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Directors May 12

Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio will address a joint meeting May 12 of the Boards of Directors of National Lumber Manufacturers Associati'on. and the National Retail Lumber D'ealers Association.

,Occasion of the joint meeting will be the midyear meeting of the NLMA Board of Directors at the Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C.

A. J. Glassow, Rrooks-Scanlon, Inc., president of NLMA' announces his board members will meet May 11, 12 and 13. First day of these meetings will feature an open meeting of the NLMA board. to which all lumber manufacturers and distributors are being invited.

In addition to the Senator's address, the second day's schedule will include several panel discussion groups. Repre' sentatives of the National American Wholesale Lumber Association, and of the National Association of Commission Lumber Salesmen are also invited to hear Senator Taft's address, and to attend the panel sessions.

More than 300 lumbermen and distributors are expected to attend the three-day meetings. All requests to NLMA for reservations should be addressecl to R. A. Colgan, Executive Vice President, National Lumber Manufacturers Association, 1319 18th Street, Washington 6, D. C. Fifteen regional lumber manufacturers associations, representing nearly every state in the country, make up the National Lumber Manufacturers Association.

Named General Sales Manager

Announcement has been made by tl-re Ralph L. Srnith Lumber Co. that its general sales office has been transferred to the Pacific Coast u,ith \\r. A. Constans, formerly sales manag'er for the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. at Klamath Falls, as general sales manager rvith headquarters at the company's nerv plant at Anderson, Calif.

The company's rvestern operations also include trvo sawmills at Canby and a box factory at Alturas, Calif., a moulding plant at Klamath Falls, and a sarvmill at Izee, Ore. Hugh E. Aseltine lvill continue as California salcs manager.