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R. T. (Bob) Evju, sales manager for James L. Hall, wholesale lumber dealer, San Francisco, returned May I from calling on the Pine mills of Northern California and Southern Oregon.

L. W. Martinez, Northern California sales representative, Cooper Lumber Co., Portland, returned April 27 f.rom a business trip to the Pacific Northwest.

W. H.'Winfree, Modesto, representative of Seth L. Butler, left May 7 on a two weeks' trip to the Northwest. He made his headquarters in Portland at the ofifices of Dant & Russell, Inc.

Hugh W. Handley, sales manager, Lumber Co., San Francisco, is back Northwest on business for his firm.

Van Arsdale-Harris from a visit to the

John Morley, Ilomestead Lumber Co., Sacramento, visited Portland and other Northwest points in the latter part of April.

O. L. Russum, San Francisco, Northern California representative of Carl H. Kuhl Lumber Co., Portland, Ore., left M-ay 6 on a lo-day business trip to the Northwest.

N. B. Bowden, Pacific Manufacturing Calif., visited Portland on business for his part of April.

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A. J. (Gus) Russell, Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned to California May 13 from a two-weeks' business trip to the Northwest.

Owen Dalton, Dalton Lumber Co., Los Angeles, recently visited San Francisco and Portland on business. He was accompanied by Mrs. Dalton.

Jason C. McCune, J. H. Baxter & Co., Los Angeles, recently visited the company's San Francisco office. He attended the annual Reveille in Oakland, April 28.

George B. McGill, manager of the Eugene office of Pope & Talbot, fnc., Lumber Division, recently visited the firm's San Francisco and Los Angeles offices. When in Southern California he and Mrs. McGill attended the graduation of their son, George B. McGill, Jr., as 2nd Lieutenant in the Army'Air Force at the Santa Ana Air Base. George Jr. was with E. J. Stanton & Son before he entered the service.

Lieut. Commander R. W. Caldwell, USN, son of R. E. (Bob) Caldwell of Hammond Lumber Co., San Francisco, recently visited his home at Norfolk, Va. He was assigned some time ago as a damage control officer on an aircraft carrier.

Robert Meyer, son of Henry Meyer, East Bay lumberman, and formerly ,assistant manag'er of Oakland Lumber Co., Oakland, who has been in the Army more than two years, spent a year in Australia and was transferred from there to New Guinea. He is a Master Sergeant in the 126th Signal Radio Intelligence Company. He attended the University of California before going into the lumber business, and was well known as an amateur radio operator.

Roy Stanton and Joe Tardy, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, were recent visitors to the Northwest. Tom Haverfield, one of the company's salesmen, met them at Eugene, Ore. -Roy came back by airplane, and Joe anrl Tom called on the mills on their return trio.

Albert A. Kelley, wholesale lumberman, Alameda, Calif., attended the lumber auction at Eugene, May le ll and 12, and also the annual golf tournament of the Willamette Valley Lumbermen's Association held at Eugene on Friday and Saturday, May 12 and 13. He made the round trip to the Northwest by plane.

Pvt. Ray B. Larson, Signal Corps, Camp, Knight, Sacramento, has been transferred to the port of Embarkation, Monmouth, N. J. Before.joining the Army Ray was in the Portland office of Wendling-Nathan Co.