TWENTY.FII'E VEARS AGCD TODAY

As Reported in The California Lumber Merchant, January l, 1955

Minimum prices under the Lumber and Timber Products Code were suspended immediately under orders of the National I ndustrial Recovery Board, Dec. 22. The order followed long agitation of the price question ald much dissension in the West Coast divisions. llowever, the Lumber and Allied Products Institute of Los Angeles rushed out a bulletin to its members on December 24 that the order does not apply to the Retail Lumber

Code Charles P. Henry returned to the Chas. R. McCormick Los Angeles office after a week's calls on the Arizona trade with L. R. Chadbourne of the Phoenix office . . El Monte Dealer E. P. Sappington returned from a trip "back home" to St. Louis, where he practiced medicine before starting the El Monte retail yard in 1904 . . Henry M. Hink, salesmanager of Dolbeer & Carson, San Francisco, returned from a southern California trip and re-

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ported dealers more optimistic than for some time past . . . Manager Frank Tutt of the Jerome (Ariz.) Lumber Co. visited l-os Angeles on business and pleasure Union Lumber Co. Salesman Art Wahl is visiting his old home in Pennsylvania.

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at Marysville, California

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Chairman Miland Grant and Conmitteemen Henry Hink, Earle Johnson, C. I. Gilbert, Joe Todd, G. F. Bonnington, Larue Woodson and Gordon Pierce distributed 400 kegs of groceries to the district needy on behalf of East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club 39, and broke their previous record bv 50 kegs L. A. Eieckstrom is now connected with MacDonald & Bergstrom in Los Angeles, calling on the retail trade. "Beck" was formerly with Patten-Blinn and has been in the wholesale lumber business in L. A. about 15 years . . . Wendell T. Robie of the Auburn (Calif .) Lumber Co. was elected first vice-president of the National Ski Assn. at tl-re annual meeting in Chicago, Dec. 2 Henry Laws, Santa Rosa lumberman, is on the Home Modernization Campaign committee there Legion Lumbermen's Post 403 entertainedl big crowd of.25O at the annual Hi-Jinks, Dec. 14, in the Hayward hotel, Los Angeles . Patten-Blinn transferred Manager F. W. Chase from the San Bernardino yard to L. A., with J. H. Newman going from Brea to succeed him, and A. W. Larson switching from Alhambra to Brea.

Attending the l27th birthday anniversary banquet of John Greenleaf Whittier commemorated by Whittier college at the Hotel Vista del Arroyo, Pasadena, Dec. 17. were Guy Tyler and wife, Barr Lumber Co., Whittier; Bill Dempwolf and wife, Johns-Manville Corp.; J. C. Stark and wife, Hammond Lumber Co., Pasadena; Robert Holden and wife, Soutl-rwestern Portland Cement Co., L. A.; Herman Rosenberg and wife, Hippolito Co., L. A.; Homer Anderson and wife, Soule Steel Co., L. A.; George Blauer, Blue Diamond Corp.; Arthur TwohY and daughter Beverly. Twohy Lumber Co., L. "A. ; George'Morris and wife. and Mr. and Mrs. Bishoff The new production quotas fixed bY the Lumber Code Authority for the first 0uarter of 1935 were less than the same 1934 quarter At a 3-day session ending Dec. 8 in Chicago, directors voted enthusiastically for immediate reconstitution o{ the Natl. Lumber Manufacturers Assn. as a federation of 14 regional associations.

Tl-re "10 Years Ago" column in this issue (-fan. l, 1925) reports that Bob Osgood was chairmau at the L. A.