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turnout of retailers. It seems the ones who needed the message most were not in attendance. Greetings were exchanged with Clair Hicks, Earle Johnson, Sid Prouty, Keith Davidson and Bob Bray. Tarter, Webster & Johnson representatives contributed much to the post-presentation discussions.

The Hyatt House in Burlingame provided good food but a small turnout. Lyle Schafer of Minton's; Cal Plimlott of Millbrae Lumber and representatives from South City, plus some highly vocal wholesalers provided a good meeting.

Santa Rosa provided an articulate group which included Bob Gehring of Service Lum,ber; Steve Yeager of Yeager & Kirk; Duane Bennett of Mead-Clark, and Sterling's new manager. Again, TWJ was well represented.

Next week fog descended on The Valley, but this did not deter Ham Knott of Yosemite; Bob Schlotthauer of Willard; Ray Kellner of Kellner's: Bert Gartin o{ Home Lumber, and others from contributing mueh to a successful exchange of ideas.

Sacramento's Bill Baird of Arden; Burnett Miller of Burnett & Sons. and Or.r Eastman, with a goodly group of wholesalers and others represented, proved how hard it seems to be to communicate in the area.

The Reno groupr reprcsented rby those old standbys Charley and Chal Cross, Hudson Lee and others had a spirited and productive discussion period.