TWENTY.FII'E YEARS AGCD TCDDAY

As Reported in The California Lumber Merchant, Oclober 1, 1934

The Pioneer-Flintkote Company announces plans to help retail lumber dealers in the new FHA campaign . Francis Boyd of the Santa Barbara Lumber & Mill Co. returned from a month at Tahoe and also the Monterey peninsula The Lafayette (Calif.) Lumber Co. opened a branch yard at Orinda, with Horace Corbett as manager NRLDA President Spencer D. Baldwin planned to attend the 1934 convention of the California Retail Lumbermen's Assn., Oct. 11-13, in Fresno. M. A. Harris of the Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co. is to entertain him on his arrival in San Francisco. The easterner was also to be the guest of Ralph Duncan, Merced Lumber Co., for a trip to Yosemite and, later, the guest of Henry S. Patten of the Patten-Blinn Lumber Co. on arrival in Los Angeles, Oct. 15 Trustees of the West Coast Lumbermen's Assn. met Sept. 25 in Portland and voted 11-to-8 to retain the price-fixing provision of the Code.

A. J. "Gus" Russell announced plans to establish a wholesale shipside lumber terminal at Stockton for his Santa Fe Lumber Co. of San Francisco. The Stockton Daily Record carried a frontpage article with S-column banner on the lO-year lease of four acres with a $30.000 installation. The Santa Fe Lumber Co. has occupied the same offices in San Francisco since 1907, following the fire . . .

D. C. EssleY returned to his San Francisco offices of the Retail Lumber & Building Material Code Authority after two trips to Washington, D.C. . . Clitr RuPP won low net score ol 67 at the Hammond Lumber Co. golf tournament in Long Beach, Sept. 22 .

Henry M. Hink, sales manager of Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned from 10 days'business in L.A. and San Diego Legion Lumbermen's Post 403 is sponsoring a "Daughters of the Legion" drum and bugle corps.

W. B. Wickersham, district sales manag'er for the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., Los Angeles, climbed Mount Whitney over the Labor Day holiday The Wagner Lumber & Mill Co., Santa Barbara, is building a new display room Earl Johnson of the Independent Lumber Co., Livermore, purchased the H. Arendt Co. yard at Pleasanton The Pacific Coast Wholesale Hardwood Distributors Assn. plans its annual at Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, Oct. 11-13, with President H. W. Swafford presiding. The Hardwood Flooring association is meeting in conjunction, announces President Frank Connolly. Speakers will include J. Fyfe Smith, D. J. Cahill, Kenneth Smith, C. H. White and A. A. Frost. The entertainment was to be a Fanchon & Marco spectacular Chas. G. Bird, manager of the Stockton Lumber Co., and president of the Parson Simpkin Memorial Assn. announces the annual reunion will be held Oct. 7 at Calaveras State Park for Central California lumbermen. The committee includes Dealer Bird, C. D. LeMaster, T. L. Gardner, Geo. M. Cornwall and Frank W. Trower.

E. B. Culnan, Western Lumber Company, San Diego, visited Los Angeles . . . Dean Cook and C. K. Lesan opened the Madera Lumber Company, Sept. 1 Lyman Hall, former manager of the Tilden Lumber.& Mill Company's yard at Fresno, joined the Donovan Lumber Co., San Francisco . The Santa Fe Lumber Co. installed one of the new Postal Teletype machines in its offices It was discovered by The San Francisco Chronicle that Patrick John O'Dea, one of football's immortals, long believed dead, is working as statistician for the Red River Lumber Co., Westwood, Calif. The Eagle Rock (Calif.) Lumber Co. held its eighth annual venison barbecue on September 18 and pronounced the meat prime and up to standard. Emil

F. Swanson, owner of the retail yard, brought in two fine bucks on his annual hunting trip.

G. F. "Jerry" Bonnington was elected president of East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club lor the 1934-35 term. Other ofificers will be Gordon D. Pierce, Carl R. Moore and Miland R. Grant. Directors will be Kenneth J. Shipp, James B. Overcast, A. H. "Slim" Silligo and Henry M. Hink. H. Sewall Morton presented the retiring president, C. I. Gilbert, with the gift wrist watch. Past Presidents Earl Johnson and Larue Woodson staged a humorous installation ceremony, written by Secretary Carl Moore. The introduction of Joseph W. Simpkin, son of the late Parson Simpkin, was made to the members by Frank W. Trower.

Fred Hutton, manager of the Dixon (Calif.) Lumber Co., who has been in business there since 1887, visited in San Francisco Harry T. Nicolai of Oregon-Washington Plywood Co., Tacoma. attended the annual Bohemian Club outing in San Francisco It was announced that the mill of the West Side Lumber Co. at Tuolumne, Calif., will be opened in the Spring Pioneer Lumberman George E. Middleton passed away August 8 in Boulder Creek . . M. R. Gill, formerly with Union Lumber Company, joined the L.A. sales staff of Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co. Fred L. Jones, formerly with F. S. Buckley Door Co., joined the T. P. Hogan Co., Oakland, and will divide the territory with Geo. B. Eidemiller Walter Johnson, B. W. Lakin, Swift Berry and SecretaryManager S. V. Fullaway were among those who addressed the meeting of the Western Pine Association in Portland . Warren B. Wood, vice-president of E. K. Wood Lumber Co., returned from four weeks at the company mill in Anacortes, Wash. Henry S. Patten returned to Patten-Blinn in L. A. after attending the Retail Lum-