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C. C. Stibich has returned to his desk in the Monadnock .building in San Francisco handling sales for Lassen Lumber Sales after doing a good deed holding down the salesmanager spot for Al Kerper at Paul Bunyan Lumber Co., Susanville, Calif., while NIr. Kerper recovered from his recent illness.

Flerman Smith, head of the Herman A. Smith & Co. Glendale wholesale lumber concern, has returned from a rest of several days on an Arizona dude ranch and is now back on the job and "pitching," according to his good right-hand, Paul Wright.

Clyde Crenshaw, executive of Dancren Lumber Co., Medford, Ore., spent two April weeks in Los Angeles entertaining friends and calling on lumber associates in the southern California trade area.

Jack Davidson, 'Pacific Wood Products executive, Los Angeles, left last month for a two-months trip to the Orient, where he will visit mills in the Philippine Islands and make his base at the company's offices in Tokyo. Early in May, he was to meet Dick Bartlett, sales vice-president for the wholesale firm, in Manila for a conference with mill operators in the Islands. Mrs. Davidson (Betty Jane) will join her husband later this month in Japan and will return with him via Honolulu early in July.

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Jim Hall, Jr., returned to James L. Hall Co. headquarters in San Francisco after a few weeks in Phoenix and southwest parts on business.

That Don Bufkin is still getting around one day in San Francisco, the following in Chicago. News stories elsewhere in this issue repori nim at 'iarious northern and southern California concats, he spent the last weekend at Riverside Club 117's big Palm Spiings do, and as we go to press he is heading for the Arizona dealers' convention at Prescott-all in his exalted capacity as Supreme Custocatian of the 9.

Union Lumber's Bovard Shibley headed for the tall timber (and weeds_) of North Dakota and on to Winnipeg during an_April sales safari. He ended his two-week tripln the Great Lakes region and returned home iust in time to take in the LMAnnual at Yosemite 1at whicir he's probably pic- tured else'ivhere in this issue).