Mount WhitneyLumber Co., fnc.

TTANUFACTURERS OF PONDEROSA PINE.SUGAR PINE.WHITE FIR.INCENSE CEDAR

Wholesofe Lumber Distribution Yord

3o3o E. Woshington Blvd. Los Angeles 23, Calit.

Phone ANgelus 8-Ot 7l

Philips Brothers Form New Wholesole Lumber Firm, Wirh Offices in long Beoch

Two well-known young lumber executives established their own wholesale lumber distributing concern May 15 in the Ocean Center Building, Long Beach, Calif. Thomas D. Philips and Donald R. Philips, Jr., of the pioneer Philips Iumber family, have formed the Philips Bros. Lumber Co. to service retail lumber dealers in Southern Califbrnia. Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas.

The new wholesale concern is offering direct shipments via cargo, rail and truck-and-trailer of all Pacifii coast species of softwoods, including hand-split redwood, shingles and shakes.

Thom, president of the firm, was raised in the lumber. business. He has been identified in the wood products field since graduating from school, and for several years workerl tunder the direct guidance of his father, Don Philips, Sr., pioneer Southland lumber.distributor. He spent his summer vacations at the mill level learning production, remanufacturing and sales.

Don, Jr., vice-president, was also raised in the lumber clistribution business. He has had a wide experience in sales promotion of building materials and during the past couple tsfl to rlght: Thom PHltlPg, Bob HALBCll ond Dm PHluPS, JR. of years covered the Southland, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas for Simpson Redwood Company.

Both young men are active members of the International Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo and Los Angeles Clab 2. Thom resides in Newport Beach with his wife Sue and daughters Kathy and Betsy and son Tom. Don, Jr., maintains his home at Pacific Palisades with his wife Florence, daughter Diane and three sons, Don III, Jeffrey and Randy.

Associated with the Philips brothers is Robert Halbert, who has been assigned the Southern California trade area to call on retail lumber dealers. Bob lives in Torrance with his r,l'ife Bernadene and two sons. Robert and Russell. He is also active in Hoo-Hoo Club 2 and started his wood products career in 1947 at the mills in Northern California. Following his discharge from the service in 7954, he decided on sales and has been with Thom Philips since that time.

Although young in years, the Philips organization is old in experience. They are not "fledglings" in the lumber industry and have had their "wings" from the time they were able to hold a pencil. These young men secured their-education at the mills, in shipping and the distribution level.

The California redwood tree was discovered ]n 1769 bv the Spanish expedition to Northern California uncler l)on Gaspar de Portol6. His diaries called it, "palo colorado."

Foresf Service to Srorr New fimber Sfudy in Yubo County

A new cooperative research project seeking ways to increase wood production from young-growth timber was started in April at the U.S. Forest Service's Challenge Experimental Forest in Yuba County, California, a 3,400-acre tract in the Plumas National Forest which.has been set up especially for timber-management studies. Timber like that on the experimental forest grows on about a million acres of commercial forest land in California.

"This is high quality timberland,'i a spokesman said, "and will be increasingly important to the timber economy of California, paiticularly along the west slope of the Sierra Nevada. What we and the station can learn about better management methods will help both private land owners and national forest and other public land managers."

Timber which is cut will be paid for by the company in