Millwork Institute to Meet at Los Angeles

The semi-annual meeting of the MillworkInstitute of California will be held at the Hotel Alexandria, Los Angeles, Friday, lune 12. The meeting will be a one-day session starting at 1O a.m' In the evening there will be a banquet and. entertainment program. Jack Dionne, Publisher of "The California Lumber Merchant", will act as toastmaster at the banquet.

The standard methods of figuring the selling price of millwork which are based on the Standard Millwork Schedules recently published by the Institute will be one of the important subjects that will come before the convention.

The program of the convention is well under way and will be sent out to the Institute membership at an early date.

The Arrangements Committee for the convention includes: H. Coor-Pender, Frank Graves Sash, Door & Mill Co., Los Angeles; A. W. Koehl, l-no. W. Koehl & Son, Los Angeles; Wesley Shrimp, Cresmer Mfg. Co., Riverside; W. L. Leishman, Crown City Mfg. Co., Pasadena; A. J. Todhunter, llammond Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Frank Peel, Patten & Davies Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Kenneth Lynch, L. W. Blinn Lumber Co.; and Lester Sterett, Secretary, Millwork Institute of California.

C. '\ry'. Buckner Opens Office Central California Club Meets in San Francisco at Stockton

/ C. W. Buckner, who has had m4ny ye?r9 of- experience in the marketing of plywood and doors both in the domestic and export field1, his opened an office as a manufacturers' agent it 557 Market Street, San Francisco.

Mr. Buckner represents Harbor Plywood Corporation, of Hoquiam, Wash., in Northern California. The Grays Harboi units of this corporation are Harbor Plywood Co', Knox & Tombs, American Door & Mfg. Co., and Durable Door Co.

He is also California representative for the East Tacoma Mfg. Co., Tacoma, Wash., manufacturers of Douglas fir finiih, casing and base, knock-down frames' mouldings, balusters, columns, gutter. plywood, commons and uppers' This concern specializes in sanded finish and trim, using only the higheJt grade old growth yellow Douglas fir.

Mr. Buckner is building an office on the second floor of the $uilding Material & Machinery Exhibit Building, where he is located, which will give a practical demonstraton of the use of plywood in house construction, as well as the use of othei products made by the concerns which he represents. A complete description of this demonstration office rvill be given in a later issue of this paper.

The regular monthly meeting of the Central California Lumbermlen's Club was held at the Hotel Clark, Stockton, May 16.

Chas. G. Bird, president.of the club, presided. There was a representative attendance of 37 members, and visitors included the following: Elmore King, King Lumber Co., Bakersfield; Floyd Dernier, Lumbermen's Service Association, Los Angelis; Henry M. Hink, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco; Jerry Pearce, Sunset Lumber Co., Oakland; Ralph Duncan, Merced Lumber Co., Merced.; Sam Dalton, l{elrose Lumber Co., Oakland; A.J. "Gus" Russell, Santa Fe Lumber Co', San Francisco, and D. C. Essley, manag'er, California Retail Lumbermen's Association, Burlingame.

The principal feature of the meeting was a discussion of general retail marketing conditions.

B. R. JULTAN VrSrrS LAS VEGAS

B. R. Julian, E.K.Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, was a recent visitor to Las Vegas, Nevada, where he spent a few days calling on the lumber trade and inspecting the site of the new lloover dam.