flt yEeRs oil CEUFORMA SfREEf Hordboord Associotion Elects

Slqte of 1959-60 Officers

F. NL Hughes, general manager of Forest Fiber Products Company, Forest Grove, Oregon, succeeds R. D. Pauley, manager of the Silvatek Division, Weyerhaeuser Company, Tacoma, Washington, as president of the Hardboard Aisociation, representing the 11 domestic producers of hardboard. Hughes was elected at the association's annual meeting in Chicago, November 5-6.

h-lected vice-president was Walter C. Walling, manager of hardboard sales, Georgia-Pacific Corporation, Portland, p_rego1. Paul B. Shoemaker, vice-president for marketing, Masonite Corporation, Chicago, continues as treasurer. E. J. Schultz, vice-president of sales, Abitibi Corporation, Ditroit, r,vas elected secretary, and R. J. Spangler, assistant to the vice-president, Masonite Corporation, Chicago, continues as assistant secretary.

Donald Linville continues as executive secretary of the Hardboard Association, which is headquartered in Chicago.

Jerry Griffin Joins Sqles Sroff of Gqlif. Sugor & Wesf. Pine Agency

A. C. "Bo" Ahrens, president of California Sugar & Western Pine Agency, has named Gerald H. "Jerry" Grif6n to his sales staff to assist Hugh Rosaaen, who will now concentrate more on the sale of millwork items. Grif6n. who goes to California Sugar & Western after more tllau 12 years with Western Pine Supply in Emeryville, will be responsible for lumber sales to California dealers and out-of-state accounts.

A native San Franciscan, "Grif" entered the lumber business in 1947, taking a job as an outside salesman for Western Pine Supply Co. After three years on the road, l-re moved into the head office to establish a direct mill division for the firm and, two years later, during 1952, was promoted to salesmanager. Durin g 1957, "Giif" was elevited to vice-president, a position he held until shortly before joining Ahrens' Burlingame organization.

In addition to Rosaaen and Griffin, Ahrens' son, Bob. has _also just joined the firm after two years of part-time work in the office while attending collige. The'young:er Ahrens will specialize in the millwork end of the business along with Rosaaen.

IHPA Annuql Membership Meeting Set for Pqlm Springs, Jon. 27-29

The Imported Hardwood Plywood Assn., San Francisco, will hold its annual membership convention this year at Indian Wells hotel, Palm Springs, Calif., January 27-29. The business sessions for regular members only arb scheduled on the 27th and, 28th, including the annual elections, committee reports and review of the 1959 activities. The cocktail party and banquet is set for the evening of the 28th, with the final day, Friday, to be a general meeting of all members to discuss plans and policies for the new year.

!$4.8 Billion New Consfruction Puf in Plqce in Ocrober 1959

The value of new construction put in place in October amounted to $4.8 billion, according to preliminary estimates of the Bureau of the Census, U. S. Department of Commerce. This was a decrease of about 5/o fuom the Septem- ber level.

Compared to expenditures in 1958, total private construction expenditures were up 7% in October 1959, almost completely because of a rise of. l3/o in expenditures for private residential construction.

Private residential expenditures accounted for $18.7 billion in the first 10 months of 1959, an increase of 28% over 1958.