Hogon Wholescrle Building Mcrteriqls Co. Formed

Bob Hogan, president of Hogan Wholesale Building Materials Company, 700 Sixth Avenue, Oakland California, has announced the formation of that new organization, effective June 1, 1954. The firm formerly operated under the name of Hogan Lumber Co. and was established at the present address in January, 1953. In addition to Bob Hogan, the sales staff of Hogan Wholesale Building Materials Co. includes E. J. "Cleve" Cleveland, Ray Botkins, Herb Farrell and two new men, Bud Gray and Jack Quatman, rvho were added to the Hogan sales force June 1.

Bud Gray has had long experience in the plywood, door, windou' and sash lines, having been with California Builders Supply, Richmond, since 1937 prior to his present association. His only interruption during that time was a three-year hitch with the air corps. He will continue to cover his old territory, which consists of the Redwood Empire counties; he resides in Santa Rosa with l-ris wife and two daughters.

Jack Quatman formerly spent several years with California Builders Supply, and prior to that had considerable experience in retail building materials in both the Bay area and Fresno. He is a veteran of four years' duty with the U.S. Army during World War II. His present territory consists of the San Francisco peninsula and Santa Cruz areas and he will continue to reside in Alameda with his wife and four children.

The Hogan Wholesale Building Materials Co. firm

Huge Mill Deol by G-P Pending in Portlond

Portland, Oregon: According to announcement by the Georgia-Pacific Plywood Company, that concern has placed more than $11,000,000 in escrow to bind a proposed purchase of three large sawmill and timber concerns.

The proposed purchase would cover the Inman-Poulson Lumber Company, Western Logging Company, and Saginaw Timber Company, plus additional holdings of timber in western Oregon. The Inman-Poulson Lumber Company mill in Portland employs 20O men.

Monning SCRTA Director

Wiley O. Manning,. co-owner of the Manning Lurnber Company at El Centro, Calif., was elected a director of the Southern Cali.fornia Retail Lumber Association at a recent dinner meeting in El Centro held under the auspices of the newly formed Imperial Valley Lumbermen's Club.

Mr. Manning's election was to represent the SCRLA members in Imperial County and to fiIl the vacancy created by the resignation of Charles E. Sones, president of the Sones Lumber Company, some time ago. Orrie A. Hamilton was a speaker at this dinner meeting. He also addressed a luncheon meeting of lumber dealers in San Diego earlier in June, held under auspices of the San Diego Lumbermen's Association.

carries a complete stock of doors, rvindolvs, sash, mouldings, plywood, frames, Columbia-matic screens and allied building produ'cts, and wholesales to retail dealers throughout the Northern California area. The firm occupies two rvarehouses with a combined closed-in area of zZ,On square feet; it operates four trucks for delivery frorn Merced and Paso Robles to Fort Bragg, Redding and Chico.

In addition to heading the Hogan wholesale firm, Bob Hogan is also president of Oakland Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39, in which several members of the Hogan sales force are also active.

Moy Housing Stqrts Off Slighrly

Non-farm housing starts declined by about four per cent between April and May, to a total of 106,000, according to preliminary estimates of the U. S. Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics. Most sections of the country shared in the decline. The total volume of new private home building, however, was at about the same high level as in May of last year.

The volume of privately owned house building, which advanced to a 3f-year peak of 109,100 units this April, declined to 105,500 units in Mayabout the same level as in May 1953. Seasonally adjusted private housing starts were at an annual rate well above 1 million each month this year, although the May rate of 1,038,000 was the lowest thus far.

The total of 452,000 new dwelling units (private and public) put under construction during the first five months of 1954 was five per cent below the 476,800-unit total for the comparable 1953 period because of the reduction in public housing. Privately owned house building thus far in 1954 (446,900units) was about the same as the year-ago estimate.

Johns-Monville Proiects

The Johns-Manville Corporation announces that it is greatly increasing its asbestos production by sinking new shafts at the Munro Mine, near Matheson, Ontario, Canada. It is also building a new synthetic silicates plant at the company's diatomite mine at T,ompoc, California.

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