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CE"4agFX Hard Boards

There's a big market in every community for these rigid, dense' grainless boards made from clean, refined wood fibres. Dozens of uses in residential, commercial and industrial buildings ! Tough and strong -non-warping-resistant to moisture and scuffing. 4 ft. width in lengths ranging from 5 to 12 feet. Thicknesses frornrAo" to'Aa". Celotex Hard Boards are available in these popular t5pes: TEMPERED HARD BOARD_REGULAR HARD BOARD_TEMPERED HARD BOARD TILE_PANEL BOARD _TEMPERED LEATHER-GRAIN HARD BOARD_BLACK TEMPERED HARD BOARD.

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Gane Fibre Board

First choice across the country for expansion joint flller, sill sealer, insulation of concrete slabs at grade, vibration isolation under machines. Used as expansion joint filler wherever concrete meets concrete, Flexcell absorbs pressure with,out ertruding. Expands on release of pressure, keeps joint closed. Years of performance on hundreds of the nation's most famous highways, bridges, airport runways prove its ability to withstand hardest service, extremes of heat and cold. Regularly specified by many Federal, State and Municipal agencies!

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I5I8 Sorrth Centrol Aoenue, Los Angeles Rlchmond 1141

BNAilCH YAIIIS: Los Arqeles, Comptan, Westminster

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At San Pedro you will find large versatile stocks of big size timbers, extra long lengths, upper grades, and many special woods, for delivery to your job or warehouse.

Wagner Machinery Company

ldaco Lumber Comprny New Name Establighed in Los Angeles in 193 3 Of Firestone Lumber Inductries

Wagner Machinery Company, which specializes in the sale of woodworking machinery at 1!b1 Santa Fe Avenue, Los Angeles, was established in Los Angeles in 1933 by L. M. Meade and Fred Wagner, who had been connected with the Eby' Machinery Company for many years. Mr. Meade retired in 1946 and Mr. Wagler bought out his interest in the partnership.

This firm has represented on an exclusive basis for many years in Southern California, Arizona, and New Mexico the following firms: The Black Brothers Co., Inc., Hermance Machine Co., W. B. Mershon Corp., Morgan Machine Co., Inc., J. M. Nash Company, Northfield Foundry & Machine Co., Orton Machine Co., C. O. Porter Machinery Co., The Tannewitz Works, S. A. Woods Machine Co., Irvington Machine Co. (partially exclusive), Henry Disston & Sons, Inc., Jones & Orth Cutterhead Co. (partially exclusive).

In addition they buy from supply houses in around Los Angeles. A partial list of these follows: Gates Rubber Co., Pacific Mill & Mine Supply Co., W. C. Hendry & Co., Consolidated Machinery Co., Santa Fe Machine Works, Inc., Milton J. Wershow.

Hal P. Cooper, general sales manager of Wagner Machinery Company, announces the removal of the company's showroom and sales office to larger quarters. The removal will take place in a few months when the new building is completed.

In the meantirne the company is conducting a disposal sale of machinery, a list of which is given in an advertisement on another page of this issue.

Mr. Cooper has been with the firm for the past 16 years. He is well knorvn to the woodworking industry and is considered one of the top flight sales executives in this field. In the sales department are men who have had years of experience in the sale of woodworking machinery. Among these are, T. F. Patterson who is a well known mill man, having in his earlier days been superintendent of some of the largest lumber mills in the United States. In addition to that, he was for years service engineer and salesman for Yates-American Machine Company, the largest manufacturers of woodworking machinery in the world. Robert Cairns has spent his entire life in the woodworking industry. In his eartier years, he started as a machine operator for one of the largest lumber companies in Los Angeles and later was made foreman of their sash and door department. For the past twenty years, he has been in tl-re sales end of machinery supplies.

The operations of Firestone Lumber Industries, Oakland, Calif., which has been known as the buying selling, remanufacturing, and sawmill organization for the lumber division of the Idaco Company, have now been consolidated under one head, to be known as the Idaco Lumber Company, a California corporation. This company will handle all these operations without any change in management. The owners are E. Jeffreys, A. E. Soulages, and E. E. Firestone.

Idaco Engineering & Equipment Co. manufactures and distributes a complete line of sawmill and woodworking machinery, and is well known throughout Oregon and California.

The Idaco Company is unique, inasmuch as it is engaged in all phases of the lumber industry, owning its own timberlands, logging operations, sawmills, remanufacturing plant, dry kilns, and wholesale lumber business- In addition it engineers, designs and builds sawmills and woodworking plants. This company also distributes leading lines of planers, moulders, resaws, and cabinet shop machinery, and builds special machines to order.

Headquarters of the Idaco Lurnber Company is at 3Z)0 Peralta Street, Oakland 8, Calif. The telephone number is Olympic 2-2ffi.

ll3{Year-Old New York Firm Represented on CoastBy Lor Angeles Man

Ichabod T. Williams & Sons, with main offices at 220 1lth Street, New York City, and sawmills in Carteret, N. J', where their plant covers 17 acres, and New Orleans, are the largest producers of mahogany of all species in the world. They have been in business continuously since 1838, and throughout the 113 years the business has been operated by the same family.

This pioneer hardwood firm has been represented on the Pacific Coast by A. C. Pascoe, Los Angeles, widely known veneer, plywood, and lumber mill representative, for more than Z) years.

Honduras and Peruvian mahogany are cut at the New Orleans sawmills. All kinds of tropical woods are handled. Offices are maintained on the Gold Coast and fvory Coast of West Africa.

Chcnlie Schumccher With Pcrcific Forest Produc.ts, Inc.

Chas. N. Schumacher. well-known Southern California lumber salesman, is now associated with Pacific Forest Products, fnc., in their Los Angeles office. He was until recently with Atkinson-Stutz Lumber Co. as Los Angeles representative.

ft is interesting to note that when Thomas Williams, a member of the family, died some years ago in San Francisco, he left his entire art collection for a permanent exhibit at the Palace of the Legion of Honor there, and provided money for an addition to the building to house the collection.

The Wiltiams firm is also a big supplier of materials for drugs.