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Western Hemlock
Ponderosa Pine
Sugar Pine
Engelmann Spruce
Western White Spruce
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Port Orford Cedar
Western Red Cedar
Incense Cedar
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Mining Timbers Paneling and Uppers the student population immediately to 54 and it is hoped that the shop building will be finished in early September.
At tl-re meeting of January 19, Tucson Hoo-Hoo Club Number 110 was represented by L. P. Hermes, president; and Bert lVlclean, chairman of the committee. The Phoenix Club was represented by Roy Harper, president; Pete Van Voorhis, chairman of the committee and now a member of the board of Boy's Rancl.r ; Nlartin Wist, who coordiuated the three-club activity; Aram Mardian, past presiclent, and \,Valter Howard, in charge of publicity. Frank See, Deputy State Snark from Flagstaff, was also in attendatrce. Jim Gotcher, president of the Flagstaff club, rvas weatl.rered in and had to fly back to Flagstaff.
"Pete," one of the boys, accepted the plar.rs which rvere prepared by M. H. Starkweather, a Tucson architect, on behalf of the boys at the ranch and, in turn, presented thenr to Clyde English, vice-presicler.rt of the board of directors of the Ilanch. Mr. English actecl ir.r behalf of Andre Closset, president, who was out of state.
Hoo-Hoo is very proud of this undertaking and feels that it will be a continui'g program for
Johns-Mqnville Executive Sees 1959 As R.ecord Building Yeor
Industry figures for the first six rnonths of 1959 now in<licate that construction this year u'ill exceed the all-time records established in the building boom year of 1955, according to W. R. Wilkinson, vice-president of Johns-N{an- ville Corporation and general mar.rager of the company's 13uilding Products division.
"Dollar value of new collstruction in 1959 could reach aborrt $56 billion on the basis of information we no\\' have," he said. "This is arrother all-time recorcl. Add to this arr irrtlicated $22 billion worth of rnodernizatiott, maintenarrce au<1 repairs on existing structures and yorr get a $78 billion constructiorl year, about $8 billion more thall our 1958 year-end forecasts lecl us to expect. This is a construction recorcl never before achieved bv anv nation.
"Construction, now accounting for about l-57" 6f. all tlre goods and service produced by the rration, seems destinecl to contiuue as a strong bulrn'ark of our national €conomy'," lIr. \\rilkinson comnlented. "Orre out of nearly every six ()r sc\rerl workers in the United States is now employed irr tlre construction industry. Out of every l0 men now u'orking in the building trades, another dozen or so are ernl>kryecl in producing building rnaterials or construction equipn.rent. \A.Iith our population increasing about 3,000,000 peollle each year, it would appear that these workers r.r'ill be kept busy for a long time to cotne."
Burlingome Lumber Co. Cqn Move - lF lf Meefs Commissioners' Gonditions
The Burlingame Lumber Co. has received permission to lnove frorn Millbrae to a site orr Bavshore boulevarcl. brrt not without llumerous con<litions. -Tlte Brrrlingartre. Calif., plarrnir.rg commissioners stiprrlated that owner E,lmo Il. Phillips must lirnit his yard tc-r tl.re rear area of the acreage aucl a 35-foot driveway connecting to the street, proper fencing be erected to make the ba1 frontage as attractive as possible while fill operations are unclerway, lrrmber piles trot exceecl 2O feet, the setback be as far as possible, attractive planting and lanclscapir.rg be installecl on the entrance to the lrrmber yard, an existing slrecl be dernolished, ancl that tl-re entrance ancl building design be strbject to conrmission approval.
Phillips said the prrrchase of the acreage, part of which is under urater ancl must be filled. is subiect to a lease-back to the Holland Boat \rA'orks. u'hich has fhe Bayshore frontage. Concern for appearance ancl landscaping was voiced by representatives of a new l.rotel on tl-re rvest side of Ba_vshore^boulevard and by the orvner of a nerv office buildirig iust soutl-r of the hotel.