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Deolers Review Resolutions

Northern California members of the California Building Material Dealers Association, Inc, have reviewed three resolutions passed at the CBMDA Mid-Year Conference staged recently in Carmel at a July 9 meeting at the Edgewater Inn in Oakland.

Three resolutions discussed were: (1) that the members of the California Building Material Dealers Association will support those suppliers and manufacturers who distribute their materials through normal and traditional channels of distribution; (2) that all suppliers and manufacturers make available to all bona fide building material dealers uni{orm credit and discount policies; and (3) that the association, to strengthen the individual dealerships, shall develop a management-educational program for the benefit of all its members.

The resolution committee was headed by Jack Guerin, J. S. Guerin & Co., San Francisco; and R. K. Van Anda, Anvil Building Material Co., Northridge. Also on the committee were Harold Beatty, Western Gravel Co., Campbell; Red Haggerty, Klamath Lumber Co., San Carlos; Dick Downing. Delta Supply, Union City; Bill O'Brien, McPhail's, Inc., San Rafael; Clifford Lance, A & A Building Materials, Arcadia; Bill Mauzey, Jr., Beverly Hills Building Materials; George Throop, Jr., George Throop Company, Pasadena; Sam Gordon, Atlas Building Materials, Los Angeles; and legal counsel Oscar Tannenbaum.

Misses ond Dodgers

Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club rf l started their summeroooutside activities" program by attending a baseball game at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.

Those attending were: Ruth Armand, E. J. Stanton Lumber Co. and guests; Jo Cogburn, Owens Park Lum'ber Co. and guests; Dorothy Simons, Simmons Hardwood Lumber Co.; Hazel Tandy, Randall Lumber Co.; Estella and John Seemayer, Adolph and Bonnie Wahner of Atlas Lumber Co.; Peggy and Rocky Mattola of Allan S. Bufkin Lumber Sales Co.; Mable and Bill Askins. Commercial Lumber Co.; Dorothy Miller, H. W. Koll Mill & Lumber Co. with guest Herb Klasges; Dorothy and Homer Hagerman, Simmons Hardwood Lumber Co., and guests Mr. and Mrs. J. Rodney McKinney and Curtis McKinney of Oklahoma City.

Evelyn Miller, Mullin Lumber Co., with guests Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hoy, Mrs. Pat Huffman and Mrs. Marguerite Young; Lynn and Don Rose, Tarter Webster & Johnson, with guests Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Petersen, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ogas, SanfordLussier, Inc., with guests Mr. and Mrs. Roman Madrid.

Teqcher's Scotch Uses Americqn Oqk

Planks of well-seasoned American oak are used exclusively in the Glasgow cooperages of Wm. Teacher & Sons, Ltd., the world's largest independent Scotch whisky pnoducer.

Teacher's Highland Cream Scotch Whisky must be matured in casks made of American oak. Porous, this wood is 'best suited to permit evaporation of undesirable and coarse flavoring materials.

The main task of one of the Teacher's cooperages is to reassemble American made barrels (40 gallons) which previously contained sherry. For ease and economy of transit, these barre]sarrive in Glasgow in a knocked down condition as bundles of staves. They are accompanied by steel hoops and barrel heads, all clearly numbered.

In Teacher's main Glasgow cooperage, these staves are cut to the length and thickness required to make oopuncheons" or casks with a capacity of 100-105 gallons. From these casks, the whisky assumes its characteristic amber color after years of maturing.

Millwork Jobbers Eye Competition

Corporate dropouts can be expected at all distribution levels within the building industry as marketing competition, now stifi, grows even more demanding. Wood ornamentation is back. W'ood windows are recapturing ground lost to metal. $any retail dealers are becoming dealer-builders. Builders too are changing and stabilizing. Prefabing is marking time, even slipping in some areas.

Those are some of the building industry trends highlighted in a series of regional. marketing conferences just concluded by the National Sash & Door Jobbers Association, in Dallas, Memphis, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Albany, Cleveland, Minneapolis, and New Orleans.

"Few left these meetings without the realization that they're entering an even more highly competitive period, that the building industry is in an era of adjustment that only the best will survive," Associate Secretary Carl W. Nagle said.

"Small companies will not have the luxury of staying small and doing the same things as today. The total market is growing bigger. Unless jobbers and dealers have planned well and know where they're going, they'll find it hard to compete," he forecast.

Home lmprovement Supplemenf

Over lBO0 newspapers will receive a special home remodeling supplement in September as part of the ooHome Improvement Time" prornotion of the National Home Improvement Council.

The supplement will be produced and distributed by House Beautilul magazine. The council and, House Beautilul have cooperated in similar special newspaper activities since 1960.

In addition to newspaper distribution, the supplement will be mailed by House Beautilul to more than 20OO home improvement dealers and contractors as a merchandising tool. Included will be articles and photos on a wide variety of home repair and remodeling subjects and ad mats for dealer-contractor use.

Red Book off the Press

The latest 1965 issue of the Lumbermen's Red Book, the most comprehensive credit and marketing guide in the lumber and woodworking industries, is ofi the press.

Since 1876, the Red Book has been the recognized source of credit information for the lumber, woodworking and allied indus. tries of the United States. It lists geographically the manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers and quantity users of lumber and wood products of all kinds. In addition to financial strength ratings and trade payment evaluations, the listings include business classifications, addresses and other pertinent facts which facilitate making credit decisions and pinpointing prospects.

Oregon Job Forecqsl

The Oregon Department of Ernployment, following a comprehensive study of the wood products industry in Oregon, has concluded that automation and growth will just about offset each other in the next 10 years, as far as the employment picture is concerned.

A 37-page booklet notes that in August, 1952, there were 96,300 wage and salary workers employed by the wood products industryr highest point on record. In l9&, the study points ouf 76,040 workers were reported in September, with only 40,000 in logging and sawmills.

Total emplsym€nFin al}-wood produets -industries *y t97$is estimated by the study to be 72,000, compared with 71,700 at the present time.