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THE ARIZONA association is very forr tunate this vear in havine the National Lumber and Building MaLrial Dealers Association select Phoenix for their 1969 annual meeting. The dates are October 2630 and the Arizona Biltmore Hotel is meeting headquarters.

The Arizona lumber and building materials industry is going all out in support of the meeting by sponsoring several events. The Phoenix Hoo-Hoo club is sponsoring a golf tournament on Sunday, Oct. 26, at the Arizona Biltmore Country club course.

Southwest Forest Industries, Kaibab Industries and Duke City Lumber Co. are sponsoring the "early bird reception" on Sunday evening, Oct. 26. The Arizona association is sponsoring the cocktail party and steak fry on Monday the 27th.

Every Arizona dealer should plan to attend this fine meeting, since it will give him the opportunity to meet building material dealers from all parts oI the United States. The dealer discussion forums scheduled for Monday and Wednesday will give the dealer an opportunity to discuss common subjects that deal with his industry.

Registration intormation has been mailed to association members to enable them to plan their schedules and register early for the meeting.

Additional information on the meeting appears in another part of this issue of The Merchant Magazine.

Teco Now o Privote Compony

Timber Engineering Co. of Washington, D. C., and Eugene, Oregon, long identified with products and services relating to forest products, is now a privately owned corporation, according to newly elected president Ralph H. Gloss. Louis A. Patron' sky, Eugene, Oregon, moves to vp-treasurer, and David R. Norcross to vp-secretary. The three officers have been active in the company for many years.

The new officers succeed forest industry principals who were officers under its prior ownership by the National Forest Products Association.

A New No,me: Cloverdqle lumber

Cloverdale Lumber, Inc. is the new corporate name for Precision Wood Products, according to company officer John H. Bryson.

The firm does custom kiln drying and manufactures band sawed redwood, fir, pine, alder and oak. The Cloverdale, Calif., company also sells laminated furniture stock, mouldings and cut stock.

Monufocturer Exponds Agoin

G&T Enterprises, Orange, Calif., manufacturers of marble bathroom tops and wooden bathroom cabinets has once again expanded its manufacturing, warehouse and office facilities, this time to 42,000 sq. ft.

How to Quolify o Truck Lessor

"Rose colored glasses have no place in negotiations between a full-service truck Iessor and lessee," warns W. E. Cotner of National Truck Leasing Systems.

He defines a lease as a substitute for ownership usually written for t}e o'vehicle's useful life"-three to six years for power units, four to eight years for trailers-with all truck related services supplied except drivers. otlf a lessor, due to ignorance of your business or in anxiety to 'get the accounto' or if a lessee, in misguided confidence, feels that a low rate based on overextended depreciation is a bargain, both parties will be unhappy in the long run.

"No problerns will be solved," he said, "by going with a low-rate, no-profit lessor. A real pro in this business," he continued, o'will want to know as much or more than you do about your truck operation. He'll want tc know about tire experience. payloads, terrain and srade conditions at the various plants, methods of loading and unloading, scale for the drivers and average longevity, hours when equipment is available for service. If these, and other, questions aren't asked and the prospective lessor quotes a rate on the first call-watch out ! Unless he's had prior successful experience in your particular type of truck operation, there's something wrong."

Other factors that should influence the choice of a truck lessor include stability of personnel and how well they are living up to their service commitments with other lessees in your area.

Book Sides with Lumbermen

California's redwood lumbermen, often pictured as the darkest o{ conservation villains, may have accomplished more to place the best of the coast redwoods in public parks than any other group--including the

Save-the-Redwoods League.

That claim is made in "The Redwood's," a paperback book released October I by Popular Library, Inc. of New York.

More than a score of park donations and pledges by timber interests are detailed by author Kramer Adams, a free-lance writer and conseryation director of California Redwood Association.

The recent donation by Georgia-Pacific Corp. of a $6 million grove of redwoods on the Van Duzen River is only the latest example in an industrial tradition that spans 67 years, Adams states. The G-P gesture was hailed by the Nature Conservancy as "the largest single gift in the history of the American conservation movement."

The earliest benefactor was redwood lumberman Henry L. Middleton, who donated I,300 acres to California's first state park at Big Basin, Santa Cruz County. That was in 1902, 16 years before establishment of the Save-the-Redwoods Leasue.