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A. L. ssclrsrr HooYER CO.

5915 Vrlrhire Btvd., Lor Anselcr PetsOnal Seruice

P. V. Robinson, manag'er of the Hollyrvood Division for Lounsberry & Harris,. and Mrs. Robinson, and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Elliott, Los Angeles, have returned from an enjoyable month's vacation spent on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Seth L. Butler, manager of the San Francisco offi.ce o{ Dant & Russell Sales Co., made a business trip last month to Portland, u'here he spent a week at the company's main office. ,I{e was accompanied by Mrs. Butler.

Al Bell, of Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., San Francisco, and Mrs. Bell returned recently from spending their vacation in New England. While in Boston they attended the International Hoo-Hoo Convention. They stopped at Detroit to pick up a new car.

Byron L. Peart was appointed manager of the Hammond Lumber Company's Sonoma, Calif., yard July 7. He was formerly yard foreman at the Napa, Calif. yard, and prior to that managed a yard in Vallejo.

Alex Gordon, of Gordon-MacBeath Hardwood Co., Berkeley, Calif., left September 23 to attend the annual convention of the National Hardwood Lumber Asso,ciation at Cincinnati, September 26 to ?3. He made the trip both ways by plane.

W. W. (Bill) Forrest, manager of lumber sales, Simpson Logging Co., San Francisco, has returned from two weeks' vacation spent on a trip to Guaymas, Mexico. He landed a l)l-ft. sailfish, and his friend also caught one of the big ones. The trip was made by automobile. The distance from San Francisco to Guaymas is abo.ut 1,400 miles.

Fred Lamon, Lamon-Bonnington Co., San Francis,co, returned to his desk October 9 from spending three weeks in Oregon calling cn sawmills.

Larue Woodson, president'of Nicolai Door Sales Co., San Francisco, and Mrs. Woodson have returned from a three-week business and pleasure trip to the east and south. They visited New York and points of interest in the New England states, also Chicago, Washington, Philadelphia, New Orleans, and Houston. They traveled mainlv bv air.

Telephone, YOrk 1168

B. R Garcia Trallic Service

ilonodnock Bldg., Son Fruncisco 5, YUkon 6-O!tO9

Complete Sentice on All Troffic Problems

Over 25 yecrs speciclizcrtion in the trcrffic crnd trcrnsportction problems oI the lumber industry.

Freight Bills Audited ou contingeat bccit tholesele lo Lumber lards 0nly

Windows, Doors, Plywood, Moulding

We hrrve

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COOR,.PENDER. & LONG CO.

1753 Bloke Ave., Los AnEeles 3l

NOrmondie 3-3238

}IIIRTHERI{ RElIWtltlD LUMBER CtI.

Kiln Dricd Grccn

&rl.rr-"1. onl. Souglor flir

Mill and Sofes Ofice

Korbel, Humboldr Counly, Coliforniq

Telephone 4-F-2 Teletype 56

If,f.If,f. Witkinson D. ltl. Wilkinson

Hcrthcwoy Building

6214 West. Mcrnchester Ave. Los Angeles 45, Cclifornicr

REPRESENTING

Oregon-Wcshington Plywood Company

Nicoiai Door Mcrnufqcturing Compcrny

McCormick & Bcrxter Creosoting Compcrny

Telephone - ORegon 8-3726

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis A. Godard San Francisco, flew to Houston, Texas, to attend the annual convention of the National Retail Lumbermen's Associatioh at the Shamrock Hotel there, held October 9 to 12. Thev made the return journey also by air. Mr. Godard is a member of the firm of Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., San Francisco.

Weldon Smith, of Atkinson-Stutz Co., San Francisco, and his wife recently drove to Vancouver and Okanagan Lake, B. C., r,r'here they spent an enjoyable two-week vacation.

Floyd Elliott, San Francisco wholesaler, recently inade a trip to Eugene, Oregon, where he conferred with Reeves Taylor of the Reeves Taylor Lumber Co., which firm he represents in Northern California.

P. R. (Bob) Kahn, Forsyth Hardwood Co., San Francisco, and Mrs. Kahn, left September 23 by plane for Cincinnati to attend the National Hardwood Lumber Association's annual convention at the Nethcrlands Plaza Hotel, September 26 to 28. After the convention they went on to New York, and on the way home called on a number of hardwood mills.

Elie Destruel, manager, Mead Clark work, Santa Rosa, left by plane October to attend the World's Series g'ames.

Lumber & Mill2 for Philadelphia

STATEMENT OF TI{E OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, AND CIRCULATION REOUIRED BY THE ACT OF CONGRESS OI. AUGUST 24, 1912, AS AMENDED BY THE ACTS OF MARCII 3, 1933, AND JULY 2, L946 (Tirle 39, United States Code, Sstion 233) l. The names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing edtor, and business managers are: llfaymme Adams, 9216 El Manor Ave., Los Angeles 45, California. d. Paragraphs 2 and 3 include, in cases where the stockholder or security holder appears upon the bmks of the company as trust€e or i! any other fiduciary relation, the name of the person or @rpdation lor whom such trustee is acting; also the statements in the two paragraphs show the afrant's full knowledge and belief as to the the circumstances aqd conditions under which stockholders and seurity holders who do not appear upon the books of the company as trustees, hold stock and securities in a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner.

Of I?re California Lumber Mcrchant. published Semi-monthly at Ias Angeles 14, California, for October 1,1950.

Publisher, J. C. Dionne, 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, California. Editor, J. C. Dionne, 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, California. Managing ing editor, J. E, Martin, 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, California. Business manager, J. E. Martin, 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calitornla.

2. The owner is: (If owned by a corporation, its name and address nrust be stated and also immediately thereunder the names and addresses of stmkholders owning o holding 1 percent or more of total amount of stock. II not owned by a corpq.ration, the names and addresses of the individual owners must be given. If owned by a partnership or other unincorporated 6rm, its name and address, as well as that of each individual member, must be given.)

'.lhe California Lumber Merchant (A Corporation), 508 Central Bldg, Los Angeles 14.

J. C. Dionne, 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, California.

J. E. Martin, 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, California.

W. T. Black, 645 Leavenworth Street, San Francisco 9, Californib. l\[rs. A. C. Merryman, Pasadena, 4alifomia.

3. The known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders owning or holding I pcrcent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities are: (If there are none, so state.) None.

5. The average number of copies of each issue of this publication sold or distributed, through the mails or otherwise, to paiil subscribers during the 12 nonths preceding the date shown.above was: (This information is required from daily, weekly, semiweekly, and triweekly aewspapers only.)

Sworn to and suhscribed before ne this 2nd day of October, 1950.

J. E. MARTIN, Business Manager.

MARGARET S. EVANS, Notary Public.

(SEAL)

(My commission expires Feb. 23, 1951.

TRIANGITE ITUMBER CO.

WIIOI.FSAI.E LI'MBER

600-l6th Street, Ocklcnrd 12, Calilornic Phone TEmplebcn 2-5855

Teletype OA 262

1utber Mari

tholesale llistribulor of Ponderosa Pine

MANUFACTUBERS OF:

SIIETVING cnd DETAIT STOCK; AISO Vz- CABIN TINING

4230 Bandini Blvd., Los Angeles 23 Telephone Al{gelus 3-7503

McKinney Hardwood Company

ll7l9 So. Alomeda Street

Los Angeles 59, Colif.

Telephones: LOroin 9-2055 lOrqin 6-588t

Wholesale Hardwood lumber

(ommercial Kiln Drying

We dry oll kinds of Domestic ond lmported Woods tri meet your specificotions.

RICGI & IIRUSE LUiIBER G(l.

WHOLESAIE - JOBBING

Speciolizing in rflrlf lrRtEll tuitBER

Ponderoso qnd Sugor pine

Cleor Fir ond Redwood 9t2 SHOTWEIL ST., SAN FRANCTSCO tO, CAUF.

TETEPHONE IIISS|ON 7-2576

Brush Industrial Lumher Co.

Wholesale Distributors

Hardwoodr and Softwoods

5354 Eact Slauson Avc.

Lor Angclo 22, Calif.

ANselur 1-11 55

F. \,V. Elliott

Wholesale Forest Products

Representing

Reeves Taylor Lumber Co. Eugene, Oregon

I Drumm Slreet, Son Froncisco | | ililT(lll TUTIBER SATES G(IiIPATY (Weslern Divisionl

MARTEII, CAL|F. LUTIBER, . SUGAR

Moving right into the spirit of the occasion last monthTom Fox and Carl Laughlin, president and general manager respectively of the John W. Fisher Lumber Company of Santa Monica-acquired a 50 year old Studebaker lumber wagon and entered it in the Diamond Jubilee parade celebrating the 75th anniversary of the bay city. Over one hundred thousand Southern Californians participated in the event. Tom and Carl now have an additional unit of equipment for their operating and public relations departments.

G. B. Mcleod Bcck From Extended Trip

G. B. Mcleod, president of the Hammond Lumber Company, San Francisco, and Mrs. Mcleod are expected back this week from an extended tour of the United States and Eastern Canada. They left San Francisco August 29, and visited many places of particular interest to them.

Mr. Mcleod celebrated his 80th birthday in St. John, New Brunswick, the pla,ce of his birth. After attending a number of World's Series baseball games he and Mrs. Mcleod went south from New York and paid visits in Atlanta and.New Orleans on the way home.

Chas. J. Schmitt of cisco, was a business September.

Edgewood Lumber Co., San Franvisitor to Los Angeles at the end of

Hugh Hcndley Mcking Good Recovery

Hugh W. Handley, sales manager, Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., San Francisco, who received a compound fracture of the hip as the result of an l8-inch fall, when a low table on which he was sitting tilted, is' recovering nicely at St. Mary's Hospital, Hayes and Stanyan Streets, San Francisco 17. His room number there is 362, and the telephone number is SKyline l-2112. The accident occurred August 25 at the Lumbermen's Roundup of the Sari Francisco Lumbermen's Club. At first doctors predicted that Mr. Handley might be in the hospital from six to 12 months, but he now says that he expects to be able to leave soon after November 1.

Fred R. Branch, of Pacific Hardwood Sales Co., Oakland, left September 23 for Cincinnati, Ohio, accompanied by his wife and daughter, Diane, to attend the annual convention of the National Hardwood Lumber Association. After the convention he picked up a new car at the factory, and called on distributors of his firm's products in the east and middle west. He will be gone about two weeks.

Willard LaFranchi, manager of the Fresno branch office of Pacific Forest Products, Inc., and his wife traveled to Boston to attend the annual convention of the fnternational Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo. Willard, who has been president of San Joaquin Hoo-Hoo Club No. 31 for the past year, represented the Club at the convention.

Francis Heron, sales manager, Western Pine Supply Co., Emeryville, Calif., and his family spent the first two weeks of October vacationing in Southern California.

Hetb Schaur, of South City Lumber & Supply Co., South San Francisco, attended the Hoo-Hoo International Convention at Boston in September. He is State Deputy Snark for Northern California. On his 18-day trip he visited Chicago and Washington on his way east, and following the convention visited relatives in Baltimore.

Co., Rockport, Calif., latter part of SeptemPACIUC HANDIry0OD $AI,$$ CO. !rupode'za aed 5 irkilrutoal Philippine and Honduras Mahogany Spanish Cedar and Japanese Hardwoods 2O2O LIVINGSTON ST., OAKLAND 6, CALIF. PHONES ANDOVER I.6342KELLOG 4-3555 Inqairies Inaited.

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Lumber Yards For Sale

Los AngeleS yard, onc ownership for 25 years; located five miles from City Hall;25M sq. ft. with 7M ft. under roof. Will sell ground and buildings for $45.000; office and planing mill equip- ment $2500; trucks and inventory extra. Will sell on terms, If preferred will lease ground and buildings at $275 monthly. We sold on this yard. Profit and loss figures will be disclosed.

Ventura County yard, one and one-third acres; ground and buildings and equipment $15,0OC; inventory about 920,000. Or will lease ground and buildings for 9150 monthly. Profit and loss figures will ,be shown.

San Bernardino County yard. R.R. Lease. Improvements and equipment $12,2fi. Inventory about $20,000. Books will be shown. Sales 914,000 to 92O000 monthly.

Berris, Calif.. yard, owned in Colorado, established 40 years ago. R.R. Lease $75 annually; price for all improvements ind equip- ment except truck $35G). Inventory about $18,000. Profit and loss figures will be shown. Where can you get a proven yard at any such figures?

If you want to sell your yard let us hear irom you.

TWOHY LUMBER CO.

LUMBER YARD AND SAWMILL BROKERS

801 Petroleum Bldg., Los Angeles 15, Calif, PRospect 8246

MATCHER, FOR gAtE

ONE 6x15 No. ?7 AMERICAN MATCHER with too and bottom profile. Now operating in our plant at Healdsburg, Calif.

SERVICE LUMBER & SUPPLY CO.

255 Bay Shore Blvd., San Francisco 24 ATwater 2-6585

Healdsburg Phone Number: Healdsburg 586

Trade

GRAND PIANO (Kimball) FO,R LUMBER for new commercial building. N o tricks.

JENSEN MUSIC

13329 Victory Blvd., Van Nuys, Calif. STate 5-7245

For Sale

HYSTER LUMBER STRADDLE TRUCK 1946 MHC model, handle 5'x9 package, excellent condition. ' 20O West Olive Ave., Burbank, Calif. STanley 7-36f fCHarleston 0-6151

SCREENS for all types of STEEL SASH

Rudiger-Lang Co.

Eighth & Carleton Sts, Berkcley, Calif., TH. 3-G340 622 So. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles, Calif., WY. 6865

Fire Destroys Door Plant

The plant of the Nielsen & Beaver 1\.-1lanufacturing Co. in Belmont, Calif. \ /as destroyed by an all-night fire that burned the company's mill, stocks of doors and materials, and finishing plant.

Herbert Beaver, co-owner of the company, said the damage might be as high as 9200,000. The plant, said to be the largest of its kind in California, was engaged mainly in the manufacture <lf hollow core doors.

Nomcs of Adv.rtir.E in thir Dcpartmcnt uring o bllnd oddrcrr connol bc divulgcd. All inquiricr ond ropllrl rhould bc oddrcrrcd to kcy shown in lhc odvorllromcnl

Wanted

The right hardworod tnan to head up the lumber division of a large well-established Import firm. Shouldl have extensive sales experience and knowledge of foreign hardwoods. Make application, together with details of experience, for appointment for personal interview, to Box C-18,18, California Lumber Merchant 508 CEntral Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

Position Wanted

Experienced lumberman, age 38, single, now living in middle west wishes to re-locate in Southern California. Desires position as bookkeeper for progressive firm.

Address Box C-1849, California Lumber Merchant 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

I NEED A GOOD MAN for my downtown yard, who can sell, wait on customers and be oI assistance wherever it is necessary. Please apply in writing.

806 sunset Ji*T?,Yikjtres rz, carir. Mlchigan 4515

WANTED_SALESMEN FOR PLYWOOD AND DOORS

Experienced-acquainted with lurnber and industrial accounts. Good opportunity.

Address Box C-1850, California Lumber Merchant 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

SMALL YARD FOR SALE

Rich San Joaquin city. Land leased. Sheds and office only 2 years old. Limited capital will handle. Is a going business but will sell with or without inventory.

Address Box C-1851, California Lumber Merchant 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

KILN DRYING

We are one of the largest custon dry kilns on the Wert CoasL We also sell, rent, or repair lumber carriers and lift truckc. Will "xchange equipment for lumber.

WESTERN DRY KrLN & EQUTPMENT CO.

P.O. Bo: 622,, Wiknngton, Calif.

Phones: NBvada 61371 and TErmind rl-6624

WOODWORKING

MACHINER,Y

FOR SAI.E

VONNEGUT MOULDERS, ALL ELECTRICS (direct drive) 12", 6" (4 and 5 heads) 4".

HERMANCE MOULDER 6", original factory ball bearing, in operation.

ORTON PLANERS 3O" x12", traveling bed type, ball bearing with motors.

STETSON-ROSS PLANER, 2 side, 3A" x6", l0 knife heads with jointer bars, ball bearing with feed table.

FRANCIS GLUE SPREADER, double roll, model SPB, 3O" wide, in use 12 hours.

R,OY

FOR,TE,

Prod,uction Machinery for the Woodzuorking Trade 1417 East l2th Street, Los Angeles 21, Cdif.

Phones: TUcker 855fRes. MEtcalf 3-2562

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