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From the Lumber Merchant, July 1 5, 1928

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conference of the Millwork Institute of held at the Alexandria Hotel, Los An-

Employees and their families were guests of the M. L. Doane Lumber Co. of San Jose at a picnic held at Long Bridge, one of the popuiar Santa Cruz mountain resorts. A real day of enjoyment was had by evgrybody.

Henry W. Swafford, E. returned from a six weeks' and Middle West.

J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, visit to the markets of the East frolic and concatenaCounty, Calif., June Westwood Hoo-Hoo

69 kittens were iniated at the annual tion held at Fall River Mills, Shasta 23-24. The affair was sponsored by Club.

Members of the San Diego Hoo-Hoo, together with their wives and guests, gathered at the La Mesa Country Club, Saturday, June 30, where an enjoyable program was held during the afternoon and evening.

I. E. Brink, vicegerent snark of the Butte County district, announces a Hoo-Hoo concatenation will be held at Chico, September 8. A large number of lumbermen from Central California and the San Francisco Bay region are planning to attend.

Charles W. Buckner has resigned his position with Morrill & Sturgeon Lumber Co., Portland, and is now sales manager for Harbor Plywood Company, Hoquiam, Wash.

Jim Farley, The Pacific Lumber Company, will exhibit the company's film showing the production of Redwood from the tree to the car, to the Woodland Rotary Club, luly 17.

The largest cement kiln in the.world, declared by W. S. Trueblood, production manager and purchasing agents of the Monolith interests, to be the heaviest moving piece of machinery in all industry, is being installed at the new plant of the Monolith Portland Midwest Company, near Laramie, Wyoming.

Paul Bunyan has hung up another logging record. One jammer crew at Camp 58 on June 22 loaded,l21 cars with lNI,470 feet of logs in t hours and 50 minutes, total elapsed time. The average actual loading time was four minutes and thirty-trvo seconds per car. Twenty-one cars were loaded in three minutes each and one car was loaded in two minutes, including tirne for spotting the cars. The footage averaged 8,293 feet per car, scaled and check scaled. "This job was done by team work," said Ted Wills, woods superintendent of The Red River Lumber Co.

The Dill Lumber Company with headquarters in Riverside, have purchased the Sedco Lumber Co. at Elsinore. The Dill Lumber Company operates yards at Riverside, Arlington and Banning.

M. P. LaChapelle Appointed Manager

Lancaster, Pa.-M. P. LaChapelle has been appointed manager of the Temlok Department of the Armstrong Cork Products Company, it has been announced by H. W. Prentis, Jr., president of the ,company. Mr. LaChapelle, who has been serving as district manager of the Detroit office of Armstrong's Building Materials Division, fills the post vacated by the death of David B. Birney. Mr. LaChapelle will assume his new duties at the general offices of the company on July 18.

He has been associated with Armstrong since June 1927, serving as a sales engineer in the Insulation Division, first in Memphis, and subsequently in the Cincinnati and Louisville offices until December 1935, when he became Detroit district manager.

Mr. LaChapelle will be succeeded in Detroit by E. D. Ainslie, Jr., who has been connected with Armstrong for the past fifteen years, during which time he has been office manager at St. Louis and a member of Armstrong Insulation sales forces at St. Louis and Chicago.

WESTERN PINE SEMI-ANNUAL MEETING AUG. 4

The semi-annual meeting of the Western Pine Association will be held at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, on August 4. It is expected the Promotional Committee will meet on August 2-3, anrl the Statistical and Grading Committee on August 3.