PAUI BUNYAN TUMBER CO. TWENTY.FI\'E YEARS AGCD TODAY

As Reported in The California Lumber Merchant, November l, 1936

Dedication of one of the largest Sequois Gigantea trees in the Calaveras Grove to the memory of Parson Peter Simpkin, late Supreme Chaplain of the Concatenated Order of Hoo Hoo, took place last Sunday before a gathering of more than 100 Hoo Hoo members,

When the President Coolidge arrives in San Francisco, thousands of people are expected to tour the new $8,000,000 turboelectric express liner of the Dollar Lines. The interior is a distinguished example of marine architecture featured by the paneling made by the Red River Lumber Company, Westwood, California.

Charles Harry White, vice president and general manager of White Brothers, San Francisco, has been noted as an outstanding prominent and colorful figure in the hardwood industry of the Pacific Coast by the National Hardwood Lumber Association.

New president of the Westwood, Calif. Hoo Hoo Club for this coming year is E. A. Ferris. R. H. Conly was elected vicepresident and Jack Shere was re-elected secretary-treasurer.

The Patten-Blinn Lumber Company, Los Angeles, has announced the purchase of the

Culver City Lumber Company, Culver City, Calif. Warren S. Betts, formerly with the Culver firm, has been appointed yard manager.

Extensive curtailment of lumber production has been urged by the Timber Conservation Board as a means of restoring stability to the industry. In a report by Board Secretary Lamont, he said there is presently an excess of stocks over the anticipated requirements of 4,500,000000 board feet on October 1.

J. Walter Kelly, district sales manager of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Company, San Francisco, is one of those busy lumber executives who travels by air to save time. His last trip from San Francisco to Sacramento, Calif., took only 67 minutes.

Recent visitor to Oregon and Washington is E, C. Hallinan, representative of the Posey Manufacturing Company, Washington, who is now back at his desk in the Posey headquarters in San Francisco.

The San Diego Hoo Hoo Club at its annual meeting elected John Lupton, president; Mearl Baker, vice president; and Russell Piersall, secretary-treasurer.

The Valley Lumber Company, Lodi, Calif., has remodeled their office and are arranging for an attractive display room. They have also added a complete line of building hardware supplies.

M. H. Jones, president of the Jones Lumber Company, Portland, has 'purchased a Waco three-place biplane which he will use for business and pleasure. He has just recently completed 20 hours of solo flying.

Back at his desk is E. A. Middleton, superintendent of the Anderson and Middleton Lumber Company, Washington, who recently visited San Francisco where he conferred with his firm's California sales agents, W. R. Chamberlin and Company.

George Adams, Noah Adams Lumber Company, Walnut Grove, Calif., is spending his vacation visiting Los Angeles and other Southern California points.

A Gladstone traveling bag was presented to Ray B. Cox, retiring president of the East Bay Hoo Hoo Club, California. Vice president Joe Todd made the presentation speech.

E. L. Clark, of the Sun Lumber Company, has taken over the management of the company's yard at Oxnard, Calif. He has been connected with the firm for the past six vears.

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Jack Davidson, administrative executive Pacific Wood Products, with home offices in the Statler Center Building, Los Angeles, spent part of September and early October visiting company offices in Japan, China and the Philippines.

Harry Jordan, president of Jordan International Company, left San Francisco on October 4 for a six-week business trip through the Far East, including stopovers at Rangoon, Borneo, Singapore, the Philippines and Japan.

Pete Kepon, Arcata Redwood Company's Southland purveyor of quality old-growth Humboldt County redwood, seems to have a magic calendar which may well lead him to chairman of the board one of these days! The Kepons announced the birth of their third young tad last month on Howard Libbey's oldest brother's birthday. But that's just the beginning: Pete's first daughter was born on Libbey's own birthday-and their second baby just happened to make her debut on Libbey's youngest brother's birthday! How about one more, Pete, for I{rs. Libbey's birthday, just to really nail the thing down?

Veteran redwoodman Harry Hood is currently convalescing at his San Francisco home after a recent illness. Harry's many friends in the industry wish him a speedy recovery and return to his job of western sales manager for The Pacific Lumber