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Appoints New Sales Promotion Manager

Paul A. Ward, general sales manager of Wood Conversion Company, St. Paul, Mi4nesota, announces the appointment of E. T. Holmgren as sales promotion manager. Mr. Holmgren has had considerable experience in sales and advertising in the construction field. He was recently associated with The Celotex Corporation where he. directed Public Relations Activities and Publications. past association with other nationally known manufacturers of build_ ing materials gives him a broad background against which to base his sales promotion activities.

At the time of the announcement, Mr. Ward stated that plans for the 1938 sales promotion campaign on BalsamWool and Nu-Wood were near completion. They included much new literature and plans for more closely tying in with jobber, dealer and contractor sales efforts. A sub_ stantial program of national farm and consumer magazine advertising is also planned.

Merle Bennett Wins Automobile

Merle P. Bennett, manager of the Frost Hardwood Co., San Diego, held the lucky number a few weeks ago and won a new Pontiac automobile which was given away by the Fox Theater at San Diego. Merle says he expects to run down a lot of new business with the machine.

Calls On Trade

Ray Julien, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., was at Nev., on Tuesday, November 30, calling on the Las Vegas, trade.

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DOUGLAS FIR_SITKA SPRUCE-HEMLOCK

Lumber - Lath - Millwork - Timbers - Ties

Piling Mine Poles

Car and Railroad Materials

PORT ORFORD CEDAR

_(Also knorvn as Vhite Cedar or Lawson Cypress)

Lumber - Ties - Crossing Planks - Decking

Tunnel Timbers . Venetian Blind Stock -

PONDEROSA AND SUGAR PINE

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Edwin Chriccnron

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Los Angeles Visitors

J. C. Rodahaffer and A. J. Heidt of the Penrod, Jurden & Clark Company, recently arrived in Los Angeles on business. While here they called on the trade with their Southern California represerrtative, H. H. Whiteside. Penrod, Jurden & Clark Company are large manufacturers'of walnut lumber and walnut and fancy wood veneer, both domestic and foreign. Headquarters are at Kansas City, Mo., with mills at Kansas City, Mo., Des Moines, Iowa, and Norfolk, Va. They also maintain a walnut veneer warehouse at Kansas City, Mo., and a fancy wood veneer warehouse at Cincinnati, Ohio., which places them in a splendid position to serve the buyers.

A. A. Kelley, Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco, was a Los Angeles visitor over the Thanksgiving Day holiday.

Harry Hood, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco, spent a few days in Los Angeles the early part of the month. -With Ed Seward, Los Angeles representative, they called on the trade.

Battery Separator Plant Will Rebuild

The Standard Battery Separator Company plant at I-os Angeles was destroyed by fire Thursday night, November 25, the loss being estimated at $200,000. Plans are under way to rebuild the plant.

SPLIT REDWOOD

Ties - Fence Poots . Shingles

Shakes - Stakes - Piling - Poles - Anchors

RED CEDAR

Shingles - Transmission Poles - Stubs - Anchors

Fence Pocts. Open Tank Treated or Untreated

CREOSOTE, PRESSURE TREATED

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CHARLES G. WOLOHEN

Charles G. Wolohen, widely known official of the Diamond Match Company, passed an'ay November 15 at the Enloe Hospital, Chico, as the result of a heart ailment. He was 49 years of age.

Mr. Wolohen was born in Chico, February 25, 1888, the son of Patrick Wolohen, one of the pioneer lumbermen connected with the Diamond Match Company mill at Sterling City.

His first work was in the sawmill for the Sierra Lumber Company at West Branch. He was transferred to Lyonsville where he worked as a setter and was later promoted to a scaler.

He attended business 'college for a year and in 1911 he accepted a position as yardman for the Diamond Match Company at Gridley. Later in the year he was transferred to the main office at'Chico, starting as a clerk for the late W. B. Dean.

When F'rank W. Terstegge, auditor and assistant to Mr. Dean, resigned, Mr. Wolohen was promoted to this position. In 1918 he became purchasing agent for the company's Branch Yards department and traffic manager for the Chico yards.

He was married March 18, 1916, to Miss Alma Meyhem.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Alma Wolohen, and the following children, Raymond, Pat and Patricia Ann, all of Chico; his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Wolohen, and a brother, Albert Wolohen, both of Sterling City. Mr. Wolohen was a member of the Woodmen of the World.

Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon, November 18. Interment was in the Chico cemetery with fellow workers of the deceased as escorts. They were M. G. Atchinson, I. E. Brink, R. A. Colgan, S. Ifassel, David McFarlane and W. H. Henderson.

A. W. CLARK

Alfred W. Clark, pioneer lumberman and for many years prominently identified with the lumber industry on the Pacific Coast, passed away suddenly from a heart attack at his home in Los Angeles on November 12.

Mr. Clark was born at Woodstock, Ontario, Canada, in 1859. He operated a sawmill at Menominee, Mich., for many years, coming to California in 1904 where he 'uvas connected in an ofllcial capacity with the Diamond Match Company at Chico for two years as production man. I-{e went to Oregon in 1906, going into the logging business at Marshland, and in 1910 he built a sawmill at Wauna, which he sold to the Crossett interests the following year. He then operated a sawmill at Vancouver, Wash., and in 1930 he retired, coming to Los Angeles to reside.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Catherine Clark; a daughter, Isabel, and a son, Alfred B. Clark, all of Los Angeles.

Funeral services were held at Los Angeles, Monday, November 15.

J. M. BUHLER

J. M. Buhler, owner of the J. M. Buhler Lumber Co., Los Angeles, passed away on November 18, following a heart attack. He was 48 years of age.

Mr. Brihler was a native of Minnesota. He spent several years in Polson, Montana, where he was manager of the Dewey Lumber Co. He came to Los Angeles in 1921, entering the retail lumber business, and was a partner in the Buhler-Sisson Lumber Co. Three years later he went in business for himself, starting the J. M. Buhler Lumber Co.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Ann Buhler; a son, Donald F., and a daughter, Marjorie E. Buhler; three brothers, Ben D. of Los Angeles, J. W. of New York City, and David A. Buhler of Huntington Park, who is manager of the J. M. Buhler Lumber Co.; three sisters, Mrs. C. H' Boothe of Los Angeles, Mrs. J. W. Howe of Great Falls, Montana, and Mrs. J. F. Sherman of La Canada.

Funeral'services were held at the Little Church of the Flowers, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Monday afternoon. November 22.

Philetus Bell

Philetus Bell, 80, one of the pioneers of the California Redwood industry in Humboldt county, died October 29 at his home in Arcata. A native of Connecticut' he came to Humboldt in 188O to become affiliated with the Trinidad Milling Company. Later he was superintendent of the California Redwood Company, a position he resigned in 1896 to enter business for himself.

Long a holder of redwood timber lands he became an authority on timber values. Elected county assessor of Humboldt nearly 4O years ago he set u'p new rolls on timber property assessments and was called upon many times in later years to evaluate important holdings in the redwood area.

Funeral services and burial rites were conducted in Eureka. October 31.

Martin Meier

I{artin Meier, pioneer Hemet lumber dealer, died on November 4. He was 77 years of age.

Mr. Meier was born in Germany and came to America when a young man. He was a resident of the San Jacinto Valley for over fifty years. He started a lumber yatd at San Jacinto in 1891, and later moved the business to Hemet. He operated the Hemet yard for 4O years and was still its owner at the time of his death.

He is survived by a son, Iferman Meier, and a daughter, Mrs. Dorothea Hawthorne of Hemet.

Funeral services were held at Hemet, Monday afternoon, November 8.

FHA Cooperates with Lumber Dealers Through Forum Meetings

Many contractors feel that they have a problem when attempting to build dwellings in conformity with the property standards as set up by the Federal Housing Administration. At first reading this may appear to be a fact to a large number, but when specific instances are traced down it is found that the difficulties are really very minor and due primarily to misunderstanding or misinterpretation of the FHA requirements on the part of the individual contractor.

For the purpose of ironing out these difficulties and to meet an insistent demand for more detailed information regarding FHA practice and procedure as related to the problems of the construction and allied industries, the FHA is cooperating rvith lumber dealers, for the mutual benefit of the dealer and contractor, through the mediurn of forum meetings held in the various communities.

These meetings are sponsored by a local lumber dealer in his respective community for his contractors, and to date have been very successful in clearing up the misunderstandings. Federal Housing Administration representatives are present at these meetings, first outlining the plan as a whole, and later throwing meetings open to discussion.

Each meeting has engendered considerable interest and brought out many points for discussion and clarification. They have also clarified the inspection processes of the Federal Housing Administration and given the individual contractor a clearer knowledge of its purposes and necessity. Every attempt has been made, and will be made in any meetings in the future, by the underwriting staff of the FHA, to give the contractors and builders the fundamental basis of sound underwriting practices so that they can measure and appraise the construction business which comes to them.

The Associate Director, W. G. Bingham of the Southern California District, FHA office, has assured The California Lumber l\{erchant that his office will gladly cooperate with any lumbcr or brrilding n.raterial agency in the holding of such meetings.

On Mexico Trip

Mr. and Mrs G. C. Burnett, Tulare, and Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Barber, Fresno, left on November 14 to spend a vacation in Mexico City. They expected to visit Phoenix, Ariz., El Paso and San Antonio, Texas, as 'n'ell as numerous points in Mexico. While on this tour they hope to gain some valuable information as to how the building material business is conducted at other places.

Mr. Bur,nett is president of the California Lumbermen's Council and Mr. Barber is secretary.

MYRON BIRD VISITS L. A.

Myron Bird, president of the California Saw Works, San Francisco, was in Los Angeles recently conferring with G. L Fischer, manag'er of the company's Los Angeles branch.