New Jackpot Firm Gives lts Customers the Odds

JACKPOT BONUS in qld growth redwood posts, rails and fencing, and Douglas fir precision end-trimmed studs awaits any legitimate wholesaler who contacts the newly organized Jackpot Lumber Company at the Santa Rosa Airport, according to the new owners, Gil Sissons and Joe Terrell. Sissons and Terrell, who took over the modern plant from.the San-Cal Lumber Company, are operating on a 2}-acre site located just two miles off Highway 101, near Santa Rosa's bustling Municipal Airport.

"We are very interested in building up less than truck and trailer loads, as well as full mixed loads of redwood posts, rails, fencing and Douglas fir studs. Because we're located just off the 'main drag,' southbound trucks can swing into our yard for a unit or a full load and continue on to their destination with a minimum of 'off highway' time," Sissons and Terrell pointed out.

Constructed only slightly over three years ago, the plant employs some 30 workers and is currently running at ap- proximately 75,M board feet per shift. A fully integrated operation, Jackpot's facilities include a circle mill used for canting, new gang mill, and a modern high speed planing mill operation.

Partners Sissons and Terrell originally came from about as far away,from each other as you can get, but for many years now they've been close business associates.

Terrell, who hails from Arkansas, started his lA/est Coast lumber career many years ago with the old C & O Lumber Company. He later traveled the Valley territory for Fleishman Lumber Company of Portland, but will be best remembered to the trade from some 15 vears in the redwood business in Los Angeles as head of Lerrett Lumber Co. , Moving from the-Arkansas mill country, we fincl that Sissons comes from British Columbia where he cut his teeth in the lumber business. After WWII, Gil moved south to 9alifornia, Mendocino County to be specific, and in 1949 started a sawmill of his own. Sissons Lumber Company at Calpella. Gil continued that operation until 195E, when he joined Fred C. Holmes Lumber Company as manager of the company's Ukiah office, remaining in that capacity until earlier this year.