Ifiews Briefs. . .

A 50 Years Ago item in The Los Angeles Tirnes for Dec. 15, l9O7, said the city's I'ublic Works I)epartment filed a report u'ith the lnayor listing the agencl"s accomplishments durir-rg 1907. These included improrrement of 50 miles of streets, construction of .15 miles of server lines, and granting of permits for 7700 nerv buildings r,alued at $13,851,154.

A fire recently sw'ept the Frogge & Sons Lumber Co., Lakervood, u'ith damage estimatecl betu,een $75,000 and $100,000. Tl'o youths, one llJ and the other 19, u'ere caught running from the prernises zrnd admitted thev broke in to steal electric clri11s.

A child's-eve r-ieu. of life in a lumber torvn rvas filmed in NlcCloud, C;lif., for part of the "\\rorld -\round Us" TV Program.

The city of Bradburl., Calif., opened an offrce January 2 for the issuance of building permits.

The office of the Hanford (Calif.) Planing X'Iill r'vas recently ransacked b1'a burglar breaking the glass in a rear \\'l n oo\\:.

Ben C. I)eane has been elected the l6th president of the Home Ruilders Institute, Los Angeles. I-Ie las constructed more than 1,000 homes in the L. A. metropolitan area and is norv in a $7,500,000 Capehart housing project in Virginia.

California's Building :rnd Cor-rstruction Trades Council, representing 350,000 skilled construction rvorkers, has announced it rvill continue affrlizLtion rvith the nationally expelled Teamsters Union. During the recent AFL-CIO convention in Atlantic City. the building trades clepartment rl.ent on record opposing the exprrlsion oI the corruptionindicted Tearnsters from the labor fecleration.

I)ave Beck, under indictrlent for allegecl misuse of union funds, has resigned as a vice-president cif the I\FL-CIO 13uilcling ancl Construction Tracles department. Beck is ex-president o,f the Teamsters Union.

San Diego.-1{oscoe E. Hazard ancl \\'illiam FI. Black have proposed an exclusive residential development east of Encinitas, north of Rancho Santa Fe and soutl.r of Carlsbad to be similar to Rancl.ro Santa Fe.

Santa Cruz.-The Lirban Redevelopment Agency has begun buying 145 parcels of land in San Lorenzo Park to be resold to private developers.

Hollister, Calif.-A Sacramento planner rvarned local officials here to start planning for a population cloubled in the next 20 years, predicting 30,000 before 1980.

Several Kings Countv club representatives gathered recently for the fifth vear of planting more than 1,000 trees annually in the outskirts of Hanford and Corcoran.

Crescent City, Calif.-A minimum brril<ling code becornes effective in Del Norte cottnty as the result of a pulrlic hearing before the Boarcl of Supervisors.

Flames recentiy guttecl the main 'n.arehottse of the A & P Lumber Co. in Sun Valley, Calif.. n'ith $10,000 damages.

Coast Highrvay 1, south oi Carmel, Calif., r'vhich clings to tl're \r'estern slopes of the Sant:r Lucia ltange abor.e the Pacific Oce:rn, has been zoned for single-f:rmi1r- residential planning 500 feet back fronr either side of the road.

Charles F. Buckland has been natned assistant merchandise manager of the insulation salcs department of The Celotcx Corp<iration, Chicago.

Elroy C. Carlson has been named staff engineer of Georgia-Pacific Corp., Portland. He rvas f ormerlv I'ith U. S.-Ply'"vood Co. and M&N{ Woocl \\'orking Co.

A $100,000 conversion of facilities to production of overlaid pl1 n'ood is non unclerrvay at Simpson Logging Company's Shelton, Wash., plant.

United States Plyu'ood Corp. reports consolidated net earnings of $2,034,000 for the three months ended Oct. 31, 1957, ifter estimated income taxes of $1,315,100.

The Builders Redwood Co., Dou'ney. recently suffered several thousand clollars' damage in a lire that broke out in a frame building housing the olfices but did not reach the lumber stores in the yard.

Hollywood Jr. Twins Are All.Purpose Doors

Say goodbto torever to old fashioned screen. sash and storm doors.., for here are lv{o all purpose doors...COMBlNATlON SCREEN AND METAL SASH D00RS that fit all types ol vuall construction and hamonrze with any interior styling.

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Lorson to Sqles Post

Charlie Schmitt, head of Atkins-Kroll & Comppny's imported lumber products division, has named Ernie Larson to a Northern California sales post. Larson is well acquainted with California's jobber trade from his many years with Celotex in various sales and managerial capacities. A long-time resident of the Bay area, he is a past president of the Producers Council of Northerrr California. and for the past four years has been representing well known national manufacturers.

38ofh TTT Ployed ot Hociendq

The 380th Terrible Twentv tournament was held at Hacienda Golf Club, January 9, with Harry Whittaker our genial host. A challenging golf course and a beautiful after.

noon. Next year we will find many changes, as the club house is to be remodeled and the course toughened up. Bob Pierce won the upper bracket 83-12-71 and Bob Dil. worth the lower bracket 82-ll-7L. Last month's tie in the lower bracket was won by Alling, as Huck couldn't appear. For the first time, both members of our membership committee appeared at the same tournament, Curt McFadden and Harold Hamilton-the "Debonair Beverly Hills Oil Baron" (L.A. Times). The next tournament was scheduled at San Gabriel, February 7th with George Gartz as host.H. M. Alling.

Notionol Yord Seeks Spur

National City, Calif.-The city council has referred to the Harbor committee for study and report an inquiry on a spur track to be built on the city's tidelands affecting the Na* tional Lumber Company.

New Fosmed Adhesives Process lo Gut Plywood Glue Gosts by 2Oolo

San Francisco-A western forest products industry seminar here late last month was shown the new technique for producing foamed adhesives recently developed by Arthur D. Little, Inc. The new process, which is claimed capable of cutting glue costs 20/o in the production of exterior Douglas fir plywood, was developed for two major plywood producers and American Forest,Products Corp.

A Chicago consultant told the seminar the $2 million annual savings would be particularly important in the plywood industry's record of declining profits since mid-1956, and the foaming process can be used, with modifications, for most types of adhesives now in use in the industry.

- James Zeigler, research specialist for the Little firm, said the technique aerates glues, extending their volume up to five times, and achieves better bonding with less adhesive. He said American Box Company is testing the foam process at its Fresno, Calif., plant on bonding paper to wood for rigid packaging.

Other immediate applications, it was brought qut, lie in manufacturing of pallets, particle board and gummed paper. The foaming process was two years in development and test runs on Douglas fir plywood showed the technique is capable of savings of a.bout $1 per 1,000 board feet on exterior grade. The process will be marketed by licensing it to clients.

Ken Jorgensen With WCIA Show

Ken Jorgensen of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association has scheduled several recent regional get-togethers in Northern California for the purpose of discussing WCLA grades, their iharacteristics and uses. Some of his past meetings included an evening with S. F. Hoo-Hoo Club 9 on January 28, an evening meeting in Visalia on February 10, and an LMA-Hoo-Hoo Club 31 sponsored meeting in Fresno on February 11. Other February "ports of call" will include: LMA sponsored evening meeting, San Jose, Feb. 19; Santa Clara Valley Hoo-Hoo Club, Feb. 20, and. Healds Engineering College, San Franciscor Feb. 26.