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Ralph L. Joss, manager of the rvrecking department for Whiting-Mead Co., Los Angeles, will retire on March l. He has been with the firm since 1912, and is l,ell knorvn in Southern California lumber circles.

Mr. Joss says that he plans to keep busy as he has interests in Arizona and Kansas that rvill require his attention, and he also intends to devote some time to one of his favorite pastimes, fishing. He rvill continue to make his home in Los Angeles.

W. L. Clabaugh is nor,v representative in Eugene, Oregon for Hallinan Mackin Lumber Co., San Francisco.

G. E. Long has been appointed assistant to W. E. McPherson, mana[Jer of this firm's Portland office.

William Kelley, Milwaukee, Wis., rvholesaler, and president of the National Association of Hardwoocl Wholesalers, has recently spent several weeks on the pacific Coast.

H. G. Dowson and V. E. Johnson Sales, Medford, Oregon, were in San 'Angeles recently on a business trip.

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A. B. McKee, Jr., general manager of the San Pedro Lumber Co., u,as the speaker at the Los Angeles Junior Chamber of Commerce meeting in the Biltmore Hotel on February 13, and he discussed the building-construction situation in the Southern California area.

Recent visitors to the Northwest rvere Walter Harris, Lounsberry & Harris, Los Angeles; Ross Blanchard, Blanchard Lun.rber Company, North Hollywood; Frode Kilstofte, Rossman Mill & Lumber Co., Wilmington; Ralph E. Barto, Ralph E. Barto Lumber Co., lfuntington Park, and Frank Kranz, Golden State Lumber Co., Santa Monica.

Roy M. Barto, geles, rvas in San of February.

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George R. Kendrick, sales manager, Pope & Talbot, Inc., Lumber Division, San Francisco, has returned from Los Angeles. He visited the company's mills and office in the Northrvest early in February.

W. W. (Bill) Jackson and Fred Harvey of J. H. Baxter & Co., San Francisco, flew to Los Angeles in the comre- pany's private plane, a twin-engine Cessna, February 15.

Henry H. Ketcham, cently spent a few days Seattle wholesale lumberman, on business in San Francisco. Gardner Pond, vice president, Los A'ngeles, flew back with them to San Francisco a few davs later. Fred Harvev is the pilot.

Joe Matlick, Whiting-Mead tioning in St. Louis, Mo. Co., Los Angeles, is vaca-

Harold J. Ford, Tarter, Webster & Iohnson. and C. C. Stibich of the company's San ira.,cisco tended the annual meeting of the Western pine tion held in Portland. Februarv Zl-22.

Stockton, offr,ce, atAssocia- vice president, Pope & Talbot, Inc., Division, Seattle, and L. C. Fuchek, days at the head office in San Fran-

A. B. Sammons, Sloan Lumber Co., Fort Worth, Texas, visited San Francisco recently and spent two weeks in Washington and Oregon.

A. J. Macmillan, general manager, Consolidated Lumber Co., Wilmington, Calif., and Rex Clark, in charge of sales and lumber purchases, were recent visitors to San Francisco. Mr. Clark was on his way to the Pacific Northwest on a buying trip.

George S. Douglas, Puget Mill Company recently spent a few cisco.