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SOUTHER]I CAITFOR]IIA 1UTIBER SA1ES

Major Supplier of Quality Lumber for Flush-Door Manufacturers

Common Grades of Pine and SThite Fir Dimension for Retail Lumber Yards

Mixed or Straight Truck & Trailer Shipments or LCL from Yard Stocks

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Jim Cooper, general manag'er of the W. E. Cooper Lumber Co., Los Angeles, took in the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Wholesale Hardwood Distributors Assn. at Vancouver, B.C., June 7-10 and is visiting Pacific Northwest cedar mills and other industries until he returns to Vancouver for the National-American Wholesale Lumber Assn. annual, June 18-20. N{ost of the hardwood firms in the Los Angeles area planned to attend the PCWHDAnnual this month.

Lloyd Webb returned early this rnonth from a trip to the northern mill country for E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles.

Dean Drake, manag'er of the O'Malley Lumber Co. yard at Tempe, Ariz., and Mrs. Drake, and Don Finke, manager of the Tempe Lumber Co. there, attended the ARL&BSA convention in Flagstaff last month. Dealer Drake participated in the golf tourney.

Fran Fferon, Fferon Lumber Co., spent a mid-May week visiting Eureka area mill connections. John Polach held down the San Francisco offices at 3522 Geary rvhile Fran was awav.

Deoler Pinneo Runs for County Supervisor in Modoc

Alturas.-Harry Pinneo, retail lumber dealer, and James Reid, building contractor, both in the third district, were among trvelve candidates who filed for three county supervisor ofifices in the June 5 primaries in Modoc county.

for Club 181 rvas made by Steve Yaeger. Accepting the charter rvas Jim Hennessy, Hollow Tree Lumber Company, u.ho was elected the first president of the Black Bart Club.

Following the charter presentation, President Helnessy officially thanked the attendance for its support in promoting the new club and being on hand for the kick-o11 meeting. President Jim also introduced the follou'ing lumltermen rn'ho will be his co-'ivorkers during his term of office for the coming year:

First vice-president: Flol'd Nfullin, Ridgen'ood Lumber Co. ; second vice-president: Jack Allenby, Ukiah Pine Lumber Co. ; secretary-treasurer: Joe Shipman, Cloverdale Redwood Co. Directors: George Bratsberg, The Pacific Coast Co. ; Fred Christie, Warm Springs Redn'ood Co.; Whitey Orand, B & M Lumber Co.; Robert Vice, Devilbiss

Lumber Co.; Bob Heup, Tarter, Webster & Johnson, Inc. ; Bud Crofoot, Crofoot Lumber Co.; Bill Scott, Masonite Corp.; Garland Jones, Big River Lumber Co., and Leo Hulett, \\/illits Redrvood Products Co.

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H. Northrop ("North") Swanson, vice-president and purchasing agent of the Eagle Rock (Calif.) Lumber Co., was married May 25 in Las Vegas to Miss Marian Coates of Port Hueneme. After a short honeymoon in the Nevada resort city, he returned to his duties at the retail yard and the dealer and the doll are norv at home in Eagle Rock.

Bill Kesler, until recently associated rvith Gus Russell and Jno. Saner, Jr. in Santa Fe Lumber, Inc., San Francisco, will be admitted to the bar (remember that's legal talk) June 19 after studying evenings and weekends during his four years with Santa Fe, as itemed earlier.

Warren Hull of Hull Bros., Los Angeles, has returned from a month's motor tour of the south.

Don Wilson, LMANC staf ivart, left his sidekick, Jack Pomeroy, rvith the housework last week to spend the lveek vacationing rvith his r,vife Barbara in Yosemite and size up the place for the 7957 LMANConvention.

Charles Cooper has returned to the W. E. Cooper Lumber Co., Los Angeles, from his trip to Europe.

Les Crank, manager of the Homer T. Hayrvard Lumber Co. yard at Hollister, Cahf., and his family are on a 3week 'i'acation at Lake Tahoe.

Loren Foster, formerly with Fatten-Blinn Lumber Co., has joined the Jameson Lumber Co. in Los Angeles.

Bert Hasselberg, Arcata Redwood Company salesman, spent the last of May and first of June vacationing at Santa Cruz.

Stuart Butt, Butt Lumber Company, Azusa, Calif., was given honorary membership in the Azusa Mounted Police last month for donations of flags to the unit.

Harry Kenyon has joined l\Iartin Bros. Box Co. as a salesman in its lumber division, reports George Meyers. Formerly with United, Pine Ridge and Baugh Bros. lumber companies, he will handle sales of pine, fir and redwood for Martin Box in the east Los Angeles, Orange county and "Kite" areas.

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