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Porterville, Calif.A $200,000 building and expansion program r.vas formally announced Sept. 20 for the Mt. Whitney Lumber Company's mill on the Tule River Indian reservation. (Editor's note: The prof1ram was first reported in the May l5 issue of this magazine.) A planing mill, storage shecl and clry sorting chain cover will be built. About 13 million feet of timber will be cut and sawed this season. Cutting o1tcrations are now centered in the Black N{onntairr area.

Eqst Side Deolers Meet

The East Side Lumbermen's Group of the Southern California Retail Lumbei Assn. will meet October 16 at the West Wind restaurant, 9341 E. Firestone l3lvd., Downey, at 6:30 p.m. Bill van Matre arrd W. Stewart Russell have charg'e of the dinner meeting.

"Doc" White Cops Top Honors qt Dubs Presidio Tournqmenl

The veteran lumberman and recentlv retired heacl of Christenson Lumber Company (CLM,'glLl58) ended up "top dog" when the scores were toted up following the playing of the 1lSth monthly Dubs, Ltd. tournament, September 19. at the Presidio Golf Course in San Francisco. The low hanclicapper ancl one-time amateur championship golfer barely edged out tlr'o other lorv handicappers, George Monnier and Fred Ziese. both iust one stroke behind with irlentical net 72 cards.

The Peninsula's "Sunshine Boy." Knute Weiclman. came in strong ir.r the seconcl flight to win first place honors with a 66 net. Hollis Jones took seconcl place position witl-r a 71 score, and thirrl lorv net encled up in a four-way tie between Dubs Presi<lent Ilill Johr.rson, Paul Gaborrry (wl-ro spon- sored tl.re meet). Bill lSonnell ancl Dubs Past President Grarr Geisert.

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In tl-re third 'flight it rvas Lafayette Lumber Dealer Torn Jacobsen on top (69 net), Ev Lewis second with a 70 card and the "Redwood King of Richmond," Charlie Beacom, tlrircl with a net 73 for the round.

Nearly 40 Bay Area lumbermen participated in the tourrrament and 35 stayed on for dinner and the usual post torlrnament horseplay which was staged at DiMaggio's restanrant on San Francisco's famed Fisherman's Wharf.

Gosslin-Hording Moves to Ooklqnd

Phil Gosslin, owner of Gosslin-Harding Lumber Company, has moved his business to the Professional building in Oakland. Gosslin had l.readcluartered tl.re wholesale lumber concern ir.r Walnrrt Creek for the uast five and or-re-half years.

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