CATIFOR,NIA BUITDING PERilT|TS FOR AUGUST ...........$

STATEMENT REQUIRED BY T}IE ACT OF AUGUST 24. 1912. AS AMEND. ED BY THE ACTS OF MARCH 3, 193& AND JULY 2, l94C (Title 39. United States Code, Section 233) SHOWING THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, AND CIRCULATION OF THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT. oub. lished semi-monthly at Los Angeles, California, for October I,1956.

1. The names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor, and business managers are:

Publisher. J. C. Dionqe. Rom 508. lOR W.6rh St., Los Angeles 14, Caliiornia. Managing editor, Reed Porter, Room 508, 108 W.6th Sr., Los Anieles 14. California. Business manager, M. Adams, Rom 50$ 108 W. 6th St., Ircs Angeles 14, California.

2. The owner is: (If owned by a corporation, its name arrd address must be stated and also immediately thereunder the names and addresses of stockholders owning or holding 1 percent or more of total amount of stock. If not owned by a corporation, the names and addresses of the individual owners must be given, If owned by a partnership or other unincorporated firm, its name and address, as well as that of each individual member, must be given.) The Califor- nia Lumber Merchant (a Corlrcration), 108 W.6th St., Los Angeles, California; Maymme Adams.9216 El Manor Ave., Los Anqeles 45, California; J. C. Dronne, \mm 508, 108 W.6th St., Los Angeles 14, California; J. E. Martih,52 Clinton Street, Brockton 21, Mass.; Mrs. A. C. Merryman, 431 So. trfadison Ave., Pasadena 5, California; Elsie Stirling,818l No. Fuller Ave., Los Angeles 46, California.

3. '['he known bondholders, mortlfagees, and other security holders owrring or holding 1 percent or more of total amount ol bonds, tnortgages, or other securities are: (If there are none, so state.) None.

4. Paragraphs 2 and 3 include, in cases where the stockholder or security holder appears upon the books of the company as trustee or in any fiduciary relatim, the name of the person or corporation for whom such trustee is acting: also the statements in the two paragraphs show the affiant's full knowledge and belief as to the circumstances and conditions under rvhich stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon the books of the comfrany as trustees, hold stock and securities in a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner.

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

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Sworn to and subscribed before me this 1st day Jtd'lf.i:#?15?:"t WII-LIAI{ I. HUDSON (My commission expires July 2"r,7959)

Fir Plywood Associotion, Elects New Officers

A. W. (Bill) Agnew, vice-president of the Pacific Coast Co., Sonoma, Calif., was elected chairman of the management committee of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association at the industry's recent annual subscribers' meeting in Tacoma. Agnew succeeds Arnold Koutonen, veteran plywood leader for 35 years and plywood manager for the Olympia mill of the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co., who steps down after 14 years as a member of the management committee, the past year as a chairman.

Some 125 plywood leaders from Washington, Oregon and California met in a one-day business session. They elected as new' members of the management committee C. Henry Bacon, Jr., of Seattle and Shelton, Wash., vicepresident and general manager of the Simpson Logging Co., and Roy Gould, president, Diamond Lumber Company, Portland and Tillamook, Ore.

Re-elected were F. L. Foval, assistant general sales manager for the Long-Bell Lumber Co., Longview, Wash., and Jackson Beaman, general manag'er, Southern Oregon Plywoods, Inc., Grants Pass, Ore. Five other members of the committee do not come up for re-election until next year.

Industry leaders heard addresses by Koutonen and W. E.

Difford, managing director of DFPA since 1938, who outlined plans for extensive promotion in 1957 with a special emphasis on a rigid quality supervision program. Plans for the coming twelve months, Difford said, range from new designs in homes, schools, and churches to fresh approaches in farm building structures.

Hollqnd Reloins Neimon-Reed

Lou Holland has rejoined the Neiman-Reed Lumber Co., Van Nuys, Calif., in his former position as head of its wholesale lumber division.

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