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Cabinet Association Rewards Safety Records
Safety trophies and plaques for 12 member firms were awarded at the recent meeting of the Southern California Association of Cabinet Manufacturers.
The awards, donated by Simmons Hardwood Company, were presented to the winners by Roy Stilwell, Simmons general manager, in the absence of hospitalized Sid Simmons. Happily, reported Roy Stillwell, donator Simmons is through surgery and is well on the mend.
Companies winning trophies were:
Companies winning plaques were:
W. L. Rock 0.0o/o
The handsome, modern trophies were fronted with a bright-metal strip designatirg them as the Southern California Association of Cabinet Manufacturers Safety Award, followed by the date 196l-1962, the company name and in small type at the bottom the donator's name. The plaques were similar in desien. Both had an encircled green cross on a white background with the word SAFETY across the center.
Three new active memberships and one associate membership were voted. Williamson Cabinet Door Division, Compton, Emil Benson Cabinet Shop, Covina and Morgan Cabinet Shop, Vilmington were voted to active membership. New associated member is Elkay Manufacturing Co.
A report on the association's new contract with the union was heard alone with other business.
The Stimson Lumber Company of Forest Grove, Oregon, has announced the starting of a new redwood subsidiary operation, the Miller Lumber Company, in Crescent City, Calif.
Construction of a sawmill and facilities on Mill Creek near Crescent City is to start immediately, and is scheduled for completion late in 1963.
The new operation will obtain its principal log supply from the large timber tract controlled by Rellim Redwood Company located in the immediate vicinity. The timber will be harvested on a sustainedyield basis and the new plant's sawmill capacity will be gauged to fit the sustained cutting program. The new sawmill, complete with drying facilities, will be the initial unit of manufacture in the timberharvesting operation.
Harold A. Miller, President, stated that currently much emphasis and work are being carried irut by the Forest Fiber Products Co. (producers of FOREST Hardboards), another subsidiary of Stimson Lumber Company, on the utilization of Redwood residue form the sawmill and logging operations. According to Miller, the research is directed towards a fully integrated and diversified operation utilizing Redwood sawdust, bark and fiber. Research is progressing in the development of products other than building materials.
