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F. A. "Pete" Toste

Francis A. Toste, manager of the Southern California office of Rockport Redwood Co. and Rounds Trading Co. at Wilmington, Calif., known to his many friends as "Pete," has a background that was an excellent preparation for his present business.

His choice of the lumber business as a career was probably influenced by the fact that his grandfather was a logging operator and his father was in the logging business in Minnesota in his younger days and later operated a retail lumber yard in North Dakota.

Pete was born in Wimbledon, North Dakota. He attended high school there and entered the University of Montana in 1925, graduating in Forestry in the Class of '29.

During his college course he worked in spare time in the sawmill of Polleys Lumber Co., Missoula, Mont. He spent the first two summers in the U. S. Forest Service and the last two summer vacations working at the Polleys mill. Following his graduation he worked for one year with this concern, his experience including various jobs in the sawmill and later in the company's retail yard.

He came to California in 1932. His first job was with E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles. In his four years with this company he put in the first six months in the yard and worked the remainder of the time in the office in the wholesale department. Then he was with Coos Bay Lumber Co., Los Angeles for a year and was a salesman for a year with Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., Los Angeles, followed by a year as salesman with MacDonald & Harrington, Los Angeles. Two years ago he became associated with Rockport Redwood Co. and Rounds Trading Co.

Mr. Toste was married to Miss Myrtle Hollingsworth in Los Angeles in 1936. They make their home in Long Beach.

Pete's favorite hobbies are hunting and fishing when he has the time. When in school he was interested in music and had an orchestra of his own for part of that period.

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