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Dee Essley

Dee E,ssley is a guy you automatically like.

in Southern California for the Vancouver Plywood Company, of Vancouver, Washington.

He still holds that position. In 1935 he organized a wholesale concern, D. C. Essley & Son, in Los Angeles, which is now in charge of his son Jerry Essley, and his son-in-law, Wayne Wilson. Dee himself still devotes most of his time to selling plywood.

interested, a man of high go hunting with.

He's always been that way. He is a splendid example of what a fine disposition and sterling character can do for a man. No man in the lumber industry in California has more friends. He has no acquaintances. Everyone who knows him is his friend. Therefore Dee Essley is, in the finest manner of measuring, 3 very wealthy man. He is big, smiling, lovable, interesting and integrity, and the kind you like to

He has had quite a number of jobs, he never has been fired, he has always left a fine record behind him when he moved, and altogether he has made the best kind of a success. His main wealth is not in banks or in bonds.

He was born in fcwa, but has lived that down to a considerable extent. He was Gus Hoover's first traveling salesman, but he has lived that down, too. He left Iowa and arrived in Whittier. California, in 1902, when he was ten years old. He went to work for the Whittier Lumber Company before he was quite grown, and started with Gus Hoover in 1921. In 1927 he returned to the retail lumber business in Ontario, California, and was taken over in l9D by the California Retail Lumbermen's Association as Secretary and Manager. In 1932 he was loaned to the Lumber Code Authority in San Francisco, and covered the eleven Western states as Secretary and Manager for the life of the Code.

After the Code he came back to Southern California. He served during the war on the Appeal Board of the Selectiv,: Service System in Los Angeles. He became Southern California representative for Elliott Bay Mill Company, plywood manufacturers, and when, in 1938, this concerr withdrew from this market he became sales representative

He is a nachal-born mixer and arranger. When he was with the Retail Association he made a great success of organizing local associations throughout the state. He has been Vicegerent Snark of the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club and President of the Los Angeles Club as well. He is past Supreme Jabberwock. One of his best jobs was General Chairman of the annual Hoo-Hoo convention in Los Angeles. He is an Elk, a Mason, a Knight Templar, and a member of the Shrine. He plays golf after a fashion, lives in Whittier, has a beach home in Laguna where l,e sunburns his big, bald head. He is a member of the Whittier Rotary Club.

He has two children, a scn, Jerry, who has been already mentioned, and a daughter, Dorothy. lle was married in l9l3 to a lady of great charm and character who lived untii 1948.

Revised Schedule of Publications

Portland, Ore., Aug. 19-A revised schedule of publications listing six new booklets and a number of price changes has been issued by the Western Pine Association, it was announced today.

The schedule lists all of the 7l current publications available from the organization and contains a mailable order blank for the convenience of the buyer. Single copies of many of the publications are available without charge. Bulk orders are priced to cover cost only.

The association maintains a complete catalcg of retail sales aids, educational material for schools, information for builders, designers and architects and technical laboratory bulletins.

New listings include grade use guides on Larch ancl Douglas Fir, a comprehensive book on Idaho White Pine, a four-cclor consumer booklet on home interiors and exteriors, a lab note on treating White Fir mllwork and a leaflet covering rules for computing industrial cut stock.

The schedule is available free of charge from the Westcrn Pine Association, 510 Yeon Building, Portland 4. Ore.