TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

As Reported in The California Lumber Merchant, December 1, 1933

A. J. "Gus" Russell of the Santa Fe Lumber Co.. San Francisco, was a visitor to the firm's new Los Angeles offices in the Financial Center building, of which BoE Foreie will be in charge,. , Cha9. G. Briggs of the Booth-Ke-lly Lumber Co. concluded a 10-day touilf the Northern Cali- fornia territory withH. Sewail Morton of Hill & Morton

.T!. Philippine Mahogany Manufacturers Import Assn. opened permanent headquarters at 108 W. 6th St. in Los Angeles to administer the lumber code for that division.

G. P. Purchase was the secretary in charge.

Larsen Brothers, San Leandro, furnished 150.000 feet of Douglas-fir for the Am_erican Legion building in that city: the lumber was supplied by Slhafer Broi. Lumber & !!;1S19 Co.-. .-. The Westerir Pine Association appointed H. E. Crawford district officer at San Francisco, sucieeding

L. V. Graham Harold P. plummer returned to hii Union Lumber Company sales offices in San Francisco from an eastern trip and held further conferences with Chicaeo's Sherman A. Bishop and Neu, York's W. R.Morris ].

Printed in this issue is a letter from Col. W. B. Greelev to a California wholesaler.explaining methods used in figuiing the "Minimum Price List.t'

__Ilarry W. Cole, Q. R. lohnson, C. E. De Kamp, Herb Klass and others of the California redwood induiiry attended a meeting in Portland on the Code administration . . . Larue Woodson returned from a Tacoma trip to call on principals _of the Nicolai Door Sales Co. . Janies L. Hall enrolled his San Francisco firm in the California Wholesale Lumber Assn. Busy at work filling the annual ChristnTas kegs with groceries for the local needy was the East pay Ho_o_-Hoo _Club 39 committee consisiing of Gordon Pierce, Henry Hink, Miland R. Grant, Ierry"Bonninston. John Tyson, H. Sewall lVlorton and C. I. Gilb;rt.

"Mike" Tynan of the Tynan Lumber Co., Salinas, set the lt-rwn_an example by building himself a fine new home Ray Julien and Jack Dodson of the E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, are pictured in this issue with a fine catch gf yLllgr quail from Santa Barbara county Jerry Stutz, E. G. Davis and Geo. R. Kendrick, area-salesiren-for the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., attended San Francisco sales conferences with Portland executives of-the comDanv. J]p !rog_ the south and southwest were C. M. Freetanh, W. B. Wickersham and C. P. Henry E. E. Arthur wai appointed district representative in San Francisco for Wey- erhaeuser Sales Co.

The Orange County Lumbermen's Club held its annual meeting Nov. 28 in Fullerton. Elected directors were John

Christiansen, R. A. Emison, Ernest Ganahl, F. N. Gibbs. I. II. Newman, C. .W. Pinkerton and W. S. Spicer. DealJr Christiansen of the Barr Lumber Co. succeeded Anaheim Dealer Gibbs as president, and Leslie Pearson of E. K. Wood's Santa Ana yard was re-elected treasurer The California Wholesa[e Lumber Association re-elected its officers at the annual meeting in San Francisco Dec. 11. They are !r_aLk J.^p'Connor, M. L. ,,Duke" Euphrat, James T-ys9n and Miss N. Savage,. Mr. R. A. Long, fo-under of the Long-Bell Lumber Company, Kansas Ci{i, takes a