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During the mor.rtl.r of Febrrrary, the Lumber llercl.rants Associatior.r of Northern California was pleasecl to u'elcome the following firms irrto nrenrbership: Denair Lumber Company, Denair, ,fim Silva, owner; O'Neill and Ellis, Inc.. Campbell, J. K. O'Neill, presiclent, and Richmond Lun"rber Company, Ricl'rmond, *'. *".Nobmann, owner.

President Hamilton l(nott of the Lumber lllerchants Association of Northern California lias called a meetinq of the Board of l)irectors {or X'Iarch 21 at the Sl.reratori-Palac. hotel in Satr lirancisco. President Kr.rott notecl that this lvill be the last meeting of the lJoarcl prior to the Associa- tion's annual convention at Yosemite National Park, April 20,21 and 22.

The Lumber X'Ierchar.rts Association-spousored 1958 Estimating-Merchandising Course rvas held February 17-19, at the Hotel De Anza in San Jose, ancl rvas attend;d by 28 enthusiastic yorlng men of tl-re retail lumber industry rep- resenting twenty-one firrns tl.rrorrghout Northern California.

John Hudson of Nlerner Lumber Company, palo Alto, 'rvas the principal instructor for the estimating portion of the course ancl instructed menrbers of tl.re clasJ in the fundamentals of estimating-comnrencir.rg n'ith reading of blueprints arrcl proceecling through estimating of matJrials and labor. In aclclition, he cliscussed several idvar.rced concepts srrch as engineering formulas to provicle the students rvith a firm knowledge of the metl-rocl of figuring the right size beams for _supporting heavy loads over long spails. To test the strrrlent's mastery of estimating fundalmentals, each nrenrber of the class at tl.re conclusioir <lf the course prellared arr in<lir,idual estimate for a three-bedroom home.

\\-illiam Ph.illips of So.uth City T sp5"r arrcl Supply Company, Sorrth San Francisco, in aclclition to presinting the fu'clame'tals of 'rilltvork estimati'g, ernphasizecl tct the rrrenrbers uI tlre class the irrstitrrtional asirects of tlre es_ l-EFT: Generol clossroom scene shows (lefl to risht) Honk Neeley in foreground, Bruce Jocobsen oi second ioble, Bill Morris ond J. W. Churchill ol third toble

RIGHT: Don Wilson of lhe Cenrror Iumber €o. oddressing the closs

[EFT. Jim Howie of the M&D Fixture Compony oddresses the closs on Principles of Store [oyout

RIGHT: Herschel Root ond Bruce Jocobaen, lwo young reloil lumboryord men, ore loking this thing mighty seriously; typicol of tho diligence ond inielligen(e of the enlire school

I-EFT: A pouse in the doy's occupd- lion-Don Wilson (left), Corl Trovis (second) ond friends

RIGHT: Time Out for Iunch in the De Anzo hotel (1. fo r.): Jeon Hortsock. Bill Bortletf, Lew Alcorn, Dick O'Neill ond Leo Gomon