Twenty,FlveTears Ago

As Reporced in dre November 1943 Issue of The Merchant, Est. 1922

E. H. "Ernie" Bacon, manager, Fir-Tex of Northern California, has been on a combination business and pleasure trip to Southern California for the past two weeks.

Fred S. Stanley, Oregon Lumber Sales, Eugene, recently visited San Francisco to confer with Carl W. Watts, No. Calif. rep.

\Mm. G. McMorran, son of William McMorran, Coos Bay Lumber Co., is in the Army in the 302nd Signal Operations Battalion at Camp Swift, Texas.

Stanley C. Moore, manager of Fir-Tex of Southern California, is back from a visit to the Northwest.

W. E.'Bill" Davis, Pope & Talbot, Inc., was recently in Los Angeles on vacation.

Frank J. O'Conner, manager, San Francisco office, Donovan Lumber, was recently elected a director of the American President Lines.

Fred Lamon, Lamon-Bonnington Co., has been in the Northwest for two weeks on a business tri1.

Geotge Barker of the West Side Lumber Co., Danebo, Ore., and Mrs. Barker, were recent visitors to San Francisco.

Francis W. Pool, Phoenix, Ariz., rep for E. K. Wood Lumber Co. was a recent Los Angeles visitor.

W. J. "Nick" Nicholson, California Plywood, Inc., returned recently from the Pacific Northwest, where he called on the plywood mills,

T. A. Work, Work Lumber Co., Monterey, spent a week with his family recently at their cottage on the Russian River, EImo Lombardi, formerly yard foreman at the Coos Bay Lumber Company, is now yard foreman for Christenson Lumber Company, San Francisco, O. N. Reynard, Ambrose Lumber Co., Santa Barbara, spent a few days in Los Angeles on business the first of the month.

Joe Hearin, Ashland, Ore., lumberman, was a recent Los Angeles visitor.

Frank J. Connolly, 'Western Hardwood Lumber Co., is on a business trip to Washington, D.C., and New York.

Glenn M. Harrington, MacDonald & Harrington, Ltd., San Francisco, left on a business trip to Portland,

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John W. Shoemaker is the new exec. vp. of the National Woodwork Mfgs, Association, succeeding James E. Nolan.

Lowell Ambrosini has assumed duties as sales manager for fir at F. M. Crardord Lumber in Ukiah, Calif. Lowell had been with TW&J as a buyer in Redding for several years.

Bill Elledge of Evans Products, S.F., spent one month in England with his wife and daughter visiting his wife's family.

J. F. Ifovard, has been promoted U.S. Gypsum's central Pacific Div. area sales manager. He was formerly Los Angeles

Judd Blanchard, Blanchard Lumber Co., Burbank, and Mrs. Blanchard are on a trip to the Northwest.

Chas. S. Brace is back at work with the Stockton Lumber Co. having made a good recovery from an illness which has kept him away for more than a year.

A. M. Schwarz of Schwarz Lumber Co., Miami, Ariz., with his wife and family returned recently from a vacation spent at Long Beach, Calif.

Paul H. Morton of the Central Commercial Co., Kingman, Ariz., returned from a business trip to Los Angeles.

Carl Specht, representative of R. W. Dalton & Co. at Phoenix, Ariz., was in Los Angeles on business.

Chas. R. West, Phoenix, Ariz., wholesale lumberman, was a visitor in Los Angeles recently on his way back from a business trip to the Pacific Northwest.

G. C. Wilkinson of Chapman Lumber Co., Portland, visited Los Angeles on business the middle of last month.

Glenn Fogleman, district manager, The California Door Co., attended the annual meeting of the company in San Francisco.

W. F. Fahs, manager, California Panel & Veneer Co., recently made a round trip by the air route to Washington, D.C,, to attend the second meeting of the Plywood Distributors Industry Advisory Committee.

Notm Cords, Wendling-Nathan Co., is back from his vacation on the Russian River.

Harold J. l-ord, Tarter, Webster & Johnson, Stockton, was in Los Angeles recently on business for his firm.

W. L. Williams, manager of the American MaiI Line, Portland, spent a few days recently in Los Angeles on business.

Lewis A. Godard, Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., returned a few days ago from a visit to the company's Los Angeles office.

Chas. T. Gartin, manager, Reedsport, Ore., office of Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., spent his vacation in the San Francisco Bay district.

Yal Larsen, manager of Burns Lumber Co. and Burns Steamship Co., Beverly Hills, returned from a business trip to San Francisco, wallboard district s/m. J. P. Olson, former district sales manager, southern Calif. lumber dealers dist. succeeds Hovard. R. D. Thompson, Los Angeles wallboard district salesman. becomes Olson's successor, T. G. Golnick is now district sales manager, Arizona District. Golnick was formerly special sales rep., L.A. wallboard district.

Paul Day is Potlatch's new sales/service mgr. for specialty products, according to vp. William If. Slemp, Jr.

John W. Kirby, vp., Swaner Hardwood, Glendale, Calif., and his wife, Betty, have returned from a Hawaiian Islands vacation.

Jay Fennessy, Nevamar's nat'I. distributor sales mgr. has announced that Ponderosa Wholesale, Reno, Nev., and Crane Distributing Co,, Phoenix, Ariz., have been ap- pointed Nevamar distributors.

Vernon Malloy, Washington, D.C., rep of California Redwood Distributors, spent two weeks on the Pacific Coast.

Gene Reynolds, formerly with Weyerhaeuser Sales Co., St. Paul, Minn., has joined the company's sales staff at San Francisco. He succeeds Bill Freeman who has taken a position with the War Production Board, Washington, D,C.

Leo Hulett of llobbs Wall Lumber Co. is spending several weeks visiting the firm's sawmill connections in Humboldt County. James L. Hall and Mrs. Hall returned from two weeks' vacation at Glenbrook, Nev., Lake Tahoe resort.

W. B. Wickersham, Pope & Talbot, Los Angeles, returned from vacation spent in Yosemite.

Carl Specht, Phoenix, Ariz., rep of R. W. Dalton & Co., recent'ly visited Los Angeles on a combined business and vacation trip. Wayne Mullin, Mullin Lumber Co., has returned from a fishing trip in the High Sierras.

W. Paul Clarke of Timberlane Lumber Co., Eugene, Ore., was in Los Angeles last week. George J. Koonze, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., vacationed at Long Beach in August.

C. H, White, vice-president and general manager, White Bros., San Francisco, and Mrs. White attended their daughter ShirIey's wedding in New Jersey to Lieut. John Dudley Dozier, Jr., U.S.A.

P. R. Kahn of Forsyth Hardwood Co., left on a business trip to Memphis, Tenn., and Louisville, Ky., and Chicago, where he will attend the war conference of the National Hardwood Lumber Assrr.

Willard La Franchi, manager, Fresno yard of HilI & Morton, has returned from Oregon where he called on a number of sawmills.

William Erdman, yard superintendent, Pacific Coast Coal Co., San Luis Obispo, enjoyed watching his favorite baseball team, the San Francisco Seals, on his vacation in San Francisco.

EarI M. Galbraith is associated with the Lumber Merchants Assn. of Northern Calif. at Fresno where he is assisting Secretary Bernard B. Barber.

Treman C. Hull is the mgr. of GeorgiaPacific's big new Fresno, Calif., distribution center. Sq. footage has been doubled.

Gary D. Anthis and Ronald L. Sieverson have joined Serendipity@, the Ieisure home div. of American Forest Products Corp.

Darrell Gee is now market planning coordinator at Kaiser Cement & Gypsum's Oakland, Calif., headquarters, according to Roy D. Jurgensen, marketing mgr.

George Richhart, president-owner of G&T Enterprises has moved his firm to Orange, Calif. from Garden Grove.

Al Fremd, a salesman for the Charles Meek Lumber Co., Redding, Calif., reports successful results from taking part in the Shasta District Fair.