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Mills, North San Juan, and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Buettner and son, George Silbernagel Lumber Co., San Francisco. They came down at the invitation of Max Hill of the H. M. Nelson Lumber Co., Montebello, and, even though they're rightfully all Giants fans, they were mighty happy to see the Series won on the west coast.

Charlie Wilson, Jean Parrish, Roger Lighthart and Lloyd Webb, prominent sales sharks of E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, spent an enjoyable day visiting Ralph L. Smith Lumber Co. officials at the Anderson mill last month and had a ball eating with the lumberiacks at lunchtime.

The Robert Dollar Company's Chet King is in the midwest winding up a 3-week business trip which also included the south.

Rex Wells of Wells Custom Millwork, Los Angeles, spent part of October hunting deer in Utah and Idaho.

Dealer Hagry Boand of Boand-Daly Lumber Co., South Gate, won the state amateur golf championship last month at Pebble Beach. Retailer Boand is quite modest about this terrific honor and the CLM only heard of it by accident from members of Hoo-Hoo Club 2, of which Harry was the 1958-59 Snark.

Plywoodman Ernie Bacon and his boss, C. J. Fairhurst, flew to Portland last month to attend a DFPA meeting and visit area accounts.

Dee Essley, prominent Los Angeles wholesaler, spent the latter part of October visiting Portland business associates. D. C. Essley & Son is distributor for Vancouver Plywood materials in southern California.

Fred Branch of Pacific Hardwood Sales pulled back into Oakland the end of October after three weeks in the east and south to Florida on business.

P. J. Skill of Sierra Redwood Company, Los Angeles, has returned from an extended trip through the east and south.

Hyster Company's San Francisco manager, Jack Wright, is convalescing after a 3-week stay in Peninsula hospital.

Barbara Smith, wife of Bill Smith of Smith-Robbins Lumber Corp., Los Angeles, was showing a foreign sports coupe the couple was offering for sale. The prospect asked to see the motor and Barbara raised the hood. WHAT? It was only then she learned the imported jobs ain't built that way.

Russell Mullin, who hangs his hat at the Burbank Lumber Co. of the Mullin retail yards, his wife and the Paul Hallingbys are recently back from an extended .tour of the Continent, the British Isles, etc. But to hear Dealer Russell tell it, they visited France,

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