"experience Gon tell"

Bill Wright, superintendent of Portland Shingle Mill and Shake Plant, can tell you from his 4l years of experience that it takes a lot of know-how to produce high quality shingles and shakes.

This know-how of skilled workmen together with first rate red cedar timber guarantees the high quality of Portland Brand Western Red Cidar Shingles and Skookum Tru-cut Shakes.

Portland Shingle Co. has 4 mills strategically located in the heart of the Red Cedar stand which produce a constant supply of quality Red Cedar Products.

When you order, know you ore bvying the best!

MWRITE OR WIRE FOR PORILAND SHINGTE CO. DEATER PIAN IODAY

Booth-Kelly Lumber Co. Purchqses Row River Lumber Compcny

As of January l, 1949, Rorv River Lumber Company u'as taken over by The Booth-Kelly Lumber Co. and became a part of that organizahon. It u,ill be operated as The Booth-Kelly Lumber Co.-Rorv River Division. General offices rvill be in Springfield, Oregon. General officers are Eliot H. Jenkins, executive vice president, and Wm. E. Stevenson, comptroller.

The general sales offices u.ill be in Springfield, Oregon, in charge of Leston L. Leu'is, sales manager for The Booth-Kelly Lumber Co., rvith a district sales office in Portland in charge of Forrest C. Hau'orth, former sales manager for Rorv River Lumber Company.

fmports Teck Wood

Lumber cnd Flooring

Davis Hardrvood Co., San Francisco, is norv importing Teak Wood lumber and flooring from Siam.

James Davis, commenting on this material, said: "There is a considerable demand for Teak Wood flooring for finer homes. Tl-re rich bro'wn color harmonizes rvell with almost any type of furnishings."

Chcnge oI Ncme

J. \ /. Pearson, owner of the Lafayette Lumber & Supply Co., 'w.ith yards at Lafayette and Hookston, Calif., announces that the company's name has been changed to Pearson Lumber Company.

Chester M. Coon is manager of the I-afavette yard, and John E. Pearson manages the Hookston yard. Harry S. \\rilson is accountant ar.rd credit manager.

Pcbco Paint Sqles Conference

The Pabco Paint Sales Division of The Paraffine Companies, Inc., held a sales conference in Los Angeles on January 1,1 to outline sales and merchandising plans for t919.

The meeting was under the supervision of L. F. Perrine, manager of the paint division, A. R. White, paint sales supervisor; \\r. L. Lou.e, general adveitising manager, and W. H. West, assistant advertising manager. The conference was attended by all Pabco paint salesmen in Southern California. Arizona. Nerv N{exico, \\/estern Texas and Southern Nevada.

Fan Mail

Grcrnd Publiccrtion

Ed Martin: If you don't look me Llp the next time you are in San Diego-I'm going to cut you off r.ny list. (But not The California Lumber Merchant. It's a grand publication and I like to keep posted on the market ar-rd u'hat my old friends are doing.)

Edgar B. Culnan San Diego, Calif.

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Too Checp

Too damn cheap for such an important publication, Frank Burnaby

Van Nuys, Calif.

Permcrnente Supplies Cement

For McNcry Dcrm

Portland (Jan. 17, 1949)-The SS I'ermanente Silverborv steamed into Portland harbor today carrying a cargo of more than 54,000 barrels of bulk cement for the huge $227,000,0fn N{cNary Dam, no'w under construction at Umatilla, 300 miles up the Columbia River. The shipment is the first to arrive from tl-re Permanente Cement Company's Santa Clara, California, plant.

The remaining 576,000 barrels of the total 670,000 barrel contract rvill be shipped {rom the Company's Santa Clara plant to Portland, rvhere tl-re cement rvill be stored in 12 silos which have a total capacity of 72,OOO barrels. The cement rvill then be shipped by barge to the dam site at Umatilli by Tidervater Shaver Barge Lines.

Terrible Twenty GolI Tourncment

Bob Mason r'von the first prize u'ith a net score of 68 at the 272nd Terrible Trventy golf tournament held at the Lakeside Golf Club, Hollyu'ood, Thursday afternoon, January 13. Bob Osgood was the second prize rvinner rvith a net score of 69. Dinner was served in the Club House in the evening. Sterling Stofle u'as in charge of the arrangements.

The next tournament u'ill be held at the San Gabriel Country Club Friday afternoon, February 11.

\(/e Oller tVith Pride

After a long absence from the American market we are happy to be able to supply you again with Philippine Mahogany, one of the prized tropical hardwoods of the world. The name PHILIPPINE MAHOGANY is an honored ong both with our trade and the buying public. To maintain the real value of this name and to conform with rulings of the Federal Trade Commission, the qualifying adjective "Philippine" should always be. used in describing this lumber and the products made therefrom.

Fnrnnalt

Albert L. Entwistle has been elected as a director of The Mengel Company, and vice president in charge of its Plywood Division, it has been announced by Alvin A. Voit, president.

Roger Butler recently started covering the San Joaquin Valley for Pacific Forest Products, Inc., working out of the Fresno office. He was formerly in the employ of Weyerhaeuser Timber Company at Longview, Wash.

W. T. Evenson, president and manager of Wauna Lumber Co., Wauna, Oregon, spent the Christmas and New Year holidays in San Diego, and was a San Francisco visitor on his way north early in January.

Harold E. Ranstad has joined the Siskiyou Forest Products Company, Grants Pass, Oregon, and will be in charge of the Sales Department.

Paul F. Keatinge, manager of White Department, General Portland Cement Company, announces the appointment of Donald E. Reysa as Pacific Coast representative of the Trinity Division, General Portland Cement Company.

Stan Sharkey, formerly in charge of production at Ewauna Box Co., Klamath Falls, Oregon, has been appointed sales manager of Alexander-Yawkey Lumber Co., Prineville, Oregon.

A. B. "Bat" Ruf, of Kline & Ruf, San Francisco, spent the New Year holiday in Southern California, and attended the Rose Borvl game at Pasadena.

V. Oliver, lr., 2902 Rowena Avenue, been appointed sales representative for nia, Arizona and Nerv Mexico for the Working Co. of Portland, Oregon.