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Roy A. Fobes

Roy A. Fobes, manager of the Los Angeles branch of the Pacific Mutual Door Company, a national organization with headquarters in Tacoma, Wash., is one of the most highly respected and best known men in the lumber and allied products business in Southern California.

Born in Nelson, Ohio, of Down-East Yankee stock, he got his early schooling in that state and attended Oberlin College at Oberli,n, O., where he played football. He went South to work for the Gulf Refining Company, and was at Saratoga Springs, Texas, for some time with that concern.

Believe-it-or-not his first connection with the lumber business was as a manufacturer, when he and a partner took over a small mill at Batson Prairie, Texas, in 1904 and for a couple of years manufactured Southern Pine derrick lumber and other stock used in the oil fields. He sold out and went to work late in 1905 for the Industrial Lumber Company at Oakdale, La., and was there until 1908.

He came to California in 1909 and for the first two years worked on the waterfront for the Hammond Lumber Com- pany. Following this he was wholesale salesman for five years out of Hammond's Los Angeles office. For two years he sold Redwood for Little River Redwood Company and Navarro Lumber Company. In 1919 he went with Sudden & Christenson and for about nine years was in charge of their Los Angeles office. For several years he operated as a commission salesman, and in 1935 was put in charge of the Pacific Mutual Door Company's Southern California warehouse and sales office.

Mr. Fobes is very enthusiastic about the plywood business and sees a great future for this material, for which new uses are constantly being found.

IIe was married in Akron. O.. in lX)7 and he and Mrs. Fobes have made their home in Hollywood for the past 28 years. They have a son and daughter. Their son, "Bud" is in the oil business in Taft, Calif., and their daughter is the wife of Glen Bessinette, who is associated with Mr. Fobes in the Los Angeles warehouse.

Golf is his only hobby and he looks forward to the day when he will be able to devote more time to improving his game.

4 Times Around The World

Mason E. Kline, sales engineer, IJnion Lumber Comrpany, San Francisco, was recently made a member of United Air Lines' 100,000 Miles Club. The membership card bears the inscription "Four tirnes around the world."

Douglas Fir Exports To Canada

Washington, D. C.Douglas fir exported to Canada in 1938 amounted to 5.824,000 board feet of lumber, or about one-tenth of one per cent of the total production of Douglas fir lumber in the United States, and 30,529,000 feet of logs, according to a statement by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association.