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Southern Lumber Company New Wholesale Concern

Southern Lumber Company has opened offices in the Park Central Bldg., 412 West 6th Street, Los Angeles, and will carry on a rvholesale lumber business handling Fir, Pine and Redrvood. Porter M. Waldron is the owner, Mrs. Grace E. Harter, office manager, and Carl Davies, sales manager.

Mr. Waldron has been associated with the paint and varnish industry for over thirty years' during which time he served in a technical capacity, then as owner of the Progressive \rarnish Works from 1936 until 1947, when he sold to an eastern concern. Although he owris the controlling interest in another paint and varnish concern, he is actively interested in the lumber business.

NIrs. Harter, oflice manager and bookkeeper, lias been associated rvith N[r. Waldron for over ten years, having full charge of the books and finances of the enterprises in rvhich he rvas interested.

Carl Davies u,ill handle all sales for the company. Cari started in the lumber business r,vhen he was 16 years of age at the E. K. Wood Lumber Co. at Los Angeles u'here l-re remained for four years. He then served in the Army in World \\rar I for a year and a half. After his discharge from the Armr', he u'ent rvith Hammond Lumber Co. at Terminal Island, and later to their Los Angeles yard for a year or more in the shipping department. In the follorving years he u,as u,ith Woodhead Lurnlter Co., Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., and the Globe Lumber Co. During World War II, he handled a Service Contract for the U.S. Armv Air Corps and Corps of Engineers, involving over fifty million feet of lumber. Carl's son, Warren recently returned from active service with the trirst Division, U.S. N{arines, in Korea 'ivhere he r,vas. awarded the Purple Heart.