LETITIERS

IS CHANGE CONSTANT?

Asyou may remember, Billie Gowans retired last December and has never regretted her decision for one minute. She always purchased the subscription to The Merchant Magazine, bvt it ended up here in the office. Now that her subscription has expired, I would like a new one started immediately in Siller Bros. Inc.'s name.

I will enclose our check lor the first one year's subscription. It would not be a lumber ofllce without your magazine. I notice that the magazine started in the same year that I was born, 1922.

My plans are to retire around the end of March next year. That will conclude 43 years in the lumber business for me. Billie and I both say that the lumber business isn't what it used to be. However, I remember people retiring in the '40s and '50s who said the same thing. Maybe like everything else, it has to change.

Thank you for all the good reading and pictures in your magazine over my years in the lumber industry.

David H. Gowans III Controller, Sawmill Division Siller Bros.

Inc.

P.O. Box 1488 Anderson, Ca. 96007

Broom Burglars Nabbed

Two men accused of trying to steal maintenance tools from Hubbard & Johnson Lumber Co., Mountain View, Ca., were arrested by police after triggering infrared alarms.

"One of the guys said he needed a broom and a mopthat's all he said," reported police, after arresting John Edward Craddick. 18. and Matthew Gabriel Slater, 19.

Police surrounded the yard Dec. 5 at 2:14 a.m. and said they noted the men had thrown tools over the fence and were climbing back over with more tools.

Dock Shelter

A durable dock shelter from Fairborn U.S.A. offers weather protection to loading dock areas during material handling operations.