Versatile Gedar for Exteriors

ESTERN red cedar offers wholesale and retail lumber suppliers new opportunities for profit as architects, builders, landscape designers and homeowners recognize its adaptability to the amenities of better living.

Traditionally linked to comfortable, easy living, the durable wood provides the workability, strength and beauty necessary to outdoor construction.

Whether stained, painted, bleached or left in its natural state. it makes a positive statement for a more livable environment.

Exteriors. fences. decks. rails, steps, screens, planters, retaining walls and outdoor accessories all become handsome examples of contemporary style when constructed from cedar.

With today's casual living styles demanding the simplicity of natural materials, Western red cedar readily fills the design needs for a variety of structures.

New Arizona Hardwood Facility

Virginia Hardwood Co. of Arizona is now operating from new facilities including offices, showroom and warehouse located at 236 E. Pima St., Phoenix, Az.

Robert L. Townsend is mgr., James L. Castle is operations mgr., with Steven P. Berens, Robert C. Fenner, and Charles E. Crance on the sales staff.

The company is the wholesaleonly distributor for Bruce Hardwood Floors, Harris Mfg. Co., PermaGrain, GenuWood II, Cork-OPlast, Wood Mosaic, Kentucky Wood Floors, Dura Seal, Laegler floor sanding machines and Michigan Maple counter tops.

C0t0RFUt IrlURl[ gives outdoor feeling to showroom at new comolex for Viroinia Hardwood of Arizona, Phoenix, Az. Hirdw00d paneling is used in decor for olfice of Robert L. Townsend, mgr., (center). Also in new office is James L. Castle, operations mgr.

Cargo to Pittsburgh

A first for West Coast lumber was the l00o/o water shipment of nearly two million feet of hemlock from Vancouver, British Columbia, to the inland destination of Pittsburgh, Pa.

The equivalent of 50 carloads of lumber. the cargo (2x4s through 2xl2s in lengths of 12' to 24') traveled by ocean vessel to New Orleans. La. There it was transferred to two enclosed river barges and carried to Pittsburgh via the Mississippi, Ohio and Monongahela Rivers.

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CEDAR FOREST PRODUCTS, INC.

P.O. Box 617 Portland, Or. 97207

Leonard Newman (503) 224-3999

Don Bufkin, So. Ca. rep for Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., and his wife, visited central and northern Ca. on a combined business and pleasure trip.

Earle Carlson, Santa Fe Lumber Co., and his lamily returned to the Bay area, from a vacation at Mount Lassen.

Mack Giles, Drakes Bay Lumber Co., San Rafael, Ca., is visiting mills in Northern Ca.

Lynn Hansen, Anderson Hanson Lumber Co., Studio City, and his bride, Jean Fetter, honeymooned bY automobile through the Redwood Empire to the Northwest with the bridegroom calling on lumber mills in the area.

Fred Kozak has joined the sales staff of E. U. Wheelock Wholesale Lumber, Inc., Los Angeles, Ca., according to Bert LeCrone, gen. mgr.

Bill Ramsay, Twin-City Lumber Co., and his family have returned to San Francisco, Ca., after a combined business and pleasure trip in the East and Midwest.

Del Travis of Travco. Inc.. San Jose. Ca.. has returned from a business trip to Seattle, Wa.

Stark Sowers, sales mgr. of the Inland Lumber Co., Bloomington, Ca., has returned from vacation.

Bob Patrick of Emsco Plywood, Oakland. Ca., enjoyed a Santa Barbara, Ca.. vacation.

Jim MacKenzie. owner of Tamalpais Lumber Co., Mill Valley, Ca.. vacationed at the Russian River, Ca.

Scott Glenn of the Ace Door Co.. North Hollywood, Ca., and his wife, Marianne, are parents of son No. 3, Craig.

Jim Moore, Long-Bell Lumber Co., and his f,amily, have returned to San Francisco, Ca., after vacationing in the Pacific Northwest.

Bill Brauning, gen. sales mgr., Eureka Redwood Lumber Co., was in Los Angeles, Ca., to set up new offices.

Dean Jones is mgr.

Virgil Howard, Lumber Mill & Supply Co.. Los Angeles, Ca., has returned from a combined business and pleasure trip to the Middle-West.

Bob Mathis. Mathis Hardwood

Sales, Oakland, Ca., has returned to work after spending a couple of weeks at home convalescing from an operation.

Dick LaFranchi, Pacific Forest Products, Inc., Los Angeles, Ca., has returned from a vacation in Seattle.

Wendell Paquette, Lumber Sales, Co., San Francisco, Ca., is resting at home following surgery.

Ted Olsen, Olsen-Carpenter Lumber Co., Beverly Hills, Ca., and his wife, Carolyn. are parents ofa new son named Jon Christian Olsen.R. A. "Dick" Deininger has joined the Fir-Tex staff, according to John Moore, mgr. of the So. Ca. div. Hugh Pessner, West Coast Timber Products Agency, and "Woody" Yeates, F. S. Buckley Door Co., both in San Francisco, were on a hunting trip in MendocinoCounty.

Gladys M. Haas, sec.-treas. of the S & S Lumber Co., Downey, Ca., is vacationing in the Hawaiian Islands.

Stan Eznekier, E. L. Bruce Co., Oakland, Ca., has returned from a business trip to Honolulu.

Stan Murphy Jr., Pacific Lumber , Co., San Francisco, spent a week calling on the trade in So. Ca.

Henry B. Grandin, v.p. of Louisiana Central Lumber Co., Los Angeles, has been elected to the Claremont (Ca.) College board of trustees.

Jerry Belden has joined sales at Lumber Mill& Supply Co., Los Angeles, according to Bill Belau, mgr. Sterling Wolfe, sales mgr. of the Marquart-Wolfe Lumber Co., Los Angeles, his wife, Loraine, and sons, Sterling Jr., Jonathan and Charlie, have returned from a three-week combined business and pleasure trip to No. Ca.. including Yosemite and trout fishing at Garberville.

Charles Lund, mgr. of the Henry Hess yard at San Rafael, has returned from a Lake Tahoe vacation.

Ev Lewis, Gamerston & Green Lumber Co., Oakland. Ca., vacationed up Eel River way with lots of golf.

R. J. "Dick" Marquart, Marquart Millwork, Co., Oshkosh, Wi., visited So. Ca. under the guidance of Horace Wolfe, pres. of Marquart-Wolfe Lumber Co., Los Angeles. He is v.p. of that concern.

Alex Gordon. Gordon-MacBeath Hardwood Co., returned to Oakland. Ca., after a two-week respite from it all at Lake Tahoe, Nv.

James E. Holbrook, v.P. of Pabco Products. Inc., is newly elected v.p. of the San Francisco, Ca., Chamber of Commerce.

J.C.L. "Monty" MontgomerY is back in the Twin-City Lumber Co., office. San Francisco, Ca., after a l0week business trip through the Far East. Australia and SPuth Africa.

A.L. Frost, San Diego, Ca., was elected Supreme Arcanoper in charge of the Southwest district at the 38th Hoo-Hoo convention held at Amarillo, Tx.

Howell Baker, Los Angeles, Ca., reports that the California Panel & Veneer Co. has gone into the airplane supply business and is preparing to enlarge its warehouse facilities by several hundred percent.

Frank Curran, Los Angeles, Ca., manager for the E.K. Wood Lumber Co., entered a contestant in the annual Horned Toad Race in Tucson, Az. His toad finished out of the money.

Coast Counties Lumbermen's Assn. held a get-together meeting at Pismo Beach, Ca. George N. Ley, Santa Cruz, Ca., is pres.i J.A. Greenelsh, San Luis Obispo, Ca., chaired the meeting.

Hill & Morton. Inc.. has moved its offices to a new warehouse location in Oakland, Ca. H.S. Morton is pres.

Gaines D. Whitsitt, Amarillo. Tx., was elected Snark of the Universe at the annual convention of Hoo-Hoo.

The Phillipine MahoganyAssn. held its annual meeting in New York City and elected Walter G. Scrim, Los Angeles, Ca., pres.

"Pick" Maule. Pacific Door & Sash Co., Los Angeles, Ca., was winner of "The Frank Curran Cup," and Paul Hill, Lounsberry & Harris, Los Angeles, Ca., was awarded "The Roy Stanton Cup" at the Lumbermen's Golf Tournament at Fox Hill Country Club.

Robert V. Baker, sec. of the Lumbermen's Club of Az., has resigned to become an active partner in the Calvert-Baker Lime Co.. Phoenix. Az.

P.C. McNevin, gen. sales mgr.; E.E. Yoder, resident mgr; W.M. Nelson, comptroller; and John French, employment mgr., officials of The Pacific Lumber Co., and T.F. Ready, San Francisco, Ca., recently completed a 10-day fishing trip on Blue Creek, a tributary of the Klamath River in Del Norte and Humbolt Counties, Ca. They reported some fine catches of steelhead trout.

The Clearlake Sawmill, Clear Lake, Wa., will start up again within the next two months, according to its new owners, the Puget Sound Pulp & Timber Co.

The West King Lumber Co., San Diego, Ca., has absorbed the Owen S. King Lumber Co. of that city.

Dr. Wilson Compton, Washington, D.C., sec.-mgr. of the National Lumber Manufacturers Assn., spent two weeks visiting Ca. and Or. mills.

Bert Bryan, gen. mgr. of the Strable Hardwood Co., Oakland, Ca., has been elected pres. ofthe East Bay HooHoo Club No. 39, Oakland, Ca.

Directors of the California Retail Lumbermen's Assn. held a breakfast meeting at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, Ca., with pres. Harry A. Lake and mgr. Dee Essley in charge. Guests were San Francisco retail lumber dealers.

The Merced Lumber Co., Merced, Ca., has bought and will operate the retail lumber yards of the West Turlock Lumber Co.. at Turlock. Ballico. Delhi and Hilmar, Ca. O.A. Baker is pres. of the company which operates eight yards: R.P. Duncan is gen. mgr.