CRESCENT BAY

Burma's State Timber Board, and Min, director of exports for the Board, arrived in San Francisco at the half-way mark of a world tour to evaluate the potential of Burmese Teak in various markets, with special attention to the U. S. market. The pair had begun their U. S. tour a week earlier at New York, where they were greeted by Harry Jordan, president of Jordan International. Following the successful banquet, Jordan continued to accompany Maung and Min and guide them on a tour of several Pacific Northwest plywood and lumber plants. Maung and Min will wind up their quest for market information in the Far East with stops at Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Jordan International, importers of exotic and specialty hardwoods, officially represents the Burmese government in this country through the State Timber Board on the importation of Teak.

The Guest List included Erickson, Leyden and Arnold, Keith-Pacific Southwest Forest Experiment Station; Connaughton, CharlesUnited States Forest Service; Servente, Louis-Servente Lumber Company; Fritz, Professor Emanuel-Foundation for American Resource Management; Lewald, Werner-Java Pacific and Hoegh Lines; Kaefer, Jack C. and Kesselring, Don L.-United States Plywood Corporation; Norback, Ralph-E. L. Bruce Co., Inc.; Scrim, Georgs-Scrim Lumber Company; Nelson, DeWitt-Director, Dept. of Natural Resources, State of California; Overcast, Jim-Strable Hardwood Company; Jordan, Harry; Ching, George; Mills, Marian; Sorenson, Ray; Axelrod, Burt-Jordan International Company.

1959 Record Yeqr for Refoil Soles

Total retail store sales last year amounted to a record high of $215.6 billion, about 8/o above sales for 1958, advance estimates by the Department of Commerce reveal. December sales totaled $21.7 billion.

Lumber and related material sales accounted for $15.3 billion last year, compared to $13.9 billion in 1958. December sales ($1.2 billion) were about the same as November, but $60 million above December 1958. November 1959 sales. were 3/o higher than October ancl 4/o above the year Prevlous.

(Tell them Aou sau it in The California Lumber Merchant)