Ten files of The Years Ago Today

From the California Lumbet Merchant, Januarv 15, 1928

A party of 60, including many of the foresters who attended the meeting of the Society of American Foresters at San Francisco, visited the mill operations of The Pacific Lumber Company, where they were guests of the company.

John Suverkrup erside. Lumber Co.,'has opened a yard at Riv-

Hoo-Hoo clubs throughout California are showing a keen interest in the attendance contest being sponsored by Fred Roth of San Francisco, member of the Supreme Nine. Mr. Roth is donating beautiful loving cups to the winners, and he has named Jack Dionne, publisher of The California Lumber Merchant, as judge of the contest.

Members of the Orange Belt Lumbermen's Club presented Secretary R. D. (Bob) Mundell with unique Christmas remembrances, consisting of blocks of wood with their respiective business cards attached. Each of the wood specimens had a five dollar gold piece driven in them in such a way that it was impossible to get the money without chopping the blocks to pieces. A picture accompanying the article shows Bob busy with a hatchet digging out the gold.

"Logging in the Philippines," by E. R. Edgecomb, secretary of the fnsular Lumber Co., is the title of an interesting illustrated article in this issue on the sawmill and logging operations of the Insular Lumber Co. in the Philippines.

Hammond Lumber Company, San Francisco, has moved r'ts offices from 2& California Street to new quarters in the Alaska-Commercial Building, 310 Sansome Street.

The second Redwood sales contest closed December 31, with a total of 99 entries received at the offices of the California Redwood Association, San Francisco. The en- tries gave information on all possible and conceivable uses of 'Redirydbd. The awards will be announced on January 20th.

Lumber companies and associations that will have exhibits in the new Architects Building, Los Angeles, include: The Red River Lumber Co., Cadwallader-Gibson, Inc., Hammond Lumber Company, California Redwood Association, and Los Angeles Hardwood Dealers' Association.

Miss Grace Jones has been elected secretary-treasurer of the Washington & Oregon Shingle Association, and secretary-manager of the Rite-Grade Shingle Association, with headquarters in the White-Henry-Stuart Building, Seattle.

Fred Roth, member of the Supreme Nine, has recommended the appointment of W. B. Wickersham, Los Angeles, as state Hoo-Hoo counselor for California, and B. W. Byrne as vicegerent snark of the Los Angeles district.

This issue carries an article with photograph of The Pacific Lumber Company's retail lumber department at Scotia.

Paul Hallingby, Hammond Lumber Company, Los Angeles, was chairman of the day at the luncheon meeting of the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club on January 12.A. A. Israel, West Coast Lumber Trade Extension Bureau, was the speaker of the day.

San Diego Hoo-Hoo Club will hold a meeting and concatenation at San Diego on the evening of. Janaary B. A large delegation from Los Angeles will attend.

Earl Johnson buys Independent Lumber Company at Livermore.

FHA Loans in So. California-Arizona TheodoreKnappen Resigns as N. L. M. A. District Reach High Volume Publlcity Director

January 1, 1938.-The Southern California-Arizona district of the Federal Elousing Administration closed the past year by passing the $100,000,000 mark in insured mortgage commitments, covering home building and financing transactions, according to F. W. Marlow, district director.

None of the other 68 ofifices of the FHA throughout the United States has reached this volume, Mr. Marlow said.

Up to Dec.25, applications representing 28,805 cases with a total value of $L22,D3,44O had been accepted by the local office for valuation and processing, and 24,570 of them, representing loans aggregating $100,334,903, had been accepted for insurance. it was stated.

Returns From Philippine Trip

Roy Barto, president of Cadwallader-Gibson Co., Inc., Los Angeles, returned January 13 from a business trip to the Philippine Islands.

Mr. Barto left Los Angeles September 17, and while in the Islands visited the company's mills and their other mill connections. He stopped in Hong Kong, Japan and Honolulu on the homeward voyage, which was made on the Barber Line steamer Tricolor.

New Yard At El Monte

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The lumber industry learns with regret of the resignation of Theodore M. Knappen, veteran publicity director of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association during the last fifteen years.

Mr. Knappen was prostrated by the excessive heat of a summer day in July, 1936, and was many months in bed. However, his health has slowly recovered and for the last twelve months he has been at his desk daily on a limited schedule of activity. He contemplates a further period of recovery in another environment and a different climate, which he hopes will bring him back to his former good health and permit him to resume his publicity and research work in an independent relation.

His fellow members of the N.L.M.A. staff tendered him a dinner at the Cosmos Club, Washington, on the evening of December 16. Dr. Wilson Compton presided and other members of the stafi were there. As a substantial expression of their feelings, members of the staff presented Mr. Knappen with a set of Freeman's Life of Robert E. Lee. They expressed their leelings otherwise in the form of an elaborate program of the dinner, a feature of which was an open letter to Time Magazine nominating Mr. Knappen -"journalist, author, editor, economist, Phi Beta Kappa, Psi Upsilon, Democrat"-feJ the "Man of the Year," and describing him as a type of man who "pays his taxes, takes care of his family, helps his friends, contributes to charity, never gets drunk, works hard without complaint, weathers illness cheerfully, worries about the poor, tolerates all peop1e, feeds stray dogs, goes to church, encourages the young, consoles the old, improves his mind, saves his money, never gossips, sleeps well, and thinks no evil of others."

Congratulatory and appreciative telegrams were received from some twenty outstanding men of the lumber industry. Dr. Compton delivered an appreciative talk and presented the volumes of the Lee history.

Mr. Knappen had his origin in the timber country of Wisconsin and Minnesota, and from his earliest boyhood was interested in trees and sawmills and their products, industrial fields, and problems. He began early in his newspaper career in Minneapolid and St. Paul to write the news and current history of the forest industries. Later his field of interest widened to include the general field of economics, and with it a reputation as a writer of romantic industrial achievement in the middle northwest, the Pacific Northwest and Pacific Southwest, Montana, Canada. and elsewhere.

The World War brought him east as a newspaper writer on the war industries, notably three series for the New York Tribune on "The Sinews of War," "The Bridge of Ships," "The Wings of War" which was also the title of a book on military aircraft production and many individual articles related to the industrial side of the war against Germany, as well as the lumber chapters of a number of general industrial books.

New Booklet on BruceFinished Blocks

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South San Francisco Yard Gets Bridge Tie Job

The contract for shaping the 50,000 Redrvood ties for the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was awarded to the South City Lumber & Supply Co., South San Francisco. Each tie has to be sawn to specifications in order that it may be laid in its proper place on the bridge. Another large millwork contract recently awarded to this firm was the contract for the millwork for the $180.000 Fort Bragg High School.

I. E. Horton, prominent retail lumberman, of the South City Lumber & Supply Co.

Opens Lumber Yard

R. E. Stagg has opened a lumber yard at Richmond. Mr. Stagg has been connected with the retail lumber business in Northern California for manv vears.

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