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Peter J. Van Oosting, wholesale lumber dealer, Los Angeles, is back from a combination business and pleasure trip of about 30 days. He left September 2 for Chicago, picked up a new car in Michigan, visited a brother in North Dakota, and drove ,back to Seattle, Portland, and other Northwest points to call on mills, on his way down the Coast.

Charles G. Bird, well known Stockton lumberman, reports that he is feeling fine again after a siege of illness that kept him in a hospital for a while.

C. M. Cooper, W. E. Cooper Lumber Co., returned in early September from calling California and Oregon mills.

Los Angeles, on Northern

Don Philips, Sr., has returned from his annual extended vacation spent at his summer home at Redway, near Garberville, Calif., among the Redwoods.

J.W*. Back of ports having had Lodge, Mammoth

Back Panel Company, a pleasant vacation Springs, Calif., in the

Los Angeles, reat Crystal Crag High Sierra.

Lester J. Carr, of L. J. Carr & Co., Sacramento, fler.v to Chicago September 15, on his way to visit the Paine Lumber Company, Oshkosh, Wis., manufacturers of the wellknown Rezo doors, for which his firm is Pacific Coast distributor. He also made the return iorrrnev bv the air route.

H. S. (Herb) Thompson left San Francisco September 22 on his first trip througl-r the San Joaquin Valley, rvhere he will be sales representative of Wendling-Nathan Lumber Co., San Francisco. He will live in Fresno as soon as he can make arrangements for a home there.

Mr. Thompson is a member of the Naval Reserve. He entered the Navy Air Force before the United States entered the war, and was flying a Navy bomber out of Guadalcanal in 1941. He was released from the service with the rank of Lieutenant Commander

Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Woodson returned in early September from a trip to Yellowstone National Park. The trip was made by plane to Salt Lake City, and the Park was toured by automobile. They'were accompanied by their daughter and her husband, Chas. Merrill, who are now located at Provo, Utah. Mr. Woodson is manager of Nicolai Door Sales Co., San Francisco.

New salesmen announced by Fir-Tex of Southern California, Los Angeles, are Jack Case, covering the territory east of Los Angeles, and down through Santa Ana and Long Beach; and Dave Smith, covering Hollywood, Santa Monica, San Fernando Valley, Ventura, and Santa Barbara.

Roy Gillespie and Jack Ropf of J. H. Baxter & Co., San Francisco, have just completed a selling trip, traveling in one of the company's private planes, through North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Colorado. Both are former Navy pilots with the rank of Lieutenant Commander.

R. P. (Bob) Hauser is now calling on the trade in the San F'rancisco Bay area for Hill & Morton, Inc., Oakland. lle was with Hogan Lumber Company before the war, and prior to that was with The Diamond Match Company. During the war he was in the Navy.