Officers And Directors Elected At Ponderosa Pine Annual Meeting

Officers and directors for the coming year were elected by Ponderosa Pine Woodwork at its annual meeting held in the Curtis Hotel, Minneapolis, Minn., February lQ with M. P. McCullough presiding. Attendance was largest in Ponderosa Pine Woodwork's history.

Frank Stevens of the Ideal Company, Waco, Texas was elected president. T. L. O'Gara of Weyerhaeuser Sales Co., St. Paul, Minnegota, was elected vice president. Arthur Hansen of Huttig MfS. Co., Muscatine, Iowa and Arthur H. Mohring, Edrv. Hines Lumber Co., Chicago, Illinois, were elected secretary and treasurer, respectively. E. W. Ruddick was elected general manager.

Directors were elected as follows: Swift Berry, Michigan-California Lumber Co., Camino, California; 'J. E. Cravanzola, The Hotchkiss Brothers Co., Torrington, Conn.; E. J. Curtis, Curtis Companies, fnc', Clinton, fowa; Hal R. Dixon, Western Pine Mfg. Co., Ltd., Spokane, Wash.; E. W. Donahue, Wabash Screen Door Co., Chicago, I1l.; A. C. Hansen, Huttig Mfg. Co., Muscatine, Iowa; Earl Kenyon, Long-Bell Lumber Co., Kansas City, Mo.; Robert M. Rodkin, Cole Mfg. Co., Portland, Ore.; J. M. Burch, Jr., Farley Loetscher Co., Dubuque, fowa; A. H. Mohring, Edw. Hines Lumber Co., Chicago, I11.; M. P' McCullough, Alexander-Yawkey Lumber Co., Chicago, Ill.; Gerhard F. Neils, J. Neils Lumber Co., Klickitat, Wash.; T. L. O'Gara, 'Weyerhaeuser Sales Co., St. Paul, Minn.; A. W. Olson, Missoula White Pine Sash Co., Mis- soula, Mont.; J. L. Pierce, Pacific Mfg. Co., Santa Clara, Calif.; Emil Semling, Semling-Menke Co., Merrill, Wisc.; E. L. Shevlin, Shevlin-McCloud Lumber Co., Minneapolis, Minn.; Frank Stevens, Ideal Co., 'Waco Texas; F. E. Bissell, Jr., Carr, Adams, Collier Co., Dubuque, Iowa; R. C. Winton, Winton Lumber Co., Minneapolis, Minn.

The annual Ponderosa Pine membtrship meeting took place after the directors' meeting, and was followed by cocktails and dinner. Speakers at the membership meeting were Kenneth C. Crawford, author-columnist and Washington correspondent of Newsweek, and Adolph Pfund of the Woodwork Jobber Service Bureau. Mr. Crawford gave interesting, off-the-record sidelights on current and future business and economic trends. Mr. Pfund noted that his association membership feels that there will be an adequate supply of millwork and that current acute supplying conditions are temporary.

In rendering his annual report, E. W. Ruddick, general manager, gave a summary of Ponderosa Pine's advertising and promotion program as well as a rePort on membership activity.

Installs All-Electric Matcher

Lumber Manufacturing Company of San Francisco has completed the installation of a new Yates American allelectric 462 matcher. This machine is an eight knife highspeed matcher capable of speeds up to 50O feet per minute and turns out a high quality of work.