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Northwest Hordwood Associotion Spring Meet in Seqttle, Apr. 3-4

Seattle, Wash.-The 1959 Spring meeting of the Northwest Hardwood Association is scheduled for April 3-4 at the New Washington hotel here. Registration and gettogether begin at 9:00 a.m. each day, with sessions startirrg at 9:15. The Program chairman, Dr. Donald H. Clark, Washington State Institute of Forest Products, has arranged for some top-flight speakers on outstanding subjects.

Miner Baker, economic advisor to a Seattle bank and editor of a quarterly magazine, speaks on "Hardwood's Place in the Future of the Pacific Northwest." A Panel on "Cottonwood-Its Propagation, IJses and Future" will have a moderator and panelists from several leading mills and producers. A Forum on "Glue" will bring this subject right up to April 3, 1959. "Alder Land As an Investment" is topic of the talk by John W. Allen, forester, Bloedel Timberlands Development. "Success Story," a 3O-minute film by Richfield Oil Co., already shown on TV, is about an NHA member firm and will be shown to the assemblage to prove how alder can become a major western industry. Also to be shown is another movie, "The New Garrett 'Tree Fa[mer'," about a "harvester" developed by another NHA member. Vital committee reports and the directors' meeting are also on the agenda.

BILL BONNELL OPENS LUMBER CO. OFFICE

Well-known Northern California lumberman and former Bonnell, Ward & Knapp partner, Bill Bonnell, established his own wholesale lumber business February 2 at 48 Park Road, Burlingame. Bonnell, who withdrew from BW&K the first of the year (CLI\'I 2/l/59), will be assisted by Ann McKay, also associated with the old partnership for several years.

I3onnell is a graduate of the University of Washington and served as a bomber pilot during WWII. After returning to civilian life, he took a job with a Seattle retail vard and later soent two yeais a. a buyer foi a large Midwest lineyard operation. He then spent a year in the lumber procurement branch of the U.S. Corps of E,ngineers, leaving that position to join Clay Brown & Company in San Francisco. During early 1954, he joined forces with Ben Ward and Jim Knapp to establish BW&K in San Francisco.

Bill has been active in civic and fraternal affairs, is currently serving as secretary-treasurer of Dubs, Ltd., and is a past director of San Francisco Hoo-Hoo Club 9.

Sqcrcrmenfo, Redwood Empire, Blcrck Bort Glubs lo Meet in Fqirfield April t O

Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club 109, Redwood E,mpire HooHoo Club 65 and Black Bart Hoo-Hoo Club 181 will again stage their annual three-club meeting in Fairfield on April 10, Club Presidents M. J. Cechettini (Sacramento), Bob Schenck (Redwood Empire) and Gil Sissons (Black Bart) announce. The big evening get-together will be held at Dick's Place in Fairfield, scene of last year's spectacular. Black Bart and Redwood Empire club members are urged to contact their respective club presidents regarding charter bus service to and (eventually) back from Fairfield.

(Tell them uou satD it in The California Lumber Merchant)

Deolers Vote 4 to I in Fqvor of Weekend Opening for 1959 NRTDA Exposition in Clevelond

Building materials dealers who got a chance to test the convenience factors of weekend conventioning at their annual National Exposition last November have since had an opportunity to air their opinions of the idea. In replies to a survey of registered dealer attendance following the 1958 Exposition of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association in Chicago, dealers have given a four-to-one preference to weekend opening of the Association's 6th annual Building Products Exposition to be held in Cleveland this November, says H. R. Northup, NRLDA executive vicepresident.

"In accordance with this overwhelming preference, the dates of the 1959 NRLDA Exposition have been set for Saturday, November 14, through Tuesday, November 17," Mr. Northup announced. He added that dealer comments indicate that the heavy vote in favor of a weekend opening is due to the fact that Saturday or Sunday are considered more convenient for attendance bv emploves as well as bv the dealers themselves. Nearly one-hali of the dealers who replied indicated that one or more of their employes were able to attend the NRLDA Exposition in Chicago.

Dealers also expressed a 9-to-1 preference for November over December as the time for their National Exposition, witl-r the first half of November being most generally f.avored, and 2-to-1 prefer changing or alternating locations for the show each year as opposed to a permanent location.

The same survey revealed that nearly 9 out of 10 dealers at the NRLDA Exposition make purchases as a result of their attendance and that they buy for an average of more than 2l yards per dealer. Two-thirds of the dealers represented single-yard ownership and the other third represented from two to seventy retail outlets with an averagi of six yards per dealer in the multiple ownership group.

Dealers were also given an opportunity to vote on the type of program they prefer for the Expositiorr in Cleveland and their preferences will guide the Committee in its selection of program material for the 1959 show, Mr. Northup stated.

Frank Heard on Exposition Committee

Frank Heard, partner in the Motroni-Heard Lumber Co., Woodlancl, Calif., and vice-president of the Lumber Mer- chants Assn. of Northern California, has been appointed to the 1959 Exposition committee of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Assn., Washington, D.C., and attended a two-day meeting of the committee, March 6-7, in Cleveland, Ohio, where this year's big lumber dealer show will be stased.

(TelI them Aou sau it in The California Lumber Merchant)