Twerty'FlveTears Ago

As Reported in rhe March, 1940, Issue of the California Lumber Merchanl Est. 1922

Clair W. Eickq formerly with Homer T. Ilayward Lumber Co., Salinas, has started a lumber yard in Salinas, to be operated under the name of Hicks Lumb€r Co.

Alfred H. Stockton was married to Miss Theresa Courtial in San Francisco on February 1?. IIe is vice president and general manag:er of A. L. Stockton Lumber Co., Daly City, Calif.

Corydon Wagner, vice president and treasurer of St Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co., Tacoma, was elected president of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association at their annual meeting in Portland.

Jim Berry has been transferred to the San Francisco, Oakland and Peninsula sales territory by Pope & Talbot Lumber Co. He succeedi Stanley Quinn, who has been brought into the San Francisco sales office.

J. A. Greenelsh, former managpr of the Horner T. Ifayward Lumber Company's yard at Paciffc Gtove, has been transferred to the Salinas yard as manager. He is succeeded at Pacific Grove by Frank Sparling of the company's Holister Yard.

George A. Frankel, owner of Glendale Mill Co., ieports that his company has moved to a new location in Los Angeles.

E J. Striepeke, formerly manag'er of Sterling Lumber Company's yard at Santa Rosa' has taken over the lumber department of C. E. Dole, lumber and building materials dealer, in Vallejo.

Elmer'Wenholz, formerly with Bauer Lumber Co., Compton, Calif., has opened the Carr-\Menholz Lumber Co., Bellflower, Calif.

Swift Berry, Michigan-California Lumber Co., Camino, Calif., has been re-elected president of the Western Pine Association.

Duff Eansenr Ilansen Lumber Co., Riverside, is on a trip to Nebraska.

A. D. Bell, Jr., manager of Eastern Sales, and R. E. 'BoH' Caldwell, salesman for Hammond Redwood Co., sailed for Honolulu on the liner Matsonia recently. The trip's objective is to contact plantations throughout the Islands in an efrort to increase the use of redwood. They will be gone six weeks.

Max E. Cook, director of sales promotion for The Paciffc Lumber Co., reports that many dealers are cashing-in on selling Palco septic tanks to government agencies. Lumber dealers have supplied more than 600 Palco septic tanks to the U.S. Forest Service alone. A typical dealer display at Bakersfield Building Materials Co. offers the tanks for $27 each.

T. F. Eckstrom, general manager of Pacific Mutual Door Co., was a recent visitor to San Francisco and to his company's warehouse in Los Angeles.

J. A. Rudbach, of John A. Rudbach Lumber Co., Los Angeles, is the proud father of a baby girl, Jana Christine, born March 5. Mother and'daughter are doing nicely.

P. F. McNab and M. M. Smith have opened the McNab-Smith Lumber Co., Bellflower, Calif.

Bob llume, formerly in the elect'rical appliance business in Dos Palos, Calif., has merged his business in a partnership with Edward Eggleston. They are now operating the Dos Palos Lumber Co.

H. A. LaPlant is manager of Anacortes Veneer, Inc., manufacturers of Douglas fir pl5rwood, which recently started operation at a new plant in Anacortes, Wash.

Herb Latell, formerly assistant manager at Santa Rosa ya,rd of Sterling Lumber Co., has been promoted to manager.

Rex Abraham, formerly manager of the Modesto Lumber Company's yard at Turlock, has taken over as manager of the Turlock Lumber Co,