Club Picks "Man of the Year"

As part of National Forest Products Week, the Shasta HooHoo Club and the Redding, Ca. Trade Club narned Ed O'Kelley as "Lumberman of the Year" at their annual joint meeting. Sponsored by 81 lumber oriented firms, "The Week's" general chairman was Brad Broyles. The meeting drew 425 to honor O'Kelley.

He is v.p. and sales manager of the Wisconsin-California Pro- ducts Co. and joined the lumber industry in 1941, working at a box factory at Graeagle. Following service in the Armed Forces, he reentered the business in 1950 as a talleyman and grader. In 1959 he joined a Sacramento wholesale firm as a sales trainee. He joined his present firm in 1959.

Active in industry associations and Hoo-Hoo, he is an ardent golfer, bird hunter and dog fancier.

A Door Security Standard

Burglars may start thinking twice as the result of work being done at the Commerce Department's National Bureau of Standards (NBS) to develop the first objective means to judge the security of residential doors.

Promulgation of a standard is expected later this year. Homeowners, tenants, homebuilders and material and hardware dealers, distributors and manufacturers will then be able, for the first time, to test the vulnera-

New BMD Headquarters

Building Material Distributors, Inc. has opened an 84,000 sq. ft. completely computerized warehouse in the northern California town of Galt.They have closed their Santa Clara and Sacramento warehouses; the headquarters is also now in Galt.

Situated on 20 acres, with 9.8 acres either paved or built upon, the new facility has a depressed loading dock for 8 trucks and a depressed rail sour for 4 cars.

Company president William Grieve noted that the modern facility will l "dramatically improve our customer service." r bility of exterior doors to breaking and entering.

Statistics reveal that some 63%o of all burglaries are residential in nature. Nearly two-thirds of the $723 million lost to burglars in 1972 involved thefts from dwellines.

FAMILY FORCES, father and son, (1) Frank and Mike Rhoades at joint Los Angeles/Orange County Hoo-Hoo meeting held recently. (2) Standing: Andrew Ersek, Kurt Gunderlock, Seated: Jim Frodsham, John Hull. (3) "Sully" Sullivan, Bud Nelson. (4) Ray Gutierrez, Don Stobaugh. (5) Stan

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(12) Bill Molfitt, Denny Curran. (13) Dick Mellen, Larry Kenninglon. New members initiated were: Jim Barron, John Hull, Andrew Ersek, Frank Penberthy, Mike Rhoades, Kurt Gunderlock, Mike Moseby and Larry Kennington.