PTOTOPIAT h TC]J LICHTS OT THE YEAP II\ EEVIEIry

FIRSI SMOG-FREE DISPOSAt UNIT of its kind opproved by the [. A. County Air-Pollution Control Boqrd wqs this $35,000 burner instqlled ot the Artesio (Coliforniq) Door Compony during the yeor

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HOME IMPROVEMENT proved ifself o force lo reckon with in ifs first yeor-" '56-the Yeqr to Fix," ond goes inio 1957 wirh o new lheme, "Better Your Living." Here the OHI execulive director, John R. Doscher, oddresses the Arizono deqlers ot their Flogstoff convenlion lost Spring, os fucson deqler [. P. Hermes looks on. Moriho Nowels spurred OHI in Tucson

ION G-BETI Lumber Co. sent this Douglos fir peeler log ocross lhe counlry lo U.5. Junior Chqmber of Commerce convenlion in Konsqs City in June. Its yield would hove been 92,000 sq. feet of rs" plywood

GRADE NAMES become the order of the doy on Morch l5 when lhe industry ofticiollY odopred West Coost Rule No15. In qs clever o bit of promotion os the trode hod seen rn ANY yeor, fhe West Coqsl Lu m b e rme n's Associqtion rounded up lhe four lovelies ol the left lo perpeluofe the new grode NAMES: Economy, Utility, Stondord ond Construclron L 750 UTIL% MIL

MILL 750 EcoilsT% M ILL 750 EsTAltD ,1,

ONE OF THE EIGGEST THINGS in the reroil lumber deoler field in Sourhern Coliforniq in 1955 wos th€ slort lost Fall of rhe Reroil lumber Troining Institufe, o cooperolive venture of the Southern Cclifornio Retoil lumber Associotion ond Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club 2. Acring for Hoo-Hoo wele Snork Jim Forgie (lefi, obove) and Jerry Wesrphol (righr), rhe lotier hoving been insrrumeniol in rtorting the eorlier, pqttern coulse in his Rivercide Hoo-Hoo club in Jonuory losl yeor. Here they fionk Dr. Close

ORRIE W. HAMII,TON (lefl) wirh Dr. WENDEI CIOSE, rhe insrructor of rhe Riverside classes, who voluobly consented qlso to coordinqte the SCRIA-HooHoo RLTI in los Angeles, which will rontinue unfil Spring in posadena on luesdoys ond Sonto Ano, fhursdoys. Above. Homilton addresses posqdeno clqss sTlItED BY FlooD wATERS-This big sowmill ot Eureko-, Colifornid wds iu3t one of the mony in Northern Cotiforniq thdt woe forced to suspend operdtions in Jonuory 1956 ofier the floods of thot month ond December-1955 sent the rcmpaging Eel River Lver its bonks to isolote severol lowns. Ihe,,eooring iriventory,, in the yord is mute evidence of the wroth of the foods, which moved mounr;in;, destroyed troin trackoge ond truck.routes qnd ruined lumber