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It was away back in the days of polygamy in Salt Lake City, and one of the Mormon elders was taking to himself several wives, all at the same time and in one ceremony' The officiating clergyman was somewhat hard of hearing, and he found the brides to be rather timid in making their responses to the marriage ritual, which ruffled his temper'

"Do you take these women to be your lawful wedded wives?" he asked in stentorian tones, and the bridegroom'

To Continue in Wholescle Lumber Business

Frank J. O'.Connor, who has managed the San Francisco office of the Donovan Lumber Company for many years, will continue to occupy the same offices at 260 Cali' fornia Street, San Francisco, as a wholesale lumber dealer' Liquidation of the Donovan Lumber Company was recently announced.

likewise in strong voice, replied-"f de."

"Do you take this man to be your lawfully wedded husband?" he asked the brides-to-be. The reply came mostly in voices he could scarcely hear, so he glared over his glasses at the array of fluttering females before him, and remarked in icy tones:

"Some of you girls are going to have to speak louder if you want to get in on this."

Back From Wcrshingrton

Jim Farley, assistant Western sales manager, cific Lumber Company, San Francisco, and E. hamson, Hammond Lumber Company, Samoa, July B from a three weeks' trip to Washington, connection with the business of the Redwood Advisory Committee.

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Arthur A. Hood Joins American Lumberman As Vice President and Editor

Arthur A. Hood, director of dealer relations for Johns-Manville for the past thirteen years' will join the American Lumberman as vice president and editor on August 1, Herbert A. Vance, publisher, announced. Mr. Vance 'ivill turn over his editorial duties to Mr. Hood, but will continue as publisher.

While with Johns-Manville, Mr. Hood created the National Housing Guild, development on new techniques in sales management and distribution, and the pioneering of courses in light construction engineering and marketing at twentysix colleges and universities. He pioneered the marketing of homes and building "packages."

He was instrumental in the development of the Producers' Council Postwar Platform and the Dealers' Pledge of Service recently adopted by the National Retail Lumber Dealers' Association.

"Art" Hood, as he is known far and wide, was born in 1891, a third generation lumberman. He spent his youth learning the lumber business in his father's retail yard at Sioux City, Iowa. At the age of nineteen, he was sent by his father to South Dakota to establish a line of retail lumber yards, then on to Chicago to learn cost and general accounting in a wholesale, retail lumber and millwork business. In 1914, he went to Minnesota where he spent eight years as general manager and sales manager of a wholesale and retail distributing lumber yard operating in the Twin Cities area. In l9Z2 he became vice president of the Thornpson Lumber Company of Minneapolis, and in 1926 accepted the presidency of the Southwest Lumber Sales Corporation, and vice president of the City Lumber Corporation.

The retail field again beckoned in 1928 and Mr. Hood ivent to Chicago to become president of the Associated Leaders of Lumber and Fuel Dealers of America' He joined

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Johns-Manville in 1933 and became director of the company's National Housing Guild division.

In the five years preceding World War II dislocations, he directed thirty-one Housing Guild .Training Courses throughout the country in which 12,000 dealers, executives and salesmen were trained in the principles of selling building "packages" to consumers.

Mr. Hood has been active in many national industrial organizations, including Producers Council, Inc', National Planning Association, National Federation of Sales Executives, American Marketing Association, National Homes Foundation, Committee for Economic Development, the f.aymen's Movement for a Christian World, Marketing Research Council. and National Committee on Vocational Technical Training.

In 1926, he was elected Snark of Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo, in spent a year organizing lumber clubs' and Canada.

He is an officer of the Society for the Advancement of Management, the National Society of Sales Training Executives and the Guild of American Economists. IIe was one of the founders of the National Marketing Forum and the National Distribution Council.

Will Build Sawmill At Oclaidge, Ore.

Pope & Talbot, Inc., Lumber Division, plans to build a sawmill at Oakridge, Ore., east of Eugene. The mill will cut between 200,000 and 300,000 board feet daily from a sustained yield unit of timber on the main fork of the Willamette River above the city.

The firm has bought the holdings of the old Penn Timber Co., which will be supplemented by U. S. Forest Service timber, providing a sustained production of approximately 44 million board feet annually. Mill is expected to employ beiween 325 and 375 oersons.

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