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TWENTY.FII'E YEARS AGCD TODAY
As Reported in The California Lumber Merchant, March 15, 1935
The subject in the third of the personal interview Ad series by The Pacific Lumber Co. was Palco bark sales manag'er, Edric Brown, who reported, "Business conditions on up-grade." He had just returned from a two-month business trip through the east . Entertainment Chairman C. I. Gilbert lined up Alonzo A. Stagg, dean of American football coaches. and Dr. Tully C. Knoles, president of the College of the Pacific, to address the dinner meeting of Oakland's East Bay Hoo-Hoo club. March 29 at Hotel Coit
. Jerome Higman returned to his desk at Reliable Lumber Co., Rosemead, after a trip to Panama
Leonard C. Hammond, of San Francisco's Hammond Lumber Co.. was back after a business trip to New York and Wa5hington Henry lless Lumber purchased the Cotati Lumber Co.
'Weyerhaeuser's district manager in Tacoma, L. M. Bullen, visited the Los Angeles and San Francisco offices
Changes in the sales department of The Pacific Lumber Co. put Herb Klass as assiqtant to the president in charge of sales, A. L. "Gus" Floover as salesman in Southern California and Arizona, Frank R. Adams directing sales in the east, and A. J. Nolan as Western sales manager It is re- ported in this issue that the average wage in the lumber industry in Deceriber 1934 was 40.02 cents per hour.
Ralph L. Smith, head of Smith Wood Production, Inc., Coquille, Ore., said to be the world's largest producers of Port Orford cedar. and the Ralph L. Smith Lumber Co., Kansas City, visited San Francisco to confer with James L. Hall, California agent for his firm's products C. I. Klop- fenstein of Seattle, manager of the California division, Puget Sound Associated Mills, has returned to the Northwest following a business trip of several weeks in California. He called on the T.os Angeles trade with George S. Melville, representative in the new Southern California offices . . . R. R. Macartney of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., presided at the annual meeting of directors of the Western Pine Assn. in Portland. J. F. Coleman, Kinzua, Ore., was elected president, and J. P. McGoldrick, Spokane, Wash., and George W. York, Albuquerque, N. M., were elected vice-presidents. C. f. Isted, Bend, Ore., and S. V. Fullaway, Portland, were re-elected, with J. M. Brown, Spokane, John D. Tennant, Long-Bell Lumber Co., and J. P. Weyerhaeuser, Jr., Portland, elected directors. The executive committee included Swift Berry, Camino, Calif.
O. G. Grimes was receiving congratulations at The Pacific Lumber Co. in Southern California on the birth of a son Tom Fuller and Joe Christensen were planning to open a lumber yard at Manteca E. G. Gallagher succeeded Louis N. Maricich as purchasing agent for White Brothers, San Francisco Col. \V. B. Greeley, secretary-manager of the West Coast Lumbermen's Assn. returned to his Seattle office after recovering from injuries received when he was struck by a truck in Olympia, Wash., Feb. 1 . McElroy & Cheim Lumber Co. opened a branch yard at Los Gatos.
The new Terminal of Lumber Diitributors, Inc., was completed at Port Stockton and the first million feet of inventory was received by steamer. O. H. Carter was installed as manager, assisted by L. W. Calvert. A. J. "Gus" Russell, manager of the Santa Fe Lumber Co., said his company would handle all sales . . F. S. Buckley, Buckley Lumber Dealers Supply Co., San Francisco, returned from Portland and reported the company's new plant will be ready to make shipments after April 1 . The sixth annual meeting of the Coast Counties Lumbermen's Club was held at the Resetar hotel, Watsonville, March 6. W. H. Enlow, Hammond Lumber Co., presided, and speakers were Harry A. Lake, presi-
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