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Ed Culnan

Ed Culnan lives in San Diego. He likes San Diego. And San Diego reciprocates by very frankly liking Ed Culnan. It is for the same reason that he gets along so well in the lumber business. He likes the lumber game. And he likes the people he meets in the lumber game. He has from his earliest boyhood. And the lumber folks have always found him a most worthy and likable member of its r,r'arm-hearted fraternity.

He got into the lumber business because he liked it. He didn't have to choose it. His father before him was in the dry goods business, owned his own high class store, and Ed could have taken that route. But when he was a kid in Marinette, Wisconsin, he could hear the whistles of a score of big sawmills blowing, and see the lumber piled high in every direction, and the lnmber bug bit him and has stayed with him ever since.

He was born in 1888, at Calumet, Michigan, moved to Marinette r,r'hen he was nine, graduated from the high school there when he was 18, and then went West to try the lumber business. In the meantime he had worked around the mills during his vacations and spare time, and boards and sawdust were no strangers to him. He worked around a number of mills in Washington as a youngster, got to inspecting lumber. He took a business course, learned to keep books, but never made much use of his learning, for he prevailed on Chas. R. McCormick to give him'a job. He was sent to San Diego in 1911. In l9l2 he married Elenor Holmgren, of Denver, Colorado, and they have three children, the eldest, David, being an electrical engineer; Bob, the second son graduated from the University of California last spring and is going back this fall for more learning, while the youngest, Ruth Marian, is just 17 and still in school.

Ed is an enthusiastic sportsman as rvell as an enthusiastic lumberman. He plays a fair game of golf at the La Mesa Countrv Club, r,r'here he is a member; is much given to horse-back riding, and likes most other out-door sports. He belongs to the Padre Sierra Post, American Legion, rvas President last year of the San Diego Chapter of the Reserve Officers Association, and is a member of the Executives Association.

He was connected with McCormick at San Diego, Riverside, and Los Angeles, until 1933, tvhen he went to San Diego as vice-president and general manager of the Western Lumber Company, of which Jerry Sullivan, Jr., is president, and Robert J. Sullivan, is secretary. This is a progressive wholesale and retail lumber cclncern that also operates a mill at its headquarters yard in San Diego. Outside of San Diego this concern also operates the Chula Vista Lumber Company, at Chula Vista; the Coronado Lumber Conrpany, at Coronado ; the La Jolla Lumber Company, at La Jolla; the Ocean Beach Lumber Company, at Ocean Beach; and the Pacific Beach Lumber Company, at Pacific Beach.'

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Since he went to San Diego their mill has been comDletely modernized, the oftices have been remodeled and modernized, and the entire institution is in the pink of condition. Their business is growing, and Ed is very proud to have a hand in its growth. He is a fine citizen, a fine lumberman, and a fine Irishnran. What more could anyone ask?

PAINT PEOPLE REPRINT C. L. M. EDITORIAL

The National Paint, Varnish & Lacquer Association, through the office of its President, Ernest T. Trigg, in Washington, D. C., recently reprinted and issued to the paint men of the United States an excerpt from the Vagabond Editorials of August first.

Philippine Mahogany Committees Returns on Advertising Campaign Pleasing

George Purchase, secretary oi the Philippine Mahogany Manufacturers' Import Association, is delighted with the returns that are coming in every mail as a result of the modest campaign of advertising to consumer, architect, and contractor, now being conducted by them. The response covers many states, and the interest is very practical. The public wants to know about Philippine, where they can get it, how to use it, how it looks. Most of the inquiries are answered by original letter, accompanied by attractive literature. Gerber & Crossley, Inc., of Portland, Oregon, handles the publicity for the Association. The replies come to the Association office in Los Angeles.

President Walter G. Scrim, of Los Angeles, announces the following major committees appointed for the year ending May 31, 1938:

Monrovia Paper Reprints California Lumber Merchant Editorial

The Monrovia News-Post, of Monrovia, Califotnia. in its issue of August 23rd, reprinted in full, under a two column head on its first page, the recent California Lumber Merchant editorial, "It Isn't Your Town, It's You."

Trade Treaty Committee: Daniel R. Forbes, Washington, D. C., chairman; C. U. Martin, Port Lamon Lumber Company, New York City.

Trade Promotion Committee: Roy Barto, CadwalladerGibson Co., Los Angeles, chairman; Glenn W. Cheney, Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific Company, Portland, Oregon; George C. Cornitius, George C. Cornitius Company, San Francisco; Howard R. Black, Black & Yates, Inc., Brooklyn, New York.

Budget Committee: J. Raymond Peck, Insular Lumber Company, chairman; Thomas E. Powe, Thomas E. Powe Lumber Company, St. Louis; J. K. McCormick, Henry J. Winde Company, Boston, Mass.

R. v/. WIER IN CALIFORNIA

R. W. Wier, of Houston, Texas, President of Long J-eaf Lumber Company, manufacturers Leaf Yellow Piue, is spending his vacation with ly at Del Mar.

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