As Reported in The California Lumber AGO TODAY

W. Bernhauer, Frank J. Piel, L. J. Woodson. Officers of the Special Woodwork division are the same plus J. G. Kennedy. Officers of the Wholesale division are headed by R. C. Johnson. F. S. Buckley, A. W. Koehl, O. H. Barr, W. L. Leishman and others were listed as directors.

Sherman A. Bishop was named manager oi the Chicago office of Union Lumber Co. and Howard J. Abbott assumed his former duties in San Francisco Leo T. Dernier. brother of Floyd, was accidentally killed in Dallas, Texas, October 6 . Walter Scrim and Roy Barto left for Washington to attend the Code meetings F. M. Slade joined the California Wholesale Lumber Assn. Howard Clark of the Rio Linda retail yard returned from a trip to the Northwest by boat . Henry M. Hink of Dolbeer & Carson, San Francisco, conferred in the Los Angeles offices with Ed Seward and went on to San Diego.

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The Califomia Retail Lumbermen's Assn. announces its annual convention for the Whitcomb hotel in San Francisco. Oct. 26-28. Discussion of the Lumber Code will be the principal business and the annual dinner dance and entertainment will be passed up this year at the strictly business meeting . . The Code of Fair Competition for the Retail Lumber, Lumber Products, Building Materials and Building Specialities Trade was officially signed by President Roosevelt October 3, and was to become effective Oct. 13, 1933. (The printing of it occupies 4l pages of fine print in this issue) The Western Pine Association opened a San Francisco office under L. V. Graham on October 4 Bill Sharp, former Michigan lumberman, joined Fir-Tex of Southern California to assist Stanley Moore.

Another two pages in this issue is devoted to printing the constitution and by-laws of the new association to be known as the Lumber Retailers Code Administration of Southern California, which was organized at a meeting in Los Angeles, October 9. Harry A. Lake, president of the CRLA, presided and Henry S. Patten was elected president pro-tem. The new dealer group was divided for jurisdictional purposes into 19 districtsfrom Imperial Valley to Santa Barbara .. Frank J. O'Connor of Donovan Lumber Cumpany, president of the California Wholesale Lumber Assn., was elected president of the Shipowners Assn. of the Pacific Coast for the twelfth consecutive time Charles S. Dodge of MacDonald & Harrington was married in Berkeley, Sept. 7, to Mildred Peters . . . The Redwood Split Products Assn. was formed at a meeting in Scotia, Oct. 1,

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ancl Alex Masson elected president, as a subdivision of the Redwood division of the Code.

Ed Culnan, general manag'er of the Western Lumber Co. of San Diego, says that business is improving. An order for 300NI feet of lumber to construct CCC camps in San Diego county u'as distributed among Western, San Diego Lumbir Co., Patten-Blinn Lumber Co. and Benson Lumber Co.. with'the millu'ork divided among eight San Diego concerrls Another three pages of fine print in this issue is giver-r to the prirrting of the Code of Fair Competition for thi Retail Lumber ancl Lumber and Building Materials Inclustry of California, which was approved at San Francisco, Oct. 3, 1933. Northern ar.rd Soutl-rern California districts were createcl Max E. Cook, agricultural engineer for The Pacific Lumber Co., u'as back in the mairi offrce at San Francisco after several months in tl.re Scotia mill.

Ifoo-Hoo Club 39 in Oakland, Oct.9. President C. I. Gilbert remarked on the turnout that practically everv East Bav retail yard was represented. Bruce Clark of Seattle *"r a guest of Lloyd Harris. Winners of three pairs of seats to the USC-California game were A. V. Lucas of the Castro \,'alley Lumber Co., Fred Holmes and H. Sewall Morton . Frank J. O'Connor, L. C. Stewart and M. L. Euphrat represented a committee of the Northern district of the California Wholesale Lumber Assn. at a Code meeting with I ns_ Angeles wholesalers there, Oct. 2 George J. Osgood of t!9 Helly McCleary Timber Co. visited in Loi An[eles Lloyd Hebbron of the Hebbron Lumber Co.. Santa Cruz. w^as injured i-n an auto accident on Coast Highway, Sept. 20, and his left arm was amputated The Pliilippine Niahogany_Manufacturers Import Association openeil'arr ofifice at 628 Central Bldg. in Los Angeles.

More tlran 70 attenclecl the October dinner of East Bay (TelI them Aou sau it in The California Lumber Merchant)

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