Twen$'FlveYears Ago

As Reported in the Decembe r Ig4L,Issue of The Merchant, Est. 1922

Ray Hill, Lawrence-Phillips Lumber Co., and B. L. Adams, Weyerhaeuser Sales Co., Los Angeles, have returned from a trip to Mexico where they enjoyed sorne fine fishing.

LeRoy Stanton and Joe Tardy of E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, returned to Los Angeles recently from a business trip to Arizona.

C. C. (Sti) Stibich of Tarter Webster & Johnson, Inc., San Francisco, returned from a five weeks' eastern trip, calling on his firm's connections.

Al Nolan" Western sales manager of The Pacific Lumber Co.. returned to his office following recovery from an automobile accident in which he received a broken collar bone.

C. W. Buckner, sales engineer, Harbor Plywood Corporation, Hoquiam, \Mash., left San Francisco for Hoquiam after visiting San Francisco and Los Angeles on business.

Frost Snyder, president of the Clear Fir Lumber Co., Tacoma, announced that the compaly's plant and inventories had been sold to a new corporation, the Clear Fir Products Co., headed by H. E. Tenzler, J. H. Gonyea and associates.

\tr. J. (Jack) Ivey, Los Angeles, field representative for the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau will spend the month of December in Seattle, Wash, and will attend the annual meeting of tJre Bureau.

Jerome Eigman, a^nd his son, Ilerb, Reliable Lumber Co., Rosemead, have returned from a ten-day hunting tri$.

Ralph Hopey is in charge of E. J. Stanton & Son's new handling yard at Wilmington for Philippine Mahogany.

W. G. (Bill) Laubender has joined the sales staff of Geo, M, Lufr Lumber Co. and is working in the Los Angeles teritory. BilI was formerly with E. K. Wood Lumber Co.

Roy Mikkelson, Auburn, California, manager of the Millwork and Hardware Departments of Auburn Lumber Co., was elected a director of the National Ski Association of America at a recent meeting of the CaiUornia Ski Association in Yosemite Valley. Roy is a former skiing champion of the United States.

Frank Dupont, assistant sales manager, Pickering Lumber Co., Standard, Calif., was a business visitor to the San Francisco Bay district.

W. W. (Bill) Blattner, salesmam for California Builders Supply Co., Sacramento, has been passing out cigars to his friends on account of the recent a:rival of a baby boy, Robert Rollins.

Herb Klass, assistant to the president of The Pacific Lumber Co., San Francisco, left for a business trip to the Fast which will include visits to the New York and Chicago offices.

Miss Ella Moore of Hill & Morton, Inc., Oakland, made a business and pleasure trip to Eugene, Ore. during Thanksgiving week.

Taylor L. Sublett, salesman for Higgins Lumber Co., San Francisco, was a Los Angeles visitor early in November.

George J. Hilton, Jr., formerly in the Los Angeles office of the San Pedro Lumber Co., has been appointed manager of their Whittier ya^rd, He succeeds Tom Burnett who has been transferred to the Los Angeles office.

Kimberly-Clark Corporation, arurounce the opening of their new sales organization in California. Forrest Lundstrom, formerly in the Chicago territory, will serve as district sales manager for the state of California.