T\(/ENTY.FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

As reported in The California Lumber Merchant September 1,1931

On account of the great number of both men and women seeking work in the lumber industry, The CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT announces that it is +olunteering to seek jobs for such people, and invites all such to place their propositions, free of charge, with this journal and its staff. The MERCHANT thus volunteers as an employment agency, serving both seekers of employment and employers seeking help, lvithout compensation.

The national magazine, Printer's Ink, has reprinted a July 1 editorial of The CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT, entitled "The Carpenter Asks About White Pine."

The Chas. R. McCormick cisco, is now occupying its at 20C0 Evans Avenue.

A full-page, illustrated San Francisco appears in ada in 1848.

Lumber Company, San Frannew, all-rvood office building story about A. B. Hammond of this issue. He was born in Can-

President B. W. Lakin of the newly formed Western Pine Association announces the appointments of David T. Mason aS manager, and S. V. Fullaway, Jr. as secretary.

The firm of H. S. Thompson, Inc., San Francisco, has installed modern display and sales rooms in each of its plants in that city.

Henry Srn'afford, of E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, attended the annual convention of the Pacific Coast Hardwood Dealers Association held in Victoria, B. C., August 20-22, and was honored by being elected president of the organization.

Col. W. B. Greeley appeared ing of the Interstate Commerce recently, and protested against as a witness before a meetCommission held in Seattle proposed increases in lum- ber freight rates, on account the lumber market. of the depressed condition of

48o-Home Plqn i,n Bqkersfield

Bakersfield, Calif.A 480-home development in the southwest district here was announced for a new subdivision at South II street and Planz road.

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Plenry of 'Actionn Guqrqnteed Deqlers ot NRLDA 1956 Exposition

No matter if you come for an afternoon, or for the full four days of education, ideas and fun, you will see plenty of "action" at the 1956 Exposition of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association in Chicago, December 10-13'

The Exposition schedule, just announced, is designed so dealers can attend management w'orkshop sessions at the Conrad Hilton hotel from 8 to 10 a.m. (continental breakfast), then board special Exposition buses to the International Amphitheatre where four "live" demonstration clinics and hundreds of new product exhibits will be housed under the same roof.

"Action" clinics for dealers at the Amphitheatre will

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include a tour of the "Profit-Maker showroom," a full-scale lumber dealer store; Material Handling and Delivery clinic; Component Part Assembly demonstrations, and a Power Tool Merchandising show.

The December date for the Exposition will enable manufacturers to exhibit many new and improved 1957 products for the first time-giving lumber dealers a preview of products, tools and equipment to be merchandised for the 1957 building season.

Registration

Phil Creden, general chairman of the Exposition, announced that a $15 registration and admittance fee has been established that will permit dealers to attend this great Building Products Exposition. The Action-Demonstration clinics will again be staged in life-like, realistic industry situations and conditions. A11 dealer clinics are planned and developed by men who knorv the retail building material industry, and the registration fee entitles the dealer to attend everything for the four-day period, including exhibit clinics and social events.

A $5 daily registration fee will admit dealer employes, architects, bankers, contractors, engineers, realtors and educators to attend the amphitheatre clinics and product exhibits for one day only.

Breakfast WorkshoPs

Currently-planned Management workshops will discuss Operation Home Improvement successes and promotion techniques, Installment Selling and Mortgage Credit, Profitable Kitchen Remodeiing, Management Side of Merchandising, and other lumber dealer topics.

Exhibit space contracted has already surpassed the total space at the 1955 Exposition in Cleveland, thus assuring an overflow of new products for dealer inspection:

A major event, now in the planning stage, will be the erection of two or more model homes in the Chicago area, incorporating the recommendations of the President's Women's Conference on Housing. For the first time an industry will build to the specifications. set up by the housewives of America at their recent Washington conference with Housing Administrator, Albert M. Cole.

These homes will be open for dealer inspection and also to the public.

(Tell theru you sazu it in The California Lumber Merchant)