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Douglas Fir o West Goasl Hemlock Western Red Gedar o Sitka Spruce

Nothing matches wood for modern home building. The watmth, natural beauty and versatility of America's traditional building material are never outdated.

Living achieves new dimensions in striking home designs like that above. .. new designs made distinctive with the populat, practical species of Douglas Fir, West Coast Hemlock, Western Red Cedar and Sitka Spruce outstanding lumber combining economy, durability and distinction. And remember .lumber is your one large volume, exclusive product.

Simmons Hqrdwood Lumber Compony Presents Annuol Sofety Awords

It was "red carpet" night for 12 Southern California - cabinet manufacture_rr January 26 when Sid Simmons, pres, ident of Simmons Hardwood Lumber Co., Downey.^Dre- sented six of thep r11t!r Safety Awards for outstinding safety re-cords during 1958, and six were recipients of Honorable Mention achievement trophies. '

More than 150 woodworkers,iumber executives and ply@1 .- wood salesmen attended the annual Safety Awards bano^ult .l: held this. year a.t Swally's lmokg Housi, l33l So. Boyle * ) Ave-., to honor the men -in the industry responsible for di- r€cting sl{e operations in their respective'plants and to listen to Sid Simmons tell his storiei while presentins the , trophies and plaques. Sid l-ras been doing this every y."'. fo, quite some time and has the pre'sentation ceremony down pat.

_ The meeting was called to order promptly at 7 :ffi p.m. by Executive Secretary Frank W. Daluiso, who introduced Sid to the group and the show was on the road. Beautiful trophies were received by Mac McConnell, McConnell Cabinet Shop, Inc.; Frank Anderson, Anderson Cabinet Fltqp;Dee Ho\rsepian, De Craft Cabinet Shop; Bud Perry, Maid-Rite Cabinet Shop; George Smith, penn-Smith Ca6inets, and Joe Goebel, Western Wood products.

Honorable Mention plaques went to Hal Bourland, Sawyer Cabinets, Inc.; Les Hofiman, L. M. Hoffman Cabinets, Inc.; Cleon Benson, Benson Cabinet Works : Roy Ferrin, Ferrin Woodworking & Supply Co., Anthony DeLucio and Earl Tackson.

Each year the Southern California Association of Cab-

Simmoni Hqrdwood Execulive Ru:s Swift poses with ons of qwqrds givsn by ffrm inet Manufacturers sponsors the awards banquet and for several years past Simmons Hardwood Lumber Company has honored the members who maintain outstanding safety records.

Lumbermon's Kidnopper Indicted

Sacramento, Calif.-A riding stable owner, Carl Tex Selby, was indicted Jan. 2I by the Sacramento County Grand Jury in the Dec. 23 kidnapping and attempted extortion of David Ostin, owner of the David Ostin Moulding Co. here. Sheriff's deputies and the district attorney's office presented testimony that Selby and an alleged accomplice, Roy A. Carnes, an ex-convict, hatched a plot to kidnap Ostin's son Harold, 15, and collect $10,000 ransom from the lumberman. Carnes forced Ostin at gunpoint to drive to a Bank of America branch for the money. The boy, however, was not being held as a hostage in the abortive demand

King Lumber Co. Building New Delqno Showploce

King Lumber Company, headquarters Bakersfield, is constructing a new modern showroom adjacent to its old Delano store. The new showroom will be operated on a semi self-service basis and is scheduled for completion during early Spring.

Hymon Hesds 1959 RRJTC

F. J. (Jack) Hyman, Jr., Fort Bragg cattle rancher and timber owner, has been appointed to serve as chairman of the 1959 RRCC Junior Logging Conference by Walker B. Tilley, Redwood Region Conservation Council president. This conference is the seventh and will again be conducted at the Mendocino Woodlands, nine miles east of the city of Mendocino.

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Building Genter Anniversory

The Building Center is celebrating its first anniversary in Los Angeles with special exhibitions. The Architectural Gallery has featured the work of 74 members of the American Institute of Architects, with AIA hosting clients and friends in the Center's club room. Recent exhibits have included the work of Smith and Williams, Richard J. Neutra, Palmer and Krisel, Stiles and Robert Clements, the Orange County chapter AIA, and a current (2/16-28) Exhibit of Church Architecture.

Activities of the Building Center include meetings and conferences of professional groups in the Club room, a Garden Supper party last summer for 600 architects, decorators and landscape engineers, a daily dollar buffet luncheon in the Club room, etc. An Open House was recently held to herald the first anniversary.

The Northern California Building Center was just opened December I at 40 Gold St. in San Francisco, just off Jackson Square. As in Southern California, it is also headquarters for the Architects and Engineers Service, which has been in operation 22 yearc and has added Arizona, the West Coast and New York to now service about 3,000 offices. As an added activity in the Southern California area, the Building Center Plan Room has been reopened at 612l West 3rd St. and is available to subscribing manufacturers as well as subcontractors in all fields.

Revised CRA Dqtcr Sheet

Detailed information on natural exterior finishes for California redwood is contained in a newly revised data sheet supplement prepared by the California Redr,r'ood Association, "Natural E,xterior Effects," revised four-page supplement to the CRA data sheet, "Exterior Finishes for Redwood" (483-1). The leaflet contains valuable information for dealers, specifiers, builders and homeowners. Single copies may be obtained without charge, additional copies at cost, from the Service Library, California Redwood Association, 576 Sacramento St., San Francisco 11, Calif.

Defi | 958 Soles Show Increose

Frank Desmond, general manager of Desmond Bros., I-os Angeles, California, and Alliance, Ohio, manufacturers of l)eft Wood Finish, reveals that the 1958 sales of Deft were 3l/o above t957. Desmond Bros. plan a stepped up advertising and sales program for 1959, using trade magazines, consumer rnagazines, Sunday supplements and several school magazines. Area television is also projerted for 1959.

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