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Harry F. Vincent, vice president and general manager, E. K. Wood Lumber Company, San Francisco, \\ras back at his desk August 8 following six rveeks' trip to the Northwest. Four u'eeks of this time was strictly on business in connection 'lvith the company's mills and logging operations. and he vacationed for trvo weeks in the Hoods Canal area of Washington.

Don E. Coveney has entered the wholesale lumber business on his orvn account, and has organized the firm of California Sales Co., with offices at 4615 Tidervater Avenue, Oakland 1 Thc telephone number is KEllog 3-6707.

Don has a large acquaintance with lumber dealers all over Northern California. He was sales manager for Atkinson-Stutz for four years, and prior to that was rvith Strable Hardr,r'ood Co., Oakland for 13 years, in the sales department.

Al Kelley, Alameda wholesale lumberman, ,called on the Northern California and Oregon mills during the last 10 days 'rT August. He intends to fly to Spokane to attend the IIoo-Hoo Annual Convention. September 9 and 10.

Chas. T. Gartin, Oregon flr,w back August 21,lrom .rjon.

K. E. MacBeath, Gordon-MacBeath Hardwood Co., Berkeley, will leave early in September to call on hardwood lumber and flooring rnills in the south and east. He r,r'ill attend the annual convention of the National Hardrvood Lumber Association in Chicago, September 15 to 20. Mr. MacBeath is accompanied by his n'ife. They will return about September 25.

J. E. (Eddie) Peggs, Jr., San Francisco wholesale lumberman, and California sales representative for Irwin & Lyons, flew from San Francisco recently in J. A. (Jimmy) Lyons' private plane, a 2-motored Beechcraft, to the mill at North Bend in two hours, 15 minutes. Later he flew to Portland from North Bend in an hour in the same plane to catch the United Air Lines plane back to San Francisco.

Roscoe Burns, who was with Fox-Woodsum Lumber Co., Glendale, Calif., for 72 years, is norv associated with trastman Lumber Sales, Los Angeles.

Sales, San Francisco, trip to Eugene, C)re-

Geo. H. Truitt of Truitt-Warren Calif., left August 20 on a business visit Wichita Falls, \\/aco, Houston

Lumber Co., Berkeley, trip to Texas. He u'ill and Amarillo.

Jim Kirby, Southern California sales representative of Pacific Forest Products, Inc., Oakland, spent two r,veeks in Northern California. He called on mills and visited the firm's main office in Oakland.

Frank E. Doll and Gerald H. Griffen are trvo nerv salesmen employed by Western Pine Supply Co., San Francisco. This firm specializes in the sale of California Ponderosa ancl Sugar Pine lumber, plywood and mouldings.

Hal Von Breton, Tropical & Western Lumber Co., I-os Angeles, flew to San Francisco on business around the middle of August.

George C. Phillips geles, flew to \Villits, plane, a S-passenger of Tacoma l-umber Calif., on a business Cessna, o'ivned by ^

Sales, Los Antrip, in a private friend. Lumber a business

Rex Warkentine, lr''ho u'as formerly lvith Hayward Lum- 'ber & Investment Co., has been a salesman for the E,d Fountain Lumber Co., Los Angeles, since July l. He is calling on lumber yards in the Western district of the Los Angeles Metropolitan area.

Gebrge Dunn, formerly with Zenith Mill & Lumber Co., Oakland, joined Gamerston & Green Lumber Co. July 1, as salesman in the Oakland territory.

A. H. (Abe) Jackson, Los Angeles district sales manager for Union Lumber Company, and J. E. Watt, district sales manager at Chicago, attended a sales meeting at tl.re company's head office in San Francisco, and also visited the mill at Fort Bragg in the week ended August 16.

Mel Gosnell is norv Oakland, as salesman r.r'itl-r Gosslin-Harding Lumber Co., in the Northern California territory.