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KILN DRIED PONDER,OSA AND SUOAR, PINE

Amorican lumher & Mfg. Co.

5 loth Avenue (9rh Avenue Terminol)

Oaktand 6 Catifornia

fWinooks 3-9656

Lumber Receipts crt Los Angeles-Long Becch

Hcrrbor Show Increcrse

Lumber receipts by ship at Los Angeles-Long Beach Harbor in 1947 totaled 214,395,0ffi feet, an increase of.35/o above the 1946 total, according to a Marine Exchange rePort.

The figure, however, was far below the prewar totals, which averaged over 800,000,000 feet unnually. The total was 157,988,000 feet in 1946. Last December's receipts, 29,78,000 feet, were greatest of any month since the war. In December, 1946, only 16,420,000 feet were recorded.

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Wholesale Lumber

Representing:

J. E. Tsarnas & Son, Weott, Calif. Reid & Co., Oakland' Calif.

Bedwood - I)ouglas tr'ir

Ponderosa Plne

224-226 Fanners & Merchants Bank Bldg. 320 PrNE AVE., LONG BEACH 12, CALTF. Phone LB 7a%8

Erik Flamer V. E. (Ernie) Moo

Appointed Assistcrnt Generql Scrles Mcncger

Stamford, Conn., Jan. 28.-Richard H. Diesel has been appointed assistant general sales manager of the Stamford Division of The Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company, it was announced here by Meade Johnson, general sales manager.

Mr. Diesel has been, since January 1945, Yale & Towne's manager of aircraft and automotive sales, with headquarters in Detroit. This sales office will now be a part of the Specialties Sales Department of which Philip A. Snyder is manager. Mr. Diesel joined Yale & Towne in 1939.

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Meeting

James F. Bone, manager of the Industrial Department, Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, was the speaker of the day at the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo luncheon meeting on February 10 at the Elks Club. The subject of his interesting talk was "The West Is A New Market." There was a large turnout, nearly 100 being present. George Clough introduced the speaker.

President Paul Orban presided. Dee Essley, chairman of the Hoo-Hoo Annual Convention Committee, reported on the plans under way for the meeting which will be held in Los Angeles next SePtember.

Lcrge Increcrse in Dwellings

Montebello, Feb. 15-This community is credited with the largest percentage of increase in dwellings of any city in Los Angeles County in a survey by the United Taxpayers' Association, Oma Canebr, president of the Montebello Chamber of Commerce, announced today.

The survey showed the increase in dwellings here between L94O and 1947 was 125.6 per cent, compared with an average of. 24.8 per cent for 39 cities of the county covered in the analysis.

Population here, as of last July 1, was listed as 17,5ffi.