oFRED C. HOLMES TUMBER COMPANY o

Specializing in Mixed Shipments of Douglas Fir & Redwood

Production & Home Office:

Fred HO[ME9/Corl FORCE

P. O. Box 987

Fort Brogg, Colif.

TWX: Fort Brogg 49

Phone: YOrktown 4-37OO the free hand while the nail is being driven. The nails should be driven home with the heads slightly below the surface of the gypsum board in a dimple formed by the crowned surface of the driving tool (except where joint treatment is to be applied). Under no circumstances should a nail set be used, and care should be taken to avoid breaking the paper face.

2. Accurate framing. Use straight and uniformly dimensioned lumber and make sure that nailing surfaces are flush to receive the gypsum board. For example, the nailing surface of a1.1 studs, bridging and headers and the faces of all top and bottom plates should be flush and in true alignment.

3. Cutting Board to Size. Wedging into place of oversize gypsum board panels introduces unnecessary stresses that often create

Ukiah Ofice: Gil Sissons

HOmesteqd 2-5438

Wholesole Only a bow in the surface of the board or causes something else to give-usually the nail heads. To have each board rest naturally in position and avoid other induced stresses, it is best to start nailing in the center of the

Soufhern Calilorniq Office: Don Muller

7227 lelegroph Road

Los Angeles 22, Csl.

RAymond 3-9983

TWX: MlB7424 board and work outward toward the edges. Even something as simple to install as gypsum wallboard, Yeager points out, should receive the same care accorded any finishing material.

Floridq Brqnch for Pocific Hqrdwood

Fred Branch, president of Pacific Hardwood Sales Co., Oakland, has established a branch office serving the Southeastern states at 425 Coral Way, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The new sales office is set up to serve the trade through either the port of Miami or the port of Everglades, in addition to direct mixed shipments by rail from Pacific Hardwood's Oakland yard. Mr. Branch will be in charge of the new Florida operation and Mervin Mento, president of Asiatic & Western Trading Co., an affiliate of Pacific Hardwood Sales Co., will head the Oakland operation.

TR,EE FAR,'I,IING ADDS IO WEATIH OF CATIFORNIA

S.an_ Francisco (Special)-Tree farming is the root of an industry that is pumping more than hafi a billion dollars a year. into California's.economy through forest industry pay_rolls alone. California's forest industry payroll is the highest in the nation.

Millions of dollars more are paid farmers and other lanclowners for timber crops. \Aroods workers and allied industry payrolls add still more to the good living from the codmercial forests of California.

In just 17 years-the Tree Farm concept of voluntary for_ est management has snowballed into ihe greatest iorest conservation movement fostered and administered bv pri_ vate enterprise this country has ever known.

And because trees-the raw material used in the maltu- facture of rnore than 5,000 items Californians use everv day-grow and replace themselves, they form a fourrtain df increasing prosperity which puts new cash into the pockets ot_Lalrtornla spenders each year.

. The depth to which tree farming permeates the economy through forest industry_payrolls is-reflectecl in recent figure'.. by American Forest Pioducts Industries, an eclucat'ional organiz-ation. suppo.rted !y the nation's wood-using indus_ tries. Tree Farms in California are sponsored by tjre Cali- fornia Redwood Assn. and the Westein pine Assn.

For food alone, forest industry workers spent $106,500,000, making g'rocers and delicatessens chief beneficiaries'of iheir buying activities. Otl-rer channels of business receiving gen_ erous po_r-tion-s of the_forest industry payroll pie were" H,ec_ reation, $23,7W,000 ; Personal busi ness, gZ4,ZC/j,OO0 ; Nledical care arrd death expenses, $23,100,@0; Churches ancl chari_ ties, -$6,-800.000; Private educatior.r, $6,200,000; Foreign travel, $3,900,000.

"Forest management under the private enterprise Tree rarm program means a permanent supply of raw material for the forest industry," said AFPL "FoT the first time this century, we are growing timber faster than it is being removed from the forest, despite increasing uses for wood and an increasing population. The industry-operated Tree Farm movement means more dollars for the butcher, the baker and the auto maker while providing the wood Americans need for many useful produCts. It is lutting countless thousands of idle acres of land to work."

A California-first for U. S. Plywood Corp. is its "'Weldwood" Tree Farm loclted in ShastaTrinity-Humboldt counties. Bob Goldsworthy, left, forester and west side logging boss, approves the new highway sign erected at Tree .h-arm entrance near Buckhorn Summit on Highway 299. At right is Dale Prentice, Western Pine Association district forest engineer and industry's Tree Farm inspector in the area.