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jacent to Ventura, and he comes from the Ojai Lumber Co. Norm Deardorf is employed by the Ventura County Wholesale Company.

Gurdon Gallagher gave the boys an inspiring talk on Hoo-Hoo and its aims and purposes. He urged them to get out and build their club membership because the potential was definitely there in the counties nearby. He also thanked the San Diego and Los Angeles members for their help and support in bringing this event about.

Much credit should also be given Herschell Larrick, Jr., SoCal State Deputy Snark; Al Frost, Jr., president of the San Diego club, and fim Forgie, president of the Los Angeles club, for their aid in helping Pat Deardorf in his great venture.

Club members who attended from the Southland included bers were extended the hand of welcome by those in attendance and a toast of "warm milk" was drunk in their honor before adjournment.

Al Frost, Jr., Lyle Seibert, Herschell Larrick, Jr., Eddie Glasson and John Stewart, from San Diego. Jim Forgie was number one man from the Los Angeles delegatioq which included Chuck Lember, Lloyd Webb, Joe Petrash, Jean Parrish, Jack Thomas, Ole May and Jess Beristain.

Antone Sarzotti, mill superintendent for Peoples Lumber Company, was active in his support of Prexy Pat Deardorf and also served on the initiation nine, which included Gallagher, Larrick, Forgie, Seibirt, Al Frost, Stewart, Glasson, Parrish and Webb.

In closing his own remarks to the new club membersi Deputy State Snark Herschell Larrick started the ball rolling by donating $10 to start their treasury. Other sums of money will be sent to the treasuier from the San Diego and Los Angeles organizations, it was said. The new mem!

Next day many of the out-of-town "Cats" visited the old mission at Santa Barbara, Solvang and other interesting historical spots before returning home on Sunday.

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Mrs. Leone C. Randle and LeRoy Hamilton Stanton, Sr. announce their marriage, April 30, at the Oneonta Congregational church, South Pasadena. Following the wedding, thr couple spent a short honeymoon in Palm Springs before Mr. Stanton returned to the old Los Angeles firm he heads, E. J. Stanton & Son. The bride is prominent in Arcadia society.

Ida Crmner, "girl Friday" at the Marquart-Wolfe lumber offrces, Hollywood, spenl 10 May days in Chicago and other midwest sites visiting friends and relatives.

Stan Eznekier, seneral manager of the E. L. Bruce & Co. Oakland office. has iiansferred E. L. Cannon to the San Francisco territory from his former Sacramento Valley beat for the wholesale hardwoods firm.

Norman Davidson and his wife left Los Angeles the end of May on a trip to Canada and the Pacific Northwest, planning to combine some Pacific Wood Products business with pleasure, it was said.

Industrial Lumber's headman, I. S. Brown, and Mrs. Brown spent a recent weekend at Carmel-by-the-Sea.

Mmes. Ed Dreessen (he's head of Bee & Cee Lumber Co') and Uarion Ward (Hublaid A Johnson Lumber Co-) provided a double-header April 25 that almost ended in a tie: babies were born in the same delivery room just minutes apart.

Bus McNeil rcturned to The Bus McNeil Co' in Los Angeles late in May from a trip through the northern California and southern Oregon area where he reviewed th€ Interstate Container op-eration at Red Bluff and the Grants Pass Plywood Co., both of which his firm represents in the greater Southwest.

Carl Ramstrom, WCLA representative in Los Angeles at the Statler Center, covered the Arizona dealers convention in Phoenix last month on'behalf of the West Coast Lumber Inspection Bureau he heads up locally.

Gunter Silmar, head of Isbrandtsen's hardwood plywood and lumber division, is ott a business survfy of the Far East, visiting Japan, the Philippines and other producing areas. He left San Francisco May 13 and returns the end of June.

Bill Sharp, Inland Lumber Co' purchasing agent, returned to th.e Bloomington yard last month from a swing around thr NoCal mill area, wh6re hi reports sawmill operations are at peak production.

Joe Tardy has returned to Los AngeleS-from a trip to.Texas and alio Arizona where he took in the ARL&BSA convention in Phoenix.

lack Ziel, head of the pioneer imp-ort- house of Ziel & C.ompany, lni., Sa" Francisco, retuined the end oJ M1v from a month's busin..j ttip to Japan, Hong Kong and Manila, accompanied !v hiswife and' daushter in a paitv with members of the S. F' Chamber of Co--.t.. inierested in expanding Oriental business relations.

Bill Sibrell, Security Paint Company salesmanlger, T,os A-ngeles, returned from an extended promotion trip appointing dealers through northern California, including the San Joaquin Valley.

Stark Sowers and Ken 'schmidtke of the Inland Lumber Co', Bloomington, attended the Arizona retail dealers convention in Ftteni.iast month, entering the various sporting events and placing last in the golf. This was an introduction for Ken as a new representative of Inland.

Fred V. Holmes and Mrs. Holmes returned to the San Francisco offices of Holmes Eureka Lumber Co. at May's end following a twoweek business-pleasure trip through the midwest.

Iim Tattersall. executive of Security Paint Co', Los Angeles, has reiurned from a'business swing of the midwest and east, where the old-line paint firm, for many years one of the largest westem s9ppiiers to'retail dealers, is piesently opening up markets for its full iine, including tlre superioi redwood finishes it manufactures'

Bob Theetge, owner of Western Forest Products Co., Los Aneeles. is bacli from a mill-country tour for the wholesale concern' "He h'as effected a joint distribution deal with Bercut-Richards Lumber Co. of Sacramento.

Max Barnette, salesmanager of Hollow Tree Redwood Co', Ukiah' was a recent visitor in the Los Angeles area.

Fritz Roberts, Los Angeles wholesale lumberma-n, and his wife pandoia joined'Thornton and Burnell Snider,-with their fam-ilies, for a S-day holiday last month in Las Vegas. Water skiilg. on Lake Mead kepi them healthy but the six straight "craps" Fritz threw at the dice table was most unhealthy.

An Active Day in the Life of -D,.-C. Fsslev: One of the busiest tum-ber liecutives in southern California, Dee Essley worked in Foiti""a, Oregon, till 2:30 one recent afternoon, planed. to Los Angiles,'had d"inner at the Jonathan -Club with his wife Ada'- J9y atrd Edilie Bauer and Lee and Roy Stanton, and then toured th€ ii*.o-. on coveted ducats to the Clvic Light Opera to attend "My Fair Lady." Dee reports he wasn't tired after this typical day, "just pooped."

Ed Heiberger, Redwood Sales Co., San Francisco, spent three weeks of May in the east visiting accounts.

The California Lumber Merchant gratefully acknowledges receipt of postcards from llorace Wolfe in San Franciscg (Uay ,19' aboard Western Airlines "Champagne Flight"), Asti, Calif' (May 20, Tasting Room of th.e winery), Redding, Calif. (Mav-22'-"the U.P. RR -party was tops"), and Seattle, Wash. (Mav- 2-6, aboard United Aiilines). At last report, the senior partner of MarquartWolfe Lumber Co., Los Angeles, was then driving to Vancouver, B.C.