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Portland Offte Found at Westwood

Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co. has announced the appointment of Edward P. Schafer as sales manager, succeeding the late Otto R. Schramm, and William C. Daniels of Seattle, formerly with the Henry Ketcham Lumber Co., as assistant sales manager and manager of the Schafer Bros. Steamship Co.

The company has opened a Portland office at 1014 Spaulding Bldg. with Floyd C. Hallock as manager. Mr. Hallock was formerly connected with the lumber business in Portland.

California Water Distributors Subdivision Effective Sept. 24

The order creating amendments No. 6O and 61 to the Lumber Code became effective September 24. These amendments set up what is known as the California Water Distributors Subdivision of the West Coast Logging and Lumber Division. The set-up of the new subdivision was fully explained in an article which ran in the August 15 issue of this paper.

Changes In Lumber Department

Frank T. Strachan, who has been connected with the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber department in their Los Angeles office, has been transferred to the company's lumber department at Wilmington. Ray Canady, of the San Francisco office, has been transferred to the lumber department in the Los Angeles office.

Joins Donovan Sales Staff

Lyman Hall, formerly manager of Tilden Lumber & Mill Company's yard at Fresno, became a member of the sales stafi of the Donovan Lumber Company, San Francisco, September 15. He will cover the Northern California territory.

SANTA FE LUMBER CO. INSTALLS POSTAL TELETYPE

Santa Fe Lumber Company, San Francisco, recently installed a Postal Teletype machine in their office. This machine is the practical equivalent of a private wire, putting the office in touch with all Postal Telegragh and Mackav Radio offices.

E. B. CULNAN VISITS LOS ANGELES

E. B. Culnan, 'Western Lumber Company, San was a rec€nt Los Angeles visitor where he spent days on company business.

New Yard In Madera

Football fans in general and the inhabitants of Westwood in particular must have experienced a great thrill when they read the story by Bill Leiser, football writer; in the San Francisco Chronicle of September 19 announcing that Patrick John O'Dea, one of football's immortals, believed to have passed on some years ago, is very much alive, and that he has been working as statistician for the Red River Lumber Co. at Westwood, Calif., for the past 15 years under an assumed name.

The story says in part: hiswho Uni- kickknew

"Everyone who understands anything at all of the tory of football knows of Pat O'Dea, the Australian, came to America in 1896 and, for four years on the versity of Wisconsin varsity, displayed a ravishing, ing smothering type of football that America never before and may never knorv again.

"What's in the record books alone will keep his name alive as long as the game is played. There were heroes, great ones, before 1896, and there have been heroes of the gridiron since 1900, but, to those who saw Midwest football at the end of the last century, the names of Jim Thorpe and Red Grange, even, mean little alongside of .Wisconsin's Pat O'Dea.

"It was his fame that drove him out of sight. He was in San Francisco, in 1919, well known, too well known, perhaps, everywhere. Always he had to talk football. Always he was helping athletes-he even helped the Stanford crew of. 1914. But always he was the man who had been great on the football field, and almost never the man who could talk of new work to be done. He didn't like living in what were to him "mere student days of the past."

"With the war. his income from the home land was knocked down to nothing. He had an opportunity to start in a new field, off where no one knew him-off where he could be just himself and not the man who had kicked footballs for Wisconsin, so off he went to become Charles J. Mitchell of the Red River Lumber Company of Westwood. and he has been there ever since.

"No one knew him there. He simply moved in as a stranger. For 15 years now, Charles J. Mitchell, a secretary-manager of the Westwood Auto Club (and Chamber of Commerce), a director of the Lassen Volcanic Park Association, a leader in the 6ght for good new roads that are being obtained, and roads open in winter, in that beautiful section, and a statistician for Red River lumber has been the kind of fighting, astute, well-liked progressive citizen that makes small towns into bigger cities.

Diego, a few

Dea-n Cook and C. K. Lesan, both formerly with Madera Sugar Pine Co. recently organized the Madera Lumber Company and opened a new yard at Madera September 1.

"Imagine the surprise of Willis Walker, chairman of the board for Red River, a big tackle for Minnesota in 1896 and one who knew all about \Misconsin's gridiron immortal, when he learned that his own "C. J. Mitchell" was really the long lost Pat O'Dea.

There's much rejoicing. The Walkers are all football people, including a son, Leon, a Yale tackle in 1917, a brother, and more than one nephew."