Greetings All Friends in the Industry From the Staff of Anglo Galifornia Lumber Co.

Archie Price Completes 50 Yeart fn Lumber Business

Archie Price completed 50 years with the Patten-Blinn Lumber Co. of Los Angeles on December 9.

He went to work for the L. W. Blinn Lumber Co. of Los Angeles on December 9, 1895, in their wholesale department and for several years was manager of wholesale sales. Then he went on the road for them covering all the counties south of Santa Barbara, and also Yuma, Ariz. When L. W. Blinn Co. consolidated with Patten & Davies Lumber Co. in 1931, he went with the new organization, Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., calling on the trade in the samc territory. He spent 25 years as a lumber salesman for the firm. In 1940, he quit the road and called on their branch yards as a representative of the general office. During the war, he devoted his time to the war projeets on which the company furnished materials. At the present time, he is working in the company's main office in Los Angeles.

Archie was born in Brenham. Tex:rs. and lived there until he was thirteen years old, when he came to Pasadena, making the trip alone, his father and mother having preceded him there the year befgre. He has made his home in Pasadena ever since.

He married Miss E,mma Howard, a native of lllinois, in Pasadena on November 8, 1899. They have three daughters and a son, seven grandchildren, and one great grandchild. His hobbies are football and baseball. He is a veteran of the Spanish-American u'ar, and a past exhalted ruler of the Elks Club. Archie is widely knorvn and held in high esteenr bv the lumber fraternity.

San Frqncisco Hoo-Hoo Club's Christmas Luncheon Dec. 20

President "Dave" Davis of the San Francisco lloo-Hoo Club is looking forr'r'ard to a big attendance at the club's Christmas Luncheon, which will be held in the Concert Room of the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, on Thursday, December 20.

Luncheon rn'ill be served promptly at 12:59 p.m. Reservations can be made by phoning Dave Davis, SUtter 6170; Norm Cords, DOuglas 2469, or Leu' Godard, GArfield 7752.

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To Our Friends Old and New

Offers Designs of \food Hangars For Small Planet

Minimum cost, wood hangars, made possible by the Teco timber connector system of construction, are featured in T.orv Cost Housing for Small Airplanes, a pamphlet being clistributed to airport managers and owners of small 'planes and aviation enterprises by the Timber Engineering ComPany.

The publication presents basic ideas on the layout and construction of individual hangars in single and multiple units, repair shops, and large commercial hangars. Points covered include 15 to 60 per cent lorver first cost, lora'er annual charges, greater salvage value, lower rents, use of local labor, pleasing appearance, durability, flexibility, prefabrication, insulation, and fire safety. Sample layouts are diagrammed.

Copies of the pamphlet, typical 'designs and details are available free of charge from the Timber Engineering Companr', 1319 Eighteenth Street, N.W., W:rshington 6, D. C.

Prestridge Buys Southwest Holdings

Prestridge Lumber Company, Alamogordo, N. M., has bought the assets of the Southwest Lumber Company of that place, including timber contract on the largest stand of privately owned timber standing in the Sacramento Mountains, together with large timber contracts ou National Forest and New Mexico state timber lands.

M. R. Prestridge announced his company will construct its orvn railroad into the timber, connecting with the Southern Pacific at Cloudcroft. The main mill of Southwest I-umber Company has been closed down for the past trvcr vears, but the planing mill has worked on lumber shipped in.

Plcnt Expcrnsion

Announcement is made by Chas. Murra, president of Paramount Built-In-Fixture Co., that his company will build a trvo story 80x100 ft. structure adjoining its factory at 5107 Broadway, Oakland, to provide space for headquarters and display rooms of Paramount Appliance Co., a recentlv organized clivision of the companv.

Goetz Mill Burns

The sawmill of F. C. Goetz Oregon, u'as destroyed by fire Lumber Co. at Ptospect, November 13.