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Arizona Convention

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States was on the way to being destroyed." It must be run to cope with "the other side which doesn't play by rules and it must think of the security of the nation as a whole."

The concluding panel discussion at the convention was on "the legislative process and membership responsibility," and was moderated by ALBSA exec. v.p., Frank Davis, an old hand at working at both state and federal levels presenting the industry's viewpoints.

Lead-off panelist Joe Hobson, staff v.p. of the National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association, Washington, D.C., described government relations as the most important function of any association. Currently battling on two major fronts,NLBMDA hopes that the ill-named Labor Law Reform Act can "meet its deserved end through a filibuster:" and that a "sensible" conclusion can be reached in a reasonable time on the problem of wilderness set asides.

Jim Young, asst. to the president of Kaibab Industries, spoke to the effort and cooperation between forest products industry companies working on the legislative process with associations. He urged everyone to increase his efforts for the common good.

The local Arizona political scene and the likelihood of passage of a number of bills was reprised by the next panelist, v.p. of public relations for Southwest Forest Industries. Ed Wren.

Noting that Arizona has the highest workman's compensation rates in the country, he told of some of the efforts industry had made to get a reduction. Wren also urged the dealers to back candidates of similar political persuasion, describing the present legislature as "pro-business."

Relating another Westem association's role in dealing with its state legislature was final panelist Harry Mendenhall, exec. v.p. of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California.

Continuing the frank "tell it like it is" tone of the prior speakers, Mendenhall described the enormous growth of government at all levels and urged involvement in the legislative process by everyone. "We don't like what is happening in government,

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Woodworkers Meet

The 27rh annual meeting of the Woodwork Institute of California was held recently in Santa Barbara and elected Jim Cline of Ganahl Lumber Co., Anaheim, Ca., as its new president. Other new officers are Warren Olson, lst v.p.; Ralph McClure, 2nd v.p.; Edwin Bernhauer, treasurer; and Bernard B. Barber, exec. sec.

Opening the convention at the Santa Barbara Biltmore was a speech by Mike Pekarek on why "There is no excuse for mediocrity." He was followed by WIC director of architectural services W.L. Johnston who stressed the importance of management taking an aggressive postion in maintaining quality control of the products they manufacture.

Johnston noted that there have been several inspections of architectural woodwork where there has been evidence of lack of proper quality control by the fabricators of the millwork products.

Another higt'light of the convention was the Mock Construction Arbitration. WIC members Ralph McClure acted as the arbitrator, Byron Taylor as the architect, Chuck Walter as the general contractor and Jack Carpenter as the millwork fabricator.

Wood Foundation is A-OK

Concrete Construction Magozine has retracted an earlier article that erroneously identified a collapsed reinforced concrete block foundation as an All-Weather Wood Foundation.

In response to a letter from American Plywood Assn. general counsel Arthur S. Langlie, the publisher of Concrete Construction, William M. Avery, sent APA a copy of the retraction. It appears on the contents page of the May 1978 issue of Con' crete Construction and reads in full:

..CORRECTION AND APOLOGY.

Last October the editors of Concrete Construction received the first of several copies of a photograph and caption published in the South Bend Tiibune on September 18, 1977. The photo showed a collapsed frame house located near LaPorfe, In., and the caption attributed the collapse to ground water pressure causing failure of 'the wood frame basement."

GAVEL of office is presented to Jim Cline by retiring president Al Ebneter. top photo. Participants in the mock arbitration {below and l-r) are: Chuck Walter, Russ Culver, Ralph McClure, Byron Taylor, Jack Carpen' ter and Byron Berg.

"Unfortunately we published the photo, supplied to us by the South Bend Tiibune, d.ong with the newspaper's explanation of the collapse, in the February issue of Concrete Construction In recent weeks we have received from the American Plywood (Please turn to next page)