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Froncis Boyd, Who 'Retired' on Selling Sonto Borbclro Yord, Joins Horbor Lumber Co.

Francis E. Boyd (left), one of the real oldtimers in the lumber and millwork business of Santa Barbara, has returned to the lumber ranks after a short retirement and announces his association with Ike Zafrani, president of Harbor Lumber Company, Inc., San Francisco, where he will assume management of Harbor's wholesale lumber division.

Boyd originally began getting sawdust in his veins in the year 1895, r,'i'hen he started picking up sticks in his father's lumberyard, the J. F. Boyd Lumber Co.

His first job, outside of the Boyd yards, u'as with the old Carpenter & Biles Sash & Door Co. in Los Angeles in 1906. After finishing school in 191 1, Boyd went to Washington to learn about logging, scaling and sawmilling; he later became a P.L.I.B. lumber inspector at that point. Boyd returned to California in 1914, and became manager of the Builders Lumber Co. in Gustine, leaving there in l9l7 to enlist in the Corps of Engineers, forestry, U. S. Army. After serving two years in France in logging and sawmilling, Boyd returned to Lompoc and joined his brothers, Scott and Clyde, in the operation of Boyd Lurnber & Mill Co., Inc. In 1937 he purchased the Ganahl interests in the old Union Mill & Lumber Co., Inc. yards, both of Santa Barbara. Just before World War II he disposed of these yards but continued to operate his yard at Lompoc.

During a six-year period starting in 1942, Boyd served as a colonel with the U. S. Army Engineers. His first tour of duty was a two-year hitch in Skagway, Alaska, where he was in charge of Alcan Highway supplies and chief of operations. He later served as chief of water transportation at Brussels, Belgium, and in 1945 u'as assigned to Wiesbaden, Germany, as chief of Rhine transport.

Boyd returned to Santa Barbara in 1948 and opened the Boyd Mill & Lumber Co., which was recently sold to Parke Kooser of that city.

During the 20's and 30's, Francis Boyd was a board mem-