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Generol Office: lO4O G Streel, ARCATA, CAUF., Phone 89O-Teletype 45

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Appointed Sales Manager

Announcement is made that Harry A. Merlo has been appointed sales manager of Rockport Reds'ood Company and Rounds Lumber Company to succeed D. H. LeBreton. I\fr. Lebreton has resigned his positi,tn after many I'ears rvith the company.

New lssue of Credit Rating Book

The May 1953 issue of the Credit Reference Book of the Lumbermen's National Red Book Service is just off the press. It is the 143rd issue of the book, which is a semi-annual consolidation of that service's T\VICE-A-\ry'EEK bulletin of changes in the lumber and woodworking industries.

Lumbermen's Credit Association Inc., 608 South Dearborn St., Chicago 5, Illinois, and 99 \\'all Street, New York 5, l.[ew York, publishers of this service, advise that as compared *'ith the previous issue there are an unusual number of changes affecting the various branches of the industry, including many new narnes of concerns buying lumber and lumber products. Also, there are listed numerous changes in business classifications as well as in credit ratings.

Hcrrry A. Merlo

Mr. NIerlo n'as at Rounds & Kilpatrick Lumber Company at Cloverdale, California, a division of Rockport Redrvood Company, for several years. In 1952 he was transferred to the San Francisco office assistant sales manager. He served as an officer in the Marine Corps during the rvar, and is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley.

Mr. Merlo's lumber career started with The Diamond Match Company at Stirling City, California. He is presently the president of Redwood-Empire Hoo-Hoo Club, No. o5.

Sitka spruce has been found superior for use as lagging on cable reels because of its comparative light rveight and inherent toughness, permitting it to be reused.

For the past 77 years, this sen'ice has been used by lumber shippers and shippers in many other industries who market through wholesale or retail lumber dealers, or who sell to furniture and other woodworking factories. It is their guide in credit and collection work, and aid in sales promotion and guide to sources of lumber and allied products.

Jack Pomeroy, executive secretary of the Lumber }lerchants Association of Northern California and Joc Kirk, Kirk Lumber and Building l\{aterial Co., Santa Maria, a dealer director, who-represents the Association in the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, left for \\rashington, May 2 to attend a director's meeting of the li.R.L. D.A. at the Shoreham Hotel. They traveled by air and returned to San Francisco l\tav 8.