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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY
As Reported in The California Lumber Merchant, February 1,1933
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Tatufacturers
OF OtD GROWTH DOUGIAS FIN
SUGAR AND PONDEiOSA PINE
AT GLENDALE. ONEGON
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STUD5, BOARDS DIMENSION TUMBER PLANK, TIMBERS
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Co.. Jan. 16r . . . D. A. Hicks, manager of tl-re Lumber & Suppiy Co. yard at Firebaugh, Calif., rr'as transferred to the Dos- Iiaios yard, and V. B. Pyke u'as su'itched from Dos Palos to the Los -Banos yard.
Charles P. Curran, 69, died from a heart attack January 20 at his Pomona home. The prominent retailer came to California in 1ti93 and established the Curran Bros. lumber yarcl in 1903. He u,as active in dealer association and civic work and ieft a host of friends. Survivors included l.ris rvife, two sons-Philip J. and Gerald \r., and his brothers-Frank, manager of the-tr. K. Wood Lun.rber Co. yard at^T,os Angeles,-and Jan.res. A large number of Sorrthern California dealers attended XIr. Curran's funeral'
Santa Cruz Cement Co., Pacific Portland Cement Co., Calaveras Cement'Co. and Yosemite Portland Cement Co. formed a $20 million merger . . . W' F. Hayward, Pacific Mfe. Co., Santa Clara, sttcceeded the late A. I-. Hubbarcl as i director of the California Retail Lumbermen's Assn.

. . L. C. Hammond, vice-president and general manager of the Hammond Lurnber Co., rvas re-elected president of the California Reds'ood Assn. at the annual meeting, Jan.24.
L. V. Graham resigned as general salesmanager ^of -the Pickering Lumber Co. . . A fire at E. Jr Stanton & Son, Los An{eles, the night of January 24 destroyed several sheds oi l-rardrvood lumber , . Hammond Lumber ComDany's steamer Tiverton tvent aground at Eureka' Jan. 2O, and'r.'as believed a total lc,ss . . . A. C. Florner, manager of the lvestern office of the National Lumber N{anufacturers Assn. in San Francisco, u'ent to Phoenix and Tucson at the request of area retail lumbermen and successfuliy conducted conferences on changes in building codes.
A rare collection of 36 bound volumes of "American Forests" dating back to 1898 has been presented to the librarv of the Forest Historv Foundation, St. Paul, by the Amerlcan Forestry Assn., \\'tashington.