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Frank Curran, Frank Curran Lumber Co', Santa Ana' was a San Francisco visitor recently on his way to the Northwest.

Frank G. Duttle, president, Sterling Lumber Co'' Oak' land, left February 25 on a tour oI Oregon and Washington mills.

W. K. Kendrick, Fresno, left March fornia, Oregon and three weeks.

sales manager, ValleY Lumber Co', 2 on a business trip to Northern CaliWashington. He will be gone about

D. Normen Cords, Shevlin-Cords Lumber Co', San Francisco, returned a week ago from visiting Northern California and Oregon mills.

G. F. (Jerry) Bonnington, Lamon-Bonnington Co', San Francisco, flew to Eugene March 10 to start a two weeks' trip calling on Oregon mills.

M. J. "Ben" Byrnes, San Francisco lumberman, had a successful eye operation in a San Francisco hospital a few weeks ago, and is now convalescing at home' He expects to be back on the job about APril 1.

Fred Amburgey of the sales department, Pope & Talbot, Inc., Lum,ber Dlvision, San Francisco, will be back March 15 from his vacation.

H. A. Collins, manager of the Southern California yard and office of Kilpatrick & Company at Wilmington, recently called on mills in the pine producing area of Northern California.

C. C. Ganahl, C. Ganahl Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and H. Park Arnold, Fox-Woodsum Lumber Co', Glendale, were among the witnesses who testified at the Senate Small Business Commiitee hearings'held in the State Building Los Angeles, February 26-28. The Committee also held hearings in Fresno and San Diego.

Chester Fern4ndo, Knight, San was a fecent Fernando Lumber ComPany, San visitor to the Northwest.

W. H. (Bill) Nigh, manager of the pine department of Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco, was a business visitor to Los Angeles recentlY.

Elmore King, King Lumber Co., Bakersfield, returned March 5 from a trip to the Pacific Northwest'

A. E. Wolfi, manager of Kilpatrick & Company, San Francisco, recently spent a week at the company's Southern California office in Wilmington. He made the trip by air both ways.

G. F. Wetzel, resident sales manager, McCloud River Lumber Co., McCloud, Calif., spent a few days in San Francisco around the first of the month.

A. B. McKee, Jr., general manager of the San Pedro Lumber Co., Los Angeles, is on a three weeks'business trip to the Northwest.

Jim Cronin, Cronin Lumber Company, Van Nuyq is back at his desk after spending two weeks at Palm Springs.

Clint Laughlin, Division Manager of Softwoods, E. J' Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, was operated on for appendicitis on March 9. He is reported to be doing nicely.

R. W. (Jack) Dalton, R. W. Dalton & Co., Los Angeles, recently returned from a business trip to Northern California and the Pacific Northwest.

C. B. Daveney, office manager' McCloud Rivellumber Co., McCloud, Calif., recently spent two weeks in San Francisco.

Earl J. Doty, Monarch Lumber Co., Oakland, returned from a two weeks' trip to Northern California and Oregon, where he called on sawmills.

R. S. (Bob) Osgood, Los Angeles wholesale lumberman, is back from the Northwest where he called on the mills. Jim Forgie, who is'associated with Bob, made the trip with him but he is staying over in the Northwest for a few weeks before returning to Los Angeles.

Enjoy Football Picturer

Football pictures in technicolor were enjoyed by a good attendance of members and guests at the dinner meeting of East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39, held at the Hotel Claremont, Berkeley, February 25. The pictures were shown by the Associated Oil Co.

And much appreciated also was musical entertainment furnished by L. Louise Worthington, mezzo soprano, and Albert Kessler, baritone, with Frederick Setzer as accompanist.

Then for good measure there was a raffle, with the prizes going to Carl R. Moore, Miland Grant, Norm Cords, and Jim Overcast. Lu Green was in charge of entertainment.

The meeting was the 21st anniversary of the founding of the club. Clem Fraser is the oldest living past president.

Bowlers were asked to get in touch with Tom BranSon, chairman of the bowling committee, who will form a team to meet the challenge of the San Francisco Lumbermen's Club. His telephone number is KEllog 2-84n.

John Helm, president of the club, presided.

Congrctulcrtions

Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Gilchrist are the h"ppy parents of a baby boy, Richar.d frwin, born at the Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles, on March 6.. Dennis is a popular member of the Los Angeles lumber fraternity, and is a salesman with Pope & Talbot Inc., Lumber Division. He reports that Mrs. Gilchrist and the new arrival are doing nicely.

Grecrter City Lumber Co. Moves To Lcrger Site

The Greater City Lumber Co. will move from its present location to a new and large site early in April at the corner of Oakdale Avenue and Rankin Street, San Francisco. Ttre new yard has a frontage df 4O0 feet on Oakdale and 200 feet on Rankin Street.

W. B. Jefferson, the owner, now in his 4oth year in the lumber business in San Francisco; says he never thought he would have had so much trouble in begging and borrowing enough lumber from his good friends to put up his office building.

Marlin'Jefferson, Mr. Jefierson's son, will be out of the Navy in the first part of April, and will be associated with his father in the business.

The new yard is almost opposite Apparel City, first unit of which is to cost $4,000,000, and which will eventually house the entire apparel industry of San Francisco.

In the Northwest

C. M. (Friday) Freeland, West Oregon Lumber Co., Los Angeles,'will spend the next few weeks at the company's mill in Portland, Ore.

Buys MiIl

Herbert A. Templeton Lumber Co., chased the Luce Lumber Co., Sweet Ramalia will be superintendent.

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