T\TENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

As reported in The California Lumber Merchant August 1, 1g32

W. \\r. Peed purchased the Norton-Phelps Lumber Co. yard at Los Gatos follor,ving 29 years r,vith Hammond at Eureka and three years rvith Monterey Bay Redrvood Co. He will rename it the Los Gatos Lumber Co. Norton-Phelps retain the yards at Aptos and Tr,vin Lakes The Vineland Builders Supply Co. lr'as opened in North Hollywood by R. E. Burmeister and A. T. Hilton Eugene Leo Swift of the lumber firm of Swift & Co., San Francisco, collapsed on the street there and died July 20.

N. Whitacre of the \\rhitacre Lumber Co., Los Angeles, chairmanned a n.reeting at Belvedere Gardens to form an organization to study finance in small-homes construction. On the committee \vere R. M. Ashmun, Kenneth Smith, M. H. McCall and James Comer Earl McCormick made his second hole-in-one r,vithin a month at La Nfesa, playing rvith D. Frank Park and Ed Culnan. He became the 20th member of the San Diego Union-J. Jessop & Sons Hole-in-One club Waverly Tilden succeeded his late father as president of Tilden Lumber Co.. Berkelev.

Glenn M. Miner, manager of the Whiting-Mead Co., San Diego, returned from vacation in Brice andZion National Parks and inspected the Boulder Dam project enroute home.

William Dinning resigned after 18 years as manager of the South City Lumber & Supply Co., San Francisco, and was succeeded by Israel Horton The J. M. Derr Lumber Co. at Elk Grove, Calif., completed a new combination office and display room in the yard.

Ed Seward, Dolbeer-Carson Lumber Co., and D. E. Liggett, Liggett Lumber Co., tied for low gross at the Orange County Lumbermen's Club monthly play at Hacienda, July 20. C. C. Barr, Barr Lumber Co., won low net and Bill Chantland of the Chas. R. \{cCormick Lumber Co., Los Angeles, took the blind bogey.

Frank W. Reitz of Los Angeles bought the yard of the Stangor Lumber Co. at Hynes, Calif. His daughter Viola will assist in the management Harry T. Kendall and C. J. I\fulrooney were placed in charge of the industrial and dealer sales divisions of the Weyerhaeuser Sales Co. Russell Gheen, L. A. manager of the C. D. Johnson Lumber Co., introduced Theodore Stearns to the voters at a political rally in Mr. Stearns' campaign for the lZth Congressional district.

Hill & Morton rearranged the sales territories of C. H. Terrell, W. J. Suttern and Ed Adams The Santa Barbara Lumber & Mill Co. in that city was sold to Glen Marchbanks. A recent survey discloses 25,048 contractors in all construction industries operating in California in 1932, with an average of one contractor going into business every two hours during the past four months.

Tom Dant completed a 2-months trip to Arizona for FirTex and made a short trip to San Francisco. . . The Hull Brothers Supply Co. moved their headquarters from Hollywood to the Reseda branch yard. . . Fred C. Newton was named manager of the Tilden yard at Richmond, succeeding J. L. Eakle.

Among the "Coming and Going" items are Dave Davis, spending his vacation in Los Angeles at the Olympic Garnes ; Barry Hanawalt, just back from a 6-months eastern trip for Longlyfe Cedar Products Co.; Russell Edmonston, back at E. K. Wood Lumber Co. from a month in the east; Don and Don, Jr. Philips, Russ Gheen, J. H. Prentice and E. L. Reitz yachting off Southern California; Clyde Owens of Whiting-Mead, in the Northwest, and Russell Tracy of Friend & Terry, Sacramento, bound for Seattle by McCormick steamer.

The Whiting-Mead Co. opened a branch yard at 5157 Long Beach Blvd. in that city. Charles Hammock n'as elected president of the Atascadero Mill & Lumber Co., W. A. Scott, secretary-treasurer, and Ted Bishop, vicepresident, on July 5 Manager Joseph Augusto was installing several improvements at the Oakley yard of the Sterling Lumber Co. . The Atlantic Lumber Co. opened a new yard at 1976 8,. Slauson Ave., Los Angeles. Max Gardner will manage this branch of the firm he owns with Dervitt Caspary.