E. C. Parker Elect ed President of California Retail Lumbermen's Association

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E. C. Parker, Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., Los Angeles, was elected president of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association at a meeting of the board of directors held at Bakersfield on April 3. He succeeds H. A. Lake, Garden Grove Lumber Co., Garden Grove, who was president of the Association for the past several years. Other officers elected were: J. O. Handley, M. J. Murphy, Inc., Carmel, Northern vice-president; E. C. Parker, Southern vice-president, and Earl Johnson, Johnson Lumber Co., Pasadena, treasurer.

The foliowing directors were elected:

Northern California-Coast Counties Lumbermen's Club, J. O. Handley, Carmel; Central Valley Lumbermen's Club, O. V. Wilson, Stockton; Marin County Lumbermen's Club, d.recter not elected; Northern Counties Lumbermen's Club, George K. Adams, Walnut Grove; Peninsula Lumbermen's Club, Z. T. Thorning, Redwood City; Redwood Empire Lumberrnen's Club, Russ Stevens, Healdsburg; San Joaquin Lumbermen's Club, F. Dean Prescott and E. E. Schlotthauer, Fresno; Tres Rios Lumbermen's Club, Warren S. Tillson, Modesto; llnorganized Groups-Oakland, B. J. Boorman; San Francisco, M. A. Harris; San Jose, A. C. Hanson.

Southern California-Lumber and Allied Products Institute of Los Angeles, E. C. Parker, Paul Hallingby and George I-ounsberry; Bay Distr:ct Lumbermen's Institute, John W. Fisher, Santa Monica; Building Service Bureau, El Centro, director not elected; Building Material Dealers' Club of Ventura, director not elected; Centinella Valley Group, director not elected; Compton Lumber Group, Mel Coe, Compton; Harbor District Lumber Dealers' Associat:on, A. E. Fickling, Long Beach; Inland Lumber Institute,

Fred Chapin, San Bernardino; Northern San Diego County Lumbermen's Club, G. E. Cavin, Oceanside; Ontario-Pomona Lumber Club, Jerry Curran, Pomona; Orange County Lumbermen's Club, H. A. Lake, Garden Grove; Pasadena-San Gabriel \ralley Lumbermen's Club, Earl Johnson, Pasadena; Riverside Lumber Association. Herman Loehr. Riverside; Lumbermen's Service Bureau of San Diego, Glenn Miner, San Diego; San Fernando Valley Lumbermen's Club, Chester Knight, San Fernando; Build^ing Material Dealers' Credit Club, Santa Barbara, director not elected; Southbay Lumbermen's Club, Don Braas, Redondo Beach.

Ten-Year Building Record Set

Inglewood, April 1.-Building figures here for March totaling an even $300,000 are the largest for more than ten years, according to City Building Inspector Leftwich.

Not since September ol 1926, when the total was $314,550, have they been exceeded. It is nearly $100,000 ahead of the total for March of last year, which was $200,605. The largest month in the history of building here was May of 1926, when the total was $525,800.

Sixty-three residence permits gaye a value of $209,160, or an average of better than $3300 each.

Flies To Los Angeles

George W. Gorman, general manager of Trans-Pacific Lumber Company, Port Orford, Ore., was a Los Angeles visitor around the first of the month. He made the trip from San Francisco and back by air.