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Grateful firm entertains customers tuH :
TfHERU WERE. of course. the usual celeI l,rations during the late holiday seasun. but the granddaddy of them all just had to be the annual Al Thrasher Lumber Co. extravaganza in tiny tlkiah, Cali{. Nearly 650 customers, business associates and employes attended the two-day annual gathering from all over the West, in what the local newspaper breathlessly described as the largest social gathering in the history of Ukiah.
Companv president Al Thrasher noted that beside a large local turnout the crowd included a group of ll''[ from Los Angeles. 28 from Sacramento and 86 from San Fran' cisco. Six from Eureka and one customer from far-o{I Australia. It takes. Thrasher saicl. "many frit'nds to successfullY operate a business sut'h as this and I wanted to welcome all."
Thrasher Lumber was established in ll('irrl)\ Calp,'l!u ill,trttl a detade a3o an,l from a rather modest beginning has grown inio one of the area's major industries as rvell as the second largest redwood producer in Mendocino county. During 1967 they completed a new Pressure treating plant and establi-shed Thrasher Equipment ManufacturinpJ Co. Ref erring to the latter, 'Ihrasher said that "the most significant r:hange during the year was the establishment of the new machinery manufacturing division and the development o{ the finest edger in the industry. In this division we trlso have designed and are huilding precision re-saws and precision setworks."
Nearly 200 out of town guests were housed in three local motels which wert' taken over exclusively by Thrasher for tht wt'ekend festivities. Following a huge Sunday morning lrreakfast the large group t rrred the modern mill t'omplex and sawr-r'll t'quipment division.
MEEI Mr. and Mrs. Al Thrasher (1) host and hostess of the bis social. (21 Katey Richardson, Inga Paquette and Jim Richardson. (3) Hugh Pessner and Mr' and Mrs. Bill Sayre. (4) Thrasher being introduced by G-P's Bob Mlcfie at the huge dinner-dance' That's Bettv Foster at left who was the "brains" behind the 'extravaganza. (5) The Louis Loosleys. (6) Edith Friedenbach, Sterling Wolfe, Marge McGaughey and Bill Bonnell. 0) Chuck Lember of D. C. Essley, Kern
Vallev Lumber's Hal Arron, Ann Munay, Weidman Lumber's Ruth Wood, Tim Wood, Helen Rude, Australian lumberman Henry Hudson, Teen Franklin and Bettv Liooincott. (8) Cal-Pacific's Ray Tierney, Mr. and -Mrs.' Jack Betts, Bill and Pearl Gilmore. (9) Twin Harbors' Jim Rossman, Thrasher Sales Manager Tim Wood and Tom Gray of California Redwood Sales. (10) Bob and Barbara Kilgore, Naomi Leonard and Alice Rossman. (1 1) Mr. and Mrs. Landis Morgan.