News of Out Service Friends

Lieutenant Colonel L' G. Burns, Army Transportation Corps, has just completed terminal leave and has now returned to active participation in both the Burns Lumber Co. and Burns Steamship Co., Los Angeles'

Lieut. Ray Haley, Jr., Army Transportation Corps, was recently home on lO-days leave. He is the son of Ray Haley, Sr., partner in Haley Bros., Santa Monica, and is stationed at Indiantown GaP, Pa.

Lieut. Rupert Haley, USN, is now out of the Navy after nearly four years' service, and has returned to Haley Bros', Santa Monica. He is a son of W. K. Haley' Another son, Lieut. David Haley, Field Artillery, is now in charge of a prisoner of war camp on Luzon, P'I'

Lieutenant Commander John Rudbach, on terminal leave trom the Navy, is back in the wholesale lumber business and has opened an office in the Rives-Strong Building, Los Angeles. FIe was in the service four years, and spent two anJ one-half years in New Guinea, Australia and the Phillippines.

Lieutenants James Hudson, George Burgon and Joe Bur' gon, who also servbd in the Navy, will be associated with him.

Pic. John R. Osgood, son of Robert S' geles lumberman, who was with Patton's l-atter part of the war, is now stationed in

Lieut. Fritz Harvn, recently discharged from the Navy' and again associated with his father in the Hawn Lumber Co., Alhens, Texas, recently visited T o-s Angeles, San Fran"ir"o "rd ihe Pacific Northwest' He attended the San FranciscoHoo-HooClub'sluncheonwhenintheBayDistrict, and called on friends in Los Angeles' where he was formerly with Coos Bay Lumber Co' and the Hammond Lumber Co.

Sgt. John Tietjen, son of Ed Tietjen, Sudden & Christenson, Inc., San Francisco, has received his discharge from the Army and has returned to work with his former employer, McElroy Lumber Company, Palo Alto, Calif. He was a platoon Sergeant in command of a reconnaissance platoon of a cavalry squadron. One sentence from his discharge papers gives an eloquent and terse description of his work. It reads: "He was in continuous combat in France and Germany from D-Day to the end of the war in Europe."

Sgt. Ed Heiberger, 38th Infantry, formerly with Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco, received his discharge November 13. ' He was three years in the Army and saw considerabie service in the South Pacific and Philippines.

Sgt. George W. Allen, who served with the Ordnance Corps ia England, France and Germany, and who was formerly with the United States Plywood Corp. in the San Francisco office, is now back with this organizatibn as office manager in Oakland.

Major Jack Dubois, U' November 18, and will be ger of Star Lumber Co., whe was a Sergeant in the 8th England for the Past three Years' is back with his former emPloYer, Corp., Los Angeles, on the order

S. Army, received his discharge back in his old position as manaStockton, on December 1.

Osgood, Los Anarmy during the Linz. Austria. Donald I'I. Barker, owner of the DRB Logging Co. and West Side Lumber Co., Eugene, Ore., has received his discharge frcrn the Navy and is again active in his organization.

Herbert J. Peteqson, Air Force, stationed in is out of the service and United States Plywood desk.

We Are Gratefut

Ior the opportunity thct comes with pecce to lecve behind most oI the hcurrp ering restrictions made necesscri' by wcrr'

Our biggest iob right now is buying lumber, cnd getting it into our yardcnd we crre very busY crt it.

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club Meeting

Chief Boatswain's Mate E.,R. Kilbride, who recently returned frorn a tour of duty with the Seabees in the South Pacific, was the speaker at the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club luncheon meeting at the University Club on November 20. His subject was "Thirty, Months of Construction in the South Pacific from Guadalcanal to the Philippines." lIe outlined the rvork done by the Seabees in the 'construction of airstrips, power plants, hospitals, camps' docks, bridges, supply huts, etc. The Seabees also built the Seventh Fleet headquarters near Manila, and assisted in clearing debris from devastated Manila. His talk was enjoyed by a large attendancr-.

President George Clough presided at the meeting, and J. W. Fitzpatrick introduced the speaker.

Hcley Bros. Expcrnd Fcrcilities

Haley Bros., wholesale sash, door and millwork dealers, Santa Monica, have been carrying out an extensive building program over the past several months. This includes a large new warehouse and additional loading dock. The capacity of the warehouse has been more than doubled in anticipation of increased postwar business.

Scrcrqmento Hoo-Hoo Club

Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club No. 109 held its regular monthly dinner meeting at Wilson's Confectaurant, Sacramento, on Wednesday evening November 21.

Ray Burdg, Noah Adams Lumber Co., Clarksburg, Calif., president of the club, presided.

Hold Get-Together Meeting

A group of about 50, including officials and employees of the E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, had a get-together party recently at the Admiral Cafe, Huntington Park. Warren B. Wood, San Francisco, president of the company, and J. A. Privett, Los Angeles manager, were among those present.

Lumbermen's Dinner Dqnce qt Scn Diego Dec.7

There will be an informal dinner dance for lumbermen and their suests at the San Diego Country Club, Chula Vista, on Friday evening, December 7.The party is sponsored by the San Diego Hoo-Hoo Club. These dinner dances are enjoyable affairs, and a big crowd is expected to attend.

Alter ne<rrly lour yecrrs working lor Uncle Sam, this com1xmy, which pioneered in plcnaing cnd building modern kitchens, is once more in production lor civilicn homes. Peerless is cgcin oflering profitcble decrlerships in modern kitchens, brecrHcst rooms, rumpua rooms, etc. Get recrdy NOW lor'home building, Ior hbme modernizing! For profitcble inlonncrtion" write to:

Bowerman Yard Sold

The Industrial Lumber Co. has bought the Bon.erman Lun:ber Co. property at 65D San Fernando Rd., Glendale. L S. Brorvn, lvell-kno\\'n Southern California lumlterman who was a sales representative for the E. K. \\-ood Luntber Co. ar Los Angeles for the past t$'enty-se\.en years rvill be president and general manager of the ne\\: concern. The company n'ill be ready for business as soon as sorrie improvements are made and their ne\r. equipment is received.

Art Twohy, Tlvohy Lumber Co., lumber yard brokers, made the arrangements for the sale of the propertr-.

The Borverman Lumber Co. u'as started in 1924 by

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Cingulation Kilns

21/o to )O/o m.ote capaciry due to solid edge-to-edge stackrng. Bcacr qudiry drying ol lov teopcranrrcr with a fgt revcnibc circulation.

Losct rtacking cotts-just solid cdgc-to-cdgc stacking in thc simplcrt form.

George IJamrnond and his father-in-larv, Chas. C. Bowerman, who came to Southern California from pocatello, Idaho, rvhere they had been in the lumber business since 1910. N{r. Borvcrman died in 1936, and Mr. Hammond continued tlre yard tti;til 1942 when he sold out the stock and began the manufacture of aircraft metal parts at the same location. He discontinued this operation at the end of the war. Nlr. Hammond has incorporated a nerv company, George Hammonci & Sons, and will be back in the lumber business at 18,228 Parthenia Street, Northridge, in the San Fernando Valley, just as soon as the buildings can be completed.

Mooreliln Paint Products for weathcrproofing dry lciln and crill roofa.

lGln Buildco for Morc Th{r H.lf e Celrturf

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