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By /oel, Siaaaa
Age not guaranteed---Some I have told ]or 2O years---Some Less
There W ere Two of Them
A'motorist, two-thirds drunk, is driving down a crowded traffic street at night, and crashes into the rear end of a car that had stopped for a red light.
The driver has sense enough left to realize that he is all wrong and hasn't a legal leg to stand on, and decides that a strong offense is the best defense; So he jumps out of his car, rushes to the car he has crashed, sticks his face up
White Brothers Start Construction
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Dry Kilns At Oakland Ycrrd
Ground rvas broken at the Oakland 1'ard of White Brothers, pioneer Hardrvare dealers, for the first unit of a battery of Moore cross-circulating drv kilns, \Iarch 20. It is expected to have the first kiln completed and in operation in about 60 days.
This is just one of the improvements lteing made at this yard, rvhich rvill be one of the finest hards'oocl distribution r-ards in the United States.
to the face of the driver and belligerently demands:
"Whass the idea of drivin' without a tail light? And why the hell didn't you stick out your hand before you stopped?"
The other driver stared at him with glassy eyes, hiccupped a couple of times, and said:
"What! In my own garage?"
Lumber Yard In New Locction
The yard of A. Bennett Lumber Co. has been m<,r-ed from the former site on Manchester Boulevard to 6000 -\r.alon Boulevard, Los Angeles.
Will Operate Lumber Ycrd
Negotiations were recently con-rpleted b1' John F. and Doyle W. McCallister for the purchase of a site in Tetra Bella rvhere they will operate a lumber and builcling nlaterials varcl.
Screens
Screen with Top Honger lVannlactuers ol the popilar Roll-Away Screen since 1923 Mqin Oftice ond'Fcdory
Avoiloble Jor immediote delivery in bronze wire, Cqlifornio qnd modulor. Golvsnized ovoiloble in limited quontities. Monulocturers of screens {or oll types ol wood or metql sosh, residentiol cosement, double-hung.
Screens lor Ogle windows.
Specificotions cnd prices furnished on screens for oll types ol commerciol ond industriol windows.
Write lor literqture ond prices.
8rh & Corlton St:., Beikeley 2, Colif.THornwoll 0340
Souihern Colifornia lepresm_lotive-E. J, Boughmon Compony
2905 Poplor Blvd., Alhombro - ATlqnric 2-2684
Legislative Committee Meets In San Francisco
The legislative committee of the I-umber Merchants Association of Northern California nlet in San Francisco Marcli8, for the purpose of revierving proposed State bills directly affecting the retail lumber industry. The State Legislature introduced 4,100 bills during its January session, and 40 of these are of particular concern to the retail building material dealer, according to a statement by thc legislative committee, which analyzed each of the bills and made recommendations for members' consideration on 34 of them. Members were asked to cooperate by giving their conclusions as to the various proposals personally to each local State Senator and Assemblyman.
The legislative committee is composed of Wendell Robie, Auburn, chairman; George Adams, Walnut Grove; F. L. Dettmann and M. A. lfarris, San Francisco; I{enry Laws, Santa Rosa, and Jo H. Shepard, El Cerrito.
F. G. Hcnson in Ecst
Francis G. Hanson, nationally known manufacturer oi the famous Hollywood Door, is on one of his periodical trips to Eastern cities. This is a combination business and pleasure trip. He i.s accompanied by his wife. They visitecl San Francisco, Chicago, and New York, and will return by way of New Orleans and Texas cities.
Acme Sash Balance Company Expands
Acmc Sash Balance Company, 1626 Long Beach Avenue, Los Angeles 21, whose advertisen.rent appears or-r another page of this issue, has improvecl its product and increased its production to meet the unprecedented demand for this sash balance. f-he company has just completed a nerv addition to the plant in order to make a further increase in the production.
Dudley X4. Steele, president of the -A.cme Sash Balance Company, has for 30 years been a prominent figure irr aviation. He formerly managed the Lockheed Air Terminal at Burbank, Calif., for eight years. His position in the aircraft industry today is as airport consultant to all of the air lines in the East.
Mr. Steele and Arthur S. Bird bought out the Acme Sash Balance Company in June, 1945.
X,Ir. Bird is vice president of the company. He is also an o€frcer in the following concerns: Bird-Shankle Corp. and }Iome-Own, Inc., San Antonio, Texas; Bird-Kultgen Co., Waco, Texas; member of the board of Richards & Conover Hardware Co., Kansas City, Mo.; vice president of Viking Refrigerator Corp., Bright Biscuit Co., and I(ansas City Wholcsale Grocery Co., Kansas City. He is one of the trvo partners in Bird-Mansfield, ltusiness analvsts, Kansas City, and a partner in Steele; Larsen & Bird, business analysts, Beverly Hills, Calif.
With Simpson Industries, Inc.
E. W. (Gene) Hall has resigned his position as manager of Building Material Distributors, Stockton, Calif ., and has joined the Plywood and Door Division, sales department, of Simpson Industries, fnc., 1010 White Building, Seattle, which has plywood and door plants at Shelton and McCleary, Wash.
Mr. Hall was formerly with Maris Plywood Co. and Harbor Plywood Corporation of California, San Francisco. He has been with Building Material Distribu- tors since the end of the war. During the war he servecl as a lirst navigator in the Air Transport Command for three years, flying into the South Pacific. In the latter part of this period his ship carried airborne occupation troops into Tapan.
New Arrivcl
Mr. and Mrs. Willard La Franchi are receiving congratulations on the birth of an 8l-lb. boy at Fresno on St. Patrick's f)ay. This is their third child. They norv have two boys and a girl. Mr. La Franchi is manager of the branch offrce and yard of Pacific Forest Producs, Inc., at Fresno.
Small Mill Conlerence
Plans are under way for a conference of small sawmills in Washington State, similar to the Oregon conference held in Eugene in Februarl' under the auspices of the Pacific Lumber Remanufacturers Association. The Washington meeting will be held at Centralia some time;in April, the tentative date being Saturdal', April 19. r'"
Sponsored by the nervly-organized West"ttt pots51'ilndustries Association, the conference is intended priniarily for the benefit of the operators of rough green mil$- and remanufacturing plants but all independent loggers, .S'anufacturers and wholesale distributors in the state will Se rvelcome also. +,;r
Later in the seas<-'n a Small Mill Conference rvill in Northern California, probably at lledding. ''
U. S. Plyurood Corp, Opens New Ocrklcnd Wcrehouse
United States Plywood Corporation's new Oakland warehouse at 4th & Brusl-r Streets, Oakland 7, r'vhich has been under construction for some time, rvas completed and occupied. March 22.
The new warehouse has 22,500 square feet of spacc, and it has been designed for the rapid handling of plyrt'ood and allied materials.
Don Kesselring is manager, and he makes no secret of the fact that he and his staff are proud of their new home. All visitors will be welcomed at any tiure, he says'
The telephone number is unchanged, TWinoaks 5544.
