AIJBERT A. KETJIJEY

REDVTOOD _ DOUGLAS FIR _ RED CEDAR SHINGLES

A Medford Gorporation Representative

Corl Poynor Returns

To Sourhern Cqlifornicr

Following a year spent in Arcata, California, as lumber buyer for Roddis California, Inc., Carl Poyner, well known in Southern California Lumber and Hoo-Hoo circles returned to Los Angeles last month to join the sales staff of Pacific Forest Products, Inc., according to Dick La Franchi, manager of the firm's southland territory.

Poynor joins Pacific Forest Products follorving several years spent with E. K. Wood and Roddis California, Inc., in lumber sales promotion and has a well rounded experience in wholesale selling. He will cover the southern territory calling on retail lumber dealers in Riverside, Orangc, Imperial and San Diego counties, La Franchi said.

Tom Fox, John W. Fisher Lumber Company, Santa Monica, and H. Park Arnold, Fox Woodson Lumber Company, Glendale, will fly to Washington, D.C., May 14 to attend the annual spring meeting of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association. Mr. Fox is a director in the organization and Mr. Arnold is a member of the executive committee.

John Moore, Fir-Tex of Southern California, Los Ar.rgeles, was a recent visitor in the Pacific Northwest. He returned from Portland the middle of April following business conferences with associates in Northern California and Oregon.

Bob Morhis Esroblishes Morhis Hqrdwood Sqles in Oclklond

Robert "Bob" Mathis has start- ed his own wholesale hardwood as Mathis Harcl, i wood Sales, and officiat]I

; his doors for business March 22, 1954, at 600 16th St., Oakland. His phone number there is TWinoaks 3-3629.

Bob has established his hardwood business in accord with recognized sales practices of selling only the legitimate hardwood dealers and will supply only quality materials to these accounts. He is handling all types of hardwood lumber, flooring, domestic and foreign hardwood plywood, and will include California, Oregon and Washington in his sales territory'. in addition to his hardwood activities on .the West Coast, Bob plans to ship some redwood, fir and pine to the Eastern markets.

In both the hardwood and softwood fields, Bob Mathis is well versed. Prior to entering business on his own, he had been with the E. L. Bruce Company, Oakland, for eight years. While with E. L. Bruce, Bob acted in the capacity of a sales representative and also did purchasing of hardu'oods for that firm. During World War II, Bob served in the U. S. Navy. He novr resides wife and two children.

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In Bob's present operation, he states that he is norv representing several quality hardwood mills, and is in the position to supply mixed carload quantities of all types of hardwood lumber, flooring and plywood.

Visits Colifornio

H. H. Des Marias, president of the Hardwood Products Corporation, Neenah, Wisconsin, spent the first ten da1's of April covering the State of California with John Eells, West Coast representative for the hardwood door manufacturing concern. Calls were made on dealers and millrvork people in San F'rancisco, Sacramento and the San joaquin Valley cities, including Southern California as far south as San Diego. While in the West, Mr. Des Marias extended the sales territory of the Southern California office to include all of the State and appointed Mr. Eells to head the West Coast distribution of Harclwood Products Corporation.

Los Angeles Building Permifs

Building permits issued in the City of Los Angeles in March totaled $35,398,888 and represented a gain of $9,527,379 over February's total of $25,871,509. 5,466 permits r.vere issued in March.

A total of 13,594 permits have been issued with a valuation of $87,458,675 for the first three months of 1954.