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Twenty,FlveTears Ago
As Reporced in the February 1943 Issue o{ The Merchanl Est. 1922
Miss Betty Harrington, daughter of Glenn M. Harrington of MacDonald & Harrington, San Francisco, will report at Des Moines, Iowa, as an officer in the WACS' Jir4 Farley, assistant Western sales manager, The Pacific Lurnber Co., San F94c!sco, returned from a monthts stay in Washington, D.C., in connection with the Redwood price ceiling.
Joe Bugley, W. B. Jones Lumber Co. of Los Angeles, has been passing out the cigars to celebrate the occasion of a baby boy' John Charlee, at the Methodist l{ospital.
Ralph Lamon, son of Fred Lamon' LamonBonnington Co., San Francisco, has been promoted to corporal in the ArmY.
Fred Amburgey and Denton Yyilkerson of the sales department of Pope & Talbot, Inc., San Francisco, have reported for service in the Army.
Earl K. Carlson, son of Darl Carlson, salesman for Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco, has enlisted in the NavY.
P.R. (Bob) Kahn of Forsyth Hardwood Co', San Francisco, attended the annual convention of the National Hardwood Lumber Assn. at Chicago.
Art Penberthy of Tacoma Lumber Sales, Los Angeles, returned from spending two weeks in the Northwest, calling on the firm's mill connections.
Martin Ulrichs, salesman for The California Door Co., Diamond Springs, Calif.' is back from a ,acation trip to the eastern and southern states.
D. Normen Cords, in charge of the Pine department of Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco, recently made a tour of the mills in Northern California and Southern Oregon.
Casper Russell Hexberg, son of Casper IIexberg of the Union Lumber Co., San Francisco, reported for duty in the Army.
S.L. Stofle, Western Hardwood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, has returned from the Northwest.
F.A. t'Pete" Toste, manager of the Southera California office of Rockport Redwood Co., recently made a business trip to the Northwest.
til.D. Hoyt of the Los Angeles office and L.K. Andrews of the San Francisco office of American Lumber & Treating Co., returned from attending a sales conference at their home office in Chicago.
G.F. (Jerry) Bonnington of Lamon-Bonnington Co., San Francisco, was in the Northwest last week calling on the firm's sawmill connections.
H. Sewall Morton and Ed La Franchi of Hill & Morton, Inc., Oakland, returned from a 10-day trip to the Northwest.
J.E. (Ted) Higgins, Jr., Higgins Lumber Co., San Francisco, is on a business trip to Chicago and New York.
Donald E. Holcomb, sales manager, Arcata Redwood Co., San Francisco, caught a nice steelhead on the Klamath River where he recently spent a two week vacation.
A.P. (Al) Hill, Hill Lumber & Hardware Co., Albany, Calif., recently enjoyed a golfing vacation at the Mt. Diablo Country Club.
Ed Heiberger, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco, is back on the job after a successful deer hunt in Modoc County, Calif.
Glenn M. Ilarrington, MacDonald & Harrington, is back after spending two weeks in Minneapolis visiting his sisters.
Harry W. Mcleod, general manager of the Hammond Lumber Co., Los Angeles, is back at his desk again following his recent illness.
Walter Scrim, Los Angeles importer of hardwoods and lumber, attended the annual convention of the National Hardwood Lumber Assn. at Chicago'
Kenneth Smith, president of the California Redwood Assn., San Francisco, was a recent Los Angeles visitor.
Paul Hallingby, Hammond Lumber Co., I-os Angeles, and Mrs. Hallingby, have returned from a three weekst vacation trip to the East.
John J. Ilelm, Santa Fe Lumber Co., SanFrancisco, and Mrs' Helm, are spending their vacation at the Hotel Coronado, Coronado, Calif.
Phil Baker, assistant to Manager J. H. Ileick of Hammond Lumber Co., Watsonville, Calif., left to join the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Eric Hexberg, Anglo California Lumber Co., and Don Gow, Hammond Redwood Co.t Los Angeles, have been called into active service with the ArmY Air Corps.
Fred Lamon, Lamon-Bonnington Co., San Francisco, returned from visiting Pine mills in Northern California and the Klamath Falls, Ore., district.
M.L. "Duke" Euphrat, Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco, is almost back to normal a.fter suffering a painful dislocation of an arm as the result of a fall a few weeks ago.
Ray Larson, of the Portland Office of Wendling-Nathan Co', and Mrs. Larson have returned from a vacation spent in San Francisco.
Paul Penberthy, Jr. and Farrier Penberthy, sons of Paul Penberthy of Penberthy Lumber Co,, Los Angeles, are Cadets in the Army Air Corps.
Don Goodrich, formerly with Hobbs Wall Lumber Co.. San Francisco, and field man for the California Redwood Assn., is now yard superintendent at the Oakland yard of Gamerston & Green Lumber Co'
Roy N. Ricks is resident manaEer of Hammond Lumber Company's new moderrr retail lumber yard in Fontana, Calif.
PauI M. P. Merner, head of the Merner Lumber Co., Palo Alto, is in training at Miami, Florida, for the position of administrative officer in the Army Air Corps.
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