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Wholesale Lumber

Bolfour Building

SAN FRANCISCO 4, CAIIF.

Developing New Wood Products

(Contined from Page 18) lower grade by-products. By developing new wood products through research, Long-Bell will provide more jobs, a return to the stockholders and a product of consumer demand.

Many products are now being marketed made from wood by-products, but the possibilities of further manufacture of sawdust and chips is unlimited. Long-Bell norv markets sawdust and chips for fuel and paper manufacture. Wood waste is non-existent in the large Longview manufacturing operation.

Goal of the research department is to develop products to supplement and to be used in the lines now manufactured in the Longview factory. Wallboards, insulation and pressed wood are a few of the many bits of wood magic now being marketed by other companies.

By utilizing the low grade by-products an manufacturing them into some substance of higher value to enhancd the present products at a price the consumer can afford to pay, the products of the Longview factory will create a greater demand. The factory at the present time is producing, unpainted furniture, window and door frames and industrial items.

Under construction at the present time at the Weed operation is a wood flour recovery plant. The plant will convert sander dust from the sash and door factory into rvood flour for further refinement. The dust is used as a filler for plastics and as a base for linoleums.

Entrance into this field is the result of research made by the research department after extensive tests at Weed by plant personnel.

The new Longvierv p.ilot plant will not employ many at the beginning, but as products are developed and reach the large scale production stagg, more employees and more equipment will be added.

John Fies Now NLMA Representative On Pacific Coast

John Fies, representative of the Technical Department of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association on the Pacific Coast, arrived in San Francisco December 4. His office is in the Monadnock Building, 681 Market Street, San Francisco 5, and his telephone number is GArfield t-24r7.

Mr. Fies, before entering the Army was chief of the Building fnspection Division of Dallas, Texas, and for the past year has been building code consultant for seven Southwestern states for the National Housing Agency. His Army service covered a period of three and a half years, and he ended as a Major in the Air Corps.

He left for Dallas December 20, and on the way back will stop in Denver and Salt Lake City on business for the Association, returning to San Francisco about January .12.

Chcrnge oI Address

E. M. Worthing, public accountant, announces the removal of his office to Alhambra Professional Building, 317 West Main Street, Alhambra, Calif. The telephone numbers are ATlantic 4-7571 and Rlchmond 9251.

Ovcr 501000 Homes Begun In Los Angeles' County

Twenty per cent more homes were started in Los Angeles County in the first 10 months of. 1947 than in the corresponding period of last year.

William A. Bledsoe, regional director of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U. S. Department of Labor, so reported, giving the number of units as 50,090, with an estimated cost of $345,110,400. I

In all of last year, 54,4ffi units, with an estimated cost of $347,955,000, were constructed, Mr. Bledsoe said.

About 41,fi0 of the new homes started this year were single-family units, or about 83 per cent of the total.

On the basis of estimates obtained from builders. Mr. Rledsoe gave the average cost of the one-family units as $72n, compared with 97000 in 1946, ths figures being exclusive of the cost of land and site improvements.

Appointed Advertising Counsel For Ltrmber Merchqnts Associction

James R. Lunke & Associates of Seattle opened an of_ fice this fall at 625 Market Street, San Francisco, in charge of Margaret Wheelock.

This firm has had wide experience in the advertising field in the Northwest, where they have worked for some time with the Western Retail Lumbermen,s Association. The Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California has negotiated a working arrangement with them to serve as advertising counselors for the Association and its mem_ bers.