FACTORY PRE-FIT

famous Calaveras Grove on October 11 and dedicated a huge Sequoia Gigantea tree to the memory of the late Parson Peter A. Simpkin. Frank W. Trower of San Francisco was chairman of the program. . . . A plaque was placed on the tree inscribed: "To the Memory of 'Parson' Peter A. Simpkin, Supreme Chaplain, Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo, the Fraternal Order of Lumbermen. He Knew and Loved the Forest, and Was a Friend to Man."

W. B. March of Ivanhoe, Tulare county, California, died October 13 at the age of 59. He lvas one of the most prominent members of the San Joaquin Valley Lumbermen's Club.

The San Diego Hoo-Hoo Club has elected John Lupton president, Mearl Baker vice-president, and Russell Piersall secretary-treasurer.

Frank J. O'Connor of San Francisco has been elected president of the Ship Owners Association of the Pacific for the tenth time.

Hoynes Joins Soles'Deportment of Eost Asiatic Compaay, Inc., L. A.

Lew Haynes has joined the import department of the East Asiatic Company, Inc., trading division, in Los Angeles, it was announced by Gorm Larsen, office manager there for the worldwide importing and exporting concern. Lew has been operating the Haynes Sales Company for the past several years and is well known throughout the building and lumber industry in the Southland. According to Svend E. Jensen, Import Department manager for the firm in Los Angeles, Haynes will detail the trade with a full line of imported hardwoods from the markets of the u,orld.

"With the appointment of Mr. Haynes, the East Asiatic Co., fnc., is expanding its imported wood products market to reach all of the Southwest," Jensen said. A full line of all hardwoods from Ettrope, South America and the Orient is now available through the East Asiatic Company, declared Haynes.