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G. F. Bonnington and Brian Bonnington Form Wholesale Concern in San Francisco

G. F. "Jerry" Bonnington, who has been in the u'holesale lumber business since 1920, and his son, Brian Bonnington, have formed their otvn wholesale lumber organizalion, the Bonnington Lumber Co., rvhich will deal exclusively with the retail lumber trade. Their ad appears on another page.

Douglas Fir Redwood Pine By

SHIP-RAIL-BAR,GE

TRUCK AND TR,AILER,

RePresenting

Coos Boy Lumber Co., Coos BoY tnmqn-Poulsen Lumber Co., Portlcnd

Coqst Pocific Lumber Co., Eurekq

Honley Lumber Co., Eureks

McGreody Lumber Co., Forluns

High Sierrcr Pine Mills' Oroville snd other

Northern Cclifornio ond Oregon Mills

WAR,EHOUSE STOCKS OF PTYWOOD AND DOORS

SAN FRANCISCO 24

1455 Custer Ave.

Mlssion 8-4332 tos ANGELES I

700 Ecsr 59rh $.

Adoms 8l0l

SAN FRANCISCO 24

1455 Custer Ave.

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OAKTAND 3

9029 Son Leqndro St.

Lockhoven 9-7914

SAN DIEGO 13

1 571 So. 28rh Sr.

FRqnklin 7425 tOS ANGEIES 1

812 Eqst 59th Street

Adoms 8101 lfe rvas discharged early in 1946 and then spent about a year and a half u'orking in Douglas fir and pine mills. For the past 1f years he has been employed as a salesman b.v the Lamor-r-Bonnington Co., and is weil knorvn in the San Francisco Bay area, Peninsula, and Coast Counties territories.

Jerry Bonnington began his lumber career in January. 1910, as a logger in the State of Washington. After 12 rnonths in the woods he spent about three years acquiring sawmill and manufacturing experience' trvo years of which rvere with the Union Lumber Company at Fort Bragg.

During 1914 he rvas in charge of the lumber department for the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, while it was under construction, and he recalls that much o{ the lumber used, including many large and long timbers, sold as lou' as $10.00 per M delivered in the San Francisco Bay area.

From 191(r ro 1920, except for a short time spent in rrA/orld \\rar I, he rvas in the retail lumber business in San Jose and Salinas. Follorving this he rvas rvith the Coos Bav Lumber Co. as a sales representative for one year' and tl.ren joined the Wendling-Nathan Company, and rvas rvith that firrn for about 15 years.

In 1936 he and F. R. Lamon organized the wholesale firm of Lamon-Bonnington Co., and since then has been active in its affairs.

Jerry is rvell known'in lumber circles throughout California ancl Oregon. He is a past president of Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39, Oakland.

IJrian Bonnington gre\\' up lvith the idea of entering the lumber business. He attended Sarr Francisco lJniversity fc.rr three and a l-ralf years, and during summer vacations l'orked at several sawmills. At the outset of the rvar he enlisted in the Air Corps and spent three and a half years as an Army Air Force pilot. A year of this time was spent in the China-Burma-Tndia theater as a test pilot.

Preston T. Coursen, lvho has been buyer for l-amonBonnington Co. at Eugene, Oregon, for the past four years' rvill be the company's representative in Oregon. He is n'ell and favorably knorvn throughout the producing area.

Offices of the Bonnington Lumber Co. are at 505-6-7 Morris Plan Building, 717 Market Street, San Francisco. The telephone number is YUkon 6-5721' At Eugene, Oregon, the of6ce address is P.O. Box 1021. Telephone number is Eugene 4-001+.

Oxnard Building Sets New Mcrrk

Heavy building volume produced a record $8,533,138 in nerv construction in 1951 Hugh Clarl< Jr., City Building Inspector of Oxnard, announcecl. The figure r,vas nearly $1,000,000 over the constrrlction undertaken in 1950.

.942 nerv du'elling units accour-rted for morc than $5,000,000 of the total. Increascd activity at two-nearby Navy bases and construction of the Oxnard Air Force Base, six miles to the east. u'ere primary reuisorls for the high figure, Mr. Clark said.

New Cctclog

A new 43-page "Weldu'ood Catalog" has recently been published by United States plyu,ood Corporation. The nerv booklet contains descriptions, photographs, specifications, and list prices of softrvood and hardwood plyrvood, doors, plastics and the many specialties which comprise the \\reldwood family of products.

A company spokesman said copies of the nerv "\Veldwood Catalog" will be mailed on request to persons speciff ing Form 1052.

Lumber in Trucks

The 118,300,000 board feet of lunrber utilizecl each year by the nation's trucking inclustry lvoulcl frrnrish enough lumlter to builcl a boardu,alk six fect rvide from Neu' York to Los Ar.rgeles.

Floyd Yates of Soutl.rn-cst Plyu,oocl, Inc., Inglct-ood, Calif., macle a conrliinecl busil-ress ancl plea_ srrre trip to Seattle over thc Christmas ancl Ncrv Year holiclavs.

Here's the sign of ftne Redwood... CRA REDWOOD

The CRA grode mork is your guorontee of Redwood thot will alwoys perform os only Redwood con perform.

It tells your cuslomers they're getting Redwood thol's uniformly groded, precisely milled, ond corefully dried ond secrsonbd.

Why toke chonces? Alwoys feoture CRA grodemorked, lrode-morked, Certified Dry Redwood -lhe Redwood you con be sure of-the Redwood processed by the member firms of the CA1IFORNIA REDWOOD ASSOCIATION