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Schedule Ponel on Distribution in Sontq Bsrboro, lltoy 25-28

Lumber manufacturers and distributors will sit down together to discuss ways of improving their distribution ryite.r-t in a panel discussion on the subject-"Is Our Distiibution System Ade<1uate for Present and Future Needs?" -as a highlight of the 1958 spring meeting of the National I-umber Manufacturers Association, May 25-28, in Santa Barbara, Calif. Participating will be representatives of all distribution channels of the lumber industry and lumber and building publications.

Mortimer B. Doyle, executive vice-president of the National Lumber Nlanufacturers Association, said the primary purpose of the panel will be "to determine how we can besi streamline and improve current distribution methods to meet the expected upturn in population and housing needs during the next l0 to 20 years."

Panel members will include J. C. O'Malley of Phoenix, Ariz., president of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association ; Floyd C. Poore of Chicago, president of the National Association of Commission Lumber Salesmen; Philip Boyd of Chicago, former president of the NationalAmerican Wholesale Lumber Association; Russ Fryburg, sales manager of the Timberlane Lumber Co., Eugene, Ore., representing in-transit shippers, and Editors Roch Bradshaw, J. \ /. Parshall, Gordon Lawler and Francis W' Brown.

John R. Mercier, vice-president of the trade group and assistant manager of Ray Hill Lumber CompanY, was named chairman of the Membership committee, which will undertake the task of expanding the membership to other counties. The organizttion now numbers among its membership nearly all plywood distributors. in the Los Angeles county area.

Don L. Braley, also a vice-president of SCPA, and Sou-

Moderator of the panel will be Kenneth Smith of San Francisco, recently retired vice-president of the Pacific Lumber Co.. now a consultant on lumber management.

tMA Welcomes Denqir Yord

San Francisco.-The Denair (Calif.) Lumber Company, owned bv Tim Silva. has ioined the ranks of the Lumber Merchanis -Association of irtrorthern California.