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cessful "Design Is Nferchandising" program which ofiers to builders and dealers, plans for houses which have a variety of stock woodwork. Another PPW activity of spec- ial intt'rest is the informational program on the importance of precision-built wood windows in the electrically heated house.

Son Diego Retoiler Exponds

The formal opening of a newly completed store building has been celebrated this spring bv Whiting.\{ead Co. It also marked 52 years in the same downtown San Diego location.

General manager John Kyncy said the new l0,000-square-foot facility replaces a smaller structure from which the firm had been operating since 1923.

Kyncy said the expansion was made in line with a continued grorvth pattern. Improvements also are planned at th,e firm's other outltts in the area. probably begin-

Derqler Elecled to Boord

Stanley W. Plummer, mayor of San Dimas, Calif. and prominent lumber dealer, has been elected a director of Pomona First Federal Savings & Loan Association, largest and oldest financial institution in the Pomona Valley region.

Paul D. Walker. Pomona First Federal president, said Plummer was elected to fill a vacancy created by previously author' ized expansion of the board.

Plummer has been serving as first mayor of San Dimas since 1960. when the com' munity was incorporated. He has been reelected twice. He is president of the San Dimas Lumber Company.

Phoenix Club Meets

The warden from the Arizona State Prison was much in evidence (no Pun in' tended) at the Salt River Valley Hoo-Hoo Club 72 meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, March 16.

But it wasn't prison business, he just was the scheduled speaker of the night. Didn't make one arrest.

Planning for the 74th Annual Interna' tional Hoo-Hoo convention scheduled for later this year that the club will host is making good progress, according to convention chairman Jay O'Malley. Gus Michaels holds the post of convention coordinator.