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Plywood Mills, Inc.

GENERA! OFFICE -EUGENE, OREGON

MILLS: Eugene, Oregon, ond Willominc, Oregon

SRANCH WAREHOUSES: Eugene ond Willomino, Oregon; 925 Tolond St., Son Froncisco 24, Colil.; 4814 Bengol St., Dollos 9, Tex,; 4268 Utoh St., St. Louis 16, Mo.

SALES WAREHOUSES: Bessonette & Eckstron, 2719 S. Compton, Los Angeles I l, Colif.; Pocific Mutuol Door Co., 526 Tocomo Bldg. (Home Office), Tocomo, Wn.; l4O7 Fleet St., Boltimore 31, Md.;2141 Throop St, Chicogo 8, lll.; 516 South Ave., Gorwood, N. J.; Adoms ond Shownee Sts,, Konsos City; 2235 Territoriol Rood., St. Poul 4, Minn.

&*ber Careert \(/after E. "Pete" Peterson

One of California's most widely knolvn retail lurnbermen, Walter E. "Pete" Peterson, is president and manager of Bakersfield Building N{aterials Co., Bakersfield, Calif. He has made an outstanding success of this business, which he has operated for 18 years. And this success is due to his ability as a lumberman and a businessman, and his genius for management. The company rvas organized. in 1931 with Pete as vice president and manager. It started with three employees. Today there are 261

Born in 1899 in Waukegan, Illinois, Mr. Peterson came to California in 1912, and settled in Kingsburg. He was graduated from Kingsburg High School in the Class of 1918. He worked one year for the Southern Pacific in Palmdale, Calif., then in 1919 went to work for Mead Clark Lumber Co., Kingsburg, (now Citizens Lumber Co.), under Chas. Schaffer, and later moved to Selma with the same company. In 1926 he became assistant manager of Union Lumber Co., Bakersfield. This yard was later purchased by Hayward Lumber & Investment Co., which retained him as manager. He remained rvith this concern until he became associated with Bakersfield Building Materials Co. in 1931.

Mr. Peterson was married to Miss Madeline App in 1931. They have a son, Norman, 16 years old, a Junior in High School.

His hobnies are fishing, and wood shop work.

He is a director of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California; a director of the Bakersfield Chamber of Commerce; President of the City Board of Education;director of the City Board of Recreation;director of the Kiwanis Club; and a member of the Civil Service Commission. He is a junior warden of the Episcopal Church, and is a Shriner.

Pete modestly states: "My early lumber training in retail I owe to Chas. Schaffer and the late Paul Nordstrom. It has been my privilege to associate with men like Chas. Schaffer, George Burnett, Ray Clotfelter, and Steve Ross, and their help and advice has made me what I am. If I have made good I owe it to them and many others."

Improve Johnsondcle Mill

The Mount Whitney Lumber Company is improving its mill at Johnsondale, California, by the addition of a box shook warehouse, and the installation of an automotil-e stacker for piling green lumber.