Rer Woll Enterprises Celebrote First Decode of lndustry Services

Early this year, Rex Wall, prominent Southern California lumberman, and his staff will celebrate their 10th anniversary of service to the lumber industry at all levels. It was in the spring of 1950 that Rex established Wall Dry Kiln Co., fnc., to help wholesalers and distributors with their drying problems. He had the assistance of his wife Jean, who, during the first several years of the fledgling business, handled all of the administration and clerical details.

"Without the aid Jean gave me during those formative years, the task of getting the show off the ground would have been most difficult indeed." said Rex.

Today-just 10 years later-this progressive young business executive not only operates the Wall Dry Kiln business at 20940 South Alarrreda Street (the original location), but also manages the Max Hardwood Co., a corporation established in 1958 to service users of imported and domestic hardwood lumber at the dealer and industrial ooints of distribution.

"In this business it is impossible to stand still. You must move forward and take advantage of every opportunity or it is inevitable you will slip backward," said Mr. Wall.

He has been identified in lumber production for the past 25 years and, although long on e*peiience, he is still youttg in years because he got an early start at the mills as a youngster.

At the four-acre plant just rvest of the Long Beach Freeway at Dominguez Junction, a crew of 35 keeps the operation humming. The three big donble-track kilns take a charge in excess of a quarter of a million board feet of lumber. It requires 12 units of mobile equipment, including trucks, to keep the action going within the yard for both organizations. But most of all there is no loss of labor productivity as employes move from job to job.

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