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(Continued from Page 18) a "uniquely advantageous position to service all the building materials needs of builders and contractors."

This, he pointed out, was attributable to the "new trend of establishing enterprises with many related lines to satisfy consumer requirements for a single source of supply as opposed to the old method of product sales-specialization in single or limited lines."

Mr. Young declared that "by expanding into many lines of building supplies, the lumber dealer nbt only improves his competitive position, but makes it possible foi himself to obtain a larger share of each construction dollar." He illustrated this with case histories of lumber dealers who, for a modest investment, had established builders' hardware dep_artments and had increased their profits up to 25/o in the first year.

The Yale exhibit at the Building Products Exposition shows how builders' hardware departments are estiblished at lumber yards. It includes inventory lists showing the expense involved in setting up contract hardware depart- ments to service various segments of the construition market. Yale contract hardware experts were available at the booth for consultation.

More than 700 lumber dealers from all over the United States honored the five founders of the Lumber Dealers Research Council on its tenth anniversary at a dinner dance in the Hilton hotel on Monday evening, a highlight of the National Exposition. The Lumber Dealers Research Council is a non-profit organization devoted to the development of better homebuilding methods in cooperation with local lumber dealei3. Over $400,000 in reseirch has been sponsored by LDRC. With ihe Lu-Re-Co system of home niitaing with modular, preassembled wood components, over 75,000 homdd have been built. Through such educational facilities as the Small Homes Council of tne University of Illinois, the iumber Dealers Research Council has developed an extremely flexible system of modular componentsexterior panels, roof trusses, interior partitions-which are manufactured on jigs by local Lu-Re-Co dealers.

Elected president of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association fior 1959 at the board of directors meeting at Chicago, November 21, was H. W. Blackstock, presidenl of the H. W. Blackstock Lumber Company, Seattle, a firm with which he has been associated for his entire 39 years in the retail building materials industry. He was first employed In l9l7 with theleigh Lumber Company, which two years later became the Blickstock Lumb.i Co-p"tty, originally organized as a partnership with his brother Carl.

For many years Mr. Blackstock has been active in lumber trade association work, having served as director, chairman of the Executive board, and president of the Western Retail Lumber Association and as NRLDA director for that group. He served as NRLDA treasurer in 1956, as second vicepresident in 1957, and first vice-president in 1958. He was a member of the 1957 NRLDA Exposition committee and had previously served as a member.of the Labor Relations committee and the Budget committee. He currently serves as a member of the NRLDA Executive committee and the Committee on Industry Relations. He is married and has one son, Robert V. Blackstock. who is associated with him in the H. W. Blackstock Lumber Company.

An all-redwood interior setting, e*hibit.d at the 1959 Exposition at Chicago, showed lumber dealers from throughout the U. S. the versatility of California redwood. Hundreds of conventioning lumber dealers visited the exhibit, sponsored by the California Redwood Association and its eight member mills. Designed by San Francisco Architect Ernest Born, the exhibit basically was a small room tastefully furnished with redwood fuiniture and enclosed on three- sides by fluted redwood panels made by laminating strips of redwood molding of alternating widths.

California redwood was also well represented by other