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TH 0183 these years he also worked closely with an associated company, Western Box Distributors. After a hitch in the Navy as a lieutenant dirring World War II, Clay came to Los Angeles and started Forest Products Sales Company. The co'mpany has gradually grown in size and coverage. In June of this year Chuck was elected a director of National-American Wholesale Lumber Association at the Vancouver, B.C. annual meeting, following Ed Fountain, whose term had expired.

Frances Miller is the girl with the friendly voice answering the phone at Pleasant 3-1141. She has been in this office for four years and capably handles a great variety of duties.

There will be no changes in company policy, plans or personnel, it was made known. All four principals express the hope that the decision to use the name Clay Lumber Company will prove a wise one, and that their supporters-both mills and customers-will find it easier to do business.

It can't be too bad an idea, coming from these four lumbermen whose combined industry experience totals 84 years !

Sqn Frqnciscon Heqds GREA

J. Mortimer Clark, San Francisco, was elected president of the California Real Estate Assn. for 1957 at the recent 52nd annual convention of the 25,000-member group there. He will succeed John Cotton of San Diego at the inaugural meeting in San Francisco early in January. Clark was California real estate commissioner in 1934-39 and is now president of the S. F. Real Estate Board. Charles H. Brown was re-elected treasurer and H. Jackson Pontius secretary; both are from Pasadena. Attendance at the annual was 3,000.

Hyster to Demonstrqte or NRIDA Show

Today's newest industrial truck attachments specifically designed to reduce lumber dealers' materials handling overhead-End Loaders, Swing Shifts, Side-Shifts, Tilt Shifts, Fork Extensions and other equipment-will be displayed and demonstrated by Hyster Company at the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association Exposition, December 1O-13 at the International Ampitheater in Chicago. The above attachments will be demonstrated on Hystpr Lift Trucks in various capacities from four to fifteen thousand pounds capacity. The popular 20,000- lb. capacity Hyster MD "Straddle Truck" will be shown also.

Hyster will exhibit equipment in two large booths and participate in trackside loading and unloading demonstrations in a large outside area, and. in demonstrations in a 100x100-foot model warehouse. New techniques for shipping packaged lumber and other building supplies will be

I I demonstrated in the outside area, and effective methods of storage to achieve maximum speed and best use of storage space will be featured in the model warehouse. "Operation Profit," Hyster's popular color film produced especially for retail lumber dealers, will be included in films to be shown at the Exposition's "Little Theatre."

This year's NRLDA Show-the largest of its kind ever held-will draw thousands of lumber dealers from all over the countrv.

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BiU Litchfield and his wife took a boat to Canada last month, shipping their car, and drove back to the retail yard in Glendale.

Jack Dollar visited suppliers in the Eureka area the week of October 22 lor the Robert Dollar Co. wholesale lumber division that he heads.

Blue Dicmond's uniform quolity chorocterlstics ore Inporionl lo cruflsmen ar well or ownerc.

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Loraine and Sterling Wolfe, salesmanager for Marquart-Wolfe, Los Angeles wholesale iumber concern, return the middle of this month from a 10-day trip to San Francisco, Eureka and way points. In Eureka, Sterling attended the ninth annual NCLC stag Nov. 9. The younger Wolfes flew to S. F. and drove from the B.ay area to Eureka and return.

Pbrtners Fred Talbot and Joe Shipman of Talbot Lumber Co., San Rafael, have recovered from a merger scare of another type. While returning from a mill trip through southern Oregon and northern California, they "merged" with another car (appropriately being driven by a Long-Bell Lumber Co. employee) near Weed, Calif. Fortunately, there were no injuries, but it did require two trucks to terminate the highway merger.

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NoGql For€sfers to Meet Dec. I

The Northern California Section, Society of American Foresters, will hold its annual winter meeting in San Francisco, Saturday, December 1, announced Leon Thomas, Fresno, chairman of the section and supervisor of the Sierra National Forest. "New Techniques in Forestry" will be the theme of the meeting, which is being arranged by a committee headed by Prof. R. N. Colwell, IJniversity of California School of Forestry. Among the topics to be discussed are new methods in forest regeneration, recent developments in fire protection, and application of electronic business machines to forest management problems.

The meeting will be held in the Merchandise Mart, 10th and Market Street. Registration starts at 9:00 a.m.

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NIMA Seeks Acfion on Home Loqns

Lumber manufacturers called on the Administration last month to remove the present 4l per cent interest ceiling on government-backed home loans. The action was requested by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, spokesman for the nation's lumber producers, in a letter to Housing and Home Finance Administrator Albert Cole.

Leo V. Bodine, executive vice-president of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, said flexible interest rates are necessary to increase availability of private mortgage funds and bolster the sagging rate of housing starts.

"Ne$r home construction is one of the principal markets for lumber and the substantial decline in home building this year has caused a drop-off in lumber production," he reported.

Referring to Cole's recent statement that the Executive Branch is not inclined to raise the interest rate on FHAinsured home loans until Congress acts to boost the interest ceiling on VA-guaranteed home mortgages, Bodine continued:

"We recognize the difficulties involved in changing the statutory limitation on the interest rate on VA-guaranteed loans and that such change should occur in unison with FHA. Regretably, this denies immediate attention to a change in interest rates.

"We respectfully suggest, however, that allowing the law of supply and demand to operate in the mortgage money market is the best assurance of a sound national financial structure as well as a sound and adequate housing program. Only in this fashion will the bidder for housing