TWENTY.FTI'E YEARS AGO TODAY

As Reported in The California Lumber Merchant, February lf 1955

Edric E. Brown, manager by-products division, The Pacific Lumber Co., left San Francisco sllortly after the first of the year on a business trip to the eastern states . . . M. H. McCall and Ed Biggs of the Union Lumber Company returned to Los Angeles after several days at the company's mills at Fort Bragg and at the San Francisco office . . Jack Kiley made his headquarters office for the Edward Hines Pacific Coast Lumber Co. of Portland at 825 Sutter St. in San Francisco A recent visitor to the Bay city was G. J. Pope, president of the D. S. Pate Lumber Co., Chicago, and representative of bondholders of the Goodyear Redwood Lumber Co., Greenwood, Calif. J. E. Mackie, North Pacific Coast representative of the NLMA at Portland, is to manage a trade promotion campaign for a new organization of western red cedar manufacturers Dee Essley appeared before a Judiciary committee in Sacramento, Jan. 23, as a member of the California Council of Trade Association Executives, and spoke in favor of a bill on state codes of fair competition.

The first loan in Sotttl.rern Califor- nia under Title II of the NHA was made on Jan. 19. Fred W. Marlow, clistrict director of FHA, disclosed the loan was for $8500 for the purchase of a home Olin fI. Carter, former manager of the Palo Alto Lumber & Roofing Co., Palo Alto, has been appointed manager of the Santa Fe Lumber Company's lumber terminal at Stockton . William Denman of San Francisco, large stockholder and attorney for Coos Bay Lumber Co., was appointed Judge of the Ninth Circuit District of the U. S. A decision on the constitutionality of the NRA was promised by the Supreme Court as it applied to a test case against William E. Belcher, Alabama sawmill operator, for violation of wage-and-hours provisions of the Lumber code.

J. C. Pritchard, Pritchard Lumber Co., Walsenburg, Colo., was elected president of the Mountain States Lumber Dealers' Assn. at the annual convention at the Brown Palace hotel, Denver. Howell N. Baker, president of the California Panel & Veneer Co. of Los Angeles, died suddenly, Jan. 15. lle was born in Norwalk, Ol-rio, moved to San Diego with his family in 1894 and came to Los An- geles in 1905. He was connected with the Western Hardwood Lumber Co. until he organized the California Panel and Veneer Co. in 1917. He rvas for manv vears one of the leaders in the patrei ind veneer industry.

E. G. Davis, formerly with the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., is now with the Coos Bay Lumber Co., assisting Stuart Smith in the Los Angeles ofifrce F. C. Talbot was appointed assistant to the president of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., George A. Pope. Other McCormick appointments included in Mr. Pope's announcement were Charles L. Wheeler as executive vice-president, George A. PoPe, Jr. as president of the Pacific-ArgentineBrazil Line. Inc.. and tl-re retirements of Charles E. Helms and Guy E. Smith. and treas- Carl W. Bahr, secretary y of the Lumber Code Authority, in ury of the Code a letter to tl-re NRA de deputy administrator, urged that represerttatives of the various NRA divisions make field trios and visits to lumber operations foi closer accuaintance with the industry Dale Frane succeeded O. H. Carter as manag'er of the Palo Alto Lumber and Roofing Co. The