PAMUDO PIYWOOD

Frost Hardwood Floo.rs, Inc. is New Name

Redwood Used for Guayufe Project lor Perlection Oak Flooring Co.

Announcement was made recently by Perfection Oak Flooring Company, fnc., of Shreveport, Louisiana, of the change in the name of the Company to "Frost Hardwood Floors. fnc."

No changes in the officers or the operations at Shreveport, Louisiana, or Trout, Louisiana, are being made. Sales are in charge of Don Watrous as sales manager, and J. W. Fowler, assistant sales manager. Production of Frostbrand Oak and I-ouisiana Pecan Flooring will be carried on as before.

The Company is the largest producer of Pecan Flooring and has large contracts for furnishing dimension stock to the various government agencies.

As with many other hardwood flooring plants, the Company's production is rapidly turning more and more to items needed for war time use by the Government.

The Los Angeles office and warehouse of Frost Hardwood Floors, fnc., is at 820 East 60th Street. Ben W. Klug is manager.

BUYS H. S. THOMSON YARD

J. G. Morris recently purchased the lumber and millwork business of H. S. Thomson, t775 Missiorr Street, San Francisco, and will carry on under the old name.

Mr. Morris has been associated with H. S. Thompson for the past 17 years. Mr. Thompson, one of the real old timers in the lumber business in San Francisco. has retired.

An order for approximately 4,000,000 feet of California Redwood was placed recently by the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, for use as duck boards in the Guayule emergenty rubber project at Salinas, Calif. The order was placed with the Talcott Lumber Company, Salinas. The project is in charge of Evan W. Kelley of the U. S. Forest Service.

March 5, 7942, was declared Guayule Day at Salinas by Governor Olson, who was the principal speaker at the ceremonies. U. S. Senator Sheridan Downey also spoke.

The project calls for the seeding of 75,000 acres with the rubber producing plant in the Salinas district. The total cost will be about $10,000,000, and 1500 men will be employed at the peak of operatio,ns.

BRIDGE LUMBER CO. TO RUN T\ryO SHIF'TS

The Bridge Lumber Company, Reedsport, Oregon, after considerable logging difficulties due to bad weather, will shortly put on a second shift at their new mill which started operations a few months ago. The mill will cut between 150,000 and 200,000 feet in two shifts, and will specialize in California business.

Burns Lumber Company, Beverly Hills, is exclusive representative for California for Bridge Lumber Company.

W. WOODBRIDGE IN CALIFORNIA

W. W. Woodbridge, secretary-manager of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, has been on a business trip to San Francisco and Los Angeles for the past two weeks.