T HE ARIZONA SCENE

SecretaryManager

COMMITTEE of the Arizona Retail Lumber and Builders Supply Association, made up of Ray W'ells, The O'Malley Companies; Jim Killen, Foxworth'Gal' braith Lumber Co.; Larry Hamman, Hamman-McFarland Lumber Co.;Tom Fridena, president of the association and Frank Davis, executive vice president of the association, met recently to set uP a more dignified employment service within the association. The object is to more adequate' ly fill the association member's need for their employment requirements.

It was decided by the group, that a standard job application form be adopted by the association and made available to association members. The executive vice president of the association would screen the job applicants and make the applications available to other members. Also,

NEIMAN-REID OPENING

(Continueil lrom Page 6) members will make known to the association office their job openings.

AII the latest desigrr concepts and customer conveniences have been incorporated into this new store, including climate controlled air conditioning, automatic doors, and one-stop check-out facilities.

Customers ean purchase complete do-ityourself materials from all departments, and need only checkout at one cashier.

Larger purchases and bulky goods can be picked up at a convenient rear service area.

Company policies include guaranteed money-back satisfaction, flexible monthly revolving charge credit plan, expert technicians in each department capable of giv. ing free t'how to do it" advice on all repair and fix-up projects, and extra floor sales help to provide old-fashioned service with a smile.

Store hours for the new Neiman-Reed Lumber City store in Mission Hills will be daily, 8 a.m. to 9 p.*. On Saturdays and Sundays, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Their other two locations, also in the San Fernando Valley are at Burbank Blvd. and Fulton Ave. in Van Nuys and the Chatsworth home improvement center, Canoga Ave. at Nordhofi St.

Not content to rest on their already impressive laureh, the pair plans to expand more. Bob Reed sayso o'We are contemplating new stores in the future and negotiations are now being made."

We'll bet they make it, too.

The association, through its newslettero will keep its members advised of the job applicants available.

Ray lVells, chairman of the association education committee, also reported at the meeting that Phoenix College was considering a building material training epurse to be inqluded in their curriculum.

We[d aho reported that the association now has thirteen enrollees in tJre programmed learning course being sponsored by the national associaation.

Crollup Yords Buy lvlodison Co.

Gallup Yards, Inc. of Moocow, Idaho, (a division of Troy Lumber Co., Lewistonn Idaho) has purchased The Madison Co. of Moscow. The two firms are adjacent to each other, and according to Robert Lightfield, Gallup's manager, they plan to remodel them into one operation.

Edward H. Nygaard, Madison's lormer manafter, and other personnel will be retained by the new operation.

'. or iust call Hobbs Wall!

We represent oyer one hundred Western producers of Ponderosa and Sugar Pine... Redwood lumber and Redwood split products... Douglas Fir and White Fir ... Hemlock and Cedar lumber, as well as a complete line of Gedar fencing. Your one callto Hobbs Wall is a short-cut to fast service and the right grades at the right prices, backed by a solid reputation for dependable dealing.

Astaff of veteran lumbermen experienced in handling the requirements of the retail dealer

United in their effort to provide prompt, efficient service on orders from our

United inventory of prime softwood maintained with the retail dealer's needs in mind.

SouthwestFirm Plons Exponsion

Plans to build a plywood manu{acturing plant in Arizona's White Mountains area and double the size of Southwest Forest Industries' paper mill at Snowflake, Ariz., have been submitted to the firm's board by J. B. Edens, S.F.I. president. A decision is expected in mid-July.

S.F.I., which earlier saw two merger attempts collapse, has decided to expand via internal-external growth, rather than by mergers, Edens explained.

Some 900 new jobs are expected to be created if the plan goes into effect.

Plywood Distribution Pqtterns

The plywood distributor members of the National Building Material Distributors Association account for over one-half of the volume for residential plywood, according to their recent survey.

Reports from the U. S. Department of Agriculture place the total U. S. consumption o{ softwood plywood at 13.I billion square feet (/e-inch basis) of which about six billion sq. ft. is used for residential construction. NBMDA's survey shows slightly over 3Y+ billion sq. ft. of softwood plywood sold by NBMDA distributors during 1966.

Hardwood plywood consumption in the U.S. during 1966 has been estimated at five billion sq. ft. (surface measure) , with the furniture industry and others taking a large share of this plywood. The NBMDA wholesale distributors sold over I.1 billion sq. ft. of hardwood plywood during 1966 with the major portion of this product (777.5 million sq. ft.) being used for prefinished wall paneling.

Arizona Convention

(Continued lrom Page 8) and Henry Galbraith, F<-rxwolth-Galbraith Lumber Co.

Vhile a consensu.s didn't seem lo emerge from the panel's discussion, it did seem evident that a greater flexibility and willingness to accept change was needed by the average dealer. And the same went {or the manufacturers.

That dynamo-spt-'aker, Heartsill \It'ilson. fully awakened any potential after lunch sleepcrs with his ringing talk on "Tlrt' World of the Uncommon Man."

A serious note during the fine banqut:t that wrapped up the converrtion tltat evr:ning was plovided by Jay O'N{alL:y wh<r gave a moving tribute to the membcrs ol' the association and busint:ss that had died the past 1ear. A minutc o{ silcnce was observed in their remembrarrce.

The lucky door prize winners during the convention were: Clifi Floyd, Vaughn Lumber Co. of Chandler; Howard Snell, Hamman-McFarland Lumber Co. o{ Phoenix; Hank Stanton, Phoenir Cement Co. of Phoenix: Loyd Bowcrman. 0'Mallc_v's of Clendale; Ray Wells, O'Nlalley's Industrial Relation Dept.; Pat Simone. O'Malley's Data Pror:essing; Jim Barlow, O'Malley of 'Iucson and Colleen Gyori, wife o{ John Gyori of Duke City Lumber of Scottsdale.

Produced in Colifornio to give you one-week delivery by truck to your yord or job site. Wholesole discount to lumber deqlers.

Lowest prices on Glu-lom ond Potlotch Lock-Deck.

Complete service D Any size or shope-stroisht or curved D Engineering ond design service D Pre-finishins with Olympic stoins.