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Arizoncl Newspoper Honors

Foxworth-Golbroirh Yqrd

The Foxworth-Galbraith Lumber Company's yard in Mesa, Arizona, managed by Dovle Sewell, was recently honored in The Mesa Tribune, the local newspaper, rvith the designation of "Business of the Week." In a fourcolumn story with tr,vo large photos, the newspaper paid tribute to the line yard as one of the town's outstanding businesses.

"Prospective builders can rely on Foxworth-Galbraith Lumber Co., 158 S. Macdonald St., in Mesa to serve ther.n faithfully and honestly for any building service that is required," the newspaper told its readers.

The Mesa yard is one of serieral in Arizona operated by Foxworth-Galbraith. It has been in the town 20 years. The other F-G retail yartls are in Phoenix, Tucson, Prescott, Buckeye, Casa Grande, Chandler, Coolidge, Eloy, Flagstaff, Florence, Gilbert, Superior, Wickenburg, Winkelman, Benson, Nogales and Tombstone, Ariz.

The Foxworth-Galbraith Lumber Company started in Texas as far back as 1901, with the first Atizona yard opening in 1920. The company has 72 line yards operating in Arizona, Texas and New Mexico. It also runs a yard in Needles, Calif.

Eight persons are employed at the Mesa yard. Manager Sewell took over the top job three years ago and has recently seen the operation change from one of mainly sales to the building trade, to an important do-it-yourself business with the general pultlic's "shoulder trade'" Sewell says nowadays he sells the handymen and women everything from materials for a birdhouse to a complete house.

BH&G Handy Plans Are PoPular

Of the many items carried for the do-it-yourselfer, Sewell reports, the plan suggestions ofiered by Better Homes & Gardens are very popular.

Servell was born in Coleman, Texas, and entered the garage business. He u'ent to Arizona in 1935 and was with the irrigation service at Coolidge six years be{ore starting in the retail lumber business there in 1941. The following year he was made manager of the Florence branch of Foxrvorth-Galbraith and served in that capacity three years u,hen he was transferred to the Casa Grande yard, where he rvas manager until he went to N{esa in 1952.

Davis Williams became assistant manager of the Mesa yard this May, coming from the Wickenburg yard. He is also Texas-bc-rrn. For the past 10 years, Mrs. Marie Martens has been keeping the books for F-G's Mesa yard. Earlier, she was a bookkeeper for 13 years with a Minneapolis lumber company. Jack Ray is manager of the paint department and, for the past four years, Floyd Weldon has been employed as a salesman. In the trucking department, the yard has Walter Bror.vn, Nlonroe Wood and Clair Mendenhall.

I3esides lumber and a complete line of building materials, the Mesa store handles Fuller paints, Johns-Manville roofing and Stanley tools and hardrvare. It is currently featuring Alsynite and the new Shan-Tong lvood wall material. For cabinet rvork, the Foxu'orth-Galbraith yard pushes Malarkey plyrvood.

In his store promotion, Manager Ser,vell invites his local