Kenneth J. Shipp ''

' Kenneth James Shipp, president and owner of the California Builders Supply Company, Oakland, the subject of this brief career sketch, rvas born in Superior, Wisconsin. He came to California to attend Stanford University, and liked the Pacif,c Coast so well that he decided to stay.

His first acquaintance with the lumber business was when he worked during school vacations at the California and Oregon Lumber Company's mill at Brookings, Oregon. He later went to work full time at this mill and remained there for several years.

In 1930 he started the California Builders Supply Company in Oakland. The business has made steady growth and progress under his management, and now operates three warehouses, in Oakland, Sacramento, and Fresno, doing a strictly wholesale business in hardwood and softwood plywood and doors, millwork, and insulation.

He has received national recognition in his election as a director, and secretary of the National Plywood Distributors Association, with headquarters in Chicago.

Mr. Shipp ryarried Miss Genevieve Nicholson, daughter of Ed Nicholson, widely known former head of the Pacific Door & Sash Company, Los Angeles. Thev have three children, Gevie Ann, 18, attending Stanford; Kenneth J. Jr., 16, and Edmund N., 12. They live at Walnut Creek, Calif.

With his business and family claiming practically all of his time Ken does not have much leisure ior hobbies. He plays a little golf now and then, and is a member of The University Club, Oakland. He is a man of high principle, greatly respected throughout the lumber and allied industries, and universally liked.

Higgins-Stimmel

J. E. ("Tjg)lligdS-,_Irs,presidqqt qi.$e J, E.".H'.sgiFfffi6er C9.-mp4.py"*$an Francisco. u'as married to Mrs. George--Siimmel in Los Angeles on \["arch 22.

New Lons-Bell Officers

Five new directors r,vere adcled to the board ofJk 19"€-., Rell Lumber Co,-at the annual meeting of stockholders ..t;.*Fl ,,=--#*----held in Kansas City, Missouri, recently. The addition of the $r7fdEffi6i'i'ijiings the total board membership to fifteen;

These new Long-Bell vice presidents were elected from the board at the annual meeting. The nerv company officers are from the western operations of Long-Bell.

New directors include: R. A. L. Ellis, Kansas City, in the administrative department of the Company; L. G. Everitt, Kansas City, assistant general manager of the retail yards; E. H. Houston, Kansas City and Longview, Washington, general sales manager; J. M. White, Sr., Weed, California; and J. D. Leland, Longvierv, Washington.

R. F. Morse, Longview, Washington, manager of the logging and timber department, was elected to a vice presidency of the company as was Mr. White and Mr. Leland.

The new directors and officers will continue in their previous capacities with the exception of Mr. White and Mr. Leland. Mr. White has turned the general managership of the Weed operation over to Jphn H. Mantle and will divide his time between the Longview and Weed operations. Mr. Leland, who has been assistant to vice president R. P. Combs of Kansas City, becomes assistant to LongBell President, M. B. Nelson.

J. D. Tennant, vice president and manager, announced at the time of Mr. Mantle's promotion to the general managership of the Weed operation, that J. M. White, Jr., had been named assistant general manag'er and Thomas H. IlIardahl had been made superintendent of manufacturer.

Commendcrtion For Grcnd Jury Senrice

"I rvish to take this opportunity to express to you my sincere appreciation for the outstanding public service u'hich attended your presence upon the Grand Jury of Los Angeles Countl' during 1946," so declared Superior Judge \\rillam R. McKay, in a recent letter to LeRoy H. Stanton, president E. J. Stanton & Son, Inc., Los Angeles.

Roy is interested in many civic affairs and his name has been proposed for. Hoo-Hoo Snark of the lJniverse fiext Year.