AGO TODAY

Merchant, April 15, 1933 ling Co. yard at San I-uis Obispo, was injurecl in an auto accident early in Nlarch . John Olson resigned as L. A. manager of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co.

Lester Elliott bought the Lodi Builders Supply & Lumber Co. and severed connectious with the Valley Lumber Co. there. Geo. L. Meissner will continue the Valley yard assisted by Robert S. Fuller, Jr. . . . A. F. Stangor returned to the retail lumber business with purchase of the Clearwater (Calif.) Lumber Co., whicl-r he had sold earlier The Humpl-rrey-Farrar Lumber Co. openecl a retail yard at Berkeley. W. D. Farrar was formerly with Tilden Lumber Co. and Sam Humphrey with Lay-Rite Floor Co. . Kame & Noble started a new lumberyard in Visalia Roy Brown, recently with Dolan Building Materials, Sacramento, opened a lumberyarcl south of town C. H. Weber, former Michigan and \Arisconsin lumberman, died at 81 in Long Beach. He leaves three sons: L. H. Weber, BrooksScanlon Lumber Co.; W. H. Weber, Pickering Lumber Co., and A. J. Weber, Nfodesto.

Leonard C. Hammond returnecl to lfammond Lumber Co. from an S-week eastern business trip C. E. Helms, vice-president of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., toured the northem operations W. O. Mashek, manager of United Lumber Yards, Inc., Modesto, operating eight Valley yards, visited in San Francisco H. Sewall Morton of Hill & Morton, Oakland, made a 5-day trip to the Booth-Kelly Lun-rber Co. in Eugene A. M. Schwarz of the Scl-rwarz Lumber Co., Miami, Ariz., was a southern Cali{ornia visitor . . The Lafayette (Calif.) Lumber Co. constructed a new shed . E. D. Baldwin resigned as manager of the Spanish Peak Lumber Co., Quincy, Calif.

Members of the Lumber committee of the California Retail Lumbermen's Assn. and members of tl-re redwood mills met at N{orrterey, March 25, and were entertained by local Iumber dealers. Ralph Duncan, Merced Lumber Co., and Fred Holmes, Holmes Eureka Lumber Co., presided. In the golf tournament, the J. H. Holmes Cup \^,,as won by Homer T. Hayward, well-known retailer, from E. E. Yoder, resiclent mar.rager of The Pacific Lumber Co., Scotia.

The first annual Reveille of central arrd northern California lumbermen, sponsored by East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club 39, will be held in the ballroom of the Hotel Leamington, Oakland, April 21. Tickets are $1.50. Clem Fraser, Loop Lumber & Mill Co., is general chairman; H. Sewall Morton, Hill & Morton, entertainment chaiman; Clyde I. Speer, Zenith Mill & Lumber Co., golf chairman, and C. I. Gilbert, Eureka Mill & Lumber Co., is finance chairman. The entertainment r,r'ill be supplied by the wholesalers, and it is reported they will put on a skit in which they will endeavor to show the retailers how to sell lumber without chiseling. The California Lumbermen's Council will hold its meeting at noon in the hotel and the members will stay over for the first Reveille. Presidents Harry Lake and George N. Ley will attencl. Charles G. Bird promised a full delegation from the Hoo-Hoo Cl:ub 62 at Stockton. Others on the Reveille committee are Jerry Bonnington, Lloyd Harris. C. H. Terrell. Doc Snead and Miland Grant.