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DOWNEY, Colif. TOpoz l -6701 stock-in-trode" SPruce 3-2292 P.O. Box 243

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Moior Wood Promotion Success

Material developed in part by the National Wood Promotion Program is included in a twelve page section devoted to the use of lumber and wood products that appeared in the January 24 issue ol the llome Xlagazine section o{ the los , ng,eles Tirnes, circula. tion I.11,5,000. Glued laminated timber con-struction is featured on the section's cover, in color.

Jim Cooper, of Cooper, Davis & Company. the adverti-*ing agencv responsible for the promotional program of the Wood Information Bureau of Southern California, described the pub. licity as "a splendid example of cooperation between the National Vood Promotion Prosram and our local effort."

Cooper pointed out that purchase of the 12 pages in Home Magazine by advertisers would cost $43.000 for just the space alone. The actual cost to the promotional {und for the publicity that appeared was but a fraction of that figure. "Publicity of this nature can be had on a consistent basi-. in many magazines and newspapers as more and more southern California lumber and wood working companies support the common cause of wood promotion," Cooper emphasized.

Redwood Empire Elections

Redwood Empire Hoo-Hoo CIub 65 held its Annual Election Nite at the Green Mill in Cotati, on February 17, and installed the {ollowing slate of officers and directors for the new year:

President. Guido Lorenzini, Mead Clark Lumber Co.; r'icepresident, Bill Doyle, Summerbell -speed.Space; and secretarytreasurer, Duane Bennett, Mead Clark Lumber Co. New Directors include Bill Hitchkock, Mission ['ood Products; Charlie Lund, Henry Hess Company; Pete Parrish. Union Lumber Co.; and Chuck Porro, Ilockport Redwood Co. Holdover directors are Jim Henningson, Henningson Cabinet Shop; Jl6 Jones, Foster Lumber Yard; George Karlson, G & D Plywood; Bob Kilgore, Kilgore Lumber: and Fred Roemer, Tamalpais Lumber Company.

NLRB Nixes Component Use

Perrv E. Willits, president oI the National Association o{ Home Builders. has sharply criticized an NLRB ruling that permits construction workers to refuse to handle pre-assembled materials on the construction site.

Willits. who builds in Florida and North Carolina, said the ruling set up another serious impediment to building at lower cost by stifling the creation of new products and barrine the use of labor-saving materials.

"By some peculiar reasoning of its own, he said, the National Lal.,or Relations Board has ruled that unions can lawfully refuse to handle or use specific materials or equipment at on-site building jobs."

He referred to the recent NLRB decision in the casc o{ the Metropolitan District Council of Philadelphia and Carpenters Union vs. Mahin, in which workers refused to handle or install prefinished or prefitted doors.

'Ihe NLRB ruled that a o'work preservation" clause between contractors and a carpenters' union was legal because it protected a o'legitimate economic interest of the employees by preserving their unit work."

Willits said the ruling, if allowed to stand, will be discouraging to builders and to manufacturers seekine outlets for their new products and materials.

"Thus," he concluded, "the builder loses another valuable tool in his effort to hold d6vyn s6s1s-the systemization of his work through just such use of efficient and cost-curbing prefinished materials."