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AlrD $011 Green & Dry Uppers

Mouldings - loth

Porceloin Enqmel Housing

A housing components study group has been formed by Porcelain llnamel Institute to investigate produc- tion and marketing of residential building products. Initial stuclies will cover curtain rvall panels. window u'all units, complete roof systems, rvindow casings and parts, shutters, planter boxes. shotver rvalls and baseboards and trim.

Llniversity of California by CRA to support research by the rrniversity's Iiorest Products Laboratorv in Richmond, California. This grant was formallv accepted bv the Board of Ilegents at their Noven-rber 15 meeting.

Iilimination of some of the technical problenrs involved in the proper seasoning and fir.rishing of redwoocl are tl-re immediate objectives of tl-re research. Studies will be made by the Forest Proclucts Laboratory, under Dr. Fred E. Dickinson, director, otr the water soluble extractives rn'hich give reclwoocl its pleasing color and great drrrability.

\\'ith a better knoll'ledge of the chen.rical composition ancl ph1'sical properties of these extractives, rechnood rnills can do an even nrore effective job of seasoning and furtl.rer improven.rents can be nmtle in the natural finish svsterns for exterior reclu-oocl applications.

Western Pine Supply Co. Presented "Mqsfer Wholesqler Awqrd"

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Dee Essley - l foyne Wilson

Jerry Essley 3-1147

Ghuck Lember

Byron Armstrong fn recognition of its "Dealers Only" policy of efficient and heipfui service to Northern California lumber dealers, Western Pine Supply Co. was recently presented a "Master Wholesaler Ar,vard" by Vance Publications. Western flng Suppiy 90. u'as founded and organizecl by Philip J. McCoy in 1945, rvhen he was 26. The cornpany was original- ly located at Sth and Harrison Streets in San Francisco but by 1950, that location had become inadequate so the business rvas moved to its present addrcss at 5760 Shellmound Street in E,meryville.-

About tu'o years ago, during a "Success Story" interview (CLM, 12/15/55),I{cCoy told The CALIFORNIA LUM- B]lll NIERCHANT that the rcason for the comDanv's outstancling srlcccss u'as mainly due to its policy of sfressing

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