TUUENTY-FII|E YEARS AGCD TODAY

As Reported inThe California Lumber Merchant, January 15, l9J5

Harry W. Cole, Code executive of the Redwood division, returned to San Francisco from the NLMA directors meeting in Chicago. He told The Cali- fornia Lumber Merchant that the NRAction suspending minimum prices had very little effect in the redwood industry because Code prices represented the market . B. F. Foiter of the Foster Lumber Co., Kansas City, and his wife are wintering in Los Angeles Stanley MoorJ returned to his Fir-Tex post in L.A. after taking his family to the Northwest to spend Christmas with his wife's folks of the Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co. at Walla Walla "J"ff"

Corkran, Sacramento Valley represen- tative for MacDonald & Harrington, was back from three months' illness

. FHAdministrator James A. Moffett is due in L.A., Jan. 31, to address a Biltmore luncheon of the local Better Housing program Mark D. Campbell left the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. to lvholesale for himself and was succeeded in the rail department by Jimmy Atkinson Frank L. Bortells, who had iust been appointed postmaster at Monrovia, died suddenly Christmas night from indigestion. He went there in 1900 to manag'e the L. W. Blinn lumberyatd and liter joined Consolidated Lumber in L.A. In 1920 he started his own retail yard in Monrovia but later sold it to Patten & Davies. He was then with Whiting-Mead Co. of Los Angeles until taking the government post, Dec. 1.

General Sales Manager Herb Klass is featured in the full-page advertisement of The Pacific Lumber Company in this is511s-"fi15t of a Personal Interview series with Palco folks"

George H. Nicholson joined the sales department of Consolidated Lumber Co. of Los Angeles W. E. Cooper, secretary of the Caddo River Lumber Co., left L.A., Jan. 15, to visit the Arkansas mills and call on the midwest trade enroute home . Warren B. Wood of the E. K. Wood Lumber Co. was a business visitor of the San Francisco offices The LawrencePhilips Steamship Co. purchased the S. S. Tillamook from Hammond Lumber Co. and, after repair, it sailed Dec. 29 for Grays Harbor under Capt. Hubber.rette. The vessel was formerly the "Point Arena" of the Hart-Wood Lumber Co. Its name will be changed to the Lawrence Philips after Don Philips' youngest son.

Protect now against costly damage from termites or decay. Build foundations with McCormick & Baxter lu mber, pressure-treated with Boliden Salt or Penta. Complete dry kiln facilities are also available.

A well-attended meeting of pine manufacturers from the Klamath Falls and California districts met at the Palace in S.F., Dec. 27-28, to act on suspension of Cost-Protection prices under the Code. Among the price advances recommended w5s V.N on 4/4 & thicker No. 1&2 clear Jack Kiley is now representing Edward Hines Pacific Coast Lumber Co. in northern California Val Larsen was named district freight agent for Schafer Bros. in L.A. Phil B. Moore, Union Lumber Company representative out of Tulsa, Okla., is visiting the west coast operations A. O. Thompson, Kansas City lumberman, was a business visitor to L.A. Bates Smith and Wendell Biown supervised unloading of a MacDonald & Harrington cargo at L. A. Harbor.

The Lumber Code Authority asked NRApproval of an assessment for trade-promotion purposes. L. Eaton Grimes was assigned the Northwest, East Bay and Sacramento territories for Union Lumber Company formerly served by Ray Shannon, who joined the sales department in San Francisco . . The Sampson Company took over the products of the Sivon Mfg. Co., Pasadena William Davis, Jr., manager of the Davis Hardwood Co.. San FranCiscb. was married to Nliss Louise Gregoire, former secretary to the Canadian Ministry of Forestry at Montreal . . B. F. Moore of the LoganMoore Lumber Co., Kansas City, and l-ris wife sailed a world

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22, lron San Pedro . . W. B. Jones of the Owens-Parks Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and Nelson Jones of the Jones Hardwood Co., San Francisco, advise The Merchant that they opposed what had been reported as "unanimous endorsement" to maintain hardwood Code prices at the recent PCWHDAnrrual . Paul M. P. Merner of the lVlerner Lumber Co., Palo Alto, and his wife visited her mother in L. A.

The Red'ivood Shingle Bttreau was organized January 8 as a subsidiary of the California Redwoocl Assn. Presiding at the meetir-rg vuas J. J. Farley, who explained the purposes of the Bureau. Elected to the Administra- tion committee were N. P. Burgess, E. L. Moore and R. C. Turner. Also attending were Geo. W. Gorman, Fred V. Holmes, J. A. lfarris, Jr., C. L. Gibson, Harry Hood, F. Egnall, P. Mclntyre, E. P. Rasmussen, J. R. Freeman, H. W. Cole, L. B. Ashbaugh ancl J. W. Williams.

William D. Dunning was named southern California reoresentative of tlre Trower Lumber Co. of San Francisco Corydon Wagner of the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. presidecl at the Dec. l4 meeting of the Tacorna Lumbermen's Club which elected Wheeler Osgood's Ralph Brindley as the new president and Weyerhaeuser's J. M. Morris as vice-president

Arthur J. McQuatters, executive of the Cady Lumber Corp. died Dec. 8 at Albuquerque The Davis-O'Connor Lumber Co. was started in San Francisco by A. B. Davis and Chas. T. O'Connor John G. Ziel and his rvife parented a baby daughter, Charlotte Elizabeth, Dec. 31 in San Francisco. Ife is president of Ziel & Company, hardwood importers Herb Anderson of the Globe Lumber Co., Los Angeles, was injured Dec. 23 in an auto accident near Inclio . . A. E. Ferguson opened a sales office in Los Angeles for American Lumber & 'lreating Corp., which leased the Wilmington plant of the Southern Pacific Pressure-Treating Co.