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In case of alterations, Tru-Sized jambs can be moved or salvaged one-hundred per cent. The resiliency of the "Shock-Absorber" leaf springs in Tru-Sized jambs reduces shock of slamming, and helps prevent cracking and loosening of plaster around jamb. When Tru-Sized or Factri-Fit doors are installed in Tru-Sized jambs, last minute trimming, planing and fitting is entirely eliminated, and a oerfect installation is assured.

Bcy Cox Returns From Extended TriP

Hitting the market at one of the most crucial times in the nation's building history, the new Wheeler Osgood Tru-Sized Door Jamb with patents applied for has been acclaimed as one of the most advanced ideas in door jambs ever developed.

The new Tru-Sized jamb actually cuts installation time from an average of one and a half hours to 8 to 10 minutes. It comes from the factory completely precision machined and built.

There are only three precision milled pieces to handle, and they are adjusted one at a time. The Tru-Sized jamb eliminates making dados, placing and fitting blocks, squaring and plumbing rvith wedges, gaining for hinges, and cutting and installing stoPs.

Packaged two to a bundle in protective paper wrapping, Tru-Sized jambs come complete with all necessary hardware and full instructions for installation. Each set includes hinge jamb (rvith starter block glued in place at

Ray B. Cox, president of Peerless Built-in Fixture Company, Berkeley, California, has returned from a five week motor trip with Mrs. Cox in which they covered 10,000 miles. The trip was one in which vacationing was blended with business. Points visited included New England, New York state, Virginia, the Tennessee Valley project, New Orleans, Grand Canyon, and Boulder Dam' They called on the Peerless company's suppliers of metal "qrrip*"rrt and cabinet hardware, and had an opportunity to look over the eastern lumber situation. From a vacationing standpoint, one of the highlights was the autumn foliage in northern New York. "No artists could possibli' depict the beauty of the painted woodsides, with their crimsons and golds," Mr. Cox said, and added that this feature rvas about the only way in which nature has neglected the San Francisco Bay area.

Plans F.xtensive ImProvements

W. A. Woodard Lumber Co., Cottage Grove, Ore', has increased its capital stock from $700,000 to $1 million' The firm plans extensive improvements of its sawmill plant and will expand its workers' housing project' Addiiional streets and sidewalks have been built to provide for expanding the project to 60 homes froln the 17 built last year, according to W. A. Woodard, president'

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San Francisco Club Will Entertain Orphans At Christmas Party

Vice president Dick Mussallem, of Dicknson's Lumber Co., San Francisco, chairman of the Christmas Partl' committee of the San Francisco Lumbermen's Club, invites a bumper attendance for this event. The Club will entertain the ,children from a San Francisco orphanage at the Palace Hotel on Tuesday, December L7, at noon.

There will be a Santa Claus, impersonated by Frank O'Conner. for the children, with presents for all of them, and the committee has secured the services of Jo-Jo the famc.us clown, and his party for an entertainment feature.

Members of the Christmas party committee in addition to the chairman are: "Sti" Stibich, Lew Godard, Frank O'Connor, and Carl Warden.

Roseburg Lumber Compcrny in New Locction

The yard of the Roseburg Lumber Company, retail distributors, was moved O,ctober 1, from their temporary 1ocation on East 58th Street, Los Angeles, to their own 10acre site at 3241 El Segundo Boulevard, Hawthorne, Calif.

Already six acres of the yard have been surfaced with blacktop, and a substantial footage of lumber is being moved through the yard.

They have built their own railroad spur, 800 feet long, which will accommodate 16 cars. The company will also build a drive-in dry shed, 22 leet high, that will hold about 300,000 feet.

Roseburg Lumber Company's sawmill at Roseburg, Oregon, produces 130,000 feet per day, and their new mill, which is nearly completed, will also have a capacity of 130,00J feet.

Kenneth Ford is president of the company. E. J. (Ed) Loney is manager of the Hawthorne yard, and Fred Furtsh is sales manager. The telephone number of the yard is Hawthorne 2491.

To Mcncrge OcHcnd Warehouse

Charles W. Gunningham will be manager of the Oakland warehouse of California Builders Supply Co., effective December 1. He was formerly manager of the company's Sacramento warehouse for a period of five years.

Re-Enters \Tholesale Lumber Business Aero-Bilt Home Sections

Floyd W. Elliott, rvho for the past 13 years was manager of the San Francisco office of Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., and for 10 years prior to that was with the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., San Francisco, has re-entered the wholesale lumber business with offices in the Fife Building, 1 Drumm Street. San Francisco. His telephone number is Douglas 4211.

During a recent trip to Washington and Oregon Mr. Elliott made several connections, lvhich ivill be announced later.

Mcrking Good Progress With New Plcnt

A. K. Wilson Lumber Co. has completed one mill building rr-ith surfacer and resaw at the new plant at 2346 Del Amo Street, corner of Alameda, Dominguez Junction, ancl har-e broken ground for another mill building for the 'n'orking of dry stock.

NIole than 80,000 feet of the yard has already been surf:tceci'n'ith black-top.

The mailing address of A. K. Wilson Lumber Co. is P.O. Box 150, Compton, Calif., and the Los Angeles telephone is NEn'mark 1-8651.

Sqn Frcncisco Lumbermen's Club Members'Hecrr Fine Specrker

! F. I.ivingston, manager of the extension division oi E. I. clu Pont de Nemours Co., held the attention of an audience of 85 at the luncheon meeting of the San Francisco Lumbermen's Club, November N, at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco. The speaker, a former director of the American Forestry Association, spoke on advancements in chemistn'in relation to American standards of living, and chemical developments in the wood industry.

Herb Schaur, South City Lumber & Supply Co., South San Francisco, the club's new president, presided. A raffle for a Mix Masier resulted in a win for Joe Fifer of Rockport Redu'ood Co., San Francisco.

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