THE AR'ZONA SCENE

By FRANK DAVIS SecretaryManager

tfHE NEED for trained personnel in the I buildins materials industry is becoming more aiparent every day in the Arizona association area. The Association Employment Service has many job openings with uery fera applicants applying for the jobs. 'Ihese job openings fall in the category o{ manager, assistant manager, salesman, purchasing and order desk personnel.

This situation gives more importance to the association's two year Building Materials Nlerchandising and Management Course which will be underway in September of 1969 at the Phoenix College.

The association's education committee has been meeting u'ith Phoenix College of. ficials and the followine curriculum will be ofiered:

Soulhwest Forest Buys Bough

Agreement in principal for Southwest Forest Industries. Phoenix, to acquire Baugh Forest Products Corp., Los Angeles, has been jointly announced by SFI's J. B. Edens and Baugh's William E. Baugh.

Southwest will acquire Baugh, which had 1967 sales of about $5 million, for a minimum of $1.2 million with a possible additional payment based on Baugh's earnings in the next three fiscal years.

The firm will operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Southwest with William Raugh continuing as president.

Stondqrds Committee OKs 11/2"

The American Lumber Standards Committee, by an lB-2 vote, has agreed to the softwood size standard package worked out recently by various rules writing agencies. For details and the proposed -*izes, see Tfr.e Mercha,nt ilIagazine, Nov., p. 12.

'fhe recommended revision embodies a number of innovations designed to afiord better protection for the consumer includ' ing sizes related to moisture content, provisions for the establishment of a national grading rule for dimension lumber, uniform strength and stifiness values for species subject to more than one set of grading rules, restructuring ALSC to strengthen enforcement, and inclusion of net sizes on invoices.

of West Coost lumber . REDWOOD

Douglas Fir White Fir K5

"At Holmes, fost shipment is the ndme of the gqme . rtlil or T&T"

Production & Home Off

Fred HolmesCorl ForceJim Buckner

P.O. Box 665Ft. Brogg, Colif. 95437 Phone l707l 96/,4058 TWX: 707-573-8259

Merchondising Kit

Great Ideas in Outdoor Liaing is lhe title of Western Wood Products Assn's. merchandising kit, available to help building material dealers sell more in the home improvement market. A new 14-page idea booklet, two plan folders for the yard pro- jects it shows, invoice stufrer, ad-mat proofs, display poster and a blank for ordering quan- tities make up the kit.

W'RITE: The Merchant Magazine, 573 So. Lake Ave., Pasadena, Calif. 91101.

Unemploymenl Book

Books on training the disadvantaged and hard core unemployed appear for the first time as a special section in the new edition of A Selected and Annotated Bibliography on A'udioaisual Utilization, Communicati,on and Training and Deuelopment. Free copies of this revised edition are available from Olympic Film Service.

WRITE: The Merchant Maga- zine,573 So. Lake Ave., Pasadena. Calif. 91101.

Winter Soles Kit

A mid-Winter sales promotion kit is offered by Zonolite Division, W. R. Grace & Co. to aid dealers in staging cold weather prog:rams. The kit is comprised of special sale banners; radio script; ne'w'spaper mats; envelope enclosuresl and local publicity stories.

WRITE: The Merchant Maga- zine,573 So. Lake Ave., Pasadena, Calif. 91101.

Ponel Brochure

Marlite Fire-Test panels are described in an eight page, color folder. It lists panel specifications and offers details on approvals and specific test reports.