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\(/HOLESALE LUMBER

Douglas Fir - Redwood - Ponderosa and Sugar Pine

Mqin Oftice nnd Yord

9th Avenue Pier

Oqklcrnd, Colif.

TWinoqks 3-9866-7

Tefetype OA 216

So. Colifornic Representotive Jim Klrby

833'Wqlnul Avenue, Puente, Cqlif. Puenle 5-2252

AIIGLO GIIIF(IRIIN TUMBER C(l.

Wholesa,le Distributors of West Coast Woods

Ponderoso Pine Sugor Pine Douglos Fir Redwood

Disrriburion Yord ond General Office

655 Eqsf Florence Aye., los Angeles I THornwoll 3144

Pordand Shingle Comprny Buys Keho Plant

Portland, Oregon, December 2O-Alfred H. Schmidt, piesident and owner of the Portland Shingle Company, with main offices at 9038 N. Denver Avenue, Portland, Oregon, announced today his acquisition of the Crescent Shingle Company plant at Kelso, Washington. Negotiations have been in progress for some time and the Portland interests will take possession of the Kelso plant on January 5, 1948.

The Crescent Shingle Company mill is Kelso's largest industrial plant, employing about 80 men. The Crescent plant is equipped with three large dry kilns, and is situated on the Cowlitz River.

Everett H. Browning of Portland will be resident manager of the Crescent plant. Arthur Kenasten is day superintendent and Charles Strange is night superintendent of operations.

The Portland Shingle Company, founded in 1935 by Mr. & Mrs. Al Schmidt, began operations with three employees and has grown to be one of the largest producers of Western Red Cedar shingles and shakes in America. The Company'was incorporated on October l, 1947, with the followofficers: President and treasurer, Alfred H. Schmidt, vice president, Mrs. Alfred H. Schmidt, secretary, Clarence G. Peterson, and general manager, George Plumb.

At the present time the Company employes over 250. men in their mills and camps. The company has mills at Ridgefield, Quinault, and Kelso, Washington in addition to the main mill and shake plant at Portland, Oregon. The acquisition of ihe Kelso plant will give them an adequate supply of both green and dry shingles for the convenience of their customers as well as supplying dry shingles to their shake plant, where they manufacture high grade side wall machine processed shakes for modern homes throughout the nation, and for export.

C. C. "Sti" Stibich, Tarter, Webster & Johnson, Inc., San Francisco, who is a member of the promotion committee of the Western Pine Association, was back at his desk December 15 from a two-week trip to Spokane, Wash., and Portland, Oregon, on business for the committee. While in Spokane he attended the weekly luncheon of the Spokane Hoo-F{oo Club, which is held every Friday at the Davenport Hotel.

Oakland Firm Specializes In Kiln Dried Uppers

Reid & Co., wholesale distributors and lumber mill representatives, with office at 401 Tenth Avenue, Oakland 6, Calif., specialize in kiln dried uppers in Ponderosa and Sugar pine, fir and redwood. They buy lumber in Northern California and Oregon and have it kiln dried and remanufactured. Telephone number is TWinoaks 3-6745.

R. F. Reid, Jr., manag'er, has had considerable experience in the lumber and pulp and paper business. His father, R. F. Rtrid, Sr., whose experience has been entirely in the pulp and paper business, is associated with him.

The firm is represented in Southern California by Erik Flamer, wholesale lumber dealer, Farmer & Merchants Bank Building, Long Beach, Calif.

Rudie Henderson Sells Lone Pine Yard

Art Trvohy of the Twohy Lumber Co., Los Angeles, lumber yard and sawmill brokers, has just completed the sale of the Lone Pine Lumber & Supply Co. at Lone pine, Calif., for Rudie Henderson, to the J. W. Copeland yarcls of Portland, Oregon.

This yard was established in 1919 by G. W. Dow. Rudie became manager in 1926 and in 1939 purchased the business. In 1940 he moved it to the present site, and erected the attractive store and ofifice building, located at the foot of Mt. Whitney, the nation's highest peak, 14,497 teet. Rudie moved his family to Ontario some months ago, but will continue to spend part of his time at Lone Pine winding up his interests there.

Kenneth E. Nelson, who has spent the past year getting experienco at the treating plant of American Lumber & Treating Company at Wilmington, Calif., is now a member of the sales department at the Los Angeles office. He is a graduate in Forestry of the University of Michigan. He spent two years in the United States Park Service, and lvas in the Navy for four years during the war.

Tlre J. W. Copeland Yards own 42 yards in Oregon, Washington and California. They have three yards in California, the one at Tule Lakq having been started in 1930; about three years ago they purchased yards in Santa Ana and Banning.

J. W. Copeland, accompanied by Frank Gray, secretary of the company, made the trip to Lone Pine by auto.

Edward Wm. Hjeltness will continue as manager of the business.

C. P. "Bud" Olsen is now on the road for the Union Lumber Company, traveling the San Joaquin Valley and the San Francisco Bay area. He makes his home in San Jose. He was with the company at their Fort Bragg mill for several years before the tvar. He was a Captain in the Army Air Force, and had a distinguished career as a navigator in the fighting over Europe.

ilacllonald & Harrington, [td.

Wholesqle lumber - Direct Shippers in Gqrloqd Lots

Redwood - Douglas Fir - Ponderosa Pine

Also

Pamudo Piywood

Mauulcctured

Distributed

De-Insectized

The janitor was escorting a prospective candidate through the church which had advertised for a preacher.

"I understand this church is strictly non-sectarian," observed the visitor.

"Oh, yes," replied the janitor, "we white-washed it from the foundation to the steeple and there isn't an insect in it."

-Capper's Weekly.

The Philosophers' Stone

The Rosicrucian philosophers say that in the impregnable fortress of truth is contained the true and undbubted Philosophers' Stone, that treasure which, uneaten by rnoths and unstolen by thieves, remaineth to eternity, though all things else dissolve, set up for the ruin of many and the salvation of some. To the crowd this matter is vile, exceedingly contemptible and odious, but to the philosophers it is more precious than gems or gold. It loves all, yet it is well-nigh an enemy to all; it is to be found everywhere, yet scarcely anyone has discovered it. It is the one thing proclaimed by veritable philosophers, which overcomes all, is itself overcome by nothing, searches heart and body, penetrates everything stony and solid, strengthens all things delicate, and establishes its own power on the opposition of that which is most hard. It is the way of truth, and there is no other part to life. It is the true medicine, rectifying and transmuting that which is no more into that which it was before corruption, even into sornething better, and that which is not into that which it ought to be. The gold of the philosophers with which the wise are enriched is not that gold which is coined.

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-Theophrastus Paracelsus.

You And The Song

Love, all the hours are long

That once so fleetly flew

I am bereft of song

Being bereft of you.

But when you come again

How nimbly Time will run

To such.a jocund straia, Fot you and the song are one.

-Clinton Scollard: Cclm

Artificial efforts to overcome the jitters seldom wo,rk. There was once a baseball pitcher whose splendid ability was continually upset by his extreme nervousness in a pinch. So he took a course of instruction in how to cure nervousness. Thi next time he was pitching, they got the bases full on him, and he could feel the jitters coming on, so he began reciting the formula he had been taught:

"I WILL be calm! I MUST be calm! I AM calm! GOOD

GOD HOW CALM I AM !'' '

Expecting Too Much

"Doctor," inquired the anxious patient, "will the anesthetic make me sick?"

"No, I think not."

"\Mell, how long will it be before I know anything?"

"My dear sir," responded the exasperated medico, !'aren't you expecting almost too much from the anesthetic?" -The

Chcrracter

Link.

Character is not made in a crisis-it is only exhibited.

-Dr. Robert Freeman.

Mcrn's Desire

What every man in his heart of hearts desires is a woman to whom he can safely tell everything, to whom he can turn in his weariness, to whom he can take his defeats and failures, the lost things, the lamps that are gone out, the hopes that are ashes, the spi-ings that spring no more, the secret, sordid things that eat him up, that drag him down.

Edye.

Qucrker Violence

The Quaker is a devout fellow. He doesn't believe in violence of any kind. But one Quaker farmer was hard put to it recently when the cow he was milking tr.mbled him over and kicked his bucket into a corner of the barn. After struggling to his feet, and with evident eftort to control his anger, he exclaimed, "I'll not strike thee. I'll not kick thee, but I will twist thy xx !--** ! tail."

The Proper Stuff

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in man him.

Lost

A great thinker once said: "The most utterly lost of all days is that in which you have not laughed.

Ncpoleon

Asylum patient (to new appointee): "Who are you?"

Appointee: "I am the new superintendent."

Patient: "Oh, it won't take them long to knock that out of you. I was Napoleon when I came here."

Stecrling

The law doth punish man or woman

That steals a goose from off the common, But lets the greater villian loose. That steals the common from ofr the goose.

Bay.

Opent San Francisco Office

John A. Rudbach & Co., mill representatives for Douglas fir and Ponderosa pine lumber, with head office at lI2 West fth Street, Los Angeles, recently opened an ofifrce at Room nI, I Drumm Street, San Francisco 11. The telephone number is GArfield L-4136. Mr. Rudbach returned to Los Angeles December 17, after spending six weeks getting the new office established. He will make regular visits to San Francisco.

Robert Nikkel, who has been with the company for some time, working out of the San Diego office, is covering the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys, making his home in Stockton. He is a former Navy flyer, who salv considerable war service.

John Greenwood is traveling the Peninsula and Coast Counties territory. He was formerly with the Friden Calculator Co., and is a veteran, an ex-Army officer with a record of service in Italy and Germany.

Margaret Connell, who came from Portland, is handling the office work.

Christmcs Fellowship Fund

The Christmas Fellowship Fund of Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 has received subscriptions for 600 "Shares of Happiness," and the Fund is still open for any individual or firm to subscribe for any number of shares they may desire. Shares are $1.50 each. Checks should be sent to Ed La Franchi, chairman of the Fund, c/o Pacific Forest Products, fnc., 9th Avenue Pier, Oakland.