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Wm. C. "Bill" Daniels, president and general manager, Lumber Incorporated of Oregon, Portland, visited San Fran,cisco and Los Angeles on business the third week in July. In Los Angeles he conferred with Charles E. Kendall, California sales representative. He was accompanied by Mrs. Daniels, and they traveled by air. Mr. Daniels made another plane trip to San Francisco and Sacramento at the end of the month.

Clint Halsted, manager of the San Francisco office of the American Lumber & Treating Co., will return August 15 from spending tr.vo weeks on business in the Pacifi'c Northwest. He visited Portland, Seattle, and Everett where his company is building a new treating plant.

John Morley, llomestead Lumber Co., on one of his periodical business trips in August.

Sacramento, was to Portland early

Martin W. Parelius, Parelius Lumber Co., Portland, returned from a short business trip to San Francisco. has

E. S. (Eddie) Brush, sales manager, Loop Lumber Co., San Francisco, made a vacation trip last month to Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks. Early this month he visited Portland and other Northwest points on business.

Jack Patrick, Patrick Lumber Co., Portland, spent his vacation at Lake Tahoe, Calif. in Tulv.

Dennis Gilchrist, Pope & Talbot Inc., Lumber Division, Los Angeles, is back from the Northwest where he visited the company's sar,vmills at Port Gamble, \[rash., St. Helens and Oakridge, Ore. He also spent a few days with ,.Buss', Davies in Eugene, Ore. "Buss" is the company's wholesale lumber representative in the Northwest.

Fred Morehouse is now sales manager for El Monti Lumber Co. at El Monte. Fred, and D. A. Douglas, president of the company, recently made a trip to the Northu'est where they called on the mills.

Seth L. Butler, Northern California representative, Dant & Russell Sales Agency, returned August 9 from a business trip to the company's head office in Portland.

A. W. (Bates) Smith, manager of the Los Angeles office of MacDonald & Harrington Ltd., was back in his office August 5 from spending two weeks at the Bohemian Grove annual Jinks and Grove play.

Al Nolan, Western sales manager, The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, is having an enjoyable vacation as the guest of Henry Hess of the Henry Hess Co., San Francisco, on a yachting trip in Southern California waters. He will be back at his desk August 18.

Jas E. (Jimmy) Atkinson of Atkinson-Stutz Co., San Francisco, is vacationing with his family at Forest Lake resort in Lake County, Calif. He expects to be back at his desk Augtrst 18.

Allard Kaufmann, Southeast Lumber & Trading Co., New Orleans, is spending several weeks on the Pacific Coast on business. He visited various points in the Pacific Northwest, and flerv from Portland to Scotia as the guest of Stan Murphy, president of The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francis,co, in the latter's private plane, a converted Douglas B-23.

R. T. (Bob) Evju, Evju Products returned recently from a,business trip ton, and British Columbia.

Co., San Francisco, to Oregon, Washing-

Mike Dominick of the Mission City Lumber Co., Santa Clara, Calif., spent a well-earned two weeks' vacation at Van Nuvs last month.

Announcement is made by Edgar A. Brown, manager of the Southern California Office of Evans Products Company, of a change of address of their Sales office to 5225 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles 36. Their new telephone number is WEbster 3-2655.

Assumes New Wood Conversion

Company Post

Appointment of J. D. Fischer as manager of Specialty Product ' Sales has been announced by D. M. Pattie, vice president and general manager of the Wood Conversion Company, Saint Paul, Minnesotamanufacturers of Balsam-Wool and NuWood insulations, Tufflex and other wood fiber pro,ducts and one of the Weyerhaeuser forest products group.

Mr. Fischer assumes his new duties in Saint Paul after serving as New \:ork district manager for the company since 1943. He ioined the Wood Conversion salesman for Balsam-Wool and Nu-

His new duties grow out of the company's need for specialty products sales direction as a separately defined responsibility. In recent years the company has developed new specialty products such as Tufflex and K-25 Fiber.

With his experience and contacts, both in the building material and in industrial and specialty sales and sales management, Mr. Fischer has demonstrated his ability to direct the Wood Conversion Company sales organization in increased development of new distribution, customers and uses for these comparatively nerv specialty products.

Annucl Bcrbecue for Stanton Employees

Roy Stanton, president of E. J. Stanton & Son, fnc., Los Angeles, set Saturday, September 20, as the date for the annual employees barbecue and picnic to be held at the Montebello Municipal Park.

Over five hundred Stantonites and their families will assem,ble for a full day of sports and fun rvith many prizes for the kiddies and adults alike.

A full course barbecue of beef, with all the trimmings will be served during the day by the Premiere Caterers arranged for by the company, and it is expected they will serve close to eight hundred meals at this annual get-together.

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Villcrmette Vclley Lumbermen's GoU Tourncment

The Willamette Valley Lumbermen's Golf Association will hold a golf tournament at the Eugene Country Club, Eugene, Ore., Friday afternoon, August 22. Unusual prizes will be awarded. The prize list will be split into the Low and High and the Cap groups insuring an opportunity for every golfer to participate. Dinner will be served in the Clubhouse in the evening.

From Rcrlph Wyer

"We would like to go on record as saying that in our opinion you publish the finest magazine of its type in the country today." Ralph Wyer, United Lurnber Yards (Calif.), Modesto, Cdif.