\flestern Retailers' Annual

The Western Retail Lumbermen's Association heid its 30th annual convention at the Multnomah Hotel, Portland, Ore., February 23,24 and 25.

W. W. Anderson of Ogden, IJtah, was chosen president, succeediirg Windsor J. Lloyd of Nampa, Idaho' Vicepresidents for the various states were 'chosen as follows : Aizona, W. F. Edens, Cottonwood; California, B. F: Boorman, Oakland; Idaho, Bert Stone, Boise; Montana, Perry Ullman, Big Timber, and H. W. Trask, Missoula; Nevada, Ed Von Tobel, Las Vegas; Oregon, Paul van Petten, Ontario, and C). F. Carson, Ashland; Utah, Hiram Wheelrvright. Ogclen; Washington, Hotner Kendall, Spokane, and John Dower, Tacoma; Wyoming, C. C. Phillippe' Basin.

Directors elected for three-year terms were: Carl Blackstock, Seattle ; John Rogers, Eugene; Charles Cooley, Grants Pass ; R. J. McCaslin, Boise; D. E' Smith, Logan, Utah; F. H. Robinson, Great Falls, 'Mont. ; C. A. Bartleson, Spokane, and W. B. Saunders, Gillette, Wyo.

Salt Lake Citl' rvas chosen for the 1934 convention.

Presiclent Windsor Lloyd, of Nampa, Idaho, opened the convention lvith a short address.

Secretary-treasuref Roy S. Brown, Spokane, Wash', spoke briefly and hancled his report for the year to rnembers in printed form.

B. J. Boorman, Boorman Lumber Co., Oakland, spoke on advertising, and suggested the slogan "Make it Good- other speakers included Bruce Clark, Elliott Bay N{ill Co., Seattle; E. T. Sturgeon, Morrill & Sturgeon Lurnber Co., Portland; Fred Bohen, president Meredith Publications, Des Moines, Iowa; Gordon Morrison, Harvaiian Cane Products, Ltd., and S. V. Fullaway, secretarr', Western Pine Association. Portland.

Build with 'Wood", for all bran'ches of the lumber and woodworking industries. This slogan was developed, he said, by the East Bay Lumbermen's Institute, and in his capacity of ,chairman of the Institute's publicity cotnmittee he distributed colored stickers bearing this slogan, and depicting an attractive wood home, to members and told them these are available to all lumbermen.

Walter F. Shaw, inanager, American Forest Products, Inc., Washington, D. C., addressed the meeting on "Can Lumber Meet the Demand for Low Cost Housing?"

J. B. Fitzgerald, of the West Coast Lurnbermen's Asso,ciation, spoke in place of Col. W. B. Greelev on "Ways and Means of Stimulating Repairs and Modernizing".

L. L. Chipman, of the Long-Rell Lumber Sales Corporation, explained the methocl of manufacture aucl the advantages of using Enterlocking Fabricated Building Lun.rber, manufactured b1' his company. The display of this material attracted a lot of attention.

Policies of the home loan bank lvere discussed by Charles H. Stewart, chairtnan of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Portland.

Recreational Permits lncrease in Wood Exhibit Seen Bv 1101000

National Forests

For the third consecutive year since l9D the number of recreational permits in the national forests of California show a gain. There were numerous cancellations and relin- ' quishments in 1932 but the annual report on land uses just issued by the California Region of the U. S. Forest Service shows an increase of 198 permits for summer home and 22 others of a recreational nature, a net gain of.220.

There are now 6,821 summer home permits and 543 permits for hotels, resorts, stores and service stations in the natiorial forests of the State, a total of 7,364 compared with 6,254 in 1929. The annual rental for all these uses amounts to $150,000 a year, one-quarter of which is returned to the counties in which they are located for road and school pufposes.

Leaves For Po*land

Lee Keswick, recently with Weyerhaeuser Sales Co., left San Francisco March 9 for Portland to take charge of the Portland office of W. R. Chamberlin & Co. Mr. Keswick is no stranger in Portland as he formerly represented this company there for a period of seven years.

On Business Trip

Albert J. "Al" Nolan, Western sales manager of The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, left his headquarters March 10 to spend three weeks in Los Angeles and Southern California.

Local lumbermen complimented the California Redwood Association on their exhibit at the Orange Show held in San Bernardino February 16 to 26. The exhibit included a large Redwood log section, section of a mountain cabin, models of Redwood tanks and towers, and samples of various types of finish and Redwood shingles and shakes.

O. D. Adams

O. D. Adams, of Ventura, Calif., se,cretary-manager of the Building Material Dealers' Club of Ventura County, died suddenly Sunday evening, March 12, following a heart attack. He was 41 years of age.

Mr. Adams was widely known in lumber circles in Southern California where he was connected with the industry for many years. He'was associated with the Hammond Lumber Company for about twenty-five years being connected with their yards at Pomona, Orange, Brawley and later as manager of their Pasadena yard for several years. For the past two years he has been secretary-manager of the Ventura Club.

He is survived by his wife and three children. Funeral services were held at Ventura, Tuesday afternoon, March 14. Burial was in Ivy Lawn, Ventura, Calif.

JOrNS OAKLAND CONCERN

Philip Gosslin, who for several years has been associated with the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., is now with the Smith Lumber Co., Oakland, as salesman.