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Portland, Oregon

Manufacturers of Rail and

Old Growth Douglas Fir Cargo Shippers

Commissioned in Naval Reserve

Miss Doris Merithew, E. K. Wood Lumber Company, Los Angeles, Calif', was recently commissioned an Ensign in the U. S. Naval Reserve, WV (P), and is now in training at the Naval Training School, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.

Miss Merithew entered the University of Southern California from the Phoenix lJnion lligh School, Phoenix, Ariz., where she graduated magna cum laude with an A.B. degree, and resumed her studies there for another year and received a degree of A'M. She is a Phi tseta Kappa, national honorary society, in recognition of high scholastic attainment.

Miss Merithew entered the employ of the E' K. Wood Lumber Company in 1935, and became secretary to her father, Percy L Merithew, cargo department manager.

Buys Sawmill In Oregon

Lee Canfield, owner of Lumber Wholesalers, Pasadena, Calif., has'puichased frotn the receiver the Bellview mill three miles south of Ashland, Ore. The mill has a capacity of approximately 201000 board feet a day, with the planer capable of handling 40,000 feet a day. The mill is located on the Southern Pacific tracks and is working on government orders. Mr. Canfield states that he will either lease the mill or have a man to operate it for him. Lumber Wholesalers maintain an office in Medford, Ore.

J. G. MACKAY rS A MAJOR

J. G. Mackey, formerly with Aubup Lumber Co', Auburn, Calif., who entered the Army as a Lieutenant, is now a Major.

H. B. Chadbourne Goes to \(/arhington

H. B. "Chad" Chadbourne, owner of the Salinas Lumber Co., Salinas, Calif., has closed his yard for the duration and has gone to 'lV'ashington, D. C., where he will report for duty as an industrial specialist on November 2.

Mr. Chadbourne has had an excellent background of experience in the lumber business. He started in the woods with the Grays Harbor Commercial Co. in 1919, and worked later for the Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau rvith headquarters in Aberdeen, 'Wash. He came to California in 1923 and was on the road for E. K. Wood Lumber Co. for five years. He started the Salinas Lumber Co. in October 1928 and operated the yard for 14 yeafs.

He is well known and liked in both retail and wholesale lumber circles. One of his hobbies is aviation' He owned and flew his own plane for a period of five years. Another hobby is travel. He has traveled extensively in North America and in Europe.

T\^IO SALMON WEIGH 64 POUNDS

George Lounsberry of Lounsberry & Harris, Los Angeles, caught a 34-pound Chinook salmon and Kenneth Smith of the California Redwood Association, San Francisco, caught a 30-pounder of the same variety, on a recent fishing trip on.the Klamath River.

As these big ones were caught and landed with light tackle, both men are entitled to a high rating as anglers. The total catch of salmon by the pair weighed 150 pounds, and this was canned for them by a local cannery, in the modern manner.

Newt Flashes

M. B. "Nick" Carter, Carter returned from a business trio other eastern cities.

PTYIy()()D F()R EVIRY PIIRPOSE

Lumber Co., Oakland, has to Washington, D. C., and

George R. Kendrick, sales manager, Lumber Division, San Francisco, left two weeks in the northwest.

Pope & Talbot, Inc., October 19 to spend

Carl Bahr, president of California Redwood Distributors, Chicago, is spending some time in California visiting head offices and plants of the member mills of his organization.

A. J. "Gus" Russell, Santa returned October D f.rom a Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco, business trip to Portland.

John Klass, of the Chicago office of the Bark Products Division of The Pacific Lumber Company, is on a visit to the company's plant at Scotia, Calif., and the San Francisco office.

Charles R. Wilson, formerly with Pope & Talbot and American Lumber & Treating Co., and now associated with Timber Structures, fnc., Portland, visited San Francisco and Los Angeles last week. He was on his way to Washington, D. C., Boston and other eastern cities and will be gone about a month.

Timber Structures, Inc., is engaged in the business of designing, fabricating and erecting roof trusses.

Donald Angeles, made his Northern

Y. Wemple of the Buckle Proof Lath Co., Los recently spent a week in San Francisco. He headquarters at the office of Langford W. Smith, California sales representative.

P. W. (Bill) Chantland and Ray Klotz, of the Los Angeles sales office, and Floyd W. Elliott and C. T. Gartin of the San Francisco sales office, Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., are attending the annual sales conference at the company's home office at Aberdeen, 'Wash.

Frank Duttle, president, returned October 13 from the Pacific Northwest.

Sterling Lumber Co., Oakland, a two weeks' business trip to

Al Nolan, Western sales manager, The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, returned October 16 after spending three weeks in Washington, D. C. as a member of a committee representing the Shipowners' Association of the Pacific Coast, which attended a conference in connection with bare boat charters for vessels owned by members.

Captain A. E. Ferguson, field artillery, stationed at Camp Carson, Colorado Springs, Colo., and formerly Los Angeles sales manager of the American Lumber & Treating Co., was a recent visitor at the company's Los Angeles office while on furlough.

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