Dee Essley Re-cnters Private Business

Dee C. Essley

l)ee C. Essley, who has probably the largest acquaintance of any individual among the lumber dealers of California, has decided to get back into private business again, and has become one of the principals of the Elliott Bay Sales Company, agents for -Big Timber- plywood and wallboard, .manufactured by the Elliott Bay Mill Company, Seattle.

Mr. Essley has opened an office in the Petroleum Securities Building, Los Angeles, and will be in charge of the Southern California territory.

Lloyd Harris will, of course, continue to handle the Northern California territory from the Oakland office. He and Dee have been friends for many years, and they will make a good team.

Mr. Essley has had considerable experience both in the retail and wholesale branches of the lumber business. He started to work in the retail business with the Whittier Lumber Company in 1915, and later was connected with A. L. "Gus" Ifoover, Los Angeles, Southern California agent for The Pacific Lumber Company, and WendlingNathan Company, traveling for Mr. Ifoover in that territory for five years.

In l9D he went with the California Retal Lumbermen's Association as secretary and field man, and spent several years in the work of organizing local associitions.

When the Lumber Code came into effect in October, 1933 he was loaned by the State Association to the Code authority to act as their executive secretary, and served in this capacity up to May 31, 1935. This was a very busy period in his career. Incidently he made five round trips to Washington, D. C. ip connection with Code matters. Two of these journeys were made by the air route.

He is enthusiastic about his work and the -Big Timberline, and is looking forward to meeting many of his old friends in Southern California.

FHA Loans Continue to Increase

Southern California modernization loans under Title 1 of the NHA totaled $7,700,000 on June 19.

Applications received as of June 19 under Title 2 of the Act in Southern California totaled $4,116,492 for new construction, and $4,933,@5 for existing construction. Applications apprbved for loans under Title 2 totaled $2/44,l\z for new construction, and $2,946,405 for existing construction.

Dreamers and Builders

He is tired of toiling and moiling

In the seething marts of men; Tired of tearing do'ivn, he says, And of building up again; And he longs for the peaceful valley

Where he spent his idle youth, Dreaming the dreams of boyhood And learning its lessons of truth.

In the spell of alluring visions, He turns with a weary sigh, From the throbbing heart of the city Where the tides of life sweep by, And he yearns for the soothing murmurs Of a stream that once he knew. Forgetting that only the builders Can make his dreams come true.

Go, rear your airy castles tsy the river's rippling tide, Then come rvith your wistful fancies And stand by the builder's side; His soul must capture the vision, His hands the work must do, For only the tireless builder Can make your dreams come true.

Sing then a song of the city

With its turmoil and its strife, Where dreamers and builders together Are solving the problems of life, Where together they build for the future With pride in the work they do, And the magical task of the builders Is to make our dreams come true.

-A. Merriam Conner.

(The Builders' Ercltange of Northern Calif ornin held a conaention in Gross Valley on. Itute 22, 1935, qnd, the above poem, was prepared. f or the occasion.)

C. A. DeCoo

C. A. DeCoo, former Los Angeles retail lumberman, died at Los Angeles on June 13, follorving a heart attack suffered on June 8. He was sixty-five years of age.

Mr. DeCoo was born in West Chicago, Ill., and received his education in Illinois and Iowa, comirrg to California in 1910. Shortly after his arrival in Los Angeles he became interested in the lumber business and was general manager of the DeCoo-Brainard Lumber Co. and president of the City Lumber Co. In July, 1927,he was appointed a member of the Los Angeles police commission, serving until December, 1922. After retiring from public life Mr. DeCoo entered the real estate business, making his home in Los Angeles.

He is survived by a nephew, Franz Fredenhagen of Sunland, Calif. Funeral services were held on lune 17.

Frank Peil Goes With Montgomery-\(/ard Sterling Lumber Co. Buys Yard

Frank Peil, formerly manager of the purchasing, rvoodworking and building material departments for the PattenBlinn Lumber Co. of Los Angeles, has resigned and is now with Montgomery-Ward & Co., Oakland, where he will be in charge of their building material department for the Pacific Coast. Mr. Peil was with the company since 1918 and always took a prominent part in the activities of the millwork industry.

J. K. Lawlor, who has been superintendent of the PattenBlinn Lumber Co. mill at their Vernon yard has been called into the Los Angeles office where he will be in charge of the sash and door department. Loren Foster, who has been with the Patten-Blinn Lumber Co. for a long period, will be in charge of the'company's purchasing department'

Attend Association Meeting At Chicago

W. G. Scrim, president of the Philippine Mahogany Manufacturers' Import Association, Inc., and G. P. Purchase. the Association's secretary, Los Angeles, attended a meeting of the Association at Chicago on June 28.

Back From Northern California

Wendell Brown, of MacDonald & Harrington, Los Angeles, returned June 27 lrom a visit rvith his father, Percy Brown, in Sacramento. He also spent two days at the company's head office in San Francisco.