Lawrence-Philips Moves to Beverly Hills

The latest Los Angeles lumber gang to forsake the congested areas of the big city and move farther out, is the Lawrence-Philips Lumber Company.

Don Philips just called his group of cohorts around him, putout the fire, called the dog, and went West, just as ]Iorace Greeley suggested long ago that wise men should do.

They got as far as 4N North Camden Drive in Beverll' Hills and there, in as sweet a set of modern offrces as could be located in a day's hard search, they may be found. The room number is 205, but that's just the entrance number. 'They have five of the best looking, best lighted, best fur:nished, best arranged ofifice rooms you ever saw.

The suite is completely air conditioned, the walls and .ceilings are insulated for sound, the lightingisthe nerv, soft, inverted type that furnishes lots of lightbutis easy 'on the eyes. They are just a block and a half from Wilshire Boulevard, two blocks from Santa Monica Boulevard. and thus located in the very heart of the business center of Beverly Hills, in a district noted for its beauty and style of architecture. The offices are separated by partitions of bright wood panels and glass.

Here the Philips trio are just a few minutes from their homes, yet at a place easily reached from all directions Many of the most famous hotels, stores, shops, and eating -places in all California are withinafew blocks of ,them.

Sure is a swell set-up, and an interesting change from the rush, and bluster, and smog of the city.

Here are a group of pictures giving some idea ol the interior of the nerv suite. The follorving is the LawrencePhilips gang: Don Philips, Sr., Don Philips, Jr., Tom Philips, the younger son, Bob Tattbe, salesman, Roger P. Williams. auditor. Miss Nelle Holland and Miss Adeline Thole, secretaries and office assistants. Don Philips, Sr., holds rlolvn the fort, while the three younger men go out and hustle for lumber orders.

Frequently pictures of the mills rvith which they do business have appeared in the publicity of this company. Not this time. Just the folks and the handsome new offices get into this story. In a corner of the main office, that of Don Philips, Sr., will be seen a framed picture of the late Ted Larvrence, who was his original partner in the organizing of this business.

It is wasting words and space to say that the elder Philips is proud and happy in his nerv surroundings. He struts a wee bit as he shows the set-up to his many friends. The brush of the old fox is tinged r,vith grey, but his eye is as bright, and his smile as friendly as it was in the days a generation back when he and another delightful young man, Ted Lawrence, started in business together. The business, is a fine success, and it got there by the merit route; which, say the philosophers, is the best route to travel.

Joins Staff of

Woodwork lnstitute of California

On November 1, Charles W. Lange of San Francisco joined the staff of the Woodwork Institute of California, San Francisco, and will serve as technical field representative and assistant to Managing Director Russell Bjorn.

His principal functions will be to compile and put into proper form all such practical material as stock millwork detail, specifications, standards and other helpful material rvhich architects and contractors need and can use.

Mr. Lange is well qualified to do an outstanding job. A graduate architectural engineer of Carnegie Institute of Technology, his experience and training covers millwork, residential building, estimator for industrial contractors, large project designing and supervision, and cantonment construction for the Army. At present he is specification

Record Attendance at NHLA Meeting

Lee Robinson, Mt. Vernon, Ala., was re-elected president of the National Hardwood Lumber Association at the 54th annual convention held in Chicago, September 24-27. James C. Walsh of Chicago, HarryD. Gaines of St. Louis, and 'I. M. Millett of Louisville, were re-elected vice presidents. John W. McClure rvas re-elected secretary-manager.

Two new directors were named, W. Howard Walker of McMinnville, Tenn., to fill the unexpired term of the late Henderson Baker of Nashville, Tenn., and J.B. Morgan, Toronto, Ontario, who replaces Past President Frank W. Ilutcheson, Huntsville, Ontario, who automatically becomes a member of the board of directors.

All directors whose terms expired this year were reelected to serve until 1954.

A new all-time high record was set in attendance with registrations totaling around 1600. Many outstanding speakers appeared on the program.

Congrcrtulcrtions

Mr. and Mrs. Ed born on October 3. ager of the Long pany.

Karst are parents of a baby girl, Lynn Ed is assistant to Max Barnette, manBeach office of Rounds Trading Com- writer, U. S. Engineers, for all types of construction. He is a member of the Comm'onwealth Club of San Francisco, World Affairs Council of Northern California, Society of Military Engineers, and the Sierra Club.

Construction Activity in September

Construction activity declined slightly in September when outlays for most types of private building and pnblic works were curtailed by restrictions and materials shortages, the Building Materials Division, U. S. Dep:rtmentof Commerce and the U. S. Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics reported jointly today. Factory buildirrg, military construction and public housing continued to expand.

The total value of new construction put in place cluring September amounted to over $2.8 billion, one per cent less than the totals for August 1951 and for September 1950. Total private outlays of $1,860 million were off 2 per cent from the August level and l1 per cent from a year ago. Total public expenditures, amounting to $965 million for nerv construction in September, rvere 2 per cent larger than in August and 28 per cent above public outlays in September 1950 before military and defense plant expansion had gotten under way.

.Private home buildine activity appears to have been stabilized for the time being at about two-thirds of the 1950 record level. Commercial building dropped in September when work consisted largely of completing projects started before current restrictions were applied, and new projects requiring only small amounts of steel and copper. Highrvay construction and other public works declined.

During the first 9 months of 1951, total outlays for new construction have exceeded $22 billion, over $2 billion (10 per cent) more than during the same period last year. Irrdustrial expansion and the rising volume of military construction, together with larger amounts of commercial and institutional building so far this year have maintained over-all construction activity at record levels in spite of the drop in private homebuilding.

United Lumber Yards Purchase Burnett Lumber Company

United Lumber Yards, Modesto, has purchased the entire capital stock of the Burnett Lumber Company of Tulare. The company has yards at Tulare, Tipton and Pixley. George Burnett, widely known retail lumberman, founded the company in lX)7 and will come down to the office daily and act in an advisory capacity.

Present personnel and policies of the company will continue without change. Keith Munger will be manager under Mr. Burnett's guidance.

Mr. Burnett is a native Californian and has been active in retail lumber affairs for many years, including serving as a director of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California.

Lecrve For Honolulu Trip

P. R. (Bob) Kahn of Forsyth Hardwood Co., San Francisco, and Mrs. Kahn left October 17 on a three weeks' business and pleasure tripto Honolulu. They traveled by United Air Lines sleeper plane, and will also fly back.

Action and follow-throush

\7e can provide both on your ord€rs.

Coreer Sketc6

C. C. "Sra" Stibich

joined the sales department of the Pickering Lumber Company, and remained with that concern until operations were suspended in 1931. He then rvent with Tahoe Sugar Pine Company, manufacturer of Ponderosa and Sugar pine, with offices in San Francisco, and left this company rvhen it rvas liquidated in 1939. Shortly after he became associated rvith Tarter, Webster & Johnson, Inc., nationally known firm, and he is there today as assistant sales manager.

Being a Brooklyn boy he is naturally a Dodger rooter, and attends some of their games if at all possible when in the east.

Mr. Stibich was married in San Francisco in 1923 to Miss Emily G. O'Dwyer, who strangely was a yeomanette in the Navy. They have a son, Donald, who is now 20, and is in his senior year at Stanford University. They iive in San Francisco.

Chauncey C. Stibich, familiarly known by the nickname of"Sti" to a host of lumbermen friends and acquaintances, is assistant sales manager of Tarter, Webster & Johnson, Inc., San Francisco. He confines his efforts largely to sales in the middle west and east, and in the course of this work has made many business trips to the Atlantic Coast, with the result that he has a large acquaintance with lurrrber'men throughout the country.

He was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., graduated from Erasrnus Hall High School in that city, and gained experience in New York at various jobs, including sales work. lle came u'est in 1917, shortly before the United States got into World War L He joined the Navy and trained at r'vhat was then called Goat Island. As a yeon-ran he u'ent to sea in a San Francisco built destrover. He left the service in the fall of 1919.

His entryintothe lumber business lr'as in 1920 with Frederic S. Palmer, San Francisco wholesaler, handling the eastern sales of the Madera Sugar Pine Company of Madera, Calif. In 1926 Fred Palmer n'ent to lll Salto, Durango, Mexico, to take the management of Cia Maderera De Durango. Sti follorved as his assistant, and handled the sales. However, he resigned that position after a year, as the bandits across the border became too active, and 'California beckoned him home. Back in California he

Sti has served many years on the promotion conmittee of the Western Pine Association, several years as chairman. He is a member of the Masonic Order, the Olympic Club of San Francisco, International Hoo-Hoo, and the San Francisco and Oakland Hoo-Hoo Clubs. He is also proud of his membership in that famous Mother Lode organization of the 49'ers, E. Clampus Vitus, Auburn Chapter.

One of his accomplishments that many of his friends in the San Francisco Bay district will recall is his piano playing at \rarious functions, including Hoo-Hoo Concatenations. His favorite relaxation from his busy life selling the California pines is to get up into the High Sierra to fish for trout in that rcgion's beautiful lakes and streams.

This brief sketch merely touches the high spots of Sti's career of more than 30 years of service to the lumber industry, and his constructive work in cooperation with the Western Pine Association. He is recognized as one of the rnost alert and useful executives in the business.

New Wholesale Firm

In San Mcrteo, Ccrlif.

R. B. (Bob) Lashley, formerly associated rvith the lracific Western Lumber Co. of California, San Francisco, has announced the organization of the Lashley l-umber Co., with offices at 726 25th Avenue, San Mateo, Calif. fhis is a 'ivholesale firm handling redwood, Douglas fir, lrnd Ponderosa pine lumber. The telephone number is Iilreside 5-5001.

but we're still old - foshioned

service!

Do you remember how corefully you hod to sit in one of lhese how gently you hod to hond the lodies up qnd down? Not quite lhe some os todoy's luxury runobouts. Times hove chonged, ond conditions, loo even in the 34 yeors we've been in business' We've chonged with the limes, in everything bul our ideos of SERVICE ond QUALITY. We stock only the besi of hqrdwood ond softwood Plywood; Mosonite brond producls; ond Formico. We're os quick with our service os lhe gentlemon of old wos to help o lody out of q corrioge.

H. C. "Pat" Maginn Honored at Luncheon Of Company Executives

chairman of the board, presented Maginn r,vith a traveling bag in commemoration of the anniversary.

Maginn joined the company in 1926 in the Sacramento Valley territory. He soon became sales manager, and in 1941 rvas elected a vice president.

Last April Maginn was advanced to the nervly-createrl office of executive vice president, retaining his management committee post.

One of the best-known men in the rvestern construction field, Maginn served as a member of the Civilian production Administration Board during World War 1l and postwar years. He has been a director of the Northern California chapter of the Associated General Contractors for more than a decade, and serves also as chairman of the A.G.C.'s MilitaryAffiliation Committee. He is a member of the San Francisco Police Commission, and was its president last year.

Hush Crabb \flith Fir-Tex

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William Wallace Mein, founder of the company and

Now More Than Ever

Nctionally Advertised R.O.W. Windows are Americc's Fcrvorite o More than 1,000,000 R.O.$7. units were installed in 1950 -that makes R.O.$7. Removable \Windows the largest selling wood window unit in the world! o The windowthat women really wanr!

Announcement was made recently by Ernie Bacon, lrlanager of Fir-Tex of Northern California, San Francisco, that Houston (Hugh) Crabb, who has been in the building mate;ials business for many years, is now representingl the Fir-Tex Company, making his home in Fresno. His territory is Tehachapi north to Lodi, Calif.

Are you getting your sbare of tbe profts lrorn the increased. demand, lor tbe R,O.W, unitin your area?

If our sales represenrative can be of any help to you he will be glad to assisr in any promotion work.

BAXCO PRESSU RE TREATED FOU]IDATTO]I TUIf,BER IS ]IOW AVATLABTE TO TUIUTBER DEATERS FROMOUR TWO CATTFORIIIA PLA]ITS

STOCK IUTIBER

We now carry the followiog

Baxco Pressute Treated Foundation Lumber in stock at Alameda and Long Beach for immediate shibment to dealers: ' Douglas Fir S4S ALS

2x4,2x6,2x8,2x10, 3x4,3x6,4x4and4x6. Special sizes will be purchased from local stocks and pressrue treated without delay.

Custom Treating

We ofter prompt custom treating service at both our Alameda and Long Beach plants. Your lumber can be delivered to us by truck or treated in transit in cadoad quantities. Conzult us for additional information.

APPROVED TREAT'NENT

Baxco Pressure Treated Foundation Lumber is impregnated with preservative salts in accordance ivith Fed. Spec. TT-S7-571b.

It is approved by FHA, Uniform Buiid'ins Code-P.C.li.O.C., State Architict for mudsills in School Construction, 'and U. S. Govt. Specifications.