Certificater of Award for \finners ln 1952 Publ:c Relations Contest

Certificates of Award are being prepared for the 10 National and 78 State winners of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association's 1952 Public Relations Contest, according to Clyde A. Fulton, president. In addition, 9 other concerns have been named for honorable mention by the six trade press editors who judged the contest.

The companies that will receive the ten equal National Awards are the Beaver Dam Manufacturing and Supply Company, Beaver Dam, Kentucky; Clover Leaf Lumber Company, Edgar, Wisconsin; Kaercher Lumber Company, Ortonville, Minnesota; Dain Supply Company, Inc., Mahopac, New York; Charlottesville Lumber Company, Inc., Charlottesville, Virginia; Temple Lumber Company, Kerrville, Texas; Edward Hines Lumber Company, Chicago, Illinois; The A. W. Burritt Company, Bridgeport, Connecticut; Armstrong Brothers Lumber Company, San Angelo, Texas; and Pocatello Lumber Company, Pocatello, Idaho.

Dealers ftom 37 states submitted a total of 139 entries, illustrating the wide variety of public relations activities in which it is possible for retail lumbermen to engage. Support of worthwhile community projects and civic drives and the donation of lumber scraps to youth groups for hobby purposes were among the P. R. program that won recognition by the judges.

One company among those achieving the equal National Awards promotes an annual treasure hunt and picnic for local children. Another offers annual cash prizes to promising architectural students at the state university who compete in solving some particular construction problem.

The purchase by a lumber dealer of an industrial site with the standing offer to make it available to an industry that would locate in the community and employ at least fifteen persons won a top award, as did another dealer's development of a plan for low- cost housing that could be privately constructed.

Assistance in the emergency "wooden lung" program, sponsoring and appropriately rewarding 4-H club efforts, cooperating with local churches, giving talks to interested groups on the progress and place of the retail lumber and building materials industry, donating lumber literature to school and public libraries, participating in various betterbuilding promotions, and many other civic-minded activi- ties of both the dealers and their employees were reported by the Contest winners.

Because of the success of the 1952 contest in arousing - real interest in public relations work among dealers throughout the country, NRLDA is now making plans to sponsor a similar comoetition in 1953.

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These same mills for the week ended May 31 reported orders as 97,984,W feet, shipments 118,646,000 feet, and production 110,529,000 feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the rveek totaled 487,803,000 feet.

Coastwise lumber shipments are not affected by the strike of the AFL Sailors Union of the Pacific which started on May 24 as the operators have a separate steam schooner agreement with the unions. Ships carrying intercoastal lumber shipments, which have Pacific Coast union agreements, are tied up.

Title I, FIIA Improvement Locns

John E. McGovern, director of the Los Angeles office of the Federal Housing Administration, states that every home needs repairs and occasional improvements to keep it in good condition. If financing is required to make necessary repairs, it may be possible through an FHA Insured Property fmprovement loan to obtain sufficient funds to pay for the entire repair cost. The terms of repayment of the loan are reasonable and convenient.

Any one who owns a home, or has a lease on the property or a contract to purchase it, is eligible for a Title I, FHA Improvement loan. Full information about these insured loans is available from FHA qualified lending institutions. A 'r,r,'ord of caution: Do not sign any sales contract for an FHA Insured Title I Improvement loan, unless you own, or have a lease, or a contra.ct to purchase a home that is completely finished.

Bernie Barber, Sr., Bernie Barber spent a week in Los Angeles last

Nat Thompson, T. back from a vacation and Associates, Fresno. month visiting friends.

O. Thompson Lumber Co., Bell, is spent in the Middle West.