T\TENTY.FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

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The California White and Sugar pine Association held :r special meeting of members in San Francisco, May lg. and filed a protest with the Central Committee of Lumber Standards, against dropping the trade name ..California White Pine" and substituting in its place ,,ponderosa', Pine. A May 3 meeting in Washington of the General Lumber Conference had decided to make that change in the American Lumber Standards.

Robert Cameron, secretary-manager of the Marin Coun_ ty Lumbermen's Association is on three months, leave, and is making a tour of Europe, accompanied by his wife and child.

The Pacific Coast Hardwodd Association, in annual meei_ ing at Victoria, British Columbia, elected Roy Stanton, of Los Angeles president for the ensuing year. Also, Jerry Sullivan, of San Diego, was elected vice president, and (i. M. Cooper, of Los Angeles, secretary-treasurer. J. E. Higging, of San Francisco, was retiring president, D. J. Cahill, of Los Angeles, was made chairman of a special committee to consider contemplated changes in the grading rules.

The U. S. Court of Appeals, in New York City, has issued an order sustaining the decision of the Federal Trade Commission that Philippine hardwoods may NOT be described, advertised, or offered for sale as Mahogany.

Western Hardr,vood Lumber Company, of Los built a ne.iv panel u'arehouse about six months is norv doubling the size of that unit to house their panel business.

Angeles, ago, and growing

The Sacramento Valley Lumbermen's Club held its monthly meeting May 19, and paid tribute to the memory of two members, H. C. Henry and J. A. Clothier, who died in recent automobile accidents.

Westwood Hoo-Hoo Club, No. 38, is sponsoring a big meeting of Northern California Hoo-Hoo to take place at Fall River Mills, Shasta County, on June 23 and, 24. Thev u'ill congregate, celebrate, and concatenate.

Elmer A. Pcrdulcr Opercrtes Two Lumber Compcrnies

Elr.rer A. Paclula, of Willits, Califomia, is the individual owner ancl operator of tlvo progressive lun-rber concerns, the Longvalc I-umber Company, a sau-rnill collcerll located at Longv:rle, California, and the E. A. Padula Lttrlrber Courpany, a u'holesale concern, located at \Villits, California' He also ruraintains a sales office at 681 }Ia,rket Street, San lirancisco'

These. cornpanies are not to be confusecl u'ith thc lun.rber operations in Los Angeles of the R & It l-uniber Conrpanv, or Ralph Padula, according to I\{r. Paclula.

Joins Weyerhaeuser Sales Company" Tacoma Engineering Sales Staff

Tacoma, \\Iash.-Robert E. Eby, forest-products structural engineer, has joinecl \\'eyerhaeuser Sales Companv's Tacorna engineering sales staff, it u'as announced bi' B. J. Ingoldsbl', Weyerhaeuser's \\test Coast sales engineering manager-

For the past five years, Eby has been the \\-est Coast Lurnberrnen's Association assistant director of technical service in Portlancl, Oregon. There he u'as instrumental in developing new stress levels and specifications for glued laminated construction material, and was active in promoting lvood for siructural and engineering material.

Eby was born in Hood River, Oregon, gradtlated frorn the

Clatskanie (Oregon) High School, and attended Oregon State College for tu-o years before joining the Army in l94l- He spent fir'e 1'ears in the Armv Air Corps, u'on several decorations as a fighter pilot. and rvas released to inactive duty in 1946 rvith a rank of lieutenant-colonel.

Retrrrning to C'SC, Ebv earned his degree in civil engineering in 1948.

He is a member of the Professional Engineers of C)regon, the American Society of Civil Engineers, and Sigma Tau, an engineering honorary. Ebf is married and has two daughters and one son.

Houston's Fofi Yecn Service

At the recetrt annual rneeting of the Long-Bell Lumber Cornpanr', helcl in Kansas Citv, Ito., special honor rvas done Earl H. Houston, general sales manager. President J- \I' \\'hite and boartl chairnran Jesse Andrervs pinned on him a Long-llell 40-r'ear-service pin, shorving that he had served the con.rpany' for fortl' consecutive 1'ears. \fr. Houston started rvith Lortg-Bell at l-ongvierr, I-ouisiana, in 1913. The Longvies' mill u'as the biggest sarvnrill this compan)' ever built in the South.

Rcrlph L Smith Buys Ccrstle Creek

The Ralph L. Srnith Lumber Companr', Anderson, California, has bought out the holdings of the Castle Creek Lumber Cornpany, Castella, California.