Arizonq Reroil Lumber Deqlers Annuql Convention April 22-24

Edgar Petty, president of the Arizona Retail Lumber and Builders Association, announces that final arrangements are practically complete for the annual ,convention to be held at the San Marcos Hotel, Chandler, Arizona, on April, 22,23 and 24, 1954. "The high calibre of the speakers that will appear on our program this year and the subjects they are going to bring to the dealers should make this convention most outstanding," said Mr. Petty.

Dr. J. A. Hall, director o{ lhe Forest Products Laboratory zlt Madison. Wis.. will address the convention on "Wood in the War of Materials." Dr. Hall formerly served as director of the Central States Forest Experimental Station at Columbus, Ohio, and as biochemist of the United States Forest Service at Washington, D.C. Dr' Hall will be accompanied to Arizona by tr. G. Locke and G. H. Chidester of the Forest Servi,ce.

W .E. "Diff" Difiord, managing director of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, Tacoma, Wash., an outstanding speaker whose subject will be sales promotion, selling and management. He addressed a series of meetings recently held in Oklahoma, Louisiana and Texas.

Phil Creden, Public Relations Director of the Edward Hines Lumber Co., Chicago, fll., Chairman of Public Relations for the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association and Director of the Lumber Dealers Research Cour-rcil, rvill bring to the convention the latest information on the Lu-Re-Co-building homes from package wall panels. Not only will a description of the plan be given but also working models and jigs will be exhibited.

The first day of the convention, Thursday, will be given over to registration, viewing the exhibits, and the annual golf tournament. In the evening there will be a FIoo-Hoo concatenation at which John B. Egan of St. Paul, Minn., Snark of the lJniverse, will attend.

Business sessions will be held on Friday and Saturday with the annual banquet and dinner dance Saturciay evening.

The Association officers are : President, E. H. Petty; Vice Presidents, Ralph Bell, Sam Beecroft and J. Knox Corbett ; Treasurer, Earl Cox; Secretary-Manager Gus R. Michaels.

Ralph Baker, general manager, Barr Lumber Companl', Santa Ana, spent the last week in March and the first rveek of April entertaining guests on his yacht cruising off the coast of Baja California.

Jack Kaefer, U. S. Plywood CorP., and San Francisco April 2 f.or a three-week While in Nerv York, they will attend U' pany's 35th anniversary celebration.

Mrs. Kaefer, lelt trip to the East. S. Plywood Com-

Charlie Kendall, Los Angeles 'n'holesale lumber distributor, spent the first week of April in Northern California and Portland, Oregon, calling on mills and business associates in the Nortl-rwest.

Max Barnette, Southern California sales manager, Ifollow Tree Redwood Company, Long Beach, flew to the home office in Ukiah, California, during the first u'eek in April.

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Spring

I asked her how she could be happy and gay, And how in the world she could sing? When winter's battalions were blocking her way, She said "I look forward to spring." I'll treasure the secret, though wintry the day Henceforth in the snowstorm I'11 sing, And smile as I think of the flowers of May, I also look forward to spring.

SPring

-W. I. Griffith

Spring rides no horses down the hill, But comes on foot, a goose-girl still; And all the loveliest things there be, come simplY' as it seerns t3a1;irr""rrt Millay.

Spring's Answer

I heard God calling And I came.

His sun signalled me With its flame.

His wind called me, With its song. His birds said they Had been waiting long. His little brooks ran tumbling Down the hills, Luring me with laughter Of rocky rills.

His grasses, yellow-green Standing in the sun, Held up their fingers, For me to come.

Heart of Oak and heart of Pine, Beat a faint tatoo, Flowing sap in bowl and bud, Climbing up anew. Till at last the summons

Set my heart aflame; I heard God callingAnd I came.

A Sure Thing

-E. O. Grover

The midday whistle had blown when Murphy shouted: "Has anyone seen me vest?"

"Sure, Murphy," said Cassidy, "ye've got it on."

"Right an' I have," said Murphy. "An' it's a good thing you noticed it or I'd have gone home without it."

Spring Building

A board and a nail and a can of Paint, Make many a place look new-that ain't. And a building guy with a smilihg face, Can sell the man that owns the place. So hit'em hard, you'll never rue it, And spring's the ideal time to do it.

The Spring Roin

Softly the rain slants in, From the South, with fragrance blown, From crystal, over the roofs. And I wonder if the rain, Falls softly there today

On the old barn, staunch through the years With its drowsy mow of hay?

Softly the rain. I hear The pigeons under the eaves

Once more, and the sound of dreams Rich as the stir of leaves, Patterned with lifted light, Spring's banners under the Plain Beyond that roof, though it sags

With years. And softly the rain.

-G. .W. Dresbach.

Giddy SPring

The lifeless brown of winter ground, Is giving way to green, The crispy air is charged with sound Of bursting buds unseen.

Oh, giddy spring you beckon me, To hustle where the straw hats be.

-Kathryn H. Holland.

APril

When April twilight paints its monochrome, Of steel-grey sky beyond a blue-grey sea' Then time and space unveil eternity; The ocean shoreward flings the very foam Which kissed, one yesterday, a Lakeman's home; Above are stars in depthless galaxy, While sand-small atoms crumble under me, And waves roll out to some unbuilded tomb. Thus hung between my tiny yesterday

And vague tomorrow, hung between the small Infinity of sand and vast arraY

Of stars and stars in endless spacial sprawl, I stand, a man, uncertain and astraY, Yet-sensitive-I vibrate with it all.

-Sunner Gage Whittier.