$tsnlurb lLumber @ompnn? llnt. T\TENTY.FIVE YEARS

The sudden cleath of C. S. (Cliff) Estes came as a great shock to his many friencls in the iumber fraternity in Los Angeies and the state. He had been secretary-manager of the Los Angeles Wholesale Lumber Assn. since its organization in Xlarch 1928. Funeral services u'ere held April 2.

Ray Holn-res, formerly u'ith E. J. Stanton & Son, joined the sales force of U.S. Plyr.vood Co. of I-os Angeles

Manuel S. I-opes, Jr. -,vas elected secretary-manager of the L. A. \\rholesale Lumber Assn. at its regular rveekly meeting in the Jonathan C1ub, April 6. succeeding the late C. S. E,stes. He till continue to represent the Bloedel l)<tnovan Lumber NIills in the box shook departmer-rt . J Donnell Mahaffev died April 9 in Los Angeles. l{e rr as connected for more than 25 years u'ith the Hollyrvood Lumber Co.

A. \\r. Acller took over the lumber yarcl ar-rd planing mill

-qnd 50 Yeors Ago:

In its 50 Years Ago column, The Los Angeles Times recently printed this item from April 15, 1907: "City Forester Harper openecl a tree-planting carupaign on city streets and threatened to arrest Los Angeles officials rvho violated ordinances protecting trees. Harper recommended deciduous trees for narrorv streets so that during rainy seasons sunshine might reach the roadbeds and prevent them from becoming mudholes."

business at Sonoma, Calif., u,hich he and R. K. Weaver had lreen operating since I92O as the Mission Lumber Co. . Col. Lebbus Schofield,93, who came to Los Angeles in 1887 and became associated n'ith the Los Angeles Lumber Co. and later the San Pedro Lumber Co. yar<ls at Compton and Whittier, died April 2. He retired at the age of 8.1 after 25 years' management of the Whittier yard . . . j. A. Rankin, manager of the Hammond & I-ittle River Reclrvood Co., Samoa, Calif., visited the San Francisco home oflrce.

Philip Nforse, 87, who rvent to San Diego from San Francisco in 1869 ancl joined the G. W. B. McDonald Lumber Co., died on March 30. FIe had organized the San Diego Lumber Co. and continued u'ith it rrntil a fgsr y€ors before his deatl-r A. J. "Gus" Russell of the Santa Fe Lumlter Co. returned to San Francisco from a 10-day visit u'ith his mother in Portland . . A. B. Hammoncl of the Hammond I-umber Company, San Francisco, spent a ferv days at the Los Angeles plant Homer Maris and Xlerrill E,. Robinson headed the nervl1' formed Fir Plyu'ood Assn. of Northern California as president and secretary.

Ray B. Cox, past president, l'zrs chairman of the April