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Twenty'FlveTears Ago
As Reported in the June L94I, Issue of California Lumber Merchant, Est. 1922
Robert C. Parker, chairman of the Pacific Lumber Carrierst Assn., San Francisco, left on a business trip to Washington.
W. R. 'Bill" Morris, manager of the New York ofrce of the Union Lumber Co., has recently been on a visit to their mill in Fort Bragg, ,Calif. and the San Francisco ofrce.
H. Sewall Morton and Ed La Franchi of HilI & Morton, Inc., Oakland, returned recently from a trip to the Northwest where they'called on the company's sawmill connections.
Carl Reeder, formerly with Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., has joined the sales steff of the Hammond Redwood Co. and will call on i the retail lumber trade outside the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
I. N. Tate, vice-president of the Weyerhaeuser Sales Co., St, Paul, has been elected first vice-president of the West ,Coast Lumbermens Assn.
Jeck Murphy, Owens-Parks Lumber Co., Los Angeles, has been on a trip to the Northwest.
t Jar. E. (Jimmy) AtklnsorL Atkinson-Stutz Co., San Francisco, was in Los Angeles conferring with Fountain-Smith, his firm's Southern California representatives.
F. A. r'Pete" Toste, manager of the Los Angeles office of Bockport Redwood Co. and Rounds Trading Co., recently made a business trip to San Francisco, traveling both ways by the air route.
D. E. McDufiee of Tarter, Webster & Johnson, San Francisco, left for a business trip to the Eastern States.
Milton Taenzer, vice-president and J. W. Smith, sales manager of American Hardwood Co., Los Angeles, returned from a tour of the Pine mills in Northern California and Southern Oregon.
Robert S. Osgood has been appointed sales manager of the Washington Veneer Co. with headquarters in Olympia, Wash.
Lloyd Cole, Hammond Bedwood Co., Los Angeles, is back from a trip to the company's San Francisco office and the mill at Samoa.
Eric M. Ilexberg, sales manager of Anglo California Lumber Co., and Mrs. Hexberg have left on a three weeks'vacation trip to tlre Dsstern Stotes end Canede.
Ed Fountain of Fountain-Smith, Los Angeles, is back from a trip to the Pacific Northwest.
E. J. (Tommy) Thompson has resigned his position with Hull Bros. Lumber Co. and is developing his ranch at Thousand Oaks.
W. E. (Bill) Fahs, manager, California Plywood & Veneer Co., Los Angeles, returned from a business trip to the Northwest where he called on plywood manufacturers.
Harry Mcleod, Hammond Lumber Co., Los Angeles, spent a few days in San Francisco last month.
Frank J. Connolly, vice-president and general man4ger, Western Hardwood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, is expected back in his office from a 30-day business and vacation trip to New York.
R. A. Mackin, Ilallinan Mackin Co., Ltd., spent e few days at the company's Los Angeles office the latter part of May.
Charles A. Ilammond, formerly with W. A. Hammond Co., is now covering the San Francisco Bay district and Peninsula for Seth L Butler, San Francisco, who is Northern Caliionia rcpresentative of Dant & Russell, Ine.
Lyman Taft, Hammond Lumber Co,, Los Angeles, recently called on the Pine mills.