Lumber Committee of State Roger T. O'Hara Wins Pfize Retailers Holds Meeting Offered by Redwood Association

in Sacramento

The Lumber Committee of the Cali{ornia Retail Lumbermen's Association held a meeting with the Redwood Relationship Committee at the Hotel Senator, Sacramento, May 15.

Ralph P. Duncan, Merced Lumber Co., Merced, chairman of the Lumber Committee, presided.

Retailers taking part in the discussions included Elmore King, King Lumber Co., Bakersfield; Sam Dalton, Melrose Lumber Co., Oakland; Ralph Duncan, Merced Lumber Co., Merced; Chester Minard, Cutter Mill & Lumber Co., Sacramento; J. H. Shepard, Friend & Terry Lumber Co., Sacramento; C. H. Griffin, Jr., Homer T. Hayward Lumber Co., Salinas, and E.. T. Robie, Auburn Lumber Co., Auburn.

A most interesting feature of the meeting was a talk on the merchandising of wood by C. H. "Chuck" Griffin, Jr., who had been asked for a report on this subject.

Manufacturers taking part in the discussions included J. A. Harris, Jr., Monterey Bay Redwood Co., Monterey; Fred V. Holmes, Holmes Eureka Lumber Co., San Francisco; Henry M. Hink, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco; Henry Faull, Hammond Lumber Co., San Francisco; C. E. DeCamp, Caspar Lumber Co., San Francisco, and R. W. Smith, California Redwood Association, San Francisco.

The next meeting of the committee will be held in Eureka, August 2I and,22.

Buys Yard at San Bernardino

The San Bernardino Lumber Co.. Ltd.. San Bernardino. Calif., has been sold to C. B. Gibson, who will operate the yard under the same name. Mr. Gibson was formerly connected with the retail lumber business in Colorado.

R. S. Osgood Appointed Sales

Manager

Robert S. Osgood, formerly manager of The Wheeler, Osgood Co., Los Angeles, left Los Angeles May 9 for Olympia, Wash., to take over the position of sales manager for the Washington Veneer Co:

Roger T. O'Hara, salesman for Redwood Manufacturers Co., with headquarters at Fresno, won the prize of $25 cash offered by the California Redwood Association for the most constructive suggestion or most constructive selling work during the month of April. The award w'as made on May 15. Mr. OlHara sent in two valuable suggestions, one of which lvas an outline for a proposed series of talks before luncheon clubs, featuring the various uses of Redwood, the talks to be illustrated by motion pictures of Redwood operations.

Prizes of $25 will be given in May and June. Salesmen are invited to send in their entries on the rpport forms provided for the purpose by the lOth of the month.

C. G. Chipchase

Calvert Graham "Chip" Chipchase, planing mill superintendent, Friend &Terry Lumber Co., Sacramento, died suddenly in the company's office on May 19.

Mr. Chipchase was a director of the Millwork Institute. of California, and took an active part in working out the new standards adopted by that organization- I{e was born 46 years ago in England, and is survived by his widow, Mrs. Anna E. Chipchase; a son, Calvert Graham, Jr., and a daughter, Dorothy Ann.

Parson Simpkin Memorial

Subscriptior," to th.

sequoia Memoriar Fund have come in very well for a start, according to Charles G. Bird, chairman and treasurer of the committee handling this fund. He points out, however, that it is: evident that a great many lumbermen and Hoo Hoo who intend to subscribe are waiting to be called on personally as is the usual custom in "drives" ofall sorts. It is true. that the committees appointed will arrange for as many personal calls as they can, but it will not be possible to get in touch with everybody who might like to subscribe, so the committee requests that subscriptions be sent by mbil to the treasurer, Charles G. Bird, Stockton Lumber Co., Stockton, as early as possible in order to get the matter out of the way before the vacation season begins. It is. hoped to have the dedicatory services early in the fall.