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With E. L. Reitz Co.

Fred Egan has joined the sales staff of E. L. Reitz Co., well known Los Angeles wholesale lumber concerrl, and is calling on the trade.

Fred has a fine background for his nerv job. lle rvas with the Mullin Lumber Company of Los Angeles, retail lumber firm, for fourteen years before he went into the army. He attended Officers Training School where he was commissioned a Lieutenant, and rvas assigned to the New York office of the Lumber procuring Branch of the Corps of Engineers. He did a fine job in l{ew York, and rvas then called back to the Washington office where he served until the duration of the war under his new boss, E. L. Reitz, who was a Major and in charge of the Lumber Procuring Branch.

Fred is widely knorvn in Los Angeles lumber circles, and his many friends wish him success in his new position.

Wholesale Lumbermen loin BMDCA

A number of Los Angeles wholesale lumbermen recently joined the Building Material Dealers Credit Association. Ed Fountain, of the Ed Fountain Lumber Co., Los Angeles, has been appointed to the board of directors as representative of the lumber group.

WiIl Move Yard Soon

Blackman-Anderson Lumber Co. rvill move soon to their new location at73rd, Avenue and San Leandro Street. Oakland.

Redwood Shingle Asgociation Orgr nized

The Redwood Shingle Association, the first to be formed in that industry, has been organized by twenty-two redwood shingle manufacturers of Del Norte, Humboldt and Mendocino counties in Northern California, with headquarters in San Francisco and Fortuna. Frank Tehan. Tehan & Reese, Fortuna, was elected manager and chairman of the bohrd of trustees. Thomas F. Kerry, Del Rio, will supervise the Association grading to conform to the commercial standards of the U. S. Bureau of Standards.

Items of Interest

J. \V. Mcleod, Mahogany Importing Co., Los Angeles, is vacationing at Laguna Beach. He will be back on the job August 1.

R. T. (Dick) Brassell, of Galleher Hardwood Co., Los Angeles, and his wife, left July 8 on a vacation trip to Victoria, B. C. They are traveling by automobile and will be back July 26.

Ctyde Biggs, salesman for Roddis California, Inc., returned July 3 from a trip to Honolulu. He was accompanied by his wife, and they made the trip by air both ways.

Hairy B. Mcllvaine, president, The Houghton Lumber Co., Indianapolis, Ind., left San Francisco, late in June after spending several weeks calling on sawmills up and down the Pacific Coast.

Lumber Exports Rise

Seattle-Waterborne lumber exports from Pacific Northwest ports in British Columbia, Puget Sound, Grays-Willapa harbor, Columbia River and Oregon coast during May totaled 108.1 million board feet, an increase over the 96.6 figure the previous month but still a sharp drop from the 191.5 million board feet shipped in May, 1947, Pacifrc Lumber Inspection Bureau figures show.

Total waterborne exports for the first five months of 1948 were 524.9 million board feet, compared with 724.6 million feet for the corresponding period of last year.

Waterborne lumber shipments from Oregon and Washington ports to U. S. destinations totaled 123.2 million feet in May, compared to 70.2 million in May, 1947. Of the May, 1948, total, 70.1 million was from Oregon, the rest from Washington.

For the fourth straight month British Columbia shipped substantial amounts of lumber to domestic U. S. destinations, sending 8.9 million board feet to the Atlantic coast and 2 million to California.

British Columbia exported 72.2 million board feet during May, two-thirds of the month's total Pacific Northwest exports, compared with 105 million in May, 1947"'8. C.'s exports for the first five months of this year total 332.6 million feet, as against 461.7 million for the like period of 1947.

Of Washington and Oregon's domestic shipments, 78.2 million went to the Atlantic coast, 36.6 million to California, 7.6 mill\on to Hawaii and 69L941 feet to Alaska.

Dubs, Ltd. June Tournament

Dubs, Ltd., held their fifth monthly tournament and dinner June 25, at the Lakeside Country Club'(Olympic Club), San Francisco. The following were the prize winners: Low g'ross, 77, Ralph Stone, Santa Rosa; First low net, 68, IIarry Hood, San Francisco; Znd low net, 74, Del Travis, San Jose ; 3rd low net,77, tie, Art Evans, Wayne Rawlings, Stan Dick, San Francisco; 4th low'net, 78, tie, Al Nolan, Fred Ziese, San Francisco, and N. P. Morris, Stocktonl High gross, Chet Johnson, Los Gatos, (first golf game).

Al Nolan was chairman of the day. Dave Davis presided at the dinner. A total of 31 played golf and stayed for dinner.

The next monthly tournament has been changed from the California Golf Club to the Green Hills Golf & Country Club, Millbrae, July 23. Art Evans, chairman.

Joins Sales Staff

Harry H. Selling has joined the sales force of J. J. Rea, wholesale lumber, Los Angeles, and is calling on the Southern California retail trade. Harry has had both sawmill and retail lumber yard experience and is well equipped for his new position. During the war he was a pilot in the Air Forces, and saw service overseas.

J. J. Rea is Southern California representative for the Ar,cata Lumber Sales Co., sales agent for Arcata Redwood Co., and A. B. Johnson Lumber Co.

L. S. Whaley, of L. S. Whaley Lumber Co., Long Beach, Calif., returned last month from attending the Republican Convention in Philadelphia, at which he was a delegate.