1. W. IlclcDonqld Co.

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Representing

Bear River Lumber Co., South Fork, Calif.

Lo: Angeles Office

714 W. Olympic Blvd. Los Angele 15

PRospcct 7194-4590

W. B. Jefferson, Greater cisco. and his wife. returned trip to Palm Springs.

Douglas Fir and Redwood Dry Ponderosa Pine

City Lumber Co., San FranDecember 10 from a vacation

Two new men on the order desk in the office of United States Plywood Corp., San Francisco, are Ben Cardinal and Boz Yerkes. Both were in the Armv Air Force. and both served in the Pacific area.

Perry A. Dame, sales manager, Vancouver Veneer Co., Vancouver, Wash., is back from a Middle West and East On the way back he have Thanksgiving dinner with his mother in

T. F. Eckstrom, of Angeles, spent a few made the round trip

Rivenide Oflicc

R. W. MccDonald

Rivenide 6481 RK

Bessonnette & Eckstrom. Inc.. Los days in Los Angeles last week. He from Eugene, Oregon, by plane.

A. C. Pascoe, of Los Angeles, Pacific Coast representative of hardwood and veneer mills, was a business visitor in San Francisco first week in December.

F. L. (Bud) Gregor, sales manager, California Builders Supply Co., Oakland, has returned from a trip to Detroit, where he was called on account of the illness of his father.

Plywood & trip to the stopped to Indiana. Fred W. Powers, president of Lebanon, Oregon, and his wife, San Francisco.

Santiam Lumber Co., were recent visitors to Ed Gallagher, manager, Associated Plywood Mills, Inc., San Francisco, returned early in December from a trip to Western Nevada and the Sacramento Vallev.

A. A. Lausmann, president of Lausmann Lumber Company, and of Kogap Lumber Industries, Inc., Medford, Oregon, has returned from an eastern business trip. He attended tl.re National Association of Manufacturers' 53rd annual Congress of American Industry in Nevv York, held early in December.

Al Bell, of Hobbs Wall returned frorn spending business for his company.

Lumber Co., San Francisco, has trvo r,veeks in Los Angeles on

E. C. Brandeberry, Klamath Falls, Oregon, partner in A & B Lumber Sales, San Francisco, was recently in San Francisco on business. He attended the lunchebn meeting of the San Francisco Lumbermen's Club. November 23.

Chas. T. Gartin, of Rudbach-Gartin & Co., cisco, was a Los Angeles visitor the last week ber.

J. H. McElroy of McElroy Calif., returned recently from He was accompanied by his

San Franin Novem-

Lumber Company, Palo Alto, a business trip to Nerv York. son, Peter, aged 10.

Mcnk Twcrin On How To Live

"Take it just as though it was-as it is-an earnest, vital, and important affair. Take it as though you were born to the task of performing a very mbrry part in it-as though the world awaited your coming. Take it as though it was a grand opportunity to do and achieve, to carry forward great and good schemes, to help and cheer a suffering, weary, it may be heartbroken brother. Now and then a man stands aside from the crowd, labors earnestly, steadfastly, confidently, and straightway becomes farnous for wisdom, intellect, skill, greatness of some sort. The wo'rld wonders, admires, idolizes, and it illustrates what others may do if they take hold of life with a purpose. The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few, is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.-Mark Twain.

Wqr Foreboding

While I am rocking you, my son' And singing lullabies, Someone is planning stouter planes, For Death to ride the skies.

While I am dressing you, my son, In little boyish suits, Someone is making uniforms, And sturdy soldier boots.

While you are chasing butterflies, Amid the tangled grass, Someone is testing chemicals To make a deadlier gas. And while you eat your simPle fare, Perhaps the war lords sit, To start again the bugle notes, That only call the fit.

While I would build a splendid man, So fine and strong, my son, Someone, in secret, tries to make A farther-reaching gunA gun that on some distant day When drums of battle roll, May leave me with a golden starAnd iron in my soul.

-Mabel Freer Loveridge.

Ade's Wisdom

George Ade once remarked in a gathering of people that he thought a married man is better off than a bachelor, and when pressed for an explanation, said that a married man has but one woman to fear, while a bachelor fears them all.

His Recson

The county agent was visiting the farmer, and discovered that this tiller of the soil confined his activities to the raising of hogs, and nothing else. So he asked why. The farmer's reply was short and to the point: "flogs," he said, "don't have to be hoed."

Some Modern Definitions

A conference is a group of men who individually can do nothing, but as a group can meet and decide that nothing can be done.

A statistician is a man who draws a mathematically precise line from an unwarranted assumption to a foregone conclusion.

A professor is a man whose job it is to tell students how to solve the problems of life which he himself has sought to avoid by becoming a professor.

A consultant is a man who knows less abotrt your business than you do and gets more for telling you how to run it than you could possibly make out of it even if you ran it right instead of the way he told you.

A specialist is a man who concentrates more and more on less and less.

An optimist thinks the future is uncertain.

A pessimist is afraid the optimist is right.

An economist is a man who can make a simple subject complex, a complex subject simple; in other words, an economist is simply simple.

Poetry

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has contempt for poetry cannot have much respect for himself o,r for anything else. It is not a mere frivolous accomplishment; it has been the study and delight of mankind in all ages. Nor is it found only in books; wherever there is a sense of beauty, or power, or harmony, as in a wave of the sea, or in the growth of a flower, there is poetry in its birth. It is the stuff of which our life is made. The rest is mere oblivion, for all that is worth remembering in life, is the poetry of it.-William

Hazlett-

Rcrre Indeed

"I have for sale a very rare object," said the smoothtongued salesman at the front door. "It is the very fountain pen with which Dante lvrote the "Divine Comedy."

The lady of the house was wise. She said:

"Fountain pens had not been invented in Dante's time."

"Sure they hadn't," said the door salesman. "That's what makes it rare."

Plywood Company in Los Angelet

Now Locally Owned

Announcement is made that a new corporation, Bessonette & Eckstrom, Inc., purchased the Los Angeles branch of Pacific Mutual Door Co., effective November 1, 1948.

Pacific Mutual Door Co. of Tacoma sold its interest in the Los Angeles branch to T. F. Eckstrom, who has been general manager of Pacific Mutual Door Co. since 1935. Mr. Eckstrom then made an arrangement with Glen D. Bessonette to go into business with him, and tl-rey formed the corporation known as Bessonette & Eckstrom, Inc.

N[r. Bessonette is going to run the business as in the past.

Mr. Eckstrom, who has entirely severed his connection rvith Pacific Mutual Door Co., will spend most of his time in Eugene, Oregon, keeping up contact lvith plyrvood suppliers, rn'hich will insure a good flow of plyrvood for their Los Angeles warehouse. He is one of the stockholders in Associated Plywood Mills, Inc. at Eugene. All his future efforts rvill be rvith the company in Los Angeles and the Associated Plyrvood Mills, Inc. in Eugene.

Builds New Dry Shed

A ner,v dry shed 'ivith an additional capacity of 700,000 feet of lumber rvas recently completed by Tarter, Webster & Johnson at their distribution yard at 4200 Bandini Boulevard, Los Angeles.

In commenting on the nerv structure, Eric Hexberg, manager of the yard, remarked : "We are pleased to have this additional storage space for it rvill enable us to insure dry lumber for our customers during the rainy season."

Hello Little Strcnger

Congratulations have been James Davis on the birth of Francisco. The little fellow's Mr. Davis is manager of the San Francisco.

Schafer Bros

IUMBER & SHINGLE CO.

Manufacturers ol Douglas Fir - Western Red Cedar

Ttlest received by I\Ir. and i\[rs. a son, October 11, in San name is James Carlos Davis. Davis Hardwood Company,

Attended College Trustee Meeting

W. B. Wickershem,, district manager of Pope & Talbot, Inc.. Lumber Division, Los Angeles, attended a meeting of the trustees of Whittier College at Whittier, Calif., on November 30. Mr. Wickersham lvas appointed a trustee of the college about two Years ago.

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