CONSOLII}ATBD LUMBEB CO. Yard, I)oeks and Planing Mill

Wllrningtonr CaHfornia

LOS ANGEI.ES 7

122 West lefferson SL Rlchnrond 2ltll

WIIMINGTON

1446 Ecrst Ancrheim SL

Wihn. Tenrrincrl 4-2687-NE. 6-1881

E. t. Stanton Yard Damaged by F:re San Joaquin Hoo-Hoo Club

A fire starting around 10:00 a.m., Sunday, May 16, swept through the nine-acre yard of E. J. Stanton & Son, at Los Angeles. Several lumber sheds with stocks of hardwood lumber, flooring and pine, were destroyed. The office, mill, and all mobile equipment rvere saved. The dry kilns rvere only partiallv damagecl. The inventory loss was estimated at $750,000, and the property damage at $250,000. The loss was covered by insurance. A suspect, arrested by the police, confessed to setting the fire.

LeRoy H. Stanton, president of the company, stated: "While we lost most of our rvarehouses and the larger part of our inventory, \\,e still have our tools to work with and the courage to go ahead to rebuild so as to serve our customers in the same old Stanton r'vay. Our mill fri'ends are pouring in lumber, flooring and panels to build up our inventory again, and in a very ferv days our kilns and mill will be going ful1 blast."

Name Chcnged

The Hamilton Veneer Company, wholly owned subsidiary of United States Plyr,vood Corporation, will hereafter be known as United States Plywood Corporation, South Carolina, R. C. \\rilcox, president of the Hamilton Company, announced.

The corporation is building a new $1,500,000 plywood plant at Orangeburg, South Carolina which is expected to lrave capacity production of 3,000,000 feet of l/4 inch hardwood plywood per month.

Wilf Meet June 11

The next meeting of San Joaquin Hoo-Hoo Club No. 31 rvill be held Friday, June 11, at 6:59 p.m., at the Californian Hotel, Fresno.

Presiclent llob Reid has announced the appointment of Charlie Dart, of the K-Y Lumber Co., Fresno, as program chairman. Mr. Dart has arranged for John A. Reynolds, secretary of the Fresno Chamber of Commerce, to be the speaker of the evening, rvho rn'ill talk on Latin America.

Lumber Topic At Contrcrctors Meeting

The Pasadena-San Marino Chapter of tl-re Building Contractors Association met at the Brookside Golf Course Club Flouse, Pasadena, on Nfay 19.

Speakers were W. B. Wickersham, Pope & Talbot Inc., Lumber Division, Los Angeles, whose subject was "The Lumber Outlook," and Warren E. Hoyt, American Lumber & Treating Co., Los Angeles, who talked on "Better Wood Utilization." A color film, "Trees to Homes," was shou'n through courtesy of the Weyerhaeuser Sales ComDanv.

Appointed Mcrncaer

Marvin Greenwood, general sales manager of The Celotex Corporation, announces the appointment of Ernest P. I-arson, formerly in the West Coast branch, as manager cf the Denver Sales Branch, succeeding R. B. Carson, who has resigned. Mr. Larson will make his headquarters at 506 Railway Exchange Building, Denver 2.