TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

As Reported in The California Lumber Merchant, November 15, 1933

J. D. Giles, president of Creo-Dipt Co., North TotSwinda, N. Y., visited California and called on Santa Fe Lumber Co. in San Francisco, and Fisk & Mason in Pasadena, the state representatives . . H. W. Swafford was traveling through [he east and middlewest for E_ J. S?nton & Son Hairy B. Aisthorpe, well-known Chico dealer, was operated on-for appendicitis . . Bill Morrison of the Sacramento Valley teiiitory was calling on the Wgy.t- haiuser SoCal accbunts while C. H. Miller recovered from an eye operation Secretary-Manager Arthur Bevan of the Red eedar Shingle Bureau visited in California enroute home from an eastein trip Holmes Eureka Lumber Co. moved its S. F. office from the Monadnock building to the Financial Center building.

The California Lumbermen's Council met in the Whitcomb hotel Oct. 25 prior to the opening next day of-the state convention. Piesident Georgl N.-Ley, Santa Ctuz Lumber Co., presided. Elmore W. King, King I umbe!,qo., Bakersfield, is vice-president, and Merle D. Bishop, W-atsonville, is secretary-treasurer . Andrew F. Mahony, Sr., prominent in the lumber and shipping business in San Francisco, died there Nov. 8 after suffering a stroke ten davs earlier Production allotments for December for Wlstern Pine Association sawmills were to be determined Nov. 25 Chris M. Wininger opened the Pyramid Lumber Sales Co. in Oakland; he was formerly with Red River Lumber Co. John Freeman joined the staff of Holmes Eureka Lumber Co. to do promotion and field work.

The Lumber Code Authority ruled that minimum prices for foreign woods. shall.be equal at delivery.point to minimum cost-protection prices of the same or similar items ot domestic species The \Mestern Pine Association appointed sirtraveling auditors to visit all mills as authorized igents of the Code Authority . Max E. Cook, agricultural engineer of The Pacific Lumber Co., is author of an article in this issue, "Safe Sewage Disposal at Low Cost" . . . Eric E. Brown returned from an eastern trip for TPL . . . B. W. Cadwallader re-entered the mining business in the Philippines, where he founded the Cadwallader-Gibson Company ln 1899 C. C. Barr had low net and also tied with-Rois Hostettler for low gross in the October 18 _golf play at Hacienda of the Orange County Lumbermen's Club James Tyson, president of The Chas. Nelson Co., was elected a director of the California Redwood Association J. H. Baxter & Co. sponsored an exhibit of the termite problem in Los Angeles with a display in the Architects building.

Fair Trade Practice Rules and Terms of Sale for the Woodwork Division were approved Oct. 28 . . . C; M. Freeland was calling on the Arizona trade with C. P. Henry for the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. . , Peter and Albert Schafer returned to their Washington offices of Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co. after calling on L. A. and S. F. accounts . The Sterling Lumber Company's new yard in Roseville, Calif., was featured with a page article and photo in this issue. Frank G. Duttle and F. L. Sayre came from Oakland to assist Manager Ray E. Taylor at Open House . . . The new board of the Lumber Retailer's