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Hardwood Yard in Los Angeles

Announcement is made by Nelson E. Jones of the Jones Hardwood & Plywood Co. that this company will open offices and a yard at 42ffi Bandini Boulevard, Los Angeles 23, effective March 1, with an initial stock of about one million feet of high-grade hardwoods. The company will continue to maintain a sales office in San Francisco, but in future the principal place of business will be in Los Angeles.

The company is owned and operated by Nelson E. Jones, who started in the hardwood lumber business in San Francisco in 1912. He was in the United States Naval Reserve for a time during World War f, and after the war was manager for two years of the J. tr. Higgins Lumber Company's Northwest branch in Seattle.

The Jones Hardwood & Plywood Co. was established in the fall of. 1922 in San Francis,co.

Mr. Jones is a member of the San Francisco Lumbermen's Club, and of Hoo-Hoo Club No. 9; a member of the American Legion, Floyd Bennett Aviation Post No. 333; The Navy League of the United States. His avocation is yachting, and he is a past commodore of the Corinthian Yacht Club, and still an active member of this club. He is also a member of the San Rafael Yacht Club; Sausalito Cruising Club, and North American Yacht Racing Association. In Southern California he holds membership in the Balboa Bay Club, Newport Beach, and Pitcairn Club, Isthmus Resort, Catalina Isiand.

Construction Activity in Ecrstern States

New York, Feb. 1S-Construction contracts awarded in the 37-states east of the Rockies were off 14 per cent in January compared with January 1951 it was reported today by F. W. Dodge Corporation, construction nelvs and marketing specialists. The January 1952 figure. rvas $902,091,000 as against $1,043,248,000 in January 1951.

Non-residential awards for the first month of the new year totaled $357,676,ffi0 or Z2 per cent less than the $461,016,000 total for January a year ago.

Residential contract of $337,721,000 were down 20 per cent from the $420,918,000 of January last year.

Public and private works and utilities totaled $206,694,000 rvhich was a gain of A per cent over January 1951. The total was $161,314,000.

Representing on a wholesale, direct mill shipment basis some of the older and better Fir and Pine manufacturers in Oregon and Northern California

Purveyors

FIR-SPRUCE-HEMIOCK

CEDAR-PINE-PIYWOOD

Representing

Frost Hsrdwood Floors, lnc. in the Sqcrqrnenlo ond Sqn Jooquin Volleys

FROSIBRAND FTOORING

OAK-PECAN_BEECH