TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

As Reported in The California Lumber Merchant, February 15, 1934

The S.S. Point Loma, which had been in drydock at San Pedro for two weeks undergoing repairs, was put back in service by Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co. on the Coos Bay run . . A. J. Morley visited San Francisco and called on the Santa Fe Lumber Co., representatives of his Saginaw Timber Co. , E. J. Stewart, manager of the Fowler (Calif.) Lumber Co., renewed his subscription for 1934 and declared he wouldn't miss the "Vagabond Editorials" for anything. E. D. Kingsley of the West Oregon Lumber Co. made his headquarters at Wendling-Nathan Co. on a visit to San Francisco Redwood "Boxboard," a new product of the Hammond Lumber Co., was being used for shipments of California wines from Asti.

Ralph Duncan of the Merced Lumber Co. presided at the Feb.2 meeting in the Palace hotel of the Retail Lum- ber and Building Material Code Authority James Tyson, president of the Chas. Nelson Co.. San Francisco. was recuperating at Palm Springs from a recent illness . A. E. Goodrich resigned as southern California manager of the Union Lumber Company operations D. H. Doud, salesmanager of Defiance Lumber Co., Tacoma, visited Los Angeles and conferred with A. C. Penberthy, manager of the Tacoma Lumber Sales Agency . . E. T. Robie of the Auburn Lumber Co. presided at the Feb. 9 meeting of the Northern Counties Lumbermen's Club.

Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau's order of January 24, suspending regulations in effect since 1931 on trade with Russia, was bringing large increases in imports of Russian ash to Pacific ports George Meissner of the Valley Lumber Co., Lodi, was visiting in Tucson Earl Warren, district attorney of Alameda county, was secured by Chairman H. Sewall Morton as sDeaker for the Feb. 26 meeting of East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club 39 Henry Willard Taylor, retired lumberman who operated the Taylor Mill & Lumber Co. in Alameda, died in Berkeley Feb. 5.. George A. Slacke was appointed manager of the San Francisco branch of Henry Disston & Sons.

The Lumber Code Authority guaranteed contribution as a birthday gift to President Roosevelt of all lumber and timber products required for the Warm Springs Foundation building

The Philippine Mahogany Manufacturers' Imoort Assn. moved to new quarters in the Board of Trade Bldg., ll1 W. 7th St., Los Angeles . . President George Ley presided at the Feb. 10 meeting of the California Lumbermen's Council in the Hotel Stockton.