REX OXFORD TUTIBER CO"

4068 Grenshow Blvd., Los Angeles 8, Colifornio AXminster 3-6238

a long time for the head of Los Angeles Lumber, Inc., and the first visit to the islands for either Harry or Pat. They were entertained by Jack Fairhurst the eve before sailing at a party in San Francisco for the Whittemores and some northern California lumbermen who are also making the trip. The \\rhittemores return by plane about mid-February.

Partners Bob Raymer and Bill McCubbin spent the second week of January checking northern Califoqnia flood damage and visiting their mill connections.

The McCoy Lumber Company, llemet, Calif., hosted its holiday party for 74 employes and families of the McCoy retail yards at Hemet, San Jacinto and Idyllwild, at a dinner in the Hemet Odd Fellows hall. Attending were the families of Oscar Adams, Norman Ake, Henry Arwedson, Allard Benedict, Jesse Bishop, Don Charleg Arthur Fanto, Steve Fields, Claude Froehlich, Ivor Geiger, Robert Johnson, Russell McCoy, L. E. Mullenix, Dale St. John, Harold Schmitz, Clayton Williams, Gene Ellithorpe, Keith priest, Joe Joiner, Clifford Rose, Allen Thomas, Jack Teters, Mrs. Helen Bell, Ralph Boyers, Michael Dunn, Howard Evans and David Hunt, Jr.

Earle Bender, Pacific Western Lumber Co., returned to Palo Alto GHQ January 16 after a week's trip to Eureka mill connections. He reported that conditions in Humboldt and Mendocino counties rvere plenty soggy and Highway i01 was very poor in many spots north of Garberville.

Lou Holland of the new Continental Lumber, Inc., San l\Iarino, Calif., spent the end of January calling on northern California mills.

Jerry Huntley, E. K. Wood Lumber Co. buyer, spent the first week of the new year surveying flood damage and calling on mills in the Medford-Grants Pass area and south to Eureka.

Joe Hearin, head man of the F. L. Hearin Lumber Co., Medford, Ore., was a recent Los Angeles visitor, attending to business matters and taking time out for some sun and pleasure before returning north.

Just a few days late to qualify as a 1955 "deduction" was Katherine Elizabeth Coonan, who is now at.home sizing up Mike and "Buff" Coonan as potential parent material; Mike, of Tarter, \\rebster & Johnson in San Francisco, reports that mother and daughter are doing fine.

Al Marmin of Beverly Hills will be located in point Arefla for the Jensen Lumber Co. as manager of the Point Arena (Calif.) Shipping and Timber Co., pulp log division.