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lumbermen's Annuql Meeting Will Be Held ot Los Angeles April 20-22

The Lumbermen's 37th Annual Meeting and Trade Shon', sponsored by the Southern California Retail Lumber Association, rvill be held at the Hotel Statler, Los Angeles, Calif., on Tuesday, and Wednesday and Thursday, April fr, 2l and 22, 1954.

Executive Vice President Orrie W. Hamilton states that an excellent program is being arranged and speakers of national prominence r,r'ill address the meetings.

The Association officers are: President, Ralph N. tsaker, Barr Lumber Co., Santa Ana; Vice Presidents, B. W. Bartles, Peoples Lumber Co., Ventura, and Wayne F. Mullin, Mullin Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Treasurer, C. Gilmore Ward, Ward & Harrington Lumber Co., Santa Ana; Executive Vice President and Secretary-N{anager, Orrie W. Hamilton, Los Angeles.

Appointed Soles Monoger

Joe Williams has been appointed sales manager for the Angelus Hardwood Co., 5700 S. Alameda Street, Los Angeles. Joe is widely known in Southern California lumber circles, and for the past 19 years was an outside salesman for E. J. Stanton & Son calling on the dealers in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties.

Angelus Hardwood Co., wholesale hardu'ood concern, carries a complete line of domestic and foreign hardwoods,

Roy Julien Wifh Gqrtin lumber Compony

Jim Gartin, Gartin Lumber Company, San Mateo, has announced that Ray Julien has joined the Gartin Lumber sales force and is nou' cor.ering industrial accounts in the Bay Area.

Ray is rvell knou'n throughout the lumber industry in California. He went with the E. K. Wood Lumber Cornpany in Los Angeles in 1923 remaining there as an outside salesman until 1942, at lvhich time he joined the lumber division of the. J. B. McNeil Construction Company at Pleasanton. Calif.. 'ivho at that time had the conttact for the construction of the Camp Parks base near Pleasanton. After completion oi the Camp Parks project, Ray tvent with Christenson Lumbcr Company, San Francisco, and was there until his present association. While with Christenson, Ray r'vas an oustide salesman and called on industrial accounts.

Southern Gqliforniq lumber Seqsoning Ass'n to Meet April I

The Southern California Lumber Seasoning Association will hold its next meeting at Rodger Young Auditorium, 936 W. Washington Blvd., Los Angeles, Thursday evening, April 1, 1954. Dinner rvill be served at 7:N p.m. and rvill be followed by a business session. President Al Wahl, Consolidated Lumber Co., Wilmington, rvill preside. The committee is arranging for a speaker to address the meeting, and a good turnout is expected. All lumbermen are invited to attend.

Wholesale Redwood Distributors

Hobbs Woll hove been shipping Redwood lumber to retoil Deolers since 1865

By ordering direct from the mill ihor losds oll of your lumber occording to specificcrtions odopted by rhe Southern Colifornio Retcil Lumber Dealers Associsiion Ccll us for Rcrndorn, OR SPEClFrlED IENGTHS-we will follow rhrough for you.

lumber Merchont Ass'n Will Hold Annuqt Meeting of Yosemite April 26-27

Jack f'omeroy, execrltile vice-president, has announced that the annual convention of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California r,vill be held Monday and Tuesday, April 26 and 27, at the Ahrvahnee Hotel, yosemite National l,ark. There are also tentative arrangements for a golf tournament to be held Sunday, April 25th, at the \\iau'ona Hotel goli course, horvever, these plans are not vet definite.

Reservations are no\y available for the convention through the Lumber N{elchants Association of Northern L--alifornia olfice at 24 Caltlornia St., San Francisco, telephone YUkon 6-3705.

Appoinfed Assistqnt to Generol Sqles Monoger

Portland, Ore.-Appointment of Harold E. l,eterson, division manager of Plyl.ood, Inc. of Cleveland. Ohio, as assistant to the general sales manager of NI and M Wood Working companv has been announced by General Sales Manager Robert N. Kelly. He has already arrived in portland to assume his duties.

Tn'o years ago NIr. Peterson \\:as a member of the stafi of M and M'.s midrvest representative, operating in an eight-state territory. Prior to joining the midu'est office he had been a plyu'ood salesman {or Plyrvood. Inc. He is a native of Ohio, a graduate of Ohio State Unir.ersitv and a veteran of United States Armv Air Force.

Ooklond Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 Holds Morch Meeting

IIThe Oakla"nd Hoo-Hoo Club l'ill hold its March meeting Monday, March 15. at Fisherman's Pier, foot of Franklin St., Oakland. The meeting rvill get undern'av l-ith the "Happ) l{our" at 6:39 p.m., compliments of Hill & NIorton, Inc., Oakland, and the Hill Luml>er Cotnpany, Albany. President Bob Hogan has announced that he lias lined up an extremely profound speaker for the occasion. nanrelv one Bernie Doyle of \\restern Pine Supply Company, Emervlille. President (St. Patrick's Daf') Hogan has also "suggested" that some forrn of greerr u.earing apparel rvould be advisable for this meeting, tl.re latter suggestion somet'hat snrelling of collusion bet'n'een President Hogarr and Al Kellv (the lamous Alameda Irishrnan).

Appoinfed Mqnqger of Sqles

Wirh the completion of the newesl ond most modern wollboord plont in the Wesl, Blue Diqmond is in q position lo mqke prompt shipments of gypsum wollboqrd of the uniform high quolity which hos chorqcterized Blue Diqmond products for 39 yeon.

Rich Robbins, president, Pacific \\restdrn I-umber Company, announced f,Iarch 1 the appointment of D. O. "I)oc" Cook, u'ell knol-n lumberman, to the positiorr of nranager of sales f qt Southern California territorr-. I'acific \\'estern Lnmber Comltanr- rlaintain gener;rl oflrces at 595 E. Colorarlr St., Pasaclena, Calif., and l>r-rr.ino offices in,\rcata, California.

Mqsonite Plqns Advertising

N[asonite Corporation's 195.+ advertising campaign, geared to pre-selling hardboard through dealer channels, t'ill carrr- a total of 100 million messages in 59 prrblicati()ns co\'ering gqnslal consumers. businessnren, lum'ber dealers, builders, architects, farmers. home craftsmen, engineers, display builclers and readers in other special fields, according to Bradley Ir. Williams, general n.rerchandise manager.

AFPI Annuql Report Stresses Service fo lndustry

Washington, D.C.-Service is the keynote an<l theme oi American Forest Products Industries' annual report for 19.53, copies of u'hich are being released this week.

"Iiorest inclustries, because they deal u'ith :r natural rc, sorlrce, irre irarticularll. r'ulnerable to pubiic opinior.r," AFPI presiclent l-eonard G. Carpenter points out in a forervord to the aunual report. "It is" he continued "m.ost iml)ortalrt that the forest industries make sure their motives :rncl objectives are at all times understood by the public :rnd thoroughlv iclentified u'ith tl.re national r,velfare."

N{r. Carpenter, president of the McCloud Lumber Co., poinled out that in 1953 the number of contpanies supporting -\Fl'I t'as at an all-time high. The annual report stressed the u'ork of AFPI's district managers in acceleratirrg and intensifying the rvood-using industries' educational cfforts at the state and community level.

As natior.ral coordinator of the Keep America Greer.r forest fire prevention program, AFPI lists 34 states rvitl.r active campaigns undern'ay. A Tree Farm progress repcrt lists 4.878 different certified units in 36 states with a total :rcreage of 3O,129,256. AFPI, in behalf of the 'rvood-using industries it represents, is national sponsor of thc American Tree Farm System.

Copies of the attractive. 16-page AFPI Annual Report for 19.53 are available on request from American Forest Products Industries, 1816 N Street, N.W., Washington 6. D.C.

4 New Cqliforniq Tree Fqrms

San Francisco, Calif-Four nerv privately-orvnetl tree farms totaling 3505 acres devoted to a continuous ,v'ield of forest products lrave becn certified by the California Redn'ood Ass<tciation, it is announcecl here.

Thi'ec of thc trce farnrs are located in Hurnboldt County, ancl one in SiLrrtiL Cruz County. The lattcr is the ljrst Redrvood llcgion tre c f:Lrm to lte certified soutl-r of San Francisco.

With the r-rerv additions, the California licdrvoorl Associatiolr has ccrtified 146,681 arcres as tree farnrs sincc tl-re first CRA certification in 1950.

Upon applicaticn of the ownel-s, prospective tree farms are inspectecl by the association forester and certified by action of the CllA tree farm committee. Any ou'ner of tirnberland in the region is eligible to apply to the association for certificetior-r, provided that the high standards of tree farm lll:rnag-ement zrre met. There is r-ro special tax advantage rrncler st:rte lalr' {or tree farrners, the association said.

Nerv tree farrns are: .Williford Tree Farn. 520 acres owned by Charles O. Williford, near Weott; Canyon Acre:; Tree Farm, 400 acres owned by Mr. and Mrs. Ernest D. Freeman, near Korbel; E. T. Robie l\{emorial Tree Farm.

2,452 acres owne<i by the Auburn Lttmber Con.rpany, Wendell T. Robie, president, northeast of Orrck; ancl the Raymar Tree Farm. 133 acres owned by Mr. and Mrs. Ray' mond Peterson, near Santa Cruz.

Robie is vice-chairman of the State Board of Forestry which guides the policy of the state in forestry matters.

Fir-Tex of Norlhern Gqliforniq Gloses Oqklond Wqrehouse

Ernie Bacon has announced that both he and his sales staff have moved' their quarters back to San Francisco effective March 15, 1954. They are now located in the Marine Building, 214 Front St. at California, and will continue to service Fir-Tex's many Northern California customers on carload lots. Warehouse services rendered in the past will be continued as before through the numerous Fir-Tex distributors in Northern California and Nevada.

Helms lumber Gompony Now At New loccrtion

The offices of Ifelms Lumber Company, formerly at 1 Drumm St., San Francisco, have been moved to more spacious quarters in the Matson Building, 215 Market St., San Francisco. Stan Heims and Frank Brown now make Room 530,215 Market St., their base of operations and the phone number remains the same as at their previous location-YUkon 2-0428.

Ben Cheney Visifs Los Angeles

Ben Cheney, of Tacoma, Washington, accompanied by Mrs. Cheney, spent a weeks vacation in Los Angeles early in March. Mr. Cheney is owner of the Cheney Lumber Company, which operates in California, Oregon, and Washington, and specializes in the production of great quantities of Fir studs.

t'Bqxco Ghemonite Forest Producls"A New 32-Poge Brochure

"Baxco Chemonited Forest Products" is the titie of a new 32-page brochure which tells :r. comprehensive story of pressure treated rvood, its value and uses in many fields of industry. Printed in trvo colors, 'ivith 125 illustrations, the booklet is available from its publisher, J. H. Baxter & Co., 200 Bush Street. San Francisco 4, California.

Appointed Monoger

Kenneth and Lorena Eckert have announced the appointment of Neal Chadbourne as manager of the Valley Lumber & Supply Co. of Indio and Palm Desert, Calif. For the past six years, Mr. Chadbourne has been manager of the hardware department and estimator of Sunland Lumber Co. at Sun Valley. He t'ill live at Indio.

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