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NBMDA Southern Colifornio DistributorDeqler Conference for September 18

Are you interested in maintaining a firm grasp on current conditions in the distribution of building materials? In keeping up with the trends in our changing industry? In getting formation on our present and potential profit problems ? In achieving closer cooperation between the wholesale distributor and the retail dealer?

These, and other questions, will be answered at a meeting of Southern Caliiornia retail dealers and wholesale distributors, to be held at Los Angeles' Ambassador llotel, September 18. The program has been planned by the National Building Material Distributors Association, and promises to be of benefit to all.

- M. L. McCreery, Jackson, Michigan, president of NBMDA, opens the program at 9:30 a.m. with an address of welcome. Following is a round table discussion-"Dealer-

Distributor Relations-Where Are We Going?" Participat- ing for the wholesale distributors are Stark Sowers, Inland Lumber Company, and Ralph Singer, Diamond W Supply Company; for the retail dealers, Ken Dietel, Ponioni Lumber Company, and Hal Anawalt, Anawalt Lumber Company.

-"Looking at the Component Picture" will be the subject of Don Richardson, Denver, vice president of NBMDA, who will conclude the morning session.

__!,o!l_owing luncheon, S. M. Van Kirk, general manager of NBMDA, will lead off with an address on "Distribution -Observations at the National Level."

R. E. Freeman, So-Cal Building Materials Co., Inc., Los Angeles, rvill then moderate a panel discussion on 'lTgday's Profits-Can We Operate More Efficiently?"

Ajdjng him will be Paul Hollenbeck, executive manager of Southern California Retail Lumber Dealers Assn.. and Fred Kranz of Golden State Lumber Company-both speaking for the retail dealers. Representing the wholesale distributors on this lively discussion will be Ray Haley, Haley Wholesale Co., Inc., and W. C. Grieve, Buildirig Material Distributors, Inc.

A big turn-out should mark this practical and down-toearth program. We hope to see you all there !

Bower to Heod Hollow Tree Redwood SolesWickefi Appointed Esstern Soles Monoger

William M. Moores, president of Hollow Tree Lumber Company, Ukiah, announced the appointment of William L. "Bill" Bower as general sales manager of Hollow 'Iree Redlvood Company on September l. Bower replaces Max Barnette who has affiliated with a firm in the southland. _ For the past five years Bower had been representing Simpson Timber Company in the South, both at Atlanta and Dallas. Prior to his association with Simpson, Bower was connected rvith Hubbard & Johnson Lumber Co. at Mt. View.

Along with the appointment of Bower as general sales manager, Moores also named Bill Wickett to the post of eastern sales manager. Wickett, more recently with Associated Redwood Mills, was also associated with Simpson and later with the old Cloverdale Redwood Comoanv as sales manager.

Four-Alorm Bloze Levels Sqn Frqncisco Mill

A four-alarm fire destroyed an abandoned mill in the Potrero-Bernal District, San Francisco, August 20, and. spread to an adjoining roofing materials company building.

Fire Chief William F. Murray said the Eureka Sash Door & Moulding Mills at 999Treat Avenue was virtually a total loss. He estimated damage to the adjacent Cleasby-Witting Company building at from.$35,000 to $,10,000.

The mill, abandoned some weeks ago, was a big wooden structure at least 35 years old.

An lllustrious Coreer In Lumber

A few months back while doing a little "upside down reading," we happened upon a Henry M. Hink invoice on a retailer's desk which stated modestly at the bottom : "Over 50 years in Redwood." Now this is-a long time in any business-much less confined to just one specie . Sequoia Sempervirens.

Delving a bit further into veteran lumberman Hink's most successful past we find that he's not only logged 5l years in the redwood business-but he's done it at the same address, the Merchants Exchange Building, 465 California Street, in the heart of San Francisco's financial district.

Born in San Francisco, young Hink returned to Germany with his mother after his father's death and received his early education there. But Hink had seen enough of San Francisco during his early years and he was "hooked" like any true native San Franciscan. He returned to San Francisco shortly before the '06 quake and fire and was in Berkeley when the disaster struck.

Hink still recalls "jumping" a ferry at Berkeley (no civilian movement was allowed following the quake as the entire area was under military control), hiding in a life boat until the ferry docked at San Francisco, and then spending a day searching the ruins for his mother. Happily, he found her safe and sound with relatives who livecl beyond the fire belt.

In the next few years that follorved, young Hink tried his hand in the "publishing business" as a newsboy. But in 1910, Hink began a 5l year association with redwood when he ioined the old Dolbeer Carson Lumber Comoanv as an offiie boy in the firm's Merchants Exchange Buildirig heacl office. Young Hink, incidentally, replaced another yourlg cl-rap, Peter B. Kyne, who was later to become famous as tl're author of "Cappy Ricks."

From then on, it was the traditional long l.raul to the top, from office boy to president of the company, a route, unfortunately, not altogether too popular these days.

Mr. Hink, a vice-president of Dolbeer Carson at the time, became president and general manager of the venerable redwood concern following the death of J. M. Carson in 1940. He continued at th.e helm of Dolbeer Carson until December 15, 1950, when he announced the sale of the company to The Pacific Lumber Company in the pages of The California Lumber Merchant thusly:

"A. S. Murphy, president, announced today that The Pacific Lumber Company has purchased the timber holdings, plant, inventory, and other important assets from the ir-rdividual parters of Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Cornpany. Tl-re Eureka Plant lvill operate under the general supervision of G. J. \fanary, manag'er, Scotia." Mr. Hink was the third president of Dolbeer & Carson in its 87 years o{ existence.

But 41 years of redrvood was just a starter for Henry.

Shortly after the Dolbeer & Carson sale, he opened his own r.vholesale offices in the Merchants Exchange Building representing the Carl Diebold Lumber Co. of Arcata. And that's where you'll find him today-Room 11O7-still selling quality band-sawn Diebold redwood to his old customers and friends.

American Forest Products Industries, Inc., national sponsor of the Tree Farm Program, reports that, as of August 1, there were 20,903 tree farms in the United States, comprising 56,036,422 acres of privately-owned forestland. Figures for August, l, 1960, were 18,237 tree farms and 53,254,769 acres of privately-owned forestlands.

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