Forest Produds Reseuch Group

Schedules Two- Day ileeting

The Forest Products Research Society will hold a two day meeting, January 16-17, that will feature a speech by James Turnbull of the D.F.P.A., a number of technical sessions and tours of nearby plants.

The meeting, sponsored by the Pacific Southwest Section of F.P.R.S., will be held at the Disneyland Hotel. Program theme is "How to Stay Ahead in the Vood Products Industry."

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The society, which drew almost 280 persons at last years meeting, has 4,300 rnembers and was founded in 1947 as a common meeting ground for people who are interested in wood after it leaves the sawmill. Current president is D. E. Dickerson, director of the Forest Products Laboratory at Berkeley, Calif.

The meeting will begin ruith a morning plant tour of Continental Moulding Co., Bellwood Mfg. Co. and Menasha Corp. The three forest products companies are all in the general Anaheim area. Two concurrent technical sessions are planned for the afternoon. The traditional Paul Bunyan Hour, always a feature of F.P.R.S. meetings, will be held at 5:30 p.m.

Friday morning has two concurrent technical sessions set and all sessions will have experts in their field presenting technical and research papers. The management section of the organization will also have meetings and present papers.

Friday noon James Turnbull, executive vice-president of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, will speak at the executive luncheon.

Following will be two additional concurrent technical sessions. During this meeting, open to the public, will be a free registration session for anyone who wishes to join the Forest Products Research Society.

For further information and pre-registration contact Dan Place, Cal-Craft Furniture Co, 1622 South Magnolia Ave.. Monrovia" Calif.

WCLA lg$ Advertising Budget

West Coast Lumbermen's Association will spend nearly $320,000 in 1964 for the advertising of the five major west coast lumber species, according to WCLA's advertising and promotion manager Robert E. l\4ahafiay. The amount is approximately the same as last year's budget, he reported.

Present scheduling devotes $108,263 for national architectural trade books and $Il1,IB5 for builders, trade publications. These two categories are the largest in the budget breakdown.

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National Retail lumber magazines are listed for $24,495 and regional retail books for 918,763. Farm publications will receive fi24,L47 for space, while building code and miscellaneous trade magazines will account for $13,143.

The total space budget, plus production, dealer service and contingency, amounts to $318,997.

The architectural advertisements will be full-color, two-page inserts, beginning in February. Builder and retail ads will be one and two-page two-color ads running throughout the year. Black and white one and two-page ads will run in farm publications beginning next spring.

West Coast Lumbermen's Association is a trade organization made up of lumber manufacturers in western Washington, Oregon and northwestern California. The organization promotes West Coast Douglas Fir, Western Hemlock, Western Red Cedar, Sitka Spruce and White Fir.

WCLA's advertising is handled by Cole and Weber, Inc. Perry Culp, Jr. is account supervisor.

Credit Corner

(Continued. from, Page 30) stafi truthoritir-e interpretations o{ where profits come from: completcd sales.

Delinquent receivables-without justifialrlc cause aren't $.orth a nickle to your banker. 1-our factoring agent or vour Iinancirtg rtprcsentatile. Therr:{ore, they'rc rtot rvorth mu<'h to vorr. Profit-. are dt'rivt.d lrom coller:talrle accounts; espt'ciallv. sincc the avt'rage markett'r -*ells more ploducts on a crcdit basis than on a cash basis.

M1- job is tri lruttress vour judgmcnt. I arn calle<l in to assi-st with good crctlit judgment and training in credit managc- ment. One dealer told me toda,v: "Your periodic visits to our ofice keeps us or-r our toes and au.are of the importance of credit control."

Red Book Off the Press

Thc Novembcr l96ll issue of the Luml,crmen's Red llook is just off the press. It is thc 164,th issue of tht: Iamou,s credit and salt's guide.

Sinr:e l[]7(r. the Iletl lJook has lrecrt tht' principal sourcr: of <'rcrlit irrformation fnr' thc lumbcr. woodworking and allied inrlustrics oi the Utritcd States. Tt lists and cvaluates Ihc nranufacturers. rvholesalcrs.

retailers and quantity users of lumber and 'rvood products o{ all kinds. The listings intlude credit ratings, business classifications, addresses and other lacts of lalue to buvcrs and sellers alikc.

The agent'1 also t'ompiles detailed anal,vtical credit r('l)orls. and conducts a collt-'ctiolr scrvice for the handling of commercial claims.

Publishcd lry lhe Lumbermcn's Cretlit Association Inr'.. its headquartt.rs arr: loctrled at 60[i South l)earlrorn Street, Chicago 5. Illinoi,*, and an Eastern Ilranch is maintaincd at 99 Wall Street. New York 5, ,\cu. York.