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P.O. Box 598-Arcoto, Coliforniq

From Refioble Mills - REDWOOD, FtR ond PINE Direct Roil or Truck & Troiler Shipmenfs

(unless a sales slip or memorandum of each purchase has previous'ly been furnished or is attached to the statement), the purchase or posting date, a brief description and the cash price of each purchase.

The penalty for failure to comply rvith the provisions of this Act include not only the right to the buyer either to refuse to pay or iI he has paid to recover any differential between the cash price and time price, including such items as insurance, service charges and so forth.

The foregoing statement does not purport to quote all of the pro. visions of the law but is merely given for the purpose of alerting our members to this new law and certain of its more important provisions.

It is the suggestion of the Lumber Me,rchants Association that you consult your attorneys in connection with any installment or conditional sales contracts that you may presently be using or planning to use after January l, 1960, to be sure that they conform to the requirements of this new law.

NAFM Chooses Directors

Chicago-New directors elected to the NAFM Board during.the group's annual convention at the Conrad Hilton hotel include Herbert E. Toor, Furniture Guild of California, Los Angeles.

"Suppliers to the furniture and wood-working industry are the 'muscles' that have enabled the furniture manufacturer to withstand the inroad of continually rising labor and material costs and to hold the price of furniture to consumers to a miraculous minimum of 3.1% increase since 1948," said John M. Snow, executive vice-president of the National Association of Furniture Manufactrtrers, at the convention.

Enrz-White Lumber Opens Self-Service'Lumberterio'

(Continued from Page 20) the east end. They pick up rubber-tired carts with ballbearing wheels and load the materials they desire on the carts. Then they exit at the west end next to the main building past the cash register. Company employes help them load their cars. Hardware, paint, tools and specialties are sold in the main store building.

The Lumberteria is President John C. Entz's answer to customer inconvenience and the high cost of labor per sale. In the Lumberteria, contractors picking up, and reiail customers who know what they want, can get it themselves without standing in line while clerks figure large lumber lists or advise inexperienced home mechanics. cF.tc#iic#iirGfr+icfriicfrih6ffiic*iicffiicfiiircfticfil

Large lumber orders are still filled in the main yard to the rear ofthe Lumberteria, which has its own entrance. Saws for special-order cutting are also located here.

President Entz estimates that tl-re Lumberteria will increase sales to do-it-yourselfers. and contractors in need of fast pick-up service, by at least 20/o.

Rex Wall, hardwood expert and dry-kiln operator in southern California, made a sw-ing through the eastern seaboard and deep south this Fall and returned to his post feeling business will be plenty good in '60.

Los Angeles Dealer Harry Boand corrtinued his winning ways in the play at Hacienda last month, where he was still leading the field in his class.

Christianson Lumber Company manager, dealer Hugh Vella, was released from .Flahnemann hospital in San Francisco, Nov. 13, and is convalescing at his home from the suddeu illness that hit him earlier last montl). The work, meanwhile, is being handled by Dan Starr, Christenson's assistant manager.

Bill Smith of the Smith-Robbins Lumbcr Corp., Los Angeles, put some November notches on his 'business gun with calls on northern California mills and business associates.

Don Bufkin, the Hobbs Wall man in Los Angeles (as if you didn't know!) made a railfan tiip recently up Inyo way on a narrow-gauge road.

Mervin Mento, heading his newly established import firm in Oakland, returned from five weeks' business in Japan, wl.rere he saw rnost of the major producers of lrardwood plywood and lumber. Mento reports that production appears to be rapidly recovering f rom the disastrous Typhoon Vera which devastated Nagoya the end of September.

John Osgood got home from a fast eastern trip for the Robert S. Osgood firm of Los Angeles just in time to share the Thanksgiving turkey with his family.

. Micky Whiting and Lee Kutch of Kaibab Lumber Co., Flagstaff, spent a recent weekend in California, yachting off the coast autl attending the Rams-49ers game.