C(D. TWENTY-FII'E YEATTS AGO TODAY

The sawmill of the Oregon-American Lumber Corporation at Vernonia, Oregon, started operation July 20 after being shut down for five years. F. R. Olin is president of the corporation, and J. Walter Vaughn is sales manag'er.

The California Redwood Association for the week ended August I reported production from 13 mills as 9,666,000 feet; shipments, 9,310,000 feet; and orders, 8,341,000 feet.

E. F. Lankenau has joined the sales stalT of the San Pedro Lumber Company and is calling on the retail trade in the Los Angeles tetritory.

W. W. Wheatly has been appointed manager of the Harbor division of Graham Brothers, Inc., Long Beach distributors of building materials.

W. T. Spears has been appointed secretal'y of the Riverside Lumber Association. He was formerly secretary of the Building Service Bureau at El Centro.

J. H. "Jerry" Stutz, for many years with Coos Bay Lumber Company, and for the last eight years with Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Company in the San Joaquin Valley territory, is now with the Campbell-Moore Lumber Company of Portland, Oregon, as salesman in the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys.

Walter Hardwick, owner of the Dinuba Lumber Company, Dinuba, and Mrs. Hardwick have returned from a three months' trip in the East.

Lyman Taft, Hammond Lumber Company, Los Angeles, completed a trip to the pine mills in the Klamath Falls, Oregon district.

Frost Hardwood Lumber Company of Sarr Diego has completed its new yard addition, an outside lumber drying and storage yar<l which adds approximately 20,000 square feet to the plant. Owner Albert A. Frost plans the installation of an electric loading crane in the near future. Meryl P. Bennett is manager of the company.

C. I. Courtney, former manag.er of South Sound Lumber Sales, Seattle, his opened a whoiesale lum'ber business in Seattle, under: the name of Courtney Lurnber Con-rpany.

N. H. Huey has opened an office in Omaha, Nebraska for the Oregon Lumber Company of Baker, Oregon, and is district sales manager for fowa, Kansas, I\dinnesota, Missouri. Nebraska. Oklahoma and Texas.

T. B. Lawrence, Lawrence-Philips Lum- ber Company, Los Angeles, and Mrs. Lawrence have been on a combined business and pleasure trip to the Northwest.

Walter Koll, A. J. Koll Planing MiU, Ltd., Los Angeles, and Mrs. Koll have returned from a month's trip to the East.

Badewitz Joins Willomette Valley

Jack Badewitz has joined the Willamette Valley Lumtrer Company, Dallas, Oregon, as assistant sales manager, according to Ward E. Moore, ge4eral sales manager.

A native of Buffalo, New York, Badewitz, 30, has had six years experience in the buying and selling of lumber and wood products. Five of these were with the Babcock Lumber Company, Pittsburgh, Pa., a large Eastern wholesaler, and one was with U.S. Plywood Corp., at Buffalo, N. Y.

He was graduated from Syracuse University in 1953, with a major in forestry, and spent two years in the U.S. Army.

"We feel quite fortunate to have a man like Badewitz, with his background in the lumber industry, join our organization," said Moore. Badewitz will maintain residence in Dallas. His duties will primarily be devoted to lumber sales throuehout the nation.