NRTDA Developing Mosfer Soles-Troining Progrom for Reroil Lumberyord Employes

Details of a new type of sales-training program for em- ployes of retail lumber yards are being rapihly?eveloped by a group of dealers and manufact.urers. The program,^rvhic'h follorvs the general outline destribed to the ijo".d of di_ rectors of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association at its meeting_in_ M^y, is being der.eloped by NRLDA's Committee on fndustry Relationl and interested producer.s of building materials.

While. s.aryllg study units and otl-rer materials are being prepared, it is planned to conduct a survey to determine thE extent of dealer interest in a .program of the type contem_ plated, which is to be so conducted that its be;efits can be shared by thousands.of .dealer employes who engage in sell_ ing, either part or full-time. Although the progrim"will con_ centrate on sales-training at the beginnin$, it-*itt be set up in a .rvay that will permit a broadening of its scope at any time such a step is desired. f t is expected that the survey u'i1l be completed by early fall and that the sample study units and other cletails rviil be ready in plenty of time for presentation at NRLDA's F"t!9ilg Products Exposition being held November 4 to Z in Philadelphia.

Paul R. Ely,-the association's president, is chairman cif the dealer committee. Other members are H. \\r. Blackstock, Paul S. Collier, Phil Creden, Watson Malone III, H. R. Northup,. Russell W. Norvels, James C. O'Malley and R. A. Schaub.

__ After_meeting again u'ith the manufacturers, Chairman l.-ly s.qi-{, "It is most gratifying to find that the producers of building materials are as eager as rve dealers are to find a rvorkable program to improve the selling ability of the men and women on whom they must depend to sell their products in the retail lumber vird."

In 1956, more than 8,000 pedestrians were killed by autos in the U.S.

Riverside Hoo-Hoo Meefs

Riverside County IIoo-Hoo Club 117 scheduled a dinner meefi.rg at Sobolta Hot Springs, Hemet, Calif., August 9, at rvhich steaki rverc the main course in the ner,r,. air-conditioned dining room there. An excellent color film, "The Man \\rith 1,000 Hands," produced bv Alcoa, rvas shou'n courtesy of iJrou'n-Ilevi.s Co. with Braman-Dickerson Co. of Riversicle. A report lvas given on the recent Palm Sprinqs Ladies Nite. Norninations u.ere made for the September election of nerv officers and nrembers u'ere urged to st:rrt rounding rrlt the Kittens for a Novernber concatenation.