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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY
As Reported in The California Lumber Merchant, January 15, 1933
R. N. Johnson and A. I. Brown of Sacramento purghased the Andreotti Lumber Co. yard and mill near Grass Valley, Calif., and will rename it after the town. Mr. Andreotti will continue in the sawmill business F. L. Dettmann and E. A. Allen, both of whom were with Pope & Talbot and also Chas. R. McCormick for many years, started in the re. tail business at 2000 Evans Ave., San Francisco, on a yard site previously used by McCormick. The firm will be knoivn as Allen & Dettmann Lumber Co.
During the past month, the following yards took out memberships in the California Retail Lumbermen's Association: -Boulevard Mill & Lumber ,Co., Oakland; Freedom Lumber Co., Watsonville; Hebbron Lumber Co., Santa Cruz; McElroy & Cheim, San Jose; Bay Point Lumber Co., Port Chicago ; Bay City Lumber Co., Oakland; Globe Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Glenwood Lumber Co., San Jose; Shattuck-Rugg Lumber Co., Upland; Lafayette (Calif.) Lumber Co., and the Diamond Match Co. yards in Esparto, Galt, Lincoln, Corning, Colusa, Gridley, Martinez, Live Oak and Anderson, which brought the Diamond Match yards in the association to 23.
Management changes in the branch yards of the PattenBlinn Lumber Co., Los Angeles, included the following: J. C. Sammons from Santa Monica to the Long Beach yard, Frank M. Wise 'frorh Beverly Hills to the Santa Monica yard, August Voglesang from the West Washington boulevard yard to Moneta, J. B. Dausman to Hermosa Beach and E P. Bradford to the Alhambra yard. Earl Minton announced that the Minton Lumber Co., Mountain View, was resuming operations after being sold in 1931 to the Builders Service Co. Alfred Olson will have charge of the plant.
Elmer E. Ellsworth, 66, well known Pacific Coast lumberman, died December 23 in Eugene, Ore. He started in the industry with Scott & Van Arsdale Lumber Co. Chas. S. Tripler, formerly with Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., San Francisco, succeeded T. L. Gardner as secretary-manager of the Central ,California Lumbermen's Club James H. McElroS McElroy & Cheim Lumber Co., San Jose, was elected president of the San Jose Lumbermen's Institute, succeeding the late A. L. Hubbard. Tom Hubbard of Hubbard & Carmichael Bros. was elected vicepresident, and Ed F. Larson was elected secretary.
E. P. Ivory, who has been connected with the Weyerhaeuser Sales Company at St. Paul, Minn., resigned to return to California and is making his home in Oakland . A $30,000 fire hit the T. P. Hogan Company in Oakland the morning of December D, the first serious fire in the yard's 45 years . . Formi:r California Redwood Lumberman Thomas Cotter is now practicing law at Eureka Hobbs Wall & Co. announced that its 'Crescent City mill would be started during the month long enough to balance their stocks.
Pismo Beach, Calif.-Building permits issued here in the first nine months of. 1957 were 10 times greater than the same 1956 span. Among larger projects are a Bank of America branch and a new Christian Science church.
UC Foresf Products loborotory Holds Procticol Course in lumber Drying
A one-week practical course covering the latest techniques in lumber drying u'as held in December at the University of California's Forest Products Laboratory, located at the Richmond Field Station. Seventeen lumber specialists attended the course, including representatives of both softwood and hardwood producers. One out-of-state guest, J. T. Thomas of Arizona, was enrolled.
The course consisted of lectures, demonstrations, and laboratory practice. The subjects covered included the properties and structure of wood in relation to drying, moisture content and quality determination, types of kilns, kiln operation and maintenance, drying defects and their control, drying stresses, kiln schedules, air drying, and
During the course, a charge of ponderosa pine was dried and conditioned in the Laboratory's largest kiln. Principles studied in the classroom were put to prac- tical test as the students conducted the drying and conditioning operation.
The short course was offered by the University in coop- eration with the California Forest and Range Experiment Station, U.S. Forest Service. The U.S. Forest Products Laboratory. at Madison, Wisconsin, provided course literature and photographic slides.
Lecturers for the course were Robert A. Cockrell, professor of forestry at the University; Fred E,. Dickinson, director of the lJniversity's Forest Products Laboratory; Eric L. Ellwood, chief of the Laboratory's Division of Physics and Mechanics; Arno P. Schniewind, assistant specialist at the Laboratory, and Harvey H. Smith of the California Forest and Range Experiment Station.
Fred Holmes Nqmes Ed Heiberger Redwood Soles €o. Solesmqnsger
Fred V. Holmes has named Ed Heiberger salesmanger of Redwood Sales Co., wholly-owned subsidiary sales company of Ilolmes Eureka Lumber Co., which handles all Holmes Eureka sales throughout the east, midwest and south under the brand name of "Sequoia." Heiberger replaces Charles Fender, who resigned his position January 1 to accept the salesmanagership of an East Bay steel company.
