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The Sinnock Lumber Company's shed and mill were destroyed by a $15,00O fire which swept through the property at Blythe, Calif., last month. Children playing with matches were believed to have caused the fire which was finally controlled by four units of the California Division of Forestry.

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United States Plywood Corp. of Culver City will build a $50.000 warehouse and branch office in Garden Grove at II24 E. iTth St. Completion will be October 1.

Grace Hammond Burnett, recently deceased daughter of the late lumberman, Andrew B. Hammond, left property worth $1,985,328 when she died Feb. 5, 1955, at the age of 68. The widow of Welbore S. Burnett, she left her property to her son, Andrew Hammond Burnett of Santa Barbara.

The Standard Lumber Co. of San Mateo was listed recently as having supplied the lumber in a model home which was written up in The San Francisco Chronicle.

A three-alarm fire in June destroyed $100,000 in building materials in a block-long storage building of the San Mateo Feed & Fuel Company.

Two Camp Pendleton marines were caught by police recently in the theft of lumber from the J. O. Chilton Lumber Co., San Clemente, Calif.

Burglars broke into the Gamerston & Green Lumber Co. yard in San Francisco recently and stole $15,000 worth of lumber and tools and three trucks to carry the loot. Mahogany plywood and redwood was the stolen wood. Police investigation showed the thieves used a company

Augusr 15, 1956 fork lift to load the tools. "The men were obviously professionals who knerv exactly what they lvanted," said police.

Another badly needed Southern California golf course will be available when the new California Country Club is opened in North Whittier in November.

Visalia, Calif.-J. A. McWherter, head of the 'fulare County Building Dept. since 1946, resigned last month to enter construction.

Cloverdale Redwood Co. has purchased 15,000 acres of timberland in Sonoma county from the Denny Logging Co. in a $6 million transaction. Included is a 3Z-acre mill site near Annapolis and $1 million in cut timber.

Damage of $6,000 was estimated in a fire which razed the Farmers Lumber Company's planing mill at Corcoran, Calif., last month, reported Manager Allan Smith. Loss was to the building, a lumber store inside, installation and SAWS.

A former member of the old "Our Gang" motion picture comedies, R. J. "Pinky" Smith, has been elected president of the Retail Paint & Wallpaper Dealers Assn. of Southern California. The ex-actor lives in Temple City. Other officers are Art Stanton, Fullerton, and Robert Nfiller, A1hambra, first and second vice-presidents; Leonard Wolfe, Culver City, treasurer, and Jack Gilbert, Los Angeles, secretafy.

More than 2@ representatives of the redwood lumber industry gathered at the Scotia (Calif.) Inn last month to honor The Pacific Lumber Co., winner of the C. R. Johnson Memorial Safety trophy for 1955.