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C. M. Freeland, Frank Burnaby, Bill Chantland, Jack Thomas, Harry Graham. Rov Stanton and Ed Martin . . . Harold F. Plummer, general salesmanager of the Union Lumber Company, was on a sales swing of southern Calif. Tahoe Sugar Pine Lumber Co. resumed operations May 10. E. L. Marsh is president and C. C. Stibich is salesmanager of the company . . . R. S. Osgood returned from a 4-months sales trip of the U.S. for the Cadwallader-Gibson Co., of which he is salesmanager, W. C. Jones of the Valley Lumber Co., Calexico, and the Hull Bros. Lumber Co., Reseda, were among'the California dealers quoted by the NRA and Lumber Code Authority in declaring 99% of Southern California lumber dealers were solidly back of the Code . Frank H. Burnaby, president of the Sun Lumber Co., Beverly Hills, returned M"y 19 from a cruise to Honolulu with his wife . George W. Wood of Wood Brothers Co.. Santa Cruz, has a 2-page, fine-print article in this issue as the first installment of his family's steamship trip to the Northwest on the lumber shio. S.S. West Ivis. The lumbe.-att ptb.'.s a surprisingly fine writer . . Mrs. Hugh Herbert Hughes, daughter of George Lounsberry, died in Los Angeles, May 11.

Arthur B. Griswold, manag.er of the San Francisco office of C. D. Tohnson

Lumber Co., his wife and three friends were iniured in an auto accident there. May 5. -. The Davis Hardwood Co., at Bay and Mission streets in San Francisco, is written up in this issue on the occasion of its 40th anniversary . "Hawk" Ifuey of Phoenix spent a few days fishing in San Diego With this issue, The California Lumber Merchant starts a "Ten Years Ago Today" column (June l, 1924) and among'the items are that H. G. Larrick has left the Barr Lumber Co. in Santa Ana to operate the Solano Beach Lumber Co. and was replaced by Walter S. Spicer and that Elmore King reports that Gus Russell has taken up golf and Gus Russell reports that "Elmore King told a lie." Additional 1924 items report that The Lumbermen's Club of Arizona held its seventh annual, May 16-17, at Douglas with E. U. Wheelock and Parson Peter A. Simpkin as speakers, and Joe Tardy as one .of the most active delegates; that the Sun Lumber Co. bought out Woods-Beekman Lumber Co.; that Capt. Robert Dollar addressed the San Francisco Hoo-Hoo, May 22, and that John. W. Koehl & Son started an expanslon program.

President George Ley, Santa Cruz Lumber Co., presided at a meeting, May 19, of the California Lumbermen's Council in Cotati. CRLA President Lake attended E. W. Hemmings joined the Globe Lumber Co.,

Los Angeles Tom Hubbard of Hubbard & Carmichael Bros., San Jose, purchased the yard there of Tilden Lumber & Mill Co., to be known as Hubbard Lumber Co. . . . The Diamond Match Co. bought the yard of Smilie Lumber Co. in Walnut Creek

The Piedmont Lumber Co. bought out the branch there of Tilden Lumber & Mill Co. Legion Lumbermen's Post 403 hosted a crowd of 200 at its Roundup, May 25, in the Hamilton club, Los Angeles. Arrangements committee was Harold Brown, Les Cunningham, Leo Hubbard, Tom Tomlinson, Fred Morehouse, Herman Rosenberg and EP,--

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George Geib, president and manager of the Norwalk (Calif.) Lumber Co., leaves June 6 for Las Vegas, Nev., to take part in an Elks bowling tournament at the Las Vegas Bowl. He'll return to his retail yard the "long way 'round" with a trip to Salt Lake City, Utah; Pendleton, Ore.; Spokane, Wash.; San Francisco and way points.

Max Hill, one of the popular partners of H. M. Nelson Lumber Co., Montebello, has returned from a tour of mills in northern California and the Redding area. He was accompanied by the company buyer, G. L. Kirkpatrick, who headquarters in Auburn. Herman West of Lumber Carriers Service at the Los Angeles harbor, is just back from a business trip into Washington and Oregon.

Sontq ltllonicq Deqler Fred Krqnz To Atfend Notionol Wor Gollege

Frederick H. Kranz, general manager of the Golden State Lumber Company, Santa Monica. has been invited to attend the National Strategy Course conducted at the National War College, Washington, D.C., for the period from July 12 to July 24. This will be a joint seminar course with participants from the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps.

The basic purpose of the course is to train a cadre of reserve ofifrcers from all services who are active in civic and public affairs and who in civilian life, help create a resolute national climate of opinion. It is proposed that this will strengthen the National Defense programs and will bolster the national will to resist Communist propaganda strategems. This will alert leadership groups to the danger of the cold war conflict. It is also intended to build a bridge between civilian groups and the military through the reserve officer who is a member of both groups.

Graduates of this course will be kept continually supplied with up-to-date material on the subjects. They will be expected to lecture and write on this field.

Lumber Dealer Kranz is a Major in the California Air National Guard and management analyst for the 146th Tactical Fighter Wing at Van Nuys. He is State and County Affairs Chairman for the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce and is active in many other civic and social clubs.

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Officials of the Denver & Rio Grande Western R.R. report that they have undertaken research designed to modify softwoods so they perform like hardwoods, reports the National Lumber Manufacturers Assn., Washington, D.C. Ray McBrian, chief research engineer for the railroad, recently told the Joint Senatellouse Committee on Atomic E,nergy

"Our preliminary studies indicate that it is theoretically possible by the use of certain chemicals, in conjunction with gamma radiation, to induce cross-linking or polymerization of the fibers of softwoods, and thereby secure the equivalent of hardwoods."

The railroads' principal interest in such a development would be for crossties but, presumably, the process could be adapted to other items, says the NLMA.

Georgio-Pocific Opens Noilh Hollywoodn Ooklond Worehouses in Exponsion

Two additional warehouses, in St. Louis and North Hollywood, Calif., have been added to Georgia-Pacific Corporation's growing distribution organization, announces Stewart W. White, warehouse division vice-president. This brings to 51 the number of company-owned distribution centers around the nation. Both warehouses have 20,W0 square feet floor space and will carry Georgia-Pacific lumber, plywood and hardboard products.

David W. Waldorf was named North Hollyrvood warehouse manager. He has already spent six years in G-I' sales work in California and the Pacific Northwest and before that was assistant manager of Plywood, Los Angeles. White said that renovation or replacement of older ware-