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TWENTY.FTI'E VEARS AGC' TODAY
As Reported in The California Lumber Merchanl, November 1, 1934
John C. Light of Light Lumber Co., Miami, Ariz., was appointed Gila County chairman of the Better Housing program and got a 2-page spread in The Arizona Record . . . M. A. Harris and F. L. Dettmann, San Francisco dealers. were named to the Finance committee of the Better Housing program there The Sonoma Mill & Lumber Co. opened a new yard at the city limits . . . H. R. Northup was industries advisor of the FHA, Washington, at the regional housing conference in Los Angeles, Oct.26. . The families of 25 lumbermen made the pilgrimage to Calaveras State Park, Oct. 7, to honor the memory of "Parson" Simpkin, Supreme Chaplain of Hoo-Hoo. C. D. LeMaster was elected president of the Memorial Association for 1935
L. R. Chadbourne was named to represent Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. in Arizona and New Mexico . . . 6,000 people turned out Oct. 5 to see a dilapidated house remodeled in four hours in Oakland's Lakeside Park . Geo. A. Ulett of Coquille visited the San Francisco offices of las. L. Hall Co. on Port Orford cedar Lusiness.
The Philippine Mahogany Mfgrs. Import Assn., Los Angeles, takes a half-page advertisement in this issue to announce the Import Quotas for six months beginning January 1, 1935 C. H. White of White Brothers, San Francisco, was elected president of the Pacific Coast Hardwood Wholesale Distributors at the 10th annual, held in Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, Oct. 11-13. Strable Hardwood's B. E. Bryan, Oakland, was elected secretary-treasurer. Directors elected included Ted Higgins, J. Fyfe Smith, H. W. Swafford, C. M. Cooper and A. A. Frost. President Swafford opened the convention and Frank Connolly presided at the meeting of the flooring group. D. J. Cahill also addressed the convention. Roy Barto of Cadwallader-Gibson was toastmaster at the banquet, which was addressed by Kenneth Smith. Others prominent in the meeting were LeRgy Stanton, Jerry Sullivan, Jr., Robert and Milton Taenzer, Clarence Bohnhofi and Sid Simmons.
Frank Fox of the Fox-Woodsum Lumber Co., Glendale, was elected district governor of Kiwanis International . . . A fine attendance greeted Jerry
Bonnington as new president at the first 1934-35 meeting of East Bay HooHoo Club 39 at the Hotel Coit. Oakland, Oct. 15. Clem Fraser made a plea for a membership target of 100. Jas. B. Overcast spoke in favor of initiative amendments 3, 4, 5 and 6 to the California constitution. Past President C. I. Gilbert had the "honor" of being the first victim of "The Mystic Odor of Fungi," the ritualistic requiem for Club 39 past presidents, which was put on by Larue Woodson, Bert Bryan and Carl Moore . . . A. L. "Gus" floover visited San Francisco to confer with Wendling-Nathan and also spent a few days at the TPL mill at Scotia . . After attending the California Retail Lumbermen's Assn. convention at Fresno, Max E. Cook went to Stockton to address the California State Plumbing Inspector's Assn. on behalf of The Pacific Lumber Company's redwood seotic tanks.
M. U. Helm, the McCormick company's dock superintendent at Wilmington, sailed for a Seattle business trip F. Dean Prescott, Valley Lumber Co.. Fresno. returned from a S-week Caribbean cruise G. E. Wittwer
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