TWENTY YEAAS AGO

hcon the November t5,1028, Isrue

This issue carried a personal write-up of C. H. White, general manager of White Brothers, San Francisco.

A picture showed the attractive display of the Garden Grove Lumber & Cement Co. exhibited at a'fair held in Garden Grove.

Arthur Twohy, Los Angeles wholesale lumberman, and Mrs. Twohy, returned from a several months' trip to the South Pacific countries.

Joe Chapman won the first low net prize, the Hipolito Cup, at the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club golf tournament held at Wilshire Country Club on November 2.

Members of the Bay District Hoo-Hoo held a luncheon meeting at the CommBrcial Club, San Francisco, on November 8, and organized Hoo-Hoo Club No. 9. The officers elected were R. A. Hiscox, president; J. Walter Kelly, vice-president; and J. C. McCabe, secretary-manager.

The Jones their yard in Lumber Company added additional sheds to Compton.

Addresses by Mrs. Adeline M. Conner, Miss Alberta Ruth Brey, and E. D. Minton, delivered at the annual convention of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association in San Francisco, were in this issue.

An article, with views, of the new plant of Hardwood Company at San Diego appeared in ber.

Lumber Stocks

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Charles L. \(/heeler Elected Executive Vice President of Pope & Talbot, Inc.

Action on October 28 of the board of directors of Pope & Talbot, Inc. established the office of executive vice president by combining the office and duties of first vice president with that of vice president and general manager of the Lumber and McCormick Steamship Divisions.

The execu'tive vice president was also authorized to assume the duties of the president during the president's absence on leave. Major George A. Pope, Jr., presideut of Pope & Talbot, Inc., now on leave, is in the Army of the United States.

Charles L. Wheeler, formerly vice president and general manager of the Lumber and McCormick Steamship Divisions of Pope & Talbot, Inc. was elected .to the office of executive vice president.

The policy of Pope & Talbot, Inc. will continue in its endeavor to serve the lumber trade as it has throughout its 90 years of existence. It is interesting to note here that the Port Gamble, Washington, lumber operation, established in 1853, is the oldest in the Douglas Fir region.

Mr. Wheeler is president of International Rotary.

Sid Dcrling Talks To S. F. Wholesalers

Retail and wholesale lunaber stocks declined sharply from January, 1942 to June n, 1943, WPB reports, with retail stocks totaling 2,459,38,W board feet on June 30, 1943, a 62/o decline from Dec. 31, 1941, and 35/o below Dec. 31, 1942. Wholesale stocks totaled 588,529,000 board feet on June 30, a fu% drop for the l8-month period and a 3O/o decline for the first six months of 1943.

San Francisco members of the National-American Wholesale Lumber Association met at luncheon November 5, at the San Francisco Commercial Club, to hear a talk by Sid Darling, of New York, secretary of the Association, who was on tour of the Pacific Coast cities.

Glenn M. Harrington, MacDonald & Harrington, Ltd., San Francisco, Association director for California, presided.