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Judd Blanchard, Blanchard Lumber Co., Burbank, Calif., and Mrs. Blanchard, were recent visitors to San Francisco.

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NAWLA Looks ro the 70s

Marketing improvements in the next decade, with immediate implementation of National-American programs designed to en' hance the wholesaler and the entire forest products industry, were studied at a recently concluded three-day meeting at Boca Raton, Florida. Twenty NAWLA firm's members met to make decisions regarding programs and thrust of the national trade group which markets the bulk of North America's {orest products' 'oBetter Marketing in the 70's through NAV/LA" was chosen as a theme for National-American's ?7th annual meeting which will be held at The Broadmoor, Colorado Springs, May 27'29-

Builder Bemoqns Lumber Prices

High prices and unstable market supplies of lumber and wood products have reached a crisis stage in the construction industry, Ray Hallberg, past president of the Home Builders Association of Metropolitan Portland and newly elected Northwest region of' ficer of the National Association of Home Builders, has warned.

"If we are in the position that an increase from 1.3 million to I.6 million housing starts results in tremendous cost increases, what will happen when we try to achieve the national goal of 2.6 million starts a year by or before 1975?" he asked.

He said the higher prices are motivating intensified research to find materials which can be substituted for wood.

Owens-Pqrks .Buys Tqnnqhill

Owens-Parks Lumber Co. recently bought the physical assets of W. J. Tannahill & Sons, a 35 year-old trucking company located opposite their Los Angeles facility, for about $200,000.

What they bought was the land, buildings and twenty operating vehicles, not the corporation. The trucks now will haul, at least for the present, just for Owens-Parks.