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Reported in The California Lumber Merchant, September lf 1955

Wlllam Mc0ullough was elected Commander of Legion Lumbermen's Post 403 at the monthly meeting: in the Rosslyn hotel, Los Angeles. Other elected officers will be Stuart Smith, Andy Foster, Lloyd Milne, Cail Schreiber, Jack Brush, Russell Gheen and Albert Albertieri. Commander Leo Hubbaril, who presided, was named a delegate to t}re state convention in Fresno, along with Fred Morehouse, Ted Stearns and Ed Biggs. In an annual custom, El. J. Stanton & Son will make and present a large g'avel of Balsa wood to the new state commander. Speakers included Kenneth Smith and Lt. Jack I{ennedy. Post 403 is sponsoring a movement to construct a Iodge and some cabins for L. A. County Campfire Girls at Opid's Camp.

Ray Clotfelter, general nianager of the W. R. Spalding Lumber Co,, Visalia, and Geo. llV. Gorman of the Hammond Lumber Co., San Francisco, are pictured in this issue standing before a F airchild monoplane at Visalia Airport. The occasion was a flight to San Joaquin Valley points on which they invited "The Merchant" reporter so he might see the time-saving use of planes in the modern lumber business. The top speed of 130 miles per hour didn't phase this magazine one whit, and Bakersfield was reached from Alameda in 2 hrs., 43 min. on 23t/2 gallons of gas. Hammond Salesmanag'er Gorman was indeed a veteran pilot of the company plane.

President W. T. Whlte of White Bros. and his wife spent July at Tahoe Tavern.

. Celotex, F ir-Tex and Palco Redwood Bark were used in the remodeling of the King Lumber Co. in Bakersfield. . . A. itr. "Gus" Russell of Santa Fe Lumber Co. has turned up a memento of the wreck and fire caused by train robbers at Siskiyou, Ore., in 1923. The Roth-Maier Lumber Co, of San F rancisco held a big barbecue, July 20, at their Salada Beach yard, with 250 attending. Fred Roth and Paul Ma,ier extended the invitations through a fullpage ad in The Half |doon Bay Review. The ad also carried a coupon with which the guests could purchase not more than one each of seven "Extra Specials" advertised. Guests included D. O. Duffell, Andy Barberi and Harry Gaetjen. . . . BlIl Glles of the Giles Lumber Co., Lennox, is vacationing the Midwest. Wood Conversion Company's "Nu-Wood" product is used in the "America's Exposition" and the "Cafe of the World" at the San Diego International Expositlon. , Georgo Grant, California salesmanager of Coos Bay Lumber Co., was a visitor to the L. A. ofrce. John Iilass was "No. 8" in the series of "Palco Personalities" in the series of ads now being run by the Pacific Lumber Company. John is the son of llerb Klsss and learned the music of the sawmills at Scotia.

Lumber Co, was flown from San F rancisco to Samoa as a guest of George W. Gorman in the Hammond Lumber company plane, with the 600-mile round trip made in about 212 }rortrs each way. While at the mill, GormaJr'also took Leonard Hammond and Guy Post on an aerial survey of the logging and timber . . Blll Cuzner of the I(erckhoffCuzner Mill & Lumber Co., Los Angeles, is vacationing in Mendocino county IL Sewall Morton of HiU & Morton, Oakland, made a Northwest visit to the mill connections, accompanied on the auto trip hy itro Shopa,rd, F riend & Terry Lumber Co., Sacramento; iloe Bog:ers, Square Deal Lumber Co., Salinas, and Ifarry Terrell, H&M's Sacto salesman . . Union Lumber Company Salesmanag'er E. L. Green visited the L. A. ofrces F'ormer Inglewood Lumber Dealer Earl Bowen visited L. A. from his Visalia home.

The sawmill strike ended at Grays Harbor, Wash., August 15, and the West Coast Lumbermen's Assn. reports the total losses from the weeks-long Northwest strike are not less than $25,000,000, with payroll losses at $7 million . Paramino Lumber Co., San Francisco, announces it will be represented in southern California by Dee C. Essley, who also represents Elliott Bay there. Paramino has started running their two boats to the Southland with 1,800,000feet capacity Rex H. Morehouse resigned as Pacific Division secretary of the

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Natl. Wooden Box Assn. The Diamond Match Co. has bought the two Earle D. rtohnson yards at Livermore and Pleasanton Eil Btggs vacationed from lJnion Lumber Company around El Paso, Texas

George Melvllle, L. A. manager, visited the S. F. offices of Puget Sound Associated Mills ,Iames G. McNary, who had been with Cady Lumber Corp. since it started operating in Arizona, bought the company and its subsidiaries at public sale in l'lagstafr, July 31, for a little over $800,000 President George Ley presided at the August 24 meeting of the California Lumbermen's Council in the Commercial CIub, San F'rancisco, and CRLA President Harry A. Lake went up from Garden Grove to attend . Jack Dionno writes a full-page editorial tribute in this issue to the late Will Rogers, whose tragic, untimely death in a plane accident has just been reported from Alaska . . Ray Blele, vice-president and general manager of Morrison-Merrill & Co., Salt Lake City, visited the Pacific Northwest and California, studying the TPL operations at Scotia, and attending the Intl. Exposition in San Diego . L. S. Turnbull of Shevlin Pine Sales Co., vacationed at Fairoaks.

A. E. Halstead of the Halstead Lumber Co.. Phoenix, visited his father, J. D. Halstead, at the company's Los Angeles yard . . . D. Steffensen returned to his post as secretary of the Orange County Lumbermen's Club after a Huntington Lake outing

Roy Sanilefur, general manager of the Dill Lumber Company, Arlington, and his family returned from two weeks in the Northwest , Russell Castol of the California Lumber Co., Montebello, vacationed