solid PHILIPPINE MAHOGANY

SGD&WI ELECTS MURREL SPENCE

1959 PRESIDENT

Murrel Spence, president of the Nudor Mfg. Corp., North Hollywood, was elected 1959 president of the Sliding Glass Door & Window Institute, Los Angeles, at the recent annual Institute election meeting in Rodger Young auditorium. Other new officers are George Radford, Radford Supply Co., Santa Maria: Charles Walker, T. V. Walker & Son Mfg. Co., Burbank, and Chuck Munson, Ador Sales, Inc., Fullerton.

The SGD&WI completed 1958 with six new members, a doubled manufacturing membership, and a total of 29 active and associate firms on the member roster. The Institute also made its first official participation in the recent convention of the National Association of Home Builders at Chicago, Jat. 18-22.

Weyerhaeuser Enters Flake Board Field

Memphis, Tenn.-Weyerhaeuser Timber Co.. Tacoma, Wash., has bought the United Wood Corp. of West Memphis, Ark., for an undisclosed purchase price. The Pacific Northwest manufacturer is said to be planning immediate expansion and modernization of its new holding to mark its entry into the flake board field.

National City Firm Seeks

N.H.L.A. LISTING

The Carousel Hardwood Softwood Lumber Co., Inc., National City, Calif., has applied for membership into' the National Hardwood Lumber Assn. and been given tentative approval subject to final action by the Executive committee at its next meeting.

Forest Products Sales Joins

L. A. C. OF C.

A R R 0 w H E A P t D Y w 0 0 D

Executive Dealer Frode B. Kilstofte of the Rossman Mill & Lumber Co., Wilming- ton, Calif., very civic-minded retail lumberman, was pictured in The Los Angeles Times, Jan. 20, with Architect Welton Becket going over floor plan and seating arrangements of the Sports Arena in Exposi- tion Park, site of the 19,60 D'emocratic national convention. Kilstofte is also on the Coliseum Commission in addition to other civic offices frequently mentioned in these columns-

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who showered him with cards and notes and took the time to call about him during his recent severe ilhress. And he reDorts that K. W. Van Wig, secretary of the company, clid a fine job "minding the store."

Jack Dollar, vice-president of The Robert l)ollar Co., has been nominated to serve on the board of governors of the Propellor Club in San Francisco.

Bob Heberle spent the last of January in Arizona and the Southwest callins on Georgia-Pacific accounts and enjoying a warm change from the Los Angeles "overcas t. "

Mack Giles and Walt Hjort called on Drake's Bay Lumber Co. mill connections in the Humboldt county area the week of Jan.72.

"Fritz" Hutcheson, executive of Great Western Lumber Co., Glendale, and his wife left Jan. 31 for Mexico City on a businesspleasure trip. They will spend time in Mazatlan, Acapulco, Durango and Perall visitine lurrrber plorluction nrills.

Charles T. Gray (above), president of American Forest Products Cor,p., has been re-elected to the 1959 board of directors of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce.

Jack Davidson of Pacific Wood Products Co., Los Angeles, representing the Imported Flardwood Plywood Assn., San Francisco, and Fred Smales, vice-president and regional director, Western region, U.S. Plywood Corp., Los Angeles, were both speakers at the Southern regional meeting of the National Plywood Distributors Assn. in the Roosevelt hotel, New Orleans, Jan. 23.

Rounds Lumber Co. Salesmanager Harry Merlo called on a few midwest accounts and took in the NAHB convention in Chicago the week of Jan. 18.

A. E. Rogers, president and manager of the Hyde Park Lumber Co., is now back at his Los Angeles yard two to four hours a day following his heart attack last Oct. 11. The veteran dealer's doctor has him on walkine exercises so that he can soon ,be putting in his normal workday again at the retail yard, and also continue his work in the Peooles Federal Savings & Loan of Inglewood, of which he has been a director 33 years, and his civic activity on the Park and Recreation Commission, on which he has served many years. Mr. Rogers asks The'Merchant to especially thank the many lumber friends

"Woody" Yates of F. S. Buckley Door Co., and Chas. di Cristina, head of J. di Cristina & Son in San Francisco, spent a few days duck-hunting around Colusa during the recent holidays.

Bachelor Bill Smith of Smith-Robbins Lumber Co., Los Angeles, reveals he'll be a benedict next month. The social event and wedding to Barbara Beretich is scheduled in Saint Catherine's church in Riverside. March 21.

Congrats to Arcata Redwood's Southlancl representative, Pete Kepon, and his bride on their January 10 boy baby, an experimental model going into full production soon, according to Pete. Incidentally, accorcling to oul records, January l0 is also the birtlr date of Arcata Redwood President H. A. Libbey. Now, you don't suppose ?

Winnie and Lou Weidner, former ,,bull of the woods" at E. J. Stanton & Son, spent their first anniversary last month in Sar-r Francisco, sort of a second honeyrnoon visit- ing the wharf and dining rby the Golden Gate.

Associated Redwood Mills Representative John Driscoll spent the last semester of January at its Arcata head office.

The Zook Todds of Western Door & Sash and the Jack Favors of C,BS plywood were holiday houseguests of Kay and Rolf Stolesen at Squaw Valley over New year,s.

More than 100 lumrber-industry friends attended the gala sailing of the Matsonia last

Woller Slucrmer, AArr. Wotfe, |{rs. Sleurmor, Horoce Wolfe month when a group of southern Californians sailed for Hawaii. In the party were Dealer George Pike and his wife (who didn't sail but planned to join the group later), Mr. and Mrs. Horace Wolfe, MarquartWolfe Lumber Co.; Jean and Norman Winsor, Great Western Lumber Corp.; Mr. and Mrs. Ed Dursteler, Sierra Lumber & Plywood Co., and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Stuermer of Marysville, a partner in the Sierra Lumber firm who also handles its procurement in the big-timber country. Visitors and guests wanted to float the boat from Wilmington to Honolulu but the whistle blew. Following their extended stay in Alohaland, the lumbermen planned td fly back from the Islands late in January.

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