News of Our Friends in the Servicer

Don Philips, Jr., RDM 2/c is stationed on the U.S.S. Talladega, APA, now running between the Philippines and Tokyo transporting troops. It was the first of the APA vessels to dock at Yokohama. He was at Iwo Jima on D-Day, and he also took part in the early stages of the campaigns in the Philippines and Okinawa.

Pfc. Bill Flamer, son of Erik Flamer, Coast Lumber & Equipment Co., Long Beach, is a member of the ground crew of the 20th Air Force. I{e is now in Okinawa, has been three years in the Air Force, and has seen service in Australia, India and the Marianas. His 'ivork has been mainly wlth B-29 Bombers.

Pfc. Erik D. Flamer, another son of Mr. Flamer's, is stationed in San Francisco, attacl-red to the Army Medicai Corps.

Pfc. \A/allace Towle. son of S. W. Towle, West Coast Lumber Co., San Francisco, who was in the Army for several years and recently was serving on a {.J. S. hospital ship, has been honorably discharged and is again associated rvith his father in business.

Major Charles J. Schmitt, U. S. Army, recently arrived in San Francisco on leave after 34 months overseas service in the Pacific area. He was associated with the United States Plywood Corp. when he entered the service

Lieut. Col. C. A. Middleton AUS, who served in the Aleutians, and for some time was liaison officer of the War Relocation Board, has received his discharge from the Army and is now back with Anderson-Mdidleton Lumber Co., Aberdeen, Wash., of which 'company he is vice president.

Lt. Hank Aldrich USN, son of Harry W. Aldrich of Aldrich Lumber Co., Eugene, Oregon, is home on leave. IIe was an offrcer on the destroyer Callaghan, which was a victim of a Jap suicide plane.

Release of Shop Lumber Will Boogt Production of Stock Millwork

New home construction in the postwar period will not be held up for lack of stock woodwork products, according to W. M. Steinbauer, secretary-manager of the National Door Manufacturers Association. The Association represents thirty of the country's largest producers of Ponderosa pine sto,ck windorvs, doors, frames, cabinets and trirn.

"Following the cessation of hostilities in the Pacific, the demand for containers has dropped precipitously. This will release shop lumber in substantial volume to the woodwork industry to which it normally flor,vs. In this connection it should be borne in mind that approximately 5O per cent of the nation's total lumber production of all species has been going into containers, crating and dunnage.

"Since no reconversion problem is involved, the production and availability of woodwork products will bear a direct relation to the availability of shop lumber. With woodrvork products still flowing in fair quantities to distributors and with the prospect of the millwork industry resuming a normal rate of production shortly, the possibility of stock woodwork products remaining in short supply for any extended period is extremely remote."

Yumcr Ycrrd Sold

The yard of the Yuma Lumber & Supply Company, Yuma, Arizona, has been sold to the O'Malley Lumber Company and H. Marvin Smith. The new firm is operating under the name of O'Malley-Smith Lumber Co. at the same location.

Mr. Smith, who has for the past eight years been engaged in the contracting and retail lumber business, is manager of the yard.

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Frcrncisco Hoo-Hoo Club

To Hold Luncheon Oct, 23

San Francisco Hoo-Hoo Club No. 9 will irold a luncheon meeting in the Concert Room of the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, at 12:09 p.m., Tuesday, October 23. The meeting will end promptly at 1:D p.m.

This luncheon will be followed by a monthly meeting, and all lumbermen and those in allied industries are invited to attend.

Announgement

Hcrrry Terrell qnnounces thct he purchcsed the entire interest oI his pcrtner, . Thomas G. Ross, in The Ross-Terrell Co, ol Grcrnts Pcss, Oregon, on July 28, 1945. The ncme of the company wcs chqnged, eflective September I, 1945, to The Terrell Lumber Co., which will continue the business cs it hcrs operated in the pqst.