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Top speakers will be on hand to discuss building materials marketing trends when the Producers' Council holds its 39th annual meeting, October 5-6, at the Drake hotel, Chicago. The Council includes representatives from all product categories supplying the construction industry.

Sacramento Dealer Jack Hackard. owner of the Economy Lumber Co., underwent surgery last month and is now convalescing at home and champing at the bit to get back on the job probably early October.

Mary and Georgo Clough went vacationing in the Paciflc Northwest from his work at Tacoma Lumber Sales in Arcadia.

Jlm Knox spent two weeks in the East last month making like Jack Dionne's "old blaek hen" in "Persistency," scratchin' up the orders for Rounds Lumber Company of San F rancisco and surveying the eastern market.

Ken Conway, his wife Mona and son Kevin spent a wonderful two weeks touring the Vancouver and Victoria country of British Columbia, and informed his co-workers at Georgia- Paciflc Corp. in Los Angeles that the scenery was beautiful and the trees and flowers were out of this world.

Santa Clara Dealer Horb Crawford, manager of Pacific Mfg. Co., and the Crawford clan did the 2-week vacation bit like Tahoe through the big Labor Day weekend.

Horace E. Wolfo (great little kidder that!) postcards the Merchant from Chester, Calif., with a scene of the deep snows in the tall-timber country. They miss him around Hollvwood &

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Chet Klng, making like a bonafide tourist after 11 years with no vacation, is due to touch down at S. F. International and the Robert Dollar Company in a few days after a month in Europe on the latest Art Rosenbaum Tour. Chet began the trip Aug. 17 via New York to Lisbon, Madrid, Nice and Rome (for the Olympics opening) in that order. After three days at the Games, Chet and the tour moved on to Zurich, Geneva, Paris (where they almost lost him), London, Limerick and Shannon Airport.

Roy Stanton, Sr., Dee Essley and their wives spent Forest Products Day, Sept. 9, in Sacramento at the California State Fair, where the Los Angeles lumbermen were judges in the "Queen of the Forest" contest.

The veteran Livermore, Calif., retailer. \ilalter Motta. head of Livermore Builders Supply Co., will be back on the job soon after a brief sojourn in the hospital.

Chandler Hart of Pacific Wood Products, Los Angeles, is resting up from winning that recent prize in the Irish SweePstakes by taking two August weeks at Newport and Balboa. Serious- ly, he's a seaside enthusiast and loves yachting, swimming and deep-sea fishing. lf the vacations of Oakland Wholesaler Don Coveney' whc spent his'59 one on the French Riviera and his '60 one in a housekeeping cabin on the Russian River, may be construed as an "industry barometer," then let's all hope Don and Sally get a luxurious trip to Buenos Aires and Rio in 1961.

Ilerb Gelsenheyner, general manag:er of Downey (Calif.) Dry Kiln Co., took a Labor Day holiday to visit friends and relatives in northern California.

The Brian Bonningtons and six li'l Bonningtons (and they left the youngest two at home to boot) visited the Southland in general and Disneyland in particular for their two-weeker last month.

John Osgood, Snark of L. A' Hoo-Hoo Club 2, plans a SePtember swing through the deep South and Middlewest while attending the 69th annual convention of Hoo-Hoo International at Little Rock this month.

Preston Rowe, formerly with Emsco Plywood in Oakland, has joined Aberdeen Plywood's Harbor division just up the street as warehouse superintendent, according to Manager Mal Hlll.

Jerry Essley and Wayne Wllson of D. C. Essley & Son, Los Angeles, were reported motorboating with their farnilies ofr the coast of Laguna during August.

Sacramento Wholesaler Ken Bowes visited Grants Pass region suppliers last month on American River Lumber Co. business.

I(en Conway, fresh from the British Columbia ozone, continues his golf "feu de joie" with Ernie Mead and Carl Gavotto whenever he gets around San Diego on Georg'ia-Paciflc business. But the boys just can't seem to get together on how much each hole is worth.

Dant & Russell's Jack Butler spent an August week in the Bay area visiting the folks, Seth and Myrtle.

Ada and Dee Essley are off to Little Rock and the Hoo-Hoo convention accompanied by Supreme I Custocatian Ilarvey Koll and his wife, and Mrs, and Roy Sta,nton, Sr.

Durable Plywood's Rolf Stolesen, his wife Kay and the wee Stolesens vacationed for a week through Labor Day at their Squaw Valley chalet.

Manuel Sanchez of Bohnhoff Lumber Co., Los Angeles, was confined to American hospital recently by illness.

Iluncan Pell I[, general manager of the Davis Hardwood Company division of Thompson & Holmes, Ltd., recently elevated Wayne Foote to salesmanager of the firm with headquarters in San Francisco.