TWENTY.FII'E YEARI5 AGCD TCDDAY

As Reported in The California Lumber Merchanl, November 15, 1934

W. K. Kendrick, salesmanager of the Valley Lumber Co., Fresno, presided at a meeting in San Jose, Oct. 26, of the Lumber committee of the California Retail Lumbermen's Assn. and the Redwood Relations Committee, which attracted clealers from all parts of the state . S. V. Fullaway, Jr., secretarymanager of the Western Pine Assn., Portland, reports a high degree of voluntary compliance with the Lumber Code in that industry M. J. Byrnes was appointed northern California representative of J. R. Thompson Logging Co. . . Ralph P. Duncan, general manager of the Merced Lumber Co., visited San Francisco, none the worse for wear after sustaining a fractured jaw in an auto accident in August Film Player l,ucille Ball was one of a group from Hollyr,vood in activities at Herrnosa Beach celebrating the Better Housing Program in the South Bay communities Jo H. Shepard of Friend & Terry Lumber Co., and Oscar H. Miller of Knox Lumber Co. are active in the "l\,Iodernize Sacramentcl" campaign, in which all the capital's retail yarcls donated materials for remodeling of a house on exl-ribit at 7th and K Sts., which 3,000 persons visited Nov. I Clyde S. Owens, manager of the Lumber department of WhitingMeacl Co., Los Angeles, died suddenly Nov. 12 while playing bridge at the home of Perry Whiting. Owens had been 'ivith the firm for 30 of his 48 years "Andy" Campbell was named manager of the sash and door and full mill bid department at the L.A. office of E. K. Wood Lumber Co., succeeding Hollis J. Nunneley . . . R. C. McIntosh of The Upson Company, Chicago, is vacationing in Tujunga.

Ed Culnan of the Western Lumber Co., San Diego, visited the Los Angeles lumber trade . Clint Laughlin of the Calif. Wholesale Lumber Assn., Los Angeles, returned from the 60th wedcling anniversary celebration of his parents in South Dakota J. G. Ferguson, president of the Clovis Lurnber Co., returned from a round trip on a McCormick steamer to visit the Northwest and the mills of Pope & Talbot, where he worked many years ago . The Pacific Lumber Co. bought the steel steamer, Lake Galewood . . . W. A. Constans of the Klamath Falls mill, visited Weyerhaeuser Sales Co. ofifices in San Francisco W. 'W. Herron and M. G. Anderson opened the Vernon Lumber Co., new retail yard, at 9060 Santa Monica Blvd. in Los Angeles Trustees of the West Coast Lnmbermen's Assn. voted 14 to 7, Oct. 30, to adopt a resolution calling for elimination of the price-fixing provisior.r of the Lumber Code . . . E. E.

Abrahamson arrived in San Francisco, Nov. l, to become assistar.rt to Salesmanager Geo. W. Gorman at llammond Lrrmber Co. He r,vas born in Samoa. Calif.. started in Harnmond's redwood mill there, but l-ras been serving in Chicago Bert E. Bryan, president and general manager of Strable Hardwood Co.. Oakland. is the subject of a Personality sketch in this issue. He started life as a cowboy ancl rode the range for 12 years. E. W.

Hemmings was named mill representative for the Ivory Pine Con-rpany ar-rd Slvayne Lumber Co. in Los Angeles

. Directors listed in the incorDoration of the Stockton Lunrber Co., -Nov. 3, were C. G. Bird, J. C. Mclntosh, Carlton C. Case and C. E. Kennedy.

E. L. Green, manag'er of the Union Lumber Company's Fort Bragg plant, visited the Los Angeles offrce . . . Chas. J. Schmitt of the sales department of Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., San'