Two Dealers Honored at Testimonial

TT WAS OUR recent pleasure to sit in on r a leslimon ial luncheon fur tu'o gentlemen whose cornbined efiorts torvard the general bcttcrmcnt of northern California's retail building materials industry spans better than 100 years.

Honored guests at the informal get-together sponsored by the Lumber Nlerchants Association in South San Francisco on June 15, were Ira Horton, president of South City Lumber & Supply Co., and George Adams, chairman of the board of Noah Adams Lum,ber Company. Both mcn were given plaques of appreciation from the membership of LMA for their long association careers, in both cases dating back to the late 20's or early 130's.

It is also not surprising that both men are lifelong friends, not only because they have been working side by side in industry association afiairs for more than 35 years, but also because they ,both got their start in the retail lumber industry in northcrn California within a year or two of each other some 50 y,ears ago.

George Adams is a native of Nlinneapolis and sot a little headstart on Ira when he first tried his luck in the timber business in British Columbia and Canada. He soon chose retailins as a career and in 1914 be- gan what is currently a 52 year association u'ith Noah Adams Lumber Company which today operates five yards in the Sacramento Delta region with headquarters in Walnut Grove.

Ira stayed a little closer to home. A native of Livermore, California, he worked part time for the old Horton & Kennedy yard in Livermore while attending school.

In 1916, he began his 50 year career with South City Lum,ber & Supply Co. in South

San Francisco. He has served as president of that concern since it was reorganized during early 1942.

Both men have been active in retail lumher associations ever since they existed in northern California. George Adams was instrumental in organizing the old Northern Counties Lumber Association back in the 20's and served as its president for a number of years. He also served several years as the first president of the Lumber Merchants Association after it was formed in 1938, and has served countless terms on the

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CURREiIT LMA prexy Ho mer Hayward (center) flanked by guests of honor lra Horton and George Adams following a testimonial luncheon. Both hold plaques of appre ciation, the first of such plaques being recently presented to the family of the late ioe Kirk. Past Dresident Elmer Rau and Frank Heard fill out front row. In back row, Bob Wright himself a past executive vice-president of LMA. Jerry and Homer Derr, LMA exec. veep Bob McBrien, Bud Barber, Frank Watson and Al Stockton.

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