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Point Arena. Caspar Hexberg, manag:er of the National Steamship Co., praised the efforts of Capt. John P. Bostrom President ilohn W. Flsher announces that the name of the Wilberg-Swartz Lumber Co. in Santa Monica will be changed to the F isher-Swartz Lumber Co. The interests of Bert llVllberg were purchased by the present stockholders, who include George N. Swartz and D..S. Moore.

The Diamond Match Company bought the yard of Camm & Hedges at Petaluma President Fred J. Wood of Bellingham and Vice-President Ha,rry F. Vlncent of San F'rancisco were guests at a party g:iven June 7 by employes of the L. A. office and branch yards of the E. K. Wood Lumber Co. .'R. R. Lelshma,n, the Southern California representative, ofrcially opened the exhibit of the California Redwood Assn,, June 12, at the California Pacific Intl. Exposition in San Diego . Tacoma Lumber Sales, Los Angeles, and Paramino Lumbqr Co., San F'rancisco, were arnounced as representatives of the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co., effective June 10, by A. H. Landlam Salesmanager C. C. Sttbfufi reports the Tahoe Sugar Pine Co. started logging operations, June 10, after delays caused by late snowstorms.

"Commodore Gus" was the "Palco Personality No. 6" in the series of full page advertisements by The Pacific Lumber Co., running monthly in these pages. It read: "When Gus, the old man of the sea, was asked where he was born, he surprised us with 'f,r1ss1s'-!vs had always thought it was Catalina. For the past 20 years he has been holding forth in the TPL's Los Angeles 'fo'castle.' In spite of his love for the sea, he long ago succumbed to the realestate bug and became a 'landlubber.' Gus has a family-a real one-to which even his devotion for golf is secondary. Besides Mrs. Hoover, the real 'Commodore' behind the scenes, the family consists of Bob, now upholding tlte family naval tradition as a champion swirnmer at Stanford; Dick and Sis, who are still sailing along on their high school careers. Gus has had his eye teeth cut and his wits sharpened on a razor, but don't mention it to him, it may give him a'shock'-he doesn't like electricity. Next to keeping the sawmill oversold, Gus's chief diversion is meeting the 'Scotia.' He might enjoy Poker more if it weren't so expensive for him, and he's a 'regular feller' except when riding a Pullman.'And (shh!) Gus really doesn't like work-but he does a lot of it-and he's the real "warp and woof' of Palco fabric."

Mllton V. ilohns was named manager of Redwood Sales Co., San Francisco, suc-.rceeding Russell D. Baker. The firm, whictr handles the Eastern sales of Dolbeer & Carson, Holmes Eureka, and Hobbs, WaIl & Co., is headed by Henry M. Hink, as president Lon S. Garrett, TPL salesman in the San Joaquin Valley, is spending a few weeks at the Scotia sawmill . . . Major Northwest plywood pr"oducers interested in world trade are joining the Pacific Forest Industries, formed to develop foreign markets for Douglas Eir plywood, announced President E. W. Danlels, Hoquiam, Wash.

. Max Hayward of the Ha;rward Lumber & Investment Co., Los Angeles, and his