TwentV'Flyefears Ago

As Reported in the April L943 Issue ofThe Merchant, Est. L922

Bovard Shibley, salesman for Union Lumber Co., San Francisco, recently underwent an operation and is now recovering.

A. L. "Gug" Ifoover, Los Angeles representative of The Pacific Lumber Co., spent last week visiting the company's mill at Scotia.

Clyde W. Osborne, manag:er of the creosoting dept., Pope & Talbot, Inc., lumber division, Portland, recently visited San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Lloyd D. Milne, Sigaal Lumber & Materials Co., Long Beach, has returned from a business trip to the Pacific Northwest.

H. F. Yincent, vice-president and general manager, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned from a trip to Oregon and Washington.

Lt. J. C. Snead was a recent visitor to San Francisco and Fresno. Before going into the Army he was with Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco.

Carl \M. Bahr, manager of California Redwood Distributors, Inc., Chicago, eastern sales agents for The Pacific Lumber Co. and Hammond Lumber Co., visited the Scotia and Samoa mills.

Bitl Meredith, with Bauer Lumber Co., Carlsbad, Calif., before he went into the Navy, was recently home on furlough.

Stanley C. Moore, manager of Fir-Tex of Southera California, attended a convention in San Francisco.

R. E. Barto of Barto-Smith Lumber Co., Los Angeles, is back from a trip to Portland.

Percy Tlinsor, well known among old timers in the lumber business in Los Angeles, is now connected with American Hardwood Co.

Abel H. Jackson, manager of the Los Angeles office of Union Lumber Co., has visiteo the company's mill at Fort Bragg. He made the round trip to San Francisco by air.

Leon Gillespie, Northridge Lumber Co., Northridge, Calif., recently made a business trip to San Francisco and Fort Bragg.

Walter Koll, A. J. Koll Planing Mill, Ltd., !

Los Angeles, has returned from a business '' trip to the Northwest. 'i

George Loundsberry, Loundsberry & Han" .i, ris, Los Angeles, is spending a few days in Eureka. ,l

Viney Milliken Lumber Co., Covina, has 1fl1 purchased the Earl Dotson millwork plant i:l at El Monte.

Jerry Stutz of Atkinson-Stu?z Co., Stockton, ; and Mrs. Stutz left to spend a month visit- -.; ing their son in Dallas, Texas.

Ellsworth La Boyteaux, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., Eureka, is now a 2nd Lieuten* ant in the Quartermaster CorPs. ,j Russell McCoy of McCoy Lumber Co., Ife- 1: met, Calif., was a San Francisco visitor ear- '. ly this month. ni,

Frank Curran, Frank Curran Lumber Co., ;': Santa Ana, was recently in San Francisco. 4't::'',

Nathan Hart, Piedmont Lumber & Mill Co.' Piedmont, Calif., is attending Army ta,nk school at Camp Polk.