Norrh Stor Timber Corp. Opens Port Lumber Co., Disrribution Yord of Port Hueneme, Colifr, for Corgo Loods lo Areo Decllers

Lumber ships are returning to Port Hueneme, Calif., with over 4,0O0,000 board feet of material expected to arrive each month, according to Gerard "Van" Van Brynke, president of North Star Timber Corporation, r'vho announces the organization of a subsidiary wholesale concern to be known as Port Lumber Co., Inc.

"The service is being established irnmediately," Van Brynke declared, "and we have appointed Phil Kelty, veteran Southern California lumberman, to manage the cotnplete operation and sales. Machinery for our remantlfacturing plant is being assembled in Coos Bay, Oregon, for our mill operation at Port llueneme," he said.

Lumber storage sheds are available at the new plant and additional mill sheds are under construction at the Port Lumber Co. site, it was made known'to a representative of The CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT.

According to General Manager Kelty, it will require the services of 10 experienced lumber people immediately and

=the staff will be increased to an additional 25 men when the 'mill is placed in operation.

With the establishment of the rle\\' yard at Port Hueneme, a complete wholesale distribution of lumber products is offered retail dealers from San Luis Obispo, parts of the greater Lcls Angeles and Santa Barbara counties, San Joaquin Valley, Ventura and San Fernando Valley cities, according to Kelty. There has been a tremendous demand for the establishment of lumber cargo shipments at Port Hueneme, he declared.

According to President Van Brynke, the expected volume of lumber will bring at least two freighters into port each month. Many retail lumber dealers have shorvn interest in the operation, and the Port Lumber Company will improve dealer service throughout the entire coastal and valley areas, it rvas said.

"It will now require less time for a retail lumber dealer to secure his shipments and it will require less operating cost to lay lumber down in his yard if his business is located anywhere within the great circle out of Port Flueneme," Van Brynke said.

In addition to the appointment of Phil Kelty as general manager of Port Lumber Co., Inc., President Van Brynke also reports that Chris Miller, another veteran lumberman of Southern California, has been appointed to the sales staff of the North Star Timber Corporation.

"We shall endeavor to build an organization of experienced lumber people under the guidance of Kelty," Van said, "and rve 'ivill offer a service to retail lumber dealers rvhich they have never before enjoyed in the territorv we intend to serve," he promised.

Bolster UC Forest Products Lqb

Wood Technologist Joseph E. Marian, one of the world's leading experts on gluing and glued products, 'ivill head research in that field at the University of California. Forest Products Laboratory. Norv in charge of adhesives and wood finishes at the Swedish Forest Products Laboratory in Stockholm, he will start rvork at the U. C. laboratory October 1, said Director Fred E. Dickinson. Nfarian's appointment rvill bolster research important to California's plywood and furniture industries as rvell as to sawmills interested in finding uses for valuable scrap lumber. f)ickinson also announced the prornotion of Arno Sclrniewind to assistant specialist in charge of timber mechartics research. He rvill specialize in studies of strength properties of California hardwoods and second-grorvth softrvoods, including redwood, ponderosa pine, conifers, recl fir and t'hite fir.