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Breitenbucher-Pico

Miss Ann Pico was married to Chuck Breitenbucher irr the Chapel of the Flowers, Berkeley, June 30.

Miss Pico was in the Los Angeles office of Davidson Plywood & Lumber Co., and Mr. Breitenbucher, who is now on the order desk of the San Francisco warehouse, was formerly in the Los Angeles office.

Max Wyman, M. A. Wyman Lumber Co., Seattle, Wash. was a recent Los Angeles visitor.

Jim MacDonald, L. \,V. MacDonald Co., has returned from a ten day's trip in Northern California and Southern Oregon where he called on the mills.

Representing on a wholesale, direct mill shipment basis some of the older and better Fir and Pine manufacturers in Oregon and Northern California

Insect Screen Cloth

El""tro Galvanized

Alclad Aluminum

Virginia Hardwood Company Holdg Opcn House

The Virginia Hardwood Companv; 145 East Duarte Road, Monrovia, held open house on Friday and Saturday, July 2A and2I, when they presented their newly completed office and warehouse to their customers and friends for inspection. Many beautiful floral pieces presented by suppliers and friends were on display.

A large number of visitors called during the two days to extend their best wishes. 574 persons, actual count, registered at the office for the door prize, a $100 defense bond. The bond was won by Sam Wilson, Hardwood Floor Co., Los Angeles.

Refreshments rvere served with Caterer Norman Duncan in charge.

Among the visitors were Robert Topp, manager of the Superb Oak Flooring Co. who flerv in from Gurdon, Ark. Lieut. Neil Bigelow, former salesman, came dorvn from Camp Roberts. When Neil is discharged from the Service he will rejoin the company's sales staff.

The lvarehouse and office are of steel construction with the sidewalls and roof of aluminurn. The building has a con.crete floor, and is completely fireproof. The warehouse and office have fluorescent lighting. They have no parking problem, a large blacktop lot being available for that purpose.

The company handles hardwood oak flooring, both Southern and Appalachian, and other hardwood products. The warehouse, 80 by 100 feet, can store 1,500,000 feet of flooring. The plant is on the main line of the Santa Fe railroad, they have their own spur track on which four freight cars can be spotted at one time. 3,000,@0 feet of rough stock can be stored in the yard.

They have three delivery trucks and can give quick service. The truck drivers and warehouse personnel wear blue uniforms with the company name on the back of the jackgj. These uniforms are furnished and serviced by the company.

Dave V. Ferrari is president and manager. The sales :staff includes Bill Dixon, Clvde Hutcheson and |2sk Sumrall.

Bob Carlton has joined the sales staff of the Dennis Lumber Co., Los Angeles. Bob was formerly with the Roseburg Lumber Co.

June Housing Starts - -1301000

The nation's home builders started 87,7N new private dwelling units in June, a 7-per cent drop from the 93,800 private dwellings begun in May, according to preliminary estimates of the U. S. Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics. Horvever, the more than 42,0N public units, authorized by notice-to-proceed orders issued by the Public Housing Administration, brought the total number of units started in June to 130,000. This compares with 97,W units in the preceding month and 1,14,300 in June 1950; in both these periods practically all housing activity'was private.

The unusually high volume of public units for which proceed orders were issued this June was due to the rush by local housing authorities to get projects under way before the end of the fiscal year. June public housing activity follorved a long period of preparation-approval of plans, amassing of sites, completion of financial arrangements, and awarding contracts. The public projects were located all over the countrv, tvith an especially large number in the South.

The decline in private homebuilding in June u'as apparently general, occurring in all se,ctions of the country, in all sizes of cities, and in both metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas. A drop in June activity is a common occurrence. This year's decline of 7 per cent in private housing volume compares with the decreases of less than 5 per cent in 1948-1950, but of 6 and 10 per cent, respectively, in 1939 and 1940.

'Ihe continuing high level of private housing activity brought the total of new dwelling units placed under construction in the first 6 months of 1951 to more than half a million. This figure was about one-quarter under the comparable total for 1950, but was well above anv otl-rer year on record.

Astor Lumber Co. Chcnges Hands

Sale of Astor Lumber Co., San Diego, to a corporation headed by Sam Cohen, president and general manager, has been announced. The purchase was.made from Louis Feller who started the business five years ago.

Freeman D. Campbell will be superintendent of the yard. William Doonan will direct the mill and cabinet shop.

-trr-ong s"r)ircd c.'dotrl3 And Repeof BUS'NESS With WINDELER RED\TOOD TANKS

Yes, you will hove sotisfted cuslomers with Windeler Wotering ond Storoge Tonks, becquse we pul 66 yeors of conslruction experience inlo eqch tqnk. Remember, q sqtisfted cuslomer for one producl is good public relqlions for your other merchondise.

How Lumber Looks

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Compared to the average corresponding week of 19351939. production of reporting mills was 11.8 per cent below; shipments were 14.3 per cent velow; orders were 6.9 per cent above. Compared to the corresponding week in 1950, production of reporting mills was 24.1 per cent below; shipments were 36.3 per cent below; and new orders were 19.0 per cent below.

The Western Pine Association for the week ended June 30, 90 mills reporting, gave orders as 62,582,0ffi feet, shipments 623m,000 feet, and production 68,349,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 192,843,000 feet.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended July 14,92 units (112 mills) reporting, gave orders as 16,513,000 feet, shipments 16,912,000 feet, and production 18,121,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 41,380.000 feet.

Thc West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended July 7,181 mills reporting, gave orders as 49,913,000 feet, shipments 39,572,000 feet, and production 31,833,000 feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the rveek totaled 595.O95,000 feet.

These samB mills for the week ended July 14 reportecl orders as 89,907,000 feet, shipments 78,362,W feet, anrl production 72,225,U& f.eet. Unfilled orders at the end of the week totaled 605,716.000 feet.

Ycrd Under New Ownership

F. E. and C. \\r. Lewis have purchased the Vaughn Lumber Co. at Gilbert, Ariz. Both have had years of experience in the lumber business at Coolidge, Ariz., where C. W. Lewis was a partner in the McFarland-Lewis Lumber Co. The yard will be operated as the Lewis Lumber Co. with F. E. Lewis as general manager. The present staff, H. O. Johnson, John Dupree and Mrs. Ira Nichols will continue with the new o\\,.ners

Mr. and Mrs. I\{. S. Vaughn, r,r'ho have been in business in Gilbert for the past 24 yeafs, do not have any definite plans for the future but plan to make a vacation trip during the summer.

Elected Director

Paul Wayman, vice president in charge of Operations, has been elected a director of American Lumber & Treating Co. to succeed J. Gardner Coolidge, vice president, who requested to be relieved of his duties as director of the wood preserving firm. Coolidge continues as vice president and American Lumber's Eastern district manager with headquarters in New York.

Wayman was superintendent of the company's wood treating plants in Arkansas when AL&T was incorporated in 1934. Following that assignment, he was in charge of West Coast operations at Weed, Calif. and Wilmington, Calif. Upon his transfer to Chicago in 1938, he was appointed general superintendent and was elected vice president in 1945.

Coolidge joined American Lumber in 1936, became Eastern district manager in 1939, and has been a vice president since 1945. Unable to give the required time and attention to general company affairs because of his. obligation as Eastern manag'er, Coolidge requested the company to accept his resignation from the directorship.

American Lumber & Treating Co. operates plants at Everett, Wash., Wauna, Ore., Wilmington, Calif., Shreveport, La., Crossett and Fordyce, Ark., Gainesville, Fla., Florence, S. C., Baltimore, Md., and Newark, N.J.

Joins Timber Engineering Staff

Washington, D. C.-Gerald F. Prange, a wood technologist and forester of Lancaster, Pa., has joined the laboratory staff of the Timber Ehgineering Company, it was announced by Carl A. Rishell, Director of Research.

For a period of 3 years he served in the Army in England, France and Germany.

His prior research work has included fibreboard research at Johns-Manville Research Center and special studies in lamination of rifle stock blanks, shoe lasts, and work on veneers and plywoods.

Prange's new duties in the Teco lab will include moulding of women's shoe heels from wood waste, glue evaluations, gluing treated wood, bending of glue treated wood, laminated keel blocks for the Navy and other studies for the defense agencies.