Twerty'FlveYears Ago

As Reported in the January,L94l,Issue of theCalifornia Lumber Merchant, Est. 1922 rrYilliam Rempel, Rempel Lumber & Building Material Co., South Gate, Calif., and family left recently for Detroit where he will buy a new automobile and drive back to the Coast.

,Atnog Geib, head of the Geib Lumber Co., Huntington Park, Calif., and Mrs. Geib anDounce the arrival of a baby boy, named H6nry Amoe Geib, Jr.

J. C. Burch of the Angelus Lumber Co., Los Angeles, has opened a new yard on the site formerly occupied by Rogers Lumber Co. S. C. Brewer, who has been with Angelus for the past three years, is manager of the yard.

E. E McConnell was recently appointed secretary-treasurer of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California. J. E. Kirk, Southern Pacific Milling Co., San Luis Obispo, Calif., is president of the association and F. Dean Prescott, Valley Lumber Cb., Fresno, is wice president.

,Fire destroyed the mill, machinery, finish lumber and building materials shed of the JlY. E. Cooper Lumber Co., I"os Angeles' Still business as usual, though.

B. Burton Gartin of the Home Lumber Yard, Turlock, Calif., was married in Modesto to Fay Shafier of Tracy, Calif.

Wrightson Lumber Corp. is erecting a new office building and store on Vineland Ave., North Hollywood, Calif.

Ilarry Smith, Bear State Lumber Co., Long Beach, and Mrs. Smith, are back from an automobile trip to Mexico City.

L. N. Ericksen has been appointed head of the Division of Forest Products at the California Forest and Range Experiment Station at Berkeley, Calif.

Harry J. Graham, nranager of the Lloyd A. Fry Roofing Co. plant, Compton, Calif., reports that it's still "business as usual", despite the fact that the plant was totally destroyed by fire several weeks ago. According to Graham, orders are now being shipped from Fry's Portland, Ore. plant.

E. K. Bishop of the E. K. Bishop Lumber Co., Aberdeen, Wash.. made a trip to California by airplane recently in connection with his airplane manufacturing interests.

Francis Tann, secretary of the Redwood Split Products Association, Carlotta, Calif., was in San Francisco on business recently.

Lloyd Harris, Oakland, announces that he is now exclusive sales representative in northern California for Vancouver Plywood & Veneer Co., Vancouver,'Wash.

Clarence Ellsworth, formerly manager of Martinez Lumber, and Robert Tfilson, also formerly with Martinez, have opened a retail yard in Castro Valley.

A. J. Koll Planing Mill, Los Angeles, entertained about 50 children who live in the vicinity of their plant at a'Christmas party on December 23.

Eoss Blanchard, Blanchard Lumber Co., North Hollywood, is serving on a federal grand jury.

George Geib has opened .a retail yard in Norwalk, Calif., to be called Norwalk Lumber Co.

F. G. Hanson, West Coast Screen Co., and Mrs. Hanson are on a business and pleasure trip around the "rim" of the U.S.

Leo Davidofi, formerly of WrightsonDavidof Lumber Co,, North Hollywood, Calif., has opened a new retail yard to be called .San Fernando Lumber Co. L. N. Platner is manager of the new yard.

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P. (Pete) Oldham has been elected president of Evans Products Company general manager of the company's materials division.

Announcing Oldham's election, Monford . Orloff, chairman of the board, noted #hat he brings a wide and varied experio,ffipu in the building materials field to the rtland-based firm.

" Oldham, 52, was vice president for marlreting of the Barrett division of Allied ii'. Previously, he was vice president and i-$eneral sales manager of the Gustin Bacon 'Manufacturing Co., manufacturers of glass fiber and insulation materialg Kansas City,

Mo., and general marketing manager for' Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp. of Oakland, California. He has been president