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Don \trhite will be hobbling around his Whit€ Brothers office for a few more months following a harrowing encounter with his TV aerial high a'top his home last month. Thas'right--'Look, Ma, no wings!" Fortunately, Don made an excellent crash landing and only busted up one landing gear . and one TV aerial.

On last December 12, Mitch Landis' manager of Noah Adams Lumber Co. at Rio Vista, obsented his 60th a.nniversary in the lumber business. On this date in 1912, Mitch took a temporary job with Summit Lake Lumber Co. near Fresno to fill in between bookings. Maybe we'd better clarify that for those who follow the ponies. Up to that point, Miteh's cane€r had been in vaudeville out of San Francisco-a far cry from the lumber biz, or is it?

Hedlund Lumber's Matt Ryan is back at his Sacramento desk after a successful kidney operation last month.

Stan Hulett took a few weeks away from his sales duties with \Millits Redwood Products Co. ,over the first of the year for a hunting safari into Colorado where he bagged a nice four-point buck.

Union Lumber's Bovard Shibley spent most of the month of December on a special products mission through the Midwest and Canada. IIe also took in the Home Builder's show at Chicago before he was forced to come home to California and defrost.

Appointment of Albert A. Clearman as Special Sales Representative to promote sales of factory products for the LongBell Division of International Paper Company has been announced.

Clearman will operate out of the LongBell Division's Los Angeles sales office' He will move to Los Angeles from Longview, Wash., where he has been Sales Service Supervisor of Kitchen Cabinets and Cut Stock since 1960.

He first joined the company in the Longview factory office in 1933. He has worked in factory sales in Longview and Los Angeles.

Paul Hollenbeck, executive vice president of the Lumber Association of Southern California, was the main speaker at the mid-January meeting of the Northwest Retail Lumber Dealers Association held in Minneapolis. He spoke on "Current Pricing Problems in the Retail Lumber Business." A busy man, Paul. He goes to Des Moines in March to address the Iowa Association, and in February will present a "Profit Planning Clinic" to members of the Ohio Association.

Journeying to Chicago in late January for the meeting of the Subcommittee on Revision of American Lumber Standards were Ralph Ilill of Owens-Parks Lumber Co., Miles Davidson of Sun Lumber, both of Los Angeles, and Erick Flamer and Paul Ilollenbeck of the Lumber Association of Southern California.

Well-known Bay Area wholesale lumberman Bert Ifasselberg joined Western Forest Products of San Francisco on January 15, according to owner Victor W'olf. Active in Hoo-Hoo and Dubs, Ltd. for many years, Bert cut his teeth in the sawmill business up in Washington, and for the past 12 years has been identified with the wholesale end of the business in northern Califorina.

Floyd Mullen Lumber ComponY Open in Inglewood, Colifornio

Floyd llullen, well known in southland lumber circles, opened his own wholesale lumber concern aI 1420 North La Brea Ave., Inglewood, California, to offer a direct shipment service to dealers throughout the Southern California trade area. The new firm was established at the end of last year.

Floyd started his lumber career more than a decade ago at Willits where he secured his experience at the production level, as well as in shipping and sales. He has spent more than six years in the greater ooWe are presently offering specialty items to dealers, including long dimension and timbers from reliable mills in the Pacific Northwest," said Floyd. "And we are prepared to obtain those hard to get items for prompt shipment," he continued.

Los Angeles area where he has been identi' fied with several wholesale lumber concerns who service dealers and industrials.

The telephone number o{ this new firm is: 678-5518

..AWARD CONTRACTS ON BASIS OF AAER]T AND QUA[ITY,'' SAYS

FRANK W. DATUISO

The California Lumber Merchant

Attention Don Dick

Managing Editor

Dear Mr. Dick:

In regard to Mr. W. L. Johnston's "What's Happened to Woodworking" (Jan. C.L.M.,p.24) | find that while I agrge with him in regard to buying from California manufacturers and having local firms install the work, I do not feel that it is in the best interests of all concerned to strictly specify one particular association code over all others.

The point to be remembered here is that we in this state want the taxsupported institutions buying from instate concerns.

The schools and colleges of our state should be able to award contracts on the basis of merit and quality, rather than have them tied to a single code of specifications.

The important question of local manufacture deserves another mention in addition to what was said in Mr. Johnston's fine letter.

It should be remembered that when the state lets a bid to an out-of-state company it deprives the qualified and reputable manufacturers of California the chance to do the work with the result that no workers are hired and no taxes are paid back to the state.

I feel that it is evident that even though an outside company may make the lowest bid on a particular job' the state cost will still be higher in the Iong run. The loss of employment and no return of taxes are only two reasons.

The small woodwolking shops try- ing to compete against the lower wage rates of other states will suffer and some will have to close,

The end result is foreseeable. The number of bidders on each job will drop and the inevitable result will be higher and higher bids on jobs let by the remaining companies that still survive.

Again let me mention that the point for us to remember in striving for increased manufacture and installation by California firms in state jobs is that we must bring the business back within the state.

Awards of contracts should be made on the basis of merit and level of quality and the incontrovertible fact that the State and the people it represents benefit when a firm of that state is awarded the contract.

Sincerely,

Frank W. Daluiso Executive Secretary, Southern California Association of Cabinet Manufactuers. 9120 S. Western Avenue Los Angeles 41 , Calif.