RIVER FOREST PRODUCTS

May

Forest Products Research Society - May l5-17, wood products clinic, Sheraton Hotel, Spokane, Wa.

Southern California Construction Expo - May t6-18, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, Ca

Dataline Corp. - May 17, Users Conference, Marriott Hotel, San Diego, Ca.

Lumber Merchants Association of Northern CaliforniaMay 17-20, Golden Anniversary Convention, Marriott Hotel, San Diego, Ca.; May 20-27, Mexican Riviera Cruise.

Dub's Ltd. - May 18, golf tournament & dinner, Los Altos (iolf & Country Club, LosAltos, Ca.

American Plywood Association - May 18-19, marketing advisory committee meeting, San Diego, Ca.

Phoenix Hoo-Hoo Club - May 19, golftournamentin conjunction with MSLBMDA convention, Foothills Golf Course, Phoenix, Az.

Young Lumbermen of Arizona - May 19, steak fry, Rustlers Rooste, Pointe South Mountain Resort, Phoenix.

Mountain StatesLumber & Building Material Dealers Association - May l9-20, Arizonaconvention, Fiesta Inn, Phoenix, Az.

Inland Empire Hoo-Hoo Club - May 19-21, Ladies Weekend, Marriott's Rancho Las Palmas, Rancho Mirage, (ia.

National Hoo-Hoo-Ette Convention - May 19-21, Red Lion lnn. Sacramento. Ca.

Western Building Material Association - May 20-22, all industry marketing/management conference, Coeur d'Alene Resort, Coeurd'Alene, Id.

National Hardwood Lumber Association - Nlay 22-26, Spanish language grading short course, Johnston Hardwood , Long Beach, Ca.

Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club - May 26, golf tournament, Dry Creek Golf Course. Galt. Ca.

June

Willamette Valley Hoo-Hoo ClubJune 2, annual goll tournament, Eugene CountryClub, Eugene, Or.

Lumber Association of Southern California - June 2-4. Second Growth weekend, Rancho Bernardo Inn. San I)iego, Ca.

National Dimension Manufacturers AssociationJune 7. wooddust seminar, Los Angeles, Ca.;June 8, Portland, Or.

[,os AngelesHardwood Lumberman's Club - June 8, election meeting, Los Angeles, Ca.

Spokane Hoo-Hoo ClubJune 10, golf tournament & dinner, Twin Lakes Village, ld.

Our Own Hardware Co.June 10-12,summer meeting, I)enver, Co.

Pacific Coast Builders ConferenceJune l4-17, Moscone ('onvention Center, San Francisco, Ca.

Spokane Hoo-Hoo ClubJune 15, day at the races, Spokane, Wa.

Dub's Ltd.June 16, golf tournament, Fountain Grove (iolf Course, Santa Rosa, Ca.

Society of Wood Science & Technology - June 20-24, annual meeting, Bally's, Reno, Nv.

Berdex Intemational Expansion

Berdex International, San Francisco, Ca., has recently established a Forest Products Group to engage in the import and export of all types of forest products, according to Donelson L. Berger, president and ceo.

The company is a joint venture of D. L. Berger Associates and ConAgra, Inc. Berger is founder and chairman of Berger and Co., now a division of ConAgra, which has worldwide interests in grains, feed, fertilizers, prepared foods, commodity trading, seafoodsand livestock.

The Forest Products Group of Berdex earlier opened an olfice in Sacramento, Ca., for the wholesale distribution of softwood mouldings, lumber, plywood and millwork, under the direction of James A. Haas. Franklin O. Billings heads the new import and export office in San Francisco. (See The Merchant, Dec. p. 40)

Berger states that the company intends to build upon the existing worldwide offices of ConAgra and associated companies to develop a major forest products trading organization. At present important sources of supply are Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and New

Zealand. Export markets are Taiwan, Japan, Korea and Europe.

11 Lumber Firms To Move

The sale of a single parcel of land in Montebello, Ca., could trigger the mass exodus of 1l lumber companies from the property.

United Wholesale Lumber Co. has been seeking a buyer for the 14acre site and will consolidate itsoperations at its Visalia, Ca., location after the sale.

Among the l0 lumber-related tenants, Panel-Tex, Inc. is consolidating at its expanded City of Industry, Ca., base, and Santa Fe ForestProducts is developing a new site in Riverside, Ca.

Boyce Forest Products, Western Cal Industrial Lumber. Bohannon Lumber Co., Lomeli Custom Milling, Loveday Lumber Co., Imperial Hardwood, Imperial Media and Golden State Hardwood Lumber Co. are looking for new locations.

"We've known for some time that when the property is sold, we'll all have to move," says Golden State's Gale Daugherty.