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The lead-off editorial feature in this issue is the "Business Ouilook for 1986." It con- tains excellent statements by F. Dean Prescott, Valley Lumber Co., Fresno; O. H. Barr, Barr Lumber Co., Santa Ana: L. M. Sfunpson, Pioneer-Flintkote, Los Angeles; P. \tr Chantland, Schafer Bros., Los Angeles; C. R. Moore, Moore Mill & Lumber Co., San F rancisco; I. E. Brtnk, Diamond Match Co., Chico; P. R. Kahn, F'orsyth Hardwood Co., San l'rancisco; itr. F. lVright, Brey-Wright Lumber Co., Porterville; A. iI. Bussell, Santa Fe Lumber Co., San F rancisco; iI. If. Shepard, F.riend & Terry Lumber Co., Saeramento; L. R. Byors, Citizens Mill & Lumber Co., Ventura; L. C. Hammond, Ifammond & Litile River Redwood Co., San Erancisco; Frank Burnaby, Sun Lumber Co., Beverly Hills, and L. J. Woodson, Wheeler Osgood Sales Corp., San F rancisco. The reports were all sur?risingly and unanimously very optimistic for the state and the.coast, the New Deal government in Washington notwithstanding!

The Philippine Mahogany Manufacturers Import Assn., Los Angeles, reports a banner year in 1935 and expects an even better one in 1936, announces \il. G. Scrtm, president, for the other officers: Roy Barto and G. P. Purchase R. L. Dlckman of Tacoma visited Tacoma Lumber Sales, which represents his firm in L. A. . M. A. Harrls of the Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., San F rancisco, is in Palm Springs for the holidays . The Pioneer-F lintkote Co. of Los Angeles closed one of the best business years in its history with a Christmas turkey for each of the plant employes, and a dinner in the office dining room for 125 executives and office force, at which talks were made by Purchasing Agent Art Carlson, VicePresident Lou Simpson, Sales Manager Ilarry Graham, and Ja,ck I)ionne of The California Lumber Merchant. The big plant operated 24 hours a day in 1935 and never missed a working day, and completed a 2-year, $500,000 plant improvement pro8ram.

The San F rancisco Hardwood Dealers Club held its Christmas luncheon at the Clift, Dec. 20, reports Secretary John C. Harlng . E. A. Brown, CRA engineer, reports that redwood culverts have been speci- fied for the road through an old alkali flat from Cedarville to the Nevada line . E. J. Calloway, president and general manag:er of the Wheeler Osgood Sales Corp., Tacoma, stopped in L. A. enroute home from his eastern trip to visit Harry Hart and Larry V9oodson Frederlck S. Palmer, manager of the pine department of the Santa I'e Lumber Co., reports an improved situation in his "Western Pine Review of 1935" . . East Bay Hoo-Hoo distributed 450 kegs of groceries through the Salvation Army; Miland R. Grant of Western Door & Sash Co. was again chairman of the committee handling the big annual Christmas job. Esker Fitzwa,ter of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, Seattle, showed its talking film with a Holl5rwood cast, "Home of the Wooden Soldiers," starring Lila Lee and Charlie Murray, at the Dec. 9 meeting . A photo of two logs of East India rosewood is shown in this issue. They were imported by Western Hardwood Lumber Co. and weighed 8096 and 4400 lbs., respec- tively. The specie retails by the piece at 60c a pound.

The annual convention of the Pacific Coast Hardwood Distributors Assn. will be held Jan. 30-F eb. 1 at Del Monte. C. H. White of White Bros. is president; B, E. Bryan of Strable is secretary-treasurer Seth L. Butler is now associated with M. L. Byrnes in San Francisco, representing Dant & Russell. He started with the Pacific Coast Lumber Surveyors' Assn., joined Union Lumber Company after the war, and then entered the retail end with Spring Valley Lumber Yard and Mission Lumber Yard . . . E. J. Stanton & Son celebrated with a big turkey dinner in the main Los Angeles offiees, Dec. 26, at which Boy Stanton was m.c., Ed Thomas recited Dickens' Christmas Carol assisted by members of the force,