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Arr4strong Assigns Two Field Representstives fo West Goost

Two new field representatives of the Building Products division of Armstrong Cork Company have been recently assigned to the west coast. William A. Mixon and Ralph P. Grauer have just finished a six-months training course at Armstrong's home office in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and are now calling on the lumber dealer trade in California.

Bill Mixon will handle the Northern California territory formerly covered by William H. Utberg, who was recently transferred to Armstrong's Indianapolis office. Grauer will supplement Armstrong's Southern California sales organization at,Los Angeles and will cover Riverside, San Bernardino. San Diego and Imperial counties.

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Brcrnches Bud on tUfiddleton Lumber Fclmily Tree

Chico, California, long famous as the home of Diamond Match Company, has in recent years fathered the rather phenomenal growth of another budding lumber operation. This operation-a husband, wife and two-daughter combination-has in eight years become one df Northern California's largest and fastest-growing moulding mill-remanufacturing plant-concentration yard layouts, This firm is Chico Moulding Company,' owned and operated by the Middleton family, in a sure-fire combination that even the biggest of corporations would envy.

D. R. "Dan" Middleton and his wife Vada went to Chico during the early part of 1948 from Lakeview, Oregon, after selecting the clean little college town as a logical site for the establishment of a moulding mill, long the dream of Dan Middleton.

During the fall of 1948, Middleton leased several acres of property at the Chico Municipal Airport (formerly used by the Army Air Corps during WWII), installed one moulding machine and began building storage sheds and converting several army buildings over to something suitable for housing the moulding mill. In February 1949, Chico Moulding Company shipped its first car of ponderosa pine mouldings, bound for an account in the east.

During those early years, Chico Moulding's capacity was three or four cars at best per month, a long way from the more modern moulding machines.

The success of Middleton's moulding operation quite naturally led to a diversification and expansion of the business. In short order, Middleton enlarged his dry kiln capacity to 70,000 ft. per charge, constructed a planing mill (Hooker Oak Milling & Lumber Company) which has a 90MBM per shift capacity and is capable of handling custom milling as well as Middleton's own milling, established a direct mill sales organization (D. R. Middleton Lumber Sales), built up a fleet of 12 Diesel highway rigs and, of course, leased additional airport property to accommodate the expansion.

At the prese,nt time, Chico Moulding Company and its two subsidiary companies, occupy 15 acres at the Chico Airport. The monthly payroll averages 125 employes, and the normal inventory of mouldings and other species of West Coast softwoods runs right around 7,000,000 feet.

Dan Middleton heads up the entire organization as presi- dent, and his wife Vada has proven most adept in the position of secretary-treasurer and omce manager. The latter position, she says, also gives her the privilege of "riding herd" on their two daughters, Pauline and Christine, who also work in the Chico Moulding offices as bookkeepers.

Working with the Middletons, and "part of our family," according to Dan Middleton, is L. G. "Len" Richert, vicepresident of the three corporations. Richert, who joined the Middletons shortly after they started Chico Moulding, is salesmanager of the moulding mill output. In addition, he also assists Dan with the purchases of lumber, which total approximately 45,000,0@ feet per year.

Equally important is Roy Bissell, who has been with the company since the first weeks of its existence. Roy is moulding mill foreman and also acts as warehouseman.

A recent addition to the Middleton "family." and one of

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G. l. "Jeft" lU[Y (rop lefi) hecdr the direct mill soles opororion. lhe two young lodies lop conter ore the Middleton dcughters: Pouline (lefi), now lflr:. Whirc, ond Chrirtine, Solesmonogor "[en" Richert, rop right, olso qssistc in purchoring, Dick Vicrro (lefr cenler) superintcnds lhe big l5ocre Chico Moulding ycrd, while Srerling l/lentink (right center) i: superinfendent of the moulding mill. Abe Schomus (lowcr lefi) monoges the Hooker Ook division. Tom Hulrey (lower cenler) reins rhe Chico Moulding f,eet of I2 Diesel:, servicet ond mointcins rhe rolling stock. Borbqrc Young (lower right) ftlls in on the relefype.

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