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The L. R. Smith Hardwood Company, which suffered a disastrous $1,000,000 fire last September, reopened last month at 49@ S. Alameda, I-os Angeles (Vernon), a few

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blocks from the former location. The new site (above) is three acres of blacktop with storage sheds, where shipments of hardwood lumber and dimension squares are received twice weekly from their Washington and Oregon mills. Vernon Johnson and his wife Doris operate the L. A. yard, which has been in existence three years and specializes in cut-to-length clear hardwood squares.

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Roddiscroft lumber Sqles Division Holds Soles Session in Oioi Volley to Mop Further Aid ro Deqler Trode

The Lumber Sales division of Roddiscraft. Inc.. held its second semi-annual meeting at the Ojai Valley Inn, March 2 and 3. In attendance were: from the Arcadia office, Pete Speek, Bill Braley, Joe Petrash and Doug Maple; Bay area representatives, Knute Weidman and Pat Kennedy; from Northern California and Medford offices, Art Milhaupt, Bob Eldredge, Daryl Bond and Jim Lowman.

Having opened their Ukiah purchasing office within the last six months, one of the main topics of discussion was of increased productivity from that area for Paio Alto and Southern California offices. This office is under the management of Bob Eldredge, who has been one of the top salesmen in both the Bay area and Southern California, and is therefore well acquainted with the requirements of lumber dealers throughout the state.

Also discussed was further improvement of an already efficient system of service to customers on inquiries; quotations and shipments, with the addition of topnotch per- sonnel from both the wholesale and retail lumber fields, and by application of sound and efficient business methods.

The Lumber Sales division of Roddiscraft, Inc., has in the past few years become one of the leading wholesalers in California. Pete Speek, manager of the division, states that the discussions of customer and supplier relations and internal methods of increasing the efficiency of the operation will result in ever better service to the retail dealers throughout the state of California.

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Wayne F. Mullin, president of the Southern California Retail Lumber Assn., flew to Washington, D. C., the weekend of March 23 to a meeting of the Materials Handling committee of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Assn., on which he serves. The committee was to rneet March 25-26 with manufacturers and with officials of the Assn. of American Railroads to carry on the carloading program of the NRLDA concerning improved carloading and unloading methods which would result from more flatcars with bulkheads to stop end-shifting, boxcars with wider doors to permit mechanical unloading, etc.