TWENTY-FII'E YEARS AGO TODAY

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Reported in The California Lumber Merchant, November 15, 1956

A solid train of 151 railroad cars loaded with pine lumber from the forests of northern California and southern Oregon rolled over the rails of the new Western Pacific and Great Northern connection between Keddie, California and Klamath Falls, Oregon. The train comprised 76 cars loaded by the McCloud River Lumber Company at McCloud and. 75 cars from the mills of the Shevlin-Hixon 'Company at Bend, Oregon.

Al Muller, San Gabriel Lumber Company, San Gabriel, California, won the low gross prize, The Frank Burnaby Cup, at the Southern California Lumbermen's Golf Tournament. The committee that arranged the tournament included Harry V. Ilanson, Don Philips, Kennth Smith, and Ed Martin. The tournament was sponsored by the Los Angeles Hoo Hoo Club.

A recent Los Angeles visitor was H. G. Larrick, The Lumber and Builders Supply Company, Solano Beach, California. Strable Hardwood Company, Oakland, California, has invited members and visitors attendiag the annual convention of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association and the Millwork Institute of California to use their office during their stay in Oakland. Incorporation papers of the Patten-Blinn Lumber Company, with headquarters in Los Angeles were filed at Sacramento last week. Announcement of the merger of the L. W. Blinn Lumber Company, Los Angeles, Patten and Davies Lumber Company, Los Angeles, and the Russ Lumber Cgmpany, San Diego, creating a $7,000,000 concern was made on July 1, 1931.

The Moore Dry Kiln Company recently shipped a dry kiln of their Reversible Cross

Circulation design from their North Portland, Oregon, factory to the Interior Sawmills, Ltd., Snowshoe, British Columbia. An interesting feature of this installation is that exhaust steam will be employed in the drying operation.

One of the most popular and best known men in the lumber industry in California is David Staples Painter who has been named manager of the Lumber Division of the Fruit Grower's Supply Company, San Francisco.

The Penberthy Lumber Company, Los Angeles, has announced its move to a new location which will be 2055 East 51st Street.

Winner of the John Olson Cup at the monthly golf tournament of the McCormick Los Angeles office force held at the Westwood Country Club was Bill Chantland.

John P. Hemphill, general manager of the Madera Sugar Pine Company, Madera, California, recently flew from Fresno to Portland and back in order to save time on his trip to Spokane to attend the Pacific Logging Congress.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association has appointed a committee to work out and submit plans for developing a domestic market for Sitka Spruce, a most valuable American special softwood. The committee is composed of W. B. Greeley, Chester J. Hogue, and J. P. Keating.

Ilenry T. Alzina, of the Mission Lumber Company, Santa Cruz, California, has purchased the interest of his partner, Wayne B. Gettys, in that company.

John C. Light, Norman-Light Lumber Company, Miami, Arizona, and President of the Arizona Lumbermen's Club, was a recent Santa Barbara visitor where he spent a few weeks.

Ernest Ganahl, Ganahl-Grimm Lumber Co., Anaheim, California, was elected president of the Orange County Lumbermen's Club at its annual meeting held at the Santa Ana Country Club. L. M. Pearsort E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Santa Ana was elected treasurer. The following directors were elected to serve for the ensuing year: Richard Nelson, Buena Park Lumber Co.; Joe Jahraus, Laguna Beach Lumber Co., Inc.; Charles Chapman, C. H. Chapman Lumber Co.; Guy Tyler, Barr Lumber Co.; Grey Skidmore, Skidmore-Bowers Lumber Co.; and John Strickland, Patten-Blinn Lumber Co.

A recent visitor to the San Francisco area was Arthur Bevar\ secretary-manager of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, Seattle. He is now on his way back from a six weeks' trip to the East and Southwest.

Walter Scrim, Los Angeles, United States representative for the Findlay-Millar Timber Company, has returned from a month's business trip in the East. His trip took him through Canada, New York, Chicago, St. Louis. and other lumber centers in the Middle West.

A wide spread dealer demand for the sales building literature prepared by Southern Oak Flooring Industries and distributed free in large quantities, is reported by Ralph E. Hill, secretary-manager of the SOFI group.