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Wholesale Salesman Wants Position

2O-years' Southern California experience as direct mill agent for Fir and Redwood. With good following and excellent references. Qualifications by interview. Address Box C-9O1, California Lumber Merchant.

Wants General Utility Man

Los Angeles retail lumber company wants general utility man to drive truck and work in office and yard. Address Box C-903, California Lumber Merchant.

WANTED-POSITION BY LUMBERMAN

Thoroughly experienced from stump to consurner, including sales, costs, balance sheets, accounting in every detail, retail or wholesale. Also licensed building contractor. Best references. Bond if necessary. Free to go anywhere. Married, no children. Non-drinker. Address Box C-899, California Lumber Merchant.

!(/ood Sash and Frames Replace Metal

on USHA Projects

The recent revision of Lumber Letter No. 9. titled ..Industrial Sash and Frames", published by the California Redwood Association, has proved timely in light of the decision in June by the United States Housing Authority that henceforth windows on all USHA projects should be of wood with wood trim, stiles, aprons, casings and stops.

In this move to help conserve defense materials, a long list of wood items was recommended to be used in place of metals in USHA projects. In the ease of windows, the Lumber Letter, recently brought up to date, presents all of the pertinent advantages of wood sash and frames over metal for industrial usage, and highlights the superiority of All-heart Redwood in such constructions. What is said of sash and frames in the leaflet also applies to them in home construction.

With the growing demand for conservation of defense materials in face of the current active expansion in building, there is strong likelihood that this step taken by the USHA is the forerunner of a general trend in that direction; a signal for lumber and building material dealers to brush up on the selling points of wood as a replacement for metals.

In the case of sash and frames, from lJniversity of Wisconsin studies, the leaflet shows wood windows have but

MANAGER'S POSITION WANTED

Salary and commission, or straight comrnission. Thoroughly familiar with contracting and all .details of FHA construction and finance. If yours is not a $2000.00 to $5000.00 a year proposition I am not interested. Western territory only. Age 35. Able to invest.

Address Box C-902 California Lumber Merchant.

Southern California Lumber Yard For Sale

20 miles from Los Angeles. Good living conditions. Thirty-five years under one owner. Will lease ground (two acres) and buildings for any desired term, for $100 monthly plus taxes. Inventory $10,000. See Twohy Lumber Co., Lurnber Yard Brokers, 801 Petroleum Bldg., Los Angeles. Telephone PRospect 8746.

half the air leakage of similar metal windows; from American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers tests, it is shown heat loss through metal framing and sash is five times that through equivalent ones of wood, and at the conclusion. the Letter calls attention to the U. S. Forest Products Laboratory's placing of Redwood in that group of woods "that hold paint longest and suffer'least when protection against weathering becomes inadequate."

Interested persons may secure Lumber Letter No. 9 without cost from the California Redwood Association, 405 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, Calif.

Change Of Firm Name

The name of the Geo. F. Weis Company has been changed to Lumber Buyers Exchange, with office at 1151 South Broadway, Los Angeles.

Mr. Weis, who also heads the new concern states that Lumber Buyers Exchange, through its affiliates, offers to carload buyers of industrial and construction lumber a close personal contact with the manufacturer, rendering a buying service at the minimum of cost and "an after the sale service," so essential under existing conditions. The service, he says, covers all of the western woods and practically all items in hardwoods. The telephone number is PRospect 2876.

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