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Show Area Hardware Men Elect Officers at S. L. Meeting ron, O., public relation! director for Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., will apeak at the banquet. RslpV'W. Jtollingsworth, Ontario, On-tario, Ore, wai elected preaident of the Intennduntain Aaaociation of Hardware and Implement dealers deal-ers Saturday in the Newhouae hotel. He succeeds C. E. Merrell, Brigham City. Dwight E. Crosier, Sallna, Sevier Se-vier county, was named first vies president, and Maxwell H. Becker, Caldwell, Ida., was elected second vice president. Delegates to the hardware dealers annual convention were urged to take advantage through salesmanship of the nation's potential po-tential buying power and high rate of production. "Farmers are in a better financial fi-nancial position than at any time In the nation's history," Merritt D. Hill, Detroit, general salea manager. Dearborn Motors Corp, told the group. "Ths pubiio has the money to buy. but It won't buy without salesmanship," he said. Ths three-day convention, attended at-tended by some 600 hardware men and implement dealers from seven Western states ends Saturday with a banquet at 7:30 p.m. In New-house New-house hotel. George Alexander Bowls, Ak- ;! ' .j!.... h Ralph W. Hollhtgswortb ... Mew head of hardware dealers. |