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Make Reservations for Annual Convention of Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California

Reservations are being received at the office of the Association for the Annual Convention of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California, which rvill be held on Monday and Tuesday, April 11 and 12, at the Ahwahnee Hotel, Yosemite National National Park. The address is 214 Front Street, San Francisco 11. Telephonc number is YUkon 6-3705.

Ladies will be welcomed at the convention, and it is hoped that a large number of members and others attending the convention r,'r'ill bring their rvives.

Among the speakers will be C. B. Sweet, president of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association; Carl S' I\{ar- ty, sales research and engineering department of KimberlyClark Corporation; S. H. Hornage, representative of the National Tax Equality Association; James R. Keyes, management consultant, and Professor Neilsen, of the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.

Hoo-Hoo Clubs of Northern California rvill arrange the entertainment program for Monday evening.

Los Angeles Building Permits

Building construction permits in Los Angeles for the month of February totaled $25,286,866 as against $16,781,959 in January, G. E. Morris, superintendent of building, reported. The valuation for February, 1948, was $27;023,007.

The 4194 permits issued during February provided 2403 housing units while 2093 were completed during month.

Monscnto Appointments

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William M. Rand, president of Monsanto Chemical Company, has announced the appointment of Irving C. Smith as general manager of the company's Western Division in Seattle, Wash., and of Robert U. Haslanger as assistant general manager of the Western Division. Mr. Smith succeeds Harry P. Banks, vice-president of the company and general manager of the Division, who retired Nfarch 1. Also appointed to the Western Division is David S. Weddell, as director of development.

Slxrce Scrver

Johns-Manville dealers are now being offered a space saving display of Asbestos Flexboard, showing a sheet of the material 6 inches by 12 inches, with the figure of a man beside it. The display is in the same proportions as a full sheet, which measures 4 feet by 8 feet. Mounted on a heavy cardboard easel, the display takes up only a srnall space on the counter.

New Hqrdwood Plywood

experience, working with the finest ingredients and laboratory controlled manufacturing methods assures top qualiry snrcco.

The United States Plywood Corporation's plant at Orangeburg, S. C. is now producing gum Weldtex, a striated hardwood plywood, the company has announced. Previously \Veldtex has been made only in fir and other sof twoods.

Elected Vice President

Stillman Kuhns has been elected vice president of The Diamond Match Company, it has been announced by Robert G. Fairburnr pr€sident. Charles J. Zellman has been appointed assistant secretary of the company.

1\{r. Kuhns joined the company in 1939, and was made comptroller on January 1, 1948. He will continue in this office. Mr. Zellman has been rvith the company since 1925.

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Sanded smooth, PlyBase presents a surface that is tight and solid for best finished covering ap. pearance and wear. In addition to new work, PlyBase serves well in remodeling to cover old, rough, worn flooring with a smootho firm surface for new covering.

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PTYBASE is a rrw cnepe of Interior-type Douglas fir plywood with a face of B (solid) veneer, and a back of D veneer. All sanded both sides. For full details on PlyBase use and application, see Sweet's File. Architectural, or write for the new 1949 Basic Plywood Catalog. AIso available is a new book"The 'Wood of 1,000 Uses". Douglas Fir Plywood Association, Tacoma 2, Washington.

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Georgia-Pacific Promotes F. A. Toste

Georgia-Pacific Plyw oo d & Lumber Co. recently announccd the appointment of F. A. (Pete) Toste as Division Manager of the Southern Pacific Division of the company. This lvas a promotion from his former position as manager of the California branch office at 2219 Fair Par'r Avenue, Los Angeles 41, Calif.

At the same time announcement was made that W. H. Montgomery is norv in charge of Southern California sales.

The Southern Pacific Division comprises the states of California, Arizona, Nevada, and Utah.

Reference to the files of Tlie California Lumber Merchant reveals the fact that Mr. Toste's choice of the lumber business as a career was probably influenced by having a grandfather who was a logging operator, and that his father was in the logging business in Minnesota in his younger days and later operated a retail yard in North Dakota.

Pete was graduated from the University of Montana in Forestry in the Class of '29. During his college course he worked in spare time in the sawmill of Polleys T-umber Co., Missoula, Mont. He spent tl-re first tu'o sttmmers in the U. S. Forest Service, and the last two summer vacations working at the Polleys mill. After graduation he rvorked for a year with this concern, handling various jobs in the sarvmill, and later in the company's retail yard.

He came to California in 1932. He was four years with E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, six months in the yard, and the remainder of the time in the office, in the u'holesale department. He rvas with Coos Bay Lumber Co., Los Angeles, for a year; was a salesman for LawrencePhilips Lumber Co., Los Angeles, for a year, followed by a year as salesman for MacDonald & Harrington, Ltd., Los Angeles.

In 1939 he became mallager of the Southern California operations of Rockport Redwood Company, and Rounds Trading Company, and in 1944 entered the 'rvholesale lunrber business for himself in Los Angeles. He operated his own business until last fall, when he became associated rvith Georgia-Pacific Plywood & Lumber Co.

Sqn Frcrncisco Lumbermen's Club Will MeerMarch 22

The next lttncheon of the San Francisco Lumbermen's Cltrb rvill be held at noou, I\{arch 22, in the Comstock Room, Palace Hotel, San Francisco.

Generql Office-EUGENE, OREGON

Roy Bainer, chairman of the Division of Agricultural Engineering, University of California, Davis, Calif., rvill be the speaker. He recently .returned from Japan, and rvill talk on the subject of his work there. The talk will be illnstrated by Pictures in color.