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General Offices:

Peninsula Milling Co. Operating New Plant

L. J. (Lorry) Owen Mcnoger

DOuglos 5070

Spoufding Building, Por]lqnd 4, Oregon

The Peninsula Milling Co. is now in operation at its new location, a two-acre piece of property, at Bayshore Highway and East San Carlos Avenue, San Carlos, Calif., 18 miles south of San Francisco. Its San Mateo plant rvas destroyed by fire on January 18,1947.

The remilling plant includes two stickers, self-fed gang rip and 60" resaw, also space for a yard planer not yet procured. The building is 20'x75'.

The main mill is 5O'x 100, and has a 14-foot vertical clearance at the entrances. The equipment includes a grinding room and a complete list of cabinet shop machinery.

The sash and door warehouse is20'x70'.

Construction will be started August 15 on a 50'x 100' main warehouse. All buildings are metal sheathed for fire resistance, and set apart to eliminate the hazards of total loss by fire. All the wiring is underground, and a blower system now being installed runs from both mills to an air-cooled burner.

The office is a one-story redwood rustic building and the interior is finished in pine paneling and weltex.

The'company's present payroll is 25, and upon completion of the plant the average daily payroll will be about 35 men.

In addition to the sale of lumber and manufacture of millwork for the building industry, the company will continue to serve approximately ninety industrial accounts with special purpose boxes, crates, flats, pallets and export packaging.

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Meeting and Golf Tournament September 5

President Bob Osgood presided at a luncheon meeting of the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club conimittee, Tuesday, August 5, at the Chapman Park Hotel, Los Angeles.

Hoo-Hoo Day will be observed with a meeting and golf tournament at the Inglewood Country Club, Inglewood, Friday, September 5. The golfers will tee off at noontime, and in the evening dinner will be served in the clubhouse followed by an entertainment program and a business session when new officers will be elected and installed.

The following were nominated by the Nominating Committee for Club officers for the coming Hoo-Hoo year: president, Paul Orban, Orban Lumber Co., Pasadena; vice president, Bill Ream, George E. Ream Company, Los Angeles; secretary-treasurer, Earl Galbraith, T. M. Cobb Co., Los Angeles.

An invitation will be presented at the Hoo-Hoo annual convention to be held at Spokane, Wash., September 9-10, to hold the 1948 annual meeting at Los Angeles. Members of the Committee who will attend the annual meeting at Spokane are George Clough, Paul Orban, Roy Stanton, Dee Essley and Ole May.

Young Lumbermcrn?

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Bird of Stockton are receiving congratulations on the birth of a son, Charles Albert, on July 1, 1947. The young fellow weighed in at7lbs. 12 oz. Mr. Bird is associated with the Central Lumber Company, Stockton, and is the son of Charles G. Bird, Stockton.