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A DETEGATION OF IHE JAPANESE PIYWOOD EXPORIERS ASSOCIATION yisited Californio in September lo explore overy p$sibility of cooperotion with rhe locql lmported Hordwood Plywood Associstion. Visitors included Y. Ohtomo, M. lwokuro ond f. Kuniyoshi. ond their ho:ts on thair los Angeles stop included John Osgood. Seeichi Nobe, Jcck ond Normon Dovidson, Al Rogers, Ehsndler Holt ond Howqrd Wickershom-qll fo be sPofied in tha pix ohove

IHE IUIIABER INDUSIRY iAADE GOOD when it furnished "rtllss cAllFoRNlA OF 1956" from its own rqnks. She wos the stunning sscr€tary - receptioni3f ot the Sierrc - Nevqdq Pine Compony of Sseromenlo, qnd her nome is Joan Eeckett. Some lumbermen hove oll rhe luck!

THE BIG EVENT OF THE HOO-HOO YEAR, of coutse' wos the Internqtionol convention in Son Froncisco in September, which hit on oll'time ofteodonce record. Cstifornio's own Snark of the Universe, Dove Dovis. congrotuloler his succcsror, Konror City's Clifi Schorling (in robes, obove) os C. D, Lefiqstar ond John Egon look on. Fronting lhe convention city, below, ore Phil Forns' worth. Dovis ond Joon Word from the "Top o' the Mork"

IHE IUII'IBER MENCHANTS ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN CAtItORNtA wos in copoble hondr ogoin in 1956 wilh itl oficcrs re-elected ot the April onnuol in Polo Alto. Serving until thi: yeor's April convention in Yosemilc Nofionol Park ore (left ro righr): Homilton Knolt, Fresno, vice-president; Chos. Shepcrd. Sqctomonlo, pr.sident; Psst-Prerid€nl nuss Stavens, deoler delegcte to the NRIDA, ond l. E. Horton, South Son Frcncisco, lreqsurer. Jock Pomeroy, meonwhile, spent 1955 hitting on oll eighr os execulive v.-p. in S. F.

THE ARIZONA Retoil Lumber & Builder: Supply Arsociotion enioycd onother successful yeor in 1955 under lhcse oftcers elected at the Flogstoff onnuol in lt/loy. They ore (lefi ro right): Fronk Hqney, Phoenix, lreosurer; l/tike Medigovich, Coitortwood, presidenl; ilorvin Snirh, Yumo, vice-presidenl. ond Howord Beols, Phoenix, vice-presidcnt, Of course, the longtime executivc aecratcrymqnoger, Gus R. Michcels, wcs right in there pirching oll yecr long, loo