Southern Colifornio Plywood Group lAops Plons to Boost Ploce in Locql Industry

New standing committees for the Southern California Plywood Association are announced by James C. Barron, president of the organization and general marlager of Sand Door and Plywood Company. The appointments followed the regular monthly meeting, ApiI 24, at Rodger Young auditorium in Los Angeles.

Barron, who has been president of the reactivated plywood distributors' organization since 1956, has agreed to also chairman the Public Relations committee. This group will seek to broaden the activities of the association through cooperative endeavors with other trade groups; develop advertising and public relations coordination with national organizations serving the plywood industry, and maintain harmonious relationships with mills and mill organizations to the end that improved understanding of mutual problems is achieved.

Ouch!

The following appeared in the "Letters to the Editor" columns of The Los Angeles Times of April t7,1958; it was signed by P. C. Aller of a Southern California city: thern California district manager of United States Plywood Corporation, has been asked to head up an important new grouo to be known as the Research and Education comi-ritt.., prirrcipal function of which will be to research cost data on plywood warehousing, develop new procedures designed to reduce expense, and conduct industry-wide studies into lvays and means to improve the distribution methods of the industrv.

"The unemployed should not be too unhappy, just a little longer coffee break and a little more time out for a smoke. I recently went into a lumberyard to purchase fixtures for an overhead garage door. The clerk to attend me had just drawn a cup of hot coffee from a vending machine.

"He led me around two or three turns in a long corridor to where the equipment was stored and with the cup of coffee in one hand, he tried desperately {or.some time with the other hand to sort out the different makes (some 40 pounds, packed in heavy paper cartons) which, of course, was impossible.

"He then remarked that his coffee was getting cold and headed back to tl-re ofifice, I presume to sit down and finish his coffee-after which he would give me some consideration.

"I am nearing 75 now, and happy that I am a throwback to the good old days when work was considered a virtue and not a disgrEce."