THE AR'ZONA SCENE

By FRANK DAVIS SecretaryManager

,' A REA MEETINGS MARK the activity ; 'Cl' 1o. November and December with the ;,lArizona Retail Lumber and Building Sup;*tandards in Flagstafi, November 16, Tucf,r,*ott, November 2I and Phoenix, December .i: l.

Georgia-Pacific Corporation sponsored the meetings in cooperation with American Plywood Association. Our association cooperated by furnishing mailing lists, which included all Arizona architects and lumber dealers. More than 4O0 invitations were ilCibd for the three area meetings.

Oth"r area meetings planned for the two hronths were the Tucson area dealerns lunch' eon meeting, November 21. Also the sec' ond quarter board of directors meeting was held at Sedona, site of the 1967 convention.

A very important luncheon meeting will be held at Del Webb's Townehouse. Featured speaker will be Congressman John Rhodes, representing the First Congressional District in Arizona. This meeting is being held to tie in with NLBMDA's new national legislative action committee in acquainting our association with our representative in Washington.

Other activity in the association was the appointment, by President Charles Mann, of a northern Arizona convention committee to plan the 1967 association's annual convention, which will be held at Sedona on May I1-I3, 1967. The committee appointed Bob Horr, chairman, Flagstaff Lumber Co., Flagstaff; Dick Smith, Yavapai Lumber Co., Prescott; Gary Fischer, Foxworth-Galbraith Lumber Co., Prescott; Mike Medigovich, Cottonwood Lumber Co., Cottonwood; Don McDonald, Verde Valley Lumber Co., Cottonwood and Dick Pickett. Babbitt Brothers Lumber Co., Flagstaff. More on the convention will appear in a later issue.

Yard visitations were made by yours truly

Wcrtrrn Lumber & Bulldlng llotrriolr "516;AM in November to Flagstafi and Tucson area dealers. President Charles Mann and myself will make yard visits to all Phoenix area dealers during December.

Lumbergol Bogs Big Ones

Bringing back an 850-pound moose from Canada in a six-passenger airplane after you've stalked, hunted and brought it down with a Remington 30 06, is just routine to a Portland, Oregon lady executive.

Mrs. Lloyd W'eiser, when she's not busy as president of Duo-Fast Oregon Co., bap the big ones for a hobby. Sharing her hus" band's fascination for flying and hunting in the hinterlands, Mrs. Weiser said she and her husband spotted the huge animal a short distance from Prince George dur' ing a flying vacation trip.

"Six other moose were sighted as we flew over them," she said. Lloyd didn't shoot. Even our Piper Cherokee airplane wouldn't carry two moose out."

After Mrs. Weiser bagged the specimen, they removed four seats from the plane and slung in the quartered animal. Then they flew off to Portland, about five hours away.

The Weisers will do a little bird hunting near Lakeview, Oregon, soon, and are now concentrating on a few home meals featurinE moose meat.

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by BOB McBRIEN cxccuiive vice prcsident of lhe lumber Merchonts Arcociqtion of Northern Cqlifornio

FROM THE NUMBER of times I have been asked about that f' Iast paragraph in this column last month, I know The Merchant has quite a readership. And now I can tell all of you the good news that we indicated was coming.

The Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California is now issuing checks to participants in its State Fund insurance program. These checks represent our re' fund for 1965 and they total the amazing amount of 862,727.23.

The credit for this refund goes to our insurance committee headed by Gene Bell, our safety committee headed by Armin Speckert and Charles Fowler, and to each and every mem'ber who helped to keep accidents down and en' couraged safety at every opportltt,t. *

This refund represents 32 percent of the total premium paid to State Fund by our members and all of our participating mem' bers are sharing in the refund based upon their premium. In most cases, these dealers will receive a check far in excess o{ their annual membership dues in LMA. It's just another example of how membership in LMA Oyt "y doesn't cost!

While on the su'bject of insurance, LMA has just started the ball rolling on another program which promises to reduce mem' ber's costs and improve their coverage. It's a complete o'Business Insurance Package" designed to provide top individual yard coverage at low-cost group rates.

Everyone in our industry now has some sort of business insurance to cover such possible losses as fire and theft, business interruption, vehicle damage claims, etc. Most of this coverage involves a number of different brokers or agents and in many cases, it is feared that some dealers don't have the proper coverage or are paying too much for*the coverage they have.

I've been shown that some dealers will not save any money from what they are now paying, but rather they will get increased coverage that is more realistic. I've also been shown that wellinsured dealers can save as much as 25/o of what they are now paying. In each instance, the individual yard must be studied and appraised to determine the situation. * forest products industry which began whilel

Naturally, there is no charge for this insurance investigation... nor is there any obligation on the part of the individual dealer to accept the program. But many will find it makes great sens€ to do so.

LMA and its officers have studied all the insurance programs we are ofiering very carefully. We believe they are another service to our members which can more than offset their total membership dues each year. But insuranoe is only one seryice we have to ofier. There are many others and we would welcome the opportunity to tell non-members about them at any time.