Twenty,Flve Tears Ago

As Reported in the Aprll, 1939 Issue o{ the California Lumber Merchant, Est. 1922

M. D. (Doug) Cronwall has joined the sales sta,f of Ifammond Redwood Co., Los Angeles. For the past two years he has been working at the company's mill at Samoa. Fritz llawn, formerly with Doud-Smith, Los Angeles, will join the Hammond sales organization in April.

A. N. Lofgren, San Francisco wholesale lumberman, recently returned from a trip to the Pacific Northwest, where he made contact with his mill connections. He found the mills with fairly good order files and opti- mistic about business in 1939.

J. J. and Charles Barnes have opened a new lumber business at 1?80 Cherry Ave., Sig- nal Hill, Calif.

A new lumber and building materials yard to be known as the Portenrille Lumber'and Materials Co., has been opened at po,rterville, Calif. Earl Hodgson will have direct charge of the new business.

E G. Dave Davis, salesman for tlle Unio,n Lumber Co., Los Angeles, is building an allRedwood house, California type, at 2268 Pepper Drive, Altadena.

A promising recruit for the lumber business is Gene McAteer, former University of California football star and winner of the Andv Smith scholarship, who left San Franciscl ril. A. \ileber, manager of the Rio Linda Lumber Cornpany's ya"rd at Rio Linda, Calif., has announced that the firm has been sold to the Rio Linda Poultry Producers Elmer Fillbach vrill continue as forema^n of the operation. Iloward C. Clark,, former president of the firm, will retire in Oakland after more than 50 years in the lumber business.

March 28, for lVestfir, Ore., to start learning the lumber business from the ground up with the Westfir Lumber Co. G. R. Roy Bleeker, well-known in California lumber circles, is manager of the Westfir operations.

Southern California retail lumber dealers will be the guests of the San Pedro Lumber Co,, at its Wilmington, plant Saturday, Apnl 22. There will be a boat trip around the Harbor in the morning and a barbecue Iunch will be served at noon.

Anglo California Lumber Co., Los Angeles, has been appointed exclrrsive replrsentative t'or Southern California of Medford Cor1p., Medford, Ore., manufacturers of Ponderosa Pine Lumber.

V. K. Skadden, manager of Hammond Lumber Company's Bellflower, Calif. yard, has announced the recent completion of a modern office and retail store. Burnett Lumber

Company has reopened its Pixley, Calif., yard with a complete line of lumber and building materials. O. C. Moeher is branch manag'er.

\ewell Maddock, George Winterhalder and Robert Maddock have purchased the stock owned by Glen A. Karnes in the San Lorenzo Lumber Co., Santa Cruz, Calif. fire yard was purchased several yea.rs ago by Karnes and James Maddock, principal stockholders frorn the Sunnyside Lumber Co.

Robert S. Fuller of the Valley Lumber Co., Lodi, Calif., was elected president of the Central Valley Hoo-Hoo Club at a recent meeting held at the Hotel Covell, Modesto, March 28. Other officers elected were: O. Y. Wilson, Jr., Central Lumber Co., Stockton, vice president and D. G. Bird, Stockton, Lumber Co., Stockton, secretary-treasurer.

F & M Lumber Company started business in January at325 Ocean Avenue, San Francisco, carrying a full line of lumber and building materials. The principals are Richerd Friocero and Ernest Miller.

William Wade and Oscar Corning have purchased the Meier Lumber yard at Hemet, Calif., one of the oldest business firms in the San Jacinto Valley, from lferman Meier. The new firm will be known as the Valley Building Supply Co.

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