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Vio RAIL or TRUGK-&-IRAIIER looked for steady improvement in the retail lumber business Jimmy Atkinson was back at his San Francisco desk with Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. after a week with Jerry Stutz in the San Joaquin Valley territory and a week with E. G. "Dave" Davis in the Sacramento Valley . . . B. \V. Lakin returned to McCloud River Lumber Co. from a trip to Washington on Lumber Code Authority hearings John Moore, secretary-treasurer of the Moore Mill & Lumber Co.. Bandon. Ore., visited the San Francisco office

Shcrrp Goin in Dwelling Units In Record Jonuory Construction

New construction activity in January declined to $3.7 billion-just about seasonally-but exceeded the previous record high for that month set in 1958, according to preliminary estimates prepared jointly by the U.S. Departments of Commerce and Labor. Both private and public construction expenditures contributed strongly to a l0/o rise over January 1958. Decreases in industrial construction and office buildings were more than offset by sharply increased spending for new dwelling units, and more m6dest gains in most other types of private construction.

. . J. E. Morley and A. E. Nelson, owners of the Homestead Lumber Co.. Sacramento. completed a new office and display room Huntington Malarkey of the M and M Wood Working Co. returried to Portland from Los Angeles business.

New All-Products Cqtolog

New 1959 All-Produc_ts catalog o-f Tile-Tex floor prod- ucts of The Flintkote Company is announced by Chartes E. Dill, general sales,manager, Tile-Tex division.'

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