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ITH a record attendance of 266 registrations at their San Diego convention and a 2l/o growth during last year, the Imported Hardwood Products Assn. continues to show the pattern of energy and activity that has marked the group since its inception.

New officers elected at their l6th annual are Henry f)essaubr, president; Vic Kaplan, exec. vp.; Bud Radditz, vp. for logs and lumber; and Frank Frampton, vp. for veneers and plywood. Charlie Schmitt was re-elected executive secretary and treasurer and has been promoted to managing director.

Outgoing president Bill Suiter, speaking to the Friday cvening banquet, February 18, alluded to the fact that IHPA has been considering the possibility of merger, 'omaybe adding another organization lto IHPAI to make our voice better heard." No further information on this was forthcoming at presstime, however.

John Osgood did his usual good number as golf chairman and m.c. of the golf awards, both serious and otherwise. (Hey, John, who's your writer?) Anyway, low gross was a tie 78 between Fletcher Wall and E. E. Lee. lst low net was nabbed by Bill Summerlin; Frank Frampton, second; Ted Nickinson, third.

A strong program of speakers began Thursday morn- ing with Clark McDonald's interesting technical talk on nerv testing methods. He is the managing director of the Hardwood Plywood Mfgrs. Assn. Tito R. Belli, Bank of America vp. and senior foreign exchange trader, forcefully presented his views on trading changes that must occur in Japanese-American relations, such as the present necessity in Japan that Americans have a Japanese partner, so that trade may grow and not be hindered by artifi cial regulations.

Following was IHPA's Washington, D.C. counsel Jim Sharp, who reported on strike legislation, some present and some near-term, that affects members' interests. He also reviewed the Hartke.Burke Bill, noting that it now has more than 70 signatures,

Capping the morning was a film on present business developments in Korea, presented by the Korea Trade Center in San Francisco,

Customs problems were attacked that afternoon by a panel discussion moderated by Leonard Webster. Panelists were Ned Glad, Morris G. Maher, John Bevon and Hadley King. Ranging over a number of subjects, the members discussed brokerage problems, some solutionso legal aspects and stumbling blocks placed by officialdom.