E. A. Padula Lurirber Co. Opens Sales Office in San Francisco

himself and learned a good deal about the sawmill business, including grading, within a comparatively short time. Early in 1947 he was made sales manager, in charge of the distribution yard at Cloverdale.

Early in 1949 Mr. Noah was appointed manager of the buying office of Pope & Talbot, Inc. in Cloverdale. This office was closed in 1949, and Howard then operated his own business in Cloverdale as mill representative and commission salesman for several mills. From August 1950 for about a year he was manager of the buying office of Russ Castell & Associates. He managed the wholesale lumber office of Paskill Lumber Co. of Portland at Fortuna, Calif., from July 1951 until April of this year when he accepted his present position.

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E. A. Padula Lumber Co., whose full page ad appears elsewhere in this issue,-opened its'San Francisco sales office April 1, 1952. The offices are located in the Monadnock Ruil<ling, 681 M;,rket Street.

Elmer Padula first started in the lumber business in Los Angeles in 1944 as one of the principals in the R. & E. Lumber Co. His company acquired a small sawmill in Laytonville, Calif. It was here that he really got to know the lumber business. They sold this mill in 1947 and bought a larger mill in Willits, Calif., known as The Pacific Slope Lumber Co. Elmer moved to Willits and operated this mill for the next four years. The Willits mill had a daily capacity o{ 125,000 feet.

Mr. Padula sold his interest in the R. & E. Lumber Co. in Los Angeles, and when the Pacific Slope Lumber Co. was solcl to the Ridgewood Lumber Company in 1950, decided to stay in the lumber business in Willits, and opened his own rvholesale firm under the name of E. A. Padula Lumber Co. He. has acquired large timber holdings in Mendocino County, and feels that the lumber business in Northern California ofiers a fine opportunity. He is a member of the International Crder of Hoo-Hoo, is active in the local Elks, Lions, and Moose Clubs.

i Before entering the lumber business Mr. Padula owned and operated olive ranches and processing plants in Southern California, and the San Joaquin Valley.

Mr. Padula announces that W. Howard Noah has joined his firm as sales manager, and is in charge of the San Francisco office.

Floward is a graduate of the Utah State Agricultural College High School Division, and attended the Agricultural College at Cedar City, Utah, for one year. He has had excellent training in liholesale lumber management, lumber production and procurernent, and wholesale lumber sales. After'leaving school he worked for Sherman Clay & Co., San Francisco, as display and advertising manager, assistant warehouse manager, and salesman from 1942 to 1945.

His first lumber experience was with the American Sawmill Company at Willits, Calif., in,1946. Here he applied

Pierre Michel Pasquier has been named assistant to the president of M and M Wood Working Company by the board of directors, President Thomas B. Malarkey an' nounced. Known as "Mike" throughout the industry, the nerv executive assistant has been one of plyrvood's leading pioneers in glue research and other development since 1932. In recent years he has been manager of the Malarkey plywood division composed of four of the company's major operating divisions. He is a graduate of the University of Washington with a degree in chemical engineering.

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46 Million Tree Crop

Nisqually, WashingtonHow many people have ever counted to 40,000,000? Not many, but the keen-eyed girl inspectors at the Forest Industries Tree Nursery here will tell you that's lots of numbers and for them, lots of trees.

Sometime this r,veek the 4o,000,000th seedling tree will roll along the sorting belt, past alert girl inspectors to be counted by the photoelectric eye mechanism which tumbles every 50 trees into a rvrapping hopper.

Since the founding of this tree nursery by the private forest landowners back in I94l ten big crops of seedling forest trees have been raised. Lifting of the current crop is now in progress and will continue until April. After the 40 millionth tree has been packed and shipped to some landowner in r.vestern Oregon or Washington, another 6,000,000 trees will be lifted and shipped this year.

This 46 million tree crop will have planted 82,000 acres of idle forest land, according to N. E. Bjorklund, nnrserv manager.

"These trees will cover 130 square miles," Bjorklund pointed out, "or an area a mile u,ide from Portlancl to Cottage Grove south, or north from Portland to Olympia."

Trees from the non-profit forest nursery have been planted on taxpaying forest lands throughout 'ivestern Washington and Oregon, Bjorklund stated. Douglas fir makes up the bulk of trees grou'n here, the forester said, but hemlock, cedar and spruce have been grown in limited numbers ir.nd even a ferv rare dalvn redwood trees from seeds brought in from China rvere carefully tended as an experiment.

fn an effort to raise a superior race of trees, extreme care is taken to make certain that seeds are picked only from selected trees and seedlings returned to the district and clevation rvhere the parent trees greu'.

Russell Biorn Wcs Specrker At Luncheon oI Scn Frcrncisco Hoo-Hoo Club

Russell Bjorn, rnanager-director of the Woodwork Institute of California, San Francisco, was the speaker at the regular luncheon meeting of San Francisco Hoo-Hoo Club No. 9, held in the Comstock Room of the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, May 27. The title of the talk was "Oysters and Eagles."

Wendell Paquette of Lumber Sales Company, San Francisco, president of the Club, presided.

This was the last regular meeting until September.

Los Angeles Building Permits in Mcry

Building perrnits issued during May in the city of Los Angeles numbered 5275 with a valuation of $25,396,830, well above the monthly average for the past year, G. E. Morris, city superintendent of building, reported. This compares with 4674 permits issued in May, 1951, u'hich had a valuation of $25,452,978.

For tlre first five months of this year 23,781 permits were issued rvith a valuation of $1 16,461,334 compared with 24,196 issued in the like 1951 period rvhich had a $ln,$7,243 valuation.