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November 1955 Red Book Off the Press

The November 1955 issue of the Lumbermen's Red Book is just off the press, the 148th issue of the famous credit and sales guide. Since 1876, the Red Book has been the principal source of credit information for the lumber, woodworking and allied industries of the United States. It listsand evaluatesthe manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers and quantity users of lumber and wood products of all kinds. The listings include credit ratings, business classifications, addresses and other facts of value to buyers and sellers alike.

The Red Book is published semi-annually and is kept up to date by supplements that go out every Tuesday and Friday throughout the year. These twice-a-week supplements contain hundreds of last-minute items of credit and sales information. They provide a unique service available nowhere else. The agency also compiles detailed analytical credit reports and conducts a collection service for the handling of commercial claims.

The Red Book is published by the Lumbermen's Credit Association, fnc., 608 South Dearborn St., Chicago 5, Ill., and an eastern branch is maintained at99 Wall Street. Nerv York 5, N. Y.

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Kingman, Ariz.-A. T. "Bill" Taylor, who was with the Hayward Lumber Co. at Blythe, Calif., for 25 years and recently retired to a small Montana ranch but then returned to Blythe to work, has accepted a position as manager of a lumberyard here.

We Sincerely Wish All ol Our Friends, Cuslomers dnd Mills Prosperity during I956

We Appreciote the privilege of Serving You during the Pqsl ond Look Forword to the Fulure with Confidence in our Abiliryto Meet every Requiremenl when you Need

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S. F. Hoo-Hoo-Ettes 'Fly'to Indiq

S. F. Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club 3 enjoyed "A Trip to India" on November 9 through the medium of a color movie presented by Warren Reardon of TWA. The movie, embracing native rituals, customs and a tour of the ancient cities, made it more than a make-believe trip from the Bellevue hotel in San Francisco.

After dinner an enthusiastic meeting was conducted by President Lucy Lipe. She introduced Florence Barnes, who announced that San Francisco Hoo-Hoo-Ettes were invited to participate in a fashion show on the evening of November 28.

I. Magnin & Co. was to costume ten models selected from the Hoo-Hoo-Ette membership. The audience of club members and friends were to select their favorite model and the winner to return for the final show of the series to compete with win- ners from other prominent organizations,. An exciting prize will be awarded to the winner of the final event.

The next monthly meeting will be a Christmas party, Tuesday, December 13, at the Bellevue hotel.-Janet Johnston.

New NOFMA Mqnuol Reody

A new, up-to-date edition of the l?-page Specification Manual for NOFMA Certified Oak Floors has been published by the National Oak Flooring Manufacturers' Association. Intended primarily for architects, it also is a valuable guide for builders. 'fhe manual contains an approved nail schedule, a table of standard sizes in oak, hard maple, beech, birch and pecan flooring, plus a description of the various grades in which those species of flooring are available. Free copies are available frorn the association headquarters, 814 Sterick Building, Memphis.

N.H.L.A. Gonvention Outstonding

(Continued from Page 54) a thumbnail picture of how architects and other specifiers of interior woodwork are being educated in the utility and beauty of our product.

California's Phil Latasa Speaks

The session continued rvith comments on the Inspection Training School by L. C. Nicely and an evolution of the school training by one of its distinguished alumni, Phillip Latasa, Westhard Importing Company, Terminal Island, Calif., both of whom stressed the importance of sponsoring students by the members to assure training of graduates for employment, pointing outthat there are not enough graduates to fill the demand.

President Millett and Vice-Presidents Grififin, Bock and Ilanlon were re-elected for another year and the directors elected included C. R. Taenzer, Los Angeles.

Members and guests were treated to seven acts of topflight vaudeville following the banquet and all stated that it was one of the best affairs held in recent years. The Lumbermen's Credit Association also held open house.

Many members and guests took advantage of the association's free bus transportation to the "World of Hardrvoods" exhibit in the Musenm of Science and Industry. A booth was set up on the mezzanine floor to promote attendance and interest in the exhibit and many sa'w this showcase of our industry for the first time.

Income from harvesting and manufacturing timber products in Oregon and Washington is double that of agriculture.

'Buck' Golemon Joins Mqrtin Box Co.

George Myers, sales manager of the wholesale lumber division, The Martin Brothers Box Company, Compton, California, announced the appointment of lra F. "Buck" Coleman to the sales stafi of the company. Coleman is well l<nown in Southern California, having spent several years with the Inlancl Lumber Company and other wholesale lurnber concerns in the southland. Prior to coming to Los Angeles fror.n Denver, Colorado, he was employed by the N{cGuffin Lurnber Company in the mile-high city. He returnecl to Tokyo with the Balcom Trading Company after his army service and handled procurement and sales to the allied command during the Korean war.

"Buck joins our sales staff with a world of experience and I have been associated with him for several vears. We want his many friends Box Company, to knolv he is now with The Martin Brothers " declared George Myers.

Dodge Repoils Show Downwqrd Trend After | 7 Upword Months

Contract awards for future construction as carried in the Dodge Reports in the 37 eastern states in October were 5% belor,v October of last year, marking the first such year-to-year drop since April of. 1954, according to F. W. Dodge Corporation. Thus ended a run of 17 successive months in which the Dodge monthly total exceeded the corresponding month of the year before.

Dodge's residential classification as compared rvith October 1954 was down for the second successive month.

Bill McGubbin ond Stork Sowers

Appoinfed Sfote Deputy Snorks

Bob Gallagher of the New Mexico Timber Company, Albuquerque, newly elected Supreme Gurdon of Hoo-Hoo, has appointed Bill McCubbin as Deputy Snark of Northern California, and Stark Sowers as State Deputy Snark of Southern California, effective November 2.

McCubbin, a past president of Oakland Hoo-Hoo Club 39, and currently an offrcer of San Francisco Hoo-Hoo Club 9, is a partner in the San Francisco wholesale lumber firm of Raymer & McCubbin.

Sowers, of Inland Lumber Company, is past president of

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