DOUGLAS FIR

The following statement was officially released toward the end of June by Hal A. Brown, president of the Woodhead Lumber Company, Los Angeles:

"The board of directors has seen fit to conclude the operations of this company, midnight, Tuesday, June 30, 1959. As of that date, it will no longer be open for business. Such additional time as necessary will be spent in winding up its affairs.

"The company has prospered and terminates its operations in splendid financial condition. Nevertheless, it considers one of its greatest assets the good will of the host of friends, customers and suppliers with whom it has had the good fortune to deal over these rnany, many years.

"To one and all, it expresses sincere and heartfelt thanks.

"Woodhead Lumber Company."

Under the administration of its president. Hal Brown. and management of R. R. Whiteside. the Woodhead yard at 4800 W. Pico Blvd. in Los Angeles has indeed been one of the most successful and highly respected retail lumber operations in Southern California. In addition to his duties at the vard. Dealer Brown served two meritorious terms as oresident of the Southern California Retail Lumber Assn. in 1957-58 and 1958-59, relinquishing the office this past April to Gilmore Ward.

The Woodhead Lumber Comoanv thus ioins the distinguished list with Patten-Blinn, the former Hammond Lumber Company multi-lineyard operation (some of whose yards were sold to a new company sucessfully operating them under the old name today), the Fox-Woodsum Lumber Co. of Glendale and the E. K. Wood Lumber Company as giants of the pioneer Los Angeles retail lumber scene who have passed from the picture.

The Woodhead Lumber Company was started in 1916 and weathered depression and boomtimes in its 43-year history. Hal Brown, who rose to president, himself started in the yard of the company in 1923. While Mr. Brown has other interests, he and his wife plan to start their new leisure at their recently built home above Malibu Beach and also do some traveling, after Hal first gets in all of the fishing he wants.

Motor vehicle accidents killed 36,700 and injured 2,825,nO on U.S. highways during 1958.