REDWOOD 15 OUR BABY! LETTERS

The California Lumber Merchant

108 West 6th Street Building, Room Los Angeles 14, California

Dear Mr. Dionne:

Jl.;rl.e 21,7960 508

I just read your "Vagabond Editorials" of the June 15 issue and, on your paragraph regarding recognition of Russia, you are so true. I have felt for a long while that the world would have been much better off if recognition was never granted. It just did not make sense even then.

Apropos of this, I was re-reading Kipling the other day, especially "The Truce of the Bear," and wondering why some publisher had not editorialized on it as it seems particularly appropriate at this time.

Why not a good, forceful editorial the near future by wny Iorcetr Jack Dionne on the same?

Sincerely,

Lyman H. Taft, Jr.

Taft Lumber Company

P.O. Box 466 Oroville, California

June 8, 1960

Gentlemen:

I have reduced mv activity in the wholesale lumber business but I certainly-have NOT changed my interest in the business or your magazine. Please keep the Subscription coming. Thank you.

Edward Dreessen P.O. Box 584

* * San Luis Obispo

May 16, 1960

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Gentlemen:

Please cancel my subscription to your journal. While I have been a subscriber since the first issue (The Long-Bell Lumber Co. probably at that time) and have counted Jack Dionne as a personal friend for fifty years, I find f am so completely out of touch that, except for the "25 Years Ago" columns, I frequently do not recognize a name mentioned, and few of the company names, so have no particular interest in the industry^any more. Juit one of the penalties of growing old.

Sincerely,

C. J. Laughlin 3025 Motor Ave. Los Angeles 64, California.

(Editor's Note : Will his old friends please hasten to assure veteran Lumber Wholesaler Laughlin, formerly of 1350 N. Highland Ave. in Hollywood, that he is not forgotten and that the best way to stay young in this industry is with The California Lumber Merchant.)

June 15, 1960

Gentlemen:

Please find our check for another year's subscription. Mr. "Duke" Hemmings was in various fields of the lumber business, starting with the old Sugar Pine Mills near Yosemite in the I920s, and is now semi-retired due to ill health, but he still enjoys reading about the old-timers in The Merchant each issue.

Very truly yours, Rachel R. Hemmings

4129 East Hayne Steet Tucson. Arizona