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PINE AGENCY,INC.
Big Figures.
It was told that when Paul Bunyan invented logging, he commonly made rough drawings of the items he wanted the freighter to haul to camp from headquarters. Old Paul had never learned to write words down. of course. One time of early winter, he drew what he thought was a simple outline of a grindstone on an order blank. But it was a monster of a round cheese that the freighter hauled back to camp on his sleigh.
Paul Bunyan realized too late-for ablizzard. snowed the camp in-that he had forgotten to draw a shaft hole in the center of the grindstone circle-and so the headquarters clerk had naturally taken the drawing to represent a big cheese.
The mistake was tough on Paul's axmen. All winter they had to climb a long hill each morning, start boulders rolling back down, with each chopper running alongside a bouldei and holding his ax on it for sharpening. They swore up and d9wn, until Paul Bunyan located Johnny Inkslingei and hired him as the biggest man of figures in history. The First Juggler . .
Paul Bunyan himself learned juggle figures.
raul Jfunyan nrmserl rearnecl ln tlme to Juggle ngures. Ife was the mightiest juggler of logs alive, no dbubt about it, and he found that figures were cookies to juggle when compared with loes. In his Drime. Paul could keeo seven logs. his prime, keep butt logs of old-growth Douglas fir tossing in the aii at one logs time with his left hand, rvhile swinging an ax from his right hand to slab and square each log as it came down from an easy toss-a loE simplv drippine from its whirl throush its through an log simply dripping clo_uds five miles high.
You see little of the like in the Douglas fir forests nowad,ays. But what you do see is paperwork in the woods, and the juggling of figures over the paperwork, in all the timber regions of the nation, most of all in Washington, D.C.
It all uses many boxcars of paper every week and many tank cars of ink. -The figuring^ii done with power that ii generated at gigantic dams, through the science of electronics and the mediums of enormously complicated business"machines.
On the side, acres of words are inked on paper each day through more machines run by hydro-electric power.
Perils of Paperwork
The accident rate is high in all centers of government inkslinging. Once upon a time a champion forest economist piled up so much paperwork that when the pile caved in on him it took a crew of miners and sandhogs-Z hours to excavate him.
A Congressional mimeographing machine was kept running at. such a pace that it got eleven hotboxes in a single week. At the end of the week the inkslinger got caught-in the rollers and the machine wouldn't let him go. He wound up _with no clothes, but with a speech by the Hon. Doak Oljlberger tatooed on his hide for-life-by mimeograph.
The mimeograph operator was last h-eard of Irying to track down Senator Oldberger to have the speech autographed. Somehow, in the capital's mixture of tiaffic, an Arkansas mule that had wandered into town all the way from Little Rock kicked him with both hind feet. The hooiprints were in the spot reserved for the autograph. The paperwork man settled for them.
f'Fpeech by Senator Oldberger, autograph by a mule," said the hero of the story. "AlI on mv o*tr hide. No other autograph collector in thi world can iratch that. Some day I ought to be able to retire to the Smithsonian Institute." -
La Puente.-Hunny Investment Co. will subdivide 19 acres adjacent to Wesi Covina into 102 single-family homes south of Fairgrove and east of Orange avenues.
Bilt-Well Distributors Opens Southern Cqliforniq Office
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Retail lumber dealers across the country are reported increasing their profits with the sale of Bilt-Well Cabinets in retail lumberyards since the remodeling market has opened up a huge potential of hitherto untapped sales, and the do-it-yourself market finds the cabinets a natural for easy installation.
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Boy Areo Industriol Porks Show Presenf-doy Plonning
San Francisco.-New industrial parks and zoned areas are_ dotting the Bay region. One of ihe trp examples is the IBM plant nearing completion south of San Jose, ivith some of thi decorativifeatures being permanetrily installed so beautiful that they lvere enterecl and received with enthusiasm at the reccnt art festival here. Another is the Fafnir Bearing Co., for which grouncl has been broken in the Millsdale Industrial Trzrct being developed on part of the olcl Mills estate at Millbrae. Its architecl, Donald Beach Kirbv, a member of the San Francisco Pianning Commission and a fellow of the AIA. says:
"Industrial plants are taking on a distinguished appearance, thanks to executives rvho see the oppoitunitv to 6uild warehouses and other struclures rvhich-combine-good design u'ith efficient layouts. Corporation directors aie recog-
O'Mqlley in HHFA Defense Job
Washington, I).C.-James C. O'Malley, vice-president and general manager of the retail yards and stores, O'Malley Lumber Co., Phoenix, Arizona, is one of six key businessmen designated by Housing Administrator Albert n,{. Coie as the *initial g{oup to serve as the Housing and Home Finance Unit of the Executive- Reserve.
The National Defense Executive Reserve was authorized by Congress in 1955 at the request of the President as part of the nation's mobilization readinesi program for manpower. It is designed to make immediately available to the government in an emergency, persons rvith broad experience to serve as the civilian counterpart of the trained ready reserve for the armed forces.
HHFA is one of ttvelve departments and agencies of the federal goveinment whicl-r have established Executive Reserve units. Other departments and agencies are in the process of organizing uniis.
"In the event of an emergency, the Federal Government r,vould face a stupendous task in the housing field," Housins-Administrator Cole said. -'It is most reas-suring to be able to count on the immediate asiistance of such a group of leaders in the industry to help me and the Agency to meet and. solve tfe problems that u'ould then conlront rls."
More Thqn 600 Afrend Gibson Yqrd's Open House
Victorville, Calif.-The Gibson Lumber Company held an all-day Open House November 22 for the opening of its rebuilt offices and lumberyard in the downtown sec- tion. Coffee and doughnuts were served to more than 600 well-wishers. Hosts for the occasion celebrating the rebuilding, foll^owing the fire at the yard last July 13, rvere Owners George W. and C. Dungan Gibson and the local Managers Earl Stephenson and Buck Shaw. More than 400 doughnuts were served and the huge coffee urns were lefilled six times, reported Credit Manager George Loos.
Among the gifts given away were a power saw, a backyard spotlight, a set of door chimes, a hammer, an auto trouble light and assorted other good prizes.
nizing -tl-re advantages of having good-looking buildings which have advertising value for their owners."-
The San Francisco Bay Area Council reDorts total expenditures of g5.41 5,297 for such industrial proiects in the nine Bay area counties during October alone.'Others include the Parke-Davis building on a 3-acre tract at Menlo Park, the Eastrnan Kodak rvarehouse on the site of the forrvarehouse near the Cou' Palace. and lohnson & Tohnson's mer Bocci ball courts east of Aquatii Park, S&!V Foods' nerv building dou'n the I'eninsula.
Jordqn Sqsh & Door in SCRTA
_ The F. L. Jgrdan Sash & Door Co., Los Angeles, has joined the Southern California Retail Lumber Assn. in the Asiociate Metnber division for r,vl.rolesale firms. Partners in the comoanv are Frank L. Jorclan, Merle B. Jorclan and Kenneth G. Price.
ID MARTI[\I Rernembers
Some more recollections of early happenings about the time the first issues of The Merchant were published: Walter Ball resigned his position as sales manager of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. to accept the position of sales manager for the J. R. Hanify Co. Mr. Ball had been sales manager of the McCormick organization for nearly ten years, and during that time had seen it grow from a small concern to one of the largest in the country. One of the most popular lumbermen in San Francisco, he served two successive terms as president of the Douglas Fir Club in that city. J. Walter Kelly succeeded Mr. Ball as sales manager of the McCormick company. Mr. Kelly was assistant to Mr. Ball for a number of years and was well equipped to take over the*dult""*t h.is new position.
Another important event at this time was the successful operation of the Hutchinson Lumber Company's new sawmill at Oroville, Calif. One of the largest and most modern pine mills in the state, much of the work, both logging and manufacturing, was done with electric power. Steam was employed only for carriage feeds, log turners, lift skids and dry kilns. A monorail system was used throughout. Every late facility was installed in the mill. The company owned a large tract of timber, consisting mostly of sugar pine. The new enterprise was developed by the Hutchinson
Lumber Company of Huntington, W. Va., and R. L. Hutchinson, president, gave much of his personal attention to the work. J. R. Hickok, formerly of Asheville, N. C., and for many years connected with the eastern sales offices of the company, was named sales manager with sales offices at oroville' * ,,< {.
Arizona Hoo-Hoo held a concatenation at Douglas, Ariz., and 17 nimble kittens were initiated. The occasion was graced by the presence of C. D. LeMaster, Supreme Arcanoper of the Order, and Parson Peter Simpkin, Supreme Chaplain. The Parson gave an eloquent and inspiring address to the cats and kittens after the ceremonies. ***
The Owens-Parks Lumber Company began business on East 38th Street, near Alameda, in Los Angeles to engage in the retail lumber business, handling a full line of building materials. -Ed
Fire Loss in Excess of Billion Dollcrrs Seen for 1957
Martin
Fire losses in the United States would probably exceed the billion-dollar mark by the end of the calendar year, a record protection expert predicted Dec. 12. John Mosler, executive vice-president of the Mosler Safe Company, after completing a statistical analysis of nationa,l_ fire damage fieuies, said that in the first six months of. 1957,losses from fiie reached $706,333,000, an increase of 4.6/o over the corresponding figure in the previous year. National Board of Fire Undelwriters figures on mercantile fires in 1956 totaled 44,072, an average of. I20 such fires every day.
