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Gil Word Heqds SCRLA

New 1959-60 ofificers of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association, elected at the annual convention just concluded at the Ambassador hotel, Los Angeles, April 7-9, are: President-C. Gilmore Ward, Ward & Harrington Lumber Co., Santa Ana; VicePresidents-Homer Burnaby, Sun Lumber Co., San Pedro; Norbert Bundschuh, Myrtle Avenue Lumber Co., Monrovia; Frode B. Kilstofte, Rossman Mill & Lumber Co., Wilmington; Robert M. Sutton, DixieLine Lumber Co., San Diego; Executive Vice-President-Orrie W. Hamilton, SCRLA, Los Angeles; Secretary-Kingston McKee, Forest Lumber Co., Pasadena, and J1s4srl1s1-Robert K. Leishman, Crown City Mill & Lumber Co., Pasadena.

lien laws, bonds and stop notices will be given by Leo Hubbard, secretary of the Hayward Lumber & Investment Co., Los Angeles. This session will also include reports on operating practices from member-dealers.

Industry affairs and government activities at the national level will be detailed by H. W. Blackstock, Seattle dealer ancl current president of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Assn., Washington, D.C., at the Tuesday luncheon sessior.r. The address by the first West Coast dealer to head the National in many years will certainly be of wider interest to all the industry-conscious dealers present. Ken Shanks, anthor and satirist, will conclude the luncheon program with his stimulating randomemos on the American business and social scene.

The second industry-sponsored cocktail party will precede the Tuesday dinner, which will be followed by dinnerclancing and the always excellent floor sl-row, at which the new officers will also be formally introduced to the crowcl to u,'ind up the three days of play-sure and new profitn.raking ideas.

Hogon Wholesqle Opens Morysville Bronch to Serve Areo Deqlers

Hogan Wholesale Building Materials; of Oakland, is opening a branch warehouse at Marysville on April 15 for the purpose of better serving retail dealers in the Upper Sacramento Valley area as far north as Redding. Hogan Wholesale President Bob Hogan declares that the rrew warehouse will stock a complete inventory of Hogan products, including its "Radco" aluminum sliding window units.

The new warehouse is located at 1427 Orange Street in X"Iarysville (phone SHerwood 2-58@) and will be captainecl by Ken Whiteman, who has been with the Hogan organization for the past six years.

Ghcnges in Forestry Division

John Callaghan, chief deputy state forester, California Division of Forestry, resigned from his present duties on March 31 and leaves the Division to accept employment as assistant secretary for the California Forest Protective Association with headquarters in San Francisco.

Fred H. Dodson, forestry equipment engineer with the California Division of Forestry, retired on April 1, 1959 after 36 years of state serVice. He intends to remain active in the motorized equipment field.

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Rounds Lumber Company's Jim Knox returned to San Francisco homebase the first of April after calling on accounts through the South ("deep" South, that is) as far east as Florida.

Jirn Hall, Jr., head of James L. Hall Co., and the Hall family will never make the grade as weather prophets-picked the first week it rained in the past two months for their Santa Barbara vacation-time last month, they did.

And this is NEWS: Forsyth Hardwood's venerable P. R. "Bob" Kahn, is NOT going to Europe this year not even Soutl.r America ! "Too many tourists," sez Bob (who's been making these annual junkets as long as we can remember).

Vernon Johnson of the L. R. Srrith Hardwood Co., Los Angeles, spent a week at tl.re company's mill in Lorrgview, Wash., and also attended the Northwest Hardwood Assn. meeting in Seattle in company with L. R. Smith, one of the founders of the association.

Bill Buettner of George J. Silbernagel, Inc., visited mill accounts from Redding north to Oregon the week of March 23.

Woodside Lumber's Charlie Wilson left Bill Hoey holding the fort for a March week while he visited Shasta County mill connections.

Knute Weidman called on Hedlund Lumber Sales mill accounts in southern Oregon for a week during March.

Congrats to Bernice and Bob Macfie on the birth of their very first, a girl 'baby named

Jane on April (no foolin') I at Alta Bates hospitai in Berkeley. Mama, baby and even Bob (West Coast Timber Products) cloin' just fine, thank ya'.

Barbara Anne Beretich, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis J. Beretich of Arlington,

California, and William Travis Smith, Jr', vice-president and general manager oI the Smith-Robbins Lun-rber Company, Los Angeles, were married Saturday, I\{arch 21, at Saint Catherine's churcl.r in Riverside. Immediately following the reception at the Mission Inn, the young couple departed by plane for a 10-day honeymoon in Acapulco and Mexico City. Bruce Walton, general manager of the State Box Company, Sacramento, was best man for the popular Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo and wl.rolesaler. !Iore than 100 close friencls and relatives of the bride and groom atten(led the wedding. Following the close of the school term in June, Bill and Barbara plan to make their home in Beverly Hills.

Ziel & Company's Bob Reid visited longttrne Tiel customers in the Vancouver, B. C., area during the iast week of \{arch and returned home to S. F. quite impressed with the "new-look" building plograln recently instigated by the Canadian government.

Mrs. Winifred Pike, executive assistant to Los Angeles Builder Fritz Burns and 19-i7-58 chairman of the L. A. Home Improveurent Council, has left the industry with her marriage in February to Navy Capt. Richard Cockey. Following her resignation from the Kaiser-Burns Development Corp., the couple will reside in Washington, D.C.

Santa Fe Lumber ComPanY Partner W. Paul Clarke visited mill connections in the Eugene area (his old stamping grounds) for a March week.

Vic Roth, owner of Triangle Lumber in Oakland, and his sidekick, Art Williamson, toured the Redwood Highway in search of "woocl" the last week of March (went in like lions came out like?).

Corrine Adams, 76-year "veteran" ofrfrce giri at E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, has retired to the duties of housewife for Husband Joe, who has been r.nechanical superintendent at Stanton's for more than 20 years. Helen Proo also retired from the firm at the same time; she had been with the wholesale distributing concern the past five years.

Dave Mensing, representing G-P's Hammond California Redwood division, made a safari through the Pacific Northwest and a slice of Canada during the week of March 16.