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at 1400 Tidelands Avenue, now consists of complete dry kiln facilities as well as lumber-handling facilities that include loading and unloading of cars or trucks. Plans are being considered for the installation of remanufacturing facilities.

Prior to the installation of this kiln, most of the lumber in the San Diego area was air dried and not kiln dried. Realizing that modern kilns have the ability to uniformly dry stock to a desired moisture content, recondition the stock for proper remanufacturing and also set the pitches or volatiles in some woods, the management of National Dry Kiln & Processing Company felt that kiln drying was necessary for proper merchandising of lumber.

The new kiln is of the modern Moore design, including large, internal line shaft disc type fans equipped with special Moore multi-speed motor control. Lumber placed in the kiln can be dried under any desiredlvet and dry bulb conditions and can be reconditioned so that uniformly dried stock available from the kiln can be properly remanufactured.

The building for the new dry kiln is of masonry block wall construction with wood layered roof and so laid out that additional kilns may be added at a later date with a minimum of expense. Heat for the present kiln is produced by a 60 HP Eclipse Red Band boiler designed and installed under the guidance of Termal Engineering & Equipment Company of Los Angeles.

The National Dry Kiln & Processing Company is justifiably proud of the new facilities and are to be congratulated on this first step in their overall expansion program.

S. F. Hoo-Hoo Reody for Dinner-Dqnce

Gay Bradt, general chairman of the San Francisco HooHoo club's 1958 Spring Dinner-Dance, announces that everything is ready for what should be the best Ladies Nite ever held by Club 9. April 25 is the date, and San Mateo's beautiful new Villa Chartier is the place.

Club President Mike Coonan has arranged a free cocktail lrour, starting at 7:00 p.m., as a starter. A delicious prime rib or lobster tail dinner will follow the libation period. Dancing to the music of Paul Laws and his orchestra, entertainment and door prize drawings will round out the evening.

Alex

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Alex Gordon, 60, one of Northern California's best known hardwood lumbermen, died suddenly of a heart attack in San Francisco, March'28. He was a representative of L. J. Carr & Co. and' was on the job right up to the time of his death.

A native of Battle Creek, Michigan, Alex Gordon grew up on his parents' ranch in southern Montana. When Alex was in his teens, ,the Gordon family moved to southern Alberta, and he helped out on the ranch until entering Annapolis. He served during WWI as an ensign and after the war returned to Alberta.

During 1924, Mr. Gordon decided upon a career in lumber, so he moved to San Francisco and took a iob with E. A. Howard & Co. In 1927, he left that firm to take a sales job with Strable Lumber Co. (then known as Strable Hardwood Co.) It was there that Gordon met and became a close