60 years of memories from The Merchant Magazine

C. ESSLEY & SON took over r the Associated Moulding facility in East Los Angeles, Ca. fl Paul lVard, sales mgr. of Arcata Redwood, was re-elected president of the Humbolt Hoo-Hoo Club. n Dant & Russell, Portland, Or., bought American Timber & Trading Co. tr Palmer G. Lewis Co., Seattle, Wa., moved the entire Wenatchee, Wa., warehouse from one side of town to another. ! A three alarm, $200,000 fire destroyed the laminating plant, 250,000 b.f. of lumber, some rolling stock and a maintenance area at the Ed Fountain Lumber Co., Los Angeles. fl

American Mill & Manufacturing moved to new headquarters in Chula Vista, Ca. n Bud Peterson, after 45 years at Samoa, Ca., with Hammond Lumber and Georgia-Pacific, retired. ! F.W. "Bill" Niesenformed Niesen Forest Products. Fort Bragg, Ca. ! The El Cajon branch of Dixieland Lumber Co., San Diego, Ca., opened its doors to the public. ! Tarzana Lumber Co., Tarzana, Ca., and the Terry Lumber Co., Northridge, Ca., merged into Terry Building Centers. tr Bill MacBeath. MacBeath Hardwood Co., San Francisco, was elected president of the Pacific Coast Wholesale Hardwood Distributors Association. n

Donald B. Richardson, pres., Richardson Lumber Co., Denver, Co., was elected pres. of the National Building Material Distributors Association. n Wiliam Buettner was appointed sales mgr. of Standard Lumber Co., Los Angeles. ! J.W. Copeland Yards, Portland, Or., purchased eight yards in

Washington from the Columbia Valley Lumber Co., Bellingham. n Roy Forest Products moved to new offices in Sherman Oaks, Ca. fl O'Malley Lumber opened a new building materials center at Scottsdale, Az. n The lumber industry asked President Kennedy to take action to relieve the unemployment of 200,000 forest product workers. E J.H. Baxter & Co. provided the poles for a new pleasure resort, San Diego's Vacation Village. n Bob Britt Lumber Co., Eureka, Ca., bought L & M Building Supply. ! H.M. Nelson Lumber Co., was purchased by Max Hill, Montebello, Ca. n Bob Gaylord was named mgr. of Fir & Pine Lumber Co., Burbank, Ca. n Del Cole transferred to sales at Rockport Redwood Co., Cloverdale, Ca. n

Georgia-Pacific Plywood Co. bought C.D. Johnson Lumber Corp. n DaveDavisorganized Dave Davis Lumber Co., San Francisco. n The Woodwork Institute of California was one year old. ! United States Plywood Corp.'s new Los Angeles sales and distribution unit was said to be the largest plywood warehouse in the U.S. ! Gardiner Lumber Co., a Long-Bell subsidiary, made its first shipment of plywood. E Lamon Lumber Co. organized in San Francisco as did Bonnington Lumber Co. n Reedley Lumber Co., Reedley, Ca., had an open house for their newly rebuilt office and store. I C.L. Emery was named gen. sales mgr. of the Simpson LoggingCo., Seattle, Wa. n JamesCurran, president of the Bakersfield Sandstone Brick Co., celebrated his 90th birthday. fl Beaver Lumber

Sales moved to new offices in Medford, Or. n Oakland Hoo-Hoo Club held its 2fth annual reveille with 600 attending. n Evans Forest Products, Santa Rosa, Ca., moved to new offices. !

Names you'll recognize . . companies you know a nostalgic overYiew of six decades in the lumber business of the West.

40 years ago

The Cynthia Olson, Absaroka' Dorothy Phillips and Samoa, all lumber ships, were among those attacked by the Japanese in the Pacific. n White Brothers celebrated its 4fth anniversary in San Francisco. n Benson Lumber Co.' San Diego, halted coastwise towing of log rafts because of the war risks. n Manufacturers were warned to guard their sawmills against sabotage. n Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., Longview, Wa., worked a Victory Shift sending funds to the war effort and the Red Cross. ! The War Production Board applied a 60-day freeze to all sales and deliveries of softwood construction lumber by large producers. n Arizons Retail Lumber and Builders Supply Association called off its 29th annual convention because of the serious situation in the nation. n Servicemen E.L. "Bud" Reitz, E.L. Reitz Co., Los Angeles, Army; Pierson Plummer, Union Lumber Co., Fort Bragg, Army; Brian Bonnington, Larnon-Bonnington Co., San

Francisco, Naval Air Force; Ralph Lamon, Lamon-Bonnington Co., San Francisco, Army; Alfred D. Bell, Hammond Redwood Co., San Francisco, Naval Air Service; kwis Graham, California Redwood Association, San Francisco, Army, were among those listed on the Honor Roll of Lumbermen inArmed Forces. n L.G. "Bob" Burns, Burns Lumber Co. and Burns Steamship Co., Beverly Hills, was a major in the Transportation Corps of the Army. n

Jim Farley, assistant Western sales mgr. of the Pacific Lumber Co., San Francisco, accompanied by Mrs. Farley returned from a seven week trip to the Hawaiian Islands. n M.H. McCall, Union Lumber Co., Los Angeles, vacationed in Baja California. ! Frank W. Reitz, Los Angeles, purchased the Stangor Lumber Co. at Hynes, Ca. ! C.J. Mulrooney was promoted to sales mgr. of the dealer division of Weyerhaeuser. ! Reel Lumber Service was opened by E.G. Reel in Los Angeles. ! Lumber production was the lowest in 50 years with approximately 16% billion ft. ! J.H. Bloedel, pres. of Bloedel Donovsn Lumber Mills, Seattle, Wa., visited the company's office in Los Angeles. ! B.E. "Bert" Bryan, pres. and gen. mgr. of Strable Hardwood Co., Oakland, was appointed Hoo-Hoo state counselor for California. n O.H. Barr, Barr Lumber Co., Santa Ana, was elected pres. of the newly formed Associated Independent Retail Lumber Dealers of So. Ca. tr

F.B. Learned Lumber Co. was formed in Pasadena. n Robert S. Osgood, son of George J. Osgood, Wheeler-Osgood Co., Tacoma, Wa., came to manage the Los Angeles branch of the firm. n Dolbeer and Carson began to build a new redwood plant in Humboldt County. n Gibson Lumber Co., Arizona, bought the Fullerton Lumber Co., Fullerton, Ca. and opened a new yard in Anaheim, Ca. f} The Portland Lumber Co. mill, Portland, Or., prepared to resume operations. ! R.E. Danaher, presi- dent of the California White and Sugar Pine Manufacturers' Association returned from the East. n Montgomery Lumber Co. opened in Culver City, Ca. n Charles R. McCormick Lumber Co. of Los Angeles incorporated. tr Hugh P. Brady, until recently connected with the A.C. Dutton Lumber Corp. at Poughkeepsie, N.Y. arrived in Ca. n W.E. Cooper, head of the W.E. Cooper Lumber Co., prominent Los Angeles hardwood distributors, returned from an extended trip through the principal hardwood producing districts of the South and Middle West.