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Dee Essley and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Stiger recently made an automobile business and pleasure trip to Arizona. They visited Tucson, Phoenix, Tombstone, and Nogales, Mexico, and were interested in having the unusual experience of seeing the desert covered rvith snow. Mr. Stiger is manager of the log division, Vancouver Plywobd & Veneer Co., Vancouver, Wash., and Mr. Essley is Southern California sales representative of the company.

R. A. (Bob) Cole is now a salesman for the Cole Door & Plywood Co., Los Angeles. He is covering the territory from Long Beach to San Diego. He lives in Laguna Beach. His telephone number there is Laguna Beach 557+X.

A. M. Schwarz, of Schwarz Lumber Company, Miami, Arizona, left for his home January 25 after a business visit to Los Angeles.

E. R. (Ed) Thomas, assistant secretary and traffic manager for E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, has returned to his post from Vancouver, B. C., fbllowing a year's leave of absence. He returns to handle the importing and exporting of lumber throughout the Pacific and Asiatic area.

Howard A. sales manager

Menasha-Coos

Page, Coos Bay, Oregon, is now general for The Coos Head Timber Co. and The Head Plywood Corporation.

Wm. M. Wilson announces the removal of his offrce to Suite 101, 3757 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5. The new telephone number is FAirfax 2301.

Charles Schumacher, formerly with Anglo California Lumber Co., Los Angeles, is now associated with Tarter, Webster & Johnson, fnc., as salesman, calling on the retail and industrial trade, concentrating in the San Fernando Valley.

John D. Scouller, of So-Cal Building Material Co., Angeles, spent a few days in San Francisco early month, combining business and pleasure.

R. W. "Jack" Dalton, West Coast Plywood Co., days in San Francisco on January.

Los Angeles, representative of Aberdeen, Wash., spent a few business arodnd the middle ol this

Ralph L. Smith, who has had several years experience as a plywood and lumber salesman, is now with Back Panel Company, Los Angeles as salesman.

Dale Burns, partner and local manager of Ed Fountain I-umber Co. in Medford, Oregon, spent a few days at the company's headquarters in Los Angeles in the latter part of January.

Ed Rowlands, Arizona representative of Rounds Trading Company, with headquarters in Phoenix' was a recent visitor to the San Francisco and Los Angeles offices. He also visited the redwood remanufacturing plant of Rounds & Kilpatrick Lumber Company at Cloverdale, Calif', and the Ponderosa and Sugar pine operation of the Winona Investment Company at Marysville, Calif. Sales of both these plants are handled by the Rounds Trading Company.

R. Lynn Dawson, formerly of the Starr Lumber Company, South Gate, Calif., is now manager of the Santa Maria branch of the Southern Pacific Milling Company. He replaces Eugene V. Brown, who has been appointed district manager of the Santa Maria, Lompoc, Guadalupe, Oceano area, but is still working out of the Santa Maria office.

E. L. (Ted) Connor, Colonial Cedar Co., Seattle, Wash., was a recent Los Angeles visitor on a combined business and pleasure trip. Mrs. Connor accompanied him.

E. F. Halligan, Roddiscraft, fnc., Los Angeles visitor at the offices Inc.. around the first of the month.

San Francisco, was a of Roddis California.

R. A. Mackin of Hallinan Mackin Lumber Co., San Francisco, visited the company's Los Angeles ofifice at the end of January. He traveled by air both ways.

Bob Smith Now on Road For Rounds Trading Co.

Bob Smith, the young man pictured here, has started to cover the Sonoma Valley, Sacramento Valley, San Francisco BaY area, the Peninsula and San Jose, for Rounds Trading ComPanY, as sales rePresentative for their redwood mills at RockPort and Cloverdale, and Ponderosa and Sugar pine operations at MarYsville, Calif. His background equips him well for the job.

He is a graduate of the University of California, ForestrY, '42, and worked in school vacations for U. S. Forest Service. \\/ent directly into the U. S. Marine Corps on graduation, ar-r<l resigned regular commission as Captain at the end of the war to return to the lumber industry. His lumber experience includes cruising, tinrber buying, surveying mill site, including spur, pond, and layout of buildings for Grizzly Park Lumber Corp., Humboldt County, fir mill' He rvorked as tallyman and grader and eventually had charge of the planing mill, yard, and shipping.

He studied redwood grading on night shift at nearby Northern Redwood Lumber Co., Korbel, and later worked as retail clerk in Lincoln Lumber Co., Oakland. He worked as salesman for three months for Rounds Trading Company, and then put in three months at the company's remanufacturing plar-rt at Asti to round out his experience in production and shipPing.

Receives First PhiliPPine Shipment ct Own Dock

Mahogany Importing Company, Los Angeles, importers and distributors of Philippine Mahogany and other hardr'voods, recently had a shipment of 250,000 feet -of Philippine hardwoods unloaded at their orvn dock in Long Beach, lrom the steamship Glen I of the Interocean Steamship Company. This is the first shipment unloaded at their own tlock since tlle war.