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Fir, Cottonwood and Spruce Retailers State Convention to be Plywood Manufactured bv Hefd at
Abcrd een Plywood Co.
One of the most important units of the plywood industry of the Pacific Northwest is the Aberdeen Plyrvood Company, of Aberdeen, Washington.
Their plant has a capacity of 160,000 feet daily, and they manufacture Douglas Fir, Cottonwood and Spruce plywood.
Cottonwood plywood is a spe,cialty used largely by furniture manufacturers, but also used extensively for interiors. It takes a very fine finish.
V. A. Nyman is the company's general manager and sales manager. Mr. Nyman was formerly with the Olympic Veneer Company, Olympia, .Wash. He has been in the plywood manufacturing business for nearly a quarter of a century.
The California office of the Aberdeen Plywood Company is the Northwestern Lumber Agency, 3747 West 27th Street, Los Angeles. D. M. Oder is manager.
WARREN B. WOOD RETURNS FROM NORTHWEST
Warren B. Wood, Los Angeles, vice president of the E. K. Wood Lumber Co., has returned from a four weeks' trip to the Northwest. He visited the company's mill at Anacortes, and also spent several days at Bellingham.
Fresno Oct. 11-12-13
At a rneeting of the board of directors of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association held at Santa Barbara on August 31, it was voted to hold the state convention at Fresno on October ll-I2-13, 1934. Spencer D. Baldwin, president of the National Retail Lumbermen's Association, who is making a trip around the United States, covering eighteen different meetings of retail dealers, will attend the convention.
L. A. CON,CERN REORGANIZES
A reorganization and taking over of the properties and business of the Pacific Door & Sash Co. of Los Angeles was recently completed and the concern is now operating under the name of the Pacific Wood Products Corporation. The officers of the new organization are: George A. J. Howard, President; John D. Connell, vice president; Frank Curran, second vice president, and L. A. Rentsch, secretarytreasurer.
HENRY S. PATTEN ATTENDS CODE AUTHORITY MEETING
Henry S. Patten, Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., Los Angeles, attended a meeting of the Retail Lumber Code Authority at Washington, D. C., on September 12. Mr. Patten also attended the conference of western retail lumbermen at Denver, Colo., on August 24-25.