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Dealers Will Hear Plans of National Organization for 1939

Washington, D.C., January 14Lumber and building material dealers all over the country, meeting in regional conventions during thenext 60 days, will hear at first hand the plans of their national organization, the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, for the promotion of house building and property improvements during 1939.

Speakers fromthe headquarters of the association are scheduled to appear on the programs of a score of these meetings, bringing to these key men in the building industry details of the National Small Homes Demonstration, sponsored jointly by the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association and the National Lumber Manufacturers Association.

Meetings during the past week of the Indiana Lumber and Builders' Supply Ass,ociation in Indianapolis, the Middle Atlantic Lumbermen's Association in Philadelphia, and the New Jersey Lumbermen's Association in Newark, rvere addressed by Don A. Campbell, president of the national association, and Vincent Tutching, Public Relations Director of the organization.

The National Small Homes Demonstration this year rvill center around two exhibit dwellings, one of which will be built by the sponsoring groups at the New York World's Fair, and the other on some ,centrally located site in the National Capital. The two aretypical of the several houses on which architects and leading home economists have been at work for several months in collaboration with the two associations, with the objective of creating ideal low cost dwellings for families in the $1200 to g20CO a year income class.

The state and regional conventions also will be given an outline of the entire public relations program of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, designed to publicize housing generally and particularly in thelow cost field, disseminate facts relating to building costs, simplified financing plans and private industry's contributions to the field of low cost housing.

Also to be outlined to the conventions will be the part the national group is playing in the formation of housing legislation during the current session of Congress.

Hardwood Institute Elects Offtcers

W. B. Jones, Owens-Parks Lumber Co., Los Angeles, was elected president of the Hardwood Institute of Southern California at the annual meeting of the Institute held in Los Angeles, January 12.

Gregg Lifur, California Forest Products Co., Los Angeles, was elected vice-president and C. C. Bohnhofi, Bohnhoff Lumber Co., Los Angeles, was elected treasurer. John M. Clugston was re-elected secretary.

The new executive committee consists of F. J. Connolly, Western Hardwood Lumber Co., Los Angeles; C. R. Taenzer, American Hardwood Co., I-os Angeles, and John Rohr, E. L. Bruce Lumber Co., I-os Angeles.

\Vest Oregon Opens San Francigco OJftce

West Oregon Lumber Co. has opened a San Francisco office at 1 Drumm Street, rvith Lyle S. Vincent in charge. Mr. Vincent was formerly connected with the lumber industry in the Northwest and has had many years' experience in the marketing of Douglas fir lumber.

The company also has offices at 427-48 Petroleum Securities Bldg., Los Angeles, where Charles H. Ditewig is in charge, assisted by C. M. (Friday) Freeland.

C. L. WHEELERVISITS NORTHWEST

C. L. Wheeler, executive vice-president of Pope & Talbot Lumber Company, and McCormick Steamship Company, San Francisco, spent last week in the Northwest visiting the steamship company's offices and the sawmills.