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Tom Corbett, salesman for Strable Hardwood Company, Oakland, with his wife and son, spent his vacation in Portland, and also visited his father, H. S. Corbett, at his ranch in Oregon.

Jerry Mashek, manager of Hill & Morton, Inc., Oakland, visited Eugene and other Willamette Valley points, and the Coos Bay area, in the latter part of June.

Wesley Collins, sales manbger of fir department, Gamerston & Green J-umber Co., San Francisco, was back on the job July 6 from a visit to the old home torvn in Nebraska, accompanied by his family.

M. A. Minor, of L. S. Whaley Lumber Co., Long Beach, recently made a business trip to Garberville, Calif.

Chas. O. Kallman, salesman for A. K. Wilson Lumber Co., Dominguez Junction, Calif., returned recently from a four weeks' trip to New York, and through the southern states, making a survey of market and business conditions, combined with sales.

S. P. (Heb) Hebard, sales manager, Fir-Tex of Southern California, was back at his desk June 8 from a two weeks' trip to Oregon, where he visited the company's mill at St. Helens, and the head office in Portland. He reports that the Fir-Tex plant, closed by the Columbia River floods for several weeks, suffered no damage, and started full production June 26.

George W. Truitt, of Truitt-Warren Lumber Co., Berkeley, returned recently from air trip to Texas on business for his firm. While in Houston he spent some time visiting his father, who was in a hospital there.

Jack Davidson, Davidson Plywood & Veneer Co., Los Angeles, left July 6 to spend three weeks in Northern California and the Pacific Northwest. He will visit Portland,

M. F. Schmidt has been appointed resident manager of Covelo Lumber Company, Covelo, Calif. He came from Wisconsin, where he had considerable lumber experience before the war. He was in the Army for four years during the war, with the rank of First Lieutenant. He served 18 months under Capt. L. J. Carr at the San Francisco Port of Embarkation, which handled the lumber phase of the Pacific campaign.

Corydon Wagner, vice president, St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co., Tacoma, was elected president of the Douglas Fir Export Co. at Portland, June23. Arch Kingsley, Kingsley Lumber Co., Linnton, Oregon, was elected vice president. L. E. Force, Seattle, wds* made vice president and general manager, and W. B.'Nettleton, Seattle, secretarytreasurer.

George S. Melville, district manager of Simpson Industries for Southern California, left Los Angeles July 9 to attend the annual sales meeting of Simpson representatives, to be held in Seattle, the week of luly 12. During the week visits will be paid to the various mills and logging operations, and there will be time out for some good fishing.

L. J. (Les) Carr, of L. J. Carr & Co., sales agents for Sacramento Box Co., returned June 18th from a four-week business trip by air around the United States and through part of Canada. He was accompanied by his wife, and they traveled in their private plane, a 4-place Beach Bonanza with a cruising range of 170 miles per hour. Going east they flew through the south, and went as far north as Portland, Maine.

R. J. (Bob) Heberle, manager of Alley Lumber .Company, Downey, Calif., left July 9 for a month's vacation in Minnesota. He will make his headquarters in llenderson, his old home town, and he expected to enjoy some firstclass fishing in the lakes in that vicinity.