Arizona Dealers Hold 21st Annual Convention

Cloude Hayes Elected President

Claude Hayes, Prescott'Lumber Co., Prescott, was elected president of the Atizona Retail Lumber & Builders Supply Associationo Inc., at the twenty-first annual convention held Friday and Saturday, May 8 and 9,'at the Santa Rita Hotel, Tucson. He succeeds J. G. O'Malley of the O'Malley Lumber Co., Phoenix.

H. S. Corbett, J. Knox Corbett Lumber Co., Tucson, was elected first vice-president, and C. J. Killen, Foxworth-Galbraith Lumber Co., Yuma, second vice-president. Chris Totten, Phoenix, was re-elected secretary and manager.

President J. G. O'Malley presided at the business meeting on Friday afternoon.

Governor B. J. Moeur of Arizona welcomed the delegates to Tucson and congratulated the lumbermen on their ability to cooperate and work together.

Thomas J. Elliott, State Administrator of the Federal Housing Administration for Arizona, discussed the Federal Housing program with reference to homes costing under $2000 on property not already improved with buildings, which now can be properly handled under Title II of the Act, and he thanked the lumbermen for their cooperation with FHA officials.

Kenneth Smith, secretary o,f the Lumber & Allied Products Institute, Los Angeles, talked on the grade-marking and advertising program being carried on by the Institute. He said that dealers representing'more than 8O per cent of the volume in the area embraced by the Institbte are now selling only grade-marked Douglas firin the Common grades, No. 4 to Select Structural, inclusive, and in support of the movement advertising is being carried in the Los Angeles daily newspapers together with a direct mail campaign to lending. institutions and contractors urging them to cooperate with the Institute by using grade-marked lumber. He also advised the lumber dealers as business men to take an active interest in political affairs.

Needham Ball of the Arizona Federal Housing Administration explained the recent changes made in the Federal

Housing Act, and talked in detail on the financing and construction of the low priced homes now included under Title II of the Act.

President O'Malley addressed the meeting on Association activities saying he was pleased that competitive conditions that exist in other states is absent from the Arizona lumber trade, however, he stated there is still room for further cooperation.

Following the business meeting, there was an executive session when the new officers were elected for the coming yeat.

Theri was a short business session on Saturday morning when Association business policies were discussed.

The social program included golf and bridge for the ladies on Friday afternoon at the El Rio Country Club, and bridge at the Santa Rita Club Rooms Saturday afternoon. The Knothole Club dinner was held at the Santa Rita Hotel Friday evening at 7:00 P.M., and at 1O:30 in the evening there was dancing and a floor show at the hotel. Saturday afternoon, the lumbermen played golf at the El Rio Country Club.

A dinner dance was held at the El Rio Country Club on Saturday evening with about 125 In attendance.

The convention was well attended and in addition to the Arizona dealers, the following were present from Los Angeles: 'Warren B. Wood and Percy Merithew, E. K. Wood Lumber Co.; Kenneth Smith, Lumber & Allied Products Institute; Charles Henry, Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co.; Gus Hoover, The Pacific Lumber Co. and WendlingNathan Co.; Roy Stanton, E. J. Stanton & &Son; L. G. Lynch, Patten-Blinn Lumber Co.; E. U. Wheelock, E. U. Wheelock, Inc.; H. F. Bowles, Long-Bell Lumber Co. ; Mason Kline, Union Lumber Company; R. W. Dalton, R. W. Dalton & Co.; Jack Hook, McCormick Steamship Co.; Harry Hart, Wheeler Osgood Sales Corp., and Paul Revert, The Red River Lumber Co.