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i . Alfred Johnson, one of the owners of the Capital Lumber ,iri Co., Sacrimento, and his wife parented a boy baby, Alfred, 'r^1:' Tr.... Schafer Bros., Wilson Bros. and Trower Lumber Co. r itt ioined the California Wholesale Lumber Assn. . John , ' C. McCabe of Andrew F. Mahoney Lumber Co., San F'rancisco, returned from a trip to Southern California. . Earl Johnson of Johnson Lumber Co., Pasadena, was named ihair-.n of ihe Arrangements committee for the picnic of the California Retail Lumbermen's Assn. at Brookside Park, Section A, Pasadena, June 24. Main event is to be a ball

Qualily Redwood

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Merchant, June 15, 1933

ganr,e between wholesalers and retailers. . . . The Forsyth Hardwood Co., San Francisco, took a half-page ad in this issue declaring it was starting to rebuild immediately from tlre disastrous fire that swept its yard May 2l and destroyed practically its entire hardwood stock, reported P. R. Kahn. The fire broke out at 11:30 p.m., and at 4:30 a'm. Mr. Kahn was on the long distance phone to the east and south replenishing his stocks.

"Business is better with us," said C. H. White, vice-president and general manager of White Brothers, hardwood firm of San Francisco and Oakland, in a message he was sending out to accounts entitled "Sweet Are the Uses of Adverslty" Mason C. Kline of the Union Lumber Co., San Francisco, was a Los Angeles visitor' Walter G. Scrim, U. S. representative of the Findlay Millar Timber Co., P.I., was on a sales trip to the Atlantic Seaboard. ' Earle E. Johnson, Independent Lumber Co., Livermore, was vacationing in Texas and telling his former cowboy pals of his success at the Livermore Rodeo this year. . . . L. A. Godard of Hobbs Wall, San Francisco, was an L. A. visitor' Ralph E. Bacon returned from a leisurely trip around the world to his job at Strable Hardwood Co., Oakland Robert S. Grant resigned from Western Door & Sash Co. to join the National Mill & Lumber Co., San Francisco Southern California's "Gus" I{oover visited the main offices of TPL and Wendling-Nathan in San Francisco Art Penberthy of Tacoma Lumber Sales Agency, Los Angeles, returned from a Northwest mill-trip Harry A. Graham of the H. A. Graham Lumber Co., Long Beach, was lowgross winner at the Orange County Lumbermen's Club fourney, May 17. Ross Hostettler of the Costa Mesa Lumber Co. won the Blue Diamond trophy as low-net winner, and Club Secretary E. Steffensen of Santa Ana copped the blind bogey Hubert P. Alderman, former TPL salesman and now of Lewers & Cooke, Honolulu, married Miss Helen Catherine Truher there April 29.

Western Mill

B. J. Boorman of the Boorman Lumber Co., Oakland, was elected a northern California director of the California Retail Lumbermen's Assn., succeeding the late Samuel E. Dalton, president of the Melrose Lumber & Supply Co., who died May 17 aged 53 after a month's illness in Merritt hospital. lIe leaves his brother, Robert O. Dalton, who was associated with him in business.

The Barr Lumber Co. of Santa Ana purchased the C. H. Griffen Lumber Co. yard at Artesia. Mr. Griffen was retiring after many years with Montgomery & Mullin, PattenDavies, and in his orvn retail yard, and leaves with the respect of all who have known him since the start of the

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* All West Coost Prodictr are distributcd by rcputoble dcolcrs notionwide * centnry. Gen. Hugh S. Johnson of the I.R.A. approved the lumber industry's plan of a control organization. Earl Galbraith returned to the industry as sales manager of the Hayward Lumber & Investment Co. in Los Angeles. The redwood industry adopted the Fair Competiti,on Code ancl representatives of the pine industry formulated a code of fair practices at a meeting of the \Mestern Pine Association in Portland, May 3l-June 1. Howard C. Clark of the Rio Linda (Calif.) Lumber Co., was an L. A. visitor. Miland R. Grant succeeded his brother Bob as the San Francisco representative of Western Door & Sash Co., Oakland. . Manlger Walter Hardwick was constructing a new office building at the Dinuba (Calif.) Lumber Co. -

Governor Rolph signed the Mortgage Relief Bill, June 2 A full-page feature of this issue is a poem, "Let IJs Pr_ay !" by Jack Dionne, in which the CLIU publisher urges calm consideration of the national recovery under Roosevllt . . . William Schorse ioined the L. A. stafi of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. . . . Lloyd flarris, who was with

Holmes Eureka many years, was placed in charge of the new office of Elliott Bay Sales Co. in Los Angeles. Charles E. Williams, well-known southern California lumber dealer, died at his Azusa home, May 30, at 53. He owned the C. E. Williams retail yards at Azusa and Wilmar. He leaves his wife, a daughter and a son, Charles E. Williams, Jr., manager of the Wilmar yard.

Paul Orban of Pasadena and Miss Elizabeth Crowell, Oak Grove, were married May 31 and sailed on a Honolulu honeymoon. Ed Culnan iesigned as vice-president and general manager of the Western Lumber Co., San Diego, to enter the wholesale business in Los Angeles. "Friday" Freeland of the McCormick Co., Los Angeles, conferred with San Francisco executives there. . . A. B. Ffammond, dean of the redwood industry, was back at his desk after a short illness. The A. B. Johnson Lumber Co., San Fran_cisco, announced resumption of operation June 5 at the Wilson Bros. & Co. Aberdeen. Wash.. mill after 18 months' shutdown.

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