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Phones: opened a retail yard at 6800 West Blvd., Los Angeles Kenneth Smith, secretary-manager of the Lumber & Allied Products Institute, Los Angeles, has a 3-page article in this issue on "Competition of the Future" , . The Holmes Eureka Lumber Co. is sponsoring a daily radio program over KTAB, San Francisco, at 8:15 p.m., advising homeowners on the FHA act, how to select redwood, and urging the public to contact their local lumber dealers . \Marren Innes, secretary of the Redwood Split Products Assn., Eureka, died October 14 on a hunting trip in the Briceland district.

Miss Charlotte McGrath of Beverly Hills and Wayne Francis Mullin, son of Mrs. John F. Mullin, Los Angeles, were married October 25 at the Wilshire Methodist church. After a month's honeymoon in Panama they will make their home in Los Angeles, where the dealer son of the pioneer Southern California lumberman has many retail interests N. Whitacre, who operates a Los Angeles yard, has opened a second retail outlet in El Monte . . . C. G. Briggs, president of the Booth-Kelly Lumber Co., visited Bakersfield and L. A. following the dealers' convention at Fresno, which he addressed N. E. Lentz, formprly with the Barr Lumber Company, Santa Ana, bought the Lumber & Builders Supply Co. yard at Encinitas Alfred

G. Harms, 58, vice-president of Pope & Talbot, died in San Francisco, Oct. 15 . . . F. W. Enderly, Southern California dealer who formerly operated a number of yards, died in Los Angeles, Oct. 14 . Charles Osbeck, the Encinitas dealer, got a 5-point buck while hunting in Modoc county Harry Hope, formerly with Progressive Lumber Co., Livermore, was named manager of the Pleasanton (Calif.) Lumber Co. by the new owner, Earle Johnson . . . Hull Bros. Supply Co. opened a retail yard at 8635 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, and will discontinue the branch at 7974 Melrose. They also operate the Hull Bros. Lumber Co. in suburban Reseda.