PATRICK LUMBER co.

Tenrrinql Seles Bldg., Portland 5, Oregon

Teletype No. PD 54

Douglcs FirSpruceHemlockCedar Ponderosa and Sugcr PineDouglcrs Fir Piling

32 Yearr Continuously Serving Rctail Yards and Railroads

Eostm.rn Lumber Soleg Petroleum Bldg. Los Angeles 15 PRorpecl5Oil9

John H. Rohr Elected Vice President Of E. L. Bruce Co.

The election of John H. Rohr as a vice president of E. L. Bruce Co. at the recent board of directors meeting has been announced by Mr. E. L. Bruce, Jr., president of the company. Others named vice president at the same time are: Evan L. Fellman, Frank H. O'Connor, and Walter I. Wood, all of Memphis, and George M. Rogers, Bruce, Miss.

"Our company has expanded widely during the war and postwar years in production, product-development, and sales organization," Mr. Bruce s.aid. "In order to obtain better direction

Iohn H. Rohr of our increased activities and achieve more complete coordination between divisions of the company, additional executives at top-management level have been needed. The election'of these new officers fills these needs.,'

_-Mr. Rohr is widely known in West Coast building circles. He was at one time a flooring contractor in Los Angeles. In 1933 he joined the Los Angeles office of E. L. Bruce Co., fnc., warehousing subsidary of the parent firm. He was made general manager of the subsidiary in 1935 and vice president and general manager in 1939. He'will con-

O. L. Russum

I 12 ftlorket gl. San Froncisco | | YUkon 6-1460 tinue in this position with offices at Los Angeles.

Evan L. Fellman started with the Bru,ce Company in 7926, and has since held positions as advertising manager, manager Terminix division, merchandising manager and secretary.

Walter J. Wood has been general sales manager since 1942. He first came with the company in 1924, and has been in the lumber business since 1912.

Frank H. O'Connor, who has been connected with E. L. Bruce Co. since 1937, is director of the industrial relations division. He has also been assistant to the president.

George M. Rogers is manager of the company's sawmill operations. His first job with Bruce, in 1921, was as a yard foreman. Mr. Rogers is located at Bruce, Miss. Also elected to new positions with the company were John H. 'Worman, who in addition to his present position as treasurer, also becomes secretary; and Lester C. Scott, credit manager, who has just been made assistant secretary.

Sells Interest In Company

C. W. Reedy has sold his interest in ber Company, Guatay, Calif., to L. C. Stephens, original partners in the firm. on opening a paint and hardware store Calif.

Receives Philippine Shipment

the Hilltop LumPerna and G. M. Mr. Reedy plans at Port Huendme,

White Brothers, San Francisco, has received a shipment of Philippine mahogany flitches. They ars 8" by B" and largeq and will be sawn into lumber.

Fern Trucking Company

Ofiers Gombined Service Of:

Philippine Mahogany Embargo To Be Lifited

Trucking

Ccr Unlocding

Pool C,cr Distribution

Sorting

Sticking for Air Drving

Storing oI Any Qucrntity of Forest Products

Ten Hecrvy Duty Trucks cmd Trcilers

Fourteen 3-Axle AII Purpose Anny Lunber Trucks

Seven 16,000 lb. Lilt Trucks

Twenty-Seven Acres Ptrved l.cmd crt Two Loccrtions

Served by L A. Iunction Rcrilrocd

Shed Spcce for Two Million Bocrrd Feet

Spur Trcrck to Accomnrodcte Thirty Rcilrocd Ccrs

Bccked by Twenty-two yecrs ol Experience in Handling Lumber crnd Forest Products

This Compcny Is Owned csrd Opercrted by FERN-crrdo I. Negrri

4550 Mcywood Ave., Los Angeles ll

JEfferson 7261

Walter G. Scrim, Los Angeles, president of the Philippine Mahogany Association, annodnhed on December 4 that cable advice from Manila stated that the embargo on sawn Philippine lumber would be lifted for a trial period of six months, shipment not to exceed h/o of. production. No efiective date of the time the embargo would be lifted was given.

Permits for shipping will be required the same as now in effect on logs and flitches.

Sells Smrmill in Oregon

J. Paul Campbell, Sr., has sold the sawmill of the J. Paul Caqpbell Lumber Co. at Canyonville, Oregon,. to the Alcan Lumber Co., in which E. K. Bregman is interested. Mr. Bregman operates the Cal-West Lumber Co. at Garvey, Calif. Mr. Campbell purchased the mill in 1941 and has operated it since then. It is a double circular, all steam mill with log pond, etc., the cut averaging 4O M ft. per shift. Shipping point is Riddle on the Southern Pacific, seven miles distant.

Arthur E. Twohy of the Twohy Lumber Co., Los Angeles, sawmill and lumber yard brokers, handled the sale.

The , sale of this mill does not afiect in any'way Mr. Campbell's other operation, the Trojan Wood Products, Inc., dt Riddle, Ore. This operation is a remanufacturing mill processing cants into surfaced dimension, the cantd being supplied by his semi-portable mill located in the timber.

Mr. Campbell is also owner of the Trojan Lumber Co., a large retail yard at Burbank, Calif.

Food For Europe

Again this year, as in the past, Mrs. Lillian Swafiord, vice president, E. J. Stanton & Son, Inc., Los Arlgeles, will send a check to help feed the needy people of Europe. Early this month a check was forwarded to C A R E in New York, as a holiday offering to the suffering folks, in the name of all the employees of the company.

It is a source of great satisfaction and gratification to the people of this firm to do their part in a truly worthwhile cause.

Hello Little Strcnger

There is rejoicing in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Norm Cords over the arrival of a 7-pound baby girl,'Diana Leigh, on November 29. Mr. Cords is head of the firm of Cords Lumber Company, San Francisco.

First Wcrter Shipment OI Dowels

Beceived Since-The Wcrr

White Brothers, wholesale hardwood dealers, San Francisco, received recently their first- shipment of dowels since before the war. They are distributors for C. B. Cummings & Sons Co. of Norway, Maine, world's largest dowel producers.. This indicates that the dowel manufacturers are in a better position than for several years.