Lumbermen You Should Know

Benrie B. Bcrrber, secrelcry ol tbe Lumber Merchants Aseociation ol Northern Ctrliloraicr

This will be "a short, short story complete on this page" about a young man who plays a very important part in the retail lumber business in California, Bernie B. Barber. He u,as born in Missouri in 1898, went to school in Yakima, Wash., then to St. Martin's College at Lacey, Wash., and then hopped off for California where he went into the lumber business. He became millwork estimator for the Tilden Lumber & Mill Company, Berkeley, then uras sent to the downtown office in Oakland where he did the millwork figuring for three large millwork plants' He became manager of that office. In 1930 he started a planing mill at Palo Alto, that burned in 1932, and he joined up with The Diamond Match Company, staying with them until 1935. He was made secretary of the San Joaquin Lumbermen's Club and the California Lumbermen's Council, and moved to Fresno. When those two associations disbanded and the Lumber Merchants Assoqiatidn of

With Western Hcndwood Lumber Co.

Orval Stewart has joined the sales staff of the Western Hardwood Lumber Co. at Los Angeles as an outside salesman.

Orval was connected with the purchasing department of the Timm Aircraft Corp. the past several months. Prior to that he was with the Cadwallader-Gibson Co., of Los Angeles for eight years, spending the first few years in their yard at Long Beach, and then became one of their salesmen. He is well known in Southern California lumber circles.

Northern California was organized, the directors unanimously reached out and got Bernie for secretary. And that's where he is now.

His big job is seeing to it that the lumber dealers of Northern California are kept intimately and practically in touch with all the rules and regulations under which the industry now operates, and he has given splendid service in that vital work. ft's the kind of a job where the intelligence of the manager can keep the members either in or out of all sorts of trouble, and it requires a combination diplomat, building specialist, and second-sight specialist to do it. Bernie Barber is a highly competent man in a highl,v specialized job. Besides he is ruggedly honest, a natural friend maker, and he enjoys the trust and affection of the lumber industry he so well serves. He has been tried and found worthy.

Ncrmed Mcrncger oI Stocldon Ycnd

Dale Frane, formerly manager of the Palo Alto Lumber & Roofing Co. at Palo Alto, is now managing the Stockton Lumber Company, Inc. at Stockton. George Robinson, who has been with the firm for some time, is assistant manager.

Corporction Dissolved

Sampson Company, screen manufacturers, 745 So. Raymond Avenue, Pasadena, recently dissolved the corporation and are now operating as a partnership, The partners are Bill Sampson, his wife, and his son, John Sampson.