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"OUR 73rd YEAR" receivership action of the Long-Bell Lumber Co. case. . Paul M. Parsons was named secretary of the retail lumber dealers'group, the Inland Empire Institute, at San Bernardino, succeeding W. S. Elton, who was named secretary of the Building Material Dealers Club of Ventura County

A photo in this issue shows the 500,000 feet of redwood as recently reported being loaded onto a freighter at Noyo Harbor, April 27, by Union Lumber Company for shipment to Australia. . . . Luke E. Brooks of the Brooks Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and Carl D. Hagge of Superior Lumber & Fuel Co., Sacramento, had kind words for The Merchant in this issue, with Dealer Hagge wishing it was published every week. R. S. (Bob) Osgood was named salesmanager for the Cadwallader-Gibson Co., after earlier associations with Wheeler-Osgood Co. and Washington Veneer Co.

The Lumber and Allied Products Institute of Los Angeles, a group of lumber dealers in the metropolitan area, reorganized as of May 1 with offices in the Fay building and Kenneth Smith as secretary-manager and E. D. Tennant continuing in office. The new board of trustees includes Hal Baly, Consolidated; Frank Burnaby, Sun ; A. J. Castell, California Lumber Co.; Frank Curran, E. K..Wood; Guy L. Cuzner, Kerchofi-Cuzner; T. L. Ely, San Pedro; Frank Fox, Fox-Woodsum; E. F. Ganahl, C. Ganahl Lumber; George Lounsberry, Lounsberry & Harris; H. W. McLeod, Hammond; C. R. Melin, Owens-Parks; Wayne F. Mullin, Mullin Lumber Co.; F. C. Osgood, Osgood Lumber, and Henry S. Patten, Patten-Blinn.

Ben C. Phillips, salesman for the Nicolai Door Sales Co., San Francisco, spoke before the San Anselmo Lions Club at the invitation of Dealer Dolf Doherty, before the Tracy Lions at the bid of Dealer Roy Burnett, and at the Stockton High Twelve on invitation of Charlie Bird. . . . Mel Coe was named secretary of the Compton group of retailers recently organized; he had been operating his own yard in Compton. R. H. Byles and H. B. Jamison started a sawmill and logging operation in Fresno county to be known as the Byles and Jamison Lumber Co.

Fred Roth and Paul Maier opened the Roth-Maier Lumber Co., a retail yard, at 2800 Third St. in San Francisco on the site of the old G. R. Nelson Lumber Co. The Sterling Lumber Co. yard at Roseville was moved from Lincoln street to its new location on Vernon street, where all lumber will be stored under shed in new buildings. P. T. Burns was named secretary of the San Fernando Lumbermen's Club. He had managed the Kern County Lumber Co. in Bakersfield since 1920 and earlier was secretary of the Stockton dealers group.

Stephen Schuyler Skidmore, the pioneer retail lumberman, died at his home in Downey, I\Iay 9, at 78. He had been a Southern California dealer more than 50 years. When he was 14, young Skidmore drove a mule team and scouted for Indians on his family's wagon-train crossing from Texas to California r,r'hich landed in San Diego, August 23, 1869. His father later discovered gold in the Cuyamaca Valley in the mother lode later called the Stone- wall Jackson Mine. The family moved to the Los Nietos Valley of Los Angeles in 1871 and settled in Downey, the terminus of the Southern Pacific. In 1881, Mr. Skidmore associated with the J. M. Griffith Lumber Co., the old Griffith-Lynch Lumber Co., which named Mr. Skidmore manager of the Downey yard, and in I92l Mr. Skidmore and the late A. C. Bowers took over the J. M. Griffith Co., which had sold out to the Griffith Lumber Co.. and renamed it the present Skidmore & Bowers Lumber Co. The pioneer retailer leaves his wife, whose familv crossed the olains from Missouri and setiled in Mendocino county iir the 1870s, and one son, Grey M. Skidmore,.who was-with his father in the lumber business. A large group of Southern California dealers attended the funeral, May 12.

James E. Atkinson, district salesmanger of the Chas R. McCormick Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned from a Northwest trip and reports fresh optimism among the mill- men. \V. E. Gilbert, Sacramento, joined the California Wholesale Lumber Association. The Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen of the West Coast contiibuted $5.00, subscribed in the form of 5 cents from each of 100 members out of work, toward the construction of an alllumber bqlg, alow exhibit at the Century of Progress expo- sition in Chicago this year.

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Appointment of Lowell Garrett as Calaveras Cement Company's sales representative for western Nevada, southern Oregon, and the Sierra Nevada counties of California is announced_ty _W-. G. Jeffrey, Calaveras sales manager. Garrett will headquarter in Reno. He has been CalavJras sales representative in Sacramento since 1954.

(TelI them ljou sau it in The Caltfornia Lurnber Merchant)

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