Opening the door

A sparkling new door and window center has been opened by Dixieline Lumber Co. at their Kearny Mesa (San Diego), Ca., store.

The 3,000-sq. ft. addition is fully carpeted and features 120 doors and 150 windows on display. There are 28 vendors involved, plus catalogs to provide a complete selection.

Four people staff the section plus three in outside sales. Gerry McEvoy is the branch manager.

The new center is structured to handle both d-i-yers and builder/contractor/developer customers.

Several hundred customers and friends attended the lavish open house February 22, partaking of copious amounts of food and soft drinks.

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SURPRISE party caught Creighton Anfinson, retiring namesake of Anfinson Lumber Sales, Fontana, Ca., unaware. (1) Carol & Creighton Anfinson, (2) Mike & Stephanie Anf,nsonl Terr Christie, Kelly Hearin. (3) Ted & Rosie Gilbert. (4) Chuck Bush, Neil & Edith Jacobe, Mike Bush. (5) Dick & JoAnn Wood, Alan Bohnhoff, (6) Bud & Gerri Bach, Bernie & Bob Halbert. (7) Abe Willis, Chuck & Audrey Lember, Cheryl & Phil Guardia. (8) Ted & Myrna Pollard, Marti Cutler (9) Joe Schoneman, Nelson Sembach, Ed Feduniw, Curly Cowan, Don Derbes, (10) Ralph & Jerri Cardwell, Sherry & Richard Hilliard. (11) Jon Wilson, Wayne Wilson, Leon Stroemer. (12) Una & Frank lvanovich, Marilyn & Robbie Robbins. (13) Mike Anlinson, Vic Baldwin, Inga lllchen. (14) Don & lda Stobaugh. (15) Phyllis & Pete Speek. (16) Lynne & Phil Butterfield. (17) Hugo & Phyllis Miller. The party was held Feb. 24 at La Vie en Rose Restaurant in Brea, Ca. Yes, he really was surpnsed.

D IRCH has seen - and done - it .fDall. In the Colonial days of the 18th Century, birch was used in Hiawatha's birch bark canoes and Hepplewhite's tables.

In the 19th Century, it was valuable for Hitchcock and Windsor chairs and Biedemeier chests. In the 1920s, blond birch Scandinavian designs became a symbol of modern Europe. The British Mosquito aircraft of World War II was built of birch plywood, while in recent memory birch has been a favorite for wood kitchens.

Actually, birch includes some 50 to 60 species of trees and shrubs around the world. The major U.S. species are yellow birch (Betula lutea, the most abundant species, also called hard, silver or swamp birch) and sweet birch (Betula lenta, also known as black or cherry birch). These grow

Story at a Glance

Since Colonial days, birch has been a valuable hardwood in America ... a top species for kitchen cabinets.

in the north central region and south down the Appalachian range. While often a common tree, it is not as a rule very large. Trees grow tallest and strongest near the Canadian border in the Lake States area, with more than half the stand in Michigan.

Lower in both availability and demand is red river birch (Betula nigra), although the species produces unusually attractive solid paneling.

Paper birch (Betula papyrifera, also known as white birch and American birch) is primarily a