THE AR'ZONA SCENE

SecretaryManager

nNE WOULD imagine witfi summer \.7 h"r". it would be vacation time and a slow down for activities around our association, but yours truly, with a heavy work schedule planned ahead, cannot see any vacation time in sight.

First on our schedule, are two short courses the association is conducting for lumber dealers' employees and one for builders in the Phoenix Area, in conjunction with Wood Marketing, Inc.'s fall Builders Award Program.

The courses are designed for the employee to do a better job of selling and wood information courses for the builder to take advantage of selling wood products to tie in with Wood Marketins's Program.

The Lumber Dealer Employee short course will consist of 5 - one night a week sessions, commencing July 11 and closing

August 8. The following courses are on the agenda:

(l) What it takes to make a good em. ployee

(2) Elementary principles of selling

(3) The basic properties of wood based materials

(4) How to sell plywood under the new product standards

(5) The new standards and their effect on marketing lumber

The sessions are being held at the association office building, in the conference room and certificates will be presented to the employees completing the course.

The Builders School is a five session course, based on classes pertaining to how to frame a house, courses on wood windows, paneling, siding and mouldings. A technical literature file on wood will be presented to each builder at the conclusion of the training session.

Many other projects are in the making and will be reported in later issues of The Merchant.

Denver's Conseivoiion Librory

Ameriean l'orest Products Industries, Inc. is joining forest industry companies tlroughout the nation in providing ma' terials to the Conservation Library Center of North America at Denver.

The Center is now the repository of a number of conservation organizations, in' cluding the Forest History Society. Its colIection contains more than 250,000 items, including books, bulletins, periodicals, manuscripts, original reports, correspondence, tape recordings, photographs and films.

AFPI is the forestry education arm of the nation's forest industries and sponsor of the American Tree Farm System.

Exterior Remodeling Grows

Remodeling the exterior of the nation's 67 million homes is experiencing the same upgrading as the latest cars from Detroit.

The Exterior Decorators Institute of The Aluminum Association reports that a recent survey of 8,000 homeowners showed that nearly two-thirds of those interviewed had purchased other building products along with aluminum siding.

Growing family income, improving taste and more creative salesmanship by remodelers, are credited for the change.

WIB Wins Honor

Western Wood Products Association recendy showed their appreciation to southern California customers by honoring the stafis of the [.os Angeles Times Home Magazine and the Wood Information Bureau of Southern California.

The award to the Wood lnformation Bureau was made to its director James Cooper, of Cooper, Davis Advertising Co., o' , . . in recognitian ol WIB's aalu.able contribution to th.e Western lumber ind,wl,ry through its aigorous promotion ol wood, and. wod, prod.tu,cts."

The Wood Information Bureau's promotion funds are made possible through a unique management-union agreement involving B0 lumber retailers, 20 lumber wholesalers, 45 sash, door and millwork manufacturers and 12 trucking and material handling firms doing business in Los Angeles and San Bernardino countiesl and Local 2288 of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union.

Housing Shows Slight Gqin

New housing starts rn May, the latest available figures, showed a substantial increase from the April rate, but new building permits issued for the month, an indicator of future building activity, showed a gain of only 1.8 percent from April to May.

New housing starts were at the seasonally adjusted annual rate of l,3lO,0O0 units, an increase of lI.7 percent over the April rate of 1,173,000 units, and within a few percentage points of the May 1966 rate of I,318,000 units. The seasonally adjusted annual rate of new building permits issued was 1,045,000 units. The yearago rate was 1,098,0(X) units.

Potlqtch-Fibreboqrd Merger Off

Potlatch Forests, Inc. have called ofi their merger talks with Fibreboard Corp., according to Fibreboard's president George W. Burgess.

Benton R. Cancell, Potlatch president declined to comment. Earlier this year, Potlatch called ofi a proposed merger with Mosinee Paper Mills Co. of Mosinee, Wisc.

Sports Dqy Event

Bowling and (of course) golf were featured at the Arurual Sports Day meet staged by San Joaquin Hoo-Hoo CIub 3I, June 16, Bert Dennis doing the general chairman bit.

Jack Warren won the bowling tournament.

In the golf tournament: low gross winner, Ken Gorten, A & M Lumber, Fresno. Second place was tied between Harry McCall and Dick Wathen.

Low ne! established handicap, w:rs won by Harry McCall. Damon Bailey, Valley Wholesale, won the Blind Bogey. The Calloway Iow net was won by Randy Janres of Tarter, Webster and Johnson.

The trophy for team championship w€ls won by Sequoia Forest Industries. Second place was Tarter, Webster and Johnson, and third. Vallev Wholesale.

Kelly-Moore Sells Ouflet

A group of investors, headed by Bill Oberholser, has acquired the Kelly-Moore Home Improvement Center of San Luis Obispo, Calif. from the Kelly-Moore Paint Co., Inc. of San Carloe, Calif. The price was in excess of $100,000.

Kelly-Moore purchased the business from the old Pacific Coast Lumber Company in 1962. The Pacific Coast Lumber Company had been in business in San Luis Obispo since 1876.

Bill Oberholser started in 194,6 as a yardman, and eventually managed the yard for Pacific and Kelly-Moore for the past 18 Years.