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The Pasadena Star-News said August 2 that plans for operation of the Hammond Lumber Co. retail yards were to be discussed at a meeting of officers and managers of the qomplan)l with_ the new- owners, Johnson Cashway of 9ryqh", in the Los Angeles Athletic Club, at noon, Aigust 3. Minnis Patterson, manager of the Pasadena yard,-has been with Hammond since 1939 and in charse of ihat vard since 1941. Hammond closed the East PaJadena var-d at 2621 E. Walnut last December.

The Long Beach Independent said officials of the Hammond Lumber Co. yards in Los Angeles were not aware of the announcement of the sale, which was released to the Associated Press from the Johnson Cashway home offices 11 Oaaha, Neb., following conclusion of negotiations with Georgiia-Pacific Corp. executives in Portlaid. The Hammond yard in Long Beadh at 1532 W. Anaheim St. was sold last October 22 to the Sun Lumber Co.

The Riverside Enterprise reported the sale of. the Hammond yard. there, Riverside's oldest retail yard, ,as part of t_fe $2 million sale. At the time the paper ieported ihe Ap dispatch, C. A. Pontius, manager of the Hammond vard. in Riverside, said he could not definitelv confirm the sile but indicated the information was correcf. The Hammond vard thbre was established in 1905 in an era when A. E. Fiam-