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Dubs Ploy Ltl Rinconodo Gourse

The 133rd monthly Dubs, Ltd., tournament was held at the La Rinconada Country Club, near Los Gatos, on February 19, with Louie Larson as host. Winners were as follows :

First flight: Gran Geisert (68), Ellsworth Keene (68), Bob Miller (70), Chuck Noble (71), Charlie Larson (72), and Art Bond (72).

Second flight: Jack Crane (66), Ralph Bowman (66), Wendell Paquette (69), Paul Gaboury (69), and Roy Sjolund (71).

Third flight: Tom Jacobsen, Sr. (67), Joe Finelli (70), Bill Johnson (74), Bill Gilmore (76), and Hugo Miller (76). Guest flight honors were copped by Bill MacBeath with his 115 high gross (honors?) and Jerry Fernandez, who registered a low gross of 87.

Prexy Paul Gaboury presided at an excellent dinner in the new club house and, following the feast, publicity director Wendell Paquette was called upon to explain his dereliction of duty at the previous tournament (CLM 2/15).I{owever, all turned out well for our PR man as he again registered a good high net score and walked off with the Hobbs Wall trophy donated by Lew Godard to the golfer with the five highest net scores during the past year.

The next ntonthly Dubs tourney will be played on the Orinda Country Club course, with banquet following at the clubhouse, on Friday, March 18.

Rentql Housing Conference in 5.F.

A Rental Housing conference of the National Assn. of Home Builders, Washington, D.C., will be held at the Sheraton-Palace hotel, San Francisco, March 31, co-sponsored by the Associated Home Builders, Inc., of San Francisco.

Mutuql Moulding & lumber Compony Exponding Under Brewer Monogement

On January 1, John Q. Brewer, a long-time employee of the Mutual Moulding and Lumber Company, Gardena, California, acquired the operating firm from his employers, S. F. and H. H. Hannon. Since he assumed'sole ownership of the wood products concern, things have been humming in all departments.

The four-acre plant is loaded with fine inventory and the mill is booming with orders. There has been no change in operations or policy. "We always maintain an inventory in excess of three million feet and, in addition to our custom millwork, we also offer the dealers complete dry-kiln facilities," said Mr. Brewer.

Mutual Moulding & I umber Company is ideally situated right on the Harbor Freeway at 152nd street. The plant is in the center of the southwest industrial area within mirr- utes of the harbor area, downtown Los Angeles and all Southland cities and communities.

It requires the services of 25 production employes, three fork-lift trucks and seven units of modern remanufacturing eqiripment in the mill to keep stock moving through the plant.

The mill building, which houses two moulders, one new matcher, one resaw, one rip saw and a 3C[' planer, is one of the most modern in the Southland. For dry stock, an 18,300' and. a l2,OO0' warehouse occupy the central position in the yard for storage. Under the management of John Q. Brewer, things sure seem to be humming at Mutual.

Lake Marie Estates property, near Santa Barbara, has been rezoned to permit a development by Lake Marie Enterprises, Inc.

A $3.5 million,24-store shopping center is being planned in Bloomington, Calif., by Demos D. Shakarian & Associates.

J. S. B,O*'

1550 ROYAL BOULEVARD, GLENDALE 7, CALTFORNTA DIRECT MILL SHIPMENTS

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Los Angeles Approyes New Flooring Pqnel

The city of Los Angeles building bureau has announced general. approval of 2.4.1 tongue-and-groove fir plywoocl panels in lieu ol 2x6 tongue-and-groo,ri lumber. tli. ,re* panels,-j.ointed either at the long edges or on all sides, act as combination subfloor and undirlayment and may be used over.girders_spaced.4 feet on cet.ttei. Cross blocking is not required with panels using the specially engineere-d joint.

All panels used under this approvit must bear ihe grading stamp of the Douglas Fii plywood Association.

The special lrfi-inch thick panels, approved for use with cross-blocking in 1956 by LoJ Angeles, ihould save 12 man hours per 1.000 square feet of floor, according to the ply- wood association.

The new joint, tested in the DFPA laboratories, was developed late in 1959 to meet obiection to the use of crossblocking. Lower surfaces of 2.4.i T&G surfaces provide an attractive beamed ceiling when used in basement houses. Finished floors, ranging from vinyl tile to carpet to solid oak strips, may be applied directly to the panels.

- Approval was issued by G. E. Morris, superintendent of Luilding for the Los Angeles Board of Building and Safety Commissioners.

Don Hoover Purchoses Cr:oss Lumber Yord ot Coolingo

The Cross Lumber Qo_mpany yard at Coalinga, formerly operated as a branch of Cross Lumbei Company of Merceci, has been purchased by Don }foover, a local-beer distributor (leaving suds for sawdust ?).

Club 9 Orbirs Wood Promotion

(Continued from Page 8) the best thinking of the entire industry behind it and will prove invaluable to all salesmen in the "creative selling" of wood.

Cllapman 5-5501 but that they still consider themselves as lumbermen.

"Lumber is the product on which their businesses were founded, grew and p-rospered. Even though lum_ ber costs more to handle for less profit, the rjailer is still basically a lumberman at heari,,' he said.

"NRLDA is delighted that- a wood-promotion program has been set .up -to improve the public image of lumber,,, Pomeroy said, "but our association is also most anxiotis

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87Ol Wilshire Boulcvord (Suite 2OO) Beverly Hills, Colilornia

Phone: Oleonder 5-63t2 executlve vrce-

Representing the retail lumber industry, Jack Pomeroy, ecutive vice-oresident of the T,rrmber Merchanfs Aqqn of tfy, romeroy, Merchants Assn. of executive vice-president Lumber Merchants oi Northern California, took the stage noting that the aver- r\orrnern \-allrornla, tooK stag'e notrng tnat age retail yard carries literally hundreds of different items,

Rqlph DALES, Buyer Chqn ukioh, cqliforniq MAHONEY