EARDWOODS FOR WAR NEEDS!

Seer Bright Future for Lumber Bucincrr Eart Bay Club Memberr Hear in Cclifornia Talk on Placticr

"fn spite of the limited amount of lumber available to the retail trade the majority of the lumber dealers are still carrying on and performing a useful function,,, said Jas. H. McElroy, oruner of McElroy Lumber Company, recently. This concern operates yards at Palo Alto, San Mateo, Los Gatos and Los Altos. The site of their distribution yard at Redwood City was taken over by the Government some time ago, and the Centerville yard was sold about 18 months ago.

McElroy Lumber Company has supplied a good deal of lumber and other building materials to plants on the peninsula making articles of various kinds for war purposes.

Mr. McElroy is one of the best known California retailers. He is a native of San Francisco, a veteran of World 'War I, and makes his headquarters at his San Francisco office in the Hobart Building. He believes there is a bright future for the lumber business in California after the war, and is doing considerable planning for postwar business.

Appointed Lieutencnt

King Goodrich has been made a lieutenant in the Army Air Corps and is now stationed at Roswell, New Mexico. He was formerly in the retail lumber business with his father, E. A. Goodrich, who operates the Goodrich Lumber Company in Los Angeles.

A good sized gathering heard an interesting talk on the development of plastics at the regular monthly dinner meeting of East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39, held October 11 at Hotel Leamington, Oakland. D. Normen Cords, the Club's new president, presided.

The speaker, J. Frazier Rae, industrial plastics consultant, was obtained by Tom Hogan III, the Club's new program and enterainment chairman.

Secretary G. W. (Chris) Sechrist, nn E. lgth Streii, Oakland, reminds prospective members that no initiation fee is charged to join Club No. 39. Dues are $5.00 a year, payable in advance.

Pope & Talbot-Aluminunr Compcrny Negoticrtiona Concluded

Announcement was made in San Francisco, October 16, that negotiations between Pope & Talbot, Inc. and the Aluminum Company of America have been concluded, and representatives of Alcoa have returned to the East without as yet having made any arrangements for a financial interest in the Western company. An agency arrangement has, however, been efrected which should be beneficial to both companies.