TRIANGI,E IJUMBER CO.

WTIOI.E.SAI.E II'MBER

600-l6th Street, Ocrklcnd 12, Ccrlifornic Phone lEmplebcrr 2-2497

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\V. W. (Buzz) Davies, sales manager, Crater Wholesale Lumber Company, Medford, Oregon, spent Christmas in Arizona. He visited San Francisco, and rvas back in Medford January 3.

G. R. (Jetr) Tully, Hallinan-Mackin Lumber Co., San Francisco, spent the Christmas holiday r,vith his son at I-a Jolla, Calif. He rvas accompanied by his rvife.

Jack S. Lamson, who has been with American Lumber & Manufacturing Co., Oakland for some time, is norv r,r,ith California Sugar & Western Pine Co., San Francisco.

Miss Ella Moore, of I'acific Forest Proclucts. Inc.. Oakland, had the memorable cxperience of lteing virtuallv snorvbound at her sister's ranch in Sonoma County durirrg the recorcl snou'fall in that area on Christmas Eve.

A. A. (Al) Kelley, Alamecla rvholesale lurnberman, flerv to Los Angeles ancl back to s1>end the Christnras n'cek-cn<l witl-r his family, rvho had preceded him.

N{orton, relatives irr C'hrrla Vis-

Norris Lunrber Co., IIori:rton. Tc-rzi:.r Los Angeles.

Horace E. Wolfe, 'f arzana, Calif., rvill attend the annual convention of the Ohio Association of Retail Lumber Dealers at Cleveland on January 18-20. He will then go on to Oshkosh. Wis.. for trvo r.veeks. Mr. Wolfe is West Coast representative for the Marquart Millwork Co. of Oshkosh.

Stephen Westover, Lemon Grove, rvas a Lemon Grove Lumber Company, recent Los Angeles visitor.

Chas. J. Schmitt, of United States I'lywood Corp., San Francisco, and his lvife, flew to Los Angeles December 31 to attend the Rose Bowl game, January 1.

Walter S. Johnson, Jr. is nolv calling on the trade in thc San Francisco l3ay district for Tarter, \\rebster & Johnson, Inc. He is the son of the president, Walter S. Johnson, Sr.

Lot Angeles Hits New Building Peak

Nerv construction totaling $372,372,622 u'as started in I-os Angeles in 1948, according to Gilbert Ii. Morris, superintendent of building. This rvas $113,950,396 al:ove the lrreceding year's mark of $258,422,266.

During 1948 an estimated 26,000 housing units rvere completed in the city as against lg,nl in1947. In the past trvelve months the building department issued 614,599 pernrits, as against 62,697 in 1917.

New Mcncger

A. B. Marchant of Jarratt. \'a., became t-Itanager of the nerv Johns-Manville insulating board plant at Natchez or.l January l, it u'as annottnced by C.B. Burneti of Nen' York, vice president and productiou manager of the companv's Building Products Division.