E nergetic Refsi ler Chsrlie Dqrt is LMA's Mqn on the Go

qCHEDULE A MEETING of

importance u to the retail lumber and building materials industry and you are certain to find Charlie Dart in attendance.

Long active in all types of programs designed to improve the lot of the retail industr/, Dart now reigns as president of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California.

Elected to this important post last spring, he has since been traveling through northern California meeting with members and non-members alike, doing his best to help solve common industry problems which affect all dealers anxious to make a profit and increase their business.

"The industry has been good to me over the years," explains Dart, 'oand I hope that my efiorts help in some way to repay the help which has been given me."

An avid spokesman for industry unity and action. Dart can be counted on to ex. press these sentimentg whether talking to a prospective association member, building code officials, manufacturers, distributors or others. He says what he believes and you have to believe him.

As a partner of Beth Pollard, Dart directs a crew of nine persons in operating K-Y Lumber Co., Fresno. The yard was started in L943 and was purchased by Charlie and Beth in 1947.

Dart brought considerabld background and experience to K-Y, just as he does to his LMA post. From 1923 to 1929 he was manager of dining service at the University of California, Berkeley, "and we all ate very well-a practice I've never been able to escape," he adds.

Leaving Cal, Dart joined Mason Mc. Duffie Co. in Berkeley as a salesman in mortgage loans, real estate and residential construction. In 1933, he became a field engineer for the federal government affiliated with PWA and WPA. Six years later he was named director of the Kern County o'These permits were just for non-residential construction," he explains, "but we were about the first to make use of them as a means.of insuring good construction." fuide from LMA activities, he has devoted much efiort to Hoo Hoo Club 31 of which he is a past president, the Fresno Exchange Club, of which he is past president, and the Fort Washington Golf Club, of which he is also past president. He has also found time to be Worshipful Master of the Las Palmas Masonic Lodge and a trustee of Tehran Shrine Temple.

"HERE'S TllE USI, where should we hold our next meetinc?" Dart asks fellow LMA board members (top photo)1. H. Haunschild, general manager of Charles C. Meek Lumber Co.. Redd-ins, and Charles Cross, Sr., Truckee-Tahoe Lumber Co., Jruckee. "Now, Bob, if you can only keep those damn budgets in line you'll go down in history," says LMA Prexy Dart to Executive Vice President Bob McBrien (lower photo).

Building Department and was instrumental in starling the use of building permits in the area.

Dart served Kern County until 1942 when he joined Bernie Barber's group, became an expert with OPA and secretary of LMA. "It was a busy period and one that presented many problems for lumber dealers due to war-time price and material controls," Dart recalls. "Yet it was a time which helped to bring about a new growth and importance to our industry as the need for housing tracts came hand-in-hand with peaee."

Born in Galt, California on April 22, L902, he attended local elementary schools, the University of Californiao and in 1923 won the hand of his charming Jessie. Together the two have o'lived life a day at a time and enjoyed most of it" for 42 yars. The Darts have two daughters, Gracemary Hartstock and Patricia.

As we said at the start-call a meeting of importance and Charlie's sure to be there. And it's always a pleasure to be there with him!

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