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Ook Flooring Associstion Opens West Coost Oftice

The National Oak F looring Manufacturers' Association, headquartered in Memphis, Tenn., has opened a western office in Beverly Hills, Calif., to provide improved service for builders, architects and other specifiers of oak flooring, announces President Sam M. Nickey.

"This is NOFMA's first regional office," he said. "We believe it represents a major step forward not only in assisting specifiers of oak flooring but in 'telping stimulate further demand for oak floors in the fastgrowing Southern California area.

"The arrangement may so prove its value to users and sellers of oak flooring as to warrant additional branches in other regions of the United States," he added.

In charge of the office, located at 292 South La Cienega Blvd., is Fred H. Comstock said, Comstock will maintain close liaison with builders and architects in the area. He will assist in the solution of flooring problems and acquaint specifiers with the benefits of utilizing oak floors both in homes of conventional joist -and-wood-subfloor construction and those built on concrete slab foundations.

Nickev added that oak floor'; lead in popularity bY a wide margin in Southern California, as well as in most other sections of the country. Nationally, he said, they are favored bY about 857o ot home buyers. TheY owe this overwhelming preference, he explained, to their matchless natural beauty, lifetime durability, warmth, comfort, ease of upkeep and decorative adaPtability.

Block Bort Concot Drqws 7 Kittens ond Buck Elmore from "Fqr-off Cloverdqle"

The Black Bart Hoo-Hoo Club conducted a "lucky seven" Concat on Wednesday evening, November 16, at Vichy Springs Resort in IJkiah, when they Concatenated seven fine Kittens into the International Order of IIoo-Hoo and. of course, Black Bart Hoo-Hoo Club 181. Some 40 members were in attendance and the visiting officer ( ? ) was none other than Buck Dlmore from "far-oIf Cloverdale."

Besides Elmore, members of the Degree Team included Harold Ifess, Snark; Marion Ward, Senior Hoo-Hoo; Art Bond, Junior Hoo-Hoo; Swen Gummer, president of Club 181, Bojum; Edwin Ilamson, Jr., Scrivenoter; Louls Loosley, Jabberwock; Galen Smith, Custocatian; Cliff Smoot, Arcanoper, and Dd Glllesple, Gurdon'

The Kittens, and the firms they represent, as follows: labove), until recently associated with the Hardwood tr'Iooring Council of Southern California. As western manag:er of NOFMA he will function under the direction of Executive VicePresident Henry H. Willins and the board of directors.

Wayne Evans, Independent Fir Co., Boonville; Fred Gummerson, G & R Lumber Co., Cloverdale; John M. Mayffeld, Jr., Mendo Mill & Lumber Co., Ukiah; Harold R. Smlth, Cloverdale Plywood Co., Cloverdale; Ed Stryker, Cloverdale Plywood Co.; Don Sundstrom, F''irco, Inc., Willits, and Da,n Wentworth, Aero Studs, Albion, Calif.

With the membership roster further strengthened by seven new members, Club 181 swung into the Christmas season with its annual Christmas dance and Hawaiian luau, held in the Home Economics building at the Ukiah F airgrounds on Saturday evening, December 10. Reported a tremendously successful affair, full details of this event will be carried in a later issue.

A former newspaperman, Comstock has a broad background as a public relations and advertising executive, with extensive experience in the construction field. He is a graduate of the ljniversity of Illinois, and studied law at Georg:etown University while a Washington, D.C., correspondent for the New York Journal of Commerce. IIe also is a graduate of the Certified Industrial Relations course at the University of Catrrornia at Los Angeles. During World War II army service he was an artillery command and stafr officer and commanding officer of a military government company in Korea. At the time of his discharge as a major he was assigned to the Department of Information of the army military government in Korea.

In his new capacity, Nickey