AMERICAN BOX CORPORATION
Lake County - Lakeview
September 21, 1950: "The box car shortage, serious here for several weeks, assumed a blacker hue for Lakeview today when P. M. Cowbrough, manager of the American Box Corp. plants here, announced that by the end of this week his firm will have laid off about 125 employes.
The firm's box factory was shut, about 65 employes, and Cowbrough said the moulding plant would have to be closed down the end of this week, taking another 60 employes off the payroll.
A check with other lumber firms and with grain shipping firms here, and also with the Willow Ranch, Calif., which along with Lakeview shippers uses the Southern Pacific rail facilities over the Lakeview spur from Alturas, disclosed that cutbacks in employment and loss of revenue from inability to ship grain and lumber have been going on for several weeks." (Herald and News)
The firm's box factory was shut, about 65 employes, and Cowbrough said the moulding plant would have to be closed down the end of this week, taking another 60 employes off the payroll.
A check with other lumber firms and with grain shipping firms here, and also with the Willow Ranch, Calif., which along with Lakeview shippers uses the Southern Pacific rail facilities over the Lakeview spur from Alturas, disclosed that cutbacks in employment and loss of revenue from inability to ship grain and lumber have been going on for several weeks." (Herald and News)