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Creek branch when he left to join Harry Stewart, owner of Sen Ramon Valley Mill & Lumber Co. in Danville, during 1945. Parsons remained with Stewart until 1950, when he purchased this yard from Valley Lumber.

Unlike many medium-size operations of this t1pe, Parsons Lumber is practically a family operatiorr. Other than two employees, Vern's stafi is all family-his two sons Don and Bob, and Victoria, his longtime partner in that wonderful business of marriage. All a,.re equal owners in the family corporation. Together, this is a team that personnel rnen dream about. This is a winning team-and Parsons Lumber & Hardware is thcre to prove it to one and all.

Williom Dost Joins UC Stoff

William A. Dost, research manager for the California Redwood Association, joined the Uniyersity of California Agricultural Extension Service staff September I as extension forest products specialist, Extension Director George B. Alcorn said Dost's work will be centered around aetivities of the University's Forest Products Laboratory at Richmond. The new extension specialist will work with primary wood products manufacturers, includinq producers of plywood, hardboard, ".rI veneers as well as lumber. and also with manufacturers of millwork, furniture, cabinets, and other suppliers of the building industry. He will study problems of these producers and speed results of University research from the Richmond laboratory to the industry.

The appointment follows a recommendation of the Technical Advisory Council to the Forest Products Laboratory that an extension specialist be provided to work with the laboratory and the wood industry.

Dost, a 1952 graduate of the University of Washington College of Forestry with a major in forest products, has been working closely with staff members of the Richmond laboratory while directing research for the Redwood Assocration the past seven-andone-half years. The Association, through grants to the University, has helped finance research project; on redwood at the laboratory. Dost's vrork has also involved directing tests of materials and developing technical information for the state's redwood mills.

Symptoms of the growing demand for northwest hardwood products may be seen in the recent installation of several hardwood sawmills in Washington and Oregon, and in a steady increase in hardwood log output. Several mills which normally cut both hardwoods and softwoods, are now favorins hardwoods.