N-AWLA Continues Into 196l Its Soles-Troining Progrom; Ertends

Regionol Xleetings

National-American's 68th annual meeting was a three way suctessAttend Participation and Benefit to everyone present. The new approach which utilized seven discussion sessions and a key-note address by Carl F. Oechsle was based on a surrref of the membersfrip several months ago.

Development of a program suggested by a large majority of the members resulted in high attendance and excellent participation in the Panel Sessions. Discussion of distribution problems and manufacturer-wholesaler relations also touched factors such as Component Parts, Pre-Fab-and Transportation.

Distribution Yard/Warehouse Panel covered a broad range of items suggested by 78 questions submitted in advance to the moderator.

Mr. Oechsle, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Domestic Affairs, whose topic "Business in the Next Decade" included promising potential, also cautioned that businessmen must interest themselves in legislative and government fiscal affairs if we are to benefit from the po-

Doyle Suggests "Hollof Fqme" For Wood-Promoring lumbermen

NLilIA Executive Vice-President Mortimer B. Doyle has proposed creation of an industry-wide "Hall of F ame" to honor lumbermen who ma"Le outstanding contributions in the area of wood promotion. In a recent speech before the National-American Wholesale Lumber Assn. in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., he suggested: tential of the 60's. Inflationary rulings and legislation can destroy the anticipated gain and dissipate the assets of the present.

"Perhaps we should give some special recognition, some special tribute, to wholesalers and others who, besides contributing to the financial support of the National Wood Promotion Program, also undertake to establish new standards of salesmanship, a new spirit of helpfulness toward their customers, a new apprecidtion of the problems involved in moving lumber faster and more economically from the mill to the consumer.

"Wood promotion," he emphasized, "is the job of everyone."

The successfully launched Sales Training Program will again be available to new enrollees in 1961, as well as a .Refresher for those who participate in the 1960 Program.

The Regional Meeting program will be extended to twelve areas in the fall of 1960. A Group Life Insurance program will be available to member firms in the late summer.

The meeting at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., adopted Resolutions :

(1) Commending F.H.A. for establishment of Grade Marking Requirements on structural lumber.

(2) Opposing HR 9070-which would legalize the secondary boycott on construction sites.

(3) Opposing proposed amendments to the Fair Labor' Standards Act.

(4) Endorsing proposed transcontinental Rail Rate Reductions (Docket D-7916) based on increased mini- 'mum weights.

Officers elected for this year were J. Alex .McMillan, Charlotte, N. C., President; Mace Tobin, Eugene, Ore., 1st Vice-President; L. J. Fitzpatrick, Madison, Wis., 2nd VicePresident; William H. Seibert, Pittsburgh, Pa., Treasurer; J. J. Mulrooney, New York, N. Y., Executive Vice-President, and George E. Haring, New York, N. Y., Secretary.

Elected as Directors for three-year terms were A. D. Bell, Jr., Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., San Francisco, Calif.; Stewart A. Cooper, Vancouver, B.C. and others.