June nl , 1933

The interesting article on retail lumberyard merchandising and display by Dick Ustick, Stanisla-u-s Lumber eo., Modeito, in -the issue of June 1, 1933, concludes with this pithy final paragraph:

One item of our display failed to be displayed. We erected a champion two-passenger Chic Sale, crescents on the side and everything, but we still have it tucked from sight behind one of our buildings and I'll .tell you why-our bookkeeper felt that the more astute i"lgllt be offended. An<i the Specialist who built her saii. disappointed like, "Just like you lumbermenhidin' the- fhings you have to sell. She's a dandy and tuckin' that edffici back of this shed is just like robbin' a queen of her majesty."

Long Beach; Roy Sandefur, Arlington, and Kenneth Smith of the Lumber and Allied Products Institute, Los Angeles.

Thb Douglas F'ir Plywood Manufacturers Assn. -agreed to new minlimum wage schedules following a conference in Portland. The industry will pay a minimum wage of 30 cents an hour effective July 1 A party of lumbermen attending the Livermore Rodeo, May -1{, -includqdC. I. Gilbert, Earle E. Johnson, J. F. Rogers, H. Sewall Morton, E. C. Wilson, C. C. Sherwood and John Ross and their wives and families Patten-Blinn, Kerckhoff-Cuzner, Bookstaver-Burns, E. U. Wheelock and San Pedro lumber companies joined the California Wholesale Lumber Assn.

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Dick Ustick of the Stanislaus Lumber Co., Modesto, is the author of a page article in this issue called "Trade or Exchange-Ideai for Ideas or What Have Y-ou"'The sto-ry mention-s the terrific merchandising ideas dreamed up by the yard manag'er, Jim Gartin, and the firm's Salida branch manager, Charles Sloan . F. "Tom" Tomlinson returned to his- former sales post with the Donovan Lumber Co., San Francisco A. H. Hoel of the Claremont Lumber Co. and M. J. Ely of the company won prizes at the Hammond I-umbei Company golf tournament at Fox Hills, May 20

. Leonard e. Hammond, vice-president and general manager of the Hammond Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned to his desk after several weeks' illness.

The Klamath Lake sawmill owned by Willis J. Walker of San Francisco and F. Hill Hunter and R. H. Hovey of Klamath Falls, was taken over by Ivory Pine Company and reopened after a two-year shutdown Francis E. ryt-y.d of the Boyd Mill & Lumber Co., Santa Barbara, and his wife welcomed the birth of a son May 23 ' Otis N. Johnson of San Francisco was elected a director of the N-AWLA at the annual in Washington, D.C., April26 ' . Tl-re merger of The Lumbermen's Blue Book and Cl4ncy's Red Book was announced in a new corporation to be known as The Lumbermen's Credit Assn. Jason C. McCune of the Los Angeles office of J. H. Baxter & Co. was receiving congratulati,ons on the birth of a daughter, May 10 The R.F.C. announced the. availability of funds for rebuilding and.repair of homes in the recent southern California earthquaKe.