IIALLINAN LT]MBBB OOMPANY

Manujg clurers & W holesolers

DOUGLAS FIR. AND RED CEDAR

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Dixie crnd Airline Form 'Dixieline'

(Continued from Page 2) n-rent heads to function as of January 1 :

Grover Saunders, general superintendent and in cl'rarge of all 28th street operations; Willard Ellison, yard superintendent (Rosecrans) ; Gilfred Freese, Jr., credit department; Jack Cummins, h:rrdu,are department; Art Fischer, p:rint department, and Lou E. Fairbanks, bookkeeping.

Dixiel-ine rvill have four outside salesmen: Harold Nelson, C. C. Snyder, Dale D. Titterington and \\rilliam Waite. The order clesk lvill consist of Byron King, I'}at Nlurray, Bud lJolles, Wes Thomas, Jesse Bell and Clark Bequeaith. Paul Dahlson will handle fence sales, and Lyle Siebert, Sam Garner and Jim Porter rvill be in the shipping department. The employes of the trvo merged yards .rvill constitute an aggressive retail lumber organization, it may be seen.

Whereas l)ixie had been in continual operation at the same address 4rl years, since 1913, Airline r\ras started in 1949 and moved to the Rosecrans location in 1950. Bill and X'Iary Corvling are the parents of Bi1l, Jr., n'ho has been rvith Dixie since his Navy discharge four years ago. Young Corvling and his rvife Marilyn lir,e in La N{esa with their three children. Rob and Lorna Sutton are San Diego resiclents by u'ay of \\rest Los Angeles. Sutton has 22 years' experience in lumber, including five years lvith Security Nlaterials Co. in Ilollyrvood and eight rvith Associated Lumlrer Co., \\rest L. A. He has been president and manager of Airline since its start.

"\\ie feel Dixieline Lumber Co., starting operations Janrrary 2, rviil be able to serve the contractor trade as r,vell as tl"re homeorvner rvith all of their building needs," Sutton told The CALIFOITNIA I.UN{BEII MITRCHANT this month. "()ur nerv modern facilities, rvith our experienced personnel, u'ill be able to l-randle any situation that may colne uI) in their building requirements.

"\\re rvill carry a complete line of builders hardu'are, tools, paints, plywood ancl paneling, insulation, roofing, sash, doors, frames-as u.ell as being ablc to do custom millu,ork. Naturally, a 1:rrge inventory of common and linish gracles of Douglas fir, rednood and pine, besides cedar. soruce and several other sDecies."

The trade can loc-rk for further genuine retail lumber mercl-randising from this merged yarcl operation in San Diego, u'here there appears to be more aggressive lumber dealing in the entire area th:rn almost any other section of the country-as r'vitness tl.re outstanding'nrrmber of highly srlccessful retail yards there.

Lllarcmont.-ILalph I-ervis annorlnces a- ne1,v company to lre knol'n as Lelvis IIomes, Inc., spccializing in construction of custom-type residences. The firm is non' building Claremont North, a new community ;rt Regis and Foothill boulcvard. Ler,vis is also continuing clevelopment of 40 structrlres on a 2O-acre industrial site in IJuena Park.

Outdoor Cooking Helps Susfoin Chqrcoql Indusfry

Popularity of modern day outdoor cookery is helping to sustain one of the nation's'oldest industries. Charcoal "production in the United States amounted to 265,000 toni in 1956, the -U. S. Department of Agriculture recently announced. This rn'as somewhat above production in other post-$rar l9y_sr but less than half the reported peak pro- duction of 555,00O tcins in 1909.

About half the charcoal procluced in 1956 s,21s 11ssdlargely _in the form of briclueits-for picnics, outcloor cook- ing and ,to restaurants and dining cars. Some 35 to 40% u.as used in the chemical and metal industries. The rest rvas tused for miscellaneorls prlrposes such as curing tobacco, poultry feed, and water purifrcation.

The present pattern ;i c')nsuntption represents a sl.rarp contrast with the early 1900's lvhen most of the charocal produced rvas used in manufacturing metals and chemicals and.for heating and cooking in slum areas.

The report shorvs that 194 of the 240 known charcoal prodtrcers rvere iocated irr the East, rvhere 98/o of the charloal produced rvas manufactured.

_ California, with 39 producers, was the only western State with a well-established charcoal industiy.

I)omestic producers supplied nearly all the chircoal consrrmed. Imports amounted to 13,522 tons. less than S7o ol total consumption.

About 574,0A0 cords of u'ood were usecl in charcoal manu- facture in 1956, an average of 2.2 cords per ton to charcoal produced. Hardr.r'oocls such as ,rak. hiciorv. birch. beech ;tnd maple accourrted for 927o of the u.ood'consrrmetl. anrl s,,ftwoods-chieily pine-the remainder.

Seventy-four percent of the rvood consumed in 1956 consisted of roundrvood cut directly from trees. The rest came fr<im resiclues such as slabs and edgings from primary wood manulacturing plants.

The Forest Service report also discusses charco:rl kilns by type of construction, ar.erage cost of rvoocl clelivercd at c^harcoal plants, and average prices received by proclucers. 4 .opy of the report, "Charcoal Production in the United S.tates," may be ,btainecl from the Forest Service, U.S. L)epartment of Agriculture, \\rashington 25, D.C.

Appleton, Wis.-American Charcoal Engineering, located here. is eng_aged in the design, constru-ction arid op_ eration of portable steel kilns and equipmenr ro convert waste or cull rvood to charcoal. The trenh to suburban liv- ing ancl outdoor cooking has created an ever-expanding demand for charcoal, the ideal broiler fuel, says N. p. Engl 1er, .salesmanager of the company. The firm-'s concept 3f localized production of charcoil on farms and u,oodloti can bring new industry to such sites, he says. Local markets exlst everyr,vhere and the demand for charcoal increases u'ith every sale of a grill, barbecue, or outdoor or indoor fireplace.

American Charcoal Engineering believes a great amount of capital will be invested in the-charcoal btiiiness in the next 10 years and, whenever a briquet plant is established !r1.any area, the market opens up foi one of its porta'ble steel kilns as an assured sourie of charcoal needed'in large tonnage quantities.

Cossidy R.etires ot Johns-Mqnville

Adrain R. Fisher has become chief executive officer of Johns-Manville Corporation in a realignment of executive responsibilities following retirement of Leslie M. Cassidv. chairman. In accepting Mr. Cassidy's decision to retire bLcause of ill health, the board of directors elected Mr. Fisher chairman of the board. He also continues as president and director, offices which he has held since 1951. Mr. Cassidv continues as a Johns-Manville director and will be available as a consultant,

The J-M directors also created the new office of executive vice-president and elected Clinton B. Burnett to it.