ENFORhNhCE

Phone: CApitol 2-1934

Telelype:

PD-385

FIR. CTDAR o HIItOCK RIDWOOD SPRUCE. lDAllOr SUGAN AND PONDEROSA PINE

We Solicit Your hquiries lor Wolnranized and Creosoted lunber, Tirnbers, Poles anrl Pililg

21,956 dwelling units. In the state of California, the Los Angeles-Orange County area accounted for 49.9o/o of the valuation and 50.4o/o of the new dwellings.

The billion-dollar figure representing valuation in this area marks the first time the area has topped the nation, although fewer homes were built in the L.A.Orange County area in 1956 than in 1955 and 1954. In previous years, Los Angeles had led other areas in nurnbers of nerv homes built but lagged behind the N.Y.-N.J. area in the valuation figures.

The L.A.-Orange building boom last year outdis. tanced both of the larger Nerv York and Chicago population areas and, in fact, the area built more neu' homes in 1956 than the states of Texas and Pennsylvania cornbined. A further breakdown of the survey figures shou's Los Angeles leading the entire states of Nerv York, Illinois, Ohio and Michigan (each of rvhich had a billion dollar-plus figure) in the valuations of netv constructior-r.

Wintonts Swqnson in Reliremenl

After 46 years in the lumber business, most of it with Winton Lumber Company, George O. Srvanson, one of the organizers of Winton Lumber Sales Co. (Calif.) at Sacramento, is nor,v in retirement from the lumber business (cLM,6/r/57).

Swanson began his long and successful career in lumber u'ay back in Septemlter 1911, as a stenographer in the Minneapolis offices of Charles J. and David-N.'\\rinton, founders of Winton l-umber Company. The office force of the nour hug'e Winton organization then consisted of one other male stenographer and the salesmanager who directed Win- ton's N{innesota and f owa traveling salesmen. During Spring of 1916. Srvanson asked for and received a transfe"r to the first Winton sarvmill at Rose Lake, Idaho. In December 1917, he interrupted his lumber training to enlist in the U. S. Army and returned to Winton in Tune 1919. Srvanson u'as then assigned a territory in southern Minnesota ancl northeastern lotva as a traveling salesman.

In the Spring of 1920, the Wintons acqirired a sprrrce mill at The Pas, Nfanitoba, and Su'anson was assigned to that operation as its first salesmanager. After two years with the Pas mill, he decided to try another phase of the business, so he joined a Detroit u:holesaler and remained with that concern until June 1930. S.wanson then returned to Winton, first in its Nerv York office, and later as sales and mill coordinator. In 1949, he u'as transferred to Winton's mill at Martell, California, rvhere he remained until helping org.an\ze Winton Lumber Sales Co. in Sacramento durinf 1951.

Mr. Srvanson resides in Sacramento rvith his rvife Doris. They have three daughters and seven grandchildren and observed their 36th wedding anniversary last month. In addition to some rvell-earned rest and relaxation, his immediate plans call for some carefree travel and probably an occasional visit to his old haunts and neighboring milli.