R. G. Robbins Lumber Go.

Responsible Wholesale Distributors ol Srest Goast Forect Products

CALIFORNIA DIVISION

16 California Street, San Francisco 11

L. J. (Lany) Owen

Qeneral Offices: Spaulding Building, Portland 4, Oregon

New Ycrd ct Fcllbrook

Robert W. Baird of Carlsbad advises that construction work on the new Fallbrook Lumber Co. yard at Fallbrook is ,under way, permission having been received from the CPA to build one warehouse, 50 feef by 30 feet, which for the present will serve as a store and office. The company has an excellent site, 480 feet on Highway 395, at the corner of Live Oak Road, and will build to a master plan that will result in a very fine building material store when completed.

Mr. Baird has as an associate a Fallbrook man of much experience, O. P. Heald, who will manage the operation. He has lived in Fallbrook for a number of years and has been very active in its recent development. Bob White, experienced lumberman, rvill be his assistant and handle the yard.

Distributors oI Strcnd Steel Doors

Wholesale Building Supply, fnc., Oakland, dealer distributors in L.C.L. and carload quantities for the Strand Overhead Steel Garage Doors, report a brisk demand for these doors. Carload buyers include the following: Modesto Lumber Co., Modesto; Peterson-McCasslin Lumber Co., Reno; Modern Builders Supply, El Cerrito; Builders Emporium, El Cerrito; Griffin Lumber Co., El Cerrit'o; Sterling'Lumber Co., Oakland; Lincoln Lumber Co., Oakland; Mayfair Lumber Co., San Jose.

Chcnge br Ncrre

Fleming & Hightower Lumber Co. is successor to the Fleming Lumber Co. at:3250 San Fernando Road, Los Angeles.

Annucl Meeting

The annual meeting of the Wilamette Valley Lumbermen's Association will be held Friday evening, March 21, at the Osburn Hotel, Eugene;- Ore. The honored guest and principal speaker will be Senator Guy Cordon of Oregon. Directors. and officers for the ensuing year will be elected.

These annual (Ladies Night) banquet meetings, started years ago during the regime of ex-president Vic Larsen, have become a fixed institution and a regionally and nationally knorvn event in the realm of lumberdom.

Los Angeles Building Permits

I-os Angeles building perrnits for February reached a valuation of $16,,892,503, the largebt month since September, 1946, rvhen the valuation was placed at $17,066,901. Statistics released by the Department of Building and Safety showed that 4541 permits were issued in February. Value of permits for the first two months of.,1947 now total $30,948,940.

Instclling Higrh-Speed Plcrner

San Joaquin Lumber Co., Stockton, is installing a new Stetson-Ross 6-1GA1 planer. This is a valuable addition to this yard's mill equipment, as it is the last word in planers.

Appointea U*rogoT

R. P. Kratz has been appointed manager of Brush Industrial L-umber Co., Los Angeles. ,IIe was formerly manager of this company for eight years, and has now jold out his own hardwood interests to return to his ofd position.