Of SCR,tA's'fumbermen's Workshops,'

three classes on the Lien Laws, was sold out before the first class bell rang and augurs capacity enrollment for the future Workshops to be held in the series during the Fall and Winter months.

Leo Hubbard of the Hayward Lumber & Investment Co., Los Angeles, is conducting this first Workshop at the Mayfair hotel, Los Angeles. The first session was on Thursday evening, Sept. 17, the second on Sept. 24, and this topic will be concluded with the third class on October 1. This Workshop covers Materialmen's Liens, Bonds, Stop Notices, Collection Laws and related matters. The large class in attendance when the accompanying photos were taken seemed to be applying the heavy concentration and hard work necessary to get the full benefit of the course.

Mr. Hubbard, secretary of the old Hayward lumber lineyard firm, has done a very thorough job in preparing the material for the course, reports Orrie W. Hamilpn, SCRLA executive vice-president. The SCRLA published the material in a very complete text book, bound as a permanent volume, which was distributed to each enrolee for use in his daily work.

Lumberyard personnel satisfactorily completing all the SCRLA Workshops will be given awards at the next annual convention, in April 1960.

DEK Ncrmes Boone to Heod New Home Gonstruction Posl

DEK Industries, Inc. of California has appointed Marshall Boone manager of new home construction sales and Robert M. Matthiessen, architectural representative, announces Harry G. Stewart, general manager.

Boone will serve as liaison between the aluminum homebuilding products manufacturer and builders and developers, and Matthiessen will contact architects and designers, Stewart said.

DEK, whose Los Angeles plant is the state's largest manufacturer of aluminum home building products, produces aluminum siding, awnings, patio covers, carports, screen enclosures and shutters.

locke Succeeds Hcrll As Director Of U.S. Forest Products Lqb

Madison, Wis.-Dr. J. Alfred Hall retired August 31, as director of the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory here and will be succeeded by Dr. Edward G. Locke. chief of the world-famed instituiion's division of wood chemistrv for the past eight years. The retiring director said he will tate up residence in Portland, Ore., where he will do consulting work for industrial concerns in the forest products field. In a facetious vein, he added that "duck-hunting on the Pacific flyway has become so much better, and the Mississippi flyway so poor, that I feel a change of climate is indicated." He retires as only the fifth director in the nearly half-century that the Laboratory has been in existence. He began his Forest Service career in 1930. In 1937 he was appointed assistant director of the California (now Pacific Southwest) Forest Experiment Station at Berkeley.

Dr. Locke is a past national president of the Forest Products Research Society, which has national headquarters here. With the organization of the Forest Utilization Service by the Forest Service after World War II he was put in charge of the Portland unit. Since coming to the T aboratory, Dr. Locke has stressed the need foi making ' fuller use of the nation's timber resources. They have frequently pointed out that chemical utilization would afford markets for much wood now unusable or lost as milling refuse.

Gqrdiner to Aid Bleile

Appointment of Charles S. Gardiner, Jr., as assistant to Earl Bleile, general sales manager of Roseburg Lumber Co., is announced by Kenneth W. Ford, president. Gardiner, now performing his new duties in the home office at Roseburg, Ore., joined the company in 1957.