TWENTY.FII'E YEARS AGO T('DAY fu Reported in The California Lumber

F. Dean Preacott of the Valley Lumber Co., F'resno, represented District 7 (California) at the Executive committee meeting of t}re National Retail Lumber Dealers Assn. in Chicago, Nov. 13 . . C. E. Prlest of the Red River Lumber Co.. Westwood, visited Paul Revert, "Ty" Cobb and Pete Foellmer of the L. A. office and took in the annual convention of the state's retail lumber association at San Diego, Nov. 6-8

P. B. "Bob' Kolm of Forsyth Hardwood Co., San F'rancisco, reports the company is now sold on the idea of using Y+" 3-ply pl;rwood to cover lumber stocks and seal the ends of green lumber piles in their yard The monthly Ad of the California Redwood Assn. in this issue illustrates the catwalks

Merchant, November 15, 1935

made of redwood now strung from shore to shore in the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge . Dlck Johnson, Palco Bark salesman for California. is No. 11 in the series of "Palco Personalities" in the advertising of The Pacific Lumber Co. currently running in these pages.

Joseph F'. Holmes, son of the president of the Holmes Eureka Lumber Co. and brother of F red V. Holmes of the family firm, was killed October 27 in a truck accident. He was born in Phoenix and had worked in several retail lumberyards

B. J. Boorman of the Boorman Lumber Co., Oakland, is also operating a yardstick printery for yard giveaways Carl R, Moore returned to the Moore Mill & Lumber