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Frank Surbaugh, salesman with Back Panel Co., Los Angeles, is back from spending five weeks in the Pacific Northwest calling on lumber and plywood mills.

A zoning exception has been granted to Andrew Warming by the Board of Supervisors to establish a lumber yard at 2137 E. Foothill Blvd., in the Duarte district'

R. H. Fleming, who was recently released from the Ordnance Department, in which he had the rank of First Lieutenant, after three and a half years' service, is back rvith Hallinan Mackin Lumber Co., San Francisco'

Alex Gordon, Gordon-MacBeath Hardwood Co', Berke:[ey, and Mrs. Gordon returned July 29 from vacationing {or three weeks in Grand Canyon and Bryce Canyon National Parks.

Homer M. Hayward, president of Homer T' Hayward Lumber Co., Salinas, Calif., is back from two weeks' business trip to the Pacific Northwest'

Stuart C. Smith, Sierra Lumber Products, Pasadena, and Mrs. Smith returned July 10 from a trip by air to Washington, D.C.

Frank G. Duttle, president, Sterling Lumber Co., Oakland, is back at his desk following a three weeks' business trip to Oregon.

W. J. (Nick) Nicholson, California Plywood, Inc., Oakland, recently traveled by automobile to Oregon and Washington to call on the plywood mills.

Clem Fraser, sales manager, Hogan Lumber Co., Oakland, spent his vacation at Feather River Park in the Feather River Canyon. He was back at his desk Iulv 29.

Charles W. Buckner, Harbor Plywood Corporation, Hoquiam, Wash., spent a few days in Los Angeles on business the early part of July.

Jack Weber, formerly in the technical department in the Wilmington, Calif., plant laboratory of the American Lumber & Treating Co., has returned from A"rmy service, and is a nelv addition to the Los Angeles sales staff.

W. D. Dunning of L. J. Carr & Co., Los Angeles, sales agents for the Sacramento Box Company, recently visited the company's head office in Sacramento, and plant at Woodleaf, Calif.

Larkspur Lumber Co., Dolph Dougherty, owner' recently reopened the yard, which had been closed for some time'

Arlie M. Charter, Wholesale Building Supply, Inc', Oakland, has returned from calling on lumber mills and plywood plants in Oregon and Washington' Miss Ella Moore, Hill & Morton, Inc', Oakland, recently made a business and vacation trip to Eugene and other Oregon points.

Jack Patrick, Patrick Lumber Co', Seattle, is back from a vacation trip to Lake Tahoe' He made the trip both \\rays by plane.

Tony Morabito, partner in Lumber Terminal, Inc., San Francisco, and owner of the San Francisco 49ers of the All-American Football Conference, rvas the subject of a humorous cartoon by Tommy Thompson of the San Franisco Call-Bulletin in that paper, Jaly 12. Thompson says: "Tony is the man responsible for big league football in San Francisco," also that Tony graduated from Santa Clara in 1931 with a M.M.Q. degree (Monday morning quarterback). The 49ers open the season September B against the New York Yanks at Kezar Stadium. San Francisco.

Bill Cuzner, Kerckhoff-Crzner Lumber Co., San Pedro, spent the last two weeks in July on a fishing trip on the Kern River in the High Sierra.