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employed as yard superintendent, also having charge of shipping and inventory control, with the Commercial Lumber Company when they were located at 8145 Beach Street under the able management of Jim Linderman and Don Allison. He severed his connection with this company January 1.

Swindell was senior salesman for this same comDanv for the past 14 years. His lumber experience covers his entire business life, starting as a boy with a large midwest line yard company and managing a retail yard for them before moving to Southern California. lle was salesman for the Patten-Blinn Lumber Companv until the start of World War IL During the early wir years he was associated with various joint-venture contractors on air field construction work throughout the Southwest. The wholesale lumber field beckoned in 1943 and he entered the employ of the former Barto-Smith Lumber Company for the next two years ; since that time he has been employed as commission salesman by Commercial Lumber Company.

The announced policy of this company is to give personalized service to their many customer friends and to supply only Association-graded lumber in the various West Coast species, from reputable mills and suppliers.

Stqn Helms to Gonfinue As Helms Lumber Co.

Stan Helms, until recently a principal of Helms-Brown Lumber Co., will continue to do business as Helms Lumber Company, 225 Laurel Place, San Rafael, it is announced. Helms originally operated as Helms Lumber Company until two years ago, when the business was incorporated as Helms-Brown Lumber Co.

(Tell them Aou sau it in The California Lumber Mercharrt)