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No Use Looking in the Dork

It was late at night and the policeman strolling along his beat came upon i good-looking young man in evening clothes and vLry drunk who was down on his hands and knees searching-for something in the gutter under a street lamp.

Tire policeman asked him what he was looking for and offered to help in the search. Ungraciously, the drunk answered that he was looking for his watch.

"Show me just where you lost it and I'll help you look," said the cop.

"I lost it right over there," said the drunk, pointing down the street.

"But," said the puzzled policeman, "if you lost it over there, why don't you look for it over there?"

"Because," said the drunk disgustedly, "the light's better over here !"

Nickey Elected NOFMA President

Sam M. Nickey, president of Nickey Brothers, Inc., Memphis, Tenn., was elected president of the National Oak Flooring Manufacturers' Association at the group's Golden Anniversary meeting recently in Memphis, its headquarters city. He succeeds Walter J. Wood, who had announced previously that he would retire from full-time activity at the close of 1959 after a lumber industry career spanning 47 years but will continue to represent NOFMA as a director of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association and as a committee member in the Wood Promotion Program.

Executive Vice-President Henry H. Willins, Memphis, who also serves as secretary-treasurer, was re-elected.

Among highlights of the meeting, one of the best attended in NOFMA history. was a Golden Anniversary luncheon honoring tl-re association's past presidents, eight of whom were present.

In his final report as president, Mr. Wood called attention to the growth of the organization. With four new members ir.r 1959, he said, the group's roster totals 95 companies. They represent approximately 72/o of the hardwood flooring. productive capacity in the Southern and Appalachian regrons.

NOFMA traces its origin, said Mr. \Mood, to a small group of producers who organized in 1909 at Detroit as the Oak Flooring Manufacturers of the United States. For a number of years offices were maintained in Chicago.

Mr. Wood endorsed enthusiastically the projected 10year promotional program announced recently by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, of which NOFMA is a member.

"If it can be consummated. and, I think it can." he said.

"I will be convinced that the lumber industry is on the road to recover all the grouncl that has been lost in recent years, and, in addition, will acquire many new markets. And I can assure you that oak flooring will continue to l-rave a prominent place in the national advertising program of NLMA."

Mr. Willins said there was a strong possibility of a decline of lO to l5/o in physical volume of new housing in 1960. "But," he added, "85Vo of 1959 volume would be over 1,150,000 new units, and that is still a big year."

A decorative development which operates in favor of oak flooring, he asserted, is the trend away from wall-to-wall carpeting as an item of high style. "This trend," he said, "is definitely taking place and the momentum has increased."

Cyrus B. Sweet, deputy commissioner of the Federal Housing Administration, outlined the accomplishments of FIIA, stressing that it is completely self-supporting.

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