BUYER'S GU IDE

PORTTAND

Dsnf & lurcll, Inc.

Alooro Dry Kiln Conpany-------.----------AVcnuc &06i16

Tumoc lunbrr Co.-..-.-..--.------..-.-.-..CApllol 66lt6l

U,S. Pf yrood Corp.----.-----..---.......--.--.---.CApllol 7 -o4'37

Wcst Coo:t tumbermcn's Assn. .-.-,--------..------222-1691

TURNER

North Sonliom Lumbcr Sqler ..-------------------f13-2118

TACO}IA

Woshington

Chcnoy tumbcr Co.-----.---.--.-.---------FUlton 3.2424 wtNtocK

Shqkcrfown Corp. .---....-....-...-----.---.---.SUnsef 5-3501

San Francisco

LUr$lEr AND tumlGt PIODUC'S

Arcoto Rcdwood Co----------..-..----YUkon 6-2067

Col-Pqtific Soles Corp.------...----.--.--------.YUkon I -8620

Evsns Prqductc Co. .--.---"..--.-.------------.-----------826-241 1

Gcorgio-Pocific Corp-----------..-DOuglos 2-3388

Gilbrcoth Chcmicol Co..----..-.-------.-..-...SUtlcr I -7537

Hof f Co., Jomcr t.-......--------.------.---..SrJtlct 1 -7 52O

Hqllinan l'{ockin lumbcr Co....---------..JUniper 1-5262

Horbor lumbcr Conpony.------- -----------YUkoa 2-9727

Higginr [umbcr Co., J. E..--.--------.----VAlcncio 4-87.,14

Hobbs Wall lumbcr Co., Inc.---.-----Flllmorc 5-6000 lomon Lumbcr Co....-..---------.----.----YUlon 2-1376

A{ocBeoth Hordwood Compony------.--.Mlzsion 7 -O77 2

Pocific Lumbcr Co., fhc.-..--.------.-.--.GArficld l-3717 licci & Krusc Lumbor Co..----..------------Mlstion 7-2576

Sif morco, f nc. ------..--..--.---.-------------EXbrook 453-662O

Torler, Websler & Johnson, Inc.--------PRospecl 6-120o

Union lumbcr Compony .-----------------.SUllcr l{170

Unilcd Stofer Plywood Corp..------------JUniper 5-5005

Word & Knopp---------------------------GArfield l-l 840

Wcndling - Nqthon Co..-...--......------------SUtter I -5363

W.3l Coosl Timbcr Products-------GRoystonc 4-3931

Wcrforn Foresl Produclr of S.F,--------[Onbord 4-8760

Wrrlcrn Lumber Compony .----.---..-.---.-PLozo 6-7111

Wcycrhocurr Conpony *.----------P[ozq 5-6781

Zi.| & Co., Inc..-------------------------....-YUkon l'0210

3At]l-Dools-wl NDows-r$ou tD I NGg IUITDING IIATCilAS

Blur Dionold

Cofovcrqr Crncnt Co.-------.-.-------DOuglos 2'1221

TTEAIED LUIiIEI-POLE3

Bcxlcr & Co., J. H..--.-----:----------------YUkon 2-02(X)

Hof f Co,, Joncs l.--.---------------.-------Sullcr l'7 52O

Kopperr Co., Inc. .--.-.-.YUlon &26@

Mcdormick & Boxtcr -YUkon 2-{033

Wcndling - Nothon Co.----------------------SUttcr l -5363

Woodside Lunber Co.-.---------------Dlqrrond 3-55'44 SPECIAL sENv|GEs

Redwood tnspcction Scrvicc--*-------EXbrook 2-7880

Bay Area

LUrtlEEr AND tur{$r ProDUCrS

Adqmr-Trob€ Lurnbrr Co.--_.--..--POrlor 3'lll4l

Bof dt-Beocom lumbor Co----._*------83+l1U

Bonnell I'umber Co..-.-.-.....-----..--.--.----Dlqmond 2'1451

Bonnington lumbcr Co.---------.----------O[yrnpic 8'2881

Bruce Co., Inc., E. L.---....-. --.-284-1300

Colifornio [unber Solar -------....-.-------.KEllog 4-1004

Cofif. Sugor & W.3lctn Pinc --..-*.-Dlomond 2'1178

Donl Forest Products, lnc..---.-------------------321 -0620

Duroblc Plywood Soles Co.-..--.----DAvenport 4'2525

Evons Producls Co. --..-..-----.-.....-.--.----------------533-8866

Gcorgio-Pociftc Corp. --......--..-.....-..----------------8'19'Olt6l

Gcorgio-Pocific Corp. lson Joscl-------CYpress 7-780O

Golden Gote Lunrber Co'.-.--.--.---.-THornwoll 1'1730

Higgins lunber Co. (Son Josel--...---.---CHerry 3-3120

Hill Whrlc. lurnber

Obituaries

Wallace A. Marsh, president and chief executive officer of Permanente Cement Company and its subsidiaries, died Aprii 7 in Oakland, Calif. He was 51.

A resident of Orinda, Calif., Marsh had been confined to the hospital since Saturday evening, April 4, following recunence of a heart condition.

Marsh had been a member of the Oakland-headquartered Henry J. Kaiser industrial complex since 1939 when he became a sand and gravel salesman for the Henry J. Kaiser Company. Previously, he spent five years as a highway engineer for the state of California.

With Henry J. Kaiser Company, Marsh rose to the position of manager of operations and sales.

Marsh is survived by his widow, the former Doris Ankers, two daughters, Penelope and Deborah, all of Orinda, Calif., and a son, Wallace A. Marsh, Jr., a sales representative for Permanente at Sacramento, Calif.

Joseph M. Molera, veteran Los Angeles sash and door man, died May 16. He was for many years manager of the sash and door department at Hammond Lumber Co. in Los Angeles until that company closed its operation in the late fifties. Molera then moved to T. V. Walker & Son in Burbank, Calif,, where he was employed until his death.

He is survived by his widow Catherine of Arcadia, Calif.; two daughters, Cathy Mo- lera and Mrs. Anne Somes; a son, Michael; a brother, Michael and three sisters, Alice Molera, Mary Francis Borgia and Mrs, Elsa LaViolette. llichard l.ox Hammatt, secretaly-manager of the California Redwood Association from 1921 Lo 1931 and originator of the "Smokey Bear'" symbol as first directol of the Cooperative Folest File Prevention plogram for the U. S. Forest Service, died June 3rd in Santa Rosa, Calif.

A native of Hyde Park, Massachusetts, Hammatt was an honor graduate of the first class in forestry at Harvard University in 1906 and fir'st serwed as a forest assistant in the old Cascade National Forest in Oregon. In 1914 he rvas appointed to take charge of fire prevenfion and law enforcement wotk in the San Francisco office of the Forest Ser-vice and became Regional Forester in chalge of public lelations in 1,920.

In 1921 he resigned to become the second executive oliicet of the California Redwood Association. After ten year"s, Hammatt returned to the Forest Service to direct public relations in the Northern Region, out of Portland. In 1933, he u'as sent to Washington to assist President Roosevelt in organizing the Civilian Conservation Corps and stayed on to become assistant to the chief of the Forest Service. It 'w'as in this capacity that he came up with the idea of "Smokey Bear," had the symbol drawn up by a Boston art.ist, and worked to have it patented by an Act of Congress. He was honored in 1962 rvith a special plaque for this service.

Catifornia Iumber Merchant

Hammatt is survived by his widow, Gertrude M. Hammabt of Santa Rosa, trvo mar'ried daughters, two sisters and five grandchildlen.

W. H. (Hardy) llyers, 64, died suddenly at his McCloud, Calif. home on June g. Myers rvas manager of United States Plywood Corporation's McCloud operations at the time of his death.

He had spent the early yeals of his career in the lumber industry in the Southern Pine region, where he was production managel for the Electric Mills Lumber Company at Electlic Mills, Mississippi. In 1943 he moved to Bend, Oregon, where he was general manag'et' of the Shevlin-Hixon operation until 1951 when he became gen- eral manager of the Alexander-Stewart Lumber Company's operation at Prineville, Oregon.

In 1960 he 'was named general manag'er of the McCloud River Lumber Company Operations at McCloud. He was the first manager at McOloud when the operations were acquired by United States Plywood Corporation.

H. Brown Miller, U. S. Pl1'r,vood's Cali- fornia division general manager, said, "Hardy was a widely recognized and well t'espected leader throughout our industry. He rvas that rale combination of Southern gentleman and Western lumberrnan."

He is survived by his widou', Bonita Myers; a son, William Hardy Myers, Jr., Eugene, Oregon; a gr:andson, William Hardy Myers III; and by his molher and several brothers and sisters in Mississippi.