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All Heart wood insures maximum durability-minimum shrinkage,warping or checking. Some of the many valuable uses for which it can serve your trade are:

POSTS AND FENCE BOARDS . EXTERIOR BOARD & BATTEN IACIA AND CEITING EXPOSED BEAMS tOG CABIN SIDI}IG . RUSTIC AND DROPSIDING

MUDSI1IS . BUIKHEADS . CURBING CUIVERTS . ARBORS

GARDEN BENCHES AND STEPS . SEPTIC TANKS . KNOTTY PANTTING urite or phone nearest ffice

Constraction Heart items ma1 be included in mixed carc with Noy Sidings, Finish, Mouldings, Shop and all other Noy prodac*.

NOYOI KEDIYOODI

SUPERIOR LU^4BER gALES C0.

Tribulations Man Well o[ a Sawmill Told

Quolity lumber from the finest rnills in Colifornio, 0regon ond Woshinglon.

SUGAR PINE

PONDEROSA PINE

MOUI.DINGS

DOUGTAS FIR WHITE FIR REDWOOD o Kiln Dried or green o Sugor Pine Potlern [umber o lnduslriol lumber oll species o Douglos Fir Studs o Retoil ond Distribulion

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Named Aggigtant Saler Manager

Rolph I. Prouty

Tarter, Webster & Johnson, Ini., San Francisco, is pleased to announce that Ralph A. Prouty has been recently appointed to the position of assistant sales managbr.

Mr. Prouty was born April 9, 1912, at Mariposa, California, and spent all of his boyhood in the Mother Lode section of California, where the principal industries were lumbering, mining and cattle ranching. During.his summer vacations he worked in the fruit packing sheds in the Modesto area nailing boxes and handling fruit. It was while working in the packing sheds that Ralph became interested in the shook distribution business and in 1935 he, secured a. job with the Stockton Box Distributors in their Modesto

,warehouse. He worked seasonally at this job for three years and then in 1939 moved to Turlock'to'become bookkeeper in th Turlock warehouse of the Stoclton Box Disttibutors. In 19.3 the Stocktoh Box Company thought they could usc him to better advantage at their factory at Stockton. In 1944 Ralph started selling shook in the San Joaquin Valley. His interest in tumber began.to develop then and, when the opportunity arose to transfer to Tarter, Webster & Jphnson, Inc., he too'lr it. He began to specialize in the handling of moulding and millwork orders, and when the position of millwork sales manager was created in 195.1 he rvas ip pointed.

He is a tall, lanky individual. whose hanner of speaking causes him to sometimes be mistaken for a Texan. He is fonil of all types of hunting and fishing, shoots a good game of golf, and is a real fan of football, baseball and most other sports.

Tarter, Webster & Johnson, Inc., also announces that Robert K. Hood is now manager of the San Francisco office of TW&J.

Visiting Regional OiEcee

Dave Davis, sales manag€r of the redwood op€rations .of the Simpson Logging Company, left last January D tor a tour over the United States covering the regional offices of the company. He will return during the last week of this month, and after spending the first trvo weeks of March in Arcata, rvill move his office to San Francisco where it will be established permanently.

They',re con- sumer accepted throughout the U.S.A. they're precision engineered for low cost, long life. . they're backed by 40 yearc experience in metal window manufacruring and they're advertised to yotr customefs.

Capitalize on the trend to metal windows with Lupton Steel or Aluminum I7indows for every type of building.

There are some very desirable distributor territories still open. N7rite, wire or phone our Los Angeles office for all the facts.

About The Americon Nutmeg ?

Nutmeg lrees formerly hove been found in Sumolro, Brqzil, Indio ond the West Indies ond now ore known lo be growing profusely in o vnoll cqnyon, heovily wooded with mony species of lrees, tucked owoy in the Sqnto Cruz mounloins of Colifornio.

Botqnists from moior colleges visit lhe oreq locoted on Big Creek, with the some enfhusiosm os prospeclors when they discovered, gold in Coliforniq in 1849.

Jusl 16 yeors ofler gold wos discovered, Hobbs Woll storted their Redwood lumber business in Del Norte County.

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