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. Kly men in the J. _W. Qopeland Yards -- Copeland Lumber Co. combine are Mr. Copeland's right-hand'man. Buddv Dunbar, office manager; Don Grahaml credit manager; Biil Barnett and H. B. Shafer, purchasing agents, whJ handle Sjl.yara purchases other than those mide-through Copeland Wholesale.

Joe Copeland is an intent and active man who is always on ths move, visiting his most remote (he was jus_t in the California desert yards in January tOsO;, as well as nearby yards, and promoting the iumbei industry.

He's a past president (1951) of the Western Retail Lumbermen's Association, Seattle ; was elected dealer-director for the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association in l94g and served on its Executive committee for three years (1949-51). He has also served on the Lumber Dealeri Re_ search Council, a subsidiary of the NRLDA.

A graduate of the University of Minnesota, Dealer Cope- land has allied his current educational interests with Lewis and Clark College. where he serves on the board of trustees. His daughter, Helen Jo, however, enrolled at the University of Southern California.

A; _to th_e future, it looks like more of the same for Cope- land Lumber. There hasn't been a year since 1950 that'at least one new yard wasn't added to ihe chain. The three in Nevada were all opened since that time. Though the company has cccasionally found it necessary to closJsome yards because of fluctuating market conditions, the predominant pattern of profit and expansion should continue unabated ror many ,v"ears to come.

. Further expansion' of the Copeland company into Calilornra was made at the very start ol 1957, when f. W. Cope_ land Yards of Portland puichased the retail yards of the ota Hammond Lumber Company in Brawley and Holtville, in

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At -that time, it was announced that Leslie Marquard would continue as manager in Holtville, and \M. p. Ccirwin at Brawley, as reported ln The CALIFORNTa I_UMBER IvIERCHANT of lanuary lS,1957. ^

Since then, Coplland Ya_rds has expanded deeper into the Uolclen State wtth three later yard purchases J old Ham_ mond's last to be built, and moit modern, yard, the Sanla Ana one hard by Disneyland; the former Hammond varcl at Rosemead, and thenat the end of l95g and with pur_ chase just completed last month in the start of 1959_its latest California acquisition, still another old Hammond retail yard, the one at Arcata, which became one of the California J_, W, C-opeland yards and (at turt .ou"ij ii " company's 50th in four states.

The latest information available showed M. E. Treadeold as.manag_er of the Santa Ana yard; Cyril Carpenter rian_ aging in Rosemead.

ThS other four yards, most.of them original Copeland en_ te-rp_risj.1, and all now operating under the new srate name 9l.J. W, Copeland Yaids of -California, are in Bannins (t(rversldg county), managed by Keith White, who recentl| replaced Darryl R. Petrusha:Bishop (Inyo county), man_ 1g"9 f: George Snow; I,one Pine (inyo iounty), managed by E. F. Lasky. and the Copeland yird in Rosamond (K?rn county).

President-General l\{anager J._W. Copeland was quoted at the time of the California yard purchases jn l9S7 a, say_ ing that his company would operat-e the long-established oid

Hammond retail yards with the customer and service al_ ways uppe.{most in mind. The lineyards carry a complete line of builders hardware and roohng in adiition to the standard lumber items in all Copeland-California yards.