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Steve Yaeger and Robert E. Kirk Purchase Lumber Business o[ Laws & Yaeger Co.

Steve Yaeger and Robert E. Kirk have purchased the storb, lumber and building material business of Laws & Yaeger Co. in Santa Rosa from Henry H. Laws, it was announced there recently.

Price of the transaction was not disclosed. The sale, which involved both money and stock was effective March 1.

Mr. Laws, who purchased the firm in 1931, will retain ownership of the planing mill and glass department which will be managed "for the present" by a new corporation, Laws & Seimears. He will be joined in this venture with his son-in- -law, Frederick Seimears, formerly treasurer of Laws & Yaeger Co.

Mr. Laws said his new firm will become "primarily a development and investment company."

Mr. Yaeger said the lumber end of the business will be managed by a new corporation, Yaeger & Kirk. He said there would be no change in policy.

Officers of I-aws & Yaeger are Mr. Laws, president; Mr. Yaeger, vice president; Mr. Kirk, secretary, and Mr. Seimears, treasurer.

The sale has developed during the past year, Mr. Laws said, during which time Mr. Yaeger had the option to buy.

Laws & Yaeger, one of the largest lumber firms in the North Bav area, was founded more than 5O years ago by the late Frank Berka. The lumber yard and adjacent buildings were built first at 8th and Wilson Sts. and the firm has never moved from that location

The land is still owned by the Berka family. Mr. Berka's widow died last year.

Frank Berka Co. was purchased in lV25 by E. U. White, who in 1931, sold the company to Mr. Lar.vs. In 1944 the name of the firm was changed from Henry Laws & Co., Inc., to Larvs & Yaeger Co.

There is more profit in Coppernole"25O," the heovy duty wood preservolive used by controclors ond industry lhroughoui the Wesl. lt is eosier to ts to wlth Coppernqle" sell becouse it eosier ond SAFER use. a r for informotion.

The firm owns land and buildings on both sides of Wilson St. between Sth and 9th Sts. and on the corner of 7th St.

In 1934 the firm purchased the Huntington Planing Mill and in 1949 added glass products to its line.

The firm built a new offrce building in 1948.

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Mr. I-aws said the sale did not mean he would separate himself entirely from the business. He is a director of the Exchange Bank in Santa Rosa, a stockholder and director of the Willits Redwood Product Co. in Willits and a director of Rheurs Transportation Co., a Willits trucking firm.

A native of Delaware, he came to Santa Rosa in 1931 after working in the lumber business in the Bay Area for many yeafs.

Mr. Yaeger, 44, was schooled in Sebastopol and has worked in the lumber industry for more than 25 years. He joined the firm when it was known as the E. U. White Co.

He served for 4 years on the Santa Rosa City Council, is a past vice president of the Chamber of Commerce and is active in Boy Scout activities. He is a director of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California.

Mr. Kirk, 47, came to Santa Rosa in 1925 from }food River, Ore. He is a native of Pennsylvania. He has worked for Laws & Yaeger Co. for the past 15 years.

Mr. Yaeger will be president and manager, Mr. Kirk secretary and treasurer, of their new firm.