Ne*s o[ Our Service Friends

Jas. W. Mcleod, Mahogany lvas recently released from this company's Long Beach University of Oregon in the the 14th Air Force in China,

Bill Flamer, son of Erik Flamer, vice president and general manager of Coast l-umber & Equipment Co., Long Beach, is back frorn the Pacific area, and has gone to work to learn the lumber business 'lvith this company. He rvas a Corporal in the U. S. Army.

Lieut. Rupert G. Haley, lvho served in the Navy since 1941, is non,ottt of the service and is back with Haley Bros., Santa lVlonica. lle is a sou of W. K. Haley of Haley Bros. Mr. Haley's younger son, Captain David C. Haley, U. S. Army, has returned from the Philippines and is now cornpleting his studies at Stanford University.

Nevin House, who Army, is now with B. Long Beach, as sales was recently discharged from the W. Byrne & Sons, hardwood dealers, manager.

Sergeant Ruth Hanson, WAC, is out of the service antl is back again in the office of her father, F. G. Hanson of the West Coast Screen Co.. Los Angeles, after three year:s' service, most of rvhich rvas in Washington, D. C.

Roy Dervey, u'ho has lteen a radar specialist in the Navy for the past several years, received his discharge December 7, 1945, and is now with a concern manufacturing radar equipment. He u'as lormerly associated rvith Mel Hogan in the Concord Lumber Co., Concord, Calif.

E. G. Turner, who was four years in the Navy, has been releasecl and is back with his former employer, the Sar-r Pedro Lumber Co., Los Angeles, in the shipping department.

Stanton Swafford is out of the and is back with E. J. Stanton & was a commander of a gunboat the Atlantic and Pacific theaters the Navy over four years.

Navy on terminal leave Son, Los Angeles. He and saw action in both of war. Stanton was in

Robert F. Vincent, First Lieutenant in the Army Air Force, rvhose fine record included 50 missions over Europe, is now out of the service and is enrolled at Stanforcl University. Hc is a son of Lyle F. Vincent, manager of West Oregon Lumber Company's San Francisco offrce'

Peter Vincent, Mr. Vincent's youngest son, is out of the l\[erchar-rt Marine, and is a student at the University of Washington

Lyle F. Vincent, Jr., Storekeeper 2nd Class in the Seabees. is stationed on Okinawa.

Clarence Lundquist, who was in the Army for two years, is back with John W. Fisher Lumber Co., Santa Monica.

Also back at work with this company is Sgt. James Woods. Armv Air Force, after 3O months' service.

Sgt. J. R. Hults has been discharged from the Army, and has returned to work rvith Consolidated Lumber Co., Wilmington, where he is assisti"g J. R. Moody, general superintendent, as yard foreman.

Louis T'eran, who was in the Merchant Marine, is also back rvith Consolidated Lumber Co., working in the yard.

Austin Staft-ord, who was a the past three years, received turned to work with San Pedro in the shipping department.

Corporal in the Army for his discharge and has reLumber Co., Los Angeles,

Twenty employees of Deats Sash & Door Co., Los Angeles, have returned to their former jobs following release from war service. A total ol 42 employees entered the service. Two of these rnade the supreme sacrifice.

SAIEIS AGENTS FON

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These were First

The first trails were lumber trails, 'The first roads were logging roads And over them the lumberjacks

Hauled many a huge and heavy load. The first mills were lumber mills, The stamp mill came quite some time And for its building, lumbermen Furnished each board and beam and

Do I like miners? Yes. of corlrse: I grew up by a roaring mine, And oldsters thrilled my ehildish hours With startling tales of forty-nine; But this old Mother Lode of ours

Was timber built in days of old And they were lumbermen who raised That r,'i'ild, disturbing cry of "Gold !"

In famed Coloma one may see James Marshall's cabin on the hill, The site rvhere Sutter planned to build And operate his lumber mill. The river singing as of yore after rafter.

And on the bluff, in outlines bold, A statue of the lumberman Who found that first bright bit of gold.

Stair Builders Can Fill Ordert Large or Small

Announcement is made by J. di Cristina & Son, San Francisco, stair builders, that they have under construction and nearing completion a new modern plant to cost $90,000 located at 350 Treat Avenue, San Francisco.

Charles di Cristina, one of the partners in this concern, says their new .plant will be unsurpassed in the United States. "We realize," he states, "that the building industry needs the service rve will be able to render. We will be capable of servicing the entire 'ivestern states with our new facilities. Our product may be bought knockdown or installed. We have at this time a fine stock of hardrvoods, and Douglas fir stepping, and can take care of all calls, large or small."

The other two partners are John di Cristina and George di Cristina. The present plant is located at 3150 18th Street, San Francisco 10, phone HEmlock 8111.

New Housing Chiel Ncmed

Washington, Jan. 21.-President Truman today named Wilson W. Wyatt as administrator of the National Housing Agency, succeeding John B. Blandford, Jr.

Mr. Blandford, the White lfouse announced, is going to China shortly to set up a budget syslem for the Chinese government.

There's a longtom down in the gully And a rocker, too, mouldering there; There are shattered flumes and a sluice box, There are hillsides denuded and bare; But ever the west winds are telling Young forests of cedar and pine How the lumbermen blazed the pathway For the Gold Rush of forty-nine.

A. Merriam Conner.

New Scwmill

William Terry, Marvin Goin, and others are constructing a sawmill at Garberville, Calif. The mill will be diesel powered and have a daily capacity of 20,000 feet of redwood and Douglas fir lumber.

Mr. Wyatt, former Louisville Mayor rvho recently was nanred housing expeditor, will replace Mr. Blanford on February 1.