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fhe Angels Compony Opens New Store in Duoile

_ Tlt" Angels'Company opened a new unit in Duarte, Calif.,_with a grand opening sale Friday, Saturday and SunSy, J,ttt. Z7-Zg. ilie neri store at 223I E. Huntington Drive covers a shopping area of more than 60,000 .qi tt. and carries a complete line of lumber, hardware, building

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materials, household goods, electrical and plumbing supplies. Owners Sidnev and Milton Kline offered Ooen House discounts of. up to 70/o.

Stanley Kaufman, former manager of the Angels store in El Monte, will be in charge of the Duarte branch, assisted by Mrs. M. L. "Tiny" Schnur as secretary and office manager.

$1000 in merchandise prizes were awarded during the 3day opening sale. The branch opening was also celebrated by the El Monte store, which closed the day before the other's opening to prepare for the event. TV's Bill "Engineer Bill" Stulla was on hand Friday morning to entertain the children and Don Weston, well-known local M.C., supervised the entertainment program and made the prize awards. Program included a pony carousel and flying bomber ride. A photographer manned a picture booth to take free portraits of every child. Snow cones, candy treats, balloons and other refreshments were free to everyone. Participating in the lumber store's open house wai the Sunrize Market, located next door.

J. \if. Hendrick Co. Moves Office qnd Exponds Force

J. W. Hendrick Company, headed by popular Bay Area Lumberman Jim Hendrick, moved into larger quarters at 4000 Broadway, near MacArthur Blvd. in Oakland, on July 1. At the same time, Hendrick announced the association of Warren Allison, former Cincinnati lumberman, with the firm.

Allison, a native of Alabama, began his lumber career in 1936 with Allison Lumber Company, a Bellamy, Alabama, 91rymi1l operated by his great-uncle, E. F. Allison. During WWII he served a three-year hitch with the Armv and foi tl-rree years after his discharge was in Bogota, Colombia, with the Texas Petroleum Co. In 1950, Allison re-entered the lumber field as assistant manager of Kirkpatrick Lumber Co., a Cincinnati wholesale lumber concern.

Chqmbers Appoints Distributors

Chambers Built-Ins, Inc., has appointed new distributors in this area to handle a complete nerv line of matched and packaged built-in kitchen appliances. New Chambers distributors are Allen Company, Pasadena, California; Howard Palmer Builders Hardware and Specialties, San Diego 10, California, and Mountain States Distributors, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Western Hordwoods fo Toke Reduced Rcrtes on Trqns-Continentol Freighr

Reduced trans-continental rail rates on shipments of Pacific Coast hardwoods were announced July 7 by Emmet J. Nist, president of the Northwest Hardwood Association, Seattle. This ileans, he pointed out, that western mills and wholesale shippers will be able to move native hardwood lumber across the United States at existing softwood rates.

The new tariff will go into effect September 1 and will apply to birch, maple and oak. Western alder and cottonwood have already been granted the lower rates.

Nisi stated lhat this action, granted by the trans-continental lines and connecting railroads, will place Pacific Coast hardl,r'oods in a more favorable competitive basis with the hardwoods of the middle west, south and Atlantic states. Previous difficulties in entering these markets because of the high freight rates have impeded progress in developing the enortnous hardwood

Reorgonizotion Plons Told For Dollor Air Lines

Washington, D.C.-Reorganization plans for South Pacific Air Lines, San Francisco, were summarized July 3 for the Civil Aeronautics Board. The line has a certificate to operate betrveen San Francisco and Tahiti resources of Washington, Oregon, California, British Columbia and Alaska, estimated to be in excess of 2S-billion board feet. The granting of the lower rates was in response to an application filed by the association's traffic committee, headed by Harry D. Smith, western division traffic manager of Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, Tacoma, Washington, and a public hearing before the Trans-Continental Freight Bureau in Chicago last December.

Fowler Given New Yole Areq

C. H. "Chuck" Fowler has been appointed permanent sales representative for the Marin to Humboldt counties area by thb Branch sales and service office of the Materials Handling division of The Yale & Towne Manu{acturing Company. He formerl tormerly was ln tne \Ja Yale office located at the in Oakland area and will work out of the the company's San Leandro plant, where the Yale G3P series is manufactured.

bv wav of Honolulu but has never been authorized to start service. R. Stanley Dollar, The Robert Dollar Co., and Dollar Associates, Inc., expect to consolidate into one new company, Dollar Lines, Ltd. Total value of properties to be transferred into the new firm by the three old firms is about $2,703,000.

In return for the consolidated properties, R. Stanley Dollar would get 16.99/o of the shares of the new firm, The Robert Dollar' Co., 4.45/o, and Dollar Associates 78.56%. Each share is estimated at $1,113.

The Robert Dollar Co. would continue to manufacture communications equipment, would retain the four office buildings it owns in San Francisco, would continue operation of its lumber business, and would .retain 42.6% stock ownership in Globe Wireless. The summary said R. Stanley Dollar would control The Robert Dollar Co., which would control South Pacific and the 1880 Corp. until the latter is ultimately dissolved.

Hordwore Group Elecrs

Richard P. Bowman succeeds Robert J. Kelly as 1958 president of the Builders Hardware Club of Southern California in election held recently at Rodger Young auditorium. Other new officers are Oiville Trott, vice-president; Carl Jones, secretary; William E. Budrow, treasurer, and Ira C. Matthiesen, Jr., sgt.-at-arms.

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