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Vermiculite lnstirute Told of New Products, Opportunities

Ng* vermiculite products and new market opportunities highlighted the 18th annual meeting of Vermiculite Institute of Chicago, April 4 through 9, at Boca Raton, Fla.

Of special interest to the construction industry is the approval by Structural Clay Products Institute of the new vermiculite masonry filI for cavity walls, the result of eight months of testing by the Structural Clay Products Research Foundation.

W. V. Culver, secretary-manager of Vermiculite-Northwest, Inc., at Seattle, \Mash., was elected president of the Institute to succeed J. Brooks Robinson -of Great Falls, Mont. Three new directors were also named: Jack Lyall, pres_ident of Southwest Vermiculite Co., Albuqueryue, N. M.; R. W. Sterrett, Chicago, and L. J. Venaid, Minneapolis. Edward R. Murphy and Walter J. Bein were re-, turned as managing director and treasurer, respectively.

One {ay of-the meeting was devoted to sellingand seliing ideas. Don Knecht, president of the National Buildins Material Distributors Assn., analyzed distribution prob-lems and stressed the importa^." oi the wholesale distributor in selling and marketing.

"The service wholesaler is the pulse beat of the movement of goods from factories to ultimate consumers," he said. "tIis widespread services give velocity to this movement, adding extra value to each item by having it at hancl rvhen the consumer demands it. It is becoming clear that this remarkable fact of availability is not iust an accident."

WCIA Mokes Two Appointments

A. G. Fegles has been named general superintendent of the West Coast Lumber Inspection Bureau, according to announcement of H. V. Simpson, manager. Fegles has 6een in the lumber business since 1927, when he went to work in_his native Eugene for the old Walters-Bushong mill. He joined the West Coast bureau 1n 1943 and has held several administr-ation positions. For a time, he was manager of the Seattle office of the bureau and for the past two jtears has been on special assignments working out of the-Portland lTeadquarters.

H. Y. ,Simpson, in his capacity as executive vice-presi- dent of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, alsb announces the appointment of G. R. Boehmer as manager of the Seattle ofifice of the association. Boehmer is well known in Oregon newspaper circles. He was a feature writer and Sunday magazine editor on the Oregon Journal. He has been more recently on the trade promotion staff of WCLA. Simpson advises that Fegles will take over his new responsibilities at once and that Boehmer will take over the association's Seattle office about mid-Tulv.

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Custocatian A. L. Kerper, Paul Bunyan Lumber Co., Susauville; Jabberwock W. A. Parker, U.S. Forest Service, Susanville; Visiting Of6cer, Supreme Custocatian Jack Berry, Jack S. BerryWholesale, Sacramento ; Bojum Stark Sowers, Inland Lumber Co., Riverside; Scrivenoter, NoCal State Deputy Snark Hugh Pessner, West Coast Timber Products, San Francisco; Junior Hoo-Hoo Timothy McIndoo, Main Lumber Co., Redding; Senior Hoo-Hoo John Hassett, Meadow Valley Lumber Co., Quincy, and Snark Earl C. Deering, Paul Bunyan Lumber Co., Susanville.

Gront Gloor Retires; Vcrrner In

Ben Varner, general manager of the Varner Lumber Co., Dallas, Texas, has been named the new executive vice-president of the National Association of Commission Lumber Salesmen, succeeding Grant R. Gloor, who retired May 31. The headcuarters of the NACLS are to be moved to Dallas in the near future. The retirements this year of Mr. Gloor and also Sid L. Darling, veteran executive of the NationalAmerican Wholesale Lumber Assn., remove from the lumber scene two of its longtime, most-respected leaders.

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Washington, D. C.-Retail lumber sales in March rose 278% above February and 3l.l% above the March, 1958, figure, marking the ninth successive month of increase compared with the year-earlier period. Retail stocks on March 31 were estimated at 4,967,O00,000 b.f., 2.5 ,4o above the February level and 4.9/o above March 1958.

Scrcrqmento Wholesolers Hold R..R. Doy

Wednesday, May 27, the Sacramento Wholesale Lumbermen's Club inaugurated "Railroader Day" and invited representatives of each of the local freight agent offices to attend luncheon at Moby Dick's there. The railroad men were the guests of individual wholesale companies and the Club enjoyed a turnout of 44 lumbermen and railroadersone from "far ofr" San Francisco, Charles Nick of the L&N Railroad Co.

Joe Good, assistant general manager of the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce, was the feature speaker, his topic dealing with the importance of our railroad people to the economv of the citv. as well as to the state and nation ir.r general. Chairman of tn. Sacramento Wholesale Lumbermen's Club is Supreme Nine Member and Sacramento Wholesaler Jack Berry. Chairman of the successful "Railroader Day" meeting was Ken Bowes, head of American River Lumber Company, Inc.

Don Moses Now With Reno Yqrd

Don Moses, formerly manager of Morrison-Merrill & Co. at Reno, and at one time with the old Pacific Coast Coal Co. in San Luis Obispo, recently joined Home Lumber Co. in Reno as manager and purchasing agent of the company's wholesale supply division.

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los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Glub 2 Concqts Closs of | 6 Kitfens of Moy Meet

A big class of 16 Kittens was initiated during the Concatenation proceedings of the three-way meeting, May 14, at Fox Hills, which was reported in the last issue. Tl-re new Club 2 Hoo-Hoo are:

James Bolte, Southwest Lumber Nlills, Phoenix, Ariz.; Earl Biby, E. L. Bruce Co., Los Angeles; Guy Barnett, Rossman Nlill & Lumber Co., Long Beach; Merlin Cook, Curly's Lumber, Los Angeles; Harry DeMeire, Betts-Sine Lumber Co., Culver City; Thomas Duncan, Al Peirce Co., Long Beach; Leon Flynn, Rossman Mill & Lumber Co., Long Beach ; Forest "Frosty" Foster, Soutl-rern California Lumber Sales, Monrovia; Carl Goodman, Smith-Robbins