Reliable Servrce Ponderosa Pine ' Sugar Pine '' White Fir Incense Cedar and Engelmann Spruce

SIER,RA LUIIBER, AND PIYWOOD, INC.

DU RSTE tER tUftTBER PR,ODUCTS, INC.

15208 Roymer Sr. P.O. Box I l0 o Von Nuys, Colif. STofe 5-1196 TRiongle 3-2111

Barbara county for many years and was a member of the State Board of Forestry from 1939-43, serving during that time as chairman. Fire-protection and beneficial use of water were his avocations. He took up California residence in 1924 and was an ardent conservationist and crusader. for adequate forest fire-protection organization, inspired by the disastrous Matilija Fire of 1934 in Santa Barbara county

Qualilv Redwood

. 'Warner Lewerenz, 51, a carpenter's helper, incurred fatal injuries, May 11, when he lost his balance as he removed a plywood cover from a first-floor opening and fell l3 feet to the concrete basement floor of the new San Diego County courthouse under construction Hugh A. Gillis, 67, traffi.c manager of the Western Pine Association for 33 years, died in Portland, Ore., May 24, af.ter extended illness. lle was widely known in the lumber industry of the 12 western states, handling WPA traffic matters since 1927. He joined the association after nine years as traffic chief for Shevlin-Hixon Lumber Co., Bend, Ore. He leaves his wife, a daughter, two sons and six grandchildren Ida Gundeborg Cunner, 48, died suddenly April 25 from 'a heart attack after no previous warning of the condition. The popular executive secretary of the Marquart-Wolfe Lumber Co. in Hollywood had appeared in the best of health on Hoo-Hoo-Ette day just a few days earlier at the SCRLA convention in the Ambassador hotel. Mrs. Cunner was born in Boise, Idaho, and resided 10 years in San Francisco before going to Los Angeles, where she made her mark in the lumber field before joining Marquart-Wolfe, where she had been a valued employee the past six years. She was an early member of L. A. Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club No. 1, initiated July 9, 1954, and soon became a prime mover in the young club, being elected 3rd vice-president in 1955, 1st vice-president in 1956, and served as its president in the 1957 term, during which she accompanied Anne Murray to Sacramento to charter Club No. 5 there. In 1958 she was named co-chairman of the Organizational committee and helped found Club 6 in the San Fernando Valley. In addition to her husband, Ray Cunner; she leaves one daughter and three grandchildren. Many of Mrs. Cunner's friends in the lumber industry attended the funeral services in Nbrth Hollywood, April 28, after which interment was made in Vafhalla Memorial Park . . . Mrs. Henrietta Susan Webb, 85, mother of Del Webb, co-owuer of the N' Y. Yankees and owner of a construction company in Los Angeles, died May 25 at her home there. She was born in Fresno, Calif., and spent most of her life there, where her husband, the late Ernest G. Webb, owned a construction firm for manv vears.

La Puente-John Dodrill will J. J. Seipziger, Los Angeles, will family lots near here.

The Pocific lumber Gompony Buys Hompton Plont or Englewood

A. S. Murphy, president of The Pacific Lumber Company, announced June 7 the signing of a contract for purchase of the manufacturing plant of the Hampton Plywood Company, located at Englewood, Humboldt county, Calif. Mr. Murphy stated that this acquisition was in lin'e with the company's plans for fuller utilization of its timber stands and wider diversification of its forest product sales.

Edward M. Carpenter, resident manager of Pacific's Humboldt county operations, stated that no change is contemplated and that he had every reason to believe that operation of the plant by Pacific, which he. expects to commence July l, would continue permanently at Englewood.

The plant is situated on land leased from the Childs family, pioneer Englewood residents, who have executed a long-term lease with Pacific.