Lcttens

The Merchant

Your "25 Years Ago" column of a few issues ago is true again . . "visiting relatives in K.C." Only difference is that now I'm retired"-then I was trying to convince the southern California trade that I was a "Lumber Salesman." Best wishes.

A. M. Batliner Kansas City, Mo.

The Merchant Hello Dave. WeIl, been up here near Echo, got our buik and now we are on our way home. We got mostly four Pointers. The temperature is 18 degrees here and clear. Adios.

Ken Conway Kamas, Utah

The Merchant Dear Dave, We flew out to Calif. and stayed a little over two weeks. I attended a reunion of my old High School class in Santa Cruz and had a wonderful time with old friends.

Well, we went up to Twain Harte where we had planned to retire and we happened to pick a poor day. The sun wasn't out and the house was in a grove of trees that must have been 200 ft. high, so if there was any sun, it could hardly penetrate the shade. It was a beautiful place and a nice place but I guess after spending 29 years in Miami we could never get used to the cold weather. And my boss was calling all my reltives to have us get back on the job. They had a big laboratory job of $11,000 of special cabinets and my understudY threw his hands up and said he wasn't equal to the job. So they begged me to come back and get them out of the bind' so I had to cut my retirement down and come back and wait till later.

I had a nice visit in S.F, Lafayette, San Jose, Santa Cruz, Watsonville and San Mateo, Had a nice visit with my son in San Francisco. He is in the aluminum business and has over a million dollars back log. Jobs in Honolulu and all over the U.S.

Our home looked awful good to us when we got back, so I guess we will stay here till the bugle calls, and visit once in anvhile.

Yours truly,

Bill O'Keefie Miami, Florida

Tfie Key

All Grades R E

Ook Flooring Shortoge lo Eose

T'he current tight market on oak flooring, created by heavy demand coupled with shortages of rough lumber, can reasonably be expected to ease in the coming months, according to President Johrr F. Stewart of the National Oak Floorins N{anufacturers' Association,

The strong demand, which has seen or. ders running about ten percent ahead of last year, is due in large measure to the mounting popularity of exposed wood in floors, he said.

He added that "although oak flooring prices have advanced appreciably in recent months, the prices for upper grades are only moderately above those which prevaile:d in 1950 and 1955, and the prices of lowr:r grades are even under the 1950 levt'ls."

U.S. Ply's McCloud Sqles Moves

U.S. Plywood's McCloud sales operation has moved from San Francisco to Redding, Calif. All sales of McCloud lumber are be. ing handled thru the new office.

C. W. o'Kelley" Galley and William S. "Bill" Anderson. Jr. will continue business as usual. Larry S. Turnbull continues as sales rep for thc Southwest.

Sowmill leveled

Fire of undetermined orisin broke out in the sawmill oI Morrison &lackson Lumber Co. at Myers Flat, Calif. and despite all-out efiorts by employees and the volunteer fire department, the mill was reduced to ashes in the estimated $400,000 blaze. No one was reported injured.

Duke Morrison, owner of the plant which has suffered extensive damage in two recent floods, has announced that he will rebuild the mills. Morrison ,& Jackson's nearby planing mill and a log deck of approximately seven million board feet were spared by the October 25 blaze.

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Personals

(Continued, lrom Page 35) llelvin Ilaker, secletaly of Stringfield lli'othels Lumber & I'iuilding Supply Company has been elected pi'esident for' 196667 of the Larre County Retail Building lVlatelial Dealels Association, succeeding R. C. Royston, r,vho was eiected secretaly. Wyman Hammer lr''as named v.p. liill lrraser, Wendling-Nathan's Sacramento Valley birdclog, and Mrs. Fraser, lecently celebrated their 20th r,r'edding anniversary wjth a tlr.o rveek fling in Hawaii anrl the outlying islantls.

Don Brown has moved to Terry Lumber in Northridge, Calif. a.fter a 16-year tenure at Owens-Parks Lumber where he 'was manager of the wholesale division.

Jack Hibbert. owner of Hibbert Lumber Company, Davis, Calif., recently spent a "really big" week up on the Klamath on a steelhead fishing trip.

Al Forslund has returned to his Sacramento office after a two week swing through the deep south, San Antonio, Texas and Oklahoma City, on R. F. Nikkel Lumber Co. business.

Harry Merlo, head of Rockport Redwood Company in Cloverdale, just beat the winter snows and made a quick fall sales safari through the East Coast.

Vern Sumner of Hirsch Lumber Co.'s Oregon division spent a week with Ray Sedall of the California office calling on retail lumber dealers. Vern reports many half hour appointments turned into two hour sessions as anxious dealers queried him about mill prospects.

Simmons Hardwood's Dorothy Hagerman and husband John celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary with a trip to the West Indies, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Isles.

Sherm Bishop, recently retired general salesmanager of Union Lumber Company, cruised out of San Francisco Bay with Mrs. Bishop on the first leg of a leisurely two year 'round the world trip on December 3. No, "two years" is not a typographical error. Have fun, kids, and we'll see you in '68 !

Richard Terry, former manager of J.W. Copeland's Santa Ana yard, was recently made manager of Copeland's Springfield, Oregon, branch.

Jack Churchill. Churchill & Son Lumber Co., Montague, Calif., ended a successful deer season and is now concentrating on ducks.

Ilrannon "Yince" Vincent, an 1S-yeat'sales 'i'etelan at Los Angeles' Fleming-Hightower' Lumber Co., took his u'ife Irlances on a tworveek sight-seeing sl'ing through the Southrvest, stopping off in Folt Wolth to visit his dad rvho lecently celebi'ated his 85th bilthday.

Lamon Lumber's Ralph Lamon has accumulated an impressive collection of golf trophies over the years, but for 38 yeai's golf's biggest thrill eluded him, until last month that is. Ralph's hoie-in-one came ol.r the 9th hole at the Mira Vista Countly Club in EI Ceri'ito, a 143 yard seven iron shot witnessed by Irwin Marcos of Hill Lumber & Suppiy Co.

Retii'ed letailer Roy Engstland stopped bv The Merchant to visit. He and his rvife Iluth just letulned flom Harvaii u'here they burnped into Mullin Lurnber/s Wayne if{ullin. Roy, u'hose file of ]Ierchant back issues dates to 1927, rvas formelly V.P. and oper'ations manage]' at Wilmington Lumber, Noln'alk, Calif., rvhich closed up shop in July.

Jean Parrish sneaketl arvay fol a week fol a trip to nolthern California and a run over to Lake Tahoe. Jean hangs his hat at F. M. Crarvfoltl's Long Beach distribution yard.

Copeland Lumbel Co. r'ecently completed a big expansion of its llinden, Nevada, opelation including a new warehouse and completely remocleled store. Wayne Woods is manager of the operation.