AGO TODAY

Merchant, Augusl 1, 1933

Francisco, says May business was 30/o, and June business 4O-/o over the same 1932 periods The yard of the Dinuba (Calif.) Lumber Co. was destroved bv fire lune 28. Manager Walter Hardwick said they *ouid rebulta immediately Charles J. Schmitt of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. and a lieutenant in the Citizens Military Training Corps, left for 3-weeks' duty at the Presidio oi Monterey . Directors of the Millwork Institute of California met in Fresno, July 6-7, to formulate a Code of Fair Competition.

Jerry Sullivan, Sr., 72, president of the Sullivan Hardwood and the Western Lumber companies of San Diego, died July 18 in Mercy hospital there, where he had been undergoing treatment several months. lfe was born in Chicago but had become a leader in San Diego's business and civic affairs in his 22 years' residence theie. After establishing the Sullivan Hardwood Co. in San Diego in 1911, Mr. Sullivan purchased the Western Lumber Co. holdings in 1919, with branch yards in the countv. He was a leader in the city's 1916 International Exposition and active in the movement for the city's new charter in 1923. He became chairman of the first board of freeholders elected in 1926. He stood high in the councils of lumber organizations and always attended their meetings and conventions. He leaves his wife Mary, his sons Donald and Jerry, Jr., and two daughters.

W. S. Johnson of Tarter, M/ebster & Johnson, San Francisco, was elected president of the new California White & Sugar Pine Assn. C. D. Terwilliger was elected vice-presi- dent . T. S. Chapin, associated with his father in the Fred A. Chapin Lumber Co., San Bernardino, was married June 21 to Miss Jane Surett . . . R. R. Macartney of Weyerhaeuser and D. T. Mason, also of the Western Pine Association, were accompanied to Chicago by B. W. Lakin of McCloud River Lumber Co. for the Code convention called by the NLMA Bill Chantland of Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., Los Angeles, left to visit the comp?nyj Washington mills . The Checkers Builders Sup- ply 9o., and Hammond Brothers, both of Los Angeles, joined the United Sash & Door Dealers.

Snark of the Universe Ben F. Springer, Milwauke€, 3ppointed a committee of five loyal members from the Trvin Cities Hoo-lloo, Minneapolis, to prepare and submit plans for the reorganization of the International Concatenated Order, after a serious deflection in membership caused bv the general economic conditions brought about the closing of the International headquarters in St. Louis because of lack of operating income. Henry R. Isherwood, secretarytreasurer of the order since 1919, has resigned. Snaik Springer had anticipated the crisis and made plans for saving the order.

Charles F. Grim, 75, pioneer retail lumberman and president of the Ganahl-Grim Lumber Co., Anaheim, diecL Tulv 12. The Ohioan located in Santa Ana in 1887 and start"h managing_ the_ -Griffith Lumber Company's Ar-raheim yard in 1901. In 1904 he established the C. Ganahl Lumbei Co.

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