Nicolai Door Sales Company Opens Los Angeles Warehouse

Nicolai Door Sales Company, San Francisco, opens a ne\( warehouse at 5l0O South Boyle Avenue in Los Angeles this month, L. J. Woodson, president of the firm announced.

As in its San Francisco warehouse, Nicolai Door Sales Company will carry complete stocks of top quality building products, including Trusized doors and jambs, Streamliner Doors, Craw-Fir-Dors, Laminex Fir Plyrvood, Laminex Hardwood Plywood, and Laminex Plastic Faced Plyvi'ood.

In making the announcement, Mr. Woodson said, "We lvill now be able to serve the great Southern California market in the same tradition we have served the Northern California market for over 20 years.

Our new Los Angeles warehouse with 24,000 s<1uare feet of unobstructed floor space is planned for easy handling of building materials. Such features as four-car railroad siding, ample inside truck loading handled chiefly by fork trucks is planned to serve you best. Convenient free parking and an experienced staff in the office and warehouse is prepared to serve your building material needs.

Glenn B. Warner of San Francisco is secretary of the Company, while Otis H. Fine, well known in the building material field in Southern California is manager of the Los Angeles warehouse, and H. E. Hart, long identified with the door and plywood business in Southern California is sales manager out of the Los Angeles warehouse.

National-American Wholesalers Meet in Chicago

On June I and2, the National American Wholesale Lumber Association, Inc., held their 56th annual meeting at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago.

No afternoon business sessions were scheduled, in order to afford ample opportunity for the delegates to visit around and become better acquainted.

At the Tuesday morning session President Wales T. Turner presented his address, and the secretary and treasurer made their reports. Speakers were George M. Fuller, vice president, National Lumber Manufacturers Association, Washington, D. C., and Norman P. Mason, president, National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, North Chelmsford, Mass. An open forum was held to discuss matters of mutual interest.

An organization meeting of the board of directors was held at 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday.

The banquet .rvas held at 8 p.-. Tuesday in the Ball Room, rvith Stanley F. Horn, editor of the Southern Lumberman, Nashville, Tenn., serving as toastmaster. Speakers were the Honorable Everett M. Dirksen, Congressman from Illinois, and Ernest Robert Rosse.

Prizes \\rere presented at the banquet for the winners of the ,contest for the best essays on various developments and functions in modern u'holesaling. First prize was won by Stahrl Edmunds of St. Paul, Minn., second prize by Bruno Tiz of Chicago, Ill.

The Wednesday morning session included a motion film, a report of the Portland branch office by Paul C. Stevens, Portland, Ore., and addresses by C. H. Kreienbaum, president, Simpson Logging Company, Shelton, Wash., and Whipple Jacobs, president, Belden Manufacturing Company, Chicago, Ill.

A luncheon and bridge party was held for the ladies on Tuesday, with many attractive prizes.

Begin Construction oI Buildings at New Site

Construction was begun last week by White Brothers of their new office building and sheds at their nerv yard site on Oakdale Avenue, San Francisco. They expect to move by October.

Remanufacturing Concern Specializes In Redwood Bevel Sidins

The remanufacturing plant of Wallace Mill& Lumber Co., located at Rosecrans Avenue and Paramount Boulevard, Clearu'ater, Calif., r.vas designed particularly for the manufacture of redrvood bevel siding. Construction lvas begun in July,1946, and operation of the plant started in February 1947. The company has invested $80,000 in the plant rvhich is built on their own property, four acres in extent.

The machinery, of the most modern type, includes a N{ershon horizontal resa\\.', Woods matcher, Woods 6x15 moulder, Smithr,vay mould matcher, California power feed gang rip saw, 54" American tilting resaw, Idaco automatic feed tlble.

The blower system has three blowers. Waste is taken care of by an 18-foot burner, built by W. O. I{arrison, Los Angeles.

There are tu'o dry kilns, built by Thomas Kendall, Upland, Calif., designed especially for drying bevel siding. Capacity of the two is 35,000 board feet. A new dry kiln is norv under construction r.vith three cells, each holding a carload, or 75,000 feet total capacity. The kiln will have automatic control and will be fired with fuel oil. Lumber is handled by a lift truck.

The principals in Wallace Mill &'Lumber Co. are Herman S. Wallace, general manager, and his three sons. Niel R. is in charge of the dry kilns. Gordon H. is in charge of the office, and is assistant manager. The third son, Captain E,ugene D. Wallace, is an Army career man. A combat pilot in the'rr.ar, 'ivhose adventures were rvritten up in Life maga_ zine, he is norv in the Army Air Forces u'eather section personnel office in Washington, D. C.

Plcrns to Build Sawmill

N{ & M Wood \\rorking Co., of Portland, announced plans to build a modern sarvmill of 100,000 board feet daily capacity on the site of the C. W. Guerrier Lumber Co. mill in Springfield, Ore., destroyed by fire on May 6. This operation had been acquired in 1945 by M & M and Portland Manufacturing Co., u'ho will jointly construct the proposed $300,000 mill. Management u'ill be vested in M & M. The ns11. plant u'ill be equipped with a band head-rig and re-saw and a l4-inch edger and w.ill employ 45 men on a one-shift basis, according to Herl>ert Malarkey, president ofM&M.