Home Planning Institute Organized Announces Appointments

For East Bay Area

A Home Planning Institute for the East Bay Area, with l-readquarters in Oakland has been organized. L. F. Galbraith, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. is general chairman, and Harold L. Meyer is secretary.

D. N. (Nat) Edwards of Wood Products Co.. Oaklarrd is a member of the board of directors.

The Institute has been formed for the purpose ol assisting prospective home owners in planning their homes, and an evening course of 2O practical talks by leading authorities covering the entire normal procedure on a home will be given in high school classrooms in Oakland, Berkeley, Lafayette and San Leandro. The talks which will cover a period of nine weeks, with sessions of two hours per week, began October 16.

The Home Planning Institute is backed by financial, professional, educational, business and labor interests, and proposes to assist prospective home owners in such matters as site selection, architectural details, materials, building construction, equipment and decoration.

Bcrck lrom Trip to Gucrtemcrlcr and Mexico

J. E. (Ted) Higgins, president of the j. E. Hrggins Lumber Co., San Francisco, and Dallas Donnan of EhrlichHarrison Co., Seattle, returned recently from a 30-day business trip to Guatemala and Mexico.

S. W. Antoville, vice president and sales director of United States Plywood Corporation, announces the following appointments, in line with the company's postwar sales expansion program:

A newly-formed California Sales Division will be managed by Fred B. Smales, rvho will make his office at the company's Los Angeles branch warehouse. Mr. Smales has been rvith the concern twelve years in the sales division, during which he managed several of its bran'ches.

Don L. Braley, a member of U. S. Plywood's sales staff for six years, has been appointed manager of the San Francisco distributing unit.

Don L. Kesselring, with the company several years in sales, has been appointed manager of the distributing unit at Oakland. Calif.. located at 570 Third Street.

John D. Patriquin, sales representative in San Francisco for nine years, is to ,be resident manag'er in Fresno, covering the entire San Joaquin Valley.

Iniured While in Action

Frank E. Osgood, son of Frank C. Osgood, Osgood l,umber Cornpany, Bell, who has taken part in four major battles, was injured while in action on the German front on September 17. In a letter to his father, he reports that he is making good progress. He was flown ,back to England where he is now in a hospital. He was associated with his father in the lumber business for twelve years.

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