Twerty'FlveYears Ago

As Reported in the June, 1939, Issue of the Cali{ornia Lumber Merchant, EsL L922

tarue 'lMoodeon of 'Wheeler Osgood Sales Corp., is on a business and pleasure trip i through the East where he will visit the

New York World's Fair.

Otis R. Johnson, executive vice president of the Union Lumber Co., San Francisco, returqed last week from a business trip to ea.stern and southern cities. tournament held recently at the Fox Hills Country Club. Low net winner was A. If. Hoel and the low gtoss prize went to W'alter Metz.

E E. Arthur, sales manag'er of the cargo department of Weyerhaeuser Sales Co., Tacoma, was a recent visitor to San Francisco and Los Angeles on a business trip.

Carl Blackstock, Blackstock Lumber Co., Seattle, was elected vice president of the National Retail Lumber De'alers Association at the group's annual meeting held in W'ashington, D.C.

Howar,il Ilarline recently purrchased full interest in the Walteria Lumber Co., Walteria, from his former partner, R. L. Ericsson. The company is making additions and improvements to the storage yard and buildings.

T. B. Lawrence, Lawtence-Philips Lumber Co., Los Angeles, attended the hearings of the Maritime Commission at San Francisco on June 13.

*ittt the California Roofing Bureau and the

P.air.rtins and Decorating Contractors Asso-

,. George W. Greene has succeeded Charles L. Tripler as secretary of the Coast Counties Lumbermen's Club, with headquarters at Watsonville, Calif. Greene was formerly ciation.

J. E. Bassett and his son Thomas have sold their interest in the Bassett-Teachout Co., Los .A,ngeles, to David W'. Teachout. The elder Bassett has taken a position as head of the door and plywood department

E U. Wbeelock of Los Angeles. IIis son has joined the pubtcity stafr of Ameri'can Air Lines.

D. D. McCallum won the low net prize for golfers at the 'Wholesale Sash & Door 'Association of Southern California golf

W-. K. Kendrick, Valley Lumber Co., Fresno, Calif., chairmanned a meeting of retailers of the Redwood Relationship Committee at Rio Del Mar Country CIub on Monterey Bay, Calif.

Fred Jaekle reports that his planing mill and more than a million feet of lumber were destroyed by a fire at the yard in Napa, Calif., in late May.

Fred S. Palmer of Sante Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco, has returned from a twoweeks business trip through Texas.

David H. steinmetz rrr has joined stan{3rd

Ernest A. Blackma& formerly with Blackman & Anderson, Oakland, Calif., has opened a wholesale and retail lumber business at the foot of 5th Avenue at 9th Avenue Pier, metropolitan Oakland's lumber terminal.

George M. Graves, formerly with Union Mill & Lumber Co., Santa Barbara, and Ilonald Bufkiu formerly assistant manager, Building Materials Exhibit, Los Angeles, have been appointed field men by the California Redwood Association.

-Lrunlel cor- a5- vieg r15$l$t luccgfdlng rri# r"rnu"r co., la the tuv.itv as a lum- his father, the late Dovid H. Steinmetz Jr., Ler salesman. who was killed in a trag"ic airBlane crash in Cajon Pass while flying his private plane

Edwin Pohle has been named general manto Bishop, Calif. for a fishing trip. Young ager of the Southern Lumber Co., San Jose, Steinmetz is a June graduate of the Cali- according to H. G. Ililton, president of the fornia Institute of Technology. concern.