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South Bay Plant Sold

Diablo Timber Co., Napa, Ca., has purchased the plant and milling equipment of South Bay Forest Products, Orange, Ca.

Diablo did not buy the South Bay company or name. In a separate deal, a long term lease was negotiated with Baywood Business Park for the buildings and property of about five and one-half acres that South Bav had occupied.

The new Southern California division of Diablo will operate as a manufacturing and distribution facility serving dealer and industrial customers. Overseeing the operation is John Cligny, Diablo vice president and general manager. Barry Stagner is industrial sales and production manager, Mike Irish mill operations manager and Susan Muller office manager.

Diablo will do custom milling for Evergreen Lumber & Molding, also situated on the property, as well as for other customers.

Western Lumber Picks Up

After a slow first quarter, western lumber mills have increased production to push inventories past 1995 totals.

Mills ended the first half of the year with the best shipment week of 1996 and the second highest weekly order volume. During the final week of June, shipments reached 394 million bd. ft., the highest weekly volume since Oct. 1994. Orders rose 73 million ft. to 384 million bd. ft.. while production slipped l0 million ft. to 328 million bd. ft.

At 1996's halfway point, western lumber production of 7 .996 billion bd. ft. trails last year's pace by just 55 million bd. ft. Orders (8.256 billion bd. ft.) are 2,3Vo higher, shipments (8.077 billion bd. ft.) up LVo.

First quarter production lagged 1995 volumes by 7.6Vo, but second quarter figures outpaced last year's by 6.97o. Shipments fell 57o in the fust quarter and climbed 7.2Vo in the second; orders were down 2.6Vo in the first, up 7.4Vo in the second.

Inventories continued to shrink through most of the second quarter, widening the difference between 1995 and 1996. At the end of the first half. mill stocks trrt 1.947 billion bd. ft.. 66 million ft. below the middle of last year. Since June, inventories have remained under 2 billion ft.

Candidates Urged To Make Housing A Priority

Five major trade associations representing nearly a million businesses, banks and entrepreneurs that build, sell and finance housing have called on President Clinton and Republican contender Robert Dole to re-establish housing as a top national priority, expanding homeownership opportunities and reducing the number of Americans living in substandard shelter by the turn of the century.

Adopted by the National Association of Home Builders, National Association of Realtors. American Bankers Association. America's Community Bankers and Mortgage Bankers Association of America. the joint policy statement, "Toward a National Housing Policy," will be presented to the platform committees of both the Democrat and Republican national parties.

The task of meeting the nation's housing needs is more difficult today, according to the report, "because there are fewer government resources and more complicated and burdensome regulations administered by various layers of government. This report presents a housing policy that endeavors to fulfill the promises enunciated in the 1949 Housing Act-the goal of a decent home and suitable living environment for every

American

The report includes a wide range of federal policy recommendations in the areas of housing finance and FHA-insured and VA-guaranteed loans, tax policy, regulatory reform and federal housing programs.