TWENTY.FIVE YEARS

As Reported in The California Lumber i.' Several hundred persons watched the arrival of the S. S. ps1.t Helms at the new inland seaport of Stockton, Calif., Feb. 10, 1933. It brought a cargo of lumber for the Chas. 'R. McCormick Lumber Co. and more for distribution to

Valley poin(s. The l2-year-old boy for whom the vessel was named, son of the first vice-president of the McCormick Steamship Co. and the lumber company, was a passenger " Lumbermen's Post 4O2 of the American Legion, tos Angeles, announced a dinner entertainment for March 14. Ted Lawrence of Lawrence-Philips headed the Arrangemgg!q,_ with Herman Rosenberg of the llipolito Company and W. B. McCullough of Patten-Blinn assisting.

All member yards had representatives at the February 11 meeting of the Central Valley Lumbermen's Club in Stockton and attention was given to the lumber cargoes recently qrri_ving there. The port director addressed the club. Harry A. Lake of Garden Grove, president of the California Retail i'-Lumbermen's Assn., talked on conditions. Frank T. O'Connor, president of the California Wholesale Lumber Assn., San Francisco, spoke on cooperation of industry branches. George Ley, Santa Cruz Lumber Co., president of the Coast Counties Lumbermen's Club, talked in organization. Other speakers were Chas. G. Bird, Geo. M. C6rnwall and Dee Elglqy, Named to the Executive committee were A. J. Russell, Mr. 3ird, Elmer Bruce, Lester Elliott, A. R. Martin, Charles C. Moorehead, W. O. Mashek, \A,'arren S. Tillson and John Yancey. The following rvere in attendance: W. H. Falconbury, San Joaquin Lumber Co.; J. U. Gartin, Stanislaus Lumber C.i.; C. H. Hoff, Newman Lrrnb_er Co.; A, J. Porter, Patterson Lumber Co. ; H. M. Schaur, '. good _Lumber Cl.; 4. R. Martin, Hales & Symons; A. J. .Russell, Santa Fe Lumber Co.: Roy E. Burnett. Traiv Lumber Co.; W. H. Anderson, Brentwood Lumber Co.':

4. A. Kelley, Santa Fe Lumber Co.; Tom L. Garclner, . Stockton 'Lumbbrmen's Institute; Charles C. Moorehead.

4. -J.. Fie-ld, Moorehead Lumber 'Co. ; John -fr"ur., Loai Builders Supply & Lumber Co.;Warren-S. Tillson, Modesto Lumber Co.; Lester H. Elliott, Robert S: Fuller, Valley