Union Lumber Co. Sqles Conference Reviews Yeclr, ond Chonges

The annual sales-production conference of Union Lumber Company was held in Fort Bragg, Calif., July 17-18. General Sales Manager Sherman A. Bishop presided at the three-day session, which examined the sales-production performance of the past year and previewed the year ahead in terms of major changes made recently in sawmill capability.

Attending were (left to right, top row, above): John Jones, New York; John Gray, Fred Dias, Fort Bragg; (second row) O. R. Johnson, San Francisco; A. H. Jackson, Los Angeles; (third row) Bud Olsen, San Jose; A. I. Flerm?,n, A.W. Green, San Francisco; Bill Armstrong, Modesto; (fourth-row) Caspar llexberg, San Francisco; C. R. Johnson, Wm. V. Sicklen, Robert Grundman, Fort Bragg; J. E. Watt, Chicago; (front row) Bob Corcoran, Chicago; Judd Brown, San Anselmo; John Gordon, Los Angeles; Bovard Shibley, Ross; Bill Niesen, Fort Bragg, and Sherman Bishop, San Francisco.

In the top photo at the right, President Otis R. Johnson opens the Union Lumber Company conference at the Fort Bragg mill with a discussion of the "h€ritage" of the company; he spoke of the early logging days in Mendocino county when his father, the late C. R. Johnson, participated in pioneering the lumber industry in the Redwood region. In the center scene, Executive Vice-President C. Russell Joh,nson, general manager of Union Lumber, tells the assembled company sales force of some of the possibilities and plans for future developmgnt into marketable products of the sustained forest crop; he stressed that complete utilization of all of Union's resourc€s was the ultimate goal of the company. The lower photo shows General Sales Manager in Glendora, Calif., in 1955 soared to $9,061,155-an increase of $1,677,060

Buiiding permits an all-time high of over 1954.

Iiale

Sontq Monicq Deqler Frcrnk Krqnz Returns From Europeon Tour

Frank G. Kranz, president of the Golden State Lumber Company, Santa Monica, has just returned from 11 lr'eeks in Europe, where he investigated and studied new construction and conditions in the building industry in London, Paris, Rome, Madrid, Geneva, Frankfurt, Vienna and Copenhagen.

While in Vienna, Dealer Kranz called on Werner P. Wittmer, an architect who is handling the supervision and construction of a new residence for William Powell Lear designed by Cliff May. Designer and Builder May is duplicating his own outstanding modern home, which he recently completed in Sullivan Canyon, for Mr. Lear in Geneva.

The Golden State Lumber Company handles the materials for Mr. May's modular homes throughout the state of California and will ship whatever materrials are unavailable in Switzerland for this new residence.

Frank Kranz states that all of the countries which he visited were having a great surge of building, thein economy was expanding and the people seemed to be very happy and shorved great friendliness toward the American people. This season, the American tourist travel has been the greatest Europe has ever had, the retail lumberman added. The food was excellent, the service was good and the people are most cooperative, from taxi drivers to bankers. It was Dealer Kranz's experience that they all seemed to know that the U. pean countries with

S. A. has been helping the free Eurofood, materials and money.

Stqrf New Mexico Business

Las Vegas, N. M.-Two Oregon lumbermen, Harold E. Wade and Harold V. Stone, purchased the Don Marrujo sawmill on Highway 85 in June and plan to expand the business. The wholesale lumber firm will be called the Rocky Mountain Forest Products, Inc. Rough lumber is being bought from small mills in this area and will be planed and dried at the millsite here for shipping by rail. Wade and Stone come from Tillamook and said they chose this locality because of ideal climatic conditions for drying lumber and abundance of raw materials.