Personnel Turnover Small Many of San Francisco Lumber Offices

Veterans are plentiful in the lumber industry of San Francisco. There is probably no lumber center on earth where there has been so little change in personnel in the past generation. The turnover in many of the San Francisco lumber offices is small. For instance: l. E. (Ted) Higgins, Jr., has been r,r'ith the J. E. Higgins Lumber Co. f.or 28 years; Ed Grady has 32 years' service; Henry Grady has been there for 24 years; A. P. (Gus) Morien, 23 years, and Charlie Lillie, 22 years.

Gus R.ussell has been with the Santa Fe Lumber Co. for 38 years; Earl Carlson has been there 33 years; A. J. Wagner D years, and Al Kelley, 28 years.

Fred Burgers tops the list at the Union Lumber Company with 47 years; Clarence Broback is next with 40 years' service; J. T. Williams has been there 34 years; Otis R. Johnson, 33 years; C. Hexberg, 23 years, and E. L. Green, 2O yearc.

At White Brothers, W. T. White, C. H. White and L. N. David all have 40 years' service; John Howatt been there 35 years; C. S. Lean (recently resigned), years; W. T. Meyer, 25 yearc, and Keith Mclellan, years.

Geo. B. Mcleod has been with Hammond Lumber Company and Hammond Redwood Company for 4O years; Leonard C. Hammond 38 years; C. L. Rea, 31 years; W. S. Burnett, 30 years; Frank White, 22 years; Bob Caldwell (including service with merged Little River Redwood Co.),2l years, and Ralph Robinson, 2l years.

At Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Company the following have been on the job 34 years, in fact since this concern was founded in 1906: M. A. Harris, Frank H. Harris, Hugh W. Handley, R. C. (Dick) Jones, Charlie Swett, Wallace Bovyer and A. W. Russ. Harry Carter has been there lor 24 years..

Herb Klass has been constantly on the job with The Pacific Lumber Company for 35 years; Al Nolan and Charlie Shaw have been there for 30 years each, and Jim Farlev has 24 years' service.

William Chatham and A. F. Bulotti have been with Loop Lumber Company lor 34 years. E. S. Brush has been there 30 years.

A. B. Cahill has been with Sudden & Christenson for 38 years; Henry Hess for 28 years.

Henry M. Hink has a record of 3O years' service with Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co.; Vincent M. Kemble has been there f.or 20 years.

M. L. (Duke) Euphrat and Roy E. Hills have been with Wendling-Nathan Company for 26 years; A. Mansie has been with this concern f.or 25 years.

R. H. Thayer has a total of 37 years' continuous service with E. K. Wood Lumber Company; Harry F. Vincent has been with the company f.or 32 years.

A. B. Johnson of A. B. Johnson Lumber Co. has been 53 years in the lumber business; A. B. (Bert) Johnson, Jr. has a record of.29 years.

C. E. De Camp has been 32 years in the San Francisco oftce of Caspar Lumber Co. His first job with the company was in 1876. C. J. Wood has been there for 35 years. H. B. Worden has 27 years' service, and G. A. Freudenberg, now on leave of absence through illness, has been with the company for 5O years.

All of those mentioned have been with the same firms in San Francisco for more than 2O years. Many heads of lumber concerns have been active for more than ?-O yearsr although changes have been made in their personnel. Just to mention a few: E. A. Howard of E. A. Howard & Co. has been selling hardwoods for more than half a century; ITomer Maris, Maris Plywood Corporation has been in the hardwood and plywood businels for 33 years; Fred Holmes, Holmes Eureka Lumber Co., has been on the job lor 26 years; Glenn M. Harrington, MacDonald & Harrington, Ltd., has been in business for himself Lor 22 years; John L. Reed, J. R. Hanify Co., has 41 years of service to his credit; James L. Hall has been a wholesale lumber dealer f.or 2l years, Larue Woodson has represented Wheeler Osgood for 22 years, and P. R. (Bob) Kahn has been with. Forsyth Hardwood Co. for more than 20 years.