California Building Permits for October

California Door Co. Holds Open House

More than 200 responded to the fornia Door Company-to inspect at 494O District Boulevard, Los November 15.

Open house was held from 11 served in the warehouse.

invitation of The Calitheir fine new quarters Angeles, on Saturday, to 4 and luncheon was

General Manager C. G. Price of Diamond Springs, Calif., and Resident Manager Glenn O. Fogleman and the staft' welcomed the visitors.

Two talking pictures were shown by Libbey-OwensFord Glass Co. One, a color picture entitled "Our Home," is sponsored by the FHA. The other showed the manufacture of plate and window glass.

Many of the visitors displayed interest in a number of the company's ledgers and other books dating from 1887 to 1906. Amusement was caused by a memorandum showing identical expense items for December 1, 1887, and November 15,1941. The first read: "Expense George Wilson and E. H. Kittredge to Los Angeles to get business started, $145.00" and the second, 54 years later read: "Expense C. G. Price and C. W. Doe, trip to Los Angeles, $145.00, to see if business is still going."

Joseph Molera, Hammond Lumber Company, won the first door prize, a Z1-pound live turkey. Albert Engvall, with Theodore Kornweibel, won the second prize, a merchandise order on Wm. H. Hoegee Company, and the third prize, a merchandise order on Bullock's Inc., was won by V. A. Van Matre, Van Matre-Manning Lumber Company.

National Survey Retail Lumber Stockr and Sales

Retail lumber stocks on September 3O were estimated at 7,154 million feet, about 0.5 per cent above August 31, the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association reports.

Gains up to 6 per cent were reported in three regions, with decreases up to 6 per cent reported in the six remaining areas. Gains were concentrated in the Middle Atlantic, East and West North Central, with the heaviest loss again being reported in the South Atlantic area.

September 30 stocks were estimated to be about 17 per cent over a year ago. Individual regions varied from 10 to 26 per cent over last year.

Retail lumber sales for the second conse,cutive mo.nth showed a decrease from the preceding month. Slight gains were reported in three regions, with decreases up to 20 per cent reported in the remaining areas.

Elected Director of National Ski Assn.

Roy Mikkelsen, Auburn, California, manager of the Millwork and Hardware Departme.nts of Auburn Lumber Company, was elected a director of the National Ski Association of America at a recent meeting of the California Ski Association in Yosemite Valley. Roy is a former skiing champion of the United States and was twice a member of the Olympic Games teams representing this nation. He is president of the Auburn Ski Club.