Happy 100th for Union Pacific

How does a major corporation celebrate the l00th anniversary of the most significant eveni in its history?

Union Pacific Railroad celebrates the centennial of tl-re driving of the golden spike May 10.

"Those I00 years provide us with a priceless heritage," says Edd H. Bailey, UP's president. "If you think we're excited about the first 100 years you ought to see the enthusiasm we have for the future!"

Central to the celebration is UP's Gold' en Spike Centennial Expo Train, a special five-car hot shot.

The star of this train is Expo Car, a rolling 85-{oot display car that took months and thousands of man'hours to build. Car displays trace the building of the American West and the railroad from covered wagon days to today's computerized space age railroading. A special display tells how Union Pacific has also become a diversi' fied, transportation-based growth comPany with interests in land development and natural resources.

Two actual steam locomotives, duplicat' ing the wood-burners of the original gold' en spike ceremony, will also be on the train. Also riding flat cars will be several other l9th century cars.

Making some of the stops with the train will be a unique motion picture theater on wheels. This will show "Tracks ol the lron Horse," a half-hour documentary telling the Union Pacific story. Color prints have been offered to TV stations, clubs and schools.

Person-lo-Person Morketing

Approximately 600 sales and marketing people will gather at The Broadmoor, Col' orado Springs, Colorado, for the 77th an' nual meeting of the National-American Wholesale Lumber Association, May 27' 29.

Strengthened by the best new member' ship year in two decades and a 1968 rec' ord in sales volume, NAWLA membership will study new association programs, seek more efficient marketing methods through group discussion, and hear nationally known speakers on marketing, future out' look for business, and recruitment,

Voltoge Line Zops Retoiler

A recent fire at the Boand-Daley Lum' ber. Co., Downey, Calif., burned more than $50,000 of materials, manager Wally Swanson estimates. A high voltage line hit their steel warehouse baking plywood, dry' wall, roofing, dry lumber and a fork lift, plus melting the beams.

Electrical power was off for nearly a day. Nearby Pacific-Madison Lumber Co., suffered only slight damage.