PATRICK LUMBER co.

Terminal Sales Bldg., Portlcrnd 5, Oregon Teletype No. PD 51

Douglcrs FirSpruceHemlocl(Cedar Ponderosq and Sugcr PineDouglas Fir Piling

E Are Pleased To The Appointment

Announce Of

Arthrr* Vrr.J."Sr,s

AS VICE-PRESIDENT AND SALES MANAGER

Mt. V"trJetSys is *"llLn*r to the tuilJi.'g tt"d" in the \Testern states-anJ *ill "rtty or. o,rt pl.n. fot "*prttJ"J ser.rice o.r OLYMPIC ProJucts to our rnany lnr.rL". J"ul.t {rie.rJs.

West Coast Stain

Ed Shingle Company

TEARY WAY SEATTTE

I, WASHINGTON

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You can build a profitable, steadl moulding business when you sell Ponderosa Pine Mouldings. Contractors re-order because Ponderosa Pine Mouldings save time and effort on the job. Owners and architects demand Ponderosa Pine Mouldings for their smooth appearance and clean-cut design. Build a steady mould' ing busin?:is-patterns for most uses aie available NO\f!

I2OI HARRISON STREET . SAN FRANCISCO

TETEPHONE UNderhill l-8686

Lumber Manufacturing Company Has Dinner Meeting and Concat Experienced Executives

Lumber l\{anufacturing Company, located at 225 Industrial Street, San Francisco, has built up a fine reputation for efficiency and quality of workmanship.

Although the company is a comparatively nerv organization, having been started in July of 1946, through its founders it goes far back into the lumber and building industries. The president of the company is Charles E. Reinhart of the Reinhart Lumber and Planing I\{ill who started in the lumber business as a youngster and rvho has operated his orvn planing mill and lumber yard in San Francisco continuously since 1907 under the name of the Reinhart Lumber and Planing Mill. I-on H. Price, Sr. is vicepresident. He is an old timer to the building industry, having begun in the Price Building Specialties Companv rvith his father before the first rvorld tvar. He is non, the president of that company. Lon Price, -f r. is vice-president of the Price Building Specialties Company today and in active charge of that organization, and is secretary of the Lumber Manufacturing Company. Itex A. Reinhart is treasurer of the company and active manager. He grerv up in the lumber industry and has had many years of both administrative and practical lumber experience.

The factory is one of the largest custom rnills in the San Francisco Bay area and has facilities for resarving, surfacing, ripping, sticking, and cutting of all species of lumber, and carries a large stock of softrvood dimension ancl upper grade material. An unusually interesting feature o{ the company is the divided blorver system u,hich permits the separation of shavings and sarvdust. The sarvdust is sold and manufactured into Sheetrock. Sheetrock is stocked by the Lumber Manufacturing Companv and sold to the local trade.

U. S. Plywood Opens New Wqrehouse

Within a {erv rveeks, United States Plyt'oocl Corporation rvill start construction of its 28th branch .rvarehouse, at Portland, Oregon. Sales are nou, handled through the Seattle rvarehouse rvith Jack Craven as Itortland representative.

'fhe nelr' rvarehouse w-ill serve the Lorver Columbia and upstate Oregon area and n.rost of ldaho. Albert Frost. Seattle mal1ager, rvill be area supervisor lr,ith N{r. Cravei ars Portland lnanager under the nerv setup.

At Santa Ana April 30

The Orange County Hoo-Hoo members n'ill hold a dinner meeting and concatenation in the private dining room of thc Savoy Restaurant, Fourth and Beach Streets, Santa Ana, Friday evening, April 30. Dinner rvill be served at 6:15 p.m., and the concatenation ceremonies rvill start at 7:59 p.m.

Itoy Stanton, Supreme Junior Hoo-Hoo; Dee Essler-, chairman of the General Committee arranging for the HooHoo annual convention to be helcl in Los Angeles in September; Paul Orban, president of the Los Angeles HooHoo Club, and a delegation of "Old Cats" from Los Angeles and San Diego, will attend. All Hoo-Hoo rnernl>ers are invited to take in the party.

New Publication

' Announcement of a new employee publication, "Portland Shingle Nervs," rvas made by Al Schmidt, president of the Portland Shingle Company, Portland, Oregon.

During the past ferv years, the company has diversified and expanded its operations, and is norv operating mills at Kelso, Ouinault, Ridgefield, Washington, and Portland. In addition, its subsidiary companies are Patch Pack Company and Skookum Shake Company.

The publication is for the employees of all the mills and is issued monthly. Mr. Schmidt, known for his progressive rnanag'ement, is irraugurating this paper to insure continued smooth labor relations in all his operations.

Drclts Plumbing Code

Drafts of a prol-rosed uniform plun-rbing co<le f,rr housing, developed to facilitate the standardization ancl impro\-ement of plumbing svstems, particularlr- as to design and safety, are being sellt to groups in the construction field and urban localities for comment. -\dministrator Ravmond NI. Foley, of the Housing and Home Finance Agency, Washington, D.C., announces.

The code as drafted deals primarily rn'ith plumbing svstems as applied to construction of dwellings and u'as developed by a Uniform Plumbing Code Committce establish by HHFA, composed of representatives o{ the plumbing industry, including labor and management, and Government agencies.

Appointed Vice President And Sales Manager

Philip W. Bailey, president of the West Coast Stained Shingle Company, Seattle, announces that Arthur VanderSys has been appointed vice president and sales manager of the company. Mr. VanderSys has had 24 yearc varied experience in the building field, beginning as a general contractor in Mobile, Alabama, in 1924. He came to Seattle in 1931, and for thirteen years was vice president and property manager for White and Bollard, Inc.

During the war, he headed a federal housing office set up in the Seattle area. Since the war and prior to his present position he was vice president and sales manager of the Colotyle Corporation and the Tyle-Bord Company, Inc., Seattle.

The West Coast Stained Shingle Company, manufactures the rvell-known line of Olympic products, n'hich include Olympic Perf ect-Fits sider.valls, Tri-I-ap roof shingles and Olympic stains, and is a large processor of stained shakes and shingles.

Lumber fndustry Traffic Consultant

B. R. (Barney) Garcia, of the B. R. Garcia Traffic Service, 524 l\{onadnock Building, San Francisco 5, rvhose advertisement appears on another page, has specialized for many years as traflrc consultant to the lumber industry.

Mr. Garcia's organization gives a complete servlce on all traffic problems. Freight bills are audited on a contingent or percentage basis. Rail rate lists are also prcpared for shippers.

The teleohone number is YUkon 6-2E95.

Masonite Plcns West Cocrst Unit

Chicago, March 29-Eugene Holland, president of the N{asonite Corporation, announced that the company plans to buy a !0,000 acre tract of redwood in Mendocino County, Calif., from the Southern Pacific I-and Co., and t<r construct a plant, probably near Ukiah.

Masonite intends to begin construction within a ferv rveeks on a private truck road from the timber tract to Ukiah, a distance of thirty miles. A year rvill be required to complete the road.

The company has operated a hardboard plant at Laurel, Miss. since 1926. Mr. Holland said opening of the California plant will not affect activities at Laurel.

New Wholescle OIfice

In Portlcrnd

Hemstreet Lumber Company, recently opened a rvholesale lumber offrce at 910 \\rilcox Building, Portland, Oregon.

G. Archie Hemstreet, rvho was in charge of the Portland office of Paramino Lumber Companv for manv r.ears. is manager.

Offices Moved

Announcement is made by Pacific the removal of their offices, April Street, San Francisco. Telephone r-7755.