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Ltd., and B. C. Forest Products Ltd. On the return trip he and Mrs. Wilson visited friends on Vancouver Island. The sunniest part about their trip was that they didn't see a single drop of rain !

Ralph Singer, Top Man on The Totem Pole at Diamond W Supply Company, Los Angeles, his wife and five children spent most of the month of September vacationing at Newport-Balboa. Ralph and his family are interested in all water sports, including skiing.

Everyone is getting into the serve-your- self act for the do-it-yourself trade. White Mead Company has just completed a serveyourself plywood and lumber facility in El Cajon, California. The serve-yourself building is arranged and equiped so that custo-

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mers can easily find the materials they need without help.

Herbert Grossman, of San Carlos, has purchased the Rayberg Lumber and Sup,ply Company, Menlo Park, California. Grossman said a complete hardware line and additional plywood and other lumber stock will be added. Richard Ogami, nev"' Rayberg manager, said the lumber firm will concentrate on sales to do-it-yourself builders.

Commemorating 50 years of business in Orange County, Gibbs Lumber Company celebrated the anniversary by opening a new store in Placentia, California. Features incorporated in the new Placentia store include a serve-yourself builders market where customers can select their own supplies.

Ralph Cottrell, partner in Delta

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Company, Stockton, took a couple of late September weeks off for his annual fishing expedition.

Jack Hill, Dant & Warnock, Inc., Menlo Park, and George Bailey, of the firm's Redding moulding plant, took in the Northwest Door & Sash Jobbers convention last month and also worked in some company calls in the Midwest area.

Well-known Bay Area lumberman, Milt Cook, recently joined the sales force of Eastshore Mill & Lumber Co. For the past several years, Milt had been associated with Peerless Lumber Co. in Oakland.

Freddy Holmes left his Fred C. Holmes Lumber Company of Fort Bragg in capable hands last month while he stalked the fourlegged beasts up Idaho way.