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John E. Pearson, who has been in charge of the concentration yard of the P. & H. Lumber Co., Oroville, Calif., which handles lumber from small mills, is spending his time between the Oroville yard and the Lafayette Lumber & Supply Co., Lafayette, until the pine mills open up in the spring. He is the son of J. W. Pearson, partner in the P. & H. Lumber Co. and owner of the Lafayette yard. He was 4f years in the service, two of which were spent in Europe, and came out with the rank of Captain.

Kenneth J. Shipp, California Builders Supply Co., Oakland, returned January 27 from a business trip to the Northwest, where he visited Portland, Tacoma and Seattle.

Chester Coon, who formerly operated his own retail yard in Oregon, is a new addition to the sales staff of Lafayette Lumber & Supply Co., Laf.ayette, Calif.

A.W. (Bates) Smith is again in charge of the Los Angeles office of MacDonald & Harrington Ltd., which was reopened at the first of the year. He was associated with the Portland office during the past year.

Walter A. Gustafson is now manager of the company's Portland office.

W. B. Wickersham, district manager' Pope & Talbot, fnc., Los Angeles, attended the annual meeting of the American Friends Service Committee at Philadelphia in January. He is chairman of the Committee's Southern California Branch.

Jack Thomas, for the past three years with the OPA in Washington, D. C., as Section Chief, in charge of the Western Softwood and Service Section, has returned to Los Angeles. Jack is well known in the California lumber trade, and before going with the OPA was in the wholesale lumber business for himself in Los Angeles.

A. E. Ferguson, Western sales manag'er, American Lumber & Treating Co., Los Angeles, is back from a business trip in the Northwest. He also spent a few days at Everett, Wash., where the company is building a new plant.

Norrnan Davidson, Jr., Davidson Plywood & Veneer Co., Los Angeles, is spending a month in the Northwest, where he will call on plywood mills in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia.

The broad smile that was noticed recently on Miland Grant's face was caused by the fact that he had become a grandfather for the first time. Miland has been connected for many years with the sales department of Western Door & Sash Co., Oakland.

Keith Mclellan, White Brother, San Francisco, 'left January 19 on a business trip to the Pacific Northwest'

S. P. (Heb) Hebard, sales manager, Fir-Tex of Scjuthern California, Los Angeles, recently visited the Fir-Tex plant at'St. Helens, Oregon; the company's head qffice ln Portland, and Coos Bay Lumber Co., Coos Bay, Oregon'

W. J. Stewart, Whiting-Mead Co., San Diego, returned recentiy lrom a vacation trip to Abilene, Texas, made by automobile. While there he was snowbound, and this delayed his homeward trip somewhat. As a result he is more than ever a confirm booster for the famed San Diego climate.

Fred Vaughn, president of Vaughn Millwork, Inc', Reno, Nevada, returned a short time ago from a three weeks' business and pleasure trip to the company's eastern plant at Rocky Mount, Virginia'

Russ Johnson is now in the sales department of Baugh Bros. & Co., wholesale lumber dealers, Los Angeles' He succeeds Vic Turton, who is on leave of absence for several weeks on account of illness.

Taylor Sublett, who was formerly rvith J. E. Higgins Lumber Co., San Francisco, for many years, has now rejoined the firm following a period of leave of absence made necessary by illness. His friends will be glad to see him back on the job.

Gus Hoover, Los Angeles wholesale lumberman, and his son, Dick, who is associated with him, are back from a trip to The Pacific Lumber Company's mill at Scotia.

Jack Matteson, who has been working in the yard at Brush Industrial Lumber Co., Los Angeles, has been promoted and is now in charge of shipping.

Jerry Essley, Zinn Lumber Co., Whittier, is spending a few weeks in the Northwest.

Don Philips, and Don philips, Lumber Co., Los Angeles, are on Northwest.

Bill Introduced To Put State of California In Home Construction Business

Robert J. Wright, executive vice president of the Lum_ ber Merchants Association of Northern California. in a bulletin to its members states:

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Bill Pettigrove, general manager of the Crown Lumber Co., Disston, Oregon, and associated with George Hitch_ cock in the South Willamette Lumber Co., Eugene, Ore_ gon, has made a good recovery, and will be happy to see any of his old friends who may call on him.

Pete Dedoes, formerly with Clarence Boyle and later with Angelus Hardwood Co., Los Angeles, is now with Brush Industrial Lumber Co., calling on the furniture trade, specializing in hardwoods.

Lumber Firms Merge

Merger of the Lyon Lumber Company with the Cascades Plywood Corporation, thus assuring the Cascades corpor- ation a long-term timber supply, and plans for the construction of a new $150,000 sawmill at the firm,s operation at Lebanon Ore., have been announced by M. D. Tucker, Cascades president. The Lyon company,s'timber in Lane and Linn counties comprises approximately one billion board feet of Douglas fir and other species. The Lyon timber will add about fifteen years to the life of Cascades tim,ber supply, Mr. Tucker said.

Construction on the new sawmill will start within the next thirty days. It will be located adjoining the firm,s re_ cently completed $500,000 battery separator plant, and will cut lumber of not more than 10 feet in length especially for use by the separator plant.

SEOUOIA MILT & IUMBER

Producers of Redwood - Douglas Fir

"A bill to put the State of California in the home cor.r_ struction business was introduced January 20 by Senator Bradford S. Crittenden, Republican, of Stockton. The billl calls for an emergency appropriation of $25,000,000 to be, used by the state government to acquire or build sawmills and other operational plants to .make construction mate_ rials available at once.' If necessary, timber for the mills would come from state owned forests. The state would also acquire sites and build homes for sale with the same value as the homes permitted by the Veterans Farm and Home Purchase Act of 1945. The same procedure would be used to acquire or build apartment houses to be sold to the highest bidder.

"Senator Crittenden stated in introducing his bill that he could 'see no other way out because private enterprise a,s yet is not in the position to get the necessary construc_ tion materials and fixtures for dwellings., Crittenden,s bill would also create an 'emergency home building fund of. 1947,' which would pay for expenditures under the act. The bill would give Governor Earl 'Warren the legislative authority to obtain all the materials for the program.,, l,l'lnle tale b;tt r;butor!

A meeting of the Association,s State Legislative Coinmittee was held in Sacramento on January ZS to plan a course of action in opposing this proposition.

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