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Coos Boy Lumber Co., Coos Bay

Inmon-Poulsen.Lumber Co., Portlond

Coost Pocific Lumber Co., Eureka

Honley lumbcr Co., Eurcko

High Sierro Pine tlllls, Oroville snd olher

Nor'thern Colifornia ond Oregon lllllr

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214 Fron0 Sl. sAN FRANCISCO II

YUkon 54395

812 Eost 59th St. I.O' ANGETES I Adoms 81Ol

WAR,EHOUSE STOCKS OF LUftIBER, PLYWOOD AND DOOR,s

2625 Ayers Avenue

TOS ANGETES 22

ANgelus 2-0890 l57l 5o.28rh 5r. SAN DIEGO 13

Frqnklin 7425

New Hqlf Million Dollqr Sowmill R.ecdy

The big, nerv, modern sau'mill plant of the Hansen Pacific Corporation at Fortuna, California, will be in operation on NIarch first, and will be one of the most up to date in the Fir industry. It will produce 40 million feet of lumber annually. and is being built at a cost of half a million dollars.

Says H. R. Hansen, president of the coroporation, the neu' mill contains the latest and most efficient type of heavy sau'mill machinery, will cut timbers up to 50 feet long, and u'ill specialize in Fir of all dimensions for the retail trade. He states also that tl-reir product will be sold through several rvell known California wholesalers, including their parent corporation, the Hansen Wholesale Lumber Corporation, of Detroit, rvhose California office at 1101 N. Bundy Drive, West Los Angeles, is managed by Edgar J. Irvine.

L.A. Hoo-Hoo Dinner Donce

John Lipani, president of the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo club announced last week reservations are coming in fast for the annual dinner dance to be held in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on the evening of February 19. "There are still a few choice tables available and rve hope the folks will call right av,'ay to assure success of this event," said John. Cocktail hour starts at 7:09 p.m. and dancing will continue until 2:00 a.m., said Jim Forgie, the clutr's secretary-treasurer. Make your reservations nor,l' by calling DUnkirk 2-7942.

Honor TOlh Binhdoy

Forty-five San Diego lumbermen and prominent civic leaders in Lemon Grove, California, held a luncheon party Tuesday, February 2, 1954, at Michael's Cafe in Lemon Grove to honor Steve Westover, pioneer Southern California lumber dealer, on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Max Goodwin, publisher of the Lemon Grove Review, was toastmaster. Mr. Westover is the oldest member of the San Diego luncheon club and has been identified with the lumber industry for over a half century.

Roberto Estudillo. owner of the Madereria-San Ysidro Lumber Company, Tia Juana, Mexico, attended and represented the many friends Mr. Westover has south of the border. A birthday cake featuring 7 candles was the paramount event of the luncheon and was presented to Mr. Westover by the group attending this gala affair.

Arch Kingsley Visirs €crlifornio

Arch Kingsley and wife, of Portland, Oregon, spent a two u,eeks vacation in the past month in California. They were at Coronado most of the time then stopped in Los Angeles and San Frar-rcisco on their way back home. In Los Angeles Mr. Kingsley rvas the guest of Gus lloover, and in San Francisco he visited with "Duke" Euphrat.

Mr. Kingsley is the owner and manager of the Kingsley Lumber Company, rvith a sawmill located at Linnton, Oregon, on the outskirts of Portland. He is the son of the late Ed Kingsley, a famous character in the Fir business in Oregon.

Cqrlow Gompony to Pioneer Production of New Door

Announcement was made February l, 1954 by Jack Carlow, of the Carlow Company, Los Angeles, manufacturer of doors, that his company is sponsoring the production of the 9/16" P G Sticking Door in cooperation rvith the Fir Door Institute. This will be stock sticking at no extra cost, according to Mr. Carlow, but will not conflict in any\vay with the regular production of other doors. At present Carlow Company schedule exceeds 10,000 doors weekly.

The Cutter Heads for this nslv production are being manufactured by the Tool Design and Engineering Company of Inglewood, California.

Srohl lumber Co., Inc., Ghonges Monogement

Announcement u'as made last month that the Stahl I-umber Company, Inc., Los Angeles u'holesale organization, had elected Dirk de Does president of the concern and Ken Tinkler to the post of general sales manager. lJoth men spent several years in the furniture manufacturir.rg l>usiness prior to taking over the Stahl organization.

Nlilan Michie and Bob Creelman rvill remain :rs salesmen for the re-organization firm rvhich specializes in the distribution of imported and domestic hard'n'oods ior the furniture manufacturing field. Offices and yard u-ill remain at 3855 East Washington Boulevard, Los Angeles. California.

Meetings of Building Moferiols Men

The Board of Directors of the National Building Material Distributors -\ssociation, meeting in Chicago on January 18. approved two national meetings in 1954, a Spring r.r.reeting to be held at the Hotel Statler in Washington, D. C. on Mav 3 and4, and a Fall meeting to be held at the La Salle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois on November 15 and 16.

At both meetings the first da1' l'ill be devoted to the business of the Association. rvith the second day featuring national speakers and open to manufacturers and guests.

Evqns Holds Annuol Outing

In January, the Western Division of tl-re Evans Products Company, Coos Ba1-. L)regon, celebrated its 25th anniversary. Emplovees' families and friends u''ere invited to a plant Open House on January 29th, and all 2\-year employees were the special guests at tl.re Coos Bay Chamber of Commerce annual banqtlet on January 28th. A special banquet l'as also arranged by the company for the 25-vear employees.

Evans is the world's largest manuiacturer of autorfiotive battery separators and :rlso produces plywood and lurnber products ir.r a rvide range of sizes and grades at its three \\rest Coast plants.

Over Million Housing Stqrts in '53

Housing starts exceeded the million mark for the fifth consecutive year in 1953 u,hen 1,102,400 new permanent nonfarm du-elling units were put under construction, according to preliminary estimates of the U. S. Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics. The total rvas only 2 per cent under the final estimate of 1,127,000 for 1952-the seconcl best housing year on record; virtuallv all of the 1952-53 decline was in public housing. The all-time peak of 1,396,000 starts occttrred in 1950.