Ralph Hull Lumber Co. Now Op"rating Former A. K. Wilson Plant at Compton

Announcement is made by the Ralph Hull Lumber Con.rpany, rvith oftices at the Southlvest corner of Del Amo an<l Alameda Boulevards, Compton, Calif., that they purchased from A. K. \,Vilson and his affiliated companies approximately three hundred million feet of redrvood timber, a sarvmill in Northern California, and the remanufacturing plant at Compton on April 14, 1951, and that they began operating the Compton plant under the name of Ralph Hnll Lumber Company, August 4, 1951, which had been operated by A. K. Wilson Lumber Company up to that date.

The personnel at Compton is substantially the same as that employed by the A. K. Wilson Lumber Con.rpany.

Ralph Hull is president of the company. King C. Light, who has been in charge of sales for some years, continues as sales manag'er. Fred Carter is oflice manag'er. Harry

Smith is superintendent of the mill and yard, He l'as formerly with Ralph Hull Lumber Company irr Morrroe, Oregon.

Ralph Hull Lumber Company has an inventorv of eight million feet of redrvood lumber, a large portion of rvhich is ready to ship. It is their intention to continue to ship tl.re same high quality merchandise that this yard has shipped in the past, and they will continue free delivery lvithin a 75-mile radius of the Compton plant.

Nfr. Hull recently opened an office in Chicago at 165 Wacker Drive.

The nerv telephone numbers at the Compton plant are NEvynrark 5-8141, and NEvada 6-2257.

The sarvmill is operated under the namc of l\fanila Mills. fhe acldress is Rte. l. Box 695. Arcata. Calif.