TWENTY-FIVE YEARS

As Reported in The California Lumber

Frank N. Gibbs of the Gibbs Lumber Co., Anaheim, furnishes an interesting comparison chart of the costs of a S-room bungalow from 1920 to 1934 -or $1024.45 to $523.25. The house bill totaled 9,283 f.eet including rough and finish lumber, siding, shingles, moulding, oak flooring and sash and doors Jim Tyrell joined the sales staff of Sudden & Christenson to aid Girth Beyer calling on the L. A. trade. lle was formerly with MacDonald & Flarrington Howard A. Libbey, who had been assistant to the general manager of Little River Redwood Co. until its merger with Hammond Lumber Co., was appointed general manager of Hobbs, Wall & Co. in San Francisco Earl Johnson reports the burglary of the Johnson Lumber Co., Pasadena Jerome Higman of the Reliable Lumber Co.. Rosemead. vacationed a week on Santa Rosa Island.

Dave Gates and Percy Merithew of the E. K. Wood Lumber Co.. Los Angeles, visited Las Vegas, Nevada, to inspect the new Boulder Dam project

Herb Klass, general salesmanager of The Pacific Lumber Co., attended a Code hearing in Washington during his current eastern sales trip A. A. Kelley of the Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco, and his wife were receiving congratulations on the birth of a baby daughter, Eilene, in Alameda, April29 . . . Slides being shown in the Trade Extension campaign show wooden buildings in RuSsia 500-600 years old, and building methods in Russia prove an 8-inch wood sidewall affords better insulation than a 2S-inch brick wall . A coordinated program is now underway to interest the public in the use of wood for school construction in California . . . .W. E. Barwick ioined the Donovan Lumber Co., San Francisco, and Earl Hughes joined the Santa Cruz Lumber Co.

George R. Landreth is now representing the American Hardwood Co. in the Los Angeles area Harry W. Murphy was filling in for A. A. Kayser during the latter's absence from his Califolnia grading inspections to spend several months at the Northwest