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Proflles , ,, Don Adolfo Cqmarillo

"90th Birthday Greetings to Camarillo's most beloved and distinguished citizen-Don Adolfo Camarillo" was the headline in a special edition of The Camarillo News on the occasion of the recent 90th birthday of the senior citizen of the town named for his family.

As president of the Peoples Lumber Company, Ventura, Calif., which has successfully operated eight line yards for many years, Adolfo Camarillo is also widely and affectionately known to Southern California lumbermen. The Peoples Lumber Company was incorporated September 30, 1890. Mr. Camarillo was elected a director on January 26, I9O7. After many years of his guidance and rvise counsel, he was elected president of the board June 17, 1940.

He is still an active voice in the 1955 operations of the retail lumber company, r,l'hose other present directors are C. A. Lind, first vice-president; A. J. Dingeman, second vice-president; J. C. Crump, secretary; C. E. Bonestel, H. H. Eastrvood, L. D. Willis, and Ben W. Bartels, who is general manager, treasurer and assistant secretary.

On this most recent milestone in his life, Mr. Camarillo recalled for The CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT that there was no railroad or pier to serve Ventura with transportation in the early days of his association with retail lumber to which his active memory goes back. The boats would anchor as close to shore as possible and transfer lumber onto a raft about 2Ax8'. This raft was drawn by horses winding a rope or cable around a large drum to get the lumber to shore.

When your lumber beqrs the qbove brond, you cqn be sure il's prolecled ogoinst dry rot qnd lermiles. Wilh focilities to hqndle ony quontity, your lumber con be treqted in tronsit by the cqrlood or moved in ond out by truck.

The veteran lumberman also recalled that the Ventura wharf was built in 1873 and that the first lumber boat to discharge its cargo was named the Kalorama. The firm receiving the first cargo was Daly & Rogers.

On his 90th birthday, the grand old gentleman invited everyone in town to his party, the highlight of the annual lima bean festival and community fair.

In his 90th year of useful living, Don Adolfo Camarillo goes about his regular workaday activities, which start at his rolltop desk in the spacious ranch house at the edge of the city. He watches the progress of the walnut and bean harvests on his land, visits the walnut packing sheds and sits at the meetings of the bank directors, lumber company directors and California Lima Bean Growers Association directors, of which he is one.

With almost all the vigor of former years, Mr. Camarillo actively participates in all of the business affairs. In 1953, just a week before his 89th birthday, Don Adolfo passed all the tests for the renewal of his driver's license so that he might continue driving to all the manifold activities that demand his time.

In its copyrighted article in the birthday "extra," The Camarillo Ner''u's also says Don Adolfo Camarillo, "last of the Spanish Dons," r,vas born in 1%4 in his father's house in Ventura. After his father's death in 1880, l6-year old Adolfo assumed control of the great 10,000-acre Rancho Calleguas and has managed it ever since.

Eight years after taking charge of the family estate,

OLD GROWTH FUtt SAWN REDWOOD

GRADE STAMPED DOUGTAS FIR . ROUGH DOUGTAS FIR

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CERTIGRADE GDAR SHINGTES l)on Adolfo rnarrietl Isabella Xlenchaca. Seven chiidren ll'ere born to them on Rancho Calleguas, oi u,hom four survive, and the youngest daugl.rter, C-'armen, is the only one remainine' r.ith her father on the great estate. I)ona Isabella died in 1936 and their onll' son. Fr;tnk, died in 1952.

During the nrany years he has been part oi the Canrarillo community, Don Adolfo has been a driving force behind the development of better schools and the fountling of a church. Upon his retirement from the l>oard of the Pleasant Valley school district recer.rtly, he \vas Ventura county's senior trustee rvith 45 years' serr-ice.

For many )'ears. after having seen his first Ventura county fair in 1875, 1\{r. Camarillo servecl on the fair boards and recently \\'as given the lifetirne post of honorary president. Until only recently, he rode one of his famed rvhite Arabian horses in the county fair parade, for which he has served as grand marshal. and in other Ventura county celebrations.

(Jne of the patriarcl-r's highest honors, and one of the highest honors in his faith, came in 195O when Pope Pius XII created him a Knight of Saint Gregorv.

Paid Testimonials of Esteem

The esteem and honor in rvhich Nlr. Camarillo is held in his home place is shor,vn in the 16 pages of the special edition of the newspaper. Nearly all of its pages are cramn.red l'vith paid ads expressing the devotion rvith rvhich the beloved lumberman and citizen is regarded.

In its concluding paragraphs, the nervspaper states: "-A,s keynote speaker in the freeu'ay opening ceremonies last spring, Don Adolfo remarked that 1>ublic speaking \\ras much easier for him tvhen he u'as clr-rly 'a boy of 50.' To those u'ho knorv and lor-e hirn. I)t.rn Adolfo still seems like a 'boy of 50' u'ith his uniailing ctinrtesy, ready rvit, and unflagging energy "lith rvhich lte n-railrtairrs s(, many positions of responsibility."

The edition concludes u-ith pulrlication of the poem, "The San Buena Ventura," by Her.rry Chamlterlain. It reads in part: ln the son Bueno Venluro

Before the spring moon slqds lo wone,

The sons of Don Adolfo

Will be ofi to ihe mountqinr ogoin..

We don't ride driPPing in silverThot it not for such os we; The thing. lhqt Gounl ore lhe (ore of your mounl, Horremonship ond cmoroderie'

We're ofi to the hills (me dqylighl

Sefore the sun 5treqki the sky; We'll kirk up o breeze in the coltonwood tleer

And we'll make lhe bull pines :igh

Now we're bock ogoin in the willows, ll's the l6t night of fhe ridet

Don Adolfo presides ol dinner, There qre gvesls whom we greel with pride.

Tired nen, yes, qnd lired horses, A bequtiful slorlit 6ky; The men ol the nre ging softly

Old songs of doy: gone by

We of rhe older generqtion Reolize o: twilight foili

Younger men will rit our soddler, Younger horrer pound the troils.

Bul somebody'3 gon mqy rmember, Perhop: he will vnderstqnd

How we loved ond rode this country

When it w6 o young, young lond.

52 Plons Booklet

Fifty-two Fir plyrvood home storage plans-all nerv, all dramatic, all useful-are detailed in a booklet just published by the Douglas Fir Plvrvood Association.

The plans booklet is something unique in a point-of-sale promotion item. Amoug other things, it can bring a profit to the dealer in itself rvhile promoting sales of plyn'oocl, paint and hardrvare at the same time.

Items in the plans bookiet are designed to interest everyone in the family. Projects reach into every living area of the contemporary home-including living room, beclroom, music center, family room, hobltl' and sports areas, kitchen and utility room, outdoor storage areas, patio and garden. Individual items range from coffee tables t'ith storage through several desks, photo darkroom lixtures, various sports lockers, dog-proof bin fc,ir the trash can, patio serving \\ragon. And mttch mclre.

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Sample copies of the booklet are free. Larger orders are sold under DFPA's general plan of putting out sales aids at about half the cost of producing them. In this instance, the booklets are 25c each up to, but not including, trvelve copies; $2.50 per dozen in self-display cartons, and $25 for trvelve dozen, also in display containers.

Dealers may distribute the booklets in several wayssell them for 50c a copv as indicated on the cover; col1- ceal the price beneath a sticker which rvill booklet is available ,'free Nith '-' dollars chandise"; or the booklet may be distributed way that the dealer sees fit.

Douglas Fir Plywood Association rvill provide copy and newspaper ad mats to promote the plans booklet. These may be obtained upon request from DFPA's home office at Tacoma 2, Wash.