LOS-CAL LUiABER COA'TPANY

Ken Hutchins Heqds NewDistribution to Mqstercrofi in Lumber Yords

$1,000,000 to IJnion Tank Car Company, Chicago, was announced September 19. The acquisition is subject to approval by the California Corporations Commissioner.

E. A. Lock€, Jr., Union Tank Car president, said Getz Bros. & Co. will continue under the present management of Lester Goodman as president, operating within lJnion's international division.

-National Forest Products Week 16-22-

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Ken Hutchins, pioneer wood products executive from the east and middlewest, has been elected president and general manager of the Paul Heinley Mastercraft Products Co., Santa Monica, manufacturers of the popular Heinley movable shutters and other nationally known wood products.

"We have established a brand-new'policy of distribution of our movable shutter line, which includes the retail lumber dealer for his do-it-yourself trade," said Ken. "And we are going to concentrate on all popular sizes because shutters lead to other sales of items of hardware and paint," he continued.

The manufacturing plant of the firm will be maintained at 22lI Michigan Avenue, Santa Monica, along with the administrative and sales offices, it was said. Mr. Hutchins resides in Inglewood with his wife Dorothy and four children, Nancy, Sydney, Dick and Bob.

-National Foresl Products Week . October 16-22Gelz Bros. Sold

to Union Tonk Gqr

San Francisco.-The sale of Getz Bros. & Co., large local import-export agent and lumber firm, for more than

Our Stock includes 43 potterns of Siding qnd Pqneling Plus 2l Moulding ltems qnd All Sizes qnd Grqdes of Commons

Green Redwood studs, loth, split polings, posts, etc.

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SGD&WI Announces Plqns-Agendq For | 960 Nationcrl Convention

Described by Sliding Glass Door & Window Institute spokesman as "a timely and significant step in the growth of the sliding glass industry," is the forthcoming 1960 "Bright Outlook" national convention to be held October 9-12 at the Sheraton-Da.llas hotel, Dallas, Texas. Final plans and agenda for this annual Institute-Industry meeting, call for hard-hitting business sessions, stimulating speakers and panels and social program coupled with the opening of the Texas State Fair in Dallas, which coincides with the convention date.

In a statement issued by Institute President George Radford, Los Angeles, Radford noted many sliding glass producers are beginning to recognize the urgent need to ieevaluate and improvC their techniques in all levels of dealer, architect, consumer relations if the sliding glass Industry is to continue its growth, and successfully meet the ever-increasing challenge for the market by other industries.

-National Forest Products Week October 16'22-

Profit ls Key Word for AWI Gonclqve

Millwork men from the U.S. and Canada will take a new look at ways and means of achieving a fair profit for their industry when the Architectural Woodwork Institute holds its eighth annual convention in Washington, D.C., October 11-14: This is the first AWI convention to be held in the capital and "Prescription for Profits" has been chosen as the theme.

The AWI will have a space-age "specialist" as one of its major speakers, George M. Low, chief of the Manned.SpaceFliaht Program of the National Aeronautical Space 4d-i"istration. Others to address the AWI will include Charles E. Young, economist of the Weyerhaeuser Company; Walter Rosenberry, assistant to the administrator, Housing-and Home Finance Agency; Ray E. Putfark, executive direc- tor, Construction Industry Association of New Orleans, and \M, D. Page, Plywood Fabricators Service. Also on the program is an official of Dun & Bradstreet, Inc., who will give AWI members an "outsider's look" at the Institute's recently completed "Study of Factors Affecting Profits in Millwork Plants."

Workshop and seminar sessions of the AWI meeting will examine management and shop problems, including $id practices and new industry techniques. A special semiriar is scheduled on the revised AWI Cost Book, published earlier this year. New features of this year's convention will include a special, industry-problem session for owners and managers only; a hospitality room (in addition to the annual breakfasi) for suitaining members, under direction of Chas. A. Rinehimer, AWI president emeritus, and an 8 a.m. "kick-off" breakfast for all registrants each day of the conclave. The annual banquet and election of new officers by the board of directors will climax the meeting.

-National Forest Producfs Week October 16-22Pocific

Mfg. Go. Dissolved

Santa Clara, Calif.-On August 30, shareholders of Pacific Manufacturing Co. decided to dissolve the company and vvind up its affairs, anrlounces C. M. Brink, president. The process is expected to be completed within one year. Large display ads in Los Angeles and other newspapers late in September anriounced immediate auction of the equipment.-

-Nafional Foresf Producls Week October 16-22Gale

Srofford Ends Term

Gale O. Stafford, manager of the Mullin Lumber Company's yard at San Gabriel, Calif., has successfully completed his 1959-60 tenure as president of the San Gabriel Rotary Club, and relinquished his gavel of office last month to John H. Hendrick, president of a local contracting firm.

-Nafional Foresf Products Week . October l6-22-