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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

As reported in The California Lumber Merchant, October 1,1932

William Jongeneel, formerly with a Pittsburgh redwood manufacturer, opened the Santa Fe Builders FtpPly Co. at 4O51 San Pablo, Oakland. . . Milton Rhodes, for many years manager of the retail yard of the Hobart Estate Co., il.tto, died "in San Francisio September 25 following an operation. Edward H. Case, well known in the lumber business, joined Seal-Tite Products Co. Unsold stocks on the public docks at San Pedro totaled 2,098,000 feet on September 24, which the California Wholesale Lumber Asin. reported was the lowest on recbrd. Yards were reported doing reasonable buying and mill prices were firm.

Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. announced its appointment as exclusive sales agents in California, Arizona and New Mexico for the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. The California Retail Lumbermen's Assn. voted to hold the 1932 annual at the Hotel Alexandria, Los Angeles, Nov. 3-5, with the last afternoon free for the UC-USC classic at Olympic Stadium. . . Taylor Sublett of Strable Lumber Co. h6aded the East Bay Hbo-Hoo committee which organized a university extension class for lumbermen at Berkeley.

Walter Best, former purchasing agent of Southern California Hardwood Co., was named manager of Rio Hondo Country Club. Frank J. O'Connor, president and general manaser of the California Wholesale Lumber Assn., returned to San Francisco after several days in Los Angeles, after attendance at the California Lumbermen's Council meeting in Santa Cruz, and after addressing the Tacoma Lumbeimen's Club there.

Don Philips sailed north on the S. S. Point Loma on mill business foiLawrence-Philips Lumber Co., which operates the ship. The Sun Lumber Co., Beverly Hills, sold its Ventura and Oxnard yards to the Citizens Lumber Co., a newly organized Ventura corporation. W. A. Godshal of the Bfue Diamond Corp. was low-gross winner at the Orange County Lumbermen's Club monthly play, Sept. 21, D. E. Liggett won low net and blind bogey honors for his Santa Ana yard.

The Sept. 17 meeting of the California Lumbermen's Council at the Palomar liotel in Santa Cruz was attended by 37. Guests included Harry Lake, president, and D. C. Ess' ley, manager, California itetail Lumbermen's Assn.; q. T. Robie, wteid Clark, F. Dean Prescott, Al Hubbard, Andrew McNair, Harry Laws, Frank J. O'Connot, !. J. Eauge and &l Larson. Fresiding was eouncil President George N. Ley.

C. .W. Buckner, Northern California representative of Harbor Plywood Corp., is the author of an article in this issue called "A Modern Home Built of Laminated Lumber." . . The Matheny Sash & Door Co., San Francisco, was advertising Matheny Plywood Cottages and Collapj;ible (nailless) Flywood Cottages. Grenfell Lumber Co. of Colusa had a fire which damaged the warehouse.

Henry M. Hink returned to Dolbeer & Carson in San Francisio after a trip to L. A. and San Diego. . . Jghn- E. Marshall, Inc. moved to Pier A, Long Beach. . . . Arthur M. Larsen of the Sullivan & Larsen retail vard at Rio Vista was married Sept. 16 to Helen White of lierkeley and took a month's Honolulu honeymoon. He is the son of pioneer Central California lumberman Captain Larsen.

Carl R. Moore resigned from the East Bay Lumberm,en's Institute to succeed liis late father in charge of Moore Mill & Lumber Co. in San Francisco. . Wallter F. Peacock, president of Booth-Kelly Lumber Co., Eugene, Ore., died in Portland, Sept. 17, alter a heart attack while golfinC. . ' Charles S. Lamb opened a new retail yard in Emeryville; after 33 years as a -dealer, he had taken two years off after managing the Tilden yard at Berkeley and the Sunset Lumber Co.

Joseph R. Halstead, 44, was killed in an auto accident in Phoenix, Sept. 24. He was the son of J. D. Halstead of Los Angeles, head of the Halstead Lumber Co., which operates a line of retail yards in Arizona and Los Angeles, and was a vice-presidenl of the company. He made his home in Phoenii, where the first Halstead yard was started in 1909.

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Ted Roy, president of Ro-v l'orest Products Company, Van Nuys, California, proudly annotlnces that his firm has moved into larger quarters at 6310 Van Nu1's Blvd. in order to allou' {or present and future expansion of the wholesale lttn.rller concern. Six vears ago, Ted established his 'lvholesale lumber bttsiness in the San Iiernando Valley to handle direct shipments oi Pacific coast rvood products to clealers in that area.

Tecl I{oy rvas born and raised in the lumber-producing country in Ontario, Canada, and securecl his basic training