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Mr. and tr{rs. L. A. Beckstrom. Sr., of the Arcadia (Calif.) Lumber Co., have returned Jrom an extended trip to Europe. They picked up a car in Stuttgart, Germany, and toured the Continent, the Scandinavian countries (naturally!) and the British Isles for jf months before Andy's late-September return to the retail yard.

The San Francisco Bay area was well represented at the National Hardwood Lumber Assn. convention in Montreal, Oct. 6-8. Registered at the Queen Elizabeth for the 62nd annual were Duncan Pell, Davis Hardwood; Gunter Silmar, Scarburgh Company; Don White, White Bros.; P. R. Kahn, Forsyth Hardwood; Louis Servente, Servente Hardwood, and. Harry Jordan, Jordan International. NHLA Directors White and Kahn are also officers of the Natl. Whsle. Lumber Distributing Yards Assn., which met Oct. 3-5, prior to the NHLAnnual.

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same stand, packed himself and the lVfrs. off for a 3-week vacation in the Islands, Sept. 16. Three days out on the Matsonia, the couple celebrated on the high seas the establishment of the yard on Sept. 19,1939.

Roy Stanton, Jr., Fred Losch and Lloyd Webb of E. J. Stanton & Son, spent a long weekend at Crawforcl's Eden Valley Ranch in Mendocino county last month on a deerhunting expedition. It's reported that Roy bagged a four-point buck and Fred secured his game, but Lloyd came back to L.A. empty-handed.

Pat and Bill McCubbin of the Gartin Lumber Co. vacationed in the Tahoe and Reno area last month.

Vernon Johnsono manager of the L. R.

Smith Hardwood Co. yard in Los Angeles, joined Mr. Smith at the Longview, Wash., mills last month for the trip to the 1959 Northwest Hardwood Assn. convention in Seattle, where Mr. Smith, a past officer, served as an official host.

Fred C. Holrnes returned with his limit of elk to the Fred C. Holmes Lumber Co. in Fort Bragg after a 2-week hunting expedition around Modoc county.

Ida and Ray Cunner have returned {rom a vacation trip to San Francisco and Las Vegas. It's reported Ida gets a MarquartWolfe company Thunderbird at her disposal to transact Hoo-Hoo-Ette club business (white with red trim).

The traveling Hirsches are at it again, this time with a trip to Puerto Rico. Tlrc executive of Dolan's Building Materials Co. and his wife, recently returned from Hawaii, left Sacramento last month for several weeks of Caribbean sightseeing.

Horace Wolfe (left) and George Cameron of Marquart-Wolfe Lumber Co., Hollywood, display trophy won by Cameron for low gross at 4th annual Northern California Lumbermen's Golf Tournament, Roseville, Sept. 11. Lumbermen from all sections of state attended the event, one of outstanding gatherings of its kind held anywhere (see Page 30).

Two prominent Mendocino county lumbermen, Bill Moores, head of Hollow Tree Lumber Co., and Jim Laier, of Molalla Forest Products, and their wives are currently doing Europe up in style, sightseeing on the Continent and in Great Britain.

Frode B. Kilstofte, president of Rossman Mill & Lumber Co., Wilmington, is again serving (for the fifth year) as chairman of the Harbor Area Advance Gifts team in the Community Chest appeal. The benevolentminded dealer is also donating a trophy whiih goes to the city chairman reaching highest percentage of goal.

Frode Kilstofte is, additionally, president of the L. A. Coliseum Cornmission, a Wilmington Lion, American Legionnaire, Shriner, member and past president of the L. A. City Recreation and Parks Commission, and a director of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Assn. as an ofEcer of the Southern California Retail Lumber Assn. He has volunteered for every Community Chest campaign ever held in Los Angeles, his first stint back in 1924.

Jim Knox, general salesmanager of Rounds Lumber Company, has returned to San Francisco after two weeks on business in the east and midwest.

Ken Conway of the Georgia-Pacific Corp. (Lumber division), South Pasadena, got in a September weekend of deer hunting around San Diego's backwoods to get limbered up for his annual hunting trek in Utah, starting Oct. 17.

S, W. Moncure, owner of the Bavshore Lumber Co., San Francisco, which ii celebrating 20 years of doing business at the