TwentV'FlveTears Ago

As Reporced in the June L942,Issue of The Merchanr, Est. L922

P. W. (BiU) Chantland, Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., Los Angeles, recently made a trip to Oregon and Washington on business.

W. R. Morris, eastern manager of the Union Lumber Co., New York, recently spent a week at the company's office in San Francisco.

Homer W. Bunker, president and general manager of the Coos Bay Lumber Co., San Francisco, has been appointed a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army.

Marx llyatt, in charge of the San Francisco office of the American Lumber and Treating Co., has been called to active arrny duty.

Eric M. Hexberg, sales manager, Anglo California Lumber Co., Los Angeles, called on Pine mills in the Klamath Falls area and Northern California in the last week in April.

Jim Bachelor, salesman for T. M. Cobb Co., Los Angeles is now employed by Consolidated Shipbuilding Co., Wilmington.

J. If. Prentice, Los Angeles, Southern California representative for Bloedel Donovan Lumber Mills, is on the sick list and confined to his home.

Jim Farley, assistant Western sales manager of The Pacific Lumber Co., San Francis-co and Mrs. Farley returned from a vacation trip to Western Canada.

Georgo R. Kendrick, sales rnanager, Pope & Talbot, Inc., Lumber Division, San Francisco, is back from a trip to the Northwest.

Jim Kirby is now with West Oregon Lum- ber Co. as salesman out of the San Francisco office, succeeding E. B. rffi[iams. Jim was recently with Gorman Lumber Sales Co., Oakland and formerly with Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., San Francisco for 10 years.

Howard M. Gunton, MacDonald & Harrington, Sa.n Francisco, returned recently from the Northwest on business.

S. G. McDonald and Jack Murphy, OwensParks Lumber Co., Los Angeles, were recent visitors to the Northwest.

Russ Castell, salesman for the CaliJornia Door Co., Los Angeles, recently enlisted in the new branch of the U.S. Naval Reserve. the V-6 construction division.

C. R. "Bob" Taenzer, president of American Hardwood Co., Los Angehs, recently made a trip to Washington, D.C. on government business.

William E. 'Bill" Ream, sales manager for the George E. Ream Co., Los Angeles and Mrs. Ream, are the happy parents of a baby girl, Carolyn L€e, born at the Huntington Memorial Hospital, pasadena, April 28.

Seth L. Butler, San Francisco, represen- tetive of Dant & Russell, Inc., spent the last week in April at the head office in Portland.

W. F. "Bill' Fahs, manager of California Panel & Veneer Co., Los Angelss, is in the East on a vacation and business trip.

Bill Sampson, Sampson Co,, Pasadena, is back from a fishing trip to Guaymas, Mexico.

Ben Bartel, who has been associated with the Peoples Lumber Co. for many years, has been appointed sales manager with headquarters at the Ventura office.

Jack lvey, Los Angeles, field representative for the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, is calling on the Arizona retail lumber trade.

A. J. Nolan, westerrr sales manager, The Pacific Lumber Co., San Francisco, is back from a visit to Seattle on business connected with the company's steamer Scotia. Charles B. White and W. T. (Bill) Meyer of White Brothers, San Francisco, returned recently from a five weeks' business and pleasure trip.

R. E. (Ed) Fountain, Fountain-Smith, Los Angeles, returned from a trip to Medford, Oregon.

Aldrich-Cooper Lumber Co., American Bank Building, Portland, recently ehanged their name to Cooper Lumber Co.

Shoemoker Monoges NBMDA

Jack W. Shoemaker was named assistant general manager of the National Buildine Material Distributors Association at their lSth annual convention in Chicago.

Shoemaker has been assistant secretary of NBMDA since 196f Prior to that time he was production manager o f Cooperative Merchandiser. a trade journal representing interests of cooperative food distributors of the United States of America.

He will be responsible for activitres of the Lumber and Plywood Council and the Millwork Council, groups representing the major interests of NBMDA.

U.5. Ply's Oregon Pork

Huntley Park, maintained by U.S. Plywood Corp. on the Rogue River in South. west Oregon, was visited by more tJran 17,000 visitors during last summer's vacation season.

Huntley Park is on a no charge basis. Accommodations are available on a firstcome, first serve basis.