TWENTY.FTI'E YEARS AGCD TCDDAY

As Reported in The California lumber Merchant, July 15, 1935

R. J. Williams of the Planters Lumber Company, Little Rock, elected president of the tion of Lumber Dealers.

Arkansas, has been Jack Williams, secretary

Arkansas AssociaHe is a brother of of the California Redwood Association, San Francisco.

R. W. "Bob" Reid has been appointed manager of the Park Lumber Company at LaMesa. He has long been associated in the lumber business in the San Diego area.

R. R. "Bob" Leishman, associated with A. L. Hoover, Los Angeles, recently spent a week at The Facific Lumber Comoanv's mill at Scotia, Calif.

Members of the Philippine Mahogany Manufacturers' Import Association gathered for annual meeting at the Palmer House in Chicago on June 29. W. G. Scrim, Los Angeles, was re-elected president; H. R. Black,

Brooklyn, is the new vice president; and G. W. Cheny, Portland, Oregon, secretarytreasurer. G. W. Purchase, Los Angeles, was re-elected assistant secretary-treasurer.

Stanley Quinn is now connected with Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Company as salesman, covering the San Francisco Bay District and Coast Counties territory.

W. J. (Bill) Shaw has joined the Wholesale sales stafi of the San Pedro Lumber Company of Los Angeles. lle was formerly with the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Company.

A. H. Norwood. who was with the Consolidated Lumber Company for the past several years, is now a member of the company's retail sales staff and is working in the Los Angeles territory.

George C. Phillips, formerly with St. Paul

& Tacoma Lumber Company, Tacoma, for 15 years, is now sales representative for the Vancouver Plywood & Veneer Compar.ry, in Southern California.

Marion Welch Lumber Company has a new yard at Lomita, Wallace Welch being yard manager.

Don L. Braas has started a retail lumber yard at Redondo Beach.

Jerry Essley, son of Dee C. Essley, is working in the plant of Elliott Bay Mill Company, Seattle, learning the plywood business to fit himself to be affiliated later with his father in the Elliott Bav Sales Company, Los Angeles.

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Willqmetfe Volley lumber In Big Exponsion

Expansion of Willamette Valley Lumber Company's sheathing mill, r,vhich will add about 30 employees to the Dallas, Oregon payroll, and two million square feet of plywood to the monthly production, is scheduled to be completed about August l, according to M. J. Kelly, production manager.

"A11 of the machinery has now arrived except the additional dryer, and it will be here shortly. Setting up the equipment and getting it in running condition will take about six weeks," he said.

"An addition to the sawmill, now being installed, is a new $40,000 "scrag" mill which will saw plywood cores into studs. This operation will be fully automated and employ two additional men. Production will amount to about 25,000 board feet of studs per day. "Better wood utilization will result as most of the plywood cores are now being made into chips for the paper mills," the manager continued.

"Throughout the next year we will be going through an extensive modernization of the sawmill, Kelly reported. "It has been many years since this has been done and in order to keep competitive with the lumber industry in today's market, it is imperative that we have the most up to date manufacturing facilities and processes possible," he continued.

When plans for expansion of Willamette's sheathing mill were first announced last April, cost was put at $250,000.

A Teco-quality control technician will continue to provide daily, in-mill grading and inspection at the sheathing plant, to assure consistent, top-quality production. The Teco-tested grade stamp now is used on the production of 15 West Coast plywood mills.