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It was shortly after the noon hour, when a gentleman stepped into the doctor's office, and asked of the young lady in the white costume:
"I beg your pardon, but is the Doctor in?"
"No," said the young lady in white, "the Doctor is out."
"Do you think," persisted the gentleman caller, "that he will be in after lunch?"
"No," said the young lady, "I think that's what he went out after."
Hardwood Panel Display Draws Attention New Series of Merchandising "Clin cs"
The recent official opening of the new offices of the Maris Plywood Corporation at 540 Tenth Street, San Francisco, was attended by more than 100 architects, engineers, cabinet an<l mill men.
It was natural that the center of attraction was the beautiful new display room, containing panels of 34 different kinds of foreign and domestic hardwoods. In this room the panels are ten feet high, the full height of the room, and two feet wide. All the panels are Carstenite, for which this firm is exclusive distributor for Northern California, Oregon and Washington.
C. C. STIBICH TRAVELS
C. C. Stibich, sales manager of Tahoe Sugar Pine Co., San Francisco, chairman of the promotion committee of the Western Pine Association, attended a meeting of the committee in Portland, December 3.
Mr. Stibich also attended the an,nual meeting of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association at New Orleans, November t0 to 12, as a representative of the Western Pine Association.
A series of thirteen one day "clinics" to which owners and managers of lumber yards throughout the east, middle west and south will be invited for a discussion of ways to meet current business problems in the building industry, has been announced by Johns-Manville.
These meetings which will be conferences on management problems combined with a study of nerv merchandising techniques started November 30 at New York City and will end with a session on January 10 at Dallas, Texas.
The complete list of cities where clinics are to be ponducted and the dates for each meeting are announced by P. A. Andrews, J-M's vice-president in charge of building materials, as follows: New York, Nov. 30; Pittsburgh, Dec. 3; Detroit, Dec. 6; Chicago, Dec. 8; Minneapolis, Dec. 10; Kansas City, Dec. 13; St.I-ouis, Dec. 15; Cincinnati, Dec. 17; Philadelphia, Dec. 20; Boston, Dec. 22; Atlanta, Jan. 4; New Orleans, Jan. 7 ; and, Dallas, Jan. 10.
l4ter it is planned to hold additional meetings on the Pacific Coast with the schedule tentatively calling for sessions in April in I-os Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle, and possibly in Spokane and Salt I-ake City.
