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l'rom tht, olrt'rting lal) of I)rcsi(lt'rrt l)it:k l)elacv's gavel" to the final chorus nunrber at ()omarr's (lat 90'-s irr San l-ranc'isco the follol'ing night, thc l2th Annual \lembership -\leeting and l\{ihvork Scminar of the \\-oodlork Inslitute erf Calilonria \\'as a smash succcss in elery departmcnt.

Guitled Ly its ahle secrctary. Bernie Barher o[ Fresno. the state-'rvielc W. l. C.

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Weyerhoeuser Nqmes Merchondising Monuger

Weyerhaeuser Company announces appointment of W. R. Johnston. whose 24year advertising experience includes creation of broad merchandising programs for basic building materials, as merchandising manager for the firm's wood products division.

He will direct advertising, trade promotion, publicity and related merchandising functions in the wood products marketing planning department under Manager J. P. Weverhaeuser.

Johnston resigned from the positiorr of executive secretary of the Wood Products Association of Hawaii to join Weyerhaeuser. Previously he was account supervisor in the San Francisco office of the national advertising firm of Lennen and Newell, Inc., and directed creation of national advertising, promotion and publicity programs for leading building materials concerns as well as for manufacturers of other consumer and industrial products.

He entered advertising at Des Moines, Iowa in 1939 after attendine Drake University. He is a past president o{ Sacramento Advertising and Sales Club and a former director of the Oakland chapter of National Sales Executives.

Johnston succeeds Gordon Daline who resigned to establish a merchandising consulting firm.

Heods CRA Reseorch

Peter Johnson, Jr., is returning to the California Redwood Association to head its R,esearch Division.

Johnson, most recently with Cal-Pacific Redwood Company, Arcata, in an engineering capacity, originally joined CRA's research stafi in 1956 upon graduation from the University o{ Washington's School of Forestry. He was secretary of the Association's Sawmill and Seasoning Committees, working out of Arcata. He left CRA in 1959 to join the International Swimming Pool Company as plant manager, producing redwood supports for plastic pools, but left that firm shortly after to join Cal-Pacific.

A native of Skamokawa, Washington, Johnson was a carrier-based pilot in the Pacific during World War II.

Johnson, his wife Vivian, and their three sons and a daughter are Bay Area from Arcata. to the

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Jere Melo Wins Forestry Scholcrship

Jere L. Melo, 21-year-old senior in the University of California School of Forestry at Berkeley, has been named winner of the 1963 Charles Bunting Memorial Scholarship Dean Henry J. Vaux said today.

The 9200 award was announced in Redding by the Redding Forest Forum, which sponsors the scholarship in memory of the late Charles Bunting, a forestry consultant.

Melo, born in Weed, now lives in Redding and was graduated from Shasta Union High School in 1959. He entered the School of Forestry at Berkeley after two years of pre-forestry study in the University of California College of Agriculture at Davis.

Dean Vaux said elig'ibiilty for the scholarship requires that the student be from the Redding Forest Forum area, be enrolled as a junior, senior, or graduate student in a forestry school accredited by t}re Society of American Foresters, be attaining excellent scholarship, a"nd be of good character and exhibiting strong leadership abilitv.

'The award, made last year to Stephen A. Kling of Redding, is designed to encourage and recognize scholastic attainment and leadership ability among forestry students. Its sponsor, the Fo,rum, is made up of business and professional men who deal with management and protection of the land and timber in the Redding' axea. Bunting, one of the early members and a graduate of the UC School of Forestry, was killed in an air"plane accident in 1961.

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Convenfion

(Contirrueil lrom Page 78) the meeting is indicated by the fact that over 250 architects participated in the Thursday program, as did nearly 200 Bay Area builders the following day.

At the annual meeting new president Joseph Marinello of University Showcase & Fixture Corp., El Cajon, was installed, receiving the president's gavel from outgoing prexy Dick Delacy. Paul Bernardis of Capital City Planing Mill, Sacramento, and Douglas DeWitt of General Veneer Manufacturing, South Gate, were elected vice' presidents.

was retained as treasurer, and Bernie Barber of Fresno was again unanimously reelected secretary-manager of the big millwork association.

The convention opened at 2:00 p.m. Thursday afternoon with an outstanding array of exhibits. An hour later, Dick DeLacy gavelled the formal meeting underway with a special seminar designed for architects on 'oFire Retardant Treatment of Lumber and Millwork." The battery of panelists included: Roual Shelly, Durand Door Supply, Inc.; Marx Hyatt, J. H: Baxter & Co.; Gerald Misner, Albi Mfg. Co.; Mike Berni, U. S. Plywood Corp.; and Louis Segal, State Fire Marshall.

Friday morning, the final day of the convention, was devoted to several W. I. C. business sessions and a major address by Al Weikert. chairman of the Lumber & Mill Employees Assn. wood promotion committee.

At3p.-. Friday the exhibits were opened to some 200 general contractors who later attended a meeting featuring Byron Taylor who spoke on 'oHow the W. I. C. Serves the General Contractor."

The business part of the two-day meeting completed, W. I. C. members and guests then attended a gala dinner-dance and floor show at Goman's Gay 90's. San Francisco's popular nightspot on Broadway.

Strucfurql Engineers Elecf Oficers

The Structural Engineers Association of Southern California recently installed their 1963 officers: John J. Holstein, president; Cydnor M. Biddison, lst vice president; George W. Gray, 2nd vice president; and Bernard S. Harder. treasurer.

SEAOSC was formed in 1929 to advance the standards of structural engineering. At that time structural engineering was not a sharply defined profession. The design of the engineering features of a structure was performed in many instances by unqualified individuals. The earthquake history of California by then had dictated (San Francisco, 1906; Santa Barbara, 1925) that structures here be designed to resist horizontal forces and the Civil Engineers Act had yet to be enacted (May 15, 1929). The Long Beach earthquake of 1933 was yet to come.

In the 34 years since the organization of SEAOSC' its membership has grown from the 12 founding fathers to 853 members, and the laws of the state now require adequate engineering design to resist earthquake forces. The Field Act (1933) protects school building design and construction, and the Riley Act ( 1933 ) covers all structures in general.

$4OO,0OO Yqrd Fire or Tulore

Fire of an undetermined origin destroyed the United Lumber Yard at Tulare, California, on April 3, resulting in a $400,000 loss.

Witnesses said fire spread through the yard Wednesday night "like a bomb." The yard was completely enveloped in flames when fire-fighting equipment arrived. The United yard had been a Tulare landmark since 1904.