TWENTY.FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

As Reported in The California Lumber Merchant, September 15, 1933

A joint meeting of the fir plywood associations of Northern and Southern California was held at the Palace hotel in San Francisco, August 12, to map action for a code of business under' the new NRA. Kenneth Smith was called on to outline for this group what had been done by other industry groups. Flomer Maris, president of the FPANC, presided and said the time was ripe for cooperative action between the state groups. Harry V.'Hanson, president of the SCFPA, advised a single code for both bodies. D. J. Cahill, Western Hardwood Co., brought up the classification of jobbers un-

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der the code. A northern committee of L. J. Woodson, C. H. White, Fred Buckley and Bert Bryan was appointed to work with a southern committee. Others in attendance were J. E. Higgins, Jr., W. T. White, William and James Davis, H. W. Swafford, Al Frost, Frank J. Connolly, Joe Z. Todd, E. A. and Bud lloward, Jerry Sullivan, G. H. Brown, Grover Gearhart, Merrill Robinson, and W. T. Black of The "Merchant."

Harry V. Hanson, Don Philips, W. B. Wickersham, Ross Blanchard, Jack Thomas, Kenneth Smith, Harry A. Graham and Ed Martin were in charge of the Los Angeles lumbermen's tournament to be played at Fox Hills, Sept. 22 .In line with all the industry talk of the new NRA codes, Jack Dionne's "Vagabond Editorials" in this issue told of an old darkey who had been having "NRA" for 2O years-"Neuralgia, Rheumatism and Asthma" The Douglas fir lumber mills in the Pacific Northwest went on a maximum 30hour work week Sept. 4, announced Col. W. B. Greeley . After having been shut down some time, the Dolbeer & Carson mill at Eureka planned to resume Sept. 25 on a 4O-hour week.

A large attendance marked the hearing in the State building, San Francisco, Sept. 7, on the Code of Fair Competition recently filed by California lumber dealers. At the head table were CRLA Committeemen Dee Essley, F. L. Dettman and F. Dean Prescott. Association Manager Essley read the entire code, section by section. A majority were approved but protests on some sections were filed by Kenneth Smith, representing the Lumber and Allied Products Institute, and Orrie W. Hamilton for the Lumbermen's Service Assn., San Diego. CRLA President Harry A. Lake, and Vice-Presidents Earl Johnson, Pasadena, and E. T. Robie, Auburn, were in attendance, as well as the following association directors: Ross Blanchard, Francis Boyd, Phil Curran, Paul Hallingby, Chas. G. Bird, Ira E. Brink, Mead Clark, Ray Clotfelter, Frank Duttle, Ralph Duncan, W. F. Hayward, Paul M. P. Merner, J. H. Shepard and B. J. Boorman.

The Western Pine Association decided at its August 29 meeting to open regional branches in San Francisco, Klamath Falls, Spokane and Albuquerque W. W. Wilkinson was named SoCal representative of W. R. Chamberlin & Co. . John G. Ziel of Barg, Ziel & Co., San Francisco, called on the Los Angeles trade for a few days Lathrop K. Leishman of the Crown City Manufactuiing Co., Pasa-dena, is the author of an excellent article in thiJissue called "Leaders and Their Jobs," in which he advocated national advertising of lumber and wood products Herbert S. Griggs of the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. died August

21 of iniuries'in an automobile accident.

Georfe Melville joined the sales force of Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co. in the L. A. office A half-page photo in this issue shows how the yard of Forsyth Hardwood Co. looks after its complete rebuilding just 75 days after the fire W. J. Clarkson joined the Loop Lumber Co. sales staff Frank J. Garland died Aug. 17 at his home in San Diego, where he managed the Chas. R. McCormick yard since 1911 M. L. Euphrat, L. C. Stewart, Frank O'Connor, Henry S. Patten and D. R. Philips of the California Wholesale Lumber Assn. left for Portland to confer with a group of fir manufacturers on shipments under the Code . . . R. R. Leishman and E. W. Hemmings were in charge of the California Redwood Association's handsome exhibit and showing of movies at the L. A. County Fair in Pomona, Sept. 15-24. A front section of a Monterey type home, showing exterior and interior redwood finish, has been built 20 feet in length for the display.