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Ben C. Phillips, salesman for 25 years with Nicolai Door Sales Co., San Francisco, is retiring, effective July 1, to his ranch near Eureka, Calif. He has a large acquaintance among the lumber dealers of Northern California. He was a Lieutenant, Senior Grade, in the United States Navy during World War I.

W. H. Besecker of the Mayfair Lumber Co., San Jose, Calif., owns and. flies his own plane, and saves many an hour by doing so. The other day, for example, he left after lunch and flew to a mill near Sonora, Calif., landed at a nearby airfield, was picked up by the sawmill owner, selected his lumber and was back in his office in time to sign his mail. He has been flying since 1940.

J. C. Pleier, Pleier Lumber Co., Portland, rvas recently in San Francisco on vacation, accompanied by his wife, son and daughter.

Les Harris of the L. E. Harris Lumber Co., Los Angeles, was a San Francisco visitor at the end of June.

R. A. Mackin, Hallinan Mackin Lumber Co., planed Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver, B.C., on business the latter part of June.

Kenneth Smith, president of the California Redwood As'sociation, San Francisco, recently received the 100,000-mile plaque, presented by the United Air Lines.

Harry G. Ashley, Northern California representative of the Masonite Corporation, has established offrce headquarters in the Tilden Sales Building, 420 Market Street, San Francisco 11. Telephone number is SUtter 8854.

John Whitehouse has succeeded Ben C. Phillips as salesman for Nicolai Door Sales Co., San Francisco. He is a graduate of the University of California, and was a lieutenant, senior grade in the Navy, with service in the South Pacific during the war. Since the war he has been with Nicolai Door Sales Co.

Don F. White, White Brothers, San Francisco, and his family, vacationed at Twain-Harte in the High Sierra, first trvo weeks of July.

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J. H. Rodda, Garden City Lumber Co., San Jose, Calif., is another retail lumberman who owns and flies his own plane. He finds it a great time-saver on trips to Oregon mills.

Walter Yerian is a new salesman for Hallinan Mackin Lumber Co., covering the San Francisco Bay area. He was in the Army Air Force during the war, and until recently lvas with a lumber firm in Portland.

Ted Back, general manager, Back Panel Company, Los Angeles, and his wife, left July 1 for their annual vacation at Huntington Lake, Fresno CountY.

Charlie Schmitt, salesman for United States Plyrvood Corp., San Francisco, recently visited Los Angeles.

Jim Overcast, sales manager, Strable Hardwood Co., Oakland, enjoyed a week of fishing at Clear Lake, Calif., last month, and has produced proof that he really caught some good-sized fish. He spent the second week of his vacation in Southern California sightseeing and visiting friends.

Chas. R. McCormick, Sr., McCormick Piling and Lumber Co., San Francisco, spent a week in Portland on bttsiness earlv this month.

Jas. E. (Jimmy) Atkinson, Atkinson-Stutz Co., San Francisco, was back in his of;fice July 2, after a two weeks' trip to Oregon on business.

J. Walter Kelly, lvell known San Francisco lumberman, has been appointed Sales manager for Wheeler Pine Co., manufacturers and'ivholesalers. San Francisco.

Howard M. Gunton, vice president and sales manager, MacDonald & Harrington, Ltd., San Francisco, vacationed for a week early this month at his summer cottage at Clear Lake. Calif.