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Club's 30th Annual Weekend

Eighty four members with their spouses attended the 30th anniversary of the Inland Empire Hoo-Hoo Club Palm Springs, Ca., weekend at the Marriott Rancho Las Palmas' Chip Roepke, Art Aviles, Roger Braniger, George WhitheY, Kent Bond, Jerry Mclaughin, JudY Watson, Joyce Mclaughlin, Eldra Gregson, Pat Braniger, Irene Holquin, Georgia Wilson and Barbara Specht were winners in the annual golf tournament.

Door prizes as well as golf trophies were presented at a Mexican fiesta buffet. Winners in the drawing were Marcy Nickeson, a diamond ring; Terry Halbert, a pearl and diamond bracelet; Irene Holquin, a diamond ring; Meri Butler, a watch, and MollY Allen. a watch.

Davis Retirement

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Ieadership, not a reaction to initiatives by small pressure groups. We need to seek the middle road-in fairness to all-or progress in the U.S. will continue to be blocked at state and local levels by selfish one interest groups. Leadership planning eliminates problems before they either occur or get too bad."

Davis stresses that a good leader must have human understanding. "Compassion is essential," he notes.

He recognizes the enormous changes wrought by freeways, which have revolutionized shopping patterns. The small dealers can't always compete with metropolitan home centers' prices, which lure distant shoppers in their cars. Yet home centers, he feels, usually can't be economically justified in sparsely populated areas. One result he sees is that "the guts have gone out of our industry. The chains are not involved in the towns the way the dealer was and the communities have suffered for it." He doesn't see a reversal of this pattern.

His awareness of industry problems, learned first hand as a dealer, led him into direct involvement in attacking industry problems as managing officer of the Arizona association. His successes with the state government in Arizona led to major improvements in lien laws for dealers, workers compensation costs have been lowered, thermal standards improved and greater recognition achieved of the wood industry's role in Arizona. A strong believer in public relations, Frank has tirelessly sought to tell the industry's sto{y at every opportunity. Industry observers say his work in correcting lien laws and workers compensation costs and his role in wood promotion are among his finest achievements.

Born in Milton-Freewater, Or., Frank graduated from Whitman College, Walla Walla, Wa., in l94l with a B.A. in business administration and economics.

A four year letterman in track, he was the captain of the team in 1941 and was awarded the Borleske Trophy as the outstanding senior athlete. The dedication and involvement he learned in track was to mould the wholehearted attitude he brought to his many achievements throughout his life.

He graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in 1942, served in the Pacific and European War Theaters and completed pilot training before being honorably discharged in 1945 as a Lt. Senior Grade.

He managed the Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co. yards in Heppner, Or., and Milton-Freewater, Or., from 1946-1950, when he was promoted to merchandising and sales manager for the 18 yard chain. Frank became a partner/v.p. of Hillsboro Lumber Co., Hillsboro, Or., in 1955. For family health reasons he moved to Phoenix in 1962 where he was employed by Cactus Lumber Co. and Hamman-McFarland Lumber Co. before being named executive vice president of the Arizona Lumber and Builders Supply Association in 1965.