TIilENTY-FII/E YEARS AGCD TCDDAY

fu Reported in The California Lumber Merchant, October l, 1955

B. B. Barber, formerly with the Diamond Match Co. as wholesale salesman. has been appointed secretary of the San Joaquin Lumbermen's Club, Fresno, succeeding Earolil J. Ford, who resigrred to become salesmanager of the Yosemite Sugar Pine Co., Merced F'alls . . . J. C. Stark, former manag:er of the Hammond yard at Pasadena and at one time in charge of retail yards for the Tilden Lumber & Mill Co., Oakland, was a San Francisco visitor M. A. Harrls returned to the Van ArsdaleHarris Lumber Co. from a 1,200-mile tour of northern California by car . . Jlm tr'arley, assistant western salesmanager of The Pacific Lumber Co., spent several days in the Holl;rwood film studios on a new film for the redwood industry T. P. Hoga,n, ilr. and George Eldemlller returned to the Hogan Lumber Co. in Oakland from a Northwest business trip . Iil. B. Wooil returned to the E. K. Wood offices in L. A. from a five-week business trip around Bellingham.

Dealer Earle E. Johnson, renewing the subscription to his Livermdre, Calif., yard, reports that he likes best the "Vagabond Editorials" and the "Ten Years Ago" columns Illustrated in this issue are scenes from the first Hollywood-produced industrial movie with an all-star cast. It is "The Home of the Wooden Soldier," being made for the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, and features Lila Lee and Charlie Murray among other players. The script is by Wtlltam \il. Woodbridge, manag:er of the Bureau. Actor Tom Post plays the successful lumber dealer and office scenes were filmed in the Hollywood yard of Lounsberry & Harris when the company returned from filming mill scenes on location in the Northwest. The film will have its premiere Nov. S in San Diego at the annual convention of the California Retail Lumbermen's Assn. Dea,n Prescott returned to.the Valley Lumber Co., F'resno, from a 5-week auto tour from Tijuana to Canada Lew Blinn returned to TPL ofrces in San Francisco from a 3-week Alaskan vacation.

The Red River Lumber Co. won seven prizes at the California State I'air for the exhibit it furnished for Lassen County. It erected a complete log cabin using several species of lumber . . Bob Osgood is on an extended business trip to the east for the Cadwallader-Gibson Co., Los Angeles, but is expected back by Thanksgiving. . The J. S. Schirm Co., San Diego, announces an expansion in its sales staff . The Roscoe (Calif.) Lumber Co. is building,.an addition to the dffice, using white pine for the structure The Philippine Mahogany Manufacturers Import Assn. is starting a tradepromotion campaign in behalf of its product, and the first barrage is a 2-page editorial in this issue by Publisher Jack Dionne . . H. H. Barg returned to the Barg Lumber Co. in San f,'rancisco from a z-week business trip to southern California . . . R. C. Jones returned to the Van-Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co. from a vacation trip to L. A. and San Diego.

The California Lumbermen's Council met Sept. 20 in the Commercial Club, San Francisco, with President George Ley of the Santa Cruz Lumber Co., presiding. I. L. Walker is secretary-manager of the group . . , California Builders Supply Co. is adding 10,000 sq. ft. to its Oakland warehouse

H. B. Chadbourne of the Salinas (Calif.) Lumber Co. has bought a private airplane and is taking instructions after his first enthusiastic ride with George Gorrnan in the Hammond Lumber Company plane . .

G. A. I(ralner, the Sacramento Valley salesman, is pinch-hitting for other members of the stafr by working in the S. F. offices of The Pacific Lumber Co. during vacations . . Porry Damo is back in L. A. after a 2-months Northwest trip for The Upson Company The buildings and inventory of the Capital Lumber Co., Sacramento, were destroyed by fire, Sept. 20, report Slgnar Llndroth and Serverin Johnson, the owners J. E. Morris, assistant g:eneral manager of the Weyerhaeuser Sales Co., Tacoma, visited L. A. on business The credit position of industry firms is now vastly improved, reports Publisher Wtllta,m Clancy, Jr., on the issuance of the 108th edition of the Lumbermen's Red Book.

Gordon D. Plerce, Boorman Lumber Co.,