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There are less than five-eighths of an inch of calendat pad pages left until Christmas, reports The American Hardware Corporation's Kwikset division, Anaheim, Calif., which each year calls in designers and advertising specialty firms to develop a new gift twist to a standard residential hardware product.

-National Foresf Products Week ' October | 6'22L, J. Swain Advertising, Inc., Whittier, Calif., announces the appointment of F rank E. Gregory as account executive. He will work with agency principals L. J. Swain and Jack Mealer in servicing the agency's 22 clients, and will assist the agency in the solicitation of new business. Gregory recently was assistant vicepresident and director of advertising for American Savings and Loan. a $22O-million association with 12 offices throughout L. A. county. He has also been advertising and promotion director for a large publishing house of national trade ma'gazines in the building products, construction and ceramic production fields, and also has several years' experience with daily and weekly newspapers in reportorial and advertising positions. L. J' Swain Advertising' a member of Western States Advertising Agencies Association' services accounts in the east Los Ang:eles and OranS:e counties area. The agency handles national industrial accounts, several local consumer accounts, and has well-rounded experience in the financial field.

-National Forest Products Week October l6-22PHOENIX-Competition, both from within and without the industry, is compelling the lumber industry to diversify or integrate, stockholders of Southwest Forest Industries, Inc', were told by J. B. Edens, president, at the company's annual meeting. This' coupled with the obvious economic advantages of elimination of waste by fuller utilization of the tree, motivated the company's decision to enter the pulp and paper and paper products field, Edens pointed out. Net sales for all operations of Southwest during the fiscal year ended April 30, 1960, were fi20,726,982, compared with net sales in 1959 of $15,313,985.

-Nafional Foresf Producls Week October 16-22William Welch has been named vice-president and sales director for the Pacific Plywood Company in Dillard, Oregon, according to Mr. William F. Forrest, president.

-Naiional Foresf Producis Week October l6'22Joseph J. Bauman, new sales representative of Dexter Lock Division, will be responsible for sales in southern California, Arizona and part of Nevada. He will make his ofEce at Garden Grove, California.

-National Foresl Producls Week October 16-22Edward Hines Lumber Co., Chicago, has sigrted a long-term, exclusive lumber sales contract with Midway Terminals, Ltd. of Vancouver, British Columbia, which involves a number of lumber manufacturing mills there with an annual production of onehundred million feet of White Spruce and Douglas Fir. In addition to this production, the Edward Hines Lumber Co. will represent a group of mills headeQ, by Oliver Sawmills, Ltd,, with a large production of Douglas Fir.

-National Foresl Products Week October l6-22- ' "National Forest Vacations," currently one of the U. S. Department of Agriculture's most popular publications, is out this month in revised form with a new cover, new pictures, and new text-to keep pace with the steady expansion of vacation opportunities on the 181 million acres of national-forest land. The new edition emphasizes the Forest Service's flve-year recreation program, Operation Outdoors, which started July 1, 1957. One of the revised sections in the booklet is detailed "Guide to Your National F orests." New roads, camping sites, picnic grounds, and boating and swimming facilities are detailed. A single copy of "National Forest Vacations" may be obtained from the Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington 25, D.C.

-National Forest Products Week October 16-22U. S. Aluminum Siding Corporation is expanding distribution of its residential siding to the West Coast with a new warehouse distribution center in Los Angeles.

-National Foresl Producls Week Qclober l6-22The Nicholson Manufacturing Company of Auburn, Washington, larg:est manufacturer of log barking and associated equipment in North America, has formed a European subsidiary, announces T. W. Nicholson, president.

-National Foresl Producfs Week October l6-22Portland, Oregon-A 30O7o business expansion during the past four years has forced a move to larger offices for C. C. Crow Publications, announces A. M. Tewksbury, president. The company has moved to the Hughes Bldg., 115 S. W. 4th Avenue, in downtown