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Another Lumber Corgo - 2Vz lAillion Boord FeetArrives ot Port of Redwood City; Unlooded by Hubbord &. Johnson in Record 12 Hours
The Port of Redu'ood Citl'-.1"t,.d more than 100 years ago as a lumber export center-soon may develop into the Bay area's major lumber import center. After .a ten-year abse.tce, tr'r'o large cargo shipments were l>rought-into the Peninsula port during l)ecemlter altine. The first shipment, brought in on the eynthia Olson early last month, t'as Co,rJBay (Georgia-I'acific) stock for O'Neill I-umber Co. of l{edrv<-rod City.
THE i EN who plonned the Proiect (1. to r.): "Bud" Hubbord, Chet Johnson ond Bill Wroy. the monoger of new H&J Ycrd 4. Eqch crqne fed to o lift rruck qnd borh lifts looded sqme truck, of which three were used, eqch equipped with bunkars to eliminofe use of binders
Hubbard & Jcrhnson Lun.rber Co., purchasers of a more recent and larger cargo shipment, I'vent a step fur-ther- and leased fottr acres of p<trt proPertY for u'hat is now Hubbard & Johnson yarcl No. 4, right at dockside. Shipmen-ts to-the job, contracior pickups and all other bonafide retail lumberooerations will-be hirndled directlv out of Yard 4, just the .i-. nr at l{ubbarcl & Jr,hnson'i three other retail yards at N{ountain Vien' (heaclcluarters), Sunnyvale and Los Gatos.
S. \V. "Bill" Wray, formerly rvith Nlerner Lumber Co. and, before that, 1'acific Forest Products Co., has been named manag'er of the Port of l{edt""ood City 1'416, according to Wesley I-. "Bud" Hubbard and Chet Johnson, ou'ners of the big retail organization.
The first shipment to Yard 4 arrivecl I)ecember 26, on a Chamberlin ship, the Alaska Cedar, out of Crescent City, California. The cargo, from Crescent City mills, tallied out at approxirnarely 2l million lroard feet.
CHAMBERTIN represenlolives on hqnd to wotch the proceedings (1. to r.): Winnie Rowe, Crescent CirY; Horold Anderson. Boy oreo. ond John Lonogon, los Angeles. The line is owned by John Tennonl. An ideo of size of ship ond dock octivity moY be saen in bock
)) fONG TENGTHS were obundont. ln this photo ship's crone oPerolor moneuvers unir of 32-foor 2x4s onlo dock. Eoch oPerolor overoged bett€r rhon IOO,OOO b.f. per hourl Crones were roised obove deck lo occommodote deck lood fime and unnecessary mo\-emen15 6'st m()ney, and it was apparent that Hubbard & Johnson u'ere determined to u'aste neither.
-Much to the amazement of the Alaska Cedar crew, the entire cargo was landed dockside and stored in its proper place in the new yard in just under 12 hoursin lverage of almost 210,000 bf. per hour!
This feai l'as indeed a triltute to the planning devoted to the project by both Hubbard and Johnson, and to the iu11 cooperation -o{ the Alaska Ceclar creu' u'ith Hubbard & Johnson's personnel dockside.
Hubbard & Johnson's ter.rtative present plans cail {or one or two such cargo shipments each month-approximatelv 3 to 5 rnillion boarcl feet, or a yearly minimttm of 36 milliorr board feet.
NEW YARD ot Port of Redwood CitY in portiol view; ship wos only obout two-lhirds unlooded when this scene wos snopped. Afier being looded, trucks swung down ofi dock to Ycrd, where they were quickly unlooded by two more lifts-rhen bock to dock for relooding
UNIT OF SHORIER LENGTHS beins swung out of qfter hold. Crone operolor is working on second loyer here. Alrogether, units were stocked five high in the holds' Approximorely holf ol the 21/z nillion b.f. of corgo wos below decks
Buena Park, CalifA $700,000 shopping center is planned at Orangethorpe and Grand avenues, and a $400,000 motel is ptopn="d jusf north of Knott's Berry Farm. Th.e Center is-due for completion this Spring and the motel I'ill get underway in January rvitl-r May 15 as its completion date.
WHAT A WAY (nice!) to moke q living-Jim Rossmon (lefi) of Twin Horbors Lumbar Co., soles ogenB for the corgo, ond Bill WrcY, the mon' oger of thg new dockside retoil yord ol Port of Redwood CitY, wolch the unlooding from the bridge of lhe Alosko Cedqr
Chqrles C. Hollinqn Dies al 72
Charles C. Hallinan. 72. co-founder of the Hallinan N{ackin Lumber Comparry, rvith olhces at I'ortland and l-os Angeles and l-reaclcluarters at San Francisco, died December 14 after a long illness. A native oI Irelar.rd, lIr. IIallinan had spent his entire lifetime in lumber until he retired four years ago. He came from the En-rerald Isle rvhen a yorlngster ancl entercd the lumber ltrrsiness in his teens rvith Balfour Guthrie & Co., Ltd. He u,as l.ith that firm many years in export sales ancl traveled throughout the rvorld.
I)uring 1925, IIr. FIallinan left Ilalforrr Grrthrie to beconre a partner in l-ouis Sover' & Co. in San Fr:rncisco :rnd remiirrecl r'ith it until shortlv before the fornration of I{alliran Nlacliin l-unrl)er ( (,. lri lut_r t9.35.
He leai.es his u.ife Nlarguerite of the home in San Francisco, trvo nrarried daughters thcre, ancl eight granclchildren. Reqr,riem high mass was cclebrated in Saint Monica's church and burial nas in Holy Cross cemeterv.
Boy Areo Building Drop But Housing Units in Increqse
San Frar-rcisco.Nerv constnrction authorizecl in the Bav area during November tt,ns 20'/o bclou' the samc 1956 mr.rnth. The number of new housing units, however, increased over October and also over November 1956. The l)eoartment of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics reoorted it lvas the first time since 1953 thai the volunre of chvelling units did not drop in the OctoberNovember oeriod.
Ncrvember drvelling units totaled 2,814. whicl-r r,r'as 7.5 above this October and 800 more than Novernber 1956. Although the unit volume in housing \\'as rrp, the total cost of resider-rtial construction rvas dorvn because of (1) tl-re demand for cheaper homes and (2) the trend toward multipleunit housing.
I'ermit values averaged $12,000 per housirg unit in November, compared u'ith $13,150 in October and $12,950 in November 1956.
Total building autl-rorized in the nine Bay counties in November was about $41,450,000, compared to $5.1,900,000 in October and to $51,700,000 in the previous November.
Treocy Alfends Lu-Re-Co Clqss
E,drvzrrd Treacv of the Von Tobel Lumber Conrpany, Lzis Vegas, Nevada, \\ras one of 24 students at the fourth Lu-Re-Co Management and Sales Institute held December 6-14 in Champaign, I11.
Continentql Joins SCRTA
Continental Lumber Sales, San Marino, has enrolled with the Southern California Retail Lumber Assn. as an Associate member. Orvner of the rvholesale firm is Peyton Ir. N{aloney, Sr.
Robert Beach, 41, a partner in the Hi-Point Lumber Co., Hayfork, Calif., his u'ife ancl their trvo sons were killed Decernber 28 rvherr their light plane crashed in a dense fog on the southn'est slope of X'Iount Shasta. The bodies were fcrtrnd irr the stren n u'reckagc the next dziy af ter a 24-hctur search by militarv, prilate and CAI' planes. Besides the u'ealthy lumberrnan, his family, all of Cottage Grove, Ore., consistecl of his u'ife Xlarian,39; the son llex, 19, a sophomore at San Josc Bible College, and Vernon, 14. They rvere returning horne after a ho1icla1- reunion n ith a married claughter;s family at XIt. Shasta. Calif. In adclition to l.ris Hayfork operation, I{r. Beach hatl an interest in severzrl ()regon lrrmbcr firms. ]le \vas an experierrcecl pilot ancl used the plane to keep in tor.rcl.r u'ith his various logging operations . Oliver C. Jones, 68, general contractor ar-rd pioneer developer of the Ber-erly Hills, Calif., business district, died I )ecerrrber 2.9 at Sain t lohn's hosuital in Santa X'Ionica. lle u as lrresiclent of the J,,nes Tiroihers Construction Co.
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Los Angeles 15, Calif.
The California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th St. Los Angeles 14, Calif.
Many thanks to the entire staff for their wondqlful h_elp during-the past year. I am sure all the members of Hoo-Hoo join me in wishing all of you a most happy Christmas and a prosperous and successfu! New Year.
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Yours very truly,
C. R. LEMBER Secretary-Treasurer.
National Building Material Distributors Association
22 West Monroe Street
Chicago 3, Illinois
Mr. Jack Dionne, Publisher
The California Lumber Merchant
Los Angeles 14, California
Dear Mr. Dionne:
May I take this opportunity to compliment you on the editorial content of your December 1, 1957, issue.
The many outstanding articles in this issue should be read and re-read by everyone in the building industry-and in our next newsletter i am certainly going to bring this splendid edition to the attention of all of our west coast members.
Sincerely yours,
S. M. VAN KIRK General Manager *+*
So-Cal Building Materials Co. l22O Produce Street
Los Angeles 21, California
January 10, 1958
The California Lumber Merchant
Los Angeles 14, California
I would like to express my appreciation on behalf of the National Building Material Distributors Association for the sincere support that "The California Lumber Merchant" has given, this pail year, in covering the national and local activities of the NBMDA.
Certainly your publication has contributed greatly toward our association objectfues, that of increased recognition and prestige of the wholesale building material distributor.
Cordially yours,
RICHARD E. FREEMAN, Vice-President
TMANC Schedules hs | 958
Estimoting-Merchondising School qt Sqn Jose, Feb. 17-19
San Francisco.The 1958 Estimating-Merchandising School of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California is scheduled to be held in San Jose, February 17, 18 and 19. Classes in this immensely valuable phase of retail lumberyard knorvledge will be devoted to actual prac- tical work under the supervision of instructors each oI wlrom will be a key building materials specialist. A full day will be devoted to discussion of Salesmanship and Merchandising to provide retail yard personnel with many useful ideas which have been successfully employed by otliers in the industry.
A tentative breakdown of the course earlier was as follows:
MONDAY, FEB 17:
