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Ben W. Bartels, vice president of the Peoples LunTber Co., Verrtura, was elected president of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association at the 37th annual meeting and trade show held at the Hotel Statler, Los Angeles, on April n,2l and 22, 1954. He succeeds Ralph N. Baker, vice president of the Barr Lumber Co. of Santa Ana.

Other officers named were : Vice presidents, \\rayne F. Mullin (re-elected), Mullin Lumber Co., Los Arrgeles, and Hal A. Brown, Woodhead Lumber Co., L,os Angeles;treasurer, C. Gilmore Ward (re-elected), Ward & Harrington Lumber Co., Santa Ana. Orrie W. Hamilton \\'as re-elected executive vice president. A full report of the meeting rvill appear in the May 15 issue.

FPRS Will Meet At Grqnd Ropids, Mich.

The 8th National Meeting of the Forest Products Researclr Society will be held May 4,5,6, and7,1954 at the Pantlind Hotel and Civic Auditorium at Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Technical papers will be presented at the meeting on the following subjects: Packaging, Wood Composition Board, Wood Machining, Wood Drying, Glues and Gluing, Wood Finishing and Quality Control.

L. J. Carr, general manager of L. J. Carr & Co.. Sacramento, Calif., rvill be program chairman.

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