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H. D. Chadbourne, owner of the Salinas (California) Lumber Company, left recently with a family party headed by his father and mother for a three month's trio to Europe.

Mr. and Mrs. Jason C. McCune, Los Angeles, became the parents of a fine baby boy, John, on May 28. Jason McCune is associated with J. H. Baxter & Company, Los Angeles.

James M. Maddock, Glen A. Karnes and E. J. Schribner completed purchase of the Sunnyside Lumber Company, Santa Cruz, and opened for business on June 9 under the name of San Lorenzo Lumber Company.

L. J. Carr, well known in the California pine industry, recently organized L. J. Carr & Company, with offices in San Francisco, to carry on a wholesale lumber business.

Fraser Lumber & Supply Company recently started business in San Francisco, specializing mainly in box shook. Principals are Garnet W. Fraser and, Z, C. Cather.

United States Plywood Company moved into a new and larger warehouse in San Francisco. Langford W. Smith is branch manager, Chas. J. Schmitt covers the Coast Counties, San Francisco Bay and Peninsula territory and Jimmy Atkinson handles the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys trade.

Carl Bahr, president of the California Red- wood Association, San Francisco, left May 26 for Washington, D.C.

Fred Johnson has become associated with the West Coast Screen Company of Los Angeles.

Albert L. Nelson is president of the newly incorporated Redwood Products, Inc., Fortuna, Humboldt County. The company will produce ties, posts, shakes and grape stakes.

A giant log raft from the Columbia River arrived at the Benson Lumber Company, San Diego, on June 1.

Meeting June 2, members of the San Francisco Lumbermen's Club elected as president C. C. Stibich, Tahoe Sugar Pine Company, San Francisco; and secretary, Edward J. Tietjen, Sudden & Christenson of San Francisco.

The California Lumbermen's Council moved their offices from San Francisco to Fresno. Berbard B. Barber is secretarv of the Council.

The West Coast Plywood Company is completing its new plant which occupies five acres of ground at the Port of Grays Harbor midway between Aberdeen and Hoquiam, Washington. A. R. Wuest, president and general manager, and A. R. Welch, vice president of the new company, pioneers in the manufacture of plywood, have been responsible for many important improve- ments in the product's development. H. Bruce Wiscomb is sales manager of the firm.

Peter White, chief inspector for White Brothers, San Francisco, and Mrs. White are enjoying a vacation trip to his old home in St. John, New Brunswick.

W. B. Wickersham, district manager for the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Company of Los Angeles, and Mrs. Wickersham, are on a motor trip to their old home in Illinois.

A. J. Koll of Los Angeles, president of A. J. Koll Planing Min, Ltd., is back from a trip to the Orient where he visited Japan, China, French Indo-Chir-ra, Sumatra, Java and the Philippine Islands. His trip lasted over three months and he reports that he enjoyed all of it. While in the Philippines he saw many of the large sawmills and logging operations. He also spent some time with B. W. Cadwallader. who is well known in California lumber circles. and is now in the mining business there.

A daughter, Diane, was born to Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Kirk at San Luis Obispo on May 24. Mr. Kirk is general superintendent of yards for the Southern Pacific Miling Company.

R. O. Wilson of R. O. Wilson Lumber Company, San Francisco, left in late May for a business and pleasure trip to the East.

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