TWENTY.FII'E YEARS AGO TODAY

As Reported in The California Lumber Merchant, April 15, 1937

Frank H. Watson has been appointed sales representative in the Sacnamento and San Joaquin Valleys for Hobbs, Wall & Co., Redwood manufacturers. He previously represented the Meadow Valley Lumber Co. of Quincy, Calif., c,alling on the California retail lumber trade. He is well known in California lumber circles.

Walter A. Koll, Los Angeles, presid,ent of A. J. Koll Planing Mitl, Ltd., left on March 25 f.or a week's trip to Arizona where he visited the Grand Canyon.

R. B. McKamey has been tr,ansferred to the San Francisco office as district repr,esentative of the Weyerhaeuser Sales Company from the company's Newark, N.J. office.

\iVarren J. Handley was marr.ied in San Francisco to Miss Audrey Haley of San Francisco, March 14. The young coupl'e spent their honeymoon at San Diego and Catalina Island.

Mr. Handley is with Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Company, San Francisco, and is a son of Hugh W. Handley, sales manager of the company.

Harry Pinkerton, sales manager of the Willamette Valley Lumber Co., D'allas, Oregon, with Mrs. Pinkerton, recently spent some time at Palm Springs, and also visited San Fra.ncisco and Los Angeles.

E. A. Blocklinger, manager of the Chiloquin Lumber Co., Chiloquin, Ore., and Mrs. Blocklinger, were California visitors during the month of March. They spent a few days in Los Angeles and La Jolla and also made a trip into Mexico.

William R. Coates of ,the A. F. Coates Lumber Company, Tillamook, Ore., accompanied by Mrs. Coates, is on a business an'd pleasure tr,ip to California. When in San Francisco Mr. Coates made his headquarters at the offices of MacDonald & Harrington, California agents for his company.

Itwis A. Godard, San Francisco, sales manager of Hobbs, Wall & Co., was a Los Angele,s visitor. lvith J. J. Rea, the cornpany's Southern California representative, and Charles E. Kendall, salesman he spent a few days calling on ,the Southern California retail lumber dealers.

L. W. MacDonald, MacDonald & Bergstrom, Inc., Los Angeles, is on a business trip to the Northwest where he is calling on the mills. He expect,s to be away about three weeks.

C. W. Buckner, San Francisco, California representative for the Harbor Plywood Company, spent a few weeks in the Los Angeles territory around the middle of March calling on the trade.

J. Dwight O'Dell, publicity director of the California Redwoo'd Association, San Francisco, returned a few days ago from spending some time in Los Angeles in connection with th,e opening of the Association's new office and exhibit in the Architects' Building, Lo's Angeles.

J. E. "Ted" Higgins, Jr., vice president of J. E. Higgins Lumber Compann San Francisco, left about two weeks ago to visit the hardwood producing centers of the south and middle west. He traveled by air to Los Angeles and by rail frorn there, He will leave New 'Orleans by boat Aptil 12, to make the return journey by u;ay of the Panama Canal.

D. G. MacDougall and R. A. Cole of the firm MacDougall & Cole, wholesalers of doors and panels, 2l0l E. 5lst St., Los Angeles, visited their source of supply, the Peterman Mfg. Co., Tacoma, Washington, during the middle of March. Although many of the mills were at that 'time ei.ther down or operating on curt,ailed production due to the threatened strike of the mill workers there was every indication that soon after the first of April the industry would be going full steam ahead.

The Union Lumber Cotnpany's Men.docino City mi1l started operation March 10 after being down for some months due to log shortase,