California Building Permits for April

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Big Order lor Redwood Tanks

One of the largest contracts for the manufacture of wooden tanks ever received in the San Francisco Bay district was one for the United States Navy recently completed by the George Windeler Company, Ltd., San Francisco. The contract called for 88 Redwood tanks, each of L26,W gallons capacity, crated for shipment abroad.

The tanks were 34 feet in diameter and 20 feet high, and when crated each weighed more than 50,000 lbs. Each tank took 27 crates and made a carload, so that the whoie order required 88 freight cars.

A total of 1,5@,00O feet of Redwood was used, as well as 500,000 feet of Z-inch Douglas fir and hemlock crating. The contract amounted to $300,000.

The George Windeler Company's plant is one of the oldest in the wood tank manufacturing business in the United States, the business having been founded by the late George Windeler in 1885. His son, Fred Windeler, is now presi-

Jcck Thomas Beports From Nqtional Ccrpitcrl

J. A. (Jack) Thomas, former Los Angeles lumberman, who is now with the Western Softwood Branch, Lumber Section, Office of Price Administration, has checked in with a letter and reports that he is feeling fine and enjoying his work. He wants to be remembered to his lumbermen friends. His address is 3956 Pennsylvania Ave., S. E., Apt. 1O5, Washington 20, D. C.

Some ol the 2376 crtrtes needed lor shipment ol 88 lcrge Redwood tanks lor the United Stcrtes Ncvy, dent of the company and has managed its affairs for many years. The plant is located at 22Ol Jerrold Avenue, San Francisco.

Elected President

L. E. Harris was elected president of the University of Southern California chapter, Pi Sigma Alpha, national honorary political science fraternity, at a meeting held at tlre Chapman Park Hotel, Los Angeles, Saturday evening, Mav 20. He is a well known lumberman, and is a member of the sales staff of A. L. Hoover, Los Angeles wholesale lumberman.