Reported in The California Lumber AGO TODAY

The new Wheeler Osgood Sales Corp. announced the reopening of the Wheeler, Osgood Co. plants in Tacoma. L. J. Woodson was in charge of the San Francisco office . Los Angeles Mayor Shaw vetoed the termite ordinance requiring all lumber used in underpinnings to be pressure treated with creosote or equivalent Hoo-Hoo Club 39 filled 351 kegs with groceries (90 more than in 1932) for needy Oakland families. Pictured on the front page of the Post Encluirer with a load of kegs for the Salvation Armv

Merchanl, January 1, 1934

were C. I. Gilbert, Gordon D. Pierce, G. F. Bonnington Paul Hallingby presided at a meeting Dec. 13 for a general discussion of southern California business under the Code. Reporting were flenry S. Patten, retail lumber; Pat Partridge, cement; Walter Van Valkenburgh, builders supplies, and Sylvester Weaver, roofing C. Arthur Bruce, son of E. L. Bruce, Sr., hardwood flooring manufacturer, visited Los Angeles in his capacity of executive officer of the Lumber Code Authority, Washington, D. C.

Pete Hansen, brother of Duff Hansen of the Hansen Lumber Co., Riverside, and \i\/. T. Harschman formed the H. & H. Lumber Co. and bought the G. W. Nladdox Lumber Co. in Los Angeles . . . A. A. Kelley of the Santa Fe Lumber Co. spent the Christmas holidays in L. A. The Lawrence-Philips S. S. Co. lost 300,000 feet of lumber in heavy seas on the voyage south from Astoria . H. T. McGrath organized a hardwoocl lumber company in L. A.

. Phoenix Lumberman James Whalen spent the holidays in Santa Monica Howard C. Clark of the Rio Linda Lumber Co. was in Los Angeles ou busiuess H. L. Miner of the \\thiting-Mead Company, San Diego, and his wife went to Honolulu to meet their daughter enroute from lrer home in Abyssinia for a Christmas visit.

The National Lumber Mfgrs. Assn. reported that production in 1933 gained 30/o over 1932 E. A. Selfridge, a prime mover in the California Redwood Assn. in the early i900r, was named a deputy administrator in the Lumber Code Authority

Harry T. Kendall was named general manager of the Weyerhaeuser Sales Company . . . R. B. Stevens of Healdsburg gave a report on Code matters at the Dec. 16 meeting of the Cocle Authority in San Francisco, at.rvhich Ralph Duncan presicled. Tl-rere were 150 at the annual Hi-Jinks of Legion Lttmbermen's Post 403 helcl at the Hayward hotel, Los Arrgeles, Dec. 15.

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John-H. Tyson, George f. Gerken ar-r<l A. H. Silligo, all of the Sunset Lumber Co., Oaklancl, won the three turkeys in the raffle at the Ather-rs Athletic Club of Hoo-Hoo Club 39, on Dec. 11. Three yotlng ladies playing violin, piano and cello provided the musical entertainment, and Christmas carols were surlg by a boys' choir Myron Bird and G. Irving Fischer rvere carrying on the business of the California Saw \\rorks started by their fathers 50 years ago in San Francisco Harry West of the Bookstaver-Burns Lumber Co. underwent an operation in Los Angeles, Dec. 16 . . Edward H. Case, manager of the Vallejo Lumber Co.. died suddenlv Dec. 9. He started with tl-re Hines Lumber Co. in Chicago . . M. R. Gill of the Union Lumber Company sales staff in L. A., visited San Francisco.