TWENTY-FII|E YEARS AGCD TODAY

As Reported in The California Lumber Merchant, June 15, 1955

"Lumber Dealers and Allied Industries Should Popularize National Housing Act" was the headline on the lead editorial in this issue, urging modernization stimuli for greater retail materials sales . No settlement was in sight of the strike at the Pacific Northwest fir carg'o mills, which entered its sixth week, June 10, 1935. Employes of the Long-Bell and Weyerhaeuser mills at Longview had gone back to work June 3, but closed down again when picketing started June 5 by the Shingle Weavers' Union. Patrols of hundreds of Washington and Oregon state police were on hand to prevent further violence . The kidnapped George P. Weyerhaeuser, 9 years old, was returned safely to his parents, the John P, Weyerhaeusers, Jr., June 1, after being held for seven days by his abductors. The FBI had captured two of the kidnappers and was pressing the search for the rest of the gang . The Hammond Lumber Co. advertisement in this issue declares the company has enough standing timber to build a very wide, L"xl2,, redwood highway around the world.

Manager Oscor .f. Odegaa,rd of the Nevada City Lumber Co. was running an interesting "Through the Knothole" series of retail ads in The Nevada City Nugget Legion Lumbermen's Post 403 heard an excellent talk on trout fishing at its June 11 meeting' . Merrlll Bobinson resigned as secretary of the Fir Plywood Assn. of Northern California to join the Smith Lumber Co,, Oakland The crew of 28 was saved when the S. S. Noyo went aground, June 10, in heavy fog a mile south of