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Cresmer organization: Tom Bandy, mill superintendent; Dick Marcus, cabinet department;- Louis Hoyt, sash ancl door department; Conway Ulyate, "outside man"; Glenn Finney, shipping clerk; Bob Sauke, millwork estimator;

Homer Wilson, Wesley Shrimp's right hand bower; Ernest Gifford, home modernizing department; Eric W. Emtman, superintendent of outside construction; R. A. Crippen, in charge of ,Cowan Custom-Built-in Cabinets and Hipolito Screen departments; and "Shorty" Adams, "chieflixei" (mechanic)

J. H. Cresmer, founder of the Cresmer company, made the address of welcome. After a short talk on the home modernizing' movement by Wesley Shrimp, he turned the meeting over to Jack Dionne, publisher of "The California Lumber Merchant," who acted as toastmaster of the evening-Jack was in good form and his choice repertoire of stories were a big hit.

Short talks were made by H. T. Didesch, managing director of the Millwork Institute of California. who discussed the Institute's Certification program; Bob Mundell, secretary of the Orange Belt club; and Kenneth Smith, secretary of the Lumber Dealers' Association of Los Angeles.

In bihalf of the Orange Belt Lumbermen's Club, president Harvey Hall, thanked the Cresmer Manufacturing Co. for inviting the club to be their guest and for providing such an excellent dinner. Mr. Hall then held a short business session of the club at rvhich time they accepted the invitation of the Southr,testern Portland Cement Co. to be their guests at their plant at Victorr.ille, Calif., on Saturday afternoon, October 5.

Toastmaster Dionne then introduced the following: H. V. Cowan, president, T. B. Hatton, vice president and secretary, and Bob Tait, sales manager, H. V. Cowan, Inc.; A. J. Todhunter, Hammond Lumber Company; Leo Rosenberg, Hipolito Company; and E. W. Cummings, Watertite Casement Hardware Co. The Cresmer Manuiacturing Co. are distributors for these organizations in the Orange Belt District.

The meeting was then brought to a close by extending a rising vote of thanks to the Cresmer Manufacturing Co. Immediately following the meeting, through the courtesy of the Home Modernization Bureau of Chicago, Walter

McDonough of the Hammond Lumber Company showed the moving picture-Transformation.

Bef ore the dinner, the visitors inspected the (iresmer plant rvhich is regarded as one of the most convenient and best equipped in the west. This modern woodr'vorking

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