Meet

Mr. Hexberg's secretary; Mary Lou Beck, receptionist and billing clerk, and Ethel Stanley, bookkeeper. Also in the picture are Max Hill, yard superintendent, and Ralph Alexander. accountant.

Eric Hexberg, TWJ's Los Angeles manager, is recognized as one of the most capable young executives in the industry. Now 34, he has worked in the lumber industry all of his business life. His father was a millman, and Eric worked in sawmills and box factories in his summer vacations while at school in Klamath Falls. When the family moved to Los Angeles he worked in wholesale and retail yards, and rose from yard superintendent to manag'er in one of these positions. From this job he entered the Army Air Force, became a B.25 pilot and saw action overseas. He returned to the lumber business immediately after his discharge from the service.

With the present volume of business at the Los Angeles yard approaching 8 million feet a month, the outlook for TWJ is for an even larger business in the near future.

The second picture shows one of the two sheds in TWJ's yard. In these large sheds upper grades and mouldings are stored under cover. The sheds are so arranged that orders can be loaded very efficiently and promptly.

The TWJ organization operates eight sawmills, producing Ponderosa pine, Sugar pine, White fir, Douglas fir, and Incense cedar; also pine doors, pine and fir mouldings, pine plywood, and cut stock.