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A weary telegraph operator, stationed many miles from nowhere in the Sudan in Africa in the hottest part of the terrific summer, wired his superior officer:

"Please relieve me. Can't stay here. Am surrounded by lions, elephants, wolves, and savages."

The officer heartlessly wired back:

"There are no wolves in the Sudan."

Whereupon the weary one wired back: "Referring to my wire of yesterday, cancel wolves."

Builders lumber Adds lrs Two Yqrds ro IMA Roster

The Lumber Merchants Assn. of Northern California reports the addition of two more yards operated by Builders Lumber Co. to its growing roster. Builders Lumber, operated by Frederick .l."itJ:,":r":::tes yards at Dos Palos

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Bill Buettner, partner in Geo. J. Silbernagel Co., spent a recent week in the Portland-Eugene area calling on mill connections.

Ray Van Ide, Pasadena wholesaler, returned from an exciting duck and pheasant hunting trip up Boise, Idaho, way the first of this month. The hunters bagged the lirnit along the Snake River every day. Ray had an opportunity to combine business with pleasure and reports success all the way.

Mrs. Vernon Johnson, right-hand girl of the L. R. Smith Hardwood Co., Los Angeles office, has returned lrom a week's business trip to the company's main branch at Longview, Wash.

The Sacramento "Tom Cat" reports the rnarriage of Dealer George Birdwell of Birdwell Lumrber, and the former Mary Lou I)owdy in Sacramento, Oct. 10. The newlyweds will make their home in Sac'ramento foliowing a honeymoon in Mexico City and thereabouts.

Gypsum wallboard craftsmen know the importance of Blue Diamond uniformitg. Uniform characteristics aid in the fast production of smooth, ffre resistant walls and ceilings. Aniformitg is a result of quality conbol.

Blue Diamond quality conbol begins with the grading of gypsum rock at the mines. It carries through every step of gypsum wallboard manufacture to the ffnal placement of dunnage to safeguard its condition in transit.

Applicator craftsmanship and Blue Diamond uniformity ioin hands in producing smooth solid fire resistant walls and ceilings.

Kellogg Spear, president and general manager of Pacific Wire Rope Co., Los Angeles, has returned from a Z-week business-pleasure tour of the Hawaiian Islancls, celebrating his company's Golden Anniversary Jubilee in the 50th state. The old firm is constantly expanding and is making plans to iucrease its distribution in the Islands.

Harry Jordan of the Jordan Pacific Co. in San Francisco was a recent visitor to the headquarters office of the National Hardwood Lumber Assn. in Chicago.

Ed Dursteler, cxecutive of Sierra Lumber & Plywood, Van Nuys, and Dealer George Pike of the same San Fernando Valley area, bagged their elk in Idaho last month. The two sportsmen covered the Mountain Home area in the eastern part and report "good hunting."

The first of the November postcards front Hollywood Wholesaler Horace Wolfe, who never leaves a 2lx4 unturned, arrived from La Quinta early in the month. At last reports he was headed on east to Cleveland for the big NRLDA show, where neither snow nor sleet should delay the delivery of his appreciated missives.

Dean Jones, executive of S&S Lumber Co., Los Angeles, is back from Oklahoma with a 1960 Ford.

Horry Whinemore to Represent Hill & Moilon in Southlond

Jerry Mashek, executive of Hill & Morton, Inc., Oakland, California, announces the appointment of Harry Whittemore (right), Southern California lumberman. to succeed Jack Waldron, who was the Southland sales reuresentative for nrarrv veais prior to his untimely ileath October 31.

Whittemore brings a world of experience to his new post, having been actively engaged in lumber sales and promotion in the Los Angeles and San Diego areas for more than 35 years. He is well-informed at all levels of the lumber industry, having managed the Benson Lumber Comoanv in San Diego several yeirs igo, and owned and operated his Los Angeles wholesale lumber concern throughout the past decade. He also served a term as president of the SCRLA. Harry has been active in civic ar-rd social affairs and is a member of various fraternal organizations, incltrding Hoo-Hoo Club 2.

The Hill & Morton re- gional sales ofifices in the southern trade area have been rnoved to 3459 Cahuenga Boulevard, Hollywood 28, and the new telephone t1ulnber is HOllywoocl 3-8141, Whittemore said. "We shall continue with a hard-hitting sales policy in the effrcient wholesale distribution of all species of Pacific Coast lumber and specialty building items," he declarecl.

New $ales ldeas... .AUTOMASTER-CA' ONE-STOP PLA:NT FOR PAVER BATCHING

Designed to incorporate cement and aggregate batching into a one-package automatic unit, the Johnson "AutomasterCA" offers high capacity paver batching. Easy transportation of this new one-stop plant by truck is possible because no shipping piece is wider than 8 feet. Bin for the "Automaster-CA" is divided into three equal aggregate compartments and one cement compartment. Aggregate capac- ity is 1OO cu. yd. (150 tons at 3,000 lbs. per cu. yd.). Cement compartment has a capacity of 145 bbl. at 4 cu. ft. per bbl.

Each aggregate scale is equipped with a moisture compensating beam and a dial adjustment for moisture in material. ,Operator can use mechanical mix selection for convenient field setting; any of l2 preset mixes are a.vailable at the turn of one dial.

Complete information on the "Automaster-CA" can be obtained from distributors or by writing directly to C. S. Johnson Company, Stockton, Calif.

G-P Adds Bill Hoey to S.F. Sqles Office

Keith llarry, of GeorgiaPacific's San Francisco sales office, announces the addition of Bill Hoey (above) to his staff to cover sales in the East Bay and Sacramento Valley territory. A native of Portland and a recent graduate of U.C. at Berkeley, Hoey comes to Georgia-Pacific from Woodside Lumber Company of San Francisco. Although born in Portland, Bill Hoey grew up and attended local schools in Eugene, where he gained an excellent lumber background by working for several different sawmill.and local logging operations.

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