Arizona Retailers Will Hold Annual Convention At Grand Canyon M.y 14-16

The annual convention of the Arizona Retail Lumber & Builders Supply Association, Inc., will be held at Grand Canyon, Arizona, Friday, Saturday and Surrday, May 14, 15 and 16.

Friday morning will be given over to registration in the lobby of Bright Angel Lodge.

All business sessions rvill be held at Bright Angel I-odge.

The convention will be called to order Friday afternoon at I o'clock by President I-. M. Hamman of Phoenix. An address of welcome will be delivered by Doctor Harold C. Bryant, superintendent, Grand Canyon National Park Service, and a response by J. J. Halloran, Sr. of Phoenix.

President L. M. Hamman will deliver a message, and Secretary-Manager Gus R. Michaels r'vill rnake his report, following t hich '.vill be appointment of committees.

Speakers rvill be Jerome M. Kelleher, I-abor Consultant, Phoenix; Frank Snell, Attorney-at-Lan', Phoenix; NI. R. Massey, Assistant Commissioner, and M. J. Cassidy, Zone Commissioner, Western Zone Federal Housing Administration, \\rashington, D.C.

There will ,be an illustrated lecture for the ladies, courtesy of the National Park Service, at 2:00 p.m., and Indian dances at 5:30.

Friday evening a Hoo-Hoo Concatenation rvill be held in the Community Hall, rn'ith LeRoy Stanton, Los Angeles, Supreme Junior lloo-Hoo, presiding.

At the Saturday morning session the speakers rvill be George S. Meagher, Southt'estern Forest & Range Experiment Station, Fort Valley Experimental Forest, Flagstaff; and Charles Hoover, -{rizona Republic & Phoenix Gazette. f'hoenix.

A round-table discussion u'ill be held for retailers only.

At 12:30 p.m. the ladies rvill have a luncheon in El Tovar dining room, follorn'ed by bridge on the mezzanine.

Saturday afternoon Steve A. Spear, N{anaging Director, The Arizona Tax Research Association; and Jerome NI. Kelleher, Labor Consultant, Phoenix; rvill address tl're meeting. This rvill be followed bv a report of committees and election of officers.

The annual banquet will be held at 7:30 Saturday evening in E,l Tovar dining room, with Neal B. Waugh as Toastmaster. Speaker of the evening will be Leo E. Sievert, San Francisco, Calif., Executive Representative of the President, Santa Fe Itailroad. After dinner there will be dancing at Bright Angel Lodge.

Sunday morning has beeri left open for viewing the Grand Canyon, and in the afternoon the first round will be played in the golf tournament for the Lumbermen's Championship trophy at the Flagstaff Golf Course.

Through the courtesy of Jack Bedford, general manager of the Saginaw & Manistee Lumber Company, Flagstaff, a woods trip has been arranged for Monday morning. The party will take the logging train into the rvoods, and have dinner at a lvoods camp.

Association officers are: L. M. llamman, president, Phoenix; Frank Tutt, vice president, Prescott; G. R. Michaels, secretary, Phoenix. Directors are : R. V. Baker, Phoenix; S. A. Beecroft, Phoenix; H. S. Corbett, Tucson; Avery Corpstein, Phoenix; Jay M. Gates, Kingman; A. E. Halstead, Phoenix; Louis Jennings, Safford; Don McCaughey, Phoenix; J. A. Mulcahy, Tucson; Jim Olds, Winslow; E. V. O'Malley, Phoenix; N. C. Pierce, Phoenix; A. M. Schwarz, Miami; Neal B. Waugh, Tucson; John H. Wood, Bisbee.

Recrdy For Business

The Nelson l-umber Company, Monrovia, Calif., is readyfor business, even though their buildings are not quite finished. Les Nelson, with 20 years' experience in the lumb-er industry, is o'ivner-manager. He gained sa'rvmill experience rvith Snoqualmie Falls Lumber Co., Snoqualmie Falls, Wash., Clearu'ater 'fimber Co., Lewiston, Idaho, and was until recently manager of the Southern Division of Weyerhaeuser Sales Co.

J. T. Nelson is office manager, and Don Sullivan 1'ard foreman.

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Attended Retail Convention

Members of the Lumbermen's Service Bureau of San Diego, who attended the annual meeting of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association at Los Angeles on April 15-16, included: President Cy Irving, Western Lumber Co., San Diego; Secretary-Manager Nihl Hamilton, Lumbermen's Service Bureau, San Diego; William S. Cowling, Dixie Lumber & Supply Co., San Diego; Harry C. McGahey, San Diego Lum,ber Co., San Diego; Robert W. Reid, Park-Olson Lumber Co., La Mesa; Rex Hall, W. I). Hall Co., El Cajon; Mearl Baker, Baker Hardwood Co., San Diego; M. M. Gartner, Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., San Diego; H. G. Larrick, Lumber & Builders Supply Co., Solano Beach.

Several employees of these lrrmber firms, r,vho tompletecl the retail lumber training course at the University of Southern California, sponsored by the Southern California Retail I.umber Association, \\:ere present to receive their certificates.

Sacrcmrento Hoo-Hoo Club

The members of Sacramento lloo-Hoo Club No. 109 held their monthly meeting on \Vednesdav evcning, .\pril 21 , at \\rilson's Ca{e, Sacramento.

I'resident John McBride, l)avis I-umber Co., I)avis, prcsided.

A forest color picture was shou'n by a member cif the staff of the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. Noah Adams Lumber Company u'as refreshn-rent host for the evening.

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