Northern California Retaibrs lVlll Hold Annual

War Conler ence in San Francisco Octobcr 13

The annual war conference of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California will be held at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, on Wednesday, October 13.

speaker. Col. Chevalier graduated from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1910. He served from May, l9l7 to May, 1919 as Captain, Major and Lieut' Colonel with the l1th U. S' Engineers in France and entered the publishing field in 1972 as associate editor of Engineering News-Record. In 1938 he assumed his present post as publisher of Business Week. In this capacity he maintains a close contact with the whole broad field of American business and industry, through the comprehensive organization of that paper, and through personal contact with business leaders the country over.

The conference will begin promptly at 2:30 p.m' with a heavy schedule which will carry through the afternoon. There will be a banquet at 7:00 P.m.

Kenneth Smith, president of the California Redwood Association, San Francisco, will be toastmaster.

The officers of the Association are: President, Ray Clotfelter, W. R. Spalding Lumber Co., Visalia, Calif.; vice president F. Dean Prescott, Valley Lumber Co., Fresno; treasurer, I. E. Horton, South City Lumber & Supply Co., South San Francisco, secretary, Bernard B. Barber, Fresno.

A large attendance is expected. The splendid work of the Association deserves the appreciation and support of every retail lumberman. and director the principal