Awcrrded Gold Lcpel Buttons

One of the highlights of the May rneeting of the National Rbtail Lumber Dealers Association's board of directors in Washington was the awarding of solid gold lapel buttons to the five "Minute Men" who had made the most outstanding showings in the National's new public relations campaign. The design of the buttons includes the figure of a Minute Man above the letters-NRlDA-on a blue field.

Recipients of the awards were: Roy S' Edwards of Newton, Massachusetts; R. E. Hangen of Wellington, Kansas; R. C. Restrick of Detroit, Michigan; J. H. Hankins of IJniontown, Pennsylvania; and Russell W. Nowels of Rochester, Michigan.

J. G. (Jerry) Mashek, manager of Hill & Morton, Inc., Oakland, visited the company's I-os Angeles office at the end of MaY.

E. W. "Duke" Hemmings is back in the wholesale lumber business and has opened an ofifice at 42C0 Bandini Blvd'' Los Angeles 23, operating as the Hemmings Lumber Company. His telephone number is ANgelus 3-6819'

"Duke" is well known throughout the lumber trade in Southern California. For the past three years he managed Shasta Lumber Inc. at Oakhurst, Calif., and prior to that he was associated with the lumber business in Los Angeles since 1923.

Don Philips Sr., Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., Los Angeles, is back at his desk follorving a trip to the Northerrr California mills.