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lumber. Mr. Long indicated the institute was working in this direction.

Some discussion was then held on the need for environmental control for dry lumber storage. Present storage methods were considered to be in need of improvement if better moisture content control'was to be prac-ticed.

Those in attendance at the meeting were:

Joe Hughes, Hughes Brothers, F oresthill

Thomas Wtreeler, Hughes Brothers, Foresthill

Monty Lang, Hughes Brothers, F oresthill

Merl S. Kennedy, Astrum Lumber Co., Marysville tr'. R. Davis, Kiln Coatings, Oakland

Lloyd Newport, Diamond National, Chico

Bert Butler, Ivory Pine Co., Dinuba

Wilbur Preston, Ivory Pine Co., Dinuba

John E. Silva, Hudson Lumber Co., San Leandro

Willard C. Bean, Hudson Lumber.Qo., San Leandro

F rank A. Payne, Pickering Lumber Corp., Standard

W. W. Kesler, Electric Dry Kiln, Stockton

Rueben E. Andreen, Winton Lumber Co., Martell

Richard Cyr, Dorris Lumber & Mldg., Sacramento

Robert Martin, American Forest Products, Wilseyville

Jack Walden, Paul Bunyan Lbr. Co,, Susanville

Les Gluyas, High Sierra Pine, Oroville

Roy Schrock, High Sierra Pine, Oroville

R. E. Crandall, Pickering Lumber, Tuolumne

Harvey H. Smith, Paciflc SW Forest & Range Exp. Sta., Berkeley

Bart. A. Ecklund, UC Forest Products Lab., Richmond

Eric Ellwood, UC Forest Products Lab., Richmond

James W. Jacobsen, Ratph L. Smith Lbr. Co., Anderson

J. F. McAlister, Ralph L. Smith Lbr. Co., Anderson

Francis Hargadine, Ralph L. Smith Lbr. Co., Anderson l'lavel D. Gmbb, Scott Lumber Co., Burney

Ray Brown, Stockton Box Co., Foresthill

H. J. Meyer, Stockton Box Co., F oresthill

Clark Bowden, Red Blufr Moulding, Red Bluff

Ray Hampson, R. L. Smith Wildwood Co., Wildwood

Art Uhl, T. R. C., Stockton

people, places and Producfs

Elvans Products Company of Pllrmouth, Michlgan, has purchased the Exec-Units Division of the General Pllruvood Corporation and the company's Haskelite Manufacturing Division will take over the production and sales of Elxec-Units, a free standing type of movable o6ce partition.

October 16'22-

-Nafional Forest Products Week

Weyerhaeuser Company's Lumber and Plywood Division has appointed Cole & Weber as its advertising agency to follow the Division's move from Saint Paul, Minn', to the company's Tacoma, Wash. headquarters in August, announces T. L. O'Gara' manager of the Division's Merchandising department. "It is not easy to terminate the very pleasant and profitable relationship we have had with Colle and McVoy for more tha^n twenty years," said O'Gara. "However, with the complex requirements of the Divi' sion's activities, it is necessary that we have a,n agency frrmly established at our new location to take care of the important day-to-day activites. Cole & Weber have some twenty years experience in the building industry and more than fffteen years active service with other divisions of Weyerhaeuser, having maintained a working orga^nization in Tacoma for about ten years." Working directly with the newly appointed agency will be the Advertising and Trade Promotion department, headed by Carroll O'Rourke. Agency contact with the department will be with F red Johnson and Winston McCallum on trade prornotion activities, and Ernest Gilbert on advertising.

-Naiional Foresl Producls Week Octobet 16-22John l{hitehouse has joined the sales sta.fr of McKinney Manufacturing Company, Pittsburgh, Pa., producer of builders' hardware, and has been assigrred to the West Coast regional sales ofrce, San Francisco, under the direction of Clark Van Housen, West Coast regional sales manag:er. Mr. Whitehouse started his hardware career in 1947 as a millwork salesman for a San F rancisco door manufacturer. From 1952 until tlre present he has been San F rancisco branch sales manager for a prominent firm of manufacturer's representatives, specializing in the hardware and millwork flelds. A Navy veteran of World War II, and a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Mr. Whitehouse lives in Lafayette.

-National Foresf Products Week October 16-22Appointments to its building products sales sta.fr announced by Crown Zellerbach Corporation include Allan M. Ringel' named sales manager for California, and John H. Schick, named merchandisirlg manager of the new division. Marketing plans coordinated by lV. J. Zellebach, vice-president for marketing services and head of the building products sales division, call for sales in California. The building products sales division was formed last F all by Crown Zellerbach Corporation to market lumber and plywood. Sales in the California area have been underway for some months.

-National Foresf Producls Week , October 16-22Ralph E. Thorp of Minneapolis was elected to the board of directors of the Twin City Hardwood Lumber Company at the annual meeting, July 18. Vernon A. Bancroft of Moorhead was appointed manager of the I'argo, North Dakota, branch of the company succeeding C. R. Daley, retired. H. B. Sutton of St. Paul is president of the 49-year old hardwood distribution company. Lawrence S. Clark, Sr., executive vice-president; Mr. Thorp, secretary, and Robert E. Berg, treasurer,

-Nafional Foresf Producls Week October 16-22Mortimer B. Doyle, executive vice-president of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, has been appointed to the Association Committee of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States.

-Nalional Foresf Producls Week , October 16-22Pacific Lift Truck Co. has been appointed exclusive Yale representative in Southern California, according to Horace H. F ritz III, president of Pacific Lift Truck, and Louis W. Jander, general sales manag:er of Yale Materials Handling Division, the Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company. The appointment became effective July 1. As franchised representative, the west coast company will assume management of the former Los Angeles branch of Yale & Towne. It will also operate the Yale San Diego sales and service location.

-National Foresl Producls Week October 16-22Appointment of Pacific Economy Company of Honolulu, Hawaii, as a dealer for Stylemaster Patio and Building Products, Gardena, CaJif., was announced by W. K. Mollett, sales manager. Pacific Economy is headquartered at 1787 S. King, Honolulu. Gary Cabalda is president and Rudy Guirre vice president.