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Jack Edgecumbe Named Sales Manager

Appointment of Jack Edgecumbe, formerly of St. Paul Minn., as sales manager for the Portland Shingle Company, of Portland, Ore., was announced in the September 1 CLM. Edgecombe, who has been sales manager of the stained shingle department of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company at St. Paul since June, 1947, is well known in lumber circles of the Pacific Northwest. He has tvorked for the concern in various capacities and places since 1933. After seven years o.f selling shingles in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin, Edgecumbe was transferred in 1943 to Longvierv, Washington, since rvhich time he worked in several depaatments of the Weyerhaeuser fir mill, also in the pine operation of the company at Lewiston, Idaho. Later he rvas transferred to the Weyerhaeuser office at Tacoma, Washington, to take charge of the cargo sales department. In June, 1917, he .was sent back to St. Paul.

E,dgecumbe is married and has three children-two boys and a girl.

Membership List Of New Redwood Shingle Association

Formation of the Redwood Shingle Association was re1>orted in the CLM of August first. Here is a list of the present membership of the organization, which has headcluarters at Fortuna, California:

Hutrboldt Shingle Co., Fields Landing, Calif.

Arcata Shingle Co., Arcata, California

Klamath Shingle Co., Klamath, California

Swortzel and Swan. Garberville. California

Por,vers Shingle Co., Garberville, California

W. & M. Shingle Co., Garberville, California

Fred L. Squire Co., Weott, California

A. C. Gibson Co., Bgonville, California

E. J. Petersen & Sons, Ukiah, California

Eel River Shingle Co., Phillipsville, California

David Hudson Co., Garberville, California

R. F. Crummey, Beatrice, California

Flillsdale Shingle Co., Garberville, California

Tehan & Reese, Fortuna, California

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Revised Western Pine Grading Rules

Portland, Ore.-Publication of a l?-page supplement to its Standard Grading Rules is announced by the Western Pine Association.

E,ffective Sept. 1, 1948, the supplement establishes ner.r' rules for Select and Common grades of larch and Douglas fir, revises rules for all No. 3 dimension, adds a grade of No. 4 dimension and changes standard manufactured sizes of larch and Douglas fir to conform to all other species produced in the Western Pine region.

It supplements the latest edition of the Association's grading rules, dated April 15, 1947.

Select grades of larch and Douglas fir, formerly classified into C and Better Select and D Select, are three in number-B and Better. C and D-under the new rules.

Mcy Build New Cement Plcnt

Possible expansion of Permanente Cement Company's facilities to meet the growing needs of the West was indicated when the company disclosed recently that it has exercised an option to purchase 498 acres of land near lfelena, Montana, as the possible site of a cement plant.

Permanente already owns and operates producing plants at Permanente, California, and Seattle, Washington, and has distribution facilities at lfonolulu and Redwood Citv. California.

Fi.ve grades of pommon are provided in the supplement. Previously, commons of the two species were graded under the rules for Ponderosa pine except that No. 1 and No. 2 were combined into a single grade and provisions were made for a grade of No. 3 and Better.

Examples of typical. pieces are listed under each grade.

The change in standard manufactured sizes also lessens by %" in overall width all 7' flooring run from dimension stock either D&M or SZS&CM.

The new supplement contains all changes made at the Association's annual and semi-annual meetings in February and August.

Copies may be secured rvithout cl,arge by writing the Western Pine Association, Yeon Building, Portland 4, Ore.

Celebrcte 25th Anniverscry

Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Loughran celebrated their Silver Wedding Anniversary on Monday, August 24. Following a church ceremony they received congratulations from a large number of friends at their home in Alameda, where their six children, three girls and three boys, assisted in receiving the guests.

Mr. Loughran is sales manager of Eastshore Mill & Lumber Co., Oakland.