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Bob Herbst Succeeds Morris

James F. Shiely, president of Ponderosa Pine Woodwork, allnounces the appointment of Robert H. Herbst as general manager, replacing Robert H. Morris, who died October 15. Mr. Herbst has served as assistant general-manager since 1954.

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(Continued from Page 4) sible" to educate buyers, users and specifiers on the characteristics and identification of various lumber grades.

3. Established a special NLMA committee to study possible simplification and standardization of grade designations. Each industry grading agency will be invited to nominate three representatives to serve on the committee, to report its findings to NLMA directors next November.

NLIIA board members also acted to strengthen the domestic lumber industry against foreign competition.

On the forestry front, the association's governing body called on federal agencies to put their managemellt of commercial forest lands on an "income-producing and pay-asyou-go basis."

In otl-rer resolutions, NLMA directors :

1. Ordered expansion of NLMA's National Affairs committee to increase the effectiveness of the association's legislative programs.

2. Asked NLMA's 17 federated associations to provide the U. S. Forest Products Laboratory with detailed information onthe market potential for glues in the lumber industry.

3. Called for immediate preparation of a handbook or clesign manual on industrial use of lumber.

4. Ordered an intensification of NLMA efforts to publicize career opportunities in the private forest industries.

5. Called for legislation to eliminate false labeling and false advertising of imitation wood products and urged tl-rat Federal Trade Commission powers be expanded to give the agency jurisdiction over "deceptive sale of such products at the retail level."

In other actions, the NLMA board paid special tribute to the long and faithful service of S. V. (Van) Fullaway upon his retirement as secretary-manager of the Western Pine Association and to Richard G. Kimbell upon his retirement as NLMA executive vice-president of technical services.

NLMA's Committee on Fire Insurance Relations reported important reductions in the fire-insurance rate differentials between wood and competing methods of construction.

Members of a special WoodGrain Door Promotion committee said their efforts to increase the use of wood doors on freight cars hauling bulk commodities have had encouraging results.

Atkins, Kroll& Company's Bay area drummer, Ernie Larson, and his wife SAS'd to Stockholm, Oct. 3O for a visit with Ernie's mother. The Larsons then moved on and are currently touring the Continent with a scheduled San Francisco return date of mid-December.

Max Hill flew to Fresno. Nov. 15. where he met G. L. Ktkpatrick, buyer for H. M. Nelson Lumber Co., Montebello, and "teamed up" with him for l0 days of "doing the mills" together.

Ike Zafrani, representing his Harbor Lumber Company of San Francisco, toured the south and central parts of Oregon's producing region for a November week.

Jim Gotcher of the Kaibab Lumber Co., Flagstaff, Arizona, visited the offices of their southern California representatives, Gulf Pacific Land & Lumber Co.. Tarzana. the week of Nov. 9, calling on their dealer accounts and starting arrangements to fly customers back to the mills for inspection of lumber and to see the mill operation.

Arcata Redwood's Lloyd Hecathorn migrated north the week of November 16 to visit accounts in Portland, Eugene and way points.

Rex \lllarkentine of the Ed Fountairr Lumber Company, Los Angeles, has returned from a trip to Coos Bay and Gold Beach, Oregon, spending several days at the U.S. Plywood Corp. plant in the latter site. He reports flying conditions pretty rough on this trip but is ready to go back any time; he loves that ol' Rogue River countrl'.

El Cerrito Mill & Lumber Co. Dealer Jim Dbherty is back on the job after surgely at Saint Luke's hospital in San Francisco, Nov. 3.