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Common Grades of Pine and White Fir Dimension for Retail Lumber Yards

Mixed or Suaight Truck & Trailer Shipments or LCL from Yard Stocks cluded J. S. Sowers, Vice-Pres., Inland Lumber Co., Bloomington, Calif.

A reception and group dinner for all in attendance closed the first day's activities.

At the business meeting on November 14, the members were advised that the board of directors had approved the formation of two new committees, a Marketing Trends Study and a Business Procedures Committee. The objectives of these committees will be to review impending and future trends in the distributive industry and to develop simplified business procedures from which individual members could benefit, respectively.

The following offrcers were elected for 1956: PresidentC. A. Haag, Gen. Mgr., Springfield Builders Supply Co., Springfield, I1l.; Vice-Pres., E. P. Reising, Pres., Indiana Wholesalers, Inc., Evansville, Ind., and Treasurer, D. N. Peterson, Vice-Pres., Building Material Products Distributors. Inc.. Phil.. Pa.

The remainder of the second day rvas spent in discussing various phases of the building material distributor's business operations.

L. W. Wheeler, NBMDA program chairman, announced that the national Spring meeting of the association would be held at the Chase hotel, St. Louis, Mo., on April 29-30, and NIay l.

Rqncho Yord Joins SCRTA

The Rancho Lumber Co., Midway City, Calif., has been enrolled in the Southern California Retail Lumber Association as an active member. Chester Bratsch is owner and manager of the retail yard.

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