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George Silbernagel left Partner Bill Buettner to manbge the San Francisco wholesale offices of George J. Silbernagel, Inc., for a few weeks during May while he went east on business. Mr. Silbernagel and his father originally established wholesale offices at Chicago and a sash and door plant in Wausau, !Vis.,'more than thirty years ag'o. During 1943, shortly after his father's death, Silbernagel sold the Wisconsin plant to others but continued to operate his Chicago wholesale business until early this year when he decided to move to the Coast.

Horace Wolfe postcards The Merchant from the Hana Ranch (where Hawaiian cowboys herd cattle on the slopes of the Haleakala volcano on the island of Hawaii) that he is having a fine time and wishes the Marquart-Wolfe Lumber Co. were of Hawaii as well as Hollywood.

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Fran Heron, well-known northern California lumberman, joined Trinity River Lumber Sales Co., May 1, announces Stan Dick. Heron, a veteran of over ten years' pine experience with Western Pine Supply Co. and five years operating his own wholesale business, will be in charge of TR's pine department.

Mildred Evans, "Gal Friday" of the Lindsay Lumber Co., Paramount, has returned complete with suntan from Miami Beach, Fla., where she and ^her husband vacationed three weeks last month. They stayed at the Eden Roc hotel there, and then visited friends in Savannah and Knoxville before returning home to Long Beach.

Harbor Lumber Co. President Ike Zaf.rani of San Francisco spent the first week of May calling on suppliers along the Redwood highway.

Don Weber, for several years manager of R. S. Plywood, Santa Ana, has left to open his own business there. His wife Gloria, who will assist him in his Weber Plywood Company, says she is the "Swampef" in Don's new business venture.

Clif and Dorothy Roberts headed for the Pacific Northwest May 14 to visit Volney Spalding, who is fishing on Puget Sound. Enroute, they dropped Mary (Mrs. Carl) Gavotto and her mother off at Watsonville to visit relatives and friends. The Robertses are expected back in San Diego "when their budget runs out," according to Clif.

Congratulations to Bud (Trinity River Lumber Sales) Byard and his wife Barbara on the birth of their fourth daughteq Kendall, born April 28 in San Francisco.

Russ Barrera, formerly in the trailer manufacturing business in the Southland, has been named general manager of R. S. Plywood Co. at 1008 Fuller St., Santa Ana.

Wendell Paquette and his wife Inga took a jaunt up the Redwood highway the week of May 12 on business (Lumber Sales Co.) and pleasure.

Lee and Art Evans, now of Santa Barbara, were recent visitors in Los Angeles, Glendale and San Fernando Valley points to renew auld acquaintance now that they are back in the Southland.

Henry Winfree of Winfree & Tynan, the northern California Dant & Russell reps, and Mrs. W. combined business with pleasure on a May trip through Oregon.

Harvey Koll, prominent southern California builder and lumber executive, spent a few May days fishing in the high Sierra. He plans a trip this month to the Arizona Indian country.

Promotions within the field sales force of the Yale Lock and Hardware division of The Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company include Jack E. Krahl, industrial salesman, West Coast region, who will handle industrial sales in Southern California and in Clark County, Nevada. Mr. Krahl graduated from North Phoenix High School and studied at Arizona State College. He will make his headquarters in Los Angeles.

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