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Wood Mqrketing, Inc. Holds Annuql

All subscribing members of Wood Marketing, Inc. will have an opportunity to review and evaluate both short and long-range promotion programs at their first stockholder meeting. This meeting has been scheduled for November 11, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.

Wood Marketing, Inc. is a new organization designed to create increased sales opportunities for the products and services of its members and to increase the total market for quality graded lumber and other wood products.

Promotion progriuns to be presented to the members for their consideration have been developed over the last several months by the steering committee of WMI, with John L. Robins, vice president-marketing, Simpson Timber Company as chairman. Robins has indicated that the proposed programs are based on a concept that will work nationwide, but will be carried out at the local market level. He has emphasized the point that the programs would be new, dynamic and flexible and tend to complement current programs of other lumber industry groups.

Other activities at the meeting will include the election of officers and a board of directors for the forthcoming year. WMI chairman of the board, Leonard K. Floan, of Potlatch Forests, Inc. has stated that this first annual meeting will be open to all lumber and wood products companies interested in WMI programs, and that their attendance would be most welcome.

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The Michigan-California Lumber Company, which has operated the lumber mill at Camino near Placerville for many years and also owns some 77,000 acres of timberlands, mostly in El Dorado county, has been sold for $39 million.

Buyer, subject only to title search, is the Blodgett-Watt Syndicate. The lumber company stock was ofiered for sale at public bid and Blodgett-Watt topped American Forest Products, Fibreboard & Lehman, and Setzer Bros. in the sealed bidding.

Lumberman R. G. Watt of Redding said recently that his winning group plans to expand the Camino sawmill capacity to 100 million board feet a year from the present 45 million feet.

With Watts in the winning syndicate are John W. Blodgett Jr., son of one of the Michigan-California Lumber Co. founders, Jay Pritzker of the Chicago family that controls the Hyatt House chain of inns, W. H. Gonyea and Stuart Shelk, Oregon lumber. men, and Gilbert Worden of Redding, who will be general manager for the new company.

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So easy to erect: The panels come in 8 foot lengths and a variety of heights: 3-4-5-6 feet. They can be easily cut to fit the dimensions of a yard. Posts and top rails are available from Tynan & Rogers but can be easily prepared by your own yard.

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