TWENTY.FTI'E YEARS AGC) TODAV fu Reported in The California Lumber Merchant, February 15, 1956

H. J. Macktn, preside)rt of the Canadian Westerrr Lumber Co., Ltd., Fraser Mills, B. C., was a recent visitor at the offices of the Lawrence-Phllips Co., Los Angeles.

L. S. Turnbull of Los Angeles, Southern California and Arizona representative of the Shelvin Pine Sales Co., has returned from a trip to Lt'rzorra where he spent several days calling on the trade.

Port Lamon Lumber Co. of Port Lamon, Mindanao, P. f., manufacturers of Philippine Mahogany, recently opened an office at 246 Pearl Street, New York. This company is owned by Madrigal & Co., whose agent in San X'rancisco is C. U. lllartln, 637 Minna Street.

C. D. Johnson, president of the C. D. Johnson Lumber Corp,, Portland, recently spent some time in San Francisco and Los Angeles offces of his company itramei E. "Jltnmy" Atkinson has returned to San Francisco to enter the wholesale lumber business on his own account. He wiil be assoeiated witlr and exclusive representative of, Campbell-Moore Lumber Co., Portland, covering the Northern California territory. Mr. Atkinson was with the Chas. R. McCormick Company for more than 18 years.

The Carl H. Kuhl Lumber Co., Portland, Oregon, announces the appointment of Carl I)avles as tleir exclusive Southern California representative. Mr. Davies is well known in Los Angeles lumber circles where he has been identified in millwork and wholesale sales for the past eighteen years.

White Oak Mill & Lumber Company has opened a retail lumber yard at San Carlos.

Free'Stronghold' Booklet on New School Constructlon

A 12-page booklet with ideas for modern, economical one-story school buildings has been prepared by Independent Nail & Packing Company, Bridgewater, Mass., and is available on request to anyone interested. The booklet, entitled "The Stronghold Line of Nails in Schools," shows cost-saving technlques made possible by the use of Stronghold, Screw-Tite a^nd other improved nails. These nails, in conjunction with the engineered use of wood, provide fastenings which hold permanently tight and result in a fully balenced design in which components and Joints are equally strong, thus increasing the life of the structure and decreasing the eost of upkeep. Wood construction, along with combinations of wood, steel and masonry are shown.

The booklet illustrates modern sehool and auxiliary buildings, and includes detail drawings of the various components, with the proper nail for each.

Conetructlon Appllcatlons of Glaro-Reducing Glass Featured ln Quarterly

Buildings in which daylighting has been balanced by the use of glare-reducing Lustragray glass in windows and curtain walls, are featured in the Autumn issue of the architectural quarterly Creatlve Idsas i:n Glass. Issued by American-Saint Gobain Cor"trloration, copies are available on request from Amerlcan-Saint Gobain Corp., 625 Madlson Avenue, New York 22. N.Y.

Pacific Coast Hardwood Distributors held their annual convention at Del Monte, January 31 and February f. itrames Ahern was elected president and C. If. White was the retiring president of the association.

Charles S. Trlpler was appointed secretary of the Coast Counties Lumbermen's Club, effective February 1, succeeding Merle D. Blshop, who resigrred to go in the retail lumber business for himself.

Frank R. Adams, Eastern sales manager, The Pacific Lumber Co,, San F rancisco, has returned to Chicago after spending 30 days on the Pacific Coast, which included some time spent at the eompany's operations at Scotia.

I(. C. Bacheliler of Long View, Wash., has been appointed manag:er of the trafre department of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association. He succeeds Herbert N. Prosbstel, who after 15 years of seryice with the Association, resigaled to become assistant freight agent of the Great Northern Railway at Seatfle.

The annual meeting of the E. K. Wood Lumber Company was held in the company's offices in San Francisco, January 2?. Out of town directors who attended were F. J. Wood, president, Bellingham, Wash.; Wanren B. Wood, vice president, Los Angeles; iI. B. V9ood, Los Ang'eles and George Kellogg, Hoquiam, Wash.