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Cautious Optlmism Invodes Annuql 4-doy Copelond Lumber Go. Ssles-Meeting

Most managers of Copeland Lumber Yards in California were in attendance at the annual four-day sales meeting of Copeland's 57 yard managers in Portland, January 18-21, and heard optimistic forecasts for 1961.

Increased lumber sales and more home building are expected by Copeland Yards in 1961, Joseph W. Copeland, president and general manager, forecast. He said he based his optimism partly on "increased business so far this year, partly on plans of our customers and partly on the general feeling."

Copeland Lumber Yards, which are in their 49th year, this year expects to equal or exceed its average sale of 50 million board feet of lumber in yards in California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. Copeland believes his big organization will sell more plywood at current lower prices. He -added, however, that "we're sorry to see the prices come down too low because it hurts the economy of the region in general." Other than the current softening, too, of lumber prices, he believes most building material prices will hold pretty steady this year.

Copeland lumber and building supply yards in California are at Santa Ana, Banning, Lone Pine, Tule LaJ<e, Bishop, Brawley, Holtvi[e, Rosemead and Arcata.

At the banquet which climar<ed the four-day meeting, Lou Kellison, manager for Copeland at Klamatl F'alls, was presented with a 2o-year service, pin as was James Carder, manager at Prineville. Ore.

Glenco Forest Products Purchoses Big Sonto Cruz Timber Srond

A five-thousand acre stand of timber in Santa Cruz county changed hands last month in what was described as "one of the biggest land transactions in the history of Santa Cruz County."

The property involved was that of the old Monterey Bay Redwood Company which operated a complete band mill, planing mill and dry kilns at Soquel, California, from 1923 until 1942. The purchaser was Glenco Forest Products Company of Sacramento. The property involved extends from four miles north of Soquel, to Loma Prieta, according to James A. Harris, Jr., president of Monterey Bay Redwood Co, and Monterey Bay Water Company at Soquel.

Included in the purchase price, which was not revealed, was a sawmill, planing mill and log pond.

Bewnre Boy Areo Collection Swindle

Northern California lumbermen are warred against a ne!\t "shell game" swindle being operated in the field of collections. Several northern California lumbermen have been contacted by the newly established San F'rancisco collection ag:ency (reportedly operating without bond) and a few concerns have assigned collection rights to the agency--only to find out later, to their chagrin, that they actually assig:ned the ACCOUNT over to tlem. The collection agency's collection methods are reported as "quite effective," but the creditor realizes nothing more than a tax write-ofr at the end of the year. Name of this song: "An account past-due is better than nothing at all?"

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tlatthies Brothers Purchsse Titus Lumber At Big Beqr lqke

Announcement was made last month by paul L. Matthies, vet_ eran west coast lumberman, that he and his brother, Berny F. Matthies, recently purchased all of the land, buildings, equiprirent and inventory of the Titus Retail Lumber Co., Big Beir Lake, California. The new firm will be known as Matthiei Lumber Co.

Berny Matthies has resided in the San Bernardino mountain area at Big Bear Lake for more than 1b years and has been en_ gaged in the retail lumber business all of his adult life. tr or the past five years he has been manager of the Minder Lumber Com_ pany in Big Bear Valley. He will manage and operate the new establishment and is presently sprucing the place up for the start of the early spring business in the mountain resori city.

Paul Matthies has been in the wholesale end of the lumber businesg since his graduation from school and in the past con_ ducted his own distribution yard business. He is now on the sales sta"ff of Hexberg Lumber Sales, Inc., pasadena, where he will remain.

Losco Indusfries Estoblishes Eqstern Ofiices

Regional sales offices have been established in Birmingham, Ala., and Cincinnati, O., by Lasco Industries, Inc., to intensify distribu_ tion of its translucent fiberglass building panels in the East.

Vice President John C. Hunter said the Cincinnati area office. at 152 freland Ave., Greenhills 18, O., is headed by John E. Needham; the Birmingham ofrce, at 425 20th Ave. NE, by James Dale.

The two will provide on-the-spot factory merchandising assist_ ance to manufacturers' representatives as well as serve unfran_ chised areas, Hunter said. A third regional sales office is main_ tained in San Francisco, Calif.

Dale, formerly associated with the Southern Sash Co., Hunts_ ville, Ala., will serve Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, F.'lorida, Tennessee, North and South Carolina.

Needham, formerly with Sterling Industries, Toronto, Canada, has been assig'ned Ohio, fllinois, Indiana, pennsylvania, Michigan, Kentucky, Virginia, and New york.

Lqsco Industries In New Plont

Lasco Industries, Inc., producer of fiberglass building panels and plastic pipe, has consolidated its multi-plant operation in a new 54,000 square-foot building on 4yz acres in Montebello, Calif.

The facility, completed at a cost in excess of gb00,000, excluding equipment, provides double the floor space and four times the production capacity of tfie two plants forrnerly occupied.

President Roderick O. Lynch said the additional space already is accommodating new extrusion equipment which has increased plastic pipe production by 2b per cent. production of translucent building panels and adbestos insulation also is up from last year.

The new plant, of tilt-up concrete construction, provides space for administration, research, testing, quality control and produc_ tion, and parking for 300 cars. It is air-conditioned and, in areas with critical quality control requirements, equipped with climate and humidity controls.

If trussed rafters are used in the construction of your new home, you can have your room partitions placed wheiever you want.them. Or the partitions can be omitted altogether for open planning of such areas as living, dining, cooking, and recreation. With trussed rafters, the interior partitions do not have to help support the roof. It's all done by the rafters and the exterior walls. explains the National Lumber Manufacturers Association.

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