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On the field trip the group visited l)ave Wight, president of O'Neill Lumber Company. Sar.r Carlos, rvho-along n'ith his aides, Rudy Nfelesky and Ed Robinson, displal'ed and explained every detail of their pre-cutting operatior.r. They detailed every phase of their business, experience and procedure to the visiting lumbermen.

In addition to the inspection of the O'Neill Lunber Conrpany facilities, Dave \\right arranged for the group to r-isit several tracts in the area so that nerv and novel ideas in construction and rnaterial uses coulcl be vier,ved first hand. Before the "students" returned to San Francisco via their chartered bus, Dave and Rudy rvere hosts to the group for the serving of refreshments at their lLedrvood City yard.

A pleasant diversion from the u'ork schedule u.as the opportunity for the group to attend the S. l-. Hoo-l{oo Clult's meeting on Tuesday evening ancl the bancluet on Friday evening, at r,vhich Jack Pomeroy presentcd the guest speakers-lerry Donovan, president, and \Valter N'Iails, publicity director, of the nerv San Francisco Seals baseball club.

Those attending the lveek-long' c()rlrse \\:ere: Eugene Bell, Ckrvis Lumber Company, Clor-is; Nathan Cushard, Clrase Lumber Ciompany, San Jose; Larry Derr and Walt Robinson, J. M. Derr l-umber Companr', Illk Grove; Robert Fargo, Los llanos l-umber & Sales Compar-ry; 'Warren Hamilton and Don Upton, American Lumber Company, Modesto; J. \/\/. Holt, Bengston-Holt Lumber Companr-. Fresno; Roy Johnson, Santa Cruz Lumber Company; Norman Klehm, Builders Supply, Paradise; Richard Lang, Yosemite tsuilders Supply. Merced; Howard Mackechnie, Willard I-umber Company, Fresno; Robert Maize, E. H. Maize & Son, Willits; Donald McCann, Homer T. Ha1'u'ard I-umber Company, Watsonr,ille; Ralph Navarro, Yosemite Builders Supply, I\{erced; William Oberholser, Iracific Coast Lumber Company, San l.uis Obispo; Edwin Perkins and Charles Smith, Brev-Wright I-umber Company, l'orterville ; Delbert Quiram, I:)orterville I-umber Companv ; E. G. Robinson, O'Neill I-umber Con-rpany, San Carlos; Armin Speckert, Speckert Lumber Cornpany, Nlarysville; Leroy Ward, Home Lumber Compzrnv. Turlock. and Frank Winton, Davis I-umber C-'ompan_v. I)avis. Calif.

The Estimating Course rvas uncler the superr-ision and guidance of Don Wilson of the I-tfA stal}.

Neu, meml>ers rvelcom* t,.- the association by Presiclent Charles Shepard are Los Banos l-umber and Sales Company in Los Banos, managed b1' Robert Fargo; arrd Associate MemberWood Conr.ersiorr Company i John Godley, district *ur"*...*

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A neu' type of group insurance coverage has beer-r marlc zrvailable to all members of the I-umbcr N[erchants Ass,rciation, it r,r'as announced by Jack F. I,rrn-rero1., execntir.c vice-president. The coverage is all-risl< ir-rsurarrce for urr-

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Pronpt Delivery --- Competitive Prices and a Sincere EfrorI Io quole your inquiries licensed vehicles or equipment belonging to members and, because it is designed specially for association memlters, it can effect a considerable saving to each dealer. This allrisk insurance covers unlicensed fork lifts, carriers, trucks, cement mixers, tools, etc., against fire, theft, flood, upset, explosion and all other hazards.

The other group insurance programs offered by the LMA are Workmen's Compensation, Accident-Medical-Life and Unemployment Compensation Disability.

IHPAA to Stort Promotion Progrqm; John Osgood Elected Vice-chqirmqn

The annual general meeting of the Imported Har<iwood Plywood Assn. of America .ivas held in San Francisco March 13, rvith members in attendance from all over the country representing a large percqntage of the plywood volume moving in from Japan and other countries. New officers elected \vere: Chairmar,-C.G. Gips, Grace & Co., San Francisco; Vice-chairman-John R. Osgood, Robert S. Osgood Con.rpany, Los Angeles; Secretary-Charles Schmitt, The Beton Company, San Francisco.

Ways and means of implementing the association's aims were discussed. Plans were laid to establish a central office in San Francisco and a program of promotion and advertising has been charted. The IHPAA reaffirmed at the meeting its policy of expansion of the market for imported plywood by conservative methods and with quality and service in which the American buyer can have comDlete confidence.

Rossmon Retoil Employes Get Bonus on $8 Million Volume

Long Beach, Calif.-Climaxing a year that showed a total of more than $8 million in volume, 60 sales and office employes of the Rossman Mill and Lumber Company, Ltd., received profit-sharing bonus checks at their banquet in the Lafayette hotel here last month. Highlighting the evening u,'as receipt of bonus checks amounting to 80/. of personnel's base salaries, a record for the three-yard group, according to VicePresident and General Manager Frank R. Hill, rvith 30/o of the net profit making up the employee participation plan.

From an approximate volume of $1,450,000 in 1946 and a sales and office force of 79, the company grew slowly for the next fiveyears, when the 1951 total sales shou'ed $2,670,000 and the sales-office group had increased to 26. The bonus plan really began to shape up, though, in the past three years, with a 20/o parcel set aside. Then in 1955, the compar-ry, headed by veteran lumbermen Frode B. Kilstofte, president, Frank Hill and Austin Bachelder, secretary for many years, voted to increase the fund to 30/o.

Today the retail yards, located in Long Beach, Wilmington and San Pedro, are planning further expansion, adding new advanced equipment, and recently opened a new accounting office in Wilmington. Among the employes present who have seen the phenomenal growth of the company were Flarvey Terry, Wilmington manager; Francis O'Sullivan, San Pedro manager, and Eugene W. Kellogg, purchasing departrnent head for the three yards-all of them having more than 20 years of continuous service.

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