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Promolion Council Annuol Meeting

Representatives from the lumber and rvood products industry throughout the United States attended the second annual meeting of the Forest Products Promotion Council (FPPC), September 17, in Washingon, D. C.

The meeting was presided over by Bronson J. Lewis. chairman of FPPC and secretary of American Plywood Association and was devoted primarily to 'oworking sessions" to decide future programs and policies.

Key speaker was Boyce P. Price, presi. dent, Wood Marketing, Inc. who explained the WMI Fall program in Baltimore, Kan. sas City, Columbus and Denver. He reported a high degree of acceptance by builders and distributors of lumber and wood products for the WMI program promoting good design for better living with quality wood products.

sociation of Lumber salesmen. presented in{ormation on the availability of manpower and materials in the forest products industry throughout the United States and Canada. Discussion indicated that FPPC should catalog the information on literature, vi:ual aids and manpower and distribute it to the officers of Local Level Wood Promotion Groups. Hoo-Hoo Clubs and others specifically interested in wood promotion. It was definitely stated that FPPC should only be a coordinating organization to act as a clearing house for information and material in the forest industry and not be another association.

Officers elected were chairman Bronson J. Lewis; vice chairman, C. F. "Bud" Wittenberg; secretary.treasurer, Paul R. Beattie, manager, Wood Marketing.

Though the Forest Products Promotion Council is only in its second year of operation, many industry observers feel that it has already performed its stated function more than adequately.

New AFPC Division

American Forest Products Corporation has established a new division for the import and export of forest products. Harold vice presidentof AFPC, has announced.

The new division will be known as Silmarco International. Gunter Silmar will head up the undertaking which is headquartered in San Francisco. Silmar, in the lumber import/ export business {or some 16 years, is known to the lumber industry throughout the world as Silmarco, Inc., San Rafael. Calif.

Although AFPC has long been a leader in national lumber sales through its Tarter. Webster & Johnson division, the Silmarco International division represents their first venture into world wide lumber tradine. t.

New E. L. Bruce Rep

Gene Saxon, recently appointed sales representative for the Pacific Division of E. L. Bruce Co. is working directly under division manager Stan Eznekicr out of the division's offices in Lafayette, Calif.. calling on Bruce distributors and retailers in Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.

Saxon. a Memphis native. is a Navv vet- eran and graduated from Notre Dame University. He has been in Bruce sales for the past three years.

E. L. Bruce Co. also manufactures prefinished hardwood paneling, laminated truck trailer and rail car decking, furniture parts, and is the world leader in termite protection with Bruce-Terminix.

Copitol Hosts Hoo-Hoo Jubilee

Three hundred delegates. conventioneers and their wives attended the 75th Diamond Jubilee annual convention of Hoo-Hoo International recently at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D. C. Guests came from Australia, Hawaii and Canada, and met in the United States capitol.

Vaughan H. Justus, retail sales division manager of New Mexico Timber, Inc., Albuquerque, was elected president of the Fraternal Order of Lumbermen. Elected international vice president was J. B. "Jimmy" Brunson of Bolen-Brunson-Bell Lumbcr Company, Memphis, Tennessee.

Featured speakers at the convention included Al Bell, Jr., of Hobbs-Wall Lumber, San Francisco, Calif.; Boyce Price, president of W.ood Marketing, Inc., Chevy Chase, Maryland; Donald Campbell, Joseph W. Rabbit, and Bronson J. Lewis.

Supreme Nine members elected to the board of directors include Wade P. Cory, New Jersey lumberman, Al Groskopf, and Robert L. Johnson.