we Are Grateful

For thehaPPy relations whichhave existed these rna,ny years between ourselves and our customers and friends in the lumber and allied industries.

And so it is our privilege again this Holiday Season to greet you and to say we hope you will hwe a Happy and Profitable

C. B. Sweet Elected Prcsident of National Retail Lumber Dealers Association

Cyrus B. Sweet of Longview, Wash., manager of the LongBell retail stores in the Pacific Northrvest, was elected president of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association at the annual meeting held at Miami Beach, Florida, November B-11. He succeeds Norman Mason of North Chelmsford, Massachusetts.

Born in 1900, Mr. Sweet attended elementary schools in Kansas City, Mo., the Culver Academy at Culver, Indiana, and the lJniversity of Kansas at Lawrence. Kansas.

He started working for The Long-Bell Lumber Company in the summer of. 1922 at Longview, Wash., as a member of a construction crew. He was transferred to the buitding materials supply warehouse, which later was made the retail outlet for The Long-Bell Lumber Company in Long- view. Advanced to foreman and assistant manager at Longview, and in 1932 he was named manager of the Big Basin Lumber Company at Klamath Falls, Ore., which was a Long-Bell property. He returned to Longview in 1935 as manager of the Longview building materials store. In 1945 he was named manager of the Long-Bell retail stores in the Pacific Northwest of which there are now 13.

Mr. Sweet has long been active in retail lumbermen's associations. He was elected president of the Western Retail Lumber Dealers Association for the 1945-46 term. Elected vice president of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association for the 1946-47 term. He was re-elected to the same office for the 194748 term.

He is a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity; the Longview Rotary Club; B.P.O.E., and Hoo-Hoo. He is married and has one son, C. B., Jr., who is attending the University of Idaho.

Long-Bell operates 119 building material stores in the states of Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, California, Oregon and Washington.

Importqnt Vcrncouver Meeting

The annual conference of the Western Forestry and Conservation Association will take place at Vancouver, 8.C., December 9, 10, and 11, 1948. Forest management will be the chief topic of discussion.

New Ycrd in lJkicrh

F. E. Oden, former manager of the lumber department of Ukiah Farmers Club, Inc., Ukiah, has started in business for himself, under the name of Double 'O' Building Materials, fnc., at 247 East Perkins Street, Ukiah.

United Lumber Yards Buys \(/. R. Spalding Lumber Co.

United Lumber Yards (California), with general offices in Modesto, Calif., recently purchased the W. R. Spalding Lumber Co., of Visalia, with yards at Visalia, Porterville, Tulare, Exeter, Strathmore, Lindsay, and Woodlake.

The yards will be under the general management of J. B. Stricker, president of United Lumber Yards (California), with W. E. Bright in charge of the group, with headquarters at Visalia. No changes are contemplated in the local yard managers, and the business will be continued as before with the buying done at Visalia.

Mr. Stricker in commenting on the purchase said: "We are very much enthused about this addition to our business, and look forward to a good future."

Buys Wholegale Bugina3 ot R. G. Robbins Lumber Co.

The wholesale lumber business of R. G. Robbins Lumber Co., California sales office, I Drumm Street, San Francisco, has been taken over by Lashley Lumber Sales Co,, Inc., of which Ross C. Lashley is president and general manager. H. M. "Mike" Michael is assistant treasurer and manager of the San Francisco office. The new concern has a branch office at 35 North Raymond Avenue, Pasadena, telephone SYcamore 6-5397.

New Swedish Gcng Mill

The Wilbur Lumber Company is building a new sawmill at Wilbur, which is near Roseburg. The mill will be a Swedish gang type, and will cut about 60,000 feet of lumber daily.

Appointr Deputy State Snarks

Roy Stanton, Sr. of Los Angeles, Snark of the IJniverse, has announced the names of the Deputy State Hoo-Hoo Snarks for the various states in Jurisdiction 6. Here they are:

Southern California-J. W. Fitzpatrick, San Pedro Lumber Co., Los Angeles.

Northern CaliforniaE. G. (Dave) Davis, Rounds Trading Co., San Francisco.

Arizona-Harold R. Britt, Foxworth-McCalla Lumber Co., Phoenix.

New Mexico-L. N. McCullough, Broadway Lumber Co., Albuquerque.

Utah-H. M. (Dusty) Rhodes, Salt Lake Mill Co., Salt Lake City.

Northern Nevada-Bernard C. Hartung, California Association of Employers, Reno Employers Council, Reno.

Southern Nevada-Edward Von Tobel, Ed Von Tobel Lumber Co., Las Vegas.

Develotrx New Stain

The West Coast Stained Shingle Company of Seattle, Wash,, has developed a new stain designed primarily for use on redwood siding. The trade name is Olympic California rustic stain, and is designed to enhance the natural beauty of redwood. It is the natural redwood color, and. does not completely cover the grain of the wood, but will eliminate discoloration. The stain includes toxal preservative, the basis of which is pentachlorophenol.

California rustic stain may be used on other woods than redwood to secure a pleasing redwood effect. It is available in l-gallon, S-gallon, and 50- gallon containers.