Riverside Salutes and Compliments J. \(/esl"v Shrimp

When the citizenry of the free city of Riverside, California turns out to do a job, they do a thorough one.

Tl.re news got around recently that one J. Wesley Shrimp was about to celebrate his forty-first year with the Cresmer Manufacturing Company, of that city. Now be it knolr.n that the Cresmer outfit is one of the oldest and most highly respected business concerns in that part of the state; ancl furthermore that this man Shrimp is one of Riverside's most popular citizens and personalities.

So, said someone, let's help this fellow Shrimp make thc day a real celebration by joining in the verse as rvell as the chorus of the birthday singing. And it was done. Announcements lvere sent out naming the time as 2 to 4 o'clock on the afternoon of August 10, and the place the offices of the Cresmer Manufacturing Company. As the old song goes "They rallied from the hillsides ancl gathered from the plains," of the Riverside territory, a1.rd soon there was a goodly throng that packed the place of festivity to the fullest. The Mayor of the City, the other city officials, citizens generally who are high on N{r. Shrimp, as 'lvell as followers of the lumber and millwork craft in the neighborhood, came to slip the honored guy the harrrl of good fellowship.

Many of them brought gifts. They ate, they drank, they made informal speeches, and altogether they proceeded to tell J. Wesley Shrimp that Riverside and those w'ho live there and thereabouts love him and are proud they know hirn, and hope he lives there for another forty-one years' :rt least. Charlie Adams, a lumber dealer from San Berdoo, came lugging the biggest paper sack you ever saw, four feet high and of huge capacity. When he opened it there u,as found in the bottom two very small sacks, one holding 41 metal rvashers and the other 41 silver dollars, with a tag announcing: "To J. Wesley Shrimp, All He Is Valued At For 41 Years."

A grand time 'lvas had by all, especially by the honoree of the occasion 'lvho had been called so many other kinds of names during his business career that the endearments lreaped upon him on this festive occasion seemed hardly real.

The Cresrner l\fanufacturing Company is a sash and door nranufacturing concern which was organized in IX)4 at Riyerside by J. H. Cresmer. On August 10, 1910, young \\resley Shrimp, who had been rn'orking for a time with the A. \\r. Miller Planing Mill at Riverside, was hired bv Mr. Cresmer to work in the plant. Soon he rvas transferred to the offrce, and in l9I7 he was made secretarytreasurer, and manager of the company, which job he has l.reld ever since and still holds. He put a sign up in his office when he started, that read: "Anyone Who Enjoys \\rork Can Certainly Have a Hell of a Good Time in This Institution." The sign is still there, and the philosophy still prevails.

Besides himself there are two other partners in the business actively employed in its operations, Homer Wilson, assistant manager, and Bob Saucke. Wilson has been there since 1917, and Saucke since 1924. Lots of old timers among the Cresmer employees. Glenn Finney, mill superintendent, has been there since 1924, and there are many others lvho have worked for Cresmer and under this fellow Shrimp for from 15 to 25 years.

Mr. Shrimp makes his home in Riverside, and has a beach home at Newport Beach. He and his wife have one daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Tipton, and two granddaughters. He has held many offices of civic importance through the years, and is at present a member of the Riverside Police and Fire Commission. He is a past Exalted Ruler of the Riverside Elks. He is proclaimed one of Riverside's top citizens.

In addition to the host of friends and their personal hand shakes at the celebration, Mr. Shrimp received a rvorld of telegrams, letters, as well as innumerable floral gifts.

Let it be said that a proud man rvas this Weslev Shrirnr:r of Riverside. U.S.A.

Represents Atkinson-Stutz

In

Southern Californiir

Harold H. Baker, formerly with Hill & Morton Lumber Co. and F. P. Baugh, Los Angeles, is now representing Atkinson-Stutz Company in the Southern California territory. The company's office is at 4230 Bandini Boulevard, Los Angeles 23. Telephone number is unchanged.

Mr. Baker has had experience in buying fir, pine and redrvood lumber.

Ready Hung Door -- A Complete Door and Frame Packaged Unit

The Ready Hung Door Manufacturing Co. of Southern California, Burbankl Calif., has been granted manufacturing and distribution rights for the Ready Hung Door in Southern California. Homer O. Warde is president of the neu' company.

The Ready Hung Door is manufactured under a patent license agreement with the Ready Hung Door Corporatio'of Fort Worth, Texas. Licenses have been granted to firms in Fort Worth, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio. El Pa.so and Mempl,is and the door is having a wide acceptance in that territory.

Ready Hung Doors are a door and frame packaged unit complete with door hung, locked and the frame trimmecl on both sides of a split jamb, ready to separate and slip the halves together in an1' rough opening Because of the patented crating used, the doors can be handled, stockecl and delivered in a tight undamaged condition.

Ready Hung Doors are fully adjustable for wall thicknesses from 4" to Sfu" I fasteners on mitre joints in the trim keep mitres tight; made left and right in all sizes for inside doors; look identical to conventional door frames when installed; do not require special framing of the rough opening; furnished in any door style, any combination of trims and door styles can be had by special order.

Materials and specifications of the Ready Hung Doors are: Frame parts, that is, jambs, trim and stop are of kilndried lumber; doors conform to the Commercial Standard for the style used, units are furnished with I3/s" inside doors only ; door locks are tul>ular type of good quality; butts and hinges are 3f x3l, tull mortise type; door units are completely assembled u'ith all hardr,r'are installed except <loor'knobs; door clearances are t/8" on lock side and top, l/16" on hinge siide and f" at bottom;each unit is inclividually crated; instructions for installation are included rvith each unit. The doors are manufactured in Ponderoslt Pine and Douglas Fir.

Mr. \Varde has been connected .ivith the milhvork industry in Los Angeles since 19?0. He ri'as with the Southenr California Hardrvood and N{anufacturing Co. for 10 vears and 5 years with Patten-Blinn Lumber Co. He then organized Craftbilt Cabinet Co. of which he is president.

Speaking of the Read1. Hung Door, Mr. Warde says: "It is the intention to make a unit of high qualitv materral andl'r'orkmanship plus the speed factor in installation which will allor,v one carpenter to install all the doors in a S-room bungalow in less than half a day, including all jambs, casings, locks and hinges." Sales for the door, he said, will be handled through the normal channels of retail door ar.rd lumber dealers.

The California Door Company of Los Angeles, John \Ar. Koehl & Son, I-ob Angeles, and Cresmer Manufacturing Co., Iliverside, have been appointed distributors of thc Iteady llung Door.