TWENTY-FI YEARIS AGCD TODAY

As Reported in The California Lumber Merchant, October 15,'1934

Dealer Donald A. Fraser of the Lodi (Calif.) Lumber Co. won first prize for most original and distinguished costume at the Lodi Grape Festival (as a Southern gentleman of the old school) Jo H. Shepard of Friend & Terry, and Oscar H. Miller of Knox Lumb6r Co. were named members of the "Modernize Sacramento" campaign of the city's Better Housing Program. All Sacto yards are contributing materials for a house being remodeled at 7th & K Streets downtown... C. B. Clawson and W. H. Falconbury were named to the Better Housing' Drive committee in Stockton . Iohn }Ienrv Kruse, 84, founder of the San Francisco lumber firm, died in Hillsborough, Oct. 4, after 54 years in the industry . The Clare Lumber Co. ooened 'a yard in Sacramento

The Davis Hardwood Co. furnished ll-ply hardwood doors for the panorama penthouse on the roof of O'Connor-Moffatt's department store in San Francisco. In a writeup in The Chronicle, it was recalled that Bill Davis made a door for the emperor of Japan, who sent a battleship to San Francisco to get and deliver it to the imperial palace Francis Boyd worr first prize in the first Southern California Mixed Scotch Foursome championship at Santa Barbara . H. A.-Libbey, general manager of Hobbs, Wall & Co., returned to San Francisco from a trip to the Crescent City sawmill of the company . B. W. Bookstaver returned to the S.F. offices of Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co. from a 10day mill trip A large group sailed from Wilmington, Oct. 11, lor the annual convention of the PCWHDA to be held in Avalon.

After three days of tense deliberations, the Lumber Code Authority voted 34-to-1 in Chicago, Oct. 5, to continue cost protection prices. On a previous motion, it had voted 29-to-6 to reject a resolution suspending price- control. West Coast millmen speaking for continuation were J. H. Bloedel, Hans Rratlie, C. D. Johnson and Major E. G. Griggs. WCLA Secretary-Manager Col. Greeley presented petitions signed by several thousand employes of Coast lumber firms urging that costprotection prices be qetained. J. D. McNary of the Cady (Arizona) Lumber Co. made an eloquent appeal for retention of the prices. A. W. Clapp made an important appearance before the Authority in behalf of the Weyerhaeuser and Shevlin interests, condemning lumber price fixation Eugene Langdon Fifield, 62, wellknown Pacific Coast lumberman. died in San Francisco, Oct. 8 . Joe Means hosted a group of lumbermen at the Little World's Series game at Wrigley Field, Oct. 5 William Smith, president of the Smith Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned from a 3-months trip to Europe.

Commander Leo Hubbard presided at the Oct. 9 meeting of Legion Lumbermen's Post ,!03 in the Rosslvn hotel, Los Angeles. Stuart Smith of the Coos Bay Lumber Co. was named chairman of arrangements for the "Frolic," Dec. 14. Theodore Stearns of Hayward Lumber & Investment Co. was named head of the Ticket committee for the Saint Mary's-UCLA game on Armistice d"y . . .'East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club 39 named as committee chairmen for 1934-35: Larue Woodson, Gordon Pierce, Earle E. Johnson, Jas. B. Overcast, C. I. Gilbert, Bert Bryan, Chas. S. Lamb, Clement Fraser, Henry N{. Hink and Emanuel Fritz.