Wholesale Hardwood Distributors Association Meets

f\RADINC AND OVERALL industry

V marketing strategy. discussed at length, was a featured part of the Pacific Coast Wholesale Hardwood Distributors Associa. tion convention at Ojai, Calif.

Representatives f rom twenty-one firms and officers from the national association met June 20-2',1 at the group's 42nd annual get-together.

Elected new officers were: Dick Quarg, president; Lyall Bell, lst v.p.; Al Frost, Jr., 2nd v.p. and Bob Kahn, secretary-treasurer.

Don White of Vhitc Brothers in Oakland, current president o{ the national, spoke on that group's many activities in and for the industry. M. B. Pt:ndkrton of the national told o{ their work on grades and mill acririties. The col t tournament was held lhat afternoon und u hayride and barbecue followed that evenine.

Next day heard speeches by Bruce McLean, Hal Von Breton and Bill MacBeath. The golf tournam,ent playoff and the annual regatta were that a{ternoon, (a regatta in Ojai? )

Anyway, the annual banquet and introduction oI the new olficers was a bie hit.