Reported in the May L94z,Issue of The Merchant, Est. 1922

C. G. Price, general manager of The CaIifornia Door Co., Diamond Springs, Calif., has returned from a business trip to their Los Angeles office.

S. A. Beecroft, vice-president, FoxworthGalbraith Lumber Co., Phoenix, Ariz. was a Los Angeles visitor last week.

Jas. E. "Jimmy" Atkineon" Atkinson-Stutz Co., San Francisco, is back at his desk after three weeks in the Northwest.

C. W. Broback, Union Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned recently from a business trip to Chicago and other eastern points.

Sterling Stofle, sales manager of Western Hardwood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, is spending several weeks in the Northwest calling on sawmills and plywood manufacturers.

Frank Curra& Frank Curran Lumber Co., Inc., Santa Ana, is on a three weeks' trip in the East.

F. E. Frost, Bloedel Donovan Lumber Mills, Bellingham, Wash., was a recent Los Angeles visitor.

LeRoy II. Stanton, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles is back from a business trip through the East and South.

Frank J. Connolly, vice-prcsident and general manager, Westera Hardwood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, was in San Francisco recently on business.

Fred Lamon of Lamon-Bonnington Co., San Francisco, left for a trip calling on the Pine mills in Northern California and Southern Oregon,

Myron Woodard, president, Silver Falls fimber Cc, Portland, was recently in San Francisco on business.

A. A. Kelley, sales manager, Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned from a business trip to the Pacific Northwest.

Leo Ilulett, salesman for Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., San Francisco, urade some kind of a record when he got the limit of trout at the opening of the season on the Gualala Biver.

Brian Bonningto& son of G. F. "Jorry" Bonnington of Lamon-Bonnington Co., San Franciscq is now in training at the U.S. Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla., as a Cadet.

Ralph Lamon, son of Fred Lamon of Lamon-Bonnington Co., San Francisco has reported to the Army. He covered the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys for Lamon-Bonnington Co.

Alfred D. Bell, who has been for some time at the U.S. Naval Training Station at Quonset, R.I., has been transferred to Co4pus Christi, Texas, with the rank of Lieutenant, Junior Grade, in the Bureau of Aeronautics, Naval Reserve, Mr. Bell is on leave from the Hammond Redwood Co., San Fra,ncisco, of which he is general sales mamager.

(Continued lrom Poge 41) and self-help with a minimum of overhead time devoted to service. And you'll see hundreds of new faces half of them women.

If I still haven't scared you away, and you aflree that in your case it's a matter of do or die, let's lay out a plan for carrying out your decision.

To be general about it, I've had to leave open some dollar figures. Also, a major expense that is often uncontrollable is the cost of in-house hours devoted to supen'ising and efiecting the changes needed. Remember that any generalities are dangerous .. . both for the consultant and the client. Be sure to take into consideration your own special needs. The estimates are based on a typi. cal $I million plus per year operation and what that operaton may require.

Let's pretend. You have access to $20,000 to do this job. You could make five percent in a savings account, but you decide to invest that amount in this new business venture. The Simplified Critical Path Method Chart (pp. f0-ff) is de. signed to include all possible needs for the average, western medium-sized lumber yard. By being all.inclusive. we eliminate the possibility of fitting per.{ectly the needs of any one compan\-. Give it a good hard look.

W'alter D. Watt has been named project engineer for the Austin Company's Forest Products Division staff in Seattle. announces C. F. Prideaux, vice president of the engineering and construction firm.

A native of Montreal and 194,9 engineering graduate of McGill University. Watt has spent l5 years in key engineering posts in the forest products industry, first in New York State and since l95l in the Pacific \orthrvest.