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builder and vice-chairman of the International Housing committee of the Natl. Assn. of Home Builders, Washington, D.C., has returned from a study trip to Guatemala, where he assisted home builders in the Latirr nation in drafting constitution and by-laws for a new association which they hope tcr affiliate with tlre NAHB.

Talbot Lumber Co. Partner Joe Shipman and Talbot's Southland representative, Don Philips, Jr,, worked their Oregon coast connections recently and witnessed the first cargo shipment from Evans Products Company's dock facility on the Chetco River. ?'he shipment, in which Talbot Lumber participated, sailed for Los Angeles, Oct. 30, with Sause Bros. of Eureka handling the shipment.

Adolfo Steinitx (right), prominent lumber industrialist from Montevideo, was a recent southern California visitor enroute home from an extensive tour of the U. S. and Canada, where he visited Pacific Northwest lumber and plywood mills, Southern hardrvood mills, and called on industry executives coast-to-coast. The Uruguayan is in lumber procurement ancl distribution in South America and also has extensive holdings irr the import field. He operates a large construction concern and has industrial activities in several Latin nations, being head of Rio de la Plata in Montevideo, which operates the commercial interests he controls. While in L.A., he called on his old friends from Germany, Felicia and Hans Wall (left), veteran dealer who has operated a progressive L. A. yard these past 20 years.

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Lorraine anrl Sterling Wolfe combincd a November swing through the Northwest for Marquart-Wolfe Lumber Co. with a stop at Oregon lJniversity to see son Sterling, Jr., a stu<lent there.

Widening their search for new "Cover' girls," perhaps, "Turk" Turkheimer and Bob Smith ventured up to Siskiyou county early last month on business for Twin-City Lurnber.

Herb Meier, the Arcadia wholesaler, and his family spent the Thanksgiving holiday in Carmel with relatives and friends.

Jack Dollar, Robert Dollar Co. vice-president, and the family rested up in Paln-r Springs the week of Nov. 23 before he flew to Washington, D.C., to attend hearings on his new South Pacific Airlines, which literally and figuratively seems about due to Get Off The Grouncl. With most of the governmental red-tape now behind them, Dollar plans to initiate once-a-week SPA flights between Hawaii and Tahiti earlv next vear.