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From the Lumber Merchant, March 1 , 1928

Col. W. B. Greeley, Chief Forester of the United States, was announced as the new secretary-manager of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association on February 17.

The directors of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association met at Fresno on February 18. A. W. Bernhauer, Fresno Planing Mill, 'talked on "Standard Sash and Door Schedules."

The Central California Lumbermen's Club held its regular monthly meeting at Stockton, Saturday, February 11. President George E. Ground presided. W. Herbert Graham of Oakland was the speaker of the day.

Ira E. Brink, The Diamond Match Company, Chico, has been appointed vicegerent snark for the Butte County HooHoo district.

Max Cook, California Redwood Association, San Francisco, announced the arrival of a baby boy, Max McKinnon Cook, on February 22.

Frank N. Burnaby, Sun Lumber Company, Beverly Hills, was the speaker at the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club luncheon on February 9. His subject was "Cooperation."

Frank Park, Park Lumber Co., La Mesa, vicegerent snark of the San Diego district, announces a concatenation will be held in the desert near Calexico, Saturday afternoon, March 10. In honor of Bill Cowling, Dixie Lumber Company, San Diego, and a member of the San Diego Nine, the concatenation will be known as "Cowling's Cactus Concat." A banquet rvill be held at Mexicali, Mexico, in tl-re evening.

There is a career sketch of Ed Culnan, well known Southern California lumberman, in this issue.

F. Dean Prescott, general manager of the Valley Lumber Co., Fresno, was re-elected president of the San Joaquin Valley Lumbermen's Club at the annual ,meeting held at the California Hotel, Fresno, on February 18. Other officers re-elected were: S. P. Ross, Central Lu,mber Company, Hanford, first vice-president; Charles Schaffer, Citizen's Lumber Company, Kingsburg, second vice-president; Ben Maisler, Maisler Bros., Fresno, treasurer, and Frank F. Minard, C. S. Pierce Lumber Co., Fresno, secretary.

A Redwood burl plaque, a replica of.the seal of the State of California, was presented to ,the new steamship California on the occasion of the big ship's first visit to San Francisco. The plaque was carved by Samuel Berger from a piece of California Redwood, and the presentation was made by R. B. Hale, president of the California Development Association.

Aaron Maisler, Maisler Bros., Fresno, returned from a four months' trip to Europe. He went over with the American Legion, and visited practically every country in Europe during his stay.

The annual convention of the Lumbermen's Club of Arizona rvill be held a.t Phoenix on March 16, 17 and 18. The Adams Hotel will. be convention headquarters.

C. W. Hornibrook has been appointed sales manager of the Ewauna Box Company with headquarters at the company's mill at Klamath Falls, Ore.

Tom A. McCann Hoo-Hoo Club held their monthly meeting at McCloud on February 7. Plans for the completion and operation of the six-acre playground were discussed. The playground will be formally opened on May l.

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