UP AND DOWN THE STATE Aa

LeRoy H. Stanton, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, returned September 23 from an eastern trip. He attended the war conference of the National Hardwood Lumber Association at Chicago, September 16 and 17, and, called on a number of Southern hardwood mills. He made the trip by air.

A. C. Pascoe, Pacific Coast representative of Wood-Mosaic Co., Louisville, Ky., and other hardwood mills, was back at his desk September 22 lrom a month's trip to eastern points. He visited mill connections in 'Wisconsin and Louisville, and attended the annual meeting of the National Hardwood Lumber Association, held in Chicago, September 16 and,17.

Jack Murphy, manager of the hardwood department of Owens-Parks Lumber Co., Los Angeles, attended the war conference of the National llardwood Lumber Association, held at the La Salle Hotel, Chicago, on September 16 and,17.

George J. Hawley-, secretary of Atkinson-Stutz Co., San Francisco, is back from a vacation spent at Trinity Alps, Trinity County, Calif.

Fred Lamon, Lamon-Bonnington Co., San Francisco, left for Portland, September 25. He will spend two weeks calling on Northwest sawmills.

Russell Mullin, Burbank Lumber Co., Burbank. was a recent visitor to San Francisco.

Henry M. Hink, president of Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco, was back at his desk September 30 following a business trip to Southern California.

Walter A. Stippich, Wichita, Kansas, wholesale lumberman, spent the past month in the Northwest and California on business. Mr. Stippich states that he is devoting much of his time to the promotion of prefabricated lumber for heavy construction.

Joe Bugley, salesman for W. B. Jones Lumber Co., Los Angeles, returned September 2l ftom a business trip to Mexico.

Frank J. Connolly, executive vice-president, Western Hardwood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, is back from a business trip to the East. He attended the hardwood industry war conference of the National Hardwood Lumber Association, held in Chicago, September 16 and' 17.

Dick Emison, manager, Santa Ana Lumber Co., Santa Ana, left recently on a business trip to Indiana.

Joe Hearin, .manager of Lumber Wholesalers' mill at Ashland, Ore., was in Pasadena around the middle of September to confer with Lee Canfield of Lumber Wholesalers.

Walter Koll, A. J. Koll Planing Mill, Ltd., Los Angeles, has returned from a business trip to Fort Bragg, Calif.

D. N. Cords of the Pine Department, Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco, returned a few days ago from calling oq the Pine mills in Northern California and Southern Oregon.

Frederick T. Staats, New York City lumberman, representative of Clover Valley Lumber Co., and Lamm Lumber Co., left for New York September 22 after spending several months in San Francisco.

W. G. (Bill) Wright, of the Wright Lumber Co., Stockton, Calif., and now with the Navy Seabees, was recently home on leave.

Dee Essley of D. C. Essley & Son, Los Angeles, left Los Angeles September 10 on a trip to Vancouver, Wash., and Seattle. At Vancouver he visited the mill of the Vancouver Plywood & Veneer Co., of which he is Southern California representative. He was accompanied by Mrs. Essley.