Appoinred Acfing Commissioner Federql Housing Administrotion

Norman P. Mason, the newly appointed Acting Commissioner of the Federal Housing Administration, has a distinguished record in the housing and light construction industry, H. R. Northup, executive vice president of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, stated today (April 15).

"As a former president of our National Association, whose members build a large percentage of the Nation's nerv homes, and in other ,capacities, Mr. Mason has spent many days in Washington during the last 10 years, workirg directly on matters pertaining to home building, modernization and construction credit," Mr. Northup said.

"As executive head of an eminently successful retail lumber and building materials business in New England, he hls for many years been acquiring first-hand experience r,vith the multitude of complex problems with which he will be concerned as Acting Commissioner of FHA.

"He is a man of high principles and is exceptionally well qualified for his important new duties. We offer him our fullest cooperation and know that he will make an enviable recorci in the position to which President Eisenhorver has appointed him."

Ernie Bacon, Fir-Tex of Northern California, returned to San Francisco Fir-Tex office April l2th after a one rveek business trip to Salt Lake City and Reno.

Birrhdoy Porfy for W. E. Difford

Tacoma, Wash., April 9-When W. E. Difford, managing director of Douglas Fir Plyrvood Association and the recognized master salesman of the plywood business opened the first gift of his last birthday, he had to look twice and hang on. The gift? A primer on the rudimenis of selling.

It was all part of the fun at a party in Memphis, Tenn., organized for him on the occasion of his 64th birthday by plyr,vood mill sales representatives. Difford was iu that city to address the southern regional meeting of the National Plywood Distributors Association.

Chairmaned by Ross Honeycutt, M and M Woodworking Co., the party was attended by some 50 mill repre::entatives, jobbers and distributors most of whom were old friends and fishing cronies of Difford who was highly active in the lumber business in the south earlier in his career.

Friends toasted "Diff" in champagne and he made the first cut in a 2x3-foot birthday cake topped by a statue of a goat which carried out the decorative theme of the 6q6a5i6n-"Happy Birthdav To The Old Goat", as he is sometimes called by his intimates.

Ida Cunner, for many years with the Sun Lumber Company in San Fernando Valley, and well known in the retail and wholesale lumber fie1d, has been appointed secretary to Sterling Wolfe, sales manager, Marguart-Wolfe Lumber Company, Los Angeles r,vholesale lumber concern.

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New Foresler Added Western Pine Associqtion Poillond Stoff

Portland, Ore., April 3-Houard A. Roberts, 27, has been appointed forest staff assistant in the Forestry Department in the Portland offices of the Western Pine Association, it was announced today by the association's chief forester, E. L. Kolbe.

Roberts, a graduate of the University of Maine in forest management, served since 1951 with disease control units of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine and the U.S. Forest Service. He worked on Oregon's Rogue River national forest, and in the Plumas national forest in California where he was assistant operations supervisor for blister rust control.

A native of Dexter, Maine, Roberts is a veteran of two years with the U.S. Navy. He is married and is making his home in Portland.

Fred Roth, California Lumber Company, San Carlos, attended the Knights, Templar convention at San Diego on April 19 and 2O, and on the return trip he stopped off at Los Angeles to visit with some of his lumbermen friends.

Re-Elect Boord of Directors

Minneapolis, Minn.-J. B. Faegre, president of the Minnesota and Ontario Paper Company announced today (April 12) the re-election of the firm's board of directors.

The re-election highlighted the firm's annual shareholder meeting, held at the company's Minneapolis offices.

Re-elected members are Daniel F. Bull, Minneapolis; Thomas S. Daniels, Minneapolis; C. Gordon Cockshutt, Brantford, Ontario; J. B. Faegre, Minneapolis; Robert Faegre, Minneapolis; Charles Garland, Baltimore, Md.; C. T. Jaffray, Minneapolis; C. T. McMurray, Minneapolis; Serge Semenenko, Boston, Mass.; Harold W. Sweatt, Minneapolis; Robert S. Waldie, Toronto, Ontario.

Other business at the meeting included a discussion of the plant improvement program and ,current business con-ditions by Robert Faegre, Mando's executive vice president, and a vlual presentation of fnsulite's newest fiber board product, Roof Deck, by M. C. Fairfield, sales manager, Insulite division.

Fred Losch, manager, specialities division, E. J. Stanton & Son, Inc., Los Angeles, attended the National sales meetrngs of Armstrong Cork Company, Lancaster, Pa., last morrth. While in the east and middle west he made dealer calls in St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland. He returned to Los Angeles in time to attend the Southern California Retail Lumber Association Convention at Statler Hotel. Aoril N-22.