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San Francisco.-A sharp increase in the number of man-caused fires in Northern California this year has led to rise in prosecution of firebugs. Henry C. Erhart, head criminal investigator for the USFS California region, said that tl-rere has been a 20/o increase over the i35 Californians u,ho were brought to trial last year for either carelessly or maliciously setting forest fires. In the first eight months this year, there rvere 458 fires caused by humans in the 18 national forests in California. comoared rvith 347 in the same 1956 period, reported The San Francisco Examiner.

FMAC R.e-elects Brondler

Henry Brandler of the L. A. Period Furniture Manufacturing Co. was re-elected president of the Furniture Manufacturers Assn. of California for 1958 at the annual convention at the Ambassador hotel earlier this month. Hubert Jordan of Pasadena was elected vicepresident and Richard Sax, Los Angeles, was named treasurer. Eddy S. Feldman continues as executive secretary.

Troining Film by Ecrslmon

An internal training film, "You're on the Team," stressing mechanization, teamwork and cheerful work conditions, and sholving equipment and methods developed over the years from work-simplifications studies, has been completed and is available for shorvings from Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester 4, N. Y.; Non-Theatrical Films Division. There is no charge for use of the film.

Howell Yord Goes Union

El Cajon, Calif.-The Howell Lumber Co., setting a precedent for the El Cajon Valley, the first lumberyard in the area ever to go 100/o union, last month gave recognition to Millmen's Local 2U2A and Teamsters Local 36, San Diego. The yard is at '779 Highway 80 and includes all employes.

(Tell them you saw it in The California Lum.ber Merchant)

| 958 NRTDA Exposition on Weekend Schedule for Lumberyord Employes

The fifth annual Building Products Exposition rvill be held in Chicago in 1958, it is announced by H. R. Northup, executive vice-president of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, sponsor of the shou'. It is scheduled to run November 22-25. Exhrbits and demonstrations u.ill be staged in the International Amphitheatre, rvith Exposition headquarters located at the Conrad Hilton hotel.

"Space sales for our 1957 show far exceeded those of any previ,ous year, and recluests for 1958 space reservations ar'e already being received by our Exposition office," Northup revealed. "This fact, coupled with the demands of our dealers for more and larger 'action' programs such as the equipment demonstrations and the incorooration of special rail cars as Exposition features. has made it imperative lhat rve stage our 1958 shou, r,vhere rve will have access to r,rnlimited facilities fcir our demonstration programs."

In re-scheduling the 1958 Exposition from St. Louis to Chicago, Mr. Nortl-rup also pointecl out that the November 22-25 dales run from Saturclay through Tuesday. "Many dealers have expressed an interest in having their employes visit the Exposition. but l.rave been reluctant to take trained u'orkers o11 -their jobs cluring the rveek. The Saturday and Sunday scl-reduling of demonstrations and clinics will be a tlouble-barreled advantage for dealers in the area," Mr. Northup said, "because it rvill permit hundreds of lumbervard employes rvithin 'n,eekend driving radius of Chicago to attend the sholv r'r,ithout loss of time from their jobs."

It is tentatively planned to stress Saturday and Sunday zrs "Employee Days," rvith top management clinics following on Xlonday o"d l':".dol_

(Tell them you sow it in The California Lumber Merchant) i:-. George T. Gerlinger, president of the Willamette Valley i, Lumber Co., Dallas, Ore., was in San Francisco on busi- l', p. H.-'Case was appointed manager'of the Vallejo (Calif.)

' ness . . Retiring President Larue Woodson received a gold -.Hoo-Hoo button at the October 10 meeting of the East :r lBay Hoo-Hoo . . Otis R. Johnson of the lJnion Lumber ;.Qoqna1f ytgi-ted Los Angeljl: to. -confer with M-aqager ,: t A. Goodrich . . . Harmon Kincaid of the Glenn County - Ilgmber Co., Willows, was recovering from an appendectomy.

Lumber Co. to succeed Carl Mitchell, who resigned to enter the contractor and home-building field. Case. had been living in Southern California a{ter many yiars in the lumber business around Chicago State Proposition No. 3 to abolish trust deeds was defeated in the November 8 election . Guy W. Smith of the Chas. R. McCounick. Lumber Co., Seattle, and A. H. Landram of the St. Patil & Tacoma Lumber Co. made rounil trips by air between their northern cities and Los Angeles and were enthusiastic about the new method of travel.

Northwesi lumber manufacturers met in San Francisco, October 31, with members of the California 'Wholesale Lumber Assn. to discuss marketing and distribution problems. In the group were Guy Smith, A. H. Landram, Afuin Schwager, R. A. Clark, E. C. Stone, Frost Snyder, E. H. Houston, J. E. Morris, O. R. Schramm, Russell J. Hubbard, G. A. Robertson, H. E. Jenkins, George M. Walmsley, C. F. Price, Raymond Lewis, J. F. Justice, D. H. Doud and Herbert Busterud.

The Wm. Smith Lumber Co., San Francisco, and the Smith Lumber Co., Oakland, were consolidated with William Smith, president; Reginald Smith, vice-president, and Charles Lindsay, secretary. . . A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Peterson of the Bakersfield Building Materials Co. . . T. P. Hogan, Jr. of the T. P. Hogan Co., Oakland, was in the Northwest on business.

Among the visitors to Los Angeles for the California Retail Lumbermen's Assn. annual convention \ tere R. W. Ifunt, W. E. Barwick, J. A. Stapleton and L. A. Keswick, all of Weyerhaeuser Sales Co.; J. Walter Kelly, Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co.; Al Nolan, The Pacific Lumber Co., and Harold Plummer, Union Lumber Company. Ollie Mapes, owner-manager of the Mapes Lumber Co., North Satramento, was elected supervisor of the fourth county district.

Th; E. K. Wood Lumber Co. was awarded a contract for 2,500,000 feet of lumber to be delivered over a year's time in the Hetch-Hetchy Project at Livermore, Calif. The supplier was to be the J. H. Chambers Lumber Co., Cottage Grove, Ore. The Tacoma Lumber Sales Agency, with offices in Tacoma and Los Angeles, joined the California Wholesale Lumber Assn.

Vcughon Aids K/G's Gcmpbell

Robert O. Vaughan of San Lorenzo has been appointed administrative assistant to Colin L. Campbell, general sales manager of Kaiser Gypsuni Company.