GCDSSLIN-I{ARDING LUIUIBER CCD. Wholesale ltesf Coast Foresf Producls

Finance committee; Byrne Manson, Simpson Redwood Company, is making airangements for the Paul Bunyan social activity, and Harvey -Smith of the California Foiest Experiment Station, Berkeley, chairman of the Committee for Arrangements, Tickets - and Transportation. Leyden Erickson, also of the Forest Experiment Station. is in charge of hotel arrangements.

Tietjen Joinsbonnell Lumber

Bill Bonnell announces the association of well known Peninsula lumberman lohn Tietjen, with Bonnell tumber Company on May 11.

Tietjen, who has spent his lifetime in lumber as did his father, Ed Tietjen of the old Sudden & Christenson Lumber Co., comes to Bonnell from McElroy Lumber Co., where he was purchasing agent for all McElroy yards.

Tietjen, a native San Franciscan, attended U. C. at Berkeley and "cut his teeth" in the business with McCloud Lumber Co. and E. D. Swift Lumber Co., then lo-

T. M. Cobb to Feqture Deluxe Royol Sliding Door

Chuck Corwin, sales manager of T. M. Cobb Company, Los Angeles, announces that the new Imperial door distributed by the wholesale firm will be renamed Royal due to a duplication in names by another concern. The deluxe Royal will have all the features of the Imperial and is designed to fit any decor.

cated on Harrison Street in San Francisco. He left Swift to join the McElroy organization 2l years ago and since has been active in practically every phase of that business.

Boom in Son Jose Trocts

San Jose, Calif.-This city's home-building boom received a boost last month when the Building Department issued 411 single-family dwelling permits in a single day to Branden Enterprises for that many new units in its Tropicana Village tract. Retail value of the block of permits'at $5,027,145 is believed to be the largest ever issued to a homebuilder at one time in Northern California.

Coqst Counfies Hoo-Hoo fi/leet

Seaside, Calif.-Coast Counties Hoo-Hoo Club 114 met May 2l at Garbini's in Santa Cruz lor a dinner meeting following i Cocktail hour. Willard Lentz of the Santa Cruz Lumber Co. was Program chairman. Dealer Herb Swenson of the H & H Lumber Co., Seaside, is president of Club 114.

Phone: CApitol 2-1934

Telelype: PD-385 tln. CIDAR. HEiltOCK REDWOOD SPRUCE o IDAHOT SUGAR AilD PONDTN,OSA PINI

We Solicit Yonr Inquiries lot Wohnanized anrl Creosoled f,unf,cr, Tinbers, Poles anrl Pilirg

Moffer Buys Inlond Empire Operotion

Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Moffett (Bill and Ann) of Bishop, California, have purchased the Price Valley Lumber Company of Tamarack, Idaho. The sawmill cuts 24 million a year, consists of a 7'band mill, gang, resaw and two edgers. There are three modern Moore dry kilns with automatic stackers and unstackers and a modern planing mill. This year there was installed a new l2-knife Stetson-Ross planer and an Irvington 20' trimmer. The plant is located on the Union Pacific Railroad. Mr. Moffett olans to ir.rstall an Irvington end painter and waxer witliin the next thirty oays.

The Price Valley Lun.rber Company cloes its own logging and operates principally on Payette National Forest lands as well as Bureau o{ Land Management state and private timber. The species sawn are ponderosa pine, Douglas lir and larch, white fir and E,ngelmann spruce. They have kiln capacity to kiln dry their entire production. There has beelr a sawmill on the Dresellt mill site at Tamarack since 1909. a the ;awmill Dresellt mi11 since 1909.

Bill and Ann Nloffett have operated the Invo Lnmber Inyo Company at Bishop, California, since 1939. This operation manufactured 18 million a year entirely on timber from the Inyo National Forest. The'product minufacturecl was Jef- frey pine and was sold principally in the Los Angeles ancl Reno markets, although some rail shipments were made to Midwest millwork plants. Ir.r February of this year the Moffetts sold their timber, sawmill, box factory, moulding plant and millworking operation to Baugh Brothers Company of Los Ar.rgeles, well-known wholesale clistributors.

Lew Snodgrass, who has been connected with N{r. MolTett for many years, will be resident manager of the entire plant at Tamarack. Snodgrass has been general superintendent of the manufacturing division of the Inyo Lumber Company at Bishop. Prior to -ihat he was resident manager of lirteinational Paper Company, Long-Bell Divisior-r, of tl-re sawmill operation at Etna, California.

The Price Valley Lumber Company, including the timber lands, manufacturing facilities and logging opeiatiorrs were purchased from Harris Brothers of Chicago, J. C. McCattron of Chicago, Roy Nine and Mike Dinkle of New Meadows, Idaho.

The r.rew company rvill be known as the Price Valley Timber, Inc. Th-e siles ancl clistribution of the oroduct of Price Valley Timber, Inc., will be handlecl exclirsively by tl.re T,eo H. Ryan Lumber Company, 706 U.S. National Bank Building, Portland, Oregon.

Woterfoll on ASA Boqrd

Wallace Mraterfall, secretary, Acoustical Society of America, New York, has been electecl vice-chairman of the Acoustical Standards Board of the American Standards Associatior.r. lIe represents the Acoustical Material Association on this body, one of 14 such boards whicl-r supervise over 400 national standards projects conducted rrnder ASA procedures.