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Corl Dqvies Joins Soles Srqff of Southern Cqlifornio Lumber Sqles

"With the continued increase in-and the demand forthe forest products we sell, it has become necessary to increase our sales staff in order to handle the volume now being shipped to this market," Ray Wiig, sales manager of Southern California Lumber Sales, Monrovia, said in line with his appointment o{ Carl Davies as assistant sales manager of the wholesale lumber concern.

Davies has a wide and varied experience in lumber sales in Los Angeles and the Southland. For the past 35 years he has been identified with various firms and started his lumber career with E. K. Wood as a boy just out of school. During Mrorld War II he handled procurement of lumber products for the Arm-v well knou'n throughout and California.

Engineers on a contract basis and is the mill production areas of Oregon

R.edwood Empire Club Sef for Forest loke Weekend, June 9-tO

President Steve Yaeger states that all is in readiness for the Redwood E,mpire Hoo-Hoo Club's annual "Forest Lake Weekend," to be held J,une 9 and 10, at the ne.n' Forest Lal<e Resort in Lake County. In addition to an excellent golf course (Joe Schafer in charge of the tournament), the resort offers s'ivimming, boating, horseback riding, good music, good food or, if you prefer, rest and relaxation around the swimming pool.

NRLDA Exposifion Committee Nqmed

Plans for the 1956 Building Products Exposition of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, to be held in Chicago during December, .rvill be developed by a committee of nine headed by Phil Creden of the Edu'ard Hines Lumber Company, lvho will serve as exposition chairman for the third consecutive year. Others appointed to the committee by R. A. Schaub, NRLDA's president, are Robert L. Craft, secretary of the Indiana Lumber & Builders Supply Association; Paul V. DeVille, Canton, Ohio; Paul R. Ely, NRLDA's first vice-president; \V. B. Kennedy, Jr., Oklahoma City, Okla.; T. Merritt Ludwig, Reading, pa.; Watson Malone, III, past president of NRLDA; J. D. McCarthy, secretary of the Iliinois Lumber & Material Dealers

Association, and Russell W. Nowels, Rochester, Mich. Mr. Schaub also announced that NRLDA will utilize Chicago's huge nerv International Amphitheater in its entirety for the product displays and dealer clinics. The Exposition will open Monday, December 10, and will close Thursday, December 13.

As was the case at the highly successful Exposition held in Cleveland in 1955, the 1956 Exposition r,vill be open only to dealers, their wives and employees, and invited guests from the building industry. The public will not be admitted at any time. The Exposition hours have been tentatively set as 11:00 a.m. to 5:30 o.m. (Tell

Berry Covers lorger Areq for Rowlings

Bill Berry, rvho has been with the Wayne I. Rarvlings Sales Company, San Francisco, since August 1955. is now covering their recently extended territory of Utah, Colorado, Western T.exas and Arizona in the sale of fir plyrvood, domestic and imported hardwoods and imported plywoods.

Although a native of Illinois, Bill became a Californian at an early age lvhen his parents moved to Lindsev. He received his education'in the San Joaquin Valley and rvas very active in football and water sports. His hobbies are hunting and fishing. Bill, his wife and their three children norr reside in San Francisco.

Son Diego Hoo-Hoo-Effes lnitiote

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San Diego Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club No. 4 met at the Park Manor hotel there May 8 at 6:29 p.m. for the concatenation of six kittens.

The lumberwomen initiated at the meeting were Bonnie Hall, of \ /. D. Hall Co. ; Belva Kendrick, Builders Nlarket; Norma Roberts, I\Iurray Mill ; Anne Corn, Mildred Crouthamel and Gloria Slattery, all of Sullivan Hardrvood Lurnber Co.

lumber Freighter Cuf in Holf

N[onterey, Calif .-Five seamen u'ere lost, three bodies recovered, and ZA survivors picked by by rescue vessels rvhen the Luckenbach freighter, Marine Leopard, collided u-ith the coastal lumber vessel, the 253-foot Holvard Olson, and cut it in half during the night of May 14. The smaller ship u'as bound to San Francisco from I-os Angeles in ballast r'vith ir crew of 29 'ivhen the collision occurred in clear n'eather and calm seas abctut 2f miles southrvest of the Point Sur lighthouse. The lumber ship's stern section sank almost at once ; her borv rvent dou,n after drifting in a southerly current more than five hours. Helicopters and Coast Guard cutters were used in the rescue operation.

Karl K. llansen, I-ong Beach, rvas captain of the Howard Olson, one of six lurnber vessels operated by the Oliver J. Olson Companv, San Nfateo. She put out from Los Angeies Harbor at 5:00 p.m. May 12, planning to stop at San Francisco and then contintte on to tl.re lumber port of Coos Bay, Oregon.

Sunlqnd lumber Co. Opens Brqnch in Claremonf

Sunland Lumber Co. opened the fifth of its line of branch yards in Sorrthern California N{ay 1 rvith a yard at 120 S. Alexander Ave. in Claremont. \\rilliam \Yeisel, clirector of the Sun Valley, Calif., parent firm, was on hand for opening-day ceremonies. Sunland Lumber Co. began in 1947 'ir,ith the store at Sun \ralley and since then has opened iine yards in El N[onte. Norrvalk and Lancaster. The Claremont site u'as formerly the Tracy Lun-rber Co. Offices rvere remodeled, panel rvindon's added, and ner,v counters and storage space installed. The yard specializes in all types of lumber, mouldings, doors and lvindorvs, builders hardrvare, paints, roofing and plastering materials. Store hours will be 7:3O a.m. to 5:30 p.m. weekdays and 8:00 a.m. to noon Saturdays.

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