GALEN DAR

August

Los Angeles Hardwood Lumbermen's Club - Aug. 14' meeting, Velvet Turtle, Los Angeles.

Dubs, Ltd. - Aug. 15, golf tournament, Orinda Country Club. Orinda. Ca.

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club - Atre.22, concat & election of officers (Old Timer's Nite), Montebello Country Club, Montebello, Ca.

Humboldt Hoo-Hoo Club - Aue. 22, annual golf tournament, Baywood Golf & Country Club, Arcata, Ca.

Bay Cities Hardware Co. - Aug. 24,FalllChristmas market

- The Showplace, San Francisco'

California Hardware Co. - Aug. 24, Fall mart, Pasadena Center, Pasadena, Ca.

62nd Denver Gift & Jewelry Show - Attg. 24-27 ' Denver Merchandise Mart & Exposition Building, Denver.

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club - Aug. 25, golf & dinner, Riviera Country Club, Pacific Palisades, Ca.

September

Forest Products Research Society - Sept. 3'5, meeting exhibit, Hilton Hotel, Denver.

Yakima Hardware Co. - Sept. 6-7, market, company offices, Yakima, Wa.

National issociation of Wholesaler-Distributors - Sept. 714, whsle. exec. management course, Stanford University' Palo Alto. Ca.

Independent Veneer Producers, Inc. - Sept. 8-9, annual meeting, Kah-Nee-Ta, Warm Springs, Or.

National Association of Wholesaler'Distributors - Sept. l0-12, seminar on purchasing & inventory control, The Adams Hotel, Phoenix.

NARESCO - Sept. l0-12, annual meeting, Marriott Hotel, Denver, Co.

Orange County Hoo-Hoo Club - Sept. I l, meeting & dinner' Mr. Mike's. Tustin. Ca.

Strevell Pateison Co. - Sept. 14-15, convention, Salt Palace, Salt Lake CitY, Ut.

Hoo-Hoo International - Sept. l4-17, annual convention, Bay Shore Inn, Vancouver, B.C.

Lumber Association of So. Calif. - Sept. l8-20, meeting' Del Coronado Hotel, San Diego.

Shasta Hoo-Hoo Club - Sept. 19, golf tournament, Riverview Golf & Country Club, Redding, Ca.

W.O.O.D.,Inc. - Sept. 19, W.O.O.D. Choppers Ball, Columbine CountrY Club, Denver.

Washington Haidware Co., Inc. - Sept. 21, annual hardware dealers show. Tacoma, Wa.

Cultured Marble Institute - Sept. 22-23, annual meeting & seminar, St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco.

Mountain States Lumber Dealers Assn. - Sept.24-26,82nd annual meeting, Hilton Inn, Albuquerque, N.M.

Dubs, Ltd. - Sept. 26, golf tournament, Santa Rosa Country Club, Santa Rosa, Ca.

International Conference of Building Officials' - Sept. 29Oct.4, annual meeting, MontereY, Ca.

FAMOWOOD ,'{t',

is the PR0FESSI0NAL'S Att PURP0SE PIASIIC

Boat builders, furniture makers, cabinet makers, etc..have found it the one suie answer to correcting wood defects, filling wood cracks, gouges, covering countersunk nails and screws.

Can be used under Fiber Glass! y&e&k.

Ready t0 use rlgnt our.0I tne can, Famow-ooo , ! appli'es like putty-sticks like glue; dries quicklv: won't shrink; takes spirit stains, a'nd wili not gum up sander. Waterproof and weatherproof when properly applied. arr.a

I\ I OISP is a word that is gaining in I \ importance as the Year Passes. Both the federal and state OSHA offices are conducting sound level surveys. The law states that if You have any equipment suspected of exceeding the 90 decibel level you must have a sound survey conducted. We are in the process of conducting the surveys for over 100 of our members. The results maY astound You. Equipment you believe to be relatively quiet frequently exceeds the permissible sound level. You must have the survey in your files for review by the OSHA compliance officer should he stop for an inspection. If you do not then you are in violation and subject to a fine.

The association has been conducting the surveys for approximately $50. The same type of survey would cost ybu up to $1,500 from a commercial company. This one association service is well worth the dues you pay.

Noise from OSHA is not the only noise being emitted from Washington. Hearings are currently being held on the EPA demand to reduce the noise level to 85 decibels which could cause a number of corporations to give up the ship. The unions are solidly behind the reduction even though it could mean closing a number of businesses and an increase in unemployment.

There is a lot of noise from our legislators at both the federal and state levels but then next year is the presidential election and prospective candidates are baying at the moon hoping to be heard. If we listen to all of them and all they have io say our country is doomed. The best remedy for the political barrage is ignore i/! It won't go away so turn a deaf ear toward it. The environmentalists and the unions are getting their way at the cost to the citizen and we, the citizlns, accept one slap after another without much of a whimper.

Maybe our best course of action is to give in to their demands and pass the cost of all their demands plus a 50% mark-up on to the consumer.

We should all develop a standard answer for our customers who complain about the increase in prices' Just tell them it was added on by the unions and environmental groups.

Nikkel lnto Millwork Sales

Robert F. Nikkel, president of The Nikkel Corp. recently announced their formation of a moulding and millwork sales division.

Backed by production from three northern California remanufacturing plants, Nikkel is marketing pine lineal, Douglas fir and white fir moulding, millwork and cut stock items. Sales are handled from the firm's main office in Sacramento, Ca.

The Nikkel Corp., which re-entered lumber wholesale operations in August of 1974, has since made major commit' ments in several lumber related marketing areas including a new remanufacturing facility and distribution center to supply lumber products to the mobile home and industrial trades.