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Lumber pressure-treated with Boliden Salt costs only a little more than untreated lumber, yet will last many times longer, even under the severest conditions. lmpervious to wood borers, rot damage and fungus attack, Boliden Salt Treated lumber by McCormick & Baxter is perfect for mudsills, posts, joists, framing members, patios, porches and iences.

home to add h,is stamp of approval to the growing consensus that Washingrton, and Seattle particularly, should be complemented on a job well done.

Hugo Miller visited California Pacific Sales Corp. crrstomers in Colorado and New Mexico during the third week of June.

Carl Force ventured- up Oregon and Washington way last month to call on Fred C. Holmes Lumber Co. suppliers. Side 'trip to the Fair? Natch! Those Oreeon-Washington mills are really getting i working ove,r from lu,mber wholesalers these days.

Jerry Mashek, head of Hill & Morton, Inc., Oakland, visited southern California on business last month.

Bob Blacksher recently joind Pacific Hardwood S,ales in Oakland, according to president Fred Branch. Bob will handle ,the sale of domestic and imported hardwood lumber and plywood inthe Greater Bay Area. More recently with Cal,iforn'ia Plywood and North Pacific Lu,mber Co., Bob s,tarted his lumber career while still in high school working as a lumber handler f,or Strable Lumber Co. He later broadencd his experience with Monarch Lumber, General Lumber & Sup- ply and the old Gordon-MacBea,th Hardwood Co., serving the latter 6rm over n,ine yeafs.

Stan Eznekier, Pacifiq Coast divisional manager for E. L. Bruce Sales Co., has announced'that Williarn Van Gilder has joined the cornpany and will be calling on architects and generally assisting B.ruce jobbers in northern Californ'ia as a technical consultanrt and in sales promo.t,ion of Bruce products. Van Gilder was formerlv with Reynolds Aluminum Supply Co., Lts Angeles, as manager of Reynolds building products division. Prior rto that Van Gilder was divi'sional man,ager for Kaiser Gypsuru in California and Oregon.

Bud Kinney, who recently leased his Western Dry Kiln plant ,to Peerless Lumber, is recovering from a serious illness which struck him early last month. Bud is still ensconced in Merritt Hospital in Oakland and keep,ing that famous indian wrestling arm in rtop condition. For a little arm exercise, o,r a visit-see Bud in Room 272. Yisitors most certainly, y'welcome.

A couple of Chico's finest, Don and Barbara Wilson, flew to Europe the first two lr.eeks of June for a dream vacat,ion of England, France, Switzerland and environs. IJnlike several recent business executives who have been taking one way trips to various parts of the globe, Don returned right on schedule to his duties as merchandising manager for Diamond National Coro. at Chico. Good show!

tr{erced dealer, Howard McCulloch, o'wner of Yosemite Builders Supply, took advantage of the shortened Fourth of July week to t:rke a quick spin up to Seattle for a look around Century 21.

Among the capacity audience that viewed the recenrt brutal exchange between the Giants and the southland Dodgers at Candlestick with mixed emotions, our spies spotted the familiar dome of Bernie Barber, and in another section, Willis (The Terrible) Kelley of Riverbank. Bernie and the family took in a couple games while on the first leg of their vacation trip north to see the sights at the S.eattle Fair. Willis, former owner of Kelley's Lumber Co., was just playing hookey for the day from his Riverbank General Insurance Co. office.

Donald Gee has been named manager of the W. J. Copeland yard at Arcata. Although he had been away from the yard in recent months, Gee formerly was assistant manager of the same yard for several years.

Henry Ratto, Hank & Tony's Builders Suplply Co., 2040 E. Harding Way, Stockton, has just returned to good o1' U. S. of A. after a six weeks vacat'ion trip through Europe.

W. J. B. "Trip" Triplett, T&H Building Supply, 100 California Street, Palo Alto, returned to business the first of July after taking 'in the Seattle Fair and fishing the McKenzie River in B. C.

Mark Kelley, M & IVI Builders Supply, Tracy, and the Kelley fam,ily, enjoyed a week away-from-it-all on the Coast during the Fourth of July week.

Well-rested and ready for a big business tliis fall, Jim Hockstra, Laton Lumber Co., Laton, California, spent the week of Independence Day loafing and fish,ing with the family at Huntington Lake in the Sierras.

Cross Lumber's Dick Cross, and the (happy) Cross family, escaped the Valley heat Ior a week last month to vacation at their sum,mer home at Wawona, near Yosemite National Park.

Although Stockton is a bit of a go for commuting to Candlestick Park, Ray and

Mrs. Boitano, Square Deal Lumber Company, 7025 Waterloo Road, religiously make the trip every time the Giants play in the w,indy arena. Along with thousands of other nor,thern Cafifornians, the Boitanos are eagerly awaiting the first World's Series playoff in San Francisco. (an item liable to split the stafi of CLM asunder, at ieast at th,is writing)

Charles and Warren Moorehead, Moorehead Lumber Co., Escalon, have just finished re-do,ing the outside of their store with Masonite s'iding and a very attractive job too ! 'Ihe Mooreheads recently expanded and rernodeled their showroom interior and have since realized a big payoff in increased store volume.

Harry Whitternore, Southern California sales manager for Lev Lumber Company, spent the first week of July lazing at Bass Lake. While in the area he visited the Lev production mill nearby. Kind of a con-rbined business and pleas'ure trip.

Harry l,ev, owner of Lev Lumber Company, a recent visitor in the Los Angeles area calling on dealers with Harry Whittemore, sales manager of the manufacturing and distributing concern.

Shasta Dam was one of the points of interest visited by Lillian and Ralph Norum, two Hollywood lumber people talcing a "motorman's" holiday along the Redwood Highway. They said, via postcard, that Shasta Lake was beautiful and cool.

Fort Bragg lumberman and etrtrepreneur Freddy Holmes, Fred C. Holmes Lumber

Co., treated the family to a trip up through Oregon and Washington for a look around the big Seattle Fair last month.

Dick Harmer has left Hollow Tree Redwood Co. in Ukiah to rejoin California Pacific Sales Corp. in Arcata.

Bo Ahrens, h,ead of California Sugar & Western Pine Agcncy, B'urlinga'me, vacationed with the family in the Feather River country during the first weeks of July.

According to our slightly devalued, bu,t normally rel,iab,le Canadian spies, a good group of nonthern California plywoodmen \4/ere represented at the recent big NPDA arrnual at Vancouver, B. C., June 27-29. S'potted in the lobby, meeting rooms and watering hole(s) at the Bayshore fnn were Ray Teakle, California Builders Supply; Rolf Stolesen, Durable Plywood Sales Co.; John Beckstrom, Beckstrom & Co.; Tom Parker, M. S. Cowen & Co.; Jim Oakley, Doors, Inc.; Tbd Bennett, Sacramento; Andy Guy, Custom Finishes; and Dick Ranft, Cloverdale Plywood Co.

Ben Gardiner and his wife Mary have just return.ed from a ten day trip to Oklahoma City, with ,their two boys Fletch and Ernie, where they visi,ted Ben's grand,rnother who is 93 years old. S,top-over points of interest included Carlsbad C,averns, Meteor Crater and Grand Canyon.

Don Sadler, formerly with the Bruce-Ply Division at Memphis, Tenn., is now representing E. L. Bruce Sales Co., in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Amzona and New (Continued on Page 50)