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you're over lhe hump when you stop here. We corry qn odequole sup,ply of the best in building moteriqls olwoys. Thirfy yeors experience in the morket hos lought us whol you need ond when you need it. There's never o dry spell here on the finest hondwood ond soflwood plywoods. And lhere's olwoys on odequdle stock of Simpson tnsutoting Boord producfs; Mosonile Brond Products; Tile; ond Formico.

Several of the state and regional dealer associations have conducted management workshops which, without exception, have made excellent impressions and awakened an appetite for more. Various patterns have been tried, involving either lectures or discussion groLlps or both, and it is hoped that some feasible method that can be utilized on a broad scale will be evolved.

There also has been a growing interest in the development of programs which will guide dealers in training their own personnel in their own yards and give individual dealer employees a workable plan for studying their jobs and the products they sell on their own time.

The gradual development by the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association of the Building Product Dealer Data Book, a written sales book which contains basic product information, and the Dealer Operating Guide, which when completed will cover every major phase of management and merchandising, gives the industry for the first time a readily available source of tailor-made text material for any type of educational or training program, whether in organized classes or groups, in the yard, or ad home.

Even with a minimum of organized educational activity, it is obvious that the nation's retail lumber and building materials dealers have been registering steady advancement in their merchandising and management methods and that the industry has been providing the public with an ever-improving standard of service. The fact that an industry which has been enjoying a prolonged period of good business is so intent on self-improvement is a very wholesome and encouraging sign.

At the November meeting of the Board of Directors NRLDA adopted a l0-point program which is recommended to the industry and to the new administration:

Permit the Defense Production Act to terminate as provided for by the 82nd Congress, thus terminating priorities and allocation authority, price and wage stabilization, real estate credit control authority, and all other defense production powers.

Urge the examination and overhauling of regulations of federal agencies affecting business, and particularly recommend to the Congress that no "standby" control authority be given to any agency of government, unless that authority provides specifically for future Congressional approval of the use of the control authority in any field of business activfty.

Eliminate all unnecessary defense and non-defense expenditures in order to reduce the tax burden.

Encourage the further study of the entire tax structure and seek to distribute the burden of taxation equitably upon all branches of business and industry.

Restore the principle of freight absorption as a means of providing a free and even flow of goods to the distribution system.

Study and eliminate in so far as possible the many, and sometimes duplicating, rnandatory business and financial questionnaires of agencies of the government which are sent to the small business man.

By either Congressional or administrative action promptly unfreeze the fixed-interest rate on FHA and VA loans for residential construction in order that they may be competitive with the free-market rate of the conventional lender. ,

Urge upon private mortgage lending institutions that they provide a suitable secondary mortgage market for the benefit of mortgagees and builders in all sections of the country.

Continue to coop€rate in the exploration of means of providing the home b.t)ttg public with "more house for the money."

Continue to assist the iirdustry in acquiring larowledge and information as to product and management problerns in an effort to further improve the efficiency of the essential distribution function performed by the retail lumber and building materials dealer.

Operating Net Dry Kiln

Dolly Varden Lumber Company, Arcata, California-Sam Davis, manager-are now operating their new 70,O0'capacity double track Moore Cross-Circulation kiln.

This new kiln, which is 34 feet wide by 66 feet long, is of the double-ended type so that the solid piled loads of lumber are charged at one end and removed from the opposite end u'hen dry. The building itself is of economical wood construction with roof supported by special steel trusses. Large 7V' diameter fans are mounted in the roof and are driven by a 4O H.P. motor locateC in the overhead control room, shown in the picture.

An interesting feature of the installation is the fact that a gas fired automatic type boiler is used to heat the kiln which is equipped with Moore fin pipe and also recorder controller which automatically records and controls the drying conditions in the kiln.

Dolly Varden Lumber Co. have a mdern sawmill and planing mill and with their new Moore Cross-Circulation kiln they are in position to ship promptly properly dried Redwood and Douglas fir lumber.

Jack Mackey is sales m:rnager at Dolly Varden Lumber Co. and Les Johnson is in charge of kiln drying.

Opens Portlcmd Office

'Wood-Treating Chemicals Co. has opened an office at 1403' American Bank Bldg., Portland, Ore., where Guy Ramsey and Dan L. Lindsley are officing. Mr. Ramsey han^ dles their Noxtane and formulations accounts, an{ Mr. Lindsley is contacting wood treating plants only selli.g Monsanto's pentachlorophenol, his territory being ttre eight'Western states.