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the Intermountain Assn. dealers' convcntion at Salt Lake City, Feb. 5-7.

Berneice Cook, popular wholesale lumberwoman and an officer in the firm of D. O. Cook, Inc., Los Angeles, returns to the job this month after her recent illness.

Lloyd Webb is on another "safari" to the Pacific Northwest for E. J. Stanton & Son, [-os Angeles, where he is manager of the sOftwoods department,

Santa Rosa Dealer'Duane Bennett, Mead Clark Lumber Co., and Mrs. Ben4ett spent an early February week in Las Vegas (strictly pleasure).

Jack Campbell, former Holmes Eureka salesman in Los Angeles, expects to be back in harness this month following recuperation from a serious auto accident near Los Banos last month.

San Francisco Lumberman Wayne Rawlings left late in Ferbruary for a S-week businesS trip to Japan, the Philippines and Okinawa.

Joe Williams has returned from an eastern swing on which he visited the home offices of Hardwood Corp. of America, the firm he represents on the Pacific coast.

Carl Watts, who recently moved his wholesale lumber business to Menlo Park, spent early February calling on Redwood Highway mill connections.

Earl Bteile and Harry Finney, ParrThomas Lumber Co., Sacramento, spent the last week of January surveying the Oregon lumber situation.

More than 100 guests were recently enter- tained by Lorraine and Sterling Wolfe at a cocktail buffet celebrating the addition of a completely automatic electric kitchen to their San Fernando Valley rancho.

Hollow Tree Lumber Co. President Bill Moores and his wife "Mickey" returned to Ukiah Feb. 6 after two weeks in Hawaii.

Max Hill, partner in the H. M. Nelson Lumber Co., and their buyer, G. L. Kirkpatrick of Au,burn, are making a l0-day tour of the mills in the northern California area around Redding.

San Jose Dealer Carl Travis, head of Wilmar's, Inc., and Mrs. Travis just embarked for a month south of the border in the land of mafrana. They plan to return early in April after visits to Mexico Cit_,-, Acapulco and the countryside.

Loren Hall, salesmanager of the Hazel Valley Lumber Co., Placerville, spent a few days in southern California contacting the trade, returning home with his wife via Santa Barbara and the Bay area.

F, L. Brown, eastern salesmanager for Hollow Tree Redwood Co.i Ukiah, spent three February weeks calling on eastern and midwest customers.

More Thon 55 Yeors' Experience

In the Field of Merchqndising All Pocific Coost Forest Products in the Unired Stofes qnd Foreign Morkefs

Lumber Tolly Shows Rolly In Closing I958 Figures

With a strong rally in the latter four months of the year, national lumber production during 1958 totaled 33275,000,000 board feet, only one percent below 1957, according to estimates of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. The December output climaxed a narrowing of the year-to-year production gap that in mid-1958 stbod at 8/o.

Softwood lumber production during 1958 totaled an estimated 27,510,W0,000 board feet, off one percent lrom 1957. Meanwhile, hardwood lumber output of 5,765,000,000 board feet was slightly better (0.1%) than in 1957.

Total shipments by lumber manufacturers in 1958 were ott 0.5/o from 1957, while the volume of new orders booked registered a scant 0.2/o annual gain. At the end of 195&, gross mill stocks of lumber totaled 9,100,000,000 board feet -4/o less than 1957 year-end levels.

AWl,tA Elects J. B. Petrus, Jr.

J. B. Petrus, Jr. of Council Bluffs, Iowa,'took office as president of the American Walnut Manufacturers' Association at the group's annual meeting in Chicago, January 22. Mr. Petrus is a third-generation hardwood lumberman, he grew up in the walnut lumber business and has been prom- inent in industry affairs. He has served on the National Hardwood Lumber Association's Inspection Rules committee and is active in the Midwest Wood Seasoning Association

(Tell them Aou saw it in The California Lumber Mercharx)