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Southern California Retail Dealers Will Meet At Los Angeles

The Southern California Retail Lumber Association r,vill hold a one-day rneeting on Friday, November 21, 1947, at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles. The meeting will start at 9:30 a.m. in the hotel theater.

The speaker at the morning session will be John H. Nelson, assistant general counsel of the lWerchants and Manufacturers Association, Los Angeles, I'r'ho rvill speak on "California's Unemployment Insurance Lar.." Reports on the recent annual meeting at Nerv York of the National Retail Lurnber Dealers Association n'ill be made by Association President H. Park Arnold and Secretary-Manager Orrie Flamilton, and Leslie G. Lynch, director of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association.

Luncl.reon and the afternoon meeting rvill be held in the Ernlrassy R.oom of the hotel where the speakers will be Roy \Venzlick, national real estate and building analyst of St. Louis, rvho n.ill present ,neu' and up-to-date information on real estate and building activities throughout the nation, and Edmund T. Price, president and general manager of the Solar Aircraft Company of San Diego.

Joins

Techniccl Stclf

-John Fies, long prominent in building code work in the Southr,vest, has joined the staff of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association to represent its Technical Department on the Pacific Coast.

A representative of the Technical Division of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, Nfr. Fies will spend his time in the seven u'estern states in the interest of improved building codes and technicai activities for lumber.

Los Angeles Buildingr Permits

Building permits issued in the City of Los Angeles for the month of October totaled 5,908 u'ith an estimated valuation of $28,319,263 compared u'ith '1,280 valued at $13,895,436 for the like month last year.

For the year to az:le, 52,273 perrnits valrred at $204,146,722 have becn issued. For the like periocl a vear ago, 46,065 .permits rvere issued rr'ith an estirnatecl valuation of $2O1,521,44.5. I)uring October, 1,416 single drvelling permits u'ere issuecl u,ith an indicated a\rerage valuation of $.3.032 apiece.

Appointed Forest Supervisor

San Francisco, October lS-Appointment of William A. l)eterson as supervisor of the Plumas National Forest with headquarters at Quincf, Calif., was tnnounced today by I'errv A. Thomltson, regional forester of the U.S. Forest Service in California. Mr. Peterson, who has been supervisor of the San llernardino National Forest in Southern California for the past three years, .n'ill replace Carl A. Gustafson recentlv promoted to assistant chief of fire control in the Washington, D.C. headcluarters of the Forest Service. He wll transfer to Quincy about November 1. Selection of Supervisor Peterson's stlccessor on the San Bernardino Forest has not been annonnceC.

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