WHOtESALE TUMBER

SPECTAI'ZING 'N TRUCK AITD TRA'IER SHIPNENTS FRON OREGON AND

Hyster Trqnsfers Dqve lmbeou

Dave Imbeau, formerly with Hyster Company at the home office in Portland, is being transferred to the San Francisco branch October 1 and placed in charge of the parts department there. The Hyster Company San Francisco branch is located at 4445 Third Street, and is managed by Fred F. Welch.

Imbeau has had a long background in parts and service problems encountered in the industrial machinery field and is well qualified to handle the increased volume of the San Francisco branch.

Hyster Company, San Francisco, covers all of Northern California from Fresno to the Oregon border, as well as the eight northwestern counties in Nevada. The San Francisco store also operates a branch in Eureka for parts sales and service in the extreme northern part of the state.

Pocific Northwesf Building Up

Portland, Ore.-Building permits in the Pacific Northwest for this year's first six months shorved a lo/o higher value than 1954, according to a 47-city survey by Equitable Savings & Loan. Dollar volume was $170,793,344, compared to $155,951,451 a year ago, and $167,858,614.at the midpoint of the previous record year of 1950. Residential construction showed an l8/o increase.

Oregon building gained 7/o, with homes up 55/.; Idaho,s over-all gain was D/o, with homes up 68/o; Washington was down .3/o but residences were up 3/o; Bitish Columbia was up 43/o, with homes up L4/o.

NO. CAL'FORNIA

FORCED DRAFT CIRCUIATION

HUMIDITY CONTROT INCREASED

FASTER, BETTER SERVICE ASSURED

INCREASED CAPACITY

QUATITY DRYING

We qssure our cuslomers poinstoking ond cqreful hondling ond drying of their lumber.

Dee Rsley, Presidenl ilorshqll Edwotds, Superintendent

I)enison ala,lorrsies

o Glass Louvers, 4 in" wide, come in either clear or ob' scure glass.

o 3-Crear Roto Operator, so simple a child can oPerate it.

o Drip Cap and SloPing Sill of special design keeP rain and snow damage awaY.

NOW-for the first lime-o completely weothersfripped Jqlousie, thqnks to ollclimote lested, Vinyl weother-srripping . . . exclusive with DENISON.

Eddie Ludwick Nqmed Monoger of Sqntq Bqrbqrq Mill & Lumber Co.

Kenneth R. Simpson, Jr., board chairman, announced September 7 that directors of the Santa Barbara (Calif.) Mill and Lumber Co. had elected E. G. Ludrvick as vicepresident and general manager. tfe assumed his new position immediately, succeeding \\rilliam C. Young, u'ho resigned September 6.

Ludr,vick is well knorvn in the industry, having served the Southern Pacific Milling Co. for 30 years-starting at its central distribution yard at San Luis Obispo, later managing the key yard at Paso Robles. He rvas also sales supervisor for the Rossman Mill and I-umber Co. at Long Beach.

Forest Engineer Retires

San Francisco.-Rex E. (Buck) Lane, supervising engineer of the 28,000 miles of roads and 17,000 miles of trails in the national forests of the California region, retired July 31 after 22 years of outstanding service, announced Clare Hendee, regional forester here. His successor is Clayton G. Seitz, who is being promoted and transferred from regional headquarters in Mihvaukee, Wis.

ICC Suspends Ghcmberlin R.qtes

San Francisco-The Interstate Commerce Commission has suspended until April 1956 the rates of W. R. Chamberlin & Co. on lumber from Coos Bay, Ore., to Los Angeles, pending investigation of their larvfulness, the Daily Commercial Nervs reported September 19.