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Mount Whitney Lumber Co., Ine.
Manufacturers
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\\'ayne F. N'lullin, president of the Nlullin Lunrber Co., I-os Angeles, has been re-electecl a director of the L. A. Chamber of Commerce. The neu, 1958 uresident of the Chamber is George B. Gose, arr insurance r)riur, succeeding Charles Il. I)uconrmun of tl.re Ducommun Nletals & Supply
Co. 195f1 r-ice-presidents ir.rclttde John D. Fredericks, Pacific Clay l'roclucts, and H. C. NIcClellan. Old Colony Paint Co.
The Thunderbird Ltturber Corp., .\lbuc1uerque, has been fr.rrmecl rvith Ilobert lri. Gallagher as presiclent. Gallagher, a prominent Hoo-Hoo :rn<l Supreme 9 member the past trvo vears. is associatecl in the nerv rvl'rolesale firm u'ith Ted Schifani and George N{cGill. Branch offices r,r'ill be in 'lll l'aso, Lubbock, Odessa, Fort Worth, Texas; Oklahon-ra City and Tulsa, Okla., and \\richita, K:rns.
Bay Area firn.rs publicly acknou.ledgecl as suppliers irr a recent :rdvertisemerrt in The San Francisco Examiner by Abercrombie & F'itch on its rebuilding includecl Acme Floor Co., Central Mill & Cabinet Co., \\r. P. Fuller ct Co.. Art Hogan Lrrmber Co., Inlaid Floor Co., Hunclley Hardn'are Co., Pacific Cement & Aggregates, Roddiscrait, Inc., and lLolando I-umber Co.
One of San Ilenito countv's landrnarks, the old Soutliern Pacific hotel in Tres Pinos. is being torn dor'vn. It lvas standing in 1873 u'hen the S.P. catne to the to'lvn and served in later years as a honeymoon hidean'ay for rvealthy Bay area couples. The ancient inn closed its doors in 19'13. The railroad is gone, the hotel is going, but the nremories.
E,du'ard K. "Bus" Denning has been named insulating products rnanager for the northern clivision of Kaiser Gvosum Co.
-Georgia-Pacific Corporation has terminated its agreement r,vith Botsford, Constantine and Gardner, and engaged McCann-Erickson as its advertising agency, announced Robert O. Lee, G-l' clirector of public relations and advertising.
Joe Aimar of the Aimar Lumber Co.. Hanford, reported to police that glass in a rear door u'as broken recently by a burglar but only 55 cents in change was missing.
L,vans Products Company has acqttired the business and assets of Fiddes-Moore & Co., one of the largest independent u'arehouse systems in tl-re building materials field r'vith annual sales o{ $25 million. I)eal includes the new 1)rocessing plant at Corona, Calif.
No 'n ord has ever been received of the fate of Ed A. Rost, ex-Bav Area and Northern California lumberman. and six otheri r','ho vanished on a chartered plane enrottte from Reno, Dec. 15. NIr. Rost, u'ho had made his home in Castro Valley since leaving the lumber business, rvas co-pilot of the piane. Further search n'ill probably an ait melting of the Spring snows.
\\tillard Woodrou'. president of Aldon Construction Co.,
