NEWS BR[EFS

Bohemia. Lumber is splitting its stock 2-for-l Boise Cascade is merging Aristocrat Traael Prod,ucts, a big trailer mfgr., into its operation . Colurnbin International, a forest products import,/sales firm has been formed as a div. of Columbia Plywood Corp., Portland.

American Forest Prod,ucts Corp. plans to buy Lea Lumber Co., Oakhurst, Calif., no amount revealed suesstimates on the savings from the new lumber standards (if ever passed) range to a quarter billion dollars annually rumor has it Georgi.a-Pacillc bought the Moyi.e Riaer Lumber Co., sawmill and all, no present guesses as to the amount ,

Bayshore Lumber Co. in San Francisco closed last month when owner Solornon Moncure, in business since '37, retired. Coos Head Lumber & Plywoodhave streamlined their operation at San Pedro, Calif., , American Forest Products Corp. eyed, their record sales & carnings for the last half of'69 and upped the dividend.

South Bay Red.wooil, thrr Sears Lumber ol L.A., supplied redwood trim for President Richard Nixon's summer White House in San Clemente, Calif., L. H. Eufu.nk & Son, Inglewood, supplied their built-in ironing boards and Charley's Fence Co., with the help of South Bay Redwood, wrapped it up with a new redwood fence.

Boise Cascad,e has started building its $14 million world HQ in Boise they also put $3 million into a new plywooil plnnt at their Emmett, Idaho operation... Basin Lumber at Moses Lake. Wash.. and has moved to a new location

Picleering Lurnber Corp., a Fibreboard Corp. subsidiary, donated an old, II0 acre logging camp to the Boy Scoals; it is named the Wm.. J. Pendola Reseraation in honor of Pickering's president U.S. Forest Products Lab has more new house plans for low income rural families eligible for federal money under the 1969 Housing Act...

Despite a record number of housing starts in Calif. in May, Bank of America says the luII impact of federal tight money policies has nothit yet... nationally, starts dropped in June for tlle fifth month in a row .,, a 6 room house has been built in 7 days using a new ofl-site system. oI the Nat'I. Assn. of Home Builders.. G-P won't be getting into their jazzy new offices in Portland until about Feb.: bad, weather moved back the hoped for Nov. move-in , .

The Forest Seruice plnns to lnwer appraised prices of the federal timber they sell to bring thern more' in line with lower market prices walnut log prices so&r as domestic and foreign buyers compete for supplies; log prices have d,oubled in 5 yeors Frank Lumber has a new fingerjointing plant at Mill City, Ore.

Dow Chernical is working o'night and day to produce plastic components for home construction," warns Allan Brockbank, past president of the N'tl. Ass'n. of Home Builders.. an American Wood Council survey reveals homeowners who express preferences for bldg. mtls. to go into their homes rnost olten choose waod,; they also under-estirnare its value, AWC says...

The National Committee on Urban Growth Policy has proposed a plan to build, 100 new cities in the next 30 years; committee is made up of a bi-partisan rnix of senators, congressmen, governors, mayors and county commissioners . . hnmebuild,ing ranks second, only to food and food processing as the nation's biggest industry . the average new home has about ll/2 tons ol steel, forecasts see four times that much in the next two decades

U.S. losses trom major fires declineil by more than 20/o last year , Southwest forest Ind,usrries has acquired Chambers & Campbell, a Phoenix architectural and engineering firm, no price given .Vancouuer Plyuood,, a wholly-owned subsidiary of giant SkeIIy OiI, plans an extensive wood products mfg, and marketing operation in Liberia, West Alrica

The plywood, association has called on the feds to concentrate the same kind of energy that put us onto the moon on the nation's need for housing American wa.lnut is still No. 1 with furniture makers. despite the inroads of plastic Boise Cascade sold its yard in Marsing, Idaho to Robert Caldwell and Walter Vallotton.

Angels Luntber & Ilardunre has doubled their El Monte store; plans call for a neu Angels to open in nearby Norwalh in Oct. Croutn Zellerba.ch has cut back lumber production at 2 of their B.C. mills construction expenditures will exceed $90 billion in the U.S. this year, says Johns Manville; they say it's due to increased costs . .,

Volltswagen will now be shipping their cars from Germany in American plywood for the first time they ordered, 500,000 sq. lt. of 3/r(' std. sheathing. The N'tl. Ass'n. oI Home Builders' economist sees a housing starts decline to a one million annual rate by year's end I a money shortage is the reason, ,

The Green Power Found,ation. unable to get a sufficient supply ol ash for its W'atts Walloper baseball bats, turned to making children's furniture . nearly 3 million lamilies in the U.S. own a vacation home the Forest Seruice is considering new regs. to preoent prioate opera,ors from buying federal timber to replace logs of their own they sold for export

Chicago Board ol Trade says trading in plywood futures will be in contracts on a boxcar loaded with 36 banded units, with price quotes on units ol 1,000 sq. lt.; minimum fluctuation: 10d; maximum per day: $7 for each thou. above or below the previous day's settlement price

Textone, a big maker of vinyl paneling for trailers has bought Condor, Inc,, a maker of passage and cabinet doors for trailers the Interi,or Dept. made another partial payment to G-P for lands it took for the reilwooil national par&, this $I0.5 million dollar slug brings the total to date to $14.6 million Diamond International has completed its merger with U.S. Playing Card.

To meet the demand projected by the 1968 Housing Act, experts estimate conservatively tlrat supplies ol wood products rnust increase 2/3rds in the next J0 years... wood treated to retard fire goes into /3rd of all the architectural plywooils Karpen Corp. in Compton, Calif., now produces

In what is hopefully a good sign for the future, the Carpenters Uninn, 900,000 strong, has agreed to work on factory-built homes made by Stirling Homcr Corp., lhe company in return has promised to use only union labor at jobsites across the U.S.