TETTERS

We Get O.K. from J.P.M.A.

David Cutler

Managing Editor

California Lumber Me'chant

Dear Mr. Cutler:

Would it be possible to obtain (50) reprints of the J.P.M.A. article appearing on page 8 of your June, 1963 issue?

The copies would be circulated to flush door manufacturers of our association. This subject is of, extrreme interest to these nroducets and we feel the complete story contained in Your publication wo'uld benefit them greatly. Thank you.

Very Trrrly Yours

John W. Shoemaker Assistant Secretary National Woodwork Manufacturers Association, Inc.

And thank you, Mr. Shoema,ker, lor your kind cornments. The inlormatinn you want is in the mail..-Editor.

Reseorch Requesl

Dave Cutler

California Lumber Merchant

Dear Dave.

In 1909. a dam constructed by the Hume-Bennett Lumber Company of Sanger, California formed the beautiful Hume Lake of the Sequoia National Forest of Fresno County. Hume Lake now is a camp and conference grounds serving church organizations throughout California.

In an efrort to gather historical facts about Hume Lake, I would appreciate getting in touch with anyone having information about the HumeBennett Lumber operation and those having possession of little known bits of interest about the early days of Hume Lake.

Sincerly yours, Victor E. Johnson

281? Adams Street

La Cresenta, Calif.

How about it, can we help this gentlernan? I I you hatte anY inTormntio.n wriie Mr. Iohnson 'd,ir ectly at his adilre ss'-Edinr.

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AAMA Publi,shes New Aluminum Curtqin Woll Monuol

A manual of recommended practices and criteria for design, fabrication and installation of aluminum curtain walls has been published by the Architectural Aluminum Manufacturers Association, it was announced.

Purpose of the 16-page brochure is to provide architects and engineers with easy-to-read, condensed information they need in writing specifications for aluminum curtain wall.

Use of information in the manual. AAMA said, will in- sure that the architect's sPecifications will meet his client's needs for a high-qualitY Product.

AAMA, whose headquarters are at 35 E. Wacker Dr., Chicago 1, Ill., is the successor to the Aluminum Window Manufacturers Association and the Sliding Glass Door and Window Institute.

Features of the Publicntion include AAMA's approved warranty for curtain walls, a glossary of terms used bY those in the curtain wall industrY, arrd sections on design criteria, clearances and tolerances, and finishes for aluminum.

JUIY, t953

Stcrts lumber Cqreer

New production assistant at Clear Pine Mouldings, Inc., Prineville, Oregon, is Donald W. Pierce, a 1962 graduate of Oregon State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in forest products.

'Clear Pine Mouldings, Inc. is the manufacturing subsidiary of Contact Lumber Co., Portland, Oregon, and Prineville, producing Ponderosa Pine millwork, mouldings, jambs, frames and split jambs.

During his high school and college days, Pierce worked summers in various phases of the lumber industry in Oregon and California. During his senior year at OSU, he was employed as an inspector by the Hardwood Plywood Institute of Arlington, Virginia, calling on local hardwood plywood plants in the area of glue-line quality testing.

Rock Avenue Berkeley 7, Coliforniq 52tr,355

Dee Essley believes in taking advantage of the present drive to prevent forest fires. The huge "Smokey the Bear" sign is adjacent to their yard and office facility on the Santa Ana Freeway, in Los Angeles, reminding thousands of motorists to be careful during this time of the year.

R.H.D. INC.

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In the ensuing years, he handled fullmill bid sales for the L. B. Blinn Lumber Co., which later merged with Patten-Davis to become the Patten-Blinn Lumber Company. For a time, Mr. Warde operated a small retail lumber company in los Angeles, and in 1939, formed a company together with Mr. Alfred Liggins, which became one of the largest cabinet manufacturing companies in Southern California. One of the first finger-joint dadoing operations on the Pacific Coast was set up at the cabinet plant as far back as 1946. In 1950, the cabinet manufacturing oper- ation was liquidated and Mr. Warde together with his associates acquired controlling interest in the Ready Hung Door Manufacturing Company which was licensed to manufacture the patented door and frame unit in the western states.

The Burbank Company has become the largest producer of door units in the United States and has laid out and put in operation two separate mills for the production of frame parts and molding which is shipped each day from the company's Marysville plant all over the United States.

Mr. Ramsey, vice president, has a background in market research and has been with the Ready Hung Door Manufacturing Company for the past 13 years.

Rounding out the management team is Alfred Liggins whose 4l years in the millwork industry covered every facet of door and cabinet manufacturing operations. Among notable companies that Mr. Liggins was associated with in the past were Pacific Sash and Door Company, Southern California Hardwood Manufacturing Co., and the D. D. McCallum Company. During the war, he was superintendent of the Craftbilt plant in Burbank which manufactured iceboxes for the Navy from 1942 to 1946. Since that time, he has been an officer and in charge of production lor the Craftbilt Cabinet Company and Sierra Prefabricatorso Inc.

CAIIFORNIA IU'IABTT'YIERCHAN'

These are the men who will guide the destinies of R.H.D., Inc. as they expand the Iicensing of Ready Hung Door manufacturers, the creation of new plant layouts for door unit manufacturers, the development and distribution of high-speed door unit production equipment and the guidance ofa marketing program for cooperating companies in these fields.

Already, R.H.D. Inc. has announced the availability of R.H.D.'s patented Alco Sill with split-jamb frame for its licensees and a new patented, mitred, lap-glued casing joint, which will both be used on door units and distributed for sale by retail lumber yards.

Ruben Dominguez Nomed to New Celotex Soles Areo

Ruben E. Dominguez has been appointed a sales representative for The Celotex Corporation, according to George L. Benson, manager of the company's Los Angeles sales district. He will serve building materials dealers, wholesalers, and builders in the Las Vegas, Northern Arizona and Southern Utah areas.

Dominguez formerly served as Celotex sales representative in the San Diego, California area. He is a graduate of San Diego State College.

D. C. ESSLEY and SON

Dee Essley

Jerry Essley

Woyne Wilson

Chuck lember Distribution Yord:

Joint Concat

(Continued lronr Page 36) ed in the joint meeting, Coast Counties producing two Kittens, and Oakland one new International Order member. The honors, however, go to the Santa Clara gang who rounded up five lively Kittens against San Francisco's sole member of the litter.

The meeting also marked the reappearance of a familiar face on the Hoo-Hoo scene in the form of Alameda wholesaler Al Kelley, former president of Oakland Hoo-Hoo 39, who had to sit out the games last year due to illness. Welcome back Al, we're all glad to see you sitting at the head table again!

C. V. Wood, Jr. Nqmed

To New McCulloch Post

Appointment of C. V. Wood, Jr. to a new corporate position as assistant to the president has been announced by Robert P. McCulloch, president, McCulloch Corporation, [,os Angeles.

C. V. Wood has been executive vice president of McCulloch Properties, Inc. since 1961. His earlier career years include nine years in industrial engineering and long range planning with Convairo San Diego, and as director of economic research for the Stanford Research Institute, Los Angeles, from l95l through 1954.

In 1954, Mr. Wood was retained by Walt Disney to set up Disneyland, Inc. His first year responsibilities included purchase of the site, stafi hiring, park construction, and operations management. Subsequently, he became vice president and general manager of the corporation.

As president and owner of his own company, Marco Engineering, from f 956 through 196I, Mr. Wood designed and luilt several of the nation's notable parks lncluding Pleasure Island, Boston; Freedomland, NewYork; and SixFlags, Daltras. Marco Engineering also conducted economic studies for large corporations and negotiated institutional advertising leases.