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Centuries-old choice for treasure chests and decks of sailing ships, Teak is still floated down the rivers of Burma and India and Thailand to be rough-cut, then dried and seasoned for shioment to our warehouses.

This is just one of 52 expertly selected hardwoods at J. E. Higgins Lumber Company, which offers Northern California customers 7 million ft. of kiln dried lumber and over 200,000 sq. ft. of warehouse.

A lumber for every purpose.

Molollo Remodeling Progrom

The remodeling program at Molalla Forest Products Corp. in Cloverdale, Calif., is approximately 60 percent complete.

Main reconstruction was in the sawmill, and resulted in redesigning the product line into a heavy 2x4 mill. Still to be completed in 1971 are an inJine planer and autornatic packaging equipment.

Production has been increased to approximately 180,000 feet per shift. Molalla operates on a two shift basis and saws 90 percent Douglas fir and l0 percent redwood. This move was designed to match the increasing demand for Douglas fir stress grade 2x4's, Many western dealers are stocking stress grade for general yard use.

Molalla sales are handled at the Calpella'sales office serving both Molalla and the Al Thrasher Lumber Co. Tim Wood is general sales manager, assisted by Cliff Smoot, Betty Foster and Jack Powell. Both firms are Masonite subsidiaries.

Mossocre Conyon Holloween

Halloween conjures images of frights, screams, death and massacres, so what better place to spend the spooky night than at Massacre Canyon?

Which is just what Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club 2 did. Only the canyon now is a pleasant desert resort and the night was reserved for nothing livelier than drinks, dinner and dancing.

Golf champs at the popular family outing that drew nearly 40 couples were, Men: low gross, Ken Kenoffel; lst flight, Joe Contest. abile; 2nd flight, Bill Hoglund; 3rd flight, Bob Goetze. In the women's division, Iow gross, Mrs. Simmons; low net, Tine McGuire; special award, Rodonna Diggs.

Lew Godord Retires

L,ew Godard has retired from Hobbs Wall Lumber Co. after over forty three years. He has turned his interest over to Al Bell and Bill Johnson. However, Lew, with Al Bell arrd a secretary, continues to maintain an office at the old stand, 2030 Union St. in San Francisco. Hobbs Wall recently moved their gffice to Terra Linda.

ln 1927 he went to work for Hobbs Wall and Co. The company had tim. ber holdings and a sawmill in Crescent City, Calif. His position was buying and selling wholesale and retail for their lumber interest.

In 1940, Hobbs Wall sold their timber and liquidated the mill. They retained their distribution plant in the Mission District of San Francisco, on Jerrold Ave. Lew became general man&ger, where he remained until the plant was liquidated at the approach of World War II when it was practically impossible to obtain lumber.

Then Lew started his own wholesale lumber business with offices at 4O5 Montgomery .Street, San Fran. cisco, and at the end of World War II formed a partnership with Al Bell -and this partnership has continued up to the present time.

He has always been active. in HooHoo having served on the Supreme Nine, and is a life member in both Oakland and San Francisco clubs. He is past director of the California Redwood Association, and for two years a Vice-President of National-American Wholesale Lumber Association.

lumbermqn of the Yeor

National Forest Products Week Octo ber l8-24. was -highlighted in the Redding, Calif., area by a joint meeting of the Shasta. Cascade Hoo-Hoo Club and the Redding Trade Club to select their Lumberman of the Year.

This year their man was Milton Schultz, general manager of Paul Bunyan Lumber Co. of Anderson. Awards were presented by George Sisterhemn, club president.

The affair was sponsored by ?4 lumber firms of Redding and the surrounding area. Over 360 lumbermen and other industry men were in attendan@.

Milton Schultz graduated from Oregon State University in 1955 in Forestry. He is a native of Oregon, a third-generation lumberman and very active in industry affairs.

Prior to coming to Paul Bunyan Lumber he was with Brooks-Scanlon and Weyerhaeuser Co.

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Angels home improvement centers in 1971.

Jack Heims, Roth Young Agency, attended the first annual Roth Young convention in upstate New York.

Jerry T. Hood was named western industrial sls. hgr., prefinishing group, Evans Products, announced Robert R. McCormick, sls. mgr. Ray Lizotte, Colton office, and Arnold Nutter, Tustin office, Inland Lumber Co., made trips through the Northwest calling on mills.

George Haythorn, formerly a parttime national Hardwood Lumber Assn. inspector in the San Francisco district, has moved to Oregon.

Wil W'iederaenders, northern Pacific region, and Tom Richardson, southern Pacific region salesmen for Masonite Corp., received "outstanding salesman" awards from John M. Coates. board chairman.

Horace "Ho" Wolfe, Marquart-Wolfe Lumber, Newport Beach, Calif., was back in the Hawaiian Islands for a visit recently.

Harvey H. Lowthian, Jr., was named mgr., traffic and marketing services, cement group, Kaiser Ce- ment & Gypsum Corp., reports John P. Rohrer, asst. marketing mgr.

Frank Bader, sls. mgr., Ed Fountain Lumber Co., spent a week in Vancouver, 8.C., on a buying triP.

Denny Gilchrist, Pacific Fir Sales, San Marino, Calif,, is back to work after a recent illness, R. E. "Bob" Connelly, asst. regional mgr., Flintkote Corp., Los Angeles, recently returned from a business trip.

Jim Hudson, West Coast sales mgr., Fairfield Gloves, Colton, Calif., has returned from a visit to the home office in Fairfield, Iowa.

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