TWENTY-FII|E VEARS AGCD TODAY

As Reported in The California LumberMerchanl,December1,1934

FHA District Director F.W. Marlow addressed southern California lumber dealers at the Rosslvn hotel in Los Angeles. Mor'e than 20-0 attended the session presided over by Kenneth Smith, manager of the Lumber and Allied Products Institute PioneerFlintkote Company announces a nonrecourse financing plan to make homebuilding money available through jobbers and dealers Ray Julien, E. K. Wood Lumber Co. salesman, brought a fine catch of quail back from his hunting trip Stuart Smitl,, Russell Gheen, Harold Brown and Franklin Lowney are the committee for the December 14 meeting of Legion Lumbermen's Post 403 at the Hayward hotel Construction started Nov. 20 on the new wholesale shipside lumber terminal in Stockton to be built by the Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco.

R. G. Hyett, secretary of the Lumbermen's Association of Texas, announces that Jack Dionne, publisher of the Gulf Coast Lumberman, will broadcast over a Texas and Oklahoma radio network every Tuesday evening at 6:15. The "Friendly Builders' Hour" program will be sponsored by both the Texas and Oklahoma dealer associations and feature Mr. Dionne in some of his humorous stories and wittv comments Chas. G. Bird of the Stockton (Calif.) Lumber Co. was selected president of the Central Valley Lumbermen's Club at the annual meeting, Nov.22. Other new officers are Warren Tillson, Modesto; W. O. Mashek, United Lumber Yards, and T. L. Gardner, Stockton. The Executive committee also includes W. Elmer Bruce, L. H. Elliott, A. R. Martin, Charles C. Moorehead, John Yancey and A. J. Russell . George H. Walker joined the McCormick Supply Co, at Los Angeles and will have charge of the retail yards in southern California; J. A. Rudbach will continue to handle the industrial department.

It was announced by President Jerry Bonnington at the Nov. 19 meeting of East Bay Hoo-lfoo Club in the Hotel Coit that the directors had decided to change the club's name and would give a prize of a year's dues for best suggestion sent to Secretary Carl R. Moore at the Moore Mill & Lumber Co. Miland Grant, Henry M. Hink and Earle Johnson are the committee this year to collect and fill nail kegs with groceries for the needy Carl Davies, formerly with the Globe Lumber Co., opened a wholesale business of his own at 657 W. Jefferson in Los Angeles Otis R. Johnson and C.R. Johnson returned to the Union Lumber Company, San Francisco, from a business tripeast Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hardwick. returned to the Dinuba (Calif.) Lumber Co. from a 30-day midwest vacation . "Josh" Spidell of the Hammond & Little River Redwood Company's Arcata yard was married in Alameda, Nov. 14, to Miss Irene Park.

E. T. Robie of the Auburn (Calif.) Lumber Company corrects an article in a recent issue which stated that the Calaveras Grove was the most northerly grove of giant Sequoia in the state. Dealer Robie declares a grove in Placer county is 75 miles farther north An article in this issue recalls when Jim Prentice, now southern California representative for Bloedel-Donovan, wis a star guard with the University of Washington varsity . The business of the T. P. Hogan Lumber Co., Oakland, was incorporated, terminat-