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Weyerhqeuser Sqles Compony Appoints Gilberr Ad Mqnqger

Weyerhaeuser Sales Company, national lumber marketing firm with headquarters in St. Paul, announces the ap- pointment of Ernie J. Gilbert to be advertising manager, the position left vacant by the death on June 29 of Earl M. Rooney, advertising manager since 1936, under whose guidance the firm's advertising was expanded to include strong, full-color campaigns in leading consumer mag- azines and complete coverage in all trade factor publicatlons.

Mr. Gilbert's promotion is announced by Carroll K. O'Rourke, St. Pa;I, manager of the advertising and trade promotion department responsible for creating industry and consumer acceptance of the firm's brand name products. Ernie Gilbert has been the firm's assistant advertising man-

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ager for the past five years, as well as having been directly in charge of special projects including the promotion of hardboard and particle board and industrial wood parts.

Twin Horbors Joins LACC

An August new member of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce was the Twin Harbors Lumber Co., 714 W. Olympic Blvd. Officers listed for the firm were Henry N. Anderson, president; D. C. Anderson, vice-president, and, for the local office of the wholesale firm, C. P. Henry, general manager. The membership was reported by L. A. C. of C. Vice-President Wayne F. Mullin, the well-known Southland lumber dealer and chairman of the Chamber's IlIembership Relations committee.

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Cloy Brown & Compqny Names Burke Northwest lumber Buyer Counfy Construction Sets New Six-Monrhs High, Chomber Repoils

& Company, according to Clay Brown, president. He will purchase lumber for the California sales offices and Portland headquarters.

Mr. Burke entered the lumber business in 1951 as a buyer for the remanufacturing department of West Oregon Lumber Company, advancing to sales manager. In 1954 he ioined A. C. Dutton's wholeiale division, working with them for Far West, and also selling in the east and midwest states. He attended Multnomah college in Portland, is married and the father of two sons,

Molkovich New Plywoll Sqles MoncAer

L. M. Flahive, chief executive of Plywall Products Co., Inc., Corona, California, announces the appointment of Joe Malkovich, as general sales manager to succeed Dick Davis, who has been elevated to assistant administrative executive of the Corona plant. Malkovich was sales manager for Alley Lumber Co., Downey, for the past several years and earlier identified in both production and sales in the Pacific Northwest. He has developed a following at the retail lumber level and among industrial users of wood products.

"These changes have been necessitated by the healthy growth of Plywall sales throughout the west, and we be- lieve will bring about improvement in our over-all organization," said Mr. Flahive.

Total valuation of all building in Los Angeles County set an all-time high of $743,944,000 for the first six months of 1959, according to the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. President J. E. Fishburn, Jr., states that the Chamber's June construction report shows the January-June 1959 total was 5/o above the previous high of $706,758,500 for a similar period of 1957.

In comparing six-months figures over last year, Fishburn pointed out that '59 is 14.6/o ahead. In 1958, the January-June total valuation was ffi9,299,800. For the month of June, the current figure of. $I27,115,800 total building valuation is 16/o higher than the $109,575,700 recorded in June '58. Residedtial for June is,up 189/o over a year ago, from the 1958 figure of $52,286,500 to $62,148,400 for Los Angeles county.

Six-months comparison for residential valuation shows a 9/o increase in 1959 to a total of 9334,737,500. The 1958'January-June figure was g306,974,fu0.' New dwelling units were up 10.3% for the sixmonths period to 35,190 from the '58 total of 31,911. Single unit residential construction showed an increase of.22.8/o from 13,111 units for the first six months of 1958 to the '59 total of 16,105.

The number of multiple units is up 1.5/o to 19,085 this year from 18,800 for the first six months of 1958.

The Plywall products in Southern California are handled through Southern California Building Materials Co.

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