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FRESN0, 1266 North Maple Ave.; L0S ANGELES, in Cerritos at 14103 Park Place (including hardwoods);

NATI0NAL CITY, 1640 Tidetands AVe.; NEWARK, 5526 Centra I Ave.; R I A LT0, 555 West R ia lto Ave.;

STOCKTON, Stockton Box Co., 1800 Marsha ll Ave.;

VALLEJO (hardwoods) 3020 Sonoma Blvd.; VAN NUYS, 15150 Erwin St. And out-of-state: PHOENIX, Arizona Box co' 3203"

5o You Think You've Got Troubles?

1.HE NEXT time you get sick of hearing your I contractor customers complain about tough building jobs, direct their attention to a builder who really has problems, the man in charge of getting the New York World Trade Center put together on time.

The size of the project alone should get their attention. Vhen completed, the center will be six buildings on sixteen acres in lower Manhattan. Two of the six will be twin 110 story towers. That's right, Il0 stories. The I,350 {oot towers will be the tallest in the world.

We are not much on numbers and statistics, but the numbers game here is really something else. More than $600 million worth of materials will go to create ten million sq. ft. of rentable space. Included in that total is 3,000 miles of wiring; 10,000 light fixtures, enough to light a highway from San Francisco to N.Y.; an excavation so large that sixteen football games could be played at the same time in the hole they dug; enough air conditioning to keep 15,000 homes cool and electricity needs equal to the entire city of Stockton, Calif. It will even surpass the Pentagon as the world's largest office building.

The gentleman in charge of all this is Ray Monti, an old hand at putting together gigantic projects for the Port Authority of New York', builders of the center.

Surrounded by a 100 man engineering stafi, a computer, reams of Critical Path Method charts and a bottle of Excedrin (Hero Size), Monti brings in materials from all over the country to a staging area ten miles distant from the construction site' Some of the steel is from as far away as Seattle and Los Angeles.

"It's like the D-Day invasion in terms of intricacy of planning and coordination," moans Monti, who must find the correct place at the precise time for 21,800 windows, 42,000 doorknobs, 200,000 pieces of steel, 250,000 sq. ft. of marble and travertine and I70 miles of connecting pipe in its seventy foot deep foundation.

Presently three weeks behind schedule, he must be ready for the first tenants in one of the towers by the Fall of 1970. The balance of the center is to be completed by June, 1973.

Not that he needs any extra grief, but so far he has been harrassed by supplier delays, strikes, heavy summer rains and uncountable minor irritations since starting in the Fall of 1966.

So the next time you get a moan about an overly complex job, just suggest they ponder the above. It won't solve their problem, but it should make it seem a lot simpler.

How to grab off some oflhe reallv big apartment suppl-r' contracts

By year's end, apartmenl construct on will account {or approximately 45oo or alt ho"si^g starts.

That means volume buying o{ bu ld nq supplrps. Especially Weslprn Wood framing and finrsh lumber. So: lf you'd like more information or help on Western Wood specifications, just call yoLr local WWPA Ireld representative.

Don't gel caught with your stocks down!

Builders tell us that many brokers rely ng on lactory or mlll shipments can'l schedule delivery to dovetail exactly w th construction needs. So buiders are turning 1o retailers who carry large inventories.

A large portion of this bus ness cou d come your way f you carry a substantial stock of Western Wood tumoer.

Wrap your bid in a "Package."

Many retailers a.e increasirg sales to the apartment market by bidding or Pac(ages" ol carefully selecteo items rather than bidding for the whole materials job.

And for inlormation on the 'New Look" apartments that are exciting buiders and residents alike, mail the co u pon.

Western Wood does it like nothing clse can.

.r?r. Western Wood Products Association

[j(/E/ Deet. WLBM-969, Yeon Burldrns, \-./ Ps11l3nj Oregon 97204

Yes, please send me your exciting ideas on apartments and product information so can help my bu lder customers with thelr Western Wood spe. rf ,catrons.

Pacific Northwest chain opens new warehouse

Palmer G. Lewis Co., the Northwest and Alaska building material distributors, opened its ninth warehouse (at Everett, Wash.) to the tune of "take me out to the ball park." Even Everett Mayor Robert C. Anderson got into the act as he wore one of the special PGL yellow baseball caps.

Robert D. Peterson, company president, said the expansion includes the Everett area and north to the Canadian border.

The warehouse contains 21,000 sq. ft. and has 24,000 sq. ft. of surfaced parking.

Robert Rose, the new manager, has been with Lewis for 14 years and previously was inside sales manager for the Seattle branch.

Other employees are: Joseph Henshaw, inside sales; J. Metz Evered and Clifi Wil' kerson, outside sales; Jim Parent, warehouse manager; and James Wharton, warehouseman.

The Lewis Co. also has warehouses in Auburn, Bremerton, Kenmore, Lacey, Seattle, Spokane, Wenatchee, and Anchorage, Alaska.