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Park Arnold, vice president of Fox-Woodsum Lumber Co., Glendale, has returned from attending the annual Kiwanis 'convention at Atlantic City, N. J., June 19 to 23 He visited New York and other eastern cities and was gone about two weeks. Mr. Arnold is Governor of the Kirvanis districts of California and Nevada.
L. E. Harris, L. E. Harris Lumber Co., Los Angeles, left July 7 on a trip to the Northern Redwood Lumber Co. at Korbell, Calif., where new dry kilns are being installed; and the D. M. McClintock Lumber Co. and Roy M. Janin Lumber Co. mills at Portland, Ore. He will make the Sarr Francisco to Portland part of his trip by air, and expecfs to be back at his desk Tulv 19th.
H. A. (Hac) Collins, Round Trading Co., San Francisco, returned late in June from a business trip to Texas cities. He visited Rounds & Porter Lumber Co. at Wichita, Karrsas, and called on the company's sales connections in Chicago and Minneapolis. He made the entire trip by air in 10 days.
Jack Wuori, Los Angeles representative of the California Redwood Association, recently spent 10 days visiting the Association's member mills.
Lewis A. Godard, Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned June 20 from a business and pleasure trip to the Hawaiian Islands. He was accompanied by Mrs. Godard. They flew both ways on the new Boeing Stratocruiser. While in the Islands they flew to Hilo, and Kona fnn, on the Kona Coast of the island of Hawaii. They were gone three weeks.
Alex Gordon, Gordon-MacBeath Hardwood Co.,'vacationed the week of July 4 on the Monterey Peninsula. He was accompanied by Mrs. Gordon. They had both attended the convention of the Pacific Coast Wholesale Hardwood Distributors Association at Tahoe Tavern. Lake Tahoe, June 3GJuly 2.
Stanton Swafford, Los Angeles; Jack Davidson, Los Angeles; Pat Cardin, Oakland, and Adolph Wanke, Portland, attended the annual meeting of the National Plywood Distributors Association at the Edgewater Beach Hotel, Chicago, June 13 to 15.
Jas. B. (Jim) Overcast, sales manager, Strable Hardwood Co., Oakland, was back at his desk June 20, af.ter spending two weeks sightseeing in Nevada and California. He visited Reno, Las Vegas, and Death Valley, and did some fishing along the way. He spent a few days in Los Angeles on the return trip.
Francis G. Hanson, owner of West Coast Screen Co., Los Angeles, recently visited the remanufacturing plant of Hanson-Cobb, Inc. at Marysville, Calif. On the way home he played golf in the Dubs, Ltd. tournament, held at Lakeside Country Club, San Francisco, as the guest of Larry Owen, of Atkinson-Stutz Co., San Francisco.
Paul Hallingby, sales manager, Hammond Lumber Conrpany, Los Angeles, is back from a trip to Alaska organized by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. The sea triD was made from Vancouver, B. C. to Skagway on the Canadian National steamship Prince George. On the way home Mr. Hallingby visited the company's home office in San Francisco.
George Duff, formerly sales Co., Auburn, Calif., has been of the company.
manager of Cal-Ida Lumber appointed general manager
Frederic (Fritz) Roberts, who was formerly in the wholesale and commission lumber business in Los Angeles, is now a salesman for Atkinson-Stutz Co., Sarr Francisco. He is covering the territory from Stockton to Bakersfield and the Coast Counties.
George Stow, office manager, Los Angeles, vacationed with his in the first part of July.
Roddis California, Inc., family at Laguna Beach