E. A. Goodrich Announces Hearing on Proposed Amendment

Resignation to Termite Ordinance Feb. 19

E. A. Goodrich, manager of the Southern California operations of The Union Lumber Company with headquarters in their Los Angeles office, ha6 announced his resignation effective March I, 1934. He has been manager of their operations in Southern California for the past seventeen years. He has not announced his plans for the future but hopes to do so after a short rest. He rvill still continue for some time to make his headquarters at the company's Los Angeles office.

Mr. Goodrich is widely known with the lumber fraternity of California by whom he is held in very high esteem and his many friends wish him success in any future undertaking.

To Stage 2nd Annual Reveille

East Bay Hoo Hoo Club will stage its second annual Reveille in Oakland, April 20, according to a decision of the board of directors at their meeting January D. This date was chosen by reason of the fact that retail lumbermen of Northern California u'ill meet on that day in Oakland.

The annual golf tournament will be held on Saturday, April 21.

Councilman W. C. Baker has proposed an amendment to the ordinance adopted by the Los Angeles City Council on last January 5 and which became effective February 8 requiring that all lumber used as underpinnings of all types of buildings in Los Angeles be pressure-treated with creo' sote or its equivalent as a protection against termites.

The proposed amendment provides that the creosote treatment shall not be required if the wood rests on a noncorrodable metal termite shield installed on top of the foundation or if No. 1 Heart Common of Cedar, Cypress or Redwood are used in underpinning and foundation construction.

Councilman Baker's amendment was referred to the Building and Safety Commission and the Building and Safety Committee for recogrmendation. A hearing on the proposed amendment rvill be held in the rooms of the Building and Safety Commission, City Hall, at 2:00 P.M., I\,[onday, February 19.

D. H. DOUD VISITS LOS ANGELES

D. H. Doud, sales manager of the Defiance Lumber Co., Tacoma, \Mash., was a recent Los Angeles visitor where he conferred lvith A. C. Penberthy, manager of the Tacoma Lumber Sales Agency.

Back in the early California Pioneer Days, one of the Forty-niners, Gustavus Ziel, was a vety busy man importing all sorts of European commodities into the port of San Francisco. The firm was ZIEL, BERTHEAU & CO. and was established in San Francisco in 1852.**

The name again appears in more modern times among California foreign traders in the firm of BARG, ZIEL 6a CO.,. established in San Francisco in 1931, in which John Gustavus Ziel, grandson of the Pioneer, was a partnet.

On January lst, 1934, ZIEL sa CO. was organized by John G. Ziel to carry on the business of importing foreign hardwoods' and exporting California sofrwoods. And once again we are very busy importing foreign commodities, this time Oriental Woods. such as

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