TWENTY-FI\/E YEARS AGCD TODAY As Reporledin The California Lumber Merchanl,March 1, 1937

Lee M. Mapes has been transferred from the Cottonwood yard to be manager of the Ukiah yard of The Diamond Match Company. He succeeds J. R. Johnson, the former manager who passed away as a result of an attack of influenza.

C. L. Isted, m:rnager of Shevlin-Hixon Lumber Co., Bend Ore., was elected president of the Western Pine Association at the annual meeting held at Portland, Ore., on February 7. He succeeds J. F, Coleman, president of Kinzua Pine Mills Co., Kinzua, Ore., who served as president of the association for two years.

Hobbs, Wall & Company, San Francisco, recently purchased the lumber schooner Santa IVIaria from J, R. Hanify Company, San Francisco.

E. L. Bruce Expcnds Operations

E. L. Bruce Co. Incorporated, Memphis, has added a seventh hardwood flooring plant to its six-plant operations with the purchase of Wood Mosaic Company's production facilities at Jackson, Tenn.

The acquisition adds seven million feet in annual production to Bruce's volume, already the world's largest in hardwood floorirrg.

E. L. Bruce Jr., board chairman of the Memphis firm, and Edward M. Gilbert, its president, said the acquisition was part of

H. Sewall Morton, of Hill & Morton, Oakland, returned March I from a business trip to Los Angeles.

A. J. Russell, Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco, has returned from a business trip to Portland aud Seattle.

L. W. MacDonald, MacDonald & Bergstrom, Inc., Los Angeles, has returned from a trip to the northwest where he visited the mills.

Ernest E. Johnson, vice president and sales manager of the C. D. Johnson Lumber Corporation, Portland, Oregon, is on a business trip to the company's California offices. He spent most of last week in San Francisco, and is visiting Los Angeles this lvcek.

Bruce's expansion program. It was also necessary, they said, to meet flooring production quotas.

The Jackson site was chosen because of its access to important flooring markets and the area's abundance of raw hardwood lumber.

Wood Mosaic, Louisville, Ky., built the single unit plant in 1947. It consumes about 900,000 board feet of lumber a month and produces enough 2l inch strip flooring in one year to floor 700 average size homes.

Bruce, which last year topped $40 million in sales, also has oak strip flooring plants at

Dudley Jones has been appointed manager of the Consolidated Lumber Co. at Torrance. He succeeds Chas. V, Jones who is now one of the owners of the Torrance Lumber Company.

Garnet T. Fraser, Fraser Lumber & Supply Co., San Francisco, recently sperrt a few days in Los Angeles on business.

The Montgomery Lumber Company at Torrance has been purchased by Chas. V. Jones and A. H. Silligo. The yard under the new ownership will be known as the Torrance Lumber Company.

The Bay City Lumber Company, Oakland, is planning to erect some new buildings on their site at 48th Avenue and East l2th Street.

Memphis and Nashville, Tenn., Little Rock, Ark., Cairo, I11., and Bruce and Laurel, Miss. The com,pany's Center, Tex., plant makes laminated oak blocks.

Within the last few years the \'Iemphis firm has entered several new business fields, including hardwood wall paneling, trucktrailer flooring and residential swimming pools. The 50-year-old firm also produces a full line of floor waxes and polishes, lumber, dimension furniture parts and Texcen doors. Its Bruce-Terminix division dominates the termite control field.

WISE OWt SAYS:

Blue Diomond Feqtured

Campus Village is typical of the increasing number of finer type apartment constructions that are now being built throughout the West. The recently completed 2-story, 35-unit apartment project is located in California ,\venue, near midtorvn Bakersfield, California.

The owner-builders. Bvron Coleman and'fony Cueto. felt that-lath and plaster would best rnaintain the high stanclards of construction they desired. They awarcled the plastering contract to Ed Myers of Bakersfield.

The attractive exterior of Campus Village is sparked by shake rt-rof ind

in Quoliry Conslruclion

a facade of board and bat, complemented by Palos Verdes stone. Greenery, two swimming pools, sun decks and lounging areas of a central patio olTer an inviting atmosphere for tenants' enjoyment and relaxation.

The Myers plastering crew used Blue Diamond Double Duty gypsum plaster applied over Blue Diamond Flintlath. Applications were made with Azar guns. Other materials that were used included Monolith gun plastic, K"ymesh, Redcolite lightweight aggregate and Zonolite. The materials were furnishecl by Bakersfield Sandstone Brick Company.

Comero inlerrupts ploster discussion ol lhe mixer, [orry Sughrue. ploster counsellor for Blue Diomond, Ed Myers, plosfering contrcclor, and hodcorrier Gene Hunt tolk things over on the Compus Villoge iob. nical n'reetings that follou'ecl.

L)iscussed at the meeting tvere lrlans ior the 1962 Annual N[eeting of \\'estcrn I)ry Kiln. Clubs. tt-' bi helrl tlri: year, June 14 and 15, at the Univcrsity of California Studer.rt Union, Ilerkeler-.

.\. F. Trrdrrry of the Refrigeratirig and Power Specialties Comparry talked on "Steam Traps for Lurnber l)ry T{ilns and Their N{aintenance for 'foo Performance."

Colifornio Dry Kiln Club Holds Meeting

The first regular meeting of tl.re Cerrtral Califorriia Dry Kilrr-Clrrb for 1962 rvas held, January 12 at tl-re plant of the Beaver Lumber Company, Sarr

Leandro, California. Francis \\r'inkel, nranager of the Beaver Lumber Company, and \\r. A. Kinney, manager of the \Vestern Dry Kiln Company, were co-hosts. President Doug Skrimager presidecl at the business and the tech-

"\\Iith the aid of slides ancl nunrerous illustrative stories from his lons' experience in the field 'f uclur)- l)1'e- setrted an interesting and infornrative 1>resentation," said Flarvey H. Smith, secretary treasurer of the organizzrtion. 'fudury and pi.1tu.d -\danis. crtgitrecr, servecl as a t$'o-nlan panel drrring an open forum discussion periocl following the slide talk. Problenrs of specific interest to some ancl of general iuterest to most wefe Dresented.

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