltn Phc S.lx CorasO Mmedtfft BLti. (5) ..'......E:XbmoL ?Ll

Sudda & Ghrlrtarn Inq, 3ra Sum. Srrr.t-({) ............GAil.ld ztlc

Crrl W. Wettr (Orcroo lubc Sdor),

9?5 Mooedmcli B[lt. G) ..........Y1J1on l59r

Wondllnr-Nrrhu Co., tla idutrct StrGGr (fl) .............Suttor 53at

Wot Ongo frnbcr Co.. 1995 Evrar Avr. (21) ............ATrrt.r sc?t

LUMBER, Ewaue Bq Co. (Pynnld Lunbcr Srla Co.)

Prcific Bldr. (u) ,..............Gladrrt t2tt

Gumto & Groo lubc co-

2Ol Llvlnlrba 9t. (6) ............KE11o9 l-l6t{

Hlll & Mortoo. Inc., Dmlru Srcd Whrrf O) ......'ANdovc rfll

Holu Lunbcr Cmprntr, ad rnd Allc. Strutr (l) ......'Glacottrt 6tcl

E. K. Wood laubc Co- all Fr.&rlct SbGd (a) ..........'(E;[bs2-lm

WhdsL Btdldlal Sqelr, lr.' r..t 3hd Srr.Gt (t) ............TEnp1cbr lCll

Wtolanb Lunbc Dlrtfinror+ bc'

Oth Avour PLr (3) .............TW1nor1r 25f5

LUMBEN

Arata Rcdrood Co. (J. J. Ror) 5lL Wlhhlrc Blvd. (31) ..........WEbrtc 7!21

Atllnm-Stutz Conpray, .2t Potrcloun Bldt. (l5) .....,....PRo.pct atal

BruA lndurtrl.d Lunbcr Co -' 5'.l -j. c";-;.t -e"1 lrl-. I......cEnrurr z-rltt

Burar Lunbor Cuprny, 170 Soth Bryqly Mvq, (Bwcly Hilf.) ................BRedrhrw 2-l3tE

Crn & Co., L J. (W. D. Durnlng), att Ch. ot Om. Bldr. (15) ...'...PRd.pcct Etal

Coopc, W. Er 3aa-Ot nchiCd Bldg. (r3) .,.....lllltual 2l3l

Dur & Rurdl lrc", tl2 E. stth Str.d (r) ...............4Dm! tlll

Dolb..r & Cerro Lumbc Co- il FH.l|t' Bldr. (r3) ...:........vArdllc tlD2

Ed. Forntrh Lmbcr Co., @ Potnilcun Blds, (fs) .........PRoepcctl3ll

Hemod Lunhpr Conpany, 2|rl So. Ahncdr St (51) .........PRdpct lt33

Hobbr Wr[ f{Eb.r Co.. |23 Rowm Blda. (r3) ..............Tnbtty 30tt

Holacl Eurc&r r --hr Co7ll-712 Arc.bltrctr Bldc. (13) .......Mutud trtr

Hovr, A. L, t25 Wlhhlro Blvd, (llc) ............Y(n rrat

Kllprtrlck & Conpeny (Wilnf4ton)

l2l0 Bllnn Avc. ..,..,............NEvada 6-l6llE

Crrl H. Kuhl |ltubc Co., (R. S. Orrpod),

?L S. SDrlry SL (U) ............VAnditc !B:t

RB. C. Luhlcy (R. G Robbhr trtnba Co.),

7rl lV. Olynpic Blvd. (f5) .......PRo*cct a72a

Imo-Phlllpr Lunbor Co-

GC Potrollrn Bldt. (f5) ,.........PRoDct tl?r

MrcDoadd Co.' L. W-

Prdic llrnbc C.o- Thr

'tl W. Olynplc Bhrd. (r$ ,.......PRorpcct ttta

5El5 Wlbhln Btnd. (13) ............YOrt rrat

Pabrrthy Lqubc Co.

2C5 E rt 5l.t SL (ll) ..............,K!nbe[ 5ul

LUMBER

E. K. Wood lrrnbc Cor Drunu St .r (rr) ..,.....,.....'El(brol t?ll

Wrychrrr Srb. Co. rlo c.lttont srr.d (rr) ..,..,...GAriold to?a

HARDWOODS AND PANEI.S

Whlrc Bnttcl Flf& ud Briuu str..t (t) ..'..SUtt t lLt

SAITH-DOORS-PLY}VOOD

Whebr Orrood Salo CryP3aa5 r$f, st. (ro) ..............'.vdmcia 22ll

CREOSOTEI' LUMBER--POLET PILING-TIES

Anrlru lubor & Trertlnl Co-' U3 NG; Montaom.ry Strat (5) ....'SUtrGr fz25

Brrtr. J. H. & Co., -frf if""ltu.ty strcct ({) .....'..Dourlu 3tlB

Hrll, Jrna L. r6s Millr. Bidt. (r) .,..'.........'..SUttcr ?52r

Poer & Tdbot, Inco Lubcr Dlviloq- iu trfrrta lltrc.a (5) .....'.......rXluslu 256r

Vu&r lrm Plllnt & tJrba Co.ztC pl- Str..t-(l) ..............EXbrcoL{ro

Wrndllnr-Nethu Co.' ' - iii iirrtrt grrar'(rr) .....'......'.Surtr 5:lr3

PAN ELS-DOORS-SASH-9CRE ENS

.Cdlfmir Dulldm SuPPlY Ca. --frt atb lv.nu. (r) -;..-....'.....'.. "Hlart' crl'

Hcu lubor ComlmY' --i"a ."4 fU- Srr;ltj (l) ...'."Gbnccrrl ltll

lVcrlm DoG t llrlh Co' ";il'i Efr; sn"r (a ...."TEnplcbar trrr

HANDWOODS

Srnbtr Hudrood C..DDut FH rld clrr sb..t3 1i ..'..re-4"t* ssg

'Wblr. Bro|la3' "5i' Htth Sdrt (l) ............"^Ndovqr lcrr

LOS AITGDLES

II'MBER

Pooc & Trblor, tnc., Lunbc Dlvld'oo - iia W. Otvnpic Blvd. (r5) ......PRoepct t|3r

Rcd Rlvcr Lunlir Go. --ilr--E" Struroa (tt)- ..............SE tbrt 4tll

iiir s. a-d.rr (iO .......'.....PRDsFct 6u

Su Podre Luobcr Go. - utiE cJtr.t An ia) .........Rlchmd rlrl rs00-A TYllnlngto no.d -ig; Pia.i ;............."""3u Podrc 2r

Surr Fc LuDba Co.. --rrr-n"-uciil cat; Bl&. (u) ..vAndllo llTl

Schdcr Brc LuDba & ShlDsL Co- --tii W. 9th Stilt (15) .............TR1dtv a7r

Shclb Pbo Sda Co. - !3O Pjtrd.rn Bldt. 05) ..........PRo.FGt xrs

Slnnroo lndurtrlt+ lac. rarl E. Wuhbid Blv& (2r) ...PRspcct llt3

gtuta, E. J. & Iton' - zca E. al.t 3t. (ri) ...'..'.....CE:nturt 29rr

3ud&n & Ghrbt:nro' Inc|3a Bdrd of Tradc Btds: (rat '....TRlnttv tt{a

Taone Lunbor Sdc* tll Prtrclann gut' (f5) ...'....'PRorpcct llot

Wcndllnr-Nrtlhu Coizzs *url|'c Blvd: (36) ..............York ll6t

Wrtt (>c!oc Lunb.r Co- r? Pctfolan Bldr' (rS) ...."...Rlchnond l2ll

W. W. Wllllnrcn, 3lt W. nb Stn r (r5) ............TR|n|tv 1613

Wcvarharus Salor Co., lirt W. M. Grrlud Bldg' (rS) ...Mlchl8u i33r

E. K. Wood hnb.r Coatla SG Ahncde SL (51) ..'....JEficron 3lll

CREOTIOTED LUMBER+OIJIIPILING-TIES

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Bulra J. H. & Qo.. rcl Wct sth Sb..t (l!) ..........MIGh||lu lzta

Poor & Tetbot' ln' Lsrbc Dlvldc, trl W. OIynDlc Blvd. (r5) .....PRoDct tzll

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Aoclcu Hrrdvood Co, -l--E. isth stt".t (g) .........Pn'o.Fct r2l5

BruA Indurtrld Lubcr Co.

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SET UP YOUR SALBS TARGET NOW FOR TOMORROW

Build e,n, inoentory "f FUTURE NEEDS

Iust cs "in times oI pecce we must be prepcrred lor wcr," so loo, rtre rnust prepcre lor p€ace during these diflicult tirnes ol wqa We rrust be recrdy to get the business when matericts cre crgcritr qvcrilcble in unlimited cnd unrestricted gucrntities. To c-qh-in on pent-up consumer demcrndg, it will be essenticrl to know WHO wcnts to buy WHAT, cnd WHERE these buyers qre located. It's therelore not too soon to stcrrt mcking cn inventory oI your customers' luture needs Mske this prospect list your scles tcrget lor tomorrods business,

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DEPENDABLE RAII SHIPPERS of Quality

Lumber, Shingles, Piling and Ties

16l Mcrket Sheet, Scrn Frcmcisco DOuglcrs 2561

SEATTI.E WA$I. PONTtAND, ONE. Pler B McCoraictG Teruincl Eltio[ 1630 f,Twuter 916l

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TACOMA LUMBER SALES

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Dickman

Hart

Vancouver

Tacoma

Eatonville

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Plyvrood is doingr mcrny big iobs for the wcr eflort. \ltle will hcve many interesting stories to tell crbout this lqter, crnd tr lot of uselul suggestions to mcke crbout postwcr uses lor pllwood.

Carr & Co, L J.-------------------------------------29

Celotex Corporation,

Cobb Co., T. M.

Kuhl Lumber C.o., Carl H.---------------

Lamon.Bonningtoa Company --------.---...-_-_26

Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co.-------------

Lumbermen'a Credit Agociation--------------- t

McDufree Lumber Saler Corp.--Michigan.California Lumber C.o.---------Moore Dry Kiln Co.------- -------24

Oregon Lumber Saler---------------

Pacific Lumber €o, The----------------- '

San Pedro Lumber Company---------11 Santa Fe Lumber oa.c. Schafer Bros. Lr'-ber & Shingle Co.--- 3

Schumacher \ffall Board Corporation--- *

Shelvin Pine Satee e'r..------27

Southwestetn Portland C,ement Co.--------- *

Stanton & Son, E. J. Sudden & Chrictenson, Inc.--------------------22

Tacoma Lumber Timber Engineering Co. of Californio --|

Vendling-Nathan Wert Coart Screen Vert Oregon Lumber Co

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Vertern Flardwood Lumber Co--------- 9

THE CALIFOR}.IIA LUMBERMERCHANT J*kDionne,

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How Lrumber Lrooks

Seattle,'Wash., October 15, 1943.-The weekly average of West Coast lumber production in September (5 weeks) was 161,919,000 board feet, or 106.6 per cent of L939-1942 average, according to the West Coast Lumbermen's Association in its monthly survey of the industry. Orders averaged 173,162ff0 board feet; shipments, 163,204,000. Weekly averages for August were: Production, 165,163,000 board feet (108.7 per cent of the 1939-$A average); orders, 173,477,000; shipments, 167p89,000.

Tlie industry's unfilled order file stood at 1,126,507,ffi0 board feet at the end of September; gross stocks, at 511,064,0@.

Notwithstanding dwindling manpower, the West Coast lumber industry continues the battle for production with fair success. The September lumber cut brought the total for the year to 89 per cent of the volume produced in the corresponding months of 1943. This is the highest point yet reached in comparative production for the two years. Closures of logging camps on account of hazardous forest fire weather cut down log production in September; nevertheless a slight gain was made in the crucial tidewater log inventories upon which the steady production of lumber and plywood during the winter months will depend.

Centralized lumber purchases for the Defense Agencies increased to about 4O per cent of the production. Other war requirements supplied through wholesale and retail yards,

farm needs, railroad needs and additional defense housing are crowding priority ratings to obtain the rest. Unfilled orders of.l,l% million feet are near the all-time record for West Coast lumber mills.

The main handicap of the industry remains the shortage of men. averaging from fr to 25 per cent of normal employment.

The Western Pine Association for the week ended October 9, 97 mills reporting, gave orders as 71,585,000 feet, shipments 71,78900o feet, and production 75,718,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 389,477,N0 feet.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended October 16, 82 units (153 mills) reporting, gave orders as 21,199,000 feet, shipments 19,112,000 feet, and production 17,782,00O f.eet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 132,776,W Leet.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended October 9 reported orders as 135,218,00O feet, shipments 110,646,000 feet, and production 114,190,000 feet.

For the week ended October 16 orders were reported as 107,568,000 feet, shipments 18,706,000 feet, and production 116,160,000 feet.

Bcryt keynotes Amedccr's qnswer todcry to Gerncmy's U-bo<rt woII pctck Bigger cqrgo lleets nrust neet Hitler'E chcllenge with two new ships lor ecrch one sunk.. with olhers building in swift succession. Only with ships cqn we win the battle ol the Atlcrntic or supply lhe boys "down under."

To this princry nerye cenler ol Anericcr's war efforl lunber irs flowing in enormous volume: lor ship wcrys qnd scqllolding in every ycnd; Ior ship interiors cmd ftunih,rre; tor pcckcAing munitions qnd natericrl which courprise their countless lighting ccrgoes.

With our lellow ncnrulachrrers oI ihe industry, wo cre committed to the proposition that ships cmd ccngo pccLcrging cone lirsb thct lumber needed for both rhcll be supplied to lhe utnost ol our resourcee crnd

lacilities, so that Americcr's service ol sutr> ply shcll not lcil c single lront line lighter.

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R.y Clotfelter Again Heads Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California

Ray Clotfelter, W. R. Spalding Lumber Co., Visalia, Calif., was re-elected president ofthe Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California at the annual meeting and war conference of the Association held at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, October 13.

financially to the Association's support, he said.

The secretary stressed the need for postwar planning and stated that they must take leadership in the building of thousands of new homes, barns, and repair and remodeling jobs when materials are again available. He concluded by saying that in spite of gloomy predictions the retail industry has shown itself to be resourceful, and is still doing a considerable amount of business.

The secretary announced that the Association has contracted with Fulton Lewis, Jr., to give a talk at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, on March L8,1944.

Secretcry Ecnrcrd E. lcrborurer, and Bernard B. Barber, tary.

J. H. Kirk, Southern Pacific Milling Co., San Luis Obispo, ,was elected vicepresident; I. E. Horton, South City Lumber & Supply Co., South San Francisco, was re-elected treasFresno, was re-elected secre-

The new directors are: San Francisco County, F. L. Dettmann; Peninsula District, I. .E. Ilorton, South San Francisco, Z. T. Thorning, Redwood City; Santa Cruz County, E. E. Carriger, Santa Cruz; Tulare County, Ray Clotfelter; San Joaquin Valley, E. E. Schlotthaeuer, Fresno, Milt Cross, Merced; Redwood Empire, Henry Laws, Santa Rosa, Russ Stevens, Healdsburg; Alameda County M. D. Bishop, El Cerrito; Coast Counties, J. H. Kirk, San Luis Obispo, Earle Johnson, Watsonville; Santa Clara, Leo Cheim, San Jose; Kern County, Walter Peterson, Bakersfield; Northern Counties, George Adams, Walnut Grove, Charles Shepard, Sacramento; Central Valley, C. H. Garner, Stockton, Robert Fuller, Lodi.

Joe Rogers, Square Deal Lumber Co., Salinas, was chairman of the Nominating Committee.

Secretary Bernard B: Barber in his report told of the splendid increase in membership of the Association in the Iast year. In spite of losses through liquidation there are now 275 paid up members, plus 48 firms that contribute

George M. Cornwall, The Timberman, Portland, spoke briefly on the subject of lumber production. E. P. Hoener, Western Building, Portland, read an outline of the work of the Home Planners fnstitute, now operating in Portland, and largely financed by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association.

At the annual banguet in the evening, Kenneth Smith, president of the California Redwood Association, San Francisco, was toastmaster. He addressed the gathering on the subject of "Lumber Merchants and Postwar Planning."

Col. Willard T. Chevalier, vice-president and director of McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, and publisher of Business Week, gave an address on "'What Shall We Do With Victoryf'

Stock Millwork

To cover higher costs OPA increases ceiling prices for stock millwork specialties made of Western and Northern pine lumber. (Amendment I to Revised Maximum Price Regulation 293), effective Oct. 26. Jobbers are authorized by OPA to use their usual method of pricing in passing on to buyers the recent 3/o increase in manufacturers'ceiling prices. (Amendment 2 to Revised Maximum Price Regllation 293), effective Oct. 26.

Merchcrnt Marine

Dennis Gilchrist, salesman for Pope & Talbot, fnc., Lumber Division, at Los Angeles, is in the Merchant Marine. He reported for dirty on October 1.

Jaclc Dionne \(/ill Speak at Oakland Meeting Nov. 10

Jack Dionne, publisher of The California Lumber Merchant and The Gulf Coast Lumberman, will be the speaker of the evening at the next dinner meeting of East Bay HooHoo Club, to be held at Hotel Leamington, Oakland, on Wednesday evening, November 10.

In making this announcemient President D. Normen Cords said: "'We are pleased to have the opportunity of hearing Mr. Dionne again, and have invited men from all branches of the lumber industry to attend. We expect a large crowd. Dinner will be served at 6:39 p.m."

Buy Mill

Ralph S. Sturgeon and James E. Henningsen have purchased Sturgeon's Mill at Route l, Sebastopol, Calif., fron Ralph Sturgeon's father, Wade Sturgeon, and his partner, J. W. Gonnella, who have been operating the plant at the same setting for the past eighteen years. The new owners have nearly a half million board feet of splendid Redwood logs to start sawing oh. No change will be made in the name of the establishment.

Buss Stevens Ncmred Kiwanis Governor-Elect

Russell B. Stevens, A. F. Stevens Lumber Co., Healdsburg, Calif., was named Governor-elect for the CaliforniaNevada district of Kiwanis International, succeeding Thomas E. Gore of Riverside, Calif., after the close of the convention held at Santa Cruz. October 11.

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Little Willie was kneeling at mother's knee, saying his evening prayers. He prayed for protection for his daddy "over there." He prayed for mother, sister, brothcr, and for all other loved ones he could think of. And he concluded: "And O Lord, please take care of Yourself, too. If anything happened to You, we'd all be 8unk."

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What a simple, faith-packed remark it was tfiat I read the other dan coming from the lipa of an American pilot who had just escapcd death. His plane nrent into a spin and stafted for the earth at more than 8OO miles an hour, ao the report said. He tried every trick he had becn taught to pull her out of the spin. No use, Scaight down she wcnt. So, finding he could do nothing, hc let go the controls and waited for what Providence was bringing him. Suddcnly tbe ship began straightening out, and the next thing hc knew she vyias on a level keel. The peril was past. So he reached for the controls, and remarked: "I'll take ovcr now, God"" Beautiful, eh?

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firat brave boy knew the answer to a question that Napoleon asked. In 1798, Napoleon, seeking more worlds to @nquer, sailed for Egypt, and took with him many of the foremost engineers and scientists of that time. One night on ship deck these mcn got to discussing religion. Most of Orem were atheistic in their beliefs, and told why. They argued scientifically against the existence of a God and the truth of the Bible. Napoleon only listencd. Finally he rose to go to bed, and as he did so he pointed with his hand toward the ca$opy 0f the heavens where billions of stars were shining, and remarked to that learned audience: ..Very lngcnius, Messieurs, but who made all that?"

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Winston Churchill handed the world a phrase that was copiously copied and quoted when he referred several months ago to the Mediterranean shores as the'.soft underbelly of Europe." What did he mean, .'soft',? At Salerno, and elsewhere, brave American boys learned different.

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American Senators returning from an inspection trip abroad, reported to their colleagues that American LendLease is really a game of give and take with us; give everything-take nothing.

An old philosopher remarke that the way they are beating the &ums right now to enlist women in the various branches of our armed services, it looks like the duty of every man abovc the gun-carrying agc to get a job cooking and thus rcleasc an ablc-bodied woman for war work.

"A bureaucrat,'f salzs Luke Mcluke, "is a man who loves regimentation for its own sake." "And a politician," hc adds, "is one who sees nothing wrong with Bubonic Plaguc if it's a member of his oT f**t that has it."

I don't know who Louise Lindsay is, but that name is attached to a four-line rhyrne that somconc mailed me the other dan that reads:

"Thc iartime boom isnt all in the tankr, Or in planes, or men to fill the ranks; On tfie old home front at a giddy rate, The STOR* *".**:Y likc a P-38."

Brother, you may not like Harold Ickes, but you'll have to admit that the way things are going now he's fixing to put a car in every American it*;"*d leave it thcre.

And thcn there was the boy in uniform who went into the Stage Door Canteen onc evening, who ate two pieces of pie, four doughnuts, drank a cup of coffee, danced twice with Betty Grable, and was kissed by Hedy Lamarr before he had a chance to explain that he was only a Western Union messenger trying to deliver a telegram.

"Lfncle Joe" Cannon, of lllinois, for many years Speaker of the ffouse of Rcpresentatives, was a vigorous critic of this country's habit of sticking its nose in the affairs of other nations. Once nrhen the U. S. was interferring with something that was going on in South America, "'lUncle Joc" was heard to snap out: "\il/hat wc Americans need is a darn good licHng!" Then he thought a moment, and added: "The hell of it is T.T'r lobodf can do it !"

And then there was the woman who kissed hcr buck private husband good-bye at the depot, and then burst into wild tears as the train pulled out. Another woman tried to comfort her. "Don't worry so, honen he'll come bac\', she said. The weeping one wailed: "I ain't worrying about him. I'm sorry for the Germans. I know what Bill's temper's like !',

What lumber has done in the war efrort was tersety and brilliantly erplained by Col. F. G. Sherritl of the Army Engineers, in awarding the Army-Navy "B' award to the Longview plant of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Compann when he said: "First, you have produced the lumber to shelter the troops. Then carae the great manufacturing plants with storage and port facilities; followed by the air fields and the lumbcr to put and keep our airmen in thc sky; then for boats to drive the submarines from the Seven

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For some time before the war a new trend was noticeable in the use of more hardwoods for interior finish in moderately priced homes.

'We predict that retail lumber dealerg will feel the bene' fit of this trend immediately on the return to normal business.

BATTI.ESHIPS REQUIRI I.UMBER

'It has been indiccted lhcrt even our monster, steel-hulled bcttleships require vcrst conounts ol wood-over 300,000 boqrd leet eqch lor decking alone. Nor ccn construction work be conducted without wooden shipways qnd sccrffoldingt.

"For qn crircrqft carrier like the new Lexington' over 250J100 leet oI edge-grrcin Douglas Fir must be provided lor the flight deck"

(E*ra* lrom a recent arricle by Reor.

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Seas; landing barges and ponton lumber; ships and more ships; and last came the lumber to box, to crate, and to pack the ammunition, the bombs, the torpedoes, the guns, the planes, the tanks, the automotive equiprnent, the food, the clothing, and the other impedimenta of war necessary to move to the fighting fronts to properly equip our forces in order that they may destroy the enemies of mankind. You are producing the material of victory, complete and overwhelming. Your industry is thq prime war industry in the arsend of Democracy. Upon you and each of you in the lumber industry depends the duration of the war." Thus spoke a man well qualified to speak. So, when anyone asks you the part lumber is playing in the war effort, you may safely quote Col. Sherrill.

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"The infantry, the infantry, with dirt behind their ears," they used to sing a lot in the first World War. That was an infantry and artillery war. This one is more varied, and air fighters seem mostly in the limelight. But those infantry boys are in there pitching like they always did, and before "this cruel war is oveC' it will be proven that the foot soldier is still the dominating factor, and that the musical opinion that "you couldn't lick the infantry in a couple of million years" is stiU true as it ever was.

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This is an engineers war, too. In fact, the whole thing is so unbelievably big that it's easy to overlook many of the foremost factors. But ttrose engineers have a varied role to play in this great drama of violence and sudden death. In the first World War the engineers were often quoted as saying in France: "\tr/e got the easiest job in this man's army. All we gotta do is make the roads, build the bridges, and take the infantry by the hand and show them where to go." Those blessed engineers still have to take all the other departments-including air-by thc hands and show them where to go. Ar-y engineering in this war compares with army engineering in past wars like a P-38 compares with the fnng machine that Darius Green made in the old poem. They've got to.know more, know it all better, and be able to do it surer and faster ttran engineers ever dreamed of doing before. And they both can and do.

Napoleon could tell, if he were here, what marvelous things the army engineers could do, even in his days. His "Grande Armee" began its invasion of Russia with about 450,fiX) men. By the time it got back as far as the Dnieper River, it hatl become largely a disorganized mass of strag- glers. They crossed the Dnieper sweeping wildly westward, and came to a lesser river, the Berezina. Napoleon sent his engineers to build bridges across that river which was running htgh with foods. Those heroic men, working in ice-filled water, completed the bridges on time, and made

it possible to save some rcmnants of the army of Napoleon. Three Marshals of F'rance-Ney, Victor and Oudinotfought on the eastern side of the Berezina to hold back the Russian hordes, while the great rout of French stragglers passed over the new bridges. Those three fighting generals had about zS,W men, it is believed, when they reached that river. Three days later when the mob had gotten across, there remained 8,80O men fit for duty. And that was what was left of the "Grande Armee" that started out to take Russia. And the engineering corps had made that l,ast great stand possible. A small spot on the Russian map called Borisov is where the engineers built the bridges for that last stand.

Keeps a fellow busy trying to learn even a smattering of the history of many of the places where fighting has been taking place of late along thc Mediterranean. Bloody fighting between British and Germans took place on the island of Cos. I had to look hard to find the spot, just off thc west coast of Turkey. Yet Cos has made world history for centuries. It is called the birthplace of the art of healing, and was the site of the first medical school in Europe. Aesculapius was, as you know, the more or less legendary father of the medical profession, and a caste reported to be of his deecendants built a great temple at Cos. One of the graduates of this school was Hippocrates, an historical character, and the father of modern medicine. From his writings come the celebrated oath of the world's doctors. The site of that medical temple has been unearthed and verified. Many other interesting people of history left their marks on Cos. But when you read of that little Mediterranean island, it is interesting to think that here the scienee of medicine had its birth.

Wonder what orvilt" iottt# thinks these days, as he looks upon the wonders being wrought in war by this flying thing that he and his brother created? The airplane comes out of this war, of course, a million times bigger and more important than when it went in. fn fact, all intelligent plans for a trcstwar world are built largely around the prospcct of a world on wings. Many an American will recall with deep regret the fact that that first plane which the Wright Brothers few nearly forty years ago at Kittyhawk, N. C.-that strange-looking, history-making contrivanceis not to be found in the land of its birth; in the land where flying was born. It has been in the South Kensington Museum in London for twenty years, and is at present buried deep under ground for protection against bombs. It is still the property of Mr. Orville Wright, the surviving brother. It will be remembered that the Wright Brothers did not think their invention had been properly appreciated in this country, so they loaned it to England. Perhaps, after this war is over, the Wright plane will be brought back to America, where it belongs.

lumber isa Critical Tfar Material

crrd Uncle S."'' comes first. It must continue to have the right-of-wcry ior wcr,needs.

We cre supplying mcrteriols lor mcny wcr projects but wcrnt to serve the retcdl tqde too. If moteriols cre crvailcrble, we will get them.

For 60 yecrs we hcrve been serving the Southern Cclifornic lumber bode.

SAN PEDRO TUMBER COMPANY

Douglcrs Fir Doors

Jobbers who customarily price products from a list price and discount sheet are authorized, by OPA to use their usual method of pricing in passing on to buyers recent 8.9/o inctease in producers' ceiling prices for Douglas fir doors. (Revised Price Schedale 44, Amendment 3), effective Oct. 26.

Increcrses in Ceiling Prices

Increases in ceiling prices of northern hardwood and northern softwood lumber to compensate producers for higher wage costs resulting from wage increases for lumber workers approved by WLB are made by OPA. These increases may be passed on by sellers to ultimate consumers. (Second Revised Maximum Price Regulation 222), efrective Oct. 15.

Buys Oregon Mill

Ralph L. Smith, president of the Ralph L. Smith Lumber Co., Kansas City, Mo., has announced the purchase of the Pondosa Pine Lumber Co. at Elgin, Ore., which will continue to operate under the same name.

Only recently Mr. Smith acquired the Walker-Hovey plant at Canby, Calif., and 250 million feet of Ponderosa pine timber.

Ife now operates two sawmills at Canby, Calif., a molding plant at Klamath Falls, Ore., and a box shook factory at Alturas, Calif. Sales offices are located at Kansas City, Mo., and Portland, Ore.

Hcrrdwood Lumber

Advances of $l to $10 per 1,000 board feet in producers' ceiling prices for standard grades of hardwood lumber produced in the south central region are announced by OPA (Maximum Price Regulation 155, Amendment 9), effective Oct.20.

Interim Ceiling Prices

OPA sets "interim" ceilings for retail sales of lumber from softwood distribution yards in Oregon, Washington, 'Wisconsin, the upper peninsula of Michigan, Idaho, Montana and Nevada. (Second Revised Maximum Price Regulation 215) effective Oct. 21.

Appointed Scrles Mcrncger

E. A. Carley has been named sales manager of the Rosboro Lumber Co. at Springfield, Ore., according to announcement by General Manager B. S. Cole. Mr. Carley was formerly connected with the sales department of the Westfir Lumber Co. and Ingham Lumber Co.

Nctioncl Retcrilers Elect Officers

Leonard Lampert, Jr., Lampert Lumber Co., St. Paul, Minn., was elected president of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association at the annual meeting of the board of directors held at the Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, on October 18-19.

S. L. Forrest, Forrest Lumber Co., Lamesa, Texas, was named vice-president, and George W. LaPointe, O & N Lumber Co., Menomonie, Wis., was re-elected treasurer. H. R. Northup was re-elected secretary-manager.

The BARGE Operations of the BARR LUMBER COMPANY

When lumber was declared a critical war material and restrictions were placed on building, Wilbur Barr, executive vice-president of the Barr Lumber Company at Santa Ana, California, was of the opinion that their large, wellequipped yard and mill could be used to good advantage in getting out war materials, so he decided to talk the matter over with the War Production Board officials in Los Angeles. When he familiarized them with the company's setup, they suggested building wooden barges.

Mr. Barr was enthused at their suggestion and discussed the proposition with some of his boat building friends in the Harbor district. Then he had pictures taken showing various views of the company's plant, got together information regarding its operations as to what they had to offer, and assembled this information in a brochure. He made a trip to Washington, D. C., where he consulted with the heads of the various war agencies, leaving with them a copy of the brochure. It was not long after his return that

the company received from the Maritime Commission specifications and bid for knock-down wooden barges. They submitted the bid and was awarded a contract for fifty barges.

Barge construction is not simple-cut lumber and finely finished cabinet work, but involves a large volume of intricately cut timber, semi-prefabricated, precisely pre-fitted, and drilled for bolts and fastenings. The final assembly of the barges at. some "remote port" must necessarily be speedy and fool-proof. Unskilled men may have to do the assembling, and there will be no reserve lumber yard to draw on should a single section of any one of the barges fail to fit. All parts are machine sawed so they fit perfectly.

The Barge Division is entirely separate from the lumber department. The company acquired a tract of land adjoining the lumber yard to be used exclusively for the barge operations. They built a mill and equipped it with the latest types of machinery, including 12 cut-off saws,

dado machine, band saw, stationary boring machine, heavy duty rip saw, heavy duty cut-ofi saw, electric drills, pneumatic air hammers, etc. The offices are adjacent to the mill.

H. G. Larrick, well known Southern California lumberman and manager of the company's yard at Solana Beach, was called to Santa Ana to manage the Barge Division. William Eckles, who has been superintendent of the company's Santa Ana mill for many years, is superintendent of this division. There are five departments, each one under an experienced supervisor: Frank Runge, gussets; George Telford, miscellaneous fabrication; Sid Babcock, saw and assembly line; John Dohmer, boxes; and Frank Fitzpatrick, loading and unloading crews. LaVerne Knox is purchasing agent; Tom Harper, receiving clerk; Lawrence Van Vliet,

shipping clerk, and Mrs. Pauline Allison, office secretary. Eighty-four men, all skilted and experienced, are working specifically on the barges.

Barr Lumber Company has had many years experience in the operation of lumber yards and prefabrication work. To do the barge job, streamline factory methods were adopted, a saw-line set up, assembly tables installed, and new devices of their own were developed to speed the barges to destination.

Actual construction calls for the use of patterns of dozens of various shapes and sizes. In the lofting room, the architect's plans for the barges are translated line by line, angle for angle, to the mold floor. From these full-sized plans, proven for accuracy, templates are made. These patterns, also made from wood, are cut for every piece of

lumber going into the barges. Each template shows the various cuts, angles, and markings for drill holes to be followed on the assembly line.

In one corner of the yard., a mock-up, or the model of a full-size actual barge, has been set uP to see that all parts fit perfectly. Each barge must conform to the model. The barges arre 78 feet long, and the hold which has a capacity of 160 tons of cargo, is 54 feet long and 8 feet in depth.

The barges are floating warehouses, and especially useful where there are no port facilities. As they are covered with removable hatches, goods can be stored in them indefinitely.

The actual beginning of the barge construction starts at the saw-line where there are 12 cut-ofi saws, canted at the proper angle, each saw performing one operation to the timber or plank. At the end of the saw-line is the dado machine which cuts a notch for the limber chain. The material coming from the sawline is turned on a simple pivot as it comes from the mill, and rollers convey it to storage in different parts of the yard where it waits until needed in assembly. There are seven acres of yards adjacent to the mill.

The cut mqtericrl rolling ofl lhe raw-line is turned oa a ainple pivot qr it cones lrom lhe rrill. Bollerr convey it to slorcae in diferenl pcrtr ol the ycnd where it wqitr until aeeded in as:enbly.

It takes 46,000 feet B.M. of lumber, of various sizes and lengths, to construct a barge. The longitudinal hatch beams are the largest single pieces of lumber in the barges; they are made from timbers l0xl2 inches by 34 feet. The ribs of the ,frames are made from 4x12's, framing members from 8x1?s, planking on bottom from l/sx8's, and side planking from 2x8's. There are numberless smaller parts used, and as these come from the saw-line they are stored in bins near the assembly line. A lift truck carries all the lumber and timbers lrom the yard to the mill, and on the assembly line the heavy members are moved around by an overhead chain block.

The bulkheads are the heaviest members of the barge, each weighing 5,000 pounds. Each bulkhead includes the frame made of 8x12's, 4x6 studding, a layer of 2x8 planking laid diagonally on which is laid a layer of canvas mopped on with marine adhesive, then another layer of 2xB planking which is laid diagonally to the first layer of plank. Two bulkhead units go into each barge, fore and aft, and they are absolutely watertight.

All the framing members are made from Select Structural

Douglas Fir, while the planking on the bottom is Clear Vertical Grain Douglas Fir.

The gussets, or ship knees, are made from precut material in the "gusset factory" section of the mill. Laminated with a lfu-inch core and with a /s-inch plywood face on each side, they are run through the glue roller, then stacked in hydraulic presses which the company made specially for this job-where they are left standing for two hours under 25 tons of pressure. These presses are unique as pressure is applied from four opposite directions at the same time, performing three glue operations, side, top and bottom. IJrea resin glue, impervious to water, is used as a binder.

Making the gussets is the most difficult job in the whole operation as they have different kinds of notches cut at various angles. The company built a special saw for this work. There are 22 different types of gussets used which brace the many members that make up the barge.

After the material leaves the mill, the various parts that are used in the barge are assembled. This work is done on the assembling tables. There are three tables for assembling the center section frames; two tables are used to put the short deck beams onto the ribs; two tables for putting together the frames for the bow and stern, and another table to assemble the budget and rider beam. Then there is also a large table for building up the bulkheads.

The final step is the binding of all the parts into packages for shipment. The parts and members, fittings and fastenings, for each barge, are shipped as a unit, and it takes four gondola freight cars to transport each unit from the plant in Santa Ana to the ship which will take it to some "remote port."

. The company sent a man to the United States Forest Service Laboratory at Madison, Wisconsin, to attend a course in crating and boxing to make certain that all parts

would be properly packaged. A variety of ingenious packaging devices is used.for the oddly assorted shaped parts and members to be shipped. Three center section ,frames are shipped in one parcel, and they are held together by several pieces of plank that are well nailed. Steel strappings tie the head logs to other frames of the same length, and this bundle will nest in a package of center section frames. Planking for the sides, bottoms, and decks is tied together with steel strapping; most of the bound planks are of uniform lengths, however, every shipment includes two or three packages containing miscellaneous planking of odd lengths. All the equipment used to fit the barges for service is shipped in boxes. There are 52 separate packages for each barge unit.

The barges would be incomplete without the materials, fittings, fastenings and equipment to fit them for service afloat, including such items as paint, waterproofing, adhesive, nuts and bolts, steel bindings, canvas, lanterns, anchor chain, 6CI feet of hawser for mooring, four oars, kegs of nails, shovels, sand-box and buckets for fire fighting, one 285 pound anchor, etc. Like a prefabricated house, each barge is complete to the last detail. It even includes a small cabin, 4x6 feet, with a stove for the watchman.

The company is turning out a eomplete barge every day, and when the present contract is completed will have made 100 barges, and shipped 400 carloads of parts, or 154,000 individual items.

The Barr Lumber Company is doing a fine job, and can feel mighty proud of the part they are taking in the war effort. The officers of the company are: O. H. Barr, president; Wilbur Bair, executive vice-president and general manager; Gilmore Ward, secretary, and Frank l{arrington, treasurer.

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Goodwill Is IVOT Bationed

A frepwt to the Forest fndustlies on tho N[eu'"TOOI.S" Aoailable tor .Dfahing Frientb o .o o and a Suggestion ITout YOU USE THEM

Twenty months ago AMERICAI{ FOREST PRODUCTS INDUSTRIES was gr*r a task new to our industry.

The job was to find the means of dispelling prejudice and misunderstanding about the forests, forest enterpriseo and forest products. This undertaking is of great personal importance to everyone who works with wood . . . whether lumbern, plywood, pulp and paper, shingles or wood plastics . . . whether stockholder, manufacturer, worker, distributoro or salesman.

Never before had such a substantial proportion of the forest industries banded together in a cause of such basic interest to the one million workers who d,epend, upon wood lor their liaing.

The most common-sense type of post-war planning for our industry may be the cementing of old friendships and the building of new ones through the simple process of truthfully explaining ourselves and our operation of Americaos only renewable natural resource.

'We are getting on with the job but it is now YOUR turn to help.

For months a staff of writers, radio, and motion picture people has been telling the fascinating story of our industry . . . but it \^'ill take a long time to reach one hundred and thirty million people. You will be pleasantly surprised to observe how eagerly the men and women in your own community will welcome goodwill information and how guickly understanding will improve.

Many hands hasten any job. Your AFPI staff can never duplicate the results which can be achieved by an explanation of forest facts in thousands of communities by the citizens of those communities. . .

Yoa are orte of thern - - - VilI gouhelp?

Let's Att Get rrn the TEAiUf!

Making friends is often a job we must do ourselves, each in his own community. Understanding cannot be hired, borrowed, or bought over the counter. And yet, goodwill is your best bulwark against the future.

For our industry it consists of such things as freeing the public mind of groundless fears of a "timber famine" . of explaining how much wood grows in America each year . . . of informing the six out of ten people who believe wood outmoded that, actually, it is the most versatile of materials, sprouting exciting new uses like a June rose.

You'll need factual material to explain the o'New Age of Tflood'o to your community. Your next step is to learn about the booklets, posters, charts, maps, motion pictures, speeches, newspaper stories, features, and advertising which are ready for you, without cost. Send for the little booklet illustrated below.

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He Wanted Directions

They had just tried the colored brother for bigamy, and the jury had brought in a verdict of not guitty. The Judge said to the prisoncr:

'You are now free. The iury has brought in a verdict of acquittd, so you are no longcr a prisoner of the state, anit it is your privilege to leave this court a free man, and

Fred Holmes in East

Fred V. Holmes, president of Holmes Eureka Lumber Co., San Francisco, left October 16 on a business trip to Chicago. He was accompanied by Mrs. Holmes and expects to be back about the middle of November.

komoted to Ccptcrin

Lieutenant Robert F. (Bob) Duttle, now on overseas service with the Quartermaster Corps, has been promoted to Captain. He is the son of Frank G. Duttle, president of Sterling Lumber Company, Oakland.

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'Just a minute, Jedge," said the defendant. "I thanks yort' Honah fo' dem kind words, an' I'se plenty glad to be free. But dey's one question I wants to ax you, Jedge, befo' I go, an' you will hep me a whole lot ifln you'll ansa hit fo' me. WHICH HOME?"

Eric Hexberg Cclilornic Visitor

Lieutenant Eric Hexberg, pilot in the Army Air Force, recently visited his home in Los Angeles, and relatives in San Francisco. He was formerly sales manager of Anglo California Lumber Co., Los Angeles.

Mcx Cook Bcrck on Job

Max E. Cook, agricultural engineer, The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, who has been absent from his office for several months on account of illness, has made a good recovery and is now back at work.

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Smith Lumber Co. Moves

San Francisco Yard

Smith Lumber Company, which has operated a distributing yard along the Channel since 1915 in San Francisco, is moving to a new site between Sixth and Seventh, and Irwin and Hubbell Streets. The phone number remains the same, MArket 0103.

The move has been made necessary because the Government has taken over the property and is building warehouses for surplus stores for shipment overseas.

The company's large sheds, office building, and lumber stocks are being moved, and it is expected the job will be completed about November 10.

Looking to the future this concern purchased a waterfront site about a year ago, which is now leased to the Government, and on which they hope to build after the war.

Smith Lumber Company also operates a large distributing yard in Oakland. They have for many years been a big factor in lumber distribution in the San Francisco Bay district, and prior to the war did a wholesale and retail business.

William Smith is president of the company, and Reginald Smith is vice-president.

Coos Bcy Lumber Compcny Sold

Acquisition of the controlling interest in Coos Bay Lum' ber Company by Charles E. Dant of Dant & Russell, fnc., Portland, and associates was recently announced. It is understood that close to 60 per cent of the outstanding shares of the company have been acquired.

Change of Name

Announcement is made that Hallinan Mackin Lumber Co. was formed as of October 1, 1943, and is carrying on as a successor to Hallinan Mackin Co., Ltd.

E. C. Hallinan and R. A. Mackin, the general partners, will continue in the active management of the business. Coincident with the change of name there has been an increase in the capitalization of the company.

The home office and yard of Hallinan Mackin Lumber Co. are located at 725 Second Street, San Francisco.

The Southern California office is in the M. W. Garland Building, 117 West Ninth Street, Los Angeles. Elmer Williams is Southern California manager.

Visit Oregon cnd Cclifornicr Mills

Frank G. Duttle, president of Sterling Lumber Co., Oakland, returned recently from a business trip to the Northwest. He met two old friends from the Middle West in Portland and took them on a tour of most of the Ponderosa Pine mills in Southern Oregon and Northern California. The friends were J. C. Collier, president, Carr, Adams & Collier sash and door manufacturers, Dubuque, fowa; and W. A. Cullen, president of Carr-Cullen Co., Minneapolis, sash and door manufacturers and jobbers.

George Adcms Iniured

George Adams, Noah Adams Lumber Co., Walnut Grove, was injured when he was thrown from a saddle horse September 26. Ife was taken to Sutter Hospital, Sacramento. He is making good progress and expects to be home by November 1.

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Leo Hulett of Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., San Francisco, is back from a trip to the Redwood Empire where he called on the firm's sawmill connections. He confirms the rumor that he caught a 27-pound salmon in the Klamath River, and says he had a lot of fun landing this beauty with his light rod and tackle.

Dick Welton, Victory Lumber Company, Chula Vista, was a recent Los Angeles visitor on business.

Albert A. Kelley, wholesale lumberman, of Alameda, Calif., returned recently from a business trip to the Northwest. He attended a lumber auction at Portland, and called on a number of Oregon sawmills. He made the trip to Portland and back by the air route.

R. A. Mackin of Hallinan Mackin Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned October 23 from a business trip to Oregon, Washington and British Columbia

Earl Johnson, Johnson Lumber Company, Altadena, who is on the sick list, is reported to be making steady improvement.

Bernard B. Barber, secretary, and J. H. Kirk, vice-president, of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California, returned October 22 trrom attending the annual meeting of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, held at the Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, October 18 and 19.

Bill Chantland and Ray Klots, Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., Los Angeles, are in the Northwest where they attended the company's annual sales conference at Aberdeen, Wash.

Ernest Muzio, for many years with Stockton Lumber Co., Stockton, is now associated with Pacific Coast Aggregates, Inc., building material dealers, Stockton.

Harry L. Lake, Garden Grove Lumber & Cement Co., Garden Grove, has returned from a trip to Northern California and the Northwest.

E. A. Walker, who is with the Seabees, is now stationed at Hueneme, Calif. He was formerly purchasing agent for the Summerbell Roof Structures at Los Angeles.

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New Boolc--"Burning an Empire"

What is probably the most thrilling an authoritative book ever written on the subject of great American forest fires has been published by the Macmillan Company, and should be of highest interest to everyone connected with the timber industries.

Entitled, "Burning an Empire," the book was written by Stewart H. Holbrook, who already is widely known for other writings related to the forest industries and the people in them. His newest work includes a foreword by Col. William B. Greeley, secretary-rnanager of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association.

In preparing this book, Mr. Holbrook has gathered the principal facts of all the great fires of American forest history and presented them in a manner that literally will make many a reader's "hair stand on end." In all, he deals with probably a hundred fires, with special chapters devoted exclusively to those known by the names of Hinkley, Cloquet, Miramichi, Peshtigo, Tillamook, and others.

He describes the fires which raged in Idaho, Montana, and Washington in 1910, as "The Milestone Blaze" because it marked a turning point in public apathy and led to adop-

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tion of the Weeks Act to provide federal aid for state and private forest owners in maintaining forest protective organizations.

Practically every big fire, he notes, originated from the merging of several smaller fires. Blame, he says, is widespread, but he particularly criticizes such immediate causes as brush burning to clear lands, incendiarism, and such distant causes as the excessive draining of swamp lands.

Progress in fire prevention and control, and in reforestation of burned areas are described in detail, including tlre factor of taxes as an influence discouraging to reforestation in certain instances.

Mr. Holbrook also devotes considerable attention to fire fighting techniques and equipment. Among the most spectacular items he mentions in this category is a device for bombing forest spot fires by airplane with containers of mono-ammonium phosphate, which spreads a fire-extinguishing vapor.

An announcement by the Macmillan Company indicated that "Burning an Empire" would be in general distribution by early in November.

Northwestern Pacific Schedule Chcrnges

The following change in the schedule of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad was announced, effective October 17: The train for Eureka leaves San Rafael at 8:00 p.m. instead of 9:00 p.m. and arrives at Eureka at 8:25 a.m. Southbound it leaves Eureka at 7 :ffi p.m. instead of 8:00 p.m. and arrives at San Rafael at7:55 a.m., instead of 6:50 a.m.

TWENTY YEAQS AGO

From the November lr lg28,Issue

C. W. Pinkerton, Whittier, was re-electea presiae"t cri the California Retail Lumbermen's Association at the annual meeting held in San Francisco on October 26-27. Other officers elected were: F. Dean Prescott, Fresno, first vicepresident; E. q. Robie, Auburn, second vice-president; M. A. Harris, San Francisco, third vice-president, and J. H. McCallum, San Francisco, treasurer.

Curtis Williams, retiring Vicegerent Snark of the Los Angeles district, was presented with a pair of binoculars by the members of the Los Angeles lfoo-Hoo Club at the club luncheon meeting on October 18.

The Wm. Smith Lumber Company of San Francisco stalled two dry kilns and storage sheds at their plant.

Sixteen Kittens were initiated at a concatenation helcl by the Bay District Hoo-Hoo at the Commercial Club, San Francisco, on October 27. During the dinner hour there was' a fine entertainment.

The members of the Lumber Salesmen's Club of San Francisco held their annual ladies night and dinner dance at the Cliff House, Thursday evening, October 18. president Richard C. Jones acted as master of ceremonies.

A. J. Russell, Santa Fe Lumber Company, San Francisco, was the speaker at the monthly meeting of the Richmond Builders Exchange, Richmond, on Friday evening, October 12.

The Cook Lumber Company opened at Lawndale. a retail lumber yard

Teams representing E.J. Stanton & Son and Woodhead Lumber Company, Los Angeles, bowled the night of October 10. The Woodhead team came out victorious.

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Hardwoods and Softwoods

WE SPECIALIZE IN ESSENTIAL WAR MATERIAIS

We hcrve a well rounded inventory of Fcctory qnd Better Grades of Ponderosa crrd Sugcr Pine crrd Spruce. In Hcrdwoods-No. I Common cmd Better Grades of Alder, Beech, Birch, Cedcr, Gum, Tobcsco Mcdrogcrry, Mcgnolic, Mcrple, Oak ccnd Walnut.

TO THE DEATERS

We hcrve been engaged lor some time in the Icbrication of mcterist.r lor csticles thcd qre directly corures.ted with wcn need& We qre, therelore not cble to futxdsh any ol the items lor which we hcd developed c wide ECtket-Eubcnlc lroning Bocrds, Cabinets, or Mcrntels,

However, we cre crlso plcrnning lor the future, cand when the time comea will crnnounce q new qnd more extensive line oI Eubcrnk products.

The Lost Compcnion

Somewherg in a nameless yesterday, We parted 1nths, myself and I; ' He took a road leaf-fringed and gay , That wedged into a wood and sky. I took another, thronged by men, The path that fools and dullards know; Sometimes we almost mcet again, , As in the old days, long ago.

' Sometimes I glirnpse him in a town, : In a wintry dusb when twilight falls, ' Like the tawny hand of time across I A street of old, familiar walls; ' And there are days his path meets mine Down a wood we loved in a long-lost spring, But his eyes have a stranger's vacuous look, Unwarmed and unawakening.

His was the secret way of dream; Mine was the path of the world's command. Oh, when shall we ever wdk again, As in the old days, hand in hand?

Tried

The foursome of oldsters got caught out on the golf course in a sudden cold rain, and by the time they got back to the clubhouse they were both wet and chilled. Promptly they got into hot shower baths, and three of them ordered hot liquor to help warm them up. The fourth member, the old Judge, was bone-dry both in his politics and in his living, and declined to accept any whiskey, although the others urged hinr- One of them said:

"Judge, haven't you ever tried a good stifr slug of whiskey?"

"No," said the Judge, with a grin that was also dry. "But I've tried many a fellow who had."

Origrn oI "Ycrnkee"

"Pathfinder" says that the term "Yankee" is thought to be derived through the word Yengee, an American Indian corruption of English. In J. Fenimore Cooper's "Leatherstocking" tales, the Indians always refer to the Americans as "Yengees." Or it may be made over from the French "Anglais," which they used in our early days.

Pcrrsley on Plates

A fellow by the name of Garry Flinn writes that the American Association for the prevention of Putting Parsley on Plates isnft making the progress that it should. There are still too many restaurant and hotel pcople who persist in putting parsley on plates. When. members of the Association have thrown said parsley on the foor, the attendants have simply picked it up and put it on olfier plates. It is now recommended t'hat members throw the whole plate and its contents on tlre foor, and walk out without paylng. It is admitted that this will lead to unpleasantness with the police, but as Flinn dopes it out, the Association for the Prevention of Putting Parshy on Plates \riU get some valuable publlcity.-Thomas Dreier.

Pcge Orson Welles

The great scholar-soldier Marguis Montcalm had a brother, Jean, who was equipped to be a competitor of young John Stuart Mill. At the age of three, Mill was a Greek student and at eight had read many Greek authors. Jean Montcalm could read both Latin and Greek at three, and, as Prof. George M. Wrong tells us, astounded gro\pnups at the age of five by making translations from both Greek and Hebrew, studied art, and held his own conversationally with learned men. Unfortunately (or fortunately) he died at scven.

How They Got to Texcs

There is an old story in Texas about how the state was populated back in the early days when the people of the East were turning their faces and their feet westward.

The story is that when these Eastern folk reached a certain major river crossing on the Mississippi, they found a road with many forks, and a number of signs pointing into these various roads. One said "To Kansas"; another ttTo Oklahoma"; another "To Arkansas"; and so on. There were many of them. And one said "To Texas." And, says the story, the folks that could read all went to Texas.

Home

A little place of inglenooks and books;

. A place where still and cool a quiet pool

Of candlelight upon the table sleeps;

A spot that keeps unbroken, ready for our need, Peac*that is home, indeed;

Enter, tired, resttess one, and dream, and read.

EARDWOODS FOR WAR NEEDS!

Seer Bright Future for Lumber Bucincrr Eart Bay Club Memberr Hear in Cclifornia Talk on Placticr

"fn spite of the limited amount of lumber available to the retail trade the majority of the lumber dealers are still carrying on and performing a useful function,,, said Jas. H. McElroy, oruner of McElroy Lumber Company, recently. This concern operates yards at Palo Alto, San Mateo, Los Gatos and Los Altos. The site of their distribution yard at Redwood City was taken over by the Government some time ago, and the Centerville yard was sold about 18 months ago.

McElroy Lumber Company has supplied a good deal of lumber and other building materials to plants on the peninsula making articles of various kinds for war purposes.

Mr. McElroy is one of the best known California retailers. He is a native of San Francisco, a veteran of World 'War I, and makes his headquarters at his San Francisco office in the Hobart Building. He believes there is a bright future for the lumber business in California after the war, and is doing considerable planning for postwar business.

Appointed Lieutencnt

King Goodrich has been made a lieutenant in the Army Air Corps and is now stationed at Roswell, New Mexico. He was formerly in the retail lumber business with his father, E. A. Goodrich, who operates the Goodrich Lumber Company in Los Angeles.

A good sized gathering heard an interesting talk on the development of plastics at the regular monthly dinner meeting of East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39, held October 11 at Hotel Leamington, Oakland. D. Normen Cords, the Club's new president, presided.

The speaker, J. Frazier Rae, industrial plastics consultant, was obtained by Tom Hogan III, the Club's new program and enterainment chairman.

Secretary G. W. (Chris) Sechrist, nn E. lgth Streii, Oakland, reminds prospective members that no initiation fee is charged to join Club No. 39. Dues are $5.00 a year, payable in advance.

Pope & Talbot-Aluminunr Compcrny Negoticrtiona Concluded

Announcement was made in San Francisco, October 16, that negotiations between Pope & Talbot, Inc. and the Aluminum Company of America have been concluded, and representatives of Alcoa have returned to the East without as yet having made any arrangements for a financial interest in the Western company. An agency arrangement has, however, been efrected which should be beneficial to both companies.

Whiting-Mead Co. Holds Open House at Ncw Office and Store Building in

Recent completion of a new building to house the general offices, display rooms and plant of the Whiting-Mead Co. at 2263 East Vernon Avenue, Los Angeles, was marked with a formal opening on Saturday, October 16. About one thousand visitors inspected the modern building material store during the day. The company was the recipient of many beautiful floral pieces from friends.

The new structure has a frontage of 14O feet on Vernon Avenue, with a total floor area of 16,000 square feet. A novel architectural treatment was employed. The walls are of reinforced concrete with brick veneer. Eaih pilaster is on a different angle ,which is conducive to a clearer view of the interior of the store, and the windows are recessed to assure maximum light and minimum glare. There are 10 large display windows, 8 x 13 feet.

The main entrance is modernistic, with heavy Oak double doors, framed with rippled Louvrex glass on each side.

The ceiling of the general office is insulated with Fir-Tex Ivrykote Tile, and Fir-Tex low density acoustical tile is used on the ceilings of the private offices. The walls of the four

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private offices are paneled with Philippine Mahogany with Walnut finish. These are occupied by the general manager, vice-president, merchandise manager, and controller.

An air conditioning system that furnishes a complete change of air every three minutes has been installed.

Daylight fluorescent lighting is used thorughout the general and private offices. Regular incandescent lighting is used in the store.

A prominent feature of the store is the electrical supplies and fixtures department, comprising a very large assortment and a special display occupying four of the display windows.

The store handles both plumbing fixtures and roughing in materials; builders' hardware of all kinds; a full line of Pabco and Martin-Senour paints and accessories; Pabco and El Rey roofings and roofing accessories; Gypsum and' .fibre wall boards, including Schumacher plaster board, U. S. G. knotty pine and mahogany patterned wall board, and FirTex and Celotex insulating wall boards.

The lumber department handles both rough and finished

Building nrqterials eection cnd pcint depcntrnent. lumber, specializing in supplying' materials for the War Housing Program. The sash and door department carries normally one of the most complete stocks of window screens in the city.

Whiting-Mead Co. has served the builders and home ovrrners of Southern California since 1898, and their slogan, "Everything For Building," has been lived up to for all of these 45 years. In addition to its main plant the company operates nine Southern California branches. Whiting-Mead service includes a complete service to home owners and

Dirplcy oI lightilg lixturee. contractors in the sale of building materials, planning and estimating service and financing.

The company has cooperated fully in the war efiort, and is having a successful year.

Willis H. Mead is president of Whiting-Mead Co. Fernand Vigne, Jr. is vice-president. E. A. Reading is general manager, and George E. Howard is assistant general manager in charge of merchandise and sales.

Perry Whiting, who was associated with Mr. Mead and Mr. Vigne for many years, has retired.

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California Building Permits for September

E. A. Bloclclinger

E. A. Blocklinger, president of the Chiloquin Lumber Co., Chiloquin, Ore., passed away in a Los Angeles hospital on October 21 following an attack of pneumonia. He was 69 years of age.

He was born in Dubuque, fowa, and started in the lumber business when he was seventeen years old. He was a salesman for Carr, Adams & Collier of Dubuque, and later was manager of their Peoria, Ill., branch.

When Carr, Adams & Collier bought the Westside Lumber Co. at Tuolumne, Calif., in 1901, they appointed Mr. Blocklinger manager. They sold the mill a few years later, and he became their Western purchasing agent with headquarters in San Francisco.

Mr. Blocklinger was made manager of The Pacific Lumber Company at Scotia in 1905, remaining there until 1911, when he organized the Dorris Lumber & Box Co. at Dorris, Calif. IIe owned the mill at Dorris for about ten years, then started the Chiloquin Lumber Co.

Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Blanche Jackson Blocklinger, and a son, Arthur F. Blocklinger, manager of the Chiloquin Lumber Co.

Funeral services were held at Dubuque.

Army Lumber Buying Centrclized

PortlandThe Portland district, U. S. Army Engineers, has been designated as the contracting agency for the Pacific d,ivision in a move to facilitate the movement of lumber from mills to war theatres. The agency will purchase lumber for the entire area, including Alaska, Honolulu and the South Pacific.

Previously, it was the practice for each engineer district to make its own purchases through the Portland office.

Construction

Starting October 25, applications for beginning industrial and non-industrial construction where cost is $1e000 or less will be filed with and processed by WPB field offices. These offices also will handle applications increasing cost of a project to $10,000 or more provided increase in not more than 5O/o above original estimated cost. WPB Washington office will handle all applications now pending. (Field Administrative Order 78-n, as amended Oct. 25), issued Oct. 21.

L, t. GARR & CO.

C;rlriic.rlnta Sugcr arrrd Pondotw Hn

Scrlea tgotr For

SACRAMENTO BOX & LUMBER CO.

MOUNT HOUGH LUMBER CO.

Sf,CBtl,EltO tOg rNGEtEg

R. G. ROBBITIS I.UMBIR GO.

Distribunrs ol Pacific Coast Forest Products

LOS ANGELES Douglas Fir POnTLIND

7ll w'*olr:oeo,l#lv4 Hemloclc ltlrrrsD"jdbe iH*"

Boss C. Iashley Cedca Bich G. Robbins

ltMM$AI,[ Bl]Il,ilIilfr $UPruT,

IilO.

Wholesale DisEibutors ol Ltrmber qnd ilr

Produs.ts in Ccrrload Qucrntitie

o

Wcnehouse DisEibution

ol lilholescle Building Suppliea

tror tbe Deqler Trade

Tolcphonc t

,607 ozld st

TEaeLbcr 6981-5S Ocllo& Ccrlt

ARCATA RIIIWOOD GO.

ABCATA, CilJFONNIf, Mcnulqctruers Quqlity Bedwood tunb.8 (Dod'Scla)

'W ffill lanbr Fmn o littlc nilt"

talrt otrt(I 8(,. crl.rtoBNr.r rrtrtsfrattvr llldro Sdrl !tdg. t t L!

ll0 llo*ol 8L $f0 Wildlro ![rd.

3ol llraldrco lpr lryoloo nnca St WEbrrrrTlll

Your Guarantee for Quality and Service E. K. WOOD TUMBER GO.

UP AND DOWN THE STATE

Floyd Elliott, manager of the San Francisco office of Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., will be back from a business trip to the Pacific Northwest November 1' He called on a number of sawmills, visited the Reedsport office, and attended the company's annual sales conference at Aberdeen, Wash. He was accompanied on the trip by Mrs' Elliott.

H. W. Irwin of Irwin & Lyons, lumber manufacturers, North Bend, Ore., left San Francisco November 2l after spending a week there on business for his firm. J. E. Peggs is Northern California sales representative of Irwin & Lvons.

Carl W. Bahr, president of California utors, Chicago, has been on the Pacific three weeks.

WESTER]I TIIL & NOULDIIIG GO.

WHOT.ESAIA 6IETf,IT

Pondcrort rnd Sugar Pine Mouldingr

lntcrior Trim

Custon Milliag cnd Specialty Delcitllvlcmulcctued with lctest t1pe Electic Vonnegut Moulder. 59|l 30. WESTERN AErnooor. t680 tos ANGErES, CAUF.

CIJAS SIFIED ADVERTISING

LUMBERMAN WANTED PERMANENT POSITION OPENED F O R GOOD ALL.AROUND LUMBERMAN FOR OFFICE AND YARD WORK. GOOD SALARY AND GOOD LIVING CONDITIONS.

Redwood DistribCoast for the past

Earl Hofiman of Earl Hoffman Co., Los Angeles, Western representative of M. & M. Wood Working Co., Portland, recently visited the company's plant in Portland and callecl on the trade in the San Francisco Bay district.

H. J. Nunneley, general sales manager, Associated Plywood Mills, Olympia, Wash., recently visited San Francisco and Los Angeles. This organization operates plants at Olympia, Willamina, Ore., and Eugene, Ore.

W. E. (Bill) Davis, salesman for Pope & Talbot, fnc., 'Lumber Dvision, has been transferred to the Los Angeles o,ffice, effective November 1.

G. F. (Jerry) Bonnington, Lamon-Bonnington Co', San Francisco, has returned from a two weeks' tour of Oregon sawmills.

APPLY TO SQUARE DEAL LUMBER COM. PANY, SALTNAS, CALTFORNTA.

ALDER OR MAPLE LUMBER WANTED WANTED AT ONCESTEADY SOURCE OF SUPPLY FOR ALDER OR MAPLE LUMBER. WILL PAY SPOT CASH.

Address Box C-1005, California Lumber Merchant, 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

WANTS LUMBER YARDS

If you want to sell your lumber yard, let us know, as we have inquiries from parties wishing to buy. Twohy Lumber Co., Petroleum Building, Los Angeles 15, Calif.

A. A. Hamilton, manager of plywood sales for Smith Wood-Products, Inc., Portland, left for home October 16 after spending a week calling on the trade in San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego.

BT]YDB9S GT]IITB SAN T'NANCISCO

LUMBER

Arcatr Rrdrood Go; aA M:rt t Strt t (rr) ............,YlJton 2!67

AtllneStutz Conpany, lll MlrL.t Str..t (lr) ......,......GArftcld rt09

Christcnrcn Lumbc Co. Evur Avc. and Qulnt St. (21)....VAlocle 5632

Dul ll Rurrcll, lnc- ZL Fmt StGt (lf) .............GArficld |2l8

DoDar & Carrcn Lumbc Cl. Ult M.rchut. E:chugr Bldr. (a) Suttc TaSt

Ganoto e Graa LuEbGr Co, It.O Ant Strat (A) ...,...,.,..ATwatc l3O

ItdL Jme IrciE MllL Bldr. (l) ...,.,.........,.SUtt r 7524

Halllnan Machin hnbcr Co., 725 Sond Strcet ...,.,............IX)uSls l9{r

H.hhcd ru-hc copuy, al? Monrrpncrr SEr.t (3) ........DOuglrr 33&l

Hobbr Wdl Lnmbcr Co105 Montlpncry St. (l) ...,.......GArGcld 7752

Holmr Euola Lmba 6' 116 Fiaucirl Ccntc Bldr. ({) ....GAricH r92r

C. D. Johnm Lunba Crpcatlon, 2ll Celiludr Sb..t (rr) ..........GArfic1d 625E

Kllpatrlck & Compuy, Crccks Bldg. ({) .,......,,,.......YULon Oll2

Crrl H. Kuhl lubcr C.o.,

O. L Runn, lU Mrrlrt Sl. (rl) Yuku rlGc

LUMBER

LUMBER

Imm-Boaiqton Conpuy. ll Cdllmir Sr!..t (U) ..........GArdsld 6srl

McDutfo hmbq Salcr 6rp- 52E Monadnock Blds. (5)..,,......GArftc1d ?lga

Oruren Lunbc Selo (Cerl lV. Wetb), 9?5 Mooednc|: Blds. (5) ...........Y1J1m r59a

Peclfic Lunbcr Co", Th. rI Bu|h StrEt (l) ...............G4rfi.1d Utl

Popc & Tdbof, lnc", Lubor Dlvlrioa, {61 Mertrt Str6t (5) .............DOsbr 256l

Rod Rivor Lunbcr Co-

3r5 Monedmct Bl&, (D ..........GArdcld 0922

Sutr Fc Lunbcr Co., ll Cdlfomlr St!..t (U) .........E:XbruoL 2O?a

Sdrdcr Bror. Lunbc & Shlagb Co. I Drunu Stnct (ff) .........,.....Suttlr lztl

Shcvlln Plnr 9rlc Co.

la8a Mmrdrct Bldg. (5) ...,.....E11(brooh TOlt

Sudda & Chr|rtmD. lnc., 3la Sumc Stnt (l) ........,...GArnc!d 2tla

Crrt W. IYettr (Orcgon lubrr Sdc), 973 Mordm& BldS. G) ..........YU1on 1590

Wondllng-Nathu Co., llf Mulct Strut (rr) .,...........Suttcr 5351

Wcrt Ongon Imbcr Co. It95 Evam Avr. (2|) ...........,ATwator 55?t

OAK'LANID

Ewerur Bq Ca. (Pyrrntd Lunbcr Salcr 6J

P*lfic Bld3. (12) ...............Glasrt E 0

Gennta e Gm fnnba Co-

2tl llvlrs.lm St. (t) ............K811o3 r-rEE{

Hlll & ltatoo, Inc.,

Doaabo Str..t Whrrl O) .......ANdovc ll?:l

Ho3u Lunbcr C.onpaay, bd ud Alla Strlt (l) .......GLsnmrt at6r

E. lc wood t -hhrr cbr

AU Fr.d.rtct Sb!.t (a) ..........KE11og 2-42?

Whdudc Buildlas Supply, Ire-

l!0t 32nd Str.ct (t) ...,,.......TEnp16.r @aa

Wholaalo Lubc Dlrtrlbutorr lnc-

9iL Avaur Plc (O .........:...Tlvtnoab 2515

LUMBER

Arete Rsdwood Co. (J. J. Rcr)

5ar0 Tllibhlr. Blvd. (36) .....'.....TYEbrrcr ?!Z!

At&lDrcn-Stutz Compmy, @l Pdrcl.u Blds. (rS) ,.........PRorpcct t3rl

Brudr lndurtrld Lumbor Co.. stcr S. C.akd Aw. (f) .........CEntury Z-ltg

Bunr Lunbc Copeny. -!0 Sguth Bcvcrly Drlvr, (Bocly HIlr) .-...............BRrdrhaw 2-$tt

Gerr & C,o., L J. (V/. D. DrDnlDt), l3t Cb. ot Coo. Bttlr. (rS) .......PRocpca rell

Cooocr, lV. E, .c6-oE Rlchfidd Btds. (l3) .......Ifit hrd ztll

Dut & Ruenll, Inc., tU E. Stth StEt (r) ...............AItu lltl

Dolb..r e 6rron Lunbc Qq, t.l FH.UI' Btd!. (rl) ............VAnd1kc O792

Ed. Fountrh Lunbcr Co62t Prtrolcun BldS. (15) .........PRosDGGt,|3{f

Halllnu Mackln Imbcr Co.,

ru w. Nitrrh st. ..................TRtntty 36/t{

Hihhood Lunbcr Conpuy, 2cla 3o. Alencdr SL (5{) .........PRotp.ct UiB

Hobbr WeI Llrnbc Co..

_- !25 RM._ Bl4s. (13) ..............TRiDity smr

HoLno Eunkr lrhbGr Co-

7U-n2 Archtr6r3 Bld8. (l3) ....,..Murud grsr

Hova. A. L.

5225 Wllrhlrc Blvd. (3t) ......,...,,Yd. 116!

Kllpatrtck & Conpuy (WilEington)

l24i Bllnn Avc. ....,,.....,......NEvada 6-lEtE

Crrl H. Kuhl l,unbcr Co.. (R. S. Orrod).

?ra S. Sprlnr St. (ra) ...........,VAndikcEoEr

R6. C, Lrrhlcrr (R- G. Robblnr lubcr Co.).

_ 7U W. Olynplc Blvd. (r5) ..,...,PRorprci-Otzr

Ilwmcc-PFlllpr Lrubcr Co.,

M.B;:ifffi f,"ii.j") ..........pRoepcct Er7{

LUMBER

E. K. Wood l.unbcr Co., I Dmm Sb..t (u) ............,..EXbrooL:}?t0

Wcycbw Srb. Co- llt Cdilmir StrcGt (fr) ,....,...G4r0dd tt?{

HARDWOODS AND PANEIS

Whitc Brothcr,Fltth rnd Brerana Strcb (?) .....SUttcr Ua5

SASiH_DOORTPLYWOOD

Wheler Orgod Satcr Corp., 3015 lgtb SL (f0) .,. ............Va!ac|a 22ll

CREOSOTED LUMBER-POLESPILING-TIES

Awicu Imbcr & Trc.attnf Co., 116 Nlt Montfnrry Strcct (5) .....SUttcr 126

Bexta, J. H. & Co., 3it3 Ililontrpmry StrcGt (l) ........DOughr 3tt3

Hdl, Jnc L- l@ Mlllr Blls. (l) ................,SUttcr 75?l

Popc ll Tdbot, lnc. Lunbcr Dlvlrlon, Itl MrrkGt Strct (O ........,....DOujlu 2$r

Vudr Ila PitinS e Lrubc Co" 2la Plm 9E.d (l) .,............ErGroo& a!C5

Wodllng-Nethe CoUa M.rL.t Srrc.t (U) .......,.,..,.SUtt " Stat

PAI\T ELII-DOORS_SASH-SCREENS

Cdllorale Bulldcn Supply Co.' ?e| rth Avrm (l) ..........'....'.'Hlarta 6|la

Horu luba Com1nn5r, 2!d ud Allcr Stnctr (l) .......Gbmurt ttt6l

Wcrtcn Door & Sarh 6, 56 t Cylrlr Str*b.(?) ......TEnphbut4|O

HARDWOODS

StnbL Hrrdttood CanPuY' Fbt ud Ctey Strcotr (?) .....TEnpleter 55tl

Whlt Bretha.. 501 Hlrb Sti..t (r) ..............^Ndwcr ICO

LOS AIIIGDLDS

LUMBER

Pooc & Tablot, Inc., Lumbr Dlvblon ia W. OlyEpic Blvd. (r5) .....'PRorprd tal

Rcd Rlvcr L@b.r Co.

?C E. Sleuro (lr) ....'.........Qlnturv 290?f lBl S. BIoedrny (lO .............PR$Fct €1r

Sl$ P.drc Lunb.r Gorsrt 3. Catrd An (n) .........RIGhmd U{r

rEx-A wllDbrh Rord (!t tr Pcdlo) ;...................Sen Podro 22t

Sutr Fc Lmbor C.o,. tll Flntnclel Catir Bldr. (ra) ..VArdLa lfTt

Schrlcr Brcr. Lunb.r f Shhtb Co' rt? W. tth Stntt (r5) ..,..........TRh1tt {gn

Sbovlln Plac Sdor C,o. !8f Pctro[ruo BU3. (15) ..........PRorpcct XrE

Slnero hdurtrlot Inc., lal, E. ll/uhlDrtm Dlvd, (2r) ...PRo.FGt |lt3

Stutolr. E. J. I Son. fra E. ar.t SL (ri)..,.........C8nturt 29zlr

Suddan & Chrlrtanroa, lnc., Ga Bolrd of Tradc BUt. (U) .....TRlnity ttL

Teoue Lunbcr Sals+ t17 Pctrolcun 35t. (f5) ...,.....PRupct ffat

Wcndllnr-Nrrhu Co522s qrurhrn Blvd: (36) ....,,........York rlo

Wdt (>.rpa Lunbcr Co"

aZl Pctrblan Bldr. (15) .........Rlchnmd 02tl

W. W. Wllklnon, 3ft W. Xh Str..t (rt ,.......,...TRIn|ty {613

Wcycrhacurcr Salcr Co, lirt W. M. Garlud Bldg. (rs) ...Mlchlgrn .3sa

E. K. Wood l+mbor Cc. l7r0 So. Alueda SL (51) .......JEfrerm 3lll

CREO!'OTED LUMBER-POLESPILINCFTIES

HANDWOODS Anaicu Herdwod Cat rt.. E. lsth Str..t (51) ,.......,PRo.D.cr |zF Brurh Indudrld Lmbc Co. 5901 3. Catral Avc. (l) .........CEnturt t-lltt Steto, E. J. C Soo, 2a5a E tt llrt Stnct (ff) .......CEnturrt AErf Watrm Hardwod Lurrbcr Co., 20ll Eart lsth Str6t (53) .......PRoOrct |lO

SAIiH-DOOR,FMIIJWORX-SCREENSBLINDI'-PANET.S AND PLY}\IOOD- IRONTNG BOARDS

Bec& Puol CompqDy, 3rG3ra Ead lArd Srnst (rr) ..,.....ADenr lA5

Cellforah Dor Cmpanv, Thc P. O. Bos 120, Vm Strrlo (U) KIEbdl 2lll

Crliforair PuC & Vac Coo

P. O. Bq 2€6, Torolnal Aucx (5a) ......TRltrltt af3?

Cobb O. T. M-

5600 Clabal Aveu. (U) ..,........ADarn llut

En|'-nr. & Son, Inc., L H. (Inglarrcod) |33 ril. Rcdondo Blvd. ........,...ORcr6 !-ZS

llalcy Brc. (Sutr Monlcr)

162| ra$ Srr..t ....,...............Allhlcy a-ZIl

Kocbl, Jno. W. & tto4

65? S. My.r. Srr..t (a) ..........4{rdu. lftf

Pacific Wood Pndretr Corporation, 360 Tytun Srr..t (2e) .....,,...Al.bery |lll

Pacific MutuC Dor Co..

1600 E. WarhtaSton Blvd. (2f)..PRorpoctgsrt

Puget S-und Plywm{ Inc..

316 Wc.t Nirth Strat (r5) .......TRlnttyOD

Rm Conpuy, C'o. E, 235 S. Ala-cda Strut (rZ) .....Mlcblgea f$l

Rcd Rtvcr Lubcr Coo

7@ S. Slrren (rr) .........,....CEDturt !O7r

Suprn Co. (Puedor),

?/a5 So Rryaond Avr. (D ..,....,,RYe1 l-C!O

Slnpm lndutrlcl hc., rClO E. Werhlnrtm Blvd. (21) ...PRorD.ct |l!t

Prclfic Imbc Co., Thc.

_ 4! W- Olynplc BlvJ. (t5) ........PRo!Dccr trr

522t Wll-Llr. Blvd. (3r) ............YOrL tf6r

Pcnbcrtly lrDb.r Co.

fis Er.t 5lrt St. (ll) .......,......,Klnbd! Srrr

Anrrlcu lJnbc 416rl.f C;o- l3l S. Bndrray 05) ...,-........PRorp.ct 1363

Bu!.r, J. l{, & Co,. Ol Wat srh Sb..t (13) ..........Mlcb[ra l?9{ Popr & Tdbot, lac. lrlnbc DlYt lon, 7U W. Olyaplc Blvd. (r5) .....PRopct tztl

*Postoffice Zone Number in Parenthesis.

w'dt Cror.t Semco c.o.. ll{5 Ead 63rd Str..r (l) ..,.....ADanr rrll

lVctcm Mil & Mdldbs Co- 5tl! Sc Wortcn Avc. ({l) .,..TWlu}r rl||

lVbolcr Or;ood Salcr Corp., t2il So. F'lowa St. ,....,..........VAnd|lc G'2l

I{OVEI\,IBER | 5, 1943

OUR st0GArl

.PLYWOOD FON EX/ERY PT'RPOSE"

is still good, with war neds the mcrin pwPOSe nO\Ir.

The plyvrood industry's resecrrch cnd promotion work will brocden postwcn plywood mcrkets lor the decler.

lifornia nel 6,Veneer BACT TTIE ATTACK

WNTI WAB BOIIDS

955-967 sours ALAI\IEDA srREEr

Telephone TRinit! @57

Moiling Address: P. O. Box 2096, TBarcrr.rer. Axxnx

I.oS ANGELES 54 CALIFORNIA

MAKE TODAY'S OOTURI\.DOWhIS" III TOMORROW'S PROSPECTS

lfife'va cll got aonethirg to sell even though we night be uncble to mcke immediate delivery. The luhrre d our business depeads on wbnt we do todcry cmd bow well we do iL Therelore instecd ol turning-doum inguiries cmd orders why nol set up cr slnten, lo record these potenticrl fulure scles. Mcrke cm lnventory ol your customer's needs-Keep it up,to-dcte-Keep crdding to it each cmd every dqy. It will theo prove to be the mcin

aource of imurediaie orders-ol ccrsh-over-the-cou!ter sales-nrhen mctericls crrd supplios cre trgtrin cvcilable. By pcying close crttention to delered needs now, you'll build lasting lriendshif's lor the yeqrs to coma As we both hcve the enlire future ol our businessos to sell-let's stcrrt selling it crs we've never sold before. It's bound to bring reeults.

Reem Co., George E.

Red River tumber C,o.

Robbiar Imber Co, R. G. ------------------26

San Pe&o Lunbcr C.ornpoy -------------

Santa Fe Lumber C.o.

2a

Schafer Bror. Lunber Eg Shingle Co. -_-------

Schurnecher Vall Boerd C.orporation

* ;

Carr & Co., L. J.

C,elotex C,orporation, Chrirtenrcn tumber

Cobb Co.' T. M. -------------2O

Joharon Lumber C,orporation, C. D. --29

Shevlin Pirre Sder Co. ___----------24

Southwe*ern Pordand Gment Co. ----- 7

Kilpatrict & Gompany -------26

K;hl & Son, Inc., John V. -_----_. * Kuhl Lunber C.o., CarI H.

Stanton & Son, E. J.

Sudden & Ctristenron, Inc ---------..___-14

Tlacoma Lunrber Saler

Tarter, Vebrter & Johnron, Inc. -----------14

Timber Engineering Co. of Califortia -----*-22

Vendling-Nathan C,o.

Wert C,oart Scrcen C.o.

3

Cornitiur ltrerdwood Co1 George C. -_- 5 Oregon Lunber Saler

Dant & Rurrell, fnc.

C-ooper, W. B. -._----

Dolbeer & C.arron Lumber Co.

Douglas Fir Plywood Arsociation

Vcrt Oregon Lumbcr Co. .--_--_--,O

Paci6c Lumber C,o.r The.,i -.-_-2

Paci6c Mutual Door Go. ----/-- '

\Fertern Door 66 Sarh Co. *

Vertern Herdwood Lumber Co.

Veyerhaeurer Saler C.onpany

Vectern Mill & Moulding Co.

II[T. T. BI.ACK Adrorlldng ffougc

THE CALIFOR}IIA LUMBERMERCTHNT

IackDionne, ?tltist.rr- .)

lrcorporctrd uldc 6r lctr of Cctitoralo l. G Dlmr. hc, .!d-ls.c..r l. & llcrtb, l[s.-t*-; W.-1. ttccl, t cs.rctPc&.d rlr bt ord lltl ol rcgl nco|L ct 50t+10 Cqglrcl !cf&!g. lQ Wrrt lHb Sts..L tor f,rgroto tl Ca.. tetonbao Vlrdb lSgS E*ord c teod-der aattc trgtobol tS; lS& !i tL. po.t-OIEE ar lpr Aryoh. CcIlor!!&-csd.r fd of l|a;cb g. letg ---- -

How lrumber Lrooks

Lumber shipments of 465 mills reporting to the Nationel Lumber Trade Barometer exceeded production by 4.8 per cent for the week ended October 30, 1943. fn the same week new orders of these mills were 9.9 per cent greater than production. Unfilled order files in the reporting mills amounted to 99 per cent of stocks. For reporting softwood mills, unfilled orders are equivalent to 39 days' production at the current rate, and gross stocks are equivalent to 36 days' prqduction.

For the year to date, shipments of reporting identical mills exceeded production by 7.9 per cent; orders by 9.1 per cent.

Compared to the average corresponding week of 1935-39, production of reporting mills was 13.8 per cent greater; shipments were 21.6 per cent greater; and orders were 39.3 per cent greater.

The Western Pine Association for the week ended October 23, 96 mills reporting, gave orders as 66,710,000 feet, shipments 69,759,M feet, and production 75,985,00O feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 372,326,ffi0 feet.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended October 30, 89 units (157 mills) reporting, gave orders as 21,ffi7,W feet, shipments 21,797,00O feet, and production 19,381,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 13$2CI,000 feet.

The California Redwood Association reported production of twelve operations for the month of September, 1943, as 37,733,W feet, shipments 35,915,@0 feet, and orders received 34,167,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the month totaled 121,865,000 feet.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended October 23 reported orders as 108,185,000 feet, shipments \22,7LIf/J-l: feet, and production 116,550,000 feet. For the week ended October 3O orders were reported as 121,533,000 feet, ship.ments 114,144,000 feet and production 110,217,000 feet.

Hcl Von Breton in Business lor Himeell

Hal Von Breton, rranager of the Aircraft and Import Department for E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, resigned his position effective October 31, after many years' service with the company. He will engage in business for himself and has opened an office in the Bank of America Building, 650 South Spring Street, Los Angeles.

Sunrives Tcnrker Crqsh

Harry O'Brien, son of J. J. (Obie) O'Brien, employee of Gamerston & Green Lumber Co., Oakland, one of two survivors of his Naval gun crew in the recent crash of two oil tankers off the Florida coast, is now home on survivor's leave.

Jaclc Dionne Will Spealc at Los Angeler Surplus Ai,craft Plywood Available Hoo-Hoo Meeting Nov. 23 Without Priority

Jack Dionne, publisher of The California Lumber Merchant, will be the speaker at the m,eeting of the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club to be held at the University Club, 614 South Hope Street, Los Angeles, Tuesday noon, November 23. A. B. McKee, Jr., San Pedro Lunaber Co-, Los Angeles, will be honorary chairman. Luncheon will be served at 12:09 p. m.

Vicegerent Snark Dee Essley reports that plans are well under way for a golf tournament and Christmas party to be held at the Riviera Countrv Club on December 17.

Chcrnges in Personnel

Lloyd Cole, manager of the Redwood Division for the Hammond Lumber Company at Los Angeles, has been appointed manager of the company's branch yards in Southern California.

Carl Reeder, formerly Redwood salesman with the company at Los Angeles is now in charge of the Redwood Division in Southern California.

Housing

Top priorities are being extended for purchase of critical materials required for war housing projects needed for aircraft workers now scheduled in Dallas, Fort Worth, Los Angeles and San Diego, WPB and NHA announce.

Lessened demand frona the aviation industry, by reason of the Army's cancellation of its huge plywood cargo plane program, has proven a boon to various industries who now find surplus stocks of aircraft plywood available to them without priorities, C. S. Creigh, sales manager of the United States Plywood Corporation, announced November 5.

"These surpluses of aircraft plywood," said Mr. Creigh, "represent for the most part over-runs and cutbacks on war orders. Because of this situation, these supplies are now available without restrictions to vocational and other schools or to manufacturers.

"fndeed, these priority-free plywoods, we find, have already attracted active buying from toy manufacturers, furniture and novelty manufacturers and for general mill-work.

"This is one of those infrequent instances which occur in the industry under war conditions when the plywood warehouses have available for general sale regular items usually restricted to war use. Occasionally, the warehouses have also had for general sale some hardwood plywood such as unselected gum."

Building Mcrtericls cnd Consumers Goods

Several minor changes to simplify pricing methods are made by the OPA (Maximum Price Regulation 188, Amendment 25\, effective Nov. 3.

War Production Board lssues New L-41

Of great importance to every builder in America is the completely re-drafted and amended War Production Board Order L-41 which was issued in Washington on November first and effective that same date. The new language of the amended order is intended to make the restrictions and regulations covering all construction in the country, more easily understandable.

Typical of the language of the revised order is its introduction, explaining its purpose: "This order limits construction. It is necessary in order to conserve materials, construction equipment, la.bor, and transportation. In most cases, where the construction is of special kind, you must get permission from the WPB for the construction." It explains that this permission is not to be confused with preference ratings or priorities,.stating that even though a construction job may be allowed, either because it is not of the kind restricted by the order or because permission has been obtained, "it may still be necessary to get preference ratings for the materials and,fixtures which may be needed." On the other hand you may have ratings for materials, or materials on hand, and still have to get permission to use them for a particular construction job.

The new Order states in the beginning that construction, under this regulation means, "putting up or'altering any sort of structure, including a building, road, bridge, dam, sen'er, and similar jobs; also the installing or equipment or fixtures."

Only the following construction can be done beginning Nov. 1, 1943, without getting a permit, all jobs to be begun in the safie year: (1) $200 for a house, including thc residential property; (2) $1000 for a farm, including the farm house; (3) $1m0 for a hotel, apartment building, or other residence for six or more families, any residence for five or less families being considered a house; (a) $200 for an office, bank, store, laundry, garage, restaurant, or other retail service establishment, or $1000 for a unit containing five or more establishmen,ts of that kind; (5) 91000 for a church, hospital, school, college, publi,c playground for children, or for a building or group of buildings owned by the public or used for public purposes; (6) 91000 for a bridge,

overpass, underpass, tunnel, dock, pier, bus terminal, or for a railroad or street railway building or group of buildings; (D $1m0 for an irrigation or drainage system serving more than one farm; (8) $1@ for a building or group of buildings to be used for warehouse or for off-farm storage purposes; (9) $1000 for all monuments and structures on the same cemetery lot or for all cemetery buildings or structures in the same cemetery; (10) $1000 for a military exchange situated on a reservation of the Army or Navy; (11) $1000 for a building or group of buildings used directly in furnishing certain defined electric, gas, water or heating utility services; (12) $5000 for a factory, plant, or other industrial unit which is used for the manufacture, processing, or assembling of goods with the exception of a certain list given, evidently considered non-essential; (13) $200 for any other type of construction.

Those are the new construction jobs that can now be done without getting a special permit.

In addition to this new construction, Maintenance and Repair work "necessary to keep a building in sound working condition or fix it when it has become unsafe or unfit for service because of .vvear and tear" is permitted, as in the past, without a special permfit. Also buildings damaged by fire, flood, tornado, acts of war, etc., may be repaired without special permission. But if the structure was destroyed by any of these things, it may be rebuilt only up to a cost of $5000 without a permit. There is also allowed without permit: the construction buildings necessary to prevent threatened loss of farm products I Government owned buildings; insulation installation in buildings; plumbing or heating installations in a building up to $200; grading, ditch-digging, or similar earth-moving operations where no lumber, cement, or building materials are used; various kinds of construction connected with the operations of farms, railroads, utilities, mines, petroleum. logging camps, chemical plants, steel qills, and broadcasting facilities; construction jobs started before April 9, 1942, or at a time when the job was not limited by this order; construction jobs which are classed as minor capital additions under the regulations.

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All other construction is forbidden without WPB special permission.

The amended Order shows how to go about getting construction permits, tells how to figure costs to come under the regulations and states the penalties for violations.

OI special interest are the following changes from the old Order L-41 : The limit on farm construction including residential is placed at $1000. Previously there were separate limits, farm residences not being included in the farm unit. A limit of $200 is placed on any type of construction for which a higher specific limit is not authorized by the Order the over-all limit being formerly $1000. The rule covering the insulation of buildings has been liberalized for fuel conservation. On the other hand the exception covering the conversion of heating equipment from oil to coal has been eliminated. In calculating the cost of a construction job free materials or free labor need no longer be included. Costs limits now refer to the calendar year instead of to any consecutive twelve month period unless the books are kept on a fiscal year basis; installation of plumbing equipment rated on WPB-2631 is permitted up to $200.

This new Order L-41 revokes Orders L-41-a, L-41-b, L41-c, and Interpretation No. 1. The new Order as e whole may be had from your Association office, or seen at the office of THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT.

New Housing For S. F. Bcry Arec

National Housing Agency approved October 28 the construction of 1500 privately-financed family units for war workers in the Alameda-Oakland area, and 1000 homes and conversion of several other buildings to provide 500 more family accommodations at lfunters Point, San Francisco. Another 1000 hornes for Navy workers will be built at Mare fsland, Vallejo Calif. and 1000 units for war workers will be built at Richmond Calif. This announcement was made by Eugene Weston, Jr., National Housing Agency representative, in San Francisco, October 28. He said the total cost of the construction will be about $23,000,000.

$353,997 Asked For lap Sub Viaim

Oliver J. Olson and Company of San Francisco filed suit in San Francisco Federal district court October 26 against the United States Government seeking $353,997.26 for its merchant vessel, S. S. Cynthia Olson, sunk by a Japanese submarine 700 miles off San Francisco on the opening day of the war.

A 2,140 ton freighter, the vessel carried a crew of thirtyone and was under charter to the United States Transport Service. She was carrying a cargo of lumber when she left port and was the first American vessel sunk at sea in the war with Japan.

U. S. Ncnry Lumber Inspector Retires

Bert Wilson, IJ. S. Navy chief lumber inspector, with headquarters in San Francisco, will retire November 30 after 35 years of service. He is well known to the lumber trade of Noithern California. He will retire to his ranch at Santa Rosa.

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Sone of the stories brought back from the fighting fronts by Amerieans who have been entertaining boldiers, fairly break your heart. Guy Kibbee, a finc old Hollywood character actor, has helpcd entertain our men in several theatres of war, with his wit and humor. He tells about doing his stufr in one hospitat where a certain boy in bed seemed to get a tremendous reaction to the funster's efforts. At every joke told thie boy slapped his right thigh with his right hand, and roared loudly with laughter. When Kibbee looked, he saw that both the boy's left arm and leg were missing. frl*

Lots of things printed of late regarding use of the scriptures in war times. I remember a case where a quotation from scripture was used in war, first to save telegraph service and second to utter a warning. It happened this way. Two generations ago when Cecil Rhodes and Dr. Jameson were exploiting for Britain in South Africa, Rhodes heard Jameson was contemplating what has since been called his ill-fated "raid" into the Transvaal, and he sent "Dr. Jim,, a telegram that read: 'Read Luke fourteen thirty one." So the intrepid Doctor got out his Bible and turned to the 31st verse of the l4th chapter of Luke, and read: "Or what king, going to make a war against another king, sitteth ngt down first and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty Orousand?" That was Rhodes'way of warning Jameson that he was going up against superior strength, and counseling against it. But Jameson made the raid, an5may, the complete failure of which is history. ***

One of our learned Americans in a printed interview the other day counseled against too-severe criticism of appointed public servants. He said that Jesus Christ, who possessed an fnfinite Mind, only appointed twelve men, and of that twelve one of them, Judas, proved a total loss, so how much can you expect of the choices made by finite minds. John Henry Kirby, once famous lumberman, used to utter that philosophy in much more convincing fashion. To prove the same point, f once heard him say: "Only one Man ever lived on this carth who possessed a mind that was Infinitc; and He selected only twelve men for His assistants; yct He sufrered a twenty-five per cent loss in His selections, for of the twelve Thomas doubted Him, Peter rcpudiated Him, and Judas betrayed Him to His death." That went into my scrapbook as one of the finest original stat€ments f had ever heard.

Judging from what we nead, the Amcrican war machinc is not nearly ao enthusiastic today on the subjcct of gliders

for translrcrting fighting men and material as tley \nere a short tine ago. A grcat army of men is at present engaged in buildtng gliders in this countrSr. A tremendous amount of the firest aircraft wood is going into these gliders. Another large amount of the best boxing and crating lumber is being used to crate these gliders for shipment. The rumor is rife that we are going out of the glider business, or at least going to cut down our ambitions along that line. Nothing definite is to be learned on that subject When Germany subdued Crete largely with glider-borne troops, the glider idea came rapidly to the front. Since that time wonderful things have been done with gliders. But these things come and gA and if you can believe ,most of the things you read of late, we are not nearly so hot on gliders as nye were a short time ago. No details as to why.

"Expendable" has developed into one of the most forceful and meaningful words of the present war. It tells a lot of things in a few quick syllables. I think the present meaning of the word came into being with the publication of the booklet, "They Were Expendable," telling in such thrilling fashion the exploits of some of the first American P-T boats in the Philippine fighting, one of them transporting MacArthur to safety on his way to Australia It haa come to mean both men and materials ttrat are put in the line of expendable sacrifice to help win the war. Now we just refer to such things as "expendables- and the meaning is so well known to the public that no further elucidation is called for. Many expendable war things are made from wood. One of the most interesting of these items is expendable gasoline tanks for airplanes. They atso make them of metal, but wood has recently come into use on a very large scale for that purpoee. They make moisturcproof tanks out of some of our hardwoods, notably Birch, that will hold a lot of motor fuel. They are attached to planes that are not built for carrying heavy loads of fuel, but rather for fighting, but which must go long distances to fight. So they hook a couple of these expendable tanks filled with gasoline to the under part of the plane and fly the plane long distances, using the fuel from the expendable tanks first. Then, when this supply is exhausted, they just pull a lever and cut the expendable tanks loose, leaving the plane its own normd tanks filled with fucl to fight and return to base on. Thus planes of light fuel carrying capacity are enabled to go twice their normal fying distancc, with fuel for the return journey. With the extra tanks gone, thc ptanes are of coursc U;lYt maneuverablc.

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THERE'LL BE IIME TO PLAY \flHEN THE \7AR IS \flON.. BUT ITORK NO!(/

\flhen the war has been won there will be time to play-and recreational facilities will for surposs anything wc hove known in the past. But now there is wcrk to be done, a wdr to win. Before we cdn sit back and anticipote the wonders of the future we must make that future secure. Plan, yes. But work and plan.

ABOUT TAXN$. O '

lN CASE yOU'RE INTERESTED . . . (An Editorial)

We no more than get the kinks out of our brains put there by trying to guess on September 15 what thi next four months will develop in the way of income, and along comes a new proposed Federal tax law. And what a law that would be!

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But first, another word about the 1942 tax law. An editorial in the Los Angeles Times says that nobody but Einstein could make out his 1942 rcport and make less than97 mistakes; so the citizen knows he's a criminal right ofi the bat. But the editorial makes a few suggestions that may help. It says:

"The simplest thing to do in figuring your tax is to find yourself a moron (if you don't qualify yourself) then give him a deck of cards, a calculus book, a second-hand mahjongg set, a crystal ball, a set of dominoes, and a bingo gFm€, and tell hirn after playing them all for a while to put down his impressions on a sheet of foolscap paper which previously has been walked on by a hen with muddy feet. He's liable to come closer to the answer than you can, brother." **t

According to newspaper reports a corporation in New York State, for instance, that is in the highest income tax brackets this year and has to pay both the Federal and State taxes, could come out loser on the year. And if that's true about 1942, what will happen to such a concern next year, assuming that Congress lost its mind entirely and made the new Administration income tax proposal into a law?

'The old saying that a certain man "is worth more dead than he i5 3livs"-vrhat's become of that? No doubt it has gone the way of plenty of other once accepted household rnaxims. Under our present inheritance taxes no man is worth more dead than alive, no matter how little he may be worth on this earth. And if the proposed new Federal law should get on the statute books we would reach a situation where it behooved every man of material possessions to see how much of it he could waste and spend this side

of the grave. Once he closed his eyes in death his estate would become about as valuable as a last year's sparrow nest'

A man died the other day. He had labored fifty years for only one purpose; to leave his family well fixed. He was considered rich. He earned big salaries. When he died the salaries stopped. When they settled the million dollar estate the wife and each child hrid about $75,000 each. Invested in Government bonds they have just a fair living. The death of that man changed them from a wealthy family to one of ordinary means. We hear of many cases much more hurtful than that one The old Biblical query"O death ! Where is thy sting?" is finally answered. The sting is in the taxes.

The proposed new income tax rates handed to Congress by Henry Morgenthau, stopping by on his way frorn the White House, are lilies, and no mistake. Henry is, without doubt, a well meaning man. But his new law is one that could only come from a man who was born rich, never worked a day in his life, never had any business or financial troubles, never paid a tax from the sweat of his brow, never did any of the things the average American taxpayer has done in his r,n1t*t; through life.

In this nation whose entire history is built on the toil and struggle of men who had to make good on their own or else, it is too bad that every great tax measure should not be made by men who have been through the mill and the grind, who have toiled and sweated and saved and sacrificed and therefore learned the value of property, and money, and taxes-the hard way. There would be different tax laws. Laws made by men who haven't done things themselves fail to consider fundamentals. Wouldn't it be swell if, before we permitted men to tell the nation what it must do, we could say to them with authority: "Pardon us, brother, but what n*"*t?t*Uone?"

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f T'S hard to understand, isn't it, how an innocent looking piece of ! Numetal weatherstrip could have anything to do with winning a war? But let us tell you a story.

Foi over 25 years the Macklanburg-Duncan Co. has pioneered in the rolling, forming, stamping and casting of metals. \}(/e have turned out , literally miles of Numetal Weatherstrip like the piece above. That was before Pearl Harbor.

When war came, because of our skill and wealth of experience in manufacruring weatherstrips and other allied items, we were able on short notice to turn a technical handspring into war production. Overnight, the same machines that had produced the world's finest weatherstrip began to roll out huge quantities of vital parts for Uncle Sam's fghting planes. And that production has been and will be maintained until Victory is won.

Now do you see where that piece of Numetal weatherstrip comes in? Bur please remember this-when the noose of men and metal has choked the last dictator, Macklanburg-Duncan will again lead the way in bringing you new aod better products for the post-war world.

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Every day in the papers and magazines old storics from World War One turn up with a modern dressing. But there is one ttrat was mighty popular in f917 and 1918 ttrat haen't been dug up so far in ttris war, that bears retelling.

A big husky Sergeant was drilling an ackward squad made up of a bunch of double-tough rookies from the Bowery. Every time this Sergeant gave an order, it was like this:

"Present arms! So are you! Shoulder arms! So are yout Lcft face! So are youl Right facet So arc yout"

Lumber Auction Held in San Frtrncisco

A little over seven million feet of 'Western Pine lumber was purchased at a lumber auction held in the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, October 29.

Leo Hennessy of the West Coast Lumber Office of the Central Procurement Agency, Portland, was in charge. He was assisted by Maurice Isted.

And so on. Every order he gave was followed by "So are you.tt

Another Sergeant said to him: "Look here, fricnd. What in the Hell kind of orders are those you arc grving? Where do you get that'So are you' stuff? That's not regulationE.tt

Thc other one said: "Listen, soldier. This buncb of tough punks I'm drilling don't fool me none. I know that every time f give them an ordcr, every man of then says undcr his breath-'All right, you dirty big so-and-so'-ord I just say'So are you' and beat them to it."

Controlled Mcrtericrls

Beginning with first quarter of 1944, all allotments qf controlled materials for construction and facilities, save to certain specified military, naval and other programs, WPB says, will be made from a central materials reserve to be established for this purpose by the requirements committee.

Even thoagh few of your cuttoners baild bridges

lbey're all learning, through advertisements like this one, of lhe advantages gained by building with Wolmanized Lunber*, the wood that iB hiS'hty resistant to decay and termites. Many are lea:ming, too, by firsthand contact with wartime projects on which this long-lived wood is used.

Cash in oa +hic new knowledge by reconmending to your custonere that they include Wolmanized Lumber in their plans for poetwar coasbuction. Wolnanized Lumber is diskibuted nationally through regrular trade channels.

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QNrr one thing matters now-win the war rnd win it quicklyt S7'e are sure you jobbers and dealers feel the same way about it. Uncle Sam,s orders must be handled firsr, so until victory is won we say to our jobbers and dealers-

Bear Vitb Us

And we hope before long that T/heeler Osgood, America's largest manufacturer of doors, can again say-"Prompt delivery any amount of all standard ty1rcs of doors." Until that time we're

doing our best to fulfll your urgenr nee& and developing definite plans for your future benefit.

Tomotrouls Doors Still Better

Todey's conditions encourege the development of new ideas for easy, quick and economical handling of war housing specifcrtions. The besr of these have led to perm.nent changes that will be e part of tomorrow's door. Ve sincerely believe that tihe day is not far away when these improved doors will be availeblc to yotr.

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We take pleasure in repeating here the tribute recently paid to the lumber industry by Col. F. G. Sherrill of the United States Army Engineers, when in presenting an Army ttEtt award he said in part:

"You are producing the material of oictory, complete and ooerwhelming. Your industry is the prime qoar industry in the arscnal of democraclt."

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About Taxes

(Continued from Page 10) come for example-are necessary to fight inflation' Yet the proposed bill puts the greater emphasis on incomes from hvJthousand a year, up. Everyone knows that the huge increase in earning capacity in this emergency is with people who earn UNDER that figure. It is there that peolle-"t" getting from two to five times as much as they ire in the habit of earning. It is that group of many, many millions that is making the war money fly. If inflation comes from civilian purchases, it comes largely from that group. But the proposed new law would lighten the burden on the grouP where the germ of inflation is found most frequently. They even Propose to abolish the Victory tax which hit that lower income grouP hardest. Instead of being a tool to fight inflation the proposed law would, according to most students of its provisions, encourageinflation.

The other day the head of the Social Security Board came before Congress to urge that Congress do not again suspend the impending increase of 100 per cent in the old age pension rate of take from employer and employe both' He ofiered but one reason for this request; namely, that now while they have it is a good time to get it. Anyone who can read knows how this money is handled. There is no secret about it. A tax for the purpose of old age protection of our citizens, it goes into the Social Security :strong box by the hundreds of millions of dollars. It ,doesn't even get a chance to bounce off the bottom before it is taken out by the Treasury, an I.O.U. left in its place,

and that money raised for a specific purpose, is used for everything under the sun. What the employes and employers of this country would get in return for doubling the rate, no one knows. All that would happen would be twice as much cash being lifted from the Social Security strong box, and twice as many I.O.U.'s placed there instead. What Congress will do remains to be seen.

In addition to raising inJ trl""*e tax rate, Mr. Morgenthau ofiered a tremendously enlarged Social Security program, at enormously increased rates. Under its terms the Federal Government would do for every citizen most of the things that have up to now been considered the everyday jobs of citizenship. Our people would be "bottlefed and rocked to sleep and ordered around in everything they do," as one Democratic Congressman has already said about the proposal.

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Henry Ford had to go back and take charge of the billion dollar empire that he built u/ith his own genius-and be took up that tremendous job without any sign of fear or faltering-I was reminded of what Mr. Ford told a magazinc writer thirty years ago when he was in his prime and at the height of his career. The writer was trying to find out what Henry thought was the secret of his success, and Henry told him: "There are only two things in the world that are really important-WORK and F'AITH." What a splendid declaration t It was work and faith and courage that b-ilt the America we love. And it's going to take plenty of all three to guarantee its future.

I read with intense interest recent stories suggesting that after ttre war is over Henry Ford is taking his great organization back over a highway that it foresook some fifteen years ago when Edsel, with modernistic ideas, began the building of continually more attractive looking, more ornate, larger, and more expensive cars. When Edsel took over the reins his father had put the whole world on wheels with his T Model, and then with Model A. Edsel, a progressive, went in for bigger and better looking cars. Soon low priced cars became a thing of the past. The several cars in the "Iower priced field" were tfiemselves large, attractive,_ luxury cars. Now, say students of the Ford situation, Edsel is gone, Henry is back in harness, and he is going to show the world some of the early day Ford methods whcn he quits making war machines. He is going once again to make a small, low-priced, low-cost, less adorned car, within the reach of almost every man or woman. Henry used to say in the T Model days-"Give them any color car Orcy want, just so long as it's black " Those days are coming back, they say.

Pcrsonally, I believ6 the sto-ry. And, likewise personally, I'm glad of i3. I have felt for years as though the motof car manufacturers got so all-fired interested in their rush for bigger, better, ntore luxurious, more colorful cars, they forgot entirely+very one of them-the fundamental theory on which Ford built his business; built the entire autqmobile industry, for that matter. That theory was to furnish dependable and satisfactory transportation for the poor as well as the rich, forgetting the luxury and the speed idca. Any one of the mass production auto manufachrrers could have gone back to the good cheap car field and done a world of good while cleaning up. But they were all busy working toward thousand dollar cars, instead of at least one of them working toward the two hundred dollar car. Ttrat's what Henry is going to do now, they say. And I hope so. There will always be plenty of manufacturers to rnake big cars for the rich, fast.cars for the yourg, and fancy cars for the fancy-minded. But good, dependable transportation without ostentation such as Henry F'ord is capable

of producing in swarms like the locusts of the Bible days, would do much to help smooth thc transition road tlnt must lead ttris nation from top war production to civilian lrostwar production. Personally, I'm for Henry. Even at his adnanced age, he can be one of the strongest units in Oris nation in the economic struggle that must develop when the war ends. Wish he were even twenty yearg younger. What deeds he could perform. We have had no one else like him. None likc him will come after. Bureaucrats will never successfully bridge the grcat gap that must bc crossed between war and peace when the war ends. Men who have done things before and can do them again must lead the way{r God help us.

Trees and religion. The history of Buddhism, as an e:ample, places great emphasis on trees. We are told that Gautama Buddha, founder of that religion that once swept most of the known world, sat a week each under four great trees while he thought out the science of living that became what is called Buddhism. The first week he sat and thought under the great Bo tree. The second week he sought thc 'protection of the Banyan tree. The third week the Muchalinda trce furnished him shade. The fourth and last week he sat under the Rajayatana tree. Then he announced that his studies were completed, and that he had discovered the eight-fold road to salvation, composed of eight rights, namety: right belief, right aspiration, right speech, right conduct, right occupation; right endeavor, right memory, and right meditation. fn fact, he laid down his whole philosophy of life that was welcomed by countless millions of people, after four weeks of thought and contemplation under those four great fndian trees.

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fire' Iadies should acqaint themselves with Gautama Buddha. Why? Because he was the first woman sufiragrst No foolin' The idea that women first won-equal rights with men in the past few decades is for those who scorn ancient history. For Buddha more than five hundred years beforc Christ, admitted women disciples into his free democracy of spirit on equal terms with the men. 'We are told that he did so only after having three times refused to admit then. Like Caesar and the croryn, that last ofrer was too much for him. But, dthough he recog4ized women'6 sufrrage in his great and growing organization, he took an awful slap at the ladies while doing so. lFor he uttered the prediction that their presence in his Order would reduce ..the life of thc Ord6r by half, for, he wrote: "As when mildew falls on a field the ricc is doomed, so when women leave the household life and join an Order, that Ordcr shall not long endure." Wonder what old Gautama would thhk if he could look the country ovcr today, and witness our modern distribution of woriren,'and their various activitiee?

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Guerr l,ll rcfer that to Col. Oveta Culp Hobbn head of thc wAcs' + t t

I hate to frighten my old friend, Charlie Williams, of thc Moore Dry Kiln Company, but I must mention a remark made in dead seriousness the other day by an engineer who has been doing a lot of experimenting with wood and electricig. As is well known, some remarkable results have recently been achieved in the laboratory by treating laminated wood and glue with electricity instead of with heat and pressure. Great things are now expected from further research into the relationship between wood and electricity. Well" what this engineer said was this: that it will be only a matter of time and thoughtful experimentation until chemista and engineers will discover practical methods of drying wood commercially almost instantly, with electricity. He says they will just bring in green logs, put an electrode to the end of each log, turn on the juice, and, Presto! The entire log will be free from moisture. He said they have gone far enough along with what they are now doing to fecl very sure that this can be done, and in most practical fashion. Interesting, eh? I'll bet Charlie Williams will hold the patent on the process, if it finally works out.

Appointed Assistcmt Scrlee Mcrncger

d J. (Clint) Laughlin has been appointed assistant sales manager for E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, succeeding the late J. Earle Heber. Clint has been with the Stanton organization for the past several months, and prior to that was associated with the lumber business in Los Angeles for a long period. He is widely known in California lumber circles.

Construction Order L-41 limiting construction is redrafted and issued in simplified form by the WPB.

I don't enjoy making "busts," but I make plenty of ttem, and whcn aomc fricnd catches me at it, I get'a ccrtain amount of kick out of it. Fricnds continually ask mobecause of tbe bodge-podge of subjects I writc about"what do you read?" Sometimes I read the wrong thinge. Tte above Btatcments may not seem related, but they are. In this column on August 15, I was typing some thoughts on the subject of Liberty. Before me was tlre text of a very eloquent spcech on that subject. The speaker quotcd Madame de Stael, famous French writer and politician of the revolutionary period, as saying "on the scaffold:" "Ah Libertyl What crimes are committed in thy name!" So I quoted both the quotation and the accompanying statement. G. B. Mcleod, of San Francisco, an old friend of mine, with ttre Hammond Lumber Company, read it and caught it on the first bounce, and threw me out at first base. Madame de Stael did make that remark. But it couldn't have been on the scaffold, for she died a natural death in 1817. Ah, welll Anyway, I penalizgd myself by taking an entire evening reading in part the history of that famous French woman. But I'll never send her to the scafrold again. I promise. Ho1rc none of her kinfolks sue me. I'd just have to admit, with Mark Twain, that my report of the Madame's execution was grossly exaggerated.

Lieut. Schaler Home On Lecve

Lieut. Albert M. Schafer, son of Albert Schafer, president of Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., recently visited his parents at Montesano, Wash. on a 15-day leave. He is attached to the staff of General Galbraith, Commander of the San Francisco Port of Embarkation.

Pccific Ccrbinet Co. Moves

Pacific Cabinet Co., manufacturers of custom built cabinets Los Angeles, has moved to a new address at 1248 Palmetto Street. The company tvas formerly located at 34CI San Fernando Road.

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When Xenres Fell in Love With a Tree

Plutarch tells a remarkable story about a famous soldier's infatuation for a tree. He says that the great Xerxes haltcd his army of seventeen hundred thousand soldiers to admire a Plane tree. Hc was so in love with the loveliness of the tree that we are told by Plutarch that he "doted on it." More than that, he took ofr his richest garments and put them on the tree, and in addition he took from his concubines and from his mightiest generals their jewels and bracelets, thcir rich scarfs and their gold, and with them bedecked this tree. He seemed to lose all interest in the battle he was then preparing for, in fact he lost the battle because of the delay occasioned by his worhip of the tree. And when he was forced to leave he caused a picture of the tree to be stamped on a medal of gold wtrich he ever after wore.tt

And True, Too

One youngster was watching another swimming about in a pool. The swimmer was wonderful and filled the onlooker with admiration.

"You swim like a fish," he said.

"Bettcr" said the swimmer. " I can swim on m5r back."

The Retort Courteous

A cute little number approached the f,oorwalker in the store.

"Do you have notions on this foor?" she wanted to know. "\llfe do," he said. "\Me certainly do. But we suppress them during business hours."

An Expert

"'What's that game those men are playing?"

"That's golluf. It's just the same as tennis only they don't play it with cards."

The Old House

I tell you I smelled lilacs there tonightTheir dear, damp fragrance sweet against the snow, Where the old lilac bush stood in the moonlight, Beside the path where lovers used to go. But that's a tall apartment there? I know it. But none the less I smelled the lilacs plain, And saw a girl too young to be a poet, Pressing her face to lilacs in the rain; A young girl weeping in a vanished rain.

A Plcry on Words

A primary school was asked to write a scntence using the worde "analyze" and "anatomy,t' so he wrote it in rhyme, as followl:

My analyze over the ocean, My analyze over the sea, O who will go over ttre ocean, And bring back my anatomy.

Who They Were

'Who are all those people who are cheering?" asked the recruit as the rookies marched onto the train. "Thosc," replied the veteran, t'are the ones who are not going."

Cutting the Circle

To get his wealth he spent his health And then, vzith might and main, He turned around and spent his wealth, To get his health again.

OId Agre Ripens

Theodore Parker \f,rote: "The man reaps in his old age as he sowed in his youth and manhood. He ripens what he grew. Private selfishness is less now than ever before. He loves the eternal justice of God, the great higher Law. Once his hot blood tempted him, and he broke, perhaps, that law; now he thinks thereof with grief at the wrong he made others suffer, though he clasps his hands and thanks God for the lesson he has learned even from hic sin.

"He needs now the great attraction whereby all things gravitate toward God. He knows there is swift justice for nations and for men, and he says to the youth: lRejoice, O young men, iir thy youth. Let thy heart cheer thee. But know thou that for these things God will bring thee into account. Hear the sum of the whole matter, tove God and keep His commandments, for this is thc whole duty of man.tt

At The Bqrccks

First Soldier: "\fifho was that wreck f saw you with last night?"

Second Soldier: "That reas no wreck. That was an accident. I ran into her."

San Francisco Hardwood Yard Rebuilt

The plant of the Forsyth Hardwood Company at 355 Bay Shore Boulevard, San Francisco, which was almost completely destroyed by fire four months ago, has been rebuilt and is now practically re-stocked:

A large new shed, modern in every respect and lighted with six skylights, has been built. All stock will be stored under cover.

All gangways are paved and are 22 f.eet wide. The yard has a frontage of 200 feet on Bay Shore Boulevard and extends 3O0 feet to a spur track at the rear, which accommo-

dates six cars at a time.

A new plywood warehouse has been built at the rear of the yard.

Forsyth Hardwood Company was established in 1918. The yard was completely burned out and rebuilt in 1933. This concern has always carried the finest type of hardwoods they -could buy and P. R. Kahn, manager, states they will continue that policy. Mr. Kahn pays frequent visits to the hardwood producing areas in the South and Southeast.

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TWENTY YEAAS AGO

hcon the November t5,1028, Isrue

This issue carried a personal write-up of C. H. White, general manager of White Brothers, San Francisco.

A picture showed the attractive display of the Garden Grove Lumber & Cement Co. exhibited at a'fair held in Garden Grove.

Arthur Twohy, Los Angeles wholesale lumberman, and Mrs. Twohy, returned from a several months' trip to the South Pacific countries.

Joe Chapman won the first low net prize, the Hipolito Cup, at the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club golf tournament held at Wilshire Country Club on November 2.

Members of the Bay District Hoo-Hoo held a luncheon meeting at the CommBrcial Club, San Francisco, on November 8, and organized Hoo-Hoo Club No. 9. The officers elected were R. A. Hiscox, president; J. Walter Kelly, vice-president; and J. C. McCabe, secretary-manager.

The Jones their yard in Lumber Company added additional sheds to Compton.

Addresses by Mrs. Adeline M. Conner, Miss Alberta Ruth Brey, and E. D. Minton, delivered at the annual convention of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association in San Francisco, were in this issue.

An article, with views, of the new plant of Hardwood Company at San Diego appeared in ber.

Lumber Stocks

Charles L. \(/heeler Elected Executive Vice President of Pope & Talbot, Inc.

Action on October 28 of the board of directors of Pope & Talbot, Inc. established the office of executive vice president by combining the office and duties of first vice president with that of vice president and general manager of the Lumber and McCormick Steamship Divisions.

The execu'tive vice president was also authorized to assume the duties of the president during the president's absence on leave. Major George A. Pope, Jr., presideut of Pope & Talbot, Inc., now on leave, is in the Army of the United States.

Charles L. Wheeler, formerly vice president and general manager of the Lumber and McCormick Steamship Divisions of Pope & Talbot, Inc. was elected .to the office of executive vice president.

The policy of Pope & Talbot, Inc. will continue in its endeavor to serve the lumber trade as it has throughout its 90 years of existence. It is interesting to note here that the Port Gamble, Washington, lumber operation, established in 1853, is the oldest in the Douglas Fir region.

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Mr. Wheeler is president of International Rotary.

Sid Dcrling Talks To S. F. Wholesalers

Retail and wholesale lunaber stocks declined sharply from January, 1942 to June n, 1943, WPB reports, with retail stocks totaling 2,459,38,W board feet on June 30, 1943, a 62/o decline from Dec. 31, 1941, and 35/o below Dec. 31, 1942. Wholesale stocks totaled 588,529,000 board feet on June 30, a fu% drop for the l8-month period and a 3O/o decline for the first six months of 1943.

San Francisco members of the National-American Wholesale Lumber Association met at luncheon November 5, at the San Francisco Commercial Club, to hear a talk by Sid Darling, of New York, secretary of the Association, who was on tour of the Pacific Coast cities.

Glenn M. Harrington, MacDonald & Harrington, Ltd., San Francisco, Association director for California, presided.

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C. J. tffilliams Says DrV Kilns Doing \(/ondrous Work in Aircraft

We had a visit the other day with Chas. J. Williams, president of the Moore Dry Kiln Company. Mr. Williams spent the summer in Portland, Oregon, as is his custom, and is now back in Jacksonville, Florida, where he will spend the winter. Jacksonville is his home, and also the headquarters of his company. The Moore Dry Kiln Company is a modern colossus in its chosen line, dominating the lumber kiln drying business like foe Louis does heavyweight pugilist circles. Its field is the entire world of lumber production, and its success is based on its program of continual improvement and advancement in the practical yet scientific business of seasoning lumber.

Mr. Williams had many interesting things to tell about what dry kilns are doing in the war efrort, so we jotted some of them down, thinking they would interest our lumber readers, and here they are, just a lot of hit and miss items that deserve more than passing attention.

In Vancouver, British Columbia, the Sitka Spruce Company is operating 12 Moore Cross Circulation kilns, each 112 feet long. These kilns operate 24 hours every day, seven days.in every week, kiln drying Spruce for aircraft manufacture.

In Portland, Oregon, Lumber Manufacturers, Inc., are

engaged in manufacturing aircraft lumber exclusively, and are doing a wonderful job of kiln drying Spruce for that purpose. They find that they can perfectly seasqn loads"of aircraft Spruce 40 feet in length, 4 inches thick, and 8 to 12 inches wide, and bring it up to Government Aerona$ical Specifications, showing what wonders have -been done in the art of kiln drying. This concern uses 5 Moore Cross Circulation kilns for this purpose.

Every mill in'Oregon and Washington that can get the' quality of logs to produce aircraft lumber, either in Spruce, Douglas Fir, Noble Fir, or Western Hemloch are giving their very best attention to this field, and producing a maximum amount of stock.

One of the interesting recent installations of recent months made by the Moore Dry Kiln Company was a battery of four kilns shipped to manufacturers of Balsa wood in Ecuador, South America. Practically all of this wood is being brought to the United States and Canada to be used in fighting planes, and particularly in the light-weight Mosquito bombers we have read so much about. Balsa has become one of the desired and premium woods of the present war, and the aircraft makers of North America could use a great deal more than the maximum amount now be-

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ing produced. It comes only from South America. Mr. Williams says that Balsa wood is in such gleat demand by plane manufacturers in North America and England that at times it is shipped by airplane. He states that in building the fast Mosquito bombers they build the fuselage of wood made as a sort of a sandwich, several layers of hardwood veneers or "skins" as they call them on planes, covering a center of Balsa wood. The Balsa acts as a spacer to the hardwood "skins," and the combination has been found unusually strong and practical.

Mr. Williams says that there are now many Moore dry kilns in the South that are being used seasoning veneer made of Southern Sweet Gum for aircraft wood. They have installed veneer kilns for the Pacific Veneer Company, New Westminster, B. C., where aircraft veneers are being made for Spruce, Fir, Birch, and Mahogany veneers. They told Mr. Williams in Canada that the manufacturers of airplanes in England use a greater percentage of wood in their construction than we do in the United States or Canada.

C'oing back to the subject of Balsa wood, Mr. Williams says it is used in this country not only for aircraft, but the Navy, Coast Guard, Maritime Commission, and Army transports use it in many ways for floats and life-saving equipment.

Visits San Francisco

Harry W. Aldrich of Aldrich Lumber Co., Eugene, Ore., recently spent a few days in San Francisco, where he met his son, Ilank, who is an Ensign in the Navy.

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Increace in Rcd Cedr Shinglc Ceiling Priccr

To cover increased production costs, the Office of Price Administration announced an increase of approximately 8 per cent in ceiling prices for all grades and sizes of red cedar shingles,

At the same time, however, OPA revoked an increase of l0 per cent over the old ceilings which sellers had been permitted to charge since last September 9 on sales of 100 squares of shingles or less to any buyer who does not purchase for resale. Revoked also, was permission granted sellers last September 77 to make sales on an adjustable pricing basis pending issuance of today's price increases.

The 8 per cent increase is authorized in Amendment No. 6 to Maximum Price Regulation No. tr64 (Red Cedar Shingles), effective November l, 1943.

Section 138l.ll (a) is amended to read as follows:

(a) The maximum prices f.o.b. mill per square, green or dry, when graded in accordance with U. S. Department of Commerce, Commercial Standards C. S. 3l-38 for Red Cedar Shingles for No. I grade and in accordance with the Standards and Grading Rules of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau as revised June 1, 1939, for No. 2 and No. 3 grades, in mixed or straight load shipments, shall be:

This yecrr hcs brought to us some setbcrcks, but also notcrble and historiccl victorie* Becn these in mind when you oberve the Thcnksgiving seasoD. Then offer lour silent thcmlcs to thoee who nclde our gains pocsible.

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Lumbermcn'g Accident Prcvention Acroqiation Revived

San Francisco, Calif., November 3, 1943.-To strengthen the ties of a common interest in accident prevention throughout the woods, mills and retiil yards of California's vast lumber industry, representatives of leading operating lumber companies of the state met at San Francisco recently to revive the California Lumbermen's Accident Prevention Association.

Functioning ln the form of a voluntary group for the past 25 years, the Association has served with outstanding success as an effective link between the state's lumber industry and the California State Industrial Accident Commission. The Association had been less active since 1939, when its members joined the lumber branch of the Western Safety Council. The feeling has developed that considera. tion of peculiarly California matters, and maintenance of closer contact with the California Commission, justified a renewal of Association activity to supplement the broader work of the Western Safety Council.

Getting off to a flying start with 48 active members, representing a broad cross*ection of the state's lumber industry, including manufacturers from the Pine and Redwood regions and dealers, the California Lumbermen's Accident Prevention Association has for its first officers: E. S. Mackins, Jr., safety director, Hammond Lumber Company, Samoa, chairman, and Nat Edwards, Wood Products Company, Ray Building Oakland, secretary-treasurer.

Organization and first business meetings were held in the State Building at San Francisco. W. G. Collins, Hammond Lumber Company, Samoa, was chairman, and G. A. Horstkotte, McCloud River Lumber Company, McCloud, secretary pro tem. Members and safety engineers of the California State Industrial Accident Commission were in attendance at all meetings.

Topics of discussion at the business sessions of the organization meeting reflected the scope of the association. E. S. Mackins, Jr., and G. A. Horstkotte led the discussion of "The Development of Safety Devices in the Lumber fndustry," including lumber carrier orders. John Eckwall, Long-Bell Lumber Company, Weed, and T. A. McGovern, California State Fund Safety Engineer, San Francisco, officiated at the discussions on "Competition as a Factor in Safety Program;" "Correlation of Individual and Industrial Efrorts with the Industrial Accident Commission;" and "Cooperation and Industry with State Agencies in Formulating Safety Rules and Laws." Bert Deems, Union Lumber Company, Fort Bragg, and Frank Ryan, Winton Lumber Company, Martell, were leaders for the discussion of "How Far Should a Safety Program Go?" "Should It Tie Into Personnel and Foreman Training?"

Gill-Wcrburton

M. R. Gill, buyer for Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co. at Eugene, Ore., was married to Mary Lou Warburton of Long Beach, Calif., at Eugene on October 24. Before going North, Mr. Gill was a salesman for the company in the Southern California territory where he is well known.

Old Established Oakland Concern Busy with War \(/ork

One of the busiest lumber and millwork concerns in California is the Hogan Lumber Company, Oakland, and of course practically one hundred per cent of the business is connected with the war effort.

Their big mill is manufacturing hatch covers, ships' ladders and name plates for cargo ships; lockers f o r ships, dormitories and barracks; mess tables; pilot houses, tank houses and hatch covers for concrete ships being built by Belair Shipyard at Sou,th San Francisco. also hatch plugs for refrigerator ships.

In addition they are turning out their usual line of millwork for hospitals, domitories and war housing, and carrying on their regular business in all species of lumber.

Hogan Lumber Company was established by Thomas P. Hogan, Sr. and Hugh Hogan on this site in 1888, and later was operated for many years by the late Thomas P. Hogan, Jr.

Thomas P. Hogan, III, secretary and general manager, started working in the business on his school vacations, and gained his experience by working in the yard, the mill and the sales department. He is a graduate of the University of California, where he majored in business administration.

Tom's brothers Al and Bob are in the Navy. Both have the rank of Lieutenant (j. S.). Al was associated with the business for some time before going into the Navy, and Bob entered the service when he was graduated from college.

Mrs. H. D. Hogan is president of the Hogan Lumber Company. J. R. Anderson is vice-president.

R. D. (Dewey). Lapham is sales manager of the millwork department.

Clem Fraser is sales manager of the lumber department.

Terrible Twenty Golf Tournament

Bob Falconer, General Tile Company, was host to the members and guests of the Terrible Twenty Tournament at the Virginia Country Club, Long Beach, on Thursday, October 1{ and treated them all to a chicken a la King de luxe luncheon.

The first prize, a golf shirt, was won by Bob Falconer, who found the course just about made to order. Frank Berger, Standard Lime Products, Co., Ed Bauer, Bohnhoff Lumber Company, and Vic Jones, tied with net 75's for lhe second prize, a cashmere golf sweater, which will be played off at the November tournament. In the play-ofi for second prize, carried over from the September turnament, Bob Falconer won from Frank Berger and was awarded a golf sweater. Dr. Treadwell won the guest prize, a tie and handerchief set.

The match play results (semi-finals) follow: First Flight, Ed Bauer defeated Bob Osgood, 4 and 3; Second Flight, Gene DeArmond, Pacific Cabinet Co., defeated Hervey Bowles, Long-Bell Lumber Co., 3 and.2.

Harold and Bill Jackson, Jackson Bros-Le Sage, were unanimously elected to membership.

George Gartz will handle the November tournament which will be held at the Southetn California Golf & Country Club, Monterey Park, Thursday, November 18.

Celebrcte 50th Anniverscry

In connection with their annual sales meeting a banquet was held by Schafer Bros. Lum,ber & Shingle Co. at the Morck Hotet, Aberdeen, Wash. on October 27, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of their start in the logging business. The banquet was attended by l2O guests.

After the dinner a new sound color film was shown, covering the company's entire operation from the camp to the mill.

Kent J. C. Seymour

Kent J. C. Seymour, retired lumberman, formerly of the retail lumber firm of Seymour & Elliott, San Francisco, passed away in Mill Valley, Calif., November 6. He was born in California 74 years ago.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mary F. Seymour, two daughters and two sons.

He was Past Master of Mill Valley Lodge No. 356, F & A. M.

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From fire trucks roaring by.

There are innocent forest creatures

Fleeing in pain and dread

As black clouds billow upward

And darken the skv overhead.

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Recoil from her unleashed fury

Then turn to fight on again. She flaunts them u'ith crackling laughter, As they shrink from her acrid breath, Her, ways are the ways of destruction

And her paths are the paths of death.

fn a sudden access of fury, She hurls her brands through the air; They fall in a wooden canyon

And spot fires are kindled there. She leaps to a stand of timber

And, "she crowns !" Is the frenzied cry, "Run ! Run for your lives, men !

To linger now is to die !"

Grim days and nights of horror, Then she dies as fire fiends die; Licking the ghastly wreckage

That was left when she thundered by. And the blackened hills and canyons

And stark, dead forests tell, Of the wealth of life and beauty

That died in the fire fiend's hell.

Was the fire fiend unleashed in her fury

And her course of destruction set, When a spark fell into the dry, brown grass

From YOUR lighted cigarette?

A. Merriam Conner.

L A. Building Permits Gain

Building permits issued in Los Angeles during October continued the upward trend with a total of 2,159 compared with 1,987 in September and,1,79 in August. Compared to October, 1942, when the total was but 1,380, the increase is more than 55/o.

Total valuation of $4,379,U9 for October, 1943, however, is considerably below the valuation of. $7,472,255 lor October, 1942, but is greater than the $3,V24,99t valuation for September.

Permits issued last month include plans for housing a total of. 26 families-20 in apartment houses, 232 in single dwellings and 14 in double dwellings. Average cost of the single dwelling units is $3,064 as compared to $3,300 a year ago.

Lor Angeleg Hoo - Hoo Meeting

A large turnout heard Navy Chaplain K. P. Buswell give an interesting talk on some of his war experiences at the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club luncheon meeting held at the University Club, Los Angeles, on Tuesday, October 26.

Lieul J. T. Vandiveer, Public Relations, United States Navy, Los Angeles, introduced the speaker.

Roy Stanton was chairman of the meeting. J. A. (Al) Privett, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, was honorary chairman and made a brief talk. Bob Osgood, member of the Program Committee, introduced the guests. Old Cats in attendance, including Frank Curran, C. W. Pinkerton, Frank Connolly, W. B. Wickersham, and Ed Martin, were asked to stand and take a bow.

Vicegerent Snark Dee Essley reported that he had received a number of reinstatements for membership, and also has several Kittens signed up for the next concatenation.

Major William Edwards, Lumber Supply Officer, Los Angeles, was one of the guests, and reinstated his membership in Hoo-Hoo. Prior to going into the Armed Services, he was with the Park Avenue Lumber & Supply Co., in Chicago.

Arizonc Conccrtenction Nov. 20

N. H. (Hawk) Huey, Vicegerent Snark for Arizona, is planning a Hoo-Hoo concatenation to be held at Clay Springs, Ariz., on Saturday, November 20.

IIe has appointed Albert Lewis as master of ceremonies. Mr. Lewis lives in Clay Springs, and is arranging for the concatenation to start at 3 09 in the afternoon, and he promises Kittens from McNary, Pinetop, Young, Heber, Nutrioso, and way-side points. Dinner will be served following the concatenation. Vicegerent Huey is busy lining up a degree team.

Buy Ycrd

A. A. Arends, and his brother, J. B. Arends, proprietors of the Growers Lumber Company at Sunnyvale, have purchased the Campbell Lumber Company at Campbell. J. B. Arends will m'anage the Sunnyvale yard, while A. A. Arends will be in charge at Campbell.

Personcrl ltems

George R. Kendrick, sales manager of pope fnc., Lumber Division, San Francisco, returned I from spending two weeks in the Northwest. visited the sawmills and northern offices.

& Talbot, November where he

George H. Young, vice president of Friend & l'err.y Lumber Co., Sacramento, left October 28 to spend his vacation salmon fishing on the Smith River with a party of friends.

Charles R. West, wholesale lumberman of Phoenix, Ariz., was a recent San Francisco visitor.

Dean Creath of Juan Creek Lumber Co., Calif., manufacturers of Redwood lumber, in San Francisco on business.

Juan Creek, was recently

OPTGON LUATBEQ SALES

Brocdwcry Bldg- Eugone; Oregoa rVh o lclr le R$ilb$r:g['*.?,1,L#'3't P rod uct' CANI w' WATTS

.MonrdnocL Bldc. San Francicco Yllkon 1890

UP AND DOWN THE STATE CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

E. O. Holter, president and general manager of Sage Lumber & Improvemen't Co., San Francisco, recently looked over the company's Redwood sawmill and woods oPerations at Wiltits, Calif. He was accornpanied on the trip by Lewis A. Godard of Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., sales agents for this mill.

Lou Ohlson, Lakeview Lumber Co. Lakeview Ore., manufacturers of California Pine lumber, recently spent a week in San Francisco on business.

Harry G. Dowson, sales tion, Medford, Ore. was in trip at the end of October.

manager of Medford CorporaSan Francisco on a business

Tom Gore, Salt Lake City representative of WendlingNathan Co., San Francsco, recently spent l0 days in San Francisco, and also paid a visit to the Pacific Northwest. He traveled by plane.

G. A. Robertson, sales manager, Portland Lumber Mills, Portland, spent a week in San Francisco on business in the latter part of October.

Don Philips, Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., Los Angeles, has returned from a business trip to the Northwest.

H. G. Larrick, manager of the Barge Division, Barr Lumber Company, Santa Ana, made a business trip to Chicago the latter part of October. He traveled both ways by airplane.

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Penberthy, Penberthy Lumber Company, Los Angeles, were recent visitors to the Northwest.

C. W. Buckner, Itrarbor Plywood Corporation, Hoquiam, Wash., spent a few days in Los Angeles on business the early part of the month.

Hal Von Breton, Los Angeles, left November 7 on a business trip to Washington, D. C.

LUMBERMAN WANTED

PERMANENT POSITION OPENED F'O R GOOD ALLAROUND LUMBERMAN FOR OF" FICE AND YARD WORK. GOOD SALARY AND GOOD LIVING CONDITIONS. APPLY TO SQUARE DEAL LUMBER COM. PANY, SALINAS, CALIFORNIA.

FOR SALE

t16 x 20 YATES-AMERICAN NO. 1 SIZER WITH MOTOR AND STARTER COMPLETE. KURTH LUMBER MANUFACTURING COM. PANY, CLARKSVTLLE, TEXAS.

SALESMAN WANTED

Experienced lumber salesmarl between 35 and 40 years, to call on the industrid trade in the Los Angeles district.

Address Box C-1006, California Lumbcr Merchant, 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles t'1, Calif.

WANT TO BUY

Want to buy a suburban Los Angeles or nearby small country yard as going concern.

Address Box C-1007 California Lumber Merchant 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

WANTS LUMBER YARDS

If you {'ant to sell your lumber yard, let us know, as we have inquiries from parties wishing to buy. Twohy Lumber Co., Petroleum Building' Los Angeles 15, Calif.

Donald S. Winfree, son of Henry Winfree, Dant & Russell, Inc., Modesto, who has been attending Army advanced radio school at Camp Crowder, Mo., recently paid a brief visit to his parents at Modesto.

BIIYBB9S GT]IITD SAN FNANCISCO

LUIIBER LUIIBER

Agrr Rrdrood C.o.

{21 Xrt t StF.d ([] .............Ytftm At?

Atlhn Snlt' C.rE'ray. rr| lt r&d Slr..t (rf) .............GArfidd lE|'

Butler, Scth Lo 214 Frut St- (rr) .......,........GArfiGU r29z

Cbrlrtcnrm l{nbct Co.

Evur Ava ard (lulnt 9t. (Z).'..VAlucta 5!32

Drnt e Rrrrdl lac., ZL Fmt Strr.t (rf) .......,....,GAricldt8ta

DoDer C Ceno Imbrr Ca-

lll! Merchutr Exdrnre Blds. (r) SUttGt 7Gc

G--otoo ri Gc Irnb.r Co. tt|a Anry Stttd (a) ............ATrrte l3at

HdL Jemr l- l@ Mlll. Blds. (r) ........,........Suttc ?52.

Halli-u Mackin lmbcr Co.. 725 Sond Strcct (?) ....,.......DOug1ar l0{1

H.*od Innba Coupuy, al? Mmtrpnry Sb..t (a) ..,.....DOurlar 33tt

Hobb. Wdl t uobor C.a- ll5 Monrtlora rt 3L (l) ...........GArfidd 7154

Holucr Eun}e Luobc Co --lG-pl"-E.r cd- aE; (r) ....c.Aricu rezr

C. D. Joharo Lunbc Calcrtlon, 2.| Cdllonir SM (fr) ..,.......GArfic1d 325t

Klhatlc& & Cmpany, CmLc Blalr. (l) YUton 09Li2

LUIIBER, Erluar Bq Co. (Pvrrnld Lunb.r Srla Co.)

Peclic Bldr. (r2) ...............Gladrn !2s

Grn.flton e Gnu fuba Co- 2lr L|vhstbo 3t. (C) ............KEnog l-ltE{

Hlll t Dlortoa, lac., Danfro Strcot Wherf O) .......A1{dovor le?

Ilo.lu lenbc Compuy, &d .Dd Allco Stnrtr (l) .......Glaourt ltal

E. lC Wood lubcr Co- Arr Frd& Sbet (a) ..,.......KE11og 2-{zrt

WhoL.rb Bulldlnr Supply, In, rtf7 ftd Str..t (t) ............TEuplcbar OCI

Wholanlo Lubc Dlrtrlbutorr, lacOth Avruuc Plr (l) ......,......TW|mahr 2515

LUMBER

Arqte Rcdwood Co. (J. J. n.r)

Srlr Wllrhln Blvd. (ta) .....'.....WEbdc ?!z!

Allbrcn-Stutz Cmpun

@t PctrclguE Blds. (15) ,......,..PRo.pct a3ll

Brorh Indurtrlal Lurbor C,rr..

5t0r S. Ccntrrl Aw. (f) .........CEnturv 2{rft

Bunr Luabor Corpany,

UC Silth Bcvcrly Drlvc. (Bworly Hilf.) ...............,BRadrhaw 2-!3!E

Cln & Cc, L J. (\lf. D. Dunnlng), att Ch. ot Cou. Bldg. (r5) .......PRorE Gt ttat

Coopcr, W. 8., Cot-C0t Rtchfi.ld Blds. (A) .......1fiJtud Zrlt

Dent & Rurroll, Inc.. tU E. Strh StnGt O) ..........:....ADur Enl

Dolbc & Crrrm Lunbcr Coo il FHolitr Bldr. (13) ,.,.........VAndilrc a792

Ed. FqIntrh bnb.? C.o., aAt P.trcLun BUS. G5) .........PRo4cct€lr

Helllnan Machin Lubcr Ca., ll7 W. Ninth St. (rS) ............TRtnity 36ll

Hen55d I N-rG' Qmpany -- zlta -So. At"E.i. S;is{i'..,....,.PRorpccr lSiB

Hohbt Wr! brbcr 6-

LU}TBER

Wcrt Orcafo lubcr Clo llfS Evenr Avr. (A) ............4Ttrtr5a1tt

E. K. Wod trnbGr Co- I Druron Slr..t (fr) ...............E,GrcoL l'fl

Wcychaas Sdo Cc, i|' Cditontr str..r (rr) ..,......G4r6.1d ltta

HANDWOODs AND PAI{EIJ

Comltlur Hardwood Co., Gmrs. C.' 65 Cal''famia Strut ({) ...,......GArfdd t25t

Whltr Bnothm' Flfrb .nd Brinaea str..tr (?) .....SUtt r lla5

SASH_DOORS-PLYWOOD

Whclar Oag@d Sdar Ccp.' 3o|5 r$b Sr. (r0) .............'..Valacla Zlll

CREOSOTED LUMBER4OIJ,S-PILING-TIES

Aulcrl leb.r I Trcrtlnl Cor

fta Ncr Montrpnory Stt .t (5) .....sUttctr lZlS

Brrtrr. J. H. & Co.. !!E illontrcnery Stnrt (a) ........DOurlrr lttt

PAI{ EI.IT.DOORII-SASH..SCRE ENS

CdliomL Bulldcr SuPPIY Co?|O Oh Avcnur ({) .".............'.HIg.t aala

"ffi .ffi-"3fr*llt'(r) .......Graco'rr cro

Wcrt*a Dc & Srrh Coo ' ath a Cnrs Str..tt (?) ......TEnplctu tlll

HARDWOODS

Strabb Hrrdrrood GuecnY, --Flnt rDd Ctey Suoar (7) .....TEnplcbu 55tf

tlVhltr Brothcr+ -- Sr- Htrt Sr;Et (r) ..........'...ANdwcr ltll

LOS ANGDLNS

LUMBER

Poc & Tablot, tnc- Lumbsr Dlvhlon 'iri *.-oj#pli bi"d- (rs) """PRo'pcGt rr3r

Rrd Rtve Lunbrr Co.' --fo--i. st""- (il)' ..............9Enturv 2'o?r

i6r E. g;.d..i tio ......"""'PRorpcct esll

Sr P6dre Lmbcr 6. '-isri3.t-rt t-l* ial .....""Rrchnod rtrr

ISc|-A Wflnlrcroo Rord -iiffi PJ;tl. :...;............su Pcdro Zr

llratr Fc Lunbc Co.' --tl-Ft"-;i.t catir Btdr. (r0 ..v^Ddft. '{?t

Aii*"PTfi, ffi .fir"lYl. 3:."*,"r,' .'"

Shctla Plnc Sdcr Co' --aia Pcboi.tt- Bldt. 03) ..........PR"FGI xrs

Slnnon lndurtrlcl lac., - ririE.-w-nhs'oo Bivd. (a) ...PRo.FGt .ltN

Sturon, E. J. C Slon, --rtr -E.dit St. (ri) "...'CEnturt 29tlr

Sud&n & Cbrtrtsrrm' Inc.

--cr-B"qrd at Tra&-Bl&: (u) .....Tnhlt' tE a Taonr Lubcr Sdc+

13? PcarotGun Blds. (fD .........PRo.Dc1 1l|'

TYcndllng-Nethu Ci. --azzs-fut ht; Bbd. (3!) ...........'..Yort rr6t

Wct Onma Lunbcr Ca- it F.filatr Blds. (ri) .'.......Rlchnond 02tr

W. W. Wtltlnrcn' 3rs W. tth Str.d (rs) .........'..TRlnltv ltrl

Waycrhaars Sdor Co., tirt W. M. Grlerd Bldg. (15) ...Mlchlrer a35r

E. IC Wood lrnbc C.o- l7ll Sc Atrncdr SL (51) .....'.JEffrron Sttt

CREOSOTED LUMBERJOI-ESPILINC-TIES

Andcaa tubar & Trudar CotGl S. Brodny (r5) ............'PR6F.d /A|9

Butrr. J. H. f Co.. aal WGrt stl Str..t (ll) ..........Mlchlgra l!01

Por & Tdbot. lnc- lrrnbc Dlvlrlo, 7l| W. Olyuplc Blvd. (l5) .....PRoeEet tzll

rPostoffice Zone Number in Parenttresis.

Anclcu Hardwod Cr.

HANDWOODS

r90O E. lSth Str..t (51) .........PRoorcr l|l8t

Bruh Indu.trtal L'*bcr Ca.

59Ot S. C6trd Avo (r) .,.......CErturt l-lut

Stutor. E. J. ll 56, Z.8l Eut {rrt Strc.t (ll) ..'....CErturt znrl

Watm Hfdrtood f,unbGr Co., zaL Errt l5th Str.ct (55) .......PRotD.d ar|l

SATTH-DOORS-MILLWORK-SCREENlF BLTNDS-PANET.S AND PLYWOODTRONING BOA$'S

Brc} Pucl Cuprny, 3113il E$t fard StFct (rr) ..,.....A,Drnr l2z5

Crllfomir Dor Cmpuy. Tbr

P- O. Bd 126, Vcnrdr Strtld (rr) Klnrbdl 2ffi

Grf,hruir PeC & Vmccr Coo

P. O. Bor 2G0, Tornlnal

Annc (51)

Cobb Co. T. M.

srce C.atnl Aurr (rf) ..,........4Dr8 UUt

EubrnL & Son, lnc. L H. (lngLsood)

l3t W. Rcdondo Blv.L ..,.........OR.86 t.22tt

Hrlcv Brq (Smtr Monice)

fCzO rath Str..t ........,.........,.AShlcy l.a|!

l(ahl Jno. llf. li Son"

C52-3. Mycrr Stn t'(23) ..........ANtt|u. Sftf

Prclfic Wood Prodnctr Corpontion'

30O Tytum Str..t (26) .........,AlbenyXlf

Paclfic Mutud Du Co..

rrl E. llrarhlnrto Blvd. (2l) .,PRorFct952t

Pugct Stnd Plywa4 Ins.,

3l! W..t Nbrh Strrt (r5) .......Tru!ftllflt

Rcara Conpeny' ero. E '

23S S. Atenirtr Str..t (rZ) .....l|lchls!! lttl

Rcd Rlvcr LuDbar Co-

?C S. Slerrn (rr) ..............CEDhrt D7t

Suprc Co. (Purdsnl),

7,t5 Sc Rayomd Avc. (O .........RYer l-B

Slnro lndurtrlcr l|icrarr B. Wr.hlqrtoD Bhr& (zr) ...PRo.D.d |la

W6l e.,olrt Soco Co..

Uls Eut Grd Stttrt (r) ........4Denr ltff

Watm Mlll & Mflldlnr co' 5$r lb. wcrun Avo. (ar) ....TWboer ll

Whcchr Orlood Selol C;orp. -' lar -so. -Fr-cr st ..-...: :,. .....,.vAlatttc Ga

'Vhen the Navy called for the building oftheworld's largest blimp hangars, uood tooh on tbcjob and madc good

Built for perman€nce, these hangars are &amatic examples of the almost limitless adaptability of lumber to heavy construction. Modern timber cngineering has revolutionized old-time millconsmrction into to&y's streamlined designs. lfith

this, and the added safety factor of flameproofing, wood has won recognition as a first line stnrcnrtal material.

Its fitness thus established under the stimulus of building for war, wood promises to conribute in even greatet degree to the new esa of commercial and indusaial building that will follow the renrn of peace.

To Hasten Peace, Bry More War Bonds

PI.ANNING fOR THE TUTURE

is a very important part of our work- in the midst of intense activity and endless detail involved in supplying the exacting demands for high grade materials for the war effort.

It is our belief, based on sound deduction and observation, that the retail lumber dealer will be much more in the picture in the future, in the merchandising of hardwoods to the customer.

tor$tS battts'$'tl'$'

fr Here's how you-yes, YOU-can carry out a smashing "pincer movement'n against the Axie. Swing ineq ens flank withincreaeed production of war goods! Drive in on tfie other with redoubled purchases of War Bonds trhrough your Pay-Roll Savinge Plan!

You're an officer in both of r:hege driveg. Your personal leadership is eErally vital to both. But have you followed the progrees of your Pay-Roll Savinge Plan as cloeely as you have your production?

Do you know about tihe new Treaeury Department quotas for the current Pay-Roll Allotment Drive? Qtntns running obout 1ffs obooe tlrctormer figres? Yot see, theae new quotas are based on the fact that the armed forcee need more money than ever to win t:he war, while the average worker hag more money than ever before to spend. Particularly so, on afanily incomcbaeie-eince in eo rnany familieg several membere are working, now.

Remembern the bond charte of today are the ealee curves of tomonow! Not only will theee War Bonds implement our victory-they'll guard againet infation, and theyoll filnieh billione of dollare of purchasing Inwer to help American bueiness re-establish itself in the markets of peace.

So get this new family income planworking at once. Your local War Finance Committee will give you all the detaile of the new plan. Act today!

Dant

Bubant & Son, L. H.

Ewaune Bo: Go.

Gamerrton & Green Lumber C-o. ------------------27

HaIl, Janer L

fl3llir311 Mactin Imber Co. ----------------------19

Flrnnond

THE CALIFOR}.IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

?ublidrst

Howl-rumber f-rooks

Seattle, Washington, November 9, 1943-The weekly average of West Coast lumber production in October (4 weeks) was 158,723,000 board feet, or 104.5 per cent of 1939-1942 averdge, according to the West Coast Lumbermen's Association in its monthly survey of the industry. Orders averaged I&,W,W board feet; shipments,165,350,000. Weekly averages for September were: Production 161,919,000 board feet (106.6 per cent of the 1939-1942 average) ; orders 173,162,W ; shipments, 163,204,Co0.

The industry's unfilled order file stood at 1,096,839,000 board feet at the end of October; gross stocks at 496,815,000.

After the driest September on record, with forest fires curtailing logging, the wettest October on record further handicapped log.ging, particularly in trucking over dirt roads. The industry appears to have reached the peak in accumulation of log inventories and must expect some reduction in log stocks as winter comes. Lumber production has declined slightly because of loss of hours at many different mills all over the Douglas fir region, due to log and manpower shortages. This is in face of a tightening situation of war needs for lumber.

In August the requirements of the Central Procuring Agency represented 26 per cent of the West Coast lumber industry's total production. Requirements swung up to 35 per cent in September and October, with no prospect for a decline during the winter months. Indications are that the

war agencies will want more rather than less of the tqtal pioduction of the industry.

The administration of the Douglas fir freeze order, L'218, has been clarified and stiffened for the purpose of spreading the load of war lumber needs more evenly over all producers of Douglas. fir. The broad basis of this control, for the immediate future, is that all Douglas fir producers will be expected, as a general rule, to apply at least 50 per cent of their current production to the lumber requirements of the CPA, which is buying f.or t7 different war agencies.

The Western Pine Association for the week ended November 13, 104 mills reporting, gave orders as 73,570,000 feet, shipments 73,806,000 feet and production 80,290,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 374,232,N0 f,eet.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended November 13, 93 units (143 mills) reporting, gave orders as 21,@7W feet, shipments 20,938,000 feet, and production zl,l?Pf/Jl_ feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 143,685,000 feet.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended November 13 reported orders as 107,337,000 feet, shipments 118,620,000 feet, and production 116,279,00O feet.

TIIT,IES

Marcos de Niza homes at Phoetti= because it combines economy and livability with trecessary strength and fresafety. Thousands of such concrete homes are bei.g provided in defense areas throughout the country. Concrete construction conseraes citical matetials, anrd saues trans|ortotion since the bulk of concrete materials can usually be found locally. Our technical stafi will gladty assist architects, enginesrs and contractors on housing and other war constnrction

PORTTAND CEMENT ASS0CIATION

Dopr. I 12.2+ El6 W. lifth ll.,1or Angeler 13, (ollf. A nolionql orgonizolion lo lmprovc ond erlend lhc uscs of concrete... through scicnti0c reseorch ond engincering f,cld work

IN WAR

AS IN PEACEhomes need the firesofely ond thrifl of CONCRETE

Charlie Bucknor; Prophet .

Time flies so that you can never be sure, but it seems about twentyfive years ago that Charlie Buckner began telling us about p'lywood. "Plywood," said Charlie, "has not even scratched the surface of its possibilities."

Just the other day Charlie blew into the office again, and after relating in his straightforward manner numerous almost unbelievable things about plywood, he offered this entire'ly new and sage remark, "P-lywood," said Charlie, "has not even scratched the surface of its possibilities."

And the fact is that while plywood has probably made unsurpassed advances and improvements in the generation that elapsed between the first and the last time Charlie made,that remark to us, the statement stitl holds and stands. Plywood, after all that it has done, still stands at the gateway of its opportunity,.and what wonders it will work in days to come "no man knoweth."

Most of us know what plywood has done in the war effort. No known material has played a mightier part. In a thousand different and previously unheard-of ways, it has given us things to fight with. And the story is yet untold. But Charlie Buckner can tell you a lot of it. If you doubt ig spend an hour or so with Chirlie, and look, and listen.

For verily this Charlie Buckner is a prophet in his own right. And this is one time and place where the Biblical statement that "a prophet is not without honor save in his own country" doesn't hold water. In his own countrythe plywood production country-Charlie is known as prophet, engineer, economist, merchandiser, and all-around plywood specialist. He knows his stufi from all angles, scientific, practical, and otherwise. We have come to the conclusion after long years of watching and listening to him and then noticing how his opinions turn out, that he

Editorial)

comes about as near to knowing his stufi as any man we ever knew.

"There is no limit to the size plywood will some day be made," said Charlie to us a generation ago. Let's see how that statement worked out. Up in the plywood country recently the government wanted extra-long plywood for boat building. So a plywood plant made and delivered to the governmeirt contractor's trucks and trailers sheets of soli.d plywod, 46 feet long five feet wide, and one inch thick-waterproofed plywood. The length seems terrific, doesn't it? Yet the plywood folks can make it just as rnuch longer as anyone wants. The problem with plywood longer than that, of course, is delivery. They delivered this 46 foot stufr on trucks and trailers. But that is about as long as it can be handled. ff some way could be found to get it to where it wps needed they could rhake it one hundred feet, or even one thousand feet long. There is no limit. They simply take regular sheets of plywood, scarf the ends, slap some glue on them, run them through a machine, and they are perfectly jointed. If you want more length, just add more sheets.

Not long since we wrote in these columns about the great airplane that Howard Hughes is buitding out of Birch wood in California. That Birch is brought to the plant in thin sheets, glued, laminated, and built into plywood sheets some of them one hundred feet long, right there on the job. They are using the electric process of lamination. They glue the sheets of wood together, put electrodes on either side, turn on the juice, and presto! They have sheets of wood as solid as metal and as strong as fate. When they wairt to make long stuff they scarf the ends (which means cutting those ends on an angle), then glue the ends, slap them together, and put the electric juice to them. The ends join quickly and perfectly until death do them part.

Those are just examples of what is being done, and what can be done. But they show that Charlie Buckner a generation ago could see these things coming. He made numerous prophecies in those days in other directions, about

the various things that plywood would some day do. Well, it does them all now.

Now Charlie says that lamination by the electric method is here for sure, and that there is absolutely no limit on what will be done in that direc,tion. When you apply heat to the outside of wet wood the problem, as all men know, is to preserve the quality and character of the wood because the natural thing is for the outside to dry faster ;than the inside, thus causing checking, warping, and other wooden ills. But when'you put electrodes to both sides or ends of a piece of wet wood, every bit of that wood from center to surface gets the heat at the same time, thus eliminating those dangers Likewise it is done very quickly. Likewise, furthermore, when the wood is dry the electric juice has no further effect on the wood. Dry wood is a non-conductor. But in wet wood the moisture conducts the electricity through the fiber. When rthe moisture is gone, the electric current no longer penetrates.

Charlie says you can saw a piece of green tree limb, put an electrode on each end of the green wood, turn on the electricity, and in a couple of minutes the wood is bone dry. So he thinks the future of wood drying in that way is likervise a certainty.

And going back to the method now being used for making plywood sheets of any length desired, Charlie says that one of the improvements in the manufacture of all lumber that is coming in the near future is what he calls "spot welding" of wood. We will be able to weld the ends, the edges, the sides of boards together and make lumber as long and as wide as we please. We will be able to cut out de-

fective parts of boards, and spot-weld pieces of clear board in its place. For years the makers of boxes and crates have been able to cut out bad knots and replace them with good wood. In the days to come they will weld a piece of wood into a hole, leaving a perfect surface.

Don't say it's silly. It's smart and it's practical. That's what Charlie Buckner says, and the guy that contradicts Charlie's predictions and opinions about plywood is just sticking his neck out.

Want to bet?

Glenn Foglemcrn in Wcrshington, D. C.

Glenn Fogleman, manager of The California Door Co., Los Angeles, left November 24 on a 30-day trip to Washington, D. C. He is a member of the informal industry advisory committee of the stock millwork jobbing industry, representing Zone 10. He is accompanied by Mrs. Fogleman and they will spend Christmas with their daughter and son-in-law, Lieutenant and Mrs. J. E. Laurance, and their grandchildren. Lieut. Laurance is in the U. S. Naval Reserve, Bureau of Aeronautics.

Incidentally, it is interesting to note that Mr. Fogleman will complete 25 years' service with The California Door Company on December 15.

Lieut. Fcrrrier Penberthy on Lecrve

Lieut. Farrier Penberthy recently visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Penberthy of Penberthy Lumber Co. He was on a short leave on delayed orders, and is now attached to the loth Troop Carrier Command A. A. F.

That pistol packin' mama, Is every singer's queen; But what I'm tryin' to figure Is she Wac, Wave, or Marine?

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Speaking of Marines (and who, these days, does not speak of the Marines), there was one who was ambushed in a Pacific island jungle by a whole mess of Japs, and killed twenty of them in hand-to-hand confict. But when his pals got to hirn he was so goofy from his hurts that he couldn't even remember what part of Texas he came frorn tt*

This is a true story, I am told. An enlisted man who was allowed only limited service and refused all opportunity to get into the actual fighting, said "ff f can't go any other way, f'll go by bottle." So, while serving in his limited capacity in the arrny, he has given to the blood bank fourteen times.

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Those service women in their attractive uniforms were a novelty for a time, but there are so many of them now that they've become part oI the scenery. On the streets of San Francisco there seem to be nearl5r as many women in uniform as there are men-and the men are legion. But the other day I saw a demonstration of women in uniform that really made me stop and stare. It was a whole company of Wacs; and they were all Chinese girls. They were impressive, neat, trim, bright-faced women all of them. An unusually large number of them wore glasses. ***

The kids at school are learning, Their ABC's these days; But Mom and Pa must stay at home, And learn their OPA's.

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They sent us to school when we were kids to learn the three R's, Readin', Ritin'and'Rithmatic. And then we grew up and found ourselves learning the three R's all over, but this time they were a new group,-Regulation, Restriction, and Regimentation.

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Speaking of OPA, I'm sure that uncounted millions of American people opening their newspapers a few days back read with satisfaction and a whole lot of "I told you so's,, the report of a special committee of Congress on the results of their investigation of OPA. What they said couldn't have been rnore cornpletey prejudicial to OPA, and be said in nice words. They found that OPA has been unlawfulty and arrogantly usurping the powers of the courts of the land,

utilizing "unauthorized powers to legislate by regulation " and investing itself in powers never authorized by any law. The condemnation of the committee was Ororough and complete. They referred to OPA regulations as "absurd, illegal, and useless," so that the average citizen found it itmpossible to comply with them.

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That was music to the soul of many a man and woman who has been asking worriedly whether the Americ?n n8ture has been so changed and American manhood so stultified that they will continue to stand speechless and actionless in the face of things that they know all too well to be entirely and absolutely wrong. Everyone knows that OPA has abrogated to itself powers that the law never gave it, just as so many other of the arrogant bureaus are writing into their regulations and interpretations things that change completely the law passed by Congress. But here is one instance where it looks like the worm is about to tuflL There will be rnore than one hundred and thirty million people sympathizing with that Congressional report. Only the job-loving, power-hunting bureaucrats will be agin iL

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The labor situation now comes in for 4 share of our attention. f saw a big sign hanging in the window of a small cafe the other day, that read: "Congenial employer, 7 years in this location, would like to engage services of a dishwasher. Salary $1872 per year, plus laundry and our delectable meals." The catch in that sign is that they wantcd to hire a dishwasher by the year. They say n6ng qf 1f,d'r stay more than 48 hours TlI":"

But I saw another gign in another eating place that was attracting lots of attention, too. It read: "This place will be closed the day of Hitler's funeral."

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Some wag once said that even a clock that won't run is right twice every day. I'm leaning on that philosophy in my war predictions. I'm one of those terrible guys who thinks the German end of the war will soon be over, and keeps setting the date. Twice I've selected the date wheo I thought it would be over, and twice I've had to pay ofr. (I made some small wagers at long odds, see?) But I'll keep on predicting, and sooner or later the thing will catch up with me, and make my prediction come true.

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Good old Joe Stalin. First he hetped the German High Command straighten out their line several hundred times; and now it looks like he's going to help a lot of those homc-

sick Germen soldiers gct aU the way back to Berlin for christmas'

Trying to pass one of those new white pennies for a dime causes lots of embarrassment these days. But as far as that goes it's sort of embarrassing when you try to buy anything to speak of with a real dime. The story is getting a big play about the lady at the fruit and vegetable stand who, when her turn came, asked for two pears. The man handed them to her and said "Forty cents." She looked rather shocked, then handed him half a dollar and said: "Keep the change. I ate a grape while I was waiting." tl.**

Another Marine story is going the rounds. Two Marine aviators were forced down in the ocean, and were foating around in a rubber raft, when an enemy subrnarine surfaced close to them, and an officer ordered t\em to surrender and come aboard. One of them whispered to the other: "Act like we're going to su.rrender, and then when we get close to the sub, t"t" t"**t**

A story in a recent issue of The Saturday Evening Post concerning the trials of small business in this country, got a lot of reading from the lumber folks because much of the talk was about lumber problems. ft was good stuff. Most of it was true and logical, and related facts. But in one important phase the writer was wrong. He got the figures from Washington that have been printed many times before, concerning the thousands upon thousands of idle sawmills. And they are not true. There are not thousands of idle sawmills. As a matter of fact there are practically no idle mills that have a right to be listed as mills. I don't know a single saw:r:,ill idle that could or should be listed as a genuine nr,ill. I've written that before in these columns. And it's true.

Tho.se figures are based on the tremendous number of vory small sawmills that sprang into existence as a result of the enthusiastic war-made lumber market of the past few years. They came and went like the fowers that bloom in the spring, tra la. They, for the most part, had nothing on which to base their claim to being sawmills other than the desire to make some money cutting lumber. They had neither timber nor finances. And they soon folded their tents. But every time that happened someone statistically inclined listed it as a sawrnill that was closed down, and a potential maker of much-needed lumber if its problems could be ironed out. When, in fact, it was nothing of the kind. There are some that are not entirely on the hopeless side, that is true, but for the most part they had no business starting, and had no choice 0",'.a.:r"1.

But nothing in this world could possibly be done to rejuvenate and bring back into lurnber cutting activity the large majority of those mills. They remind me of the goofy rhyme of a few years back:

Yesterday upon the stair,

f saw a m:rn who wasn't there;

He wasn't there again today;

Why in Hell don't he go away?

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NIGHT AND DAY SAWS ARE SINGING

Continuous operation maintaitrs production ct Westwood. War demands hcve the right oI wcy but Red River's resecrch cnd plcrnning will provide improved products and seryice when peqce restores normal trcde.

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Only in this case those who hear the figures of closed mills and do not understand the facts of the situation ask eagerly what can be done to get those mills going again. The answer is, nothing. You will understand that for the most part I am speaking of ttre lumber industry in the Southern states where most of these alleged shut-down mills are located. Small mills do not come and go in the lumber industry of the West like they do in the South. lfiills have to be too big, have too much equipment, have timber actually in sight. In the So{th for tfre past several years a man gets.hold of a smdl jag of second-growth Pine, Btarts a mill and hopes that the land owners of the district will bring him in logs to keep the mill running. Perhaps they do for a short time, and then the end comes.

But that isn't all. B""l :;" of commercial timber, small though the tract may be, knows the value of those trces to the lumber industry. Competition between the mills has forced the price of Southern Pine stumpage to unheard-of-heights. Second-growth Yellow Pine is like solid gold on the market today. So high is stumpage that only the best and most efficient mills can pay going prices and sell their lumber under the ceiling and at a profit. So the mills that cut their own trees can do well under the present setup. But the small and inefficient mill that has to pay ten to fifteen dollars a thousand for small timber on the stunp, then has to log it and manufacture it, just can't get under the ceiling. Which brings up another much-talked of subject; the black market in lumber, most of which is accomplished by up-grading.

Suffice it to say that the little mill that has to pay the going price for Yellow Pine stumpage and the going wages for labor, cannot in his inefficient mill, manufacture lumber and sell it at the ceiling price, and get by. Therefore innu.merable casualties in this class, even where timber is available. Such a mill must either quit, or go into the black market. Most of them have quit. But there are no reputable lumber manufacturers operating in the black market. Operating under terrific difficulties the sound sawmill men of the South and elsewhere are hitting the ball harder than ever in their lives, and turning every possibte trick to turn out lumber for Uncle Sam, while scrapping for a margin of profit for themselves. But when someone tells you about

those ten thousand idle sawmills, you can tell them there just ain't no such animal. All genuine mills are operating; with just enough exceptions a: OT"" the rule.

When historians list the outstanding victories of 1943, they will undoubtedly mention John L. Lewis. He battled the government, the press, and most of the people all through the year. He was criticized and vilified as few Americans have ever been. It seemed as though the tide of recrimination would destroy him. The government told him what he must do "or else." He didn't do it, and he didn't "else" either. He stuck to his guns, and when the smoke of battle cleared a\pay recently it was found that he had gotten all he asked for; some say he got even more. Everyone got hurt except John. The mine owners, innocent victims, sufrered the loss of their properties through most of the year. The public will suffer through increased coal prices. The government sufrered through complete loss of face. John evidently knew all the time that the gun pointed at his head wasn't loaded- Either that or the gun-holder had pardysis of the trigger finger. Many lessons may be learned from the John L. Lewis battle of 1943, not the least important of which is, never pull a gun unless you've got the nerve to use it.

Pcul Kent Grcducrtes as Pilot

Paul E. (Ed) Kent, son of Paul Kent, who is associated with E. U. Wheelock, Inc., Los Angeles, was graduated as a pilot with the rank of Lieutenant at Williams Field, Chandler, Ariz., November 3. He is now completing his training for night flying.

Ed is a godson of Mr. Wheelock, who takes a great interest in his career.

Hcrrry Vincent. ,. Vetercnr

If you shoul'd happen to be a friend of Harry Vincent, and on December 3, 1943, should happen to see or call him, just say-"Hello, Veteran." Because on that day "Smiling" Harry Vincent will celebrate the thirty-fifth anniversary of his association with the E. K. Wood Lumber Company. He'Jined up" with that excellent lumber concern at Bellingham, Wash., December 3, 1908, and has been with them ever since, for many years Vice President and General Manager, at San Francisco.

Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 Chrictmar Pcrty Newly Developcd Doorr Save Inrtallation Time

The annual Christmas partyof East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 will be held in the Leamington Bowl, Hotel Leamington, Oakland, on Friday evening, December 17. Dinner will be served at 6:39 p.m.

Bill Chatham has charge of the program and promises a first class show. A large attendance of members and guests is expected.

I. B. Bishop Visits Los Angeles

J. B. (Jack) Bishop, sales manager of Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., Klamath Falls, Ore., recently spent a week in Los Angeles on business for his firm. He was accompanied on the trip by his wife.

Mr. Bishop succeeded W. A. Constans, who was sales manager for Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. at Klamath Falls for 13 years, and is now general manager of Anglo California Lumber Co., wholesale lumber distributors, Los Angeles.

At this time when the saving of time is such a vital factor in war housing construction, Whtieler Osgood, the largest manufacturer of doors in America, has developed a brand new type door designed by the company's stafi of engineers to save installation time.

"Tru-Sized" doors, as the new product is called, are tailor-made to exact book measurements. They are delivered on a job ready to install without sawing or planing. TruSized doors are made without the usual overhang allowed for protection in handling,'and excess length that has to be sawed off to make a door fit. Instead, the new doors are manufactured to fit perfectly. Necessary protection for shipping is provided by plywood scufiers, which are easily removed just before the doors are installed.

Another time-saving feature is that Tru-Sized doors can be ordered completely machined for standard locks and hinges. A guide sheet for specifying measurements for machining is available from Wheeler Osgood Sales Corporation, Tacoma, Wash.

For strength and durability, Tru-Sized doors are made of old-growth Douglas Fir, which is highly resistant to marring. Only heartwood, vertical grain Fir is used, and this fine wood can be finished in a variety of ways-painted, stained or finished natural.

War housing projects are taking most of the present supply of these new doors, but limited quantities are available .for other essential uses.

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He Knew the Answer

A group of good-natured soldiers .were milling around outside the army camp gate waiting for the bus to take them into town, and the jests rolled out thick and fast. They were right in the midst of picking on each other when a small country boy, leading a little donkey and clinging tight to the bridle, started to pass. It was too good a chance for the soldiers to pass up. They gathered round the boy and donkey in a grinning circle, and started mak-

Eubcnk Mcrkes Plqnt Improvements

As a result of a directive from the U. S. Army that all plywood used in packing boxes for aircraft has to be dipped, L. H. Eubank & Son recently installed at their factory, 433 West Redondo Boulevard, Inglewood, dipping vats for this purpose, also a hoist to handle the loads to be dipped. The new building now being erected will add considerably to the floor space under cover at this plant, making a total of about 24,M square feet under roof.

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ing joking remarks. Finally one of them asked:

"Boy, what are you holding so tight to your brother's bridle for?"

The country boy said:

"To keep him from enlisting."

And let it be said in favor of the joking soldiers that their laughter fairly shook the earth.

Visit Los Angeles

Gerald F. Wetzel, resident sales manager of the McCloud River Lumber Co., McCloud, Calif., and Mrs. Wetzel, were recent Los Angeles visitors. They had a short visit with one of their sons who is stationed at the Santa Ana Air Base.

Mr. Wetzel, and L. S. Turnbull of Los Angeles, Southern California representative for the Shevlin Pine Sales Company, spent a few days calling on the trade.

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Jrclc Dionnc Talltr at Oalcland Mccting Croggett Lumber Co. Given "Ett Award

There was an attendance ot 125 lumbermen at the dinner meeting of East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39, held in the Leamington Bowl, Hotel Leamington, Oakland, November 10.

D. Normen Cords, the Club's president, presided, and John Helm was program chairman.

Jack Dionne, publisher of The California Lumber Mercharlt, and Jimmy Phelan, football coach of St. Mary's Collfge, were the speakers.

Other guests at the head table were Lieut. Maurice Angly, rU. S. Navy, who is owner of the Maurice Angly Lumber .Company, Houston, Texas, and Marty Kordick, assistarrt coach at St. Mary's College.

Prizes in a drawing were won by Bob Grant, Glenn Warner and Fritz Dettmann.

Lumbermen from out of town who were present included the following: E. S. McBride, Davis Lumber Co., Davis, Calif.; Henry Gilbert, Sierra Mill & Lumber Co., Sacramento; Earle Johnson, Watsonville Lumber Co., Watsonville;; Ralph Gilbert, Noah Adams Lumber Co., Fairfield; Z. T. Thorning, Gray-Thorning Lumber Co., Redwood City; Jim McKeon, Redwood City; Al Hansen, S. H. Chase Lumber Co., San Jose; O. H. Carter, Lumber Distribdtors, Inc., Stockton; Nels E. Nelsen, Hayward Mill & Lumber Co., Hayward; C. D. Le Master, Western Building Review, Sacramento; L. W. Calvert, Lumber Dis'tributors, Inc., Stockton; Reed Hicken, United Lumber Yards, Modesto.

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GHROiIATED ZIlIC CHT(|RIDE RE TREATED tUiIBER

Col. Fred G. Sherrill, chief of the Materials and Equip ment Branch, Construction Division, office of the chief of engineers, presented the Army-Navy "E" award for excellence in production to the officials of the Sawmill Division, Crossett Lumber Company, in ceremonies at Crossett, Ark., Saturday afternoon, November 13.

A graduate of the United States Military Academy, Colonel Sherrill served several years in Arizona. From 1922 to 1926, he was on duty with the Military Intelligence Division, general staff, in Washington. Resigning from the Army in 19%, Colonel Sherrill was engaged in the cotton business. He was assigned to his present post upon recall to the army in 1942.

Assisting in the presentation was Pfc. Ernest T. Van Hoozer, a veteran of the Pacific theater of war, now recuperating from battle wounds at the Borden General Hospital, Chickasha, Okla. A native of Rushville, Missouri, he received his basic training at Camp Robinson. He was ordered overseas in Octo,ber, 1942, and was stationed in New Zealand and New Caledonia before he participated in the Guadalcanal and New Georgia campaigns, where he was wounded and received the Purple Heart.

Governor Adkins attended the ceremonies.

Army-Navy "E" pins were presented to employees by Lt. Comdr. W. S. Thomson, commander of the Naval Officers Reserve Training School at Monticello A. and M. College. Sam C. Sailor accepted for the employees. Other sawmill division employees who participated were Mrs. E. J. Oakleaf, Mrs. R. II. Berry, H. L. Ashcroft, William Townsend and Clarence Hatcher.

Chief Justice Griffin Smith of the Arkansas Supreme Court was master of ceremonies. The Rev. Wilford M. Lee, pas' tor of the First Baptist Church of Crossett, delivered the invocation.

Scv-A-Spcce Doors Widely Used

Sav-A-Space Sliding Doors, manufactured in Southern California by A. J. Koll Planing Mill, Ltd', Los Angeles, are being used in many housing projects and other Government structures all over the country.

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'Meow" Mckes Its Bow

The first issue of "Meow," monthly publication of HooHoo Club No. 39, Oakland, made its apPearance in November. Edited by the publicity committee, of which Frank Brown is the chairman, it will give all the news of Club activities. The editorial in the first issue describes it as "an orphan, born in the elusive brain of dur esteemed President, placed before a weary board of directors, and legally adopted by the usual democratic process with which members are so familiar."

The publicity committee will welcome literary contributions and suggestions for the improvement of the publication.

"One oI Oru Cities Is Missing"

The war has produced no better bit of sarcasm than one credited to the public relations force of the American Eighth Army Air Force in London. They get so sick of reading the lying reports coming out of Berlin concerning American air attacks on Germany that they have written and circulated the following "model German communique for Berlin's future use":

"Large formations of huge American bombers at-r tempted to penetrate Western Germany today, but were driven off by our brave fighter pilots. Fortyseven enemy bombers were shot down. Only one of our fighters lost. ONE OF OUR CITIES IS MISSING."

Southern Cclilornic De<rlers Plcrn Convention For lanuqry or Februcrry

The Southern California Retail Lumbermen's Association has decided not to attempt holding their annual convention before Christmas as had been tentatively planned, but to postpone it until shortly after the new year. While no attempt has been made as yet to set the date, Orrie Hamilton thinks it will be the latter part of January or the early part of February. Plans will be announced later, but a two-day meeting is contemplated.

Chrishncs Trees

ODT instructs its motor transport district offices to deny truck operators extra gasoline for movement of Christmas trees. Truck operators who have hauled them in other years and have sufficient gasoline nmy haul them this year, ODT says.

Hello Mcrilyrrl

Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Slaght are receiving congratulations on the recent birth of a baby daughter, Marilyn Kay, at the Hollywood Hospital. Mr. Slaght is manager of the Los Angeles warehouse of T. M. Cobb Co.

Sid Dcnling Visits Ios Angeles

Sid Darling, New York City, secretary of the NationalAmerican Wholesale Lumber Association, met with the Los Angeles membership at a luncheon held at the Jonathan Club on November 3. E. U. Wheelock presided at the meeting.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association's Home Planning Institute

There are sound reasons why the West Coast lumber industry should take the lead in home planning and home promotion. For three years, sawmills of the Douglas fir region have poured ,two-thirds of their production into the war. Our old time distributors and customers, and particularly the retail lumber yards, have been put on very short rations. One of the heavy sacrifices of the war has fallen upon the retail lumber distributor. His market has largely been taken from him by restrictions on building and his source of supply has been cut ofr by war priorities. The casualty list of retail lumber yards is serious.

The manufacturers of lumber have a direct interest in restoring and re-energizing the retail lumber business. When Uncle Sam quits commandeering our product, we will be r'ight back knocking at the 'doors of the retail distributors, with our hats in our hands. \Me, therefore, should do everything within our power both to recreate business for the retail lumber dealer and to restore his interest in our particular products. With all the new war plant capacities and technologies seeking new fields of conquest, there wil,l be plenty of fresh competition in supplying the home-building materials of the future. If lumber is the leader in the American home, as we have vociferously claimed, the time for us to show it is right now. The sawmills of the Wes,t Coast-the Douglas fir region-have put more of their production into the war than any other regional group of mills in the United States I and have-to a corres,ponding degree-lost trade standing and contacts with former retail distributors. It certainly behooves us to move aggressively, at the earliest possible time, to restore these old connections and reestablish a common interest in marketing West Coast lumber. I know of no better way to do this than by cooperating with them ,in planning and promoting home bui,l'ding-which again will be our largest peacetime market.

Among all the possible fields of post-war planning, we will all agree-f believe----on the desirability of encouraging people to p,lan ,for home building. It is a form of planning that directly aids the prosecution of the war, by encouraging people to buy war bonds as a nest egg for the post-war home. Home building is .one of the simples,t and most obvious activities which can be launched in any American community as soon as labor and materials are available. ft requires no overall programming by the nationa'l g'overnmen't; no federal subsidies or pump prim-

itrg. It is a self-starter ready to spring from the grass roots of every American community. Moreover, home planning and home building fit admirably the temper of the American people as we think of the return of peace. It is a splendid antidote for the strain and fever of war. It is just the sort of thing that will appeal to the men returning from the armed forces. It expresses in itself a large part of the American way of life for which we are fighting.

From the more practical side, home building ranks high as a means to post-war economic stability. The building trades in the United States number upwards of three million men. When you add the number of men employed in lumber and other building material industries and in furniture making and all the other household equipment and appliances, it will be difficult to find any other source of employment so large in the aggregate or so widespread in its ramifications. It is doubtful if any better preventive of monetary inflation could be devised than to get hundreds of thousands of American families; first, saving for a home and secondly, paying for their home through installments over a period of years.

To those of us who hope that private enterprise will continue to be the main spring of ,the American way of life after the war, home building offers an immediate opportunity to put private enterprise at work. Among the postwar plans which are a-brewing at Wash,ington, D. C., there are very targe projects for federalized housing. There is apparently a housing philosophy that wants to project the so-called slum clearance projects which we wi'tnessed before the war and the emergency defense housing which we are witnessing today, into a permanent national policy of socialized home building by grace of federal appropriations, federal architectural boards, ,federal contractors and all the paraphenalia of centralized bureaucracy. Certainly one way to defeat that kind of post-war planning is to apply an antidote in every "Middlesex, village and shire." That is, get busy on private home building, privately financed, working with the town contractor and the town lumber yard, just as soon as the turn of war gives us an opening. The best way to stop socialized housing is to step right out with a vigorous, universal revival of private housing. Thereby, we will not only prove that federalized housing is unnecessary; we will help create civic and political opinion against it.

ft seems likely that the war will be followed by a period of active home building, with or without benefit of planning. It will flow from the reservoir of unsatisfied home needs during the war and from the accumulation of war earnings and savings. You may ask: Why bother to interest people in home planning? Let nature take its course.

It.is my view that "The Lord helps ,those who help them-

selves;" that the industries which manufacture building materials should not just wait for such plums as may fall in their laps but move aggressively to create a peacetime market to rqrlace our war market. With the best we can do there will be serious strains and dislocations in changing over from war business to peace business. The more rapidly we can create peace-time demands for labor and industrial products and services, the easier will this adjustment become. I view it as a challenge to American business an'd to our vaunted system of private enterprise. It is certain-that if American business does not work it out, .the government will attempt to do so with all manner of federal programs, pump priming, socialized housing, and so on.

The Home Planning Institute now in "pilot plant" operation at Portland, Oregon, is a training school for ourselves and the groups associated with us in learning how best to do this kind of job. It is also a factory for making the working tools necessary to an effective job. The idea, which originated with the F4uitable Savings and Loan Association, is simply to try out a plan for inducing people to make systematic savings towards a home, through the purchase of war bonds; and at the same time for educating them and holding their ,interest in home building through a series of group lectures and discussions on important phases of the home. These class discussions are led by experts in home financing, in the selection of a home site, in designing a home, in the materials used in home building, in home appliances and conveniences, in furnishing a home, in home landscaping and gardening, and so on. The only

ticket of admission is that each reg'istrant shall undertake some definite plan, through monthly savings or otherwise, for financing the first payment on his home. We are cooperating with a Savings and Loan Association; and through it with the U. S. Savings and l-oan League in which some 5,000 Savings and Loan Associations are organized throughout the United States.

But the program does not imply any limitations whatever on the methods of financing which any home builder may adopt. We hope that the plan we are testing out in Portland may ultimately command every kind of sound home financing in the country, from strictly local loans made by the village banker to the F.H.A. insured loans under the National Housing Act. But we do want vigorously to aid the movement throughout the United States for private home financing as distinguished from government-built housing.

During the class discussions at Portland, which evidently will be repeated a good many times in that town, we are accumulating and testing a lot of valuable material on home planning-the lectures given by top men in the various phases of home planning; the problems of greatest interest brought out in class discussions; the newspaper advertisements, trolley and bus cards and radio broadcasts which we are employing to gather in the folks; the slogans, the newspaper stories and editorials; everything else that has a bearing upon the success of such an undertaking. As all of this material is tested and retested, we are accumulating a portfolio that should be of real service to the next

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Do you realize your boy in the services wcts rocked in c WOODEN CRADLE; Ied from a WOODEN HIGH CIIAI& plcryed on a WOODEN HORSE housed in cr WOODEN HOUSB billeted in WOODEI{ BAnBACKS; trcined with cr WOODEN GtlN; supplied with brecd, bombs cnd bullets in WOODEN BOXES. He wcs sent cshore in a WOODEN BOAT, ctrd right now he is knocking the devil out of WOODEN HEIDS all over the world.

NATHAN GOMPANY

Men (Author Unknown)

Men are what womcn marry. They have two hands, two feet, and sgmetimes two wives, but never more than one dollar or one idea at a time. Like Turkish cigarettes, they are dl made of the same material The only difference is some are better disguised than others.

Generally speaking, they may be divided into three classes: husbands, bachelors, and widowers.

A bachelor is an eligible mass of obstinacy entirely surrounded by suspicion.

Husbands are of three tntes: prizes, consolation prizes, and surprises.

Making a husband out of a tnan is one of the highest forms of plastic art known to civilizatin. It requires science, sculpture, common sense, faith, hope, and charity. Mostly charity.

It is a psychological marvel that a small, tender, soft, violet-scented woman enjoys kissing a big, awkward, stubchinned, tobacco and rum scented thing called man.

If you f,atter a man, you frighten him to death. If you don't, you bore hinl to death. If you permit him to make love to you, he gets tired of you in the end, and if you don't he gets tired of you in the beginning.

ff you agree with him in everSrthing, you cease to interest him. If you arguc with him on everything, you ccase to charm him-

If you believe all he tells you he thinks you're a fool, and if you don't he thinks you're a cynic.

ff you wear gay colors, rouge, and startling hats, he hesitates to take you out. But if you wear a brown beret and a tailored suit, he takes you out and then stares all evening at a lady in gay colors, rouge, and a startling hat.

If you ioin in the gaieties and approve of his drinking, he swears you are driving him to the devil. If you argue with him to give up drinking, he swears you are a snob and naive.

If you are a clinging vine type, he doubts whether you have a brain in your head, and if you are modern, advanced and independent he doubts whether you have a heart.

ff you are silly, he longs for a bright mate, and if you are brilliant, he longs for a playmate.

Man is just a wormi in the dust. fle comes along, wiggles around for a while, and finally some chicken gets him.

No Kidding

The disgusted patron said to the restaurant waiter: "Waiter, this beef stew hasn't enough beef in it to even give it a flavor."

The waiter said: "Sir, it isn't supposed to give it a flavor; we just put in enough to grve it a namc."

The Lcst Word

A very wise man of precision, Of woman gave this definition:

"A rag, a bone, and a hank of hair." But woman, not willing to be outdone, Defined a man, to complete the pun:

"A nag, a drone, and a tank of air."

Turn About

Federal Judge T. H. Kennerly, of Houston, was on the train to San Antonio, and found the porter on his car to be an old acquaintance. They were only about half way to San Antonio when the porter came around with his broorn and brush, and said:

'Jedge, can't f brush you off? 'We'se comin' into Victoria."

"f don't get off at Victoria, George," said Judge Kennerly.

The porter said: "Nossuh, Jedge, but I does."

The Judge grinned, and said:

"All right, George. Then I'll brush you."

The Ceindle

Only one life, so live it well, And keep thy candle trimmed and bright; Eternity, not time, will tell, The radius of that candle light.

A Smcrrt Answer

-Sadie Mathers Miller.

He was taking his examination for a driver's license, and when the officer asked him:

"\ll/hat would you do if you were driving at high speed and your brakes failed to work?"

And he answered:

"Hit something cheap."

That wasn't the regular answer, but a mighty good substitute.

Recollections

I remember, I remember, Ere r4y childhood fitted by, It was cold then in December, It was warmer in July. In the winter there were freezings, In the summer th€re were thaws, But the weather isn't now at all Like it used to was.

A ScIe Crcrck

And then there was the burglar who decided to get his eyes fitted for glasses when he started twirling the knobs on a safe one night, and a jazz band started playing.

Home Planning Institutc

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community or group which may want to do the same thing.

We are planning to extend the experiment to another Western center where the retail lumber dealers are organized to carry it on I to another 'that has a strong local organization of builders; and to yet another town in which a university with a strong architectural school is located. In the latter place the design is to have the university sponsor the program as one of community education.

That is, we are making a kit of good tools with which various types of community Home Planning Institutes may be formed. It is our purpose when results from the Portland pilot plant are all in, to have this kit of tools put in a portfolio on Home Planning; duplicated in quantity; and made available at cost of publication to retail lumber dealers, Savings and Loan Assoc'iations, groups of real'tors, to any companies or orgnizations who will use it in home planning by the people of their own community.

The Western Retail Lumbermen's Association and the National Lumber Manufacturers Association are cooperating with the West Coast in this Portland tryout. We will naturally turn to ,the lumber groups of manufacturers and retail distributors throughout the United States, in our extension of the plan. But, like the gentle rain from heaven, it will be available to anyone who will take it and put it to work. By that means, we expect to obtain for this program a really wide, national application. That is one reason why we started in mid-summer of 1943, before anyone could predict when private home building will become possible. We would like to have many thousands of American families ready and pulling at the leash. Present indications are that there will be little difficulty in obtaining wide application of the idea. We are now embarrassed by requests for information and material before we are prepared to furnish it.

The results of the two months start in Portland indicate an alert public response. Advertising the Home Planning Institute has brought close to 900 inquiries and the enrollments for classes are nearly 200. Each class is limited to 50 with its overflow of wives and sweethearts; and it has

been necessary since the plan took efiect to start an additional class about every week.

Obviously, this program cannot be diverted to the promotion of particular building materials. 'We are out to plan and build homes. We believe that West Coast timber products, lumber, shingles and plywood will get their share of business out of every thousand additional homes that are built; and we invite the cooperation of other building materials in supporting and extending this kind of home planning. We don't believe that lumber will lose ground by taking the lead in the movement.

All of this is about a very simple idea. It is also a very old idea. Home planning has been going on in the world ever since the first chilly evening in ,the Garden of Eden. But, however old and familiar, this 'is something that we can do, in each community, as a common sense preparatiorr for the change-over from war to peace. There are many portentous postwar problems through which we can not yet see our way. Here is something that can be done ,by the plain business folk in every American community. But the aggregate of two or three thousand community efiorts to resume home building may go a long way in solving a lot of postwar problems.

Bcrck From Harrqii

Stuart Smith, formerly associated with Ed Fountain Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and now with the OpA, Lumber Division, arrived in San Francisco November 8 by Clipper from Honolulu, where he had been for the last three months on Government business. He spent a few days in San Francisco and Los Angeles and went on to Washington.

"Shcres oI Hcrppiness"

Jack Wood is chairman of the Christmas Fellowship Fund of East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club this yeaq and is now receiving subscriptions to this fund.

"Shares of Happiness" are $1.50 each. Checks should be sent to J. B. Wood, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., 2lll Frederick St., Oakland 6. Calif.

IIACKIN LUilBER CO.

Northecrstern Hcrrdwood Lumber

The maximum price for mixed hardwoods dunnage or No. 4 common lumber produced in the Northeastern hardwood region was increased from $12.00 to $20.00 per thousand board feet, f.o.b. mill, the Office of Price administration announced. Amendrnent 3 to MPR 368, effective November 72.

Logs and Bolts

Continuing its program for setting dollars and cents ceiling prices for logs and bolts in various areas of the country, in response to petitions of buyers, OPA issues maximum prices for logs in some counties of southwestern Alabama and southeastern Mississippi. (MPR 348, Amendment 14), effective Nov. 26.

Hcrrdware Supplies

Supplier'of wholesale hardware and other goods covered under Limitation Order L-63 who are required to keep inventory records no longer need file form WPB-825, the WPB announces( Order L-63 as amended), issued Nov.12.

Concrete

Persons engaged in manufacture of lightweight aggregates, ready-mixed concrete and pre-mixed bituminous concrete, the WPB says, are eligible to use the MRO symbol and the AA-2 preference rating assigned by CMP Regulation 5 to obtain maintenance, repair and operating supplies (Interpretation 10 to CMP Regulation 5), issued Nov.9.

Mixed Hcrdwoods

The OPA sets uniform prices for all producers of mixed hardwoods, No. 1 dimension and No. 2 dim,ension, in the central hardwood region. (I{aximum Price Regulation 155, Amendment 10), effective Nov. 15.

Yellow Poplcn Aircrcdt Lumber

The general conservation order which controlled the dis,tribution of yellow poplar aircraft lumber is revoked, by the WPB, thus releasing yellow poplar logs for butter tubs and paddles, agricultgral implements and other essential uses (revocation of General Conservation Order M-279), issued Nov. 18.

Controlled Matericls

The WPB said provisions of CMP Regulation No. 1 do not prevent producers from accepting pieces of paper upon which purchase orders are written although the orders are not authorized.

Prelerence Rcrtings

Rules governing the use of preference ratings are clarified by WPB in a complete revision of Priorities Regulation 3 which reorganizes and simplifies the wording of the regulation as well as making some changes in substance. (Revision of Priorities R6gulation 3), issued Nov. 19.

Construction

Applicants for construction costing less than $10,000 are advised by the WPB that they will save time by filing form WPB-257O with WPB district offices instead of sending their applications to Washington, WPB.

Logs

Dollars and cents ceiling prices are established by OPA for logs bought and sold in Florida. (MPR 348, Am,endment 15), effective Nov. 26.

Lumber

Uniform price control at the wholesale and retail levels, on aromatic red cedar and certain types of tidewater red cypress lumber is anounced by the OPA (MPF- 467, in-

cluding Amendment l), issued Nov. 18.

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A Soldier Speaks

Maude Harget in the Washington Times-Herald

So you're sick of the way the country's run, And you're sick of the way the rationing's done, And you're sick of standing around in a line, You're sick, you say-well, that's just fine.

So am I sick of the sun and the heat, And I'm sick of the feel of my aching feet, And I'm sick of the mud and the jungle flies, And I'm sick of the stench when the night mists rise, And I'm sick of the siren's wailing shriek, And I'm sick of the groans of the wounded and weak, And I'm sick of the sound of the bomber's dive, And I'm sick of seeing the dead alive.

I'm sick of the roar and the noise and the din, I'm sick of the taste of food from a tin, And I'm sick of the slaughtsl-l'rn sick to my soul, I'm sick of playing a killer's role. And I'm sick of blood and of death and the smell, And I'm even sick of myself as well.

But I'm sicker still of a tyrant's rule, And conquered lands where the wild beasts drool, And I'm cured damn quick when I think of the day, When all this hell will be out of the wan When none of this mess will have been in vain, And the lights of the world will blaze again, And things will be as they were before, And kids will laugh in the streets once more, And the Axis' flags will be dipped and furled, And God looks down on a peaceful world.

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Meeting

Jack Dionne, publisher of The California Lumber Merchant, was the speaker at the monthly m,eeting of the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club at the University Club, Tuesday noon, November 23. There were 100 in attendance.

Vicegerent Snark Dee Esslsy announ.cecl that a golf tournament and Christmas party will be held at the Riviera Club on Friday, December, 17. tle also advised that a course in Wood Technology is to be given at the University of Southern California, classes will be held in the evening, and the first meeting is to be held on December 2.

Roy Stanton was chairman of the meeting.. Servicemen present were Major William Edwards, Captain Russell Johnson, and Air Cadet Ray Van lde.

Will Serve on Advisory Comrnittee

Carl Hornibrook, sales manag'er, Ewauna Box Company, Klamath Falls, Oregon, has been named a member of a Nailed Wooden Box Industry Advisory Committee to con_ sult with OPA on pricing matters or problems in the box field whenever they arise, according to an announcement by the Office of Price Administration.

Scrn Frcrncisco Visitor

Val Larsen, manager of the Burns Lumber Company and also the Burns Steamship Company, Los Angele.,-*", a recent business visitor in San Francisco.

TIAB PAINT..rAnothcr Buitding Material Pointr with Pride...(An Editorial)

When you get to telling about building materials that have done a swell job in the war effort, the folks that make paint speak up in loud and definite tones about what their product has done and is doing. And by the time they get done pointing with pride to their accomplishments you realize that the fellow who gets the top award has just naturally got paint to beat. For truly, paint is hot stuff.

They have just opened to the public in Washinglon, D. C., an exhibit in the Hotel Statler that they call "Paint at'War," in which it is demonstrated that paint is really a warrior bold. The National Paint, Varnish & Lacquer Association sponsors the show. Ernest T. Trigg is president of the Association, and paint's greatest booster in his own right.

This exhibit demonstrates that paint has done more than just operate its factories to capacity in order to fill orders for paint. When the government started its all-out production for war, paint got a call that brought that industry right up on its toes, and kept it there. What they wanted of paint (they meaning the army and navy and all sidelines of the war effort) was entirely new paints, with new characteristics and virtues, capable of meeting and beating conditions hitherto unheard of in that industry. New techniques were needed to meet new climatic conditions. The Polar regions needed one kind of paint, the desert needed another, the Western Pacific still another, and besides that there were still others. They needed paint to improve the science of camouflage, to replace critical war materials of various sorts that were no longer available.

But that wasn't all the new and different and startling things that the pain't producers were called upon to do through the medium of their engineers, their chemists, their laboratories, and their tryout departments. Heavens no ! The following are a few of the important undertakings they found thrust uPon them:

Develop a preservative film with average tolerance of one ten-thousan'dth of an inch to make possible the con-

version from brass to steel shell cases, thus saving enormous quantities of brass and copper.

Develop for tanks and other military equipment a lusterless drab enamel with low specular reflection, which scatters light and thus eliminates revealing glints that the enemy might see.

Develop bomb coatings capable of withstanding all possible exposures including immersion for 18 hours in cold water without fading softening, checking, or changingcolor, or acquiring any sheen that might attract attention of enemy airmen.

Develop a paint to coat the cans of .food the army uses, so that they will blend with 'the terrain and thus tell no tales to the enemy overhead.

Develop a paint communication code whereby difrerent color paints are used on packing cases to denote the destination of the shipments, and even to show the contents.

Development of three different types of de-icing compounds which help prevent formation of ice on the wings of a plane.

Development of new types of paint for ships' bottoms which conserve fuel consumption, increase speed, and drastically reduce number of cleanings of ships' bottoms.

Develop matching colors for Navy subs varying from green and grey to near black, to match the waters in which they operate.

The above are just a few of the unusual things that paint was called upon to do to help the army and navy. They did them all. The paint industry was wonderfully converted from peace to war, and the job of development and then of producing the goods has been accomplished without a single setback. It would be difficult to overestimate the number of billions of units of military equipment and supply that have been given paint protection since the war started. Few things from planes to packages go unpainted.

When paint takes the warpath, it means business.

Amendment to RMPR 284--We*ern

Primary Forest Products

Sellers of poles and piling produced in western United States have been authorized to add a mark-up of 25' per cent, rather than 10 per cent, to basic maximum prices in sales of the two items in less-than-carload lots, the Office of Price Administration announced.

The 10 per cent mark-up, which the 25 per cent mark-up replaces, was authorized August 2 of. this year when spe- cific dollars-and-cents ceilings for Western poles and piling,became effective. At that time, OPA set the markup at 10 per cent-the customary mark-up allowed for retail type sales by a lumber mill-pending further price study. Since August 2 it has been determined that a larger mark-up is required.

The 25 per cent mark-up, OPA said, is expected to make poles and piling available for l.c.l. sales.

"Failure to allow at least a 25 per cent mark-up would seriously threaten the supplying of less-than-carload orders in several districts where new and localized war activities require the material in smaller-than-ordinary quantities,,, OPA added. "The measure also will insure continuance of needed l.c.l. supply service to transportation, communication and utility companies."

Poles today are used chiefly for telephone, telegraph and electric light overhead line construction.

Piling is used principally in the construction of bridges, docks, shipyards, and buildings in locations where solid foundation footing otherwise is not obtainable.

The largest sellers of poles and piling in l.c.l. amounts are treating plants which apply preserva,tives to the two iterqs to prevent decay. The most frequent purchasers in l.c.l. Iots are railroad and other transportation concerns, telephone, telegraph and electric power companies, and war'construction contraciors.

The new mark-up is applicable to l.c.l. sales of poles and piling produced in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming, certain counties in Oklahoma and Texas, and in Mexico and Canada.

OPA also announced that in sales of less than truckload of poles or piling, the minimum transpor,tation charge of a 10,00Gpound shipment by private truck may be made,

regardless of the weight of the shipment. previously only transportation for the exact weight of the shipment could be charged the buyers.

In a furrther price action, a specific addition of. 7rl cents per pole is established for any additional branding or marking beyond the manufacturei's brand showing fear mark, and class and length of pole for which there is no charge. Previously additional branding maximums were on a percentage ,basis, permitting charges ranging from 5 cents to around 4O cents per pole.

In a price change in another Western primary forest product, OPA announced an increase of. 6r/a cents each f.rom Sft cen'ts in the ceiling for one-inch by 3-inch by l8-inch mine wedges. The increase places these wedges on the same cents-per-board-foot basis as other mine wedges.

The one-inch by 3-inch by l8-inch wedges, used in shoring up mine walls and ceilings, are essential in mining, and because the old ceiling was on a lower board-foot basis than other wedges, there was a possibility that production of this size wedge might be stopped.

(Foregoing price changes made in Amendment No. 2 to Revised Maximum Price Regulation No. 284 (Western Primary Forest Products), and became efiective November 27,1943).

With Albert A. Kelley

.Victor J. Herrman, formerly manager of Tilden Lumber Co., Berkeley, and for the past several years with Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco, is now associated with Albert A. Kelley, wholesale lumber dealer. Alameda.

Moul.ling, Lcunincrted Plcstic ProdustE

The AA-1 preference rating has been made available to producers of moulding and laminating plastic products, the WPB announces, by placing such producers on Schedule 1 of CMP Regulation 5 and removing them from Schedule II.

FIIA Insurcnce Volume

Involving 1683 residential units, Southern. California lending institutions filed applications during October with the Federal Housing Administration for mortgage insur_ ance totaling more than $11 million. Approximately $9 mil_ lion of this volume represents applications for insurance on mortgages for new war housing construction, and is 50 per cent greater than the total for October, 1942.

Tfestern Hardwood lumber Co. Employees Thrilled by

Stories T[ar Heroes

A demonstration ,by the United States Navy for the information of the employees of Western Hardwood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, was held at the company's plant at the noon hour, November 10.

Frank J. Connolly, executive vice-president of the company, which has been closely tied in with the war effort for the past three years, in introducing the Navy group, said that the company was fortunate in having the trained personnel, the facilities and the materials to enable them to join in the work on a large scale. He congratulated the men and lvomen employees on the admirable job they had done in assisting in construction of war vessels, freight ships and other craft, and in supplying materials for many other war purposes.

Lieut. B. F. Schwartz, Inspector of Naval Materials, Vernon, Calif., thanked the Western Hardwood employees. "This plant," he said, "is vitally important to all of us in the Army, Navy and Merchant Marine. We and you make

up a team. You men are as important as any man in uniform and you have a right to be proud of your work."

Lieut. Schwartz introduced the men in his group. Each gave a short account of his experiences.

Chief Sid Cross, U. S. Navy, chief fire control man, who was still on crutches as a result of his injuries, described what is known as a concentrated air attack, in which 83 out of 84 Jap planes were knocked down.

Sgt. Frank King, U. S. Marine Corps, who was in the initial landing at Guadalcanal, told of his part in raids as an aerial gunner.

Basil Izzi, U. S. Navy, member of a gun crew on a merchant ship which was torpedoed, related some of his experiences when he spent 83 days on a raft with four others and had to live on raw fish and birds. He was one of 'three survivors. The wood life raft, 8 by 9 feet in size, saved their lives, he said.

Cement Consumption in Far Western States

Measured in terms of cement only, heavy construction in the Far West has fallen off this year at a lesser rate than has been the national experience.

For the first nine months this year the seven states of the l2th Federal Reserve District received shipments of cement, either internal or interstate, about one-fifth lower than in the like 1942 period. For the rest of the country the decline was about 37 per cent and for the nation as a whole, including the Far West, it was about 28 per cent.

The Far Western states required 16.4 per cent of all cement shipments for the nine months this year as against L4.7 per cent last year.

Only six states nationally required more cement in the three-quarters this year than last, one of these,being Idaho with a 61 per cent gain. Decreases in the other Far 'Western states range from 6 per cent in Utah to 59 per cent in Nevada. The big Hawthorne arsenal and the Basic Magnesium plant in Nevada were big cement consumers in 1942.

Picture of Far 'West cement consumption by states as between the first nine months this year and the like 1942 period, with national and district comparisons, follows (in barrels):

Moisture Register Hac Wide Use

The Moisture Register, an instrument for the measurement of the moisture content of all kinds of lumber and wood products, is manufactured by the Moisture Register Co., with factory at 5ll7 Kinsie Street, Los Angeles.

The instruments are used by lumber companies and by many defense plants, particularly in the aviation and shipbuilding industries, all over the country.

Miss Edna E. Morgan is president of the company.

H. L. Shepard, former president of this concern, is now a Major in the U. S. Engineers, stationed in Washington, D. C.

A. B. McKee, Ir., Bcrck F:om Ecrst

A. B. (Bert) McKee, Jr., general manager of San pedro Lumber Co., Los Angeles, returned recently from a three weeks' trip to Chicago, New York and Washington, D. C. In Washington he and H. R. Northup of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association talked with the Procurement Division of the War Department.

He picked up a car in New York and drove back to Los Angeles by way of North Texas and New Mexico. He called on some lumber dealers in New Mexico and had some interesting talks with them.

Trcrrsferred to Ios Angeles

E. L. (Bert) Cooper, Union Lumber Company, who has been at the company's mill at Fort Bragg, Calif., for the past fourteen months, has been transferred to the Los Angeles office where he will be office salesman. Bert has been with the company f.or a long period, and prior to going to the mill was outside salesman in the Southern California territory.

He succeeds M. H. McCall, who has been connected with the Los Angeles office for the past seventeen years. Mr. McCall has taken a position with the Acme Tank Manufacturing Co., Inc., of Los Angeles.

Vtlisconsin Lumbermcrn Here

M. C. Mclver, of the Penokee Veneer Company, of Mellen, Wisconsin, is in Los Angeles at present conferiing with A. C. Pascoe, who represents his concern on the Pacific Coast.

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Ceilings for Services of Pregsure Treating Forest Products

To make it easier for both buyers and sellers to determine rnaximum, prices, the Office of Price Administration announced dollars-and-cents ceilings for services of pressure-treating railroad ties, lumber, piling, poles and allied items with creosote and other preservatives.

Wood products, treated with creosote or creosote tar mixtures to increase durability, are used in the construction of railroads,,bridges, docks, shipyards, overhead power and transmission lines, and other structures where the material is likely to be exposed to dampness or other conditions which favor rot.

For some treating concerns the new ceilings are slightly above, for others slightly below, their former prices. Previously maximums were the highest prices individual sellers charged during March, 1942.

The new ceilings, in substance, are an avefage of the March, 1942, prices expressed in uniform dollars-and<ents ceilings for all sellers. The only exception is that in some special services requiring special handling, allowances are broadened to offset increased labor costs.

West Coast Species-All Other Species

Two sets of treatment service dollars-and-cents ceilings are provided, one for West Coast species and the other for "all other" species. The West Coast species ceilings, following industry practice, are higher than those for other species because 'West Coast species are harder to treat.

Along with the new treatment service ceilings, OPA issued a formula to be used by sellers in determining maximum prices for treated products.

Under the formula, maximum prices, f.o.b. treating plant, are established as the sum of the ceiling price of the untreated product, plus the treatment charge, plus a mark-up to cover cost of the preservative.

Maximum prices items are as follows:

Maxlmum Prices for preservatively treating selected Treatment of owned Treatment service product (Service onlv (Item not charge when item owned by treating is owned by treatplant) ing Plant)

'West coast species:r"R;it;;;a-.ftss ties '...$16.00 per MBMz...$!9 q0 per l4El4' Lumber '$20.50 ier MBM....$24'50 per MBM' t0-?;;t "; shorte. piling.30 cents per cu !t. ..35 cents per cu ft' iili;;i.; sho*iid"l.tl.25 cents per cu ft' ..40 cents per cu' ft'

lDouglas 6r, West Coast hemlock, all species of true fir, redwood, Sitka spruce and Western red cedar.

2Per 1,000 board feet.

To the foregoing ceilings may be added cost of Preservative and transportation.

Treatment service ceilings for longer length piling and poles, and for fence post, switch ties and mine material also are established.

To cover certain extra services, such as special handling, adzing and boring, pole framing, peeling, etc., dollars-andcents additions are provided which may be added to treatment service ceilings.

(Foregoing prices are established in Maximum Price Regulation No. 491 (Pressure Preservative Treatment of Forest Products-Services-and Pressure Treated Forest Products-Commodities), a new regulation which becomes effective November 19, 1943).

Rentcl Housing

Owners of rental housing are receiving larger operating margins under rent control than they did in 1939 and 194O, an OPA survey says. The rate of net operating income from apartment houses during six months of rent control was 34/o greater than in 1939, while that from small structures was 36%.

Lcrtest Instructions to Sclesmen

The Sales Manager rose to his feet. His face was serious. It was evident that he had something on his mind. fn front of him his force of salesmen faced him in a semi-circle, anxious to learn the reason for the emergency call to headquarters. The Sales Man: ager speaks: "Men.," he says, "we have a job to do, and I am expecting every man to devote all his energ'y and ingenuity to the task. I want you to get out and hit the ball. Call on all your customers. Put the high pressure stuff on them. Get results. That's what I want-results. And those who bring in the BIGGEST CANCELLATIONS will be given bonuses proportionate to what you produce. Now get going !"

George B. Carpenter's lmportant Letter Wegt Coagt Logging IndurtryAdvisory to Northwagt Sawmills Committee Appointed

George B. Carpenter, Portland, Ore., Administrator ,for Order L-218, in a letter to the Northwest mills dated November 13 outlines the procedure that will be followed to meet the increased demands for lumber for war orders. Mr. Carpenter's letter follows:

"Last Wednesday while the lumber auction was in progress I outlined our present requirement that each mill ship its full proportionate share of direct (CpA) war orders, and it is only fitting that I express my personal agpreciation of the response this announcement received. Your willingness at all times to meet the needs of the situation is evidence of the industry's approval of our policy of never asking more than must be done, to achieve the purposes of Order L-2I8.

"IJnfortunately, it is already clear that we had set our sights too low, particularly as to the requirements for boards and dimension, and while we are not at liberty to disclose the details of the new needs that have developed during the last few days, we can assure you that the lumber footage is large. These increased demands are the best proof we could have that the country's military plans are progressing satisfactorily-that we are really getting on with THE job and hastening the end of it-but when these new and unforeseen requirements are coupled with reduced production we have no choice but to hold to the following procedure:

1. Continue our present policy of releasing only for those mills which show they are shipping the required percentage of their production on CPA orders.

Confine the releases of boards and dimension to purchase orders carrying priority ratings of AA1 and AA2. (Resale or use of such lumber will be restricted as a minimum to the rating certified on the customer,s purchase order.)

Make no radical change in our present poticy with respect to releases covering timbers but, where receivers are yard operators, make certain either that there is essential use for the sizes ordered, or that plans for working into usable sizes are completed at the time the order is placed.

Get full information about end uses. Ratings have no force or effect on shipments by producers, but par-

Appointment of a West Coast Logging Industry Advisory Committee composed of seven Pacific Coast logging company executives was announced by the Office of Price Administration.

The committee, which will serve as a liaison body between OPA and the industry, will confer with OPA whenever pricing matters or pricing problems arise with regard to West Coast logs, stumpage and contract logging.

Members of the committee, all of whom are managers of the firms with which they are associated, are:

J. D. Bridge, Sound Timber Company, Seattle, Wash.

Lloyd Crosby, Consolidated Timber Company, Portland, Ore.

A. Q. Morgan, Morgan Logging Company, Forks, Wash.

L. T. Murray, West Fork Logging Company, Tacoma, Wash.

Arnold Polson, Polson Logging Company, Ifoquiam, Wash.

C. H. Wheeler, McDowell Creek Logging Company, Portland, Ore.

Roll Williams, Werner Timber Company, Taft, Ore.

The committee will hold its initial meeting at the OPA office, Monday, December 6, in Portland, Ore., for the purpose of electing a chairman and to consider any other matters which may be presented for discussion. Henry G. Champeaux of the Stumpage and Logs Section, Lumber Branch, Office of Price Administration, Washington, D. C., will attend the meeting. Future meetings will be presided over by the committee chairman and may be called by either the Chairman or OPA.

ticularly in the case of yard operators, priority ratings are often the only indication of end use.

5. Avoid releases for quantities in ,excess of what producers reasonably expect to ship within three weeks from date of application. (If order is larger, make several releases at intervals.)

"We also want to advise you that we are sending out a request toward the end of the month for a report as of November 30, along the same lines as our circular request of October 14, bu't including in this new report the actual footage shipped on CPA orders in November. Please be prepared to file this report promptly on receipts."

California Building Permits for October

Course in Wood Technology

A practical course in Wood Technology, designed to give persons in the wood industries a better understanding and knowledge of woods in order to facilitate a more efrective and efficient use of timbers, is being given at evening classes by the University of Southern California. Students will be given training in the quick identification of woods used economically and their structural values with regard to strength, stress and strain. The course is sponsored by the U. S. Office of Education. The instructor is Tema Shults Clare of the Botany Department, lfniversity of Southern California.

The course outline includes structure of woods, wood identification, defects in woods, mechanical properties of woods, and imported woods.

All expenses are borne by the U. S. Office of Education. The trainees will be require'd only to purchase a $3 textbook which may be used later as a key and guide in the identification of woods.

Classes are held Thursday evenings, 7 to 10, Room 261 Science Building, University Avenue and 36th Place. The next class meeting is December 2.

Application blanks may be obtained from The'War Training Office, University of Southern California, Room 251, Administration Building, 3551 lJniversity Avenue, Los Angeles 7. The telephone numbers are Rfchmond 4111Extension 435 or 436; after 5 :3O p.m., PRospect 9877.

New Book by Stcrnley Horn

"This Fascinating Lumber Business," just published by the Bobbs-Merrill Company of Indianapolis and New York ($3.75) from the pen of Stanley F. Horn of Nashville, Tenn., long-time editor of the Southern Lumberman, makes fascinating reading for either the man whose business is wood or the average layman who begins it with no other knowledge than the tall tales of Paul Bunyan.

It tefls the story of America's most unusual crop-her forests-in a panoramic account of the oldest business in the United States, and Mr. Horn spreads before the reader all phases of the basic industry that has kept its romance through the centuries.

Itfirs. Elizabeth C. Slcrde

Mrs. Elizabeth C. Slade, widow of the late well-known lumberman, Spencer E. Slade of Los Angeles and San Francisco, pass*6d away recently in Los Angeles following a short illness. She is survived by a son, Spencer Slade Jr. of Los Angeles, and three grandchildren, children of Russell and Franklin Slade deceased. Interment was in San Francisco.

wEsTERlt IUtLL & tOU[Dt]tG G0.

WHOI.ESAIE

YOU COME FIRST after Uncle Sam

BUT the well known EV/AUNA mark will dways be-

FIRST for texture

FIRST for millwork

FIRST for lciln.drying

FIRST for unifor:n grades

FIRST for sera'ice

EWAUNA BOX GO.

Mill, Factory, and Salcr Oficc

KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON

Central Cdifomia Repreceoative

P'"ramid Lumber Sdes Co., Oakland

Hcdley I. Alley

Hadley J. (Jack) Alley, one of the founders of Alley Bros., retail lumber dealers with yards in Santa Monica and Ventura, passed away in Santa Monica on November A, following a short illness. He was 52 yearc of age, and was a veteran of World War I.

He came to Santa Monica from Princeton, Mo., and in partnership with his brother, Frank, organized the company. The firm also operates sawmills at Medford and Prospect, Ore.

Besides his brother he is survived by his widow, Mrs. Edna M. Alley; two sons, John, now taking Engineer Corps training at Georgia Tech, and Larry, Junior High School student; and two sisters, Jennie and Mrs. Bessie Mullinax.

David Glick

David Glick, treasurer of Glick Brothers Lumber Company, Los Angeles, passed away suddenly on November'13. He had been a resident of Los Angeles for thirty years.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Henrietta Glick, and a daughter; five brothers and one sister, Oscar, Max, Edward, Label, Adolph and Elaine Glick, all being connected with the company.

Funeral services were held on November 15.

Personal ltems

Harry Eastman, Eastman Lumber Sales, Los Angeles, has returned from a trip to the Oregon mills.

A. H. (Abe) Jackson, Union Lumber Company, Los Angeles, was a recent visitor to the company's mill at Fort Bragg, Calif.

Albert A. Kelley, wholesale lurnber dealer, Alameda, returned November 20 from a 10-day trip to Redwood Empire and Oregon mills, which included a visit to Portland.

As this paper was going to press a mysterious telephone caller asked if we had heard that Gardner Pond and Don Philips are having difficulty in getting their limit of ducks this season.

Paul L. Mathies, W. B. Jones Lumber Co., Los Angeles, returned recently from Northern California and Oregon, where he called on Pine and Fir sawmills.

Young Lumbermqn

A second son was born to Mr. and Mrs. D. Normen Cords on November 12. Norm says he is a fine lad and makes so much noise that he is sure the boy will be a lumberman when he grows up. His name is Douglas Allen Cords.

Norm is in charge of the Pine department of WendlingNathan Co., San Francisco.

Lieut. Gercld Knight ct Home

Lieutenant Gerald Knight, son of Chester C. Knight of the San Fernando Lumber Co., San Fernando, is home after fifty bombing missions flown during a year with the Army Air Forces in England and Africa. With him came his new bride of a few weeks, the former Evelyn Hendricks of Greenville, S. C.

Oklchomq Lumbenncm Visits Cclilorniq

H. I. Moses, manager of Putnam & Jones, commission lumber salesmen, Oklahoma City, recently spent two weeks in California. He was accompanied by his wife, and they visited their son, Lieut. Hobart Moses of the Coast Artillery, who is stationed at Fort Ord. While in San Francisco Mr. Moses called on a number of lumber firms.

CITASSIFIED ADVERTI SING

WANT TO BUY

Want to buy a suburban Los Angeles or nearby small country yard as going concern.

Address Box C-1007 California Lumber Merchant 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

POSITION WANTED

Lumberman with 30 years experience in retail yards wishes connection that will be permanent, as manager or assistant, preferably outside the Metropolitan area. Address Box C-1008 California Lumber Merchant, 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

FOR SALE

I16 x 20 YATES-AMERICAN NO. r SIZER WITH MOTOR AND STARTER COMPLETE. KURTH LUMBER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, CLARKSVILLE, TEXAS.

POSITION WANTED

Lumberman with 20 years' extrrcrience as outside salesman and in office, wants position.

E. J. O'Conner, 86 North Roosevelt Ave., Pasadena, Calif. Telephone SYcamorc 2-t783.

WANTS LUMBER YARDS

If you urant to sell your lumber yard, let us know, as we have inquiries from parties wishing to buy. Twohy Lumber Co., Petroleum Building, Los Angeles 15, Calif.

BT]YDB9S GT]II}D SAN FNANCISCO

LUMBER

lrcrtr Rrdwood Co. ,lzC ltrrL.l StF.t (fr) .............Yu|m zl|?

AtllneSbtz Couerny, Ul ltrr|:.t Strrd (rf) ......,.,....GArfcld rlt

Butlc, Scth Lzl,l Fmt St., OD ................G4rficld Crz

Chrlrtcnrm Lubcr Co. Evanr Avc. ud Quiat St. (Z).,..VAlocfr $32

Drnt & Rursll. Inc..

2l| Fmt gtrrd (rf) .............GAric!d tCP

Dobor I Crrroo tnubc Co- rllt Mffchutr ErOurr Bt&. (l) Suttr 7{SI

(irnc.t6 e Gra Luobc Co- Itf Amt Stlrt (a) ............ATrrta lSaa

HdL Jrnr l- r@ l|ilL Btdt (l) .................SUtt r ?52t

Halllnu Mac*tn lubcr Co..

7!|l Sond Srruct (7) ............DOug1ar lgll

Hunod lrubor C.mpeny,

!!7 llontronry Srrcct (C) ........DOusLr:r3t!

Hobb Wdl Lonbor Co-

16 tmtrurrr St. ({) ...........G4rtc1d 7752

HolE. Eunlr Lrnba Co. ---ttS-fu-arI C-t* Sldi: (a) ....cAriGfd rgzr

C. D. Johuo r nmLcr Corrlorrtlou, I Crlifurah Str..t (rr) ..,.......Gftf,.1d |25s

Kilpatdck & Campany. Cmka Bldg. ({) ...........,......YUkon 0012

LT'MBER,

LUITBER

C.rt lL Kuhl Lunbcr Co.

O. L Rurnrn, rr2 MrrL.t St. (rr) YUtron UO

lrnm-Boalqtoa Crmeray, L Cdllorr|l Str..t (rr) ....,,,.,.GArfsld .t!t

McDufia Imbcr Salcr Corp-

52t Mmadrrek Bldg. (5),.........GArield 7196

Orqoo lnbc Srt. (Crrl W. Wrttr),

m Mmrdrck Bldr. (5) ...........Ytfto r5gl

Pecific Lunbor Co., Th.

ll Burh Str..t (l) ....,..........G4r6cU rrtl

Popc & TdboT !rc. Lunbor DlvldoD,

aar Mrrt t Strat (5) .............Dourh.2561

Rrd Rlvc bnbc Co.

3r5 Moedml Btd3. (O ..........G4rOCd t22

S.ntr F. LunbGr er..

ra Gdlfomh Str..t (rr) .....,...EtGrooLta

Sctafcr Brcr. frrnbc C Shlnglo Go- r Dru Stnd (fl) ...............!ruU.r lm

Shcvlh Pinr 3.16 Co- rGl llmednlr Bldt. (5) .........E:Xbmo& ?tal

Suddca & Ghrlrtmn lne,

lll Sanaac Strct'(a) ............GAr0dd A||

Tartsr. V/ebcta & Jobmn, Inc.

I Montqomay SL (a) ............IX)uglar 2CO

Clrl W. Wattr (Onrlm flnbc Sdrr).

9il5 Moa&oct BUrl (5) ..........YuLu lStl

Wondlirr-Nethu Cr- tn lirrlGt SM (rf) .............SUttc $l6t

Er3-r! 3* 6. (Pyrrnid LuEb.r Selsr Co.)

Peclic Bldr. (U) ...............cf.aanrt ran

Genanto & Gm.tr Lunbct lCo..

2lr Llving:bo St. (a) .......:....KEllog {-ltEl

Hlll & Mmtoo, lnc.,

Danlroo SbcGt Wlrrt O) .......AN&vc tO?

Hogu I.rrEbG? C.onpuy, Ad |Dd Allo Strcb (t) .......Glamrt aSCr

E. lC Wood hnb6 Co-

zrU Frd.rld. Sbc.t (a) ..........KE1b3 Z-tZn

WLolordr BuiHLl Suplr. tDc..

r||? 3hd StFct (t) ....-.....,..TEmplcbu Oll

Wbdcdr lernbc Dirtrlbubn. tla

ttt Avrnnr Pt r (O .........:...Twimrb ZSrs

LUMBER

Arcl-t! Rcdwood _qs-(J. J. no) 5ll. ,WlLhtr. Blvd. (tO ..........WEbrtr Z@t

Attlnrca-Stutz Gmlanr. azt Potrclcun Bld3. (lS) .......,..pRoepccr tt|l

Brolh lodqdrld^l.nnbq Co., $af S. C..arrd Av.. (f, ...,.....CEntury 2-lrU

Bunr Lunbor Coprnr. l?a South Bwalv Dilva (Bcvcrly HllL) ;........:...... BRadrhaw z-$rs

Cu & Co., L J. (W. D. Duanlnr). ,ltt Ch. ol e6. BUr. (r5) ....:::plto.p.cr tstl

Coqlc, W. E. .Oa-oc RlcSf,Cd Blts. Ot) .......ltt hrd alr

Dut Q Rurtdl tnc- tl2 E. Ittf, Stat (r) ....,..........^Dmr tltl

Dolbccq ,Q Crrrgn-Lunbcr C.o, '.r Fl&||tr Bl&. (rr) ....:.......VArd&.rrr2

Ed. Fautrh Lunbcr Co., ta P.trol.[rn Blds. (t5) .........PRorDGct $ar

Hatltnaq Mackin Lumber .Co., lr7 W. Nhth SL (rS) ............TRtrtty 30a.1

Hrnnod Llrnbcr Compun Ana So. AIrEdr SL (Sti .........PRorpccr l!:F

lloDbr !Wr! Llurbr 6-

LUMBER

Wort Orag Lube Co1995 Evur Am (A) ..........,.4Tv.t.rs3?t

E. K. TVod l.rrmrbc Co- I Druon Srn t (ff) ...............ElGroot lttl

Wcyorhnrr Sd.. Co- rat Crllfratr Srr..t (U) .......,.GAriold l0?l

H^RDWOODS AND PANEI.g

Comitius Hsdwood Co- Gprgc C., 55 Califonia Stret ({) ..........GArfidd 62St

Whilc BrorLcre. F|ftL lad Bro Strctr (7) ..,..SUttrr l3l5

SAIIH_DOORS-PLYWOOD

Whcclcr Orgpod Salcr Ccp. 3015 lgth St. (lt) ..........,,....Va|ac|a 2ll CREOIIOTED LUMBER+OLISPILING-TIES

Andc.r l.-h.' e Trcctine Co., Ua N.r Mmtt@.rt Str6t (5) .....Sutbr f225

Bat r, J. H. & Co.. t8l ltolt|lr! rt Stru.t ({) ........DOuSLr tttt

Hdl. Jrna L- rlE Mlllr BUt (r) ............,....SUttor 75zr

Popr I Tdbot, lnc. lanbcr Dlvldoo, ,|or ItrrL.t Str.ct (5) ............,Doq|er 2$r

Vudrr lln PlliDS & Lnrbor Co.

Zla PlD. SEr.t (a) ..............EXbrn& {tat

Wudllrt-Nrthu Cc, lll Mrrl3.t Srr6r (rt) ............,.Sutta St.E

PAI{ EIJ.Dd)RSSASH-€CRE ENS

CdliornL Bulldm Supply Co. ?10 lth Avolo (a) ..................Hlsrtr l0l3

Horrn Lrubcr Cmpany, 2rrd rnd Allo Strutr (l) .,.....Glncdrt lttl

Wcrtorn Door & Srlh Go5tb I Cyprc Srr..& (z) ......TEnplcbu ll||

HANDW(x)DS

srr.bL H.nlt6d CooPanY' Flrd rDd (let Strrotr (7) .....TEnplctu 55U

Waltc Brothon 5r Hrrh Strd (r) ..'.'.........ANdovr llta

LOS ANGDLES

II,IIBER

Popc & Tablot, tnc, Lunba Dlvlrimna w. otvaitc Bivr|. (r5) ......PRoq*t clr

Rad Rlvc Lrnb.r Co., ?0 E: shw (rr) ..............CEDturt 2rl

t6l a. arordrrt (i5) .............Pno.Drcn Grl

!h! P.dro Lunbcr Coo - lSrt S. Cotnt Avo.-(tr) .........R16nmd lllr

ttI-A wnElrs0n Ro.d (su PGdre) ;...................3u Prdro Z[

ttratr Fo Ltnba Co-

3tt-Ftnulal C66" Bldt. (il) ..VAd&r firf

Schrtcr Bn lrobc t Shlql,r Co. lrt W. rth str..t G5).............TRbltt{ztr

Shgvlh Pln Sdor Go- ltt Pctrclu BUl. 0t ..........PRmPct tfs

Slureo hdurtrlc+ hc-

l0f E. WeAlldlo BIYd. (a) ...PRo.Dcttlt8

St.Db E. J. e !lo.

rGa E. ard st. (ri) ............cEDhrrr 2t8rr

Sdd.o e Glrbtaroo, loc- |!l Bord of Trr& BUt (lr) .....TRbitt ttlr

Trcor Lunbc Sdo* !3f Prtrolarn Bldt (15) .........PRotDct fll|

Wondllu-Nethrn Gosza Salthtrr Btvd: (!O .,............Yort rr,t Wod Orcoa f{6b" Co- lzt Pctilrrrn Blds. (r5) ..,......RIchD6d Utl

W. W. WllLhtoo'' rrt w. trh shd Go ............TRhtt1rrl

Wcyrrhuuror Salo Co.' lrrt W. M. Grrlud Bldg. (rS) ...Mlchfu |3sr

E. K. Wood f.lrnrbrc Co, a?rl So. llrncdr St (51) ......,JEicrro ltll

CREOSOTED II'MBERJOI.EIIPILING.TIES

Amaicu Lunbc I Trcrdar Co-

l3l S. Bordvry (l5) .............PRcFGt {t|0

Br:t r, J. ll & qo.. ..l W6t 5tb Slr..t (l!) ..........lllchlna Gll

Ponr & Trlbot, tac- bnbrr Dbf.!o., 7L W. Olyaplc Bhd. (f5) .....PRo.D.ct t23t

*Postoffice Zone Number in Parenthesis.

HARDWOODS

Audro Hardrood 6- llf E. fSth Strcct (51) .....,...PRoOect lAl

Brurh Industrlal Lunbc Co.

590r S. Catnl Ava (r) .,.......CE!turt t-Ult

strlte, E. J. & SorL I Er|t ll.t Skt t (rr) .......CEDttr rEr

Watara Herdrod LuDba Co- 2lll Eert lsrh sb.ct (55) ,.....,PRo.E d |lat lr^silr-DooRrMruwoRt(--{tcREENsBLINDS-PANEI.S AND PLYWOOT IRONING BOARDS

Brc& Praal Comprny, 3ll-3f Eld ithd Stn.t Or) ........ADenr aAs

Cdliomh Dw Cmpuy, Thc

P. O. Bc 126 Vm Statlm (rr) Klnbdl 1|r

Crf,iomir Prld & Vac Co.

P. O. Bq Ztt, Taulad -Lr!a (5r) ......TRbltt t|6?

Cobb O- T. M- 5fa Catr.I Avrouc (lf) ...........ADanr llll?

Eub.!& & Soo, I!c- L H. (lrylamod)

a:lt W. Rcdodo Blvd. ............OR.r6 t-tt5

Halcy Brc. (Srntr Monle) lrot Lth Stnd ....................^Sf,!.r &a

Kochl Jnc W. e Soo, a5? S. f&€r. stlct (2t) ....,,....A1{jrNur lltl

Prcitrc Wood Mctr Corpcatl,ou, !0 T$un Sh..t (24) ..........A11uy|r4r

Paclfic Mutud Doa Co- rO

E. Warhiajbo Blvd. (A) ..PRotD.ct 954

Puget S@nd Plywood, Inc.. tlt

Ty!.t Nlnth Str..t (r5) .......Tnhltt aal!

Rcan Coupany, Go. E, zl5 S. Alucde StllGt (r2) .....Ml.hln! rttl

Rod Rlvor Lunbcr Co.

t? S. 9Lu!9r (!l) ^......,.......CFFry :|rtr

Senpec Co. (Puador), tas So. Rrtmod Avc. (Z) .........RYer l-F

Slnero lndunrtcr lnc- rnl

E. Werhiqton Blv& (a) ...Pnoera |l!!

W.|t Co.rt Sena Co.. lLt Elrt .3rd Sffi (f) ........ADur fnt

lllotm Mm e MdHbr Co. srq Sq Wotrra Ava (41) ,...TWIn&r lt

Whechr OrSmd Sdo Corp-, E! So. Florr.r SL ................VArd|Lc GlA

THE CALIFOR}-IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

JackDionne,prblishm

Inconrorqted uder lha tcm ol Cclilomic

I. C, Dionae, PrEg. qnd -Treqs.; I. E. Mcrtin, Vice-Pres'; W' T. Blccl, Secrctcy Publighed tbe lst od l5th ol esch noslh crl 508-9-10 Centrqt Building, 108 west sixth strset, Los Angel*,!4, Ccl., _Teleplme vAndike

Howl-rumber lrooks

Lumber shipnrents ol 177 rrrills reporting to the National Lumber.Trade Barometcr r.vcrc 4.5 Per cent ltclon' production f<-ir thg n'eek ended November 20, 1943. lu the same week nen or<lers of these mills u-ere 3.0 ller cent less thatt prorluction. Unfilled order files in the reltorting mills amounted to 95 per cer-rt of stocks. Ftir reltorting softu,ootl rnills, rrnfillecl orclers are ecluivalent to 3ll tlavs' production at tl're current rate,:trrr1 grttss stocks ltre equil'alent to 37 rlavs' proclnction.

For the vear to date, shipn.rents oi rcportitrg.. irlt'rrtic:tl rnills exccedecl ptocluction br' 7..5 pcr cetrt; orclers lr-r- 8.3 per cent.

Con.rparecl to tlrc itvcrage corrcsl'rott<littg rr'eeli oI l().].5-3q' production oi reporting mills u'as 32.9 per cent il-rclttcr; shipments n'ere 39.6 pcr cent grclttcr; ttud ordcrs u'crc 3S.2 l)er cen I grerrl ef

The Western Pine Association frtr the rveek crlclcd Novelnher 2O, 102 rnills reporting, gave orders as 65,399,000 feet, sl-ripnrents ()1J,781,000 feet, an<l production 77,15(t,000 feet. Orclers on hancl at the enrl of the r'r'eek totalccl 3'12,711.000 feet.

25,998,000 feet, shiprlents 21,'[95,000 {eet, and production 22,79730A feet. Orrlcrs on hitr.rd at thc end of the u'eel< totaled 147.660.000 feet.

'fhe Califr-,rnia Redn'ood Association reported production of t.nvelr,e operations Iclr the rnonth o{ October, 1943, as 37,000.000 feet, shiprnents +3,300,000 feet, ancl orders receir.ed 41.000.000 feet.

The West Coast Lunbertrtctr's Association for thc rveelc ended November 27 reporle<lot-tlcrs :ts 108,49'1,000 feet, shipnr,ents 108,848,000 fect, ancl prodttction 106,958,000 feet.

Rcilroqd Ties

f-o clariiv pricing oi railroa<l tics, the O P.\ defrnes "nornral loading-point" us tneauir.rg thc "ttortnal loacling out lioint." as the sales point to rvhich prinrary forest prodructs c:rn be most cheaply transported frotn the point of pro<lrrctirrrr. (Secon<1 l{evised N{aximrrm l'rice Regulatictn 216, -\rrrcnchnent 1) etlective Dec. 4. 29

Termincrl

Los

Petroleum Building

PRospect 5039

trir Tex

Douglcs Fir Spruce

Hemlock

Cedar

Ponderosa qnd

Sugcr Pine

Douglcs Fir Pilins

Postwar Lumber Demand Will Absorb All Production

The lumber industry need have no fear of shriuking markets either during the war or afterrvard., J. Philip Boyd, Director of the War Production Board's Lurnber and Lumber Products Division, declared in response to numerous inquiries from lumbermen.

Consurnption for civilian and military construction has decreased and this has created the rather widespreacl impression that the general over-all demand for lumber is decreasing. Quite the contrary is the case, Mr. Boycl pointed out, and the industry need not worry about overproduction now or after the war.

"Civilian consurnption of lumber in 1943 was held to half of the amount used in 1942 chielly because of thc urgent necessity for conserving supplies for war uses. This 1943 consun-rption figure, it should be rernen-rbere<I, represents permitted use, not potential demand. Wherr this dammed-up civilian demand is released after the war-, it will absorb the drop in military consumption and it would even absorb a production 5O per cent greater t{rarr we now have, if such an increase in production rvere possible.

"Today, the over-all demand for lur-nber is as great as can be met by the industry and will undoubtedly continue to be as great for the duration. Increased nrilitarv demand may be expected as nevv fighting fronts are openecl up and supply lines are extended. Consumption for boxing

Reaching Your Prospects Through Their Pocketbooks

In advertisements like this, we are telling businessmen, Government and industrial executives, architects and builders how Wobnanized Lumber* is saving time and money on all kinds ol construction. You'll certainly profit by the interest aroused.

Wolmanized Lumber is ordinary wood made hiqhly resistant to decay and termite attack by vacuum-pressure impregnation with Wolman Salts* preservative, the "alloying ingredient". Be prepared to push the sale of this treated lumber for postwar uses. American Lumber & Treating Company, 1648 McCormick Bldg., Chicagro4, IlI.

and crating is a case in point. Five billion board feet r.vere used in l94I: 14 billion were used in 1943 and further increases are expected in 7944. During the current year, military and permitted civilian consumption used all the timber the industry could produce and drew heavily on mill stocks and retail and wholesale yard stocks.

"Lumber is one of the most critical materials today. The industry should push production to the limit."

Appointed FHA District Director for Southern California

John E. McGovern of Los Angeles has been appointed to the position of district director for the Federal Housin.g Administration. Southern California District.

Mr. McGovern has been associated with the Federal I-Iousing Administration for the past six years, durinq rr'lrich time he has acted in the capacity ol Zone Rental Manager and Assistant Zone Commissioner with headquarters in Los Angeles.

Immediately prior to his association with the FHA, he held an executive position with the Flome Owners Loan Corporation.

Mr. McGovern has a background of over twenty yea!:s experience in real estate, mortgage loan and appraisal work and is a member of the American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers and the National Association of Real Estate Boards.

Chirstmas is coming again!'

And once again do we hear, The chiming bells and the dear old songs And voices athrill with cheer.

Christmas is corning again ! 'Flaunting the forces of night, Dispelling the shadows of fear, Filling our hearts with delight. Christmas is conling again ! Nothing can alter its sway t Ever this message it brings, "Night is succeeded by day." Clouds are dispersed by the sun, Stars do not fade with the years, Hope lights the pathway ahead, Smiles are more potent than.tears.

Yes, as Mrs. Merriam Conner (the blind poetess who looks at the world through the visions of an inspired mind since her earthly eyes have gone dark) so well says: "Christmas is coming again." What do you say we talk about it a little? What is Christmas, anyway? Sometimes, witnessing the inebriated antics of so great a percentage of our population at this fateful season, I can't help wondering how many of us have forgotten what the occasion is, and what it means.

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On December 25th we celebrate the birthday of a certain Jewish carpenter who lived, and worked, and taught, and laughed, and loved more than nineteen hundred years ago in that barren country that we now call "the Holy Land." What sort of a fellow was He, this young Hebrew who, by the time He was thirty-three years of age had done His great work, and gone home to His Father? Artists of the old school did the world a great disservice by picturing Him with both paint brush and $'ords as a sadlooking "Man of Sorrows," so that many people even to this day, still think of Him in that way.

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Yet every open-minded student of Biblical lore understands that H,e was indeed nothing of the kind. He was probably the most vivid, the most vital, the most magnetic, the most thrilling Man that ever walked the earth. How otherwise can you, picture strong and busy men and women dropping everything that they had, to rvalk behind this young unknown Jew from the desert country of Nazareth, and following Him even to the cross? To get a mental picture of this magnificent young Man, radiant with strength, vibrant with confidence, His. face and form as

appealing as His tremendous words were inspiring, woqld' be a wonderful Christmas present for anyone who pre: viously had failed to consider Him in this fashion. You don't think that the man who scourged the money-changeis' from the temple in such manner thqt they fed before hiri '-:"' like chaff before the wintry wind, was any pale, tired: looking, physical weakling, do you? On the contrary'HF',j was undoubtedly the most impressive and tremendou; ,,; young Man they had ever seen, with eyes that flam€d,.'., with indignation at the desecration of the temple of His '..: Father; with muscles hard as steel.

Yes, sir, it would be a swell idea for every thinHng person at this coming Christmas season, to get a cbrrected , ' ' idea of the founder of Chirstianity. Saul of Tarsus was a bloodthirsty ruffian whose business was seeking out, tora ;'i turning and destroying the followers of Jesus. He had incited the stoning of the gentle Stephen, and held the robes of those who cast the stones. One day he was. on his way to Damascus to ferret out and kill some more Christians. Saul of Tarsus was tough. The hardest, cruelest ganster you ever heard of was probably a gentle creature comlrarecl with Saul. And as he proceeded along the road to Damascus he met face tb face a young man he had never seen before. To Saul, Jesus of Nazareth was only the name of a crucified Jew whose followers he was intent on destroyinig. Yet when Saul met the resurrected Jesus face to face that day on the road to Damascus, what did he do? What did he say? Was he tough? Was he SauI the killer of Christians? No.SaulneededbutoneglanceatthatyoungManof Nazareth, and said: "What wilt Thou have me do?" That was all. But for the remainder of his long life, Saul of Tarsus was Paul the Apostle, visiting the peoples of the civilized world and preaching and proclaiming the gospel of Jesus. One moment he was face to face with that incomparable Carpenter; yet that moment changed the entire course of human history.

Picturetoyourself,friend,whatmannerofmanthatmust have been that Saul of Tarsus saw that day on the road to Damascus. Can there be an iota of doubt in your mind that He was such a Man as never before and never since has walked this earth? Can you doubt that He was wonderfut' to look upon, that He overflowed with strength and vitali- ; ty, that He fairly flamed with life, and hope, and confidence., and physical beauty and virility, in addition to His 3piritual magnetism? When we get that sort of a picture of this. Jewish Carpenter, we are started on the road to understand- r I ing what it was that happened to Saul, the killer, that da-y,,.*

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(Continued from Page 6) on the road to Damascus, and to so great a multitude of other people who saw and heard Himi; and we begin to glimpse the whyfor of His indelible impression upon billioqs of people who have come after.

More than His physicar:;";".rce must have been the flaming tight that shone frorn His countenance. A "man o'f sorrows" forsooth ! Where do we find Him, as He proceeds on His mission of preaching the philosophy of love and fellowship and understanding and forgiveness? Wherever happy peopls gathered together, there He was. At weddings, at friendly gatherings where men and women and little children were to be found. That He was a joyous companion seems undebatable. We find Him saying to His friends: "They call me a winebibber, and a man gluttonous." We find Him changing water into wine so that the wedding feast might take place as planned. We find Him doing many things a_nd going many places that indicate definitely that He was a friendly, joyful, marvelous comPanion'

If you want to read the finest history of His life, read the Book of Luke during the Christmas season. Just as Jesus met Saul and Saul-or Paul-followed Him even to martyrdom, so did Luke meet Paul and do likewise. Luke was a physician practicing his profession in Antioch., when Paul came there. And Luke stepped forth and joined Paul and became his "beloved physician" as Paul calls him in the Bible, and stayed with hirn even unto death. And when Paul died, Luke took up a search of the records, and ultimately wrote his Book of Luke, and likewise the Acts. And it is Luke alone who gives us the story of Christmas, the story of the Bethlehem Babe in the manger. No other Biblical writer tells that story. Luke likewise tells us many of the other beautiful stories of the New Testament. In Luke alone you, will read about the Thief on the Cross. the Prodigal Son, The Good Samaritan, and many others. In Luke, if you read with open eyes and mindi you can trace the story of the keenest, livest, strongest, most attractive young Man that ever lived-J.r"; ol Nazareth.

There will probably be a greater evidence of religious interest among our people this Christmas than there has been for many years past. The war has done that. Just as

we have learned that "there are no atheists in fox holes or in war planes," so we are in some fashion getting closer to the Almighty in our talking and in our thinking. With ten million of our young men baring their valiant bosoms to the trials of war, it is inevitable that there shall be a rededication to spiritual things. You can read it in all the battle dispatches. Man, facing the great beyond, turns instinctively to a higher Power for consolation, in fox holes and elsewhere. Men who never thought about Him before, turn to God, never doubting His existence. Logic has nothing to do with it. It is a natural upturning of the human heart and mind. From the hearts of millions of mothers this Christmas there will rise to the throne on high that prayerful plea: "Spare my boy."

The strongest evidence ; ;" I*ir,rr,"" of God is the terrfic necessity for His existence. What good is the mighty universe without Him? To whom can prayerful women turn, i.f He is not listening? Why should inanimate matter decide to resolve itself into billions of blazing suns and countless symmetrical planets and go rolling through space forever in perfect coordination, without a Mind to guide and direct them? Ridiculous! The fact that we shall celebrate Christmas testifies to the continued efficacy and necessity of religion, for Christmas in its true sense, is entirely a religious event. Christmas this year finds the old world enduring the greatest agony of its long existence. Never was there a time when the help of that Jewish Carpenter of Nazareth was so sorely needed.

How unfortunate it is that the cruel oppressors and tyrants who brought this bloodrbath upon the world cannot meet face to face, as did Saul of Tarsus, with that matchless Carpenter, and be prevailed upon to say, as Saul did: ,,What wilt thou. have me do?"

Awarded Legion of Merit

Major Roy D. Craft, son of Dale Craft, shingle manufacturer, Grays Harbor, Wash., has been awarded ths Legion of Merit by the United States Army. The award rvas given for his work in organizing the Kodiak Bear, Army newspaper, and for his efforts in behalf of the amphibian training force, of rvhich he was special officer. He is a former Washington and San Francisco newspaperman.

We wish you the JOY of Christmas

The spirit's sweet repose;

We wish you the PEACE of Christmas--

To mark the Old Year's close;

We wish you the HOPE of Christmas

To cheer you on your waf )

And ^ heart of FAITH and GLADNESS

.To face each coming duy.

Prefabricated Small Farm Service Buildings

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houses, hardrvare stores, hatcheries, feed stores, irnplcment dealers an<1 industrial prefabri'cators. The prices charged by thesc competitive outlets usually must inclutlc two profits-the pre{abricator's ancl tl-re rctail mcrchar-rt's -whi1e the dealer's price inclrrclcs only his ou'n profit.

"The active support of both cotlnty farm agcrtts atrtl agricultural engineers has bcen securerl lrv n'rost clcalers. Agricultural building experts favor the prefalrrication by dealcrs of small farm buildings bccattse it eliminates the errors and 'rule of thumb' construction methods rvhich frequently reduce the efficiency of {arm structures. Improper provision for ventilation, inadequate insulation and the improper use of materials are cited by agricultural engineers as three of tl.re main faults in farm building construction.

"Brrilding farm structures in their orvn yards has also given dealers an opportunitiv to rlemonstrate the advantages of neu' t1'pes of materials and to malie bctter rrse of tl.rose materials most readily ar.ailablc. For exlrmple, one of oru' new products, Celo-Siding, rvhich combines thc functions of extcrior finish, siding, sheathing and insulation, has been usecl cxtensilclv. When thc farrrrer sccs a nc\\' llllterial such as this in a finishecl stnrcture, he appreciate.; its aclr'antages morcr cqrricklv tharr l'herr he can only sea a sanrple of the proclrrct itself.

"The brrlk of farnr brriiding prefabricatiolr todav is beinq done bv dealers in the middle rl'cst ancl f:rr u'est. This

is probably because a considerable percentage of dealers in these turo areas entered the business during the depression years of the last decade and therefore gained much valuable experience. How'ever, there is no reason rl'hy dealers in the east au<l soutl.r shoulcl not Iincl pr-eiabricatinSl an erlr-rallv prolitable ventrlrc if they are located ir-r farr-ning communities rvhere there is a consiclcrablc demand foc small service buildings."

New Design Manual for Timber Connector Construction

Designers rvho are using the timber connector method of construction rvili find extremely valuable the nerv Design Manual {or Teco Timber Connector Construction just issued by the Timber Engineering Company, of Washington. D.C., the manufacturers of Teco connectors and grooving tools.

The 40-pagc book offers con-rplete design information covering t1.re rlss of Teco connectors, iucluding data on load values, spacings, etc. The material is presented in chart form for reaclr-use of architects and engineers and includes sr.rch additional inforrnation as reconrmctrdcd cambers for st:ur(lard trusses, approximatc rveights of various timber conncctorecl roo{ trusses and a table ol clitnetrsiot.rlrl prope rties of -'\lierican starrdard-sized lttmber.

The rlat:r- prescnted is clrarvn in accorclance u'ith the recent WPB National litnergency Spcci{rcatiorrs for the Design, Fabrication, and Iirection oI Stre ss (iracie Lttnrlter anrl Its Faster-rings u'hich becarne manrlator-v ou Nor-ettrber first.

\TAR \TORKERS

EN AND woMEN engcged in the mcnulqcture oI wood products cre perlorming one of the most vitcl qnd necesscrry tcsks in wcrr production. As the wcrr increcses in tempo qnd lorce on the Europecn crnd Pccific bcrttle lronts the demcnd lor wood grows more urgent. We sqlute the lumber, plywood and wbod products industries crnd their loycl workers.

Omalc Area Dedicated As Trce Farm

More than 1,000 pdrsons, including Governor Arthur'B" Langlie of. Washington, participated in a program dedicating 6,532 acres owned by Aston Brothers and the Biles' Coleman Lumber Company as the "Omak Tree Farms," on November 10, at Omak, Wash,

This is a private ownership area which is associatecl with forest lands of the Colville Indian Reservation, and certain national and state forests in the Omak-Okanogan cooperative management unit of 690,000 acres.

The Tree Farm certificate was awarded to Aston Brothers and Biles-Coleman by the Western Pine Association, with Governor Langlie making the presentation during a program in the Omak \igh school auditorium. Governor Langlie also was the principal speaker, his subject being, "What Tree Farming Means to 'Washington."

Other speakers included T. S: Goodyear, State Supervisor of Forestry; J. S. Barron, chairman of the association's Forest Practice Rulgs Conmittee; R. P. Hampton, mayor of Omak; W. H. Price, president of the Omak Chamber of Commerce; and R. L. McNett, president of the Biles-Coleman Lumber Con-rpar.ry.

The program was broadcast by radio stations at Wenatchee and Seattle, and was rebroadcast also from Spokane.

The policy of the company and the Aston Brothers was stated as follows:

"\Me have decided to'rnranage these lands for continued forest crop production. To achieve this objective, rve intend to furnish adequate forest protection and to manage

this area so as to maintain a m?xirnum of heaithy growing

stock thereon. We expect to thin the stdnds to promote maximum growth; to restrict use of the lands which would endanger the timber crop production,'and to develop utilization practices which will assure full use of products thereon. The sarne restrictions and policies on grazing will be followed on this area as are practiced on federal forest areas in this vicinity."

A report on the condition of this land, as made by Stuart Moir, forester of the Western Pine Association, took note of the fact that it included no hand-planted area, and commentbd tersely but significantly: "Natural reproduction more than needed."

Limitcnion Order L-63 Amended

Suppliers who are required to keep inventory records under Limitation Order L-63 no longer need file Form WPB-825 (formerly PD-336), the War Production Board has announced.

Amendment of L-63 also provides that suppliers must keep records of total net monthly sales from stock and total inventory of supplies at the end of each month, but need not keep a separate record of each type of supplies.

Another change made by today's revision clarified the meaning of the fourth exemption from the order by sgbstituting the phrase "replacement parts specially designed to fit only one model and brand of machinery or equipment and adaptable to no other use" for the phrase "functional replacement parts for machinery and equipment."

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join this pioneer organization in its sincere Holiday hope that all of its old friends may enjoy peace, prosperity, and a

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TO BE "'W'ONDROUS KIND''

First published in the d.epths of the depression in L93L, it is tepeated' at the reqaest of a uery d.ear friend.

A T,fttle Gbrigtmag Cbougbt

"Their cause I plead-plead it in heafi and mind: A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind."

Thus spoke David Garrick in his famous epilogue on leaving the stage forever.

Sflhat a delightful thought for this Christmas season comes to us in that last line.

Isn't that a text from which a million useful sermons might be written ?

Perhaps this year you CAN'T do the things you are accustomed to doing at Christmas time; suPPose economy DOES dictate restrictions on your spending and your distribution of expensive gifts; maybe your habits of lavishness at this season have got to be curtailed.

But there's one thing neither panic nor depression nor financial restriction can take away from you, and that is the opportunity, the privilege of being "\Tondrous kind."

If this depression doesn't do any other good thing, if it will restore the original idea of celebrating the Christmas season, it will have accomplished a great and good thing for the sake of mankind.

For we have turned what was originally a day of. peaceful happiness into a Pagan holiday; we have substituted gorging, sousing, and an orgy of foolish spending, for simple, kindly, and inexpensive joy.

' It apparently requires misfortune to force us back toward sanity.

\7hen I meet a man the smile on whose face advertises the peace, and happiness in his heart and the kindliness he feels for other people, I feel that I am standing in the presence of a priest in God's greatest Church-the Church of the Brotherhood of Man.

In all times and under all conditions kindliness is the world's greatest need. If kindliness were universal we would have no wars, no depressions, few jails, and no gallows. For kindliness begets mercy, charity, and nobility of character.

Let's have a KINDLY Christmas.

Let's practice the following things in preparation for the holidays: exercise our grin; lubricate our smile; mellow our laugh; soften our expression; mobilize our friendliest words; make our handshake more genuine; \WARM OUR HEARTS.

Let's celebrate by being "\WONDROUS KIND."

\(/here California's Pine Lumber Goes

Retail lumber dealers in California, like the manufacturers, now have little difficulty in finding ready customers for all the lurnber they can furnish. Some dealers enjoy a good volume of highly rated business on which they have effective priority assistance in securing needed supplies of lumber. The average dealer, however, serves a class of trade which is not highly rated by the WPB, and he now finds it impossible to keep a well balanced stock.

The pine sawmills of California last year produced about seventy thousand carloads o{ lumber or roughly thirty per cent of the production in the entire Western Pine region. This year the mills have had to contend with an average labor shortage of ten per cent or more, the situatior.r irr logging camps generally being much more acute tharr it is in mill, yard and shipping departments. The War Manpower Commission has propose'd several schemes to belp return needed labor to woods and mills, but net results have been negligible. Meat rationing, shortages of equipment and supplies and various brands of unnecessal'y government red tape also have tended to hold down production this past season. Nevertheless the mills are expected to come within less than ten per cent of last year's total production. Even this reduced output will be well above that in any prewar year.

Many in the industry formerly thought that substantia.l completion of the tremendous troop housing and war industry construction programs, which took .so much Iunrber in the fall of l94l and all through 1942, would release large amounts of lumber for ordinary civilian uses. Few anticipated that at this stage in the war, steel and aluminum would be more readily available than Idaho White Pine, Ponderosa Pine and Sugar Pine lumber, yet such actually is the case. Some lumber manufacturers now are securing power falling saws and lumber carriers on AA-3 ratings, yet cannot ship boards to old customers on a. rating lower than AA-1. For most lumber items an AA-3 rating is little better than no rating at all.

The WPB estimates that civilian lumber consuurption this year was not over half that of last year. So far as constru'ction uses ari concerned, the percentage must l>e even smaller. Purchase of boards and dimension of the Western Pines and White Fir for'construction uses is 1>ermitted only upon special release from the WPB in Washington. Still more drastic limitations upon the use of tlrese rvoods are said to be under consideration.

Much publicity has been given to the fact that this war requires tremendous amounts of munitions, equipment and supplies. The ability of American industry to produce efficiently is frequent cited as one of the main reasons why the Axis powers cannot .rvin. Yet few people realize that the bulk of these war materials not only require large amounts of lumber for their successful produ'ction, but must also be stoutly boxed or crated for shipment.

Boxing and crating uses this year will require about 14

billion feet as compared lvith only five billion feet used in 1941. Consumption during 1944 is expected to be even higher if fighting continues full blast through the year. For most of these boxes and crates the Western Pines are greatlv preferred, so are used to the extent available before other species are called upon. Since total boxing and crating requirements for the country are more than twice the total production of lumber in the Western Pine region, it is easy to see why those directing war production are releasing these soft pines for other uses only where absolutely necessary.

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"Friendship is a sheltering treer" The poet said-his words expre$l Our feelings as the old year ends. For, as we list what we possess, We find a forest, full of friends, To whom we wish-as in the pastFor friendship-that we know will last.

Where California's Pine Lumber Goes

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still are being packed in Ponderosa Pine and Sugar Pine containers with but few restri,ctions. Box factory consumption of lumber is no longer limited to box grade, as in former years, but now includes huge footages of shop and board grades as well. OPA has recognized the necessity for this by permitting corresponding adjustments in shook prices when these higher grades are used. Without large shook production from the higher grades ,it would be quite impossible to move California's crops. Even with the expanded range of grades to draw from, it often has been very difficult to find the 600 million feet of lumber required annually for California fruit and vegetable shook.

The War Food Administration's subsistence program covering military, lend-lease'and civilian needs is expected to require 15 to 20 per cent more shipping containers next year than it has in 1943. Boxes for meat products alone will total more than 27 million. The WFA's needs will not taper off as rapidly upon the cessation of fighting as will requirements for packing munitions. There will still be armies of occupation and freed civilian populations requiring all the food we can spare.

For the last ten years before the war the Western Pine region steadily increased its percentage of the nation's softwood sales. The inherent qualities of these soft pines,

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together with the high standards to which they were manufactured, seasoned and graded, gave them first call for many exacting industrial uses. At the same time they found increasing favor for constru'ction work, where Douglas Fir and Southern Pine also were used more or less interchangeably.

When the war started, and while war industries were tooling up for maximum production, large quantities of Idaho White Pine, Ponderosa Pine and Sugar Pine were used for cantonment construction. As soon as construction began to taper off the demand for boxes and .crates increased to astronomical proportions, and the mills had even less chance than before to serve their regular customers. No other woods are more closely channeled to only the most essential uses.

While there is no immediate prospect of resuming volume shipments to dealers, it seems certain that a cbnsiderable footage should be available as soon as Germany is beaten. The mu'ch greater distance to Pbcific points would alone seem certain to force a short curtailment of shipments of munitions overseas, no matter how vigorously the war against Japan is prosecuted. Partial demobilization of the Army should also help the labor shortage which is retarding lumber production. When that time comes, the Western Pine industry will be all set to go, with no tedious conversion period to be spanned before shipments to old customers can be resumed.

After two jtears ol war we now know that victoryt f or us is certain.

We therelore look fomuard confid,ently to the time uthen we shall resurne normal business relations ,utith our cu,stomers.

Il e are gratelul lor your patience and. anderstanding throughout this rnost difficub period, and ask you to accept

Maximum Prices for Fir Dimension and Boards Increased--Ceilings for Timb ers and Plank Reduced

To facilitate production of the light construction type of lumber now in heavy demand as a result of changing requirements of the war program, the Office of Price Administration increased maximum prices for Douglas fir dimension lumber and boards and reduced ceilings for heavy timbers, plank, and small timbers, December 1.

"These price changes could bring a slight decrease in mill realization if present production ratios of the items involved ar€ maintained," OPA said, "But it is expected thit increased production of the types of lumber for which increases are authorized, particularly dimension, will tend to preserve the prevailing level of over-all mill realization."

The price changis, which became effective December 6, are as follows:

Maximum prices of Douglas fir dimension lumber, surfaced, are increased $1.50 per 1,000 board feet.

Maximum prices of Douglas fir boards in grades No. 2 and lower are increased 5O cents per 1,000 board feet.

Maximum prices of heavy timbers in grades under "Select Structural" are reduced $1.50 per 1,000 board feet.

Maximum prices of plank and small timbers, in grades under "Select Structural" are reduced $2 per 1.000 board feet.

"There have been changes in the requirements of the war economy," OPA said, commenting on the price adjustment. "\Mhereas Government procurement programs formerly called for great quantities of heavy timbers,' plank and small timbers to be used in construction of cantonments and off-shore facilities, the emphasis has now swung over to a tremendous demand for boards and dimension lumber. Great quantities of boards and dimension lumber now are wanted for boxing and crating war goods, and for construction and repairs necessary to the upkeep of farms and essential manufacturing industries."

To enable producing mills and distribution yards, including retail yards, to switch emphasis to gutput and distribution of the lighter types of lumber, the price changes announced today were drawn. The changes, before decided upon, were discussed with both the War Production Board and OPA's Douglas Fir Industry Advisory Committee.

In another Douglas fir pricing charrge OPA announced that the premium of $3.50 per 1,000 board feet formerly allowed mills producing boards in compliance with WPB Cirucular No. 31 is no longer applicable to boards of lr/a

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Maximum Prices for Fir Dimension and Boards Increased

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Two other pricing changes in connection with Douglas fir also were announced. They are as follows:

1. Beginning December 6, all Oregon Douglas fir mills with freight rates to California destinations lower tharr the rate from Portland, Ore., may use the Portland rate in computing delivered prices to California destinations. California mills were authorized to base freight on Portland in May, 1943.

2. Also beginning December 26, Douglas fir mills mav convert Government bills of lading into commercial bills of lading in a manner that will secure for the shipper the same freight rate advantage as though shipment had moved originally on a commercial bill of lading.

OPA pointed out that Douglas fir delivered prices are computed on the basis of estimated weights per 1,000 board feet of lurnber which sometimes are greater than the actual weight of a shipment. The seller thus makes a small profit on the transportation allowance figured in the delivered price.

The new method of computation permits a mill to ob' tain the same return in making sales f.o.b. mill in cases where the Governrnent desires to take advantage of the

lower land grant freight rates, as the seller would enjoy by taking unferweights in an ordinary commercial transaction on a "delivered" basis

(Foregoing price changes are made in Amendment No. 4 to Revised Maximum Price Regulation No. 26, Douglas Fir and Other West Coast Lumber), and became effective December 6, 1943)

Allbcction oI Wood Pulp Plcrced on Quarterly Bcsis

Issuance of amended General Preference Order M-93 to place the allocation of wood pulp ott a quarterly basis beginning January l, 1944, was announced by David Graham, administrator of the order and chief of the Office of Pulp Allocation, War Production Board.

Heretofore,WPB has allocated wood pulp on a monthly basis. The changeover to quarterly allocation coincides with a revision'of the reports received from the paper industry to include an analysis of the business done by each manufacturer in certain broad classifications of end uses and end users. This analysis is expected to provide the basis of a program determination for pulp and paper for the first quarter of 1944.

Home on Lecve

Lieut. (j.S.) Ed La Franchi, IJ.S.N., recently visited his family in Oakland on a 10-day leave. He has been stationed for some time at Gulfport, Miss. Before the war he was associated for some years with Hill & Morton, Inc., Oakland.

IET'S START TAKING III-VENTORY Of Lg4J 1\OW!

Size up torh,omou's prospects tod,ay

At this time oI the yecr it is customcry io make crn itemized inventory ol the tcngible items crnd mcterials in the ycrd or on the shelves. Why then isn't it clso time to tcke stock ol the luture, by keeping qn crctucrl record ol the delerred needs oI prospects and customers in your community? Withoul qn cccumulcting btrckJog ol potenticl luture business, it would be ctnost impossible to foreccst luture expectcrncy, ptrrtibulcrly in these cbnormcrl times. By crnticipcting luture scrles, lodcry, tomorrow crnd ecrch dcry to come until lincrl Victory is won, you will be better cble to restock lhose items in urgent demcnd when mcleriqls <rre cgcin cvcilable in unlimited qnd unrestricted gucrntities,

With the pcrssing of 1943, mcrrking qnother mile post oq the roqd to 194V, mcy we express our hecrtiest wish lor c Very Merry Christmcs crnd c Happy cnd Victorious New yecr.

Amendment 2 to MPR 348---Logs

Amendment 3 to RMPR 293--Stock and Bolts Millwork

A uniform ceiling price on the sale of hardwood bolts.produced in Arkansas, Illinois, Mississippi, and Tennessee for use in the manufacture of slack barrel staves was announced December 2 by the Office of Price Administration.

The new price is $10.50 per cord of. I8 cubic feet, f. o. b. railroad cars or delivered to the mill by truck. If delivery is made at any other point, appropriate deductions must be made.

OPA said $10.50 per cord is approximately $1'40 more than was permitted when, in April ol 1943, the ceilings were frozen at the September-October, 1942, levels. However, since the latter period, there have been increases in labor costs and increased costs of other materials used in producing stave bolts. Had the September-October, 1942, level been continued, many producers would have ,been required to produce bolts at a loss or to discontinue operations.

Hardwood bolts are converted intb barrel staves by means of slicing with a heavy knife.

The bolts are ordinarily produced by farrners, althouglr most miils are now logging their own timber. Without a uniform ceiling, the manufacturer or buyer who had the highest price in September-October, 1942,would receive the greatest supply of bolts. Today's action brings the prices of all buying plants into line.

(Action was taken by Amendment No. 21 to Maximum Price Regulation 348-Logs and Bolts-effective Decem' ber 8, 1943,)

If a manufacturer of stock millwork using a .r.t lirt pri." in sales adds the three per cent increase authorized in ceiling prices effective October 26 he must round off his ceiling to the nearest one cent, the Office of Price Administration announced today.

When the three per cent increase was granted, OPA told manufacturers they could round off the new ceiling price to the nearest five cents.

"Since October it has been discovered that many millwork specialty items, such as frames, windows, sash and allied items, are priced at odd cents per part which, if evened off to the nearest five cents for each part and added together, in some cases *ould amount to an increase in price on the whole item of more than intended," OPA said. "In other cases, the new price of the whole item would be decreased rather than increased."

(Foregoing pricing change made in Amendment Nb. j to Revised Maximum Price Regulation No. 293-Stoch Millwork, and became effective December 4, 1943.)

I remember, I remember, the Pine trees tall and high, I used to think their slender tops were close against the sky;

It was but childish innocence, but now tis little joy, To think I'm farther off from Heaven than when I was a boy.

ROOFS FOR MEN OF \(/AR

ANCIHER SCHUMITE PRODUCI hos 6uun developed fo, fost, efficient wdr construction- -Schumite Fireproof Roo[ Plonk. Hundreds of thousonds of feet of it dre now being instolled on wdr projects throughout the \7est. This is onother Schrmdcner contribution to the war effort another product which will bu ready fo, peace-time.

CC SPCNSOR "DESIGNS FOR POST-\7AR LIVING"

Sweet'n'Sour

1943 has certainly been a "sweet 'n' Sour" year for Redwood manufacturers. Sour because-. it has been impossible to do a normal business with our friends. Sour because it upset almost every established procedure of our business to such an extent that we will practically have to start over anew when the Pressure is relaxed in order

ered production, but as late as May of this year it still looked like there would be enough lumber to supply war needs, keep the restricted war housing' prograrn going, and supply dealers with enough lumber to meet the real needs of farmers.

Admittedly no margin of safety for either catastrophe or unexpected increase in demand, but apparently just enough. The Truman Committee record was no more than made when first the Navy and then the Army found offshore demand (and shipping space) much greater than anticipated.

Then the lumber industry on the Pacific Coast did the impossible again. In spite of all the handicaps it met every demand. The Redwood industry, small in volume though it is in comparison to other species, can take pride in its contribution to this record.

We think it would be impossible to match this year's production volume again next year, but we do have the same high hopes as all of you that the war needs will not ,be so urgent next year. This is definitely only a hope. At the moment, the government estimate'of its requiremen.ts for Redwood tank and pipe, and also for boards and dimension, is more than double their estimate this time last year of 1943 require,ments-and we have nothing, practically speaking, to meet it with except what rve cut from day to day.

to get back to the kind of business we have always operated. Sweet because in spite of one handicap after another that appeared unsurmountable when it arose, the Redwood industry has hung up a phenomenal record for production. In no instance that we know of has a war job been held up for lack of the promised Redwood-and no ship has sailed without the needed lumber.

The men and women who do the work deserve a large measure of credit for this. We had short crews everylvhere, and women took men's places in more than 500 jobs-but they turned out more lumber per man hour, with the result that the total production of the Redwood Area this year will top 1942-a phenomenal record, considering the fact that the lumber production over the country as a whole is down 10 per cent.

We wish we had some basis for forming a judgment as to what 1944 is likely to bring, but it is so wholly dependent upon the unknown factor of what the war requirements are going to be that we can only fall back on the sage advice of Mr. Lowell:

"Don't never prophesy-onless ye know."

At that time last year government demand for lumber was easing off and except for'boxes and crating, all signs pointed to less government requirements in 1943 than in 1942. The manpower situation pointed as definitely to low-

When the Japs struck at Pearl Harbor we had a normal situation, with an order file which was 15 per cent of. stock on hand; January 1 of this year our order file was 56 per cent of stock on hand; today it is more than 200 per cent of stock on hand, a condition that has never existed before.

These figures are eloquen,tly indicative of the extent to which the situation has been taken completely out of our hands, when it is remembered that our production, both in 1942 and 1943, exceeded that of 1941.

The Redwood industry can well be proud of its contribution to our war needs. I't can be equally proud of the extent to which it has been able to take care o\ the most urgent needs of its regular dealers, impossible as it has been to give anything resembling normal service.

Appointed Mcncrgrer

Earle A. Sanborn, Barr Lumber Company, Whittier, has been appointed manager of the Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Company's office at Reedsport, Ore., succeeding Charles T. Gartin who resigned on December 15.

Earle is well known in Southern California lumber circles, and prior to joining the Barr organization, was connected with the wholesale lumber department of the E. K. Wood Lumber Company at Los Angeles for a long period.

New I(/ar Housing Construction

Southern California lending institutions filed applications with the Federal Housing Administration, during Octobei for mortgage.insurance totaling over $11,000,00O to finance construction of proposed, new, family dwelling units for war workers, and to finance the purchase of, or refund mortgages of existing homes. These activities involve 1,683 residential units, district director John E. McGovern of the Southern California Federal Housing Administration announced.

Approximately $t00O,000 of this volume represents applications for insurance or mortgages under the Title VI program'for new war housing construction. The balance of approximately $2,00O,000 is represented by applications for insurance on mortgages to finance the purchase of existing homes under Title II and Title VI programs.

This volume of applications for insurance on mortgages represents the largest volume for any single month since August, 1942

During the month of October nearly one thousand new family units, financed with FHA-insured mortgage loans have been placed under construction by private builders rn Southern California localities.

In addition to these new construction and refinancing activities, under the FHA-insured loan program, a substantial volume of maintenance and repair loans have been insured under FHA Title f, Ifome Repair Plan, wherein loans up to $2,500 are eligible with terms for repayment up to thre,: years, concluded Mr. McGovern.

CHRISTMAS GREETINGS TO OUR FRIENDS IN THE LUMBER TRADE

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aThe H-E Man is more than a trade mark character; he is a symbol with two-fold meaning. First of all, he means the people who make up our organization the H-E workers, producing Redwood for vital war uses. He is also the symbol of lumber at its very best, an expression of quality. Our people speak to you through this symbol. They have served well in the past, and will do so in the postwar future.

BEST \(/ISHES FOR A HAPPY AND VICTORIOUS NE\T YEAR

HOLMES EUREKA LUMBER CO.

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Age not guarantecd---Some I have toldlor 20 ycars---Some Lcgs

Psychology Did lt

Ginsburg was just naturally not cut out for soldiering. Or that's the way it looked to his superior officers all through his training days. ft wasn't that he was in the least unwilling, or uncooperative. It was the opposite. Ginsburg tried. He tried hard. But he just didn't seem to sawy the mechanigs ef seldiering.

He drilled ladly, forgot frequently. He was as clumsy with a rifle as a growri man cotrld be. His marksmanship was terrible. But Ginsburg kept right on trying, and the result is that he stuck to his outfit when it was sent abroad, and into action.

Then a sudden transformation took place. Ginsburg became a bearcat, a fighting fool, a gunman extraordinary.

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His fame spread. The whole regiment heard of what a fighter Ginsburg was.

And so one day an officer who had worked and worried with Ginsburg during his early training days and had given him up for hopeless, came to see Ginsburg's captain to find out what had worked these wonders in this rookie.

"I used psychology, that's all," said the Captain of Ginsburg's comp:rny. "The first time we went into action Ginsburg carried a rifle like the rest of his company, and was as clumsy and hopeless as dsual. So the next day before we started forward, I took Ginsburg into a corner, and I handed him a machine gun, and I said to him:

"'Here Ginsburg. NOW YOU'RE IN BUSINESS FOR YOURSELF.''

Back From Northwest

Noble K. Lay, sales manager, Manufacturers Co., Los Angeles, is back from a business trip to and Portland.

Seattle

UIGTl| B High Eatly Strength PORTIAND GEMENT

Gucrrcrnteed to meet or exceed requirements ol Americcm Society lor Testing Mctericrls Specificc' tions lor High Ecrrly Strength Portland Cement' crs well qs Federcrl. Speciliccrtions lor Cement, Porllcrnd, High-Ecrly-Strength, No. E-SS-C-201c.

HIGH EANTY STRDIIGTH

(28 daY concrete strengths in 2{ hours.)

SUNNATD RDSISTAIIT

(Besult ol comPound comPosition crnd usuclly lound only in specicrl cements desigmed lor this Pur' pose.)

I[IIflDtUM DXPAIISIOil and G0tfTRACTI0tf

(Extremely sevcre cruto-clcve test results consistently indiccrte prcrcticclly no expcrnsion or contrcrction, thus elimincrting one oI most difficult problems in use ol c high ecrrly shength cement.)

PAGKEII III IITOISTURE. PNOU GREDII PAPIR SACK

(Users' qaaurqnce oI lresh stoclc unilormity cnd proper results lor concrete.)

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Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Golf and Christmas Party Dec. 17

The Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club committee had a luncheon meeting at'the University Club, Los Angeles, on Novem,ber 30, to complete plans for the golf tournament anC Christmas party to be held at the Riviera Country Club, Santa Monica, on December 17.

The golfers rvill tee-off at 10:09 p.m. and thele will be many prizes including the George E,. Ream, Roy Stanton and California Lumber Merchant Cups.

Dinner will be served in the Club House in the evening, and those who do not play golf are invited to attend the dinner. All are invited to bring a Christmas gift which will be placed around the Christmas tree. The gifts will be presented to orphan children.

The committee includes Chairman Roy Stanton, Dee Essley, Bob Osgood, Harvey Koll, Ed Bauer, Gene DeArmond, W. B. Wickersham, Hervey Bolvles, Andy Donovan, Orrin Wright and lid Martin.

Judge Rules OPA Acts lllegal

I-os Angeles, Nov. 30-In a decision affecting OPA procedure, Federal Judge Peirson M. Hall today dismissed two suits for treble damages over alleged ceiling violations'

He ruled that Office of Price Administration agents must obtain their evidence through subpena as it "has no right in either civil or criminal cases to go into a man's place of business or home and take records or eviden-ce from there without proper legal procedure."

The court also held that the OPA administrator has rt,r authority to bring treble damage suits in price ceiling cases except against bootleggers and black market operators.

One of the suits had been brought against Glick Brothers, lumber dealers, Los Angeles. The OPA admitted in court going into the Glick concern's offrce rn'ithout subpena, but claimed the company had agreed to permit examination of its records.

OPA's chief litigation attorney, H. Eugene Breitenbach, annou'nced that he intended to appeal the Glick case.

Employees Initicrte the Boss

Employees of the Hohnes Eureka Lumber Company at Eureka recently conferred the third degree of Masonry on Al Quarnheim for Humboldt Lodge No. 79, F & A. M. The following, all employees o{'the company's mill and woods operations, officiated in the degree work:

Eldon Crosby, Adam Macpherson, W. J. Boyd, J. T. Friend, C. H. Rose, George Gregerson, Jim Hughes, W' H. Braghetta, Arthur Green, J. Wigton and U. E. Ken' nedy, assisted by George Allen, J. E. Kane, O. J. Soder' man and A. Davidson.

Moves Office

Paul McCusker, Northern California representative of Parelius Lumber Corrlpany, Portland, has moved his office to 310 Kearney Street, San Francisco, Zone 8. His telephone number is EXbrook 5075.

A Satire in Rhyme

(Editor's Note: An officer in one of our army depots sent the following verse to a friend who sent it on to the editor of "The Houghtor-r Line," who printed it. So do we. The author is unknown. But read it. It's hot.)

As head of the division of provision for revisiott, Was a man of prompt decision, Merton Quirk. Ph. D. in calisthenics, PDQ in pathogenics, He had just the proper background for the work.

From the pastoral aroma of Aloma, Oklahorna, With a pittance of a salary in hand, His acceptance had been whetted, even aided and abetted, By emolument that netted some five gra-nd.

So with energy ecstatic this fanatic left his attic, And hastened on to \Arashington, D. C. Where with verve and vim and vigor he went huntiug for the nigger, In the woodpile of the WPB.

After months of patient process Merton's spicular proboscis, Had unearthed a reprehensible hiatus, In reply by Blaire and Blaire to the thirteentl'r cluestionuaire, In connection with their inventory status.

They had written, "Your directive when eflective was - defective, In its ultimate objective, and what's 1nore, Neolithic hieroglyphic is to us much more specific Than the drivel you keep dumping at our door."

This sacrilege discovered, Merton fainted, but recovere<l Sufficiently to write "We are convinced That sabotage is camouflaged behind perverted persiflage; Expect me on the 22nd inst."

But first he sent a checker, and then a checker's checker, Still nothing was disclosed as being wrong; So a checker's checker came to check the checker's checker,

And the process was laborious and long.

Then followed a procession of the follow-up profession, Through the records of the firm of Blaire and Blaire; From breakfast until supper some new super-follow-uppcr Tore his hair because of Merton's questionnaire.

The file is closed, completed, though our hero, undefeated, Carries on in some department as before; But victory is in sight, not because of, but in spite Of Merton's mighty efforts in the war.

Instcll Plcrning Mill

Manufacturers Lumber Company, sales agents for Cornmercial Lumber Company, fnc., recently installed a planing mill at their St. Andrews yard, 610O South St. Andrervs Place, Los Angeles.

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Postwar Home Expenditures

Los Angeles, Dec.3-Surveys made by the FHA throughout the nation indicate large expenditures for repair and modernization by home owners during the first tweh',: months after wartime restrictions are lifted, according to John E. McGovern, director, Southern California district FHA.

"New construction will require a reasonable time to be restored, even under the most favorable conditions," said Mr. McGovern. "The acquisition of land, manufacture of raw materials, price adjustments and general personal adjustments will be necessary and require time. A vast overnight construction revival may not be expected, but rather a revival of construction at a gradually increasing volume over a period of years.

"FIfA's surveys disclose the character of land, subdivisions, and lots available. The estimated needs for newly constructed units extend over a period of years, until a resumption of normal building activity is reached.

"House design is not expected to be revolutionized. Custom and tradition do not easily break down. The familiar cottage, the picket fence, the fireplace, are not easily replaced with some new, strange type of house.

"Price rang'e, initially, can be expected in the middle and upper-middle brackets, since that type represents the first casualty of the war. The bulk of demand in later years will be in middle and lou'er brackets."

Christmas Fellowship Fund

"Shares of Happiness" in the Christmas Fellowship Fund of the East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club are selling freely as in former years. They are $1.50 each and no limit is placed on the number any firm or individual may subscribe for.

The Fund is administered by a disbursement committee, and many a story could be told of the kind deeds performed by this committee from year to year.

Checks should be sent to J. B. Wood, E. K. Wood Lurnber Co., 2111 Frederick Street, Oakland 6, Calif.

Only Hcrdwood Plywood Plant in Northern Cclilornicr

Davis Hardwood Company operates the only hardlvood plywood plant in Northern California at their hard'rvood yard, Bay and N{ason Streets, San Francisco.

The greater part of the output of Birch and Oak plywood is used in the manufacture of Douglas planes.

James Davis is manager of Davis Hardwood

Another Young Lumberman

Dick Mussallem, salesman for Smith Lumber Co., Sarr Francisco, has been passing out the cigars in celebration of tlre birth of a baby boy, October 15. This makes two boys and two girls in Dick's family.

Back From Mexico

P. B. (Phil) Gilbert, sales Co., North Bend, Ore., was his way back from a business Mexican points.

manager, Coos Bay Logging in San Francisco recently on trip to Mexico City and other

So. Yellow Pine and Certain Hardwoods Placed Under Allocation Control

Washington, D. C., Dec. 2.-southern yellow pine an'l certain hardrn'oods were placed under strict allocation control today by the War Production Board. Action is taken by Conservation Order M-361 covering Southern yellorv pine, and M-364, covering the following hardwoods : Oak, ash, hickory, 1'ellow birch, hard maple, rock elm, and beech. Shingles, lath and railroad cross ties of all the species affected are exempted from the provisions of the Orders. M-361 and M-364 are designed to conserve supplies of these woods {or direct and indirect war uses to prevent their use for nonessential purposes.

Provisions of both orders are substantially the same. Prrlducers are permitted to sell only (1) to the Central Procuring Agency of the U. S. Corps of Engineers and colrtractors and others designated by it; (2) to other Feder:rl Agencies, Lend Lease, and their contractors and suppliers, and (3) upon specific authorization by WPB.

A producer, as defined in the order. means a sawmill which processes 25 per cent or more of the lumber it receives. Mills producing less than 10,000 board feet per average S-hour day during the second half of 1943, or currently producing less than this amount per day are exempted. Retail sales by yards and by mills in areas not served by retail yards are permittecl u'ithout restriction so also are sales from one producer to another.

In addition to these controls, the orders frovide .that WPB may allocate specific quantities or percetrtages of the restricted lumber to specified persons or for specified rlses, control deliveries without regard to preference ratings. clirect or prohibit production, and take Qther allocation ac' tion necessary to fill lvar and essential civilian requirements.

Total production of Southern yellow pine and the specified hardwoods is affected by the orders.

M-361 and M-364 are effective January 1,1944, but lumber in transit on that date may be delivered to its ultimate destination.

East Bay Hoo-Hoo Christmas Party

Wm. Chatham, Jr., iq charge of arrangements for the big Christmas Party of East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39, announces that a big attendance is expected at this afrair, which will be'held in the Leamington Bowl, Hotel l-eamington, Oakland, on Friday evening, December 17.

Dinner will be served at 6:39.

Heads Wcr Chest Publicity Committee

Charles Devlin, advertising manager of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, Tacoma, is chairman of the public relations committee of the Tacoma War Chest carnpaign.

He is a-ssisted by Winston McCallum of the publicity department of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, and Lloyd Thorpe of the public relations department of Weyerhaeuser Timber Co,, Tacoma.

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O$icicl U, S. Ncvy pbotr Hitchcoctc'. 136-loot mine aw€sp€ra under coutructiou ct Hubbcrd's Souih Coast Co,, Newport Hcrbbr. Complimeats "Sec,"

From a small acorn a lllighty lumber yarcl ancl service station grew. A completc planing mil1 r,vas installed; a big battery of six dry kilns; a veneer mill ; a green bending oak unit; facilities of every modern sort for preparing their varied lumber stocks for market.

They got into the business of furnishing lumber for ships and aircraft long ago. In 1925 tvhen a fleet of Douglas planes startled the civilized rvorld by flying in a group all the way round the world, the lurnber that t'ent into those planes was furnishecl by the Western Hardrvood l-umber Company. They furnished mahogany and walnut for the propellers; oak and mahogany for the pontoons; spruce for the wings and fuselage. They have been continuously in the aircraft lumber business in a steadily increasing way ever since. Also they have been continuouslv furnishing more and more lumlter and tim,bers for ship and boat ltuilclitg. When the second World War started it found the Western Hardwood Lumber Company doing a tremendous business with the users and consumers of harclrvood and specialty soft'rvood lrrmber throughout Southern California, serving the furniture trade, the varied irrdustrial trade, the retail lumber dealer trade, and every other line of business that used hardwoods and specialty softrvoods. The yard and plant had grown to tremendous proportions. Lt

the rnanv sheds ancl giant yard were to be founcl thd congregated specialty $'oods still obtainable throughout the \\'orld.

The nerv rvar found D. J. Cahill still acting as general overseer of t1-re affairs of the company, and Frank J. Connolly, Vice President and (leneral Manager, capably handling the burdens of the cletailecl management of so largc and varied a business, as he has been doing for many years. They put their heads together, those trvo, :rnd deCided to go to war. As has already been stated, thev foresaw not only the unlimited possibilities but like.rvise the obligations rvhich this greatest of all wars was bringing like an avalanche upon the lumler inclustrv, and they rlccidecl to wait not a minute, but to preparc thentsclves for active participation in the industrial battle that rv:rs conriug.

How rvell thev dicl so is attested by the fact that todav their business is 100 per cent war, and 93 per cent of everything they sell moves on AAI ratings. They began eariy in 1940 to build a stock pile of lunrber and hardu'ood timbers based on war requirements. Today they have corrsiclerably more lumber in stock than they have ever ha<l at any previous time in their history. On their foresight and accomplishment in securing this great accun-rnlation o[

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war-needed lumber was built their ability to deliver the goods at race-horse speed, thereby earning recognition a.rrcl award for superior service and delivery.

To build this stock pile of war lumber they once agairr had to search the timber producing world. But now that world had shrunk territorially. No longer did wonder oak come from Japan, the biggest and longest hardwood timbers ever seen from the Philippines, and various other marvelotts hardwood products from the Orient. They were blockecl off. Now their experiences in World Wlr I setved them well. At that time their supply had also been cut off from the Philippines, Borneo, and Australia, compelling thenr to learn what they could about the commercial woods of the Western hemisphere. So now they, turned their eyes in that direction again. Result, by late 1940 they were receiving large shipments of hardwoods from Central ancl South America. But there comes with the introduction of new woods an unavoidable obligation; they must discover and be able to demonstrate the qualities and uses of these woods. So they went to work to analyze the physical properties of these new hardwoods, so that they could be properly classified with comparable hardwoods known to the trade. They decided that their principal war outlet would be the Army, Navy, and other government branches, and they prepared to demonstrate their new timber supply to the proper agencigs of government. Our national defense program was just beginning to gain momentum. More, and still more hardwood was needed.

About that time they decided to eliminate from their irrventories as quickly as possible all items of industrial lumber that could not be included in a war program, and to bend every effort to making their stocks on hand war stocks, with no space wasted bn other materials.

Plywood Aircraft Field

The aircraft factories of this section were already irr war production, and their ever-increasing demands for aircraft spruce and plywood made it ne.cessary for Westelrt to install a special aircraft division to handle the problems of that particular industry. And they ARE particular. This called for the training of additional spruce inspectors, the installation of new and different lighting and handling facilities for this inspection, and the installation of new

mechanical equipment. They immediately converted their battery of six dry kilns into the latest type of Moore forced draft kilns. They installed additional planing mill equipment and at the present -moment are making such additions to their planer as to double its capacity. These changes enable them to meet the most rigid requirements for aircraft lumber seasoning, and to work the close tolerances which aircraft specifications require. It is now that their twenty-five years experience with the aircraft industry and the technical experience they gained thereby, is paying direct dividends in the shape of more and better production.