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YABD STOBAGB -- to insure future deliueries

Now neoring completion ir fhc ncw addirion to our drying yord sloroge focilirie:, which will greotly expond our presenf copocity for proper seo:oning of Polco Rcdwood. You'll now find, too, thor Polco Redwood is for ruperior in every rospect to that which we hcve ever produied. The prerent highest :tondords of quoliry will be mointcined.

New San Francisco Yard Designed National Plywood Distributors For EconomicLumber Handling

The new nine-acre yard of Gamerston & Green Lumber Co. at the foot of Tunnel Avenue, San Francisco, is located in a new industrial district, just off Bay Shore Boulevard, ancl ideally situated ,both for delivery and for pickups by dealers.

A lot of thought was put into the designing of the ner,v yard, keeping in mind the basic idea of handling lumber as economically as possible. All lumber is handled by Ross lift truck and Ross carrier. Each item is piled separately by sizes, grades and lengths.

There is a large assembling and sorting area on tl-re north side of the entran,ce. The railroad spur track runs the rvhole length of the yard. Frontage on Tunnel Avenue is about 600 feet. The yard handles fir and redr.vood lumber. Wesley Collins is manager of this yard. Telephone is JUniper 5-6083.

Ponderosa pine, Sugar pine and plyrvood are handled at the yard at 1800 Army Street. Bob Bonner is in charge of this department, and John W. Gamerston is his assistant.

The company's general offices are still at 1800 Arrny Street, San Francisco. Harry B. Gamerston is president: Lu Green (Oakland yard),'is executive vice president; Frecl J. Ziese, Everett W. Lervis (Oakland yard), J. \\resley Collins, and S. 1!f. Wood are vice presidents.

Northern California Retailers tVill Hold Convention in Santa Cruz, Oct. 15-17

The dates for the eight annual convention of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California have been set f<rr October 15. 16. and.17.

The three day meeting will be held at the Casa Del Rey Hotel, Santa Cruz, Calif.

For the first time in the organization's history there tvill be equipment and proclucts exhibits staged by leading manufacturers and distributors.

"The best current speakers are being obtained to make this the rnost outstanding retail lumbermen's convention er-er l.reld in Northern California," is the promise made by Executive Vice President Robert J. (Bob) Wright, and he asks dcalers to circle those dates on their calendars.

Meet ln Seattle

National Plywood Distributors Association held its annual meeting and board of directors meeting at the Olympic Hotel, Seattle, July 28 to 31. The registration of members and their wives was about 200.

George Voorhees, Michigan Wholesalers, fnc., Mich., was elected president.

John B. Power, general manag'er, Vancouver & Veneer Co,, Vancouver, Wash., spoke on the "And The Valley Shall Be Full of Bones."

Jackson, Plywood subj ect,

Charles E. Devlin, managing director, Douglas Fir Piywood Association, addressed the meeting on "Promoting an Oversold Product."

Among those who traveled from California to attend were: Kenneth Shipp, California Builders Supply Co., Oakland, u'ho is secretary, and a director; W. F. (Bill)) Fahs, California Panel & Veneer Co., Los Angeles; J. E. (Ted) Higgins, J.., . E. Higgins Lumber Co., San Francisco, and H. J. Hauge, Lumbermen's Supply Co., Sac'ramento.

A trip was made by the party to the Simpson Logging Company's camp at Grisdale, \\rashington. Big Douglas fir trees rvere topped and felled for the visitors'entertainrnent.

Truitt-Warren Lumber Co.

The principals in the Truitt-Warren Luml;er Companr', a rvholesale lumber concern distributing West Coast forest products, rvith offices at Second and Hearst Avenue, Berkeley 2, California, are George W. Truitt and J. H. Warren.

Mr. Truitt had been in the rvholesale and retail lurnber business in Texas for 23 years before coming to California. He still has a half interest in a retail yard in Wichita Falls, Texas, the Stephens & Truitt Lumber Co. He rvas a reserve Commander in the Navy from \\rorld War l, and served three years in \A/orld War II as aviation supply oflicer.

J. H. Warren joined Mr. Truitt in tl-re rvholesale business June 1 of this year. He 'ivas in the rvholesale and conrmission lumber business in Tulsa, Okla., for many years. This firm does business in California, Texas, Oklahorna, Kansas, Wisconsin, Iorva, Minnesota ancl Neltraska. Telephone number is BErkeley 7-0511.