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Woodwork Institute of Cqlifornicl Annuql ct L. A. Stqtler, Jonuory I t

Program plans were completed late last month for the annual membership meeting of the Woodwork Institute of California. The event will be held at the Hotel Statler in Los Angeles on Friday, January 11. The Hartford Room of the new l-rotel will be WIC headquarters, and registration will be in the Wilshire Room starting at 8:00 a.m.

The business starts at 9:00 a.m. with a Panel Meeting continuing until 11:00 a.m. Topic of the panel will be ".Archite,ctural Woodwork in Your Future." Panel members are to be A. B. Gallion, dean of the College of Architecture, USC; I)r. C. Thomas Dean, chairman, Dept. of Vocation and Industrial Education, Long Beach State College, and Dr. Fred E. Dickinson, director of the Forest

Products Research Laboratory, Richmond. The topic will be approached from the viewpoint of "Design Trend," "Manpower Availability and Training" and "Materials Availability and Utilization." Panel members will rvelcome questions, announces Bernard -8. Barber, Jr., secretary of the Woodwork Institute of California.

Scheduled from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. rvill be a Cocktail and Social Hour, with lunch timed for L2:3O.

For the lunch and afternoon session, the speaker will be Dr. Dickinson, popular Californian who rvill talk on "Research: The Tree through tlie mill to the customer-even to rvood waste !" This will be followed by a talk from WIC President Byron K. Taylor on "An Appraisal of Where We've Been and Where We're Going."

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VPin.Sqsh ond Ponet Doorc tn oddition TItte-7 ore octively engoged in the procurement ond dislribution of oll West Coost lumber products qnd mointoin buying offices in producing oreos to give the frode complete one-coll service.

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Ted Israel of Edwards Lumber & Mfg. Co. was elected a director of the S. F. Junior Chamber of Commerce Dec. 14. Ted was recently honored with "Key N{an of the Month" honors by the SFJC and has been active in Jaycee matters since 1950. The 1,0@-strong organization is headed by 15 directors and ofificers.

Martin Cooper and Peter Wilhelm last month moved the wholesale lumber operation of Wilfred T. Cooper Lumber Co. from Glendale to Long Beach.

Northern California dealers attendirrg the 1956 NRLDA Exposition in Chicago, Dec. 10-13, included Carl Travis, manager of Wilmars, Inc., San Jose; Herb Crawford, manager of Hillsdale Builders Supply Co., San Mateo, and George Adams, Noah Adams I-urnber Co., Walnut Grove. In addition, Jack Pomeroy of the LMANC and Joe Kirk, NRLDA director from Santa Maria, also put in an appearance.

Carl W. Watts, Oakland rvholesale lumber broker, visited mill connections in the Humboldt region in early December.