TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

As Reported in the California Lumber Merchant, October 1st, 1938

B. B. (Bernie) Barber, secretary of the California Lumbermen's Council, sent out some special publicity literature, drawing in a large crowd for the Council's seventh annual party, held at Mountain View Ranch Hotel, near Santa Cruz.

Ylr. F, Fahs, sales manager of Califorrria Panel & Veneer Company, Los Angeles, recently called on a number of the firm's mill connections in the Pacific Northwest.

Elmore King, King Lumber Co., Bakersfield, left for an Eastern trip recently. He intends to pick up a new Buick at the factory and drive it back to the Pacific Coast.

F. C. Kirkpatrick is general manager of the Rockport Redwood Company, and Ralph M. Rounds is president, according to a recent company announcement.

Jack Fenley is now connected with the Wilmington ofrce of the Coos Bay Lumber Co. as an outside salesman, and is calling on the trade in the Los Angeles, Orange Coun-

John J. Starks, of Starks Stained Shingle Company, Seattle, recently celebrated his 25th year in the shingle stain and stained shingle business.

Chas. E. White. who has been for some time at White Brothers' Oakland office, has been transferred to the sales department of the San Francisco ofEce.

Fire destroyed the store and office building of the San Pedro Lumber Company at its Compton yard recently. The loss is estimated at $12,000. The cause of the fire is unknown. The ofrce and store will be rebuilt at once.

Mr. and Mrs. James L. Ilall recently returned to San Francisco from a vacation spent at Wawona, Yosemite National Park.

John Deats, Deats Sash & Door Co., Los Angeles, and Mrs. Deats, are on a motorcar trip to Maine.

Fire, believed to be incendiary, recently destroyed the planing mill of the American Lumber Company, Modesto, causing a loss estimated at $10,000.

Elmer E. Case, president of the Case Cedar & Shingle Co., of Raymond, Wash., was shot to death recently. He was walking down a gang plank to supervise the loading of a barge when he was shot four times in the back. No reason is given for the tragic happening.

L. R. Byers, Citizens Mill & Lumber Co., Ventura, spent the month of September in the East.

W. J. Lawrence, assistant sales manager' Shevlin Pine Sales Company, San Francisco, was married to Martha Maclay Shortridge in Tipton, Mo., recently.

C. C. Barr, Barr Lumber Company, Whittier, is in Florida visiting his nephew who is in the lumber business at Orlando. He also stopped at Denver to see his brother, who operates a yard there.

George Lounsberry, Lounsberry & Harris, and Gus lloover, Los A4geles, have been enjoying a week's fishing at Scotia.

Carl R. Moore, Moore Mill & Lumber Co., Oakland, recently went to San Diego to visit an old college friend whom he hadn't seen for many years.

Frank Burnaby, Sun Lumber Company, Beverly Hills, is on a trip to the Northwest. Don Philips, Lawrence-Philips Co., Los Angeles, and Mrs. Philips, have returned from a visit to Yosemite National Park. Lioyd Milne, Macco Lumber Co., Clearwater, reports a successful hunting trip in Utah.

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Mqsonite Adds Pecqn qnd Ook To Royolcote Hqrdboord Line

Two new hardboard woodgrain panels with distinctive patterns of wide appeal -Pecan and Oak-have been added to Masonite Corporation's line of Royalcote decorator hardboards.

Researched and developed in keeping with current tastes in interior decor, the panels became available nationally Oct. I in popular 4'x7' and, 4lx9' sizes and in quarter-inch sizes.

Like other woodgrains in the Royalcote line, Pecan and Oak are {actory-finished. They can be kept in prime condition by an occasional wiping wit-h a damp cloth or sponge.

Pecan and Oak are dent and wear resistant, easy to install with common tools and low in cost. Each has color coordinated vertical grooves at random intervals. Matching wood and metal moldings are available; also putty sticks and colored nails.

Pattern of the Royalcote Pecan is unusual, containing reproductions of knots and striking contrasts between the darker and lighter tones of the graining. The paneling may be described as reddish brown with strong linear grain lines of a darker tone.