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Southland Archifects to Present Theme for Building Show

Theme for the 1961 Western Building Industries Exposition to be held in Los Angeles' Great Western Exhibit Center, October 7-10 will be developed and presented by the American Institute of Architects Southern California Chapter, according to an announcement by Warren Driver, L.A. building contractor and provisional Chairman of the Exposition Council.

"The participation of AIA's Southern California Chapter as a joint Sponsor of WBIE and in developing the theme for the entire Exposition is both welcome and appropriate," said Driver who is past President of the Associated General Contractors of Southern California, also among the ten associations in the building industry sponsoring the exposition. "West- ern designs and materials are setting the major architectural trends through-- out the nation," he pointed out, "and the lvestern architect therebv exerts a powerful, far-reaching influehce in today's market for building materials."

President C. Day Woodford of the Southern California AIA has named Los Angeles architects Earl Heitschmidt, Lawrence Davidson, and Kemper Nomland as AIA representatives on the Western Building Industries Council, policy guidance body for the Exposition.

Edwin Woodrich, AIA Exhibit Chairman and a member of the firm of Austin, Field & Fry, is in charge of the WBIE theme exhibit. Also assigned to the project as AIA liaison is architect Don Park of the firm of Benton &

Park, West Los Angeles.

It is anticipated that the WBIE theme display will cover the four aspects of the construction market which are encompassed in the 4-day showresidential, commercial, institutional, and industrial-and will emphasize the challenge of leadership which western architecture faces in this decade.

Horbor tighr Building Supply

ln New Gluoriers

Roland Johnson, owner of Harbor Light Building Supply, P.O. Box 186, Trinidad, California, recently moved into brand-new quarters located on Highway 101 just north of Trinidad. The new facilities include an attractive. modern showroom. new undercover storage facilities and a complete line of buildings materials, plumbing and electrical inventories. Johnson formerly operated on property pdjacent to his ocean view home in Trinidad.