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Lumber Company since the tu.rn of the century and constitutes 6249 acres of cutover and restocked area, and 4850 acres which are covered with reproduction growth 10 to 30 years old. The ceremonies featured an address by William Hagenstein, managing director of the Industrial Forestry Association, who presented the certificate to George B. Mcleod, chairman of the board, Hammond Lumber Company. Mr. Mcleod also received the first certificates for tree farms in the Redwood Region for both the Van Duzen and Eel River Units of flammond's California tree farm acreage, certified by the California Redwood Association. He is chairman of the CRA Conservation Committee and was instrumental in the founding of the Redwood Region Conservatioir Council.

The program, honoring Mr. I\{cleod's long service to the forest industry, was also marked by a luncheon in the woods for guests, and was under the direction of Harry C. Patton, manager of Hammond Lumber Company's Oregon holdings and operations.

Squl Pick's Pushes Plywood

(Continued from Page 16) busy operating a fleet of te,n trucks, Pick offers free delivery service to individual customers as well as commercial builders and industrial concerns.

Most building material dealers with numerous commercial accounts make no effort to encourage small consumer sales because they fear resentment, due to the fact that the do-it-yourself trend has taken business away from professional builders. But Pick's buildings, which cover 80,000 sq. ft. of an 1l-acre store site, literally bristle with signs which invite both amateur and commercial builders to stop and take a look at his stock. Why?

"Professional builders realize there's nothing they can do to stop the do-it-yourselfer," Pick says. "Besides, I think they know that, if we didn't do the largest possible volume of business, we would have to charge them more for what they buy."

Emil F. Swanson of the Eagle Rock Lumber Co., back from an extensive vacation trip into Oregon, tells The Merchant it was very enjoyable; in fact, "the best f've ever had." The month's trip was made in his new Ranch Wagon via Bishop, Reno, Quincy, Lake Almanor, Shasta Lake, Klamath Falls, Crater and Diamond lakes and then down the Umpqua river some 75 miles on gravel road to the 2200-acre sheep ranch of his cousins, with a Zft-mrle frontage on the river. "Whenever a stream looked inviting, I just parked and tried it out for trout and, during three weeks at the ranch, I made a trip over to the coast at Winchester Bay and caught some nice silver-side salmon," the lumber dealer said. With his hosts, he made a trip up the Willamette Valley as far as Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia. and then 250 miles down the rugged coastline of Oregon, where fishing was only fair but the scenery was outstanding, he said. He returned via Medford. and over the Siskiyou mountains to Yreka, w[ere he turned west to the Trinity Alps area and had some good fly fishing on the Trinity river. He visited relatives in the San Francisco Bay area and returned to his retail yard down the coast route "fully rested and feeling like I had had a real vacation," Dealer Swanson reports.

Stark Sowers, general sales manager of Inland Lumber Co., Bloomington, returned from a motor vacation in Colorado and the West with his family in August and got in some work before taking off for the Hoolloo fnternational convention at San Francisco in his capacity of Deputy State Snark for Southern California.

Laura Turk of the Hammond I-umber Co., Los Angeles, became Mrs. George Moulster on August 18 and spent a happy honeymoon traveling by car through Montana on a 4@0mile trip.

Pat Cardin, president of California Plywood Co., returned to his Emeryville offrces Sept.15 from a 10-day business trip through the Pacific Northwest.

Pete Speek, southern California manager of Roddiscraft, Inc., lumber division, returned last month from a 10-day business trip to the home offices of the firm in Marshfield, Wis. He visited the Canadian operation of Roddis at Sault Ste. Marie and dis-

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cussed marketing problems with executives of tl-re national manufacturing and distributing concern. It's understood he got in a little sub-rosa fishing on the Great Lakes, too.

Lowell Kolb of the Mullin Lumber Co., Los Angeles, is back from a grand vacation in Alaska. The dealers are certainly getting around this year. Wayne Mullin, for instance, is partial to the Hawaiian Islands.

J. W. Fitzpatrick, wholesale sales manager of Consolidated Lumber Co., Wilmington, and his wife returned last month from a vacation in Vancouver and Victoria, B. C. and the Pacific Northwest. Most of their time was spent in the beautiful forests because Fitz "just wanted to feel at home."

Jay Holmes, former L. A. hardwood door distributor, is now managing the new manufacturing plant in Cameron, Texas, of the Watled Lake Door Co. of Detroit, which is producing over 2000 doors daily and "running behind schedule," says Jay.

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SCTSA Plqns1956-57 Meetings

The new officers and directors of the Southern California Lumber Seasoning Assn. met in executive session August 28 lo lay out the program of meetings for the new term. It was decided to try, for one year, a new plan of meetings every other month instead of every month because of heavy activities of most members. President Herb Geisenheyner, Secretary Bob Inglis and Directors John Kurzahls, J. H. Van Patten and Earl Simon set up this schedule of meetings:

October 4, Currie's Santa Fe; speaker-Dr. Fred Dickinson.

December 6, East Los Angeles; speakers-two retail lumberyard owners.

February (first Thursday), Long Beach or Wilmington.

April (first Thursday), Los Angeles area.

June (first Thursday), place to be chosen by members for annual election and final meeting of the term.

CRA Field Office

A new field office of the California Redwood Associationfor the Technical and Research division -was opened in Ukiah, Mendocino county, August 15, William A. Dost (left), who has been with the association since his release from the U.S. Navy in 1955, will be in charge of the new of6ce at 12 No. Court Road in Ukian.

Primary objective of establishing the new office, according to Philip T. Farnsworth, executive vicepresident of the CRA, is "to provide improved technical service to redwood lumber mills in the Mendocino-Sonoma area of the Redwood Region with the goal of attaining a better product at a lower cost. Technical studies, which are a further extension of the basic policy of the California Redwood Association-to serve the redwood lumber industry-will include a closer day-to-day attention to the study of air drying and to the association's exterior finish testing program.