CATENDAR of CO'NING EVENTS

December

RED CEDAR SHINGLE BUREAU 40th Annual Meeting, Olympic Hotel, Seattle, Washington-December 7, 1956

NATIONAL RETAIL LUMBER DEALERS ASSOCIATION Exposition and Convention, Conrad Hilton hotel and International Amphitheatre, Chicago, I1l.December 10-13, 1956

OAKLAND HOO-HOO CLUB 39 Annual Christmas Party for Oakland Boys' Club, Fisherman's Pier, OaklandDecember 17 evening. (Turkey dinner for needy kids, Santa Claus with presents; entertainment, etc.)

SAN FRANCISCO HOO-HOO CLUB 9 Annual Christmas Party for S. F. Boys' Club, St. Francis HotelDecember 18, 11:30 a.m. (Christmas dinner for 50 boys and girls, Visit from Saint Nick, gifts, entertainment, etc.; Mike Coonan, general chairman.)

LOS ANGELES HOO-HOO CLUB 2 Annual Christmas Party, Riviera Country Club-December 21.

Jonucry

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION dP UOUB BUILDERS

Convention and Exposition, Conrad Hilton hotel, Chicago, Ill.-January 2O-2+, 1957

SOUTHWESTERN T,UMBERMEN'S ASSOCIATION

(513 R. A. Long Bldg., Kansas City 6, Mo.) convention, . Municipal auditorium, Kansas City, Mo.-Janrnry 23-25, 1957

Februory

INTERMOUNTAIN LUMBE.R DEALERS ASSOCIATION (432 S. Main St., Salt Lake City, Utah) convention, Elko, Nevada-February 4-6, 1957

MOUNTAIN STATES LUMBER DEALERS ASSOCIATION (217 Colorado Natl. Bank Bldg., Denver 2, Colo.) convention, Shirley-Savoy hotel, Denver-February l3-L5, l9S7

WESTERN RETAIL LUMBERMEN'S ASSOCIATION (333 First Avenue, West, Seattle 99, Wash.) convention, Davenport hotel, Spokane, Wash.-February 19-21, 1957

Morch

MONTANA RETAIL LUMBERMEN'S ASSOCIATION (P.O. Box 1384, Missoula, Montana) Convention. (Dates not yet available.) Exhibits.

Economists See 1957 Business Rise

Next year will be the best business year in history, although inflation will account for much of the rise in dollar indicators of business activity, in the collective opinion of 22L of. the nation's leading economists polled by F. W. Dodge Corporation in its annual survey of opinions on the economic outlook. Dodge Vice-President George Cline Smith said the economists are "unusually unanimous" in their belief that 1957 business will be excellent and that no dorvnturn is in sight even though most of them do not expect sharp increases in the major economic indicators.