SOUTHERil CA1IFORNIA 1UTBER SA1ES

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Wholesole 8t5 SO. IVY Didribution Yard AVE., tloNR. Ycrn l-4105 - Ellion 8-tl5l distribution on a nationwide scale. This well-known lumberman will again be a visitor in southern California when he will travel to Glendale to attend Spring training with his

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East Bay Lumberman Don Coveney, head of California Lumber Sales, and his Sally are vacationing and living-itup in general in the Islands and plan to return to Oakland about mid-February.

Graham Griswold, pioneer Pacific Coast lumberman and chief executive of thi Griswold Lumber Company, Portland, Oregon, was a visitor in southern California at the beginning of the New Year to take in the Rose- B_ow-l S3rye and visit with lurnber associates I. S. Brown and Buck Cole' man, Industrial Lumber Co., Glendale. Mr. Graham is prominent in business and civic affairs in Portland, having 'settled in the Pacific Northwest at the turn of the century and has been identified at all levels of ltlmber production,

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A. Schwebel, president of the American Lumber Company, Long Island City, N. Y., is coming west to attend the Western Fine Association regional meeting in San Flancisco and will stop at the Palace-Sheraton hotel. Mr. Schwebel intends to visit several 'California and Northwest mills with which his firm does business during his six to eight-week west coast stay. Mrs. Schwebel will accompany her husband on this trip in which he hopes to renew old acquaintanceships and establish new ones.

Hallinan Mackin's Larry Owens and the family spent the recent holidays vacationing at Death Valley.

Joe Hearin, executive of F. L. Hearin Lumber, Med{ord, Oie., was a recent Los Angeles visitor, attending to business at both lumber firms and Santa Anita.

Vic Roth, head of Triangle Lumber Co., and the Roth family vacationed in southein California and Baja California during the Christmas holidays.

George Scrim of the Scrim Lumber Company,- South Pasadena, will return early this month from his flight to the Orient on which he ca[led on suppliers in Japan, Hong Kong and Manila. During his stay in the Philippines, he visit6d the mills of Findlay-Miller at Kolambugan' Enroute he had a dip in the blue Pacific at Honolulu and made the circle tour via Pan-Am.

Joe Shipman, Talbot Lumber Company partner, visited mill connections in southern Oregon and northern California the first two weeks of the new year.

Don Bufkin of Hobbs Wall Lumber Co. and his wife Helen spent the Jan. 15 weekend at Las Vegas where, as Supreme Custocatian o,f the 9, he attended the pre-convention planning for the 1958 annual there.

Jan van Wyngaarden, manager of W. R. Grace & Company's imported plywood and lumber di'irision, spent a late iattita.v week visiting the southern California office. - "Fro;ty" Foster, hiad man at Southern California Lumber Sales, Monrovia, spent several January days at the Ivory Pine Co. mills at Dinuba, Calif., planning shipments for Spring delivery to dealers and industrials.

Carl Watts, Oakland wholesale lumberman, and his wife vacationed at Death Valley and Las Vegas during the holidays.

Bruce Walton of State Box Company and Walco Lumber Distributors, Sacramento, made a recent safari to Mexico in his own Cessna. In Acapulco he met BiU Smith of Smith-Robbins Lumber Co., Los Angeles, who flew back to L. A. with him.

John Helrq general manager of Cascade Pacific Lumber Co., Portland, spent the'Christmas holidays visiting friends and relatives in the Bay area.

Roy Stanton and the new Mrs. spent several days recently in the Arizona sun country near Phoenix and brought back some sun-tans to E. J. Stanton & Son.

Hank Aldrich, head of H. W. Aldrich Lumber Co., Eugene, Ore., and his wife spent the Christmas holidays in Palo Alto.

Ike Zafrani, owner of Harbor Lumtrer Company, San Francisco, was a recent visitor in Los Angeles looking for an all-around good lumberman to manage the company affairs in southern California.

Al Bell and Willits Redwood's Leo (His Honor) Hulett attended a CRA salesmanagers meeting in Chicago during late January along with Hobbs Wall's eastern representative, Larry Hansen.

Bob Male, young Southland lumberman who formerly operated his own wholesale concern and also represented Bonnington Lumber Co. of San Francisco, has joined the sales stafi of Carl W. Baugh Wholesale Lumber, Pasadena. He resides in Covina and will cover the dealers in the San Berdoo, Riverside and Imperial Valley areas.

Jack Pomeroy, executive vice-president of the Lumber Merchants Association, flew to Washington last month to attend an Exposition committee meeting of the National.

Mel Mclean of the Lindsay Lumber Co., Mdann, Calif., and his wife Grace left San Diego, Jan. 12, on an extended tour of Mexico and Central America in their private plane. Pat and Harry Whittemore of Los Angeles Lumber, Inc., spent some time with them in San Diego prior to their departure.

- Simpson Redwood's Dave Davis returned home late last month after spending two weeks in Chicago for the NAHB convention.

James F. Qonway, Studio City, Calif., a door manufacturer and member of the board of regents of Immaculate Heart college, was inducted Jan. 2O in New York City into the Master Knights of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in Saint Patrick's cathedral bv Cardinal Spellman.

Hortung Joins NIMA Stqff

Bernard C. Hartung, formerly with the California Traffic Safety Foundation, has been appointed administrative assistarit to the executive vice-president of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, Mortimer B. Doyle. He joins NLMA's headquarters stafi in Washington, D.C., with more than 2O years' experience in traffrc safety, personnel management and trade association work.

A native of Telluride, Colo., and a graduate of the University of Nevada, Hartung served as safety director of the Nevada Department of Highvvays fro'm 1935 to 1942, was employed by the War Production Board in Reno, Nev., he held the positions of personnel manager and safety director of the Vaughn Millwork Co. in Reno and Rocky Mount, Va. He was manag'er of the Reno office of the California Association of Employers from i948 to 1951. and regional manager of the Pbcihc Central Region of the National Association of Manufacturers. He joined the California Traffic Safety Foundation, San Francisco, in 1957 as assistant to the managing director, with responsibility for membership development.

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John E. MORTEY

John E. Morley, veteran Sacramento retail lumber dealer, died there January 7. Until his retirement a few years ag'o, Mr. Morley was owner and operator of the Homestead Lumber Company at 30th and Q streets in Sacramento.

Chorles T. DANGERFIETD

Charles 'I'. Dangerfield, office manager of the Sierra Mill *,Building Materials Co., Sacramento, died there .fanuary 1. He had been in ill health for some time. Mr. Dangerfield was a longtime resident of Sacramento and had been u'ith Sierra Mill the past 10 years. He. leaves his rvife, two sons and a daughter.

In Mernoriqm

_ Louis J. talley, 69, retired building contractor and presi- dent of the Talley Construction Co., died .Ianuary 8 it his home in Costa lVlesa . . . F. Leighton Stefhensori, 47, Fullerton, Calif., city planning director since 1955, died at his home January 10. He had previously worked with the Richmond, Calif., Housing Authority and the Fresno, Calif., Housing Authority Harry Lee Benton, 69, prominent lumber manufacturer, died January 6 at his home in La Jo1la, with funeral services and interment in Redding, Calif., where he had retired as president of the Mt. Shasta Pine Manufacturing Co. Lester C. Smull, 57, vice-president of the Riverside Cement Co., died Tanuary 16 at the Mission Inn in Riverside from a heart aitack. He had ioined the cement producer in 1922 as a salesman and advanced to assistant to general manager, assistant to president, assistant general manag'er and works manager before being appointed vice-president in 1950.

Roberson to Duroble Plywood Srqff

The addition of W. G. "Bill" Roberson, Jr. (left) to the sales staff of Durable Plywood Sales Co., Menlo Park, is announced by Salesmanager Rolf Stolesen. Roberson was formerly associated with Benj. Levinson & Co. of Seattle, as that company's Calif ornia sales representative. In his nerv capacity with Durable, Robcrson will assist Rolf Stolesen in effecting a greatly expanded sales program concerning specialty products manufactured by Durable Plywood Co. of Arcata, and Durable Fir Lumber & Plywood Co. of Calpella. At present, two of Durable's major specialty products are Plyron, a hardboard faced plywood, and EtchP1y, a brushed plywood which is produced by an exclusive patented process resulting in a relief grain panel of outstanding richness in appearance.

New BUILDING Developments...

Fullerton, Calif.-Two tracts totaling 25 dwellings have been authorized. 18 lots will be developed, on 5f acres north of Orangethorpe and west of Nicholas avenue, and seven dwellings on 7f acres on Las Palmas avenue west of Fullerton road.

Anaheim, Calif.-A church .,'r,rill be constructed on a 6acre site at tl,e corner of Orange and Magnolia avenues.

La Habra, Calif.-Permits totaling $161,200 were issued for a 16-home tract north of Central avenue and east of l-a Mirada avenue.

_ I)lacentia, 9alif.-Construction is scheduled to begirr in January for Fall occupancy on the ner,v 13-classroom elementary school on a l6-acre parcel on Madison street east of Placentia avenue.

Seal Beach, Calif.-The Community Methodist church l.ill erect an education unit on the pr-esent chapel at l0th and Central Sts.

Santa,Crtz,-Calif.-Watsonville city aldern-ren have ap- proved $7,276,500 for expansion of the city library, devel-