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HEART]I tUilBER COMPAilY

P.O. BOX 367

PHONE: SPring 2-5291

TWX: MF 76

MEDFORD, OREGON concerning wood-manufactured products. We have an alert staff of sales .epresentatives who are trained to assist irrdustrial plant operators with their many problems pertaining to miterials-handling and we feel we are leaders in tl-ris hilhly technical field," siid Hunter. From every angle, this highli skilled organization is prepared and. equipped. t<r m6et-every produition problem, and service is its number one stock in trade.

The highlight of this yarn-"We have never lost more than two wofuing days in any production year due to rainout," said Bill Hunter. "And f can't remember when r'r'e ceased operations on account of weather."

Sliding Glqss Institute President Notes Continuing Soles Increoses

Industry volume in excess of 100 million dollars for 1959 is predictbd by Murrell Spence, national president of the Sliding Glass Door & Window Institute, Monterey Pa-rk, Califoinia. Noting that the 1958 recession was hardly fe-l-t by the sliding glass door and window industry, and 1959 is already off-to a record start, Spence forecasts continued vearlv increases in demand and volume for this muchiesirid commodity by builders and consumers alike.

Boiley Lumber Compony Buys Mountoin Lumber Compony

H. E. Bailey, president of Bailey Lumber Company, disclosed the purchase of IVlountain Lumber Company, Middleton, California, on June 1. Former Manager Rod Houston has been named to remain as manager of the 4-acre facility. With the acquisition of Mountain Lumber, Bailey Lumber now operates seven retail yards in Northern California with headquarters and purchasing office at Walnut Creek.

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Bronch Office: P.O. Box 799

ARCATA, CAIIF.

VAndyke 2-2447

TWX: ARC 3l

H o N E c L T N T o N 4 I 2 I I I

G-P Instolls Full Fqcilities And "Deolers Only" Policy At New Ooklqnd Worehouse

Georgia-Pacific Corporation increased its stable of California warehouses to a total of six with the Oakland openTC (CLM 4/15/59)_of. the company's newest plant at2lO9 Peralta (corner of Cypress & peralta). E. L..,,Rif', Rifenrath has been named ^malager of the new Oakland opera- tion, which includes 22,0N,sq. ft. of undercover storag6 and nearly 50,000 sq. ft. of yard storage area.

According to Rifenrath, furthei warehouse expansion is "currently being explored by the company', in the San Francisco area. Besides the new Oakland site, Georgia-pacific Corporation currently operates three warehoure. it Salinas, S-an Jose and Fresno under the general managership of Bob Brazelton, and two more warehouses in Soutfrern Cllifornia with Virg Oliver at the helm there.

- .Rifenrath, better \noryn as just plain ,.Rif,, to his many friends, notes that "Our best fiiendand customer is the re- thqn 22,OO0 sq. fi. of undercover stordge.

Worehouse stocks (lower left) hove been built up to include o full line of rhe notionolly known Georgio-Pocific producli for distribution on q ,,Deolers-only,, bosis. Newly oppointed Monoger E. t. ('Rif") Rifenroth confers (lower right) with secretory ond heod gol, Lois Dovidson tail lumber merchant and we intend to adl.rere to a strict 'Dealers Only' policy."

Dealer-Service area for the new warehouse will include Contra Costa, Alameda, San Francisco. X'[arin. Sonoma and Napa counties, "Rif" disclosed, and warehouse stocks have been brought up to strength to include a full line of fir plywgo!, G-P premium sheathing, GPX plastic-faced ply- wood, G-P prefinished hardwood plywoods, doors (incluil- ing prefit units), particle boards and a full line of imported hardwood plywood.

In addition to Rifenrath, the sales force of the new Oakland plant includes Bob Shelver on the phone and wellknown Northern California plywoodman Bill Meinheit on the oustide.

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