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Maintenance Study Group. In another workshop divided into two half-day periods, the newest developments in Sealants for Curtain Walls will be presented by the BRI Subcommittee on Sealants. Mechanical Fasteners in Building, a new BRI activity, will tee off its program with a half-day discussion of the newest and best mechanical fasteners for steel, concrete and wood construction, and for attaching industrial roofing and siding.

Robert W. Dowling will present a speech on "The Investor's Attitude toward City Planning and Building Design of the Future." Prof. Burnham Kelly will make the first public report on the MIT studies just completed for ACTION, with particular stress on the trends in home building, prefabrication and mobile home construction that seem to be evident for the '60's. Architect Vincent G. Kling will present the designer's ideas on the buildings we'll be living, working and playing in during the next decade. Six of the nation's top research directors will get together in a oanel discussion on Research Plans for the '60's and their Potential Impact on the Buildings of 1970.

Hqlverson Monoging New Redding Buying Office for Cloy Brown Co.

Clay Brown & Company moved its buying office March I from Fortuna to Redding, Calif. The Redding office is at 1304 East Street in the new Singleton building and is under the management of James A. Halverson.

The Clay Brown & Company buying office in Willits, Calif., is continuing under Ed Blunt's supervision, and both of the buying offices are connected by private wire with the executive offices in Portland, Ore., and with the sales offrces in Oakland and Downev. Calif.

Stogg, Herring Join White Brothers

Bob Stagg and Norm Herring, both formerly associated with Gordon-MacBeath Hardwood Co. in Oakland, were named to positions with White Brothers in Oakland last month by President Don White. Stagg, who handled inside sales for G-M, will continue in that capacity for White Brothers, and Herring witl continue his ou?side-sales work, representing White Bros. in the East Bay and Coast Counties areas.

Stagg joins Scott Gould and "Tre" Ford in the inside sales department, and Herring moves into the territory along with "Wybro-men" Ted Young, who covers the Peninsula area; Ed Follett, "Wybro's" Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley man, and Keiih Mclellan, who represents the company in San Francisco and Marin county.

Nome Lqdies Night Gommittee

At the board meeting of Riverside County Hoo-Hoo Club ll7 at the Norton AFB Officer's Club, February 23, the committee was named for this year's eagerly awaited annual Ladies Night and Golf Tournament, to be held in May in Palm Springs. Club President Bill McDonald, Simpson Logging Co., is calling the committee together early this month to start drafting stunts for next month's "bigger and better than ever" affair. The committee members are: Bert Adams, Adams Lumber Co.; J. Stark Sowers, Inland Lumber Co.; Don Derbes, Palm Springs Builders Supply; Bert Holdren, Rialto Lumber Co.; Bob Saucke, Cresmer Manufacturing Co., and Jack McGrath, Community Lumber Co. (Editor's note: The four dealers will no doubt hold those two wholesalers in line.)

More Thqn 50 Yeqrs' Experience

D & R merchqndises oll species of West Coost lumber ond exotic qnd rore imports from Africq, Asio qnd Sourh Americo.

Swoin Advefiising Incorporqted

L. J. Swain Advertising has been incorporated as L. J. Swain Advertising, Inc. The new corporation, which handles work for several lumber industry firms, will continue to occupy its new offices at 523 S. Painter Ave., Whittier, Calif., report President L. J. Swain and SecretaryTreasurer Tack Mealer.

A unique feature of the new quarter-million dollar offices of the'Broad Ripple Lumber & Supply Corporation, Indianapolis, is the 5t' fir order desk, pictured here with M. II. Slosson, manager. Cut with a locally produced Atkins 'Chamfer Chain' saw from a cross-section 40 feet from the base of a 300-foot fir, this section is an estimated 550 years old and referred to by lumbermen as a "lily pad."