REDt00rr and D(IUGTAS FIR tUiIBER Wholesale

A. K. WITSON LUMBER (0.

S. W. Gorner Det Amo snd Alqmedo Boulevords

Dominguez Junclion lloiling Address-P. O. Box l50, Compton, Golif. Telephone NEwnark l-8651

Appointed Distributors for Sirpson Insulating Board in San Diago and lmperial Counties

Recently appointed distributors for Simpson Insulating Board in San Diego and Imperial Counties, Frost Hardwood Lumber Company, of San Diego, is norv going into its thirty-seventh year in the hardwood lumber, wholesale plywood and Ponderosa Pine business in San Diego.

Al Frost, who founded the company in 1911, and well known to Southern California lumbermen, is still actively engaged as manag'er, assisted by Gordon Frost, rvho went to work in the yard in 1939, did a "hitch" in the Coast Guard during the war, and has returned to handle purchasing and sales.

Frost Hardwood has two veteran lumbermen to keep the wheels turning smoothly in the organization: John Stewart, who has been lvith the firm for tlventy years, is general superintende'rt; and G. A. (Al) Mattison, rvith sixteen years' service, is office manager: T. F. Cooney, r'ho also has come up through the yard, has recently been made outside salesman.

Lumber Declers Supply Co. Building New Plant

Lumber Dealers Supply Co., wholesale sash and door dealers, 1355 Temple Street, Long Beach, Calif., broke ground at the end of April for a new plant in Harbor City, Calif. The new plant will be two blocks south of Highll'ay 101, between President and Senator Streets, on the Pacific Electric right-of-way, Harbor City.

The building will be 97 by 28 feet, and of gunnite constru,ction. It is expected that it will be completed in about 90 days.

H. T. Hansen and Roy L. Young are the partners in Lumber Dealers Supply Co.

Brothers Plcrn Reuruon

Wilfred T. Cooper, wholesale lumber dealer, Pasadena, and Mrs. Cooper, accompanied by his brother, F. W. Cooper, and his wife, of Oakland, left May 15 for Baltimore, on a 30-day trip to have a reunion with their brother, R. H. Cooper, whose son, Bill is to be graduated from West Point. The party will attend the graduation ceremony, and will visit Washington, D.C. and Atlantic City.

Successful Los Angeles Lumber Oper.tion Enters Twelfth Year

facturing plant is operated at the yard, and some outside custom milling is done. The sheds were recently remodeled for lift truck operation.

Eric M. Hexberg is secretary of the corporation and manag'er. IIe was the first ernployee in 1936, and has been there ever since except for four.years' flying service for Uncle Sam. He was a first lieutenant in the Army Air Forces, and served in the China theater, piloting a B-25 bomber.

Anglo California Lumber Co., Inc. rvill begin its 12th year of successful operation in a ferv weeks from now, having been established in Jrly, 1936. The first location at 64N Avalon Boulevard, Los Angeles, lvas soon outgrown, and the yard rn'as moved to the present site at 655 East Florence Avenue in 1939. The business was founded by the late H. M. Luelh,vitz as a rvholesale distributing yard, specializing in the sale of Ponderosa and Sugar pine, and the same policy is still continued rvith direct mill shipments and sales out of the yard.

The yard has a frontage of 275 |eet on Florence Avenue and more than 500 feet on Stanford Avenue, .rvith an area of over three acres. It has storage capacity for 2,000,000 feet of dry lumber. The handling equipment includes a Ross lift truck and a Hvster carrier. A lumber remanrl-

Congrctulations

Mr. and Mrs. Gene Nlashek of Nlerced are receiving congratulations on the birth of a daughter, Suzanne Evelvn, their first child, April 17. NIr. Mashek is associated rvith the Merced Lumber Company, Merced.

Lilt Truck in Operction

Harl D. Crockett is sales manag'er. He has been u'itlr Anglo California since 1939.

Arne \\r. Olson, yard superintendent, has also bqen n'ith the firm since 1939.

New Lumber Ycrd

Paul Matli and Nlanuel Borba have opened a ncu. lunrber yard at Ntatli's corner, Robertson boulevard and Pacheco Pass, Chorvchilla, Calif., rvhich u'ill be kuon'n as the Cross Roads Lumber Company.