R G. ROBBITIS IUI}IBER CO.

319 S. W. Wcrshington Portlcnd 4, Oregon

Distibators of Pacific Coast Forest Products

tOs ANGELES l5 Douglcs Fir SAN FBINCISCO il nr w.oorvutit#rvd. - n"-_ro.t

Ross i. Lcrshley Cedcr W. H. Ol[eil

Wholesale to Lumber Yards

Sash 'Windows

Gasements - DooFS, etc.

Mrs. Adella Bishop Mullin

Mrs. Adella Bishop Mullin, widow of John F. Mullin, pioneer Los Angeles lumberman, passed away at her home in Los Angeles on October 6. She was 73 years of age.

A native of Minnesota, she came to Pasadena in 1886, living there until her marriage seven years later to Mr. Mullin, who organized the Montgomery & Mullin Lumber Co. in Los Angeles, which was merged with another company about fifteen years ago.

Mrs. Mullin was an active member of the Wilshire Methodist Church, of the Ebell Club of Los Angeles, and of Town and Gown. She leaves three sons, Russell B' Mullin. of the Burbank Lumber Co., Burbank; Wayne F. Mullin, of the Mullin Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and J. Stanley Mullin of Pasadena; and a daughter, Mrs. Florence M. Tanquary of Los Angeles.

Funeral services were conducted Tuesday noon, October 9. at the Wee Kirk o' the Heather, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, by Rev. Willsie Martin, pastor of the Wilshire Methodist Church.

Charles S. Keith

Charles S. Keith, leader for many years in the lumber industry, passed away at his home in Kansas City, Mo., Tuesday afternoon, October 9. Funeral services were held October 11.

Company

Mr. Keith was president of the Central Coal & Coke Company, which until the depression operated sawmills in the South and on the West Coast, and controlled large timberlands and coal mines. Like many other industrial concerns, it was forced into receivership in 1931.

Mr. Keith was one of the organizers and the first president of the Southern Pine Association; and a vice president and director in the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. l{e was regarded as a foremost student of lumber industrial and economic affairs and his counsel was generally sought by the industry.

In 194O, Mr. Keith was appointed mayor of Kansas City to fill an unexpired term of his predecessor, being selected as a compromise candidate in the adjustment of political chaos that prevailed in the city at that time. He had never previously been active in politics. He had served as president of the Kansas Citv Chamber of Commerce.

Pitcher Disappeafing Doors

We have on hcrnd Stock ol Pltcher

We now ship the lrcne set up complete which ioins with c 3/a" stud, mcrking no extcr thicloress lor cr sliding door. Detail Sbeets Sent to Lamba Trude on Reqaest

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Awarded Army-Navy E

Employees of Northwest Door Co. of Tacoma, Wash., have the double distinction of being the first workers to earn the Army-Navy E, ar,vard for producing both fir plywood and fir doors as well as be among the last groups so honored by the military. The presentation was made Sept. 20 as one of the final 32 citations authorized by the joint Army-Navy E board at its closing meeting a mbnth earlier.

Production records speak well for the 480 men and women of Northwest Door for every year since 1941 they have boosted the volume of doors, sash and millwork from 1 to D per cent over the previous period. And after a slight decrease in 1942, plywood output, too, was bolstered appreciably each year until it now is at the rate of 45 million square feet annually. '

Joe Smith, erhployee of the firm for 14 of its 17 years of operation, received the worker's E lapel pin from Major John S. Detlie, c. e. Pins.for other workers were distributed later. Capt. E. A. Verpilot, USNR, presented the E pennant to H. E. Tenzler, president of the company,.who accepted it for the firm.

Buys Smith Wood-Products Plcnt

The Coos Bay Lumber Co., Marshfield, Ore., has purchased the properties of the Smith Wood-Products Co. at Coquille, Ore., which included a fir sawmill, Port Orford cedar sawmill and cedar specialty plant, and a fir plywood unit. The Smith company operated the plant at Coquille for seventeen years.

Telephone, YOrk 1168

Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club Elects Officers

Ray E. Burdg of Noah Adams Lumber Co., Clarksburg, Calif., was recently elected president of Sacramento HooHoo Club No. 109. Stanley Gustafson, Sierra Mill & Lumber Co., Sacramento, was elected vice president, and C. D. Le Master, Sacramento, was re-elected secretary.

The new directors are: Art Williamson, California Builders Supply Co., Sacramento; Walter Baker, Woodland Lumber Co., Woodland, and Signar Lindroth, Capital Lumber Co.. Sacramento.

Ed Bcruer Mckes An Ace

Ed Bauer of the Atlas Lumber was in fine form on Labor Day

Gene DeArmond over the South geles Country Club. He made a hole.

Moves Office

Washington Veneer Co. fice to 111 West 7th Street. the same. TUcker 6888.

Lumber Yqrd Fire

Company, Los Angeles, when playing golf with Course at the Los Anhole-in-one on the 1lth has moved its Los Angeles ofThe telephone number remains

Fire destroyed the warehouse and office building of the Belvedere Lumber Company at Los Angeles on October 1. The warehouse was empty, and the office building had not been occupied since 1943, but was scheduled for renewed occupancy soon.