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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY
As reported in The California Lumber Merchanl, September 15, 1932
Alfred W. Hart, manag'er of the Tacoma office, moved to the Los Angeles office of Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co. to handle the steamship operations . The Brooks Lumber Co. of Los Angeles joined the California Wholesale Lumber Assn Fire destroyed the lumber warehouse of George S. Gullett, Calipatria, Calif.
William L. Aisthorpe of the Aisthorpe Lumber Co., Chico, was a San Francisco visitor and reported improved conditions in his district due to increased prices of farm
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RYan 1-9858 products A half-page advertisement of The Hammond Lumber Company in this issue was done entirely in rhyme (very good rhyme, too!). First favorable comment on the ad came from Dudley Chandler of the Building Material Dealers Credit Assn. of Los ,A.ngeles Waverly Tilden appointed W. W. Forest manager of the company's Richmond vard.
The-W. E. Cooper Lumber Co., Los Angeles, opened a branch store at Highland Park with W. M. Davies in charge East Bay Hoo-Hoo scheduled its September meeting in Oakland with the new president, Earle Johnson, in the chair. The Athens Club promised a dinner menu just as good as in the past for 85 cents, a 2O/o cut on the old charge.
A. C. Horner, western manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Assn., returned to his San Francisco offices from a Pacific tour . , . C. H. Griffen, Jr., general manager of the California Redwood Association, called on dealers in a week's tour of the San Joaquin Valley and reports better feeling among dealers than on the previous trip.
George Gorman was appointed sales manager for the Hammond Lumber Co. to succeed the late Henry Faull, who died while on vacation. Frank H. White was transferred from Samoa to assist Mr. Gorman . . . B. E. Bryan, general manager of the Strable Hardwood Co., vacationed at Lake Tahoe over Admission Day . . . Milton Koll of the A. J. Koll Planing Mill Co., returned from a month's Northwest tour.
Convention plans were completed fof the 41st annual of Hoo-Hoo fnternational in Milwaukee, Sept. 28-30. Benjamin F. Springer was Snark of the lJniverse . Harry Scare, formerly with Bay City Lumber Co., has started in the retail sash and door business, calling it the Builders Supply & Material Co. The Pacific Lumber Co. had an exhibit at the California State Fair.
Stuart C. Smith, who had 15 years with Coos Bay Lumber Co., started the Lafayette Lumber & Supply Co. in that town H. W. Gustafson, many years with Coos Bay Lumber Co., left the industry to open a restaurant on the Stockton-Tracy highway W. F. Baird was named general salesmanager of the Michigan-California Lumber Co. President F. K. Weyerhaeuser visited the San Francisco office to confer with District Manager R. W. Hunt of Weyerhaeuser Sales Co.
H. Sewall Morton and C. I. Gilbert spent a few days hooking salmon and steelhead on the Klamath river Howard Shoup of the Shoup Lumber Co., Phoenix, visited
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* A,l Wcst Coost Prodicts ote dishibulod by rcpvloblc dcolcrs notionvidc f in Los.Angeles . President W. C. Peacock of the BoothKelly Lumber Co. returned to Eugene after transacting business with Hill & Morton in Oakland.

C. A. Doty and A. F. Christian organized the Bay Point Lumber Co. at Port Chicago (formerly Bay Point) Long-Bell Lumber Sales Corp. moved from the Hobart to the Bank of America Blds. in San Francisco. with H. Viroil the Bldg. in rancisco, Virgil Richards as manager Nat Edwards of the Oakland Planing Mill took his entire crew deer hunting around Willits over Labor Day.
Redwood Volume Published
For the use of authors and students interested in the extensive literature pertaining to redwood, the Foundation for American Resource Management has just published in book form an annotated bibliography of more than 2000 numbers by Emanuel Fritz, professor of Forestry Emeritus,
University of California, consulting forester for the California Redwood Association and for many years a specialist in redwood.
The book, "California Coast Redwood," printed by the Recorder Press of San Francisco, has 281 pages including introduction, classified table of contents, citations and annotations, author's index, and a subject index. The book is available from 582 Monadnock Building, San Francisco, at $7.50 per copy.
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