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Two hundred and thirty-six members attended the 37th annual meeting of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, held in the Olympic Hotel, Seattle, Washington, on December 4, 1953. President Earl Wasser was chairman of the meeting, and delivered the address of welcome. Secretary-Manager Virgil G. Peterson, holding his first convention since succeeding Bill Woodbridge in that ofifrce, presented his state of the union message from a wooden shingle standpoint, and pleaded with the members to spend 2 to 3 per cent of their gross sales for advertising and trade promotion. They now spend less than 1 per cent.

Committee rq>orts were made by the following: Paul R. Smith, finance; J. A. MacKenzie, public relations; R. D. Mackie, membership and grades; J. A. McCrory, trade promotion. A. E. Brockbank, of Salt Lake City, immediate past president of the National Association of Home Builders, made a strong address on the wonderful opportunities that now present themselves to the home builders of the nation.

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The following list of officers were reelected: Earl S. Wasser, Wasser Brothers-Rainier, Rainier, Wash., president; H. V. Whittall, Canadian Forest Products, Ltd., Vancouver, 8.C., vice president; V. G. Peterson, Seattle, secretary-treasurer. Also the following directors were reelected: Dale Craft, Raymond, Washington; N. A. English, Vancouver, B.C. ; A. E. Erickson, Marysville, Wash.; R. H. Farrington, Everett, Wash.; N. C. Ja.mison, Everett, Wash.; W. H. Nlclallen, Vancouver, B.C.; R. D. Mackie, Markham, Wash.; Charles Plant, Vancouver, B.C.; T. L. Roberts, Vancouver, B.C.; Fred A. Roles, Cottage Grove, Oregon; C. C. Rose, Aberdeen, Wash. ; Paul R. Smith, Seattle, Wash.; J. A. McCrory, Seattle, Wash.; J. A. MacKenzie, Fraser Mills, B.C.

Two new directors were added to the list. C. G. Watson. and Roger Boyd.

Elect Seven New Directors

Election of seven new directors to the governing board of the Merchants and Manufacturers Association, Los Angeles, was announced on January 6.

They are B. A. Bannan, Western Gear Works; 'ferrell C. Drinkwater, Western Air Lines, Inc.; Wayne F. Mullin, N{ullin Lumber Company, Inc. ; J. J. Pike, Republic Supply ConTpany of California; Dan A. Ringis, Chrysler Corporation; Elbridge R. Thrapp, Southern California Building and Loan Association, and Edward R. Valentine, J. W. Robinson Cornpany.

Twenty-nine directors were reelected and 38 others are serving unexpired terms on the board.

Foresler McGinnies Promoted

William G. McGinnies, director of the Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station at Fort Collins, Colo., for the past nnie years has been named Director of the Central States Forest Experiment at Columbus, Ohio, Richard E. NfcArdle, Chief of the Forest Service in the U. S. Department of Agriculture, announced. He will succeed Philip A. Briegleb, who is transferring to the Southern Station at New Orleans, January l,1954.