The California Lumber Merchant - December 1943

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.

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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!

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Bubant & Son, L. H.

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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.

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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

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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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SoIt Ponderosa cmd Sugcn Plne LT,IUBEN MOT'IDING PI.NilOOD VENETIAN BIJIID STATS

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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 party of 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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WE SPECIALIZE IN ESSENTIAL WAR MATERIAIS

We hcnre a well rounded inventory of Fcctory and Better Grqdes of Ponderoscr crrd Sugcr Pine cnrd Spruce. In Hcndwoods-No. I Common cnd Better Grades of Alder, Beech, Birch, Cedcn, Gum, Tobcsco Mahogcrry, Mcgnolicr, Mcrple, Ocrk crrd Wolnut.

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.

This sliding door saves about nine feet of floor space.

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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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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.

Frcnlc Surbcugh Sells Pcurels

has been has assoLos An-

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 Indurtry Advisory 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

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