Arizona Dealers Hold Annual Meeting at Phoenix

J. G. O'Malley xe-elected President

J. G. O'Malley, O'Malley Lumber Co., Phoenix, was reelected president of the Arizona Retail Lumber and Builders Supply Association, Inc., at the annual meeting at Phoenix on Friday and Saturday, May 10 and 11. Other officers re-elected were C. A. Hayes, Prescott Lumber Co., Prescott, first vice president; C. J. Killen, Foxworth-Galbraith Lumber Co., Yuma, se,cond vice president, and Chris Totten, Phoenix, secretary. M. H. McCalla, FoxworthMcCalla Lumber Co., Phoenix, was re-elected a member of the National Code Authority.

The directors re-elected were Grady Stub,bs, FoxworthGalbraith Lumber Co., Holbrook; Frank Edens, Cottonwood Lumber Co., Cottonwood; J. F. Olds, Olds Brothers Lumber Co., Winslow; R. V. Baker, Baker-Thomas Builders Supply Co., Phoenix; Cecil Drew, F. P. Drew & Sons Lumber Co., Mesa; A. M. Schwarz, Schwarz Lumber Co., Miami; John Woods, Bisbee Lumber Co., Lowell; Neil Waugh, Neil B. Waugh Lumber Co., Tucson, and William Killen, Foxworth-Killen Lumber Co., Tucson. The directors were also ele,cted to serve as sub-division code authority members.

The following were re-elected to serve on the Joint Interpretation Committee: M. H. M'cCalla, chairman; W. A. Lamprey, Pima Lumber Co., Tucson; R. A. Christy, Babbitt Bros. Trading Co., Flagstaff; F. M. Pool, FoxworthGalbraith Lum,ber Co., Superior; Albert A. Hayes, J. D. Halstead Lumber Co., Phoenix; G. S. Cunningham, Phoenix; H. M. Watson, Phoenix, and President J. G. O'Malley.

Discussions of the Retail Lumber and Building Materials Code and the Federal housing program took up most of the time at the morning and afternoon business sessions on the first day of the convention. Approval of the present code, and a request that in the event a satisfactory NIRA is reenacted into law that a new code ,be adopted on June 16 when the present recovery act expires. The 'convention went on record as opposing a 3Ghour week or any rigid limitations of hours.

Bruce Wilson, San Francisco, Regional Director for the FHA, discussed in detail the effect of the FHA program on the lumber business. Carl Bimson, Financial Relations Dire,ctor for the Arizona FHA. also talked on the Federal housing program. Percy Merithew, E, K. Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, discussed the strike situation in the Fir industry of the Northwest and its efiects on the lumber market. Norman McBeth, Riverside Portland Cement Co., Los Angeles; Frank Curran, Frank Curran Lumber Co.,

Santa Ana and Huntington Beach, and members from various parts of Arizona gave short talks on business condi-

Friday night the Phoenix Knot-Hole Club stag dinner was held at the Hotel Adams. Ambrose Halstead, J. D. Halstead Lumber Co., presided. John A. Johnson, John A. Johnson Lumber Co., Phoenix, a past president of the Club, and several others addressed the gathering. A rising testimonial was tendered to John C. Light, Light Lumber Co., Miami, dean of the Arizona lumbermen. The Knot-Hole Club quartette composed of Ray Busey, William Flannery, Walter Ley and Clyde Pierce, pinch hitting for Avery Corpstein, sang several selections.

At the Saturday morning session, Robert Barrett, chief underwriter for the Arizona FHA led the discussion on the Federal housing program. Several Association members who were scheduled for addresses at this session gave up their time so as to permit further discussion of the Federal housing program.

Saturday afternoon was given over to golf at the Phoenix Country Club. The 'closing event of the meeting was the annual dinner dance at the Hotel Adams on Saturday evening which was a delightful party and largely attended.

In addition to sixty Arizona lumbermen attending the convention, among those present from Southern California rvere Charles P. Henry, Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co.; Pgrcy Merithew, E. K. Wood Lumber Co.; H. F. Bowles, Long-Bell Sales Corporation; Roy Stanton, E. J. Stanton & Son; Norman McBeth, Riverside Portland Cement Co.; E. A. Goodrich, Holmes Eureka Lumber Co.; Stuart Smith, Coos Bay Lumber Co.; Frank Curran, Frank Curran Lumber Co.; Rameau Dalton, Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., and Mason Kline. Union Lumber Co.

Philippine Mahogany Manufacturers' lmpoft Assn. to Hold Annual Meeting

The annual meeting of the Philippine Mahogany Manufacturers' Imports Association, Inc., will be held at the Association's offices in the Board of Trade Building, Los Angeles, at 10:00 A.M., Monday, June 10. The officers of the Association are W. G. S,crim, president; M. S. Chapin, vice president; F. J. Dunbar, secretary-treasurer, and G. P. Purchase, executive secretary. Roy Barto, J. Raymond Peck and Daniel R. Forbes are the members of the executive committee.

\(/. A. Bonestel

W. A. Bonestel of Ventura, pioneer Southern California lumberman and one of the founders of the Peoples Lumber Company of that city, died suddenly on May 12.

Mr. Bonestel was born in Catskill. New York. in 18,18 and came to California in 1862. He attended school in Oakland and at West Point, later locating in Iowa where he married Miss Mary Riley in 1872. He came to California again in 1883 and went into the lumber business. He helped found the Peoples Lumber Company in 1890, which operates several retail lumber yards with headquarters at Ventura, and was associated with the business until his death. Mrs. Bonestel, his wife, passed away just one week before him on May 5. Mrs. Bonestel was born in London, England, in 1854.

He is survived by one son, Chas..E. Bonestel of Ventura, manager of the Peoples Lumber Company; one daughter, Mrs. Margaret B. Lewis; two grandchildren, June and Betty Bonestel; two brothers, Lon and Chester Bonestel; and two sisters, Mrs. Sifford of Ventura, and Mrs. Peard of Los Angeles.

MAJOR D. T. MASON VTSTTS pACrFrC COAST

Major David T. Mason, Executive Officer of the Lumber Code Authority, Washington, D. C., was a Pacific Coast visitor last month where he visited the lumbel code administrative offices. He left Los Angeles on May 25 f.or New Orleans.

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Joins Wegtern Pinc Research Staff

Portland, Ore., May 14-Dr. E. E. Hubert, Pro,fessor in the School of Forestry at the University of Idaho since 1925, joined the Research Staff of the Western Pine Association on May l5th.

Dr. Hubert is a valuable addition, since he brings to the problems of industrial research a broad background of forest products research work. In addition to directing many of the research activities of the University of Idaho School of Forestry, he has taken an important part in the study and control of blister rust in the White Pine forests of the Inland Empire. Prior to his asso,ciation with the University of Idaho, he was with the United States Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, Wisconsin. All told, his experience in forestry and research covers a period of twenty-fq,re years and he is the author of many publications dealing with his work.

This extension in the research work of the Western Pine Association comes as a part of the greatly in,creased activities in trade promotion. It is the policy of the Association to back up its efforts to extend markets with cold, hard, scientific facts and it enjoys the distinction of being the only Lumber Association to maintain a research laboratory. The laboratory was first established in 1925 by Mr. Albert Hermann, who is in charge of research work, and even through the difficult period of the depression the Association has maintained this work which has demonstrated its value to the produ'cer and user of lumber. The third member of the research stafr is Mr. Carl A. Rasmussen, who has been with the laboratory since September, 1934.

Together with the expansion of the research staff, important additions are being made to the laboratory equipment, which will permit a wider variety of work than heretofore. The program of research which has been approved by. the Promotion Committee covers a field of great value to the user and the produ'cer of the Western Soft Pines.

Council's Phone Exbroolc 4122

The telephone number of the recently opened offi,ce of the California Lumbermen's Council at 76 Merchants Exchange Building, San Francisco, is EXbrook 4L22.

I. L. "Lee" Walker is secretary-manager of the Council.

IS NOT JUST A CATCH\VORD ITITHOUT MEANING, BUT A SYMBOL OF REAL ITORTH TO THOSE IOTHO PLACE THEIR BUYING CONFIDENCE IN THIS ORGANIZATION