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(Continued from Page 26) able spot for home building prospects to bring their prc'blems.

At the front door of thc store there are tables, chairs, and telephones for the convenience of customers.

There is an employees' room in the store, complete with kitchenette, tables, and chairs, for the couvenience of the personnel.

The entire building is air conditioned.

The large suite of offices .rf the executives of "O'Malley's" is a very handsonre one, each room being finished in diffcrent fashion with different woods, making the offices excellent display places for the finer woods they sell.

At the new store and plant they carry lumber and yard merchandise for the pick-up trade onty, while their large stocks are located at their storage yard at Ninth Aveuue and Jackson. They carry complete stocks of Douglas Fir, Ponderosa, Sugar Pine, and Redwood, and smaller stocks of other soft and hard woods. They carrl' large stocks of wall boards of various kinds, plywood, plasterboards, etc. The storage yard is a clean and modern one, in which two eight-ton Hysters, a two-ton Hyster, and a Carrier, handle all the materiats in and out.

They operate a fleet of ten trucks out of the storage yard, and one large truck-and-trailer unit capable of hauling 25,000 feet of lumber. They pile their lumber with staggered ends to expedite the loading of trucks; the staggered ends enables them to lift the designated number of pieces for each load.

All merchandise items such as rvallboards, roofing, cement, lime. plaster, etc., carried in the storage yard warehouse are palleted to expedite cAr unloading and truck loading for delivery.

The new store in Phoenix is the climax of a long and successful career of building material rnerchandising for "O'Malley." The O'Malley Lumber Company is no upstart in the business. The company was incorporated in Phoenix, May 27, lX)8, by the late E. L. O'Malley and his brother J. G. O'Malley. The latter is now Chairman of the Board, and the elder statesman of the O'Malley outfit. E. V, (Ted) O'Malley is president and general manager today; James C. O'Malley is secretary and sales manager; J. G. O'Malley Jr., is treasurer; H. W. Powers, manager of their Tucson yard, is vice president.

The Phoenix end of the O'Malley business, the new store and the storage yard and sheds is in the capable hands of Iiarl Cox, one of Arizona's most respected retail building rnaterial men.

The O'Malley Lumber Company name is well scattered over the state, for the company owns and operates throughout Arizona four yards besides the headquarters at Phoenix, and is interested in and does the purchasing for nine other yards. making 14 units for which the headquarters office does the buying. The company yards are at Phoenix Coolidge, Mesa, Sunnyslope, and Tucson.; while the nine others are at Casa Grande, Ajo, Buckeye, Glendale, Scottsdale, Tempe, Nogales, Yuma, and Somerton.

If you're in Phoenix any time, drop in and see the rTew store of O'Malley's. It's rvorth the trip.