TWENTY.FIVE Y As reported in The California EARS AGO TODAY

Lumber Merchanl, November 1 , 1932

Tl.re consolidation of the \\rillamette Valley Lumberrnen's Assn., Iiugene, ancl the \\,-est Coast Lumbermen's Assn., Seattle, u.as effected, l.itl.r Secretary Herbert Cox beconring secretary of tl-re Eugene branch The Ited River l-uml>er Co., Westu.ood, and the Chas. Ii. NlcCormick Lumber Co., San Francisco, staged exl-ribits at the fifth annual Advertisers' Exposition at the 1'alace l.rotel.

A prominent Oakland banker u'ill acldress the Nov. 14 meeting of East Bav Hoo-Hoo Club 39 at the Athcns Athletic Club, n here the dinner price has lieen recluced tr_r 85 cents . Robert C. Sudden, r;ice-president of the \\rest Coast Lurlber Co., San Francisc,r, cliecl in San NIateo, Oct. 23 Georgc A. Johnson & Son opened a retail yard in Oakland on the site of the old General Mill & I-umber Co. . . Ralph P. Duncan, general manager of the l,{erced Lurnber Co., lrresided at the meeting of the California ltetail Lurnbermen's Assn. zlnd the l{edu'oocl Relationship comrnittce at Lakeside, Oct. 14. E. E. Yoder, resident -anage. of The Pacific l-rrmber Co., u'on the J. H. llrilmes lierpetual golf trophy, ancl Al Nolan, TI'L's u'estern salcsr.nan:rger, \\,as chairmar-r of the arrangements.

Plans n'ere completed for the annual convention of the California Itetail I-umbermen's Assn. at the Hotel Alexandria, Los Angeles. Nor.. 3-.5. The ladies rvere to tzrke a tour of a movie studio after a luncl'reon tl.rere. and the nren l.ere promised best seats to the UC-USC footltall ciassic the final afterr.roon The Santa Fe Lumber Co.. San Francisco, named A. .W. Donovan its sorrthern Californi:r retrre- sentative llammtind & I-ittle River Redrvood Co. ourcl.rased the mill and properties of the Humbolclt Redu'ood Cornpany.

Frank J. O'Connor, f)onovan Lumber Co., San Francisco. u,as elected president of the Shipou'ners' Assn. of the Pacific Coast. R. W. Myers of Hobbs Wall & Co. u,as the nerv vice-president As of October 18, less thar, $2,000 remained to be subscribed by the industry for tl.re "Sunlight House" exhibit at the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago, reporte<l Chairman Walter F. Shaw of the Naticinal Lumber Nlar.rufacturers Assn.

A. H. Hoel lr,as lor,v-qross l.inner at tl-re Oct. 19 tournament of the Orange County Lunrbermen's Club, in ."r.hich C. C. Barr tied ior blind bogey Ar.r application for a receiversl'rip for ti-re Long-Bell Lumber Co. and its subsidizrries s'as rlenied Oct. 15 in district court in Kansas Citl', X{o. Hayr,r,ard Lumber & Inr.estment Co. sold its Manteca yard to J. C. Nason, l'ho formerly operated the Nason Lumber Co. at Yuba City.

Schafer Brothers Lumber & Shingle Co. opened a I-os Arrgeles ofhce n'itl.r E. E. Schmidt in charge B. R. Julian, salesman for the E,. K. \\'oocl I-umber Co., called on the retail trade in Las Vegas, \revacla The gron'ing tendency oI iur.nber mannfacturers to insist on u-ood-u.alled and roofed boxcars l'as endorsed by the National Lumber Nlanufactnrers Assn. Frank S. Wallwork, retired lumberman, clied Oct. 2l at his San Gabriel l.rome. He u'as with the l3oyle Heights Lumber Co., Los Angeles, for 25 years and sold his vard in 1929.

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