Sivon Manufacturing Co. Construction Will Probably Appoints Distributors

The Sivon Manufacturing Company, of Pasadena, Calif., manufacturers of the Sivon Swivel Ironing Board, has appointed the Sampson Company, of Pasadena, Red River Lumber Company, Los Angeles, and Haley Brothers, Santa Monica. as distributors.

Theodore Kornweibel, manager of the Sivon Manufacturing Co., has pur'chased from Charles Sivon the plant and rights to sell the Sivon Srvivel Ironing Board in the western states. Mr. Kornweibel has been associated with the lumber business in Southern California for a long period. For several years he was with the E. K. Wood Lumber Co. at Los Angeles, and later with Haley Brothers. He also spent two years in the Orient rvhere he was connected with the lumber business. Mr. Sivon, who has operated the plant for the past four years, is opening a plant in Ohio rvhere he will concentrate on the eastern markets.

Among the features of the Sivon Swivel Ironing Board are: it swivels 90 degrees to the right or left, is rigid at any angle, has iron and steel working parts, and is mechanlSllly_ simple. Commenting on the-Sivon Ironing Board, R_ill Sampsgn, of the Sampson Company, says "t[at he is pleased with this new addition to theii line as it is consistent with their policy of handling quality products."

H. J. Bunker To Address S. F. Hoo Hoo

H. J. B'rnker, president of the Coos Bay Lumber Company, _San, Fran,cisco,. will be the speaker of tfre day at the next lun'cheon meeting of the San Francisco Hoo Hoo Club, to be held at the Commer,cial Club. San Francisco.

Thursday, February 26 at 12:09 p.m.

Appointed Assistant Manager of Sales

The American Chain Company, Inc., and Associated Companies, of_B{dgeport, Conn., announce the appoint- ment of Roy E. Greenwood, formerly associated wlin S;- monds Saw & Steel Company, as assistant general sales manag'er with headquarters at Bridgeport, Conn., effective February 2,1931.

Mark Upturn in Business

A renewal in construction activity, p.articularly residential, will probably mark a general upturn in business, according to H. S. Wanzer, Sacramento, president, California Building-Loan League. In past periods of major depression, the signs which heralded the return of prosperity were not popular ,consumpti,on but constru.ction, steel a,ctivity, transportation and automobile production. Improvement in railroad traffic can only be bnought about by a revival in the other three industries.

A future rather than a current need is represented bJ' construction, Mr. Wanzer de,clares. When c,onfidence is at a low ebb, it may be postponed without serious hardship to related lines of business, although labor usually suffers. The,constru'ction business and allied lines normalfy provide employment for ,one million five hundred thousand workers. During the past year, construction in the United States fell short of 95,000,ffi0,000, whereas the industrv is capable of taking good care of an annual volume arolnd $8,009,000,000 to 99,00o,000,ffi. This reduction naturally has also had vast economic c,onsequences reaching far beyond the industry itself.

With deferred construction needs rapidly accumulating, it appears inevitable that the business iho* a gradual u[- turn, states Mr. Wanzer. All conditions are present to make building at this time particularly profitable, material pric-es are the lowest in yeais. ample financing facilities are available at reasonable rates, effi,cient laboi is plentiful, ,costs of ground sites are at low levels and the vacancv factor is small.

Company Buys Entire Russian Door Output

Washington, D. C., Jan. 31.-The Lumber Division of the Departme.nt of Commer.ce reports a London trading c.ompany-a large distributor of American Douglas fii d'oors-as having ,contra,cted to pur,chase the entiie 1931 Russian door output to a maximum of 600,000 doors. ,,Russian doors," the item reads, "are mostly made to Swedish patterns and of similar wood. The English trade expe,cts the Russian doors to compete chiefly wilh Eur.opean d'oors. In the first ten-month_period of 1930, the three principal pgr,tg in the United Kingdom imported doors vilued'at fi2,503,994, of which $1,658,585 were from the United States and the balance from other countries, principallv Srveden."