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A major expansion of the Lane Stanton Vance Lumber Co., and its sister company, Custom Mills, Inc.. has recently been completed at their City of Industry, Ca.,location.

Among the new improvements: addition of 2,400 sq. ft. of office space, bringing the total to 5,000 sq. ft., including revamping existing office space; addition of a ship- ping office and an office for yard superintendent Dick Field; an employee's locker room; and a lunch room and lockers for yard personnel. Cost of the expansion was cited at more than $90,000. The two firms have a total of 46 employees.

Additionally, the firm has installed an IBM Systems 34 computer with two CRT stations, at a cost in excess of $100,000. Three new trucks have been added to the fleet: a GM and a Ford diesel as well as a Chevrolet bob-tail truck.

The new Lane Stanton Vance office space is, appropriately enough for a company that does 900/o of its business in hardwoods, a functional display of a wide variety of beautiful hardwoods. Included are a selection of Fijian and Australian hardwoods, as well as domestic species such as birch, maple, oak and wAlnut. Dick Lambert, who handles imports as

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$ell as other areas of responsibility. has figured gum. koa front Hawaii. kwilla liom New Guinea and ntaple in his office. Scvcral halls have been floored in yuba, which is also known as Tasntanian oak.

Lane Stanton \/ance was rccentlv nrrntetl cxclusivc 'vVcst C,lrr\t ilgenl for AMYX Mfg. Co. of Springfietd. Mo.. which ntakes a hanclsonic linc of' hardwoocl chairs.

EXPANSI0tI of the Lane Stanton Vance Lumber facilities, as well as the sister c0mpany, Custom Mills, Inc, aiso rncluded renovation ol the existing oflice area (ll hanging divider wall separates clerical areas fr0m entrance, verticals are walnut and teak with trnted 0lexrgr35 between them l2l Vincent Besinque p0ints 0ut a

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hardwood species on portable display the lirm developed [3] Refurbished o{fices rnclude colorful. movable dividers and, oJ c0urse, extenstve use ol hardw00d as a wall covering. (41 Jack lVilllkan tries out a CFT statr0n at the company's new IBM Systems 34 computer [5] Herring bone pattern hardw00d lloor graces main entrance.

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