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TIi'ENTY.FTI'EYEARS AGCD TCDDAY As Reported in TheCalifornia Lumber Merchant, March 15, 1937

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T. B. Lawrence, Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., Los Angeles left on a business trip to the northwest on March 9 where he will call on the mills in the Coos Bay, Portland, Columbia River, Puget Sound and Grays Harbor districts. He will return in about three weeks.

John Kendall, manager of Potlach Yards Inc., Spokane, Wash., was a recent Los Angeles visitor lvhere he.spent a few weeks visiting friends.

Wallace A. Woods has purchased the W. F. Sechrest Lumber Co. yard in Salinas and doing business under the name of the Woods Lumber Co.

L. C. Hammond, president of the Hammond Redwood Company; A. Stanwood Murphy, president of The Pacific Lumber Company; and Otis Johnson, executive vice-president of the Union Lumber Company have been appointed to the general fiesta committee of the Golden Gate Bridge Fiesta next May.

John E. Morley has purchased the interests of his late associate, A. E. Nelson, in the Homestead Lumber Co. at Sacramento. 1\{r. Morley is now the sole owner and manager.

Moore-Cawston Dry Kiln Company, Ltd., is the name of the new organization resulting from combining the Cawston Dry Kiln Company, Ltd., of Vancouver, with the well known Moore Dry Kiln Company.

The Masonite Corporation has opened a new warehouse at 721 East 62nd Street, Los Angeles, where they have a complete stock of genuine Masonite products and Masonite Canec insulation in all sizes and thicknesses to serve the trade.

Jerry H. Sullivan has been appointed manager of the Ocean Beach Lumber Company, one of the branch yards of the Western Lumber Company of San Diego. He has been connected with the Ocean Beach Lumber Co. for the past several months, and previous to that was at the company's main yard in San Diego.

D. H. Schroebel has been elected president arrd general manager of the San Joaquin Lumber Co., Stockton, succeeding the late W. H. Falconbury. Newton Rutherford has been elected vice-president, and D. E. Bowen, secretary-treasurer. Mr. Schroebel was formerly secretary-treasurer of the company.

Gorman Lumber Company, San Francisco, purchased the steam schooner Horace X. Baxter from J. H. Baxter & Company, February 26, and renamed her Port Orford. The ship is 700 net tons,241 feet long and has a capacitS' of approximately 1,200,000 feet of Iuml>er.

The Pacific Coast Coal Co. has purchased the Henry's Lumber Exchange at Arroyo Grande.

The C & S Lumber Co. has opened a retail yard at Compton. A. P. Shepperson is manager. He was previously manager of the Hayward Lumber & Investment Co. yard at Lancaster.

Bert Masters has been appointed manager of the Fox-Woodsum Lumber Co. of Rialto. Mr. Masters has been with the company for the past six years, and was connected with their Gtendale yard.

Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., Los Angeles, has purchased the Steamer Covena from the Hammond Lumber Company, who has been operating it in the coastwise and gulf trade.

Lee M. Mapes has been transferred from the Cottonwood yard to be manager of the Ukiah yard of The Diamond Match Company.

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO-OR TODAY

YOUR BEST BUY IS STILT THE CATIFORNIA TUMBER MERCHANT

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2 Yeors$5.00

WHY NOT TODAY?

Temporory Retirement Only for Chqrles Gqrciq

Charles Garcia, purchasing agent and sales manag'er, Nfox Wrecking Company of Los Angeles and 35 year lumber veteran is planning to retire temporarily at the age of 67. Garcia, who began his lumber career in 1914, has announced his intention to move to San Diego and then perhaps, after a short rest, to resume work in the same field.

Garcia started in lumber in Quincy Plumas County in Northern California; in 1918 went rvith the Pacific Manufacturing Company, then Park Lumber, La Mesa and.in 1936 the Mox Wrecking Company.

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