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Holmes Eureko lumber Go. to Sell To The Pacific Lumber Compony

San Francisco.-Stockholders of Holmes Eureka Lumber Co. have agreed to a plan to dissolve the 53-year-old firm and sell out to The Pacific Lumber Company for $6 million. said President Fred V. Holmes here December 17. He said the old firm was "never in better shape" but 97/o of the company's stockholders agreed unanimously to the plan at a meeting here December 16 and that the step was -being taken "foi tax reasons." The Holmes Eureka mills, camf's and timber in the Eureka area of Northern California hav6 annually produced about $5 million business in redwood products.

Legll notice published in The Los Angeles Daily Journal. December 23, carried a Not'ice of Intention to sell fixtures and equlpment ot tlolmes Eureka Lumber Lo_mpqql and transfef tangibte assets to The Pacific Lumber Co., 100 Bush St.. as of December 30, 1958. It listed inventory from

Holmes Co-mp1q Bush St., of mber manufacturine facilities to ofiice furniture on H-E premises manulactuflng Eo orrrce fr--c, Prcuustl at 3300 Broadway, City of Eureka, Humbo_ldt _c_ounty;^at

3JU) Utty .Eureka, tlumboldt county;_at 235 Montgomery St., Sin Francisco, and at 816 W. 5th St., Los Ansefus. Transfer of assets was to take place in Eureka, Los Angefus. place in-Eureka, swore Wittis D. Hannawalt, secretary, The Pacific Lumber Co.

Lex Toylor Joins Cloy Brown & Go.

Lex Taylor has been appointed sales manager of the wholesale-division, serving all areas except California, for Clay Brown & Company, IJ. S. National Balk Building, Poriland, Oregon, aCcording to word received from Clay Brown, president.

"Taylor is thoroughly conversant with all western lumber species and has had years of experience and wide acquainlance in the national lumber market. His knowledge will be of value to our expanded wholesale department," Mr. Brown stated.

Taylor has been manager of the western wholesale division of Shepard & Morse Lumber Company for the past three years. He started in the lumber business 21 years ago and has been in lumber sales with several Pacific Northwest lumber companies. This is the third time in his work that Lex has found his desk on the eleventh floor of the U. S. National Bank Building.

Three New Men Into Field

Nine recent graduates of the Armstrong Cork Company's Building Products Division sales training course have received initial field sales assignments. Specializing in lumber dealer products will be Henry A. Greenstein, Los Angeles, Calif. To serve both the architectural and lumber dealer markets in their areas are George T. Crisp, Jr., Portland, Ore., and Theodore T. Schall, Jr., Salt Lake City.