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Only Yesterday

California Lumber Merchant

Dear Ole:

Several summers ago when I was much younger I had two college students working for me in the lumber yard at 2131 N. Highland Avenue, Hollywood. One bright summer day one of them came running to me yell- ing that the other had walked backwards off a lumber oile. I immediately tore to the other end of the yard, and there lay this Stanford student. The messenger was my own brother, Walt, a Kansas University student, now a CPA in Kansas Citv. and on the ground lay (out oi breath) that prominent San Marino lum berman, Robert Hoover.

This all happened back around 1937 or 1938, and I have nor-, shall we say? retired, but would still love to have any old or young lumberman stop and see me at 3778 Rosecrans, San Diego, cY 8-2715.

By the way, please send me the Merchant at above address and bill me.-Bob Sutton.

One of the pleasures of this business i.s in hearing from such. fine people as Bob Sutton. And in regard. to Bob Hooaet/s bacbing off the lumber pile, we are sure that zsas the first and last time he has hod such a Tall!-Editor.

Letter of Thanks

Jack Dionne, Publisher California Lumber Merchant

Dear Jack:

On behalf of the Los Angeles Committee for National Forest Products Week we wish to express our most sincere appreciation for the magnificent coopera- tion and generosity which has been extended to us by Don Dick, Ole May and Less Foor.

The California Lumber Merchant's out-of-pocket contribution and promotional punch was greater than any other single unit in preparation for and during the Week's activities.

The Committee believes that their promotional accomplishments this year are far ahead of last year's efforts and these accomplishments were due largely to your magazine's wonderful support.-Wayne F. Mullin, Cochairman, James H. Forgie, Cochairman, Los Angeles Committee, National Forest Products Week.

In Appreciotion

D. C. Essley, Treasurer

National Forest Products Week

Los Angeles Committee

Dear Mr. Essley:

We at Los Angeles TradeTechnical College, the administration, faculty, students and es- pecially William Berry Leonard -recipient of the National Forest Products Week Scholarship- extend our sincere appreciation to the Committee for its generous contribution to our scholarship program.

The Committee's gift of a $250 scholarshi,p to the Building Trades Department of the college has made it possible for such a deserving student as William Berry Leonard to seek his education free of the pressing financial responsibility that many students face in their quest for higher education. We are most proud and happy that the Committee selected our college as the recipient of this generous gift, and we hope that your interest in our educational institution will continue for many years to come.

The student representatives from the Building Trades and Drafting Departments and I would also like to thank the Committee for the warm reception extended to us at the National Forest Products Week luncheon. We all felt very honored to have been invited to attend the luncheon and have the opportunity to meet the representatives of the lumber industrv.

Again, on behalf of everyone at tl-re college, we would like to express our appreciation to you and the members of the Los Angeles Committee for selecting a Building Trades Department student as the recipient of the National Forest Products Week Scholarship; and we extend best rvishes to you and the group for con t in ue d success-Dwight Adams, Dean, Los Angeles Trade-Technical College.

The California Lunrber Merchant is plcased to publish the aboae letter in the interests of the ind.ustry.

-Editor.

Anqcondq Exponds

Lurnber Operotions

Anaconda Company, a major producer and fabricator of copper, lead, zinc, and aluminum, will expand its lumber operations into an integrated logging, milling, and selling organization. Chairman Clyde E. Weed said the project will create one of the largest forest product concerns in the Northwest. Anaconda presently has 550,000 acres of timberland in western Montana, which have been supplying lumber for mining operations.

Kiln temperatures used in drying Ponderosa Pine lumber in the Western Pine region range from 140 to aholt 185 degrees.