NEWS BR[EFS

Little Valley Lumber Co. has been sold to State Box Co., Sacramento, Calif Southwest Forest Industries plans to buy Chambers & Campbell, Albuquerque, N.M. Pacific Southwest Hard,ware lssn. has moved its main office to 83I N. Anaheim Blvd., Anaheim, Calif. Sunset Industries, Inc., Los Angeles, plans to acquire Canoga Park Lumber Co., Canoga Park, Calif., no price revealed . :

Shipments ol hard,board in '68 gained 22/o, largest in the industry's 42 year history the American Forest Institute is focusing on bold solutions to the poor public relatbns image of the forest industries . Alpine Veneers, Inc. has formed an import-export div..

When surface transport was available recently, Koppers Co. didn't fool around, they airlifted 5 tons of treating salts to H,awaii the home builders assn. is working to increase the pension fund's investments in residential mortgage loans.

Home Lumber Co., Sunnyside, Wash., which earlier bought the Bestway yard in Prosser, is meshing the two operations as much as possible . western lumber mills could ap proilucti,on 15%-20% if they could get more timrber, says the WWPA.

Calilornin housing starts Lell in January to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 123,000, 29/o below average of previous four months. .33rd annual convention and building product exposition of the Montana Build,ing Material Dealers' Assn. is set for April I0-13, Rainbow Hotel, Great Falls. Mont.

Build'n Saue chain opened a new store in Orange, Calif., with another one scheduled for Anaheim, Calif. . . American Wood Council scrapped Tucson, Ariz., from their '69 promotion schedule Annual sales volume of National-American Wholesale Lumber fusn. firms surges through tuo billian dollar mnrk during 1968 . Hardwood Action Council, Memphis, Tenn., studies ways to mount strong public relations and promotion program.

Oregon, Washington and California rated as lop three timber proilucing slates by University of California, Berkeley, studv Edward P. Clifi. chief of Forest Servic", reports number of lorest fres started by man's carelessness dropped for second year in a row. ..fil million expansionproject is under way at Weyerhauser's Cottage Grove, Ore., laminating plant

Eighty-fioe ton wood, burning lurnaces for any wood waste, that conform to stringent govt. air pollution regs. are planned by Michel Lumber Co., Lake Oswego, Ore. Rumbles from Canada of. Iarynesemade plastic stuils in various colors are yetunconfirmed...

A cornputerized inform'alion system to get architects data and specs on products quickly is being developed for N.Y. State Univ. by McGraw-Hill the Nat'I. Building Material Distributors Assn. is meeting this month in Scottsdale, Ariz.. Clark Gittings, .Cittings Lumber, Denver, will head the lurnber council.

Daais Lumber's big new building in Enterprisg C,alif., is well along Saddleback Jr. College, Mission Viejo, Calif., a so-called "instant cantpu,s," was built with Speedspace Corp. relocatable bldgs. 2B7o more new construction was started in Jan. '69. than in Jan. '68 two gigantic N.V. skyscrapers helped the total.

Southwest Forest Indusfries bought a sawmill in Luna, N.M., and a planing mill at Maedalena for about $350,000

Potlatch is building a $5.5 million con' tinuous digester and a 4-stage bleach plant for their pulp and paperboard mill in Lewiston, Ida.

Illasonite Corp's. first general price increases in four years range from 2-LA/o Klamath-'Ward, Inc., Eugene, Ore., was purchased by Morbark Industries, Winno Mich.... Preston Martin, chairman, .Federal Home Loan Bank Boaril, predicts recent rise to 7t/2/o in bank prime rate won't affect large builders..

Fibreboaril Corp. says it has acquired Green Valley Lumber Co.o Medford, Ore. No amount given . . . the new Wood Promotion 'Council has changed its name to American Wood, CounciJ Du Pont says that after l0 years of testing their Ted,la,r PVF frlm, used to cover siding, approaches the durability of rbrick and stone

Anterican Forest Prod,ucts Corp. and U.S. Plywood-Champion Papers called ofi their proposed merger, move followed some unoflicial rumblings by the Fed. Trade Commission. Official reason r,r-as failure to agree on terms Crown Zellerbach plans to buy Park Lumber Co. and Glen E. Park logging operations, Estacada, Ore. ...

Employees of the forest products industry were paid more than S9 billi.on in'68 . taxes took $1.I billion . . a school forest, next to the Hollywood Freeway, has been started as an outdoor classroom fior Los Angeles county pupils . market profiles on more than 3 million U.S. and Canadian firms are on file in Dun & Bradstreet's computerized data bank toGGll{G IRAINS sometime prior to l9$. Note that most of the bark has already been removed. Debarking was then done in the woods-now by hydraulic debarker.

Formica distributors Gordon and Al Fros! pres. and vp. of Froet Hardwood, San Diego, recently toured Formica's plant near Sacramento . . St. Regis Paper and RCA, to the great relief of the security analists, have nixed their oroposed merger, deal would have involved $700 million.

As of today, timberland holdings in nortlern California come to more than 170,000 acres and the forest management program assures "production in perpetui' ty."