TWENTY.FTVE VEARS AGCD TODAY

As Reported in The California Lumber Merchant, February 15, 1955

Fred S. Palmer, Pine dept. rnanager of Sarr Francisco's Santa Fe l.umber Co., was back after three weeks iu New York, Chicago and other eastern cities . A. L. "Gus" Hoover, Los Angeles representative of The Pacihc Lumber Co., returnecl from a 10-day trip to the company's mill at Scotia and tl.re main office in San Francisco

Floyd Elliott, San Francisco manager of the Schafer Bros. Lttmber & Shingle Co., returned from a bttsiness trip to Los Ar-rgeles by plar.re-the clirect flight took two hours ancl seven mintrtes L. N. Ericksen, with the NLN,IA for seven years, became eastern trade promotion representative for

WPA . Col. W. B. Greeley, secretary-manager of the WCLA, 'w'as in a hospital in Olympia, \A/ash., in critical condition after being struck by a truck rvhile changing a tire on his car Chas. C. Adams, San Bernardirro lumberyard owner, was a l-os Angeles Rotary Club visitor The Nlerner l-umber Co. of Palo Alto, establishecl a branch yard in San Jose rvith Ed Galpin as manager.

C. M. Freeland resigned from tl.re Chas. R. McCormick I-umber Co. in Sar-r Francisco to be a partner with Art Penberthy in the Tacoma Lrrmber Sales Agency in Los Angeles .8. W. Lakin, general manager of the I'Ic-

Cloud River I-umber Co., returnecl from an eastem business trip. On the rn,ay he rvas met by cornpany representative L. S. Turnbull in Tucson and toured the Arizona trade J. Walter Kelly left the Chas. R. Xt;Cormick Lumber Co. in San Francisco to become tl.re ger.reral manager of the Consolidated Lumber Co. in \\rilmington, succeeding retiring Hal Baly . Weyerhaeuser representatives E. E. Arthur and William S. Freeman from San Francisco, W. H. Morrison from Sacramento ancl C. H. Miller fron-r Los Angeles returned to their districts frorn a sales conference in Tacoma.