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As Reported in the July, Ig3g,Issue of rhe California Lumber Merchanr, EsL Lg22

H. M. t'Mac" Luellwitz, president of the Anglo California Lumber Cb., Los Angeles, 19tur1ed recently from a business trip to San Francisco and the company's mill in Klamath Falls, Ore.

Glen Karnes of Santa Cruz has purchased the Twain-Harte Lumber Co.. Twain-Harte, Calif.

Seth L. Butler, representative of Dant & Russell, Inc., San Francisco. returned recently from a trip to New York where he served as Captain of the California Grays, San Francisco's crack military organization, at the New York World's Fair.

Art Penberthy, Tacoma Lumber Sales. Los Angeles, is back from a two weeksi trip in the Northwest where he visited his mill connections.

O. V. Wilsorq president of Central Lumber Co., Stockton, Calif., was the guest of his employees at a dinner party at the Clark EotBl. The company will celebrate its 21st bnniversary next fall.

Fred Clark, o!\rnex-manager of the Eden- dile Lumber Co., Los Angeles, announces that the company has erected a new build- ing which will be used for offce quarters.

W. A. "Bill" Tice, manager, has announced the opening of a new branch warehouse of the California Builders Supply Co., at Sacramento, Calif. Others of the company lJ:.

Ernest H. Bacon has succeeded E. C. Pitcher as manager of the Fir-Tex Corp. of northern California and Nevada.

J. Shipp and A. D. Wiltiam-

F. G. Hanson, head of the West Coasf Screen Co., Los Angeles, is on a business trip to New Yor.k in connection with nro- motion of sales and the buying of new machinery for his plant. While in the East. he and Mrs. Hanson will visit the World's Fair.

Ed Biggs, recently with A. L. ,,Gus" Hoover, Los Angeles, and Union Lumber Co., is now a member of the sales staff of American Hardwood Co., Los Angeles.

R. D. Bailey has been appointed manager of the Fox-Woodsum Lumber Co., Rialto, Calif. Leonard Whittaker will continue as yard man at the Rialto yard.

Will L. Jones, who has been with Diamond Match Co. at Lakeport, Calif., for the past year, has opened a retail yartl in Lake- port. His son, Robert, will be associated with hirn and the firm name will be Will L, Jones & Son.

A. A. Snyder of Lodi, Calif., has leased the Watson Lumber Co. at Lake Forest, lYilliam Groundwater has resigned as manager of mar{ne operations of Union Oil Co. to enter the retail lumber business as president of the Alert Lumber & Mill Co., Bell, Calif. His partner, G. C. Cable, was formerly operating manag'er of the Hammond Lumber Co., Los Angeles.

Donald F. Bird was married to Miss Elizabeth C. Jongeneel in Berkeley, Calif., July 1. Bird is associated with his father, Charles G. Bird in the Stockton Lumber ,Co., Stockton, Calif.

'fed Hofiman and Larry Dodge have purchased the Hobbs, Wall & Co., retail lumber yard at Crescent City, Calif. Both arrj former employees of the company.

Bob Osgood, sales manager, Cadawallader-Gibson Co., Los Angeles, is on his annual trip through the South, Middlewest and East, visiting lumber consuming centers.

Stuart Smith, Doud-Smith, Los Angeles, spent several days on a fishing trip in the High Sierras around the first of the month and brought in several limit catches.

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Home Remodeling Sqles Aid

Over 1700 newspapers will receive a special home remodeling lupplement in September as part of the "Home Improvement Time" promotion of the National Home Improvement Council.

The supplement will be produced and distributed for the Council by House Beautilul magazine. The two have cooperated in similar special newspaper activities since 1960.

In addition to newspaper distribution, the supplement will be mailed to more than 2000 home improvement dealers and contractors as a merchandising tool. Included will be articles and photos on a wide variety of home repair and remodeling subjects, ad mats for dealer use and retail ad mats provided by the magazine,s advertisers.

Winton Sells Mqrtell Assets

Stockholders of The Winton Company have approved sale of the physical assets at Martell, Calif.. to the American Forest Products Corporation. The purchase of the Martell properties includes_nearly all of the assets The Winton Company has remaining in the state.

Winton manufacturing facilities consist of a l35-acre plant site; a sprinklered log decking area with a 45 million board feet log capacity; log debarking equipment; a 9-foot band sawmill with remote controlled carriage setworks and other modern automatic equipment. Other facilities include the Amador Central Railroad, a l2-mile common carrier line connecting Martell with the Southern Pacific lines. The purchase includeJ 68,725 acres of California timberland located in the counties of Eldorado, Amador, and Calaveras.

The sale is to be a cash purchase by American Forest Products Corporation, but the price was not disclosed. Operations will continue as usual and all Winton employees will be retained.

Celotex Builds Two Worehouses

Two Celotex Corporation warehouses are expected to be completed in California this summer, Marvin Greenwood, vice president and director of merchandisins has revealed.

A 24,000 sq. ft. building is r"ow urrd", construction at the company's Los Angeles asphalt roofing plant. Construction of a 30,000 sq. ft. warehouse near Oakland is scheduled to begin soon. A sales office will also be located in this warehouse.

"With the completion of these buildings, we will be able to continue providing service consistent with the growing demand for our asphalt roofing products on the West Coast," Creenwood said.

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Porkview lumber Reqcfivoted

With the affiliation of J. A. ooBill" Dickey as general manager, Parkview Lumber Company has been reactivatid, accordini to Carl E. Wimberly, Jr., president of Western Lumber Co.. p'arkview's parent concern. Parkview has been dormant for tire past several months.

Parkview is specializing as a supplier of factory and industrial lumber, cut stock and millwork. Distribution wili be nationwide in both_straight and mixed cars of lumber and plywood.

_Bill Dickey began his business career while attending Seattle University by working as a part time millwork salesman. For the past six years he has been sales manager of a large millwork factory- in southern Oregon. He has had experience in all phases of lumber and millwork production and sales.

Reactivation of Parkview is part of Western Lumber's expansion program which also includes the buildine of Jefferson Wholesale, Inc., a wholesale distribution *arehourJ.

Mqsfer Coqters Prefinish Plont

Dean Jones, president of Downey Kiln Company and affiliated concerns has announced completion of the Mastei Coaters plant at Longview, Washington, which is presently producing more than 10,000 panels per 24 houu period.

The modern new building at Longview is 80, x 360, and houses one of the newest units of prefinished equipment, according to Jones. The fully automatic operation has -two lines over 500 in length and two shifts wil be operated during the summer and fall months, Jones said.

Master Coaters is a division of Downey Kiln Company and affiliated with Cedar Specialties in Downey California. -The firm plans to open plants in the middle west, south and eastern sections of the United States in addition to its present operations in Washington and California.

Wesf's Role in lndustry

The Western States have accounted for about one-third of all the- housin,g units built in the nation during the past two years and should continue to account for about iirat same proportion of total building through the rest of the decade, the piesident of the National Association of Home Builders said recentiy.

_ Addressing the opening session of the three.day patific Coast Builders Conference at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, William Blackfield noted that California's population is erpectj to top 27 million by 1980.

_ He predicted new housing starts this year will reach l.? million, better than a 4 per cent increase ou.r i963.

Forest History to Yqle

Yale University became a center for research in the field of forest history when the Forest History Society. moved its ofrce and library from St. Paul, Minn. to the Yale 'School of Forestry on July l.

The affiliation was announced jointly by president Kingman Bfl{st9r, Jr., and Dr. Frank H, Kaufert of St. Paul, president oJ thc Societv. An independent non-profit educational corporation, the Society will receive support from Yale.

The society was formed in 1946 as a special unit of the Minnesota Historical Society concerned with the history of lumbering in the Great Lakes region. Since then it has expanded its interests to cover the whole field of forestry and forest-based industries in North America. It became an independent corporation in 1955.

The Society has emphasized the preservation of primary source material, especially personal papers and business records of in. dividuals and firms. With the cooperation of more than 40 universities and historical societies in the United States and Canada, it has established Repository Libraries at these institutions where its collections are kept and made ar.ailable for use by scholars.

New Tree Fqrms

At a recent meeting of the California Redwood Association's Tree Farm Committee in Fort Bragg, five additional tree farms totalling 8I2 acres were certified and an addition of 5l acres was made to an existing tree farm. Four of the additions were in Mendocino County, one in San Mateo County and the additional acreage was in Humboldt County of the Redwood Region. This brings the totals in the region to L26 tree farms with 645,362 acres. All tree farmers pay the same county tax as any other timber owner.