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Ben Ward, of the Bonnell-Ward & Knapp clan, returned to the San Francisco offices Nov. 19 following a week in Los Angeles on business.

Don Hamilton, manager of the Valley Lumber Co., Palm Desert, with his wife, Jane, and son John, have returned to the retail yard after a two-week family visit in Pennsylvania.

Knute Weidman, head man of Roddiscraft Lumber Sales, Palo Alto, and Jim Lowman, from Roddiscraft's Medford buying office, attended the Northwestern California Lumbermen's Club annual Stag in Eureka last month and spent the following week seeing the mill connections thereabouts.

Joe Kirk, Kirk Lumber & Building Materials Co., Santa Maria, and Jack Pomeroy, executive vice-president of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California, attended the third annual Exposition and directors meeting of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association in Chicago, December 10-13.

With intensified programs for insect control, fire control and salvage logging, tremendous loss of some of California's finest timber is being steadily reduced.