T\TENTYAs reported FIVE YEARS in The California Lumber AGO Merchant June TODAY 15, 1 932

C. H. Griffen, Jr., general manager of the California Redwood Association, San Francisco, spent a week in L. A. on association business R. W. Hunt, California district manag€r for Weyerhaeuser Sales Co., returned to San Francisco from a periodic southern California trip conferring with the L. A. and San Diego representatives "What the Lumber Industry Needs," an address by J. P. Weyerhaeuser, Jr. before the Lumber Round Table Conference at San Francisco, was printed in this issue.

Max E. Cook, farmstead engineer in the Redwood Farm Structures bureau of the California Redwood Assn., announced his resignation from the CRA, efiective July l. The announqement by the association genuinely regretted Mr. Cook's move after eiglrt years of faithful service and wished him well. Mr. Cook told The Merchant he would rest for some weeks before announcing future plans.

Har.bor Plywood's vice-president and sales manager, E. W' Daniels of Hoquiam, Wash., visited California cities Ed Seward and W. B. Koehler tied for low-gross prize in the Orange County Lumbermen's Club golf tourney, May 18. C. C. Barr took the low net prize and Ted Lee won the blind bogey . . . W. E. Cooper oI the Caddo River Lumber Co., Kansas City, was a California visitor'

Capt. Robert Dollar, San Francisco lunrberman and leading Pacific Coast shipper, died at his San Rafael home, May 16, at the ag.e of 88. Capt. -Dollar had written a biographical sketch of his early life for lhe X4erchant's issue of Aug. 1, 19J1.'lhe full-page obituary notice, with photo, told of his lumber operations, including the yards operated in China. Mr. Dollar was the fictional hero of Peter B. Kyne's famous "Cappy Ricks" story series.

William L. Richardson died in San Diego on May 7 . . A. Crockett Bowers, 78, pioneer Orange county lumberman, died May 13. He had opened a Santa Ana retail yard for the J. M. Griffith Company in 1878 and managed it 43 years until it was sold to the Barr Lumber Co. in l92l upon Mr. Bowers' retirement. All the Orange county lumberyards closed for his funeral services, at which 44 yards were represenLed.

The Atlas Lumber Co., Long Beach, was purchased by M. E. Downey, formerly with the Centurl' I-umber Co. Elmore King of the King Lumber Co., Bakersfield, visited Los Angeles and had a golf game with Ernest Dudlev of the Dudley-Thomas Lumber Co., Santa Monica The J. M. Derr Lurnber Co., Elk Grove, constructed a new building and display room.

Edwin M. Tilden, president of the Tilden Lumber Co. with yards in Berkeley and Richmond, died May 11 LeRoy Alcott, formerly with TPL and Frank Graves, died in Long Beach, May l0 . Tom Tomlinson resigned from MacDonald & Harrington to j.oin Donovan Lumber Co. in San Francisco . . H. T. McGrath joined the Geo. F. Weis Lumber Co. in Los Angeles.

The S. P. Milling Co. purchased the yard of the Gilroy (Calif.) Central Lumber Co. . C. R. Johnson, H. W. Cole, Henry Hink, Fred Holmes, Floward Dessert, Stanwood Murphy and Homer Bunker were in the lumber industry and N.L.M.A. delegation at the U. S. Chamber of Commerce session in San Francisco, May 17-20 Stockholders met in Tacoma. Mav 31. and voted to continue the West Coast Lumbermen's Associaiion.

Theodore L. Stearns, purchasing agent of the Hayward Lumber & Investnrent Co., was electecl as the 12th Congressional District's Republican candidate for Congress The Capital Lumber Co., Sacramento, filed articks of incorporation The Brentwood (Calif.) Lumber Company opened a new home-service clepartment and kitchen line.

A. Melville Dollar, 52, son of the late Capt. Robert Dollar, died of a heart attack suddenly in Vancouver on May 31. He leaves his wife and seven children, and two brothers: R. Stanley and J. Harold Dollar.

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Harry Lake, president of the California Retail Lumbermen's Assn., addressed the San Fernando Valley Lumbermen's Club al their monthly, June 8. J. E. Martin of The Merchant was called on for a few remarks. President Chester C. Knight presided at the session The Merced Lumber Co. yard.at Livingston, Calif., added a builders' hardware department, reported Manager R. D. Jones Charles A., Sands, Berkeley, one of the organizers of the Weed (Calif.) Lumber Co., died May 29.

More than 600 persons attended the formal opening of the Poinsettia Lumber Co., Ventura, May 20 and. 21, reported Manager Roy Smith . . . H. Sewall Morton of Hill & Morton returned to Oakland, June 6, after a trip to Eugene, Ore., to complete arrangements to represent the Booth-Kelly Lumber Co. from Bakersfield to Redding and the Coast counties Tom Dant was calling on the Arizona trade for Fir-Tex of Southern California Harry Lake was spending a fev,'days in the San Francisco bay district on association business for the California Retail Lumbermen's Assn. he heads.