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SMltltlG 0le Johnson, Pacific Wood Preserv" ing, (l) Club S181 president, at their 14th annual BBQ. Held at Bill Crawford's home in Ukiah, Calif.,80 golfed, swam and boozed it up in 94' weather. (2) Lowell Ambrosini, Cliff Smoot, Molalla Lumber, Marion Ward. (3) Fred Holmes, Fred C. Holmes Lumber. (4) Larry 0wen, Supreme 9, Don Michaelson. (5) Cordes Langley, Redwood Coast, Ed Blunt, Simpson Wholesale. (6) Shirley Brown, Fred Gummerson, G & R Lumber. (7) Bob Jenson, Jenson's Truck Stop, Sam Wingate. (8) Bill Carter, Seaside Industries, Bob McFie, Georgia Pacific. (9) Carl

Force, Fred Holmes Lumber, Lowell Ambrosini, Crawford Lumber. (10) Jack Davies. G-P. Joe Gilley, Gilley Trucking, Lee Simpson, G-P, Marion Ward, Cagle Lumber. (11) Ed Hamson, Hamson Lumber Co., Hal Ahrens, Kern Valley Wholesale. (12) Fred Scaife, Crawford Lumber, Ron Robbins, Rossi Wholesale, Merle Tanner, Crawford. (13) Marion Ward, Cagle Lumber, Bill Gooch, Rounds Lumber, Cliff Smoot, Molalla Lumber. (What a soft Iifel) (14) Marion Ward, Landis Morgan. (15) Vic Roth, Triangle Lumber, Gil Sissons, Cal-Forest Products. (1 6) Perry Adcox, Crawford Lumber,0le Johns0n; Shirley

Brown, Billings Pacific. (17) Sam Wingate, Wingate Lumber, Jack Powell, Molalla Lumber. (18) Bill Crawfoi"d, Crawford Lumber, Bob Jenson, Hal Ahrens, Kern Valley Wholesale, Art Bond, West Range. (19) Joe Wheeler, Crawford Lumber. (20) Joe Bowman, West Range, Joe lt4ayf ield, Mendo Mill, Al Caldwetl, Pacif ic Wood Preserving. Paul Shogren, Shogren Lumber. (21) Paul Traba, Kilgore Lumber, Bob Kilgore. (22) Joe Bowman, Dick Trimble, Clover Lumber, Perry Adcox, Ctawford Lumber, Pete Stearns, B & M Lumber Sales, Shirley Brown. 03) lke Zafrani, Harbor Lumber.

New LASC Slaffer

The Lumber Association

Southern California has added to its stafi David F. o'Rod" Rodriguez, who is assisting Wayne Gardner, the exec. vp.

Rod has ten year's experience in the lumber industry. He has been active both in consumer and contractor sales and his working knowledge of the industry's strengths and problems will be a valuable asset to the association.

Rod will spend a portion of his time in the office, handling literature requests and building code inquiries. He will be calling on lumbermen and building officials in the northern part of the area served bv the association.

He will also assist Gardner with meetings and programs.

Low Moteriol Costs Shown

In a period of spiraling costs, construction materials are among the lowest-cost, major items in the price of a housing unit.

Construction cost figures from the Better Homes and, Gard,ens research department reveal that tl-re wholesale price index of construction materials increased. ll.57o from 1966 to 1968. In this same period, for example, the index of union wage rates in ,building trad e increased. 22/o

( 1957-59: 100)

"You said all that paint wouldn't sellso I threw it out!"

ARIZONA SCENE

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Our association wood promotion committee will be working in cooperation with the American Wood Council, Southern Pine Assn., W-WPA, APA and manufacturers.

Yours truly will be attending the W'estern Building Materials Assn. marketing conference in Oregon this month to study their market programs. We plan to utilize some of these ideas in the Arizona Assn. market programs.

New members signed recently are

Wilson Laminates, Phoenix; Cactus Lumber Co., Phoenix; and Foxworth-Galbraith Lumber Co.. Mesa. New association membe rs siened are C. S. Leech Mfg.. Phoenix, For-A-Top.Counter, Phoenix and Wilson Laminates, Phoenix.

THE SOUTHTAND

(Continued lrom Page 26) problems o{ association activities. The pleasures have bcen numerous, the problems few. Among the pleasures have been visits made to three relatively new retail operations in northern San Diego County.

CUTTING SPECIAI.ISTS Plqnk

On timbers: sizes up to 30" x 30" lengths to 100'

DOUGLAS FlR . HEMLOCK

All standard yard items

SOUTHWEST DISTRICT MANAGER

Chuck Clay

P.O. Box 84, Inglewood, Calif. (213) 678-6s63

EUGENE HEADQUARTERS

S/. B. "Bill" Johnson

D. P. "Swede" Johnson Eugene-Willamelfe lumber (0,

Box 2708, Eugene, Ore. (503) 345-0141

Each operation is an excellent example of the progressive thinking soen so frequently today in the retail lumber and building material industry. It's a pleasure to be a part of this increasingly modernized industry.

Our Annual Management Con{erenceNovember 19-20 -- is beginning to take shape under the capable guidance of John Lipani, vp., and program chairman. The business program is balanced to take in. to consideration thc industry's different sizes and types of operations, both wholesale and retail.