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The latest month-to-month move wasn't nearly so severe as the 16/o plunge that brought July's rate to I,O81,000 units, revised upward from an estimated 1,064,000. The percentage change wasn't affected because the June figure was also revised upward, to 1,285,000. The July figure was the lowest since 1960.

Across the entire West a seven month comparison of building permits shows the Pacifib region down 3 percent and the Mountain region down 15 percent in single family dwellings, while multiples are down 38 percent in Pacific and 34 in Mountain states.

The total West is down 18 percent in housing starts over the same period last year, the department said.

LASC Areo Meetings

On October Il, the LASC completed a series of eight area meetings for all members of the lumber industry in southern California.

The members of the industry were given information as to the association's activities concerning workmen's compensation insurance, comprehensive business insurance, long term disability insurance, and the activities of Western Building Material Dealers Association. This latter group is the legislative voice, in Sacramento, of the building material dealers throughout California.

All areas nominated new directors for 1967, and were shown a slide presentation on how dealers can make money,

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Almost X)% oI Great Western's member stores gathered to do their fall buying and take a look at what's new in products and services.

"Our dealers not only came to look, they came to buy," enthused Arnold Poolg general manager. "Almost $1 million in merchandise at list was purchased during the Roundup," he added. o'One manufacturer, Sunbeam Corp., wrote more than $200,000 in sales at list."

With all that buying, dealers worked up quite an appetite. During the show they polished off 300 lbs. of peanuts, 400 cases of soft drinks and 2200 box lunches.

Citizen's Lumber Co. drove back to Reedley, Calif. in the Roundup's grand prizea brand new'67 Ford Mustang.

When the show closed Sunday night, clean-up crews went to work knockingdown displays and it was "business as usual" when Great Western went back to their regular schedule of order filling at seven o'clock on Monday morning.

Great W'estern Hardware is a dealerowned volume purchasing and merchandising organiza.tion which includes more than 50 franchised western lumber companies in California, Arizona, New Mexico and the state of Nevada.

Five Join IHPA

Charlie Schmitt, executive secretary of the recently expanded Imported Hardwood Froducts Association. has extended the welcome mat to five more new members.

From San Francisco are J. E. Higgins Lumber Co., represented by Bud Radditz, and Potlatch Forests, Inc., represented by Pat Young. A third new west coast member is Pacific Timber Co., Inc., represented by Ted Tolin. The fivesome is rounded out by W'ood-Mosaic Corporation of Louisville, Kentucky, represented by Baron Drewry, and The Mann & Parker Lumber Co. of Baltimore, Maryland, represented by Robert Bushman.