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R THAT WARP
For the past year Ben Cardinal, salesman for the United States Plywood Corp., San Francisco, in the Redwood Empire area of Northern California, has been flying a private plane in his job of calling on his customers, and it has worked out very well in results. He rents the plane, a Cessna 140 or 170, both of which cruise at 120 miles per hour, and flies out of Oakland Airport. His trips are, of course, tied in with the weather. He has a commercial pilot's license, and is a familiar figure at the airports of Ukiah, Willits, Fort Bragg, Eureka, Rhoneville, and Crescent City.
During World War II Ben was a Captain in a Combat Engineers battalion of the 41st Infantrv Division. He served 43 months in the Southwest Pacific all the way from Australia to Japan.
He was graduated before the war from the University of Nevada with a B. Sc. degree, and got his Master of Forestry degree from the Yale School of Forestry in June 1948. He then went to work for United States Plywood Corp.
Ben was born in San Francisco 33 years ago. He was raised in Susanville, Calif., and Reno, Nevada. He married Miss Helen Cameron, and they have two little doughters of five and three years old, so he has three very good additional reasons for working hard. And he does !
Moves to 4th Floor In Scme Building
Tacoma Lumber Sales has moved its offices to rooms 4ry, 10, and 11 in the Petroleum Buildiug, Los Angeles. The telephone number is unchanged, PRo:rpect i108.