TWENTY-FIVE YEARS

As Reported in The California Lumber

Vacation coming-and-goings : Isidor Cheim was expected back at Union Lumber Co., Marysville, from a 3-week trip including visit to the World's Fair at Chicago. W. T. White, president of White Bros., San Francisco, returned July 23 from 30-day vacation at Tahoe Taver!. Sam T. Hayward of the Hay- ward Lumber & Investment Co.. Los Angeles, is back from a 2-week autour with his wife and children bf Crater Lake and Northwest ooints. E. L. Cooper of the Union Lumber Co., Los Angeles, hunted and fished with his wife at Camp Baldy. Ellsworth Horton of the South City Lumber Co., South San Francisco, -his wife .ttd little daughter left July 25 for a trip to the Ceniury of Progress Exposition in Chicag9. R.H. Loveday, Los Angeles dealer, took his wife and son Blist on a vacation trip into the High Sierra near Bishop.

Max E. Cook, agricultural engineer for The Pacific Lumber Co.. -is in southern California calling on the retail trade to perfect the distribution of the company's septic tanks The advertisement of the California Redwood Association in this issue features redwood for stadium seats and shows the Stanford University installation

C. R. Johnson, president of the IJnion Lumber Company, returned to San Francisco after six-months' absence, mainly in Washington, D.C. on Lumber Code Authority meetings Many shipments of foreign woodl consigned to San Francisco hardwood yards were being unloaded at Los Angeles harbor and rail-shipped to S.F. during tfte longshoremen'i ltrike. Two cars of Australian Ironbark for White lros. had about 9500 of rail-freight charges against them on arrival in this manner.

The first full-page ad in this issue is "A Statement of Weyerhaeuser Dis- tribution Policy," and starts out: "Since the Lumber Industry started to develop its Code under the N.R.A.. it has sought to secure from the Administration a definition of wholesale trade that would clarify and define the type of business open to the retailer, wholesaler and manufacturer alike. thus indirectly defining the type of buslness reserved to the retailer. The inability of the Industry and the National Recovery Administration to agree on a definition of wholesale trade has resulted in so much confusion within the Industry that we wish to make our position clear by the publica- tion of the following letter of instructions to all Weyerhdeuser salesmen:". And the statement, signed by Presi-