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Reported in The California Lumber Merchant, December Ir 1955

The F ederal Trade Commission ruled on the content and description of red cedar shingles in interstate commerce Sydney Snow, big-game hunter from Oakland, was the featured speaker at the Nov. 18 meeting in the Hotel Coit of Elast Bay Hoo-Hoo Club 39, detailing his adventures in Zululand, Somaliland and Ethiopia with movies of an elephant hunt. President Gordon Plerce appointed Mtlanit Grant chairman of the committee to distribute the annual Christmas kegs to the needy T. P. Ilogan, Jr. visited the Union Lumber Company mill at Fort Bragg in the company of Sales V.-P. D. L. Green The advertisement of White Brothers in this issue ("64 Years of Service") is illustrated with a scene of its opening in January 1.872 on Market Street next to the bore of California Street in the young City of San Francisco Porcelainfinish Port Orford Cedar, for which James L. Hall Co. is the California sales agent, has been installed in the Biltmore hotel, Los Angeles, and tl.e Royal Hawaiian hotel, Honolulu.

Arthur Twohy of the Twohy Lumber Co., Los Angeles, is believed to be the industry's only movie star. He just completed three weeks' work with Jane Withers at 2Oth-Fox Studios in Booth Tarkington's "Gentle Julia" and, before that, appeared in MGM's "Broadway Melody of 1936" and "Ah, Wilderness!" Art's hobby is collecting antique automobiles, of which he has a large number, and whenever the movie studios want an old auto they have to call on Arthur , , Ziel & Co. has moved its hardwood import business into larger quarters at 16 California St., San Francisco The C. D. Johnson Lumber Corp. has been organized with termination of the receivership of the C. D. Johnson Lumber Co. and the Paciflc Spruce Corp. The Portland firm will maintain the Los Angeles office under R. T. Gheen and A. itr. Hethertngton, and the San Francisco office under A. B. Grlswokf Col. Wm. P. Gray, 65, died Nov. I in San Francisco, where he had bought out the Redwood City Lumber Co. in 1910 and formed the Gray-Thorning Lumber Co. He had started in the lumber and hardware business in Palo Alto in 1897.

The lumber industry was up in arms over President Roosevelt's Reciprocal Trade Treaty with Canada of Nov. 17. The National Lumber Manufacturers Assn. declared that the domestic lumber industry (particularly the West Coast) had been "sacrificed" for F DR's Canadian Treaty . . J. II. Baxter & Co. announces it will sell its new pressure-treated lumber through retail yards Franklin W. Trower, 28, who became an Oakland sportswriter after working in the lumber business, died Nov. 9. His father, Frank W. Trower. is the well-known San Francisco wholesale lumberman . . ' F'our pages of flne print in this issue are devoted to the speech of Everett C. Parker, "New Costs of Doing Business," at the annual convention of the CRLA in San Diego, Nov. 6-8 Harrlson Clark, secretary of the Douglas Fir Plpuood Assn., Tacoma, returned there from a California business trip H. R. Neel of the Diamond Springs ofrce spent three days calling on the Southland trade with Glenn Fogehnan, manager of the Los Ang:eles office of California Door Company Ed Blggs, Carl Schrieber' Andrew Foster and Hans Westberg are the committee arranging the annual Hi-Jinks of Leg:ion Lumbermen's Post 403, Dec. 13, at a location near 12th and San Pedro Sts. in L. A. They claim plenty of auto parking space will be available.

J. H. Bloedet of the Bloedel Donovan Lumber Mills, Bellingham, visited the L. A. offices, Nov. 22, to confer with iI. H. Prentice before leaving for Honolulu and the U. S. Chamber of Commerce congress. When asked about the possible effects of F'DR's new reciprocal trade treaty with Canada, Mr. Bloedel smilingly remarked, "We are ruined! But we have been ruined so many times I guess it won't hurt us to get ruined once more." . Jerome C. Grlpper, widely known in hardwood lumber circles with Gripper & Haglind, died Oct. 29 at his Pasadena home ' C. Harry \ilhite' general manager of White Brothers, believes the tremendous boom in boat building indicates a lessening of the depression. White Bros. enjoys a large business in the great yachting centers of San F'rancisco bay and southern California, and a coastwide business in boat-building hardwoods, Teak and Philippine mahogany Warner Brothers Studios is making a one-reel movie, "Tall Timber," from Calif. Redwood Assn. film.

Retail lumber dealers of the metropolitan Los Angeles area met in the Hotel Rosslyn, Nov. 19. There were 139 present to hear E. C. Parker's talk on "New Costs of Doing Business" and a message from W'. B. Greeley of the WCLA, Seattle, who said the manufacturers are going to spend some money to create business for the retailers, and that the WCLA is committed to maintain orderly distribution of lumber along with the NLMA, the N-AWLA and the NRLDA Clay Brovrrn, Northwest lumberman, attended the big game between Stanford and California at Palo Alto, Nov. 2g . . Bror G. Ilahtberg is president of The Celotex Corp. in the reorganization of the firm completed Nov. 6 Durell LeBreton' formlr San Joaquin Valley representative, is now heading the Oakland ofHce of Coos Bay Lumber Co., while Ilowa,rd Page takes the Valley route . . H. F. Ilunca,n, Reno, Nevada, writes that' although he is not now working in a lumber yard, he has read "The Merchant" from its beginning and must have a subscription'