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Judge S. Durham Announc?s His Retirement

sition Blvd. In 1917, when the L. W. Blinn Lumber Co. was organized, he moved to their office and yard at Sixth and Central and later to 25th and Alameda Streets. He appeared before his draft board on November ll, 1918, only to learn that the war tyas over.

In 1932 Judge went to work for Kenneth Smith as his assistant at the Lumber and Allied Products Institute and continued there until that organization was disbanded. By that time another war was on and Judge went out to Douglas Aircraft Co. at Santa Monica and took a job as auditor. This was his only departure from the retail lumber business and even there he must have checked a few lumber bills just to keep in condition.

After 60 years in the retail lumber business, Judge Shiloh Durham, one of the deans of the Southern California lumber fraternity, announces his retirement on January 2, 1953.

Judge was born back in Table Grove, Illinois, where his father operated a lumber yard. While he swam in and skated on the nearby Spoon River in his boyhood he never strayed far from the sight of. a 2x4. When he was about 13years-old his father started the Shiloh W. Durham Lumber Co. at Bushnell, Illinois, and it was then that Judge started on his lumber career, picking up stickers and caring for the lumber wagon horses. He worked after school and during vacations while attending the local schools. Later, rvhen :r student at Drake University, he spent his summer vacations in the lumber yard. He graduated from Drake in 1901. Later he attended Springfield (Ill.) Business College.

Judge's name is really Judge. He rvas named for an uncle then living in San Jose, California. Along about 1908 he too, came to California and took a job running L. W. Blinn's Los Angeles yard and mill at Figueroa and Expo-

Personnel Changes

Robert (Bob) K. Hood is succeedinC C. C. Stibich as manager of the San Francisco office of Tarter, Webster and Johnson, Inc., subsidiary of the American Forest Products Company. He will cover local business and the eastern seaboard. Bob has been with the company for about trvo years as city salesman. Prior to that he was connected with the Ralph L. Smith Lumber Company at Anderson in a sales capacity.

I\{ichael Coonan was moved from Stockton sales to cover the bay area, taking Bob Hood's place. Palmer (Barney) Forsell will continue to specialize in the handling of mouldding, doors, windows as well as lumber, working from the San Francisco office.

Tarter, Webster and Johnson, Inc. handles the sales for about ten processors and producers of lumber, mostly pine, which are either owned or partly so by the American Forest Products Company. The sales manager of the company,is Harold J. Ford, located at the main office in Stockton.

After about two years with Douglas the call of studs and sheathing got too strong for Judge and on February 15,194:2 he went to rvork for Hammond Lumber Company at their main office at 20th and Alameda Streets. Here he took over the strenuous task of expediting lumber and building materials for the company's 19 retail lumber yards throughout Southern California. For over 10 years no Hammond customer has suffered for want of materials, barring circumstances beyond Judge's control. Judge accomplishes the difficult immediately, but he says that in recent years the impossible has taken him a little longer. One of the most experienced retailers in the area, Judge says that the thorough training given him by his father in his youth has proven the sound base of his lumber knowledge-

A 32nd degree Mason'and a memben of the Shrine, Judge has a multitude of friends that vi'ish. him peace and contentment far from the jangle of the telephones and the wail of the resas's. Fle and Mrs. Durham recently moved to Garden.Grove rvhere he q'ill retire after Hammond's 1952 business is closed.

But we think there rvill be times when the faint smell of cedar shingles from the nerv house up the street will be drifting his rvav on the soft Orange County breeze and Judge rvill reach for his order pad and pencil. He will be missed.

Clay Brown & Co. Enlargcr Sawmill

Clay Brorvn & Company is at present engaged in enlarging and improving its sawmill plant at Fortuna, California.

At the present time the plant consists of two units, a Swedish Gang sawmill, and a single circular. They are taking out the circular mill and replacing it with a hand headrig with considerable more capacity. Also, the band will operate more economically than the circular, and make better lumber, especially from big logs. Whbn the installation' is completed the band headrig will operate one shift a day and the Srvedish Gang two shifts, giving the plant a total daily capacity of close to 200,(X)O feet of lumber.

The Clay Brown & Company head offices are in Portland, Oregon, and A. L. Hoover Company sells their products in Southern California. Clay Brown himself handles the general sales in Portland. Their Northern California sales are handled by W. L. Brorvnell, Jr., of San Francisco, rvho has an office there, and at the mill at Fortuna will be found Clarence L. Hill, and Clay Brorvn, Jr., rvhich completes the sales forces of the company.

Gus Hoover's Dcughter Returns

Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Olson have just returned to their old home in Los Angeles from Vienna, bringing with them their three young children. Mrs. Olson was the former Ethel Hoover, only daughter of A. L. "Gus" Hoover, and the family will be with him for the next several months. Mr. Olson has been with the U. S. State Department for many years, and their last location has been over four years in Vienna. After finishing their vacation period they will be stationed in Paris. France.

Ioseph Augustcr

Joseph Augusta, manager of the Sterling Lumber Company at Oakley, died December 2.

Fir Timber Sold

The Dolly Varden Lumber Company, of Arcata, has purchased 6,000 acres of Douglas Fir timber in Northern Humboldt County, from the Ogletree Lumber Company. The price was reported to be $300.000.

Buy Lumber Yard

Elmo Lombardi, who established the Sun Valley Lumber Co. at Lafayette, Calif. several years ago, has sold out his interest to Chris Sechrist and Tom Jacobsen. Chris has been with the Loop Lumber Company of Alameda for the last twenty-four years, and Tom was for many years manager of the Piedmont Lumber Company in Oakland. The new owners took over the yard on lanuary 1.

New Store

Harry Stewart, owner of the San Ramon Valley Mill & Lumber Co., Danville, Calif., has just completed the building of an attractive new store planned for modern merchandising in which he displays builders hardware, garden tools and other items.

Stacker Fire crt Scotiq

An automatic stacking unit of the Pacific Lumber Company at Scotia went up in flames last month with a loss of better than $100,000.00. Fortunately the fire took place at night and there was no wind. The stacking unit occupied a space of about two hundred feet between the kilns and dry sorters on one side and the mill on the other. At the other end was the factory. A wind of any velocity would have carried the fire to the other buildings and the loss could have run into the millions. The loss of (he stacking unit has not delayed production. Stacking will be done by hand until another one is built.