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Named Assistant in Trafific Department

Jf:Lrlan Dicliey has lteen llurrled :rssistant in the trlrlic <lepirrtment of tl-rc \\,'cst Coast l-ntlbcrtnen's 1\ssr.rci;rtiotr, accor<ling to L. C. llatchelder, traffic rranager, n'ho saicl the move was macle in order to provide expanding traffic services to the Douglas fir industrY.

Dickey r,vill spend much of his tin-re on rate work, Batchelder stated. The Association is enlarging its rate service to include the rapidiy developing Douglas fir Production in Northern California and is also increasing its rate supplying data to include additional shipping points in Western Oregon and Washington.

Dicl<ey is a gracluate in transportation of the university of Washington with the June class. He was born and raised in Everett, Washington, where he worked in the Irrmtrer and pulp mills for five sumrners. At the lJniversity of Washington he won the coveted honor of election to Phi Beta KaPPa. He worked at the UniversitY of Washington Press during Part of his college career.

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Sullivan Hardwood Lumber Co.

7o3 IYe.rt F Street San Diego, Calilornia

San Francisco Plywood Company Davidson Plywood & Lumber Co.

752 Second. Slreet at Toransend. San Franc i.r c o, Cal il orn iu

3136 E. IYashington Blad. Los Angeles 23, Calilornia

Items o[ Interest

C)n \\iestern Oregon ancl \\rashington forest lands, trees gro\\: as a crop. The orclinary comtnercial life cycie may be anyr,r'here frorn 60 to 100 years, depencling on use. Pulp trees may mature in 60 years, lumber trees may be harvested in 80 to 100 r'ears.

James tr. (Jimmie) Martindale has been named manager of the lJarr Lumber Co., at Whittier, succeeding Stewart Russell who is taking a leave of absence. Jimmie u,as formerly with the Hayward I-tunber ct Investtr-rent Co. During World War II he spent four Years in the U. S .Navy. pays out in salaries and

Each 1'ear the lumber inclustry n.ages about 2 billion dollars.

Xlore than 64,000 business producing lumber and lumber

Average annual pro<luction of Idaho White Pine lumber is 250 million boarci feet. Wood than any firms in the United States products. afe is adaptable to a greater variety of fine finishes other knorl'n building material.

Stanley C. Moore Appointed Vice r President Ot Dant & Russell Sales Co.

Thomas W. Dant, president of the Dant & Russell Sales Co.. Portland, Ore., has announced the appointment of Stanley C. Moore of Los Angeles as vice president of the company effective July 18.

Mr. Moore is manager of FirTex of Southern California, a member of the board of directors of the Fir-Tex Insulating Co. of St. llelens, Ore., and president of Coraltex. Inc.. manufacturers of the widely known Coralite, Coralether and Handityle with factory in Los Angeles. He is also Southwest sales manager for Si-ley C.

Moore

Fir-Tex and his sales activities extend through Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma.

He has been with Fir-Tex for nineteen years, and they sent him to Los Angeles in 1934 as Southern California manager. Their warehouse in Los Angeles has 50,000 square feet of floor space in a highly modern plant.

He is a member of Hoo-Hoo, Lumbermen's Post of the American Legion, and the Industrial Club of Los Angeles. His new appointment will please his many friends in the lumber industrv.

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Scn Diego Beqch Pcrty

The San Diego Hbo-Hoo Club held its second annual Beach Party at Solana Beach on Sunday, July 16, which was largely attended by the members, their families and guests. There were games, refreshments and Herschell Larrick Jr. was in charge of the barbecue fish dinner.

The committee in charge of the party included Syd Smith, John Stewart and Joe Smith.

Buys Yard

Roy L. Sandefur, vice president and general manager, and Charles F. Dill, treasurer, of the Dill Lumber Company, have negotiated plans for the purchase of the Cedar Lumber Company at Bloomington. Donald K. Oakes will manage the yard.

Dill Lumber Company operates yard.s in Arlington, Redlands, Banning, Palm Springs, Hemet and Elsinor.

Home Building Hits Record High

Washington, Jrly l5-More new homes-687,000-were started in the first half of 1950 than in any other six months of American history.

Also, June rolled up the highest monthly total of homebuilding "starts" ever recorded, 142,000

Those figures, which are preliminary estimates, were announced today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. They showed that home builders have kept right on breaking records as the 1950 construction boom continued.

Fred Seimeans, Laws and Yaeger Lumber Co., Santa Rosa, has returned from a two weeks' vacation. He spent one week visiting friends in the Los Angeles area, and the other fishing at Clearlake.

Narred Forest Supervisor

Weslie W. Spinney, forester at U. S. Forest Service regional headquarters in San Francisco, has been appointed supervisor of the Eldorado National Forest, with headquarters at Placerville. His Federal career began 17 years ago.

In World War II, as an air combat intelligence officer on Admiral Halsey's stafi, Spinney won the Commendation medal for work in New Georgia beach landings. Later,, in I-ondon on Navy liaison with the R.A.F., he was wounded by a V-l bomb. In 1945 he did technical intelligence work in Japan and then was discharged with the rank of lieutenant commander.

Two more years on the Sierra National Forest, in charge of resource management, earned him promotion in 1948 to forester in the timber management division of San Francisco headquarters. That work took Lim to many of the 18 national forests in California.

Terrible TwentyGoll Tournament

The Terrible Twenty held its 289th golf tournament at the Riviera Country Club, Santa Monica, on Tuesday, June 27, with an attendance of twentyeight members and two guests.

Jim Goodhew was the winner of the first prize with a net score of. 66. Hervey Bowles, Bob King and Harry Whittaker were tied for the second prize, each turning in a net score of 72, and. will play ofi the tie at the next tournament. Most Terrible Clarence Bohnhofi awarded last year's prizes to the winners of the various events. The next tournament is scheduled for the California Country Club.

Scwmill Destroyed by Fire

Fire destroyed thb sawmill and of partly finished lumber pf the I\4ills at Gresham, Ore., on July mills, the retail lumber yard, dry plant were saved.

some 40,000 feet Barger Lumber 2.'two planing kilns and resaw