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Manufactured to withstand furnace heat up to 1700'F. Protect your investment with Fire Halt after an operation for a skin graft on his foot and removal of varicose veins. Dealer Moorehead plans to return to the job about mid-October. Meanwhile, the business continues in the capable hands of his son, 'Warren Moorehead.

Ike Zafrani, president of Harbor Lumber Company, San Francisco, has employed Eugene Young as arr outside salesman covering the Greater Bay Area. Young was formerly with Gamerston & Green Lumber Company and prior to that had worked in plywood and lumber up Oregon way for more than 10 years.

Orville Bressee, sales manager of Mendo Wood Products until its recent closing, is now associated with Benbow Lumber Company at Garberville.

Two visitors from Hawaii, Frank Dolin and Arthur Medeiros, were recently escorted through the Pacific Northwest visiting mills from Vancouver to Eureka by Lionel Stott of Fairhurst Lumber Co.

Congratulations to Ben and Gladys Ward on the birth of their second boy, Lance, on September 8. Hurry, free cigars are still available at Ward & Knapp !

Ed Farrell, son of Dale Farrell and part owner of Sonoma Mill & Lumber Co.. Sonoma, has replaced Bob Johnson as manager of the thriving Sonoma County yard.

Henry Schmidt, formerly associated with John Castleman in Mill Valley Lumber Company, has purchased the Pacific Lumber & Fencing Co. in Danville from Paul Vergon and his associate.

Golden Poor has replaced Wendell Scott as general manager of Progress and Merner Lumber Companies. Keith Douglas has been elevated to lumber buyer for both yards.

Jim Hendrick, owner of J. W. Hendrick Co., and the family, spent the Labor Day weekend vacationing up Twain Harte way. San Jose lumberman, Del Travis, vacationed at Sun Valley, Idaho, during midSeptember.

Bob Gerhart, who formerly called on the Contra Costa County trade for Western Door & Sash Co., got the retail lumber biz back in his blood and is now associated with Pearson Lumber Co. in Concord.

Several southland lumber people visited Roseville, California, on the week-end of September 9th to participate in the Northern California Lumbermen's golf tournament and picnic. The Ed Durstelers and Norman Winsors flew to the big affair and Horace Wolfe joined his salesmen George Cameron and Bob Golding who were calling on mill operators that week.

Jim Frutchey and Bill Smith, Los Angeles wholesale lumber executives, also attended the big event in Roseville last month.

Prominent Southern California lumber folks who left Los Angeles September 12th for Miami via Southern Pacific Sunset Limited included Harvey and Xabie Koll and Dee and Ada Essley. Enroute they were picked up at New Orleans by Hubert and Mrs. Heying of Kansas City, Mo., and made the balance of the trip via Cadillac. No Hoo-Hoo International Convention would be complete without these leading members of the "Black Cat" organization.